Articles by Techcrunch from April 2014

 Lyft confirmed today that it is working on a new premium service. It also said that its looking for community members to test it out, which they can sign up to do through a landing page for earl...

As a post-demo day celebration, we’ve decided to start with ERA to launch our “Day In The Life” series, where we visit NY-based accelerators, incubators, and even a few VC firms to m...

 Apple will raise $12 billion in debt, paying a 0.77 percent premium over Treasuries on the component 10-year notes. The offering will contain seven parts, with maturities ranging from three year...

 Osman Rashid, co-founder and former CEO of textbook rental service Chegg and interactive textbook platform Kno, is announcing his next startup, Galxyz. It's still related to education, but other...

 CoFoundersLab, a sort of “Match.com for entrepreneurs” who are seeking their soon-to-be better halves, has made another small-ish acquisition to help expand its service’s offer...

 Disrupt NY 2014 is mere days away, and were thrilled to announce that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will be joining Michael Arrington for a fireside chat, where shell talk about how shes been rebuildi...

 Microsoft. For a generation of technology executives, the name strikes fear into even the most iron-willed business leaders. A lion among gazelles, its very gaze into a market could cause invest...

 Cloud platform Heroku today announced a set of new tools for PHP developers that aim to give PHP the kind of enterprise-grade support the company already offers for Rails, Python, node.js and ot...

 Microsoft Office for iPad has been an almost embarrassing success for its progenitor, comfortably retaining three of the top slots in the iOS app store since its release. For days after release,...

 Discoverly, the San Francisco startup that launched last year with the aim of putting people’s social connections “to work” in the enterprise space, has added some useful updat...

 Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) held its Winter 2014demo day today with another ten new startups on stage dancing for a group of would-be new investors.Companies ranged from a juicing...

 Trippy, thesocial travel planner which first debuted back at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2011, is shifting away from the friends-only model with the official launch of a new Q&A-focused traveling ...

 Google does indeed have a so-called “Silver” program in the works, as reported originally in early April by Android Police, says The Information. But the intent isn’t just to i...

 Disrupt NY 2014 kicks off in less than a week, and were thrilled to announce that Brendan Iribe, Oculus VR founder and current CEO, will join us for a fireside chat to talk about Oculus future n...

 Disrupt NY 2014 kicks off in less than a week, and were thrilled to announce that Brendan Iribe, Oculus VR founder and current CEO, will join us for a fireside chat to talk about Oculus future n...

Sprinklr, which describes itself as “the largest independent social relationship platform provider,” just announced that it has raised $40 million in Series D funding. It’s also anno...

 Sprint has gathered the NY media today to reveal a new smartphone in collaboration with HTC and Harman/Kardon, as well as a discount partnership with Spotify. Sprint unveiled a partnership with ...

 Following amajor makeover from earlier this month, which introduced a new, simpler and darker theme to the streaming music platformSpotify, Android users are now also getting a refreshed app sta...

 Urbana-based creator Brian Lilly has designed and built something every kid will enjoy: massive, stackable blocks called Buildies that fold together to make Lego-like shapes and let the wee ones...

 Native mobile advertising is on fire, especially for independent ad networks looking to challenge their much bigger and established rivals. InMobi, is today launching its native ad platform join...

 Online shopping giant Amazon wants to get out ahead of the curve with wearable tech – hence the launch of its new Wearable Technology store today. The store is a subsection of its Amazon.c...

 When I fly, I am afforded a few brief hours of sublime luxury when I’m not connected to the Internet – I live in Canada, you see, where in-flight Wi-Fi between our country and the U....

 Gesture control devices are a big new area of interest among hardware startups, and a Bluetooth-enabled ring that makes it possible to control connected devices with a wave of your hand is nothi...

 Mozilla is launching its most important release of Firefox in a very long time today. After almost two years of working on its Australisredesign, the company is now finally ready to bring it to ...

 An alien robot named Lyka has landed on Indiegogo with a campaign to educate the children of earth about technology, science, engineering, and the environment. The project is the first effort fr...

 Square has long talked about adding more features to its point of sale system to make it more attractive for large and small merchants to use, and for their customers as well. The company even b...

 Porch.com is one of the most interesting startups in the real estate field right now. It aggregates historical home improvement data about millions of U.S. homes, which allows it to tell you inf...

 Looking ahead to a potential public offering in the next year the application program interface and analytics services company Apigee has raised an additional $60 million in late stage financing...

 Apple has a new patent granted today by the USPTO (via AppleInsider) which describes a means for reducing the size of a key component of the iPhone (and iPad), making it possible to create ever-...

 Tidemark, a business financial forecasting startup, had a busy today announcing a major upgrade to their product and another $32M in funding. The product update, which CEOChristian Gheorghe desc...

 Tealium has received $20 million in new financing from Silver Lake Waterman. The San Diego-based startup will use the capital to grow all its business units, including engineering, sales, custom...

 Doximity, the largest professional network for the healthcare industry in the U.S., has received a new prescription for future growth with $54 million in fresh financing from investors including...

 SOLS, a 3D-printing company which is today focused on custom printed shoe insoles that help with foot pain and other ailments, has raised $6.4 million in Series A funding, in a round again led b...

 Strategy Analytics has put out its latest smartphone market figures for Q1, and the market watcher has Samsung and Apple both losing share in the quarter. Read More ...

 As software continues to eat the world, the tools to help make developers' lives easier continue to mature. Case in point: Cambridge, UK-based Undo Software, which offers reversible debugging so...

 Apple has indeed updated its MacBook Air as foretold, and while the updates aren’t terribly dramatic, they are solid improvements that should come as welcome news to anyone who has been wa...

 Apple has indeed updated its MacBook Air as foretold, and while the updates aren’t terribly dramatic, they are solid improvements that should come as welcome news to anyone who has been wa...

 Nokia has reported interim results for its Q1, revealing a tough time for its devices & services business unit duringin a transitionary quarter as the companyworked towards the hand off of t...

 The advantage with enterprise startups if that they can be based just about anywhere. And that’s proved today with the news that Brightpearl, which a cloud-based business management system...

 Lyft is preparing to compete with Uber's upscale SUV option by launching its own premium SUV on-demand car service, according to a source. It will let riders book leather interior Ford Explorer ...

 I hate activist journalism. But last week, I was responsible for the death of a startup. It was probably the fastest death in the history of the tech industry: four hours from launch to dead-poo...

 Netflix has signed an "interconnect agreement" with Verizon, an agreement similar in nature to the peering deal that it struck with Comcast. The deal will help Netflix get its content onto the I...

 Mark your calendars: May 20 should provide fireworks. On that date, Tom Wheeler, current chairman of the Federal Communications Commission FCC will sit down in front of the House Commerce Subcom...

 GitHub has published a blog post detailing the results of an investigation into the allegations of Julie Horvath. New Github CEO Chris Wanstrath explains that the more transparent post is a foll...

 Caviar, one many startups that have sprouted up over the past year or so to offer lazy customers an easier way to order meals online, has raised $15 million in seed and Series A funding. Its $13...

 Caviar, one of many startups that have sprouted up over the past year or so to offer lazy customers an easier way to order meals online, has raised $15 million in seed and Series A funding. The ...

 Y Combinator-incubated payday loan disruptor LendUp has raised a $50 million credit debt facility from Victory Park Capital. This adds to the $18 million in equity funding LendUp has raised from...

 As a kid growing up, Tim Roberts wanted to be an artist. Today as an adult, he’s the vice president of interactive and design at personal health tracking startup Fitbit. On the surface, it...

 As a kid growing up, Tim Roberts wanted to be an artist. Today as an adult, he’s the vice president of interactive and design at personal health tracking startup Fitbit. On the surface, it...

 If you are reading this in Internet Explorer, you should probably close it and fire up Chrome -- and come back after a newly reported zero-day flaw is patched. Even the U.S. and U.K. governments...

 Like a high-tech Rumpelstiltskin, you may soon be able to spin straw into plastic. A new filament, made by Chinese manufacturer Jiangsu Jinghe Hi-Tech Co., is made primarily of straw and a plast...

 Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe have agreed to a $324 million settlement in response to a suit brought by employees of the firms who were financially impacted by their agreements to not hire from...

 The Raspberry Pi is a mini computer, just like most smartphones, so it stands to reason that you can create what amounts to a home-brew cellphone out of a few store-bought electronics parts. Tha...

 In the cloud storage wars, capacity is a weapon, and one that is rapidly losing its dollar value. Put simply: Companies that offer cloud storage are scrambling to add value on top of stored giga...

 Facebook is just about ready to finish construction on its 476,000-square-foot data center in Altoona, Iowa. Even before this new facility goes online, though, the company today announced that i...

 French Secretary of State for the digital economy Axelle Lemaire announced in an interview with Le JDD that the French government will work on a developer visa for highly skilled employees. Whil...

 People love the intimacy of communicating through photos and videos. Snapchat proved that. Now Facebook wants more of these visual conversations happening in Messenger so it’s added video ...

 People love the intimacy of communicating through photos and videos. Snapchat proved that. Now Facebook wants more of these visual conversations happening in Messenger so it’s added video ...

 New Relic, maker of application monitoring tools for developers, has raised $100 million funding led by BlackRock, Inc. and Passport Capital with T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. and Wellington Ma...

As it looks to return more of its accumulated past-net profit margin — cash, and so forth — to investors, Apple will again turn to debt to raisethe funds needed. If that seems odd, keep in...

 Believe it or not, Disrupt NY 2014 is just one week away! Crazy, right? As you know, we have an all-star lineup of special guests and speakers who will be joining us, including Michael Arrington...

 Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Disney Research have created a 3D printer that can output a real, cuddly teddy bear in a few hours, thereby putting Santa's elves out of business. The machine ...

 Facebook today announced that it is open-sourcing the Pop animation engine that powers most of the user interface of its Paper app. The code is now available on GitHub. The history of Paper is c...

 It's a rough day in the public markets for high-flying tech companies. The recently public Weibo and stalwarts Netflix, Amazon, Twitter and Facebook are posting large losses. The combined declin...

 Apple is planning a mid-cycle spec bump for the MacBook Air, according to a new report from 9to5Mac. The key feature of this update is said to be the use of new next-gen Intel Haswell processors...

 There are a number of startupscatering to those who want to buy and sell "gently used" clothing and other items online, whether directly to fellow consumers ason Threadflip and Poshmark, for exa...

 In a somewhat unusual move, Samsung is rumored to be planning a premium version of their already high-end Galaxy S5 Android smartphone. That device could arrive as early as June, according to a ...

 The concept of “cloud printing” has promised a lot but not exactly set the world on fire. Google Cloud Print (GCP) is designed for printing from mobile devices. However, it’s n...

 Now that Nokiasoft is (un)officially a thing, following the completion on Friday of Microsoft's multi-billion dollar purchase of Nokia's devices division, the question of which brand names Micro...

 When you usetwo-factor authentication, chances are you are getting your second factor from a mobile phone app like Google Authenticator or Authy. This makes sense, given that you want to ensure ...

 Popcorn Time's evolution continues. A popular fork of the original software is launching on Android as soon as tomorrow, one of the developers tells TechCrunch. The software also recently gained...

 Google’s product lines were bound to come into conflict, and this HP SlateBook 14, which broke cover on HP’s website(via MobileSyrup)in the official trailer you see above, definitely...

The Nokia Lumia Icon is yet another smartphone out of the Microsoft camp looking to pull you away from either iOS or Android. Where specs and features are concerned, it's prepared to deliver. Read Mor...

 Microsoft has a slew of original programming set to hit the Xbox, kicking off in June. The original content includes 12 projects, with six “committed” and six in development, coverin...

 Mobile deep linking - a technology construct which allows mobile apps to be interconnected in a way that's similar to how the web itself operates via clickable links - took another step forward ...

 As I noted in January, the U.S. government is quite interested in getting out of the Bitcoin business and has, thus far, been working hard to convert seized bitcoin to actual cash, a move that c...

 AOL just released more information about the email spoofing incident earlier this month. In a blog post, AOL (which owns TechCrunch) wrote that its investigation is still ongoing, but it acknowl...

 Threadless has released its new Type Tees app, which lets anyone quickly design a t-shirt based on whatever funny slogan or witty saying they'd like to wear. The company then custom-prints those...

 E-commerce giant Alibaba, part of Yahoo, is buying a $1.22 billion stake in Youku Tudou, the main online video provider in China, akin to YouTube. The move looks like a competitive bulwark again...

 E-commerce giant Alibaba, part of Yahoo, is buying a $1.22 billion stake in Youku Tudou, the main online video provider in China, akin to YouTube. The move looks like a competitive bulwark again...

 Skype introduced group video calling officially back in 2010, and offerssupport for up to 10 people, but the feature has been a premium service for paying customers since it exited beta. The gro...

 Loverly, the Pinterest-style marketplace for brides, is in the process of closing a $2.5 million Series B round at a valuation at or north of $15 million, according to sources. It is unclear who...

 After three years in stealth mode, the magicians behind the motion capture technology that powers Microsoft’s Kinect, are launching Aquifi, the next step in their development of motion cap...

Funding iPad keyboards on Kickstarter is one thing. But equity crowd funding is pretty hot right now. And today OurCrowd out of Israel has closed a $25 million Series B funding round – a pretty ...

 Comcast announced today it's reached a deal to divest 3.9 million cable subscribers through a series of transactions with Charter Communications that it hopes will improve the chances of getting...

 This week at IBM’s Impact Conference in Las Vegas, it announced a new cloud marketplace, a central place for customers to shop for IBM cloud services and those from third-party partners. O...

 Mobile savingsapplicationIbotta, popular among digitally savvy coupon clippers, expanded beyond savings on grocery items and other consumer packaged goods to include support forhome improvement ...

 Google has a new blog post detailing some of the progress it’s been making over the last year with its self-driving car initiative. The driverless cars have been tackling the challenge of ...

 If you've ever wondered how some videos get popular while others languish in obscurity (or, on the flip side, if you'd like to know how to get some sweet views), look no further than Bacchus PR,...

 Another big round for a fast-growing enterprise startup. InsideSales.comhas raised a mammoth $100 million, at what DJ's Venture Wire is reporting the valuation at "nearly"$1 billion. Polaris Par...

 Another big round for a fast-growing enterprise startup focused on big data and the cloud. InsideSales.comhas raised a mammoth $100 million, at what DJ's Venture Wire is reporting the valuation ...

 Amazon has begun the Amazonification of recent acquisition ComiXology, by killing in-app purchases within the popular “Comics” by ComiXology app. This required the actual removal of ...

MyHeritage, the popular family history network for genealogy buffs with offices in Tel Aviv, Israel and Lehu, Utah, today announced that its digital library of historical records has now passed the 5 ...

 Microsoft the rebel? That’s the image of the company you get in a new ad spot created for Nokia devices Redmond has released following the closing of its acquisition of the hardware divisi...

 Rovio, the maker of Angry Birds, had a slower year in 2013 as revenue flattened out and profits fell by about half on the company’s much higher headcount. The Helsinki-based company pulled...

 Spanish smartphone startup Geeksphone has OS updates in the pipe for its Revolution handset -- which differentiates itself from other Android handsets by offering the user the option to download...

 Samba Mobile, a U.K. startup that was offering free 3G broadband in exchange for users watching video adverts on PCs and tablets, has shut down after less than two years of operation. Sambahad l...

 Samba Mobile, a U.K. startup that was offering free 3G broadband in exchange for users watching video adverts on PCs and tablets, has shut down after less than two years of operation. Sambahad l...

 Secret--the iOS app that lets you share confessions, rumors, complaints and praisewith your wider circle of friends without attaching your name to it-- has captured the eye of early adopters in ...

 Yahoo’s strategyto grow its business inmobile has largely been focused around what the company is doing with apps for smartphones and tablets. But a piece of news today points to how it is...

 I have so many pastimes that I like to say that my hobby is hobbies. Unfortunately, I often let my craft supplies sit idle for weeks while I spend hours surfing the web. That's why I was intrigu...

 Along with its many other benefits, regular workouts contribute to better mood and energy levels. As a result, I am constantly surprised to see how many fitness tracking apps and wearable device...

Editor’s note:Ross Rubinis principal analyst atReticle Research, a technology, media and telecom advisory firm, and founder ofBackerjack. He blogs atTechspressive. Each week, Backerjackshares th...

 Circulars (the advertising inserts with coupons from local retailers) are still critical to revenues for local newspapers. In an effort to bring them into the digital age, a consortium of some o...

 Remember social games? Remember how they supposed to be the future, how they were transforming the games industry and all that? No? Strangely not many people seem to think about social games any...

 Once in a while, a Kickstarter project just hits a nerve and compels thousands of people to donate money to make sure it becomes a reality. PonoMusic, a startup that aims to create a music downl...

As anyone who’s ever had a Greek friend knows, we tend to havedifferent Easters (sometimes)and do different things during them, namely, dye all our eggs red and roast a whole lamb on a spit. I r...

 I’m not generally a person who plays very much DLC or post-release content on games; for the most part, it comes out long after I’ve lost interest in the original title, and it’...

 So what would happen if you took a drone, attached twin video cameras to it, and had each of those cameras feed directly into one half of an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset? Now take it a st...

 Last Friday, Microsoft finally tookcontrol as the new owner of Nokia'sdevices business, but it's coming into its new position as a mobile hardware maker with no less a challenge than Nokia has h...

 There was a time, I'm told, when the closest that two lovers came to text messaging was written love letters, sent through the snail mail. Perhaps they were from a soldier to his sweetheart back...

 Just 21% (268 million) of Facebook's users access the service from desktop-only, and both that percentage and number are falling as Facebook grows, according to new stats from Facebook's Q1 2014...

 Recent news that the FCC may consider changes to net neutrality that would allow some content providers to pay ISPs for faster delivery speeds to consumers has many worried about the future impa...

 Bitcoin, which has recently traded under $400 and over $500, shed more than 10% of its value over the past few days, falling from around $500 to under $440, before recovering slightly. As has ha...

This morning, RadiumOne announced a board vote firing its CEOGurbaksh Chahal. Chahal, always a fairly public figure, has garnered unwanted attention for pleading guilty to domestic abuse. Charged with...

Over the past three years, every weekend, I sit down with my laptop and write something that eventually becomes a blog post on TechCrunch. Every Sunday, 10am PST. It started back when Mike was writing...

RadiumOne just announced that its board of directors terminated CEO Gurbaksh Chahal on Saturday night. The company said in a statement: At a board meeting yesterday evening, RadiumOne’s board of...

 Everyone knows there is an arms race for tech talent nowadays. Companies in every industry, not just tech, need this talent to survive. So what are the current myths of hiring and how are innova...

 In just six months, Play-i went from just an idea to a working prototype to $1.44 million in pre-orders through our crowdfunding campaign. Other entrepreneurs often ask us what we did to run an ...

 Many top Silicon Valley buyers like Google, Facebook and Twitter have a standard process for how they manage acquisitions. One main part of that is the technical interview. But Villi Iltchev, E...

 One of the hard things about being a VC today: You must give entrepreneurs more than just capital. In my experience as a founder and sometime investor, here are five hard things Ive seen great V...

 In a noisy room, trying toshout louder to make yourselfheard just escalates the problem of being overwhelmed with sound. It’s a fitting analogy for mobile devices and content too. More, bi...

TechCrunch will be dropping RadiumOne as a Disrupt New York hackathon sponsor. As Leena Rao writes,we simply couldn’t sleep at night knowing that we were supporting and promoting a company led b...

Dear RadiumOne Board Members, In covering the day-to-day launches, funding announcements, and feature additions of tech startups and companies, I rarely think about the founder or CEO of a companyR...

 The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor record a midweek Wednesday edition after Apple and Facebook earnings calls. The Gang seems comfortable with Apple num...

 The seed round as a singular event appears to be dying. What used to be a discrete funding round is now more of a rolling, continuous financing process. At Bullpen we say seed is a process, and ...

 This guest post is written by Ciarn O’Leary and Jade Read, VCs at Earlybird in Berlin. They invest across Europe in companies such as Wunderlist, Onefootball, SocialBakers, Auctionata, Rap...

Google is adding a deeper integration of its hotel and restaurant search to Google Search on Android. This is a pretty straightforward integration that allows you to type or speak queries like "show m...

 I divided my time this month between West Africa and the Bay Area, which triggered a lot of cultural whiplash, which got me thinking about filter bubbles. I fear today's technology can reinforce...

 ChaseFuture, a Shanghai-based startup that built a platform where admissions experts and college alums can coach international students on how to get in, just raised $400,000 in a fresh seed rou...

 Microsoft lost its first challenge to the authority of the United States government’s use of search warrants to demand data stored abroad. Microsoft challenged a U.S. search warrant for em...

 In December Federal Judge Richard Leon indicated that in his estimation, the bulk collection of telephony metadata by the NSA was likely unconstitutional. He stayed his ruling, however, citing "...

 Sony has confirmed to TechCrunch that the Xperia Z2 will be released in the U.S. but not for several months. The release is scheduled for "summer." A U.S. launch of the Xperia Compact Z1 is curr...

 Blue Apron is raising $50 million Series C round led by Stripes Group, TechCrunch has learned. The latest round is based on a $450 million valuation, according to multiple sources familiar with ...

 If you're hoping to store lots of large media files, Streem might be the cloud storage service that you're looking for. The startup, which is part of incubator Y Combinator, launched its Streem ...

 Vungle announced today that it's launching what it calls "the first ever advertising exchange built exclusively for in-app video." When the company announced its $17 million Series B in February...

 Former Secretary of State, Senator, and First Lady Hillary Clinton isn't big on Edward Snowden. Clinton excoriated Snowden recently, hitting him for leaving the country, not availing himself of ...

 What’s the haps, Pappy Van Meatsack? Still keeping your juices on the inside? Good, because we’re still not quite at the robot dystopia stage but we’re getting there. Our first...

 Apple has launched a new program to help iPhone 5 owners affected by a fault that may render their sleep/wake button ineffective or unresponsive. The problem affects what Apple calls “a sm...

This week Leena Rao, Colleen Taylorand Isat around the Round Tableto discuss the precipitous exit ofGoogle’s Vic Gundotraand the violently abusive CEO of RadiumOne. Gundotra’s departure fr...

 AT&T: The rules proposed for the 2015 spectrum auction are crap, and we may not take part! FCC: Yeah, sure, right, whatever, no. AT&T: Fine, haha, we were just kidding. Or, to be more pr...

 There are a number of startups offering tools to help advertisers create articles, videos, and other content that can attract potential customers. (LinkedIn just announced a partnership program ...

 Figure 1, the photo and information sharing service for the medical profession, is taking the next step in its evolution to become an image-based social network for physicians. Yesterday the com...

 Sony's new Z2 tablet is on sale in the U.S., so we're taking a look at the whole Z2 family, tablet and smartphone included. Meanwhile, Amazon is coming into a bit of a legal dispute thanks to a ...

 Stanford students Alex Jais, Manal Dia, and Rohan Maheshwari have created a 3D printer that creates electronic traces - the flat metallic connections found on circuit boards. By replacing a stan...

 Next week at f8, Facebook will unveil Facebook Audience Network, its mobile ad network that will let developers target both standard banners and custom ad units with Facebook's vast trove of per...

 I joined Google the day after my Stanford graduation in June of 2011, and two days later got to take a peek at the product I would be working on for the next three months. There had been rumors ...

 Elon Musk just announced a significant milestone for Space X and, well, humanity. The first live test of a Falcon 9 rocket boost stage landing vertically was a success. The first stage of the ro...

 During an event today to discuss a successful soft landing of a SpaceX Falcon flight, CEO Elon Musk also revealed that SpaceX has decided to file suit against the U.S. Air Force to get it to ope...

 Big news today for Stewart Butterfield and Slack, his enterprise collaboration app. It’s raised $42.75 million, led by new investor The Social + Capital Partnership, with the participation...

 It's a sad day. As is so often the case, my copy editor was about to flip me the virtual bird on Skype and she couldn't. Why? Because Microsoft is a prude. Read More ...

 Samsung is throwing shade once again, naming names in its latest Galaxy S5 TV spot. The promo for the new Android flagship calls out the fact that its camera takes pictures at “twice the r...

 A new smart home security company is looking to crowdfund its product to compete with the likes of Canary. Korner, which is looking to raise $150k through Indiegogo, is a $100 system that comes ...

 In the wake of layoffs in Nike's hardware division, members of the Nest team paid a visit to Beaverton, Ore. yesterday to have an informal meet-and-greet with folks who might have been part of t...

The innovative film maker Tiffany Shlain isn't a great fan of selfies. They are mostly two dimensional, she told me at a FutureCast salon at the AT&T Foundry in Palo Alto. Read More ...

 There are so many Bluetooth speakers, you could easily be mistaken for feeling like you’re drowning in them. So what does it take for a company trying to sell a Bluetooth speaker to stand ...

 When Google launched Plus, it was clear they just wanted users to move their sharing over from Facebook. Google+ didnt give users a new way to interact, they just copied Facebooks model. As a re...

 When I arrived in San Francisco from New York at the beginning of the end of that first glorious Internet era in April 1999, I had in my minds eye a place teeming with culture junkies. Hyper-lit...

 The Amazon Phone is almost certainly on its way, but the details surrounding its features and selling points are still somewhat unclear. Multiple sources have revealed to us and other news outle...

 Enswers, a Seoul-based content recognition tech company that recently launched in the U.S., has received $2 million in funding from Samsung Ventures. Enswers has provided automatic content recog...

 Google is looking at ways to bring its Wi-Fi networks to cities where it offers Google Fiber, the high-speed Internet service it offers selected metro areas in the U.S., starting with a free pla...

 Wow, it's been a while since I posted here on TechCrunch.Some of you may remember me as the founder of this site. Later I was fired by Arianna Huffington after I started CrunchFund.That sucked.B...

 In another crowdfunding first, a former lawyer has decided to go the Adam & Eve route and create what one would euphemistically call an onahole. The product, called theAutoblow 2, is designe...

 France’s equivalent of the IRS (Direction gnrale des finances) has been investigating Google for tax noncompliance. With only 138 million of revenue reported in France in 2011, something w...

 Keep your friends, close, but your enemies closer – that might be the mantra running through the heads of cable execs at Atlantic Broadband, Grande Communications and RCN, U.S. regional ca...

 Microsoft’s $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia’s devices and services businesshas been completed. Nokia confirmed the completed transaction in a press release, noting that it has R...

 Microsoft's $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's devices and services business has been completed. Nokia confirmed the completed transaction in a press release, noting that it has "completed the ...

 The Chinese government has fined Sina.com and made arrests in connection with an investigation that alleges the site facilitated the distribution of pornographic content. Though China has a well...

 Today Pinterest announced three new products: Guided Search to lead you on chains of explorations, and a third one that will be unveiled in a few minutes, Custom Categories for making it easier ...

 Today Pinterest announced two new mobile products: Guided Search to lead you on chains of explorations, and a third one that will be unveiled in a few minutes, and Custom Categories for making i...

 Tonight at an event in the company's San Francisco headquarters, Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann announced that users had contributed more than 30 billion Pins since being founded, a number that ha...

 Slack, a collaboration platform founded by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield, is raising $30 million-plus in new funding, we’ve learned. For background, Butterfield left Yahoo and star...

 When Mozilla named JavaScript inventor Brendan Eich as its new (and short-lived) CEO, it left the CTO position Eich previously occupied unfilled. Today, Mozilla announced that Andreas Gal will b...

 Twitter is the king of real time news, but people's eagerness to retweet juicy stories sometimes outweighs their willingness to verify the facts, leading them to parrot misinformation. That's wh...

 Marcus Nelson, who co-founded and served as CEO of social media startup Addvocate, said that he's no longer at the company. Nelson doesn't offer any details about the reasons for his departure, ...

 WordPress maker Automattic's acquisition spree to build out its platform continues apace. Today comes news that it has acquired Scroll Kit, a New York-based startup that had developed a platform...

 Today, Googles Vic Gundotra announced that he would be leaving the company after eight years. The first obvious question is where this leaves Google+, Gundotras baby and primary project for the ...

 Making its fourth acquisition of a technology company in less than three weeks, Warburg Pincus is announcing that the private equity firm has bought compensation software services vendor PayScal...

 Domino's Pizza has revamped its menu and turned around its financials over the last few years, during which time it also started to offer mobile ordering. Next Monday, the pizza chain will launc...

 Remember the FyreTV? Probably not, but it was a media streamer, much like Amazon's new FireTV streamer, that was released in 2008. Unlike Amazon's FireTV, however, the FyreTV streams porn and on...

 Amazon today reported its results for the company’s first financial quarter of 2014. Amazon reported net sales up 23 percent to $19.74 billion compared to $25.59 billion last quarter and $...

 Four of Silicon Valley’s largest tech companies have settled an antitrust lawsuit brought against them over a shared no-hire agreement that prevented poaching employees from one company by...

 This afternoon Microsoft published its fiscal third quarter 2014 financial results, with revenue of $20.40 billion, and earnings per share of $0.68. Analysts had expected the company to report$2...

 The Stalactite, like the Form 1 before it, is a resin-based, light-cured 3D printing system that "extrudes" objects out of a bath of liquid. Unlike the Form 1's large laser, however, this printe...

 Hulu just added a new feature to its mobile apps that will enable users to control the videos streaming on their game consoles from their phones or tablets. The new app connects with Sony’...

 First, understand that as an employee of AOL, I'm slightly embarrassed but far more amused by our "digital prophet," David Shing AKA Shingy AKA Miley Scissorhands. His efforts on our behalf to m...

 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is not big on state’s limiting the ability of electric car manufacturer Tesla to sell its cars directly to consumers. In a post published today, fittingl...

 Rumor has it that Google Glass is currently for sale to anybody in the United States. Sadly (or not -- depending on your feelings about Glass), that's not actually the case. While the Google Gla...

 Samsung and Swarovski are back at it again with another unholy mash-up that puts crystals on the back of Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Because why not. As the teaser shows, the phone is adorned wit...

 Amazon is in the process of testing its own delivery network to help complete the last stage of delivery in a package’s trip from factory to buyer, the Wall Street Journal reports. The eco...

 Today after the bell Microsoft will report its fiscal third quarter, calendar first quarter financial results. Analysts are expecting that the company will report $20.39 billion in revenue, and ...

 This is it, geeks and freaks. This is the last batch of tickets to the Disrupt NY Hackathon. Space is very limited and the tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Get them whi...

 The FCC’s Tom Wheeler published a short entrythis morning regarding what his agency is set topropose today regarding net neutrality. Writingthat he wants to “conclude this proceeding...

 Vic Gundotra, the father of Google+, today announced that he is leaving Google after eight years with the company. It’s unclear where he is going next or who will take over his position at...

 Fixya, the site that gives do-it-yourselfers tips for fixing broken stuff, is launching a new service aimed at connecting local repair shops and service providers with people in need of assistan...

 Since downloading it six months ago, Knotch, which lets people share their opinions on a wide range of topics using an 11-color "feeling thermometer," has become one of my favorite apps because ...

YouTube network Maker Studios is taking over management and monetization of a whole bunch of viral video channels that are managed by Jukin Media. The portfolio of content includes Fail Armys collecti...

 Online marketplace eBay rolled out a series of changes to its mobile experience across both the mobile web and its native applications today, including its apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Wi...

 YoVillians rejoice; your kingdom is saved. Players of the social virtual world game will be excited to hear that their play can continue as YoVille, which was acquired by Zynga a few years ago, ...

 A large majority of the innovation surrounding the iPhone and iPad has been focused on the touch interface. When the iOS platform was opened up in 2008, a crisp, responsive touch screen was so n...

 On-demand ride-sharing startup Lyft is expanding aggressively in the U.S., announcing the launch of service in 24 new markets today. Along with the expansion, Lyft company will be offering free ...

 Managing credit and debit cards is still a relatively complicated process. You can control some elements of your cards like accessing your balances and transferring money online, but you canR...

 Advertising tech company Appsfire is rolling out a new ad unit again! This time, it’s called Brichter-San, and it’s all about taking advantage of the load time when you pull to refre...

 When big data is more than a buzzword it can soon turn into a huge headache for developers or those charged with managing the storage and access of large and growing data sets. That's the proble...

 French minister Marylise Lebranchu announced earlier today at the Paris Conference that France is joining the Open Government Partnership. It’s the logical next step following France’...

 FinancialForce.com, the ERP provider built on top of Salesforce.com, announced today they have received $50M from private equity investors, Advent International. The investment is actually part ...

Duolingo, the popular language learning service, launched the latest update of its iOS app today. Version 4.0 includes a number of new features, but maybe most importantly, this update marks Duolingo'...

 Selfies are so hot that they might already be over (if I’m aware of something being cool it usually isn’t anymore) but you don’t have to just crank out pictures of your mug tak...

 The Internet connection and automation service IFTTT is launching on Android today, and it offers a deeper set of integrations with the OS than their iOS offering. This, of course, is due to And...

 Bitcoin vault Xapothe made news in March after launching an insured, secure repositoryfor big BTC investors. The service, which has gone so far as to bury paper bitcoin keys in underground vault...

 Things move fast in the world of Bitcoin. Two days ago, we saw the launch of the much anticipated MaidSafe distributed computing network.Their aim was to collect around 8 million USD worth of cr...

 There are a number of tools to build photo books from your phone today – including apps like Shutterfly, Mosaic, Printic and others, but today Dutch company PastBook is now joining the fra...

 Facebook has launched FB Newswire, the company announced today, which is a product of a partnership with News Corp-owned Storyfuland which promises to offer journalists a repository of verified,...

 There is nothing more appealing to a nerd than space, as decades of television, the buzz around the Mars Rover landing and Elon Musk can attest to. This is probably why modular integrated circui...

 Wish, a startup that likens itself to an AdWords for shopping, has raised $19 million in financing led by GGV Capital and Formation 8. Existing seed investors also participated, including Yahoo ...

 Stitch, a new startup that wants to help salespeople close more deals via a mobile, productivity platform, has raised $3.25 million in seed funding from Google Ventures, SoftTech, Freestyle Capi...

Ticketing service Fandango just announced that it has acquired Movieclips from online video company Zefr. TechCrunch’s Ryan Lawler reported earlier this month that a deal was in the works. Zefr ...

 Tradier’s chief executive Dan Raju has spent the past few years pursuing a singular vision — giving developers a toolkit to build trading platforms and financial services apps that e...

 Russia’s Internet services giantMail.ru may currently be wrangling back home over what will happen next at the popular social network Vkontakte,of which it is a 52% shareholder (more on th...

 Facebook has acquired the motion tracking app for Android and iPhone ‘Moves,‘ the startup announced today via a blog post. The company’s founders say that the Moves crew will j...

 Facebook has acquired the motion tracking app for Android and iPhone ‘Moves,‘ the startup announced today via a blog post. The company’s founders say that the Moves crew will j...

 Finnish startup CBTec, maker ofEliademy, an online education platform offering free cloud-based tools for teachers and learners which launched just over a year ago, has taken in its first signif...

 The New York Times is crowing about a quarterly rise in revenue today, and that comes thanks toincreases in both print and digital ad revenue. Digital subscriptions saw some of itsstrongest grow...

 LinkedIn is expanding its content marketing efforts today with the launch of two new types of partnerships Sponsored Updates Partners and Content Partners. Sponsored Updates were first launched...

 There was just one problem with Confide -- for the last several months since launch, the app was only available on iPhone. Which means that if you wanted to have your conversations disappear wit...

 A number of companies are rethinking how email should work in this mobile age, but the team from Acompli, an email startup backed by $7.3 million, envisions mobile email as more of an all-in-one...

NGINX, the company behind the popular web server with the same name, today announced that it now powers more than 146 million websites. That's up from only 96 million a year ago -- a 52 percent year-o...

 Apple potentially wants your next iPhone (or maybe an iWatch) to be able to detect humidity, atmospheric pressure and temperature data according to a couple of new patents spotted by AppleInside...

 While many have been quietly chuckling at the thought that Snapchat turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook, only to see WhatsApp acquired for $19 billion, the game is certainly not over ye...

 Expanding the experience of virtual reality gaming has landed the omni-directional treadmill manufacturer Virtuix $3 million in its first institutional financing. Banking on the company’s ...

 The OpenSSL Heartbleed disaster definitely opened up many people's eyes to how underfunded and understaffed many of the open source projects the web relies on are. To prevent the next Heartbleed...

 Payments company Adyen has published its latest quarterly mobile payments index, and it shows mobile web payments accounted for a fifth (20.1%) of all payments transactions on its network global...

 Opera is bringing its Coast browser to the iPhone today. While it uses Apple's own WebKit rendering engine, the interface around it is decidedly different from any other browser you have likely ...

 Salesforce has poured a lot of investment into social and mobile products to make sure that its suite of cloud-based CRM services continues to find audiences where consumers are engaging online ...

 Apple has patented a 3D display system (via AppleInsider) that uses a familiar mirror box-type design, but that works with digital images instead of physical objects like those you might find in...

 With its latest $25 million financing, ShopKeep POS has come a long way from being the cobbled together point of sale software service for a single wine shop in Brooklyn’s leafy Ft. Greene...

Flash fashion sales site SecretSales.com, a significant UK player, has raised 4.5 million – its third round of funding – from Partech Ventures’ new Partech VI fund and French private...

 Security company Synack has a proposition for the hackers of the world. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company is putting a bounty out on the network and data security threats a business could fac...

 Today, Match.com is unveiling an entirely redesigned mobile experience for iPhone users, with the release of Match 3.0 for iOS. The new app takes gestural cues from the big iOS 7 overhaul, and a...

 Enterprise software vendor Intralinks acquired document encryption service docTrackr for $10 million in cash. Gigaom first spotted the news in an SEC filing, Intralinks confirmed in a release. d...

 This has to be one of more captivating startup pitches of the year. Pavel Durov, the founder of popular Russian social network VKontakte.com, was fired this week from his role as CEO amid claims...

 Here's the latest heavy hint that Microsoft is getting ready to launch a smaller Surface tablet: an over-eager consumer electronics vendor has posted two listings on Amazon which suggest an 8-in...

 Thomas Thvenoud had an impossible job — he was the French deputy in charge of finding an agreement between urban transportation startups and taxi unions in France. He just announced his re...

 Earlier today reports struck that the FCC was considering new net neutrality rules that would allow content purveyors to pay ISPs for preferential access to their networks. This would have made ...

 A whole "department" of Reddit was demoted this week, with the /r/Technology subreddit being removed from the Reddit homepage and the default subreddit subscription feed. Earlier today I spoke t...

 Gillmor Gang - Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Michael Arrington, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 5pm Pacific. Click here for the Friendfeed chat Read More ...

 Music video distributor Vevo just launched an >update to its iOS app today, providing users a new, regularly updated home page, as well as access to the companys live, programmed music chann...

 The FCC will propose new net neutrality rules that at once protect content from discrimination, but also allow content companies to pay for preferential treatment. The news, first reported by th...

 The dollars flowing into the Capitol from tech companies are showing little signs of abatement: Google spent $3.8 million on lobbying in the first quarter, AT&T $3.7 million, Verizon $3.5 mi...

 The Apple TV continues to gain traction despite little effort from Apple. On today's financial earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that Apple has sold 20 million Apple TV boxes. By the en...

 Apple CEO Tim Cook took time to answer a question about Microsoft Office for iPad arriving this past month, and his answer was surprisingly long. “I do see that Office is a very key franch...

 Facebook plans to launch more standalone apps, and today on its Q1 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg laid out a blueprint for picking which ones to throw the company's weight behind. First, its Cre...

 Apple’s pace of acquisition has seemed to be picking up lately, and Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed just how many the company has been making of late. Cupertino has nabbed 24 companies over th...

 In June of last year, Apple announced that over 575 million accounts had been created for iTunes10 months later, they've grown that number by nearly fourty percent.On the Apple earnings call tod...

 Apple’s new retail chief Angela Ahrendts is going to start officially at the company officially beginning next week, CEO Tim Cook revealed on the company’s earnings call today. Ahren...

 The market likes what Apple reported today, sending its share up more than 7% in after-hours trading. The company reported an earnings beat today, with$45.6 billion in revenue, $10.2 billion in ...

 Apple’s earnings are out, and the iPhone’s 17 percent growth was likely the most noteworthy number in its hardware results. That’s a big increase for a device that analysts exp...

 Hello, high school juniors. Stressed about graduation next year? Nervous about getting into college? Well Matthew Pittinsky, co-founder of the online education giant Blackboard and current chief...

As part of its earnings cycle today, Apple announced that it will increase its dividend 8%, add $30 billion to its share buyback program current to a total of $90 billion, and split its stock 7 for 1 ...

 Apple shared its quarterly earnings results today, and for fiscal Q2 2014, the company moved 43.7 million iPhones, 16.3 million iPads and 4.1 million Macs. That compares to 51 million iPhones so...

 Apple has just released its fiscal Q2 2014 earnings, reporting $45.6 billion in revenue, $10.2 billion in net profit representing $11.62 per share. Compared to the year-ago quarter, it correspon...

 Another mobile milestone for Facebook: the company reported in its Q1 earnings that it has now passed the 1 billion mark for monthly active users on phones and tablets. 1.01 billion to be exact....

 Another mobile milestone for Facebook: the company reported in its Q1 earnings that it has now passed the 1 billion mark for monthly active users on phones and tablets. 1.01 billion to be exact....

 Another mobile milestone for Facebook: the company reported in its Q1 earnings that it has now passed the 1 billion mark for monthly active users on phones and tablets. 1.01 billion to be exact....

 Along with the company's earnings release, Zynga announced that founder Marc Pincus would be stepping down from any operational duties and ceding his chief product officer title today. The compa...

 Along with the company's earnings release, Zynga announced that founder Marc Pincus would be stepping down from any operational duties and ceding his chief product officer title today. The compa...

 This afternoon following the bell, Zynga reported its calendar first quarter financial performance including revenue of $168 million, bookings (non-GAAP) of $161 million, and earnings per share ...

 Facebook just announced that Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman will be stepping down, with David Wehner, the company’s vice president of corporate finance and business planning, succe...

 Facebook’s Q1 2014 earnings show it beat expectations, earning $2.5 billion in revenue with an $0.34 EPS. It now has 1.28 billion total monthly users, 802 million daily users, and 609 mill...

 Facebook's is getting more and more mobile, now with 1.01 billion users on small screens. It's Q1 2014 earnings show it beat expectations, earning $2.5 billion in revenue with an $0.34 EPS. It n...

 Private family photo sharing network Tweekaboo has just launched the Tweekabook, an 8.5" x 8.5" book offering that lets parents produce and print baby books right from their iOS app. The books s...

 Just three months after its public launch, Delightful, the startup that helped build “tailored dates” for romantic couples short on time, has shut down. Delightful was created last y...

 When Facebook mentions a slight drop in young US teen usage during Q3 2013 earnings, its share price fell 18%, disentegrating well over $10 billion in value. So last quarter it said "in terms of...

 AT&T's recent threat to steer clear of a spectrum auction, scheduled for next year, isn't scaring the FCC. FCC chief Tom Wheeler today dismissed AT&T's poise, stating that he has a "hard...

 Pure Storage, a company that has pioneered a way to deliver solid state disk performance for a mechanical disk price, announced today it has received $225 million in Series F venture funding at ...

 Its hard to believe that on-demand ride service Uber is less than four years old. Launched in San Francisco in 2010, the company has expanded aggressively over the last several years. Today, the...

 Grand St., a service once described as an Etsy for electronics, is now actually a part of Etsy, the companies confirm. The deal was announced today on Grand St.’sofficial blog and on Etsy&...

 Storehouse, an app for iPad that functions as a story creation tool with images, video and text, is getting a nice update today. The update brings the ability to embed stories in blogs and on th...

 Rather than just sunsets from foreign countries and selfies by fashion models, Instagram's Explore page is now also personalized with top photos and videos Liked by people you follow. Personaliz...

 Former General Michael Hayden, former head of the NSA, has a new gig writing for the conservative Washington Times. His column will be titled "Inside Intelligence," ironically, as he no longer i...

 Glider, the Portland-based startup that makes a software-as-a-service product for streamlining and adding clarity to the process of negotiating and signing sales and business contracts, has been...

 Since its launch two years ago Codecademy has become synonymous with online education for basic computer programming. In that time, the company says it’s learned a few things itself and to...

 Visual bookmarking and online curation tool Clipix today announced that it has partnered with Credit Saison, Japan's third-largest credit card issuer, to integrate Credit Saison's a-q-f-.com Eik...

 Now that TechCrunch has launched galleries I'm thinking of lining one up to illustrate the proliferation of on-demand car services/taxi apps in Europe. Earlier today there was Estonia's Taxify. ...

 Remember the Start menu? Microsoft is bringing it back. That much is clear enough, as the company announced the forthcoming resurrection at Build earlier this year. But here's something new: The...

 Merus Capital has raised over $50 million in new commitments for two new funds, Merus Capital II and Merus Capital Opportunity Fund. The VC firm says its first fund was marked as 4.0x net multip...

 Fresh off its agreement to purchase up to 407 MW of wind power for its Iowa data center, Google today announced that it has committed $100 million to create a new fund to help finance the purcha...

 The U.S. government has approved Facebook’s $2 billion acquisition of Oculus VR, following the Federal Trade Commission’s examination of the deal. The FTC has determined – not ...

 Native ad startup Namo Media has found a way to pack more ads into the content streams of its publishers. The company is launching version 3.0 of its software development kit, and co-founder and...

 A year ago, Microsoft launched a beta of its ad-free "Bing For Schools" program, which promises to give K-12 students access to an ad-free search experience with additional content filters, priv...

 Later today, Apple will report its fiscal Q2 2014 earnings. Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said in the previous earnings call that the company expected more or less a flat quarter in Q2. And analys...

 Early backersofthe Bluetooth-powered lost item finder called Tile, backed by $2.7 million in crowdfunding,have been patiently waiting for the device to begin shipping (which it finally is, they ...

 Early backersofthe Bluetooth-powered lost item finder called Tile, backed by $2.7 million in crowdfunding,have been patiently waiting for the device to begin shipping (which it finally is, they ...

Quibb, a service that helps industry professional share and discuss relevant news items, is looking to finish up its seed round on Alphaworks, the crowdsourced equity exchange platform recently unveil...

 A new report by UNESCO says that mobile devices can boost literacy rates in developing countries, potentially reaching almost all of the world's population. Furthermore, an expensive tablet or s...

 Samsung preloads its own apps on its Android devices, including replacements for stock apps like the phone dialer and SMS software, as well as more advanced note-taking and WhatsApp competitorap...

 As wearables continue to evolve, we're seeing the blend of wearables and jewelry, and the importance of form factor in adoption. Misfit, the makers of the popular activity tracker, the Shine, ar...

 Andreessen Horowitz-backedAgLocal, which began as a marketplace for meat, connecting animal farmers to buyers including top-rated chefs, has now pivoted to become a consumer-facing service. On t...

 Last November, Robin Wauters, ex-TechCrunch writer and former European editor for The Next Web, launched new tech blog, Tech.eu, with a stated mission to fill the "gap" left for in-depth coverag...

 Rocket Internet, the Berlin-based incubator founded by the Samwer brothers with a number of notable exits and fundings under its belt, is branching further into Asia, and specifically emerging m...

 Rocket Internet, the Berlin-based incubator founded by the Samwer brothers with a number of notable exits and fundings under its belt, is branching further into Asia, and specifically emerging m...

 Amazon just announced a multi-year agreement with HBO to offer that cable network’s back-catalog of shows on Amazon Instant Video, free for Prime subscribers. That’s not all, though;...

 Classic HBO programming will soon be available on Amazon Prime Instant Video. The two companies announced the programming deal this morning. The first set of programming will hit the video strea...

 Apple has a new ad out that you may have seen, featuring a track by The Pixies and a whole lot of iPhone users employing mobile software to cover the song. The ad harkens back to earlier Apple a...

 Every day, Google’s Street View cars capture massive amounts of data and the company then publishes them on Google Maps at regular intervals. Until now, the only images you could see on Go...

 AOL is getting into the full-length movie business with a new ‘Movies’ section for the AOL On Network (disclosure: AOL owns TechCrunch). The company’s movie portal is adding ti...

 This is allegedly the Samsung Galaxy K, the successor to the odd Galaxy S4 Zoom. The device in question sports the same faux leather casing as the Galaxy S5 and Samsung has a product launch on t...

 My colleagues wrote about Apple ads yesterday. So when I stumbled across these HBO Go ads, I thought that, you, dear TechCrunch readers, also deserve to see these videos. In these seven videos, ...

 Not all smartphones are created equal, but the new OnePlus One (not to be confused with that other One, the HTC One) is roughly equivalent on paper with some of the most expensive smartphones in...

 The co-founder and former CEO of Spindle, a social discovery app that was acquired by Twitter last year, has joined Polaris Partners as venture partner on its technology investment team. Pat Kin...

 To some extent, AlterGeo bills itself as the ‘Foursquare of Russia’. You can check-in to a location via their apps, get discounts, the usual sort of thing. But on the back end of the...

 Another funding round for another taxi app company — albeit this one, Estonian startup Taxify, is focusing on helping existing taxi companies fight the encroaching threat on their business...

 Piqora, a marketing platform and analytics provider for “visual” social networks like Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr, has raised $7.7 million in Series A funding, the company is ann...

 Chinese Android device startup, Xiaomi, is stepping up its international expansion plans -- with founder Lei Jun today naming 10 markets it plans to enter this year, speaking at a Beijing press ...

 LoyaltyLion, a graduate of accelerator Startupbootcamp, is another startup attempting to level the playing field for smaller e-retailers. Read More ...

 On the heels of online food delivery company Just-Eat’s successful IPO in London earlier this month, its big, still-private rival Delivery Hero has raised another mammoth round of funding:...

 Showing up a bit late to the iOS 7 party, Viber has released an update to the iPhone version of the application that incorporates the same flat design we've seen throughout the new operating sys...

 Take the rules of 2048. Add the gameplay and physics of Flappy Bird.What do you get? Flappy48 a weird (yet surprisingly... fun?) bizarro-world mashup of everything stupidly addictive from 2014....

Codasip is an ‘application specific processor design tool’ and IP provider. Today it’s closed its first round of public funding totalling $2.8 million to push its technology product ...

 Do you feel blue when separated from your cat for any length of time? (I hope so, because then I'd feel a lot less alone). Despite their rugged individuality, indoor cats need to satisfy their s...

 One day in the fall of 1990, or maybe it was 91, I discovered a box my cousin had left at our house. In the box was a black cassette tape with a grubby label. On one side, recorded in long play ...

 “i really feel like we need a buzzfeed-type writer,” our community manager Skypes me, because we’re hiring and dealing with all the fun stuff that that entails, “everyone...

 Lifeline Ventures has never ceased to surprise me. There’stheir annual benchpress and dead-lifting contestevery November to find the world’s strongest investor and founder. Or, I mea...

 David Einhorn, a hedge fund manager worth north of a billion dollars, isn't bullish on technology stocks. In a letter to his investors sent today, Einhorn called the current market environment r...

 Doug Ludlow, formerly CEO of startup Hipster, is working on something new called The Happy Home Company, and he has convinced former eBay executive Matthew Mengerink to co-found it with him.Hips...

 On the heels of its announcement with Wistron last week, Tactus chief executive Craig Ciesla stopped by TechCrunch to talk about its future plans. Ciesla said that the company raised $13.5 milli...

 Since it was first launched in 2007, CrunchBase has been an invaluable source of information about major companies, startups, investors, and executives in the tech ecosystem. Today we're proud t...

 Lets get outside of the San Francisco bubble for a little while (trust me, there is oxygen here). I realize in a world saturated with protesters who have all the sophistication and menace of a s...

 A new policy put in place this March effectively bans members of the U.S. intelligence community from speaking to the media, even when discussing unclassified matters.The new rules have sparked ...

 Xappmedia is announcing that it has raised $3 million in seed funding for its recently launched audio advertising platform. The first part of a Xappmedia spot can sound like a regular ad, but th...

 After what has been seriously way too long, Roku has just launched an official YouTube channel for most of its lil’ streaming boxes. The catch: Roku says the channel is only compatible wit...

 Owlet, a smart baby bootie that measures your child's heart rate, launched on our Hardware Battlefield last January and has just raised $1.85 million from multiple firms including FF Venture Cap...

 Our lives are not defined reverse chronologically, yet until now, that's strictly how our social network profiles portrayed us -- as a snapshot of our latest activity. Today, Twitter gave everyo...

 A few days ago Aol Mail was hacked, and users' address books were scraped. Today, Aol has announced moves that will help other mail providers reject email messages sent from email accounts spoof...

 The alleged "face of Bitcoin," Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, has taken to Youtube with noted Bitcoin activist, Andreas Antonopoulos, to thank the Bitcoin community for sending him over $20,000 in BTC...

 One of the most interesting robotics platforms I've seen in a while, the UBR-1, is now available for sale, something that should cause robotics wonks to rejoice. The platform runs the Robot Oper...

 Before today, you needed a developer account to help test Apple’s upcoming software releases before they hit the general user population. You didn’t need to actually develop anything...

 There’s a conundrum facing software developers these days: Wearable tech is clearly an area of keen interest among consumers and industry watchers, but how to prepare for mass market adopt...

 The internet ages with its users. As the first digital generation learned the language of computing and online networking it created tools for every conceivable life event. On the Web these days...

 After delay and minor intrigue, the $7.2 billion Microsoft-Nokia deal will close this Friday. With its conclusion, Microsoft will become the de facto Windows Phone OEM, building and shipping the...

 It was either move to Silicon Valley or bust, according to Nitro CEO Sam Chandler. His startup base of Melbourne, Australia, didnt have the resources back in 2008 to help him scale his cloud-bas...

 Over the past few weeks, you might’ve noticed that some Twitter profiles looked a bit… different. A bit more… well, a bit more like Facebook. That’s the new Twitter profi...

Weebly, which offers easy-to-use tools for building websites, announced today that it has raised $35 million in Series C funding.The money comes from previous investor Sequoia Capital and from Chinese...

 Y Combinator is making some big changes today with its equity structure and YCVC program. The incubator will now end its YCVC partnership with Khosla, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, and ...

 Ifyou’ve ever wanted to chop data up into separate little piles, here’s your chance. Using a proof-of-concept called Kinetica, Ph.D. students at CMU’s Human-Computer Interactio...

 Last year, I got a sneak preview of Fan TV, a next-generation streaming set-top box from the makers of the Fan (ne Fanhattan) iPad video discovery app. Now, 11 months later, the product is going...

 The Sphinx is a web-connected tablet dock that gives the user the ability to virtualize input devices -- by way of a cloud platform and remote desktop integration -- allowing them to plug in a m...

 Withings pretty much nailed the activity tracker with the Pulse activity tracker, which features a built-in heart rate sensor that uses pulse oximetry (just like the Galaxy S5). Now, it has upda...

 Google's latest toy is available for purchase on Google Play for $249.99. Starting today, conveniently to coincide with Earth Day, Google started selling Nest Learning Thermostat on its web stor...

 Apple has released a new update to iOS 7 today, a minor point update with bug fixes and improvements. One such improvement beefs up Touch ID performance, which should mean better recognition of ...

 It's Earth Day, so there isn't a company on the Internet that isn't trying to brandish its green image. Apple led the charge earlier this week and today, Google announced that it has inked a dea...

 Kids these days! If they're not wilding and smoking doobies, they're using CAD/CAM software and a lot of engineering insight to build a ketchup bottle cap that ensures that you will never have t...

 If you want to find someone at a big event, it’s difficult. “I’m by the big orange thing sort of next to the pretzel vendor kinda” is pretty standard fare for communicati...

 Google is announcing today its plans to offer app install ads on mobile search and YouTube, following moves made by other tech industry companies, including Facebook and more recently Yahoo and ...

 Google is announcing today its plans to offer app install ads on mobile search and YouTube, following moves made by other tech industry companies, including Facebook and more recently Yahoo and ...

 MoPub is making native ads available to all of its publishers tomorrow, according to blog posts from MoPub and Twitter (which acquired MoPub last year). This follows an announcement in December ...

 Confr does what it says on the tin: it allows you to create conference calls with a few clicks, a trick that many have tried but few have achieved. How is Confr different? Well, it's run by form...

 Amazon’s upcoming smartphone will have a unique, gesture-based interaction method that involves tilting the phone to access new information and control on-screen elements, including flippi...

 Printoo wants to light up your maker life with a range of flexible, printed circuit boards and modules that can be used to power up all sorts of everyday objects. The aim of Printoo is to be mod...

 Datameer's latest update has an interesting twist, literally. As you can see by the GIF above, as you work with data in Datameer's analytics tool, when you click a button, the screen turns revea...

Social logins are a convenient way to sign in to services without having to go through lengthy sign-up procedures and setting up yet another password. According to the latest data from social login se...

 Earlier this year, mobile food ordering startup Tapingo added $10.5 million in funding from Khosla Ventures to help it expand to more college campuses. Today its announcing that its hired former...

 Today, the David-vs-Goliath moment that we've all been waiting for will finally arrive. In just a few short moments, Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia and his legal team will enter the Supreme Court Courth...

 Lytro’s new Illum camera is the company’s second take at hardware, and by all accounts a significant improvement over the original light-field camera. It offers all the same post-cap...

 The price of a Disrupt general admission jumps $1,000 tonight. Procrastination is a debilitating disease, but save some serious money and grab a ticket before the early bird special ends. ItR...

 Real estatemarketing platform and Techstars Boston gradPlacesterhas raised $5.5 million in Series A funding, the company is announcing today, after having grown its business to power over 70,000...

 There’s a new $500 million pool of potential capital floating around earmarked for the creation of over-the-top video services, thanks to AT&T and Chernin Group, who have collaborated ...

Seed-funded Runtastic, which has produced a number of apps and services for health and exercise tracking, is going into the music business. Sorta. It’s has signed a new deal with Universal Music...

 Together with co-founder Brad Brooks, Michael Heyward created Whisper, an app for iOS and Android that lets users anonymously share their thoughts and feelings with the world around them. Were e...

 Truecaller, the crowdsourced, reverse-lookup phone directory app, is expanding its service, and breaking some ground in the process. Today the company is adding its Live Caller ID feature to its...

 Disrupt Battlefield alumnus and wireless power pioneer Ossia has made some new advances with its Cota tech that it showed off to investors recently, including extended range and the ability to t...

 Chinese Android devices startup Xiaomi has taken a pair of scissors to its domain name as it prepares to ramp up its global expansion plans -- trimming those four tricky initial letters (for non...

 In a script that could have come out of “The Devil Wears Prada”, German tech site Curved.de has come up with an interesting thought: What would Google Glass look like if it had been ...

 LG's upcoming smartwatch will be water and dust resistant. Essentially it can be worn to the beach and it will be just fine. Or to a sprinkler party in a dusty warehouse. Either way, the watch w...

 Nokia and Microsoft’s deal will officially close April 25, and at that time the hardware division Nokia is selling to Redmond will get a rebrand, according to a new leaked memo (via Mashab...

 Lytro has made some big changes to its technology, packaging it in a product that looks far more like a camera than anything Lytro has built before. To refresh your memory, Lytro is the company ...

 You may have heard of the boom in tech companies in London recently, but one thing that continues to hold the scene back is access to international talent. Today a study by an independent privat...

 Anonymous social networking apps arehaving amoment. Following the notablefunding rounds for apps like Secret ($8.6 million) and Whisper ($21 million!), newcomer Yik Yak is today announcing a sma...

 Apple has been granted a new patent by the USPTO (via AppleInsider),and it’s one that could potentially prevent a lot of careless driving. The tech described in the patent would use a phon...

Audiboo, the British cloud audio platform which once competed with Soundcloud but has found a niche working with media companies, has confirmed its plans for a small public listing on the London Stock...

Audiboo, the British cloud audio platform which once competed with Soundcloud but has found a niche working with media companies, has confirmed its plans for a small public listing on the London Stock...

 Bringing optical wearables from military applications into the enterprise market, APX Labs has raised $10 million from NEA in its first institutional round of funding. From the 1963 memo dashed ...

 Increasingly, startups need to have an understanding of design and user interaction to be successful. Those which are most successful are also those which have a solid experience. That's why Kho...

Electric Cloud, a company that offers continuous delivery products, services and support to businesses that want to adapt this software design practice, today announced that it has closed a $12 millio...

 Apple has a new full-page ad appearing in some print newspapers today (via 9to5Mac), and it celebrates the company’s environmental record while simultaneously digging slyly at Samsung, its...

 In the drawn-out game of will-he, won't-he, Pavel Durov, the founder of VKontakte.com, Russia's top social network with over100 million users, is now out for good from the company with an uncere...

 Despite the on-going hype attached to 3D printing, and the advent of more consumer-friendly, affordable machines designed with a mainstream user in mind, consumer adoption of 3D printers is set ...

 Carmudi, a car classified ads site backed by Rocket Internet, has raised $10 million to expand its operations in Asia. Investors include Tengelmann Ventures, the investment arm of the German ret...

 From time to time we like to check in with the European tech blog scene to see what’s up. And there’s a significant update in the form of the news that Webrazzi, Turkey’s main ...

 Tuenti, the mostly Latin-country-oriented mobile social network which exited to Telefonica in 2010, has been gradually iterating on its product offering and today releases its free voice calling...

 Apparently there are 100 trillion bacteria living in our gut. And just a fingerprint, the composition of our "microbiome" is unique to each of us. It also potentially holds the key to a healthie...

 Just a quick and spur-of-the-moment note, I’m in Hanoithis week and would love to meet founders and engineers from the community. Ourwriters and editors regularly travel through the major ...

 Recyclebank, a company founded in 2004 whichtodayworks with partners to reward consumers for “green” actions like recycling, is nowgetting into e-commerce. With the launch of a new w...

 We need a few good Doozers to head down to Disrupt in New York to show off your wares. You can be in any stage of the process - from pre-funding to finished product - and we're even looking for ...

 If you’re just returning to the daily grind after Spring Break and can’t quite seem to get back into work mode, well we have a giveaway for you. Our friends over at Linksyshave sent ...

 Roam And Wander, a toy and children's entertainment studio that is currently participating in 500 Startups' accelerator program, is now raising funds for its latest stuffed animal on Kickstarter...

 Mapbox, the OpenStreetMap-based mapping platform that lets app developers incorporate maps into any app, is adding another feature to better compete against the likes of Google Maps, ESRI and No...

 Sequoia Capital has made a minority investment in the do-it-yourself home security company Simplisafe in a play on the home security and automation market, TechCrunch has learned. The investment...

 It’s not just you. Aol Mail was hacked affecting an untold amount of accounts that were seemingly spoofed. The Twitter hashtag #aolhacked is filled with first-hand accounts of spam being s...

 Netflix would prefer an ISP market with a number of large players, competing with each other on price, speed and availability. It is not in favor of Comcast swallowing Time Warner Cable, creatin...

 Mailbox 2.0 for iOS is here and brings a hosts of enhancements and goodies. Chief among the additions is auto-swipe, a feature that launched first on Mailbox's new Android app. Read More ...

 Lawyers are infamous for having jobs that are hard to understand. There’s a reason why “legalese” is a term, after all. But Annie Lin, the senior counsel at music licensing and...

 Lawyers are infamous for having jobs that are hard to understand. There’s a reason why “legalese” is a term, after all. But Annie Lin, the senior counsel at music licensing and...

In the past year, Aereo has fought legal battles in three different states with broadcasters looking to get the streaming TV service kicked off the air, if you catch my drift. Tomorrow, the case goes ...

 Over the last few years, a number of marketplaces have popped up to enable people who have assets or time to share them with others. Now there's Feastly, which provides a marketplace to connect ...

 GitHub published a short blog posttoday detailing the results of its investigation overallegations of harassment lodged against the company by its now-former employee Julie Ann Horvath. Accordin...

 Hope you're hungry. Gourmet, on-demand dinner delivery service Sprig today expanded to start serving lunch, just as we wrote it would a few days ago. The soft-launch of lunch includes service to...

 New Netflix members can expect to see their subscription rates go up in the next few months, according to the company's most recent letter to shareholders (the letter also included Netflix's fir...

 Wello, the startup that connects people with personal trainers to receive private fitness consultations through online video chat, is in talks to be acquired by Weight Watchers, sources tell Tec...

 Netflix today released its first-quarter financial results, with the company beating analyst expectations. For the first three months of the year, the company reported earnings of 86 cents per s...

 The hottest startup in the Bay Area is now online: Pied Piper’s landing page is live. The documentary tracking the company’s progress, produced by the noted biographical network HBO,...

 Sony’s latest Android tablet is now on sale in the U.S. Available for pre-order on Sony.com and available in Sony Stores on May 4th, the Z2 is Sony’s latest effort to shore up its cr...

 SAP's new EVP and GM of Mobile, Rick Costanzo spent 15 years at BlackBerry. He saw the smartphone develop from its earliest days, and he's excited to be working for SAP because he sees its mobil...

 As long as I can remember, I've disassembled (and sometimes even reassembled!) every gadget I could get my hands on.But for some reason, gadget teardown photos and videos so popular across the ...

 Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the nasty, stinky water, the Symbiotic Machine comes along and blows your mind. This little robot, built by designer Ivan Henriques, sucks in di...

 In a blog post today, Airbnb public policy chief David Hantman once again made the company's case for why its platform is valuable to the New York community. Airbnb says it is alerting hosts who...

 In a blog post today, Airbnb public policy chief David Hantman once again made the company's case for why its platform is valuable to the New York community. Airbnb says it is alerting hosts who...

 In a blog post today, Airbnb public policy chief David Hantman once again made the company's case for why its platform is valuable to the New York community. Airbnb says it is alerting hosts who...

 Apple has posted a new video of their oddly-shaped UFO headquarters, this time focusing on eco-friendliness and how Steve Jobs' original ideas about sustainability and environmental design went ...

 The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) announced this morning that it will throw financial support to the Log Cabin Republicans, a group that advocates for gay issues inside the Republican p...

 This morning the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported that its first drone testing site is operational. There will eventually be six such sites. The first is located in North Dakota. T...

 Seriously, people. The internet is officially freaking out about an odd image spotted on Apple Maps, which some are claiming is “proof” of the Loch Ness monster’s existence. By...

 Fresh off its update to Android KitKat, Google Glass is getting a couple of new features later this week. Until now, iPhone users with Glass weren't able to receive text messages on their device...

 In an interesting move, the owner of Bitcoin.com has moved the domain to point to a special bitcoin landing page that features access to some very basic Bitcoin tools and informational sources p...

 Even a long road has an end. Today Microsoft announced that it will complete its purchase of the preponderance of Nokia’s hardware assets on Friday. The deal has undergone minor adjustment...

 Everyone and their dog has a language training app but does everyone and their dog have an augmented reality solution that aims to teach you Chinese using clever little blocks and a webcam? No, ...

 Over half a million children with autism in the next decade will become adults, underscoring a growing challenge that needs to be dealt in the future. But with 1 in 68 children now affected with...

 Google's attempts to model flu trends based on people's search behavior has come under fire lately, but our search behavior can undoubtedly be used to predict lots of other things. Starting toda...

 Microsoft continues its quest to fleece companies over use of its intellectual property in devices running platforms made by competitors. Motorola Solutions, the enterprise counterpart to the co...

 In the heyday of consumer electronics, the words “premium audio” and “Panasonic” wouldn’t have seemed so incongruous. However, with the rise of boutique audio hardw...

 How do charities and non-profits raise enough money for their causes? Well, the normal route, that which needs to be "disrupted" if you will, means a lot of thousand dollar per-plate dinners, a ...

 For this Mother’s Day, San Francisco-based Samahope is suggesting that you do things a bit differently. They’re putting on an #HonorYourMom campaign to crowdfund medical treatments f...

 The communal spirit of the 60s has returned to SF, but with a modern twist. Software engineers, founders and tech workers alike are now flocking to giant, Victorian mansions that promise peace, ...

 Nervana Systems, a San Diego-based startup that is focusing on hardware — not software — to boost the performance of artificial intelligence algorithms, just raised $600,000 from inv...

 Mailbird, a PC email client bearingresemblance to popular Mac app (and Google acquisition) Sparrow, is introducing an interesting feature in the hopes of helping users save time when reading lon...

 Apple has been one of the top performers in the most recent Greenpeace rankings of Internet companies thanks the clean energy sources they use to power their data centers. The company is keen to...

 Frrole, a big data startup that specializes in Twitter-based analytics, has raised $245K in Angel funding from investors including Sharad Sharma (former head of Yahoo! R&D centre in india), ...

 The companythat led to dozens of startups describing themselves as a “Birchbox for X,” beauty sample box provider Birchbox, has raised $60 million in Series B funding, valuing the co...

 Sam Altmans article this weekend exploring the topic of equity grants got me thinking about what startups offer new employees. While there are general notions in the industry about what equity t...

 You can now add Typepad, the blogging service owned by SAY Media, to the growing list of technology companies that have undergone DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, which crash websit...

 The internet has democratized our ability to become celebrities. Justin Bieber was discovered on YouTube, as were countless others. Instagram has its own set of super photographers, as does Vine...

 You guys remember the movie Avatar? Where our fearless protagonist would hop into a tanning booth-type machine and then suddenly his Avatar was running through Pandora, exploring a whole new wor...

AdRoll, apioneer of online advertising retargeting(the technology that pushes you ads for products that you have viewed online previously), is today announcing a major round of funding that it will be...

 One of the things I love about working with people all around the world is that I feel like an international woman of mystery. Unfortunately, by "mystery" I mean time zones and my propensity for...

 Southeast Asia is the second-largest outsourcing destination in the world, but a new company called Supahands wants to help locals by bringing virtual assistants to the region. Based in Malaysia...

 The WSJ is reporting tonight that payments company Square was in acquisition talks with Google. We're hearing from multiple sources close to both companies that these talks did not in fact take ...

 It's been great times for indie games over the last few years, a true golden age compared to what went before. Yet I'm very worried that the great times are over and that - on multiple fronts - ...

 This May 8th, Y Combinator’s Sam Altman and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will hold a fundraiser for theDemocratic National Committee headlined by President Obama. Thefte will take placeat Y Com...

 Last fall, the Attorney General filed a subpoena for thousands of records related to hosts in New York in an effort to identify bad actors and illegal activity on the platform. On Tuesday, Airbn...

 An ambitious blend of fact and fiction, Transcendence is Hollywoods latest dystopian-edged take on the implications of artificial intelligence. Here are some examples of where the film displays ...

There are life-changing technologies that are being developed at the intersection of health evaluation and diagnosis. For example, Neurotrack has developed a cognitive test to predict and diagnose the...

 In the game of Tinder, you win or you get bored and give up. That is pretty much standard operating procedure for anyone with a smartphone and a libido. But what if you're bad at Tinder?Natural...

 Facebook Nearby Friends is based around broadcasting how far you are from friends, not your exact coordinates, and that's why it could succeed where other location apps have failed. But while we...

 This past week, conflicting reports about Nike leaked, suggesting either big changes or outright abandonment of its high-profile Fuelband line. For those focused on the intersection of digital h...

 Here's a random tidbit about the Misfit Shine, the activity tracking device from Misfit Wearables.I ran into CEO Sonny Vu about a week ago, and when he pulled a Misfit Shine out of his bag, he p...

 There are lots of reasons to love 3D printing. It democratizes manufacturing, putting consumers in granular control of the things they own -- rather than requiring them to choose from a finite p...

 What kind of startups get into Accelerators? Well, according to new research, it’s startups with around 2-3 founders, most male, often SaaS platforms and ones who are persistent, applying ...

Editor’s note:Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research, a technology, media and telecom advisory firm, and founder of Backerjack. He blogs at Techspressive. Each week, Backerjack shar...

 If you are anything like me, you use multiple messaging apps on a daily or weekly basis and you use them for more than just texting. My colleagues, friends and family all prefer different apps,...

 Google recently announced up to 85 percent reduction in pricing for its PaaS and BigQuery services.Soon after,AWSand Microsoftfollowed suit. Welcome toCloud2.0. Read More ...

 Think about your favorite app. Let me guess. Its a consumer app -- something like Uber, Instagram or Pinterest. So what do we do to get business apps into that list of favorites? If we put the u...

 Nike was said to be shutting down its FuelBand department on the heels of layoffs on Friday, signalling a significant exit of the wearable fitness device market by one of the more prominent comp...

 The Gillmor Gang Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Semil Shah, Danny Sullivan, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor played the latest favorite game of the Mobility Addicted. It's called Lock Screen, and some...

 Take 2,500 bunsen burners, and put'em in a grid. Make the flames react to sound waves, thanks to some amazing physics trickery. Then drop the bass.What do you get? The best visualizer ever. Read...

Last summer, Google started allowing developers to use git to get their code onto App Engine to deploy their applications instead of using Google's usual SDK. Starting today, developers who use the po...

 Beats Music, the streaming radio solution spun out from the makers of Beats audio hardware products, has decided to bite the bullet and give Apple its 30 percent cut on subscription sign-ups. Th...

 "Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer powering the next generation of the Internet," says Naval Ravikant. "Our 2014 fund will be built during the blockchain cycle," concurs Fred W...

 Bad news, Fuel fans: Nike is purportedly killing off their wearable hardware efforts, including the FuelBand. Just a few days ago, folks started whispering about shakeup in Fuelband land after t...

Rising income inequality is quickly becoming the most prevalent issue of our century, "the defining challenge of our time," according to President Obama. No where is this more acute than in San Franci...

 TechCrunch squinted slightly when the White House petition to deport the Canadian Justin Bieber passed the 100,000-signature mark, the minimum threshold to warrant an official response. Read Mor...

 "What the heck is a smart doorbell?"That's what my friends asked me any time I mentioned that I'd be meeting with Nezare Chafni and Shaun Moore, co-founders of 214 Technologies. They've develope...

In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, we hosted Next World Capital’s Ben Fu in the studio to talk about big data, recruiting and more. Fu, who has backed Datameer, Datastax, and Good Data am...

 It’s Friday, the sun is shining, the birds are chirping, a holiday weekend is ahead, and we’ve got a brand new episode of CrunchWeek for you to watch. What more could you wish for? I...

 There is a reason it feels like everyone and anyone is raising money at the moment to build a company: They are. According to two studies, capital raised from venture capitalists by growing, pri...

 Gillmor Gang - Danny Sullivan, Dan Farber, Semil Shah, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm PST. Click here for the live chat on Friendfeed. Read More...

 Canary has had a big year. After smashing through their Indiegogo campaign goal and picking up an extra $10 million in VC funding, the company is nearly ready to ship its home security product. ...

 Canary has had a big year. After smashing through its Indiegogo campaign goal and picking up an extra $10 million in VC funding, the company is nearly ready to ship its home security product.Due...

 Facebook says it’s not using its new Nearby Friends feature to target ads yet, but after I asked why it’s tracking “Location History” it admitted it will eventually use t...

Quick! Tune in! SpaceX is about to attempt something pretty historic: launching a rocket in such a way that much of it can be reused in later launches. If the launch is successful, the rocket will spe...

 There's no lack of startups trying to rethink the mobile email experience - for example, Mailbox, Boxer, CloudMagic, Triage, or Acompli, to name just a few. Now a new application called Gusto is...

 Siri was hacked! But don't panic — it's apparently a really fun hack that gives Siri access to your other apps. Meanwhile, rumors are swirling over Amazon's forthcoming smartphone with 3D-...

 Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia think that the nation's top court will eventually rule on the NSA's surveillance activities. The two, appearing in front of the Nati...

 TechCrunch has learned that Airbnb, the fast-growing site that lets people become hoteliers by renting out sofas, rooms or entire private homes, has now closed its latest round of funding: $500 ...

 Facebook just released Paper 1.1, an update that adds features and notifications to make it a more comprehensive subsititute for Facebook for iOS. It alsp gave the first momentum update on Paper...

 Facebook just released Paper 1.1, an update that adds features and notifications to make it a more comprehensive substitute for Facebook for iOS. It also gave the first momentum update on Paper ...

 Ready. Set. Go. Our events team just released another batch of tickets to the Disrupt NY Hackathon. You can grab one below. Last year using the Foursquare and Plaid APIs, a credit card transacti...

 Target has significantly expanded its subscription-based e-commerce service, first launched last fall as a response to Amazon’s popular “Subscribe and Save” program, by increas...

 Telerik, the company behind the popular Kendo UI library, this week announced that it is open sourcing the vast majority of Kendo UI's tools and JavaScript framework features. This new Kendo UI ...

 French startup La Belle Assiette just opened shop in Belgium. La Belle Assiette is a sort of on-demand chef service. You can browse the site, find your chef and book a meal directly from the ser...

About.com has never been the coolest website on the internet. With a grayish background and an ugly logo, it was the place you landed when you searched for help with something, but you rarely went the...

 Google Trends, the informative resource that shows you what’s currently popular around the web right now in and in the recent past, now offers email subscriptions, Google announced this mo...

 Startup Preact is officially launching today with a product that it says can help companies increase customer spending and reduce churn. It's also announcing that it has raised a $4.6 million Se...

 Mobile app search engineQuixey, backed by $75 million from Alibaba, Innovation Endeavors, Translink Capital and others, has put some of those dollars to use by acquiring a smaller,competing app ...

 LinkedIn announced this morning that the company now has 300 million registered users worldwide, over half of which come from outside the U.S. Stateside, the sitehas 100 million members, its say...

 When Google acquired smart thermostat maker Nest for $3.2 billion, the startup quickly stated that it wouldn’t ever share its user data with other Google services and outside companies. Ye...

 Titanfall was supposed to change it all, but it didn’t work. So far, Microsoft announced that it has shipped 5 million Xbox One units to retailers. In comparison, Sony has sold 7 million P...

 With its three-inch screen, theRufus Cuff thumbs its nose at smartwatches with their tiny faces and dainty wristbands. The wearable device, which bills itself as a “wrist communicator̶...

 With its three-inch screen, theRufus Cuff thumbs its nose at smartwatches with their tiny faces and dainty wristbands. The wearable device, which bills itself as a “wrist communicator̶...

 There are plenty of how-to sites on the Internet, but sometimes, in the words of Guides.co CEO Scott Annen, you need to look up something "more complicated than tying a tie or stuffing a turkey....

 If Bo knows football and every other sport, Karl Jacob knows startups. Depending on how you count it, Jacob, a former Apple intern and Benchmark EIR, is on his sixth (or seventh?) startup: Hangt...

 SpoonRocket is about to have some competition in the lunch on demand market. Sprig, currently dinner-only, will soon start serving lunch, according to a source who said Sprig now delivers 1000 m...

 In the year since its launch, Tuition.io, the company billing itself as the Mint.com for managing student loans, has grown to manage over $1 billion in loans. The company, which provides a monit...

 Attention, startups! This is a code red situation. I have infiltrated the Disrupt Startup Alley application system and left registrations open. (Cue evil laugh.) Read More ...

 The tech/startup industry is about as incestuous as it gets, and that's without any clear tools to help people switch from one moonshot to the next. So imagine a world in which there are two!All...

 On-demand grocery startup Instacart is working on raising a big new round of funding, according to sources. The new financing, which we've heard is being led by non-VC investors, would value the...

 AngelPad, the San Francisco-based startup accelerator founded by early Googler and tech investor Thomas Korte, is holding demo day for its Spring 2014 class in San Francisco today. Since its inc...

 Passwords, geez those things suck. You may not need them to login to your computer in the future, and Chromebooks might be the first PC device to offer that feature natively, according to some h...

This morning Weibo went public, offering fewer shares than previously expected, though the bloc was priced at $17, in line with yesterday's reporting. Read More ...

Zola, the new wedding registry startup emerging from Gilt And AlleyCorp founder Kevin Ryan, has launched an iPhone app to allow couples to create and manage their Zola registries from anywhere. Zola, ...

 Sonos has often been praised for its minimalist setup. Power up a couple speakers in different rooms, open the smartphone app, and boom wireless sound around your house... right?Mostly. There's...

 VC money in the U.S is at its highest level since 2001, and valuations are soaring. The question on everyone's mind is, are we in a bubble? Read More ...

 Last fall, Magnify acquired Waywire in an effort to create more efficiency around video curation. The idea behind the acquisition was to combine the former's enterprise video curation business w...

 Sbastien Mtrot shared a tough story today at FailCon France at the Ministry for the Economy and Finance — he co-founded Yasound in 2011 with CEO Jean-Marc Plueger, who diedin a scooter acc...

 Here is a small but important update to Google Analytics: Developers can now create a single reporting view that includes both web and app data. Google says this will help businesses that have m...

 Pics of moguls wearing Oculus Rift headsets are the new pics of moguls with rappers. And who better to start the trend than media mogul and avid tweeter Rupert Murdoch? According to the fantasti...

 Major League Gaming (MLG), one of the oldest e-sports companies out there, picked up a new hire today from Machinima, another well-known gaming content company. Ryan Wyatt will join MLG as its v...

Optimizely, the popular service for testing out different variations of your website, today announced the launch of Optimizely for iOS. The company says its new mobile tools allow customers to try out...

 Earlier today on a call-inprogram on Russian television, infamous NSA leaker Edward Snowden questioned the country’sPresident Vladimir Putin abouthis government’s surveillance activi...

 Interested in owning Google Glass, but not sure how it will look on your face? Google now has an in-home try-on program that lets prospective buyers try all four colors of Glass and the entire T...

 Only days after revealing its first dedicated photo management and sharing application Carousel, Dropbox is announcing it has acquired cloud photo storage and sync service Loom, a favorite among...

 Today Facebook begins rolling out a new opt-in feature called Nearby Friends. It lets friends see approximately how far away you are from them, and you can share your exact, on-going location wi...

 Digital signage is increasingly being used by businesses as a way to promote new products, engage with customers, and serve up ads. Los Angeles-based Enplug thinks it has a better way to do digi...

 Thanks to new entrants like Digital Ocean, the competition in the hosting space has been heating up for the last few months and for the most part, it's the users who are reaping the benefits of ...

 Facebook, massive and successful as it is, is no longer a company that defines new social experiences. It either copies them outright or it just buys them. (See also: $19 billion for WhatsApp). ...

 Beckon, a California-based startup that helps marketers track their spend using data analytics, has raised $8 million in Series A funding from August Capital and Canaan Partners. The latest fund...

UK-based health startup HealthBerry has soft launched its beta. Pitched as a “better way to engage with patients” the startup uses social media as a way for national health services to mea...

 After years of complaining about how Airbnb doesn't compete on a level playing field, apparently the hotel lobby in New York now wants to ensure that the peer-to-peer hospitality startup isn't h...

 By now may are familiar with the smartphone apps that track your movements via the accelerometer. There are multiple pedometers on all the apps stores for instance. But a more intriguing sector ...

 The $19 billion WhatsApp acquisition by Facebook is nothing if not a signal of the significant importance that messaging has in this new phase of online connectivity, in the world where people's...

 Tactus makes keyboards that appear out of seemingly flat glass touchscreen surfaces, thanks a fluid-based layer that reacts to electrical signals to create rises and bumps that serve as keys and...

 There are Game Of Thrones spoilers in this post. If you click through, you will see them. Do not click through if seeing them will upset you. This is your only warning. Read More ...

 The team at Pixite, known for making high-quality photo applications for iOS, including things like Unbound, Fragment,Tangent (an “App Store Best” in 2013), and more, is now revealin...

 Peer-to-peer lending marketplaceLending Club is announcing new funding and an acquisition this morning. The company raised $65 million from T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Wellington Management ...

 A team of University of Pennsylvania freshmen have turned Siri into the useful companion she was always meant to be. Their creation, GoogolPlex, routes Siri commands through a proxy, allowing th...

 At MIT’s Media Labs, researchers Roy Shilkrot, Jochen Huber and others are working on the “FingerReader,” a ring-like device that straps itself around your finger and reads pri...

 Versus IO, a consumer electronics product comparison engine startup based out of Berlin that's attracted backing from Dave McClures 500 Startups (among others), has launched its first app as it ...

 Music streaming startup Spotify is shutting down its peer-to-peer network that powered a significant part of the service in the desktop app. According to TorrentFreak, the company doesn’t ...

 TechCrunch Disrupt hits New York City May 3-7, and we're excited to announce the full agenda. The event will span five days and feature industry titans, noted thought leaders and experienced ent...

 SpringCM, which has been doing hosted content management since 2005, long before we called it The Cloud, announced today it has received $18M in venture funding. CEO Greg Bucholtz told me he pla...

It looks like Twitter is hoping to earn more ad dollars from mobile app publishers and developers. The company is announcing several new features today that Vice President of Revenue Kevin Weil descri...

 Today, Yahoo launches new Flickr apps for Android and iOS. They include the ability to shoot video in the apps, or upload it directly. There is also better search, more detailed statistics for i...

 Aereo is about to present its case to the U.S. Supreme Court, but first it wants to present its case to you. Today, the startup launched ProtectMyAntenna.org, a website designed to inform its us...

 Urban transport appCitymapperhas just announced a new Series A funding round of $10 million, led by Balderton Capital. Connect Ventures (Bill Earner), Index Ventures (Robin Klein) and Greylock P...

 Work4, an online recruitment startup that uses social networks to advertise and find leads for jobs, has picked up another $7 million in funding that it plans to use to expand further into marke...

 Work4, an online recruitment startup that uses social networks to advertise and find leads for job vacancies, has picked up another $7 million in funding that it plans to use to expand further i...

 If you want a hint of what might be on the horizon at Apple, look to Google – or at least look to its Project Tango experimental 3D depth-sensing smartphone. Tango got a teardown just the ...

 A fresh setback for Nokia in the early days of its tablet strategy: it’s announced today that it has had to “temporarily delay” sales of its Lumia 2520 tablet in Europe amid a ...

 Apple has a pair of new patent applications published by the USPTO today (via AppleInsider) which describe a gesture-based unlocking system for iPhone or iPad devices. The system is more sophist...

 Disruptive primary care medical practice One Medical Group, is announcing $40 million in growth capital led by Redmile Group, with participation from current institutional investors. The company...

 Tech people are probably used to the idea that we’ll have our memories and photos stored online. Sure, we have it in the backs of our mind that it’ll all be on some dusty hard drive ...

 So much for trashing the Kindle. Today Samsung is announcing anew app, Kindle for Samsung, created in partnership with Amazon, that will let Galaxy device users using Android 4.0 and up, startin...

 Weibo, the influential microblogging service owned by Sina, has reportedly raised just $285.6 million in its initial public offering, according to Bloomberg. The service's underwhelming IPO, how...

 Mobile messaging platform Line, which is gunning for a billion registered users by 2015 and is also reportedly considering an IPO later this year, has added a new feature aimed at boosting engag...

 Qapital, a new financial management app developer based in Europe, is preparing to launch in the U.S. and Sweden as it looks to challenge Mint.com's dominance in personal financial management, T...

 First made for British singer-songwriter Imogen Heap, the Mi.Mu glove turns the arms and hands of performers into musical instruments. Eventually, Heap and Mi.Mu's developers hope the glove and ...

 Quick! That catchy new track is playing over the gym's loudspeaker, and you've been meaning to figure out its name for days.You grab your iPhone. You bring up Siri, and say "Siri, what song is t...

When Yahoo removed Henrique De Castro as its COO, it wasn't clear how much loot he was going to take with him. The final tally, revealed today in an SEC filing that also detailed Yahoo's board nominat...

 Photojojo began as a newsletter for photography enthusiasts to share their latest tricks. Over time, it's evolved into a popular storefront for photo geeks, selling unique but oh-so-useful photo...

 Pinterest's upcoming news event, dubbed "Choose Your Own Adventure," may not be directly related to the company's efforts in the personalization space, but rather the announcement of a consumer-...

 Call it Yahoo's version of the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker. The venerable Internet firm today announced a trio of nominations to its board that could round out the sort of folk...

 Tremor Video, a video ad company that went public last year, has announced a new product that should take a lot of headache and uncertainty out of running ad campaigns across desktops, tablets, ...

UberConference, the popular conference calling service and former TechCrunch Disrupt Battelfield winner, today announced that it has added screen sharing to its service. The company says this was one ...

Zoosk just filed its S-1 registration statement today, announcing its plans to raise $100 million in an initial public offering. The company, which has offers up a website and apps for daters around t...

 You don't have to walk alone anymore. Rather than asking your mom, bestie, or significant other to stay on the phone with you while you walk down a sketchy street at night, you can use Kitestrin...

 We are in an age of disruption and this is even more pronounced for a large technology company like IBM, but Big Blue finds itself in the position of having to reinvent itself yet again after su...

 This afternoon following the close of regular trading IBM reported its first quarter financial results, including revenue of$22.48 billion, GAAP earnings per share (EPS) of $2.29, and non-GAAP E...

 Serendipitous meetups with friends while traveling make us happy. Facebook wants to be the portal to that joy. So this week it quietly rolled out a new feature that lets you share where you're "...

 Following the bell, Google reported its first quarter financial performance, including revenue of $12.20 billionexcluding traffic acquisition costs (ex-TAC), $15.42 billion including those costs...

 AT&T is not happy with the rules the FCC has proposed for a 2015 spectrum auction that would reserve a piece of the airwaves for sale for smaller providers that lack low-frequency range.The ...

 AngelList is working on a new project called Maiden Lane. Behind this name is a new experiment in startup investment. Structured as a traditional small VC firm, Maiden Lane will only invest in A...

 Is Instagram going around stealing users' account and distributing them to employees? That's the far-out claim from designerBrian Hoff, who says his wife's Instagram account, with the likely muc...

 Here is an interesting conundrum for Google: it has created an algorithm that's significantly better at reading street numbers in Street View images, which helps it give you more accurate direct...

 Google this morninglaunched a mobile client application called “Chrome Remote Desktop app for Android” (whew!) which allows for remote access to your Mac or PC from your Android devi...

 Google has a new standalone camera app available in the Google Play app store, and it can be installed on any smartphones or tablets running KitKat 4.4 or higher. The new app will also be rollin...

 AppsBuilder, which has developed a platform to “easily” (they say) develop mobile apps has taken in a $1.5 million round of funding from United Ventures. The investment brings the co...

 Talkwheel, a startup that aggregates the social media conversation around a company or topic in, yes, a wheel format, is announcing that it has raised $1.2 million in funding. The idea sounds a ...

 What photo sharing network would be complete without Vice President Joe Biden? The answer is none, which makes Instagram the first network to qualify. The U.S. veep signed up and posted his firs...

 For Google to win, it needs to attract the best designers to its team and get beautiful third-party apps built for its platforms. Yet, right now it's Google's rival Apple and the iOS ecosystem t...

 About a year ago, Boxbee launched to create a new paradigm for how people use storage in urban settings. Today, it's announcing that it's raised $2.3 million from investors that include Floodgat...

 Twoweeks ago, Microsoft debuted its Cortana personal digital assistant for Windows Phone 8.1, which uses the Bing platform to learn about your preferences and interests. Starting today, the Bing...

Google has long made it possible for its users to run Hadoop -- a framework for storing and processing large amounts of data -- on its Cloud Platform. Until now, however, the only way to get in and ou...

 I'm the kind of person who cares about their environmental impact ... but aside from basics like recycling, my ideas about how to do better get kind of fuzzy. That's why a new service called Oro...

 When ShopLocket was undergoing its transformation from an ecommerce provider to a platform designed to support hardware startups from concept to consumer launch, it had a lot of learning to do. ...

 There are a couple of things that differentiate Anki from any other robotics company. First, it's the only one I know of to launch on an Apple keynote stage, with an introduction from Tim Cook. ...

 Frontback just released the Android version of its popular photo-sharing app. Previously, the app was only available on iOS. But even with just the iPhone app, the app was downloaded one million...

 Union Metrics, the social analytics platform whose most recent claim to fame was being the first to receive Tumblr’s blessing, is today rolling out a similar service for Instagram, as well...

 Union Metrics, the social analytics platform whose most recent claim to fame was being the first to receive Tumblr’s blessing, is today rolling out a similar service for Instagram, as well...

 RealtyShares is kind of like a "LendingClub for Real Estate," a providing a platform for crowdfunding real-estate development. And the company just raised $1.9 million led by General Catalyst to...

A lot has been said about Aereo's technology — so much, in fact, that there are hundreds of pages worth of legal documents discussing the matter as it relates to the law. That said, we thought i...

 Amazon announced this morning through an email to its customers that all personal documents archived in your Kindle e-reader library are also now being made available from Amazon Cloud Drive. Th...

 Over the years, many people have come to love The Young Turks for its particular brand of progressive politics and news commentary on cable TV and online. Now that it's completely digital, thoug...

 SuperAwesome, the European ad network and marketing platform for kids and teens, continues to roll up talent in the space. Read More ...

 SuperAwesome, the European ad network and marketing platform for kids and teens, continues to roll up talent in the space. Read More ...

 Google’s Project Tango prototype smartphone is armed with four cameras to allow it to take stock of its environment and record and use 3D depth-sensing info, and it’s basically just ...

 We've invited Mike Judge to join us at Disrupt, along with Silicon Valley executive producer and writer Alec Berg. We'll also welcome Thomas Middleditch, who stars as Pied Piper founder and CEO ...

 Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg sat down with The New York Times’ Farhad Manjoo to discuss Facebook and its future, and much of the discussion centered on Creative Labs, the new internal ...

 Long-standing blogging platform OverBloghas been acquired by Webedia, a French online media company, for“less than $6.9 million” (5 million) according to L’Opinion. OverBlog co...

 Online comments are usually cordoned off at the bottom of a page, but Livefyre is hoping to bring them into the content itself with the launch of a new product called Sidenotes. Basically, it's ...

 Copies of medical files are often difficult to replace if misplaced, especially if a patient's providers operate in different networks. Hello Doctor hopes to help its users avoid that problem. R...

 The list of health-related questions we will encounter in out lifetimes is endless. And if there is one thing I have learned about the medical system in the U.S., it's that you need an advocate,...

 As BrightContext co-founder and CEO John Funge told TechCrunch in 2012, What Twilio is to telephony, BrightContext is to real-time data streams. It's with that hook that WealthEngine scooped up ...

 Samsung plans on releasing a smartphone powered by Android competitor Tizen this year. Likewise, Samsung is also working on a smartwatch that runs Android, according to a Reuters report. It's bi...

 Superb, a new application from the founders of Y Combinator-backed social dining startup Grubwithus, is launching today to people to connect in the offline world. Essentially a “Hot or Not...

 Google has been showing off its Project Ara modular smartphone in a lot more detail over the past few days, likely because it’s also hosting a developer conference for the device this week...

 Move over Segway, there's a new stand-up personal transporter in town. Or there will be come August when the first machines are scheduled to ship to Kickstarter backers. More than 200 users of t...

 Guy Kawasaki, who held the chief evangelist title at Apple during late nineties, is joining Australian design startup Canva, making a comeback into the role after nearly two decades of advising ...

 Back in January the Telefonica-backed accelerator Academy, Wayra U.K., announced the intake for its 2014 accelerator program -- naming 13 startups that would be put through their paces during th...

 Slowly but surely a revolution has been taking place in financial technology, or fintech as we call it these days. These days fintech’s hottest sphere is not in Bloomberg terminals but in ...

 HeiaHeia, a Finnish startup offering a social and corporate wellness platform that helps employees live a healthier lifestyle -- and, presumably, perform better at work -- has raised 1.5 million...

 Mt.Gox has filed for liquidation in a Tokyo court instead of going forward with its plans to rebuild under bankruptcy protection, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The newspaper'...

 Online fashion retail is fast becoming the next battlefront for India’s growing e-commerce startups. With two of the biggest Indian e-commerce companies — Flipkart and Myntra —...

 TPG Growth has committed around $100 million in a joint venture with India’s Smile Group for helping Internet and e-commerce companies build and scale their businesses across emerging mark...

 Mashfeed isn't just about finding new content. It also lets you organize posts in a better way than most social networks currently allow. On Mashfeed, you create public or private channels (call...

 Online (and offline) invitations startup Paperless Post has become a modern-day greeting card company, enabling users to create custom cards to their events and send them to friends. Our sources...

 Today is Google Glass day. For the first time, the company is letting anybody and everybody order a pair with no application process needed. Because before, if you wanted to give Google $1,500 f...

 Telefonica, the Spanish carrier with operations 24 countries and 323 million customers, is making its latest bid to expand its business beyond basic mobile and telephone services, by moving into...

 As the clock ticks toward midnight, putting an end to tax day 2014, Hewlett-Packard is warning consumers of mobile tax and finance apps that they may want to audit their own usage.According to t...

 Twitter had a massive day in the markets, soaring more than 11 percent following news this morning that it has acquired Gnip, a company that TechCrunch described as a longtime partner and custom...

 A more personalized way to pin may be on the way as Pinterest has announced a big press event in San Francisco on April 24th with the teaser image above. We've confirmed with the company that th...

 Apparently some people still want Google Glass. The white model sold out several hours after Google allowed anyone to purchase the product. Models of the other colors are still available -- at l...

 Welcome to a new episode of TechCrunch Cribs, the video series that takes you inside where the offices where all the tech industry magic happens to see what it's really like for the people who w...

 Yahoo'sspending spree onacquisitions looks like it may finally have sloweddown, at least in terms of value if not numbers. Yahoo noted in its Q1 2014 earnings today that it used a net$22 million...

 Google introduced Helpouts last year to HELP PEOPLE OUT (yeah that’s where they got the name). The system works through Hangouts, letting people connect with experts for paid or free video...

 Both Samsung and HTC have new flagship Android phones out in the U.S., but Sony isn’t just sitting back and doing nothing. The companyhas its new 5.2-inch Z2 smartphone launching soon in s...

 Following the closing bell today, Intel reported its first quarter results, including revenue of $12.764 billion, and earnings per share of $0.38. The results roughly match analyst expectations ...

 Yahoo has just reported its Q1 earnings, with ex-TAC revenues of $1.087 billion and earnings per share of $0.38, and net income of $314 million. That just about beat analysts’ expectations...

 Now a victim of its own omnipresent success, the global electronic payments industry is increasingly turning to new technologies as it looks to expand its footprint and find new ways to make mon...

 The founder of Favstar, a tool that surfaces popular Twitter favourites, has launched a new startup with a Twitter focus -- bringing a customer support tool called Respondly out of private beta ...

 Remember back in September when a couple of researchers figured out how to bypass the iPhone 5S' fingerprint lock with a fancy fake rubber finger?Turns out, the fingerprint sensor on Samsung's n...

 Squarespace, which offers tools for individuals and small businesses to build websites and online stores, just announced that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding.The funding comes from...

 This morning in San Francisco, Microsoft announced several new data-focused tools in front of a cadre of customers and partners, not to mention a decent-sized grouping of press. The two new tool...

 Though we do inevitably put a price tag on it, the value of a table in Startup Alley at Disrupt can not be measured. Or can it? Turns out, 2013 saw 393 startups coming through our Disrupt Startu...

The Asia-Pacific market is quickly becoming a battleground for cloud computing vendors. Amazon has always been very active in the region. Microsoft is investing heavily there and made Azure generally ...

 Earlier today, Twitter announced that it acquired Gnip, one of its partners that uses Twitter’sfirehose of data and parses it for third parties who mine the social network for market insig...

 Red Hat and Docker.io today announced an expanded collaboration that will bring Docker's container technologies to the Red Hat's Enterprise Linux high-touch beta program and its OpenShift Platfo...

 Amazon’s Cloud Drive suite of services – filestorage and sync, streaming music, and online photos – have always felt like something of an also-ran compared with marketleaders l...

 You might think that haggling or negotiating is something that died out a century ago, or that happens today only in bustling outdoor markets and bazaars. But if you think about it, you haggle i...

 Berlin-based app search engine and discovery serviceXyois announcing today a significant deal which will see it powering app searches in Deutsche Telekom’s own app recommendation service, ...

 Berlin-based app search engine and discovery service Xyo is announcing today a significant deal which will see it powering app searches in Deutsche Telekom's own app recommendation service, TopA...

 HotelTonight is introducing a new feature that should make users a little more confident about whether they can count on getting a room through the same-day booking app. With the new feature, Ho...

 Weev aka Andrew Auernheimer is free. The 29-year-old hacker, released from the Allenwood Federal Correctional Center in Pennsylvania last weekend, has spent the past few days celebrating a feder...

 Cuyana, the San Francisco e-commerce startup that makes responsibly produced apparel and accessories, has inked a yearlong partnership with Real Simple magazine to make a total of four collectio...

 Ever wanted to sing along to music videos on YouTube but don't know the words? A new Chrome extension from MusiXmatch has you covered. Read More ...

 With the news that Facebook has been talking tofinancial services startups in the UKabout launching e-money services,one of the companies that powers payments for thosestartups has raised a roun...

 Etsy announced a new channel for its online crafts marketplace last year, with the launch of Etsy Wholesale. The service, which allows sellers to connect with qualified retailers around the U.S....

 Amazon’s smartphone leaks are starting to pile up quickly, and today our own report about some of its 3D features and Android-based FIreOS operating system was followed quickly by an exten...

 BlackBerry has bought a minority stake in privately held U.S. healthcare IT firm NantHealth — and the pair are planning to collaborate on building a smartphone tailored to the medical sect...

 Amazon this morning announced a small, but significant change to its “Login with Amazon” service which currently offers an alternate way to sign up for and authenticate with mobile a...

 Mixed Dimensions (MXD), a Jordanian startup now relocated to Silicon Valley, is aiming to simplify the 3D design process by building browser-based 3D design tools designed for the mainstream and...

 Sosh, the app that helps you figure out what to do with your free time, has today announced a partnership with OpenTable that will let users book reservations from right within the app. Unlike o...

 TechCrunch has learned that Amazon's upcoming flagship smartphone, running a forked version of Android, will have head-tracking capabilities offering up limited 3D effects. This key feature will...

 With nearly 814 million people set to vote over the next few weeks in India’s general elections, the biggest democratic exercise on the planet, political parties are scrambling to out-inno...

 Netflix, the lifeblood of the Millennial generation and stay-at-home parents, appears to be down for some people. It's working for me, personally, but reports on Twitter and other status service...

 RetailMeNot announced today that it will be acquiring the team behind personalized shopping startup Pickie. As part of this acquisition, Pickie will be shut down immediately, and some members of...

 Android’s position as the most dominant smartphone platform worldwide is also having an impact on mobile app download growth, and now, increasing revenue. Google’sapp marketplace, Go...

 Twitter has acquired Gnip, the social data provider that has long provided access to public Twitter data, and that has deepened its relationship with the social network over the years through a ...

 Urban transportation company Uber is slowly but surely expanding its ride-sharing service UberPOP in Europe before Lyft expands to Europe. After opening first in Paris, the company recently laun...

 I may not use Google+ all that often for social interaction, but its Auto Backup service for photos is incredibly handy, and now it’s even handier thanks to a new Gmail feature introduced ...

 Betterment, the online financial services firm pitching better investmentsthrough technology, has raised $32 million in its latest round of funding. Consumer-focused financial services startups ...

 Chloe+Isabel follows in the footsteps of companies like Avon and Tupperware, but the startup is among several companies that want to redefine the direct-selling business model with technology. N...

 A brand new marketplace called Beepi just launched to replace an increasingly outdated process for buying or selling a used car. That company, which recently launched in the Bay Area in public b...

 LearnVest, a personalized financial planning program, has raised $28 million in new funding led by Northwestern Mutual Capital with Accel Partners and American Express Ventures participating. Th...

 It's been nearly a year since Google released the Google Glass face computer, and still only a select few have had access to the thing. But that's all about to change. On Tuesday April 15 (perha...

 Online video services from the likes of Netflix and Apple may representthe future of the TV business because oftheir popularity with consumers intent on watching video on a variety of screens be...

 AOL.com is getting a new look today. It's not a dramatic change, but it brings one big addition to the homepage, a carousel of videos from AOL (which owns TechCrunch) and content partners like C...

 Apple has a new patent granted by the USPTO today (via AppleInsider), and it describes a for determining a user’s position when they’re indoors, using existing Wi-Fi infrastructure i...

 You know what's great? A well-built, stylish pair of shoes that won't break the bank. And that's exactly what Greats offers. GreatsBrand is a mens footwear brand launched out of Williamsburg, Br...

 Food tech is hot these days, with a number of major funding rounds being announced specifically in the food order and delivery segment. With that in mind, ezCater, one of the oldest food orderin...

Zebra Technologies, a manufacturer ofbarcode, receipt, kiosk and RFID printers and supplies announced today that they were buying Motorola Solutions’ handheld unit for $3.45B. Philip Gerskovich,...

 ItsOn, startup founded by alums from Qualcomm, Nokia and Yahoo that has developed a cloud-based mobile services platform that it sells as both a B2B and B2C product, is today confirming that it ...

 Avvo, the Seattle startup that runs an online marketplace for people seeking legal advice, has raised $37.5 million in new funding. The round, which counts as Avvo’s Series D, was led by C...

Today, crowd-sourced Wifi network operator Fon launched its new Gramofon device on Kickstarter. This offers a simple Fon-like Wi-Fi sharing functionality via a simple Facebook log-in, can be plugged i...

 Job outsourcing marketplace Freelancer.comhas put down a portion of the money it raised from its IPO last fall on buying Warrior Forum, a marketplace and forum for digitalmarketing professionals...

 Motorola Solutions may sell its enterprise division to Zebra Technologies in a deal worth about $3.5 billion, according to a report in the Financial Times. The acquisition, which may be announce...

Today, crowd-sourced Wifi network operator Fon launches its rumoured new product, the Gramofon. But unusually for a large tech company with healthy revenues, it’s launched the product with 30-da...

 Viddsee, an online video platform that helps independent filmmakers throughout Asia distribute their work, has launched the beta version of Viddsee BUZZ, a new site that is meant to help content...

 BTC China, one of the world's largest bitcoin exchanges by trading volume, released a new mobile-friendly Web app called the Picasso ATM today. The Picasso ATM allows users around the world to e...

 The Santa Clara Valley was some of the most valuable agricultural land in the entire world, but it was paved over to create today’s Silicon Valley. This was simply the result of bad planni...

 Do you have an Xbox One? Its update time! Get excited! Well, not too excited. Moderately excited. Like the last few monthly updates, this months patch is mostly meant to bring in features that a...

 Anybody will be able to buy Google Glass tomorrow, but ahead of this, Google is giving the Glass software an update. There are a couple of new features in this update, including new tools for ma...

 Starting today developers can now link Windows Store and Windows Phone applications to create the already-announced "universal" applications that Microsoft announced recently at its Build develo...

 Hold on to your hat. The Tesla Model S is about to get more breezy thanks to a drop-top conversion by Newport Convertible Engineering. Both hard and soft top conversions are now available -- the...

 In the midst of reports that Facebook could be about to get into financial services, one of the startups it's rumoured to have talked to, the European P2P money transfer service TransferWise, ha...

 A string of big acquisitions, public offerings, and a pipeline of growing young startup companies has venture investors saying "I love L.A." The recent acquisitions of Maker Studios and Oculus V...

Zeebox, the app co-founded by former BBC iPlayer exec Anthony Rose, has rebranded and relaunched its social TV app for consumers as Beamly. The new version of the app still has all the same live-chat ...

 How was your last voting experience? Smooth? Perhaps not. The Open Source Election Technology Foundation wants to change that by making voting simpler and more transparent. Its chief effort, cal...

 The Galaxy S5 (or S 5, if you ask Samsung) is the company’s latest flagship phone and sure to be a swift seller. The phone is, in its own way, beautifully designed and the materials, while...

 "Let me tell you about my new startup. It's basically [some popular startup] but for [some completely unrelated thing]."If you've ever been to any startup event, you've probably heard it 14 thou...

 "Let me tell you about my new startup. It's basically [some popular startup] but for [some completely unrelated thing]."If you've ever been to any startup event, you've probably heard it 14 thou...

 Mobile apps are something that you interact with on a very personal basis — you carry them around in your pocket, check in with them frequently, and really let them into your life. So in t...

 Mobile apps are something that you interact with on a very personal basis — you carry them around in your pocket, check in with them frequently, and really let them into your life. So in t...

 Today in the Twitter log cabin beat: Twitter installed its previously purchased log cabins, which we reported on here, into its office at 1355 Market Street. The log cabins are part of the compa...

 Whoops!Airlines are awful at Twitter, and should leave the platform entirely. I'm not the first person to say this, but today's knock-it-out-off-the-park fail from USAirways' Twitter account ser...

 When Sequoia Capital partner Roelof Botha talks about a company, people listen. Botha has been the mastermind behind funding rounds of several successful startups, with a specific knack for soci...

 Y Combinator is announcing today the addition of four new partners to its roster, as part of its larger push for more growth under new president Sam Altman. Altman announced in a blog post this ...

 Following its blockbuster IPO, Twitter soared north of $70 per share, topping out at $74.73. Not bad for a company that priced at $26 per share. Since that late-2013 high, Twitter has retreated,...

 Titan Aerospace, the drone maker Facebook had been in acquisition talks with prior to being bought by Google (as we've now confirmed following The WSJ's initial report), was a name that took man...

 After Brendan Eich's short tenure as Mozilla's CEO, the organization today announced that it has appointed Chris Beard as its new interim CEO while it looks for a long-term replacement. Beard is...

 Google has a new patent application with the USPTO (via 9to5Google), which takes one of the basic concepts of Glass and extends it even further, embedding tiny cameras that could be embedded in ...

 Google has acquired Titan Aerospace, the drone startup that makes high-flying robots which was previously scoped by Facebook as a potential acquisition target (as first reported by TechCrunch), ...

 Get ready for a 15-second news segments on MSNBC. Following an announcement in January that NBCUniversal had made a strategic investment in mobile news startup NowThis News, the companies are an...

 Get ready for 15-second news segments on MSNBC. Following an announcement in January that NBCUniversal News Group had made a strategic investment in mobile news startup NowThis News, the compani...

 The new Microsoft loves everyone equally, and supports all platforms – to the extreme in some cases, as with embedded support for Apple’s Passbook passes in Windows Phone 8.1, someth...

 After graduating from college, your brain is stressed to the max. You need to find a place to live, find a job, and most terrifyingly, figure out how to be a self-sufficient adult. The last thin...

Now thatthe entire virtual reality space has gotten a big boost from Facebook’s $2 billion deal to buy Oculus,who’s next? Maybeit’s Survios, a company that was cameout of the very sa...

 Health and fitness app Lifesum (formerly known as ShapeUp Club) which lets users track the food they eat and count calories, has closed a $6.7 million Series A funding round led by German multin...

In a year, we've gone to having one or two startup smartwatch companies to a sea of offerings before us, from companies as big as Google all the way down to Omate, a startup looking to make your wrist...

 The FT is reporting that Facebook is looking at e-money services, including the ability for people to make peer-to-peer money transfers, using money that is stored on Facebook itself; and has ap...

 Square has announced a new engineering lead for the company--Amazon engineer Alyssa Henry. Henry will head up engineering operations for Squares infrastructure and payments platform. She was mos...

 On the heels of announcing a new $40 million round of funding, relationship manager RelateIQ is debuting a brand new version of its iPhone app which provides a deep integration with your inbox. ...

 Slangy marketing and a singular vision of weekend wear has netted Chubbies, a manufacturer and online retailer of men's shorts, a $4 million round of funding from some of the biggest names in fa...

 Startup Curalate has been described as a Pinterest marketing platform, but its ambitions are broader than that, as indicated by today's announcement that it supports Tumblr, too. That means Cura...

Yahoo and music video streaming service Vevoare expanding their partnership, the companies are announcing today, through a deal that will bring Vevo’svideos, live concert events, and other origi...

 Twin brothers, Henry and Harry, both have Tinder. Henry downloaded the app to find the future Mrs. Henry, while Harry is just looking for a one-night stand. But as a girl swiping through Tinder,...

 Stealthy, unlaunched startup Brigade Media has raised $9.3 million from Sean Parker of Facebook fame, along with unknown sums from Ron Conway and Marc Benioff, TechCrunch has learned. ParkerR...

 On-demand household services startup Handybook wants to enable consumers to hire a cleaner or a handy man with the push of a button on their mobile phones. And it's aggressively expanding to mak...

 Twitter this morning signaled to investors that its founders and board still believe in the long-term value of the company, with news that CEO Dick Costolo, plusco-founders and board membersJack...

 Quixter has built a biometric pay-by-palm technology system that's up and running at Lund University in Sweden. The idea is the brainchild of Fredrik Leifland, an engineering student at the univ...

 As startup app developer Triage moves from the Bay Area to New York, the company is preparing to close on roughly $1.1 million in a seed round of financing. Read More ...

 IBM has seen the technology world changing as much as any other vendor and that’s part of the reason it bought SoftLayer last year–to broaden its cloud offerings.Today, the company h...

 Zoute, a transit application that combines real-time departure info and fixed route schedules, is now available for iPhone users in eight major markets across the U.S. Originally launched on And...

 T-Mobile CEO and President John Legere unveiled the last in a trio of announcements today with a health heaping of Twitter build-up, and this one might be worth the hype – the so-called &#...

 Many aspects of computing have changed, but the laptop charger has remained sadly stable over the years; no matter what, we never seem to be able to ditch the lumpy power brick, that mid-cable e...

 Giant Pixel is launching a new startup studio to create mobile-focused application companies. Read More ...

 SeedInvest, the equity crowdfunding platform based in New York that helps other startups (like Vengo Labs) raise rounds, is today launching a campaign on its own plaform to complete an intended ...

 Were you to judge success by the response of “The Internet” when Facebook acquired nascent virtual reality hardware company Oculus Rift, developers didn’t like the deal. But we...

 Sportsetter is an iPhone app launched in New York and Helsinki today that lets you subscribe to and discover new fitness experiences matched to your personal preference, fitness goals and locali...

 iPhone fans will not have to buy a new car to get in on the CarPlay fun if a report from a Japanese business newspaper is correct. Alpine is reportedly planning on releasing an aftermarket stere...

 Microsoft announced a slew of updates to the Windows Phone platform at its recent Build developer conference. Apart from the new features,Microsoft also decidedto sell Windows Phone to mobile OE...

 Founded in early 2012, NatureBox set out to become synonymous with providing healthy snacks direct to consumers. It's made great strides toward that goal, and will continue to push forward with ...

 While Mozilla is recovering from the resignation of its co-founder and CEO Brendan Eich after the controversy overhis support of Proposition 8, here is abizarre twist to the PR knife: Mozilla's ...

 The ripples from Facebook’s $19BN purchase of messaging app WhatsApp continue to rock theapp space, pushing more and more developers to buildcomms tools with a twist in the hopes ofharvest...

 Windows Phone 8.1 has arrived today as Microsoft promised at its Build conference this year. The release is a developer preview, not the final build, but it’s also not restricted to develo...

 Now more than ever, both big brands and independent merchants are looking for flexibility in the way that they reach consumers. With Storefront, they're able to find space to set up popup shops ...

 Rocket Internet‘s real-estate classifieds platform, Lamudi, which operates in 21 markets in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America, has closed a $7 million funding round aimed at ...

 Julep, a cosmetics and beauty brand and e-commerce platform, has raised $30 million in Series C financing; Azure Capital, Madrona Venture Group, Altimeter Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Mavero...

The world of tech startup accelerators has become an ocean of choices. “Batches”, “programmes”, “mentor networks” are thrown around from one organisation to the oth...

 The MagBak claims to be the world's thinnest mount for the iPad. Indeed, the entire kit consists of a wall holder (called the MagStick) that is only slightly thicker than pencil and a strong bu...

 I'm a big fan of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is seeing a host of startups crop up and build apps for the corporate world that take a consumer approach in terms of design, simpli...

 Beijing-based online retailer Jumei plans to hold its initial public offering in the U.S. In its SEC filing over the weekend Jumei, which offers daily deals on fragrances and cosmetics, said it ...

 Amazon has purchased Comixology, and that’s a huge deal, because it means the largest bookseller in the world now owns the company that brought digital comics distribution to the masses, a...

 I recently made reference to the idea that Valley thinking and games industry thinking are very different, and some people asked me to explain what I meant. So here you go. Read More ...

 During theweek before Microsoft’s Build developer conference, I spoke to the company’sSteve Guggenheimer (Guggs), corporate vice president in charge of evangelism, and Kevin Gallo, d...

 As a modern married male, the times spent alone with my computer and a box of tissues are, in some ways, the best times. That is not to say the manifold pleasures of family life and the wild men...

 When e-book service Entitle launched last December, one of the main selling points was the idea that subscribers truly own their books. Now the company says it has given users even more control ...

 Im standing on a circular stage with neo-folk musician Beck. Surrounded by cheering fans, I blush, then turn and wave to thank them. They dont see me though, because Im actually sitting in a dar...

 Heartbleed kicked off a new chapter in the rollicking discussion of privacy, digital security, and the role of government in protecting its citizenry from threats both real and imagined. News of...

 Last week, my column discussed how on-demand mobile services -- Tap Your Phone, Get Stuff -- are ripe for venture capital investment. In the seven days that have passed, more startups in this ca...

 Egnyte, the Valley firm specialising in an enterprise file-sharing platform, has expanded in Europe, opening a London HQ. This will compliment its existing Amsterdam data center and design offic...

 Every decision we make from what to wear to whom to hire requires a balance of multiple factors. Selecting a startup to invest in isnt much different. First, we have a number of alternatives, i....

 I used to think corporate culture didnt matter. Discussion of vision, mission and values was for people who couldnt build product or sell it! We had work to do and this MBA BS was getting in the...

 Do you ever wonder how much of your life you've spent watching TV shows? It's probably a lot. But how much?Two week's worth? A month?This tool crunches the numbers for you. Read More ...

 Apple’s been on a bit of a buying spree lately. Embark! Cue! Burstly! If you had to guess the next thing Apple would take under its wing, what would it be? If you guessed “a hydroele...

 The rise of mobile broadband, commodity sensors, smartphone-based companion apps, virtualized manufacturing and supply chain, crowdfunding, and nimble design have converged to make wearables mai...

 I'm no fan of LG's rear smartphone control keys -- but turns out the company had its finger on the pulse of looming hardware disruption when it ushered in those backside smartphone controls last...

 RED ALERT! We are at DEFCON 1. Instagram is down. Read More ...

 RED ALERT! We are at DEFCON 1. Instagram is down. Read More ...

 In the off chance youve been sleeping under a rock with no Wi-Fi for the past 20 years, heres some news: The U.S. educational system is under attack from multiple fronts and is on the verge of b...

 Techies hate politics. Well, no: we hate the idea of politics. Whenever I talk to pretty much anyone in the industry about politics as a sphere of human endeavor, from individual coders to zilli...

 The Gillmor Gang Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Semil Shah, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor Heartbleed security hole, changing landscape of Twitter notifications, Brendan Eich's exit f...

 Over the past few years, the debate over so-called patent trolls has risen to a fever pitch. Businesses of all sizes have complained about the horrible effects of patent trolls. Legal scholars a...

 I had the unique opportunity to sit down with Maxim Lobovsky, co-founder of Formlabs, when we had our meet up in Boston. While the audio was a little rough - it's hard to handle big, happy crowd...

 iOS app Driving Curve is an easy way to track your driving performance without having to fiddle with additional devices. It's meant as simple alternative for people who are curious about their d...

 Some positive legal news for Box, the cloud servicescompany that is preparing for an IPO. A judge has denied a motion for a preliminary injunction of one of its products -- originally requested ...

 Happy Friday everyone, and welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, our weekly round up of the biggest stories in technology. This week Leena Rao, Kim-Mai Cutler, and your humble servant took t...

 We're a few weeks away from the Digital Content NewFronts, where the big online companies pitch their upcoming programs to advertisers. So it seemed like a good time to sit down with Ran Harnevo...

 Among the freebies included in Samsung's just-released Galaxy S5 was a new app from Lark, a health startup that's been pretty quiet for the past year or so. In fact, co-founder and CEO Julia Hu ...

 Oh, hey, puny human. What's up. Not much, right? Well enjoy the brief respite between now and the rise of our robotic overlords, something we call TIDWRTWHUFOO. Your first nemesis? Proton, the s...

 There was an audible gasp in the Twittersphere this morning, after Bloomberg reported that buzzy mobile dating app Tinder was valued at $5 billion in a recent transaction. According to Bloomberg...

After Dropbox announced the hiring of former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, the Internet roiledwith unrest: Could a former government official whodefended warr...

 Cynicism in tech has reached a new peak, and with good reason. We may be squandering our potential to truly improve the world by building silly apps in pursuit of riches, but there is another wa...

 As a former user of the Atari 800XL, I find the Commodore line to be piffle at best but I'll become a bit more catholic in my support of decades-old hardware and tell you a bit about the Commodo...

 As a former user of the Atari 800XL, I find the Commodore line to be piffle at best but I'll become a bit more catholic in my support of decades-old hardware and tell you a bit about the Commodo...

 French native advertising company Adyoulike acquired Content Amp. According to Rude Baguette, the British company was acquired for $2.5 million. Adyoulike appears to be at the same time an adver...

 Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Semil Shah, Keith Teare, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific. Chat is here Read More ...

 Los Angeles-based ZEFR has built a huge business by helping content owners and brands to track and monetize video content on YouTube. But years after launching as a destination site for movie fa...

 This afternoon Bloomberg reported that the National Security Agency (NSA) knew about the now infamous Heartbleed flaw in OpenSSL, and that it used the weakness to collect intelligence. It is not...

 Update:An account associated with theNSA tweeted out a quick denial: “Statement: NSA was not aware of the recently identified Heartbleed vulnerability until it was made public.” So, ...

 Box today unveiled a new initiative called Box Open Source for sharing its own homegrown open source engineering tools with the larger programming community. The project was announced this after...

 App.io, a startup offering tools that allow iOS applications to run in the browser for testing or demo purposes, has now taken the next logical step: it’s bringing its technology the world...

 Since Steve Ballmer passed the torch to Satya Nadella earlier this year, it marked a sea change in the organization: the first time in its history one of the founding team wasn’t running t...

 Score a small victory for Android users. Earlier this year, LinkedIn killed a clever app called Intro, which used an engineering hack to inject informationfrom LinkedIn and its Rapportive servic...

 Yesterday was a bit of a bloodbath for shares of internet stocks. The NASDAQ composite index declined by almost 130 points, its worst drop in two years, and Splunk and FireEye, two of last years...

 When you have as much fun as we did this week in Boston and Los Angeles, it's hard to say goodbye. But we must! For without bidding farewell to these fine cities, we wouldn't be able to venture ...

 Andrew “weev” Auernheimer is set to be released from federal prison, following a federal appeals court decision to reverse and vacate his conviction and sentence. “I’m go...

 Apple has just updated a section in iTunes Connect, the service mobile developers use to distribute and update their applications on the iTunes App Store, with new language that details how the ...

 Samsunghas a Developer Edition of the Galaxy S5, just as it did for the Galaxy S4 and SIII before it, and as usual it’ll have its unlocked bootloader and come at the full, unsubsidized pri...

 Staples is getting a jump on 3D printing and just rolled-out a 3D printing service to two of its U.S. locations in New York and Los Angeles, where consumers can walk in and have a 3D doodad prin...

 FarFaria, the children's subscription-based e-book service which recently raised $3.25 million in Series A funding, is now bringing its e-readerto Android users, with the launch of a smartphone ...

 Salesforce unveiled plans for a new, 61-story Salesforce Tower at 415 Mission Street in San Francisco to expand its worldwide headquarters, and as part of that it's filed an 8-K form with the SE...

 3D printers may be getting all the hype right now, but an Israeli hardware startup called Zuta Labs wants to inject some particles of excitement back into 2D printing -- by turning the standard ...

 A new Victoria-based gaming startup boasting talent from EA, Zynga and Microsoft Studios is unveiling their debut project today at PAX East 2014 in Boston. TinyMob is the studio, and their debut...

 Apple’s 2014 roadmap was laid out in pretty considerable detail by KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo earlier this week in an investor note, and while ordinarily analyst predictions aren&...

 P2P lenders have sprung up in recent years online. Zopa in the UK pioneered the model, and has raised significant funding. And the P2P finance model has even spread to insurance. Now the model i...

 Add a newVC to the ranks inEurope: Station 12 is raising 150 million ($250 million), which it plans to invest inSeries A and B roundsin the future Netflixes and Maker Studiosof the world -- in o...

 Tempdrop is a wearable sensor that makes it easy for people to monitor and record their basal body temperatures. That data can be integrated by developers into any fertility app with few lines o...

 Update: The consumer-focused, low-cost Micro 3D printer that's currently raising money on Kickstarter to get its prototype to market, has pushed passed the $2 million mark in pledged crowdfunds ...

After announcing integrations with the Samsung Galaxy S5 at Mobile World Congress In February, PayPal is finally debuting the integration today, allowing users in 25 countries to login to PayPal with ...

 Ayy! Angelar! How about you bring some of your hardware to New York and show it off to some amazing people? Still crowdfunding? Not a problem. We take all kinds at Hardware Alley in New York! Wh...

 Fast-rising rent was about to force a dozen artists out of their studios in San Francisco. But it turns out all that tech money that's gotten so much hate lately can actually do some good. Four ...

 The Senate unanimously passed the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act, or DATA Act, today. The DATA Act is designed to help bring new transparency to spending by the federal government, ...

 Subreddits are, perhaps, reddit’s biggest strength. Introduced in 2008, they’re a huge part of the reason why the site rose to popularity, and why that popularity has yet to taper of...

 My TechCrunch colleague Natasha Lomas recently argued – quite convincingly – that startups should stop trying to make proximity-based social networking “happen” — t...

 Do you remember the party scene in "The Devil Wears Prada," when Emily Blunt's character is whispering the names of party guests to Anna Wintour's character, briefing her on who everyone is as s...

 Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning. President Obama, according to the New York Times, has selected Sylvia Mathews Burwell of the Office of Management and Budget a...

 Bitcoin reached another milestone today, with the cryptocurrency falling below the $400 per-coin mark. Bitcoin sold for over $1,100 inside of the last 52 weeks. The price correction was driven b...

 Facebook will need the “affirmative consent” of WhatsApp users in order to use their data for advertising or anything. The ruling comes from Federal Trade Commission alongside its ap...

 It’s that time of year again. The birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming and, soon, coders will be hacking together APIs at the Disrupt NY Hackathon. We’ve just released anothe...

Twitter today officially announced that it would start to offer in-browser notifications — as we wrote yesterday, noticing a test of the feature. “When you’re logged in on twitter.co...

 Amazon has just announced that they will acquire comiXology, a service that offers digital versions of comics from Marvel, DC, and many others. If you’ve never used it, it’s probably...

 Today after the bell, Zynga announced that its CFO and CAO Mark Vranesh will depart the firm after six years, and that David Lee will assume both roles effective April 14. Vranesh will help out ...

 Despite being in the middle of a battle to convince the Supreme Court that their service isn’t illegal, Aereo rolls on. In case you’ve missed it: Aereo rents HDTV antennas to cordcut...

 Google isn’t doing its consumer launch of Glass just yet, but it is doing the next best thing: Opening up the Glass Explorer program to anyone in the U.S. starting April 15. That’s r...

 You’re not clever enough to fool Facebook. Asking users to “Like this post!”, sharing the same link or photo over and over, or bait-and-switching people with links to ad-filled...

 Amazon's annual shareholder letter from CEO Jeff Bezos is out today, and it includes a fewjuicy details on Amazon's products, services and future plans,though not any hard datalikehow many dang ...

 Data out from tracking groups point to a slightly rosier picture of the PC market than expected in the first calendar quarter of 2014: Gartner estimates a Q1 decline of 1.7 percent in shipments ...

 Google today released the latest beta version of Chrome 35. While there aren't any major new feature for end users in this release, the company added a wide range of new functionality for devel...

 We have discovered thatCriteo, the French ad tech company that raised $250 million in an IPO on NASDAQ last October, has quietly made an acquisition. It's bought AdQuantic, another ad tech start...

Runscope, a service that helps developers test and debug APIs, today announced that it has raised $6 million in a Series A funding round led by General Catalyst Partners, with participation from Lerer...

 Music streaming startup Deezer just revamped its free offering across the board in order to become more competitive with Spotify, Rdio and others. Mobile users will now be able to listen to smar...

 If you're into big bicycles with weird, multi-tipped legs, have I got a project for you. Called the Boneshakered Bigwheel (sic), this one-off project by creator Ronald L. Schroer is an unusual t...

 Facebook could buy an anonymous sharing app like Secret, or build one, but would we use it? Facebook’s Snapchat clone Poke crashed and burned in part because people worried Facebook would ...

Google is making a change to its Android security systems today that is meant to ensure that users who install apps from outside of the Google Play store are a bit safer from malicious apps. Currently...

 Following on the footsteps of big Series A financings for Sprig and Spoonrocket, today Munchery is announcing that its raised $28 million in a Series B round led by Shervin Pishevar and Scott St...

 Addicted to home automation and other web-connected gadgetry, such as Lockitron or Unikey door locks, Nest or EcoBee smart thermostats, Belkin wemo switches, Dropcam, Fitbit, Jawbone, Sonos and ...

 ZenDesk announced its initial public offering today, a modest one at $150 million,but the S-1 filing in some ways bears striking similarities to Box’s a couple of weeks ago in that there i...

 Blue Apron is raising a $30 million round, according to sources familiar with the matter. Fortune reports that the latest round is on a $500 million valuation. It has not been revealed which inv...

 AgFunder, a new crowdfunding investment platform for agricultural and ag-related technologies has wrapped up its first successful campaign with the close of a seed investment for OnFarm, a provi...

 Online ad revenue in the United States grew to $42.8 billion in 2013, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Internet Advertising Revenue Report. That's up 17 percent from 2012, and i...

 Internet activists are at it again. Following yesterday’s news regardingthe appointment ofCondoleezza Rice, former United States Secretary of State andNational Security Advisor, to the boa...

 Gowalla founder Josh Williams is nothing, if not consistent. After several years spent building location-based mobile apps and products for his own company, as well as Facebook, hes back with an...

 Ooomf, the one-time app discovery startup which last year relaunched as a freelancer marketplace to connect mobile and web developers with projects that fit their skill set, is now changing its ...

 Fanout, a company that has been in private beta since its inception in 2011, will be available to the general public this week. According to company founder Jason Karneges, Fanout provides real-...

 IBM announced today it intends to buy Silverpop, a cloud marketing platform that gives marketers insight into customer activity online. Silverpop gives IBM a cloud-based marketing personalizatio...

 Ad company Genesis Media is announcing that it has raised $6 million in Series B funding. When I discussed the funding with CEO Mark Yackanich, he described the company as "a data-driven decisio...

With the launch of new transportation options like Uber and Lyft in many cities around the country, as well as the digitization of public transit schedules, there are more apps than ever for citygoers...

 London-based startup Snupps wants to appeal to the amateur collector in all of us. Whether your secret passion is hoarding fine wines or Pokemon figurines, it's built the virtual shelf space whe...

 Finally! Sonos now supports Google Play Music and even allows Android users to cast music to a speaker a la Chromecast and bypass the Sonos app entirely. Users do not need to subscribe to Google...

 AppDirect raised $35 million in a fresh round of financing for its service selling a white-label marketplace for business applications in the cloud. Read More ...

 How do you compete with well-established mobile carriers in France, such as Orange, SFR and Bouygues? You automate everything. Free is proving once again that it can remain much leaner than its ...

 The Hunt, a website designed to help shoppers find specific items to buy online, has raised $10 million from Khosla Ventures and Javelin Ventures. This brings The Hunt's total funding to $15.5 m...

 Smule, maker of popular social music apps including Sing! Karaoke and Magic Piano, is announcing that it has raised $16.6 million in new funding. Founded in 2008, Smule says it continues to grow...

 Remember ringback tones? You know, those songs and messages that you could customize to play so different people would hear different things when they called you? Well, RealNetworks aims to brin...

 Zendesk, the cloud-based helpdesk startup, has hit the ground running with not one but two pieces of significant news. It’s made its first acquisition — Zopim, a Singapore-based star...

 Zendesk, the cloud-based helpdesk startup, has hit the ground running with not one but two pieces of significant news. It's made its first acquisition -- Zopim, a Singapore-based startup whose f...

 According to a research analyst, the next iPad will sport the TouchID fingerprint scanner and a next-gen A8 mobile processor. The analyst also predicts that the upcoming iPad will sport a rear-f...

 Microsoft is no stranger to the chilling effects of European regulation, facing fines for some of its own practices and seeingrivals like Googleget off the hook more lightly. But today comes a p...

 TinkerBots is a modular robotics building set with the aim of encouraging children to learn about electronics through play. The Berlin-based makers behind the project are seeking to raise $100,0...

 Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group has released a Module Developers Kit (MDK) for Project Ara, its forthcoming modular smartphone, providing reference implementations for var...

 Fundbox, a startup that helps SMBs improve cash flow from clients, has raised $17.5 million in funding led by Khosla Ventures with SV Angel, Vikram Pandit, former CEO of Citigroup; Tom Glocer, f...

 U.K. healthcare startup Zesty, which much like ZocDoc in the U.S. offers an online platform to locate and book healthcare appointments at short notice, has topped up its seed investment with mor...

 After years of working with India’s over $100 billion IT services industry for maintaining their software systems, application development and back office work, CIOs of Fortune 500 compani...

 Fresh off the back of a $38 million funding round, Homejoy is taking its disruptive cleaning service to new shores. Today the company is officially launching in the UK, its first market outside ...

 The news today that Dropbox has now hit 275 million users (far higher than the 200 million users it had in November 2013) is further proof that SAAS startups are now fully disrupting the old wor...

 Zumbox, the startup that created a service to deliver postal mail digitally in a paperless format, is shutting down. The company announced the shutdown in an email sent this week to users of the...

 A bi-partisan Senate bill aimed at curbing abuse of the U.S. patent system has been handed another setback today, with Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) announcing that, for the fo...

 Apple has confirmed the exit of long-time iOS designer Greg Christie, who was a Vice President in Apple’s designdepartment. “Greg has been planning to retire later this year after ne...

 TechCrunch has officially descended on Los Angeles for the TC Meetup + Pitch-Off going down tomorrow night at Exchange LA. With smog in our lungs and the beach in our hair, we're absolutely stok...

 Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, has acquired Longreads, the platform for discovering and reading long-form writing content on the web. Financial terms have not been disclosed. I...

 We take more photos than we know what to do with, and that crummy camera roll that came with your phone can’t handle them. That’s why Dropbox built Carouselfor iOS and Android —...

 We take more photos than we know what to do with, and that crummy camera roll that came with your phone can’t handle them. That’s why Dropbox built Carouselfor iOS and Android —...

 Dropbox announced severalupdates to its Dropbox for Business product today that are designed to make it more attractive to IT pros who will administer the service inthe enterprise. That said, no...

 One Kings Lane CEO Doug Mack is leaving the home goods e-commerce company. Mack will be joining sports site Fanatics as CEO.Mack joined OKL in 2010, and helped grow the company to its nearly $1 ...

 Jabra, like Jawbone, used to make Bluetooth headsets back when those were all the rage. Their popularity never extended beyond the ranks of particularly annoying real estate agents and I guess &...

 Spoonrocket, which promises to deliver $8 meals to customers doors in 15 minutes or less, has captured the attention of customers in San Francisco and the East Bay. And that has attracted invest...

 A German company, Biozoon, is working on a 3D-printed food extruder that creates food that literally melts in your mouth, allowing elderly patients with dysphagia - the inability to swallow - to...

 Last week, a small crowdfunded project called the Healbe GoBe made news, as backers and journalists questioned the company's claims that it could measure caloric intake using a wearable device. ...

 Facebook is taking its standalone app strategy to an extreme new level today. It’s starting to notify users they’ll no longer have the option to send and receive messages in Facebook...

Condoleezza Rice, former United States Secretary of State andNational Security Advisor has joined the board of cloud file storage and syncing firm Dropbox. Dropbox is in the news today after launching...

 Condoleezza Rice, former United States Secretary of State andNational Security Advisor has joined the board of cloud file storage and syncing firm Dropbox. Dropbox is in the news today after lau...

 A startup called Mingleton is introducing a new mobile datingapplicationthat uses iBeacon technology to help you connect only with people you can see around you, or, as one of the founders puts ...

 Hospitality startup Airbnb has expanded its experimental cleaning service partnership into another market, according to an email sent out to hosts yesterday. The expansion is confirmed its clean...

 In case you somehow missed it, the No. 1 cable provider in the U.S., Comcast, is in the middle of trying to acquire the No. 2 cable provider, Time Warner Cable. With the acquisition currently un...

 Dropbox this morning launched an ambitious new application called Carousel, a photo and video archive and sharing platform that the company hopes will become the go-to place for people to store ...

 A year after acquiring mobile-first email management iOS app Mailbox, today Dropbox launched Mailbox for Android, and previewed a beta version for desktop. It also showed off a new “Auto-S...

 This morning in San Francisco, Dropbox announced that its enterprise-facing Dropbox for Business product is now available for all. Dropbox for Business joins a cadre of competing services like O...

 This morning in San Francisco, Dropbox announced that its enterprise-facing Dropbox for Business product is now available for all. Dropbox for Business joins a cadre of competing services like O...

 At a press event this morning in San Francisco, Dropbox unveiled a new feature called “Project Harmony” which brings new collaboration tools for Dropbox users while they’re edi...

 At a press event this morning in San Francisco, Dropbox unveiled a new feature called “Project Harmony” which brings new collaboration tools for Dropbox users while they’re edi...

 A Washington, D.C.-based startup, Uppidy, which lets you securely back up your SMS, photos and videos to the cloud, has been acquired by Gryphn, now calledArmorText, the makers of a secure messa...

 The ads that you see on the right-hand column of Facebook's website are about to get bigger, the company says. Facebook is announcing today that it's rolling out a new design for those ads some...

 It's been fascinating to watch news of heartbleed, the massive OpenSSL exploit, spread on the web. After years of quietly putting us at risk, the general web user became aware of the exploit onl...

 E-book soundtrack platform Booktrack is announcing that it has raised $3 million in Series A funding, and that it's launching of an education-focused version of its platform, Booktrack Classroom...

 Flickr-competitor and photo-focused startup 500px is launching a trio of new things today, including a new blog called ISO that’s designed to build stories around member photos, revamped u...

 T-Mobile President and CEO John Legere wants basic phone plans to be uncomplicated and act as more than just a gateway to higher-priced options, according to a new blog post from the often outsp...

 Twitter is no stranger to trying out new features on its social networking platform, with news just yesterday that it is in the process of testing and rolling out no less than 15 different ad un...

 If you're using a bitcoin wallet or an online wallet or exchange, heartbleed could be a very real problem for you and your BTC. Luckily, things have finally settled down after a few days of pani...

 On the heels of its $12 million round of funding, SCIenergy, a provider of software and project development services for energy efficient building retrofits is partnering with an undisclosed inv...

 busuu — the world’s largest social network for language learning at at 40 million users — has signed a distribution partnership with Pearson English, a newly formed business un...

 Don’t get on Samsung’s bad side. The Korean consumer electronics giant is suing a Korean Newspaper for publishing misleading claims and not issuing a correction following requests fr...

 Moot.it, a startup launched last April to do away with ugly online forums by offering a flexible, customizable andmore modern-looking platform for online discussions, has raised $770,000 in new ...

 Startups get acquired and shut down. That threat could scare people out of writing deep answers on Quora's Q&A site. So it's just raised an $80 million Series C because "We specifically want...

 Today another music startup is throwing its hat into the music meta-data ring. Dublin-based Seevl has released an API for developers to let them easily add music recommendations and artist data ...

 The original Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch was a hobbled together kit. Nothing was replaceable including the band. Its successor is apparently widely different. Read More ...

 This morning myWebRoom dropped its beta tag and announced that it has raised a total of $2.8 million to date. As a service, myWebRoom is something of a hybrid social, bookmarking, and user-expre...

 Before Apple’s iOS 7 update began organizing your photos into “moments” based on time and place, there was Flayvr. The Tel Aviv-based startup hasbuilt automatic organization te...

 Music video app Mindiehas released version 2.0 of its app in the App Store, which adds a number of new features including aprivate messaging feature. This new use case looks and feels more like ...

 Savioke, a robotics startup out of Sunnyvale led by the former CEO of the now-defunct but influential Willow Garage robotics startup, is announcing a seed round of funding today, $2 million from...

 Savioke, a robotics startup out of Sunnyvale led by the former CEO of the now-defunct but influential Willow Garage robotics startup, is announcing a seed round of funding today, $2 million from...

 Fuel3D, a U.K. startup spun out of Oxford University that’s commercializing3D scanning technology, has secured a $1.1 million development contractto create a 3D medical imaging system. The...

 PluralSight, a purveyor of online training tools for software professionals, is expected to announce the acquisition of creative software training services company Digital-Tutors in a $45 millio...

 Some big news today from Crittercism, a startup that operates a platform for companies to monitor their mobile app performance with customers including the likes of Netflix, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Pin...

 Can you teach someone to code well enough to do it for a living in just 12 weeks? NYC’s Flatiron School thinks so — and with around 98% of their students finding paid development gig...

 Omada Health, a San Francisco startup that makes digital health therapy programs for people with type 2 diabetes and other serious but potentially treatable issues, has raised $23 million in new...

 Kabbage, a platform for online merchants to borrow working capital, is picking up some cabbage of its own: the startup has closed a $270 million credit facility from Guggenheim Securities, the i...

 Having a good wine, and want to remember it later? A mobile app called Drync has proven handy inhelping you do just that, by offering a simple way to "scan" the bottle of wine in front of you in...

 Be careful of Impala, the helpful, AI-powered photo-sorting app which has just landed on Android. You might not like what it reveals about your life after it's sifted through your personal photo...

 Marvel, a UK startup founded last year by ex-employees of Enpocket (acquired by Nokia), is on a mission: to putcreating a mobile app "prototype" within the reach of almost anybody. Read More ...

 India’s biggest e-commerce company,Flipkart, is in the final stages of completinga merger dealwith the country’s fast growing online fashion retailer Myntra, in what could potentiall...

 SparkLabs Korea launched just 18 months ago, but the Seoul-based accelerator already has a strong track record. Its third Demo Day today featured companies that develop wearable technology, medi...

 Earlier this year, Google ushered in consolidation of the home automation and monitoring space with its $3.2 billion acquisition of Tony Fadells Nest. Today, iControl Networks followed that tren...

Note: Not an actual screenshot; just a mockup of what the weather icons could look like in practice While I’ve been a fan of the Chromecast since the beginning, I find myself using it more and m...

Jive‘s CTO, Matt Tucker, is a pretty unassuming guy. If you didn’t know him, you’d never know Tucker is a co-founder of the 13-year old company, which he helped launch from his colle...

Disrupt NY is almost here and 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 exhibition hall focused on bringing amazing ...

You've probably heard about Heartbleed. You've probably been told that, as far as security vulnerabilities go on the Internet, it's pretty damned scary.But what is Heartbleed? How does it work? Why is...

Uber's promo factory has delivered kittens, Christmas trees and ice cream. But its latest PR concoction has taken the Valley darling to a whole new level: Uber for VC meetings. UberPITCH will give fre...

A large chunk of the Internet is broken at the moment.OpenSSL, used by a host of companies and services to encrypt their data, contained a flaw for two years that, if exploited, allowed external parti...

Atlassian, a company that sells collaboration tools to large enterprises, today announced a sale of $150 million worth of its shares by former and current employees. The sale of equity is designed to ...

As you might be aware Microsoft support for Windows XP expires today, which means that the company will stop issuing security patches. Around 30 percent of you have ignored all warnings up until now a...

A few weeks ago, I was talking with an entrepreneur in the search space who had a simple question: Can Google ever be beat? Its actually quite profound, one at the heart of everything we do in startup...

Facebook today offered reporters a deep dive on how it handles privacy and previewed some upcoming changes. The company revealed it does 80 trillion privacy checks per day on the backend to make sure ...

Facebook today offered reporters a deep dive on how it handles privacy and previewed some upcoming changes. The company revealed it does 80 trillion privacy checks per day on the backend to make sure ...

India is inching closer to overtake U.S. as Facebook’s biggest market, at least in terms of the number of active users. With over 100 million users as of March 31, India is now the only country ...

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has revealed that U.S. government intelligence agencies spied on NGOs and human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as part of it...

Office for iPad has seen 12 million downloads to date, and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made the decision to pull the trigger and release the suite, according to the company.Microsoft's Office f...

Zoove, a company offering a registry of unique mobile numbers for brands and consumers (StarStar Brand and StarStar Me, respectively) is now introducing its third product, a contact-sharing service ca...

A new app called Go Dish seeks to get more eaters into restaurants during off-peak hours by offering discounts on meals picked up before or after a typical restaurant's lunch rush. Discounts typicall...

A few months ago, Comcast announced its plans to purchase Time Warner Cable in one of the biggest acquisitions in the broadband or pay TV market. In a filing sent to the FCC and an extensive blog post...

Sketchfab just released the second version of its 3D platform. As a reminder, Sketchfab’s ultimate goal has always been to become a sort of SoundCloud for 3D models. On the website, you can uplo...

MediaFire, the popular online file storage and image hosting site, today announced that its desktop apps for Windows and OS X are now out of beta. The integration looks similar to what Dropbox, Google...

Casengo is a cloud platform for customer support aimed at online retailers and other small businesses to respond to customer questions faster. It does this by creating one inbox for customer chats, em...

Apple has hired away a former Vice President of Search Technology from Amazon, according to 9to5Mac. Benoit Dupin’s profile was removed from Amazon A9′s leadership site, and his LinkedIn n...

Fresh off its strongMarch IPO, digital coupon provider Coupons.com is revealing its next product for consumers: card-linked offers. Now, shoppers will be able to add coupons directly to their payment ...

Moving is the worst. Even after you sort through finding a new apartment, struggle through the moving process, and manage to get your new place settled, there are still many tasks awaiting you. Rememb...

4K TV is here. Sort of. Netflix is now streaming the second season of House of Cards and some nature documentaries in 4K/Ultra HD format. But of course, your TV has to support the higher resolution to...

Printic, the smartphone application that lets you order Polaroid-like photo prints with your own custom captions, is now expanding its product lineup to also include photo books. The books are similar...

The Micro, a low-cost3D printer that’s targeting a mainstream consumer user, has blasted past $1 million in crowdfunding pledges on Kickstarter aday after launching its campaign. The Micro maker...

Lots of enterprises are moving to the cloud, but according to cloud monitoring and optimization service Cloudyn, what's missing for many of them is insights into how their different business units are...

Social writing platform and writer’s network Wattpad has been at it for a while now, and they’ve quietly amassed a massive user base that engages regularly with the site, posting their own...

The TechCrunch wrecking ball is smashing into Boston as startups in the city are coming off their best quarter in years.Boston-based startups managed to haul in over $1.2 billion in venture financing ...

Twitter has been testing a new profile design with a more Facebook-like cover photo and overall look, and now that design is rolling out to all users. The company announced the overhaul in a blog post...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ), the top court in the European Union, has ruled that an EU-wide law that requires telecoms companies to store user-data for up to two years so it can be handed over...

Indiegogo has just revealed a huge redesign that updates the look and feel of the design for the first time in a couple years. The new look brings with it an optimized experience for mobile and tablet...

The mobile landscape in France is still going through a lot of changes. Three days ago, SFR finally got acquired by Numericable, rejecting Bouygues’ offering for a second time. But when everybod...

Elementum, a company that exited stealth recently to disrupt supply chain management, is announcing new investment from Box co-founder Aaron Levie,Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, Workday co-founder and c...

General Catalyst is adding former Zipcar CEO and Chairman Scott Griffith to its partnership.n Read More ...

Pitney Bowes, the 94-year-old producer of stamp postage meters attempting to become an e-commerce platform, is the latest to tap into India’s engineering talent for incubating startup ideas. The...

UK upstart Jinn has quietly expanded to central London after trialing its same-hour 'shop on your behalf' delivery service in Newcastle, in the North East of England, while taking part in accelerator ...

Chinese regulators have approved Nokia’s planned sale of its devices business to Microsoft, taking the $7.2 billion deal one step closer to closing. Nokia said todayit has received regulatory ap...

If you were planning to wake up at the crack of dawn tomorrow to get your name into the runnings for a Google I/O ticket as early as possible (not that timing matters, given that it’s a roulette...

GrabTaxi, which claims to be the largest taxi app in Southeast Asia, has raised its Series A round from Vertex Ventures, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek, an investment company owned by Singapore'...

Adobe has heard the call from its users, and it’s bringing Lightroom to mobile devices, beginning with the iPad and coming soon to iPhone. The Lightroom mobile app offers the ability to work wit...

Adobe's Primetime isn't among the company's most well-known services, but if you watched the Olympics online, chances are you have interacted with it. It's Adobe's platform for online TV delivery and ...

Colorbay is a beautiful iOS app that lets you browse images from popular photo-sharing sites like Instagram, 500px, and Flickr. If you are a longtime user of these services, Colorbay is also a time ca...

I saw a t-shirt one time. “I’m a bomb disposal technician,” it read. “If you see me running, try to keep up.” The same sort of idea can be applied to net security: when a...

Consider this my favorite correction in recent memory: USAID, fine purveyors of a Twitter clone called ZunZuneo in Cuba, would like you to know that it was more popular than reported. Read More ...

Don't be surprised. The Amazon Fire TV now occupies the top spot on Amazon's Best Sellers electronics list. Google's Chromecast streaming stick previously held the spot after displacing the Kindle sho...

Last week, Lyft announced that it had raised a massive $250 million round of funding as part of its effort to compete against other on-demand ride services. Now the company is going on the offensive a...

According to a report, Google is interested in buying Skybox Imaging, a California-based startup that builds high-resolution imaging microsatellites and provides a platform to view the data. Because a...

And then there were none: As expected, more people applied for high-skill and high-degree U.S. work visas in the first five days of the application period than there were slots. This is precisely what...

Apple has just released updating figures around iOS version adoption as measured by its own tracking of app usage, and iOS 7 and up now accounts for 87 percent of all iOS devices by that measurement, ...

When you think of people in the upper echelons of technical fields like hardware engineering, you might think of lifelong academics with multiple degrees in engineering and math and science. But if th...

When you think of people in the upper echelons of technical fields like hardware engineering, you might think of lifelong academics with multiple degrees in engineering and math and science. But if th...

Red Hat announced a deal today inwhich Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers could move their subscriptions to Google Compute Engine, a deal that could benefit both companies. Red Hat offers what itcalls...

Over the last few weeks, all the major cloud providers announced large price drops for most of their services. Rackspace CTO John Engates said at the Cloud Factory conference in Banff, Canada, today, ...

Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso intently knows what it takes to build a brand online, turning her popular eBay vintage shop into a revenue opportunity worth over $100 million and the envy of brick and m...

Lots of things can happen in 11 minutes. You can grill a nice steak, you can bake a pan of cookies, or you can raise over $400,000 to build an ultra-compact 3D printer that, for a brief period, cost a...

On-demand ride service Uber has already shown that it can get users wherever they need to go, with just a tap on their smartphone. Starting tomorrow, it will begin testing out a new courier service in...

You’ve just pulled of a truly epic, one-in-a-million shot in Titanfall. Your team is going nuts. Everyone on the opposing team is calling you a hacker. This is why you play games. “Xbox, r...

EatStreet, an online and mobile food ordering service which initially gained traction by targeting secondary markets across the U.S., outside the biggest cities, has now raised an additional $6 millio...

No billionaire left behind. AfterMark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel and other Silicon Valley notables plunked down capitalin a $40 million growth round for San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startu...

Matthew Puttnam is exactly the kind of guy one would expect to found a nanotechnology company. Read More ...

With the rise of the cloud, external hard drives have nearly gone the way of the dodo. After all, who needs a fiddly, easily broken hard drive in an era of always on, high-speed Internet. But sometime...

Disqus, which says it powers the comment sections on almost 3 million websites, is announcing a new type of ad unit today a Sponsored Comment. Since Disqus already runs ads through its Promoted Disco...

Microsoft this morning introduced Skype TX, a new version of its video chatting service Skype that’s designed for broadcasters. Described as “studio-grade” software offering high qua...

Today San Francisco-headquartered Quote Roller, which offers cloud-based software to easily create sales proposals, is announcing that its reached a significant milestone on its product roadmap by int...

The warp and weft of Saeed Amidi's family story -- transitioning from Iranian immigrants fleeing revolution in the 1970s to running a multi-million-dollar global family office and a vast technology ac...

A very interesting acquisition announcement from Twitter today: it's buying Cover, an Android lockscreen app that lets you customise what apps you see and when. For now, Cover will remain live in the ...

Have you ever booked an Uber and wished that Uber came with a pint of ice cream, or a pizza, or a razor so you can shave your legs before your date? WunWun, the on-demand delivery service for anything...

Have you ever booked an Uber and wished that Uber came with a pint of ice cream, or a pizza, or a razor so you can shave your legs before your date? WunWun, the on-demand delivery service for anything...

Fresh on the heels of Vine's expansion into private video messaginglast weekcomes today'slaunch of a new video chat app called Convies, offering a dedicated experience for sharing short video messages...

A clever modular framing system called Fotobit is nearing its Kickstarter goal of $16,000 for its packages of photo frames designed especially for showcasing your Instagram photos in creative ways. Th...

Carrot -- the 'Zipcar' of Mexico -- has raised a ~$2 million series B round led by Venture Partners. Read More ...

Carrot -- the 'Zipcar' of Mexico -- has raised a ~$2 million series B round led by Venture Partners. Read More ...

Emerging online and offline commerce giant Shopify is introducing some changes to its retail offerings today, with lower transaction rates across its point of sale (POS) plans and using the Shopify Mo...

Raspberry Pi is adding a new hardware module to its line-up specifically aimed at businesses and industrial users. Read More ...

Raspberry Pi is adding a new hardware module to its line-up specifically aimed at businesses and industrial users. Read More ...

Back in February, Jan Koum, CEO of now-Facebook-owned WhatsApp,hintedthat the company would soon be unveiling a new way of working with carriers, first in Germany, with special tariffs to access the a...

The HTC One M8 is said to be the best Android phone to date, and in this episode of Fly or Die, we absolutely agree. Read More ...

It all started at a party with a bottle of protein powder. Erin Parker, a Stanford graduate and enthusiastic proponent of bikini bodybuilding, was visiting a friends party while holding some protein p...

Don't have HBO? The first episode of Mike Judge's "Silicon Valley" is now on YouTube in what can only be an attempt by HBO to lure more people to subscribe to the premium channel. Sadly the episode se...

Home VoIP pioneer Vonage is looking for a new chief after its longtime CEO announced his retirement. Marc Lefar joined Vonage in 2008 and the company today announced he will step down after his replac...

As some aspects of the tech industry continue to mature, others are putting efforts into ways of using tech to disrupt decidedly non-tech businesses. In one of the latest developments on this front, V...

Online clothing resale shop ThredUp, now with over a million members, is expanding into high-end fashion with this morning’s launch of its “X Collection.” The new category will featu...

With just a voice command and a click of a button, a Google Glass wearer can launch the new Livestream app and start streaming from their face. The video streaming startup just announced the Glass app...

Twenty-four hours remain before we bust down the doors of Royale Night Club and throw the biggest geek party Boston has ever seen. But who's on the guest list for the TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off, go...

Israeli startup StoreDot is showing off a bio-organic fast-charging battery tech, which uses quantum dot technology, that can charge a battery from flat to full in 30 seconds. It's also looking to pus...

Last time we checked in with Kate Burns, the former Director of Google UK and AOL EU, she’d been hired by Drawbridge, a cross-device ad targeting startup backed by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia. N...

As food security becomes a flashpoint for governments concerned about the effectof climate change on their populations, venture capitalists are stepping up their investments in technology to improve a...

The Micro, launching a Kickstarter campaign to raise $50,000 today, is a 3D printer aiming squaring at the consumer end of the market, with a low cost device that's undoubtedly pretty basic but which ...

AOL’s ongoing push to turn its business around and focus more ad-tech fuelled media plays continues apace: today the company appointed a new CTO, William Pence, who it’s hired away from We...

The International Finance Corporation, the investment arm of the World Bank, has agreed to commit $5 million to round out a $21 million Series C financing for the ultracapacitor manufacturer Ioxus. Re...

General Assembly was one of the first in the tech space to get that high quality brand name for technology education. But although the company – which won significant backing – has been bu...

Global ad spend is on track to grow 5.5% this year to $537 billion,while Internet advertising will account for nearly one-quarter of that, at $121 billion, according to the latest forecasts out from Z...

HTC has posted another loss-making quarter. The company has released unaudited financial results for the first quarter of 2014 today, posting a net loss before tax of NT$1.88 billion ($62.06 million) ...

Today TrueStart, the London-based retail and consumer-focused accelerator, gets another shot in the arm with the announcement that True Capital has closed a $5 million seed fund to help fuel growth fo...

Startupbootcamp, which has spread a network of accelerators across Europe is creating a new “cross-continental” program connecting Berlin and San Francisco based on “smart transporta...

Lynda.com, the online education platform that raised its first and only round of $103 million about a year ago, is today announcing an acquisition that will further Lynda.com's reach with developers a...

UK startup Wazoku, which offers a platform for companies to help them generate and manage ideas from within an organisation and external stakeholders, has raised 750,000 in new funding led by previous...

Stratasys, the 3D-printing company that bought Makerbot, has purchased Interfacial Solutions, a Wisconsin-based R&D house and maker of plastic filament for FDM-style 3D printing. Read More ...

HBO Go crashed during the Game of Thrones' season premiere due to "overwhelming demand," potentially affecting millions of viewers. The service said that it has returned to several platforms and "is w...

Fire TV is basically doing what everybody's been saying Apple TV should be doing by now. 80% of its pitch is about having video and music from many of the usual sources. The other 20% is that Fire TV ...

The console wars are in full swing, and Microsoft gave gamers a lot to get excited about with the launch of Titanfall last month. Sony fired back with its own high-profile console exclusive launch las...

Secret and Whisper have hit a dubious benchmark of success. Both have been cloned by developers in China. Secret posted about its Chinese duplicate this weekend, while Tech In Asia was the first Engli...

On Saturday night, a 29-story Philadelphia skyscraper hosted what’s purported to be the “world’s largest game of Tetris,” and likely the world’s largest videogame overall...

Friday was a busy day for tech companies on Wall Street, with GrubHub, Five9, andIMS Health going public on the same day. It went well: GrubHub spiked30.77%, Five99.14%, and IMS Health 15%. A good cro...

Tonight viewers will be treated to Hollywood's latest take on the startups in Mike Judge's Silicon Valley on HBO. But while Judge might be known best for his comedy, he is no stranger to the tech worl...

Every couple of months, new rumors about Microsoft trying to sell off its Bing search engine pop up. At some point late last year, the word on the street was that if then-CEO candidate Stephen Elop wo...

In late 2012, we decided to launch Emu on Android first. It went against the conventional wisdom at the time, but we saw a real advantage. 16 months later, were back on iOS: Emu for iPhone launched on...

Online storage company Dropbox has raised more than $500 million in debt financing, according to a report in Recode.I've emailed Dropbox for confirmation and will update if I hear back. Apparently the...

Global Founders Capital has made their first Brazilian investment in Voopter, the #2 player in Brazils travel meta-search market (there are only two players). The Series A is Voopters first capital ra...

Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose says that his San Francisco home was visited by protesters today, who held up a banner calling him a "parasite" and distributed leaflets with the same message. What ...

Editor’s note: Cyril Ebersweileris the founder of the pioneering hardware startup acceleratorHAXLR8R(which is now looking for applicants)and Partner at SOSVentures.Benjamin Joffeis an expert on ...

The next frontier for eBay could be bringing commerce to wearables and other connected devices. In fact, the company has formed a brand new group of engineers and designers internally, as part of its ...

Earlier this week, Steve Schlafman, an investor with RRE in New York City, created this image about all the various startups that offer consumers the ability to order goods and services directly from ...

In the annals of sports there’s no bigger hero than the clutch shooter, whether it’sAaron Harrison’s last second heroicsto get Kentucky to the NCAA Championship, or the season-long e...

Participating in democracy "takes a certain amount of civic courage" -- and on the Internet, more than ever. No matter what position you take, however enlightened, ignorant, hurtful, helpful, or anyth...

Editor’s note:Tom Cross is Director of Security Research at Lancope, where he works on network behavioral anomaly detection technology. He is also the cofounder of MemeStreams, a collaborative b...

Aaaand in this weekend’s edition of “Crazy Games Made Possible By Virtual Reality”: here’s Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. The premise: you and everyone in the room are part ...

Google has plans for another smart TV product, according to a report in The Verge.Apparently this set top box will be less ambitious and easier to use than one of the company's previous initiatives, G...

SkillFlick is a U.K. startup with the self-described aim of building an 'Airbnb for local skills'. The site was founded two years ago, launching in beta in January 2013 and is just opening up fully to...

SkillFlick is a U.K. startup with the self-described aim of building an 'Airbnb for local skills'. The site was founded two years ago, launching in beta in January 2013 and is just opening up fully to...

Summer is just around the corner, and if youre in college, chances are either youve already got your internship lined up or youre racing to get an internship lined up. What happens if you cant get one...

The Gillmor Gang John Borthwick, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor celebrated Office for iPad's 12 million in sales and who knows in real traction i.e. subscrip...

I write to you from my vacation, meaning, this time, the dusty port town of Kaolack in sunny Senegal. (What, your vacations don't involve long hours spent riding in--or, sometimes, on--overcrowded Wes...

If you’re a bitcoin nerd, you’ll know that finding cheap, low-power mining hardware is pretty hard to do. USB “thumb drive” miners are traditionally woefully underpowered ̵...

This afternoon Vine co-founder Colin Kroll announced in a tweet, fittingly, that he has stepped back from "day-to-day" duty at the service, and that he will remain an adviser to the product.This marks...

Sungevity, an integrator and marketer of solar installation services, has raised $70 million in new financing as it looks to expand internationally. The round was led by Jetstream Ventures, a Nashvill...

Health tracking app Human just added a few new features to its latest update. First, the app now supports Apple's M7 fitness chipset if you have an iPhone 5s, while retaining compatibility with iPhone...

In the year 2000 (well, more like 2020, at this rate), we TIDWRTWHUFOO fans will be able to ride six-wheeled robotic rovers into battle, our shorts flapping around our chicken legs, our friends hootin...

If you need help assembling your grocery list, well, it seems that Amazon has a product for you. The company is promoting something called Amazon Dash is in a new web page. Apparently it's a WiFi-conn...

There is a special milestone in each significant relationship that is rarely celebrated. There's no holiday, no dinner, and no party. It just happens - one day you're strangers, the next you're not.It...

There is a special milestone in each significant relationship that is rarely celebrated. There's no holiday, no dinner, and no party. It just happens - one day you're strangers, the next you're not.It...

eBay, owners of payment service PayPal, has quietly added a new Virtual Currency category to their sales site, allowing users to sell virtual currency like bitcoin, as well as miners, and mining contr...

Tiles by Cadigo is a 3D modeling program for kids that lets the wee tykes drop blocks, walls, and pixels into an environment and then output the object for 3D printing. Designed to be dead simple, you...

At the AIIM Conference this week in Orlando, it struck me that companies are remarkably inflexible when it comes to adopting new technologies, but the crowd at AIIM wasn't alone. Perhaps nothing exemp...

Earlier this month, mobile ad attribution startup HasOffers spotted what seemed to be an important new feature in the latest iOS update iAd attribution. Now it looks like the company was right, becau...

It’s that time of the week for CrunchWeek, in which a few of us TechCrunch writers plop down in front of a massive white table to talk about the news du jour from the past week. In this weekR...

Gillmor Gang - John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1:30pm Pacific. Live chat stream here Read More ...

Gillmor Gang - John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1:30pm Pacific. Live chat stream here Read More ...

Asthma sufferers use a tool called a peak flow meter to see how much air is passing out of their lungs. It is useful to asses when flare-ups are happening and what outside allergens or problems might ...

During the November to February period, Windows Phone, Android and iOS picked up market share in the U.S. smartphone game. Windows Phone grew the most in real percentage terms — 0.3 percent R...

I thought I was a pretty clever kid when I was 5. Other kids ate boogers; I didn't. Do you know how many gold stars I had? All the gold stars.One thing I didn't have, though: an acknowledgement from M...

Another week has come and gone, and with it's close, we offer you this Friday Gadgets podcast.Today we're talking about Microsoft's introduction of Windows Phone 8.1, as well as their re-introduction ...

Mike Judge's Silicon Valley premieres on HBO Sunday, April 6. Is it funny? Yes. Should you watch it? Double yes. Read More ...

Mike Judge's Silicon Valley premieres on HBO Sunday, April 6. Is it funny? Yes. Should you watch it? Double yes. Read More ...

New research released today from mobile app marketer Fiksu examines the impact download volume has on search results in the iTunes App Store. Today, theApp Store has over a million applications availa...

Back in November, I wrote about an Android app called Agent. Agent uses your phone’s myriad sensors to make your Android smartphone just a wee bit smarter. It’ll detect when you’re d...

TomTom only introduced its lineup of GPS fitness watches about six months ago, but it’s already iterating on the design with a big new feature addition. The new TomTom Cardio watches, which incl...

Getting everyone to use the same project management software is a challenge, but everyone seems to have a Dropbox account. Hoping to build on top of the consumer-friendly service'spopularity, a new st...

Futureful, the AI predictive discovery engine backed by Skype co-founder Janus Friis which we last covered back in August, has a new name and a new interface -- evolving its proposition of serendipito...

Personalized video advertising company Eyeview is announcing that its ads will now work on Internet-connected TVs, specifically those with Roku and Microsoft Xbox devices.Eyeview's technology allows a...

Cluster is the first native mobile app Ive designed, and the experience has taught me a lot about things to consider that arent necessarily a concern on the web. When creating a web app, youre just bu...

Secret, the anonymous gossip-sharingapp and current Silicon Valley addiction, is currently experiencing a significant outage following yesterday’s update, which introduced a variety of new featu...

A new online grocery called ePantry, publicly launching today, believesthat consumers do care about buying green and sustainable products, but they often choose not tobecause it’s less convenien...

Showering is great, I’m a big fan. But drying off? Laaaaammmmmeeee. All that towelling, it’s enough to make you need another shower, am I right? New York-based startup The Body Dryer reali...

Google’s Project Loon, the effort to bring Internet connectivity to more remote areas using a network of hot air balloons, has racked up an impressive achievement – going around the world ...

Google has paid a1 million ($1.4 million) fine in Italy levied by the country’s data protection watchdog for complaints relating to its Street View street-level image capturing cars that date ba...

MirrorWeb is a new startup offering a slightly different take on web site uptime. While the main competitors such as DNS Hat simply add hardware and server loading to keep sites up if they go down, Mi...

Google has released a video showing a glimpse of what's going on behind the scenes at Project Ara, one of the hardware shunkworks projects coming out of its Advanced Technology and Projects that's aim...

"Fast fashion" has made it easy to stay on top of trends, but drastically lowered the quality of clothing available in mass market stores. Several startups, include Bonobos, Indochino, J. Hilburn, and...

This morning Microsoft announced a grip of new developer tools and other goodies at its Build conference in San Francisco. Crowd reaction during the lengthy keynote appeared to be mostly friendly to t...

BlackBerry and T-Mobile executives should read Jordan's #love column. Breaking up over the Internet is rough on everyone.In a letter released this evening, T-Mobile's outspoken CEO John Legere talked ...

AdsNative, a startup that helps online publishers incorporate native ads, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding. The company also says that it's expanding its technology to inclu...

Every Page on Facebook wants everything they post shown to everyone. But people only read a limited amount of News Feed per day. There simply isn't room for everything, and the competition for feed sp...

Microsoft's App Studio service is fun. At launch, it supported the creation of simple Windows Phone applications so everyone could get their hands dirty and build something. The service has been upgra...

Drawbridge, the Kleiner Perkins- and Sequoia-backed startup that targets ads across devices, announced today that it has added support for video ads too. It sounds like the targeting technology remain...

Not to be outflanked by rivals, Intel has released the $99 Minnowboard Max, a tiny single-board computer that runs Linux and Android. It is completely open source – you can check out the firmwar...

Want to be sure you don’t miss any juice gossip or heartwrenching tales from you friends? Now when you re-openSecret, you’ll start where you closed the app instead of at the top of the fee...

In our travels across the country, we're often asked what exactly a TechCrunch Meetup is. "What is that? A meetup? Is that like a geek party?" they ask. We answer as graciously as we can. They just do...

Nest CEO Tony Fadell has just issued a notice recommending users disable the Protect smoke alarm's 'wave to dismiss' feature. In testing, it was discovered that people could accidentally trigger the d...

Unreal Engine 4, the newest version of the game engine that powers many a AAA gaming title, just got a feature that may prove quite important in the near feature: the ability to build games that run o...

I consider myself a fan of games, but once in a while, a game comes along for which I feel something far beyond fandom; Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is one of those, and now Monument Valley,...

A newly launched photo book application for iPad is bringing a familiar name to mobile photography: Kodak Alaris is debuting “Kodak Moments for iPad,” an app that lets consumers create and...

CitusDB, a database analytics startup that is hoping to take on big boys like Oracle, today announced the release of CSTORE, a columnar store extension for PostgreSQL. The open-source tool, which the ...

Twitter’s Vine has introduced a feature that allows you to message other users directly via video. This adds both a direct messaging channel and video clips to its messages, a big addition to Tw...

Recent Mozilla CEO pickBrendan Eich is no longer CEO, according to a new blog post from Mozilla itself (via Re/code). The post, penned by Mozilla’s Executive Chairwoman Mitchell Baker, explains ...

Peer-to-peer insurance startup Friendsurance has announced two new investors: the Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing and his technology focused Horizons Ventures, plus VantageFund from Australia. The f...

Amazon spent a lot of time talking about consumer reviews of competing devices when it unveiled the Amazon Fire TV yesterday, and that provides tremendous insight into its product development process....

Kickstarter published its first quarter report yesterday - a tongue-in-cheek but data-filled blog post - about its project statistics. According to CEO Yancey Strickler, the company funded 4,497 proje...

Last November, Microsoft launched Visual Studio Online, formerly known as Team Foundation Service, in preview.Today, at its Build developer conference in San Francisco, the company announced the gener...

The new app Downtown was launched to provide a way for local small businesses and chain locations to participate in mobile commerce. By doing so, they'll be able to sell and deliver items to nearby re...

At its Build developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced a slew of new features for its .NET platform. With over 1.8 billion installs and 6 million professional developers, .NET -...

Keith Rabois, theformerSquare and PayPal executive who is now handling much of Khosla Ventures’ consumer investments, has a new side gig. He’s co-founding a company under the codename Home...

Apple quietly acquired an automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology company called Novauris Technologies, which grew out of Dragon Systems R&D U.K. Ltd., the British research subsidiary of Dra...

Gameswill almost certainlylead the way on emerging platforms like the Oculus Rift. But a Palo Alto-based startup named Jaunt is making the bet that consumers will want immersive, film-like experiences...

Microsoft today previewed its new Azure Portal, which will replace its current Azure management portal over time. This is more than just a redesign. It’s meant to make life for developers quite ...

As part of its larger updates to Azure today, Microsoft announced that SQL databases on the service can now store up to 500GB of data. Until now, the maximum size was just 150GB. In addition, Microsof...

At its Build developer conference in San Francisco, Microsoft today announced the launch of the .NET Foundation. This new independent foundation around the .NET framework, which forms the core of Micr...

Why settle for a whole bike when a half will do? This decidedly odd Kickstarted bicycle, called the Halfbike, promises a lightweight, speedy ride across town while bringing you the best of running and...

Tracking down a particular statistic via an online search can be tedium itself. And that's where a new crowdsourced website, called Meterfy, comes in. This U.K. startup wants to zero in on finding and...

Before that, Fleur Pellerin was the minister in charge of the digital economy and innovation. After a rough start, she did a pretty good job. She created the French Tech initiative, she wrote a new la...

Today, the Internet glue service IFTTT gets an iPad app to complement its offerings on the iPhone and the web. You can also now use native push notifications in your recipes and collections of recipes...

Microsoft today announced a slew of new features for its Azure cloud computing service at its Build developer conference in San Francisco. Scott Guthrie announced that Azure users will now be able to ...

When Open Garden’s FireChat launched on iOS about two weeks ago, it created quite a bit of interest, not in the least because it is one of the first iOS 7 apps to use Apple’s Multipeer Con...

Google is exploring launching a wireless carrier service, according to The Information. The report cites a meeting between Google and Verizon officials in which the possibility of a Google MVNO was di...

After weeks of being blocked, Twitter will soon be accessible in the country following a court ruling stating that the ban was a breach of freedom of expression. It may take a couple of hours to resto...

EyeEm — the photo platform which is on something of a tear lately having done a deal with Getty after raising another $6M last year — has tempted Flickr’s former head of product acro...

The group software space is getting hot. Between Google Groups, Facebook Groups, Yammer, Convo, Asana, newcomer Slack and more, a loose or tight-knit organization has plenty of tools to choose from in...

A company called GemShare wants to formalize what'stoday a somewhathaphazard andfrustrating process of getting personal recommendations from friends, with the introduction of a new iPhone app that let...

A company called GemShare wants to formalize what'stoday a somewhathaphazard andfrustrating process of getting personal recommendations from friends, with the introduction of a new iPhone app that let...

After a brief stint without a home, Popcorn Time is back online at Popcorn-time.tv. I give it two weeks until the site is pulled and it pops up somewhere else. Meanwhile the installer is actively trad...

Aarthi Ramamurthy is standing outside of her building talking to her first paying customer, and she’s about to make a product decision. She’s shipped him a camera across country overnight ...

The Lumia 930 will be Nokia's new Windows Phone flagship smartphone outside the U.S. this summer -- by which time its mobile making division will be owned by Microsoft. TechCrunch got hands on with th...

With exits in the billions, seed rounds in the millions, and numerous IPOs on the horizon, you'd think that the capital investment market would be happy, healthy and thriving. In some ways, where publ...

Apple has a new patent application for a tech that could improve the design of its pre-packaged iOS device headphones, AppleInsider has found. The new patent describes earbuds with a built-in mic that...

Google shares (NASDAQ:GOOG) are worth 50 percent less today. But don’t worry, the company isn’t crashing. It is executing its 2 for 1 stock split as previously announced. But why is the co...

Today is April 3rd, Cheese Weasel Day, and it’s time to celebrate those in your life who fix your computer on the daily. That’s right: it’s time to hide a piece of cheese under your ...

Bloglovin, a site where users can follow their favorite fashion and lifestyle blogs, is announcing that it has raised a $7 million Series A. The company was founded in Sweden back in 2007, but it move...

Josh Felser has founded and sold a number of companies and started VC firm Freestyle, and today, he's adding a nonprofit to the list of his entrepreneurial endeavors. Felser and the Sandler Foundation...

Western Digital brags that the its My Cloud product and service will allow owners to "Save everything. Access anywhere". Except when the service is down. Which it has been for almost a week. Read More...

Apple has just posted its official dates for Worldwide Developers Conference 2014, and the annualevent will take place June 2 through June 6 this year. The registration isn’t first-come first-se...

The U.S. government created its own version of Twitter based on SMS messaging to help undermine the Cuban government, according to a new, eye-opening report by the Associated Press today. The report d...

UK-based Tesco, the world's second-largest retailer after Walmart, has made a killing in its sector by jumping early into the use ofbig data, collected via loyalty cards as well as through stores and ...

UK-based Tesco, the world's second-largest retailer after Walmart, has made a killing in its sector by jumping early into the use ofbig data, collected via loyalty cards as well as through stores and ...

Your iPad can detect very fine touches thanks to the use of capacitive touch panels, but it still can’t do a great job of telling how hard you’re pressing (unless you hit the gadget hard e...

Cincinnati startup ChoreMonster the app that makes it easy for parents to assign chores and incentivizes their kids for actually doing them reaches another milestone with their latest version 2.0 Re...

The network monitoring and management services company Boundary said it has raised $22 million in its latest round of funding, as it looks to sell companies a new generation of tools to understand wha...

Bebo, the troubled social network that got re-acquired by its serial entrepreneur founders Michael and Xochi Birch last year, is today launching Blab, a video-based "walkie-talkie" app for iOS that le...

Confirming our earlier reporting, the peer-to-peer lender Social Finance said it closed on $80 million in fresh funding, as it looks to expand its lending operations to mortgages and personal loans. R...

Imgur, the image sharing service popular with Reddit users and aregular winner of the "best bootstrapped startup" award at the annual Crunchies event is no longer going it alone. Following acquisition...

In the biggest UK technology IPO in the last eight years, Just Eat, the online takeaway service, debuted on the London Stock Exchange today. The market valued the company at 1.47 billion ($2.44 billio...

Some big advances today in the often frustrating, slow moving world of communications regulation: the European Union has voted in favor of ending mobile roaming charges, and also in favor ofguaranteei...

Fab may have stumbled in its aggressive march on the European market, but the Samwer brothers and their Rocket Internet e-commerce incubator are using the moment to shore up its competitor in the onli...

Homeshop18, an Indian TV shopping and online retail company owned by media conglomerateNetwork18 Media, has filed for $75 million IPO on Nasdaq, ahead of much-awaited listings of bigger e-commerce riv...

On April 1, Pavel Durov stepped down from his role as CEO of VKontakte, the popular Russian social networking site that he founded, and known as the "Facebook of Russia." But today comes a dramatic tu...

Another day in Europe, another startup accelerator program springs into action. This time it's the return of Estonia-based Startup Wise Guys with the launch of a new B2B-focused accelerator called Bus...

HitFox Group, the Berlin-headquartered "startup factory", seems to be on a roll right now. Last week it announced a 15 million profit for the year 2013 (yes, profit!) and today it's pulling back the c...

Google Street View now has 90,000 new panoramic images of Angkor Wat's famous temples. The gorgeous photos were taken during sunrise at more than 100 historic sites, including Bayon Temple and the Ram...

CRM behemoths like Salesforce and Oracle have made some significant inroads into mobile and specifically apps for mobile salespeople, but a new startup believes that its streamlined, mobile-first solu...

Though they receive much less attention than other apps, social casino games are one of the top-grossing categories in mobile gaming, says a new report by Distimo. The report used data from Distimo Ap...

As part of its Windows 8.1 Update, Microsoft today also announced an update to its Internet Explorer 11 browser. While the changes on the desktop are mostly about enterprise users, the F12 developer t...

This afternoon, Yahoo detailed progress relating to the encryption of its various web services and properties. Most importantly, Yahoo now "fully" encrypts data moving between its datacenters, as of M...

AwesomenessTV announced today that it acquired multichannel network Big Frame in a $15 million deal that further consolidates the number of companies built around creating video content for YouTube. B...

It's only been a few hours since Amazon revealed its new FireTV set top box, giving us a good chunk of time to play around with it and get familiar with the new UI and controller. Amazon hyped three b...

An email comes in. It’s important. Not like, oh-god-drop-everything-or-we’ll-all-die important, but it’s something you should probably answer. But you’ve got stuff to do right ...

Just what the hell is Microsoft doing making Windows free for small tablets and smartphones? Buying market share. By cutting the cost of Windows for smartphones, Microsoft is sweetening its pitch towa...

It's win or go home for Aereo."[Aereo] probably will not be able to continue," key Aereo investor Barry Diller told Bloomberg TV about the company's Supreme Court case. He added that there might be so...

Pilots want to fly, but it's expensive. People want to travel but it's a hassle. AirPooler brings them together on its site where pilots can sell empty seats on private plane flights. This bootstrappe...

Sure, you know what food you’re eating, but you don’t necessarily know what’s in that food you put inside you. SITU is a food scale that doesn’t just measure weight – it ...

Amazon made games a big part of its Fire TV announcement today – it unveiled a dedicated gaming controller, but more importantly, announced the creation of original content for the platform thro...

Environmental watchdog agency Greenpeace is looking at the ecological performance of the world’s leading Internet companies once again, and this latest report finds that Apple, Facebook and Goog...

As we approach tax day, many bitcoin fans may be wondering how to handle all of their newfound wealth. Given the recent ruling that BTC are property, not currency, things can get kind of hairy when mi...

If you’re like most people, you only check in with your vital signs (temperature, blood pressure, pulmonary function, heartrate, ECG, blood oxygen levels, and the like) when you go to the doctor...

Microsoft is just cramming this first day of their Build conference with news. New Windows 8.1! Royalty-free Windows for phone makers! The return of the start menu!And now? Not one, not two, but three...

What are Tesla owners actually doing with their in-car web browsers? That's the question that ad measurement and targeting company Quantcast tried to answer with some just-released data.Apparently, th...

I met Emile Petrone, the raffish owner of gadget marketplace Tindie, a few weeks ago and he told me that I would like his site. It turns out I really do. Part maker community and part amazing e-shop, ...

Ron Conway, the widely influential angel investor, is asking tech CEOs across San Francisco to support Ellis Act reform, which will help slow no-fault evictions of long-time residents as rents across ...

Financial services-focused software developer OpenFin has raised $4 million in a new round of funding to help financial services firms update their technology infrastructure and junk the Bloomberg ter...

At its Build developers conference today, Microsoft announced the launch of the first release candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. While this may sound like a minor update, it's actually a big st...

As TechCrunch previously reported, Microsoft today detailed Windows 8.1 Update 1, announcing that starting April 8th, the new code will begin to roll out to the operating system's users around the wor...

Today at the tail end of its keynote, Microsoft announced two pricing decisions that were frankly surprising: Windows for devices that have a screen size of less than 9″ will cost nothing. Also,...

Microsoft’s Terry Myerson today announced that Microsoft is “all-in” with the desktop. Indeed, while he wasn’t quite ready to announce Windows 9, he did show off how Windows 8....

This morning Microsoft announced a new ‘universal’ application method that would allow apps to be built for both Windows and Windows Phone. The goal here is to write code once, and then al...

This morning Microsoft announced a new "universal" application method that would allow apps to be built for both Windows and Windows Phone. The goal here is to write code once, and then almost deploy ...

This morning at its Build developer conference in San Francisco, Microsoft showed off the coming touch-friendly build of its Office suite coming for the Windows platform. The software, Microsoft assur...

Content is the new black for VCs, with First Round Capital, Sequoia, and even Andreessen Horowitz ramping up original content for founders. Today, Battery Ventures is debuting its content hub, called ...

A quick follow-up to the problem with the bots invading dating appTinderwhich are pushing people to download a mobile game called “Castle Clash” using fake profiles and a domain (“Ti...

Cotap, an enterprise messaging startup founded by ex-Yammer execs, launched last year withambitions to be the “WhatsApp for the workplace” — a free app thatwas as ubiquitous as the p...

As expected, Microsoft showed off Windows 8.1 Update 1 today at its Build developer conference. The raft of tweaks and new features for Microsoft's premier platform are built to help the operating sys...

Amazon has just announced its streaming TV media device, the Fire TV, and that means it now faces off against other tech giants and incumbents in yet another category. So how does the Amazon TK compar...

Financial services as an industry is a sector that is rapidly being disrupted from all directions. One of the startups helping lead the pack is Wealthfront, an automated investment service that serves...

With today’s launch of Amazon’s Fire TV, the e-commerce giant’s first foray into the living room via a small, sleek set-top boxoffering both streaming media and gaming, the company w...

Amazon's Fire TV is not the first box to be a hot streamer... if you know what I mean. A Florida-based company launched the original FyreTV video streamer in 2008 and a followup product in 2009. We re...

The saga continues. Popcorn Time, the so-called Netflix for pirated content, has vanished from its splashy website and GitHub home. The latest popular fork of open source project is gone, but the prog...

ElasticBox, a startup that aims to make developing and deploying apps on any cloud infrastructure easier, today announced that it has raised a $9 million Series A round from Nexus Venture Partners and...

3Gear Systems is one of the startups building gesture control technology, and it's soon coming to market with a tiny, camera-controlled device that can track your hands' movements and control our PC b...

Emu, a new mobile messaging application exiting from beta today, is not just another text messaging alternative - it's a full-fledged mobile assistant, allowing you to schedule appointments, share you...

Lyft has officially closed a huge, $250 million round of funding that it will use to aggressively expand its on-demand ride-sharing service in the U.S. and internationally. Read More ...

At its Build developer event in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced the launch of its oft-rumored voice-driven Cortana personal assistant. Cortana, which seems to have some of Siri's humor, gets ...

Amazon has revealed its Fire TV streaming media home theater device, and it embraces gaming in a way that most of its competitors don’t. Amazon revealed that it’ll soon have thousands of t...

As expected, Microsoft debuted the Windows Phone 8.1 update, previously internally known as “blue,” this morning at its Build developer conference in San Francisco. Windows Phone 8.1 is a ...

As expected, Microsoft debuted the Windows Phone 8.1 update, previously internally known as “blue,” this morning at its Build developer conference in San Francisco. The software will roll ...

Ubuntu creatorCanonicaljustannouncedthat it is shutting down its cloud storage service calledUbuntu One. Among the reasons cited, increased competition is an important one — maybe the service di...

The ecommerce giant Amazon has delved even further into the hardware space with the launch of a long-rumored streaming media device called the Amazon Fire TV. It said that it has watched these devices...

The ecommerce giant Amazon has delved even further into the hardware space with the launch of a long-rumored streaming media device called the Amazon Fire TV. It said that it has watched these devices...

Microsoft is kicking off its Build developer conference today. This is the second year in a row Microsoft has hosted this event in San Francisco. Last year, all eyes were on Windows 8.1 and this year,...

Amazon is amped up right now. The company has set up shop in New York's Meatpacking district to announce what we all expect is a media streaming device for TVs. Will it include gaming functionality? W...

Its a 500,000 person party, and youre invited. Its 24/7, no charge for entrance, and when you leave you could go home with a pile of cash instead of a creeping hangover. As Fred Wilson says, "If youre...

Remember a few months ago when I talked about the Offline Glass, a clever hack by a Brazilian ad agency that ensures that you and your good friends will be focused on chatting and drinking rather than...

Before Apple’s Lightning cable, I never even dreamed of a life where input/output cables could be reversible. Now, however, it’s hard to go back to standard and micro USB, because I got so...

Panic! Despair! Switch to Facebook Messenger!…Ah, I see what you did there, Facebook. Mobile messaging application WhatsApp is this morning experiencing its second major outage since Facebook bo...

The Samsung Galaxy S5 won’t be officially on sale in the U.S. until next week, but already people have gotten their hands on early hardware and torn it apart to see what makes it tick. Chipworks...

AOL is announcing that Kim Kadlec, most recently worldwide vice president of Johnson & Johnson's global marketing group, is joining the company as head of relationship management. The newly-create...

U.K. based startup By Hand London, whose current business involves selling its own sewing patterns, is looking to expand into an online community for custom on-demand fabric printing services. Read Mo...

The Resumator, one of the more popular recruiting platforms, today announced the launch of a number of new features that give recruiters the better tools to screen their candidates with the help of dy...

Congressman Jared Polis [D-CO2] has invited the bitcoin ATM company Robocoin to the United States capital for a demonstration of their hardware. While companies visiting with congress is nothing new, ...

On the eve of Microsoft's BUILD developer conference, the folks at Statcounter have published a snapshot of the challenge that Microsoft faces to get its users to adopt its current and future products...

On the eve of Microsoft's BUILD developer conference, Statcounter haspublished a snapshot of the challenge that Microsoft faces to get its users to adopt its current and future products over its legac...

Remember when T-Mobile ran a highly successful campaign offering a new phone to BlackBerry owners? The one where BlackBerry fanboys attacked like rabid raccoons only to have T-Mobile pick them up and ...

There are only a few companies whose mobile apps are so well done or engaging that they actually earn one of the precious few spots on your iPhone's homescreen. Flexibits, the makers of Fantastical 2,...

Some more consolidation afoot in the online property space. RentPath -- a search company focused on the property vertical that owns properties like Rent.com -- is paying $13 million in cash to acquire...

Following a $4 million Series B round last May, Spanish ticketing startup Ticketea has been on a mini shopping spree. In February it purchased software development company Telmaco Sistemas, and today ...

Make way for another smart light in the room. Ion, currently in production-ready prototype form seeking $20,000 from the Kickstarter community for its final push to market, is best described as a digi...

PayStand, an online payment as a service vendor, has launched from its private beta selling its payment processing services for bitcoin, e-checks, and credit cards to websites in the U.S.The Santa Cru...

Viber, newly acquired by Rakuten earlier this year, has today released an update to the Windows Phone 8 version of the app to allow for the use of Viber Out. Viber Out is a relatively recent feature f...

Hike, a cross-platform messaging app based in India, announced that it has received $14 million in new funding from BSB, a joint venture between Hike's founder and SoftBank Corp. In a statement, Kavin...

French startup Creads raised $4.1 million (3 million) from CM-CIC Capital Priv. Creads is an advertising agency powered by a marketplace of advertising jobs. As a company, you can submit your ad brief...

After itsmulti-million top-up round back in January, European multi-modal transport journey planner platform GoEuro has made good on its pledge to expand into more markets, adding three more to its ro...

Somo, the UK’s largest independent mobile marketing agency, made its name in the tech world for developing the front end iOS interface for Summly, the startup app acquired by Yahoo for $30 milli...

Wizeline, which was founded by Ooyala co-founder Bismarck Lepe, wants to solve the product prioritization conundrum. To do so, it's built a platform designed to enable companies to better understand w...

Hot on the heels of getting acquired by Google for $3.2 billion in January, connected device maker Nest is pressing on with its ambitions to shake up the world of “unloved” objects in the ...

Spotify has just released a huge update to the entire platform that brings an entirely new look and feel to the app, as well as a few updated features. The new look features a dark background, with a ...

Hot Hotels, the Madrid-based last-minute hotel booking app and European competitor to HotelTonight, which is announcing its raised $1 million from Axon Partners Group -- its first external investment ...

iFit, a Taiwanese fitness startup and online community (not to be confused with the fitness tracking app iFit), has raised $900,000 in seed funding from Cherubic Ventures, a venture capital firm that ...

Sookasa wants to help companies use popular cloud services like Dropbox and Gmail while at the same time transparently encrypting sensitive data to ensure that companies don't run afoul with regulatio...

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

San Francisco city supervisors and affordable housing activists butted heads again over a new pilot program to manage tech commuter shuttles from Silicon Valley-based companies like Google and Faceboo...

Facebook might be positioning itself to build new features around voice navigation or voice-activated search into the social network, thanks to the hiring of Google product designer Mike LeBeau. While...

WalkMe, a platform that provides visual cues for website visitors so that users can navigate around them more easily, has raised $11 million in funding to expand its business and building out its cust...

If you have a bunch of old Amiga disks lying around, we may have an Indiegogo project for you. Called the Armiga, this is a clever emulator with a 3.5-inch disk drive and Dual Core ARM CPU that runs l...

Those with a sharp eye who visited the Geneva motor show or are already among those who already own the Model S in Europe may have already noticed a connection between Telefonica and Telsa by way of t...

When I first wrote about Y Combinator-backed startup Submittable in 2012, the company said it had raised $450,000 in funding. Submittable has continued raising since then, and with a recent $100,000 g...

Apple has updated its iWork apps for iOS, Mac and iCloud beta with a bunch of improvements and additional sharing options today. There's a bunch of new features but one of the nicer ones is the additi...

Welcome back to Cribs, the TechCrunch TV show that gives you an inside look at the offices of the tech industry's hottest companies.This time, we visited the San Francisco headquarters of Chairish, th...

To put it bluntly, Weedmaps is no joke. The Yelp of marijuana dispensaries has grown to $20 million in yearly revenue, and now it's saying "High, NYC" with a Times Square jumbotron campaign to legaliz...

Apple is opening the door to more advertisers in its iAd program today, specifically its ad creation and management tool the iAd Workbench.When the company first launched the Workbench last year, it w...

Student lending service Social Finance is close to securing a new round of as much as $75 million, according to two investors familiar with the company's plans. The San Francisco-based company is one ...

Quick! What were people tweeting about last April Fool’s day? Up until now, this was actually kind of a hard thing to answer. Even in Twitter’s Advanced Search page, there was no obvious w...

The Disrupt NY Hackathon is a month away and the first round of tickets are available here. It’s free to register and attend our 24 hour hackathon. Designers and developers are both welcome. It&...

Apple is looking to acquire a 55 percent stake in a joint venture between Sharp and Taiwanese company Powerchip formed to develop chips for use in smartphone displays, according to a new report by Jap...

Yesterday's blockbuster news that Intel had invested $740 million in Hadoop-focused Cloudera was a surprise. The market hadn't expected Intel's investment to be so large. The deal was so large that in...

We first told you about Correlated Magnetics Research's programmable magnets last year. The company's patented technology allows themto flexibly control the magnetic field shape of the magnets theycre...

Oh San Francisco. Just a month after Google agreed to give $6.8 million to support free rides for low-income youth on the city’s public transit system, activists are out again in force. They sta...

It was only a month ago that a small startup out of Massachusetts called Spritz released a demo of its technology that purports to help people read text twice as fast as normal. In the weeks since the...

TaskRabbit for Business, the errands marketplace’s business-focused web portal announcedat the beginning of last year, has quietly disappeared. Links to this particular service, which was aimed ...

TaskRabbit for Business, the errands marketplace’s business-focused web portal announcedat the beginning of last year, has quietly disappeared. Links to this particular service, which was aimed ...

It’s that time of year again, friends. The day when “up” becomes “down”, lies become truth, dogs become people, and when the Internet becomes a liiiittle bit unbearable f...

Google is working on a new and improved camera app for Android-powered smartphones, according to a new report by Engadget. The company plans to overhaul the user interface, but also add new features l...

Everybody. EVERYBOOOODY!Homestar Runner, the site that introduced an entire generation of kids to wasting all of their time on the Internet, has been updated for the first time in four years. Read Mor...

Fitmob, the recently launched startup that wants to help people find and try local workouts in their cities, is working on bringing fitness to an unlikely place–the office. fitOffice basically g...

Sometimes it takes a dongle to do a finger's job. Or at least that's the premise behind Pokr, a new device that helps women check the quality of their cervical mucus and sends data to fertility tracki...

Hardware add-ons for smartphones continue to crop up, letting mobile users extend the powers of their device in new and interestingways. Here’s the latest: LazeeEye is a prototype add-on, curren...

Upworthy, the content-sharing startup whose penchant for hyperbolic headlines has generated its own parody websites, is laying out its plans for a new ad program called Upworthy Collaborations. When t...

I wish this weren’t April 1, because then you’d all appreciate how cool this is, but as far as I can tell, this release posted a few days ago is completely true. In short, researchers at W...

Meet Milkster, a brand new marketplace for designers, craftspeopleand interior design enthusiasts. Designers too often end up working for big companies instead of working on products that they are tru...

A number of users on dating app Tinder report being matched with fake profiles of women, whoare actually automated bots promoting a mobile game called "Castle Clash." The bots are sharing a link to th...

A number of users on dating app Tinder report being matched with fake profiles of women, whoare actually automated bots promoting a mobile game called "Castle Clash." The bots are sharing a link to th...

Pavel Durov, the founder ofVKontakte.com, has announced on hisVK.com pagethat he has stepped down as the head of the social network -- Russia's largest, with over 100 million monthly users -- after he...

Pavel Durov, the founder ofVKontakte.com, has announced on hisVK.com pagethat he has stepped down as the head of the social network -- Russia's largest, with over 100 million users -- after he said th...

Testing design and content features on-the-go to identify what users want is nothing new — it’s over a decade old process used by Google (and now Facebook among several others) to tell whi...

It’s that time of year again, friends. The day when “up” becomes “down”, lies become truth, dogs become people, and when the Internet becomes a liiiittle bit unbearable f...

It’s that time of year again, friends. The day when “up” becomes “down”, lies become truth, dogs become people, and when the Internet becomes a liiiittle bit unbearable f...

BlackBerry’s dedicated messaging app is growing at a decent clip, and now has a larger active audience than Tango did when it raised its recent $280 million funding round, with 85 million users ...

Krablr, a real-time crab pricing engine for amateur fishermen, has raised $5 million with Sequoia Partners with Strumpo Kildare and Scranton Angels as secondary investors. The company, founded in 2013...

Krablr, a real-time crab pricing engine for amateur fishermen, has raised $5 million from Sequoia Partners with Strumpo Kildare and Scranton Angels as secondary investors. The company, founded in 2013...

New data from app analytics provider Flurry released today statesthat native app usage on smartphones is continuing to grow at the expense of the mobile web. The company claims that users are now spen...

If there was some over-arching, governing body that handed out awards to April Fools' Day prankers, I should hope that Toshiba would get one. The company today announced the Digit, sloughing off what ...

On-demand high-end car service Cabify has closed an $8 million Series A, led by Seaya Ventures, to bolster its growth in LatAm -- a region where it says it's seeing a monthly growth rate of around 50%...

Apple has been granted a patent by the USPTO (spotted by AppleInsider) for interchangeable lenses for a mobile device, meaning it’s possible future iPhones will have the built-in ability to swap...

What is the scariest possible outcome of Google's involvement in your life? That they track your whereabouts and send them to the NSA? That they don't care about user experience and only send you ads?...

As Spotify creeps towards a reported IPO later this year, it is also carefully continuing to build out its international footprint, specifically targeting fast-growing, emerging markets. On that front...

In a move that sees some local consolidation in the games marketing space, Crobo, the Berlin-based games performance marketing platform, is hoovering up its Hamburg neighbour TrafficCaptain, which run...

One of the most tedious parts of learning a new language is stumbling half-asleep through a boring textbook. When I was studying Chinese, one of my readers included articles on how to renew a student ...

No, it's not an hilarious analyst April Fools' Day joke. Although, the elementary logic may suggest otherwise: larger screen phones -- such as phablets -- are a key driver in increased mobile video co...

Forget artificial intelligence, virtual reality, or drones. What the world really needs is another photo-sharing app (and Office for the iPad of course). Read More ...

Balderton Capital has raised a $305 million Series A fund focused on Europe. It’s a fascinating move and shows that European VCs are now finally convincing Limited Partners to invest in the sect...

Balderton Capital, the European VC investor behind MySQL, NaturalMotion and Yoox, has raised $305 million for its fifth European fund. As has been hinted at previously, the focus of the new fund will ...

Despite recent upheavals, the new Crimea government has wasted no time in setting up an new inward investment programme to attract tech startups to the region. In an exclusive interview with TechCrunc...

Estonian startup Lingvist, which is developing "adaptive" language learning software that it claims significantly reduces the time it takes to learn a new language, has raised a 1 million round of fun...

Technology never sleeps. You need to pivot, expand, re-pivot, focus, unfocus, refocus, and unrefocuspiviot. With that we are proud to announce TechCrunch’s greatestendeavorsince our Crunchpad. Y...

Industrial Toys, the tablet and mobile gaming studio led by Alex Seropian (founder of Bungie Studios, creators of the enormously successful Halo franchise), is announcing that it has raised a $5 milli...

There is a scramble to find the right big data talent, especially for short-term data projects currently being outsourced to big consulting companies such as Accenture, Deloitte apart from several nic...

Looks like instead of being acquired, wrist and speaker hardware company Jawbone is doing some acquiring, scooping up social and personalized music playlist app Playground.fm, according to a well-plac...

Airbnb said it will start collecting San Francisco’s 14 percent hotel tax on behalf of hosts today. The move counters critics who’ve claimed that the company has willfully dodged taxes to ...

Apple has sent out an email notifying customers of App Store price changes in certain countries within the next 24 hours. The company said that it will raise retail rates for the following currencies ...

A month ago in Barcelona I met with one of the founders of Roamer, a clever SIM hack/app that allows you to bring your own phone number along with you around the world. The company raised 300,000 in D...

In about twohours if threats are carried out, email marketing service Mad Mimi(CrunchBase) will be hit with another denial-of-service attack (DDoS)similar to what it endured yesterday, which made its ...

It's dangerous to go alone! Go play The Legend Of Zelda, deconstructed and reduced to its component concepts! You are Link, a green square, and your mission is to kill Ganon (probably a dark block). A...

The Oculus Rift and its creator Oculus VR have been purchased by Facebook, and that's causing some, including Minecraft developer Mojang, to reconsider their projects for the platform. But others are ...

After Google's drastic price cuts for its cloud computing services, Amazon quickly matched them. Given that Microsoft always promised to match prices, it doesn't come as a surprise that the company to...

Online dating site OkCupid is presenting Firefox visitors with something other than the standard home page you’d normally encounter – instead, there’s a lengthy message apologizing f...

Earlier this month, Cloudera announced that it had raised $160 million from a cadre of investors, including Google Ventures. That, as TechCrunch noted, brought its total funding to $300 million. Scrat...

Brace yourselves, residents of Los Angeles and Boston, for TechCrunch arrives in less than a fortnight. The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off will go down in Boston on April 8, and on the even of my 26th ...

The technology industry today has job titles that you don't really find anywhere else. User experience, or "UX", is one of them. It seems like every tech company is hiring in "UX design" and "UX resea...

In the sci-fi show Almost Human, everyone has a bitcoin wallet. More and more places to spend bitcoin means that could become a reality, and popular indie merchant mobile payment provider Square is th...

Google made a small but interesting update to Google+ today. Every profile page now includes the total number of times the user's content has been seen by others. This new number is the sum of all of ...

Video chat marketplaceLiveNinja, a former TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley participant, has raised an additional $500,000 in new funding, the company is announcing today. The news, which is being anno...

You wouldn’t think that big data would be the topic of conversation on this evening, but that’s the subject that brought Data Collective founders Matt Ocko and Zack Bogue together for the ...

Some reacted to Facebook's $2 billion acquisition of Oculus VR less than enthusiastically, but the announcement is one of the most exciting opportunities for the future of Social VR -- a future where ...

There’s a new contender for Android top dog on the market, and it’s the HTC One (M8), the latest from the Taiwanese firm. This metal-clad unibody slab inherits the good looks of its predec...

Microsoft's Office suite for iPad continues to dominate the iOS app store days after its release, retaining the top three free slots in the U.S. App Store, with Word, Excel and PowerPoint retaining th...

AppRedeem, themaker ofAppTrailers, a service that allowedusers to watch teaser videos about mobile applications in the hopes of boosting downloads, is shifting its focus away from app promotion - well...

Photo-sharing app Frontback just received an update in the App Store. The company revamped user profiles to make them a little more informative. Now, you can see an avatar, the nickname and full name,...

Microsoft today announced that it has added data about 150 million new entities to Bing's entity engine -- the company's rough equivalent to Google's Knowledge Graph. Over the course of the last few m...

Twitter is adding more global firepower to its ambitions to cosy up to broadcasters and TV advertisers: it is buying France's Mesagraph, and it is also acquiring SecondSync in the UK. It is also teami...

When Obamacare passed the 6 million-person sign-up mark, we pointed, with our tongues half-cheeked, to President Obama's Between Two Ferns appearance with Zach Galifianakis. Turns out we were mostly o...

It's opening day for the first Major League Baseball season to feature "expanded instant replay," a system that allows reviews of umpires' calls through video footage. And today the MLB is also releas...

Microsoft today announced a number of forthcoming updates to the Outlook Web App for Office 365 at its Exchange Conference in Austin. Jeff Teper, Microsoft's corporate vice president of its Office Ser...

Do you want to be the very best? Like no one ever was?Google wants you to prove it.At least, they would in a world where April Fools jokes were real and companies weren't allowed to tug at our heart s...

Confirming and expanding on newsscooped by Variety earlier this month, Amazon this morning officially announced its plans to greenlight six more of its Amazon Studios’ pilot shows, which are now...

This morning Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella announced that Scott Guthrie is now the executive vice president of its Cloud and Enterprise group, Phil Spencer will run its Xbox work, and that, when the N...

A month ago, the folks at Raspberry Pi announced that they now had access, thanks to Broadcomm, to an open driver for the BCM21553 cellphone processor chip. This meant that DIYers now had complete acc...

Twitter has not yet officially launched commerce services but it continues to build out the systems it will need to have in place when it does. The latest development on that front is that it has hire...

Twitter has not yet officially launched commerce services -- where users would be able to buy products that are advertised in Tweets -- but it continues to build out the infrastructure it will need to...

Streaming music service Rdio has added support for Google’s Chromecast media accessory, the company announced today. What that means is that you’ll be able to send your Rdio music from you...

With last week's episode focusing on Whisper, we thought it only fair to take a hard look at its biggest competitor, Secret. Welcome to another episode of Fly or Die. Read More ...

While the shine and novelty quickly woreoffTwitter co-founder Biz Stone's mobile Q&A app Jelly, the company has continued to iterate on its product - the picture-based search service that lets you...

A new take on the yet-to-be-announced iPhone 6 from an independent designer provides a look at what we might expect from a thinner, larger-screened next-generation device. This latest one is just the ...

ClassPass, an NY-based company focused on bringing value to athletes and local gyms, has today announced a $2 million seed round from an assortment of angel investors, including Fritz Lanman, SV Angel...

Voxer, makers of a push-to-talk mobile messaging service, is rolling out a significant upgrade today of its iOS application (version 3.0) with the introduction of a redesigned user interface, speed an...

Findaway World was founded back in 2006 with the aim of selling MP3 players preloaded with audiobooks. (One of its more noteworthy customers: The US Army.) Today, the company is kicking off a new digi...

The Nymi armband from Toronto-startup Bionym is edging closer to reality, and a new partnership announced today helps make it more clear how it’ll be useful to everyday consumers. Bionym is team...

After announcing a partnership with Intuit QuickBooks last Fall, Square is debuting a new integration with rival accounting software Xero. Similar to the announcement with QuickBooks, this API deal al...

Healthcare.gov is down for maintenance at the most inopportune time. Users are reporting not being able to access the U.S. government's healthcare marketplace on the last day before the deadline. Tech...

Turns out the 'G' in Moto G stands for 'Go!'. Motorola's well-reviewed sub-$200 Android handset has given Motorola an unexpected boost in the U.K. -- a market where the brand had gone into near-total ...

ClearStory Data, a company that wants to bring data intelligence to the masses, has raised $21 million in Series B funding led by DAG Ventures with Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Khosla Venture...

App developer Handshakehasraised $8 million in new funding to grow its business selling a mobile wholesale sales ordering and fulfillment application. New investor Emergence Capital Partners led the S...

Keeping Bitcoin safe isn't easy. If the wild currency fluctuations don't get you, then it'll be the exchanges going pop in the night and taking a chunk of BTC with them, or the myriad digital wallets ...

Fluentify, a London-based videoconferencing language learning platform founded last year, has closed a $410,000 angel investment, led byStefano Marsaglia, former chairman of Barclays global financial ...

UK-based ScreenHits, a marketplace for global content acquisition and ‘viewer feedback’, has closed a $1.2 million first round of funding. Investors include high net worth Angel investors,...

Russian mobile payments startups 2can similar in operation to Square and iZettle (accepts payments from Visa and MasterCard cards through a mobile card reader connected to a smartphone) has raised a $...

Medifund, a crowdfunding platform for medical students, has relaunched as a non-profit. The site, which is based in the Philippines but open to students around the world, was first covered by TechCrun...

On-demand services marketplace Bizzby has raised $10 million, and claims to have reached 40,000 users its first three months of operation this year with a smartphone app resembling TaskRabbit-style se...

Alibaba has agreed to pay $692 million for a 35% stake in Intime Retail, which operates department stores throughout China. The two companies will form a joint initiative to focus on offline-to-online...

Nielsen and Integral Ad Science are announcing that they're taking their partnership international. Nielsen is best-known for its TV ratings system, but it has been expanding its measurement on the we...

It might be white hot news that Facebook dropped two-bils on buying in, or that Valve's Michael Abrash has joined Oculus as chief scientist, but I suspect that this generation of virtual reality is al...

Say, for example, you wanted a dog skull but did not want to remove said bone mass from a living dog. What to do? If you're the team behind Quinn, the 3D-printable posable doll, you'd make and sell a ...

Earlier this week, the IRS decided that Bitcoin is property, not currency, setting in place a regulatory structure that could see users of the cryptocurrency forced to keep price score in a rapidly sh...

Both Microsoft and Google have long worked on getting users answers without having to click through a number of websites. At Google, the current result of this is the Knowledge Graph and at Bing, it&#...

Late last night, a tweet was spread far and wide showing that a DMCA notice had blocked a file from being shared on a Dropbox user's account. What was going on? Was Dropbox suddenly doing something sk...

One month ago, I got dumped. It was the third in a series of failed, long-term relationships over the past five years. All relationships end differently. Some exes stay friends, or fail to stay friend...

This week, Chris Velazco joins me, Darrell Etherington, to talk about HTC’s new One (M8) flagship smartphone, which we already like quite a bit. The new device is HTC’s big chance to make ...