Articles by Techcrunch from June 2012

Lytro Founder Ren Ng has announced that he's stepping down as CEO and will be transitioning into the company's Executive Chairman effective immediately. Charles Chi, the current Executive Chairman, ha...

Google is making a serious push with NFC on Android. As we detailed last night, Android product management director Hugo Barra revealed yesterday that Google is now shipping 1 million NFC-equipped dev...

YouTube's comment section isn't exactly known for being a hotbed of in-depth intellectual conversations. One of the reasons for this, some would argue, is the fact that YouTube still lets people post ...

Can't decide what shoes to buy? Or what book to read next? AdMob founder and former CEO Omar Hamoui is launching a new startup called Maybe to help with your decision.Last month, Hamoui told me that h...

Can't decide what shoes to buy? Or what book to read next? AdMob founder and former CEO Omar Hamoui is launching a new startup called Maybe to help with your decision.Last month, Hamoui told me that h...

Back when Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich was first introduced in Hong Kong last year plenty of us jaded tech folk took a shine to its new Face Unlock feature, which allows users to unlock their device...

StyleSeat, the "OpenTable for hair stylists" backed byFounders Fund, 500 Startups, Ashton Kutcher, and others (including a who's who ofangel investors), is today launching a service called "New Client...

It's been an interesting day for a developing market which seems so utterly niche as to be untrue. There really are startups out there linking recipes to supermarket so you can just buy the food you n...

Over the past year, YouTube has been busy with outreach to its community of independent creators through its YouTube Next program. The idea is to identify the next big YouTube stars and to provide the...

Google is announcing a big addition to Google Analytics today Mobile App Analytics.As with the social media-focused reports launched earlier this year, the interest in mobile analytics is obvious if...

Nike has been quietly transforming itself from an apparel company to an apparel company that builds sensors into everything... blending man and machine so that we'll all be able to track our every mov...

Mio made some fairly cool heart-rate watches a few years ago but they required you to place a finger on two little pads while running in order to take the measurements. It was interesting, and when yo...

Craftsvilla, a Mumbai-based startup that wants to become the "Etsy of Asia," is announcing it has received a $1.5 million in new funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Nexus Venture Partners in ...

A new chapter today for Rutube, the YouTube of Russia: the user-generated video site, long competing against YouTube in its home market and losing, has redesigned and is now turning itself into more o...

It's been a few months since Orbotixs pearlescent smart ball finally started making its way out into the real world, and the team behind it has just announced that another major retailer will be carry...

If this rumor is true - and it certainly sounds true - then HP and other OEMs are about to pull the plug on their own Windows on ARM RT (WART) devices thanks to Microsoft essentially beating them to m...

There's been a lot of talk about how mobile video applications are poised to break out and become mainstream over the next few years, as users take advantage of the cameras they have in their pockets ...

There's been a lot of talk about how mobile video applications are poised to break out and become mainstream over the next few years, as users take advantage of the cameras they have in their pockets ...

Earlier this month Yahoo! became officially DMARC compliant. That's supposed to mean your Yahoo! email inbox should be heavily armoured against phishing attacks and spam. The Domain-Based Message Auth...

Google+ Events, Google's alternative to services like Evite or Facebook's Events, was announced at this week's Google I/O conference. And it immediately went viral...but not in good way. You see,...

Some may think the end is nigh for email -- with services like Facebook coming to replace it as a one-stop communications hub for consumers -- but going by the numbers out today from SendGrid, the ema...

udid/">scrambled to find a replacement for UDIDs, according to Fiksu.Unique device ID numbers were a way that Apple used to tag users by their devices. This was a foolproof way to make sure networ...

Crowdfunding has become a big industry, as people are increasingly seeking ways to finance new creative projects and technology ideas. But one crowdfunding startup is focusing more on helping people r...

For whatever reason, the Nexus 7 tablet lacks a rear-facing camera. This makes Google's tablet incompatible with many Android camera apps including Instagram, a fact Asus recently confirmed to The Inq...

After yesterday's $400 million share buyback, some more news today from our owners, AOL: it's reorganizing into three operating units, plus a separate one for corporate support of all three: they will...

Last week we were alerted to an interesting tweak that had appeared in the Apple App Store: searches for apps were suddenly ranking results higher by user ratings and app descriptions, rather than the...

This is a guest post by Mehrunisa Qayyum, a consultant on the Middle East / North Africa region, founder of PitaPolicy and Huffington Post Blogger."Heres a mobile app that rates the restaurant/bar/cl...

A while back we wrote about a flaw in Groupon's email link encryption, which revealed the emails of some Groupon users when "addx" was added into a Google search of Groupon's site. We've been alerted ...

Google I/O is in full swing, and news has been pouring out at a fairly steady pace: Tony Stark Sergey finally demoed Google Glass, Google Drive passed 10 million users and is available on iOS, and we ...

In early 2011 SwipeGood graduated from the winter class of top-tier startup incubator program Y Combinator, and it went on to land $500,000 in seed funding from a reputable group of angel investors. B...

Despite the fact that Google has been slowly launching more APIs for Google+, don't expect the company to launch a full read/write API anytime soon. During a Google+ platform fireside chat a...

Google today launched Chrome for iOS and it's now available in the App Store. Don't get too excited, though. While it's a nice enough browser, it's hobbled by Apple's rules for third-part developers a...

Collaborative consumption-- generally, marketplaces for buying and selling access to products and services -- have been defined recently by startups likeTaskRabbit and Zaarlyfor tasks, or short-term r...

I feel like we're watching Google TV roll by and off into a nearby ditch. The company doesn't have much dedication to the platform and, like Apple TV, GTV is failing to gain traction.As Ryan notes, ou...

Google won the Internet by pulling off a truly impressive Google Glass skydiving stunt, twice, during their I/O event. Skydivers in wingsuits 4,000 feet above San Francisco delivered the high tech gl...

Bob Mansfield, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, will retire this summer after 13 years with the company. The company announced the news in a press release today.It's a major depa...

"Oh you know Johnny? Then let's get naughty." Whether it's for one night or forever, we're more likely to choose mates who have Facebook friends in common with us. This comes according to a new study ...

It's been a bleak call, thus far. We just heard on RIM's Q1 2013 earnings call that the Waterloo-based company only shipped 7.8 million smartphones this quarter, which is down 30 percent from 11.1 mil...

It's no secret that Americans could lose a few pounds. I'm not calling them fat per se, but let's just say that Hans and Franz are pretty busy these days. In January, GymPact launched a website and iP...

Today on RIM's Q1 2013 conference call, CEO Thorsten Heins admitted that "this was a challenging quarter for the company," but announced 78 million subscribers with "churn remaining high." He admitted...

RIM has just released their Q1 2013 financials, and theyre about as bleak as the company expected. The Canadian company reported a net GAAP loss of $518 million (which breaks down to $0.99/share dilut...

As a fat, lazy blogger, I find myself often buying clothes online only to discover that XXL for a designer in Spain is basically a XXS for babies in America. The resulting shape and return fees were e...

Social TV startup Peel is at the Google I/O developers conference today, showing off an upcoming Google TV integration called AllPlay TV.VP of Marketing Scott Ellis demonstrated AllPlay TV for me earl...

As promised at this morning's Google I/O conference, Google has launched a version of its Google Drive application on iOS today, which offers native support for the service formerly known as Google Do...

Google is launching Chrome for iOS today. Many pundits assumed that Google was holding back Chrome from iOS because it couldn't use its own rendering engine, however, Google just told us that Chrome w...

Over 80 percent of people seek health-related information online, on everything from insurance to help diagnosing aches and pains. As the world goes mobile, so too does health. Instead of using Google...

The United States Supreme Court today voted to uphold the Affordable Care Act (informally referred to as ObamaCare), the health care reform movement that will require nearly all Americans to have heal...

Heading into Google I/O, there was one thing that confused me: Sony and Vizio announced new Google TV products a few days before the annual developer conference. Which I thought was pretty silly, beca...

Google+ is obviously a major focus for Google these days, but until now, the company hasn't really focused on extending the Google platform beyond its own services and its +1 buttons. Now, h...

Add one more company to the ranks of hopefuls that want to own the space where dongles and mobiles are used for card-based payments. mPowa, a UK-based startup, is launching in the U.S. today with a so...

Editor's Note:TechCrunchcolumnistSemil Shahis based in Palo Alto. You can follow him on Twitter@semil"In the Studio" enters the summer months by inviting a former YouTube and Google product engineer, ...

Google just gave away a Chromebox, the desktop version of the company's Chromebook laptops, to all Google I/O attendees. Besides being a venue for Google's most spectacular launches (and jumps), Googl...

Something strange happened this week with Wakemate, a Y-Combinator-funded project that was a tech world high flyer for a while. The product, a wrist strap that sensed your movement during sleep and os...

Google just announced that its Chromebooks will hit 100 Best Buy stores across the U.S. at its I/O developer conference today, and that's just the start. The company also announced that it plans to ex...

Google has spent the last decade building a huge amount of infrastructure to support its own services and applications. Now anyone will be able to take advantage of all that investment, as Google is r...

Google has just announced over 10 million users that have signed into Google Drive, Google's new cloud-syncing storage platform. The product only launched in April of this year, so this is quite the m...

Today at Google io. Clay Bevor, director of product management for Google Apps, announced that Google Docs will now work for offline editing. Brevor proved it by opening a Google Doc via Google Drive ...

Google announced that Gmail now has 425 Million users at its annual Google I/O developer conference today. It's being used by government agencies in 45 states and 66 of the top 100 universities in the...

Gluster was founded in 2005 to productize their eponymous global distributed filesystem, GlusterFS. As an all-software solution for storing immense quantities of distributed and replicated data, it qu...

Today at Google I/O, the company announced that it is launching a new version of its Chrome browser, which will be available for iPhone and iPad users. The new app should be on the Apple App Store tod...

At its annual Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco today, Google announced that Chrome now has 310 million active users. Google's Sundar Pichai also noted that globally, Chrome is now the ...

Cloud-based computer-aided design (CAD) collaboration tool Sunglass, which debuted at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC in May, is today officially announcing its public launch and is unveiling a new API for dir...

Old media, some think, is headed for the graveyard, and they'll be damned if it takes young and cool new media with it. But it ain't dead yet, and some growling comments made today by Rupert Murdoch, ...

We're in the second day of the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, and I'll be liveblogging today's keynote. Yesterday we saw an amazing (if mostly for non-technical reasons) demo of Goo...

Beijing-based Yodo1, a service that helps game developers enter the Chinese market, is today announcing it has closed $2 million in seed funding from Chang You Fund. The round was led by Chang You Fun...

As someone who doesn't know a two-by-four from a 4X4, I usually depend on the Internet for home improvement tips. For example, did you know you're not supposed to flush dental floss? I didn't discover...

Take that, conventional wisdom! The oddball Google Nexus Q is made in the good ol' US of A, proving that electronics can be assembled outside of China.This fun little tidbit wasn't mentioned during th...

We've heard previous reports that North Korea was building their own PCs, but a more recent report out of the South Korean Dong-a Ilbo newspaper suggests that a tablet may also be in the works. It's u...

CoFoundersLab,a matchmaking service for startup founders along the same lines asFounderDating, but which previously served different markets, is expanding through the acquisition of two competitors. T...

Its bigger brothers have long since made their debut in the U.S., and now the smallest member of HTC's One series is joining them. HTC's pint-sized (relatively speaking) One V is now available for all...

SendHub, themessaging startup that allows businesses to communicate with customers through SMS, is expanding its service today to now include support for voice calls and voicemail. These new features ...

Video startup Blip has spent the last several years helping independent creators to distribute and monetize their videos across the web. But like YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and others, it sees a ...

Its been a surprisingly busy week for Android browser makers a redesigned version of Firefox for Android graduated from beta, as did Googles mobile version of Chrome, and now the folks behind Dolphin...

Amazon is said to be working on the next version of the Kindle Fire with more premium materials, including some type of metal casing. But perhaps even better (depending on your size preferences), the ...

Google I/O 2012 is in full swing. Google Glass is huge, the Nexus 7 is real, and with the Nexus Q, Google is betting big on the ecosystem. And that was just from the first day! There are two more days...

Google Now, the smart personal search assistant announced yesterday at Google I/O, has now come online. Well, the landing page for the service has come online, that is. The new site introduces the key...

The reinvigorated competition in the browser market over the last few years has definitely been a boon for users, but having a number of browsers with very high user numbers makes life a bit harder fo...

Skimlinks provides content magnetisation for publishers that turns product references into affiliate links - and famously was a recent partner with Pinterest. We spoke to founder Alicia Navarro during...

Extole is announcing a new version of its marketing platform today. The big new feature: "Social expressions" that integrate with the Facebook Open Graph.Founder and CEO Brad Klaus says that the new s...

Scott Cook started Intuit in 1983, and since then he and the company have overcome quite a few obstacles. He watched as mobile became a dominant channel in people's lives, found ways to penetrate emer...

AOL (also known as the company that signs TechCrunch's paychecks) has announced this morning it has started a "Dutch auction" tender offer to buy back shares of its common stock, up to $400 million. T...

Last week, Facebook staked out its claim as a prime destination for people looking for this summer's Olympics coverage online. Today, the BBC threw its hat into the social media ring, too -- it's putt...

MuckerLab, the up and coming L.A.-based startup accelerator program, today announced that it is partnering with Mozilla's WebFWD accelerator to create a joint acceleration program for open source entr...

In a move that shocked absolutely no one, Google's Hugo Barra announced at the end of the first I/O keynote that attendees would receive a little prize pack as thanks for their support. Goodies includ...

It was 40 years ago yesterday that Atari's Nolan Bushnell taught the world to play. Bushnell, an engineer and game programmer, built and sold Atari in the late 1970s, ushering in the era of the video ...

Finding potential job candidates through existing employees and their networks is probably as old as the labor market itself, but in the age of social networking, the process can be made much more eff...

"To be honest, it was awful", says ShareMyPlaylists founder Kieron Donoghue on the company's previous Android effort, which today gets a much needed reboot.The new app brings many of the Spotify commu...

Practice Fusion is the frontrunner in the fevered race to becomethe electronic medical record platform, and today it finished raising a $34 million Series C led by hedge fund Artis Venturesto make sur...

Practice Fusion is the frontrunner in the fevered race to becomethe electronic medical record platform, and today it finished raising a $34 million Series C led by hedge fund Artis Venturesto make sur...

Eric van der Kleij is to depart his post as CEO of the UK's Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO) after his two year contract comes to an end this Summer. The TCIO was set up by the UK government t...

DogVacay launched in March this year as an Airbnb for dogs -- offering owners an alternative to soul-less kennels and expensive dog sitting services for when they need to leave town and leave their po...

DogVacay launched in March this year as an Airbnb for dogs -- offering owners an alternative to soul-less kennels and expensive dog sitting services for when they need to leave town and leave their po...

Angel investing may be hot, but it looks like things are not too shabby for the tech industry's most powerful late-stage venture capital firms either. Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) is announcin...

With the growth of more location-based mobile apps, there is some inevitable shakedown, too: the latest of these is that check-in serviceForecastwill be shutting down its app and website, effective Ju...

NFC, the technology that can help turn a mobile handset into an instant, superpower payment device, has been long on promise but largely short on delivery. But today, the France Telecom-owned mobile o...

In 1995, long before Tom Cruise was waving his hands around in now eerily true-to-life vision of the future that was "Minority Report," another science fiction drama was also painting a picture of the...

There's no love lost between Android and Apple users, or at least among the fanboys and fangirls. The flamewar between the passionate adopters of the top two mobile operating systems has persisted for...

Qualcomm announced an upgrade to their Vuforia Augmented Reality platform on Wednesday. Vuforia is a platform that focuses on using images as the "targets" to launch an AR experience, rather than requ...

In response to Facebook's ever-expanding social universe and the success of mobile-focused networks like Instagram, Dave Morin and company have turned Path into a more personal, mobile-centric social ...

In response to Facebook's ever-expanding social universe and the success of mobile-focused networks like Instagram, Dave Morin and company have turned Path into a more personal, mobile-centric social ...

Over the last few years one could easily say that Google had lost their way. They were no longer known for search. Somehow they'd turned into a company that acquired a series of nonsensical entities, ...

Blue Jeans Network, a video conferencing company founded by a serial entrepreneur who has sold two companies to Cisco, is adding another $25 million to its coffers from NEA, Accel and Norwest Venture ...

FindTheBest, the startup led by DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor, has built charts comparing everything from financial advisors to dog breeds to smartphones. And now that those charts can be embedde...

Yesterday the WSJ outlined how Yahoo's new, interim CEO Ross Levinsohn is taking the company back to its earlier roots of focusing on advertising around its media properties. The last 24 hours indicat...

Yesterday the WSJ outlined how Yahoo's new, interim CEO Ross Levinsohn is taking the company back to its earlier roots of focusing on advertising around its media properties, which collectively see 16...

It's Day One of Google I/O, and the company set out to prove that it's not just about software and algorithms and whatnot, introducing a neat set of hardware devices that are available -- or will be s...

Ads, not payments, are the future of Facebook monetizing mobile, but it needs content to show them beside. The new Follow action announced today could deliver that content by letting you follow someon...

Ads, not payments, are the future of Facebook monetizing mobile, but it needs content to show them beside. The new Follow action announced today could deliver that content by letting you follow someon...

By simply owning small humans that are ultra-dependent and oftentimes unruly, moms have an incredibly tough job. But after you pile on all the little things — soccer practices, ballet recitals, ...

In the land of tech, we bloggers rarely if ever have to step in front of the camera. But now that Google has launched Google Glass into the world, the camera has turned on us in a fit of rage. Welcome...

While people were skydiving into I/O, Google quietly made a massively important announcement about a new feature called Google+ History, which gives apps an API to auto-share content to a private...

A few weeks ago, Google hosted a last-minute press conference in San Francisco to announce its new, highly detailed 3D maps. While many of us expected the company to actually launch the maps then, Goo...

At TechCrunch we like to get the rest of the story. That's why we go in-depth, hard-hitting, and close to the ground. Nowhere is that clearer than in this hardcore, hardball, and soft cheese interview...

Outside of approved Googlers, a handful of folks have just been given a canned demo of Google Glass, including myself. I'm living in the future and the future is now!...

Outside of approved Googlers, a handful of folks have just been given a canned demo of Google Glass, including myself. I'm living in the future and the future is now!...

All Googled out yet? I can't blame you if you are, but it seems that the company has been even busier than their two hour press conference let on. In addition to pushing the Android version of their C...

Businesses using Google Apps should have an easier time managing complex tasks starting today with the launch of Kissflow from startup OrangeScape it's supposedly the first workflow-creator that's "d...

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.Built specifically for Google Play consumption, the Nexus 7 tablet built by Asus seems to be Google's answer to both the iPad and Kindle Fire. So how does...

TechCrunch has been throwing an annual summer party at August Capital since 2006, the point at which Michael Arrington realized it had gotten too big for his Atherton back yard. And this year we're do...

Google just announced that its Chrome for Android browser is now out of beta and available for download on Google Play. This new version, with the memorable version number of 18.0.1025123, marks the f...

Earlier today we posted a story about what appeared to be a new direction for the New York Times: a Chinese-language news site, and a blogging account with Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitte...

Sprint's version of the Galaxy S III has been a bit delayed due to some supply shortages, but the carrier has just confirmed that the Galaxy S III will be available in store on July 1. Pre-orders for ...

Today Google announced the latest version of its mobile operating system: Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. It's an incremental upgrade — a number of valuable features have been added, but there's no real...

Google Glass is real and will soon be shipping. Sergey Brin just took the stage at Google I/O, won the Internet with an amazing skydiving demo of the device and then announced that Google Glass is ava...

Google Glass is real and will soon be shipping. Sergey Brin just took the stage at Google I/O, won the Internet with an amazing skydiving demo of the device and then announced that Google Glass is ava...

Well, that was unexpected. Google's Sergey Brin just stepped on stage at Moscone West to deliver a demo of Google Glass, and it involves a Google+ hangout conducted via their connected eyewear. O...

Well, that was unexpected. Google's Sergey Brin just stepped on stage at Moscone West to deliver a demo of Google Glass, and it involves a Google+ hangout conducted via their connected eyewear. O...

Today at Google I/O Google announced it has 250 million total users, 175 million monthly users, and 75 million daily users. It released an Android tablet version too, and an iPad version is coming soo...

The Google Play store already had thousands of movies for rental, as well as millions of songs from major labels available for purchase. It also had a pretty extensive collection of e-books -- the lar...

Android users are about to get access to real-time notifications and data through a cool-looking new feature called Google Now. It's part of the new features in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean unveiled this ...

Android users are about to get access to real-time notifications and data through a cool-looking new feature called Google Now. It's one of the new features in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean unveiled this mor...

Today at Google I/O, Google announced Smart App Updates for mobile so users only have download changes to an APK, not an entire app over again to update. Smart App Updates are just 1/3 the size of a n...

Today at Google I/O, Google announced Smart App Updates for mobile so users only have download changes to an APK, not an entire app over again to update. Smart App Updates are just 1/3 the size of a n...

When Gilt Groupe first reached out to tell TechCrunch about their brand new iPad app for their Gilt Taste vertical, we were suitably skeptical over whether it was really necessary that we cover it. Gi...

Some well-timed research out from NPD, just in time for Google gearing up for its I/O event, where it is announcing news about Google TV, new wireless devices and Android. The researchers say that TV ...

Some big numbers for Google's Android platform out of the company's developer conference today in San Francisco: Android has seen 400 million device activations and is adding 1 million per day. That's...

Google I/O just kicked off at Moscone West in San Francisco, and it wasnt long at all before Google's Hugo Barra steered topic of conversation turned to the latest version of Googles mobile operating ...

Google I/O just kicked off at Moscone West in San Francisco, and it wasnt long at all before Google's Hugo Barra pulled the curtains back on the latest version of Googles mobile operating system: Andr...

Google is kicking off its annual Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco with its traditional keynote. Even though I/O is mostly a developer event, with many in-depth technical discussions sc...

And like that, Google is officially in the tablet hardware business. Google is mere minutes away from kicking off it's yearly I/O conference and perhaps the biggest news of the show, the announcement ...

Google is getting into the hardware game, and not just with its purchase of handset and set-top box maker Motorola. The company is announcing today the launch of its first Android@Home product, the N...

Hello, bezel.Google is set to kick off it's yearly developer's conference in less than 30 minutes. Big things are expected including the announcement of Google's long-rumored Nexus tablet. Well, here ...

Mobile shopping appshopkickis announcing a partnership with MasterCard today which will allow cardholders to earn "kicks" (shopkicks' in-app rewards) by linking their card with shopkick's Buy & Co...

Skillpages is 'one place on the web' to find skilled people. The idea is that you find people who can do jobs for you that you share a mutual friend with, or perhaps worked at the same company or went...

Does the world really need another visual bookmarking service? After all, we already have Pinterest and all of its clones. Clipix, however, believes that it has found a way to differentiate itself fro...

Rafter, a new edtech company formed from the rebranding of popular textbook rental service (and Chegg competitor) BookRenter, announced its first-ever strategic acquisition this morning. The lucky acq...

Well, it appears to be mobile payments day here at TechCrunch. When it rains, it pours, right? Another announcement hitting the wires today comes from global mobile payments startup Kuapay, which has ...

A number of companies have tried to crack the problem of having an app at a business conference which allows you to connect to the people around you, see the agenda and make business connections. So i...

Email. Everybody hates it but no tech company has figured out how to replace its old post-office metaphor with something more intuitive for the modern world. But Asana, the high-profile task managemen...

As companies from small startups to large enterprise continue to generate an ever-increasing amount of data, the demand for affordable and scalable databases also increases. Typically, this market has...

Google I/O is nearly upon us, and all signs point to Google revealing a tablet later today. The device leaked and then over the last few hours several high-level sources confirmed the device's existen...

Fitness tracking service Endomondo first launched back in 2008, and it seems they haven't stopped picking up steam since then. The team has just announced on the company's official blog that their ser...

Today, mobile payments startupSquareis rolling out what the company says is the most heavily-requested feature by its merchants to date: user permissions. What this means is that business owners will ...

We've seen some notable developments around mobile payments that turn handsets effectively into credit cards, credit card processors, reward point aggregators, and more. A new product out today could ...

RevelSystems, an iPad point-of-sale company backed by $3.7 million in funding, is today introducing a new hardware product designed to take the place of an Ethernet router. The "Revel Router," as the ...

[Insert distasteful joke here regarding Windows Phone 7 lack of upgrade path to WinPhone 8] Athens saw daylight a little earlier than normal today. At approximately 4:45 AM local time, arsonists ramme...

Solum, a startup building tools for a more data-driven approach to agriculture, has raised $17 million in Series B funding.The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, and partner John O'Farrell will be ...

As the premier spot online for listing and booking short-term housing accommodations, Airbnb has already seen huge growth since being founded in 2008. It announced just last week that it had hit 10 mi...

Nowadays nearly everyone has a mobile device with a video and still camera on it, and nearly everyone puts the best of that media to the Internet, whether it be to post photos to Flickr or Facebook, o...

Last July, a new talent agency called Big Frame emerged to help YouTube stars increase their audiences and better monetize the videos that they were creating, and quickly signed up some of the most-wa...

Last July, a new talent agency called Big Frame emerged to help YouTube stars increase their audiences and better monetize the videos that they were creating, and quickly signed up some of the most-wa...

Looks like The New York Times' groundbreaking, paywalled deal with Flipboardwas yesterday's news: today comes another development for the Grey Lady and how she is working hard to leverage social media...

Looks like The New York Times' groundbreaking, paywalled deal with Flipboardwas yesterday's news: today comes another development for the Grey Lady and how she is working hard to leverage social media...

Did you know that the word iPhoneographyhas its own Wikipedia entry? Me neither (look quick before it gets deleted).It's the art of creating photos with an Apple iPhone, apparently -- a phenomenon tha...

As is customary, Google has erected a giant statue earlier today on the grounds of its Mountain View headquarters that represents the latest version of Android: version 4.1 Jelly Bean, which is expect...

You may not think much about the links that punctuate nearly every piece of online content (including this one), but Pete Sheinbaum, the founder and CEO of a new startup called LinkSmart, says they pr...

General Assembly, the New York-based education startup that offers classes and mingling space to tech developers and entrepreneurs, today officially opens its doors on its new London campus -- marking...

General Assembly, the New York-based education startup that offers classes and mingling space to tech developers and entrepreneurs, today officially opens its doors on its new London campus -- marking...

After Formspring's recent pivot away from the personal end of the social Q&A space, you'd be forgiven for thinking that there's little growth left in this narcissistic of all mediums. But if Europ...

In a bid to capitalise on what it says is a period of "accelerated growth", eBuddy, the Dutch web and mobile messaging company, has appointed Sytse Zuidema as its new Chief Operations Officer, where h...

We know that Apple has been making a killing from the iPhone, with the device reigning as the single-most popular smartphone in a number of markets -- despite Android-based handsets collectively havin...

Last year I saw an amazing demonstration. Psykopaint was a web app, but no ordinary web app. This was an incredible photo-editing site which allowed users to turn their photos into "painted" works of ...

Last year I saw an amazing demonstration. Psykopaint was a web app, but no ordinary web app. This was an incredible photo-editing site which allowed users to turn their photos into "painted" works of ...

Gartner estimates that more than 10 percent of small businesses have been the victim of theft and/or fraud, with losses totaling more than $2 billion. That's because small businesses are more or less...

Video platform provider Kaltura might pitch itself as providing an open-source video distribution offering, which would allow anyone to build their own enterprise video site for free. But increasingly...

It's a familiar scenario for small business owners: You want your business to have a mobile presence, ideally native on Android and iOS, but you don't want to pay a developer an armload to build that ...

They really are doing face-lifts younger and younger these days. It was just eight months ago in October 2011 when we first met Snip.it, a San Francisco-based startup that has created a web applicatio...

Well it looks like Google just can't wait for the start of its Developer Conference tomorrow to begin sharing news. It's been a while since we've seen any development of the company's now ubiquitous "...

I just got out of a meeting at SRI International, where representatives from both SRI and international banking group BBVA showed off something they've been working on for the past couple of years.Cur...

Forget Yammer, forget Asana. In April, Y Combinator grad Siasto launched a streamlined project management solution for teams and small businesses that syncs with Google Apps and allows users to create...

Here's an interesting twist for Yahoo, the beleaguered internet company, and Spotify, the upstart streaming music service that is taking the market by storm: today the two have announced a global deal...

The Samsung Galaxy S III is the phone you've been waiting for (per our review), and you may be waiting a bit longer due to some slight shortages on GSIII supply, but luckily this extended version of t...

We're all a bit tired of the "X is Twilio for Y" brand of analogies (though it's refreshing to see more of Twilio in this equation than Airbnb these days), but if ever there were an industry in need o...

For most of us, our cell phones are now a convenient way to get online while we're on the go (or on the couch). According to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life project, however, 17% ...

It's been a super tough few months for Zynga and internal morale at the company. After Facebook's lackluster IPO and the lock-up period for employees broke, Zynga shares have slipped more than 30 perc...

CPU fans have a certain steampunkian quality to them. They're loud, annoying, and collect all sorts of debris as they run, whirring endlessly and eventually failing. This new heatsink - more like an i...

Zynga's chief mobile officer David Ko said that the company has reached 22 million daily active users on mobile. If you consider that Zynga has about 53 million daily active users on Facebook, it's a ...

The inimitable Horace Dediu has run the numbers and it's clear: Apple is great at retail and, over the past five years, the company created 35,852 retail jobs. NYT hit pieces notwithstanding, it's cle...

Zynga said it is boosting support for synchronous multiplayer tournaments in its games. The company's starting with its recent arcade title Bubble Safari, which is a Match 3-type puzzle game where pla...

It wasnt long after the iOS 6 developer beta first started hitting devices that people started noticing something peculiar about its iTunes app the iTunes U, Audiobooks, and Podcast sections had disa...

Big news out of Zynga HQ. The company is building what it calls a "social lobby" for all players to meet and play across all social networks and platforms. What this appears to mean is that you'll be ...

Big news out of Zynga HQ today. The company is launching what it calls a "social lobby" for all players to meet and play across all social networks and platforms, broadly called the "Zynga With Friend...

We're here at Zynga's big press event today at the company's headquarters in San Francisco. Mark Pincus is on stage, sharing a few new stats about the company -- with more news to come about game laun...

The TC Southeast Mini Meetup Tour is mere weeks away, and we're in the final stages of preparation. This is set to be our biggest meetup tour yet, hitting five cities over the course of a week, and wi...

Celtra, which offers tools for creating rich media mobile ads, is launching version 3 of its AdCreator today. Co-founder and Chief Product Officer Matevz Klanjsek claims this isn't just an incremental...

We're so over PowerPoint presentations, right? Well, that's the common refrain, at least. And we haven't even been super-enthused about the new-fangled PowerPoint alternatives in a while - not since c...

It's a time of transition for Anybots, the 11-year-old Silicon Valley company which makes remote-controlled robots that are meant to serve as "mobile telepresence systems." Trevor Blackwell, who serve...

Yesterday, we heard that the New York Times was partnering with Flipboard to make its content available to its own paying customers on a new platform. Today, Flipboard competitor Pulse is launching it...

EdgeCast Networks has quietly emerged as a major competitor in the content delivery network (CDN) market, signing up big ISPs as partners and giving industry heavyweights Akamai and Limelight a run fo...

Founded in 2010, New York City-based startup Jirafe set out with a simple mission: Help eCommerce store managers turn their digital storefronts into viable, thriving businesses. To do so, in the long ...

Following a big redesign of the Chartbeat's real-time analytics service, CEO Tony Haile says the company has returned its attention to providing features that are specifically useful for online publis...

The online and mobile payments markets have seen a number of disruptions -- from slashing fees for processing to turning mobile handsets into card processing devices -- but many of those efforts have ...

New York City-based CasaHop aims to be the go-to place for home swapping on the web, and it's signed up a pretty impressive lineup of investors. The company just raised a $1.2 million seed round led b...

MeMeTales, a super-cute (and guilt-free!) children's books application arrives on Android today, following its iOS release and public debut at 500 Startups' demo day last October.Originallyfrom Seattl...

Comedian Louis C.K. is using the Internet to his advantage by selling tickets to his upcoming shows online, cutting out the ticket sales systems entirely. He's also implementing a system to cancel sca...

Owners of the Nook Tablet and Nook Color (plus Android tablets with the Nook app) will now be able to catch up on the adventures of Superman, Batman, Sandman, and other characters published by DC Ente...

Klip is one of those mobile video-sharing apps -- you know, the ones that let you take a video with your phone and upload it to an app to share it with people who have the app. And then, if it's reall...

Murphy's Law -- or some jaded users might just call it Yammer's law: One day after Yammer announced that it got bought by Microsoft for $1.2 billion, the enterprise social networking site has gone dow...

Murphy's Law -- or some jaded users might just call it Yammer's law: One day after Yammer announced that it got bought by Microsoft for $1.2 billion, the enterprise social networking site has gone dow...

Murphy's Law -- or some jaded users might just call it Yammer's law: One day after Yammer announced that it got bought by Microsoft for $1.2 billion, the enterprise social networking site went down. I...

Microsoft revealed Windows Phone 7.8 last week. The system update got a bit of stage time details were still a bit lite. The Windows Phone team posted the video above and it should clear up some confu...

ZTE isn't a name we hear a lot over in the States, but the company plans to change all that. Head of mobile strategy Ryu Chienhao claims that ZTE plans on selling 35 million smartphones this year, wit...

Charity: Water has become something of a phenomenon in recent years. We spoke to founder Scott Harrison about the unusual amount of support he's gotten from the tech community, in part due to entrepre...

New Relic, one of a number of startups that have emerged in the last 5 years to address the costly, patchwork BS of old-school enterprise monitoring solutions, gives developers an easy, cloud-based wa...

ZooZ, an in-app mobile payment system that supports credit cards, PayPal and carrier billing, just made a move that will introduce its service to 10,000 different merchants. The company is partnering ...

When Mozilla first pushed their latest beta version of Firefox into the Google Play Store last month, it raised a few eyebrows thanks to its dramatic redesign and its claims of "significant" performan...

When Mozilla first pushed their latest beta version of Firefox into the Google Play Store last month, it raised a few eyebrows thanks to its dramatic redesign and its claims of "significant" performan...

Wallaby, which is launching its beta today, reminds me a bit of banking startup Simple. Just like Simple automatically manages your finances for you and automatically shuffles your money between the m...

The market for 'panic alarm' apps on smartphones is littered with simple apps which just make a lot of noise if you get attacked but not much else. This is a mistake. Smartphones have cameras, microph...

The market for 'panic alarm' apps on smartphones is littered with simple apps which just make a lot of noise if you get attacked, but not much else. This is a mistake.Smartphones have cameras, microph...

Last week'sannouncement from Facebookabout the new ability for app developers to integrate a hidden, built-in "like" button in their mobile applications seemed to fly under the radar. Not that it wasn...

Huddle, the company that makes enterprise cloud collaboration software for the enterprise, this morning rolled out its first-ever native iPad app. Huddle for iPad has the features you've probably come...

It was just a year ago that video distribution specialist Brightcove announced it was entering a new market, with a cloud-based product for quickly building multiplatform mobile applications called Ap...

You need a ride, someone else has a car and could use the cash, SideCar is the app that will bring you together. New instant peer-to-peer rideshare-finding app SideCar turns anyone into an Uber driver...

Watch out, Sony, Vizio is chasing your tail. Just yesterday Sony revealed its latest Google TV hardware, a $199 remake of the company's first GTV products. And now today, Vizio took to the wires and a...

Over the last several years, Taboola has quietly emerged to offer video recommendations on a number of top publisher websites in the U.S. Now it's setting its sites on international growth and a whole...

Nara is a small startup with big ambitions. The company, which is coming out of stealth mode today, aims to "automate, personalize and curate the Web." Nara's Boston-based team, which consists of a he...

Kred today launches "Rewards" so you can win discounts and product samples if you get retweeted and Liked enough. That doesn't mean you should TRY to get retweeted or Liked more, but now there's at le...

Science, the eight-month-old LA-based technology incubator / studio that brought us the Dollar Shave Club and most recently e-commerce site Uncovet, is making its first acquisition: it is buying Pinpu...

Credictive is out to show all the invisible people behind all the content you see online - perhaps it could be be called the platform for the "end credits" of the Internet? The YC-backed startup is he...

Atomico, the technology investment firm founded by Niklas Zennstrm (a co-founder of Skype) has been deploying its funds in Europe for some time now, and most recently Zennstrm was taking an interest i...

Atomico, the technology investment firm founded by Niklas Zennstrm (a co-founder of Skype) has been deploying its funds in Europe for some time now, and most recently Zennstrm was taking an interest i...

With Europe preparing for a big vote next week on ACTA, the sweeping online copyright and counterfeit trade treaty, today the UK regulator Ofcom set out a proposal for how large ISPs in this country (...

[tc_5min code="517398699"]Scopely will be a mobile social gaming company creating a platform for games developers to market their works. We spoke to the 18-year-old Sujay Tyle during the F.ounders co...

In all the talk of cloud computing, Cliqr Technologies CEO Gaurav Manglik says there's one area of enterprise technology that's been sitting out the transition business applications. The cloud has le...

Pride got high tech this weekend as thousands of employees from Google, Facebook, Electronic Arts, Zynga, and more celebrated to support equal rights for everyone. Parades in San Francisco and New Yor...

Anthony Coombs is CEO of Interact and a passionate Philly tech booster who helped us gather a great group of people last week to our Mini Meet Up. I took him into a dark quiet corner to talk about his...

Online customer service company Zendesk is announcing a new feature that could help its customers achieve their global ambitions.Specifically, Zendesk is announcing 11 fully localized versions of its ...

[tc_5min code="517398783"]Dylan Collins of Fight My Monster spoke to us as the recent F.ounders conference in New York to explain why he think Fight My Monster is becoming a hit with the 1.3 million y...

StrikeAd, a startup that helps advertisers and agencies manage their mobile campaigns, has raised another $500,000 in funding.The round is an addition to the $3 million Series A led by DFJ Esprit that...

Like so many things that go on to have big success, Yammer, the enterprise social networking company that was just officially acquired by Microsoft for a cool $1.2 billion, had an inauspicious start. ...

The VoD service Netflix has been leading a charge for consumers to watch more on-demand, digital video -- with its service aggregating TV and film content from a number of media players now attracting...

"Explore: photos taken nearby".Instagram may be looking to follow in Foursquare's footsteps andgive you more to do than just post and browse the main feedwith today's iOS app update that merges Popula...

A dozen years ago, when I went from techno-dilettante to technophile, one of my living heroes was Jon maddog Hall, the 61-year-old writer for Linux Magazine and an early proponent for free and open so...

Thinkfuse, a Seattle-based startup that allows companies to send regular progress reports to managers, executives and other stakeholders, just announced that it has been acquired by Salesforce.com. Th...

So much for that! Just as quietly and quickly as Facebook had put "Find Friends Nearby" online on Sunday, the service seems to be no longer there. A visit to the mobile web page is blank, and a click ...

We now have more information about the changes to Apple's App Store search algorithm, thanks to a blog post from Ian Sefferman at MobileDevHQ.TechCrunch broke the news about the change on Saturday , b...

We now have more information about the changes to Apple's App Store search algorithm, thanks to a blog post from Ian Sefferman at MobileDevHQ.TechCrunch broke the news about the change on Saturday , b...

When Microsoft announced their intentions to jump into the hardware space with the unveiling of their new Surface tablet, the next logical question seemed to be whether or not the folks at Redmond wou...

In an attempt to improve email address privacy, Facebook has screwed up big time in what seems like a self-serving attempt to increase usage of @facebook.com email addresses that direct to your Facebo...

Chances are, you have quite a bit of data on your favorite cloud storage service by now. But with the recent changes in this space, especially with Google and Microsoft making a push to compete with s...

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's four-year chief operating officer, has a new role -- board member. She will have her own vote in all company matters, Facebook confirms. Board members of the public company...

It's all but confirmed. We've seen plenty of evidence over the past few months, including an image of one, but today we've spotted some interesting new press shots of what appears to be T-Mobile's Sam...

A couple years ago, a few Stanford grad students and former Yahoo and Powerset data scientists got together and created a personal search history plug-in and engine called Infoaxe that would surface b...

With Google and Apple making back-to-back announcements about their new mapping efforts in the last few weeks, Microsoft obviously felt a bit left out. Today, however, the company is launching its lar...

Googles Gmail for iOS app had a bit of a rough start when it first went live last year (and by rough start I mean it was pretty bad), and the search giant has been pushing out update after update sinc...

Microsoft just announced it has indeed acquired Yammer, the four-year-old social networking company for enterprises, for $1.2 billion in cash.The announcement confirms weeks of very credibly-sourced r...

While the name may be a bit unruly, TalkFavorites.me is a rating system for the best stuff near you. There are no reviews to AstroTurf, no business details to mess up, and no horribly-written screeds ...

It seems like schools are the one market where Google is having some success with its Chromebook initiative. Today, the company announced that there are now 500 school districts in the U.S. and Europe...

Looked for an apartment lately? It sucked, right? You showed up and you had to fill out an application and submit all sorts of stupid paperwork -- credit check, proof of employment, utility invoice (a...

"Well after the point that Facebook's valuation passed $1B, Mark still lived in a small, crappy apartment and slept on a mattress on the floor. All he really cared about was work and he spent most of ...

Back when Box launched its OneCloud platform for enterprise mobile apps back in March, VP of Platform Engineering Chris Yeh says that virtually all of the user comments boiled down to a single questio...

Habbo Hotel, the under-21 social networking site that was forced to close down earlier this month after it was revealed that people were using it to send sexual and other illicit messages to underage ...

To say that RIM has a lot riding on their new BlackBerry 10 platform is a hell of an understatement, but to date the company has generally kept quiet on what consumers can expect from their first Blac...

The rst quarter of 2012 saw smartphone shipments to China surpassshipments to the U.S. for the rst time, but which devices are people in China actually using? We take a look, using data about Chinese ...

It's always nice to plop down to a big bowl of hot dog food and read about how the company you work for (ostensibly and/or on paper) squandered one of the most recognizable brands in PC history. As yo...

After a moment of brief availability on Samsung's Kies desktop software, AT&T recently pulled the Android 4.0 update for the Samsung Galaxy S II. But it would appear that the dark days are over, a...

The same guys who built the Pinterest analytics service Pintics spent the weekend at the AngelHack Hackathon in Palo Alto working on another Pinterest-related project. This time around, the result is ...

In an attempt to watch their development, I've been keeping tabs on a small Columbus OH startup called Cannon.fm. I first talked with them several weeks ago before their product launch, and have been ...

Not all social network connections are created equal. My networks on Facebook and LinkedIn certainly include plenty of real friends and colleagues, but they're mixed in with people I met once at a con...

FastPay, a startup offering credit lines to digital media companies, says it has raised $25 million in new funding.That may sound like a weirdly specific business model, but founder and CEO Jed Simon ...

Going mobile may be the mantra for a lot of tech companies these days, but if they're in the business of targeting teenagers with their services, perhaps they should think twice: over 37 percent of te...

Despite the fact that the Galaxy S III supply is rather low at the moment, Samsung's mobile boss JK Shin predicts that Galaxy S III sales will exceed 10 million in July. Neither the Samsung Galaxy S I...

In a world where limits go down and pricing goes up, there's nothing better than free connectivity. Boingo Wireless, in collaboration with Google Offers, is bringing free WiFi to over 200 locations in...

After investments in digital health doubled from 2009 to 2011, the torrid pace of growth has continued in the first half of 2012. Rock Health's founder Halle Tecco stated why they released a report at...

Ankur Shah was a co-founder of the Techlightenment company which was acquired by Experian, the credit reporting service. But he's now onto new and interesting things. That project now breaks cover as ...

LoveYourLarder, which wants to be the UK "Etsy for foodies", has launched a revenue share scheme for publishers so that they can earn money by linking to relevant products, thus supporting the smaller...

Amazon-owned Lovefilm, which competes with Netflix in the UK, has signed a multi-year content deal with Twentieth Century Fox giving Lovefilm's UK members streaming access to recent and forthcoming mo...

Amazon-owned Lovefilm, which competes with Netflix in the UK, has signed a multi-year content deal with Twentieth Century Fox, giving Lovefilm's UK members streaming access to recent and forthcoming m...

BNDWGN, a new app from the makers of free texting serviceHeyWire, is launching what's being called a "content messenger" service. The app is a combination of private friend-to-friend(s) chat and socia...

Fuckers I am so sick of reporting on incremental tech news for fucking two years now, so sick I'm pretty much considering reverting fulltime to fashion coverage (Don't believe me? Well, how amazing an...

Fuckers I am so sick of reporting on incremental tech news for fucking two years now, so sick I'm pretty much considering reverting full-time to fashion coverage (Don't believe me? Well, how amazing a...

At TEDx Edinburgh today, the BBC reports, mathematician Max Little today launched a new project that uses a speaker's voice to help diagnose Parkinson's disease. Parkinson's, which is a devastating pr...

It is an exciting time for early stage technology company building and venture capital. Despite some early bumps in Facebooks recent IPO (my thoughts here), we are seeing something of a return in the ...

Mozilla's Firefox 13 launched earlier this month and the latest version of the popular browser introduced a number of new features, including support for Google's SPDY protocol and a new homescreen an...

The internet is an incredibly powerful tool, but it's also a very dangerous place. Because of this, children with autism and other disabilities often can't leverage the power of the web, which is a pl...

There is certainly no shortage of startup incubators and accelerators these days, but Silicon Valley's Upwest Labs is doing something especially unique. Upwest, which got off the ground in January, fo...

Back at the Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt New York this year, we discovered an awesome Israel-based startup called Brayola, which uses bras that ladies already own to help them find perfect-fitt...

With just a few days to go before Google's annual I/O developer conference kicks off on Wednesday, it's time to take a look back at last year's event. Besides announcing Ice Cream Sandwich, Google Mus...

When asked what is the biggest difference between Los Angeles and Silicon Valley accelerators, five from LA told me they're more focused on startups that don't take years to start monetizing. Leaders ...

If youre in business, you cant ignore China. The economy is booming and it is the manufacturing capital of the world. In the last six years as founder and CEO of Kogan, Ive travelled to China countles...

Its been a long time since Sony released a smartphone in the U.S. market that had a chance of hitting it off with customers too many of their recent releases have either been meant for niche markets ...

Facebook has created a new feature that lets users find friends and potential friends nearby. Called "Friendshake" (for now), it's another step in Facebook furthering its reach into mobile, and creati...

Facebook has created a new feature that lets users find friends and potential friends nearby. CurrentlyInitially called "Friendshake" and also accessible through a URL that is the abbreviation of "fin...

When Im not writing for TechCrunch, my day job is working with healthcare providers the disruptive innovators who are reinventing healthcare and slaying the healthcare cost beast as a byproduct. In so...

Right now, someone is tinkering with a billion dollar secret -- they just dont know it yet. What people arent telling you, Peter Thiel taught his class at Stanford, can very often give you great insig...

In a surprising move this week, with just a short post on their Developer Blog, Facebook has ended their three-year experi ment with the virtual currency of Facebook Credits.Credits will be phased out...

Back in May, Josh James, the co-founder of analytics company Omniture and now CEO of business intelligence startup Domo, announced an eyebrow-raising idea: He was kicking off an eight-week initiative ...

I love me some subscription commerce. Whether it be getting new underwear sent to me in the mail, or having someone pick out shirts for me, I love the idea of paying a flat fee and having shit just sh...

A lot has been written about the real estate turf war between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Most point out that many of the developers these companies target live in the city. The nightlife, walka...

If you're headed away this summer, leave the Knut behind to keep and eye on things. This small, Wi-Fi-capable widget can transmit various measurements to your iPhone anywhere in the world.The Knut is ...

Apple made some significant changes to the search algorithm in the App Store, at least according to some app developers. If you're a developer or publisher counting on a well-chosen name to help with ...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor found plenty to write home about in Microsoft's Surface tablets and Windows 8 rewrite of the Windows plat...

Today's Google Doodle is a working Turing machine that contains six puzzles. Sophia Foster-Dimino on Google's Doodle team built the app in honor of Alan Turing's 100th birthday.What's a Turing machine...

I wanted to have 100,000 Facebook fans for my blog. I dont have a product to sell. Im not trying to get advertisers on my blog. Im not even trying to get more speaking gigs because of my blog. But I b...

Suppose you dropped your phone -- a real fall, like from the second story -- and it broke. You're picking up the pieces, cursing and trying to think of the last time you backed up your contacts, when ...

What's wrong with this picture? It's 2012, cheap broadband is ubiquitous in the developed world, and TV still isn't dead. In fact it's thriving. Sure, for the first time ever, Nielsen says more people...

I like Joe Fernandez a lot, more than I like most people. He's a true entrepreneur and badass, asking specifically to be onstage with me at LeWebLondon because he knew that I had serious misgivings ab...

It was only a matter of time before healthcare providers would start prescribing mHealth apps as soon as they proved to be as or more effective than prescription drugs. Happtique, a mobile health appl...

Unikey Technologies, a company made known by ABC's Shark Tank, is raising $1.1M through a private offering according to an SEC filing. This would add additional non-debt funds to the company's coffers...

Unikey Technologies, a company made known by ABC's Shark Tank, has raised $1.1 million according to an SEC filing. This would add additional non-debt funds to the company's funding, which also include...

Facebook is finally working closely with Apple -- on iOS 6 -- but it's also hiring away some of its design talent. The latest is Chris Weeldreyer, who has just left his position as a user interface de...

Facebook is finally working closely with Apple -- on iOS 6 -- but it's also hiring away some of its design talent. The latest is Chris Weeldreyer, who has just left his position as a user interface de...

Because investors sure are. Facebook's share price jumped up 3.8% to $33.05 today on news that it's now showing its ads on Zynga.com in a revenue sharing partnership. Most amazingly, neither the press...

It's been years since I've had to look for an apartment, but in that time multiple friends have sung the praises of PadMapper (TechCrunch alumnus Greg Kumparak is a fan too). Usually, they describe it...

Tesla Motors, the electric car company founded by PalPal founder and all-around tech industry badass Elon Musk, today began shipments of the Model S, the electricity-powered sedan it first unveiled ba...

Here's another chance for one lucky reader to win tickets to this year's Disrupt in San Francisco! Congratulations to last week's winner, Stephen Hsu. Last week, we asked everyone to let us know who t...

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

Gillmor Gang Live - Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Recording has concluded....

As a father it's amazingly hard to play video games. First, I'm not good at them anymore - try practicing sniping n00bs when you're trying to feed a 3-year-old something other than Goldfish crackers -...

Public airwaves may be one step closer to becoming an indecent wasteland of swearing, nudity, and violencea victory for First Amendment-lovers everywhere. Yesterday, the Supreme Court unanimously thre...

Zappos left San Francisco way back in 2004, and since then it has become closely associated with its new home in Nevada in fact, CEO Tony Hsieh is working to revitalize downtown Las Vegas, in part by...

Google employee and creator of XML, Tim Bray, has proposed a new error message for the web. Rather than hiding censored websites behind a generic 403 error - "the server understood the request, but is...

Pro tip: Don't let the following happen to your PR pitch/intern.So I know this is a particularly egregious case of "pot calling the kettle black" (I personally am a Black Belt in typos) but, instead o...

Ever since Google introduced limits to how often developers could ping its popular Maps API for free and started charging developers for usage above these limits, we've seen a slew of prominent develo...

There's a "Recommend Me" feature on LinkedIn which I'm sure many readers of TechCrunch will be aware of, having been asked multiple times for references by their contacts. But what if you took that co...

A month ago, mobile delivery startup Postmates publicly launched its 'Get It Now' on-demand courier service in San Francisco, allowing its users to order pretty much anything from various stores and r...

CloudCar, a startup still in stealth mode that was the subject of rumors earlier this month when Robert Scoble reported that Andy Rubin would leave his job at Google to join it, has filed a Form D wit...

We've seen a lot of innovation in the education technology space lately, but we haven't seen many new learning platforms that give developers the tools to build their own apps yet. With Cerego Labs, t...

Beintoo, which has a loyalty rewards and monetization platform for mobile games, apps, and sites, has secured $5 million in Series A funding led by Italian VC firm Innogest Capital. The startup won th...

ThisLife quietly launched in 2010 as a cloud-based platform for storing and organizing all of a family's photos in a single place. But after two years of working to refine the service, husband-and-wif...

Zynga.com is now running Facebook ads and Sponsored Stories, a revenue split partnership the two companies outlined in Facebook and Zynga's S-1s over the last year. The ads appear in the Zynga right s...

Last night I went to a magical party. There was food, which is always good, and booze, better still, but neither of these integral ingredients played a part in the magic. Nerf's new N-Strike Elite lin...

Impact Engine is a newly launched venture accelerator in Chicago designed to attract both environmentally and socially-minded businesses that want to - well, you know -- make an impact on today's worl...

Its only been a few weeks since SnipSnap co-founder/CEO Ted Mann took to the Disrupt stage to talk about his super-simple coupon saving and sharing app, and now it seems the young company has already ...

ShopSocially, a social commerce startup, is formally announcing the launch of its social shopping platform and is revealing some of its early insights from its customer lineup. The company has worked ...

In a world where Pinterest is filled with wedding gear and the economic downturn has scratched "wedding planner" off of the affordable options list, it was only a matter of time before a wedding plann...

Verizons Droid RAZR and its fatter, longer-lasting brother the RAZR Maxx are fine devices, but lets face it Gingerbread is a bit passe at this point. The carrier has promised since launch that the de...

Moredays, a very pretty digital calendar/scrapbooking app has just arrived on the iPhone. The app had previously launched in iPad-only format last fall (where it was spotted in TechCrunch Disrupt SF's...

We've all been there: appearing before someone important, having to sell yourself and your ideas, in the hopes of getting a job, funding, or just a break at doing something bigger. The video below, pl...

Yandex may be seen as the anti-Google by pursuing a strategy for growing its search-portal business in Russia and adjacent countries rather than aggressively expanding worldwide, but it is using anoth...

Despite the fact that Nintendo's 3DS is an excellent hand-held console, 3DS sales haven't been on par with what the company was expecting. But perhaps Nintendo's brand new Nintendo 3DS XL will turn th...

With Square yet to enter Europe, there is an increasing amount of activity from would-be competitors looking to fill the same niche using dongles on smartphones to enable card payments. The latest com...

You know you want this thing: it's a crazy watch from Tokyoflash called the Kisai Uzumaki and it's designed to look like some sort of organic sea anemone blossoming on your wrist. The watch has an ele...

It's been a big week for Flipboard's Google-related announcements. On Tuesday, the company revealedGoogle+ integration was coming to its social magazine, and today, the app is officially launchin...

There's a new startup accelerator in town, and by town, I mean Estonia. The accelerator is called GameFounders, and it's looking to accept up to 10 gaming startups in its inaugural class.GameFounders ...

TuneIn, the popular guide to online radio stations, today announced that it has seen a 267% increase in the number of its mobile listeners over the last year. The company also announced that its liste...

No more "Arggh! Copy, delete, paste, edit, post." Facebook is now rolling out the ability to edit comments, but users will be able to see the full edit history of a thread. This is just one more featu...

Most hardcore stock traders ravenously consume as much information as possible about the companies that they invest in. That means tracking charts and trends, but also aggressively scanning finance ne...

LifeProof has made a name for itself as a maker of super rugged iPhone cases that you can take in the ocean, to the beach, or even to the top of Mt. Everest. This thing can survive in some surprising ...

Crowdsourced labor startup CrowdFlower is launching version 2.0 of its Real Time Foto Moderator today, with updates that should make RTFM more useful for apps with adult and edgy content.CrowdFlower f...

"This is epically important," tweeted Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, about a new simplified editing platform aimed at massively expanding the number of people who contribute to the online encyclope...

Location-based apps and services like Foursquare have made significant inroads among consumers in the last few years, but most of the recent developments around location-based apps have bypassed the b...

We're familiar with it all by now: the Facebook news feed, the notifications and the ticker. Plus, there have been plenty of Facebook clients, readers and iPad apps. Given all of those years of iterat...

Hot on the heels of the TechCrunch Philadelphia Mini Meetup, I can't help but look forward to what's next: a full-scale tour of the Southeast. We're hitting Savannah, Atlanta, Raleigh-Durham, Charlott...

Well isn't this interesting -- with just about five days to go until Google's I/O conference, the company may have just accidentally spilled the beans about their next big Android release. For a brief...

Well isn't this interesting -- with just about five days to go until Google's I/O conference, the company may have just accidentally spilled the beans about their next big Android release. For a brief...

We've been kiiping an eye on Kiip--a platform that replaces straight display ads with reward incentives in mobile apps to create a better level of engagement with its users -- and it looks like we mig...

We've been kiiping an eye on Kiip--a platform that replaces straight display ads with rewards and contests from brands in mobile apps to offer a less annonying experience for users -- and it looks lik...

We've been kiiping an eye on Kiip--a platform that replaces straight display ads with rewards and contests from brands in mobile apps to offer a less annonying experience for users -- and it looks lik...

"In the Studio" opens its doors this week to an entrepreneur who co-founded, built, and sold his two startups to large technology companies, then teamed up with his co-founding partner to invest their...

MinoMonsters, the Pokemon-inspired social game from Y Combinator's two youngest founders, has just shipped a major new release. With MinoMonsters 2.0, the game hasn't been so much updated, as it has b...

Drobo has just released two new drives, the svelte Dobo Mini and the beefier 5D. The Mini is a four-disk enclosure that takes 2.5 laptop drives and it can automatically set up and and format them for ...

Google engineer and Android developer advocate Trevor Johns just revealed on the companys Android Developers blog that theyre rolling out the ability to talk back to their reviewers right from the Dev...

Facebook's business model just hit a massive stumbling block, as the social network is being forced to let users opt out of having their likenesses repurposed as endorsements in Sponsored Stories ads....

Facebook's business model just hit a stumbling block, as the social network is being forced to let users opt out of having their likenesses repurposed as endorsements in Sponsored Stories ads. The req...

"Up until now, we've thought a lot about influence in terms of how big someone's microphone is," NYU Professor of Business Sinan Aral, tells TechCrunch, "A more important question is, how much does so...

Chartboost, a San Francisco-based gaming and ad platform, just poached Google Admob's head of mobile platform and partnership strategy Clay Kellogg to be its chief revenue officer.Chartboost, which wa...

Just a few weeks after completely redesigning its regular search results pages, Bing rolled out a nice update to its image search feature today. With this update, Microsoft is improving its search sug...

User design and development firm Cainkade just added a new hire to help ramp up its business. Eric Elia, the former VP of TV solutions at Brightcove, will be joining the team as president, reuniting w...

News app Taptu is adding a feature called Magic, starting with a new version of its Android app that just went live.When you name something Magic, it has a lot to live up to. In Taptu's case, the idea...

Cabulous, a San Francisco-based taxi dispatch technology startup, tells TechCrunch it has raised $8 million in new funding to scale out its service to fleets of cabs worldwide.The new funding, which s...

San Francisco is a relatively tiny city -- famously just 49 square miles -- but now its residents will have the whole city at their fingertips even more so than ever.TaskRabbit, the online marketplace...

After a year or so of stealth preparation, Livestar today launches an iOS app where you can view "trusted" recommendations. In an effort to become the one-stop-shop for everyone's recommendation needs...

The modern man is clearly embarrassed by tablet computers. It's a common trend to disguise the slate computing device as a book. I guess it affords owners an air of class and sophistication as it appe...

In what's sure to piss off most news readers and general web-perusing enthusiasts, Twitter has gone down. We've heard reports that it's been down for the last fifteen minutes, and without access to Tw...

In what's sure to piss off most news readers and general web-perusing enthusiasts, Twitter has gone down. We've heard reports that it's been down for the last fifteen minutes, and without access to Tw...

Update: 1:00 EDT -- And she's back.Update 2: 1:49 EDT -- Back down. Update 3: 3:00 EDT -- She's up again, but there's no telling how long it'll last. We've been on a roller coaster ride. Update 4: 3:...

Microsoft's Windows Phone platform may not be a huge hit with consumers just yet, but according to a new report by market analysis and strategy firm VisionMobile, it's definitely catching on with deve...

So that's how Badgeville is using some of that $25 million in funding from May. The engagement-focused startup (and former TechCrunch Disrupt participant) is today announcing the acquisition oftheGami...

NaturalMotion, which makes very photo-realistic, animated games like My Horse, just raised $11 million from Benchmark Capital and got mobile gaming veteran Mitch Lasky on its board. What makes Natural...

Ok, so this isn't news, but -- video publishers want to get their content on as many devices as possible. That means iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets, Amazon's Kindle Fire, and that's not ev...

Finding the right iPad cover is sort of a first world problem - there's plenty of choice and you just don't know what to spend your money on. I've been using a Speck case and the smart cover for a whi...

Nature Publishing Group teamed up with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology to run an augmented reality advertising campaign. Point your tablet or smartphone at the print advertiseme...

Uberlife is a mobile app that was created to help users join meetups with and get to know new, likeminded individuals. We first covered Uberlife in January when the app was still in alpha. It official...

Man, does HTC employ some loose-lipped people or what? Less than a day after Microsoft's big Windows Phone 8 preview event, The Verge managed to score some details on HTCs hardware plans for Windows P...

Smelly, underslept entrepreneurs. Every tech event these days seems to have an all-night hackathon, so that's what you get. But startups, incubators, blogs -- consider what's going down at today's Unc...

Yardsale, a mobile app to help folks sell goods to local buyers, is now available throughout the U.S., after a long, long period of testing in the San Francisco Bay Area. The latest version of the app...

HighScore House, the family-focused startup whose previous app was a "gamified" chore list tracker for iPad, has today released its latest creation: FamJam. Parents might call it an inter-family commu...

Arguments about the value of patents have heated up over the past few years. Software patents in particular have comeunderincreasingscrutinyfrom thought leaders in the start-up ecosystem, yet later-st...

Prepare to be assaulted by Samsung Galaxy S III ad spots. It's the company's biggest mobile launch of the year and the phone is rolling out to carriers right now. Samsung found great success with the ...

The swing to smartphones and more immersive experiences using apps is having a major knock-on effect with how mobile handsets now figure in our lives. The Mobile Mindset Study, a new survey from mobil...

Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop has had a hard time getting his company to jump off the 'burning platform' onto the Windows Phone ship, and in their haste to do something quick they made a crucial compromise...

Ah, there's nothing like the sweet smell of highly-anticipated app updates in the morning. As CEO David Karp promised at last week's F.ounders conference, the new version of Tumblr's iOS app has now a...

Swype recently announced the newest version of its smart keyboard, and now competitor SwiftKey is launching its new Swiftkey 3 version. This artificially intelligent keyboard predicts what you are goi...

WNYC's Radiolab has garnered plenty of acclaim since its first shows went on the air back in 2002, and now thousands of fans (including myself) tend to champ at the bit in anticipation of hearing Jad ...

Comic books have made a pretty smooth transition onto the iPad in fact, the Comixology app has become my preferred method of reading new issues. But the founders of a startup called Madefire are tryi...

Talk about convergence, eh? The Volt Buckle is described on its indiegogo fundraising page as "The world's first and only wearable mobile device wall charger." And as someone who has traveled around t...

The Samsung Galaxy S III is officially available today. T-Mobile has released the phone online and in select retail stores, while other carriers including AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and U.S. Cellular ...

iPod Nano straps have been around for a year or so now and they've been approximately exciting as tying a string to an iPod Classic and hanging it around your waist. Here's something completely differ...

CloudOn- yes, the company known best for bringing Microsoft Office to the iPad - has just closed a $16 million Series B round led byThe Social+Capital Partnership with participation from Translin...

Google, along with other major forces of our dot-com times, has played a huge part in making English the lingua franca of the Internet, but today brings news of an effort it's making to counterbalance...

In the same week that Fab snapped up UK design site Llustre and set its sights on more European expansion, some growth news from another big online fashion commerce player: KupiVIP, the Gilt Groupe of...

In the same week that Fab snapped up UK design site Llustre and set its sights on more European expansion, some growth news from another big online fashion commerce player: KupiVIP, the Gilt Groupe of...

The Lumia 900 sold me on Windows Phone. The 900 is a marriage of fresh hardware with a fun operating system. I dig the Start Screen with the Live Tiles. There are some shortcomings. The camera sucks, ...

The past few years haven't been kind to Microsoft. (There's no need to walk down memory lane. We all know what's happened.) But somehow that's all changed in the past few days. Surface and Windows Pho...

Attention teens and the adults that act like them: Facebook has added emoticons to Chaton the web. While before you could use text like :) to create a smile or even :putnam: to show a picture of an ea...

That didn't take long.Just a week after Peter Thiel's foundation announced its second class of fellows, its first one just had its first exit.James Proud, who hails from South London, just sold his co...

It's no secret that the current ratings system most online app stores use is slightly broken. Users often use them to file bug reports and request new features, but that's not exactly an efficient way...

GainSpan, a Silicon Valley company that deals in low power WiFi semiconductor technology, is looking to raise a total of $20 million in a new round of funding, according to a filing made today with th...

Anyone whos ever driven in a city can attest to the fact that its an utter pain in the rear to find somewhere to park. New York in particular is a nightmare for skittish drivers (like myself), but mob...

Fotopedia, the company best known for it's travel-focused iOS photo apps, launched its new ad model for the iPad today that will allow advertisers to buy highly targeted ads to its over 12 million use...

Do local businesses really need another social media channel for reaching consumers? Well, here's the thing: How many restaurants, bars, and other neighborhood businesses do you follow on Twitter? I d...

Eventbrite has been on a roll lately, doubling the number of events and tickets sold in 2011. Part of that growth has come through increased international usage, but most users around the world can on...

Open Gardenwas definitely one of the most interesting and ambitious startups tolaunchat TechCrunch Disrupt in New York last month. The service, which helps you share and crowdsource your mobile connec...

Podcast aggregator Stitcher has just added Stitcher Smart Station to their updated mobile app, effectively creating a recommendation engine for podcasts. The service scans 10,000 shows for content, st...

Oh what a night. The TechCrunch Mini Meetup in Philadelphia has officially come to a close, but it will surely live on in our hearts and minds. (At least for those of us who were sober enough to still...

Blumberg Capital is raising $100 million for what appears to be its third venture capital investment fund, according to documents filed today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.Blumberg ...

Although the form factor and actual size are still unknown, TechCrunch has independently verified that Apple is working on adding a 19-pin port, replacing the current 30-pin port, to the new iPhone. I...

Every developer wants Facebook referral traffic, but not all apps have actions that fit well with auto-sharing, and others might not want to post to Facebook without their users' express permission. S...

When it comes to Augmented Reality browsers on mobile devices, I always particularly liked Junaio (just one of the many AR tools created and maintained by Munich-based company Metaio). It's an especia...

Less than a year after its $1 million seed round, Yesware has closed a $4 million Series A for its productivity platform for salespeople. The new round was led by IDG Ventures and saw participation fr...

Less than a year after its $1 million seed round, Yesware has closed a $4 million Series A for its productivity platform for salespeople. The new round was led by IDG Ventures and saw participation fr...

Bromium an enterprise security and virtualization startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners is taking the stage today at the Structure conference to u...

Social ad startup Unified just announced that it has hired Calvin Lui as its president and chief strategy officer.Lui was formerly president and CEO of online ad startup Tumri. He also served as chief...

IFTTT, the service that lets you automate common tasks on the web, mostly focuses on consumer services like Dropbox, Twitter, Instagram, and Instapaper. What's missing among IFTTT's 46 supported servi...

KinderTown, the company that makes the ever-useful educational app store for parents, is rolling out a new service targeted towards app developers. KinderSights, as it's called, will offer up a series...

We talked about Cloth a few months ago when they launched. It's essentially a place to store your outfits. Did you create a beautiful, backless shirt/shiny harem pants ensemble to wear while roller-bl...

Microsoft delivered quite a blow to existing Windows Phone customers when they announced that there was no upgrade path between Windows Phone 7.5 and the forthcoming Windows Phone 8, but Nokia took th...

When Microsoft launches Windows Phone 8 this fall, hardware partners Nokia, Huawei, Samsung and HTC will be aboard to provide the goods. Each device will be powered by Qualcomm chips. Devices will com...

Tourists rave about a city's well-known restaurants and distort their review averages. So today travel site TripAdvisor starts highlighting beloved eateries from people who live nearby in Local Picks,...

Facebook appears to be testing a new feature a counter at the top of your news feed (right below the "update status" box) that tells you either that "X friends logged in recently" or "Your friends ha...

In a canned video demo, Microsoft gave an update to its speech recognition software that allows users to have a conversation with apps. Sounds like Siri, right? To be fair, Windows Phone has had speec...

With the public unveiling of Windows Phone 8 today, the question on everyone's mind is 'Will Windows Phone 7 devices be upgradeable to Windows Phone 8?' No but Microsoft is offering a somewhat accepta...

There's a growing market for mobile apps designed to help couples stay closer. The phenomenon first came to my attention with the launch of Pair at Y Combinator's most recent demo day. But since then,...

A key differentiator in Windows Phone 8 will be an updated start screen, which is an evolution of the current version with customizable tiles for greater personalization.Developing......

Rumors and reports of layoffs at RIM have been swirling around for weeks now, and now the Waterloo company has confirmed what we all expected -- they're letting people go in an effort as part of their...

BancBox, a startup that's been flying under the radar over a year, is launching its new payment services platform today. At first, you might think the most apt comparison is that of Stripe, which also...

Up until today, Microsoft hasn't publicly acknowledged the existence of Windows Phone 8 (codename Apollo). After an unfortunate leak last week and a video meant for hardware partners prior to that, a ...

Prismatic has been in invite-only mode for more than a year, but co-founder and CEO Bradford Cross says that changes today.When I met with Cross earlier this year, he said he chose that approach becau...

Digital portfolio company Pathbrite today announced that it has secured a $2.5 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Rethink Education with a strategic investment from U.S. college and ...

This is a guest post Erin Galad is CEO of social media management system tracx. He argues that social media monitoring and measurement is a booming business but merely listening to audiences is one-di...

It looks like popular walkie-talkie app Voxer is about to get some competition in the mobile voice chat space. A new app called Zello is growing like crazy, too - in fact, it's growing faster than Vox...

Datasift, the social-data platform which specialises in realtime streams, has done something which is going to make PR people quiver in their boots and journalists sit up and notice. They have turned ...

Good news for those of you who live outside the U.S. and have been waiting for Amazon to take more of its mobile products outside its home market. Amazon today officially opened its Appstoreto interna...

Good news for those of you who live outside the U.S. and have been waiting for Amazon to take more of its mobile products outside its home market. Amazon today officially opened its Appstoreto interna...

Branding Brand is an under-the-radar company whose name you might not know offhand, but whose platform powers the mobile commerce in several names you probably do know. Their client list includes bran...

Kaazing was founded in 2007 to improve real-time and interactive communications over the web. Its solution to the problem was to back a technology that would enable a "full-duplex pipe" between partic...

Waze, the impressively-funded navigation app that offers real-time traffic data collected by its users, isn't just looking to save you time on your commute. With a new feature launching today, it coul...

As the market for smartphones and tablets has exploded, so has the available mobile ad inventory, creating a huge surplus that is hard to manage. But one companys problem is anothers opportunity.Enter...

Swype lovers, Nuance has some good news for you. The company just released a major update to the predictive keyboard software, even going as far as calling this update the next generation of Swype. An...

App Annie, the app store analytics and market intelligence firm popular among both app publishers and V.C.'s alike, is rolling out a hotly anticipated new feature today: support for Google Play (aka t...

Cloud storage company Bitcasa today announced that it's now opening its beta to the public. The service, which says that it will offer its users unlimited cloud storage, is currently available for fre...

WPP today has announced a major development in its strategy to shift a bigger part of its business to digital: it is buying AKQA, one of the biggest -- and independent -- digital agencies around. WPP ...

WPP today has announced a major development in its strategy to shift have 40 percent of its business coming from digital in the next five years: it is buying AKQA, one of the biggest -- and independen...

Raimo van der Klein, founder and CEO of Layar - one of the bigger mobile augmented reality startups - is stepping down and appointing Quintin Schevernels in his place. van der Klein plans to stay on ...

Chad Hurley, the co-founder of YouTube who last year bought Delicious from Yahoothrough AVOS, today said that the purchase represents an "interesting experiment" for him and Steve Chen, his partner bo...

HotelTonight, the last-minute discounted hotels booking app, is bringing its service to the UK, with an initial service in London launching today. In addition, Heather Leisman, most recently of the tr...

During a LeWeb interview with Path's Head of Special Projects Shakil Khan, an audience member asked Khan about Path's relationship with Facebook. It just so happened that the head of Facebook's mobile...

During a LeWeb interview with Path's Head of Special Projects Shakil Khan, an audience member asked Khan about Path's relationship with Facebook. It just so happened that the head of Facebook's mobile...

In a move that borrows from the Angry Birds playbook, quite literally, Fight My Monster - the so-called Moshi for boys - has appointed licensing heavy-weights Russell Binder and Dimensional Branding G...

WorldDesk, a provider of desktop virtualisation software, has integrated with Box to make a version of its WorldDesk for You platform available on the latters cloud storage and collaboration service. ...

Banner ads have been around for over a decade, and though they may have been effective back in the mid-'90s, today they just feel like relics. You probably can't remember the last time you clicked on ...

As you may have read minutes ago here on TechCrunch, there's a brand new iPad app on the market that brings the best of the Reading Rainbow show that many of us loved so much as kids to the current ge...

Back in 2009, NPR ran a story titled "'Reading Rainbow' Reaches Its Final Chapter." At the time, that probably seemed like a reasonable headline after all, after 26 years, the beloved TV show was go...

Late last week, San Francisco and Boston-based healthtech accelerator Rock Health held demo day for its second batch of startups at Practice Fusion's headquarters. The thirteen companies pitched their...

Late last week, San Francisco and Boston-based healthtech accelerator Rock Health held demo day for its second batch of startups at Practice Fusion's headquarters. The thirteen companies pitched their...

The Samsung Galaxy S III is the Android phone of the moment and in many ways it lives up to the hype. Plenty of folks are excited to see this thing hit store shelves. Our take? They won't be disappoin...

NBC Universal is making a big push behind TV Everywhere, with plans to bring a lot more of its cable content online. The plan is to make shows from USA Network, Syfy, and Oxygen available to cable sub...

Peter Thiel may be best known for his angel investments, most notably, his legendary call with Facebook. But now he's got something for companies that sit just on the cusp between public and private m...

Viralheat is probably best-known for its social media analytics and publishing tools, but it also offers some free APIs. And at least one of those APIs, the one that analyzes sentiment, is taking off,...

Recruiting startup Interview Street is making a move onto college campuses (virtually speaking).The company helps employers recruit programmers by holding online coding contests to test their skills. ...

"I don't want to talk about whether ads are good or bad. I just want to make good ads. Good for apps, good for users." That's from Kiran Belubbi, founder and CEO of 955 Dreams which today added the mo...

Every once in a while, I'll stumble on the Twitter account of a celebrity I admire. Once I get past my moment of "OMG, it's Neil Gaiman!" (or whoever), I try to browse their tweets. Sometimes, the bro...

PayPal, the eBay-owned online payments service that is making significant inroads into mobile, is giving its website an overhaul to make it easier for its 100 million+ users to pay and get paid, ...

The Oatmeal's Matthew Inman wrote an open letter to the lawyer who has been harassing him for most of two weeks, Charles Carreon. Carreon just sued Inman as well as the World Wildlife Foundation and t...

Q&A site Formspringis today announcing what the company says is its biggest news since its original launch back in 2009. Yes, Formspring has been overhauled. The company is shifting its focus from...

Q&A site Formspringis today announcing what the company says is its biggest news since its original launch back in 2009. Yes, Formspring has been overhauled. The company is shifting its focus from...

After a late start we arrived in Philly and talked to a number of cool folks at Office Hours. Now it's time to party. Josh Zelman, Jordan Crook, Chris Velazco, and myself will be at the Field House at...

Next week, Google is holding its annual I/O developers conference in San Francisco, but that's apparently not stopping the company from making some developer-focused announcements now. With Google Dev...

Facebook is adding subscription billing for app developers, in what should help gaming and media companies earn more revenue from their most loyal users. Starting next month, developers will be able t...

For a while now, Gmail users have been able to choose between various themes to personalize their inboxes. Starting today, you will be able to add even more of a personal touch to Gmail, as Google now...

New York is an interesting place for startups. Not because they're technologically driven or that they're chasing after the Valley but because New York has something to offer everyone. It's a town fil...

Google today launched a nativeiPhone version of its Google Offers app. Unsurprisingly, the app is very similar to the Google Offers Android app, which the company launched last November. With the new ...

3D printing company Shapeways today announced that it has raised a $6.2 million Series B funding round led by New York-based Lux Capital, with participation by existing investors Union Square Ventures...

If 2012 turns out to be the year when the online privacy sector really takes off, then the "private social network", EveryMe is likely to become one of the big new stories in Silicon Valley. Formed a ...

Vungle is all about taking a unique and aggressive approach to promotion. After reading TechCrunch's post about AngelPad, Co-founders Zain Jaffer and Jack Smith bought targeted search and Facebook ads...

LocalResponse, a network that targets ads based on social network data (such as check ins), is sharing some news about its growth. The big number: It says it's serving more than 7 billion impressions ...

Eight-year old JustAnswer.com, which bills itself as a Quora competitor (but looked decidedly less hip), is announcing a rebranding and a new infusion of capital today. The site is becomingPearl.com, ...

With all of the M&A activity going down with CRM leviathans Oracle and Salesforce, a timely launch from a new startup looking to disrupt the sales process once again. Crushpath, founded by former ...

Well, that's that. Prominent German entrepreneur Felix Haas, who started ticketing company Amiando and sold it to XING (Germany's LinkedIn), has finished his earn-out period and is, as the phrase goes...

Last week Yext, a service that helps businesses synchronize their listings across the Web, announced a $27 million round of funding. (We heard it was at a $270 million valuation.) Today, it's launchin...

As Google and Apple step up their mapping efforts, they are apparently raising some eyebrows in Washington. Today, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer wrote a letter to Google's CEO Larry Page and Apple's...

For years, independent video producers have waited for the time when it would finally make economic sense for them to cut out the middle man and distribute their content directly to their fans. Then a...

Chinese social networking giant Tencent took a minority stake in Epic Games, the maker of the very high-end Unreal gaming engine and smash hit mobile game Infinity Blade. It's yet another toe in Weste...

During their lengthy careers at Google in both senior technical and product management roles, Maneesh Arora and Amit Sangani were able to geek out on products like AdSense, AdWords, and the now-defunc...

How will Facebook monetize mobile? Its organic-seeming Sponsored Stories ad format may be the answer. Mobile Sponsored Stories are getting over 13 times the click-through rates and earn 11.2 times the...

Music streaming service Spotify is rolling out a new feature for U.S. users today, which looks like a direct swipe at Pandora: it's introducing a free mobile radio service. The update is only availabl...

The Open Graph has proven to be a major tool for Facebook to extend its reach beyond its own social network into the wider Internet, and today comes news of an app that could just be the first sign of...

Mobile payments startup Square is introducing a heavily requested feature today with the launch of a customer loyalty punchcard program. New digital loyalty cards will be included in the updates to bo...

Yap.TV launched in late 2010 in an effort to help capture the growing audience of users who tune in to TV with their iPads and mobile phones open in front of them. Since then, it's held its own in a p...

The rise of social media has been like the emergence of a new and powerful drug. But the the Facebook newsfeed and Twitter stream, despite being addictive, don't really serve the needs of people who w...

Online design sales site Fab.com has acquired a similar (but much smaller) UK design store, Llustre. Llustre was billed as a "trusted guide" to discovering good design combined with flash-based sales ...

Companies and brands are always getting better at find ways to tempt people out of their money, and sometimes the siren call of those shiny new things are just too much to resist.Massachusetts-based I...

Marten Mickos is working on a joke. He has the opening line -- "An ops guy, a VMware guy, and a cloud guy walk into a bar..." -- but he hasn't figured out what the punchline is, yet. Mickos is the for...

The Sonos Sub, not to be confused with the Five-Dollar Footlong, is a subwoofer that works wirelessly with the Sonos family of devices and adds considerable bass to any Sonos CONNECT:AMP, PLAY:5, or P...

With over 700 million downloads, Apple's iTunes U has been a massive success, but unlike other new online learning services like Udacity or Codecademy, it's missing a social component where students c...

The "Taste Graph" is Payvment's secret weapon. Facebook's top ecommerce platform has spent two years finding outwhat Facebook users Like and buy, and starting today its 165,000 merchants can use it to...

The "Taste Graph" is Payvment's secret weapon. Facebook's top ecommerce platform has spent two years finding outwhat Facebook users Like and buy, and starting today its 165,000 merchants can use it to...

Phil Libin, the CEO of note taking app Evernote, is sitting on a $1 billion valuation and plans for an IPO, and while it may be a while yet before it follows through on going public,today at LeWeb in ...

When it rains, it pours. Another new arrival in the private social networking space is Burst, a mobile video and photo sharing solution designed for families- or really, for anyone interested in an ef...

Onefinestay, a startup describing itself as "the world's first unhotel," just announced that it has raised $12 million in a Series B round of funding.The service allows people who are going out-of-tow...

San Francisco-based enterprise startup Bluebox has raised $9.5 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, which saw participation from SV Angel, Sun co-founder and early Google investor AndyBechto...

Startup Bright has already built a popular job board. CEO Steve Goodman says that over the past 18 months, Bright.com has attracted 8.6 million job seekers who have posted 2.8 million resumes. However...

It's been an active seven days for Cvent, one of the largest event management companies in the world you've never heard of. The company, which offers web-based software for online event registration, ...

It was clearly meant as a joke. Yammer is, according to many reports, just moments away from a big acquisition by Microsoft, so on stage at LeWeb in London today my colleague Mike Butcher asked Aaron ...

Plenty of news coming out of Le Web London this morning. Aside from Box announcing a new London office to scale it's 15% annual growth in Europe, today we also have news that cloud-based CRM platform ...

Car service dispatch company Uber has hired a European Chief Operating Officer, making the announcement today at LeWeb London. Kees Koolen, who scaled booking.com to $9 billion in revenue during his t...

Codecademy, the New York startup that wants to teach the world to code, has capitalized on widespread interest by raising a second venture round of $10 million from top investors -- Kleiner Perkins, I...

Dropcam has been busy. The video monitoring start-up just released an Android app that brings a better experience to the mobile platform. The new app is built natively for Android rather than using Ad...

The Roomba 790 is iRobot's smartest vacuuming robot yet. Complete with a redesigned look, the 790 features a host of swanky new features including a wireless command center that allows owners to steer...

Video ad startup YuMe is working to make it easier for pretty much anyone to monetize their video content, without needing to know a whole hell of a lot about ad rates, inventory, clicks, impressions,...

It looks like Airbnb, the online marketplace for listing and booking short-term housing accommodations, has officially accelerated out of startup mode and into a full-on major business. The San Franci...

Startups like Viddy and Socialcam are angling to be the Instagram of video -- that is, to figure out some simple way of creating, editing and sharing mobile videos, in a way that resonates with users ...

Google+ honcho Bradley Horowitz announced one more Google+ partner at LeWeb today, tablet news app Flipboard. Flipboard joinsHootsuite, Buddy Media, Context Optional,Hearsay Social, Involver...

Whatever you think of Hollywoods current preoccupation with all things thee dimensional, in the world of mechanical engineering, 3D is definitely the way to go. But sharing those CAD-generated renders...

When Mark Zuckerberg left Harvard in the summer of 2004, he didn't move his fledgling company to the mountains, or the Gulf of Mexico, or San Francisco, he moved to Silicon Valley. Well, Palo Alto to ...

The cloud-storage company Box is today announcing a new step up in its business: it is officially moving into Europe, opening an office in London to focus its efforts in the region, and help it in the...

Microsoft just took the wraps off the all new Microsoft Surface. Even though the name is familiar this is an entirely new product. Simply put, the Surface is a Windows 8 tablet. But it seems so much m...

We just had our first hands-on with the Microsoft Surface, the brand spanking new device which appears to be Microsoft's loud and clear answer to the Apple iPad, the MacBook Air, the menagerie of Andr...

If Facebook is going to get its share price above water, it needs the support the ad agencies. So today it announcedthe Creative Council -- 14 agency execs that will provide advice, and Studio Edge, a...

Nokia US chief Chris Weber recently reaffirmed that Lumia smartphones will eventually get a helping of Nokia's impressive PureView imaging technology, but a new post on the Nokia Conversations blog po...

White-label security software provider White Sky has raised a $7.5 million round of financing, as it seeks to staff up after landing major enterprise customers like AOL and Comcast. The round comes fr...

At the bottom of the page for Microsoft's new tablet Surface, there is an odd little note: "Looking for the Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft Pixelsense? Visit www.pixelsense.com". Huh?It looks like Micros...

"It embodies hardware and software working together. People want to work and play," Steve Ballmer said today amid much fanfare at Milk Studios in downtown Los Angeles. Microsoft has officially entered...

We're here at the Milk Studios in Hollywood for Microsoft's big mysterious Los Angeles media event. The off-duty actors and actresses are offering champagne flutes, the tech journalists are ignoring t...

Corporate perk management platform ChoicePass has been acquired by Salesforce, according to a blog post on the company's website. As a result of the acquisition, the team will be joining the Salesforc...

Sonos, the developers of a sexy, high-end wireless home audio system, has raised $135 million in funding led by private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Previous investors Redpoint Ventures and El...

TechCrunch Disrupt is one of the most anticipated technology conferences of the year, and Startup Battlefield (Click here to apply) is the very heart of the event. Some 30 companies, chosen from hundr...

Do Klout Perks where brands can offer special goods and services to users with the right Klout scores work? Well, Klout is releasing some numbers suggesting that the program has considerable momentu...

According to a new study by website monitoring service Pingdom, 24.3% of the top 10,000 websites in the world (as reported by Alexa) now feature some form of official Facebook integration on their hom...

SlideDeck is a WordPress plugin that's supposed to make it easy for publishers to add "content sliders" (basically a gallery/slideshow interface for browsing content) to their sites, and it's already ...

I can't imagine most U.S. HTC fans were glad to hear that AT&T's version of the One X would go without the quad-core Tegra 3 chipset, but now it seems as though they've dodged quite the bullet. E...

Facebook may one day let advertisers target mobile users based on their exact current location, but VP Carloyn Everson did not confirm that such a product is in the works to Bloomberg, Facebook tells ...

Last week, Netflix made some changes to its API program and Terms of Use for connecting with it. Since then, there's been some confusion about what the changes actually mean for developers. That confu...

"Our social networks are not Facebook," says Nadav Aharony, anAndroid project managerand one of the six winners of the Knight Foundation's $1.3 million in grants for media innovation. Instead of inten...

If you're a publisher looking for submissions (whether they're stories, essays, videos, or whatever), what's the best way to manage the process? It sounds relatively straightforward, but once those su...

It was nearly two years ago that I said goodbye to my MacBook Pro. I loved the device, but the new MacBook Air was that good. My Pro which was only six months old at the time! seemed like total over...

Mozilla, the non-profit organization behind the popular Firefox browser, just announced the launch of Thimble, its latest project to teach more users how to build their own web pages. Thimble, which i...

Following its $2 million Series A this spring, enterprise-focused mobile startupDoubleDutchis today introducing a new app called Pride whose debutcoincidentally arrives alongsidereports that Microsoft...

Apple has captured mindshare in the tablet market with its iPad, but when it comes to actual usage, in the U.S. it is actually neck-and-neck with its chief rival, Android, according to a new study out...

Google has acquired more than 50 patents from New Jersey-based fabless semiconductor company Magnolia Broadband. These patents, says Magnolia, cover "methods for increasing spectrum utilization (netwo...

After about a month of speculation, Facebook has finally announced its acquisition of Israeli facial recognition technology Face.com. We’ve heard from multiple sources that the acquisition price...

After about a month of speculation, Facebook has finally announced its acquisition of Israeli facial recognition technology Face.com.We've heard from multiple sources that the acquisition price was ar...

After about a month of speculation, Facebook has finally announced its acquisition of Israeli facial recognition technology Face.com.We've heard from multiple sources that the acquisition price was ar...

For the last two years, Google has been releasing data about requests to remove content and hand over user data from government agencies around the world. Late last night, the company released the lat...

Sincerely, the startup behind photo and card-printing mobile appsPostagram,PopBooth,Sincerely InkandDotti, has partnered withBrit Morin's latest venture,Weduary, a service for designing social wedding...

Founded by former Yahoo and Google employees Daniel Raffel and Steve Krulewitz, iOS app Snapguide is announcing a $5 million Series A raise this morning, from investors Atlas Venture, Index and Crunch...

There used to be an old line, "Why is this on TechCrunch?" that lazy readers would toss with a tone like that of bored, obese potentates shooing away a particularly rancid piece of lamb proffered by a...

BlackBerrys may still be the corporate device of choice, but that won't be the case for much longer if Samsung has anything to say about it. Starting in July, Samsungs Galaxy S IIIs will sport the com...

Only a few weeks following its TechCrunch Disrupt NYC win, UberConference, the service which aims to fix crappy conference calls, is out with its first major update. Today, the company is introducing ...

Yapp has been around for a little over two months, offering consumers an easy way to create and publish mobile apps based around events. But the vision is much bigger than some conference or your week...

Eventbrite has become the go-to platform for selling tickets online. And it's announcing a major milestone to prove it today: It's sold more than $1 billion tickets in total. For Eventbrite, the miles...

Eventbrite has become the go-to platform for selling tickets online. And it's announcing a major milestone to prove it today: It's sold more than $1 billion tickets in total. For Eventbrite, the miles...

Trippya social travel planner for web and mobile (and former TechCrunch Disrupt participant) is launching its first iPad application today to complement its current iPhone-only offering. The app, like...

App store analytics firmDistimois announcing a strategic partnership with Tokyo-based digital marketing and internet data providerinterarrowsin order to launch a version ofDistimo'sservice in Japan. T...

Last year, we introduced you to MemSQL, a plucky young Y Combinator alum that was building technology that would let developers give their databases a Nitrous boost, while simplifying application deve...

Every Android device manufacturer has at one point or another pondered how to make their devices stand out in a crowded field of competitors. There are plenty of ways to tackle that question but Sharp...

Canada-based Celestica announced plans today to "wind down" manufacturing services for Research in Motion over the next three to six months. More details will come next month during Celestica's second...

Last week, music curation and streaming service Songza launched an iPad app to join their already-available iPhone, Android, and web apps. And over the course of the last ten days, the company's iOS a...

Tomorrow we're invading Philly for an evening of networking, fun, and bacchanalian pleasure. Are you coming?Josh Zelman, Jordan Crook, Chris Velazco, and myself will be rolling into Philadelphia on Tu...

Enterprise users get more than their fair share of unimportant email. To help this problem, SaneBox, a time-saving email product, is now targeting in the enterprise space. Two months ago, TechCrunch...

Enterprise users get more than their fair share of unimportant email. To help this problem, SaneBox, a time-saving email product, is now targeting in the enterprise space. Two months ago, TechCrunch...

Israeli company ClickTale promises customers a better understanding of what visitors are actually doing on their websites, through tools like visitor recordings and heatmaps showing mouse movements an...

Nutmeg, the U.K. 'online investment manager' that aims to take the complexity out of financial products, has raised a 3.4m ($5.3m) VC round led by Pentech and Daniel Aegerter, the Swiss chairman of Ar...

Back in 2007, Bismarck and Belsasar Lepe and Sean Knapp left Google with aspirations to revolutionize in-video advertising. Ooyala didn't quite revolutionize advertising, but it has found more than a ...

Participants of the quarterly event Build organized by the European accelerator HackFwd usually stay in Motel One in Berlin, where Honestlybranded posters suggest guests leave anonymous feedback in ex...

A lot of Londoners (me included) and others have been fuming that they have been unable to get tickets to the London Olympics this summer but today Facebook unveiled a way that people like us, and mil...

A lot of Londoners (me included) and more have been fuming that they have been unable to get tickets to the London Olympics this summer but today Facebook unveiled a way that people like us, and milli...

The startup talent in Estonia, particularly on the technical side, has taken on near-mythical status in Europe thanks to its association with the heady days of Skype. But as TechCrunch European editor...

The startup talent in Estonia, particularly on the technical side, has taken on near-mythical status in Europe thanks to its association with the heady days of Skype. But as TechCrunch European editor...

Octopus Ventures, which has been inside a number of early stage tech deals in the UK in recent times, has created a new position of entrepreneur-in-residence and appointed Peter Bance. Bance was forme...

One by one the UK's ISPs are falling to a creeping censorship of the web led not by some secretive government organisation but by the UK's music industry in the shape of the British Phonographic Indus...

If you enjoy smoking fine botanical products, including, but not limited to, tobacco, you owe it to yourself to check out the Pax by Ploom, a compact vaporizer with a spacious oven and a few features ...

Last week, Mozilla's Product Design Strategy team quietly announced a few new projects including something called Junior, a Webkit browser for the iPad with no tabs or search bars. Instead, it uses si...

What happens when you throw a bunch of startups, mentors, and wild college students on a boat for roughly four months? It's never been done before, so nobody knows.But on January 9, 2013, the first ex...

So here's a nice twist to the whole Oatmeal saga: the FunnyJunk lawyer who has been aggrieved by the Internet is now suing the National Cancer Society and the National Wildlife Federation.Yes. He's su...

Liquidity fever is in the air in Silicon Valley. I felt this viscerally last month when a friend from Facebook came to me to talk investing.A talented engineer who has been at the company for more tha...

The economic signals coming from Europe are leading some to predict a big drop in startup investments up ahead, but that's not the message coming from one of the region's biggest VC firms. Index Ventu...

The economic signals coming from Europe are leading some to predict a big drop in startup investments up ahead, but that's not the message coming from one of the region's biggest VC firms. Index Ventu...

There's nothing like a good conference to create opportunities for new deals, and F.ounders last week in New York was just such an event. Indeed, on the panel I ran about the international tech scene,...

There's a ton of speculation around what Microsoft will be announcing on Monday in Los Angeles. Both the Wrap and ATD claim the event will showcase a Microsoft built Windows RT/Windows 8 tablet. Accor...

Windows 8 is, without doubt, Microsoft's most ambitious release in recent memory. It does away with a lot of what users have come to expect from Windows over the years. The iconic Start button is gone...

Looking for a cool new bike? Or a dress of a specific color and style? Instead of making you search for it, a startup called Ubokia lets you post what you're looking for, then wait for the sellers to ...

Second-screen social TV app Zeebox is coming to the U.S. later this summer, after a successful run in the U.K. The app is the brainchild of Anthony Rose, former CTO of the BBC and a big driving force ...

I love Grindr, and not just because it's all about the gays. (Full disclosure: I'm super gay.) The reason I love Grindr is because it's one of the few location-based social networks to show sustained ...

Since Pandoras IPO a year ago, the online audio story has beensomething ofabroken record. Pure play audience numbers keep growing (Pandora's audience more than doubled from April 2011-April 2012) but ...

The WWDC keynote came and went with nary a mention of a new iPhone, but that didn't stop people from ruminating about Apple's newest mobile juggernaut. Apple's brass spent much of their time on-stage ...

The WWDC keynote came and went with nary a mention of a new iPhone, but that didn't stop people from ruminating about Apple's newest mobile juggernaut. Apple's brass spent much of their time on-stage ...

Two gadgets enter, one leaves. Its 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 numbe...

AngelList has established itself as a go-to place for early-stage startups to connect with potential investors, and a recent deal underscores how its effect is not only limited to its home base of Sil...

Bing and Google each recently unveiled its own new search interface, designed to better intuit your intent and help you get to the one best answer more efficiently. And theyve meet it ever more clear ...

The current gen Xbox may be a year past its halfway point but a purported "leaked" document dating back to August 2010 from a Microsoft presentation details the next gen Xbox 720 in great detail. Feat...

WWDC this past week confirmed that Apple isas strong as ever. The companys steady stream of new products and announcements are a good indication that its business as usual. But when will Apple face it...

It feels like only days have passed since TechCrunch Disrupt NYC went down, but as every season turns (turns, turns...) another Disrupt is on the horizon. Our San Francisco event will commence on Sept...

[tc_5min code="517397013"]Paper continues to be a problem inside organisations. we just can't seem to get rid it despite all these computers. And organising it is annoying. Doo.net hopes to solve the ...

Death of brick-and-mortar retailAndrew Chenrecently recommended avideoto me, which inspired this post. It's a keynote by Ron Johnson, the CEO of JC Penney and the man behind Apples retail revolution. ...

We've just been given a first look at Saga, a new mobile companion emerging from Seattle startupA.R.O. You can think of Saga as Siri's little sister, perhaps. Instead of asking it questions or giving ...

Tweets past, present, and future now show their exact number of retweets and favorites instead of showing "50+" if they pass that count -- a move that could promote vanity and competition on Twit...

What Apple is signaling with its WWDC announcements is an adoption of this Netflix/iTunes streaming model to the technology business. Built on push notification and the intersection of Siri, Maps, and...

As the name of a recent conference in San Francisco suggests, theres a war for talent going on right now. That shouldnt come as a surprise to anyone. Over the last couple of years Ive been fortunate e...

As the name of a recent conference in San Francisco suggests, theres a war for talent going on right now. That shouldnt come as a surprise to anyone. Over the last couple of years Ive been fortunate e...

Magic, they call it. And indeed we may add an appendix to that old saw: any sufficiently advanced, or sufficiently obscure, technology is indistinguishable from magic.You must know the story of the Me...

NASA may not be sending anyone to Mars anytime soon, the exploration of space and beyond - though on a much smaller scale - is being spearheaded by folks like Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos. (Maybe yo...

I keep a close and interested eye on the world of ebooks, and I'm pleased to report that it keeps getting weirder. British supermarket chain Sainsbury - who I worked for once, helping to program a new...

Aidin, a startup that helps people find better continuing care after they leave the hospital, is announcing today that it has raised $600K from General Catalyst, HLM, Red Swan and a band of angels and...

"The Black IPs" lol. I follow nerds on Twitter, so rather than just the latest pop stars and sports games, I was delighted to see a nerdy hashtag in my Trending Topics. It's thanks to Twitter's new Ta...

Drawbridge, a cross-device ad targeting startup backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, announced today it has hired Yahoo's former mobile sales head as its new vice presid...

Drawbridge, a cross-device ad targeting startup backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, announced today it has hired Yahoo's former mobile sales head as its new vice presid...

It's been a little over a year and a half since wewrote about Fritz Lanman's departure from Microsoft, to build his own startup called "5Star." Well, now we're hearing that his startup, actually calle...

Way back in 2008, Yammer made its first public appearance at the TechCrunch TC50 conference. David Sacks, who introduced himself as the CEO of Geni, not Yammer, gave an 8 minute demo of the new produ...

So you wondered how Zynga was gonna make money off its $210 million acquisition of OMGPOP? How about this: Hit game title Draw Something will soon be at the center of a new primetime game show, accord...

The Association of American Publishers released a report today that shows that ebooks have beaten hardcover revenues for the first time. Ebook revenues topped out at $282.3 million YTD while hardcover...

You may have never heard of PCH International. But this Irish company makes packaging and accessories for some of the most iconic hardware products in the world. Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink! They make ca...

TechCrunch Disrupt SF last year was a huge hit and we are all ready to do it again! Disrupt SF is coming up, quicker than we realize, and we are already starting to plan like crazy behind the scenes. ...

And so it begins: Facebook CTO and mobile guru Bret Taylor is leaving Facebook this summer, Kara Swisher is reporting, off to do a startup with Google App Engine founder Kevin Gibbs. Taylor confirmed ...

Bloomspot, a local offers company launched back in 2010, is pulling back the proverbial kimono on its numbers in an effort to prove its business model works. Although sometimes lumped in with group de...

Nitin Bhatia is an ex-Microsoft executive who just announced he'll be working at NextDocs, a Sharepoint-based compliance software company. Bhatia, a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology at D...

Google has been putting quite a bit of its weight behind its Chromebook initiative, but it's been rather quiet about how well these browser-centric laptops have been selling. Judging from the latest d...

It's on now. Matthew Inman at the The Oatmeal has hired a crackerjack lawyer, Venkat Balasubramani, who sent a long and detailed letter to FunnyJunk essentially saying that their mothers should, in th...

Google is still by far the most dominant search engine in the U.S., but in the last year it actually lost some momentum while Yahoo and especially Microsoft's Bing both saw increases, according to fig...

Google's YouTube is slowly but surely expanding its line-up of supported languages for its auto-caption feature. Starting today, videos in Spanish will feature these automatically generated closed cap...

If that microstylus just isn't cutting it for you, then you may want to see what Samsung has been mulling over. A recently published patent reveals some interesting new tricks that Samsung may be plan...

A major milestone for disruptive payments platformDwolla: the company has just switched on FiSync, its real-time money transfer system which aims to replace the outdated - and much slower - ACH proces...

Even though it grew out of Facemash, Facebook has always been, by default, a dating site. With its portable social graph, an enormous user base and repository of images, and droves of social and inter...

CloudFlare, the fast-growing service that aims to make websites faster and safer, today announced this it starting to roll out support for Google's SPDY protocol on its network. For the time being, th...

Matt Rutledge, founder and CEO of Woot, and the grandfather of the daily deal, is stepping down from his position, two years after the website sold to Amazon.com. In an email sent to staffers, and sub...

Uber, the breakthrough car service app with big ambitions to do much more, is now making its way to international markets: today the car service company kicked off its London operation with a soft lau...

Despite the rapid growth of the smartphone market (41 percent YOY, to be exact), Samsung and Apple are the only smartphone makers really enjoying this growth. Combined, they took home 55 percent of gl...

Sulake, the developers behind the children's virtual world Habbo Hotel, is preparing to reopen its chatrooms once again after a week in which it was exposed for hosting inappropriate sexual content on...

The cost of entry into the world of film is constantly dropping. A new Kickstarter project from Nice Industries called The Aviator is attempting to bring it even lower. The product is a portable, low-...

Next Tuesday we're invading Philly for an evening of networking, fun, and bacchanalian pleasure. Are you coming? Josh Zelman, Jordan Crook, Chris Velazco, and myself will be rolling into Philadelphia ...

News that Apple's brand-spankin' new Maps app wouldn't have full functionality across all of their iOS 6-capable devices struck many as a major blow this week. Apple's known to keep flagship features ...

One pint of milk, one loaf of bread, and a music streaming service. That will be 10.8 million.Yesterdays news that We7, which aimed to be the Pandora of Europe, has sold to the supermarket giant Tesco...

Less than a year after the debut of gaming on Google's social platform, Google+, two game developers are pulling their titles. Bejeweled Blitz, a popular game owned by Electronic Arts' Pop Cap di...

The Cisco Networking Academy is the largest education program in the world you've probably never heard of. The Academy, which is Cisco System's largest and longest-running corporate responsibility pro...

Another former executive from Apple's iAd business has made a move to another mobile ad venture: Mike Owen, who had been a senior manager overseeing iAd's New York office, is joining mobile video ad n...

Dropbox can be a nifty service to have in your digital arsenal, but a new change to the service may make sharing files a little less straightforward. According to an email sent to developers who use t...

Despite the fact that almost nothing happens but running, turning, jumping and sliding, Temple Run is one of the most popular games on mobile. In fact, in just a month on the platform the Android vers...

Amazon is prepping a 7-inch $199 tablet for a third quarter release, reports Max Wang for Digitimes. Reportedly, this tablet will have better specs than the Fire with a higher quality screen and more ...

Hearsay Social, a startup backed by New Enterprise Associates and Sequoia Capital, has tried to solve many of the challenges facing large brands that need to manage the social media presence of local ...

Dmitry Girshin, CEO of Grishin Robotics, believes that robots - personal robots, not boring ones like the Mars Rover - are the future. "It has been very difficult to do something really big in robotic...

RebelMouse, the social media aggregator founded by former Huffington Post CTO Paul Berry, launched a little more than a week ago. We missed out on covering it (apparently because Berry's email got los...

Hot on the heels of completing its acquisition of Findaproperty last week, Zoopla is increasing its online real estate inventory once again: it will operate the property portals for the UK daily newsp...

Hot on the heels of completing its acquisition of Findaproperty last week, Zoopla is increasing its online real estate inventory once again: it will operate the property portals for the UK daily newsp...

Just days after releasing an APIto integrate its payment platform into third-party apps, iZettle, known as the "Square of Europe" for its dongle-based iOS mobile payment system, has even more news: it...

Just days after releasing an APIto integrate its payment platform into third-party apps, iZettle, known as the "Square of Europe" for its dongle-based iOS mobile payment system, has even more news: it...

Goldman Sachs' co-head of investment banking for global telecommunications, media and technology Anthony Noto said tonight that he'd be surprised if there's another IPO for an Internet company before ...

Benchmark Capital general partner Bill Gurley tipped an interesting price point for a potential Yammer deal. He asked on-stage whether it was $1.4 billion to the co-head of Goldman Sachs' global telec...

Pivoting is a part of life for startups. But, generally speaking, most entrepreneurs aren't going to go out of their way to pivot right when their business starts taking off -- and finding paying cust...

Desperate to increase video chat usage, Facebook is testing out a "Call" button on top of people's timeline profiles.I don't think I've received a Facebook video chat since Facebook partnered with Sky...

San Francisco-based startup Switchcam has created technology that combines videos from multiple sources and allows users to watch concerts, political rallies, conferences, and other events from multip...

The Ethiopian government, Al Jazeera reports, has criminalized the use of Skype and other VoIP services like Google Talk. Using VoIP services is now punishable by up to 15 years in prison. This law ac...

Growing up as an adopted Korean boy in the cold climes of Norway, Jorn Lyseggen would have had no idea that one day he would be spearheading a technology renaissance in the sweltering heat of a West A...

Founder Eric Lagier is hoping to make his Internet time machine service Memolane more social today by allowing users to create shared "lanes" with their Facebook friends.The idea behind Memolane: Peop...

Every single Facebook user is or will soon be seeing a link at the top of their desktop news feed asking them to"Stay in control of your account by following these simple security tips". The link lead...

Every single Facebook user is or will soon be seeing a link at the top of their desktop news feed asking them to"Stay in control of your account by following these simple security tips". The link lead...

Every single Facebook user is or will soon be seeing a link at the top of their desktop news feed asking them to"Stay in control of your account by following these simple security tips". The link lead...

Every entrepreneur starts her company with a clear vision for success. You will create an amazing environment and hire the smartest people to join you. Together you will build a beautiful product that...

In a report being released today, measurement firm comScore says that unique visits to social networking sites have increased by 6% year-over-year. The company also re-confirmed that Pinterest remains...

In a report being released today, measurement firm comScore says that unique visits to social networking sites have increased by 6% year-over-year. The company also re-confirmed that Pinterest remains...

Kevin Rose has been a familiar face in the tech scene for more than a decade now, in a variety of roles. All his gigs have been pretty unique from each other, but there has been a common thread: They'...

The TechStars NYC Demo Day went down this morning, and thirteen new companies have officially come to market, ranging from a Pinterest for places, a social wireless MVNO, and a mobile workforce commun...

Akkadian Ventures has raised a $22 million fund for purchasing stock in private companies from entrepreneurs, early employees, and angel investors.Secondary sales have had a higher profile recently as...

SkillPages, which helps people with useful skills to find those who need them, just announced that it has raised a $9.5 million Series B funding round. This new funding round brings the total investme...

"In the Studio" this week features a guest who had the presence of mind to invest in a new mapping technology about a decade ago, eventually joined the company as a senior executive, and oversaw that ...

Well here's a blast from the past. Remember when people search was big? Back before Facebook swallowed up all our personal data there were like, a dozen different search engines out there devoted enti...

"Kill Pandora - Expected Battery Life Improvement: 1 hour 50 minutes" This is what you'll learn from Carat, an incredibly useful free new iOS and Android app that's the first to give you personalized ...

AOL fended off activist shareholder Starboard Value today, as all of the company's existing directors were re-elected to the board. All eight of them -- Tim Armstrong, Richard Dalzell, Karen Dykstra, ...

Web traffic from the Apple iPad saw a slight drop in early June, according to new data from the Chitika Ad network, whichanalyzed a sample containing hundreds of millions of impressions to arrive at i...

Wow, Microsoft just got exciting! We're hearing (like everybody else) that the company is in "serious" talks to acquire enterprise social network and our 410 Townsend Street neighbor Yammer -- for a r...

thatgamecompany has made a series of critically acclaimed games for the Sony PlayStation 3, but with its three-title contract fulfilled, it's now looking to produce games for other platforms independe...

XING, a social network for business professionals, is the latest to hop on the dividend train. The company announced this morning that, following a meeting of the XING AG Executive Board, the company ...

FuzeBox has squeezed its online meeting experience into a new iPhone app called Fuze Join for iPhone.The company already has an iPad app that Apple named one of the best business apps for 2011. In fac...

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you know how horrendously unfashionable the folks in the startup scene are these days. Offices and coworking spaces from Sunnyvale all the way up to the city...

Pulse, the popular free mobile news reader for iOS, Android and Windows Phone, just announced that it is adding more video to its platform. The company is launching over 30 new video channels on its p...

The Web is noisier than ever before. Content is being produced en masse, in realtime, making it increasingly difficult to separate the signal from the noise. Evri, the realtime content discover engine...

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing business run by internet retailer Amazon, today announced a revamp to its support offerings. The company cut the prices for its premium (paid) support of...

There's no such thing as pay-as-you-go with a mobile hotspot. It just doesn't exist. You pay for a monthly package, just like you would with a smartphone, and a chunk of it almost always goes unused c...

Lua, a company focused on enhancing communication and project management within mobile workforces, has just launched out of beta today at the Techstars NYC Demo Day. The software allows any mobile wor...

Today at the TechStars NYC Demo Day, Pickie launched on to the scene. At its core, it's an iPad magazine that is totally personalized based on all brand mentions from friends and the people you follow...

One thing small businesses struggle with most is bookkeeping it's tedious, time-consuming, and it can be really confusing come tax season. Because of this, most folks turn to bookkeepers to do the di...

More often than not, a crowdsourced answer is the right one. Just take a look at Estimize — the anonymous user base of 6,500 users is more accurate than Wall Street 67 percent of the time when e...

Skype just announced a new version of its Mac software which brings changes based on user feedback, including the return of the resizable contact list and improvements to video calls and screen sharin...

Formerly known as Weatherbill, The Climate Corporation is announcing its $50 million Series C round today, led by new investor Founders Fund and followed on by existing investors Khosla, Google Ventur...

Now this is nice: Apple has updated their Emoji collection to reflect reality. They've added a lesbian and homosexual couple to the usual collection of goofy faces, monkeys, and weird skulls.The new E...

Danfung Dennis is a war photographer. He's covered the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and was nominated for a 2012 Academy Award for his documentary, "Hell And Back Again." But he's ready to tackl...

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and CFO Timo Ihamuotila took to an early morning conference call to shed some light on the dramatic announcements that the company made today, and in doing so the pair let slip ...

The dead tree publishing division of Time Warner announced this morning that its stable of magazines will now be available for subscriptions through Apple's Newsstand.That's right. You can now digital...

Web analytics company KISSmetricsis today announcing the sale of its web-based survey tool, KISSinsights to CatchFree, a former TechCrunch Disrupt participant and the maker of a socially-infused compa...

If you've enjoyed the game Portal in the past, you understand the allure of being able to open wormholes in space. Filmmaker Jason Craft decided he wanted to recreate that experience with his goofy fr...

The best way I know how to explain Wander is that it's a love child between the information of Yelp and the beauty of Pinterest, but for all places.The idea is that you share places that are meaningfu...

Sometimes an idea is so out there that it's hard to even explain clearly without sounding like a crazy person. Kurrenci is one of those ideas.Kurrenci is money for the Internet. You "buy" Kurrenci (or...

That didn't take very long. Just three days after being announced, iOS 6 has been, as the cool kids say, pwned by the Dev-Team with Redsn0W 0.9.13dev1. As hinted earlier this week the jailbreak doesn'...

Class. Most of us spend our entire teenage and early adult life trying to get out of it, only to realize that going to a class and learning something new is a walk in the park compared to a life with ...

Until now, periodicals like comic books were only available to Kindle Fire owners but that all changes today. Amazon has made sweeping changes across the lineup to bring children's books, graphic nove...

These days, everyone can be a publisher. All you need is something to publish, and you can throw that thing on a Tumblr, a WordPress blog, or even publish it as an eBook. There are plenty of channels ...

A new mobile social network of sorts has launched out of beta today at the TechStars NY Demo Day, looking to make transactions between friends a bit easier. Truth is, people have lots of stuff that th...

Microsoft's Bing is on a roll...in terms of new partnership announcements, that is. Today,BingandYelpare announcing a co-branded relationship that will bring Yelp's local business content to Bing's Lo...

Apple Passbook? What Passbook? San Francisco's Square says it now has 2 million people and businesses accepting credit cards with the service. That's up from the 1 million figure it cited all througho...

Technology is all about looking to the future, but with so many different virtual identities and social networks it's tough to keep track of who you've spoken with and where you've been. The Rewind.Me...

Samsung pulled off a sort of miracle last month by announcing the Samsung Galaxy S III prior to it leaking. Admittedly, the specs leaked, but the final design was kept a secret until the official reve...

The moving industry is ripe for disruption. Customers currently have to get a salesperson to come out and visit the house, inspect belongings, and offer up a quote. To shop around, you'd have to repea...

Though an errant Google ad gave away some of the surprise a few weeks back, AT&T has just announced that the Sony Xperia ion will be hitting all of the carrier's sales channels on June 24 for $99 ...

What do you get when you put an AIDS activist, an actor and two technologists in a coffee shop? An idea to make the world a better place. Their project, part of this year's TechStars, is called Smallk...

The dropouts, the misfits and wunkerkinds. The young and the fearless. They come every year to Silicon Valley. And mostly, they have come on their own.Itwasn't until last year there that was a dedicat...

Several months Nokia broke the mold and stuffed a 41MP sensor into phone. Called the 808 PureView Nokia claims it has the best optics in the smartphone world. The initial test shots are great. But CNE...

The headline would make more sense if it read "Android Market Access," as opposed to "Google Play Access," but that wouldn't be technically correct thanks to the Android Market's rebranding. In any ev...

Usually, funding stories are about how much capital a company raised from its investors, but in the case of project management and collaboration serviceWrike, it's really more about how little the com...

Recruitment software giant Bullhorn is today announcing a new owner: it's been acquired by Vista Equity Partners in what TechCrunch understands is a deal the lower end of hundreds of millions of dolla...

Tandem Capital, which claims to be Silicon Valley's first startup accelerator to focus exclusively on early-stage mobile businesses, is announcing today that it has raised $32 million for its second f...

TastemakerX, the startup that lets music fans get credit for discovering popular bands before they become cool, is opening to the public today.If this sounds like an app where your annoying music hips...

When it rains it pours at Nokia. The Finnish company today announced not one but four separate items of news -- a major strategy refresh with revised forecasts; a host of executive departures and seve...

'The best and the worst of everything' app Amen has hit 'one Million Amens' says the startups and is about to start releasing all the data its collected. The "Explorer Release" that is available on th...

"The best and the worst of everything" app Amen, which lets users make simple votes on straightforward statements -- "amen" and "hell no" being the operative words --has now amassed one million Amens ...

Last fall, Finnish designers Jori Lallo and Karri Saarinen soft-launched a simple bookmarking tool called Kippt that aimed to give users a more elegant way to store their information on the Web. At th...

Two weeks after pushing through an update for its most popular browser, Opera Mini for mobile devices, Opera is turning its attention to its desktop product, with the release of Opera 12 for Macs and ...

Ruslan Kogan may not be a known entity in the U.S., but the Aussie entrepreneur is a pioneer of online retail in Australia and happens to be the country's wealthiest self-made person under the age of ...

Today a Texas court dismissed a petition asking for "oral depositions and requests for documents" from Facebook to determine if it defrauded investors in its IPO last month. The judge ruled that the p...

As enterprise companies like Salesforce and Oracle continue to sharpen their social media services for enterprises, Twitter is locking arms with one of them in a strategic alliance. Radian6, the socia...

Apple's new MacBook Pro with Retina display definitely pushes the idea of what a modern screen should look like forward, but it also means developers will have to adapt their apps to these high resolu...

Kleiner Perkins today filed its official legal response to the gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit that one of its partners, Ellen Pao, filed against the storied Silicon Valley venture capit...

SoundCloud just revealed itself as an expanded tweets partner. SoundCloud's HTML5 widget will show up in tweets that contain a SoundCloud url. This means that Twitter cards will display a summary of S...

At this week's WWDC, Apple introduced a new application called "Passbook," meant to function as an organizer for all your passes. It supports store cards, gift cards and coupons out of the gate, repla...

Facebook is testing and will soon launch Facebook Exchange, a real-time bidding ad system where visitors to third-party websites are marked with a cookie, and can then be shown real-time bid ads relat...

On the Twitter blog today, the company announced a new way that users will be able to get access to an expanded array of content from partners. The latest new innovation, Expanded Tweets, will let use...

So very much data. And what to do with all of it?San Francisco's Flurry has its mobile analytics in 190,000 apps on Android and iOS. Yet over the past five years, the company has moved from business m...

Microsoft threw some of us for a loop when they launched the Metro-fied My Xbox Live app for iOS late last year, as it was the first time Xbox Live support had officially made it to any mobile platfor...

It seems like there are tech accelerators and incubators popping up all over the place, spreading from major tech hubs like San Francisco and New York throughout the U.S. and internationally. But now ...

Two gadgets enter, one leaves. Its 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 numbe...

President Obama will sign an executive order tomorrow that will make the construction of broadband networks along federal roadways and properties easier and, according to the White House, 90% cheaper....

Solar Mosaic, a startup that's aiming to be the "Kickstarter for solar projects," has been awarded a $2 million grant from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Sunshot Initiative.Solar Mosaic,...

With Android devices occupying nearly every niche, manufacturers are left with the odious problem of figuring how to give their products a fighting chance in a crowded market. Sometimes they lean on s...

Icann today revealed a list of nearly 2,000 top-level domain names that businesses and other organizations have applied to own. And while some of the applications are coming from the usual suspects am...

Icann -- the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees a host of Internet-related operations, including the assignment of domain names --today revealed a list of nearly 2,000...

The popular coupon site RetailMeNot launched its mobile site earlier this year and today, the company is launching its first native app for iOS. The new app allows users who don't like to pay full pri...

YouSendIt, the file transfer and business content collaboration service, has been trucking along of late, in spite of competition from plucky upstarts like Box. The startup has 98 percent of Fortune 5...

We're less than a month away from our Southeast Meetup Tour, where we'll hit Savannah, Atlanta, Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte, and Greenville. It's sure to be a mess of fun and a total mess all at the sam...

In the wake of the disturbing news that teen site Habbo Hotel had hosted illicit and inappropriate content, the response from other sites aimed at teens and younger children has been patchy at best.Ye...

Seattle-based startup PetHub just closed its seed round of $1.3 million from angel investors (including PetHub founder Tom Arnold's dad!) for a service that helps lost pets find their way home. The co...

Thismoment has mostly flown under the tech press' radar since it first launched its platform two years ago, focusing on building its client list of major brands and enterprise companies. But now that ...

For all its (largely software-based) shortcomings, RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook really isn't that bad a tablet, even if RIM ended up losing a fair bit of money on some of them. This past weekend, a user ...

Today, the influencemeasuring startupKlout is rolling out a major update to its iOS application, which first debuted in April. The initial version of the app offered Klout users a handy way to keep tr...

Hey, Internet. Come over here. You sitting down? Cool.So anyway, there's this thing I need to tell you about. No no. Over here. This tab. Stay right here.So this guy at NYU made something special. Are...

Skype just announced that it will now begin to show some of its users ads during 1:1 audio calls. These so-called "conversation ads" will only appear for users who don't have Skype credit or a subscri...

Here's some promising news about Android monetization. DeNA says that Rage of Bahamut, which was the #1 grossing game on both Android and iOS yesterday, is earning about the same revenue per day from ...

Social games company RockYou just announced that it has acquired developer Ryzing.The two companies had already worked together on the game Bingo by Ryzing the game has been available since early 201...

Mobile payment service Square today announced that it has hired Sarah Friar as its new Chief Financial Officer. Until now, Friar was the Senior Vice President for finance and strategy at Salesforce.co...

Shopcade's platform lets people earn rewards for recommending products to Facebook friends. So far so simple, and not entirely original. What's more interesting is that it's moving fast to scale up in...

Groupon-style Daily Deals have had a mixed reception. For many consumers they can be amazing deals, and a great way for small businesses to grab new customers. For others it's a nightmare of good deal...

Twitvid launched in 2009, with the idea of becoming the "Twitpic of video sharing" on Twitter. But it's gone through a bit of a pivot over the last year. Last December, the startup relaunched as a des...

A startup called Verelo is introducing a new type of website monitoring service, which plans to commoditizefeatures like uptime and performance monitoring, with plans to give away as much of those ser...

A new system created at Keio University will help add lifelike motion capture and emotion-sensing to apps, games, and design programs by scanning your face and body for cues. The system works on any P...

In 2009, Todd Rogers and Rick Solner founded Seed Labs to turn their love of music festivals into an experience they could take with them on-the-go. The founders began creating mobile apps that would ...

Amazon has applied for 76 different names in Icann's new TLD scheme, with several of them pointing to the company's ambitions to keep pushing forward on its plans to enhance its video and entertainmen...

AT&T revealed their intention to jump on the bring-your-own-device enterprise bandwagon with their business-friendly Toggle service last October, which thoughtfully allowed users to segregate thei...

Startup acceleratorDreamIt Venturesis extending its minority-focused entrepreneur program DreamIt Access, thanks to a renewedcommitment from previous investor Comcast Ventures. Today, DreamIt announce...

Nokia is reportedly in talks with a private equity group called EQT in an attempt to sell off its independent subsidiary, Vertu. Vertu, if you don't already know, is an ultra-luxury phone brand that o...

Nokia is reportedly in talks with a private equity group called EQT in an attempt to sell off its independent subsidiary, Vertu. Vertu is an ultra-luxury phone brand operating independently within Nok...

Did you take a brooding Instagram photograph of a bike in a rain puddle and want to share it with your grandma? Well either tell grandma to pull up a chair and put on her reading glasses or head over ...

SponsorHub, an online marketplace for event sponsorships, is unveiling a new feature today that it's calling the SponsorHub Score. The company says the score is, yes, "like Klout for events" every ev...

As developers add more interactivity to their apps, PubNub has emerged with a platform for sending out real-time messages and notifications without investing heavily in the infrastructure needed to su...

The MacBook Pro with Retina Display is an impressive beast with a stunning screen and top-of-the-line computing innards. That said, it's about as repairable as a used stick of gum per iFixit. The alwa...

A little bit of a song and dance today from Icann as it released the full list of businesses and other organizations that have applied for their own customized top-level domain names. The full list is...

Disqus is making Disqus 2012, the new version of its platform for managing comments and community, available to all of its publishers today.CEO and co-founder Daniel Ha (no relation to me) gave me a q...

Twitter has offered business in the U.S. free advertising credits of up to $100 to promote its new ad small business ad push in that market, and now it is repeating the effort in the UK, with an even ...

Twitter has offered business in the U.S. free advertising credits of up to $100 to promote its new ad small business ad push in that market, and now it is repeating the effort in the UK, with an even ...

Unroll.me launched in private beta a few months ago to help end email fatigue -- specifically that which is linked to all the email subscriptions that users sign up for and forget about. That includes...

Email marketing company Constant Contact has acquired SinglePlatform, a startup that helps local businesses manage their online presence.The deal is for $65 million cash, plus a $5 million cash and eq...

This month, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare), deciding whether or not adults in the U.S. will be required to purchase...

Waiting for the public markets to show a little more promise for tech IPOs,Openethas today announced that it's completed a Series D round of funding totaling $21 million:$16 million in equity funds an...

At Aol's offices in Palo Alto this evening, UpWest Labs pulled back the curtain on its second batch of startups. While the accelerator is open to companies of all breeds, be they advertising, mobile, ...

iZettle, the "Square of Europe" that has been rolling out its dongle-based mobile payments service in Scandinavia and is currently trialling in the UK, is now extending its service once again: it's la...

Last year, Google announced an initiative to give authors on the Web greater ownership over their content and more visibility in search. Unfortunately, up to this point, the authentication process has...

Samsung has a handful of NFC-equipped phones, like the Galaxy S II and III, and the Galaxy Nexus, but little has been done to put the technology to use. Sure, there's Google Wallet and other mobile pa...

Today at the LAUNCH Education Conference in Mountain View, an Israeli startup named JoyTunes showed off the work its been doing in an exciting and active space: The convergence of music education and ...

Shortly after yesterday's Apple WWDC keynote there was plenty of chatter amongst the pundits, journalists and developers about which apps Apple had screwed over with iOS 6.In particular is the turn-by...

It seems like everyone is moving their IT into the cloud, but very few organizations have a real good sense of how much money they're actually spending there -- or how much money they could be saving ...

Mobile advertising company Placecast says that there are now 10 million active users on its ShopAlerts platform.To be clear, many of those people probably don't think of themselves as ShopAlerts users...

The Web is overrun with dumb hashtags, chart-topping fart apps, and guys just waiting to show you their d*cks. But with this week's launch of Twitter's Tailored Trends, Facebook's App Center, and Airt...

This charming man, Todd Harrison, bought a used Apple II and some drives from Ebay and did what any self-respecting geek would do: he gave them the attention and respect they deserved, cleaning all th...

A man in China bought a Samsung hard drive for about $35 on Taobao. He opened it up, plugged it in, and found that it wasn't showing the full storage capacity on his computer. A few minutes later, he ...

Birchbox Men launched in early April. The service promised to deliver the same sort of goodies as the woman's Birchbox, just with a male theme. As Kim-Mai wrote at the time, this could include four to...

The Start Fund, the consortium of top investors who are backing all Y Combinator companies, has a new partner: General Catalyst. The storied venture firm has already been busy expanding into Silicon V...

The Start Fund, the consortium of top investors who are backing all Y Combinator companies, has a new partner: General Catalyst. The storied 12-year-old venture firm has already been busy expanding in...

Google just announced that it is adding a few interesting new features to its Chrome Web Apps store. The company's store for free and paid web-based apps and browser extensions, which is featured prom...

After spending last year engaged in a "tug-of-war" with Android over mobile ad impressions, iOS has been building a big lead in the past few months, according to a new report from mobile marketing com...

Interactive design and strategy firm ZURB today announced that it has acquired Pattern Tap, "a place where designers can find inspiration and study patterns of user interaction." ZURB, which has relea...

Yesterday, Apple revealed the latest version of its iOS operating system, iOS 6, which promises over 200 new features. On stage, Apple presented a subset of these, touting new additions like an improv...

WHy ride like the rest of humanity when you can turn your bike into a robo-shifting supermachine? This Instructable by programmer and maker Nabil Tewolde shows us how to create a push-button-controlle...

The charmingly chunky PureView 808 was the first to sport Nokia's impressive new imaging technology, but it (thankfully) won't be the last. In a brief video interview with HowardForums, Nokia US Presi...

Kytephone, the mobile app that transforms Android smartphones into kid-safe devices, is officially making its public debut today. The startup had previously been in beta, following its reveal at this ...

Twitter just announced that it will now personalize its trending topics section based on your location and who you follow. This update, says Twitter, will ensure that the trending topics list will now...

We saw what happened yesterday with the Siri announcements from Apple. Clearly they see it as core to their strategy and its deep integration inside iOS reflects its increasing importance. Plenty of o...

My favorite travel site Hipmunk just announced that it has raised $15 million in a Series B round of funding.The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners, and IVP parter Todd Chaffee will be jo...

We first wrote about Tiggzi, a DIY mobile app maker that gives you far more flexibility than most of its competitors, when it launched its public beta a few weeks ago. Since then, the service, which w...

CakeHealth, the online tool for managing and tracking healthcare expenses, is rolling out a completely rebuilt and redesigned version of its web app today.The San Francisco-based CakeHealth first debu...

Since announcing its private beta in March, 12society has been in stealth mode, quietly building a star studded roster of co-founders and curators, one that now includes LA Clipper and Rookie Of The Y...

Facebook continues its march across the Internet with the release of its Like button, recommendation feed, comments box and other social plugins as Wordpress.org and Wordpress VIP widgets.There's also...

It's understandable why you might have been confused. Apple made Siri's expansion about as clear as mud yesterday at Apple's WWDC keynote. She learns more, moves to the iPad, gets all kinds of new int...

It's understandable why you might have been confused. Apple made Siri's expansion about as clear as mud yesterday at Apple's WWDC keynote. She learns more, moves to the iPad, gets all kinds of new int...

Apple's Scott Forstall officially introduced the world to iOS 6 less than 24 hours ago, and already it seems like an intrepid hacker has managed to jailbreak it.MuscleNerd (of iPhone Dev Team fame) an...

Music startup Songkick, which tracks your favourite bands and tells you when they are gigging, has gotten plenty of traction on the Web and on iOS. But a missing link in the platform play has been And...

There will be plenty of bits spilled over the next few days about whether Apple is going extinct, whether Jobs' touch was integral to the Apple experience, and whether this was "The.Worst.Keynote.Ever...

Uncovet is launching to the public today as a recommendation engine for offbeat clothing and design items. Founder Heather Lipner tells me that the larger play is using data received from purchases an...

Over the last several months, the biggest Western social gaming companies have been making moves, and attracting attention as a result. Japanese gaming giant GREE bought Funzio for $210 million to hel...

Layar, the startup which is one of the few to really power ahead with Augmented Reality applications, recently revealed it's well-thought out business model after a long period of scaling the app's us...

Qwiki seems to be spreading. Last month, it announced a new Creator platform for publishers and bloggers that's already being used by ABC News and others. Now it's announcing a partnership with Bing.T...

It's been over a year since Amazon debuted its cloud-based music storage and streaming application, Amazon Cloud Player, and today the app is finally arriving on iOS. This morning, Amazon announced Cl...

Twitter may be synonymous with the term "microblogging" but a new service launching in beta today brings a new chapter for the medium that could just find a niche in today's distracted, busy world. Ch...

Lemon.com, the company behind the handy cloud-based receipt organizer and spending tracker mobile app, has now expanded its platform to include digital wallet functionality. And it has just landed an ...

Yext, a company that helps local businesses synchronize their listings across 50 different sites, just announced that it has raised $27 million in Series E funding.Yext did not provide a valuation, bu...

Jim Fowler has already disrupted one industry by launching Jigsaw, the crowdsourced contact database that was acquired by Salesforce.com for $175 million (higher than initially reported thanks to earn...

Top European VC firm Balderton today has confirmed that it is ditching a 13 percent stake in Finnish social networking and virtual world company Sulake, creators of Habbo, after the youth-oriented sit...

Top European VC firm Balderton today has confirmed to TechCrunch that it is ditching a 13 percent stake in Finnish social networking and virtual world company Sulake, creators of Habbo, after the yout...

Verizon Wireless today announced the addition of Share Everything plans. They're essentially family plans, allowing you, mom, dad, and big or little brother or sister to share from a pool of unlimited...

Mobile app measurement and advertising platform Flurry is expanding its product lineup with a new service that will allow app marketers the ability to track theeffectivenessof their mobile ad campaign...

Sometimes finding a solution to those little annoyances in life can turn into a big business. Take Roqbot, a virtual jukebox solution that lets users crowdsource music in bars, cafes and stores. Frust...

A sudden, but perhaps unsurprising, bit of e-book M&A today in the UK: the music and entertainment company HMV is selling its 64 percent stake in e-book retailer Anobii to the supermarket chain Sa...

A sudden, but perhaps unsurprising, bit of e-book M&A today in the UK: the music and entertainment company HMV is selling its 64 percent stake in e-book retailer Anobii to the supermarket chain Sa...

Spotifys move last yearto open its platform to other apps has created more stickiness for its streamed music services. Now, one of the startups based around that idea has found some traction of its ow...

Global spend on entertainment and media services, according to a new Global Media and Entertainment Outlook report out from PwC, will reach $2.1 trillion by 2016, from $1.6 trillion in 2011. But the c...

LightSpeed, a company promising to help physical retailers adapt to the digital age, has raised $30 million in Series A funding from Accel Partners.This is one of those investments where Accel finds a...

Adobe has announced that it is improving its cloud collaboration and web conferencing software, with the launch of Adobe Connect 9. The new version of the software, which is expected to be available i...

Still have an appetite for some more talk about Apple's WWDC keynote? Ha, just kidding, of course you do! It's like Jello. There's always room for more.We at TechCrunch couldn't get enough either, so ...

Isn't Power Nap an awesome new feature of OS X? It is if you're a Mac user but to Windows users, it's old news. If you missed the news, Power Nap allows your Mac to keep up to date while in sleep mode...

Apple isn't always so forthcoming with certain product announcements. I guess it's their version of an Easter Egg? Like the Mac Pro update and death of the 17-inch MacBook Pro, they also updated the A...

PR isn't dead (as some pundits like to claim), but it is changing. PR Newswire (a.k.a. "the site that I use to search for press releases") is responding to those changes by launching a new product cal...

TheOatmeal is a great web comic featuring funny birthday cards, wacky bear sex, and other merriment. It's drawn by Matthew Inman and is great. Now, however, it's the target of a decidedly odd - and fu...

It's always sunny in Philadelphia, but even so, the sun should shine a bit brighter once TC heads to town. John Biggs, Chris Velazco and I are more-than excited to be visiting the city of brotherly lo...

Before we start getting even deeper into our analyses of which startups and products Apple killed today with its iOS 6 and other announcements, we should all remember that it basically tried to build ...

If you're planning the great American road trip this summer, here is a new site that can help you get the most out of your time. Roadtrippers, which also just secured its first round of seed funding, ...

Apple today announced that it will be discontinuing latest OS support for the Original iPad (in addition to the third generation iPod), striking a blow to pretty much every tech writer on earth who do...

Why read about someone else when you could write about yourself? Soon the"Tap to post" to Facebook and Twitter buttonsannounced at WWDCtodaywill appear in iOS and OS X Mountain Lion's Notifications ce...

2011 was an impressive year for mobile exits: according to investment bank Rutberg & Co. it topped out as the biggest-ever for mobile IPOs and acquisitions: $15.5 billion in total transactions, 63...

Bullpen Capital, the Silicon Valley-based early stage venture capital firm, is raising $35 million for what appears to be its second fund, according to regulatory documents filed today with the Securi...

iOS 6 is chock-full of new stuff, with over 200 new features. Some are minor, like Mail VIPs which probably should have been implemented a long time ago, and some are pretty intense, like a brand new ...

It's simple really. The new MacBook Pro with the "Retina" display is something you have to see to believe. Perhaps you were watching the live coverage of the keynote today and thinking it's not a big ...

Outside of search, the closest tie between Apple and Google so far was the deep integration of Google Maps in its products. That radically changed today, though it's worth noting that the announcement...

Founded in the mobile microscopy lab at UC Berkeley, a young startup called CellScope is on a mission to turn your smart, mobile devices into a microscope, giving parents the ability to perform easy, ...

Today's keynote at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference highlighted a number of new features that the company has added to its mobile operating system. And while a number of updates will make life e...

It was a big day for Apple at the WWDC, as Apple announced iOS 6, a new MacBook Pro, cross-platform iMessage, its Google Maps competitor, oh, and a whole host of Siri updates that are seeing the iPhon...

It was a big day for Apple at the WWDC, as Apple announced iOS 6, a new MacBook Pro, cross-platform iMessage, its Google Maps competitor, oh, and a whole host of Siri updates that are seeing the iPhon...

Talk of the 17-inch MacBook Pro was strangely missing during Apple's WWDC keynote today. But apparently there's a good reason for it. Apple just axed the 17-inch MacBook Pro. Good night, sweet giant. ...

Apple just announced an updated Mac Pro with with a processor bump to 3.06GHz Intel Xeon X5675 and an ATI Radeon 5770 or 5870 graphics card. Dual solid-state drives round out the package as well as Fi...

As it turns out, not every new addition to Apple's product lineup got a mention on-stage at the Moscone Center today. The Apple Store website is slowly coming back to life, and with it comes a new Sma...

Apple unveiled the next generation of the MacBook Pro today. Encased in a thinner chassis, this MacBook Pro is a serious machine with a Core i7 CPU, a retina display and reported seven hour battery li...

Are you listening Mountain View? We all knew it was going to happen, but Apple just launched its own, stunning Maps product, with “Flyover” or Apple’s incredible new 3D maps display....

Are you listening Mountain View? We all knew it was going to happen, but Apple just launched its own, stunning, Maps product, with "Flyover" or Apple's incredible new 3D maps display which quite hones...

Apple just announced a new iOS app called PassBook that aims to store all of your "passes" a category that includes boarding passes, store cards, and movie tickets.The idea is to create one app that ...

Siri is getting a whole mess of new updates, and she looks to be a whole lot smarter than she used to be. Beyond her ability to open apps and arrival on the iPad, soon Siri will also be your co-pilot ...

Good news for those of you who actually use your iPhone to, oh, let's say, make phone calls, perhaps? Apple just announced that the iPhone's phone app is getting a major update with the new version of...

Good news for those of you who actually use your iPhone to, oh, let's say, make phone calls, perhaps? Apple just announced that the iPhone's phone app is getting a major update with the new version of...

Apple announced some major updates to Safari on its upcoming iOS 6 mobile operating system today. Safari, for example, now lets you sync tabs between different machines using iCloud. Instead of those ...

A little over a year after it's debut, Apple's Scott Forstall revealed today that Apple's SMS killer iMessage now has 140 million users, and has sent over 150 billion messages, with over 1 billion a d...

A little over a year after it's debut, Apple's Scott Forstall revealed today that Apple's SMS killer iMessage now has 140 million users, and has sent over 150 billion messages, with over 1 billion a d...

Apple just announcedatWWDC 2012thatFacebook will be deeply integrated into iOS 6 including single sign-on for apps, quick sharing from Notifications, Siri integration, better contact syncing, sharing ...

Apple has made a ton of announcements during the keynote to its Worldwide Developer Conference. But one of the coolest updates to its OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion operating system is the addition of AirPlay...

Apple's definitely not ignoring its second most lucrative market.Chinese search engines, social networks and video destinations are all getting some love today with new integrations into the latest ve...

Just moments after Apple officially pulled back the curtains on iOS 6, Apple's Scott Forstall announced a slew of compelling new updates to Siri, their mobile intelligent assistant.First up, Siri is m...

Apple today announced that it has sold 365 million iOS devices trough March 30. Apple's Scott Forestall made this announcement during his keynote at Apple's 23rd developer conference in San Francisco ...

Today at Apple's WWDC keynote, far and away the most exciting product announced has to be refreshed and replenished mobile operating system. The days of iOS 6 are upon us, and the platter of 200 new f...

Today at Apple's WWDC keynote, far and away the most exciting product announced has to be refreshed and replenished mobile operating system. The days of iOS 6 are upon us, and the platter of 200 new f...

Getting Retina-ready isn't the only big change coming to Apple's web browser Safari today, it's also getting a revamp which introduces a number of new features. Included in the list are faster search ...

How many mobile acquisitions and team hires can Facebook do in one month? Too many to count, apparently. There was mobile commerce startup Karma, then they hired the team from Android developer shop L...

Apple today announced that its installed base for its Mac lineup is now 66 million. That number has tripled from just three years ago. So far, Apple has shipped 22 million copies of OS X Lion since it...

Apple announced further details on OS X Mountain Lion, the iterative successor to Lion. Improvements include separate apps for Messages, Reminders, and Notes as well as a new notifications system. iCl...

The next generation MacBook Pro is coming, whichPhil Schiller called the "mostbeautifulcomputer we've ever made," and one of the biggest surprises is that the computer will, indeed have a Retina Displ...

Phil Schiller took to the WWDC stage today to announce Apple's new hardware. After breezing through updates to the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, he wowed the crowd with, as the it said on the screen, t...

Apple used the WWDC stage today to announce a new MacBook Pro. Housed in the same casing, this model packs new innards. The notebooks pack Intel's latest chips, code-named Ivy Bridge, along with a hos...

Apple's Tim Cook just announced an updated MacBook Air with 3.2-GHz Intel Core i5 processors with 512GB of SSD storage and 500MBps read speeds. The new Airs also include USB 3.0 ports making them 10x ...

Apple's App Store has always been a behemoth. It was the first of its kind. Still, the growth for this platform is astounding, with Tim Cook today reporting 30 billion downloads from the App Store sin...

On the consumer web, you've always got to watch your back. It's fast-paced, highly iterative and there are always other startups ready to prey on your stumbles or sluggishness. A few weeks ago, Bit.ly...

There appears to be a glowing orb above San Francisco, and the skies are clear and blue. The tech gods must be happy today.Developers and press are gathered - with some having waited all night long - ...

SchoolFeed, the rapidly growing networking service from former co-founder and CEO of RockYou Lance Tokuda,has been acquired. In a not too surprising twist, the company, which leveraged Facebook to off...

If you've been living under a rock for the last couple of years, you might be excused for not knowing about this Humble Bundle thing. As a long-time Linux user, the Humble Bundles have always been of ...

You may remember Estimize from our coverage back in April. The service basically pits an average of user estimates against Wall Street analysts when looking at the trajectory of any given company's st...

"We can draft anything, but will we go to the masses?" said Congressman Darrell Issa, creator of Congress's little-known online crowdsourcing legislative platform, Project Madison. Today, at the open-...

Adelphic Mobile, a Boston-based mobile advertising startup from alums of Quattro, the company that Apple acquired and turned into iAd, has just poached a new chief revenue officer.The company just pic...

Fetchnotes, the lightweight note-taking app launched this April, is adding a new feature today that will allow users to share tasks with each other using a Twitter-like syntax. The best way to describ...

NAS drives are getting smarter and smarter, and the Iomega ix2 is no exception. Priced at $400 for 1TB, this compact drive is actually more of a mini-computer and features "apps" that allow it to beco...

CityMaps, the social mapping company fresh off its $2.5 million Series A, is rolling out a big update today which not only brings the service to a fourth city (Boston), but also introduces a recommend...

Datameer was founded in 2009 to help businesses run analytics against large data sets with no programming required. With it latest release, Datameer is introducing two new versions of its data analyti...

Works of art are timeless and now, thanks to Makerbot and the Met, they can be deathless, too. A June 1 hackathon brought a group of artists and hackers together at the New York Metropolitan Museum of...

What do you know? In proper Apple fashion, the Apple Store is officially down in preparation for the company's WWDC Keynote announcements, where we expect to hear about refreshed notebooks, a new OS X...

On the Web, it's all about engagement. Site owners, administrators, content producers, eCommerce companies -- and everyone in between -- are constantly trying to find better ways to keep their custome...

Games (and alcohol) make everything better. With that thought, What Makes It Fun creates interactive Bingo boards for major internet events. Today's card is of course themed for WWDC with games spots ...

Although Apple seems to want to forget all about that sad, dark time when their logo featured all the colors of the rainbow, this iPhone mod - really an aluminium back plate - will bring those memorie...

Personal finance service (andTechCrunch Disrupt alum)Credit Sesamehas just secured $12 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Globespan Capital Partners, and included participation from Cre...

Personal finance service (andTechCrunch Disrupt alum)Credit Sesamehas just secured $12 million in Series C funding. The round was led by Globespan Capital Partners, and included participation from Cre...

Back in March, video startup DramaFever announced that it had raised a $4.5 million Series B from MK Capital and YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, among others. Now the company has added some big media c...

European startups get a shot in the arm this week with the launch of Silicon Valley Bank in London today. Known for its understanding of the tech space, SVB will target the technology and life science...

Earlier today, Twitter made its most aggressive grab for TV marketing dollars, with the release of a TV ad during the Pocono 400 and the launch of the corresponding Twitter.com/#NASCAR hashtag page. I...

Editors note: Alex Banayan is an associate at Alsop Louie Partners, an early stage technology venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA. He is nineteen years old (and thus this post could really...

Peter Fenton joined Benchmark Capital in 2006, after spending seven years as a partner at Accel. Not yet 40, Fenton already sits on the board of directors at companies like New Relic, Polyvore, Twitte...

Peter Fenton joined Benchmark Capital in 2006, after spending seven years as a partner at Accel. Not yet 40, Fenton already sits on the board of directors at companies like New Relic, Polyvore, Twitte...

Andy Rubin, head of Google's Android unit, made one of his rare appearances on Twitter today, denying rumors that he's leaving Google... And as usual, announcing new Android activation numbers.Rubin's...

"MEN invented the Internet. And not just any men. Men with pocket protectors. Men who idolized Mr. Spock and cried when Steve Jobs died. Nerds. Geeks. Give them their due. Without men, we would never ...

First of all, let me say that the Dry Case Waterproof Backpack is designed for use in outdoor environments with the main goal of keeping things in the inner compartment dry. Clearly, all the marketing...

Startup Act 2.0 was just introduced in the U.S. Congress, and hearings of the bill are starting shortly.When it comes to U.S. visas, company founders are among the most discriminated folks. Unlike emp...

The first generation of Google'sChromebooks worked fine, but few people would have ever described these browser-centric laptops as excellent. Sure, they had some great features, including long battery...

Twitter launched its first TV ad Sunday, and it was all about Nascar. But beyond just getting the attention of Nascar users, the ad is also meant to show off what brands can get if they partner with t...

Is that a Windows phone? Uh, sorry about that. we only accept payments from Apple devices.The absurdity of the above statement is crystal clear. Basic transfer of money from one party to another in ex...

Rounding up Mountain Lion rumors is actually quite simple. After all, the OS update has been floating around the developer boards for a while now and while there is no Gold Master available, many of t...

If you're a fan of competitive reality shows like America's Next Top Model, waiting for the next season can be a drag. But this off-season, while the show is recording, the producers have added a fan ...

When CEO Tim Cook kept saying "stay tuned" at D10 about new Apple collaborations with Facebook, he may have meant it literally. Soon you could be tuning into Facebook on Apple TV, or seeing your iTune...

"I don't think this is such a good idea. I think that 13's and above are having a hard enough time around some of the pressures of Facebook," argues, MIT Psychologist, Sherry Turkle, and author of Alo...

Get up from the desk and take a step in to the real life with these Minesweeper scratch cards. They're just like the classic Windows game except losing actually means something since the cards cost $2...

As much fun as it is to view the world in a "Linux versus Microsoft" way, the reality is that a technology monoculture is less useful than a heterogenous one. Even Microsoft knows this: they've made a...

It's WWDC time. Like, tomorrow. And we expect to see plenty of fun announcements, not least of which being a brand new mobile operating system, iOS 6. It's the type of Apple product every iPhone owner...

Rounding up Mountain Lion rumors is actually quite simple. After all, the OS update has been floating around the developer boards for a while now and while there is no Gold Master available, many of t...

I've seen the future, and it consists of a 5 foot eleven-inch hologram of Tupac rapping onstage with an incredibly stoned Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre at Coachella. Despite all the (consumer Internet) start...

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from the book DIGITAL VERTIGO, authored by TechCrunch columnist Andrew Keen.It occurred to me that the corpse might make more human sense after Id expressed ...

Editors Note:Sales Marketing Manager Leslie Hitchcock is a non-editorial TechCrunch employee. In addition to working at TechCrunch and being super fashionable, she reviews startups and tech products o...

Editors Note:Sales Marketing Manager Leslie Hitchcock is a non-editorial TechCrunch employee. In addition to working at TechCrunch and being super fashionable, she reviews startups and tech products o...

Looks like a talent acquisition. Smells like a talent acquisition.Meebo, the chat and publishers tools company that Google acquired for roughly $100 million, is going to see most of its products shut ...

In todays fast-paced and global tech world, internationalization is often on the minds of entrepreneurs and CEOs. If done correctly, its a great step that will make your business thrive on a global sc...

On June 6, 2012, filmmaker Tom Lowe found his film, Timescapes, on The Pirate Bay. His response wasn't to sue the uploaders into oblivion. Instead, he wrote a simple note:Greetings. I am Tom Lowe, the...

WWDC kicks off next week and in traditional fashion, a keynote headlines the event Monday morning. Much is expected from this year's show including iOS 6 and new Macintosh desktops and laptops. So far...

The Gillmor Gang Danny Sullivan, Dan Farber, Dan Taschek, and Dan Gillmor no, that's not right. Steve Gillmor, Steve Taschek... No. Without Scoble, we have little time to get to the point, which thi...

The first thing, of course, is that Mike Lazerow, the founder of Buddy Media,met me.This sounds egotistical, but everything I did in the encounter was bad for me.He cold-emailed me in 2007. I had just...

Look, I get it, Microsoft. You want to show people who you know how to have fun, that even Microsoft can smile once in a while. But seriously, stop with the dancing routines. Your target audience does...

The Droid RAZR HD is coming. It's yet to be announced, but several leaks fortel its coming. And the next Droid is set to go spec-to-spec with the Samsung Galaxy S III. This thing looks killer....

"It's just as good as getting a personal instructor," says basketball coach Julio Agosto, speaking on the Xbox Kinect's new dribbling game, NBA Baller Beats. Agosto, anEmerald City Academy Basketball ...

Splashtop made waves (thankyouverymuch) in April when the mobile app company launched the Windows 8 Testbed Metro for the iPad. This iPad app allowed owners to experience the few highs and many lows o...

Feature phones are not the future. Of course that verges on tautology; of course everyone will have a smartphone, until everyone has something smaller and better and even more integrated into the fabr...

Snapchat hopes to outgrow its bad rap as a sexting app, but first it's outgrowing the Stanford dorm room where it started. Today it announced it has hired a community manager and two engineers, and ha...

Gizmodo posted a "story" yesterday entitled "Well Pay You for Photos of Mark Zuckerberg." Desperation aside, this is as crazy as it is stupid (And we're not even sure it's legal).See, Mark Zuckerberg ...

After disappointing post-IPO performances from Facebook, Groupon and Zynga, there's been a clarion call from top investors like Union Square's Fred Wilson, Y Combinator's Paul Graham and Kleiner Perki...

Hear that noise? That's the sound of a hundred press releases and announcements being ground to a pulp, the pulp being formed into a sort of hollow, vapid blog arrow, and that arrow being aimed square...

The initial public offering fever that seemed to be sweeping over the tech industry has cooled noticeably in the weeks since Facebook's much-buzzed-about (and potentially botched) stock market debut. ...

Omni-social reader MyPad has just released updates that lets its three million daily users browse and interact with Instagram photos in addition to reading and posting to Facebook and Twitter. MyPad's...

Earlier this morning, Google critic and Nextag CEO Jeffrey Katz used an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal to accuse Google of behaving like a monopoly. Google quickly responded with a line-by-lin...

The iPad is a wonderful device to watch videos on, and a number of startups are aiming to provide users with interesting new ways to discover the best videos to watch. Most of these apps -- like Showy...

Everything is in readiness for our upcoming Philly meet-up where we'll imbibe fine beverages, eat some DiNics, and talk about what you're working on. The goal of this meet-up is networking and pitches...

Gillmor Gang - Danny Sullivan, John Taschek, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live at 1pm PST....

Here's a bit of Friday eye-candy for you. It was almost one year ago to the day that Steve Jobs appeared in front of the Cupertino City Council, pitching his vision of a visually striking, spaceship-e...

Icenium is a brand-new integrated cloud environment (get it? i-c-e not i-d-e = Icenium) for mobile application development. The service, which is a spin-off product division at Telerik, is just now en...

Comparison shopping engine Nextag and its CEO Jeffrey Katz have been at the forefront of accusing Google of being a monopoly and abusing its position to crush smaller competitors. Today, the Wall Stre...

Microsoft Hotmail is getting a makeover. At least, that's what some leaked screenshots are showing. The service, which today is still branded under the "Windows Live" umbrella, is going to be slimmed ...

From Fab to Netflix to Amazon, the eCommerce world is starting to warm up to the future of online shopping: Social curation. Call it the "Pinterest-effect," people are embracing the idea that bookmark...

OverBlog, a leading blog platform in Europe with 3 million registered users and over 34 million uniques (according to comScore), has just arrived in the U.S. And it's kind of awesome. The entire platf...

It's not often that we come across startups that focus on seniors, but according to a new report by analyst firm Forrester Research, seniors ages 65 and up are probably more connected and tech-savvy t...

Since raising $32 million last December, Uber has been on an expansion spree over the last several months, placing cars and dialing up service in cities all over the world. It was just a few days ago,...

Hey, Ice Cream Sandwich users -- if you're a Dropbox user and somehow haven't gotten the latest (2.1.4) update, do yourself a favor and get on it. The update is sure to please those who find the Dropb...

TechCrunch Disrupt New Yorkwas a huge success this past May, but we're not resting on our laurels. We're planning a few great surprises for ourSan Franciscoevent in September -- but first, the Startup...

Mom Trusted, a startup describing itself as a "social marketplace for early education and care" (which for parents means it's a killer place to find nannies, babysitters, daycare centers and preschool...

It wasn't too long ago that Pixorial made the jump from being an online video sharing service to rolling out its own social, mobile video applications. Now, in its race to take on the competition and ...

Here in the States, we're usually fine with faux-G being called 4G. T-Mobile does it with its HSPA+ service, and AT&T called it's HSPA+ 4G for a long time too before it rolled out LTE. B...

Here in the States, we're usually fine with faux-G being called 4G. T-Mobile does it with its HSPA+ service, and AT&T called it's HSPA+ 4G for a long time too before it rolled out LTE. B...

If you're anything like me, a seasoned veteran of all things CSI, Dexter and GI Joe, you understand the value in a discreet robotic camera such as the ReconRobotics Throwbox XT Reconnaissance Robot. T...

If you're anything like me, a seasoned veteran of all things CSI, Dexter and GI Joe, you understand the value in a discreet robotic camera such as the ReconRobotics Throwbot XT Reconnaissance Robot. T...

Everyone's favorite roadside explosives purveyor, Phantom Fireworks, is now offering "firework previews" on a fleet of Nook Tablets that will be available in stores. The tablets will will allow custom...

No plans yet for the weekend? Good! Here's something you should try then: Eventster is a new app for iPhone and iPad launching today which is tackling local event recommendations. The app pulls in 600...

Well, over 1,000 tickets have been sold to Le Web London, the gigantic tech conference hitting the UK shores on June 19-20.You want to go right? Well, TechCrunch has two tickets to give away, as part ...

On Wednesday, reports circulated that Panasonic was interested in injecting a $630 million capital investment into Olympus Corp, but Panasonic CEO Fumio Ohtsubo has stepped up to squash these rumors. ...

SocialFlow was founded to help brands manage their messaging on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. For $99 a month, it has a platform that provides a proprietary algorithms to determine when a...

Autodesk took to the wires this morning to announce its acquisition of a long-standing partner, Vela Systems, which is described in the announcement as "a provider of cloud and mobile field management...

Huawei has been relatively quiet of late. Aside from Ascend D Quad smartphone we saw announced back at MWC, the company hasn't been very present on U.S. shores. But with LTE hitting its stride, the co...

Nice win for DN Capital today. Apsmart, a London-based mobile platform and product development firm that was majority owned by the VC has been acquired by Thomson Reuters. Terms were undisclosed. Tho...

Two years ago, app developer tap tap tap launched Camera+ onto the App Store. For only a buck, users could get way more mileage out of the mobile photography experience, bringing 27 color effects...

In early 2011, former U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra and team helped institute a "Cloud First" policy, which aimed to speed up the government's internal adoption of cloud computing and se...

unching its public beta in the fall of last year, 300milligrams (also known as "300.mg,") set out to build a "priority inbox for team conversations." The startup was one of the 34 teams in 500 Startup...

Leah Busque, the founder of TaskRabbit, the web and mobile marketplace for outsourcing small jobs and errands, has re-assumed the role of CEO at the San Francisco-based startup.It was just this past f...

The tech boom is causing some sort of startup musical chairs: As Twitter moves out of its office today on 795 Folsom to move into a new space at 1355 Market St in San Francisco, our neighbor Yammer jo...

Earlier this year, ColourLovers founders Aaron Epstein, Chris Williams and Darius A Monsef IV (a.k.a. Bubs) launched Creative Market in private beta to give its community of color and template-creatin...

Network testing is hard work. You need to ensure coverage, regular data rates, and spread. That's probably why T-Mobile happens to be testing their 1900 MHz HSPA+ signal around the Moscone Center...

It's been anecdotally clear for months now, but Facebook has indeed found a place within mobile developer ecosystems. Today at its App Center launch, the company said it had sent 83 million unique use...

Facebook revealed some healthy new stats about how it drives traffic to Apple's iOS ecosystem at an event today in San Francisco. The platform drove people to Apple's App Store 83 million times last m...

Okay folks, we're live at Facebook's press event for... sure enough, its new mobile App Center. The event hasn't started but the company was kind enough to email reporters with the news, so I've paste...

Okay folks, we're live at Facebook's press event for... sure enough, its new mobile App Center, the one that started leaking out earlier today. The company shared most of the details about how the sto...

It's in every science fiction book and movie since forever. Humans — the ordinary non-astronaut kind, like you and I — going up into space like it's no big deal. And it's generally believe...

Instead of announcing every one of its many search tweaks individually, Google has lately taken to announcing all the changes it has made to its search engine once per month. Today, the company releas...

Let's just cut to the chase. The Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 is awesome. Pricey? Sure — it's $300. It's a toy that costs as much as the smartphone you'd be controlling it with, but it's a grown-up's toy...

It's been over 24 hours since LinkedIn revealed that "some" of their users' passwords were indeed compromised in that massive leak, and while the investigation is still on going LinkedIn director Vice...

Earlier this spring, Turner Broadcasting announced that it would be launching an incubator, called Media Camp, specifically for startups in the media space. In March, it put out a call for application...

It has been a big day for Foursquare: The New York-based company finally unveiled the newest version of its popular location-based mobile app, Foursquare 5.0 -- the iOS version of the app launched at ...

Microsoft today announced that it has partnered with Encyclopedia Britannica and will start to prominently feature answers from Britannica Online on the search results pages of Bing. AsFranco Salvetti...

Never minding the legal wranglings with Honeywell, Nest Labs is on a roll lately and just announced Amazon as the latest retailer to sell the Nest Learning Thermostat. This follows similar announcemen...

Music is as annoying as it is wonderful. I mean, the listening part is great. But taking the time to curate playlists on Spotify or conjure up the right artist to feed Pandora in exchange for a fresh ...

You probably didn't notice, but yesterday was IPv6 Launch Day and thanks to support from major sites like YouTube, Netflix and others, it was quite a success. In 2011, a number of leading websites, IS...

Bots in Facebook? Robots in Twitter? Pinterest Run by HAL 9000? Its all very possible.Thats right, surprisingly. in the next phase of the social web, brands are applying analysis and digital intellige...

Hark, the online repository for audio clips, is getting more studio content Thursday, with a deal that will bring sound bites from Universal's film library online. Hark will get access to about 100 Un...

"In the Studio" continues this by welcoming an engineer who founded a company that predicted flight delays, has gone through Y Combinator, began his career building trading software for an asset manag...

Want a toy designed to look like your online avatar? That's what's possible with "smart toys" company MakieLab which quietly launched recently with its 3D-printed dolls based on an avatar you create o...

At what point did Bloomberg start writing ridiculously sensationalistic and misleading headlines? It apparently started last night with the following: HTC Said To Be Shut Out Of Next Version Of Window...

At the beginning of the year, Square doubled its retail presence, landing in about 20K outlets nationwide. As Jack Dorsey's mobile payment system continues to find legs, all the major players have bee...

As the release of Windows 8 draws closer, all of the majorbrowservendors are also preparing to launching their applications for the touch-centric Metro UI that will prominently feature in next version...

Running out of Ireland, Mobile Travel Technologies has raised a $5 million Series A investment from DFJ Esprit's new third fund. In case you hadn't heard, MTT is a large mobile platform aimed at the t...

Twitter is still busy making changes to its senior management. Following up on product leader Satya Patel's departure earlier this week, we've learned of two other significant moves. The first support...

Twitter is still busy making changes to its senior management. Following up on product leader Satya Patel's departure earlier this week, we've learned of two other significant moves. The first support...

Samsung, the world's leading producer of mobile phones, on Tuesday became a Platinum member of the Linux Foundation. Just the seventh company to join at the Platinum level, Samsung will now have a sea...

Flutter, the startup that launched this past spring out of Y Combinator's Winter 2012 class, has closed on $1.4 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Spring Ventures, along with S...

The 16GB BlackBerry PlayBook is no more. A rumor began circulating this morning stating that the low-end model was getting the ax and it was apparently true. In a statement released to Engadget RIM co...

It looks like LinkedIn isn't the only company dealing with password woes as of late. Just one day after it was reported that 6.5 million LinkedIn user passwords were dumped on the web, London-based mu...

According to a brief in the Want China Times, workers in the Foxconn plant in Chengdu rioted in a male dormitory, throwing bottles, trash, and furniture after plant security came to the dormitory to i...

Marketing never ceases to crack me up. Sometimes that's a good thing, like when Samsung cracks a few fanboi jokes at Apple ahead of the Superbowl. It's funny, and it delivers their message in a compel...

Google today announced the official launch of its Trusted Stores Program. This program is meant to give online shoppers more assurances that participating online retailers are actually trustworthy. On...

Facebook is planning to launch a new mobile App Center in the coming days -- possibly at an app-themed press event that the company is holding this evening in San Francisco. In the meantime, we've jus...

The news that i/o Ventures had launched the Savannah Fund in Africa is clearly welcome news for an emerging continent. It's $10m fund size will be a shot in the arm for the eco-system there. But I wa...

Shoutlet had several companies trying to buy it, and 15 venture capital firms trying to fund it. But it took a$15 million Series C fromFTV Capitalbecause they offered it a premium valuation, thefreedo...

Tech-focused blog network NetShelter is announcing four new executive hires today, part of what co-founder and CEO Peyman Nilforoush says is a larger company shift to focus on its InPowered Platform.N...

Every year online video ad startup BrightRoll does a survey of advertisers to see how they're approaching online video and what their budget plans are for the coming 12 months. And every year, respond...

After sitting through three major press events at E3 this year and wandering the hall, I began seeing comments regarding the viability of consoles in a constantly-changing tech landscape. First there ...

A somewhat stealthy new startup called Gumhousejust raised over $6 million according to this SEC filing, and there are some big names attached to the project, it seems. According to the Gumhouse.com w...

MG Siegler asked this question yesterday. Where are those awesome Android-exclusive apps that Google chairman Eric Schmidt said were coming?Not here yet, if you look at Flurry's data. The company, whi...

BoxCryptor, an on-the-fly encryption service that's optimized for cloud storage services like Dropbox, Box.net and Google Drive, just announced the launch of its native Mac application. This new Mac a...

Google today announced that AdWords advertisers will be able to run campaigns in the AdMob network of more than 300,000 mobile apps a move that could turn out to be lucrative for both mobile app publ...

Google today announced that AdWords advertisers will be able to run campaigns in the AdMob network of more than 300,000 mobile apps a move that could turn out to be lucrative for both mobile app publ...

Sometimes you want to be out partying on a Friday night and simply can't muster the energy. It happens. But last year at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, a service launched that aimed to solve that p...

Pixable, the iPhone app that aggregates the photos and videos shared by friends on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, is now arriving on Android. But how it got there is something of an intere...

Love it or hate it (I find myself strangely leaning toward the former), that peculiar two-tone metal housing supposedly meant to wrap around Apple's forthcoming iPhone has just recently been given the...

Ringadoc lets you pay a flat fee to instantly talk to a real doctor at any hour of the day, and its big vision to be "the frontline of primary care" has landed it a$750,000 seed round led by FF Angel....

The annual Google Science Fair is an effort to encourage young people from all over the world to think about what's next. Whether it's in health, ecology, or entrepreneurship, Google has been doing it...

We went. We saw. We gamed.As we discuss in the video here, E3 was strange this year. Sony focused on just new games. Microsoft is jamming the Kinect down gamers' throats. Nintendo finally unveiled the...

Citrix announced this morning that it's acquiring mobile traffic optimization company Bytemobile- a move which Citrix says will allow it to enter the mobile and video market with access to the infrast...

Drchrono,a startup focused on bringing medical records and more to the iPhone and iPad, is announcing a big update today which introduces mobile payment feature to its platform, as well as a new way f...

Today, Virgin Mobile has finally put months of rumors and speculation to rest -- starting on June 29, the prepaid Sprint subsidiary will start selling Apple's iPhone 4 and 4S, joining Cricket as the s...

Streaming media players are no joke. In fact, cable has become the joke. Just take a look at this "Shit Silicon Valley Says" video — the first joke is, "are you cancelling cable?" But at the mom...

DJ software specialist Algoriddim has come out with a new app for the iPad, and man is it cool. The company already makes the incredibly popular djay app, which has been a mainstay for Mac-, iPad-, an...

App search company Quixey is today announcing it has closed a $20 million round Series B funding. The round includes previous investors WI Harper Group, U.S. Venture Partners and InnovationEndeavorsas...

What happens when a super angel gets its wings? You become a boutique fund.Or at least that's how Aydin Senkut's Felicis Ventures is putting it with a fresh fund worth about $70 million. That's up fro...

Foursquare, the app that lets people virtually "check in" to places that they physically visit, has debuted a new top-to-bottom redesign of its mobile applications. The new look does not come as much ...

Satya Patel joined Twitter in March of 2011, after a four-year stint as an investor with Battery Ventures. He took on the big job of managing the company's core product as well as its growing advertis...

Shoes Of Prey, a Sydney, Australia-based startup whose website lets women design and order customized footwear, has closed on $3 million in its first round of funding, the company is announcing today....

Flashback to December 6, 2011: Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is on stage at LeWeb in Paris and is asked by an audience member why most application developers still choose todevelopfor iOS first rather ...

Tango Card, the Seattle startup looking to disrupt the burgeoning loyalty/gift card space by acting as a low-cost aggregator and innovator on delivery formats, has picked up a couple of new dancing pa...

A thin Reuters survey says 34% of people THINK they're using Facebook less than six months ago, but Nielsen DATA shows usage is up 18 minutes to seven hours nine minutes per month per user in that tim...

A crowdfunded project by tech blogger Noah Kravitz is going to try to turn around the sclerotic business of education software. Dubbed the Tabula Project, the crowdfunded system will allow teachers to...

Eager Samsung fans have been waiting patiently for their chance to purchase the long-awaited Galaxy S III on June 21 (for some carriers, anyway), but that wait could turn out to be longer than expecte...

According to WiiUDaily (and we're confirming), the Wii U is currently running at 720p resolution, a considerable step down from the 1080p, 3D-pumping action coming out of the 360 and the PS3. Although...

Author Ray Bradbury died today in Los Angeles. He was 91. As a child of the pre-Internet, Bradbury's writing was just on the apex between a grave, plastic future foreseen by Star Wars and the brushwor...

Interstate is a project management application for small teams that focuses on providing businesses and developers with easily sharable roadmaps for their projects. The Y Combinator-funded startup whi...

Shortly after it was reported that nearly 6.5 million LinkedIn account passwords were leaked onto the net, LinkedIn leapt into action and mounted their own investigation.Though most of the morning was...

Early-stage investment firm True Ventures has raised a $205 million third fund.True says it now has $600 million management, and that it has funded more than 100 companies. It calls out some of those ...

Back in early May, Quirky and GE announced a contest that had users pitching ideas for everyday objects that could be improved by adding software to the mix. The eventual winner was surprisingly enou...

Nexage, a mobile ad exchange using real-time bidding, has raised $10 million in Series B funding.The round was led by SingTel Innov8, the venture arm of Asian telecom company SingTel. Nexage CEO Ernie...

Lending Club, the peer-to-peer lending platform, has received $15 million in new funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In addition, John Mack, the former CEO of Morgan Stanley who still s...

Ok, so HBO won't sell its streaming, on-demand video service HBO GO as a standalone service to cord cutters and other folks who don't want to pay a premium for it. We've established that. But for thos...

At a press event in San Francisco this morning, Google announced that it will soon feature far better 3D maps in Google Earth.The company also announced that Google Maps for mobile will soon feature o...

While it used to fly straight ahead, Twitter's new bird logo has its beak held high, representing a company ready to take off, not just cruise on. Bloomberg's sources close to Twitter said the company...

While it used to fly straight ahead, Twitter's new bird logo has its beak held high, representing a company ready to take off, not just cruise on. Bloomberg's sources close to Twitter said the company...

Crashlytics, a Cambridge-based startup that helps developers understand why their mobile apps are crashing, has just beat out an unnamed competitor to acquire the bootstrapped startup calledFireTower....

Listia, the Y Combinator- and Andreessen Horowitz-backed site where people can exchange free goods, is unveiling a new feature called Listia Local in four cities: San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York,...

It's been just over a month since team on-demand car service Uber announced that they had soft launched in Philadelphia, and as usual that time has been spent in quiet contemplation while they worked ...

And we're off. The Southeast meetup tour is officially a go. We'll be hitting up Savannah, Atlanta, Raleigh, Charlotte and Greenville on a quest to uncover hidden technological gems that may or may no...

It's 2012, you're a small business, and you know you need a web presence -- but where do you turn? Maybe a Facebook Page or Twitter account if you want something social and very simple. But maybe you ...

Pandora founder Tim Westergren testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology this morning. His big message: That the same guidelines should be used to de...

It's that time again. Well, who are we kidding? It's always time for iPhone rumors. This one, however, seems to be the rumor that just won't quit. So will the next-gen iPhone have a larger display? Ac...

NYC-basedAdore Me, yet another player in the subscription-based e-commerce business, has raised a second round of funding totaling $2.5 million. Investors in the new round included Redhills Ventures, ...

Editors Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster on his Startup Advice blog: Both Sides of the TableThe media industry ha...

ShareThis wants to give publishers more insight into how their social sharing strategy stacks up, so it's launching two new tools the SQI Analytics Dashboard and SQI Lookup.SQI stands for Social Qual...

Fab.com's international expansion continues, and this morning, the social shopping site is arriving in its 20th market: Canada. The additional market follows Fab's European expansion 13 more countries...

Who says reading is dead? It's certainly doing well for social publishing startup Wattpad, which just raised a big $17.3 million Series B.The funding was led by Khosla Ventures, with Khosla's Andrew C...

Despite its little security incident last week, CloudFlare has been on a roll lately. The service, which as its CEO Matthew Prince likes to call it, provides something akin to "operations as a service...

If you're a LinkedIn user, do yourself a favor and change your password right now -- according to a new report from Dagens IT, nearly 6.5 million encrypted LinkedIn passwords were dumped onto a Russia...

The phrase "AdSense for Images" is sometimes used to describe Google Ventures- and Nokia-backed startup Luminate, but a new integration with FoxSports.com shows that the platform is broader than that....

Surf Air, a new membership-based air service providing short jaunts between California hot spots like Palo Alto, Monterey, Santa Barbara and L.A., has just closed its Series A. And look who invested: ...

GetTaxi, an app aimed at letting people order taxis from their smartphones or via the web, has already gained significant traction in the UK, Russia and Israel. But now it has its sights set on conque...

Everloop, the social network for children under 13, is planning to launch a mobile application, making it one of the first companies to attempt a mobile, social network just for kids. The app, arrivin...

Indiegogo, the website that allows people to contribute money to the causes, artistic projects, and small companies they support, has attracted a good amount of success in the four years since it was ...

Two years ago, HBO introduced HBO Go, giving fans a way to access all of their favorite programming online, on tablets and mobile devices, and increasingly on connected TV platforms. For those of us w...

MOG, the popular streaming music service, today announced that it is partnering with Ford to bring its service to the car manufacturer's SYNC AppLink platform. This will allow Ford drivers with compat...

Before Brightcove, Ooyala, or KIT Digital, there was thePlatform: The online video platform was founded in 2000, long before online video was a thing. Since then, thePlatform has been mainly focused o...

Intrigued upon hearing about these StartupWeekend vets, I managed to track down Cannon.fm founders Ryan Cox and Mat Marcum in order to get a little more info about their interesting and imminently lau...

This morning Zynga announced that it's expanding its FarmVille franchise into an exciting new territory: Orientalism!Yes, there's a new FarmVille add-on called wait for it Jade Falls. Now, fantasy s...

Ellen Pao, the partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers who is suing the legendary venture capital firm for alleged gender discrimination and other claims, has refused to speak to the press sin...

As of today's launch Airtime is a one-on-one video chat network, but what about tomorrow? Co-founders Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning tell us "it'd be pretty cool" if Airtime became an app platform. The...

Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group just announced that it has raised a $300 million fifth fund.This is the firm's fifth fund, and its largest yet. The firm says it had planned to raise $250 million, ...

For investors, Washington policymakers, casual observers of the stock market, and members of the media, the big story for entrepreneurs over the last few weeks has been the highly anticipated initial ...

Online food marketplace and subscription tasting box service Foodzie has been acquired by video eCommerce service Joyus,in a combination cash and stock deal."It was clear to me that video was the key ...

The time has finally come. After a brief stay in U.S. customs, HTC's shining star — the One X — has been slated for a June 10 release on AT&T. We originally expected a May 10 release, ...

The time has finally come.After a brief stay in U.S. customs, HTC's shining star the One X will be back on AT&T store shelves. The device was originally launched back on May 6, but a pesky ITC e...

"Josh paid Aaron $391 for best Coachella weekend ever". Peer-to-peer payments app Venmo thinks that when you pay someone back for drinks, dinner, or concert tickets, you're really sharing memories, an...

So this thing called the Internet makes it easy for pretty much anyone to have a voice and get messages across. The problem is that building beautiful, intuitive websites typically requires some knowl...

Poor T-Mobile. It was one thing when the iPhone was only available at AT&T, but then Verizon got it, and then Sprint, and then the bar dropped quite a bit as U.S. Cellular got it, and most recentl...

There are plenty of products out there promising to help online merchants reach out to visitors who leave without making a purchase. However, SeeWhy founder and Chief Strategy Officer Charles Nicholl...

Apparently it's not unusual for Google to detect that some of its users' accounts are under attack from "states or groups that are state-sponsored." The attacks are so prevalent, it seems, that Google...

Earlier this month, Microsoft decided to try something a little different when it came to selling the Xbox 360. Their plan: to kick off a pilot program under which customers could shell out a mere $99...

Facebook just made several changes to its self-serve ad options. The big one: That advertisers can now buy mobile-only news feed Sponsored Stories -- potentially huge for app developers looking to buy...

What's better than one GoPro camera? Two, naturally. But what about 50? Well, control over 50 GoPro Hero cameras is exactly what you'll get with the freshly announced WiFi BacPac + WiFi Remote Co...

When we think Wikipedia, we think Jimmy Wales. But most of us don't know that Wikipedia actually had a co-founder - a fellow called Larry Sanger, who not only worked on the original version of Wikiped...

Loosecubes, the community marketplace for shared workspace, has today announced that it has secured $7.8 million in series A financing, bringing its total funding to $9 million. The round was led by N...

Boston-based startup Smarterer has been quietly building a gamified platform that provides job searchers with a simple way to show employers what they know by taking quizzes in subjects that range fro...

In honor of today's arguably lackluster Nintendo presser, I present Sidequest, a game that asks you to do all sorts of side quests. Over and over again. Ad infinitum....

At a U.S. House of Representatives hearing earlier this week, a number of government officials from both sides of the aisle, as well as Google's chief Internet evangelist and inventor of the TCP/IP pr...

Last-minute hotel booking startup HotelTonight just announced that it raised a $23 million Series C round led by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). The financing includes existing investors Accel Partners,...

Urbanspoon is continuing to heat up the competition between it and competitorOpenTable with the launch of a new feature for Rezbook, its iPad-based reservation and tablet management system for restaur...

There's no better way to kick off the day than with a wicked phone deal (that's how I've always looked at it, anyway), and the folks Amazon Wireless have a real winner lined up for today. For a brief ...

It was just yesterday that Nintendo unveiled the Wii U Gamepad, but today is the big announcement. Everybody welcome the Wii U. The new console, coupled with the Gamepad, will change gaming entirely, ...

Google just announced that it has acquired Quickoffice, a company best known for its mobile productivity suite for Android and iOS. Google plans to bring Quickoffice's "powerful technology" to its own...

3G connectivity has been baked into cars for years now. Audi and Ford pioneered the technology, but times are a-changin'. The end-all be-all in wireless is no longer 3G as 4G LTE has taken the main st...

Once upon a time, a humble click of a button could send a web service live. A couple of e-mails out or a post on a message board might be sufficient to draw the interest of a few early adopters. No lo...

Two years ago, OnLive launched with a dramatic plan to upend the gaming industry: By putting game processing in the cloud and streaming over the Internet, it could enable a whole new realm of devices ...

The geeks have gathered, the music is loud, and paired with the graphics on the big screens, this place is basically a stoner's wet dream. The doors of the L.A. Memorial Sports Arena have opened, and ...

Ready your arsenal of funny viral videos, Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning have just launched their video chat and sharing network Airtime. Built on Facebook with a stunning $33.5 million in funding, Air...

How hot are to-do lists? Quite hot, apparently. After Sunday's launch of the popular Android to-do list app Any.DO on iOS and web, co-founder and CEO Omer Perchik tells us that download numbers are ex...

Following its acquisition of marketing giant Vitrue two weeks ago for $300 million, today Oracle struck again. The company has just announced that it has agreed to acquire cloud-based social intellige...

Look at your Android phone! Now back at this post!Imagine you could program your Android to text your wife when you left work. Now imagine your Android reminding you in the morning to grab your umbrel...

One minute into using Airtime I was laughing with someone I'd never met. That's something special when despite all the asynchronous connection, the Internet threatens to make us feel lonely.On Airtime...

LTE is a wonderful thing. It's like seeing the ocean for the very first time, or taking off in a plane. The speed is brand new, and it's beautiful. But unfortunately, most LTE smartphones tend to hang...

Last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a new initiative that is set to significantly expand the number of generic top-level domains (gTLDs), allowing compa...

Speech recognition giant Nuance has made their share of plays in the mobile space before -- they acquired Vlingo last year and pushed out their Dragon Go! voice command app to both iOS and Android.The...

Wibbitz, a company whose tagline calls it the "play button for the web," has just closed a $2.3 million Series A round headed up byHorizons Ventures, the internet and technology investment fund belong...

Most laptops are all the same these days, with very few exceptions. But when those exceptions creep up, we can't help but take a closer look. So is the case with Toshiba's Satellite U845W, which oddly...

Twilio, the San Francisco-based startup that powers all kinds of phone-like applications on the web and mobile, just passed 100,000 developers on its platform. That's up from about 30,000 a year ago."...

E-commerce and m-commerce paymentsplatformBraintree has major news today: it's expanding operations outside of the U.S. and will now become available to thirty additional countries worldwide. The new ...

MapMyFitness, the health and fitness startup that powers a community of fitness-oriented websites like MapMyRUN.com, MapMyRIDE.com, MapMyWALK.com, has today announced that it has closed $9 million in ...

Zola Books, a new social eBooks site to discover, buy and discuss books, just announced that it is launching its private beta today. The company also announced that it has raised $1 million in seed fu...

There's plenty of money to be made if you're an app developer pushing out quality content, but making a name for yourself in your home market is only part of the equation. Developers that have neither...

"People crave feedback on their professional lives," say Brendan Wallace and Adeyemi Ajao, co-founders and co-CEOs of Identified, a young San Francisco-based startup that has been hard at work at gami...

Cartera Commerce, the largest provider of card-linked offers in the U.S., has just raised an additional $12.2 million in Series D funding, bringing its total raise to date to $43 million. The new roun...

Quepasa, the Latin American social networking company that merged with myYearbook, announced in April that it was rebranding as MeetMe. Now the company says the rebranding is complete, capped off with...

Clothing swap in online form Threadflip (a service which I'm a power user and fan of,fyi) has just closed its $6.5M Series-A round.The financing was set at around a $20-25 million post-money valuation...

It just makes sense that the failure of Facebook to spectacularly IPO would affect all markets public and private right? But especially the companies, public or private, that are contingent upon, teth...

Clarizen, a company offering online project management tools, has raised $12 million in Series E funding.The round was led by Vintage Partners, with past backers Benchmark Capital, Carmel Ventures, DA...

Let the mobile payment wars continue! Only yesterday Square announced its ever-expanding retail availability (20,000 outlets nationwide), and today competitor Intuit GoPayment is following up with som...

Sony is certainly no stranger to the mobile space -- the recently-divorced Sony Mobile Communications branch has been announcing plenty of handsets lately, but the company has decided that their PlayS...

Although the vast majority of Sony gaming content is focused on adult/teen titles, a new title called Wonderbook is particularly interesting. Using an augmented-reality book, kids can turn pages and w...

Like Microsoft did in their own press conference earlier today, Sony was quick to point out that their consoles aren't just gaming gadgets -- they're great for consuming media too. To further cement t...

If a company needs to send marketing emails, it choose from a range of email service providers, such as iContact and Exact Target. But a startup called Ongage says that if you want your emails to make...

Looks like the seed funding wave continues to get stronger. The latest evidence: Khosla Ventures, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm headed up by tech industry veteran Vinod Khosla, appears to be...

CloudFlare, the increasingly popular security and CDN service, suffered a security breach last week that allowed hacktivist group UGNazitohijack the company's CEO's Matthew Prince's Gmail account and ...

Netflix announced today that it is rolling out a new CDN of its own, called Open Connect, which will reduce its costs of delivery and could improve delivery of its content. But Open Connect isn't just...

I'm a full supporter of e-books, e-book devices, and agree (mostly) with this excellent WSJ assessment by Rob Reid of the the e-book business. In short, Reid points out that 10 years ago this month th...

Today, I participated in a meeting at the White House described as an "expert roundtable on patient access to health data" hosted by Todd Park (Chief Technology Officer of the United States), Farzad ...

Nearly every U.S. wireless carrier that will stock Samsung's much-anticipated Galaxy S III laid out their intentions this morning, but some were more forthcoming than others. While Verizon, T-Mobile, ...

If you liked the larger photos that Facebook introduced to its mobile news feed last month, here's some good news: It's bringing a similar redesign to its Web interface.Specifically, Facebook says pho...

The Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator is back, with 10 new startups just announced as part of its Summer 2012 class. From political fundraising to group travel to social business referrals, the inc...

Meebo, the seven year-old chat service that morphed into a website toolbar and ad platform, is indeed selling to Google. The company confirmed the news a few minutes ago, and we've since dug up some m...

The GTar, everyone's favorite Disrupt near-winner, has just announced full MIDI compatibility for their guitar, allowing musicians to connect to popular software and "play" various sounds and triggers...

Amazon's $79 Kindle may be the least flashy of the the bunch, but the Seattle company is starting to push out a new software update that adds some much-needed functionality to their cost-conscious e-r...

Meebo has been around in Silicon Valley for seven years, starting with a site that let users chat with each other across different instant message services -- then becoming a social toolbar, and much ...

Meebo has been around in Silicon Valley for seven years, starting off with a site that let users chat with each other across different instant message services -- then becoming a social toolbar, and a...

Movile has spent the last decade providing content to Latin American audiences primarily on feature phones through partnerships with mobile carriers. Now Movile, which is based in Brazil, is looking t...

Google just added a small but interesting new feature to its Google Analytics product. You can now see how much of your site your visitors are really seeing, based on the new browser-size analysis the...

San Francisco has had an awesome few weeks of 75th anniversary celebrations. The Golden Gate bridge celebration was pretty obvious, as there was a lot of fanfare with fireworks etc., but another celeb...

Gemvara, a Boston-based custom jewelry site we've written about in the past, just announced that it has closed a $25 million Series D funding round. This overscubscribed round was led by Norwest Ventu...

Microsoft just threw down at E3 2012. After exciting the crowd with Halo and Gears of War titles, the company unveiled new additions to the 360's vast media offering. Don't be distracted by the video ...

Zynga just closed a talent acquisition of Oregon-based video game maker Buzz Monkey, which will add about 50 people to its arsenal of game developers, we've confirmed with sources who have knowledge o...

We haven't been paying much attention to new games this E3 but a new title, Wreckateer, should be interesting to casual gamers who have a passing familiarity with another title involving avians who ar...

We haven't been paying much attention to new games this E3 but a new title, Wreckateer, should be interesting to casual gamers who have a passing familiarity with another title involving avians who ar...

The announcements just keep pouring out of Microsoft's press event at the Galen Center, so here's another one to chew on -- Microsoft has announced that a version of their Internet Explorer browser wi...

Microsoft just announced a new feature called Xbox SmartGlass, a "second screen" feature that allows you to view information about media on the screen of a mobile device or PC.SmartGlass allows you to...

It may not be much of a surprise any more, but Microsoft has just officially pulled back the curtains on their new Xbox Music service at their pre-E3 press conference at the Galen Center in California...

Microsoft just announced an upcoming improvement to the Xbox 360 that allows you to search for movies and video content simply by calling out a few simple phrases ("bing action" for action movies, for...

Rounds, the social video chat app for Facebook and the web, backed by $5.5 million in funding from Verizon Investments, Rhodium, DFJ's Tim Draper and other angels, is now expanding to the desktop. Thi...

A small but interesting acquisition for Twitter as it continues to hone the services that it delivers to brands and other would-be advertisers alongside its core microblogging service: it has bought N...

A small but interesting acquisition for Twitter as it continues to hone the services that it delivers to brands and other would-be advertisers alongside its core microblogging service: it has bought N...

Microsoft's Don Mattrick announced at the Microsoft media event at E3 that the Microsoft Xbox 360 has moved from the top console in North America to the top console worldwide, beating out the PS3 and ...

Most Firefox updates over the last few months were relatively minor. Firefox 13, which is now available for download and which will go out to existing users tomorrow, is a bit different. This update a...

Given Instapaper creator Marco Arment's less-than-enthusiastic stance on Android, it didn't seem like an Android version of his popular story-saving app would ever see the light of day. A handful of p...

Square has doubled its presence in retail stores since the beginning of the year by landing in about 20,000 outlets nationwide. At the beginning of the year, the company told us that it was in about 1...

We originally reported on the project to create a new kind of startup space in Berlin back in April, provisionally titled "The Factory". I recently visited the project which has been put together by J...

DIY website creation service Webs.com is launching an all-new version of its flagship product today with the introduction of the completely revamped SiteBuilder3. The new website designing tool now in...

Apple has introduced a guide to iOS security, which was posted to Apple.com sometime in late May, but is just now being noticed outside the Apple developer community. The publication is notable becaus...

Boxee is best known for software that makes online video more accessible on user's TV screens. Now it's working on something totally different -- helping users to take their own personal videos and ma...

Bespoke Post, a new e-commerce startup using the subscription-based "box of the month" model, is making a splashy public debut next week thanks to a new partnership with Details magazine, a Cond Nast ...

How many Internet users are there in Russia? How big are the Russian Internet advertising and e-commerce markets? If you lie awake at night wondering, you're not alone. Trying to get a handle on this ...

For the mobile game version of Pixar's new movie Brave, Disney looked for help from the developers behind a big iOS hit Imangi Studios, the creators of Temple Run.Bart Decrem, the former Tapulous CEO...

And here we go! Samsung announced late last night that the long-awaited Galaxy S III would hit five of the U.S.'s biggest carriers -- Verizon Wireless, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and U.S. Cellular --...

And here we go! Samsung announced late last night that the long-awaited Galaxy S III would hit five of the U.S.'s biggest carriers -- Verizon Wireless, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and U.S. Cellular --...

Seattle-basedMobilisafe, a mobile security startup backed by $1.2 million in funding fromMadrona Venture Group,Trilogy Equity Partnershipand T-Venture, is exiting its private beta program and launchin...

Like an Airbnb but for events spaces, Eventup is announcing a $1.8 million seed round today, with financing led by Eric Lefkofsky's Lightbank and followed on by NEA, Crosscut Ventures, New World Ventu...

Ross Levinsohn, the interim CEO of Yahoo, and members of his board have "stepped up" talks with Facebook to settle their patent dispute, according to AllThingsD, but that is not the end of legal wrang...

Salesforcelast week was reported to be close to buying Buddy Media, and today the company has confirmed it: it's buying Buddy Media, the social media marketer, in a $689 million, cash-and-shares deal....

Company culture is a huge competitive advantage: That's why Zuckerberg obsesses over Facebook's hackathons and why Yahooers "bleed purple." Of course, anything that causes people to feel loyal to orga...

If you're following Foursquare on Twitter, you've probably noticed that the check-in champions have been teasing the release of the "all new Foursquare" app for the last few days, dropping hints that ...

Woofound, a Maryland-based startup aiming to match your personality to things you want to do, is today launching its iOS application nationwide. The app turns rating activities, places and restaurants...

Launched just about a year ago, live streaming site TwitchTV has very quickly established itself as one of the top destinations for e-sports enthusiasts who want to broadcast their gaming sessions to ...

Last October, Kimball Thomas and Davis Smith launched Baby.com.br with $4.4 million in backing from an impressive group of Silicon Valley and international investors, including Tiger Global Management...

Details are still just mainly technical, but Nintendo just took the wraps off the final version of the Wii U's controller, now named Gamepad. This came during Nintendo's somewhat surprising pre-E3 pre...

Editor's note: Location is key to monetizing mobile ads, ThinkNear chief executive Eli Portnoy wrote in a guest post for us yesterday. Now James Hritz weighs in with some further thoughts on the matte...

"Where are Facebook's friends? Stock slide deepens," the Associated Press wonderedrecently. "Facebook's flotation: more pokes than likes," The Guardian quipped. "Status change for Facebook's IPO?," MS...

Good news, everybody! The iCade Mobile, a Bluetooth case that slides around your iPhone, allowing you to play games using a trackpad and read buttons, is now shipping for $80. The iCade Core, an arcad...

Pocket God is best-known as a hit game for iOS and other smartphone platforms, but Dave Castelnuovo, head of developer Bolt Creative, says the story and characters have been embraced in another medium...

If Appsplit is any indication, either crowdfunding is the future of everything or there's a crowdfunding gold rush. I'm going to bet it's a little of both.This new service allows programmers to crowdf...

Any.DO, the gorgeous to-do app for Android, has finally made its way to the iPhone and the webtoday. Developed by the team behindTaskos, one of the most popular to-do list applications on the Android ...

The recent Broadway revival of Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman got me thinking about the differences between the pitches I hear from entrepreneurs, and why some succeed and others dont.Willy Lomans...

Last summer when I started working onUndrip, I was in a tough spot. I grew up doing web and graphic design so I was a pretty good front-end developer and designer. But I knew nothing about back-end we...

Mary Meekers presentation this week on mobile shone light on the mobile monetization problem and argued that ad $ follow eyeballs, it just takes time. However, she failed to address the reason for the...

Startx, the startup accelerator for Stanford University students, held its Spring 2012 Demo Day this past week at AOL headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Seven very diverse startups presented to a ...

PicPlz, the mobile photo sharing app that is perhaps known best for being an early and direct competitor with Instagram, will shut down permanently on July 3. Mixed Media Labs, the parent company of P...

A couple weeks ago I ran this post showing how one Hong Kong developer, Animoca, tests its Android games. The company, which has had more than 70 million downloads, tests every one of their apps on ab...

My son recently tried to call one of our older relatives. He dialed the number and quickly hung up with a confused look on his face. I asked him what was wrong and he replied, I dont know. Theres some...

The Evo 4G LTE is a fine phone. There certainly aren't any glaring issues: Sense has been considerably streamlined, and it's really good at what it was made to do, which is entertain. The design langu...

There's no shortage of robust, full-featured file storage and sharing services out there, but where do you turn when you want the quickest, simplest way to go? Crate costs money, JustBeamIt requires b...

Cleveland, known to many as the "Land From Whence The Cleves Came," is rarely mentioned when you think of hotbeds of entrepreneurial energy. But yet it was the long time home to Harvey Pekar and does ...

People keep asking, "Why would anyone of sane mind buy a $17,000 luxury watch with a Space Invader's theme?" If you are familiar with the Swiss watch brand Romain Jerome - you don't need an answer. Th...

Robots are hard to talk to. They're not friendly, they're mostly made of plastic, and, as anyone who has tried to chat with a Roomba can attest, they are often dedicated to a single task. Luckily, the...

The Gillmor Gang John Taschek, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor watches helplessly as robots briefly take over the show. As investors reel from the backwash of the Facebook...

You guys may remember a post on TechCrunch yesterday about a trademark spat between an entrepreneur named Brian Hamachek, who built an app called Who's Near Me Live, and a Lightbank-backed startup cal...

At TC Disrupt New York, the White Houses chief geeks -- CTO Todd Park and CIO Steve Van Roekel -- rang the bell for Silicon Valley to step up and help recode the federal government with their Digital ...

So Facebook's IPO was a disaster. Or maybe it wasn't. Yes, it was an utter fiasco. No, wait: "The debacle was not the IPO but all the whining by speculators who didn't make money." Nope, it was "the f...

One of the most frustrating things Ive experienced as a leader is putting months into recruiting an amazing VP or engineer, only to have them change their mind at the 11th hour because of a ridiculous...

So here's a story that hopefully will be an eye-opener for entrepreneurs and startups, while providing a painful peek into trademark harassment and the importance of due diligence. It goes a little so...

Affectiva, a startup that tries to measure the emotional response people have to ads and brands, just announced that it has a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.The company spun out o...

Last summer, after graduating from AngelPad, San Francisco-based Crittercism announced that it had raised $1.2 million in seed funding from the likes of Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Opus Capital,...

When the Galaxy S and the Galaxy S II made their respective journeys to the United States, they lost a little something that international customers have enjoyed since the beginning: the physical home...

It's a testament to how important Facebook has become in the web ecosystem that the social network's performance issues yesterday didn't just affect the site itself but also a wide variety of other si...

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

Well, it's about time. Many of us were absolutely floored by the iCache Geode mobile wallet when it first appeared back in April, and now the company has announced that the hotly-awaited accessory is ...

There's been a lot of flirting going on in recent months between Apple and Facebook. In February, Apple CEO Tim Cook told a group of investors that Facebook was "the one company that is closest to bei...

One interesting trend I've been watching over the last year or so is the intersection of social and personalization as a way to discover new videos. And, of course, how it helps users to discover new ...

If you've got a vacation coming up, a startup called HoozTrippin is aiming to make it more fun by connecting you with other travelers.Co-founder and CEO Steven Oh (who was formerly the head of product...

The Nokia Lumia 900 The Dark Knight Rises Edition handset has made its way on the interwebs recently and it's nothing short of a beauty, with a black polycarbonate unibody frame and a laser-etched Bat...

Zillow, the popular online real estate search engine, just announced that it has closed its previously announced $40 million acquisition of RentJuice. With RentJuice, Zillow now owns a rental relatio...

Ticket search engine SeatGeek is best known as the place to find good deals on sports tickets, but it's working to dominate ticketing for any live events, including concerts. It just announced its fir...

The online mapping space is quickly heating up. What used to be a relatively straightforward competition between Google and Microsoft (with Openstreetmap and a few other smaller players standing on th...

Earlier this month, Bing, the other white meat search engine, revealed its big redesign, which put a heavy emphasis on social search. Today, Microsoft announced the new version of Bing.com is now avai...

In an excellent piece by David Sanger, the NY Times has confirmed what we all suspected: that the US deployed the Stuxnet worm, a powerful worm that targets very specific machines within Iran's nuclea...

Max Schrems, the Austrian founder of Europe Vs. Facebook,successfullyforced Facebook to putproposed policy changesup for a vote by all its usersby mobilizing his privacy group to flood Facebook's Site...

Max Schrems, the Austrian founder of Europe Vs. Facebook, has forced Facebook to putproposed policy changesup for a vote by all its users. By mobilizing his privacy group to flood Facebook's Site Gove...

While in the US the visibility of women in technology startups is pretty well established, in Europe it's suffered a little from the more general problem of the fragmented nature of the European tech ...

Waxing for two at Take-It-Offs in Scranton? $100 worth of Polka lessons for 40 cents? An avant garde grilled cheese sandwich meal with metal shavings in it at Chez Naif for $60? You don't want any of ...

Happy Friday, here's some more patent trolling nonsense for you today: Google said on Thursday it had filed a complaint with the European Commission which claims cell phone maker Nokia is colluding wi...

Cricket Communications made waves yesterday morning when they announced that they would be the first prepaid carrier in the country to offer Apple's iPhone, and now it seems that other contract-averse...

Another entry in the mobile-first, private social networking for families space (yes, apparently this is a thing now): 23snaps, a new iOS application that works like a mini-Facebook for posting status...

Watch out, Best Buy and Samsung. Ikea is seemingly doing to home entertainment systems what Apple did to portable electronics. The company previously revealed its upcoming entrance into the home theat...

Much of the time when you talk about browser market share, it's in the context of IE vs. Chrome vs. all the rest. But new data released from e-commerce technology companyMonetatetoday has thrown the m...

Ever want to re-watch one of those awesome and inspirational five-minute Nike ads, but didn't know where to look? Video ad distributor Sharethrough has rolled out a new video portal that is designed t...

Ever want to re-watch one of those awesome and inspirational five-minute Nike ads, but didn't know where to look? Video ad distributor Sharethrough has rolled out a new video portal that is designed t...

The powers at the ETSI just released the specifications for a new SIM format. This card, the fourth form factor or the 4FF, is 40% smaller than the current micro-SIM card. It looks very similar to tra...

Property startup Zoopla and the A&N Media (DMGT)-owned Digital Property Group (Findaproperty / Primelocation) have formally completed their merger following approval by the UK's Office of Fair Tra...

MoneySupermarket, a UK-based price comparison site for financial services, is acquiring advice site MoneySavingExpert from founder Martin Lewis, for 87 million ($133 million).Lewis, a personal finance...

Today comes news of a small but indicative acquisition in the area of daily deals: the UK-based deals aggregator Coupobox has been bought by rival site DealCollectorfor a song: the price was in the "l...

The end is in sight for Churn Labs, the startup generator created by AdMob founder Omar Hamoui and AdMob's first engineer Mike Rowehl. Two new companies will be spinning out in mid-July, Hamoui tells ...

The end is in sight for Churn Labs, the startup generator created by AdMob founder Omar Hamoui and AdMob's first engineer Mike Rowehl. Two new companies will be spinning out in mid-July, Hamoui tells ...

To improve academic outcomes and keep students in school, teachers, learners and administrators need access to insight in realtime. Big data, predictive analytics, machine learning and recommendation ...

If you hate accidental auto-sharing, you're in luck. Now you have to be watching or reading something for at least 10 seconds before Facebook apps can auto-share the activity to your Timeline. That sh...

With Skype under Microsoft ownership, Rebtel now claims to be the largest independent mobile VoIP provider, with 17 million users in over 200 countries accessing its service over WiFi and 3G on iPhone...

If you want to learn about the booming tech startup scene in New York City, it doesn't get much better than talking to Fred Wilson. Wilson has emerged as perhaps the most recognizable figure of the no...

"Let me tell you the difference between Facebook and everyone else, we don't crash EVER!" - 'Mark Zuckerberg', The Social Network. Not quite. Facebook was offline or slow to load for some users around...

"Let me tell you the difference between Facebook and everyone else, we don't crash EVER!" - 'Mark Zuckerberg', The Social Network. Not quite. Facebook has been offline or slow to load for some users a...

"Let me tell you the difference between Facebook and everyone else, we don't crash EVER!" - 'Mark Zuckerberg', The Social Network. Not quite. Facebook has been offline or slow to load for some users a...

"Let me tell you the difference between Facebook and everyone else, we don't crash EVER!" - 'Mark Zuckerberg', The Social Network. Not quite. Facebook has been offline or slow to load for some users a...

The RIM PlayBook by just received a developers update that adds some interesting new Android functionality to RIM’s tablet. This new version now supports Android apps running in their own window...

Manipulating images for your website is such a tedious chore. You need to open Photoshop, click your mouse about ten thousand times, then save the file and upload it. Then next month you redesign your...

Yancey Strickler, co-founder of Kickstarter, dropped us a line about the systems in place to "hide" failed projects. He told us that Kickstarter does indeed hide many projects from search robots, but ...

Solar Mosaic, an Oakland, California-based startup that is creating a crowdfunding platform specifically for solar energy projects, has taken on $2.5 million in Series A funding.The round was led by S...

Another day, another iPhone 5 leak. This time we're looking at a four-inch long front panel of what appears to be a new iPhone. This panel suggests a longer, 16:9 style body and screen and lines up wi...

It was just last September that we covered the launch of Prescreen, the startup founded by former Groupon and Zoosk execs that aimed to help independent films find the publicity they nearly always lac...

I'm smack dab in the middle of my HTC Evo 4G LTE review (the full review will be up tomorrow), but as I judge, I felt the need to bring John Biggs into the mix for a little Fly or Die. Now, John is no...

Y Combinator's Paul Graham recently beggedentrepreneursto consider "frightening ambitious startup ideas," like building a better search engine or replacing universities. "Any one of them could make yo...

What's the best thing that I (and others) learned at D10 this year? (Other than the fact that Steve Jobs used to own a peacock, of course.)Onstage at D1o, Google SVP of Advertising Susan Wojicicki rev...

Remember this report about Google Chrome passing Microsoft's Internet Explorer in browser market share? Well, at today's D10 conference, Chrome SVP Sundar Pichal basically confirmed this is true, sayi...

Microsoft just announced that the Windows 8 Release Preview, the company's final pre-release version of Windows 8, is now available for download. With this release, Microsoft is also making new versio...

Businesses struggle to come up with what to post to their Facebook Page each day, and making those posts actually get seen is a difficult as the dark arts. That's why PostRocket has raised $610,000 to...

OnSwipe's been around for a little over a year, and since raised $1 million in funding and launched content recommendations within its HTML5 tablet publishing network. But just as tablets are entering...

"In the Studio" begins the summer by welcoming an entrepreneur from Austin who worked in various roles at different startups before she tried to return a cable box to TimeWarner, an experience which m...

Privacy guidelines such as the "Do Not Track" option proposed by the Federal Trade Commission does not necessarily mean the end of the kind of targeted online ads that have brought such riches to web ...

Quite a bit hangs on the horizon in the world of gadgets. E3 is right around the corner, as is WWDC (Apple's Developer conference), and while hardware gets cooler and cooler, the spec does not. John, ...

Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) closed its window for new generic top-level domain name applications. ICANN will publish a list of all the applied-for strings in...

Until now, online and mobile video dating has mostly been about looking at video clips. Flikdate for iOS, however, is all about live video calls, making it feels more like a mix of Chatroulette and Ma...

Banjo, the slightly creepy social discovery app that shows you who's doing what nearby, has been updated today with a handful of new tweaks for its iOS version. Sorry Android folks -- you'll have to s...

Those who don't live or haven't recently traveled to China may not have experienced this first hand, but Google Search has been known to be "inconsistent and unreliable" in mainland China -- to use Go...

Those who don't live or haven't recently traveled to China may not have experienced this first hand, but Google Search has been known to be "inconsistent and unreliable" in mainland China -- to use Go...

What once you had to use or pay for outside software to do, Facebook now offers for free. Facebook today rolled outPage administrator permissionsand post scheduling. The two critical marketing feature...

Megan Quinn, the web exec who most recently served as the Director of Products at credit card processing tech firm Square, has joined Sand Hill Road venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield &...

Startup Bizo tries to help advertisers reach a business audience using methods like retargeting. Now it's making those retargeting capabilities available in a self-serve product.For anyone who needs a...

Mobile video is taking off, especially due to high-quality video streams available over increasingly fast LTE mobile networks. The only problem is that most users have wireless plans that include a li...

Mobile video is taking off, especially due to high-quality video streams available over increasingly fast LTE mobile networks. The only problem is that most users have wireless plans that include a li...

Hipstamatic has made a successful business out of its popular (and paid) iPhone camera appand the many features it has incorporated to enhance that photo experience: four million active monthly users ...

The microphone in the iPhone 4S is pretty good -- I have found it to capture excellent quality on all my consumer-ish recordings and videos. Of course, that is not to say it could not be improved.When...

Popular blogging platform Tumblr has quietly introduced a minor, but notable new feature: a better way to find contacts through your other social networking services or Gmail. On the page available at...

It's nice to check-in to battle to be the mayor of your favorite burger joint, or to get 30 percent off a purchase, but it's much more satisfying to check-in and feel as if you've actually done some g...

We're living in a post-PC era, which means you likely have a few laptops/netbooks you're looking to toss out in exchange for a shiny new mobile device. That said, Amazon's trade-in program has recentl...

Exec, which is kind of like Uber-meets-Taskrabbit, is overhauling its product today. It's adding iMessages-like functionality to the app that makes it easier for customers to sync up with the people r...

It was wrote off as a glitch in the Matrix and quickly fixed when Apple's Siri proclaimed that the Lumia 900 Windows Phone was the best smartphone available. Now, just a few weeks later, Samsung's S V...

According to the latest data from the Pew Internet & American Life project, 15% of online adults in the U.S. now say that they have used Twitter in the past and 8% told Pew that they do so on a ty...

The team at AnchorFree have been rather busy lately -- not only have they just recently closed a $52 million funding round, they've also gotten around to releasing an Android version of their popular ...

Data visualization isn't easy, especially if your data is coming from a wide variety of sources. Datahero, which is launching its private alpha today, wants to make it easier for individuals, small co...

At first glance, you might mistake Clipboard, the impressively-backed web clipping service, for yet another Pinterest clone. But any similarities are only skin deep. Clipboard's real rivals are things...

LeWeb has just published its agenda for its new June 19-20 event in London and it's looking good. The theme this year is "Faster Than Real Time" and will feature a host of big names from the world of ...

LeWeb has just published its agenda for its new June 19-20 event in London and it's looking good. The theme this year is "Faster Than Real Time" and will feature a host of big names from the world of ...

It feels like it was just yesterday that I was downloading Fruit Ninja on a review unit of the iPad, swiping away at juicy watermelons and nearly-invisible kiwis. But the app has been around for a whi...

Salesforce.com is working to make Desk.com, the customer service platform for small and medium businesses that it launched in January, more useful for global companies by announcing support for multip...

This month, app store analytics firmDistimois taking a step back from analyzing the details of mobile app trends to survey the larger landscape of the app stores themselves. While some of the new entr...

The crew of carriers that have been allowed to sell the iPhone has been growing steadily over the past few months, but today's announcement from Cricket Communications wasn't one most us expected to s...

Diffbot, the super-geeky/awesome visual learning robot technology which aims to "see" the web the way that people do, is today announcing a new infusion of capital. The company has closed $2 million i...

Online video site Vimeo has always sought to differentiate itself as a platform for high-quality video content. Now the IAC-owned video platform is now adding features to help creators enhance their v...

As more businesses and consumers sign up to services that operate in the cloud, so more companies working in this space continue to get attention from investors. The latest is Sonian, a specialist in ...

Although I seriously doubt these things will take off into the stratosphere like the Pebble, the Cookoo watch on Kickstarter has already hit $120,000 on a $150,000 target, placing it up with the big b...

I would totally embed this video but Wordpress won't let us, so here it is. It's essenitally a quick run-through of Google Glass thanks to Sergey Brin. He even gave them to California Lieutenant Gover...

I would totally embed this video but Wordpress won't let us, so here it is. It's essenitally a quick run-through of Google Glass thanks to Sergey Brin. He even gave them to California Lieutenant Gover...

Some enterprise IT consolidation afoot, and a sign of the business crunch that the enterprise market has witnessed in the last year.CGI Corporation, an IT services firm based in Canada, has made an al...

GoCardless, the Y Combinator-backed startupfounded in 2010 by Oxford graduates Hiroki Takeuchi, Tom Blomfield and Matt Robinson, is today launching a new product called PayLinks which aims to be somet...

Talk about coincidence. Just earlier this week, in a post on Facebook and the possibility of buying web browsing company Opera and facial recognition company Face.com, we highlighted how a new version...

Aol's chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong was in the house last week at TechCrunch's Disrupt NYC conference, and while he got a good grilling on stage by my colleague Josh Constine, we still took advantage...

When Google launched the new Devices section of their Google Play Store, it only seemed like a matter of time before the company would eventually expand beyond selling just the unlocked Galaxy Nexus. ...

The economic downturn of the last few years hit few cities as hard as Detroit. Still, the city has recently become somewhat of a startup hub in its own right and today Ford Global Technologies, a whol...

i/o Ventures, the incubator and co-working space located in San Francisco's Mission District, just held the demo day for its latest batch of startups. All of them have been working out of the i/o offi...

Optimizely, the Y Combinator-incubated startup that helps companies A/B test their websites, just announced that it has raised new funding from Battery Ventures, Google Ventures, and InterWest Partner...

Because Steve Jobs had visited the AllThingsD stage so many times over the course of the past decade, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher decided to pay him tribute by inviting two of his friends for 25 ye...

Paul Graham may be the most public face of Silicon Valley startup incubator Y Combinator, but as the firm has grown so has its managing team. One of the first people to join YC as a partner besides it...

Oracle's Larry Ellison has acquired a reputation as a cloud computing opponent after all, he famously called the term "complete gibberish" a few years ago. Today, however, he said, "I'm no longer res...

NASDAQ had a choice. When its systems buckled under the titanic volume of Facebook IPO share orders, it could have pushed back trading a day, or at least recommended as much to Mark Zuckerberg and com...

John Doerr, the longtime partner at Silicon Valley venture capital stalwart Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers who is perhaps the firm's most recognizable public face, has spoken out for the first ...

Once something is on the Internet, it's typically pretty hard to delete it. Unless somebody retweets a posting to Twitter, though, a deleted tweet it is pretty much gone forever. With Politwoops, howe...

Could Apple really be looking to end their longstanding affair with the 30-pin Dock Connector? It's been a move that's been rumored for years, and a job opening at Cupertino for a Connector Design Eng...

Answering a question at AllThingsD, Sean Parker confirmed that "there was some indication" that Apple tried to keep Spotify out of the US market."There was some indication that that was happening," Pa...

Answering a question at AllThingsD, Sean Parker confirmed that "there was some indication" that Apple tried to keep Spotify out of the U.S. market."There was some indication that that was happening," ...

Earlier this morning at D10 KPCB analyst Mary Meeker showed a pretty definitive slide about the current state of the public markets with regards to tech companies. "The private market is in a bubble,"...

Traditionally, dating sites like eHarmony and OkCupid follow the same format. You input your info, browse through all the thumbnails accompanied by A/S/L, and send out a barrage of flirty messages. Th...

Well, that was quick. The news of an impending Flipboard Android beta only began making the rounds earlier this morning, and now the Flipboard team has opened up the beta process to anyone interested ...