Sick of circling the city streets in your car, looking for a spot —  any spot — that you can squeeze into?

This morning, we covered the debut of 1000Memories, a Y Combinator backed startup that helps family and friends memorialize loved ones online. The company was started by three friends, Brett Huneycutt and Jonathan Good, formerly of Mckinsey, and Rudy Adler, a former employee of ad agency Wieden + Kennedy.

Beyond the Rack, a members-only sample sale site, has raised another round of funding today. The startup has just announced a $12 million round of funding from Highland Capital Partners and BDC Venture Capital

[Editor’s Note: The data cited in this article is excerpted from Inside Facebook Gold , our membership service tracking Facebook’s business and growth around the world.

“Foursquare gets all the hype.” It’s something I hear just about every day from just about every other location-based startup.

It’s not news that cargo planes aren’t the greenest way to transport heavy loads, but some companies are working on other ways to send goods through the air. Could blimps make a comeback as a greener cargo carrier?

When Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert heard that we were working on a redesign of TechCrunch, he decided to give it a go with his own sense of style. After inviting several other world-class designers to our headquarters in SF we decided to go with his vision

What makes Apple tick? How is it that it came back from the dead to surpass both Google and Microsoft in market cap ? French consulting firm faberNovel takes a stab at explaining Apple’s success and its strategy against its two main rivals in the SlideShare above

It’s been a big week for YouTube news. On Wednesday, the company launched a new HTML5-based mobile site , as well as the slick-looking YouTube Leanback . Today, during a keynote at VidCon, the site made a few more announcements: YouTube is adding support for video shot in the 4K video format — a very high resolution that clocks in at 4096 x 3072, or 4096p). And it’s also creating a new $5 million Partner Grants program that’s meant to help spur the creation of original content on YouTube by funding promising video ventures.

Well, well, well. Blizzard has announced that real names WILL NOT be required to post on the official forums after all.