As all the major search engines continue to add social search features to their feature line-up, it can often look as if there isn’t any space left for startups in this space. Wajam begs to differ. The Montreal-based company is probably one of the most ambitious players in the social search market right now and after launching its latest efforts for Google last month , it is now ready to bring its enhanced social search results to Bing and Yahoo as well.

Facebook analytics platform PageLever has added features that let page owners categorize and compare their posts, as well as receive alerts about any changes in key metrics. With post tagging, PageLever users can indicate which of their posts are related to a particular campaign or employ a certain tactic, for example, asking a question or making a fill-in-the-blank post.

Remember last week when Foxconn president Terry Gou said that he was working hard at building the new Apple TV?

EyeTrackShop , a startup that develops eye-tracking technology for measuring ad effectiveness, has raised $3 million in Series A funding from Northzone . The company says its technology works through a regular webcam, allowing market researchers to gather data quickly and affordably. You can run the test before you spend money on a campaign, or test how well the advertising works once it’s live, and how it performed in different formats and sites.

For awhile now “gamification” has largely existed as a buzz word. It’s felt just as ridiculous to write the word as it is to read it

In its first-ever earnings report as a publicly traded company, mobile advertising network Millennial Media said its net loss for the first quarter widened to $4 million  on increased costs. Revenues were up 53 percent year-over-year to $32.9 million

This shouldn’t be the first time you’ve seen Skullcandy’s Hesh headphones appear on TechCrunch , but I’ll forgive you if it is. As a refresh, I reviewed the cans last week and found that it really came down to like vs. love

Remember Jitterbug , the big-buttoned phones for seniors that made using those confusing, new-fangled cellphone thingies so much easier to handle? Well it looks like someone has gone out and built the equivalent for the iPad. Which literally made me laugh out loud when I read the news, because the iPad is the first computer I’ve ever seen seniors adopt in droves

Q&A site Quora has raised $50 million at a $400 million pre-money valuation  according to a report  by the Wall Street Journal and confirmed to me by the founders themselves.

Svpply , the New York-based startup that replicates the feeling of window-shopping online, is nudging its well-heeled clientele to turn their “wants” into real purchases.