Articles by Techcrunch from January 2013

Google Forms just got a nice little refresh and now allows you to build questionnaires and collect the data in a Google Drive spreadsheet a bit easier. The new version of Forms now allows you to colla...

Today Dropbox launched the ability to instantly preview any file you've saved so you don't have to download it to know what it is. It also launched a photos tab for the web to make it easy to view and...

Today Dropbox launched the ability to instantly preview any file you've saved so you don't have to download it to know what it is. It also launched a photos tab for the web to make it easy to view and...

Nokia has announced via its Conversations blog that the long-awaited Windows Phone 7.8 update, which brings a few of the features from Windows Phone 8 to older hardware, has begun rolling out to owner...

It wouldn't be a BlackBerry press event without something totally unexpected and semi-weird thrown in the mix. Today, at BlackBerry's media conference revealing BlackBerry 10, the company appointed Al...

Uber has brought its premium taxi calling app to Singaporethe first country in Asia to get it. The company has been trialing its service here for the past week. According to users who have tried it ou...

You know, for a company that made its mark thanks to devices with physical QWERTY keyboards, BlackBerry really didn't spend much time chatting about the Q10. It's going to hit the street well after th...

There's a ton of good news today for Lyft. The company has struck a deal with the California Public Utilities Commission that will remove fines and allow it to continue operating in the state. It also...

Chegg has long been known as a textbook company, becoming one of the first companies to bring textbook rental online and reach widespread adoption. But with Amazon, Apple and others moving aggressivel...

Chegg has long been known as a textbook company, becoming one of the first companies to bring textbook rental online and reach widespread adoption. But with Amazon, Apple and others moving aggressivel...

Microsoft just made a major announcement that will likely take many developers by surprise. At the ALM Summit in Redmond, WA this morning, Microsoft Brian Harry just announced that its Team Foundation...

RIM's accessories are almost as interesting as its first BB10 shipping hardware, and in addition to an external battery charger, they've also got a Bluetooth Speaker/speakerphone that's extremely port...

BlackBerry didn't only unveil the Z10 today, it also introduced a couple of accessories, including the external battery charger for the LS1, the Z10's 1800 mAh battery. The external charger is extreme...

We're right in the thick of RIM's big BlackBerry 10 announcement in New York, and it's been nothing if not eventful so far. CEO Thorsten Heins just recently unveiled the new BlackBerry Z10 (full revie...

PlayHaven, the gaming service provider that helps studios monetize their players better, just grabbed Google Admob’s Charles Yim as COO. He’ll oversee the company’s international exp...

BlackBerry''s big day is here, and so is the first BlackBerry 10 smartphone. A company's hopes are resting on this bold (no pun intended) new device, and to some extent, a nation's as well. I've been ...

The BlackBerry keyboard is dead, long live the BlackBerry keyboard. Despite the full throttle touchscreen focus of its new mobile platform, BlackBerry 10, RIM has not forgotten its most fervent fans' ...

No more RIM-shots allowed if you are among those who like to joke about the trials and tribulations of the Canadian handset manufacturer. Today the company said that it was dropping its Research In Mo...

Google yesterday started to offer the Nexus 4once again in the Google Play stores in the U.S., Canada and Germany, and today it's started to roll it out to the rest of the markets where it quickly wen...

Google yesterday started to offer the Nexus 4once again in the Google Play stores in the U.S., Canada and Germany, and today it's started to roll it out to the rest of the markets where it quickly wen...

After what feels like years of decline, CEO shakeups, and launch after launch of the same old stuff, RIM is turning a new maple leaf. The Canada-based firm is today unveiling its BB10 operating system...

E-sports streaming provider Twitch is getting a huge validation of its platform from one of the biggest video game franchises out there. Today the company is announcing that gamers playing Call Of Dut...

Apple still leads in terms of App Store revenue, according to a new report from app store analytics firm App Annieout today, but Google Play's revenue is accelerating. From Q3 2012 to Q4 2012, Google ...

Tomfoolery -- a startup founded by ex-Yahoos and AOLers that plans to make mobile-first enterprise apps inspired by the best apps in the consumer market -- is opening for business and has is announcin...

Microsoft is pinching CIOs by not providing an easy way to run the just released Microsoft Office 2013 on anything except Windows RT. With little cross-platform integration, Microsoft is creating an o...

The latest Google phone, LG's Nexus 4, is as good as it gets in the land of Android (or "Landroid," if you will). However, the handset has been plagued with logistical issues like a difficult ordering...

Boston-based uTest just announced a new product, Applause. It's a mobile app analytics service that has two key advantages. It works across Apple's App Store and Google Play and it gives an easy-to-un...

As we reported a few weeks ago, VC firm Lightbank is looking to expand its investments beyond Chicago. The VC firm started by Groupon seed investors Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell is announcing its s...

Some closure on the story of how Yandex — the Russian search giant — built a social discovery app that relied on Facebook interconnection to gather data, and then found Facebook blocking i...

Some closure on the story of how Yandex -- the Russian search giant -- built a social discovery app that relied on Facebook interconnection to gather data, and then found Facebook blocking its service...

Irish games developer Digit Game Studios has raised a $2.5 million Series A round led by Delta Partners, who have invested $2.1m with existing investor ACT Venture Capital also participating. This bri...

Love them or hate them, infographics are a potent marketing tool, especially on visually-oriented Web sites like Pinterest or Facebook. But using an image to present information often means losing out...

In a move that puts a little heat on HotelTonight and the raft of other last-minute-hotel-booking apps, as well as possibly helping to cool down the planet,Hot Hotelsis tooffset the carbon emissions a...

Today is D-Day for BlackBerry-maker RIM. Or rather BB10 day -- as the company will finally do the big reveal of its rebooted mobile OS platform. With hours to go until the launch event kicks off, RIM ...

China's ZTE is planning to ship more high end smartphones this year in a bid to boost its profit margins and revenue. In an interview with Reuters, Lv Qianhao, head of ZTE's handset strategy, said mak...

Google is sounding a warning klaxon about a proposed law change in Germany which aims to strengthen copyright law for publishers by requiring search engines and online news aggregators to pay a royalt...

Google is sounding a warning klaxon about a proposed law change in Germany which aims to strengthen copyright law for publishers by requiring search engines and online news aggregators to pay a royalt...

Editor’s note:Howard Lindzon is co-founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. You can read his full bio here and find him...

Back in September, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched a contest that aimed to challenge entrepreneurs and app developers to build awesome, innovative education apps on Facebook's platfor...

Michael Dell is trying to get control of Dell, Inc. with as much as $1 billion of his own personal funds. His goal: shift the company's focus from PC sales to a more enterprise focused company that ca...

Private company M&A database CB Insights released a number interesting data points tonight in a report focusing on M&A transactions in the technology sector. According to the report, 2,277 pri...

The startup world woke up to some exciting news this morning, with the $10 million cash sale of restaurant dish photo sharing and recommendation app Foodspotting to online restaurant reservation giant...

In the latest development in a long and complicated series of ongoing lawsuits between the two companies, Judge Lucy Koh has found that Samsung did not willfully infringe Apple patents.Last August, a ...

According to a report in the China Business News (link via Google Translate), the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce has confirmed that Apple will open an R&D and procurement management fac...

Another key member of Zynga's team has left the beleaguered social game maker. This time it's chief game designer Brian Reynolds, as first reported on Polygon. The company confirmed Reynolds' departur...

Yesterday Intuit took a step into social commerce with the acquisition of the team, technology and patents of social payments startup Payvment. Today, it's revealing more about how it plans to expand ...

There's a new Apple TV on the way. Per these FCC documents, the new model is physically slightly smaller and rocks an A5X SoC. With the faster core, the new model should provide a better user experien...

You really have to hand it to Jeff Bezos and Amazon, which seem to continuously defy reality -- and gravity. Amazon just announced its fourth quarter earnings, and if you listen to the press, you'd th...

Facebook laid the groundwork for several new money-makers in Q3 2012. Tomorrow's earnings report will hopefully show ifsearch typeahead ads, app ads, Gifts and Facebook Exchange are actually bringing ...

Last summer, video platform provider VidCaster rolled out a paywall feature, letting its customers collect money for access to their videos. But its clients also asked for a way to request viewer cont...

It's no secret that the Internet has a hard time taking things seriously. "Best. Gulag. Ever.', raved Google user, C. Quinn, about Yodok North Korean prison. Google Chairman Eric Schmidt probably expe...

It's time for another episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you behind the gates of some of the tech industry's hottest companies to see the factory floor where the tastiest app and ga...

Today, it seems that Cisco's international buying spree continues. acquisition of Israeli mobile startup, Intucell, for $475 million in cash last week, the company announced this afternoon that it is ...

Amazon just reported lower than expected fourth quarter earnings today. Net income decreased 45% to $97 million in the fourth quarter, or $0.21 per diluted share, compared with $177 million, or $0.38 ...

Ringadoc has a pretty big vision: To be the "frontline of primary care," to let anyone and everyone pay a flat fee to instantly talk to a real doctor at any hour of the day. In pursuit of perfecting o...

Ringadoc has a pretty big vision: To be the "frontline of primary care," to let anyone and everyone pay a flat fee to instantly talk to a real doctor at any hour of the day. In pursuit of perfecting o...

Philips, a brand well known for their televisions and optical media devices, is leaving the consumer electronics market and is now focusing on medical equipment and lighting. The company sold its CE b...

Tel Aviv-based SimilarGroup, a company whose recently launched web measurement tool SimilarWeb is out to topple Alexa's stronghold in web rankings, is today announcing $2.5 million in new funding. The...

Shutterstock is a major hub for designers, photographers, and companies. Not only can image enthusiasts upload their work to the site for perusal by others, but many users of the service find inspirat...

Vine, Twitter’s latest foray into video sharing, seems to be having some service issues at the moment. We’ve been trying to access and use the app here at TechCrunch with no progress, and ...

"In the 21st century we can no longer afford to have an immigration system where less than 10 percent of the people who come here do so based on the skills that they bring to this country," said immig...

Corning announced its quarterly results today, and the company beat Wall Street expectations despite a drop in quarterly earnings, thanks in part to a 14 percent year over year increase in sales. Sale...

WalletKit, a 500 Startups-backed platform allowing businesses to create passes for mobile wallets like Apple Passbook, is today making its public debut just ahead of 500 Startups' Demo Day. Although p...

Five months after we wrote about Shirley Hornstein and how she fooled a number of startups, Hornstein has responded in a blog post apologizing for her behavior and declaring that she has "made the dec...

Apple has made some amazing upgrades to the iPhone since it launched in 2007. We've met Siri, moved from plastic to glass to anodized aluminum, and experienced a number of design changes both physical...

There are whole host of new smartphones waiting for their time to shine at Mobile World Congress (not to mention an event or two before the big show), but you're in luck if you're a domestic Android f...

DreamObjects, DreamHost's scalable cloud storage solution built atop Ceph, is now available to the general public. DreamObjects offers APIs compatible with Amazon S3 and Swift, making data migrations...

DB Networks has raised $4.5 million in Series B funding from Khosla Ventures for its database security equipment.DB Networks has developed a security platform for real-time advanced database attack de...

Temple Run was one of the biggest games of 2012, so it only makes sense that the guys from Imangi Studios would create a sequel. Since launching on January 17, the app has seen some solid success, wit...

Back in December, analytics startup Mixpanel made a splash when its co-founder Suhail Doshi and its investor Marc Andreessen called for an end to "bullshit metrics". What is and isn't a vanity metric ...

Toronto's 500px got its popular photo sharing iPhone app back on the iTunes App Store today, following a takedown that Apple said stemmed from multiple user complaints about pornographic material. The...

Another day, another vote of investor confidence for educational gaming. Today, Pluto Media, the Menlo Park-based maker of educational, tablet-based games for kids, announced that it has raised $500K ...

The Calgary, Canada-based fashion network BeauCoo, which aims to connect women with other women who share a similar body type to make online and offline shopping more social, fun and practical, launch...

A buddy of mine who lives in Shenzhen said that the best tech business to be in - the one that offers the most profit for the least amount of work - is soft goods, meaning cases, bags, and other parap...

Apple's next iPad might look like an enlarged iPad mini, according to new pictures received by 9to5Mac that claim to represent the device's new back casing. The pics aren't "verified," the blog says, ...

Mark your calendars, Android fans -- HTC has just started sending out invitations to press events in New York and London on February 19. Granted, those invitations are very vague (no teasing any big f...

In 2006, Google announced its first public release of what later became Google Docs, today known as Google Drive. It's 2013, and only now does it feel like Microsoft is fighting back. Microsoft today ...

The Mio Alpha made a bit of a splash on Kickstarter earlier this year when it promised a heart rate-sensing watch that didn't use chest straps or similar encumbrances to measure your exertion. They we...

Google's philanthropic arm, Google Giving, has awarded a grant to the Raspberry Pi Foundation to fund 15,000 U.K. schoolchildren to get their very own Raspberry Pi micro computer to learn to code. The...

Google's philanthropic arm, Google Giving, has awarded a grant to the Raspberry Pi Foundation to fund 15,000 U.K. schoolchildren to get their very own Raspberry Pi micro computer to learn to code. The...

Belly, the Chicago-based loyalty platform which has now grown to over 4,000 merchants across the U.S., is today announcing its first product outside of loyalty, with the official debut of Belly Bites,...

XBMC launched version 12.0 (codenamed Frodo) of its media center software today, bringing a ton of new features and opening up support to new platforms. As a longtime Plex user, this XBMC release look...

A jailbreak for the iPhone 5 is, after all this time, about to become a reality. The talented hackers, who spend their days searching through iOS code in the hopes of finding bugs to exploit, actually...

Facebook yesterday updated its iOS app to version 5.4, giving users a few new features in what could be one of the world's most complex and layered mobile apps. The update brings with it the ability t...

We are coming closer to a reality where no politician can ever spread well-known lies. Today, exclusively with TechCrunch, The Washington Post has launched a fully automated fact-checking program, Tru...

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Europe has gone accelerator crazy. If putting burgeoning startups through a 13 week mentor-led boot camp and throwing a few euros their way is the key to eco...

Rumors turned out to be correct, and Apple has launched a 128GB version of the fourth generation iPad with Retina Display. The 128GB version comes in both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + Cellular versions, and...

Opentable, the online restaurant booking service, has just announced that it is acquiring Footspotting, the mobile app that lets users record and link to what they're eating in restaurants and at home...

A couple of weeks ago I reported about the upcoming launch of Moxtra, a new tool from a group including many ex-WebEx folks that was starting a private beta for its virtual binder-based social collabo...

DataGravity, a stealthy data storage analytics company, has raised $30 million in series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with existing investors Charles River Ventures and General Catalyst Partne...

Houzz is one of those Silicon Valley startups you don't hear all that much about, but the company is quickly disrupting the $300 billion home remodeling market by providing home owners with inspiratio...

Houzz is one of those Silicon Valley startups you don't hear all that much about, but the company is quickly disrupting the $300 billion home remodeling market by providing home owners with inspiratio...

Another move today from Amazon that speaks to its growing presence in content delivery and enterprise services, done at competition-beating prices: today the company launched Elastic Transcoder, a new...

Another move today from Amazon that speaks to its growing presence in content delivery and enterprise services, done at competition-beating prices: today the company launched Elastic Transcoder, a new...

Convercent has raised $10.2 million for its complaince software that helps companies promote the good and manage the bad. The round was led by Azure Capital Partners with Mantucket Capita participatin...

Convercent has raised $10.2 million for its compliance software that helps companies promote the good and manage the bad. The round was led by Azure Capital Partners with Mantucket Capita participatin...

TechCrunch is returning to Barcelona, this time focusing on Mobile Startups. We will have some keynotes and panels which will be announced shortly on TechCrunch and our partner Barcelona.io A big focu...

TechCrunch is returning to Barcelona, this time focusing on Mobile Startups. We will have some keynotes and panels which will be announced shortly on TechCrunch and our partner Barcelona.io A big focu...

Ingenico, a global payment provider, is to acquire Brussels-based, pan-European online merchant payment services provider Ogone for 360 million. Ingenico said the acquisition furthers its strategy of ...

Redwood City-based online reputation management company Reputation.com has announced it's acquired Liverpool, U.K.-based Reputation 24/7 to bolster its international business. Terms of the deal were n...

Stuffle, the mobile location-based marketplace for used items (and European rival to Shpock) has raised a new funding round from High-Tech Grnderfonds. The amount is described only as a "mid six-figur...

Nokia's venture capital arm Nokia Growth Partners (NGP), which was founded back in 2005 and invests in mobile-related ventures in the U.S., Europe and Asia, has launched its third fund -- back by a fu...

Jody Sherman, a longtime web entrepreneur most recently known as the co-founder and CEO of healthy kids products site Ecomom, has passed away. He was in his late 40s. Details on the cause of death hav...

It's easy to get lost in the Silicon Valley and Bay Area tech bubbles, where it seems that everyone carries five phones, owns three laptops and just had lunch with a sentient robot. But, the reality i...

NewVoiceMedia, an enterprise startup riding the wave of cloud-based services, has raised $20 million for its business of contact center solutions, which currently serves 8,000 agents in 30 countries. ...

Qihoo 360 shares slipped after it disclosed today that its iOS apps had been removed from the iTunes stores without warning, reports Bloomberg. The Chinese security software maker also received an unf...

Samsung announced that it has acquired medical imaging company NeuroLogica, part of the multinational conglomerate's plans to build a leading medical technology business. Terms of the deal were not di...

Editorial independence is kind of a polemicat TechCrunch. When our corporate parent, a sister or an advertiser might have an issue with story, we write it anyways. So, we have an offer to make to the ...

If your Facebook seems like it's a bit quiet just now, don't worry. Real-time updates about baby poop and your friends' feelings about their favorite TED videos will return just as soon as the social ...

Facebook is back online for everyone, according to Downrightnow and the company. A spokesperson said:Earlier today we experienced a DNS issue that briefly prevented people who typed 'facebook.com' int...

VMWare plans to cut about 900 jobs, or 7 percent of its workforce, as part of a restructuring. The company also issued cautious 2013 forecast, due to a decline in U.S. federal government bookings and ...

Scott Hartley, a venture capitalist at Mohr Davidow, decided to completely overhaul his investment strategy today after returning from a trip to New York. Hartley, who is originally from Palo Alto, sp...

Considering the long-standing struggles of Yahoo as a business, its board of directors battles, and Scott Thompson's "ResumeGate", Yahoo (and its investors) have been in sore need of some good news. W...

Considering the long-standing struggles of Yahoo as a business, its board of directors battles, and Scott Thompson's "ResumeGate", Yahoo (and its investors) have been in sore need of some good news. W...

Ad exchange adBrite told partners today that it will be shutting down on Feb. 1.A couple of TechCrunch readers sent us copies of the emails that went out to adBrite publishers and advertisers. Here's ...

Google Maps is not only a strong product, it’s a strong platform. With its Map Maker tool, people from around the world can participate in making Google’s maps more detailed, accurate and ...

People don't take smoke breaks anymore -- they take Facebook breaks." Now, there's a beauty that I heard this afternoon at the IBM Connect event here in Orlando.You can blame it on the digital natives...

The battle for international users continues to heat up for streaming music services. Just this morning, Deezer announced expansions into developing markets in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Brazil...

To make its new streaming video service work, MediaCorp has hired Israeli video startup Tvinci to get the service on multiple devices. As a platform for video distribution, Tvinci helps companies to r...

It was nigh on half a decade ago that I first met the fell demon they call Goatse.cx. It haunted my dreams - the ring, the red, the evident pleasure - and even today I am loath to type in those five c...

A whole new group of Google Glass developers are expected to be getting their hands on the devices this week, coinciding with two meetups that Google is throwing for developers in San Francisco and Ne...

Have you ever planned a vacation and remembered that you once saw a photo of a great dish on Facebook? If only you could remember who posted it and when.A new service, Roam7, has launched that promise...

This we have two guests joining us in the TechCrunch TV studio this week for our Ask A VC series, where you put VCs in the hot seat. First up we have Foundation Capital's newest partner and former Twi...

Don't worry, Pinterest isn't ditching the grid style "Masonry" design its known and cloned for. But today Pinterest announced tests of a new navigation system, bigger images, and more related content ...

Kabam, a midcore game developer that staged a stunning new chapter on mobile platforms, is out bragging about its expected revenues for the coming year. The company said it ended 2012 with gross reven...

Today, Crashlytics, a crash reporting tool, was acquired by Twitter. Numerous companies use Crashlytics to find out when their apps crash on consumer devices, as well as what the root cause of it was....

Twitter today acquired crash-reporting toolCrashlytics. Numerous companies use Crashlytics to find out when their apps crash on consumer devices, as well as what the root cause of it was. The apps cur...

AngelList continues to add compelling features to its service that matches early-stage startups with investors. The platform just debuted a new tool that will show new customer counts in a given time,...

Urban Compass, the startup in stealth mode that raised an $8 million seed round from high profile investors late in 2012, is slowly revealing more details about what it will be doing, and how it will ...

While Apple hasn't made a peep yet about Vine's slight porn problem, the App Store has removed the video-sharing app from its Featured Section. The app launched on Thursday, and found itself in the Fe...

Yahoo today released its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2012, marking the end of a key year for the long-running web portal. Q4 2012 was Yahoo’s second full quarter with Marissa May...

Now that Google's self-driving cars are on the long-path to mainstream availability, engineers have to cope with our robotic chauffeurs can deal with inferior human drivers. UK scientists have helped ...

One of the high points of last week's DLD Conference in Munich was the What's Next? panel which explored the future of media in the digital age. Buoyantly chaired by DLD host Yossi Vardi, the panel in...

Last week I stopped by the offices of FMYI, a small Portland-based company that is one of the first enterprise social networks to useTwitter Bootstrap....

Last week I stopped by the offices of FMYI, a small Portland-based company that is one of the first enterprise social networks to useTwitter Bootstrap....

As Facebook continues to build out the App Center and its overall business as a platform for third parties, it's also tightening up how payment policies work within it. In one of the latest moves, the...

Stanford has grabbed the supercomputer crown with Sequoia, a million-core computer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories that is being used to simulate jet turbulence in real time. This isn'...

DARPA has released more details on the ARGUS-IS, a 1.8-gigapixel camera that will be attached to unmanned drones to spot targets as small as six inches at an altitude of 20,000 feet. The camera - whic...

Heads-up, Apple fanatics: in case bog-standard iOS 6 is starting to feel a bit long in the tooth, Apple has just released its iOS 6.1 update out into the wild for the iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches ...

Japan, long called the “Galapagos Islands” of the mobile industry for its cornucopia of sophisticated and unusual feature phones, is finally transitioning to Android and iOS in a serious w...

Competitions like Pwn2Own are a staple of the security research scene and with Pwnium 3, Google today announced the latest edition of its own competition. What's different this time around is the targ...

The latest rumors, ridiculous or not, point to two new iPhone models this year — one would be the expected iPhone 5S and the other would be a lower-cost plastic model aimed at developing markets...

Earlier today Facebook ecommerce platform Payvment announced it was shutting down and transitioning its 200,000 merchants to competitor Ecwid, but we've just discovered that's because Intuit is acquir...

The new Congress is showing signs that it may finally leave behind its old habit of doing nothing: A gang of eight senators from both parties has outlined a framework for comprehensive immigration ref...

Lover.ly,a search engine for all things wedding, is today making a move that will broaden its reach considerably: The company is announcing a partnership with Real Simple to power the content for the ...

Google Analytics is such a powerful tool, its huge feature set can often be intimidating for novice users. Now, however, with today's launch of the creatively named Google Analytics Solution Gallery, ...

When the Journal News caused a national uproar and endangered the lives of its staff to create a Google Map of gun permit holders in New York, it was justified for the cause of transparency and civic ...

PlayerScale, which provides a range of backend services for game developers, is announcing today that its platform now has more than 100 million players.Since PlayerScale is building the infrastructur...

Businesses won't spend money on social if they don't understand how it helps them. That's why Unified's social ads buying platform could get abig boost from its acquisition of PageLever, which gives m...

After months of stoking anticipation and dealing with criticism, RIM will finally reveal BlackBerry 10 to the world on Wednesday. It's got to be a heady moment for everyone involved -- this is the com...

You may be getting your sports results on your smartphone from one of the major results providers like ESPN, MLB NFL, but a number of others have appeared in the space. One getting traction and now fu...

BetaBait, a service that connects startups with people to try and test early "beta" versions of web and mobile apps, is shutting down effective February 1st, 2013. The company, which first launched a ...

Method actors are known to go to extreme lengths to understand the character they're portraying. Natalie Portman dropped a whopping 20 lbs off of her already rockin' body to play a ballerina in Black ...

To "enable you to send us your questions, concerns, and feedback about privacy", Facebook today launched "Ask Our Chief Privacy Officer". Questions submitted through the form on Facebook's Privacy Pag...

Acer's ChromeOS-basedChromebooks, the company'spresidentJim Wong told Bloomberg today, accounted for "5 percent to 10 percent of Acer's U.S. shipments since being released there in November." Google i...

With a new corporate-minded COO in place, TaskRabbit is setting its sights on the business world. The company, which runs an online marketplace to let people pay to outsource jobs and errands to backg...

Deezer, the music streaming service which raised $130 million this fall to expand its business internationally, is today making good on those ambitions with launches in twenty-two new regions across t...

This morning, new Vine users woke up to quite the treat. Twitter's new video sharing app launched a NSFW, porn clip called "DildoPlay" to the top of the Editor's Picks section of the app, a place wher...

Twitter, now at 200 million monthly active users, is ramping up to be a big player in content delivery with embedded video services from Vine the latest move in that direction. But to play nice with r...

Apple's iPhone could be facing a downturn in overall consumer interest in key markets including Singapore and Hong Kong, according to a report from Reuters based on StatCounter traffic figures from th...

As hinted at following the raise of its $14.5 million in Series C financingthis fall, online kids' clothing consignmentthredUPis now expanding into new verticals, starting with clothing for teens. Whi...

The online question-and-answer market has had a lot of different iterations over the years, starting out first with sites focused on everyday, practical knowledge and trivia and later expanding -- by ...

Payvment, a platform merchants use topower their Facebook Page e-commerce stores, is shutting down and is now helping move its 200,000 customers over to competitor Ecwid. According to a message posted...

Barnes & Noble has put up an excellent fight over the past few years against the rising tide of digital competitors like iPad, Kindle Fire, etc.But it would seem that the bookseller has still come...

Video sharing app Vine came under fire this past weekend for having a bit of a porn problem. That it has adult content on the network shouldn't surprise anyone, and as long as it's something you have ...

NVIDIA is hoping to win back mobile processor marketshare with a plan that involves building its own smartphone and tablet hardware designs and offering them white label to OEMs in Russia and China, a...

Soundrop, the social "listening room" service that is similar to Turntable.fm,has found a lot of success on the music streaming service Spotify, with 500 million streams of its rooms in its debut year...

T-Mobile has joined Sprint and Verizon in offering Zoove's StarStar Me service, letting users replace their phone number with their name. Sprint was the first to adopt the service back in October, and...

It sounded like a brilliant idea and when Amen was launched on the TechCrunch Disrupt SF stage: an app as a game to find the best and the worst of everything. It was a big concept built around the ide...

Ahead of the grand unveiling of its next-gen BlackBerry 10 OS this week, and fresh from rebranding its app store to BlackBerry World -- to flag up the multimedia content that will be up for grabs alon...

4K TV, the 3840 x 2160 pixel technology that blew everyone away at CES this year, is still a glimmer in most of the world's collective eye. Japan, however, could get 4K broadcasts via satellite as so...

In a quintessentially European move, fanatix, the iOS-based second screen app and wider 'mobile-first' social network for sports fans, has released a Portuguese-language version in partnership with Sp...

New Apple product rumors from reliable sources have been few and far between lately, but this weekend the generally dependable 9t05Mac reported that a new iPad model is in the works. It's not a brand ...

IBM Connect started tonight here in Orlando. And the story is all about the chief marketing officer and that high-ranking executive in human resources. For marketing it means reaching customers and pr...

They'd make unhappy bedfellows but -- taken together -- Google's Android platform and Apple's iOS accounted for a record 92 per cent of global smartphone shipments in Q4 last year, according to new fi...

A graphene research initiative has been selected by the European Commission as one of two winners of its Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) research excellence award competition -- to develop the ...

Zoom, a startup founded by WebEx and Cisco veterans that wanted to make high quality video conferencing and virtual meetings accessible to everyone, instead of just those with the budgets to invest in...

A graphene research initiative has been selected by the European Commission as one of two winners of its Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) research excellence award competition -- to develop the ...

There's no shortage of apps on Android that offer to read news feeds out loud -- Google's mobile OS includes built-in text-to-speech (TTS) functionality, making it a snip for devs to add speech-relate...

China is considering lifting a 12-year-plus long ban on games consoles, according to a report in the China Daily newspaper (via Reuters). The speculation sent shares of Nintendo and PlayStation-maker ...

China is considering lifting a 12-year-plus long ban on games consoles, according to a report in the China Daily newspaper (via Reuters). The speculation sent shares of Nintendo and PlayStation-maker ...

While "the weather" generally makes for dependably boring conversation, the weather itself tends to be anything but dependable. Mother Nature is mercurial, and she has no problem raining on your parad...

Android tablets have nearly caught up to iPad devices as the world's most popular tablet platform, and some project that theymay even overtakeiPads later this year. According to new research from app ...

Android tablets have nearly caught up to iPad devices as the world's most popular tablet platform, and some project that theymay even overtakeiPads later this year. According to new research from app ...

Nope, this isn’t your average tech startup. No mobile apps here, or integrations with Facebook. Instead, this is a project that sits at the intersection of crowdsourcing and health. uBiome is a ...

I like my Retina MacBook Pro, in part because I have the option to switch to extremely high-resolution display modes when I'm way from my home Thunderbolt monitor and want as much screen real estate a...

Lenovo has denied reports that the company plans to buy Research In Motion, saying that it is instead looking at acquisition opportunities in general, reports Sina Tech (link via Google Translate)....

Towers Watsons M&A practice recently published the results of Quarterly Deal Performance Monitor (QPDM) which is conducted in partnership with Cass Business School, and has examined all the data o...

Twitter announced yesterday that it has started selling advertising services in the Middle East and North Africa after users in the region tripled over the past year. The microblogging platform will w...

In doing research for a post on "The Enterprise Cool Kids" at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Mark Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. While ex...

In doing research for a post on "The Enterprise Cool Kids" at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed.While exc...

No, this isn’t a guest column by Aaron Levie. Though he and his startup Box, the poster child of the “sexy enterprise,” are definitely included in the bunch. “You should defini...

Whenever a new platform launches these days, brands are instantly checking them out to see how they can “become a part of the conversation.” What that really means is how they can use a si...

People have speculated that 2013 will be the year that Twitter will reach $1 billion in advertising revenues. That strategy could get a boost very soon with the entry of mass-market advertising: Twitt...

Chilean startup Vendly wants to cash in on mobile by turning your smartphone into a free mobile marketplace. The Vendly iPhone app lets you sell (aka 'vend') items; impulse buy from your friends (or s...

Twitter's new video-sharing service, Vine, launched a few days ago, which we've covered extensively. My main complaint after a couple days worth of use is that I simply can't find enough vines to enjo...

If you build it they will come. Vine, Twitter's new video sharing platform, is currently experiencing a porn problem. As Nick Bilton pointed out earlier, by searching for the tags "#porn" or similar N...

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider ActiveState has a sweet deal with HP. It is the official PaaS for the entire HP cloud business....

Another busy week in tech has come and gone, so you know what that means: It's time for CrunchWeek, the time when a few of us writers talk about the most interesting stories of the past seven days. In...

When the iPhone launched in 2007, Jobs proclaimed when it came to phones, Apple was likely, at that time, five years ahead of the competition. Well, those five years are up, and all of a sudden, as if...

Nokia has had its free Nokia Music service for a while, allowing free music streaming on its Lumia handsets in the US since last September. But the service allowed for only a limited number of song sk...

I always thought Webdoc was extremely poorly named. While the platform had been used by record labels for fan engagement and marketing, the name really did not work. Pretty much any fool could see thi...

Facebook's newest feature adds some much-needed relevance to the huge proportion of its data hoard that no user has seen or, if we're honest, thought about, in days, weeks, or years. But Graph Search ...

Editors note:Ross Rubinis principal analyst atReticle Researchand blogs atTechspressive.Last weeks Backed or Whacked focused on devices that can remotely provide input to smartphones; this week, we ve...

Editor's note: Mike Knoop is co-founder of Zapier.One in four Y Combinator companies loses a founder. It's not hard to conclude that startup co-founder disputes are universal. They range from the big ...

Editor's note: Mikkel Svane is CEO and co-founder of Zendesk.Its hard to imagine the time when you couldnt date anyone you liked. Cultural barriers got in the way. Your access to information was limit...

Yesterday I wrote about the ongoing CNET editorial independence issue. I said that the editors and journalists at CNET were part of the problem, and suggested that they either publish their (assumed) ...

All the salacious headlines are (mostly) true -- as of today, you can't unlock a carrier-subsidized smartphone on your own before the contract associated with it runs out without technically running a...

Today's watch porn comes courtesy of Roger Dubuis, a manufacturer of odd timepieces. Their latest, the Quatour (which kind of sounds like a character from Total Recall), is a watch with four separate ...

Editor's note: David Tetenis a partner withff Venture Capital and founder and chairman ofHarvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York.The good news for TechCrunch readers: Every major stu...

With Facebook deciding to hide monthly and daily active users, we have lost the one game platform that could give us reasonably objective data about game performance. We are back to the Dark Ages of v...

Editor's note: Glenn Kelman is the CEO of Redfin, a technology-powered real estate broker backed by Madrona Venture Group and Greylock Partners. Silicon Valley home buyers, I wish we had better news. ...

Netflix original series House of Cards makes for really good TV, even if you'll never watch the show on any broadcast or cable network. That's because Netflix cut a reported $100 million check for exc...

Twitter launched Vine, the mobile iOS app that lets users create six-second looping video and share it to various social networks, just two days ago and it's been the topic of many a media conversatio...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor watched in amazement as Apple's stock price tanked due to their blowout quarter and two-thirds ownership of the U.S. smar...

Editor's note:Roman Stanek is CEO and founder of GoodData.Lately, in Silicon Valley and its counterparts around the world, disappointment has ruled the halls of companies that had a huge impact with c...

John P. Falcone over at CBS-owned CNET posted a quick piece on Aereo, the TV-over-Internet startup that is giving broadcasters fits. The story, which would have been a short piece on Aereo on a Roku d...

"The middle class is being hollowed out," says James Altucher. "Economists are shifting their attention toward a [...] crisis in the United States: the significant increase in income inequality," repo...

Hacktivist organization Anonymous is threatening perhaps their biggest play ever: a massive WikiLeaks-style exposure of sensitive U.S. government secrets. As proof of their power, they announced detai...

[Editor's Note: This is a weekly series. If your company is doing something amazing to help a charitable cause or doing some good in your community, please reach out.] What if just by buying a t-shirt...

A couple of weeks ago CNET was put into an absurd situation – they could not favorably cover a technology product because the company behind that product was in litigation with CNET’s pare...

Editors Note: Brian Bowman is founder and CEO of LikeIt.com, a fun way to discover people, places, and things.The responsibility of dating sites should be to facilitate great first dates. Unfortunatel...

Back in early 2011, Ben Schaechter, Sam Grossberg and Paul Kompfner launched GoPollGo to address a perceived deficiency in analytics, geographical info and social integrations from the Web's go-to pol...

Consumers spent six times as much time in retailer apps in December compared to a year earlier, showing that shopping and commerce is finally beginning to take off on mobile platforms. Flurry, the mob...

Facebook used to build the future, but since the mobile era began it's been chasing what's next -- Buying Instagram, reskinning acquisition Beluga as Messenger, copying Snapchat as Poke, and now getti...

Facebook used to build the future, but since the mobile era began it's been chasing what's next -- Buying Instagram, reskinning acquisition Beluga as Messenger, copying Snapchat as Poke, and now getti...

Aarki, which offers a platform for creating and delivering mobile ads, just announced that it has acquired another mobile ad startup called Mobspire.The financial terms of the deal aren't being disclo...

Today The Financial Times reported in a paywalled article that Twitter is brokering a deal for investment firm BlackRock to buy up to $80 million of stock from early Twitter employees at a $9 billion ...

Waterloo-based RIM is gearing up to take the wraps off of BlackBerry 10 in just a few days, but a bit of showmanship in front of journalists and analysts won't be enough to convince the masses of the ...

The ITU has approved a new video format that could bring 4k video to future broadband networks, while also making streaming HD video available even on bandwidth-constrained mobile networks. The H.265 ...

I was fortunate to have Kleiner Perkins' investment partner Ted Schlein join me on Ask A VC this week. Schlein, who joined Kleiner in 1996 and has nearly two decades of experience in the VC world, dis...

Whether you're into delicately sipping a fine brandy in the company of beautiful men and women in some smoky, wood-paneled bar in Zurich or, like me, you would rather drink an entire bottle of Maker's...

Back in August, we wrote about the launch of a startup non-profit organization called Watsi, which offers anyone and everyone the opportunity to fund "low-cost, high impact treatment" for those who la...

In a very surprising twist to Keith Rabois’ departure from Square yesterday, the reason is now known, and it wasn’t about business like everyone speculated. He was charged with sexual hara...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live today at 1pm Pacific time....

SimpleHoney, the startup co-founded by Joyce Kim (former CEO of Korean pop site Soompi.com and former co-host of the GigaOm show) and Eric Nakagawa (creator of the I Can Has Cheezburger blog), is purs...

It's no "Arrested Development," but Hulu is today announcing that it, too, is bringing TV programs back from the dead. (Coming back from the dead - hey, that sounds like a soap plot!). Hulu has now si...

As you've no doubt heard by now, the 6th Annual Crunchies Awards are nearly upon us! Voting concluded last night and the last set of tickets are on sale now. If you want to purchase them in time for n...

After shutting down data access to several competing apps, Facebook todaymade two major clarificationsto its Platform Policy, banning apps that use its data but make it easy for users to share back to...

If you only watch one video today, it should be this one. You will discover that it is footage of a DIY LEGO pancake maker which is, in my expert opinion, the best thing to come out of Norway since th...

Open Garden, the TechCrunch Disrupt New York 2012 battlefieldfinalistwhich allows users to share their wireless data connections with others, is today announcing its first partnership with another sof...

In a telling example of higher education's misplaced priorities, a Canadian student was expelled for finding privacy flaws in a university's computer network. Fresh-faced 20-year-old hacker, Hamed Al-...

First Round Capital is releasing its 2012 year in review, which delves into hard data like how much the seed fund invested in the year to the most common CEO name within the firm'sportfolio....

Look out, Google, Facebook and Dropbox? Amazon has now added automatic mobile photo uploads to its Amazon Cloud Drive Photos Android app, in an update released yesterday evening. The functionality mak...

As anyone who has ever studied Chinese knows, it's an onerous language to learn--especially on an empty stomach. That's where Waygo comes in. The translation iOS app makes life easier for travelers by...

Virgin America is the hip, new airline with cool in-seat displays complete with TV shows, games, and the ability to order food. So it only makes sense that they've tapped Califonia-based startup MOGL ...

It's been a weird decade for Cisco. After being a dot-com darling in the late 90s (everyone wanted a few Cisco routers for their door-to-door pet food delivery services), the company tried its hand at...

Segment.io, a Y Combinator-backed analytics startup for developers, offers an easier way for developers to integrate the APIs from multiple analytics providers into their own applications. The service...

The Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet has been anything but shy, leaking all over the place and posing for a few hands-on pics. But today’s scoop from French blog Frandroid marks the first time we get a re...

In Korea's Seoul Central District Court, Samsung has brought a patent infringement case against Apple's mobile operating system -- and is now putting pressure on Apple to show it the iOS 6 source code...

AT&T has announced a deal with Verizon Wireless that will allow the company to continue to build out its 4G LTE network in the U.S., through the acquisition of 700 MHz spectrum from Verizon Wirele...

Yahoo plans to compete on mobile by way of partnerships, not hardware or operating systems, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer told Bloomberg at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, whe...

Another day, another 3D printer on Kickstarter. But the DeltaMaker, which launched its campaign this week, is a little different than some of the others we've seen to date. It's not the cheapest, and ...

Vine was just released yesterday as Twitter's new standalone video-sharing iOS app. It lets users thread together tiny clips into one looping six-second video, with a UI very similar to Instagram's. T...

The battle’s been raging between Samsung and Apple for global smartphone domination, but according to the latest numbers out of Strategy Analytics, Samsung has extended its lead over rival manuf...

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, isn't entirely happy with what he has created -- and has thrown down the gauntlet to web developers to come up with more disruptive forms of online...

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the hyperlinked World Wide Web, isn't entirely happy with what he has helped to create -- and has thrown down the gauntlet to web developers to come up with more disru...

Neelie Kroes, VP of the European Commission, today announced a new education initiative for Europe with help from Cisco, Nokia, Telefonica, ARM, HP and other tech titans, as well as government and oth...

Apple has released its 2013 Supplier Responsibility Progress Report, and it features a number of updates from last year, including Apple's decision to join the Fair Labor Association (a notable first)...

This week's news that Tradeshift, the business interactions and e-invoicing platform, has taken a 'multi-million' pound strategic investment from legacy accounting software maker Intuit is bound to ha...

This week's news that Tradeshift, the business interactions and e-invoicing platform, has taken a 'multi-million' pound strategic investment from legacy accounting software maker Intuit is bound to ha...

Dhingana, which offers a free service for streaming Bollywood and other Indian music, said today that its mobile apps have been downloaded 3.5 million times. And the company is hoping to reach an even...

League of Legends is the most-played, multi-player PC game in the world, with gamers logging nearly 1.3 billion hours of play time. The Riot Gamestitlehas more hours logged than World of Warcraft and ...

Long-time investor and valley executive Keith Rabois is leaving his chief operating officer position at payment company Square, in a surprise announcement by the company tonight.Chief operating office...

IDC's Q4 report on the global mobile phone market reveals that Huawei sprang up into the top-three smartphone vendors in the world, a first for the company. In Q4, Huawei held a 4.9 percent marketshar...

A roster of privacy advocates, Internet activists, journalists and other organizations have issued an open letter to Microsoft, calling on it to issue regular transparency reports about the release of...

Of all Facebook's data sets, it's the social graph that's truly unique. It's spent nine years getting you to confirm who you know, and apparently it's sick of handing over your friend list to competit...

Research In Motion is once again the target of a rumored acquisition. Lenovo’s CFO Wang Wai Ming said in an interview with Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos that the Beijing...

RebelMouse, a content aggregation and curation site that lets users set up a profile and pull in content from their social networking accounts, as well as other sources, has hired some key former empl...

The Crunchies are next week and we've already sold out the beautifulDaviesSymphony Hallin San Francisco.... Well, we had sold out, but then we found a little more space in the balcony. We opened up th...

Samsung already gave us a hint of what to expect to see in their latest quarterly financials, but now the Korean consumer electronics titan has release its earnings for all to see. Here's the gist of ...

Don't get me wrong, HTC's Windows Phone 8X is great and all, but the rest of Verizon Wireless' Windows Phone lineup (think the Nokia Lumia 822 and Samsung;s ATIV Odyssey) is a bit lacking in the oomph...

Vine, in case you missed it, is a standalone iOS app from Twitter that lets users create short, 6-second videos that run on a loop. Users record by holding their thumb against the screen, and stop by ...

More hardware will open up -- it's inevitable. Hardware in the data center is no exception. Hardware in the data center is no exception. As Tim O'Reilly said in his keynote at the Open Compute Summit,...

For those of you who don’t have the disposable income or the obsessiveness of a Quantified Self devotee to try every single smart pedometer out there like the Fuelband, Fitbit or Jawbone Up, the...

The team behind the Ouya Android game console clearly paid a lot of attention to its looks -- they nabbed Yves Behar to design the thing, after all -- but not every component has passed muster with th...

Order Mapper, which makes apps for ordering a variety of goods (starting with pizza) from any business, just announced that it has raised a $550,000 round led by Vegas Tech Fund.The company's flagship...

Coaster launched a few months ago with a mobile drink ordering app, allowing consumers to place orders and pay for their drinks at select bars without having to wait in line. Since launch, the startu...

Yandex begged Facebook not to shut down its social search app Wonder that launched this morning. But the explanation Yandex's lawyers sent us for why it's compliant with Facebook's policies didn't sto...

Yandex begged Facebook not to shut down its social search app Wonder that launched this morning. But the explanation Yandex's lawyers sent us for why it's compliant with Facebook's policies didn't sto...

America’s “Happy Warrior”, Vice-President Joe Biden, was as entertaining as ever in his Google+ hangout on gun reform today. “If you want to keep people away during an ear...

Microsoft announced today its financial results for the second fiscal quarter of 2013, and it was an overall strong showing for the company. The Redmond, Washington-based software giant posted revenue...

AT&T shared its Q4 2012 earnings results today, reporting overall quarterly revenues of $32.6 billion (an increase of 0.2% year over year), and earnings per share of $0.44, The highlight of AT&...

"In The Studio" continues this week by welcoming a former Oxford PhD student who, upon completing his long education, ended up in San Francisco, toyed with a few web ideas, eventually was so inspired ...

Thanks to an easy editing tool, Videolicious been adopted by enterprise customers who are using it for internal and external communication, sales, and marketing. With that in mind, Videolicious has ju...

140 Proof is expanding its social ad technology today with the launch of a new format called Native Ads for Social Sites, which allows 140 Proof advertisers to run campaigns on blogging platforms like...

Distil.it, a cloud-based platform that aims to help businesses quash web scraping and other nefarious web-born fraud, announced today that it has landed $1.8 million in seed financing. Investors in th...

There might soon be a super simple way to download copyrighted movies, music, and software: the Caribbean island of Antigua is reportedly set to host servers that allow users to download content as re...

Having launched two years ago into an extremely crowded travel vertical, Hipmunk has carved out its own niche. The site was built out of the need for ease of travelling by its founders, and the compan...

WordPress.com parent company Automattic has acquired Simperium, the startup that runs a data syncing platform and is also well-known for Simplenote, the personal note-keeping app that's been described...

It probably doesn't come as a surprise, but the mobile app economy continues to grow like gangbusters -- like it stole something. Research2Guidance found that revenue from the top five app stores hit ...

OLO, the New York-based online and mobile ordering platform for restaurants, has raised a $5 million Series B round of funding from PayPal and existing investors, David Frankel, RRE Ventures, and Core...

Advertising technology companies are not exactly the most well-known names to the average web user, but they can certainly garner serious attention from those inside the industry -- particularly inves...

Facebook founder and business celebrity Mark Zuckerberg will be hosting a high-profile fundraiser at his Palo Alto home for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a.k.a "The Boss." The two allegedly became p...

President Obama will reportedly name former attorney general for the Southern District of New York, Mary Jo White, to the top spot at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Technology startups ...

President Obama will reportedly name former attorney general for the Southern District of New York, Mary Jo White, to the top spot at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Technology startups ...

Its no secret that Intel is gunning to gain some mobile traction in emerging markets, and the chipmaker doesnt seem to be wasting any time in 2013. Kenyan wireless operator (and Intel partner) Safaric...

For the latest episode of my Foundation series, I headed over to the Path office to sit down with founder Dave Morin. Dave talks about getting his start in student marketing at Apple, and reflects tha...

Tell me what a server is these days. Applied Micro Circuit CEO Paramsh Goti says that it's on an ARM chip, a tiny microprocessor that does what the big old servers would once do on PC-style machines.G...

Yandex -- the so-called "Google of Russia" -- has confirmed today that it is launching the social search app Wonder, combining its own proprietary search algorithms with data from social networks like...

Banjo, the location-based social network for sharing images and content tied to specific real-world locales, today unveiled its new native iPad and Android apps. This marks the first time Banjo has ma...

By default, the in-store scans are time sensitive, offering customers 30 minutes to redeem their prize, like a free or discounted appetizer, drink, dessert, etc. The drive-thru codes, meanwhile, give ...

If you've ever wondered why birthers, inside jobbers, and other conspiracy theorists won't simply take the truth at face value, two researchers at OSU have found that we tend to ignore - and reject - ...

Twitter has officially launched its Vine video sharing app in the App Store, as announced on the company blog. With Instagram taking the world by storm, and subsequently selling to Facebook for $1 bil...

When Google experiments, it can have earth-changing consequences. That might be the case with its latest project: the building of a wireless network on-campus at its Mountain View headquarters, report...

It's a brand new year, and a brand new class for the Entrepreneurs' Roundtable Accelerator is only fitting on this cold, January morning. The accelerator announced back in October that this January 20...

In an effort to make its Dashboard a "smaller and more streamlined experience," the social blogging platform Tumblr is today overhauling the way users create posts on its website. Instead of the large...

At first glance, the Cycloramic app in action may make you think that He Who Shall Not Be Named is somewhere nearby, manipulating your iPhone through dark magic. In reality, it's simply an app that co...

Boomerang, theChicago-based social gifting service which sprung up this summer as a way for users to send gifts to friends (similar to Wrapp), is now moving into the B2B space with the debut of a plat...

Temple Run was one of the most popular games of 2012, seeing 2.5 million downloads on Christmas day alone. But like any good mobile gaming studio, Imangi Studios has released the sequel to the hit rac...

What do you do when you already have the coolest job in the world? You start a business where you can have another amazing job on evenings and weekends. Daric Schlesselman is an editor for the Daily S...

Despite recent suggestions that Nokia is at least keeping an open mind about adopting Google's Android platform, the company has reiterated that it is sticking to its guns with Windows Phone and its h...

Pebble, the Kickstarter darling and connected smart watch, announced just yesterday that its product was now beginning to ship out to backers in limited quantities, but its iPhone app had yet to be ap...

Amazon today announced that it is acquiring Ivona Software, a specialist in voice technologies that competes with Nuance and is already used in the Kindle Fire for services covering text-to-speech, vo...

Apple has been dabbling in wearable tech, at least when it comes to the U.S. Patent Office, and a new application uncovered Thursday by AppleInsider adds to that growing category. Apple has filed for ...

Venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners is adding a number of new leaders to its partnership. In addition to the promotions of Kent Bennett, Brian Feinstein, Ethan Kurzweil and Trevor Oelschig ...

WizIQ, an online education platform which provides virtual classroom software for teachers and trainers at school and university level has raised a $4 million Series B round. The funding was led by Ka...

Samsung's Galaxy Note 8 is rumored for an official unveiling at Mobile World Congress next week in Barcelona, but this week it's been the subject of a lot of rumors and speculation ahead of release. T...

As the educational landscape changes, it is giving birth to a whole new generation of learning software and learning software companies. In part, this change is being driven by the introduction of "ad...

As a 95-year-old publishing company primarily known for its textbooks, McGraw-Hill is not usually the type of exhibitor one finds at the Consumer Electronics Show, let alone one to make a splash. None...

Say you're building a gadget. You'll probably need several widgets, gizmos and electronic thingymabobs. CircuitHub is now here to help. The startup launched today and is attempting to be the world's f...

Symbian is now officially dead, Nokia confirmed today. In the company's earnings announcement that came out just a little while ago, Nokia confirmed that the Pure View, released last year, was the ver...

Nokia continues to turn its ship around, slowly. The Finnish handset maker -- once the world's largest but hit bad by competition from Android device makers and Apple -- today reported Q4 earnings tha...

Material scientists and nanotechnologists get very excited about the potential of graphene -- a one-atom-thick sheet of bonded carbon atoms that's exceptionally strong and flexible -- but they are no...

Material scientists and nanotechnologists get very excited about the potential of graphene -- a one-atom-thick sheet of bonded carbon atoms that's exceptionally strong and flexible -- but they are no...

Sony has been fined by the U.K.'s data protection watchdog for the April 2011 data breach of the PlayStation Network which compromised the personal details of millions of users. The Information Commis...

Sony has been fined by the U.K.'s data protection watchdog for the April 2011 data breach of the PlayStation Network which compromised the personal details of millions of users. The Information Commis...

Sony has been fined by the U.K.'s data protection watchdog for the April 2011 data breach of the PlayStation Network which compromised the personal details of millions of users. The Information Commis...

Google announced that it has revamped its image search to be faster and more effective. The changes, which will be rolled out over the next few days, include image results displayed in an inline panel...

Extole, a startup offering tools for brands to manage their "social advocacy" programs, has raised $7.5 million in new funding.The round is a follow-on to the $10 million Series C that Extole raised a...

Last week we reported on anSEC filingof a new $30 million raiseforSVAngel, for a fund called SV Angel-III Growth P.We've since heard from multiple sources that this $30 million is a Special Purpose Ve...

California saw about $91.1 billion worth of mergers and acquisitions last year, the strongest level seen since 2009, according to Mergermarket. The fourth quarter saw a 10.4 percent increase over the ...

You know the drill, Apple posts a record $54.5 billion in revenue......and the stock tanks 10 percent in after-hours trading.I mean. Fifty four and a half billion dollars. I went ahead and did the mat...

Fresh off raising $30 million in new funding, enterprise data-analytics company Guavus is making a key acquisition today--Neuralitic Systems. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Neuralitic...

The Onion has the scoop. What’s crazy is I think I saw this guy near our office recently, riding his skateboard. Small world....

Apple CEO Tim Cook responded to questions about the issue of potential cannibalization of Mac sales by iPad devices on today's earnings call, a question made more timely by the fact that Mac sales wer...

“iPhone 5 offers a new 4 inch retina display, which is the most advanced display in the industry,” said Tim Cook. “No one comes close to matching the quality of the Retina Display.&#...

Today during Apple's Q1 2013 conference call, CEO Tim Cook was asked about whether Apple was concerned about Apple's overall market share in smartphones. No one mentioned the A-word (Android, that is)...

Cloud continual delivery service Wercker has received a seed investment from an A-list group of investors. The round was led by Shamrock Ventures with additional support from Greylock Venture Partners...

Apple announced on its earnings call today that the company sold more than 2 million Apple TV devices in its fiscal first quarter. That’s up from 1.3 million sequentially, and up from 1.4 millio...

One of the most embarrassing happenings in recent Apple history was the launch of its own Maps offering with iOS 6. People were getting lost and wondering why Apple decided to cut Google out of the OS...

Apple CEO Tim Cook took time on the company's earnings call today to comment on a specific rumor, which is an extreme oddity for Apple's top-tier executives. He prefaced it by saying he doesn't want t...

If you look at the data sheet that Apple reports along with its standard earnings release, you’ll notice a few changes this quarter. The company adjusted how it reports revenue for different geo...

As we learn more about Apple’s Q1 in 2013, we’ve found out some interesting facts about Apple’s retail stores. The company says that it has opened 401 stores total, with four new one...

Let's put Apple's amazing cash on hand numbers into perspective once again. The company now has $137.1 billion in cash -- a 12.9 percent increase from the last reported number, $121.3 billion. With su...

Apple announced today that there are now 250 million users on its iCloud service. That's a big increase from the 190 million users that it reported back in October, which itself was up from 150 millio...

There are plenty of nifty tidbits to sort through in Apple's most recent earnings release, so here's a little aid if you're more of a visual learner than a text skimmer. We (by which I mean our graphi...

News came today that Apple's Mac sales are down 21% year-over-year and 16% for the quarter. While 4.1 million Mac sold in Q1 2013 is nothing to sneeze at, it's still nearly a quarter year-over-year lo...

The Internet is full of experts with no one reading their insights. It takes a lot of work to build a following. So today Quora launches a blogging platform that automatically distributes posts to its...

Apple just announced Q1 2013 earnings, and investors don’t seem to be convinced. The company missed on revenue and exceeded expectations on earnings per share. After a solid day for Apple shares...

Apple just announced its Q1 2013 earnings, and investors don’t seem to be convinced. The company missed on revenue and exceeded expectations on earnings per share. After a solid day for Apple sh...

Apple just announced its Q1 2013 earnings, and investors don’t seem to be convinced. The company missed on revenue and exceeded expectations on earnings per share. After a solid day of trading f...

Streaming media giant, Netflix, released its fourth quarter earnings report today, and it was an auspicious one. The company's revenue and subscriber numbers well exceeded expectations, with $945 mill...

Streaming media giant, Netflix, released its fourth quarter earnings report today, and it was an auspicious one. The company's revenue and subscriber numbers well exceeded expectations, with $945 mill...

Apple today posted Q1 earnings that indicated that -- despite wider problems in the European economy, and price and device competition from Android everywhere, it continues to make advances in interna...

Apple today posted Q1 earnings that indicated that -- despite wider problems in the European economy, and price and device competition from Android everywhere, it continues to make advances in interna...

Apple just released its earnings report for Q1 2013, ending in December of last year, with a solid hardware quarter overall. The iPhone dominated with 47.8 million units sold in the quarter, up quarte...

Longtime Sequoia Capital partner Greg McAdoo is moving on after more than a dozen years at the storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm....

Apple's Mac sales for its first fiscal quarter of 2013 were not very impressive, despite high holiday appetite among consumers and new models. The company moved 4.1 million Macs in total, including no...

Here we go: Apple has just released its fiscal Q1 2013 financials, and they're a sight to behold. Apple reported $54.5 billion in revenue (up 17.7% from the year-ago quarter), $13.1 billion in profit ...

Apple does well during the holidays, that’s something that’s become extremely obvious. The company has just announced that it did $6.4B in retail store sales, which is up from $6.12B in th...

Netflix had a stellar fourth quarter, posting revenues and subscriber numbers well above analyst estimates. That has got investors excited again, driving the stock up 25 percent in after hours trading...

Just.me, the new project from Keith Teare, co-founder of TechCrunch and partner at Archimedes Labs, has launched in beta as an app for iOS -- ahead of a public release on the App Store, likely in a mo...

If you're running a conference, would you rather pay for a flimsy one-off app, or get paid to use a data-driven one your attendees may already have? If you picked the latter, you udnerstand why Bloodh...

There needs to be a word for when someone could effectively function as a parody of themselves, because this tendency is exaggerated in the age of social media. Everyone knows someone who posts inspir...

Gumroad, the Kleiner Perkins-backed startup that allows you to sell anything through a simple link, is announcing some additions to its publishing program today, while also sharing some of its early s...

When you're crushing your competitors, it's the government that can be your biggest threat. That's why Google grew its lobbying spend 70% to $16.48 million in 2012 and Facebook's fees soared 196% to $...

When you're crushing your competitors, it's the government that can be your biggest threat. That's why Google grew its lobbying spend 70% to $16.48 million in 2012 and Facebook's fees soared 196% to $...

Starting tonight, online fashion service JustFab is going to be starring in its very own reality TV show on the Style Network.Given the hostile reception and dismal ratings of Bravo's Start-Ups: Silic...

Online casinos are finding a second chance at life thanks to an alternative digital currency known as Bitcoin. Bitcoins are a completely digital currency managed through a decentralized network of exc...

Kodak has had a rough go of it lately, filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy almost a year ago and selling off its portfolio of more than 1000 digital imaging patents just last month. But today the centena...

In October, Twitter acquired a company called Vine, which made a video-sharing app which not many people had the chance to use. AllThingsD reported that Jack Dorsey was pushing heavily to get the deal...

Instafocus did what many new app startups did: tried to build a business on the back of another, only slightly older and more stable, one. In this app's case, that bedrock business was Instagram, whic...

Apperian has raised a new round of funding from Intel Capital, bringing its total raised to $28 million for the mobile application management company.Apperian did not disclose the funding amount from ...

One of the most valuable things parents can do is read to their kids, but keeping a steady supply of quality books in the house is still a challenge. Today, a startup called The Little Book Club is la...

In a bid to reach scale and with it reap the benefits that network effects bring, Tradeshift, the free e-invoicing and business interactions platform, has partnered with Intuit, along with taking a st...

Fast Company unearthed a 2007 parody video of Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, and the Griffin team - a group of designers and programmers who were making a "Netflix box" that later spun off into Roku. ...

Our own John Biggs could tell you that there were some terribly neat projects to be found at the PennApps Hackathon, but not every app there was on the up-and-up, let's say. Case in point: a group of ...

There’s no shortage of apps out there to help couples communicate with each other, share messages and photos and whatever else. Here in the U.S., you’ve probably heard of Y Combinator-back...

The life of a founder isn't an easy one — at least, initially. There's no time for love, fun, or even sleep. The product, the users, the servers and the investors use up every available second o...

Today, the streaming music startupSerendipis bringing its "lean back," serendipitous music discovery service to mobile with the debut of the Serendip iOS application. Like the web version which launch...

If you're a fan of content discovery veteran, StumbleUpon, or haven't quite been sold by its new look, then you just might have some love for a new startup out of Helsinki, Finland, called Futureful. ...

The Almond+, a successor to Securifi's popular Almond home wireless router, made its Kickstarter debut today after making its first hardware demo appearance at CES this year. The router adds 802....

If you're quick, you can snag a Nexus 4 from T-Mobile right now for $199 on contract. Ever since its launch, the phone has been rather hard to purchase. Blame Google. Blame LG. But it doesn't matter n...

The Pebble Smart Watch, a clever little watch that connects to your phone via Bluetooth (and tells time), has officially started to ship in limited quantities. After the product's Kickstarter campaign...

Well, after being teased at presentations and making brief appearances at football-themed trade show events, Samsung's elusive ATIV Odyssey finally has a price and a release date. According to a recen...

Well, that didn't take long. Facebook Graph Search is now its own Tumblr meme: "Actual Facebook Graph Searches." The site dials up the social media rubbernecking-slash-privacy outrage to a whole new l...

Swipp, a Mountain View-based startup taking the wraps off of its products and platform today after two years of development and with $3.5 million in funding from Old Willow Partners. The startup has b...

Radius (formerly Fwix), a startup that gives salespeople the tools and data they need to scout local businesses, is announcing $12.4 million in new funding from American Express with Comcast Ventures,...

Nintendo has a lot to announce this morning, including an app for its Miiverse platform, as well as some fan-favorite game titles that will be available on the Wii U platform in the coming months. By ...

Nintendo no stranger to gaming on the go (I've been clinging to Nintendo handhelds for as long as I've been able to walk) but president Satoru Iwata just let slip some unexpected information about the...

The outcry is deafening. "The Surface Pro is priced too high!" "I'll just get a MacBook Air!" "Microsoft is the next RIM!" "I LOVE APPLES!"Ignore the noise and look at the situation. The Surface Pro i...

Governments around the world, especially the U.S. government, are continuing to request more private data from Google. The search giant released a fresh transparency report this morning, revealing tha...

The ability to create virtual, disposable phone numbers is paving the way for a new wave of startups, from those attacking the BYOD (bring-your-own-device) trend at work like SendHub, to apps like Bur...

FlixMaster wants to give brands the ability to create interactive experiences for viewers. So it's built a platform for enabling different branching mechanisms between videos, allowing a sort of visua...

FlixMaster wants to give brands the ability to create interactive experiences for viewers. So it's built a platform for enabling different branching mechanisms between videos, allowing a sort of visua...

The latest reports on the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy S IV suggest that the flagship device will feature a 4.99-inch 440ppi Full HD Super AMOLED display. It's a mouthful, but when all is said and done,...

Since launching in 2010, social travel startup Gogobot has been trying to play a role in legitimizing online travel discovery, fighting the shoddy design and link farm leanings that reined in the spac...

In a statement filed by former Palm head Edward Colligan, new evidence has come to light about the prevalence of no-hire agreements. Colligan, while staffing up his company, approached Apple employees...

The mobile payments space gets a lot of attention, especially as it seems that a new startup or financial institution launches "a new way to pay, issue rewards or power transactions from a mobile phon...

Microsoft has released an SDK for Windows Phone 7.8 -- aka the last ever update for Windows Phone 7 handsets, which have been orphaned by the company's platform shift to Windows Phone 8 (built on a di...

LifeKraze, the social network that rewards you for daily activities, has officially launched on the Google Play store. The app tries to bring action into our social mix. Founder Jonathan Yagel explain...

After a year of online protests and fierce political battles between the D.C. taxi commission and popular smartphone sedan service, Uber, a new technology may bring the two factions together: UberTaxi...

When it comes to developing for mobile platforms, Android and iOS -- the top two mobile platforms by device sales worldwide -- are also first in the mind of app makers. But surprisingly, beleaguered B...

Bessemer Venture Partners racked up a huge win today. Two years ago it invested $6 million in exchange for nearly half the equity of Israeli startup Intucell, whose networking tech lets carriers handl...

Puppet Labs, a data center automation company, is announcing today that virtualization giant (and previous investor) VMware has invested $30 million in the company. This brings the company's total fun...

Earlier this month we broke the news that Russia's search giant Yandex was eyeing up a move into the mobile, social search space with the development of an app called Wonder, which drew on Facebook da...

It's taken a long time for the U.K. telecoms regulator to be in a position to fire the starting gun on the auction for 4G-suitable spectrum but bidding to acquire the up to 250 MHz of additional mobil...

Spraffl is a new iOS app that's attempting to buck the trend of real name policy, or even semi-identifiable pseudonyms, in favour of an entirely anonymous social network, tied to a user's location. I ...

Speaktoit Assistant, a Siri alternative that also competes with a host of other AI and natural language-driven 'personal assistants', such as Maluuba, is rolling out a premium version of its mobile ap...

The Nokia 808 PureView was arguably the best phone to be unboxed at last year's Mobile World Congress tradeshow. Except it wasn't, because the handset was running the legacy Symbian OS. But, according...

More money for big data analytics -- and a sign that, as the space matures, we will see more segmentation of what kinds of big data is getting analysed. Semetric, the UK/LA-based company behind the mu...

AppDynamics has raised $50 million in a round lead by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) for the expansion of its application performance monitoring service. The Series D round alsoincluded AppDynam...

It was just less than a year ago that ParkMe (formerly Parking In Motion) launched to provide real-time parking data to visitors at SXSW in Austin. After expanding to more than 500 markets over the pa...

Research In Motion just announced that BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES 10), a device management system, is now available for government agencies and corporate clients....

Since first emerging early last year, Boston-based startup Boundless has been on a mission to give students a free alternative to the financial and physical costs of bulky backpacks brimming with pric...

Microsoft Korea will close its research and development unit by the end of next month, where its Asia R&D Center is based, reports Asiaone (h/t TNW).The company announced last year that its Asia-P...

Video distribution platform Ooyala wants to make videos available wherever users may be. That means enabling its customers to distribute their content onto all sorts of mobile phones and tablets and c...

FitStar, a fitness app startup backed by Floodgate and Google Ventures that uses the iPad to transform home video workouts, just announced its first creation. In it, Atlanta Falcons tight end Tony Gon...

Google announced today that it is opening a representative office in the Philippines that will be headed by country manager Narciso Reyes and based in Manila. Reyes, a former Friendster exec, was brou...

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) plans to establish a center that will deal with disputes over intellectual property (IP) and online copyright issues, reports Sina Tech (...

Founded in late 2011, 100Plus set out to tap into the growing popularity of the Quantified Self movement to create a personalized, mobile health prediction platform to help Average Joes like you and m...

Gael Langevin wants to give you a robot. The French artist is posting 3D printer files for a humanoid robot he's building as he completes the various parts, allowing us all to create our very own plas...

Apple and Google, though very different, are in the midst of a fierce battle. Nay, war. Smartphones are the single-fastest growing consumer electronics segment in the world, and these two are the big ...

Windows Azure Media has gone to general availability.The release promises scaling capabilities for streaming on-demand video to consumers on any device....

One of the reasons that Google’s shares might have popped about 5 percent in after-hours trading is evidence that the company is stabilizing declines in cost-per-click. The closely watched metri...

The White House wants you to hack for a better America. Today it announced the National Day Of Civic Hacking on June 1-2 where many government agencies will liberate data for citizens across the U.S. ...

With Marissa Mayer at the helm, Yahoo is continuing to flex its M&A muscles, with a special focus on startups with smart teams that have made well-designed apps. The latest target: Snip.it, the Sa...

The Aaron Swartz tragedy has unleashed an intense debate about computer "crime" and the US criminal justice system. Heavyweights like Lessig, Doctorow, Greenwald, Masnick, Wu and Kerr have all written...

It was early 2011 and TechCrunch's comment section was overrun with trolls. Bullies and asshats were drowning out our smart commenters. We hated our commenters because, well, they hated us. So we roll...

Though it launched to considerable fanfare, Kim Dotcoms Mega encrypted storage service has recently drawn fire from the press thanks to supposedly questionable security practices. Well, Mr. Dotcom is ...

Google's conference call regarding its quarterly earnings were mostly rehashing of themes we've heard before cross-platform remains a priority. But Google CEO Larry Page had a few words to share abou...

The Europas - Europe's tech startup awards - hit Berlin on Tuesday evening with over 1,000 guests gathering to celebrate the best of the continent's tech entrepreneurship. ZeptoLab, the Moscow-based m...

GenArts is introducing a new app that it hopes will leverage some of the same technology used by movie and TV production studios to improve mobile videos and make them actually watchable, and hence, s...

IBM just released its Q4 2012 financials. The company's GAAP net income came in at $5.8 billion, up 6k% from last year. Non-GAAP net income was $6.1 billion. Overall, the company reported revenue of $...

IBM just released its Q4 2012 financials. The company's GAAP net income came in at $5.8 billion, up 6% from last year. Non-GAAP net income was $6.1 billion. Overall, the company reported revenue of $2...

Google unveiled its Q4 2012 earnings today, and among the numbers were its customary look at employee headcounts for the quarter, and that number tells the tale of a continued reorganization of the Mo...

Etsy, the online marketplace for buying and selling crafts and homemade goods, announced today it has acquired the team behind Mixel, the iOS app for creating photo collages.The deal, which we're hear...

After last quarter's accidental mid-day earnings leakwhich sent its stock price down and halted trading, Google released its Q4 2012 earnings today right on schedule. But that's not to say there wasn'...

Google has just reported its Q4 2012 earnings, which means that we're also getting a peek at how the phone-makers at Motorola Mobility are faring as well. This time around, Motorola generated revenues...

Facebook today took one more step in making its advertising more accountable for media buyers: it has now rolled out a conversion measurement system across its global footprint. Aimed at direct market...

I know, sometimes it feels like every day we learn about a new startup accelerator or startup incubator. But this newest program put together by San Francisco-based law firm Equity LLP really seems to...

The latest rumors out of the DigiTimes (a hit-or-miss Chinese blog focused on Apple supply-chain news) claims that Apple is not working on a larger, cheaper version of the iPhone for this year, but ra...

When Android first appeared I had an inkling that it would be a hit. I didn't enjoy the early incarnations of the software - the G1 was like a Sidekick on steroids - but generally I expected Android d...

You know, for all the changes HTC has made to its Sense interface for smartphones over the years, it generally looks the same as it did back in the old days. That may not be the case for much longer i...

Toronto photo-sharing startup500pxis reporting today that both of its applications, 500px for iOS and its recentacquisitionISO500, have been pulled from the Apple App Store due to concerns about nude ...

Wordnik launched its first big non-dictionary product last month a tool allowing online publishers to recommend related content to their readers. Now it's signaling even broader ambitions by launchin...

Microsoft is talking with Dell about financing its buyout. The deal is reported to be worth about $2 billion.For the past few weeks there have been reports that Dell has been in talks with Silver Lake...

Mailbox, the awesome new email management app from the productivity software experts at Orchestra, is getting ready for a public launch. But rather than just putting the app up on the Apple App Store ...

Twitter didn’t have the best day yesterday. In fact, it hasn’t been having the best week with regards to keeping its service running without issues.Today’s announcement might explain...

SendHub, a Y Combinator-backed call and messaging solution for individuals, businesses and other organizations, is today launching a new product meant to address the needs of provisioning numbers to e...

In an unexpected twist against the rising tide of image-capturing technologies, an engineer has created glasses that thwart facial recognition scanners. Tokyos National Institute of Informatics Profes...

Elizabeth Yin, co-founder of email ad network LaunchBit, said she's hoping that email newsletters get better this year and to make that happen, LaunchBit is launching a new service called the 2012 Em...

Photo and personal publishing companyShutterflyis continuing to refresh its mobile products with today's relaunch of its Treat application for iOS, which follows the December overhaul of the company's...

Storm8, a bootstrapped mobile game maker co-founded by early Facebook engineers, said it just crossed 10 million daily active users — which would put it among the top handful of mobile app maker...

Exercise and nutrition tracking service, MyFitnessPal, has partnered with the Bay Area's second largest employer, the University of California, San Francisco, for a healthy eating program aimed at pos...

Prosper.com, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace in the U.S., has raised $20 million in new funding led by Sequoia, with the company's existing investors, including Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Crosslin...

Voxel Farm is a game framework for sale to developers who want to create cool, photorealistic environments. But the demo, called Procedural World, is a Minecraft clone that I would pay big bucks for i...

It’s about damn time. Microsoft announced the Surface product family on June 18th. After eight months of waiting, Microsoft announced that onFebruary9, the fully-capable, Windows 8-packing, Inte...

Basecamp, the project management platform from 37 Signals that originally launched back in 2004, has withstood the test of time to become one of the established players in the online collaboration mar...

A new treatment applied to cotton called PNIPAAm can make the material absorb up to 340% of its own weight in water from misty air and then release it as temperatures heat up. This makes it ideal for ...

Peter Zigich, the designer behind the Modular Mac Pro concept, sent us details of his next Apple computer concept: a Mac Pro based on ARM architecture that takes advantage of that processor's high pow...

When you think about hackathons and coders building something quick and dirty, you might envision a dark dorm room at Harvard filled with pizza boxes and empty Red Bull cans. That’s because the ...

EE, the company which operates the U.K.'s first to market and currently only 4G/LTE cellular network: 4GEE, has bowed to the inevitable -- announcing it plans to add a beefier tariff to its price-plan...

Addvocate is launching today with a "paid beta," that will allow customers to set their own price for for the service that aspires to take on the still primitive methods for coordinating social media ...

The mobile app economy continued to show impressive growth in 2012, with Apple's App Store maintaining its course, while its rival, Google Play, was able to make some significant gains. A November rep...

The iPhone was Verizon's top-performing smartphone during its most recent quarter, the company revealed during its quarterly earnings call today. All told, Apple's smartphone made up 63 percent of Ver...

It looks like we might have a release date for the forthcoming Galaxy S IV flagship smartphone from Samsung. After a deluge of unconfirmed information — it'll launch at MWC in February, no it'll...

Mitch Resnik, the creator of the super-simple Scratch programming language and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, gave a TEDx talk about the value of coding and computer lit...

Chinese mobile maker Huawei has had a habit of firing handsets into the market with specs that are pretty tasty for the money. Today it's continuing this Android underdog strategy: unveiling what on p...

Home video game consoles seem somewhat quaint at this point, and it's not an issue of graphics capabilities or raw power, on which scales they both still beat out mobile devices. 'More power' will lik...

If you thought that LG's global roll out of the Optimus G meant that its successor, the Optimus G Pro, would stay in hiding a while longer, you were wrong. According to NTT Docomo, one of Japan's larg...

As Verizon's brass is busy discussing the company's recent earnings release, AT&T and the little-known Atlantic Tele-Network Incorporated have just gone and stolen some of their thunder. The two c...

Amazon today announced that it would extend its in-app purchasing API to cover games for Mac, PC and Web platforms, letting players purchase virtual currency and goods in games using its back-end bill...

Founded at Stanford University in 2008, Syapse has been on a mission to help disrupt healthcare by incorporating "omics" (or the study of fields within biology typically ending in "-omics," like genom...

Optimal, a startup offering technology and data for social media marketers, just announced that it raised $7 million in Series B funding.The company was previously known XA.net, but it changed names b...

Smart watches are everywhere these days. But of all the time-telling, wearable, connected devices, it's possible that this new offering from Neptune may be the coolest one I've ever seen. Why? Because...

Firespotter Labs'visual conference calling solutionUberConferenceis rolling out several new features today, including international phone numbers and integrations with online file sharing services Box...

A new year-end report from mobile analytics firm and ad network adeven reveals that the iOS App Store will be growing along the lines of its current steady rate, to add over 435,000 new apps to its ma...

PayPal co-founder, early Facebook investor and Founders Fund partner Peter Thiel today took the stage at the DLD conference in Munich for a very wide-ranging discussion about the future of philanthrop...

Up until recently, as far as sales and marketing platforms go, Infusionsoft has been a fairly well-kept secret. Yet, two weeks ago, the company landed $54 million in series C financing from Goldman Sa...

Mozilla's Firefox OS, the mobile operating system from the company that makes the Firefox browser build entirely on open web standards, will have its first hardware soon thanks to a developer preview ...

Cash-based payments platformPayNearMehas raised additional financing, the company announced today, in a Series D round led by August Capital with participation from other existing investors including ...

Verizon has just put out its Q4 and full-year earnings for 2012, and the top-line figure for the carrier is that it has reached the $30 billion operating revenue mark for the first time in the company...

SkyNews has obtained a letter sent to Twitter subsidiary TweetDeck warning the company it has three months to file accounts or be struck off the U.K.'s business register. The letter follows a proposal...

I realize this is a completely random story to start a post with, but bear with me. A few weeks ago, I was searching for a Christmas outfit for my daughter--I found an adorable one on Pinterest but it...

Android smartphones, led by Samsung, were the overall winner in the crucial holiday sales period at the end of last year, although Apple's iPhone continues to shine in the U.S. as well as Japan, accor...

Even as SnapChat leaves tech reporters and people over 25 scratching their heads -- is it the next Instagram, or a massive sexting conspiracy? -- the app has succeeded in bringing ephemeral (or self-...

BuyBox, a social payment solution provider for e-merchants, has secured 1.7 million ($2.3 million) from French VCs Iris Capital and Midi Capital to develop its products and roll out internationally. ...

Iconicfuture -- which offers a marketplace for brands who want to license their IP to online and mobile games developers for the use in digital and virtual goods -- has a raised a 2.5 million ($~3.3m)...

Rocket Internet, the Samwer brothers' e-commerce startup incubator, is today announcing yet more money for one of its portfolio companies. Lazada, an Southeast Asia-based online marketplace akin to Am...

This is the official Yahoo "employee welcome" kit. Except the employee in question, founder Tom Coates, doesn't work at Yahoo. He used to. Over the past couple of months, Yahoo recruiters have reached...

RIM has announced that it is extending its deadline for Built for BlackBerry after receiving more than 19,000 applications. One of several incentive programs launched by RIM to attract developers for ...

A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project looks at the future of libraries. The study, titled "Library services in the digital age," doesn't include anything particularly shocking or...

Editor's note:Andrew Auernheimer,also known by his pseudonym weev, is an American grey hat hacker and self-described Internet troll.Follow him on Twitter @rabite.In June of 2010 there was an AT&T ...

With unemployment and "under-employment" rampant among grads, many college students are facing the unpleasant reality of a less-than-appealing job market. As a result, students have begun turning to a...

Huawei is considering an IPO after disclosing sales figures that may once again put it ahead of Ericsson ABin the race to become the world's biggest telecom equipment maker by revenue. Huawei CFO Cath...

According to a beta tester listing on OnlineBeta.com, Logitech is finally preparing to support OS X gamers, with plans to release a new Gaming Software for Mac OS X that lets users configure their Log...

With Facebook’s incredibly hyped IPO now over, longtimers at the company are naturally exploring the question: what does life after Facebook hold? Some are years into new startups of their very ...

To say that the Android-powered OUYA game console has garnered some serious attention is a hell of an understatement, and that's sure to be the case as developer units keep trickling out into the wild...

Remember Photovine? This was the slick, social photo sharing app rolled out by Google via its acqui-hired Slide developer team in 2011, then relegated to the discontinuation column not one week later,...

LG's Optimus G might not have gotten the same attention as the Nexus 4, but it's the cream of LG's 2012 crop. And to that end, the company has just announced that it will roll out the Optimus G smartp...

Umano, an app that provides commuters (and others) a curated selection of articles read by voice actors, launched a few months ago on the iPhone. Now it's available to Android users too.It seems prett...

I attended PennApps 2013 this weekend and got to judge the winners out of 20 excellent finalists. The 48-hour event brought out some amazing talent from many colleges across the nation but one product...

Editor's note:Chris Luo is VP of Marketing at FiveStars. Previously, he ran small business marketing at Facebook and acquisition marketing in Asia-Pacific for Google AdWords.Over the past few years, m...

With a lot of people in the United States off for the national holiday, Twitter appears to be buckling under the pressure. Right now, the service is experiencing issues, including the inability to con...

With a lot of people in the United States off for the national holiday, Twitter appears to be buckling under the pressure. Right now, the service is experiencing issues, including the inability to con...

It's getting more tempting to give away used goods on Listia, the marketplace startup backed by Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz (among others), thanks to a new partnership with Best Buy.When you ...

Tagged isn't doing too shabby, introducing you to people to flirt and make friends with online. It's got 300 million registrations and 3 million daily users. Now it's stepping into offline meetups by ...

Branch launched out of closed beta only last week, but the engineering team is hard at work pushing out new feature updates. Today, the company announced that logged-in users will now see recommendati...

There was a time when Sony defined mobile. Its products, along with wares from its partner Ericsson, where the very best looking and performing mobile devices. But that was a decade ago. Sony hasn't b...

Acceleprise, an accelerator for enterprise startups, has announced eight new companies for its latest class. The companies were chosen from an applicant pool twice the size of the previous class.Accel...

According to a forum posting on Chinese site Digi-wo, Sony may have a 6.44-inch 1080 device in the works. We don't know much else about the alleged device, other than that it's said to have no capacit...

Technically speaking, the iPhone 5 is already jailbroken. You're just not allowed to have it yet. The reason for this is because one of the bugs that contributes to a functional jailbreak is so good, ...

DeveloperAuction, a startup that’s trying to change technical recruiting by letting venture-backed companies bid on top engineers in auctions, is seeing some momentum after coming out of beta la...

Ad analytics company Adometry has closed an $8 million Series D round, led by Shasta Ventures, with Austin Ventures and Sierra Ventures also participating. The company said it plans to use the funding...

Well, it certainly seems like a good time to be on the market for an Android tablet -- Sony has just announced its attractive new Tablet Z, and it seems that Samsung really does have another Note tab ...

AngelList, a service that matches early stage startups with investors, now includes a nifty tool that shows anonymous valuations of startups on the site. The feature was actually rolled out weeks ago,...

When is a secret not a secret? When it's featured in comparison videos ahead of an official product launch. The upcoming BlackBerry Z10 (which, if called something else or designed differently when it...

Short Version While there is plenty to be said for cloud storage, sometimes it’s nice to have a few terabytes on your local network for backups, document storage, and fun. That said, the Iomega ...

Spotify today took another small step to tighten up competition in the European market today: it signed a deal with Deezer investor France Telecom/Orange to offer unlimited music services as part of "...

Spotify today took another small step to tighten up competition in the European market today: it signed a deal with Orange to offer unlimited music services as part of "Orange Young," a special subscr...

If you're a startup, you've heard of TechCrunch's Startup Alley. It's a huge part of our TechCrunch Disrupt conference. Hundeds of startups from all over the world vie for a spot on our showroom floor...

Standing out in the App Store can be a problem, and there are plenty of businesses out there built around trying to make it easier. AppGratis is one such company, whose recent funding we covered last ...

Despite a burgeoning market filled with educational children's games and apps which aim to turn smartphones and tablets into tools for learning, when it comes to time spent actually playing games, kid...

On-demand car service Uber is teaming up with online social clubGrouper, the companies announced this weekend. With a new program and promotional event called #UberGrouper, users can sign up for an ex...

Dave Morin, CEO and founder of Path, today likened Facebook to a Chevy, and Path to a BMW or Audi, as he attempted to draw out the differences between his privacy-focused social network and the one th...

Sergey Brin rides the subway, just like the rest of us, but when he does, he's wearing Google Glass and presumably seeing much more about the dreary downtown 3 train interior than his fellow passenger...

Even though Intel's quarterly earnings were a mixed bag, the biggest surprise comes from its research and development investment plans. In 2013, the company plans to invest $13 billion compared to $10...

What is the consequence of cyber warfare slowly becoming increasingly common? That was the basic question that guided the DLD keynotes of Eugene Kaspersky, the co-founder of security company Kaspersky...

Samsung is known for going after Apple in its smartphone ads, with commercials that are admittedly pretty funny, depicting the Apple faithful waiting in line, for instance. Now they've got a new video...

Dave Morin, founder and CEO of of Path, is literally on a path towards making the private social network into a freemium business along the lines of Evernote. In an interview with TechCrunch, he said...

HTC had a disappointing year last year, despite early success with the One X and solid hardware releases in general. This year, it looks like it will be kicking things off in style with the launch of ...

Investors can't seem to get enough of the BYOD trend of late. Today sees another 'bring your own device' startup receive funding -- Tel Aviv-based Cellrox, which claims to be a leader in BYOD 'multi-p...

As it gears up to launch its next-gen OS, BlackBerry 10, RIM has dropped the word 'app' from the name of its web store: turning BlackBerry App World into BlackBerry World -- as the new store will also...

Posterous, the blogging platform that Twitter bought in March 2012 for an undisclosed sum, appears to have stopped taking registrations for new users for Posterous Spaces. One tipster noted to TechCru...

TestObject, which offers a cloud-based service for the automated testing of Android apps, has raised fundingfrom Frhphasenfonds Brandenburg, an initiative of the Investitionsbank Brandenburg, and S...

At the DLD conference in Munich today, Henrique de Castro, Yahoo's new COO and Google's former president of partners business solutions discussed the state of the web today and his vision for its imme...

At the DLD conference in Munich today, Henrique de Castro, Yahoo's new COO and Google's former president of partners business solutions discussed the state of the web today and his vision for its imme...

PayLane, the European online payments company, is expanding to Germany -- it already operates in Poland, UK, and Ireland -- accepting payments in 160 currencies from over 50 countries. But where the P...

Atari -- the iconic company and that helped spearhead the videogames industry 40 years ago with titles like Pong, Asteroids and Centipede, as well as consoles to evolve the consumer electronics field ...

The CEO of RIM, Thorsten Heins, has told a German newspaper he has not ruled out licensing BB10 to other device makers. Asked whether RIM might not go down the licensing route, as Microsoft has with W...

The CEO of RIM, Thorsten Heins, has told a German newspaper he has not ruled out licensing BB10 to other device makers. Asked whether RIM might not go down the licensing route, as Microsoft has with W...

Payleven, the Rocket Internet-incubated mobile-payment service that uses a dongle attached to a mobile device to make and process card transactions -- yes, like Square -- is today announcing that it h...

ChoreMonster launched an update to their app a few days ago which includes: a parents section, a redesign of the kids section, a new Monster Carnival and yes...even a new character named TeeCee exclus...

ChoreMonster launched an update to their app a few days ago which includes: a parents section, a redesign of the kids section, a new Monster Carnival and yes...even a new character named TeeCee exclus...

This latest Xperia tablet has been the stuff of rumors for a few days now -- a release from Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo first hinted that the so-called Tablet Z was in fact a real thing earlier this w...

When Asia's music industry is covered in the Western media, it is often within the framework of content piracy. Another thing that gets attention is the perception that Asian pop stars are pre-fabrica...

KKBOX, a leading cloud-based music service provider in Asia with 10M registered users, just launched in Malaysia and Singapore. The company's decision to enter the Southeast Asian marketplace is a sig...

Japanese newspaper Sankei Biz (link via Google Translate) is reporting that Apple has halved LCD panel orders from Sharp due to lower-than-expected sales of the iPhone 5....

Fandalism, a social network for musicians, is adding a new feature that should undercut the market for "aggregators" like CD Baby and Tunecore(whichallow independent artists to sell their music on iTu...

The standard electronic medical record is a confusing, text-heavy computer read-out. But thanks to winners of Designer Fund and the White House's Health Design Challenge, a beautiful, comprehensible, ...

Car-sharing service Wheelz is kind of like Zipcar, but instead of owning a fleet of vehicles itself, it's making cars that are owned by regular folks available for rent. So what does the Avis purchase...

One of the most important roles that technology can play in transforming education revolves around data. Whether that's by implementing APIs to make student data more transportable (a la Clever and Le...

Facebook's newest feature Graph Search -- a tool which lets users datamine their friends' and strangers' photos and interests -- merely adds to the site's stalkerish reputation. Sharing anything on Fa...

Editors note: Joe Lonsdale is a General Partner at Formation 8, an early-growth technology fund. He is co-founder of Palantir and Addepar and is proud to be behind other successful mission-driven tech...

Sure, 3D printing is fun and cute. And products like the Makerbot and Form 1 will most certainly disrupt manufacturing, even if it's only on a small scale. But the possibilities of 3D printing stretch...

Sure, 3D printing is fun and cute. And products like the Makerbot and Form 1 will most certainly disrupt manufacturing, even if it's only on a small scale. But the possibilities of 3D printing stretch...

We've seen the Organic Transit Elf go from a twinkle in founder Rob Cotter's eye to the real deal in a matter of a few short months. The solar-powered pedal hybrid vehicle first showed its face in pro...

This past week post-CES proved to be a busy one in the tech news world, so we had a number of interesting topics to chat about on CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show wherein a few of us writers discuss...

At the DLD conference in Munich today, venture capitalist Ben Horowitz took the stage to discuss why he and his firm Andreessen Horowitz invests in a company and its founders. Last year, he said, Andr...

The biggest news in consumer technology this week was created by Facebook. The social network's new product - "Graph Search" - was the subject of an international press event where analysts initially ...

At the invite-only DLD (Digital - Life - Design) conference in Munich today, Codecademy's co-founder and CEO Zachary Sims talked about the history of the service, the way people are using it today and...

Dermatologists can rest assured that they will not be computers by smartphones anytime soon. A new study finds that smartphone applications designed to automatically detect cancer lesions misdiagnosis...

Editor's note: Peter Csathy is president and CEO of online video technology company Sorenson Media.There is a burgeoning fascination around the topic of which startups will become the Instagram for vi...

Editors note:Ross Rubinis principal analyst atReticle Research and blogs atTechspressive.Some say the cloud has replaced the PC as the digital hub. That may be true for data, but devices that create t...

Editors Note: Nir Eyal writes about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business at NirAndFar.com.I research and write about seductive technology and yet I struggle to resist its temptatio...

Performance Marketing Brands, the operator of online shopping and rewards programs, has acquired Pushpins, the mobile app for saving on groceries. We're hearing from sources that the acquisition price...

Editors note:Leonid (Lenny) Kravets is a patent attorney at Panitch, Schwarze, Belisario and Nadel, LLP in Philadelphia, specializing in developing IP strategy for young technology companies.Patent as...

Editor's note:Aaron LevieisCEO and co-founder ofBox.When we decided to focus on selling to enterprises five years ago at Box, we saw some exciting emerging trends: workers needed tools that were far s...

Increasingly, the sentiment in the games industry is that 2013 is going to be a very difficult year. With Facebook effectively over as a platform, social gambling being weaker than anticipated and for...

On Friday John Cornyn, the Republican Senator from Texas, wrote a letter to United States Attorney General Eric Holder demanding answers on the "prosecutorial conduct" surrounding Aaron Swartz's case ...

On Friday John Cornyn, the Republican Senator from Texas, wrote a letter to United States Attorney General Eric Holder demanding answers on the "prosecutorial conduct" surrounding Aaron Swartz's case ...

Editor's note: Victor Belfor is the vice president of business development at Influitive. He recently started angel investing and mentoring at 500 startups.As products mature, companies continue to co...

Most clothing items companies give out to their employees make it outwardly clear where the person works (exhibit A.) It makes sense and all, but sometimes you don't want to be a walking advertisement...

[tc_5min code="517647240"]Open this, open that -- sometimes it seems like everything is "open," these days. Well hello people, Bill Gate's gravy boat has run aground. It's time to get out the star shi...

The Gillmor Gang Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor have some fun with Facebook's new GraphSearch and advances in medical techniques. We all agree that when ...

Kim Dotcom's new secure file storage-and-file-sharing venture, Mega, has now officially launched, with the timing, 6.48 AM New Zealand time on January 20, made to coincide exactly with the one-year an...

Kim Dotcom's new secure file storage-and-file-sharing venture, Mega, has now officially launched, with the timing, 6.48 AM New Zealand time on January 20, made to coincide exactly with the one-year an...

We’ve learned today that mobile news delivery company Circa has raised another $750K on top of the $900K raised previously. The company launched its app of the same name, which allows you to fol...

EyeEm, the Berlin based social photo and filters app, has been snapping at the heels of photo giant Instagram in the US iOS app charts this week. A week ago they were No. 242 in the photo and video ch...

Databases aren't sexy, but they're the absolute foundation of the tech world, the ground on which all of its edifices are constructed. You probably use a hundred every day. At least. They're like the ...

If you're looking for a great story to end your week, here's one. Below is a mission statement that's brief, to the point and something that is easy to get behind:StudentRND inspires students to work ...

If you attended a university, you likely took at least one class where you sat in a lecture hall with at least fifty other bedraggled, hungover students. In that case, you may be familiar with those h...

Editor’s note: Jesse Stay is Author of Google+ Marketing For Dummies and the upcoming book, I’m on Facebook — Now What??? 2nd Edition. He currently serves as Director of Social ...

Yammer competitor Jostle.me has raised $3.1 million from a group of angel investors. The companyhas raised $4.6 million to date, all from private individuals. It has 52 shareholders, including most em...

Today, TechCrunch received a tip that San Francisco-based social TV startups Dijit and Miso could be close to combining forces, in what would be the latest round of consolidation in that segment. The ...

Uber is lowering its prices in San Francsico, as the company seeks to remain competitive with an influx of low-cost on-demand transportation offerings in the city. The startup is also expanding availa...

Uber is lowering its prices in San Francsico, as the company seeks to remain competitive with an influx of low-cost, on-demand transportation offerings in the city. The startup is also expanding avail...

The hardest thing about watching TV is finding the remote after a long, slovenly lounge on the couch. Cube26 aims to improve on that situation by turning your TV, phone, or tablet into a face-detectin...

App search startup Quixey is bringing in some senior management help to expand its business and grow its business. The company has hired former Zynga executive Guru Gowrappan as its new executive vice...

Today, alocal Cox Media-owned radio station in Tampa Bay, Florida is shifting its entire format to listener-controlled radio, now putting its audience in control of the songs that play 24 hours a day....

Today, a Cox Media-owned radio station in Tampa Bay, Florida is shifting its entire format to listener-controlled radio, now putting its audience in control of the songs that play 24 hours a day. It's...

Venrock's David Pakman joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio this week for Ask A VC, where we chatted about a number of things, including why he hasn't made an investment in a digital music startup. T...

Line, a messaging app made by South Korea’s Naver Corp. that took off in Japan, just crossed 100 million users globally 19 months after it originally launched. The app is one of the leading cont...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Danny Sullivan, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live today at 1pm Pacific....

Google Handwrite, a small but helpful tool that the search team introduced last year, has gotten a bit of an upgrade today. The tool allows you to turn on a mode when you’re on your mobile devic...

Facebook is getting stingier with data for startups that don't share content back to it. Yesterday, Facebook told voice messaging startup Voxer it will cut off the app's access to Facebook's "Find Fri...

Facebook is getting stingier about giving data to startups that don't share content back to it. Yesterday, Facebook told voice messaging startup Voxer it will cut off the app's access to Facebook's "F...

Facebook is getting stingier about giving data to startups that don't share content back to it. Yesterday, Facebook told voice messaging startup Voxer it will cut off the app's access to Facebook's "F...

Building hardware is hard and breaking into entrenched markets is even harder. However, the founders of 4Moms, Rob Daley and Henry Thorne, managed to both. 4Moms is a baby products company that aims t...

The U.S. government is continuing to lobby Brussels to water down plans to reform privacy legislation. The European Union's executive and legislative bodies are in the process of reforming the region'...

Whether you're polishing your magnetic death ray or powering up your Stargate, the effects of magnetic fields on your watch can be quite destructive. Back in the old days when scientists wore suits an...

Taboola had a banner year in 2012, serving nearly 1.5 billion video recommendations per day by the end of the year. With all of its growth in video recommendations, the company also grew revenue by mo...

Apparently, I "like" OfficeMax, Folgers, JCPenney, Kraft and several other big-name brands. At least, according to Facebook I do. Except, it's wrong. It's not that I dislike these brands, really (well...

Axcient, the hybrid cloud-based data backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity startup, has raised $20 million in Series D funding led by Scale Venture Partners and Thomvest Ventures with Pen...

Opera unveiled a major new mobile browser initiative called Opera Ice today via Pocket-lint, coming in February and based on the same WebKit rendering engine used by Apple's Safari and Google Chrome, ...

Hackathons are almost cliche. But a data center hackathon is a first. This week at the Open Compute Summmit, attendees hacked together new ways to think about heating and cooling, power and a variety ...

"We could go public," SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg says, "but the cost of going public -- of running a public company -- outweighs the benefits." As the founder of LAUNCH Media, which he took public...

As the race – and it’s basically a race – to release as many 3D-printed gun parts as possible heats up, it’s never been harder for me to come down on the side of the “Fre...

As the race – and it’s basically a race – to release as many 3D-printed gun parts as possible heats up, it’s never been harder for me to come down on the side of the “Fre...

With mid- and senior-level managers trickling out of Zynga over the past year, other startups — both inside and outside of the gaming world — have become beneficiaries. Scopely, a Los Ange...

ShipStation today unveiled a first-of-its-kind capability to leverage Amazon Web Services and Amazon.com's fulfillment capability to automatically ship products sold by online retailers through multip...

JustFab, a fashion retail and styling platform, is making an acquisition today -- the company is announcing that it has purchased childrens fashion brand and personalized e-commerce service, FabKids. ...

BlackBerry 10 is nearing launch, and you have to wonder at this point whether there will be any secrets left by the time it makes its official debut on January 30. Today, what looks like a Verizon pro...

Leading up to the launch of Kim Dotcom's latest effort, Mega, today the company opened the site up to its first early-access users. It's also published pricing for premium users, as well as a roadmap ...

Leading up to the launch of Kim Dotcom's latest effort, Mega, today the company opened the site up to its first early-access users. It's also published pricing for premium users, as well as a roadmap ...

As fans of D&D will attest, there are not many games as satisfying as Gygax's original but darn it if it wasn't fun to try new platforms when they came out. Tunnels & Trolls, created 37 years ...

Here we are again, in the midst of Galaxy S IV rumor season, and this year's brought about a bountiful harvest. The latest rumor in the bunch is that Samsung's next flagship will feature a hardcore Ex...

New research from Google suggests what we all likely know to be true your pet's name followed by a few numbers just isn't cutting it as a password these days. The company will be publishing a new res...

Earlier this month, Hasbro announced an agreement with Popcap's parent EA to port its popular Bejeweled game to the offline world. Today, the company has signed a similar agreement, this time withThe ...

Remember that time Apple, Google, Intel and other major tech companies were named in a civil suit where ex-employees claimed that they had all conspired to eliminate hiring competition at the top of t...

Mobile maker Nokia has released 3D print files for one of its smartphones so that owners of 3D printers can custom print their own removable shell. Nokia already sells different colour shells for the ...

Researchers who leverage public data for life-changing medical breakthroughs have long promised that donors can remain anonymous. The truth is, we're going to have to choose between innovation and pri...

Space exploration and trading MMORPG Vendetta Online kicked off in 2002, and its dedicated, independent four-person indie studio has been diligently updating and improving it on a regular basis. The g...

We are now two days away from the launch of Mega, the file storage service that is the next big project from the controversial Kim Dotcom, founder of now-defunct media storage and streaming site Megau...

We are now two days away from the launch of Mega, the file storage service that is the next big project from the controversial Kim Dotcom, founder of now-defunct media storage and streaming site Megau...

The ongoing war between rival on-demand streaming services as they build out their catalogues to win customers means rarely a week goes by without news of another content licensing deal being inked. B...

The ongoing war between rival on-demand streaming services as they build out their catalogues to win customers means rarely a week goes by without news of another content licensing deal being inked. B...

The LG Optimus G Pro, a successor to LG's flagship Optimus G smartphone, looks to be preparing for a Japanese launch at least, according a couple separate leaks this morning. Engadget has managed to s...

Online film distributor SnagFilms got a big boost in 2012, as it expanded to new platforms and made its free, ad-supported indie movies available to tens of millions of new viewers. With that momentum...

Sharp Corp, a supplier of screens for Apple's iPad tablet, has slowed production of the 9.7 inch panes used for the full-sized iPads, according to a report by Reuters.Sharp's iPad screen production li...

A new MoneyTree Report is being released this evening, showing that annual VC investment dollars have declines for the first time in three years. The study, which as conducted by PricewaterhouseCooper...

Sony's U.S. unit is selling its NYC headquarters to a group of investors led by Chetrit Group for $1.1 billion, the cash-strapped company announced today. Sony said it will use the proceeds to "undert...

Sony's U.S. unit is selling its NYC headquarters to a group of investors led by Chetrit Group for $1.1 billion, the cash-strapped company announced today. Sony said it will use the proceeds to "undert...

The Google+ iPhone and iPad apps are now available in 48 countries and territories, announced Google engineer Frank Petterson via his own Google+ profile (h/t TNW). ...

Last year, James Smith and Simon Maynard left mobile gaming startup Heyzap, where Smith was the CTO, to build and launch a new venture that aimed to tackle one of the biggest problems they encountered...

No one knew it yet, but people all over the world gave Graph Search a hearty meal when they uploaded a record 1.1 billion photos during the 48 hours over News Year's Day and Eve. That's nearly double ...

The latest entrant into the mobile video segment is Montaj, a new app launching next week which seeks to be a kind of Instagram for Video. Montaj was founded by Demir Gjokaj and Dan Long, a couple of ...

Telcentris, the maker of "unified communications" app VoxOx, says it has raised $5.3 million in its first institutional funding.The VoxOx desktop and iPhone apps combine features like VoIP calling, te...

Instagram for websites? Not exactly. NewHive is more like a cross between MS Paint, Photoshop, and Tumblr. But NewHive's not just a collage site-making tool. It has a community that's logged 10 millio...

Any mature Internet product always has difficulty proving its success or illustrating its evolution. Foursquare is definitely one of the companies with a product that fit into many buckets, depending ...

Apple today quietly launched a new feature for Newsstand, whereby publications by partner Hearst (covering their entire catalog) will now be available to subscribers days before they come to print, or...

Education is quickly moving online, but we haven't seen all that many studies that actually look into the effectiveness of these new forms of online learning. To see how its program performed, the lan...

Intel has just reported both its fiscal Q4 2012 and year-end numbers, and theyre a mixed bag to say the least. The company itself expected to rake in $13.6 billion in revenues as per its Q3 release, b...

Instagram reported a few usage stats today, marking the first time it has talked about numbers on its own site since the kerfuffle raised over its terms of service change following the Facebook buy-ou...

This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for. The Galaxy Note 2, arguably the next big thing, will be available in Brown and Red along with its usual blue and white options. The only bad news i...

"In the Studio" welcomes a quiet, unassuming early-stage company veteran who has been through the ups and downs of Valley startups before landing at a certain search engine around the year 2000, after...

If you've been trying to get your hands on a Nexus 4 (without signing a contract, anyway) then these past few weeks have probably been some pretty iffy ones. Even now they're unavailable from the Goog...

Global Grind, the NY-based digital media company funded by Accel Partners and hip-hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons, is finally taking mobile seriously with today's relaunch - and really, it's a start-...

In a research note released today, Nielsen examines the potential for smartphone growth in the BRIC region (Brazil, Russia, India, China), where, in many cases, feature phones still dominate. Accordin...

Back in September, Glooko announced the release of a new version of its iOS app, a digital logbook which helps people with diabetes track their blood glucose levels from their smartphone. The new app ...

Back in September, Glooko announced the release of a new version of its iOS app, a digital logbook which helps people with diabetes track their blood glucose levels from their smartphone. The new app ...

Promoting your stuff on Facebook is all very well, but what if you want to offer downloads (such as for music) from within the platform? Oddly, German startups are all over this problem. Out of Berlin...

“I worry that something has gone seriously wrong with the way we run companies,” warns Google’s CEO, Larry Page, about companies who focus on the competition. “How exciting is ...

Keek, the Toronto-based social video sharing startup that emphasizes communication over entertainment through bite-sized 36-second smartphone movie clips, today announced an $18 million funding round,...

It seems like only yesterday that Samsung introduced the Galaxy brand, and in the blink of an eye we've gone from a handful of phones to dozens of phones, tablets, and some weird stuff in between. The...

Microsoft just announced a major update to Bing's social search results. Just like Facebook is now integrating Bing deeper into its search tools, Microsoft is adding more Facebook content to Bing, too...

A day after its Street View cars were mistakenly accused of donkeycide in Botswana, Google today announced that the cars have now made their way through hundreds of "cities, towns, villages, heritage ...

It's time! Startup Battlefield Applications are now open for TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013. Disrupt NY will take place on April 29th through May 1st at our new venue, the Manhattan Center. Last year, Ube...

Prior to CES, Flingo introduced its Samba platform, which allows users to connect their TV and mobile devices through its proprietary automatic content recognition (ACR) technology. Now, through a par...

Paris-based AppGratis has been in operation for a few years now, but it has only recently started targeting the U.S. market in earnest. Now, the app discovery tool for Apple's iOS mobile ecosystem is ...

Ticketmaster has a new challenger in Canada. US ticketing platform Ticketfly today entered its first international market by striking a deal with Canada's largest independent concert promotion company...

Visual content marketing service Reachli (formerly Pinerly), has raised a seed round from 500 Startups, PNP Ventures,Zelkova Ventures(Early Klout, Fab investors),Philquo Ventures(Fab investor),GVA ven...

For all of you developers out there, you know how difficult it is to manage all of the bugs that pop up in the code that you push on a daily basis. Sometimes, you just don’t know when things wil...

A new job description spotted by 9to5Mac's Jordan Kahn this morning suggests Apple wants to do something with Siri that makes the digital personal assistant a more fleshed out, relatable character. Th...

iPhone-maker Apple's share of the smartphone market will peak this year -- at just over a fifth (22 per cent) of the global market, says analyst ABI Research. Apple's share will then remain flat throu...

Brewster, the relationship-centric contacts app for iPhone, is today releasing a new version -- its first major update since launching in July 2012 and then going international -- that will take its s...

Hey there, mobile browser aficionados, remember Dolphin? Of course you do -- MoboTap's smartphone-only browser has been on the scene since the early days of Android and the company has just pushed out...

BillFloat, a San Francisco-based startup that helps consumers pay their monthly service bills and avoid those pesky late fees and overdraft charges, announced today that it raised $21 million in new f...

Well, there goes my allowance money. Personal data search engineCloudMagicis today making good on its promises to never sell user data in order to generate revenue. Instead, it's launching a premium, ...

Amazon today announced a new version of its MP3 store, designed to work on iPhone and iPod touch devices from Apple. The HTML5 web app now allows iOS mobile device users to make direct purchases of tr...

The world of ed-tech is ramping up another notch, and getting a lot more open in the process: educational publishing giant Elsevier is in advanced talks to buyMendeley, a London/New York-based provide...

The world of ed-tech is ramping up another notch, and getting a lot more open in the process: educational publishing giant Elsevier is in advanced talks to buyMendeley, a London/New York-based provide...

ShareMyPlaylists, the Spotify community and playlist sharing site, has released an API so that developers can get access to its treasure trove of playlist data -- 120,000 playlists, referencing a tota...

Users receiving the email alerts can also click through for a more detailed look at the trending item identified, complete with a single page analytics summary that details the timeline for how freque...

U.S. carrier AT&T is looking at counterparts in Europe with a view to making a big purchase or entering into a merger, according to a report in the WSJ. The paper quotes people familiar with the c...

Lenovo announced today that it will be introducing a special version of its ThinkPad X131e, an education-focused notebook, running Google's Chrome OS. The Chromebook will be sold exclusively to the ed...

NextSpace, a network of coworking spaces in Northern and Southern California, has raised $825,000 in new funding.Co-founder and CEO Jeremy Neuner said the first NextSpace location opened back in 2008,...

Asus may soon be the next Windows Phone 8 handset OEM partner for Microsoft, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal today. And the company isn't just looking to stick the operating sys...

Celtra, a company offering tools for rich media ad creation, mobile ad serving, and analytics, just announced that it has raised $4 million in new funding.The round was led by SoftBank Capital, and So...

Yelp is adding adding restaurant inspection scores to reviews on its business pages, initially for the cities of San Francisco and New York, but with a plan to roll the feature out to other cities whe...

The growing popularity of free mobile content -- largely in the form of apps -- is having a big impact on mobile advertising, the route that many developers and publishers are taking to monetize that ...

Here's the cloud to Nokia's silver lining statement the other day of better than expected handset sales: it is cutting IT 300 jobs, and outsourcing 850 more, with Indian outsourcing giants HCL and Tat...

BodeTree launched early last year to help small business owners better understand and make sense of their financial data. The startup has been attempting to make the absurdly tedious world of financia...

Mobile payments company Bango -- partner to Facebook, Amazon, BlackBerry and others to enable app and content charges directly to your mobile phone bill -- has announced another major carrier partner:...

After accusations ofoverzealous prosecution and awhitehouse.gov petition with nearly 40,000 signatures calling for her removal, U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz has issueda statement about the suicide of Aa...

Uber has announced that it is expanding into Germany, where "Secret Ubers" are now operating in Berlin. The on-demand car service company's first passenger in that German capital was another startup f...

One cable provider is arguing that because Netflix isn't offering it Super HD or 3D content, that it is essentially discriminating against ISPs based on whether they deploy Open Connect boxes. Here's ...

Advertising has been one of the chief routes for developers and publishers to make money from apps and other mobile content, but there is (literally) a small problem: handset screens have a finite amo...

While it’s not the “fail whale” that became popular in years past, Twitter.com is indeed having some issues. According to a tweet by its support account, engineers are working on a &...

While it’s not the “fail whale” that became popular in years past, Twitter.com is indeed having some issues. According to a tweet by its support account, engineers are working on a &...

GitHub has surpassed the 3 million-developer mark, a milestone for the collaborative platform for application development.GitHub said it happened Monday night on the first day of the company'sall-hand...

I've had high hopes for Silvercar to provide an alternative to the typical horrible experience of airport car rental. It sounds like a great idea. But it's difficult to judge the quality of a service ...

Most developers are famously not great designers, but some of the best products come from teams where designers know a bit about design and the designers know a bit about what the developers do. Hack ...

Social gifting startupWrappis today announcing that it has grown its user base to 1 million within fourteen months - proof that people really do enjoy freebies, it seems. The company, which allows use...

The subtle impact of Facebook Graph Search is that when you share openly, you share for the benefit of mankind. And when you don't, or share to just a few people, you're robbing the world of your know...

eBay reported strong earnings today, thanks to growth in mobile adoption as well as improved performance in the Marketplaces business. The company also released its mobile commerce numbers for the yea...

StumbleUpon today laid off 30 percent of its staff, the company has confirmed to TechCrunch. The move, which brings Stumbleupon's employee count from 110 to 75, is part of a larger restructuring plan ...

eBay's Q4 and full year 2012 earnings hit this afternoon, with revenue for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2012 increasing 18% to $4.0 billion, compared to the same period of 2011. The company r...

Facebook originally started testing a new free (minus andy data usage fees you incur from your carrier) calling feature for users of its Facebook Messenger app for iPhone in Canada early this year, an...

There are a bunch of people in this meeting who I don't know. I think they might work for TechCrunch. They don't know who I am either. Half of the people in this room are sick, myself included. I'm go...

When a disaster happens, chances are you want to get in touch with your loved ones as soon as possible, either to tell them that you're fine or to make sure they are. To make this easier, Microsoft is...

Watching the live stream of President Obama's inauguration on the official smartphone app could make you a lucrative target for liberal spam. Buried in the terms of service for the widely praised and ...

HelloSign, a service of HelloFax, has launched a pluginthat lets you fill out and sign documents in Chromewithout leaving Gmail....

Palo Alto-based Fanplayr, a startup focused on driving conversions on any website that offers an eCommerce component, today announced a new $2 million seed investment round, led by Denali Venture Part...

AT&T announced on its consumer blog today that it will finally allow FaceTime over cellular available to all customers on a tiered data plan, after previously offering it first only to those with ...

Facebook announced today at the Open Compute Summit that it is open-sourcing more of its data center designs for storing pictures, high availability and power consumption in data centers....

Advertisers favor showing up on iPads over any other device, and they're willing to pay for it. Sky-high click through rates on iPad have helped it surpass the iPhone in popularity amongst advertisers...

According to new figures released today from mobile commerce startupBranding Brand, mobile commerce over the 2012 holiday season saw major gains, with visits to m-commerce websites up 109 percent year...

According to new figures released today from mobile commerce startupBranding Brand, mobile commerce over the 2012 holiday season saw major gains, with visits to m-commerce websites up 109 percent year...

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Redpoint Ventures has raised $400 million for Redpoint V, its fifth venture capital fund. The firm says that Redpoint V will be used to invest in early-stage entrep...

Smartphones with very large displays are set to take a much bigger chunk of the market this year, according to analyst IHS iSuppli which is predicting so-called phablets will more than double their sh...

Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, just announced that it is rolling out a vertical for portfolio sites. This, the company says, is meant to allow photographers, videographers, illustrat...

After nabbing Accel partner Adam Valkin for its Boston office, General Catalyst is announcing another new investment partner--Steve Herrod....

HTC is the sort of company that's never had the best luck at keeping new products under wraps, and it seems it won't be bucking that trend any time soon. Case in point: Evleaks (now at UnwiredView) ha...

Generally speaking, I don't care much about cars, but Audi Canada, together with Toronto-based ad agency Zulu Alpha Kilo and Slot Mods USA have managed to use cars in a way that piqued my interest by ...

Zettaset, a startup focused on big data management and security, has raised a $10 million Series B fundingled by HighBar Partners, with additional participation from Brocade and Draper Fisher Jurvetso...

MuckerLab, the up-and-coming L.A.-based accelerator program is hosting its demo day for the 10 portfolio companies in its winter class today. In addition, the accelerator just announced that its last ...

The donkey lives! Apparently, Google did not kill a donkey with its Street View car in Botswana, after all. Donkeycide would totally go against Google's whole "do no evil" credo, the company said. Oka...

Betable, a San Francisco-based startup that makes it easier for casino-style game developers to offer players real money bets instead of virtual currency ones, just nabbed Jonathan Flesher. He was the...

Recently, I had the Founder and Chief Scientist of Cloudera, Jeff Hammerbacher, over to the studio to talk about his experience building out big data systems for Facebook. He explained to me how the l...

Apple's courtroom skirmishes against its Android OEM enemy number one Samsung have not been going very well of late, despite Cupertino's big $1bn+ damages win against Samsung last summer. Today a...

Today, Google.org’s VP, Matthew Stepka, announced that the non-profit arm of Google is going to be giving a large sum money to some interesting organizations. It wants to promote civic innovatio...

Task management is a crowded space, but if someone had solved the problem of procrastination with an app we'd probably already be a much more successful society. That's why 16-year-olds Ryan Orbuch an...

Andy Page, Gilt's President, is departing the luxury online retailer, we've learned.Gilt promoted Page to the role of President from Chief Financial Officer in 2011, where he was responsible for the o...

Andy Page, Gilt's President, is departing the luxury online retailer, we've learned.Gilt promoted Page to the role of President from Chief Financial Officer in 2011, where he was responsible for the o...

InternMatch, a 500 Startups-backed company focused on matching college students with employers, is today announcing an additional round of $1.2 million in funding to expand its platform beyond interns...

Forrester is predicting big growth for the mobile payments market in a new report out today, spanning 2013 to 2017. The market research firm is anticipating that the U.S. mobile payment market will se...

Thumb, the opinion-polling network that lets people get real-time crowdsourced recommendations, has today launched a new update to the app routes questions in a totally new way: by location. This was ...

ChowNow is an online ordering platform built for mobile and Facebook, has raised $3 million from GRP Partners with Daher Capital, Double M Capital, and Velos Partners participating....

Wearable connected devices are having a moment -- largely anticipatory -- as excitement builds about the potential for sensor-packed mobile kit that you strap to your person and use to augment/record ...

Founded in 2008 after more than a decade of research at Stanford, Silicon Valley-based startup, Ayasdi, is on a mission to reinvent the methods by which we transform Big Data into actionable knowledge...

I've got a lot of Canon gear, but only one L-series lens of my very own, and that's also the only one that features a rubber gasket where the lens mounts to the body to keep out dust and moisture. It'...

Shopping app shopkick, now 4 million users strong,made some big waveswhen it first opened for business in 2010. With its combination of in-store hardware and user-friendly mobile app that pinged custo...

Sharethrough, a startup that helps brands deliver their video ads in a way that feels “native” to the sites where they’re appearing, has started offering new data and targeting to ad...

Apple and Amazon are fighting over made up words, as you may well be aware. Apple takes issue with Amazon's use of "Appstore," the name for the online retailer's marketplace of Android software, which...

Leap Motion, makers of the innovative Leap Motion controller for PCs, today announced that at launch, it will sell its device exclusively through Best Buy's physical and online stores in the U.S., as ...

Founded in 2008 after more than a decade of research at Stanford, Silicon Valley-based startup, Ayasdi, is on a mission to reinvent the methods by which we transform Big Data into actionable knowledge...

Cox Enterprises is perhaps best known for its holdings in areas thought of as "old media" -- radio and TV stations and newspapers at Cox Media; cable and telephone services at Cox Communications -- bu...

Kiip just announced that it has received funding from ad holding company Interpublic.Brian Wong, the startup's co-founder and CEO, said the investment was actually included in the $11 million round th...

Apple has started offering users of its Chinese online store the option to buy devices on credit. The credit offer can apply to any purchase of more than 300 yuan ($48) but less than 30,000 yuan ($4,8...

Viber has just announced a relatively vanilla update to its BlackBerry app, but with a pretty awesome cherry on top. With over 100 million registered users (since we last checked), Viber has managed t...

WhatsApp, Viber, Yuilop, Facebook Messenger/Poke, Snapchat, and many, many others -- the list of apps in the mobile social messaging space seems endless. But Finland's Jongla thinks there's room for o...

Another day, another content licensing agreement in the online streaming space. Amazon-owned LOVEFilm, a European Netflix competitor, has signed a new streaming deal with NBCUniversal International TV...

United Airlines has announced that inflight Wi-Fi is now available on the first of its international wide-body aircraft, which makes it the only U.S. carrier to currently offer an Internet connection ...

Gaana, one of India's top music streaming services, just launched its app, which is now available on four platforms (iOS, Android, BlackBerry and J2ME for Samsung and Nokia feature phones) to take adv...

Facebook is a data company. Today's news about its new search features proves it. So did last week's news about Facebook testing what it can charge people to send Mark Zuckerberg a message. And tomorr...

Venture capital database CB Insights is releasing a new report today on the state of the VC industry and investments in 2012. For the year, $28.3 billion was invested by venture capital firms in 3,267...

Back in May, we shared the unique story of Lynda.com, the veteran, video-based education platform, and how it was able to generate $70 million in revenue in 2011 without taking a penny from outside in...

Here’s a nifty little addition to Twitter’s website. When you start composing your tweet, the text will change colors when you’ve added something clickable, like a username or URL. T...

In the wake of Internet activist Aaron Swartz's suicide before his impending court case, Silicon Valley Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (CrunchGov Grade: A) has proposed a bill that may have prevented the g...

Doug Ludlow, formerly the CEO of AOL-acquired photosharing startup Hipster, is leaving the company's mobile team (where he was a senior director) to become the first innovation partner at AOL Ventures...

Over the last year, Google has slowly been unveiling its plans around Project Glass, the company's R&D program responsible for attempting to bring wearable computing to the mainstream. Complete wi...

Great, Facebook launched something called Graph Search. But how does it actually help you? From content discovery to finding a restaurant, from recruiting to dating to a trip down memory lane, here's ...

Tred, a startup that allows you to order auto test drives to your home, is announcing a $1.7 million raise of seed funding today, from Fraser McCombs Capital, former Chairman and CEO of General Motors...

getTalent, a service that helps companies build a relationship with potential hires before they apply for a job, is about to get more useful at real-world recruiting events, thanks to the latest updat...

When you sit back and think about how far Twitter has come since it launched in 2006, its rise to glory is impressive. It’s difficult to make your way through a day without seeing a tweet refere...

You've seen the Best and Worst of CES 2013. Here's the blooper reel. Don't watch it around your boss or small children. The video is not safe for work - just like CES and Vegas in general....

TechCrunch has learned that Lockerz, the social commerce and photo sharing service, is downsizing. It has shut down its San Diego office, laying off all but two of the staff who will now work remotely...

As the site’s resident guitar shredder, I have a soft spot for musical instruments on Kickstarter. While these Bohemian Guitars don’t have the same features as a GTar or a Jamstik, it̵...

Many of you are probably presented with the same problem when logging into Facebook. The first thing that you see is your News Feed, with tons of content from your friends and pages that you like. Unl...

Disney isn't mincing words when it comes to describing the importance of Infinity, the cross-property, cross-platform gaming initiative that it announced this morning. The company's fact sheet describ...

Canon today officially launched a new initiative including a pilot location in Calgary, Alberta, Canada that follows the experience of physical retail projects like Apple Stores and Microsoft's recent...

Facebook just took a big bite out of Google. Today, the social network announced Graph Search, a new feature that lets you search the interests, location, and preferences of your friends.For anyone wh...

Facebook just announced its new Graph Search feature and while we still have to fully digest the impact of this, it's pretty obvious that its foray into search clearly outranks the very limited search...

Where there's discovery, there's opportunity for sponsored discovery. Though there's no ads in Facebook's new Graph Search engineyet, eventually Facebook could let advertisers pay to show their result...

The old, Imperialist centers for entrepreneurial excellence have been eclipsed by the the great and glorious People's Republic of North Korea, the world's new and pre-eminent location for start-ups. ...

I've signed into Myspace using my Facebook account. They said you could use your Myspace ID, but apparently, my memory doesn't stretch that far back. The site asks me to identify myself. Am I "curator...

Facebook launched Graph Search today, its own version of a private, personalized social search engine. It's somewhat of a competitor to Google's "Search Plus Your World" - Google's more recent take on...

Earlier today, Facebook unveiled its third pillar, graph search. While the announcement was highly anticipated, from the investors' perspective, the unveiling didn't live up to the hype as the stock (...

Facebook this morning unveiled a massive new product called "Graph Search" at a press event at its Menlo Park, California headquarters. While the impact of this debut will be settling in for a while, ...

Snapchat and Facebook Poke have clearly validated the demand for ephemeral messaging, and perhaps even a desire for added security (whether it's misguidedly through social networks or not). But SMS se...

The iPhone 5 wasn't released all that long ago, but increasingly reports are saying a follow-up could come sooner rather than later. Today, Jeffries analyst Peter Misek said in a report that his suppl...

Disney executives are on-stage right now at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles, where they just announced Disney Infinity, a game platform that is set to launch in June.The details of the platform ...

Disney executives just took the stage at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles, where they just announced Disney Infinity, a game platform that's set to launch in June.The details of the platform are ...

Finally some good news about the future of publishing. Amidst all the doom and gloom about e-reading, one company - Byliner - is reinventing the business of selling online writing....

Mark Zuckerberg put the ball in Google's court today at Facebook's big Graph Search launch, saying "I would love to work with Google." For now, though, Facebook hands off queries its Graph Search can'...

When Facebook unveiled its new Graph Search function earlier today, it also unveiled the two people who spearheaded the new "third pillar" of Facebook: Lars Rasmussen and Tom Stocky, two heavy-hitters...

Facebook this morning unveiled “Graph Search,” a new search tool for finding people, photos, places and interests in a way that the social networking giant was very careful to point out is...

Green Dot, a Sequoia-backed company that focuses on pre-paid debit cards and eventually went public two years ago, just unveiled a new banking account that can be registered entirely from a smartphone...

Today at Facebook’s press event, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announced its latest product, called Graph Search. Two of the members of the Graph Search team, Lars Rasmussen and Tom Stocky w...

Since launch, online banking provider Simple has sought to provide an alternative to traditional banking services. Its done that with built-in data visualization and a beautiful and intuitive mobile a...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit parent organization of Wikipedia, just officially launched its twelfth official project: Wikivoyage. The new site, which was already in beta for a while and ha...

ChangeWave has released its quarterly consumer smartphone report, which tracks North American demand for devices and satisfaction with handsets. The survey covers planned purchases during the next 90 ...

A former Funzio executive and a former Google product manager are trying their hands at the mobile gaming world again. Jamil Moledina, who was a vice president of business development at Funzio, and l...

French mobile software development startup, Phonitive -- one of 16 finalists in the 2012 LeWeb startup competition -- has raised a 400,000 first round angel investment from Toulouse-based seed investo...

Whitby, Ontario-based 360incentives announced a new funding round of $7.65 million today, led by OMERS Ventures and including Klass Capital and Round 13 Capital. This is the four-year old company's fi...

WebRTC, the new in-browser framework for real-time video and audio chats, will likely be a major trend this year. While it's exiting for developers to easily add browser-to-browser chat features to th...

Following yesterday's news of PayPal's expanded U.S. footprint in retail, which saw seven more national chains sign-up to offer PayPal's in-store payments in their brick-and-mortar stores, the company...

The Weather Channel application on smartphones and tablets now been downloaded more than 100 million times. It's hardly surprising - Weather globally has been a total basket case for the last couple o...

One of the nice things about ordering from Amazon is that you get package tracking details and information right on site. It's a key ingredient in why Amazon leads all others as an online retail desti...

Today, international investment firm Digi-Capital published its in-depth review of the global gaming space, giving us a sense of the size, breadth, and activity of the international gaming market in b...

It was just over two months ago that Kayak and Priceline sent ripples through the online travel industry with a blockbuster deal in which Priceline shelled out a whopping $1.8 billion to acquire the r...

DreamIt Ventures has just opened up the application process for their third annual New York city Accelerator program, which will begin in mid-May and run to mid-August. The program offers $25,000 in s...

According to new data released from KinderTown, an educational app finder for parents of preschool and kindergarteners, Apple's new iPad mini showed a drastic increase in usage among its app's install...

Europe's state railways continue to pick up steam in their lawsuits against Apple. Today, it emerged that Russian Railways has filed a trademark lawsuitagainst the iPhone maker. The reason is still no...

Darjeelin has launched with what it's calling a human-powered flight search engine. In an interesting employment of the crowd, through contest form, experts are tasked with going off and finding the c...

JiWire, the location-based advertising company that uses WiFi networks to locate users and deliver ads, has signed a deal with Advanced Wireless Group to provide free WiFi services in airports in the ...

Locu, a local business data provider which extracts structured data from business websites and then makes it available via an API, is today announcing two major new partnerships, specifically for its ...

Pixate, Y Combinator-backed startup allowing mobile developers to style their native applications using CSS, is today launching to the public after several months of beta testing with hundreds of deve...

Flatiron Health, the developers of an intelligent oncology data platform, has raised $8 million in a Series A round of funding led by Google Ventures with participation from First Round Capital, Labor...

New Myspace made its debut back in September (when it made our own Drew Olanoff "want to hurl") but the redesign has only been available to limited beta participants before now. Today, the next-genera...

Kabam, a midcore mobile and social developer that ended last year with about $160 million in revenue, just bought Exploding Barrel Games and is expanding its presence out in the Vancouver area. The te...

15Five, a startup that offers a cloud-based platform for employees to provide weekly feedback about their progress -- and for CEOs and other managers to be able to read all of it quickly, is today ann...

Apple's warranty plans have drawn the ire of a Belgian consumer watchdog agency, Test-Aankoop/Test-Achats. The group has filed a complaint against the company over how AppleCare is sold and marketed t...

SevOne, an IT management company that uses peer-to-peer (P2P) technology to manage all elements of a customer's IT infrastructure, has raised $150 million from Bain Capital to pursue mid-market enterp...

Cloud collaboration company YouSendIt has acquired Found Software, a startup that allows users to search for, find and discover their files, documents, and data across devices and cloud services. The ...

The Minerva Project burst onto the scene last year with an ambitious goal: To create the next elite American university, online, and, in so doing, help rethink the role of higher education in the Digi...

DigitalOcean is a cloud hosting solution for small developers, looking for a cheap virtual private server to experiment, host web applications with low memory needs and run some cron jobs. While Linod...

Today, the largest university system in the world, the California State University system, announced a pilot for $150 lower-division online courses at one its campuses--a move that spells the end of h...

Paymill, the cloud-based payment provider backed by the Samwer Brothers' Rocket Internet startup incubator, is taking one more step to build out its Stripe-like service: it has signed a deal with PAY....

OkCupid has risen to be one of the most popular dating sites on the web, complete with a mobile offering on iOS and Android. But today marks the launch of the first brand new stand-alone product from ...

Jack Ma, who has been CEO of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba for the past 14 years (since it was founded in 1999), will step down on May 10 2013 but remain as company chairman -- focusing on Alibaba's...

The humble order confirmation page is a wasted opportunity. Or so says Owned it, a new social commerce platform which aims to help retailers increase referrals and conversions by offering customers in...

Amiigo, a fitness tracker bracelet, shoe clip plus app that can tell what type of exercise you're doing thanks to its combination of hardware sensors and gesture-based software algorithms, has kicked ...

The Minerva Project burst onto the scene last year with an ambitious goal: To create the next elite American university, online, and, in so doing, help rethink the role of higher education in the Digi...

Reports that Baidu, the Internet giant known as "the Google of China," is planning to become a strategic investor in security software company Kingsoft gained traction today when Kingsoft announced th...

Rogers Communications, one of Canadas largest wireless and Internet provider, said it will buy Mountain Cablevision and some wireless spectrum licenses from Shaw Communication for about $710 million U...

Social advertising startup Moontoast just announced that it has raised $5 million in Series B funding.CEO Blair Heavey told me that the company currently works with about 50 clients. It's not an enorm...

Video conferencing is fast becoming a popular tool for communications among a growing number of businesses. But few want to invest the money in deploying the hardware necessary to make enterprise-clas...

Apple announced today that the Wi-Fi and cellular versions of the iPad Mini and the fourth generation iPad with Retina Display will be available in China this Friday. iPad Mini and the fourth generati...

InstallMonetizer is an ad network for desktop software developers, a group that co-founder and CEO Vince Mundy says he once belonged to himself."We looked really really hard to find legitimate sources...

If I've said it once, I've said it one bajillion times. If you're going to start a business accelerator, don't clone Y Combinator or TechStars, find a niche. With the glut of new accelerators today, t...

CryptoSeal, a Y-Combinator company from the summer class of 2011, has launched its VPN as a service to help companies protect all that back-end administrative information from intrusions....

SigFig, the startup that tracks your financial assets and provides detailed visualizations of your investments and recommendations on how to manage them, is now officially playing in the big leagues.S...

SigFig, the startup that tracks your financial assets and provides detailed visualizations of your investments and recommendations on how to manage them, is now officially playing in the big leagues.S...

After a break for the holidays and CES, Ask A VC is back with two all-star investors, Venrock's David Pakman and Kleiner Perkins' investment partner Ted Schlein. Remember, Ask A VC allows you to ask t...

Today, Facebook's mobile apps look like its website shrunk down. Soon, that could change. I've seen first-hand the employee-only iOS app build of an evolved form of Facebook's mobile news feed, which ...

To meet the demand for interactive experiences between the phone and TV, social TV startup Kwarter has raised $4 million from Deutsche Telekom venture arm T-Venture, as well as Kinetic Ventures, to he...

If you own a Wii, you were probably a little bummed out to hear that Amazon would be serving up Instant Video to the Wii U and not to your older console. But fret no longer, as Amazon has just announc...

You know a mobile app store is still young and needs more content when the company behind it still writes its own blog posts when interesting new apps appear in it. With 150,000 apps, the Windows Phon...

The US District Court in Massachusetts has dismissed the case against Aaron Swartz. Swartz committed suicide on January 11 after an investigation into his involvement in the theft of digital documents...

As someone who just wants to run away to the desert with a tent and a paperback book and live on a mesa somewhere, solving the problem of information overload is near to my heart. If you're like me, t...

Ron Hirson, the co-founder and president of mobile payments company BOKU, is stepping down from his full-time position at the company. Hirson is leaving to take on entrepreneur-in-residence roles at t...

The National Rifle Association must have a media mole inside its executive team directing the organization to conjure up the most incendiary policies imaginable. Today, the NRA released a mobile first...

Nik Cubrilovic points out that people were significantly less enraged by Aaron’s legal troubles just a few months ago. Some people have pointed out that Swartz wasn’t able to make a direct...

"I wish you could play this game in real life."Those words have been muttered by almost everyone who's ever played the game Mario Kart — and if you've played games at all in the past couple deca...

Dell, the Texas-based technology company that helped make the desktop personal computer mainstream, is reportedly in talks to go private with the help of private equity firms, according to a report is...

Google just launched the latest beta version of its Chrome browser (version 25) for the desktop and Android and this one is chock-full of new tools for developers. The most important update - and the ...

So I'm giving the Surface RT another go. I took it down from the shelf, blew off the dust and loaded some movies on it for several trips this month. But during our CES meeting concerning the Surface P...

It this the beginning of the end forPicPlum,the Y Combinator-backed photo-sharing and printing startup thatdebutedin summer 2010? Today, co-founder PaulStamatiou announced via blog post that he has jo...

Hardware journalism – the process of writing reviews, news, and opinion about gadgets – is a dark art. Early on – very early on – you have to sell your objectivity in order to ...

Twelephone is a new service for making calls right from your Twitter account. The service is one of the first to use the new WebRTC standard, which allows for real-time communication in the Chrome bro...

Pulse, the popular news reading app for the Web and mobile, just announced that it is going beyond the standard news sources it currently features and is adding authenticated social feeds from social ...

Beyond its on-demand black car service, Uber is going a step further in trying to corner the transportation market by launching its e-hail taxi service in D.C. as well. The launch of UberTAXI will giv...

Netflix isn’t all about movies, as you know. The company has been adding more television to its on-demand service and today announced multi-year licensing agreements with both Turner Broadcastin...

Audiobooks.com, a one-year old subscription service that competes with Amazon's Audible.com, is today dropping its prices. Previously, the company had charged users $24.95 per month for unlimited acce...

TaskRabbit, the San Francisco-based startup that runs an online marketplace for outsourcing errands and tasks, is beefing up its executive team.The company has hired Stacy Brown-Philpot, who worked fo...

After the whole Insta-gate incident where we saw a lot of back and forth about whether Facebook-owned, popular photo sharing app Instagram's was losing users, today a report has come out that claims u...

Gifs are better than pictures and less invasive and time-consuming than movies. This is why Cinemgram exists, and why the app is blowing up of late. But there's a new kid in town looking to let mobile...

Branch, a startup focused on enabling high quality public conversations on the web, is today launching to the public. The company is notably backed by the Obvious Corporation, the incubator from Twitt...

The EC is planning a series of far-reaching reforms this year to support the formation of a pan-European telecoms market, according to the FT. Neelie Kroes, a VP of the EC, said: "Were working on a ra...

AngelPad, the startup accelerator programfounded back in 2010by ex-GooglerThomas Korte, is today releasing new data about the progress its companies have made to date, as well as funding aggregates fo...

PayPal is announcing today that three new national retailers are using its in-store payments technology. Previously, PayPal had made a commitment to sign-up a total of 20 large national retailers by t...

Zirtual, a marketplace that matches professionals with virtual executive assistants, has raised $2 million in Series A funding from Tony Hsieh, VegasTechFund, and Mayfield Fund. Zirtual, which current...

Facing stronger competition from disruptive travel startups like Airbnb and the behemoth of Priceline/Kayak/Booking.com, Sabre-owned Travelocity is looking to up its game with extras. Today the compan...

Online legal platform Rocket Lawyer is acquiring legal Q&A platform, LawPivot. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed but we're told that the acquisition was an all stock-deal....

Smartphones including the iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy SIII and HTC Sensation XL are consistently consuming more mobile data than tablets, according to a new report by mobile data analytics company Arieso...

Smartphones including the iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy SIII and HTC Sensation XL are consistently consuming more mobile data than tablets, according to a new report by mobile data analytics company Arieso...

Janrain, a company that develops a social log-in management platform for developers, has raised $33 million in funding led by Millennium Technology Value Partners with Split Rock Partners, Epic Ventur...

Shpock, the local classified mobile app (or flee market in your pocket) is reporting some decent progress today. Three and a half months after launch, the iOS and Android app has seen 120,000 download...

If the huge profusion of mobile handsets, phablets and tablets on display at CES weren't enough of an indicator, we now have some numbers from Gartner that spell out how the PC industry continues to d...

If the huge profusion of mobile handsets, phablets and tablets on display at CES weren't enough of an indicator, we now have some numbers from Gartner that spell out how the PC industry continues to d...

If the huge profusion of mobile handsets, phablets and tablets on display at CES weren't enough of an indicator, we now have some numbers from Gartner that spell out how the PC industry continues to d...

If the huge profusion of mobile handsets, phablets and tablets on display at CES weren't enough of an indicator, we now have some numbers from Gartner that spell out how the PC industry continues to d...

Back in December Twitter and its subsidiary TweetDeck were fined for late accounts filing by the U.K. registrar of companies, Companies House. Since then Twitter has filed its accounts but TweetDeck h...

It's never been easier for a musician or band to record a track, while the Internet offers virtually no barriers to distribution. But, arguably, with supply outstripping demand, it's also becoming har...

A big step forward for China's search giant Baidu as it looks to raise its international profile and credibility in mobile: the company has inked an exclusive deal with mobile carrier France Telecom/O...

Last fall, Udemy co-founder Gagan Biyani and Wildfire's Erin Turner held the first Growth Hackers Conference, in which executives, entrepreneurs and investors from LinkedIn, Spark Capital, Bump, Airbn...

Samsung just announced another smartphone sales milestone: its Galaxy S series has passed channel sales (or sales to retailers, not end users) of more than 100 million units since launching in May 201...

Samsung just announced another smartphone sales milestone: its Galaxy S series has passed channel sales (or sales to retailers, not end users) of more than 100 million units since launching in May 201...

Hacktivist organization, Anonymous, appears to have hacked MIT's website and left a tribute page to the late Internet activist, Aaron Swartz."We tender apologies to the administrators at MIT for this ...

Tongal has raised $15 million for its video content and social platform, which rewards people for making video advertisements for consumer brands. With the investment, which was led byInsight Venture ...

Apple has cut orders for iPhone 5 components due to weaker-than-expected demand, reports the Wall Street Journal. The article said that "Apple's orders for iPhone 5 screens for the January-March quart...

GetGlue today announced that it is not merging with Viggle, though the social TV app maker said in a statement on its blog that "the two companies remain friendly and think highly of each other."...

GetGlue today announced that it is not merging with Viggle, though the social TV app maker said in a statement on its blog that "the two companies remain friendly and think highly of each other."...

An online tribute to Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old activist who helped create RSS and committed suicide this past week, has attracted more than 1,500 links to research and academic papers. The site wi...

The proliferation of organized “hackathons” has been a big story over the past few years. Quite a few developers that I’m friends with see them as a way to keep themselves sharp on t...

If youre reading this post, chances are that you use Twitter as a place to chat about, link to, search, debate and debunk the big and little things going on in tech.But as you know (and as Twitter lik...

Shenzen New Degree Technology was one of the companies showing its stuff in the Eureka Park portion of CES 2013, and this China-based hardware startup had some impressive tech to show off related to t...

Following calls for an investigation into the prosecution and recent suicide of internet activist, Aaron Swartz, MIT's website is currently down. MIT's President L. Rafael Reif today called for an inv...

Following calls for an investigation into the prosecution and recent suicide of internet activist, Aaron Swartz, MIT's website is currently down. MIT's President L. Rafael Reif today called for an inv...

Here's a novel way to keep track of your wallet, your cat, or, yes, your keys.Jimmy Buchheim stopped by the the TechCrunch booth at the Consumer Electronics Show to demo StickNFind, a bluetooth sticke...

CES has come and gone, but the memory of this year's show will live on forever. Not necessarily because the 15-20 TechCrunch staffers who attended will remember it — chances are the night-time d...

This year's CES may have been about startups more than ever before, but over the last few years, the car industry has also increased its presence at the show. In previous years, we heard a lot about t...

After the news about Interent activist Aaron Schwartz's suicide on Friday started to spread across the Internet, many - including Schwartz's family - at least partly blamed the way MIT handled his cas...

A fascinating project is making the rounds this weekend that could change the way we think of 3D printers. The Filabot is a robot that can turn scrap plastic into 3D printer filament, thereby allowing...

The Playsurface, a spin-off project from Templeman Automation that aims to provide a low-cost alternative to interactive touch table devices like Microsoft's PixelSense (formerly known as the surface)...

Take a look at that "reach friends wherever they are now" image to the left. What's missing between the iPhone and the laptop? Ding ding ding! You're right! A tablet.Okay, I'm sure it was obvious. In ...

As trends go, its been hard to miss this one: Smartphones are getting bigger. Much bigger. But unlike many a flash-in-the-pan craze, the so-called phablet (phone-cum-tablet) phenomenon is, I would arg...

Contrary to the oft-repeated marketing slogan, sometimes, what happens in Vegas is videotaped for posterity and posted to the Internet for all to see. I'm talking of course about this latest edition o...

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is a charismatic guy for someone who leads a company that serves the stodgy world of the enterprise. He's so well-recognized that he was put on stage this past week in ...

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is a charismatic guy for someone who leads a company that serves the stodgy world of the enterprise. He's so well-recognized that he was put on stage this past week in ...

This actually works. I touched it. I played with it. And I fantasized about a bubble wrap app. Tactus Technology stopped by our CES booth for a short demo of its crazy touch screen technology. Using m...

Every week, it seems, a new marketplace or services business is born. Some of the hottest companies of 2012 -- after photo-sharing apps, of course -- were online and/or mobile marketplace- or services...

Facebook has a big launch event on Tuesday. Here's nine things I think it may be working on, or at least should be. We've heard tips that some of these are already in development and may be released s...

Editors note:Ross Rubinis principal analyst atReticle Researchand blogs atTechspressive.Bikes and tech go back a long way. During his first stint at Apple, Steve Jobs would talk about how, when one co...

Editor's note: Robert J. Moore is the co-founder of RJMetrics, which develops software that helps online businesses make smarter decisions using their own data.AtRJMetrics, we believe in data-driven d...

Editors note:DerekAndersenis the founder ofStartup Grind, a 35-city event series hosted in 15-countries that educates, inspires, and connects entrepreneurs.He also founded Commonred (acquired by Incom...

In The Lord of the Rings, when Saurons forces capture Gollum, they torture him in Mordor but are only able to get two things out of him: Shire and Baggins. Over the past few days, weve had similar fru...

Perhaps the biggest roadblock facing the development of generation-two social games is the addiction to metrics. Social game makers still believe that fun is about finding the right behaviours, the ri...

With all the hoopla around CES, we sadly missed this amazing milestone for one of the greatest little projects I've seen in a long time, Raspberry Pi. An estimated one million of these tiny computers ...

Theres been no shortage of jokes lobbed at the HAPIfork, as youve seen from the Colbert video above. The overwhelming consensus seems to be that the technology in the fork is solving a first-world pro...

Editor's note:Jason M. Lemkin served as CEO and co-founder of EchoSign, the webs most popular e-signature service, from inception through its acquisition by Adobe Systems Inc. in 2011.If you are in a ...

A treasure trove of new health devices unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show promise to make us healthier by more accurately measuring what makes people thin and athletic. Calorie counting, for in...

The Gillmor Gang John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor go beyond the usual scenarios in examining the symbiotic relationships between Apple's more proprietary model and Androi...

Digital activist and early employee at Reddit, Aaron Swartz, committed suicide in New York on January 11. He was 26....

Editors note:James Altucheris an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur.You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting...

It's been a bad week for online security. An "extremely critical" Ruby on Rails security hole; a Yahoo! Mail XSS exploit; and yet another Java 0-day vulnerability. I know, I know, security is hard: st...

Carvoyant, a startup that's been busy developing a platform that will tell you exactly what's going on with your vehicle's general health (and what that blasted "check engine" light means), is today r...

Now that Airbnb and Uber have dramatically changed the markets for providing rides and temporary space, it’s natural that we’re seeing variants of their models being applied in other space...

Editor's note:Rachel Haot is the first Chief Digital Officer for the City of New York, where she leads NYC Digital and is focused on the citys digital media strategy.From hackathons to social media, o...

This morning we sat down with the creators of Pairasight, a unique system for adding stereo vision to almost anything including glasses. While the company is still nascent, they do have a very compell...

I spent a lot of time at CES 2013 searching for new audio goodness and one of the cool things I found was IK Multimedias latest product called the iRig HD. Not "officially" announced yet and missing a...

Earlier this afternoon, I started seeing a bunch of tweets from science fiction writers and fans about what looked a big screw up at PayPal. Author Jay Lake has been fighting cancer since 2008, and to...

When you think of Groupon, you immediately think of instant deals for restaurants and nail salons. That's not all the company is about though, it's about connecting people to businesses and helping yo...

I love the Internet so much. America's netizens have demanded that President Obama consider building the legendary Star Wars Death Star and the White House has responded. Not surprising, they have tho...

Mobile ad company Pontiflex has raised $7.7 million in new funding. The news was revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and confirmed byGeoff Grauer, Pontiflex's CIO, COO, an...

You're bored at home asking "What should I do?" Meanwhile people nearby are shooting Instagrams of the fun events they're at. Now is a free iOS app that uses Instagram's API to sort through photos in ...

Rovio, the Finnish makers of Angry Birds, said they crossed 263 million monthly active users in December, with 30 million downloads in Christmas week alone and 8 million downloads on Christmas Day. Th...

Lazy-Hands is the epitome of one of those self-made, little-guy CES gems that we love so much. Armed with little more than velcro, a humble booth, and a dash of ingenuity, they managed to catch our ey...

The Almond, a router with a small touch screen that achieved significant success on Amazon thanks to a decent price point and excellent reviews, has a successor from parent company Securifi hitting Ki...

CES covers over 1.9 million sq feet of the Las Vegas desert, and walking up and down the various lanes of gadget goodness can be hard on the old dogs. Luckily, we discovered this massive mechanical sp...

Y Combinator companyGlassmap, a location-aware app that was big back in the day (last year), has just announced that is has been acquired by Groupon. This makes total sense, because Groupon needs to k...

Polaris Venture Partners plans to close two of its Dogpatch Labs incubator spaces specifically the ones in Palo Alto and New York while refining the approach in its two remaining locations.The news...

Polaris Venture Partners plans to close two of its Dogpatch Labs incubator spaces specifically the ones in Palo Alto and New York while refining the approach in its two remaining locations.The news...

The Swivl is an odd duck. When you first look at it you wonder what it's for. But anyone who has given a speech or performed onstage will immediately appreciate this clever little device. The Swivl es...

Here we go again. There is a CONFLICT OF INTEREST in the tech news media. Well I just can't believe how this could happen in an industry that pays bloggers to review products from companies that then ...

According to an SEC filing, Silicon Valley investor SV Angel has raised a new round of funding for a fund titled, SV Angel-III Growth P. As we reported in August, SV Angel filed another document with ...

Sony Mobile's top-tier Xperia Z may have been one of CES's most pleasant non-surprises (seriously, is there anyone Sony didn't brief about that thing?), and it turns out that the company's future effo...

As Peter Csathy wrote recently, mobile video does indeed present a huge market opportunity, but it's one that few (if any) startups have gotten right, and it's a much harder nut to crack than many see...

Fleksy, the new mobile keyboard that debuted on iOS back in August, was showing its stuff at CES this year. The trick of automatically predicting what you're typing without requiring much more than yo...

Gillmor Gang - John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live today at 1pm Pacific....

Big guys like Samsung, Sony and LG use the Consumer Electronics Show to simply show off to one another, whereas the little guys (including case makers) are actually trying to conduct business — ...

You may or may not have noticed, so I'll provide a quick fashion world dispatch: Headbands have been gracing the foreheads of many a stylish person over the past few years. If a Toronto-based startup ...

There aren't very many bootstrapped startups that can claim the kind of stats that the popular image sharing service Imgur, which won the Best Bootstrapped Crunchies award last year, can claim: last m...

It's easy to hate CES. It's a vapid, broken wunderkammer filled with booze, waste, and gadgets no one will buy for months if not years if ever at all. The show floor is a crass place where marketers t...

At Eureka Park at CES in the Venetian, we saw a ton of cool startups. But some of them really stood out. Like this guy. He was very excited about giving us a demo of his company's technology for letti...

Would you pay to get Mark Zuckerberg to read your email? If so, how much? That’s what Facebook wants to find out, apparently. Some Facebook users are able to send the CEO an email that reaches h...

Eureka Park played home to a whole host of interesting companies and projects (some of which were arguably more interesting than the stuff you'd find on the actual CES show floor) and our first stop w...

Lots of companies here this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas have built products that are centered on dramatic, splashy, or new ideas. Phone Halo is not one of them. Instead, Phone H...

Being geeky is awesome; number-obsessed performance geeks should be able to wear their devices loud and proud. Last year saw an explosion of calorie-tracking wearable devices, but none of these plasti...

Yandex, the Google of Russia, has built a voice-activated, visual search engine for Facebook. Codenamed "Wonder," the mobile app lets people ask what businesses friends have visited and what content t...

The Philips uWand is no stranger to CES. It's been at the show in the past, and as a prototype it has been around for even longer, but this time around it got an updated look and feel, along with refi...

Applicasa, a Tel Aviv-based company which got its start as a mobile backend service provider competing with Parse, Kinvey, StackMob and others before shifting into mobile gamemanagement, has raised a ...

In late 2011, Google acquired Zave Networks, a company that specialized in digitizind coupons and loyalty rewards programs and today, it is launching its first product based on this acquisition: Zaver...

SmartThings doesn't just come to Vegas and set up a boring old booth. These guys rented out a palatial villa just outside of downtown, both for the practical purposes of giving themselves a place to c...

With their new Crusher headphones, Skullcandy promises something that many a headphone company has promised to do before: to physically rattle your head as a subwoofer might. Unlike the past attempts ...

If you're looking for evidence that brevity really is the soul of wit, Twitter is the place to go to find it. Indeed, there is so much wit fluttering around the site that its now possible to enjoy Twi...

NFC-based mobile payments are getting another boost in the States: U.S. Bank, one of America's largest, has announced that it will begin to trial a new mobile payments service called "U.S. Bank Go Mob...

BMW has rolled out a new feature that will let riders stay connected, by adding 4G LTE WiFi connectivity to its cars. BMW owners will be able to buy an optional hotspot that connects with the car and ...

Well that didn't take long. Here'sMac OS running (well, it's emulated) on a Microsoft Surface. Blasphemy? Awesome? Hard to say.Now that a jailbreak tool for Microsoft's Windows Surface RT is out in th...

NewsWhip, a service that surfaces the latest news based on social signals from Facebook and Twitter, has released an iPhone and iPad app that puts it up against the likes of Flipboard and other social...

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason last year set his company a goal of adding more value and diversity to its bread and butter business in daily deals, and today it took one more step in that direction: Groupon...

When peak performance is your goal, every second counts. I guess milliseconds count too. Product development consultancy Cambridge Consultants had this in mind when they developed their new automatic ...

Xerox announced today that Luca Maestri, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, is leaving the company as of February 28, in order to take the position of corporate controller at Apple....

BlackBerry users on the Vodafone network in Europe, the Middle East and Africa have not been receiving emails today as RIM's network suffers another outage. Early this morning Reuters reported that em...

BlackBerry users on the Vodafone network in Europe, the Middle East and Africa have not been receiving emails today as RIM's network suffers another outage. Early this morning Reuters reported that em...

A copyright dispute that has blocked German YouTube users' access to certain music videos continues to rumble on with little sign of a resolution -- despite being ongoing for more than three years alr...

Lockitron's Cameron Robertson stopped by our CES booth for a little demo. It doesn't take much to demo the Lockitron. It's a little wireless device that slips onto a deadbolt and can be controlled by ...

The CES show floor was packed with tons of companies that you’ve probably head plenty about this week, like Panasonic, Sony, LG, etc. But the hidden gems and oddballs among the consumer electron...

Sphero had a big 2012, but it's clear that 2013 will be even bigger for the company. This week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the makers of a phone-friendly robotic ball launched a han...

Sphero had a big 2012, but it's clear that 2013 will be even bigger for the company. This week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the makers of a phone-friendly robotic ball launched a han...

According to a recent SEC filing, fashion news and e-commerce site Refinery29 has raised $3.5 million in a private offering from a total of seven undisclosed investors.The Web site, which focuses on t...

For years, Microsoft has been the king of the world's offices, as its own Office productivity suite dominating the market. If you've worked in an office in the last 20 years -- preferably at one with ...

When you’re using Google+ Hangouts to broadcast say, a live concert, there hasn’t been a way to make it full-screen for your wonderful viewers. Basically, it would show a big window w...

Earlier this week, reports that a cheaper iPhone is in the works caused plenty of buzz as observers speculated about how such a device could help Apple target emerging markets, including China. But an...

UPDATE: Reuters has withdrawn its original report about Phil Schiller's interview with the Shanghai Evening News based on "substantial changes" to original story, though its not clear what those chang...

You might remember Maluuba from TechCrunch Disrupt, where the company launched its Personal Assistant app for Android last year, combining voice recognition and natural language processing with search...

Samsung's Windows RT tablet, the Ativ Tab, will not be sold in the U.S. Mike Abary, head of Samsung's PC and tablet business in the U.S., told CNET at CES that it will not release the device in the U....

As geeks, it's hard for us to carry all of our geek accoutrements to our various geek events. That's why I, for one, love ScottEVest: they're durable, fun, and pocket-ful pieces of clothing for the ne...

Samsung has disclosed that Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) fined it NT$300,000 (or about US$10,389) for an advertisement that featured "misleading" information about the Samsung Galaxy Y Duos GT-...

LG and CES are made for each other. The company may not make the best smartphones (with the exception of Google's Nexus 4), or get the most attention all year round, but when they whip out the big scr...

Withings was one of a pretty busy section of the CES 2013 show floor demoing health, fitness and lifestyle monitoring apps, and it had a couple of new things to add to its line of Wi-Fi scales and mon...

Okay, hear me out. The duel-sided YotaPhone is not a gimmick. It makes sense. On the back of the YotaPhone is an e-ink display that can mirror anything displayed on the main screen. And because e-ink ...

Tim Cook would like to get Apple on a faster boat to China. On his current visit to the country, it looks like the Apple CEO has focused on smoothing the rollout and distribution of Apple products the...

The Pebble Smart watch is one of the best-known Kickstarter projects. A compact e-ink device designed to work with almost any smartphone, the Pebble grabbed attention when it hit $10 million and sold ...

As someone who devours way too much science fiction, I've always secretly believed that I'll be wearing giant VR goggles at some point in the future. (I'm patiently waiting for my jetpack, too.) Now i...

I can tell you that the very, very last place I expected to see Lemmy Kilmister, from the band Motorhead, was at CES 2013. However, the metal pioneer emerged from the chaos with his new line of headph...

Over the last few years, the travel industry has begun to undergo significant change, as startups and incumbents have fought to bring the disparate parts of a highly regulated industry online. Much of...

Aereo is quite possibly the most disruptive company to come out of New York since Kickstarter. The startup, founded by serial founder Chet Kanojia, brings live and recorded TV content direct to your I...

Gimmie, a startup that began with rewards for mobile gamers, has just shifted its focus to Asian markets by relocating to Singapore and taking funding from a government agency there. The company said ...

The Fitbit pedometer is a fun way to track your daily perambulations. They've launched a number of products over the past year including the One and the Aria scale. ...

The patent rat-race continues apace. Today Unwired Planet announced that it has purchased a portfolio of over 2,400 patents from the troubled Swedish mobile vendor Ericsson. The deal includes IP relat...

If you’re an avid Dropbox user, then you have probably figured out that the site and service aren’t working properly right now. As in, not at all, but it’s not completely “down...

Meet the best product at CES 2013: Razer Edge.Simply put, the Razer Edge is a pure gaming tablet. But it's not that simple. With the right accessories, the Edge transforms from a tablet, to a gaming m...

The Affordable Care Act will flood the resource-strapped national emergency room system with 30 million more insured citizens, increasing already-long wait times to see a doctor. A new hospital-in-a-b...

Google just announced that it has launched a beta channel for its Chrome for Android browser. This means you can get early access to new features, of course, but the beta versions will obviously not b...

The Crunchies are getting closer, we know who the finalists are, we know that John Oliver is hosting and we know that GZA is a special guest. However, the most important thing about the Crunchies, oth...

Almost a year ago, an exodus on the Google Wallet team sent former members running away to companies like Square and other stealth projects. We wrote about one such stealth startup called Tappmo, co-c...

Slava Rubin knows a thing or two about crowdfunding. Founded in 2008, his company, IndieGogo is a major funding powerhouse, bringing together such disparate projects like the Misfit Shine and The Oatm...

The Parrot AR Drone has captured the attention of many a gadget geek over the past couple of years for pretty obvious reasons: The thing is just cool, and really fun to play with. As Parrot's CEO Henr...

Here is a delightful gif of YCombinator's Paul Grahamthrowing what looks like $50 up in the air, "making it rain" as the kids would say.For those of you unfamiliar with the term, or Lil Wayne, here is...

With nearly three million downloads and 300,000 active users, Soundtracking lets you share what you're listening to. But when it added a Twitter Card integration to turn tweets into musical photos, re...

Every year TechCrunch and our partners get together to celebrate innovation at the Crunchies. This year it's in San Francisco on January 31, 2013. The event is a star-studded bacchanal featuring (occa...

It’s day three at CES 2013. It’s a bit cold out. But here we are, for the third episode of TechCrunch Gadgets Live. We’ll be chatting with Pebble Watch. Did you hear it’s going...

Product design company ZURB just announced that it has acquired Forrst, the 500startups alumni Colourlovers acquired for an undisclosed amount in March 2012. Forrst aims to be a design community for ...

If you haven't yet experienced the world of light field photography, it's time to step into the Lytro. (See what I did there?) The Lytro camera is a brand new form of photographic technology that prod...

Beyond their own pet projects, members of Congress often know little more than the public about what the legislature will actually accomplish in a given year. The International Consumer Electronics Sh...

Host Analytics has raised $17 million in a Series D round to expand its enterprise performance management technology. All of the existing investors participated in the round, including Advanced Techno...

This CES has been a surprisingly musical. Aside from the usual headphones and speakers, we've already seen a number of electronic musical instruments including the Artiphon Instrument 1, a well-made e...

CES is an event filled with plastic, metal, and germs, so one tends to take notice when a booth is festooned with wood and apples. Such with was the case when we stumbled upon Russian hardware startup...

"In the Studio" this week welcomes a former economist who worked for his country's treasury department and reserve bank, a former intern with The Economist Group, and by way of his very unique company...

One thing Rovi Product Management Director Charles Dawes is excited about is the ratification of H.265 or the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) format, which will provide higher-quality video stream...

When we walked the floor at CES this week, I had to stop by and visit one of my favorite iOS device power accessory makers. Innergie, which created a power cable that has micro USB, mini USB and 30-pi...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission gave Google a slap on the wrist after it concluded its antitrust investigation into the company's business practices, but it looks like it may not get away that easil...

The GameStick, a Kickstarter project we covered at launch that aimed to take what OUYA was trying to build in an Android-powered home gaming console and fit it into a device the size of a flash drive ...

The GameStick, a Kickstarter project we covered at launch that aimed to take what OUYA was trying to build in an Android-powered home gaming console and fit it into a device the size of a flash drive ...

Ignore all the noise at CES and just get a Double, a Telepresence robot with an iPad for a face. Pay someone to turn it on at CES and enjoy all the sights and sounds from the comfort of your home. Sou...

SAP HANA now serves as the core of the business software giant's strategy with the news today that its core SAP Business Suite will run on the real-time, in-memory database technology....

Billtrust, a company that provides a SaaS to manage online billing for companies, is merging with Best Practice Systems, another provider of electronic billing solutions. The financial terms of the ag...

Twitter's new API rules have claimed another victim. Red Badger, the developers of the Windows Phone Twitter client Birdsong, just announced that it will remove its app from the Windows Phone marketpl...

Have you ever been curious about what apps other people are running on their iPhones, and specifically those which they've deemed awesome enough to warrant a coveted spot on their homescreen? If so, t...

ScaleArc has raised $12.3 million in a Series C round led by Accel Partners for its database infrasrtucture software. Trinity Ventures and Nexus Ventures also participated in the round that brings the...

Non-profit fundraising platform Causes has just acquired political activism startup Votizen. With Causes' massive 186 million user base and Votizen's tools, together they'll break down barriers to civ...

LEGO just introduced the third generation LEGO Mindstorm sets. Like previous versions, a central computer controls motors and servos, essentially bringing the LEGO kit to life. This new version is hea...

LEGO just introduced the third generation LEGO Mindstorm sets. Like previous versions, a central computer controls motors and servos, essentially bringing the LEGO kit to life. This new version is hea...

We've covered Tovbot's Shimi from inception to launch at TechCrunch Disrupt and this week we got a closer look at the little dancing robot that could at our CES stage....

Two days down, two days to go. We've seen Samsung, Sony and LG. We've hit up Huawei, Parrot, and Verizon. We even met a few different celebrities like Xzibit, Nick Cannon, and Run of Run-DMC. It's bee...

We sat down with Greg Duffy, CEO of Dropcam, to talk about his company's move into online DVR services connected with their cool little HD webcams. The big news? Dropcam cameras now upload more video ...

Mirantis has raised $10 million in a round led by Intel Capital to extend its OpenStack services for companies seeking to build out a cloud infrastructure. Dell Ventures and WestSummit Capital also pa...

Online ticketing company Eventbrite has released a number of new stats for 2012, including that the company hit $600 million in gross ticket sales for the year. To put that in perspective, in 2011, th...

Socialrithmic is already proving to be a curious story. Seattle-based and founded by ex-Microsoft Bing engineers, last September the social analytics startup upped roots for 13 weeks to take part in I...

"Smart parking" platformStreetline just announced that it has raised $25 million in Series C funding.The round was led by True Ventures, with participation from new investors Qualcomm Ventures and Cit...

Digg today took to its blog to share a bit of information about its user growth and monetization plans, now that it's been atBetaworksfor nearly six months. The company said that Digg's user base has ...

Digg today took to its blog to share a bit of information about its user growth and monetization plans, now that it's been atBetaworksfor nearly six months. The company said that Digg's user base has ...

Nokia is slowly turning around its ailing mobile handset business and today that effort had a nice fillip, by way of some revised figures in which it "exceeded expectations" for Q4 sales. Within that,...

Last September, Google surprised many of us when its Niantic Labs launched the location-based app Field Trip for Android. FieldTrip runs on the background an automatically alerts you when it detects i...

Amazon is today introducing a new service called "Amazon AutoRip," which automatically gives customers free MP3 versions of any CDs they've purchased from Amazonsince the launch of its Music Store bac...

Amazon is today introducing a new service called "Amazon AutoRip," which automatically gives customers free MP3 versions of any CDs they've purchased from Amazonsince the launch of its Music Store bac...

Security company FireEye has announced it has raised an additional $50 million in venture funding, bringing its total funding to-date to more than $100 million. The new funding comes from new and exis...

Some good news for Nokia today: the company announced that it exceeding guidance for Q4 sales, after a strong quarter of sales for its Windows Phone Lumia line and its Asha low-cost smartphones, with ...

The electronics behemoth that is Samsung sometimes works in mysterious ways -- penning axiomatic smartphone slogans such as 'designed for humans', for instance -- but there's very little mystery about...

TechCrunch has received a copy of a memo indicating thatNuance, the speech and natural language technology giant that also powers Apple's Siri voice assistant, has made another acquisition: VirtuOz, a...

TechCrunch has received a copy of a memo indicating thatNuance, the speech and natural language technology giant that also powers Apple's Siri voice assistant, has made another acquisition: VirtuOz, a...

Guavus, an enterprise data analytics company, has raised $30 million in new funding from Investor Growth Capital (IGC) with participation from QuestMark Partners and previous investors Artiman Venture...

We still don't know how many Windows Phone 8 smartphones Nokia has sold since it started selling WP8-powered Lumias in the U.S. and Europe, back in November, but it's continuing to expand availability...

If you're familiar with Birchbox -- the subscription service that delivers boxes of cosmetics and beauty products to your doorstep -- you know that the New York City-based startup has taken off in the...

Telefonicahas been operating its Wayra Academies to seed fund and mentor startups in Latin America and Europe since April 2011; and, in a signal of how Telefonica hopes to tap into that talent in the ...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is embarking on a major reorganization of its business structure that will divide the company into 25 different units, each led by a general manager, said CEO Ja...

Most of you probably have lots of distractions and relatively little free time, so short stories could be a great way to get some fiction into your life they're more manageable, anyway, than a big do...

Research In Motion has said that it plans to release a wide range of BlackBerry 10 devices that will hit low, middle and high price points in order to capture more of the smartphone market. In additio...

Foxconn, the Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing giant that works with companies like Apple,Samsung, and Sony,has confirmed that it is being investigated on charges of bribery by Chinese authoritie...

Apple hasannounced that app screenshots will be locked in iTunes Connect once an app is approved. New screenshots can only be added when developers submit a binary for an updated to an existing or new...

Glory be! After seven long and miserable years without a new Arrested Development episode, Netflix has confirmed on Twitter that the cult comedy series will be back for 14 episodes on the video-stream...

It is sad that no one who reports on technology has the balls to straight up pull a Hunter S. Thompson at CES. I mean peel away from the PR stunts and parties and just do mushrooms and walk around the...

The median size of angel deals rose to $640,000 in the third quarter of last year — a five-quarter high — as startups looked for more runway amid a bottleneck for Series A rounds. Silicon ...

The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is where companies show off the latest and greatest in gadgets -- but with all the sleek exteriors and specs it can be easy to forget about the tiny b...

Samsung is known around these here parts as the Fifth Horsemen. The company has risen from a boring mega-conglomerate to Apple's biggest competitor, the world leader in TVs, and one of the most crucia...

To prevent people thinking Facebook apps are losing users when there are bugs in the user count data it reports to services like AppData, starting January 16th Facebook will only report user counts in...

Boxee launched the Boxee TV shortly before Christmas. At 3000 Walmart stores. And major feature is still in beta. Boxee is the poster child of a lean startup -- they just happen to ship hardware....

Kids these days have it so much better than we all did, am I right? Better clothes, funner food, cooler hair, and amazing tech-enabled games. Reinforcing that last example is Sifteo, a San Francisco s...

The government wants to help ensure that conference wifi actually works. Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, announced a new plan to open up a portion of the wireles...

The government wants to help ensure that conference Internet Wi-Fi actually works. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced a new plan to open up a portion of the wireless spectrum for faster and mor...

If you're smart, you probably think twice before using a WiFi network anywhere outside of your own home to log into things like your bank account and even your email. Being on a shared network notorio...

CES is in full force and TechCrunch is in the middle of it all. Literally. Our massive broadcast booth -- it looks like a greenhouse -- is in front of the Las Vegas Convention Center. And coming up at...

Google just announced yet another major investment in renewable energy. The company says that it has made a $200 million equity investment in an existing wind farm in Oldham County Texas. The Spinning...

Making what he said was his first trip to the Consumer Electronics Show since he was a teenager, Salesforce.com co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff took the stage today to talk about the big shifts in the...

In the dozen years since it first launched, personalized Internet radio pioneer Pandora has become a staple on people's computers and mobile phones. But the company's mission definitely does not end t...

Twitter today has upgraded its Tweetdeck for Mac app, which now offers the same features that Chrome users received in mid-December. This includes "typeahead" and PeopleSearch additions, as well as th...

Online venture capital firm FundersClub is pioneering equity crowdfunding, and today demonstrated the value of bringing on dozens of investors rather than a handful. Ecommerce startup Soldsie just rai...

Microsoft Open Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, just announced the launch of VM Depot, "a community-driven catalog of open source virtual machine images for Windows Azure." Azure,...

If you haven’t jumped ship on using Gmail’s desktop app, you might be happy to know that its recently released compose view has gotten a few new handy features. Today, the team announced t...

Appboy, the maker of a suite of customer relationship management (CRM) tools for mobile app developers, is now offering a new customer segmentation product that lets developers slice their audience in...

Pebble, the company that says it's creating "the first watch built for the 21st century," announced today that it plans to start shipping on January 23.The announcement was made via a presentation thi...

RoomHunt, which is launching today, wants to become the go-to aggregator for rental listings, starting with the competitive San Francisco market. The Web has changed how we search for long-term rental...

Formlabs, the little 3D printer company that could, sat down with us to show off their Form 1 printer, a stereolithographic system that creates surprisingly high resolution objects using lasers and an...

Later today, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff will be giving a keynote speech at CES. That might be a surprise to some, considering that the trade show usually has keynotes from folks like Microsoft's Stev...

It's a brand new day and the sun is high. So ready yourself for yet another eight hours of TechCrunch live streaming coverage from the CES showroom floor. Yesterday was exciting, especially visiting t...

Going into this year's CES, Qualcomm had a hell of a problem on their hands -- how would a company that planned to talk about mobile chipsets of all things make its big keynote one to remember? As it ...

Las Vegas is not exactly known as a place where people want to think about responsibly saving their money, so you've got to hand it to the folks at New York startup Betterment for bringing their goal-...

Learn-to-code startup Codecademy is expanding its curriculum today with the launch of new API-focused lessons in partnership with services like YouTube, Twilio, and NPR.The goal, according to co-found...

It’s the dawn of a new day here at CES 2013 in Las Vegas, and just like clockwork there’s yet another keynote address that’s set to kick off in just a few minutes. Today’s head...

It’s the dawn of a new day here at CES 2013 in Las Vegas, and just like clockwork there’s yet another keynote address that’s set to kick off in just a few minutes. Today’s head...

Lovely, the apartment search service that was initially built as a better and easier way of finding available apartment rentals originally listed in the large-but-feature-light Craigslist.org, has now...

We were lucky to have a few minutes to sit down with Bre Pettis of Makerbot. The company just announced an interesting improvement to the Replicator 2, called the Replicator 2X, that is tweaked to wor...

More than a few companies take up the fight against waterlogged gadgets (heck, there was one at ShowStoppers last night) but California-based Liquipel has quickly become one of the most interesting. T...

BlueKite, a Miami-based platform for cross-border bill payments, is today announcing $1.5 million in new funding, led by PeopleFund, which contributed $1.3 million of the total raise. The remaining am...

The weird thing about food blogging is that - well, how can we put this - they are still blogging. While millions of you seem happy to Instagram your food, there really are still people out there blog...

In what is clearly a marketing-driven exercise of its own, Adspert, the web-based bid management tool for Google AdWords campaigns, has released a free iOS app to enable marketing managers and the lik...

LinkedIn has announced it has reached 200 million users worldwide -- with new users being added at an average rate of two per second. The professional social network clocked up its first 100 million b...

LinkedIn has announced it has reached 200 million user registrations worldwide -- with new users being added at an average rate of two per second (or 172,800 per day). Not bad for a professional socia...

San Francisco-based kids' app platform Fingerprint is teaming up with UK educational app maker Mindshapes. The two companies are collaborating on a series of new digital learning activities called "ap...

Kitsy Lane, an Etsy-style social commerce platform startup that lets its users open their own internet boutiques selling jewellery or accessories, has announced it's closed a $3.5 million Series A fun...

Well, the startups have entered, the judges have judged and the shortlist has been drawn up. The Europas Europes annual awards for tech startups - now has the the shortlist of nominees for this years...

Live video streaming platform Ustream announces with Teradek a new portable HDMI streaming device for $699. Just like Livestream’s Broadcaster, it is easy to use and compatible with a wide range...

Europe's fight against cybercrime has a new home: the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) will officially open its doors on January 11. The centre's focus will be on illegal online activities carried out...

Facebook today announced that it has opened registration for the Hacker Cup, its annual competition for programmers with a $5,000 top prize for the best of them all. Facebook holds the Hacker Cup in r...

Facebook today announced that it has opened registration for the Hacker Cup, its annual competition for programmers with a $5,000 top prize for the best of them all. Facebook holds the Hacker Cup in r...

The German market for startups never ceases to amaze me. While many European startups struggle with either internal markets that are too small or international markets that are pretty daunting, the Ge...

The German market for startups never ceases to amaze me. While many European startups struggle with either internal markets that are too small or international markets that are pretty daunting, the Ge...

Europe's largest mobile network operators are considering pooling their resources to create pan-European network infrastructure, the FT is reporting. Quoting several people familiar with the situation...

Gawker Media, which already has a presence in eight countries, is expanding its international reach even further. Nick Denton, the founder of the company and blog network, announced yesterday that it ...

Sina Weibo, the Chinese microblogging platform sometimes referred to as "China's Twitter," is finally offering an English-language interface, as confirmed to Tech In Asia by the company....

Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng launched Coursera last year to give anyone and everyone access to courses from top-tier universities -- for free, online. At launch, the startup offered...

For many startups, creating the educational platform (and learning experience) of the future began with reinventing the presentation, distribution -- really, the essence -- of educational content. And...

Google+ is coming out of its holiday slumber with an addition to its Photo section of the service, today. The team has added pan and zoom functionality, which lets you explore small areas of high...

eBay released significant updates to its iPhone and iPad apps yesterday which it says will "play an important role in eBay Mobile's year to come." The ecommerce platform also said that 1.8 million new...

Our cars today feature lots of sensors, but it's not easy for developers and hardware hackers to get access to all of this data, which is typically proprietary and manufacturer specific. Last year, Fo...

Two top tech executives are currently visiting Asia, but while Eric Schmidt's trip to North Korea is confusing observers of the authoritarian regime and Google alike, the reasons for Apple CEO Tim Coo...

Because data is hard to come by on active usage for top mobile apps, it’s hard to understand how wide a footprint the very highest-grossing games have. Plus, with a Renaissance in mid-core games...

Ah, ShowStoppers. Its always a nice change of pace for us got just about two hours on after the first day of CES has wrapped, companies come to us to show off their wares instead of the other way aro...

With Microsoft pulling out of the Consumer Electronics Show and Apple no where to be seen, the show has become a huge opportunity for other companies to have their major on-stage moment. With over 150...

General Electric built what is today a $219 billion multinational industrial behemoth by continuously investing in innovation, technology and computing. As the maker of airplane engines, trains, power...

General Electric built what is today a $219 billion multinational industrial behemoth by continuously investing in innovation, technology and computing. As the maker of airplane engines, trains, power...

The main theme in Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam's keynote speech this afternoon at the Consumer Electronics Show were the big challenges facing different industries and society as a whole, and the ways th...

Most of the time when we cover a new phone launch, it's all about something that's small, lightweight, fully-featured, and mobile -- and often it's aimed at the cutting edge of hip young consumers. Bu...

In the aftermath of a controversial story claiming Instagram’s traffic numbers were down, it looks like the data that was the source of the story has now disappeared altogether. Instagram was in...

The CES showroom floor is full of surprises, but none were quite as exciting as the plethora of celebrities we bumped into on Day 1. Much of that is in great thanks to Monster, who is focused on new p...

The surprisingly small and light Jamstik is, in short, one of the coolest things I've seen at CES Today. It is a MIDI guitar that is actually a musical controller. By playing and plucking the strings ...

GitHub had another outage this afternoon.This is getting old. How can GitHub be taken seriously in the enterprise with these kinds of outages?It makes no difference if GitHub forEnterpriseruns on-prem...

Livio is going free -- at least for developers. The Michigan-based startup just launched a freemium pricing structure for Livio Connect, its app development platform aimed at safety bringing apps into...

Matt Rogers is the Founder and VP of Engineering at Nest and brought his latest thermostat - a steel-clad beauty with improved design and sensor placement - to our stage at CES 2013....

Dell Wyseis at the CES party to show off its Project Ophelia, a dongle the size of a fat key chain that plugs into the TV and then connects to the cloud and your remote desktop. It works with Citrix, ...

"Do we want to bet the company on this?", CEO Zach Coelius asked his advertising tech startup Triggit when it got a shot to work with Facebook's ad exchange. It took the chance, raised $7.4 million, a...

Yahoo! is making moves in the new year already. Today, it announced that it has hired Disney/ABC’s Sandy Gould to lead talent acquisition and development. His official title is “senior vic...

Following a report byDigitimes this morning citing industry sources, The Wall St. Journal is today confirming that it, too, hears that Apple is working on a low-cost version of the iPhone, which could...

Condition One, that cool new video startup that enables video creators to shoot immersive, 180-degree video mainstream, has announced a new player for ultra-HD playback and compatibility with RED and ...

It's been clear that crowdfunding has had a big moment over the past twelve months, but new stats released today by creative project investment platform Kickstarter showed just how huge 2012 really wa...

Whether you’re a Microsoft user or not, you have to respect the fact that its install base for operating systems is massive. The company spans plenty of sectors, specifically enterprise, but of ...

It's day one at CES and we're already churning away at our live video stream from the show floor and, for those looking for a nice recap, our daily Gadgets Live webcasts. At 1pm PST/4PM EST we'll sit ...

Those of you waiting for the tie-up of second-screen apps GetGlue and Viggle Giggle? to close will have to wait just a little bit longer. The merger of the companies, which was announced in November...

Bitly has launched a set of social APIs that includes real-time search, attention spikes and metadata about URLs.The new APIs offer the following:...

It's day one at CES and we're already churning away at our live video stream from the show floor and, for those looking for a nice recap, our daily Gadgets Live webcasts. At 1pm PST/4PM EST we'll sit ...

Alexis Ohanian, Co-founder of the “Internet’s front page,” Reddit.com, wants to spread his enthusiasm for the web to the entire U.S. Congress. Silicon Prairie is a policymaker-facing...

Ubuntu's mobile OS was one of the most interesting recent announcements in mobile tech, and at CES 2013 we finally got a chance to go hands-on and receive a thorough demo of the OS in its admittedly e...

If theres been one big drawback to Aereo, it's that the streaming television startup only offers its service to customers living within New York Citys five boroughs. As it turns out though, that wont ...

InsideSales.com has raised a $35 million Series B round of funding from US Ventures. The round follows a $4 million investment in August fromHummer Winblad, which also participated in the funding anno...

Dustin Curtis is a developer, designer, and blogger who has accomplished the rare feat of getting a blogging platform off the ground. Called Svbtle, it launched in early 2012 as a sort of application-...

The gTar, an electric guitar that makes it easy for anyone to play music with an embedded iPhone and LEDs, is now open for pre-orders. Incident, the company behind the gTar, has spent three years desi...

Microsoft just announced a number of updates to its SkyDrive cloud storage service. SkyDrive users can now, for example, get a better overview of who they shared documents with and who currently has a...

Target today made a huge move to counteract the practice of "showrooming," the term that refers to how consumers are using retail brick-and-mortar stores to go hands-on with items, which they then ord...

Target today made a huge move to counteract the practice of "showrooming," the term that refers to how consumers are using retail brick-and-mortar stores to go hands-on with items, which they then ord...

Another day, another CEO parts ways. This time it's the turn of Madvertise co-founder Carsten Frien who is stepping down from his position as CEO at the European mobile ad company. He's being replaced...

Last week, TYLT sent out a press release touting their new lineup of products, including several 3D renderings. I have to say that after getting a chance to look at a few of the actual products here a...

And so it begins. Another year of CES madness, obsession, and viral infection has rolled around yet again, and today marks the beginning of a very exciting week. Our coverage is deep and wide like the...

Zendesk says that it closed out 2012 by crossing the 25,000 customer milestone. It's a big-name company, too note-taking app Evernote announced that it will be using Zendesk to deliver customer servi...

Panasonic showed off a new tablet device at its CES 2013 keynote today. The Windows 8-based device is less than half-an-inch thick, with a 20-inch screen with 4K resolution for ultra-crisp images. The...

Panasonic showed off a new tablet device at its CES 2013 keynote today. The Windows 8-based device is less than half-an-inch thick, with a 20-inch screen with 4K resolution for ultra-crisp images. The...

Huawei isn't just unboxing whopping Android phones at CES, oh no. The Chinese mobile maker is flirting with Microsoft by sticking its toe in the Windows Phone 8 waters. The Ascend W1 appears to be a d...

Huawei isn't just unboxing whopping Android phones at CES, oh no. The Chinese mobile maker is flirting with Microsoft by sticking its toe in the Windows Phone 8 waters. The Ascend W1 appears to be a d...

Panasonic showed off a unique new kind of OLED TV today on stage at the CES 2013 keynote, which is manufactured using 3D printing technology. The 56-inch television is incredibly thin, at just half-an...

Panasonic showed off a unique new kind of OLED TV today on stage at the CES 2013 keynote, which is manufactured using 3D printing technology. The 56-inch television is incredibly thin, at just half-an...

Sometimes startups shut down fast, and in the case of new online scrapbooking maker Irrive, which only launched this past September, the company had barely even gotten started before closing up shop. ...

The Openfund began 5 years ago, around the same time as Seedcamp which might well make it the second oldest 'new style' tech seed fund in Europe. You could say that it was not only pretty early, but a...

Today at the official first-day keynote of CES 2013, CEA President and CEO Gary Shapiro introduced a group of Hollywood studio executives to announce a new partnership between UltraViolet, the digital...

Zoho CRMtoday launched MailMagnet, a smart email filtering that gives sales staff a quick view of correspondence with prospects, integration with location-aware apps, and a new document-management sys...

If you don’t consider yourself to be a “Power Googler”, have no fear, the company has opened up registration for a program that it called “Advanced Power Searching.” It s...

Right on schedule, Mozilla just released the latest stable version of its Firefox browser for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. Firefox 18 is the first stable version to feature Mozilla's new IonMonkey...

Continuing its expansion into original content and exclusive third-party content, Hulu is today offering previews of its new programming for 2013, which includes its first animated Hulu Original Serie...

The European Parliament has issued two draft reports on the reform of European data protection rules, proposed by the European Commission last January, expressing "full support for a coherent and robu...

Amazon today announced that its membership program Amazon Prime is now available in Canada, offering customers free two-day shipping for an annual fee of CAD $79.00 and one-day shipping at $3.99 per i...

Essence, a digital marketing agency based in London and New York with clients like Google and eBay, is beefing up its mobile assets and expanding its presence in the U.S.: it has acquired Point Reach,...

Grab on to your filters Insta-kooks, because you're going to go all double-tap for Firegram. Designed to help users promote their Instagram snaps. It delivers as advertised. How the heck it works thou...

San Francisco-based gaming and ad platformChartboosthas raised $19 million in new funding, in a round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from existing investors TransLink Capital and SK Teleco...

Google has slowly been building up its service provider cred, with an ambitious fiber project in Kansas City and free WiFi initiatives through a partnership with Boingo. Today, the search giant is tak...

Sling Media continues to innovate. The latest innovation includes capabilities that take advantage of secondary devices that TV viewers are using while watching TV, as well as media-sharing features ...

Online measurement and ad targeting company Quantcast has acquired MakeGood (also known as MakeGood Software), a Seattle-based ad tech startup founded in 2009.Quantcast CEO Konrad Feldman said the com...

Springboard IoT, the Cambridge, UK accelerator aimed at startups in the Internet of Things space, is jumping on another popular bandwagon -- albeit, one that makes a lot of sense -- by adding crowdfun...

To entice more ISPs to adopt its Open Connect initiative, Netflix is adding more features -- namely the ability to offload ever-larger video files. That includes Netflix "Super HD" content, which will...

Mobile ad network InMobicontinues to make use of the $200 million in financing it received in 2011 from Softbank: today it is announcing the acquisition of Overlay Media, a UK-based developer of ̶...

U.S. healthcare data warehousing company Health Catalyst has closed a $33m Series B investment, led by Norwest Venture Partners, with participation from Sequoia Capital and Sorenson Capital. As part o...

Thousands of years ago Greeks plied the waters of the Mediterranean as traders and merchants. They were, perhaps, amongst the first ever entrepreneurs. But somewhere along the line between then and no...

Relations between Nokia and its former BFF Microsoft are evidently not as cosy as once they were. While the Finnish mobile maker has reiterated it's "immediately focused" on Windows Phone for smartpho...

Samsung has issued preliminary earnings guidance for Q4 and said its expectation is another record quarter with consolidated profit of around 8.8 trillion Korean won ($8.3 billion), on consolidated sa...

ENISA, the European Network and Information Security Agency, today called out drive-by exploits as the biggest, most increasing threat of the moment in the Internet landscape, amongst a sea of other a...

ENISA, the European Network and Information Security Agency, today called out drive-by exploits as the biggest, most increasing threat of the moment in the Internet landscape, amongst a sea of other a...

ENISA, the European Network and Information Security Agency, today called out drive-by exploits as the biggest, most increasing threat of the moment in the Internet landscape, amongst a sea of other a...

Samsung's ATIV Odyssey has been a real noodle-scratcher of a device ever since its existence was first hinted at during Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 launch event. Well, consider that particular veil li...

Polaroid saw the curtain raise early on its Android-based interchangeable lens cameras thanks to early leaks, but today was the first day we got to go hands on with the new cameras at CES 2013. The ca...

When his grandmother was no longer able to live safely at home, Tal Ziv and his relatives set out to help her find the best senior care facility -- better known as assisted living communities. It's an...

Canon had a number of new cameras on display at CES 2013 this year, but the most noteworthy of all was the PowerShot N, a new ultracompact shooter that's only about 3 inches by 2 and half, and only 1....

Tonight is the last night of teasers and private previews before the main event. Starting at 7:30p PST TechCrunch TV be streaming live from Pepcom's Digital Experience! at the MGM Grand hotel. Join us...

Qualcomms isnt really a brand that figures prominently into the average persons understanding of the mobile space, and thats exactly the issue that the San Diego-based semiconductor company is trying ...

CES attendee, I'm glad you're here. You're going to see the latest and greatest gadgets. Just like you did last year. You have clearly noticed that you'll always find the latest gadgets at CES.It's he...

Even though I once built a slideshow called"Gadget Porn and Actual Porn,"I have never been to CES. Because the fact is that, as every cool blogger has very creativelybeat us over the head with today, ...

Angry Birds-maker Rovio has said that it eventually expects that at least half or more of its revenues will come from physical goods in the future. It’s not the only developer that has populariz...

As CES 2013 gets underway, it finds the Quantified Self movement to be a far more crowded market than a year ago, but as Matt Burns pointed out recently, the market is still hungry for smarter devices...

As CES 2013 gets underway, it finds the Quantified Self movement to be a far more crowded market than a year ago, but as Matt Burns pointed out recently, the market is still hungry for smarter devices...

Ford just introduced its new AppLink API that allows mobile apps to talk to its cars. Not to be outdone, General Motors just introduced its own API and SDK for its new in-vehicle app platform. the big...

Those waiting patiently to buy a ticket for President Obama's final inaugural ball will be disappointed to know that they were accidently all sold out last Sunday. "A technical error" from Ticketmaste...

Sony has announced its first quad-core smartphone at its CES press conference today: the Xperia Z. The company will be hoping this new Android flagship can deliver the scalps of high-end rival devices...

GitHub continues to build out its unique social network with Contributions, a new addition to profile pages that shows the projects developers created, what they are contributing to and a calendar tha...

Yiftee, a gifting service that aims to drive business to local merchants, has raised $850,000 in seed funding from Scott Cook, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and other angel investors. Similar to other giftin...

HackerRankhas hosted college-focused hackathons before, but on February 2, it plans to connect some of the top coding talent in universities with some of the best-known companies in Silicon Valley.Dev...

Quantified Self enthusiasts are getting their fair share of excitement at CES this week. Basis first unveiled its intriguing health-tracking watch at the event last year, but after hiccups and lawsuit...

Our cars have become increasingly connected, but building apps for these connected cars has generally involved small private betas and a lot of hand holding from the car manufacturers. The first manuf...

Remember that FiOS home Media Server Verizon was talking about a year ago? Well, the company is finally starting to make things official, with an announcement and product details revealed today at CES...

Dish making big improvements in speed and reliability, and announcing a new feature powered by Sling that will allow consumers to stream live and pre-recorded video to their mobile devices both in and...

At the start of CES 2013, Qualcomm has an enviable dominant market position, owning half the mobile processor shipments and virtually all of the LTE/4G baseband chipset shipments. But it has limited b...

Cloud Express is a service from Apptiothat illustrates how managing the cost of the cloud will become one of the hottest markets in the enterprise space this year....

CES attendee, why are you there? Are you hoping to see the latest and greatest gadget? Have you been there the best few years? Have you noticed youll find no such gadget anywhere near CES?And if it we...

Samsung just announced that its Galaxy Note 10.1 is headed to Verizon with 4G LTE connectivity. And if that weren't enough, the S-Pen-enabled tablet will ship with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. If you are u...

Samsung is more than just a fifth horseman in tech the company is a straight-up powerhouse with the breadth to run your entire digital lifestyle. Last year, the focus was on ecosystem, with smart TV&...

Fujifilm unveiled its new X-series of cameras, which admittedly made me tingle when I had some hands-on time, but they're also showing off a bunch of new cameras aimed at more general audiences at CES...

Your Internet-connected devices may be getting more cooperative, thanks to group of startups and established players who have come together to create a new nonprofit group called the Internet of Thing...

Big news from the world of advancing health technology today, as athenahealth, the fifteen-year-old electronic health records giant, announced today that it has acquired Epocrates, the makers of popul...

As Intel goes so goes Windows 8. The chip maker just unveiled its roadmap for Window 8 tablets. At the core will be the latest generation of Atom processors: quad-core architecture at a 22nm size. Int...

Intel is ready to chip away at Qualcomm's dominance in the smartphone arena. Today at the company's CES Press conference, the company introduced the Atom Z2420 mobile processor, codenamed Lexington, w...

Fujifilm had its press event today at CES 2013, and it showed off two new entries to its X-series line of cameras. The X100S, the successor to the X100, which we already detailed in an earlier post, a...

Neither LGs nor AT&Ts pre-CES conferences had much to show off in the way of smartphone hardware, but Huawei has just changed all that here at its press event at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center...

France’s Digital Economy minister, Fleur Pellerin, had to personally persuade one of the nation’s top Internet service providers to stop blocking online advertisements, arguing that “...

A German court hasfiled a $26,000 fine against Mark Zuckerbergbecause Facebook violates the country's law stating citizens may use media servicesanonymously. Facebook plans to "fight [the fine] vigoro...

Infusionsoft has raised $54 million fromn Goldman Sachs for its small business sales and marketing automation platform. The investment pushes Infusionsoft's total venture funding to $71 million. The c...

Fetchnotes, the Twitter-like note-taking app that employs @ usernames and # hashtags to keep your to-do lists organized, is releasing an updated version today that now connects the items you mention i...

The 6th Annual Crunchies Awards promises to be the best yet. We've announced the finalists who are all excited to don their most formal hoodies and join us for tech's big night. The Daily Show's John ...

CES hasnt even really started yet, but already some prevailing themes of the show have begun to emerge Im talking about tech that helps tie together disparate systems in your home into a a single, mo...

Bitcoin, a heavily underground peer-to-peer payment solution, is starting to peek its head above ground. Today, a payment solutions company called Bitpay has announced $510K in investment, led by Shak...

AT&Ts Screen Pack is not going to kill Netflix. Its not going to compete with Netflix. Its not going to take on Netflix. Its merely going to exist alongside Netflix until AT&T gets bored of it...

LG had a few tricks up its sleeve at CES 2013 that went beyond most of the rehashing it ran through of its smartphone announcements from the previous year. One in particular is the news that it will b...

Vudu is making it easier for users to convert their existing movies to digital, with the launch of a desktop app that will let them scan their discs at home. The VUDU To Go app, which will be availabl...

Mobile payments platform Remitly(formerly BeamIt), which allows U.S. users to transfer money overseas, has raised anadditional$2.6 million, bringing its total raise to date to $5.1 million. The new in...

When the family-based social network FamilyLeaf first made its debut as part of the Y Combinator Spring 2012 class, the startup set itself up as a kind of anti-Facebook: a place where relatives could ...

It's not too late for yet one more 2012 year-in-review report, and today's latest addition comes from Nielsen, which examined how Americans have been consuming content over the course of the past year...

LG held its press conference this morning at CES 2013 in Las Vegas, and while there wasn't much unveiled that we haven't seen before from the Korean company, there were smart home appliance updates th...

Facebook is making quick progress in growing its mobile advertising business according to major ad platform Kenshoo. It sees 20% of all Facebook ad spend going to mobile. That's a big boost from Octob...

Just in time for the CES show, a major media outlet is spinning out a little business out of Twitter. The Associated Press today announced that it has inked a deal with Samsung for the consumer electr...

Opera has long harbored ambitions to bring its technology beyond mobile and the desktop and into the living room. Just in time for the start of CES, the company today unveiled its new TV app store and...

Swiss startup GetYourGuide, an online booking platform for holiday tours and attractions that started life as a student project three and a half years ago, has closed a $14 million Series A funding ro...

A new report from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association released today finds that U.S. VC firm raised $20.6 billion from 182 funds in 2012, representing a 10 percent increase in...

A new report from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association released today finds that U.S. VC firms raised $20.6 billion from 182 funds in 2012, representing a 10 percent increase i...

The smartphone boom is continuing apace,but with growth comes mutation: new figures out from Deloitteestimate that 2013 will be the first year that the industry collectively ships 1 billion smartphone...

Last we heard from Demand Media it was beating earnings expectations today, with a revenue performance up 17 percent in the second quarter and even boasting of a small profit. The 'social content' com...

The good news keeps rolling in for BlueStacks, the startup best known for making technology that enables one and all to download and use Android applications on their desktop PCs -- and more recently,...

Media and internet company IAC has pocketed (yet) another web property -- picking up veteran online tutoring website Tutor.com for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition completed today, meaning Tutor.co...

Confirming TechCrunch's earlier report, photo and personal publishing company Shutterfly is announcing this morning that it is acquiring the cloud-based photo and video organization platform ThisLife....

If there's one issue that seems to crop up often with Fitbit's eponymous line of fitness trackers, it's that they can be a little tough to keep track of -- our own Matt Burns ended up washing his, a t...

In a piece of classic Apple timing, Cupertino has just put out a press release to draw some eyeballs away from CES. Apple has announced that more than 40 billion apps have now been downloaded from its...

In a piece of classic Apple timing, Cupertino has just issued a press release to draw some eyeballs away from CES. Apple has announced that more than 40 billion apps have now been downloaded from its ...

Clipboard--the web clipping service that is a little like a cross between Evernote and Pinterest, racking up1.7 million clips since opening for private beta in October 2011 --has taken a strategic inv...

Clipboard--the web clipping service that is a little like a cross between Evernote and Pinterest, racking up1.7 million clips since opening for private beta in October 2011 --has taken a strategic inv...

Canon unveiled a host of new Powershot cameras at CES 2012, including the diminutive new Powershot N, a camera with lots of personality packed into an extremely small frame. The new Powershot N is a s...

Some consolidation in the world of network traffic management -- and specifically services involving the data-filtering process of deep-packet inspection. Procera Networks, the publicly-traded Fremont...

The latest skirmish in the ongoing battle between pay-TV and over-the-top providers to woo customers by building the most alluring content ecosystems has been won by Netflix. The on-demand streaming v...

Shape Security, a company that wants to disrupt web security technology, has raised $20 million in Series B financing round led by Venrock, with participation from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers...

Six and a half years after starting the company, Joe Cohen, the founder of aftermarket ticket exchange Seatwave, has announced that he is giving up the role of CEO to become non-executive Chairman. In...

Attention dumbphones, point-and-shoot cameras and music players: sorry to tell you this, but it looks like your days may be numbered. According to a new survey out from Accenture (embedded below and r...

Ovuline, a company that helps women track their fertility and pregnancy online, has raised $1.4 million in seed financing led by Lightbank with participation from Launch Capital, LionBird and Techstar...

Clear Channel's iHeartRadio launches a new feature today called "Perfect for." Available on iHeartRadio's website and in its mobile apps, the company has shamelessly copied Songza's popular music conc...

Clear Channel's iHeartRadio launches a new feature today called "Perfect for." Available on iHeartRadio's website and in its mobile apps, the company has shamelessly copied Songza's popular music conc...

Paymill, the Rocket-Internet incubated online payments company that works like developer-friendlyStripeby offering users an API to quickly integrate card transactions, is today announcing that it has ...

It was always clear Q4 would be difficult for HTC, as the company continues to struggle to make itself heard in a space dominated by its Android OEM rival Samsung, but exactly how difficult has been m...

One company's stumble is another company's opportunity. And so it should be no surprise to see competing photo-sharing sites attempt to benefit from the very public Instagram Terms of Service fall out...

Nvidia has outed its next-gen Tegra 4 mobile CPU at CES. As expected, the chip packs 72 GPU cores, offering a 6x bump on the Tegra 3's graphics processing performance -- to make the most of higher re...

Roku is announcing at CES today a significant milestone both in the amount of content and the number of devices that are compatible with its USB-sized streaming stick. The company now has more than 70...

About a year after it faced regulatory scrutiny for certain kinds of game mechanics, GREE said today that it accidentally overcharged minors in some of its free-to-play games. The Japanese gaming comp...

For sports fans, and fans in general, nothing beats meeting your favorite athlete, celebrity or musician and getting to capture that experience -- a signed photo, shirt, etc. -- take it home with you ...

Lego is back with another generation of MindStorms, the company's consumer robotics line aimed at introducing application programming to a younger generation. Kids these days grow up with so much focu...

The Sensus Case is at CES 2013, and it brings touch controls to the iPhone that go way beyond the screen. Touch-sensitive panels on the back (which can detect 10 points of input at once) and sides of ...

You know, I love Aol. I seriously do. The company has some stellar health and dental benefits and they brought Mike and MG backand there are definitely some individuals who work there that go above an...

Now I'm hardly what you'd call an athlete, but I've often been sucked into a sport because of some of the gadgets involved (don't ask me how many fitness trackers I've bought since I started running)....

The Belkin WeMo line is designed to bring Wi-Fi connected remote home automation to the masses, without expensive, whole home system upgrades. The existing WeMo outlet is a little bulky, but it makes ...

CES 2013 is here! Join us live with the live video stream above and send us questions and comments with the hashtag #CEScrunch.Tonight, on a cool Sunday evening, CES 2013 officially kicks off in the b...

Redboxs long-awaited streaming video service is almost here, thanks to a partnership with Verizon that was announced in July. I lucked out and got an invite to the service, which was launched in beta ...

Redboxs long-awaited streaming video service is almost here, thanks to a partnership with Verizon that was announced in July. I lucked out and got an invite to the service, which was launched in beta ...

When you're a rookie, you've got to hustle, and Mike Rothenberg is ready to bring some sweat to venture. Today he unveils his seed fund Rothenberg Ventures. With up to $5 million to invest, it's alrea...

When you're a rookie, you've got to hustle, and Mike Rothenberg is ready to bring some sweat to venture. Today he unveils his seed fund Rothenberg Ventures. With up to $5 million to invest, it's alrea...

It happens to the best of entrepreneurs, that service, app or site that you set up finds an audience that totally blows your mind. You thought that a certain set of people would flock to your app like...

Welcome to yet another Rumor Sunday. In 2011, Reddit was spun out of Conde Nast as a standalone company, but the publishing giant kept full ownership. At the time, Peter Kafka of AllthingsD reported t...

2013 certainly started off with a bang in terms of tech business news, so we had a lot to talk about for CrunchWeek, that very special 10 minutes or so wherein a few of us writers gather 'round the Te...

With few exceptions, the world of developers (and startups in general), is really known for its scandals. But when Ruby icon Why the Luck Stuff (also known simply as _why) suddenly took all of his pro...

Why some startups soar to great heights while others stumble and fall is almost impossible to answer without digging into the detail of each, on a case-by-case basis. So many factors affect success --...

Craigslist has started to add maps to its sales listings, letting people view not just what items are being sold, but where those items are located on a map. Craigslist appears to be starting off with...

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) has lost 60 percent of its users, going from 1 million in 2003 to about 400,000 today. And IRC channels? In 2003 there were 500,000; now there is half that number. This is du...

HBOtoday has won a battle in the over-the-top content wars: the pay-TV giant has inked a deal with Universal Pictures that extendsUniversal Pictures and Focus Features films appearing onHBO’s TV...

HBOtoday has won a battle in the over-the-top content wars. The pay-TV giant has inked a deal with Universal Pictures that extendsUniversal Pictures and Focus Features films appearing onHBO’s TV...

World-renowned artificial intelligence expert and Google's new Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil, wants to build a search engine so sophisticated that it could act like a 'cybernetic friend,' who ...

There are many misconceptions about technology-focused venture capital out there. One timeless misconception is that venture capital is monolithic. By now, given the attention driving the tech scene a...

Wikipedia editors unearthed a clever hoax perpetrated on the web's gullible netizens, sending the mighty "Bicholim Conflict" back to where it originated: non-existence. For 5 years, the imaginary year...

There's something I've always hoped for but never seems to appear: A hardware switch to disconnect my device from all outside communication. Call me paranoid, but airplane mode just isn't good enough ...

Editors note:Ross Rubinis principal analyst atReticle Researchand blogs atTechspressive.Whether you rocked your New Years Eve Gangnam Style, fed your Bieber fever or just took in a traditional Auld La...

Facebook has been cooperating with law-enforcement officials for some time when it comes to handing over user data as evidence in court cases. But the situation is less clear when those legal requests...

Fujifilm unveiled its latest camera today just ahead of the official start of CES, via a press release on its website. The new X100S is a successor to Fujifilm's well-received X100, the fixed prime le...

Editor's note:Sameer Mehta is the CEO and co-founder of 12Society, along with celebrities Nas, Michael Strahan, Nick Cannon,Tim Lincecum,Blake Griffin, and Kevin Love.I recently had a chance to sit ba...

Editor's note: Jon Bischke is a founder ofEnteloand is an advisor to several startups.For many startups, the New Year means a new hiring plan. There is high demand for a select group of individuals wi...

Editor's note:Aaron Travis is vice president of user experience at Citigroup and CEO ofPolySuite.com.When starting a new web or mobile app, you may find yourself confronted with an instructional walkt...

Rejoice, Windows Phone users: your daylong Google Maps crisis will soon be over. After causing quite a kerfuffle the other day by effectively blocking Windows Phone users from accessing Google Maps in...

While the single- and parallel-game types have streaked ahead on mobile platforms, multiplayer games has been more tentative. Particular "local" multiplayer games, of the kind that you play with frien...

We all know the four horsemen of tech: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. These are the companies that pretty much everyone agrees will shape the foreseeable future of the tech sector. In some circl...

We all know the four horsemen of tech: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. These are the companies that pretty much everyone agrees will shape the foreseeable future of the tech sector. In some circl...

The Gillmor Gang John Taschek, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor made it past the Fiscal Cliff in good order and got back to the day job: buying stuff. With CES on the horiz...

It's the New Year and along with resolutions about eating healthier, being kinder and exercising more frequently, I'd like to add one more to the list. Let's banish the term "big data" with pivot, clo...

Editor's note:Bill Lee is the CEO and co-founder of Twist, an investor in companies such as SpaceX, Tesla Motors, and Yammer, and board member of Big Fish Games.I constantly field questions about the ...

Here's my favorite Big Idea of the year so far, via John Robb, who's always worth your attention: The Dronenet, a "short distance drone delivery service built on an open protocol."He fleshes it out in...

Editor's note: Rodney Rogers is chairman and CEO of Virtustream. Im a large enterprise and my ears are ringing. I hear that you, AWS, know exactly what I need. Before I get into that, AWS, I want to l...

Graphicly is about to close a $1 million bridge round of funding, as first revealed in a regulatory filing.The company started out as a marketplace for digital comics, but last year it launched a new ...

Sequels can be risky business for embattled social game developer Zynga. They can extend the lifespan of a popular franchise like Farmville. But they also siphon away players from the original game. S...

Heyzap, which built a social platform for mobile games, has raised $4.3 million in Series B funding.The round was revealed in a regulatory filing (first spotted by The Next Web). Co-founder Jude Gomil...

Facebook keeps user counts for its mobile apps hidden, but researcher Benedict Evans found a way to uncover them and they provide critical insight into the direction and performance of Facebook's mobi...

Your song hits the Billboard Hot 100 Charts at number 11, you and your brothers have played with the likes of The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, things are great, you're on fire. You've got it made, right?...

Austin-based Vobi.com, a cloud-based collaboration startup which will sell its services through mobile operators, has raised $1.5 million in Series A funding from Dallas VC firm Trailblazer Capital. T...

Hulu just posted an internal email from CEO Jason Kilar to its blog, indicating that he and CTO Rich Tom will be leaving the company during the first quarter of 2013. The timing is new, but word that ...

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

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

As Amazon's Web Services (AWS) continues to add more tools (there are currently 21 AWS services), the Management Console that provides a graphical user interface to services like S3, EC2 and CloudFron...

OS X Mountain Lion, or version 10.8 as it's known according to Apple's numbering system, accounted for 32 percent of all web traffic measured by Net Applications, a firm that charts OS share and other...

The 6th Annual Crunchies Awards will soon be upon us and (if you hadn't noticed) we just announced our new host. The Daily Show's John Oliver will take the stage at this year's Crunchies Awards and we...

For the most part, the news about Windows 8 hasn't been very positive for Microsoft, but the company today announced a major win: the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) just signed a new three-year lice...

Tagstand, the Y Combinator-backed startup intent on taking NFC mainstream, is announcing a partnership with mobile accessories maker TYLT in advance of this year's CES in Las Vegas. The deal involves ...

The Crunchies have become as important to us at TechCrunch as the Oscars have to all of Hollywood. It's with great anticipation that we bring to you the best of innovation in technology from the past ...

So you couldn't make it to our Greece meetup. No worries. Here's a live video feed sponsored by Open Coffee and Microsoft Innovation Centre so you can catch all the action from Benaki Museum in Athens...

Google's text-to-speech engine loves the iPad so much, it often ends sentences with the phrase "he now praises the iPad" for no apparent reason. The bug appears in Google Now, assuming you ask it the...

Euclid, the new startup from the creators of Urchin, a company Google acquired which then became the basis of Google Analytics, first introduced its offline customer tracking solution - or "Google Ana...

JBL will be at CES this year, which is no surprise, and it'll be showing off at least a trio of new speakers, which also isn't that surprising. The speakers themselves have some interesting features a...

Google was cleared of anti-competitive accusations yesterday by the Federal Trade Commission, but a long-forgotten interview with Chairman Eric Schmidt reveals that the search giant may be on an inevi...

There's really no other way to slice it -- Taiwanese smartphone OEM HTC has had a difficult 2012. More than a few people have already weighed in on the company's spotty 2012, but CEO Peter Chou recent...

It's official: The startup formerly known as Art.sy is now, simply, Artsy. The New York-based Artsy, which runs a website where people can discover and collect artwork, confirmed today that it has ind...

The Samwer Brothers and Rocket Internet are not slowing down in the new year with the rollout of new online properties to further populate their e-commerce empire. What's perhaps surprising, given the...

The Samwer Brothers and Rocket Internet are not slowing down in the new year with the rollout of new online properties to further populate their e-commerce empire. What's perhaps surprising, given the...

Search startup Blekko is launching a new app today called Izik(pronounced "Isaac"), which it says has been designed specifically for the search experience on tablets.CEO Rich Skrenta said Izik is an a...

Urban Airship is moving fast to roll out the Apple Passbook toolsit acquired last month from Tello, aTechCrunch Disrupt 2010startup which offered developers a visual pass builder for Passbook. Startin...

Moxtra, a startup consisting largely of former WebEx employees, began accepting sign-ups for those wanting to be notified about its upcoming product, which is set for a broader unveiling soon. They ga...

Amazon has inked another content licensing deal to beef up its Prime Instant Video streaming and download service for members of its pay monthly Prime service. The deal is with A+E Networks and m...

Today news broke that Spotify was halting its music download service in favor of pushing more of its streaming services — raising some questions about how well downloads are doing compared to st...

Zipcar, hot on the heels of an acquisition by Avis announced earlier this week, will be piloting a no-fee membership option beginning today in Toronto and Vancouver. The new 'Access Plan' pilot projec...

The iPhone 5 delivered a lot of new things vs. its predecessors, but it also marked Apple exit from the bumper game; unlike with the iPhone 4 and 4S, Apple didn't make a slim band exterior case for th...

Spotify has made a mark in the music business with its hugely popular music streaming service, now with 20 million subscribers, 5 million of which pay monthly for its streamed service. But the company...

Spotify has made a mark in the music business with its hugely popular music streaming service, now with 20 million subscribers, 5 million of which pay monthly for its streamed service. But the company...

Today, Wisconsin-based startup, StudyBlue, announced that it has raised $9 million in series A-1 funding led by Great Oaks Venture Capital. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) also contrib...

Today, Wisconsin-based startup, StudyBlue, announced that it has raised $9 million in series A-1 funding led by Great Oaks Venture Capital. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) also contrib...

Founded in 2009, Wisconsin-based startup StudyBlue set out with a simple and straightforward mission: Leverage technology to help students improve their academic performance. Over the next year, with ...

Looking backwards, the automobile of today looks almost superintelligent. While some of us may have expected (read: hoped for) the flying car by 2013 and, sure, the internal combustion engine still re...

Chances are you may have seen one yourself, but just how well are Facebook mobile ads promoting app installs performing? AdParlor, one of Facebook’s advertising and marketing partners, has provi...

Google has quietly disabled a feature that notified users of its search service in China when a keyword had been censored by the Chinese government's internet controls, according to censorship monitor...

Google has quietly disabled a feature that notified users of its search service in China when a keyword had been censored by the Chinese government's internet controls, according to censorship monitor...

Samsung will increase its lead over Apple in the smartphone space this year, according to analyst Strategy Analytics. Speaking to Reuters, the analyst said it expects the Korean electronics giant to a...

Samsung will increase its lead over Apple in the smartphone space this year, according to analyst Strategy Analytics. Speaking to Reuters, the analyst said it expects the Korean electronics giant to a...

Police made an example out of a teenager from Oregon who boasted about driving drunk on Facebook. "Drivin drunk... classic ;) but whoever's vehicle i hit i am sorry. :P", wrote the clueless 18-year-ol...

Tencent, China's largest Internet company by revenue, announced today that it has hired Peter Cheng, the former chief operating officer of AdChina, as the general manager of Tencent's online media gro...

Regardless of what you think about digital dating sites, they encourage us to close our computers and get out there and meet new people. In short, they bring people together. The problem is, of course...

Regardless of what you think about digital dating sites, they encourage us to close our computers and get out there and meet new people. In short, they bring people together. The problem is, of course...

The last week has been a troubling one for observers of Internet censorship in China, and things just got worse as several bloggers and activists had their Sina Weibo accounts shut down over the past ...

Forrester Research is reporting that Apple will sell $39 billion in Macs and iPads through 2014.According to the firm's latest report, Apple will sell $7 billion worth of Macs and $11 billion in iPads...

Amazon's Lab126, the secretive R&D group behind the Kindle, is apparently on a hiring spree, as noted by the EETimes, which speculates that the organization may be planning to spin out the lab as ...

Welcome back to Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the offices of the industry's hot companies to see what it's really like inside the belly of the tech innovation beast (and check ...

While the Federal Trade Commission absolved Google of monopoly accusations earlier today for prioritizing its own products in search results, it's questionable whether the search giant can ever be con...

Last month, famed inventor, entrepreneur and futurist, Ray Kurwzeil, announced that he was joining Google as a director of engineering. Many have wondered what Kurzweil's new position would mean for ...

Poverty is a huge problem in India. But just because there's social good to be done doesn't mean there isn't money to be made. So a year after its launch, Unitus Seed Fund has raised $8 million to inv...

Art.sy, the New York City-based startup that has created a Pandora Radio-like discovery engine for artwork, has attracted some controversy over the years because of its domain name -- .sy is the offic...

After posting some early numbers just after Christmas, comScore just released its final analysis of U.S. online holiday spending for 2012: shoppers bought a total of $42.3 billion worth of goods onlin...

The Bonsai is gadget with a soul, one that hopes to make a global difference by changing the way we go about an activity many do on a daily basis. It's a shaving accessory, and it's being funded via I...

We've heard a rumor that Shutterfly, the photo and personal publishing company founded in 1999, is set to acquire online photo sharing and storage startup ThisLife. We're hearing the acquisition price...

Crowdfunding site Indiegogo shared some exclusive details regarding their past year with TechCrunch, and the stats essentially back up what Matt Burns said about 2012: In many ways, this was the year ...

Forrester Research is citing SaaS and data-driven smart apps as the major growth engines for the worldwide software market. The SaaS software market will increase 25 percent in 2013 to $59 billion, a ...

"In The Studio" kicks off its second season and 2013 by welcoming an entrepreneur with an eclectic past, ranging from time as a lab assistant, media strategist, business development manager, and consu...

Facebook's next messaging move is all about voice. Today it released an update for its standalone Messenger for iOS and Android apps that lets users send up to one minute long voice messages. It's als...

Tactilize, a self-publishing service and content network for the iPad, launched last September. At the time, the only way to get content into the app was through a browser-based tool, which always fel...

Room 77, a Mountain View, California-based company that operates a search engine for finding the lowest prices on hotel rooms, has closed on $30.3 million in new funding. This round, which counts as R...

A Facebook news feed story that says "Tom tracked Muse on Songkick.com" doesn't tell you much. But with new Flexible Sentences, apps can post stories like "Tom tracked Muse to get concert alerts via S...

PicsArt, a bootstrapped mobile startup which forged its success by going Android-first, is today releasing its mobile photo editing application on Apple’s App Store. Since its launch a little ov...

Yesterday, we ran a big story:Is Apple Plotting A Route To A Waze Acquisition? Rumours On The Road Point To Yes. That's huge news for a few reasons: Apple rarely makes startup acquisitions Waze is a ...

Nokias been awfully fond of slapping its high-end hardware into polycarbonate bodies, but that trend may soon come to an end if a new report from The Verge holds true. According to unnamed sources wit...

As expected, the Federal Trade Commission's Chairman Jon Leibowitz just announced at a press conference in Washington, DC that the agency has settled with Google to resolve the 20-month antitrust prob...

So we’ve tabulated the nominations and the votes are in for the 2012 Crunchies. More than 600,000 nominations were calculated across 20 categories, and, along with our partners GigaOm and Ventur...

"Presumably if the atomic bomb had not worked as well as it did, we might have been tsunami-ing people," said filmmaker Ray Waru, who uncovered a secret experimental weapon of mass destruction during ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission just announced that its chairman Jon Leibowitz will make an announcement about the agency's investigation of Google at 1pm ET/10am PT. Leibowitz will be joined at the...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission just announced that its chairman Jon Leibowitz will make an announcement about the agency's investigation of Google at 1pm ET/10am PT. Leibowitz will be joined at the...

Online piracy just won't seem to go away. A disturbing report released today by the University of South California's Annenberg Innovation Lab demonstrates the economic connection between the online ad...

CES is next week and we're looking for a detail-oriented, able-bodied intern or two to help with logging live coverage, slogging through miles of gadgets and fetching John's slippers. It's not hard an...

At CES, YouTube will be showing off mobile pairing with a number of new devices from manufacturers such as Bang & Olufsen, LG, Panasonic, and Sony. And it expects to have the same feature rolling ...

By one account Apple is having a very strong quarter in the U.S. in smartphone sales on the strength of the iPhone 5, but overall, Android and specifically Samsung are continuing to dominate the marke...

Motion control, ever since you were introduced in a relatively usable and broadly accessible form with the Wii Remote, the public has had a bit of a crush on you. Recently, that crush has turned into ...

Leikr is a GPS sports watch Kickstarter that wants to outperform the wrist-mounted competition by making the GPS link process faster, thanks to "a snapping fast custom made GPS system", and squeezing ...

Pinterest has just madeits first acquisition --the two year and a half year old recipe discovery and sharing site Punchfork. Rather than operate it independently, Punchfork will continue to run shortl...

Polaroid’s newish image as a digital media company got one more boost today, with the launch of a new, $150 Android tablet aimed specifically at children. Simply/obviously branded the “Pol...

"Microsoft Bows Out Of CES 2013" read the headline. It was December 21, 2011, several short weeks before CES 2012 and Microsoft just dropped a bomb: Microsoft would not be returning to CES. Steve Ball...

A new patent application filing Thursday presents a detailed look at how Apple manages its retail floors, offering a behind-the-scenes perspective on a lot of elements that are likely already in use a...

Amazonmay have been touting its record holiday sales season, but Barnes & Noble is now reporting the opposite: according to a report released today, the company's retail businesses, which include ...

Square is announcing today that Starbucks is the next retail partner to sell its mobile card readers. The payments company also has a deal with the coffee giant to process transactions and accept Squa...

A number of startups have attempted to create what might be termed the "Instagram for video". Now, before you throw up in your mouth at such an idea, consider the players so far. Well known Smule ente...

Bync,a new startup launching today, will sync with your bank and credit cards in order to provide you with more relevant deals, offers and coupons which are sent out via email. You can think of it as ...

T-Mobile has just announced the BlackBerry Curve 9315, which will be available January 23 for the price of $49 on a 2-year agreement. They're touting it as the most affordable BlackBerry on the T-Mobi...

According to TmoNews, the Google Nexus 4 should become available in all T-Mobile stores starting in January. It could indicate that Google is slowly resolving inventory issues as the device has been h...

BuzzFeed, the online social publishing powerhouse with 40 million readers started and headed by Jonah Peretti, today announced that it has raised another $19.3 million to continue building out its emp...

Leap Motion is announcing today that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding. Co-founder and CEO Michael Buckwald told me that the company is still planning to ship its gesture-based controller ...

The odds are stacked against Canonical's late-comer Ubuntu phone OS. But by seducing hardcore mobile users who love to customize, it could could box out Microsoft and pull lucrative customers away fro...

Late last year, it was reported that Microsoft, Apple and Google were all speaking to id8 Group R2 Studios Inc. about a potential acquisition of the startup, and now the Wall Street Journal is reporti...

At the end of last month we reported rumours that Samsung was planning to develop Tizen-based phones, in partnership with DoCoMo. Now Samsung has confirmed its intention to build hardware for the Inte...

U.K. telecoms regulator Ofcom is proposing to change the rules on fixed contracts for mobile, landline and broadband services to prevent providers forcing price hikes on existing customers. Ofcom's cu...

Analyst Gartner has increased its forecast for worldwide IT spending in 2013, revising its Q3 2012 figure up from 3.8 per cent growth to 4.2 per cent higher than last year's figure. The analyst is now...

No more copy and paste -- GitHub has launched a new feature today called ZeroClipboard, a library for copying text to the clipboard that uses an invisible Adobe Flash movie through a JavaScript interf...

GREE Ventures, the venture capital arm of social gaming company GREE, has made an undisclosed series A investment in leading Indonesian e-commerce fashion platform Berrybenka.com. The funds will be us...

GREE Ventures, the venture capital arm of social gaming company GREE, has made an undisclosed series A investment in leading Indonesian e-commerce fashion platform Berrybenka.com. The funds will be us...

Pluralsight, an online training resource targeting professional developers, is today announcing its first outside funding, courtesy of a $27.5 million investment from Insight Venture Partners. The add...

Apple filed a patent with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) last week for an active stylus. According to the filing,"the stylus includes an electrode at a tip of the stylus; and powered c...

Google and LG’s Nexus 4 has been such a coveted item this past holiday season, that it’s been in and out of stock since its release in mid-November. Because Google doesn’t publicly c...

When political blogger Andrew Sullivan announced this morning that he's leaving The Daily Beast and launching an independent company called Dish Publishing, the most provocative bit of news was his in...

When political blogger Andrew Sullivan announced this morning that he's leaving The Daily Beast and launching an independent company called Dish Publishing, the most provocative bit of news was his in...

In 2008 I was griping about 2,433 unread emails in my inbox. Which is nothing. Today it’s up around 7,000, and I declared an email bankruptcy just a few months ago and started fresh. Cue, a hand...

One of the most powerful positions in the U.S. goverment may be up for grabs if Republicans follow through on a growing opposition to House Speaker John Boehner (CrunchGov Grade: B). Opposition for hi...

Of course proponents will say that the mobile market is still in its infancy and there is a need for an open OS. While I agree, I am not convinced that Ubuntu will become a winner on the scale of Andr...

Qatar-financed news organization Al Jazeera is close to a deal for Current, which would make it available to a majority of cable viewers around the country. Current might not have gotten high ratings,...

Qatar-financed news organization Al Jazeera is close to a deal for Current, which would make it available to a majority of cable viewers around the country. Current might not have gotten high ratings,...

With Unpakt, moving out of your house or apartment doesn't have to be a nightmare. Unpakt lets you browse reputable moving companies, compare prices, and book online. Now it's launching in 15 cities w...

With Unpakt, moving out of your house or apartment doesn't have to be a nightmare. Unpakt lets you browse reputable moving companies, compare prices, and book online. Now it's launching in 15 cities w...

Mobile ad network Chitika measured traffic from tablets and smartphones via impressions on both the period leading up to Christmas and the period immediately following, and found a few devices grew th...

On Microsoft's public policy blog today, Microsoft VP & Deputy General Counsel Dave Heiner has a post complaining about YouTube's lack of support for its mobile platform and how that affects users...

After a newspaper's Google Map of New York gun permit owners sparked a political firestorm, officials in Putnam County say they will refuse to give up public gun permit ownership information for its r...

We put Shasta Ventures' co-founder Rob Coneybeer in the hot seat this week for Ask A VC. After spending a number of years at NEA as a VC, Coneybeer decided to found his own firm; and he explains in th...

Ubuntu isnt exactly a stranger to the mobile space it started showing off its Ubuntu for Android project in early 2012, but it wasn't about to stop there. Not long after teasing the prospect of a tou...

The mobile app economy continued to power ahead last year, with 43.6 billion downloads worldwide in the 12 months ending September 2012. And while first-mover Apple may have today had a setback in its...

The mobile app economy continued to power ahead last year, with 43.6 billion downloads worldwide in the 12 months ending September 2012. And while first-mover Apple may have today had a setback in its...

The mobile app economy continued to power ahead last year, with 43.6 billion downloads worldwide in the 12 months ending September 2012. And while first-mover Apple may have today had a setback in its...

Phunware, a company that specializes in enterprise branded mobile app infrastructure and experiences, just announced that it has acquired mobile ad company TapIt Media Group (not to be confused with t...

The government gave the nation's suit-and-tie mad scientists a tax break again this year, agreeing to extend the much-loved R&D tax credit. "We can't keep cutting things like basic research and ne...

The "paperless office" has been a fantasy of office managers since the advent of the personal computer. While you are probably printing less today than you did ten years ago, the U.S. Environmental Pr...

The court has rejected Apple's earlier claim that Amazon's use of "Appstore" to describe its Android application marketplace was false "false advertising," according to a Bloomberg news alert. Apple h...

OUYA, the Android-based gaming console that made waves when it first launched on Kickstarter last year, met its first shipping target at the end of December when it sent out development consoles to ea...

Google just announced that the Hyundai Motor Company, the corporation behind the Hyundai and Kia car brands, will integrate Google Maps and Places into its telematics systems. Both Hyundai's Blue Link...

Apple is planning to give the 802.11ac wireless networking standard a big boost in 2013, according to a new report from TheNextWeb. Sources tell the blog that Apple will partner with Broadcom to bring...

Following Amazon's end-of-the-year announcement touting its record-breaking holiday sales, the company today released figures for its third-party sellers marketplace, which also saw record sales growt...

Polaroid is expected to unveil one more step in its comeback strategy with a Android-powered, interchangeable-lens camera this year at the CES show, and to complement that, it plans to launch "at leas...

Dyn, the New Hampshire-based Internet infrastructure-as-a-service company that provides DNS and email services, has acquired Verelo, the Toronto-based website monitoring startup. It's big news for Ver...

App analytics platform Flurry has released its annual look at how many new mobile devices came online during the holiday season, and the results show a dramatic change from the situation a year ago. O...

The holidays wreak havoc on our bodies, with their mandatory over-indulgence in food as well as family and reminiscences. As we reflect on the year past -- its victories and losses -- we also begin lo...

The holidays wreak havoc on our bodies, with their mandatory over-indulgence in food as well as family and reminiscences. As we reflect on the year past -- its victories and losses -- we also begin lo...

Slowly but surely, Chinese smartphones are making their way into consumers' hands. While Huawei is a leading infrastructure company, it started designing and manufacturing smartphones only recently. S...

AngelList, the community of startup founders and investors, which has of late been transitioning from social network to investment platform, is increasingly becoming a place where early-stage and seed...

There can be no doubt that one of the hottest startups of the last couple of years has been social sat-nav smartphone app Waze. Not surprising in an era when - largely due to Apple initially dumping G...

Phone5Mod today unveiled a new case accessory that gives the iPhone 5 a physical keyboard and video game controller all in a super-slim magnetic package. iPhone5Mod is a Chinese accessories retailer w...

Earlier today the sharing economy startup world was abruptly awoken from its holiday slumber with the news that car rental giant Avis would buy car-sharing company Zipcar for $500 million. No sooner h...

Apple is looking to shift production of its mobile device processors to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company sooner rather than later, according to Taiwan-based newspaper The Commercial Times (v...

Some consolidation in the world of enterprise storage to kick off the new year: the storage and data security giant Imation Corp. has acquired Nexsan Corporation, a specialist in disk-based storage sy...

Some consolidation in the world of enterprise storage to kick off the new year: the storage and data security giant Imation Corp. has acquired Nexsan Corporation, a specialist in disk-based storage sy...

Remember Oodle? The long-time classified ads site was acquired by TV shopping channel QVC last month. Oodle had a nascent international operation which probably didn't make sense in the new entity. As...

This week U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh ruled that Samsung will indeed have to reveal specific device sales numbers for a variety of its gadgets, denying the Korean company's request to keep that...

Car rental company Avis has announced its intent to scoop up Carsharing company Zipcar for $500 million. Zipcar went public in April of 2011....

Nothing says Internet opportunity like a social media juggernaut. Tumblr, the meme-olicious, gif-tastic, photo-fabulous, (but also occasionally) thoughtfulblogging platform that attracted 167 million ...

Sure the headline of this post is just common sense, but I feel like we all need a reminder this holiday season, especially as all the salacious photo evidence from the past couple of nights is just h...

I love talking about taxes. Our President and both houses of Congress have finally all agreed on a deal on this whole fiscal cliff mess. I’ve been holding my breath on this because I thought for...

Samsung Electronics may currently be the world's leader in sales of mobile phones and TVs, but chairman Lee Kun Hee has told employees that the Korean company must watch its back as new competitors su...

The iPhone 5 just finished its global rollout, but it looks like leaks about the iPhone 6 are already starting to surface. An iOS developer saw a device named "iPhone 6,1" running iOS 7 making request...

There's been a ton of innovation happening over the last several years. Yet, there are several places that haven't been touched much by technology, or at least places where technology hasn't gone far ...

One universal silver lining to any abject failure is that it presents the opportunity to test out radically different ideas. President Obama has largely ignored his campaign promise to hold policy neg...

You know how some naysayers still like to dismiss Twitter as nothing more than a time wasting website where people talk about the sandwich they're eating? Here's another rebuttal for them.A new survey...

In the early days of TechCrunch, Mike Arrington used to share a list of his favorite products - those he couldn't live without - which he had used over the course of the year. Want to flashback? Check...

Does one of your New Year's resolutions involve finally committing to that wacky startup idea that you've been thinking about for months or years? If so, FounderDating is launching a new program calle...

One of technology's most persistently prescient crystal ball gazers is Betaworks CEO John Borthwick, a guy who - from Summize to Tweetdeck to bitly to Digg to his latest baby tapestry - always thinks ...

It's that time of the year again: it's time to promise to go on diets we won't stick to, miles we won't run, and projects we won't complete. Maybe, this year, it's time for a change? For 2013, I'm mak...

Quick! What's Sony's current high-end Android phone? Anyone? Yeah, Sony has a problem with brand recognition, one it likely hopes will be resolved with a big CES debut next week. While that could stil...

If ever there was a consumer product suited for monthly subscriptions, it would be tampons. It only takes one midnight trip to the pharmacy for you to agree with me.That's where Le Parcel comes in. It...

The enterprise -- I get a sideways glance when I tell people it's what I cover. People want to know why I find it so compelling. They ask because truly they have no goddamn clue what the hell the ente...

Twenty twelve was a big year for tech news. Facebook went public, Instagram was purchased for $1B, and Apple released rehashes of previous products. But that's just a small sampling.The list that foll...

Apple will launch an ebook service in Japan fueled with content from top local publishers, according to Japanese financial publication Nikkei (via The Digital Reader).Apple will begin selling Japanese...

Legimi is definitely a startup I'll be watching closely in 2013. Put simply, it aims to be the 'Spotify for ebooks,' in which for a monthly subscription, users get access to a potentially infinite lib...

There we were, circled around a bachelor party campfire and drunk on keg beer, discussing the viability of using Kickstarter to fund a sex toy startup. My buddy Dan (he goes by Dangerous D at karaoke)...

When I first saw Bossa Nova Robotics Mobi I was amazed. It was a robot that stood on a single, large ball and could roll through tight spaces and between people. It seemed like a ludicrously cool circ...

There can be little doubt Nokias mobile glory days are behind it. Samsung now occupies its former throne at the top of the global mobile tree and Googles Android is the dominant smartphone platform, w...

For years, all of us in Silicon Valley and its outposts have embraced the idea of the lean startup, shipping the minimum viable product, failing fast and iterating quickly based on customer feedback.T...

Just when you think that we’ve innovated all that we can, something new comes along and completely blows our mind. It could be an advancement in hardware, software or just a new way of thinking ...

Following its lengthy Christmas Eve outage, Netflix's service has again gone down today, according to a message posted on the Netflix website, dozens of reports from users on Twitter, and other third-...

Following its lengthy Christmas Eve outage, Netflix is again experiencing issues today, according to a message posted on the Netflix website, dozens of reports from users on Twitter, and other third-p...

A joyous moment has come — the idea that you need a director of social media is beginning to lose its myth status.  For me, it says that maybe in 2013 some businesses may stop obsessing abo...

How big is Christmas for mobile app developers? For one San Francisco Bay Area-based game maker, it meant 2 million downloads in a single day. Christmas is unsurprisingly the biggest day of the year f...

Design-focused e-commerce site Fab.com has been having a good year (and a half), and thanks to the massive 100-plus page slideshow the company has now shared, it has the figures to prove it. According...

A brand new year is upon us, and it's time to start thinking about the changes you want to make. But it can be difficult to follow through on New Year's Resolutions, especially without any help or sup...

The world needs more people in skin tight lululemon and short shorts that would make even the UPS man blush. Our culture's healthy obsession with running in large circles helps combat our other nation...

Samsung has shipped its millionth Galaxy Note II "phablet" in South Korea just over 90 days after its launch, according to MK News (via Sammy Hub, h/t to TNW).The South Korean multinational conglomera...

Its just about 2013 and I gotta say, Im a little bored. At least, the blogger in me is. As an investor things are just peachy. All this panic about overpriced consumer startups has led to a nice softe...

Samsung and Docomo, Japan's largest mobile communication company, are joining forces to develop Tizen, an open source OS that supporters hope will cut into the 90% marketshare held by Google and Apple...

Biegert & Funk has made a name for itself thanks to its iconic clock design that tells time the way we tend to convey it to one another in conversation with written words in five-minute increment...

Yahoo completed its exist from South Korea service today after operating for 15 years in that country, reports Yonhap News Agency. This move also marks the first Asian market Yahoo is leaving....

Pakistan lifted, then very quickly reinstated its ban on YouTube after a few hours when efforts by the government to filter out blasphemous material provided unsuccessful.Prime Minister Raja Pervez As...

Chinese telecommunications manufacturing giant Huawei is once again in hot water over allegedly playing loose with trade sanctions. One of Huawei Technologies key Iranian partners reportedly offered t...

Advertising is something that we’ve all grown accustomed to in today’s society. For companies that provide free services, it’s an important part of keeping those services free for ev...

We had a bit of a false alarm today, when TechCrunch's Kim-Mai Cutler spotted a bankruptcy sign on the door of the i/o Venturesbuildingin San Francisco's Mission District. We guessed that the sign was...

Depending on who you ask, Google+ is either a thriving social network and the most important backbone of Google's social efforts, or a deserted wasteland where a small clique of fans keeps the li...

Executing thecost reduction plan CEO Mark Pincus announced in November, Zynga has shut down, pulled from the app stores, or stopped accepting new players to eleven games, with some turning off today. ...

January: We started the year at CES where it was clear that Samsung is the new Apple.Late January brought the Crunchies, our annual awards fest where we gave Dropbox the nod for start-up of the year. ...

Discoverability, collapsing social game models, failing gamification and weak levels of excitement for new gaming platforms have all conspired to make 2012 a complicated year for games. For some this ...

I'm just wrapping up a week-long road trip, in which a travel companion and I visited some friends in Southern California. We only booked one night's stay ahead of time, and decisions around where to ...

Back in 2008, Jonathan Nelson was working as an ER nurse and tinkering on code at home in his spare time. As someone who wasn't a full-time engineer, he had a hankering to get out of the house and rub...

Its CrunchWeek time, wherein a few of us writers turn on the TechCrunch TV cameras and shoot the breeze about some of the past weeks most interesting stories. This week, we decided to reflect on some ...

Hackulous, the company behind the popular (and controversial) app Installous which let people easily download pirated apps on jailbroken iOS devices, has shut down. In what iDownloadBlog's Sebastien P...

Editors note:DerekAndersenis the founder ofStartup Grind, a 35-city event series hosted in 15-countries that educates, inspires, and connects entrepreneurs.He also founded Commonred (acquired by Incom...

Same-day shipping became the big retailer craze this holiday season. Why? As the New York Times points out, retailers are living in fear of Amazon.com and trying to match what the online retailer offe...