Articles by Techcrunch from August 2011

Zynga just debuted a trailer for its newest social game on Facebook" Adventure World. According to the game's Facebook page, the game's tag line is 'team up, explore lost worlds, unearth adv...

Ten days ago, HP announced that it was going to be liquidating its abruptly-discontinued TouchPad, the WebOS-powerediPad competitor that launched early this summer. When it first launched the device w...

Ten days ago, HP announced that it was going to be liquidating its abruptly-discontinued TouchPad, the WebOS-powerediPad competitor that launched early this summer. When it first launched the device w...

More often than we'd like, phones are announced with absolutely horrifying names. Acer's beTouch, the Casio G'zOne Commando, and the HTC ChaCha all fall hard into that category. They leave you wonderi...

More often than we'd like, phones are announced with absolutely horrifying names. Acer's beTouch, the Casio G'zOne Commando, and the HTC ChaCha all fall hard into that category. They leave you wonderi...

Dropbox is finally moving to close that massive valuation venture round we've been talking about all summer. According to multiple sources, Index Ventures will lead the round, which values Dropbox at ...

Today,EnergyHublaunched its new, comprehensive, in-home energy management system for U.S. consumers. The system includes the EnergyHub Home Base, for centralized management of the electricity usage in...

Android and Apple together now account for nearly 70 percent of smartphone subscribers in the U.S., according to new estimates for July put out today by comScore. Android phones command nearly 42 per...

Back in May, we heard that Cliqset founder Darren Bounds was working on a stealthy new social project called Glow. Cliqset, a FriendFeed like social aggregation platform, shut its doors last Fall. Tod...

If you're looking for a solid Android handset with a physical QWERTY keyboard, Motorola has a few nice offerings on the table. The Fire, the Droid Pro, and the XPRT all have their strengths, and anoth...

Mike Lazerowco-founder and CEO ofBuddy Mediawas hooked on Facebook immediately after logging onto Zuckerburg's social media site during Facebook's early days.In this episode of Founder Stories with ho...

The concept of a NASA-backed MMO about space is one that's been floating around for years, and thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign, the project is making its first steps to becoming a reality....

Intel is forming a brand new business unit today, called Intel Federal, to 'better address new opportunities in working with the U.S. government.' The new subsidiary will focus exclusively on selling ...

A new daily deals site catering to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LBGT) and allied communities has just launched, and it's called Gaypon. The site provides its subscribers with daily offers ...

Though the digital world seems to be swallowing print alive, there are still some documents that you just want to hold in your hand. But with the speed and ease at which we share information these day...

There's more good news for the growth of the social enterprise. Gartner is reporting today that the social customer relationship management (CRM) market is forecast to reach over $1 billion in revenue...

It's one thing to hear praise for an app from geeks, it's another when you hear it from 'normal folks'. Onavo falls in this category. The free data-shrinking app which we've praised in the past runs q...

Barnes & Noble took to the wires this morning to announced its 2012 first quarter sales and earnings. It's mostly good news with sales in the first quarter hitting $1.4 billion, an increase of 2% ...

InsideView, a service that mashes up social data for enterprises to increase sales productivity, is launching a new product today" CRM+. InsideView, which has raised $37 million in fund...

So long, Twezr, it's been fun. The mobile social contacts application Twezr is being shut down after having a fairly well-received launch back in November 2010. The app, for those unaware, was based o...

Hold on to something tight, webOS geeks. Your favorite tablet, which I can only assume is the TouchPad, might not be the last webOS tablet incarnation from HP. An HP excutive and former webOS VP recen...

Nitobi, creators of the HTML5-based mobile app framework PhoneGap, have today launched the PhoneGap Facebook Connect plugin. The addition of the plugin means that developers building apps using Web te...

Motorola's super-sturdy DEFY+ handset was officially revealed in a press release only a few weeks ago, but a recent announcement confirms that the device will make its UK debut early this fall.Fo...

Today is a big day for Samsung. If you haven't heard, the phone maker is unveiling the U.S. variants of its flagship handset, the Galaxy S II, tonight in New York (and you can bet we'll be in attendan...

One of Android's biggest success stories so far has been the Dolphin Browser, a third-party browser that includes plenty of niceties that Android's stock browser doesn't: things like gestures, handy s...

Exclusive - Woozworld, a developer of a social game / virtual world for tweens (kids aged 9-14, more specifically), has raised $6 million in new funding from Telesystem and iNovia Capital along with u...

E la Carte, a company that develops a tableside tablet for the restaurant and related hospitality industries, has raised $4 million in funding from Lightbank, the venture fund created by Groupon co-fo...

E la Carte, a company that develops a tableside tablet for the restaurant and related hospitality industries, has raised $4 million in funding from Lightbank, the venture fund created by Groupon co-fo...

Publicly-listed DG, which provides digital media solutions and tech to the advertising and entertainment industries, has agreed to take over Limelight Networks' video and rich media advertising unit, ...

PayNearMe, an alternative payments product from the company formerly known as Kwedit, provides a compelling way for the 'unbanked' to use cash payments for online goods. The "unbanked" refers to consu...

Innovid, a video advertising startup, has raised $9.5 million round led by Sequoia Capital with Genesis Partners and T-Ventures (Deutsche Telecom) participating in the round. As part of the funding ro...

Quite big news from Sony, Hitachi, and Toshiba today: according to Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun [JP], the three companies today decided to merge their LCD businesses, at least for smaller and mi...

Exclusive - Talk about a halo effect. Kik, a developer of cross-platform mobile communication apps, says something really strange happened when they launched their Windows Phone 7 application last Jun...

As the summer winds down and we near the fall, we know two things are for sure about to enter existence in the world of Apple: iOS 5 and iCloud. Given that both offer third-party developers various op...

Wacom has announced a pretty amazing product today, the Inkling. This so-called Digital Sketch Pen allows you to capture whatever you draw or write on a sketchbook or any kind of paper in digital form...

Here are some of yesterday’s posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: TomTom Discovers Apps, Puts Twitter, Yelp And More In The Go Live 1535 M PND Windows 8"s New Explorer: This One Goes To 11 Review: ...

Assumptions are rarely safe. But I'm sure most of you will come with me when I go out on a limb to say that, by and large, kids love toys. Yep. And they also love cartoons. This has been true as long ...

"You can get a mask and join the fight, too! But I heard the costume store is sold out until Friday." - 'Anonymous' member (New York Times)As supporters of 'Anonymous' once again take to the stre...

"You can get a mask and join the fight, too! But I heard the costume store is sold out until Friday." - 'Anonymous' member (New York Times)As supporters of 'Anonymous' once again take to the stre...

"You can get a mask and join the fight, too! But I heard the costume store is sold out until Friday." - 'Anonymous' member (New York Times)As supporters of 'Anonymous' once again take to the stre...

After a steady stream of information in June, all has been quiet on the Facebook Project Spartan front in recent weeks. Originally, at least some thought the plan was to unveil Spartan in July "&...

After a steady stream of information in June, all has been quiet on the Facebook Project Spartan front in recent weeks. Originally, at least some thought the plan was to unveil Spartan in July "&...

After a steady stream of information in June, all has been quiet on the Facebook Project Spartan front in recent weeks. Originally, at least some thought the plan was to unveil Spartan in July "&...

The Building Windows 8 development blog has been an interesting read for a while. Hearing straight from developers and then seeing unfiltered responses from users and secondary devs is refreshing, eve...

The Building Windows 8 development blog has been an interesting read for a while. Hearing straight from developers and then seeing unfiltered responses from users and secondary devs is refreshing, eve...

The Building Windows 8 development blog has been an interesting read for a while. Hearing straight from developers and then seeing unfiltered responses from users and secondary devs is refreshing, eve...

Ready for this week's almost-too-ambitious Kickstarter project?Meet iEmu, a new project from one of the iPhone's earliest hackers. The goal? To get iOS up and running in an emulated state on L...

It may not be receiving quite as much media coverage as the VMAs at the moment, but we're all acutely aware of the fact that the economy remains in the toilet. Unemployment is still over 9 percent, an...

Even before I worked at TechCrunch, Disrupt was one of the few industry conferences I looked forward to every year. There were two big reasons why: The enthusiasm and excitement of the startups who la...

Beyonce helped push Twitter to a new record in terms of Tweets per second yesterday evening when the pop singer announced her pregnancy at the MTV Video Music Awards. According to Twitter, Beyonce's b...

If you're a developer, there's a good chance you have a handful " or more " of side projects. Things you tinker with on evenings and weekends and may upload to GitHub, but that you...

For ticket-selling businesses, nothing beats "sold out". But whether or not a flight sells all of its tickets, or a sports team fills their stadium, the show must go on. Businesses with perishable inv...

A unique and powerful camera hampered by uneven attention to detail and an inadequate menu system. For a camera so strongly and effectively focused on going back to basics, the legacy of ugly menus, ...

Earlier today, I was checking out some new questions in the TechCrunch topic area on Quora. One in particular caught my eye: How was TechCrunch traffic affected by their major redesign in July 2011...

Earlier today, I was checking out some new questions in the TechCrunch topic area on Quora. One in particular caught my eye: How was TechCrunch traffic affected by their major redesign in July 2011?Th...

Earlier today, I was checking out some new questions in the TechCrunch topic area on Quora. One in particular caught my eye: How was TechCrunch traffic affected by their major redesign in July 2011?Th...

NFC will be ubiquitous one day, but we still have quite a ways to go. Unlike other smartphone features, this requires adoption on a huge scale from just about everyone, which will definitely take a wh...

NFC will be ubiquitous one day, but we still have quite a ways to go. Unlike other smartphone features, this requires adoption on a huge scale from just about everyone, which will definitely take a wh...

NFC will be ubiquitous one day, but we still have quite a ways to go. Unlike other smartphone features, this requires adoption on a huge scale from just about everyone, which will definitely take a wh...

Austrian blogger and developerFlorian Rohrweck recentlydiscovereda lot of Google+'s upcoming features just by digging around in the source code for the new social networking service. He was one o...

Social application developer Seesmic is making a big move into the social enterprise and is debuting a dedicated Android app and iPad app for Salesforce's CRM product (Windows Phone 7 will also be add...

It's not easy being green -- or an entrepreneur. The inherent risk in becoming an entrepreneur or founding a startup is high. Sleepless nights, sweat equity, bribing new users to come to your product ...

It's not easy being green -- or an entrepreneur. The inherent risk in becoming an entrepreneur or founding a startup is high. Sleepless nights, sweat equity, bribing new users to come to your product ...

When I first saw The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword at E3 2010, I have to admit I wasn't impressed. The demo was obviously rushed out, the Wiimote was being unresponsive, and it took him like a dozen ...

It's time for your weekly dose of next-gen iPhone rumors. This edition is a doozy, friends. Purported iPhone components are leaking everywhere with every site claiming to have the real deal. It's hard...

You may recall the Raspberry Pi, a barebones PC for emerging markets that they hope to sell for $25. When we wrote it up earlier this year, there wasn't much in the way of demonstration: a few stills ...

Streaming music service Rdio from Skype foundersNiklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, is today launching two new music gifting options - physical gift cards and online credits. Consumers will be able to p...

Eagle-eyed readers may have spotted the "With HTC Sense" badge on the newly-leaked HTC Vigor's rear-end, and yet another leak may have disclosed what to expect when the thing turns on. A five minute v...

ModoPayments' simple and comprehensive solution for providing mobile payments is interesting and what's more, its offer-based approach may have finally cracked the code for monetizing check-ins. This ...

If you pay even a small bit of attention to the iPhone jailbreaking scene, you've probably heard by now: one of its golden boys is heading for greener pastures. Nicholas Allegra "  perhaps ...

When HP decided to kill off webOS, most people were more concerned with who would snatch up the PC business that went tumbling down the trash shoot alongside it. A few options were thrown out, but mos...

There have been a flurry of efforts in recent days aimed at getting a workable version of Android up-and-running on the webOS-based HP TouchPad. The mission has been funded in part by modding communit...

Last spring, just in time for SXSW,Justin.tv launched a new standalone video app that has a simple purpose: it lets you share short videos with your friends with just a few taps. The app adopted a mod...

Nintendo cut the price of the 3DS from $250 to $169 just a few weeks back. Now you can get it for even less. MacMall is currently selling the blue and black systems via ebay for $150 with free shippin...

Compelling content is the key to ensuring that 3D smartphones are more than a just a flash in the pan, and right now, there just isn't much of it floating around. LG, makers of the Optimus 3D handset...

The day of the Ultrabook is nearly upon us and per Asustek chairman, Jonney Shih, the PC maker has five to six models on the bill for an October release. Prices are said to start out $899 but also rea...

The day of the Ultrabook is nearly upon us and per Asustek chairman, Jonney Shih, the PC maker has five to six models on the bill for an October release. Prices are said to start out $899 but also rea...

Tapit is a new mobile advertising startup, founded in March 2011, that enables content sharing and offer delivery simply by tapping an NFC-enabled phone anywhere the Tapit logo can be found.The compan...

Junaio, the mobile Augmented Reality browser created by German AR firm Metaio, has been updated this morning: Version 3.0 now supports scanning barcodes. Some of you are probably thinking "Whoop-dee-d...

The Apple-Samsung drama has been rather quiet in Australia compared to the clamor it's created in Europe until today when Apple alleged that the Australian version of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is also infri...

Maveron, a VC firm with offices in Seattle and San Francisco, this morning announced that it has named Andrew Trader (who is often referred to simply as A.T.) as a partner. Trader actually joined Mave...

A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo has developed a new type of optical atomic clock that boasts a 100 quadrillionth of a second accuracy (one quadrillion has 15 zeros). The optical latti...

After being acquired by Citrix Systems in July for more than $200 million, Cloud.com'sCloudStack cloud management framework is being open-sourced. The software currently supports over 60-large scale p...

Zeebo, a company with the ambitious goal of "helping the next billion play, learn and connect", has raised $17 million in equity funding according to an SEC filing.When the company was founded, the co...

Samsung is launching ChatON, a cross-platform mobile chat service similar to RIM's BlackBerry BBM. The service, which is expected to launch in September, will be showcased at this week's consumer elec...

The Toshiba Thrive isn't exactly a good-looking Android tablet. Sure, it has plenty of ports, a removable battery, and a low price, but it's also bulky and feels of cheap plastic. Sans the Toshiba log...

Alphonso Labs, the fledgling company behind Pulse, a nifty social news reader for iPhone, iPad and Android devices used by roughly 5 million people, aims to pose a challenge to simple bookmarking tool...

Vitrue, a social media marketing company, is rolling out version 3.0 of its social media management platform for brands. New features include localization and enhanced analytics and metrics within one...

Ladies and germs, this is the Go Live 1535 M, which according to TomTom, is the first PND with connected apps. That claim may not exactly be true, but the Go Live 1535 M does have an impressive -- tha...

Cisco this morning announced that it has acquired San Francisco startup Versly, a privately-held company that develops collaboration tools that integrate with Microsoft Office applications.Financial t...

Stealthy cloud startup Kenandy has raised $10.5 million in Series A funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers with Salesforce.com, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati participating. As part o...

Back in spring, we've spent a few posts covering the Medias N-04C from NEC Casio Mobile , an Android handset the company calls the "world's slimmest smartphone". Being just 7.7mm thin, it beats the Ga...

Here are some stories from the past week on TechCrunch Gadgets: Create A Twisted Dreamscape Of Screaming Skulls With These DIY Animatronics Steve Jobs: The End Of An Era Jetty The Duct-Cleaning Robot ...

Nokia has temporarily shut down its developer community website as a precaution, after a hacker gained access to a database table containing forum members' email addresses and other information. The h...

Quixey, the Palo Alto-based startup that's building a functional search engine for apps, today announced that it has closed a $3.8 million series A funding round. The investment was led by U.S. Ventur...

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." - George Orwell, Animal Farm"Leck bei Wikileaks". ...

One of Steve Jobs' most devastating talents is in knowing when he is right. By he I mean he and his team of talented designers, engineers, supply chain wranglers, and technologists. Standing pat when ...

Get ready. This is one epic episode of OMG/JK.It's been a couple of weeks since our last show " and those weeks have been packed with news. Google announced that it's in the process of acqui...

Over the years, there's been a radical change in the way we interact with our networks of friends online. It used to be that we had a few of our friends (online or offline friends) on a service, allow...

Healthtech is an ever-growing sector, but from the $1 billion pool VCs poured into startups over the last year, health companies only received about 3 percent of that total. Not many healthtech startu...

Bizness Apps, the startup that gives small businesses the tools to quickly and easily build mobile apps, launched in October 2010 and has been growing like gangbusters, reaching over 1,000 application...

When HP CEO Leo Apotheker announced that the company was seeking options for its consumer PC business and abandoning the hardware mobile business its stock dropped 20%. When Steve Jobs resigned as CEO...

This past Thursday, Google decided they had had enough of their Slide experiment. Even though it had only been a year since they spent $200 million+ on the social apps startup, they brought the h...

A lot of Americans desperately want to believe that China is full of poor people who can't innovate, and the only goods they make are cheap, toxic rip-offs our Western brands. They want to believe the...

We've known that mobile ad network Millennial Media more than tripled revenue in 2010 from 2009 and achieved profitability. But we didn't know how much the mobile ad network brought in, until now. In ...

"They have Internet in Europe?"  my friend in the US asked via Facebook Messenger, as I checked into Foursquare from the Athens airport.Yes Virginia, they do have Internet in Europe...

Mike Lazerowis aserialentrepreneur who is the CEO of Buddy Media and previously founded GOLF.com, which was bought by Time Warner and University Wire and is now a property of CBS.With a couple of succ...

A Year In The Life Of An Entrepeneur1. July 2010: Ready: Set: Delaware, the state with the lowest highest point. David Argentar, a biochemist by training and bioinformaticist by trade, has launched a...

Who doesn't get excited about the consumer web? Google, Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, Foursquare. Billions in revenue, Hollywood movies, overturning indistries, and curing boredom. So it is natural th...

The Gillmor Gang "  Doc Searls, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor "  explored the legacy and impact of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. @dsearls called him th...

We’re back with another episode of TechCrunched, a whirlwind recap of the week’s top tech news in 90 seconds (or so). This week’s stories include HP’s TouchPad liquidation fire...

It's hard to imagine anything more perfect that Slate's decision to lay off its respected media critic Jack Shafer. Not perfect in a good way -- I count myself amongst Shafer's legions of fans -- but ...

Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Video: "Eyeborg"  Replaces Eye With Functioning Wireless Video Camera IBM Assembles Record 120-Petabyte Storage Array J...

As far as Verizon devices are concerned, the Droid Bionic probably holds the crown for "Most Anticipated Handset," but newly leaked shots of the HTC Vigor may steal a bit of that spotlight. Rumored to...

It was widely reported that Best Buy was sitting on over 200,000 TouchPads before HP enacted their drastic price cut, but the fire sale has come and gone, and that would normally be that. Instead, a n...

About a month ago, Tom Anderson (or Myspace Tom, if you prefer) wrote a post on his new favorite social network, Google+, offering a few bits of advice for Twitter. While many of us enjoy a good ...

The web's most popular photo sharing site is getting another update.In a blog post this evening, Facebook " which is by far the biggest photo site on the web" has announced that it...

The recording industry doesn't have the most respectable history when it comes to lawsuits. Between asking for millions for trivial acts of piracy, and asking potentially for trillions in more serious...

There's a simple fundamental reason why Grand Theft Auto exploded into aphenomenon. Everyone has criminal tendencies sometimes. And virtually indulging them is a hell of a lot better then actually ind...

After quietly announcing they were killing off their nascent Deals product this afternoon, Facebook caused some confusion. You see, with the decision to kill off Facebook Places earlier in the week, e...

Much has been made of supposed decline in the number of cable TV subscribers. But not everyone agrees that mass cord-cutting is reshaping the industry. Indeed, according to Kyle Dixon, Time Warner's V...

You might remember Rob Spence, known online as the Eyeborg for his project to create a working bionic eye. We wrote about him before, and interviewed him a while back, but the project has advanced to ...

Bad news for anyone who was looking to rent the latest episode of Top Gear from iTunes, as Apple has quickly and quietly removed their 99 television rental option today. The functionality has disappea...

Next year, search advertising will be a $15 billion market in the U.S. alone, growing by 14 percent, according to eMarketer. And, if Facebook can capture half the share of that market that Google has...

We've heard quite a bit about the Galaxy S II, which isn't all that surprising seeing that it sold 3 million units in its first 55 on the market. As people from other parts of the globe got to experie...

When it comes to massive news, the past two weeks have been absolutely insane. Google buying Motorola? HTC To Buy Beats? Steve Jobs resigning as CEO of Apple?!What better way to cleanse th...

Jobs is not a child of the '60s, but he has inherited the family business. Having used the legacy to build an adult toy based on the music of his youth, he harvested the audience and connected them vi...

IBM Research has just set a world record in data storage by building a drive array capable of holding 120 petabytes. It was done at the request of an unnamed research group that needs this unprecedent...

FEMA's had a mobile version of their website available for a while now, but all that information does you no good if you can't get an internet connection. Given the fragility of mobile networks during...

Cloud gaming service OnLive has been getting better and better. We had a blast checking out the OnLive booth at E3 this year, and you better believe the service's usage will have gone up since GameSto...

Well, what do we have here? Looks like T-Mobile has just snagged a new tablet accessory. We're just not sure which tablet the accessory is supposed to go with. This 10-inch leather sleeve isn't go...

In a typically forthright keynote address early this week at the Technology Policy Institute's Aspen Forum, Clarium Capital's Peter Thiel argued that our current technological progress is "decele...

The perception of geeks used to be that we lived in darkened houses constantly hunched over computers, never seeing the light of day. To be honest, that was me for a bit in my younger years, but these...

MyHeritage, Israel's best hope of having a big Web 2.0 winner, keeps marching along, leaving Geni further in the dust and proving a surging challenger for already-public Ancestry.com.The company has n...

We all know by now. Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple. The outpouring of emotion from this news is something we have never really seen before and this very well may be one of the biggest stories...

On the heels of Apple's decision to phase out developer access to the UDID (unique deviceidentifier) on iOS devices, mobile social gaming network OpenFeint is offering up a an alternative solution. Th...

Perhaps best known for their myriad gaming peripherals with dramatic names, Razer has just made a huge move into the PC hardware space. Announced today at PAX Prime, Razer's new Blade gaming notebook ...

Apple has just hired yet another member of the iPhone jailbreaking community, Nicholas Allegra, also known as "@comex" on Twitter. Allegra is best known for the JailBreakMe website which made the proc...

We've been waiting for Delicious founder Joshua Schacter to debut the secret product coming out of his newest startup Tasty Labs. And today the wait is over with the debut of Jig, a Q&A meets reco...

So Irene, the massive hurricane aimed straight for the East coast, is in quite a hurry to come visit us, with winds reaching 115 mph. And it's looking like she's bearing down on New York City. One lit...

So Irene, the massive hurricane aimed straight for the East coast, is in quite a hurry to come visit us, with winds reaching 115 mph. And it's looking like she's bearing down on New York City. One lit...

If you own a 3D TV, you should already know about 3net. It's a joint venture network from Sony, Discovery and IMAX that displays 3D content all day, every day, which is pretty awesome considering the ...

Among the 16 new patents granted to Apple this week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, was this fairly interesting one describing a solar-powered charging system for electronic devices. The pate...

We’ve been talking about Cadence for a while now and I got the chance to sit down with Vanya Buvac, founder of the company watches and creator of some nice, inexpensive timepieces (including the...

Another day, another technology company files for an IPO. After Jive and Angie's List, customer reviews company Bazaarvoice has filed its S-1 with the SEC today. The company aims to raise as much as ...

Auto maker General Motors and LG Group will be working together to design and engineer electric vehicles thanks to a new partnership that expands on LG's earlier work for GM in lithium-ion batteries. ...

Cloud solution provider Appirio this morning announced it will be expanding internationally to more adequately serve its customers in the European and Asia Pacific markets. The expansion, which the co...

When a man is proud of his hobbies, women notice. Nowhere is that more apparent than in this thread on RCGroups where a dapper young gent, from the comfort of his lounge chair and protected by VR gogg...

Sometimes futuristic-looking prototypes of gadgets do get commercialized: Brother has announced it is ready to bring to market the so-called AiRScouter, a head-mounted and transparent transmissive liq...

Google TV soft launched in the US last September with the Logitech Revue and Sony Internet TV products. Google however is reportedly working on bringing the system to the UK and per a Telegraph report...

Clear your morning, friend. If you have any respect at all for computer gaming, you're going to watch these these two Counter Strike: Global Offensive videos over and over and over again. I did. What ...

Personal Capital came out of stealth mode today to "create a new model for financial services" and announced that it has raised a total of $25 million in venture financing. The financing includes a Se...

Yandex, one of the leading Internet companies in Russia, has acquired startup venture The Tweeted Times, which enables people to create custom online 'newspapers' generated from their Twitter accounts...

One key element for the success of electric vehicles going forward is charging technology, but we're getting there. Kyoto-based Nichicon has now developed what they say are the world's smallest and ch...

Y Combinator had its semiannual demo day earlier this week, where many of the 63 startups in this batch showed their stuff to investors and press for the first time. It was the largest demo day so far...

I sat down last night to write about Steve Jobs' resignation as Apple CEO and something funny happened: I had nothing to say. This is not normal for me. I don't get writer's block.I often write thousa...

Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets stories: "Nanopower"  Shoes Could Generate 20W Of Electricity During Walking Create A Twisted Dreamscape Of Screaming Skulls With These DIY An...

Turntable.fm is so hot right now. In fact, when it comes to tweets, the synchronous social music platform may even have more Klout than Pandora or Spotify. With the rise in popularity of Turntable, it...

Because we needed more big tech news this week. Yes, it's true that Google has just brought the hammer down on Slide, as Liz Gannes ofAllThingsD first reported earlier this evening. Yes, it's also tru...

Mitchell Feinberg is a photographer who specializes in taking beautiful photographs of very expensive things. Cars, luxury goods, wristwatches, that sort of thing. He shoots on 8x10 film, which is exp...

One of the most common complaints critics (and competitors) have against Google is that the company " despite its numerous open products and initiates " is very secretive about the...

Back in February of 2010, Microsoft applied for a number of patents related to touchscreen gestures on a tablet. Many of them concern a dual-screen device, conjuring images of the once highly-anticipa...

Back in February of 2010, Microsoft applied for a number of patents related to touchscreen gestures on a tablet. Many of them concern a dual-screen device, conjuring images of the once highly-anticipa...

DoughMain, a startup that combines family coordination and financial education into a simple, realtime, and gamified platform, has announced that it has raised $5 million in seed funding from a series...

The arguably crazy (and inarguably crazy fast) animators at Taiwan's Next Media Animation are at it again. After blasting out over-the-top animated summaries for everything from the Ceglia Vs. Faceboo...

Earlier this summer, at the e-G8 Conference in Paris, Jeff Jarvis implored French President Nicholas Sarkozy to "do no harm"  to the Internet. But Jarvis isn't alone in wanting governme...

Where do you get your news (besides TechCrunch, of course)? Some of you may like that familiar tactile experience of newsprint, ink on the fingers, but chances are that your news consumption takes...

This is different than those other electric shoes that were making the rounds yesterday. Piezoelectrics are interesting, but simply don't produce a lot of power for their size. Enough to make a low-po...

Some of the most interesting and relevant content on Quora are related to places. But up until now, Quora hasn't done much to focus that data using location. Today, they're starting to.A new feature g...

If you're a fan of cloud-based music lockers, it's a good time to be alive. Back in March, Amazon somewhat surprisingly beat Apple and Google to the music streaming and storage punch with their "Cloud...

Are you the kind of person who would love to have an animatronic Gary Coleman on your shelf, his little pudgy face cursing like a sailor at your guests while you roller skate around your basement wear...

After Jive's $100 million IPO filing yesterday, local reviews site Angie's List is throwing its hat into the ring, filing an S-1 this afternoon. The company will raises as much as $75 million, accordi...

After Jive's $100 million IPO filing yesterday, local business reviews site Angie's List is throwing its hat into the ring, filing an S-1 this afternoon. The company will raises as much as $75 million...

In the wake of the London riots, there has been intense debate about whether the Internet "" and particularly social media networks like Twitter and Facebook - needs more regulation. But acc...

Last night I went out to dinner. But I didn't pick where I was going, Ness did. The place was good. Score one for Ness.We previously covered Ness Computing in July, talking about the technology that w...

In its first quarter as a public company, music streaming service Pandora posted record revenue in Q2 2012. For the second quarter fiscal year 2012, total revenue was $67 million, a 117% year over yea...

Quick! Asus Transformer owners! Check your system updates. The Internet is awash with claims that build 8.6.5.9 enables sideloading of the Netflix app. Right now, only the Lenovo IdeaPad K1 and ThinkP...

We've seen some interesting developments lately in the fields of robotics and computer vision. They're not as academic as you'd expect: enormous tech successes like the Roomba and Kinect have relied a...

Taboola, a service that powers many of the video recommendation widgets you find across the web, has raised a $9 million Series B funding round. The round is being led by Crescent Point, which is base...

The BlackBerry PlayBook is impressive upon first look. You pick it up, quickly scroll through the apps, and jump online. It all works like it's supposed to. But then you find out it can't hook up to y...

I love printed materials. Not just because they're great in their own right, but because sometimes, due to the restrictions of printing and mailing delays, they break news a little early. In this case...

I love printed materials. Not just because they're great in their own right, but because sometimes, due to the restrictions of printing and mailing delays, they break news a little early. In this case...

After what has felt like forever for many an Android fan, the Samsung Galaxy S II is finally set to touch down stateside. Come next Monday, Samsung will be spilling the details surrounding the Galaxy ...

Brokers are not all the same. Some can pull a little extra cash out of a house and some are good at the fast sell. Some will try to force you to rent a room in a basement with barely enough room to st...

Borderlands 2, you know, the follow up to Borderlands, is on its way. Like most games the Internet will be blessed with leaks, teasers and full trailers prior to its official release. Well, here's the...

Google's push into voice search is no secret: it's baked into most builds of Android, and Chrome users have been enjoying the search-by-voice feature since July. It wasn't so much a question of if Goo...

If you have been, in any way, involved in the Internet in the past decade or so you'll know the name CmdrTaco. His real name is Rob Malda and he started Slashdot, a news aggregation site and proto-blo...

Time and expense tracking is tedious, even on a personal level. Dealing with it in an office environment is clearly much worse. But OfficeTime is looking to make that a bit easier, today announcing it...

Accel Partners has made a major investment in Dealer.com, a company that provides SaaS marketing solutions to auto dealers. Accel partner Todd MacLean will join company's Board of Directors as part of...

Yipit, the site that aggregates and recommends daily deals based on users' locations and interests (and raised $6 million back in June from a host of VCs), released some interesting trend data today o...

Yipit, the site that aggregates and recommends daily deals based on users' locations and interests (and raised $6 million back in June from a host of VCs), released some interesting trend data today o...

Yipit, the site that aggregates and recommends daily deals based on users' locations and interests (and raised $6 million back in June from a host of VCs), released some interesting trend data today o...

Nextpeer is a newly launched mobile developer toolkit that lets game developers quickly and easily add multi-player gaming to their single-player games. With Nextpeer's tournament and social SDK (soft...

Samsung's pre-IFA Unpacked app is usually pretty dry as far as contents are concerned: there are event schedules and press releases aplenty, but some curious Android fans have discovered some juicy ne...

Quite a while ago, Verizon promised that its Motorola Xoom tablet would get an update allowing the slate to run on the carrier's 4G LTE network by the Spring. If you're somehow surviving under a rock ...

Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple. This, of course, means that the company has had its spirit broken, its intellect blunted, its worth gutted. Except it doesn't, quite. The Steve didn't nurture ...

Facebook has just started sending out invitations to f8, its semi-regular developer conference during which it typically rolls out its most important features. This year's event will take place on Sep...

The OpenID Foundation will open the doors to the third OpenID Summit on Monday, September 12, 2011 around noon. Of course, you won't be there, because you'll be attending or livestreaming the TechCrun...

Diffbot is a geeky and incredibly interesting technology that uses bots, algorithms, computer vision and artificial intelligence to process the content on the Web the way a human being can. "The entir...

Jumio, the new technology that turns webcams into credit card readers, is now offering a plugin for WordPress websites. The new Jumio Netswipe add-on allows website visitors to pay for products or mak...

Steve Jobs is a man who lives in the minutiae of details. He, with his loyal staff, perfects what others would pass off as perfect. He has 313 patents to his name, which range from the Apple III to th...

Android-toting Qik fans will have reason to smile today: the Skype-owned company has announced that their Premium service for Android devices has finally been fleshed out with new functionality and se...

Tim Cook, new Apple CEO, has sent out the following memo to Apple staff, according to a source at Ars Technica. Cook says he shares "Steve's optimism for Apple's bright future," and that Apple will co...

Uber appears to be continuing its national expansion today, with the soft-launch of the disruptive car service in Chicago. Pandora's CTO Tom Conrad just Tweeted about using the new service in the Win...

Earlier this month, Monetate, the platform that provides marketers with testing and targeting services for their websites, announced that it had closed a $15 million series B funding round, led by Ope...

As you may have noticed, we're big fans of Kickstarter around here, but for every good project that gets its much deserved funding, there are innumerable lesser ideas trapped in financial limbo. Today...

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has been updated to include 150 new words and definitions this year, its publisher announced this morning.Four technology-related additions are 'tweet', 'social...

Olympus has just announced the US availability in September of the PEN E-PM1, the "mini" version of the PEN line. This camera is the smallest micro 4/3s shooter available and is compatible with all of...

Last month, Ustream launched its video streaming service on the iPad. As Jason reported at the time, the app allows users to view live and recorded content streaming through the Web and even to stream...

Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has named Rory P. Read its new president, CEO and board member, effective today. Read joins AMD from PC maker Lenovo, where he worked for five years and ...

Webs.com, a popular DIY website creation service, is announcing a new mobile site builder today that automatically keeps a smartphone-friendly website in sync with your main website. Previously, mobil...

Though Slacker and Pandora have made the migration, the BlackBerry App World's selection of music apps is pretty limited compared to competing platforms. In fact, the App World is found wanting in a c...

Skype appears to have launched a new app directory in the cloud, allowing users to access all the third-party apps for both consumers and businesses built on top of Skype's API.The site is fairly simp...

Vizibility, provider of a personal branding platform for individuals and companies, this morning announced it has raised $1.3 million in seed funding, more than its $1 million target. Launchpad Ventur...

HP caused a major splash (not only) in the technology world when the world's biggest computer maker last week announced it plans to spin off its PC business. But one country, which has always been a u...

What if we could combine top-notch hackers with leaders from across different companies? What if we could bring talented developers from all over Europe to create innovative solutions for organiza...

Sharp in Japan updated their line of AQUOS LCD TVs with the so-called Freestyle AQUOS F5 series [JP]. The four TVs in that series, sized at 20/32/40 and 60 inches have a few common selling points: the...

Nokia this morning announced the launch of two dirt cheap phones, the Nokia 101 and Nokia 100, which the company says are its most affordable phones to date. Priced only 25 euros ($35) and 20 euros ($...

Last month, Fujitsu in Japan unveiled the IS12T, announced as the world's first cell phone running on Windows Phone 7.5 aka Mango. And the country's second biggest mobile carrier (and exclusive provid...

Music search and discovery company SoundHound has inked a deal with digital music service provider Spotify to enable SoundHound users in Europe to instantly access the latter's catalogue (of over 15 m...

Inuit's GoPayment reader, which competes directly with Square, is making a significant move in the mobile payments space today, partnering with Verizon Wireless to sell its credit card readers in Veri...

CouchSurfing International is one of those rare Web companies-- like Mozilla or Craigslist-- that has eschewed the normal Silicon Valley values of growth, greed and venture capital. It's one of those ...

The most amazing thing about Steve Jobs and the revival of Apple he engineered over the last 15 years is so improbable it is. Most of the digital innovations that have transformed our lives have been ...

There really should be no argument when I say that a case for your iPhone 4 is nothing short of necessary. Unless you've got cash to burn, the iPhone is just too damn expensive to leave unprotected. T...

We all know the broad strokes: a boy is born to a graduate student and her Syrian boyfriend. She places the boy for adoption. He comes to live with Paul and Clara. Paul is a machinist who moved to San...

Apple's Steve Jobs has resigned from his position as CEO and Apple has just announced that COO Tim Cook has taken over as CEO.As COO ,Cook was responsible for all of the company's worldwide sales and...

Title says it all. More to come. For now, the letter from Steve Jobs himself:To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer ...

Sometimes the need to test outweighs the need for total secrecy. I'm going to assume Color CEO Bill Nguyen shares that belief. The past two days his Facebook stream has been filled with some seemingly...

Today, mobile payments company Boku is launching direct carrier billing agreements with two of the largest mobile carriers in France"  Bouygues Telecom and SFR, offering over 32 million Fren...

Social enterprise giant Jive has just filed its S-1, and will raise as much as $100 million in the offering. Modeled to offer Facebook-like features to enterprises, Jive's software combines computing ...

If you've ever roved around Facebook's developer forums, you may have noticed that " aside from being loaded with complaints and bug reports " they're pretty basic. There's nothing...

We're through, GameStop.I turned a blind eye when you offered me peanuts for a game that you were still slinging used for bucks shy of full retail. I shrugged it off when your employees endlessly pres...

Real estate listings site Zillow reported its first earnings as a public company today, after debuting on the NASDAQ in mid-July. Zillow revealed record revenues of $15.8 million in the second quarter...

Acer, recently the world's second-largest shipper of PCs, has had a rough year. But in March a deliberate decision was made by upper management to abandon their goal of dethroning HP and instead focus...

Acer, recently the world's second-largest shipper of PCs, has had a rough year. But in March a deliberate decision was made by upper management to abandon their goal of dethroning HP and instead focus...

Registration is officially open for our fourth Hackathon, and we'd love to make it our biggest yet! We promise more pizza, more caffeine and more glory than ever. We had 700 registrants for the last e...

Since HP made the announcement it would be spinning off its PC business, there have been questions over who would scoop it up. A number of different OEMs fit the bill and have the cash to take on HP's...

That's not the Terminator's gallbladder you're looking at there. It's actually a pocket watch made by Urwerk, a noted designer of extremely high-end timepieces for folks like to think they are Jules V...

I'll be the first to admit that I usually rock a man-bag on a daily basis, but rarely have I ever considered using something as hardcore as the ITS Tactical Discreet Messenger Bag. While my usual load...

RIM announced well in advance of the PlayBook's launch that it would be able to play nice with certain Android apps, but aside from a leaked beta, PlayBook owners still have nothing to show for it. RI...

Amazingly, someone is still making MP3 players for the mass market. I'm pleased to present the $70 Sandisk Sansa Clip Zip, a tiny, portable media player that comes in 4 GB and 8 GB varieties (the 4GB ...

Over the last several months you've probably come across Google's +1 quite a few times. You may have even clicked it, only to wonder what exactly you'd just accomplished. Because, at least from t...

If you've ever called your carrier about spotty coverage, then chances are you've heard the party line: "we're working to improve the service in your area." It's delightfully vague -- you know that yo...

Bleacher Report may have spent much of its life quietly climbing the rankings of top sports destinations, but it's not being bashful or patient anymore.In a little more than a year, it has hired Brian...

The bounty to get a workable version of the Android operating system installed on the now-discontinued HP TouchPad is up to $2,000+, as of today.As we previously reported, the goal of this projec...

Each year, I go to a lot of conferences. For each and every one I fumble around at the last minute to figure out the schedule, who's going to be there, etc. When I get there, I trade business cards th...

The mobile gaming space is exploding and everyone from Zynga to smaller-scale developers are flocking to iOS, Android and other smartphone platforms to capitalize on the growth in mobile gaming. Today...

A photographer, John Heller, had $9,000 worth of gear stolen at a shoot in Hollywood. After giving up all hope of ever getting his Nikon D3 back, he checked with a site called GadgetTrak that scans Fl...

Hulu Plus has found its way to a handful of Android devices these past few months, but today it makes its first official appearance on an Android tablet -- just maybe not the one you were expecting....

Pixable, a startup that develops sleek social photo creation and categorization tools, is integrating images from Twitter into its intelligent social photo and video aggregation service today. Pixable...

Enterprise social networking platform Yammer is expanding the reach of its network today, launching Yammer Connect. The new plug-ins allows users to bring their Yammer identity to other business appli...

E-commerce platform Tinypay.me, which emerged from 2010's Le Web conference as a sort of Twitter for e-commerce, has just raised $1 million from Aksoy Internet Ventures. The money will be used to relo...

A pretty sizable chunk of Europe was dealt a rather massive blow this morning in the form of a preliminary injunction on some Galaxy smartphones. Of course, this was at the behest of Apple. The tablet...

A pretty sizable chunk of Europe was dealt a rather massive blow this morning in the form of a preliminary injunction on some Galaxy smartphones. Of course, this was at the behest of Apple. The tablet...

A few weeks ago I asked if Google+ was putting Facebook on the defensive. After yesterday's Facebook announcement, I don't think there's any question. Many journalists have described the promised...

This is what I like to see: people Kickstarting some really amazing stuff. How amazing? Try a handmade pen made of multiple pieces of wood spliced together and top-of-the-line clips and gel-inks. ...

We've written about StackMob twice, both times calling it the "Heroku For Mobile" in the title. Yeah, "X For Y" titles are pretty lame. But I mean, that's pretty much exactly what StackMob is "&n...

There's a fine line between a bold advertising campaign and playing fast and loose with the truth, and it looks like Motorola may have just tip-toed over it. According to the U.K.'s Advertising Standa...

Today, regulators will announce a $500 million settlement with Google over charges related to advertisements for illegal online pharmacies. The pharmacies appearing in Google ads were operating outsid...

Riley Gibsonis the CEO and co-founder of the Boulder basedNapkin Labs,a startup that helps companies manage and engage their Facebook fans and Twitter followers. Napkin Labs launched an updated versio...

Online and mobile payment platform Dwolla just launched a new feature called "Proxi" which allows users to send and receive cash-based mobile payments based on their current proximity to another conne...

The era of Googorola is nearly upon us, and the implications of such a deal are still greatly unknown to most of us. We could see some pretty amazing (and odd) gizmos and gadgets spawn from this littl...

A new startup called Booktrack launched this morning (actually, the NYT launched it yesterday), in an effort to create a whole new genre of e-books.Booktrack creates synchronized soundtracks for e-boo...

Social networks like Facebook and Twitter act as truly effective channels by which companies can interact with their customers and receive near-instantaneous feedback on their products and brands. Of ...

We've long wanted to put together a videocast for TCTV focusing on gadgets but, because we were too lazy, it never happened... until now. Please excuse the quality as we're working out the bugs but we...

Taptera, which builds enterprise iPhone and iPad applications, has landed $2 million in Series A financing in a round led by well-known Silicon Valley investor (and former Oracle exec) Terence Garnett...

Today, PapayaMobile, the social gaming network for Android, is announcing a new milestone: it has topped 25 million users, which represents over 940% growth since the beginning of last year. The compa...

ePals, developer of a social learning network, this morning announced that it has acquired Newstogram, maker of a media personalization and content recommendation platform. Also included in the deal w...

Sequoia-backed Inkling, a startup that develops an innovative digital textbook platform, is is releasing version 2.0 of its technology, which comes with increased collaboration and sharing features. A...

Evernote rival Springpad is releasing a nifty new feature today, allowing users to discover the likes, check-ins and recommendations of all of your Facebook friends. So you'll be able to see the movie...

Druva, the creator of data protection solutions for SMEs, announced this morning that it has raised $12 million in series B funding. The round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation fro...

Online video platform company Brightcove this morning announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the SEC in connection with a proposed IPO of its common stock. The company i...

Twitter co-founders Biz Stone, Evan Williams, and longtime sidekick Jason Goldman, recently shifted their focus away from the micro-sharing service provider to reboot Obvious, the company that origina...

I was impressed by Facebook's updated privacy announcements today. Finally, after years of menus - and menus filled with menus - and menus filled with menus filled with drop-downs "  we're g...

The Roomba just got new competition from Japan: Toshiba has announced [JP] a new cleaning robot today, the so-called Smarbo (which is probably short for "Smart Robot"). Just like its US counterpart, t...

It's no secret that Android is growing at a fast clip, especially over the past year. As Millennial Media, one of the largest mobile ad networks in the U.S., reported recently Android's mobile ad impr...

Japan-based tech startup ITK has brought us one step closer to the Robocalypse. Roboticists around the world are working on manufacturing "sensitive" hands for robots suitable for touching humans or h...

I've never really been a fan of all the special add-ons and accessories sold alongside electronics. In my opinion, a nice solid case is as far as phone/tablet accessories should go. But at a meeting w...

Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: LaCie Adds Some Polish To Its NAS Units With "NAS OS"  AliveCor Turns Mobile Devices Into Low-Cost Heart Monitors, Rais...

It's been a camera-ish day today. Canon released its new Powershot cameras early this morning, Sony just updated its Alpha and NEX lines, and now here we have a bundle of Nikons just coming out. Do th...

This afternoon Y Combinator kicked off the summer session of Demo Day, the twice-a-year event where the prestigious startup incubator showcases its latest batch of companies in front of a throng of in...

It's been difficult to avoid news about Sony's new line of digital cameras these past few months. Leak after leak has exposed body designs, lenses, sensor sizes, and other specs. They're all official ...

The latest version of Yahoo Mail opened up to users a few months ago and the company is announcing a new milestone today" 100 million monthly active users. Additional features in the new ver...

The threat of corruption is ever-present in areas like government spending, where miles of red tape, billions in assets, and a legitimate need for secrecy at times presents a potential trifecta for wo...

An anonymous blogger known only as S.H. has been posting detailed daily descriptions of the robot-based disaster response effort at Fukushima. The blog included technical details and personal anecdote...

Curious to find out the possible thinking behind HP's recent actions, we began to look at the parallels in past behavior by tech giant HP. The most interesting example comes from VoodooPC, one of the ...

Personal profile startup About.me, which is owned by our parent company AOL, is looking for the 'face of About.me' and is kicking off a contest to feature profiles housed on the site in a new ad campa...

Earlier today, for reasons too egotistical to go in to, I found myself looking back at the columns I wrote for the Guardian back in 2003.Inevitably, with industries as fast moving as media and technol...

After spending far too much time with far too little support from their owners at Cond Nast, Reddit is on a bit of a roll lately. They've gone on a handful of hiring sprees this year, moved into a big...

In what might (really) be the last Why Is This News before Sarah's baby gets out of private beta, we're talking about democracy.Specifically, we discuss the news that India wants to monitor its citize...

MakerBot Industries, creator of home 3D printers, has announced a total of $10 million in funding from a number of investors, the bulk coming from Foundry Group. Also included in the round were Bezos ...

On Sunday we broke the news that Skype was acquiring group messaging service GroupMe. What we didn't know was the price, and neither company disclosed any of the terms of the deal other than that Grou...

It was almost exactly one year ago that Facebook launched Places, their location-based offering. Reading the press at the time, you would have thought it was going to be the Foursquare-killer, the Gow...

Surprise! Even a clever little gimmick like a dedicated Facebook button can't save a bad phone from an early demise.After just 36 days on the shelves, a trusted source close to AT&T tells us the c...

As we once again enter the iPhone 5 breach, one would do well to keep their grains of salt at the ready, but the Business Insider reports that Sprint will be among the few carriers to sell the iPhone ...

Back in March, after at least one high profile security incident, Twitter created an option to turn on HTTPS at all times. But you could only enable the more secure way of viewing twitter.com by manua...

Backing up data is getting more and more important, since although much of our critical stuff is in the cloud, we're all generating so many pictures, videos, documents and so on that it's wise to keep...

Hell has frozen over, pigs have flown, and it's now possible to approve photos you've been tagged in on Facebook before they show up in your profile.Pause. Take a drink if you need to. If you hear fir...

It was only a year ago that I first wrote about Greplin, the "other half of search" for you online life. It's an incredibly useful search engine that indexes your online email, Facebook, Twitter, Link...

There are now 30,000 mobile applications available for Windows Phone, Microsoft's newest mobile operating system. That's a huge jump from the 11,500 apps Microsoft reported back in March, but still fa...

Remember when the Asus Eee Pad Transformer was the hottest thing since Laserdisc? Remember when it was hailed as an iPad killer with its fancy IPS screen, low price and sweet name. Autobots, unite...

There are quite a few iOS productivity apps with handwriting recognition functionality available, for example Notes Plus, iWriteWords for kids, or (indirectly) Evernote. But recognizing handwritten te...

Flipboard-esque magazine-style aggregation apps are all the rage right now. Obviously Flipboard has the space nailed, and Pulse is a nice alternative as well. But one aggregation app seems to have cau...

Have you ever wanted to recreate the kitchen scene in Goodfellas from a very low angle with Lego characters? Well, here's your chance to create your own diminished steadicam shots using a GorillaP...

As we heard last year, Ask surrendered its search operations to its competitors and refocused on building out its Q&A platform. This seems to have paid off somewhat" the company has seen...

YouWeb, the social incubator behind OpenFeint, CrowdStar, Sibblingz and iSwifter, has raised another $2 million in funding from a number of angel investors including Dave Roux (the co-founder and chai...

Friend-Watch is a new Facebook application that stalks your friends list, watching for changes you might not otherwise notice. This includes things like people who change their name, add you as a frie...

Touchanote is a new Android application that ties together NFC technology with the popular note-taking and organizing software Evernote. Created by the Montreal-based startup Wiseleap, the app took ho...

Most power airfare searchers know that buying two one-way tickets on separate airlines can sometimes be cheaper than buying a roundtrip ticket on the same airline. But on most travel search portals yo...

Last year, popular live video platform Ustream launched a mobile app development platform called Ustream Live Mobilizer that offered brands, celebrities, and bands a customizable iPhone application th...

Don't listen to the masses. Buy the TouchPad (if you can find one) and enjoy webOS. It's an amazing OS killed off by natural selection, like a beautiful peacock with a rare and debilitating reproducti...

Exhausted from a couple weeks in the European litigation ring, Apple has tagged in Microsoft to pick up the fight against Android. And it would seem that the divide-and-conquer strategy is panning out...

Nintendo's recent 3DS price drop seems to have accomplished the goal of moving more units, but rumor has it that Nintendo's higher-ups aren't too pleased with the floundering portable as a whole. Amon...

Japanese accessory maker Elecom announced [JP] the kandenchi today, a wireless mouse that's designed like a battery. The 2.4GHz device, developed in cooperation with Tokyo-based design company nendo, ...

The smart money is pouring into Moat, the ad tech startup founded by former Right Media CEO Mike Walrath and brothers Jonah and Noah Goodhart. Ron Conway's SV Angel led a $1.5 million round, along wi...

Electric bike maker FlyKly is bringing its stylish, powerful and eco-friendly bikes to San Francisco after having a blowout launch in New York earlier this summer. The company, which opened up shop on...

Our parent company AOL is having a rough time making money from Patch, its rapidly expanding network of local news sites, and that's not its only problem. Today, group buying website BuyWithMe announc...

If you look carefully at why HP bailed on consumer electronics and PCs, there are a few clear and simple reasons. The primary one? HP was number one in sales but - at least by Amplicate's arguably...

Engine Yard, a provider of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions, this morning announced it has acquired Orchestra, developer of a platform for deploying, scaling and managing PHP applications.Engine...

Dj vu, much? Like Apple's original strategy for the aging iPhone 3GS, a new report states that Apple is working on an 8GB iPhone 4 to be sold at a discount while the iPhone 5 will sell at a higher...

Lenovo's ThinkPad Tablet is meant for business types, but it just might be the best Honeycomb tablet available right now. It was announced late last month alongside the consumer-oriented IdeaPad K1 an...

AliveCor, developer of a low-budget electrocardiogram (ECG) recorder that works in conjunction with a variety of mobile platforms (including iPhone, iPad, and Android devices), has raised $3 million i...

After adding online payments exec Bill Ready as an Executive-In-Residence, Accel Partners is shoring up another area of expertise with the addition of former Salesforce.com executive Chuck Ganapathi a...

Tawkon, an Israeli startup that offers mobile apps capable of measuring cellular radiation, has secured seed funding to the tune of $1.5 million.The capital injection comes from thetime, an investment...

Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: TC Tests The GeoMate Jr., A Geocaching GPS Unit For The Wee Ones A Woman, A Cupcake, A Bank And A Square: Why Credit Card Companies Ar...

Canon today announced its line of PowerShot digital cameras just in time for the back-to-school season, and they're more colorful than a bag of Skittles. The series consists of three new models: the P...

Remember last year when it seemed like everyone was doing a location-based mobile app? One of the original players in that space, Brightkite, eventually got overshadowed by newer rivals. Now two o...

Back in the Summer of 2008, when there was still a glimmer of innocence and belief in the fundamental goodness of people in this young blogger's mind, I decided that I wanted a touchscreen tablet. Som...

Erply, a company that develops retail inventory management software, is taking on Square, Intuit and VeriFone today with a new mobile credit card reader for iOS devices. Erply's credit card device con...

Wanova, a turnkey desktop management cloud provider, has raised $10 million in series B funding from Greylock Partners, Carmel Ventures and Opus Capital. This brings the company's total funding to $23...

A week ago, Fox changed its licensing rules so that non-paying users of Hulu would be unable to watch new episodes of their shows until eight days after their air date. Put on your analyst hat and thi...

While $300 for a tablet might seem insanely high after this weekend's $100 TouchPad frenzy, it's still a decent buy. I still find it hard to recommend existing budget Honeycomb tablets over the iPad w...

Three days ago I wrote about Codecademy " a slick, fun way to teach yourself how to program. The app has done an excellent job minimizing the frustration often associated with writing your f...

Why isn't Chrome a part of Android? It's a question as old as time itself. Or at least a few years old. But given that the same company, Google, makes both products, it never made much sense. Now ...

The upcoming iPhone 5 will almost certainly be a single phone that supports multiple networks, namely CDMA (such as the one used by Verizon or Sprint in the United States) as well as GSM (which is use...

Last fall, Google made its first attempt to take over your living room with the launch of Google TV " a platform that merged the web with television content to create an experience promising...

Earlier today, new TechStars Network member, the Tampa Bay-basedGazelle Lab,announced its first full round of program participants. This 3-month, mentor-driven program based on the TechStars model is ...

Last November, location startup SimpleGeo brought in former Digg CEO Jay Adelson to replace co-founder Matt Galligan as CEO. At the time, Galligan slid into the role of Chief Strategy Officer and beca...

Over the last few months, Twitter has been rolling out some key new enhancements to their user experience, adding improved search functionality and the ability to upload images right from a user's Twi...

In the sleepy Columbus, Ohio suburb of Canal Winchester there is a shop that makes cupcakes. These are not ordinary cupcakes; these are fantastic cupcakes. In fact the name of this establishment"...

Here's a new Y Combinator-backed startup that's sure to catch they eye of plenty of web developers: Proxino, a new service that promises to let developers detect errors on all of their client-side Jav...

Thrive Capital's first venture fund was just $10 million, but the fund made 27 investments and more than a couple look like home runs. That fund, closed in 2009, holds stock in GroupeMe (acquired by S...

On the heels of the HP's first and likely last webOS fire sale, word has come from across the pond thatthey're also deeply discounting the cost of the newly-launched Pre 3 smartphone in most European ...

Antennas are a bit like like underwear. Everybody needs them, but you generally want to conceal them, and when you have troubles with them, it gets embarrassing. Ever since we lost the pull-out and nu...

Microsoft's been touting Windows Phone 7's Xbox Live functionality since day one, but it's always felt just a little lacking. You can look at your cute little avatar and play games that bump up your g...

iSwifter, an iPad app that allows developers to stream flash games to the tablet device, is announcing that revenue for 2011 will past $10 million. That's impressive considering the company is only a ...

Following the lead of Warner Bros, Paramount, and Universal, Miramax has jumped on the Facebook app bandwagon offering movie rentals in exchange for Facebook credits. Along with watching movie clips a...

A study performed at the National University of Singapore has confirmed what many of us seem to know intuitively: taking a little time off of coding or writing to check your favorite blogs or webcomic...

Sharp just did the unthinkable. The RW-T107 Gingerbread tablet is actually useful and gives businesses a new way to interact with consumers with a built-in NFC and RFID reader. This is the future, kid...

Placecast's ShopAlerts service, which delivers retailer and merchant offers and discounts to consumers via their mobile phones, is announcing new functionality today" integration with mobile...

As we mentioned a few weeks ago, Rdio family plans are now available for, as Bob Dylan would say, "the wife and family" and "the whole kids."The plan costs $17.99 for two accounts and three accounts c...

I'm here in St. Petersburg, Florida this morning to learn more about the newest TechStars Network member, Gazelle Lab. This 3-month, mentor-driven program is Tampa Bay's attempt to establish itself as...

If you're one of those folks who doesn't need the latest and greatest, it may tickle your fancy to know that Best Buy is giving away the iPhone 3GS. The sale will only last through today, and is only ...

Many businesses embed YouTube videos on their sites, but one of the pain points of using YouTube as a platform is that visitors can click through the video to YouTube and off the brand's site "&n...

Facebook is already the largest photo site in the U.S., and now it is climbing up the charts for online video. Facebook now ranks as the third largest video site on the Web in terms of unique viewers...

This weekend's TouchPad fire sale has more or less petered out, and thousands of HP's little tablet that couldn't have found new homes. Not everyone seems to love WebOS though, as a growing number of ...

Teasers are tricky. Companies have to find a way to get you excited about something without telling you what that something is, which can be difficult. It's especially difficult to keep the secret pro...

Lenovo is the fastest growing PC maker in the world. The Chinese computer company outgrew every other PC maker for the past seven quarters and is now the third largest PC maker by volume. There's no q...

Researchers at a Czech company, Neovision, have invented a duct-cleaning robot called Jetty. This machine is joystick controlled and has a 1024x768 pixel camera. It receives power and signal over a Et...

Yesterday, I wrote a post after I noticed that Groupon had registered groupongoods.com, groupongoods.info and other related domain names, hypothesizing that the fast-growing daily deals startup might ...

Disruptive mobile payments company Square has pushed a number of new updates to its iPhone and iPad apps today. First, the apps are speedier and transaction speed has improved, says the company. Addit...

Verizon has updated its already awesome V CAST video app, which will henceforth be called Verizon Video. The updated app will work with select 4G LTE and 3G handsets on Verizon's network, and offer a...

NextDocs, a company that sells Microsoft SharePoint based software for the life sciences industry, has raised $10.3 million in a Series A financing from OpenView Venture Partners. NextDocs helps life ...

In the aftermath of HP's decision to axe all WebOS products, the question for many a developer is "what's next?" While I'm sure a few WebOS diehards will continue to work on the platform (and hope...

I just had the unique pleasure geocaching for the first time. I'd always been interested in the concept: someone hides something tiny in the wilderness and you use a GPS tracker to find it. However, t...

Sony Ericsson knows how to do Facebook. A social network can't be the only selling point of the phone, like on the HTC Status — there has to be something else. For gamers, SE brought Facebook in...

How do you make a digital textbook more than just a glorified PDF on a tablet? Kno, the tablet textbook company started by Chegg co-founder Osman Rashid, is rolling out a variety of features to t...

6fusion, a provider of cloud infrastructure management software and services, this morning announced that it has raised $7 million in a Series B round of funding led by Grotech Ventures. Previous back...

Tokyo-based robot venture ZMP has churned out yet another robot car: this time, it's the so-called RoboCar MEV-C, which is based on COMS, a vehicle Toyota started developing back in 2000. Just as COMS...

The Fujufilm X100 (pictured) is quietly becoming a favorite among the photography nerds thanks to its capable sensor, fair price and oh-so-hawt retro digs. But even though the price is fully justified...

The Japanese version of iOS 5 will have a special notifications widget: a setting to turn on instant messages from Japan's earthquake early warning system. The system is so sensitive that it could red...

Stipple, a technology that allows you to tag people in images no matter where they reside on the web, has launched a platform today that serves as an 'AdWords for Images.' For background, Stipple's te...

Hopper, a Montreal, Canada-based startup Hooper has raised $8 million in fresh funding from Atlas Venture and previous backer Brightspark Ventures to try and 'reinvent travel search'.Hopper is still i...

Here are some stories from the past week on TechCrunch Gadgets: Okay HP, Let's Make Some Lemonade Review: Brite-Strike Rugged Flashlights The Vibram Trek LS And Bormio: Ugly, Crazy Monkey Shoes Get Ev...

Cisco this morning announced its intent to purchase service fulfillment software assets and associated employees from the UK subsidiary of Comptel, for 21.3 million euros or roughly $31 million in cas...

Every five or so years for the past two decades the introduction of an Internet connection to a new device type has created a boom in disruptive businesses. Most of these booms" computers, f...

A few months ago I was giving a talk in my hometown of Memphis, TN, and someone asked what the city could do to ignite more entrepreneurship in among inner city kids. My immediate answer was teach cod...

Skype will acquire group messaging service GroupMe, a service that was born at a hackathon at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York in 2010. GroupMe was founded by Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci. The terms o...

Zynga has snagged another EA exec today. The social gaming giant is announcing today that former EA Executive Vice President Jeff Karp is joining as Chief Marketing and Revenue Officer. This is actual...

Linux and open source development is not a zero sum game. This was the explicit message from Ubuntu Technical Architect Allison Randal's keynote speech at LinuxCon, but the sentiment had been articula...

Leveraging the success of Rent The Runway's model, Luxemi is launching as an e-commerce site where customers can both borrow or buy Indian apparel and accessories. The site is targeted at a niche audi...

Apparently we are now in the endgame, the victims of information overload ready for the triumph of socially curated automation flows. You'd think people might be wary of placing big bets on impossible...

When it comes renewable energy solutions, sometimes nature has the best ideas. That was 13-year-old Aidan Dwyer's conclusion after a wintry hike in New York's Catskill Mountains, a trip that inspired ...

The newest addition to the local discovery app space, iPhone app Urbandig aims to help you find novel local experiences. In order to do this the team, which consists of former Myspacers Mike Macadaan,...

Last week, daily deals giant Groupon registered a bunch of domain names with 'groupongoods' in them (.com, .net, .us, .info, .biz and interestingly, .fr). Evidently, securing those domain names doesn'...

comScore's July traffic numbers are out and similar to June's findings, Facebook and Twitter both saw record traffic in terms of U.S. unique visitors in the month. In July, Facebook saw a whopping 162...

comScore's July traffic numbers are out and similar to June's findings, Facebook and Twitter both saw record traffic in terms of U.S. unique visitors in the month. In July, Facebook saw a whopping 162...

Hey, Kids! Can you find four things wrong with this advertisement in a 6th Ave Electronics flyer? Turn your screen over for answers!...

There are a number of online apps that let you create a timer that counts down to a given date and time, but frankly, most of them suck. Enter itsalmo.st, an appropriately named Web-based tool that le...

All year, I've heard some variation of this phrase: "A big shift, from search to discovery, is underway online." I'm still figuring out what this means. I'd like to share my thoughts on it, andI'd lik...

Chris Dixonwraps up his interview with FindTheBest(and DoubleClick) co-founder,Kevin O'Connor by asking him about his end goal for FindTheBest. O'Connor responds that an "exit strategy is total bullsh...

Borders' bankruptcy this summer has further underscored a major shift in the way people consume the written word, namely in pixels as opposed to print. As our chain brick and mortar bookstores inevita...

Short Version: Energizer's Inductive Charging pad gets rid of the wires, looks nice, and just makes getting your charge on easier. Unfortunately, the accessories needed to use the charging pad make yo...

They're out there. Be afraid. They could be anywhere, everywhere, anyone. They are shadowy, deadly, mysterious, guided by intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic. Security consultants and antivirus...

The Gillmor Gang "  Robert Scoble, Seth Goldstein, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor "  sat in awe of Apple's massive hammerlock on the tablet market. What the New York ...

Editor's note: Jules Maltz is a General Partner at Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), a late-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park. You can follow him on Twitter @julesmaltz.Whenever I'm a...

Is Silverlightreally dead, or is it future of Microsoft's Windows 8 and Windows Phone? This is a question weighing on the minds of legions of Microsoft developers right now - developers who were o...

William Shatner, rejoice! Earlier today, Wen-Ai Yu from the Google+ team announced with a post on Google+ and an accompanying YouTube video that the social network now boasts 'verification b...

Wow. The day after HP announces they're discontinuing all their webOS devices, and they've already issued a liquidation order. Best Buy, Future Shop, The Source, London Drugs, and Staples will be sell...

It's hard to believe that Google's Street View has been in use for over four years. What's more amazing, perhaps, given the rate at which they have canvassed the world's streets and alleyways, that th...

Snapsort, until today known a popular camera recommendation site, has raised $500K from undisclosed investors to expand its algorithmic product recommendation technology to other verticals, starting w...

Every once in a while you see an invention that seems a long time coming. The Tacit, a hand-mounted system that pings surroundings and transmits distance information to the user, is one of those. Whil...

Anyone who's spent a late night hour or three browsing movie trailers on trailers.apple.com will understand the utility of the Can't Wait iPhone app. Co-foundersEric Florenzanoand Eric Maguire tell me...

I was sitting outside a cafe the other day when an older man sat down next to me and attempted to assemble a flashlight he'd bought at Walgreens. It was the chintziest piece of garbage I've seen in a ...

Apple is making a lot of big changes to its mobile operating system with iOS 5, which is dribbling out in betas for developers ahead of a general release later this year. But there is one big change s...

"We welcome the news of today's acquisition, which demonstrates that Google is deeply committed to defending Android, its partners, and the entire ecosystem."That was Peter Chou's line from right...

One of the more exciting technologies on the horizon is NFC, short for Near Field Communication. You've probably heard quite a bit about the technology already: it'll let you pay for things simply by ...

Yes yes I know Facebook Questions pivoted into some kind of "poll your friends" thing back in March but still this is sort of funny, simply because it's the most symbolic concession of the Q&A spa...

Twitter has just released Bootstrap, a new toolkit to build web apps using CSS. It includes base CSS styles for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, alerts, and more. You can access ...

If you can't wait for the official Steve Jobs biography, why not pick up a fake one for $8? "Translated" by someone apparently named "John Cage" (presumably there are 4.33 pages blank near the mid...

Almost every single keynote at LinuxCon, and certainly every private conversation I had with folks here, involved "cloud" in some way. As Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst observed in his keynote, there's no...

Well, this is something new. Here in the tech world, we hear about delay after delay "  but very rarely does a company step out and say: "Hey! We're ahead of schedule!" Today, Microsoft was ...

A couple of days ago, I took issue with those who whine that ebooks are killing publishing. In fact, I argued, “The Golden Era Of Books Isn't Over. The Golden Era Of Books IsNow“. Apparent...

This cool Kickstarter allows you to build a working speaker using plasma energy. It's a little esoteric, but here's the deal: this is a little kit that contains everything you need to play music using...

We just announced a couple more speakers who will be joining us onstage at Disrupt SF, which is only one month away! You can follow along with the growing list of speakers here. Disrupt SF is going to...

We like to mix things up onstage at Disrupt SF, which is only a month away so get your early bird tickets now. One session I am really excited will be on lean startups with Eric Ries on the day he wi...

It's that time again! Right on schedule (with "on schedule" meaning "roughly 2 weeks since the last one"), Apple has just released the sixth Beta build of iOS 5 to developers.You know what that means:...

Apple has again submitted what the blogosphere is calling "inaccurate evidence"  in its case against Samsung. A photo found on page 77 of Apple's complaint to the Hague district court i...

Chris Dixonbegins this episode ofFounder StorieswithDoubleClickandFindTheBestCo-founderKevin O'Connerby telling O'Connor that "DoubleClick is probably the closest thing New York has to aPayPal." Meani...

We just announced a couple more speakers who will be joining us onstage at Disrupt SF, which is only one month away! You can follow along with the growing list of speakers here. Disrupt SF is going to...

Blogging software WordPress is announcing a number of impressive growth stats today. WordPress is now powering 14.7% of the top million websites in the world, up from 8.5%. And 22 out of every 100 new...

With a name like Pineapple and a trade dress that looks like an iPod Nano with the clip cut off, you can tell the gents behind Pineapple watches aren't very well-versed on trademark law. But lets, for...

As I write this, I'm sitting in my office. Around me, there are nine computers -- seven of them run Windows. I have three slates, too -- only one is an iPad. Welcome to the Post-PC world outside of Sa...

The cost of patents is going up, and that is not a good thing. After all, Google is paying $12.5 billion for Motorola largely for its huge mobile patent portfolio. In July, an anti-Google consortium...

I hope you're not eating anything because you're about to see some real Jame Gumb stuff in a second. Vibram, famous makers of Sergey's crazy monkey shoes (that I actually wear while running, much to m...

Facebook advertising is exploding, with ad spend on the network expected to hit $4 billion in 2011. Clearly, brands and companies are flocking to Facebook to reach users. And startups like GraphEffect...

Not long after Clearwire announced their intent to begin lighting up a 4G LTE network, Sprint and a cabal of cable companies have begun to discuss the idea of a possible Clearwire acquisition.Last we ...

Amazon has obtained a dozen new domain names related to its cloud video service, including things like "instantcloudvideo.com," "amazoncloudvideo.com," and "primevideocloud.com," to name just a few. T...

Radian6, which was acquired by Salesforce for $326 million earlier this year, has offered some of the world's largest brands a web-based social media monitoring platform. But the company has not offer...

It's only been a few days since HTC got its bootloader unlock tool up and running, but unfortunately it was only made available to owners of the European/international version of the HTC Sensation. Ob...

It's time for another episode of TechCrunched, your super-speedy recap of the week's top tech news.This week's stories include Google's massive acquisition of Motorola, BART's cell phone service fiasc...

Zlio, a site which lets users create online shops where they sell goods from other e-commerce services, is joining the deadpool. The 6-year old outlet is going out of business, and will officially clo...

Last week, we reported on several Facebook design changes including updates to Facebook Chat and a revamped sidebar. Today, it looks like the new "mini" News Feed is in the processing of rolling out t...

It's been an excruciating wait for the Droid Bionic — a truly painful seven months. But over the past month, we've gotten our hands on little bits of relief. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha promised a "...

Samsung has something big in store for IFA 2011 -- but don't they always. The company just unveiled two videos for its latest marketing campaign that, per the rules of Viral 101, do not show anything ...

Back in June, Sega Toys in Japan teased the R2-D2 Homestar, a fully functional planetarium that's shaped in the form of the robot from Star Wars. And today, the company fixed the release date (Septemb...

The Yahoo Phone isn't the only unusual handset Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank rolled out yesterday. SoftBank subscribers can soon lay their hands on another one, the 007SH KT, which has two selling ...

Here is a selection of yesterday’s TechCrunch Gadgets stories: It's Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones And The TouchPad Okay HP, Let's Make Some Lemonade Video: Crunchy Logistics Brings Multi-T...

I am primarily writing about this startup because I need it desperately, and because it is the problem I would attempt to solve if I ever decided to flip the switch and become a startup founder instea...

One of the niftiest features of Google+ is its group videoconferencing app called Hangouts. Not only is the service free, with support for ten simultaneous users "  it also attempts to ...

You've read the inspirational posts on Hacker News. You've purchased the recommended books. You've bookmarked the online tutorials. You even plopped down $80 on a set of instructional videos, promisin...

With skyrocketing valuation numbers for upstart tech companies, it's not just naysayer pundits crying "bubble." Activision (Activision-Blizzard, to be precise) is skeptical of the numbers being put fo...

As I write this, I'm sitting in a cafe. Around me, there are five people on laptops "  four of them are MacBooks. Four other people are using tablets "  all four are iPads. Welcome...

You're probably familiar with telepresence robot or two. We even had one rolling around the TechCrunch office for a while. They generally have fairly simple navigation interfaces: forward, back, turn ...

This morning, HP admitted failure.After spending $1.2 billion to acquire Palm, they announced that they were killing off the development of all smartphones and tablets running Palm's webOS platform &q...

The Canadian luxury buffs over at Mobiado have been churning out obscenely expensive (not to mention obscenely designed) phones since 2004, and if you were to look at their line-up, one thing would be...

Salesforce just posted its Q2 2012 earnings today, posting record quarterly revenue of $546 million, which is up 38% Year-Over-Year. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share increased 3% year-over-year to...

HubSpot has acquired social business management platform Oneforty. Oneforty originally launched two years ago as an app store for Twitter, the startup undoubtedly filled a hole in the media platform. ...

In their statement regarding the Motorola Mobility acquisition, Google said that they would "run Motorola Mobility as a separate business." I understand that to mean that they won't simply be devourin...

After confirming its intention to purchase software company Autonomy, HP released stronger than expected third fiscal quarter 2011 initial financial results, posting $31.2 billion, an increase of 2 pe...

Brace yourselves, webOS fans.In the hours leading up to their Q3 conference call later today, HP has just confirmed that they will be discontinuing operations surrounding the TouchPad and all webOS ph...

Nielsen has found that Android users tend to spend over an hour a day on their phones. Sixty-seven percent of their time is spent "working" with apps while the rest is spent on the mobile web. Forty-t...

January 19, 2011. It's a day I'll always remember. It's the day I finally got to destroy a Horcrux that had been bringing misery into my life: AT&T.That's the day I finally cancelled my AT&T s...

Best Buy and Samsung are going to move a few more Galaxy Tabs next week. Starting on Sunday, if you buy a top-tier Samsung 3D HDTV for $1500 or $2000, you'll also go home with a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10....

Dating sucks. Nine out of ten times, your suitor is a jerk. The other ten percent of the time, they pretend not to be a jerk only to show their true jerk-like colors a few weeks later. This is the wor...

A few days ago, traffic analysis firm Experian Hitwise shared the results of a study of over 10 million online users, and concluded from its findings that Google's new social network, Google+, wa...

Foursquare has announced today that people can now check into events officially, which is weird because people have actually (unofficially) been checking into events for a long time. I mean just look ...

On the rare occasions that I'm not sitting in a chat room and writing about phones, I usually play the role of "hang-out coordinator" among my friends. You probably have too: messaging people to see w...

As college students around the country start heading back to the dorms and purchasing their books for the semester, textbook rental giant Chegg is making major waves in the space with a number of new ...

As college students around the country start heading back to the dorms and purchasing their books for the semester, textbook rental giant Chegg is making major waves in the space with a number of new ...

iFixIt, known for their Apple upgrade guides and supplies, is branching out into cloud services for hardware, appliance, and chemical manufacturers. The new project, called Dozuki, is currently in bet...

Notable Silicon Valley tech blogger and startup consultant Louis Gray is finally turning his passion for Google's products and services into a career. Gray has just accepted the position of Product Ma...

Western Europe is a tough place to be for PC manufacturers right now. According to a report from technology research firm Gartner, sales are down nearly across the board, with just a single exception:...

According to a Bloomberg report, HP is set to buy European infrastructure software company Autonomy for as much as $10 billion. That price would make the acquisition one of HP's largest deals to date...

According to a Bloomberg report, HP is set to buy European infrastructure software company Autonomy for as much as $10 billion. That price would make the acquisition one of HP's largest deals to date...

We're here at the Evernote Trunk conference, where Evernote CEO Phil Libin is giving a talk about the future of Evernote; the biggest news being the announcement that the company has acquired Skitch, ...

We're here at the Evernote Trunk conference, where Evernote CEO Phil Libin is giving a talk about the future of Evernote; the biggest news being the announcement that the company has acquired Skitch, ...

Location and weather go together like peanut butter and jelly. So it only makes sense that our favorite map tool, Google Maps, starts to bring weather into the picture. According to the official Googl...

Ever since Google announced its $12.5 billion deal to acquire Motorola on Monday, its stock has been taking a hit. Today, with the entire market in a tailspin over global economic concerns, Google's ...

Appia, a startup that powers a white-label content and commerce platform for everyone and anyone who needs a mobile app store, has passed an important milestone" the company is now seeing 1 ...

This is one of the cooler things I've seen in a while. Think Microsoft Surface meets Minority Report, minus the bald lady that predicts the future. It's a multi-touch conference table from an Orlando-...

The world's largest mobile carrier, China Mobile, does not currently support or sell the iPhone. That might be changing, though. Reuters is reporting that the carrier has held meetings with Steve Jobs...

Steven Sinofsky, President of the Windows Division at Microsoft, has officially confirmed (somewhat subtly) that the upcoming Windows 8 operating system will indeed have an app store. The news was men...

When Kevin O'Connor started DoubleClick in the mid-1990s, it was half an online media sales company for early Web companies like Netscape and Excite and half a technology company. "We were their prof...

Startup GoodData, which provides companies with a cloud-based business intelligence (BI) platform, has raised $15 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with existing investors General Catalyst...

Despite the fact that the company has a newly adopted OS in the works with Windows Phone 7, Nokia has always promised to continue supporting Symbian, its first born OS. That said, owners of the Nokia ...

Everyone's favorite alternative DNS service, OpenDNS, is now serving up DNS to 30 million customers world-wide. The company announced this milestone in a short release and notes that they are now send...

While they have typically gone with proprietary tech, Delta has begun testing some off-the-shelf tablets for use as "electronic flight bags" for their pilots. The test program has 22 iPads flying the ...

Citi and Best Buy have teamed up to launch a mobile rewards application for iPhone and Android devices. The "Citi ThankYou Rewards" app ties together Best Buy's inventory systems with Citi's "ThankYou...

Kleiner Perkins China (KPCB China) and private equity firm Warburg Pincus have put $100 million in Chinese online retailer Xiu.com. The company just raised $20 million from Kleiner earlier this year. ...

Amazon is constantly growing and expanding its catalog of videos available for on-demand streaming. The service just reached the 100k mark with 9,000 of those available under the Prime streaming plan....

When it comes to gaming, the better the mouse, the better the gamer. Logitech today announced its next-gen G-series gaming mouse, the G300, and if this thing doesn't give you a competitive edge, you n...

Drchrono, a startup that simplifies the professional lives of doctors by bringing electronic health records and much more to the iPad, has raised another $650,000 in seed funding from DST founder Yuri...

Lenovo reported results for the first quarter of the fiscal year today, and in a nutshell, things are looking pretty good for the Chinese powerhouse. Quarterly sales soared 15% year-on-year to US$5.9 ...

Japan gets an Android-based "Yahoo Phone" [JP]: what may sound weird at first is actually not that surprising a news item, given that Yahoo is the country's biggest website. Add to the fact that the c...

Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets stories: Razer's Tiamat Headset Uses 10 Drivers To Produce 7.1 Sound Stephen Colbert's Head Goes Into Space Griffin Releases iPhone-Controlled Toy Helicopter...

Streaming music service Spotify is amping up its hiring efforts in the US, wanting to hire for another 100 more positions according to a source. The total team is currently around 380 people.One month...

Developer and HackerNews contributor Jeremy Keesh has stumbled across the scariest thing I've seen all day (I live in San Francisco, okay). In searching for ways to make his own sitesearch auto-comple...

Birchbox, a startup that serves as a makeup discovery retail platform, has raised $10.5 million in Series A round of funding, led by Accel Partners with First Round Capital, Harrison Metal, Forerunner...

The basics: Google is buying Motorola, pending government approval. Everyone and their editor-at-large has written about it. Now I'll take my shot at the soapbox.I don't know why Google acquired Motor...

"Yeah, each new iOS announcement is very" bittersweet. We love it because it means new APIs for us to build on, bug fixes for things we've had to work around, and, ideally, more people buying the...

Music Beta, remember it? It's the online music locker service that Google unveiled at I/O in May. But the keyword in the title very much remains "Beta" "  as in, not in any way ready for...

"The golden era of books is over." So begins Jeff Bercovici's post on Fortune.com before he -- somewhat self-contrapuntally -- goes on to list the top earning authors of the previous year, including J...

It's that time again! With Dave McClure's 500 Startups now at 175 startups, sometimes hanging out at its headquarters in Mountain View leaves one a little inundated with promising startups. Especially...

GM makes money from platforms, not just cars. With that thought, Cadillac just announced the ELR Coupe, a sleek sportster built on the Voltec platform that also powers the Volt. The dual-powertrain Ca...

Series A financings are on the decline. They peaked at 283 in 2007 and are on pace to barely crack 100[1] this year (all data is from CrunchBase through the end of June" it is imperfect but ...

The U.S. government is no stranger the to app game: they've developed over 50 smartphone apps and mobile sites for everyday use, ranging from apps that find local alternative fueling stations to ones ...

Digital loyalty startup Chatterfly today launched its new rewards program for businesses and consumers in the form of a smartphone application for iPhone and Android. Like similar startups, including ...

Very few headsets out there are "true" surround sound. Most are traditional stereo headphones with "virtual surround sound" — a process that adds depth and directionality, but delivers it throug...

A serial entrepreneur,Kevin O'Connor'slatest venture isFindTheBest, a company that offers comparisons on everything from credit cards to golf courses. Prior to FindTheBest Kevin was a founder ofDouble...

Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, just delivered a terrific opening keynote presentation for LinuxCon. Whitehurst isn't just a businessman, he's also a geek. He used Linux and open source before joining...

Ford Motor Company is teaming up with San Jose-based solar panel maker SunPower to offer a rooftop solar system option which will be sold alongside the upcoming Ford Focus EV. The "Drive Green for Lif...

You may recall that back in April, Postagram launched as a way to transform your Instagrams into physical picture postcards and deliver them for $0.99. A few month later, PopBooth launched as a way to...

doubleTwist, the slick media player for Android, is growing. A lot.Last February we reported that the application had passed a major milestone, drawing one million users per month between its mobile a...

Adam Penenberg aka The Man Who Took Down Stephen Glass decided to write about Serv.io, a crowdsourcing content farm that allows publishers to request articles for quick publication. They call it "cont...

Google has taken to its public blog this morning to talk about the company's focus on building greener, more sustainable workplaces for its employees. The company is involved in several green initiati...

Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the Droid HD. The previously unseen handset was known to be floating around, thanks to its EXIF data making a quick appearance on Flickr, but the Droid HD is ready for a bit...

The folks at Makerbot made a bust of Stephen Colbert and gave him a copy when they appeared on his show a month or so ago. Not content to let it just moulder in the shop, they decided to attach it to ...

A new report put out today by PricewaterhouseCoopers lays out the tech M&A landscape. Technology deals totaled $26 billion in the second quarter of 2011, slightly down from the $26.6 billion worth...

Skype just launched a new iOS application that lets users locate Wi-Fi hotspots where they can pay for access using Skype Credit. It currently supports over 1 million hotspots worldwide, including tho...

While Verizon didn't flat-out advocate the proposed Googorola deal, the company was the first U.S. carrier to comment on the merger, saying it welcomed the possibility that these patent disputes might...

Former MySpace VP Ryan Sit is trying to recreate the types of social interactions people engage in while shopping at the mall with friends. Of course, shopping online is a different matter, but with F...

MileWise is a new search engine designed for frequent fliers that helps you find flights you can pay for using cash, airline miles or hotel and credit card points. The startuplets users track their ai...

The BlackBerry Bold 9900 just hit T-Mobile shelves, but wait just a second before you bolt to run and grab one. The handset from RIM is launching for business customers only until August 31, at which ...

For a mere $50 you, too, can own a small, iPhone-controlled helicopter made by a company that has been traditionally known for selling phone cases. Like Parrot before them, Griffin is branching out fr...

Social causes startup Jumo has been acquired by GOOD, the publisher of a website and magazine aimed at do-gooders. Jumo was founded by Chris Hughes, one of Facebook's co-founders and a Harvard roomm...

A rocky financial climate isn't stopping this IPO" Chinese online video site Tudou has started trading on the NASDAQ this morning under the symbol 'TUDO.' Last night, Tudou priced its shares...

Reports are trickling into to our tipline that Ooma, a popular VOIP service, is currently experiencing major network issues. Currently, Ooma's phone service seems offline nationwide, and their website...

Alice Taylor, CEO of Makielab and wife of BoingBoing's Cory Doctorow, took a nice snapshot of a anorexic mannequin in an "Always Skinny" display at the Gap. The mannequin is clearly emaciated and, ski...

Following up on yesterday’s 20 Years of Linux, the Linux Foundation is releasing today an infographic highlighting some of the remarkable changes in Linux and the larger computer industry over t...

Kim Hyung-Suk has been busy these past few months. An attorney based out of Seoul, he gained a bit of notoriety for being the first person to receive a cash settlement from Apple for the iPhone's loca...

According to a new report from location-based media company JiWire, 53% of the "on-the-go" U.S. audience is willing to exchange their location in exchange for more relevant content and better informat...

The technology world is still reeling from the announcement of Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility. And today, Motorola announced the departure of William (Bill) R. Hambrecht from ...

The HP Pre3 launched in Europe today, and oddly enough, HP had very little to say about it. With the TouchPad price falling like a rock, you'd expect that its intended complementary device — and...

Nintendo is prepping a slightly retooled Wii for a pre-holiday release. This streamlined model sits horizontally (as a game console should) instead of vertically like the original. It's also slightly ...

Nintendo is prepping a slightly retooled Wii for a pre-holiday release. This streamlined model sits horizontally (as a game console should) instead of vertically like the original. It's also slightly ...

If you like consuming media on your iPhone or iPod touch that's stored elsewhere, you might want to take a look at what Panasonic has announced [JP] for the Japanese market recently. The so-called DY-...

Glam Media, one of the largest publishing and advertising networks on the Web, is taking on Apple's iAd today with the launch of GlamMobile, a mobile ad platform that aims to allow brand advertisers t...

Glam Media, one of the largest publishing and advertising networks on the Web, is taking on Apple's iAd today with the launch of GlamMobile, a mobile ad platform that aims to allow brand advertisers t...

WebEx has managed to maintain a pretty good lock on the enterprise world with their online video conferencing/meeting service, but there's one place they've always fallen a bit short: small businesses...

Atlanta-based startup Kabbage, which provides working capital to online merchants, has raised $17 million in Series B funding led by Mohr Davidow Ventures with BlueRun Ventures, David Bonderman, found...

There are quite a few cloud hosting Platform-as-a-Service providers out there to do the heavy lifting for web application developers who expect a certain amount of traffic for their sites. A new provi...

Google's Slide team has been busy. In the past few months, they've unleashed a range of social apps meant to fulfill different needs. But the strange thing is that Google hasn't done a thing to promot...

Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets stories: The HTC Puccini Tab Nears Release, But Is There Room For Yet Another Honeycomb Tab? After Price Drop: Nintendo Japan Sells 215K 3DS Units In 7 D...

Thank youMiles Lothe for taking the whole brogramming thing to the next level by reading the entire Facebook TOS and translating it into bro-speak. This is amazing because Facebook, aside from Manpack...

Last night, San Francisco's BART transport system prepared itself to be swamped with Guy Fawkes masks as hacking collective Anonymous urged concerned citizens to take to the streets tracks to protest ...

When we switched to Facebook comments several months ago, we spun it as a way to combat the trolls. But you know, there was actually a secret agenda. We wanted to bring families closer together.And it...

Today, Mountain View-based Ooyala, the fast-growing online video services provider, is announcing that it has landed a big content partner: The so-called "worldwide leader in sports", ESPN. Those avid...

Scientists, get ready for some disruption.Last month I wrote about Quartzy, a nifty startup that's looking to help scientists streamline their labs by making it easy to keep track of who has which rea...

Many government agencies have been slower to adopt the cloud because of the specific regulatory requirements, compliance issues and security regulations. To mitigate this, Amazon Web Services is launc...

What's on the end of your fork? Do you go online to look at young women or MILFs and cougars? Do you like coercion fantasies about alpha males? Or do you prefer gay romance stories?Up ...

Dell reported mixed earnings this afternoon for the second quarter of fiscal year 2012. Revenue in the quarter was $15.7 billion, up 1 percent over last year. GAAP earnings per share was $0.48, up 71 ...

Back in July 2010, Google announced a nifty educational project called App Inventor. The goal? Give non-programmers a relatively easy way to build their own applications for the Android platform, ...

Instead of giving us any more concrete details on when the Playstation Vita will see the light of day, Sony announced the availability of a new PSP model called the E-1000 at their Gamescom press conf...

We're in Mountain View at Dave McClure's 500 Startups HQ where the second ever 500 Startups Demo Day is about to start. Today 31 startups will present to press and investors here in McClure's bright a...

We're in Mountain View at Dave McClure's 500 Startups HQ where the second ever 500 Startups Demo Day is about to start. Today 31 startups will present to press and investors here in McClure's bright a...

Watch out! Price cuts all around! Following the 3DS price drop, Sony just cut a cool $50 off the PS3, dropping the 160GB model to $250 down from $300. The 320GB model is also a little lower now with a...

During a press conference at the Gamescom gaming conference in Cologne, Sony announced a few new features for their new handheld console, the Vita (watch our hands-on at E3 here). Among them were supp...

More cash is flowing in for social TV apps. Stealthy company Umami has raised $1.65 million in seed funding from Battery Ventures, NEA and other angels for the companion, social TV platform. While det...

Tyler Loch is the creator of VisualHub, one of the best (and funniest) video converters for OS X. He shut down development a few years ago and left the app to linger and then shut it down completely, ...

Back in the day, the knock on the Foursquare iPhone app used to be that it wasn't very visually appealing. That was especially true in comparison to rival Gowalla. But much has changed over the past s...

What do Groupon, Zynga, Airbnb, Crunchbase and LinkedIn have in common? They know site performance is critical to their success, so they use New Relic app monitoring to make sure their apps are q...

Box.net has raised $18.6 million out of a $35 million round according to an SEC filing. We've confirmed this with the company. This brings Box's total funding to $96 million. Box, which has 6 million ...

Hope you've got some popcorn and a German law book at the ready because this back-and-forth between Apple and Samsung only gets better and better. Today, the preliminary injunction banning Samsung fro...

Matt Richardson created a wild Arduino system that mutes a TV whenever a name or other keyword is broadcast on TV. It uses the closed caption track and an IR blaster to grab what's currently playing a...

Over the past year or so, I've noticed a surge in new, scrappy education startups. One of the most promising ones I've seen is ShowMe, previously called Easel Learning. The New York City startup jus...

According to a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the consumption of engery from renewable sources recently topped both the current and the historical consumption levels...

As a supporter of the vibratory arts, I find the CKIE Duet to be a fairly unique self-pleasuring device. To be clear, it's not available for sale yet and instead is being sold using a sort of Kickstar...

Google Ventures-backed LawPivot is blending a Q&A platform with legal advice for businesses, and allows technology companies and startups to confidentially ask legal questions to expert attorneys....

Battlefield 3 just got a bit more real. Jets! Robots! 64-player multiplayer! I can't wait. John Biggs on the other hand is an old man. As seen in the TechCrunch staff chatroom, John B.i stick by what ...

Over the last few years, the music industry has endured some serious growing pains. And while the industry still wears its new digital outfit like an ill-fitting coat made of cassettes, I, for one, lo...

For lack of a better term, Apple has been more than a little litigation-happy lately. While they've focused most of their recent efforts on Samsung and Motorola, Apple is now coming under fire from a ...

GetchaBooks, founded by three youngsters (two who are still undergrads at Tufts), has just announced an expanded and improved database of classes and books, pushing the number of schools available in ...

Samsung's pants are officially ablaze as reports have surfaced that Samsung did know about Apple's injunction complaint and had even filed a "Schutzschrift."  In English, that's a prote...

You'd be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't think of YouTube as an Internet giant. After all, each viral hit is emblazoned with a big, bold counter racking up the millions "  or tens o...

After analyzing a data set of over 57 million purchases across both the Android and iOS platforms, analytics firm Flurry discovered that mobile gamers appear to be spending the majority of their money...

Tired of waiting for AT&T to launch their first LTE devices? Yeah "  so is AT&T, it would seem. So much so, in fact, that they're prepping to launch their first LTE devices early...

HP stated from the start that it planned on putting webOS in more than just smartphones and tablets. It foresaw a time when webOS would run printers, netbooks, and the world! Well, the time has come. ...

Windows Phone Mango is already primed and ready to compete with iOS and Android, but that doesn't mean Microsoft is resting on its laurels. Quite the opposite actually. As anticipation builds, Microso...

Groupchat.tv is a new Facebook application that brings a Google Hangouts-like group video chatting experience to Facebook. The app was created over the course of the weekend, during the HAPI hackathon...

Edmonton-based Empire Avenue, the stock market for social influence, announced today that it has raised $1.2 million in series A seed financing. The round was led by San Francisco VC firm Crosslink Ca...

It's hard to believe that it's been nearly three years since Swype first made a splash at TechCrunch 50, and since then it's quickly popped up on handset after handset. Easily one of the most popular ...

It's hard to believe that it's been nearly three years since Swype first made a splash at TechCrunch 50, and since then it's quickly popped up on handset after handset. Easily one of the most popular ...

Shuffler.fm, an online Web application for music discovery, received a major update today. Now users can play mixes of their favorite blogs, browse the Web's most popular songs and artists, create per...

It seems that every day another company in the tech industry hits an important milestone, but the one achieved today by Kontagent, the social analytics platform for app developers, is pretty impressiv...

About.com's Calorie Count iPhone app is getting a nifty upgrade today, with the addition of voice recognition technology to the dieting app (courtesy of iSpeech). The newest version of the app allows ...

Socialware, which helps companies manage compiance with social media and sales, has raised $7 million in Series C funding led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital. Earlier this year, the startup raised...

Acquia, a commercial open source software company that provides products, services, and technical support for the Drupal social publishing system, is expanding its product portfolio with the acquisiti...

Groupon rival BuyWithMehas acquired Scoop St., a social commerce company focused on the New York City market. Scoop St. was founded in 2009 and grew organically in the group buying space, using a mode...

Netflix has just announced a "kids-only" section of their online service dedicated to titles - you guessed it - just 4 kidz! This allows children to pick movies with a parent or caregiver without fear...

T-Mobile is working hard to grow its pre-paid service. Two weeks ago, the pink carrier signed a deal with 7-Eleven to sell the GS170 flip phone in its convenient stores. As the transition away from Ra...

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner explained on the company's first earnings call a few weeks ago that the company is planning to make a big investment in its mobile strategy. Today, the professional social net...

Robbie Bach, 22 year veteran of Microsoft and most recently the company's Xbox division, has moved to Sonos. Sonos head John MacFarlane pulled Bach out of semi-retirement in order to help with their r...

HTC is prepping its first Honeycomb tab for release. Previous rumors placed the Puccini hitting the shelves sometime at the end of August or early September. That seems slightly more likely per a new ...

After Blackboard was acquired by Providence Equity Partners for $1.6 billion in cash, fellow educational software company Renaissance Learning (Nasdaq: RLRN) has been bought by private equity firm Per...

Last year, Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, told a crowd gathered at the Techonomy Conference in Lake Tahoe, CA that we now create as much information in two days as we did from the dawn of civ...

Webroot, which provides Internet security services for consumers and businesses, has released its third annual report on cybercrime and user behavior on social networking sites. Between June 3 and 8, ...

Nintendo caused a major splash in the video game world when it announced to slash the price of the 3DS in Japan, the US and elsewhere by 30-40% (depending on the country) - just a few months after the...

Online video technology and footage licensing services provider Thought Equity Motion has raised $25 million from Shamrock Capital Advisors, the company announced this morning.The company delivers vid...

Exclusive - Zoove has raised $15 million in Series D funding, led by new investor Panorama Capital, TechCrunch has learned. Existing investors also participating in the round, including Cardinal Ventu...

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) this morning said Google has taken "reasonable steps to improve its privacy policies", following a consensual audit of the company's privacy processes ...

Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Giant Gundam Robot Statue Returns To Tokyo "" In Parts PrimeSense Positioning Itself For Integration With Next-Gen TVs Micro...

Tax the rich. Those bastards.I get why people who aren't rich hate those that are. No one really cares what they have, they only care what they have relative to others. When there is inequality, and t...

Bravo Google, well played.There's no denying that Google'smaneuver this morningto acquire Motorola for $12.5 billion in cash is remarkable. Everyone is talking about every possible angle of the deal, ...

Since shutting down cell service on Thursday to try to quell rumored protests which never came to fruition, the Bay Area Transit Authority (BART) has had an interesting weekend and Monday.Aside from g...

Analysts and pundits have been predicting an iPad 3 with a late 2011 launch for some time now, but if accounts from suppliers in Asia are to be believed, there just is no way that's going to happen &#...

Researchers at UCLA have created a twist on traditional LCDs that would allow displays to reclaim wasted photons from the backlight, or even act as a normal solar cell. Normal LCDs rely on an always-o...

First Facebook, then Twitter and now Foursquare; Obama sure gets around (social platforms). As announced today on the White House blog, Obama will be checking in to the location-based service as he hi...

If you've ever tried to trudge through an SEC filing (or most financial filings, for that matter), you know that it can be a tedious and sometimes confusing process hampered by excessive legalize andu...

WhaleShark Media, which just announced an investment by Google Ventures, continues to acquire coupon sites around the world. Tomorrow they'll announce the aquisition of eConversions, Ltd., operator of...

Michael Arrington decided to test the limits of what his new Executive Assistant, Greg Barto, can actually do by asking the TechCrunch readers to suggest tasks he should complete for one day. Using Za...

Social gaming contender Digital Chocolate has just announced the acquisition of Sandlot Games, a games publisher responsible for titles such as Cake Mania and Super Granny....

It's been two and a half months since Twitter first unveiled their own photo sharing service, in partnership with Photobucket. Just last week, theyfinishedrolling it out to all users. Today, they're t...

A bit of non-Motorola news comes in the form of a change in the B&N listing for the Steve Jobs biography (Steve Jobs). Originally slated for March 2012, the book will be available on November 21, ...

The great smartening of the idiot box continues. It was several years ago that we started seeing the first internet-connected TVs, and since then TV makers have been adding more and more slightly usef...

China is infected with fake Apple Stores. Some have been shut down where some have just changed their names. This gorgeous rip-off is located in Zhongshan China and, as MICGadget notes, it's probably ...

peerTransfer, a simple payment solution designed for international students, today announced that it has closed a $7.5 million series A financing round. The investment was led by Spark Capital, with p...

Ever wonder what's the real difference between Android and iPhone users? According to Hunch, Android users are 10 percent more likely to be men, skew younger, and 20 percent more likely to be pol...

BlackBerry's Enterprise Server has long been a mainstay of the corporate world, but considering the costs involved, many small businesses haven't been able to justify the cost. Enter the BlackBerry Ma...

One of the more pleasant surprises at E3 this year was our hands-on with the Xperia Play. I was really expecting to dislike the device, but after playing a few games on it, I found it to be totally le...

With their $12.5B acquisition of Motorola Mobility this morning, Google is buying a lot of stuff. They're buying 20,000 employees (almost doubling their headcount.) They're buying an absurdly daunting...

Foursquare has launched its Tip Lists features today, attempting to capitalize on people's unending desire to create lists about locations, like Top Five Coffee Shops in SF, etc etc. Up until now your...

Microsoft is officially putting their MS Reader system to bed. First made available in 2000, before e-ink readers were more than a twinkle in some materials researcher's eye, the application was inten...

I believe Larry Page when he says that Google started looking at Motorola for its patent portfolio and then decided that there was no reason not to buy the whole company. Hey, the $12.5 billion price ...

HTC has spent the past few weeks hinting and teasing us with the availability of their bootloader unlock tool, but at long last the wait is over. If you own an international HTC Sensation, then congra...

Last week the Apple-Samsung patent brawl took a serious turn after Apple won a preliminary injunction banning sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 throughout the European Union, excluding the Netherlands. As ...

"So did you ever kill anyone?"  I asked Ryan Blair, a former Los Angeles gang member who is now a successful serial entrepreneur and author of the new best-selling autobiography Not...

It was less than three months ago that Jake Winebaum (the same guy who sold Business.com for $360 million) quietly launched Brighter.com, an online marketplace for discounted dental care. As Erick Sch...

It's not exactly Googorola-sized news, but I just noticed that Google has very recently gained ownership over the domain Android.me (not worth linking as it is currently not in use - yet?).Now, Go...

Security researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a new mobile malware application on Android that disguises itself as a Google+ app. The app has the capability to record phone calls, as well a...

Nestled in a field 290 miles northeast of San Francisco, the Allen Telescope Array has been dormant since budget cuts forced the SETI Institute to take the facility offline last April. Instead of cont...

Qualcomm. You've probably heard of them. Hell, chances are pretty solid that you've got a bit of Qualcomm in your pocket right now "  if you've got any recent, popular Android phone in there...

The market is trying to make sense of Google's $12.5 billion agreement to buy Motorola Mobility. (Google shares are down 2.8 percent in midday trading to $548, while Motorola shares are up nearly 60 p...

The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) is today calling on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to withdraw its controversial plan for new top-level domains. ICANN's plan wou...

Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility is, in the end, a mercenary effort to cement Android's position in the handset ecosystem and to prop up a stalwart proponent of the platform. That's fine. Google...

One of the burning questions we all have after hearing this morning's news of Google's $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility is: what does this mean for the next Nexus device?Will Google leverag...

Yep. Angry Birds are officially in the public consciousness. It's part of the world's culture now. Nothing proves that more than these official Angry Birds moon pies. There's simply no escaping the on...

Here's some amazing tech from Japan: Tokyo-based Mebiol is working on an membrane""based plant cultivation technology called Imec that makes it possible to let plants grow on thin film inste...

Eli Goldberg emails us. He writes:"If you're ever having a slow news day, you might be able to do something funny with this.It's the instructions I received in summer 1996 when starting at Apple expla...

Mobile computing is more realtime than desktop computing. That's just obvious. Typically when you are on the go, you want to know what is going on right now around you. The Pew Internet research pr...

AT&T's legal team probably didn't have too restful a weekend. On Friday afternoon, the legal firm accidentally posted a partially redacted letter to the FCC revealing the original cost of its plan...

Namaste, a games startup which is poised for launch, is building a platform called StoryBricks to enable casual users to create their own games and share them on social networks. The twist is that it'...

The buzz in photography circles this past weekend was a post by Thomas Hawk declaring "Flickr is Dead." It's not the first time we've heard this attention-grabbing headline. By the numbers, its hard...

Jim Zemlin, executive director of the non-profit Linux Foundation, has been using Linux for about as long as I have, which is roughly half the time that Linux has been around. I recently spoke with Ji...

Jim Zemlin, executive director of the non-profit Linux Foundation, has been using Linux for about as long as I have, which is roughly half the time that Linux has been around. I recently spoke with Ji...

Google's stock price isn't really going anywhere yet, while the market digests the news that the company is to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in cash (it dropped about 2 percent on market...

Just in time for back-to-school season, Amazon has launched a new iPhone application targeted towards students. With the "Amazon Student" app, college students can perform instant price checks on text...

Considering that current forecasts estimate that as many as 8 trillion text messages will be sent in 2011, and that people are increasingly turning away from landlines in preference to mobile communic...

Apple is gearing up for a big second half of 2011. The computer company is reportedly ramping up iPhone production lines by 12 to 13 percent, which includes orders for the next-gen iPhone, iPhone 3GS ...

Last week, a leaked Sprint flyer indicated a $249 price-point for the BlackBerry Bold 9930. Though Sprint's iteration likely won't land for another week or so (August 21), Verizon is ready to release ...

Google's surprise $12.5 billion bid for Motorola this morning is a bold attempt to move the needle for Google on several fronts. Google is going all in, dipping into its $39 billion of cash to make it...

An hour ago, Google made the massive announcement that it's agreed to acquire Motorola Mobility, which would give it a much stronger position in the mobile patent wars and also put it in direct compet...

First things first: the big news of the day is that Google has announced plans to acquire Motorola Mobility for a whopping $12.5 billion. The deal is going to have massive repercussions for the Androi...

Rumors about the news swirled yesterday, but Time Warner Cable just confirmed it has acquired Midwest cable operator Insight Communications for $3 billion in cash. Insight serves over 750,000 customer...

Google just announced that it is acquiring Motorola Mobility. The search and online advertising company is buying the company for approximately $12.5 billion (or $40 per share), in cash. The price rep...

Google just announced that it is acquiring Motorola Mobility. The search and online advertising company is buying the company for approximately $12.5 billion (or $40 per share), in cash. The price rep...

We've spent countless posts, in CrunchGear times, on the gigantic (60 foot) statue of Gundam that was erected in Tokyo and Shizuoka in 2009 and 2010. The "life-size" statue was deconstructed a few mon...

Here is a selection of posts from the past week on TechCrunch Gadgets: Nerf's New Vortex Blasters Shoot Discs! And They're Awesome! Skimming Jonathan's Card For Fun And Philanthrophy CableKeeps Keep Y...

Buddy Media, a company that provides Facebook Page and social media management tools to brands, has raised $54 million in Series D funding led by GGV Capital with Institutional Venture Partners, Bay P...

Aviation enthusiasts interested in greener flying might put an Elektra One plane on their wish lists. PC-Aero's electric aircraft can fly for up to three hours on one charge with a 100mph cruising spe...

Let's reverse engineer this new Twitter release to get at the heart of the problem. Before the change, there were two ways to navigate the stream. A last in, first out stream of those you follow and t...

The Y Combinator funded Contagion Health and Health Month have merged this week to form one big health data focused startup called Habit Labs. Contagion Health's product, Imoveyou.com has shut down in...

Every tech founder thinks he or she runs a lean startup. But what exactly does that mean? In the video interview above Eric Ries, who came up with the term The Lean Startup and is the author of ...

AsChris Dixonwraps his conversation withThrillistco-founder andLerer VenturespartnerBen Lerer, Lerer offers his assessment of the present day start-up environment. From his perspective it is a mixed b...

Mobile advertising is a booming business, and Google, armed with its $750 million purchase of AdMob, clearly wants a piece of that pie. One angle Google has been pushing late is the combination of loc...

In the wake of news recently that software and computers are being compromised by hackers and rogue states left right and centre (not to mention the recent attacks on Citibank and Sony) it's clearly g...

In the four weeks since the social protests have begun in Israel, hundreds have been killed, dozens of women have reportedly been raped, a number of children tortured, and countless districts have bee...

Office inventory management systems: Not exactly the world's sexiest software to be sure. Yet, without inventory and asset management systems, many enterprises would likely work at a similar pace to t...

Even though it's the end of summer and tech news has started to slow to a crawl, there was actually quite a bit to talk about on OMG/JK this week. In this episode, Jason and I focus on three key thing...

The Huffington Post has come across this fascinating five-minute interviewof Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook's Palo Alto office in June 2005.The clip is apparently part of a longer 40-minute-interview fro...

As we noted in June, Apple is building what is sure to be the coolest office building ever in Cuptertino, CA. The building is so important to the company that no less than Steve Jobs went to a Cuperti...

As we noted in June, Apple is building what is sure to be the coolest office building ever in Cuptertino, CA. The building is so important to the company that no less than Steve Jobs went to a Cuperti...

When I was growing up, one of my all-time favorite toys was my Nerf Super Soaker. Every summer, the other neighborhood kids and I would take off on our bikes, Super Soakers strapped to our backs, and ...

I want to talk about American politics. No, wait, don't go! Don't worry; it's OK; I'm Canadian. Your nation's psychotic death spiral of irrational blood vendettas, vampire-squid kleptocrats, and cargo...

We've been tracking the twists and turns of the Dropbox mega funding round for over a month now. In July Sarah Lacy wrote that they'd be raising $200 million to $300 million at a $5 billion or higher ...

The Gillmor Gang "  John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor "  waxed and waned about the latest in social media buildout. Most notable was Twitter's new Activ...

MICGadget has some action shots of the Kunming "Apple" store that raised so much Internet ire and mirth a few weeks ago. Although the insides are the same, you'll notice one big difference: the apple ...

The Audi A7 is different. The executive five-door fastback sits nearly atop Audi's lineup, starting out at $59k with my tester wearing $80k on its window sticker. Excluding limited run sports models, ...

Here are a selection of yesterday’s Gadgets stories: Video: Lockheed's "Samarai"  Drone Spins Like A Maple Seed Skimming Jonathan's Card For Fun And Philanthrophy Review: Audyssey...

As many may be aware by now, Bay Area Rapid Transit, also known fondly as BART and San Francisco's version of a municipal subway system, has been on the receiving end of quite a bit of criticism over ...

From its founding in 2007, Taptu was a startup that specialized in search and touch-based interfaces for mobile, launching a realtime mobile search engine in conjunction with OneRiot back in 2009, for...

Developed alongside with the Google/Virgin America Chromebooks partnership, the "Virgin America Traveler" app is now available in the Chrome app store as promised back in June....

If you're on a website that uses accounts, the sign in button can be anywhere. Sure, there are some common best practices, but I can think of dozens of sites that put them all over the place. Mozilla ...

If you've been reading the internet regularly this week, you're probably familiar with Jonathan's card, a "social payment experiment" amounting to a public Starbucks gift card. You might have bought a...

Anyone who lives near a deciduous forest knows the joy of the maple seed, or as we called them when we were kids, helicopters. Their single wing spins the seed, slowing its descent — so why shou...

In a move that was pretty much inevitable in Google's overall strategy of eventual Google+ integration into most if not all Google products, the search engine has announced that it will now be in...

A partially-redacted letter from AT&T lawyers to FCC officials was accidentally posted on the FCC website today, and it reveals quite a bit about AT&T's strategy for its proposed acquisition o...

We've seen a lot of interesting patents from Apple over the last few days, but Microsoft loves to patent things too — and they've just been granted a nice little pack of designs for mobile phone...

In Spanish it's called vergenza ajena, in German it's called fremdschmen and plaatsvervangende schaamte in Dutch. What it is is second-hand embarrassment, and I just felt it, after bein...

Andrew Losowsky is having a busy week. For one thing, he has just been appointed the new Books Editor for the Huffington Post (disclosure: Aol blah blah blah) and his latest essay - Reading in Four Di...

If you regularly have to deal with a lot of repetitive data entry or sorting, there's a good chance you're familiar with services like Amazon's Mechanical Turk. The promise is appealing: you can hire ...

As we approach the fall, all the rumors of the Apple empire descend upon us.And this year may be the craziest yet because for the first time since the iPhone's inception, Apple did not release new har...

Short version: A solid pair of laptop or desk speakers, unremarkable but warm and powerful, with an understated and attractive design. More attention to detail would help justify their price, though....

Video chat startup TinyChat has released its first iOS app, TinyChat FB, which allows you to video chat with up to 12 Facebook friends from your smartphone. TinyChat founder Dan Blake tells me that wh...

Lens-related ephemera seems to be a soft spot of mine. Canon thermoses, Canon mugs, Nikon Mugs, Nikon bracelets — the fun never stops. Or, alternatively, it never starts, if you're a Pentax user...

Waaaay back at CES in January, Sprint and RIM announced that they were cooking up a version of the BlackBerry Playbook that played friendly with Sprint's 4G network. And then... nothing. Months went b...

Riley Hassell and Shane Macaulay were all set to go on stage at Black Hat and describe a few methods of hacking Android devices. But they never appeared: at the last minute, they decided not to reveal...

PicPlum is a new photo-sharing startup which aims to make the curation, printing and mailing of physical photos easier than before. The service, founded by Paul Stamatiou and Akshay Dodeja, is targete...

Exclusive - TechCrunch has learned that an alleged violation of Facebook's policies has resulted in a relatively high-profile casualty: Netlog, a sizable European social network, got banned from the F...

Facebook made some noteworthy changes to its Platform policies on the 27th of July 2011, adding a couple of new terms developers need to take into account when building apps for the Facebook Platform....

Facebook made some noteworthy changes to its Platform policies on the 27th of July 2011, adding a couple of new terms developers need to take into account when building apps for the Facebook Platform....

Earlier this week, smartphone maker HTC revealed its first NFC-based device, reportedly called the "HTC Stunning." The phone is being released in China and will include support for mobile payments thr...

We reported a few weeks ago that Apple was potentially looking at TSMC (otherwise known as the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.) to start work on their next-generation A6 processor. Apple seems ...

In a first for the social gaming giant, Zynga is actually launching an spinoff of one of its hit Facebook games, Frontierville. Today, the company is announcing the debut of The Pioneer Trail (which w...

Today we are giving something a little different away. Coinciding with the launch of the new online luxury destination Pursuitist.com, where guest contributors like our very own Paul Carr share experi...

We're back another episode of TechCrunched, your whirlwind weekly recap of top tech news.This week's show includes a recap of the patent spat between Microsoft and Google, revelations that iOS5 will i...

In the wake of the UK-wide riots and the growing evidence that mobile applications like the BlackBerry Messaging system had helped rioters organise and amplify their activity, the UK government is con...

No-one really knows what Spotify's US growth has been since launch a month ago month, but it appears to be making an impact on American iPhone users. Onavo, a service which shrinks your dat ause on th...

Yokto is a newly launched video platform which offers an embeddable player that intelligently switches between a Flash-based interface or HTML5, depending on the device being used to view the content....

NaClBox (get it?) is a port of DOSBox that allows DOS games to be played right in your browser. Right now you can play titles like Star Wars Tie Fighter complete with multi-voice MIDI sound and ho...

Monetization and distribution network for app developers, W3i, is today announcing a program specifically for iOS Game Developers. The new service, now in beta, is simply being called "Games Platform,...

It's coming! It's finally, finally coming!After nearly four months of traveling around just about everywhere but the US, the Galaxy S II is finally set to make its stateside debut. Samsung will be hol...

As expected, Samsung has decided to fight back against Apple's preliminary injunction to ban sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 across the European Union (excluding the Netherlands). On August 25, the rumbl...

Six-week old mobile application Banjo has been updated with a new feature that lets users virtually stalk locations, and the people there, in real-time. Banjo, for those unaware, is a new social disco...

Just a reminder: today is cheap Nintendo 3DS day and, sadly, it is the end of availability for Nintendo's unusual "ambassador" program. The device is now available for $169 - down from its launch pric...

Having old media digitized to get more space in the house, preserve them or simply make them portable isn't exactly a new trend. But some startups, like Peggybank in the case of videos and photos, sti...

And for today's news out of the left field, Valve is working on a new Counter-Strike game. Yep, the venerable shooter might soon get an update. Details aren't exactly flowing at the moment, but it see...

There is a list of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers, and the last time it was updated, back in June this year, Fujitsu's "K" (pictured) came out on top, taking the No. 1 spot from Tianhe-1...

Google's Videos app, the official video player for Android Market movie rentals, has been updated to work on Android smartphones. Previously, the app was only supported on Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), the...

If you're keeping up with Windows Phone Mango (which you totally should be because it looks pretty awesome), you'll remember that we reported on a possible September 1 release for the update. Trusted,...

Go Try It On, a startup that allows users to share photos of themselves and get opinions on their looks, has raised $3 million in funding from SPA Investments, Index Ventures and others. On Go Try It ...

If Acer's previous tablet effort was a bit too weighty for you, then consider this: Acer has just announced that their 7-inch WiFi-only Iconia Tab A100 is launching today at retail stores across the c...

Facebook is working with a number of partners to prepare for the launch of a music service - possibly called 'Vibes' - inside the astoundingly popular social networking site. While you wait, I advise ...

The largest remaining independent mobile ad network Millennial Media has released its 50th report today, and to commemorate this, revealed a number of statistics comparing the growth of manufacturers ...

Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Nintendo Shareholders Still Clamoring For Mario On The iPhone Mad Catz Intros The Cyborg R.A.T. 7 Albino Gaming Mouse For The Style-Ob...

Ah, litigation. Nothing ever really gets done, but the lawyers get paid, and there's always drama. The Vostu v. Zynga case exemplifies all of this. And it just got weird to boot. Today a U.S. judge ju...

Imagine innocently launching your Facebook app one night and waking up to a bevy of emails saying that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg thinks the thing that you built is spamming up his precious plat...

For well over a year now, Google has been hyping up something called Native Client. It's an open source technology that allows a web browser to run compiled native code. In other words, it's a potenti...

Designing a user interface for touch isn't an easy thing to do. At least, it isn't easy to do well. The great number and variety of gestures possible when four fingers and a thumb hit a touchscreen ma...

Facebook has just spilled the beans on its games related announcement for today: A more streamlined, engaged App Canvas page, including a ticker for game updates (see below). Canvas Pages, for those ...

Y Combinator has just unveiled the dates and times of its 7th Annual Startup School; 2011's event will take place on October 29th at Stanford University, where hundreds will gather to listen to talks ...

Google TV hasn't exactly set the world on fire, and while we could argue all day about what exactly prevented it from achieving greatness, the expensive hardware has to at least be part of the discuss...

Google has been awfully protective of their latest version of Android, but thanks to the folks over at RootzWiki and Android Police, we may have our first ever glimpse at Ice Cream Sandwich. As always...

We're back for a new episode of TC Cribs, and this one is chock-full of unique, incredible creations that you'll never see in another office: yep, we made it to Etsy.The Brooklyn-based company gives a...

I tried out Kindle Cloud Reader and holy shit, I feel like Mosaic was just invented and now we have tags. (Do some of our readers even know what Mosaic is these days? Well, it was really cool at ...

Hot on the heels of their big Activity update yesterday, Twitter is keeping the features coming. Today brings a smaller one, but one that's nonetheless useful: a profile mention box.First noticed by M...

NYC-based startupSeatGeek is adding a fresh coat of paint to its ticket marketplace, introducing an overhauled design that incorporates some helpful new features. And it's also announcing a new route ...

Nobody ever wants to be in a situation that requires emergency services, but when you are, that whole "dial 911"  thing really helps. Sort of. In truth, our emergency response system is...

Sometimes the platform wars can get so dramatic. A couple of minutes before we were tipped off on Google+ Games, we were also tipped off on a Facebook Gaming announcement, happening later this ev...

Sometimes the platform wars can get so dramatic. A couple of minutes before we were tipped off on Google+ Games, we were also tipped off on a Facebook Gaming announcement, happening later this ev...

It had to be translated from two different languages, but a road map from Lithuanian retailer Mobili linija has surfaced that appears to outline some big new devices that Samsung has waiting in the wi...

For all the hype it has gotten and all the users it has gained, it's easy to forget that Google+ has only been out for a month and a half. But they're moving fast to ensure they don't flop again ...

Online dating site OkCupid is making a big move today in the mobile space" the service is adding location-based functionality to its Android and iOS mobile apps. For background, OkCupid sing...

You could be forgiven for thinking Intel was just larking about with this whole Ultrabook thing, seeing as very few designs have even been made public, much less made available — much less again...

Mobile Q&A service Opinionaided has raised $4.3 million in funding led by SoftBank Capital and BlueRun Ventures with General Catalyst, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mark Wachen, Jonah Goodhart, Karl Ja...

If recent reports hold true, Microsoft may be preparing to release their long-awaited Windows Phone Mango update sooner than expected. Based on information from "trusted sources," Pocket-lint reports ...

Zynga just filed another version of its S-1 for the company's $1 billion public offering and here's what's new. First, Zynga says in the filing that in March of this year, the company had an internal ...

It's now possible to export your Facebook social graph. Your real social graph, complete with your friends' emails, which means you can leave Facebook and import your social network into a rival site....

Ready to get "back to cool"? Apparently $250 will get you a brand new BlackBerry Bold 9930 from Sprint, according to a leaked flyer obtained by BGR. Although, as per usual, a two-year agreement is...

Nintendo investors have been grumbling about Nintendo's tendency to release flagship games only for their own platforms for years. Mario and Zelda have, in general, spent their entire lives on some so...

A survey of over 100 developers, previously posted here on Hacker News, aimed to determine which external APIs were the most difficult to integrate into developers' projects. The winner...or rather, t...

No doubt you've heard about Google's ever-increasing struggle with patents, namely that it can't protect Android. If it's not Apple going after Samsung and HTC directly, it's Oracle, Microsoft and App...

Box.net's CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie has been open about his belief that mobile is a key pillar to the cloud storage company's future. The company already offers native apps for a number of platfo...

Foodspotting has emerged as a popular way to to share photos of your favorite foods and dishes with your friends. Today, Snapette is trying to take Foodspotting's model and apply this to fashion. The ...

Yelp provides a compelling platform for small businesses to connect with consumers via deals, reviews, reservations, information and more.But independent service professionals like hair stylists, bart...

In June Justin.tv launched TwitchTV, a live-streamed video game portal and community for gamers. It was an interesting move considering the video streaming company hadn't really explored any verticals...

According to a patent filing unearthed by AppleInsider, Apple may be looking to give their customers with a new kind of control: control over their current carrier. Titled "Method and Apparatus for Us...

Late last night, HTC announced that they had a "Major News Announcement" to share this morning.With HTC having made some of the finest smartphones we've ever seen (like the Thunderbolt, the 7 Pro, and...

Gartner just released its new mobile device sales for Q2 2011, and reports that Google and Apple are the "obvious winners" in the smartphone ecosystem. The combined share of iOS and Android doubled ne...

Two ex-Virgin Digital executives, namely its former CTO Brendon Cassidy and former president Zack Zalon, have teamed up to start a Los Angeles-based digital business incubator called Elevator Labs. Th...

Are you not sticking out at your LAN parties? Does your mouse look like all rest? Are you feeling the need for something new, fresh, and, dare I say, innovative? Well, fellow gaming friend...

Facebook made changes to the Facebook Chat sidebar feature, several users are reporting. Now, your favorite online friends appear in the top section of Chat, with a separate list titled "More Online F...

Airband, a provider of fixed wireless voice and data services to businesses, this morning announced that it has secured $20 million in financing from Boston-based ABRY Partners, which also got a seat ...

Grooveshark is now singing and swaying with Boxee as the music streaming service just hit the platform. The somewhat-underground music service streams lands on Boxee in a slightly different form than ...

Vuzix is now shipping their Wrap 1200 3Ds, a pair of $500 glasses (a headtracking model called the 1200VR is coming later this month) that displays a 75-inch virtual screen in front of your face and s...

I reviewed the SteelSeries Xai early last year, pronouncing it elegant and effective. I'd still recommend it today, except for the fact that a new and improved version has just been announced: the Sen...

Never mind the marketplace is having a hard time selling the first TouchPad. Never mind that it has a fraction of the apps found on competing platforms. Never mind that it works best when paired with ...

While we were fairly certain that Moto was going to go all KORE on its tablet line last week, it looks like KORE is just a trademark for a heart rate monitor and headphones combo that works with Motor...

You're all aware of the increase in "hacktivism"  and malware we've been seeing over the past few months, and as it turns out, the carriers are aware of it, too. Just yesterday, Sprint ...

NuCaptcha, a startup that develops video captcha technology, is hoping to disrupt the captcha industry today with the launch of its dynamic captchas that promise security to website owners. Captchas a...

Jeremy Verba, a GM at social gaming company Zynga, has been appointed CEO and board member of online dating juggernaut eHarmony. At Zynga, Verba served as founding general manager of Treasure Isle, on...

Cloudera, the startup that commercially distributes and services Apache Hadoop based data management software and services, is announcing a comprehensive partner program today for the companies that u...

More big money for online legal services. After LegalZoom raised $66 million from Kleiner Perkins And IVP, competitor Rocket Lawyer is also announcing a new round of funding. The startup has raised $1...

More big money for online legal services. After LegalZoom raised $66 million from Kleiner Perkins And IVP, competitor Rocket Lawyer is also announcing a new round of funding. The startup has raised $1...

AOL (which, in case you didn't know, has been the owner of TechCrunch for almost a year now) has announced that its board of directors has given the green light for a stock repurchase program that wil...

With riots and looting breaking out all over London earlier this week, media outlets have been poring over how the violence spread. We were amongst the first to identify the BlackBerry mobile handset ...

We spent quite a few posts in the last months covering a patent dispute between LG and Sony over four Blu-ray-related functions used in the PS3. The lawsuits affected sales of the console in the US an...

Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: The PenMoto, Reborn Video: New Construction Material "CO2 Structure"  Could Serve As Alternative To Concrete HDI 3D Projectors Look L...

Just last week, Hitachi decided to pull the plug on their domestic TV production business by year-end, but that doesn't mean the company doesn't go out with a bang. A total of six Hitachi Wooo TVs wer...

Cat, meet the outside of the bag. You know that "major announcement" that HTC has scheduled for tomorrow morning? The details have just made their way out a bit early. ...

Intel Capital, the investment arm of chip giant Intel Corporation, has announced a $300 Million Ultrabook Fund to fund technologies that will help deliver new and enhanced user experiences, longer bat...

TechCrunch Disrupt finalist Voxy is announcing new Series A investment today, $2.8 million dollars from investors Seavest Inc and Contour Ventures. Relatively new investor Seavest recently had another...

When Showyou first launched last April, we noted that it was sort of like a Flipboard for video content. A new update out today kicks it up a notch by making things more visually appealing while addin...

We've seen hacks for the Kinect from the very start, and even some that suggested one like this might be possible: a Kinect being moved around like a camera, recording the depth of everything it sees ...

The word is out, folks: HTC CEO Peter Chou has something big on the books for tomorrow. A live teleconference is scheduled for at 8:30 PT/11:30 ET, and while the email making the rounds offers no insi...

Launching officially to the public today is a new venture called MediaCore, brought to you by Damien Tanner and Stuart Bowness, the former of whom was responsible for Pusher, a solution that adds real...

Facebook has responded to a privacy scare meme likely deriving from a recent HackerNews thread called "Facebook has your complete phonebook" both with an official post on Facebook's Wall and a person...

Today's tidbit of Tango news comes not from the far-flung Asian shores it is expected to storm, but rather the small, landlocked nation of Slovakia. As it turns out, the first Tango device has gone on...

Since its inception, content on Twitter has largely been displayed in the same basic manner. That is a linear, reversechronological stream of Tweets. Two new sections being added to the service are ab...

During its grinding transition into the digital era, the publishing industry has been grasping at straws to find ways to evolve its revenue models. Even as time marches on, publishing companies by and...

After more than a year of uncertainty, the case of the stolen iPhone 4 has been brought to something like a conclusion. San Mateo County Assistant District Attorney Morley Pitt announced that charges ...

Alternative banking service BankSimple has just announced $10 million in funding fromIA Venturesand Shasta Ventures. This Series B round will join the $3 million in Series A and seed that the startup ...

Alternative banking service BankSimple has just announced $10 million in funding fromIA Venturesand Shasta Ventures. This Series B round will join the $3 million in Series A and seed that the startup ...

Premium video streaming site Hulu has just announced that it's about to make its first international expansion: Japan.Hulu is keeping mum on the details, but it sounds like it will only offer a premiu...

Starting today, Twitter will begin testing its link-wrapping feature which will automatically shorten all URL's 20 characters long or greater into t.co-wrapped links. This test will affect a certain p...

Apparently TechCrunch HQ isn't the only office that hates having to deal with coordinating lunch.Today ZeroCater, a startup that looks to help make your office's lunchtime as painless as possible by h...

I'm sure many of our readers have come across a situation where they'd have liked USB to carry a bit more power to their devices. Your phone or iPod, charging ever-so-slowly, or perhaps an external dr...

I think we can all agree that one of the worst parts about buying a new gadget is the fact that it's just one more thing we'll have to charge, one more electrical socket we'll have to free up, and one...

Verizon is preparing to launch an Android phone targeted towards women, the HTC Bliss. The device comes in a "pretty" seafoam-like green color, and will include a dangling charm that lights up when yo...

We covered the PenMoto when it was still a gleam in its creator's eye and, sadly, it was never completed as the designer, Kelvin Geis, cancelled it on Kickstarter. Well, friends, the PenMoto is back a...

Last August, we reported that Noah Everett, the founder of Twitter photo sharing site Twitpic, has launched a new site, called Heello. The site wasn't open to the public yet, but a year later, it look...

Last August, we reported that Noah Everett, the founder of Twitter photo sharing site Twitpic, has launched a new site, called Heello. The site wasn't open to the public yet, but a year later, it look...

HDI makes high-end projectors and this $55,000, 300-inch 3D projector is one of their products. The projectors come in multiple styles and types (these are just renders) and each model number, the 120...

If you've heard it once, you've heard it eleventy-four times. Mobile advertising is hot right now. U.S. mobile ad revenues, for example, are expected to hit $2.8 billion by 2015, says BIA/Kelsey, than...

Social marketing company SocialTwist announced today that it has now reached 100,000 websites, including those run by major brands like ConAgra Foods, P&G, Sara Lee, Barnes & Noble, Jamba Juic...

I've been meaning to write this post all week. But you know how things are "" there is always something better to do, always something more fun, always one excuse or another to put it off. I...

I can't decide whether or not Michelangelo would roll over in his grave or jump for joy if he saw this app. Then again, Michelangelo would probably faint from seeing a light bulb, so who knows how he'...

While Mike Tassey and Rich Perkins were showing off their impressive GSM and WiFi-hacking drone, it seems that other mobile networks may have been under a silent siege. Word over on the Full Disclosur...

Internet chat is older than the web, but it still remains one of the best ways to keep people engaged with a site. And for good reason: people like talking to each other. Or at least, they like to sha...

I remember when I first wrote about Foodspotting a year and a half ago. At the time, nearly everyone I knew was using various social networks to share pictures of their food. Foodspotting was a servic...

If you're like me you've thought about digging up old 8mm film, or VHS tapes, and converting them to a more modern format. There are a lot of services that fulfill this need - just do a search for "me...

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 owners? Your keyboard case has finally arrived. The Logitech Keyboard Case for Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is a long product name for what is popularly called a Zagg Case. Let'...

Satirical, bizarre and amusing news website Fark has kicked the fark out of a patent troll called Gooseberry Natural Resources LLC. The original lawsuit was leveraged in January, claiming Fark infring...

The Internet (namely the corner populated by some dude with a coffee blog) is a place where no good deed goes unpunished. A few days ago, Jonathan Stark posted his Starbucks card online asking people ...

Facebook has taken command of many of the basic elements of social interactions including email, chat, and even mobile messaging, but one area where the social network has not yet innovated is the cal...

Social commerce network Lockerz is opening its up the site to non-members. As you may know, Kleiner Perkins-backed Lockerz, which just raised another $36 million from Live Nation, Dag Ventures, Kleine...

Klout, a startup that measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and most recently Foursquare, is adding more services today, totaling 10 different ways to measure your social influe...

T-Mobile customers have gotten quite a bit of mileage of out their No Overage data plans: while everyone's careful not to use the word "unlimited", T-Mobile's approach still let users gobble up as muc...

Social commerce network Lockerz is opening its up the site to non-members. As you may know, Kleiner Perkins-backed Lockerz, which just raised another $36 million from Live Nation, Dag Ventures, Kleine...

So remember that one time when RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis kind of freaked out during a BBC interview. The fact that he flaked on the interview kind of overshadowed the reasons why he started freaking o...

If you've got $30 burning a hole in your pocket you can be the proud owner of a brand new HiPhone 5, a knock-off iPhone 5 modelled - we presume - on the leaked pictures of the iPhone 5. The phone, whi...

Smartphone maker HTC has committed to launching its first NFC phone, the HTC Stunning, which will debut in China sometime later this year. The phone will be an 4-inch, Android-based device, and will s...

Exclusive - KidZui, a San Diego, California-based startup that offers a Web browser for kids, has debuted its latest product, a website called ZUI.com that allows kids to search and explore more than ...

Cross-platform newsreader application News360 launched into version 2.0 today, a significant update that introduces its new personalization features. The news reader now learns from your activity on s...

Back in April when it was just a bunch of harsh words and vicious threats, the beef between Samsung and Apple was pretty entertaining. But things are only funny until someone gets hurt, and this time ...

Well, not really, but Thinkmodo has put out a new video showing some behind the scenes footage of how they, in partnership with Clockwork Apple, created the iPad Head Girl hat, um...head piece. The th...

The Korean Institue of Industrial Technology's SEROPI project has already produced one imposing-looking robot, SEROPI-1, and now they've announced the completion of SEROPI-2, an oddly Johnny-5-looking...

While tech company IPOs have captured buzz of late, it looks like M&A activity in the sector has been booming. According to an Ernst & Young report, big deals drove the aggregate value of glob...

NoSQL database company Couchbase, created earlier this year through the merger of CouchOne (co-founded by the creator of CouchDB) and Membase (founded by the key developers behind memcached), has scor...

Augmented Reality veterans Metaio are announcing some more details about their upcoming insideAR conference scheduled to take place in Munich, Germany on September 26 - 27. While the speaker list for ...

Tech Accelerator DreamIt Ventures is holding its Demo Day for its New York class of startups today. The 15 companies include students and alumni from top academic institutions like Harvard Business Sc...

Tencent, a major provider of Internet and mobile services in China, has reported second quarter earnings today, and unfortunately fell short of analyst expectations. Revenue came in at $1 billion, an ...

Meet the red 3DS. It's a lot like the standard blue and black model, but, you know, red. The Flame Red color flavor debuted in Japan a while ago, but Nintendo is finally bringing it here as part of th...

Sony announced WhiteMagic today, a "next-generation", 3-inch TFT LCD screen that boasts 1.23M-dot full VGA resolution. What's special about the display is that it has two distinct modes: if switched t...

Many have been wondering how Google +1 is going to effect SEO and search results. As you may know, Google launched +1 as a "like"  or "retweet"  button and is a...

Daily deals juggernaut Groupon managed to significantly slash marketing costs last quarter, but its net loss in the second quarter of this year has more than doubled compared to last year as it hired ...

Walmart's Vudu movie streaming service is ready to pipe movies directly to your iPad. But don't look for the traditional iOS app. There isn't one. Vudu is streaming movies over a web app, which doesn'...

The economy is a mess. And while venture capital is still flowing like whiskey during the Prohibition, it's not right for every business. A year ago we wrote about the birth of a new type of investmen...

This almost sounds too good to be true: a Japanese company called TIS&Partners [JP] has developed a new kind of construction material that's supposedly "better" than concrete (by some measures, at...

Sony Japan announced [JP] the ESSP-2000, a storage battery for professional use that serves as a backup power supply unit in the case of emergencies and blackouts. The lithium ion battery stores 2.4kw...

Every once in a while, we interrupt our regular live coverage of breaking news about Internet companies from around the world to highlight amazing photography. In 2009, we featured the world's largest...

Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets stories: Progress of 3D TVs May Not Be Quite As Bleak A Picture As Imagined Bevy Of Apple Patents Granted, From Visual Voicemail To PCI Card Brackets Review:...

Much has been made about Apple's recent changes to the iOS terms. At first, everyone was sure that many big players,would be forced to pull their apps, such as Amazon's popular Kindle app. But then Ap...

"We are not trying to redefine the textbook," Kno CEO Osman Rashid tells me, "we are trying to redefine how you learn." Today, Kno is taking a big steps towards making digital textbooks more social b...

Silicon Valley survivor Jay Adelson has worn many hats in his two decades in the technology space: Equinix co-founder, Digg co-founder, Digg CEO, Simple Geo CEO and Revision 3 Co-Founder among others....

If you're going to go through all the trouble of streamlining your Topic pages and creating Topic Groups, you might as well develop an over-arching way to get your users psyched about Topics. Quora Br...

As is befitting a global technology empire, Apple seems to always have a great number of patents in moderation. The latest batch is an interesting mix, with the standout patents hailing from as far ba...

Facebook did a strange thing today: they released a mobile application separate from their main app. They've never done this before. But it's genius. And it's yet another long-term thorn in the side o...

We've heard our share of app store woes in recent weeks, but here's one that's unfortunately still in progress. A number of Android app developers have been claiming on the Android Market support foru...

Researchers at Cornell University are hard at work on a project that sounds odd at first, but is in fact a perfectly natural extension of existing 3D and computing technology. They're making an engine...

Twitter images, the Twitter photo hosting service we broke the news of in May, has now rolled out to all Twitter users, according to Twitter Public Relations representative Sean Garrett.Users who did ...

Just a couple days ago, we heard about Intel's plans to offer a new reference bill of materials for their "ultrabook" class of laptops. Essentially it's a new blueprint with the aim of putting these n...

Not everyone agrees with Nicholas Carr that the Internet is wrecking our brains. Take, for example, UCLA Brain Research Institute professor Dean Buonomano, the author of Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Fl...

Well, now you may have two Facebook-related apps to download to your iPhone today. The first isFacebook Messenger, a new standalone app that lets you jump straight into your Facebook Messages. And the...

The Vizio Tablet is finally here after its initial debut at CES. Vizio wants desperately to control your home theater experience and the company's new Android tablet is an integral part of that, actin...

If you were thinking about dumping that old piece of gadgetry in the trash bin, hold up for a second. Whatever excuse you had for not recycling just lost all its validity, since Apple has restructured...

Yesterday, following Robin Wauters announcement that he is "quitting" phone calls (which came hot on the heels of MG's experiment in curtailing email use), Paul declared that he was quitting breathing...

As you probably know, I hate email. But I love Sparrow. And I love Shortmail. The two services are attempting to alleviate the pain that is email is two different ways. Sparrow makes email pretty. Sho...

Web content giant Demand Media is announcing a number of acquisitions and a renewal of its Google ad deal today. First, Demand says that it is renewing and expanding its advertising partnership with G...

We've teased you with this news over and over again, but today it becomes official: TechCrunch is coming to China.In late-October we are hosting our first international Disrupt conference ever, and th...

One issue I've had with Android superphones, with their dual cores and their gigawhats, is that there just isn't much of a use for them. Android apps are mostly made for the lowest common denominator,...

If you were to sit down and look at all the devices Nokia has for sale in the United States, you may come away thinking that they weren't in the business of making impressive devices. With only a few ...

If you were to sit down and look at all the devices Nokia has for sale in the United States, you may come away thinking that they weren't in the business of making impressive devices. With only a few ...

Windows 7 is now the most prevalent - if not most popular - desktop OS with Gartner estimating that 42% of current PCs will run the OS while 94% of new machines will run Win7. In comparison, OS X got ...

Sully Taylor, Creative Director for Teens in Tech Labs and Founder & CEO at Sully Creative, has released a Google+ application for Mac users. The app is a very simple one, however. "Just a po...

3D is a polarizing topic, whether it's in TV, movies, or games. I think it's interesting (which is why I wrote this extremely long article about it), but I'll also be the first to admit that adoption ...

Back in February Facebook acquired Beluga, a hot group messaging startup well known for having a killer 3-person team. At the time, fellow TC writer MG Siegler wondered aloud whether Facebook would re...

Earlier this year, mobile social gaming platform OpenFeint teamed up with one of its investors, Chinese gaming company The9 to bring game developers to the Android platform. OpenFeint and The9 announc...

While Windows Phone junkies are still waiting on their Mango fix to arrive, details about Redmond's next update are already starting to emerge. Tentatively dubbed "Tango", the update will likely be we...

Times, they are a changin'. Magazines are falling at the feet of their digital replacements, while the printed book feels the burn of affordable, portable reading devices. And yet, we still seem to cl...

There are two kinds of bubbles. There are actual economic ones that artificially drive up valuations across broad categories in an unsustainable way, impacting markets on a mass scale. And there are p...

Etherpad fans, get excited" a new Y Combinator-backed startup called Stypi has built a nearly identical product, and it's launching today.First, a little history: back in 2008 we first cover...

Just this morning we reported on the creation of a Google Group whose members are discussing how to use facial recognition technology to identify looters from London's riots in online photos. Now, a s...

DJ Patil, the former LinkedIn Chief scientist who recently left Color Labs, now has a new job. He's the "Data Scientist in Residence" at Greylock Partners, working alongside his old colleague, LinkedI...

Well, I didn't expect it to happen until the fall "  but I also didn't anticipate the stock market to collapse. And yet, here we are. Afteryesterday's plunge, and today's rally, Apple has ju...

Well, I didn't expect it to happen until the fall "  but I also didn't anticipate the stock market collapse. And yet, here we are. Afteryesterday's plunge, and today's rally, Apple has just ...

Well, I didn't expect it to happen until the fall "  but I also didn't anticipate the stock market collapse. And yet, here we are. Afteryesterday's plunge, and today's rally, Apple has just ...

I'd been hoping I wouldn't have to say this a second time, but here we go again: WebOS is reaching a critical failure point and I doubt the technology will make it through the next two years. Why?...

We already know there's more than one version of the Galaxy S II floating around out there. We have the original, 4.3-inch tri-buttoned version that launched in Korea. Then we have the Infuse-esque 4....

Time for a thought experiment: let's say you're in charge of one of the largest newspaper publishers in the country. Readership is down, cheap content is replacing real journalism, and the day-to-day ...

Apple makes a lot of things remarkably well. Cables... are not one of those things. Up until Apple overhauled their laptop chargers to this latest revision, I was inadvertently destroying one every 3-...

We're big fans of online movie clips site Movieclips.com, which launched in 2009 as a search engine with over 20,000 different clips from thousands of titles from the libraries of 20th Century Fox, MG...

General Electric Co. (GE) bought a minority stake in the California-based solar company eSolar this week. As a result of the deal, Paul Browning, President and CEO of Thermal Products for GE Energy, w...

Seagate has just announced that they've sold their 1 millionth Momentus XT hybrid solid-state/mechanical hard drive, an interesting development for the hard drive manufacturer especially considering t...

Social groupware platform GROU.PS just introduced several new features, the most notable of which is a Facebook template called "theBook" that lets you create your own private network with the same lo...

The FCC has just informed good ol' big blue that its proposed acquisitions of T-Mobile and Qualcomm's 700MHz spectrum will be reviewed together, rather than as separate transactions. This wouldn't rea...

Today, Nielsen announced it's acquiring Marketing Analytics, Inc., a leader in analytics and advanced planning software. The company currently has 52 employees, all of whom will join the Nielsen team....

The Qosmio F755 3D laptop is now available for those who wish to live in the 2D world but - and only occasionally - may also want to view things in 3D. The laptop uses a "15.6-inch diagonal full HD T...

A new Google Group called "London Riots Facial Recognition" has appeared online, in the wake of the riots that rocked the U.K. capital over the weekend. The group's goal is to use facial recognition t...

SinglePlatform, a startup that helps local businesses create websites in minutes, has raised $3.25 million funding led by DFJ Gotham Ventures with participation from New World Ventures, First Round Ca...

Editor's Note: This is a guest post by (@msuster) Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur, now VC atGRP Partners. Read more about Suster atBothsidesofthetableVenture Capitalists typically have partners' meetin...

Online group buying startup Groupalia has secured another $26 million in financing, bringing total capital raised to roughly $63 million, after landing a $15 million capital injection earlier this yea...

You've heard of the CSI effect, right? It's this wacky "syndrome"  whereby we've watched so much CSI Miami and Law and Order that we can't fully put our weight behind a verdict with...

DudaMobile just launched a new, self-serve platform that lets existing website owners create a mobile version of their site just by typing in the website's URL. The service, targeted towards small bus...

GameFly just made the first step towards a future void of physical media with the pre-announcement of an upcoming digital gaming distribution platform. The announcement is missing any real details, in...

A new startup called Pago is launching today, and if you live in Mountain View your life may have just gotten a lot easier. You can now go to more than 50 local merchants-- coffee shops, dry cleaners,...

We know Visa is getting serious about mobile and digital payments. Part of this plan involves adopting NFC and other chip technologies that will enable mobile transactions. Today, the company is annou...

I've always heard that stores and retailers are willing to barter with customers on pricing, including many chains, but I never have the courage to actually haggle with salespeople. To be honest, I lo...

Camber Tech, an advertising and social media startup founded in 2008, is officially revealing today that it has raised $1.5 million in seed capital from a host of international angel investors. The st...

SAY Media, the company that was formed after the merger between VideoEgg and Six Apart, this morning announced its acquisition of Remodelista, a home interiors website targeting home owners and design...

Internet access, content and online advertising company AOL (which also owns TechCrunch) this morning reported its earnings for the second quarter of the year. AOL reported a net loss of $11.8 million...

Privately held Quark, which develops publishing software for professional designers and enterprises and is best known for its QuarkXPress (QXP) desktop publishing layout editor, has been acquired by P...

CapLinked, the LinkedIn-meets-SalesForce for private investing, has landed a significant deal today, helping Microsoft BizSpark startups raise cash via a new capital raising tool. As we've written in ...

Here are some of yesterday’s stories from TechCrunch Gadgets: This Sexy Coffee Gadget Probably Won't Ever Exist Video: Functioning CNC Mill Created From LEGO Rewriteable, Non-Electric E-Paper Ma...

With Groupon on the verge of going public, and Google, Facebook, and just about everyone else rushing to copy the idea, there's no question that the model has been a huge hit with consumers. But there...

Talkatone, the service that let you make phone calls over Wifi and 3G for free with Google Voice has expanded its offerings to Facebook with its new app release. As of today the Talkatone iPad and iPh...

Facebook has been trying to figure out its News Feed since it launched in 2006, and of course because it's Facebook every time it changes absolutely anything it seems to throw users into of tumult.Ear...

Are you trying to use the web right now? Just stop. It's largely broken.As indicated by about 20 tips in the last few minutes and pretty much all of Twitter, Amazon's EC2 service appears to be tot...

While I may have created some sweet spaceships in my days constructing LEGO, I never guessed how serious people would get with their blocky creations. Guns, computer cases, even a Tetris-playing devic...

At this point, it's already clear that the iPhone has become the camera many people use on a daily basis. The iPhone 4 is now by far the most popular camera on Flickr(and that's true even though it's ...

A new display technology called i2R e-paper is making the rounds today. It's developed by ITRI, a Taiwanese research company that has produced flexible AMOLED and LCD displays in the past. i2R is esse...

Less than two weeks ago, red-hot startup Airbnb got rocked by a wave of negative press after one of its guests blogged about the traumatizing experience of coming home to her apartment to find it utte...

With companies chomping at the bit to enter the growing mobile space and take advantage of the opportunities therein, it's almost more intriguing to explore why some companies don't throw their hats i...

Launching in beta today in California is the YC-funded Leaky. Like a Hipmunk for car insurance, Leaky's premise is simple enough; visit the site and you can fill out an online questionnaire covering a...

By now, we've all seen behind-the-scenes footage of motion capture in action -- an actor clad in a monochrome jumpsuit and the occasional handful of colored balls, spouting off dialogue and gesticulat...

As an intelligent TechCrunch reader with the gift of foresight, you've probably backed up your hard drive " and all of the precious photos locked inside " to at least one cloud ser...

Twitter's redesigned and feature-rich web interface (a.k.a. #newTwitter), which was announced last fall, has been completely rolled out, according to a company Tweet. That means that Twitter users can...

Google today announced an update to its Google Search app for Android, bringing a few new features that should improve your overall search experience. For one, suggestions will now be grouped by type,...

I tend to think of Defcon as a sort of massive free-for-all, with thousands of hackers all trying to be the one that replaces the speaker's Powerpoint slide with a skull and crossbones, that sort of t...

Each time a new iPhone is set to hit the shelves, I get my pre-order in nice and early. Waiting in line is for chumps, right?Then Launch Day Eve rolls around, and I end up carting myself off to th...

Each time a new iPhone is set to hit the shelves, I get my pre-order in nice and early. Waiting in line is for chumps, right?Then Launch Day Eve rolls around, and I end up carting myself off to th...

Earlier today, I had an amazing realisation: I spend at least half my day breathing in. The other half I spend breathing out. Combined, I spend literally my entire life breathing. Enough.From today I ...

Compuware's benchmarks division, Gomez, has just released new data from a website measurement project whose goal was to determine what the fastest web browser is in the "real world" of desktop users. ...

What is it? A laser cutter? A mod photo enlarger? A microscope? A tattoo remover? Nope, it's a coffee maker, but an extremely svelte coffee maker. In fact, I imagine this little Ne...

When it comes to file sharing, there is no shortage of tools and services to help you transfer your files, big and small. There's the old tried and true approach on email, or using VOIP services like ...

Last time we heard from HTC, they had just announced that they would begin to make good on their promise to unlock their devices' bootloaders. Well, we don't have that long-awaited unlock tool yet, bu...

Havok, a provider of interactive software solutions for the games, entertainment and simulation industries that was acquired by Intel back in 2007, this morning announced that it has purchased long-ti...

RIM's had a rough go of it in the past few months. But there's a shiny, glittering ray of hope peeking out from the collecting rubble, and it's called QNX. The Waterloo-based phone maker has been work...

According to audience measurement and tracking firm comScore, U.S. retail e-commerce spending went up 14 percent in the second quarter of this year, compared to the same period a year ago. Online reta...

Twitter has acquired Bagcheck, a sharing and discovery platform. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, and co-founder Sam Pullara will be joining the Twitter engineering team. We've embedded th...

Location-based Q&A service Localmind is arriving on Android today, after closing a round of $600,000 in angel funding back in July. The company is also working on several developments to appeal to...

Apple has been planning to launch a new cloud-based movie streaming service, which would allow you to re-download your movie purchases to other devices for no extra charge. The service, a part of "iTu...

Sometimes, when faced with an important decision, flipping a coin to let chance determine the outcome just won't do. Instead, when life brings us to a crossroads, where two paths diverge and both seem...

Enterprise cloud app management company Okta has raised $16.5 million in Series B funding from Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and FLOODGATE. This brings the company's total fu...

The developer who previously brought us the Facebook Friend Exporter, Mohamed Mansour, has created a new, experimental Google Chrome extension which adds text-based document collaboration capabilities...

There's been some question over whether or not the Samsung Hercules for T-Mobile is in fact a variation of the drool-inducing Galaxy S II. From the words written across the back panel of that pictured...

A hacker has managed to get an HTML5-based game working on the Apple TV (2G), after having first jailbroken the device and installed the Couch Surfer application. (Couch Surfer provides a Web browser ...

As you may know, content curation platform Storify, which launched at TechCrunch Disrupt last fall, brings together Tweets, Facebook Status Updates, videos and more from social networking sites to cre...

Plimus, a company that provides a SaaS to power e-commerce for retailers, has been acquired by private equity firm Great Hill Partners For $115 million. Primus has previously raised $18 million from S...

BigTime Software, which offers cloud-based productivity software tools to professional services firms, this morning announced that it has raised $2 million in Series A funding in a round from LTC Part...

Walmart is planning to launch several new projects this holiday season based on the technology it acquired from the social media startup Kosmix back in April. Kosmix's platform previously powered seve...

Mobile and Web analytics firm Webtrends this morning announced that it has acquired real-time analytics company Reinvigorate, a portfolio company of Media Temple's investment arm.Financial terms of th...

Inspired by MG Siegler's "I'm Quitting Email" diatribe, although this is a post I've been meaning to write for quite a while. I was going to save it for my personal blog, but hey, if MG's allowed to r...

Last month, Nick Paumgarten penned a lengthy article for The New Yorker detailing the rise of online dating and the effect it's had on web culture. Among other things, Paumgarten alludes to some eye-o...

Over the weekend parts of London descended into chaos as riots and looting spread after a protest organised around the yet unexplained shooting of a man by Police. Of course, there was huge amounts of...

Apple and education have always gone hand in hand, from the first Apple IIs gracing libraries across the nation to the countless aging machines now in place at schools everywhere. Now, however, a new ...

Jonathan's Starbucks card lives in Jonathan Stark's wallet. You can download a copy of the card (shown here) and, when there is money on it, scan it at any Starbucks to buy coffee and, as far as anyon...

For the outdoor inclined, there are hundreds of places to do some online shopping for gear and apparel. Outdoorsmen and women can simply visit their favorite brand's site, whether it be REI, Backcount...

For the outdoor inclined, there are hundreds of places to do some online shopping for gear and apparel. Outdoorsmen and women can simply visit their favorite brand's site, whether it be REI, Backcount...

While I found the I'm Watch ridiculous and feel that wearable tech isn't nearly as close to being viable as we've been led to expect, the watch is actually shipping and will cost $350 when Blue Sky be...

Like Kramer and Newman driving the mail truck into Michigan to make a profit on bottle can returns, Chinese smugglers shot an arrow over the border between the mainland and Hong Kong connected to a ro...

Created by Evan Priestley while he was still a software engineer at Facebook, Phabricator is a set of open source developer applications that streamline the coding workflow process.While Priestley say...

Watch me ruin your Sunday afternoon with one word. Ready? Here we go.Patents.This week on NBC's Press:Here we talked about this topic most of our readers equate with a long, slow, painful root can...

If it's not obvious yet, Google+ is going to be able to "undercut" Facebook when it comes to game developers and platform transactions. Instead of taking a 30% cut of all Farmville seeds (or what...

The neat thing about the Rise of the Planet of the Apes movie is that starting about a third of the way through and definitely for the last third you're rooting for the apes. In the tipsy turvy world ...

It's no secret that credit card companies are shelling out big bucks and aggressively forming partnerships and deals to start cashing in on the mobile and digital payments innovations currently taking...

"I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed."I'm reminded of Daniel Plainview's admission in There Will Be Bloodwhen thinking about Google.While the company is still largely beloved by ...

A conversation with friend yesterday (in which he was trying to figure out how he would hypothetically accept payments for a pizza he delivered via drone helicopter) was indicative of dinky how our cu...

This week's episode of OMG/JK is a bit top-heavy. There simply wasn't a ton of news this week beyond the one giant fight that broke out between Google and Microsoft over the patent issue. Channeling t...

Talk to any tech company and they'll tell you that hiring quality programmers is an incredibly difficult task " the smaller companies often have a hard time getting in front of the best cand...

Google just made it easier for you to invite friends to its new social network, Google+ by providing a short link you can post on the web or share with friends over instant messaging. In order to...

And so it begins. Carnegie Mellon researchers recently combined Facebook profile pictures and PittPatt's facial recognition software to identify supposedly-anonymous pictures from a dating site. Now t...

The Gillmor Gang "  Robert Scoble, Danny Sullivan, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor "  talked patents and PR, Spotify, and everything except Google+ for the first time in months...

It was twenty years ago today/ Tim Berners-Lee taught the world to play/ Although 20 years ago he would have sworn/ That there wouldn't have been so much porn. That's right - the world's first websit...

Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets stories: Multi-Pinhole Technique "Paints"  Objects With Photographs From Life Huge LED Wall For Playing Games On At Hungarian Festival You Kno...

Editor's note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a Patient Relationship Management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consult...

China currently has the most Internet users of any country in the world, with some 420 million people connecting to the Web. Some more recent statistics even put that number as high as 485 million. Gr...

I'm currently looking at an email from US Airways customer support, where the only return contact info available in the email is a physical mailing address WTF -- And a visit to the US Airways website...

Japan-based chemical and tech company Asahi Kasei has developed a small healthcare product that should make life for paramedics, emergency doctors (and patients) easier: the portable device (pictured)...

By now it is a common axiom of Silicon Valley small talk that good engineers are, at the moment, murder to come by. While the most prominent talent battles have thus far been between Facebook and Goog...

Earlier today when we wrote about UrbanSpoon trying to get a piece of Opentable's pie, this quote from Urbanspoon VP Kara Nortman really struck me, "Two years ago, an online reservation system re...

Try this: open up a new tab and type "kindle" into the address bar. Chances are it will send you to a Google search results page. That is, unless the ISP is intercepting such rogue queries and doing w...

We've known for weeks now that Dropbox has been talking to investors about a new mega round of funding. The company, which has only raised $7.2 million in a seed and Series A round in 2007, has been s...

Happy International Beer Day! I just finished celebrating by brewing ten gallons of smoked stout, and I'm looking forward to a draught of blonde ale from my kegerator later today. I've been homebrewin...

Here's your chance to let your kitten help other animals, using nothing other than its feline reflexes.You may be familiar with 'Game for Kittens', an iPhone game developed by Little Hiccup that's exa...

A few weeks ago I was meeting with Peter Thiel and that pesky question of whether we're in a bubble or not came up. In a debate both sides are getting bored with, Thiel made a point I hadn't heard: Th...

Following up on our earlier coverage of Google's Chrome browser for OS X Lion, it looks like development is moving along faster than expected. Specifically, swiping gesture support has already been fu...

I've said this before, but working at AOL is my first experience working at a "big" company. I've watched, mostly with amusement, as a Dilbert cartoon has come to life around me. Some of the policies ...

As you know, Disrupt is coming to San Francisco this September and we have some amazing speakers and judges to announce. Tickets for Disrupt SF are on sale here.We have already announced a few of the ...

Take two minutes out of your day and watch this beautifully-made and interesting little short documentary about Shikai Tseng and his interesting photographic technique. Tseng uses a custom-built multi...

The recently revealed BlackBerry Curve 9360 is proving to be a surprising bit of hardware. Not only did it (thankfully) get rid of the chintzy chrome-ish highlights of its last iteration, IntoMobile r...

I know this is more or less just a publicity stunt sponsored by Vodafone, but that doesn't stop me from wishing we had one of these LED towers here in Seattle. It's an installation at the Sziget Festi...

We caught up with LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner yesterday, just after his first earnings call as a public company CEO. In an earlier segment we talked about the surprisingly good quarter LinkedIn had; in t...

There is a lot of creative talent out there, but for a long time, designers, artists, and creative professionals were underrepresented in the digital world. Not only that, but the Web happens to be a ...

There is a lot of creative talent out there, but for a long time, designers, artists, and creative professionals were underrepresented in the digital world. Not only that, but the Web happens to be a ...

One of the all-time most popular restaurant apps on mobile is Urbanspoon (iTunes link). It is still one of the top 10 travel apps on the iPhone. The app's signature gesture is a shake to find nearby...

In case you're sensitive to noise and look for a discreet way to solve the problem in your apartment or office building, for example, the so-called Feltone [JP] might do the trick for you. Developed b...

LinkedIn posted its first earnings as a public company yesterday and in true form as a social network, the company used a number of social media outlets to disseminate this information. LinkedIn poste...

Car buying sucks but Nissan is trying to make it suck less by putting QR codes on vehicle window stickers. The thought is that buyers might want a little more info than the Maroni providers, and these...

What would happen if the Samsung Galaxy S II and the Samsung Infuse 4G met up, had a few drinks, and got a bit frisky? If you ignore the fact that phones aren't capable of mating, the product of t...

It's Friday and today we are giving away an iPad 2! Thanks to ZeptoLab, not only are we giving away an iPad 2, but we are giving one away that is loaded with all of the Cut The Rope games, including Z...

Yes, you read the headline right, and the screenshots below weren't doctored in any way. The Gmail feature you've been yearning for is here: Gmail now supports three-pane viewing, allowing you to see ...

If ringing the bell at the NASDAQ or NYSE is a momentary victory dance for a Silicon Valley CEO (or, you know, a has-been cartoon character from my youth that may or may not represent a veiled argumen...

Before we enter the breach, I'd like to ask that you all have your grains of salt at the ready because we're entering some highly speculative territory. Motorola has been going on a domain shopping sp...

MyNines, a startup that made its debut back in 2009, has gone belly up. The company, which we likened to a 'Kayak for private sales', wasn't able to secure the financing needed to sustain the business...

It looks like it's go time for the Samsung Conquer 4G. Upon Sprint's announcement this morning, we have a few more specs to offer you along with a launch date — August 21. Just as we expected, t...

It looks like it's go time for the Samsung Conquer 4G. Upon Sprint's announcement this morning, we have a few more specs to offer you along with a launch date — August 21. Just as we expected, t...

It is clear by now that Android is winning the overall mobile market share battle in the U.S. among smart phones. But how does the battle break down by state? Mobile ad network Jumptap put out a...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has just informed us that it has debuted its very first mobile application, an iPhone app dubbed 'Child ID' (iTunes link). The app gives parents a way to elect...

Well, look what we have here. Turns out that CEO Sanjay Jha of a little company called Motorola wasn't lying when he said the long-awaited (like, really long-awaited) Droid Bionic will hit Verizon she...

TechCrunch Disrupt finalist CloudFlare is teaming up with realtime website translation service Smartling to allow users to translate their websites into any language. As you may know, CloudFlare offer...

The Kindle is the hottest ereader on the planet but I wouldn't buy one right now. Nope, we just crossed that threshold where it's downright silly to buy one right now. You can wait a few weeks. The ne...

've used quite a few heart rate monitoring watches in my day. I've played with Suuntos and Nikes aplenty, with whosits and whatsits galore. But the RCX5 is different in its utter simplicity. Designed ...

Belkin has just announced the availability of their $99 iPad "Folio" case that includes a battery-powered Bluetooth keyboard that would, in theory, turn your iPad 2 into a full-bore mini-computer.Whil...

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC this morning announced that it has agreed to acquire, through its HTC America Holding unit, 100% of Seattle-based mobile-web connected services company Dashwire for a ma...

Pastebin, everyone's favorite bin in which to paste, just surpassed 8 million active pastes. The service, started in 2002, has held far more than that number over the past decade or so, but this a new...

The Kinetic Space project uses almost any type of 3D spatial scanner - including the Xbox Kinect - to register and read gestures. How does it work? Well, first you register your body and then reco...

Remember when I said I thought HP was telegraphing its sales with the TouchPad pricing? And how I said the device is $100 off this weekend? Well either HP is not selling any TouchPads at all e...

Texas Instruments Promises All-Day Battery Life With 2013 OMAPs Jupiter-bound Juno Probe Carries Lego Minifig Cargo With Aluminum Supplies Low, Will Lightweight Laptops Opt For Fiberglass? Slideli...

Yesterday someone asked me whether the reason the poses in most of my avatar photos are silly is because otherwise I would have to deal with people constantly bringing up the fact that I don't "look" ...

When Intel launched its Ultrabook initiative, we were excited: a full-on PC notebook the size of a MacBook Air? Promises of Adamos and Series 9s danced before our eyes, sexy but overpriced. Could ...

Nintendo recently had an epiphany, owning up to the 3DS's slow launch by slashing prices — and paychecks. To make up for shafting early adopters, Nintendo has also said that anyone who has a 3DS...

Rejoice! It only took 10 months for Netflix to rack up a million users in Canada. They launched in September of 2010, and in July a lucky Canuck by the name of Amanda, in the province they call Manito...

It's not every day that John Doerr sends us an email into our tip box. In fact, he didn't send one today either, but someone using his name did. (Yeah, we checked with the real John Doerr, it wasn't...

Since battery technology isn't really enabling us to pack more than a few watt-hours into our portable devices, companies like Intel, Nvidia, and Texas Instruments are working hard at making their chi...

On Deck Capital, the platform that helps connect small businesses with capital, has raised $19 million of its own in a series C funding round. The startup raised $15 million back in January from SAP V...

There's a lot of innovation going on in the browser wars these days, with huge strides in features and performance from all the top vendors. And there's a new feature on the horizon that's going to ma...

Using your phone as a remote for your DSLR isn't exactly the newest idea out there -- a ton exist for iOS -- but Android historically hasn't seen that same kind of love.There have been attempts to mak...

If you thought that Microsoft and Google, two massive public companies, would quickly and quietly retire behind the scenes to continue their fight after their very public back-and-forth over the past ...

According to a report from IDC, Apple shipped more smartphones than any other manufacturer in Q2, stealing bragging rights from a struggling Nokia. With 20.3 million units shipped, Apple managed to n...

In LinkedIn's first earnings call as a public company, CEO Jeff Weiner revealed that LinkedIn is adding two new members every second, which is up from one member per second in November 2010. In Q2 alo...

It is an unwritten law of the social web:He who gives traffic shall see his share buttons multiply across the InternetOne detail that caught my eye in LinkedIn's earnings announcement today is that th...

For the first time as a public company, professional social network LinkedIn is reporting its second quarter results today. LinkedIn's revenue for the quarter came in at $121 million, which is an incr...

This back and forth between Google and Microsoft is getting good.Yesterday, Google wrote a post calling out Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, and others for using "bogus" patents to try to kill Android. Some ...

Enterprise hardware company Smart Modular Technologies has announced a line of SSDs that appear to wipe the floor with pretty much everything out there. It comes in capacities from 200GB all the way t...

We've seen a Bigfoot-esque iPhone 5. We've seen a totally fake (but supposedly based on the real deal) iPhone 5. Now, meet: the oddly angled, questionably skewed iPhone 5....

The space probe Juno is set to launch atop an Atlas V rocket this Friday, but GeekDad reports that in addition to its full complement of scientific instruments it will also bring a bit of whimsy with ...

Groupon has just announced its acquisition of Obtiva, a Chicago based Ruby on Rails firm.From the Groupon blog:"We're constantly impressed by how capable Obtiva developers are and we're really looking...

The rush towards lightweight, thin laptops — the "ultrabook" spec being promoted by Intel — has resulted in a major uptick in demand for thin metal chassis. Unfortunately, much of the alum...

The rush towards lightweight, thin laptops — the "ultrabook" spec being promoted by Intel — has resulted in a major uptick in demand for thin metal chassis. Unfortunately, much of the alum...

The rush towards lightweight, thin laptops — the "ultrabook" spec being promoted by Intel — has resulted in a major uptick in demand for thin metal chassis. Unfortunately, much of the alum...

Quirky, a social network for product development, has raised $16 million in Series B funding" led by Norwest Venture Partners with RRE Ventures participating in the round. This brings Quirky's to...

When it comes to smartphones in the U.S., Android and Apple keep growing at the expense of other mobile platforms like RIM, Windows Phone, and Nokia's Symbian. The latest mobile subscriber numbers ar...

The BlackBerry Playbook has some dedicated fans. Not many, of course, but they are certainly out there. One such fan took to the CrackBerry.com forums with a rather novel idea on how to support RIM an...

Don't you love it when manufacturers bundle products? I mean, what's the burger without some fries and a soda? Anyways, here's the latest bundle out of LG — an entertainment package feat...

AT&T and mobile social games company ngmoco, which is owned by Japanese gaming giant DeNA, have just announced a pretty significant agreement to bring the Mobage social gaming platform to AT&T...

The more mobile apps come out, the bigger the discovery problem gets for users: Apple, for example, recently announced they have 425,000 apps in the App Store. Rankings, recommendations from platform ...

A new study is being released by Visa-owned PlaySpan with research firm VGMarket on how and what gamers are spending on virtual goods. According to the study, nearly one-third of the general gamer pop...

It looks like AT&T has decided to take the kid gloves off when it comes to their problem unauthorized hotspot users. Many of the users who get the most mileage out of jailbreak-only apps like MyWi...

If you're a mobile developer designing applications for iOS or Android, you're probably intimately familiar with Objective C and/or Java. But there's a decent chance you're not so experienced with the...

The small coffee shop on the corner, competing with the Starbucks across the street with a lame leaflet. The local chemist that has to place a print ad next to a national chain in the local paper. Glo...

There are a few photo sharing apps out there on the market today, as you may have noticed. In fact, there are enough choices that TechCrunch's own Alexia Tsostsis and former Myspace marketing guy Sean...

A new iPad app out of Warsaw, Poland may have what it takes to be the Flipboard of photography. Dubbed Slidelight and published by Macoscope, the app does most of the heavy lifting for you, pulling in...

Most developers would agree: building backends is no fun. It's like setting out to build the game of your dreams, then having to spend 2 months on the rendering engine "  by the time you're ...

It took a bit longer than I'd have guessed, but the Rdio iPad app that we previewed a few weeks back is now available in the App Store. As predicted, it's the first of the major music streaming servic...

Multiple sources in the know have informed us that LivingSocial is close to continuing its international expansion with the impending acquisition of Grupfoni, a leading local ecommerce company in Turk...

If you have a product that could potentially appeal to everyone, how do you pick which customers to go after first? In this episode of Founder Office Hours with investors Chris Dixon and Josh Kop...

It may be a while before Congress & Friends get this whole Net Neutrality debate squared away. But that's no biggie, since Dan Kaminsky has cooked up his own little solution to figure out if your ...

Everyone is curious to see how they rank against others, which is the fundamental appeal of Klout. It gives you a social media ranking based on your influence on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and now ...

Zipadi, which offers a publishing and e-commerce platform that lets designers create digital magazines, product catalogs and other publications for iOS devices and the Web, has been acquired by Elevat...

Gild, a TechCrunch Disrupt startup that combines social gaming with career advancement for developers, has raised $2.4 million in new funding led by Globespan Capital Partners. Gild allows developers ...

Monetate, the platform that provides marketers with ad testing and targeting services, announced today that it has closed a $15 million series B funding round. The round was led by OpenView Venture Pa...

Monetate, the platform that provides marketers with testing and targeting services for their websites, announced today that it has closed a $15 million series B funding round. The round was led by Ope...

Rentcycle, a San Francisco-based startup that has been dubbed the "OpenTable for product rentals", announced today that it has raised $1.4 million in seed funding. The round was led by Collaborative F...

Microsoft has announced the .NET Gadgeteer, a small, Arduiono-like toolkit that allows hackers to build unique hardware and software solutions using a set of pre-assembled parts.The kid includes a fra...

Multi-device social gaming platform Sibblingz has raised $1 million from incubator YouWeb. YouWeb previously invested a $500,000 seed round in Sibblingz in 2008. Sibblingz allows developers to simult...

Good news for those of you who are averse to agonizing plane trips and high ticket prices: hot travel search startup Hipmunk has just launched a new feature that makes it easier to cut back on both.Th...

I hope you didn't have the PS Vita on your Christmas list this year. Sony's next-gen portable is going to reach the States or Europe until next year per an AP interview with Sony Corp. Executive Deput...

T-Mobile's customer base has been dwindling for a while now, but the migration from pink seems to be slowing with just 50,000 customers bouncing out of there in the second quarter. That's compared to ...

If at first you don't succeed, keep reducing the price until something sticks. HP is reducing the price of the 16GB HP TouchPad to $399 - $100 off the original price. This comes after HP's move to red...

Local.com this morning announced that it has secured a $12 million revolving credit facility from Square 1 Bank to fund future acquisitions and other "strategic growth initiatives".In connection with ...

IR extenders have long allowed homeowners to neatly hide A/V equipment and cable boxes in linen closest and other rooms. The results are awesome as you get all the functionality of the boxes without l...

Mobile marketing service, Augme Technologies, today announced that it will be acquiring Hipcricket, a mobile marketing and advertising platform for $44.5 million -- $6 million of which is in cash and ...

Social media monitoring company Meltwater Group has acquired IceRocket, a realtime social search engine. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. IceRocket is a real-time search engine that cra...

Danny Choo, culture hound based in Tokyo, visited a service called CloneFactory where he had his head scanned, printed, and stuck onto the body of a Storm Trooper.The service uses multiple DSLRs to ta...

Local Response, a recently launched social advertising platform that allows local businesses to respond to the "check-in" with marketing campaigns, is making its first acquisition today. The startup (...

Riga, Latvia-based Reach.ly is today launching its first product, coinciding with the announcement that it has raised an initial round of seed funding to jump-start the business. The service that the ...

Back in April, game developer The Casual Collective rebranded as Kixeye and launched a new realtime strategy game called Battle Pirates. Since then, the startup has been hard at work on raising some n...

At the end of June 2011, Skype added the ability to make one-to-one video calls over both WiFi and 3G connections to its Android application. However, very few handsets were supported at the time, but...

Today, seed fund and accelerator, TechStars, will be hosting its "Demo Day" in Boulder, where it will showcase its 12 newest startups. The accelerator expects over 500 people to be on hand, including ...

While I haven't heard any popular outcry regarding the Nintendo 3DS price drop - a quiet that, is, in a way, the most interesting part of the entire affair - Nintendo has decided that it's time to exp...

With the iPhone and other smartphones gradually becoming the default point and shoot cameras we always have with us, photo apps have exploded. One wonders how another startup could possibly come up wi...

Here are some of yesterday’s stories from TechCrunch Gadgets: The Beautiful Internet Harvesting Energy From Radio Signals: Two New Devices From Japan (Video) "GameBox For Facebook"&nbs...

As you've undoubtedly seen by now, Google decided to go on the offensive today with regard to patents. No, they didn't go after any company for violating their patents. Nor did they spend billions acq...

As the fruits of Google's rush to build a social network are now achingly public, someone has asked a pretty apropos question on Quora, "How long would it take to build Facebook as of July 2011&#...

Some readers may be upset by the content herein, as this doesn't exactly involve APIs, Android, or SDKs, but it was just too good not to share. The international media has been abuzz today with some u...

Earlier today, Google came out swinging. Seemingly sick of being continuously slapped in the face by the patent issue, Google's SVP and Chief Legal Officer, David Drummond, wrote a blog post calling o...

Founder Stories host Chris Dixon continues his conversation with Thrillist Co-founder and CEOBen Lerer by discussing customer acquisition.Recognizing the line of thought that it's not optimal to pay f...

When Lion was released, we linked to a page detailing how to create your own bootable Lion drive. But if you absolutely must have a GUI and don't want to go mucking around in the app package, you migh...

It's been a few months now since HTC CEO Peter Chou announced that the company will no longer be locking bootloaders on their devices, and enthusiasts have had nothing to show for it. Many of HTC's re...

If there is one thing I could say about most websites, it is that they are ugly. I mean really. Just atrocious. There are generally so many things going wrong that we have all had to completely reconf...

Gleaning electricity from radio signals isn't super-efficient (or a new concept), but it's possible technically. Two companies from Japan have recently come up with new devices that can do just that: ...

Two big pieces of news today in the Zynga/Vostu lawsuit (details on lawsuit here and here). In addition to that first lawsuit filed in California, Zynga also quietly sued Vostu on its home turf in Bra...

Facebook has confirmed to us that Mark Zuckerberg's sister Randi Zuckerberg will be leaving Facebook to start her own social media consulting company RtoZMedia.The other Zuckerberg had spent six ...

Wow. Clearwire has just dropped a bit of a bombshell today, so I'll spare you my usual theatrics: the operators of the nation's first 4G network, having sensed the momentum that its LTE rival is gaini...

Love them or hate them, one thing holds true of Facebook games: they're crazy addictive. So addictive, in fact, that full-grown adults are having trouble pulling themselves away from the social networ...

Tesla has released their shareholder statement for Q2 2011, and while it doesn't make for the most exciting reading, it's at least full of fairly good news. They've been on cruise control for quite a ...

Internet services company Web.com has acquired domain registrar and hosting provider Network Solutions for $405 million in cash plus 18 million shares of Web.com stock, valuing the transaction as $560...

It's an established fact that tweeting about your breakfast is a serious faux pas, on par with 'Liking' your own Facebook status update. However, recent trends indicate that tweeting a photo of your b...

In the past, I've been critical of Google for trying to dance around directly calling out their competitors who are actively attempting to screw them. Today, they're no longer dancing.In a post just p...

Web measurement firm Comscore has acquired online ad verification service Adxpose for $22 million. Originally founded as Mpire in 2005, the Seattle-based startup switched from a widget advertising pl...

This past June, we noted that Instagram hit a big milestone: 5 million users. At the time, the total number of photos shared on the service was at 95 million, and given the rate of growth, they expect...

While the idea of a reunited Korea is one that never dies, it's also one that seems rather unlikely in the short term. Well thanks to the work of augmented reality artist Mark Skwarek, tourists and So...

Whose tweets lead to more actual sales, Ashton Kutcher's or Kevin Rose's? The answer is not immediately obvious. Kutcher boasts 7.3 million Twitter followers to Rose's 1.3 million, but a recent ...

Thus spoke Howard Hartenbaum, a partner at August Capital, when he sat down with me last week at our Mobile First CrunchUp event in Palo Alto. For Hartenbaum, who admitted to being "tired"&n...

Now this is what we call weird. It would be one thing if Netflix accidentally activated its (currently illegal) Facebook "Share"  button. But it's looking like Netflix accidentally post...

After Pioneer decided to shut down its TV business in 2009, Hitachi yesterday announced they are ready to stop producing and outsourcing all production of TVs to makers in Taiwan and other Asian count...

Skype's been popping up in headlines recently, mostly because of their "will they/won't"  they iPad app release. While it's true that Apple's iOS is a huge priority for companies lookin...

German VC firm, Earlybird caught some flack last month with their nonsense presentation claiming that European VC was outperforming the US. Sarah Lacy and Mike Butcher comprehensively dismantled the c...

Remember when Google was hacked by Chinese spies about 18 months ago? Well, that just scratched the surface of some of the more serious and persistent hacking operations over the past few years. ...

As we heard earlier this Spring, American Airlines became one of the first North American airlines to begin testing in-flight streaming video to personal devices for passengers. Today, the company is ...

As we heard earlier this Spring, American Airlines became one of the first North American airlines to begin testing Gogo's in-flight streaming video to personal devices for passengers. Today, the comp...

Nissan Leaf owners, take note. The Leaf companion app is now available in both Android and BlackBerry flavors. These smartphone apps follow the steps of the iOS version that launched alongside the Lea...

Storm8 is about to become an even bigger powerhouse in mobile gaming.We're hearing from multiple sources that the development shop, which focuses exclusively on mobile games, is raising a massive roun...

iSpeech, the developers behind speech recognition app for text messages DriveSafe.ly, is bringing its text to speech technology to iOS, Android and BlackBerry Apps with the launch of a new SDK.The new...

Community support site Get Satisfaction announces today a $10 million Series B funding led by InterWest partners and followed on by Azure, OATV and First Round Capital -- InterWest partner Bruce Cleve...

In October, eBay rolled out its Instant Sale program, which allows you to sell old gadgets to the e-commerce giant. You simply identify the type of device you are looking to sell and its condition, an...

Last we heard it was Google who was eyeing out InterDigital's 8,800-strong patent trove. Now, Google is still in the mix along with Apple, but according to people familiar with the matter, Samsung has...

Peer-to-peer lending sites are hot again among investors of all stripes. Lending Club today announced a new $25 million Series D financing, led by Union Square Ventures (with existing investors parti...

The drama continues: Samsung has officially postponed the Australian media launch event for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. The media launch event was originally scheduled for next week on August 11, 201...

Time Inc. this morning announced that every one of its 21 U.S. titles, including Entertainment Weekly and Instyle, will be available as tablet editions by the end of this year. Time Inc. says this wil...

After backing Babbaco, Lightbank is making another investment today. The investment firm has funded myRete, the developers of WhosHere,a location-based mobile social network. This is the first outside...

If you've got any smartphone made in the last year or so that isn't made by Apple or Samsung, chances are preeeetty good that it's powered by one of Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipsets. Now, as for the cha...

I mean, come on. These videos show the upcoming Sony S1 and S2 tablets for about 4 seconds total. It's just more of the Rube Goldberg foolishness shown in previous teaser videos. I want to see the tab...

Since its inception, Weebly has been focused on making it as easy as possible to build your own custom website using a WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop interface. And it's done a good job doing that " ...

Would you even consider buying a car online? FinanceAcar thinks a lot of people actually will, in time, and has built an online car marketplace and price comparison website to cater to their needs...

Huawei has taken a note from the big boys like Samsung and HTC and decided to build a UI of its own. Unlike TouchWiz or Sense, Huawei's UI has something different to bring to the table: 3D. Now don't ...

Livescribe took to the press wires today to announce two big additions to its Livescribe Connect service. Users of the Livescribe Connect for Echo and Pulse smartpens may now share content with Micros...

Borderlands 2, the appropriately named sequel to Borderlands, is really coming. 2K Games and Gearbox took to the wires this morning to announce that yes, just like the recent rumors stated, Borderland...

Airy Labs, a startup building mobile, tablet and browser games with an educational twist for young children, has landed $1.5 million in seed funding from Google Ventures, Foundation Capital and Playdo...

The world of 'tag management' is not exactly a sexy one, but it's vital for working out the stats and analytics around web sites. These days sites can be running hundreds of tags tracking advertising ...

Matthew Epstein wants to work at Google, bad. In his quest for a gig on the company's product marketing team, he's set up this cool website, and more interestingly, made the video below.(Via Hacker Ne...

6Scan, a company building a website protection suite that comes with automatic detection and fixing of security vulnerabilities, today announced that it has raised an undisclosed amount of capital fro...

Facebook may have droves of publishers, brands, celebrities, and other major entities using Facebook Pages, but its internal analytics product " Insights " still leaves a lot to be...

Nothing says "We're really excited about these new products!" like announcing them at two in the morning.With fanfare that only insomniacs and folks getting ready for bed in Australia will hear, AT...

Profit.No point in burying the lede.For the past two years, it seems as if every other story in the mobile space has been about the war between the iPhone and Android. Hell, though it wasn't technical...

Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets stories: Honeycomb Hits The Logitech Revue, But You Have To Really Want It Drippler Sends You Updates About The Gadgets You Hold Dear (But Hijacks Content) A...

Last month, we wrote about Vibedeck, which had just raised $2 million in funding for its eCommerce platform for musicians. As we wrote then, though VibeDeck is still in early development (having launc...

Sometime in the past week, Facebook flipped the switch on allowing you to add your unborn baby to your list of family members via the "Expected: Child"  option on Facebook profiles. App...

Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphones, is releasing the results of its Mobile Threat Report. The report is based on threat and security data from Lookout's Mobil...

Yes, you read the headline correctly. The Zune HD, which was recently rolled up and borged into the Windows Phone 7 brand, has received no less than nine new apps. We heard that the existing Zune game...

The patient-lifting RIBA II isn't the only new healthcare robot from Japan we can show you today. Researchers at the Okayama University have developed a model that goes in a different direction: their...

Even almost 5 months after the earthquake and tsunami disaster that hit Japan on March 11, there is still fear over radiation in food in the country. Now Tokyo-based Fuji Electric has developed a devi...

We now live in a world of robust communication tools. Facebook, Twitter, IM, Skype, FaceTime, etc. But the one that still connects nearly everyone, the phone, remains rudimentary. Sure, phone communic...

Because the stream of realtime palaver that is Twitter needed even more platforms to be consumed on even more devices, the company has just announced that it has started to roll out its HTML5-based Tw...

Because the stream of realtime palaver that is Twitter needed even more platforms to be consumed on even more devices, the company has just announced that it has started to roll out its HTML5-based Tw...

There is much anxiety in Japan related to accommodating their aging population. Their elderly and infirm number in the millions and that figure is growing out of proportion to the rest of the country....

It's a cliche by now, but there's no question that the launch of the iPhone in 2007 changed the future of mobile devices forever.Even the actual phone portion of the device saw huge improvements: visu...

Online advertising company ValueClick is on a bit of an acquisition spree. After acquiring mobile ad network Greystripe earlier this year, the company is buying personalized ad technology company Doto...

We've seen a number of startups emerge that are using a sampling box as a way to help consumers discover products, including Babbaco, Foodzie, BirchBox and BeachMint. Blissmo is the latest company to ...

So let's say you walk into a Best Buy looking for a new tablet. You walk up to the guy in the blue polo and tell him what you're looking for. After taking you to the tablet section, he whips out a han...

In many ways, tablet-focused readers like Pulse, Flipboard, and now Editions, are the next phase of RSS readers. But they're RSS readers that the masses will actually use because they're actually user...

While Angry Birds tends to get all the credit for being the game that has endlessly owned the App Store, it's not alone up at the top. ZeptoLab/Chillingo's Cut The Rope was the first game to come alon...

Sony Alpha Rumors has received a boatload of information, though none of it complete, about Sony's newest Alpha cameras and accessories. This comes hot on the heels of another Alpha leak, showing off ...

Every phone geek loves to debate how long it'll be before we've trashed our wallets in favor of paying for stuff with our phones in the real world "  but what about online?Tailing a simi...

The Verizon/Sprint 4G war has been shifting into high gear lately, and with Verizon's LTE network capable of faster performance, Sprint has had to play up some of their other accomplishments to try an...

Technology polymath Esther Dyson has always been interested in healthcare and especially how data and personal devices can make us healthier. She is an active investor in a few healthcare startups an...

One look at Grand Theft Auto 4 and you're probably not thinking, "Little Timmy or Susie would just love that game."  No one wants their kids desensitized to reasonless mass murder or th...

Facebook has just bought Push Pop Press. Started by former Apple employees Kimon Tsinteris and Mike Matas, Push Pop Press helps authors and publishers convert physical books into iPad and iPhone-frien...

I just couldn't keep my big Tweeter shut. When I publicly dismissed the soundness of his widely hailed report on European VC, Jason Whitmire of Earlybird Venture Capital challenged me to openly discus...

Who doesn't want to be more efficient, smarter and healthier? According to Kleiner partner Chi-Hua Chien, the mobile revolution can, potentially, do all three "" developing applications ...

Kleiner Perkins is announcing a new investment this morning in stealth company Erly. Interestingly, Eric Feng, newly appointed partner at KPCB and previously founding CTO of Hulu, is starting the new ...

Have you been itching some Verizon 4G love in a package that's just a hair more portable than their also-just-announced HP Pavilion dm1? I know I haven't, but Verizon has just announced their firs...

Apparently Apple isn't the only company running an App Store with a penchant for secrecy.In a blog post this morning, mobile developer Shifty Jelly has publicly called out Amazon for covertly offering...

Mobile app analytics firm Flurry has released a report today that examines the use of mobile dating apps vs. online dating sites. Flurry used data from Compete, comScore and Alexa to measure internet ...

Globant, an Argentinian software development, IT services and maintenance outsourcing giant has acquired Nextive, a San Francisco-based mobile and social technologies company that works for clients li...

The dream of a personalized magazine tuned just for you keeps showing itself on the iPad. Today's edition comes from AOL Editions, which is finally coming out after much fine-tuning and a silly video....

Appistry, a St. Louis, MO-based developer of cloud solutions, has raised $12 million in funding in a Series D round led by private equity firm eXome Capital. Stuart Mill Capital and other private and ...

Breaking up is hard to do, but T-Mobile and Radio Shack seem to be handling the split rather well, all things considered. After Radio Shack alleged that T-Mo materially breached the terms of their agr...

Sprout, a company that offers an easy-to-use platform for building HTML5-based ads, has been acquired by mobile ad network operator InMobi. Financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed. Sprout ...

Today's the day Mike Arrington's new assistant Greg will be wandering the streets of Silicon Valley, doing everything -- and anything -- you ask him to do.We've already received a bunch of hilarious t...

Today's the day Mike Arrington's new assistant Greg will be wandering the streets of Silicon Valley, doing everything -- and anything -- that you ask him to do.We've already received a bunch of hilari...

There goes Zediva. A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the video streaming start-up by ruling that the company violates copyright infringement. The injunction will effectively shut...

Now there's no question that Android's flexibility has endeared it self to many a smartphowner out there, but I'd imagine that not everyone is as cognizant about security as they should be. Case in po...

Like a miniaturize, wearable Chumby, the WIMM micro communications device looks interesting and, given enough support and interest, could actually be interesting. The device looks like a tiny iPod Nan...

CampusBookRentals.com, a company that lets customers from nearly 5,600 college campuses rent textbooks online, this morning announced a round of growth financing with total equity and credit facilitie...

Remember film? Remember when "cut and paste" actually involved scissors and glue? Remember when typewriters didn't have a 1 key? Probably not, right? I'm old and I barely even remember...

Have you heard about ZocDoc? The company launched at TechCrunch in 2007. Their goal - to let people find and book appointments with doctors, dentists and other health professionals online. The com...

Customer support startup Zendesk going after enterprise clients with the launch of a new solution that is tailored to large organizations. Launched in 2008, Zendesk offers a web-based, SaaS-delivered ...

If you're a fan of the third dimension, otherwise known as depth, then this new premium 3D TV set from LG may be of interest. The LW980S is a passive glasses set that taps LG's Cinema 3D technology, e...

New York City-based file-sharing startup, Minus, announced today that it has raised $1 million in seed funding from IDG Capital Partners, which the startup plans to use to expand its team and to inves...

Samsung and Apple are at each other's corporate throats lately. The latest jab was when the two reached an agreement that barred Samsung from advertising and selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Aust...

According to a study conducted by Minnesota-based research firm Vocal Laboratories (aka Vocalabs), Apple's lead in tech support quality is slipping, while consumer satisfaction scores for HP are impro...

Move over American Idol, and move over Survivor? There's a new reality show (okay, documentary-reality series) in town, but luckily no one's getting voted off the island. In this tech TV version, ...

Recently a few startups have started to appear with mobile apps allowing you to point a smartphone at an object and view some kind of augmented reality object or information associated with it. Usuall...

This fairly simple Android app adds a layer of safety for folks who often misplace their Android cellphone while it's in silent mode. Called RemoteRinger, you assign a special code to the phone as wel...

I was approached by a startup that is today launching Drippler, a service that lets people get custom updates (think news, tips, support and more) about the gadgets they own and love, or want to own a...

HP has just released a new over-the-air update to the TouchPad, WebOS 3.0.2, that improves the OS slightly including improved auto-correction, the inclusion of wallpaper support, and improved photo ha...

If you needed more proof that the venture capital industry here in Europe is struggling to keep up, here are some new facts and figures from Dow Jones VentureSource to prove there's most certainly no ...

"I wouldn't say I've been missing it."Peter Gibbons line from Office Space also served as the slug for my post from early July explaining why I wasquittingemail for the rest of the month. I was pretty...

GTVHackers has released an Android 3.1 beta built specifically for the Logitech Revue Google TV device. The hitch? It's not quite ready for public consumption, it could destroy your user experienc...

Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets stories: iOS App Scans Printed Music Notes, Plays Them In Real-Time (Video) Folding, Electric Vienna Bike Is Dorky But Practical Foxconn Planning To Hire 1 M...

The NuForce's uDAC-2 Signature Gold Edition 24bit/96kHz USB digital audio converter is basically worth $5 (even with the gold plating and glass crystals) but the company, whose experience in audio is ...

Generally speaking, video producers have a much easier time producing content than monetizing it. This is because the monetization side of the equation has two x-factors that are hard to get right. Th...

I'm in the middle of reading Michael Slater's biography of Charles Dickens, and it's excellent (if a little fawning). Given that I grew up just a few miles from the Medway town where Dickens spent his...

You know what really grinds my gears? Having 15 browser tabs open and one playing music and not knowing which one is playing music and having to scroll through all the tabs in order to find the on...

The US has yet to join the rest of the world in the large-scale deployment of powered bikes, and I doubt this particular item will change that, but it's always worth noting when a nice, practical vehi...

A month just ended, which means new stats. In the world of web browsers, there are two particularly interesting ones of significance. One points to "open" web browsers now in the majority amongst thos...

I think it's safe to say that Facebook is the leader when it comes to collegiate and high school social networking. I expect that won't hurt anyone's feelings. When it comes to meeting people at colle...

If you read the comments on any our recent stories about the Airbnb controversies, you'll see plenty of people saying that Airbnb needs to take a page out of the Zappos playbook. It turns out, they tr...

Whaleshark Media had already raised $120 million in capital to roll up the online coupon space. Now they've raised $10 million more in a round led by Google Ventures, with some participation from prev...

Perhaps you recall that back in June, there was some confusion as to whether or not there would be web apps for Apple's upcoming iCloud suite of products. While we maintained from the beginning that w...

If you attended (or watched) our Mobile-First CrunchUp last week, you'll remember that a lot of the discussion revolved around the pros and cons of using the iOS and Android platforms. The debate was ...

It is true. Everyone loves puppies. Online gaming site OMGPOP wisely chose Puppy World to be its first iPhone game. In the mobile game, you take care of puppies, give them to children and increase ...

I am extremely unmusical (on the verge of being tone-deaf) so I can't decide whether this new iPhone app is good or bad: Japan-based musical instrument maker Kawai has developed a camera app that scan...

Apple and HTC are at it again "  but this time the fight has migrated over to the UK. On July 29 in London, HTC filed a lawsuit against Apple, reports Bloomberg. There hasn't been any word c...

It's never too late to fix bad press with a straightforward, unconditional apology. That's what the world got from Airbnb today. It was the first time that the company addressed the robbery/ransacking...

Earlier this year SV Angel and Yuri Milner partnered on a new venture fund, called Start Fund, to invest $150,000 in every new Y Combinator startup. All but one company from that class took the money....

Last week, Facebook's marketing head, Randi Zuckerberg, caused a stir when she asserted that online anonymity has to go away. But the reason large, powerful networks are pushing for a world in which o...

A quiet update this morning to the Apple TV, seems to indicate a pretty big change in strategy. Of course, Apple would never frame it this way, but with the emphasis now squarely back on purchases, it...

Many of you may know this, or may not, but Michael Arrington has an amazing new assistant, Greg Barto. Greg came to us from Hollywood and we have been kindly teaching him the ropes of TechCrunch and w...

Many of you may know this, or may not, but Michael Arrington has an amazing new assistant, Greg Barto. Greg came to us from Hollywood and we have been kindly teaching him the ropes of TechCrunch and w...

This is an interesting little concept/design piece that's more about the act of taking pictures than, you know, actually taking pictures. The Buttons camera isn't fitted with a lens or any way to take...

I'll say it now, before anyone gets their hopes up: this is most definitely not an iPhone 5. Those blurry, Big-Foot-esque shots from last week still may very well be the real deal, but this is not. Th...

The limitations of online-only DRM are, perhaps, in truth only hypothetical. It's possible to imagine a DRM scheme that must be online all the time, yet handles outages gracefully and never limits you...

An Apple TV update is rolling out today. But this device update isn't the news. Sure, streaming purchased TV shows to the device is a welcomed, but not really novel idea. Now, post update, users will ...

Firefox may be getting a very nice facelift soon.Mozilla designer Stephen Horlander has posted a set of screenshots showing off what may be the the future of Firefox's interface, and it includes some ...

No, we are not in a bubble. Not, at least, according to the Kleiner-Perkins partner, Chi-Hua Chien, who spoke at our Mobile First CrunchUp event in Palo Alto last Friday. Indeed, as Chien told me afte...

Anyone who's ever taken a stab at reading through a Terms & Conditions agreement knows that they normally rival the Iliad in length. There are two reasons companies do this: first, the more words,...

Those who resist purchasing an electric car because charging stations are less ubiquitous than gas stations or figuring out how to charge your car at home seems complicated have one less excuse to go ...

When Zynga acquired mobile game studio Newtoy last December, the social gaming giant took command of one of the Texas gaming studio's most popular titles, Words The Friends. For those of you who aren'...

The mystery machine that Jordan introduced us to last week has appeared again, but maybe not in the way we expected. Instead of posing for the camera again, the Atrix-esque handset has popped up in AT...

Earlier this year, Yuri Milner, SV Angel, and Y Combinator shook the early-stage investment world with Start Fund, a $150,000 investment offered to every startup in every new Y Combinator class, no qu...

Robots that have the ability to "learn" to do specific tasks are nothing new, but truly autonomous models are still a thing of the future. The Tokyo Institute of Technology is working on a robot that'...

Daily deal aggregator 'The Dealmap' has just announced its acquisition by Google. ...

LikeALittle, the social network for college students who want a place to anonymously flirt on college campuses, announces the launch of its first mobile product today, LikeALittle People. Like a Color...

LikeALittle, the social network for college students who want a place to anonymously flirt on college campuses, announces the launch of its first mobile product today, LikeALittle People. Like a Color...

In this episode of Founder Stories with host Chris Dixon, Thrillist co-founder Ben Lerer discusses the challenges of running a growing business (watch his first interview here).Lerer says of primary i...

After weeks of speculation, Twitter has just published a blog post confirming that it has indeed raised a "significant round of funding led by the venture firm DST Global, with the participation of se...

Riding high from the release of the (admittedly) mid-range Nokia 500, the folks over at the Nokia Conversations blog have just released something else they seem very proud of: new product naming guide...

Zynga has been slapped with patent lawsuit from a Segan LLC, which alleges that the social gaming giant has infringed on a patent titled "System for Viewing Content Over A Network and Method Thenrfor....

The classic "my dog ate my homework"  excuse just got a lot harder to pull off for students at the University of Southern Mississippi. The University today announced plans to hook up it...

If there's one thing I've learned from dealing with wireless carriers for years, it's that everyone takes ideas from everyone else. Sometimes it signals a real benefit for customers (AT&T now offe...

Twitter is partnering with a German company called Brainloop in an effort to more effectively safeguard, share and collaborate on confidential internal documents.Brainloop offers an online platform th...

Well, what is this we have popping up all over the place? It's pretty familiar with that Windows logo in the center, but shouldn't it be bundled nicely in a circle? Nope. Not anymore. Accordin...

G'day, mates. At least, it's a good Monday for us. Australians, on the other hand, have just been excluded from all the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 fun as a result of the continuing patent battle between ...

In its third acquisition this year, Autodesk, maker of design, engineering and entertainment software, has acquired San Francisco-based Instructables, a popular online community where people can uploa...

As we wrote earlier this year, Amazon joined the flash sales market with the launch of MyHabit, a private sales site for discounted items from designers and boutique brands. Similar to Gilt, Ideeli an...

Nasdaq-listed IncrediMail, which develops and markets email and other desktop software products, is to acquire Smilebox, a U.S. company that develops consumer-focused photo sharing and scrapbook creat...

BabbaCo, a startup that develops products that make parenting easier, has raised $1.2 million in funding led by Lightbank with SV Angel participating in the round. BabbaCo is actually one of the first...

Kimbia, an Austin, Texas-based developer of a Web-based fundraising and event management software solution, has secured over $4 million in a Series B round of financing led by S3 Ventures.Kimbia provi...

Horace Dediu notes that Nokia and RIM are on a precipitous decline and that it is now, in short, a two horse race: Apple v. Android. The age of the smartphone - an era where anyone with a keyboard and...

While many would call buyers of the 3DS who picked up their console prior to the $80 price cut expected on August 12 "suckers," Nintendo is calling them "Ambassadors" and they'e offering them special ...

rome2rio, a search engine headed by two ex-Microsoft engineers which lets you literally work out how to get from A to B (not unlike FromAtoB.com) via a Google Map with multi-modal travel options, has ...

Foxconn is planning on replacing many of it's hard-working human manufacturers with about 1 million robots, a number that, if you think about it, is a very telling comment on the current state of elec...

Here are some of the past week’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Holga's TIM 3D Camera Stares Into Your Soul, Takes 3D Photos Of It Aircounter: Japan Gets Mini Radiation Detector An "Anomaly...

Insignia, Best Buy's in-house tech brand, has just released a TV with a TiVo device built-in. Why? I suppose people didn't want to have a separate DVR on their CE shelves. Two great tastes that ta...

Looking to turn yourself (or your show) into a YouTube star but don't know where to begin? YouTube's looking to help " the video portal has launched a comprehensive guide outlining how c...

BigCommerce, a company that provides e-commerce software to online retailers and merchants, has raised $15 Million in Series A funding from General Catalyst Partners.Launched in 2009, BigCommerce prov...

It's time to to bring TechCrunch Disrupt back home to San Francisco. We are accepting applications for startups to launch at the Disrupt Startup Battlefield until midnight tonight. Applications for th...

Google+ is not on this list, yet. Mostly because I haven't got a handle on its core value as a news trigger. If you're Scoble, the value is obvious as he is now demonstrating by turning it into h...

This last week we've all watched in horror as the story unfolded about an Airbnb user who had her home ransacked a month ago. Other than the sideshow of us getting dragged into the story, it seemed to...

We're back for a new episode of OMG/JK"  featuring both of your hosts reunited in the TCHQ studio (I was back in SF for our Mobile First CrunchUp).Oh, and this episode also includes a cameo ...

Flush with $100 million in new funding, Square is continuing to grow like a weed in the mobile payments space. After passing the $3 million mark at the end of May, Square is now processing $4 million ...

In this episode of Founder Stories;, Chris Dixon sits down with Thrillist Co-founder and CEO, Ben Lerer (who is also a partner with his father Ken Lerer in Lerer Ventures). Targeted towards young men...

After 3.5 years, I've finally re-joined the community of car owners.Between February 2008 and last week, I was car-less. I borrowed and rented cars, took taxis and Zip cars, and occasionally biked. I ...

Editor's note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a health technology company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accent...

'"Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing his hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all my business. The dealings of...

We had a blast yesterday at our Mobile First Crunchup and 6th Annual Summer Party at August Capital. At our CrunchUp, we had some amazing speakers and special guests. Even Chamillionaire managed to ma...

Startups love to point to big growth numbers, and the press loves to publish them. We are as guilty as anyone else in this regard: one million downloads, 10 million registered users, 200 million twe...