Last month we wrote about the popular iPhone game ‘ Angry Birds’ being turned into movie and toy form. Today TechCrunch reader Joe Ziemer passed a woman in NYC who actually had a box of ‘Angry Birds’ stuffed toys at her feet and snapped the pic above. The explanation?

Mike Hirshland is a great sport. He filled in at the last second, taking the Ask-a-VC hotseat the week his industry erupted in scandal

A week after announcing the acquisition of U.S. mobile social gaming studio, Gameview, Japanese gaming giant DeNA is making a strategic investment in another U.S.

Palo Alto based Opzi , a stealth Y Combinator startup that will debut at TechCrunch Disrupt next week, has closed an impressive first round of financing – nearly $1 million from SV Angel, First Round Capital, Naval Kavikant, Jeff Clavier’s SoftTech VC, Hadi Partovi, Ali Partovi, Paul Buchheit, Fritz Lanman and Raymond Tonsing.

Well, this is bizarre. Minutes ago Paul Berry , CTO of the Huffington Post, tweeted that “google analytics chrome 6 bug is going to be big news”

In venture capital, there are three people who rule Silicon Valley: John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins, Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital, and Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures. All three will be speaking at Disrupt

Glam Media, a top-ranked women’s media network, is announcing a number of new hires today for its technology, brand sales, engineering, and product teams.

Jack Ma– CEO of The Alibaba Group and president of the Carol Bartz fan club – was on Charlie Rose this week, and while he didn’t offer any more insight into the Yahoo situation, he said a lot of interesting things.

When Google Instant debuted on September 8th, the search company touted its efficiency. As TechCrunch has previously reported, Google Instant saves web users time by delivering results more quickly than other engines, and Google’s earlier search products. Marissa Mayer Google’s vice president of search products and user experience, estimates Google Instant could save a collective 350 million hours of search time over its first year

Facebook Pages — the public profiles that the site offers to brands, businesses, celebrities, and other public figures —  launched in 2007, got a revamp around eighteen months ago and have quickly picked up steam. Some of the most popular pages, like Lady Gaga , have tens of millions of fans