Articles by Techcrunch from April 2012

As the days pass, the big moment draws nigh. No, I'm not talking about Disrupt, which is a big moment in its own right, nor am I teasing any other big launch. I'm talking about a party. A huge party. ...

Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn saw its profits fall to $509 million from $1.19 billion last quarter. Chairman Terry Gou said this quarter was particularly affected by Foxconn's recent imag...

Staying on top of your game and understanding the competitive landscape is essential to winning in the modern business world. A huge component to staying ahead of the curve is keeping a close eye on c...

Almost every technological and medical innovation in the world has its roots in a scientific paper. Science drives much of the worlds innovation. The faster science moves, the faster the world moves.P...

If you dont have any facts, well just use my opinion. - Jim Barksdale (former president and CEO of Netscape).Startups are the sum of the decisions made by the people who run them. Should you raise mon...

Earlier today Google released the full report of the FCC's investigation into the collection of "payload data" from open Wi-Fi networks -- aka passwords, email and search history from open networks --...

Earlier today Google released the full report of the FCC's investigation into the collection of "payload data" from open Wi-Fi networks -- aka passwords, email and search history from open networks --...

If you asked your mom or dad what DLNA or UPnP stood for or did, would they just look at you weird? While the two technologies enable users to wirelessly beam content to Internet Connected TVs from th...

TechCrunch Disrupt is all about start-ups but we often give short shrift to hardware-based companies. Well, that's about to change because we're now running Hardware Alley, a one day exhibition of som...

Despite the fact that there's no real wow factor here, it would be entirely unfair to say that HTC's One S isn't a great phone. It is. The hardware is some of the best I've seen in a long time, Sense ...

Lane Becker has been a familiar figure in the Silicon Valley tech scene for years, as the co-founder of startups such as Adaptive Path and Get Satisfaction, and an advisor at early-stage venture capit...

For the past two years, I have read or glanced over what seems like hundreds of blog posts and thousands of tweets from people who either directly claim or indirectly hint at a disruption of tradition...

If you spent any time in high school thinking about ley lines and bio-implants, you were probably a Shadowrun player. The game, which petered out after a disastrous run as a PC/Xbox game in 2007, brou...

The Gillmor Gang John Borthwick, Danny Sullivan, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor took the bait and played the Are We in a Bubble game. With Apple's stock price in free fall, the mobile giant reporte...

Editors note: This post is authored by guest contributor Jon Bischke. Jon is a founder of Entelo and is an advisor to several startups. You can follow Jon on Twitter here.Corner any up-and-coming Kevi...

Editors note: This post is authored by guest contributor Thor Muller, a New York Times best selling author. His latest book, "Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You and Your Busines...

And Now for Something Completely DifferentTry this: you wake up without an alarm sometime soon after sunrise, with plenty of time to spare to make it to work.It was a good sleep; you went to bed just ...

John Robb is an astronautical engineer turned US Air Force Special Operations pilot turned Forrester lead analyst turned startup CTO/COO turned military theorist and author, to oversimplify. His writi...

In the past few months, Facebooks patent portfolio has grown exponentially asa result of acquisitions of patent portfolios from IBM and Microsoft. After acquiring650 AOL patents and patent application...

Tumblr President John Maloney just posted (on his Tumblr, natch) that he's stepping down from a day-to-day operational role at the company."Its the right time for me and a good time for Tumblr," Malon...

Spanning, which already offers a backup service for Google Apps, is now riding the coattails of Google Drive.Two days after the Drive announcement, Spanning released a new, free tool called Spanning S...

It's a Friday afternoon (in some parts of the world, at least), so go ahead -- take a nice long drink of your favorite alcoholic beverage. If you're like me, you'll need it to make it through the CNBC...

Google Glass isn't the only game in town.Misfit Wearables, a wearable computing startup from the founding team of mobile health company Agamatrix and former Apple chief executive John Sculley, just ra...

Google Glass isn't the only game in town.Misfit Wearables, a wearable computing startup from the founding team of mobile health company Agamatrix and former Apple chief executive John Sculley, just ra...

MLOVE is a European mobile conference with a difference. If a mobile conference was crossed with TED and a music festival, that's vaguely like Mlove. Its big annual event is in an old East German cast...

Google TV, the company's first serious foray into the living room, hasn't exactly set the world on fire. That doesn't mean Google has given up, though. Far from it. While there hasn't been much news a...

It's an interesting story. One day, Dave Carroll was taking a flight with his band-mates on United Airlines. When he landed at his destination, he noticed that United staff were throwing his $3,500 Ta...

Restaurants just love to put Flash intros with auto-playing music and animations on their front pages. If you are trying to look at a one of these sites on your mobile browser without Flash, chances a...

Restaurants just love to put Flash intros with auto-playing music and animations on their front pages. If you are trying to look at a one of these sites on your mobile browser without Flash, chances a...

With the announcement that the Kindle Fire has grabbed 54.4% of the Android Tablet market, it's clear to see that Amazon's Trojan Horse strategy paid off. As I wrote back in December, the Fire is Amaz...

Sony's Android-powered Xperia Play debuted to mixed reviews last year, but according to a newly published patent, Sony was apparently toying with the idea of making something much more interesting bef...

Gillmor Gang - John Borthwick, Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live at 1pm PT....

Counter-countersuit! Yahoo today claimed that the patents Facebook is countering its original patent infringement lawsuit against the social network with "were acquired by Facebook for purposes of ret...

Counter-countersuit! Yahoo today claimed that the patents Facebook is countering its original patent infringement lawsuit against the social network with "were acquired by Facebook for purposes of ret...

Today Yahoo hit Facebook with five big counter-counterclaims designed to invalidate the patents cited in the social network's infringement countersuit. If the court concurs, Facebookcould be left wide...

The mobile apps from stealthy loyalty startup Punchcard have only been on the market since February, but the company is now reporting it's close to being cash-flow positive. Like a digital version of ...

It's official: We're back in boom times from a tech IPO standpoint. 2012 is now on pace to be a record-breaking year for initial public offerings, and technology companies are leading the way. Fifty-s...

SimpleGeo's Matt Galligan and Icanhascheezburger'sBen Huh have teamed up to change the way people consume news via mobile. Their startup Circa, which boasts a newsworthy list of advisors like former D...

Startups do the darndest things. As you may or may not have seen, Y Combinator startup 42Floors made a bold and fairly unprecedented move today -- as hiring goes, in any case. 42Floors Co-founder Jaso...

Ever since Google released its cloud storage service Google Drive earlier this week, there has been some speculation as to what its integration with ChromeOS, Google's cloud-centric operating system, ...

Today my Twitter friends are going nuts about Klouchebag, the service that takes social media parody (and Klout puns) to the next level, with algorithms and stuff.As with Klout, you enter your Twitter...

TechCrunch Disrupt NYC is almost here! Yes, we are very excited. And you should be, too. We have already announced some incredible speakers and judges who will be joining us next month in New York, an...

In another sign that something fundamental is changing on the iOS and Android platforms, mobile analytics provider Flurry has found that consumers are spending as much time in social networking apps a...

As of yesterday Y Combinator began its marathon series of interviews to decide which startup teams will ultimately go through the - now world-renowned - program. Interviews go on for five days. Rumour...

Just watching TV without also using a tablet or smartphone at the same time seems to be on its way out. Earlier this month, Nielsen launched the first part of its report on primetime TV viewers in the...

In episode II of Divya Gugnani's Founder Stories interview with host Chris Dixon, the two dive into M&A, a topic that both founders know well. Dixon's company Hunch, was recently acquired by eBay ...

NYC-based financial services startup for families, Tykoon, is exiting its private beta and is launching its first mobile app for iPhone. The company, which aims to change the ways kids think about and...

The Titan II is yet another success for the hardware team over at HTC. It feels excellent in the hand, even if it's huge, has a nice balanced weight to it, and the little chin at the bottom gives it s...

Apple's iOS App Store always seems to outshine its computer-based counterpart, but it seems the company's Mac App Store has just hit a big milestone of its own. With the help of some timely database q...

Downloads for the top 200 free apps in the U.S. iTunes app store took a 30 percent dive in March, according to Fiksu, a Charles River Ventures-backed company that helps mobile developers find users ch...

Samsung has been, for years, slowly approaching Nokia as the world's biggest handset maker, and today looks like the day the crown has been passed: As of last quarter, Strategy Analytics noted that Sa...

San Francisco-basedFingerprint Digital, a startup building educational apps for kids as well as a parent-child communication system for iOS apps, is doubling the size of its network today with the add...

This is a few days old but it's well worth revisiting if you haven't seen it yet. It's by English rapper Dan Bull and it's about everyone's favorite time-waster, TheFacebook. The best part?He also doe...

Back in the day, before the cell phone, people had to be where they said they'd be. There was no such thing as flaking out, and if you did, you were just a bad person. But these days, even when we mak...

Online ticketing platform Eventbrite is debuting a new vertical today, called Endurance, which focuses specifically on selling tickets for races and walks, including marathons, triathlons, races, fund...

Sure you there are services to sell tickets to arenas and event spaces (not to mention parties and the like) but thus far there hasn't been a good way to allow customers to pick their seats. TicketLea...

Skye introduced a new Facebook app this morning, and before you get your hopes up, it's not some amazing new way to Skype from the browser plug-in free, or kick off multi-person video chat sessions ri...

Intuit has just acquired marketing SaaS company Demandforce for $423.5 million in cash. Demandforces SaaS application automates internet marketing and communications, so customers can focus on running...

If you read the Red Hat website, you'll find pages describing their attitude toward open source, collaboration, and more. It reads pretty much like every other marketing spiel from every company onlin...

Twilio, developer of a VoIP API that is used by companies like eBay, Airbnb and Hulu to add voice services into their consumer apps, has been adding support for European countries as part of its expan...

Can a reasonably successful, U.S.-based mobile content brand find equal success for its English-language service in the UK? It's a question that could have been asked on the Q&A service ChaCha, an...

Anyone who runs a website, especially those who those who do the majority of their business through a web portal, know how important speedy load times are to keeping their customers engaged, on site, ...

Anyone who runs a website, especially those who those who do the majority of their business through a web portal, know how important speedy load times are to keeping their customers engaged, on site, ...

Someone wise once said "If Instagram for video were to happen it would look nothing like Instagram" but, because it was on Twitter, I briefly saw that tweet before it got lost in the ether and now I c...

This just might be the best stylus ever made. I'm completely serious. The problem with most styli is that there is never one around when needed. Besides that, the pen form factor is often not conduciv...

Google's sale of a previously purchased arm of the company this morning, 3D modeling software SketchUp to Trimble, isn't just something it does "every now and again". It's actually Google's first dive...

Google's sale of a previously purchased arm of the company this morning, 3D modeling software SketchUp, to Trimble, isn't just something it does "every now and again". It's actually Google's first div...

So Google X founder Sebastian Thrun was on Charlie Rose last night showing off his latest creation, Project Glass. Which, if you haven't seen by now, is quite possibly one of the most ambitious consum...

This afternoon, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) by a vote of 248 to168. Unlike SOPA, which focused on copyright violati...

So, in case you haven't heard, Apple is doing pretty well. Things are different now without Steve at the helm, but change isn't always bad. Although George Colony, taking the contrarian approach, woul...

So, in case you haven't heard, Apple is doing pretty well. Things are different now without Steve at the helm, but change isn't always bad. Although George Colony, taking the contrarian approach, woul...

So, in case you haven't heard, Apple is doing pretty well. Things are different now without Steve at the helm, but change isn't always bad. Although George Colony, taking the contrarian approach, woul...

Don't copy that pole vault! According to the London 2012 Olympic "conditions for ticket holders," you are not allowed to take pictures or video of the events nor are you allowed to "exploit" any video...

Old movie buffs (and older readers) may remember a time when beer was sold in steel cans that were opened with a "church key." Entourage star Adrian Grenier is tapping into that nostalgia, we hear, wi...

He stole Facebook's source code, but never copied, published, or sold it. Then he was arrested and imprisoned. Now released after four months in jail, Glenn Steven Mangham claims he's an innocent whit...

Amazon just wrapped up its earnings call for the first quarter fo the year, and the most common phrase may have been, "I probably can't help you."To be fair, earnings calls are always a dance, where a...

Stepping back from remarks a few weeks ago that suggested that Zynga was about to go on a shopping spree, Zynga chief executive Mark Pincus said the $180 million acquisition of Draw Something-maker OM...

If, for whatever reason, you need to cover your tracks while you are browsing the web on your desktop, you have plenty of options to keep anonymous. Thanks to Orbot, Android users, too, have the optio...

Divya Gugnani is the co-founder of Send the Trend, a New York based startup that was recently acquired by QVC, just a year-and-a half after launching in 2010.Gugnani, whose founding team includes Proj...

We have always built and destroyed monopolies. Companies often start out good but slowly turn, for lack of a better word, evil. The twin dark stars of profit and market share bring even the kindest co...

Amazon just reported earnings for the first quarter of 2012. Net sales increased 34% to $13.18 billion in the first quarter, compared with $9.86 billion in first quarter 2011. Net income decreased 35%...

Zynga's revenues rose 32 percent to $321 million in the first quarter, beating analysts' estimates of $316.8 million in revenue and earnings of 5 cents a share excluding stock-based expenses. Bookings...

Zynga's revenues rose 32 percent to $321 million in the first quarter, beating analysts' estimates of $316.8 million in revenue and earnings of 5 cents a share excluding stock-based expenses. Bookings...

Google is prolific when it comes to its in-house production, churning out new ideas and products all the time, and the company isn't afraid to pull the plug if the idea doesn't pan out. In fact, CEO L...

On the same day that Amazon will be releasing its quarterly earnings, some research from comScore underscores just how far the company has come since launching its Kindle Fire tablet in November 2011....

Wolfram Alpha, the "computational knowledge engine," just launched a desktop app for Windows 7 PCs through Intel's AppUp store. After launching numerous iOS and Android apps (including for the B&N...

This is so illegal that we can probably expect to see it fold in a matter of hours, but if you're really hankering for some Russian or German TV right now - or some hott sexxxy Penthouse action - iOSL...

May is going to be a busy month here in the city. Along with Disrupt and the continuation of our highly successful Office Hours sessions, we're also hosting an ironically massive "Mini" Meet-Up in NYC...

SendHub, the YC-backed messaging service which has been growing like crazy this year, has just scored $2 million in seed funding in a round led byKapor Capital, and with participation from Menlo Ventu...

"In the Studio" marches on this week with yet another entrepreneur who on the surface seems too young to be a founder/CEO, until you peel back the layers and realize that he actually has a decade's wo...

Citing poor sales of the Nintendo 3DS and "the stronger yen against the euro was also another reason," Nintendo posted its first-ever loss - $534.6 million on revenue of $8 billion. This is down from ...

Twitter just announced the latest updates to its mobile apps for Android and iOS. With these updates, these apps get a number of much-needed new features, including an improved Discover tab, better su...

In both sports and the tech industry, you win some and you lose some. Even though OnSports chief executive Aaron Krane got a nasty black eye this week in a pick-up basketball game, his company just cl...

There are plenty of places to turn if one is looking to buy prescription glasses, but the problem is that most of those options are expensive. So David Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal started Warby Parker ...

The startup accelerator scene is booming, and that means there will be days like today, when a bunch of news from the various incubators around the country hits all at the same time. Today, we've got ...

Twitter co-founder, and Square CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey sat down with Charlie Rose yesterday (you can watch the full video clip here) to talk about the two companies he's developed as well as Fa...

Sincerelyis on a roll. The startup behind a ton of photo-printing and greeting card mobile apps, includingPostagram,PopBooth,Sincerely InkandDotti, just launched the underpinnings its photo sharing ne...

Facebook wants you to know it's listening when you report bullying, hate speech, identity theft, and spam, so today it launched a new Support Dashboard for tracking these reports until they're resolve...

Mail.ru, the Internet giant -- and 2 percent owner of Facebook -- today reported Q1 revenues of $160 million, up 45 percent over last year and posted annual earnings with a full-year net profit $208.6...

Freshdesk, an Indian startup that offers a cloud-based customer support platform, has raised $5 million in financing led by Tiger Global Management with previous investor Accel Partners participating....

CEO Garrett Camp tells me that content discovery service StumbleUpon hit 25 million registered users earlier this week, and that those users are pretty damn active the service is now seeing 1.2 billi...

"She told me that she Googled my name up /Shootings, robberies and big coke came up". These are lyrics from "Google That", a vulgar, violent new rap song from NORE Styles P, and Wu-Tang Clan member Ra...

Every time I see a photo sharing app come across the transom, the same question crosses my mind: what about trolls and porn. A game we saw yesterday, Pictorious, asks you to take pictures of items in ...

With the rise of social networks, people are now sharing more information about themselves online than ever before. Sharing is happening at an unprecedented volume, with some calling it ... "The Share...

HotelTonight, the smartphone app that lets you book same-day hotel rooms, is moving into international markets for the first time. It now supports bookings in Toronto and Vancouver, and it plans to ad...

Prepare for the concept of the address book to be flipped. Today, a startup called mon.ki is launching a new way for you to discover "who you know" by providing that information to you in the context ...

While I often prefer to watch analysts hoist themselves with their own petard, it's not often that one dumps out a bit of drivel so short-sighted as George Colony at Forrester. In short, Colony believ...

The next big thing in fashion e-commerce is a moving target -- literally. Ditto, a site that lets users upload videos of themselves to use in trying on eyeglasses, has today announced that it has pick...

Walmart.com is launching a new way to checkout, targeting customers who don't have credit or debit cards...or money in the bank for that matter. The company is now allowing customers to buy online and...

We heard from Peter Vesterbacka himself that Angry Birds Space would be Rovio's biggest launch yet. It's had crazy success since its launch in March, and in proper Rovio fashion, the company has just ...

JustFab, a fashion retail and styling platform, is announcing a number of new metrics today, including over $100 million in yearly revenue as well as international expansion.JustFab was incubated by I...

AHAlife, an e-commerce site for hard-to-find and exclusive luxury lifestyle products, has raised $10.1 million in Series B funding, led by Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, with DCM and FirstMark Cap...

This may not have been the U.S. government's exact intention when when it passed the crowdfunding-friendly JOBS Act, but you have to wonder if it has also jumpstarted the number of crowdfunding sites ...

Ikea is seemingly getting serious about consumer electronics. First there was the new home theater line and now a digital camera. But the two are slightly different. The disruptive HDTV system, UPPLEV...

Big corporations have been riddled by security attacks over the past year, and hackers are seemingly only becoming bolder and more resolute. As a result, market research firm The Radicati Group said t...

Big corporations have been riddled by security attacks over the past year, and hackers are seemingly only becoming bolder and more resolute. As a result, market research firm The Radicati Group said t...

Yandex, Russia's biggest search company, has posted Q1 earnings, with revenues up 51% to $200.3 million, and net income up 53% to $43 million.The results beat analyst expectations: on average analysts...

ZestCash, a company founded by former Google CIO and VP of engineering Douglas Merrill to legitimize the payday loan industry, is announcing a new patent pending credit decisioning model to better ana...

Facebook, in its updated S-1 released on April 23, dazzled us with more milestone user numbers: 901 million monthly active users, and 500 million on mobile. But it also reported a decline in revenues ...

Opera is launching the first official beta of the next version of its desktop browser today. As usual, the Opera 12 beta includes a number of new features and enhancements, but also marks the end of s...

Samsung has been doing their damnedest to keep their next Galaxy phone under wraps, but there's one thing they just couldn't keep quiet about -- the processor.The Korean electronics giant announced no...

Although the iPad has been available for more than two years, LinkedIn has yet to offer its users a native app despite the fact that mobile engagement has been growing at a fast pace for the network. ...

You'd never think that the world of Nerf guns and dart shooters was so intense, but Hasbro apparently sued a blogger for leaking information about unreleased Nerf products he found on Chinese marketpl...

Are Amazon's Kindle tablets and e-readers ready to break into the world's biggest market? We've spotted someChinese Help documentation for AmazonKindle devices on the company'sChina-facing siteina sig...

Two quarters ago, Apple unleashed Godzilla. It was a quarter so spectacular that the only appropriate way to describe it was in pure expletive form. $46 billion in revenue. $13 billion in profit. 37 m...

A new startup called ShopLocket says it's ready to serve people who want to sell things online, but don't need to create a full-blown storefront.Supposedly, co-founder and CEO Katherine Hague was part...

Facebook quietly released an API for its new real-time Insights last week that lets developers build tools that allows companies to track news feed post performance, virality, and negative feedback. J...

Socialcam, the "Instagram for video" iPhone app that spun out of user generated video sharing pioneer Justin.tv last year, has had a pretty crazy past week. A Hacker News post aimed at recruiting engi...

Spotify has been busy as of late, launching brand apps, adding more social functionality through a partnership with Turntable.fm competitor Soundrop, overhauling its Android app, adding a Play button,...

Spotify has been busy as of late, launching brand apps, adding more social functionality through a partnership with Turntable.fm competitor Soundrop, overhauling its Android app, adding a Play button,...

Online private sales burst onto the scene a few years ago in the shape of Vente Privee in Europe and, later, Gilt in the US. It's a model we all know and love - and it's rapidly proving a model with w...

My father, Alfred Bud Weiss, owned a car dealership Buds Cadillacs of Miami, Florida. When Id drop by the office, he would usually pepper me with bits of business wisdom, but as a kid, I wasnt very r...

Sprint plans to offer unlimited data on the next iPhone even if it's LTE. This would make the carrier the only one in the U.S. with the pairing. Verizon and AT&T went away from unlimited plans bef...

In the grand tradition of industry barons -- but not so much venture capitalists -- the six general partners at Andreessen Horowitz are donating at least half of the income from their investing activi...

At the end of Dropbox's "Hey, we have a huge new office!" event today in San Francisco, some reporters cornered CEO Drew Houston and asked him about the big cloud news of the week the launch of Dropb...

Utah-based genealogy site Ancestry.com just announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Silicon Valley-based startup Inflection to acquire its competitor Archives.com for $100 milli...

Rosetta Stone, for those unfamiliar, are the makers of the oft-advertised language learning software of the same name. The 20-year-old Virginia-based company went public in 2009, and today makes learn...

"The series A is essentially dying. If I can get an amazing valuation at a seed round, not give up a board seat, and keep complete control of the company, why not?" This is Ark co-founder Patrick Rile...

YouTube is the largest source of mobile video traffic, according to a new report from Sandvine, and now accounts for as much as 25% of network data, and no less than 12% at any given time. The report ...

Payments platform Square has released a number of new stats today, as well as good news for merchants using its mobile payments app to accept credit cards. According to a Bloomberg report, Square is n...

Do you hate how things ended between you and your ex and are you trying to get him/her back? Google apparently knows what that feels like and wants you to use Chrome to set things right. At least, tha...

Yahoo's photos sharing site, Flickr, has been steadily redesigning a number of components of its platform over the past few months, including editing (courtesy of Aviary), photo views and more. And to...

Snapguide today rolled out an update to its iPhone application that lets users share the "how-to" guides built on the app directly to Pinterest. App updates aren't always big deals, but this one is: I...

If you missed the Bodies exhibition at your local science center, you may be in luck. Rather than see some hapless Chinese prisoners dissected and put on display, you can now view the human body in 3D...

TubeMogul is releasing some statistics today about the success of its video ad buying platform. The big message: That when real-time video ads, TubeMogul is the biggest buyer.The company initially off...

Klout, the startup that measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Foursquare, Google+ and other social apps, is debuting its first mobile presence today with the launch of an iO...

Theres lots going on behind the scenes here at TechCrunch not only are we hiring top writers and putting together a kick-ass lineup for Disrupt in New York next month, were also getting a chief opera...

As Google continues to push businesses to embrace mobile advertising, it's trying to make that process a little less intimidating with a new publication titled "The Mobile Playbook: The Busy Executive...

Klout, the startup that measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Foursquare, Google+ and other social apps, is debuting its first mobile presence today with the launch of an iO...

Microsoft snagged another one. Pegatron is the latest company to sign a patent agreement with Microsoft concerning Android and Chrome devices. The exact terms of this agreement were not disclosed, but...

There is a chapter in the history of technology startups, or perhaps more a book, that will be dedicated to Berlin. As with other cities, but particularly those that, in 2012, are attracting what I li...

Google just added a cool new feature to Google Maps that lets you see photo tours of 15,000 popular landmarks around the world. If these were just photo tours with a Ken Burns effect thrown in for goo...

As Facebook pushes ever closer to one billion users, one of the biggest issues it has faced has been backlash from consumers around the areas of privacy and security. Today, the social network is taki...

As Facebook pushes ever closer to one billion users, one of the biggest issues it has faced has been backlash from consumers around the areas of privacy and security. Today, the social network is taki...

Social video browsing app ShowYou has often been referred to as something like a "Flipboard for video content," but now, that comparison may no longer be as apt. The company today is bringing its sign...

Automattic, the software company best known for running the for-profit fork of the WordPress blog publishing system, is perhaps the best proof out there that blogging can be a real business. Automatti...

Wiggio, an online collaboration service designed for students, has been flying under the radar since raising$2.1 million in fundingback in spring of 2010. The company has been slowly and steadily grow...

The Sphero is a clever little gadget. It's instantly addictive made possible by an incredibly intuitive control scheme. In short the little robotic ball is controlled by simply drawing on the connecte...

Gary Flake is a cool guy. He's the CEO and founder of Clipboard, a web clipping service that lets you grab pieces of the Internet and save them in your own curated catalog of web-flavored goodies.It's...

It wasn't that long ago that I complained about cloud fragmentation issues. There were some interesting observations in the comments on that post. Now word comes that the Linux Foundation is hosting C...

It seems the Samsung Galaxy Note really is headed to T-Mobile. A pic showing a T-Mobile-branded Note was just posted on TmoNews somewhat confirm a report from earlier this week. The phone here had the...

YC-backed new car-buying service CarWoois partnering up with car comparison site FindTheBest, which operates something like a Kayak.com for hundreds of products and services from smartphones to snow b...

On the heels of acquiring sales data analytics company Varicent last week, Big Blue is making another buy in the data space today Vivisimo. Financial terms were not disclosed.Vivisimo, which has rais...

PayNearMe, an alternative payments product that provides a compelling way for the 'unbanked' to use cash payments for online goods, is debuting its first mobile integration today. As you may know, the...

Once upon a time Michael Arrington broke the news that Facebook was developing its own phone. That was in 2010. However in a followup interview with TechCrunch, Mark Zuckerberg killed the notion, sayi...

Cloud storage platform Box has been aggressively targeting and engaging developers in building out an ecosystem around the company's collaboration and file storage platform. Last Fall, Box launched a ...

The day after another monster set of earnings from Apple, the company is continuing the momentum. Today, Apple has announced the dates for its next Worldwide Developers Conference: June 11-15, held in...

The day after another monster set of earnings from Apple, the company is continuing the momentum. Today, Apple has announced the dates for its next Worldwide Developers Conference: June 11-15, held in...

The day after another monster set of earnings from Apple, the company is continuing the momentum. Today, Apple has announced the dates for its next Worldwide Developers Conference: June 11-15, held in...

Jelastic, a U.S./Ukrainian/Russian provider of a cloud-based deployment platform for Java apps, has closed a $2 million Series A funding round from Russia and CIS-focused Almaz Capital Partners and Fo...

Google is the undisputed search giant at the moment, with some 92 percent of all searches passing through its engines worldwide at the moment. But when it comes to what browsers seem to be driving the...

Cloud storage and backup service Symform has raised $11 million led by WestRiver Capital, with participation from existing investors OVP and Longworth Capital.The Symform Cloud Storage Network provide...

So I am sitting here staring at this New York Times article and it is titled"Apple Chiefs Offhand Comment Spawns Internet Quip," which is probably one of the most ridiculous news headlines I've ever s...

You may know TED, not as the guy from marketing, but as the nonprofit organization devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading" -- or as the set of global conferences, Talks, and videos that touch on the many h...

Right now there's a cutthroat battle between social marketing platforms to represent the world's biggest brands. In hopes of seducing dollars from offline and clients from competitors, social marketin...

OpenUDID, a new, open-source identification scheme that was created by marketing company Appsfire, says it has rounded up support from 17 mobile advertising companies (including itself) as developers ...

Birchbox, the New York City-based startup that provides a monthly delivery service of beauty and personal care product samples, seemed like a lark to some when it when it first came on the scene back ...

It seems like everyone's worried about an incubator bubble, but seriously Lemnos Labs is doing something different. It's not just incubating for the latest social network or iPhone app. Instead, it's...

Blogs and content sites are only willing to give up valuable real estate and clutter themselves with social sharing buttons if they get ample referral traffic in return. That's the big problem with th...

ComScore today released its analysis of this month's top properties on ye olde Webernets in the U.S. There are a number of points of interest, but among them, it seems that lotto sites were the top be...

Baidu, China's leading web search company today issued its quarterly earnings report for the first three months of 2012. The company made $677 million in top-line revenue, up 75 percent from the reven...

Earning calls are super fascinating when you think about it; For multiple hours a quarter we tune in with the thousands of other tech bloggers to dissect the financials of the public companies we spen...

Workout Spots is hoping to bring the oh-so-popular "OpenTable for X" approach to the world of fitness.The goal, as the name implies, is to help people find nearby gyms, and to register for classes at ...

AOL has had a few knocks from shareholders over whether it's on the right track with its content strategy -- a mix of high-volume, ad-based websites that cover lifestyle, tech, travel, news and more -...

Looks like Tim Cook doesn't quite want to go as "thermonuclear" on rival phone makers as Apple founder Steve Jobs did. Cook didn't sound so eager to pursue patent infringement suits against Samsung, M...

Apple's iOS ecosystem keeps on rolling. The company said it has more than 600,000 apps in the store, up from the 550,000 number they confirmed a month ago. On top of that the iTunes store generated $1...

If you were one of the naysayers who thought that there wouldn't be a very strong consumer appetite for the newest twist on the already very popular iPad, it may be time to think again. Apple's top ex...

Well, that was fast. Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer just announced on Apple's Q2 2012 earnings call that the company's iCloud service has attracted 125 million users in the roughly six months since the s...

Well, that was fast. Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer just announced on Apple's Q2 2012 earnings call that the company's iCloud service has attracted 125 million users in the roughly six months since the s...

Apple just reported its second quarter earnings, revealing that the revenue from its Apple Stores was at 4.4 billion, an increase of 38 percent year over year.Apple stores were responsible for a littl...

Facebook has been in the process of ramping up its effort to leverage its ever-growing platform to aid mobile developers to market their native and HTML5-based apps. In this attempt to extend its plat...

The angry mobs in Beijing weren't lying. Apple's iPhone 4 has made a splash in China, bringing the company's phone sales there up by fivefold from a year ago. The device didn't debut there until this ...

Apple has once again beaten analysts' expectations with its Q2 results out today, and correspondingly the iPhone giant now has an even stronger cash position than it did before: $110 billion in the si...

Apple just released its FY2012 Q2 earnings and will host its earnings call at 2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern today. We will live blog this call for you below, but you can also listen in to the call here (Q...

Apple just released its second quarter financial numbers. Overall hardware sales decreased from its record previous quarter but with the notable exception of the iPods, they're up from the same quarte...

Apple has just posted their Q2 2012 financials, and revealed that over the last 14 weeks the company has pulled in $11.6 billion in profit on $39.2 billion in revenues, which breaks down to $12.30 per...

Ask Sandbox Industries how it defines its company, and it will tell you that it is neither an accelerator, nor a venture fund. That's because the company is attempting to bring a new approach to the t...

A new version of Firefox used to be a big deal, but since Mozilla switched to a rapid release schedule, these updates are becoming pretty routine. Today, Mozilla launched Firefox 12. For most users, t...

It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, and sometimes you'll bust your tail without so much as a "well done!" to show for it. Deep down though, who doesn't want a little bit of ego-stroking every once in ...

Would you prefer a CEO who's in the trenches making their company worth more, or one who sings and dances for potential investors? In Facebook's case, having Mark Zuckerberg remain the visionary rathe...

I love my two cats Pepper and Magic and kind of think of them like two extra children and definitely part of the family. I also travel a lot sometimes on my own, more often with my husband and two (h...

Google finally launched its long-rumored Google Drive online storage service today. This was probably one of Google's worse-kept secrets, so the launch itself wasn't much of a surprise to anyone - lea...

Enterprise mobile startup DoubleDutch has raised $2 million in Series A funding, the company is reporting today, in a round led byBullpen Capital and including Mike Maples Floodgate Fund, as well asMi...

It's a bit hard to officially review the Nook Simple Touch With GlowLight as it's almost exactly the same as the previous version but with one important improvement: it glows. Arguably, the Nook and t...

Today's launch of Google Drive, official at last, is kind of a relief. Internet rumors and reports have seen the industry discussing the possibility of a consumer-facing cloud storage service called "...

There was a little gem that we almost missed yesterday in Facebook's amended IPO filing. But it looks like Facebook acknowledged that it may have to move away from a 30 percent revenue share with app ...

There was a little gem that we almost missed yesterday in Facebook's amended IPO filing. But it looks like Facebook acknowledged that it may have to move away from a 30 percent revenue share with app ...

Social Annex, a retail-focused social platform that's been in stealth mode for the past two years, is today announcing having gained the attention (and the investment) of some big backers of e-commerc...

You can try Google Drive now at drive.google.com. ...

You can try Google Drive now at drive.google.com. ...

Over the weekend, we hosted a fun contest from the Founder Institute, where entrepreneurs posted a one-sentence pitch for their companies. We received more than 450 pitches, of which 421 followed the ...

When we last covered Buffer, a service for scheduling your social media sharing, the startup had just raised $400,000, and its founders were relocating from San Francisco to Hong Kong due to expiring ...

One thing that has been remarkable about Facebook is its willingness to expand in developing markets that many other consumer Internet companies would otherwise write off because they're hard to monet...

After years of rumors, it looks like the Google Drive has finally arrived. While we are still waiting for official word from Google, but earlier today, the company apparently mistakenly posted the Fre...

The job-hunting market today is getting a little more social: Path.to, a kind of About.me-meets-LinkedIn service that lets people create image-filled, sleek professional profiles for themselves online...

Andy Rubin, Google's SVP of Mobile and Digital Content, just officially pulled back the curtains on a new section in the Google Play Store where Google will be selling hardware directly to customers. ...

And just like that, Google is selling smartphones again. Andy Rubin, Google's SVP of Mobile and Digital Content, just officially pulled back the curtains on a new section in the Google Play Store wher...

That was quick.Sponsorship positions for the TechCrunch Mini Meet-Up in NYC are officially filled, and boy is this thing going to be awesome! If you aren't already aware (and shame on you, if you aren...

The industry just can't stop analyzing the Instagram success story, and this month, it's app store analytics firm Distimo's turn to take a crack at it. The company, which typically releases reports re...

Asana has been slowly sleeping across TechCrunch lately, and the low-key but ambitious company revealed last week that it has been doing the same elsewhere --Twitter, Foursquare, LinkedIn, and Airbnb ...

Asana has been slowly sleeping across TechCrunch lately, and the low-key but ambitious company revealed last week that it has been doing the same elsewhere --Twitter, Foursquare, LinkedIn, and Airbnb ...

We're in the thick of earnings season now, and earlier today telecom titan AT&T jumped into the fray with their Q1 2012 financials. AT&T posted a profit of $0.60 per share on revenues of $31.8...

We are seeing a lot of activity in the world of advertising technology -- from funding rounds to new product launches -- but it's not all good news, and inevitably consolidation is coming, too: Peer39...

The One S is the middle child in HTC's new line of hero devices, not quite as badass as the One X, but a bit bigger than baby brother One V. As is the case with any middle child, it's a bit easy to ov...

User Hariprasanth sent us a strange missive: it seems that if you upload something to Google Docs today, your storage space immediately increases from 1GB to 5GB. I didn't believe him at first - it sa...

Go plug in your iPhone, wait a few minutes and then take a big whiff over the headphone jack. Smell anything? Well, there are widespread reports in China that their phones smell like fruit. Seriously....

A while ago, people opined that the PS Vita - despite horrible battery life and a dearth of compelling game titles - could become a sort of "gamers iPad," a tool that ends up being more than just a co...

Fresh off its first acquisition and $85 million in new funding, Yammer is debuting a number of product improvements in a new release for its social network for enterprises. The company has added unive...

Travel ad platform Travora Media is acquiring The Nile Project, the parent company of one-stop travel planning site NileGuide, local recommendations platform 10Best.com, and mobile, local travel guide...

Remember how most companies don't sell practically overnight for $1 billion dollars and itactually takes years before a startup finds its "Aha!" moment and narrows in on a working business model?Yes, ...

In February, Chirpify rebranded from SellSimp.ly and launched a Twitter commerce platform that allowed brands and consumers to buy, sell, donate and transact through tweets without leaving the comfort...

Chalk another one up for the mobile revolution: There were 56 million tablets purchased worldwide in 2011, but a new report from Forrester Research predicts that number will explode in the years ahead...

Financial fallout from last week's Q1 earnings from beleaguered handset maker Nokia, which saw the company report declines in sales, profit and much else across the board: Fitch Ratings has once again...

A sign of a crack in the Great Chinese Firewall? Internet users in China today are reporting that they are able to access Facebook in the country: some say they can access the site through mobile inte...

A sign of a crack in the Great Chinese Firewall? Internet users in China today are reporting that they are able to access Facebook in the country: some say they can access the site through mobile Inte...

Citrus Lane, the Mountain View, California-based startup that provides a monthly subscription delivery service of new and useful products for families with infants and toddlers, has raised $5.1 millio...

Last June, FounderFuel became the latest in a new crop of Canadian startup accelerators, joining Year One Labs and more in the mission to support and grow the country's entrepreneurial ecosystems.Crea...

Bee Media, the makers of a mobile shopping platform that serves location-specific offers and info to mobile devices, today announced that it has acquired Adcentricity, a similarly location-focued digi...

Five years ago, Microsoft reported revenue of $14.398 billion. They reported a profit of $6.589 billion. Last week, for the same quarter, Microsoft's revenue was $17.407 billion. Their profit was $6.3...

Even though I think it's way too big for the average human, Samsung's Galaxy Note is doing quite well since its debut in January at CES. In fact, Samsung has sold 5 million units of the Galaxy Note th...

Even though Netflix's first-quarter earnings came in ahead of analyst expectations, CEO Reed Hastings still had to answer plenty of (usually skeptical) questions during this afternoon's earnings confe...

Facebook makes an average of $1.21 on you per quarter, depending on who you are and where you live according to documents filed today. Most of that goes towards running the site, as Facebook's net inc...

Zynga and Facebook are ever gradually trying to separate from each other. It's working -- sort of?Facebook said today that 15 percent of its revenue in the first quarter came from either advertising o...

Netflix just released their Q1 2012 earnings report, and managed to beat analyst estimates by reporting losses of $0.08 per share on $870 million in revenue. In the weeks leading up to the release, an...

Ever since it launched earlier this year, Google's "Search Plus Your World" initiative has been heavily criticized for favoring results from its own social network over those from larger and more popu...

Fitbit has consistently proven to be the best smart pedometer on the market. Competitors exist, including the excellent Striiv, but the ease of use and portability of this little pedometer clip beats ...

Facebook has just filed an amendment to its S-1 to IPO that notes that it now has 500 million mobile users, 901 million monthly active users, and that it paid 23 million shares at $30.89 a share plus ...

Remember when Groupon raised, like, a billion dollars? We certainly do.Well, it looks like Groupon's slide over the past month is bringing its last round of venture investors ever closer to breaking e...

Remember when Groupon raised, like, a billion dollars? We certainly do.Well, it looks like Groupon's slide over the past month is bringing its last round of venture investors ever closer to breaking e...

High-end design, fashion and travel-focusedPinterest rival The Fancy is rolling out several new features today, including a new slideshow option, the addition of four more languages, and a new visual ...

Right after racing to the top of the App Store charts, Viddy just announced that it has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from a long list of celebrities not just tech celebrities, but also the...

Facebook had a choice to make: With just 56 patents to its name at the start of 2012 it could pay its way out of Yahoo's infringement lawsuit with gobs of money and remain vulnerable to other patent a...

Facebook had a choice to make: With just 56 patents to its name at the start of 2012 it could pay its way out of Yahoo's infringement lawsuit with gobs of money and remain vulnerable to other patent a...

Google started rolling out its new user interface for Gmail late last year. Not everybody is in love with it, of course, so it doesn't come as a surprise that a little cottage industry of Gmail enhanc...

These days, it seems SoundCloud is the player to beat in the music platform space. It's been called (among other things) the Flickr for audio or the YouTube for audio. Evidence of this lies in the fac...

Personal Democracy Forum CEO Andrew Rasiej told me that most American politicians don't know the difference between a waiter and a server. Perhaps. But one politician who certainly can distinguish bet...

FounderDating, which helps entrepreneurs with co-founders through online networking and offline events, announced a big geographic expansion earlier this year. But what if you don't live in a traditio...

SkyDrive, Microsoft's online storage service, is one of the core elements of the company's cloud strategy. Today, Microsoft is taking the wraps off a number of new SkyDrive services, including a Dropb...

Although Facebook didn't buy AOL's patent portfolio the other week -- it was sold to Microsoft for $1 billion -- it's going to get a good portion of those patents anyway: Microsoft and Facebook today ...

Parking Panda, the startup that wants to make it easier for drivers to rent spaces or rent out their unused driveways, is expanding its regional coverage with today's public launch. The company has ju...

BlablaCar, a European carpooling marketplace that connects any driver who has empty seats with paying passengers, has now launched its iPhone app in the UK. The app connects drivers who have spare sea...

We're a month away, and are very excited to reveal our workshops & judges for the upcoming NYC TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, taking place on May 19th & 20th.This will be the second Hackathon T...

The heat is on to migrate more digital marketing activities into the cloud, and while we have seen a lot of movements from smaller, fleet-0f-foot startups in this area, the big players don't want to b...

BetterWorks, a startup that helps companies give their employees perks and rewards, is launching new features that should make it a better fit for big enterprises.The startup offers customers a dashbo...

It's been spotted in leaked press renders and blurry photos before, but Verizon has just recently (and perhaps inadvertently) made the new Droid Incredible nice and official. The Droid Incredible 4G L...

Independent mobile ad networkInMobireleased its Q1 2012 Ad Data report for North America this morning, covering the mobile ad landscape for the first part of the year. Not surprisingly, the report fou...

Independent mobile ad networkInMobireleased its Q1 2012 Ad Data report for North America this morning, covering the mobile ad landscape for the first part of the year. Not surprisingly, the report fou...

Gavin Kim certainly knows how to keep things interesting. After spending years at Samsung and winding up as the company's VP of Content and Services, Kim jumped ship to take point on Microsoft's Windo...

Locu, the data-focused startup launched out of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's lab at MIT to provide structure to the world's information, has just announced a $4 million Series A round led by General Catalyst ...

Nokia just rolled out a new browser for Series 40, Asha devices. Browser 2.0 as it's called features numerous improvements and enhancements, but its cloud-based compression is arguably the most import...

Amazon is debuting a new vertical today, called AmazonSupply, which is a new site for mechanical parts and other hardware for business and industrial sectors. Amazon says the site sells over 500,000 i...

I am regularly reminded of the amazing innovation coming out of the Nordic region. Countries like Sweden, Finland and even tiny Denmark regularly punch above their weight, producing global companies l...

In the words of Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, sharing documents and other files online is "bafflingly, still really difficult." You could argue that Dropbox has already done its part in making that proces...

Last year, we wrote about Copious, an eBay-like marketplace that leveraged your social graph on Facebook. The site aimed to use your social graph from Facebook to make the marketplace experience that ...

The best way to get someone to spread your dumb video is to include something controversial. That's day one material in Viral YouTube Marketing 101. And so, Samsung, clearly a graduate of said class t...

Much has been said about the role social media has come to play in the global landscape over the last few years. Whether one sees it as the tool of revolutions or not, Facebook, Twitter, and other med...

Ad-tech may not be the most obvious face of digital advertising, but in a world in which the role of big data is getting ever more essential to how things work, it is taking up an increasingly importa...

A sign of more big money being poured into the tech sector, by way of a new development for the Chernin Group, the digital media company founded by ex-News Corp. executive Peter Chernin: it has sold a...

A sign of more big money being poured into the tech sector, by way of a new development for the Chernin Group, the digital media company founded by ex-News Corp. executive Peter Chernin: it has sold a...

The new Estonian accelerator program Startup Wise Guys, backed by the Estonian government-owned Estonian Development Fund and some former engineers from Skype, has just announced the seven teams it wi...

Q&A platform Answers.com is announcing a 'significant' minority investment from private equity firm TA Associates. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. Answers operates a communit...

Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms, is continuing its international expansion to Europe with a strategic partnership with European telecommunications...

Big news from the UK this morning: Vodafone, one of Europe's biggest mobile operators, has made a formal offer to buy up the assets of Cable & Wireless for 1 billion ($1.7 billion), a deal that ca...

News.me, the newsreader app hatched in The New York Times' R&D lab and incubated at betaworks, today added a nifty feature to its new iPhone app, which gives readers instant access to their news o...

Today is a big day for Adobe. Not only is the company officially unveiling the next versions of virtually all of the applications in its Creative Suite 6, but Adobe is also launching its Creative Clou...

A couple of weeks ago, early participants in the new AdWords for Video program gathered at the YouTube offices. The ostensible justification for the meeting was a fancy photo shoot, but YouTube execut...

Andreessen Horowitz revealed that it made $78 million off its $250,000 seed investment in Instagram in a post that was meant to quell criticism that it "fumbled" its involvement with the company."Ordi...

Editor's Note: Jordan Kurzweil is Co-CEO of Independent Content, an agency that helps media companies launch new digital products and businesses. Prior to starting Independent Content, Jordan worked a...

Yin asked not to be identified by her real name. A young addict in her mid-twenties, she lives in Palo Alto and, despite her addiction, attends Stanford University. She has all the composure and polis...

Pinterest has been on a hot streak this year. Or should we say hype streak?In February, comScore reported that the site had passed 10 million monthly unique users faster than any standalone site ever....

Pinterest has been on a hot streak this year. Or should we say hype streak?In February, comScore reported that the site had passed 10 million monthly unique users faster than any standalone site ever....

Editors Note: Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital. Follow him on Twitter @ahaislip.In the ...

I think we can all safely agree that open source software development is here to stay. Open, collaborative development has fundamentally changed not only how we code, but also the code we produce. It'...

Recognizable, fast-loading, but outdated as hell website seeks Senior UI / Usability / Front End Engineer. Love it or hate it, Craigslist's design could provide a better experience, and apparently Cra...

Two years ago, when I first co-founded Earbits, I started frequenting various startup events like so many other first-time founders. Some of them were mixers, others were pitch competitions, and many ...

I first used Windows on a TULIP portable computer, some twenty years ago. Graphical user interface, icons, mouse, an amazing new world was ushered in before my wide eyes.At uni, I scored a summer inte...

I've been fiddling around with the HTC One S for a few days now, and I have to say it's stolen a little piece of my heart. The hardware is just about perfect, with a 4.3-inch qHD display and a slender...

To say Wall Street currently suffers from a deficit of trust would be an understatement. In the last few years alone, the government had to bail out Wall Street to the tune of $700 billion, Madoff and...

Google's promise of bringing morse code to our smartphones may have just been a cleverly crafted joke, but if you're just tickled by the concept's delightful sense of anachronism, a new iOS app called...

The mobile app industry is in a state of confusion in the wake of Apples recent measures to wean developers from the UDID (Unique Device Identifier), a function broadly used for determining the effect...

More dollars were poured into the Beltway from technology companies in the first quarter of 2012. As shown through previous lobbying spends, each quarter, Facebook and Google continue to spend more an...

iPhone unlocks are usually a tetchy experience - you have to have the right firmware on the right model iPhone at the right time. Now, however, thanks to a method that spoofs the activation server, yo...

There are two kinds of stories: great ones and the ones that have to be pitched. This article isnt about great stories.I have a lot of fond memories from TechCrunch -- being there when the YouTube acq...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides an excellent cloud infrastructure solution for both early stage startups and enterprises.The good news is that AWS is a pay-per-use service, provides universal acces...

When John D. Rockefeller was told about the U.S. Supreme Courts decision to break up Standard Oil, the founding titan turned to his golfing partner and said, Father Lennon, have you some money? The pr...

Slowly but surely, Microsoft Israel is making itself more and more relevant for the local startup community. In fact, we recently covered its latest major push, the Windows Azure Accelerator.Then ther...

Roughly 16 billion Facebook Credits were distributed and consumed in 2011. In 2012, I predict that the use of Facebook Credits will soar by three times to over 40 billion Credits spent on virtual good...

n Sept. 2007, I was on a well-deserved holiday, having spent an excruciating 11 months with a startup where 80-hour weeks were normal. I was the Chief Technology Officer and in my short tenure, I had ...

Thanks to an election year and a high employment rate, jobs seem to be dominating the headlines even more than usual. Now SmartRecruiters, a hiring startup recently backed by the Mayfield Fund, is try...

It's really beautiful outside. Like so beautiful if San Francisco is like this more often it will become really expensive to live here. Also, Quora is raising money according to the multiple people in...

I think it says a lot about the current state of email that we have so many startups trying to change the way we do it. Gmail has been a key player for many years now. With features like threaded mess...

Netflix the poster child for premium Internet video services was birthed by iTunes and other online music services before it. Yes, movies and music are fundamentally different forms of media. Apart ...

This is the second part of a three-part primer on convertible note seed financings. Part 1, entitled Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Convertible Note Seed Financings (But Were Afraid To Ask),...

A new generation of Smart Mobile Services is coming. We dont needto wait for Google Glassesto build the nextgeneration of world-changing consumer services. Many of the enablingfeatures for these servi...

What could be a better endorsement of your product's quality than having some of the hottest companies in tech relying on it? Launched in November, task management software Asana is already being used...

Last December, TechCrunch worked with Adeo Ressi from The Founder Institute to host a competition for one-sentence pitches. It's been a few months so we're doing it again.Distilling your startup idea...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor drunk on power and app-pacified to the max, a pathetic unanimity in search of an argument, a raised eyebrow ...

The tech scene in NY is growing at such a rapid pace it kind of blows my mind. New York Tech Day was a glowing example of that growth, with 160 startups pitching and over 3,500 attendees.We couldn't h...

Android, by most accounts, is proving to be the most popular smartphone platform when it comes to devices getting sold today -- partly due to the sheer variety of devices and price points that are out...

When you ask someone on a date, maybe you are a gentleman that likes to offer some flowers to make it official. This is where Ticlr, a startup showcased at DEMO Spring 2012, comes into play. You can s...

E-books. Again. Amazon and the DOJ vs. Apple and "The Big Six." The future of reading. A breathtakingly stupid David Carr piece in the New York Times, which thankfully someone else took down paragraph...

Last week at the 10x Xelerator, Andy Sparks impelled LaunchGram.com into motion and lazy people all over the world rejoiced (or they will...eventually). This new service, in the words of Sparks, "aggr...

From a slow start in the aftermath of the Soviet Union, Russia is now Europes biggest internet market with 53 million users (compared to number-two Germany at 51 million), and figures from GP Bullhoun...

From a slow start in the aftermath of the Soviet Union, Russia is now Europes biggest internet market with 53 million users (compared to number-two Germany at 51 million), and figures from GP Bullhoun...

In the dot-com boom I lost $15 million cash. Yes, I am an idiot. You know what happens when you lose that kind of cash? When you go to zero? You lose your libido. You don't want to have sex ever again...

Not a week goes by where I dont get an email that goes like this: I wanted to reconnect, as I've recently left [the company that bought my startup]. Long story, but suffice it to say their executives ...

Having found traction (in 2011, 500 startups and 2,500 investors joined the community, with a total of 12,500 introductions resulting), AngelList is now on a mission to capitalize on its position and ...

Video chat service Tango is moving in a new direction, and this week, the company closed a round of $40 million in Series C funding which will help it get there. Today, many think of Tango's service a...

Why? Because the term sheets were signed weeks ago. The deal was only announced this week. (Yes, sorry, there isn't a more interesting reason.)However, Scott Raney, a partner at Redpoint Ventures, the...

After writing about Lovestagram, the app that Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger's girlfriend made for him as a Valentine's Day present, we didn't think we could find a cuter story. But we totally did....

During my daily combing of tech news feeds/breaks to learn more about the wide world of drugs, I stumbled upon this interesting little service called Leafly. Essentially, you hop on over to Leafly.com...

Apparently lots of people are still talking about Instagram's sale to Facebook (last week seems like ages ago to those of us in the attention-deficit-disordered world of blogging, but I guess a $1 bil...

Facebook has released an update to its Android app today that should give users of the social network on Android devices a more integrated and instant experience -- and takes Facebook another step clo...

Because I'm so clearly ready to settle down and have a family, I am at the first ever 500StartupsMamabear Family conference in Mountain View today, watching a group of talks from family-oriented start...

Yesterday at New York Tech Day we met with quite a few great companies including Digital Ocean. These guys are pretty established in the cloud space. They offer OS agnostic cloud servers and are givin...

There are plenty of services out there that will let you build simple mobile apps without the need to know how to program. The problem with most of these is that you quickly reach their limits once yo...

It's 4/20, and you know exactly what that means: It's National DNA Day! (What, were you expecting something else?)Yep -- this is the official day to commemorate the 1953 publishing of the first scient...

Why? Because the term sheets were signed weeks ago. The deal was only announced this week. (Yes, sorry, there isn't a more interesting reason.)However, Scott Raney, a partner at Redpoint Ventures, the...

I've covered a few online dating services in my day, but this one has got to be the most creative. It's called Cheek'd, and I'd categorize it as a place where business cards meets picking up prospecti...

Speak to people who think Facebook will be a screaming buy at its likely IPO valuation of $100b+ and they will say with confidence, "Facebook is just getting started." What they mean is that Face...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live at 1pm PT....

Speak to people who think Facebook will be a screaming buy at its likely IPO valuation of $100b+ and they will say with confidence, "Facebook is just getting started." What they mean is that Face...

Ever since Larry Page took over as Google's CEO, the company has shut down more and more of its products that were only being used by a limited number of users. Today, the company announced another ro...

Ever since Larry Page took over as Google's CEO, the company has shut down more and more of its products that were only being used by a limited number of users. Today, the company announced another ro...

Facebook has revealed that its HTML5 site has twice as many users as its iOS and Android apps combined. But that's actually a problem, because Apple and Google's mobile browsers don't support photo up...

It's not often that you look at a Twitter stream and think, "This is really Pulitzer material." But if you happen to be looking at the Twitter accounts of the Tuscaloosa News and its reporting staff, ...

VoloMetrix, an enterprise analytics application that helps businesses streamline their communications and performance, has raised $1.6 million in Series A funding led by Shasta Ventures. VoloMetrix es...

For those of you who love the Olympic Games, the 2012 London Olympics are just under 100 days away. The International Olympic Committee just launched an awesome Olympic Athletes' Hub which connects Ol...

For those of you who love the Olympic Games, the 2012 London Olympics are just under 100 days away. The International Olympic Committee just launched an awesome Olympic Athletes' Hub which connects Ol...

Much as I love all the phones in my arsenal, there always comes a time when I grow weary of the stock experience. Rather than leave up it to some company to gussy up my phone for me, I've instead turn...

VoloMetrix, an enterprise analytics application that helps businesses streamline their communications and performance, has raised $1.6 million in Series A funding led by Shasta Ventures. VoloMetrix es...

Microsoft launched its Windows 8 Consumer Preview at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona back in February. So far, the reactions to this first mainstream preview of Windows 8 have been somewhat mixed -...

I had to start braising the beef, pork butt and veal shanks for the tomato sauce. It was Michael's favorite. I was making ziti with the meat gravy and I'm planning to roast some peppers over the flame...

Blockbuster movie director James Cameron made the top two worldwide grossing films of all time - Titanic and Avatar. This week in Las Vegas he spoke not to the movie industry, but to television broad...

When Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 billion earlier this month, quite a few pundits were left wondering if Facebook hadn't overpaid for the photo-sharing service. Another company that is currently...

As the newer crop of Internet and mobile technology companies gradually become the big industries of tomorrow, they are slowly entering the world of corporate sponsorship, previously the province of o...

WeVideo has just secured $19.1 million for its cloud-based collaborative video editing platform, in a round led by Crest Capital Ventures of Houston, Texas. The company says it plans to use the fundin...

Pixelpipe, a San Francisco-based startup that offers a 'content distribution gateway' that allows people to upload text, photos, videos and other files to a variety of social networking and media shar...

TechCrunch Disrupt NYC will be here before we know it and we have been working incredibly hard to make it especially amazing this year. This incomparable conference is being held next month, May 21st ...

In January, Zeel launched into the wild, bringing Zocdoc's model to alternative healthcare providers -- like massage therapists, personal trainers, nutritionists, and acupuncturists -- allowing consum...

Spain is getting its own version of Netflix, thanks to a company called Youzee, which exits its private beta period today. Like Netflix, Youzee offers streaming movies and TV on-demand, but it also fe...

Yesterday, I was lucky enough to venture into the depths of AT&T's New York offices and check out the Research Lab. In essence, AT&T has about a zillion APIs that relate to cloud computing, na...

There was a lot of startup excitement in Tallinn, Estonia this week, where investment and mentoring program Seedcamp organised their first ever event in Estonia - a tiny country, but best known for be...

Whip out the out the old anagylphs, folks, because you're going to want to watch this. Some kids at the Wonderland Elementary School sent up a weather balloon mounted with a carbon fiber frame carryin...

A new report from Nielsen this morning delves into the mobile and social behavior of U.S. Hispanic consumers, finding they're highly engaged in their usage of smartphones, online video, social network...

I try my best to stay away from writing about speaker docks and phone cases. In my experience, they're all the same, save for a few minor tweaks here and there. But today I stumbled upon a pretty nove...

In 2009 a Russian teenager named Andrey Ternovskiy created random video chat website ChatRoulette, which at its peak in March 2010 attracted 1.8 million unique monthly visitors, but suffered from offe...

Crowdtap, a web-based network that allows brands to connect with their most engaged fans and customers through social media, has just expanded to two more platforms: Facebook and mobile. The mobile ap...

With only a few weeks left to go until Samsung's big London reveal, the leaks are just flying out of the woodwork now. If that recent Brazilian leak didn't quite fill you with much confidence, this on...

It was only yesterday that AT&T announced its Watson Speech API, meant to let developers of any kind provide products with real-time translation baked right in. I got the chance to speak with Mazi...

As this new ad clearly demonstrates the 41MP Nokia 808 Pureview is an amazing piece of mobile photography technology. It was filmed with just the 808 Pureview and it looks great. Nokia has a winner in...

Touchscreens killed the keypad star. HTC is reportedly done with physical keypads and will instead focus on better on-screen keypad technology.The word comes from HTC creative director Claude Zellwege...

Back in March giant telco Telefonica opened the latest addition to its growing global network of startup incubators dubbed "Wayra Academy". Wayra is the latest incubator/accelerator in London, joining...

Venture capitalists invested $5.8 billion in 758 deals in the first quarter of 2012, according to a MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)...

Are you an entrepreneur looking to build something truly awesome that will positively impact millions of peoples lives? (and by the way, make a LOT of money?)If so, then I have a suggestion...Stop bui...

We first heard about Rewinery through a straytweet from Instagram co-founder (and fellow Brazilian) Mike Krieger. Because it was late at the office, and we were working on culling TechCrunch Disrupt f...

After a period of unnerving quietness, the Apple rumor mill is back up and running at full capacity producing two somewhat credible rumors over the last 24 hours. The next iPhone will not be announced...

Duetto, a startup bringing a "big data" approach to the travel industry, has just raised $2.1 million in seed funding.The company hasn't launched yet, but co-founder and CEO Patrick Bosworth says the ...

Smoopa, a mobile commerce startup co-founded by a longtime ex-Googler, a defense scientist and a former Massachusetts state trooper (yes!), is landing on iOS today with a price-scanning app that pays ...

"We must do whatever we can to stop cold calling each other's employees and other competitiverecruiting efforts between the companies." This quote fromSteve Jobs to Palm's CEO was central to a San Jos...

"We must do whatever we can to stop cold calling each other's employees and other competitiverecruiting efforts between the companies." This quote fromSteve Jobs to Palm's CEO was central to a San Jos...

"We must do whatever we can to stop cold calling each other's employees and other competitiverecruiting efforts between the companies." This quote fromSteve Jobs to Palm's CEO was central to a San Jos...

Mayfield Fund managing partner Tim Chang is going long on the idea of the "quantified self," which is about using the latest in both hardware and software technology to keep detailed tabs of people's ...

Titan Gaming, the makers of a gaming platform that enables content sites and social networks to offer cash and prize-based game tournaments, is today announcing that it is embarking on a complete make...

The NYC-based Wander is today announcing a raise of $1.2 million from Rob Go'sNextView Ventures,Jeff Clavier and Stephanie Pameri'sSoftTech VC,SV Angel, Rich Miner'sGoogle Ventures,Collaborative Fund,...

Microsoft just released its earnings report for the third quarter of its fiscal year. It came out slightly ahead of analyst estimates, with $17.41 billion in revenue (compared to the predicted $17.16 ...

We first wrote about Chocomize not realizing the importance of disruption in the bespoke chocolate space. After trying a sample of their produce today at the New York Tech Day, however, I've decided t...

TinyCo, a mobile gaming startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is yet another major game developer that has come forward to show that revenue per user on Amazon's appstore is tracking much higher than...

Mozilla and Spain-based Telefonica officially announced their intentions to work together on an open web device at this year's Mobile World Congress, but I'm not sure anyone expected the launch market...

Cloud note and storage app Evernote is raising a massive fifth round of funding of between $50 to $100 million at a valuation that tops $1 billion, according to our sources.Contrary to what Business I...

"In the Studio" has a special segment this week, hosting a Valley entrepreneur who grew up on the East Coast, studied at an Ivy League school, was lured to Wall Street, and eventually decided to leave...

The Millenium Technology Prize is a Finnish award designed "to improve the quality of life and to promote sustainable development-oriented research, development and innovation." It's awarded every two...

The Millenium Technology Prize is a Finnish award designed "to improve the quality of life and to promote sustainable development-oriented research, development and innovation." It's awarded every two...

Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding have been two of the biggest trends to affect how businesses -- especially small businesses and sole traders -- raise money, with sites like Kickstarter.com and in the U...

Similar to Google's new Account Activity dashboard, the company is now expanding its data-crunching ways to another popular Google service: Gmail. With a new tool called "Gmail Meter," you can now kno...

Phil Mui, currently the group product manager for Google Analytics, will be joining marketing services and technology company Acxiom as chief product and engineering officer.According to Acxiom, Mui w...

Massive Health, the San Francisco startup that aims to tackle major health care problems with tools such as mobile apps and big data technology, launched its first iPhone app "Eatery" back in November...

Firebase is one of those startups with an almost crazily big vision it wants to simplify the development of powerful, real-time apps, to the point where (as co-founder James Tamplin put it) it's "jet...

With Lava's XOLO X900 Intel is entering uncharted territory. It's the chip maker's first major push into mobile phones. Intel revealed its new mobile strategy and upcoming hardware a few months back a...

With Lava's XOLO X900 Intel is entering uncharted territory. It's the chip maker's first major push into mobile phones. Intel revealed its new mobile strategy and upcoming hardware a few months back a...

Hulu has been having a busy week. On Tuesday, the company announced a new deal for advertisers, which now charges them only for ad completions, and today at Hulu's upfronts, the company announced the ...

Hulu has been having a busy week. On Tuesday, the company announced a new deal for advertisers, which now charges them only for ad completions, and today at Hulu's upfronts, the company announced the ...

In the quest for the Holy Grail of project management software -- a product that just feels natural and easy to use -- Siasto has made it further than most. If this were The Last Crusade, it'd be some...

Now it seems as though Sprint may be joining that esteemed club. According to a new flurry of new reports, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed a $300 million lawsuit against the wire...

Sprint's had its fair share of problems to deal with as of late, but who knew one of them would be taxes? According to a new flurry of new reports, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has file...

Decide.com, the shopping search site for consumer electronics and home appliances founded by former Farecast engineers, is now putting its money where its mouth is, so to speak. The service, which hel...

'Allo my Breeteesh chums! If you have not been to Le Web before, zen zis is pour vous! Le Web is possibly Europe's oldest, and certainly its biggest tech startup conference, running for many years in ...

Fab has just released new figures on its growth in Germany and Austria, following February's acquisition ofCasacanda, a top flash sales site previously serving Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. And t...

Hot off of a AT&T Labs event held in New York City, AT&T has just announced they will be opening up their Watson speech recognition technology to developers this June.Though Watson has been op...

The problem with internet advertising - and there are many - is that while there are plenty of users who interact with ads, the hard part is working out which users are actually the most valuable to a...

Dating/meeting-people siteBadoohas been putting together a147 million registered user base over the last six years, with ahuge run on Facebook helping it to reach around the world last year. And today...

Screenfeeder is a gorgeous new app for the iPhone, iPad or TV (via Apple TV's AirPlay), which displays your social feeds on the screen from services like Twitter, Foursquare, Instagram and Dribble. Bu...

As bad as Nokia's financials look right now - a $4 billion drop in sales won't make anyone's day - don't consider the Windows Phone move a failure just yet. They've done what many phone companies have...

Splunk, an enterprise data company, will be making its debut on the public markets this morning after pricing its IPO at $17.00 per share (this is up from the range of $11 to $13 per share). At this p...

As we mentioned before, we were floating the idea of a mini meet up in our own back yard and we definitely got quite a bit of interest. So here we go: Get ready for the TC NYC Mini-Meet Up on May 8 at...

TuneUp, the service that cleans up your iTunes or Windows Media music collection, is moving into mobile from an unexpected angle.Unlike the TuneUp iTunes and Windows Media plugins, the main feature of...

BranchOut is officially going for the big time. The company, which makes a professional social network that runs on top of Facebook, is announcing today it has closed on $25 million in new funding, br...

Nokia warned us last week that it would be reporting some worse-than-expected numbers, and here they are: sales down by $4 billion (3.4 billion) to $9.7 billion (7.4 billion), with a corresponding fal...

The media and advertising giant WPP is taking a big step into e-commerce and how it can use it to leverage its other digital investments: today it has announced that it is investing $7 million into th...

Looks like Apple might be loosening its grip even more on voice recognition apps? Or, it simply just feels that the competition is not as good as its own native Siri. We've just gotten word from Nethe...

While Zynga and other gaming companies seem to be doing everything possible to claw their way off the Facebook platform, at least one San Francisco company is still in. Big time.With just shy of 5 mil...

Payments company Square is raising another major round of funding, but is targeting institutional investors first because of the enormous size of the round, we hear from sources. Square's CEO and co-f...

With the skyrocketing popularity and billion-dollar sale of Instagram, there's an ongoing race to apply Instagram's wildly successful photo sharing model to mobile video. There are a number of startup...

It has been more than a week now, but Techmeme today is dominated by Instagram related headlines. Was the Board involved? Did Marc Andreesen know? Did Instagram take the $50m from Sequoia and others b...

This just in: According to multiple sources close to the company, Facebook is eyeing IPO on May 17th -- depending on whether the SEC agrees that all the reams of paperwork are in order. This is in lin...

Believe it or not, 37 million Americans, or about 16 million households, pick up and move every year. Depending on whom you ask, we move as frequently as once every three years. Yes, moving is a part ...

It's not every day that you see code like this:*-------------------------------* Superimpose "Turn disk over" message*-------------------------------FLIPDISKMSG lda #flipbox ldx #>flipbox jmp supe...

Tell your friends to hit the App Store or Android market, there's a new update for Draw Something out today with some cool new features. Now you can chat with friends while you play, save your drawing...

While I seriously doubt the staying power of this game platform, the concept is pretty cool. Called Jumala, this free-to-play online game allows players to stop the action mid-game and flip things aro...

This just in: According to multiple sources close to the company, Facebook is eyeing IPO on May 17th -- depending on whether the SEC agrees that all the reams of paperwork are in order. This is in lin...

This post is contributed by Ben Jiang, editor of TechNode, a bilingual blog based in China.Gaopeng, a joint venture between Groupon and Tencent, may be headed for a merger by the end of next month wit...

If you're an entrepreneur struggling to find the time or inspiration to udpate the company blog, a new service called Scribit offers a solution. Scribit was developed by a startup called Vertical Acui...

The amount of harried printing situations I've been party to has dropped dramatically since I finished school, but Google's new update to their Cloud Print service should have you covered if you can't...

During eBay's earnings call today, eBay CEO and President John Donahoe said that over 200,000 merchants have signed up for PayPal Here, the company's Square-like mobile payments hardware and software ...

Facebook doesn't want your company to get burned by shady "social media gurus", so today it expanded its Preferred Developer Consultant program into the new Preferred Marketing Developer program which...

The amount of leaks, rumors and hype around the Samsung Galaxy S III are reaching iPhone-ish proportions. Consumers obviously want this phone. The latest set of alleged pics show a phone clearly born ...

It's only been a few short hours since AT&T announced the availability of HTC's mamma-jamma One X smartphone, but there may be a few more tricks coming out of HTC's sleeve before the day is done. ...

eBay just reported stronger than expected first quarter 2012 earnings today. Revenue increased 29% to $3.3 billion, compared to the same period of 2011. Non-Gaap earnings came in at $0.55 per diluted ...

Web design and development community Treehouse has just secured $4.75 million in funding from Chamath Palihapitiya's Social+Capital partnership and the Greylock Discovery fund. The financing come...

Marketers don't actually want clicks, they want the downstream conversions and the return on investment that follow. So today Facebook begins allowing advertisers using its API to ask it to show their...

When Jonathan Izak graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010, he decided to put his new degree in Computer Science to very good use. In an effort to help his 10-year old autistic brother O...

Exec, the new TaskRabbit competitor fromJustin.tv'sco-founder, Justin Kan, has just hired a new designer it seems. Or so she sings. In a video posted to YouTube by one Karen X. Cheng, she sings and st...

The Obvious Corporation, the ideas incubator and firm started by Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jason Goldman, has announced its latest investmentonline community Neighborland. While it's unclear how mu...

Cloud-based phone systems provider RingCentral is debuting a new version of its platform that allows businesses to setup, manage and use their phone system from mobile devices.RingCentral, which is ba...

Keeping your calendars, contacts and tasks in sync between all of your devices is still a bit of a hassle - especially if you use different operating systems and vendors. Germany-based Fruux, which wa...

FriendCaller, a Skype alternative which, let's face it, we haven't heard much from in years, is today launching new web and mobile apps that support up to 7-way group video chats at once. The addition...

Two gadgets enter, one leaves. It's that simple. Welcome to the TC Gadget Review Battle where two competing products are pitted against each other. No wishy washy conclusion based on an arbitrary numb...

Right now I'm sitting in a room covered in Spotify and Coca-Cola logos. That's because Spotify and Coke have just announced a global partnership to help both brands expand their ubiquity. The folks at...

There are a number of different schools of thought about how useful Foursquare-like check-ins really are. Forecast, especially, is taking a very different approach from most of Foursquare's competitor...

If you were wondering where all the PC growth was, look East, young person. IHS, formerly iSuppli, expects that desktop sales will rise 8% and ultrabook sales will take up 15 to 20 percent of notebook...

Internet ad revenue revenue grew 22 percent in 2011, to $31 billion, according to the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report.That's an all-time high.The final three months were also the all-time best...

Well, there you have it. After turning plenty of heads at this year's Mobile World Congress, HTC's latest and greatest handset now has an official release date for the United States.AT&T has just ...

PowerInbox, the email platform that lets you run apps for Facebook, Twitter, Groupon and Google+ inside your inbox, is today launching its new "Connect API" which allows its service to be directl...

Mailjet, a cloud emailing service for tracking marketing and transactional emails, has just launched a mobile application for its business customers offering real-time email tracking. Within the mobil...

As we noted yesterday, cartoonist Bill Amend has released three sets of his popular Foxtrot comic strips as $1.99 downloads. This move, prompted by the creation of Apple's iBooks Author software and, ...

The other day, I had the idea to open up Office Hours here in New York. And when I say "I had the idea," I mean that I stole it from Mike Butcher who had the brilliant plan to do the same thing in Eur...

Traditional whiteboards are great for nearly everything but portability. Scribbling down physics problems? Sure. Impromptu game of tic-tac-toe? Of course. Folding up and putting it in your pocket? No...

Back when Uber intially launched in San Francisco, it was heralded as a service that would disrupt the taxi industry by providing black cars on-demand via mobile phones. Thus fare, the service has gai...

Marketo, a company that provides an on-demand marketing software that allows businesses to optimize their sales and marketing efforts has acquired Crowd Factory, a startup that creates white-label soc...

The funding environment for technology-focused startups these days is getting to be a bit ridiculous, so some tech industry folks may need to use their imaginations for a second to understand this con...

Eucalyptus Systems, the developer of an open source, on-premise private cloud computing platform, has raised $30 million in Series C funding led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Benchmark Capi...

Attention TV world: consumers, it appears, are not as tech-friendly as you might think. According to a new survey out in the UK, the vast majority of the public is not interested in fancy new 3D or mo...

It has already been a year since Peter Thiel called public attention to the bubble growing in American higher education. Yet, the cost of receiving a college degree in the U.S. has continued to grow, ...

Russia, like China, is a market full of tech promise, but in the face of strong local competiton, it is one that has also proven to be tough nut to crack for big U.S. companies looking for internation...

Oh San Francisco, has it really come to this?Are we now at the point where the disheveled men on street corners no longer ask for change, but rather developers? Apparently so.I walked out of the TechC...

Not all hotels are created equal. That's why paying $150 for a room at one hotel may be a rip-off at one hotel while it may be a great deal somewhere else and that, in turn, is why DealAngel is launc...

RocketSpace, the San Francisco co-working space for tech and new media startups, has attracted a strong set of tenants in the 14 months since it first opened its doors. Uber, Zaarly, Giftiki, Spotify,...

CloudFlare, a San Francisco-based startup that protects web sites from security threats and speeds up their load times, has been in talks to raise funding at a valuation that's around $1 billion, acco...

If you've ever had to transfer money from one currency to another, you know that it can be a frustratingly pricey business. Now a new company, TransferWise, has raised seed funding totaling $1.3 milli...

I've seen plenty of apps get yanked from Apple's App Store in my day, but the news of an app called iKamasutra getting that same treatment really has me scratching my head. I won't rehash the entire s...

CEO Scott Thompson outlined a vision today of how Yahoo can start growing as a company again. His big theme: Focus, focus, focus."Yahoo has been doing way too much for too long and was only doing a fe...

If you've ever scoffed at Flickr, felt that photo sharing and storage websites hold your photos hostage, associated photos on the Web with platform lock-in, then you've already started to get a sense ...

Technology is all about convenience. At least, that's where it's headed. I can now ask someone to run across the city and pick up a package for me on Zaarly (which I did), Songza chooses my music play...

As Spotify continues its march to becoming a $1 billion-revenue company, the music streaming service is launching a battery of new products to increase the amount of time that people spend on the site...

VenueSeen launched their new platform today that lets businesses aggregate location specific sentiment, via social photography. What does that mean in laymans terms?It means this startup company will ...

A new breed of mobile applications is coming. These new apps will not only "sense" the world around you, using the smartphone's sensors like the compass, GPS, and accelerometer - they'll also be able ...

In what I suspect will be an increasing trend, cartoonist Bill Amend has released three "packs" of his popular FoxTrot comics for the iPad. He built the books by himself using iBooks Author and procee...

IBM just reported mixed first quarter earnings for 2012. GAAP earnings came in at $2.61, up 13 percent with non-GAAP earnings at $2.78, up 15 percent. Revenue was flat for the quarter coming in at $24...

Yahoo today reported its financial results for the first quarter of 2012, and after three years of declining annual revenues, the company looks like it may just be on track to stop the streak -- or at...

Chrome for Android is becoming somewhat of a flagship product for Google, but given that it's only available on phones and tablets running Ice Cream Sandwich, its reach is pretty limited. It's still o...

Skybox Imaging just closed a massive $70M Series C round led by Canaan Partners and Norwest Venture Partners. Michael Arrington's CrunchFund got in on the action as well. The new investors join Khosla...

So, I've just recuperated from our VA mini meet-up tour, during which John and I visited DC, Norfolk, and Richmond in an attempt to find startup gems in unexpected corners of the country. This time we...

So, I've just recuperated from our VA mini meet-up tour, during which John and I visited DC, Norfolk, and Richmond in an attempt to find startup gems in unexpected corners of the country. This time we...

The Apple II personal computer is 35 years old today, a bit of news that I'm sure is either making you feel wildly old or gives you an odd rush of steampunk retro-nostalgia. The computer, launched on ...

Twitter is an innovative company, and todays introduction of theInnovators Patent Agreementshows that their legal department can be innovative too. The Innovators Patent Agreement, adraft of whichwas ...

Well, Sprint certainly seems hell-bent on making this Earth Day one to remember. Not only have they decided to launch the LTE-friendly LG Viper and Galaxy Nexus on April 22, Sprint has announced that ...

The Lumia 900 is an excellent handset, whether or not European carriers like it. But it's hard to imagine how Nokia and Microsoft plan to achieve a high level of penetration with the phone on a single...

Storify, the startup that lets anyone "curate" stories from around the web by collecting posts from social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, is today announcing its first-ever syndicatio...

Today Facebook co-opts the best thing about Myspace pages -- rapid music discovery -- by prominently adding a "Listen" button to musician Pages right next to the Like button. When clicked, the artist'...

Gmail seems to be suffering from a bit of downtime this morning. Most of us here at TechCrunch haven't been able to log in to our accounts and the reports on Twitter seem indicate that this issue is a...

It looks likeTwitter is taking a fresh approach to the huge, expensive mess that is the U.S. patent system, as outlined in a just-publishedblog post. The post summarizes something that Twitter is call...

Social data startup Gnip has scored another impressive partnership it says it's the first company to syndicate the full firehose of content from blogging service Tumblr.Gnip is probably best-known for...

Google is announcing this morning that YouTube creators can now link their videos to projects on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. The company says that thesecrowd-sourcedfundraising platforms were already b...

Google made quite a splash with its Project Glass video earlier this month. While Google's vision of wearable computing still looks a bit like science fiction today, a new report by Forrester analyst ...

As the daily deal space has become increasingly crowded over the last two years, local merchants increasingly feel pressured to run deals, but for many reasons, they end up overwhelmed by the prospec...

iPad guilt? There needs to be a technical term for that feeling in the pit of a parent's stomach that arises from handing over the iPad to their kids, only to watch them play brain rotting Outfit7 gam...

Klout, the startup that measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Foursquare, Google+ and other social apps, is launching a new feature for companies today to help brands engage...

Cherry, a recently launched startup that brings on-demand carwashes to you and your car, has raised $4.5 million in new funding from Shasta Ventures, Founders Fund, Shervin Pishevar and Bill Lee. Shas...

Ikea is entering a brave new world: home entertainment systems. The company unveiled its UPPLEVA line today with a smart YouTube ad (embedded after the jump). The video spot quickly explains that the ...

We've covered quite a bit of the Epson line and usually found the printers to be solid, respectable, and inexpensive. This latest addition to the WorkForce family, the WP-4540 is arguably all of those...

The iPhone is a notoriously fragile device. That's where cases come in. However, this case, by a Japanese firm called Marudai, might be the toughest (and most impractical) case ever made. The massive ...

Back when rumors of Googles fabled augmented-reality glasses began picking up steam, one of the most frequently repeated bits was that they bore a striking resemblance to (rather old) Oakleys Thump mp...

This morning,at the Ad Age Digital Conference in NYC,Hulu CEO Jason Kilar announced a significant change in how the media company will charge its advertisers. Going forward, advertisers will only be c...

David Ellefson Rock Shop is a solid and simple guitar/bass amp-modeling app that runs on iOS. It is made by PocketLabWorks and works in conjunction with the company's iRiff Port cable/interface. In ca...

Read It Later, an app that allows you to save articles and other content on the web to read them later, is debuting a new version of its service and rebranding as "Pocket."Founded in August 2007 by Na...

In late 2010, Sun Microsystems Co-founder Scott McNealy and finance veteran Scott Johnston, launched WayIn, a mobile Q&A and polling service designed to let individuals and brands quickly create a...

Dogpatch Labs, the incubator backed by Polaris Ventures, is perhaps most famous for helping out startups like Instagram, TurntableFM, Mixel, FancyHands and Formspring in their early days, out of offic...

Nokia hasn't had the best year. Of course, the launch of the Lumia line has been refreshing, as Nokia's much-anticipated Windows Powered offerings are finally out in the world, trying to woo owners li...

When we last heard from 12Society -- the stealth startup described as a "guy-focused lifestyle platform built on the intersection of culture, technology and commerce" -- San Francisco Giants' starting...

When we last heard from 12Society -- the stealth startup described as a "guy-focused lifestyle platform built on the intersection of culture, technology and commerce" -- San Francisco Giants' starting...

When we last heard from 12Society -- the stealth startup described as a "guy-focused lifestyle platform built on the intersection of culture, technology and commerce" -- San Francisco Giants' starting...

There has to be something in the air: Just when I thought that I had enough distraction in my life, one more sweet clothing swap site launches, allowing me to focus on my hobby (fashion, and specifica...

There has to be something in the air: Just when I thought that I had enough distraction in my life, one more sweet clothing swap site launches, allowing me to focus on my hobby (fashion, and specifica...

Apple stock fell 4.1% on Monday, continuing a five day skid and a trend that has drained $50 billion in market capital from the company and dropped share price from a high of $643 on April 10 to its c...

When you watch a video on the web or your mobile phone, the odds are pretty good you are using the MP4 video format and the H.264 codec. There are a lot of choices when it comes to video formats. But...

Back in February, comScore released a statistic that was probably pretty discouraging if you're an online advertiser: In a study, it found that 31 percent of ads delivered were never actually seen by ...

While most of us are still reeling in shock last week's one billion Instagram buy, Peter Thiel -- through both Founders Fund and the Thiel Foundation is almost single-handedly leading the charge into ...

While most of us are still reeling in shock after last week's one billion Instagram buy, Peter Thiel -- through both Founders Fund and the Thiel Foundation -- is almost single-handedly leading the cha...

Slovak startup Piano Media, which has challenged the online media industry with an aggregated paywall concept, has raised 2 million Euros from 3TS, one of the leading private equity funds in Central a...

Slovak startup Piano Media, which has challenged the online media industry with an aggregated paywall concept, has raised 2 million from 3TS, one of the leading private equity funds in Central and Ea...

American Giant, a startup offering affordable, American-made apparel for men, is expanding into T-shirt sales today.The company launched at the beginning of February. CEO Bayard Winthrop has decades o...

A 'smart watch' that connects to an iPhone or Android to display information that appears on your phone seems somewhat of a no-brainer, but until now few convincing efforts have appeared. Now, a team ...

Social travel site Gogobot is doing a little traveling of its own. Today, its announcing the opening of its first European headquarters, in London.The move, says Travis Katz, the CEO and founder of th...

A B2B company that is trying to change the way that marketers procure services for ad campaigns says that it has just closed one of Europes largest-ever angel financing rounds.blur Group, which runs a...

We've seen the rise of new kinds of VC funds in Europe recently, mostly notably Passion Capital's $60m last year and the new fund just raised by Earlybird in Berlin, among others. These new kinds of f...

We've seen the rise of new kinds of VC funds in Europe recently, mostly notably Passion Capital's $60M last year and the new fund just raised by Earlybird in Berlin, among others. These new kinds of f...

The Motion To Dismiss Cancer, a team formed to raise money for the The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), recently kicked off its annual "Venture Capital Master's Lunch Series," an ongoing auction...

When I saw 4ormats TechCrunch post, Bootstrapped Startup Saves Over $100K by Dropping IE, I first called shenanigans, but then congratulated them on their brilliant marketing ploy. They might as well ...

It's a big day for M&A. The latest of today's deal announcements is the news that Groupon has acquired Ditto.me, the mobile app for discovering and planning new places to go with friends. Ditto an...

Amazon is now letting developers charge higher prices for in-app purchases thanks to new parental controls it just overhauled. The company sent out an e-mail to developers today that said: "With our p...

Founders Den, the "private clubhouse for entrepreneurs" based in downtown San Francisco, celebrated its first anniversary back in January. Now that the invite-only tech startup coworking space is star...

Microsoft just announced that Windows 8 will come in three different flavors: Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT. Windows 8 will be the mainstream consumer edition. The Pro version will bring a n...

A big hire for Google announced today, and perhaps a sign of some sharper viral marketing coming out of the company going forward: the company is adding Iain Tait to the team at Google Creative Lab, t...

Following a wave of rumors and reports, Path just announced that it has raised more than $30 million in new funding."We are delighted to announce that last week we closed a significantround of funding...

If you needed any more proof that Google Drive was alive, look no further than this screenshot of the app. I've been able to download and run the app and it is currently idle, sitting quietly in the c...

An entrepreneur we met in DC, Mili Mittal, told us about her site, mor.sl. Unfortunately, she didn't describe it fully, leading me to believe it was far less cool than it really is. That failure has b...

There is hardly a program or ad on TV these days that doesn't ask its viewers to like its Facebook page or tweet about it. According to a new survey by global consulting firm Accenture, those social m...

Rumors and reports of Google Drive's imminent launch have been coming hard and fast lately, but this one may just take the cake. The folks at The Next Web managed to get their hands on a draft of Goog...

Hotspots.io, a startup promising to deliver "social media intelligence that you'll actually use", just announced on its home page that it has been acquired by Twitter.It looks like Hotspots was still ...

While Google's advertising cost per click fell 6% since Q4 2011, Facebook keeps commanding higher prices from advertisers with CPC up 23% in key markets during same period according to a study of the ...

In what will be a bellwether for the mobile gaming industry after Zynga's deal to buy OMGPOP, Funzio is raising $50 million at a $350 million pre-money valuation, according to sources familiar with th...

Tinychat, the web-based video chat service, just surpassed 20 million users. Founded in 2009, the company has been on a roll lately and is showing some impressive momentum. Just about a year and a hal...

So how, exactly, does creativity work? Jonah Lehrer's best-selling new book Imagine: How Creativity Works is a lucid attempt to scientifically explain both creativity and imagination. As Lehrer told m...

Augmented reality isn't always totally pointless. Sorry if you think it's hugely useful to see an augmented view of tweets around you just by holding up your phone, but I like to find slightly more ad...

The Transformer Prime is a fantastic example of a product rushed to market. It was as if Asus was trolling consumers and yelling "First!" The tablet launched with a host of problems, many of which Asu...

Stratasys and Objet, two 3D printing companies, have merged. The new company, Stratasys Ltd, will be based in Eden Prairie, Minn. and Rehovot, Israel, the hometowns of Stratasys and Objet, respectivel...

Wikipedia and all of its related projects are obviously driven by the work of thousands of volunteers. Interestingly, though, while Wikipedia runs on top of an open-source stack, it's been traditional...

While I know that a TechCrunch meet-up can invigorate start-up founders and encourage investors to write checks, did you know they can also induce labor? One attendee, Richard Moormann, above, visited...

From a recent SEC filing, it looks like early stage investment firm First Round Capital is raising $135 million for a new fund, First Round Capital IV, L.P. Managing partners Josh Kopelman, Chris Fral...

James Cameron, the director of the just-released 3D version of the Titanic, as well as Aliens, Terminator, Avatar and so many other major blockbusters, is spilling some secrets today. He's speaking a...

Hey look: another private, micro social networking service has just launched. From Alt12 Apps, which moms know better as the maker of the BabyBump app, there now comes a new mobile-only private social...

The Stix project is just a concept now, but what a concept it is. It's essentially a way for glasses-wearers to enjoy 3D movies without having to put on oddly-shaped and potentially ugly 3D glasses. T...

Google is slowly but surely building out its movie rental service on YouTube. Less than two weeks ago, the company struck a deal with Paramount to bring about 500 of the studio's movies to YouTube and...

If Facebook itself isn't a covert dating site, then at least its social graph could be -- a big group of startups have been going for this honeypot of user data and connections ever since the company ...

Mobile messaging, in its traditional sense, is on the decline, and the patent world is hot, hot, hot, and today one company that plays in both areas showed where it sees its stronger ties at the momen...

Mobile messaging, in its traditional sense, is on the decline, and the patent world is hot, hot, hot, and today one company that plays in both areas showed where it sees its stronger ties at the momen...

A series of job postings from Microsoft hint at - well, actually they come out and state that - Microsoft intends to bring Skype to the web browser. The posts, which describe positions for software de...

BitRhymes, the San Francisco-gaming startup behind a bingo game that has attracted about 400,000 daily active users on Facebook, has raised $1 million in angel funding.BitRhymes' rise comes at an inte...

The stealthy consumer Internet startup Dashlane, which had raised a $5 million Series A back in September, is today coming out of hiding with the launch of its public release. The company is offering ...

If they havent already done it, Sprint customers in need of an upgrade should make it a point to circle April 22 on their calendars. Not only has Sprint chosen that day to launch their eco-friendly LG...

If they havent already done it, Sprint customers in need of an upgrade should make it a point to circle April 22 on their calendars. Not only has Sprint chosen that day to launch their eco-friendly LG...

A big domestic market of 92 million people, English as an official language, a large IT talent pool, and a strategic location in South East Asia: the Philippines surely has the potential to become the...

Real-time analytics startup Chartbeat is making two big announcements today. The first should be pretty obvious to anyone who uses the service it's unveiling a big redesign. And it's not stopping the...

Estimize is a startup trying to discover the true "whisper number" of public stocks not just the official analyst consensus, but what Wall Street really believes. To make that happen, it's encouragin...

Roku just landed in the great white north. The tiny little streaming box launched in the UK a few weeks back and now it's hitting Canada along with over 100 channels of streaming goodness. The Roku 2 ...

We met Joe Hill in Norfolk, Virginia last week. He had a story to tell us. He has two autistic sons who have had trouble communicating and he noticed that the world of tools for autism often overlooke...

After months of waiting (not to mention plenty of conflicting reports), Samsung may have finally revealed when they plan to unveil their long-awaited Galaxy S III. According to a press invitation that...

It would appear that Motorola is putting even more of an effort into its resurrected Razr line. Just a few months after the hotly anticipated Droid Razr stepped onto the scene, Motorola offered the sa...

Apple took to the wires this morning to announce that the new iPad will hit 12 countries later this week. Along with South Korea, this coming Friday the new iPad launches in Brunei, Croatia, Cyprus, D...

Blue Jeans Network, an enterprise video conferencing solution to integrate across many platforms, is announcing a major reseller partnership with Intercall, one of the largest audio conferencing and c...

More activity in the social and casual gaming space, following on from the $200 million acquisition of OMGPOP by Zynga. The UK-based games company Zattikka has started trading on the public markets an...

Blue Jeans Network, an enterprise video conferencing solution to integrate across many platforms, is announcing a major reseller partnership with Intercall, one of the largest audio conferencing and c...

Schoology, the makers of a one-stop, cloud-based learning management system for primary and secondary schools, is announcing today that it has closed a $6 million Series B round of venture funding. Th...

Hiring a personal stylist, who will handpick and curate your wardrobe, used to be a fashion luxury that only the wealthy or celebrities could afford. Today, Style For Hire, a fashion startup co-founde...

While Apple, Amazon and competition authorities globally tussle over book pricing, a fleet-of foot startup is quietly building an alternative platform others would do well to check out. txtr is one of...

Some consolidation afoot in the evolving world of mobile messaging: one messaging provider, Switzerland’s Myriad Group, is buying a UK-based rival, Synchronica, for 23.9 million (around $38 mill...

Some consolidation afoot in the evolving world of mobile messaging: one messaging provider, Switzerland's Myriad Group, is buying a UK-based rival, Synchronica, for 23.9 million (around $38 million), ...

Looks like we may see another development today in Apple's ongoing iPad/4G controversy in Australia. The country's Competition and Consumer Commission is meeting with Apple in court again today to try...

In the latest battle in the war for living room domination, Netflix's CEO Reed Hastings took to his public Facebook account and called out Comcast's latest attack on Net Neutrality. As he explains Com...

In the latest battle in the war for living room domination, Netflix's CEO Reed Hastings took to his public Facebook account and called out Comcast's latest attack on Net Neutrality. As he explains Com...

Developers dont have to wait for a fully baked version of Apple TV to come out to get a feel forhow their apps will play on the big screen.Although an eco-system for Apple TV apps does not yet exist, ...

When's the last time you really splurged on something for your bike? The old girl gets you around town, puts up with your ridiculous maintenance regimens, and shifts and rattles in just the right way ...

I used Path twice. None of the people that I know are using Path. I even checked with an early adopter of social media recently and one of Paths earliest users. She told me that she doesn't see a lot ...

While secretly wanting to be an entrepreneur but working at Electronic Arts, I would sometimes sneak out early and jet to Stanford campus to crash Steve Blanks entrepreneurial lecture series. Steve li...

Dear Non-Instagramers, Sorry that you didnt get bought out for $1 billion last week. Thats got to be a bummer. Kevin Systrom just made enough money to buy a boat big enough to make Larry Ellison jealo...

As our lives increasingly move to the digital realm whether its what we read, what we watch, photos that once sat in frames now uploaded to a server farm somewhere in the rural United States, or even...

As large companies increasingly look to protect their revenue streams through IP risk mitigation, startups with strong patent holdings will become increasingly valuable because they provide an opportu...

Currently, the federal government is poised to level the playing field for healthtech startups.An unprecedented wave of innovative healthtech startups has been developing over the last few years. You ...

Editor's Note: Alexey Komissarouk is a CS senior at the University of Pennsylvania and founder of the PennApps Hackathon. This article is based on an earlier talk to the Wharton MBA Entrepreneurship C...

Guys, this one's such a no brainer that I shouldn't even have to lay it all out. But I will.The Nokia Lumia 900 is an excellent handset, comes packed with a fresh new operating system in the form of W...

The residential real estate bubble isnt the only real estate challenge facing startups in Silicon Valley. Office space within the city limits is becoming more scarce by the day as tech companies conti...

Eric Elia (@ericelia) is a member of the founding team at Brightcove, and is currently the vice president of TV solutions. Brightcove, a video and app solutions provider, went public on Feb. 17 on the...

In 1997, Larry Ellison had a vision for a new paradigm of computing which he called the Network Computer (NC). The idea was simple: a group of partners would build devices and services that leveraged ...

Googles stock declined by over 4% yesterday. Many have put this down to the companys decision to create a non-voting class of stock as part of a control-retention exercise as the founders sell shares....

I was recently going through an old bankers box that I packed up years ago while I was cleaning out my office. There was a Palm Pilot, a mini cassette recorder, and even a stack of floppy disks. It wa...

In its investigation of whether Google's Street View cars illegally collected personal data from WiFi networks, the Federal Communications Commission has reached a decision that seems like a mix of go...

Little sleep, lots of stress, free food at all hours, and Paul Singh constantly try to booze you under the table. Sounds like the old college days when you tried to rush for Sigma Chi, doesnt it?But n...

When Google launched Gmail in Germany in 2005, it was quickly barred from using the Gmail name for its email product there. German entrepreneur Daniel Giersch, after all, had registered the 'G-mail' t...

There is a certain type of company that can only exist in Silicon Valley. People outside of the Valley scratch their heads at how a company with no revenue and no apparent business model can be called...

Before leaving Goldman Sachs to earn a millionaires salary with Chicago High Frequency Trading (HFT) startup Teza Technologies, Sergey Aleynikov made one last transaction. At 5:20pm on his last day, j...

If you are a marketer who has spent the last 10 years mastering the art of capturing and converting customers on the desktop web, the rapid rise of smartphones and the iPad might make you nervous.You'...

As my partner Bipul Sinha noted in a post last year, direct selling is one of the most interesting opportunities in commerce in the time of social. Direct selling is being invigorated right now, not j...

Grabio has been around for about a year but they've recently update the app and added a number of features. What does it do? Essentially it's a mobile Craigslist with notifications and location-based ...

From some of the chatter out there, it seems like the prerequisites to have "deep knowledge" about the TV industry is to have ever watched TV. Yes, that sounds pretty cynical, but I see post after pos...

It is freaking cold here in Indio California, so cold that half of the house I'm staying with for the weekend left the Coachella music festival last night around 9pm. Even though I stayed until midnig...

WWho needs governments? The ongoing mobile/social/crowdsourcing trend(s) have led to a wealth of new community-based resources that support or supplant traditional civic and government services. Think...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor have a lot to work with this week: Instagram, a Google+ redesign, and Ann Romney joining Twitter. But if Larry is Larr...

A year ago, Peter Thiel called it a bubble. Whatever you call it, the cost of attaining a college degree has skyrocketed to the point of absurdity -- to the point of one trillion red flags. Student de...

I left off last time talking about how gamification and the Quantified Self -- the use of sensors and devices to gather and analyze as much personal numeric data as possible for new insights into the ...

Where do you get the time to write so much as a company CEO, and more importantly, shouldnt you be closing deals or doing something more useful?Fair enough.Do What Comes Naturally To YouSome entrepren...

Doing meetups and attending conferences is great for uncovering new startups and entrepreneurs, but sometimes you just want to sit down over coffee for a few minutes and explain what you're doing. So ...

If a consumer mobile fad comes and goes, and you don't play consolidation musical chairs, what do you do next?This is kind of what happened to Kik, a Canadian startup that took off with the explosive ...

Facebook today explained why it has taken a positive stance on the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or "CISPA", bill currently under consideration in the United States Congress. The soci...

The heart of Jeff Bezos' mission has always to circumvent the traditional "gatekeepers" of commerce. He started with books, an industry ripe for disruption, and moved onto, well, everything else. At t...

Nokia certainly didn't waste any time when it came to fixing that pesky data connection bug that popped up in a few first-run Lumia 900s. Just two days after Nokia acknowledged the issue and pledged t...

Interaction design and strategy firm ZURB has turned more and more of its internal apps into products for other designers over the last few years. Among these products is Verify, a handy little tool t...

You might not think that something like a website's Terms of Service wouldn't be all that interesting, but you'd be wrong. After that post about how awesome 500px's Terms of Service are (tl;dr: they t...

Freemium visual voicemail service YouMail never forgot their roots they first launched in late 2007 with the mission of making visual voicemail available to the masses, but soon focused their attenti...

One of the best things about the iPhone is its design. It's beautiful — slim, sleek, and finished in piano black with a hint of brushed aluminum. Sometimes I just stare at it. But there's a big ...

I love Silicon Valley. Love almost everything about the technology ecosystem. I grew up in New Jersey watching with extreme envy and wonderment as the 95-01 boom-bust played out. Like most, I also sha...

Gillmor Gang - Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live at 1pm PT....

I love Silicon Valley. Love almost everything about the technology ecosystem. I grew up in New Jersey watching with extreme envy and wonderment as the 95-01 boom-bust played out. Like most, I also sha...

With Windows 8 getting ever closer to its release date, Microsoft today announced that it is looking for volunteers to join its invite-only feedback program for active Windows 7 and Windows 8 Consumer...

Nicholas Sparks, the bestselling novelist and screenwriter known for hits such as The Notebook and A Walk To Remember, is currently on a nationwide tour to promote The Lucky One, the latest movie to b...

The Pebble smart watch - a clever little device that connects to your iPhone or Android device and, oddly enough, tells the time - was a twinkle in the eye of founder Eric Migicovsky just a few weeks ...

If you think the iOS app ecosystem is big now, as it pushes some 600,000 apps available for iPhone and iPad, just imagine how big it could become if Apple made good on this newly filed patent applicat...

Coincidence, or conspiracy? It's a classic question that gets brought up when the details of any intriguing story start to surface. And some industry insiders are asking it in relation to the antitrus...

HTCs high-end efforts have garnered plenty of love lately (and rightfully so, I think), but devices like the once-mysterious HTC Golf prove that the company isn't through churning out lower-tier hands...

This just in: Facebook has made another acquisition, and as with Instagram it's in mobile again. They have bought TagTile, a mobile-based customer loyalty, management startup, for an undisclosed sum.W...

Leaf, a Cambridge, Mass.-based startup, is aiming to make the experience of paying in a shop more modern with paperless receipts for customers and transaction data in the cloud for merchants.Backed wi...

$10 says it's an iPhone 5 case.AFP is reporting Philippe Stark and Apple have teamed up on a project that Starck called "fairly, if not very, revolutionary." The project is said to drop in time for Ch...

CEO Larry Page did a good soft-shoe routine yesterday explaining the company's new stock-split scheme amid results that generally beat expectations, but some investors are not buying it. The stock at ...

Internet adoption among U.S. adults increased rapidly from the mid-90s to about 2005. Since then, though, the number of adult Internet users has remained almost stable at around 78%. The Pew Internet ...

In light of the recent layoffs by Sony to the tune of 10,000 employees, I think it's important to see where Sony currently resides in the tech ecosystem and why the company, once the darling of the CE...

Another "Galaxy S III leak" hit the blogosphere this morning. A picture. An entirely fake, completely unconfirmed, and obviously tampered with photo. Just like the rest of them. Truth of the matter is...

Last year universal password browser extension Last Pass was the target of an alleged hacking attempt and ended up having to ask users to... change their passwords. While Lastpass relies on a browser ...

Apple has now released a tool that removes the Flashback Trojan from infected Mac computers, according to a security update posted to Apple.com on Thursday. The malicious software, which some have cas...

The first thing that popped into my mind as I interviewed Suzy Bureau about her Columbus Ohio Startup project called The ManCard was "This is all wrong. We should be shooting skeets, or tearing out dr...

I get press releases every week about some new (or old!) company and their so-called cloud solution. Some folks are clearly abusing the popularity of the "cloud" buzzword, and others are actually doin...

Once perched atop the highest peaks of the smartphone market, Waterloo-based RIM recently found themselves at a crossroads: should they push ahead on the hardware front, or give it up in favor of thei...

Online video advertising is white hot at the moment but a small company based out of the UK has managed to come up with an innovative model. Coull's technology lets publishers and advertisers tag indi...

The presidential election season in the U.S. is now in full swing and both the Democrats and Republican conventions are just a few months away. Google just announced that it will be the "official soci...

The presidential election season in the U.S. is now in full swing and both the Democratic and Republican conventions are just a few months away. Google just announced that it will be the "official soc...

Well, here's an app that's actually practical. Cloud Photos(for iOS)is a newly launched mobile camera replacement app which automatically uploads photos to Dropbox, as soon as you snap the picture. Th...

Instagram received a fair amount of press over the last week. First, 10 days ago, the app launched on Android for the first time. Then news of Facebook buying the tiny startup for $1 billion was every...

Another development in the ongoing fight between Apple and Motorola over patent infringements in Germany: a court has decided against Apple Inc. in a case involving push email service on iCloud and Mo...

Big Blue has made a purchase todayIBM has acquired Varicent Software, a company that creates a sales analytics software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Varicent, which has raised $35 ...

Braintree, an online payments gateway provider, is hoping to make it easier for developers to start integrating payments immediately. For background, Braintree powers and automates online and mobile p...

Spotify's storming of the U.S. market last year has seen the company rack up a total of 10 million active users of its music streaming services. It projects revenues of $889 million this year, up 160 ...

Spotify's storming of the U.S. market last year has seen the company rack up a total of 10 million active users of its music streaming services. It is projected to have revenues of $889 million this y...

Almost all currency is virtual -- In that it relies on the people who are trading it to define its value. Thus we are an economy of taste by default, so it's about time some startup owned the taste gr...

Facebook today announced a change for how people can find you on its network -- a move for more consistency, but also another route to getting people to use more email in Facebook, and secure its plac...

Last year, eBay eBay acquired Magento, developer of an open-source e-commerce platform for around $180 million. Magento became part of X.commerce, a combined open platform business from eBay and PayPa...

We've written endless amounts of posts about it, Jordan is obviously obsessed with it, it became Amazon's best selling phone and is simply a great smartphone.With special thanks to Nokia, we have a br...

Fetchnotes is a promising, lightweightnote-takingapp for list makers and idea-havers which looks deceptively simple. But that simplicity is actually one of Fetchnotes' key selling points. It's meant t...

Yesterday, the Daily Show featured a stellar parody yesterday of both Google's connected, augmented reality eyeglasses (a.k.a Project Glass or, as I like to call it, "Project Sup Now, Warby Parker?") ...

It's Google Q1 earnings day, and because we all know that you have better things to do than listen to executives dryly read prepared statements, we're taking one for the team and keeping you in the kn...

While Googles top brass were busy dissecting the companys Q1 earnings on their scheduled conference call, it was business as usual for the rest of the company. Over on the official Android Developers ...

You can learn just about anything from YouTube...if you're willing to dig through millions of videos. Luckily, Course Hero has done the work for you, offering coherent classes by hosting collections o...

Larry Page kicked off Google's earnings call today with a run-down of his statements in the Founders' Letter and some broad brushstrokes around the company's new stock structure, which will see Google...

Larry Page kicked off Google's earnings call today with a run-down of his statements in the Founders' Letter and some broad brushstrokes around the company's new stock structure, which will see Google...

During its Q1 earnings call today, Google's CEO Larry Page called Google+ the company's "social spine." With about 120 Google+ integrations across Google's portfolio, Page said, Google+...

"Grumpy Cat! Grumpy Cat! More Grumpy Cat, please!" - That's basically my two-year-old's review of FarFaria, a new subscription-based children's storybook app for the iPad. (To translate: she loves it,...

Barnes & Noble just announced its latest ereader: The Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight. It doesn't look any different from the previous model until you turn it on. That's when the magic happens. P...

Google just released earnings this afternoon, reporting revenues of $10.65 billion for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012, an increase of 24% compared to the first quarter of 2011 ($8.58 billion)....

On Tuesday, Everyme launched its iPhone app for people to share with limited circles of friends, family members, and coworkers. Today, CEO Oliver Cameron says the response has been "crazy."Specificall...

We've written quite a bit about BiteHunter, a mobile app for iPhone that aggregates dining deals in the U.S., since it launched about a year ago. Now, the New York-based company has released version 2...

The appeal of social music platform Turntable.fm has been its synchronous music listening in public dance rooms. Anyone can become the MC, playing the tunes and playlists of their choice, just as each...

CrowdOptic, a startup trying to create a new way for people to interact via line-of-sight "clusters", has raised another $500,000 in debt financing.CEO Jon Fisher says this brings the company's total ...

The United States Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit filed yesterday against Apple and five major book publishers for allegedly colluding and price-fixing e-books is still reverbing throughout ...

In the Studio opens its doors this week to one of Silicon Valley's most active yet quite venture capitalists who, after years working in technology operations for major networking companies, a stint w...

Amidst a series of ongoing accounting-related controversies in the U.S., Groupon has appointed a new SVP to oversee international operations based out of Austria. Veit Dengler comes from Dell, where h...

Amidst a series of ongoing accounting-related controversies in the U.S., Groupon has appointed a new SVP to oversee international operations based out of Austria. Veit Dengler comes from Dell, where h...

It's speaker announcement time again for TechCrunch Disrupt NY! Each week we're sharing more of our all star cast of speakers -- here's the latest peek into our program.Even more of New York's own wil...

Ever since Microsoft launched the Bing API, this service was available for free to developers who wanted to use data from the company's search engine in their own products. Today, however, Microsoft a...

Content discovery service StumbleUpon is the latest company hoping to claim some space in your Facebook Timeline.A StumbleUpon spokesperson says the thinking behind Timeline integration is pretty stra...

Employees of interest clone Pinspire are alledgedly altering the personal accounts of users by deleting, hiding and removing pins, 'likes', comments, re-pins and also 'pinpoints', the system on which...

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As if producing commercial airliners, helicopters, and satellites didnt keep Boeing busy enough, the company revealed earlier this week that they would soon be branching out into a slightly different ...

Music intelligence startup Echo Nest, which you might know better as the company powering Spotify Radio andVevo's recommendations, is announcing two new partnerships today which will give developers a...

A new iPhone and Android app called PayDragon is trying to bring the one-click shopping experience to buying meals on your phone.The app was created by Paperlinks, a Y Combinator-backed startup that h...

The shroud surrounding Foxconn is slowing being pulled back. Once a very secretive OEM manufacturer, the company has started to let reporters and their cameras inside their facilities in an effort to ...

LogMeIn, the company known best for its remote access tools, is today launching its own cloud storage service, as an alternative to others like Dropbox or Box, for example. With "Cubby," as it's calle...

After the disappointing LiveView failed to make much of an impression when it launched in 2010, Sony surprised us when they revealed yet another wearable device -- the SmartWatch -- at this year's CES...

Watch out, Honeywell. Nest Labs is serious. The Palo Alto start-up previously stated that it has the resources to defend itself, which is clearly the case. Just today the company filed Answer and Coun...

Fraud detection company 41st Parameter has raised $13 million in Series D financing from Georgian Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPBC), Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) and Jafco Ventures...

Bonobos, a brand that sells custom fit mens clothing online, has raised $16.4 million led by retail giant Nordstrom, with Accel Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners participating. This brings the ...

Bonobos, a brand that sells men's clothing online, has raised $16.4 million led by retail giant Nordstrom, with Accel Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners participating. This brings the company's ...

Microsoft has Clippy the Office Assistant to help confused users make their way around Word, and a startup from Israel called WalkMe earlier this month launched a service that offers the equivalent fo...

Microsoft just moments ago announced that it has signed its largest-ever cloud services deal, an agreement with the All India Council for Technical Education to deploy Microsot's Live@edu service to s...

Livestream, the premium live video streaming service, is announcing an interesting new product today: a $485 hardware encoderthat can be connected to virtually any camera and that can stream HD video ...

Livestream, the premium live video streaming service, is announcing an interesting new product today: a $485 hardware encoderthat can be connected to virtually any camera and that can stream HD video ...

Have you ever wanted a chance to dress Rick Santorum? What about listening to a playlist of your favorite dictators tackling your favorite musical standards? Now you can, thanks to a new app called Pu...

Instagram's co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have been noticeably silent since their photo-sharing app Instagram was bought by Facebook earlier this week for $1 billion.In the meantime there...

"They could have done so much more," is a quip I've been hearing a lot the past few days, about, who else? Instagram. The news that the Silicon Valley darling sold to Facebook left so many people hear...

So the reports have proven to be true: Sony has now officially said that it will be reducing its headcount by 10,000 people worldwide, some six percent of its workforce, as the struggling electronics ...

Feeling overloaded by social recommendation apps? Get ready for another one hitting the market, although this one says it will come with a twist: LoveThis, the social recommendation service that launc...

Paris-based business social networking site Viadeo may have put a planned IPO into a holding pattern last year, but it is not having any trouble raising capital elsewhere as it forges ahead with its i...

Q: What does the Instagram acquisition mean for startups?A: A LOT.At the close of 2011, there was a lot of uncertainty for startups. Stock market fluctuations, underwhelming talent acquisitions ("acqu...

Q: What does the Instagram acquisition mean for startups?A: A LOT.At the close of 2011, there was a lot of uncertainty for startups. Stock market fluctuations, underwhelming talent acquisitions ("acqu...

Voxer, a walkie talkie mobile app that lets you talk to friends across iPhones and Androids, looked like an overnight success last November when it soared to its current place as a top social networki...

As research from the Startup Genome is beginning to show, the world has become a global entrepreneurial playing field, as cities from Tel Aviv to Santiago evolve into thriving startup ecosystems, beco...

As research from the Startup Genome is beginning to show, the world has become a global entrepreneurial playing field, as cities from Tel Aviv to Santiago evolve into thriving startup ecosystems, beco...

London-headquartered Adfonic is getting into the video side of the mobile ad business today with the launch of its first video ad units.Chief Marketing Officer Paul Childs says that as smartphone and ...

I just happened to have my TV turned to the Cooking Channel (which part of the Food Network) and saw a commercial for payments platform Square. This appears to be the first big commercial ad push for ...

Subscription flower delivery Service H.Bloom, which once described itself as the 'Netflix of Flowers,' raised a $10 million Series B funding round today. The investment was lead by Shasta Ventures wit...

By all accounts, Y Combinator's latest Demo Day held last month for its Winter 2012 class was a biggie. With 66 companies presenting their apps, it was pretty impossible to name a startup that was the...

Google launched a massive redesign of Google+ earlier today. The reaction to this new interface for the company's fledgling social network have been generally positive, but most users are somewha...

Samsung teased the masses this past February when they revealed that one of their first Ice Cream Sandwich-powered tablets would be the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, a decidedly mid-range device that seemed lacki...

Publisher Cond Nast has acquired ZipList, an online service that allows users to save recipes and turn them into ingredient shopping lists.AllThingsD's Peter Kafka is reporting that the acquisition pr...

Here we go: it's the last night of our whirlwind Virginia tour and this time we're in Richmond, home of the Fan District, Altria (everyone's favorite tobacco company), and our friends at Snagajob. It ...

AisleBuyer, makers of a virtual shopping assistant app that lets in-store customers bypass checkout lines by paying directly on their mobile phone, has been acquired by Intuit. The Boston-based startu...

America's favorite funnyboy [citation needed], Jim Gaffigan, has just released his new special, Mr. Universe, in download and streaming formats. For $5 you get three SD or HD downloads or three stream...

As e-book publishers and Apple face anantitrust lawsuitover pricing, magazine publishers are now looking into an alternative solution to the digital pricing dilemma: being able to extricate themselves...

WordPress - both in its hosted and self-hosted forms - has long been among the most popular platforms for personal and professional blogs (and it's what we use here at TechCrunch, too). Looking at the...

There are few more articulate or passionate commentators on digital politics than Andrew Rasiej, the founder and CEO of Personal Democracy Media and the organizer of the upcoming Personal Democracy Fo...

Bubble Motion, which offers a popular a Twitter-like voice blogging service in India, Japan, and Indonesia, is debuting its Android app today, as well as launching an iOS app globally.Bubble Motions B...

Flush with $85 million in new funding, Yammer is spending some of its newly minted cash today with the acquisition of OneDrum, a Scotland-based startup that allows you to co-author, file share and int...

Flush with $85 million in new funding, Yammer is spending some of its newly minted cash today with the acquisition of OneDrum, a Scotland-based startup that allows you to co-author, file share and int...

iOS edged out Android in mobile ad marketshare last month, according to a new report from mobile marketing company Velti.The report is based on data collected from 33,405 apps via the Mobclix Exchange...

It looks as if B&N will beat Amazon to market with the first front-lit ereader. The image here is by way of The Digital Reader and suggests B&N is set to launch an updated Nook Simple Touch Re...

Pinterest is increasingly not just for photos anymore. The company today announced that users can now pin Vimeo videos on the virtual pinboard site. This is the second video integration for Pinterest ...

Can't hold on to your receipts? Neither can I. Ive come to realize that my problem is one of absentmindedness -- Ill grab my receipt off the table or from a cashier as I walk out the door, but after t...

With today's rollout of college collaboration tool "Groups For Schools", Facebook gets nostalgic for Zuck's Wirehog and lets students share un-copyrighted files up to 25mb. Soon all US colleges and th...

Thanks in large part to its personalized news aggregation technology Trove, The Washington Post has recently launched new reading experiences like Social Reader and Personal Post. Now it's starting to...

Last December, Google launched Currents, its attempt at challenging mobile apps like Flipboard and Zite. Since then, the company has added about 400 new publishers and over 14,000 self-published editi...

You've probably heard of a few newish venture-operator groups out there -- Betaworks, Churn Labs and Science, Inc are some examples. They're basically organizations that take the idea of incubation to...

Mobile development startup Cabana is launching a new product today called Fan Page Mobilizer aimed at small businesses who want to bring their Facebook presence to smartphones.There have been a lot of...

Sincerely, the startup behind a range of photo-printing and greeting card mobile apps, includingPostagram,PopBooth,Sincerely InkandDotti, is today rolling out a major update to its Postagram product w...

Sincerely, the startup behind a range of photo-printing and greeting card mobile apps, includingPostagram,PopBooth,Sincerely InkandDotti, is today rolling out a major update to its Postagram product w...

Calling email overload "a crisis in communication", TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington issued a challenge back in 2008: "Someone needs to create a new technology that allows us to enjoy our life but...

1024x768 screens are a bit like Windows XP: they have long been surpassed by better options but still remained the most often used screens on the web. That is, until now. According to the latest data ...

Bump, mobile sharing app that lets users exchange photos and information by bumping their phones together, is now taking on a new device: the computer keyboard. And it appears to also be taking on a n...

Bump, the popular mobile sharing app that lets users exchange photos and information by bumping their smartphones together, is getting in touch with a new device: the computer keyboard. And it appears...

Spaceport.io, a HTML5, mobile game creation platform, has raised a strategic round of funding from a number of investors including BBC Worldwide and YouWeb, a previous investor. While financial terms ...

Spaceport.io, an HTML5, mobile game creation platform, has raised a strategic round of funding from a number of investors including BBC Worldwide and YouWeb, a previous investor. While financial terms...

Paralysis can set in quickly when you're faced with the infinitude of products and reviews on sprawling sites like Amazon or Yelp. To help you find your way, Trip Advisor has just begun showing review...

Mobile payments platform Beamit, which focuses on international money transfers between the U.S. and developing markets, has just closed a $2.4 million seed round led by Founder's Co-op, with particip...

Web apps look a lot different today than they did a decade ago. Today, in the era of smart clients, web and native apps have to communicate with an array of distributed cloud services, and, while lega...

All good things, as they say, must come to an end. For years now, Verizon has been the only one of the Big Four wireless carriers not to charge their customers an upgrade fee when they re-signed a two...

The U.S. Justice Department just formally charged Apple, along with book publishers, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Penguin in regards to e-book pricing. The DOJ alleges that the companies col...

The U.S. Justice Department just formally charged Apple, along with book publishers, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Penguin in regards to e-book pricing. The DoJ alleges that the companies col...

Online retailer Amazon is extending its Trade-In Program today to also cover CDs - you know, those round, shiny things collecting dust in the back of your closet? Starting now, customers can send in t...

The pinteresting of the web continues at Amazon and eBay. Ryan Spoon pointed out that the massive online retailers recently added tiny Pinterest buttons to their deck of social media sharing options o...

In September, national startup accelerator and seed fund, TechStars, launched its first program focused on providing mentorship and capital to companies working in a particular space. With cloud compu...

Springpad was founded back in 2008 with a simple mission: Help people "remember stuff today so that they can make better decisions tomorrow." For those unfamiliar with the digital organizer, the start...

Google is announcing this morning a new look for its social network, Google+, which introduces a revamped navigation, with drag-and-drop elements and actions that appear when you hover over each ...

The folks at RIM are no doubt devoting plenty of time and manpower to their long-awaited BlackBerry 10 operating system, but theyve found the time to whip up a few app updates to please the nearly 55 ...

The folks at RIM are no doubt devoting plenty of time and effort to their long-awaited BlackBerry 10 operating system, but theyve found the time to whip up a few app updates to please the nearly 55 mi...

A startup has launched this week that is vying to be the next great leap forward for the world of videoconferencing, the promising-but-still-relatively-niche service that lets groups of people in diff...

This is a guest post by serial entrepreneur Nathalie Gaveau.As we get closer to the first round of Presidential elections in France on April 22nd and everyone is focusing on the French economy, it see...

Not great news for Nokia this morning in its ongoing attempt to reverse declines in its sales and market share in the world of mobile phones that it once easily dominated. The company has announced t...

Bubble or not, the tech world is operating at a level of craziness right now. Google announced they're working on connected augmented reality glasses that might just everything. Then, just a few days ...

Citrix has just announced the acquisition of social business collaboration platform, Podio. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Podio is a social network for businesses that lets th...

Fragmentation isn't just a problem reserved for mobile operating systems, it's inherent to our online identities as well. Our digital identities exist in a loose and fragmented consortium of usernames...

In today's world of fragmentation in mobile OSes, businesses are hard pressed to manage and support the diverse array of mobile apps their employees use on a daily basis. AppCentral, a startup best kn...

CloudPassage, the developer of cloud server security software, has raised $14 million in series B financing led by Tenaya Capital with Benchmark Capital and Musea Ventures participating in the round. ...

Spotify wants to make it easier for anyone to legally soundtrack their websites, oh, and get links to its own download page plastered all over the Internet. So today it launches the embeddable Spotify...

Nokia has been weathering a series of glitches around the launch of its Lumia range of Windows Phone devices -- the most recent of which saw the company issue credits to users affected by data connect...

Nokia has been weathering a series of glitches around the launch of its Lumia range of Windows Phone devices -- the most recent of which saw the company issue credits to users affected by data connect...

After years, yes years, in various states of stealth mode, Seattle-based personalized news aggregation startup Wavii is finally launching to wide scale public consumption. Backed with a list of angel ...

Last year, we covered an ambitious collaborative R&D project called "Startup Genome," created by three young entrepreneurs, Bjoern Herrmann, Max Marmer, and Ertan Dogrultan. The goal of the ongoin...

Microsoft and Nokia have a lot riding on the success of their flagship Lumia 900 Windows Phone, but the usual new gadget honeymoon has been cut short for more than a few unsatisfied customers. Shortly...

Microsoft and Nokia have a lot riding on the success of their flagship Lumia 900 Windows Phone, but the usual new gadget honeymoon period has been cut short for more than a few unsatisfied customers. ...

WrestleMania has transformed itself from a small wrestling event to an international media spectacle. In its 28th incarnation, held at the beginning of this month, there were no signs of it stopping.T...

WrestleMania has transformed itself from a small wrestling event to an international media spectacle. In its 28th incarnation, held at the beginning of this month, there were no signs of it stopping.W...

One would guess that the big Yahoo layoff-reorganization includes a culling of some the company's weaker properties -- and yes, we're hearing today that this includes Music and possibly Movies, popula...

Using a smartphone while shopping to find better deals or to look up product reviews is now pretty mainstream. There are some interesting differences between how Hispanics use their phones while shopp...

Now this is a pretty nifty use of a corporate Twitter account. Smart Car's Argentinian division has filled practically its entire Twitter stream -- which is currently 456 Tweets long -- with ASCII art...

Now this is a pretty nifty use of a corporate Twitter account. Smart Car's Argentinian division has filled practically its entire Twitter stream -- which is currently 456 Tweets long -- with ASCII art...

Maybe you love Tim Tebow. Or maybe it's Lady Gaga that tickles your fancy. Whoever the celebrity may be, we're all huge fans at one point or another, which is why a new startup out of The Fort in D.C....

We've always been interested in the Notion Ink project, which has always striven to be a true alternative to both the iPad and Android masses. Last time, it was through both a Pixel Qi screen and an i...

The three pillars of Norfolk's economy, according to local startup legend Marty Kaszubowski, have always been the military, shipping, and tourism. These three industries, fickle to begin with, are mur...

Mobile app platform provider Parse is reporting having discovered a major security hole in the Facebook Android SDK. The problem was quickly patched after being reported to Facebook, but that alone ma...

YouTube Live, Google's live streaming platform, celebrated its first birthday over the weekend. To mark this event, YouTube is adding a number of new features to Live today. Most of these (new product...

In Ray Bradbury's short story "The Veldt," two children play in their "nursery," a sort of home holodeck where they can conjure up any scene in which to play. Bradbury always had a wonderfully clunky ...

Interview Street, the startup that helps companies recruit by holding programming contests called CodeSprints, is doing something a little different this week it's holding a CodeSprint for 13 differe...

Finding a good restaurant - even in a city you've never been to - has never been easier. Thanks to Yelp, Urbanspoon and its various brethren, a good place to eat is generally just a few clicks away. W...

One week after Yahoo announced that it would lay off 2,000 employees, the company has now confirmed the second part of its restructuring: a reorganization that puts the company's assets into three new...

500px, the photo sharing website that has become the new darling of the photo buff set, today rolled out a new $19.95/year 'Plus' membership plan, putting it more squarely in competition with Flickr.U...

While there are a host of startups currently offering distance learning options in the traditional academic sense, many people are interested in pursuing other hobbies or activities, like, say, boosti...

SAP is furthering its mobile presence today by acquiring Syclo, a company that provides an enterprise mobile app platform. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.Syclo helps companies build an...

Crashlytics, a Cambridge-based startup that helps developers understand how and why their mobile apps crashed, is taking another slug of funding with a $5 million round led by Flybridge and Baseline V...

Remember last month, when StatCounter noticed that Chrome surged to briefly (for one day only!) become the world's most popular web browser? Well, another key finding in its report had to do with the ...

It's no secret that most of us put more stock in the recommendations we get from friends than traditional forms of advertising. What's interesting, though, is that while most consumers also increasing...

It's funny how the news hits, sometimes. Just this morning, one social travel service (Gtrot) made the decision to shift away from the travel vertical to focus on local discovery, while another, Jetpa...

CloudOn, a mobile productivity app for the iPad that allows users to access Microsoft Office documents in the cloud, is debuting a new version of its service by integrating with Adobe Reader, Box and ...

Curious how consumers are making decisions regarding which cell phone to buy? Google teamed up with Compete on a study examining how the online consumer shops for a wireless device and we have the res...

What if you could down drinks at a Tumblr open bar, rock out to live music from Spotify, and battle it out at ping pong and foosball, all while finding a sweet new job? Then you'd be at NYC Uncubed, a...

Everyme, a Y Combinator-incubated startup with a long list of impressive investors, is launching its iPhone app today. Its goal? To create an environment where you feel comfortable sharing whatever yo...

Sure, legends like Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle don't play for the Yankees now, but the team hasn't just survived the ups and downs over the years. Hate it or love it, the franchise attracts many of th...

Back in July of last year, Animoto, the startup that lets people easily create good-looking videos from user-uploaded audio, video, images, raised $25 million in venture funding, led by Spectrum Equit...

Gigwalk, a mobile app that allows users to get assigned basic gigs or jobs from companies via their location, is unveiling a new suite of tools to allow companies to manage local work via the phone.Gi...

The age of the tablet is definitely upon us: figures out today from Gartner forecast that by the end of 2016 there will 665 million media tablets in use worldwide -- a counterpoint to the sluggish sal...

Social travel planning service Gtrot is changing its focus and is now officially relaunching its website with a new emphasis on local discovery. Somewhat reminiscentof Foursquare's "Explore" feature, ...

Best Buy's Brian Dunn just stepped down as the retailer's CEO and director effective immediately. This comes just days after Best Buy missed Wall Street's estimates last quarter and the retailer annou...

Amazon is taking the wraps off a new in-app purchasing service today in an effort to make its app store competitive with what Apple and Google offer developers. That should let developers for Amazon's...

Amazon is taking the wraps off a new in-app purchasing service today in an effort to make its app store competitive with what Apple and Google offer developers. That should let developers for Amazon's...

If you're an Android and a PC, you should check out BlueStacks --- before hackers catch on or Chrome sneaks in this functionality, take advantage. The startup's software has been going like hotcakes o...

The Nokia Lumia 900 train is rocking. After its first stop in the US on Easter Sunday, the party moved north of the border where Rogers is now selling the supersized Windows Phone. However, in a few s...

The most notable fruit of Microsoft and Nokias close working relationship is certainly the handsome line of Lumia Windows Phones, but the deal has had its share of fringe benefits as well. Take its im...

The world of digital photography had a shot in the arm yesterday when Facebook picked up Instagram for $1 billion, and it's perhaps a sign of how all players in that space now need to up their game. T...

Time Out New York is making a big leap into the digital world today, says Aksel van der Wal, who's president of Time Out North America and chief operating officer of the Time Out Group. Specifically, ...

Spring has come, and like new buds springing forth from the loamy earth, so too are new gadgets constantly being released into the real world. Today's first helping of new gear comes from Toshiba, who...

The new iPad from Apple so far has smashed all previous sales records that Apple held for other models of its tablets, selling 3 million in its opening weekend, and with sales projections for 2012 now...

Facebook is banking a lot on the future of HTML5 and the idea of people going web-first instead of native-apps for their mobile content fixes, and today mobile gaming company Cellufun taking one step ...

It's hard to say how popular Chrome OS, Google's browser-centric operating system, really is. There can be little doubt, though, that Google is quite serious about this initiative. Today, Google launc...

Search may not be the most exciting area of online advertising right now, but it's still "the biggest driver of return on investment", according to a new report from Adobe.The report has the elaborate...

Recent media reports about working conditions in Apples (Foxconns) Chinese factories are way off the mark.Through Kogan, I have been working with China for the past six years. Having most of our produ...

Even now, it's still shocking how the remarkably low distribution costs of the web can change a founder's fate overnight. Many startups are duds, and most grow at a clip that's just not fast enough to...

Xfire has had a bumpy road over the last five-plus years. Back in 2006, Viacom bought Xfire for $102 million. In 2010, Titan Gaming took over ownership. Then, in October of last year, Xfire raising an...

Xfire has had a bumpy road over the last five-plus years. Back in 2006, Viacom bought Xfire for $102 million. In 2010, Titan Gaming took over ownership. Then, in October of last year, Xfire raising an...

Sure, everyone knows that many techies love video games that involve shooting. But when you think of real-life expert marksmen, you usually think of people who have served in the military or the polic...

When I was in college, I had a fixation on weight lifting. Like many other young men, I was obsessed with working out, with a disproportionate concentration on upper body muscle building exercise. Des...

Late last week, one Justin Watt discovered something suspicious going on with the wi-fi at his hotel, the Times Square Marriott. Not content to charge him hundreds for the room and $16.95 for internet...

Picture being able to filter your Facebook photos, or use your Instagrams as Facebook Checkins.Though Instagram will remain its own "independent" app, its$1 billion acquisition by Facebook could power...

It'd be easy to forget, but startups do exist, and even prosper, outside of Silicon Valley. John and I believe firmly in this, and have thus decided to venture forth and find technology gems hidden aw...

Last week, Yahoo announced that it would cut 2,000 jobs. Given the employee shortage in Silicon Valley, most of the qualified engineers that lost their jobs in this round of cuts will likely land on t...

After hiring a new VP of Communications, Twitter is adding key engineering staff. Chris Fry, a former exec at Salesforce, has joined Twitter as VP of Engineering.According to Fry's LinkedIn profile, h...

Jack Tramiel, one of the PC industry's major pioneers, has died. He was born in 1928 and, after surviving imprisonment in Auschwitz and another concentration camp during World War II, first establishe...

The Big Apple is looking into upgrading its existing pay phones, and a pilot study is underway that replaces everyone's favorite anachronism with something a little more 21st-century: giant touchscree...

If your mobile site still mostly consists of static pages, maybe it's time for an upgrade. According to new data from Usablenet, adding just a few interactive elements could increase your users' or re...

Well, after months of breathless waiting (and a Nicki Minaj concert in Times Square), Nokia's Lumia 900 is finally sitting pretty on store shelves. If you haven't heard about AT&T's newest handset...

Not everyone is happy about Facebook'sacquisition of Instagram this morning, it seems. In an apparent insta-backlash, a bunch of folks are tweeting about their intentions to delete their Instagram acc...

Windows XP, the operating system that launched in 2001 and just refuses to die, will still be getting security updates and hotfixes until April 8, 2014. With "just" two more years to go, though, Micro...

Windows Phone has a widely known downside: It lacks 3rd party apps. Sure, the major ones are there in Facebook, Twitter, Angry Birds and even Spotify, Rdio and Reddit browsers. But besides apps from b...

For a while now, Mozilla has been looking beyond the core browser features to expand Firefox's capabilities. Last week, the Firefox team showed an interesting new demo at the ITEF 83 meeting in Paris....

The very surprising announcement this morning that Facebook is acquiring Instagram for $1 billion says a lot about the state of the web startup ecosystem and the tech world at large -- and no doubt, a...

I'm as shocked as you are, namely because I was working on this funding story all morning. Anyways, right before its billion dollar acquisition from Facebook, Instagram closed a $50 million Series B r...

Facebook has just finished a deal to acquire mobile photo sharing app Instagramfor approximately$1 billion in cash and stock. Instagram will remain a standalone app from Facebook, but the services wil...

Sequoia Capital is announcing a new partner todayformer Clearwell and CenterRun CEO Aaref Hilaly. At Sequoia, Hilaly will focus on investing and working with enterprise, internet, and mobile companies...

It looks like investors are ecstatic about the news AOL has sold 800 patents to Microsoft for $1.056 billion.AOL made the announcement this morning, and as of 12:45pm Eastern, AOL stock is trading at ...

Netflix is rolling out a major update to its Xbox 360 application today, which is the biggest update to arrive since the integration of Kinect gestures and voice control back in December of last year....

Yext has made the famous startup pivot, shifting focus from its pay-per-call advertising service to a new product called PowerListings. But rather than simply abandoning its old business, the company ...

The folks behind a forthcoming fashion catalog for the iPad, Bazaart, have launched an interesting side project in their downtime (what's that?) from their participation in DreamIt's new Israel-based ...

Topps, the company best known for its Bazooka bubble gum and for essentially inventing and popularizing trading cards in the 1950s, is today releasing its first-ever mobile apps in conjunction with th...

Just a reminder: today is the most important day of the year. It's TC DC Mini Meet-up Night! We're here in DC and we're looking forward to meeting with you all at RFD (810 7th St NW) at 6pm for some n...

I've been harping for a while here on TechCrunch about the benefits of open source software. I often quote Canonical's Technical Architect Allison Randal, who said "Free software is a fundamentally su...

BlackBerry fans in India had best stay on the up-and-up lest they want to draw unwanted attention from the countrys security agencies. India Today reported over the weekend that the countrys governmen...

And we're off! Even though the Nokia Lumia 900 launched yesterday and was largely unavailable thanks to the Easter Bunny, the phone quickly skyrocketed to the top of Amazon's best sellers list. The ph...

Shopping discovery serviceZoomingo, which helps you find nearby sales using your mobile phone, is out with a new iPhone app that introduces a gamification element to its platform. Local shoppers are n...

Thanks to big raises from venture firms like Andreessen Horowitz, U.S. venture capital fund-raising increased to $7 billion across 47 funds in the first quarter of 2012, which is a 5% increase in capi...

Finding a place for your pooch while you're away should be getting easier. Rover, a Seattle-based startup that is trying to disrupt the kennel market, said it has raised $3.4 million in a round led by...

Birchbox, the New York-based startup that racked up more than 100,000 subscribers for its monthly kits of beauty products, is now aiming for a certain well-styled gentleman.The company is launching Bi...

Lenovo is keeping the Ice Cream Sandwich social rocking with its upcoming IdeaTab S2109. Inside the sleek 8.9mm thick casing is a 9.7-inch 4:3 IPS LCD with a 1.3MP camera sunk into the bezel. Four spe...

According to a new SEC filing, investor Chris Sacca is raising as much as $25 million for his new fund, Lowercase Spur. As Bloomberg BusinessWeek reported a month ago, Sacca is in the process of raisi...

When you hear the phrase "real-time analytics" you probably think of Chartbeat (at least I do), but it's not the only company in the field. In fact, a Lebanese startup called Woopra has been offering ...

This just in: one chapter of AOL's patent journey is coming to an end. The company is selling 800 patents to Microsoft for just north of $1 billion.Tim Armstrong, the CEO of AOL, says that the company...

This just in: one chapter of AOL's patent journey is coming to an end. The company is selling 800 patents to Microsoft for just north of $1 billion: $1.056 billion in cash to be exact.Tim Armstrong, t...

The use of social media in the enterprise has been a path well-trod by companies using mass market tools like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to communicate with peers, customers, investors and anyone ...

It all started last April when former Facebook engineer Chris Putnam (of fame) was visiting his girlfriend's mom in Lake City, FL and saw the striking sign -- 'The Hacker Company."Putnam, who had left...

Sephora, the cosmetics retailer, is still best known for its brick-and-mortar shops that let customers test out high-end makeup, skincare and fragrance products with less pressure than typically comes...

Strategy. Unfortunately, it suffers from a bad reputation among startups. It is associated with consultants who are paid millions of dollars only to come back with a two-by-two matrix of animals. Not ...

The truly great consumer technology companies of the past 25 years have all had one thing in common: They created habits. This is what separates world-changing businesses from the rest. Apple, Faceboo...

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Onswipe CEO Jason L. Baptiste's new book The Ultralight Startup: Launching a Business Without Clout or Capital.If you pay attention to the headlines abo...

For an industry so reliant on the wholehearted embrace of the future, many technologists and pundits seem so completely resistant to change it's mind-boggling. This is how I feel when people thumb the...

Push notification and the fabric it creates are about what comes next. Not what we know, but what we're about to know. The next step, the one we're about to take, the moment when the foot is in the ai...

Patent blogs were lit up after the Supreme Courts decision in Prometheus v. Mayo. Some have hailed the decision as a harbinger of progress to come while others have denounced it as revealing just how ...

The right investor, the kind who can help startups get over the inevitable "We're Fucked It's Over" (WFIO) moments, can turn a startup into a multi-billion dollar company. The fact is that choosing th...

Editors Note: Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital. Follow him on Twitter @ahaislip.Were at...

Editor's Note: This guest post is written by Scott Raskin, who is the President and CEO of Mindjet. Prior to Mindjet, Raskin was President and COO of Telelogic and VP of Sales and Corporate Developmen...

People like to kick up a fuss about sexism in tech and how this contributes to a lack of women in the field, whether that's through badly promoted "perks" at hackathons, over-abundance of alcohol at e...

You've met the Swivl before. Back in November, Satarii debuted the Swivl (formerly known as the Star), and we went hands-on with the substitute camera-man around Christmas. Good times. But today is ju...

Im a Google-phile. Or at least, I was. Lately, my guts felt a bit wobbly every time someone mentions the big G. Page, Brin and company have lost their focus. Once, they helped us all find the stuff we...

Over the past 12 months, Ive had the pleasure of interviewing some of the Valleys best entrepreneurs and investors atStartup Grind. People likeNaval Ravikant,Kevin Rose,Tony Conrad,MG Siegler,Jeff Cla...

I spend a good portion of my day thinking, researching, and analyzing our industry, our world, consumer habits, and the technology products that enhance and cause fundamental change within it. My job ...

Until now, Cater2.me has focused on using the Web to connect companies (which need to feed their employees) with small restaurants and food carts. Now it's opening a restaurant of its own or rather, ...

Suddenly all your friends are wearing those dumb black nerd glasses. You, as a NYC-dwelling (of course) ur-hipster in the first clip spend your day at the Strand Bookstore, chasing around a food cart,...

Every time I pick up my iPhone lately, Ive been asking myself:Why do we call this a phone?If my phone habits are any indicator, we shouldnt be calling this a phone at all. On the iPhone, I dont like t...

CRMis a massive business.At least an $8 billion industry according to Gartner.Salesforce, the company you think of when you hearCRM(after all,it is their ticker symbol) has a market cap north of $21 b...

The crowded buildings not on fire. After an exhaustive investigation of the top 100 Facebook apps, the Wall Street Journal didnt find any serious privacy violations, but the writers were on assignment...

e are in the golden age of seed financing. Venture capital funds, seed funds, super angels, angel groups, incubators, and friends and family are all playing the seed financing game and investing early...

Just over a month ago, a random conversation with another startup founder over lunch turned into a full-blown research project.You and I are both first-born children, I mused to my friend, I wonder if...

Today, the Webs infrastructure is built, the platforms have emerged; were now filling the pipes with content; mainly free, ad-supported content.Anyone whos worked in user-generated/appropriated conten...

The Gillmor Gang Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor proved unequal to the task of rendering the week's non-news into insight. Whether it was @scobleizer and ...

Suddenly programming is sexy. Codecademy is drawing hundreds of thousands to its online programming tutorials. "Those jumping on board say they are preparing for a future in which the Internet is the ...

My wife was upset at me. You spent all weekend responding to comments on TechCrunch, she said, and it was the one weekend without the kids and you were either on your head phones or playing chess or r...

Today was a pretty big day for 500 Startups, the Silicon Valley seed venture capital firm and startup accelerator founded by outspoken tech investment extraordinaire Dave McClure. The firm disclosed i...

Last year, Facebook got a little more transparent explaining what kind of data it would provide to law enforcement officials when they made formal subpoenas for user profiles. Now, we can have a look ...

Last year, Facebook got a little more transparent explaining what kind of data it would provide to law enforcement officials when they made formal subpoenas for user profiles. Now, we can have a look ...

As a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, Aileen Lee has been a part of one of the most well-respected and established venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. But after 13 years with the...

Randi Zuckerberg has ruffled some feathers this week with the announcement that she is co-producing "Silicon Valley," a reality show set to air on Bravo that purports to be all about the San Francisco...

I think the folk tale of employers asking to see a candidate's Facebook account was apocryphal at best, but it seems like it's even being debunked in HR circles. Andy Lester a blogger on high-tech car...

Palo Alto Networks, a security software company, has filed its S-1 for a public offering, aiming to raise as much as $175 million. The company was rumored to be in the process of filing earlier this y...

What's a SXSW bump worth? To Redwood City's Banjo, which pools location data on friends from all the major social networks, it was worth 100,000 downloads in four days. That brought the app to more th...

This is it. The stakes couldn't be higher. The future of Windows Mobile hinges on the success of the Nokia Lumia 900. The phone has a huge amount of hype. It's priced right at $99 on-contract and it's...

Gillmor Gang - Danny Sullivan, Kevin Marks, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live at 1pm PT....

Andrew Keen interviews Laura Tyson, professor of economics at UC Berkeley....

You know what I hate most about getting too drunk to drive home? The hangover. No, no, I'm kidding (well, sort of) - it's having to go retrieve my car from wherever I left it the next day. Sometimes, ...

Disrupt NYC is coming up quick and we are working like mad to make sure this Disrupt is as big as ever. So far, we have announced these amazing speakers and judges, who will all be joining us. Not onl...

Etsy, the popular marketplace for all things handmade, just announced that it will not just be hosting the 2012 session of Hacker School at its headquarters in New York, but that it will also offer te...

Daniel Franklin is the Executive Editor of The Economist magazine and one of the sponsors of last week's excellent Innovation event at UC Berkeley's Haas School. He is also author of the new book, Meg...

Ask (enough times) and ye shall receive. AT&T has kept the iPhone under lock and key since day one, but we're hearing that a pretty dramatic policy shift will go into effect starting this Sunday. ...

According to a new report by Experian, 91% of online adults now regularly use social media in some form or another. This makes social networking the top online activity in the U.S. today, with 15% of ...

Living in Seattle, you tend to find yourself in the company of tech people all the time. With Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe, Google, and a dozen other major companies established in the area, it's never a ...

If you've wondering what Philip Kaplan, a.k.a. Pud, has been up to, wonder no longer: He's working on a social network for musicians called Fandalism. The site went live at the end of January, and wit...

It's a big day for 500 Startups -- you know, the seed-stage accelerator and capital fund founded by rabble rouser and geek on a plane, Dave McClure. Back in July 2010, McClure filed for the accelerato...

Microsoft is pushing their Windows Phone platform like crazy these days -- it recently debuted in China, and the flagship Nokia Windows Phone is due to hit U.S. shelves soon with a huge marketing blit...

Socialize, the new platform that allows mobile developers to instantly add social features to their apps, has come a long way since its November launch of its Social Action Bar. Apparently, developers...

Even though San Francisco-based Flurry hardly makes any direct revenue from its mobile app analytics, the product has become so widely used that one out of every three iOS apps and one out of every fo...

SoMe is a film about the rise (and fall?) of social media. Produced by web rabble-rouser and satirist, Loren Feldman, the film will feature Feldman's signature puppet act (it will be cool, I promise) ...

Just a reminder: starting April 9 TechCrunch will be hitting Virginia for a barnstorming tour of three cities - DC on Monday, Norfolk on Tuesday, and Richmond on Wednesday. You should have already RSV...

Programr, an online lab for learning to code - yep, sort of like Codecademy, but for higher-level languages, has just introduced Android coding support. With the added option, aspiring student develop...

Over three million users strong, design-focused flash sales platform Fab is expanding to a new vertical on Monday, with the launch of a beauty-focused pop-up shop in collaboration with Conde Nast glos...

A number of startups are trying to take on online classifieds giant Craigslist, including Antego, EggDrop, and many others. Tradyo is one of the latest companies to join the group, offering a social, ...

This story made the rounds a few days ago but I think generally it's something more people should know. During a visit to the very expensive and not very nice Times Square Marriott, Justin Watt notice...

The BlackBerry PlayBook is about to get the gift of 4G. That is of course if a random leaked image and FCC documents are believed. And why not? Even though the PlayBook is almost a year old, RIM is ac...

Amazon has released some fairly impressive numbers showcasing the growth of Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) over the years. By the end of the first quarter of 2012, there were 905 billion objects s...

HTC released their unaudited Q1 2012 earnings earlier this morning, and the results arent pretty [PDF]. The Taiwanese company managed to pull down NT$67.8 billion ($2.3 billion) this past quarter, a n...

If you tried to judge whether NFC mobile payments are ready for prime time based on the amount of chatter you hear in your newsfeed youd think the contactless technology was on the brink of ubiquito...

You know every once in a while you come across news about your company and it turns out your boss is no longer your boss anymore. If you're me this probably happens to you every three months.Anyways t...

Will Apple make a 7 inch iPad? That's the question being batted around yet again today. The true answer right now is easy: I don't know. No one does. Most likely not even Apple. They're undoubtedly th...

The Google Books project (just today pared down a bit) always impressed me with its sheer scope. Offering modern e-books is all well and good, but that's more of a business problem. It's the scanning ...

There were plenty of other Pictionary-like games in the iTunes app store before OMGPOP's Draw Something. But the secret ingredient behind Draw Something's runaway success was its very social, asynchro...

A lot of things have changed in Silicon Valley in recent years -- apps have access to a plug-and-play social infrastructure provided by the likes of Facebook and Twitter, the mobile boom has truly mad...

If business creates a fun, potentially viral video, what's the best way to convince people to share it? Wingsplay has a straightforward idea: Pay them.So advertisers pay Wingsplay to promote videos th...

A warning: You can only spam Twitter so much before it brings in the law. As Twitter grows -- the company now claims to have 140 million active users -- naturally, it's become an attractive target for...

There's panic about a security hole in Facebook's iOS and Android apps that surfaced today, but the threat of identity theft is being blown out of proportion. You only need to worry if your phone is a...

After debuting on the New York Stock Exchange last week with a huge pop in stock value, mobile ad network Millennial Media is now facing potential legal trouble from another mobile ad player. The comp...

Hey all you Sprint customers, you haven't been forgotten after all! Sprint has just revealed that the device's Ice Cream Sandwich has finally gone live, which is great news if you're looking to squeez...

It's been a while since I came to Google's defense but I think it's time to talk about what an absolute downer it is to dig through a lot of tech commentary these days. The most recent example came af...

According to The New York Times, Facebook has picked the NASDAQ to list its shares in the company's upcoming IPO in May. This is a huge win for the exchange, which has been battling the New York Stock...

Google Maps, Bing Maps and a number of startups have been offering indoor maps for large venues like airports, malls and stadiums for quite a while. The problem with indoor mapping, though, is that it...

With all the talk about the potential of Google Glass, I thought it might be nice to drop back in on the current state of Augmented Reality the kind where you still use a smartphone to view markers o...

Google has always been historically paranoid about any numbers it publicly releases. For years, the management triumvirate including Larry Page had to personally approve any numbers the company issued...

It seems it's a big news day for eBooks and eTextbooks. Google is winding down its eBook service for indie publishers, while Apple and top publishers are the subjects of domestic and European probes i...

Yes, that's one of the more random headlines I've written, but look I wasn't the one who said it. Executives from Spotify and Turntable.fm really did compare themselves to popular musicians, and Pand...

In the world of online mapping, it feels like things aren't quite going in Google's direction these days: Apple switched away from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap when it launched iPhoto for iOS. Fo...

You know who the busiest man in the startup world is right now? Pinterest's newly-minted CEO Ben Silbermann, who from what we're hearing is so preoccupied with shipping product that he hasn't been tak...

Popping over to Facebook is always a crapshoot. Will it be a picture of a swaddled, newly born baby or your weird uncle spouting Jack Handey-esque aphorisms? You never now. That's what LeFeed.com is f...

The American Booksellers Association sent a letter to its members today announcing that Google was putting an end to its reseller program, which allowed independent bookstores to operate an e-book sto...

In a press event today held at the White House, President Obama just signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (which cleverly has the acronym of the JOBS Act) into law, sealing the deal on a bil...

"In the Studio" this week welcomes a serial entrepreneur who has previously founded four companies, three of which were acquired (two by public companies), quickly established himself as a thought-lea...

Wow, AroundMe has really been flying under the radar. The location-aware mobile search app is announcing today that it's now passed the 6 million mark for monthly unique visitors. To put that in persp...

In the U.S., 61% of all households currently have WiFi networks installed at home. According to data from Strategy Analytics, this means the U.S. is ahead of countries like Spain (57.1%), Mexico (31.5...

There's a lot of exciting action in collaborative consumption, much of it being inspired by the early success of carsharing and ridesharing networks. After hitting 100 million miles served last year, ...

All our global institutions -- from the United Nations to the World Trade Organization to the International Monetary Fund to the G20 to the G8 -- are broken. That's at least according to Don Tapscott,...

Project Glass sounds like a super-villain secret weapon, so Google may need to give its wearable augmented reality device a friendlier name. Luckily the search giant owns the domain GoogleEye.com, so ...

A startup called Althea Systems wants to reinvent the way we find videos online. Its app Shufflr is already available on desktops, the Web, iPhone, and Android, and today it's launching on the iPad.Sh...

Change.org launched in 2007 as a social networking site for non-profits. Today, the site looks quite a bit different and has morphed into a petition platform that wants to empower activists around the...

Hey, remember when Viacom sued YouTube for copyright infringement of shows like South Park and The Daily Show? And YouTube won a summary judgement nearly two years ago, with a judge basically throwing...

I don't think anyone in history has ever thought of filling out forms as sexy, but it's a necessary evil for many a business or organization. Still, theres plenty of room for improvement, and thats wh...

DudaMobile, the DIY mobile website maker, fresh off news of its $6 million Series B, is today announcing a partnership with Google. Going forward, Google's GoMo service, which launched last November t...

On the heels of a payout from the owners of P2P filesharing site Limewire, another claim finally settled for Merlin, the group that represents independent music labels in licensing negotiations and le...

Of all the peculiar gimmicks a smartphone manufacturer could lean on to make a device stand out, 3D always seemed like one of the most pointless. Sure, it sounds great in theory who doesnt want fully...

Yep, I'm writing another post on the Lumia 900. It'll be my fourth in the span of 24 hours, but there's just so much to talk about.So after receiving a fly and a die, getting checked out by our camera...

Over the past few months, Graphiclystarted to abandon its vision of becoming the "iTunes of comics" and instead focused on digital publishing tools for comics and other image-heavy books. Today it's f...

FLUD, the scrappy news reader backed by $1 million in seed funding, is today introducing FLUD 2.0 for Android and Windows Phone. FLUD 2.0, for those who don't recall, was the big redesign that turned ...

For anyone who's loved to watch Twitter reactions or a liveblog of a big event on TV, this will probably come as no surprise. For advertisers and broadcasters who haven't figured out how to capitalize...

Last September, YouTube began offering new tools that allowed users to convert their uploaded 2D videos into 3D videos with just a click. That feature, which has been in beta testing, was available on...

Amazon has been making some big strides in extending its footprint outside of the U.S. with its Kindle e-readers and Kindle bookstore, but today it took a step to improve how it caters to Spanish spea...

An update to the Nest thermostat is rolling out to device owners over the next two days, just in time for AC season. The improvements include advanced energy monitoring - essentially more data about y...

As the proud owner of a number of antiques including an original Game Boy and an unopened box of Circus Fun cereal, I'm well aware of the value of those things passed down to us from the ancients. How...

Because walking and texting isn't dangerous enough, Google Glasses will put AdSense 5mm in front of your retina. Disclaimer: I actually don't know if Google plans on using in ads in their glasses....

Augmented reality seems to be all the rage this week: Microsoft earlier today got in touch to give us the heads up on some technology it's been working on -- its designs for how to make a user's exper...

Hipmunk, the flight and hotel search startup known for its snazzy user interfaces, has done it again. The company today is unveiling new integrations with popular calendar applications iCal, Google Ca...

TwitchTV, a live-streamed video game portal and community for gamers that was spawned last June from live video platform Justin.tv, has been booming in terms of growth and revenue. But the platform di...

Today, President Obama signs the JOBS Act into law, legalizing crowdfunding in startups by non-accredited investors, so that anyone with a computer can invest. The new law stipulates that entrepreneur...

Yandex may be in line to become the default search engine on devices that Apple sells in Russia. But for now it's engaging in a little competition with Cupertino, and others. Today the Russian search ...

Attention young engineers and budding product geniuses! If you're thinking about moving jobs, or if you'd like to work for one of the UK's hawt startups, mark out May 26/27 in your calendars for the t...

Taxes are for old businesses. That seems to be the sentiment coming from the oft-offended Silicon Valley sycophants. Im not talking about the measured approach of Mayor Ed Lee and Ron Conway who are d...

Back in November, we reported that Sean Garrett, Twitter's Head of Comms, would be stepping down from his post. As he tweeted at the time, for the first time in his career, he would be taking more tha...

Google's augmented reality eyewear is coming to disrupt your face and your business model. If you don't even have to pull your phone out to take a photo, get directions, or message with friends, why w...

On March 22nd, a slightly modified "Jumpstart Our Business Startups (or JOBS) Act" was approved by the Senate in a 73-26 vote. Last week, the House of Representatives, too, showed its support for the ...

If you live in San Francisco, you probably spend a lot of time complaining about the lackluster public transportation. I'm no exception so today, I was really excited to see a new government website ...

Richard Clarke was a major feature in US security for a decade, serving as a member of the National Security Council and special adviser for cybersecurity to President George W. Bush. He has written a...

Between gossip and rumors and gossip and more rumors, the Silicon Valley day-to-day is so dramatic Bravo is turning it into not one but two TV shows. No joke. That doesn't convince you? Well, how abou...

Box has become a major player in the tech world since its launch some six years ago. The company, which provides cloud data storage and enterprise collaboration tools, has more than doubled its headco...

HTC and Sprint have just pulled back the curtains on the new Evo 4G LTE here in New York, and putting the peculiar name aside, the device seems like a real contender. The question then is how does the...

It's not just start-ups that radically innovate. Take, for example, Autodesk, the 3D design, engineering and entertainment software giant that, according to its President and CEO Carl Bass, continues ...

On-demand black car service Uber is making it easier for new users to sign up for rides, thanks to its newly-announced Card.io integration. For those unfamiliar with the mobile payments startup Card.i...

It's hardly a surprise anymore (as is usually the case) but here it is anyway -- Sprint CEO Dan Hesse and HTC President Jason Mackenzie have just taken the stage at their collaboration event in New Yo...

Moving everyday transactions into the digital realm seems an inevitability, but as yet there have been no breakout successes. Sure, there are fringe efforts like Square (which relies on existing card ...

Using Khan Academy as inspiration, Sebastian Thrun decided to bring his Stanford class on artificial intelligence online. Anyone could sign up for free. And 160,000 people from around the world did. H...

Today, a company calledBodeTreeis launching a new web-based solutionto help small business owners make better sense of their financial data. Like another new startup in the SMB realm (that beingInvoic...

The saga of India's "$35 tablet" is long and slightly disappointing. While the idea of low-cost, standard hardware to be distributed in needful communities is a great one, the fact is that the device ...

The saga of India's "$35 tablet" is long and slightly disappointing. While the idea of low-cost, standard hardware to be distributed in needful communities is a great one, the fact is that the device ...

There are a fair amount of third-party iPhone email clients out there, but few ever received the kind of reception that Sparrow for iPhone got a few weeks ago. Sadly, though, unless you have a jailbro...

Why cut coupons when you could just click them? Following asuccessful trial at SXSW, the world's largest online coupon site RetailMeNot is planning a roll out of its paperless credit card-linked coupo...

As we heard earlier this year, Bravo was casting for a new reality TV series based on the tech world and Silicon Valley. Today, we hear that the unscripted, reality show is in fact being produced and ...

Hey! So TechCrunch Disrupt New York is just around the corner on May 19-23. So, what, you say, you don't work here any more, right? (for the newer TechCrunch readers, I'm the guy who founded the site)...

OMGPOP's Draw Something drawing game just surpassed 50 million downloads. It has been downloaded around a million times a day since launch. The paid version is currently number one in the App Store.Th...

Facebook today revealed statistics from a variety of video apps that have integrated with the new Timeline interface through the Open Graph API. According to the performance numbers out of the likes o...

It's OK. We're all dorks here. We know you get into forum arguments over Gnome vs. KDE (I'm a KDE man, myself, because Gnome sucks) and we know that you've always wanted to fork your own Ubuntu distro...

You can put down your pitchforks and torches. An investigation by thePrivacy Commissioner of Canada found three recent complaints against Facebook were either unfounded, resolved, or both. Considering...

The state of Michigan is changing — a burgeoning startup scene has taken the stage, and what some may call a tech renaissance has swept across the state, namely in Detroit. So it shouldn't be mu...

Gina Bianchini is best known, of course, as the co-founder and former CEO of Ning, the social community aggregator which Glam Media bought for $150 million last year. And now (ding dong), Bianchini is...

E-payments company YapStone just announced that it has acquired ParishPay, a service for donating to faith-based organizations.YapStone's main product is RentPayment as you can probably guess, it's a...

The Web 2.0 Summit will not be taking place this year. The conference, which has grown since its inception in 2004 to be one of the buzziest and busiest annual events for the web and new media upper c...

In the spirit of connecting your phone's activity to the cloud, a trend that has inspired one of this week's more interesting launches, Phonedeck, there now comes another application that wants to aut...

In the world of indie gaming, Minecraft is undoubtedly in a league of its own. The sandbox game has already sold more than 5 million copies and has spawned its own subculture of fan sites and clones. ...

Facebook has executed a masterful response to Yahoo's patent trolling that protects it legally but still makes it look like the victim. Here I examine how for almost every patent Yahoo claims Facebook...

Zynga is bolstering its brand advertising efforts by bringing on Julie Shumaker from RockYou as the company's new vice president of North American sales. She'll report to Jeff Karp, Zynga's chief mark...

You've dropped out of college, met a dude who is totally into PHP, and you're ready to build a startup. Where do you begin? With a name, silly!That's where NameStation.com comes in. It's basically a n...

As we heard over the past few months, PayPal is ramping up its payments options for large and small merchants. The payments giant debuted an in-store payments platform for large retailers; PayPal Here...

Canonical, the corporate sponsor of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has been doing a lot of interesting development work across a number of different computing segments: their on-going work with the Un...

After weeks of speculation and rumors, Google has officially pulled back the curtain on what they have come to call Project Glass -- a pair of augmented reality glasses that seek to provide users real...

After weeks of speculation and rumors, Google has officially pulled back the curtain on what they have come to call Project Glass -- a pair of augmented reality glasses that seek to provide users real...

Aviary, the company that makes it easy for mobile developers to integrate image editing into their apps, is debuting a huge partnership today. The New York-based startup will be powering photo editing...

Maria Seidman helps organize a monthly womens' networking event for her business school alums in New York City but was frustrated with some of the options for creating a dedicated mobile app for an ev...

In the landgrab among reading apps that aggregate content to make it more accessible on tablets and smartphones, one of the early movers, Pulse, is today announcing a deal with magazine publisher Bonn...

Real estate search companyTruliais adding to its mobile lineup today with the launch of Trulia Rentals for iPhone. The app joins its Android rentals-only counterpart, which launched back in September....

Daily fantasy sports operator FanDuel gets around online betting laws in the US thanks to daily fantasy sports games being exempt under the carve out in the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement A...

Daily fantasy sports operator FanDuel isn't subject to online betting laws in the US thanks to daily fantasy sports games being exempt under the carve out in the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcem...

Let the proliferation of vertically-themed startup accelerators continue! Today, a new accelerator focusing on the enterprise sector is launching in Washington D.C. Called "Acceleprise," the program's...

The Nokia Lumia 900 is set to be the question mark of the week. The embargo lifted last night, so everyone and their brother is posting a review, proudly giving yeas and nays on the first hard-core No...

I sold mortgages over the phone in a previous life. That involved calling over 100 people a day using an archaic but functional web-based phone system. That system cost the company a fortune to implem...

Good news, Godfather fans -- Google has just recently announced on their official YouTube blog that theyve inked a licensing deal with Viacom-owned Paramount to bring some 500 new titles to YouTube a...

Windows Phone 7 is an excellent new mobile operating system — there's no doubt about that. But every rose has its thorn, and on Windows Phone it's a lack of apps. Luckily, the Marketplace seems ...

Yahoo has made its massive round of layoffs official. The company just released a statement saying that 2,000 jobs have been cut, or 14 percent of it total workforce (which was previously around 14,00...

More than a half-dozen mobile ad companies are getting behind a working group called ODIN to find a new way of tracking and identifying iOS users that still respects their privacy. This is happening b...

As you may well know, we're having a series of three mini-meetups in DC, Norfolk, and Richmond next week. You've probably already RSVPed, but I'd like to spend Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday mornings ...

As you may well know, we're having a series of three mini-meetups in DC, Norfolk, and Richmond next week. You've probably already RSVPed, but I'd like to spend Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday mornings ...

Mogreet, a Los Angeles-based mobile video marketing startup, is today announcing that it has raised $4.1 million in strategic capital. The round was led by Black Diamond Ventures, with participation f...

With how much TechCrunch and other tech publications cover incubators and accelerators in Silicon Valley and in the U.S., it's refreshing to occasionally get a glimpse of what's happening outside Nort...

SugarCRM, a provider of commercial open source CRM software, has completed a $33 million equity and debt financing round. We're told around $14 million of the round was equity financing. The investmen...

You may not be familiar with Wikia, but the collaborative media company has been quietly growing into a giant, recently passing IGN, for example, as the largest network of gaming sites on the planet. ...

Square, the mobile payment startup founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, is one of Silicon Valley's hottest companies right now. It's no surprise then, that German clone factory Rocket Internet, ...

The most interesting part of Amazon's move to provide an in-app payments flow is that they're ceding pricing control to mobile developers.Amazon has been testing a new in-app payments system with seve...

Google has rolled out a great number of small changes to the search engine and UI over the last month, and now they have rolled them all into a big blog post for your consecutive enjoyment.We've highl...

Now that 9pm has rolled around and the awkwardly timed embargo has lifted, I can finally talk to you guys about the phone I've been playing with for the past week: the Nokia Lumia 900. I'm not going t...

In the hullabaloo over Mike Daisey lying about meeting injured workers, the spotlight turned from actual employment problems in Asia onto the face of the orotund and penitent former colonialist. Now t...

Well, we've said it before: Technology is changing education, it's flipping the classroom, bringing instructional videos to the masses, and dragging online higher education into legitimacy. Investors ...

Well, we've said it before: Technology is changing education. It's flipping the classroom, bringing instructional videos to the masses, and dragging online higher education into legitimacy. Investors ...

Many magazine publishers see the iPad as their salvation. Five of the big ones (Conde Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp., and Time Inc.) banded together to create a joint venture called Next Issue Med...

In 2006, former Yahoo employee Thyagarajapuram S. Ramakrishnan was working for Facebook when he filed a patent for the news feed. Today in a sweet piece of irony, Facebook is using that same patent to...

I have to confess that when I think about GE, the first thing that comes to mind isn't radical innovation. But, as usual, I might be wrong. As GE's Chief Marketing Officer, Beth Comstock, told me when...

In some of the old science fiction stories I remember from Weird Tales and Ray Bradbury and the like, robots always figured. But they always came the way you might expect a new dryer or hot water heat...

Last year, Alexia covered a funny Chrome web browser extension called "Defaceable" that allowed you to comment anonymously on Facebook and on other websites using Facebook Comments. Instead of having ...

Justin Kan is a busy guy. The serial entrepreneur is best known as the founder of Justin.tv, the online community that lets users broadcast, watch, and interact around video. Last year, he and team sp...

Sprint still hasn't launched their new LTE network yet, but if a new announcement about a LTE-capable handsey is any indication, they're getting pretty close. Though the existence of a Sprint-bound Ga...

At the end of October, Urban Airship, the startup that gives developers a simple way to build in-app purchases and push notifications into their mobile apps, acquired SimpleGeo for a reported $3.5 mil...

In response to being sued by Yahoo for patent infringement last month, Facebook today filed counter-claims against Yahoo for infringing 10 of its own patents. Facebook says the following Yahoo feature...

It looks like there are some big challenges ahead for mobile advertising, as the industry faces increasing scrutiny from the federal regulators, and as Apple phases out the UDIDs used by advertisers a...

Just when iOS developers had thought they had heard of every UDID replacement mechanism out there, Opera Software had to go and launch its own, too. Today, the company, best known as the maker of the ...

Rumblefish, a service where consumers and businesses can easily license music for their online videos, says that its catalog now has more than 1 million songs, making it the largest licensing catalog ...

If you're familiar with Jonathan Heiliger's work, it's probably because you used Facebook sometime in the last five years. He was the person in charge of keeping the site online as it grew from 35 mil...

Sexism and racism in Silicon Valley. It's a debate that doesn't seem to want to die. On one side are those who believe that Silicon Valley is a genuine meritocracy; on the other, are those who are dee...

Last week, our writer Devin Coldewey wrote a 3,000-word essay on Google+. It got 114 comments. Comment numbers are a wildly inaccurate metric for popularity in general - some posts get 100 commen...

Though the health industry has, in many respects, been slow to adopt new web and mobile technologies, it seems we may finally have reached a tipping point. This is perhaps best demonstrated by Manhatt...

The folks at RIM can see the writing on the wall theyve historically enjoyed plenty of enterprise love, but the recent bring your own device trend means headaches not only for RIM, but for the compan...

Morning guys! It's going to be a bright, bright, bright sunshine-y day for Android users, namely because photo-sharing darling Instagram is now available in the Android Market. If you want to hurry up...

Live video streaming website Ustream today is launching an integration with Facebook's new Timeline user interface. This means that users will be able to share the live videos they're watching on Ustr...

Morning guys! It's going to be a bright, bright, bright sunshine-y day for Android users, namely because photo-sharing darling Instagram is now available in the Android Market. If you want to hurry up...

The Linux Foundation provides a vendor neutral home for long-term collaboration on the Linux kernel. They provide Linux creator Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linus' right-hand man, the opport...

While there have been a few sizable funding rounds for location-based mobile games, the field is still wide open. Today it gets a new contender with The Tap Lab, a Cambridge-based startup and alum of ...

AmazonWireless.com, Amazon's dedicated shopping site for cell phone and tablet buyers, is finally exiting beta today, following its launch in July of 2009. The change in status may mean nothing to reg...

Shazam has long been described as magic. You hear a song perhaps a brand new one or maybe one that you've heard a million times but never knew the name of and all you do is simply tap one button and...

1000Memories, the startup behind the ShoeBox iPhone application, which lets you "scan" old photographs and post them online using your mobile phone's camera, is now introducing a new feature to help y...

Well, I suppose it was bound to happen. Just one day before HTC and Sprint kick off their so-called collaboration event in New York City, the team at PocketNow has gotten their hands on what they clai...

As Facebook has continued its rapid rise, one thing it has not been able to shake off are questions over how it deals with user data and privacy. That issue is getting revisited again today in Europe,...

Back in the olden days of gaming, it was either feast or famine. You had simple, kiddie stuff like Super Mario Brothers or you had Flight Simulator, a game that included a manual thicker than the Chic...

White label gamification platform BigDoor has raised $5 million in new funding led by existing investor Foundry Group, bringing BigDoors total funding to $13 million.BigDoor's gamification platform es...

One-hundred million views, 100 thousand subscribers, and brands still don't have special tools for still customizing their YouTube channels. That changes today as social marketing platform Buddy Media...

Goodsie, a startup founded by the parent company of Flavors.me, wants to provide a simple, and relatively inexpensive way for any merchant to set up an e-commerce storefront. The platform, which launc...

RR Donnelly isn't a name you see very often in TechCrunch, but companies don't survive for nearly 150 years without having one eye trained on the future. With 2011 revenues at an estimated $10.6 billi...

If you're a fan of Grant Imahara, Will Wheaton, Jenna Busch, or Sean Plott, this may be just the trick. Wheaton and Felicia Day have created a new series called Tabletop which consists of a series of ...

An interesting new startup bubbling since it exhibited at TechCrunch 50 in the startup battlefield last year is Phonedeck. Effectively, it's created the cloud-based desktop for the mobile phone. That ...

Come one, come all! Come build the iPhone 5!In a conversation with TV Tokyo, a Foxconn recruiter mentions that the company is hiring more workers right now to prep for the iPhone 5 launch. "It seems l...

People love Dropbox and similar services, but companies -- especially large enterprises in regulated industries -- have an understandable aversion to file sync services: they allow company data on ser...

It looks like Berlin, famously described by the city mayor as "poor but sexy", is now quite a bit less poor in the realm of early stage tech startup financing. Earlybird Venture Capital has announced ...

Social media sites like Twitter and Facebook are becoming increasingly strong marketing platforms, and, eventually, we should start to see more metrics that show how effective all those likes, shares ...

When social networking companies myYearbook and Quepasa merged last year, myYearbook CEO Geoff Cook told employees that his goal was to "build an enduring, global brand for meeting new people." That's...

A new startup, YouDazzle, is taking on the file sharing space today with the launch of its cloud-based collaboration, storage and online meeting platform. The company has also announced a round of see...

Eighteen months ago, it looked like the location wars were over. Foursquare had just closed a $20 million Series B round and rivals like Gowalla, Loopt and Brightkite weren't having the same buzz or t...

This is a guest post by Monty Munford. Last week I found myself in a Sports Bar in London's West End. I was standing next to a couple being interviewed by Middle Eastern TV news channel Al-Jazeera who...

Dropcam is back with its second and most advanced security camera. Introduced back at CES 2012, the Dropcam HD is finally ready to ship and delivered within 5-7 business days. It's quite a good bargin...

When we interviewed Ray Anderson, the CEO of mobile payments company Bango last month and asked him when we would see one of its key customers, Amazon, roll out its own mobile payment service, his coo...

When we interviewed Ray Anderson, the CEO of mobile payments company Bango last month and asked him when we would see one of its key customers, Amazon, roll out its own mobile payment service, his coo...

More developments for Pinterest co-founder Paul Sciarra, who we reported yesterday was leaving Pinterest as Ben Silbermann officially took helm as CEO. Sciarra is going VC and joining Andreessen Horow...

Pop quiz! How much is spent on making Television shows in the US annually? It's $300 billion or there-abouts. That's a lot of video. Petabytes of data and more. Next question! How are all those shows ...

It's not an unfamiliar story: There's a niche market, which despite its relatively large size, goes unnoticed by most entrepreneurs and investors, because, simply put, it's not sexy. For this and coun...

It's not an unfamiliar story: There's a niche market, which despite its relatively large size, goes unnoticed by most entrepreneurs and investors, because, simply put, it's not sexy. For this and coun...

Dragonplay, a free-to-play social games developer for Android and Facebook, has raised $14 million Series A funding from Accel Partners, Founder Collective and Entre Capital. The Israeli company was f...

Manta, an online community dedicated entirely to small business, has raised $44 million in funding from Norwest Venture Partners. This brings the company's total funding to $61 million. With this inve...

The startups that presented at Y Combinator's Demo Day last week were remarkable in their own right, but perhaps the most striking thing was the sheer number of them.With 66 companies and 180 founders...

If your company shows up in both the organic and paid search results of a given search term, is that a good thing? Or a waste of money? That's something that Google itself has been researching, and to...

As a wave of new hopefuls enter the online travel market using social media elements to stand out from the pack, two sites that focus on vacation rental accommodation, Roomorama and Lofty, are merging...

Increasingly VC firms are functioning as one-stop-shops for all your starting up needs; Some have dubbed this the Andreessen-ification of venture, where the definition of investment becomes more about...

Why do so many great companies fail? Professor Clay Christensen of the Harvard Business School argued they fail because of something he called The Innovator's Dilemma - a term he popularized to descri...

Back in early February, Path met with some serious backlash when Arun Thampi revealed that the social app was uploading address book data without explicit permission from its users. Path responded by ...

1DollarScan the service that offers to digitize books and documents for as little as, yes, $1 is now promising an improved experience through a service called Fine Tune.The company is a subsidiary o...

Google has had a few teething problems with its ambitious mobile payments service Google Wallet, but it is also putting some money down to get it on the right track. Today the company announced that i...

Google has had a few teething problems with its ambitious mobile payments service Google Wallet, but it is also putting some money down to get it on the right track. Today the company announced that i...

The increasing ubiquity of compact, portable video recording devices has given rise to a burgeoning set of amateur videographers. Whether filming a friend's aerial tricks in the half pipe, recording a...

We've learned that Ivan Koon, the CEO of cloud collaboration company YouSendIt, will be stepping down from the company. We've confirmed this with YouSendIt. A replacement has not been named, and Koon,...

Arizona's legislature has passed some proposed amendments on Section 13-3916 of the State Statutes. The law has to do with stalking and harassment, and originally defined telephone harassment — ...

When you publish on Tumblr, you can now auto-share your post to the Facebook News Feed and feature it prominently on your Timeline. More Facebook referral traffic will be the result of these improveme...

There are few more iconic figures in the digital community than Stewart Brand, the effervescent founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, The Well, The Long Now Foundation and the guy who almost single-hand...

DataSift, a data analysis company that provides developers and third parties with access to Twitter, Facebook and other social data sources, is teaming up with NewsCred to allow clients to perform dee...

The Lumia 900 is a special device in that it's the beginning of a shift. At least, that's what Microsoft and Nokia are hoping for. Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam said in September that a third mobile platf...

Well, big changes on the horizon for Pinterest!We've confirmed with our own independent sources Startup Grind'sreportthat Pinterest co-founder Paul Sciarra is leaving the company. And it's complicated...

As much as many companies want to think that they are your one-stop-shop for data storage, the reality is that if you're like most people, you probably have your electronic files spread across a handf...

A Tel Aviv startup, WalkMe, aims to do for your website what your UX team should have already done: make it easier for your users to understand. The service creates little pop-up bubbles over various ...

Giving free devices away is something of a time-honored tradition when it comes to getting people interested into your platform. Weve seen Google do it, weve seen Microsoft do it, and now at a confere...

A little bit of news from Nielsen that flew under the radar a few days ago hints at big things ahead for the measurement firm and its goals of understanding user behavior across all platforms. The com...

Here we go! After a bit of back and forth, I've decided to run the TCVA mini-meetups in DC-Norfolk-Richmond order. We have some sponsors on tap and hopefully we can have a good time and get the word o...

In the annals of celebrities investing in tech startups, this one's looking especially smart. Bono and The Edge, the singer and lead guitarist of Irish rock band U2, got into Dropbox's $250 million se...

Facebook rolled out an update this morning that adds support for the new iPad's Retina display to its iPad application. According to the release notes in iTunes, users with the new iPad will now see "...

Thanks to online pinboard's Pinterest's fast growth, many retail sites are placing "Pin It" buttons next to items for sale as a sharing mechanism. Flash sales giant Gilt is taking the whole Pinning tr...

Bizo, a company offering technology to help advertisers reach a business audience, has raised $10 million in a Series B round of funding.The company has now raised a total of $20 million. Crosslink Ca...

Have you ever wanted to take a picture of a purse and figure out where to buy it instantly? Probably not, but now you can.Serge has built a mobile search engine that uses voice, music, vision, barcode...

What happens when you put some of the biggest names in the Japanese wireless industry in the same room to work up a plan to develop some home-grown mobile chipsets? The answer is, apparently, not much...

It looks like IPOs were up significantly in the first quarter of this year, while M&A dipped for venture-backed companies. Dow Jones VentureSource is releasing a new report this morning indicating...

Consumer Reports, clearly moving on from whoring pageviews over heatgate, just planted the new iPad at the top of its recommended tablet chart. Citing the great screen, 5MP camera, and fast, dependabl...

It's hard being a hacker's darling. Pastebin is a dox dumping site - as well as a useful tool for programmers and writers who want to share a piece of text or store it for later - and it is facing wha...

Ever since I met the Songza guys at New York Tech Meetup, I've wanted to learn more about the app. It's the first music service that I've been excited to use, mostly because it removes the work entire...

Today's PSA is brought to you by the letter L. What word starts with L? Linen! If you've ever used Google Docs, you'll recall that the interface is wildly ugly. Well no longer. Using a plugin and a ni...

It's on like Donkey Kong. Nokia is back and ready to take on the big dogs. Several Nokia TV adverts started airing last night that doesn't dance around the prime targets. Nope, Nokia's latest ad campa...

If you're unfamiliar with 2tor, this may do the trick. Today, the education startup is announcing that it has closed a $26 million Series D round of financing, led by The Hellman Company and Silicon V...

Dell has just announced the acquisition of cloud client computing company Wyse Technology to expand its desktop virtualization offerings. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.The Wyse portfo...

There may be millions of people or more following and commenting on a brand, but how can it find the ones worth reaching out to? That's the question that Dachis Group is trying to answer with a new pr...

Another big milestone for Apple, and yet another sign of how competitors are going to have to raise the bar yet again: the new iPad is proving to be highest-rated yet of the three tablets released so ...

Maybe even dating sites deserve to find a special someone at one point in their lives... it looks like Badoo, the UK-based dating site, has joined forces with rival Hotornot.The two have yet to issue ...

Maybe even dating sites deserve to find a special someone at one point in their lives... it looks like Badoo, the UK-based dating site, has joined forces with rival Hotornot.The two have yet to issue ...

Viral channels are slowly and inevitably starting to matter for mobile game developers. For ages, many top developers would try and climb up the charts through a combination of mobile advertising, off...

Tandem Entrepreneurs, for those unfamiliar, is a Silicon Valley-based mobile startup accelerator. It's somewhat unusual, in that there's no demo day, or set graduation date, and it encourages its foun...

As the cost of a college education continues to rise, a startup called SoFi is offering a way for alumni to offer students financial assistance and more.Co-founder and CEO Mike Cagney describes the cu...

On Friday, we heard the news that payments processor Global Payments was hit with a massive security breach involving MasterCard and Visa cardholders. At the time it was unclear the reach of the secur...

It's hard to tell if the Wikipedia article on April Fools' Dayis itself an April Fools' prank. Tidbits of the ubiquitous holiday's history seem like jokes in and of themselves;""In France and Italy, c...

When my wife and I travel, we rarely stay in hotels. We usually either stay in hostels or apartments. The apartments are usually found and booked onAirbnb. Were big fans of the service, and think its ...

Editors Note: This guest post is written by Uzi Shmilovici, CEO and founder of Future Simple, the company behind Base CRM.In 1919, Walter Gropius founded in Germany the Bauhaus, a school for engineeri...

The dawn of subscription commerce has spawned a number of startups in technology including BirchBox, Kiwi Crate, Babbaco and many others. Citrus Lane is one of the latest startups to tackle the model,...

Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Tyler Rooney, a co-founder of online portfolio startup, 4ormat.Its not every day that you start a business and quickly decide to say no to 70 percent of your pot...

Lets face it there are too many camera and photo sharing apps out there, and not enough time in the day to give each one of them a try. If youve been mulling over which camera app deserves your love ...

Editors Note: This guest post is written by Doug Pepper, who is a General Partner at InterWest Partners where he invests in SaaS, mobile, consumer internet and digital media companies. He blogs at dou...

In 2010, Techcrunch broke the news that Facebook was going to release a "Like" button for the whole darn Internet. Now, TechCrunch has learned Facebook is considering a "Hate" button as well.According...

Happy April 1st, Everybody! It's that very special time of year -- the day when tech companies break out their clown shoes to make their annual attempt at being funny. As a public service, we've round...

In its new Enemies of the Internet report, the international watchdog group Reporters Without Borders depicts an Internet under unprecedented pressure from the worlds autocratic regimes. The study lis...

Portfolio is a word that Silicon Valley loves. Venture firms have portfolios of startups, web designers have portfolios of their work and even public relations agencies have a portfolio of clients. No...

Its time to abolish the reference check. The unpleasant process of calling up a job applicants former boss to gab about the candidates pluses and deltas is just silly. Maybe if we all just agree to st...

After a highly visible meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook, Foxconn's founder Terry Gou announced plans to open a sprawling Foxconn factory in Guthrie Center, Iowa, essentially replacing the approximately...

Londons claim to being the hub for tech startups in Europe got a boost last week, when Google opened the doors of its latest effort, Google Campus, a seven-story centre for startups, which it has laun...

Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin has expressed interest in retiring "in a year or so" to take up the intense study of blues guitar, sources inside Google say. The decision places the company at a crossro...

Escape.Yes, that's it, escape, that's whole secret right there. Some say "entertainment" but I believe that is merely asubset of escape, as an experience. And to be clear, I do agree that people choos...

Some great news for small business owners, and perhaps a sign of more crowdsourced funding coming to the U.S. soon: the UK startup Funding Circle -- a Kickstarter for small businesses -- has just anno...

Some great news for small business owners, and perhaps a sign of more crowdsourced funding coming to the U.S. soon: the UK startup Funding Circle -- a Kickstarter for small businesses -- has just anno...

Girls Around Me is a perfect storm of everything too many people find creepy about the new mobile age. Download an app to your iPhone, link up your Facebook account and Girls Around Me will find girls...

The rise of smart, multi-screen streaming media is fundamentally changing the TV experience. This year, for the first time ever, Americans will watch more movies over the Internet than on physical med...

It's been about a month sincePhoto Hack Day 2, and I've recovered sufficiently from my hackathon hangover a very legitimate ailment, though less literal than a SXSW one to put some coherent thoughts ...

As the dust settles after Zynga's purchase of New York mobile social game developer OMGPOP, the company is visibly taking on a new shape. A 25% larger and more mobile one.That's the percentage growth ...

Have you been searching for a place to live in San Francisco lately?Youre not the only one thinking @$#%&! on a daily basis.Forget the speculation about a tech bubble.This is a real estate bubble....

Who throws a party in Palo Alto?!Well actually ... Today Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, Talent House, Super Happy Dev House and the City of Palo Alto itself have joined forces to give nerds a pl...

We know that many of you visit TechCrunch on the regular for a hearty dose of startup coverage, general tech news and opinionated coverage of the tech zeitgeist. But we also know that the trainwreck p...

It's the eve of WrestleMania 28, and I got a chance to meet with Dwayne The Rock Johnson. What does that have to do with tech? Well, in the video interview, Johnson shares his thoughts on how social m...

Assuming that each of us has a picture of the real world superhero we want to become someday, then the optimal way to level up and reach that goal begins with the ability to measure and score our live...

We know that many of you visit TechCrunch on the regular for a hearty dose of startup coverage, general tech news and opinionated coverage of the tech zeitgeist. But we also know that the trainwreck p...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Rob La Gesse, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor rode out of Dodge and straight into an ambush. Well, no, but in service of the OverAggregator Lord here are...

I'd like to be an optimist, like Matt Burns. I really would. Like Research In Motion itself, I was born and raised in Waterloo, Ontario. Like its former co-CEO Mike Lazaridis, I studied electrical eng...

In part II of his Founder Stories interview with hostChris Dixon, Kayak.coms co-founder Paul Englishdiscusses why job applicants will be hard pressed to find job postings on Kayak.com,relays the lesso...

In last weeks Get Rich or Die Trying article, I mentioned that tech is a zero-sum, winner takes all game. A reader objected, arguing: I think that may be an inappropriate use of the term zero-sum - on...

Editors note:James Altucheris an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He is Managing Director of Formula Capital and has written 6 books on investing. His latest books are I Was Blind But N...

I would normally rather have a root canal instead of write about the issue of women in technology. I just find most essays on this really tedious and obvious. (Sorry Alexia.)But I do want to point one...

Photos and video can be even more personal than a handwritten card. That's why Hallmark has just acquired SpiritClips, an online video production and streaming service that also makes personalized dig...

Cult of Mac has a great write-up of an app for iOS called Girls Around Me, which essentially displays check-ins and public profiles of girls around you. With a little shift in context it could easily ...

Daily deals site Groupon today issued a pretty significant revision of the financial results it previously reported for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2011. According to the company, it actu...

With Evinar, you can't bring audience members onto a live streaming stage with you, but you can broadcast anything else. Evinar is a new Facebook Page app launching today via TechCrunch that lets you ...

This year was supposed to be the year of the Ultrabook. It was supposed to be the year where svelte notebooks became standard. It was supposed to be the year that Intel's latest ultra-mobile platform ...

Twitter has taken Tweetdeck offline after an apparent bug has possibly given some Tweetdeck users access to others’ accounts. A Tweetdeck user in Australia, Geoff Evanson, says he discovered tod...

Twitter has taken its Tweetdeck app offline after an apparent bug has possibly given some Tweetdeck users access to others' accounts. A Tweetdeck user in Sydney, Australia, Geoff Evanson, says he disc...

Twitter has taken its Tweetdeck app offline after an apparent bug has possibly given some Tweetdeck users access to others' accounts. A Tweetdeck user in Sydney, Australia, Geoff Evanson, says he disc...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marksw, Rob La Gesse, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live at 1pm PT....