Articles by Techcrunch from May 2015

 The U.K. government is lining up a new piece of legislation to expand the state’s digital data capture powers. The incoming bill, the Investigatory Powers Bill, was announced in the Queen&...

 Millennials are rejecting home ownership across the land. Millennials aren’t buying crap anymore, destroying businesses that, well, sell crap. Millennials are changing the workplace to be,...

 “Germany is the fourth-largest GDP in the world and only an hour timezone away from Israel, and yet most Israeli entrepreneurs strive to collaborate with San Francisco, with 10 hours diffe...

 When Yhat, the company that has developed solutions to help organize data scientist teams, graduated from the Y Combinator, winter 2015 class, the founders had a goal to raise a million dollars ...

 The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, May 29, 2015. Google I/O, cross-platform Web/App mashup, and more media me...

Silicon Valley is full of big, disruptive ideas. Now a certain mall in downtown San Francisco would like to capitalize on some of that innovative gold in the hopes that it will bring online shopping i...

 I’m a serial entrepreneur with an inferiority complex. I was diagnosed by an overly-cheerful psychiatrist about a year ago as I was getting help for anxiety and depression, which were a re...

 What’s it like to be at Google I/O? Here’s a walking tour of this year’s show floor at Moscone West, from registration all the way up to the inner den of the press room. Read M...

 Governments are scared of software. This month, the Commerce Department proposed to classify “intrusion software” as dual-use civilian/military technology; the UK announced a law whi...

 In a world where everything is being unbundled, allowing consumers to pick and choose from things like television shows and college courses, financial services are becoming a la carte as well. P...

 This has been quite the week in news. A bunch of tech companies got snatched up, including Path. The once Silicon Valley app darling just sold itself to some Korean company called Daum Kakao. Go...

 Google I/O blasted us in the face with news, mostly around the new and improved Android M. Greg was live at the Moscone Center in San Francisco the whole time and reported back to John and I (st...

 “Where are you? I’m outside. Do you see me? Where should I meet you?” These kinds of frustrating calls with your Uber driver could be a thing of the past. Today Uber updated it...

 My favorite calendar app Tempo just announced that it has been acquired by Salesforce.com.The company was incubated by SRI International, the birthplace of the voice-powered (and Apple acquired)...

 The alleged owner of the Silk Road, an online black market, has been sentenced to life in prison by Judge Katherine B. Forrest in a Federal District Court in Manhattan. He was found guilty on se...

 This week on TCBTC, TechCrunch’s bitcoin podcast, our own John Biggs sat down with Nathaniel Popper, author of Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Tr...

 Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Robert Scoble,John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 1pmPT/4pmET.GG on FacebookGG LIVE chatroomOur sister-show, G3, on Fac...

 It isn’t often that a company in Asia acquires a U.S. rival, particularly one that has surfed a wave of hype in Silicon Valley. But that’s exactly what happened this week after Path ...

 Tiggly, a company that makes a line of “iPad toys” that combine real-world objects with virtual play in mobile applications, has now rolled out its latest product: a new game and rea...

 Google’s ATAP unit now has a history of producing short movies and interactive experiences to showcase how storytellers can use mobile technology to create new experiences for their audien...

 Robots are supposed to be huge and hulking like Big Dog, but what happens when they are as light as a feather? MIT researchers recently demonstrated a tiny robot that can fold itself from a shee...

 The Bold Knot is a neatly designed top-up battery pack aiming to prevent smartphone users from running out of battery towards the end of the day. It offers an end of day boost (equivalent to thr...

 Google’s ATAP team showed a working version of its Project Ara modular smartphone on stage at I/O today, with engineer Rafa Camargo snapping in a camera module and taking a quick photo on ...

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 Facebookthis afternoon confirmedthat it will now support animated GIFs in the Facebook News Feed. Not everyone will see the added functionality immediately, we understand, as the updateis still ...

 ATAP, Google’s advanced research unit, showed a new project at the company’s I/O developer conference today that aims to replace mobile passwords with a new system that looks at your...

 Project Vault is a secure computer contained entirely on a micro SD sized device. Google’s ATAP said the micro SD format made sense because there’s already advanced security features...

 This week’s tech news included headlines about the Google I/O Keynote and plans for Project Fi, Apple’s AR acquisition and the release of the Mary Meeker Internet Trends report. Thes...

 Google’s ATAP unit today debuted Project Jacquard, the group’s effort to develop the technology that could soon make interactive textiles not just a novelty, but something that the g...

 Google was showing off its Project Jacquard at I/O 2015, a connected fabric tech that lets you build connected surfaces right into your clothes, in a way that makes it easy to connect to devices...

 Google’s ATAP Project Soli is an attempt to harness the power of hand and finger manipulation to make it easier to interact with ever-smaller devices and screens. It posits that instead of...

 Crossing 4.8 billion TwoDots games played, the creators of both Dots and its successor have admitted they are working on new games. CEO Paul Murphy told TechCrunch that the company has shelved a...

 Think of the vehicle that will change urban transportation. If the image in your mind is not an electric bus, you’re thinking of the wrong vehicle. The electrification of the passenger veh...

 Google has debuted a new productcalled “App Invites” aimed at helping mobile app developers grow their application’s user base. Now in beta for both iOS and Android, App Invite...

 Apple has published a support document detailing a workaround to temporarily resolve the situation with the nasty Messages bug that was capable of crashingiPhones. The document offers a simple s...

 The “coin operated idiots” mindset toward sales is a mistake for a number of reasons… An outstanding and involved sales force can often make or break a company. Read More ...

 The Europas Conference & Awards for European Tech Startups, is on on June 16 in London, and TechCrunch is the exclusive Media Partner. Think ‘a summertime Crunchies, with a daytime unc...

 Glose is a brand new take on ebook reading for phones and tablets. Yet, until today, one thing was crucially missing — Android support. Today, the company is launching its app on Android p...

 Ampion, the Berlin-based accelerator and advisory firmpromoting technology entrepreneurship in Africa, is opening up the latest round of its pan-African bus tours for corporate executives, start...

 By putting videos on mute autoplay in News Feeds, Facebook is redefining the way they are used by marketers. This presents new challenges for social media managers. Fortunately, they can turn to...

 Path announced that it has sold its flagship messaging apps to Korea’s Daum Kakao today, but the company has retained one interesting part of its business: its Places business-to-consumer ...

 Like them or not, emojis are turning into the mobile era’s lingua franca. Now a project called emojidex is offering “emojis-as-a-service,” with a platform that lets developers ...

 The company behind the Path social networking app might be looking for a new name. That’s because Dave Morin and crew have sold their social networking app of the same name to Korean messa...

 Got a hot idea for a new product? You’re not alone.However, hard data on exactly how many products are introduced each year is surprisingly sparse. Go ahead, give it a search. So far, the ...

 Android M is still in its very early days; Google just released the first developer preview for use on test devices today. We flashed it onto a Nexus 5, and took a look around to see what was ne...

 Google just launched a free, unlimited photo storage service. They’re calling it — wait for it — Google Photos.I met with Google shortly after the announcement, and they mentio...

 Microsoft today announced a new project that aims to help developers and IT pros in the enterprise — and even smaller development shops — improve their DevOps practices. The company ...

How much does a terabyte of photo storage cost? On iCloud, $240 a year. Dropbox, $100. Microsoft OneDrive, $84. Flickr, $25.Google, $0. It’s free on desktop, Android, and iOS.Today, Google annou...

 Bitfinder, launched out of the R/GA accelerator in February, has opened up pre-order availability for the Awair air-monitoring system. The Awair sits in the home, office or other indoor space to...

 Images detailing the design behind Uber’s giant new corporate headquarters have emerged, showing what the new, two-building corporate campus should look like when it opens up in a few year...

 Google is combining all of its login and identity solutions into a single platform today under the ‘Google Identity Platform’ moniker. What’s more interesting than that, though...

 Today was Keynote day at Google’s 2015 I/O Conference, and you know what that means: announcements, announcements, announcements. Who has time to follow all that? We’ve crammed every...

 On-demand grocery delivery startup Instacart has been rounding out its management team, as the company seeks to expand into new markets and find new customers. To support that mission, it’...

 Google’s Cardboard VR app first appeared last year at I/O 2014, but the initial version was somewhat limited in terms of device support. A new version released this year works with devices...

 Amazon wants parents to buy Kindles for their children and is today launching a discounted “Kindle for Kids Bundle” to encourage them to do so. This new package includes the combinat...

 Google Play Games, Google’s cloud-based platform for game developers, got a number of updates at the company’s annual I/O developer conference today that should make the life of game...

 Apple has acquiredMetaio, a bootstrapped augmented reality startup that launched way back in 2003 as an offshoot of a project at Volkswagon. The company’s site said it stopped taking new c...

 Speaking onstage at the Code conference, Stewart Butterfield, CEO of work collaboration startup Slack which launched two years ago, fielded a question about his company being a prime acquisition...

 In April, Google announced a new developer-facing program called “Designed for Families” which allowed mobile app publishers the option to undergo an additional review in order to be...

 Google’s Chromecast is a quiet little media secret agent turning the search giant into a big time home entertainment player. All told, users of Cast-enabled software have hit the little bu...

 Google today announced that it has worked with 20 advertising partners to bring its app install analytics in Google Analytics to iOS developers. To enable this functionality, Google worked with ...

 Google is focusing its VR efforts on bringing the variety of the wider real world closer to more people, and its new Expeditions app for virtual field trips is no exception. The app is aimed at ...

 Google didn’t go crazy and build a brand new Cardboard VR set for I/O this year as was rumored – but it did modify the original version with tweaks designed to fit the needs of the c...

 Google revealed today that Cardboard has quietly become the leading VR platform in terms of platform reach –over 1 million Cardboard units have shipped out to users so far, a 100 percent i...

 The 360-Degree Camera Array aims to capture the world for virtual reality. The rig holds 16 Hero4 cameras and records a 360-degree panoramic video — think like the Matrix’s bullet ti...

 Google officially announced its long-rumored revamp of its photo-sharing service, Google Photos, at its I/O developer conference in San Francisco today. The killer feature? Users can now backup ...

 At its I/O developer conference in San Francisco, Google today announced that it has partneredwith Udacity to launch a six-course Android development nanodegree. The idea here is to help develop...

 Google launched a new project at its I/O developer conference today that will make it easier for developers to check how their mobile apps work across the 20 most popular Android devices from ar...

 Google announced that Maps will soon provide turn-by-turn navigation for routes saved for offline use (or when you completely lose your connection in the middle of nowhere). Read More ...

 For Google to continue to expand its global ambitions, it’s going to have to get more people on the Internet. And it’s going to have to make sure its products work in areas with spot...

 Google today announced that itsCloud Messagingpush notification service now supports sending push notifications to iOS devices. In addition, Google now allows developers to set up so-called R...

 Google today at its I/O developer conference in San Francisco announced a number of new features for developers who want to sell their apps in the Google Play Store. Developers who have a number...

 Google Now has longhelped Android users get timely information about localtraffic, movies that are playing locally and other information based on their commutes, browsing history and other data....

 As expected, Google today announced the developer preview release of the next version of Android at its I/O developer conference in San Francisco. With Android M (which will get its full name on...

 In addition tonew products and media partnerships aimed to help app developers grow and manage their businesses, Google today also announced a new set of AdMob tools to help developers better ta...

 Internet kids reojice!Are you sick of browsing through endless emoji to find the right one? Now Google’s smartwatch operating system Android Wear will let you draw a clumsy version of the ...

 Google announced today a number of new tools and updates designed help app developers better promote their applications across Google’s own network, as well as measure ad performance acros...

 Today at Google I/O 2015 Google detailed its plan to roll Android into the home and everyday devices. Meet Brillo and Weave. Together, these two software products will power and allow Internet o...

 Google just demonstrated the next evolution of Android Wear, its operating system for smart watches. The focus of the updates shown here at Google IO (which will roll out over the next few weeks...

 Google just announced new features for the next version of Android and the most interesting one has little to do with the user interface: Properly equipped devices will be able to recharge other...

 Android-loving cord-cutters who want to catch up on Game of Thrones will get their chance soon — Google just announced that the HBO NOW app will be coming to Google Play. The HBO NOW app (...

 At its I/O developer conference today, Google announced Android Pay, a new payments solution native to its mobile operating system. In addition to making it easier to pay at a merchant’s p...

 Onstage at Code in Southern California this morning, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo fielded questions about whether he’d be keeping his job in the face of outside criticism and angst over the ra...

 A new report released today shows the continued domination Netflix has on North American Internet traffic patterns. According to broadband networking company Sandvine, which periodically release...

 Google today announced that Inbox, the Gmail-based mobile email client the company launched late last year, is now open to all. Until today, you still needed an invitation to use the service, th...

 Google’s senior vice president of products Sundar Pichai today announcedthat Gmail now has a total of 900 million users at the company’s annual I/O developers conference. That’...

 Get ready for a new live streaming metric: Content years.Periscope CEOKayvon Beykpour took the stage today at the Code conference in Southern California and announced that Periscope has broadcas...

 Let’s set the stage: You’ve always wanted to work at an early stage startup that is growing exponentially. So you’ve done your research and figured out a startup/product that y...

 Its been rumored for weeks, but consider it mostly official: Google is launching a photo service separate of Google+. We just heard it straight from the horses mouth while walking the halls of G...

 Google is kicking off its annual I/O developer conference today. You can watch the live stream right here on this page or, if you can’t watch video at work, follow along with our live blog...

 Uber is making changes to its driver-side app to provide better functionality for deaf and hard of hearing driver partners. For years now, Uber’s driver-side app has used audio alerts to n...

 There is no doubt that the technology of today, from smartphones to connected devices to WiFi everywhere, is making our world a more convenient and navigable place. But in many ways we’ve ...

 Swatch still wants in on the smartwatch game. According to Chief Executive Nick Hayek the watch will be internet-enabled and feature remote-payment functions, although the specifics are still in...

 Swatch still wants in on the smartwatch game. According to Chief Executive Nick Hayek the watch will be internet-enabled and feature remote-payment functions, although the specifics are still in...

 Amazon says today it will expand its same-day delivery service covering around 1 million items to two new markets, San Diego and Tampa Bay, while also reducing the price to free for orders over ...

 GumGum announced this morning that it has raised $26 million in Series C funding. Founded in 2007, the company offerstechnology to identify the content of an image, then place ads to match thepi...

 Music and video metadata company Gracenote is launching a new product for a new vertical, getting into sports data for the first time. To power the new sports product the company has acquired a ...

 Salesforce Wave, the data analysis platform that Salesforce.com released last Fall,was originally conceivedto visualize Salesforce data, but the companyis always tinkering with its products.Toda...

 Over the past two years, groceries have become an increasingly important segment for Chinese e-commerce companies. Now Alibaba, which is facing slowing growth despite its leading market position...

 Facebook’s Internet.org initiative to provide basic internet access for free has been heavily criticized over the past few months, but its business as usual for the U.S. company after its ...

 Finnish mobile upstart Jolla, whose linux-based Sailfish OS is marketed as a more flexible alternative to the dominant platforms of Android and iOS, is stepping up its push to win friends and in...

 London-based Passion Capital has raised a second fund for investing in early stage U.K.-based startups — today announcing a coffer of 45 million ($69M) to power its next phase of investmen...

 Weibo, the NYSE-listed microblogging company in China, is an unlikely investor in China’s soon-to-merge taxi-hailing apps Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache. Read More ...

 Lenovo re-introduced Motorola smartphones to China in January, and now it has launched the Moto Maker customization service there too. Read More ...

 This thing somehow sticks to an HDTV. Called the Lenovo Cast, it’s the firm’s first media streaming device and is designed to work with Android devices. Launching this August at $49 ...

 Diversity is a running theme across this year’s Code conference, but unlike some of the other CEO guests, Pinterest CEO Ben Silberman was well-versed on what the diversity statistics are a...

 “The first app store for websites” — that’s how AppSumo co-founder Noah Kagan describes the company’s new-ish product SumoMe. What does that actually mean? Basicall...

 Today, GoPro announced that it was working on an array that combines 6 GoPro Hero cameras for spherical shots all at once. CEO Nick Woodman says that when Facebook bought Oculus, the ‘gaun...

 Google’s I/O developer conference for 2015 kicks off tomorrow, with a keynote that begins at 9:30 AM PT. Google typically uses this to make big, splashy announcements about its software pl...

 Squarespace users this afternoon will get a set of tools that will enable them to more easily publish content to Pinterest and gather data about the traffic those pins are driving to their site....

 Target CEO Brian Cornell said today at the Code conference that the company is committed to offering Apple Pay as an option for customers. “I’d love to have Apple Pay in our system r...

 Apple has partnered with on-demand delivery startup Postmates to offer same-day delivery of certain items in the Apple Store. We’ve been able to order items from the nearest Apple Store on...

 On Saturday June 6 we are celebrating the ten year birthday of TechCrunch. 1,500 people will gather from 12-3 p.m. at the Presidio in San Francisco. Like the meetups ten years ago at my house in...

 Housed in a dusty street in Karachi, Pakistan, the community space for artists, creatives and entrepreneurs, The Second Floor (T2F), doesn’t look like much from the outside. Inside the spa...

 Google I/O begins Thursday, kicking off with the usual keynote from the search giant during which it generally drops a lot of news. We’ll be there to cover it live as it happens, but a lot...

 Over 500k people are staying in an Airbnb tonight. And the company hopes to have nearly 800k staying in one by this summer. CEO Brian Chesky gave these numbers at Code today, revealing his wide-...

 Mi.com will soon sell Xiaomi products and accessories in the US and, UK, France and Germany. This comes after last week’s short soft launch of the online store. However, like before, the f...

 The wearable wars just escalated to a new high. Jawbone has sued Fitbit in a California court for recruiting employees who plundered confidential information on their way out. According to the s...

 I love design and startup and I firmly believe magical companies emerge when these two meet, e.g. Braun, Apple, Airbnb, Medium, YouTube, Square, and Nest. The critical mass of combined business,...

Remember those absolutely insane Wolverine claws from last year? The ones that were preeeetty much guaranteed to take someone’s eye out? The latest take on the ever-evolving DIY Wolverine Claw c...

 Twitter is hoping to help marketers better understand their Twitter audience by adding a tool that will give them deeper user behavior around organic tweets. The audience insights dashboard tool...

 Reddit CEO Ellen Pao took the stage today at the Code Conference in Southern California. Though she is currently the CEO of popular news aggregator Reddit, which has 170 million monthly active u...

 If your life depends on technology, you better read this cover to cover. Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker’s yearly Internet Trends report is the ultimate compilation of essential tech s...

 It’s about time. Chevy is going to start offering Apple CarPlay and Android Auto across its vehicle line. The rollout will start in a few weeks and eventually hit 14 Chevy models. Apple an...

 If you want to understand tech, Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends reports are the closest you’ll get to gospel. Today the Kleiner Perkins partner released her hotly anticipated 2015 edit...

 Foursquare has today released an update that is meant to improve recommendations for users. Though it doesn’t look all that different, the app has been given an under-the-hood makeover. Fo...

 Facebook says today that it’s expanding access to the new payments feature introduced in Facebook Messenger earlier this year to those located in New York City and the surrounding metro ar...

 Used car sales are heating up online, with huge amounts of cash pouring into an industry that has yet to be disrupted by technology. A company called Carvana is in the process of raising a huge ...

 Williams said that there are over 4,000 apps now available for Apple Watch, a number we’ve previously heard. Williams also discussed the upcoming native SDK for the Apple Watch.“A we...

 Apple has today updated its dedicated mobile app for its Worldwide Developers Conference, beginning on June 8. As in previous years, the app will provide attendees with access to information on ...

 All smartwatches owe a debt to Pebble; the startup, in its previous life, was building smartwatches for BlackBerry devices back when people still used those. The Pebble Time is the second-genera...

 Leslie Moonves, the CEO of CBS, talked about its negotiations with Apple over its rumored upcoming TV service today at Code Conference. “Apple TV is trying to change the universe a bitR...

 Apple says today it has a fix in the works for an odd software bug that has been able to crash users’ iPhones when they receive a text message with a specific string of characters. The bug...

 The venture arm of the media and information services giant Bloomberg is continuing its grand experiment in data-driven outreach to folks the firm thinks have the mettle to become the leaders of...

 Applications for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF are now open! The event will take place on September 21st-23rd at the lovely Pier 70. Each day of Disrupt, Startup Battlefield companies pi...

 For the last two years, Google has been showing Android users relevant content from apps they have installed on their phones and tablets. Now, it is also bringing this feature to iOS users and a...

 To their colleagues, Adam Kalamchi and Kane Hsieh seemeda little crazy when they left RRE Ventures last year to start a bicyclecompany. Nine months and $1.5 million later, they’re official...

 TechStars London alum and U.K.-based startup Lystable, which has built a cloud-based workflow management platform aimed at simplifying how businesses handle contacts with suppliers and freelance...

 Now news comes of another U.K. banking startup: Monese is a soon-to-launch mobile banking service for immigrants and expats who might otherwise find it difficult to open a bank account outside o...

 Bellabeat, a company that makesa line health trackers and other devices aimed at women, including especiallymoms and moms-to-be, today begins shipping its first wearable: a piece of “smart...

 The Europas Conference & Awards for European Tech Startups, on June 16 in London, is an annual celebration of Europe’s brightest tech companies. From a small bar in central London in 2...

  Warning You may be about to see a lot of gigantic emoji surface across chat apps and other mobile apps you use. That’s because popular keyboard Fleksy launched integrated stickers into i...

 Managing and trading shifts is one of the most onerous tasks faced by retail employees, especially since many don’t have set hours. Shift Messenger, a Y Combinator alum, launched earlier t...

 Managing and trading shifts is one of the most onerous tasks faced by retail employees, especially since many don’t have set hours. Shift Messenger, a Y Combinator alum, launched earlier t...

 Airware makes a flexible drone operating system. But it needs to bundle up with industry-specific hardware and software makers to sell a whole commercial drone package to big construction, oil, ...

 Airware makes a flexible drone operating system. DJI makes the top consumer drones. But they need tobundle up with industry-specific hardware and software makers to sell whole commercial drone p...

 MatterFab wants to change the way metal 3D printing is done, by making the process more scalable and affordable. It’s raised $5.75 million in funding to continue to refine its 3D printing ...

How much of thehiring process can you automate?That’s a question that a couple of YC-backed companies are striving to answer in the technical recruiting space.Gradberry, a recruitingplatform tha...

 As expected, the newly elected U.K. Conservative government has confirmed its intention to push for broader powers to capture online communications, announcing a forthcoming Investigatory Powers...

 A new company called Mapsense is trying to help developers make sense of location data they’re collecting with a set of tools they can use to overlay information gleaned from users on top ...

 Berlin-based Campanda, which offers an online booking site for RVs (that’s motorhomes and trailers, to you and me) has raised 5 million in further funding. Read More ...

 Many brands now rely on location-based marketing, which sends consumers ads based on which stores or venues are nearby. Founded by former Googlers, Ubimo incorporates additional data points, inc...

 Recruitment startup Jobandtalent, which uses linguistic analysis to alert candidates to jobs they might otherwise have missed, has topped up its Series A funding round with another $25 million &...

 Perhaps spurred on by Monsanto’s acquisition of Climate Corporation in 2013, the agriculture tech (or agtech) space looks set to continue heating up, not leasts in the eyes of investors. T...

 Another London-headquartred fintech startup, albeit one with a development and marketing team in Spain, has raised more capital of its own. This time it’s the turn of Kantox. The currency ...

 After answering questions about media, messaging and what he thought about diversity in tech at the Code conference in Southern California today (spoiler alert: he didn’t reveal much), Sna...

 You might not have to hold your finger on the screen to view your snaps in the future, saysCEO Evan Speigel. “It’s annoying to hold your finger there,” said Spiegel, talking ab...

 Resistance is futile when it comes to Facebook. If your feature benefits the social network’s 1.44 billion users, it doesn’t care if you built it for a smaller audience first. Whethe...

 Digital media conglomerate Vox Media has acquired Re/code, the technology industry news publication led by renowned tech journalists Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg. The news was first reported t...

 TechCrunch is headed to Austin and Seattle on June 23 and June 25 respectively, and we’re stoked to see what some of our favorite cities have to show us. We’ll be holding the world f...

 Technology is changing one of the most fundamental mediums that touch every person on the planet: money. Bitcoin’s rise showed us how much demand there is for a globally accepted digital c...

 Today’s episode of Cribs takes us to the San Francisco headquarters of Lumosity, the company that makes online games aimed at keeping your brain alert and healthy. Read More ...

 Following the bell, Workday reported the results of the first quarter of its fiscal 2016. The company lost $0.02 per share during the period, using adjusted metrics, on revenue of $251.0 million...

 Oculus VR announced the acquisition of Surreal Vision today, bringing the company’s expertise on recreating real-time 3D representations of the outside world into virtualized environments....

 For the past several weeks we’ve been hearing persistent rumors that somebody is going to buy Salesforce.com. The company delivered its quarterly report last week, performing decently, see...

 A leaked internal link on Walmart.com accidentally unveiled more details regarding the retailer’s forthcomingthree-day shipping service which aims to challengeAmazon Prime. For starters,we...

 Call it the robot bear hug. Microsoft announced today that its Android hardware manufacturer (OEM) program that sees Office apps pre-installed on new hardware has been expanded to 20 new compani...

 Flywheel has been gradually expanding its availability in new markets, and also offering new ways for customers to pay. To do so, the company has extended its Series C financing to make room for...

 Anyone working in the startup world knows intuitively that women are not well represented in technical or founder roles — and that quantifying the issue is difficult because data is so sca...

 The writing has been on the wall for some time, but analysts at IDC are again confirming today that the worldwide smartphone market will continue to see its overall growth slowing in 2015. The f...

 The world of bitcoin is like the Lord Of The Rings without the Hobbits. You’ve got Sauron (Satoshi Nakamoto, who essentially wants freedom from law), Saruman (Ross Ulbricht, the technologi...

 Home sensor startup Notion, which last fall Kickstarted its first batch of sensors for in-home monitoring, has pulled in a $2 million seed investments from Draper Nexus Ventures, Gabriel Investm...

 The most impactful companies are founded on solving problems, typically these are problems that affected a founder personally. In that respect, Postman, a startup offering a platform for teams d...

 At $15 per month, is HBO NOW too expensive when competing against lower-cost services like Netflix and Amazon Prime? That’s what the network wants to know, andit’s currently asking c...

 Today is Tuesday, which means that we’ll be making our usual trek up to the Sirius XM studios to go live with TechCrunch Radio on Sirius XM Insight 121. That also means that the weekly TC ...

 A new report from 9to5Mac claims iOS 9 will have support for Force Touch features, as well as haptic feedback, and that both of those will be included in the iPhone 6 hardwaresuccessor coming th...

 U.K.-based startup Pryynt is hoping to wrong foot print-on-demand services by getting app developers to integrate an SDK that puts a print button directly into their apps, and an on-demand print...

 Turkey’s Iyzico, which provides a platform to let e-commerce sites and other apps easily accept online payments, has raised a $6.2 million Series B. Read More ...

 Organizing our massive photo libraries is a task that a number of startups and big companies alike are still trying to solve. While Google is poised to introduce a new, standalone Photos app at ...

 Although it may not be the obvious hero, usually more Vampire Squid than White Knight, Goldman and its cohorts could be responsible for transitioning the renewables sector from a fragmented and ...

 EMC announced this morning that it had purchased Virtustream, a cloud management firm, for $1.2billion. The company has indicated it will incorporateVirtustream as the company’s newly form...

 The Stratos is an early player in a new category of devices. It’s a sort of universal credit card that aims to consolidate all the plastic cards in your wallet. To use a certain credit car...

 Periscope, Twitter’s live streaming video app, has arrived on Android. After a debut on iOS early this year, the company’s Android app development under former Twitter for Android de...

 Investorsare throwing someserious money at enterprise backupthese days. If you want proof, look atRubrik, a startup that has developeda hybrid cloud and on-premises backup solution. Itlanded $40...

 Samsung’s Iron Man-branded Galaxy S6 Edge arrives tomorrow, with a custom paint job, 64GB of on-board storage and a limited edition wireless charger accessory with an appropriate arc react...

 Microsoft is not limiting the features of Windows 10 to people who play entirely in its own sandbox; the company announced today, via a video hosted by MS operating system lead Joe Belfiore, tha...

 Indie authors seem to be living in an age of wonders. They can upload a PDF and sell it instantly on Kindles and tablets. They can print-on-demand like merry little Gutenbergs, slinging their wa...

 Apple has a new patent (via AppleInsider) that combines the best of both worlds when it comes to input – physical keys and touch-based input. The hybrid design would provide users with mor...

 BBC iPlayer creator Anthony Rose, who also co-founded social TV app Beamly, has launched a new startup today called 6Tribes as an iOS app. The focus? Interest-based social networking. The app is...

 Sony announced its new Xperia Z4 in its native Japan last month, and today it has a new smartphone for the rest of us… it’s called the Xperia Z3+, not the Z4, however. Read More ...

 Hotels.ng, which claims to be the largest hotel booking site in Nigeria, has raised $1.2 million to expand across Africa. Investors include EchoVC Pan-Africa Fund and Omidyar Network, a venture ...

 A new report from Counterpoint Research suggests that the Samsung Z1, the aforementioned $91 device, was the top selling smartphone in Bangladesh in Q1 2015. The report did not provide an estima...

 The News Lens, an independent news site based in Taipei, has scooped up its series A. The exact amount of the funding was undisclosed, but the startup tells TechCrunch it was between $1 million ...

 While TravelersBox may sound like a fight club for paunchy, tired business executives who spend months on a plane per year, it’s actually a box that lets you turn your foreign currency ...

 Snapdeal, one of the largest e-commerce players in India, has snapped up MartMobi for an undisclosed amount. Based in Hyderabad, Martmobi helped vendors build mobile apps and sites. Snapdeal sai...

 Sending money is hard. Sure we’ve got bitcoin for some and Paypal for some more and the horrible SWIFT and ACH systems for the rest of us schlubs but no one has quite cracked the money tra...

 Pavegen is on a mission to upgrade the ground you walk on. The U.K. clean-tech startup has engineered a high tech flooring product that can generate enough energy to power lights and even buildi...

 Smartphone sales growth is slowing to less than 10% annually to 2018, and mobile networks saw just 5% growth in the last decade. So while Applecontinues to knock it out of the park and Xiaomi sk...

 Apple’s Jony Ive, the design genius often credited for Apple’s innovative and unique industrial design language over the past couple of decades, has taken on a new role at the compan...

 Since its inception in 2009, bitcoin has been disrupting the money exchange market and the currency industry. As the remittance market is moving from brick and mortar retail network to digital, ...

 In late March, when a group of A-list musicians gathered in Manhattan to show support for Jay Z’s new music streaming service, Tidal, expectations were sky-high. The music stars, many of t...

 Chinese e-commerce site and Alibaba rival JD.com is putting its money into fresh fruit and vegetables after it led a $70 million Series C round in FruitDay, a company that sells fresh produce. R...

 It’s been a pretty busy and expensive 2015 so far for Expedia — which forked out $280 million to buy Travelcity in February, before shelling out $1.6 billion for Orbitz a week later ...

 The next stage in the console business seems to be one of updating the business model toward one that provides much more value to players. Which of the major platforms will take that step? Read ...

 Asset prices are more sensitive to very low interest rates than most suspect. Global interest rates are now at historic lows. Conversely we are seeing record prices for asset prices be they shar...

 On the heels of its acquisition by Twitter, TellApart chief executive Josh McFarland tells Greylock Partners how he grew the company from $7M to $100M in revenue. Read More ...

 I know this sounds crazy, but what if authors and artists didn’t just pump their work into Facebook for free? Yeah, it built the pipes, but that doesn’t mean the water’s not wo...

 With the closing of the Mad Men era, what is old is popular once again. Silicon Valley may be known for its colorful workplaces and free catered lunches, but its true innovation in compensation ...

 Four and a half years is a lot of pretty pictures. Instagram isn’t as young as it used to be, and it doesn’t want long-time users to slip away from its app. Luckily,it can still emai...

 We already knew that GoCardless co-founder Tom Blomfield was working on a new U.K. banking startup, but now, thanks in part to a noisy series of Tweets from investors, developers and the company...

 Do we have a ticking time bomb on hand? The debate over whether Silicon Valley is sitting on another tech bubble rages on. It is being fueled by many celebrated “unicorns” that have ...

 Over the past few months there’s been a lot of discussion about whether women are positioned for success in Silicon Valley. The debate on empowering women in tech ranges from pay equality ...

 Funding events over the last five quarters have shown investors to be bullish on companies engaged in email. From analytics to infrastructure, advertising to services, and everything in between,...

 The late April merger of, Lema21, an innovative private label startup, and etica, an ecommerce site for prescription eyewear and contacts, is proof that Brazil’s investors are taking a lon...

 Is there a “Food Bubble”? Robyn Metcalfe believes so. In her recent TechCrunch editorial she pointed to recent fundraises by Instacart and Delivroo—reportedly demanding valuati...

 Europeans love little better than a nice cup of tea. Which means an awful lot of water is being boiled daily — only a portion of which is actually necessary, given most people aren’t...

 It’s shaping up to be one amazing summer, and the week we’re most excited about here at TechCrunch is the week we hit up the wonderful cities of Austin and Seattle, on June 23 and Ju...

 The problem is it’s not an easy undertaking to change the way a large organization operates. Real initiative gets bogged down in politics, hierarchical thinking and institutional inertia. ...

 Before we get too far into this, I want to be fully transparent and disclose up-front that this is weird and mostly irrelevant. Inexplicably, Vimeo user Marcello Gmez Maureira has created a vide...

 The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, May 22, 2015. Medium restructures, or does it. Details in Liner Notes and Chat.Cente...

 Every day throughout the United States, there are thousands of patients waiting for a compatible organ. Supply never meets demand, a function of our voluntary system of organ donation as well as...

 The Watch marks an interesting time in the wearable fitness space, in particular. Health and fitness trackers like Jawbone Up and Fitbit have dominated much of that space in the last few years. ...

 Just in time for the hustle-and-bustle of Memorial Day Weekend, Google has added traffic alerts to Google Maps. Google has shown traffic conditions for a while now, but this update actually brin...

 Financial inclusion — expanding access to financial services to those on the margins — is often advocated as a priority for the developing world. And rightly so: It can increase econ...

 Bitcoin: it’s at a crucially important crossroads; it’s approaching a crisis that threatens its very existence; it has never been more likely to erupt into enormous global importance...

 So you’ve made it past all the VC grilling and received a term sheet. Congratulations! But don’t celebrate just yet. Term sheets are non-binding, and even though they should signify ...

 This week we cover one noteworthy review of the new MacBook by Marco Arment, as well as iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 details. Apple is supposedly tidying up with both OS updates this year, and also maki...

 Happy holiday Friday, team, and welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek. This time around, we remain camped out in the CrunchBase offices while TCHQ undergoes reconstructive surgery, Our own Ky...

 If you look across the space of consumer Internet services and physical sensors, people are producing more data than ever before, which is being used to make all kinds of insurance more granular...

 Jim Gaffigan, comedian and official President Of The Internet, stopped in at our New York studio where we talked about his new show that is now streaming on JimGaffigan.com. The show will air on...

 Here’s another absurd one out of Disney’s research labs. We’ve seen them build adorable robots to draw on beaches, 3D printers that make huggable objects out of felt, and make ...

 One important note about this podcast: Matt can’t seem to get his microphones to work. Ever. So if you’re wondering why we all sound like professional radio hosts (two of us are, act...

 Recipe-and-ingredient delivery serviceChef’d ran a successful Indiegogo campaignlast year, but that’s not the only way the team is fundingits growth — the company is also annou...

 Plenty of people have compared the Apple Watch to the classic Casio calculator watch; these guys went ahead and made the inevitable app. Meet GeekWatch — the app that turns your Apple Watc...

 Fixed, amobile app that fights parking ticketson your behalf, has now arrived in New York City – its first new market outside of California, where the company already operates. New York is...

 Some Spider, the digital media startup created by Quidsi co-founder Vinit Bharara, has been bringing on some big names from the media world, including The New York Times’ chief technology ...

 Anker, the company that makes affordable, good quality backup batteries and other accessories without the hefty price tag of some of its competitors, is answering the call of USB-C. To serve buy...

 Earlier this year, Viacom-owned kids’ network Nickelodeon announced its plans to enter the subscription video market with its own over-the-top streaming service aimed at the preschool crow...

 LaunchKit, which aims to give developers a tool set that makes launching new apps easier, announced its newest service this week. The free LaunchKit App Store Sales Reporter helps developers tra...

 Nootropics, smart drugs, and other biohacks are now drawing mainstream scrutiny and controversy as more and more people are using legal, off-label, and unscheduled “research chemicals̶...

 The Aria is an add-on band that measures movement in the wrist to control smart watches with finger gestures. Compatible with Android Wear and the Pebble Time, their module slots in to an existi...

 Meet Izberg Marketplace, an interesting French startup that has been flying under the radar for a while. The company recently grabbed $1.7 million from Alven Capital (1.5 million) — and it...

 AOL, which is in the process of getting acquired by Verizon for $4.4 billion, says it has no plans to divest itself of its content operations (which include TechCrunch) as part of that deal. But...

 Apple’s next-generation operating systems, for both mobile devices and PCs, are reportedly going to have a strong focus on zapping bugs and improving stability, reports 9to5Mac. We’d...

 TechCrunch had some big internal news this week, as we said goodbye to co-editor Alexia Tsotsis and Conference Program Chair Susan Hobbs. Read More ...

 Switch, the Tinder for job apps, has just announced a new investor in the form of Marker VC, closing out their seed round at $2 million. Other investors include Metamorphic, Rhodium, Marker, BAM...

 Every May 22 cyphernerds around the world celebrate Bitcoin Pizza Day, the day when early bitcoin enthusiast and programmer Laszlo Hanyecz offered 10,000 bitcoins – about $25 at that time ...

 Tech companies old and new are powering an on-demand revolution, letting us get everything from house cleaning, to lunch, to product, to almost literally everything where we want it, when we wan...

 Project Fi, Google’s recently announced plans to offer its own wireless cellular service, appears to have a lot of demand – or at least, that’s what an emailsent out to potenti...

 In my high school years I learned programming from a robust man with a large mustache who practiced his golf swing while we coded in Pascal. Not once did we ever sing and I doubt he would have b...

 As the father of an 11th grade student, I am watching my oldest child explore where she will want to attend university when she completes her senior and final year of high school. This past mont...

 CrowdJustice, a London-based startup founded by ex-United Nations lawyer Julia Salasky, is a crowdfunding platform for “public interest” litigation. The idea is to bring the Kickstar...

 Yello Mobile, the Korean company that gobbled up 61 companies last year and recently raised $100 million, is always hungry for acquisitions, and it’s back at the table again after picking ...

 Another sign that former Google head of business Nikesh Arora is poised to take over the top spot at SoftBank: he will replace current chief executive officer Masayoshi Son as chairman of Yahoo ...

 Another sign that former Google head of business Nikesh Arora is poised to take over the top spot at SoftBank: he will replace current chief executive officer Masayoshi Son as chairman of Yahoo ...

 Google has confirmed that it is making changes to its Google Maps service to stop racist terms and other inappropriate words from displaying location search results. The issue blew up this week ...

 Line, the Japanese messaging app with 205 million active users, is continuing its push into entertainment services after it began testing a $2 per month music streaming service. Read More ...

 Apple has indeed started putting Apple Watch inventory on sale for walk-in shoppers in its retail stores, for the first time since the Apple Watch officially launched. Reports from this morning ...

 In the tech world, everyone aspires to “kill” something. At least, that is what you would think from the media coverage. “The death” of gamification. Of cable. Of video g...

 Two tech companies went public today, both posting first-day gains. The Canadian Shopify popped a massive 51 percent, while Baozun picked up a slimmer 4.6 percent. While seeing your share price...

 Guildery, an e-commerce company that’s putting technology to use by offering digitally printed fabrics and other home accessories like pillows, drapes, ottomans, and more, has closed on $2...

 Digital commerce company PayPal is moving to establish itself as “more than just a button” to a global payments platform as it readies a split from parent company eBay later this yea...

 PayPal’s instant checkout service called OneTouch is now being extended to support all merchants using the e-commerce platform Bigcommerce, as well as on mobile devices – even in cas...

 Tinder is launching a new partnership with Zedd to offer his upcoming album, True Colors, for an exclusive price of $3.99. Not unlike past partnerships with artists like Jason Derulo, Tinder and...

 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Thursday morning that the chamber would hold a rare Saturday vote on two pieces of legislation related to NSA surveillance. The vote comes as key...

 Is that a message from some rando, a spammer, or the nice guy you met yesterday? Facebook Messenger wants to give you some clues before you consider responding. The app will now surface publicly...

 What if you could avoid pre-roll advertisements for irrelevant products? That’s the dream that Game.it is trying to turn into a reality. The app is an ecommerce platform that only shows yo...

 It’s pretty odd hearing a not-for-profit organization like Mozilla talk about how it wants to help advertisers strengthen the conversation between brands and its users — especially g...

 It’s pretty odd hearing a not-for-profit organization like Mozilla talk about how it wants to help advertisers strengthen the conversation between brands and its users — especially g...

 Storehouse, the iOS-centric app for sharing stories from your photos and videos, now lets you tag friends in stories using the familiar ‘@-mention.’ In a world (read this in the trai...

 Back in September, Gobble unveiled a new kind of food delivery. It doesn’t offer a fully prepared meal or a box of ingredients and recipes — instead, it delivers “dinner kits&#...

 Oculus is hosting its second annual primary developer conference between September 23 and 25, the company announced today. The big show, called ‘Connect 2′ in keeping with the origin...

 All of a sudden, it seems like Facebook, Google and Apple are climbing all over each other to own the voice interaction, and specifically, the phone conversation. They’re in a race to comp...

 All of a sudden, it seems like Facebook, Google and Apple are climbing all over each other to own the voice interaction, and specifically, the phone conversation. They’re in a race to comp...

 Mode Media is announcing that it has raised $30 million in new funding.Previously known as Glam Media, the company ran the fashion site of the same name, as well as other online properties inclu...

 Mozilla’s Firefox browser for iOS is nearing public release, asthe organization is now actively recruiting beta testers willing to try the app ahead of its App Store debut. A recent survey...

 If you happen to be staying in San Francisco during the long Memorial Day weekend, one of the things you can do is see the art in the F.A.T. Gold Retrospective at Gray Area in the Mission Distri...

 Apple is said to be planning to bring built-in transit directions to its native Maps app in iOS 9. Transit directions were left out when Apple replaced Google Maps with its own offering as the d...

 Sling TV, Dish Network’s internet TV service designed for cord cutters, is now available on the Android TV platform, the company is announcing this morning, including Google’s Nexus ...

 What is your favorite food? What was your first teacher’s name? What’s the name of your first pet? Do those questions sound familiar to you? If they do, it’s probably because y...

 Wave Broadband — a broadband company that has built a gigabit fiber network with services from Washington down to California completely independent of the big carriers — is today ann...

 Russia’s Yandex has added a suite of new privacy centric features to an experimental browser it unveiled last year, as well as now switching the software from alpha to beta — and mak...

 Apple has a new patent application for a mobile hotspot (via AppleInsider), which might surprise people since it hardly seems like the type of accessory the iPhone maker would go out of its way ...

 Apple is looking into a way to provide both 3D and 2D images from the same display, without requiring any special ocular equipment like 3D glasses, according to a new patent application (via App...

QuizUp is now a social network, by every stretch of the imagination. Following a massive update today, the trivia game that trail-blazed through the App Store in 2013, is now introducing true social f...

 Last year, YouTube introduced 60 frames per second (fps) video streams and today, it’s bringing the same smooth playback experience to live streaming videos, as well. As Google rightly not...

 Google’s cloud-based Chromebooks continue carving a niche for themselves predominantly in the education sector, as a less expensive alternative for this group of users than the iPad, but a...

 Qwilr is a tool for anyone who has sent out a PowerPoint deck they spent hours creating, only to wonder if anyone is even going to bother downloading it. The platform makes it easy to turn busin...

 Amazon Prime Now is adding items from stores in Manhattan in a move that will make it an even closer competitor to startups like Instacart and Postmates. Read More ...

 The impending sale of Nokia’s Here mapping division has put a sharp focuson the role that location and maps in particular are playing in the mobile world. And while we are seeing a number ...

 Lenovo just completed its first full quarter of business as the owner of Motorola and, with its $2.91 billion acquisition from Google under its wing, the Chinese company shipped a record 18.7 mi...

 Amazon, eBay and other giants of online commerce are not fully present in Southeast Asia, and that has led to a glut of online shopping startups rising up across the region. At times it can get ...

 Stripe is raising a new round of funding, according to sources with knowledge of the talks. One source with direct knowledge of the talks tells us that one of the leading investors in the deal i...

 Stripe is raising a new round of funding, according to sources with knowledge of the talks. One source with direct knowledge of the talks tells us that one of the leading investors in the deal i...

 Cornell Tech is introducing a new way for its master’s students to transform their ideas into real companies — those students can now compete in the Startup Awards, with winners rece...

 When seed capital hits the books, the outlook of every startup is one of unbridled optimism. Founders, team members, and investors are inspired by a singular vision and believe it can materializ...

 Spotify announced the addition of video clips, adaptable songs for runners and other new features at an event earlier today. Afterwards, I met with Vice President of Product Charlie Hellman, who...

 As more startups rush into the business of providing on-demand services for our everyconsumer need, we’re also seeing an inevitable move to some consolidation. In the latest development, H...

 Cable operator Comcast historically has been stingy and slow when it comes to expanding access to services like HBO GO on third-party devices. That’s why today’s news that HBO GO as ...

 Google has introduced a new limited run of Android device accessories called ‘Edition’ cases. These cases, which come in sizes compatible with Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Samsung Galaxy S5, Ga...

 Disease outbreak prediction startup Metabiota has raised $30 million in Series A funding to help build out its offerings to government organizations and insurers on a global scale. The San Franc...

 Given the significant influx of new talent that has poured into the venture capital industry and the extended length of feedback cycles, it’s not that surprising that VCs tend to stick to ...

 Salesforce today reported adjusted profit of $0.16 per share on revenue if $1.51 billion in the first quarter of its fiscal 2016. The market had expected the SaaS firm to report $0.14 in adjuste...

 Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has been rambling on the Senate floor about National Security Agency surveillance for three hours and counting.In a pseudo-filibuster, the presidential candidate has t...

 Aproblem that led to Windows Phone app developers seeing declining ad revenue from Google’s AdMob ad network has now been resolved, says Google.Earlier this week, news emerged that a numbe...

 Ordering pizza by tweeting an emoji of slice to Domino’s is not as fun as it sounds. In case you missed it, in a marketing stunt expansion of its “Anyware” program, Domino̵...

 The real estate market is bouncing back from the recession, which means house flipping shows are back on HGTV and investors are having a harder time finding underpriced properties. RealtyHop, wh...

 Apple is thought to be gearing up to launch HomeKit soon, likely in time for WWDC next month. The software feature for iOS devices would allow control of connected home accessories that fit Appl...

 The disconnect between American citizens’ desire for privacy and the actions of the U.S. government — and big technology companies — continues. A new survey by the Pew Research...

 Microsoft is at it again today, with a new Windows 10 build. The operating system, due out this summer, has reached something akin to an inflection point: Microsoft appears now more focused on s...

 TechCrunch is headed to Grand Rapids to host our first mini-meetup and pitch-off in West Michigan. The doors open tomorrow, Thursday May 21st, at 5:00. Expect the pitches to start around 5:30. T...

 After a brief – but energetic – flirtation with hardware startups, Radio Shack went bankrupt, leaving many creditors in the cold. The hardest hit? Those same hardware startups. Accor...

 Dropbox shed an executive today. The storage and file-sharing company’sIlya Fushman is joining Index Ventures as a general partner. Index Ventures led Dropbox’s $250 million Series B...

 The rise of messaging apps has seemingly done two things to many would-be app developers. First: it’s made an unholy number of them build messaging apps because MESSAGING IS THE NEXT BIG T...

 Searching for racist keywords brings up things like the White House and other historically black institutions in Google Maps.The Huffington Post and other media outlets reported yesterday that t...

 Smartwatch maker Pebble seems to be in some trouble. According to sources close to the company, the company is having trouble maintaining its growth and has turned to a Silicon Valley bank for a...

 Netflix confirms today that it will roll out anew user interface on the web to all users worldwide beginning next month. A number of Netflix customers are already seeing the updated look-and-fee...

 Spotify’s press event today wasn’t just about adding video and other content types. The company also revealed that it’s adding new features to improve the experience for anyone...

 1/ Some personal news 2/ I will be leaving TechCrunch because I’ve been cast to play a supporting role in “Tweetstorm The Movie 3/ .”Just kidding. Okay, I am stepping down as c...

 Predictive keyboard maker SwiftKey is today flicking the monetization switch for its iOS app, with the launch of a keyboard theme store which it debuted on its Android app last year. Read More ...

 Spotify has just unveiled the newest version of the product at a media event here in New York City. Alongside the introduction of new media types, such as podcasts and videos, the service will a...

 Y Combinator-incubated Taplytics is announcing that it has raised $2.4 million in seed funding.The startup launched last year as an A/B testing service for mobile apps, and since then it’s...

 A friend growing up had a combination of prosthetic legs that replaced the limbs he’d been born without pretty admirably, using a combination of hydraulics and mechanical joints, but witho...

 A new group video reactions app called Gather hopes to add a bit of fun to your digital life. The iOS app lets users post links to online articles and then gathers video reactionsfrom those conn...

 San Francisco-based video conferencing company Fuze is expanding its platform today with the acquisition of an online team collaboration platform, LiveMinutes. With the addition, Fuze is no long...

 This year — like many rapidly growing startups — is ayear of major international expansionfor Tilt, a startup centered around funding projects that is well on its way to being worth ...

 Oradian, another European startup offering cloud-based software for micro finance institutions (MFIs) in developing markets, has picked up financing of its own. Read More ...

 BetterWorks, a cloud platform thathelps companies set and manage goals, announced a new featuretoday that automatically updatesgoal progress based on information in Salesforce and Workday. The p...

 Former Googler, programmer and entrepreneur, Dan Shapiro, is building a new type of 3D printer. Which actually isn’t a printer at all; it’s a laser cutting machine called Glowforge&#...

 Microsoft is now offering an Xbox One Digital TV Tuner designed for the console, thought a partnership with TV tuner manufacturer Haulage. The arrival of the dedicated hardware marks the wider l...

 Samanage, a SaaS platformthat lets customer manage any type of internal asset, announced $16 million in Series B investment today. The round was led by Marker, LLC and Vintage Investment Partner...

 The cloud HR solutions startup Zenefits is edging further into the Fortune 500 business market today with the launch of two free management tools generally reserved for larger enterprises.Z...

 The leading edge of Apple Watch accessories is starting to flood in, and to prove that fact, I recently had not one, but two Watch docks arrive on my doorstep in the same day.One of those was th...

 FOVE, the virtual reality headset that you can control with just your eyes, is now available for pre-order on Kickstarter. The Tokyo-based startup, which launched at Disrupt SF last year as a Ba...

 Looking to provide health insurance to the 53 million Americans who don’t get benefits from their employers, Stride Health has raised $13 million in new funding. Venrock led the Series A r...

 Real-time search-as-a-service provider Algolia just raised $18.3 million with Accel Partners leading the round — Philippe Botteri will join the board. This represents some serious funding ...

 Rentecarlo, the U.K. startup and graduate of accelerator Ignite100, is officially launching today with a P2P car rental marketplace that lets anybody rent out their own car. Read More ...

 Two companies that use crowdsourcing to provide an alternative to data from traditional weather stations have joined under the same umbrella. Weathernews Inc Japan announced today that it has ac...

 Booxmedia, the Finnish cloud-TV platform founded by ex-Nokians, has seen an exit today. The Helsinki-headquartered company has been acquired by Cambridge, U.K.-based and AIM-listed IPTV provider...

 It’s hard as hell to launch a consumer mobile app these days. Manage to build a stellar product that answers a true need? You can pretty much count on the Google/Apple duopoly and poor str...

 GrabTaxi, the Uber-like ride-hailing company backed by SoftBank, has expanded a pilot program of GrabBike motorbike taxi on-demand service to Indonesian capital city Jakarta. Read More ...

Palringo, a platform where users can chat, play games and build communities around mobile games, has acquired Finnish game developer, Tribe Studios. Terms were not disclosed. The moves follows its acq...

 JFDI Asia, the Singapore-based accelerator program, is literally doubling down its investment in early-stage startups and experimenting with allowing participants of its 100-day program to spend...

 In 2015, a modern-day gold rush has taken the technology sector by storm. A recent study discovered that 75 percent of executives surveyed said that Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives are curr...

 If you’re thinking this article is about creating a historical record that our future robot overlords may read and reward me for, you’re not entirely right. To keep this particular w...

 Big changes are afoot at one of the premier angel investing firms, as David Lee is stepping down from SV Angel after multiple years as managing partner at the firm. With his departure, Topher Co...

 The NSA reform bill passed by the House hasan uncertain future in the Senate. The USA FREEDOM Act will receive a vote in the upper chamber, likely later this week, but whetherit has the 60 votes...

 The recent interest in containers has often been perceived as a threat (or at least an alternative) to OpenStack, the open source cloud computing infrastructure platform founded by RackSpace and...

 Shares of Yahoo, a company known for its venerable brand, former search market share, and current attempt to become a key mobile shop, fell sharply at the end of trading today. Off more than 7 p...

 Shares of Etsy plunged today after the company reported roughly in-line revenue and a wider-than-expected loss. Etsy, a popular marketplace for handmade goods, reported top line of $58.5 million...

 Oculus is inviting press to a special event on June 11 in San Francisco. The company provided the image above along with the invite (which also accompanied news consumer pre-orders would start l...

 A decade ago, Matt Flannery changed the world of lending in developing countries when he co-founded Kiva, a peer-to-peer lending model that allowed consumers to support women and micro-entrepren...

 After a several month hiatus, we’re back with a new season of TechCrunch Cribs, the show that goes inside the doors of tech companies to show what it’s like for the employees who wor...

 Egnyte, a company that focuses on enterprise file sharing, providing an intelligent layer between cloud solutions and on-premises storage, updated its mobile apps today, adding the Apple Watch t...

 Scale Model, the first company to launch out of betawork’s newest batch of hacker-in-residence projects, is trying to offer advertisers on Twitter a much more targeted experience than they...

 If you’re looking to turn your WordPress site into an online shop, one option reigns supreme: WooCommerce. With roughly 7.5 million downloads, it’s easily the most popular e-commerce...

 It is with mixed emotions that I say goodbye to TechCrunch. During the past four years, this crazy and talented team has truly become like a family. But with every goodbye comes a hello. I’...

 Google has added Tweets to its search results on mobile, via the official Android and iOS Google apps, as well as on desktop and mobile browsers. The search results are triggered by “Twitt...

 We often think of bacteria as something bad, but switch a few genes here and there and they have the possibility to detect cancer, prevent mosquitos from transmitting Malaria or produce diesel f...

 Wallapop, a second hand marketplace mobile app for selling stuff locally, has been quietly raising substantial investment from Accel Partners and others. Read More ...

 Everyone knows that Brooklyn is where it’s at (because I happen to live there) but did you know it’s also home to some amazing makers? We want to feature some of these fearless creat...

 Google launched an experimental Chrome extension today that lets you share the URL from your current browser tab with anybody within earshot. Tone, which is now available in the Chrome Web Store...

 Instagram’s own photo collage creator Layout is now available on Android, after launching on iOS only back in March. The app allows users to combine multiple pictures from their camera rol...

 YouTube Kids, YouTube’s initial entry into making its video-sharing service more accessible to parents and their children, has come under fire yet again. Two consumer groups,the Center for...

 MixRadio, the radio music service that was transferred from Nokia to Microsoft and then bought by messaging app company Line last year, is finally available for iOS and Android. Read More ...

 The new 12-inch MacBook from Apple is packed with cool tech, and its USB-C port is a prime example. The port allows for charging as well as data connectivity, meaning you can draw power from thi...

 Popcorn Time has been called the Netflix for pirated movies, but it requires the installation of a desktop application. Not anymore. Now thanks to a site called Popcorn Time In Your Browser you&...

 Apple is rolling out its first software update for the Apple Watch, which brings Watch OS to version 1.0.1. This update is designed to provide general bug fixes and performance improvements, and...

 Authy, the two-factor authentication startup recently acquired by Twilio, announced its newest product at its parent company’s Signal developer conference today. Authy’s new OneTouch...

 Office’s cross-platform march continues. Today, Microsoft announced the preview of Office for Android phones. The release comes after the release of Office for Android tablets, and iOS dev...

 The Apple Watch’s charging puck is, in itself, pretty versatile and fool-proof when it comes to connecting your smartwatch to power over night. But there’s always room for improvemen...

 The OpenStack Foundation today launched a beta of a new project for its open source cloud computing platform at its bi-annual developer and user conference that aims to make it easier for new us...

 With the introduction of the Apple Watch, many believe that smartwatches as a new computing platform now has thepotential to explode. One company betting on that trend is Little Labs, an L.A.-ba...

 MuleSoft, the company that helps connect different types of software and services, scored an enormous $128millioninvestment today. The Series G round was led by Salesforce Ventures withServiceNo...

 Twilio is kicking off its Signal conference today and — unsurprisingly — the company is announcing a slew of new services for developers that use its voice, video and messaging platf...

 Ad measurement startup iSpot.tv announced this morning that it has raised $21.9 million in Series B funding.The company says it knows exactly where and when national TV ads are running, and can ...

 Advertisers are going to have a lot more to work with on Pinterest starting today. Pinterest is rolling out several new tools and pricing options for advertisers today.Perhaps the biggest of the...

 Advertisers are going to have a lot more to work with on Pinterest starting today. Pinterest is rolling out several new tools and pricing options for advertisers today.Perhaps the biggest of the...

 Basis, the Intel subsidiary that builds watches for tracking your health and sleep habits, is today dropping a lighter, classier version of its Peak tracker made from titanium. It’s also l...

 Meetup, the popular online service fororganizing and joining in groups based around shared interests, is today expanding beyond the consumer crowd for the first time with the debut of a new prod...

 Apple has finally done what many had long hoped it would – released an official dock for Lightning-sporting iPhones, ranging from the 5 all the way up to the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. The new d...

 A company that brought you the world’s first origami-inspired folding kayak is back again with a new model – the 16-foot Coast(and Coast+), which is a longer, expedition-style kayak ...

 Home security and automation starts and ends with the front door. It needs to keep the bad guys out yet let the good guys in without hassle. Either a system gets it right or it doesn’t, an...

 Fans of unusual smartphones should point their eyes at this Indiegogo campaign. Russian smartphone upstart Yota Devices has today launched its crowdfunder to bring its sequel dual-screen e-ink A...

 Fans of unusual smartphones should point their eyes at this Indiegogo campaign. Russian smartphone upstart Yota Devices has today launched its crowdfunder to bring its sequel dual-screen e-ink A...

 Collaborative consumption is reworking all sorts of established societal norms and regulatory processes. It’s also generating new business opportunities for startups that sit outside the i...

 Switch Communications has raised another $35 million in funding to get customers signed up. The funding was led by cross-border VC firm Amasia Associates, with includes investment from Felicis V...

 The competitive landscape for app development tool providers continues to become tighter, with Meteor Development Group raising $20 million for its stack of frameworks and tools for developing w...

 Stox is an online broker that wants to make trading stocks less mystifying for new investors. The London-based company announced that it has raised a $8 million series A round led by Singularite...

 IBM hasn’t been shy about its ambitions to transforminto a cloud company, building up a broad portfolio of infrastructure, platform and software services. Part of that strategy has been to...

 E-sports have arrived as a money maker for players — whose earnings can top $1 million — and brands — that are tapping into an audience of over 134 million viewers that could g...

 In order to sustain a world population expected to reach 10 billion by 2050, we’ll need to double globalcrop production over the next 35 years. For Farmers Business Network (FBN), the solu...

 Apple has updated both the 15-inch MacBook Pro With Retina Display, and the 27-inch iMac, with new specs that include Intel Core processors, as well as a new Force Touch trackpad for the MacBook...

 Automatic, a startup whose sensor-and-software combo has been described as “Fitbit for your car,” is today rolling out a software development kit and new hardware that turn your car ...

 Winter is coming to the icy land of IT departments. Ferocious cyberattacks against corporate IT infrastructures are proliferating, and it seems like every day we hear about another company that ...

 Hightower, a New York-based leasing management platform for commercial real estate, today announced that it has raised a $13 million Series B funding round led by previous investor RRE Ventures....

 DataHero, the SaaS company that wants to bring data visualizationto non-technical end users, announced $6.1 million in Series A funding today. It also announced a new chief executive and a partn...

 The tech-powered pull of the U.K. capital city has convinced regional accelerator Ignite to put down some roots. The Newcastle-based incubator today announcing plans to expand to London and Manc...

 Akosha, a messaging platform that connects customers directly to businesses, has raised a $16 million series B round led by returning investor Sequoia Capital. The New Delhi-based startup counts...

 Lithuania startup Trafi, which offers a public transport app to help you plan journeys, has closed a $6.5 million Series A funding round led by Octopus Investments. EBRD Venture Capital Investme...

 Bd4travel, a German startup that offers a “predictive analytics platform” for the online travel industry to help target site visitors in a more personal way, has raised a $4.2 millio...

 Fast-growing Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has taken a tentative first step to becoming an international player after it opened the doors to its Mi.com online store in the U.S., UK, France and...

 Last May, messaging app Line launched its Creators Market, a platform that lets all users make and sell stickers. Now Line has disclosed how the platform performed during its freshman year (a fo...

 Like so many young startup founders, I find myself alternating between laughing out loud and cringing as I watch the Pied Piper crew navigate the business world on HBO’s “Silicon Val...

 Apple, Google, Yahoo and more than 140 other tech industry companies have written to President Obama urging him to shoot down demands for ‘backdoor’ access to user data on smartphone...

 LG’s G4, the company newest flagship smartphone, went on sales across the first parts of the world yesterday, and today the Korean company added two variants of the device to the mix. Read...

 The Light Phone is the opposite of every other phone in existence. It is thin, light, lasts 20 days on a charge, and literally does nothing but make and answer calls. It’s as if the makers...

 Enterprise IT automation service Ansible today announced that it’s partnering with HP, RackSpace, CSC, Cisco and the open source community to help make deploying and managing OpenStack clo...

 Sixteen years ago, I thought that owning a bar and running a tech startup simultaneously would be a great match for my ADD. Ultimately, what made the late nights and shenanigans worthwhile was d...

 Spotify and Starbucks just announced a clever deal to promote Spotify Premium while giving Starbuck customers and employees the opportunity to influence the music played at their local Starbucks...

 Microsoft will host a Solitaire tournament, pitting the public against the best of its employees. The news comes on the heels of the release of the card game for Windows 10, the company’s ...

 Canonical may still be mostly known for its Ubuntu Linux distribution, but the company now also offers a number of (paid) services for enterprises, often with a focus on the OpenStack platform. ...

 It reads like the plot of an awful but inevitable romantic comedy: two strangers share a Lyft Line. Sparks fly; love blooms. Just as passenger #2 is working up the guts to ask passenger #1 on a ...

 As part of a larger story about Pinterest’s Jumpstart program — a new experiment in its international expansion — I sat down with Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp to talk about ...

 Price monitoring as a standalone service doesn’t seem to be resonating with consumers. The latest example? PoachIt, a smart shopping tool that helped consumers track price changes and find...

 Price monitoring as a standalone service doesn’t seem to be resonating with consumers. The latest example? PoachIt, a smart shopping tool that helped consumers track price changes and find...

 They’ve got the money, but he’s got the microphone. This weekend, Jay Z threw some punches at the big tech companies who compete with his upstart music streaming service Tidal. The f...

 Microsoft has no immediate plans to let its new browser out of Windows 10.The software giant indicated today that it has no current intention of shipping Edge, formerly known as ‘Project S...

 Videopixie, a Y Combinator alumnus that handles video creation andproduction(like filming and post-production editing), has raised $1.1 million in seed funding. The startup connects clients R...

Doom. The game that introduced an entire generation to the idea of using computers for more than spreadsheets, the game that set the bar in 1993… has had a rough couple years.The latest Doom gam...

 Building a workforce that can scale with demand is no easy task for on-demand startups (or the traditional companies than now compete with them for labor), so OnboardIQ has raised $1.65 million ...

 It’s hard to believe that 10 short years ago, Michael Arrington took to his keyboard and started writing about startups. Fast forward to 2015 and a lot has changed, but we’re still t...

 Twitter is now rolling out a new search results interface to all logged-in users on the web, introducing a cleaner look-and-feel and more filtering options that let you sort results by top tweet...

 The ACLU on Monday released a survey that found 60 percent of American voters want to see modifications to the PATRIOT Act, the post 9/11 law that created the nation’s modern intelligence ...

 It took President Barack Obama just 24 minutes to break the 100,000 follower mark on Twitter. The new account, @POTUS, unsurprisingly, sports a verified sticker. It was introduced by the White H...

 Los Angeles-based, on-demand storage startup Clutter has raised $2 million to acquire more customers in areas it operates in and expand to Orange County and San Diego over the coming months.Clut...

 Acquia announced today that it’s teaming with CloudFlare to offer its customers CloudFlare Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection, as well as Content Delivery Network (CDN) servic...

 Soon we will all walk into a weird, unstaffed restaurant called Casa Automa where robots will grill burgers and serve you perfectly-shaped marzipan treats and write your name on a frosted cake s...

 OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform originally launched by RackSpace and NASA in 2010, is getting a few new features today that aim to make using OpenStack across different cloud...

 US Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s ruling that Samsung copied specific Apple design patents related to the iPhone. However, the court also threw out part of the ruling, and asked a...

 Groupon has been expanding its footprint beyond daily deals for some time, and today the company is doubling down on its investment in its restaurant point-of-sale system Breadcrumb with a new a...

 Google today announced yet another round of price cuts for its cloud computing platform, as well as a new instance type that will allow businesses to save even more on some of their cloud comput...

 Want to add a Siri-like “conversational interface” to your mobile app or device? Then api.ai, the Russian startup and team behind Speaktoit Assistant, a Siri alternative for Android,...

 Narrative, the startup whose cameras are built to surreptitiously capture moments throughout a person’s day, has put its second-generation camera up for pre-order on its website. Read More...

 On April 1st, Pinterest’s country manager in JapanNaoki Sadakuni got some ofthe engineering support he’d been wanted for a while.Five team members from Pinterest’s headquarters...

 Interior Define, the company that offers totally customizable sofas at a relatively affordable price, is today announcing new tools to help online shoppers. The company is introducing a new 3D i...

 Consumer adoption of streaming video services is surging, according to a new report by Juniper Research out this morning, which finds that subscriber numbers for services like Netflix and Amazon...

 Drizly, the mobile shopping app that connects users with delivery-friendly liquor stores, is today announcing the close of a $13 million Series A funding round, led by Polaris Partners. Existing...

 Today we’re thrilled to offer an exclusive excerpt from Nathaniel Popper’s Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money, the de...

 Voting in The Europas, the European Tech Startups Awards, has gone live. This is the final shortlist from which the winners will be chosen by a combination of industry votes and judges. You can ...

 Electroloom is a prototype 3D printer that uses an electrospinning technique to turn a liquid (currently a custom polyster/cotton blend) into a seamless fabric — spraying the solution onto...

 If you’ve ever received a gift voucher for a store you rarely or never shop in, then Zeek could prove useful. The marketplace and mobile app lets you buy and sell unwanted store credit, in...

 Uber appears to be on the cusp of a deal with a rival ride-sharing app in China that could boost its presence in the country. Read More ...

 Alibaba is once again facing legal issues in Taiwan. The company has been ordered to shut down the local branch of Taobao, its business-to-consumer marketplace, within six months and pay a fine ...

 Many in the West are still dumbfounded that QR codes are a thing. Well, heads-up, the humble QR code as you know it is being disrupted. At least that’s according to Visualead, an Israel-ba...

 The companies declined to name the exact amount of the deal, but said that it is in the “multi-millions.” Taboola serves up the links in the “Around The Web” and “R...

 Mobile is the big tech focus for India — with initiatives like Facebook’s Internet.org and Google’s Android One, to name but two — but that isn’t stopping Google fr...

 LG revealed the G4, its newest flagship device, in April, and now the 5.5-inch screen device is rolling out for sale across the world. Read More ...

 With the number of mobile phone subscriptions shortly expected to exceed the total global population, what is the next great connected device going to look like? Hint: It’ll have four whee...

 Aaron Sorkin has been talking about his screenplay about Steve Jobs’ life for several years now, and it’s had a bumpy path to production — but now we’ve finally got some ...

 Apple’s Maps navigation technology still lags behind Google Maps. Nearly twice as many iPhone owners prefer to get directions and look up addresses on the Google version, compared to Apple...

 Amid a talent and investor drought and growing challenges with fraud and ad-blockers, ad tech is in an unusual place. People aren’t putting money in ad tech, and the players are playing a ...

 The tenth annual Maker Faire is in full swing this weekend in San Mateo, California, bringing out steampunks, robot enthusiasts, and little engineers in training from all over Silicon Valley. He...

 Universities are supposed to be dead. These bastions of higher learning have been on Silicon Valley’s hit list for much of the past decade, and disruption phasers targeting the industry ha...

 The ascendance of mobile devices, cloud computing and big data is having a profound impact on the lives of workers. Yet many of the business applications that run on their smartphones and tablet...

 Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen weighed in on the prospects of an equity bubble at a meeting with International Monetary Fund Director Christine Ladarde earlier this month. The danger wa...

too many students, especially those from underserved backgrounds, don’t have access to technology at home. And few schools, even ones in affluent communities, teach kids the skills they’ll...

 Workflow, an app originally built to let you automate frequent tasks on your iPhone or iPad, is one of the few apps available on the Apple Watch that seems like it’s only a few iterations ...

 The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, May 15, 2015. I read the news today, oh boy… on Facebook. And if y...

 Changing the world. You do it every time you walk on a sidewalk kicking dirt (entropy!) and every time you join a startup in San Francisco. Many of the Valley’s top companies have had such...

 Many highflying companies are pushing logistics, services, and payment options to our new “sharing economy.” We see these firms and sectors as largely driven by macroeconomic trends....

 It gets notifications right. I’ve worn multiple Android Wear devices as well as a Pebble. I’ve also seen other devices like Martian and Geak come and go and none of them did exactly ...

 Another investment for Chinese Internet giant Tencent: it’s led a $750,000 seed funding round in Baltimore-based Tissue Analytics, alongside existing investor DreamIt Health — the Ph...

 What he means by that is thinking beyond the boundaries of the defined process to look for something new — to think more like a startup. Sikka says his first nine months have beenamazing, ...

 Remember 2011? The Arab Spring, a.k.a. “Revolution 2.0″? Four governments were overthrown, and the stage was set for further social-media-fuelled protests: Brazil. Ukraine. Turkey. I...

 “Banking is necessary – banks are not.” Bill Gates said this in 1994. It was a bold statement to make at the time, and one that some have associated with the start of a transfo...

 I recently wrote about The State of Enterprise Tech in NYC in order to showcase New York’s growing enterprise startup ecosystem. In highlighting the 70+ enterprise startups headquartered i...

 Sevenemployees quit the frequently mocked payment rewards startup Clinkle simultaneously today due to frustration with its 24-year-old CEO Lucas Duplan, according to multiple sources close to th...

 Happy Friday friends, and welcome back to another episode of CrunchWeek. This week, camped out on the fourth floor of our office with the CrunchBase crew, Kyle Russell, Sarah Buhr, and your humb...

 On this week’s AppleCast, we discuss the overblown reaction to the news (gasp!) that people might steal your Apple Watch. There’s also more news coming in about potential Apple TV fe...

 Gillmor Gang – Frank Radice, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 1pmPT/4pmET.LIVE CHAT during the live broadcast Gillmor Gang on Fa...

 Gillmor Gang – Frank Radice, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 1pmPT/4pmET.LIVE CHAT during the live broadcast Gillmor Gang on Fa...

 New Story is a startup in Y Combinator’s current batch that raises funds to build homes for those who lost theirs due to a natural disaster, starting with Haiti. Co-founder Brett Hagler go...

 HelloFresh has just shared that it is now selling 4 million meals per month. The company says that this is more than the company sold in the entire first half of 2014 combined. HelloFresh is a f...

 Can you hear me now? Hopefully you can after a month of silence out of the TC Gadgets Podcast team. But freshly acquired by Verizon, we’re back and ready to chat. The deal, which is still ...

 Aliada, a housekeeping booking service based in Mexico City, is offering a new, socially responsible model for one of the most maligned segments of the on-demand economy. Read More ...

 A new mobile app called Shuffle has launched a simple utility that lets you createadditional, disposablephone numbers you can use to call or text as well asreceive voicemail through, right from ...

 Non-disclosure agreements, or NDAs, are some of the most common contracts in the business world, and many other agreements have confidentiality provisions with a similar function. In the technol...

 It’s Friday, which means that your friends at TCBTC, the TechCrunch bitcoin podcast, are back with another heaping helping of all things bitcoin. Let’s bit! This week, John Biggs and...

 For the last seven weeks, the non-profit accelerator ‘How To Web MVP Academy‘ in Bucharest, Romania has been working with a class of super early stage startups to finesse their produ...

 This week’s tech news featured headlines about billion dollar acquisitions, a new launch from Facebook that couldchange the publishing landscape, and Microsoft’s move to a new softwa...

 Design startup Decorist has raised $4.5 million in seed funding from home improve giant Lowe’s Companies, the Women’s Venture Capital Fund and undisclosed angel investors. The big pl...

 Verto Analytics, a company building a comScore competitor designed to better measure digital audiences in a world where consumers nowusemultiple devices, is launching its measurement service to ...

 We’re still a little while off from the Oculus Rift’s official consumer launch – pre-orders are starting later this year, the company revealed recently, with shipping beginning...

 Samsung is indeed making a special Iron Man-themed edition of its Galaxy S6 Edge smartphone, as The Korea Times reported in April. The mobile maker posted a teaser image to its official Twitter ...

 Tynker, a startup that teaches children the fundamentals of programming by having them build their own games, is now expanding its platform toallow kids to control connected devices, including d...

 Two of the most-used metrics these days that gauge how well an app is doing are downloads and registered users — numbers that can sometimes reach into the millions and point to a degree of...

 It may not have the mega-valuation of rival Uber, but ridesharing startup Lyft’s new $150 million extension to its $530 million round from March certainly puts it in the upper stratosphere...

 As is evident from the increase in conferences, books, and software tools, there is a growing emphasis on improving DevOps within all sizes of software development organizations. The question th...

 The post-Snowden boom in strongly encrypted services continues. To wit: Lavaboom, a made-in-Germany encrypted email service, which is currently in beta and seeking a $100,000 crowdfunding raise ...

 Google is shifting its self-driving car program up a gear, after it announced that it will begin testing autonomous vehicles on public roads in Mountain View this summer. Read More ...

 Most food delivery services try to offer a cornucopia of selections from as many restaurants as possible. A Bengaluru startup called Dazo, however, is taking the opposite approach. Dazo (formerl...

 Face++, a Chinese startup that makes facial recognition technology used by Alibaba, has secured an additional $25 million for its series B round. Along with capital raised in November, this brin...

 Mozilla picked CES in January to show-off is Firefox OS — know best for powering cheap smartphones for emerging markets — running on smart TVs. Now the initial fruits of its labor ar...

 Of course Airbnb is worth a billion dollars. There’s an expensive asset there sitting unused. People often struggle to make rent. Hotels are expensive. Of course Uber is worth a billion do...

 Quality news content providers are between a rock and a hard place, the second worst decision they could ever make is to give their content for free for Facebook to host, but probably the very w...

 Quality news content providers are between a rock and a hard place, the second worst decision they could ever make is to give their content for free for Facebook to host, but probably the very w...

 Bug Bounty programs are great. Utilized by everyone from Facebook to Google, they encourage security researchers to dig up bugs and disclose them responsibly in exchange for rewards — gene...

 People say you can’t build a tech company outside of Silicon Valley, but these New York City startups prove that that just isn’t true.We picked some of the best known tech startups f...

 TheLadders is simultaneously announcing a new boss and unveiling a new product, namely a database of company and salary information. Let’s start with the boss. Co-founder Marc Cenedella se...

 When LearnVest, one of the hottest startups in Fintech, announced its acquisition by Northwestern Mutual, the $250 million deal raised some eyebrows. While this partnership may seem unlikely at ...

 Those combination locks you pick up for a few bucks at the office supply store have never been the epitome of security — but now there’s a robot that’ll own the lock in seconds...

 Apple has been relatively quiet on HomeKit, the protocol it announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference last year for connecting its devices to third-party smart home gadgets and accessorie...

 Amazon’s Echo speaker/intelligent tube/listening pal revealed a bit more of its true nature today: it can now field voice-powered buying requests, translating your spoken desire for more p...

 Hot on the heels of Disrput, we’re (re)packing our bags to come to two of our favorite cities in the world, Austin and Seattle. We’ll be hitting Austin on June 23, where we’ll ...

 There’s no “mobilegeddon” taking place on Bing, but Microsoft did announce today that it’s taking steps to improve the search rankings for mobile-friendly websites. The c...

 Join John Biggs and myself next week in Grand Rapids, Michigan for a mini-meetup and pitch-off. We’ll be at Start Garden’s new space on Thursday, May 21 from 5:00 – 8:00. The b...

 The newly named ‘Windows 10 Mobile’ picked up an update from Microsoft today, including a number of new features and device support. The new build, 10080, also includes support for t...

 Many parents today recall childhoods where we were pushed out of the houseby our parents, whiletold simply to “go outside and play.” But our children seem to be growing up in a diffe...

 Atlantic.Net has been in the hosting business since it was founded in Gainesville, Fla., in 1994. For the longest time, though, the company was content being a regional player. But over the last...

 You are the valuable person here.Take care of all of your needs and then you will have more freedom. Be able to demonstrate greater competence at your job, and have better relationships with the...

 Social marketing company Brand Networks continues to gobble up the competition — it just announced that it’s acquiring Shift in a $50 million cash-and-stock deal.Back in 2013, it acq...

 Aspect Ventures, a fund started by Accel Partners’ Theresia Gouw and Draper Fisher Jurvetson’s Jennifer Fonstad, said today that it has closed its first $150 million fund. Guow spent...

 Zach Supalla, founder of Spark.io, has just announced they’ve changed their name to Particle.io. While this state of matter transfer from plasma to solid is uncommon in physics, this name ...

 Vouch, a so-called “social network forcredit” founded byex-PayPal and ex-Prosper alumni, now has an additional $6 million in Series A funding tocontinue to grow its business. While t...

 Apple could have more extensive plans for that fingerprint sensor behind Touch ID on the iPhone and iPad – a new patent application published by the USPTO today details a system for detect...

 Comedian Jim Gaffigan has released the first episode of his new sitcom, the appropriately-named Jim Gaffigan Show. The show appears two months before it will be aired on television, an interesti...

 The action camera category has a clear leader in GoPro, but others like Contour aren’t taking GoPro’s dominance lying down; the Utah-based maker of POV camera has joined forces with ...

 CBS’s on-demand video streaming service will now offer local, live TV feeds which cover over 60% of the U.S., the company announced this morning. CBS All Access, the network’s over-t...

 Peeple is a small camera and sensor that attaches to the peephole on your front door. When someone knocks, Peeple takes a video and sends a mobile notification. With Peeple, co-founder Chris Chu...

 Chances are you often switch between your calendar and email apps on your phone in order to tell someone when you are available. Scheduling meetings has been a pain point for years, and popular ...

 Payments company PayPal is inching closer to spinning off from its marketplace parent eBay. Today its designated CEO, Dan Schulman,announced that it plans to list on Nasdaq and use PYPL as its t...

 Apple has settled a court case with A123 Systems (via BBC), a battery company based in Massachusetts from which Apple hired some senior employees. A123 had filed a claim accusing Apple of poachi...

 VCs and public market investors cringe when they hear the words ad tech. It’s no wonder why. The segment has been soured by an over-saturation of ad networks and poor performing IPOs. Rock...

 Nintendo knows a money-maker when it sees one, and its Amiibo interactive toys are just that. The figurines are getting special editions based on their early success, and the Silver Edition vari...

 There’s evidence to suggest that hackers are using popular websites to attack government agencies, NGOs and other cyber espionage targets with increasingly more subtle insurgencies. Read M...

 A new 300 million U.K. fund has been set up to support high tech startups looking to spin out of the University of Oxford. The fund is being raised by Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI), a newly f...

 Percolate is announcing that it has raised $40 million in Series C funding.I’ve written previously about the company’s social media tools, which allow marketers to find and publish c...

 Pipedrive, which offers Software-as-a-Service designed to help small companies manage and increase sales, has closed another deal of its own. The Estonia/U.S.-based startup and AngelPad alumni h...

 A group of Internet scholars and legal academics has called on Google to be more transparent about its decision-making process in regards to its implementation of Europe’s so-called ‘...

 Mobile signal mapper OpenSignal is launching a new app that maps Wi-Fi hotspots to help device users in need of a connectivity fix — expanding its network of crowdsourced intel into anothe...

 A key part of Rdio’s new $3.99 plan for cost conscious consumers taking a baby step towards music streaming services is the important caveat that this new service is cheaper outside of the...

 The bulk of Alibaba’s revenue still comes from China, but the e-commerce giant will focus aggressively on growing its global business this year. Daniel Zhang, who took over as chief execut...

 In a bid to compete with rival streaming music services, Rdio has announced a new low-cost subscription program called Rdio Select. For $3.99 a month, users can download up to 25 new songs every...

 Over the last 18 months or so, a mobile app called Gametime has helped sports fans book last-minute tickets to sporting events in cities across the U.S. Now, after growing nearly 600 percent yea...

 Pocket Gems announced today that it has taken an investment from Chinese Internet company Tencent. The funding will allow the mobile gaming company to expand globally, including into China.The c...

 Apple is making the beta of its new App Analytics product available for all registered developers, starting today. The program lets developers provides users with access to a selection of metric...

 The House of Representatives today passed the USA FREEDOM Act on a338-88 vote. Despite receiving overwhelming support in the lowerchamber, the bill will have to overcome considerable hurdles as ...

 Walmart is preparing to test a new, unlimited shipping service which will compete to some extent with Amazon Prime, but at a lower price point of just $50 per year. The shipping service will be ...

 Over the years, the debate surrounding the ethics of genome engineering research and applications has cultivated a sense of fear among us that societies depicted in movies like Gattaca, or the b...

 Google quietly rolled out a new login screen for Gmail this week, and not everyone is happy with the update. Where before, Gmail users would enter their username and password on the same page, t...

 At the end of regular trading, Cisco reported its fiscal 2015 third-quarter financial performance. The networking company earned $0.54 per share using adjusted metrics on revenue of $12.14 billi...

After five very active years, Jrmie Berrebi has announced he is leaving Kima Ventures, the Paris-headquartered VC fund he co-founded with French telco and media entrepreneur Xavier Niel in 2010. Read ...

 Silversheet, a medical credentials verification startup, has pulled in $2.9 million in a seed round to launch a platform that aims to save administrators time by digitizing documents and automat...

 Facebook never wants you to leave, so it’s swallowing up where you might try to go. A few years back, its News Feed brimmed with links to content hosted elsewhere. News articles, YouTube c...

 Buzzfeed uncovered – and Verizon closed – a gaping security hole in Verizon’s customer service systems. The exploit was based on Verizon’s seemingly unprotected customer ...

 Neumob is a mobile app for Android (Android 4.0+, with iOS coming later), that promises to speed up all of your other mobile apps and browsers through a combination of its mobile app, VPN servic...

 Google announced this week that it was going all in on the cloud. It doesn’t seem like a bold statement for a company that was one of its earliest proponents, but The Wall Street Journal r...

 Amazon announced this morning the launch of a new advertising platform for mobile app developers who distribute their Android apps by way of Amazon’s Appstore or even Google Play. Called &...

 Have you ever wanted to be a dinosaur? A female (??) robot? A kitten woman? Man, have you come to the right place. Croatian company MashMe wants to make your weird dreams come true. The company ...

 Microsoft has a grip of Windows 10 versions on tap, it revealed today, most importantly noting that the smartphone-friendly build of the operating system will be called “Windows 10 Mobile....

 The augmented reality startupDAQRI, which is working on a HoloLens-style AR helmet and already offers a number of AR software tools, today announced that it has acquired ARToolworks, the company...

 Hulu and AT&T announced an expanded deal today designed to bring the video streaming service to AT&T’s customers on both mobile devices and on the web. Starting later this year, cu...

 Controlling large swarms of robots is hard, at least on a human scale. But what if you trained them to follow your finger – via a tablet – much like you’d train a swarm of cats...

 Messaging apps are becoming the most heavily-used type of app in a majority of keymarkets worldwide, based on both smartphone sessions and time spent in apps. However, according to new data from...

 Despite the pace of online communications, we still spend a lot of time waiting: staring at an IM window is a common occurrence for anyone who spends a better part of their day at a computer. Wa...

 “You could regret this decision for the rest of your life… from the beach of your own private island.” That was the advice my lawyer gave me when I was staring at a nine-figure...

 Ring, the connected doorbell with built-in video and two-way talking features, now has a partner in crime: Ring Chime, a Wi-Fi speaker that activates when a visitor presses your Ring, and which ...

 Cleanly, the YC-backed on-demand company focused on handling your laundry (and dry-cleaning) as soon as you need it done, has today announced the close of a $2.3 million seed round. Investors in...

 Wunderlist, the to-do app based out of Berlin, is now approaching 13 million free and paidaccounts. Andtoday it is adding a new feature that it hopes will make the app a lot a lot more useful an...

 One of the 549 million people who use WeChat? Based in China? Expect to see more ‘sponsored’ content inside your in-app news feed because parent company Tencent is gearing up to incr...

 Parrot saw a big bump in drone sales between its first quarter for 2015, and the same period last year – there was a 356 percent increase in revenue derived from the category between those...

 It was only a few years ago that I met Kathryn Minshew, Alexandra Cavoulacos, and Melissa McCreery through Y Combinator. They were three women who set out to make a career site for other young w...

 DocPlanner, an online booking platform for healthcare appointments, has raised a new funding round — pulling in $10 million in Series B financing, led by the European Bank for Reconstructi...

 Instart Logic, a service that helps businesses speed up the delivery of their cloud applications, today announced that it has raised a $43 million funding round led by new investors Four Rivers ...

 We always like to have the most influential and knowledgeable speakers at our Disrupt conferences. And there are few people as well qualified in those departments as Neil and Danny Rimer, genera...

 Growth in revenue from games and advertising on mobile helped Chinese internet giant Tencent beat analyst expectations for its Q1 2015. Read More ...

 It’s one year since the European Court of Justice made Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales spit out his breakfast crumpet and spew crumbs of outrage all over the Internet. I am of course talking...

 It’s one year since the European Court of Justice made Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales spit out his breakfast crumpet and spew crumbs of outrage all over the Internet. I am of course talking...

 Telegram, the multi-platform messaging app startup created by Pavel Durov (who previously created and later departed VK, the ‘Russian Facebook’ amid controversy), has released its la...

 Samsung Electronics has launched a new open platform that it says will make developing smart devices faster and easier. ARTIK includes three circuit boards, software support, developer tools, an...

 Watch the video above for hands-on demo. Assuaging publishers’ fears that Facebook would keep all the data, the social network will share analytics, and Instant Articles is compatible with...

 Assuaging publishers’ fears that Facebook would keep all the data, the social network will share analytics, and Instant Articles is compatible with audience measurement and attribution too...

 The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain. DARPA wants to go there. Scientists want to go there. Entrepreneurs want to go there. And increasingly, it looks ...

 Product Hunt, the product aggregation site known for putting new tech products to a vote went off its regular tech product vertical today with the launch of Snoop’s new “Bush” ...

 Thirty companies pitched their products and business to investors in the press today, and they all had impressive stats for revenue, addressable markets, and growth. Still, some startups just hi...

 FreedomPop, the mobile carrier that gives awaymobile, data and text services and upsells userson other services, is today announcing its first international launch outside of the U.S.The company...

 Despite an uncertain macroeconomic picture, Accel Partners, one of the most successful investment firms in the U.S. is keeping up the pace of investments in Brazil with a new commitment to the o...

 It was an interesting day at AOL.As you probably saw, Verizon has reached an agreement to acquire AOL for $4.4 billion. There’s a general feeling that this deal was mostly about AOL’...

 It’s tough to find a good tutor, and it’s even tougher to find a good tutor on short notice. MathCrunch is trying to change that, with a mobile app that provides on-demand tutoring f...

 Quick hit here, everyone: TubeMogul reported its first-quarter financial performance today, which, coupled with guidance for the second quarter, sent its shares soaring in after-hours trading. T...

 GoDaddy reported its first-quarter financial performance today, including a loss of $0.34 per share on revenue of $376.3 million. The street had expected GoDaddy to earn $0.35 per share on reven...

 Verizon is out $90 million after the FCC slapped it on the wrist for allowing, and profiting from ‘cramming,’ a mobile industry practice that sees recurring charges placed on consume...

 The Apple Watch already had a healthy ecosystem of third-party applications when the smartwatch debuted in April, with some 3,500 apps available shortly after itslaunch, including many of tech&#...

 Although police removed the original Edward Snowden bust from Brooklyn’s Fort Greene park now you and your friends can print your own eight-inch Snowdens for placement nearly anywhere. The...

 Meadow, a YC-backed startup in the medical marijuana space, is partnering with Sidecar to do quick medical marijuana deliveries throughout the city of San Francisco. It follows recent moves by m...

 McCann Erickson’s visionis to provide customerswith a premium digital experiencebased on a global multiscreen network platform. Read More ...

 Bleep, an encrypted text, picture and voice chat app built onpeer-to-peer architecture by the P2P companyBitTorrent, has picked up over 200,000 users on Windows, Android and Mac while in its alp...

 Chinese manufacturing giant Foxconn, best known for being an Apple supplier, has made a strategic investment in the Cyanogen version of the Android mobile OS. Read More ...

 In honor of our recent joyous union, I present the top five Verizon commercials that I was able find in about ten minutes. It should be noted that I have never had Verizon service mostly because...

 Not everyone was happy with last week’s major revamp of Yahoo-owned photo-sharing site, Flickr. A small, but very vocal, portion of Flickr’s user base of 100 million members, immedia...

 Almost exactly a year ago, Mozilla announced that it would (very reluctantly) implement the HTML5 DRM specs into Firefox. Today, the organization officially launched HTML5 DRM support with the r...

 WeWork, the NYC tech darling valued at $5 billion, has today officially announced a partnership with Chase to offer WeWork members discounted rates and premium customer service with Chase Paymen...

 Lily is marketing to the family who wants an extra hand for documenting gatherings. Read More ...

 Cameras don’t need a cameraperson anymore. Today, Lily’s selfie drone begin pre-orders for $499. Just put the tracker in your pocket, toss the water-proof quad-copter in the air, and...

 Serial entrepreneur Kevin Ryan has founded a number of businesses, including Gilt Groupe, Business Insider, database firm MongoDB, and wedding registry startup Zola. That experience has given hi...

 Therapy startup Talkspace has spent the past year seeking to help users connect with mental health professionals through the company’s web and mobile apps. To continue growing its business...

 Duet Display has added a feature that I frankly never thought it would get: Windows support! That means with the app and a Lightning cable you can use your iPad as a secondary display for your W...

 Parts of the tech community in San Francisco and New York are still reeling from the loss of Google’s Dan Fredinburg, a gregarious and idealistic engineer who was trying to summit the Moun...

 Apple continues to be a leader in environmental initiatives among tech companies, according to a new report issued by watchdog agency Greenpeace. Among the top 13 tech companies listed, Apple is...

DocuSign, a company best known for its work with secure identity and authentication, has raised a $233 million Series F round of capital, at what asource said was a roughly $3 billion valuation.The do...

 Personal finance company Credit Sesame is announcing today that it has raised an additional $16 million in an oversubscribed Series D round of funding, with plans to raise more – as much a...

 San Francisco-based biotech accelerator IndieBio has pledged to raise the funding per startup accepted into its program from $50,000 to $250,000 going forward. Each startup will now get $200,000...

 Mobile messaging app Tango is taking a leaf out of the Asian playbook with the launch of an in-app commerceservice called Tango Shop. Initially available in the U.S., Tango’s e-commerce pl...

 The word “infomercial” likely doesn’t inspire a lot of excitement out of you. But whether you’ll admit it or not, you (just like me) have been sucked into watching an inf...

 Skype has removed the sign-up requirement for its Skype Translator Preview program, letting anyone download the app to their Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 preview-powered PC. Previously, you had to ...

Buyapowa, which works with retailers to turn its fans into shopper advocates in a viral manner, has raised $3 million in Series A funding. The financing was led by Juno Capital with participation from...

 TunnelBear, the company responsible for one of the better looking and easiest to use VPNs, is making its service even more accessible after it introduced an extension for Google’s Chrome b...

 There’s Maker Media, MakerCon, MakerShed, Make: magazine and 131 Maker Faireeventsthat take place throughout the world. Now the founders of all these Makers want a way to connect what they...

 Less confusing, more personalized and interactive food labeling is the worthy mission of a just launched data visualization platform called Sage. The idea spun out of New York-based designer, de...

 FiftyThree, a startup focused on unlocking creativity on the iPad, is rolling out a new set of tools that it hopes will address a whole new set of users. With the introduction of its new Think K...

 Google has been testing self-driving cars for years. Six years in fact, with a fleet of 20+ self-driving cars, which have self-driven almost a million miles over that period — and are now ...

 Apple’s next iPhone (likely the ‘iPhone 6s’ if it keeps with recent naming conventions) could come in a luxury rose gold finish, according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Ku...

 The cyber breaches and system hacks affecting Target, Home Depot, Neiman Marcus and other large retailers over the past two years have resulted in billions of dollars of credit card fraud. This ...

 So this just happened. AOL, owner of TechCrunch, is getting acquired: U.S. carrier Verizon said in a statement that it is buying the company for $4.4 billion, or $50 per share. We’ve just ...

 So this just happened. AOL, owner of TechCrunch, is getting acquired: U.S. carrier Verizon said in a statement that it is buying the company for $4.4 billion, or $50 per share. We’ve just ...

 Back in summer 2013 shiny new European hardware accelerator, Startupbootcamp HighTechXL, began the search for its first cohort of startups. The 11 teams in its second edition raised a total of $...

 SoftBank, the Japanese telecom giant that is also one of Asia’s most prolific startup investors, has named Google’s former chief business officer, Nikesh Arora, as its new president ...

 Rocket Internet, the German ‘startup factory’ and e-commerce behemoth, is de-cloaking its latest venture today. Founded by two ex-McKinsey management consultants, Peter Baumgart and ...

 Aliyun, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba, announced today that it has signed a joint-venture agreement with Dubai-based holding company Meraas to bring it services to companies and government ...

 I’m not sure about you, but most of my friends in real life — aka people I didn’t meet through the internet or work — don’t actually use Twitter. It makes sense, th...

 After nearly three years delivering anything you want on-demand (in the greater New York City area), WunWun is shuttering. As part of the close, Alfred is purchasing assets, including key WunWun...

 Uber is synonymous with its cashless payment experience, but that’s about to change. At least in India, initially. Read More ...

 Key officials at theFTC aren’t mincing words in a new post defending the right of manufacturers to sell directly to consumers: Part of the U.S. regulatory trade organization’s execut...

 Following previous gestures of support, a grip of technology trade groups representing the industry’s largest players signed and released a letter expressing support for the House’s ...

 NerdWallet, the six-year-old company launched with $800 by company co-founder and chief executive, Tim Chen, has raised $64 million in its first round of outside financing. Read More ...

 After reporting its earnings, including a profit meet and a small revenue miss, shares of Rackspace are down sharply in after-hours trading. The cloud-focused company’s guidance for its cu...

 Mosaic Manufacturing made waves a few weeks ago with the launch of the Pallete, a system for printing multi-colored 3D objects. We were lucky enough to hang out with the team in Montreal where t...

 SherpaVentures, the venture fund run by Shervin Pishevar and Scott Stanford, is raising a new $175 million fund, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange commission. This is the se...

 ScaleFT, a new devops startup founded by a number of former RackSpace executives and engineers, today announced that it has raised an $800,000 seed round with a strategic investment by Rackspace...

 Thanks to the JOBS Act, the world of equity crowdfunding is blowing wide open. FlashFunders, an equity crowdfunding platform, is announcing a new program that automates the process for entrepren...

 Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has appointed Overstock.com CEO Patrick Bryne to his tech counsel, a group that includes Michele Weslander Quaid of Google, and Brandon Hudgeons of Schoox and will help sha...

 If you’re looking to meet new people but don’t want to explicitly commit to it being a date, ason Tinder, a new app called Wiithwants to help. Thesocial app aimsto connect nearby peo...

 Over the past few years, Haxlr8r has helped a number of hardware startups go from the idea or prototype stage to actual production. But what happens when their products are finished? Those compa...

 Microsoft’s new Surface 3 tablet received an update today aimed at helping large organizations deploy the small tablets across their personnel. The unnamed update, according to Microsoft, ...

 Google launched a new Chrome extension today that’s a first of its kind for the search engine giant. The new Chrome User Experience Surveys extension will occasionally pop up brief surveys...

 Cricket’s Circle, an online baby registry site that aims to not only offer a selection of items to buy, but also recommendations on what you should buy and why, has now closed on $2.25 mil...

 Breezy HR, formerly Nimble HR, released a new iPhone app today, along with a video calling feature for its core recruiting product. TechCrunch last covered Breezy when it was called Nimble, and ...

 Breezy HR, formerly Nimble HR, released a new iPhone app today, along with a video calling feature for its core recruiting product. TechCrunch last covered Breezy when it was called Nimble, and ...

 Microsoft today announced that it is partnering with a consortium of telecom companies to build a new transpacific undersea cable that will connect a number of points in China, South Korea, Taiw...

 Apple’s latest iOS 8.4 beta, the third for the next significant iOS software update, is now available. This most recent instalment continues to offer a revamped Music app, bringing both fu...

 After a series of spamattacksand other obscene edits, Google has temporarily taken its crowdsourced map editing tool Map Maker offline. The online tool has, for years, allowed those in countries...

 Winnow is on a mission to help the hospitality industry cut down on food waste by making the kitchen ‘smarter’. It does this via the Winnow smart meter, a set of smart scales and acc...

 Imagine if someone asked “would you invest in this company?” Your answer is going to be similar. With a few additions.Here’s the checklist I would follow. Read More ...

 Although US print sales have been steady, the UK Publishers Association is reporting a very interesting trend. Generally, print revenues dropped 5 percent to 2.7 billion and ebook revenues rose ...

 The New York Times said today it’s ditching the paid subscription model for its mobile app NYT Now, after failing to convert a significant number of mobile users to subscribers. The app, w...

 We can all agree that email is the worst thing that’s ever happened to any of us. Sure, it made the postal service obsolete and it speeds up the rate of textual transmission by a factor of...

 Stop reading now if you don’t want to hear about another super-cool flexible vibrator for the ladies. Go on. Try this post. It’s pretty innocuous. Everyone that’s left OK with ...

 Editor’s note:Ben Narasin is president of TriplePoint Ventures and Michael Abbott is General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.In a prior era, some considered it best practic...

 Venture capitalists love markets where consumers spend exorbitantly for services that are extortionately priced, and no market exemplifies that better than the wedding market. Read More ...

 Microsoft is moving to a different kind of software model with Windows 10; A developer evangelist noted that Windows 10 would be the “last version of Windows” during the company̵...

 Earlier on Monday, Apple CEO Tim Cook joined Sina Corp.’s Weibo, a Chinese microblogging service similar to Twitter. The move, which is indicativeof the importance of the Chinese smartphon...

 U.K.-based healthcare appointment booking platform startup Zesty has closed a $7.2 million Series A funding round to expand in the U.K. and into additional European markets. Read More ...

Pantheon, one of the largest managed hosting platforms for Drupal and WordPress sites, today announced that it has acquired NodeSquirrel, a backup service for Drupal sites. The service originally star...

 Startups dealing in the world of Drones have been given a boost today with the news that Sky-Futures, which flies drones around oil rigs and gas pipelines, has raised $3.87m (2.5m) in a Series A...

 The Filipino government is working on a new category of regulations specifically tailored for ridesharing apps like Uber. According to an announcement on the Department of Transportation and Com...

 aCommerce, the NTT Docomo-backed logistics firm that serves Southeast Asia, has raised $5 million as it prepares for an upcoming Series B round that could exceed $100 million. Read More ...

 Analysts have warned us for some time that China’s smartphone market is shrinking, and today we have the most compelling evidence that buyer dynamics are shifting in the country. A new rep...

 Hidden under the guise of enabling the Indian population with faster and more reliable services, the major players in telecoms, such as Airtel and Reliance, have adopted new policies that could ...

 Gaming’s media is increasingly under strain from too much coverage of the same subject matter. And yet the biggest single market for games – mobile – remains very poorly covere...

 Google has introduced an interesting new feature to the Google Play Store after it began allowing users to pre-register for upcoming Android apps. Read More ...

 Apple will extend several of its environmental projects in China, one of its fastest-growing markets. These initiatives include a partnership with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to protect forest...

 Gone are the days of physically taking yourself to a new therapist and hoping it’s a good match. IBM is working with text therapy startup Talkspace to help find the best therapist for you ...

 Alfred has had a busy year. The company has raised $12 million+, set up shop in NYC, and tripled the number of employees on the team. But at Disrupt NY, a little over six months after winning Di...

 Okay, it’s technically not “middle” America, geographically speaking, but it is a small chunk of suburbia on the outskirts of an even smaller urban center. A place where people...

 “Wouldn’t it be neat to have a web browser on my Apple Watch?” No, no it wouldn’t. It’s a thought most smartwatch owners have had at one time or another — but...

 What is it about e-commerce mattress startups of late? In the U.S., Casper made headlines last year after raising$13.1 million in Series A funding led by New Enterprise Associates. The company w...

With the Apple Watch dominating the news cycle, it’s easy to forget about the smart(ish) watches that have come before it. But while intelligent time pieces will come and go, I’m still dee...

 The Internet has changed a lot about people’s lives in the past couple decades. Web and mobile applications let us search for information, buy products, and communicate frictionlessly, fro...

 If you get tired of asking Microsoft how old you look, here’s a variant from startup Lulu — a site that answers the question, “How Dude Do I Look?” Lulu launched the proj...

 The U.K. voted in a General Election on Thursday. The result ends five years of coalition government, and ushers in five years of true blue Tory rule. Here’s a quick round up of a few of t...

 At the recent F8 conference, listening to Mark Zuckerberg announce that FB Messenger was going to open up as another developer platform, as Facebook did back in 07, brought me back to a differen...

 On-demand transportation an logistics company Uber could raise another $1.5 billion to $2 billion in funding, adding to an already massive war chest as the company expands into new markets and n...

 Mobile link sharing is a clumsy rigmarole of app switching and copy & pasting. So to get more people posting links, Facebook is testing an in-app keyword search engine that lets you find web...

 Pinterest confirmed that it has padded its Series G funding a bit and is carrying out a new secondary sale that will allow employees to cash in some of their shares. As first reported by Re/code...

 The launch of the Apple Watch represents the latest proof point that we’re only going to have more devices to consider when designing mobile apps. Not only does it represent a huge opportu...

 The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, May 8, 2015. My Watch finally shipped, MacBook Nirvana, and @ScobleizerR...

 TechCrunch TV talked to a long list of New York startups during Disrupt NY, but we were also joined by a local nonprofit called Brooklyn on Tech.As co-founders Jessica Santana and Evin Robinson ...

 Before I dive into the many ways that Peter Thiel gets the lean methodology as wrong as a glowing review of 50 Shades of Grey, let me say this: He is one incredibly savvy dude. Most of the time,...

 We’re back from Disrupt NY, where we stayed up all night for the Hackathon, conducted numerous on-stage interviews with tech figures and heard from hundreds of startups on the products the...

 I write to you from Aqaba, Jordan, a town made famous when conquered by “Lawrence of Arabia” and Abdullah bin al-Hussein 99 years ago, at a confluence where today four nations divide...

 Hello dear friends, and welcome back to another episode of TCBTC, TechCrunch’s kinda-weekly bitcoin podcast. This time around the Skype booth, main host John Biggs and myself dug into the ...

 Hello from far-too-hot New York City, where Jonathan Shieber, Ingrid Lunden, and myself found a few chairs, a few beers, and a few topics to dig into as Disrupt came to a conclusion. This time a...

 The creator of SimCity, Will Wright, has come out with a new app called THRED — and it isn’t a game.Instead, Wright describes it as a natively built way to browse “the World Wi...

 This week we’re happy to have survived TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015 intact, so we talked a bit about how the Apple Watch seemed to make that process a lot easier to handle. The device lets y...

 Immediately, a startup building mobile tools for salespeople, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in funding.Here’s the pitch, from the funding release: “We believe the futur...

 Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Kevin MArks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. Chat during LIVE show recording session Gillmor Gang ...

 If you need a computer about the size of a credit card, look no further. The CHIP is a $9 single-board computer that runs Linux and can do just about anything you want it to… including pla...

 Storm Ventures has joined nearly every other startup capital entity in raising a new, larger fund. Storm’s fifth fund is a $180 million vehicle that the firm has stapled a new venture part...

 If you’d like to dip your toe into the virtual world ahead of the coming consumer launches of Gear VR, Valve and HTC’s Vive, and the Oculus Rift, the Gear VR Innovator Edition for Ga...

 The social media team at TechCrunch compiled a gallery of 24 memorable quotes from Disrupt New York 2015. This year’s speaker lineup featured everyone from Tom Wheeler (FCC Charmain) to Be...

 In this week’s edition of ‘omg the machines are on the verge of sentience,’ we bring you news of a research project out of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intellige...

 Under the guise of “high-g quadcopter training” the folks at ETH Zurich have tethered multiple drones to a central pole and are teaching them to do 50 km/h accelerations of up to 13 ...

 Dog carts are common but clunky. These little carts, attached to disabled dogs via straps and webbing, are often expensive and rarely cool. Now, however, you can get your disabled dog some sweet...

 Yahoo announced this week that it’s adding support for Apple Watch analytics to its free mobile analytics service Flurry, which the company acquired last year. For those developers who are...

 As technology permeates nearly every aspect of our lives, it has become an increasingly political topic. On one hand, Washington and Silicon Valley have seemingly never been closer with recent v...

 Amazon’s delivery drone plans may have seemed more like a media stunt than a concrete vision back when it launched, but with active testing taking place in Canada and now, new details show...

 In what amounts to a win for the anti-DRM crowd, Keurig CEO Brian Kelley said the 23% drop in sales came from his move to prevent coffee lovers from using unofficial K-Cups. After the company...

 Spotted this week at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley, was the newly launched social photo-sharing app Rewind. As its name implies, the idea with this app is to give you and your frie...

 Tesla Motors has acquired Michigan-based Riviera Tool, Tesla confirms. This purchase marks Tesla’s first presence in Michigan, a state where the auto maker is not allowed to sell its vehic...

 This past week’s Disrupt NY 2015 conference was my first opportunity to use the Apple Watch at a multi-day event, and considering Disrupt is always essentially a non-stop workfest for us h...

 Cities across the planet have been trying and failing to replicate Silicon Valley’s talent for going on 50 years now. However, it’s not talent per se that makes Silicon Valley what i...

 How many of us have been tempted to chuck our smartphones into the ocean while on vacation to stop the incessant buzzing of incoming emails and texts from interrupting what is supposed to be dow...

 Amida challenging market for tech stocks this quarter, AOL today reported its most recentearnings. For the quarter that ended March 31, the company posted revenues of $625.1 million and adjusted...

 Online meal delivery company Just Eat has purchased Menulog for 445 million (about $687 million), marking its entrance into New Zealand and Australia. Menulog, which has 5,500 restaurants on its...

 Google now lets users in the U.S. order food from six companies—Seamless, Grubhub, Eat24, Delivery.com, BeyondMenu, and MyPizza.com—directly from search results. Read More ...

 Vedantu, an online tutoring platform, disclosed today that it has raised a $5 million series A from Accel Partners and Tiger Global Management. Test preparation is a big market in India as more ...

 Seed accelerators have been around for 10 years now and their popularity doesn’t appear to be waning any time soon. Sure, criticism for the programs themselves and the proliferation of dif...

 Over the past five years, there has been roughly $3 billion of capital invested in nearly 3,500 seed-stage companies, with the number of seed investments rising every year. According to CB Insig...

 Facebook is combining its lucrative app install ads with deep linking so a specific in-app purchase page opens once the app downloads. The result is a powerful new tool for direct marketers that...

 Casper is known for bringing the mattress buying experience online, but it’s also trying out new approaches to brick-and-mortar retail. In fact, co-founder and CEO Philip Krim said that o...

 What is actually required for a startup to get to an M&A? While the popular image may be Facebook buying Instagram over one weekend, that’s not how it usually happens. A select few com...

 Fitbit just filed an S-1 declaring its plans to go public.The filing states that the company aims to raise $100 million in its initial public offering (that number could change). It also says th...

 Harj Taggar, one of Y Combinator’s earliest partners, is very familiar with the pain of hiring for new CEOs. “When founders start companies, they’re not really sure how to put ...

 To say that recent capital inflows in the food-ordering space have been growing rapidly wouldn’t be doing the current funding environment justice. In fact, it might even be considered a gr...

 The Odyssey, the site that popularized the idea of “The Dad Bod,” is announcing that it has raised $3 million in seedfunding.A number of executives from ExactTarget (a marketing comp...

 Editor’s note: James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and several-times entrepreneur. You can find him @jaltucher or his latest book is “Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth...

 The following is a long excerpt from my new book, Marie Antoinette’s Watch: Adultery, Larceny, & Perpetual Motion that I wanted to share with you here on the site. It details a 1983 br...

 With their twelfth batch of companies set to demo to investors and the press next week, 500 Startups is announcing the thirteenth batch of companies to go through its accelerator. Read More ...

 Every Disrupt I gather some of the coolest hardware startups in the world into one place – Hardware Alley. This cavalcade of gear is one of my favorite parts of Disrupt and I try to walk t...

 LinkedIn, the social network for the working world,has been on a mission to adddifferent services to its platform to expand the ways that people use it beyond looking for jobs and basicnetworkin...

 Two weeks ago, the NASDAQ recently topped its all-time high set in March 2000, and today there are over 50 private “unicorn” companies with valuations of more than $1 billion. Privat...

 Flickr today is rolling out a revamped version of its website, software applications for desktop and mobile, as well as its search service, in what’s perhaps the biggest update since the c...

 ItBit, a bitcoin exchange operating in New York and Singapore, has been approved as New York State Trust company and added a number of heavy hitters to its board of directors. Read More ...

 When you think of Cisco, it’s easy topigeon-holethem as a networking equipment company, but Cisco also has a communications and collaboration side that includes WebEx. Today, it announced ...

 Mythology can be a useful tool for uniting cultures and countries. It’s somewhat less useful for understanding the rise of modern technologies. Here are two myths that are widely associate...

 Former Bonobos CEO Andy Dunn is “stepping up” to Executive Chairman of the company and will be replaced by retail expert Francine Della Badia. Dunn will become a brand ambassador and...

 In case you thought paying $7 to $10 to trade a stock in the US was bad, it costs $65 in Australia. So now that it’s zero-fee stock trading app is thriving stateside with hundreds of thous...

 Toppr.com, a Mumbai-based startup that helps students prepare for entrance exams, has raised $10 million from Fidelity Growth Partners India, SAIF Partners, and Helion Ventures. Founded in 2013,...

 Deekit, which exits private beta today, is a virtual and collaborative whiteboard to help remote teams work smarter. Read More ...

 Banjo, a startup that analyzes data about events and breaking news in real-time, has pulled in a $100 million series C led by Softbank with participation from returning investor BlueRun Ventures...

 GGV Capital recently celebrated the 15th birthday of its long-time friend and former portfolio company, Alibaba, which went public in 2014. In April, we again celebrated the birthday of another ...

 This year’s Disrupt NY Startup Battlefield was amazing. At the very beginning, there were 24 great companies presenting in front of multiple groups of industry leaders serving as judges. T...

 About two years ago, Mark Pincus brought on former Xbox executive Don Mattrick to run the company, and he took a step back. This was actually a tremendous surprise to the industry.Pincus has a r...

 The Oculus Rift is heading to consumer hands in Q1 of 2016, but that won’t be the first official consumer VR hardware launch that Oculus takes part in: Oculus’ VP of Product Nate Mit...

 The folks at Gate want you to know when the postman is coming. Their new product, available now on Kickstarter, is a smart mailbox sensor that tells you when someone is digging in your post box ...

 Wall Street didn’t have the highest expectations for Tesla this quarter, but the company actually did quite a bit better than was expected. It was predicted that Tesla would lose about 50 ...

 We’ve found the tech company that isn’t hiring.Zynga reported its first-quarter financial performance today following the bell, sending its shares skyrocketing as investors cheered i...

 Gaming and advertising company RockYou has acquired mobile ad network PlayHaven from startup studio Science Inc. PlayHaven actually changed hands last fall, when Science bought it from Upsight, ...

 How did it feel getting cut off by Twitter with just 2 hours notice? “It sucked” says Meerkat founder Ben Rubin. That’s why it’s determined to treat developers with more ...

 This morning at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, Walker & Co. founder Tristan Walker spoke about bringing more diversity to Silicon Valley and his plan to reach 5,000 black and Latina/o students this ...

 MLB Advanced Media started streaming baseball games in 2002 — way back before live streaming had become as prevalent as it is today — and that’s part of the reason MLB’s ...

 What sort of metrics should mobile app developers be paying attention to these days? That question kicked off a discussion about the changing nature of the mobile app ecosystem at TechCrunch Dis...

 Voxon, chosen out of the Hardware Alley to do the ‘wildcard’ pitch during TechCrunch Disrupt NY, demonstrated a truly amazing technology today. Imagine the scene from Star Wars where...

 TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield alumni and former Disrupt winner Layer, a company which is offering developers tools to build their own communications platform where they control the experience a...

 Meerkat founder Ben Rubin has criticized Twitter for only giving the live streaming startup two hours’ notice before pulling the plug on access to its social graph. Read More ...

 The twin Harvard graduates of Facebook fame Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss just took the stage at Disrupt NY 2015 to update everyone on their recent bitcoin projects. As a reminder, the twins have...

 That meantif you wanted to add a service like taking a credit card, you needed to code it all manually. Today with a few lines of code, you can tap into some remarkableresources whether it’...

 Google is shutting down PageSpeed Service, its hosted solution for optimizing websites for faster delivery, on August 3. Developers have until then to change their DNS settings or their sites wo...

 ChartBeat today said it raised $15.5 million in its latest round of funding — and that money is going toward helping publishers improvetheir advertising businesses. Recently the Interactiv...

 Atlassian, the company behind developer services like JIRA and Confluence, as well as the group chat tool HipChat, today announced that it has acquired Hall, a group chat service for businesses....

 Jetbay wants to save travelers to China from boring tour packages. Launched by the founders of Wowo (also known as 55Tuan), one of the country’s largest group deals sites, Jetbay offers pr...

 Reddit has been at the forefront of connecting users with interesting content for years now, but to date most of its efforts have been around just making it easier for its community to share thi...

 Retail will play a big part in Oculus Rift’s launch, according to Oculus VP of Product Nate Mitchell. “So far buying it has been about trial, you put it on and you’re transport...

 Retail will play a big part in Oculus Rift’s launch, according to Oculus VP of Product Nate Mitchell. “So far buying it has been about trial, you put it on and you’re transport...

 Shyp still isn’t explicitly an on-demand service, according to company CEO Kevin Gibbon.Despite having a service that allows users to summon someone who will ship something for them, Gibbo...

 Affirm is looking to expand its lending business for online shoppers. The new lending startup from PayPal co-founder Max Levchin is today announcing it raised $275 million in debt and equity to ...

 Automile, which offers a device and platform that connects your car to the cloud so you can track various kinds of data, has closed a $5 million Series A round. The investment was led by Dawn Ca...

We are entering into the home stretch of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015, and we couldn’t have a better lineup to close out the show. We’ll be joined by Classpass’s Payal Kadakia, Bob Bow...

We are entering the home stretch of TechCrunch Disrupt NY, and we couldn’t have a better lineup to close out the show.We’ll be joined by ClassPass’s Payal Kadakia, Bob Bowman from ML...

 How will DJI keep its drone hardware business from being commoditized by cheap knockoffs? By fostering a drone operation software developer ecosystem with a new $75 million growth equity investm...

 As data breaches exposemillions of U.S. health recordsand cyber attacksthreaten to cause anaccidental nuclear war, security tech is more relevant than ever. Cybereason, an Israeli startup that p...

 Some big changes ahead for Wickr, amessaging app that emergedin the wake of theNSA private data leaks to offer consumersan encrypted, more secure alternative to mainstream services like Facebook...

 Work management and collaboration platform Wrike today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series B round led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from DCM Ventures and previous i...

 Oculus is ready to sell virtual reality to the public, almost 3 years after it Kickstarted its first developer kit. Today Oculus announced that “the Oculus Rift will be shipping ...

 Zenefits today said it has raised $500 million in a round led by Fidelity and TPG at a whopping $4.5 billion valuation. The company, which allows small- and medium-sized businesses to manage hum...

 In yet another vote of confidence for India’s e-commerce market, logistics company Delhivery has scored a series D round of $85 million, less than eight months after its $35 million series...

 With Cloud Bigtable, Google is launching a new NoSQL database offering today that, as the name implies, is powered by the company’s Bigtable data storage system, but with the added twist t...

Mobile app intelligence platform App Annie is today announcing that it has acquired Mobidia, a mobile measurement service that was one of the earliest app usage data providers on the market having ent...

 Omise, a Thailand-based payment enabler, is in the money today after it raised a $2.6 million Series A round to develop its payment gateway system and expand across Asia. Read More ...

 IBM and Facebook are teaming up to offer marketers new integrations between the two platforms.IBM said customers will now be able to buy Facebook ads with combined data from Facebook and IBMR...

 With the number of location discovery apps out there already, the question might not be “Where should we go?” but “Why make another one?” The developers of HeyLets, howev...

 We’re now on the flipside of our 17th TechCrunch Disrupt conference. In the past two days, over2100people have passed through the Manhattan Center for TechCrunch Disrupt NY,with dreams of ...

 It’s not news that the Eurozone is in one of the worst economic and political shapes it has been in thus far. Greece’s future remains uncertain. Italy’s economy has failed to s...

 You find yourself traveling abroad or in a strange city and need to work out where you are and what’s around you. What do we all do? It’s a familiar process. You take out your smartp...

 You sit down at your local coffee shop and fire up the WiFi. Everything seems to work just fine. The network name is the same; all of your pages load — there’s no real indication tha...

 The time-consuming tedium of file search is San Francisco-based startup Peruse’s jumping-off point. It’s aiming to simplify locating files by changing how people search so they don&#...

 If you were hoping to build a third-party band for Apple Watch, then you now have some resources about the official way to make that happen. Apple posted details about its ‘Made for Apple ...

 Meet ShoCard, a startup that stores your identity onto bitcoin’s blockchain so that you can prove your identity whenever you need to. ShoCard wants to replace cumbersome bank and credit ca...

 Following Charlie Hebdo’s attacks, the French Government has been tirelessly working to draft and vote a new intelligence law that goes way too far. Today, the lower house of the French Pa...

 Shares of Salesforce popped today following a report that Microsoft is a potential candidate to purchase the public company best known for its work in customer relationship management. Salesforc...

 Wahanda, the European hair and beauty marketplace, has seen an exit of sorts.Japan’s Recruit Holdings, which already owned 10 per centof the London headquartered startup, has acquired a fu...

 Today at Disrupt NY, ContainerShip took the stage to show off its technology built to help companies better deploy containerized applications to different hosting services. ContainerShip is part...

 I bet we’ve all had moments when we’ve stared at a random, irrelevant ad and wondered: “Why the heck am I being forced to watch this?”Well, a company called Relevancy Dat...

 Online customer service company Zendesk today reported earnings for its first financial quarter of 2015. The company reported revenue of $42.2 million, up 68 percent from the year-ago-quarter. I...

 After the bell today, Groupon reported its first quarter financial performance. The company, best known for its discount coupons to local businesses, earned an adjusted $0.03 per shareon $750.4 ...

 Bootstrapping Dutch startup Zami Life is aiming to engineer posture problems out of the office worker’s life with an ergonomic stool that has a curved seat. The shape of the seat is design...

 Bootstrapping Dutch startup Zami Life is aiming to engineer posture problems out of the office worker’s life with an ergonomic stool that has a curved seat. The shape of the seat is design...

 One of the most interesting problems facing the technology industry is getting the billions of unconnected people around the world online. Facebook and Google think aerial drones are the answer,...

 Wrapping up her interview onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt with presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, TechCrunch’s Sarah Lane asked a pretty common question for a candidate running for presid...

 A new startup called Paribus, launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, wants to help online shoppers get money back when prices drop. Today’s consumersknow that prices change more often o...

 “How many people vote for American Idol on their cell phone every week?” Republicanpresidential hopeful Carly Fiorina asked the crowd on stage at Disrupt NY on Tuesday. “What i...

 How long does it take to recharge an iPhone? A few hours, right? Nucleus Scientific revealed a solution onstage today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY that can charge a phone in minutes. With this techn...

 Arctuition is hoping to take advantage of the iPad’s portability, flexibility and range of input options to bring meaningful improvements to an area of CAD and engineering that has remaine...

 Imagine you’re dreaming of buying a new car. You see a commercial on TV with a phone number where you can text your questions, but the answers aren’t coming from a human. They come f...

 Former HP CEO and current presidential candidate Carly Fiorina took the stage at Disrupt NY today to talk about her campaign, experience at HP and the role of technology in politics. In talking ...

 While our computers today are often extremely fast, most applications aren’t optimized for the hardware platform they are running on. Libraries are often compiled for a generic platform an...

 Lyft co-founder and CEO Logan Green took the stage at Disrupt NY to update everyone on the company’s current focus. Lyft has been iterating quickly for the past few months, and our own Rya...

 Getting a blowout is standard operating procedure for many folks out there; yet the process of booking those appointments (not to mention the high cost of weekly blowouts) makes the experience r...

 Disney’s doing what many hoped it would – bringing Star Wars to its popular toys-to-life video game series Disney Infinity. Characters from the now Disney-owned Star Wars universe wi...

 This morning at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, Yik Yak founders Brooks Buffington and Tyler Droll spoke as to why they believe their anonymous social app has soared while others in the space have instea...

 RebelMouse CEO Paul Berry joined us at Disrupt NY to talk about how the company has evolved from its early days as a social media aggregator. Read More ...

 CodersClan started out as a marketplace for easily outsourcing small coding tasks. Now, the company is setting its sights on allowing its customers to request full development projects and it...

 Dave McClure, the founding partner of 500 Startups, wants his investment shop to be the biggest venture capital shop in the world and is confused that the firm is now larger than 500 startups. I...

 Man Repeller is a fashion blog that aims to write content around the kind of clothes women love but men hate. Like formless jumpsuits. Site founder Leandra Medine took to the stage at Disrupt NY...

 “Nobody wants to watch Game Of Thrones on Periscope” says the Twitter-acquired startup’s co-founder and CEO Kayvon Beykpour. Despite widespread reports of Periscopers using the...

 Twitter now owns Vine, which has a large, vibrant user base. And still, there are no plans to make money off of it just yet, Vine’s head of user experience Jason Mante said on stage at Tec...

 It’s only been a few short months since automated savings startup Digit opened to the public, but it’s already garnered serious interest from consumers who want more money in their b...

 WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann said the word “community” at least a dozen times onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. It’s a mantra of the company that he kept hammering away over ...

 Amazon Prime members who are also frequent travelers will now have another new benefit coming to them as part of their annual membership. The company this morning announced it has inked a deal w...

 On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, Google Venture’s Bill Maris sat down with our own Alexia Tsotsis to dig into his firm’s investments and discuss whether Peter Thiel takes too many ...

 German car manufacturer Volkswagen today announced that it’s joining the ranks of companies offering up an Apple Watch app to go along with its broader mobile service. Read More ...

 Apple’s next Apple TV is rumored to be breaking cover in just a few short weeks at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference it hosts in San Francisco, and said device could also come bun...

 Today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015, our own Ryan Lawler sat down with Chris Dixon of Andreessen Horowitz to dig into the investor’s strategy and how successful the New York technology sce...

 Snapchat’s Discover feature feels like the awkward guy in a nice suit at a casual party. Discover’s professionally made content from CNN, Comedy Central, Food Network, and others is ...

 Foursquare — the startup likely best known for popularising the “check-in” for users to share their locations with their social networks — has more recently been trying t...

 A new chapter startstoday for Elance-oDesk, a platform where 4 millionbusinesses connect with 10 millionknowledge workerfreelancers to fill contract jobs.More than a year after the two competito...

 There are already over 3,500 Apple Watch apps available on the market, but it’s unclear which ones will stick around for the long haul, and which will be discarded as the novelty wears off...

Interested in hearing from a potential candidate for the presidency? Wondering about Tinder’s next moves? Curious about the future of Foursquare or the challenges facing Lyft? Then today is the ...

 The last time I enrolled in a Mandarin language program was back in 2007, light-years away in terms of technology. I considered myself lucky because I had a Besta CD-618 electronic dictionary an...

 Delivery Hero, the billion-dollartakeout food servicebased out of Berlin, is making another bigacquisitionas it continues to scale up its business worldwide. It’s buying Turkey’s Yem...

 Did you know you’re supposed to replace your toothbrush every three months? Apparently, this is actually the recommended time frame preferred by the ADA, but most consumers just wait until...

 Vu Digital is launching new technology to help customers figure out what’s actually going on inside web online videos.B. Wade Smith, the company’s vice president of operations and de...

When news broke that Founders Fund, the proudly contrarian venture firm helmed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, was going to invest in a major $75 million in Privateer Holdings, a company focused on ...

Nikola Tesla pioneered the transmission of electricity over wires. Heinrich Hertz proved it could be transmitted wirelessly. But we still use 19th centre technology to power 21st century devices. Niko...

 How do the next billion people get online? Few people are offline for lack of interest; in many parts of the world, getting connected is just too expensive. It’s prohibitively expensive as...

 A number of businesses today document theirstandard operating procedures and other employee training guides in order to more quickly get new workers up to speed. But today for many industries, t...

 The reasons for infertility are varied and can be tricky to figure out, but part of that struggle may have to do with timing. Welltwigs is a hardware solution and mobile app launching on the Sta...

 For those who are looking to invest in real estate, finding good opportunities can be difficult. In commercial real estate, unless you know a property owner or developer, it’s nearly impos...

 Tech companies aren’t bad for cities, argues SV Angel’s Ron Conway. He says that each time a tech company hires an engineer, they end up hiring four additional entry-level workers to...

 Startup Battlefield contestant Nativetap.io has built a system that allows developers to test and debug their apps from a single iPad or Android tablet, yet see a pixel-perfect representation of...

 A company that has developed a new way to secure access to online accounts, Cloudwear, is launching today onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. Backed by a team whose experience includes building cl...

 Liquidity Nanotech is trying to change the world. But for once, the clich could actually be applicable. The company is launching today onstage at Disrupt NY 2015 with the Naked Filter, a consume...

 Weight loss company Weight Watchers continues its recent acquisition spree with the purchase of Hot5. The startup will join a couple of other mobile apps Weight Watchers has bought to help its c...

 You shouldn’t trust anyone with your bitcoins, and Case is well aware of that. Over the past few years, Mt.Gox, Bitstamp and countless other centralized services have suffered serious secu...

 Box CEO Aaron Levie talked about his company’s multi-pronged growth strategies with TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City. The strategyinvolves build...

 Everyone seems to have a marijuana startup idea. Snoop Dogg even raised a venture fund to invest in them. But would you believe it? Coming up with business plans while you’re high is not a...

 VimoFit is hoping to be the one fitness app to rule them all, which is a claim we’ve heard before. But co-founder and Stanford electrical engineering PhD Huan Liu says VimoFit, which prese...

 Google+, the company’s social networking service that allows users to share posts and photos with family, friends and the broader public, has been sometimes criticized for being too much l...

 More than ever, insurers and healthcare providers are looking for ways to reduce the cost of patient care. Wellth, which launched onstage today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, thinks it solved one ste...

 Foursquare has today released an update for Swarm, the company’s social check-in app, that brings far more of the delightful gamification of the old Foursquare back to the service. But tod...

 PageCloud launched at Disrupt NY 2015 today to allow users to drag-and-drop photos, video, text or other elements onto a web page in order to create the look they want on a website. Much like ot...

 One of thecompaniesin the frame as a potential buyer of Nokia’s Here mapping division has quietly inked a deal with the Finnish companyto power mobile maps. Facebook is now using Here maps...

 U.S. biotech startup BioBots sits at the intersection between computer science and chemistry. Its debut product, a desktop 3D printer for biomaterials, which was just demoed on stage at TechCrun...

 Google has acquired Timeful, a startup designed to make scheduling easier by helping you solve larger goals without requiring you to sweat the details. Timeful’s app analyzes your schedule...

 TechCrunch writer Alex Wilhelm talked to FCC Commissioner Tom Wheeler onstage today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY about the decision to pass new net neutrality regulations, Congressional troubles and...

 New York may be the city that never sleeps, but when it comes to tech investment, historically, the naked city has been caught napping. Since the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, New York City has ...

 Nintendo’s Amiibo toys are selling well; almost too well, depending on who you’re asking. Fans are frustrated that many specific models are very hard to get, unless you’re will...

 “Startup businesses back the Conservatives,” screamed last week’s headline in The Guardian newspaper. In a move that feels somewhat unprecedented for the U.K.’s startup s...

 QR codes have been a laughing-stock for years now. The gangly square bar codes were slapped on posters and magazine pages, and heralded as an easy way to open URLs or bonus content. Instead they...

 Same-day delivery service Postmates could be profitable next year if the company wants to be, said CEO Bastian Lehmann today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. The company has made 2 million deliveries, ...

 The newfound ability to put entire MS-DOS games hosted by the Internet Archive inside tweets, and then play them back in Twitter’s official web client, is now gone. The feature used Twitte...

 MyFitnessPal, a popular health and fitness tracking app that was snatched up byathletic apparel maker Under Armourearlier this year for $475 million, is today making its first move to a paid mod...

 The beauty industry is a billion dollar business and the major players are more than a century old. Glossier founder Emily Weiss took to the stage with our own Colleen Taylor at Disrupt New York...

 A change of guard at tech giant Cisco. Long-time CEO John Chambers, who has served as the head of the company for the last 20 or so years, is being replaced by Robbins as Chief Executive Officer...

 In what is one of the most prominent financial commitments that an American city government has made toward universal broadband, the De Blasio administration is committing $70 million to bring a...

 File-sharing service Droplr is dropping its cheapest individual paid tier for a freemium model starting tomorrow. Read More ...

 London-based startup Kano, which makes a software platform and DIY computer kit built atop the Raspberry Pi to encourage kids to learn coding, has a new building block of its own to announce tod...

 As the technology business becomes more mainstream, tackling morelegacyand non-tech problems, we’re seeingthetech industrylook for better ways of engaging with the communities that they ar...

 Drawbridge‘s platform is getting smarter thanks to partnerships with Datalogix and Axciom-owned Liveramp.The company, backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, al...

 Microsoft has always been big on the hybrid cloud, which is no surprise given its focus on enterprise customers. This week, however, it’s taking this idea even further with the announcemen...

 Pinterest’s Head of Partnerships Joanne Bradford, spoke in more detail about the social network’s recently announced plans to open up to third-party developers at the TechCrunch Disr...

 Today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, DataGravity’s Paula Long took to the stage with our very own Ron Miller to discuss how to sell your startup, and why she came back for what Miller calls ...

How much do you value the advice of a stranger? Sensay is betting that you care quite a bit about the opinion of a rando. The service lets users text a specific phone number with a question (like R...

 Fifth-generation San Franciscan and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has been a big proponent of civic engagement and philanthropy among the tech industry. To that end, when he started Salesforce, he...

 Former HP CEO Carly Fiornia announced earlier today that she would be running for president — but it appears someone else has already picked up one of the domains for her name and is prett...

 Creating professional graphics is not a skill set that everyone has, but online design platformCanvawants to change that. In mid-2013, the company debuted a a service that allows anyone to more ...

 TechCrunch is pleased to announce the 25 startups selected to participate in the Startup Battlefield of Disrupt NY 2015. Over the next two days, these companies will compete on the massive Disru...

 Disrupt is officially underway. After an ultra-successful hackathon this weekend, we’re ready to get the show started and, eventually, kick off the Disrupt Battlefield this afternoon.There...

 In one of the biggest funding rounds of the year in education and technology, Altschool is raising $100 million from Founders Fund, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s foundation along wi...

 It’s official: Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina is running for president, and she’s hoping that her experience running one of the largest technology companies in the world will win over v...

 Pinterest is finally opening the doors for developers to access its information — a little bit, at least. The company is rolling out a beta version of its development platform that will al...

 The latest class of early-stage startups is busy preparing to crush it at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. I’m not going out on a limb by saying that the goal of every company there is to scale fast...

 In what may be one of its first investments in a Series A round, the investment firm KKR has pulled from its $98.6 billion in assets under management to lead a $15 million investment in the fund...

 It used to be that when shoppers were interested in learning about the latest sales from their favorite local stores, they would turn to the printed circulars that came with their newspaper subs...

 Facebook is turning Internet.org, its project to provide a taste of free internet to new users, into a platform. The move comes amid criticism of the program’s ‘walled garden’ ...

 It’s great at business software and technology, but Microsoft still struggles to make coherent consumer products. The problem seems ingrained and cultural, starting with its constant rever...

 If the past few quarters were not proof enough that the hardware community is increasingly using crowdfunding for early validation and consumers are willing to take risks on new products, the fi...

 When Sam Harrell arrived at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon this weekend in New York City, he had an idea for creating something to do with Internet of Things— an ambitious projectfor les...

 It’s been a long night at the Manhattan Center. Yesterday, we welcomed hundreds of hackers for my favorite Spring tradition — the Disrupt NY Hackathon. Some of them were participatin...

 Three co-founders from a local deals startup Perqy, Dave Idell, Adam Chew, and Nisha Garigan, met up this weekend at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015 Hackathon to present their project which uses ...

 One of the hacks from our Disrupt NY Hackathon already has a customer: in less than 24 hours, Gruberie set up a site, built an app, and convinced a local diner to install Gimbal beacons so they ...

 Meet Pager, a neat little hack developed during our 24-hour Disrupt NY Hackathon by a team of three engineers. It’s the perfect idea for small business owners who want to turn their Facebo...

 If you saw someone pushing an office chair through New York’s financial district this weekend chances are it was this guy: developer Joe Heenan, who’s just shown off a neat hardware ...

 The last few years have been a dizzying and heady time for travel startups, filled with mammoth funding rounds, high-profile acquisitions, and dramatic examples of young startups soaring past in...

 Here is a fun drone hack from our Disrupt NY Hackathon. FloNew brings together Gimbal beacons, Esri mapping, Nexmo’s communications platform and Parrot’s RollingSpider MiniDrones. Us...

 Brother and sister team Peter Ma and Nancy Ghaly presented Piper Pied, a lossless compression algorithm for online images, at the Disrupt NY Hackathon today. The startup is a “creative spi...

 What if live streaming, like those streams that run today on apps like Periscope or Meerkat, could be used to save lives? That’s the premise behind an app called Witness, which made its de...

 If plants could tweet, what would they tell us? Well, the FollowPlants team at the Disrupt NY Hackathon might help us find out. To be clear, the plants aren’t expected to share their thoug...

 There are two things that Andrew Furman loves — riding a Citi Bike, and playing with maps. So when he participated in TechCrunch’s Disrupt NY Hackathon, he mixed these two things tog...

 Chevrolet just announced the final pricing for its 2016 Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid, and it’s surprisingly affordable. if you get the full$7,500 federal tax credit for electric vehicles, the...

 There are a number of apps out there that are made to help you split a bill at a restaurant, but even super ubiquitous apps like Venmo don’t offer a truly seamless experience. At todayR...

 More than a thousand hackers descended on the Manhattan Center in New York City over the weekend to build the best apps that can come out of a 20 hour period, and now is the time we see the frui...

 Having launched over 35 startups in our decade of operation, we’ve been fortunate to be involved with our share of ‘unicorns’ (Palo Alto Networks, Nimble Storage) and really ni...

 Silicon Valley and the wider world of technology are mourning the very sudden death of Dave Goldberg, a long time entrepreneur and investor,CEO of SurveyMonkey, husband of Facebook COO Sheryl Sa...

 Let the coding begin! Over a 1,000 hackers have filed into The Manhattan Center and is diligently banging out code and tearing apart APIs. Over the next 24 hours these teams will work furiously,...

 Here is one idea that arrived before its time: the push-based web, where information comes to us, versus the search-dominant web we’re most familiar with. Those who are looking at the push...

 The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, May 1, 2015. @Scobleizer gets his Watch, @borthwick on TwitterGate, and why negative...

 I graduated from Stanford in the late 1980s with a dual degree in engineering and economics, and, like so many others of my day, I was drawn to Wall Street. Reaganomics was in full swing, Bloomb...

 Ladies and gentlemen, the C programming language. It’s a classic. It is sleek, and spartan, and elegant. (Especially compared to its sequel, that bloated mess C++, which shares all the fau...

 On this week’s AppleCast, we get into the Apple Watch experience, since we’ve both now been actively using them for at least a few days. We expand on our thoughts regarding the devic...

 Location data is highly sensitive. It contains information about where we live, our daily habits and our network of friends. We discover new places to go; avoid traffic on the way there; swipe t...

 Hello from New York, friends, where TechCrunch’s staff has taken up residence to put on a small confab that you might have heard of. This week, the lovely Anthony Ha, the brilliant Colleen...

 The TechCrunch Disrupt NY Conference is almost upon us and we’ve partnered with some amazing companies to make your experience this year better than ever. Read More ...

 IAC-owned social network Ask.fm has acquired the entire team behind recipe network Foodily, the companies are announcing today, which includes those focused on product, engineering and design. T...

 Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today – Friday, May 1, 2015. LIVE chat during LIVE recording s...

 There are a number of services today that allow you to create and send digital invitations to birthdays, parties and other events, where the invites themselves are sent out via email, social net...

 Thanks to a little startup sprouting up from Boston, I was able to map out a small section of a neuron through EyeWire, a company that’s gamifying its neuroscience research in order to enl...

 Apple has updated its Apple Watch support documentation, confirming that the device may have issues when worn by users who have wrist tattoos. The changes were added following a series of report...

 Disrupt NY is just a few days away, and we have some of the most iconic entrepreneurs and thought leaders in the tech industry lined up to speakthroughout the three-day-long conference. You can ...

 After being incubated in a government lab for seven years, Descartes Labs — a deep-learning image analysis startup — has raised $3.3 million of its own funding and spun off as a priv...

 Acceleprise Ventures, a San Francisco-based incubator anchored by investor Sean Glass, announced a new $3.5 million fund with a pronounced enterprise app bent. It also announced 10 newly funded ...

 Microsoft has confirmed the acquisition of pen technology used in the Surface Pro 3 and Surface 3, from supplier and longtime partner N-trig. The Israeli company is a key patent-holder for digit...

 Start-Up Chile SCALE, the follow-on fund backed by the Chilean government to boost local startup growth, is making its first nine investments. The nine companies, all graduates of Start-Up Chile...

 The best thing about Disrupt is that it brings together so many amazing people. To wit: New York Mayor Bill de Blasio will join us on state at Disrupt New York for an amazing interview with our ...

 Dating app Tinder’s move into the subscription business seems to be paying off. According to remarks made by parent company IAC during its quarterly earnings reported this week, the compan...

 From Tesla’s Powerwall to Microsoft Build, here are the top stories from the past week. Read More ...

 Rocana (formerly ScalingData) announced $15M in Series B funding led by Google Ventures with General Catalyst Partners, Toba Capital and Paul Sagan (former chairman at Akamai and current executi...

 Microsoft announced support for over-the-air TV broadcasts, including HD content, early in April. I’ve been using the setup since, after enrolling in the Xbox One Preview program and recei...

 Microsoft announced support for over-the-air TV broadcasts, including HD content, early in April. I’ve been using the setup since, after enrolling in the Xbox One Preview program and recei...

 Live video streaming app Meerkat beat Twitter’s own Periscope to market on iOS, and now it’s available on Android for all, with no Periscope app for Google’s mobile OS to be se...

 And perhaps he has every reason to be. After selling Markco Media, the parent company of MyVoucherCodes, last year, the U.K entrepreneur and ‘secret millionaire” is poised to make hi...

 Microsoft’s HoloLens is no joke. We’ve now tried the company’s latest revision of its unreleased augmented reality headset and even built an app for it. The new hardware, which...

 Less than two months after raising $110 million, Foodpanda — the Rocket Internet-backed food delivery service — has gobbled an additional $100 million serving from investors. Read Mo...

 You almost certainly associate Tesla with cars — very cool cars — but the company has an even grander vision beyond that. Today, CEO and founder Elon Musk unveiled ‘Tesla Energ...

 After years of legal battles, music streaming service Grooveshark has shut down. Read More ...

 Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have created a smartphone ultra zoom solution that allows scientists in the field to image and size DNA. The tool, which uses a little 3D...

 You’ve been able to use your voice (“Ok Google”) to do all sorts of stuff on Android for a while now. But said stuff has all been built-in by Google itself; third party develop...

 Ahead of its annual WWDC developer conference in June, Apple has opened up beta access to a new mobile app analytics service aimed at iOS developers. Simply called “Apple’s App Analy...

 By now, the outrage machine is in full bore over the shutdown of Valley darling Secret. The once high-flying app, which allowed you to anonymously share details with your friends and the wider w...

 After Facebook and Twitter reported mixed results this week, LinkedIn today was the latest of the social networks to report its Q1 earnings. The company, which has over 350 million users globall...

 After Facebook and Twitter reported mixed results this week, LinkedIn today was the latest of the social networks to report its Q1 earnings. The company, which has over 350 million users globall...

 What do a teepee, cosmetic surgery and hot tub supplies have in common? They all appeared on corporate expense reports in 2011. Yes, it turns out that when companies tell employees, “Spend...

 How old do you look? Old for your years? Young enough that you get carded every time you try to buy a beer? Now, how old do you look… to a computer that does nothing but guess ages? As som...

 Google announced today that it will begin running tests of a new way to deliver search results to mobile users with slow connections. The company’s pilot trials will initially take place i...

 Thanks to the release of Windows 10 for multiple single-board computers, tinkerers are now waking up to the possibility of running Windows as a usable and surprisingly polished alternative open ...

 Microsoft quietly launched a set of new machine-learning APIs in beta under the “Project Oxford” moniker yesterday. These new APIs allow developers to add face detection and recognit...

 The e-commerce eyeglasses retailer Warby Parker has raised $100 million to expand physical store locations from 12 to 20 by year’s end and to work on technology that will allow customers t...

 It’s been increasingly evident for years: smartphone users are digging bigger phones as they do more on screens, and spend less time talking on the phone. And there’s no sign of the ...

 In further proof of the rise of streaming video services and the cord-cutting trend in general, TV measurement firm Nielsen today said it would beginto track viewing data and audience demographi...

 Digital art is gaining popularity, with companies like Curioos dedicating entire marketplaces to the medium, but the idea of scarcity when it comes to the internet is relatively new. NeonMob is ...

 Dopay, a London-headquartered startup that offers a payroll service for the unbanked, has closed a $2 million seed. Investors in the round of funding include global private equity firm ACE &...

 A new mobile email application called Zero is launching today to help users power through their inbox on the go, in order to achieve the often sought-after state of “inbox zero” R...

 Two months after launching its unique organizational tool, Airtable is rolling out two new features that’ll make it easier to share your personal spreadsheet/database hybrids with others i...

 Amazon has answered a long-standing request with an update to Amazon Instant Video that delivers streaming of HD resolution content, and allows streaming over cellular connections, rather than j...

 Getting apps discovered in an increasingly packed app store is a challenge, which is why a number of firms in recent years have launched services that help app publishers figure out how to bette...

 If you want to relive your classic MS-DOS gaming experiences, you need venture no further than Twitter. The Internet Archive’s website-embeddable games also now work directly in tweets, wh...

 Apple’s iPhone is just about the best smartphone camera you can get, but a new patent application provides a good indication of how it could get even better. The patent is for a “sma...

 Like the noble ant or the sassy-yet-lovable tugboat, Micro Tugs can pull more than their own weight. The robots, which come from Sanford’s Biomimetics and Dextrous Manipulation Lab, use a ...

 Japan Post CEO Taizo Nishimuro was on-stage with Apple CEO Tim Cook and IBM CEO Ginni Rometty to announce a new joint initiative and highlight some of the fruits of the IBM/Apple enterprise part...

 The absolute worst part of traveling, whether it’s for business or for pleasure, is packing and unpacking a suitcase. The work it takes to pack a bag is negligible, but having a clean inve...

 Nearly eight months after launching a platform to connect college students with local job opportunities, Campus Job has raised a $7.8 million Series A round of funding led by General Catalyst Pa...

 TripleMint, a New York City startup aiming to take the pain out of buying, selling and renting an apartment, has raised $1.65 million in seed funding. Investors include Dominion Capital, Winklev...

 MX, the personal finance startup formerly known as Money Desktop, has just inked a $30 million Series A funding deal led by a subsidiary of USAA. Tokyo-based VC firm Digital Garage also particip...

 Circle, the Bitcoin startup that veteran entrepreneur Jeremy Allaire started, just raised $50 million from Goldman Sachs and IDG Capital Partners. It’s another sign that the finance indust...

 At Hampton Creek we start with a question, “what would it look like if we started over,” which drives our business philosophy. In my role as the head of People here I also ask, ̶...

 On the heels of Farfetch raising $86 millionlast month, another fashion commerce startup out of London has picked up a significant round of funding. Lyst, a site that lets people shop across som...

 Tencent, one of China’s biggest Internet companies, has agreed to purchase a 14.6 percent stake in Glu Mobile, the San Francisco game developer probably best known for “Kim Kardashia...

 Baidu, China’s largest internet search and maps provider, continues to see slowing financials as it transitions to the rise of mobile. The company’s latest Q1 2015 financial report c...

 YouTube just held its annual Brandcast event in Madison Square Garden, where it trotted out online video stars to for an audience of advertisers. The big message was that YouTube stars are huge ...