Articles by Techcrunch from October 2013

ClearStoryhas launched a data analytics service that the company says is one of the first to offer a core back-end technology that includes rich visuals and sharing capabilities.On the back-end, Clear...

The National Security Agency has secretly taped the networks of Google and Yahoo to monitor real-time communication, according to newly revealed documents from whistleblower, Edward Snowden [PDF]. ...

Tesla's West Coast Superhcarger Corridor opened today, making it possible for owners of the Model S to travel free between San Diego and Vancouver, using Highway 101 and Interstate 5. This makes a Sup...

Y Combinator-incubated legal startup Lawdingo is announcing that it has raised another $690,000 in funding.The company's goal is to make it more convenient and affordable for users to connect with a l...

Mobile-focused analytics company Mixpanel is growing its offerings today with the launch of Mixpanel Surveys, a product that allows developers to integrate user surveys into their mobile apps.Currentl...

Runnable, a recently launched Palo Alto-based startup that aims to make it easy to discover and reuse code snippets, today announced that it has raised a $2 million seed round led by Sierra Ventures w...

Israel-based startup Scringo, which offers a cross-platform SDK to help developers add social elements such as messaging to their apps to increase user retention and boost in-app engagement, has added...

As my default Calendar replacement app, Fantastical has been on the home screen of my iPhone since its release nearly a year ago. As one of the few pieces of productivity software that I use regularly...

At the beginning of the year, just after Amazon reported a big profit dip for Q4 2012, Slate business correspondent Matthew Yglesias posited (with tongue planted in cheek) that Amazon was "a charitabl...

Looks like another exit for an Israel-based startup -- this one straddling the worlds of cloud services and hardware control. Soluto, a service that lets users manage PCs and other connected devices r...

Looks like another exit for an Israel-based startup -- this one straddling the worlds of cloud services and hardware control. Soluto, a service that lets users manage PCs and other connected devices r...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its Elastic Map Reduce platform with a new version of Hadoop and updated support for its data analytics ecosystem.Elastic Map Reduce is AWS platform for processin...

Seventeen years after its inception, WebMD remains one of the go-to resources for basic health and diagnostic information (and hypochondria enablement) on the Web. Born at the height of the Dot-com Bo...

The Federal Communications Commission finallyhas a new Chairman:Tom Wheeler. Yesterday, Senator Ted Cruz released his holdand Wheeler was unanimously approved. He will take over for Acting Chairwoman,...

For better or worse the holidays are right around the corner, and that can only mean one thing: consumer electronics companies are slaving away on new hardware designs and trying to get those final pr...

NoSQL Database hosting service MongoHQ, a YCombinatoralum, has suffered a major security breach that appears to be a major factor in an attack over the weekend on Buffer, the social media scheduling s...

Chinese search giant Baidu reported strong revenue growth in Q3 2013, but it is still investing aggressively in its mobile business, which continues to lag behind PC in terms of monetization. ...

Apple introduced two new iPads this month at a special event in San Francisco on October 22, and the first of those to go on sale is the iPad Air, which is in stores and on virtual shelves this Friday...

Apple released a statement today to The New York Times noting that a manufacturing issue has caused shortened battery life in a ‘very limited’ number of iPhone 5s devices. At its introduct...

Apple released a statement today to The New York Times noting that a manufacturing issue has caused shortened battery life in a ‘very limited’ number of iPhone 5s devices. At its introduct...

According to its most recent earnings report, Nokia appears to have finallyfound market traction in North America for its Lumia line of Windows Phone-based smartphones. This bears well for the platfor...

Like so many other startups, Abbey Post grew out of a personal pain. Founder Cynthia Schames had become fed up with the lack of stylish plus-size clothing available to her. "I was having the hardest t...

Online real estate market Trulia has been a public company for just over a year now, and it's already seen its share of ups and downs as it dukes it out with competing players like Zillow.The company ...

Electronic Arts had non-GAAP revenue of $1.04 billion in its fiscal second quarter (2014), and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.33. The street had expected Electronic Arts to earn $0.12 (non-GAAP), o...

Yelp, the local online business and restaurant guide that has become the Web’s go-to resource for reviews of local businesses since launching in 2004, announced its 2013 third quarter earnings a...

Yelp, the local online business and restaurant guide that has become the Web’s go-to resource for reviews of local businesses since launching in 2004, announced its 2013 third quarter earnings a...

Yelp, the local online business and restaurant guide that has become the Web’s go-to resource for reviews of local businesses since launching in 2004, announced its 2013 third quarter earnings a...

LinkedIn reported its third-quarter earnings today, with revenue of $393 million (up 56 percent) and earnings per share of $0,39. Analysts had expected LinkedIn to earn $0.31 per share, on revenue of ...

The last time we heard from TC50 alum JIBE, it locked up a $10 million Series B from the likes of Longworth Venture Partners (which led the round), like Polaris Partners, Lerer Ventures, DFJ Gotham, a...

ResearchGate’s Ijad Madisch lifelong ambition of winning a Nobel Prize for changing the way scientific research is undertaken piqued the interest of Valley investors several years ago. Now with ...

Senator Patrick Leahy and RepresentativeJim Sensenbrenner have introduced a new bill, called theUniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rightsand Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-collection, and ...

Twitter today shipped an update that adds in-stream video and image previews to the main feed in its iOS, Android and web apps. Previously you would have to tap on links for images via Twitter or vide...

Fifteen startups launched on the Disrupt Europe stage. From enterprise data companies to consumer electronics, the mix ably represented the best of Europe’s exploding startup scene. But Germany-...

As retargeting startup Criteo is poised to IPO, one company flying under the radar but, by the looks of it, that is also doing well in the retargeting space is AdRoll. It's now launched in Europe, or ...

A few days ago, a set of leaked images pointed to some pretty drastic changes to the Google Hangouts Android app, the biggest of which was that users would be able to send SMS messages without having ...

The National Security Agencyis having a very bad day: two of the most ardent surveillance hawks have officially turned against the spying agency. California Senator Dianne Feinstein broke ranks and ca...

Twitter just announced that it has closed its acquisition of MoPub.We first broke the news that Twitter was acquiring the company (which helps mobile publishers manage their ad inventory) back in Sept...

Backstage at TechCrunch Disrupt, I got the chance to sit down with Benchmark's Bill Gurley to talk about his recent investments, Uber's amazing user growth, and why we are seeing so many huge, high-va...

Frontback, the photo app that lets users create composite images using the front and rear cameras on their iPhone handsets, is on a roll. Launched only in August of this year, it's now picked up some ...

At TechCrunch Disrupt Europe in Berlin today, Box’s founder Aaron Levie took to the stage with CrunchFund’s Michael Arrington for a wide-ranging conversation that touched on everything fro...

The first ever TechCrunch Disrupt Europe is drawing to a close today, after two days of incredible speakers and a dramatic pitch-off competition, not to mention the two day Hackathon that preceded the...

We already knew that Chamath Palihapitiya, ex-Facebook executive, and founder and partner of The Social+Capital Partnership, was bullish on Bitcoins. But how bullish? He actually owns the equivalent o...

Sean Rad, founder and CEO mobile dating app Tinder, offered his broader vision for the app and hinted at future features today at Disrupt Europe.Rad acknowledged that the "unwritten context" of Tinder...

In what founder and CEO Sahil Lavingia said is its first feature built for international users, online sales platform Gumroad is annoucning that it's now accepting Japanese payments.The company alread...

Wonderloop, is a new iPhone app which launches today, allowing users to connect through first-person short-form video. This is not Face-time. It's short video messaging about 10 to 20 seconds long. It...

Wonderloop, is a new iPhone app which launches today, allowing users to connect through first-person short-form video. This is not Face-time. It's short video messaging about 10 to 20 seconds long. It...

In most peoples minds, Nokia is still a mobile phones company. But if the Nokia board approves the sale of substantially all of the companys devices & sales division to Microsoft announced back i...

I love huntin through data to find the weird little trends; its how you learn how things actually work. I also really, really dig the concept of crowdfunding. Put the two together, and youve got my at...

Today at Disrupt Europe, five major investors in European startups took the stage to talk about funding in Europe. While they all agreed that Europe’s track record for building successful startu...

Facebook wants to be your one and only messaging app, so it's asking for your phone number. Today it starts testing a version of Messenger for Android that lets you message non-friends by phone number...

There's an ever-growing number of video creators and publishers who are looking to reach viewers on YouTube. But they're not the only ones: increasingly, advertisers are using the video platform as a ...

Muncherytoday announced a grab-bag of updates to its platform, including a redesign of its menus, new iOS apps, support for kids' meals, booze delivery (including gluten-free options), and carbon offs...

It's that time of year again, time for 500 Startups to announce yet another batch of startups that just started its Accelerator program. If you've been following along, you probably know what to expec...

We are pleased to announce a new set of amazing judges for our first TC Hardware Battlefield in Las Vegas this January. Based on the Disrupt Battlefield formula we will be pitting fifteen hardware com...

File this under "holiday gifts for next year." A startup called Play-i is opening a crowdfunding campaign today to put into production a pair of educational robots that teach children the basics of co...

The Spring lets you save the world without doing anything. You connect your credit card to The Spring, pay with it at local restaurants, and automatically trigger donations to needy neighborhood cause...

Mozilla today launched version 25 of its Firefox browser for Windows, OS X, Linux and Android. The highlight of the new Android version is a new guest browsing mode that allows you to share your phone...

In an effort to catch up with Square and Paypal, payment processing giant First Data has been quietly increasing its presence in the mobile payments market. As the largest credit card processing compa...

In an effort to catch up with Square and Paypal, payment processing giant First Data has been quietly increasing its presence in the mobile payments market. As the largest credit card processing compa...

Kill your mule because Budgee Bot the first consumer-oriented pack-bot designed for the average user. This twee little robot has a basket and a motorized platform and will follow you anywhere, carryin...

Visually, best known as a marketplace for infographics, has launched its new Marketplace and Project Center to grow the audience for its cloud-based collaborative tools. Customers can now use the mark...

It's been a little over two years since Google announced that it would acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, and these days Motorola has basically become the most interesting smartphone player ...

Spotlight Stories is a new artistic medium Google and Motorola launched today that puts users inside an animated featurette if they spin 360-degrees while watching their phones. The first Spotlight St...

The “local space” has long held sway over the imagination of entrepreneurs, who have produced everything from travel apps to city guides, neighborhood news sites and event planners in purs...

Q Factor, a U.S. startup that's aiming to fix media-rich content delivery on wireless devices so there's less -- or even zero -- waiting around to watch that video or access a large file, has closed a...

"The Web Behind The Wall" is an e-book published by TechNode (our partner for next month's TechCrunch Shanghai event) that wants to be "the #1 resource for foreign tech companies to understand China."...

Indiegogo co-founder and CEO Slava Rubin took the stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe 2013, and he shared some interesting stats about the crowdfunding platform's progress to date, and he specifi...

Snapverse is an iPhone app that combines 20-second user videos with licensed music.Tthe amount of licensed music available is about to grow significantly, thanks to partnerships with Universal, Warner...

After posting pretty incredible growth, Magisto has raised $13 million to take on the ambitious goal of unlocking all the world's photos and videos and making them shareable.The funding comes from two...

Just a month after winning TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, communications platform for mobile and web apps Layer has raised $6 million in seed funding, bringing the company’s total seed fundin...

Two titans of user generated content team up today as SoundCloud begins letting you select from your Instagrams when choosing cover art for sounds and playlists you create. The integration with Instag...

Nokia may be going through a hell of a transition period, but it released its fiscal Q3 2013 earnings this morning just like clockwork. The Finnish phone maker (for now, anyway) reported net sales of ...

Today, TechCrunch editor at large Mike Butcher sat down with a group of some of Europe's most well known investors and VCs to explore how entrepreneurs and VCs are expanding the European ecosystem. ...

Deep within Startup Alley at Disrupt Europe in Berlin we discovered a few great companies. These are two of them. This is their story....

Today at Disrupt Europe, SoundCloud co-founder and CEO Alexander Ljung took the stage to share two new updates and share his thoughts on the music industry, music startups and more. Back in July, Soun...

GO Launcher, an Android app maker out of Beijing that has been around for nearly a decade, just filed for an IPO, according to an SEC document. They are behind a series of Android apps that have about...

Polish startup, Pixel Technology, is taking a freemium approach to try to elbow its way into the healthcare software market. Here at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe it's showing off a telehealth radiology s...

Guten tag from Berlin! It’s the second and final day of TechCrunch’s first ever Disrupt Europe conference, and you know what that means: From 10am to 7pm Berlin time will be chock-full of ...

Passion Capital and Transferwise founder Taavet Hinrikus have joined forces to back new London-based Biticoin exchange Coinfloor, which opens for registrations today. The amount invested remains undi...

Global shipments of smartphones are continuing to increase, growing 45% to hit a record 251 million units in Q3 2013, from 172.8 million units a year ago, according to the latest report from Strategy ...

If you work for a large company, you likely dealt with an onboarding process. Perhaps little quizzes or pamphlets. I recently enjoyed this precise exercise while joining TechCrunch a few months ago, g...

Ingram Micro has acquired Palo Alto-based Shipwire, the cloud logistics and supply chain management SaaS provider. The acquisition price was not disclosed.Shipwire has established itself as one of the...

According toFeargal ORourke, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, the infamous Double Irish tax avoidance method could be endangered. If it were to be written out of law, the legal practice would forc...

Apple completed 15 acquisitions in fiscal 2013, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced during its Q4 investor call. That amounts to one acquisition every 3-4 weeks during the year. Given that we only know about...

Hey Google Glass Explorers, Google thinks you're keen. Really, they do. So much so in fact that the company has been quietly working on an updated version of the Glass hardware, and those of you who s...

Three months ago, when CEO Tim Cook was asked why Apple's revenue from greater China sunk 14 percent year-over-year, he didn't have a great answer. Apparently, there wasn't a "totally clear" answer fo...

Apple reported that its fourth quarter revenues in its Apple stores were $4.5 billion, up 6 percent compared to last year. On average, the company reported that Apple made an average of $50 million pe...

Today during its earnings call, Apple’s CFO Peter Oppenheimer confirmed that future versions of OS X would be free. Last week, Apple announced that OS X Mavericks would be available free, but di...

Today during its earnings call, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer confirmed that future versions of OS X would be free. Last week, Apple announced that OS X Mavericks would be available for free, but did no...

Apple just reversed its slide, if you can call it that.After three quarters in a row of slowing sales growth, Apple's September quarter reported this afternoon shows a modest re-acceleration....

Well folks, Apple has just put up some mixed numbers in its fiscal Q4 2013 earnings release -- $37.5 billion in revenue and $7.5 billion in net profit to be exact -- but how exactly did the tech titan...

Apple has just released its fiscal Q4 2013 earnings, reporting $37.5B in revenue, $7.5B in net profit representing $8.26 per share. That marks a y/y growth of 4.2% in Revenue and 4.7% decline in EPS, ...

It might have been a long time coming, but the first ever TechCrunch Disrupt Europe, held in Berlin, has been a fantastic window into the burgeoning European tech startup ecosystem. Plus, it has surpa...

“Only the links within our tweets had been hacked,” an OFA official acknowledged. “At no point did they have access to the twitter handle,” the official said. Like many compani...

It was recently revealed that the National Security Agency secretlymonitored European leaders and 60 million Spanish phone calls from a spying hub in the United States German Embassy, all while Presid...

Apple sent out a set of slick Mac Pro posters to at least one journalist today. TidBITS author Jeff Carlson recieved a long black tube with 4 Mac Pro images as posters in it this morning. Other journa...

Cozy, an online tool for landlords and tenants, is announcing that Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield has joined its board of directors.Butterfield told me that he's actually known Cozy co-founder ...

Twitter has been rejiggering its thinking about direct messaging recently, largely in the face of enormous messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Line, Snapchat and others. Today, the signs of TwitterR...

Samsung kicked off its first Developer Conference in San Francisco today, and the Korean tech juggernaut is eager to show just how much it cares about the devs building apps and services for its hardw...

I loves me some Arduino. The only thing I dont love and Im sure many of my fellow Arduino tinkerers would agree with me here is buying or building a new shield (read: add-on board) every time I need...

ScanZ, a product unveiled today at Disrupt Europe, combines a new, iPhone-connected device with a quantified self-style app to help teens battle acne.The product comes from a company called mySkin, wh...

Qardio co-founder Marco Peluso had a dedicated career in finance for 14 years. He was an investment banker for JPMorgan, then a partner at a hedge fund. But everything changed when his father had a st...

As a freelancer or small business owner, you probably know that one of the most pressing issues is late payments and chasing customers months after a job was done. Meet Satago, the online platform whe...

The U.S. government is in a bind this week after conflicting reports have emerged regarding its surveillance of German Chancellor Merkel's phone. According to the Wall Street Journal, government offic...

With High Mobility‘s hardware installed in a car, a driver could park next to a parking meter, get out of the car and walk away. The car pays for the parking itself using the driver’s smar...

Kids are in a petri dish, where their every social post can be scrutinized and used against them. That's why disappearing media startup Snapchat is important, says its investor, Benchmark's Bill Gurle...

Fashion has been one of the most promising, and most dynamic, categories of e-commerce in the past several years. But it has also been one of the most problematic. By virtue of virtuality, we now have...

Fashion has been one of the most promising, and most dynamic, categories of e-commerce in the past several years. But it has also been one of the most problematic. By virtue of virtuality, we now have...

Mobile photography startup Kicksend has spent the last year inking partnerships with brick and mortar retail chains like Walgreens, Target, and CVS so it can bring its promise of dead-simple photo sha...

The massive power of GitHub is in the startup's ability to not only act as a code-sharing and publishing service, but also as a versioning platform. Exversion is launching today at Disrupt Europe in B...

22 sites. That's the average number a traveller visits before booking a big trip. Wanderio wants to be your one and only. The Italian startup lets you enter your start and end address, and it will sho...

The online shopping experience can be overwhelming. Even sorting through the various filters for style, clothing type, etc. is tiring, and then you throw in the fact that there are about a hundred dif...

Ever been on holiday and started reaching for your smartphone to look something up, only to remember it's stuck on airplane mode because you don't want to get stung with roaming charges? Or wondered w...

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington kicked off his interview with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong at Disrupt Europe with the obligatory ragging on Armstrong for firing him, but eventually, he moved on to ask i...

It's been a long day and all you want to do is play some KidPix or Adventure. Don't worry. We've got you covered. Using Hampa Hug's PCE in-browser emulator, two programmers have built clever hacks tha...

International startups shouldn’t call it quits just because a big American competitor tries to muscle into their homeland, said Pavel Durovon stage at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin. His company VKon...

Voicesphere is launching a platform for voice-enabling consumer and enterprise apps and making them available in a Siri-like environment based on natural language processing at TechCrunch Disrupt Euro...

It was a seemingly tasteless stunt that caught headlines around the globe for Pavel Durov, the founder of Russia’s biggest social network, VKontakte. Cameras caught him throwing paper planes mad...

You walk up to your apartment building, arms overflowing with groceries, maybe your dog on a leash, backpacks, etc. Then you have to fumble for your key fob (or worse, an actual hardware key) just to ...

By allowing its users to turn any web page into an API with just a few clicks, Import.io exists to make it easy for developers to pull data from the web. At Disrupt Europe this morning, the company la...

Sher.ly, you can't be serious. But they are. This Polish company is building a way to use your own hardware and machines to create a secure, always-on cloud solution for small and medium-sized busines...

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington closed out his interview today with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong at Disrupt Europe with a call for questions from the audience. It turned out, however, that one of the at...

Months after Warby Parker opened its flagship store in New York, co-founder Jeff Raider is taking his other venture, Harry's, in a brick and mortar direction as well. Tomorrow, the shaving supply star...

Pavel Durov, the creator of Russia’s biggest social network VKontakte, is more than a little familiar with government surveillance. On a prep call for a surprise appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt...

It was only in July of this year that Fab.com laid off 150 people in Europe and parted ways with its "Chief European Officer," but today comes news that the design commerce site is ramping up once aga...

We now have the technology not only to digitally deter bike thieves, but also to be able to track a bike via GPS if a thief manages to take it home. That's what Lock8, which launched today at TechCrun...

What makes Benchmark unique? TechCrunch founder and CrunchFund founder Michael Arrington tackled this question in an on stage interview with the entire Benchmark partnership at TechCrunch Disrupt Euro...

Today at Disrupt Europe in Berlin, a few major Bitcoin actors in the European Bitcoin community took the stage to share their thoughts about the future of Bitcoin. Michael Jackson (Mangrove Capital Pa...

Nvidia has updated its Shield Android-based mobile game console to add a host of new features, one of which is very interesting in terms of how it might affect the growing Android-based home game cons...

This one is bound to rile the airlines and seems quite apt with our very own Disrupt Europe conference currently under way. AirHelp is a new "flight compensation" startup which aims to make it orders ...

TechCrunch Disrupt, breaking funding news from a year ago!While on-stage at Disrupt Europe, Airbnb co-founder and CTO Nate Blecharczyk confirmed for the first time that the company raised a $200 milli...

Should European enterprise startups stay in Europe or head to Silicon Valley? That’s a question our enterprise panel with TechCrunch’s Ingrid Lunden, Klarna‘s Niklas Adalberth, Huddl...

Airbnb wants to connect travelers with interesting new places to stay. But for guests in new cities, it can be overwhelming to find and sort through all the options available to them. That's why the c...

Marco Boerries is CEO and founder of NumberFour -- a startup that's been operating in stealth for four years. Despite being under the radar, it landed a $38 million Series A, led by Index Ventures, ba...

In a world where there's a new quantified self-tracking device every couple of weeks, the new AIRO wristband is designed to provide data that other hardware makers can't match. More than just a moveme...

Openbay is kind of like an Airbnb for auto repair. Users enter the kind of work they need to have done, either through its website or mobile app, specify their make and model, and tell the system how ...

At Disrupt Europe this morning, Rocket Internet founder Marc Samwer sat down with TechCrunch’s editor at large, Mike Butcher to talk about European entrepreneurship, copy cats and more. Rocket I...

Guten Morgen! We're coming to you live from Berlin, where the first ever official TechCrunch Europe conference is kicking off this morning. It's going to be two days packed full of all the biggest nam...

Guten Morgen! We're coming to you live from Berlin, where the first ever official TechCrunch Europe conference is kicking off this morning. It's going to be two days packed full of all the biggest nam...

TechCrunch Disrupt Europe is officially underway and this social hub is one of the best ways to join the conversation. All of our tweets, Instagrams, and videos will live here, making it very easy to ...

Japanese telecom NTT is just the latest multi-billion dollar company to embrace Silicon Valley with the opening of a new Innovation Institute there. In doing so, its following companies like Samsung, ...

Created by the founders of Russia's biggest social networking platform, Telegram is a new messaging app that offers speed, security and features such as secret chats with end-to-end encryption and sel...

After months of trials, Nielsen today is announcing an SDK that will give it the ability to measure how people view TV on mobile apps and other digital formats -- data that Nielsen plans to use alongs...

Games as a service exist, but are often still tied to the idea of one primary device. At the same time software is moving away from one device into a more pervasive experience that follows you around ...

If you, like me, took some offline time this weekend, we’re a bit late to the latest slap fight in the world of Windows RT. Until recently, there was only one functional player in the Windows RT...

There really isn't much we don't know about Google and LG's new Nexus 5 at this point -- a leaked service manual blew the door open on plenty of technical details, and Google even "accidentally" outed...

My recent conversation with Stateless Media's Peter Savodnik was a bit discombobulating. He's had what seems like a successful career in longform journalism, with publications in The Atlantic Monthly...

On Friday, Salesforce.com said it would shut downdo.com, its once-heralded task-management service. The closing is an odd one. The service has a loyal following and is lauded for its good design and u...

Many earnest novice gym-goers have a commitment that won’t outlast a green banana. One problem is that newbies exert themselves too much and drop their membership before their overly worked musc...

This weekly column has been focused on mobile lately and will likely stay this way. Last week, I wrote from a devils advocate position to consider situations in which entrepreneurs may not want to ent...

TechCrunch Disrupt Europe's first ever hackathon has just concluded, and the judges have crowned a winner. There were 91 companies presenting hacks at this year's inaugural event, and 24 hours after t...

Hackathons tend to get a bit nutty around the 12 hour mark. After sprinting through brainstorming and the first couple revisions, coders, hackers, and designers are often overwhelmed, tired, and, well...

Here at the TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin Hackathon, Sam Gichuru (left) and Billy Odero spent the night working on a neat hack to help small businesses promote themselves by tapping into social network in...

One of the coolest hacks we saw at the TechCrunch Europe hackathon today was built by two coders from Uruguay who have been hacking their way around the world for the last few months. Truly.am lets yo...

Why did music jukeboxes disappear? They were probably the first truly social experience around music, but then everybody stopped using them. Meet Beatcoin, a nifty hack that was presented on stage at ...

Here at Disrupt Europe in Berlin, coders have had 24 hours to build the best product possible. There has been trials and tribulations, hotdogs and donuts, and quite a bit of Club Mate, and it all culm...

Sometimes you just want a hot dog. That’s why we drove a GoPro mounted to a shopping cart around the Disrupt Europe Hackathon where we saw some of the happiest hackers in the world enjoying fine...

The benefits of an industry cloud strategyare clear. But are there certain industries that are more cloud friendly? To answer this question, we set about scoring industries using a framework that rank...

Over the last few days there has been a lot of talk about Apples new direction for iWork, especially when it comes to the OS X versions of its productivity suite. At an event on Tuesday, the company a...

It's that time of week for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings three writers, three TechCrunch TV cameras, and a whole lot of opinions together to dish on the most interesting stories fr...

If you're a user of social media scheduling app Buffer, there's a good chance that your Saturday morning has been less than relaxing. There have been numerous reports circulating today purporting that...

The Disrupt Europe Hackathon is underway, but just because you can’t make it out to Berlin for the festivities, it doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the experience. That said, we’re...

Guten Tag, and welcome to a very special (Saturday) edition of the TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast. This week, Apple unveiled the iPad Air, the thinnest, lightest, and most powerful iPad yet. But is it an ...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor recorded a Tuesday evening session in the wake of Apple's iPad refresh announcements. Tim Cook cemented contro...

Hackathons can sometimes turn into a sea of laptops and monitors, so perhaps it's no surprise that as I wandered the Disrupt Europe Hackathon today, I found myself drawn to a table covered with wiring...

What does it take to become a Kickstarter success? First you need a great product. Then you need a plan for the future. Luckily, Austin-based Moniker Guitars had both. ...

Corey Thuen was a developer at the Idaho National Laboratory who helped to develop a network-visualization tool called Sophia. Then Battelle Energy, the company that manages the IDL, rejected the noti...

The United States National Laboratory Of Water Drinking And Health (not a real laboratory) recommends that all humans drink lots of water all the time. That's why H2O-Pal exists - it's a water bottle ...

TechCrunch Disrupt Europe is officially underway and this social hub is one of the best ways to join the conversation. All of our tweets, Instagrams, and videos will live here, making it very easy to ...

And they’re off! TechCrunch’s first Disrupt Europe Hackathon is officially underway. There are hundreds of registered coders, hackers, and designers. More than $5,000 is on the line and th...

Disrupt Europe: Berlin kicks off on Monday, October 28th. TechCrunch has put together an incredible array of offerings from our partners to make your Conference experience better than ever. As always,...

Snapchat is looking to raise up to $200 million at a valuation of $3 to $4 billion and one of the potential investors that founder Evan Spiegel has talked to the most is Chinese Internet giant Tencent...

Unlike consumer products, where early users will join a platform to discover something new, CIO offices in Fortune 500 companies are trained to play it safe. Many companies stick to Oracle, VMWare, EM...

Apple head of Human Interaction Jony Ive and designer Marc Newson have customized a one-off Mac Pro in brilliant crimson for the (RED) charity. Apple is a (PRODUCT)RED partner and often produces editi...

The National Security Agency’s website has been down for at least 30 minutes. Officials have acknowledged the outage, but won’t say if it was hacked. At least a few Twitter accounts thatso...

With a fresh $225 million in its pocket, Pinterest is gearing up to spend a little of it. The company today is announcing a deal with Getty Images -- the image agency that holds digital rights to some...

With a fresh $225 million in its pocket, Pinterest is gearing up to spend a little of it to build out its platform and the data that powers it -- and close up a copyright hole in the process. Pinteres...

In this week's Ask A VC show, we sat down with Google Ventures partner Dr. Krishna Yeshwant in the TechCrunch TV studio....

The first smartphone I owned was a Nokia communicator, which I chose because the C++ dev kit gave me the most freedom. When the iPhone appeared I did not switch, because mandatory App Store signing to...

Researchers at USC have stumbled on a huge change in how Google architects its search services. The result? Reduced lag in serving search queries, especially in more far flung regions (as in, far from...

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has a new blogging platform called Medium, which has been a closed-signup affair since its introduction. Today, the platform sent out an email with the news that anyon...

After settling a Zynga trademark infringement suit, Bang With Friends today rebrands as Down and reveals its revamped set of dating apps. Down's update lets you browse friends of friends rather than j...

Healthcare.gov is going to be broken until the end of November, says Jeff Zients, a consultant brought in to fix the beleaguered federal health insurance e-commerce website. On a press conference call...

80 kids got to attend academic summer camps and after-school programs this year thanks to Wishbone, and today it's education crowdfunding platform starts allowing needy children in the Bay Area or NYC...

When I've visited San Francisco coworking space Runway, it doesn't quite feel like other shared offices and incubators. Yes, there are still conference rooms, rows of people bent over their laptops, a...

Members of Congress calling Congressional oversight of the United States intelligence empire flaccid at best, and utterly incompetent at worst, is becoming a trend. Recentlyin The Guardian, Rep. Alan ...

Interest is swirling at Sony and several other major Hollywood studios swirling around Nick Biltons book Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal, TechCrunch has learne...

Apple's MacBook Pro with Retina Display will soon be just the MacBook Pro, period. But this generation two version of both the 13- and 15-inch super slim notebooks with high-res displays is still some...

Say goodbye to a good night's sleep and say hello to night terrors because we have some very special things to share with you today in our ongoing feature, Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harv...

Twitter has posted media related to its upcoming IPO Roadshow, scheduled to begin next week. The video accompanying the posting unites Twitter co-founders Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey, who...

Foundry Grouphas raised a fourth fund, called Foundry Group Select. This new fund is $225 million (the same size as Foundry's previous funds), but has a much different focus.This fund is purely for la...

India’s startup ecosystem is showing some promise. In the first half of 2013, for example, investors dropped $400 million into 141 deals, and startup Red Bus had a sweet $150 million exit. In ot...

It begins. The Greater Manchester Police in the UK raided the home of a criminal suspect where they found a 3D printer and 3D printed parts. With great pride and fanfare the police reported:...

Drawbridge, a cross-device ad targeting startup backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, officially expands into Europe today with the appointment of Kate Burns, one of Euro...

Part of the reason that higher education exists, besides accumulating habits, diets and debts that will haunt you for years to come, is to prepare you for the “real world” — and for ...

Lifestyle focused e-commerce company Fab has unveiled a new design for its website in time for the holiday shopping season. The core of Fab.com’s new user interface is its ‘Personalization...

Mobile payments startup Flint has been keeping a low profile for much of this year, but it's looking that quiet period is finally over. The company just recently launched support for Android in a bid ...

German Chancellor Merkel is angry with President Obama; so furious that she’s publicly calling the European Union to reconsider its intelligence cooperation with the United States, after reports...

Over the last several years, Y Combinator has established itself as a powerhouse by picking and helping out a number of winning startups that have gone on to have great success. That includes names li...

Perfect presented a video life blogging service for Google Glass today at TechStars Seattle Demo Day, making it the first company launching a service for the wearable computing platform to be part of ...

Samsung reported that its Q3 operating profit surged 26% to 10.2 trillion won (about $9.6 billion), but continued to warn that its smartphone sales will slow thanks to increased competition. Its earni...

In Microsoft’s fiscal first quarter of 2014, Windows revenue from OEM partners fell 7%. That’s a noticeable decline, given that Windows revenue from third-party hardware partners is the mo...

Apple has begun selling OS X Mountain Lion redemption codesalongside OS X Lion for $20 each. Lion was previously available for purchase directly from Apple over the phone, but the company has decided ...

Apple has begun selling OS X Mountain Lion redemption codesalongside OS X Lion for $20 each. Lion was previously available for purchase directly from Apple over the phone, but the company has decided ...

Apple announcedthis week that it will make its iWork suite of productivity applications free on new OS X and iOS devices. The company also made the Mavericks update to OS X free for all users, immedia...

Microsoft today reported that its Surface line of tablets had revenue of $400 million in the most recent quarter. On its earnings call, the company stated that in the most recent quarter (fiscal Q1, 2...

Today marks the launch of the full re-write of Tweetbot for iOS 7. The app is a paid upgrade, which is available for $2.99 at launch and will go up to $4.99 after the initial sale. As one of the most ...

Zynga’s shares rose nearly 12 percent in after-hours trading on lower-than-estimated losses. Zynga posted a net loss of $68,000 on about $203 million of revenue, so they managed to stay roughly ...

There's no denying that New York is full of coffee shops and coworking spaces where a person can hunker down and get things done, but there's something to be said about a little privacy. And that's th...

Amazon managed to beat expectations in its third quarter, with net sales of $17.09 billion, and a per-share loss of $0.09, or $41 million. The street had expected Amazon to lose $0.10 per share on sal...

Eleven startups will present this afternoon at TechStars Seattle. I am here to check them out and see which ones look promising. I have an enterprise slant but several from this group, like a lot of s...

The management shuffle at Zynga continues as new CEO Don Mattrick fills the executive ranks with longtime colleagues and friends from the industry. He’s poached Clive Downie from Japan’s D...

Microsoft reported its fiscal first quarter results today, with revenue of $18.53 billion and earnings per share of $0.62. Analysts had expected the first quarter of Microsoft's fiscal 2014 to generat...

Twitter will offer 70 million shares in its Initial Public Offering, and will price them at $17-$20 per share, according to an amended S-1 filing.Twitter’s IPO pricing range was rumored to drop ...

Instagram has just released the first images of what its ads will look like. Last month the company announced Sponsored Photos and Sponsored Videos would begin appearing in people's feeds from brands ...

With a Tweet today, Twitter announced Chief Digital Officer of NBC Vivian Schiller as head of its News Partnerships. Schiller will be leaving NBC News at year’s end and joining Twitter in Januar...

Apple VP of Product Design Doug Field is leaving the company for Tesla, a CNBC report claims. The brief report says that Field will head programs that will drive the development of new vehicles for th...

Apple VP of Product Design Doug Field is leaving the company for Tesla according to apress release from the automaker today.Field will head programs that will drive the development of new vehicles for...

Pricing Engine, a company that guides small businesses through the process of buying online ads, is presenting its first report today (at the Street Fight Summit New York) on data from its customers.T...

According to Nikkei, Line, a popular messaging and call service, intends to go public in 2014 on the Tokyo stock exchange. The company is expected to go public at a valuation between $800 million USD ...

Tumblr has completely revamped its search feature to make it more user friendly and powerful. Among the updates are the ability to use multiple tags in one query, easier access to the explicit content...

MediaSpike, a startup that helps mobile and social game developers make money through product placement, is reportedly growing at an impressive clip. The company announced today that its network now r...

OS X Mavericks operating system already accounts for 5.5% of North American web traffic from Apple’s operating systems just 24 hours after release, ad tracking firm Chitika tells us. The rate of...

You have more apps than you know what to do with, but Cover could fix that. It’s an Android lockscreen replacement launching (invite-only) today that adapts to show your top productivity apps at...

Social commerce platformFancy, a startup that was a shoppable Pinterest before Pinterest itself became shoppable, has now added support for same-day delivery within its mobile application and website,...

CameleonSoftware, apubliclytraded company on the Paris Boursethat automates price quotes, has been acquired for $33 million in an all-cash transaction by PROS, a holding company that specializes in bi...

Vine, Twitter's six-second looping video app, has just released an update to the app that brings two new big features to the video sharing platform: Sessions and Time Travel. Time Travel essentially l...

A team of ex-Slide employees (and later Google employees following the acquisition) based out of Shanghai, have launched a new parenting app calledKnoala,which offers a large catalog of development-bo...

LongTail Video, maker of the open source web video player JW Player, has decided to rebrand because not a lot of people knew what their company did. But, as it turns out, tons of customers know the JW...

Formlabs, an MIT Media Labs spin-out and maker of the high resolution Form 1 3D printer -- which came up on Kickstarter (where it pulled in nearly $3 million in crowdfunding) -- has closed a $19 milli...

Formlabs, an MIT Media Labs spin-out and maker of the high resolution Form 1 3D printer -- which came up on Kickstarter (where it pulled in nearly $3 million in crowdfunding) -- has closed a $19 milli...

Image tagging startup Stipple is announcing two new products today Stipple Search, which allows anyone to identify the owner of an image, and Stipple Mobile, a smartphone photo app.Stipple's technolo...

Electronic dance music is big business today, and today SFX Entertainment, a $1 billion producer of live events and other electronic dance music content is making a big consolidation move to cement it...

Everycouple ofmonths, New Relic CEO Lew Cirne has coded on a secret project, away from the family and mostly anyone else. He has been a code monk, cloistered in a cabin, developing a real-time analyti...

Tiger Pistol, a startup promising to make social media marketing easy for small businesses, is taking its tools out of beta testing. It's also announcing that it has raised $1 million in additional fu...

There's big money in football (or "soccer" as some TC readers like to say). And so it follows that there's money to be made in corresponding apps that let fans engross themselves with the beautiful ga...

Patrick Collison, the co-founder of the popular online payments startup Stripeis only 25, but he is no stranger to the journey that entrepreneurs in Europe take when they start a company in Europe and...

BloomNation, a startup building a marketplace for florists and floral designers, has closed on $1.65 million in seed funding, the company is announcing today. The round was led by Chris Dixon at Andre...

Five months ago, veteran Apple reporter Jim Dalrymple made a bet that people would want to pay two bucks to read articles about tech, music and more in a minimal iPad magazine. Now, hes moving to a re...

OS X Mavericks, the first of Apple's post-big cat OS updates, is named for one of the nicest spots on Earth. Mavericks is a surf beach in California, and the operating system that takes its name defin...

Finally, after years of producing large, dense networked speakers, Sonos has gone mini. Last week Sonos announced the Play:1, an entry-level addition to their already impressive line up of hardware. T...

Photo-sharing has a new contender for your eyeballs. Meet Dubble: an app for iOS 7 made by a U.K. startup that lets you spice up your selfies by randomly pairing them with a photo taken by someone els...

"Judas!" cried someone from the carpeted, block-strewn floor. Mrs. Felton, the third grade teacher, looked at the kids with contempt."I don't believe you!" she yelled. ...

There's a new player in town called Highfive that hopes to ease the pain of communications within the workforce, with technology that is rolling out in beta to some enterprise clients. Formerly known ...

Thanks to an update in both the TiVo hardware and mobile apps, users will be able to stream stuff they've recorded to the DVR or even programming that's appearing live to their mobile phone or tablet ...

iMoney Group, a Malaysia-based financial comparison startup, announced that it has raised a $2 million Series A round led by Singapore-based venture firm Jungle Ventures. Other investors include ECONA...

Twitter has signed up BBC Global News to its in-stream video TV ad targeting program, Amplify, its first partnership with a global news organisation. Last month it added CBS to the Amplify roster. Ori...

Back in 2010, Whatser launched as a way for friends to share their favourite locations. But by October the following year, after running out of runway, the startup voluntarily declared itself bankrupt...

SparkLabs started with the mission of helping grow South Korea's young startup industry. Now it wants to bring its impressive network of mentors to entrepreneurs in the rest of the world with a new $3...

Earlier today LinkedIn launched a new iPad app and what appeared to be a pretty slick feature for iOS Mail called Intro. It presents the a profile of email senders right within the body of the message...

Earlier today LinkedIn launched a new iPad app and what appeared to be a pretty slick feature for iOS Mail called Intro. It presents the a profile of email senders right within the body of the message...

Mobile payments provider Fortumo has launched a program that will serve as a "one-stop shop" for Chinese developers that want to distribute their apps in other countries. Called Fortumo Expand, the pr...

If you’re a BlackBerry fan, it may feel a bit like you can’t catch a break. But today Viber wants to change all that, delivering an updated version of the free calling and messaging app to...

Although the founders of SF-based Blueseed have garnered some attention recently for their desire to turn a cruise ship into a floating coworking space for foreign entrepreneurs, booking floating vaca...

Small businesses have been called the lifeblood of our economy, and today a a financial services startup has picked up a significant round of funding to help them circulate better. Funding Circle, a U...

Design isn’t something you would normally associate with a VC firm. But as more firms are adding value-added services, Google Ventures has created an all-star team of designers from Google, Mozi...

According to sources at AllThingsD(which TechCrunch now confirms)Pinterest has closed on a significant new round of financing: $225 million in new funding, with Fidelity Investments in the lead. TechC...

According to sources at AllThingsD(which TechCrunch now confirms)Pinterest has closed on a significant new round of financing: $225 million in new funding, with Fidelity Investments in the lead. TechC...

Intuit has acquired Level Analytics, a Mountain View consulting company that focuseson data science, big data, and analytics. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. All the employees from LevelAnalytic...

Intuit has acquired Level Up Analytics, a Mountain View consulting company that focuseson data science, big data, and analytics. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. All the employees from LevelAnaly...

Healthcare.gov’s newest feature is presenting consumers with disturbingly misleading health insurance prices. CBS uncovered how the beleaguered federal insurance marketplace website is underesti...

Earlier today the German publication Der Spiegelreported that that country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, likely had her cell phone tapped by the United States intelligence apparatus. Germany is a...

Microsoft has acquired Apiphany, an API management company that it willintegratewith Windows Azure. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. A short post about the acquisition is on the Windows Azure blo...

The folks at About.me have been busy since it spun out of Aol. A spin-out often puts the wind back in your sales, and the team, led by Tony Conrad and Ryan Frietas has not been content to idle.Instead...

According to legend, a vision delivered by the gods caused Julius Caesar to commit the ultimate act of insurrection by crossing the Rubicon. Splashing through this minor river dividing Caesars provinc...

Microsoft today confirmed with TechCrunch that it has made the desktop Start Screen tile non-default in Windows RT 8.1. You can return the tile to the Start Screen in any size if you wish. It also exi...

Days after naming its new CEO, Fox Networks Group president Mike Hopkins, Hulu has finally launched free video content for mobile users. But don’t get too excited – it’s just clips, ...

LookFlow, a startup that describes itself as "an entirely new way to explore images you love," just announced that it has been acquired by Yahoo and will be joining the Flickr team.The company writes ...

LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner says the barrier to his vision is scale, so it's beefing up its mobile experience with Intro, an integration adding LinkedIn and Rapportive info to Apple's Mail app, and a redes...

LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner says the barrier to his vision is scale, so it's beefing up its mobile experience with Intro, an integration adding LinkedIn and Rapportive info to Apple's Mail app, and a redes...

LinkedIn, the social network for the working world now pushing some 300 million members globally, is presenting an update on its mobile strategy today. As part of that, its parted the curtain a bit to...

There are lots of analytics services out there, but what if they don't give you the exact information that you're looking for? Well, you could build your own system from the ground up or you could us...

Maker Max is designed to be a one-stop shop for all the information Maker creators might need to grow their audiences. It provides a dashboard with analytics to show all their views, subscribers, reve...

LinkedIn is making the shift to mobile too. It now sees 38% of unique visits from mobile.The 38% figure is up from 8% in 2011, and users who access via mobile are 2.5x as active as desktop-only users....

The holiday greeting card season is nearly upon us, and today another company going after this market,Cleverbug, is relaunching its mobile application under new branding ("CleverCards"), with a boatlo...

Academia.edu, a social networking platform for academics that’s looking to change the way scientific research is shared, just acquired Plasmyd, a search engine and discussion platform for resear...

YC-backed ZenPayroll, the startup that offers an easy to use, cloud-based payroll application, has released its API, which allows third party software providers to integrate data from their offerings ...

Marblar, the product development platform that crowdsources ideas for commercial uses of scientific discoveries otherwise laying dormant in universities and research labs around the globe, is signific...

Marblaris aproduct development platform that lets users generate ideas for commercial uses of scientific discoveries that lay dormant in universities and research labs around the globe. Today the comp...

The story of nearly every business, great or small, begins with a problem. For Omri Morgenshtern, Ittai Chorev and Idan Zalzberg, it was the realization that many large organizations are spending mill...

Hundreds of days past the deadline, an SEC panel today unanimously voted to propose a rule allowing equity crowdfunding of startups by anyone, not just rich accredited investors. The rule will now go ...

Design-focused online invitations and stationery companyPaperless Posthas launched its first iPad application today, which now offers all the content from the Paperless Post website – including ...

A couple of weeks ago, mobileapp search engineQuixeyraised $50 million in Series C funding from Chinese e-commerce giantAlibaba and others, and today we're getting to see the first results of what's c...

Social polling company PopTip has a new product for marketers, journalists, and others who want to know what people are really saying on Twitter about a given topic.Analytics seems like a logical exte...

BlackBerry finally started rolling out its BBM messaging client to iOS and Android yesterday -- weeks later than originally planned, after a botched earlier attempt. And years late from a market point...

By now you will have probably heard of apps where you can literally book something based on that day's availability. Examples include Hotel Tonight, the same day Hotel booking app, and Yplan, the same...

Another startup is throwing its hat into the money transfer ring. Lithuanian-based TransferGo, which is currently part of the London fintech accelerator Level 39, is launching officially in the UK tod...

Bromium has raised $40 million for its micro virtual machine (micro-vm) technology that traps malware and analyzes it for IT administrators to examine once an attack takes place. The oversubscribed Se...

Travel app startup, TourPal, has just closed a $1 million+ Series A, with investment coming from a group of private angels for its offline travel maps app that includes downloadable (paid) audio tours...

Rocket Internet and iMENA Holding have announced that they will partner together to launch mobile app Easy Taxi in the Middle East and North Africa. iMENA will invest $7 million into the app's regiona...

Samsung has first mover advantage in the smartwatch space, launching its Galaxy Gear wearable last month. However the mobile companion device only worked if you also picked up Samsung's just released ...

IntelCapitalannouncedinvestments in 16 companies, totaling $65 million. The investments spanned cloud services, datacenter technologies, mobile and consumer-related services.The investments are as fol...

Sony Pictures has teamed up with Walmart's Vudu to start offering additional content and features to viewers who buy movies through the streaming video service. The partnership is designed not just to...

After a frustrating search to find the best local doctor in San Francisco during a "series of family emergencies," Ari Tulla teamed up with friend and co-founder Tapio Tolvanen to do something about i...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session tonight at 8pm Pacific. Like us on Facebook at Facebook.com/GillmorGang...

Video analytics startup Prism Skylabs announced today that it has raised $15 million in Series B funding.The company launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2011 (co-founder Ron Palmeri is also co-founder o...

I walked into today's Apple event positive that the iPad mini with a retina display, if unveiled, would be the one iPad to rule them all. I was sure that such a device would so thoroughly upstage the ...

Microsoft has renamed, or partially unnamed its Surface RT tablet to merely the “Surface.” The Surface RT struggled in the market through its first year in the wild. It has been mostly rep...

Given the massive global popularity of messaging, the market in play is enormous.Nexmo is a quickly growing company that providescarrier-direct SMS and Voice APIs that developers can use to reach phon...

The Apple event in San Francisco today was a big one, in terms of just how much stuff Apple trotted out between software updates, pricing bombshells and new hardware. The iPad underwent a makeover and...

Three years after it began powering the event management logistics of fashion week, Fashion GPS is going one step deeper into the seasonal editorial cycle. Its newest feature, Styles 2.0, launched tod...

Outbrain is announcing that it has raised $35 million in new funding.If you've ever read an article and found a widget at the bottom recommending stories you might also like (which can come from multi...

Apple wrapped its October event at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco earlier today and, as promised, there was plenty to dig into. We've pumped out plenty of stories dissecting Apple's myriad an...

Twitter has just announced via an S-1 amendment that "the Company entered into a revolving credit agreement with certain lenders which provides for a $1.0 billion revolving unsecured credit facility m...

Are you unhappy with your cleaning service? Your local handyman? Thanks to the advance of the Web and adoption of mobile services, a handful of startups have popped up to take advantage of an opening ...

Mobile analytics firm Distimo launched a new application for iOS users on iPhone and iPad today, which allows anyone - even non-developers - to keep an eye on app store trends. The company, which curr...

Scott Stanford and Shervin Pishevar’s Sherpa Foundry has brought on BabyCenter executive Tina Sharkey as its CEO. Previously, she was CEO of Johnson and Johnson wholly-owned subsidiary BabyCente...

SkySQL has raised $20 million to deepen its support for MariaDB, the fast growing open-source relational database and the emerging database of choice for Wikipedia. The round was led by Intel Capital ...

Apple has updated its 13- and its 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro laptops today, with changes that make both machines more powerful under the hood and that actually result in a size and weight savings for ...

The most important thing about Apple's iPad Air is the fact that it is now a one-handed device. Previous generations of the full-size 9.7" iPad could not be held in a single hand for long periods of e...

The first-generation iPad mini was near-perfect in terms of a small tablet, with the one big shortcoming being that it lacked Apple's impressive Retina high-resolution display. It was hard to go back ...

Today at an event in San Francisco, Apple reintroduced its new Mac Pro computer which will form the vanguard of its new high-end lineup of machines for the professional set. The new Mac Pro got a Dece...

Google is officially beginning to roll out parental controls in its Chrome web browser in the form of a new "Supervised Users" feature that is live now in the beta channel for early testing ahead of i...

It's always nice to see a Crunchie winner mature into a successful business. Last year, ecoATM - a network of automated recycling stations for old phones and tablets - won the Crunchie award for "Best...

Apple has made its interest in pursuing China to the best of its ability abundantly clear today. At the event to introduce its new models, Apple SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller announced that...

Considering that Apple's invitation proclaimed that were was "a lot to cover" today, it comes as no surprise that the announcement train is still chugging along. And after the usual weeks of leaks and...

Apple is trying to make its productivity software a little more appealing to users by making it free for those purchasing Mac or iOS devices. But that only matters if people use it. In an effort to ge...

Apple announced today atits eventat San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardensthat its forthcoming update to OS X, Mavericks, will come at no cost to consumers. This is a change for Apple, a company th...

Today Apple announced December availability for the Mac Pro, the strange, solid cylinder of computing power. It starts at $2,999 for the 3.7GHz quad-core Xeon, 12GB DRAM, 2GB VRAM, and 256GB. The new ...

Back in the day a few startups came along to bring the interface of a time-line to our memories. We're all familiar with the Facebook news-feed approach, though in fairness, timelines are an age-old w...

Today at Apple’s press conference, the company unveiled updated MacBook Pro models with retina displays. The new laptops sport the latest Intel processors based on the Haswell architecture. Both...

Apple has announced the release date and price for the new version of its desktop OS, OS X Mavericks. And the big surprise is it’ll be free. The software is available to download from today. Ove...

The iOS App Store now has over a million apps, which have been downloaded 60 billion times. The news broke this morning at the Apple eventtaking place at San Franciscos Yerba Buena Center for the Arts...

In San Francisco today, Apple shared some numbers during its keynote. Only five days after the iOS 7 release, 200 million devices ran the new operating system. It represents a 64 percent adoption rate...

Locket, the Android app that pays you (in tiny amounts) just for unlocking your smartphone, is today launching a toolkit for app developers which will allow them to publish their own content to users'...

Just as crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding has taken off in recent years, it was clear this model was seeping into many other areas of business. One small startup that latched onto the model was Unbound...

I know, I know: these days it seems like nearly everyone and their mother is trying to cash in on the mobile messaging app craze. And at first glance, a new Android messaging app called Emu seems like...

Peer-to-peer lodging marketplace Airbnb has faced some heat in New York City lately and is seeking to have new laws passed that would legitimize the service in the city. With that in mind, the company...

Union Square Ventures, the New York-based VC firm that has backed Twitter, Foursquare, Etsy, Zynga and many others, has debuted a newly redesigned website today. A VC firm launching a new site isn't u...

A new website catering to the stressed out, emotionally unfulfilled, and generally down called Happify is launching publicly today backed by $3.8 million in seed funding. Its goal? To bring the latest...

In the field of fitness trackers and apps, evidence of their efficacy is often anecdotal. The New York-based health startup Noom is looking to back their technology up with harder evidence, though, an...

The influence of social media continues to extend beyond platforms like Facebook and Twitter, and today, eBay is throwing its hat into the ring. It is unveiling a series of new features in its Marketp...

eBay has announced an agreement to acquire Shutl, the UK-based marketplace that uses a network of couriers to deliver local goods within a a couple of hours of the online purchase. Terms were not disc...

There's no shortage of apps which are trying to build a better interface for managing email. The latest to join the melee is Cannonball, an iPad application which reorganizes the inbox by separating y...

It’s that time again! We’re live at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, where Apple CEO Tim Cook is set to take the stage to debut everything the company has been secret...

Hot on the heels of Dwolla's big Dwolla Credit news, WunWun on-demand delivery service has some news of its own. Starting today, users of the service will be able to pay with Dwolla, either through Dw...

French video adTech startup Teads, which sells technology allowing publishers to embed video ads within articles that automatically play when they become visible on the user's screen, has closed a $5....

Enterprise software company Blue Rooster announced today that it has raised $3 million from PFU Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu. Seattle-based Blue Rooster said the funding is the first ...

We're going to Boston and are looking for a few good startups to pitch.It's been too long since we've had an event in Boston. So we're doing it big this time around. Tickets are just $5 each and grant...

Another day, another great set of judges for this year's Hardware Battlefield set to coincide with CES 2014. We are pleased to announce that Indiegogo's Slava Rubin, Brady Forrest of Highway 1, and in...

Just over a year after InMobi bought MMTG Labs, the mobile ad company is today unveiling the first big product to come out of the acquisition: a new version of its AppGalleries offering, which lets pu...

Google has acquired the french startup FlexyCore, which is best known for its Android performance boosting solution DroidBooster. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, although France's LExpansion, wh...

If this was 2010, RIM launching BBM on Android and iOS would have been viewed as a nod to open communication and a platform-agnostic product strategy. If this was 2010, it would have been marked as a ...

Apple looks to be readying a live stream of its event taking place at 10 AM PT today at the Yerba Buena center in California, according to updates that are being pushed to users' Apple TV devices, as ...

Menlo Park-based startup Mainframe2 came out of stealth at last weeks DEMO 2013 and unveiled its new cloud solution that lets you view graphical applications on any device.Founded in 2012 by graphics ...

The value of a single Bitcoin has broken the $200 mark for only the second time. The cost of a single Bitcoin hit a high of more than $205 earlier today on the biggest Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, altho...

As companies like Apple and PayPal ramp up their in-store mobile commerce activities, privacy groups, location analytics companies and New York's U.S. Senator Charles Schumer today unveiled a new code...

Super-secretive startup Clinkle hasn't had a lot to say about what it's up to, but it's announcing a big hire today that it no doubt hopes will propel it forward in the mobile payments market. As the ...

As Nielsen continues to work closely with Twitter to track tweets about TV shows; Twitter continues to explore ways of using its platform to market TV content; and Internet portals contest who is the ...

Des Moines-based Dwolla, a company building web-connected infrastructure for managing digital payments, is today taking its first step to move beyond support for cash with the debut of "Dwolla Credit....

Think you’re one of the best developers in all of Berlin? Here’s your chance to prove it and maybe, just maybe, take home a nice stack of cash for your efforts. This weekend, we’re ...

Microsoft is dead-set on keeping Windows RT with devices like the Surface 2, but now that it’s committed to shelling out $7.2 billion for Nokia’s devices business the folks in Redmond have...

The SaaS model is now for blogging, too. A new breed of companies are crowdsourcing writers to do posts for small and large businesses. Blogmutt is a bit different than the other services in this rega...

It’s taken a lot longer than Nokia hoped it would but Windows Phone is finally getting an official Instagram client.The photo-sharing social network, whichhasnorth of 150 million monthly active ...

Well folks, this probably won't come as much of a shock, but those persistent rumors of a pair of Nokia Lumia phablets were true after all. Nokia officially pulled back the curtains on the Lumia 1520 ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook has joined the advisory board of Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management (SEM), according to its Web site. Located in Beijing, Tsinghua is one of China's most prest...

It’s that time again! We’re live at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, where Apple CEO Tim Cook is set to take the stage to debut everything the company has been secret...

Signed in 2010, Microsoft and Yahoo's ten-year Search Alliance was supposed to lift Google's stronghold on search advertising. But the deal has steadily eroded since then, with the latest sign coming ...

Israeli startup Appsee says it's taking a different approach to mobile analytics.I wrote about the company more than a year ago under its old name, UserVOD, when it focused on making video recordings ...

YPlan has only been around for less than a year, but the company is rapidly covering new ground. After expanding from the UK into New York city last month, the social planning service is today launchi...

LovelyHeroku is a new breed of app that enables IT staff and developers to use their smartphones to manage their work on the Heroku platform-as-a-service (PaaS). It's the kind of service that reflects...

Today, Netflix posted its third-quarter earnings, with the streaming video provider exceeding analyst projections thanks to strong subscriber growth in which it added 1.3 million domestically. Netflix...

Over the past few days, we’ve had in our hot hands the new Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 tablets. We published an initial video clipand hands-on notes last eveningand today, we’re sharing a ...

Google is launching a free tier of Google Maps Engine today, in conjunction with its announcement of Maps Engine Pro, a small business tool. The free tier offers all of the same features but has small...

Today, at Google’s San Francisco offices, Google introduced Maps Engine Pro, a utility that allows small businesses to use Google’s location tools to create maps out of location databases....

TinyCo, an early mobile game developer that picked up funding from Andreessen Horowitz, is laying off 27 employees as it moves toward a new strategy. The company says it will outline its new moves in ...

Like Quantcast but for brick-and-mortar shopping data, not web traffic, InfoScout.co launches to give consumer product brands insight into consumer demographics. With $5 million from Bain Capital, Inf...

Earlier comments from Netflix suggested that its show "Orange Is The New Black" was a hit specifically, the company said in July that each of its original shows had a better first week than the one b...

More than two years after launching out of TechStars NYC, little Lua has grown up. The company, which provides mobile workforce technology to enterprise customers with mostly out-of-office employees (...

At todays White House Press conference, President Obama came out to sell Americans on the Affordable Care Act and try todeflect criticism about Healthcare.govs continued glitches.I think most of us in...

Netflix's third-quarter earnings report just came out, with the company beating analyst expectations on higher-than-expected subscriber numbers. For the third quarter, Netflix reported earnings of 52 ...

It's been two years since we first wrote about Spreecast, a startup which allows anyone to create live, social video broadcasts. After all that time, it's finally coming out of beta, and doing so with...

Facebook just announced two changes to its mobile app install ads that should make them more appealing to advertisers.First, the company says it will now support video in these ad units. "Video creati...

Soylent, the drink that’s designed to be a person’s entire nutritional needs, just raised $1.5 million in seed funding from investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and Lerer Ventures. Yes...

Facebook wants to get more news content in its feed by proving to media sites it's their premier social ally. Today it announced referral traffic to media sites is up an average of 170% this year, and...

The Windows RT 8.1 upgrade is on hiatus until Microsoft can fix an issue with the software that was causing havoc for a slim percentage of Surface RT owners moving to the new operating system.The comp...

The Windows RT 8.1 upgrade is on hiatus until Microsoft can fix an issue with the software that was causing havoc for a slim percentage of Surface RT owners moving to the new operating system.The comp...

Hey, remember when BlackBerry was going to officially roll out BBM for iOS and Android a few weekends ago only to be stymied by technical issues? At the time it was yet another dark mark on BlackBerry...

Sqrrl, a big data startup with links to the NSA, announced $5.2 million in Series A funding from existing investorsAtlas Venture and Matrix Partners, which will be used to further fund the development...

Sqrrl, a big data startup with links to the NSA, announced $5.2 million in Series A funding from existing investorsAtlas Venture and Matrix Partners, which will be used to further fund the development...

One of the challenges for startups going after the weddings space is that they must constantly acquire new users - at least before the word-of-mouth momentum kicks in, as brides, grooms and guests tel...

Interactive e-book Inkling first became known for bringing academic textbooks to the digital realms of iOS and the web. But in recent years it has expanded into consumer titles as well. And today, the...

Disrupt Europe is just one week off. Tickets are still on sale. Today is the last day to register for a spot in Startup Alley. There are still a few slots available for the hackathon. And, if you want...

Toronto-based startup and FounderFuel accelerator graduate OneClass today announced a new $1.6 million Series A round investment led by SAIF partners and including previous investor Real Ventures, as ...

GGV Capital, a cross-border venture capital firm that focuses on China and U.S., is bringing on its sixth general partner through hiring Hans Tung from Qiming Ventures. He’s a VC that made an ea...

We've seen developers create 3D content in the browser for a while now, but to do so, they had to use Flash or other tools because browsers didn't support this kind of content out of the box. WebGL, a...

Yahoo is planning to launch a consumer tech website with the help of long-time NYT columnist David Pogue. The news comes by way of Brian Stelter, long-time NYT writer, who reports via Twitter that Pog...

Web browser maker Maxthon has introduced a cloud browser for Windows Phone. While this latest announcement doesn't have the same immediate growth potential for Maxthon as the deal it announced last mo...

Unbounded Robotics has come out of stealth -- as the latest and last spin off from open source robotics maker and incubator Willow Garage, which created the PR2 robotics research and development platf...

Google has now became the latest tech company to introduce a centralized resource containing tools aimed at courting journalists, with the launch of a new hub calledGoogle Media Tools. The idea is to ...

If you were hoping to share your feelings about life with the world this Monday morning, you're out of luck. (Unless you prefer to do so with Twitter.) Facebook appears to be partially down at the mom...

One in 10 Americans have used a dating site or app, including 38% of people who currently describe themselves as "single and looking," according to Pew Research Center's first survey on online dating ...

Disrupt Europe in Berlinis almost here we would like to extend the offer for you, some of the best startups in the world, to take part in Startup Alley, our special pavilion focused on bringing amazin...

Russia's Yandex, which competes with Google in areas such as search, maps, translation services and more, and is the dominant search engine in its home market (reporting a 61.7% share, back in July), ...

Panorama Education, a fast-growing startup that crafts and administers surveys for schools to help teachers and administrators get better insight into how they are performing in areas like learning an...

As Amazon starts to lay the groundwork for online holiday season sales, the e-commerce giant is also facing some fresh scrutiny from regulators in Europe over its practices. Today, the German antritru...

The tablet category is continuing to eat the PC's lunch, albeit it's a large lunch so the feast is taking a while. Analyst Gartner expects worldwide tablet shipments to grow 42.7% this year, with ship...

The tablet category is continuing to eat the PC's lunch, albeit it's a large lunch so the feast is taking a while. Analyst Gartner expects worldwide tablet shipments to grow 53.4% this year, with ship...

IBM reported its third quarter financials this past week that showed a company struggling with its legacy hardware business and the problems that come with a confused cloud services strategy.Revenues ...

Microsoft has two new Surface tablets that are currently up for preorder, and a crop of refreshed accessories. I’ve had the Surface 2, Surface Pro 2, and new Touch and Type covers for a few days...

Similar to other credit cards, AmEx card holders have been able to use the rewards points they earn for flights hotels, retail purchases and access to concerts and sports events. Today, AmEx is taking...

Are you spending too much time looking at what your friends are posting on Instagram and Facebook, and not enough time hanging out with each other IRL? The founders of Ketchuppp think so. Their answer...

That's how a new startup called OKPanda hopes to stand out from the noise. Co-founded by serial entrepreneur and app developer Adam Gries and Nir Markus, the former co-founder and CTO of popular multi...

That's how a new startup called OKPanda hopes to stand out from the noise. Co-founded by serial entrepreneur and app developer Adam Gries and Nir Markus, the former co-founder and CTO of popular multi...

Today the Financial Times reported that HTC’s CEOPeter Chou will relinquish some of his daily operational responsibilities toCher Wang, another of the company’s founders. Chou will use his...

They still hang on in there selling used games and new releases, but the long-predicted death of the video game store has not wavered. It's happening inch by inch, but may speed up considerably with t...

The current consensus is that Apple currently plans on announcing the details of OS X Mavericks availability and pricing during this week’s event in San Francisco. In order to kill some last-min...

VCs have long thrown events for portfolio startups to share knowledge, and learn from each other and from previous successful entrepreneurs. Last year’s Kleiner Perkins CEO Summit featured fires...

Documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden demonstrate that the National Security Agency (NSA) hacked the email of former Mexican President Felipe Calderon while he was in office, accord...

Over the past year or so, photo service Cooliris has been announcing a number of international partnerships with companies like Renren, Yandex, and most recently Baidu.Earlier this week I met with Coo...

Over the past year, photo app Cooliris has been announcing a number of international partnerships with companies like Renren, Yandex, and most recently Baidu.Earlier this week I met with Cooliris CEO ...

Over the past year or so, photo service Cooliris has been announcing a number of international partnerships with companies like Renren, Yandex, and most recently Baidu.Earlier this week I met with Coo...

Editors Note:Semil Shahworks on product forSwell, is aTechCrunchcolumnist, and aninvestor. He blogs atHaywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at@semil. For the past few months, my weekly column her...

Serious question: Which would you prefer? To have all of your chat conversations instantly deleted upon receipt (Snapchat-style), or to keep a record of each and every word forever on the internet? A ...

Healthcare.gov, a government-run e-commerce website for the Affordable Care Act, does not actually need to exist. The still-dysfunctional federal site could have offloaded all of the work to startups,...

Apple executive Suzanne Lindbergh, who has been with the company for 25 years, confirmed via email today that she has accepted a new position with speaker and Bluetooth accessory maker Jawbone. The ma...

Twitter's #Music app, which offered social music discovery culled from activity on the 140-character sharing service, is reportedly nearing the end of its brief life, according to a new report from Al...

Jack Dorsey seems to be at the tech world's center of attention over the last few weeks, thanks to a series of articles and an upcoming discussing the early days of Twitter, and whether or not he scre...

The thing about race, class, religion and gender is that, for the most part, it is out of people's control.This all-encompassing feeling of lack of control is why when chronically underpaid service pr...

Airbnb continues to grow at an amazing pace, and now has served a total of 9 million guests in the five years since being founded. At Y Combinator's annual startup school today, Airbnb co-founder and ...

Loop is a new mobile payments startup making some fairly big claims. The company says it has invented a technology that lets you pay with your phone at nearly any point-of-sale across the U.S., withou...

This week felt like a long one, am I right? But Saturday is finally here, and along with it is a new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings three writers, three TechCrunch TV cameras, and a whole...

Dan Siroker, the co-founder and CEO of Optimizely, a Y Combinator-backed company that helps businesses A/B test their webpages, says he’s got a trick for testing prospective investors. He runs t...

While Evernote now has north of 75 million users and a valuation that’s reportedly more than $1 billion, there were many close calls. In fact, the company had just three weeks of cash left durin...

The combination of skinny jeans, hipster glasses and confident personalities like Dave McClure or Steve Blank, it seems, is irresistible.But this style has nothing to do with building a great company....

Last year, Walmart Labs jumped on the subscription commerce bandwagon in an effort to compete with a whole range of startups offering monthly boxes of goodies to customers with a new service called Go...

News Corp executive Greg Clayman has left his position with the company to join video distribution firm Vimeo as its general manager of audience networks. The news was first reported by Bloomberg, and...

If you are a Windows RT user looking forward to moving to Windows RT 8.1, you can’t, at least for a little while. Today Microsoft removed the update from the Windows Store following the uncoveri...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Doc Searls, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor demonstrate once again a complete disregard for the trending topics of the week. Instead, we talk bodyware, i...

Here are the rules:Ive been at zero a few times, come back a few times, and done it over and over. Ive started entire new careers. People who knew me then, dont me now. And so on.Ive had to change car...

It’s not often that I use a new ‘photo capture’ app and impressed by it within seconds. It’s not that there’s not a lot of cool stuff being built out there, it’s ju...

Like everyone else I am shocked, shocked!, to learn that Facebook's latest policy switch was one which will lead to users posting more public data. This time it's teenagers, who now "have the choice t...

Internally, the gold iPhone 5s was jokingly referred to as ‘The Kardashian Phone’ by some Apple employees. This fact was tweeted out by the NYT’s Nick Bilton today and we confirmed t...

Monica+Andy, anew children's clothing line and online store launching in early November has benefit of receiving input from a famous name in the e-commerce space: the "Andy" in "Monica+Andy" is Andy D...

If you're studying math or science, you are probably pretty familiar with Wolfram Alpha as a tool for figuring out complicated equations. That makes it a pretty good tool for cheating, but not necessa...

In this week's Ask A VC, we were joined by Greylock's newest partner, Simon Rothman to talk about future disruptive marketplaces and more....

U.S. Cellular, the 5th largest wireless network in the US, has announced today that it will get the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c on November 8th. Subscribers on the network have been champing at the bit fo...

As TechCrunch's resident guitarist/horrible guitarist, I enjoy apps like Capo. The $29 program allows you to "reverse engineer" any song in your iTunes library, allowing you to play along by marking o...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Doc Searls, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific. Like us on Facebook at Facebook.com/GillmorGang...

Coming off of what can only be called a political victory in the shutdown and debt limit crisis, President Obama is making noise about reviving comprehensive immigration reform from its dead status.Do...

Boulder & SF-based startup Occipital is probably still best known for its Red Laser and 360Panorama apps, but it confirmed today that it raised over $1 million on Kickstarter to bring its Structur...

Google and Facebook are getting a bit friendlier despite their social networking competition. Google’s DoubleClick ad buying software will soon allow clients to buy retargeted ads on Facebook. F...

That's right. It's Gadgets Podcast time once again, and all I can say is TGIF. ...

beRecruited, the "LinkedIn for high school athletes" looking to be recruited by college teams, was secretly acquired by private equity firm The Raine Group, sources tell me and beRecruited now verifie...

Nimble Storage, the developer of flash-optimized, hybrid storage and backup solutions for the enterprise has filed its S-1 with the SEC today. The company aims to raise as much as $150 million in the ...

Nokia has very quietly shuttered the social travel service Dopplr today, just over 4 years after acquiring it back in 2009. Nokia placed an announcement on the Dopplr homepagethat says the service wil...

Windows Azure is offering up to 22 percent off the cost of memory-intensive compute instances across Windows, Linux and its "Cloud Services" offerings. The price drop is primarily for running applicat...

Seattle-based Pirq, a digital loyalty and deals platform provider, is nowmoving away from the deal space entirely, the company says. In addition to deals, the startup had earlier been testinga digital...

Motorola isn’t doing very well as a part of Google. In Google’s most recently reported quarter, Motorola garnered revenue of $1.18 billion. Not a small number, but a mere 8% of its parent ...

Some day archeologists will look back on our civilization and wonder why we had so many smart watches. Case in point: the Oscilloscope Watch by Gabriel Anzziani is a wild little bit of gear that adds ...

Virgin Galactic is starting off sending a small group of billionaires into space, which is pretty cool... if you're a billionaire. But the startup's (yes, it's a startup, even with Richard Branson at ...

I have something to get off my chest: I live in New Jersey, so by definition that makes me a "Jersey driver". Ive never thought of myself as the sort of manically aggressive road warrior that befits t...

ImpulseSave, the startup that launched last year at Disrupt San Francisco 2012 with a mobile app aimed at encouraging people to put away money in their savings accounts, has been acquired by Bettermen...

With FarmVille, Mafia Wars and other games, Zynga became the darling of the social gaming world. But after going public, the company wasn't able to reproduce its early successes and is struggling to r...

The DataWind Aakash tablet made headlines when it promised to deliver a full-featured Android device for just under $50 a couple years back, and now the company and the device have shared some new inf...

Countless apps have tried to nail down the recommendations space, with not one rising to dominance. Today, another launches out of public beta to try and win the space that's been so highly sought aft...

Chukong, one of China’s largest mobile game developers, has picked up $50 million in extra funding led by Chinese private equity fund New Horizon Capital. It comes on top of three previous round...

Despite new lawsuits sprouting up, Aereo continues to press on with a national expansion plan, with Detroit next on the list. The streaming TV service, which offers live television and DVR service acr...

Last year we covered the news that Skycure - a Bring Your Own Device security startup - had raised $3 million in a round lead by Israeli VC Pitango. It's now launched a new suite of threat detection ...

A lot of great startups are revolutionizing the way we learn languages. There are plenty of situations you encounter while traveling or studying, however, that really just need a quick answer from a n...

Hello, puny human! How are your watery, floaty insides today? Good? Good. In this installment of TIDWRTWHUFOO we present the 3D-printed robot named Poppy. Poppy looks like a little mensch, all moxie a...

Dijit is taking a little bit of a different approach to helping users make sure they don't miss their favorite shows, and it's doing so in partnership with a number of big broadcast and cable networks...

Publishers and developers who want to include local search to their mobile apps have a new tool at their disposal a software development kit from Sprylogics.CMO William Mougayar (whose social inbox s...

doctape Viewer, an app which competes with the likes of Documents by Readdle and GoodReader by letting mobiles users view file types not supported natively on their OS, has landed on Android as a paid...

Autodesk isn't a startup, but in a lot of ways, the graphics software giant is behaving like one and helping pave the way for a new generation of hardware entrepreneurs in the process. CEO Carl Bass ...

Case closed for Rocket Lawyer, the online legal services startup that was getting sued by its rival LegalZoom over claims of false advertising and other Federal Trade Commission violations. The court ...

Another development in the case between rivals Rocket Lawyer, the online legal services startup, and LegalZoom, which is suing Rocket Lawyer LegalZoom over claims of false advertising and other Federa...

Wishberg, a startup that lets users share a "bucket list" of their goals, announced that it has raised $150,000 in seed funding from India Quotient, a venture capital fund that focuses on early stage ...

Chinese phone and PC maker Lenovo has once again been linked with a potential BlackBerry acquisition. Yesterday the Wall Street Journal suggested Lenovo is actively considering a bid for all of Black...

Back in August, Collegefeed, a service that combines crowdsourcing with social networking to connect students with each other and potential employers, raised $1.8 million in a round led by Accel Partn...

Wonga is a UK-based startup best known for its online payday loan services, but today the company made a move that could see it not only extending across to other markets in Europe but also into other...

Wonga is a UK-based startup best known for its online payday loan services, but today the company made a move that could see it not only extending across to other markets in Europe but also into other...

It’s almost time. In just over a week, we’re bringing the TechCrunch Disrupt conference to Europe for the very first time. And you know what comes before every Disrupt? One of our crazy, i...

For the past three business days, the entire San Francisco Bay Area has been on the brink of a full-fledged train strike. The unpredictable negotiations have leftcommuters in limbo: it's too risky to ...

For the past three business days, the entire San Francisco Bay Area has been on the brink of a full-fledged train strike. The unpredictable negotiations have leftcommuters in limbo: it's too risky to ...

Dow Jones Venture Source released its quarterly report on the state of venture capital, including data on number of VC deals, funds raised, M&As and IPOs in the technology sector. According to the...

Dow Jones Venture Source released its quarterly report on the state of venture capital, including data on number of VC deals, funds raised, M&As and IPOs in the technology sector. According to the...

“We can’t wait to get our people closer together, we’re a very collaborative company. One of the beauties of Apple Campus 2 is that it will be walkable. It will be great for us to in...

It's official: Today, New York City-based startup Magnify has acquired Waywire, the once-hyped startup founded by Senator-elect Cory Booker. That's been widely expected ever since AllThingsD broke the...

It's hard to get people to concentrate long on anything on their phones and tablets, yet YouTube seems to be the exception. The video service is quickly going mobile, with small screens making up 40% ...

This week, we talk about SwiftKey releasing a lot of new keyboard layouts and features, Dailymotion expanding to Japan and acquiring a startup in Europe, and Cambridge getting into VC. This is the Tec...

Developers are now free to submit their Windows 8.1-ready applications.Microsoft initially denied developers access to the operating system after it was released to OEM partners. Developers, accustome...

Lil'Stylers, a new shopping discovery service launching first on the iPhone, has a different (and maybe unsettling?) take on tracking children's fashion trends. For those following mobile shopping spa...

Windows 8.1 day rolls along, and, while I assume that you have already updated if you were a Windows 8 user, Microsoft is continuing to speak out about its new software. The company has again taken to...

Google's Q3 2013 earnings report has just crossed the wires, and they're better than expected. The company reported that over the past three months it generated $14.89 billion in consolidated revenue ...

Facebook's trying hard to be a mobile first company, but a lot of new features still come out on desktop first where it's easier to test. But today, the options to edit posts and comments after publis...

Facebook's trying hard to be a mobile first company, but a lot of new features still come out on desktop first where it's easier to test. But today, the options to edit posts and comments after publis...

Hulu has announced that Mike Hopkins, a board member at Hulu and president of Fox Networks Group, is the company's new CEO. Hopkins had previously been reported as the likely candidate for the role.It...

SoundHound's music identification app has the unfortunate position of having to live in Shazam's shadow, but that may not be the case for much longer. Though both apps currently allow users to push a ...

Tea Party darling and government shutdown-enthusiastTexas Senator Ted Cruz just blocked the nomination of Thomas Wheeler for Federal Communications Commission Chairman. In a statement to TechCrunch, a...

"We're less interested in deal-making than getting things going. Perhaps I'm just naive."Those are the words of Rick DeVos, founder and CEO of the Michigan-based Start Garden, a $15 million investment...

Despite being one of the most popular and powerful social networks on the planet, Twitter is far from perfect. With only a quarter of the 1 billion registered accounts remaining active, the platform c...

Meet Mindie, a beautifully designed video-sharing app for the iPhone. But calling it a video app is just one part of the story. It’s not yet another Vine, Instagram or even MixBit competitor. Mi...

We were randomly emailed by one Michal Sadowski, an entrepreneur from Poland. The video he sent us is a sort of MTV-esque homage to the swirl of experiences that might happen to a startup founder were...

ParStream, one of the mostpromisingdata analytics startups, has raised an $8 million Series B round led by Khosla Ventures. The round increases ParStream's total funding to $13.6 million. The company ...

Earlier today, Microsoft released Windows 8.1, the successor to its controversial Windows 8 operating system. From what I can tell, most folks appear to be having a fine time updating. Not everyone, m...

The Google Books Ngram Viewergota new set of features today that will make it useful for more advanced research incorpus linguisticsby adding wildcards and the ability to search for inflections and mu...

Can you smell a symphony? If Le Laboratoire has its way, you soon will. The contemporary art and design sensor founded by academic and scientists David Edwards in 2007 was at Wired's 2013 event in Lon...

Late yesterday afternoon many Twitter users began to notice that they could no longer send Direct Messages containing URLs. The complaints about the issue gained steam late into the night, when we rep...

Mode, a company that is building an online repository for data science work, announced today that it has secured a $550,000 seed round of funding, led by Yammer founder David Sacks. Mode CEO Derek Ste...

On the heels of its $871 million acquisition of Eloqua in December 2012, today Oracle is sailing into another acquisition in the cloud-based marketing space in competition with Salesforce and others. ...

Last year we covered an interesting new global initiative, and the rash of new accelerators across the world created a problem: how to apply for many of them. To the rescue came f6S.com, a way for sta...

FlyKly Smart Wheel is a Kickstarter project that wants to turn your boring old pedal bike into a sneakily pedal-assisted electro-bike by sticking an electric motor in the back wheel. Or, more specific...

If AngelList provides a foundation for investment 'capital as a service,' then Data Elite could be the model for 'advising-as-a-service.' Data Elite is launching today as a a venture lab and fund that...

E-commerce startups have been working at the online-offline game for a while now, in the form of pop-up shops and brick-and-mortar investments like Warby Parker's New York flagship and Bonobos' Guide ...

Breathometer wants to help reduce the number of drunk drivers there are on the road, thanks to a pocket-sized device that connects to your phone through its headphone jack and can guage your blood alc...

Following recent changes at DFJ Esprit, Forward Ventures, and Index Ventures, today sees another change in European VC personnel. Long-time partner Daniel Waterhouse has left Wellington Partners to jo...

When I was a kid I was amazed by advances technology. I went to a friend's house when I was in fifth grade and his father had a PC - an IBM PC, I believe - with a built in hard drive. We loaded King'...

Because games are the overwhelmingly most actively used and lucrative category in the two major app stores, it’s no surprise that apps from other categories have tried to employ gaming mechanics...

Bloomberg Beta is releasing its internally generated "operating manual" to the world on Github. While the manual was created by five-person staff for its own use in determining how and under what term...

When Pinterest frenzy was at a peak (adding users in record numbers; $1.5b valuation), and before Pinterest started to roll out its own tools for marketers, a rush of startups emerged that third parti...

Roambi, the app that makes it easy for companies to turn their data into interactive graphics, has released a major update of its analytics platform. The most obvious difference in Roambi Analytics 7,...

Ping, a mobile messaging app that turns emails into real-time conversations, is relaunching today under the new name of "hop." (It seems that PING Golf may not have cared for the original name too muc...

Hulu, one of three bigreasons why you should probably cut the cable soon, has today announced that it will provide access to its library of streamable TV shows and movies to Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 3DS...

Glow, the fertility tracking app co-founded by Max Levchin, is announcing today that it's inked a partnership with MyFitnessPal, the popular diet and exercise tracking app. Starting today, users of Gl...

Glow, the fertility tracking app co-founded by Max Levchin, is announcing today that it's inked a partnership with MyFitnessPal, the popular diet and exercise tracking app. Starting today, users of Gl...

Word-prediction Android keyboard maker SwiftKey, which closed a $17.5M Series B led by Index Ventures last month and whose keyboard software runs on millions of mobile devices, has launched a new vers...

San Francisco startup Stitch Fix has closed on $12 million in a new funding round led by Benchmark as it looks to scale its tech-powered personal shopping and delivery service for women. The funding, ...

Spotify community and playlist sharing site Playlists.net (formerly ShareMyPlaylists) is continuing its drive to put music discovery at the heart of its proposition.Following a redesigned Spotify app,...

BitLock is a smart lock for your bike that uses Bluetooth LE/4.0 to do away with physical keys -- allowing you to lock and unlock your ride based on the proximity of your smartphone to your bike (or d...

With beauty vloggers showing off their new cosmetics, or "hauls," on YouTube, and the rest of the world taking to Instagram to filter their purchases into perfection, the B2B service Olapic has been c...

We're number one! We're number one!And by "we", I'm referring AOL, which owns TechCrunch. comScore is releasing its Video Metrix report for September, and while AOL only ranked third among video conte...

Speaking at Wired's 2013 event in London today, Summly founder and Yahoo! employee Nick D'Aloisio discussed the now well-known story of how he built his product as a teen and then decided to pair up w...

Marketing intelligence company Mintigo is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series C funding.In an email, co-founder and CEO Jacob Sharma compared the company to an "air traffic controller"...

The HitFox-incubated mobile games marketing platform AppLift has raised a further $7 million in funding from previous backer Prime Ventures. It's also announcing it's poached two seasoned Rocket Inter...

A U.K. parliamentary committee has widened the scope of a planned inquiry into the legislative framework governing national intelligence agencies access to private information, triggered by the PRISM ...

Today at Wired's 2013 event in London, Twitter's Deb Roy (co-founder of TV social impact analytics firm Bluefin Labs, acquired by Twitter earlier this year), the MIT researcher discussed how his compa...

One of the many joys of exploring a city like Taipei is its maze of lanes and alleyways, which are lined with small shops, incense-filled temples and leafy parks. The downside is wrangling with addres...

Earlier this afternoon Twitter users began experiencing difficulty sending URLs or ‘links’ via Direct Message. Depending on the client used, error messages popped up that indicated the DMs...

Tibco, the middleware company, showed again its push to become an enterprise collaboration provider with the latest version of its tibbr service by adding file storage and sharing capability, task man...

Newark Mayor Cory Booker cruised to victory in New Jersey’s special election tonight. As a long-term presidential hopeful, he’ll instantly become one of the Democratic Party’s most p...

A new report from online advertising company Turn shows rising or steady eCPMs (the effective price paid by advertisers for every thousand impressions).The Global Digital Audience Report is based on d...

Russian search giantYandexhas launched anopen-source platform as a service (PaaS) calledCocainethatthecompanysays allows developers to build out their ownapp engines. Yandex, in its documentation, des...

With the rise of crowdfunding and easier paths to manufacturing, there are more gadgeteers than ever before. And we're looking for some of the best hardware startups to compete on our Las Vegas stage ...

Four months ago, Anki co-founder Boris Soffman took the stage at Apple's WWDC keynote. After years of stealthily toiling away in their labs with few outside of the company knowing their plans, the tea...

Electricity in Jakarta, Indonesia costs three cents per kilowatt hour. Thats 30 cents less than power in the US and Europe. This means, all things being equal and provided you dont mind your apartment...

Email management company Boxer has raised $3 million in funding led by Sutter Hill Ventures. Proceeds will be used to expand the company's engineering and design team and to build apps for other platf...

LG is following Samsung's example in providing a curved glass smartphone that makes no earthly sense, HTC is offering a fingerprint scanner that no one needs executed poorly, and Mad Catz is entering ...

IBM hasreportedits third-quarter revenues were $23.72 billion compared to $24.74 billion this time last year. The revenues were down due to the company’s underperforming hardware division, which...

eBay reported its third-quarter financial performance today, including revenue of $3.9 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.64. The company’s revenue was up 14 percent from the same qua...

Like a cautious parent, Facebook is giving teen users new freedom despite risks. For the first time, users under 18 can post publicly. The logic is that other sites don't restrict kids, teens are gett...

Until recently advertising company Jun Group focused on video. In recent months, however, it's been exploring a format that it calls "owned advertising" with a new product called Overdrive.CEO Mitchel...

Last we heard from Apartment List, they had just launched their app and were aiming to take on Craigslist as apartment hunters’ tool of choice. Now the service has made its next move: acquiring ...

Tomorrow, at 4 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, Windows 8.1 will begin to roll out as an optional update to Windows 8 users. The new software represents a reset and rebirth of the bets that Microsoft made ...

Makeably, the New York-based, custom-made goods marketplace that closed on seed funding from Great Oaks, 500 Startups and others earlier this yearis now relaunching under a new, easier-to-remember nam...

Two heads are better than one. It's an age-old saying that has particular poignance in the entrepreneurial realm, where investors are much more comfortable handing over wads of cash to a team instead ...

On a regular basis, we get pitched with major tech industry initiatives to broaden computer science education. A day after Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates signed on to a new initiative from Code.org to...

Less than two years after Gowalla's acquisition by Facebook, co-founder Scott Raymond has left to join Airbnb on its mobile product team. There Raymond will oversee a product that is growing in import...

Apple likely has a few different announcements on tap for its event in San Francisco, next Tuesday, October 22, judging by the invitation received by press. We'll be there live to tell you exactly wha...

Yahoo managed to beat low investor expectations by a slim margin yesterday and was rewarded with a short bump this morning that has already burned off.Yahoo's non-GAAP earnings per share totaled $0.38...

Microsoft is finally ending all extended support for Windows XP on April 8, 2014, five years after it ended mainstream support. After that, the 12-year-old operating system will not receive any new se...

The carrier-backed mobile payments service Isis, a joint effort from AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless here in the U.S., thinks getting consumers to change their purchasing behaviors is as easy ...

Last Friday, 40 people gathered at an apartment in lower Manhattan to take a look at a series of works by the artist Alexandra Posen. The pieces colored wax on paper worked into abstract forms sat i...

A few months after raising its $23 million Series B, mobile shopping companionSliceis receiving its first major update. The app, whose overall mission involves leveraging the email inbox as a source f...

Javelin Venture Partners has raised $125 million for the firm's third fund. The firm, which focuses on early stage, seed and Series A investments, has also promoted principal Alex Gurevich to partner....

"Always be raising."500 Startups is seeking $100 million to make seed-stage and follow-on investments, according to an SEC filing. The new fund is being raised just three years after 500 Startups firs...

Veeva Systems, an enterprise cloud provider for life sciences companies like Pfizer, IPO'd on the NYSE this morning, raising around $194 million by upping its share price $20. Veeva saw a pop of 83.5%...

Veeva Systems, an enterprise cloud provider for life sciences companies like Pfizer, IPO'd on the NYSE this morning, raising around $194 million by upping its share price $20. Veeva saw a pop of 83.5%...

If the new studio at Fox News, with its big-ass touchscreens, looks a little bit like Minority Report, that's because it's just like Minority Report. Oblong, the same company that helped create the te...

Cloud-based map platform startup MapBox, which gives developers tools to add interactive maps to their web and mobile offerings, clad in their own brand colours/designs -- and counts foursquare, Uber,...

In the allegro-paced race between music streaming providers to see who will be the first to achieve profitable scale, today Rhapsody got a significant leg up, courtesy of Telefonica. The Spanish-based...

Google's fall harvest of new products includes some new Chromebooks, including an adorable and pugnacious little whippersnapper in the HP Chromebook 11. With its smooth, unmarked white plastic lid, yo...

The ITU has recently published figures noting 2.7 billion internet connections globally, and today Akamai has released some numbers pointing to how fast those connections actually are. The company, a ...

Israeli indie mobile games studio, PlayArt Labs, has its eye on the educational gaming space, with a special focus on tapping into cultural learning. The studio launched an iPad game called Artistico ...

Mobile deeplinks open specific pages within apps, and they're about to transform ecommerce. URX is a new deeplink mobile advertising startup that's raised $3.1 million from A-list investors to help ec...

Social media marketing company Brand Networks is announcing that it's acquiring Optimal for $35 million in cash and stock.Brand Networks co-founder and CEO Jamie Tedford told me that he sees the two c...

Marketing startup Nomi has raised $10 million in Series A funding.The startup says that it wants to give brick-and-mortar stores and other offline businesses the data they need to become as optimized ...

Refinery29 had a good year in 2012, becoming one of the fastest growing media companies in America and doing $16.6 in revenue in its mission to capture the attention of the millennial woman. The women...

A central aspect of any Disrupt event is the Battlefield startup competition, and at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe there will be no exception to this. This is where new companies reveal themselves to the ...

While the French government scuppered Yahoo’s acquisition of Dailymotion, the video platform is still planning its next expansion moves. According to news agency AFP, the French company will ope...

Last April, Instacanvas launched as an easy way to print photos from Instagram on canvas, but the company's founders always had the ambition to expand the service beyond this first idea. Today, Instac...

Another day, another social mobile shopping app on the march. U.K.-based Depop, which was founded in 2011 but launched officially in April this year, has just closed a $1 million seed round, from seve...

Apple is cutting its orders for the iPhone 5c ahead of the fourth quarter, a new report from the Wall Street Journal claims. Citing people familiar with the situation, the WSJ says that Apple asked it...

Sony has announced a couple of new cameras early this AM, including the A7 and A7R, both mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras with a twist that's unprecedented for that type of device a full-frame...

A while back, we were at a dinner, and when one of us mentioned that we were an editor at TechCrunch, the guy across the table from us chimed in, without introducing himself, with a well-worn complain...

Square today is formally launchingSquare Cash, a product that allows anyone to send money to a contact via email. Square initially soft-launched the product to a limited number of users earlier this y...

There are two camps in the cloud world. There are the cloud washers, which are the ones who put a cloud sticker on everything. They say, Oh, yes, its a private cloud for big data. Then they throw in a...

Apple has sent out a message on its (public) developer news boards today encouraging developers to submit apps that are fully compatible with its upcoming operating system OS X Mavericks. If the fact ...

Twitter's percent user growth is slowing. In a new S-1 amendment to its IPO filing, Twitter notes it hit 231.7 million monthly users by at the end of Q3 2013, up 6.13% from 218.3 million at the end of...

Typically, TechCrunch Cribs goes inside tech companies to show a side of them that cameras don't often see. But this episode took us to the San Francisco office of CreativeLIVE, the online education s...

According to its newly refiled S-1 document, Twitter has lost $133.8 million to date in 2013. That compares negatively with its equivalent loss of $70.7 million in 2012. Both loss figures include the ...

In the third quarter, Yahoo purchased eight companies, including Lexity, Rockmelt, and Xobni. According to its earnings release, the net cash impact on those purchases totalled $163 million. Does that...

Twitter has amended its S-1 filing to note that it will be listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the TWTR symbol, a detail that was omitted from the original filing. The new document was upload...

Mobile-only social networking app Path laid off 13 staffers today, axing 20 percent of its workforce. Rumors of the layoffs have been percolating around the tech industry this afternoon and were first...

Walmart today announced its plans to expand its same-day grocery delivery service, a part of its “Walmart To Go” offering, to a new market: Denver, Colorado. This move follows the company&...

In an effort to protect government whistleblowers from unprecedented levels of surveillance, the Freedom of the Press Foundation has launched SecureDrop, an anonymous submission tool for secure commun...

BlogTalkRadio has signed a big partner to its live podcasting network sports site SB Nation.The timing might seem interesting, since news broke today that Vox Media, the company behind SB Nation and ...

When it comes to online genealogy, the two major for-profit players are Ancestry.com and MyHeritage. Ancestry.com got a major head start over MyHeritage, but it mostly focused on gathering historical ...

“At some level, it is still contrarian,” Accel Partners’ Andrew Braccia admits about leading a $40 million fourth round of funding in Vox Media, the publisher of hundreds of major le...

Today in conjunction with its third quarter earnings release, Yahoo announced that it has come to a new agreement with Alibaba that will force the company to sell less of its shares in the Chinese eco...

Yahoo just released its earnings report for the third quarter of the year, with revenue of $1.08 billion (minus traffic acquisition costs) and earnings per share of 34 cents. That's in line with analy...

Yahoo just released its earnings report for the third quarter of the year, with revenue of $1.08 billion (minus traffic acquisition costs) and earnings per share of 34 cents. That's in line with analy...

Well, it's that time again -- famed chipmaker Intel has just reported its fiscal Q3 2013 earnings and they're just a bit better than expected. The company reported quarterly revenue of $13.5 billion (...

The Scroogled advertising campaign undertaken by Microsoft to ding and scuff its rival Google appears to be an effective effort, according to statistics recently published by AdWeek. That publication'...

PiracyData.org, a new website built by folks from the Mercatus Center at George Washington University, highlights a fact that has been too little known for some time: The most popular pirated content ...

There are few figures more legendary in Silicon Valley than Nolan Bushnell, the Atari co-founder who gave Steve Jobs his first tech job and the guy who turned down the offer to buy a third of Apple fo...

Only a few months after its debut, mobile couponing appCliplessfor Android has already been acquired by deal aggregator 8coupons, which had previously served as a data source within the app, along wit...

Mozilla today launched the Firefox OS App Manager to make it easier for developers to build and debug Firefox OS apps in its simulator and on a connected device. From the earliest days of Firefox OS, ...

HTC isn't exactly doing great these days, but that may change if a new (and secretive) partnership pans out. A new report from the Financial Times alleges that HTC has partnered with none other than A...

GoDaddy acquired Media Temple today. As part of the deal, the easy website building service Virb that was bought by Media Temple in 2012 is being spun out and sold back to its founder Brad Smith, and ...

If you’re gearing up for Disrupt Europe, to be held in Berlin in just under two weeks, you know the conference features an amazing roster of panelists, speakers, and Battlefield companies, and o...

When you become a parent, all of a sudden you realize everyone has an opinion on how that job should be done, from well-meaning in-laws to strangers who walk up to you in the mall and lecture you abou...

Back in Feburary, we wrote about a smartphone app for school teachers called Quick Key, the low-fi demo video for which had just gone viral. The app's optical scanner quickly grades Scantron answer sh...

Domain registration and hosting company GoDaddy is continuing on its acquisitions roll, with the announcement today that it acquired Media Temple, a premium domain hosting and website services company...

Apple has announced a special event to be held next week on October 22, after that date was leaked first by AllThingsD and then later confirmed by The Loop's Jim Dalrymple. If rumors prove correct, th...

Interactive scrapbook startup Keepy wants to be the place where parents go to digitally store all their kids' artwork and report cards and whatever else. To that end, the company has raised $1.1 milli...

French startup Bunkr just released a new major version of its presentation web app in partnership with Etamin Studio. It still is a fully responsive HTML5 web app that works seamlessly on your compute...

Kodak may have filed for bankruptcy, but its brand and business carries on. Today, the Kodak Alaris group is launching a new service for mobile app developers, which will allow them to integrate an AP...

Today, WillCall is a concert ticket sales app aiming to grow by adding the option to gift tickets to friends. But founder Donnie Dinch's ambitions are more akin to that of Travis Kalanick. Dinch has b...

Taking cues from the IoT playbook is Israeli startup Greenbox with its "cloud-connected smart irrigation system". Pegged for a December launch but already available for preorder, the company is pitchi...

Nike is revealing a new version of its FuelBand today at an event in New York City. Dubbed the FuelBand SE, the new fitness tracker sports a variety of color accents and represents the sporting goods ...

How many younger readers really care about news and politics as opposed to celebrity gossip, viral videos, and cat GIFs? Well, a site called PolicyMic is built around the proposition that readers und...

How many younger readers really care about news and politics as opposed to celebrity gossip, viral videos, and cat GIFs? Well, a site called PolicyMic is built around the proposition that readers und...

Hardware Alley is my favorite part of Disrupt and we're bringing the festivities to Berlin on October 29 when 30 lucky hardware companies can show off their wares. It is a crowd favorite and I'd love ...

Andreessen Horowitz-backed Aviate, a startup working to build a better interface for interacting with an increasing number of mobile apps stored on our devices, is today launching into public beta. Si...

Nginx, the company behind the increasingly popular web server by the same name, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series B round led by New Enterprise Associates. This round also includ...

After rebranding from MyYearbook more than a year ago, social network MeetMe is off and running on its next big adventure. It's a Tinder meets Vine social dating play, and it's called Charm. MeetMe's ...

Druva has raised a $25 million Series Cinvestment fromSequoia Capital, Nexus Venture Partners andTenaya Capital for its backup and file sharing platform that safeguards a company's data across mobile ...

As General Assembly moves away from co-working and focuses more heavily on educating entrepreneurs and startups, the company is releasing a brand new tool to the public. It's called Dash, and it's an ...

Since launching last year, online fitness startups Wello has been trying to democratize training with Google Hangout-like video conferencing sessions. By doing so, Wello enables its customers to get i...

SundaySky, a company promising to deliver video ads that are customized and updated for each viewer, has raised $20 million in Series C funding.The round was led by Comcast Ventures, with participatio...

Social shopping and deals-focused startup Shopcade, which launched out of the U.K. in November 2011, has raised 2.5 million (circa $4 million) to accelerate its growth on mobile. Investors in the fund...

You've seen "Pinterest for X" style startups before I'm sure. Well, gamesGRABR is a new style "social network for gaming" which is aiming to become a sort of 'Pinterest you games'. But before you turn...

Skit!, the comedy animation app that TechCrunch first met at Disrupt NY, is ramping up its monetization strategy with sponsored product placements. The latest one is timed to Pacific Rim's Blu-Ray rel...

Last we heard from SkyGiraffe, a platform to extend enterprise systems with mobile devices, it had raised a seed round from Angels (including Parker Thompson, a partner at 500 Startups) back in May. T...

Twitter has pushed out a feature update that is extremely useful for journalists like myself, and anyone else who hopes to use Twitter to communicate both publicly and privately. The social network no...

A big move for Softbank into the gaming world, and a big investment for Finnish gaming juggernaut Supercell. The company is selling a 51% stake for $1.5 billion to Japan’s SoftBank and GungHo On...

Another big move for Softbank into the gaming world, and a massive investment for Finnish gaming juggernaut Supercell: the company is selling a 51% stake for $1.53 billion to Japan's SoftBank and game...

Another big move for Softbank into the gaming world, and a massive investment for Finnish gaming juggernaut Supercell: the company is selling a 51% stake for $1.53 billion to Japan's SoftBank and game...

Amazon has a strong advantage over other retailers when it comes to prices, and a new report from The Wall Street Journal shows one reason why. In addition to not having to maintain expensive, huge re...

Yandex, the search company often referred to as the Google of Russia, is today announcing its latest acquisition: KinoPoisk, an online film database known as "the IMDb of Russia" (after the Amazon-own...

If you had any second thoughts about how Apple sees itself as a high-end fashion brand in the consumer electronics world, doubt no more: today the company announced that it is appointing Angela Ahrend...

Web site translation and localization platform Dakwak, which we first profiled in July 2013 when it was part of 500 Startups' sixth class, has launched a new freemium model to attract small- to medium...

Voxer, the mobile messaging app that started out the year with a little notoriety (thanks to Facebook cutting off its API access), is today taking the next step in its transformation into a paid enter...

The Washington Post broke news this afternoon that the National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting huge numbers of email address books and chat buddy lists for both foreign individuals and United Sta...

As excitement grows for the upcoming Twitter IPO, the federal government shutdown and pending debt-ceiling issue looms large. There are some in Silicon Valley who believe that the current innovation c...

The National Security Agency has been secretly "harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to America...

In this week's episode of Ask A VC, we have Greylock's newest partner, Simon Rothman, joining us in the studio. You can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here and well ask them...

Yahoo will report its third-quarter earnings tomorrow. Analysts expect per-share profit of $0.33 on revenue of $1.1 billion. That compares unfavorably to Yahoo's year-ago third quarter, in which it re...

BlackBerry is currently dealing with some serious, serious issues -- no one wanted its first flagship phone, one of its co-founders might be making a dark-horse bid to buy the company back, and the co...

Back at TC Disrupt NY, Zenefits promised to automate away the most annoying bits involved with running a startup. Hire someone? Give'm the basic details, and they'll get them insured and on payroll. F...

The motivation behind this show, Founder Stories, is to get inside the head of a founder to see what makes them tick, to unearth the wisdom they've collected through the trials of building something f...

For more than a decade, Threadless has been the place to go to get interesting T-shirts and other apparel, all of which have been submitted and vetted by its own community. Now you'll be able to find ...

Boston in the fall. There's nothing like it. Leaves are falling, a crisp wind blows in from the bay, and the particular pencils being sharpened are owned by Harvard, Boston College, and MIT students. ...

Berlin-based MOOCs startup iversity, which last year began a pivot away from online learning collaboration tools with the aim of becoming the Coursera of Europe, is launching its first clutch of free ...

Apple product manager Gareth Paul Jones is leaving the company to join Twitter, he announced via tweet.According to Jones' LinkedIn profile, he was a product manager on Apple's recently-launched iTune...

Everything that happens on Twitter could become fuel for targeting off-site ads run through its recent ad network acquisition MoPub, according to the Financial Times' sources. In theory, users logged ...

PayPal has today scored another partnership bringing its technology to more point-of-sale platforms via a tie-up with iPad POS solution provider, Revel Systems, a company whose business has grown by 4...

PayPal has today scored another partnership bringing its technology to more point-of-sale platforms via a tie-up with iPad POS solution provider, Revel Systems, a company whose business has grown by 4...

A new application called Skimbox is attempting to take on the heady challenge of fighting email overload in a way that makes sense for both consumers and the enterprise. The app, launching first on iO...

Photo-sharing appCluster, which this summer announced $1.6 million in funding in a round led by early Instagram investor Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures, is today making its mobile photo albums ap...

Photo-sharing appCluster, which this summer announced $1.6 million in funding in a round led by early Instagram investor Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures, is today making its mobile photo albums ap...

If you want History Channel, you also have to get Biography Baby or something non-fictional but equally dumb. It's the magic of cable and satellite bundles, and it's the Way Things Are Done. But in Ca...

Lithuanian startup TRAFI is announcing a seed funding round of $500,000 U.S. today, provided by Practica Capital. In addition to the funding, former Nokia Maps chief Sylvain Grande is joining the boar...

As countries around the world gradually lift regulations on the use of commercial drones, a new startup called Flirtey hopes to turn Australia into a worldwide industry leader for the use of UAVs (unm...

Over the years, Sonos has built a reputation for producing high-quality stereo components that can magically connect to your own personal music library, as well as a large number of streaming services...

When free app Foursquare announced an injection of $41 million from investors earlier this year, CEO and founder Dennis Crowley described how the new funds would help the mobile search and location-sh...

Today Microsoft announced its third update to Windows Phone 8. This is the set of new features and upgrades that will carry the smartphone platform through the holiday sales cycle. Included among the ...

Today Microsoft announced its third update to Windows Phone 8. This is the set of new features and upgrades that will carry the smartphone platform through the holiday sales cycle. Included among the ...

More evidence that major telcos have caught the startup bug. This time it's the turn of BT, which this morning unveiled a partnership in the UK with startup workspace and community TechHub that will s...

Nintendo has a rhythm that's predictable when it comes to product releases: Create a new console, then create different iterations of those consoles with upgrades aimed at expanding market share in cl...

Maverick, from Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup AppForma wants to become the "Wordpress for digital marketing". The platform claims to enable SMBs to achieve "ad-agency quality" marketing at a fraction ...

HTC has revealed its latest smartphone, the 5.9-inch big-screen sibling of the HTC One flagship device. The new HTC One Max is well into phablet territory at nearly 6 inches, but retains the slick alu...

Freelancer.com announced today that it has filed for its initial public offering on the Australian Securities Exchange. The company aims to raise $15 million AUD (about $14.2 million USD). Thirty mill...

And the seemingly age-old war between LG and Samsung continues. This time the battle is centered around curved displays on smartphones -- Samsung has already shown its hand with the curious Galaxy Rou...

Big news for a Monday morning/late Sunday night (depending on where you are): Onavo, the Israeli mobile analytics company, has just announced that it has been acquired by Facebook. Onavo in turn will ...

Big news for a Monday morning/late Sunday night (depending on where you are): Onavo, the Tel Aviv-based mobile analytics company, has just announced that it has been acquired by Facebook. Onavo will b...

Atlassian makes tools for software teams to collaborate that it sells pretty much entirely over the Internet. It's a low-overhead business and the model works. For its 2013 fiscal year, Atlasssian had...

Netflix is in the early stages of negotiating with U.S. cable providers to make its online streaming video service available as an app through their set-top boxes, says a Wall Street Journal report. I...

So, the former President of Harvard doesnt like the Thiel Fellowship. In his shoes, neither would we. A program that asks the best and brightest from top Universities to pursue their interests outside...

A simple link. That's all it took to unleash a hailstorm of angry emails, messages, tweets, and comments. Why? I dared wonder if libraries will continue to exist in the future.I mean, it's not that cr...

Woojer is a wearable mobile accessory designed to allow its wearer to feel what they're listening to on their mobile device -- via the medium of haptic feedback -- rather than simply having banging tu...

New York-based video startup Magnify is in the process of acquiring Waywire, the company that Cory Booker founded, to build a consumer-facing business around the curation of videos online. The deal is...

In its new generation of tablet hybrid hardware, Microsoft renamed its lower-end, ARM-based Surface device, calling it the Surface 2. It kept its prior Surface Pro branding in place. Why ditch the ori...

There are three kinds of articles that regularly get written about Nintendo. The first article says Nintendo's hardware business is doomed. The second laments the state of the company's games. The thi...

Nearly a year after Peter Thiel, Matrix Partners and others put an extra $49 million into Xero, the online accounting software company is adding yet more capital to its coffers. Today the New Zealand-...

While iPhone launch days and big gadget reveals represent some of my most anticipated events because I'm a tech blogger, a day like today can still awaken just as much excitement. Today is the launch ...

Samsung's third generation phablet is here. If you haven't met her already, say hello to the Galaxy Note 3, a barge of a phone with incredible processing power and no fashion sense whatsoever. There's...

I may sound like a broken record when I consistently reference this phrase in my weekly column: mobile is the only under-hyped thing in tech. Yet, it is hard to argue with, and if we agree to agree, t...

Apple may not have hit a home run with its iPhone 5c case, which in my view would've been better off without the cut-out dots on the back, but those holes have proven inspiring for at least one enterp...

Why do we have comments?It seems like a simple question. And indeed, there is a simple answer: So that people can express themselves regarding the topic or article to which the comment section is appe...

Hypothesis: A person is less likely to accuse a complete stranger of being a socialist demon hell-bent on killing babies with free health insurance, when their friends can see him being a complete ass...

Need a 12 minute break from raking leaves, drinking cider, and carving pumpkins (and whatever other autumnal chores are taking up your Saturday)? Well I've got just the thing for you! It's time for a ...

Earlier this year, I wrote about a startup called Ditto, which launched a campaign on Indiegogo to fund patent battles against 1-800-CONTACTS and Lennon Imaging Technology or, as Ditto characterized ...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor took out their devices and slapped them down on the table. By any measurement, the Context Wars are well und...

I write from the Philippines, where a phone has just been released which, if stolen, can be remotely triggered to repeatedly scream "Thief! Thief! Thief!" Back home, BART riders have been hearing: "La...

Angry that Google is planning on using your face and name for the sake of advertisements? Here's how to make them not....

Google Glass, Google schmass. What you really want on your face are these puppies. ION Glasses are sunglass or prescription glasses frames with a built in LED, Bluetooth stack, and tiny button control...

Yahoo has just acquired Bread, a 2.5 year old startup that had raised $3.5 million to let people make money or generate donations by designing interstitial ads shown to people who click links they sha...

Dear [Name Unknown, possibly Chris Smith?],It has come to our attention that you recently used a fake, mocked-up version of our technology editorial blog property TechCrunch in a personal prank.Furthe...

This week, the Wall Street Journal published a brief interview with Andreessen Horowitz Partner Scott Weiss in which he seemed to indicate that the firm is moving away from Series A investments in con...

Here's a question: Are rappers rapping about being verified on Twitter? As it turns out, a number have, both in the positive (verified) and the negative (not verified).And, it also turns out, I am way...

Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky and Sequoia Capital partner, Airbnb board member, and former Zappos COO Alfred Lin joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for a special three-part series on how Chesky an...

In this week's Ask A VC, we hosted Redpoint Ventures' newest partner Ryan Sarver in the studio to talk about his jump to the VC world from Twitter and more...

After delivering audio versions of blog articles to the busy masses through SoundGecko, Australian startup 121cast is back with a new service that creates personalized radio stations for users. It's c...

If you live in Cupertino, you might have received a little gift from Apple in the mail: a brochure asking for support for its new headquarters, which the company calls "Apple Campus 2."The circular bu...

GitHub for Windows has received some updates to make for what the company calls a "lighter and brighter" user experience for the popular version of the code collaboration platform. The changes to the ...

So, Windows sometimes does this thing when your computer freaks the heck out, displays a blue screen, and then reboots or fails in some other way. Called the Blue Screen of Death, it's long been a cul...

Gillmor Gang - Kevin Marks, Roberts Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific. Sign on to FriendFeed and join the live chat at https://friendfee...

Word of mouth, sponsored. Trusted recommendations, promoted. Reviews from friends, endorsed. This is the new lexicon of advertising. As the world learns to ignore traditional advertising online, tech ...

Is BlackBerry co-founder really mulling over buying back the company he founded, now called BlackBerry instead of RIM, a company which has recently lost most of its design team and talent and... well,...

Yahoo Mailhas beenexperiencing a major bug, following its revamp earlier this week. According to a number of reports, the service has been automatically forwarding emails to users' "alternate," extern...

If you were looking forward to boasting about your Hackermeter score as a means of getting your next coding gig, you're gonna have to make new plans: the two-month old startup has been acquired by Pin...

Key Internet stakeholders, including the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and theWorld Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have released a statement condemning pervasive government s...

Android plays host to some impressive tablet apps -- I'm partial to IMDb and Flipboard to name just a few -- but I've all too often downloaded an app only to discover that it's a regular phone app sca...

Welcome to another rousing edition of TIDWRTWHUFOO! Today we feature three exciting robots that will change our lives as we know them by eventually threatening us with violence if we don't "Move along...

Well, here's another reason to care about your Klout score (and, y'know, actually create an account on Klout) the company, which aims to measure social media influence, is announcing a prominent new ...

App developers wanting to keep an eye on their app's download growth, chart position, revenues, user engagement patterns, and more have a number of tools at their disposal, like those from App Annie, ...

I've had about a week to play with the new Dropcam Pro and I'm pleased to say I haven't noticed it at all since I set it up. And that's a good thing.The Dropcam Pro is a wireless video surveillance ca...

The color enticed you. The playful plastic called out to you. And that cover, with silly little circular cutouts had your name all over it. $30 later, you're feeling a little silly after realizing tha...

A federal judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit against Google, finding no evidence that the search giant’s Internet tracking harmed users. Plaintiffs alleged that Google had “trickedR...

Samsung and Apple stand firmly at the stop of the smartphone heap, and players like HTC and LG continue ride their way up the market share rankings. But what of Sony? You know, the Japanese stalwart t...

For producers of children's television, the iPad is the device that finally lets them break through thefourth wallin order to directly engage with viewers who can now not only view and respond to the ...

Despite the fact that you got the newest, fastest, goldest iPhone available, you may have noticed something a bit frustrating. Apps are crashing more often. Turns out, you're not going batshit crazy. ...

Google is going to start using your beautiful face and your reviews, recommendations and endorsements in its advertisements, beginning November 11, the company announced today via changes to its Terms...

There's a bit more money sloshing around the U.K.'s high tech Cambridge cluster, thanks to a new fund that's just been set up. The Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) fund has launched with an initial ...

Google's next Nexus Android reference smartphone is likely just around the corner, and today the Bluetooth SIG published a certification of a device which matches its model identification code. The "L...

With the SEC’s new rules allowing startups and venture funds to raise capital publicly, a wave of firms and companies is starting to experiment with the new regulations.Now we’re seeing on...

Google is reportedly in the process of rebranding its Google TV efforts as "Android TV," according to a new report from GigaOM's Janko Roettgers. The switch reflects the fact that Google TV is already...

During the TechCrunch Disrupt Europe conference in Berlin later this month we'll see some of Europe's key players come together to discuss the state of technology startups and investing. One thing you...

Update:After the press release announcing this acquisition went out Cision recalled it, saying it had been released in error. We’ve spoken to Samsung and are awaiting their confirmation. This is...

Smart machines are coming to the business world, but don't tell that to the CEOs. Sixty-percent of CEOs surveyed by Gartner Research saythe emergence of smart machines capable of absorbing millions of...

Harvey Mudd is known as one of the most elite science, engineering and mathematics colleges in the world. But historically, its computer science department hasn't exactly been known as a paragon of ge...

Y Combinator has been a mainstay of Silicon Valley, with an office not far from the Mountain View Caltrain station. Over the years, however, the seed-stage incubator has seen more of its companies and...

Google’s Malaysian site has been hacked and replaced with a splash screen giving credit to a group called ‘Team Madleets’. The normal site has been offline for several hours as of la...

Members of Congress are not very content with the flow of information that reaches their ears concerning the pervasive surveillance activities of the United States intelligence apparatus.Following rem...

Yesterday HP enjoyed a sharp rally following encouraging words from its CEO, the release of its fiscal 2014 guidelines, and promise that more cash would be returned to investors. The company, its CEO ...

Amazon has announced plans to snap up online education company TenMarks. The company offers an online math curriculum currently, and Amazon VP of Kindle Dave Limp says that together, “AmazonandT...

Who can look up your Timeline by name? Anyone you haven't blocked. Facebook is removing this privacy setting, notifying those who had hidden themselves that they'll be searchable. It deleted the optio...

Philip Kaplan, AKA "Pud", AKA The Guy Who Made Being Online In The Late 1990s Bearable has just announced the official launch of DistroKid, a service for musicians to release unlimited tracks to vario...

In this episode of my Foundation video series, I sit down over some craft beers with entrepreneur and Circa founder Matt Galligan. Matt and I discuss the concept of breaking news and Circas second ver...

Two years after billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel announced an experiment to pay bright high schoolers to drop out of college for $100,000, the Thiel Fellowship program hasn't won over education l...

In what is a poignant statement about the state of Android tablet apps, Twitter has announced the first tablet-optimized version for the platform. It’s been 3 years since the iPad hit and Androi...

We already know that BlackBerry is considering a sale, and now we know at least two guys who are interested in buying it up: two of its co-founders, Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin. The pair have fi...

New York-based Hubbl, a maker of app discovery and personalization technologies, has been snapped up by mobile ad platform Airpush for $15 million, the companies are announcing today. The two business...

Nifti, a Google Ventures-backed shopping startup which first debuted its price tracking and alerts service this summer, is today making the move to mobile. The company is launching its iOS application...

Refusing to pipe down today, Aereo has just confirmed that a federal judge has ruled in favor of Aereo in its legal battle with Hearst Stations in Boston, one of three currently ongoing lawsuits betwe...

We’ve made it to episode 10! This week, we talk about Raspberry Pi racking up worldwide sales of 1.75 million, Partech Ventures investing $215 million in European startups the American way, and ...

Punchh is a CRM platform for the brick and mortar business world that takes the oldpunchcard that you get at a coffee shop orrestaurantand makes it an app that a restaurant can hook into its point of ...

Punchh is a CRM platform for the brick and mortar business world that takes the oldpunchcard that you get at a coffee shop orrestaurantand makes it an app that a restaurant can hook into its point of ...

Big changes at Couchsurfing, the social travel site that lets people connect and crash on their sofas and spare beds when visiting each other's towns. Today, CEO Tony Espinoza announced that he is ste...

Today Microsoft announced an update to its Android Outlook.com application, including server-side search, improved offline mail storage, colors, vacation replies, and aliases. Outlook.com, a key proje...

Next IT has been working on building natural language processing and artificial intelligence based virtual assistant systems for enterprise customers for years. Its tools are currently being used by m...

PeeqPeeq, a mobile and tablet application that lets users “shop their email,” is launching its first major update today, after initially debuting its email-based catalog on iTunes just las...

You wait in the doctor's office with a furrowed brow and a heavy heart. When he returns, his face is somber and his eyes concentrate on the clipboard in front of him. "You've only got a little time le...

DogVacay, the Los Angeles-based startup that operates a pet boarding marketplace that's been dubbed the "Airbnb for dogs," is announcing today that it has raised $15 million in new funding. The new fu...

Mobile security companyLookout may be all about protecting user's devices and offering people more privacy, but today it's raising its own profile a little bit more. The startup is announcing another ...

Mobile security companyLookout may be all about protecting user's devices and offering people more privacy, but today it's raising its own profile a little bit more. The startup is announcing another ...

Startup LiquidM is launching a new platform today for ad networks, trading desks, and operators to manage their mobile ad campaigns. The company is also announcing that it has raised $5 million in Ser...

They’re a talented team of two from Finland that got Y Combinator’s stamp of approval and built a promising product for storing and sharing content from across the web. But consumer-facing...

Android users, how would you like 30 live TV channels to be available on your phone or tablet at any given time or place? If that sounds like you, then happy Thursday. Aereo, the company that streams ...

After two years of delivering affordable, on-trend jewelry styles every week, BaubleBar has expanded its offerings with a new bridal vertical. It’s likely the first of many: by breaking down jew...

YouTube network DanceOn is the latest new media company to raise money for its growing video business. The company, which is the Number 1 place for dance videos on YouTube, has secured $4 million in f...

Pinterest is ramping up its business development with new ad units, and also with some key partnerships with third parties. Today the company is announcing a deal with Telefonica, the mobile carrier g...

When Alexandra Jordan presented at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, the fourth grader from Sunnyvale, CA proved to be something of anaudience favorite. Jordan conceived of and coded her...

London-based app developer/digital UI studio ustwo's psychedelic Whale Trail mobile game has racked up more than 3.68 million downloads across Android and iOS since being released in October 2011. The...

London-based app developer/digital UI studio ustwo's psychedelic Whale Trail mobile game has racked up more than 3.68 million downloads across Android and iOS since being released in October 2011. The...

There's no doubt about it: managing your personal finances is boring. Even though handwritten budgets and meticulously crafted spreadsheets are being joined by services like Mint and Simple that let m...

Online retargeting company AdRoll is announcing that it has reached a revenue run rate of $100 million.To be clear, that's run rate, not the actual revenue it's going to see in 2013. (The company decl...

Today when I opened Facebook, as I do every day, at some point, at least once, I was surprised to see the social network asking me for some time and input. Generally speaking, it asks "What's on your ...

The consumerization of enterprise services is one of the more persistent trends in the world of IT today, and today it's gaining yet more ground by way of an acquisition: Familiar, a private photo and...

The consumerization of enterprise services is one of the more persistent trends in the world of IT today, and today it's gaining yet more ground by way of an acquisition: Familiar, a private photo and...

Canada's beleaguered smartphone pioneer BlackBerry is apparently warming to the idea of a break-up, Bloomberg reports, as the Fairfax Financial buyout bid for the entire company looks a little more un...

Amazon's AWS cloud services division has become one of the go-to places for startups looking for hosting and other services for their apps and other business. Today, Amazon redoubled its efforts to ta...

Acer was early to the Chromebook market, releasing the C7 for a mere $199 and the C710 for $299. These laptops - more tablets with keyboards than fully-featured machines - work well as "third screen" ...

Twitter appears to be exploring introducing breaking news notifications tuned for you to its apps, if a new experimental account is any indication. An account called @eventparrot has garnered around 1...

Last week, when Twitter’s S-1 filing dropped, the media pored over it with a fine-toothed comb, extracting every bit of juice possible from under the freshly peeled-back rind of the intensely se...

The health-care industry in the U.S. is broken, and considering the industry itself represents some 18 percent of the U.S. economy, it's a sizable problem. While other sectors have begun to adapt, hea...

Dispop, the startup that allows businesses to crowdsource the design of their ads, has relaunched its platform with a big addition the ability to actually run ad campaigns.Through the service, advert...

Dispop, the startup that allows businesses to crowdsource the design of their ads, has relaunched its platform with a big addition the ability to actually run ad campaigns.Through the service, advert...

Microsoft today re-released its old YouTube app for Windows Phone, two months after Google axed the prior version over a terms spat.In May, Google and Microsoft decided to work together to get a stron...

Microsoft today re-released its old YouTube app for Windows Phone, two months after Google axed the prior version over a terms spat.In May, Google and Microsoft decided to work together to get a stron...

T-Mobile USA just loves to crow about how different it is from the rest of its carrier rivals; it decided to show off the latest of its "Uncarrier" moves at a packed concert/press event in New York Ci...

New Zealand-based point-of-sale startup Vend is looking to expand quickly in the U.S., and it's made a big hire to lead that charge. AntonCommissaris, who had served as an executive at Mint.com and la...

According to IDC, the PC market contracted 7.6 percent in the third quarter. The group had expected a 9.5 percent decline, so the quarter outperformed expectations.In the United States, the PC market ...

There’s nothing like a heaping helping of leaks to make it through hump day, and there are plenty of them to dissect on this week’s edition of the TechCrunch Droidcast. Some of them are mo...

As we mentioned earlier this week, Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky and Sequoia Capital partner, Airbnb board member, and former Zappos COO Alfred Lin joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for a special...

As we mentioned earlier this week, Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky and Sequoia Capital partner, Airbnb board member, and former Zappos COO Alfred Lin joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for a special...

HP stated the obvious today, clearing the air a bit in the world of personal computing, not to mention other areas of the technology industry. Microsoft, it said, is now a competitor to its business.O...

Airbnb's fight with local regulators in New York continues to heat up, as it was put under pressure to provide a large amount of user data to the Attorney General's office there. Today, the company fo...

The Google Maps overhaul brought a bunch of new shiny stuff, from its fullscreen interface to much improved public transportation integration.It also lost some features, though - and when you take awa...

Although there are a number of mobile applications working to replace the printed guidebook for conferences and events, there's no all-out market leader at this point. In addition, a number of the com...

After a public face plant regarding the release of its operating system update to developers, Microsoft today announced that applications built for Windows 8.1 will be approved no more than five days ...

Android users are rolling their eyes over the newly introduced customization capabilities released in Apple’s iOS 7 like “dynamic” (live) wallpapers and backgrounds with the parallax...

Android users are rolling their eyes over the newly introduced customization capabilities released in Apple’s iOS 7 like “dynamic” (live) wallpapers and backgrounds with the parallax...

VEVO announced that it is launching on yet another connected TV platform today, making its music videos now available on the latest Samsung Smart TV products. The launch will grow the number of viewer...

CoreOS, a Y Combinator alum, has received investment from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital for its new Linux-based operating system designed to run like Google would run its own cloud infrastru...

As we approach Disrupt Europe in Berlin we would like to extend the offer for you, some of the best startups in the world, to take part in Startup Alley, our special pavilion focused on bringing amazi...

Each sharing medium has its virtuosos. YouTube celebrities, Instagram artists, Vine comedians. And soon, thanks to the private ephemeral messaging app's new public broadcast feature Stories, we may se...

Things seem to have been moving rather smoothly for the folks at online banking startup Simple. They've spent the last year fleshing out their mobile apps with some much-needed features, and added som...

Partech Ventures, a VC firm which operates from offices in Paris, Berlin and Silicon Valley, has closed a total of $215 million for its Partech VI venture fund and a new seed-focused Entrepreneur fund...

Tell me if you've heard this one before: Today a new video sharing app launches out of beta!This one's called Cameo, and, unlike many video sharing services who pare down as many editing offerings as ...

Few political candidates have the chairman of Google on their digital advisory board; most are tiny one-man startup shops with little technical expertise and even less time to figure out the messy wor...

Comcast and Twitter have just announced a wide-ranging strategic partnership that is designed to get users reading tweets about shows to start tuning in, if they aren't already. With the introduction ...

Last month, Pinterest announced that it would start showing advertisements on its service in the form of “Promoted Pins,” which would be paid placements from select retailers and businesse...

Toronto-based startup PUSH is hoping to add some professionalism to an essentially amateur space, with its fitness tracker aimed specifically at pros and demanding athletes who want data, not vague me...

Google App Engine has added a new starter package to speed iOS development. The new service,Mobile Backend Starter for iOS, is designed to speed the development ofconnected mobile apps without writing...

Duolingo, the increasingly popular online language learning service, announced one of its most ambitious projects to date. The Language Incubator, which is opening its doors today, will let the servic...

Twilio Fund Europe 2013, the new "micro-fund" from cloud communications company Twilio and startup accelerator 500 Startups, has unveiled its first investment:Irish Galway-based OnePageCRM, the cloud-...

Flickr today finally added a feature that makes its iOS app worth recommending – no, not native iPad support, unfortunately – but rather an “auto-upload” option that will uploa...

Flickr today finally added a feature that makes its iOS app worth recommending – no, not native iPad support, unfortunately – but rather an “auto-upload” option that will uploa...

Music production can be a nightmare. If you don't save after every change, you can't go back, and it's tough for collaborators to know who tweaked what. Splice wants to redefine the musician workflow....

New York-based Meetup, an online platform for organizing real world get-togethers, is today announcing its first acquisition since its founding back in early 2002. The company is acquiring Dispatch, a...

Scan has raised $7M from Entree and existing investors including Menlo Ventures in its Series A round. It’s also announcing its new ‘Scan to Pay’ service, which allows people to purc...

As our physical mailboxes gradually get a little less stuffed with direct marketing letters, two of the companies that have played a part in shifting that business to email, mobile and social media ne...

Researchers at the MIT Media Lab and the Max Planck Institutes have created a foldable, cuttable multi-touch sensor that works no matter how you cut it, allowing multi-touch input on nearly any surfac...

With Google Glass yet-to-launch publicly, the jury is still out on what will be the wearable computer's killer apps. With its hands-free operation, pedestrian navigation and points-of-interest seem an...

Apple has just announced the next round of launch dates for the iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s, and a total of 52 new markets will get the devices by November 1, with a batch of 17 getting the smartphones by...

Hey, you! Do you have an idea for something awesome? Do you have the developer chops to build a working version of it in just under 24 hours?Join us in Berlin and prove it.We like to throw a massive h...

Collabspot is a browser extension that promises to make life easier for sales teams by integrating Highrise and SugarCRM with Gmail. The Singapore-based company has been following a lean startup model...

Last year, payments processing giant First Data quietly acquired Andreessen Horowitz-backed mobile payments startup Clover to help the company expand into point of sale for small businesses. Today, Fi...

Richard Jalichandra, an online media veteran who's probably best known as the former CEO of Technorati Media, has joined online ad company isocket as its new CEO. isocket's founding CEO John Ramey wil...

Holiday attractions booking startup, GetYourGuide, which raised a $14 million Series A at the start of this year from Spark Capital and Highland Capital Partners Europe to internationalise its content...

There's a new rhythm to product releases among the biggest players in mobile tech, and increasingly, Samsung is building a reputation as the most brash and quick-to-act of what I would call the ruling...

Mozilla's HTML5-based open mobile platform Firefox OS, which bagged support from a raft of carriers at the start of this year, is gearing up to launch in more markets. New device hardware running FFOS...

Mozilla's HTML5-based open mobile platform Firefox OS, which bagged support from a raft of carriers at the start of this year, is gearing up to launch in more markets. New device hardware running FFOS...

To readers looking for an alternative to Silk Road, I'm afraid that Diagnosia is a drugs-related startup of a very different kind. Competing with the likes of Rxlist, Drugs.com and Epocrates, the Aust...

One of the more ambitious and interesting hardware projects on a crowdfunding platform recently has to be the Quasar IV, a smartphone designed entirely around security, encryption and identity protect...

Hardware Alley is my favorite part of Disrupt and we're bringing the festivities to Berlin on October 29 when 30 lucky hardware companies can show off their wares. It is a crowd favorite and I'd love ...

Flipkart, India's largest e-commerce marketplace that's often referred to as the "Amazon of India," has raised another $160 million. This is an extension of the $200 million raise announced in July of...

Despite the best efforts of vigilant parents, small children are like magicians with their ability to slip away unnoticed. BeLuvv, a startup in Taiwan, has created Guardian, a small wearable device th...

Enterproid, which has changed its name to Divide, has raised $12million from Google Ventures in a Series B round for its service that encrypts a device and separates a person's personal and work data....

"With @Jack, @Ev & @biz at @Twitter today, together, guessing the IPO/S-1 filing will probably happen tomorrow," Om Malik tweeted last Thursday, presciently predicting the arrival of the company's...

Remember that leaked image of a curved display smartphone from Samsung? You should, considering it popped up under our noses just a few hours ago. Well, in case you don't, Samsung wants to remind you....

Amazon Web Services has a user interface that makes it a monster to manage. To view the status of deployments across thousands of instances on AWS is a complex, often manual process.There is a new gen...

Ad company Adiant says that it has acquired a number of assets from MarchEx, including the cost-per-click ad network formerly known as IndustryBrains (which MarchEx acquired nearly a decade ago).Adian...

PHP is now in preview on Google App Engine, fully available to the general public. The preview status means that it is no longer necessary for developers to whitelist their applications for deployment...

You've been played before. You're vulnerable and nervous about opening up again. It wouldn't be the first time you've been lied to. Back in 2011 we heard rumors that the iPad would be graced with Offi...

Apple will hold an invitation-only event on October 22nd to show off its new iPads, as well as the new Mac Pro and OS X Mavericks release, according to a report from All Things D’s John Paczkows...

Twitter updated its Windows Phone application today to include in-stream tweet translation to 54 languages, which is powered by Bing.Tweets can now be displayed on the lock screen of Windows Phone dev...

Back at the Galaxy Gear event, Samsung executives cryptically said that they had plans to “introduce a curved display smartphone in October”. Today, an image shared by reliable leak accoun...

According to leaked emails, freedom of information requests at theNational Security Agency (NSA) have skyrocketed more than 1,000 percent this year, following revelations from Edward Snowden that deta...

Although blood tests are meant to tell you something about your internal state of affairs, it usually feels like you need a medical degree to decipher the results.A New York-based startup called Lumin...

American Express has been steadily partnering with various consumer technology companies to allow cardmembers to integrate their accounts, and access new ways to spend. For example, the financial serv...

As a feature writer for the New York Times Magazine, Wired and many other publications, Clive Thompson is one of technology's smartest journalists. And now Thompson has brought his considerable intell...

Locket, a startup that runs ads in Android lockscreens and pays users to engage with those ads, has hired Charity Sabeter as its first vice president of national sales.Co-founder and CEO Yunha Kim tol...

When Facebook announced in June that it planned to eliminate half its ad units, it also outlined a broader vision for simplification, where the company could guide advertisers through the ad-buying pr...

E-commerce company True&Co launched last year to apply a bit of personalization and technology to aid women in their searches for new bras. The company just raised a little bit more funding to inv...

Amazon has been churning out LCD-based Kindle tablets for the past two years, and there's no question that the company has improved from the original, BlackBerry PlayBook-style Kindle Fire. But with t...

Over the past several years, Docstoc has positioned itself as the go-to place for small and medium-sized businesses to find the documents they need to grow. Today, it's taking a big step toward making...

Amazon has just launched a service called Login and Pay with Amazon that lets partner sites enable a payments button that will compete with PayPal and credit cards for customer checkout. This is a dir...

Amazonlaunched a service called Login and Pay with Amazontoday at Money 2020 that lets partner sites enable a payments button that will compete with PayPal and credit cards for customer checkout. This...

This week on TechCrunch TVs Ask A VC show, we have Redpoint partner Geoff Yang and the VC firm's newest partner Ryan Sarver in the studio. You can submit questions for our guests either in the comment...

Tel Aviv-basedKIDOZbegan its life as a kid-friendly media browser for PCs before shifting over to mobile and tablet platforms where there's now more need for kid-safe, but still entertaining, content....

The super secret NSA Utah Data Center is suffering from a number of massive electrical jolts which, in turn, have melted hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment. According to a WSJ report, the e...

The Internet has collectively put their brains together to help furloughed federal employees weather the shutdown. unfurlough.us is a crowdsourced spreadsheet of freelanace gigs for out-of-work employ...

You know what works really well when you're building relationships? Bribery, also known as gifts. Bond, a new startup launching out of New York, understands this. The company also understands that, ev...

There's a new smart app out there called Refresh, which seeks to eliminate small talk by providing users with detailed information about people they're meeting with and suggesting topics of conversati...

Russian startup Coursmos reckons it's spotted a soundbite-sized gap in the e-learning delivery space. Unlike the long-form commitment required to take a typical MOOC, its online courses are broken dow...

Silicon Valley's deep-pocketed lobbyists and outspoken netizens are conspicuously absent from the debate over a government shutdown that could cripple the U.S. economy. Activists from the tech industr...

Unsurprisingly, TV broadcasters don't like that Aereo is taking the content they provide freely over-the-air and putting it on the Internet for everyone to enjoy. The startup is currently embroiled in...

Fitbits, FuelBands, and Jawbones don't matter and neither does their data unless they make us healthier. That's why Basis wants to build a platform that unites our fragmented quantified self data and ...

Zulily, a private-sale shopping site targeted at busy moms and their kids, has filed its S-1, aiming to raise as much as $100 million in an IPO (this is a placeholder amount and could change). ...

Zulily, a private-sale shopping site targeted at busy moms and their kids, has filed its S-1, aiming to raise as much as $100 million in an IPO (this is a placeholder amount and could change). ...

Even big companies have to pivot. American Express' digital wallet platform Serve, which began its life as something of a PayPal competitor online, before signing deals with operators for some sort of...

iSpot.tv wants to provide brands, agencies, and networks with real-time data about ad campaigns that are running on TV. The company tracks all ads that appear across more than 80 networks in the U.S.,...

PayPal has been pushing ahead with its Here business, offering smaller businesses a way of taking card payments, processed by PayPal, by way of small readers attached to merchants' smartphones. Today,...

Google unveiled a new addition to its growing stable of Chromebooks today, the HP Chromebook 11. The $279 device is on sale now, and offers a white plastic case that's reminiscent of Apple's white Mac...

Well, what do we have here? Angels Den, Bill Morrow's old skool angel network, has jumped on the crowdfunding bandwagon.But, then again, the Angels Den business has always been about matching starry-e...

With the goal of closing the gap between retailers and shoppers, the SaaS startup Swirl Networks, Inc. is rolling out a system of in-store beacons to notify consumers of specific deals according to wh...

Yahoo is updating its Mail app across all platforms with a fresh design that includes syncing themes, a new compose experience, collapsible toolbar and better handling of threaded conversations. The n...

Amazon today is announcing a major push designed to encourage developers to build apps optimized for its Amazon Appstore app marketplace, and its Fire OS mobile operating system which currently powers...

Nest Labs, the home hardware maker co-founded by two ex-Apple luminaries, is today unveiling its second product, Nest Protect, a $129 smart device that hopes to do for the smoke and carbon monoxide de...

Here's another project aiming to make DIY robotics as easy as child's play. Moti is a smartphone-controlled smart motor, currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, that can be attached to everyday obje...

E-books have a lot in common with apps, as it turns out. They're locked to devices, and sold through mobile marketplaces where their rise and fall in top charts has a lot to do with pricing changes, f...

If you're a mobile publisher, getting lots of people to install your app is nice, but if you can't convince any of them to actually use your app, much less spend money, well, that's a problem one tha...

On the heels of the BBC ramping up its iPlayer on-demand video and music player as the go-to place for all its digital assets, the UK's public broadcaster is also gearing up to take its music service ...

Telefnicas accelerator network Wayra is sharing some data exclusively with TechCrunch on how its fared so far in its young existence, including key metrics such as how much money its invested in the s...

Rocket Internet has consolidated several of its real estate services under one brand called Lamudi, a real estate classifieds platform that officially began operating today in twelve countries within ...

iTunes Radio is one of the best new parts of iOS 7 (and the most recent update to the iTunes desktop media management software), but it's a U.S. exclusive. As is often the case with new movie/music/TV...

The Raspberry Pi microcomputer, which costs as little as $25/$35 and has helped fledge many a DIY hardware project, has racked up worldwide sales of 1.75 million. Another U.K.-specific milestone for t...

HTC's next big smartphone will offer up a fingerprint sensor like the iPhone 5s, the Wall Street Journal is now reporting, and will be unveiled on October 15. Separately, invites have been sent out to...

Google is said to be prepping an update to its Hangouts instant messaging/video chat Android app that would allow it to integrate with SMS, making it possible to get all text and MMS messages right in...

The traditional anonymous peer review process used in academic publishing is meant to ensure objectivity, but it means reviewers give up their time for very little reward. The lack of transparency is ...

Pokkt, an India-based platform for game developers who want to earn revenue through ways outside of virtual currency transactions, raised a seed round of funding led by Singapore’s early stage f...

Amazon Web Services has won a major battle against IBM in the battle to build a cloud infrastructure for the CIA and the NSA.In a ruling published today, U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Thomas Whee...

The annual Grace Hopper event for women in computing is billed not as a conference, but as a "celebration." So when TechCrunch TV headed to Minneapolis this past week to cover Hopper 2013, we thought ...

They’ve been rivals for more than 10 years. Both Com2uS and Gamevil have battled for the local South Korean gaming market through the era of candy-bar phones until today. But in a new twist this...

BranchOut's professional network cratered when Facebook muted its virality. Today the $49 million-funded startup is hedging its bets with the launch of Talk.co, a mobile-first web, iOS, and Android me...

At the San Francisco offices of Yammer, Microsoft's Satya Nadella today announced a new instance of its Azure cloud product built for U.S. government customers.The product, formally called "Windows Az...

Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky and Sequoia Capital partner, Airbnb board member, and former Zappos COO Alfred Lin joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for a special three-part series on how Chesky an...

Publicly traded ad management and distribution company Digital Generation, better known as DG, is announcing that it has acquired ad startup Republic Project for $1.4 million in cash, with additional ...

Huge iPads or tiny journalists? That’s the question that many are askingafter Fox News released a video detailing a new set that includes a number of analysts sat before massive touch interfaces...

Forkly, a Foodspotting competitor launched back 2010, is shutting down. Well, sort of – it will remain open for six to eight months, and maybe more, while looking for a new home, we’re tol...

Today, Google Glass gets transit directions via the new XE10 update, as long as you’ve paired it with an Android phone. Previously, the head computer would give you directions to nearby location...

Today, Google Glass gets transit directions via the new XE10 update, as long as you’ve paired it with an Android phone. Previously, the head computer would give you directions to nearby location...

Less than a month after browser-toolbar and mobile startup Conduit merged with Perion to take its place on Nasdaq, the company is making another change to its business. Today it announced that it will...

Less than a month after browser-toolbar and mobile startup Conduit merged its Client Connect division with Perion, the company is making another change to its business. Conduithas announced that it wi...

With mobile publishers moving away from paid apps and toward in-app purchases in order to monetize on mobile, there's an increased need to generate more revenue out of existing install bases. That's a...

Getting a book published used to require something called "an agent" who talked to a "publishing house" who, in turn, hired a "printer" to make a "hardback" or "paperback" version of your words. Tablo...

The latest Neftlix update for iOS 7 finally added full AirPlay support to the app, something that many probably assumed it already had. But it also appears to have broken the feature which allowed it ...

The latest Neftlix update for iOS 7 finally added full AirPlay support to the app, something that many probably assumed it already had. But it also appears to have broken the feature which allowed it ...

TwitSpark announced today that it has raised a $4.5 million Series A round of funding, and changed its name to Sparkcentral. The company's vision is the integration of social customer service into the...

Just in time for frenzied family trips to the mall i.e. the holiday season wearable tech maker Filip Technologies is preparing to take its first product to market, a GPS and mobile-enabled watch tha...

Just in time for frenzied family trips to the mall i.e. the holiday season wearable tech maker Filip Technologies is preparing to take its first product to market, a GPS and mobile-enabled watch tha...

Hong Kong based startup Verbase -- currently billing itself as "a search engine with clean and pure results" -- reckons it has a chance to inch into the search market by offering something different t...

Internet access is astonishingly expensive in some parts of the world. The International Telecommunications Union estimates that fixed broadband costs 30 percent of the average monthly wage within the...

And in this week's episode of absolutely bizarre behavior from Fox News, we bring you BATS, officially known as big area touchscreens.The media outlet responsible for bringing fair and balanced news i...

This weekend we learned that President Barack Obama's NSA surveillance panel, built at least in theory to vet our intelligence activities and weigh their performance against the right of privacy, went...

There are more angel-backed companies in the US than ever trying to capitalize on a favorable economic market for startups. In 2012, more than 1,500 startups received a round of angel funding. As thes...

There was a bit of a user uproar when it came to light that browser advertising blocking service Adblock Plus was actually providing some advertisers, like Google, the opportunity to show some ads des...

Tonight Jack Dorsey hosted a roundtable at Columbia University about Square to weigh in on recent developments in smartphone tech, New York as a suitable spot for startup growth, and (of course) the f...

Exiles is hoping to build the online home for sports fans who aren't rooting for the local team. The company hasn't gotten much press in the 18 months since it launched, but according to co-founder an...

Microsoft quietly shut down its U.S.-only daily deals aggregator Bing Deals earlier this year and relaunched it as Bing Offers in April, but things got rather quiet around the service since. Today, ho...

Over the weekend, Samsung began airing a series of spots about the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, mostly as an introduction to the product. There was a simple spot with a series of futuristic wrist-based gad...

Last week Socialbakers, a social analytics startup which has raised $8m so far hired its first chief marketing officer Neil Morgan, who recently left an EMEA VP position at Adobe. And it now seems to...

It seems to be the season for hires for social analytics startups.Last week, Socialbakers, a social analytics startup that has raised $8 million so far, hired its first chief marketing officer, Neil M...

Telecast, the video curation service born out of betaworks, has today pivoted into a fan-centric video service that gives hardcore YouTube viewers a way to connect with their favorite creators. Accord...

The food porn that currently occupies a good portion of your Instagram feed could be turning you off from the types of foods you're observing, according to a recent study out of BYU that was published...

Bitcoin is at once anonymous and completely public. You can follow transactions through the system in real time notice and see where large buys have taken place or, in this case, large transfers. See,...

Bitcoin is at once anonymous and completely public. You can follow transactions through the system in real time and see where large buys have taken place or, in this case, large transfers. See, after ...

Online microstock photos marketplaceFotolia, a Shutterstock rival now based out of New York, is today making another move on mobile with the launch of an app that allows users to earn money from their...

Started as a side project by then-Googler Brian Kennish back in 2010 to cut out ad tracking during a person’s Facebook browsing session, Disconnect has gone on to raise funding (twice), expand t...

Is video chat the future of business networking? It is if you talk to the folks at Peer. They've created a service that syncs with LinkedIn to offer professionals a more face-to-face way to communicat...

Apple's new iPhone strategy appears to be paying healthy dividends for the company, according to a new research note from analyst firm Canaccord Genuity. The iPhone 5s is outselling the older Samsung ...

Since Silk first came out of stealth mode in 2011, there have been 300,000 interactive pages created on itscloud-based, web data-crunching platform designed for non-technical "knowledge workers". Taki...

Since Silk first came out of stealth mode in 2011, there have been 300,000 interactive pages created on itscloud-based, web data-crunching platform designed for non-technical "knowledge workers". Taki...

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN agency that oversees IT and communications development, today released its latest annual report charting how well we are doing as a planet in ge...

The new iMac Apple introduced without much fanfare a couple of weeks ago is an evolutionary upgrade, retaining the slimline design it debuted with last year's pre-holiday refresh, and introducing some...

Baidu, China's leading search engine, announced today that it has appointed Liu Dejian, the founder, chairman and executive director of NetDragon, an online gaming and mobile developer, to its Board o...

Mobile messaging app Line, which has been on a marketing push in India, has added 10 million Indian users to its registered users count in around three months, as it prepares to kick off a Bollywood a...

Japanese carrier NTT Docomo has revealed that it experienced a record monthly drop in subscribers for September, which is somewhat surprising given that the company was the lone remaining major Japane...

Last week, Numerify, announced it had raised $8 million in an oversubscribed Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. They also received funding from a number of prominent angel investors, i...

On October 26th, TechCrunch Disrupt hits Europe for the first time and we’re excited to announce the full agenda. The event spans four days, featuring industry titans, noted thought leaders and ...

TextTeaser is a service that creates tl;dr (too long; didnt read) summaries for lengthly online articles. Available as a Web service and API on Mashape, TextTeaser's developers also want to turn it in...

Nielsen is set to publish its first report with TV rankings based on data from Twitter. The report, which comes out on Monday according to the Wall Street Journal, will look at the number of tweets ab...

For a long time, the web-based social bookmarking service Delicious was a poster child for the Web 2.0 movement. It was open, collaborative and full of the tags and user-generated content that made VC...

Growing up in the age of computers and technology we can almost taste the promise of videogames. We don't just like to play videogames, we like to imagine what they might be and how they might influen...

Theres been no shortage of leaks that claim to show off Googles next Nexus smartphone (including this not-so-subtle nod from Google itself) over the past weeks and months, but we may have just hit the...

The ever-curious Russian government is reportedly going to monitor "all communications" during the Winter 2014 Olympics. A Guardian newspaper investigation found authorities are hard-wiring the game's...

If the premise of equity-based crowdfunding is to enable a greater range of individuals to take a punt on a startup, while oiling the wheels of investment overall, then a natural evolution of the mode...

Under-promise, and then under-under-deliver is the name of this game. The panel to vet the NSA set up by the President, and nurtured by currentDirector of National Intelligence James Clapper, is now o...

Any parent who has used powder formula to feed your baby knows that measuring the formula, making sure the water is clean and at room temperature, and mixing the formula and water is a challenging tas...

Silvercar continues to expand its tech-focused airport car rental service into new markets, and in a few weeks will be making its biggest debut yet. According to an email sent to customers late last w...

You know, it's been a while since I've written up some some clever Google Glass hack simply because it was awesome. Lets fix that.Looking to test the concept of using Glass as a second screen, Android...

What's there to say? It's the flagship iPhone 5s. To say that it won't be wildly successful would be silly. We already know that Apple sold 9 million units of the iPhone 5s, alongside the more colorfu...

Judging by the job fair section at the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of women in computing held this past week in Minneapolis, it was very clear that all the hottest companies in tech are working as...

An North Carolina school district has suspended the use of 15,000 tablets after reports of multiple hardware issues, including the device’s charger melting at home. Guilford County Superintenden...

A North Carolina school district has suspended the use of 15,000 tablets after reports of multiple hardware issues, including the device’s charger melting at home. Guilford County Superintendent...

Even Samsung thinks its Galaxy Gear is anachronistic at least if the commercials are to be believed. New ads for the new Samsung Galaxy Gear that popped up on the company's official YouTube page this...

One of the hottest trends in mobile consumer tech is the idea where one can simply just tap their phone and receive a range of services in the form of on-demand labor. While many services are in this ...

Twitter has taken a lot of fire for having an all-male board, almost all-male management team, and all-male investor group. The root of this problem is arrogance and a dont-care attitude. This was exe...

In what feels like an ever so slightly protracted seed round, fintech startup ERN has raised a further $1 million in seed funding, bringing the total raised by the London-headquartered company to $5.6...

PureVPN -- one of the VPN tunnelling services that assign new IP addresses to a users' connected devices, useful for those accessing the Internet in firewalled countries or those who want to use servi...

So this is what CrunchWeek is like without adult supervision.Leena Rao and Colleen Taylor, the show's two regular hosts, were both out of town this week, but there was still plenty of news TechCrunch ...

Investors have been talking this past week about AngelList Syndicates and its nuances and potential implications, but mostly as it all relates to investing. Having run two of the first six Syndicates ...

At its heart, Twitter is a firehose. Everything you tweet shows up to every one of your followers. It's what makes Twitter feel like the real-time pulse of the world. But it could also be preventing T...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor Sure, we talked about the Twitter IPO, about the Bitcoin Bust, about whether Apple is a hardware or software...

Adeo Ressi, founder of the Founder Institute startup incubator, recently told me that FI has hit a big milestone more than 1,000 (1,003 at the time of our conversation) companies have graduated from ...

Twitter has millions of monthly users, growing revenue, brand awareness, a propensity for breaking news, and data ripe for mining. Adding to this, Twitter's main feed allows advertisers and media outl...

Once upon a time there were things called jobs, and they were well understood. People went to work for companies, in offices or in factories. There were exceptions -- artists, aristocrats, entrepeneur...

Google, SAP and Cisco are among a number of technology companies interested in buying up portions -- or all -- of BlackBerry's business, according to Reuters, which cites several sources close to the ...

Lark, which launched a wearable silent alarm on-stage at TechCrunch's Disrupt conference back in 2010, has raised $3.1 million of an intended $3.6 million round of funding, according to a filing with ...

"Life changing," "amazing," and "shockingly wonderful" are not often terms that are typically used to describe industry conferences. But that's exactly how people talk about the Grace Hopper Celebrati...

I have all my money under a mattress in fear of a debt ceiling collapse, and people are buying stock because they think an S-1 means the company has started trading.Let's rewind: Twitter has filed to ...

Pinterest has made a point of discouraging the many social media companies that riff on Pinterest in their own brand names, with some of the more prominent of these going so far as to rebrand their se...

Pinterest has made a point of discouraging the many social media companies that riff on Pinterest in their own brand names, with some of the more prominent of these going so far as to rebrand their se...

If you use Skype on your phone and desktop, you know how annoying its inability to effectively keep your chat message status in sync between different machines can be. After you start Skype on your ph...

When it comes to acquisitions, it's clear that Twitter had been spending more money on acquiring technologies and talent in 2013 than in the past few years.According to the company's recently filed S-...

In this week's episode of Ask A VC, we welcomed Battery Ventures' general partner Brian OMalley into the studio to talk about his perspective on the latest topic du jour, AngelList Syndicates....

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken to the company blog today to talk about a Tesla Model S fire that caught the attention of the news media this week. Musk says that the fire was caused by a piece of a tra...

In an interesting post-mortem release by the creators of the defunct anonymous marketplace Atlantis there is information that the former admins and users of the Silk Road are planning to resurrect the...

In order to put our money where our hype is we like to take a closer look at Kickstarter products we've talked about on the site. Today we have the Bohemian Guitar Company's "oil can" guitars, a Kicks...

Welcome to our continuing series featuring videos of robots that will, when they become autonomous, hunt us down and force us to work in the graphene factories of Mars. Below we see Wild Cat, a fully ...

Knowing whats wrong with a car before you buy it could save you a lot of headaches down the line, and it could help you negotiate down the price of the vehicle. YourMechanic now wants to make it easie...

An anonymous, underground drug trafficking web site Silk Road has been busted and the founder has been arrested, effectively shutting down a $1 billion+ revenue business after two years. And in softer...

In the near future, anyone with an Internet connection and some lunch money will be able to invest in one of Silicon Valley's hottest tech companies. But after big brotherFacebook's IPO debacle, shoul...

After three years of offering co-working spaces to young startups and entrepreneurs, General Assembly has decided to shut down the co-working brand of its business in 2014, according to multiple sourc...

You wait ages for a lost item tracker hardware startup, and then loads and loads pile in at once. Meet Locca, an Austrian startup that has just kicked off a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for a pa...

A new startup in Los Angeles called IRIS.TV wants to give video publishers the tools to make streaming video more personalized, and therefore keep viewers hooked for longer. The company is coming to m...

Here's a novel way to spend some mandatory vacation time: serve your fellow co-workers top-shelf alcohol. The government shutdown has most of Washington's public sector furloughed, so Tom Power -- the...

After three years of offering co-working spaces to young startups and entrepreneurs, General Assembly has decided to shut down the co-working brand of its business in 2014, according to multiple sourc...

Gillmor Gang - John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 9am Pacific....

A startup calledLoom,which begin its life as the Y Combinator-backed photo-sharing startup Popset,is working to build a better iCloud for both consumers and developers. Currently, the company offers a...

A number of companies today are attempting to bring the photo album to the mobile era, often through apps which let you organize, then print and ship customizable photo books. The latest to attempt to...

M-Blocks are reconfigurable, modular robots with no external moving parts, built by research scientists at MIT. The cubes' ability to move results from harnessing the momentum of an internal flywheel ...

MongoDB has raised $150 million from T. Rowe Price Associates with new investors Altimeter Capital and Salesforce.com. Existing investors Intel Capital, NEA, Red Hat and Sequoia Capital also participa...

Video apps are sprouting up like weeds, but Vine and Instagram still hold the majority share of video creation on mobile. However, there’s one thing that both of these services are lacking: a vo...

It's a tale of two very different fortunes in the mobile-making market. HTC has today announced preliminary results for its Q3, recording a net loss of around $101 million on total revenues of $1.6 bi...

San Francisco-based startup Coin may not have launched yet, but it has created a hardware platform that others can use to build their own products in the process of developing its own. Today, Coin ann...

Founded by WeLab, a finance startup, WeLend is the first social lending platform based in Hong Kong. Since launching in early July, WeLab says it has received US$4 million in loan applications. ...

Microsoft has reached out to HTC to see if the company would be interested in adding Windows as a second OS to its Android handsets, a new report by Bloomberg claims. It isn't clear exactly how the tw...

In just a few weeks, were bringing TechCrunch Disrupt to Europe for the very first time and with it, one of our big ol Hackathons.If you live in Europe and have never had the chance to build at one o...

Indian streaming music service Dhinganasays it now has 9 million unique visitors per month from around the world. As music streaming services around the world face down the international expansion of ...

Indian streaming music service Dhinganasays it now has 9 million unique users per month from around the world. As music streaming services around the world face down the international expansion of Spo...

Cotap, a startup thatstrivesto be the GroupMe of the business world, has launched its mobilemessaging service designed for corporate customers.The service, available as an iPh...

Being a communication backbone of the web has its pluses and minuses. Twitter gets lots of content syndicated from other sites, but those contributors don't necessarily visit Twitter or see its ads. T...

If you're reading Twitter's S-1 filing to see where the business stands as it prepares to go public (hey, that's what everyone's doing at TechCrunch), you may noticed a number that comes up repeatedly...

Ride-sharing startup Lyft has been on a mission to make its mobile ride app available in various markets around the country, recently launching service in places like Dallas, Indianapolis, and St. Pau...

Oscar, the New York-based startup from Thrive Capital’s Josh Kushner, has finally launched. Their debut comes as the U.S. government unveils new health insurance exchanges where consumers can pi...

It costs a lot of money to build a business of Twitter’s scale. The company raised $1.16 billion prior to its planned initial public offering, which could total $1 billion itself. Here’s a...

Twitter’s international revenue is up massively year over year, with the company earning more in the first half of 2013 from outside the United States than it did in all of 2012. Twitter’s...

Here are some accumulated statistics from our scouring of the Twitter IPO filing for your perusal. The overall numbers show a company with good but slowing growth in users, solid revenue in mobile but...

The most pleasant surprise to come out of Dell's press conference the other day wasn't its line of new laptops or the silly Android tablets it's trying to foist on weary consumers. To my utter shock i...

The Internet routes around damage. With the fall of the Silk Road there comes the inevitable expectation that the underbelly of the Internet is somehow cut and something important has been removed lik...

As expected Twitter's S-1 was just released, which states that the company is looking to raises as much as $1 billion in a public offering. As with every S-1 filing, the company reports its majority s...

As expected Twitter's S-1 was just released, which states that the company is looking to raises as much as $1 billion in a public offering. As with every S-1 filing, the company reports which individu...

Everyone's going crazy as Twitter just made the S-1 filing for its IPO public. One of the standard parts of the S-1 is a letter from the CEO to shareholders, where they lay out their vision for the co...

Dell had an event this week, which is in itself noteworthy regardless of what they launch, but it turns out there were Android tablets there! We talk about those for a while, as well as the Elliptic L...

Twitter started on mobile, and that's where the service is going. In the S-1 form that the company filed today for its public offering, Twitter called mobile the "primary driver of our business." It s...

Twitter has just filed for its long-anticipated IPO. The company is looking to raise $1B in this initial offering, which is set to mint many millionaires among shareholders and founders like Ev Willia...

Apple has acquired the ‘smart assistant’ company Cue, for over $40M. Why? Because Google is absolutely murdering Apple when it comes to the utility of Google Now. Apple is likely to use th...

Uh oh Adobe has just disclosed that one of their servers has been hacked.While their investigations are still ongoing, Adobe has shared a few details on what they believe could have been accessed and...

Shumway, Mozilla’s technology experiment to build an efficient, web-native renderer for Flash files, has now landed in the latest Firefox Nightly builds. The idea behind this project which is s...

Well here it is, Instagram is getting ads and it’s starting with users in the US. In a blog post today, Instagram says that users in the country are going to start seeing video and image ads. In...

Mauro Del Rio founded Buongiorno, sold it to NTT DoCoMo for $300 million cash in 2012, and is still responsible for one of the most successful Italian exits ever. Fausto Boni, a world traveler to say ...

Google has long allowed mobile developers to use Google Analytics to track their apps' performance. Today, it's making it a bit easier to get insights into an app's user acquisition and engagement by ...

Personal assistant app Cue has been acquired, we've confirmed with a person who should know. The app has sold for between $40 million to $60 million, we're hearing from two sources, including TechCrun...

Personal assistant app Cue has been acquired, we've confirmed with a person who should know. The app has sold for between $40 million to $60 million, we're hearing from two sources, including TechCrun...

In an effort to stamp out competition, Uber is getting more aggressive with the pricing of its low-cost transportation service UberX. In a series of blog posts today, Uber announced that it has lowere...

Google today launched the latest beta version of Chrome for desktop and mobile. While there aren't all that many features in this release that users will immediately notice, there are quite a few new ...

Welcome back to another episode of the most European tech podcast around. This week, we talk about Google’s tendency to be the bad guy in Europe. It has some issues with France’s CNIL arou...

In September, when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke about the progress of Facebook's Home Android launcher at TC Disrupt, he mentioned that users would soon start to see content from Instagram and o...

In September, when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke about the progress of Facebook's Home Android launcher at TC Disrupt, he mentioned that users would soon start to see content from Instagram and o...

Zim is a 3D printer, currently seeking crowdbacking on Kickstarter, that doesn't look like it wants to extrude plastic all over your settee. Other mainstream consumer concessions include "plug & p...

Zim is a 3D printer, currently seeking crowdbacking on Kickstarter, that doesn't look like it wants to extrude plastic all over your settee. Other mainstream consumer concessions include "plug & p...

CDN provider EdgeCast wants to get into the global DNS market, and is doing so with the launch of a product called EdgeCast Route. The new DNS offering will rely on the company's global IP infrastruct...

As I’ve written about before, while the Chinese startup scene is sometimes criticized for producing copycats of Western businesses, there are emerging entrepreneurs building software products wi...

Back in January, it was rumored that hip social music site This Is My Jam might be moving out from under the wing of music data company The Echo Nest, which had incubated the site as a side project. I...

Mobile news startup Circa is releasing a new version of its app with an updated interface for discovering and following news, with a big focus on breaking news. The app will allow users to get push no...

There's a rare breed of app like Uber, Pocket, and Venmo that make life so much easier, it's hard to remember how things worked before. That's how I feel about MyTime. It helps you discover nearby bus...

Ladar Levison, founder of secure email provider Lavabit, has posted a Facebook message detailing his current situation in regards to the shutdown of the service. I simply couldnt operate Lavabit while...

You don't need to be a cut-throat jerk to be successful in the business of capitalism. Alexis Ohanian doesn't stand out in a room; other than being tall enough to play NBA defense, he's usually the un...

iOS calendar app Sunrise just received a major 2.0 update. Like many iOS apps, the release brings a new design optimized for iOS 7. It doesn’t look anything like the previous version. Gone is th...

Pakistan is known for a long-standing ban on YouTube and occasional blocks of sites like Facebook and Twitter. Today, the government in one large part of the country said that it was planning to block...

In a blog post this morning, Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky laid out some of the things that the company is willing to do to get into the good graces of regulators and lawmakers in the New Yor...

TigerText, the secure SMS platform aimed at the enterprise, is today reshaping the business model. Rather than having one free, consumer-facing version of the app and an enterprise-level, paid version...

While I'm wary of analyst reports that offer exact figures, Gartner expects 56,507 sub-$10,000 3D printers to ship in 2013, a 49 percent jump over last year. They also expect 98,065 units sold in 2014...

Are you ready? TechCrunch Disrupt Europe is coming to Berlin in late October (26-29), featuring some of the biggest names and hottest startups in Silicon Valley alongside those in the European scene. ...

IBM has announced the acquisition of Xtifty, a provider of mobile messaging tools that allows push notifications to reach customers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.The company's platform leverag...

Snapchat founder and CEO Evan Spiegel has kept quiet about how Stories, the app's new 24-hour timeline play, might turn into a monetization route. However, the team has partnered up with a number of b...

Aly and Beth Khalifa have a vision: to "establish the new cutting edge of sustainability." They're doing it by creating products that can be easily broken down, repaired, or recycled and they're start...

For home decor junkies, 2009 was a dark year, marking the shuttering of CondNast’s shelter magazine, Domino, after four years in circulation. Today the magazine rises from the dead. There are a ...

Mobile app search engine Quixey, which has built a search engine to tackle app discovery by allowing consumers to find apps by searching for the kind of functionality they're looking for, has closed a...

Tulip Retail, which develops an end to end technology platform for in-store and online sales for retailers, has raised $2.4 million in funding led by SoftTechVC with Founder Collective, BoxGroup, Lere...

A new update for Chrome for iOS adds iOS 7 support, but there's also a big flaw as discovered by UK development and design firm Parallax. It turns out that when you use the search/address bar in Incog...

Research by U.K. telecoms regulator Ofcom has found that growing numbers of younger kids, especially, are turning to tablets to watch videos, play games and access the Internet. But tablet usage among...

Swedish startup Memoto did well on Kickstarter well enough to earn the company 11 times its funding goal, or $550,000 to drive the creation of its lifelogging camera. The small camera is designed to ...

The double rise of cloud-based services and consumerization have been two of the biggest developments in enterprise IT, but they have also led to one of the biggest conundrums: IT managers and CIOs wh...

The double rise of cloud-based services and consumerization have been two of the biggest developments in enterprise IT, but they have also led to one of the biggest conundrums: IT managers and CIOs wh...

Influencer marketing company Pursway is announcing that it has raised $7.2 million in Series B funding.Pursway says that it takes a unique approach to helping businesses reach the people most likely t...

Shortly after taking the stage at Disrupt SF, development startup Koality just announced that it has closed its seed round. The $1.8 million round was led by FF Angel‘s Peter Thiel. Other angels...

A brand new app called Goldee launches today, offering Phlips Hue users a new way to use their connected lighting system. The app provides dynamic "light scenes" which use artist-sourced photos as the...

For the past two years, Kleiner Perkins has operated a summer fellowship program to place top engineering and design talent from colleges at the firms portfolio companies. Today, the firm is expanding...

A new update for Snapchat that just rolled out adds an option to create Snapchat Stories, a new type of sharing for the temporary social network which allows users to build chains of shared content th...

With an increasing number of commercial applications relying on its technology, natural language processing (NLP) has started to come into its own of late. After years of research and experimentation,...

Cue, the personal assistant app that grew out of a promising search product, has shut down. The company left a brief note on their main page today, shown below. Cue is Shutting Down We appreciate all ...

Quantopian, a community where around 11,000 or so quants collaborate on algorithmic trading strategies, has raised $6.7 million from Khosla Ventures and Spark Capital. The new round brings the company...

Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller fame is about as nice as they come. And he's super sick of it. So he wrote a movie called "Director's Cut" in which he will no longer be the hero.His role is so bad,...

In travel search, most young people’s memories don’t extend much further back than Kayak, which began appearing, circa 2004. Though its name may be slightly less familiar among American tr...

Last month, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced an entrepreneurship-in-residence program for startups solving public sector problems. Now there's an actual application deadline and that deadline (thi...

Amazon is in the process of developing two smartphones, one inexpensive model and one with a 3D eye-tracking interface, TechCrunch has learned. The details are somewhat sparse, but are corroborated by...

Today Senator Feinstein stated that the NSA phone metadata program that collects records on the telephone calls of American citizens includes location information. Previously, head of the NSA, General...

Take a piano. Strap a projector above it. Build a Guitar Hero-esque interface that shows upcoming notes, and project it down onto the top surface and keys. What do you get?The piano instructor of the ...

Google's Glass, Android and other products may soon be picking up more Kinect-style gesture features: the company has bought Flutter, a Y Combinator-backed startup that focuses on gesture recognition ...

Google's Glass, Android and other products may soon be picking up more Kinect-style gesture features: the company has bought Flutter, a Y Combinator-backed startup that focuses on gesture recognition ...

Take a piano. Strap a projector above it. Build a Guitar Hero-esque interface that shows upcoming notes, and project it down onto the top surface and keys. What do you get?The piano instructor of the ...

Earlier this week I traveled to Microsoft’s Mountain View campus to play with the company’s new Kinect sensor. While there I met with a few of the team’s engineers to discuss how the...

Dell rounded up a slew of journalists in New York today to show off a new number of new gadgets -- including some shiny new XPS notebooks and convertibles -- but the company is finally making good on ...

It's not often that visiting a tech startup makes you want to amp up your wardrobe. But that's exactly the feeling you get when you step inside the headquarters of ModCloth, the San Francisco-based co...

Tesla has been on a tear in 2013, showing its first quarterly profit, raising $1 billion in cash, paying off its government loan, and enjoying a more than 400% gain in its share price year to date. To...

Restaurants, hotels, and other businesses are spending a lot to provide customers with free Wi-Fi. Today Facebook and Cisco roll out a way to help them recoup their costs by asking users to check-in t...

Boys who prefer kissing other boys will be glad to know that Grindr, the location-based hookup app focused on gay men, has today released a huge update with a handful of new features and a brand new l...

RadiumOne is completing selection of which bankers will underwrite its IPO, which it plans to secretly file for soon, according to a source close to its Wall Street negotiations. The advertising tech ...

For two and a half years, Silk Road was the Deep Web’s worst keep secret. The underground site was infamous for drug trafficking, gun running and murder for hire – a veritable rogues galle...

For two and a half years, Silk Road was the Deep Web’s worst keep secret. The underground site was infamous for drug trafficking, gun running and murder for hire – a veritable rogues galle...

LinkedIn has updated itsiPhone app with the ability to create endorsements for your connections right from your smartphone or tablet. The move demonstrates how important LinkedIn feels that this endor...

CardFlight was founded to enable any developer to create his or her own branded app and take in-person credit card payments from it. To accomplish this, it's raised $1.6 million in funding as it moves...

Bitcoin is taking it on the nose following the FBI seizure of Silk Road, a popular – and partially hidden – marketplace for drugs and other items generally outside the orbit of the law. As...

Bing announced today that it has integrated Pinterest data into its image search capability. Noting that computer sorting is a powerful tool, but that individuals can also effectively curate, Bing has...

Vessel, a new A/B testing platform for iOS and Android apps, is launching its service out of closed beta today after testing it with 10 million users, including prominent clients such as RunKeeper and...

We've been wondering what stealthy startup Gilt, AlleyCorp and 10Gen founder Kevin Ryan has been working on after he revealed that he was expanding his empire a few months ago at Disrupt New York. We'...

Postmaster, the Austin-based shipping API startup that helps its users send and track FedEx, UPS and USPS shipments, announced a number of new features and a new pricing model today that will make the...

UpCounsel has spent the last year building out its marketplace to provide its clients with affordable legal services. After serving more than 1,000 startups and small businesses, the company has raise...

Another week, and another acquisition for GoDaddy: the domain registration and hosting company today is announcing that it has bought Ronin, a company that specializes in online invoicing services -- ...

Another week, and another acquisition for GoDaddy: the domain registration and hosting company today is announcing that it has bought Ronin, a company that specializes in online invoicing services -- ...

When digital recruiting platform HireVue got its start nine years ago, the company actually shipped webcams to job candidates, allowing them to interview for long-distance jobs online. Though today, v...

The National Security Agency experimented with a cell phone location tracking program in 2010, but eventually shelved the idea. Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, declassified the progr...

One of the weirder things to come out of all the discussion around Dave Eggers' upcoming novel The Circle (which focuses on life at a fictional tech company) has been the accusation by Kate Losse that...

Even wireless earbuds have wires, let's be honest they have to, in order to link one earbud to the other. It's been an impossible barrier to cross in headphone design, with some exceptions that gener...

For many developers, Googling code snippets is just part of their everyday routines. Those snippets, however, are spread all over the web. The co-founders behind Runnable, which is launching today, sa...

Janrain, the popular user-management and social login provider, announced its latest social login trends report today. It looks like Google's recent advances in getting people to use its social login ...

It's hard to believe, but it's been just three years since 500 Startups started making investments in early-stage companies. But in that time, the firm has put money in at least 500 companies, and it ...

The feds have caught up to the Silk Road. The underground website long known for drug trafficking was seized by the FBI who also arrested the owner on three criminal counts. Prosecutors charged Ross W...

The feds have caught up to the Silk Road. The underground website long known for drug trafficking was seized by the FBI who also arrested the owner on three criminal counts. New York State prosecutors...

Flea market-style mobile apps are both a dime-a-dozen and refreshingly straight-forward. Upload a photo of the item for sale, write a description, set a price, and wait for nearby interested buyers to...

Over the last year, Box has been ramping up its efforts to bring its cloud storage platform into new verticals. That began in April, when the seven-year-old cloud services company began making a major...

Over the last year, Box has been ramping up its efforts to bring its cloud storage platform into new verticals. That began in April, when the seven-year-old cloud services company began making a major...

Lucid Software, the company behind the popular Lucidchart online flow chart and diagramming service, announced a new product in its lineup today. Lucidpress, as the name indicates, is a web-based publ...

Is it over for paid mobile apps? That's the general thinking these days, as the App Stores fill up with "good enough" alternatives to paid apps, while major publishers game the charts with free offeri...

"Motion books" platform Madefire is announcing that it has raised $5.2 million in Series A funding.Madefire's motion books are essentially comics that have been enhanced with animation, music, and sou...

Twitter #Music hasn’t exactly shaken the firmament of the musical landscape. After releasing the admittedly gorgeous app on the iOS App Store early this year, it has drifted down the charts and ...

In addition to the free goods that can be purchased on the peer-to-peer marketplace, Listia has been working to make itself an even more compelling shopping destination with the launch of a rewards st...

In addition to the free goods that can be purchased on the peer-to-peer marketplace, Listia has been working to make itself an even more compelling shopping destination with the launch of a rewards st...

Things could get even worse for HTC if the battered smartphone maker doesn't move quickly. The WSJ is reporting that following a preliminary U.S. court win by Nokia, HTC is facing possible import ban ...

Another startup seeking to shake up the banking market with a convenient, mobile-first approach has just bagged $2 million in seed funding from Runa Capital. Russia's RocketBank launched its service i...

Originally dubbed 'the single currency,' the euro has been around for a decade and in the work for two decades. At the time, it was something revolutionary, a bold initiative that could have failed mu...

Evite, a brand known for its digital invitations and other social planning resources since its founding in 1998, is announcing a new product today which will allow consumers to send out printed paper ...

Today Estonian virtual fitting room startup Fits.me is announcing two new "innovations" that it thinks goes even further to solving the scaling problem of any try-on-before-you-buy solution, both from...

In the same way you or I would close on a nice little bungalow in an up-and-coming part of town, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has just privately closed on the Washington Post, the newspaper equivalent of a n...

Apple is rumored to be planning the rollout of new iPads in time for the holidays, and there are a couple different models potentially in the pipeline, including an iPad mini with a high-resolution Re...

Good morning everyone. Today’s big acquisition, a huge agritech exit: Bio tech company Monsanto has bought Climate Corporation for approximately $1.1 billion. While the Monsanto press release sa...

Good morning everyone. Today’s big acquisition, a huge agritech exit: Bio tech company Monsanto has bought Climate Corporation for approximately $1.1 billion. While the Monsanto press release sa...

Meet the new Kindle, which is (almost) the same as the old Kindle. Amazon has been building LCD tablets - called Kindle Fires - for a mere 24 months and they've far surpassed the first clunky Fire wit...

A company tapping into the power of a distributed mobile workforce is Quri, a retailer analytics and intelligence company whose software has been adopted by half of the top twenty-five CPG (consumer p...

Staples is today announcing an acquisition of San Mateo-based Runa, a specialist in e-commerce personalization technology -- one of a series of recent moves the company has been making to compete bett...

Elliptic Labs, a startup that uses ultrasound technology to enable touchless, gesture-based interfaces, has finally pushed its tech into smartphones. It's been demoing this at the CEATEC conference th...

Back in May Berlin-based The Football App - a popular mobile football app amongst European fans - raised its first institutional funding a 10 million Series A from a syndicate led by Earlybird Ventur...

Weekdone is an Estonian startup backed by Ahti Heinla, founding engineer of Skype, and former investors and executives of leading Russian social network Odnoklassniki. The web and newly released iOS a...

3D printing remains a nascent market, despite high levels of hype around the technology's potential. The latter may be a little overblown but there's no doubting the technology's trajectory. Enter ana...

Since its start seven years ago,Wrike has been entirely bootstrapped. It has built a project management SaaS company that has helped it win clients such as headset maker Beats and Ecco, a well known-s...

Amid partisan shenanigans, a government shutdown and much squabbling, The White House launched a new website today that will eventually allow Americans to compare the price of health insurance plans &...

Telogis has raised $93 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to deepen its location-based services platform for operations that have large mobile workforces. The funding will further help ...

Over the last few days, we’ve been hearing reports of people having issues with iMessages, on both the receiving and sending ends. The complaints have grown in volume and frequency and we began ...

I don't think I've ever had a great video chat experience on my smartphone or tablet. Until now, I assumed that's just because I'm super-awkward, but the team behind a startup called Net Power & L...

According to Reuters, three of Microsoft's top 20 investors are making noise that Microsoft remove its founder and former CEO Bill Gates from its board of directors. Gates is currently chairman of Mic...

According to Reuters, three of Microsoft's top 20 investors are making noise that Microsoft remove its founder and former CEO Bill Gates from its board of directors. Gates is currently chairman of Mic...

If the prevailing wisdom of years past were any indication, we should have been up to our necks in sassy, autonomous robot servants a decade ago. While I wait for someone to develop a Rosie to cater t...

This summer, Identified pulled back the curtain on a new artificial intelligence technology, called "SYMAN," which it developed to help organize and clean the swaths of unstructured professional data ...

Does Apple have 10% of all corporate cash reserves? No, which is contrary to a headline or two you might have seen floating around. However, if you count all Apple cash, both foreign and domestic, and...

Yiftee, the service for sending local gifts to friends, has opened its "GiftUp" API with the hope that developers will incorporate its gift-giving capabilities into their own apps. Yiftee is banking o...

Yiftee, the service for sending local gifts to friends, has opened its "GiftUp" API with the hope that developers will incorporate its gift-giving capabilities into their own apps. Yiftee is banking o...

BlackBerry announcedtoday that its Enterprise Service and BlackBerry 10 handsets have been approved by theNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization to handle classified messaging up to the level of "Restrict...

Capitalizing on the maturing Web and growing demand for DIY creation and publishing tools, the Israel and U.S.-based company has grown to 400 strong, raised $60 million from investors and built a user...

Yahoo is set to acquire Hitpost, the maker of a handful of sports-centric mobile apps, to beef up its own sports offerings on iOS and Android, say sources familiar with the deal. The company's team of...

Angel investing in the US this year looks like it’s falling back towards 2011 levels, after a record 2012. Meanwhile, there are more Series A rounds than ever, based on our latest CrunchBase dat...

Whole worlds have been built out of LEGO and K'Nex and Meccano and a seemingly endless supply of childhood wonder, but the world is changing and so too are our toys. That's where an ambitious New York...

The purpose of Facebook's Mobile App Ads seems pretty clear they're supposed to drive installations, right? Well, in a new blog post, the company says its ads can now help with what comes afterward, ...

A leaked image of what appears to be Logitech’s gamepad for the iPhone has hit the Twitter wire today, via the @evleaks account. The account has been known to reliably tweet images of upcoming p...

Today Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald took to Reddit to answer questions from that community regarding the NSA, Edward Snowden, and his current work breaking news concerning both.That is a taste. ...

Ali Rosenthal joined Facebook back in early 2006, when it was a 50 person startup with 4 million users and she quit at the end of 2011 when it employed 3,500 people and was closing in on a billion use...

This week on TechCrunch TV's Ask a VC show, we have Battery Ventures partner Brian O'Malley in the studio. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here a...

The Internet Explorer 6 death watch continues, but the end is near. Microsoft's ancient browser may still haunt web developers' nightmares, but according to the latest data from Net Applications, its ...

Windows 8 picked up 0.61 percent market share in September to end the month at 8.02 percent, crossing the eight percent threshold for the first time according to Net Applications. In the same timefram...

Uber, the company that makes hailing a car and paying for it as easy as dropping a pin on a smartphone, has recently launched a new feature that brings another level of luxury and service to the exper...

Samsung is being called out by the highly respected and thorough Ars Technica for apparently "artificially" boosting the Galaxy Note 3's performance specifically when it comes to benchmark testing. T...

President Obama just invoked Apple’s imperfect operating system launch to the massive glitches plaguing the new government healthcare price comparison websites. Responding to the government shut...

Having amassed a nearly $2 billion stake in Apple, Icahn recently had dinner with the company's CEO Tim Cook. His pitch: A $150 billion buyback. The pair are set to discuss the idea more in a few week...

San Francisco-based real estate startup Reesio is announcing today that it has closed on $1.096 million in new funding for its transaction management software for real estate agents. Investors include...

With a tidal wave of Android devices finally supporting real revenues for app developers in mainland China, the biggest domestic mobile game makers are scaling up quickly. Chukong, the parent company ...

Exec says that it's dropping prices for its home cleaning service in all nine markets by 25 percent.Founder and CEO Justin Kan told me that customers will still get a fixed quote for the entire cleani...

The U.S. government is a complete mess. Congress could not even perform its basic constitutional duty to fund the government and had to shut down most of the public system. Amid the partisan spectacle...

The U.S. government is a complete mess. Congress could not even perform its basic constitutional duty to fund the government and had to shut down most of the public system. Amid the partisan spectacle...

In an effort to scale its product development capacity, Quirky, the creation funnel for crowd sourced invention ideas, has hired as president Doreen Lorenzo, formerly the president of design consultan...

Though hopefully none of us have ever pulled the old dine and dash, we've probably all thought about getting up and walking out on a restaurant check before. Today, restaurant bill-focused payments st...

Sharran Deora said it took a lot of hustle to get his first job out of school. “I went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. I didn’t have the right connections,” said Deora, who was ...

If you thought you were safe from the Chrome browser redesign and updated "New Tab" page, parts of which Google previously killed off this spring before it hit the Stable channel, think again. Last we...

Smule has launched a number of popular, music-themed mobile apps, including Sing! Karaoke, Guitar, Ocarina, Magic Piano, and I Am T-Pain. Now it's turning its website into a social network that it cal...

Etsy is making a major change to its policies today, allowing sellers to hire as many people as they need to run their businesses and to partner with outside manufacturers to produce their goods. Whil...

Etsy is making a major change to its policies today, allowing sellers to hire as many people as they need to run their businesses and to partner with outside manufacturers to produce their goods. Whil...

Peer-to-peer car rental marketplace RelayRides is moving to end support for hourly rentals, due to lackluster growth in that side of its business. It will also stop supporting devices that had been in...

Is your cell phone bill too expensive? So is mine. Wireless data startup FreedomPop has been trying to tackle that little financial truth for the better part of two years now, and it's finally ready ...

Gadgets, gizmos and things are hot. With the rise of crowdfunding and easier paths to manufacturing, there are more gadgeteers than ever before. And we're looking for some of the best hardware startup...

On the heels of closing its fifth $400 million fund, VC firm Redpoint is making some major hires in the partnership. The Silicon Valley firm is bringing on Twitter's former Director of Platform, Ryan ...

While this watch may look goofy as all get-out, rest assured it holds an important spot in the history of timekeeping. It is one of the first "atomic" clocks that is accurate to a second every thousan...

The government may now be in shutdown mode, but not before it gave the go-ahead to Dell to go private. The embattled PC company today announcedthat it has received all necessary regulatory clearance f...

The U.K.-based Oxygen Accelerator, now relocated from its former home of Birmingham to Tech City's Campus London, has announced its first cohort of startups since the move down south. Nine startups ma...

Last year a bunch of European tech startup founders got on their bikes and raised money for charity. This weekend just gone the TechBikers - 70 founders/techies - once again achieved their 200 mile, 3...

Last year a bunch of European tech startup founders got on their bikes and raised money for charity. This weekend just gone the TechBikers - 70 founders/techies - once again achieved their 200 mile, 3...

If you have a human, emotional heart, chances are you’ve felt an intense longing to change the outcome of a movie or TV show. When Ned Stark is up on that platform, with King Joffrey ordering hi...

The latest company making a bid to bring the subscription model to the book world is one that may already be familiar to TechCrunch readers social publishing service Scribd.Scribd first launched in 2...

Last month Google finally rolled out an invite-only Beta of its real-time API for Analytics that will allow developers to programmatically take action based on the real-time data they get from Googles...

The Pinterestification of the web has claimed another victim. Charity donation platform, Believe.in, is the latest startup to move from a feed-style view on its homepage and user profiles to a tile-ba...

Just when you thought GoPros couldn't get any smaller, meet the Hero3+. The new model is 20 percent smaller than its predecessor and packs some much-improved internals, allowing the camera to capture ...

Following the launch of its Play music-playing button last year, today Spotify took one more step outside of its walled garden: it has launched a new Follow button, a widget that can go on any desktop...

Microsoft Researcher Gordon Bell has joined SocialSafe as an investor and advisor. Bell is best-known for his pioneering work in 'Life-logging' and has co-authored the book "Total Recall" based on his...

It looks like a settlement is looming in a near-three year long European Union antitrust investigation into Google's search practices. Speaking at a European Parliament event this morning, EU Competit...

Another big step forward for Israel's startup scene today. Pitango Venture Capital, the Israel-based investment company behind like Apple-acquired Anobit, Samsung-acquired Boxee and many others, has c...

Last year LogEntries secured a $1.1M seed round led by Polaris Venture Partners. Similar to Splunk, which has IPOd, LogEntries collects and analyzes huge quantities of machine-generated log data, help...

Most startups grow by developing apps, services, platforms -- you name it. They find their way andthenthey lose their way. They pivot, find success or they fail.Copper.io, a provider of cloud manageme...

Viber, the app that has promised free messaging and calls to its users since it’s inception, has today announced it’s first step into monetization. As has been the case with competing apps...

Intel has acquired Sensory Networks for $20 million to further extend its security capabilities.Sensory Networks, based in Palo Alto, was founded in 2002 as a hardware company, providing high-perform...

On the same day that Twitter and Nielsen are debuting their first TV Ratings report emerging from the two companies' partnership, Facebook is slyly releasing official numbers designed to give its own ...

Socialbakers, a social analytics startup headquartered in Prague, is announcing that it has hired its first chief marketing officer Neil Morgan, who recently left Adobe.The company says it has 190 em...

SparkLabs, the accelerator that brings Silicon Valley mentorship to Seoul's young startup ecosystem, presented its second Demo Day presented. ...

Bang With Friends’ catchy name unfortunately is getting tossed after the startup reached a settlement with Zynga. The social gaming company had accused the casual sex app of infringing on its &#...

So you aren’t verified on Twitter. Don’t worry. There is still time — unlike for Congress to fund the government. But I digress. Anyway, what you might not have known is that if you ...

You can bet what would have happened if Salesforce.com had not focused on becoming more of a platform company than a CRM provider. It would have faced a market with more modern CRM vendors, putting it...

Splat. That's the sound the PC market just made. According toSterne Agee analyst Vijay Rakesh, back-to-school computer sales were "virtually absent." Put in other words: The traditional September bump...

Norwegian startup Soundrop first made its name as an app on Spotify, tapping into the streaming platform's catalog to create real-time group listening rooms that were popular places for Spotify users ...

I never thought I'd see the day when someone would find a reason to build a wee tiny foldable 3D printer that can make things about as big as a few matchboxes. This printer, called the LumiFold, is a ...

If it’s a Google product and it’s on mobile, it’s getting a card-based user interface. The latest product to get this treatment is Google Analytics for Android. With today’s up...

Syncsortis acquiring Circle Computer Group, a software maker that allows organizations to make data securely available for analytics on platforms such as Apache Hadoop. The terms of the deal were not ...

99dresses, the Y Combinator-backed startup that gives women the ability to hit "refresh" on their wardrobes as often as they like through clothing swaps, has gone mobile exclusive with the roll out of...

If you’ve been watching Dropbox at all over the last couple of years, you’ll be completely unsurprised at a new feature announced today. The apps on Mac have gained the ability to automati...

Clinkle, a much-hyped mobile payments startup which raised $25 million in funding ahead of having a publicly available product, has been notoriously secretive about its user interface and the details ...

What's everyone saying about Breaking Bad? What about just my friends? What do my old photo comments say about me? A trillion posts full of this info start getting unlocked today as Facebook begins ro...

As TechCrunch powers through the major tech hubs of the world we've consistently missed Boston. That's about to change. I'm pleased to announce our second Boston meetup on November 13, 2013, at the Es...

Tackk, which offers tools for creating content that combines text, images, audio, and video, is coming out of a beta today and announcing that it has raised $1.2 million in a second round of seed fund...

This weekend, the Twittersphere and news cycle was dominated with thereactions of a number of VCs and angels to AngelList Syndicates. According to the data we've collected from AngelList,there has bee...

It's dark days for email marketing. Gmail's new tabbed filters are hiding messages from brands. Email promotions have to be highly personalized in order for opens to equal clicks and conversions. Tell...

DoorDash has raised a $2.4 million round led by Khosla Ventures Keith Rabois and Charles River Ventures Saar Gur.The company, which was in Y Combinators summer 2013 batch, delivers food from 70 restau...

If you’ve ever been on the business end of a denial of service attack, you know the sinking feeling you get when your servers fall to the enemy. Defense.net, a new project by cybersecurity exper...

Extreme Reality, an Israeli startup backed by SV Angel, has been at work for eight years on building motion capture technology. Now they’re opening up the kimono with a platform that can turn an...

While there are plenty of enterprise mobility and device management companies, they may not go deeply enough in controlling the end-user experience for an employee or a customer. Many of these enterpr...

While there are plenty of enterprise mobility and device management companies, they may not go deeply enough in controlling the end-user experience for an employee or a customer. Many of these enterpr...

Google today announced the launch of Web Designer, a new tool for building interactive HTML5 sites and ads. The company first hinted at this launch in June, but had been quiet about it ever since. Web...

Last year, Google acquired Waterloo-based startup BufferBox, which provides shipping locker service to make it easy to get things delivered reliably even when you're not sure where you'll be when they...

Apple is expected to refresh its iPad line-up next month, perhaps pushing the iPhone 5s' Touch ID fingerprint sensor-fuelled home button into a new flagship iPad. But even as Cupertino upgrades the iP...

One of the more interesting but relatively unknown features of Windows 8.1 is its deep integration with SkyDrive and Microsoft's smart files system for keeping your online and offline storage in sync ...

A new app for iPad called Lineal Timeline launched recently, offering a way to scroll back through historical events from centuries prior, as well as create your own personal timelines using notes and...

Today or tomorrow, the U.S. Justice Department is expected to file a brief with the FISA Court opposing motions from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook and LinkedIn requesting the right to publish mor...

Twitch, a popular video game streaming service, announced today that it has raised a $20 million Series C round led by Thrive Capital. WestSummit Capital participated in the funding, as did, notably, ...

There's an increasing opportunity in helping hardware startups bring their products to market, and Toronto ecommerce startup ShopLocket has identified a key area in that process where they might be ab...

Tomorrow, for the first time, Americans will be able to easily compare health insurance plans. President Obama's signature piece of legislation to overhaul the healthcare system, The Affordable Care A...

Tomorrow, for the first time, Americans will be able to easily compare health insurance plans. President Obama's signature piece of legislation to overhaul the healthcare system, The Affordable Care A...

A few things come to mind at the mention of a jet pack.The Jetsons come first, and then this hilarious video, in which Fox 5 News embarrasses itself with a water-propelled jet pack. But what if I told...

A few things come to mind at the mention of a jet pack.The Jetsons come first, and then this hilarious video, in which Fox 5 News embarrasses itself with a water-propelled jet pack. But what if I told...

Y Combinator-backedHireArt, a job applicant screening service which today touts business customers including Airbnb, Cisco, eBay, Gap, Facebook, General Assembly and others, is today launching a secon...

Y Combinator-backedHireArt, a job applicant screening service which today touts business customers including Airbnb, Cisco, eBay, Gap, Facebook, General Assembly and others, is today launching a secon...

Amid dire financial results and an oddly-timed smartphone launch, BlackBerry's big BBM for iPhone and Android launch seemed lost in a murky grey purgatory with little chance of escape with each passin...

In the past year or so, Turntable.fm has gone from a force in the digital music world, with around 420k MAUs in the first two months of its existence and Fred Wilson as a board member, to a near-Dodo ...

Sexy Bill wants you! Hardware Alley is my favorite part of Disrupt and we’re bringing the festivities to Berlin on October 29 when 30 lucky hardware companies can show off their wares. It is a c...

Berlin's Rocket Internet has of late made a big business out of incubating and growing e-commerce startups in emerging markets, far away from the U.S. where the competitive field is much more crowded....

Antivirus creator and eccentric world-roaming rich guy John McAfee has a plan to get around the NSA's snooping with a gadget called the "D-Central," which is essentially a $100 router for building sma...

With Apple in the middle of its first month of sales of two new iPhone models, the latest figures out from Kantar Worldpanel, a market research division of WPP, indicates that going into September, sa...

Google is facing sanctions in France after it failed to amend its privacy policy to comply with French data protection law within a timetable set out by the national regulator. The CNIL said Friday it...

San Jose-based Varentec, a company that builds power management and monitoring solutions for the electric grid, today announced the close of an $8 million Series B round of funding from Bill Gates and...

More investment activity from Seaya Ventures, after it participated in OpenTable competitor Restalo's recent $10 million Series B round. This time the Spanish VC is leading a $6.5 million Series B rou...

Hot on the heals of its $4M Series A round led-by London-based MMC Ventures, 'curated' accessories market Boticca is gunning to be the 'Fab of accessories', rolling out internationally. It last fundin...

Android doesn't really have an AirPlay equivalent its Miracast and Mirrorlink technologies are similar, but lack the kind of opportunity Apple's tech provides to build second screen experiences that ...

Global ad spend in 2013 will see steady growth of 3.5% to reach $503 billion by the end of the year, and the amount going into internet advertising will continue to get larger, according to figures ou...

Global ad spend in 2013 will see steady growth of 3.5% to reach $503 billion by the end of the year, and the amount going into internet advertising will continue to get larger, according to figures ou...

Smartphones have pretty good cameras, but nowhere near good enough to do the kind of high accuracy measurement work that's required for engineering or remodelling projects. Enter Spike, a new smartpho...

In more follow-on funding, Love Home Swap, the UK-based holiday home exchange marketplace startup, has raised a further 1 million from existing backer MMC Ventures. The company is also introducing a "...

It's not often you come across a founder that measures startup success by winning the Nobel Peace Prize one day. When ResearchGate founder Ijad Madisch said that to Benchmark partner Matt Cohler a few...

One of the more awkward things about AOL is the fact that its profits are still entirely driven by subscriptions and memberships. Given the subscription busines' roots in dial-up Internet, it's not su...

On Friday, Violin Memory's IPO did not exactly go that well. The company priced its IPO at $9 per share but opened at$7.41, 17.7 percent lower than the offering price. It closed trading at $7.02 per s...

Provo, Utah is getting Google Fiber in the next few months. So how do you explain to the people of this small city north of Salt Lake what that will mean for their Interent service?...

There's been plenty of buzz about iBeacons and Bluetooth Low Energy radios -- they're supposed to do wonders for in-venue positioning, and plenty of companies have already expressed interest in deploy...

Digital designers point your eyes at this neat Kickstarter project which is utilising computer vision tech to speed up the early stages of the design process. The basic idea is to give designers a way...

It seems there's still money to be made in money transfers.Azimo, the UK-based social money transfer service that competes with legacy players Western Union and Moneygram, and to a lesser extent, PayP...

The limited launched of Google Glass earlier this year was greeted with a lot of hype and the inevitable backlash, but one thing this first version of Glass didn't show yet was the full potential of t...

With new consoles and microconsoles starting to pop into existence, this week Valve finally revealed its answer: SteamOS. Steam Machines. Steam Controllers. Boom. Its ambitions are not to launch a con...

Sure, each new iPhone is faster than the last.. on paper. But how do these speed increases actually translate into day-to-day use? It's one of life's oldest questions; one that scholars and scientists...