Articles by Techcrunch from April 2015

 Mesosphere‘s mission to build a container-centric service that allows developers to treat a data center with all of its various servers as a single entity is starting to come to fruition. ...

 What has Microsoft been up to? As it turns out, quite a lot. The company’s more-than-three-hour keynote at its Build conference today covered a range of products: Office, Windows, Azure, ...

Berlin-based Jobspotting, a site and iOS app which aims to put a tailored search interface algorithm over third-party recruitment sites and your social connections, has raised an undisclosed round of ...

 A wide range of companies today released their support for a surveillance reform bill that would effectively end the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records.Facebook, Googl...

 The Apple Watch is now on the wrists of members of the general public for the first time, and opinions about its usefulness are flying fast and furious. Here at TechCrunch, we’ve been shar...

 Microsoft announced today at its Build developer conference that during its fiscal 2018 — after the middle of 2017 for the rest of us — its commercial cloud revenue will hit a $20 bi...

 Tandem, which recently raised a $100 million fund to back mobile startups, has added two new partners — Shashi Seth, formerly an executive at Google and Yahoo, and Couchsurfing co-founder ...

 The Apple Watch is rolling out to customers, but it’s taking longer to get into user hands than some might like. A new report out today by The Wall Street Journalputs the blame for the slo...

 Outlook.com, Microsoft’s web-based email and calendaring client, is now open to third-party developers who want to build tools on top of it. Using the Outlook API, developers can build wha...

 Whisper announced today that it hired Mark Troughton to be its president. Troughton was the president of Green Dot, which specializes in prepaid debit cards and went public in July 2010. He was ...

 At this year’s Disrupt NY, previous finalists and winners of Startup Battlefield will once again take the stage. But not to pitch their companies. Instead Alfred, Layer and Trello will upd...

 The Unity game engine is arguably the de facto standard for those dabbling with Oculus Rift development.But that doesn’t mean the Unity/Rift relationship is particularly exclusive — ...

 You don’t want to own a drone. Or a learn to fly a drone. Or hire someone full-time to fly a drone. And you definitely don’t want to pay for a helicopter, plane, or satellite. You ju...

 [Update: Secret has confirmed it will shut down and give investors back their money] Anonymous sharing app Secret will shut down soon, according to sources close to the company. The announcement...

 Microsoft’s HoloLens has been in development for a few years, and Microsoft’s Alex Kipman said on stage at Build today that during that time, the hardware has improved by a couple of...

 JiveSoftware announced the general release of Jive Chime today, a real-time messaging app that could well be a buzz across Slack’s bow — and an attempt to modernize an aging platform...

 Microsoft just demonstrated one of the intriguing possibilities from its single platform/multiple form factors approach for Windows 10: the ability to use your phone as your desktop computer. In...

 As promised late last year, Evernote today has rolled out new pricing plans for its note-taking service in order to introduce a more affordable, middle tier that now falls in between the company...

 The pot delivery space is heating up of late — Canary and Dave have combined forces in Seattle and Eaze just raised $10 million to deliver Mary Jane to San Francisco. But very few pot deli...

 We knew that Internet Explorer was dead.We knew a successor was coming.We just didn’t know the official name, beyond the “Project Spartan” placeholder.Now we do: Read More ...

 Today, as expected, Microsoft announced that developers will be able to more easily bring theirAndroid applications to Windows devices. Developers, Microsoft said, will be able to “reuse n...

 At its Build developer conference today, Microsoft announced that it expects Windows 10, its forthcoming operating system, to run on one billion devices in two to three years. That’s the i...

 Microsoft is launching the release candidate of Visual Studio 2015 today at its Build developer conference in San Francisco. As expected, this new release includes a number of bug fixes and UI p...

 At its Build event in San Francisco, Microsoft just showed off its new add-in frameworks for Office that let developers build applications on top of the company’s productivity apps that wi...

 Civic tech is not a new concept. People have been using technology to empower citizens and improve government operations for more than 10 years. However, there are a growing number of entreprene...

 Microsoft today announced a new service in its Azure database lineup during its Build developer conference keynote today. The Azure SQL Data Warehouse, which will go into public preview in June,...

 Microsoft today announced Azure Data Lake, a new data repository for big data analytics workloads, during its Build developer conference keynote. The idea behind Data Lake is — as the name...

 Meal kit delivery startup PlateJoy has raised $1.7 million in seed money to get into bigger markets and take on competitors like Blue Apron in the recipes-for-delivery segment. The fun...

 Developers and independent software vendors who often run hundreds — or even thousands — of separate databases for their customers now have a new option to manage them while keeping ...

 At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced the launch of Visual Studio Code, a lightweight cross-platform code editor for writing modern web and cloud applications that will ru...

 Wire, the communications app backed bySkype co-founder Janus Friis which launched late lastyear, is now expanding its service to the web with the launch of Wire for Web. Envisioned as modern-day...

 Last November, Microsoft said that it would bring some of the core features of its .NET platform — which has traditionally been Windows-only — to Linux and Mac. Today, at its Build d...

 Airbnb is finally rolling out an app that will enable users to browse and search its listings on a device that’s bigger than a phone, but not quite as unwieldy as a laptop. But more than t...

 Hulu has made another aggressive move to expand thecontent selection on its streaming service with the announcement today that is has acquired the exclusive streaming rights to “Seinfeld&#...

 Eye-tracking company Sticky is announcing that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding.Previously known as EyeTrackShop, Sticky offers analytics tools that allowboth online advertisers and ...

 Twitter is launching @TwitterFood today, a dedicated account that sifts through the myriad food-related tweets shared on the social network and offers up a curated selection oh hand-picked missi...

 The Legend of Zela: A Link to the Past was a technical feat on a home console back in 1991 when it was launched, but today a team has brought the entire overworld map from the game to your brows...

 Instagram today announced the launch of a new official community on its service dedicated to music and musicians themselves, which will live under the handle @music. This marks the first time th...

 Instagram today announced the launch of a new official community on its service dedicated to music and musicians themselves, which will live under the handle @music. This marks the first time th...

 Facebook is announcing some new programs today for small businesses, particularly the ones that advertise. At the same time, the company’s also arguing that plenty of businesses find out v...

 Google is launching a new Chrome extension today designed to prevent you from recycling your Google password on other sites. Password Alert, which is now available in the Chrome Web Store, will ...

 Slow Ventures, a fund run by early Facebook employees Dave Morin and Kevin Colleran, has raised a new $65 million fourth fund. Sam Lessin, another former Facebook employee who left in August las...

 It’s been a bit more than half a year since shipping startup ShipBob went through Y Combinator, and it’s finally ramping up to launch in its second city. It’s able to make that...

 IBM researchers say they’ve solved a big piece of the quantum computing puzzle with a new system for protecting against errors that can crop among among quantum bits, or ‘qubits.R...

 Enterprise software maker Icertis has scored $6 million in series A funding led by Greycroft Partners and Fidelity Growth Partners India. Based in Pune, India and Bellevue, WA, Icertis will use ...

 E-commerce platform Bigcommerce announced today that it has made its first acquisition, point-of-sale and inventory management software startup Zing. The value of the deal was undisclosed. Read ...

 Samsung Electronics has disclosed its first-quarter earnings, with operating profit tumbling once again thanks to pressure from rival smartphone makers. Its performance stands in sharp contrast ...

 It’s fair to say that Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential bid marked a watershed moment for political campaigners. This was a campaign covered in Silicon Valley’s fingerprints, ch...

 Uber is planning to launch a merchant delivery program that would allow online shoppers to get same-day delivery of goods through both UberRush couriers and Uber drivers. TechCrunch has obtained...

 About six months after they initially crossed the pond, Coinbase is finally landing in the United Kingdom. They’re the Bitcoin wallet and platform backed with more than $100 million from D...

 Twitter today gave the first official news about the growth of its livestreaming video acquisition Periscope, with CEO Dick Costolo saying more than 1 million people signed in to Periscope in th...

 GoPro made money last quarter, beat on revenue and is still down after hours. The company reported $363.1 million in first quarter revenue, and net income of $16.75 million, is off 4 percent aft...

 During conversations with VCs, entrepreneurs will often encounter a few sneaky questions that have nothing to do with their actual businesses today. Many of these are attempts by investors to le...

 Well it’s essentially Star Wars time, with May the 4th in sight and the new movie set for launch later this year – and it probably won’t not be Star Wars time ever again if Dis...

 In a bizarre leak, Twitter’s first quarter earnings made it onto the Internet — read: Twitter — before the cessation of regular trading, sending the company’s shares shar...

 The publicly traded IT performance management service SolarWinds today announced that it has acquired Papertrail, a log management service, for $41 million in cash. SolarWinds may not be a house...

 Caveat Ballmer, or something.Microsoft made waves recently by disclosing in its quarterly 10-Q document that its Phone business, which generates billions in yearly revenue, isn’t performin...

 Four years ago,Facebook announced that they weredecamping to Menlo Park from their longstanding home of Palo Alto. Just last month,the company finally cut the ribbons on a beautiful430,000-squar...

 Eyal Bino has been working for years to bring Israeli entrepreneurs into the New York City tech ecosystem, and his latest venture, ICONYC Labs is the culmination of that work. Together with Arie...

 To boost its commerce ads and sell more of them, Twitter announced some big movesas part of today’s earnings. It’s acquired commerce ads tech firm TellApart, which was formerly a big...

 Twitter was supposed to be releasing its earning results after market close this afternoon — but financial intelligence firm Selerity published the numbers early. Where oh where could they...

 Cablevision today announced it would begin offeringthe Hulu Plus subscription service to its broadband customers, making it the first timeHulu has ever established a deal with a traditional pay ...

 Friends of TC, Pomplamoose, just posted a new video that features a lady, a drone, and a single rose. The song, Madonna’s Like A Prayer redone in a decidedly jaunty style, is great but the...

 A number of startups, including Magic, Operator and GoButler, are focusing on fulfilling customers’ commerce-related requests which are sent in via mobile app or SMS requests, but today ri...

 Contextly, the startup founded by former Wired editor Ryan Singel, is giving readers an easy way to stay up-to-date on the news that interests them. Specifically, the company has launched a new ...

 It was always kind of shady that Facebook let you volunteer your friends’ status updates, checkins, location, interests and more to third-party apps. While this let developers build powerf...

 Google Now has been expanding the range and variety of its Google Now cards, with 40 third-party partners unveiled in January. 70 more are being added to the Google app on Android today, bringin...

 The digital media company formerly known as Glam is launching a new product today for finding curated stories in topics like entertainment, food and fashion. The website (namely, Mode.com) and t...

 We are just six days away from TechCrunch Disrupt NY, and we’re mobilizing to give you guys an amazing show. The line up this year is fantastic: We’ve got Carly Fiorina possibly runn...

 Once upon a time,when you wanted to secure something of value, you put it in a vault and distributed the keys. Today, when you want to secure softwarecredentials especially as you move across se...

 Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) is wrapping up its eighth cohort today with presentations from 10 startups that range from “testing as a service” provider API Fortress to ...

 The LG G4 is here, and as previewed, it does indeed feature a leather back, designed for comfort and durability according to the company. The smartphone has some serious bona fides when it comes...

 The Disrupt NY 2015 Hackathon kicks off Saturday at noon and we’re excited to announce the judges and API workshops for the event. Tarikh Korula is returning to reprise his role as the Hac...

 Tracxn, an analytics firm co-founded by Sequoia and Accel alumni to track data from startups, has raised a $3.5 million series A round from SAIF Ventures. Read More ...

 Every day, there are press announcements about traditional content brands making their information available to consumers online in over-the-top models. In addition to traditional distributors l...

 SoundCloud has been beta testing its podcasting features with a private group since 2011, but today it’s finally letting everyone in. The SoundCloud podcasting features come in multiple ti...

 PayPal today is making a change to its online payment service on the web, which will now allow customers to checkout from a merchant’s website without having to enter in their user ID and ...

 PayPal today is making a change to its online payment service on the web, which will now allow customers to checkout from a merchant’s website without having to enter in their user ID and ...

 Apple has a new patent, granted today by the USPTO, that details how wireless devices like iPhones and iPads might become context-specific remote input gadgets for use with creative desktop apps...

 Amazon is today updating Whispercast, its self-service platform which allows schools and other organizations the ability to deliver digital content including books, textbooks and apps to Kindle ...

 Signpost is announcing that it has raised $20.5 million in Series C funding.The company offers consumer marketing tools — it manages customers’ presence on sites like Yelp, and it us...

 Monthly concert subscription service Jukely has raised $8 million in a seed extension round from existing investors to expand into at least 20 more cities in the next year. The round was led by ...

 I’ve got a pretty bad addiction to restaurant delivery service Seamless, but even I’ll admit that it’s not perfect — sometimes there’s a long wait for food that sho...

 Everyone’s favorite wonder material, graphene, could soon create realistic 3D screens for mobile devices and smartphones. Whereas most 3D displays have thus far depended on fancy glasses o...

 Mashape, the increasingly popular management platform and marketplace for APIs, today open-sourced one of the core technologies that power its service. The platform, called Kong, allows Mashape ...

 Just as it simplifies the process of ordering a car on mobile, with a flat, non-surge pricing structure for rides, Gett hopes to make it ultra-simple to order products or services without having...

 Loop Commerce, a company that has developed an alternative checkout technology for e-commerce sites that allows customers to more easily buy gifts for friends withouthaving to worrywith product ...

 U.K. startup SimplyCook is another recipe kit service. However, unlikecompetitors HelloFresh, Gousto, Marley Spoon, andShuttlecook, the company doesn’t send you all of the fresh ingredient...

 Tencent today unveiled an operating system for smartwatches, TVs and other internet-connected devices today. The system, which was first discussed last year, leverages Tencent’s hugely pop...

 Beijing Weiying Technology, the maker of a movie ticket booking platform that is embedded in WeChat, China’s largest messaging app, has raised a $105 million series B. Investors include We...

 Vivaldi, the browser project headed by former Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner, continues on its march toward its 1.0 release. Today, the company is launching its third technical preview since the br...

 Payments continue to be a huge issue in many parts of Asia and emerging markets. That’s why 2C2P, a Singapore-headquartered startup, has closed a $7 million Series C round to help solve th...

 DocDoc, a startup that helps people find doctors in Southeast Asia, announced today that it has raised a $11.5 million SGD (about $8.6 million) series A. The funding will be used to expand DocDo...

 Refinery29, the five-year-old media site that caters specifically to the young female reader, has today announced the close of a $50 million Series D financing, led by Scripps Networks Interacti...

 Windward, which provides maritime data and analytics, has raised $10.8 million in funding led by Horizons Ventures, with participation from returning investor Aleph. This brings the company̵...

 Last week, Google updated its search algorithm to favor mobile-friendly pages in mobile search results — a move that could affect 40 percent of Fortune 500 websites. If you’re worrie...

 Apple CEO Tim Cook said on today’s company earnings call that there are over 3,500 apps available at launch for the Apple Watch, which is better than the 1,000 total that were ready for iP...

 Back when Apple Pay was first launched, Best Buy wanted none of it. As a part of the MCX consortium, they were a part of an effort amongst retailers to build a mobile payments system of their ow...

 Back when Apple Pay was first launched, Best Buy wanted none of it. As a part of the MCX consortium, they were a part of an effort among retailers to build a mobile payments system of their own:...

 Apple is “working very, very hard” to meet the strong demand for Apple Watch, Apple CFO Luca Maestri told Bloomberg Businessweek in the wake of the company’s earnings call toda...

 Apple, the word’s most valuable corporation, has a new cash tally: $194 billion.That’s to say that if you add up its cash, cash equivalents, short-term marketable securities, and lon...

 Mapping a job site – be it a construction site, oil field, or giant human battery pod factory – is a tough job. That’s why Identified Technologies’ Dick Zhang wants you t...

 Apple is tearing it up in China. During its second quarter, the company saw 71 percent revenue growth in the locale, and the company is widely thought to have sold more iPhones there than in the...

 Apple sold approximately 4.6 million Macs this quarter, according to the company’s Q2 2015 earnings report, released today. This represents year-over-year growth of 10 percent, with 4.1 mi...

 Apple’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus continue their hit parade, building on on massive first quarter of 2015 with a very strong second quarter total of 61.2 million handsets sold. This isn’t ...

 Apple has just released its fiscal Q2 2015 earnings, reporting $58 billion in revenue, $13.6 billion in net profit representing $2.33 per share. Compared to the year-ago quarter, it corresponds ...

 The Lexus RC 350 F Sport combines a stylish body and just over 300 horsepower to deliver a luxury ride that won’t bore you on your commute. If you’re familiar with Lexus’s atte...

 SwiftKey, the makers of one of the more popular third-party keyboard applications for Android, and more recently, iOS, is out today with a new product – an “experimental” mobil...

 Amazon last week disclosed that its Amazon Web Services business made nearly$1.6 billion in revenues last quarter with profits of $265 million, but that is not the only effort the e-commerce, cl...

 Scanadu, a health tech startup working on devices that can scan and upload medical-grade diagnostic tests to a smartphone, has raised $35 million in Series B financing.The round was led by Chine...

 Credo Ventures, the Prague-based VC targeting the CEE region, has closed its second fund, ‘Credo 2′, which, at 34 million, is more than twice that of the firm’s original 18 mil...

 Lyft is testing a new feature for Lyft Line users that will make rides a little bit cheaper. The new feature allows Line riders that are willing to wait for a little bit longer to take less-expe...

 The online artisans’ marketplace sells some unique products and has some unusual needs when it comes to IT. The company sets itself apart in a number of ways. Instead of using cloud servic...

 The first time-gatherers – horologes – come to us from legend. According to one fairly visceral story, the “division of the day into hours was first suggested by the regular ex...

 These days everyone wants to create the next Uber for anything, and the word “disruption” is mentioned across boardrooms and management meetings in nearly all industries. But while d...

 It’s not polite to call someone out of the blue anymore. Best to text them first. That’s why Facebook thinks video calling will live naturally inside Messenger. Today, Messenger is l...

 There’s a startup called Pembient that is 3D printing rhinoceros horns in a lab on the far edge of San Francisco. These are not horns that look like rhino horns. These are genetically iden...

 Verizon has apparently hit a snag with regard to its efforts aimed at cord cutters. The cable TV provider recently introduced a way to purchase TV channel packages via la carte bundles. But tod...

 SpaceX is launching a satellite for customer Thales Alenia Space today. The company’s Falcon 9 rocket should blast off at around 6:14 ET today, provided the launch window sees favorable co...

 Instagram has added three new filters to its app, including Lark, Reyes and Juno. These filters are designed to brighten images and seem generally appropriate for spring time photos. Alongside t...

 BuzzFeed is known as the king of viral content, and today it’s sharing more details about a new technology showing how that content actually spreads.By using what it calls Pound (short for...

 An X-Wing has made it to space in real life, thanks to a project by a two-person space photography outfit from Essex, UK launched as an attempt to get tickets to the Star Wars: The Force Awakens...

 A new study out this morning upsets the traditional thinking that iOSapplicationsmake more money for mobile developers when compared with those that run on Android devices. Instead, after taking...

 Google announced this morning the launch of an experimental programthat will allow it to purchase patents from businesses and other patent holders who wish to sell. The company says its new R...

 Pinterest today said that it would launch what it’s calling its Marketer Development Program, in which a set of partners will get access to new tools that allow them to better deliver more...

 Over the years I’ve been part of several of startups, and I love the energy, excitement and sense of risk that comes with launching into uncharted waters. My last startup was acquired in 2...

 Credit card provider Discover will join Apple Pay’s ranks beginning this fall, the company announced today. Apple Pay already supports cards from Visa, MasterCard and American Express, and...

 B2B startups often rely on word-of-mouth and online advertising to get the word out about their products. Over time, they oftenadd a marketing and sales department, butthey typically don’t...

 Apple’s debut wearable, the eponymous Apple Watch, started shipping Friday — but according to U.S. online commerce market research firm, Slice Intelligence, the launch weekend saw on...

 It’s with an eye toward that hypersensitive political climate that Barry Klein, a longtime political consultant has raised the first capital to grow Glia. Along with co-founders Chris Rapp...

 Facebook at Work, Facebook’s first move to turnits social network into an enterprise tool, has remained in closedbeta since its launch in January this year. But as the product continues to...

 Alibaba has partnered with China’s biggest telecom operator to sell low-cost smartphones to people in rural areas for prices as low as 299 RMB ($48). The deal with China Telecom, which has...

 Job marketplace Freelancer.com announced today that it has agreed to purchased Escrow.com for $7.5 million in cash. The acquisition was funded by through an placement of $10 million AUD (about $...

 The bitcoin-watching news service CoinDesk recently released its first quarter look into the cryptocurrency’s performance during the opening months of 2015. Mostly the data is net positive...

 What if wireless power at a distance actually worked? It does. uBeam invented a way to wirelessly send energy up to 15 feet away with ultrasound. What if you could slap a wireless charging case ...

 On April 2, the Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook is in hot water with government regulators in six European countries over its practice of tracking users’ movements across the we...

 When we started Bullpen Capital in 2011, there were about 30 or so “microVC” or “micro-seed” funds — and we knew them all. Today, four years later, there are likely...

 Silicon Valley’s influence is undeniable but its global impact has always been a passive byproduct of success at home. To make a lasting, material difference, there needs to be a concerted...

 Given the success of Box, it’s hard to imagine that founder Aaron Levie believes he should have done something differently in the company’s early years. However, while speaking to St...

 I always love peering into the world of executive recruiting. As a grad student and as a writer, the thought that there are people out there chasing other people to get them to work at massive w...

 Dan Fredinburg, a respected Google executive who headed privacy for Google X and lead its product management team, has died in the avalanche on Mount Everest which was triggered by the huge eart...

 April marks the 20th anniversary of the commercialization of the Internet, ironically, the very same month that the Federal Communications Commission’s new Open Internet regulations were o...

 Nokia sold its handset business to Microsoft last year, but since then rumours have bubbled up now and again that the firm is planning to return to the mobile space. Citing anonymous sources, Re...

 Xiaomi is making a push to be a local player in India. Days after unveiling its first phone customized to the South Asia country (the impressive $205 Mi 4i), Xiaomi announced that it has taken i...

 If you’re looking for zeitgeist Biblical metaphors for the tech sector, you can’t do much better than the Tower of Babel. Human civilization a hundred years after the Flood; monoling...

 While the atmosphere outside the store was generally similar to previous launches, a glaring difference was the fact that I wasn’t waiting outside of an Apple Store. I was sitting on the s...

 Drones are an auspicious future technology that can service a vast number of professional industries. Businesses around the world are discovering the great benefits that drones can provide. Howe...

 Looks like it’s going to be a rough Saturday for Tesla’s IT department: they’ve just had both their website and Twitter account hijacked. Read More ...

 Marijuana has come a long way in the United States since California launched its first-in-the-nation medical program 19 years ago. Today, 23 states and the District of Columbia have legalized ca...

 Ever wondered who influences the influencers? Developer Pierre-Jean Camillieri did, so he put together a tool that scrapes public Twitter and Angel List interactions to map inbound and outbound ...

 I’m a lucky lad. Every so often the creators of a really cool, really revolutionary cooking devices come to my house and make me food and this time it was Cinder. Think of Cinder as a Geor...

 The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, April 24, 2015. We got nothing but time on our hands waiting for the on...

 In the last ten years, the Seattle tech scene has changed quite dramatically. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the only gigantic software companies in town were Microsoft and Amazon. For a time it ...

 The world around us is screaming with signals our original five senses don’t detect. Unlike some snakes, we can’t sense infrared with our naked eyes and unlike ducks and geese, we do...

 We’ve seen how Venmo has taken off in the US for when people want to split things like shared restaurant bills. Now a UK startup has come up with an app which it claims will make it easier...

 You’re a business that wants to create a mobile app, but faster than it would take a designer to build something bespoke. UK-based startup Fliplet says it has come up with a simple way to ...

 “I would again draw an analogy to venture capital,” observes Ben Thompson, in a typically incisive Stratechery post eviscerating the new streaming service Tidal. “The importanc...

 PF Chang’s. Domino’s. eBay. Home Depot. Nieman Marcus. Sony. That isn’t just a list of wildly successful companies, it’s also a list of hacked companies; companies whose ...

 What if your phone could let you — and only you — answer an incoming call, no thumb print/PIN/swipe gesture required? Instead of a finger, it’d gauge the shape of your ear; ins...

 Oculus is getting ready to launch its consumer Rift virtual reality headset so at TechCrunch Disrupt NY I’ll be sitting down with the man who made it. Nate Mitchell is the co-founder and V...

 Disrupt NY 2015 is days away and we’re thrilled to announce the TechCrunch video team will be broadcasting interviews, updates, and great startup action live from the Exhibit Hall floor. I...

 “Removed instagram friend-finding cause they blocked us! #nochill” This note in hip GIF app Phhhoto‘s latest release notes was how it announced its users can no longer easily f...

 With the Apple Watch now officially on the market, and soon to be on the wrists of several million customers – possibly as many as 20 million this year, according to some estimates –...

 Another week has left us in a miasma of earnings, product releases, and something called the Apple Watch. As such, it’s the perfect time to sit around our little round table we keep in the...

 Last month, WeChat launched City Services in select towns across China – if you’re already a user of WeChat, simply change your location to one of the three pilot cities and the lang...

 This week, Apple Watch deliveries officially arrived to the first pre-order customers, Q1 earnings were released and Google announced its wireless cell service Project Fi. These were our best st...

 Manufacturing never left America. Even during the recession, good people were still building good things. Recently, though, thanks to the maker movement, small-scale manufacturing is seeing a re...

 Apigee, acompany that helps organizations build and manage API connectors, went public this morningat $17 per share, briefly jumpingto $20 per share before closingat $16.68, down 1.88 percent in...

 It’s a hot day. You jump into a swimsuit, hop into the pool, and… suddenly remember that your Apple Watch is still on your wrist.Well, crap — $600 wrist computer ruined, right?...

 Gillmor Gang – Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. Our live chat during show broadcast Gillmor Gang...

 PC gaming giant Valve is facing vocal backlash from its community a day after giving developers of game modifications the ability to charge for their work on the Steam platform. Read More ...

 Welcome to Future World where the weird is commonplace! To wit: engineers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science have created a 4D printer. That doesn’t mean the prin...

 They’re back at it. After reporting earnings yesterday, Google and Microsoft are once again locked in their long-running battle for second. Apple, the most valuable technology company, is ...

 Google says it’s working to improve its spam-detection systems in its Google Maps platform after yet another prank allowed a user toupload an inappropriate image to Google Maps. This most ...

 In case you haven’t heard, the Apple Watch, Apple’s first step into the world of wearables, starts shipping to consumerstoday. The Watch marks an interesting time in the wearable fit...

 Earlier this week smartphone maker BlackBerry confirmed it acquired Israel’s WatchDox to build out its security software business, but it looks like it may be downsizing elsewhere. Accordi...

 Earlier this week smartphone maker BlackBerry confirmed it acquired Israel’s WatchDox to build out its security software business, but it looks like it may be downsizing elsewhere. Accordi...

 Earlier this week smartphone maker BlackBerry confirmed it acquired Israel’s WatchDox to build out its security software business, but it looks like it may be downsizing elsewhere. Accordi...

 Earlier this week smartphone maker BlackBerry confirmed it acquired Israel’s WatchDox to build out its security software business, but it looks like it may be downsizing elsewhere. Accordi...

 Headout, a mobile travel application that functions as sort of a mobile concierge, helpingyou find tours, activities and tickets to local events in select U.S. cities, has closed on $1.8 million...

 TechCrunch is headed back to Austin and Seattle in late June and we’re looking for a few good startups to pitch at the event. Is that you? Apply below. In past events in both of these citi...

 As a number of early customers will receive their Apple Watch smartwatches today, Apple has also begun to send out email invitations offering“personal setup” appointments that take p...

 From wearable activity trackers to fantasy e-sports, technology is transforming the way athletes train for the game and fans engage with their teams. With all of this momentum VCs are swinging f...

 The Apple Watch has begun to arrive in the hands of buyers around the world today — and they’re unboxing and poking at it as we speak. Several of us here at TechCrunch have been doin...

 Comcast has dropped its plans to merge with Time Warner Cable.Bloomberg reported yesterday that the deal was unraveling, following signs of opposition from the Justice Department and Federal Com...

 Three new Apple Watch ads are hitting today and they stray far from the ascetic materials-oriented introduction spot. All three focus on showing the Watch integrating into regular human life rat...

 It’s hard to believe that a month ago humans were unable to launch a donut into space. It was March 2015 and the world was in turmoil. Space travel was but a dream for even the richest pas...

 Over the past two years, France has been a leading country when it comes to open data and open government — and it is paying off. Only one year after joining the Open Government Partnershi...

 Infosys, the India-headquartered consulting and IT firm, is on the verge of making its second significant acquisition of the year after it announced a deal to buy digital e-commerce services pro...

 If you apply for a position at a large company, there is a chance that a human won’t even look at your resume. Many human resources department now use application tracking software (ATS) t...

 Today is Apple Watch D-Day for a speedy few early adopters, with Cupertino finally shipping the first batch of its debut wearable to buyers. That means it’s also the day that serial repai...

 WhatsApp’s new voice calling feature for iOS is decent quality and easy to use, but the experience doesn’t beat dedicated VoIP apps for clarity. At this point, at least. Read More ...

 Step by step, Lydia is unveiling its product strategy to handle all your payments. When I last covered the French startup, it was still mostly focused on growing its user base by providing a Ven...

 Based in Delhi, UrbanClap wants to make finding good service providers as easy as, well, clapping your hands. With more than 1,000 service providers currently listed, including individuals and c...

 The Apple Watch has landed, so to speak, with deliveries officially arriving to the first pre-order customers around the world. Apple’s first wearable device has enjoyed one of the longest...

 Comcast spent $4.62 million on lobbying in the first quarter of 2015, an increase of 50 percent from its spending in the same quarter last year.But now the cable giant is reportedly walking away...

 TechCrunch is hearing from a few sources that GoFundMe, a crowdfunding and fundraising startup,is seeking venture financing after bootstrapping the company since 2008.According to those sources,...

 If you were curious about potential consolidation in the fitness space (which I’m sure you were), look no further than this very article. ClassPass, the subscription service for unlimited ...

 Institutional Venture Partners, better known as IVP, has raised a $1.4 billion 15th fund. The company’s last fund, it’s 14th, was a smaller $1 billion capital pool. I spoke to the fi...

 The original UDOO board was pretty amazing. An merging of Raspberry Pi and Arduino, the system let you run a tiny computer on a single board as well as control electronic projects. It was a very...

 The last time Lyft CEO Logan Green graced the Disrupt stage, in September 2013, the mobile ride-hailing service was a little more than a year old. Back then Lyft was available in just 10 markets...

 Today following the bell, Amazon reported its first quarter 2015 financial performance, including revenue of $22.72 billion and negative earnings per share of $0.12. The street expected Amazon t...

 There’s a battle going on for tech talent in the Bay Area, and private companies increasingly are turning to M&A as a way to bring new members onto their teams. Following along on that...

 According to industry expert David Raab, almost 70 percent of marketers are either unhappy or only marginally happy with their marketing automation software, and according to Bluewolf’s ne...

 Pandora’s first-quarter earnings beatWall Street’s expectations, bringing in $230.8 Million inrevenue and a loss of 12 centsper share. Its active listener count — while up year...

 did not Today following the bell, Microsoft reported its fiscal third quarter financial results, including revenue of $21.7 billionand earnings per share of $0.61. The street had expected Micros...

 Google reported its earnings for its first financial quarter of 2015 today.The company reported revenue of $17.3billion and earnings per shareof $6.57. GAAP net income for the last quarter was $...

 With app storesbeing as crowded asthey are,understanding mobile distribution and the app economy is more important now more than ever.Andin less than twoweeks, we’ll sit down with App Anni...

 Cablevision made headlines as the first pay-TV provider to offer HBO’s new standalone service HBO NOW to its broadband customers, and today the cable companyis again targeting cord cutters...

 Editor’s note: Julie Ruvolo is a freelance writer and editor of RedLightR.io and RioChromatic.com.Sao Paulo-based startup Samba Ads is announcing a R$3 million ($1 million) investment from...

 The $45 billion marriage of Comcast and Time Warner Cable may be left at the altar, after reports surfaced today that Comcast itself might walk away from the deal. According to Bloomberg, an ann...

 U.S. Secretary of DefenseAshton Carter is trying tomend relations with Silicon Valley a year and a half tensions between the industry and the military exploded whenEdward Snowden exposed NSA sur...

 Earlier this week, I had a chance to meet with Playstation R&D senior director Richard Marks for a hands-on demo with Project Morpheus, Sony’s attempt at making a virtual reality heads...

 It’s a big day for the technology sector: The NASDAQ kisseda new, all-time record high during regular trading, while Google, Microsoft, Pandora, and Amazon are set to report their first qu...

 In its battle with Netflix and Amazon for streaming video marketshare, Hulu today announced its first-ever licensing agreement with Turner Broadcasting, which sees the streaming video service ga...

 Facebook announced a new video ad program today called Anthology, with the stated goal of creating better Facebook video ads by teaming up advertisers and publishers.Here’s how the company...

 Another cybersecurity bill will move on to the Senate. A day after the House of Representatives passed an information sharing bill that raised concerns among privacy advocates, the chamber passe...

 If keeping up with all those tweets is starting to feel a little overwhelming, Twitter just announced a new feature that could help — at least if you own an Android phone. Earlier this yea...

 JetMe, a startup trying to make booking a private jet simpler and more affordable, released a new tool today called “Name Your Price.”The feature lets users request a private flight,...

 Despite the shift away from paying with cash or check in favor of digital transactions in recent years, many smaller organizations, and even schools, still rely on old-school methods when it com...

Believe it or not, we’re just a week away from the start of the TechCrunch Disrupt NYHackathon! As usual, TechCrunch will award a $5,000 to the winner of the Hackathon. And to whet your competit...

 Victorious is launching mobile apps today built for Internet video stars Ryan Higa and The Young Turks. I assume this is good news if you’re a fan of Higa or The Young Turks, but even if y...

 A new trio of open patent licenses can help encourage innovation, reduce patent trolling, and help attract top engineering talent. These licenses aren’t just for idealistic hippies. They a...

 Ferris is an app designed to make mobile videos actually watchable — and actually shareable. The app also enables users to collaborate on videos together, helping them to create stories ar...

 Earlier this month, Dropbox was spotted testing an early version of an online note-taking service dubbed “Project Composer,” which appeared to have roots in the company’s 2014 ...

 Ready to get your mind blown? You better sit down. So Chris Hawker, creator of the Power Squid is back and he wants to put power… near your butt. His new product, the Couchlet, is a foldab...

 Glow, the app that helps couples track fertility cycles, today released an update that will help couples keep track of men’s reproductive healthas well as women.Male partners can now also ...

 The Swiss postal service, Swiss Post, is going to attempt drone deliveries for the first time ever using Matternet, a company working on perfecting drone-based delivery systems. The first tests ...

 Xiaomi today took the wraps of off its newest smartphone, the Mi 4i, at an event in New Delhi, India. The device, its first to be designed outside of China and first to run Android Lollipop out-...

 Salesforce.com announced a new set of human resourcestools today designedto improve employee engagement.The tools have been mostly adapted fromexisting Salesforce products and represent a signif...

 An iOS developer has built what he reckons is the first browser app for Apple Watch — and managed to get it approved by Apple. It’s called Cufflink. Read More ...

 Beacon marketing startup Swirl Networks has raised $18 million in Series C funding.The round was led by Hearst Ventures and SoftBank Capital, with a new strategic investment from Twitter Venture...

 India is currently undergoing an e-commerce boom — at least in terms of investment. The latest startup to pull in bags of investor cash is Craftsvilla, an e-commerce site for ‘ethnic...

 “The readers lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one,” said Westeros visionary Jojen Reed. Reed, however, did not have a smartphone, which meant...

 London-based startup Lifecake, which offers a photo-sharing app aimed at parents with young children, has been acquired by Canon Europe. Read More ...

 The premium take-outspace in Europe continues to heat up as a number of startups target parts of the market that Just Eat, Foodpanda and Delivery Hero aren’t yetcatering for. Namely, food ...

 Apps now let you imitate almost every kind of photography invented, from tintypes to disposable cameras. With all the tools out there, it’d be understandable if developers cried surrender ...

 Video on-demand is looking like being a hot market in Asia this year after iFlix, one of a number of Netflix-like services to have sprouted up in Southeast Asia, landed a $30 million investment ...

 Operator wants to “unlock the 90% of commerce that’s not on the Internet”, CEO Robin Chan tells me. After two years in stealth, Chan was finally willing to give TechCrunch a pe...

 Carly Fiorina will speak onstage at Disrupt NY in just two short weeks. And guess who has the honor of speaking on stage with her? THIS GAL. The timing couldn’t be more interesting, actual...

 On today’s Crunch Report, Google announces Project Fi cell service, what your favoriteapps will look like on Apple Watch, Makerbot’suncertain future, and Facebook’s user base i...

 On today’s Crunch Report, Google announces Project Fi cell service, what your favoriteapps will look like on Apple Watch, Makerbot’suncertain future, and Facebook’s user base i...

 Unable to contain itself, Microsoft released a new Windows 10 build today, bringing bug fixes, user interface improvements and new Mail and Calendar applications. In the new build, Microsoft add...

 Time to makeway for another startupjuggernaut out of thefinancial world.Funding Circle—a London-based peer-to-peer platform for small businesses to get loans, and investors to put up money...

 Time to makeway for another startupjuggernaut out of thefinancial world.Funding Circle—a London-based peer-to-peer platform for small businesses to get loans, and investors to put up money...

 Time to makeway for another startupjuggernaut out of thefinancial world.Funding Circle—a London-based peer-to-peer platform for small businesses to get loans, and investors to put up money...

 Many customers who ordered the Apple Watch have been receiving email notifications alerting them that their orders are “Processing,” despite being told when they placed their order t...

 Yellow lights ahead for Hailo? We have heard, and now confirmed, that theLondon-basedtaxi-hailing startupthat competes against the likes of Uber for on-demand car servicesis layingoff staff. As ...

 Facebook Messenger wants to replace the telephone, not just SMS, and its on its way. Messenger now makes up 10% of global Voice Over IP calls, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during today’s Q1 20...

 Facebook Messenger wants to replace the telephone, not just SMS, and its on its way. Messenger now makes up 10% of global Voice Over IP calls, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during today’s Q1 20...

 Facebook Messenger wants to replace the telephone, not just SMS, and it’s on its way. Messenger now makes up 10% of global mobile Voice Over IP calls, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during today...

 Facebook Messenger wants to replace the telephone, not just SMS, and it’s on its way. Messenger now makes up 10% of global mobile Voice Over IP calls, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during today...

 When I was eight I determined it my destiny to be one of the X-Men, a superhero born with extraordinary abilities. It seemed there were many bad things I could stop if only I were stronger, fast...

 The House of Representatives today passed The Protecting Cyber Networks Act on a307-116 bipartisan vote.The bill aims to remove legal barriers so that American companies can share threat informa...

 Following the cessation of regular trading, eBay reported its first quarter financial performance, including revenue of $4.45 billion and earnings per share of $0.77 using adjusted metrics. The ...

 Facebook failed to beat earnings estimates in Q1 2015, coming in with mixed results after 10 straight quarters of beating them. Its revenue of $3.54 billion fell short of its $3.56 billion estim...

 Box announced ‘Box Developer Edition‘ at its yearly BoxDev event today. The new approachallows developers to run their own Box “instance” inside of their application R...

 Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said the company has evidence that its efforts to improve encryption in the wake of Edward Snowden leaks have worked.His remarks at BoxDev, BoxR...

 As mobile developers rush to release applications compatible with Apple’s new wearable device, the Apple Watch, many are still wondering what sorts of app experiences make sense for the sm...

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 Simplilearn, a company helping customers get certified in areas like PMP (project management) and Android development, has raised $15 million in Series C funding. The company offers courses both...

 As rumored for months, Google has just announced plans to offer its own wireless cellular service.Here’s what we know so far… Read More ...

 Photo-sharing site Photobucket has just acquired its second company in a matter of weeks, following its pickup of photo chat app Lasso in March, which was fueled by the recent injection of $3.6 ...

 Nitrous.IO, a U.S.-Singapore startup that wants to ease the difficulties of coding by putting the process in the cloud, is making a big push to lure enterprise customers after launching a ‘...

 Say goodbye to calls from unknown numbers. Facebook’s newest app Hello instantly matches phone numbers of incoming and outgoing calls to Facebook profiles to show you info about who you...

 Sales pitches for products that aim to teach a new generation to learn to code arrive thick and fast in the inbox, these days. But one of the most polished entrants in this burgeoning space rema...

 Anyone who has transitioned from blurry vision to the perfect pair of corrective lenses or glasses knows just what a blessing clear vision is. But going to get your vision tested can be time-con...

 Scalyr, a log-monitoring service that gives developers more insight into how their applications are performing (or why they aren’t), today announced that it has raised a $2.1 million seed ...

 Longtime entertainment executive Nancy Tellem, who was president of Xbox games studios, has joined interactive video startup Interlude as its chief media officer and executive chairman. Previous...

 Imagine being able to touch a toy figurine to your phone’s screen in order to see the character transported into your video game,or touching another small piece of plastic to the phone in ...

 Long before LinkedIn went public or before a plethora of on-demand startups began washing the Bay Area and other U.S. cities with services at the click of a button, there was this startup from a...

 In 1851, Charles Mackay wrote his 600-page tome, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. In it, he describes 86 economic bubbles, like the tulip and the South Sea b...

 Europe’s top rights body, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has crystalized its censure of mass surveillance as a threat to fundamental human rights and to democr...

 Here comes somemore funding for a European financial tech company specialising in online loans. Germany’s Smava—a peer-to-peer lending platform where investors provide the funds to l...

 TechCrunch Disrupt NY is two weeks away and I’m excited to announce that I’ll be speaking with Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss on stage on May 6th at 12:20pm. The pair will talk to us a...

 “I think more and more startups will takesome portions of the massive billion dollar supermarket industry. And there are many ways into it,” says an upbeat-sounding Fabian Siegel, co...

 Google would like its Kubernetes project to become the standard for interacting with large computing clusters and containers. Mesosphere, which also has a strong focus on containers, is trying t...

 In the process of growth, startups change. They change from scrappy three-person operations to behemoths with new employees rolling in daily. They go on hiring sprees and the founders no longer ...

 Some downsizing underway for Ozon.ru, the e-commerce portal commonly referred to as the Amazon of Russia. The company is sellingSapato.ru — the “Zappos of Russia” that it acqui...

 Some downsizing underway for Ozon.ru, the e-commerce portal commonly referred to as the Amazon of Russia. The company is sellingSapato.ru — the “Zappos of Russia” that it acqui...

 As ZIRX looks to increase the number of services it offers and cities it serves, ZIRX has raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The round includes participatio...

 As ZIRX looks to increase the number of services it offers and cities it serves, ZIRX has raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The round includes participatio...

 GetReal is an app that, paradoxically, wants users to spend more time in each others’ company, and less with messaging apps. Read More ...

 GetReal is an app that, paradoxically, wants users to spend more time in each others’ company, and less with messaging apps. Read More ...

 Just one week after Zomato raised a round valuing it at more than$1 billion and acquired a point-of-sale startup, the India-based restaurant servicescompany has made anotheracquisition. Zomato h...

 Just one week after Zomato raised a round valuing it at more than$1 billion and acquired a point-of-sale startup, the India-based restaurant servicescompany has made anotheracquisition. Zomato h...

 There are changes afoot at Gengo, the crowdsourced translation service based in Tokyo, Japan, which just announced its $5.4 million Series C round and a change of leadership. Matthew Romaine, pr...

 There are changes afoot at Gengo, the crowdsourced translation service based in Tokyo, Japan, which just announced its $5.4 million Series C round and a change of leadership. Matthew Romaine, pr...

 ClickMechanic, the U.K. startup aiming to be something like an ‘Uber for car mechanics’ by offering a marketplace that lets you easily and transparently book a mobile mechanic, has s...

 ClickMechanic, the U.K. startup aiming to be something like an ‘Uber for car mechanics’ by offering a marketplace that lets you easily and transparently book a mobile mechanic, has s...

 There’s positive news for customers of Mt. Gox, the once industry-leading bitcoin exchange that blew up in spectacular fashion last year, after its creditors began accepting bankruptcy cla...

 There’s positive news for customers of Mt. Gox, the once industry-leading bitcoin exchange that blew up in spectacular fashion last year, after its creditors began accepting bankruptcy cla...

 CompareAsiaGroup, which runs websites that help users find financial services, has raised a $40 million series A led by the Goldman Sachs Investment Partners team. Read More ...

 CompareAsiaGroup, which runs websites that help users find financial services, has raised a $40 million series A led by the Goldman Sachs Investment Partners team. Read More ...

 Fast-moving HR and benefits startup Zenefits is looking to accelerate adoption even further. According to sources the company, which was founded just two years ago, is about to join the club of ...

 Marketing startup Gravity4 and its CEO Gurbaksh Chahal were sued today by Erika Alonso, formerly the company’s senior vice president of global marketing.Forbes broke the news of the lawsui...

 As the world moves from web to mobile, we’ve been thinking deeply about how people will discover mobile products and services and how we will find and access all the things we need in our ...

 In a speech at cybersecurity conference RSA, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson outlined the government’s discomfort with increasing implementation of encryption by technology...

 House Republicans continued their push against the Federal Communications Commission in the wake of the net neutrality rulemaking with three proposals that would curb the agency’s authorit...

 As part of its first quarter earnings report, Yahoo detailed its reduction in headcount. The company cut 1,000 jobs since the first quarter of 2014, to 11,400. That figure does not include 830 c...

 During a video stream discussing Yahoo’sQ1 earnings today, CEO Marissa Mayer noted that Yahoo has closed down 17 offices since she joined the company as part of a widerefficiency strategy....

 Nothing separates the “haves” and the 1% like a prohibitively expensive consumer product. Whether it’s a Hermes Birkin Bag or a McClaren P1 GTR, there are some consumer goods t...

 If you are among the 19 million people Apple predicts will buy an Apple Watch, I have some bad news for you — I’m betting there is an important feature missing from the watch that...

 If there’s any doubt that Netflix doesn’t want to just augment your cableTV subscription, but actuallydesires to replace it outright, then look no further than today’s newsof t...

 After the bell, Yahoo reported its first-quarter financial performance, including $1.04 billion in revenue after discounting for traffic costs (ex-TAC) and adjusted earnings per share of $0.15. ...

 This week, WhatsApp passed a milestone when CEO Jan Koum revealed that it had broken 800 million active users. That’s quite something in this age, when the leading global social networks a...

 Remittances – sending cash overseas – has always been bitcoin‘s killer app. Now the guys at Robocoin have made it more killer. Their new product, called Romit, is basically a w...

 Less than a month after WhatsApp introduced free voice calls to users of its Android app, so the Facebook-owned company has begun rolling the feature out to its iOS customers. Read More ...

 Twitter has today announced some product and policy changes aimed at better tackling violent threats and abuse on its platform. The problem of the mainstream social network being misappropriated...

 No one likes brands more than their friends, and there are plenty of ways to get their marketing updates. Facebook’s unique value is keeping you up to date on your real-life friends. So to...

 Apple is sending out emails to developers, offering them a chance to purchase an Apple Watch Sport for delivery by April 28th. It’s doing this to encourage them to test and develop for the...

 “I don’t know anyone who likes calling businesses. It’s not fast or convenient, and it definitely doesn’t feel like the future.” Mark Zuckerberg may as well have be...

 Climate change is real, and it is getting uglier. Global temperatures are continuing to rise, placing enormous strain on water and food supplies throughout the world. Many areas have been hit ha...

 Amazon last night rolled out a new travel site it’s calling Amazon Destinations, which focuses on helping customers find “getaway destinations” within driving distance of their...