Articles by Techcrunch from August 2013

The Nintendo 2DS is just like a 3DS, except for the fact that it's cheaper and has no 3D. Deal breaker or deal maker? Meanwhile, Matt still seems to fancy the Pebble smartwatch, while the rest of us a...

A new startup called Strike Social says its tools give YouTube publishers a way track how their content is performing on the video site and on social networks, and at a pretty compelling price free.T...

It's hard to trust the cloud. With the NSA coming in one end and hackers coming in through the other, complete encryption is key. That's what Lockbox is for. The company, founded in 2008, has accepted...

Transportation tech startup Uberis continuing its aggressive expansion across Asia. As of this week, it is now live in India, starting first with a luxury car service in its tech capital, Bangalore. T...

While augmented reality has been around for a while, Augment is trying to monetize it with its platform. The company just released its Business Catalog feature, targeted toward salespeople. For $30 pe...

Today Nokia promised owners of its Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices that its "Amber" update will reach all phones by the end of September. The Amber upgrade is a mix of feature improvements that will imp...

MoPub is releasing a new tool called the Optimizer that should allow mobile publishers to take an entirely automated, hands-off approach to managing their ad networks and increase revenue too.The tea...

Deeplink.me, the new service fromCellogicmaking it possible for users to navigate through the apps on a smartphonethe way you navigate the web, is today exiting from its beta period and launching an a...

Microsoft todaypublished a short blog post stating that it feels that recent government changes to how it reports surveillance activities are insufficient. Calling the decision by the federal governme...

Twitter is appointing Vijaya Gadde as its new General Counsel after current appointee Alex Macgillivray has announced his plans to move on. The news came as a post on Macgillivray’s personal sit...

Bitmonet - think "Bitcoin Monetization" rather than "Bitcoin Impressionist Painter" - is a platform for creation microtransaction-based paywalls on your blog or content portal. While most people don't...

Getting Arduino-powered devices to talk to each other over long distances is going to get cheaper and easier if this Kickstarter project flies. Flutter is a wireless development platform for Arduino w...

Microsoft announced the eventual exit of its CEO a week ago today, and its stock jumped to more past the $35 mark before settling at $34.75. At one point, Microsoft was worth $18 billion more than it ...

Over the last two years, the digital health space has been on fire. With the healthcare market bogged down by high costs, old technology and slow-moving giants, the space is rife with opportunity and ...

Apple will be expanding its iPhone trade-in program nationwide starting today, according to a report from CNBC's Jon Fortt which we've confirmed with our sources. The program allows customers to walk ...

Twitter is the latest startup to launch a beta testing program on Android, via the Google Play app marketplace. The company has begun taking sign-ups for its "Twitter for Android Experiment Program," ...

There's no doubt that the cost of healthcare in the U.S. is a hot topic of debate, but a new startup called FwdHealth is looking to join the conversation. The idea is pretty simple. FwdHealth is an ap...

Arduino is great, but Arduino is also pretty hard to wrap your head around, especially for newbies. The Espruino is "world's first JavaScript microcontroller for beginners or experts," and has been of...

Canada-based travel marketplace Demeure has raised $4 million in its third round of seed funding from about 50 Canadian private investors. This brings the startup’s total funding to about $8 mil...

German cloud storage and file management startup doctape has launched a new standalone iOS app aimed at making it easier for iPhone and iPad users to view file types not supported natively by iOS. The...

Indiegogo seems to always play second fiddle to Kickstarter, despite the fact that it's actually been around since before Indiegogo, and now someone's done the math to figure out exactly how the two c...

Indiegogo seems to always play second fiddle to Kickstarter, despite the fact that it was on the crowdfund scene first, and now someone's done the math to figure out exactly how the two compare. Freel...

Narrato Journal, the iOS journaling app from Wayra-backed UK startup Narrato, has received a neat update: It's added integration with the fitness tracking app Move via its recently launched API.That i...

Gesture control is a buzzword on the tips of everyone's tongues these days, and after Samsung debuted a number of touch-free control features with the Galaxy S4, it's natural that other OEMs are looki...

While Nokia continues to work on clawing back some of the once-market-leading smartphone business it has lost in the last few years to Apple and Android handset makers like Samsung, it has also slowly...

While Nokia continues to work on clawing back some of the once-market-leading smartphone business it has lost in the last few years to Apple and Android handset makers like Samsung, it has also slowly...

Cloud-based enterprise management software Cascade wants to set itself apart by creating happier and more motivated companies. Its two founders, a former banker and a photographer who once served as a...

With the NFL season just a week away, fans are pouring over stats, trash talking their friends, and gearing up for the real season: fantasy football. Here are the coolest and most useful places to pla...

Pure Storage has raised $150 million for its super-fast and feature rich flash storage technology. The round was led by T. Rowe Price, Tiger Global Management and "other public market investors," alon...

Salesforce.com beat estimated earnings, posting $957 million in revenues, a 31 percent increase compared to last year. Non-GAAP earnings were 9 cents per share.Subscription and support revenues were $...

Yes. Fantasy football season is upon us. Amid a sea of apps and sites promising to get you a little closer to perfection, I turned to some of 2012's most accurate fantasy experts to get their take on ...

National Security Agency leaker and new Russia resident Edward Snowden has leaked a top-secret $52 billion intelligence budget to the Washington Post. The partially redacted budget reveals the success...

Working from the couch in sweatpants is awesome (in fact, I'm doing it right now), but there are certainly benefits to working with other people in the flesh. For example, if you can see that your cow...

Digg, the Betaworks-incubated social news service and new home to Google Reader replacement Digg Reader, has just arrived on Android, the company announced today. Included in this release are all the ...

Rumors that Foursquare is looking to take on a strategic investment from a large technology company kicked up a gear when several sources have reported that Microsoft is perhaps the potential suitor, ...

Next up on the agenda for Disrupt SF: Robots!Now, when I bring up robots, you may be thinking about C-3PO from Star Wars, or Rosie, the maid from The Jetsons, or something else entirely. But I'm guess...

Box has an enviable enterprise install base, a key strategic advantage as being The Holder of the Files, and now the exec that called the Office shots at Microsoft for years. That sums together into a...

Barcelona-based startup Lodgify is launching its product today, which aims to be the "Shopify of vacation rentals" according to its co-founder Naveen Sharma. Like Shopify, Lodgify allows small busines...

Yahoo's efforts at improving Flickr with new pricing plans, acquisitions, andrevamped web and mobile experiences, appear to be paying off, at least in the form of website traffic and engagement. Accor...

Peer-to-peer delivery startup Deliv wants to provide a new way for major retailers to offer up same-day delivery to their customers. And it just partnered with one of the biggest mall operators in the...

They're baaack.Bang With Friends, the Facebook friend hookup app that seemed to be endlessly engulfed in one controversy or another earlier this year, is returning to the iOS App Store (albeit in a sl...

A bug in Apple’s CoreText rendering engine in iOS 6 and OS X 10.8 causes any apps that try to render a string of Arabic characters to crash on sight. The string of characters which can trigger t...

Earlier today, a new iOS update landed for Flickr that sports new, enhanced filters and other photo editing options among its new features, and when I wrote about it I wondered aloud if it was the fir...

Ride-sharing startup Lyft continues to grow, adding new markets where users can hail a ride via their mobile phones and have a mustachioed car pick them up. With the launch of service in Indianapolis,...

After promoting former Facebook and Twitter product lead Josh Elman to partner, Greylock is adding another consumer investing partner to its ranks from its existing team--executive in residence Simon ...

Back in 2011 Doo closed a $6.8 million round for its big play to attack the world of collaboration and documents. Basically they want to kill off paperwork and make everything digital. To that end the...

Today enterprise cloud file and document storage company Box announced that it has brought former Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky on board as an adviser. The move matters, as Sinofsky has deep exp...

Outbox, a startup that digitizes your physical mail and makes it available on the web and via iPhone, Android, and iPad apps, says that it's now generally available in San Francisco.After a trial peri...

Most physical keys have been chased off phones, thanks to the rampant rise of touchscreen technology, but here's a Kickstarter project that wants to bring smarter kind of physical key to your phone. P...

Today Facebook proposed a raft of changesto its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and Data-Use Policies, two separate documents that govern the way the company handles advertising, user data, a...

Today Facebook proposed a raft of changesto its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and Data-Use Policies, two separate documents that govern the way the company handles advertising, user data, a...

There will be a very special booth at this year's Disrupt conference in San Francisco - the Office Hours HQ where TC writers and editors will field your questions, look at your pitches, and chat on al...

If mobile apps are the post-PC era's software industry, the U.S. may be losing its edge. According to new findings from mobile analytics firm Flurry released this morning, the U.S. isn't leading in th...

Foursquare has been defining its app beyond the "check in" for a while now, with the addition of things like more fleshed-out personal profiles, more detailed recommendations, and the like. And today,...

The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset isn't even available for consumers to buy yet but here comes the cut-price competition... vrAse, a soon-to-be-launched-on-Kickstarter project, wants to turn you...

Our major conference is coming to Europe. Disrupt Europe will be in late October, and will be held in Berlin. Therefore it's only right that we include some of the biggest names in that startup scene,...

Quip, the mobile-first iOS and Android word processing app, spent many months in stealth mode as its creators, Bret Taylor (ex-Facebook CTO) and Kevin Gibbs (father of Google Apps Engine) built and po...

The UniKey Kevo has been a hot topic for the past year, its touch-triggered unlocking amazing the likes of investors, TV shows and retailers alike. The auto-lock system first appeared on an episode of...

Aiming to lessen cross-platform mobile development woes, Chocolate Chip-UI, an open source mobile framework incubated at Sourcebits, is being released today after being re-written from the ground up t...

When you get pitched a new messaging startup from an Estonian team comprising a number of ex-Skype engineers, you kind of have to take notice. Launching officially today is Fleep, a web and iOS app th...

The Skydog home network solution Kickstarter project we covered back in April, created by Xerox PARC spin-out company PowerCloud Systems, is shipping today to its over 1,000 backers on schedule, provi...

It’s already the second episode of our weekly radio show! This is the TechCrunch Europe Podcast, wherein we European writers discuss tech news, as well as what’s happening in our startup s...

The PC industry may be shaken up by the rapid encroachment of tablets into consumer and enterprise spending habits -- a trend that's seeing lighter devices like the iPad, as well as cheaper tablets li...

Ideally, your smart device of the future anticipates your needs and adjusts itself to suit them without requiring input on your behalf. Two newly published patent applications (spotted by AppleInsider...

Zendrive, a startup that aims to make driving better by using data from smartphone sensors, today announced that it has raised $1.5 million from a group of backers including First Round Capital, Max L...

Yahoo has just released a significant new update for its Flickr photo app for iOS, a further sign of how it wants to be not just where you go to store and view pictures, but where you create them as w...

TiVo's brand new Roamio platform is about to get a whole lot "appier" thanks to the introduction of Opera's Devices SDK, and the addition of the Opera TV Store, a means through which developers can of...

The Samwer brothers’ Global Founders Capital fund is announcing its first three investments today, a few short months after making its public debut. The initial round of investment isn’t e...

Skype is working on a technology that will no doubt be impressive, when used once and then promptly ignored for the rest of time 3D video calls. The project was revealed in an interview with the BBC ...

Xiaomi's smartphones are currently sold only in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, but its hire of Hugo Barra as Vice President of Xiaomi Global is a clear signal that the three-year-old company's plans to ...

We've confirmed a report today that Android VP Hugo Barra is leaving Google for "Apple of China" Xiaomei.The report was timed to coincide with another story about the dissolution of Google co-founder ...

Brock Blake and Levi King have founded more than six companies between them. Over the course of their various entrepreneurial endeavors, like many other small business owners entrepreneurs, Blake and ...

Given that the average breadbox is 12 inches wide by 6 inches high and deep, we can safely say that the GMax 3D printer, a Kickstarted large format printer can print one. The printer, which is availab...

The Dropbox-owned Mailbox has just added a couple of nice features including the ability to search all of your Gmail messages in the cloud and locally on your device. Previously, you could only dig th...

Singapore-based accelerator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI.Asia) has announced the 10 startup teams in its latest class. Modeled after TechStars, JFDI.Asia looks for founding teams who are ready ...

When co-founder Boris Mordkovich and his team at Evelo bicycles were ready to launch their electric bicycle company in April of 2012, they took an unusual approach: they rode electric bikes from New Y...

On the heels of Vodafone and O2 this evening turning on their LTE networks to compete against EE in 4G services in the UK, Three has confirmed its roadmap and pricing for 4G services. The UK's fourth-...

On the heels of Vodafone and O2 this evening turning on their LTE networks to compete against EE in 4G services in the UK, Three has confirmed its roadmap and pricing for 4G services. The UK's fourth-...

Is it Wednesday already? It must be, because we've got yet another edition of the TechCrunch Droidcast to carry you the rest of your day (or least the next half hour).This week it's just Darrell Ether...

We're just over a week away from the Disrupt SF Hackathon, where hundreds of developers will be locked in a battle to build the coolest thing they can build in a single 24 hour stretch. The prize? Fam...

Swipe is the latest in a series of people discovery apps to pop up over the last year or so, connecting users after theyve both expressed interest in one another. In that way, its not that much differ...

Experimentation is a roller coaster. San Jose State University suspended its controversial experiment in online courses last spring after disappointing results. But the university and its platform par...

Experimentation is a roller coaster. San Jose State University suspended its controversial experiment in online courses last spring after disappointing results. But the university and its platform par...

A betting service has compiled a list of potential candidates for Microsoft’s soon-to-be-vacant CEO role that you can wager on. It’s a partially serious, partially silly list. Microsoft CO...

Turn, which offers advertising tools in areas like real-time bidding and analytics, is announcing today that it has opened its first office in Japan.This is part of a larger move into the Asia-Pacific...

As part of his promises regarding better oversight of the National Security Agency, President Obama called for expert external opinion on where the lines of privacy should be drawn: "...Were forming a...

Twitter just flipped the format of its timeline with a new conversation view. The full timeline will still show in the traditional ‘newest stuff at the top’ view, but now there are linked ...

Can you measure corporate performance based on customer happiness? According to my Founder Stories guest this week, Zendesks Mikkel Svane, happiness is actually an important metric in the business of ...

Twitter has just released an update for iOS, Android and the web application with a brand new interface for conversations, as well as enhanced sharing and abuse reporting capabilities. According to th...

ShopPad, an e-commerce platform that turns retailers' desktop websites into tablet-optimized experiences, is today announcing $500,000 in seed funding for its software-as-a-service technology now used...

Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a company that tracks social media engagement around TV content, as announced in a Trendrr blog post and confirmed in a tweet by Twitter.Trendrr says it's "excited to be ...

Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a company that tracks social media engagement around TV content, as announced in a Trendrr blog post and confirmed in a tweet by Twitter.Trendrr says it's "excited to be ...

Fuse, a new mobile application that aggregates your social networking activity into one "fused" feed which you can then interact with, search, reply to and more, recently got an overhaul making it a m...

trueAnthem, a company that allows publishers to track the impact of their content on social media, has raised $2.6 million from CrunchFund, Core Ventures Group, and undisclosed angel investors.(Both C...

Automattic, the parent company of the popular publishing platform WordPress.com, has released a new Media Explorer toolso users can add tweets and YouTube videos to their posts straight from the WordP...

Mixamo, a startup that helps game developers animate 3D characters in their games and apps, is launching something pretty neat today. It’s a service that lets developers animate characters simpl...

Unity, the popular "build once, run anywhere" 3D game engine, is going 2D.At the company's UNITE conference in Vancouver this morning, CEO David Helgason announced three things: official support for 2...

Google today announced that it is bringing HD-quality video to Hangouts, its video chat service. The rollout will start with Hangouts on Air, the live streamed version of Hangouts that makes group cha...

At its Build conference earlier this year, Microsoft launched its developer services for Bing, including the Bing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Control. Today, the company announced that it is n...

Nintendo wants to compete with cheap tablets more than ever, just not the way you think. The company will release a new version of the 3DS, the Nintendo 2DS — it has a tablet-esque form factor. ...

Zite, the "intelligent magazine" that presents readers with news articles based on their personal interests, is releasing a big update to its Android app today. It's also launching an app for Google G...

RoboCoin, a kiosk that allows you to trade Bitcoin for other currencies, is now available for pre-order and should be shipping for "Fall 2013." Lest you decide to become the Bitcoin bank for your neig...

It’s no secret that Facebook has accelerated its mobile ad business in recent quarters. This mobile ad monetization push is resulting in “dramatic gains” in worldwide mobile ad marke...

So TechCrunch is hosting a little shindig in San Francisco this September. Disrupt SF, it's called. And we're looking for a couple of over-qualified social media types who are willing to be overworked...

So TechCrunch is hosting a little shindig in San Francisco this September. Disrupt SF, it's called. And we're looking for a couple of over-qualified social media types who are willing to be overworked...

Foursquare first pulled back the curtain on its native Windows 8 app back at Microsoft's BUILD conference last June and proceeded to keep the project under wraps since then. After quietly cranking awa...

It's only a matter of time before fashion and tech fully collide. It's not enough that we now like to buy our clothes on the internet — companies like Google and Nike and Fitbit are determined t...

A new startup called Local Motion is providing the tools necessary for businesses to reduce waste and right-size their fleets of cars, which could save them significant money in the long term. To move...

Researchers at the University of Washington, Rajesh Rao and Andrea Stocco, have created a remote, non-invasive brain-to-brain interface that allowed Rao to move Stocco's finger remotely on a keyboard ...

Ottawa-based Shopify, the online storefront provider that helps around 65,000 retailers reach their customers on the web, including Tesla, Crossfit and others, today announced a new retail point-of-sa...

ThingLink, a platform that enables tagging things inside an image with links to music, video, notes and more, has closed on $2 million in additional funding, the company is announcing today. The new r...

There's no doubt that financial services, even within the banking and investing world, is ripe for disruption. A new startup is debuting today that aims to be an AngelList-like network that connects i...

Buffer, a popular social media manager, will now allow users to schedule and publish content to Google+ pages. Users will not be able to personal profiles, because Google has only opened its API for b...

Iceland-based startup Kla has devised a hardware extension for digital SLR cameras that lets you create 3D photos and videos. The 3D images are viewable (after converting them with its dedicated softw...

NoSQL database company Couchbase has raised $25 million to build new enterprise features and expand primarily into India, China and South America. The Series D round was led by Adams Street Partners a...

Philips Hue is a fun but expensive way to turn your at-home lighting into an interactive experience to pass your idle hours, but so far it's been mostly controlled via smartphone. Chances are, you spe...

It turns out that amidst all the changes in the customer rewards and loyalty app landscape, the Chicago-based loyalty startup Belly is still kicking, and appears to be stronger than ever: It's now act...

Four Indians are exposing India's sexual harassment hotspots via Safecity,a website for victims to anonymously report when and where they were abused. The founders hope that it could be the first step...

Apple has acquired AlgoTrim, a Swedish startup that builds codecs and designs solutions that maximize performance of data, mobile imaging, video and computer graphics while minimizing memory requireme...

Apple has acquired AlgoTrim, a Swedish startup that builds codecs and designs solutions that maximize performance of data, mobile imaging, video and computer graphics while minimizing memory requireme...

You live in London. You have bags of disposable income. But you just can't find the time to work out how to spend your spare time. Don't despair first-world problem-ers, Lime&Tonic, a new iOS app,...

FounderFuel Fall 2012 cohort grad Urbita, a startup based in LA and Buenos Aires, has managed to quietly amass a huge consumer following, having topped 8 million monthly unique visitors in July, and t...

Ubimo, a startup that focuses on location-based mobile audience targeting, has raised a $2 million seed round led by Pitango Venture Capital with the participation of serial entrepreneur and angel inv...

INQ, the U.K.-based, Hutchison Whampoa backed company that used to build social phones, has extended its social magazine app Material to iOS, and updated the Android app to add an offline view feature...

HTC's Hail Mary play might not take the form of another new smartphone: The Taiwanese company is reportedly working with Chinese government officials to build a mobile OS that includes "deep integrati...

Advertisers and content creators want to complement TV shows and ads people are watching with interactive features viewers. They can then find out more about what they're watching, get discounts, mayb...

The Oxford Dictionaries Online is adding a slew of words, from bitcoin to twerk.The new words are an odd mix of techie and tween-y. Here are some of the words that are being added:...

Programmers know how beautiful well-written code can be, but most users will never see the source code behind their software. The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, however, wants to ...

Timed to coincide with VMWare's big conference this week in San Francisco, one of its bigger rivals, Parallels, today is unveiling a new app that takes its own virtualization software to a new screen:...

If anyone knows far too much about their keyboard, it's a programmer.Professional programmers type a lot. A whole lot. So much that a flame war over which text editor/input method is best for coding (...

If anyone knows far too much about their keyboard, it's a programmer.Professional programmers type a lot. A whole lot. So much that a flame war over which text editor/input method is best for coding (...

Google is ditching video responses from its video sharing site on September 12th, encouraging users to fall back on hashtags and descriptions to surface videos in searches. The cited reason is a minus...

Apple executives were granted over 120k shares of vested stock in transactions that took place last week but were disclosed today. CEO Tim Cook converted 72,877 units of restricted stock that were ori...

Windows developers are not happy that Microsoft will not provide them with a copy of the newly "completed" Windows 8.1 RTM build. Instead, Microsoft has decided to make the developers who are part of ...

Kobo, the e-reader and tablet company owned by Rakuten (aka Japan's answer to Amazon), is today taking the covers off four new devices -- three new Android-based Arc tablets and a new Aura e-reader. A...

HyTrust has raised $18.5 million for its security technology designed for the new reality of the virtualized data center that requires new methods to prevent a systems adminstrator from deleting entir...

A new ecommerce site called Zady is bringing the conscious consumerism movement to the online retail space by showing shoppers exactly where the goods the carry come from. To that end, the site aims t...

The Syrian Electronic Army has claimed responsibility for hacking the domain name servers of two of Twitter’s sites, and a third appears to have been redirected to servers hosted by the SEA. In ...

From the outside, Pinterest is known for being one of the Internet's go-to places for beautiful things. But on the inside, the company is also killing it from an engineering perspective -- and tech fo...

There are whispers bouncing around Silicon Valley that a Google executive might be selected as Microsoft's next CEO. The concept isn't out of the question, especially following Marissa Mayer's move to...

Yahoo rolled out a major redesign to several of its web properties today - a move that's part of a project apparently code-named "Grand Slam." At least that's how it was recently described in a Vogue ...

According to statements from a spokesperson, the New York Times may have been hacked, resulting in the loss of access for many customers. Specifically, it appears that the attack has resulted in the r...

After raising $282 million for its seventh fund, Foundation Capital is adding a new partner to its ranks--Adit Singh, a former investor and senior associate with Comcast Ventures, will be the firm as ...

10gen is changing its name to MongoDB, the NoSQL technology that it developed and supports. Thecompany said in an announcement of the news that the name unifies the open-source database project with t...

Mark Zuckerberg has a grand vision that Facebook will help citizens in developing countries decide their own governments. It’s a lofty and partially attainable goal. While Egypt probably wonR...

If you want to learn how to promote yourself, read Dan Schwabel's CrunchBase entry. Alternatively, you could read Schwabel's new book (out next week), entitled, appropriately enough, Promote Yourself:...

FeeX, which helps users save on hidden retirement fees, has raised $3 million in Series A funding from Blumberg Capital. Co-founded by Uri Levine from Google-acquired Waze, the startup aims to raise a...

Heap, a company looking to battle the likes of Google and KissMetrics in the analytics space, has raised a seed round of $2M from some of the bigger names in the Valley.As I've written before, Heap's ...

Gumroad, a startup aiming to make it as easy as possible for creative artists to sell digital goods, is announcing a new feature to address a big source of income pre-orders.With the new feature, fou...

This is the real storage wars. Today Microsoft announced that it has increased the storage capacity of its SkyDrive Pro cloud document storage and syncing service to 25 gigabytes, from the formerly pr...

Newark Mayor and Senate candidate Cory Booker has just begun testing an innovative solution to the racial problems plaguing law enforcement’s use of stop-and-frisk: hold officers accountable by ...

It's ready, kids. Today Microsoft announced that Windows 8.1 has been completed, and seeded to manufacturers. But regular folks like us won't get our hands on the code until October 18. Interestingly,...

On-demand transportation startup Uber is facing a threat to its business in another of its U.S. markets, as the city of Dallas could soon pass a series of regulations that would seriously hamper its a...

The dirty secret of the gift-card industry is that many of them go unused. At first glance, that looks like easy money for retailers, but with a slew of new regulations, unused gift cards are actually...

While some of their brethren are off doing deals at Burning Man, a gaggle of venture capitalists are auctioning themselves off to the highest bidder, deadline today. If you’re an entrepreneur or...

Who knew that a startup based around a thermostat could be so damn successful. But that's exactly what Nest Labs led by Matt Rogers and Tony Fadell has managed to accomplish. Now almost two years sinc...

Speakaboos, an ed-tech startup offering a subscription based service for children's interactive storybooks, is today disclosing its seed and Series A funding totaling $6.2 million fromNew York-based d...

Twitter has hired ex-Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard as its new Head of Commerce. Hubbard will work under head of revenue Adam Bain to make the platform more friendly to retailers. We’ve confirm...

Today Facebook did the world a service by detailing the number of data-collection requests it receives from various nations around the world, as well as the number of user accounts that are part of th...

iOS remains the first priority platform for mobile developers to support, still several steps ahead of smartphone market leader Android. This is according to a new report from research company Forrest...

If hype equalled success then by rights Amen should have been as big as Twitter. After all, at the height of their media powers as Hollywood couple, Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore where using and promo...

Clipless, a new mobile application built for Android first, is launching today as a tool to collect nearby offers and coupons, then alert users when they're nearby a given deal. Currently, the company...

This week on TechCrunch TVs Ask A VC show, we have Bessemer Venture Partners' Ethan Kurzweil in the studio. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here ...

Coinbase unveiled another incentive for merchants to start accepting Bitcoins. Starting today, payment processing is now free for everyone for your first $1 million in orders. After that, the regular ...

In a move that should surprise exactly no one, BlackBerry is said to be thinking about spinning off BBM into its own subsidiary company called BBM Inc., says the Wall Street Journal. As BlackBerry fac...

Twenty-five percent of the population controls 75 percent of the spending, and advertisers will pay big bucks to advertise to find them. That's Martini Media's job. This focus and the $22 million to $...

Samsung today confirmed its plans to launch a version of its Galaxy Tab designed for kids with the announcement of the Galaxy Tab 3 Kids tablet. The tablet will come pre-loaded with kid-friendly apps ...

MySiteApp, the Israeli startup behind mobile website add-on Brow.si, has raised a further $1 million from existing investorsthetime and a number of U.S./Israel-based angels, bringing the total backing...

BitTorrent, which years ago first made its name as an efficient distribution network for music and video (sometimes not for the most legit of ends), has been of late positioning itself as a distributi...

Apple continues its selective content partner rollout today with an update to Apple TV software that adds Vevo, as previously rumored, as well as Disney Channel, Disney XD, The Weather Channel and Smi...

Gamification -- the idea of adding gameplay elements into services to get people to interact more with them -- has been one of the more buzzy features in the last few years of social media services, b...

Gamification -- the idea of adding gameplay elements into services to get people to interact more with them -- has been one of the more buzzy features in the last few years of social media services, b...

This is it. You have until the end of Wednesday night to register for a spot in Disrupt SF Startup Alley. And this is an opportunity that you should not pass up.Startup Alley is one of the best parts ...

Rovio built an empire out of a silly little physics-based game called Angry Birds. 1.5 billion downloads later, the company is thriving as an entertainment and merchandising brand thanks to licensing ...

Project collaboration startup Wrike has rolled out a minimalist user interface in the latest update of its Graphite application, which emphasises a well-structured task view and also features the abil...

Google is doing a good job of trying to make Chromecast have a degree of cross-platform appeal that AirPlay can't offer; today, it's launching an iOS app for managing the Chromecast device's settings,...

Amazon today announced it’s expanding itslong-running Amazon Associates program to mobile app developers. The affiliate program, which allows members to advertise and link to Amazon products for...

The TWC TV app for Xbox Live, which was announced back in June, is now available for download from the Xbox Live Marketplace. Microsoft's partnership with Time Warner Cable is a significant part of it...

Jumia, an Amazon clone for Africa backed by the Rocket Internet ecommerce startup incubator and launched last year, is pushing onto mobile with the launch of its first smartphone app. The Android app,...

If you had any doubt that chucking in your entire life and building that iPhone case with a bottle opener you've always envisioned (the perfect design, honest) would be difficult, look no further than...

FABtotum is an all-in-one 3D printer, cutting, milling and engraving box of tricks which supports additive and subtractive manufacturing processes so you can both print and cut to create design protot...

The silent disco is a recent trend that sees people using headphones to come together and enjoy a concert quietly while in a shared space, and a new Apple patent appears to want to capitalize on this ...

After garnering 4 million downloads on iOS in five months, Finnish mobile app developer Sumoing has released a version of its photo "remixing" app Repix for Android. Refreshingly, however, this isn't ...

Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch is poised to be the next big news in wearable tech, and it's also rapidly becoming one of the worst kept secrets of the tech world. Today, Samsung Executive Vice Presi...

The fabled Apple television set is still a fable, lo these many years after it first was whispered into the waiting ear of an analyst or blogger, but today Apple has secured a new patent (via AppleIns...

Japanese carrier NTT Docomo today announced one more acquisition in Europe both to continue building out its operations in the region and beyond vanilla offerings like voice and mobile data: it is acq...

Japanese carrier NTT Docomo today announced one more acquisition in Europe both to continue building out its operations in the region and beyond vanilla offerings like voice and mobile data: it is acq...

Hyper-local news is hard and difficult to scale and monetize. CO Everywhere, which is the completely redesigned and rethought version of BlockAvenue, says it wants to fill in the gap between existing ...

As more reports of ARM-based Windows and Apple devices continue to fill the airwaves -- the latest being reports of a Surface 2 and Nokia's first Windows tablet, along with upcoming iPhone handsets --...

MobileIron is launching Anyware, a service that gives Salesforce administrators the ability to manage devices, provision them and give users access to a personal app store.With Anyware, a CRM administ...

A U.S. District judge has granted final approval to a settlement in which Facebook will pay $20 million for including users' names and profile photos in its "Sponsored Stories" advertising program wit...

Here's one way advertisers can convince desktop viewers to try out their mobile apps send them a text.That's the proposition behind TxtMeApp,a new product from Israel-based digital media agency Say M...

The declining quality of humanities education (and student performance) in the U.S. has become a big problem. Last year, the College Board reported that SAT scores in reading and writing have hit reco...

Funny Or Die has spent the last six years making some of the funniest content on the web, and unlike a lot of the new media companies that have popped up lately, it’s done so without leaning on ...

Today Facebook ended normal trading with a market valuation of $100.6 billion, capping a long return to form after a botched IPO and mobile concerns led investors to unload the shares in the company i...

Today Wanelo, the online platform that lets people discover and share things they "want, need, and love," issued an update to its iOS app that brings two handy new features, search and "stories," to i...

VMware announced general availability of VMware vSphere 5.5 and VMware vCloud Suite at VMworld today. The new version of its virtualization technology includes the integration of Cloud Foundry, the pl...

Apple is about to introduce an iPhone trade-in program that will allow users to walk into a Retail store and trade up from an old model to a new one. We’ve heard some interesting details about t...

There ain't no party like a TechCrunch party. And with that bit of trivia, I'm excited to announce that this year, tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt SF after parties will be available to the general publi...

Pastebin officially announced that they've surpassed 1 million registered members since the introduction of the login service two and a half years ago. The service allowed users to log in using social...

Google's primary search domain for Palestine has seemingly been hacked, with the standard Google search interface for the region being replaced by a political message from its hackers.From the informa...

The lives of new parents are fraught with stress but now the weight of knowing whether or not your wee one is breathing can be lifted. Owlet is a small bootie that the baby wears while sleeping. It si...

Facebook is rolling out shared photo albums, as first reported by Mashable. Users can share access to an album with up to 50 contributors, who can each add up to 200 photos.Facebook users can share th...

RingCentral, a company offering cloud-based phone and communication systems, has filed for an initial public offering of up to $100 million.Incorporated all the way back in 1999, San Mateo, Calif.-bas...

Google today announced that Android developers can now make their free apps available in Iran, one of the few countries where app downloads through Google’s store were completely unavailable unt...

The annals of bad Microsoft advertising have a new member today -- a short clip that attempts to paint Google as evil because its services contain advertising. This is contrasted with Bing's education...

Quinn Li is the managing director at Qualcomm Ventures, one of the top wireless investment firms in the world since 2000, with portfolio companies including PayPal, Waze, and Fitbit. He also happens t...

With every new iPhone, most of the discussion centers around its look and not what comes inside. But, according to reports, Apple has designed a new 64-bit dual-core A7 system on a chip for the iPhone...

VMware announced its network virtualization platform today based upon its own internal technology with Nicira, which it acquired last year.NSX is a network hypervisor that abstracts the server. It exp...

Personalization seems to be the name of the game in e-commerce right now, and to that end, the luxury flash sales site Gilt has just added a user-specific sales page to their offerings. The algorithm-...

Earlier this month, GoogleReader replacement Feedlybegan offeringa paid version of its service, but only in limited quantities. Barely a day after the paid tier became available, the company sold out ...

Docstoc is best known for its platform for sharing professional documents. But over the years, it's worked to morph into a one-stop shop for small businesses, providing them with premium services and ...

If the plethora of "aspirational" shopping companions have left you with something of a bad taste in your mouth for encouraging overspending, here's a palate cleanser: a couple of newer apps for iOS, ...

If the plethora of "aspirational" shopping companions have left you with something of a bad taste in your mouth for encouraging overspending, here's a palate cleanser: a couple of newer apps for iOS, ...

It takes someone special to turn their company name into a verb. But that's what GoPro founder and CEO Nicholas Woodman has done. GoPro is now synonymous with action sports. Skateboarders, surfers and...

One of the largest college teacher unions in the country has taken a rather odd education policy stance: opposition to measuring whether colleges are helping their graduates. In response to President ...

Google’s Chromecast is a curious beast because it’s incredibly cheap and does exactly what it promises, but that hasn’t stopped from developers from (what else?) trying to make the $...

If you're like me, you wander around the local grocery store and purchase a collection of ingredients that may or may not fit together. And, a week later, you throw away whatever you didn't use and st...

With all eyes focused on what new iPhone handsets Apple may be launching very soon -- if reports are to be believed, two new models, and a new color, on September 10 -- some of Apple's top executives ...

Network World has an excellent pictorial slideshow that shows us just how ridiculous our neophilia has gotten. While it's weak sauce coming from a site that celebrates the new, it's clear that our con...

As Facebook teams up with other tech titans to put more effort into ubiquitous internet access worldwide, Pew Research is today is releasing the results of a survey that shows how one of the more adva...

Today, Yahoo will begin notifying those who requested a particular user ID through the company's newly expanded pool of usernames if their choice has been granted. In case you missed it the first time...

The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off in San Diego was a smashing success, with over 1,000 people in attendance, a few dozen sponsors and around 20 companies competing for the top prize. But alas, the win...

Lifestreet, which raised $66 million in capital as Facebook’s biggest in-app advertiser last year, is expanding to mobile platforms. After processing about $150 million in ad payments out to rou...

Parse.ly has raised $5 million for its platform to do analysis of web site data that does natural language processing (NLP) to define semantic relationships in data, primarily for digital media compan...

A company calledCanvais today launching what it hopes will become the default tool people use to create and collaborate on design online. The service, which offers an easy to use drag-and-drop interfa...

GIFs have remained so ubiquitous, spawning legions of apps, memes and NSFW Tumblrs, that it can be surprising to remember the bitmap image format is more than 25 years old. When compared to newer file...

It isn’t often that one learns about cool apps from Vogue. In case you don’t read fashion magazines, American Vogue is basically like a seasonal shopping catalogue for women who find thems...

Thanks to the steady march of technology into the world of education, it's a great time to be a lifelong learner. Today, there are a growing number of platforms that allow us to search and discover (q...

Moments like this happen only once a generation in the technology industry.The announcement of Steve Ballmer's retirement from his post as CEO of Microsoft puts an end to one of the most powerful and ...

You know what they say about trends: wait five years and they'll swing back around again. With confirmation that a a gold iPhone 5s will indeed break onto the scene in September to throw a crimp into ...

July 25, 2023 -- Local transportation and delivery giant Uber announced its biggest bet on autonomous vehicles yet, saying it would purchase 2,500 driverless cars from Google. In addition, the two com...

On April 17 of this year, I wrote a post that I never published. The following day, Microsoft was set to release their Q3 numbers and I wanted to see what they looked like before I ran my piece. I wan...

Mozilla was late to mobile and now it's trying to catch up. For a while now, the nonprofit has been releasing mobile versions of its Firefox browser for Android, but its most ambitious project to date...

Note to self: do not cheat on employees of the National Security Agency. The NSA is in more hot water after it was revealed that a few heart-broken agents spied on their lovers. The violation is appar...

Those of you looking to spend the rest of today watching people do other things on Instagram or Vine probably just had a rough time trying to do it -- both services went offline for over an hour, most...

It's easy to consign tablet and mobile gaming to the lamestream and feel that there's a detente between that and the more core gaming platforms. However this is both shortsighted and naive. There's a ...

Say Something is an app in the making that wants to inject some fun into online dating by letting you practice your small talk with real people before you actually go on any first dates -- thereby giv...

We all have our e-vices. The sites that you catch yourself browsing with a half-focused gaze. The ones that nibble away your time and leave you wondering what you did all day, and how you ended up wit...

The VMworld annual virtualization geek out begins this week in San Francisco. The big topic that will dominate all others: the radical transformation of the data center as a flood of data makes the ol...

As tensions mount between the United States and other countries over the NSA's once-secret spying programs, German news magazine Der Spiegel reported earlier today that the NSA has been spying on the ...

As some of you may know, Ive been lucky to be a small part of the team behind Swell, a new kind of radio experience built initially for iPhone. After spending many months in stealth mode leading up to...

I'm sorry to say that I have succumbed to something like schadenfreude. It's not that I really enjoy what is happening these days, what with institutions of the web shutting down, basic civil rights b...

Girard-Perregaux, to those not familiar with watch lore, is a watchmaker founded in 1791 and that now produces handmade, manufacture pieces in the mid- to high-level range. I've been a longtime fan of...

Weebly, the service that lets you, your grandma and anyone else build a website for free, is growing fast. The startup launched out of Y Combinator in 2007 and today hosts over 15 million sites, which...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Doc Searls, and Steve Gillmor digest the resignation of Steve Ballmer and its potential impact on the direction of the Post-PC Era. Whether h...

Are you feeling like youre ready to kick off the weekend, but could just use three more opinions on the biggest tech news stories of the week before you really get the party started? Well you came to ...

This is going be a bullet FAQ on starting a business. No joke. If you're a lawyer, feel free to disagree with me, so you can charge someone your BS fees to give the same advice. If you can think of an...

Doximity, which is like a LinkedIn for physicians that lets them share patient data in a HIPAA-compliant way, said that it’s now reaching about 30 percent of doctors in the country. They’v...

Looking for someone to share your apartment on Craigslist can be a huge pain so much so, in fact, that when my roommate moved out last year, I considered leaving the room empty. Thanks to some friend...

Gillmor Gang - Doc Searls, John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session 10am Pacific....

This video made the rounds yesterday, tugging at heartstrings and giving us all in the Era Of Communication a bit of a kick in the buttocks. It shows a woman who forgot her phone. The premise is hokey...

Paul Graham wrote a great post in which he defines a startup as a company designed to grow fast and encouraged founders to constantly measure their growth rates. For Y Combinator companies, he notes t...

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe everything will be fine. Maybe the "widening gap between rich and poor" is temporary. Maybe the steady growth in the proportion of jobs that are part-time and/or low-paid will s...

It's tiring, isn't it? Doing everything online, I mean. Everyday you log into services tailor-made for shopping, searching, sharing, watching, chatting, curating, reading, bragging -- that's a lot of ...

I'm a mediocre runner at best, and I've taken to blaming that on the dearth of idyllic running spots in my particular corner of New Jersey. For schlubs like me, the key to true fitness may lay in some...

Motorola just showed off three new Droid smartphones last month (or, if you prefer, one new Droid and two spinoffs), but it's apparently not done cranking out Verizon hardware just yet. Another new Mo...

Drivewyze, which helps commercial trucking companies save time by bypassing weigh stations through a mobile app, just raised $7.5 million in a round led by Emergence Capital Partners and iNovia Capita...

Oh, so you thought Yahoo's acquisition spree was over? Not even close. A Yahoo spokesperson has confirmed that the revitalized web giant has snapped up yet another company -- this time its a image rec...

Oh, so you thought Yahoo's acquisition spree was over? Not even close. A Yahoo spokesperson has confirmed that the revitalized web giant has snapped up yet another company -- this time it's an image-r...

Erin Teague, a project manager for growth at Path, is leaving for the same position at Quora, as first reported by AllThingsD's Liz Gannes.At Quora, Teague replaces Andrew Johns, who left in July to ...

Even though Google Glass is out in the wild and on the heads of around 10,000 people, there are still plenty of questions about it. For a long time now, we've heard that Glass would retail for $299. A...

Today Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that he will retire in the next 12 months. His successor is not known, but the move marks the end of an era in technology, as Ballmer himself has become a c...

Locket, the startup that pays Android users to engage with ads, is now asking those users to weigh in on the type of ads that they want to see.When users install Locket, they'll start to see ads on th...

Instagram has just made its first acquisition, buying both the team and technology of Y Combinator company Luma (formerly known as Midnox). Luma had created a video capture, stabilization, and sharing...

Conferences can be dull, soul-sucking enterprises, but there's something different about TechCrunch Disrupt. The quality of speakers and startups and lack of bullshit set it apart. All of which is why...

In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, we hosted Menlo Ventures’ managing director Mark Siegel in the TCTV studio. Siegel, who focuses on investments in enterprise and advertising, has recent...

Well, it’s official — Uber has confirmed that it raised $258 million in new funding and added a couple of new members to its board of directors to help move it forward. In a blog post that...

Facebook Gifts is getting a major redesign that will end sales of physical gifts. It will now focus on suggesting you buy friends digital gift codes or Facebook's omni-Gift Card credit to spend at bra...

In this decidedly dorky edition of Fly Or Die, yours truly and TC's resident Canadian Darrell Etherington duke it out over Nvidia's curious Shield game console and what it means for the future of Andr...

Microsoft is a company struggling to be reborn, but its new trajectory is something Ballmer steered. Were mistakes made under his tenure? Certainly. But that doesn't mean Ballmer isn't leaving on a hi...

Predictive analytics can encompass just about anything under its umbrella. SalesPredict, which has just received $1 million in seed funding, has decided to be less generic with its analytics technolog...

The Ubuntu Edge may have been the most successful crowdfunding campaign in history, but that doesn't mean it made its goal. Meanwhile, yet another smartwatch joined the fray this week, coaxing John's ...

Given the challenges facing the recorded music industry, touring seems like an ever-more-important way for musicians to make money. Yet TourCommand co-founder Asad Yusupov said there hasn't been that ...

Facebook cracking down on Pages trying to trick their way into your News Feed. Today it announced a feed algorithm change for Pages that gives more visibility to timely, relevant, sharable content fro...

With its mobile business humming, what is Facebook focused on now? Well, Mark Zuckerberg's got some big ideas, like helping the whole world get on the Internet. And he's going to share them with our a...

Apple may be testing changes to its iTunes App Store ranking algorithms, which see it taking into account app ratings and other new factors in the App Store Top Chart rankings. Whether or not the chan...

YouTube today announced a significant increase to courtesy Data API limits, which regulate how many videos app developers can upload and how many read and write operations their apps can perform. YouT...

On Monday, an app called Hollaback! relaunched in New York City with an unveiling in Brooklyn by Council Speaker and mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn. Since its release in 2011, Hollaback! has created ...

Today Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that within 12 months, he will exit as the company's leader. A special consortium at the company will work to find his replacement. And that person won't be...

Ottawa-based BlackSumac may not be the first startup to try and revamp the home security system, nor is it the first to use a crowdfunding platform like Indiegogo to make it happen. What this batch of...

Bitcoin exchange service Mt. Gox‘s financial troubles are even more worrying than anticipated. On Monday, GigaOm reported that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had seized $2.9 million fr...

The final shoe has dropped in the massive, wholesale re-organization of Microsoft which began this July, and saw all the department heads changed in an effort to focus efforts on hardware and services...

Greetings, Earthling. I come bearing glad tidings of the Hyetis Crossbow, a smartwatch with built-in mechanical movement and a 41-megapixel "life camera" designed to record your every motion and emoti...

Apple today opened up access to its iCloud for iWork beta to the public, following a period of testing which has seen the service gradually becoming more broadly available. Initially, only developers ...

In a surprising move today, Microsoft just announced that long-time CEO Steve Ballmer will retire in the coming 12 months. He will stay at the helm of the company until the board finds a new CEO. R...

Philippines carrier Globe Telecom is extending a previous unlimited access bundle it began offering last July, with Viber, to include five more messaging services: Facebook Messenger, Kakao Talk, What...

Slice, the technology startup whose mission is to organize all commerce data by tapping into the information buried in your inbox, has closed on $23 million in Series B funding led by e-commerce giant...

Taulia, a company that manages invoices and payments for buying organizations, has raised $18 million in Series C funding. Led by German investor Klaus Hommels and joined by previous investors Matrix ...

Flipkart, the largest e-commece site in India,has been likened to Amazon both for what it offers and its presence in the market. But it has one crucial difference: because credit cards are not that ub...

Modus III is a home for your iPad that promises to iron out tablet productivity niggles by giving your slate a laptop/desktop-esque workstation home. The workstation supports a 180 degree range screen...

Disrupt Europein Berlin-- the first time our flagship conference is coming to this part of the world --is fast approaching. We've got some amazing speakers lined up (with announcements of more still t...

Europe, here we come! Weve got another podcast for you, and this one is for our lovely European readers. This is the TechCrunch Europe Podcast, wherein we, European writers, discuss tech news, as well...

An industry has blossomed around people hungry for a quick hit of motivation. TED talks, Do Lectures and sites like Brainy Quote all exist to provide inspirational content for the time-strapped. GetIn...

So far, Obama is keeping his promise to create a truly independent review board over national surveillance policy. Today, ABC reports that privacy hawk and Center for American Progress fellow, Peter S...

Remember turning the corners of your class notes into flipbooks with a sequence of tiny drawings? iPad app Loop recreates the glee of watching your doodles come to life by making it easy to create fra...

A Restated Certificate Of Incorporationunearthedby AllThingsD today shows that Uber has closed$361.2 million in its latest round. It's unknown why TPG, who picked up 775,092 shares, paid a lower per-s...

Chill, the Kleiner Perkins-backed site where independent filmmakers and other content creators can sell directly to fans, has some new features for engaging those fans even before the movie (or other ...

RealScout, a new real estate technology company based in Sunnyvale, is the latest to join a growing list of startups operating on the premise that the tools we use to search for local real estate are ...

For the first time in American history, colleges could be judged on how their graduates perform in the real world and give the private sector a way to compete on a common metric. Later today, Presiden...

For the first time in American history, colleges could be judged on how their graduates perform in the real world and give the private sector a way to compete on a common metric. Later today, Presiden...

Here is a small but cool update to Google Search: Google's dictionary definitions - which you can invoke by using a query like "define crunch " - now feature significantly more information about virtu...

The software package that comes with the Form 1 3D printer, which I reviewed a few months ago, has gotten a much-needed update. First, the new software, called PreForm is now compatible with OS X, whi...

During this afternoon's earning call, Pandora executives said that they would lift for the 40-hour monthly cap on free listening that was announced back in February.Here's the full statement from Pand...

During this afternoon's earnings call, Pandora executives said that they would lift for the 40-hour monthly cap on free mobile listening that was announced back in February.This is actually the second...

Apple has acquired yet another transit mapping application reports Jessica Lessin, this time it's Embark, a Silicon Valley-based startup that builds apps for different cities to provide information ab...

Streaming radio platform Pandora just released its second quarter earnings, and it largely beat the street’s expectations. Total revenue increased 58 percent year over year to $162 million. The ...

Two. more. weeks.In just a little over two weeks, our annual Disrupt SF conference is rolling back into town, and with it, one of our legendary Hackathons.We've released most of the hackathon tickets ...

Let's not kid ourselves: We don't control the Internet, the Internet controls us. Any notions to the contrary are foolish at best, but a new Kickstarter project called Circle wants to help families fi...

TechStars alum FullContact has a new service for integrating contact information from business cards into all versions of Salesforce.com.With the latest version of the FullContact software, a customer...

TechStars alum FullContact has a new service for integrating contact information from business cards into all versions of Salesforce.com.With the latest version of the FullContact software, a customer...

Even if he hadn't founded the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle - the co-founder of Alexa and Thinking Machines - would still be a first-round inductee in the Internet Hall Of Fame. But with the Intern...

Yesterday HP reported mildly disappointing earnings, and after an earnings call that was more arequest for patience than a rallying call, investors sent the company's shares down heavily. HP is tradin...

Social planning continues to be a hot topic for developers, and the latest new service out of San Francisco is taking a different approach to the whole thing. Nudge, a mobile and desktop web app, crow...

Were here, San Diego. And it is sunny. And hot. We love it. Tonight, at 6:00, TechCrunch is taking over the Block 16 on 7th for an evening of good times and startup pitches. After sorting through over...

A new update for Apple's Find My iPhone app seems to have been pushed out a little early: It changes the icon to a flatter design more in keeping with iOS 7's aesthetics, but it also locks out users o...

A new update for Apple's Find My iPhone app seems to have been pushed out a little early. It changes the icon to a flatter design, which is more in keeping with iOS 7's aesthetics. Unfortunately, it a...

Microsoft announced new data from IDC indicating that Windows Phone is the second-most-used mobile platform in Latin America. It would be simple to dismiss it as a minor victory in a secondary market,...

Microsoft announced new data from IDC indicating that Windows Phone is the second-most-used mobile platform in Latin America. It would be simple to dismiss it as a minor victory in a secondary market,...

French startup Bunkr is focused on one simple task: killing PowerPoint. To achieve this goal, the company’s well-designed web app will help you collect visual content and organize it into slides...

One of the things that has confused and sometimes even upset users of third-party Facebook apps is when and how apps will post information back to Facebook. Over the years, Facebook has had to clamp d...

Appcelerator has acquired Singly, a platform that integrates third-party services in both web and mobile applications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Singly will soon start to integrate its AppF...

Gold is the new black.According to countless rumors and MG Siegler's sources, the gold iPhone 5S isn't just something we tech bloggers have concocted to keep this summer interesting. It's real.Bits an...

Google today launched the latest beta of Chrome for desktop and Android. This release marks the first time Chrome for Android supports WebGL by default. While previous versions of the beta for Android...

When ads look bad, Facebook, users, and advertisers all lose. So Facebook today announced a partnership to bake Shutterstock into its ad creator, allowing marketers to select from millions of free sto...

The launch of BBM for iOS and Android appears to be imminent, as BlackBerry has accidentally published user guides for its forthcoming mobile messaging apps to its own website: here (iOS) and here (An...

Do you spend too much time on Facebook? Why not administer non-lethal shocks to your body when you click over to your News Feed! Two Ph.D. candidates at MIT, Robert R. Morris and Dan McDuff, did just ...

Anyone who's ever gone through the ordeal of buying a house knows that it's an extremely complicated process. But now there's a tool designed to simplify all the work that needs to be done, called Clo...

The folks at MakerBot have been teasing their Digitizer desktop 3D scanner since this past March, but now they're finally ready to push it out the door. For $1,400, you too can scan all the little kni...

Former Windows President Steven Sinofsky has joinedAndreessen Horowitz as a board partner, according to an announcement he has posted to his well-known personal blog, "Learning by Shipping" this morni...

That's why Crowdtilt is today launching the first public version of Crowdhoster -- its full-featured, open source, customizable crowdfunding tool that will allow anyone to launch their own campaign wi...

Crowdtilt is today launching the first public version of Crowdhoster -- its full-featured, open-source, customizable crowdfunding tool that will allow anyone to launch their own campaign without havin...

India's budding democracy has dipped its toe into the digital waters, as the government launched a website allowing citizens to file Right To Information requests online. It digitises a popular legisl...

After securing Acer as its first major OEM deal, Pokki, an alternative Windows application marketplace and Start Button replacement, today secured Lenovo as its newest partner. The deal will see Pokki...

Cluster, a mobile photo-sharing app which helps users collaborate on albums with their friends, is today announcing $1.6 million in seed funding in a round led by early Instagram investorSteve Anderso...

Hot5 is just the latest in a trend of apps moving its users toward high-intensity interval training. The app condenses exercises into short bursts with little recovery time in-between. That means a da...

The Ouya Android gaming console is already out, but its competitor from BlueStacks is picking up steam in the development phase. The subscription-based GamePop and GamePop Mini will have titles from f...

New York-based enterprise startup Vidaao wants to handle all your company’s video needs for you. Thanks to its network of video producers, clients only need to write down their briefs — Vi...

Google has a patent application published today (via Engadget) that would make the standard system of unlocking a device much more intelligent, using a smartphone's built-in sensor to change your secu...

Coffee Meets Bagel, an online dating site that provides a friend-of-a-friend match every day, is now making matches nationwide.Launched in New York City in 2012, the startup is also today releasing it...

A new startup called Boxed, founded by former gaming execs from places like Zynga, hopes to change that, with a mobile app for having wholesale goods delivered to your door. The app launches today, an...

Post-Pebble's $10.2 million Kickstarter record, the smartwatch launches keep on coming. The latest wrist-affixed contender to step up for a slice of smartwatch pie is called Omate TrueSmart, and is th...

These days it seems like mobile gaming is entering a sort of golden age -- developers are getting ambitious about the experiences they want to create, and hardware has grown powerful enough to help br...

Nara, a Cambridge, Mass.-based recommendation service, today announced that it is expanding its service from restaurant recommendations to also include hotels in about 50 cities in the U.S. and Canada...

In a new patent filing published by the USPTO today (via AppleInsider), Apple describes a system for setting essentially an "Away/Available/Busy" style status for receiving phone calls on a smartphone...

NakedWines.com, the customer-funded online wine retailer, has raised $10 million in a third round of investment from WIV Wein International AG, a German group of direct wine-selling companies and foun...

Buy Me A Pie!, the cloud-powered grocery list maker for iOS, has finally made good on its promise and brought the app to Google's Android mobile OS.It also comes at a time when, having seen the iOS ve...

The German startup behind the Tadaa iOS photo-sharing and editing app, which has built up a three million-strong user-base, have launched a new flavour of photo app: Tadaa 3D lets you add 3D layers to...

Trying to raise $32 million via crowdfunding always looked overly ambitious. And indeed it has proved to be so. Canonical's Ubuntu Edge Indiegogo campaign to build a smartphone designed for converged ...

Part search engine, part movie recommendation engine, Tank Top Movies, backed by Telfonica's Wayra startup accelerator, lets users search across 18 movie services in the UK, add movies to a unified 'w...

Google has added a half dozen new travel and entertainment features to its personalised search app Google Now, aiming to capture the attention of the real-world consumer, such as a sports fan watching...

Alibaba founder and former CEO Jack Ma has joined UCWeb's board of directors as the company focuses on building mobile ecosystems in India and other emerging markets. UC Browser recently surpassed Ope...

Jimdo, a Hamburg-headquartered company offering easy-to-use tools for building websites, already seems pretty mobile friendly. Jimdo-powered sites can also be viewed in mobile-optimized layouts, and e...

For quite a while now, Google has featured Street View imagery from zoos around the world. Today, the company decided to highlight some of these image collections on its new Views site and also added ...

Today during its earnings call, a sober HP discussed recent progress in executing its five-year turnaround plan that remains in its early stages.HP had a difficult quarter that merely managed to meet ...

Wikileaks source Private Bradley Manning was slapped with a 35-year prison sentence today — the largest sentence ever of its kind. “It’s further indication that the Executive Branch ...

Two new fun facts today regarding America’s surveillance state: the National Security Agency was collecting hundreds of millions of communications up until 2011, but a military court stopped the...

The U.S. office of National Intelligence launched a new site today to promote government transparency in the wake of the months-long scandals surrounding the National Security Agency's surveillance ta...

Midweek, we're here for you! Our hump day tradition of the TechCrunch Droidcast continues into its third episode with your host Chris Velazco, myself and special guest Romain Dillet delivering some wo...

Chicago-based self-improvement startup Betterfly has been connecting teachers and students in real life for music lessons, relationship coaching, juggling instruction and just about anything you can i...

Zendeskhas unveiled Help Center, a business app that resembles standard WordPress or Tumblr themes andserves as a knowledge base in a format similar to Quora: It becomes more refined as people add com...

Foursquare, a company now focused on transforming itself into a source of local business information and reviews more along the lines of Yelp, is releasing a feature which it hopes will help to extrac...

Today HP announced its third-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $27.2 billion, down 8 percent year over year. The company earned $0.86 per share on a non-GAAP basis. The street had ex...

In Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" he postulates that one solution to the problem of poverty in Ireland is that the poor sell their offspring to rich people as food. In Patrick McConlogue's "Find...

Okkervil River's Will Sheff grew up playing games like Maniac Mansion and King's Quest, and as part of the release of his band's new album "The Silver Gymnasium," he's teamed up with Eyes And Ears' Be...

In this episode of my Foundation video series, I travel to Las Vegas to interview famed illusionist, magician, and entrepreneur David Copperfield. David explains how he combines magic with storytellin...

With hashtags, trending topics, verified profiles, and now the ability to embed public posts on external websites, Facebook is making a big push to become a primary source of real-time news, both for ...

The Hyperloop isn't a new idea. In fact, the concept was so compelling that an engineer named Stephen Fairfax built one to carry phosphate ore back and forth through a mine. Because the entire system ...

YouTube multichannel network Maker Studios has agreed in principle to acquire long-running video distribution network Blip. While it hasn't closed yet and there are a number of issues to be worked out...

When Google launched Keep for Android and the web a few months ago, it was essentially a basic note-taking application. Today, the company is launching a major update to Keep that turns it into a far ...

Morphlabs has raised $10 million for its OpenStack management console that optimizes the hardware and the software with Flash technology for better speed and performance in cloud infrastructures.The r...

When LinkedIn acquired newsreaderPulse earlier this year for $90 million, it said the Pulse apps would remain and the two companies would instead find ways to work together. Today, LinkedIn continues ...

As a quantified-self junkie and a huge slob, I enjoy attaching all manner of electronics to my body. That's why I was excited about the LUMOBack. It's basically a position sensor that you strap around...

Nextdoor, the company that lets people create private social networks accessible only by the people in their local neighborhoods, is debuting its first native Android app this morning. Nextdoor CEO Ni...

Today, the ‘Internet glue’ service IFTTT gets a fresh set of Twitter triggers that allow users to build recipes that react to tweets, favorites, retweets and more. This allows users to ret...

StowThat, the winner of our Seattle Meetup pitch-off last month, is an Airbnb for self-storage. The self-funded service, which is launching in and around Seattle today, allows its users to rent out th...

Most of the million+ $35/$25 Raspberry Pi microcomputers shipped to buyers to-date have been helping U.S.- and U.K.-based makers realise their electronics' dreams. But the original mission of the proj...

Google has just released a version of Field Trip for Glass Explorers, meaning the Niantic Labs project that offers users fun destinations, tips, facts and other information about the world around now ...

Back in June, Tempo announced that it had raised $10 million in funding with the goal of becoming what founder and CEO Raj Singh described as "the valedictorian of smart calendar apps." Now it's unvei...

Box, an enterprise-facing cloud document and file storage service, today opened a new front in the online storage war by doubling its free plan to 10GB of space, and added a new, low-cost paid plan to...

One of the biggest white lies mobile gaming studios and other app developers often tell is that they don’t rely on ad spending to get new users. “It’s all organic,” is the comm...

Uh oh, BlackBerry, this is not a good look: BerryReview has noticed (via BGR) that around 48,000 apps available on BlackBerry World's mobile app store are sourced from a single developer. S4BB, a Hong...

Location-based photo and video sharing has been tried before, most notably by Color, but it doesn't mean that the topic is at rest.Clinch, an app that threads together video clips, photos, etc. based ...

Some consolidation in the world of fashion commerce: JustFab and ShoeDazzle have just announced a merger, which they say will create the world's biggest fashion commerce player, with 33 million member...

Some consolidation in the world of fashion commerce: JustFab and ShoeDazzle have just announced a merger, which they say will create the world's biggest fashion commerce player, with 33 million member...

Some consolidation in the world of fashion commerce: JustFab and ShoeDazzle, two sites from Southern California that both sell shoes and fashion, have just announced a merger, which they say will crea...

Tumblr is claiming that it was an infrastructure failure, and not a “hack,” which has caused seemingly random posts to appear on a number of users’ blogs. The issue, which was report...

High Tech XL, sited on what is an old Philips high tech campus in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, is currently on the hunt for its first intake of 10 hardware startups, for an up to six month mentoring p...

The long-running trial of WikiLeaks informer Pfc. Bradley Manning has come to an end. A military judge sentenced Manning to 35 years in prison. On July 30, Manning was found not guilty of aiding the e...

Tango, the mobile messaging service which is now attempting to transition into mobile gaming, has just released its first Tango-powered iOS application built in-house, with the launch of "Road Riot," ...

New York-based startup Unite US, founded by three members of the Armed Forces both past and present, announced that it has raised $2 million in seed funding from a number of private investors today. T...

The photo collaging app PicCollage has secured $2.3 million in seed round funding from 500 Startups, Floodgate Fund, Freestyle Capital, Quest Venture Partners, Sand Hill Angels, XG Ventures. PicCollag...

SugarCRM has raised $40 million from Goldman Sachs to help finance its growth, especially in Asia where the company gets a substantial percentage of its business. The company has now raised $119 milli...

SmartThings is looking for new ways to get customers deploying its own Internet-of-Things devices, as well as those of its partners. To do that, it's launching an online marketplace where users can bu...

LG looks like it might be about to spread its bets around the table, according to a new interview with Bulgarian LG communications executive Dimitar Vulev. The interview from Dnevnik.bg (via Engadget)...

Netflix is continually working to make its streaming video service more personalized, adding features that will make individual users keep coming back for more. The company's latest effort in that dir...

Microsoft previewed its Bing for Schools initiative back in June, an opt-in program for educational institutions that allows schools to sign up to offer a version of Bing to their students that drops ...

When I woke up this morning I said to myself, do you know what the world needs more of? Engagement marketing, that's what. Then I went back to sleep. But, seemingly, engagement marketing, where consum...

Jolla, the Finnish startup comprised of ex-Nokians that's building its own MeeGo-based smartphone platform and phone hardware has closed out a pre-sales campaign for the device it showed off in May. T...

Jolla, the Finnish startup comprised of ex-Nokians that's building its own MeeGo-based smartphone platform and phone hardware has closed out a pre-sales campaign for the device it showed off in May. T...

If you've dismissed purikura apps as a way to besmirch photos with blingies, hearts and other cheesy graphics, then Chiizu will blow your mind. Created by a media artist, an illustrator and a designer...

Sweden's Virtusize, one of a plethora of startups trying to solve the problem of how to try on clothes online, is rolling out in Japan via a partnership with Japanese online fashion retailer Megaseek....

Last month, our own Rip Empson broke the news that Google was working on Helpouts, a Hangouts-based marketplace " that enables individuals and small and large businesses to buy and sell services via l...

Facebook has just announced a partnership with Samsung, Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, and Qualcomm to launch Internet.org, a project aimed at bringing affordable Internet access to the five billio...

Facebook has just announced a partnership with Samsung, Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, and Qualcomm to launch Internet.org, a project aimed at bringing affordable Internet access to the five billio...

What is the forecast for tech? It depends on whom you ask. For some, its contraction. For others, the money is flowing.Cisco is in the tank and has layoffs planned, even as Microsoft mints new billion...

Percolate helps companies publish interesting, engaging content to social networks or at least, that's the goal. What it hasn't done until now is help those businesses take advantage of all the addit...

MeetBlarney, Fairview, Oakstar, Lithium and Stormbrew. The programs allow for far greater surveillance than the government has admitted to, and, importantly, detail how the government forces Internet ...

Convenience tech, developer assistance, and services for senior citizens were the big trends amongst the 45 startups that pitched on the record today at Y Combinator's Summer 2013 Demo Day. After conf...

With Bitcoin’s promise of frictionless transactions, particularly across international borders, it’s inevitable that a team would use the math-based currency to attack the global remittanc...

This week on TechCrunch TV's Ask A VC show, we have Menlo Ventures' Managing Director Mark Siegel in the studio.As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or h...

Powa Technologies, a UK startup that's been working on an integrated mobile payments and e-commerce platform with some augmented reality thrown into the mix, is today announcing its first round of out...

Third time's the charm. We're here (yep, still) at Y Combinator's Summer 2013 demo day, covering the wide range of 49 startups pitching their wares to a large crowd of investors, fellow founders, and ...

In fear of Big Brother, award-winning technology law blog, Groklaw, has decided to shut down. TechCrunch, however, will not be following its lead. There is always a risk that an abusive government age...

Just as the wheels of time continue to turn, the 49 new startups out of Y Combinator continue to churn. Batch One is now behind us, and a new group of startups are taking the stage. As per usual, Tech...

This video shows you probably the closest we'll ever get to seeing a physical representation of the Hyperloop. It is a 3D scale model made by a nascent company called WhiteClouds and it showcases the ...

Google Play Services, the company’s client-side library for allowing Android developers to easily use Google-powered features like Maps and Google+ in their apps, got a major update today that i...

Technical co-founder, angel investor and PayPal mafia don Max Levchin once wrote a blog post about a concept he called “high leverage individuals.”He described these individuals thus: R...

The Chromebook world is a weird one where apps trickle out slowly and in a manageable stream, with the most interesting ones costly coming from Google itself. The latest is software that was originall...

Having your dog or cat run away is pretty traumatic. And even if somebody finds your furry friend, they might not know where to find you. If your pet ends up in a shelter, chances are high that it wil...

It's that time again. Y Combinator's Summer demo day is upon us, and we're here live to bring the best and brightest new startups into your world. 49 new companies will pitch their wares (three of whi...

A recent posting on Apple’s Web Server notifications page issues credit to Ibrahim Balic, 7Dscan.com and SCANV of Knownsec.com for the discovery of two web security issues. Balic, you may recall...

Right in line with its usual update cycle, Google today released version 29 of its Chrome browser for Mac, Windows, Linux and Chrome Frame. There are no real surprises here, but just like most updates...

The Internet is broken. It is burning. Facebook and Twitter fiddle while it burns and we, the sapped members of the Internet class, watch the flames. Say what you want about the politics of whistleblo...

Accel Partners is leading a $1.8 million investment in Collegefeed, a service that combines crowdsourcing with social networking to connect students with each other and potential employers.Collegefeed...

Today in a keynote at Gamescon, Sony and Twitch announced a partnership that will see the upcoming PlayStation 4 console support the game-streaming service that has found a massive audience online. Th...

Have you had one of those moments where you wondered, "Damn, what did I actually do this weekend?" Or maybe where you couldn't think of the name of that awesome restaurant you visited last week? A new...

Adobe's PhoneGap mobile app development framework for bringing HTML5 hybrid apps to mobile devices is incredibly popular, but even though developers love the fact that they can write cross-platform re...

Between Rockstars and Red Bulls, Thiel fellow Ben Yu and Deven Soni believe there is a $45 billion market up for grabs. They’re looking to attack it with not another consumable drink, but rather...

It can't be easy defending the NSA's surveillance efforts. The task continues to be made increasingly difficult by the myriad revelations that continue to spill from the treasure trove of information ...

Just yesterday, Google unexpectedly announced the new YouTube app for Android, but it wouldn't say when it would bring these updates, including the ability to multitask in the app by minimizing videos...

Facebook has updated its Android SDK, bringing it in line with the feature-set it pushed out to its iOS SDK in April. Facebook confirmed to TechCrunch that all the new features being added to the Andr...

Groklaw, a decade-old law blog run by Pamela Jones, has shut down citing the danger of increased email scrutiny. "The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he kne...

We're in San Diego and ready to party.This Thursday TechCrunch is hosting our first Meetup+Pitch-Off in San Diego. We're taking over Block 16 and filling it with aspiring founders, hungry entrepreneur...

Reports suggest that Apple will introduce a cheaper plastic-bodied iPhone 5C on September 10. The 4-inch phone will supposedly replace the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S in the product lineup. While the c...

Samsung is more similar to iOS than to other Android makers in many ways when it comes to user demographics, new research from Flurry. Samsung users are more likely to use both smartphone and tablet a...

Drones don't have the best reputation on the subcontinent and in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, sandwiched between war-torn countries of Pakistan, Kashmir, and Nepal, villagers no doubt harbour susp...

Google acquired Waze and it seemed obvious the purchase was about making Maps better. Today, Maps did indeed get a little better thanks to an update to its mobile maps apps that introduces Waze's real...

Indian real estate startup CommonFloor has made its first major move since raising $7.5 million investment from Accel and Tiger Global in July: it is hiring air-conditioned hatchbacks, sedans and luxu...

Drones are very fun, is something that I recently realized playing with a Parrot AR Drone 2.0 for the first time. But the image on the screen you see from most drone cameras is laggy, pixelated and ge...

Barnes & Noble can't stem the losses from its digital books and device division, as the Nook department saw revenues drop 20.2 percent year over year according to the company's just-released quart...

Online marketing platform SocialChorus has closed $2.5 million in Series A funding, bringing its total amount raised so far to $8 million. The San Francisco-based startup added a new investor, Windfor...

The company behind a successfully Kickstarted pressure-sensitive stylus called JaJa has launched another stylus crowdfunding project, called Nota, that's aimed at making scribbling on a tablet more pr...

Snapette, a fashion app for local designer shopping, has been acquired by the comparison shopping and daily deals website PriceGrabber for an undisclosed sum. This is PriceGrabber’s first acquis...

It used to be if you wanted to get food delivered, you had to pick up the phone and call a place. Then you could go online and place an order on the Internet. Now people will be able to use their phon...

Apple has had a new patent published by the USPTO today (via AppleInsider), and it's one that details an extension of multi-touch input that would take gestures above the screen, allowing for 3D manip...

Cleversafe has raised $55 million to invest in the expansion of its object storage business.This Series D funding round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from all major exi...

Rack up one more win for companies looking to overturn legacy enterprise IT with cloud-based services. Birst, a San Francisco-based startup using the software-as-a-service model to sell business intel...

Rack up one more win for companies looking to overturn legacy enterprise IT with cloud-based services. Birst, a San Francisco-based startup using the software-as-a-service model to sell business intel...

Mailpile is a relatively rare thing: a software project that looks certain to achieve its crowdfunding goal. The Mailpile Indiegogo campaign is less than $5,000 away from its $100,000 target, still wi...

Socialspiel, the Austrian social games startup founded by ex-Rockstar Games employees, has announced a small additional funding round, and with it a change of guard at the top of the company: Mike Bor...

Android users in China are becoming increasing avid consumers of mobile video, according to a new report from Wandoujia, one of China's largest third-party Android app stores with over 200 million use...

TiVo is unveiling a whole new family of DVRs today with more tuners, more storage, and soon the ability to stream live and download pre-recorded video to mobile devices outside of the home. The new T...

Wacom promised a standalone tablet solution earlier this year, to be revealed this summer, and now they're revealing not one, but two such devices. The new Cintiq Companion and Companion Hybrid bring ...

The Tesla Model S earned a 5-star safety rating, both overall and in each individual category, from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The company claims that the Model S ach...

Instagram has updated its brand guidelines to ban apps that feature either the word ‘Insta’ or ‘Gram’ in their names, and it has begun sending emails to existing apps requestin...

The plot thickens. British authorities reportedly destroyed hard drives in an attempt to stop the Guardian from disseminating stories about classified mass-surveillance projects. Guardian Editor Alan ...

Card slots. A bottle opener. Pepper spray. Defense against a .50 caliber bullet. Whatever you might need on the go, people are thinking of ways for you to integrate it right into your iPhone case.But ...

Zillow, the real estate listings juggernaut, priced its follow-on offering to its IPO at $82 per share. The company’s selling 2.5 million shares, or raising about $205 million. The $82 figure is...

The monthly Windows Phone report from the AdDuplex group is out for August, and is essentially a repeat of July's figures: The Lumia 520 is crushing other Windows Phone handsets, and Nokia is quickly ...

As one of the earliest multichannel networks on YouTube, Maker Studios has built a pretty big business out of putting talent first. Founded four years ago by some of the biggest YouTubers of the time,...

BotObjects, an intriguing 3D printing outfit that builds real, full-color additive prints out of multiple colored plastic filaments, has announced that they will offer free printers to select high sch...

Google today started rolling out a major new version of YouTube for Android. This update is one of the most significant for the service in a long time and introduces a cool in-app multitasking feature...

What's scarier than a 14-year-old girl choosing her sexiest Facebook profile pic? Maybe a 14-year-old girl inflating her resume on LinkedIn. Childhood used to be a time of self-exploration, but the In...

Nvidia went a little outside of its comfort zone when it built the Shield, a portable gaming device based on essentially stock Android with an integrated hardware controller. I wasn't sure what to mak...

Yesterday I ran estimateson Patch's revenue, yielding the point that, given the scope of the proposed cuts to its staff, the hyper-local news service does in fact have a shot at reaching profitability...

MyPermissions, a startup offering a suite of security protection and privacy tools, is today becoming the first service to offer live protection for users' Twitter accounts. What that means is MyPermi...

Matthew Panzarino has been a professional photographer, hobbyist chef, hardware tinkerer, independent Apple blogger, and most recently the Managing Editor at The Next Web. He’s has made a name f...

MyPermissions, a startup offering a suite of security protection and privacy tools, is today becoming the first service to offer live protection for users' Twitter accounts. What that means is MyPermi...

Nextpeer, an Israeli startup that’s looking to make every mobile game multiplayer-enabled, is landing on Android after racking up about 10 million monthly actives in its network on iOS. The comp...

For the past few days I've been thinking about the remarks VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger made in aNetwork Worldinterviewlast week....

GoDaddy is acquiring San Francisco-based local business data provider Locu, the companies are announcing today. The startup, founded at MIT in 2011, is currently being used by over 30,000 businesses, ...

While we normally focus on flagship hardware on TC these days, I thought this new Olympus tough camera - an upgrade to the TG-1 released last year - was interesting enough to feature. Why? Because it'...

Today Microsoft announced that Skype integration inside its Outlook.com email service is now live and out of preview in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, Brazil and Canada.The combination of Skype ...

Apple is going to ship new iPhones next month two different new variants, including a "low-end" and a "high-end" variant, according to a new Wall Street Journal report today. At this stage, we've see...

In 2009, Microsoft launched its own version of QR codes called Microsoft Tag. Back then, QR codes were the hot new thing, but the reality, of course, is that they never caught on with consumers. Today...

University of Toronto-founded interaction design startup Whirlscape has made its beta available to the general public today, after a closed trial period following its successful Indiegogo funding camp...

Danish startup Wallmob is introducing its new mobile point-of-sale specific iPad stand that's designed to combine the best of both portability and centralized installation of hardware. It's an aluminu...

Note: After a rabid debate about privacy vs. security on our internal message system, Alex and I decided to take the conversation about the National Security Agency public. In addition to the video de...

Twitter wants to be a source for deep news discovery, not just first-hand accounts. So today it announced Twitter Related Headlines, which shows what websites a tweet has been embedded in on the tweet...

It’s Disrupt SF time again and were looking forward to hearing from some of tech’s most exciting leaders on our stage at The Concourse at San Francisco Design Center. You will see such lum...

TaskRabbit, the online marketplace for outsourcing errands and short-term work, is announcing this morning the launch of its service in five new United States cities: Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Philade...

Video distributors are still trying to build new ways for viewers to interact with the videos that they're watching online. The latest is AOL On, which is launching a new video ad unit that is designe...

Google has been making progress on the development of parental controls for its Chrome web browser, a feature which first showed up in test builds of the browser this past December. At the time, devel...

Samsung is readying its fabled Galaxy Gear device for a September 4 introduction alongside the Galaxy Note 3 phablet-sized smartphone, according to Bloomberg, and the Gear smartwatch won't be a full s...

The social bookmarking, web annotation and research tool Diigo is launching a redesign and refresh today. The site has 7 million registered users, but the boot-strapped company is seeking a path to pr...

Computer vision technology has come on in leaps and bounds in recent years. However crunching all that real-time visual data can require a lot of processing power. So, for lighter-weight projects, her...

After demoing it at Google I/O earlier this year, Google Analytics today launched its Tag Manager for Mobile Apps and Google Analytics Services SDK for Android and iOS. These tools, Google says, will ...

Barnes & Noble released new Nook Video apps for iOS, Android and Roku devices today, which brings its TV and movie-watching service to other manufacturers' tablets, including, of course, the unnam...

Google Glass has lots of potential applications beyond just making it easier for people to check out their Twitter feed without taking their phones out of their pockets. Mutualink is demoing one such ...

TrekkSoft, the Swiss startup that primarily offers a B2B solution to enable tour and other activity providers to promote, manage and sell their tours online, offline and on mobile, has raised a $800,0...

These days the world is full of gadgets that sync with services (and even other gadgets), but some people seem to think it isn't quite full enough. That's why digital marketing firm R/GA has partnered...

While immigration reform continues to be a hot topic of contention in the U.S., Teleborder, a new startup that's part of the current batch of YC companies, has developed a service that aims to tackle ...

Groupon's latest step forward in its ambition to become the default network for local commerce is taking the company into ad tech waters. Today, it is launching the Groupon Partner Network, a new plat...

Join.me, an online meeting service from LogMeIn which serves as a more lightweight alternative to traditional services like Cisco's WebEx or Citrix's GoToMeeting, is adding a trio of features designed...

As low internet penetration stifled Facebook's early growth in emerging markets in 2011, Indian startup U2opia developed an SMS-like system for users to post messages and read notifications by navigat...

Tonight, tickets to Disrupt SF jump from $1,995 to $2,995. That means you have about 18 hours to take advantage of our early bird deal, which gets you three days of fun in the SF sun, parties and chat...

After a parliamentary inquiry, Germany has clarified its position on Bitcoin. The federal ministry of finance recognized Bitcoins as “units of account” — the cryptocurrency should th...

Ask.fm, a social network startup built around a Q&A format which has a predominantly teenage user-base, has announced changes to its safety policy after completing an internal audit. This follows ...

Once upon a time, Good Old Games started life as a way for users to buy vintage games without DRM, trading on the willingness of companies like Ubisoft to offer up back catalogue titles without their ...

While there has been quite a lot of discussion about how Facebook may be losing its cache among younger users who are going elsewhere for their social media kicks, today LinkedIn made a bold move to s...

Fresh off GitHub's Crunchie award for "Best Overall Startup", we're pleased to announce that its co-founder and CEO Tom Preston-Werner will join us at Disrupt SF 2013.Preston-Werner founded GitHub in ...

Two pieces of big news today for online real-estate juggernaut Zillow. The company is announcing another acquisition, New York listings site StreetEasy, for $50 million in cash. And it has also applie...

Organizations need better tools for managing their product development, and the legacy options that they have today aren't well positioned for today's distributed teams or agile workflows. Jama Softwa...

The rising tide of Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites continues to lift enterprise boats: today, Falcon Social, a social media management platform based out of Copenhagen, announced a 6 mi...

Whether you like the company or not, people are snapping up Beats Electronics' wares left and right. It's no surprise then that Beats is looking to branch out into some new frontiers, and it may not w...

Yahoo's email service in China has shut down, with a note on its log-in page asking users to transfer their accounts to Alibaba's Alimail. The closure of Yahoo China email was announced on April 18 an...

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0, while having a numerically challenging name, is a slick little guy that's not too big, not too small, but just right. Still, is that enough to compete with not only the i...

Patch, AOL’s hyperlocal news project, is undergoing steep layoffs as it aims for profitability by the end of the year. Leaked memos detail Patch’s revenue both in its lower reaches, and wh...

If I were ranking startups based on how much I value their services, Homejoy would place pretty darn near the top every month or so, one of their cleaners comes by my apartment and in two or three ho...

Furniture is probably the last thing on the mind of most open source proponents but now it doesn't have to be. OpenDesk is a free, open source line of furniture that you can make yourself or order una...

When it comes to the tech conference circuit outside of Silicon Valley, Canada is probably not top of mind for most people, but I've got a feeling that's slowly changing. Last week, Vancouver hosted t...

This week Facebook's ban-bot went berserk; Github went down; and all Google services collapsed for a few minutes, taking 40% of the Internet with them. Just another week on the Internet, then. We love...

"Gold? All over?" M asks James Bond upon hearing how Jill Masterson died in 1964's Goldfinger. While Bond goes on to explain that the gold coating on Ms. Masterson caused her to die of "skin suffocati...

Earlier this week, security researcher Khalil Shreateh discovered a Facebook bug that allowed a hacker to post on anyone's wall, even if they weren't that person's friend. While he was able to prove t...

The partner of Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who published classified information on U.S. government surveillance, was detained for 9 hours in London’s Heathrow Airport. On Sunday morning, Dav...

Take a step back from what Rift does and consider where it does it. What do you see? A hulking PC at a desk powering it and its games. Oculus Rift's problem is essentially that it's a peripheral for a...

It's cliched, overplayed, and the obvious new normal: mobile is the big, fundamental force driving consumer tech. Yes, we all know that, but even taking a few steps back for a minute, we should stand ...

Hoping to address the software developer skills crisis choking Australia's startup ecosystem,Learnable.com is giving away $10 million in credits to high school students to access its library of web de...

Hoping to address the software developer skills crisis choking Australia's startup ecosystem,Learnable.com is giving away $10 million in credits to high school students to access its library of web de...

Minority Report was an enjoyable action flick, but it may hold the blame for getting the idea stuck in our collective heads that 3D gesture control is the next frontier for computing. The Kinect from ...

The Nook Simple Touch GlowLight is one of the best e-readers on the market. It has a very nice form and a great screen. And now it's also the cheapest of its kind. B&N just announced a $20 price c...

Some new developments this weekend in the case of 12 people in the UK who want to sue Google for secretly tracking their online activity by working around privacy settings in Apple's Safari web browse...

Many people in tech believe that VCs slow the pace of their investing during the summer, especially in August. We wanted to verify this using the CrunchBase dataset by comparing deals over the past fe...

The new way of the world for most web software development is the assembly of applications from cloud based APIs. Developers are saving loads of time by pulling in various cloud services and focusing ...

The great thing about CrunchWeek is that when a few of us writers gather to muse about the most interesting stories from the past seven days in tech news, it's never the same thing twice. It's like th...

DO-RA is a personal dosimeter-radiometer for measuring ionizing radiation that plugs into a smartphone and works in conjunction with an app to allow you to quantify your exposure to background radiati...

Startups could face a "death sentence" one year ban from fundraising if they violate awkward new general solicitation fundraising rules, AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant wrote in a letter to the SE...

In 2010, had you suggested to the smartest Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors that LinkedIn would have a larger market value in 2013 than Groupon, Zynga or Twitter, you would have been laughed...

Startup Formvertise is committing financially to the effectiveness of its mobile ad campaigns.It's is actually a spinoff from another company we've covered, Adlibrium, which offered mobile marketing t...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor turned what seemed like a slow news week into a tour of emergent hardware and big tech ideas. A Down-Under vis...

Five years ago, I noticed a growing gap between angel and ventureinvesting. Venture was getting bigger and writing bigger checks,while angel checks were getting smaller and their process was becoming ...

The CEO of Waywire -- the startup co-founded by Newark mayor and Senate candidate Cory Booker -- is stepping down, TechCrunch has learned. The resignation comes as the company is in the midst of a str...

"The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body," William S. Burroughs once said in a Nike commercial, of all places. But things haven't worked out that way, at least not ...

Smart pedometers are just the beginning. Sensors of all kinds are emerging to track the way we move, what we do at home and the way we sleep. Last week, I wrote about a Helsinki-based company called B...

"Democratizing venture capital" sounds great until equity crowdfunding fills startup financing rounds with amateur angels who don't add value. So while other funding platforms open the floodgates to a...

21st Century Fox has invested $70 million in youth-focused media company Vice, giving Fox a 5 percent stake in the company and valuing Vice at $1.4 billion, according to a report in the Financial Time...

When Ashton Kutcher was first tapped to play Steve Jobs in the movie Jobs, which opened in theaters today, I was nervous. Mostly for Ashton.In addition to being a friend, I'm also Ashton's fan, and ce...

Irked that the government lied to you about the privacy abuses of the National Security Agency (NSA)? You're not alone.Today, Rep.Jim Himesof Connecticutpublished a statement on the recent revelation ...

I am a college student in a field that traditionally offers unpaid internships. If you were to ask me two years ago to work for a big-name publication with no pay, I would have jumped at the chance.Bu...

Flywheel is growing fast, doubling its number of rides over just the last two-and-a-half months. And with new funding in place, it's looking to enter new markets to provide a way for passengers to hai...

In a must-read post for the tech industry, Twitter experience designer and serial startup founder Paul Stamatiou writes: "Android is Better." His op-ed serves as something of a wake-up call for the in...

In this week's episode of Ask A VC Floodgate's co-founding partner Ann Miura-Ko joined us in the studio.Miura-Ko and I chatted about her role at Stanford, where she is a lecturer in the school of engi...

I'll just throw this out there right now: I am known around TechCrunch for making, let's say, unwise purchasing decisions. Whereas my problem stems mostly from making those choices without much foreth...

Timed contrition has a certain air of the false. Today Rep. Pelosi of California stated that she found a report on the National Security Agency's history of massive, continuing privacy infractions to ...

It's almost here.In less than a month, our Disrupt conference returns to San Francisco and with it, one of our legendary Hackathons.We've released two big batches of Disrupt SF Hackathons tickets so ...

Detroit's startup row just got a new tenant. Housed in the recently renovated Broderick Tower, Grand Circus just set up shop with the stated goal of elevating the Detroit tech community. The 15,000 sq...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific. Like us on Facebook at Facebook.com/GillmorGang...

Startup Alley is the loud and boisterous marketplace of Disrupt. Young companies, huddled around cocktail tables demoing their wares, are vying for attention and a spot on the Disrupt stage. All of th...

A new mobile app for iPhone calledCanvslywants to encourage parents to photograph, save and share their children's artwork by snapping pictures of it with their phone. Yes, just like direct competitor...

Sometimes it's summer, and instead of real news like the introduction of a new and improved Sphero robotic ball, we hear a lot of news prediction. Will Elon Musk's high-speed train idea, Hyperloop, ev...

ShopAdvisor has closed a $5 million investment round led by Pittco Capital Partners, with participation from Seavest Capital, Rationalwave Capital Partners, and the Boston-based investors Rob Soni and...

Facebook doesn't want you to ever leave its apps, not even to switch what song you're listening to. So it's began letting its Android beta testers control Spotify, Google Play Music, Pandora, Rdio fro...

Facebook doesn't want you to ever leave its apps, not even to switch what song you're listening to. So it's began letting its Android app beta testers who've enabled Home to control Spotify, Google Pl...

OK, so there are now Ubers-for laundry, house cleaning, dog walking, and I’ve heard rumors of an Uber-for-pedicures, although I cannot confirm at this time that such a thing exists. But, in anot...

Glympse -- an app that lets users chart their location on a map and then share their location and those trips with others -- has grown its business by trying to make itself as ubiquitous as possible, ...

Commercial catchphrases like "I've fallen and I can't get up" have become the stuff of legend, but it's not funny when one of your grandparents have been in that same situation.University of Waterloo ...

E-readers, such as the Kindle and the Sony Reader, were a novelty five years ago. But they are already on their way out. Display manufacturer E Ink Holdings reported its quarterly earnings and sales a...

Tablets! They're everywhere you look, and fast replacing PCs, which are suffering dwindling sales. But just because tablets are rising in popularity doesn't mean enterprise IT departments should go al...

Bitcoin startup Lamassu Bitcoin Ventures, the makers of a Bitcoin ATM which promises to eat your paper (fiat) money and spit Bitcoins into your digital wallet in return, have funded their initial prod...

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong held another conference call for Patch employees today, and after what was likely the worst week to be working at the hyper-local news venture following the previous all-hands ca...

Adioso, the flight search engine for flexible travelers, has hired former Jetstar head of strategy Azim Barodawala as its CEO. The Melbourne-based startup is getting ready to raise new capital as it p...

Toward the end of June, 3D printing companies Stratasys and MakerBot confirmed what TechCrunch had already uncovered, the former would be acquiring the latter for $403 million (or 4.7 million shares) ...

What's weird about reporting on the potential introduction of smartphone watches is that they actually aren't anything new every few years it seems some OEM comes up with a wrist-mounted phone that m...

Netherlands-based startup Gramble World, which operates a mobile social gaming and entertainment network which lets gamers nominate charities to receive a cut of their in-game payments and ad views, h...

In a new report released this morning, mobile analytics firm Flurry took a deep dive into the different types of people, or demographic segments, which skew more heavily toward iPhone or iPad. Some of...

Apple is apparently stepping up its China operations, according to a number of new job postings found on LInkedIn by the Wall Street Journal today. The company has listed nearly 300 openings on the pr...

A little more state-specific financial regulatory hot water for Square, the hot mobile commerce startup: it has been fined $507,000 by Florida's Office of Financial Regulation for operating a payment ...

Restorando, a startup offering reservation tools to restaurants in Latin America, is announcing that it has raised $13.3 million in Series B funding.The round was led by Flybridge Capital Partners, wi...

Today the Washington Post reported documents demonstrating that the NSA breaks privacy laws thousands of times each year. Consider this the conclusion of what was the last-ditch argument put forth to ...

Being a startup means believing in your dreams, and Southeast Asia needs dreamers, say incubators. 500 Startups, for one, is keen to sell hope to the growing communities of startups in Southeast Asia,...

Coinbase has added SMS commands to their already user-friendly Bitcoin wallet and purchasing systems. The system, which uses simple commands (qr $100 will make a QR code for a $100 withdrawal from you...

According to documents obtained by The Washington Post, the National Security Agency broke its own privacy rules thousands of times per year. Many of the violations seem like unintentional infractions...

Can too much information drive you crazy? I'm about to find out. As we struggle to adapt to the mobile age, digital detoxes have become a trend. But I wanted to see what true toxicity feels like. So I...

A week after AOL (which owns TechCrunch) announced that it's acquiring video ad company Adap.tv for $405 million, we drove down to the company's office in San Mateo to speak to co-founders Amir Ashken...

As iOS and Android have matured, the mobile ad units on both platforms have had to evolve, becoming richer and more interactive. The tiny banner ads that earlier mobile advertising startups like Googl...

InteraXon, the Toronto, Canada-based company behind the Muse headset for thought-controlled computing, today announced that it has raised a $6 million Series A round from a number of prominent investo...

Birchbox, a pioneer in the field of subscription e-commerce, said that its model of letting men and women sample personal care products and then up-selling them to buying the full products in an e-com...

Gif.me is a new Chrome extension that allows users to store and share gifs they find on the internet with nothing more than a right click. It's wonderful. ...

About one year after launching and becoming a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist, apartment rental startup Zumper is expanding beyond just New York City, San Francisco, and Chicago to open up nationally. Alo...

CareCloud has followed up the $20 million that it received in June with a new $9 million investment from Adams Street Partners. The new investment brings its total funding to $55 million.The oversubsc...

This morning Google admitted that it had yanked access to YouTube from Microsoft's brand new Windows Phone application. This came fewer than 50 hours after the launch of the application. Windows Phone...

Apsalar, which offers mobile ad buying and targeting tools, has raised $9 million in Series B funding.The company launched in 2010, and CEO and co-founder Michael Oiknine told me it started out by off...

The GlassUp, an ambitious Indiegogo project that wanted to take the concept of Glass and make it more about passive consumption of content than about privacy-treading recording, video and photography,...

It was hovering. Just sitting there. The livery was different. A black body with different color blades. Something was clearly different about this Parrot A.R. Drone 2.0. It wasn't as colorful as the ...

Perch for iOS wants to help businesses build a persistent video portal between their offices to help teams work together more effectively. The service originally started out as an asynchronous video c...

It's been a crazy 36 days since Plug started its Kickstarter campaign. First, Plug is now called Lima due to some trademark issues. But everything else stays the same. The $69 adapter will seamlessly ...

Gigwalk has a new Android app that 400,000 people have signed up to use so they can get temporary work for doing all the jobs that come to the crowdsourced mobile workforce marketplace....

Gigwalk, until now an iPhone-only service,has launched anAndroid version of its app,which posts crowdsourced jobs for the mobile workforce marketplace. Now the400,000 Android users who had signed up i...

Restaurant discovery apps have become increasingly simple, all the better to cater to diners rendered indecisive by low blood sugar. UrbanSpoon's signature gimmick is serving up new listings with a sh...

News broke that Apple had acquired Matcha, a video programming recommendation site, earlier this week. It's not surprising, despite the company's relative unknown status and small amount of total fund...

In a world where tweeting is the new texting, there are some folks out there who want to broadcast their thoughts - but with an acceptable level of security. That's where Trsst comes in. It is, in sho...

Clothing sales can be awesome, but they can also mean racks on racks of ugly shirts that no one wanted to buy. While some customers will scoop a deal, inevitably someone gets stuck with a bunch of unw...

Facebook is testing a way to make paying with a credit card easier, but it works with PayPal, not against it as AllThingsD wrote. The feature pre-fills credit card and billing info for making easier p...

Today Google confirmed that it has blocked the new YouTube app for Windows Phone. Yesterday, the day after it was released, users reported issues regarding playback within the application. Those error...

Facebook mistakenly disabled the apps and accounts of a number of platform developers for several hours on Tuesday. They were accidentally included in a dragnet of malicious spam apps. Today it apolog...

While polls consistently show that Americans overwhelmingly favor the tech industry’s #1 legislative goal, comprehensive immigration reform, I wondered if I could also get them to agree to a hor...

New Haven-based startup and current Y Combinator Summer 2013 participant Panorama Education is looking to address a major pain point for educators, students and parents around school with its polling ...

Today Microsoft announced that Skype will come installed in Windows 8.1, likely helping the communications service that was purchased for $8.5 billion grow more quickly. The move immediately causes so...

Today in our continuing series entitled "Robots That Will Eventually Drink The Liquid From Your Eyeball In Your Sleep" we present the STAR.V3, a superfast, 3D-printed robot that can squeeze itself dow...

ClassDojo, software for tracking classroom behavior and incentivizing students, has updated its mobile app to allow teachers to access all the desktop features from a mobile device. Now teachers can u...

Finish started out as a project by 16-year-old Ryan Orbuch and Michael Hansen. They were just two guys, trying to get through the 10th grade. But the simple task management app has come a long way in ...

U.K.-based marketing startup 4th aspect has topped up its seed-funding, closing a new investment of 400,000 from Angel CoFund, Rivers Capital Partners & Tweed Renaissance Investors Capital. This e...

Starting today, all the data developers write to unstructured storage on Google's Cloud Platform will now be automatically encrypted on Google's servers. Google already encrypted data that was written...

Weve written a lot about Donna, the mobile personal assistant app from Khosla Ventures-backed startup Incredible Labs So why not write some more? Its been about six weeks since Donna launched to the p...

Minneapolis-based Red Stamp, a social commerce company best known for its mobile greeting cards app which competes with the likes of Apple's Cards app, Sincerely, and Shutterfly's Treat, among others,...

Yesterday we reported how Twitter was testing out a new Trending box for TV programs to run at the top of your timeline; today we've spotted a test for yet another new feature: alerts for live events ...

Yesterday we reported how Twitter was testing out a new Trending box for TV programs to run at the top of your timeline; today we've spotted a test for yet another new feature: alerts for live events ...

Montreal-based startup Frank & Oak has made good progress since its launch in February 2012, quickly ramping up to over 700,000 users in total, with around 75 percent of that business coming from ...

The 10 U.K.-based startups that will be joining the Wayra UnLtd 'social startup' academy in September have been named. Each will get an average of 40,000 in funding, plus all the usual mentoring and b...

KinderTown, a startup whose app store for parents points users to the top educational apps for children, has been acquired by Demme Learning, an independent publisher of educational materials, includi...

Kiip, a startup that allows brands to connect with consumers through mobile rewards and contests, says it has received a strategic investment from American Express Ventures.The company raised an $11 m...

ESPN has added a few new features to its app for streaming live video on the iPad. The company's WatchESPN app now has what it's calling a "live toolbar" which will provide complementary info while vi...

Moonfrye, the startup for parents and kids founded by Soleil Moon Frye (best known as the star of hit Eighties sitcom "Punky Brewster") and former IAC executive Kara Nortman, just launched its first p...

Karl Mehta, the man who helped coordinate the technology response to Hurricane Sandy, has moved his attention to another emergency situation: India's decaying social infrastructure. He has personally ...

CafePress.com, a website where users can create and sell products using their own custom designs, is announcing a redesign today that President Sumant Sridharan said will simplify the product creation...

Ink, home to the Ink File Picker (formerly known asFilepicker.io), which lets developers integrate access to cloud services within their applications, is today launching its second product, Ink Mobile...

In just 12 months since being founded, Los Angeles-based Tastemade has carved out a place for itself as the go-to place for high-quality videos about food on Facebook. Now it's looking to expand onto ...

Card payment processor Stripe is now available in its first European country, the U.K. British businesses can now add card processing to their websites and accept payments in GBP, EUR and USD. After e...

Attachments.me, a service that helps Gmail users move their email attachments to the cloud to manage and share them from there, today announced that it has added enterprise cloud storage service Egnyt...

Facebook is going to be a means of payment for purchasing stuff via mobile e-commerce apps, according to a new report from AllThingsD. The social network will offer mobile shoppers the ability to pay ...

Dots is to the smartphone what Snake was to Nokia feature phones 10 years ago. The game is simple, addictive, and as of today, available on Android. The betaworks-backed mobile game has made quite the...

Apple has updated its App Store Review Guidelines (via MacRumors) in anticipation of launching iOS 7, and the new rules feature a number of changes focused on kids. For the first time with iOS 7, Appl...

Blue Apron, a service that delivers all the ingredients you need to cook a beautiful, healthy meal, has today closed a $5 million Series B round of funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with parti...

Here's a neat iPhone extension for macro photography fans that could also have a variety of medical and/or industry use-cases. The Illumoscope -- currently seeking $60,000 on Kickstarter -- is a case ...

Apple isn't known to be that bullish on NFC use in mobile devices, but a new patent application originally created earlier this year and published by the USPTO today shows it's thinking about the tech...

Hoping to trump heavily-funded and tightly-networked Silicon Valley firms, cashed-up Indian startup InterpretOmics will harness India's cheap skilled labour resources to develop a $100, mass market ap...

Swiftype, a Y Combinator startup that creates site search engines, has raised $1.7 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Ignition and several ang...

Another exit for an Israeli enterprise startup and a deeper move into Israel by one of the world's tech titans: IBM today announced the acquisition of Trusteer, a specialist in cybersecurity primarily...

Another exit for an Israeli enterprise startup and a deeper move into Israel by one of the world's tech titans: IBM today announced the acquisition of Trusteer, a specialist in cybersecurity primarily...

Another exit for an Israeli enterprise startup and a deeper move into Israel by one of the world's tech titans: IBM today announced the acquisition of Trusteer, a specialist in cybersecurity primarily...

Lenovo just posted its first quarter earnings, and for the first time, its smartphone and tablet sales have eclipsed those of its PCsits core product since its inception. The period ended June 30 show...

The Surface project is far from over. Today Microsoft announced that it is adding several international resellers and distributors of the Surface RT and Pro tablet hybrids. The move mimics what Micros...

There are plenty of productivity and self-motivation apps on the market, but Hong Kong-based startup Innopage wanted to create one with a sense of whimsy. iOS app Carrot's interface only allows you to...

App.net, the social platform created in response to the ad-driven consumer social networks (specifically Twitter), just announced that it has raised $2.5 million in new funding.The announcement came a...

Fashion GPS, the creator of a number of iOS apps and web services for coordinating the logistics of fashion week, has released a new app targeting the broader world of special events planning called E...

Tipbit is a smart mobile email inbox launching in the next few weeks that surfaces social networks, calendars and documents related to the topic or person who is the subject of the correspondence.In a...

Twilio, a company that helps developers build voice calling and SMS functionality into their apps, just hired up one of the people who helped make Skype huge. Tomorrow morning, Twilio will announce th...

Over the past several years, Los Angeles-based startup ZEFR has made a name for itself by working with content creators to make money off their videos on YouTube. Founded as Movieclips.com, the startu...

It's late afternoon on a Wednesday, and you know what that means (bonus points if you didn't cheat by looking at the headline)! That's right: It's time for another edition of the TechCrunch Droidcast ...

Newark Mayor and Silicon Valley white knight Cory Booker trounced his competitors in last night's primary election. He raked in four times as many votes as his closest Democratic competitor, Congressm...

Nary a soul on the internet can resist a good GIF, but Flipboard browsers on iOS devices have been deprived until now. Today Flipboard has hooked up iOS users with GIF support, a feature Android users...

Microsoft confirmed today that it has hired Jason Holtman to help lead its PC gaming efforts. Holtman left Valve in February for unknown reasons. As Neowin reported, he was known in that role for his ...

Enterprise is sexier than ever. As Andreessen Horowitz partner Scott Weiss aptly predicted in his brilliant guest post titled "30 New Franchises," there is an unprecedented opportunity to create new m...

Online textbook rental companyCheggtodayfiled for a $150 million initial public offering. Its proposed ticker symbol is CHGG.The company had revenue of $149 million in 2010, $172 million in 2011 and $...

We spend a lot of time on Founder Stories talking about hiring and culture largely because there is no secret sauce or fail-proof way that guarantees success. My guest this week is a serial entreprene...

Amazon's Silk web browser, which comes built into Kindle Fire devices, has received its first major upgrade since September 2012, the company announced today. Though there have been steady under-the-h...

Google is in hot water after its lawyers were caught claiming that Gmail users have “no reasonable” expectations of privacy. The short answer is that yes, Gmail users do have some expectat...

This week we learned that NASA was sending its own 3D printer into space to support the astronauts on the International Space Station. But NASA didn't build the printer. Instead they farmed it out to ...

Peter Deng built Facebook Chat, Groups, and Messenger as its Product Management Director for the last six years. Now he's going to execute the vision of Instagram's founders as its new Director Of Pro...

Apple shares (NASDAQ:AAPL) are currently up 2.79 percent to $503.25 a share in the wake of Carl Icahn’s lobbying efforts on Twitter. Yet, the stock performance of the past two days shouldn’...

Google today announced a number of search features that make it easier for you to find your own personal information through Google Search. The search engine can now find information about your upcomi...

Having a hard time accessing your SkyDrive files or your email on Outlook.com? You are not alone, and Microsoft says that it is working on the issue.The latest from Microsoft's Live.com status board(r...

Google is continuing to unify its communications mess today, with an update to its Google+ Android application, which among other things, finally kills off Messenger. Previously, Messenger allowed the...

As vonny drunk, I often find myself in the presence of a fine bottle of plonk that I would like to purchase again in the future. Thankfully, Drync, one of the best bottle scanning apps I’ve used...

Too time-strapped to get your grocery shopping in? Can't face another dinner made from polenta and rice crackers, the two remaining foodstuffs in your cupboard? London startup PocketShop feels your pa...

The recent launch of cheap Nokia devices featuring the proprietary S40 and Asha operating systems, and deals with India's four biggest mobile operators, have stimulated a growing appetite for apps and...

The recent launch of cheap Nokia devices featuring the proprietary S40 and Asha operating systems, and deals with India's four biggest mobile operators, have stimulated a growing appetite for apps and...

InstaEDU, the San Francisco based startup, has raised $4 million in fresh funding that it will use to scale out its online tutoring platform. The round, which is InstaEDU’s Series A, was led by ...

Google has spent a lot of time and human hours mapping some of the more remote areas of the globe with its Trekker program, and now users have a chance to go behind the scenes and learn more about bot...

When it comes to viewing and discovering new webcomics, there weren't a whole lot of places to go before Tapastic came along. That's probably why the site is growing quickly, now with more than a mill...

San Francisco-based startup Syntellia announced $3 million in Series A funding today, including investment from Highland Capital Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Middleland Capital and ...

Chronos, a time-tracking application for iPhone which launched at last year's TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, is rolling out its first major update today with the debut of Chronos version 2.0. Th...

Stand aside Yammer, Convo, Socialcast, Hipchat and the rest, and make way for another hopeful in the world of enterprise social networking: Stewart Butterfield, one of the co-creators of Flickr who su...

After much fanfare including a mundane video teaser, HTC just released the first part of their latest advertising campaign. Starring Robert "Iron Man" Downey Jr., the video spot is, well, memorable. I...

RichRelevance, a company that powers personalized shopping experiences for online retailers, acquired Precog, an analytics technology startup (formerly known as ReportGrid). Financial terms of the dea...

Haptix is a gesture-based input device for laptops and PC which supports in-air gestures -- a la Leap Motion -- but also interprets 2D gestures (such as pinch to zoom) made on any flat surface. In oth...

Alex Selig grew up with hearing loss, using hearing aids for most of his life. After studying engineering at Stanford University, he teamed up with Varun Srinivasan, a CMU computer science to build So...

Groupon -- one of the many players out there along with Square, PayPal's Here and others looking to get a piece of the action in payments services among local merchants -- is kicking off a new expansi...

If you’ve ever had trouble finding the right bra size, now a couple of iPhone photos is all you’ll need.ThirdLove, a new clothing brand under parent companyMeCommerce,has designed an app t...

Microsoft is making its Windows 8.1 launch date official: mark October 18 on your calendars, you devotees of Ballmer and Redmond. That's when the free update for Windows 8 users arrives in-store as bo...

Twitter is betting big on TV, both as a source of traffic and as a potential source of lucrative advertising revenue. And that's leading the company to test out new ways of bringing even more TV conte...

Payments gateway Braintree is launching a new service today called Marketplace, an API designed for mobile - you guessed it - marketplace operators. The new platform is already being used by TaskRabbi...

Location-based analytics provider Placed today unveiled its latest product, Placed Attribution. Inspired by Placed Insights and feedback that came out of the launch of that comScore-style Analytics pl...

StyleSaint, the L.A. based fashion startup that aims to tackle all three levels of the women's fashion ecosystem -- content, community, and commerce -- with its own online-only luxury brand, is announ...

Cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Windows Azure can be counted on to drop prices for commodity services. But rarely does the total cost of ownership (TCO) come into consideration w...

The luxury flash sale website Gilt has named Tracey Weber as its new Chief Operating Officer, effective September 3. She is the first to take on the position since 2010, when a three-year-old Gilt res...

Have you ever tried to film your favorite song at a concert, only to have someone block your view with their massive head? Or discovered that the only footage of an interesting panel discussion on You...

Ravello Systems went into general availability today with an emphasis on providig a test and development platform for enterprise apps.At the time of its $26 million funding in February, Ravello focuse...

Samsung is having a unique kind of contest, the company announced today, and it's not the kind where someone walks away with a Galaxy S4. The Korean smartphone maker is asking people to submit ideas a...

Get ready for the next generation of playing with your balls. Sphero, the robotic ball out of Orbotix that can be controlled with just a smartphone, has now grown up a bit, with the company launching ...

Online lending startup AvantCredit, which is co-founded by two YC grads who previously worked on a personal finance app but saw greater opportunity in providing loans online to middle class, near-prim...

If you're hankering to hurry up a Half Life-style future of eye-in-the-sky scanners keeping tabs on the comings and goings of human meat-bags you're going to need a decent quadcopter to carry your dys...

Thalmic Labs has picked up some heavyweight senior talent in its quest to bring the MYO gesture control armband device to market. Both are ex-BlackBerry, and both bring a lot of experience in the mana...

Analyst Gartner has put out its latest smartphone market report, and the Q2 2013 numbers show the inevitable finally occurred: smartphone sales exceeded feature phone sales for the first time. Android...

Analyst Gartner has put out its latest smartphone market report, and the Q2 2013 numbers show the inevitable finally occurred: smartphone sales exceeded feature phone sales for the first time. Android...

Apple has acquired video recommendation site, Matcha.tv, as competition for the living room from over-the-top players heats up. The acquisition was for a rumored sum of between $1 million and $1.5 mil...

If you have any doubt that BuzzFeed has published a crazy amount of lists over the years, well, check out the front page right now and click on the "Clock Mode" button at the top of the page.Doing so ...

Om Malik is good people. He is also as of today, after a cornucopia of Visas and a decade as a Green Card holder,an American citizen. For those of you not familiar with Om Malik, hehappens to be one o...

GSF, an incubator endeavoring to become a “TechStars” for India and the developing world, just graduated its second batch of startups covering everything from trip planning in South Asia t...

Just a month and a half after he was announced as the new CEO of Zynga, former Microsoft executive Don Mattrick is cleaning house. He restructured the top level of management in a move that will see C...

Today Ladar Levison, owner of the now-shuttered Lavabit email service, spoke to Democracy Now about his decision to close his company. In the interview, he expressed support of leaker Edward Snowden, ...

Twenty-twoBitcoin companies received a letter from New Yorks top banking regulator to determine whether they respect the current financial regulatory guidelines. More importantly, the authority wants ...

A startup called Lookboard is hoping to bridge the gap between e-commerce retailers and small-scale suppliers by functioning as an online wholesale catalogue. The site aims to simultaneously streamlin...

Digital media company Glam Media has raised $25 million in new funding, according to an industry source. (The company declined to comment.)My source said this is a "top up round" for Glam in another ...

We made sure to put on our trendiest hoodies and shiniest sneakers for this episode of TechCrunch Cribs, which brought us out of our casual hometown of San Francisco and into the heart of Hollywood. H...

Well, Windows Phone fans, you are almost home. Today Microsoft's YouTube application for Windows Phone will return to the platform's marketplace.At last, Google and Microsoft appear to have worked out...

In an excellent example of the Streisand Effect working its sordid magic, a group called Straight Pride UK has forced Wordpress.com to pull a story by student journalist Oliver Hotham that featured an...

Despite some initial freakout, the White House is out to quell rumorsthat embattled Director Of National Intelligence, James Clapper, will direct a new independent review group of the National Securit...

Facebook wants businesses to understand mobile better, so today it announced it will start sharing country-by-country mobile monthly and daily active user counts. The United States has 142 million mon...

A new level of transparency from Facebook will help the world see whether its mobile growth is entirely propped up by international users that don't earn the company as much money. Today Facebook anno...

A new level of transparency from Facebook will help the world see whether its mobile growth is entirely propped up by international users that don't earn the company as much money. Today Facebook anno...

Pinterest has launched what may be the first of several official "hubs" featuring content targeting a particular segment of its user base, with today's debut of a new "Pinterest for Teachers" site at ...

After a call with the AOL-owned Patch team included the public firing of Patch Creative Director Abel Lenz last week, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has issued an internal memo apologizing for the action and p...

GitHub has launched a way to see what is trending across its service, making it easier to filter by time period, trending projects, developers and programming languages.Eight times a day, the new GitH...

Millennial Media just announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Jumptap, a deal that brings together two well-known mobile ad companies.The acquisition press release describes the deal as ...

Today Yammer announced two new public, open source SDKs for its social enterprise communications service, one for Windows Phone 8, and one for iOS. Android, for now, remains on the outside of the Yamm...

CloudPhysicshas raised a new $10 million round for its service that collects and analyzes virtual machine data from data centers to simulate potential problems when adding cloud capabilities.The Serie...

In the pantheon of web-famousness, Worth1000 is up there with Fark and SomethingAwful when it comes to popular image sharing sites. With little of the crassness of 4chan, Worth1000 allowed users to co...

In the pantheon of web-famousness, Worth1000 is up there with Fark and SomethingAwful when it comes to popular image sharing sites. With little of the crassness of 4chan, Worth1000 allowed users to co...

Drippler, the makers of mobile apps for iOS and Android which serve as a hub for personalized news about your device, its features, as well as new mobile applications, is launching a revamped version ...

Washington DC based tech investor and entrepreneur Chris Schroeder is one of the smartest guys outside Silicon Valley. Formerly CEO of Healthcentral and of Washington Post & Newsweek interactive, ...

French later-stage VC firm Time Equity Partners is looking to raise a second fund to fuel its investments. The company needs $130 million (100 million) before the end of the year, according to Les cho...

Is Facebook going to be divided along class lines, like everything else in the world? A new report from AllThingsD's MIke Isaac makes that a distinct possibility. The social network is testing a VIP-o...

Today activist investor Carl Icahn indicated on Twitter that he has amassed “a large position” in the computing giant Apple. Following, in another tweet, he stated that in a conversation w...

Content discovery service StumbleUpon is getting a new head of product.Chief Product Officer Cody Simms told me he will be transitioning to an advisory role with the company at the end of August. Mean...

Twitter today announced its latest acquisition, along with a move into offering richer resources to attract better engineering talent to the company. It's acquiring Marakana, an open-source technical ...

Twitter today announced its latest acquisition, along with a move into offering richer resources to attract better engineering talent to the company. It has bought Marakana, an open-source technical t...

A class action lawsuit filed against Microsoft alleges that the company issued false statements regarding the performance of its Surface RT tablet, and did not fairly value its inventory of the device...

The all-seeing iDoorCam is a pretty ingenious little gadget. Designed to work with your current doorbell setup - it connects to the transformer that powers most in-home doorbells - this simple button ...

A new startup called eShares was formed to help private companies, as well as investors and employees, move beyond paper records for their shares and options. It does this by transferring their paper ...

Gasp! I would've had this post written 20 minutes ago, but I was too busy geeking the hell out.Tucked away in a single streetview image of what appears to be a mere police box, a newly discovered Goog...

When Arkansas-based entrepreneur and designer Arlton Lowry finally got the opportunity to teach a college class (one of his life-long goals), he found that the options for managing said class on the w...

Fitbit, a startup which makes a wide range of digital fitness trackers and health devices, has closed a $43 million funding round and added Softbank Capital's Steven Murray to its board, according to ...

One design trend that seems to have taken the web by storm over the last few months is long-scrolling sites. These sites, the most well-known being the New York Times's Snow Fall project, use advanced...

While you won't get rich running a single Raspberry Pi Bitcoin Rig, you can probably make back your initial investment in this ingenious little machine. RaspPi Bitcoin rigs are nothing new but Dave Co...

If you live in NY or SF, chances are you’ve heard of Sosh, the activity concierge that serves up things to do in your city with nary a search query on your part. Well, today, the company has rai...

Woofound, a Baltimore, Maryland-based startup, has raised an additional $2 million in seed funding for its image-based personality assessment platform for recommendations. Though the service appears t...

I suspect that you spend quite a large percentage of your life typing. Before work over email, on your smartphone during your commute, on your main computer at work, after work trying to find somethin...

Hitpost, the startup that’s building mobile and social apps for sports fanatics to connect and compete, just launched a polling app meant to help fantasy football fans crowdsource their picks. T...

GoComm, a Y Combinator startup, is releasing an app to streamline communication and task management during high-pressure events. With a passive news feed, easy login and task assignments, GoComm aims ...

It's been a long time coming, but user-generated local reviews site Yelp is finally getting with the program: today it is rolling out the ability for users to write reviews directly in its mobile app,...

Learning a language with the help of texts that were specifically written for learners is one thing, but over time, that tends to get boring and once you venture out to read "real" texts, you quickly ...

Springpad, a startup that helps users organize notes, links, and other content into digital notebooks, is announcing that it has appointed Jacqueline Hampton as its new CEO.Hampton was most recently v...

QNX, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of BlackBerry, announced some news today that reminds us that parcelling the company out could be among BlackBerry's best options as it considers a sale and oth...

In June 2014, astronauts whizzing by high above us in the International Space Station may be able to print a highly detailed plastic Yoda head or, barring that, important parts that they may need whil...

Chicago-based StyleSeek has raised $750,000 more in pre-Series A funding for its e-commerce recommendations service for lifestyle products, which is today primarily focused on men's and women's fashio...

Social travel startup, Minube, which focuses on helping would-be travellers figure out what to do when they get to their destination, has added a real-time hotel pricing and booking feature to its iO...

With its design contest model, 99designs seems to have set the example that other services either mimic or push back against. Now it's launching a new site, Swiftly, with a new approach for smaller jo...

In theory, Pinterest is a marketer's dream come true: 70 million users, mostly young and affluent women, essentially voting for their favorite brands, products and online content. The site, however, o...

Amazon continues to "push" further into the space of becoming a one-stop shop for mobile developers looking to make, host and distribute apps, and in the latest development, today the company's Amazon...

Gogobot just made it easier for its users to create plans together, rolling out a new feature on its web and mobile apps that will allow them to share things they'd like to do as they travel. The Shar...

Looker, a business intelligence startup founded by an early lead engineer from Netscape and LiveOps, has raised $16 Million in series A funding, led by Redpoint Ventures with First Round Capital, who ...

In a weird reversal of the current trend, Thai police officials are actually talking about their efforts to monitor their citizenry, according to the AP. Thailand's government and police have requeste...

Of all the IT threats facing consumers and organizations today, zero-day attacks are some of the most serious: by definition, security teams do not have patches in place for zero-day vulnerabilities; ...

Evernote has added another carrier partner as it continues its strategy of ramping up its international presence. Today it's announced a global strategic agreement with Telefnica Digital to provide on...

Evernote has added another carrier partner as it continues its strategy of ramping up its international presence. Today it's announced a global strategic agreement with Telefnica Digital to provide on...

Berlin-based startup Roombeats, which offers publishers and bloggers affiliate marketing opportunities via (rights-cleared) pictures -- and brands the chance to drive sales through click-throughs driv...

Rocket Internet's e-commerce properties continue their march towards new horizons with ASOS-investor and fashion entrepreneur Anders Holch Povlsen buying up 10 percent of Zappos-clone Zalando, while L...

Rocket Internet's e-commerce properties continue their march towards new horizons in all corners of the glob: in Europe, ASOS-investor and fashion entrepreneur Anders Holch Povlsen has taken a 10% sta...

While most messaging app developers are chasing each others' fluffy white tails further and further down the rabbit hole (i'm pretty sure there's a sticker out there that illustrates this point), Indi...

TradeGecko, the cloud-based sales management platform that we profiled in December, is busy building its product portfolio. The startup, which offers small businesses streamlined alternatives to tradi...

Tencent has had listed business entity in Singapore since May, although it’s denied rumors that it intends to list WeChat on the Singapore stock exchange (SGX). A China Daily report on Tuesday q...

AnsibleWorks has raised $6 million from Menlo Ventures for its open-source framework that has become immensely popular for its easy to use environment that simplifies the often mystical world of IT Au...

Sean Percival, who was most recently co-founder and CEO of children's clothing subscription startup Wittlebee, has joined online discussion site Topix as vice president of marketing.Percival left Witt...

"The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!"Ashton Kutcher passionately shouted advice at Nickelodeon viewers as he...

Some YouTube networks focus on specific vertical interests -- like gaming at Machinima or food at Tastemade. And some try to add a technology layer to the business, like ZEFR or Fullscreen. But at Big...

The company behind the .co domain has been working to associate .co websites with startups and innovation. Now its founders are trying to make it as easy as possible to start a business online with a ...

When Facebook announced in its second-quarter earnings report that 41 percent of its advertising revenue was generated by mobile usage, it was a watershed moment: The social company proved that it cou...

U.K. startup CloudZync, founded in June last year, has just launched a wallet app called Zync Wallet (on iOS and Windows Phone, with an Android app due later this year) that seeks to combine preloaded...

Today during a BuzzFeed Brews session with Ben Smith, New York Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner was asked why he didn’t use Snapchat during his infamous sexting campaign with half the single wom...

Clothing brands have begun using body-scan data to tweak their clothing sizes and to help customers find the right fit. But a new Kickstarter campaign is taking this method further by creating sizes f...

Microsoft introduced a laundry list of new features today for Windows Azure, including general availability of SQL Server AlwaysOn support, notification hubs and autoscale improvements....

The teenage brain is not fully developed, say scientists. This is relevant in a discussion about building companies that target young adults, especially if those sites are social media outlets where u...

Facebook's latest acquisition could help it connect users across language barriers. It has just announced that it's acquired the team and technology of Pittsburgh's Mobile Technologies, a speech recog...

We haven’t seen any groundbreaking updates to Google Drive’s productivity tools lately, but the company continues to regularly make small improvements to them. Today, it’s adding a n...

Extravagant entrepreneur know for his futurey projects has explained his Hyperloop project in detail to Businessweek’s Ashlee Vance ahead of publishing his blog post and holding his press confer...

Fitness is a very personal thing, so when it comes to the ever-expanding market of activity tracking gadgets, it always helps to hear what exactly different people love or hate about a given device wh...

Google's bug bounty program, the company today announced, has now paid out more than $2 million to security researchers. Since the program launched three years ago, the company rewarded researchers fo...

If you’re looking to hire a bad ass programmer, fielding resumes can start to feel like an exercise in futility. They’re good for quickly filtering out folks who are clearly applying to ev...

While Samsung and Nokia (and everyone else really) are locked in a sort of mobile photography war by baking elaborate cameras into new smartphones, Sony is apparently testing a slightly different appr...

Every year I’m given the best job a guy could ever want: planning hardware alley, a one day extravaganza of some of the best hardware I’ve ever seen. This event, which happens on the last ...

Google has added some new features to Glass in the latest software update for its experimental face-based computing device. There's a new video player with simple tap to start/pause, swipe to fast for...

Drew Houston is one of the few founders in the technology world who has been able to masterfully navigate the journey from being an MIT hacker to the CEO of a multi-billion-dollar company. Houston and...

In exactly 10 days, TechCrunch will arrive in sunny San Diego, hungry for burritos and fresh talent. And today is the last day to apply for the pitch-off.The TechCrunch San Diego Meetup + Pitch-Off wi...

Salesforce.com has pulled together several of its platforms to create what it calls the Performance Edition. The new service will combine the company's Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Salesforce Platfo...

Windows 8 is a bet on touch. However Microsoft's fortunes in the touch wars are unimpressive and perhaps even slipping.IDC estimated that in 2013, between 17 and 18% of laptops sold would sport a touc...

Facebook's on a mission to make mobile Pages more functional. Following a Yelp-ish redesign in April, iOS, Android, and mobile site updates coming later today add an integration with OpenTable to let ...

Microsoft has to remain relevant to hardware hackers. While they are necessary - no one can dispute the strength of Windows in the business world - they have, for the past decade, fallen slowly in est...

SoundCloud, the increasingly popular service for sharing all things audio, today announced that it is now deeply integrated into Google+. While its users could already easily share links to Google+ fr...

Mobile app beta testing service TestFlight is seeing steady growth, with considerable progress being made during the last 90 days in terms of new apps uploaded to its platform. TestFlight, which is no...

Path will now allow its users to share photos, videos, and more on its private social network, from a wide range of new API partners. Building on the success of its Nike+ partnership for sharing fitne...

Why do law firms spend, collectively, billions of dollars on commercial legal research databases, when what they are looking up is law which is in the public domain? How are these databases able to e...

LG held a promotional event in Seoul, South Korea where 20 people were injured in a race to grab balloons containing free certificates for the company's latest smartphone, the G2.According to the Kore...

Entangled Media, the startup behind the Younity app that lets you access all your content across multiple devices, has raised $3.54 million in funding from a star-studded syndicate of investors.The ro...

The march into Asia continues for Fab, the online design retailer that raised $150 million in Series D funding in June. Today, the company announced a further $5 million extension to that round from I...

Carrier-backed mobile payments initiative Isis is gearing up support for its mobile wallet platform ahead of the nationwide launch later this year. Today, Isis is announcing Chase has signed on to be ...

More and more, wearable computing seems like a very bad idea that will only serve to make it impossible for any of us to disconnect for any amount of time at all. In case you need further proof, take ...

Disconnect, the anti-tracking, anti-ad targeting startup launched by ex-Googler Brian Kennish and consumer rights attorney Casey Oppenheim, has more than 1 million people each week using its apps and ...

When I think of Birdseye I usually think of delicious frozen peas. Now, however, there's Birdseye the mail app, a simpler and more streamlined system for handling your mail.Aimed at the email grazer r...

A startup called Wanderu, pronounced “Wander-oo,” is hoping to become the Kayak of motorcoach and train travel, a sector of inter-city transit that does not yet have a leading ticket aggre...

The creators of lifelogging data-visualisation app Storica have turned to Kickstarter to try to raise 50,000 to extend their Android app from mobile to the desktop as a fully-fledged platform. Storica...

If you're in the habit of scheduling time off for key Apple product unveilings, it's pretty safe to book September 10. The date was floated this weekend by AllThingsD for a press event and official un...

Loverly, the Pinterest-style wedding search engine for brides, has been busy this year. After launching a mobile app which has to date seen over 65,000 downloads, the company is now adding even more f...

Google's Android app marketplace, Google Play, has seen significant revenue growth this year, fueled in large part by Japan and South Korea. In a new report released today by app store analytics firm ...

If you wanted to describe OneFineStay in a lazy way you’d call it a sort of up-scale Airbnb which caters to the luxury traveller. However, it’s rapidly shaping up to be a very different ki...

Apple's next iPad will likely resemble the iPad mini, and lose some weight and possible some girth thanks to the same touch-panel tech that made the mini so... well, so mini. The Wall Street Journal r...

Canadian startup and Ottawa-based company Shopify announced a big change to its business model today, with the integration of Shopify Payments to its online storefront platform. Traditionally, as with...

Wattpad, the Toronto-based social network based on writing and reading, has just announced a new crowdfunding platform called "Fan Funding" which offers authors on its network the chance to leverage t...

BlackBerry, the embattled Canada-based handset maker, today finally called a spade a spade. The company halted trading in its shares to announce what some might argue was inevitable: the company says ...

We've had apps to explore your cities like GetYourGuide, we had apps to track your runs like RunKeeper. Now a startup, Komoot plans to address the great outdoors with guides for cycling and hiking bas...

How do you make a splash in the heavily entrenched U.S. and U.K. mobile markets, which are dominated by Android and iOS? Release a Firefox OS-based device for just $79.99 off-contract and unlocked, th...

Right now mobile maker HTC has a brand name that stands for 'Has To Change'. So it's hoping a circa $1 billion marketing campaign -- starring actor Robert Downey Junior, of 'I drink your milkshake' fa...

French accelerator TheFamily has received an undisclosed investment from Index Ventures - although this is believed to be 'just under' one million Euros. The investment means Index takes a stake in wh...

Xiaomi‘s flagship smartphone, the Mi 2S, is the most popular phone in China, according to Chinese benchmarking company, Antutu. According to Antutu’s data on “active device volumes&#...

Inside View has raised $19 million for its platform that aggregates information and then adds it into a customer’s CRM installation. The round was led by Split Rock Partners, with participation ...

Founded in 2008, One Hour Translation is one of the oldest and largest online translation companies, with more than 15,000 active translators in 100 countries who cover more than 75 languages. The Cyp...

MyFitnessPal, a service that allows users to track their calories and share that information with friends, has raised $18 million in its first round of funding.This seems like one of those stories whe...

Electric bikes are becoming more popular as the cost to own one goes down, and the cost to own a gas-powered vehicle goes up. If you ask a true cyclist what they think of an electric bike, you might g...

I've been spending a lot of time with the Moto X lately (full review coming shortly), and while the spec sheet isn't to everyone's liking, it packs some smart features that I'd love to wind up on othe...

As a consumer, online-native luxury brands mess with my feelings. On the one hand I tell myself, "Hey, I'm a modern woman. I believe in the power of minimizing overhead!" But when push comes to shove,...

Pharrell Wu began doing math at age one and was trading stocks at age three. Living in the Philippines, Wu became bored with the math curriculum at his school and started Googling for hard math proble...

Pharrell Wu began doing math at age one and was trading stocks at age three. Living in the Philippines, Wu became bored with the math curriculum at his school and started Googling for hard math proble...

The Internet is not a perfect meritocracy, where the best ideas naturally rise to the forefront of the national conversation. It is easy to game the popularity of some ideas by exploiting the fact tha...

As the digitally connected world grapples with the dystopic reality that our overreaching governments are using tech tools ostensibly designed to increase our convenience to up their own, it's worth t...

Prior Knowledge made it to the finals last year at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco. They did not "wow" the judges but their predictive database technology for developers certainly turned attention to...

Fame. Riches. A colossal mountain of pizza. A room full of coders who have 24 hours to build the most mind-blowing thing they can.Sound like your kind of night? Come to the Disrupt SF 2013 Hackathon. ...

Senator Saxby Chambliss is either a blind war hawk or is deliberately misleading the public. Last week, after the National Security Agency had intercepted an al-Qaida conference call plotting attacks ...

Its summer here in Silicon Valley, and for my column this month, Ill try to finally polish and publish some of the old posts that have been collecting dust in my drafts folder. Usually, I try to make ...

There is a perfect storm of three distinct disruptive forces that has the potential to topple nearly every major enterprise software incumbent. And the traditional approach of dealing with technology ...

Two or three years ago, e-cigarattes were exotic. These strange sticks, their ends LED-lit and their owners expelling odorless smoke - "It's vapor!" - would look as futuristic as a Replicant's food in...

Something is amiss with the SEC rules about who is eligible to invest in startups. It doesn't look deliberate -- it is just an artifact of changing times and changing rules. But it's a bad artifact, a...

It's about time for a new iPhone and with the rumors about an iPhone 5S and maybe even a cheaper version getting louder, AllThingsD now reports that the next iPhone will launch on September 10. Apple ...

Welcome to a new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us TechCrunch writers together to talk about the most interesting tech news stories from the past week....

Don't call it a smart watch. The Casio GB line appeared in 2011 with little fanfare - it was up against devices like the Pebble in the public imagination and so an underpowered smartwatch was of littl...

The Pirate Bay (TPB), the torrent site that really doesn't need an introduction anymore, celebrates its 10th birthday today. To mark the day, TPBlaunched PirateBrowser, "a bundle package of the Tor cl...

Theres a scene in the 80s movie The Karate Kid when Daniel LaRusso discovers that hes actually learned how to fight. I'm willing to bet you've experienced a similar breakthrough. Here's the problem: w...

Last week, my company Directly closed a $1.75 million seed round using an inbound approach to fundraising. In past ventures, wed used the outbound approach that virtually all startups use identifying...

YouTube just wrapped up its first Geek Week, a celebration of all things geek. Besides featuring daily videos of things like slow motion water balloon fights, Neil deGrasse Tyson talking about science...

Today the Guardian reported that a change to section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) appears set to allow for the searching of communication information of United States citizens. Previously, sec...

You can get a little music from a lot of places, but Spotify is on a quest to be your omni-jukebox. It's already offers on-demand streaming and radio, and it's just launched Browse, a new way to disco...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Doc Searls, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor well, let's just say this show went to some very strange places. Kangaroo balls, Google auto-urinary services,...

Apple today announced that all of its developer program services are now back online. Apple's portal for developers, which also hosts its iOS and OS X beta downloads, went down on July 18th and a few ...

Microsoft is in a tough spot. Windows RT is all but dead in the water. But Microsoft has approximately a zillion and a half Surface RT tablets collecting dust in warehouses. And so Ballmer and Co. con...

This happens all the time. A founder develops a breakthrough idea and starts a company to build it. As originator of the idea, she works tirelessly to bring it to life by involving herself in every de...

The Angel Health monitor, besides having a fairly morbid name (you rarely see angels unless you're sailing down the river Styx), is actually quite cool. Designed to be a "developer's" health monitorin...

Twenty years ago Tony Hsieh was part of the three-man Harvard team that won the hyper-prestigious ACM Programmming Contest. Five years later he sold LinkExchange to Microsoft for more than $250 millio...

I'm breaking all the rules. I'm at a silent retreat for the week. No talking! My wife is two doors down. She said to me before we went silent for the week, "put your computer on airplane mode." It's i...

Bitcoin is now officially mainstream. According to BTC Geek, Bloomberg terminal users can now look up Bitcoin’s pricing history. Data comes from ubiquitous Bitcoin exchange service Mt. Gox as we...

Test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test. Test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test. Test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test. Test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test. Test, te...

Skolkovo, the much debated public effort by the Russian government to kickstart a startup culture inside the country, said it secured another 135.6 billion ruble($4 billion) commitment from the govern...

Lytics has raised a $2.2 million seed round from Rembrandt Venture Partners with participation by Voyager Capital for its platform that provides a Facebook-style timeline for customer intelligence.The...

The White House Press Corpsjust completely botched the one opportunity we had to learn details about the National Security Agency’s spying program, and the rationale for sweeping government surv...

Apple won a seemingly decisive victory against Samsung in its patent-centric court battle last year, but the legal back-and-forth is far from over. The Cupertino company asked the Federal Circuit Cour...

Since Betaworks acquired read later service Instapaper from its creator Marco Arment, the startup studio has been pretty quiet. But the first major update is now right around the corner. The web reade...

Over a year after the announcement Of Google Glass, many folks I talk to still seem to be misunderstanding what Glass can actually do. “It’ll be great for Augmented Reality!” they sa...

Over a year after the announcement Of Google Glass, many folks I talk to still seem to be misunderstanding what Glass can actually do. “It’ll be great for Augmented Reality!” they sa...

If there's one thing that sucks about breaking-and-entering it's that it's too difficult. Three enterprising young MIT students have figured out a way to make that easier, thanks to a 3D printing work...

President Obama said a review of the NSA could have come "without putting at risk our national security", and therefore, declared, "No, I don't think Mr. Snowden is a patriot" at a press conference to...

The road to big shiny success is often paved with quite a few failures. But for whatever reason, we in the tech press concentrate much more on stories about the big wins in the industry, and we tend t...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Doc Searls, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific. Like us at Facebook.com/GillmorGangOk Keith coming ...

The vast majority of malware on corporate networks arrives through the browser.Branden Spikes, the CEO of Spikes, believes that by virtualizing the browser and having it run separate from the desktop,...

Asus may have a hand in producing Google's refreshed Nexus 10 Android tablet, but recent remarks from the company's chief executive reveal that the Taiwanese company is turning up its nose at the pros...

President Obama announced a series of new reforms to increase public confidence in the National Security Agency’s controversial Internet and telephone surveillance program. The press conference ...

Amazon is working on a games console, according to rumors from Game Informer and backed up by rumblings we've heard at TechCrunch as well. Game Informer says we'll see the device by end of year, possi...

In the past few years, it seems like there's been the explosion of startups trying to convince local businesses to sign up for their marketing or loyalty tools, especially in the San Francisco Bay Are...

The Ubuntu Edge may be the future of the smartphone, but does it have a future? Nexus rumors abound for the next generation of Google's vanilla tablets and smartphones. Meanwhile, startups are hitting...

Siasto has received some more support to build out its task management service with $750,000 from One Asia Investment Partners,Y Combinator, Start Fund and other angel investors.Siasto has developed a...

The Wall Street Journal reports that President Obama will be holding a press conference to "increase transparency and restore public trust" at 3 p.m. Eastern today. "The president is expected to discl...

Today AOL confirmed that Patch will close hundreds of its hyperlocal news sites and fire hundreds of its employees. TechCrunch reported the coming staff and site reductions on Thursday.The move comes ...

Videolicious, which makes an app that allows users to easily create videos from their mobile phones, has been working to get more adoption from businesses. It's being used for employee training, by re...

Let me address this straight away: I don’t personally care for services which “help you better manage your Twitter followers,” because they tend to be used by those attempting to gam...

From the team behind SpaceSplitter, Pijon is a subscription service for college care packages. The service touts itself as delivering the perfect packages for students. It’s also an effortless w...

It's Friday in August and you know what that means: another episode in our semi-regular series entitled "Justify The Continued Existence Of Vine In The Face Of Massive Competition In The Video Sharing...

Google today announced that its Play store now features digital textbooks from well-known publishers like Pearson, Wiley, Macmillian Higher Education, Random House, McGraw-Hill and Cengage Learning.Th...

Because Carl Sagan once reminded us that we are all made of star stuff, there might be a few people who wish to go quietly into the night by sending their ashes into space. A San Franciso-based compan...

New hardware startup and Y Combinator Summer 2013 cohort member Senic is launching pre-orders for its first product today, a laser rangefinder like the ones that are sold in hardware stores around the...

One Today, the charitable giving app Google launched into pilot testing this April, is today publicly available to all Android users in the U.S., the company announced this morning. The app, sort of l...

We reported yesterday that AOL's hyper-local news service would lose hundreds of employees today, and now we have confirmation from a well-placed Patcher privy to the call that AOL CEO Tim Armstrong d...

Google ands its partners have been awfully busy with hardware launches these past few weeks -- there was the new Nexus 7, the curious Chromecast, and the Moto X -- but they're not done just yet. A new...

Pulselocker, a music subscription service and storage locker targeting electronic music fans and DJs, has launched its service to the web, following an earlier beta as a native desktop application. Th...

In its smartphone debut, Meru Cabs is targeting a more diverse group of users than just taxi customers: it's hoping to save people caught in a dangerous situation -- a necessary feature in a country w...

Canada's smartphone industry pioneer BlackBerry is giving a lot more thought to taking the company private, according to a new report from Reuters. The strategy has been tabled before, but CEO Thorste...

Earlier this week, Tribesports rebooted its business model with the headline-grabbing ambition to challenge the $250 billion global sportswear industry with what it's calling the "worlds first communi...

The Toon Hero app is aimed at enabling anyone to create digital storylines with some of their favorite characters from a variety of content owners. With an interactive interface, users can basically m...

Skimlinks, a platform which allows publishers full control over affiliate links and content monetization, has acquired InvisibleHand for an undisclosed sum. The latter has become a significant player ...

Described as a "context search engine", Tame analyses content from your Twitter followers or based on a specific search to algorithmically surface the top hashtags, the Twitter users most mentioned, a...

Sports New Media is sort of like the tech world's version of "Jerry Maguire". It's a hybrid media management and a technology platform, that works with athletes, sports agents and teams to manage thei...

Quantified selfers who are also surfers, skateboarders (or skiers/snowboarders) won't be feeling so left out of the tracking trend if this Kickstarter campaign hits its funding goal. Trace is a monito...

Wellington-based accelerator program Lightning Lab, which launched in February, announced today that four of the nine startups in its inaugural class have raised a total of $2 million in angel funding...

"We see the writing the wall" wrote Silent Circle in a message telling customers its shut down its Silent Mail encrypted email service. It hadn't yet received any subpoena or other notice to provide d...

Shift, a company that offers tools for running social advertising campaigns and for collaborating within a marketing team, has hired Paul Ollinger as president.Ollinger was previously vice president o...

Today on the Windows Developer Show, on which I was a guest,Microsoft's Bryan Tomlinsonannounced that the newWindows Phone App Studio had seen usage higher than the company anticipated, with 30,000 ap...

Beddit, a Finnish company that has long made sleep trackers for medical professionals, is looking to tap into the broad consumer market with a $149 sleep tracker that uses a thin-film sensor on your m...

To very loosely paraphrase Tolstoy, all successes are alike, but each epic failure fails in its own unique way. But here in the tech industry, we don’t discuss failure stories nearly as much as ...

The alleged email provider of National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has suddenly shut down, leaving just an ominous message its absence. "I wish that I could legally share with you the...

Ride sharing startup Lyft hit a big milestone yesterday,* reaching its one millionth completed ride about a year after opening up to the public. The company also continues to expand into new markets, ...

Not everyone can be as obsessive about journaling as, say, a lovesick 14-year-old or Samuel Pepys, but that doesn't mean you can't try. That's why Narrato is so interesting....

Anti-piracy agency Hadopi just broke a record. In less than three years, it has sent more than 2 million warning emails for copyright infringement. Warning emails are just the first strike in the R...

Patch, AOL’s hyper-local news effort, will lose up to 550 employees this Friday, according to a local editor at the group. Hundreds of sites in the network are expected to close in the process. ...

Earlier this year, Google pledged not to sue open-source developers over 10 patents related to MapReduce. Today, the company is expanding this pledge by adding 79 new patents to its Open Patent Non-As...

Google AdWords customers can now better target mobile device owners via an updated ad experience within the Google Maps app on Android, iPhone, and iPad, Google announced today. This news followsa rec...

Evergage, the start-up that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt New York in 2012 under the name Apptegic, has been quietly building its business for a year and is now launching a freemium model to help com...

The global PC market is shrinking, and continues to trend downward according to recent numbers, which means there are a lot of concerned device-makers looking around for what to do next. Acer is one o...

Baseball season is in full swing and football is around the corner, but there's one other competitive sport that's heating up. The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off is invading San Diego on Tuesday, Augus...

It's difficult to keep track of what the NSA does and doesn't do, and today, the New York Times piled on. Citing "senior intelligence officials," the paper isreportingthat, under a broad interpretatio...

One of Mozilla's lesser-known projects is Persona, a login system that aims to eliminate site-specific passwords so you can log in with your existing email accounts without having to type in a passwor...

Mainstream music fans don't want to constantly choose what to listen to, so streaming services are embracing radio. The latest is Rdio, whose new Friend FM turns friends' listening activity and connec...

Prepare yourself for an onslaught of small, clever, software driven hardware projects because former members of the iRobot team have just started Dragon Innovation, a manufacturing services and crowdf...

In less than a month, Snapchat CEO and co-founder Evan Spiegel will appear on the TechCrunch stage, talk about what it's like to make one of the most popular photo apps in the world, and then disappea...

Social analytics company Dachis Group is launching a new feature that CEO Jeff Dachis (who previously co-founded the agency Razorfish) described as "real-time marketing in a box."To illustrate the imp...

Back on April 1st we told you that TechCrunchs European team would be launching our very own range of "softwear" - a range of "underware" for nerds. Clean Tech, if you will. Admittedly this was a bit ...

Newly launched mobile broadcasting app Yevvo has a different idea about how live mobile video apps should work. Instead of focusing only on a social model where users find and follow other people on t...

Mover, an Edmonton, Canada-based startup that makes it easier for businesses and individuals to migrate their data between cloud storage providers, today announced that it has raised a $1 million seed...

What's the value of a retweet? Or a follower? Those questions get asked all the time in discussions about social media and advertising now Twitter is announcing a partnership with Datalogix that shou...

The sixty-year old feud between two bitterly divided neighbours has not dettered Indian grocery marketplace AaramShop from picking Pakistan as the first port of call in its global expansion. The curry...

The sixty-year old feud between two bitterly divided neighbours has not dettered Indian grocery marketplace AaramShop from picking Pakistan as the first port of call in its global expansion. The curry...

Subscription commerce startup MeUndies launched last year with the idea of sending its customers a new pair of underwear every month. Now it wants to revolutionize the way e-commerce companies do cust...

While traditional analytics detail what users tap in an app, they don’t show what happens in between. If only developers could watch their users in action. With Y Combinator-backed Watchsend, de...

Yes, that headline does say "shoelace startup." Hickies was a Kickstarter project created by a team of Argentinian founders, including husband and wife team Mariquel Waingarten and Gaston Frydlewski, ...

The start-up accelerator Dreamit Ventures held a demo day for its third New York class of entrepreneurs yesterday in midtown Manhattan. The fifteen companies presenting included a fashion trend foreca...

Social data provider Gnip has expanded its agreement with Klout, so Gnip customers who already include Klout Scores in their customer service, sales, and engagement products can have access to more da...

The Ubuntu Edge, the smartphone made by UK-based Canonical, has received a second price drop in its $32 million crowdfunding campaign. For the remaining 14 days of its audacious Indiegogo campaign, th...

Proven, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed mobile app that allows job seekers to search and apply to postings on Craigslist, Simply Hired, and Beyond.com, is today launching a version of its mobile app fo...

Songza has been making waves in the music scene for quite a while now, offering users expertly curated playlists to match their mood at any given time of the day or night. But more recently the compan...

Box has been focusing on verticals of late, looking to expand the growing base of companies that use its cloud storage platform. Earlier this year, Box announced that it has received HIPAA compliance,...

Bandpage has been trying to rebuild as a cross-web tool for managing musician presences since it got steamrolled by Facebook Timeline. Today it took a big step towards its "publish once, update everyw...

Bandpage has been trying to rebuild as a cross-web tool for managing musician presences since it got steamrolled by Facebook Timeline. Today it took a big step towards its "publish once, update everyw...

Location-based analytics pioneering startup Placed is seeing good progress with its opt-in location surveying program, which it helped to boost with the introduction of an affiliate program back in Ma...

Perhaps all to aware of how some old media companies have failed to embrace the digital age forced upon them, Disney has tried to jump with two feet into areas like mobile and social media, using some...

Iris and fingerprint scanning may be the future of locksmithing, but when it comes to keys, most of us are still using the good old-fashioned brass sort. And that means the occasional lock out. New Yo...

Glow, the fertility tracking iOS app co-founded by Max Levchin, is making its debut in the app store today. The app was first introduced earlier this summer by Levchin to a surprised audience at the D...

In a rare demonstration of Indian execution, private and public stakeholders have taken just over two months to open a fully-equipped, shiny new incubator in Bangalore's commercial district, which asp...

Content delivery network Highwinds is looking to make a massive investment in growing its business, and it has raised $205 million in debt financing to do so. The financing comes from Cerberus Busines...

GetTaxi is one of a growing number of companies focused on getting passengers from point A to point B, having already launched service in the more than 20 cities around the world. Now it's opening for...

Apple is working on a new kind of "audio hyperlink" technology that would use audible or inaudible signals embedded in a music or other audio track to link out to other media, or to perform some funct...

SOASTA has raised $30 million in Series E funding for its cloud platform that helps developers test web and mobile apps. New investors, Macquarie Capital and ROTH Capital, joined Canaan Partners, For...

Chicago-based startup 8th Stage is launching in beta form today, offering independent music artists a way to push forward and track their career online. The idea is to give artists more tools to help ...

A couple of years ago Klout competitor PeerIndex came up with a clever wheeze. It would create PeerGroups, which were listings of experts in particular fields ranked according to their PeerIndex score...

If you thought stickers were the pinnacle of human digital communications then you obviously haven't seen enough animated GIFs. Messaging app network Pinger has launched a new standalone iOS app -- th...

From the two co-founders behind YouTube, MixBit is a brand new mobile-first video platform. But contrarily to other video apps focused on recreating a social network, MixBit is all about editing and p...

Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten has launched tablets apps on iOS and Android to support the launch of its Wuaki video streaming service in the U.K. and Spain. The apps allow users of the service to p...

Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten has launched tablets apps on iOS and Android to support the launch of its Wuaki video streaming service in the U.K. and Spain. The apps allow users of the service to p...

Carrying the weight of expectation attached to securing $11.9 million funding in your first few months of operation, MessageMe has switched on the ability to send and receive stickers -- the increasin...

Bye bye Birmingham. Hello London. The U.K.-based Oxygen Accelerator startup bootcamp is moving down south, from the Midlands city where it was born back in 2011 to take up residence in the heart of Ea...

When iOS was a younger platform three or four years ago, every few weeks a small studio out of some tiny corner of the world would emerge with a top-ranking hit. There were games out of tiny towns in ...

Snapchat sends 200 million private photo messages a day. WhatsApp sends 325 million. These are scary numbers for Facebook which prove the visual communication is on the rise, so it's just began allowi...

Every year I'm given the best job a guy could ever want: planning hardware alley, a one day extravaganza of some of the best hardware I've ever seen. This event, which happens on the last day of Disru...

Wikipedia calls Bitcoin a cryptocurrency (a currency that relies on cryptography), but now it’s official. A federal judge in Texas has declared that Bitcoin is a currency and should therefore be...

Sentinel Labs, a startup that detects cyber-security threats in real time, has raised $2.5 million in seed funding from Data Collective, Granite Hill Capital Partners, Accel Partners and several other...

HotelUrbano offers hotel bookings and vacation packages in 35,000 destinations to a Brazilian user base of over 15 million registered users and 7.8 million fans on Facebook. The Rio-based startup clos...

The number one request from YouTube creators in LA was for production space to help them create better videos. And so the company built out a huge, 41,000-square foot facility where creators could go ...

Topi, a mobile event networking app that wants to help you find the right people to talk to at large conferences, today announced that it has launched a nifty integration with Meetup. The new feature ...

Surprise! We've got another podcast to enjoy with your earholes! This is the TechCrunch Droidcast, wherein we discuss all things Android on a weekly basis. The Droidcast features regular appearances b...

There's a vast, vast sea of the smartphone accessories out there that are designed to solve first-world problems (do we honestly need another bottle opening case?), but here's one that aspires to cha...

The Ubuntu Edge is an audacious attempt to crowdsource the next smartphone advancement. Canonical, the company behind the Edge and Ubuntu itself is seeking an exorbitant $32 million to make it happen,...

Groupon today reported the appointment of Eric Lefkofsky as its CEO, Ted Leonsis as the Chairman of its board, revenue of $609 million in the second quarter, operating income of $59 million excluding ...

Contrary to popular opinion, failure is not just for losers. Even the people known for being "winners" go through some epic missteps along the way. It's just that people don't often talk about it -- e...

A new startup currently participating in the Summer 2013 cohort of Y Combinator called Weilos wants to make weight loss attempts more sticky and more accountable by pairing those with weight loss goal...

It's Smartphone Platform Market Share Day, meaning that your local nerds are atwitter about the latest figures: Android's continuing massive growth, the slowing of iOS's year over year unit volume exp...

Braintree-owned Venmo is expanding its one-touch mobile payments platformVenmo Touchtoday, with a private beta release of Venmo Touch for Android arriving now, alongside the launch of an iOS 7-compati...

We're a few days late in wishing the Mars Curiosity Rover a happy birthday - it landed on the Red Planet on August 5th one year ago - so to make up for it we present Florence Tan, the team lead for th...

Anyone can shoot a good photo with Instagram. Directing a good video is a whole other ballgame. But until now there was an even playing field. Everyone had to shoot their mini-movies in the app. But I...

While I, personally, don't like the idea of acetone vaporizers in my cramped, non-ventilated workspace, I'm sure someone out there would get a kick out of this crowdfunded acetone vaporizing device th...

For the latest episode of my Foundation series, I interviewed Evernote CEO Phil Libin live from START SF. Phil discusses his views on the cloud moniker, Evernotes plans to be a hundred-year-old startu...

PostRocket, a startup that helps customers optimize their Facebook posts for maximum exposure and engagement, has announced that it will be shutting down on August 15.The company was incubated by 500 ...

Ever since the launch of Instagram for Video, there’s been one thing that was so obviously missing that we actually asked where it was during the announcement itself (well, during the Q&A af...

Mobile advertising company Native X is announcing new targeting features that it describes as "the most precise demographic targeting technology to date."That might sound like marketing hype, but Nati...

Instacart, a popular Bay Area grocery delivery service, released its "Express" service option to the general public today. Express, akin to Amazon Prime, charges a flat yearly fee of $99, which gives ...

Streak has embedded Gmail into its new iOS app in a novel way to create a service that is turning the 600-million-user platform into a powerful CRM environment.Gmail is a native app on iOS and has its...

And the herd grows thinner. According to the CBC, a trio of high-level BlackBerry executives are leaving the company less than a month after 250 employees in BlackBerry’s R&D department were...

Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 continue to move closer together today, as the Bing team brings a set of its applications to the smartphone platform. Today Microsoft announced that Bing’s Finance,...

CafeMom, a longtime social networking sites for mothers and mothers-to-be, and home to other brands like MamsLatinas.com andceleb gossip outlet The Stir, is today making its move into social shopping ...

Most incubators aren't known for their efforts to attack niche markets - except Coinlab. The company, which describes its goal as "building Bitcoin businesses" - has chosen a very unique spot for thei...

BranchOut, a startup that launched in July 2010 as a Facebook application for professional networking, has pivoted to be a messaging platform for teams of coworkers.Users are authenticated by their wo...

Facebook just recently introduced hashtags to its social network, and emphasized real-time content repeatedly in a press event about its News feed yesterday, and now it's testing another feature seemi...

David Berlind, a veteran news editor, has joined Programmable Web, the editorial and API database that became a core source for developers to build apps for web, mobile and, increasingly, everything e...

Google Cloud Platform has added new load balancing, giving Google App Engine further scale-out capabilities. Google has also added new Ruby support for Datastore and improved PHP runtime....

Blue Apron will make anyone feel like an expert chef, by delivering every single ingredient you'd need to whip up a beautiful dinner. The service delivers three meals to your house for each week, incl...

WillCall wants to be Square Card Case for music venues, allowing you to pay for your whole concert experience from mobile. So to expand beyond tickets and go international it's raised $1.1 million fro...

ZOZI, the online service that focuses on deals for high-end outdoor adventures and activities, today announced that it has acquired the real-time reservation system TripFlavor. ZOZI, which recently cl...

Less than two years after its launch in early 2012, the DIY home improvement site known as BrightNest has been acquired by Angie’s List for a cash value of $2.65 million. Angie’s List has ...

Android smartphone shipments grew a whopping 73.5 percent between the second quarter of 2012 and Q2 2013, according to research firm IDC's latest numbers. 187.4 million Android-powered phones shipped ...

500px, the Toronto-based photo sharing service aimed at enthusiasts and pro photographers, has closed on $8.8 million in Series A funding dually led by Andreessen Horowitz and Harrison Metal, the comp...

If you spend a lot of time listening to audio content on a smarthone or tablet, there's a good chance that experience is spread across multiple services maybe one app for listening to music that you'...

Productivity start-up Asana has integrated its task management software with timesheet app Harvest, allowing workers will to be more accountable to their team, their customers, and themselves....

LendKey, a cloud-based lending technology company, has raised $12.5 million in Series B funding. Led by Updata Partners and TTV Capital and joined by existing investor Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Goth...

Photo and personal publishing giantShutterfly, which has been gobbling up startups in recent months, is today launching its second iPad application called Shutterfly Photo Story, which allows you to b...

Vizibility, the mobile business card platform, today announced that it has been acquired by All-State Legal. Now All-State Legal isn’t exactly the kind of company we usually write about here. Th...

Samsung is having its first big global developer conference this year, and the company's platform debutante ball is happening October 27 - 29. Registration begins next week, Samsung has just revealed ...

Paul Fisher, who was most recently CTO at social discovery startup (and TechCrunch Disrupt alum) Sonar, has joined Onswipe in the same role.Onswipe works with publishers to optimize their websites for...

Digital Ocean, one of the fastest-growing cloud hosting services around, today announced that it has raised a $3.2 million seed round led by IA Ventures, with participation from CrunchFund and TechSta...

The problem with Tinder is women don't trust strangers, so matches don't turn into meetups. Hinge uses the same hot-or-not approval mechanic but only shows you trustable friends of friends you'll dig ...

Social media analytics and publishing platform Viralheat's dashboard now includes advanced Facebook targeting, the startup announced today. This allows businesses to customize and publish ads and othe...

Amazon today is announcing a significant expansion to its mobile application marketplace, the Amazon Appstore, which will now be open to developers of HTML5 web applications and mobile websites. These...

Facebook's Graph Search, the tool that lets you search in plain language across information shared by friends and anyone on Facebook to find stuff like "People who live in my city from my hometown," o...

Today social data analytics service Simply Measured announced that it has added Tumblr to the roster of services that it tracks. Simply Measured also tracks Twitter, Facebook, Vine, LinkedIn, and othe...

ClearDataNetworkshas raised $7 million from Norwest Venture Partners and Excel Venture Management in Series B funding for its cloud service that caters to the health care market.The end-to-end service...

After U.K. carrier O2's announcement last week that it plans to launch a 4G/LTE network on August 29, Vodafone has confirmed it plans to launch its own LTE network on the same day -- albeit, the netwo...

AOL just released its earnings report for the second quarter of the year, coming in ahead of Wall Street expectations with revenue of $541 million, up 2 percent percent from the same period last year,...

Most GPS is a relatively imprecise tool, honing in on your location to within around a few meters, but new Kickstarter project Piksi aims to provide accuracy within a single centimeter, via a new GPS ...

TechCrunch-owner AOL just announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire video advertising platform Adap.tv in a deal that should be worth a total of $405 million $322 million in cash and $83 ...

Amazon has expanded its Steam-competing digital downloads play by launching digital games and digital software stores for PC and Mac software on its U.K. site -- something the ecommerce giant already ...

Sweden's Foap, which offers an iPhone app to let users upload and sell their photos through the company's stock photo marketplace, has raised a further $1.5 million in funding to bolster its sales eff...

Mozilla has signed mobile payments company Bango to allow operator billing on the Firefox OS marketplace. That means that users on the soon-to-be-released Firefox phones will be able to pay for their ...

President Obama found himselfdefending the practices of the National Security Agency to comedian Jay Leno Show last night. “We dont have a domestic spying program, said the Commander-in-Chief. &...

Mobile messaging pioneer, Whatsapp, has added a walkie-talkie-like voice messaging feature to its app. Users will now be able to press and hold a button to speak, and have that voice clip sent once th...

Love them or hate them, 99designs’ design contest model is working pretty well, going by its latest figures. The Melbourne, Australian company now pays out about $2 million per month to designer...

Yahoo unveiled a new logo today with a sans serif font similar to the ones used in other companies' recent image overhauls, but keeps its purple color and oft-maligned exclamation point. That logo is ...

Even though Yelp is almost a decade old, the business model it pioneered with crowd-sourced local listings has yet to permeate the rest of the emerging world. A Y Combinator-backed startup called Glio...

INTRO TALK ABOUT DARRELL’S PIECE LOOKNOW ANYONE CAN BUILD A WINDOWS PHONE APP! LET’S SEE WHAT THE OPTIONS ARE AN OPTION FROM ABOVE: Menu:Do you own a restaurant, or maybe just have that fa...

Airport car rental startup Silvercar has brought its simplified (and premium) car rental service to the Bay Area, launching this past weekend at SFO. The launch is part of a larger expansion that the ...

Former SAP Mobile Chief Sanjay Poonen has been hired to run VMware’s end-user business, a move that will help to shore up the virtualization company’s executive ranks after a long run of h...

As the Discovery Channel's Shark Week celebrates the ferocious creatures that inhabit the ocean, TechCrunch TV is holding a week-long homage to the dangers swimming under the surface in our own indust...

Today Appricot released Appidemia, an application guide for iOS that helps you find new software to play with, and keep track of what your friends are using. It has the added quality of being one of t...

Facebook could soon look a little like Twitter. It's internally testing "Chronological By Actor," a new way to display updates about live events so they appear in order from most recent to oldest, sur...

The National Music Publishers' Association, or NMPA, is suing YouTube network Fullscreen for copyright infringement, bringing the company to court primarily over the distribution of unlicensed cover s...

We’ve been busy expanding our coverage around the world and today our latest project is ready for you — if you’d prefer TechCrunch written in Chinese. You can now find translated art...

Zillow, the publicly traded online real estate database, just announced its earnings for its second financial quarter of 2013. The company, which saw its stock soar over the last few months, reported ...

Microsoft has just revealed an interesting effort to get more apps to the Windows Phone Store, via its new Windows Phone App Studio, a visual, web-based editor for Windows Phone 8 apps, which launches...

If you're looking to find home services ranging from movers to interior designers, you'll be able to do it all on Yelp by the end of the year. The popular review site will be adding a new option to bo...

What if you could donate to charity, and get your money back in full? It seems like there would be a catch, but that's exactly what Causora is doing. Thestartup, which launched its platform a month ag...

Aside from what Path is worth, the way in which Foursquare will monetize its user base and dataset is perhaps the most popular conversation over the second cocktail in Silicon Valley. At least if I...

"The future is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed", William Gibson famously said. But, with 20 billion connected devices existing by 2020, Gibson's optimism might be misplaced....

We should go get drinks sometime soon. We should totally go on a trip to Atlantic City! You know what we should do? We should get everyone together for a parrrtyyyy! Yeah!It's easy to make plans, but ...

As Google Play and Apple’s iOS stores have become crowded with north of 1 million apps, it’s no longer practical to try and climb the overall top rankings for most developers. That’s...

Mountain View-basedTynker, a startup focused on teaching children of all ages the basics of learning how to code, is now expanding its service beyond schools with today's debut of Tynker for Home. Thi...

Google today announced a new feature for Google Search that highlights in-depth articles related to your search queries. Google says while many users just want a quick answer, its own research indicat...

Google today announced a new feature for Google Search that highlights in-depth articles related to your search queries. Google says while many users just want a quick answer, its own research indicat...

Here is a small but useful update to Google Drive: The hyperlink tool, which isn't exactly the most glamorous part of any online editor, now automatically shows you top search results from Google, boo...

Twitter has just posted an update to its blog detailing new security updates rolling out via iOS and Android mobile app updates today, which include the ability to use login verification and approve l...

In addition to leading one of the most ambitious businesses of the 21st century, billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is also an occasional high school teacher. After Zuckerberg decided to giv...

700 million people use the Facebook news feed every day but many don't understand how it decides what appears, so Facebook announced today it will start publishing blog updates on how the feed algorit...

Apple's iOS 7 Beta 5 is now available to developers who have the pre-release software installed on their devices, about a week after it released the 4th beta of the mobile OS. The software is likely a...

Today Microsoft updated its mobile application for Windows Phone, bringing new features that should improve the quality of life for mobile users of the service.The key update is that Windows Phone and...

Digital marketing and advertising firm T3 (The Think Tank) is today launching a new platform for mobile application and website developers called Scout, which will allow brands to customize a native a...

This week on TechCrunch TV's Ask A VC show, we have Floodgate's Ann Miura-Ko in the studio.As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here and well ask them...

After Tile raised $2.6M in its crowdfunding campaign for a Bluetooth 4.0-powered tagging tech for tracking valuable items, it was only a matter of time before others jumped aboard the bandwagon. Now t...

As two of the first VCs in Silicon Valley, Don Valentine and Tom Perkins have ridden through the highs and lows of the tech industry over the decades. The cofounders of Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Per...

"Get the mother fuck out of here," slurs a drunk and angry anti-immigrant Southerner to director and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas. Thirty seconds later, after learning that Vargas had be...

The real potential of Google Glass involves making it possible to receive contextually relevant information on the go, without having to pull a phone out of a pocket or do much else to gather it. A ne...

Mozilla today launched Firefox 23, which addsa couple of interesting features that extend the browser’s capabilities beyond just displaying websites. On the desktop, Firefox recently added the a...

Food52, a crowdsourced cooking website co-founded by formerNew York Times food editor Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, is today making the move into e-commerce with the launch of an online shop calle...

Tradeshift has added a new dimension to its e-invoicing platform with a service for collaborating on tasks and automating workflows.I know this might sound terribly dull. But that has always been the ...

Tradeshift has added a new dimension to its e-invoicing platform with a service for collaborating on tasks and automating workflows.I know this might sound terribly dull. But that has always been the ...

Boundless, the Boston-based e-textbook company that has been battling three top education publishers in court since 2012, has made its first foray into monetizing on its free textbooks with premium up...

The Berlin TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch-off last Friday saw 13 startups battle it out for the prize of a Startup Alley table at the upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt Europe in Berlin this October....

As major companies like Yahoo! and Google continue to iterate their photo-sharing services, Flickr and Picasa, a new startup is swooping in with quite the proposition. Pumpic lets users store unlimite...

A little over a year into its existence,analytics-driven hotel price comparison siteDealAngel has been acquired by Russian travel startup OneTwoTrip. Terms of the deal aren't being disclosed. However,...

If there was ever a reason not to use wireless data startup FreedomPop's freemium mobile internet service, it's because you were stuck cruising on Clearwire's pokey WiMAX signals. Not everyone is goin...

SimpleLegals system ingests invoices and parses each line item into its database. Natural language processing systems figure out who billed what and for how long and then that data is run through a m...

Samsung is using the upcoming launch of BBM for Android to promote its Galaxy devices, Samsung App Store and Messaging Hub in a new release targeting the African market. BlackBerry is in on the push, ...

Browser plug-ins, toolbars and add-ons have proliferated over the years. While many are useful, others seem to become trojan horses, allowing the original developer to add bloat-ware to the existing s...

It's with a tear in my eye that I share this little snippet with you - our own Drew Olanoff, who now works at Yahoo! with most of the rest of Palo Alto, talking to Conan O'Brien about Google Glass. Dr...

Despite accommodating the world's second largest English-speaking population behind the United States, India's dozens of indigenous languages are driving the adoption of Wikipedia on the subcontinent...

Samsung filed a newly-discovered trademark with the USPTO dated July 29 for the Galaxy Gear, a name for "wearable digital electronic devices in the form of a wristwatch, wrist band or bangle capable o...

Today Bitcasa, Disrupt Battlefield finalist, has announced a partnership with Samsung to offer Bitcasa's infinite storage service to all Windows 8 devices sold by Samsung, save for smartphones. This i...

Engagor, a Belgian startup that offers offers tools for large brands to manage their presence on social media, is announcing that it has raised $2.6 million in Series A funding led by Hummingbird Vent...

Cyber security expert and serial entrepreneur Barrett Lyon has a new startup coming out of stealth today. The company, named Defense.net, specializes in mitigating DDoS attacks -- something Lyon knows...

As mobile computing continues to consume the PC's lunch, a core part of that cannibalisation story is of course the growth in tablet ownership. Analyst Forrester has put out a new forecast for the gl...

Amazon has launched a new online fine art store, as an extension of its marketplace partner offerings. The store offers access to more than 40,000 works, according to Amazon, from over 4,500 artists s...

Adyen, a Holland-based ecommerce specialist, which launched an mPOS device called Shuttle last December -- to compete with other European mobile point-of-sales device makers such as iZettle, Payleven ...

Last week I wrote about Shuttr, the tiny Bluetooth remote control for smartphones that lets users take better self-portraits and group shots. But Shuttr can be used for more than just selfies. Other a...

After stepping out of a heated battle over the restaurant reservation space, Urbanspoon is taking a new approach to its review services — editorial content. Yelp hadacquired reservation manageme...

We've written about Unroll.me, a service that helps users manage their junk email and subscriptions, before most recently when it was redesigned in April. Now the company is sharing some stats about ...

A few years ago, I just didn't get it. I couldn't for the life of me understand how a company like Amazon could operate, let alone flourish. I spent the majority of my time following Apple, a company ...

Before Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for $250 million, he had some choice words for the ailing print news industry. In a wide-ranging interview with the German paper, Berliner-Zeitung, the new...

Jeff Bezos, not Amazon, is dropping $250 million in cash to purchase the venerable Washington Post. But it’s not only the paper that Bezos is picking up for his quarter billion. As part of the p...

On August 16, Steve Jobs biopic "JOBS" will hit theaters nationwide. The movie follows the story of a young Jobs deciding to start Apple, building the world's first personal computer out of his garage...

As YouTube networks go, there are some that are designed to attract talent from all over the spectrum, and then there are those which focus on specific verticals. With that in mind, Santa Monica, Cali...

Mobile weather applications may be becoming the new playground for user interface designers, but few can also make claims as to advancing the technology behind the display of the weather on users' sma...

Yes, you read that right. The Washington Post Company just announced that it has reached an agreement to sell its newspaper publishing business to Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos for $250 million."I...

The Snowden effect continued to roll today, with fresh revelations detailing how the pervasive surveillance of theNational Security Agency (NSA) is in fact linked to domestic criminal prosecution. The...

The Snowden effect continued to roll today, with fresh revelations detailing how the pervasive surveillance of theNational Security Agency (NSA) is in fact linked to domestic criminal prosecution. The...

It's said that history is written by the victors -- or at least, by those who empathize with the victors -- so it makes sense that much of the press coverage about the tech industry concentrates on th...

OMGPOP almost got an extra life, but Zynga said 'game over'. Zynga just finalized plans to shut down OMGPOP, the game developer of Draw My Thing it acquired for $200 million in March 2012. But multip...

Time is moving forward with its plans for a major redesign and relaunch of the Time.com website this fall, announcing today that it has hired design studio Big Human.It's an interesting choice, becaus...

A judge denied alleged Snapchat co-founder Reggie Brown's motion to disqualify Quinn Emanuel from representing Snapchat today. Quinn Emanuel will continue to represent the company as the case moves fo...

It's almost a cliche to complain about the alienating effects of technology, but the Internet is an amazing resource for combating isolation. Sites and online forums mean people who suffer from stigma...

If you build it, they will come. But what if you don’t know how to build it? That was the problem facing Mattan Griffel, founder of a new YC-backed startup called One Month Rails that is launchi...

The U.K. government's latest tech-related initiative has political photo opportunity written all over it. Said scheme -- The GREAT Tech Awards -- is heavy on jingoism (yes that's GREAT as in Britain a...

Yahoo continued its acquisition spree last week, picking up RockMelt’s team. The company’s product will be all but instantly axed. Yahoo’ssenior vice president of mobile wrote the bl...

Long before OMGPOP found its sudden (and rather fleeting) success as a mobile game developer with Draw Something, it began its life as an online game network at OMGPOP.com. After Zynga acquired OMGPOP...

Most collaboration software these days seems to focus on real time, but Kivo, a new Y Combinator-backed startup out of the accelerator's current class, is taking a different approach....

Barely a day after Google Reader replacement Feedly began offering a paid version of its service, the company has sold out of the limited number of premium accounts it was making available. Feedly co-...

Locu, the increasingly popular menu dashboard for restaurants and local merchants, today announced that it has opened its publisher platform to any online publisher who is interested in using its data...

Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin financed what could be the next revolution in food production: a test tube-grown hamburger. Dutch researchers unveiled a stem cell-grown 5-ounce beef patty at a public ta...

Webflow, a Y Combinator-backed startup offering creative professionals an easier, more visual way to design and host responsive websites, is launching out of its closed beta, with already some 10,000 ...

GenieDB has launched a MySQL distributed database service to manage data across multiple regions and cloud providers, making it suited to companies with concerns about the NSA having access to their d...

Maxwell Health, a platform that provides easy-to-manage health insurance, has raised $2 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is Tribeca Venture Partners, with participation from Lerer Ventur...

Uber wants to prove it's about redefining transportation, not just cars on demand. San Francisco's BART metro workers almost went on strike Monday, so Uber partnered with Boatbound to offer commuters ...

As the trend towards the convergence of journalism and marketing marches ever onward today we celebrate LG's efforts to buy press for their new phone, the LG G2. We received this email this morning fr...

Clutch, a mobile application for iPhone and Android which aims to combine gift cards, coupons, comparison shopping, gifting, and personalized recommendations all under one roof, has raised $5 million ...

Getting a cab in Mumbai isn’t the same as it is in other countries, according to one of the taxi app startups in India. Olacabs‘ co-founder, Bhavish Aggarwal, said it’s harder to fla...

Last month, LinkedIn introduced the ability for users of its social network for the working world to search for jobs via its iOS and Android mobile apps. Now it will let jobseekers seal the deal, so t...

What is usually a dreaded Monday morning inbox was today brightened by an invitation (below) from Samsung to see "the next Galaxy" unveiled in Berlin on September 4. Though the invitation doesn't spec...

The OFF Pocket is the latest privacy accessory from the creator of the spy-drone blocking stealth hoodie. It's a water-resistant metal-fabric pouch designed to hold a smartphone and block all wireless...

Demystifying the cabal of recruitment, Australian start-up RecruitLoop has just closed a $500,000 seed round to establish a United States presence for its hiring marketplace, which promises to undercu...

Amid speculation that online video syndication and advertising platform Grab Media could be on Marissa Mayer's Yahoo acquisition list, AIM-listed Internet Media platform Blinkx has moved to acquire th...

Helsinki, Finland-based smarter web surfing startup Futureful, which launched in the U.S. on iPad back in January -- and is best described as a predictive discovery engine (rather than a traditional w...

It's often said that the question, 'what if Google launches something similar?', is the kind of thing that keeps entrepreneurs up at night. But if you're a burgeoning e-commerce startup in an emerging...

FlightCar has launched a new program in which it keeps users' cars for a month at a time and rent them out to travelers. The program, called FlightCar Monthly, is designed to appeal to a group of user...

Mavensay has been cultivating a community of recommendations for quite a while now, but only recently has the company taken its userbase's disposition towards music recommendations and turned it into ...

You might have missed it, but Lync, Microsofts enterprise-focused communications suite brought its parent company $1 billion in revenue during its 2013 fiscal year. That a milestone of that sort could...

There's nothing like attendance at the annual Black Hat and DefCon security/hacker conferences to hike your paranoia into the red zone and keep it there forever. You come away with the sense that noth...

There's nothing like attendance at the annual Black Hat and DefCon security/hacker conferences to hike your paranoia into the red zone and keep it there forever. You come away with the sense that noth...

Subscribers to Time Warner Cable might not be able to watch CBS shows over the next few weeks, as a result of the latest contract fallout between a network and a pay TV operator. But at least one expe...

I don't even want to imagine what looking for a house was like in the 80s. Over the last few years, Zillow, Trulia, Redfin and others have done a lot to make more information available to those who wa...

Its finally happened. Some fourteen and a half months after its IPO, Facebook shares closed on Friday above its IPO price of $38/share for the first time since the date of its IPO. Investors who bough...

Cloudera's Jesse Anderson wanted to know if weather changes the outcome of NFL football games. He was also curious if player arrests were linked to their team winning or losing. And finally, he was cu...

If you've never written a line of code, let me let you in on a not-so-secret secret: once you're pretty good at one programming language, picking up others becomes a whole lot easier.That's why LearnX...

Remember exactly a year ago when I said that Facebook will be fine but Zynga won't be? Turns out I was right. Remember three years ago when Naval Ravikant of AngelList and I declared that Twitter was ...

Many readers will be familiar with the idea that games and reward go together. Yet reward by itself isn't rewarding. The reason is that it's not the reward that's interesting, but rather what it signi...

Dont give up hope of being able to mock your future robot butler with a sassy response. UK startup EI Technologies, one of 17 in the current Wayra London incubator cohort, is developing a voice recogn...

My sweet tooth is the enemy of productivity: sugary snacks are a way ticket to midday brain fog and squishy love handles. As TechCrunch's resident healthnut, I regularly get pitched by food startups c...

When Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield founded Flickr in 2004, creating a community around photos was a huge challenge. "There were very few people on internet to begin with, and within that group...

Do you hear that faint drumbeat? In the background. Barely noticeable, amid the frenzy around Facebooks stock price resurgence, or the noise of your Twitter stream, there is a slow, steady drumbeat af...

When I was working on my review of Logic Pro X something struck me - where were the sliders? Historically, pro audio software has tried hard to mimic analog - and digital - workstations used by audio ...

Motorola unveiled its Motorola X smartphone last week, and our own Chris Velazco found the phone impressive enough. But the more I think about it, the less impressed I am by Motorola's big brand relau...

Non-practicing entities (NPEs), or patent trolls, have largely stayed off the political radar for the 12 years since the term "patent troll" was coined. But the political winds have changed in the las...

Twoo, the fastest growing place to meet new people, has been spamming people for over a year.Users have been complaining that they get unsolicited mail from the app, that the app emails all of their c...

I guess today is the day for announcing the sale of struggling media properties: IBT Media just said that it has reached an agreement to acquire Newsweek from IAC.Back in 2010, Newsweek merged with IA...

Another seven days have come and gone, July has turned into August, summer is closer to its end than its beginning, and precious time is just as fleeting as ever. The good news is that it's time once ...

President Obama's administration has vetoed a decision by the United States International Trade Commission to ban the import and sale of a number of Apple products, including models of the iPhone 4 an...

The New York Times is selling the Boston Globe and the rest of its New England Media Group to John Henry, the billionaire who's principal owner of the Boston Red Sox, for $70 million in cash.The news ...

The Gillmor Gang Bret Taylor, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor gather in real time to try out Bret's new startup, Quip. The last time we saw Bret, he was selling Friendfeed...

Google has produced a car that drives itself and an Android operating system that has remarkably good speech recognition. Yes, Google has begun to master machine intelligence. So it should be no surpr...

I spent much of this week at the Black Hat information security conference, after attending the head of the NSA's keynote speech; and I am pleased to report, O my readers, that here in Las Vegas I hav...

The long-running trial of Wikileaks whistle-blower Pfc. Bradley Manning came to a key (if preliminary) conclusion this week, with Judge Denise Lind announcing a verdict that contained both good and ba...

It became known in June that the GCHQ, Britain’s NSA equivalent, was directly tapping into the fiber optic cables that carry Internet traffic around the world. However, at that time, what teleco...

A dispute between CBS and Time Warner Cable over retransmission fees for its broadcast content has spilled over onto the web, with a blackout of television programming also being extended to CBS' onli...

Good news for fans of the scientific method: the largest and most influential university system on the planet will be giving out its research for free. After 6-year-long fight with the for-profit acad...

Stephanie Hua spent the last ten years pushing for educational reform, first as the CEO of the Fund for Public Schools under former Chancellor of New York’s Department of Education, Joel Klein, ...

Thank you, Y Combinator, for not just investing in a million photo-sharing apps. While you might not be personally excited about an online marketplace where you can buy and sell used manufacturing equ...

AOL made another round of cuts today.The news was first reported in Valleywag, which said the layoffs "won't break any records for AOL" (which owns TechCrunch) and that the cuts include some recent hi...

San Francisco-based startupPixelpipe, which previously offered services for uploading photos to a variety of online destinations, before moving to support a wider variety of file types under a cloud-t...

Lunch goers in San Francisco startup neighborhoods like SOMA and the FiDi have lost one of their better food options today, as the EAT Club food bus has suspended operations after receiving a cease an...

On this week's episode of Ask A VC, we hosted Greylock's newest partner, Josh Elman, in the studio to answer reader questions on his views on local marketplaces and more. ...

Google today announced a number of updates to YouTube that will allow more video producers to use YouTube for live streaming. All channels in good standing with at least 100 subscribers will be able t...

Over the past year WeHostels has bet on mobile in a big way by releasing apps for the iPhone and Android devices. Today, it released a new version of the app just for the iPad, taking advantage of the...

According to a report in CNET today, the FBI wants to follow the NSA into broad surveillance of Internet data by forcing large telecommunications carriers to put in place what is described in the stor...

Google recently updated its Nexus 7 tablet, with a new design and brand new specs including a more powerful processor and much better screen. The device also has the distinction of being among the fir...

Gillmor Gang - Bret Taylor, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific....

Turns out Instagram isn't kingmaking among the third-party developer community on Windows Phone.Today the Windows Phone community is buzzing with the news of a meeting between developer Rudy Huyn and ...

Here comes the Moto X, the fanciest phone out of Motorola in a long time and here already came the Nexus 7, a device that may beat out the iPad Mini. We talk about both of them. Then we move on to how...

Google has quietly launched a new program called Google City Experts to encourage more high-quality local business ratings and reviews on Google+. The program is currently limited to select cities in ...

Apple users have long been able to use iOS's built-in device locator and remote wiping features, but Android users had to resort to third-party applications. That's changing soon. Google today announc...

Cloud Cannon is a CMS designed specifically for designers who know how to work with HTML, JavaScript, CSS and any static content. Instead of having to turn your beautiful designs into a dynamic CMS, y...

Were you starting to feel like Yahoo maybe hadn’t bought enough stuff this week? Surprise! Yahoo has just acquired Rockmelt, the social browsing startup. According to a blog post on RockmeltR...

TechCrunch Disrupt SF is only about a month away! This September we will be taking over San Francisco with the brightest and smartest startups, hackers, influential guests, speakers, and entrepreneurs...

Microsoft has filed a patent application for a multiplayer gaming headset, which may include voice interaction, eye-tracking, facial recognition technology, and a number of accelerometers and gyroscop...

With all the buzz surrounding Netflix's Emmy nominations, Amazon and YouTube are angling to grab a little bit of the spotlight for themselves, too. Both have now also picked up Emmy awards from the Na...

It had been more than a year since John and Asia began trying to get pregnant. The failure of one, or both, of them to produce an heir to the Biggsian throne had created a palpable distance between th...

Mobile app search engine Quixey is today introducing a new initiative called AppURL which proposes a way to make mobile apps work more like the web. Instead of apps existing as standalone silos, AppUR...

The aggressive international expansion of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has continued to put pressure on the firm's bottom line but it is confident the "super sales" and B2B2C business model, popu...

Apple would also be prohibited from entering into agreements with suppliers of e-books, movies, TV shows or other contents that would make it likely that prices would rise at its competitors, but the ...

TechCrunch has been expanding its European presence - and my beer belly - by hitting country after country this summer with some exciting meetups + pitch-offs. The result? A plethora of great companie...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the FBI employs a number of high-tech hacker tactics in its efforts to round up information on suspects, including the ability to remotely activate microphone...

Ticketbis, the Spanish startup that operates an exchange for buying and selling after-market tickets to events in Europe and South America, has raised an additional $4.5 million in funding -- capital ...

As services go, 3D scanning is pretty hard. To get good models you need expensive lasers and data acquisition systems and even the Kinect-based scanners require expensive hardware... or do they?...

RebelMouse, the startup that allows users to combine updates from across social networks into what it calls a "social front page," is announcing that it has raised $10.25 million in Series A funding.T...

Indians bear witness to an estimated 1,000 acid attacks a year, largely against women rejecting unwanted marriage proposals or defending themselves against male attackers. Now, the women, often from i...

Raspberry Pi has unsurprisingly been a smash hit with the maker community. But here's an enterprise startup that is using the $35/$25 microcomputer -- or rather hundreds of them at a time -- as a netw...

ERN, the London-headquartered startup thats planning to use Big Data to enable banks and merchants to create loyalty-based offers for cardholders, has acquired two U.K. companies to bolster the analyt...

Burpple, the memorably-named mobile app for food lovers that we profiled in December, has launched an updated version that makes it easier for gourmands to share pictures and recommendations. ...

Burpple, the memorably-named mobile app for food lovers that we profiled in December, has launched an updated version that makes it easier for gourmands to share pictures and recommendations. ...

Human resource departments often use the term "culture change" to describe positive adjustments to a company's working environment. Unfortunately for frustrated employees, that concept is often poorly...

General Alexander, head of the National Security Agency, recently took the stage at the Black Hat security conference to reiterate that what the NSA is up to is legal, efficacious and, frankly, hardly...

Back in February of this year, PayDivvy, asocial payment platform that lets people split bills for utilities and other services and each pay their share, announced that it had been acquired and that i...

It's a scenario all programmers are familiar with: you are coding alone, only to have something go awry and no one to ask for help. Codementor wants to prevent developers from going insane by providin...

Facebook plans to clear up confusion about what appears in the news feed, announce a ranking algorithm change, and preview the future of the feed at a press event on August 6. The Menlo Park HQ sessio...

Of the many ways that technology is disrupting education, one area that's changing a lot, is rife with potential, but doesn't get as much play as it should is tutoring. Mostly, this involves the attem...

Motorola has never been the most prolific smartphone maker, but there's no question that they've churned out a lot of hardware over the years. Now that Motorola is flying under Google's banner, though...

YC Partners Garry Tan and Harj Taggar along with the early-stage firm’s “Ambassador to the East” and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian have raised $39 million for a separate fund call...

In what might be Medium's first widespreadTwitter moment, music writer Michele Catalano used the platform to blog details of an unexpected visit to her home yesterday, from six men she identifies as m...

The professional network announced its second quarter earnings results on Thursday, and it was another good one, as the company grew to 238 million members and saw revenue increase to 59 percent to $3...

LinkedIn, now with 238 million registered users on its social network for the working world, wants to follow in the footsteps of Facebook and Twitter and turbo-charge its advertising effort. Speaking ...

Inside a casino whose theme is an empire that collapsed into venal decadence, middle-aged computer-security professionals clutching plastic cups half-full of free Veuve Clicquot line up to collect VIP...

CityMaps, a company in the news this week for a new version of its mobile mapping application for iOS, has raised an additional round of $1.5 million in outside funding - an extension of its earlier S...

Waterloo-founded startup Reebee, a current Y Combinator Summer 2013 cohort member, wants to take digital flyers and make them actually useable, something which a lot of companies have tried but none h...

Four months after the launch of Facebook Home, which aimed to turn every Android phone into the long-rumored Facebook Phone, the company is starting to bring certain Home features into their primary a...

After Google acquired Motorola Mobility last year, we wondered what was next for the smartphone company. It spent ages clearing out its pipeline of smartphones that were already in development before ...

Soylent, the seemingly wacky personal experiment of 24-year-old engineer Rob Rhinehart, is maturing into a full-fledged business. Rhinehart and his team, who were running a Y Combinator-backed startup...

I’m not a fan of the National Security Agency’s secret dragnet program, but I’m honest enough to admit that I hold a minority view. Recently, a string of stories have wrongly implied...

Binaries, those pieces of an application that go with all that sexy code, are increasingly becoming important as documentation for how software and services are built.It's this documentation that is o...

Apple has recently bought Passif, a Silicon Valley-based low-energy chipmaker, according to a new report from Jessica Lessin and confirmed by Apple. The company works on communication chips that pract...

Following yesterday's fresh revelations of the NSA program XKeyscore, whichcan pull up the content of email with the simple input of an address and date range, the White House used its podium today to...

It was a little over a year ago when we reported that Vancouver-based HootSuite, the platform that lets enterprises manage social media accounts, was raising a $50 million round at a $500 million valu...

Snaptee, the custom T-shirt iOS app that we profiled back in February, is launching to the public today with a fresh look and more options, including a women’s tee and upgraded shipping. Snaptee...

The board and executive team of ShopClues.com has backed besieged co-founder and CEO Sandeep Aggarwal, after he was charged with insider trading offences by allegedly providing confidential informatio...

Oh no you did not, or at least won’t, Dell, if Carl Icahn has his way. The activist investor has sued Dell and its leadership over a decision to delay a vote on the buyout offer of Michael Dell ...

With the start of fantasy football draft season nearly upon us, New York-based startup Fantasy Buzzer has launched a new website that aims to give fantasy buffs an edge with real-time news, injury ale...

Google today launched the beta of its real-time API for Analytics that will finally allow developers to programmatically take action based on the real-time data they get from Google's service....

A fleeting affair between two of China's biggest tech successes has ended acrimoniously after e-commerce giant Alibaba banned sellers from using Tencent's popular messaging app, WeChat....

Amazon has quietly launched its own direct challenger to Pinterest with the debut of a feature called "Amazon Collections." It's a more attractive, image-heavy website where consumers can save, share ...

Startup Grind, a community for entrepreneur meetups, is partnering with Google For Entrepreneursto provide global resources and technology. The organization has also added 10 new chapters, bringing it...

Firefox OS is Mozilla's attempt to inject some open competition into the mobile space, which is pretty much a two-horse race at this point, with feature phones slowly losing more and more ground to sm...

Run, which offers ad-buying tools and analytics, is announcing that it has raised $1.5 million in funding from Verizon's strategic investment arm Verizon Ventures.Co-founder and COO Dan Schwartz said ...

With the real-estate market getting more competitive again, finding the right price point when you are selling a home is getting even more important if you don't want to leave a good chunk of money on...

Nadeem Kassam worked in entertainment before founding health-tracking wristwatch maker Basis Science. Now he's combining the industries with BioBeats, a startup converts your vital signs into custom t...

Albumatic launched a new version of its photosharing app today which co-founder Adam Ludwin said is "redesigned and reimagined from the ground up."When Albumatic first launched in February, it was foc...

There is a raging debate between whether or not opposites attract, or if similar interests and traits define compatibility. 1Mind, a new venture from Derek Dodge, co-founder of About Last Night, aims ...

YouTubers need tools to better understand and grow their audiences, and Tubular Labs has built out a SaaS-based platform for just that. Once only available in private beta, Tubular's dashboard is now ...

The Fuel3D is a handheld, high resolution 3D scanner, which captures photos of real-world objects/subjects and turns them into a 3D model with accurate geometry and colour. With 3D printers taking off...

Pinterest, which has long since served as a place where users collect items they want to buy as well as a leading referral source for e-commerce websites, is today taking another step toward encouragi...

Apple is exploring more in-car abilities for its mobile devices, according to a new patent filing published by the USPTO today. The patent application describes a system where a user could store their...

Android has decisively overtaken iOS as the world’s most popular smartphone platform, both in terms of existing devices and sales, but it seems like usage habits are harder to break. A report ou...

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins confirmed this past May that BBM would come to iOS and Android "this summer", which of course means that advertised launch window is rapidly closing. There's still no off...

It’s a heartbreaking and, unfortunately, common story: an elderly man receives a phone call from someone claiming to be his granddaughter asking for him to wire money to get her out of a sticky ...

Toronto based startup success story Shopify has acquired Jet Cooper, a design agency founded in 2009, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition brings together the Ottawa-based Shopify, which launched a...

Germany's new copyright law comes into force today but several major German publishers haven't rushed to pull their news snippets from Google News, despite lobbying in favour of tightening the law. On...

Selling watches online, if you're the kind who does such a thing, is a business fraught with peril. Do you trust Craigslist where the purchaser could be a scammer? Or do you trust eBay where the purch...

Travelers who are looking to book a hotel at the last-minute should be able to find better deals on travel site Hipmunk starting today, thanks to the launch of a new feature called Tonight Only.The fe...

Netflix is rolling out its long-anticipated user profiles, allowing multiple members of a household to create personalized accounts and get personalized recommendations based on their own individual v...

Apple is indeed gearing up to put a Retina display in next version of the iPad mini, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The new version of Apple's smaller, 7.9-inch tablet will ha...

Tidemark has raised $13 million for its cloud-based analytics platform. Tenaya Capitalled the round with participation from existing investors Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Redpoint Ventu...

Synack, a startup that is attempting to safely crowdsource vulnerability testing for companies, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Greylock Partners, Wi...

CityMaps, a mapping startup that picked up $2.5 million last year to offer "social mapping," has been down a long and winding road. Founded in 2012 by an urban panner and a former financial product ma...

We have seen much market analysis pointing topressure on PC saleswith the rise ofsmaller and less expensive Internet-friendly devices like smartphones and tablets. Today, UK communications regulator O...

NoFlo, a company that has built an open-source visual programming tool based on "flow-based programming," a concept that came out of IBM in the 1970s, is launchign a $100,000 Kickstarter campaign toda...

Loop, the newest entrant in the social polling space, is launching in the App Store today to help people solve life's little dilemmas, such as which movie to see or how much to tip the pizza-delivery ...

Looks like the honeymoon period for EE and LTE in the UK is over. This morning, Telefonica's O2 announced that it would turn on its LTE network on August 29, becoming the second operator to offer 4G i...

Looks like the honeymoon period for EE and LTE in the UK is over. This morning, Telefonica's O2 announced that it would turn on its LTE network on August 29, becoming the second operator to offer 4G i...

Amidst layoffs, and shortly following a new $150 million round in new funding, Fab is announcing an additional contribution to its Series D round of financing. Singaporean telecommunications giant Sin...

The rise of Pinterest wasn't all cocktails and cupcakes. It conquered huge scaling challenges to become the world's keepsake box. Now as the we ditch the desktop for mobile, how will Pinterest evolve ...

Cloud provider ProfitBricks has dropped the price of its CPU cores and RAM by 50 percent, making the claim that essentially it is far cheaper to use its service over Amazon Web Services (AWS).I'm not ...

The news broke this morning that Zynga is suing the makers of the Bang With Friends app for allegedly infringing its With Friends trademark.There's been plenty of media discussion about the case (I wa...

The National Security Agency thinks we have been misled by The Guardian's report of a new tool, XKeyscore, that allows agents to read the content of email and private social media chatter."Allegations...

Salesforce.com is doubling the mobile packs it makes available, adding design templates for developers and a feature for syncing data.It's all part of an effort for Salesforce to help clients use its ...

Your standard iPhone camera app is actually pretty slow, taking just three to six photos per second at 8 megapixels each. But with SnappyCam 3.0 you can shoot 20 full-resolution photos per second than...

Health care, finance, education, food and transportation are the five big areas of tech opportunity PayPal co-founder Max Levchin outlined today at Mixpanel's Data Driven Conference. But perhaps the m...

Snapchat co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy have said in new court documents that alleged co-founder Reggie Brown never had equity in the company.In February, Brown filed a suit against Snapcha...

Fullscreen is one of the newer multichannel networks to appear on YouTube, and unlike some others, it's focused on providing technology tools for its creators to understand their audience and better m...

Spotify's 2012 results are out today, with Reuters reporting that the private company had revenue of435 million euros, and a 58.7 million euro net loss.The revenue figure is impressive, more than doub...

Peer-to-peer marketplace company Airbnb has released new versions of its mobile apps that will give users better tools for managing their listings on the go. The app also has taken a big step forward ...

Today Yelp beat expectations, reporting second quarter revenue of $55.0 million, and a per-share loss of $0.01. Analysts had expected the company to lose $0.04 per share, on revenue of $53.3 million.I...

Stipple is announcing a partnership with Getty Images that integrates Stipple's technology for in-image advertising with Getty's library of photos.Technically, there was nothing before that stopped so...

Following on from its $600 million purchase of marketing platform Neolane, which closed earlier this month, Adobe today made its fourth acquisition of 2013. To strengthen its marketing and analytics b...

Following on from its $600 million purchase of marketing platform Neolane, which closed earlier this month, Adobe today made its fourth acquisition of 2013. To strengthen its marketing and analytics b...

TechCrunch has learned today that Socrative, an intelligent student response system aimed for K-12 classrooms, has quietly raised $750K in seed financing from True Ventures, NewSchools Ventures and a ...

Catch.com (formerly known as Snaptic) is shutting down its Evernote competitor, called Catch Notes, which allowed users to capture and save notes on iOS and Android, as well as on the web through brow...

Google is testing out local news cards for Google Now according to a new report from Quartz, which cites Google's VP of Search and Assist as the source of the info. The local news card is in the exper...

If you haven’t heard, some of the former giants of the education world haven’t been doing too well, particularly academic publishers, as evidenced by McGraw-Hill’s recent sale and Ce...

This weeks Founder Stories features Inkling Founder and CEO, Matt MacInnis. Inkling, the 100 employee cloud publishing company, recently announced a $16 million Series C funding. With inevitable growt...

Eyeview, a company with technology that personalizes video ads, has raised $8.1 million in Series C funding.You can see some examples of Eyeview's personalization below. For example, the visuals in an...

Rep. Mike Rogers, the NSA can in fact get into your email with just an account name. New revelations via the Guardian detail precisely how it works. You have no digital privacy. This is simply another...

General Keith Alexander, head of the NSA, gave the keynote speech at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas today. It was more interesting than I expected.Not for the speech itself, which cont...

After a year in development and looking to capitalize on the growing popularity of "people discovery" apps like Highlight and mobile flirting apps like Tinder, today Twine is officially bringing its ...

If App Annie's report released today detailing downloads and the revenue situation for developers on iOS and Android sounds familiar, that's because it is. The company had found in Aprilthat even thou...

Google today launched a new responsive AdSense unit in beta that is specifically designed to run on sites that automatically adapt to different screen sizes. Now that responsive design has moved from ...

Representative Steve Cohen wants the National Security Agency's secret court to be composed of judges who care more about privacy, and he's crowdsourcing expertise to help craft his bill. The FISA Cou...

Let newsmakers embed your content and they'll look to you for material, likely publish more to you, and you'll have more content to advertise against. That's why Facebook today launches embedding for ...

Greylock's data scientist in residence DJ Patil is joining data-focused, enterprise relationship-manager RelateIQ, we've learned. Patil tells us he will be the startup's VP of Product....

Apigee has raised $35 million for its API management platform, led by two consulting groups with participation from existing investors.The investment comes from a new investment fund managed by BlackR...

Authy, the Y Combinator-backed security startup that aims to make two-factor authentication as secure and easy to use as possible, launched a new product today that makes using it quite a bit easier. ...

Yahoo has just acquired ecommerce app platform Lexity, a startup founded by former employee Amit Kumar. Lexity says all services will remain running, but it will eventually be renamed with Yahoo brand...

Yahoo has just acquired ecommerce app platform Lexity, a startup founded by former employee Amit Kumar. Lexity says all services will remain running, but it will eventually be renamed with Yahoo brand...

RealNetworks, a Seattle-based publicly-traded company that runs RealPlayer and has a gaming arm, is digging into social casino games with a deal to buy Slingo for $15.6 million. It’s also launch...

There are way too many instances when I purchase a clothing item, wear it once and then leave it neglected and relatively unworn in the back of my closet as I have moved on to the newer, shinier, tren...

StackSocial, an e-commerce platform thatprovides its users with discounts and special offers on software and hardware, has launched its redesigned site to display increased inventory andhelp users dis...

I'm an unabashed Amazon addict, but I'm not thrilled about the cluttered and unappealing visuals on the site. A new startup called Canopy with a team split between Toronto and San Francisco aims to va...

San Francisco taxi labor groups called for the eradication of car ride-sharing startups and the imprisonment of some of their members at a protest in front of City Hall yesterday. "We want to see thes...

British Sky Broadcasting Group and Microsoft today announced that they have settled the trademark infringement arguments in Europe that Sky brought against Microsoft in an English court. As a result o...

Glide, the video messaging app that launched on the Disrupt NY stage just a few months ago, today announced that it has reached 3.5 million downloads, with users sharing upwards of 12 million seconds ...

Say what you want about Path and their previous transgressions, but it’s great to see other mobile applications borrowing the interface and animations Path popularizedthrough its stellar design....

Diffbot is a startup that's trying to make sense of the mass of information available on the web via robotic vision and computer learning, and it's doing so one chunk at a time. Previously, the compan...

Pebble not meeting your needs? The Basis knows just a little too much about you for your comfort? Is the Metawatch too meta? Well then meet the Hot Watch, out of Dallas. The company just launched the ...

Pebble not meeting your needs? The Basis knows just a little too much about you for your comfort? Is the Metawatch too meta? Well then meet the Hot Watch, out of Dallas. The company just launched the ...

Further leaks have revealed an NSA project called X-Keyscore that, with a few keystrokes, can give a data analyst access to nearly everything a user does on the Internet - from chat sessions to email ...

New Kickstarter project Trace is like a Fitbit for your extreme sports needs, allowing people who skate, surf, snowboard and ski to track a lot more than just time, distance and pace while participati...

While I don't have to remind you about the value of studies - many company-funded studies are best dropped directly in the trash after publication - this one about 3D printing does have some merit. Pr...

Chirpify, a startup aiming to simplify online commerce by bringing them to the platforms where people congregate, like Twitter, and more recently Facebook, and Instagram, has raised $6 million in Seri...

Facebook shares (NASDAQ:FB) finally broke the psychological glass ceiling of $38 a share, Facebook’s IPO price. At $38.22 a share, the stock is slightly up 1.52 percent compared to yesterdayR...

Google has just announced via a blog post that it will be offering free, faster Wi-Fi hotspots at all U.S. company-operated Starbucks locations, which will get up and running sometime within the next ...

Microsoft released the long-awaited iPhone version of its Office productivity suite recently, and now it's showing that it's not picky about platforms with the Android version, out now. Office for And...

Old school gamers will remember Paperboy, a 1984 arcade game that let you savour the pleasure of virtually breaking your neighbours windows by tossing a rolled up newspaper through their front room as...

Toronto-based Wave, the free cloud accounting platform that has since expanded into payroll and other business-focused applications, today announced the beginning of its mobile payments beta program. ...

The Berlin-based Earlybird Venture Capital has today announced the 150 million ($200 million) final closing of its fourth early stage technology investment fund. This will be geared towards European i...

Flywheel, the San Francisco-based company that operates the mobile and web taxi-hailing app formerly known as Cabulous, has raised $14.8 million in a new round of venture funding.The round, which serv...

ZestFinance, a company founded by former Google CIO and VP of engineering Douglas Merrillto legitimize the payday loan industry using machine learning and large-scale big data analysis has raised $20 ...

San Francisco-based video monitoring hardware and software startup Dropcam today announced the close of a new $30 million Series C funding round, led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), and with ...

Instagram's narcissistic obsession with selfies has been well-documented. Turns out it's also contagious -- if you're in the business of trying to build a rival social property. In an update to its i...

Multiscreen video store platform Latto, which offers a white label solution for Telcos, Broadcasters, and Content Aggregators that want to get in on the multi-screen steaming and on-demand video actio...

The Sensoria Smart Sock Fitness Tracker tracks your steps and advises on running style by doing real-time gait analysis using a combination of a pair of socks containing pressure sensors so it can fig...

TechCrunch has been expanding its European presence - and my beer belly - by hitting country after country this summer with some exciting meetups + pitch-offs. The result? A plethora of great companie...

Gaming journalist Steve Morgenstern died on July 24 after a sudden illness. He was founding editor of Atari Age, a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to the platform that began publishing in 1982. His daug...

In a blog post today,Cloudscaling Co-Founder and CTO Randy Bias said CEO Michel Grant is leaving the company with areplacement being sought for the cloud systems company. Bias will serve as interim CE...

30 years later and our word processing software hasn't changed, not even to adapt to mobile. That changes tonight with the launch of Quip, a free new word processing app from former Facebook CTO Bret ...

Google is bringing more Glass Explorers into the program, and it's doing that the best way it knows how: by letting current users invite a friend. Those among you old enough to remember when Gmail fir...

Whispering in a riot is how I would describe commenting on a Facebook Page's feed posts. No matter how thoughtful they are, your words get drowned out. But a combo of new features is fulfilling Facebo...

Korean gaming giant Nexon is making another deal to expand into Western markets with a strategic investment in Rumble Entertainment. They didn’t disclose the size of the deal except to say that ...

Back in February, I wrote about a startup called Cube that was trying to build a point-of-sale system for small and medium-sized businesses that would eventually give analytics about inventory. Cube h...

BeRecruited, the LinkedIn of college athletic recruiting, has become the official recruiting provider for IMG Academy, a training center and school in Florida that has turned out athletes like Maria S...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added some support that will make it a bit easier for developers to better track visitor traffic to their apps when an IP address is served and connected through the AWS ...

Post-PC, indeed. Today Microsoft released its yearly SEC filing, detailing its financial performance on a per-unit basis with a decent granular breakdown. In addition to the news that the Surface line...

Post-PC, indeed. Today Microsoft released its yearly SEC filing, detailing its financial performance on a per-unit basis with a decent granular breakdown. In addition to the news that the Surface line...

Glossi, the maker of the digital magazine platform of the same name, is announcing that CEO Matt Edelman is stepping down from his current position and taking an advisory role with the company.Edelman...

A group of engineers from the Mars Curiosity Rover mission answered questions in a Reddit Ask Me Anything session today. In addition to questions about the mission and Mars, the Curiosity Rover team r...

The California Public Utilities Commission issued its proposed framework for the regulation of ride-sharing services today, granting a huge victory for companies like Uber, Lyft and SideCar. The propo...

The U.K.'s Streetlife.com, a local social network that lets residents connect and converse with their neighbours and foster a stronger sense of community, has raised 600,000 in a new round of funding....

Today in an SEC filing, Microsoft revealed a very interesting fact: Its Surface tablet hybrid line brought in revenue of $853 million in the company's fiscal 2013. That places Surface revenue on a per...

Hello again, tech company voyeurs, and welcome to a new episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the walls of the industry's coolest companies to see what it's really like for ...

Pro-level audio and video software has always been daunting. While the average computer user knows how to operate them in a general sense (the advent of non-linear editing has essentially changed how ...

After your laundry has been pressed and folded for you. After you've been driven to and fro in black cars, and flown in black jets. After you shopped online for weekends on end....

If you've got an Android device running version 4.2 or later, chances are you've tried capturing a photo sphere -- one of those nifty little 360-degree panoramas that let you spin around to capture yo...

Rover, the Airbnb of dog sitting, has raised a $3.5 million funding round led by Petco. The pet specialty giant, now one of Rover's largest investors, will be joining the site's board of directors. Th...

Opera today detailed a proposal for NEX, the Navigator Extension format, a new vendor-neutral browser extension packaging format that it hopes to turn into a future W3C standard for packaging cross-br...