Articles by Techcrunch from April 2016

 Its story is that of an epic battle. Mankind versus machine in a race for dominance. Only one can win. In practice, thankfully, it’s much, much more adorable. A four-wheeled robot that loo...

 Getting around, drinking and dining at the Kentucky Derby this year should prove a lot easier for fans and employees. According to Churchill Downs’ General Manager Ryan Jordan, the famed h...

 Last night a single tweet on everyone’s favoritenews platformwasheard ’round the world. No, I’m not talking about the tweet that cost an NFL draft prospect $14 million dollars....

 A report from Science shows that academic paper piracy site Sci-Hub is not a niche product catering to cheapskates and isolated mad scientists: it’s as popular as it is illegal, and its mi...

 The technology industry has a problem with retaining qualified female employees. According to a study by the Center for Work-Life Policy, 56 percent of women in computing jobs will leave their p...

 Gillmor Gang – Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. Check back on Saturday for the released version https...

 Gillmor Gang – Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. Check back on Saturday for the released version https...

 Home Chef, one of several startups delivering recipes and ingredients to take some of the hassle out ofhome cooking, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. Founder and...

 This week was completely loaded with earnings reports from some of the biggest tech companies in the world — and it was a crazy week of swings for most of the companies that reported. Ther...

 This week was completely loaded with earnings reports from some of the biggest tech companies in the world — and it was a crazy week of swings for most of the companies that reported. Ther...

 Chalk one up in Fitbit’s column. An International Trade Commission judge ruled in Fitbit’s favor on a series of patent disputes brought forth by Jawbone. This ruling seems to make it...

 Samsung worries about your child. Are they sleeping well? Do they miss you when you’re away on business? Can they put on a VR headset without their parents’ help? That last one is pr...

 It’s not exactly a Netflix or YouTube rival, butAT&T-backed Fullscreen is hoping to carve out its own niche in the now-crowded subscription video market with its new service, launched ...

 As Twitter tries outbigger thingsto spur growth activity — like changing the order andlength of Tweets— it is turningaway from others. Twitterhas quietly retired Magic Recs, a striki...

 Chris Sacca, the angel investor in companies like Twitter, Uber and Instagram, gets it. He understands that diversity is simply good for business. “There is a greed case for diversity,R...

 Here’s what it sounds like when artificial intelligence learns to play “Ode To Joy” in the style of EDM, Brazilian guitar, and The Beatles’ “Penny Lane”:The S...

 There’s an epidemic in Canada. That epidemic is a mentality that leaves top talent with no option but to leave the nation’s borders and with them, everything they learned. It underva...

 Here’s what it sounds like when artificial intelligence learns to play “Ode To Joy” in the style of EDM, Brazilian guitar, and The Beatles’ “Penny Lane”. The ...

 Microsoft PowerApps allows anybody to build basic businessapps without having to touch any code. These apps can run on the web and on mobile (through the PowerApps apps for iOS and Android). Mic...

 A quick scan of LinkedIn for former employees underscores the point. Of Uber’s roughly 6,700 employees, only a tiny fraction have left, and in most cases, those hires weren’t around ...

 CloudMagic, an email application that today has grown to 4 million users, has justadded a useful feature that can aid those who receive a lot of inbound email from unknown persons: Sender Profil...

 Razer has released a new ultrabook as it continues to stamp its name on more categories of gaming gear. Read More ...

 This week, earnings reports continued, Elon Musk announced plans for SpaceX’s first Mars mission, we spoke with the Reverend Jesse Jackson about diversity in the tech industry and more. Th...

 Amazon shares opened at $665.55 this morning, up 10.6 percent compared to yesterday’s closing price of $602. In other words, Amazon’s market capitalization just grew by nearly $30 bi...

 Amazon shares opened at $665.55 this morning, up 10.6 percent compared to yesterday’s closing price of $602. In other words, Amazon’s market capitalization just grew by nearly $30 bi...

 News that Googlewould soon begin testing a new mobile travel application leaked out last week, and now we have more details, including screenshots, of what that app will look like. The app, call...

 Look what I found on Craigslist. This is the best deal ever. If you browse the “antiques” category, you’ll find an offer you can’t refuse. For a mere $8 billion, you coul...

 Mayfield, the 46-year-old Sand Hill Road firm, has raised $525 million across two new funds, including a$400 million early-stage firm and a $125 million fund that will be used to support those o...

 Some of the most influential and successful companies in the game have come out of startup studios. Just look at Giphy, Reserve, and Operator.But what makes a startup studio successful? At Disru...

 Bitcoin may still be the most famous application of blockchain technology, but the distributed, encrypted database architecture is now being applied toa range of other services, from different k...

 Bitcoin may still be the most famous application of blockchain technology, but the distributed, encrypted database architecture is now being applied toa range of other services, from different k...

 French startup Sqreen wants you to rethink how you deal with security for your web-based apps. With little effort, Sqreen can inspect, track and fix security holes, acting like a shield. You won...

 You might not know Rovi, but the company is apparently quite big as it is acquiring TiVo for $1.1 billion in a cash-and-stock deal. Rovi holds a bunch of patents related to the entertainment ind...

 Reports in the Russian press that Google tried to acquire the Telegram messaging app last year for $1 billion have been firmly rebutted by Telegram founder Pavel Durov. The rumors had been widel...

 Hundreds of millions of kids around the world lack access to, among other things, basic education — much less organized school systems with adequate teaching resources. XPRIZE is hoping th...

 Epic Foundation is a nonprofit aiming to improve charitable giving — an approach that encompasses the way people select, monitor and “experience” their donations. Founded by se...

 Waze has responded to security concerns raised yesterday in a Fusion report documenting an exploit found by UC Santa Barbara researchers. In short: it’s legit, but not as dire as it’...

 The Santa Clara County coroner’s office identified the man found dead at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters on Wednesday as 25-year-old Edward Mackowiak, Reuters reports. BREAKING: Apple...

 Snapchat may have started out as the ephemeral messaging and photo-sharing app, but a majority of users now consume video there too, according to areport fromBloomberg today. Daily video views o...

 Snapchat may have started out as the ephemeral messaging and photo-sharing app, but a majority of users now consume video there too, according to areport fromBloomberg today. Daily video views o...

 Hair dryers are everywhere. Bathrooms. Gym locker rooms. Open a drawer in your hotel room — boom, free hair dryer. It usually requires a lot to get me to really notice a hair dryer. But Dy...

 We live in a world where, because of technology and access to information, people can cultivate expertise and contribute on projects or in industries where previously they would have needed form...

 The U.S. Air Force has awarded SpaceX an $82.7 million contract to launch their GPS-3 satellite into orbit.This is the first National Security Space (NSS) contract for SpaceX, who won essentiall...

 Across East Africa more than 300,000 households previously without electricity are powering homes and devices with solar panels and using mobile money to pay for it. Read More ...

 Cortana is Microsoft’s version of Google Now and Apple’s Siri digital assistant. It’s built right into Windows 10 and, while I’ve generally not found it all that useful, ...

 Ever wanted to grab your smartphone to grab a cheeky photo? Covr Photo has you covered with a freshly launched iPhone 6 case that includes a tiny periscope. The accessory enables you to use your...

 I know we’re supposed to be all done talking about Flappy Bird, but I think it’s justified to bring it up when it appears in a research paper about why games like Flappy Bird are so ...

 Kitchit, the startup that brought chefs into your home to cook for you,is shutting down because “investment runways are finite, and unfortunately ours reached its end at a moment of substa...

 The Supreme Court approvedhotly-contested amendments to federal criminal procedure today that, if accepted by Congress, will expand the FBI’s ability to hack into computer networks. The ru...

 If I made a list of “People I admire greatly but that I’d probably never hang out with for fear of my life and limbs”, Colin Furze would be right at the top. He is a living, br...

 We’re excited to announce that we’re using Facebook Live to make Disrupt NY the first major media conference live streamed in its entirety — with TV-quality production — ...

 Footloose and LCD-free — that’s how Leica made the M-D. The new camera is actually old in several ways: It’s essentially 2015’s M packaged in the chassis of the limited, ...

 The batteries developed for the high demands of all-electric Mercedes-Benz cars are finding a new application as in-home energy storage units. Sound familiar? Yeah, it’s a lot like the Tes...

 LinkedIn surprised Wall Street on Thursday, with better-than-expected first quarter results. Shares jumped about 5 percent in after-hours trading. The company reported adjusted earnings per shar...

 Mobile ticket sellers Gametime added a new feature to their app this week that could draw a larger supplyof concert and sports tickets to their marketplace. Designed to make it easier for users ...

 Peer-to-peer marketplace Etsy has releasedits first diversity report since going public last April, showing that people who identify as women make up 50% of the leadership and management roles a...

 Pandora continues to flail as Internet radio becomes just a feature baked into competitors like Spotify and Apple Music, but at least it had strong Q1 2016 earnings today. Pandora pulled in $297...

 Amazon posted its first-quarter earnings today, and boy did they not disappoint: it beat what analysts were expecting on nearly all fronts, and the stock is up more than 12% after its huge beat....

 For many, the Steve Jobs manila envelope trick was enough.Sure, it seems a bit silly with the benefit of nearly a decade’s worth of hindsight, but when Apple’s late CEO unwrapped the...

 Virtual reality can often be escapist in nature, but sometime you just gotta get shit done. HTC has started looking at this with Call Services on the Vive so you can keep track of your texts whi...

 The former CEO of Motorola, Rick Osterloh, is coming to lead Google’s new hardware division, per our confirmation with a Google spokesperson andre/code’s report. It’s the first...

 Carl Icahn, one of Apple’s biggest activist investors, told CNBChe has exited his position in the company. He was known for basically trying to pressureApple into bumping up its efforts to...

 The League, the dating startup that’s maybe-maybe-not elitist, is launching version 2.0 in a new city — Los Angeles. Founder and CEO Amanda Bradford said The League has already rolle...

 Following yet another quarter of sluggish user growth, Twitter has changed how its flagship mobile application is categorized on Apple’s iTunes App Store. Instead of competing against Face...

 Google’s OnHub routers are getting a little bit smarter today with the help of IFTTT, the online tool that allows you to easily connectdifferent online services and platforms. Thanks to th...

 Facebook released its biannual transparency report today, detailing the requests for user data it received from government agencies in the second half of 2015. The report includes requests recei...

 If you think Tickle Me Elmo is freaky already, wait until those talking monsters can beat you at Jeopardy!. Sesame Workshop, the educational nonprofit behind Sesame Street and its iconic charact...

 Calling it an “un-pivot,” Biz Stone is bringing back Jelly, the Q&A app he createdin 2013. Launching today, the new and improved Jelly remains close to its roots, but with an add...

 You know entrepreneurship has gone mainstream when a local Shark Tank hits cable TV. I was approached by the Shark Tank production team in Mexico to recommend startups for the show. I sent some ...

 Google has just made a change to its mobile application storefront, Google Play, which will help customers make better decisions about the apps they want to download: it’s now displaying i...

 As Congress debates how it should address the ongoing debate over encryption, Rep. Ted Lieu is working to get his fellow Congress members to adopt end-to-end encryption to secure their communica...

 In what is clearly part of the company’sefforts to get more enterprise customers on its platforms, Google today announced that it has renewed its ISO 27001 certification for the fourth yea...

 World View, the advanced high altitude balloon company, has raised a $15 million Series B led by Canaan Partners. The round also included investments from Northwest Venture Partners, Tencent, Mo...

 Bnbsitter is another startup operating in the Airbnb and short term rentals ecosystem. However, unlike property-management style concierge services, such as London-based Hostmaker, which charge ...

 Bnbsitter is another startup operating in the Airbnb and short term rentals ecosystem. However, unlike property-management style concierge services, such as London-based Hostmaker, which charge ...

 The New York Times is giving out free Google Cardboard VR devices. Yes, again! The company had previously distributed a million some devices to print subscribers as part of the kickoff celebrati...

 Two and a half years ago Bitlock set out to crowdfund a smart bike lock at a time when hype around connected devices was surging and goodwill in crowdfunding platforms was buoyant. Since then bo...

 The lack of diversity in tech isn’t a new story. However, the blood, sweat and tears that have gone into the push for diversity and inclusion are often missing from the story. Without the ...

 Movidius has incorporated their Myriad 2 processor into a new USB device called the Fathom Neural Compute Stick. You can plug the Fathom into any USB-capable device and that device can begin to ...

 In an effort to increase its competition with family entertainment juggernaut Disney, Comcast announced this morning that it will spend $3.8 billion to acquireDreamWorks Animation, home to popul...

 Communication startup Mast Mobileis launching on Android — specifically the Samsung Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 edge, Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge.The news is part of a broader partnership with S...

 The just announced HP Chromebook 13 is a new take on the hardware side of Chrome OS — a premium system, with some specs reminiscent of Chrome OS laptops, but with the ultrabook spice seen ...

 Drug research giant AbbVie announced a deal to buy cancer drug startup Stemcentrx in a $5.8 billion cash and stock deal this morning. The terms of the deal include $2 billion in cash a...

 After Facebook’sstellar quarter, which sees users spending massive amounts of time on its mobile apps, including Facebook, Messenger and Instagram, the company announced this morning it...

 A questionable Snapchat filter that lets users show off their speed while taking a selfie is being blamed for a serious car accident that left a man with traumatic brain injuries after being str...

 Like so many organizations today, Infosys, the Indian consulting giant, is a company in transition. For years it has made a good living helping customers manage legacy tools, but CEO Vishal Sikk...

 You know it’s not just any old Chromebook when Google and HP team up for the thing’s product launch. And indeed, the HP Chromebook 13 looks to be a pretty compelling alternative to t...

 You can now purchase August’ssecond generation Smartlock at Best Buy and Amazon,starting today. The much-anticipated Bluetooth-enabled device allows homeowners to lock and unlock their fro...

 TechCrunch is hitting the road for the Summer and checking out some key global tech hubs to spread our Crunchie love all over you guys. Our world-famous TechCrunch Pitch-Off is a two-piece event...

 Oracletoday announced that it is making an acquisition to (literally and figuratively) build out its Primavera project management and billing business: it is buying Textura, a provider of cloud-...

 Let’s be honest, the Philips Hue app has a horrible design. But this is just a bad memory now as the company has released a new major version of its iOS and Android app. The app is now mor...

 One of the major promises of virtual reality is the ability to find yourself transported to exotic locations. Nothing is quite so exotic as the final frontier. SpaceVR wants to launch high-defin...

 TechCrunch is excited to announce the judges of the next round of Startup Battlefield. These are kind folks tasked with picking the finalists and winner of the startup competition held at Disrup...

 Amazon is spreading the Alexa love. The voice service is now available on the Triby. This small, family-focused message board, internet radio and VoIP device is the first device available for pu...

 Deliveroo, the on-demand delivery service for restaurant food, has begun investing in its own kitchen space, as a means to help solve the supply-side problem and expand the offering. Dubbed RooB...

 Xola, a software platform that manages booking and marketing for tour providers, is venturing deeper into international markets after closing a $5 million Series A. The funding was led by Rakute...

 Worldwide sales of smartphones declined year over year, from Q1 2015 to Q1 2016, according to figures from analyst Strategy Analytics, which it says is the first time in the history of what it d...

 Anyone who has been a long-time user of Coinbase knows that the cryptocurrency startup hasn’t exactly always made it easy to buy Bitcoin. In the early days you had to link your U.S bank ac...

 Apple begins rolling out Carekit, its mobile software framework for health apps, today.Apple announced the open-source software development platform last month with the aim to make it easier for...

 As Europe’s tech startup ecosystem continues to grow up, so does the venture capital that underpins it. London’s Balderton Capital has promoted long-standing General Partner Bernard ...

 Samsung Electronics delivered strong results for the first quarter of 2016, thanks to sales of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, its flagship smartphones. Read More ...

 French startup Drivy has raised another $35 million (31 million) from Cathay Innovation, Nokia Growth Partners and existing investors Bpifrance, Via-ID and Index Ventures. If you don’t alr...

 There should be a new definition for container-native that aims to better represent the magnitude of impact that containers will have on software development and operations. Read More ...

 NASA is spreading the dough around like a pastry chef. Today the agency announced $50 million in grants to nearly 300 different recipients, from small engineering firms to big-time research inst...

 If you think Facebook will get rich on Oculus, you better be patient. Mark Zuckerberg said on the Q1 2016 earnings call saying he sees VR as a long, long-term bet rather than a way to make a qui...

 Facebook’s “family of apps” strategy is a wild success. While some might have expected it to roll Instagram into Facebook and leave chat in its main app, keeping Instagram inde...

 Facebook’s “family of apps” strategy is a wild success. While some might have expected it to roll Instagram into Facebook and leave chat in its main app, keeping Instagram inde...

 As a venture investorfor the last 20 years, George Zachary has witnessedplenty of trends develop and fizzle.Yesterday, we talked with him about what he’s seeing right now. One of the newes...

 Payments giant PayPal posted strong Q1 earnings today, counter balancing some of the weaker showings fromother tech stocks yesterday and outstripping the overall growth rate of e-commerce, in it...

 DeWalt, a name familiar to anyone who loves power tools (and who doesn’t?), is jumping into the mobile market with the rugged MD501. It’s waterproof, has a good variety of high-end f...

 Facebook today, as part of its earnings release, said it would add a new class of non-voting stock for the company, which will keep Mark Zuckerberg incontrol of the company. “This proposal...

 Facebook continued its winning streak as other tech companies floundered, reaching 1.65 billion monthly users and surpassing estimates in its Q1 2016 earnings report with $5.38 billion in revenu...

 With the U.S. knee deep in what has been an unusual presidential primary season, many eligible voters are highly engaged in the process. But the number of Americans heading to the polls each ele...

 The House of Representatives has passed H.R. 699, the Email Privacy Act, sending it on to the Senate and from there, hopefully anyhow, to the President. The yeas were swift and unanimous. Read M...

 Pan-European train travel booking website Loco2 has launched its first app, letting iOS users book and pay for trips via their phone. Launching an Android app is also on its roadmap for this yea...

 So you wanna buy a startup? But how do you get the deal signed and roll their team into yours? Consulting behemoth Ernst & Young wants to have the answers and rule M&A advisory services ...

 So you wanna buy a startup? But how do you get the deal signed and roll their team into yours? Consulting behemoth Ernst & Young wants to have the answers and rule M&A advisory services ...

 Get ready for lots of virtual cubesin virtual reality! Minecraft: Gear VR Edition is now available on the Oculus Store for $6.99. The blocky blockbuster was met with major fanfare when it was re...

 I’ve officially been at TechCrunch for a week and a half now, which I’ve been informed is the hot sauce anniversary. You know, the one where GE sends you a bottle of scientifically-e...

 Samsung unveiled the Gear 360 virtual reality camera last monthat Mobile World Conference. People were generally impressed, but without a price tag most withheld judgment. Well today onstage at ...

 Somewhere, Elon Musk is bored; you can tell because he starts tweeting like crazy about colonizing the solar system. “Planning to send Dragon to Mars as soon as 2018,” SpaceX tweeted...

 In an entirely unsurprising ruling,a federal judge has sidedwith the FTC in the agency’s lawsuit against Amazon, which had said that the company did not do enough to safeguard customers ag...

 A body was found in a conference room at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino this morning, according to several news reports. The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department is currently i...

 Menlo Ventures, the 40-year-old, Sand Hill Road venture firm, has raised a new, $250 million “special opportunities fund,” says a spokeswoman. (The SEC filing is here.) The idea:to a...

 After months of anticipating what the hell Nic Cage was going to be doing in the new Snowden movie, we finally get to see him in the first official trailer! Sadly, Cage’s role is only that...

 And then there’s this: an Indiegogo campaign for the world’s first firefighting drone. As a lover of both drones and crowdfunding campaigns, I nearly wet myself with excitement. But ...

 Tinder announced this morning it’s testing a new friend-finding feature called “Tinder Social” in its popular dating app. The idea is to offer a way for you and your group of f...

 Despite the fact that numerous companies have tried to solve this problem, scheduling meetings is still ahassle. If you use Google for Work or Edu on the desktop, you are probably familiar with ...

 Eden, the on-demand tech support company turned office support service, has today announced the launch of the platform in Oakland. That means that Eden’s service now covers all of the Bay ...

 Eden, the on-demand tech support company turned office support service, has today announced the launch of the platform in Oakland. That means that Eden’s service now covers all of the Bay ...

 While DVR maker TiVo has been focused on the future with the recentunveiling of its 4K-ready DVR designed for the streaming era, the company is continuing to improve its other populardevice for ...

 Online lending company Affirm has announced it is acquiring Sweep, an app-based personal finance tool. The movecomes just two weeks after Affirm raiseda $100M Series Dround, which was partially ...

 It was bound to happen, but now it’s official. Apple shares opened at $96, down 8 percent compared to yesterday’s closing price of $104.35. But because this downswing is about Apple,...

 Google has quietly introduced a new iPhone application that works with Android TV, its smart TV platform for standalone media players and TVs. The Android TV app for iOS lets those with any supp...

 Nintendo will follow up its App Store success Miitomo with a pair of new games, released this fall, the company announced this morning. The details were unveiled alongside other company news, in...

 Spotify has made another acquisition to build out the tools that it provides to artists who use Spotify’sstreaming platform to grow theirlistenersand overall business. It has bought CrowdA...

 The Hackathon at Disrupt NY is almost upon us, so we thought it’d be fun to look back at last year’s Hackathon to see what the winners of the Disrupt NY 2015 Hackathon have been up t...

 Times are changing. Startups and VCs are facing tougher times, layoffs, down rounds and eroding valuations. However, already a record amount of money has gone into U.S. venture funds this year. ...

 Xamarin, the cross-platform development platform Microsoft recently acquired, is holding its annual developer conference today. No developer conference would be complete without a large number o...

 As Yahoo continues to weigh up acquisition offers, the company has announced that it’s reached a deal with activist investor Starboard, which had written one of its famous letters to the t...

 The future of fashion isn’t all about internet-connectivity and electronics. A huge amount of innovation is needed in the realm of materials science and manufacturing to meet the fashion d...

 Some changes underway at Whitepages.com, the company that compiles public record databases on people and businesses: it is spinning out its caller ID operations and app as a new business called ...

 If you don’t buy your cables (yes, some of us still use cables) from Monoprice, you disappoint me. But while the online retailer got its start with cables and components (and component cab...

 Twist Bioscience,a startup making and using synthetic DNA to store digital data, just struck a contract with Microsoft and the University of Washington to encode vast amounts of information on s...

 Amazon is spreading the Alexa love. The voice service is now available on the Triby. This small, family-focused message board, internet radio and VoIP device is the first device available for pu...

 Vivint’s smart home systems are about to get a bit smarter. The home automation and security company just nabbed $100m co-led by tech investor Peter Thiel and strategic investment firm Sol...

 Nintendo forecasts disappointing profits over the next year. That’s why the company used its earnings report to share some news about Nintendo’s future to reassure investors. As expe...

 The Indian government has taken several steps to make filing taxes online easier, but the process can still be, well, taxing. ClearTax wants to make it easier. The startup, a Y Combinator alum, ...

 Rocket Internet continues to bring in money for its various e-commerce businesses, but things are definitely not looking great for all of its companies. On the heels of Alibaba investing in its ...

 Video streaming service DisneyLife has been taken down in China following a request by Chinese regulators, reports the Wall Street Journal. The service launched there in a partnership with Aliba...

 In a bid to prevent crimes against women, all mobile phones sold in India will be required to have a physical panic button installed by the beginning of next year. Department of Telecommunicatio...

 Some consolidation afoot in the world of mobile payments: today Groupon- and BBVA-backed SumUp and Rocket Internet’s Payleven— two of the several European startups that cropped up in...

 Boxhas come a long way since Aaron Levie founded itas a student at USC in 2005.The cloud storage company ultimatelywent public last year, in what turned out to be a difficult period for tech sto...

 Podcasts and audio books are enjoying tremendous popularity at the moment, and the fresh-off-the-app-presses app Rightspeed is a $2.99 iOS app that’s here to help you speed-listen your way...

 Furbo, created by startup Tomofun, gives owners a new way to interact with their dogs while away from home. The camera allows you to keep an eye on your dog, with two-way audio so that you can a...

 International Farming Corp. and Finistere Ventures have agreed to partner under the moniker Willow Hill Ventures to invest in growth-stage agricultural tech startups.International Farming Corp. ...

 International Farming Corp. and Finistere Ventures have agreed to partner under the moniker Willow Hill Ventures to invest in growth-stage agricultural tech startups.International Farming Corp. ...

Automaker Jaguar Land Rover Ltd. today announced a partnership with Silicon Valley startup Tile Inc. to prevent drivers from leaving home, or any other place, without their essential personal items.Ti...

 The convertible note is a useful and common financing structure in Silicon Valley. It’s a form of debt that is really more a type of equity — one where the valuation hasn’t bee...

 Apple took a more than $40 billion hit today after reporting its second-quarter earnings — and it was bleak. Shares of Apple were down more than 8 percent in extended trading at one point ...

 Andrew Moore was a professor of computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon University for a dozen years when Google hiredhimaway in2006 to lead some of its efforts around ad targeting and ...

 For the first time in its history, the iPhone is experiencing a drop in sales. In 2015 at this same time, Apple sold 61 million units of the iPhone. This year, for the period ending March, Apple...

 During an earnings call marked by a lot of less than stellar news, Apple CEO Tim Cook did manage to locate some bright spots in the company’s ever-expanding portfolio. Among them was a ste...

 SpaceX is a space transport services company whose mission is to reduce space transportation costs and enable the colonization of Mars. It has developed several launch vehicles and spacecraft. R...

 Okay folks, this is the big one. Last year the company brought in revenue of $58 billion —and it showed its first decline in 13 years by posting revenue of $50.6 billion for the second qua...

 Better sprint outside, because now Uber can charge you a $5 or $10 no-show fee if you’re just two minutes late for your ride. Previously, people got a five-minute grace period to get to th...

 Better sprint outside, because now Uber can ditch you if you’re just two minutes late for your ride, or start charging you before you get in the car. Previously, people got a five-minute g...

 eBay surpassed first quarter earnings expectations when it reported after the bell on Tuesday. Shares ticked up 5% following the announcement. The e-commerce giant brought in $2.1 billion in rev...

 Twitter reported its Q1 earnings today, and they’re not great. On the back of 310 monthly active users, thecompany postedrevenues of $595 million, with Q1 GAAP diluted earnings per share o...

 SpaceX confirmed to TechCrunch that their next launch is scheduled for May 4th at 1:22 am EST with a two-hour launch window. The company is expected to couple the launch with another rocket land...

 The FBI plansnot disclose to Apple the method it used to access an iPhone belonging to the San Bernardino shooter, or submit it for an internal government review, according to a Wall Street Jour...

 So you’re a techie and a foodie. You’re having dinner and your phone buzzes to let you know you can pay for the meal you’re enjoying right from an app. It’s then you real...

 Remember when a California regulatory agency tried to shut down carpooling services like UberPOOL and Lyft Line throughout the state? Well, you can breathe a sigh of relief. Two years after its ...

 Today’s VR headsets are marvels of miniaturization. And, as iFixit’s teardowns show, both the Oculus Rift and HTC’s Vive are also remarkably user-friendly when it comes to repa...

 ToyTalk, the startup that mashed together Barbie and the Internet of Things and let your kids chat away with Thomas the Tank Engine for hours on end, is cashing out on the bot craze with a sligh...

 HTC is devoting more and more resources to virtual reality as it looks to outrun its mobile demons and catch the VR wave before everyone else. Today at a press conference in China, HTC announced...

 Android Wear smartwatches come in many shapes and sizes — their watch bands, however, do not. Until now, of course. Read More ...

 Can the latest app from Starbucks become the next Kimoji? Nah, probably not. But the company this week has released its first consumer-facing app that’s solely focused on entertainment, as...

 Some of the biggest names in tech and corporate America, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg,Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandbergand Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, have teamed up with...

 Microsoft announced this morning the launch of Skype for Business for Mac Preview – the business-focused version of Skype’s communications services aimed at a commercial client base....

 Next time you open the YouTube app on your iOS or Android phone, you’ll be greeted by a new homepage experience. Before, YouTube would show you a list of recommended items with small thumb...

 Have you ever tried to capture close-up video of yourself or others with a traditional drone? It’s nearlyimpossible.To solve this problem China-based Zero Zero Robotics has raised $25M to ...

 Google, Uber and Lyft have joined forces with automakers Volvo and Ford, creating a coalition to influencelawmakers, regulators and the public, Automotive News reported on Tuesday. The new lobby...

 If you’re a web developer who wants to make a big impact on TechCrunch, here’s your chance! In preparation for tackling some ambitious projects, our product team has grown rapidly in...

 Wattpad, a popular site where authors can share stories with readers, is announcing its broader ambitions with the launch of a new division called Wattpad Studios. The company describes Studios ...

 Hey all you investors out there, we’re excited to announce the companies that will be on display in the Startup Alley at Disrupt NY, and you can check out every single one of them on our b...

 Last quarter,Twitter’s user base (excluding SMS fast-followers) actually shrank— and this was a hugemoment for the company. While there were whispers of peak Twitter circling for som...

 Amazon is continuing its efforts to crack down on fake, paid-for reviews of the products it sells on its website, by filing yet another lawsuit against those who offer glowing reviews in exchang...

 There aredozensof task-management and to-do appsin the market today, with some like Any.do, Wunderlist (now owned by Microsoft) and Todoist already used by tens ofmillions of people to organise ...

 Apple will report its second-quarter earnings, and all eyes are going to be on the company’s iPhone sales. That’s because the big question for Apple is going to be whether or not iPh...

 I’m going to drop some science on you — social science — about how to recruit a diverse team of high performers. In 1973, Stanford sociology professor Mark Granovetter publishe...

 Apple released a couple of new iPhone ads on its YouTube channel. While the second one called ‘Fingerprint’ is in the same vein as previous ads, the first one called ‘Onions...

 New video streaming services are launching left and right these days, and nowTime Warner-owned Turner is looking to get a piece of the action for itself, too. The company announced this morning ...

 With the recent announcement of Expa Labs, New York-based Expa has also appointed a new General Manager for the incubator in the form of Eric Friedman. Friedman has been an entrepreneur in resid...

 CoreOS today announced Stackanetes at the OpenStack Summit in Austin. Stackanetes (and yes, that name probably isn’t ideal) brings together OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platf...

 About.com, the IAC-owned media giant, has today unveiled its first standalone brand in the form of Verywell, a site for information around health. Verywell will launch with more than 50,000 piec...

 Electrification, sharing and autonomous drive are reshaping the future of transportation, with huge implications for the ecosystem and the world. Read More ...

 Amazon is ramping up the competition with other restaurant delivery services starting today by announcing that it will not mark up the menu prices of the items it offers on-demand via Prime Now ...

 Insurance isn’t necessarily an inviting word, especially for millennials. Not only do young people have less items to insure, but the process of getting insurance for those items is entire...

 YouTube announced a new ad format today that’s all about brevity. In a blog post, Product Manager Zach Lupei said YouTube has been exploring formats that are better-suited for smartphone v...

 Meet Melomind, a pair of headphones with some special powers. Melomind doesn’t just play your music, it also comes with four electroencephalographic sensors to track the activity of your b...

 Remittances are a huge business, with $582 billiontransferredin 2015and$432billionof that sent specificallyto emerging markets, according to the World Bank. Today, one of the bigger startups in ...

 Well-known broadcast journalist turned media production startup founder Soledad O’Brien will join us on stage in just a few weeks at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC. O’Brien is a powerhouse o...

 Why wait for the bus when you can hail a cab? That’s the idea behind a new commercial spaceflight startup founded by SpaceX founding team members Jim Cantrell and John Garvey. Vector Space...

Marketers have a complicated time of it. They have to combine user generated content with branded content in a way that doesn’t leave the brand looking utterly foolish. StoryStream has a platfor...

 French startup Trusk is like Uber, but for moving things. This isn’t a mover startup, and it isn’t a transporter. It’s something more flexible. And the company has had a weekly...

Automakers Jaguar LandRover Ltd. today announced a partnership with Silicon Valley startup Tile Inc. to prevent drivers from leaving home, or any other place, without their essential, personal items.T...

 One of the problems with Dropbox and indeed all cloud storage is the way they have implemented how you view your cloud storage on your local drive. If you want to access your cloud file system i...

 Munich-based Tado, maker of smart thermostat and AC control products, has raised another $23 million for further international expansion. The new investment is led by Inven Capital, the venture ...

 The proposed merger of Time Warner and Charter Communications is set for approval by government regulators, who want the combined company to follow restrictions designed to prevent it from stifl...

 Earlier this week I jumped on a call with Mark Tluszcz, co-founder and CEO of Mangrove Capital Partners, one of Europe’s older VC funds and perhaps most notably the first institutional inv...

 Nokia’s history asthe world’s biggest mobile phone makeris becoming adistant memory, but it’s not out of the gadget business just yet.To build out its health technology busines...

 Shortly after acquiring its competitor Finsquare, Lendix is back with more news. The French startup has just raised $13.5 million (12 million) and now wants to become one of the leading European...

 Last month we reported that Rakuten is testing drone deliveries at a golf course in Japan, and now the company has released more information and video footage of how the system will work. Read M...

 Ant Financial, the Alibaba affiliate that runs Alipay and other financial services, has announced a truly huge round of funding today. The company said it has completed its Series B, which weigh...

 TranServ, one of several companies digitizing payments in India, said today that it has secured a Series C of $15 million to develop new financial products. The round was led by IDFC Spice Fund ...

 Postmates, the delivery app, has almost become the poster child for struggling on-demand businesses. Countless venture capitalists have told TechCrunch that the company, despite its popularity w...

 Adobe is launching an update to its Document Cloud service today that will bring support for both Box and Microsoft OneDrive to the company’s PDF-centric digital document solution. Adobe p...

 Good independent workers are hard to find and even harder to keep if the cost of doing of doing business doesn’t make sense. So Uber is adding a new goody bag of rewards in hopes of retain...

 Redwood City-basedNaya Health has raised $3.9 million in seed funding to make a breast pump that is sleeker, quieter and more comfortable for moms than the devices already on the market. Investo...

A convoy of self-driving trucks recently drove across Europe and arrived at the Port of Rotterdam. No technology will automate away more jobs — or drive more economic efficiency — than the...

 In an age when completely driverless cars (probably electric) seem to be only just around the corner, the idea of starting a brand new online community aimed at petrolheads seems like an ill-tim...

 We now know the full extent of the concern over compliance issues at Theranos’ Newark, California lab thanks to new documents TechCrunch has obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (...

 Ajudge today officially put an end to the fight between the Justice Department and Apple over unlocking the iPhone of a New York man convicted ofsellingdrugs.U.S. District Judge Margo Brodie den...

Lionsgate has just added over 100 movies, including the Hunger Games films and Kill Bill (both volumes) to, of all things, Steam. That’s Valve’s digital content delivery platform, of cours...

 Goldman Sachs has traditionally functioned like a run-of-the-mill investment bank. Minimums to open an account were in the range of $10M, and returns were not guaranteed. While that willstill re...

 Honda announcedit’s going to expand its Clarity line to include an all-electric version and a plug-in hybrid next year. The latest version of theHonda Clarity will be available later this ...

 The iXpand is an odd thing to behold, a strange Frankensteinian amalgam of adapters fused together and folded over for good measure. It’s another interesting concept out of SanDisk as the ...

 We have grown accustomed to the Silicon Valley zeal driving startups to develop new technologies that will disrupt the market in yet another way. On-demand apps like Uber are aimed at making our...

 Cyan Banister realized long ago that Zivity, asubscription-basedonline community of artistic nude, glamour, and pin-up photography that she founded in 2007, was never going to be a highly profit...

 When you’re the leader of the free world who has been keeping an eagle eye on liberty and domestic surveillance for the past 7-8 years, sometimes you just want to take a look at a new vers...

 Rackspace today announced that it is partnering with AppFormix to bring that company’s cloud monitoring and performance optimization tools to its private OpenStack cloud customers.Thanks t...

 Shyp is now charging a $5 handling fee for its online returns, in addition to its regular pickup fee and postage costs. Shyp’s big play has been that it’ll charge a simple $5 fee, pl...

 Earlier this month, TechCrunch reported that Yik Yak would soon be introducing a new feature designed to help the floundering app boost its user retention numbers: private chat. Today, the compa...

 Drone races are nothing new. But while they started as an ad-hoc activity within the drone community, the sport has now taken on a life of its own with highly elaborate events and a partnership ...

 A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials – including emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details – has popped upon the website Pastebin, in what app...

 The road to practical virtual reality applications as been exhausting and there are few people who have traveled as far as Shanna Tellerman. We’re excited to announce that she will join a ...

 I’ve been working in the privacy space for the last six years, and privacy never really mattered that much to me. I can’t say I was ever in the “if-you’re-not-doing-anyth...

 One of the world’s largest children’s mobile app makers, Toca Boca, whose studios have produced apps totallingover 140 million downloads, has been acquired. The company had originall...

 Companies like Makespace and Clutter have fully encroached upon the old-school industry of storage, but the even more ancient moving industry has been left relatively untouched. Until now. A com...

 It’s happening! Include Office Hours are coming to New York City. On Friday May 6 from 5-7 p.m., Susan Lyne and Nisha Dua of BBG Ventures will join TechCrunch in hosting the first ever Inc...

 It’s no secret that it’s still hard to find good tech talent and that’s definitely the case for the kind complex and highly specialized skillset it takes to administer an OpenS...

 Microsoft has released a next-word predicting keyboard as an iOS app as it seeks to tap into the popularity of the latter’s mobile ecosystem in the hopes of expanding its influence in the ...

 Money and teaching might seem at odds with one another but a study out from the Yelp for fertility treatments startup FertilityIQ found both to be the best indicators of success with IVF. Fertil...

 Google Glass has turned away from marketing itself to consumers, but its enterprise business continues to pick up pace, and today one of the more promisingcompanies developing medical services u...

 In this episode of the 20 Minute VC, we catch up with James Wise, a longtime contributor who is making his bow with us as Balderton Capital’s youngest early stage venture partner, and who ...

 Today is a big day forY Combinator graduate Kamcord, after the San Francisco startupannounced a $10 million Series C round led by Time Warner, and a move that expands its mobile streaming focus ...

 China’s tech scene is losing one of its most recognizable and influential faces after Baidu head of comms and all-round nice guy Kaiser Kuo announced he is leaving the company to return to...

 Times are getting tougher for food delivery startups in India. Over the weekend, PepperTap—which has raised more than $50 million from backers including Sequoia Capital and SAIF Partners&#...

 Unlockd, an ad startup that helps you get discounts on your phone bill, has raised $12 million in Series A funding. We’ve written about other startups that show advertising on your smartph...

 Zalora, the fashion-focused e-commerce site backed by Rocket Internet, is selling its businesses in Thailand and Vietnam to retail giant Central Group, according to multiple sources close to the...

 Bitcasa is pulling out of consumercloud storage to focuson its platformbusiness, giving users a month’s notice to move their data elsewhere — and providing the perennial reminder tha...

 The end of on-demand is nigh. The media cover down rounds and startups winding down on a weekly basis, and, as funding stops, it seems as if every “Uber for X” is doomed to fail. How...

 NASA has announced the launch of the “New Aviation Horizons” initiative, which will lead toa new generation of X-planes that are fueled by greener energy, use half the fuel, and are ...

 A new high-end smartphone manufacturer Sirin Labs has raised a $72 million seed round from Singulariteam founder Moshe Hogeg, Kazakh businessman Kenges Rakishev, and the Chinese social networkin...

 As the Tribeca Film Festival winds down in New York City, we’re highlighting one of the most tech-driven parts of the event —Storyscapes, which showcased 10 works of virtual reality ...

 As we get into cars with complete strangers, sleep in the beds of people we’ve never met and lend money to others on the other side of the world, a powerful new currency is emerging —...

When Facebook opened its API, the platform spawned a completely new way of distributing apps on the web. Developers now had unprecedented access and deep integration into many of Facebook’s core...

1776, Washington DC’s leading incubator of technology start-ups, describes itself as “where revolutions begin”… But that revolution will only begin in partnership with governme...

 They say once you’ve had frostbite, you never forget the cold. A founder who has suffered a bad board, or board member, never forgets that, either. I took my company public at age 33 with ...

 As digital wallets increasingly become the origination point for consumer spending, they will become THE platform for downstream financial services — creating an opportunity for startups a...

 It’s too easy to slip into melancholy and gloom. Corporations want to ultimately fire you, whether you like your job or not. Their entire purpose is to create and squeeze the efficiencies ...

 Real estate investing has long elicited a variety of emotions, running the gamut from excitement to anxiety. When dealing with significant sums of capital, feelings of apprehension tend to creep...

 Last year was a big year for unicorns. According to Venture Beat, there are now 229 unicorn startups, with $175 billion in funding and $1.3 trillion in valuation. In 2015 alone there were 81 new...

 Already there has been a huge amount invested in fintech in 2016, with investors funding close to $9 billion in January and February alone. It is a sector of innovation that shows no signs of sl...

 The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Thursday, April 21, 2016. The sudden death of the Artist Forever Known as Prince rev...

 I know that sounds like porn, but in reality OMGYES is actually an education platform. The startup is tackling a subject that’s still shockingly taboo with concrete research and user-frien...

 The discussion around robots has only increased in the past few years. But beyond the physical capabilities of robots, the bigger question is what robots’ minds will be capable of in the f...

 In the world of professional eSports these days, money doesn’t rain — it pours.The stakes are high and the competition can becut-throat, especially given the payday waiting at the en...

 Did you know that the US government is sitting on its own Strategic Zero-Day Reserve? A “zero-day” is a software vulnerability that allows adversaries to bypass or reduce security re...

 Cancel your plans for this weekend! CERN just dropped 300 terabytes of hot collider data on the world and you know you want to take a look. Read More ...

 Tech’s freshman class of diversity and inclusion leaders gathered at Rev. Jesse Jackson’s PUSHTech 2020 conference today to answer the question, “What now?” Within the la...

 Don’t argue, just do it. Read More ...

 NASA has selected Aerojet Rocketdyne for a $67 million contract to develop an advanced Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) system for future deep-space missions. In a press release, NASA stated that...

 Computers and mobile devices running rich operating systems have a plethora of security solutions and encryption protocols from which to choose that can protect them against the multitude of thr...

 It has been a dry year for tech IPOs. Up until today’s SecureWorks offering, there had been zero in the U.S. in 2016. Zero. This compares to seven in the same period last year and 24 in th...

 Swarms of drones flying in terrifyingly perfect formation could be one step closer, thanks to a control algorithm being developed at MIT. Read More ...

 Few — though not most — see what’s coming next, too, and that’s women VCs, taking their place alongside men, in equal, or nearly equal, numbers. In fact, we’d argue...

 What if energy “agents” could help us make better choices to cut costs and save the planet? Read More ...

 Apple has historically doled out annual awards to those third-party app developers who it believes have created the best apps and games over the past 12 months. Now, Google is launching its own ...

 Intel is widely seen as a leader around corporate diversity in tech. But, it turns out some Intel employees are not happy with the company’s stance on it. In fact, there’s “bee...

 It’s been exactly two years since Casper started selling mattresses, and CEO Philip Krim said it’s already turned into a big business, with $100 million in revenue (not to mention a ...

 mNectar allows mobile game developers to promote their games with ads that people can actually play before downloading. That means its technology needs to evolve with the games, so now it’...

 Following this week’s resolution of a carriage dispute that would have otherwise caused a blackout of Viacom’s TV channels on Dish Network, the two companies have worked out a deal t...

 It’s going to be a goodFriday for those testing the latest releases of the Windows 10 operating system, as Microsoft is today rolling out a new build of its PC and mobile OS which will all...

 This week, Apple’s MacBook got some sweet new upgrades, major tech companies reported earnings, Snapchat’s crazy new 3D stickers hit iOS and more. These are the stories everyone in t...

 What if the government decided they wanted to see what your device could see and hear? Or gain real-time access to the easily digitized information that surrounds a growing crop of connected dev...

 When you can’t make it to the game in real life, the experience offered by virtual reality live streaming can getyou closer to the action and more connected to the players and fans than an...

 Disrupt NY is right around the corner, and to build excitement for the event we’re giving away some swag. Starting today, the first 30 people that buy tickets for Disrupt NY will receive a...

 The number of people using the Tor anonymizing browser to access Facebook has passed the one million mark this month for the first time, Facebook has announced. Read More ...

 Rocket Internet-backed Zen Rooms is launching its budget hotel network in Brazil, marking its first foray outside of Asia. Read More ...

 BioBeats takes the data from wearables which monitor the health of employees of patients and puts it into a biometric machine-learning platform that delivers insights to healthcare providers or ...

 Fortune 500 company Avery Dennison, and IoT startup EVRYTHNG have done a big deal to ‘switch on’ the apparel industry. This will enable a minimum of 10 billion apparel and footwear p...

 Most online learning platforms – especially those associated with learning tech skills – can be pretty lonely experiences. Some major players with online platforms include Udacity, G...

 A year ago, Twitter ramped up its game in location services when it announced an integration with Foursquare to provide venue suggestions when you wanted to tag where you were Tweeting. Interest...

 If you’re addicted to Facebook or prone to getting lost in bowels of your newsfeed, then Focusbook is a neat Chrome plug-in that might help. Read More ...

 Baidu, China’s Google and an Uber investor, has continued its policy of spinning off promising business units. Following the spin-off of its student Q&A app Zuoyebang last September, B...

 The New York Times reports that a government regulator forced the closure of iBooks Store and iTunes Movies in China last week. The two services launched there in September, along with Apple Mus...

 Uber’s driver vs. independent contractor debate just took a huge turn. In a blog post from Uber CEO Travis Kalanick,the companyjust announced that it has reached a settlement intwo class-a...

 Uber’s driver versus independent contractor debate just took a huge turn. In a blog post from Uber CEO Travis Kalanick,the company announced that it has reached a settlement intwo class-ac...

 Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca today unveiled a ten-year project to sequence the genomes of two million people — with top-tier medical and tech partnerships and a nine-figure price tag. ...

 Only three main occupations were available to intrepid job seekers 10,000 years ago: hunting, gathering and procreation. Since then, the job market has advanced dramatically, developing into som...

 Elon Musk has a plan to solve the traffic crisis in our cities. A vague, secret plan. He may not actually have a plan. But he did say something out loud in public about it, and he doesn’t ...

 Chinese researchers have edited human embryos. The cost of doing basic synthetic biology experiments is only a few thousand dollars, for lab gear and chemicals, and it is possible to design and ...

 Chameleon is a startup that wants to help other startups and online businesses do a better job of explaining their product to users. It announced today that it has raised $1.9 million in seed fu...

 Chameleon is a startup that wants to help other startups and online businesses do a better job of explaining their products to users. It announced today that it has raised $1.9 million in seed f...

 Snapchat is done selling you stuff. As of today’s update, every snap can be replayed once, but you can no longer buy extra replays. That means people with more money can’t break the ...

 Medium, the online publishing platform led by Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, just announced that it has raised $50 million in Series C funding. It’s been less than a year since Medium rai...

 A controversial bill that would have given gig workers the right to collectively bargain with the tech companies they work for stalled in the California legislature today, meaning that workers w...

 How will Facebook videochange the physics of news publishing, app downloads, commerce, and what we point our phones at? Find out a TechCrunch Disrupt NY May 9th-11th when Facebook’s head o...

 Quick: you can send 20 gigabytes of data to the moon. What’s it going to be? Time’s up!Wikipedia? What a coincidence — that’s what the Part-Time Scientists, a team workin...

 There are lots of apps that help you research prices for buying or selling a car, and they’ll even hook you up with a dealership when you’re ready to buy. But Beepi lets you buy and ...

 Microsoft todayannouncedearnings for its third financial quarter of 2016. The company reported non-GAAP revenue of $22.1 billion for the last quarter and $0.62 of adjusted earnings per share (EP...

 For a split second, Alphabet was the most valuable company in the world. Not so much any more, however, with the company’s market cap continuing to slide after it reported its first-quarte...

 GE’sgadget invention partnerFirstBuild is launching a cold brew coffee maker for the home called Pique.Coffee has turned from daily routine into somewhat of an art form in the last few yea...

 GE’sgadget-invention partnerFirstBuild is launchingPique, a cold-brew coffee maker for the home.Coffee has turned from a daily routine into somewhat of an art form in the last few years, w...

 Home loans are the Holy Grail of online lending. They come with high loan balances, steady returns and hefty fees. There also is a healthy liquid market for the securitized loans, and the debt i...

 A lot of people live with the idea that life is about experiences rather than things. A firm subscriber of that philosophy is Honeyfund — a company whose new Honeyfund app helps newlyweds ...

 The Norwegian chapter of writers’ rights organization PEN International is suing its own government in an attempt to make it safe for Edward Snowden to accept the prestigious Ossietzky Pri...

 One for those of us with a lead foot: Ford is rolling out a new Speed Limiter feature. The car uses a camera to read the speed limit signs before giving you a heads up if your velocity is making...

 Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 11amPT/2pmET. Gillmor Gang LIVE chatroom during live show recording Gi...

 Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 11amPT/2pmET. Gillmor Gang LIVE chatroom during live show recording Gi...

 Anew iPhone application launching today called Plastiq lets you pay any bill withyour credit or debit card just by snapping a photo. The goal with the app is to offer something designed for mobi...

 Yes, there were some new fitness devices, a phone, and a gaming desktop (complete with its own giant piece of luggage), but the real news at Acer’s One World Trade Center-adjacent press co...

 Google and Sony today announced that the Android N Developer Preview is now available on Sony’s Xperia Z3. This marks the first time the next version of Android — which is currently ...

 TaskRabbit announced a detailed plan to improve the diversity of its workforce today. The plan is part of the Congressional Black Caucus’ Tech 2020 initiative, which aims to increase black...

 Facebook says it learned that the actions people take on Facebook — liking, clicking, commenting or sharing a post — don’t always tells the whole story of what is most meaningf...

 Swarm, the gamified check-in app from Foursquare, has today launched a new feature that will let users check in to locations without sharing that location with their group of friends. The compan...

 Swarm, the gamified check-in app from Foursquare, has today launched a new feature that will let users check in to locations without sharing that location with their group of friends. The compan...

 Acer hit the stage a small event in the shadow of Manhattan’s One World Trade to show off some notebooks, notebooks and also some notebooks. Oh, and one more thing: notebooks, notebooks, a...

 The latest version of the Acer-owned Xplova biking computer brings a few cool new tricks to the table. Chief among them, is the inclusion of the of a wide-screen on-board camera that offers up a...

 The latest version of the Acer-owned Xplova biking computer brings a few cool new tricks to the table. Chief among them, is the inclusion of the of a wide-screen on-board camera that offers up a...

 Social networks make us lonely, and messaging feels transactional. There’s still no vibrant, real-time place to hang out with friends online. That’s why four years after Sean Parker&...

 Let’s be honest, most concept videos suck. They show you an imaginary device that looks nothing like the final product and defy the laws of physics. But some software concept videos tick a...

Amazon made waves last year when it introduced a $50 Fire tablet that was actually a fairly decent device for the price.Today, the company is rolling out a middle-of-road option for those who want a b...

 The online advertising industry continued a six-year streak of double-digit growth, according to a new report prepared by PwC US for the Interactive Advertising Bureau.The report found that digi...

 Google says it will soon add live TV listings to its search engine, allowing web users to find out when their favorite shows or movies will be airing. But in a nod to the many non-traditional wa...

 A comprehensive study of Brits’ usage of and attitudes to digital media, conducted annually by telecoms watchdog Ofcom, suggests there is growing concern among web and app users about the ...

 Nonprofit research organization SRI International is spinning off part of its robotics division into a new company called Superflex. It won’t be focusing not on industrial robots or the li...

 Brayola, the service that helps women find the perfect-fitting bra, has today announced the close of a $2.5 million Series A round. Investors include Haim Dabah of HDS Capital and FirstTime Capi...

 It’s a big day for Linguistics Departments across the English-speaking world, as Merriam Webster has just added more than 1,400 new words and phrases to the dictionary. Some newly defined ...

 It’s a big day for Linguistics Departments across the English-speaking world, as Merriam-Webster has just added more than 1,400 new words and phrases to the dictionary. Some newly defined ...

 Everything seems to be going mobile these days, but the Product Hunt community actually uses their desktops more for finding and upvoting products they find online says founder Ryan Hoover. So t...

 Luxury consignment site The RealReal,which focuses on authenticated, high-end resale items for women, men, and the home, announced this morning it has raised an additional $40 million in Series ...

 The Disrupt NY Hackathon at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal is so close we can almost taste the greasy pizza and beer. The best Hackathon in the Big Apple is just over two weeks away, and we’...

 In “Silicon Valley’s Unchecked Arrogance,” Ross Baird and Lenny Mendonca boldly ask an important question that’s becoming a white elephant in the Silicon Valley pitch roo...

 In “Silicon Valley’s Unchecked Arrogance,” Ross Baird and Lenny Mendonca boldly ask an important question that’s becoming a white elephant in the Silicon Valley pitch roo...

 Last summer we reviewed Aces, the in-app concierge service from HotelTonight. And while we enjoyed usingthe service,our main gripe was that it was limited to just fivecities, and even thereit wa...

 In-memory database platformMemSQL today announced that it has raised a $36 million Series C funding round. The round was led bynew investors REV and Caffeinated Capital and existing investors Ac...

 Privacy campaign group Privacy International says documents it has obtained through a legal challenge to the UK security agencies data-harvesting practices illustrate the extent to which spies h...

 Preempt Security, a startup still in stealth, came out of hidingtoday enough to announce an $8 million Series Around. Beyond that we know only a limited amount about what makes them worth such a...

 No word on Yahoo from one of the strongcontenders to buy the troubled Internet giant, but today Verizon (which nowowns TechCrunch)reported its own mixed earnings for Q1. Dragged by worse sales i...

Fraud prevention company Forter today announced a $32m series C funding led by Scale Venture Partners and with follow-on funding from Sequoia and NEA. The company uses its Decision as a Service algori...

 Online custom framing company Framebridge is continuing to take its market square on and is expanding growth with a Series B round of investment announced today. NEA and Revolution are back for ...

 When I met Aydin Senkut in 2006, it wasjust monthsafter he’d resigned from Google, where he was a senior manager responsible for strategicpartner development in Asia Pacific. He wasamong a...

 China’s biggest travel booking sites are quite literally taking to the skies. Fresh on the heels of Qunar’s plan to launch an airline alongside unnamed partners, Ctrip has announced ...

 It looks like Sony is finally gearing up to add two-factor authentication to the PlayStation Network — some five years after a massive data breach compromised the details of millions of us...

 Acorns, the investing app, is announcing a $30 million strategic investment from PayPal, with participation from the Rakuten Tech Fund. This brings the team’s total funding to $62 million....

 Belgium’sTricount offers an app to help groups of friends or couples share and settle expenses, and counts the likes of Splitwise, and Splittable as competitors. Read More ...

 Belgium’sTricount offers an app to help groups of friends or couples share and settle expenses, and counts the likes of Splitwise, and Splittable as competitors. Read More ...

 Another day, another new European VC fund. This time it’s the turn of London-based Backed VC, which today is officially outing its 30 million pan-European seed-stage fund, although it̵...

 Slowly but surely, French startup Le Wagon is becoming a leading coding bootcamp in Europe. Not only the company is executing quickly and expanding to a bunch of new cities, but Le Wagon is also...

 When Opera acquired the virtual private network (VPN) service SurfEasy last March, it obviously did so to build that technology into its browser and maybe its Opera Max data-savings app. It took...

 Question and answer site Quora has made its first push to monetize after it added advertising. Read More ...

 Zalora, the fashion-focused e-commerce site backed by Rocket Internet that’s in the process of selling off two of its 11 country businesses in Asia, has lost two key executives, TechCrunch...

 A federal judge ruled today that the FBI did not obtain the proper warrant before hacking a child porn website and that the evidence it collected against one of the defendants, Alex Levin, must ...

 What if I told you that you can strengthen your own core while liquid cooling your PCs? That’s the dream, right? Better still, you can accomplish all of that in a single product — wh...

 A search engine that lets travelers find and book a stay in non-hotel lodgings, Tripping.com, has detected a burgeoning “budbnb” trend in Colorado. San Francisco-based Tripping.com a...

 Billion-dollar customer insight startup Qualtrics hopes to recruit top Silicon Valley talent to its home base in Utah as it continues to grow and part of that strategy involves adding profession...

 After years of VC exuberance, 2015 marked the end of an investment cycle for the adtech industry. Quite a few companies with high valuations stumbled, downsized, restructured and pivoted in orde...

 To achieve market scale along the lines of GoPro and Fitbit, effectively working with big retailers is a necessary part of the process. Despite the growth of online channels, more than 90 percen...

 My kids don’t turn off the damn lights. Ever. And now, with Curb, I have a new way to see when they leave on their lights. All I have to do is look at an app. This is the future of parenti...

 The celebrity gossip and news startup The Shade Room is back on Facebook, the startup announced today, albeit under a new moniker. It’s previous page, which had racked up over 4 million fo...

 Messaging app Viber rolled out its own end-to-end encryption update yesterday, following in the footsteps of its competitor, WhatsApp, and allowing users to keep their calls and messages private...

 Mindie does with soundtracks what Instagram did with filters: it makes boring imagery interesting. And with the insane amount of video that teens are sharing, the music video making app seemed t...

 Rolltape is a voice messaging app that’s supposed to help you share personal, emotional moments with friends. Now, with the launch of Rolltape Radio, it can help you share those stories on...

 Michael Arrington — who famously cofounded TechCrunch in 2005 and just as famously parted ways with the outlet in 2011, one year after selling it to AOL —is now taking on a reduced r...

 After more than 60 years since its conceptual inception — and after too many hype-generating moments — AI is yet again making its presence felt in mainstream media. Following a recen...

 Captiv8 announcedtoday that it has raised $2 million in seed funding.Created by the founders of mobile ad exchange Moblix, Captiv8 is one of a number of companiesconnecting marketers with influe...

 The Zeitgeist electric bike was designed to solve one problem: getting uphill on a bike. That led to other goals, like creating a battery that only had to be charged every two weeks and was hidd...

 Jump on the party line or hear the voices of your whole family with Facebook Messenger’s latest feature. Rolling out globally over the next 24 hourson Android and iOS for free, users can s...

 If Apple really is working on a car, it won’t be the Ultimate Driving Machine. BMW and Daimler have discontinued talks with Apple over a potential automotive collaboration, Handelsblatt re...

 The Huffington Post, owned by AOL, owned by Verizon, is buying a virtual reality studio called RYOT to buildVR content production on the site, according to a blog post from site co-founder and e...

 Keep, Google’s note-taking service, is getting an update today that introduces support for hashtag-style labels and an update Chrome extension that will make it easier to save links tosite...

 Google announced today it’s giving higher placement to articles in Google News that comefrom those publishers who have embraced the Google-backed “Accelerated Mobile Pages Project...

 VR content will soon bearriving on yet another digital streaming service – this time, Sony’s Crackle. But it will also include VR-enabled ads, the company announced today. That is, i...

 Earlier this month, Tesla Motors recalled 2,700 Model X cars to fix a third-row seat latch that could allow the seat to fold forward during a collision. But owners of the $138,000 sport utility ...

 Self-driving cars seem an awful lot like magic. Containing elements of automotive technology, computer vision, artificial intelligence and many other cutting-edge fields of tech. So, if you want...

 Google released version 50 of its Chrome browser last week and it has been rolling out to users forthe last few days. The major new feature in Chrome 50 is support for improved push notification...

 If you’re seriously attempting to learn another language then at least one dictionary app will be a staple on your smartphone homescreen. And familiarity with its UX foibles will have long...

 Happy 4/20 day everybody! To celebrate, Snapchat teamed up with the estate of Bob Marley, and the results were … unfortunate.Snapchat created a lens that makes your facelook more like the ...

 Scandy is aiming to make it easier to print full-color 3D prints of photographs, from sources such as depth aware cameras, and technology like Google’s Project Tango. Scandy today announce...

 Citushas been making headlines lately. Just a couple of weeks ago it announced Citus 5, the latest version of its Postgres database product, but even bigger news was thatit was open sourcing it,...

 Google is launching an update to Inbox by Gmail today that adds threenew features to the company’sGmail-based next-gen email client for the web and mobile.Probably the most interesting of ...

 If you know LeEco at all, it’s likely for the Chinese company’s smartphones. Or, maybe you’ve caught wind of its video streaming services or smart televisions — it was kn...

 Google today is making its easier for Android users to listen to podcasts, by introducing podcast support right into its Google app for Android. That means you’re able to search for podcas...

 The field of medicine is in the process of being profoundly transformed by new technologies; much of this transformation comes from exciting advances in genomics. Although genomics is relatively...

 If you’re of a certain age, you may remember flipping through the classic children’s magazine Highlights while in the waiting room of your doctor’s office, many years ago. Now ...

 Helsinki-based mobile gaming startup Armada Interactive, which is still a way off from launching its first title, has closed a $3 million seed round. Investment is being led by Initial Capital, ...

 Giphy is updating its Android app to follow the app’s progress on the iOS platform. Today, Giphy for Messenger will be phased out via an update to become a standard Giphy app. This comes o...

 FreedomPop —the startup that has built a mobile service based on the premise of a free basic tier of voice and data services — has announced plans to launch its servicesin Spain, its...

 SkySafe, a six-month-old, San Diego, Ca.-based companywhose technology candisable drones that areflying where they shouldn’t, has raised $3 million in seed funding. Andreessen Horowitz led...

 Red Hat made it clear a few years ago that it couldn’t relyon its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) glory forever. It needed a path to transformation and it saw a way with OpenStack and the ...

 DoorDash, for better or worse, has become an exampleof the 2016 VC funding environment. Afterreportedly failing to raise at a $1 billion valuation, the company had to settle for a flat round. So...

 Photo-editing app PicsArt wants to grow in China and Japan after getting $20 million in fresh funding from returning investor DCM Ventures and Siguler Guff & Company. Read More ...

 Mandatory drone registration and a massive national database of drone owners is already under way in the U.S. But simply knowing who owns what won’t stop unmanned aerial vehicles from coll...

 We’re announcing our very first formal Meetup + Pitch-off in Tel Aviv, presented by Leumi Tech. Israel remains one of the world’s key producers of startups and cutting edge technolog...

 Europe’s antitrust chief has just confirmed the Commission is stepping up an ongoing investigation into Google’s Android mobile OS, issuing aStatement of Objections today. The move c...

 A report into the market power of large online platforms such as Google, Facebook, Amazon and Airbnb has concluded that more needs to be done to bolster consumer trust in tech giants’ hand...

 India’s pharmaceutical market is filled with generic options—but they don’t always save consumers money. In fact, some drugs are even more expensive than their branded counterp...

 India’s pharmaceutical market is filled with generic options—but they don’t always save consumers money. In fact, some drugs are even more expensive than their branded counterp...

 Mark up one more sizeable round of funding for another regional startup that is rivallingUber and other services in the world of on-demand transportation. Cabify, a ride-sharing app based out of...

 Barcelona-based Lodgify, which offers website builder software to enable vacation rental owners to build their own branded website and accept online bookings, has raised 1.4 million in funding. ...

 Two former Rocket Internet executives are out to beat Foodpanda, the food delivery startup backed by the German incubator-cum-investor, at its own game, and they’ve raised $800,000 to get ...

 Apple’s head of legal has denied a long-standing rumor that it has collaborated with the Chinese government to provide its source code. Read More ...

 Samsung has already said it will launch Samsung Pay in Singapore this year, but today it set a more definite timeline–sort of. The company announced that the service will be available in r...

 I write. I work with writers. I studied English — many of my friends became journalists. The future of being able to charge for quality material online is really important to me. However, ...

 A group of tech coalitions has written an open letter to Senators Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), concerning their bill requiring all encryption to be breakable on command...

 Apple is finally getting around to adding web previews for tvOS apps — correcting a rather baffling and prolonged omission. Read More ...

 About a week ago, Snapchat flipped on a new feature: the ability to “pin” emojis to objects in your videos, and have those emojis track that object and move around with them. It was ...

 The fight to drag the healthcare system kicking and screaming into the 21st century often overlooks the little picture in favor of larger systematic fixes. But for many users on multiple meds, t...

 The hardware tinkerers and prototype mavens out there will invariably have stumbled across the Arduino platform. Completely open source and always pushing the limits for collaboration, there are...

 Does the government secretly force companies to decrypt their customers’ messages, build backdoors or hand over their source code so that law enforcement officials can pick through it for ...

 We’re excited to announce the launch of the first cross-platform and personalized news recommendations bot on Facebook Messenger. The bot is part of Facebook’s “Agents for Mess...

 OneWeb Satellites, the joint venture between OneWeb LLC and Airbus Defense and Space, has selected Florida to be the home of their satellite manufacturing facility. Located in Exploration Park n...

 Wall Street is watching Yahoo today, but not just because of its first quarterly earnings announcement that was reported after the bell. The company is for sale and reportedly has a slew of bidd...

 Intel just announced it was slashing its workforce by 11 percent, calling it in all its corporate press-speak glory “a restructuring to accelerate its transformation.” Sure. What it ...

 Banking as we know it is in the midst of its first fundamental remaking in centuries. What’s driving this transformation? Two major shifts: our transition to interacting with money digital...

 On-demand delivery startup Postmates is launching Pop, its 15-minutes-or-less food delivery service, in New York City tomorrow at 11am ET. With Pop, which launched in San Francisco back in Octob...

 The FBI’s legal battle with Apple over an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters was rehashed today before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which heard testimony fr...

 This isn’t a rant post. But if you have worked in tech for long enough, you know this feeling — tech fatigue. At some point, everything new feels old, everything different feels dumb...

 Casual gaming, say hello to super-duper casual gaming. A mobile game that you can play in your iPhone’s Notification Center – yes, without even unlocking your phone – is nowthe...

 Mesosphere‘s Data Center Operating System (DC/OS) aims to allow developers and admins to treat a data center as a single computer that runs applications in software containers. It’s ...

 Mesosphere‘s Data Center Operating System (DC/OS) aims to allow developers and admins to treat a data center as a single computer that runs applications in software containers. It’s ...

 Capital One is a huge organization with lots of compliance issues related to being a financial services company. It also happens to be an Amazon Web Servicescustomer and it needed a tool to set ...

 Last November, we reported onhow Airbnb appeared to be experimenting with ways to expand beyond its role as aP2P marketplace for rentingprivate accommodation, to “experiences” —...

 At Microsoft’s annual BUILD conference in March, the company announced its plans to bring bots to Skype and other communications platforms, includingSlack, Outlook, LINE, and elsewhere. To...

 As brick-and-mortar commerce continues to shift online – whether that’s to competitors like Amazon, through online ordering systems, or into instant delivery apps – traditional...

 Sin City is about to get a bit more sinful, as VR content platform VR Bangers and headset maker AuraVisor are teaming up to offer in-room adult experiences (via virtual reality) at hotels on the...

 It’s not much of a secret that the beverage industry is big business, with Anheuser-Busch alone taking a $43bn slice of the cake last year. The beer maker also has a venture arm – ZX...

 90% of people who try to learn guitar quit in the first year. So when Brian Fan wanted to start strumming out lullabies for his baby daughter, he reinvented the instrument itself. Suddenly, a si...

 Commercially operated autonomous drones may be on the horizon, especially since Google and Amazon have announced plans to start drone-based parcel delivery in 2017. A policy problem is likely to...

 San Francisco-based Mixed Dimensions, which makes software targeting the 3D printing space, has closed a $4 million Series A, with the funding round led by SiliconValley investors Alsop Louie Pa...

 HBO is getting into virtual reality, too. Amid the ongoing craze for VR videos, which has seen streaming rivals like Netflix and Hulu rolling out their own VR content, HBO and Discovery announce...

 Operating somewhere at the intersection of a think-tank and a mission-driven non-profit, the whole thrust of Helena is to bring together successful people across a range of demographics while pr...

 Operating somewhere at the intersection of a think-tank and a mission-driven non-profit, the whole thrust of Helena is to bring together successful people across a range of demographics while pr...

 LinkedIn —the social platform used by 400 millionprofessionals looking to network or find work —has taken a major tumble in the markets in the last few months over weak financial gui...

 Over the past couple of months, I’ve purchased more items through Restocks than any other mobile commerce app aside from Amazon. And I’d wager that aside from a couple of statistical...

 Rinse Inc. has raised a $6 million Series A round of venture funding to pick up and clean anything in its customers’ closets. According to Chief Executive Ajay Prakash, who cofounded Rinse...

 The CrunchBase Women in Venture report is the third study in our ongoing analysis of women and their participation in the startup ecosystem. This report focuses on the participation of women in...

 GitLab.com users have always had free access to the Gitlab programmer’s toolset including GitLab Runner. Today it announced a new feature called Gitlab Runner Autoscale that allows continu...

 Apple’s single-port-wonder MacBook gets a mid season upgrade with faster processors, better graphics, faster internal memory and an hour more of battery life today — all in a Rose Go...

 Uber has defined the market for transportation-on-demand globally with an app that lets you call up a ride (or courier, or food delivery) and charge it with the click of a button — a busin...

 The company’s focus on rental properties and value-added services may help NestAway weather slowing property sales. Read More ...

 Diamanti, a startup aimed at solving the problems around balancing networking and storage requirements in the age of containers, emerged from stealth today with a new appliance and $12.5 million...

 Forq is on a mission to collect your food photos (they call them “snackshots”) on its Instagram-like app. Today, the company is launching out of beta with new functionality, includin...

 Ebay sold off its enterprise unit to a consortium of companies led by private equity firm Permira last year. That consortium included Sterling Partners, Longview Asset Management and Innotrac. T...

 Following WhatsApp’s move to addend-to-end encryption toits platform, another big messaging companyis joining the wave of apps turning on expanded privacy features. Viber — a messagi...

 Since launching in 2012, theSkimm has built up a bigaudience for its email newsletter — founders Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin told me they have more than 3.5 million active subscripti...

 Singapore-based Ninja Van today announced $30 million Series B round aimed at building it into the go-to partner for anyone selling online in Southeast Asia. Read More ...

 In the scramble to build bots that live up to the hype, messaging app Telegram has just announced a $1M giveaway to developers to try to incentivize them to build cool stuff. The messaging start...

 In the scramble to build bots that live up to the hype, messaging app Telegram has just announced a $1M giveaway to developers to try to incentivize them to build cool stuff. The messaging start...

 Azure Container Service, Microsoft’s containerscheduling and orchestration service for its Azure cloud computing service, is now generally available. The service, which allows its users to...

 Tyba, the Spanish startup that has created a “junior recruitment market” aimed at allowing companies like tech startups to more efficiently hire university and college graduates, has...

 Betaout, a marketing automation platform for e-commerce companies, plans to expand in India, Southeast Asia, and the United States after closing $1.5 million in pre-Series A funding. Read More ...

 After what I’m told has been a successful 6 month trial in Paris — racking up “hundreds of thousands of deliveries” — Stuart, the on-demand delivery app and platfor...

 A new trend in the on-demand food and delivery market seems to be monthly membership programs. Munchery, the on-demand food startup that delivers pre-made meals and ready-to-cook meals, is launc...

 Piling on to Theranos woes, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California have started probing into the blood analysis start...

 Apple has launched Apple Pay in Singapore today, making it the second country in Asia after China to get the digital payment service. Read More ...

 Sleep deprivation is the undoing of startup founders, according to Arianna Huffington. “There is this kind of founder myth that if you are a founder youcan’t afford to get enough sle...

 There have been numerous speculations on what retailers should do in an omni-channel world. How do they compete in a world where Amazon is undercutting them in prices and offering free delivery ...

 Apple today is unveiling an overhaul to its App Store developer website, a resource available to the 11 million registered developers worldwide whohave helpedgrow the App Store to now more than ...

 We aren’t done yet. We’ve got some more new faces for you here at TechCrunch, and they’re good ones. First up, Brian Heater has worked at a number of tech pubs, including PCMag...

Facebook 86’ed The Shade Room from its platform today for unknown reasons. The celebrity gossip and news publisher attracted about4.2 million followers on Facebook. We reached out to The Shade R...

 Many of the world’s legendary tech companies got started just as the public markets were cooling off; Microsoft, Apple, HP, IBM, Oracle, FedEx, etc. The most recent case in point is the st...

 Mike Vernal, a Facebook VP who has spent the last eight-plus years at the company, most recently leading its search, profile, local and developer platform product groups, is leaving the company ...

 Chalk this up as the latest major bet on the importance of mobile video for the future of digital media. Verizon Wireless and Hearst Corp. are set to jointly acquire Complex Media. The “vi...

 A Supreme Court order issued today closes the book on (or perhaps merely ends this chapter of) more than a decade of legal warfare between Google and the Authors Guild over the legality of the f...

 Netflix just posted its first-quarter earnings, and it looks like for investors it was a whiff. The company’s shares are diving more than 10% in extended trading, which more or less fits i...

 In terms of venture capital dollars, it’s still hard to beat Silicon Valley. The latest figures have Bay Area companies gobbling up about 15 percent of the world’s venture capital. F...

 Despite adding a record number of new users in the first quarter, Netflix is having a no good, very bad day. The company reported earnings of 6 cents per share — a beat — but missed ...

 Kanye West’s decision to flip-flop on whether or not his new album, “The Life of Pablo,” would be an exclusive to music streaming service Tidal, has now been met with a class a...

 There’s an old saying in football: It isn’t the hours you put in but what you put in the hours. Apparently, Bill Campbell—a widely revered former Columbia University football c...

 Technology market analysts at ABI Research predict that advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are going to be big business in the next decade — to the tune of $132 billion. But they al...

 We get to see the Earth in high definition every day, it’s true, but we’re limited to a certain ground-level point of view. Not so much the astronauts aboard the International Space ...

 Apple has yet to update its website, but we now know the dates of the next Worldwide Developers Conference. When you ask Siri “when is WWDC,” Siri already has an answer for you. Appl...

 Apple has yet to update its website, but we now know the dates of the next Worldwide Developers Conference. When you ask Siri “when is WWDC,” Siri already has an answer for you. Appl...

 It looks like incremental news, but the fact that Amazon now lets you subscribe to Amazon Prime Video separately from the rest of Amazon Prime signals a bigger shift. Amazon wants to turn the co...

 OpenText, the Canadian content management company, announced today that it was buying much of the customer experience content management business from HP Inc, the consumer printer business that ...

 YouTube will today begin supporting 360-degree live streaming on its service, confirming reports from earlier this yearstating thatsuch a feature was in development. One of the first videos to t...

 Google today announced that it is (finally) bringing podcasts to its Google Play Music service in the U.S. and Canada. With this, it follows in the footsteps of services like Spotify, which rece...

 In the six years since Betterment debuted in our Startup Battlefield competition in New York pitching a better savings account service, the company has raised more than $200 million in equity an...

 It’s become a tech truism that the future is here, just not evenly distributed. But we often lose sight of just how unevenly distributed. We are reaching the point of a mobile computer in ...

 Mobile ad startup Adtile is announcing that it has raised an additional $2 million in funding. That’s an extension of the $4.5 million Series A that Adtile raised back in 2014, and it come...

 In the U.S., the online classifieds space has been dominated for years by Craigslist, despite its failure to adaptto newer technologies, including mobile. That has left room for newcomers to ang...

 A mattress company out of Spain is marketing a new smart mattress, brilliantly named ‘Smartress’, that detects whenever the bed is in “use.” As you likely realize, the ma...

 Freed from the confines of the credit hour, nontraditional students will race toward a degree in record time, and at just a fraction of the cost. Read More ...

 Most 24-year-olds are still figuring out how their careers will take shape. Jeremy Fiance, a recent UC Berkeley graduate, knows he wants to be a venture capitalist. He isn’t waiting to ris...

 Every time there is a conference where we get saturated coverage from a given company, we tend to buy into their vision, at least for the couple of days the company has our undivided attention. ...

 This morning FLIR Systems announced a new product—the Boson Thermal Core Camera. Regardless of product features, two things interest me about the launch of the Boson. One is the continued ...

 Amazon has been ramping up its video streaming efforts by investing heavily into original content. A couple of years ago, Prime Video looked like an afterthought for Prime’s delivery subsc...

 VideoBlocks, a stock image and video service that offers both a subscription library and a marketplace for buying individual items, today announced that it is bringing 360-degree video to its se...

 IBM today unveiled some significant strides forward in its bid to be a major player in the world of online and cloud-based video services, three months after the company acquired live-streaming ...

 Less than a year after it brought on investors to help crack the Chinese market, Airbnb is going after India, Asia’s other mega-country with a billion-plus population. Read More ...

 Google will be concerned the European Commission’s antitrust commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, is not letting up the pressure in an ongoing probe of its Android mobile OS. Read More ...

 Jugnoo, a startup that provides an Uber-like service for auto-rickshaws in India, has closed out its Series B round having raised a total of $10 million. Investors included Snow Leopard, Rockets...

 Southeast Asia wasn’t the only new market that Alibaba jumped into with a billion dollar deal last week. Beyond a deal with Rocket Internet’s Lazada, the e-commerce giant also confir...

 Big innovations come in unexpected bursts. We grow accustomed to life and work as we know it, until something apparently simple brings about bold change. For example, we used phones for 100 year...

 Lending, one of the biggest industries, is currently undergoing a transformation. As it was with the automobile industry transformation, a number of modern innovators will probably face serious ...

 It’s a common gripe: Outdated regulations obstruct innovation; government regulators move too slowly or, worse, try to block technological progress. But when conditions are right, regulati...

 It’s a small branding change, but it would make a lot of sense. Many different signs point to Apple abandoning the name “OS X” in favor of “MacOS”, or maybe “...

 One of the most oft-repeated quotes about investing goes something like this: Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful. While Warren Buffett may not have had venture ...

 Of all the money-making schemes hackers employ, the most prevalent is perhaps ransomware, a malware that is usually delivered through infected email attachments and hacked websites or websites f...

 Silicon Valley is building the new-world insurance agent. My grandfather started selling insurance in the 1950s and insurance eventually granted him the American dream. Today, the industry accou...

 I come from a small-business family. My mom has owned three small businesses; most recently, a medical clinic in the South Bay. But it was in her first business, a Chinese restaurant outside Chi...

 GoDaddy’s chief technology officer — amid a time when the company is expanding its cloud-computing operations — is departing,according to a regulatory filing. Elissa Murphy wil...

 GoDaddy’s chief technology officer — amid a time when the company is expanding its cloud-computing operations — is departing,according to a regulatory filing. Elissa Murphy wil...

 Until recently, I knew nothing about enterprise security beyond some of the more widely-publicized breaches in the United States. That said, after spending most of 2016 immersed in the space, I&...

 The most frustrating part of newspapers’ downward spiral is that it’s happening while they have the greatest competitive advantage in the crowded “new digital world.” Rea...

 In the future, machines will do tedious, repetitive work for us, and do more of it than humans ever could, simultaneously increasing economic output and liberating humans everywhere from drudger...

 Even with billion dollar behemoths already in the food delivery market, Helsinki-based food delivery app Wolt has managed to raise $11 million fresh funding from heavyweight Nordic investors inc...

 AI is here — although Microsoft’s blunder with Tay, the “teenaged girl AI” embodied by a Twitter account who “turned racist” shows that we obviously still hav...

 Chameleon Run launched a little over a week ago and has been heavily promoted by Apple. Admittedly, I love this game and I am not the only one. Chameleon Run is an auto-runner where you fly thro...

 Want some serious bragging rights in the tech community? Why? Inquire within yourself whether this craving for attention is healthy, and if you still want those rights, consider bidding on this ...

 Despite Apple’s highly publicized sparring match with the FBI over unlocking an iPhone that belonged to one of the San Bernardino shooters, security engineers pushed back against the idea ...

 Apple has strong words for the Justice Department. The simple fact that the feds unlocked a phone without any help shows that they didn’t need it in the first place, Apple asserts: “...

 When Apple introduced multitasking in iOS 9, MLB was one of the new feature’s early adopters in its MLB.com At Bat application for iPad. Today, the organization is releasing some new numbe...

 Genetically modified crops are in the midst of a metamorphosis thanks to new gene-editing technology. The latest example, a white button mushroom genetically edited using CRISPR, or the ability ...

 Social media startup RebelMouse has created a new tool for publishers — Rebel Discovery, which helps those publishers identify the social media accounts that they should be sharing stories...

 It sounds like something out of Star Trek: a patch thinner than a band-aid that you slap on your arm and, within moments, it lights up with heart rate, blood sugar, and so on — then peels ...

 ClassDojo has raised $21 million in Series B round of venture funding for tech that connects educators to students’ parents, and helps them communicate consistently about student’s a...

 Another handset maker is getting into the headset game. Huawei announced its entry into the world of mobile virtual reality today with multiple versions of a Gear VR-like headset simply called &...

 Google is cleaning upits Chrome Web Store – the marketplace where you can browse for extensions and apps for itsChrome web browser. The company saysit’s making changes to browserR...

 What do Barack Obama and Uber have in common? The answer is David Plouffe. In 2008, Plouffe was Barack Obama’s campaign manager. He then became a White House adviser. As Washington and Sil...

 If you’re a driver for Lyft and/or Uber, and drive in San Francisco seven or more days a year, the city requiresyou to obtain a business license, the SF Chronicle reported today.“We ...

 Apple is teaming up with the World Wildlife Fund to raise money for the conservation organization through in-app purchases. Already started, the initiative will last until April 24, during which...

 Scientists at Cambridge University are working on combining two fields of solid state physics research, spintronics and superconductors, in order to develop what they hope could become the found...

 Hulu’s revamped “Watchlist,” the section on its service that helps users track their favorite shows, is nowexiting beta and being rolled out to all users, the company announced...

 Earlier this year, app store analytics firm App Annie predicted that China could overtake both the U.S. and Japan in terms of revenue generated from iOS applications as soon as this year. The ye...

 Quartet Health, a company that wants to close the gap between physical and mental healthcare, has raised a $40 million Series B led by GV (formerly Google Ventures). Existing investors Oak HC/FT...

 It was a futuristic week in tech as Facebook laid out its 10 year plan at F8, SpaceX landed a rocket on a drone ship in the middle of the ocean, and another $100M was pledged to send spacecraft ...

 Microsoft is making Skype in the browser plugin-free, the company announced this morning. But before you get too excited, be aware that thisnew experience only works in Microsoft Edge for now. O...

 On February 16, Apple CEO Tim Cook published an online letter to customers explaining the recent back-and-forth between the FBI and Apple and reiterating Apple’s very clear stance on the i...

 We’re excited to announce that Jessica Alba and Chris Thorne will be speaking this May for our first Disrupt in Brooklyn. Alba last appeared for Disrupt SF 2012 as The Honest Com...

 We’ve given you one more week, but now your time is running out. Today is the final day to save $1,000 on tickets to the hottest show in tech — Disrupt NY 2016. Seriously, we aren...

 Beekeeper, the Switzerland and U.S.-based startup that provides a mobile-first communications platform for employers that need a better way to communicate with blue-collar and service-oriented w...

 As more enterprises move their communications services over to IP networks and cloud-based services, we’re seeing an increasing amount of consolidation as the businesses that serve them co...

 HomeToGo, the Berlin-headquartered metasearch engine for holiday rentals, has closed $20 million in Series B funding. Noteworthy for a European startup, the round is being led by New York-based ...

 Annual performance reviews are often more like an annual headache for both managers and employees. Impraise, a startup that wants to streamline the process with a mobile app, just raised $1.6 mi...

 For the smartphone generation, the idea that you have to sit down in front of the TV at a very specific time to watch something is archaic and unconceivable. And yet, I’ve been using Molot...

 Twitter has appointed its first managing director for China. A former general manager at Microsoft and Cisco, Kathy Chen will reach out to companies who can use Twitter to reach international au...

 TechCrunch understands that Minicabster, the UK ‘minicab’ price comparison and booking app, entered administration last month and in the last few days has found a buyer for some of i...

 Venture capitalists will tell you that a lackluster IPO market and struggling tech stocks mean that they are being more cautious, but the data suggests otherwise. Apart from last year, which saw...

 Venture capitalists will tell you that a lackluster IPO market and struggling tech stocks mean that they are being more cautious, but the data suggests otherwise. Apart from last year, which saw...

 Not all important scientific research is cool looking, or has a cool name. But now and then you get something with both. These self-assembling carbon nanotubes are created with a process called ...

 In my 20-plus years in tech, and now in Silicon Valley as part of a tech foundation that supports innovations, I’ve had the opportunity to partner with many entrepreneurs and help foster t...

 Jeremy Guillory, a Bay Area mechanical engineer, has filed a cross-complaint against 2.5-year-old Cruise Automation and its longtime CEO, Kyle Vogt, saying that theself-driving car company—...

 Jeremy Guillory, a Bay Area mechanical engineer, has filed a cross-complaint against 2.5-year-old Cruise Automation and its longtime CEO, Kyle Vogt. At issue: Guillory saysthat theself-driving c...

 If you’re a fan of Shuddle’s uber-style driving service for getting your kids to school/playdates/etc, bad news: they’re shutting (shudding?) the doors tomorrow. Shuddles main ...

 Another tech startup seeking to transform aviation has closed its doors. Beacon sought to bring an all-you-can-fly option to business and leisure travelers starting on the East coast. The compan...

 A British startup is using the unique abilities of convolutional neural networks to do a sort of scaled-up version of Adobe’s content-aware fill — but instead of filling in the gaps ...

 Seasoned entrepreneur and digital strategist Gary Vaynerchuk sat down with TechCrunch to talk about his new book, #AskGaryVee. An investor in Facebook, Twitter, Uber and Tumblr, Vaynerchuk also ...

 A new application called Sorted launches today to offer a better, faster and more efficient way to manage your tasks viayour mobile phone. Yes, it’sanother To Do list application. Do we re...

 President Obama’s bold new course on Cuban policy is paving the way for emerging tech to blossom in the country and a new entrepreneurial competition, 10x10KCuba, hopes to uncover CubaR...

 GoPro on Thursday very quietly took the wraps off its new developer program, by which it hopes to get its action cameras hooked into as many third-party devices, vehicles, and service as possibl...

 There are an estimated 30 million surveillance cameras in the U.S. today, of which only 5 percent are monitored by a human at any given time. Instead, the majority of them are simply recording f...

 Google is launching a new service today that allows you to create $35 custom cases foritsNexus 5X, 6 and 6P phones.You can choose between two variations of these co-calledLive Cases.One allows y...

 We promised to make networking at Disrupt a lot better, and today we’re making a big part of that promise a reality with the launch of the Disrupt app in the Apple’s App Store and Go...

 Instagram wants to show you the best videos without completely destroying the sanctity of your main feed, so today it overhauled the Explore page with a slew of new video channels. Most importan...

 After laying off staff in December as it shifted business models to find a sustainable operation, Dinner Lab has officially shut down, according to a blog post on the company’s site. Dinne...

 Amazon has been focusingattention onareas like media streaming, itsfaster delivery and pickup services, hardware and enterprise via AWS. Butit’s also making an effort to reboot one of the ...

 Amazon has been focusingattention onareas like media streaming, itsfaster delivery and pickup services, hardware and enterprise via AWS. Butit’s also making an effort to reboot one of the ...

 Microsoft sued the Justice Departmenttoday, challenging the constitutionality ofthe gag orders issued by the government that prevent tech companies from informing their customerswhen their data ...

 Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Microsoft’s cross-platform text editor for developers,hit version 1.0 today after about a year in beta. The company says more than 500,000 developers now acti...

 The HTC 10 is no afterthought: It’s a well-engineered smartphone, with all the specs and capabilities of a true flagship, flavored in a style reminiscent of the brand. But, it has been a w...

 Looking to score discounted tickets to the best startup show in the Big Apple? Your time is quickly running out.Early-bird tickets to Disrupt NY are on sale through tomorrow, April 15, meaning y...

 Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it was expanding its investment in Minecraft, the popular game it acquired for $2.5 billion in 2014, by building out a new version that would allow te...

 ContainerShip, a service thataims to make it easier for developersto use Docker containers to develop and deploy their applications, today announced that it has raised a $2.41 million seed round...

 Unreel Entertainment is launching a new platform called Unreel.me, which provides tools tobuild your very own video streaming site and app. Those sites can include videos that were uploaded dire...

 Apple is discontinuing support for iTunes Allowances, the feature that allowed parents to send monthly credits to a recipient’s – meaning, their child’s – Apple ID for us...

 Building a cheap cloud hosting platform like DigitalOcean requires a ton of money. The company has raised more than $120 million and is also securing credit every now and then to fuel its growth...

 “It’s not just the size of the funds but the velocity” at which VCs are returning to their investors, known as limited partners (or LPs), says an astonished Bill Gurley of the ...

 Publisher tools and paywall companyPiano is announcing a new tool that could give publishers more freedom to experiment with paywalls and other business models.The company was created last year ...

 Yahoo has recently been trimming down its digital media business, with the closure of several of its online magazines, but other verticals – including eSports – are still seeing inve...

 Disrupt NY is right around the corner, and soon thousands of entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts will make their way to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in New York City for the show. But one of our ...

Azure Media Services, Microsoft’s collection of cloud-based tools for video workflows, is about to get a lot smarter. As the company announced at the annual NAB show in Las Vegas today, Media Se...

Azure Media Services, Microsoft’s collection of cloud-based tools for video workflows, is about to get a lot smarter. As the company announced at the annual NAB show in Las Vegas today, Media Se...

 The ink is barely dry on Alibaba’s billion dollar investment in Southeast Asia’s Lazada, but already we have news of another Rocket Internet divestment. Zalora, Rocket Internet’...

 Announcing our very first Meetup + Pitch-off in Stockholm and Berlin! We’ll be doing some amazing drinking, some amazing pitching, and some amazing networking. We’ll all have a blast...

 Hitch — not to be confused with the dating app of the same name — is a new product from the team behind API Changelog and plays in roughly the same space. It promises to offer Softwa...

 What if your reflection in the mirror could tell you to get your lazy butt back to the gym? We have the technology. A San Francisco startup called Naked Labs began taking preorders for its 3-D b...

 It’s 1997. An IBM computer named Deep Blue defeats reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov. It was viewed as a milestone for AI, the true arrival of computer intelligence. The world c...

 Alexis Maybank, one of the founders of Gilt Groupe (recently acquired by the owner of Saks Fifth Avenue), has a new startup in the world of fashion and shopping — Project September. Mayban...

 EdCast, the online and mobile platform for distributing educational content from a network of industry experts, has raised $16 million in its latest round of funding. Led by G.E. Asset Managemen...

 Bots seem to be all the ragethis week, thanks to the release of Facebook’s Messenger Bot program at F8, but not everyone sees bots as the way to keep up with the customer service glut. Dig...

 Most integrated development environments (IDEs) and text editors are full of useful features, but,for the most part, they aren’t connected to the Internet. Because of this, developers ofte...

 The final vote on reforms to Europe’s data protection laws has just taken place in the European Parliament, with MEPs agreeing the new data protection directive — bringing to a close...

 Barcelona has just clocked up its biggest ever exit — albeit the price-tag on the sale of veteran Spanish ecommerce player Privalia, headquartered in the city, to France’s Ventee-Pri...

 Barcelona has just clocked up its biggest ever exit — albeit the price-tag on the sale of veteran Spanish ecommerce player Privalia, headquartered in the city, to France’s Ventee-Pri...

 Many of Google’s services are blocked in China, but the company is still finding ways of maintaining ties with startups there. Today People Squared, which runs tech hubs in Beijing and Sha...

 We already know that Alibaba’s decision to invest $1 billion to buy a controlling stake in Lazada, the Southeast Asia-based e-commerce firm started by Rocket Internet, was down to money si...

 The riseof on-demand startups and other fast-growing businesses like online marketplaceshascreated a needfor reliable ways to verifynew hires and customersto makesure they are cut out for the ta...

 Through a new partnership announced this week, United Launch Alliance (ULA) will work with Bigelow Aerospace to launch a large inflatable habitat on an Atlas V rocket in 2020. The size of the ha...

 Between the current advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and the future, completely autonomous car rests in some potentially treacherous semi-autonomous territory. Renault has enlisted the ...

 The President has just released the list of appointees to the Committee on Enhancing National Cybersecurity — and it’s more or less what you’d expect: higher-ups from the big p...

 Despite the objections of many privacy advocates and security professionals, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) is now the law of the land. Slipped into the 2016 federal omnibus sp...

 Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein released the official version of their anti-encryption bill today after a draft appeared online last week. The bill, titled the Compliance with Court O...

 After separating from eBay, PayPal has beenon a march to grow both its international business and transactions beyond basic e-commerce. Today it is taking a step to do both, with the U.K. launch...

 Facebook debuted chatbots for Messenger this week to much fanfare, promising consumers a new way to interact with their favorite businesses over the company’s popular messaging service. Th...

 Wearables may be the next big thing, but what about the wearables we already wear? Integrating electronics into everyday clothes is still some distance off, but researchers at Ohio State Univers...

The sharing economy, which is sometimes referred to as collaborative consumption, has become a household term — at least in the tech industry — that signifies peer-to-peer exchanges throug...

 Former Reuters journalist Matthew Keys was sentenced today to two years in prison on hacking charges. He faced a maximum sentence of 25 years. Duringhis sentencing hearing, Keys tweeted, “...

 Maybe you’ve delighted in reading some of Hillary Clinton’s more humorous emails, released in several stages over the past year — there’s the one where she calls Harriet ...

 Vine, Twitter’s social network turned entertainment platform, is today announcing a new way to consume content on the app. The company is introducing a “Watch” button, which wi...

 In an interview with Walt Mossberg, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield said threaded messaging— perhaps one of the service’s most important missing components — isfinally coming. Bu...

 This means developers will now be able to use React Native to write apps for the Windows laptops, tablets and phones, as well as Samsung devices that run on Tizen, including some of its smartwat...

 Theranos might find itself homeless in the next little bit. A federal agency plans to force founder Elizabeth Holmes out of her blood analysis startup for two years and take away the California ...

 Talent wars may never cease in Silicon Valley. Facebook today announced it has hired former Google Vice President of advanced technology and projects, Regina Dugan, to head up a new group dubbed...

 Longtime Apple industrial designer Danny Coster is joining GoPro. Coster had worked at Apple since the early 1990s,and helped Apple re-establish itself after Steve Jobs returned. Now he has to d...

 Facebook is making big strides inusing its artificial intelligence systems for image recognition, but it’s also working on bringing this technology to video. As the company demoed at its F...

 Developers, start your fastboots! Android N’s Developer Preview 2 is now live for OTA updates or manual flashing. This update brings a mixed bag of features and fixes. Read More ...

 Developers, start your fastboots! Android N’s Developer Preview 2 is now live for OTA updates or manual flashing. This update brings a mixed bag of features and fixes. Read More ...

 With the recent announcement of the Apple CareKit, an open-source platform to simplify the development of healthcare apps for iOS devices, it appears that the digital health industry is primed t...

 Probably the most impressive of Facebook’s connectivity projects is its solar-powered Aquila drone for enablingInternet access in remote areas. But while thetechnology behind Aquila is imp...

 Oculus wants to let you go anywhere in the world instantly and even take a photo while you’re there, and today it demoed how at F8. Facebook’s CTO Mike Schroepfer strapped into Oculu...

 Oculus wants to let you go anywhere in the world instantly, look like yourself, and even take a photo while you’re there, and today it demoed how at F8. Watch the demo of Facebook and Ocul...

 React Native was originally developedby Facebook to allow its developers to take React, a framework for helping developers build single-page apps the company developed in-house, and allow them t...

 Google today announced the launch of version 0.8 of TensorFlow, its open source library for doing the hard computation work that makes machine learning possible. Normally, a small point update l...

 The chatbot craze has claimed another victim. I mean, acquisition. Shopify,the makers of a popular platform used by over 243,000 businesses, from smaller online merchants to big names like Tesla...

 Chatbots, Live video, and VR technology are all on the docket for Facebook’s F8 developer conference, and you can watch the livestream here at 9:30am PST with Mark Zuckerberg’s keyno...

 New York Jets wide receiver Brandon Marshall paid a visit to Silicon Valley this weekto explore opportunities and potential partnerships with tech companies around mental health issues. Part of ...

 Maybe it’s the modern-day equivalent of endless channel-surfing — turning on Netflix or some other streaming video service, then going through page after page of movies and TV shows,...

 Poshmark, the site for buying and selling women’s fashion, has announced that it has raised $25 million in a round led by GGV Capital. Hans Tung, managing partner at GGV Capital is joining...

 Disrupt NY is right around the corner. The event starts on May 9th and we’re delighted to reveal the agenda. The lineup is stellar and for the first time, we will be hosting Disrupt NY in ...

 Today Snapchat revealed its new 3D stickers that can be pinned toobjects in a video and stick with them no matter how they or yourcamera move. Add an emoji face to your pet as it walks around, o...

 What does Facebook’s new chatbot platform mean for your business and the future of mobile? Find out at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, where Facebook Messenger’s head of product Stan Chudnovs...

 VC Chris Dixon of Andreessen Horowitz thinks it’s a lot harder to predict financial cycles than it is to see a new computing platform coming down the pike. As he notedin a recentpost, new ...

 Sling TV, the Dish-owned online streaming service that promises live TV via the internet, has been plagued with one serious problem since launch: you could only stream Sling TV to one device at ...

 The U.S. is facing a crisis in higher education. Once the ticket to the middle class life at the center of the fabled “American Dream”, the college and university experience is now u...

 While Amazon, Googleand a number of startups like Instacart, Postmates, Shipt and others are focused on quick, same-day deliveries ofgroceries and household items, Walmart has been taking a diff...

 Classpass made its name — and picked up 17 million reservations — around a services that let people take an unlimited number of fitness classes for a flat $100 monthly payment. Today...

 How did you get into venture capital? And why did you decide on that versus another startup? These are two questions aspiring VCs often ask. While I usually hop on 15-30 minute calls with those ...

 After raising $25 million in a Series C round of funding in October, civic technology specialist OpenGov— the startup co-founded by Palantir’s Joe Lonsdale that works with government...

 If you were under the impression that a new data transfer agreement had been locked down between Europe and the US — to restore legal confidence in commercial data flows across the Atlanti...

 Even before the blockbuster acquisition of Cruise Automation by General Motors for more than $1 billion, venture firms were looking for big ideas in autonomous vehicles. The latest company to at...

 True to earlier reports, Amazon’s Kindle Oasis is the smallest and lightest Kindle yet and comes with a handle for gripping. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos teased an “all-new, top of the ...

 Obviously, water and electricity don’t mix. But one Seattle company called Pure Watercraft has taken up the engineering challenge of building a Tesla-like EV motor for boats. The startup b...

 Emerging market entrepreneurs need what Silicon Valley insiders take for granted: first-hand experience scaling a startup Read More ...

 The biggest news of the day, with a hint of snark. That’s theSkimm, which tells you everything you need to know about current events, in an email newsletter geared towards millennials. Tec...

 In an effort to foster growth in early-stage virtual reality content companies looking tobuild momentum, today GREE announced the $12 million GVR Fund. The fund is primarily aimed at VR content ...

 Your tolerance for watching video ads online may vary, but how would you feel if the video ad watched you back? That’s the premise of a new ad unit from Berlin-based ad tech startup Vyking...

 It’s hard to call a billion dollar exit from an emerging market anything more than a major win, but Lazada, the Rocket Internet-backed e-commerce firm in Southeast Asia, nearly ran out of ...

 Affirm, the alternative lending site startedby Paypal co-founder Max Levchin, has raised a $100M Series D led by fellow Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. The all equity round,...

 Sean Parker, the self-made billionaire who, at the tender age of 19, sparked the digital music revolution, has been at the forefront of some of the most meaningful disruptions of our day from fi...

 PicMix, a photo-sharing app based in Indonesia, will build more features and venture into new international markets after raising a Series A totaling $3 million. Read More ...

 Google Calendar has launched a new feature called Goals that uses machine learning to help you figure out when you have time to pencil in stuff like spending time with your family or exercise. T...

 When terrorists attacked and killed 14 people in San Bernardino, an iPhone 5c was recovered. The phone was said to contain pertinent information that the FBI really wanted their mitts on, and th...

 The biggest problem in marketing in the tech world today is that too many marketers do not know the first thing about marketing. Read More ...

 Consumer gadgets standby Logitech has acquired JayBird, a maker of fitness-focused wireless earbuds and trackers, for $50 million in cash, the companies announced today. “The Jaybird team ...

 Mobile testing startup Testlio today announced it raised a $6.25 million round of funding led by Altos Ventures and Vertex Ventures. The company is aiming to make it easy to do QA for mobile app...

 “You never slow down, you never grow old.” Tom Petty isn’t playing the F8 after-party, but his song encapsulates the point of Facebook’s conference — a social netwo...

 Ah, spring — when a young engineer’s fancy lightly turns to harvesting icy moons for rover fuel. NASA has announced the recipients of its yearly National Innovative Advanced Concepts...

 We’ve written about a number of air purifiersbefore, but Sprimo is taking a different approach — instead of trying to clean all the air in the room, it creates a personalized stream ...

 At Day 1 of Facebook’s F8 developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg laid out the company’s 10 year roadmap and made tons of new announcements. From the Live API to chatbots to a whole ne...

 As previously announced, Facebook today opened its Instant Articles format to all developers. Using Instant Articles, publishers can show Facebook mobile users a fast-loading and mostly distract...

 No sooner had Facebook announced it was opening up Messenger for developers to build bots,when two players with an eye on sales and service in the enterprise — Salesforce and Zendesk—...

 There’s an epidemic of stolen videos on Facebook. Business Pages rip videos from YouTube, TV, or other Pages, and then post them on Facebook as their own to gain more engagement and fans. ...

 Habito, founded by Daniel Hegarty, pitches itself as the UK’s “first digital mortgage broker” — though Trussle may disagree — and offers an ‘fully automated&#...

 You hear a lot these days about the potential for impending doom as AI becomes ever smarter. Big names are calling for caution: the futurist optimism of protagonists like Ray Kurzweil is outweig...

 Facebook launched its Messenger chatbot platform today, but how will it make money on it? By charging businesses to send re-engagement messages to people who’ve already voluntarily started...

 Uber released its first-ever transparency report today, following in the footsteps of other major technology companies and detailing the kinds of information it shares about riders and drivers w...

 According to a new study published by the data science team at Hired, a jobs marketplace for tech workers, the average female candidate sets her expected salary at $14,000 less than men. Related...

 Facebook today launched the Facebook Profile Expression Kit, which gives third-party developers a way to publish videosrecorded on their apps asprofile pictures on Facebook. The service was anno...

 Marfeel, a startup that helps publishers adapt to mobile, now supports publishing Instant Articles on Facebook. That might not sound like a big breakthrough — basically, it just means Marf...

 Messenger is all about bots now. As expected, Facebook unveiled the Send and Receive API at its F8 conference. It lets you create bots for Messenger to search for things and interact with busine...

 Facebook Live could take live video to a new level of popularity. Now third-party developers willget a chance to participate. Today at Facebook’sF8 developer conference, the companysaid it...

 While chatbots might be the highlight of today’s F8 conference, Facebook is also releasing a slew of tools for developers that help them build, grow, and monetize their apps. Despite Faceb...

 While chatbots might be the highlight of today’s F8 conference, Facebook is also releasing a slew of tools for developers that help them build, grow and monetize their apps. Despite Facebo...

 At Facebook’s F8developers conference this morning, the company shared some interesting metrics related to the traction and growth of its popular messaging applications, Messenger and What...

 How can Facebook get more 360-degree video in the News Feed and VR content on Oculus? By inventingits own virtual reality camera from scratch and open sourcing it so people can build their own a...

 An upgrade toTwitter’s Moments feature, originally designed to offer users a curated “best of Twitter” experience, now turns Moments into a source for tweetable playlists. Thro...

 Facebook will now allow businesses to deliver automated customer support, ecommerce guidance, content, and interactive experiences through chatbots. By providing utility through its huge develop...

 Anyone who cares about display quality in their handheld devices has probably come across DisplayMate reviews, and the latest product to be evaluated by Ray Soneira is the new iPad Pro 9.7″...

 Some of the earliest Oculus Rift pre-orderers are facing further delays to get their hands on the long-awaited hardware. Read More ...

 This is the new Tesla Model S. And it looks like a Model S, but slightly different — gone is the false grille. The new Model S features a Model X-like nose, in line with the recently annou...

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 An initiative to encourage more websites to encrypt connections by offering free digital certificates has today exited beta, six months on from its initial launch — the idea behind LetR...

 I like the Microsoft Surface, but you know what has been missing all this time? Keyboard covers that have “a blend of technology and style”, combining “Italian luxury, a Finnis...

 Yuri Milner is pushing forward with the hunt for intelligent alien life beyond our planet, and is investing another $100 million in a more proactive approach after putting up the original $100m ...

 In the world of venture capital, there is nothing more fundamentally important for an entrepreneur than building a strong board of directors. Read More ...

 Vimeo isramping up its efforts focused on getting its programming in front of an adult audience interested in indie video content, with the announcement of a partnership withSpotlight Cinema Net...

 E-commerce has become increasingly popular as a business model for the Internet of Things in the consumer space. A toothbrush example, as simple as it may sound, helps demonstrate. Read More ...

 Zuora has always been a bit ahead of the curve when it comes to the subscription economy. Company founder TienTzuo recognized something in 2008 when he left a comfortable job at Salesforce to la...

 Google says it’s expanding its efforts at keeping web surfers better protected from deceptive content online through an updatetoits “Safe Browsing” initiative. The search giant...

 Chatbots, Live video, and VR technology are all on the docket for Facebook’s F8 developer conference, and you can watch the livestream here at 9:30am PST with Mark Zuckerberg’s keyno...

 Education tech venture Quizlet has finally created a product specifically for use by teachersin theirclassrooms, dubbed Quizlet Live. It’s an online, question-and-answer matching game for ...

 Starbucks this morning announced the overall of its mobile application, now used by 17 million people, in an effort to create a more personalized experience for its customers. The changes rolled...

 The European Union has launched a public consultation on rules governing the use of personal telecoms data. The so-called ePrivacy Directive also covers the use of tracking cookies by online ser...

A Tel Aviv startup that wants to help farmers produce more food with fewer resources, CropX, has attracted sensor manufacturers Robert Bosch and Flextronics International as strategic backers. Specifi...

 May is just a few short weeks away, and Hardware Alley at Disrupt NY 2016 is almost full. Hardware Alley is, as the name suggests, our annual showcase of all things hardware, a day at Disrupt wh...

 Back in February, we told you GGV Capital was raising a more than a billion dollarsfrom its investors. This morning, the 16-year-old, cross-border venture firm is making it official.The final ta...

 Fleet, a marketplace that lets companies compare quotes from logistics providers, has landed a $4 million seed round. The funding was led by Hunt Technology Ventures, with participation from oth...

 Will Verizon snap up Yahoo’s web assets — and what might that look like? We don’t have an answer just yet, but there’s one personwho might have some ideas about what it w...

 resh out of development fromthe company labs in Taiwan, the HTC 10 is not only a new flagship smartphone: it’s a near-complete overhaul. I’m one to enthuse over specifications, solet...

 For several years, Box CEO Aaron Levie has been trying to get people to understand his company is not in the storage business. To drive that point home Boxannounced Box Zonestoday, a product tha...

 Later today at its f8 developer conference Facebook is expected to unveil a big push into bots on its Messenger platform. So little surprise that rival messaging platform Telegram has taken the ...

 Alibaba just took a big step in its Southeast Asian expansion journey. The company said today that it has pumped a total investment of about $1 billion into Lazada, in a deal that makes it the e...

 When DataStax acquiredAurelius, a graph database startup last year, it wasclear itwanted to add graph database functionality to itsDataStaxEnterprise product, and today it achieved that goal whe...

 I published my first book, The End of Software, in 2004. At the time, I was president of Oracle On Demand, which served as a starting point for Oracle’s billion-dollar cloud business. In t...

 Good news, everyone. Facebook Messenger has two new features! No sense saving them for below the fold: it’s Dropbox integration and live video Chat Heads. It’s even in the headline. ...

 NASA experienced a close call this weekend with its planet-seeking Kepler space telescope. On April 7th, during a scheduled contact, mission operations engineers discovered that Kepler was in Em...

 Despite the increasing ubiquity of online videos, making a professional-looking one is still a complicated process that usually involves chains of emails and uploads. 90 Seconds wants to fix tha...

 Accel is on a roll. Shortly after announcing a $500 million seed fund and a $1.5 billion growth fund for U.S.-focused investments, the venture firm has yet another fund. This time, Accel raised ...

 Frame.io today launched Frame.io for Adobe Premiere Pro, an extension that will enable video editors to use the video collaboration tool inside the video-editing program. When Frame.io CEO Emery...

 The problem with Facebook isn’t the amount of pictures of dogs, it’s the lack of pictures by dogs. Finally someone is addressing this scourge — unfortunately, it’s an ad ...

 I’m not the only one who thinks this way aboutriding a pieceof bamboo with wheels and a motor.YouTube personality and entrepreneur Casey Neistat made it hismain form of transportation arou...

 In January of this year, AAA conducted a phone survey of nearly 2,000 drivers over the age of 18 and found some surprising results: 75 percent of respondents “would be afraid to allow an a...

 Lyft and Didi Kuaidi are gearing up to launch a public beta of its collaborative service inthe U.S. for Chinese travelers visiting America this week. This is by way of interlinking APIs so that ...

 When I met with Buzz Aldrin to discuss his new book No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From A Man Who Walked On The Moon, he described himself as possibly “among the luckiest guys.” ...

 “Why do you need money from me when you have every great investor on earth?” That’s the question that caused Backplane to buckle under the weight of its own early buzz. Lady Ga...

 In late 2013, Tim Draper left the decades-old firm he’d co-founded, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, but he suggested he might bebacksome day.Specifically, he told this reporter, “I amnot le...

 In 2006, Aydin Senkut was an unlikely candidate for a venture capitalist. ATurkish immigrant who arrived in Silicon Valleyby way of Boston, Philadelphia and Istanbul, Senkutheld product position...

 Throughout my business career of some 60 years, I have always been fascinated by change — the dynamics of change and how businesses, governments and people respond to change. Or fail to re...

 Apparently, Facebook, which is just 32% female worldwide, doesn’t have a gender pay gap, according to Lori Goler, head of people at Facebook.In the United States, women make about 76 cents...

 Who doesn’t like instant film? Get out. The rest of you, stay and marvel. The Impossible Project, which 7 years ago started the, well, nearly impossible project of reverse-engineering Pola...

 A new site launching today wants to be the app store for bots. Botlist, as it’s called, is a third-party database that’s a catalog a lot of the bots currently available across platfo...

 Tesla is voluntarily recalling 2,700 of its Model X vehicles over a flaw in the third-row seat that may be dangerous in an accident. In the meantime, the company has advised owners via email tha...

 I fear that overhyping minor vulnerabilities by branding them, pushing the topic with the media and yes, pre-announcing them will cause people to go numb to these announcements. Read More ...

 Altitude Digital says it has poured $20 million into its just-launched Arena platform for publishers. That sounds like a lot of money for one product, but Altitude is also announcing that it has...

 Online street maps have become incredibly accurate over the last few years, but most maps aren’t all that precise when it comes to knowing exactly where on a street astore, restaurant or o...

 Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos teased a new Kindle device for this week. While the company has yet to make an official announcement about the new ereader, Tmall.com’s official Kindle page leaked th...

 Technology’s neverending story has always, apparently, been the quest for The Next Big Thing. Whether that thing is something entirely new and transformative — unimaginable except wi...

 The goal of self-driving cars is initially to make them as good as human drivers, but Ford has another trick up its sleeve to nudge things to the next level. By using Lidar, it recently showed t...

 Many in Silicon Valley may be worrying more and more about how to transform their startup stakes into cold, hard cash. But that’s not stopping institutional investors from writing out some...

 Getting a hand-written note in the mail today is a rare treat, as most of our communications have gone digital. Another reason for this? Ourpenmanship has massively suffered as we spend more tim...

 Houzz, the home decorating and renovation platform with a unicorn valuation, has launched a site and apps for Singapore, its second Asian market after Japan. Read More ...

 We’ve given you an extension, and now it’s time for you to act. This is the last week to get tickets to Disrupt NY 2016 at the early-bird price of $1,995 per ticket before the it jum...

 Ahead of Facebook’s annual developers conference, F8, the company has announced a partnership withDev Bootcamp to fund scholarships for 20 people of color and/or women to attend the 19-wee...

 The little pilot boat bounces and slaps the waves as it sidles next to the towering cargo vessel as the two craft match speed and course, the small boat looking hopelessly fragile next to its ei...

 A new application called Slidebox aims to help Android users clean up their photo library by swiping to delete unwanted photos, as well as useother tools to more easily organize photos into albu...

 Document analytics startup DocSend has raised $8 million in new funding. Naturally, co-founder and CEO Russ Heddleston said he used his company’s tools to make the deal. DocSend launched a...

 Quixey, a well-funded mobile technologycompany whichonce focused on solving the problems with app discovery before shifting focus to deep linking, has brought in a new CEO to run operations as t...

 Men hate shopping for clothes, and think it’s a waste of time. Whether it’s true or not, that’s the narrative perpetuated by the countless number of personal shopping and subsc...

 Lytro is taking itsrich volumetric 3D camera capture technology into the world of TV and film. The company’s light field solution is a truly beautiful technology that mayeventually be in e...

 Zirx was originally created as an app that let individuals order valet parking service, on-demand. But facing crushing costs, the San Francisco startup recently shifted its focus to the “m...

 The interest around chat bots is rapidly growing, and Betaworks is looking to capitalize.The startup studio responsible for companies like Giphy and Instapaper is today announcing that applicati...

 The fall out in the London on-demand delivery space looks set to continue. This time it’s the turn of Delivery Cube, the startup that enabled take-outs to outsource delivery (and competito...

 HTC is set to announce its next flagship smartphone tomorrow at a NYC event. But here it is early. The leaked promotional video shows the evolution of HTC’s design with a chamfered edge, c...

 Corporates are increasingly fearful of contracting innovator’s dilemma, a disease so deadly that, if it isn’t caught early, can be fatal. And in an attempt to vaccinate against the d...

 London-based VC firm Octopus Ventures has topped up its evergreen early stage startup investment fund with another 100 million, bringing the total backing the fund to more than 400 million. It s...

 The parent company of U.K. tabloid Daily Mail may make a bid for Yahoo’s news and media businesses. According to the WSJ, the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) has held discussions with ...

 China’s track record for economic growth has been impressive in the last several decades, with China accounting for up to one-third of global growth in recent years. However, China is slow...

 With language like this, social networks become a natural point of interaction between people and things, and TAGs will make it seem effortless for us all. This is already the way existing entit...

 I contend that the iPad is in many ways *more* versatile than a laptop for people with disabilities. Computing and productivity isn’t always about a spec sheet or raw power or Photoshop. T...

 Marvel Comics just launcheda new Black Panther series, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates (that’s right, the well-known journalist and author of New York Timesbestseller Between The World and Me)...

 My team, the Defense Digital Service (DDS) exists to bring in the best processes, talent, and technology from the private sector into the DoD. An offshoot from the United States Digital Service ...

 Regardless of your political orientation, it is hard to argue against the success of the digital media strategy that President Obama and his team implemented to engage millions of Americans over...

 You’ll never guess how I got my given name as my Twitter handle. It involved a six-month campaign that included some light Internet stalking, badgering staff at Twitter, $250 and a visit t...

 After Cookie Monster, Taylor Swift, Alison Brie and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Apple is releasing a new ad featuring a couple of celebrities. This time, basketball player Kobe Bryant and actor Micha...

 “Every failed on demand startup will reappear as a successful robotics driven business in five to 10 years.” So tweeted Jeremy Conrad, founding partner of the San Francisco-based har...

 Entrepreneurs and investors need to build innovative products and services that benefit everyone, and not just the privileged. Unless Silicon Valley becomes more inclusive, eventually the popul...

 Dries Buytaert and Matt Mullenweg recently posted calls to arms in defense of the “open web.” I, too, am a believer in the open web. It delivers on the promise of the Internet: a wor...

 Like so many organizations these days, Autodesk is a company in transition. It was until recently a traditional boxed software company selling licenses. Today, it’s moving to a subscriptio...

 For all the “Start-up Nation” fanfare, Google’s acquisition of Waze – Israel’s highest profile start-up exit to date – was valued at just $1.1B. And, while Is...

 It looks like some of the $55m Giphy raised recently was burning a hole in its pocket: GifGrabber is now part of the Giphy family, and the new version of the app turned up in the Mac App store t...

 I’m impatient to see breakthroughs in cars. I have high expectations for what Apple will do and respect for what Tesla has already done. I agree with Peter Thiel on the we-were-promised-je...

 Technology has transformed how we work, communicate and travel. In contrast, modern digital technology has not yet transformed financial services. Open data is the key to change in this sector o...

 People often ask me about the impact of 3D printing on jobs. Will the technology be a job creator or destroyer? The short answer is, it will take more jobs than it makes — and 3D printing ...

 For long months now, Facebook Comments have been riddled by some of the most transparent, eye-roll-inducing “I make a good salary working from home” spam you’ve ever seen. Ever...

 Siri is good for a lot of things, but she generally doesn’t care much whether you sound your usual perky self. Launching today is EmoWatch, a new app for your Apple Watch that will help yo...

 As a Berlin-based VC firm focused on SaaS, we often get questions about the current state of the European cloud software landscape. To be able to answer these questions more precisely we decided...

 The annual White House Science Fair is always a heartening occasion. Watching President Obama ramble around and shoot the breeze (and sometimes marshmallows) with a bunch of smart, nerdy kids is...

 At 4:43 pm EST, SpaceX successfully launched their next resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). In addition to a seamless launch, SpaceX landed the first stage of their Falcon...

 There’s a new bot in town (Tokyo, specifically), and while it might not be as cute as Nao, as creepy as Spot and BigDog, or as anthropomorphic as Atlas, it might be more practical than all...

 As more and more online content ends up hosted on Facebook, it becomes more important for Facebook to provide ways for publishers and creators to make money. That’s why some changes announ...

 BMW just launched a new car-sharing service called ReachNow that will enable Seattle residents to access 400 cars that they canpick up and drop off pretty much wherever they like, as long as tha...

 Phil Libin has made his first investment since joining General Catalyst in a bot company called Begin that’s co-founded by GDGT co-founder Ryan Block, who left AOL Alpha in September last ...

 Uber driver Michael Spelletz is launching a new ride sharing service with a twist: all the drivers and passengers will be women. Chariot for Women will be active in the Boston area on April 19. ...

 Uber driver Michael Pelletz is launching a new ridesharing service with a twist: All the drivers and passengers will be women. Chariot for Women will be active in the Boston area on April 19. Bu...

 This one’s for you, procrastinators. We are giving you one extra week to get tickets to Disrupt NY at the early-bird price point of $1,995 per ticket, a full $1,000 off the full retail pri...

 A draft version of a bill on encryption sponsored by Senators Burr and Feinstein has made its way to the internet, and it’s exactly as bad a proposed law as everyone worried it would be. ...

 WordPress.com is adding HTTPS support for all its blogs. If you have a custom domain or have a blog under the wordpress.com domain name (like bestcrabrestaurantsinportland.wordpress.com), you...

 This week, Tesla revealed its newest model; the HTC Vive VR headset dropped; the internet saw the largest leak of private documents ever; and Facebook’s chatbot plans were revealed. Here a...

 I’ve spent most of my life in and around schools. First as a student, then as a teacher and lately as an innovator building tools and launching programs. As Nelson Mandela said, “edu...

 The fight between the government and Apple is not over. While the most controversial case is now over, the Department of Justice keeps pushing Apple on another case. The government still wants A...

 Rumors are flying todaythat to nobody’s surprise, EMC and by extension its new sugar Daddy Dell are looking to dump dowdy Documentum, the company’s enterprise content management prod...

 You’ve waited long enough — the time to act is now. Like, right now.Today is the last day to get tickets to Disrupt NY 2016 at the discounted early-bird price of $1,995 per ticket, $...

 B.J. Novak is coming to Disrupt. We’re excited. Here’s why.B.J. is the cofounder The List App, which, well, is an app that features lists. It’s great. The lists tend to be more...

 Just in time for the chat bot craze, Disrupt London alum Luka is enhancing its AI-powered messaging service with a variety of smart bots to help users get whatever they desire. Luka originally l...

Between January 1, 2014 and end of March 2016, 51 fintech investments were made in companies in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland, totaling $390.17 million. Read More ...

 After John Oliver used humor to tackle the U.S. surveillance reform debate last year, to try to get Americans to care about online privacy — via the mass medium of, er, dick pics — U...

 It’s actually easier than some can imagine to leave a child behind in a car. Sense A Life aims to stop this from happening by acting as a warning to warn parents and caregivers of a child ...

 Since his appearance at TC Disrupt, where he pledged that his company would kill fast food as it currently exists; make braised kale more accessible and build the world’s largest restauran...

 An Uber driver in India has been shot dead following an altercation with passengers who he served earlier this week, according to media reports in the country. Read More ...

 It’s become increasing common to hear of Samsung’s mobile business struggling, but the early signs around its newest devices suggest that the company could turn the tide. Read More ...

 Uber has agreed to pay up to $25 million to California-based prosecutors after settling a case in which the ride sharing giant was accused of misleading consumers on the safety of its service. R...

 “Finally” is one of those words that gets overused in tech news stories, but I think it’s fair to say that it’s taken a prettylong time for Reddit to release its first of...

 Flat video is so last century, and GoPro is pulling out all the stops. Through a series of product launches — most recently the new Omni — the company signals that it has your back i...

 Got a grand burning a hole in your pocket? You could get a new laptop — or you could send this tiny, palm-sized satellite to space. That’s what a team of engineers at Arizona State h...

 We told you early last month that secondary businesses have been inundated with sellers in recent months, and that’s not expected to change anytime soon.Nary atech companywent public in th...

 May is right around the corner, and soon thousands of innovators, investors and entrepreneurs will make their way to Brooklyn for TechCrunch Disrupt. While the main event may be the conference t...

 Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore (pictured above) announced layoffs today in a company-wide email that he also posted on LinkedIn. As part of the cuts, Executive Editor Jim Roberts and Chi...

 The desktop version of Edward Snowden’s favored end-to-end messaging system, Signal, is now available to anyone who wants to check it out. Open Whisper Systems announced the desktop versio...

 At a game onTuesday night,the Sacramento Kings held the National Basketball League’sfirst ever pitch competition. Four local companies (which were alreadynarrowed down from 32 semi-finalis...

 Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) has some questions for Oculus. The U.S. senator sent a letter this morning to Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe to inquire about how his virtual reality company is utilizing and...

 If you’re a book lover, Litsy might be the social appfor you.The startup was founded byTodd Lawton and Jeff LeBlanc, who previously launched the book-themed clothing company Out of Print. ...

 Chatbots could replace 1-800 numbers, and Facebook wants them onMessenger. But most businesses don’t have the resources or technicalskills to build chatbots themselves. That’s why Fa...

 I recently had the opportunity to test drive the 2016 Jaguar XF S, which is a stately four-door luxury sedan with comfortable leather seats and supercharged V6 engine that could get a person in ...

 Global capitalism is in a bit of pickle right now. Goldman Sachs (either a vampire squidor the second-best investment bank in the world,depending on your point of view)came out with a report ear...

 Breakthroughs in genetic engineering, 3D printing, cloud-based science experiments, A.I and machine learning technology have created a weird and cool new kind of cutting-edge biotech that goes b...

 We covered Rapchat a little bit earlier this year, and I finally decided it was time to take it for a spin. I know I’ve got sweet rapping skills, and I know when it’s time to lay a s...

 DevOps, as we know it, is dead. Perhaps not many people agree with me, but the age of DevOps is just about over. Then again, perhaps this won’t come as a surprise to some. Read More ...

 Research has shown, time and time again, that diversity is good for business and the economy.If Silicon Valley can close the gender gap, the tech-heavy area could gain $25 billion (a 9% increase...

 LinkedIn’s acquisition of the popular email add-in Rapportive, and its subsequent demolition as itsnew owner ripped out some of its best features, left a lot of users angry and scrambling ...

 Slowly but surely, the FBI is releasing information about the method it used to unlock Farook’s iPhone 5c involved in the San Bernardino shooting. Now that the Justice Department has dropp...

 I’ve spent a lot of time in virtual reality. A whole lot. We’re in the middle of building a VR testing lab at the TechCrunch office, and I’m trying to iron out as many kinks as...

 Sooner or later, every programmer ends up searching for code snippets and algorithms. Most search engines, though, don’t exactly specialize in code search and so you end up with a couple o...

 Microsoft today released its first standalone keyboard application for iOS users. No, it’s not therumored version of its Windows Phone keyboard that’s being ported to the iPhone R...

 Theranos has taken a pretty damning hit in a string of bad news reports over the past year but it looks like the one drop blood analysis company is trying to turn things around. Theranos announc...

 Facebook is desperate to get you to watch original videos. They’re all over the feed, yesterday it launched a dedicated video browsing hub, and now it’s announcing a video search eng...

 While voice-recognition-powered virtual assistantslike Siri, Cortana and Amazon’s Echo continue to get more useful and reliable on the march to platform-dom, there is a parallelwave of dev...

 As reported by TechCrunch in February, valet service Luxe has now confirmed that it has raised $50 million in Series B funding from car rental company Hertz. Redpoint Ventures and Venrock will a...

 AirMap, a startup that provides drone operators with airspace information to let them know when and where they can fly, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round. T...

 Fiction app Hooked launched last fall, aiming to reinvent fiction withshort stories modeled on text message conversations. Next up: Letting readers write their own stories. That arrives today wi...

 General Catalyst Partnershas promoted four people on its team. The announcementscome just weeks after the venture firm, which hasofficesin Cambridge, Ma.;New York;and Palo Alto, closed on$845 mi...

 Restaurant waitlisting service NoWait is knownbest by consumers for its mobile app that lets you virtually “get in line” at nearby restaurants like Chili’s and others, where fo...

 Text analysis startup Aylien, which uses deep learning and NLP algorithms to parse text and extract intel from documents for its customers, has launched a new tool specifically focused on analyz...

 The Internet is at once global and local. The nature of internetworking means that the global Internet is built only of other networks. There is a small but key point of coordination on the Inte...

 Apparel makers Mizzen and Main LLC have closed $3 million in a modest Series B round of venture funding to ramp up inventory and sales of their signature menswear, according to founder and Chief...

 A day after people started noticing Facebook was now suggesting business to chat with while in Messenger, the social network officially announced a suite of tools and updates designed to help Fa...

 Twitch is making its easier for its community of gamers to stream mobile games today, after it linked up with BlueStacks, a company that emulates mobile Android games on desktops. Read More ...

 Twitch is making it easier for its community of gamers to stream mobile games today, after it linked up with BlueStacks, a company that emulates mobile Android games on desktops. Read More ...

 At long last, companies are beginning to realize a long overlooked opportunity to develop a next-generation router that looks sleek and is far more user-friendly than the networking hardware of ...

 Search engines on large e-commerce sites often spit up a lot of results, which is great if you want to browse, but otherwise annoying. Twiggle thinks it has the solution. Internet conglomerate N...

 Rackspace was one of the founders of the OpenStack cloud computing platform project (together with NASA) and the company has long offered enterprises the option to manage their private OpenStack...

 GPS navigation. Entertainment systems that offer streaming music. Bluetooth door locks. As vehicles are increasingly connected to the internet, they also become vulnerable to hacker attacks. Now...

 Hey. You. On the computer. You heard about this Star Wars thing? I’m told it’s pretty popular with the kids these days. It’s a movie series, you see, about ——JUST K...

 Reddit’s long-awaited native mobile applications – the first-ever to be built by the company in-house – have nowlaunched. Available today for both iOS and Android, the new Redd...

 Japan-based messaging app kicked off its move into chat bots today, beating Facebook to the punch in the process, but it has been a challenging week for the company, which rumored to be pursuing...

 While Siri now lives on the phones of hundreds of millionsof Apple users, and a few peopleare responsibleforhelping get the now ubiquitous assistantoff the ground. One of those peopleis Dag Kitt...

 The OpenStack Foundation today launched Mitaka, the thirteenth release of its open source enterprise cloud platform. In many ways, this new release shows the growing maturity of the project, whi...

 RiskRecon, a startupthat helps companies make objective security assessments of third-party cloud vendors, emerged from stealth today with a $3 million seed round led by General Catalyst. Severa...

 If you’re like me, you bought an Apple Watch before Apple announced the Herms special edition in September, but you’ve fallen in love with the Apple Watch Herms since then — ye...

 Angel investors who wish they could invest alongside top-shelf VCs like Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock and 500 Startups finally have an opportunity to do just that. Crowdfunder today announced th...

 Clutter, the on-demand storage space looking to take on the likes of MakeSpace, has today announced the close of a $20 million Series B round led by Sequoia Capital. Sequoia also led a $9 millio...

 The latest smartphone sales data from Kantar Worldpanel suggests Apple had a tougher time shifting its devices over Chinese New Year than in prior years, with the market watcher noting no growth...

 The bots are coming! Facebook is hotly tipped to open its Messenger platform for bots at its F8 next week, and that’s appears to have trigger numerous rivals into moving first. Kik launche...

 Google’s goal is to be completely powered by renewable energy within a decade. Today it announced an investment that might make that ambitious goal a little easier. The company has put an ...

 Intercom, a startup helping businesses talk to their customers, has raised an additional $50 million in funding. Intercom’s products cover everything from website chat to marketing to cust...

 After sounding a dour note in its last earnings report, Samsung Electronics issued unexpectedly upbeat quarterly guidance today. The company said it expects to report consolidated sales of about...

 What happens when you put a technology company together with a drug company and try to come up with unique new ways to understand Parkinson’s disease? You end up with a project that uses s...

 Fintech is in the midst of a golden age of investment and innovation. According to KPMG and CB Insights, investments in fintech startups doubled between 2014 and 2015, to $14 billion. However, c...

 The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the tech industry. Yet the way IoT is evolving raises serious concerns: There are too many complexities, moving parts, diver...

 To attempt to create a program that successfully imitates the style of one of the greatest painters of all time is hubristic and doomed to fail, but those characteristics are just like catnip to...

 Smartling, the translation tech company, has acquired TechStars alumni Jargon on Crunchbase whichmakes tools for mobile developers who want to “localize” their apps for different int...

 Is Yik Yak a thing anymore? Not so much, according to download stats, traffic charts, surveys, and a source that says the college app’s monthly user count has been declining. That source w...

 Ask most writers and editors and I’ll bet they agree: Writing headlines is hard. It’s not easy to come up withsomething exciting and attention-grabbing that also conveys the importan...

 Pond5, a company allowing usersto buy and sell stock videos, photos and other media content, is adding to its board of directors a big name from the advertising world— Torrence Boone, Goog...

 Romania has long been a hotbed for tech companies outsourcing contact centers, software development and even research and development. Now, Romania is growing its own entrepreneurial culture. Re...

 Upvotes! What are they good for? Soon, they might get your very, very early stage company into Y Combinator. The incubator is experimenting with using the Hacker News community to pick startups ...

 Today, GIFs have become a popular way communicate sentiment online and in mobile messaging, where written text doesn’t always do the job. More expressivethan an emoji, these looping images...

 Reddit is looking to shapeitself a bit more around the needs of the individual user in order to make the community more accepting as a whole.Reddit users will soon be able to block and mute othe...

 Reddit is looking to shapeitself a bit more around the needs of the individual user in order to make the community more accepting as a whole.Reddit users will soon be able to block and mute othe...

 The team behind Monstro is launching a new microfund called Monstro Ventures according to co-founder David Prager. For the unfamiliar, Monstro is an ad agency with headquarters in Oakland and an...

 Segment helps developersmanage all the analytics data their apps and services generate. Besidesfanning out this information to analytics services like Google Analytics and Mixpanel, or marketing...

 Apple CEO Tim Cook is joining the board of directors of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, a nonprofit organization founded by the Kennedy family. Cook has been an outspoken CEO, personally defendi...

 On Monday, the Associated Press got early access to a report commissioned by the FAA on how drones flying over or near people should be categorized and restricted. Today, that report was officia...

 There’s no shortage of 360 cameras on the market these days. If you have a desire to shoot immersivevideo and possess a ton of disposable income than there’s nothing stopping you! Th...

 Meet TechCrunch writers and fellow Facebook developers the night before the madness of Facebook’s F8 conference begins. Join us at the Southern Pacific Brewing Company at 620 Treat Avenue ...

 Hungry? Lazy? Domino’s has the app for you. The company today unveileda new mobile applicationthat lets you place an order simply by launching theapp on your phone. No clicking necessary. ...

 On-demand delivery is something consumers have come to expect. With that in mind, startup Dispatch is building a fleet of autonomous delivery vehicles designed for sidewalks and bike paths....

 The advent of email tracking has caused quite a bit of ruckus, and is generally, rathercreepy.A NY-based startup called One More Company made anattempt to tacklethis head-on with a service calle...

 As Microsoftworks its way towardimplementingthe security plan that CEO Satya Nadella outlined in a talk last Fall in DC, part of that has been creating tools and part buying them. Today, it anno...

 The past several months have brought a string of terror attacks and violent incidents, which not only claim lives but cause worldwide feelings of fear and vulnerability. It seems that groups of ...

 Raisin, previously known as SavingGlobal, has launched its pan-European savings marketplace, expanding for the first time beyond its home country of Germany and neighboring Austria. And in doing...

 The third largest smartphone maker by global marketshare, China’s Huawei, has just unveiled two new flagship handsets — announcing the 5.2 inch P9 and 5.5 inch P9 Plus at an event in...

 Amazon’s same-day delivery service is today seeing a notable expansion here in the U.S. The online retailer announced this morning that same-day delivery, which is available to members of ...

 Verizon this morning has made another move to ramp up its media business, and specifically, bring new content to its mobile video streaming service, go90. The company (andAOL parent, which owns ...

 TechCrunch is excited to announce next month New York Knicks Forward Carmelo Anthony and former NBC and Bertelsmann exec Stuart Goldfarb are speaking together at Disrupt NY. The pair started inv...

 India-focused music streaming service Saavn has dipped its toes into non-music content after it announced its foray into long-form audio programming. Read More ...

 All right all you procrastinators out there — the time to act is now. You have just two days left to get your early-bird tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt NY and save $1,000 in the process.Ear...

 SurveyMonkey has madea name for itself with cloud-based tools that let youbuild and analyse online surveys. Now the company wants to use its footholdin one area of market research to expand into...

 Today Facebook launches its full assault on YouTube with a dedicated hub for watchingLive and recorded videos in its mobile app. A Video tab is taking over Messenger’s prime, center spot i...

 In Europe, London tends to grab most of the fintech limelight but other tech hubs in the continent are producing their fair share of fintech companies with comparative success, not least in Germ...

 If you’ve been procrastinating about getting a tattoo here’s a neat little AR app, called InkHunter, that’s aiming to help you decide what and where to ink without having to re...

 Healthcare identity startup CrossChx announced this morning that they raised a $15 million Series C financing round from Khosla Ventures, Drive Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, NCT Ventures and Moo...

 Atom Bank, which is backed by Spanish banking giant BBVA, has become the first of the four so-called UK ‘challenger’ banks out the gate — sort of.Having secured a much-coveted ...

 Haptik, a mobile concierge style service in India, has landed investment from domestic media giant Times Internet. The size of the Series B raise was not disclosed, but TechCrunch understands fr...

 South China Morning Post (SMCP), the Hong Kong-based media firm, has dropped the paywall on its website after Alibaba completed its acquisition the company. Its physical newspaper and PDF editio...

 After more than a year of public alpha and beta releases, the Vivaldi browser is hitting its 1.0 release today.Vivaldi, which was founded by Opera co-founder and former CEO Jon von Tetzchner, pr...

 Mirantis, one of the last pure play OpenStack startups left standing announced a major win today when VW chose them over Red Hat for anenormous OpenStack implementation. It was huge for Mirantis...

 It may have started as a Bitcoin wallet but veteran entrepreneur Jeremy Allaire’s fintech startup Circle has since shifted focus to social payments, launching an app in Q4 last year that l...

 Way back in December, Google added a to-do function called Reminders to the Google Calendar iOS and Android apps. Now, at long last, it is available for the web. Read More ...

 CompareAsiaGroup, a consumer finance startup backed by Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, has appointed Sam Allen as its new chief executive officer. Allen previously worked at KKR, where he was...

 Land grab! Net neutrality! Imperialism! There was a lot of justified outrage (and perhaps delight) when Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of bringing the Internet to rural Indians came crashing down...

 Everybody likes a good fitness tracker, but nobody is thinking about the children. The poor dears are being left out of the wearable revolution — looks like it’s up to Adidas to put ...

 Collaborative Fundis launching a new fund today. Called the Collab+Consumer fund, it’s part of Collaborative Fund’sthird $70 million fundthat’s geared toward finding companies ...

 How would you feel if a robot asked you to touch its butt? Maybe it sounds like a silly question (actually, there’s no maybe about it), but as robots proliferate and anthropomorphize, it&#...

 The sophisticated neural networks underlying systems like Google’s Deep Dream and all manner of interesting experiments require a great deal of computing power. Nvidia proposes to put all ...

 Slack has a lot of functions, but end-to-end encryption isn’t one of them, which makes the platform a no-go for some users. Along comes ClearChat to serve the needs of the slightly more se...

 There is nearly as much confusion as there is excitement about augmented and virtual reality. While VR could be big and AR could be bigger (and take longer), there are more questions than answer...

 Fenox Venture Capital is bringing on TiE Global Chairman and the founder of TiE Angels, Venktesh Shukla, as General Partner. For the unfamiliar, TiE is a non-profit mentoring network for entrepr...

 A company tapping into consumers’ growing desire for healthier food and organic products, Thrive Market is todaybringing its online grocery store to Android users with the launch of a dedi...

 It’s a security project that’s taken around two years to complete, but messaging giant WhatsApp has now fully implemented strong end-to-end encryption on its platform and across all ...

 Meadow already lets you get aprescription for medical marijuana over video chat and order from a nearby shop that delivers. Now it wants to be thebackbone of the weed business, too. Pot dispensa...

 While nowhere near as big as this morning’s news that Twitter will live stream the NFL’s Thursday Night Football, the company is announcing another change to its service today aimed ...

 Lydia and Slack are two charming services and I like using them. So when I learned the two of them were having a baby together, you bet I was excited.Lydia is a French payment app, a sort of Ven...

 Cookies wants to become the Venmo of Europe with a consumer app to pay back your friends in no time and with no fees. The company promises a speedy onboarding experience and a great design. And ...

 WordPress sites make up a massive chunk of the Internet, so it’s no surprise there are also plenty of services that specialize in hosting them.WordPress hosting and management service Flyw...

 It seems like barely a day passes without some notable mention of chat bots in the tech industry. Now one of North America’s most used chat apps has jumped on the wagon after Kik, the bill...

 A few months after teasing the feature on Twitter, Sony is adding remote play on Windows and OS X with the new PS4 3.50 update that is going to be available tomorrow.This isn’t uncharted t...

 With the launch of a new service called Pattern,Etsy is making it easier for people to sell custom goods on their own websites.Apparently, more than one-third of Etsy’s1.6 million active s...

 Ikea is coming to VR, but it’s sadly leaving the Swedish meatballs behind in regular reality. The cheapo furniture company unexpectedly announcedthis morning that they were releasing a pil...

 PayPal is taking a strong stance in favor of the LGBT community. A couple of weeks ago, North Carolina lawmakers passed a disappointing law that prohibits protecting the rights of lesbian, gay, ...

 DreamHost is best known as a web hosting service, butthe company has also long been a major contributor to the open source OpenStack platform for enterprises. For the lastfewyears, it’s al...

 The advent of email tracking has caused quite a bit of ruckus, and is generally, rathercreepy.A NY-based startup called One More Company made anattempt to tacklethis head-on with a service calle...

 Medium is releasing a new set of tools for publishers to convince them to drop their good old content management systems. And it seems to be working as a few independent publishers are going all...

 Numerous startups now sell class passes for children’s activities, including KidPass, which announced $325,000 in seed funding in January,and Pearachute (it raised $1.2 million last month)...

 Another premium cable TV network, Starz, is taking the plunge into the streaming video market with today’s launch of its own standalone streaming service, aimed at cord cutters. The move f...

 Yep, ads are going to be a big topic Disrupt New York. We’ve already announced speakers from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and AdBlock Plus, but we’ll also be joined by Sridhar ...

 One of the toughest things about VR gaming is explaining it to people who have never played it. That can be a tough obstacle to companies trying to get consumers to buy expensive virtual reality...

 The concept of the Internet of Things is getting a big boost from emerging industries likeautonomous cars and robotics, andtoday Intel announced an acquisition that could help it make sure that ...

 Roku this morning introduced the third generation of its lower-cost streaming service, the Roku Streaming Stick, priced at $49.99, and a competitor to other sticks and dongles, like Google’...

 The HTC Vive virtual reality headset drops today at a $799 price point just a week after Facebook’s Oculus released its highly-anticipated Rift headset. In comparison, the Vivehas kind off...

 Gone, the on-demand service for selling all your old crap, is making some changes to its business today. Most importantly, Gone is launching a verified second-hand electronics marketplace. Usual...

 In a flurry of news this morning, it would appear that Twitter has won a deal with the NFL that gives the social network the right to stream Thursday Night Football live on the platform. Beyond ...

 The open source VoIP engine and standards initiative, known as WebRTC, is finally starting to get some traction. Earlier this month, Slack followed Facebook Messenger’s lead and launched i...

 Sometime today you’re going to read a marketing message that was probably written by Persado’s software — and if you haven’t, Goldman Sachs has led a $30 million investme...

 Video ad startup Virool has raised $12 million in Series A funding. The company works with publishers including Mashable, Adweek and The Onion. It offers what it calls anInline video ad unit, wh...

 After months of rumours that the startup was raising, Jinn, the same-hour ‘shop on your behalf’ delivery app, is disclosing $7.5 million in Series A funding, money that it plans to u...

 s a gadgets specialist, per usual I was gazing upon something unreleased last week. The object of interest was the HP Spectre, a 13.3 inch ultrabook with a thickness of 10.4 mm and weight of 2.4...

 There’s more money for Africa Internet Group (AIG), the Rocket Internet-backed company that became Africa’s first tech unicorn last month when it landed a $326 million investment at ...

 Google’s latest move in India may help increase access to healthcare information among millions of people. The company added healthcare information to its knowledge graph in the U.S. last ...

 Unicorn eCommerce startup Klarna and digital payments startup Modo announced a new strategic partnership this morning at Money20/20 Europe. Under the terms of this new partnership Modo will prov...

 Good news for UK readers who own Apple devices and use Barclays to manage their money: the bank has finally (finally) added support for Apple Pay months after its rivals. Read More ...

 Android Auto, Google’s in-car operating system, is now available in eighteen new countries, including Brazil and India. For the others, reference the little emoji flags in Android’s ...

 Ericsson today announcedit has acquired NodePrime, a San Francisco-based startup that helps enterprises manage their data centers. NodePrime came out of stealth last September after the company ...

 AccorHotels is acquiring Onefinestay for around $170 million (117 million). The company is also committing to a $70 million investment in Onefinestay (50 million) over the next few years. Onefin...

 Facebook has launched a tool, Automatic Alternative Text, for blind and visually impaired people to “see” images on the Facebook.For people using screen readers to identify what̵...

 Tips are everywhere. There’s an abundance of generic advice available for how to build teams and culture, how to fundraise, how to be productive, how to stay above the noise But what about...

 An untold number ofschools will be receiving some happy news this coming Friday.According to an on-stage appearance today at the Female Founders Conference in San Francisco, philanthropist Laure...

 Thomas Staggs, chief operating officer at The Walt Disney Corporation,is stepping down. Staggs iswidely seen as the successorto CEO Bob Iger, so this makesthe entertainment giant’s plans a...

 NASA has collaborated with Microsoft to create a new mixed-reality exhibit known as “Destination: Mars“, allowing the public to explore the red planetwith holographic tour guides. Th...

 Doppler Labs’s augmented audio device, Here, seems to be all the rage in music hardware these days. Doppler recently won a SXSW Innovation Award and will begin a partnership with Coachella...

 NASA took the wraps off a new website on Monday dedicated to tracking global changes in the sea level. It’s packed full of free online resources that will likely be useful to teachers, the...

 When Microsoft announced its Windows 10 strategy last year, the thinking was that the unified platform would drive Windows Mobile and finally bring the Windows phone out of the doldrums where it...

 A committee of industry representatives appointed by the FAA turned in recommendations suggesting a four-tiered system for classifying drones and how they may (or mayn’t) interact with cro...

 Norwegian startup Auka is setting its sight on hitting two birds with one stone: Helping banks lagging behind compliance with EU regulation, and rolling out high-tech banking to customers across...

 MetaMind, a Palo Alto-based AI startup founded in July 2014, is being acquired by Salesforce. According to anew postpublished at the company’s website by CEO Richard Socher —a Stanfo...

 Management and boards at late stage, or pre-IPO, companies are on notice that the SEC is paying attention to the late stage financing arena, and should look internally to ensure that corporate g...

 Tech nonprofit Medic Mobile has attained $1 million in unrestricted grant funding from the Peery Foundation for apps that help health workers deliver care to people who lack reasonable access to...

 Successfully taking an idea to market involves many more negotiations than most entrepreneurs realize. First, they must figure out whether to share credit with any partners or advisors who helpe...

 DJI, 3DR, Parrot and GoPro are launching their own drone advocacy group to lobby for “policies that promote innovation and safety, and create a practical and responsible regulatory framewo...

 Investing in the stock market made easy…That’s the goal of these apps, which make investing more convenientand help you keep tabson the market updates. And you don’t have to be...

 Investing in the stock market made easy — that’s the goal of these apps, which make investing more convenient and help you keep tabs on the market updates. And you don’t have t...

 Remember the Revolv home automation hub? Probably not. The device was released in late 2013, and while fantastic, it largely flew under the radar before Google’s Nest division bought the c...

 Samir Arora, the longtime CEO of Mode Media, is stepping down, replaced by interim CEO Jack Rotolo. Rotolo has spent more than a decade serving in a number of roles at the company, most recently...

 Nick Sampson, head of the startupelectric vehicle company Faraday Future, spent a busy day as the title sponsor of theFaraday Future Long Beach ePrix April 2. I interviewed him standing up in th...

 E-readers may not be the most exciting space in tech these days, but some of us still find a place for them in our lives — and it is we happy few whom Jeff Bezos announced, with enthusiasm...

 Google is releasing the monthly security update for its Nexus Android devices today and with it, it is also announcing a list of the security vulnerabilities it has patched in this release. This...

 A propaganda application developedby the Islamist fundamentalist group the Taliban was live on the Google Play store for two days before being booted, raising questions about Google’s app ...

 The reality is that merely checking a March Madness bracket puts not only the employee at risk, but also the entire enterprise. Read More ...

 Target’s top-rated shopping app Cartwheel is todaybecoming more useful to those who are looking to save money at checkout. The company says the app has been expanded to support digital cou...

 Europe’s refugee crisis is proving all but impossible for the region’s politicians to tackle without being sucked into an inglorious mire of prejudice — leaving desperate peopl...

 Not one of the 2016 presidential candidates stands out when it comes to ensuring that common sense technology and entrepreneurship policy will prevail. In the absence of these issues receiving t...

 WeWork, the co-working real estate startup valued north of $5 billion, is launching WeLive, a residential rental building that offers flexible renting and a nicely packaged set of amenities. The...

 Jay Vijayan,who spent four years as the Chief Information Officer of Tesla Motors, and who served as its VP of IT and business applications for a year before that, left the company in January to...

 Meet Stae, a New York-based startup that wants to make cities and tech startups work together. Major cities are getting denser and facing bigger challenges. And yet, innovation is coming from pr...

 For some, the stock market can be a tricky and seemingly dangerous place. Even with apps like Robinhood, that make buying and selling stock super simple, users still have skin in the game. With ...

 Techies Project, a photo and interview project that launched today, explores the personal stories and experiences of hundreds of underrepresented people in tech. You might recognize people ...

 The #OpsIsrael attack has taken place every year on April 7 since 2013, and was first launched on the eve of the Holocaust Remembrance Day with a stated goal of erasing Israel from the Internet....

 The last decade has seen a period of extremely high venture capital activity, with a record peak of investment reached in 2015. This period of high VC investments has led to many amazing new pro...

 Microsoft’s experiment with getting customersto pay for additional features in Outlook will be priced at $3.99 per month, according to an updated page on Microsoft’s website, uncover...

 Robinhood will bring its free U.S. stock trading app to the world, and just announced one of the first countries will be China. To prepare, today itlaunched a Chinese-language version in the U.S...

 Planning on making the trip to the Big Apple for Disrupt NY? You might as well save $1,000 in the process, but to do that you’re going to need to act quickly. Early-bird tickets to the hot...

 Just in time for the start of baseball season, Apple has beefed up Siri’s knowledge of baseball stats, scores, and trivia.Siri can now do things like tell you Babe Ruth’s career batt...

 There are countless ways to connect with famous musicians, whether it’s following them on Instagram and Snapchat or buying tickets to all of their public appearances. But on either side of...

 Product discovery and reviews platform, Influenster, has raised $8 millionin financing fromEbates, a leading online cashback shopping service. Ebates is a subsidiary of Rakuten — the multi...

 Amazon announced this morning a plan to spread adoption of its payments service, Amazon Payments, to more third-party websites. With the launch of its Amazon Payments Global Partner Program, the...

 Apple has released a couple of videos over the weekend starring Dillan Barmache, a 16-year-old kid who is autistic and non-verbal. These two films are powerful and also make a strong point ...

 It’s safe to say that everyone can get down with food. That’s probably why the tech industry has seen so many startups — some more successful than others — attempting to ...

 AOL is expanding its television efforts with the launch of self-serve TV ad-buying as part of its One by AOL platform. AOL (which owns TechCrunch, and in turn is owned by Verizon) first announce...

 The official opposition Labour party in the UK has again called on the government to make changes to draft surveillance legislation to improve privacy safeguards. Read More ...

 Xiaomi has furthered its push into India after completing its first investment in the country. The Chinese smartphone today announced it has led a $25 million investment in Hungama, a video and ...

 As widely expected, the FCC has proposed expansive new data privacy rules for broadband providers that, if adopted, could see ISPs required to gain explicit consent from users for using or shari...

 Since its earliest days Apttushas always been a Salesforce shop. It’s built on the Salesforce platform and worked exclusively with Salesforce CRM, but that changed today when the company a...

 A number of Valk Fleet’s management team tell TechCrunch they have been on the receiving end of “death threats” from disgruntled drivers who, due to their self-employed status,...

 As part of its plans to venture beyond the food listings/discovery space, Zomato launched an Android point of sale system for restauranteurs today. Called Zomato Base, the cloud-based system is ...

 Airbnb, which is constantly accused of worsening San Francisco’s housing crunch, has released a report specifying how many of its listings might violate city law. It also said it will take...

 The DealDey acquisition marks continued outside investor confidence in the value proposition for African e-commerce—expected to top $75 billion by 2025, according to McKinsey Consulting. R...

 Micromanufacturing. As soon as I finish typing the word, my Grammarly spell checker promptly underscores it in red and suggests a replacement: “micro-manufacturing.” But this new spe...

 Despite the perceptions from many outside of the country, Iranians haven’t been twiddling their thumbs, waiting idly all these years for sanctions relief. The country has long since accust...

 The good folks at Reddit are already getting their Redditors fired up about the massive document dump we reported earlier this evening. There’s an official link to the trove of information...

 UPDATE: An earlier version of this story linked to an earlier expose conducted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on offshore companies. The post has been edited.The go...

 One of the most important lessons that Silicon Valley learned, that gives it a strategic advantage, is to think bigger than products and business models: it builds platforms. The fastest growing...

 All day, the Internet has been abuzz with stories culled from the “Panama Papers” — roughly 2.6 terabytes of documents, related to hundreds of thousands of offshore companies, ...

 Insurance policies can be complex, and some policyholders may not understand all the fees and coverages included in a policy. Indeed, people typically buy policies on unfavorable terms. In 2014,...

 Technology is surrounding us; its surface is becoming more complex, pliable and familiar to the eye. Virtual reality is no longer creeping into the mainstream: It’s leaping. Though the ind...

 There’s been a “global application rewrite” which means that entrepreneurs need to understand that “regulation is part of their product”. Read More ...

 For many, the promise of digital advertising is the wealth of information that comes with every impression they buy. However, all this data becomes virtually useless when marketers employ the wr...

 Let us all take a moment to celebrate the remarkable resilience of Hollywood. As “the music industry finds itself fighting over pennies while waving goodbye to dollars,” to quote the...

 In this podcast, chief executive Baiju Bhatt discusses what it was about their initial value proposition that made so many users convert, and the integral role design plays at RobinHood. Read Mo...

On April 2, the folks responsible for the entries in the Associated Press Stylebook announced that the word “Internet” will no longer be uppercased, thus breaking my heart and making some ...

 If you are reading this article, chances are you have taken an Uber, are familiar with Upwork and maybe even sold something on Etsy. Business models that fall under the “gig economy”...

Few topics receive greater hype in the media today than the Internet of Things (IoT), and still a report produced by McKinsey & Co. last summer argued that the potential impact of IoT technologies...

 Remember when Blue Origin made history by vertically landing a rocketafter launching it into space? Remember when they reused that same rocket and then landed it again? Well, today Jeff Bezos...

 Remember when Blue Origin made history by vertically landing a rocketafter launching it into space? Remember when they reused that same rocket and then landed it again? Well, today Jeff Bezos...

 I’ve spent the past month in a daze, trying to make sense of my own tasks and responsibilities while forcing myself to adhere to a system I came up with that simply doesn’t work. You...

 TechCrunch went out to the ballpark this week — specifically Citi Field, home of the New York Mets.Granted, it wasn’t the most tech-centric event, but the stadium has seen some chang...

 While it seems the term has been around baseball forever, the concept of “moneyball” – coined to describe the Oakland Athletics’ approach to building competitive teams de...

 This week, Tesla unveiled a brand new model, Oculus Rift shipped, Snapchat saw a major upgrade and the Apple vs. FBI case came to a close. These are this week’s top tech stories you don...

 The last few years have seen an explosion of interest in machine learning technology and potential applications. As a non-expert you’ve probably either had to assess ML technology for your...

 Several countries have been conducting earthquake drills and various forms of disaster preparedness activities in anticipation of this potentially cataclysmic earthquake. Technology companies ha...

 Breathe that weekend air, Saturday is here in most parts of the world! Great time to put on some music and relax, except, that is, if you’re a Spotify user because the world’s most p...

 Hardware is hard. Building a hardware startup is even harder. The good news is that the staggering amount of innovation in rapid prototyping, 3D printing and backend-as-a-service platforms has m...

 Peter Thiel is having a good month. According to a new SEC filing, low-flying Mithril Capital Management, which Thiel cofounded with longtime colleague Ajay Royan in 2012, is out raising its sec...

 Restaurant reservation startup Reserve announced today that it has acquired Dash. When you make a reservation through Reserve, the app already handles payment (including splitting the bill), but...

 Plenty of startups have tried and failed to make enterprisesoftware sexy, but Slack made it viral. Its growth rate is unheard of. Both Slack’s daily user count and its paid seat count are ...

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 Those of us who have been around the block a few times have seen multiple attempts to kill email andchange the way people communicate in the enterprise. Slack is just the latest, but one that ha...

 Karlie Kloss made headlines last year when she announced she was not only a high-ranking model but could also code in Ruby. Kloss, who says she’s always been interested in math and science...

 I’m going to start by saying I’m actually a huge fan of SoFi. I think they have a great product, they’ve built an incredible business and their growth in a regulated and comple...

 Palaround began its life as one of what’s now many companies attempting to be the “Tinder for finding friends” – a list that now includes Tinder’s dating app rival,...

 Pre-natal genetic testing, VR drones, and fracking nanoparticles were a few of the products featured in Y Combinator’s first Virtual Demo Day. They come from the YC Fellowship, a program d...

 Less than a year after raising a hefty Series A, Managed By Q is today announcing the raise of a $25 million Series B round from GV and Kapor Ventures. Former TechCrunch writer MG Siegler is joi...

 For better or worse, it’s April 1st again. Happy April Fools’ Day! The day when up becomes down, cats become people, and the Internet loses its collective mind for about 24 hours. As...

 For better or worse, it’s April 1st again. Happy April Fools’ Day! The day when up becomes down, cats become people, and the Internet loses its collective mind for about 24 hours. As...

 The Slackrocketship won’t slow down. The business messagingstartuphas raised $200 million at a $3.8 billion post-money valuation, the company confirms to TechCrunch. The round was led by T...

 In news that is not April 1-related, North Korea has this week begun to block access to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other websites in the country. Read More ...

 So much for Kanye West’s plans to make his new album, “The Life of Pablo,” a Tidal exclusive.The artist, who has changed his mind numerous times with regard to this latest rele...

 betaworks doesn’t often launch games, but when they do, it tends to stick. Just take Dots, for example, which ended up spinning out of betaworks as its own game studio. Today, the startup ...

 A new app called Billy wants to help consumers more easily manage their subscriptions and bills, by keeping track of your fixed costs and recurring payments, and make these accessible via a simp...

 Krablr started off as a promising real-time crab pricing engine for amateur fishermen. After a long beta period and a $5 million round with Sequoia leading the round and Scranton Angels also inv...

 Some of the most influential and successful companies in the game have come out of startup studios. Just look at Giphy, Reserve, and Operator.But what makes a startup studio successful? At Disru...

 A co-founder and former CTO of Yammer, Adam Pisoni, quietly raised a $4.5 million first round of venture funding for his new education tech startup in January. This week, he revealed what Always...

 Lugg, the startup that helps people with small moves, requested via an Uber-like mobile app, is this week expanding its reach into additionalmarkets. While originally available in the San Franci...

 Like an oasis in the desert, special purpose vehicles (SPV) can offer investors critical liquidity and capital to exercise pro-rata rights, even in a world where overall returns in venture capit...

 Messaging is the hot topic of 2016, which is why we’re tremendously excited to announcethat Ted Livingston, the founder and CEO of popular chatapp Kik,is confirmed as aspeaker at our upcom...

 It’s past midday on April 1 in some parts of the world, so already we’re seeing some of the inevitable glut of April Fools Day announcements from tech companies. There looks to be on...

 It’s past midday on April 1 in some parts of the world, so already we’re seeing some of the inevitable glut of April Fools Day announcements from tech companies. There looks to be on...

 Good photos of Tesla’s shiny new Model 3 might be hard to come by right now, thanks to some peculiar rules at tonight’s unveiling. So, well, here: 14 actual photos of the actual car,...

 Tesla finally unveiled its Model 3 today. The $1,500 car drew a staggering 115,000 orders — $115 million in deposits and $4 billion in potential sales — before it had even been unvei...

 Google is bidding “smell ya later!” to its Wallet Card, the physical debit cards linked to Google Wallet accounts. In a blog post, the company said it plans to focus instead on the G...

 Preorders broke the 150,000 barrier, according to Tesla’s own tracker at the launch event. Read More ...

 And there it is. After years of speculation, the Tesla Model 3 has been unveiled. We’re live in Hawthorne, CA, where the company has just shown the car for the very first time. Story activ...

 A government report released late Thursday accuses Theranos of producing inaccurate test results, of failing to meet its own lab standards and hiring unqualified personnel. The Centers for Medic...

 When it comes to cybersecurity issues, we always seem to be dealing with either shortages or excess. With the dark shadow of bigger security incidents constantly looming on the horizon, both gov...

 Reddit issued its annual transparency report Thursday morning, listing the amount and type of data requested by various authorities. There’s plenty of interesting info, but perhaps most in...

 Northern California has become a test-bed for electric vehicle charging. And it’s no accident; the region is home to more electric vehicles and EV charging stations than anywhere else in t...

 The battle between headsets you strap to your heads is being brought to a rolling boil this week, as Microsoft’s HoloLens Dev Kit and Oculus Rift both start shipping to customers. Being a ...

 The machine overlords of the future may now, if it pleases them, eliminate all black and white imagery from the history of their meat-based former masters. All they’ll need is this system ...

 Snapchat isn’t working for many users, with Stories failing to load and snaps not sending. The outage comes just days after Snapchat released its big Chat 2.0 update that brought stickers ...

 Snapchat isn’t working correctly for many users, with Stories failing to load or snaps not sending. The outage comes just days after Snapchat released its big Chat 2.0 update that brought ...

 Snapchat wasn’t working correctly for many users, with Stories failing to load or snaps not sending. [Update 5:10pm PST – Snapchat appears to be back for most users after several hou...

 Microsoft announced in February its plans to acquire the cross-platform development platform Xamarin; the deal closed about two weeks ago. Even though the ink on the contracts has barely dried, ...

 After years of rumors, Tesla will unveil the Model 3 tonight. At a target price of $35,000 before incentives, the Model 3 is meant to be Tesla’s first car affordable by those of us (read: ...

 DraftKings and FanDuel, the two largest providers of daily fantasy sports in the U.S, have simultaneously announced that they reached a deal with the NCAA to temporarily suspend college sports o...

 Things can get messy if you have sex on your period, so many couples avoid it. But The Flex Company wants to replace outdated pads and tampons with a sleek, disc-shaped blood blocker. Flex can b...

 So you want to change the world and help people — and you’ve started a healthcare startup. You know it will take a great team to pull it off, and you’re starting to build the i...

 The days of CDs and vinyl might be (mostly) over, but singer-songerwriter Beatie Wolfe is making music physical again, in a very literal way. Wolfe stopped by the TechCrunch New York office to s...

 Whistle, the “Fitbit for dogs,” has found a home at Mars Petcare, TechCrunch has learned. The maker of Snickers and M&M’s also has a large pet division and has plansto inte...

 Following yesterday’s news about bringing bots to the Skype platform, Microsoft today unveiled two more SDKs for its Skype platform which will allow businesses and application developers a...

 TechCrunch Include Office Hours are happening on April 15th! Bryan Schreier and Bill Coughran from Sequoia Capital will join TechCrunch to provide valuable advice and feedback to startups. Launc...

 Wealthfront, the West Coast robo-advisor battling Betterment for the top spot in tech-enabled wealth management, is launching a new version (and vision) of its wealth management service. The Red...

 Atthe Build Developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft announceda series of new Office 365 developer tools designed to enhance how they interact with Office 365 platform. Microsoft o...

 Are you fluent in MongoDB? Well today is your lucky day. Microsoft’s NoSQL document database service DocumentDB now supports drivers for MongoDB. So if you were using existing MongoDB tool...

 500 Startups is moving north of the border for its next micro-fund. The fund, called 500CAN, is targeting a $30 million size thatwill be focused on checking out what investments in Canada are al...

 Well that was quick. A couple of days after a bug affecting iOS started making the news, Apple has released a fix. iOS 9.3.1, now available on the iPhone and iPad, fixes this bug. The changelog ...

 Postmates, which is now completing 1 million deliveries a month, is digging in deeper to the e-commerce space with the launch of Postmates Plus Unlimited, a $9.99 per month subscription service ...

 Big box retailers like Best Buy and Target have all kinds of financing card programs for their customers. But smaller and medium-sized merchants have no way to give their customers the same kind...

 Big box retailers like Best Buy and Target have all kinds of financing card programs for their customers. But smaller and medium-sized merchants have no way to give their customers the same kind...

 Power BI is Microsoft’s tool for analyzing data and building interactive data-based dashboards and reports. At its Build developer conference in San Francisco, the company today announced ...

 Microsoft todayremoved the “preview” label from Azure Service Fabric, its service for building and runningbothstateful and stateless Docker-based microservices in the cloud and on-pr...

 Sitting through all the keynotes at Microsoft’s Build, there’s one giant gaping hole in the coverage: Windows Phone was barely mentioned. In fact, it seems like the keynote speakers ...

 Microsoft announced it was previewing a new service today at its annual Build Developer conference that lets programmers create event-driven triggers without deploying any underlying infrastruct...

Sometimes you just hit a dead end in troubleshooting what’s going on with your phone. You’ve tried everything you can think of, but no dice. For tech-savvy users this may be messing with c...

 Microsoft acquired the cross-platform iOS, Android and OS X development service Xamarin last month andthe new acquisition is already at the center of attention at Microsoft’s annual Build ...

 Microsoft’s Azure cloud services are growing at an increasing clip, and at the company’s Build conference today, it showed off some of the numbers it for the past year. At last year&...

 Spain’s Glovo, which operates a local on-demand delivery service similar to Postmates in the US, or Jinn and Quiqup in the UK, has acquired Italy’sFoodinho. Read More ...

 Microsoft is holding its annual Build developer conference in San Francisco this week and after focusing on Windows, Xbox, HoloLens, and Cortana yesterday, the company will shine the spotlight o...

 We all want to be in better shape, but the commitment of going to a gym or a yoga class can be costly and time-consuming. Mission 360 is looking to eliminate all of the friction involved with wo...

 Following yesterday’s news of Square’s entry into the online checkout space, the PayPal-owned payments platform Braintree today announced news of its own, with the launch of Braintre...

 Let’s face it, your phone is a blessing and a curse. Behind its sleek glass front is a whole world of excitement. All your friends, the entirety of the Internet and omg, a kitten videoR...

 I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Mike Flowers in his new role as a What Works Cities (WWC) Senior Fellow. As a What Work Cities Senior Fellow, Flowers will oversee a new Analytics Kic...

 Juicero.com a food tech startup that makes internet-connected kitchen appliances, raised $70 million in Series B funding in a round led by Artis Ventures. Juicero’s flagship product is a $...

 Knowre, a Seoul-based learning app developer, has taken a big step forward in its American expansion plans. The company announced today that its math programs, which gives kids personalized reco...

 All sports fans love a good playoff game. But actually attending one is something most folks never have the chance to do. The ticket prices for these games, from pro basketball to college footba...

 Amazon this morning announced an expansion of its Dash Buttons product line – those Wi-Fi connected, push-button devices that let you buy products from its site with just a press. One year...

 Today IBM announced the newest iteration of their iPad app for the 2016Masters Tournament, which offers a live broadcast of all four tournament days. While the app was built from the ground upto...

 Programs from Facebook and Google have made the idea of getting internet access via a balloon or drone possible, but how about going online via a network of taxis in your city. That could become...

 Popular YouTuber Casey Neistathas a knack for viral hits. He’s called out Apple, blew through the entiretyof Nike’s #MakeItCount filming budget traveling around the world andstill go...

 Airware used to sell drone operating systems. Now it’s swiveling to sell the whole flying kit and caboodle: drone hardware, the software to control them, and the cloud where their data goe...

 Citymapper is making a significant change to its routing app with the news that it has added what it is calling a “SuperRouter” capability. This effectively combines public transit w...

 Garena, a Singapore-based company that makes mobile gaming, e-commerce, and payment apps, said today that it has raised a $170 million Series D. Read More ...

 This week, two different amateur astronomers released footage of an impact event on Jupiter. The separate observations, one in Austria and one in Ireland, show a brief, small flash of light at t...

 The FBI, which just a few days ago was attempting to convince the country of its helplessness in the face of encrypted iPhones, has generously offered its assistance in unlocking an iPhone and i...

 Today in local news, Los Angeles Assemblyman Mike Gatto has introduceda bill that would allow Californians to cancel their Internet or cable services online with ‘one click’. The bil...

 As a former patent examiner, I recognize that the patent system, in its purest form, should protect and incentivize innovation through a limited-term contract, offering exclusive monopoly rights...

 “Fresh air” is a concept most often associated with the “great outdoors”. Dyson is looking to make your home nature fresh by ridding it of indoor pollutants with the Pure...