Just a day after it announced its well-received updates to its search result pages, here is some more good news for Bing: according to the latest data from Experian Hitwise, Bing-powered searches — that is searches on Bing.com and search.yahoo.com — now account for 30.01% of all U.S. searches

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Hitwise: Bing Now Powers Over 30% Of U.S. Searches

Comedian Louis CK has just released a new comedy special, WORD: Live At Carnegie Hall as another download/streaming offering.

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Louis CK Secretly Releases Another Online-Only Special

Short Version I’ve been spending some quality time with HTC’s Titan II, and I would never call it a bad phone. But that’s not the question — good, bad, fast, slow, ugly, beautiful… they don’t matter unless I feel that I’d put down money and live my life with this device. And even though I expected this to be one of my favorites, I walk away from my review certain that I wouldn’t exchange cash for this handset

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HTC Titan II Review: Sometimes A Win-Win Is A Lose

According to a new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project , the popularity of check-in apps continues to grow, though it still isn’t quite mainstream yet. Pew’s latest survey found that in February 2012, 18% of U.S

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Pew Study: 18% Of U.S. Smartphone Owners Use Check-In Apps

Well that’s some slick timing. Eduardo Saverin , who is best known for co-founding Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg back in their college days at Harvard, has given up his United States citizenship

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Just In Time For A Facebook IPO Tax Break, Eduardo Saverin Renounces U.S. Citizenship

Here in these parts, we may write a tad too much about our Silicon Valley gaming brethren like San Francisco’s Zynga and Redwood Shores’ Electronic Arts. But there’s actually a company that’s worth quite a bit more and has outperformed both since its IPO last December

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Here’s How Nexon Has Quietly Outperformed Zynga Since Both Of Their IPOs Last Year

When party-planning service Punchbowl expanded into digital greeting cards last fall, it emphasized creating a beautiful experience, just as it did with its party invitations. But CEO Matt Douglas says that for some users, a key piece was still missing — you often don’t just want to send a card, but a gift too. That’s where the company’s new integration with Amazon.com comes in

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Happy Mother’s Day: Punchbowl Partners With Amazon For Digital Gift Cards

Happy Friday! In less than one week, my colleagues and I (along with many, many others ) will be flying to New York to gear up for one of the biggest conferences of the year, Disrupt NYC.

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TechCrunch Giveaway: Last Chance To Win Tickets To Disrupt NYC #TCDisrupt

Tagstand , the YC-backed company  focused on making NFC a more mainstream technology , is getting some action at a pretty big black-tie event in New York this weekend which will see its technology used to enable some nifty actions for the 3,500 guests, like tapping to tweet, posting pictures to Facebook and registering “likes” for the cocktails they’re drinking. Sounds like (kind of geeky) fun! The event in question is New York’s big cocktail party for the opening night Gala at The New York Public Library , which is offering up 30,000 different cocktails, created by over 150 different bartenders.

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Tagstand Is NFC-Enabling A Giant Cocktail Party, Will Let Guests Facebook & Tweet From Their Wristbands

In an interview published by China Daily today, Terry Gou, chairman of Foxconn, confirms the massive manufacturing company is making preparations for an Apple television set called iTV. Gou also states that neither development nor manufacturing has begun.

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Foxconn Chief Confirms The Apple iTV