Articles by Techcrunch from June 2011

Due to a sales tax measure recently passed in CA state legislature and on its way to be signed by Governor Jerry Brown, Amazon has sent all participants in its California Amazon Associates program the...

The next phase of growth for local deals will be mobile. Groupon knows this, and so does Yelp, which today is rolling out Yelp Deals to its iPhone and Android apps. An update to its mobile apps that i...

GateGuru, the iPhone app that's been called the Yelp for Airports, is expanding to Android phones today with the launch of a new app. The company is also announcing that it has raised $800,000 in fund...

Myspace CEO Mike Jones just sent out this email and press release confirming the company's sale to all Myspace employees just 10 minutes ago. Kara Swisher is reporting that the sale was for $35 millio...

If the road is smooth enough, you can hear birds chirping while you're going 35 mph. With the windows up. The Nissan Leaf is that quiet. When going less than 30 mph there's just a slight electric whin...

Zynga and AT&T have just announced a strategic partnership, in which the social gaming giant will bring customized games and content to the carrier's customers. Financial terms of the agreement, w...

As he told me when he came into our San Francisco studio earlier this week, Reputation.com CEO & Founder Michael Fertik is "ecstatic"  about our new reputation economy. In today's ...

We've written extensively about the vacuum created on the iPad by the lack of an official native Facebook application. That may change soon " there are reports that an official app is finall...

Remember back in April when we reported that Friendster, one of the first dedicated social networking sites, was to unequivocally delete all user profiles photos, blogs, messages, groups and whatnot b...

A new study by Yahoo (embedded below) shows that online video watching habits are shifting. People are watching longer videos and watching more at night during primetime. The chart above shows when ...

It's no secret that Accel is making major investments in the online payments space, funding both Wonga and e-payments company Yapstone. And today the venture firm is announcing a $34 million Series A ...

SoloPower"  a manufacturer of flexible, thin film solar cells and modules"  has raised another $43.7 million in an equity round this month, according to a new SEC filing. Investor...

That didn't take long. Tons of people haven't even gained access to the Google+ field trial yet, but that hasn't stopped Chinese authorities from blocking Google's brand new social networking pro...

While hyperlinks are a fundamental backbone of the web, they're also a bit odd. After all, hyperlinking is for the most part asubjective process. Someone decides if and when to link to something. It n...

Connected, a startup that manages all of your personal relationships on the web, has raised $500,000 in funding led by Trinity Ventures with 500 Startups, Ignition Partners, Christopher Michel, Michae...

Vacation home rental service HomeAway has begun trading on the NASDAQ this morning under the symbol 'AWAY', with the shares trading as high as $37.10. giving the company a market cap of $3 billion. T...

Microsoft loves them some Android. Google's mobile OS is turning into a major cash source as Microsoft convinces moreAndroid OEM makers to hand over royalties concerning some of Microsoft's patents. A...

Google has long offered Google Sites, which gives businesses and consumers a way to quickly build their own websites with no HTML knowledge required, making it relatively easy for anyone without a tec...

Basho Technologies, a data storage and management software startup serving the enterprise market, this morning announced that it has raised $7.5 million in Series D funding. In addition, Basho announc...

MediaMall, the folks behind the popular PlayOn media software, just announced the closed beta of PlayLater, a so-called DVR for online video. The service, which is available in a closed beta starting ...

Chicago-based SAVO has raised $14 million in new funding led by SAP Ventures with existing investor Sterling Partners participating in the round.SAVO's on-demand, collaborative Sales Enablement softwa...

Cloudera, the startup that commercially distributes and services Apache Hadoop based data management software and services, is unveiling a new version of its service, Cloudera Enterprise 3.5. The comp...

Oracle this morning announced that it has agreed to buy Pillar Data Systems, a privately-held provider of SAN Block I/O storage systems based in San Jose, California, which is said to serve nearly 600...

American Express this morning announced that customers will now be able to pay for Facebook ads using Membership Rewards points, which the company says are used by millions of American Express small b...

Social enterprise giant Jive is releasing a study today, called the Jive Social Business Index, which surveyed 902 US-"based executives at large and mid-sized companies on their views of social i...

After announcing its Zorro visual revamp and its Three Search Engine Monte challenge, Blekko is announcing today that it's partnered with recipe search engine Foodilyin orderto curate its recipe searc...

Clearspring Technologies, the developer of social sharing platform AddThis, is launching its mobile strategy today, unveiling optimized technologies for the iPhone, Android and mobile web. For backgro...

Health Guru Media, a provider of health information videos, has raised $6 million in funding from a syndicate that includes new investor Western Technology Investment as well as existing backers Casti...

Well, apparently Animoto is going for it. This jewel of a startup, which lets people easily create professional-looking videos from audio and video clips and pictures, has raised a third round of fund...

SiliconBlue Technologies, which offers custom solutions for handset applications, including IP, design services as well as low-power, single-chip, CMOS SRAM mobileFPGA devices, has raised $18 million ...

A pain point for online video conferencing platforms is that many of them don't integrate with each other. For example, a Skype user needs to engage with a fellow Skype user to start a multi-party vid...

There's no question about it: Google+ genuinely looks good. But, as thousands of people have already noted and joked about, it also really does look a lot like Facebook.UX designer and consultant...

I've also been playing around with Google+ (and the neat mobile Web app) this morning and so far, I think it has some potential (not everyone agrees).But people like me tend to use more than one ...

I've spent the last several hours using Google+. That's a good sign.While I first got a glimpse of the project when meeting with Google last week ahead of today's story, such meetings are usually...

It's official. Jack Dorsey's Square has joined the billion dollar valuation club. The mobile payments startup closed a $100 million series C led by Kleiner Perkins, a story we broke a few weeks ago....

Is there a future for social browser startup RockMelt? Despite attracting only a few hundred thousand active users since its much-hyped launch, the company filled with ex-Netscape rockstars and b...

Today's soft-launch of Google's new social galaxy, Google+, raises one interesting question: Can Google, a massive, multinational, cash-rich, consumer technology company with multiple successful ...

After the big launch today, some of those lucky enough to get a Google+ invite were still left out in the cold a bit: iPhone users. You see, while the Google+ Android app was there ready to ...

Vacation home rental service HomeAway has priced its IPO, which is set to begin trading tomorrow morning at $27 per share, giving the company a valuation of $2 billion. The company aims to raise as ...

The i/o Ventures Demo Day starts in a little under a half an hour, and I am about to head over to Valencia Street to watch the startups present. i/o Ventures is the SF-based incubator that offers five...

In the spirit of Google's "Let's make the web faster" code campaign, there has been a ton of renewed interest around making web and mobile apps faster and more reliable. Really, this is for the simple...

With reports of social network Myspace about to sell for ~$30 million, the tech world eagerly awaits the HBS study for why the service, which was bought in 2006 by Newscorp for $580 million and was at...

Oh, so you thought Google was done after it rolled out Google+, Circles, Sparks, Huddle, and Hangouts? No, no, no. Google will be done when that's Google-brand oxygen you're breathing. This ...

The story of WakeMate could be viewed as a warning to all tech-savvy entrepreneurs out there: building a hardware device is much more difficult than most web applications. The promise of WakeMate is c...

Storage startup Dropbox has hired Ramsey Homsany as it's General Counsel. Homsany is a long time Google lawyer. He joined the company in 2003 and was most recently the deputy general counsel of the co...

Now that we've finally caught our breath fromDisrupt in New York City, it's time to to bring Disrupt back home to San Francisco. (We like to keep things moving around here). To get things rolling, we ...

Will people pay for online privacy? Yes, they will "" at least according to Michael Fertik, the founder and CEO of Reputation.com, one of the early leaders in the new online privacy ecos...

DoNanza, which operates a platform for freelancers from all over the world (see our earlier coverage), has raised $1 million in funding from Google chairman Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors fund, A...

You may not have heard of them quite yet, but a startup called Fitocracy is pretty hot right now. Six months into its private beta and Fitocracy has already gathered 18K users and has 8K more on the w...

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone took some time to blog today a bit about his past. He goes back to Xanga, then Blogger/Google, then (though not directly mentioned) Odeo. He talks about how after they fai...

When I sat down last week with Google's Vic Gundotra and Bradley Horowitz to get a tour of Google+, the new social project they rolled out today, my immediate reaction made them extremely happy. ...

TechCrunch TV celebrates its one year birthday today. Since we launched, we've had 10 million live and on demand video plays. We have more than 2,300 videos archived in our library. In addition to ...

InboxQ, the browser extension that attempts to turn Twitter into Quora by letting big brands like @Gap search for user questions to engage with, is launching its web interface today for all those tha...

Alibaba-owned Vendio has acquired SingleFeed, a startup that helps online merchants to submit, manage, and optimize product listings on sites like Google Product Search, PriceGrabber and others. Terms...

When you visit Craigslist, it's almost as if you're visiting the early 90s web. Blue links. That's it. On one hand, you have to appreciate the simplicity (and speed). On the other, WTF? It's 2011....

Last night, you may have heard talk of a mysterious black bar appearing on the top of Google.com. Or you may have even seen it yourself. No, you weren'thallucinating. It was a sign of something about ...

As we wrote recently, many of the more interesting startups that have emerged over the past year are improving our lives in the real world better by using data, location and curation as their competit...

Mozilla wants your help in keeping the web innovative and open.Today, the organization is launching a new program designed to help spur projects that focus on open web technologies. The initiative is ...

Seattle startup Inkd just inked a new $3.5 million round, led by Madrona Ventures. Rob Glaser, founder of RealNetworks and now a partner at Accel, also invested personally and is joining board. Seco...

Seattle startup Pressplane just inked a new $3.5 million round, led by Madrona Ventures. Rob Glaser, founder of RealNetworks and now a partner at Accel, also invested personally and is joining board....

Zynga according to CNBC reporter Kate Kelly, Zynga will file its S-1 for an IPO with the SEC as early as tomorrow with a valuation between $15 billion and $20 billion. Kelly says that Zynga will rais...

Founded in 1999, Augme Technologies is an under-the-radar company that, over the last few years, has quietly built a mobile marketing technology platform that may see it become a big player in the mob...

The popular UberSocial Twitter client for BlackBerry (formerly known as UberTwitter) just got an update with a bunch of new features and bug fixes. Notably, its developer UberMedia is doubling down o...

At a press event in New York City, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer rolled out the general availability of Microsoft 365, an online suite of productivity apps which includes Microsoft Office, Microsoft Sha...

At a press event in New York City, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer rolled out the general availability of Microsoft 365, an online suite of productivity apps which includes Microsoft Office, Microsoft Sha...

TravelShark (the startup formerly known as Swiftrank), which operates an online travel network, this morning announced that it has closed a $5 million round of financing from DLA Holdings, a Singapore...

MartinJAY Digital this morning announced that it has acquired the assets of Social Blaze, a Los Angeles, California-based developer of social media management and analytics service. The digital agency...

Right around the beginning of May at the I/O event, Google revealed its daily Android activation data, which turned out to be 400,000 Android activations daily. It's been two months, and now Google's ...

It's tough to beat my colleague Alexia Tsotsis' witty 'What Mobile Photo Sharing App Should I Use' infographic. Today Pixable, a startup that develops sleek social photo creation and categorization to...

The types of technology that a Congressional office can use is severely restricted by the government (as a former Congressional staffer, I am acutely familiar with the strict procurement policy). Toda...

In a couple of days, Facebook will require game developers to implement its Facebook Credits currency, as announced in January 2011 (much to the dismay of some developers, although we should also note...

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong likes to streamline things. And he is about to streamline AOL even more. Somewhat reversing the anti-portal strategy he inherited, he will start to consolidate 53 different con...

Research firm IDC forecasts the number of annual mobile app downloads to increase from 10.7 billion in 2010 to nearly 183 billion by 2015, notably more than the 44 billion mobile app downloads by 2016...

Israeli enterprise software company Harmon.ie has released a new version of its email plugin that adds social and collaborative features to Outlook, Google Docs and Lotus Notes. Harmon.ie for SharePo...

Viralheat, the social media measurement tool that allows content producers to monitor consumer-generated content on the Web in realtime, announced today that it has closed a $4.25 million series A ro...

"The future is the web." So goes the mantra that seems to be echoing throughout Google, Facebook, and plenty of smaller tech companies that view the web as the solution to sidestep the fragmentation c...

Poggled, the daily deals service that boasts Groupon investors Eric Lefkosky, Brad Keywell and NEA as backers, is expanding to other cities today, first on the list being New York and Denver.Poggled i...

When you're in fifth place in the browser races, there's room to be a little goofy. That's why it can be a pleasure to read the releases coming from Opera Software, the quirky Oslo-based company respo...

Last winter, Singapore-based Bitsmedia launched a new app into the marketplace called Frenzapp that enables users to share their favorite iPhone apps with friends, joining a cluster of services takin...

This morning, we got tipped to check out wdyl.com. The tipster noted that it was apparently a new Google site attempting to "create a unified UI to search in multiple channels". Sure enough, visiting ...

The hacktivist group Anonymous may be setting its sights on the city of Orlando, Florida next, if an anonymous press release which has landed in our inbox is to be believed (see bellow). The group is...

The world has been waiting for an official Facebook tablet app, and waiting, and waiting. But that app may not appear on the iPad first (although Facebook is working on an iPad app for sure). Instead,...

The world has been waiting for an official Facebook tablet app, and waiting, and waiting. But that app may not appear on the iPad first (although Facebook is working on an iPad app for sure). Instead,...

We've confirmed the rumors of Myspace layoffs with our own inside source; From what I'm hearing the company expects to lay off at least 150 of its around 400 employees tomorrow (37.5% of its staff). A...

Last month, founder David Karp noted that Tumblr was now seeing over 250 million pageviews a day. As we noted, that was incredible since as recently as July of 2009, they were seeing 250 million pagev...

IBM's Smarter Planet division released a new solution recently that can make buildings energy efficient"  even if they are huge and 100 years old like the company itself. Vice president of ...

Disrupt runners-up, Cloudflare have been getting a lot of attention recently, thanks to the company's role in helping LulzSec's website stay online. In fact the hackers even gave Cloudflare a shoutout...

Earlier this morning Twitter released "Twitter for Newsrooms,"its primer on how to use Twitter to gather and report news in the 21st century.#TfN is Twitter's official nudge to old school reporters, a...

A new iPhone is approaching "  this, everyone knows. While WWDC came and went without an announcement, this was expected. Instead, this year it will be all about the fall "  with n...

PayPal has hit 100 million active users. The company confirmed the milestone today. Last week, the company announced that it was upping estimates of the amount of mobile payments transactions using th...

Social gaming company CrowdStar has hit a milestone today, passing one million downloads of its recently launched iOS game Top Girl in 10 days. Top Girl is a female-focused mobile role-playing game th...

Another day, anotherunfortunatepiece of news out of Groupon's international operations. Today it's that SoSata, Groupon's Indian site, got hacked.In a letter to users, Groupon encouraged them to chang...

A new Pew research survey of U.S. adults conducted in May, 2011 shows that ownership of electronic readers such as the Amazon Kindle or The Barnes & Noble Nook is now at 12 percent. The ownership...

The world is getting a first look at Impermium, a new startup that aims to help sites fight growing user generated spam - spammy comments, hacked accounts and (my personal favorite) fraudulent registr...

We first wrote about SocialBicycles when it was just a student project in New York. Now it's going totally legit with a new website and Kickstarter project that promises to bring real bike sharing to ...

I got a chance to play around with Lacie's newly announced Porsche Design P'9220 mobile hard drive and one thing is certain: this little 5-inch hard drive is one sexy beast. If we're judging this book...

Three students at the University of Pennsylvania" Joseph Cohen, Dan Getelman, and Jim Grandpre" are quitting school to launch a new education startup called Coursekit, and they've ...

How would you feel about an iPhone app that claimed to be able to tell if that mole on your arm was not looking too healthy? That's the claim of Skin Scan, an iPhone medical app available now on t...

Everyone is trying to get pre-IPO Facebook shares any way they can. Some investors purchase shares on secondary markets like SecondMarket and SharesPost. Others broker private sales. Today, GSV Cap...

AFCV Holdings, a portfolio company of growth equity investor Summit Partners, is axing the majority of people working for Q&A site Answers.com parent company Answers Corporation, which it acquired...

Boingo Wireless is expanding its reach to the skies today with a new partnership with Gogo, a company that powers wireless internet connectivity on airplanes. With the new partnership, Boingo customer...

ViVOtech, the near field communication (NFC) software and systems company, has raised $24 million in Series C funding from Singapore's EDBI, SingTel Innov8, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, Alloy V...

Publisher Meredith is expanding its food media business with the launch of Recipe.com, a site that pairs - you guessed it - recipes with digital coupons and the acquisition of EatingWell, a multichann...

Looks like LivingSocial is employing the same strategy for international expansion as its rival Groupon: by acquiring local daily deal sites to serve as a foundation for discount distribution on a glo...

Justin Kan is the founder of Justin.tv and Socialcam. You can follow him on Twitter here and read his blog here. Startups die in many ways, but in the past couple of years I've noticed that the most ...

TechCrunch Europe is an interesting gig. There are 27 members of the "European Union", 48 geographical European countries and territories, and... 51 participating countries in the Eurovision Song Cont...

As popular as sports are, and as popular as the Internet is, it's always been a bit odd to me that the two haven't intertwined in a completely successful way just yet. That's why it's always nice to h...

Earlier this week Turntable.fm crossed a milestone. No, it wasn't hitting a reported 140K users one month after launching, nor was it being added to the list of portfolio companies for First Round Cap...

You may have heard about the social graph and the interest graph, but what about the health graph? Thanks to RunKeeper, this term may soon become an oft-used part of your vocabulary. RunKeeper, f...

Editor's note: Previously, in "The Math of TechCrunch, Part I: Is TechCrunch Still About Startups?"guestauthorMark Goldensonanalyzed more than 20,000 TechCrunch to find out how much we actually co...

This week's episode of OMG/JK is a long one "  the longest yet, in fact, at 30 minutes. Jason and I apologize for going on and on but we had a lot to talk about. It's been roughly three week...

When an employee cries foul against a big tech company or its greed-driven investors, it's easy to take the side of the employee, especially when an employee comes forward on the record to state his ...

"There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil "  - Walter LippmannSo, that's it. The hacking group known as LulzSec has called off its vandalis...

The two houses of Congress straddle the central rotunda, where JFK lay in state before making the trip across the Potomac to Arlington. From his gravesite and the Eternal Flame, you turn around and no...

As reported on TechCrunch,Google shut down its medical records and health data platform. Since then, there's been a lot of bits spilled offering explanations, but they all missed the most critical ite...

I almost miss the bad old days. When I first started wandering around some of the more obscure nooks and crannies of this planet, lo these many years ago, Internet connections were rare and wonderful ...

Skype is being criticized for terminating employees immediately prior to the closing of the Microsoft acquisition, and people are assuming they're doing this to keep the value of those employees stock...

Hacker group LulzSec has announced that after 50 days of hacking companies and organizations, it is finally done. Check out the message from LulzSec below, which was posted on Pastebin. Check out the ...

Ever since Color launched its photo sharing app, the $41 million startup has been having a rough time. John Biggs and I reviewed it on Fly or Die back in March, when CEO Bill Nguyen joined us to defe...

"I'm CEO, Bitch."While the story of this title appearing on Mark Zuckerberg's early Facebook business cards has been around outside the company since at least 2009, when Ben Mezrich's The AccidentalBi...

Over the last few days the TechCrunch tips box has seen a surge in complaints from Facebook developers who have had their applications disabled without warning. Facebook's developer forum is filled wi...

The Gillmor Gang "  Robert Scoble, Phil Windley, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor "  celebrated the news that apps are moving past web sites as the default architecture of the planet...

What's more impressive than a car that can do over a thousand miles per gallon? One that was designed by school kids. In the UK, students from regional schools and universities took part in the an...

There's a lot of hate out there these days from the press when it comes to the daily deals industry. I'm looking at you, TechCrunch. Sure, Groupon has become the whale in this industry, but that does...

Dear Gene,I was just reading your most recent Washington Post column: an open letter to a j-school student who wrote to you, at her professor's behest, asking how you built your "personal brand" in jo...

Well actually it wasan Instagramof a Foursquare check-in, posted to Twitter ...So I actually haven't been following news at all today, and when I say news I mean actual news, not tech news which I kee...

Quora has just announced a redesign of its Topic Pages and the introduction of Topic Groups, aiming to make information discovery and navigation on the site a little bit easier. The motivation behind...

If you're curious about the new generation of touchable e-readers, now's your chance to pick one up just for being a CrunchGear reader. Kobo has been generous enough to donate one of their new eReader...

After several years languishing in the backwoods of Google's server farms, the company today decided to pull the plug on Google Health. Why didn't the ambitious project to record your health record o...

It's been an incredibly rough week for Dropbox. On Monday, news broke that a bug in the service's authentication software effectively made passwords optional for around four hours over the weekend &qu...

Foursquare has just closed one of the most secretive rounds of venture capital TechCrunch has seen.The company is raising $50 million, and all of it will go towards building out the company, no second...

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz got an earful yesterday at the tail end of the company's annual shareholder meeting. An angry shareholder, who identified himself as Steve Landry" an advisor to instit...

Data hosting platform MongoHQ has raised $417K in financing in order to expand their hosting configuration service for developers who use MongoDB for data storage. Paul Graham's Y Combinator, Start Fu...

Data hosting platform MongoHQ has raised $417K in financing in order to expand their hosting configuration service for developers who use MongoDB for data storage. Paul Graham's Y Combinator, Start Fu...

Google is shutting down Google Health, which enables you to store and manage all your health information in one place on the Web. Google says the platform simply wasn't having the 'broad impact' neces...

We have just announced our Mobile First CrunchUp and 6th Annual Summer Party at August Capital! Tickets for both events are on sale now and are currently going very fast. For today, we are giving away...

In 2008 Google's President of the Americas operation Tim Armstrong (now CEO of our parent company AOL) was pushing hard to get some two dozen advertising processes integrated into a single streamlined...

Everyone likes to feel clever. Our brains do all sorts of fun stuff when we do things like complete puzzles or solve riddles; even if the task at hand is somewhat trivial, completing it gives us that ...

Apple has just published a MobileMe to iCloud transition Q&A. Of note, there has been a lot of confusion as to whether or not iCloud apps could be available on the web. We had heard that yes, they...

"Mobile first." It's a mantra we've been hearing increasingly. For many developers and startup founders, they start with a mobile product first, and web second, if at all. We are seeing this across ga...

Opera founder Jon S. von Tetzchner has resigned from the company. In an email to Opera employees, von Tetzchner said that "It has become clear that The Board, Management and I do not share the same va...

Yesterday news broke that the FTC is preparing to launch a major investigation into Google's "core search advertising business" and the way its search results are presented "  an investigati...

Foodspotting, the food photo sharing app that has built a community around the sharing of specific dishes, is launching on Windows Phone 7 today. The Foodspotting Windows Phone app will retain all the...

One of my favorite demos at Disrupt NYC was from an education startup called Desmos that is reinventing the whiteboard to make it browser-based and interactive (watch their Disrupt video below). One ...

There's a war going on in the tech world, and it doesn't involve Google, Facebook, Apple, or Microsoft. In fact, the foes are not based in Silicon Valley, but rather in New York City. As the tech IPO ...

Customer support startup Get Satisfaction is partnering with social marketing company Involver today to update its Facebook app to become more customer-friendly. Get Satisfaction's Facebook app, which...

Something is happening in Europe. The tectonic plates in the startup ecosystem are moving and, like penguins on ice-flows, we all are slithering around trying to get a handle on how things will play o...

A big (marketing and distribution) deal for Cellogic, makers of the fine FlyScreen mobile application: they're teaming up with NTT DoCoMo, a big Japanese carrier.Under the terms of the partnership agr...

When OpenSky launched a year ago, it was a commerce platform for influential bloggers. Bloggers with a following would curate their own merchandise, OpenSky would source the goods from manufacturers,...

OneLogin, a cloud-based single identity platform for the enterprise, has raised $1.5 million in Series A funding from Charles River Ventures. OneLogin allows enterprises of all sizes to centralize acc...

Spark Ventures has sold half of its stake in Mind Candy, creators of the online children's game, Moshi Monsters, for 3.1 million, generating a 15x return. The move means that Mind Candy / Moshi Monste...

Chinese search engine Baidu has made a $306 million investment in Qunar, travel search engine in China. The investment will make Baidu the majority shareholder of Qunar. Qunar had previously raised $2...

Despite being the resident Apple fanboy, I'm not going to try to defend the new Final Cut Pro X. I simply don't use Final Cut enough to know how good or bad it is compared to the old version. But I wi...

Q&A networkStack Exchangewill be launching Stack Overflow DevDays this fall, a two day conference targeting coders who want to brush up or dive into the latest programming technologies like MongoD...

After nine months of testing in-stream Promoted Tweets on third party client Hootsuite, reports havesurfaced today that Twitter's head of monetization Adam Bain has been pushing a new in-timeline Prom...

Around 4 AM PDT this morning, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling unveiled the latest addition to the massively successful series: a website called Pottermore, which will feature, among other things, Har...

It seems that Venture investors are none-too-happy with current IPO activity. According to a study sponsored by Deloitte and the National Venture Capital Association released yesterday, over 80 perce...

PayPal is upping its estimates of the amount of mobile payments transactions using the technology this year; doubling the estimate to $3 billion in mobile total payments volume (TPV) in 2011. PayPal s...

Today at their offices in Menlo Park, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is celebrating the third anniversary of the iFund. Technically, the fund started in March of 2008 alongs...

Hacker group of the moment LulzSec has just released a a torrent of data it claims to belong to Arizona law enforcement, in what it calls "Operation Chinga La Migra" (or literally "Fuck the border pat...

Hacker collective of the moment LulzSechas just released a torrent of data it claims to belong to Arizona law enforcement, in what it calls "Operation Chinga La Migra" (orliterally translated"Fuck the...

Yesterday Shazam, the company that lets users identify recorded music simply by holding their phones up toward a speaker, announced that it had raised a whopping $32 million. The company's goal: to ap...

"This is the next Macintosh-level of disruption."Over the past several years, I've followed pretty much every new thing in the technology space, and written about many of them. But it's hard not to ge...

TechCrunch Disrupt winner Soluto has raised $10.2 million in Series B funding. Index Ventures led the round, with Saul Klein taking a board seat. Previous investors including Bessemer, Gaza Venture Ca...

Apple introduced Final Cut Pro X earlier this week, with the tag line "Everything just changed in post." I guess it depends on what you mean by the word 'changed'. Apple said they showed the pre-rel...

Facebook's incredible worldwide growth has reached another major milestone: the service now has 750 million monthly active users, according to a source close to the company.We reached out to Facebook ...

In the quest for a unified database of places, geo-location startup Factual is making big strides. Today it is announcing a major partnership with SimpleGeo to maintain and power its places database,...

Keep an eye on yet-to-be launched Picadee, a new Seattle startup getting some buzz. The company was founded by former iLike employees Marcus Womack, Mike Bohlander, Ray Fortna and Josh Hepfer, and has...

Earlier this month, eBay acquired Magento, developer of an open-source e-commerce platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but we've heard from multiple sources that the ecommerce and digital p...

We're hearing that online textbook rental service Chegg has completed its third acquisition today, snapping up lecture notes and study guides service Notehall for an undisclosed amount of cash and sto...

It's not only douchebags who say that the Internet changes everything. According to James Gleick, one of America's most important and successful technology writers and the author of the major new book...

Facebook has just named Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings to its board. We've pasted the release below.Hastings co-founded Netflix in 1997 with then CEO Marc Randolph and launched the movie su...

Taking a page from Facebook's ad formats, professional social network LinkedIn is launching new social ad formats today that will leverage members' actions on the site to serve more targeted ads. So i...

When Unsubscribe.com launched last October, the premise was pretty simple. You install it in your email, and any time you want to unsubscribe from a marketing email, you just hit the "Unsusbcribe" bu...

Flattr, the social micropayment startup founded by ex-Pirate Bay associates, has added Soundcloud integration to make it easy to add the Flattr button (and start receiving payments) to any SoundCloud ...

We're at that point in the startup cycle where everyone wants to be a founder and it's easier than ever to make that desire a reality. At least it's easier than every to raise enough money to try it o...

When it comes to mobile applications that involve commerce, one of the biggest obstacles is getting users to actually pay for an item. Indeed, the user might be perfectly willing to hand over some mon...

Only two months after buying Social Gaming Network (SGN), MindJolt, the game distribution company led by MySpace founder and former CEO Chris DeWolfe, is churning out its first mobile social game toda...

The knives are out in Washington, D.C. for Google. Google has long been under the threat of an antitrust investigation in the U.S., but this time it looks like it is about to happen. According to t...

Grey Area, a Finnish smartphone games developer, has now launched its alternative reality game Shadow Cities across thirteen additional European countries, after its North American launch last month. ...

It looks like Apple and Square are even more cozy after the Cupertino based company started featuring the mobile payments startup's devices in Apple's retail stores and site a few months ago. Now, App...

Whose 4G is fastest? If someone asked me, I'd probably say Verizon, but then again, is Verizon's 4G LTE network really 4G? According to the International Telecommunications Union, it's not. Wh...

Whose 4G is fastest? If someone asked me, I'd probably say Verizon, but then again, is Verizon's 4G LTE network really 4G? According to the International Telecommunications Union, it's not. Wh...

Allegiance, a company that developers customer feedback and survey technology and services, has raised $12 Million in series B funding, led by El Dorado Ventures with participation from Rembrandt Vent...

The Echo Nest, a music intelligence startup whose technology that powers many music apps from media companies or independent developers, this morning announced the release of an open-source music iden...

Hot on the heels of Loopt's announcement that it is moving into the daily deals space with U-Deals, a young startup called Ringleadr is chiming in with its own user-generated deals service. Rather th...

Hot on the heels of my scathing diatribe against the once-mighty Blackberry empire, Erick and I explore the current financial and development situation that has befallen our neighbors to the North. Pl...

The artist formerly known as Extension Entertainment, now known simply as exfm, has officially gone mobile today, releasing its first mobile app for iOS. I've been enjoying exfm for a few months now t...

GE, Emerald Technology Ventures, Foundation Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, RockPort Capital and Carbon Trust Venture Capital Partners will invest in $63 Million in 10 home energy techn...

NYSE-listed SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software solutions, has agreed to acquire TriGeo, a privately-held vendor of log and event management software, for $35 million in cash.TriGeo, foun...

Encore Career Institute, a new online educational company, this morning announced that it has raised $15 million in Series A funding in a round co-led by VC firms InterWest Partners and Granite Ventur...

Remember all those big hints Twitter gave about not developing client apps any more? Well that's working out well for them. It turns out their own, in-house client app for the iPhone is the worst ...

Google's search market share in Russia remains well below 50% and it's about to get even more heat. Russian search giant Yandex is now partnering with Russian online media giant Rambler over search an...

ST-Ericsson, a joint venture of STMicroelectronics and Ericsson, this morning announced it will launch a cost savings plan to achieve about $120 million of annualized savings by the end of 2012. The c...

ST-Ericsson, a joint venture of STMicroelectronics and Ericsson, this morning announced it will launch a cost savings plan to achieve about $120 million of annualized savings by the end of 2012. The c...

Loopt has gone through quite a few incarnations, and this morning that tradition continued as the mobile social network announced it was entering the daily deals space with a service called U-Deals. ...

As evidenced by the impending $1 billion acquisition of PopCap, the social gaming market is heating up, also in Europe (just look at EA's Playfish, Wooga, Kobojo and many other fast-growing game devel...

Foursquare is expanding its relationship with American Express to provide local deals to people who sync their cards to their Foursquare accounts. AmEx did a trial at SXSW, and that went well enough ...

Following up on our story earlier this evening that PopCap Games is in the process of being acquired for a sum of over $1 billion " we've now heard from two sources that the buyer is Electro...

Following up on our story earlier this evening that PopCap Games is in late stage acquisition discussions for a sum of over $1 billion " we've now heard from two sources that the buyer is El...

Pulse is not just for news feeds and Facebook links. Now you can also get nearby daily deals. With the latest update to both the iPhone and Android apps, when you enable location sharing, Pulse will ...

It's no secret that game companies like Zynga have many of their mechanics " be it the initial walkthrough or payment process " down to a science. But for the so-called "long tail"...

On the heels of PopCap's billion dollar acquisition comes some interesting news from the social games front: Game developer Storm8 is today announcing a few impressive stats. Among other things, the c...

Nearly a year ago, I wrote a post titled "Is Android Surging Only Because Apple Is Letting It?". Not surprisingly, it fired people up. About 1,000 comments later, there was a full-on fanboy war be...

After seven years of lawsuits! ... After reaching a $65 million dollar settlement with Facebook in 2008 which they then tried to rescind on the argument that Facebook gave them misleading information!...

Huge news in the gaming world: PopCap Games, the company behind such hits as Plants vs Zombies and Bejeweled, is in the process of being acquired " and we're hearing from multiple sources th...

Groupon has just announced in a press release the addition of Ariel Investments president Mellody Hobson to the company's Board of Directors. In addition to the president position Hobson is also Chair...

Over three years ago, we reported that AOL had acquired the New Jersey-based fantasy sports site Fleaflicker. It seemed like a touchdown for 26-year-old founder Ori Schwartz. Now it's looking more lik...

For all the talk of cord-cutting, the cable/satellite/fiber optic TV companies are not going anywhere anytime soon. I put Verizon FIOS in that camp. With 3.7 million subscribers, it is already one o...

A month and about 10,000 emails into its beta, MorningPics, the latest project by ArtistData founder Brenden Mulligan has opened to the public. Previously invite only, the service is now available to ...

According to an official company blog post today, Google is increasing its investment into California's Alta Wind Energy Center (AWEC) by $102 million, bringing its total investment in the renewable ...

Vuclip a mobile video search engine that has quietly been growing in usage, especially outside of the U.S. Of course, Vuclip isn't as large as YouTube in terms of views. For basis of comparison, YouT...

The fruit of seven years of full-time research and writing, James Gleick's The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood is the most comprehensive book written, to date, about information. An amazing ...

After adding Vinod Khosla to its board a few weeks ago, mobile payments startup Square is adding another big name to its board of directors" Larry Summers. Summers served as Secretary of the...

Cloud storage and collaboration startup Box.net is upping the ante against competitor Microsoft SharePoint today with the launch of an in-depth integration with Google's productivity suite Google Docs...

As we reported in April, MindJolt, the game distribution company that was acquired by MySpace founder and former CEO Chris DeWolfe, bought Social Gaming Network (SGN). SGN's founder Shervin Pishevar ...

Fancy a 90% drop in website visitors? This amazing offer could be yours thanks to an insane new law about cookies from EU regulators. Yes folks, the people who brought you regulations about the t...

Research In Motion is done. They'll be bought in the next year or so, their products will roll into whoever buys them - Microsoft, most probably - and they'll go the way of Nokia, Danger, and countles...

Research In Motion is done. They'll be bought in the next year or so, their products will roll into whoever buys them - Microsoft, most probably - and they'll go the way of Nokia, Danger, and countles...

Mobile social network Loopt is turning on the revenue streams by going after the daily deal space. It already partnered with Groupon to show users nearby Groupon Now deals via notifications, but toda...

So, one normally judges high growth in consumer apps by traction early on. Instagram, which is killing it lately, had 100,000 downloads in one week. Soundtracking has the same inside two weeks.Adding ...

Shazam, the application that lets you identify nearly any piece of recorded music by holding your smartphone within earshot of a speaker, is swinging for the fences: the company has just raised a new ...

Russia's startup scene is still growing but with a potential market size of 170 million users in the next 18 months, it's white hot. There remain hurdles - like payment mechanisms and door-to-door del...

Pogoplug is today releasing new software that basically turns any PC or Mac into a Pogoplug device, no additional hardware required.The software could be useful to stream pictures, music or movies to ...

In March we wrote about new Andreessen Horowitz partner Peter Levine's first investment for the fund in Bromium, a stealthy startup that was at the intersection of "security and virtualization." ...

Editor's Note: This is a guest post by (@msuster) Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur, now VC atGRP Partners. Read more about Suster atBothsidesofthetableBubble. There, I said it. We're definitely in some ...

Research firm ForeSee Results put its analysis spotlight on the daily deal industry, concluding that discount distribution services offered by companies such as Groupon, LivingSocial and Google do in ...

LinkedIn has taken another deep dive on its user data, comparing women and men's networking skills on the 100 million-plus member professional network. The verdict: LinkedIn says that that men are ove...

SlideShare, a sharing platform for business documents, videos and presentations, and LinkedIn have been partners for some time now. In 2008, SlideShare launched an app on LinkedIn that allows professi...

A French software company, Enablon, has raised a series A round of $15 million from the Environmental Technology Fund (ETF) in the U.K. Enablon's enterprise software helps companies understand how mu...

The race to create the gold standard of measurement for social media influence continues. The last we heard from Klout was that it was now tracking around 60 million profiles. But today it would appea...

Social marketing platform Involver is partnering with Klout, a startup that measures influence on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, to allow brands to interact with and reward their fans on Facebook ba...

Labels.io, the recruitment startup that wants to simplify the resume, has surfaced its social authority algorithm through the introduction of a Labels Weight score on user profiles. Perhaps similar to...

This was the topic du jour on some domain name industry blogs yesterday, but I haven't seen much coverage beyond that. According to DN Journal, a contract for the sale of the domain name Social.com ha...

Location, location, location.Between Foursquare, myriad deals apps, Google's Latitude, and all the rest, you've got plenty of ways to tell your friends (or anyone following you on Twitter) where you'r...

GameSalad, formerly Gendai Games, offers a simple game creation tool that allows non-programmers to build, develop and publish 2D casual games games for the web and iPhone and iPad. Today, the startup...

Well, this is one way to solicit interest from potential angel and institutional investors: German startup LinkCloud made a funny video based on a famous scene from the movie Braveheart. It's out been...

I think we all know that add-ons have grown integral to the Firefox experience -- and popular, to say the least -- but we didn't know just how popular until now. Today, Mozilla said through its blog ...

When Facebook acquired FriendFeed in September 2009, my heart sank a bit. I was happy for those guys, but I knew FriendFeed would never be the same despite the talk of FriendFeed staying alive. Now, n...

When Facebook acquired FriendFeed in September 2009, my heart sank a bit. I was happy for those guys, but I knew FriendFeed would never be the same despite the talk of FriendFeed staying alive. Now, n...

Nokia this morning announced that it is establishing a new 'Location & Commerce' business unit, which will be formed by integrating the NAVTEQ business with its social/location services operations...

Lark, the vibrating wristband alarm clock that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco last September, has had quite a year, from being given the run around by homeland security because it was a...

I really wanted to do the headline without the Santa bit, but I didn't want to be that much of an ass.Regardless, let's see how many people report this as fact just from the headline. In other words, ...

After reporting the Android Market's increasing rate of growth in April's research, app store analytics company Distimo is releasing a new study that focuses on Apple's App Store development in Asia. ...

Earlier today, TUAW noted that according to Flickr's stats, the iPhone 4 is now the most popular camera across the site. Yes, it has overtaken all those professional cameras, all the point-and-shoots,...

Interesting story breaking that Yahoo put an unsolicited bid in to acquire Hulu. For all I know it's completely true. But I've just received an unsolicited message from a source close to Yahoo that sa...

Love photos but utterly bored by wave after wave of iPhone photo sharing apps? Lytro is the company for you. This is also the company for anyone who thinks Silicon Valley has fallen into a rut of ...

Love photos but utterly bored by wave after wave of iPhone photo sharing apps? Lytro is the company for you. This is also the company for anyone who thinks Silicon Valley has fallen into a rut of ...

Daily deals are growing like crazy, and it's not just Groupon and LivingSocial. Daily deal aggregator Yipit just raised $6 million in a series B led by Highland Capital Partners. Existing investors ...

Wordpress.org has just posted the following on its blog:"Earlier today the WordPress team noticed suspicious commits to several popular plugins (AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total Cache) containing clever...

Oof, Yahoo. The Alibaba dispute, just the most recent Yahoo trainwreck, is still a fresh wound for shareholders. And things are getting worse.Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has long promised a turnaround at th...

There's been a lot of hype around 4G of late, with talk about how the new network standard provides increased speeds, better device functionality, and all that jazz. But is 4G a term that actually ha...

We're back for a new episode of TC Cribs, and it's featuring a startup long-time TechCrunch readers will know well: Justin.tv. The office is a quirky mix of hallways, rooms that probablyshouldn'tbe ro...

Food aside, what's missing from your fridge? As long as it keeps food cold, and hooks you up with some cold water or crushed ice from time to time, there's really nothing more we can ask from our ...

What's a surefire sign that a web service has hit the big time? Well, when the celebrities start to pile on of course!The guys behind GiantThinkwell and the Mixnmatch game have teamed up with the ...

A brand new Nissan Leaf rolled out off a car carrier and into my life earlier today. I plan on spending a good deal of time with this red devil over the coming week. You see, here at CrunchGear, there...

Adobe reported strong second quarter earnings at market close today, posting revenue of $1.023 billion, up 9 percent year over year. The Company says revenue came in at the higher range of its targete...

Afterdeclaring waragainst all governments Sunday night in Operation Anti-Security (#AntiSec), hacktivist group LulzSec has spent all Tuesday morning in a battle repudiating various media claims, coinc...

We've had crowd-sourced book reviews (Amazon), crowd-source location (Foursquare, Waze), so why not a crowd-sourced advertising network? Sounds crazy? Well the fact is display banner ads have...

This post is about an iPad application that's over two months old and has already been chosen as an App Store app of the week. But I'd never heard of it, and, given that the app only has around 95 rev...

A San Francisco-based renewable energy fund, CleanPath Ventures, announced plans today to invest $800 million over a period of about five years into the development and construction of large-scale, s...

As we heard in April, Kevin Rose and former Digg designer Daniel Burka have teamed up to start Milk, a mobile app development lab in San Francisco. The company also raised $1.5 million from a number o...

In retail, businesses that speed up the check-out process get more business. With Foursquare, it is speeding up the check-in process, which should get people to use it even more. A new release of its...

New York City likes to put out its BigApps challenge to get developers to come up with apps that make living in the city better. (Recent winners include parking finder and pick-up game organizing app...

Videographers take note: $299 will now get you one of the most powerful video editing suites in the whole wide world. Final Cut Pro X includes a new magnetic timeline, content auto-analysis, improved ...

There have been a number of startups that have helped users manage contacts within email clients, such as Gist or Rapportive, but what about an app that helps you better manage the content of your ema...

Search engine Blekko is pretty excited about their new Zorro launch that I just wrote about. All new design, a move from red to blue links and a general declutterfication is just the shiny stuff on to...

Ok, I got a little over excited in the title. But the new version of search engine Blekko, called Zorro and launching right now, is pretty cool. There have been big improvements visually. Gone are the...

In my post about Groupon's potential for collapse, I talked about the possibility of merchant fraud. Because Groupon pays merchants everything within 60 days, they are exposed to the possibility of fr...

Just as the FCC tipped, Apple has a new Time Capsule and it's rocking a ton of storage. Inside the familiar case is a server-grade 3TB hard drive of unannounced pedigree, which is 1TB more than the ou...

In the olden days, when you wanted a bust made, you hired some fancy sculptor to come to your house and sit with you for hours a day until, months later, you had a handsome marble or ceramic bust. Now...

For businesses looking for user reviews of payroll providers, collaboration software, or even a phone system; there is no Yelp, Glassdoor or TripAdvisor for these business products. BestVendor aims to...

Turns out Greg was right yesterday, PocketNow's leaked press shot is in fact Nokia's long awaited MeeGo handset, the N9. The rumor mill has thrown out a few different specs on this device, including a...

There are a number of platforms that allow publishers to host and serve video to visitors, including Brightcove and Ooyala. Today, LongTail Video is launching its self-serve video platform, LongTail.T...

Oracle has just announced a new acquisition today" web experience management company Fatwire Software. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close mid-2011, were not disclosed. F...

The three people following my posts might be aware that yesterday I wrote about an awesome startup called CityPockets that offers users a wallet for all their daily deals -- as well as a secondary mar...

SAY Media, the company that was formed after the merger between VideoEgg and blogging software maker Six Apart, this morning announced its acquisition of Sideshow, a digital agency with offices in the...

The real estate bust wasn't kind to Roost, which started out as a real estate search engine. But CEO Alex Chang took the $8 million he raised in late 2008 and convinced his investors to back him down...

Taleo, a provider of on-demand talent management solutions, has acquired its European rival Jobpartners for approximately $38 million in cash. The move doubles Taleo's customer base and improves the p...

Cloud9 IDE, a commercial development as a service (DaaS) platform, has raised $5.5 million in Series A funding from Accel Partners and product development software company Atlassian Software. Cloud9 I...

ScaleXtreme, a vendor of cloud-based systems management products, this morning announced it has landed $11 million in Series B funding in a round led by Ignition Partners with participation from previ...

Ping Identity, a company that creates secure, cloud based sign-in platform for enterprise applications, has raised $21 million in funding from Triangle Peak Partners, Silicon Valley Bank, and existing...

Citrix this morning announced an investment in mobile technology company Core Mobile Networks, marking the third funding commitment for the company's Startup Accelerator, its Silicon Valley-based seed...

Back in January 2010, a small FBfund company called Wildfire was making a name for itself by helping brands and businesses launch viral campaigns " sweepstakes, contests, and the like "...

Translation tool MyGengo has raised one million in angel financing from Point Nine, Mitch Kapor and WenceslaoCasares. Prior to today's investment, the platform had raised $750k from Dave McClure's 500...

Over the weekend, The New York Times ran a piece entitled Lessons in Longevity, From IBM. In it, author Steve Lohr looks back at the past 100 years of IBM and points out the keys to their longevity: s...

Onswipe, the publishing platform that allows any content site to create an app like experience on the iPad and other tablets, is coming out of beta this week and will be available to the public tomorr...

As what exactly the Google +1 Button does continues to mystify some users, security researcher Ashkan Soltani and Brian Kennish, former Googler andthe mind behind Facebook Disconnect, have decide...

This morning a post on Pastebin outlined a serious security issue that was spotted at Dropbox: for a brief period of time, the service allowed users to log into accounts using any password. In other w...

Come inside, take off your coatI'll make you feel at homeNow let's pour a glass of wine'Cause now we're all alone.The opening lines of Color Me Badd's seminal "I Wanna Sex You Up" sort of perfectly en...

Seesmic might have the sweetest Twitter app for Blackberry, but the Blackberry's appeal isn't sweet enough. Seesmic is discontinuing support for its Blackberry app on June 30.Research in Motion, the ...

Seedcamp, the London-based startup accelerator program which has been operating in Europe for the past four years, has been named the top European startup accelerator by a year-long independent study....

If you've been following TechCrunch and the tech press at large in the weeks since Groupon filed its S-1, you've probably come across quite a few articles criticizing the company. Groupon may, accordi...

We've been hearing a lot lately about consumer cloud services. There's Apple's recently-announced iCloud, Amazon's Cloud Drive, Google's Music Beta (which is your music in the cloud) and, of course, M...

If there's one thing you can legitimately knock Uber for, it's that the service is still too expensive for most people to use on a regular basis. Taxis, for all their problems, are still significantly...

After about two weeks worth of false alarms, the just over two year old Foursquare has just announced an important milestone today, 10 million users up 700K users from when it last announced a milesto...

A couple of weeks ago I apologized to the CEO of AdMeld for writing about their acquisition without even contacting him to let him know beforehand or ask for a comment. He wrote back "the call would h...

The Gnonstop Gnomes are here and they cannot be stopped. Gnonstop Gnomes is the first mobile app to come out of Churn Labs, Omar Hamoui's product lab that he started after he left AdMob/Google. Hamo...

There's something about Instagram that you can't quite put your fingers on. It's just a fantastic, sticky, launch-a-few-times-a-day kind of app. There's really nothing you can point to that makes it a...

Members of Skype's investor syndicate areadamantlydenying the Sunday Bloomberg story that implied that several Skype executives were fired because private equity firm Silver Lake Partners wanted to sa...

Lithium: it's everywhere and we know nothing about it. It powers our phones, our computers, and our cars and the control and use of lithium will, in part, define how we handle the coming petroleum cri...

A Los Angeles startup that's trying to become a cleantech mashup of AngelList LinkedIn and Intellectual Ventures, OnGreen, today announced it has hired ex-Hulu, ex-Myspace vice president Mark Richard...

With more than $400 million in projected gross sales for 2011, Eventbriteis getting big enough that it has to worry about fending off the criminals. In the above clip of Founder Stories with Chris Dix...

VibeDeck, a web service that enables music artists to sell their digital wares directly to their fans for free, announced today that it has raised a $2 million seed round from several U.S. and interna...

With more than $400 million in projected gross sales for 2011, Eventbriteis getting big enough that it has to worry about fending off the criminals. In the above clip of Founder Stories with Chris Dix...

A new product search engine dubbed Hidentify has launched with the ambition to help consumers make educated buying decisions sans the hassle of conducting complicated research on the Web. In essence, ...

Mobile app analytics firm Flurry is releasing a new report today comparing the daily engagement of smartphone users on mobile apps vs. web browsing on the PC. For web analytics, Flurry used data from ...

The Internet carries nearly 160 times more traffic than voice networks in North America, yet many of the regulations and inter-carrier traffic fees are based on the quickly receding era when voice net...

Like them or not, Groupon has successfully brought coupons to a whole new generation. Tellingly, this has resulted in a cavalcade of clones popping up in its wake -- and they continue to pop up -- lik...

We all want solutions tailored to our needs for a lot of things, online and offline, but does that include a search engine that shows results for queries based on dozens of factors (and more important...

Have you ever excused yourself from a real-life interpersonal conversation to play Farmville? Do you update "what's on your mind"  more often than you eat? Do you scour the soci...

Amazon is touting its self-publishing platform today with the announcement that John Locke has become the first independently published author to become a member of the "Kindle Million club," sel...

In October 2010, Skype debuted new Windows software with deep Facebook integration, adding the ability to use the client to monitor your Facebook news feed and post, like or comment on status updates ...

eBay announced its $2.4 billion acquisition GSI Commerce in March, and today the e-commerce giant has announced that the deal has been closed. In a release, eBay said that GSI's stock holders approved...

ProtonMedia, a startup that develops virtual worlds technology, has raised $4.5 million in Series B venture financing led by Kaplan Ventures (the venture arm of the education company) with Originate V...

Don't tell the kids this, but it's almost back to school time and Apple is reportedly gearing up for a major push this August. Apperently several large hardware refreshes are on tap with both the Mac ...

Decide.com has been cloaked in stealth mode for nearly the last two years. During that time, the startup has remained tight-lipped about what it's been up to, while at the same time managing to raise ...

iControl Networks, a provider of broadband home management software solutions, this morning announced that it has raised over $50 million in Series D funding, bringing total investment in the company ...

Bigpoint, the German online gaming outfit, is pointing to some big numbers today, claiming its 200 millionth registered user. This, says the company, puts it on par with Twitter, which is a bit like c...

Bluefields.com, a sort of 'Groupspaces for amateur football', has scored 100k from seven angel investors including Julian Ranger of iBundle and Jalin Somaiya, Google Sales Project Leader, although Som...

The ICANN board has voted to approve the new gTLD program, which was first announced three years ago. The new program will significantly expand Top-Level Domains (TLDs) to allow companies, organizatio...

Google, Google, Google " I don't know if it's that you just don't understand the intricacies of intrapersonal relationships or if getting the social stuff right is just extremely difficult. Whate...

Back in early May, developer Joe Hewitt surprised a lot of people when he abruptly announced he was leaving Facebookafter nearly four years.Hewitt had been vital to everything from the social network'...

Adobe is today pushing updates to its application development software product Flash Builder and the open source Flex framework to enable developers to build apps for iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry PlayB...

It seems that Bitcoin is experiencing the same fits and starts that any new currency undergoes early in its history. Though Bitcoin is 2 years old, the mainstream press discovered it much more recent...

New York City-based dining deals site VillageVines is now Savored. In addition to the name change, it launched a redesigned site, is doubling its cities to ten, and added Buddy Media CEO Michael Laz...

Movie trailers are among the most popular videos on YouTube. A typical movie trailer gets millions of views, but how many of those views are natural and who many are pushed as paid-for ads? Yes,...

Thinking about catching a movie with your loved ones for Father's Day or just because its Sunday? Well it's not going to be on Netflix as their online services including the $7.99 a month streamin...

Imagine something so insidious that it leads to the following: over 750,000 personal bankruptcies per year. In Bill Gates' recent TED talk, he described it as the factor that is devastating education ...

Combining social games with a cause has become a popular way to engage game players on Facebook with raising money for various philanthropic causes. For example, Zynga has raised funds via its games f...

Google really wants you to use Gmail to call your dad to wish him a Happy Father's Day. On the front page of Google search (which features a Dad-themed Doodle), Google has a message underneath the sea...

Editor's note:Aaron Crayford is the CEO of Mighty whose main product is a smart real-time communication framework. While in high school was prosecuted by the US government for what the DoD called &quo...

Editor's note: Carey Friedman is the proud owner of Grandpa Eddie's BBQ in Richmond, VA. This post is in response to a guest series on TechCrunch taking a critical look at Groupon's business model. ...

Editor's note: Carey Friedman is the proud owner of Grandpa Eddie's BBQ in Richmond, VA. This post is in response to a guest series on TechCrunch taking a critical look at Groupon's business model. ...

If the numbers shared by Gigaom in this infographic are any indication, Venture funding has stormed back to where it was before the financial collapse in 2008. The amount of capital invested is on the...

Earlier this week GRP Parter VC and VC blogger Mark Suster gave the keynote talk at Founder's Showcase on "Getting Funded In A Frothy Market." Suster began the keynote with the declarative statement t...

I last wrote about Bitcoin less than a month ago. (If you're one of the people who admitted in comments "I still don't get it," here's a terrific and detailed explainer from The Economist.) Since then...

Editor's note: This guest post is written by Adam Bosworth, co-founder of Keas, a startup that turns staying healthy into a game. Previously, he spearheaded Google Health, was chief architect at BEA ...

Editor's note:James Altucheris an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur.I know through hard experience that I'm one of the dumbest investors I know. Here are two examples: the time I cost Yas...

The Internet, wireless technology, evolving consumer trends and other factors have merged into a perfect storm putting significant stress on the relationship between record labels and their artists, a...

Poor dad. He's always getting shafted when it comes to Father's Day. Usually he gets a tie or a chess set or a fancy prize-winning goat (it was a weird year that year at the Biggs house, let me tell y...

Intuary, a mobile app startup, recently launched its first app, called Verbally, which is designed to bring speech to those without. Verbally is an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) sol...

Online radio startup Earbits (YC Winter 2011) is announcing a seed round of funding today, having snatched up $605K from Y Combinator, Charles River Ventures, Start Fund and former Lala CEO Geoff Rals...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said today that it has approved Microsoft's $8.5 billion cash takeover of voice and video-over-IP provider Skype. Microsoft officially announced its intent to acquir...

This is amazing. Earlier today Yahoo launched Android music app that happened to have the exact same name as the Android music app launched by AOL four months ago, "Play."Yes, Yahoo and AOL now both h...

You're about to see whole lot more Tweets from the President. President Obama's Twitter account, @BarackObama, has been around for sometime, accumulated 8.6 million followers but he was rarely sending...

Evernote is as hot as any startup in Silicon Valley, even if they don't get quite as much press. Last year they raised $20 million from Sequoia Capital, on top of the $25 million they'd already raised...

Square is still working on raising its $50 million-or-so next round of venture capital, and we've heard from several sources why it's taking so long.It seems Square is no longer content to be in the $...

One aspect of the Egyptian uprising (among the others, most ongoing) that was overpowered by the wild acclamation of social media is something that has been quietly but powerfully changing societal no...

Two of many challenges developing countries face are unsafe water and a lack of affordable energy. With the help of a new $1.5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Ghana may be ab...

Last week Twilio, the startup that makes it easy for developers to integrate SMS and telephony features into their own applications, made a significant pricing change: they dropped the price of each o...

I'm a dad and have no problem stating that Father's Day is farce. It's a waste of money, mainly. I believe the same goes for Mother's Day, but I clearly don't have the same sort of authority to state ...

There's currently something going on in the outskirts of the tech world that's a bit sensitive, so no one really likes to talk about: we (journalists, bloggers, etc) are at war with the PR industry.Th...

Anyone who was in the Valley during the late 1990s knows exactly the guy I'mabout to describe. He wore blue shirts and khakis. He was a regular at the Bubble Lounge. He always insisted on grabbing the...

Chris Dixon resumes his Founder Stories conversation with Eventbrite's Kevin and Julia Hartz by asking questions about their strategy for attracting customers.Not surprisingly Facebook, Twitter and Li...

Chris Dixon resumes his Founder Stories conversation with Eventbrite's Kevin and Julia Hartz by asking questions about their strategy for attracting customers.Not surprisingly Facebook, Twitter and Li...

We had a blast at Disrupt this year in New York City. Now that we have disrupted the startup scene in New York, we are taking it back to our home turf, San Francisco. We will have new special speakers...

Hacker group LulzSec, which only communicates through its own Twitter account, LulzSecurity.com and random messages on Pastebin, has been on a Public Realtions tear this morning. For the uninitiated, ...

A New York City startup that helps brands connect with and reward their fans via Facebook, Crowdtap, recently crossed the $1 million revenue mark for 2011, with 115,000 active members and about 50 ma...

Up until now, ecommerce valuations have been relatively reasonable compared to social media valuations. As Aileen Lee of Kleiner Perkins and Kevin Ryan of Gilt Group discussed on stage at Disrupt, the...

Recently I sat down with a well-connected Silicon Valley CEO who just raised a ton of money, and who knew of other startups raising even more. There is a new startup club of younger companies raising...

comScore has just released its monthly data on online video engagement, with 176 million U.S. Internet users watching online video content in May for an average of 15.9 hours per viewer. The total U.S...

The Internet is abuzz with chatter that this, the tablet in the pic above, is the Xoom 2. It's featured in a new Verizon ad (embedded after the link) and while it lacks any branding besides the large ...

Forrester Research has just released a new report this morning projecting U.S. mobile commerce to reach $31 billion by 2016, growing at a 39% compound rate. But the report says that mobile commerce is...

Question: Who is the mother of MP3?Answer: Singer songwriter Suzanne Vega, whose iconic 1981 song "Tom's Diner"  was used by MP3 inventor Karl-Heinz Brandenberg to calibrate the sta...

I was trying for a few weeks to write a review of the remake of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on the 3DS and I couldn't do it. It was too hard. I was lost to the experience of the thing and knew th...

Expanding e-commerce operations to international markets is a challenge for online retailers. The logistics of localizing product prices in a country's currency, and integrating shipping and delivery ...

You don't hear news like this too often these days, but according to Japanese business daily The Nikkei, HP is planning to shift part of its notebook production from China to Japan in the next few mon...

A village in India has decided to rename itself and henceforth be known as Snapdeal.com Nagar (which means town). Snapdeal.com being an online couponing company that recently raised $12 million and ha...

Learning to play an instrument is challenging; the progress in the early stages is slow, and the exercises that help you learn are boring and tedious. It's largely for this reason that so many people ...

Google Chrome first launched on September 1, 2008. The very next day, someone filed a "bug" report on the Chromium project page stating the following:There is no option for a print preview. I think th...

The leaking of Facebook continues. Following our stories yesterday about their new Photos mobile app and "Project Spartan" (a new mobile app platform), Nick Bilton of The New York Times reports that F...

Whether it's an altruistic push to give back to and interact with their fans or to just drum up publicity for their brands, it seems that a number of well-known musicians, artists, and creatives are t...

Payment platform Dwolla is celebrating an important milestone this week; Hitting almost 1 million a week in payments on the service. This is rapid growth, as six months ago the startup was completing ...

In March we wrote about the launch of Imagine K12, a new startup incubator modeled on Y Combinator that is focused on the education space. It was founded by startup veterans Geoff Ralston, Tim Brady a...

Air travel promises to become cleaner, if industry actions ahead of the huge, annual Paris Airshow are any indication. Virgin America"  a company that's been reporting on its own greenhouse...

The TechCrunch office pool predicted Vostu would respond to the Zynga lawsuit alleging that Vostu's entire business is basically to copy every single thing Zynga does in one of two ways. They'd either...

Just because things are expected, doesn't mean they don't hurt. This is the case for Research In Motion (RIM), which has been steadily slashing expectations over sales and earnings for the first quar...

At TechCrunch, there's nothing we hate more than predictability.That's the reason we sold ourselves to Aol, a company we previously considered to be a dead-in-the-water startup killer. It's why we put...

First Facebook, now Wordpress? Mad Magazine just announced their update official blog, The Idiotical, following such greats as the New Yorker and Cracked into the cesspool that is Internet media....

It's no secret we're big fans of One Kings Lane, a Kleiner Perkins and Greylock-backed flash sales site for home dcor, furnishings and accessories. Today, the e-commerce startup is launching a new fea...

Hot on the heels of rival Pandora's IPO yesterday, Slacker Radio has its own offering for the public: an iPad app. The app brings all three levels of Slacker service to the iPad - Slacker Basic Radio,...

AppRedeem, a Mountain View-based startup that aims to offer mobile app developers innovative, effective solutions to driving app installs and engagement, announced today that it has raised $700K in se...

A just-released Pewstudy on the ways people use social networking sites has found, unsurprisingly, that the most popular social network is Facebook, with 92% of social networking users reporting that ...

Apple doesn't hand out a lot of design awards. When they do, it's a pretty clear indication of the apps they feel best showcase their platforms. This year at WWDC, one of the winners was Pulse, the vi...

Google has just announced a new feature for its core search engine that sounds like it will be very helpful: a new kind of related search result that's based around lists. Starting today, when you run...

"Do you see the 'File' option at the top? No, higher, at the very top of the screen. Click that. What do you mean it went away? What went away? What did you press? No, stop clicking fo...

Mega funds are back. Accel Partners closed two funds today for a total of $1.35 billion in new capital. The funds are Accel XI, which raised $475 million, and Accel Growth Fund II, which raised $875...

HubSpot, which just raised a massive $32 million from Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, Salesforce and others; has acquired fellow marketing software company Performable. Financial terms of the deal h...

Fresh off a $23 million round of funding, Social gaming company CrowdStar is launching its first mobile-only social game, Top Girl. As you can see from the headline, the free game, which is launching ...

It's Thursday, Thursday, and Rebecca Black's memetastic "Friday" video is no longer available on YouTube, due to a copyright claim by Rebecca Black apparently. It's not clear what exactly happened to ...

"Let's be clear "" it is one thing to be inspired by Zynga games, but it is entirely different to copy all of our key product features, product strategy, branding, mission statement and empl...

Eventbrite, the company that lets anyone organize online events and sell tickets to those events, was founded by the husband and wife team of Kevin and Julia Hartz. Chris Dixon sat down with the power...

EcoMotors struck a parntership with Generac (NYSE: GNRC) this week to jointly develop fuel-efficient, backup power generators. Generac is a large manufacturer of backup power generators for home, lig...

Microsoft has just announced a new SDK for Windows that allows programmers to take input from the Kinect and use it in their homebrew projects. This will allow users to create games, UIs, and apps wit...

I received a couple of emails from a former Groupon employee which sheds some light on the sales culture at the company. This is one person's view, but it comes from a former insider. The emails are b...

tracking service Shopobot has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Google Ventures, AOL Ventures, Lucas Nealan, Jump Ventire and several other strategic investors. Shopobot, which was pa...

A new augmented reality startup launches today. String Augmented Reality claims to be a fast and powerful augmented reality technology for iOS.String claims to be capable of live two-way broadcast AR ...

AOL's advertising platforms, which are grouped under the Advertising.com business, is now a $500 million business, the company revealed today at its Investor Day in New York City. The Advertising.com...

A lot has been written about Groupon recently but have we missed the point? Rob Carter, Director at bookingbug.com, gives his opinion on the value of what they have achieved.Despite articles to th...

Here in the States, RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook hasn't exactly been greeted with open arms. In fact, even Sprint, the only carrier to release the tablet thus far, is only carrying a Wi-Fi 16GB version, ...

Aylus Networks, the US-based company which enables video services over mobile, has secured a $16 million series D (wow, those are rare) investment round. The financing is being lead by m8 Capital, the...

Tablets tend to be delicate devices, most comfortable being used on a cushy couch or over the safety of a study table. But not the just-announced Panasonic Toughbook Android tablet. It's a Toughbook p...

After popping 60 percent yesterday in the first day of trading, shares of streaming music company Pandora are back to around $15 to $17 per share in morning trading. Pandora was priced at $16 per sha...

Flipkart, an Amazon-like e-commerce site in India, has raised $20 million from Tiger Global. This brings the company's total funding to $31 million. Previous investors include Accel India. Flipkart la...

There's a new name in the online fundraising scene, but it's already got plenty of users " and a very impressive seed funding round. Meet Rally.org.Rally got its start some 18 months ago, wh...

Smarter Agent, a company that creates a software to help real estate agents go mobile, has raised $6 million in new funding, bringing the company's total funding $18 million. Smarter Agent offers a m...

Nuance is picking up another company today, acquiring SVOX, a company that developers voice recognition software for in-car systems and consumer electronics. Financial terms of the deal were not discl...

This is no doubt that this is the year of technology IPOs. Vacation home rental service HomeAway has set the price range of its offering, pricing the range between $24 and $27 per share, valuing the c...

Lumosity, a company that creates online fitness games, has raised $32.5 million in Series C financing led by Menlo Ventures, with participation by existing investors FirstMark Capital, Harrison Metal ...

Is the recession over? Are people really really hitting the globe-trotting trails again? Looks like it if news out of WAYN, the travel and lifestyle portal-turned-social-network which has pivo...

FunMobility, the makers of FunMail, a picture-messaging app that organically pairs your texts with appropriate (and fun) images, FunTones, a large collection of funny ringtones, and FunMe, a suite of ...

Day One Capital has launched what it claims to be the first institutional angel fund in Hungary.The new fund aims to tackle an oh-so-familiar problem faced by much of Europe: the lack of "seed money a...

New York City Mayor Bloomberg calls for major immigration reform:The Mayor proposed green cards for graduates with advanced degrees in essential fields; a new visa for entrepreneurs with investors rea...

If apps replace the mobile web, and along with it, traditional search, then the search engines need to figure out how to adapt. Yahoo is taking a tiny step towards embracing mobile apps with a few ne...

GameChanger Media, a startup founded in January 2009, is helping usher amateur sports into the digital age by offering a scorekeeping and stat-tracking app for mobile phones and tablets. Coaches or pa...

Video ad network YuMe has acquired fellow video advertising company and competitor, Appealing Media. YuMe, which declined to reveal financial terms of the deal, will open up its first office in Europe...

Most of the big social media and app companies are pretty light on hard-core technology. Happy to stand on the shoulders of the tech giants that came before, many focus instead of features, design and...

Given the news that has already come outabout Facebook, you're probably thinking there is no way that anything else leaks out today. They're probably on lockdown (real lockdown, not the crazed coding ...

Pinger's TextFree, the app that lets users send and receive free text messages and phone calls using real phone numbers, has a new best friend: the big green Android robot.We've been trackingTextFree'...

Today, seed fund and accelerator, TechStars, put on its "Demo Day" in Boston to debut 12 new companies to the world. Investors came in from far and wide to vet these young startups and to potentially ...

No, it's not an actual bird. The Lark is a sleeping aid device meant for couples that launched last year at Disrupt and made some more announcements just last month, and reader Graham decided to pick ...

When it comes to photo apps, some of the first to hit involved recreating old school photo booths. It was (and remains) an awesome, if not obvious, idea. The proliferation of front-facing cameras on s...

Sad news for some karaoke fans out there: MySpace Karaoke " a feature that launched back in 2008 " is no more.A message now appears on the feature's former home that states, "Karao...

The nerds at Adafruit, our favorite open source hardware makers, have just released the iCufflinks, handsome, battery powered glowing cufflinks that pulse at the same speed as the Macbook's "sleep" li...

It's been well documented that there aren't as many women working in Silicon Valley and technology companies as we'd all like. Moving the conversation beyond raising awareness about this thing we're a...

The "Locationgate"  scandal that saw so much coverage back in April hasn't been in the news much lately, but that hasn't stopped lawmakers from trying to prevent similar situations. Two...

When you move to or visit a new place, you bring your hobbies, tastes, and preferences with you, but discovering and finding people in your new surrounding who enjoy the same niche activities and cat ...

In April 2010, Facebook quickly swooped in and bought the Y Combinator-backed Divvyshot when they were in the midst of raising an angel round of funding. The reason why was clear: the small team had c...

Link shortening service bitly has just made its Bitly Pro features available to all its users, free of charge. In beta since 2009, Bitly Pro served over 10K shortened domains, including P.Diddy's didd...

EcoFactor, an energy efficiency startup based in Redwood City, Calif. was named a winner at the Utility Technology Challenge today in Boston. The other two winners were Ideal Power Converters and Powe...

Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari and Chuck E Cheese, wants to bring the video arcade into the classroom. His latest startup is called Speed To Learn, and very little is known about it. But he wa...

Well who isn't building a photo sharing app these days? At this point I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Google came out with its elaborately named attempt like tomorrow.But seriously, with such ...

Zynga is launching its second mobile game in two weeks, and today is debuting its mobile version of its hit game CityVille, 'CityVille Hometown.' The game is debuting via a free iOS app in Canada in t...

Zynga is launching its second mobile game in two weeks, and today is debuting its mobile version of its hit game CityVille, 'CityVille Hometown.' The game is debuting via a free iOS app in Canada in t...

Our last day of Disrupt NYC was bittersweet, but we all got to ride a Tesla. Make sure to check out our favorite moments from Day One, Day Two, pictures of the whole event (including the Hackathon, St...

When I last looked at the Vue Video Network in 2009 I found it to be fairly rough. These tiny, battery-powered cameras were very cool and you could set them up and then "visit" them via the web to see...

Community news site Reddit, which at some point was running on one engineer, has almost tripled its engineering staff today, with the addition of three new hires, Google's Logan Hanks, Oracle's Keith ...

Last night, something very interesting came our way. Something massive "  documents and images outlining what appears to be a new Facebook iPhone app built around photo sharing. We teased wh...

FuzeBox, the developer of an online meeting software, is launching a new product today, Telepresence Connect, which integrates with existing telepresence systems, including Polycom, Tandberg and Life...

MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser has written a surprisingly critical book about the Internet. In The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from Us, Pariser acknowledges that he once bought ...

Total, the fossil fuels giant, just gave itself a renewable energy makeover by finishing up its $1.3 billion purchase of a majority stake in SunPower, the San Jose, Calif.-based designer and manufact...

Three years ago, I got a phone call "  Pandora was about to die.Things were not going well for the Internet radio service at that point. The economy was collapsing, Sequoia would soon give i...

eBay acquired local product inventory and shopping site Milo.com for $75 million last December, and was fairly quick to start integrating the technology into its core products. For example, eBay launc...

Daily deal providers like Groupon and LivingSocial may be violating several key aspects of consumer protection law.I've been looking into issues like gift cards, bankruptcy, sales tax, and alcohol reg...

Ning is rolling out a new feature to network creators today" the ability to charge for premium access and subscriptions. The company says it is one of the most requested features and Ning wi...

Stipple, which thinks it's a bit original in allowing people to tag images with Twitter names, has some new competition on the block. ThingLink, which also lets you tag any image, is now launching Ric...

Thanks to the Amazon Kindle and the rise of ebooks, we now live in a world where publishers are an anachronism. Or so we're told.One person who doesn't entirely buy that narrative is Richard Eoin Nash...

Social commerce has taken on many forms; from purchasing items on Facebook to product recommendations from your social graph to daily deal sites. There are plenty of startups that offer the functional...

One of the best-performing technologies in online advertising right now is retargeting" everyone from Google to startups are making bank from it. That's when you browse the Web and are show...

Yesterday, music streaming service Pandora priced its IPO at $16 per share (valuing the company at $2.6 billion). The company originally set the range of its IPO at $7 to $9 per share, at a market cap...

Breaking - Dolby has just announced that it has filed patent infringement lawsuits in the United States and Germany against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion. The lawsuits seek recovery of financial...

Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphones, is launching a new feature today that will protect users from online threats while browsing on a mobile phone.For backgrou...

TigerText, a company that adds a bevy of privacy settings and controls to SMS, is today launching a new app for iOS that aims to preserve the social nature of group messaging while giving the sender ...

Social media monitoring company The Meltwater Group is debuting new product, called Buzz Engage today, which promises to be one of the more comprehensive social marketing tools for businesses. Leverag...

Tintri, which market storage solutions purpose-built for virtual machines (VMs), has raised $18 million in Series C funding. The extra capital comes from existing backers NEA and Lightspeed Venture Pa...

Shutl, an on-demand delivery platform that aggregates transportation carriers so they can deliver something in an hour, recently took 650,000 ($1m) investment round from Hummingbird Ventures and other...

Mobile ad network Millennial Media has released its monthly monthly mobile report for May, giving us a view into how each OS and manufacturer is performing on the mobile ad network. For the sixth cons...

Cotendo, which specializes in cloud-based acceleration technologies, this morning announced that it has raised $17 million in funding from strategic partners Citrix and Juniper Networks (through its J...

The rise of location-based apps has been so rapid that there are a slew of products coming onto the app stores most of the time. But few have gone to the trouble of realising that by targeting a passi...

It's far too often that the term "killer" gets thrown around in tech blogs. And yes, we're just as bad as anybody. But what if I told you that a service that gets 6 billion photo uploads each month, a...

The founder of Efficiency 2.0, Tom Scarmellino, sat down with TechCrunchTV this week to talk about how his company motivates consumers to curb their power-hogging behavior at home, and what kind of ...

This morning, Microsoft held its European BizSpark Summit in Brussels, marking an excellent opportunity to catch up with Microsoft VP and globetrotter Dan'l Lewin. The man's official title is corporat...

At WWDC 2011, Apple announced that there are now more than 400K apps in its app store (and that more than 500K have been approved). The Android Marketplace has around 300K apps and is growing fast. T...

Peter Pham, the president and a cofounder of mobile social startup Color, is no longer with the company, we've heard from multiple sources. The company launched publicly less than three months ago.Col...

In less than a month after its nationwide launch on May 14th, peer to peer marketplace Zaarly has crossed $1 million in posted transactions, and commemorated them with a colorful infographic depicting...

As we reported earlier, Pandora will start trading tomorrow on the New York Stock Exchange under the single letter symbol "P". By doing so, it becomes the first Silicon Valley consumer internet compa...

As we reported earlier, Pandora will start trading tomorrow on the New York Stock Exchange under the single letter symbol "P". By doing so, it becomes the first Silicon Valley consumer Internet compa...

Exclusive - TechCrunch has just learned that Wimdu, a recently launched Airbnb clone that has already managed to irk the latter, has raised a whopping $90 million round.The capital injection comes fro...

Music streaming service Pandora has priced its IPO at $16 per share, valuing the company at $2.6 billion. The company originally set the range of its IPO at $7 to $9 per share, at a market cap of $1.3...

Grace Chu Lee from Twitter's Business Development team earlier tweeted out and then deletedan as of yet unheard of beyond a select few Twitter feature, "Follow Recommendations." "Follow Recommendation...

Grace Chu Lee from Twitter's Business Development team earlier tweeted out and then deletedan as of yet unheard of beyond a select few Twitter feature, "Follow Recommendations." "Follow Recommendation...

Sometimes, it's all about the experience. Without its finely tuned user experience, Yelp would be just another reviews site. Tivo would be just another DVR. Twitter would just be a fancy status broadc...

On Tuesday, ClearEdge Power"  a cleantech startup that makes 5-kilowatt stationary fuel cells"  announced that it won a $2.8 million grant from the Pacific Northwest National Labo...

Klout, a startup that measures influence on Twitter and Facebook, is expanding its product today with the addition of LinkedIn. With the launch of Klout scoring for LinkedIn, you'll be able to add yo...

As of yesterday, Twitter is the new owner of the domain name re-tweet.com (placeholder webpage) although it doesn't yet own retweet.com (currently used for some shady video monetization platform). Hat...

Some people have been asking my why I've spent the last 10 days writing about Groupon. What's my hidden agenda?I'm tired of seeing small businesses get screwed.I've been working on local products ...

Day One of Disrupt NYC was packed with all-star speakers and Day Two was just as memorable. All of the photos and videos can be found here and here, but here is a quick breakdown of our favorite momen...

If you're running a website, you've probably tried a lot of things to optimize the experience for users: tools like A/B tests, analytics trackers, and feedback forms. But even with these tools, it can...

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You, Eli Pariser's New York Times best-selling new book, has been applauded by net skeptics like Jaron Lanier and Evgeny Morozov as well as digital ...

Google's launch of Google Instant last year was limited in its scope. At today's event Google's Amit Singhal went through some recent developments in Instant Search, which currently saves users 2-5 se...

Last night at the Webby awards, two little birds told me some interesting news about Angry Birds. Okay, it was actually a Mighty Eagle, founder Peter Vestebacka, and one of his product managers, Rami...

Today at its 'Inside Search' event, Google announced several new features, including desktop support for voice search and a new mobile interface. And they've just shown off a new way to actually creat...

Google's Mike Cohen took the stage at the search giant's search event today, updating us on how voice search is performing. Cohen, who leads all of Google's speech technology efforts, says that voice ...

We're here at Google's Inside Search event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and Google's Amit Singhal has just announced homepage shortcuts for Google mobile.With these shortcu...

Today at a special 'Inside Search' event in San Francisco, CA, the search giant is taking some time to walk through some of the recent (and upcoming) advancements in its search products.Google Fellow ...

Twitter has just announced a partnership with Yahoo Japan, according to a blog post on the company's site. As part of the partnership Twitter says that "Tweets will be integrated into various services...

As rumored, GPS device company Garmin has bought its European competitor Navigon AG. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed but previous reports have indicated that the company was acquired fo...

Google today announced a new partnership with SolarCity, committing $280 million from its coffers to finance SolarCity installations, namely solar rooftops for homes in North America. The partnership...

Last week I got the chance to play with the Ulysse Nardin Chairman, a goofy, expensive phone with a small, built-in mechanical rotor for manual winding. I interviewed the head of UN's cell division, P...

Part of the series of music and entertainment related startups backed by Lady Gaga's managerTroy Carter, Bre.ad is a URL shortner that hopes to be your own personal billboard. The concept behind Bre.a...

Blake Griffin, previously known for dunking over midsize Korean sedans and playing for LA's other NBA team, just posted to his YouTube account a quick, clearly sponsored, video of the upcoming Vizio t...

Ever since RockMelt launched its social browser, it's been known unofficially as the Facebook browser. Facebook chat, status updates and sharing are all built right into the browser. Now Facebook an...

An energy technology incubator, ClarianLabs in Seattle, has published a patent for a device called the Rotary Piston Generator (RPG) which the company hopes will challenge the idea of what batteries ...

Nokia this morning announced that it has settled a patent row with Apple. Under the settlement agreement, Apple will pay a one-time fee as well as on-going royalties to license patents from the Helsin...

Few things will grab a middle-aged man's attention like an iPad full of old Atari games and a ball-end joystick. There is something about that specific mix of electronic nostalgia, the promise of adve...

ROBLOX this morning announced it has closed a $4 million Series B round of funding from existing backers, including ALTOS Ventures and First Round Capital. The company offers a game that allows kids a...

Most charts I get sent are up and to the right. Not this one.The chart ReadyForZero sent me (above) goes down and to the right. This is meant to showcase just how much debt the service is helping user...

Earlier today, I was reading Joshua Topolsky's editorial on This is my next about Apple's "mistake" in turning their back on the Web and I kept stopping. I disagreed with basically everything.First of...

If you are reading TechCrunch you probably already realize this fact: Flavor-of-the-month consumer Internet companies have a way of hogging the spotlight. If you didn't, we conveniently published some...

Don't look now, but sub-Saharan Africa is booming. Since 2003 its growth has been skyrocketing, and, to quote none other than McKinsey, "today the rate of return on foreign investment in Africa is hig...

It's easy to take Twitter's deep integration on iOS 5 and go nuts with speculation surrounding its symbolism; "Twitter is the new Facebook," whatever that means! "Apple chose Twitter over Facebook!" W...

A week and a half ago, a report said that while the U.S. Department of Justice was looking into the bidding over the Nortel wirelesspatents, they were unlikely to object to Google winning the rights t...

Y Combinator-backed RescueTime is a web-based time management tool that lets users monitor the time they spend on the Web, like what applications and websites they're visiting most frequently, all in...

Ever wished you had an easy way to tell the world (and potential future employers) just how great you are at using Microsoft Office, Salesforce, and.. err.. Facebook? Your chance is coming.Today a...

So I've been sitting here for the past 30 minutes writing a blog opus about how Rebecca Black's "Friday" is now a $2.99 YouTube Rental, heralding a new era for YouTube's content monetization strategy ...

Earlier today, a handful of members of the Google Docs team announced that they were doing something fairly unusual for employees at a large company: they're giving members of the popular link-sharing...

When we first previewed Instagram nine months ago, most of theinitialcomments predicted it would be dead on arrival. To say those people were wrong is a vast understatement. And Instagram now has five...

I'll be honest, I'm probably the first one on a flight to ignore the flight attendant's announcement that "all portable electronic devices must now be switched to the "~off' position.&q...

YCombinator has just announced its "Part Time Partner" program, which will bring in former YC alumni to mentor the most recent cohort of startups, like regular partners, but only 1/5 of the time.Join...

Golden, Colorado-based Proterra, Inc."  the makers of electric commercial vehicles, systems and charging stations for them"  raised $30 million, the company announced today. The i...

AisleBuyer, a startup that's looking to help do away with the tedious checkout lines seen in most retailers, has raised a $7.5 million round of Series E funding. Leading the round is Old Willow Partne...

Exclusive: 4chan founder Christopher Poole (a.k.a. moot) is announcing a round of funding today for his new startup, Canvas. Union Square Ventures led a $3 million series A round of funding, with all ...

Imagine you're a small business owner. You have to choose between two propositions:You can pay $62,500 for marketing. You'll get a whole lot of customers coming through your door. No guarantees if the...

Last week, we reported that Google had acquired Admeld, an advertising optimization platform for publishers, for around $400 million. A couple of days after we broke the story, Google has now official...

Maybe it's just a biofuels thing this year, but it seems like the feds are giving cleantech grant money to companies and institutions that are based anywhere but in the nation's capital of venture ca...

According to a Reuters report an employee at a San Francisco Apple store, Cory Moll, is working on forming an Apple retail employees' union, thereby giving the geniuses a few bargaining rights."There'...

SugarSync, a close competitor to file sharing services like Crate and Dropbox, just added a mobile device management feature to their web interface. The new service takes advantage of SugarSync's web-...

TellApart, a startup that enables eCommerce companies to use customer data to offer more personalized display advertising to both their loyal and potential customers alike, today announced that it has...

If you look at how Apple fares on the public markets today, compared to other tech powerhouses, you'll notice that the Cupertino computer giant is currently valued at roughly $301 billion, which is cl...

If you look at how Apple fares on the public markets today, compared to other tech powerhouses, you'll notice that the Cupertino computer giant is currently valued at roughly $301 billion, which is cl...

Editor's Note: This is a guest post by (@msuster) Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur, now VC atGRP Partners. Read more about Suster atBothsidesofthetableAny company who develops products reliant on iOS sp...

As much as a season ticket holder would like to make it to every single game of their team's season, most of the time that's just not in the cards -- at least not while keeping a job and a family. So,...

eBay announced its $2.4 billion acquisition GSI Commerce in March and today the company is one step closer to its acquisition. The two companies have announced that they are settling claims filed in a...

HP has done what any company looking to drum up a bit of buzz tends to do: release demo videos on YouTube. Not that you can blame them. The HP TouchPad is hitting the US retail market on July 1st and ...

According to this SEC filing, Pure Storage has raised another $28 million in venture capital, adding to the $25 million it has raised over the past few years. And the company's solution is still in pr...

Last week, Microsoft filed for an interesting U.S. trademark for 'NUADS', describing it as:Advertising services, namely, promoting and marketing the goods and services of others through online interac...

Twice a year (in June and in December), Vincenzo Cosenza creates a "world map of social networks", showing the dominant social networks by country, based on traffic data gathered from Alexa and Google...

Anyone else seeing an influx of blog headlines that go "Updated: [Thing That We Just Wrote About] Is A Hoax"?While Internet hoaxes have been around since the Soviet Union wanted to join Usenet in ...

Editor's note: Guest writer James Altucher is an investor, programmer, entrepreneur, and author.Don't BS me. Everyone wants to sell their startup. We all pay lip service to building a billion dollar G...

Everloop, a social network for children under 13 years of age, has raised $3.1 million in funding from vFormation, Band of Angels, Envoi Ventures, Richard Chino, Wayne Goodrich, Deena Burnett-Bailey a...

I see it right there, staring me in the face. It's like a laser beam burning a hole in my retinas. I can't help but click. That damn iOS notification red dot gets me every time.And things are about to...

Over the past year, there's been an apparent trend taking place of Japanese gaming companies acquiring U.S. social game developers. DeNa bought social gaming company Ngmoco for $400 million last Octob...

Usually Apple launches are all about new product, and the WWDC keynote by Steve Jobs and crew was no exception. IOS 5, OS/X Lion, and iCloud were the tech version of a triple play, mainlining the iPa...

How did Mike McCue come up with the idea for Flipboard, the iPad reader that's seeing more than 10 million flips a day? In these final two video clips from his Founder Stories interview with Chri...

Editor's note: We often hear the complaint that "TechCrunch doesn't cover startups anymore." Yet we feel like we are covering them more than ever. In this guest post, Mark Goldenson breaks down exa...

Storing heat may be the last thing you think of when turning on an air conditioning unit, but one model takes advantage of the sweltering weather to heat water while cooling the air. The aptly named A...

The tale of graFighters is one of a Kickstarter project that went wrong and then went oh so right. Last fall founders Eric Cleckner and Dave Chenell tried to raise $20K on Kickstarter for the "first o...

Like Y Combinator, Plug and Play Tech Center is a startup accelerator located in the heart of Silicon Valley, although you may not have heard quite as much about Plug and Play as you have its counterp...

It's one of those stories about which it's impossible to be cynical. Alice Pyne, a British teenager suffering from terminal Hodgkin's lymphoma, has drawn up a "bucket list" of things she'd like to ach...

New York's Internet Week featured a panel discussion with Union Square's Fred Wilson, Hunch's Chris Dixon and SV Angel's David Lee. We took a camera to the event and have been posting excerpts all wee...

Many years ago, as an avid Knight Rider fan, I would use a handheld cassette recorder to record the audio portion of the show so I could hear it on road trips. Pretty bizarre, yes, but we didn't have ...

There has been a lot of excitement about the daily deal being the next big thing in online marketing. It's actually just a clever repackaging of old ideas. Google's entrance into the space with Google...

Nintendo and Sony just announced the much-anticipated Wii U and the Playstation Vita last week at E3 and, well, we were pretty impressed. The Wii U, Nintendo's new console, is a real step up for the b...

Nintendo and Sony just announced the much-anticipated Wii U and the Playstation Vita last week at E3 and, well, we were pretty impressed. The Wii U, Nintendo's new console, is a real step up for the b...

Seth Godin often writes short blog posts that makes (or rather, should make) one reflect for a not-so-short time. How's that for kicking in an open door? At the risk of stealing the man's thunder,...

Years ago I thought I could be in a rock band (right around the same time I thought I could make money writing poetry) but I eventually resigned myself to the fact that I'd never be a great guitarist....

Andrew Mason has been visiting Beijing and Groupon HQ has finally realized there are some problems in China.On theForbes website, Rebecca Fannin reports:CEO Andrew Mason just arrived in China and hasn...

Andrew Mason has been visiting Beijing and Groupon HQ has finally realized there are some problems in China.On theForbes website, Rebecca Fannin reports:CEO Andrew Mason just arrived in China and hasn...

TechCrunch turns 6 years old today. Back on June 11, 2005, Michael Arrington wrote his first blog post. Then he started having parties in the backyard of his old house in Atherton, one of the YouTub...

According to BuiltWith, of the top million websites using content management systems (or CMSes), three systems own more than 75 percent of the total market share: WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. (All ...

Can you draw the Internet? No seriously can you?ArtWeLove, DeviantArt, digital ad agency Saint, The Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment and The NYC Department of Education partnered up t...

Earlier this week Facebook drew significant backlash over a feature that uses facial recognition to help users tag their friends in photos shared on the site. The feature isn't new, but Facebook recen...

I hate email. Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate email. There's just too much of it. It's always flowing in. It never stops. And it's getting worse.As time goes on, even if inbox overload isn't a...

Women's clothing designer Tory Burch has been awarded $164 million in damages from online counterfeiters that have been selling copies of her shoes, bags and clothing on the web. According to Women's ...

Stealth motion control startup OcuSpec has just raised a $1.3 million seed round from Andreesen Horowitz, Founders Fund, SOSventures International and angels Brian McClendon, Bill Warner and others.Sh...

You people confuse me.Ten days ago we put Google's +1 Button on TechCrunch "  because why not? We try basically all these new buttons/counters/commenting systems much to the dismay ...

Looking to kill some time? Check out the new feature just launched by YouTube, which they're calling As Seen On.The gist is simple: YouTube is crawling blogs and other websites to see which YouTub...

It's tough to embark on ambitious fitness plans or to learn a new sport without the help of friends or likeminded people to help coach you through the process. Trying to go from lite jogger to maratho...

Another day, another tech company is filing for a public offering. This time it's Cafepress, which allows users to design, buy and sell merchandise such as t-shirts, hats, bags, mugs, bumper stickers ...

As Steve Jobs has proven times a million this week, if you want your employees to feel great about working for you, give them a great office.Foursquare's San Francisco outpost has amazingly enough sha...

Day one of Disrupt in New York City was packed with all-star speakers and interviews. All of the videos from Disrupt can be found here and pictures here, but we wanted to do a quick breakdown of video...

Mike McCue knows a thing or two about raising a lot of money to keep as a war chest for his startups. Recently he just raised $50 million for Flipboard, but at the end of the first dotcom boom he rai...

When we first covered the launch of SoundTracking back in March, co-founder Steve Jang explained his vision for the service as a sort of "musical postcard". That is, it's not just about the music, it'...

Personal finance site for women LearnVest has raised $12 million in new funding (out of a $19 million round) according to a recent SEC filing. Last year, the startup raised $4.5 million from Accel Pa...

Google's recently released Offers product is showing mixed success in Portland, its first market. In this post I will try to look at both the good and the bad of Google Offers. As I point out below, t...

Sadly, Disrupt NYC is over. However, we saw amazing new startups and had the time of our lives in New York City. You can find all of the pictures from Disrupt NYC here and take a peek at all of the vi...

As smartphone adoption rises and technology companies embrace the technology, QR Codes are becoming more of a mainstream product for businesses, products and brands. QR Codes, which is short for Quick...

Next week, I'll proudly be attending the first Digital Agenda assembly, hosted by the European Commission, in Brussels, Belgium. The purpose of the two-day event is to discuss Europe's strategy for a ...

Oh man was that a lot of gaming. John, Devin and I just spent the last week deep in the bowels of the massive gaming convention that is E3. We went to the press conferences, played the demos, and live...

Any third-party Twitter app developer can currently ask you to authorize software using OAuth under the pretense that they will not be able to access any of your private - both sent and received - mes...

Similar to a move made in Illinois a few months ago, Amazon has shut down its Associates program in Connecticut after the state imposed a sales tax measure that would tax any purchases made online sta...

OnLive did E3 big this year. The remote gaming company launched a ton of new games, a universal controller, and displayed their tablet apps. In fact more than a few of our commenters disagreed with ou...

On Monday, Steve Jobs introduced iCloud to the Apple developers at WWDC, and we've been absorbing what it means ever since. John Biggs and I devote this entire episode of Fly or Die to iCloud, explain...

JouleX"" an Atlanta tech startup promising a way to cut energy consumption and reduce costs at large data centers by about half"" closed a $17 million round of financing, the comp...

Music streaming service Pandora has just filed a new version of its S-1 that indicates the company will be upping the price range of its stock to $10 to $12 per share, giving the company a valuation o...

I am in Chicago where I was supposed to be having dinner with Groupon CEO Andrew Mason last night, a dinner planned more than a month ago when I bought my plane ticket. Instead, he has suddenly decide...

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) this morning announced intentions to debut the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in an additional 16 markets over the next 30 days, including the UK, Hong Kong, Fran...

Digital media company Evolve Media has acquired Crowd Ignite, a content exchange engine that contextually connects audiences of similar interests, the company announced this morning. The price it paid...

The European Commission yesterday granted French entertainment and telecommunication services conglomerate Vivendi approval for its acquisition of Vodafone's 44% stake in SFR, the company announced th...

Kinnernet in Israel did a lipdub. DLD in Germany did a lipdub. But at Founders Forum, the annual meeting of European startups CEOs who've (for want of a better phrase) "made it", they like to go one b...

"How much is your average sale here?""It's about five dollars."That one question told me Jessie Burke had been sold an unsuitable product. Her average sale was $5 and her Groupon rep had convinced...

When we first broke the news that iOS 5 would come with Twitter integration, I wasn't thinking big enough. Based on the fairly vague (but credible) information I had, I figured it was mainly based aro...

At E3, we had the opportunity to talk with Martin Rae, who is the President of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, an industry group akin to the more well-known Academy that puts on the Osca...

Just in time for the impending Silicon Valley talent apocalypse, CodeEval, a platform that uses coding challenges to help recruiters find and filter the best programming candidates for the job, is lau...

Google announced its new beta music service, "Google Music", at I/O 2011 last month. The service, as it stands right now, is basically just cloud storage for all your music files that users can access...

The talentacquisitionscontinue for Facebook. The social network has just bought the software design company Sofa, we've learned.The Amsterdam-based company was founded in 2006 and is known for its Mac...

The talentacquisitionscontinue for Facebook. The social network has just bought the software design company Sofa, we've learned.The Amsterdam-based company was founded in 2006 and is known for its Mac...

Big news today for Embedly, the service that makes it easy to embed content from nearly any site on the web. Today the company is announcing that it's raised another $450,000 in a round that includes ...

Earlier today I was invited to do a quick guest spot on CNBC's Power Lunch, where we discussed a question that's fundamentally important to the future of Silicon Valley: Who is cooler, Google or Apple...

AdMeld, an advertising optimization platform for publishers, has been acquired by Google for around $400 million according to multiple sources. The company, which launched in 2007, has raised just $30...

You know what they say about imitation being the most sincere form of flattery? Well sometimes, like in the case of Groupon and its many competitors, this type of flattery is also a huge business ...

Online movie clips site Movieclips.com has raised $6 million out of a $7 million round, according to a recent SEC filing. The startup has previously raised $3 million.Movieclips.com, which launched in...

Online movie clips site Movieclips.com has raised $6 million out of a $7 million round, according to a recent SEC filing. The startup has previously raised $3 million. We've confirmed the new funding ...

Before Mike McCue discovered how to flip an iPad into a device that made reading digital magazines a cinch, he himself was discovered by some of the biggest names in the tech world while working away ...

Bastards. Evil. Tyrants. Murder. Death. Kill.Back in February, every name in the book was thrown at Apple when the news hit that they were changing the App Store guidelines to make way for in-app subs...

At its worldwide headquarters in Mountain View, CA today Google installed at least 70 electric vehicle charging stations made by Coulomb Technologies. They will be used to power up employee-owned elec...

Over the years I've heard many legitimate gripes from entrepreneurs about the way venture capital firms treat them while fundraising. I must confess an imperfect record of courtesy myself, though I do...

Mubi has signed a signed a deal with Sony Bravia to be inside it's connected TVs. The announcement wass made by Efe Cakarel, Founder & CEO, MUBI, at the annual European-focused Founders Forum near...

Mubi has signed a deal with Sony Bravia to be inside its connected TVs. The announcement was made by Efe Cakarel, Founder & CEO, Mubi, at the annual European-focused Founders Forum near London. Th...

During what is panning out to becommunity service weekfor big-time tech CEOs, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took the stage yesterday in order to inspire the graduating eighth graders at Belle Haven...

Team Europe Ventures, the investment arm of German incubator Team Europe, is being rebranded as Point Nine Capital (PNC). Additionally, serial entrepreneur and angel investor Christoph Janz is joining...

Russian geolocation service AlterGeo, has reportedly raised $10m from Intel Capital and Almaz Capital - a 25% share increase - and values the company at around $20-25m.Serial investor Esther Dyson, wh...

What happens when you mix local deals with reward points? You get OO.com. A couple months ago, Next Jump, which powers rewards programs for thousands of corporations and credit card companies, i...

Google's Vice President of Display Advertising Neal Mohan just published a blog post with a few interesting projections relating to display ads on the web. Google, of course, has a booming display ad ...

When we first covered Postagram in April, there was a lot of excitement about it. They take your Instagram photos and turn them into postcards that you can send right from your iPhone "  who...

Well, this is interesting. Nuance, a company that develops imaging and voice recognition technologies, is once again suing competitor Vlingo, which also develops a voice search technology and is backe...

Well, this is interesting. Nuance, a company that develops imaging and voice recognition technologies, is once again suing competitor Vlingo, which also develops a voice search technology and is backe...

Investor Dave McClure and his wily bunch of scrappy startups are at it again this time almost doubling up on startups, going from 12 in first cohort to 21 and bringing the accelerator's total to 140. ...

Investor Dave McClure and his wily bunch of scrappy startups are at it again this time almost doubling up on startups, going from 12 in first cohort to 21 and bringing the accelerator's total to 140. ...

Location is the new black, but why do mobile apps need to have all the fun? Increasingly, location is getting baked into regular web pages as well. Today, Fwix is taking its hyperlocal places data...

Back in February, Apple unveiled its much-anticipated subscription feature, giving digital newspapers, magazines, and other apps a consistent and easy way to sign iOS users up for recurring billing. B...

Exclusive - Fab.com, which started out as Fabulis, a social networking site for gay men, has not only recently changed its name but also started from scratch with an entirely new business centered aro...

As we heard yesterday, Fusion-io, the developer of flash- memory technology for companies, upped the opening price of its IPO to $19 per share, valuing the company at $1.5 billion. Earlier in the wee...

Here's a tiny tidbit of news for all you Apple aficionados out there: the Cupertino company waited until the day its developer conference kicked off (June 6) to register a bunch of product-related dom...

Here's a tiny tidbit of news for all you Apple aficionados out there: the Cupertino company waited until the day its developer conference kicked off (June 6) to register a bunch of product-related dom...

The HP Touchpad, the great Palm hope of tablet lovers everywhere, will be officially available for $500 for 16GB and $600 for 32GB on July 1 in the United States. It will be available in the UK, Franc...

Short Version: After a few day with the new Nook I was hooked. It is a pure reading experience condensed into a device the size of a paperback and with a super-crisp e-ink touchscreen. The Nook is, in...

On today's ever-evolving Web, it seems there's a growing demand for web apps that incorporate realtime functionality. Of course, it's by no means easy to build seamless realtime functionality, as it o...

Back in May 2010, VideoGenie launched at our Disrupt conference as a platform for consumers to connect with their favorite brands through user-generated testimonial videos. A couple of months later, V...

While Square is believed to be raising $50 million or more, say sources, at a valuation of $1 billion plus, and processing more than $3 million per day in mobile payments, others are noticing their tr...

Shell spinoff Avantium raised another EUR 30 million, or about $43.9 million (USD) the company reported Thursday. Avantium produces "chemical building blocks" that industrial plastics, textile and f...

Anil Hansjee, long time Head of Corporate Development at Google EMEA has left, effective today. This is quite a big change in the European startup eco-system, as Hansjee was effectively the guy who st...

Thursday marked World Oceans Day, a United Nations effort to "raise global awareness of the challenges faced by the international community in connection with the oceans." Getting in the spirit, Goog...

Room 77, a comprehensive search engine and review site focused exclusively on hotel rooms, has raised $10.5 million in Series B financing led by General Catalyst Partners with participation from PAR C...

Social advertising is the next hot thing, and startups are starting to come out of the woodworks with different approaches. One to watch is Taykey, a startup we first wrote about a year ago, but whic...

Visa this morning announced that it has agreed to acquire Fundamo, a specialist mobile financial services provider to network operators and financial institutions in developing economies, for $110 mil...

Former Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin is dipping his toes in the startup world. He thinks there should be more healthcare entrepreneurs, and so he is becoming the chairman of Startup Health, a project a...

Sapato.ru, a Russian online shoe retailer, this morning announced that it has secured $12 million in additional capital from Intel Capital, with existing investors Direct Group, eVenture Capital Partn...

In a message posted on its corporate blog earlier this morning, blogging software maker Six Apart essentially admitted that security holes in its Movable Type product(s) are to be blamed for the recen...

Through its Fusion Fund program, chip maker AMD has injected an undisclosed amount of capital into ViVu, a startup that specializes in desktop videoconferencing solutions....

It was a couple of months ago that BiteHunter.com beta-launched itself as an aggregator for dining deals. Easily described as a "Kayak for restaurants," BiteHunter is designed to help users locate din...

While he's no Steve Jobs, Cupertino Mayor Gilbert Wong has his unique charm. In a press conference today responding to yesterday's amazing Steve Jobs pitch, Wong said, emphatically,"Cupertino is ready...

Custom men's clothing company J. Hilburn is expanding its product line to suits today and raised a $5 million C round from Bridgescale Partners and existing investor Battery Ventures. That brings the...

It looks like Coupons.com just became the Airbnb of mega-million dollar raises at billion dollar valuations. Today, Coupons.com, the largest provider of digital coupons, announced that it has received...

One of the easiest ways to "go green" is to start paying your bills online -- to cut out that papery middle man. Of course, the paperless revolution seems to be taking longer than expected to sweep t...

A research firm focused on clean energy and green innovation, the Cleantech Group, launched its i3 Platform today"  and it's something like a paid Crunchbase, with a dash of Alltop and Gart...

Education-focused startupOpenStudyis a platform for "massively multi-player study groups." What this means is that students who are studying the same subject like math or writing can ask and answer qu...

Amid all the big announcements at this year's WWDC keynote, there was an undercurrent that was subtle, but important."It just works." Steve Jobs kept saying this over and over again on stage. When Job...

Guerillapps, a social game maker, debuted a cool new Facebook game at Disrupt NYC that is adding a new spin to green games. What's more, from what I can tell, Trash Tycoon is the first "upcycling" gam...

Signing up for Twitter at South by Southwest 2007, I can remember those feelings of "Wow, this is going to be big." That instant feeling of knowing you're seeing the future and the world doesn't even ...

Disrupt NYC has wrapped and tickets are already on sale for our next Disrupt, which we are incredibly excited to be bringing back to San Francisco this September. However, before we start revealing wh...

We had a pleasant morning checking out the Sony and Nintendo booths, getting hands-on with a few launch games and feeling up the hardware. The device really is remarkably light; you'd expect such a po...

Wow. Fusion-io, the developer of flash- memory technology for companies, just upped the final price of its IPO to $19 per share, after increasing the range yesterday to $16 to $18 per share from $13 ...

"Building on someone else's platform is a good idea, if you have your eyes wide open," investor Fred Wilson told a packed room of entrepreneurs on Monday night at an Internet Week event in New York Ci...

Talk about a happy birthday. SnapGuide, a stealthy mobile startup founded by Daniel Raffel and Steve Krulewitz, has just closed a funding round totaling over $2 million. The round closed today "&...

Last year, Twitter held the first Chirp, a large developer conference in San Francisco akin to Facebook's f8, Google's I/O, and Apple's WWDC. Everyone assumed this would become an annual thing. Then t...

According to Twitter PR rep Carolyn Penner, Twitter has started rolling out its new photo feature to a small subset of users outside of employees. Our own @alexia is one of the lucky users to get the ...

Mechanical engineering community GrabCAD is announcing $1.1 million in seed funding today, from Matrix Partners, Atlas Venture, Next View Ventures and angels John McEleney, Alex Ott, Angus Davis and J...

Eco-Fashion is definitely more than just a fad. More and more consumers are looking to purchase eco-friendly and natural products in the fashion, beauty, personal care and toys industries. Enter Lovin...

Are you tired of paying for games? Me too. But the fact is that they tend to cost money, and that's that. But that used to be the case for TV, and now we watch our favorite shows for free on Hulu ...

As I aimed to convey in my "Day In The Life Of A Liveblogger" post back in March, liveblogging a big ol' event can be" interesting. When you've got tens of thousands of people tuned in and waitin...

On Thursday night, 60,000 people will fill up Central Park to watch the Black Eyed Peas in concert. Tickets are sold out, but you can watch it here streamed live in glorious 360-degree vision at 7PM ...

Earlier this year, we heard about how startup Manilla has plans to disrupt online bill management. Today the company is fully launching its service, which has been in close beta for the past three mon...

Earlier this year, we heard about how startup Manilla has plans to disrupt online account management. Today the company is fully launching its service, which has been in close beta for the past three ...

Netflix is great. I feel like I have to say that, now that it's the single largest source of Internet traffic in North America. But, really, Netflix annoys me. I'm cheap, so I've opted for the streami...

Music streaming service Spotify (more convenient than piracy!), long enjoyed in Europe and long longed for in the U.S., may finally finally have its ducks in a row. If a number of interdependent deals...

VantagePoint Capital Partners, a global cleantech fund focused on energy and efficiency, today revealed that former Best Buy executive Kal Patel is joining the firm as partner. Patel is expected to g...

One of the best parts of the iPad 2 is the colorful, magical smart cover that comes as a peripheral. Lift the cover and your iPad turns on, drop it and it goes to sleep. It's kind of addictive. Bu...

It's time for another day of live video down here at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Today we'll be covering the massive South Hall, where we'll find the big publishing houses showin...

Angst! Raised Eyebrows! Distinct feelings of discomfort!So go the reactions to a feature on Facebook that uses facial recognition technology to help users tag their photos. It has people so upset, in ...

Rebtel considers itself to be one of the biggest threats to the Skype empire, so I was interested in learning from the company's CEO, Andreas Bernstrom, how they felt about Microsoft acquiring their m...

Online ad spending keeps ramping up thanks to an upswing in display advertising. A new forecast from eMarketer puts online ad spending at $31.3 billion this year, up 20 percent. That is double the 10....

I have a confession to make. I'm a fan of live bands, but what with one thing or another, I just don't get to see enough. I signed up to all the obvious sites to get emails about upcoming gigs. I don'...

Remember Ericsson? Yeah, they used to make mobile phones on their own. Then they realised they couldn't compete against Nokia, Motorola and the rest, and spun out their mobile division to hook up ...

Startup ServiceMax, a company that develops SaaS field service software, has raised $14 million in new funding led by Mayfield Fund with Trinity Ventures, Emergence Capital and Salesforce.com also par...

There are about a million Tweets a day with the word "I Want," and now there is a mobile photo sharing app that can capture all those things people want and share them with the world. The iPhone app ...

We've previously written about CapLinked, the LinkedIn-meets-SalesForce for private investing, which was founded by former PayPal marketing exec Eric Jackson and funded by a number of well known membe...

Twitter has just announced a partnership with movie studio Paramount to offer Twitter users access to sneak preview showings of the studio's new movie SUPER 8 for on Thursday, June 9, in advance of th...

Buuteeq, a digital marketing SaaS for independent hotels, has raised $3.5 million in Series funding led by Mike Galgon, Geoff Entress with Benaroya Capital and other angel investors participating in t...

Private equity firm Spectrum Equity has acquired from ARAMARK a minority stake in SeamlessWeb, which offers an online and mobile food ordering service, for $50 million. Following the transaction, Seam...

Facebook has contributed to the Arab Spring, people getting arrested for jokes, you name it. Now one Facebok user has taken the social network to heart - or rather to her body. A woman in the Netherla...

This really is the stuff of Sci-Fi movies: Build a computer program that can see as the human eye does. Based on the principles of the human visual cortex, Cortexica Vision Systems claims to have done...

With over 24 million views for a single episode, there's every chance you're already discovered Simon's Cat. You might, however, be less familiar with Simon Tofield, the eponymous owner responsible fo...

Ah, the marvel that is our tips inbox. Just landed: an email from luxury fashion label VONROSEN, bringing forth the revelation that Apple head honcho Steve Jobs was wearing one of their cashmere sweat...

Virsto Software, a virtual machines storage company, has raised $12 million in Series B venture capital funding led by InterWest Partners with August Capital and Canaan Partners also participating in ...

After having a banner #WWDC start yesterday, Apple founder Steve Jobs humbly presented his idea for a new Apple campus at the Cupertino City Council today. I'm still watching this, but what I've seen ...

After having a banner #WWDC start yesterday, Apple founder Steve Jobs humbly presented his idea for a new Apple campus at the Cupertino City Council today. I'm still watching this, but what I've seen ...

Seventeen years ago Wired published Neal Stephenson's magisterial epic "Mother Earth Mother Board" , about the web of undersea fibre-optic cables being built to connect all of humanity....

This past January, we first wrote about Founders Den, a new shared office space based in the SoMa district of San Francisco. The idea was to create a private clubhouse where invitedentrepreneurs (incl...

ppMobi likes HTML5-based mobile games, and it wants you to like them, too, which is why appMobi is focused on giving developers the tools required to make HTML5 and JavaScript mobile applications that...

Matt may think that the Wii U is the E3 champion, but I'm not convinced. It looks like a fun and versatile device, but I'm not sure it's as accessible as the Wii, which focused on motion and a few pri...

I like Jawbone. They're one of the few companies out there that consistently surprises me which each step they take.Finding a sustainable business model in selling a series of expensive Bluetooth head...

Between Yelp, Foursquare, Facebook, Google and countless startups, there's no shortage of services looking to offer you restaurant and activity recommendations while you're on the go. But there's a re...

Between Yelp, Foursquare, Facebook, Google and countless startups, there's no shortage of services looking to offer you restaurant and activity recommendations while you're on the go. But there's a re...

In another step towards filling all its holes, Twitter has just announced its own link shortening service which starts rolling out today. The Twitter link shortening service will pass through t.co an...

img src='https://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/squareup1.jpg' class="snap_nopreview shot" alt="" />There are a bevy of startups in the process of raising big rounds of capital at billio...

Alright, everyone. You can go home. E3 2011 is a mainly bust besides Nintendo's amazing Wii U. Microsoft added Bing to the 360 and Sony announced the name of the NGP, the Vita. Sure, there are several...

There's been a lot of talk about the fierce competition for talent among the top players in the tech industry. As the story goes, Facebook has been the primary source of anguish for its competitors, s...

Our favorite singer, Jonathan Mann, is back. While the guy literally performs a new song every day, unsurprisingly, I have a preference for the songs about Apple (and me). And he's back today with a n...

Thanks to a plethora of startups and services (and SXSW), text messaging and group messaging is becoming faster, cheaper, and more and more like instant messaging every day. But what about MMS, and mo...

Following in the footsteps of commenting systens Echo, Disqus and Intense Debate, WordPress.com has launched Wordpress, Twitter and Facebook authorization and identity systems for its own commenting p...

Yes, it's been a long time since we braved the curious smells of LikeALittle's hacker hose. And while TechCrunch Disrupt may have kept you occupied for a week, that emptiness you're feeling inside can...

Mobile payments startup Square is announcing that Vinod Khosla is joining its Board of Directors. Khosla's Khosla Ventures is an early investor in Square. He will be replacing Gideon Yu, who left Khos...

If you happen to be on a Google site and see a giant Chrome logo, click on it. Well, if you want one of the first Chromebooks, that is.Google is in the midst of a two-day scavenger hunt being played a...

Twitter seems simple enough to use; how difficult can 140 characters be, right? But now imagine trying to monetize Twitter to its full potential. Not quite as easy. And it's no secret that a big p...

It's no secret that the local buying and selling market is an active one these days. Blink once and you will likely have missed the launch of five local-focused startups. PayPal, eBay, and craigslist ...

The Foundry Group's Ryan McIntyre (who was a board member of Postini) just announced the venture firm's investment in browser security startup Authentic8, which is the brainchild of Postini founder Sc...

"Foursquare for beer" Untappd is announcing its one millionth checkin today, in addition to the acqi-hire of other niche beer checkin app RedPint, an iPhone app co-created by founders John Vajda and A...

We saw brilliant hackers, met determined entrepreneurs, revealed new companies and products, witnessed a surprise proposal, threw incredible after parties, chatted with inspirational guest speakers, ...

YapStone, a company that develops an electronic payments as a service technology for property management and other vertical markets, has raised $50 million in new funding led by Accel Partners with Me...

As the Chief Strategy Officer at Time Warner Cable, Peter Stern is responsible for planning the long term future of America's second largest cable company. Much of his job involves rebuilding both the...

Online ticketing service Eventbrite is on track to sell $400 million worth of tickets this year, which is double the $207 million it did last year. But in order to do that, and push towards $1 billio...

Thanks to the wonders of Ustream, we will be broadcasting live video from the floor of E3. Jon Orlin and John Murillo from TCTV are here with the same magical backpack we used at CES to bring that sho...

Last night during an Internet Week event at General Assembly, investors Fred Wilson, David Lee, and Chris Dixon took the stage to talk about a range of topics related to startups, including one that's...

Despite the conventional wisdom these days that the broader sharing options you have, the better, Path set out to take the opposite road. 50 friend limits. No outside sharing features. No Facebook. No...

Nintendo just announced the Wii U, a new console/controller combo that includes a large, touchscreen controller with control buttons similar to those found on current Wii controllers. The system is co...

The Gillmor Gang "  John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor "  were rendered iCloudy in the aftermath of Steve Jobs' WWDC announcements. Even st...

Ning and live stream video company Ustream are announcing an integrated partnership today that allows Ning network creators to broadcast live video and audio on their website at anytime, complete with...

I don't know if combining one relatively new trend (location-based services) with one that has been around for long but still leaves much to be desired (Q&A) makes perfect business sense, but a gr...

As books goes digital, Amazon is managing the transition nicely with the Kindle. Amazon now sells more Kindle books than print books, and offers nearly a million ebook titles. In a research note tha...

We're here at Nokia Theater right by the LA Convention Center for Nintendo's E3 Day One keynote. We expect a number of reveals, including updates on Zelda: Skyward Sword, a brand new Mario for the 3DS...

Rally Software, a specialist in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, this morning announced that it has raised $20 million in funding led by Meritech Capital Partners (an investor i...

The technology IPOs continue this week as Fusion-IO, the developer of flash- memory technology for companies, increased the price of its IPO to $16 to $18 per share. The company had previously priced ...

We've written quite a bit about PCH International, a China-based supply chain solutions company and a leader in the accessories market for e-readers, tablets and smartphones. Most recently, we covered...

It was almost a year ago when Fotopedia launched its first iPad photo app which brings together 20,000 gorgeous images of World Heritage sites around the world. Since then, it's launched three more (...

Canada's Yellow Pages Group has inked a deal with NYC location-based social networking startup Foursquare in a move to participate in the latter's "venue harmonization project", an effort to improve t...

We know Google has made a big bet on near field communications (NFC) as a payments system with the launch of Google Wallet, but does the technology have the potential to be the future of how money is ...

Liquid Robotics raised a $22 million, series d investment, led by VantagePoint Capital Partners, the company revealed today. Based in Hawaii and California, the company invented and makes wave-powere...

VSee, a video collaboration service provider, has received a capital injection from Salesforce, TechCrunch has learned. The amount was not disclosed, but we've been informed that the investment amount...

Prosper.com, a social lending marketplace that connects borrowers with individual and institutional investors, this morning announced that it has raised $17.2 million in funding from new investors Dra...

As we wrote a few months ago, SEO firm BrightEdge released a study showing that the majority of brands are doing little to optimize their Twitter or Facebook pages to make them more discoverable in se...

Scott McNealy, who famously co-founded Sun Microsystems, has raised close to $6.4 million in financing for one of his new ventures, stealth startup WayIn, an SEC filing reveals. Visitors to the WayIn ...

Online payments company eWise has raised $14 million in new funding led by Wellington Partners with Balderton Capital, Total Technology Ventures,, and Patagorang participating in the round. This bring...

Skype appears to be down, or at least for a whole lot of users throughout Europe who are tweeting in a ton of languages about their inability to connect. Many blame Microsoft, and even founder Bill Ga...

MyHeritage.com, a relatively heavily-funded Israeli startup operating a huge family-based social network, has moved to acquire Bliscy.pl from Poland's Internet publishing company Wirtualna Polska to s...

Concur, a provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions and recent purchaser of TripIt, has acquired London-based GlobalExpense, a company that specializes in Web-based expense manage...

EDITD, the London-based startup that offers a retail monitoring and analytics platform for the fashion industry, has raised a $1.6 million "seed round" led by Index Ventures. Alex Zubillaga, Atlas Ven...

In case you weren't following our WWDC keynote coverage live earlier today, you missed "  well, a lot. The event "  which ran about two hours "  was packed with informati...

The Financial Times would rather not have Apple take a 30 percent cut of in-app subscriptions for its iOS publications, and has launched a HTML5 Web app that enables readers to access content across t...

More and more, news consumption is happening online and on mobile devices. But there's so much news on the Web today, many have turned to filters and aggregators to concentrate the fire hose of inform...

Japanese online retail juggernaut Rakuten is expanding its reach to South America with the acquisition of a 75% stake in Ikeda, a provider of e-commerce services to many of Brazil's largest retailers....

If you talked to anyone over the age of 50 after Twitter announced its photo-sharing service last week, there was most likely one Twitter photo-sharing story on their lips and it wasn't the launch of ...

The Next-Generation Portable we've been hearing about for a good five months now has finally been owned up to by Sony. It is, as rumors had it, called the Playstation Vita, and the many features we've...

Sony has just announced a brand new 24-inch 3D HD display designed by them specifically for gaming. It uses active shutter glasses to produce 3D, and I'm guessing from the size and terminology that it...

With regard to today's WWDC keynote, we were right about a lot of things. Twitter/iOS. Revamped notifications. Widgets (though they didn't call them "widgets" on stage, the weather and stock areas in ...

Last week, we broke the news that Twitter would be integrated with iOS 5. At the time, we also noted that the timing of the launch of Twitter's new Photo service was calculated. The feature was launch...

Talk about buzz. This whole crowd is just sitting here, wondering if Sony, the almighty Sony, will actually acknowledge the massive data breach. No one is talking about the NGP, PS3, of course not the...

Nearly a month ago credit behemoth Experian acquired child identity and safety startup Safety Web. Experian actually announced it on May 18 as part of its statement around its quarterly financials, al...

Skype is no stranger to patent litigation. One time, even its founders pursued a lawsuit against it. But this is a new lawsuit, not yet reported as far as I can tell. What's more it was filed in th...

Now that the WWDC keynote is over and I've had a little bit of time to reflect, I've been thinking about what excited me the most from today's announcements. The list is long, no doubt. But I think I'...

Zynga's game development studios are on a roll of late, recently revealing GagaVille, and launching Settlers Of Catan-like social combat game Empires & Allies. And today, Zynga Mobile is adding on...

Up on the Apple website right now are the first screencaps of Twitter's iOS 5 integration, which we broke the first signs of last week. Fun fact: That @GilbertsoLANO account shown in the Apple officia...

FriendFinder Networks, which bills itself as an social networking and video sharing technology company but is basically a porn and dating site network operator, has just reported its first results for...

Salesforce has just revealed the designs and plans for a new campus for its global headquarters, which will be located in the Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Currently, Salesfor...

The WWDC 2011 keynote has just wrapped up, and Steve Jobs and company have announced some very interesting features for the iOS family of devices, including improvements to browsing, rich reminders, a...

Peter Stern is not only the Chief Strategy Officer at Time Warner Cable, but he's also one of the smartest analysts of today's complex media landscape. So it was a real honor to interview Stern last w...

For the past decade, Apple has treated the PC as the central digital hub which managed and stored all of your digital music, photos, videos, and documents. But managing your own digital hub no longer...

May 2009: Evernote hits 1 million registered usersDecember 2009: Evernote hits 2 million registered usersMay 2010: Evernote hits 3 million registered usersAugust 2010: Evernote hits 4 million register...

Steve Jobs just announced his one more thing at WWDC; iTunes Match which will upgrade your ripped those songs to 256 kpbs AAC DRM-free."It takes just minutes. Not weeks," said Jobs.iTunes Match will u...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs just announced his infamous "one more thing" at WWDC and it's iTunes In The Cloud-related; iTunes Match will upgrade your ripped songs to 256 kpbs AAC DRM-free for a $24.99 yearly...

Apple has just announced its iMessages service for iOS devices which allows all iOS 5 users to send videos,text, photos, group msgs and receipts across all iOS devices."I believe we have the best mess...

Apple has just announced its iMessages service for iOS devices which allows all iOS 5 users to send videos,text, photos, group msgs and receipts across all iOS devices."I believe we have the best mess...

Apple has just announced its iMessages service for iOS devices which allows all iOS 5 users to send videos,text, photos, group msgs and receipts across all iOS devices."I believe we have the best mess...

When Apple launched subscriptions for iPad publications back in February, it effectively became a digital newsstand. With iOS 5, it will formalize the process with an official Newsstand app, exec Sco...

Apple just announced a fairly in-depth 'Twitterification' of the newest version of its mobile OS, iOS 5 (which we reported last week to be taking place). As Apple says during the WWDC keynote today, t...

While Craig Ferericchi and Phil Schillersaid that OS X Lion had over 250 features, he outlined ten of the most important ones for developers at #WWDC. While people with the developer preview have had ...

Alright, finally. Microsoft released the Kinect last year with games that turned out to be to nothing more than virtual parlor games. But today at the company's E3 2011 presser, they took the wraps of...

Scott Forstall, speaking at WWDC 2011, has just announced some major numbers relating to Apple's iOS. 200 million iOS devices have been sold, which they claim makes it the #1 mobile operating system i...

Apple just revealed a number of impressive stats at its WWDC developer conference. The company says that 15 billion songs have been sold from the iTunes Store, making it the number one music retailer ...

Today during the WWDC keynote at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Apple spent a good 40 minutes walking through the latest features of OS X, the powerful operating system that runs on its laptop a...

Apple's Phil Schiller, speaking at today's WWDC keynote, outlined some interesting numbers relating to Macs and their growth in the personal computer sector. First, he mentioned that there are some 54...

Microsoft has improved the Xbox UI by adding detailed voice and gesture controls and essentially removing the "leaves" or cards from the old UI and creating a large, fullscreen experience that dedicat...

We're live in not-so-sunny San Francisco, where Apple is hosting their annual Worldwide Developer Conference "  and, more directly important to the masses of Apple fans around the world, the...

Aquantia, a developer of 10Gigabit Ethernet connectivity solutions for cloud computing and data center deployments, announced this morning that it has raised $21 million in Series E funding to meet d...

As you may be aware, nearly two months ago Microsoft and federal law enforcement agents cracked down on the infamous Rustock botnet, which was responsible for a lot of the spam you hopefully never rec...

Here we are, live in the heart of USC's Galen Center, as we wait for Microsoft to kick of E3 2011 in a big way. We're expecting big things from Microsoft this year. But will it be Kinect big? Last...

Accel Partners has a long, and well-known history of making solid investment bets on popular consumer facing web and mobile platforms, including Facebook, Groupon, Etsy, Trulia and Angry Birds. But th...

Startup Justin.tv has long offered live video streaming through its web platform as well as through various mobile apps. In fact, Justin.tv serves more than 300 million live videos per month. But besi...

Mu Sigma, a startup that provides 'decision sciences' and analytics services to help companies make business decisions based on 'big data', has secured $25 million in Series C financing from Sequoia C...

We're live in not-so-sunny San Francisco, where Apple is hosting their annual Worldwide Developer Conference "  and, more directly important to the masses of Apple fans around the world, the...

Greenvity, a startup that makes "system on a chip" (SOC) technology for use in smart grid-connected equipment or energy saving consumer electronics, has raised more than $7 million in a series A roun...

Back in July 2009 I wrote about an ambitious Y Combinator-backed startup called RethinkDB that was setting out to create a new kind of database, built from the ground up for solid state drives (SSDs)....

Sharing is big on the Web. We all know that. But exactly how big? ShareThis has some answers in a study it put together with Starcom MediaVest Group and Rubinson Partners. Looking across the s...

Excited about Apple's developer conference, are we? According to Storify founder Xavier Damman, the line for WWDC 2011 was already 4 blocks long at 6:15 AM.That's almost two hours before the doors...

Startup Justin.tv has long offered live video streaming through its web platform as well as through various mobile apps. In fact, Justin.tv serves more than 300 million live videos per month. But besi...

Canada's Intertainment Media has agreed to acquire Canada's DealFrenzy.com, a me-too daily deals site. The company coughed up half a million dollars in cash and $200,000 in Intertainment common stock ...

Atlanta-based Birch Communications, an IP-based telecom and managed services provider to SMBs, has scored a $77.5 million finance package which will serve to repay outstanding indebtedness.The capital...

In December last year Waze, the social traffic and navigation app for smartphones, raised a hefty $25 million Series B round of funding. With growth doubling from 2 million users worldwide in December...

Two years ago, Mind Candy was just another online gaming company. It had some minor success with interactive puzzles and an alternative reality game called Perplexcity, but the future wasn't exactly b...

What do Lady Gaga and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt have in common? Well according to a very interesting piece in the New York Times by former TCr Evelyn Rusli, they've both invested in B...

The biggest gaming convention in the US is about to be underway here at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and we're covering it live. We'll have video streams, posts, and direct feed from the latest ...

Spongecell, a startup that places rich media ads in display advertisements, has raised a new round of financing led by Eric Schmidt and Jim Pallotta, Chairman and Managing Director of Raptor Group. Pa...

Social photo app Instagram pushed out a new update today on the iPhone. The first thing you notice is that uploads are a lot faster. Speed, quite frankly, is one of Instagram's competitive advantage...

"If your company is ever used as the subject of the "X for Y" analogy, that's success. AirBnB used to be the eBay for vacation rental. Now other companies are the Airbnb of things." -- ...

Could it be? Is this it? iOS 5?! I honestly have absolutely no clue. But it certainly seems like it at least could have the right idea.Tomorrow morning, Apple is set to preview iOS 5 for t...

Hurrah! It's time again for my favourite week of the year: the week when tech writers are given a much needed break from the day to day drudgery of reporting and analysis and are instead encouraged to...

While the idea of 'online to offline' for purchasing is proving to be powerful in the local commerce world, the trend of linking the physical world to the web is producing a number of startups that ar...

One evening last week we sat at the bar downstairs at 1 Market after a long workday. John Taschek and several others were extolling the virtues, no, the imperatives of motorcycle ownership. You know, ...

We just wrote about the sale of Social.com, which will auctioned off this week at DOMAINfest Barcelona with an opening bid of a whopping $5 million. The current record holder for the highest sale of a...

Not too long ago" the common perception was that Facebook advertising did not work. Why would a user notice an advertisement with a small image discretely tucked away in the right-hand colum...

Editor's Note: This is a guest post by (@msuster) Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur, now VC atGRP Partners. Read more about Suster atBothsidesofthetableIt's 2011 but you could forgive yourself for thinki...

Ah, true love. Everyone was surprised "  even Michael Arrington was left speechless and said he was "discombobulated" "  after Julia Hu was proposed to onstage during her special p...

When Facebook acquired Beluga this past March, it was an interesting deal for them. Interesting, because they previously had only done deals for talent. But this deal, they told us, was for both talen...

August Capital was doing very late stage deals when most VCs refused to. And its early 2000 era buyout of Seagate was one of the better returns in the firm's history. So why is it mostly sitting out t...

The reason the Groupon IPO feels like a swindle is because profits are nowhere in sight and founders are saying trust us while they pocket $...

In this week's episode of OMG/JK, Jason and I start off with a preview of what may be coming at Apple's WWDC event next week in San Francisco. Then we get into what Google unveiled at their NFC event ...

Let's be honest: One of the reasons David Hornik actually agreed to be on camera at All Things D is that he didn't have a startup about to file to go public any second. So we talked about some of his...

We haven't done Ask a VC for a while thanks to my hectic travel schedule, so I pulled David Hornik out of the hallway at D to catch up on his thoughts on his portfolio and the industry.But first, we c...

The Gillmor Gang "  Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor "  shuddered with expectant glee at Apple's presumed iCloud announcement at next week's WWDC event. ...

If I didn't know any better, I'd think iPads grew on trees or were on sale at TJ Maxx or something with the number of these things people want to give away. Regardless, we have a 16GB Wi-Fi iPad 2 wai...

Colorgets bashed as being a contributing player to the so called startup bubble and the frat-boy attitude of investors from the Web 1.0 era don't do much better in this episode ofFounder Storieswith h...

LinkedIn and investment firm Tiger Global both filed separate SEC filings yesterday evening indicating that the firm loaded up on LinkedIn stock both before and after the company's IPO in May. Accordi...

Last night, Kno quietly released its first digital textbook app for the iPad. It includes its own store of "over 700,000 titles at 30% to 50% off list" price. And the app is a full textbook reader.T...

Last night, Kno quietly released its first digital textbook app for the iPad. It includes its own store of "over 700,000 titles at 30% to 50% off list" price. And the app is a full textbook reader.T...

While there are plenty of solar-powered peripherals that plug into your laptop to boost its battery power, we haven't yet seen a model that runs solely on solar. Industrial Designer Andrea Ponti's con...

As the complaints about Flickr continue to pile on, scrappy Toronto-based service 500px continues to grow, going from 1000 users in 2009 to over 85K (around 45K of which have joined in the last three ...

As the complaints about Flickr continue to pile on, scrappy Toronto-based service 500px continues to grow, going from 1000 users in 2009 to over 85K (around 45K of which have joined in the last three ...

Two months ago, Google disclosed that they were bidding on bankrupt Nortel's patent portfolio. Why? They claim it's a defensivemaneuverto protect the "relatively young" company from would-be paten...

Whether you're on Team Andreessen, who held that we weren't in a tech bubble at the AllThingsD conference, or the now revisedTeam Arrington ("All signs point to a real bubble, probably starting later...

Consumers are engaging retailers on Facebook and Twitter now more than ever. Whether it is Liking a deal, Tweeting the link to a product, or even participating in a contest, shoppers are mentioning an...

A promising aberration. The Flyer is barely a viable product, but it hints at potential that is almost surely being unlocked in the labs of HTC right now.It's kind of cool, and Sense looks nice, but f...

Heyzap, a social discovery platform for mobile and online games, announced today that it's zapping its way onto the iPhone just in time for WWDC 2011, Apple's developer conference. The startup will b...

Facebook vice president Chamath Palihapitiya will leave the company as he launches a large new venture fund called The Social+Capital Partnership, with backing from some of the worlds leading bus...

I was surprised to hear former Google CEO Eric Schmitt publicly lament lost opportunities and missed chances to catch Facebook the other day.I used to envy Google and the vast digital empire that Schm...

After Egypt and Libya this spring, Syria is the latest Middle Eastern/North African country to get its connectivity pulled due to internal anti-governmental unrest. According to the Rensys blog almost...

Back in February, I wrote that MobileNotifier (a replacement notifications system for jailbroken iOS devices) would be the one thing that would make anyone want to jailbreak "  and I stand b...

So now that we know that the Twitter Photos is very real(as we first reported),the next question is: when can we actually use it? In their initial announcement, Twitter said that the product would...

When I want to sell something, I generally always use eBay or Craigslist, but usually the process takes time, I don't get to meet the person I'm selling to (or buying from), and I can't list from my s...

Adults in the U.S. could use a little more education on economics and physics, it seems. We're not drawing the connection between power consumed by our electronics and the cost of our electric bills....

A few days ago at the All Things D conference, Marc Andreessen predicted that every wacky 1999 dot com business that failed would one day find success in a new incarnation. But what about businesses t...

In the wake of Groupon's IPO filing, it's worth looking at the fundamentals of the offer. Growth numbers to date have been phenomenal. But is it a business that can last?We love daily deals for a ...

GOGII's well-funded, free text messaging app, textPlus, announced today that it has crossed the 10 billion text messages sent mark since it launched in the app store in June of 2009. They're pumping o...

It looks like Google is sunsetting a cross-promotion feature that mobile ad network AdMob previously offered. The AdMob Download Exchange allowed mobile app developers who had an application with avai...

In another move that makes it clear that Google is putting a much greater focus on 'social', the search giant has just acquired PostRank. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed.PostRank is a servic...

In an extremely absurd move by French TV regulatory agency CSA, the French canno longer say the words"Facebook" or "Twitter" on television unless they are in the context of a news story. While France ...

The debate about Windows 8 rages on in this episode of Fly or Die. CrunchGear editor John Biggs, who joins me from Las Vegas where he is attending a watch conference (don't ask) thinks nothing has re...

This should be interesting. Flipboard is getting an editorial director from the world of print magazines: Josh Quittner, my former boss at Business 2.0 magazine and most recently the editor at Time In...

Short version: Rosetta Stone launched its iPad app today, which is basically just a lighter version of its core "course" software. The app itself is nothing extraordinary, but the way it teaches langu...

Earlier this week, Microsoft registered a bunch of domain names, including AppYourSites.com, AppYourSites.net, AppYourSites.info and more of the same with different extensions (including some country ...

It's been a long time since TechCrunch made its last official event in a german speaking country. Almost exactly two years after TechCrunch Munich and our TCEU Editor Mike Butcher developing a crush ...

Pioneer Electronics today announced a nifty new service called Zypr, a platform that collects your favorite web services all in one place and allows you to control them using your voice -- on any con...

When we wrote about mobile Q&A app Opinionaided two months ago, the app had generated 40 million responses to about 500,000 questions. In only three months, Opinionaided more than doubled those nu...

comScore this morning released some interesting data from its MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three-month average period ending April 2011. Accordin...

A patent troll called Kootol Software has put Twitter on alert. The 'company', which sports a corporate logo (and name) that is suspiciously reminiscent of Google's, this morning said it has sent a ca...

Electric car company Tesla Motors has priced its follow-on offering of 5,300,000 shares of stock at $28.76 per share, the closing price for Tesla shares on June 2. Tesla CEO Elon Musk also plans to pu...

Roughly 10 weeks after drugstore giant Walgreens announced its intention to acquire online retailer Drugstore.com for approximately $409 million, the company this morning said that it has completed th...

Electronic Arts is today debuting Origin, a direct-to-consumer gaming platform, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal. According to the placeholder website, expect Origin to go live around 9 AM...

Possible Worldwide, a WPP Digital company, this morning its acquisition of a majority stake in Gringo, a Brazilian digital agency. The deal is meant to expand the global footprint of Possible Worldwid...

After two years in stealth, Adam Bosworth is finally ready to start talking about his health startup Keas. Keas is not a Mint for health, although it began that way. Bosworth, who previously launche...

We've been over this. But many of you felt the need to argue "  passionately "  about the fate of an input device we all use today: the mouse. I say it's dead. Well not dead, dead ...

There has been a lot of discussion recently about the "peak age" of entrepreneurs. "Old Guys Rule," said Vivek Wadwa in 1999, citing data that showed that men over 40 who were married and with childre...

Tablet publishing platform Onswipe is announcing a $5 million round of "Series Awesome" funding today after their one million in seed funding in January. The round will be led by Spark Capital and fol...

Apple's big developer conference, WWDC, is coming up next week, and what better way to prepare than with a rap song? Cory Smith, the man who brought us Developers, The Rap featuring Microsoft CEO...

Juice In The City, a site that pairs moms with local businesses and daily deals, announced tonight that it has raked in $6 million in seed funding from Tandem Entrepreneurs and HU Investments. The st...

Cleantech companies"  especially in solar"  love to talk about how they're breaking records. They issue press releases left and right about the most efficient this, that and the o...

Once far off in the distance, iCloud is now quickly approaching. It will be a new service with many layers that Apple will first unveil on Monday during the keynote at WWDC. But the most interesting l...

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Today, another early-stage accelerator program hits Quebec's largest city, joining Year One Labs and others in an effort to support and grow Canadian entrepreneurship. FounderFuel was created by the t...

In Silicon Valley the terms of venture capital deals, the prices of valuations and the real stories of ousters are routinely dished, whether they always show up in the press or not. Sure it's all off ...

Groupon finally filed for its IPO today and now we can see it's finances laid bare. Groupon has been growing at an astounding rate. Last year, it's revenues grew more than 22,000 percent to $713 mil...

Music streaming service Pandora has just filed a new version of its S-1 that indicates the company will be pricing its stock at $7 to $9 per share. Pandora's stock will be traded on The New York Stock...

Groupon has just filed its form S-1, paving the path for an IPO in the near future (the news isn't a big surprise, as an impending IPO has been rumored for some time). As part of the process the compa...

After CEO Andrew Mason gave an IPO death stare to Kara Swisher at D9, looks like Groupon has filed an S-1 to IPO, looking to raise $750 million. According to the form its 2010 revenues were$713 millio...

After CEO Andrew Mason gave an IPO death stare to Kara Swisher at D9, looks like Groupon has filed an S-1 to IPO, looking to raise at least $750 million. According to the form its 2010 revenues were$7...

OpenFeint is announcing a pretty big partner today for its plug and play mobile social gaming platform-Sega. The Japanese video game company is using OpenFeint to provide social gaming for its newest ...

Cond Nast has unveiled a new iPad app called Idea Flight that they claim "is a new tool designed to share ideas, presentations, documents and designs easily and effectively." One iPad user is a the "p...

A la 2006, today, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo collectively announced that they will be partnering to create schema.org, a resource for site owners and developers to learn about structured data and ga...

A New York City startup that provides small businesses with a social media dashboard, Postling, is rolling out three new features this week. They are meant to help small business owners see who their...

Facebook has just filed a motion for expedited discovery in its case against Paul Ceglia, the man who is claiming that he holds a major stake in Facebook based on a contract he allegedly signed with M...

Mashape has a somewhat unusual backstory: The Italian startup spent two years looking for funding in its home country, only to be rebuffed at every turn. So, in 2009, it moved operations to Silicon Va...

In the tech world, the phrase "gets better with time"  is rarely, if ever, used. Hackers may be the only exception to that rule, and they seem to be on a faster learning curve than Face...

As we heard yesterday Twitter is partnering with Photobucket to allow users to upload a photo attached to a Tweet directly from Twitter.com's web and mobile clients. This, of course, is interesting co...

During Paul Graham's office hours at Disrupt NYC, one of the startups chosen to pitch to the Y Combinator co-founder was Emotely, a company that converts your smartphone into a wireless controller of ...

When you're looking for a new apartment, or a new place to live, there are quite a few sites you can turn to for real estate listings. There's Craigslist if you're feeling saucy, Redfin, Zillow, Realt...

Alexis Ohanain continues his coversation with Founder Stories host Chris Dixon by discussing some of his activities and interests outside of Reddit.Highlights of their chat include Ohanian telling Dix...

Yesterday, Microsoft showed off Windows 8 for the first time, and it's gorgeous (check it out in the video above). It's also the biggest change to the look and feel of Windows since Windows 95. Windo...

News junkie? Smart enough to realize you should check multiple sources covering the same news item to absorb as much information about the topic at hand as you possible can? iPad owner, by any...

Even though we have to deal with 100-degree summers and 15-degree winters, hobos on the subway, and slow-walking tourists, sometimes it really pays off to be a New Yorker. Samsung's highly anticipated...

Push IO, a startup that offers a cloud-based mobile feature platform for developers has announced the acquisition of mobile app framework TapLynx from NewsGator. TapLynx will be re-released by Push I...

Bill Gross' UberMedia has announced a $5.6 million investment from German media giant Burda Digital through its investment arm, DLD Ventures. This brings UberMedia's total funding to $26.6 million. Ub...

Online training software startup Mindflash.com has raised $4 million in new funding led by the Investment Group of Santa Barbara. This investment brings the startup's total funding to $9 million.Mindf...

Just like Airbnb operates a marketplace for spaces for travelers and whatnot to stay, Kodesk aims to do much of the same for spaces for freelancers and whatnot to work.Essentially trying to build a pe...

It was just a little over a month ago that I wrote "We're In The Middle Of A Terrible Blubble!" - a post about the difference between the Internet bubble of 2000 and the "blubble" (as I call it) that ...

Exclusive - Off the heels of raising $6 million in venture capital, Lendio has secured another $2 million in debt financing from Square 1 Bank.Formerly called FundingUniverse.com, Lendio matches small...

Cloud Sherpas, a Google Apps reseller that also helps enterprises migrate to and manage the productivity suite, has acquired Omnetic, a fellow Google Apps deployment service. The acquisition of San F...

The Obama 2012 campaign is about to get a lot hipper. Former CEO and apparent unabashed wacky person Harper Reed has justbeen named as its CTO. Reed was at Threadless until 2009, then moved to Rackspa...

If you're like me you're probably too preoccupied to get political on a daily basis, even though you are passionate about social activism and causes like education reform.But what if an app made it ea...

Google Places is at it again, brazenly borrowing reviews from Yelp. But this time it's in their iPhone app and they are not even bothering to link back to Yelp or attribute where they are getting the...

If you've ever yearned to mash up your cat video with some C-SPAN footage but couldn't figure out how, today's your lucky day.Because starting now, YouTube is giving users a choice over how they want ...

Yesterday, leading up to today's announcement of Twitter's new photo sharing capabilities, we reported hearing that Twitter had approached some ecosystem players months ago about their potential move ...

Microsoft has just given a demonstration of what they're calling Windows 8. It appears to be a complete revamp of the Windows interface, designed around a tile system like that of Windows Phone 7, and...

How much is the domain Social.com worth? We are about to find out. The domain will be auctioned off on June 8 at DOMAINfest Barcelona with an opening bid of $5 million, according to Moniker. Mon...

In today's hyper-connected world, the lure of the cellphones, smartphones, and other devices is always present. Take public transportation to work and you're likely to find the majority of passengers ...

Groupon, as everyone knows by now, is growing like crazy. How crazy? CEO Andrew Mason just revealed at the D9 technology conference that he now employs 8,000 people, which is up from 1,500 a yea...

While much of the talk leading up to today was about Twitter's move into the photo game, the bigger news is actually what they've done to their search product. They've completely rebuilt it. And while...

Juniper Research released a report today that found that global mobile network operator revenues are set to exceed $1 trillion by 2016. This would be something to celebrate were it not the case that ...

A few days ago, the iPhone app 100 Cameras in 1 got an update with a great new feature: the ability to send photos to Instagram. As GigaOm's Om Malik pointed out, this was the first outside app to gai...

Google has just revealed that it has detected a phishing attack originating from Jinan, China that targeted hundreds of people, including "senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists...

Maybe I'm just obsessed with pop culture and technology, but it's still fascinating to see how celebrities use Twitter. Some use the platform to vent, others for raising money, and some use it as a la...

Dick Costolo just wrapped up his keynote at All Things D. It wasn't livestreamed, so for those of you who missed out, there were some interesting tidbits about user numbers, defense of Twitter's stewa...

Another app to help electric vehicle (EV) drivers find a place to power up? Yep. This one, Recargo, was made by the founder of Dictionary.com, Brian Kariger, and launched stealthily in July last ...

Last year, Google discontinued support for Docs and Sites for IE6. Today Google is making a pretty major move concerning support for older browsers, announcing that as of August 1, Google Apps will no...

Last week at TechCrunch Disrupt, Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham took the stage for a highly engaging interview with Charlie Rose, during which he discussed how Y Combinator got started and what ex...

We're hearing thatGroupon will be shortly announcing a partnership with Expedia to provide a separate channel for Groupon Travel, apart from deals in your area. Travel deals will probably be regional ...

OpenChime, a startup that allows users to get online quotes and information from an array of local service providers, today announced that it has raised $700K in seed funding from Lightbank, the Chica...

Twitter has just announced on their blog two new key bits of functionality: improved search and photos. The latter, we've obviously been all over in recent days, as we first broke the news a couple da...

We broke the news yesterday that Google was planning to announce today that the +1 button is going to be added to partner websites. The news leaked after one of the partners, Clearspring, leaked ...

We broke the news yesterday that Google was planning to announce today that the +1 button is going to be added to partner websites. The news leaked after one of the partners, Clearspring, leaked ...

YouWeb-incubated iSwifter, an iPad app that allows developers to stream flash games to the tablet device, is launching a new version of its app today that supports a subscription based model for month...

We're continuing to highlight some of our favorite moments from the many hours of backstage content live-streamed during Disrupt last week. One of my favorite sit-downs was with Bing Gordon, general p...

I have egg on my face, hands, and in my hair. Last year I called a premature end to the ereader race, stating that the Kindle was first to market and therefore in first place. I'm pleased to report th...

Rovio, the Finland-based developer behind the extremely popular Angry Birds franchise, this morning announced on its blog that it has acquired a longtime partner, Finnish animation studio Kombo.Financ...

Netflix CEO and founder Reed Hastings took the stage at All Things Digital's ninth conference, speaking with Kara Swisher about the company's future strategy, competition, content deals and more. When...

Netflix CEO and founder Reed Hastings took the stage at All Things Digital's ninth conference, speaking with Kara Swisher about the company's future strategy, competition, content deals and more. When...

On 28 April 2002, a few months after Apple launched the very first iPod (yes, it's been that long already), someone registered the domain name iPods.com. It apparently took the Cupertino company a lit...

On Wednesday, SolarCity added $158 million to the pool of funds that it uses to finance, design, develop and install commercial or residential solar power projects in the U.S. The latest fund came th...

It was a surprising way to kick off a technology conference at a moment in time where any piece of news-- big or small-- cues up the BUBBLE-OR-NOT Greek chorus of wailing and chest beating. Tech valua...

Online video is growing up, and so are the young video stars who first found an audience on YouTube like Fred (Lucas Cruikshank) and iJustine. Both are part of the Collective Digital Studios, a talen...

One thing former Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra has besides one of the funnest last names ever to say out loud: a new job. He's moving to from Silicon Valley to Austin and taking the CEO role at M...

Alliance Health Networks, a company that operates health condition-specific social networks, has raised $11 million in new funding led by New World Ventures with participation from Physic Ventures, Hi...

Launched less than a year ago, daily deals site and WhitePages subsidiary DealPop has been acquired by another company riding the group buying wave, Tippr.Financial terms of the deal were not disclose...

Video conferencing company Polycom is acquiring the assets of HP's Visual Collaboration business, including the Halo Products and Managed Services business according to a release issued by both compan...

RockYou is continuing its acquisition strategy today with the purchase of Australian social game developer 3 Blokes. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.Founded in 2006, 3 Blokes has devel...

Do we really need another mobile check-in app? Newly launched startup Quipster seems to think so. The startup is launching a location based social network for the iPhone that allows users to share...

HP! SanDisk just crashed your party! Deep in the seedy show that is Computex Taipei, SanDisk is showing off one of its latest partner devices. Yep, they have a fully functional HP TouchpadThe SanDisk ...

Act-On Software, which offers a cloud-based online marketing platform, this morning announced it has closed $10 million in Series C funding from Trinity Ventures, roughly half a year after securing $4...

Mixcloud, the 'YouTube of radio' (see our recent TechCrunchTV interview), has finally brought its offering to the iPhone in the form of a native app.The Mixcloud iPhone app gives on-the-go access to t...

Fixmo, which offers solutions to protect and manage enterprise mobile devices, has raised $6.5 million in financing, the company announced this morning.The Series B funding round was led by new invest...

London based VC focused in mobile m8 Capital is to invest in investment in an Austin, US mobile and social game publisher, Portalarium. m8 led the funding round with San Francisco-based Founders Fund....

Two weeks after Miramax announced a major content deal with Netflix, the studio this morning announced that it has also struck a multi-year agreement with Hulu to bring hundreds of films, including Pu...

Seen as a "last throw of the dice" in 2008 by Michael Acton Smith's Mind Candy, Moshi Monsters has grown into a phenomenal success. The educational social game for kids is said to be signing up a new ...

Designed to mark the company's full launch after four years of development, iGlue, in partnership with one of its backers, Power of the Dream Ventures (PDV), is launching "The iGlue Summer Annotation ...

Airbnb just raised $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, and it's using some of that cash (and/or stock) to acquire a German 'equivalent' dubbed Accoleo. This move signals Airbnb's willingness to ex...

Some months ago, before the company was worth a billion dollars, I shared some thoughts on Airbnb.Specifically, in what some mischaracterized as an attack on the company, I criticized those whose wors...

Apple did something really odd today. Something they almost never do. They pre-announcedthe agenda for the keynote of one of their events, WWDC, taking place next week. Yes, they probably did this in ...

More details have emerged since we originally reported on Twitter's photo-sharing service, namely that Apple's new iOS 5 will probably come with a baked in Twitter image sharing feature.A tipster info...

Every technology era has its four horsemen driving growth and innovation. In the 1990s it was Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, and Dell. Today, there is anew "gang of four," as Google chairman Eric Schmidt ...

Today during a keynote interview atAllThingsD's D9, Google Executive Chairman (and former longtime CEO) made a key announcement: Google has recently renewed its partnership with Apple over mapping and...

PunchTab, a startup that offers a social loyalty platform for consumers and publishers, has raised $850,000 in seed funding from Mohr Davidow Ventures, Embarcadero Ventures, and angels Venky Harinaray...

You may know Vudu as the startup bringing high definition movie rentals and rent-to-own services to set-top boxes like PlayStation 3 and the Boxee Box. And most TVs and Blu-ray players. Vudu recently...

If you were among the first wave of people to buy an iPad last spring, there's a good chance you spent a lot of time playing one game in particular: Plants vs Zombies. PopCap's smash hit was one of th...

Social gaming giant Zynga is launching its latest game tomorrow" Empires & Allies, the company's first strategy combat game. Zynga is going big with this launch, debuting the game on Fac...

There were a lot of stellar startups at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC last week, and unfortunately, there could only be one set of finalists and one winner. Of course, that doesn't mean that those companies ...

It's something that Dave Morin isn't too quick to talk about, but it's impossible to ignore: his new startup, Path, is becoming quite the gathering ground for ex-Facebook employees. Of course, Morin's...

Yesterday, we first reported that Twitter was on the verge of launching their own photo-sharing service. That report has since been confirmed by Liz Gannes, who happens to work for All Things D, which...

Last October, Kleiner Perkins launched the sFund, a $250 million initiative designed to make strategic investments in entrepreneurs building social services and apps. The partners contributing to the...

YouTube is now showing approximately 3 billion videos a day. A growing proportion of those are shown with ads" more than 2 billion a week" and YouTube as a business is expected to...

YouTube is now showing approximately 3 billion videos a day. A growing proportion of those are shown with ads" more than 2 billion a week" and YouTube as a business is expected to...

There's a button war going on around us. Google, Digg, Yahoo, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn "  they've all been angling to get their buttons in prime real estate on big websites. But two players loo...

VMware has acquired social communications platform Socialcast. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Socialcast, which raised nearly $10 million in funding, combines a corporate activity stream...

Fitim Blaku is a Software Engineer and Web Designer based in New York City. He specializes in creating immersive web designs and applications. His consulting group WebHD focuses on maximizing web rev...

The World Health Organization has just released the findings of a major literature review by leading scientists in the fields of cancer and radiation. Their conclusion? We need more data, but it's...

Oh, Google. Hate to do this again, but you really need to lock up these partners and get your PR in order.A week after we got a pitch from a partner NFC company all-but-confirming that Google's New Yo...

Oh, Google. Hate to do this again, but you really need to lock up these partners and get your PR in order.A week after we got a pitch from a partner NFC company all-but-confirming that Google's New Yo...

One of the most interesting panels at last week's Disrupt featured a discussion about social music between Steve Jang the co-founder and CEO of Schematic Labs and Alexander Ljung the founder and CEO o...

Online payment methods are old and in the way. Sure, whether or not the world will have a generally-agreed-upon payment system is up for debate, but it seems that a new era of micropayments is here -...

Yesterday, we reported that Twitter was close to acquiring AdGrok, the Y Combinator-backed keyword bidding platform. Today, the company has confirmed the move with a blog post, "@AdGrok Is Going To @J...

Enterprise social networking platform Yammer is adding two new features to its platform today that are worth noting. The company is supporting in-line videos within news feeds, and is also allowing us...

When I got an iPad 2 test unit in the mail a few weeks back, one of the first things I noticed when browsing through apps was that the iWork suite of apps, Numbers, Pages, and Keynote, were all presen...

Today, on the first day of the yearly Computex Taipei exhibition in Taiwan, Asus took the wraps off the Android tablet/phone combo it teased last week. Dubbed Padfone, Asus is relatively mum on detail...

After buying Terracotta last week, Software AG is continuing its acquisition spree today. The provider of business process management solutions has acquired UK mobile development company Metismo. Fina...

Next week, Apple will unveil its much-anticipated iCloud service at its annual developer conference, WWDC. Apple even put out a press release this morning pre-announcing the service" somethi...

I wrote a book in 2004 about hackers, spammers, and other nerds and I thought I'd like to share it with the world. It's currently available on Amazon and B&N and is $9.99 for the print edition and...

Earlier this year, Yuri Milner and Ron Conway's SV Angel announced a new fund that offers all Y Combinator startups $150,000 in convertible debt. Not only is The Start Fund a brilliant investment stra...

Pop over to iCloud.com today and you'll see a doomed web page. The domain, which redirects to Xcerion's CloudMe software, is sitting on some prime real estate, namely Apple's new iCloud service.In a s...

Pop over to iCloud.com today and you'll see a doomed web page. The domain, which redirects to Xcerion's CloudMe software, is sitting on some prime real estate, namely Apple's new iCloud service.In a s...

There goes all the fun rumors and wild speculation. Apple just released a press release detailing what's coming next week at the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference. I'll let that sink in...

Digital advertising technology company OpenX has scored $20 million in its fourth round of financing, provided by the venture capital arms of strategic partners such as AOL and SAP, in addition to Asi...

Lightbank-backed test prep app developer Watermelon Express is announcing a rebranding today, relaunching as BenchPrep. BenchPrep develops cross-platform apps to help students prepare for a number of ...

Exclusive - Wooga doesn't get even half the attention that's been given to its closest rivals in the social games space, namely Zynga and EA. But the European games developer is taking off big time, a...

There are literally hundreds of thousands of iPhone, iPad and Android apps to choose from, and yet finding good apps is far from easy. App discovery and recommendations is a fertile niche where a fe...

Last week at TechCrunch Disrupt, Google VP of Location and Local Services Marissa Mayer took the stage for an interview with our own Michael Arrington, where they discussed everything from Google's mo...

We're hearing from multiple sources that Twitter is in talks to acquire Y Combinator-backed key word bidding platformAdGrok for a deal that is less than $10 million. It's still unclear where exactly ...

A few days ago, Facebook held a tech talk at their headquarters. The topic of the talk was pushing changes "  bug fixes, new features, product improvements, etc. Every day, Facebook engineer...