Articles by Techcrunch from September 2011

As NASA's steps get smaller, China's space program is making big leaps with plans to have a manned space station in orbit by 2020. This morning (around 9pm in China), the Tiangong 1 space station modu...

Myspace owner-Specific Media has laid of a percentage of its staff today, we've confirmed with the company. Specific Media said these layoffs took place in sales and operating areas, and was part of a...

Google Analytics, theimmenselypopular suite of tools that Google offers to help webmasters track their site traffic, is getting a big boost this week: the service has launched a real-time dashboard th...

Ugly though they may be, these Swatch watches have a trick up their sleeves. Using the same technology found in the Tissot T-Touch line, these Swatch Touch watches are touch-sensitive and allow you to...

The Swedish polling company, Media Vision, has released a study (in Swedish) about downloading habits in the country where Spotify was born. Their results? 23 percent of Swedes download music illegall...

Hold onto your phasers — the dream of many a Trekkie is about to come true. Star Trek: The Next Generation will be released on Blu-ray starting in 2012. Every one of the show's 178 episodes will...

Oh, you think you're a hardcore Apple fan? Sure, you might have plastered the back window of your hybrid with Apple stickers. Yeah, you've got something MG Jobs said painted on the wall above your bed...

People love the $99 TouchPad including HP employees. The TouchPad hit the HP's employee purchasing program yesterday and potential buyers showed up en mass, promptly crashing the servers. It's unclear...

Microsoft's search service Bing is today announcing the launch of airport maps for 42 major airports across the U.S., with plans to expand to other airports over time. The new feature is available now...

Logitech is known for their keyboards and mice, and the company always seems to find new ways to make what should be boring old accessories interesting. The MX 3200 Laser keyboard and mouse are an awe...

Back in late 2009, then-free music identifying service Shazam made a rather drastic change to their business model: they went freemium. Everybody got 5 free song identifications per month... but after...

It's no secret that Nokia has put their faith in Windows Phone 7 to carry their future smartphones, but they haven't forgotten the millions of customers who count on them for their lower-end handsets....

StoryDesk, a tablet publishing platform for enterprise, is today launching its first product called CatalogApp, an iPad application that lets businesses bring their sales catalogs to the tablet comput...

Really? Could this video really show the iPhone 5? Probably not. The video's authenticity is tipped by several subtly clues. But the video is still worth watching. The creator clearly knows his way ar...

The Kindle Fire may be poised to win the Android tablet wars, but Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos doesn't think of it as a tablet. "We think of Kindle Fire as an end-to-end service," he told me yesterday in an...

eBay is adding a new member to its board today Facebook executive Katie Burke Mitic. She joins current board members eBay CEO John Donahoe, Pierre Omidyar, Scott Cook, Fred D. Anderson, William F...

Announced at CES 2011, the Gibson Thunderbird X has been a fascinating example of a traditional instrument maker building something that, arguably, is quite revolutionary. The Thunderbird X is essenti...

The Europas, the European Tech Startup Awards, were held for the second time December 2010, in London, supported by TechCrunch Europe. It was the culmination of a month of online voting by the Europea...

Brazilian social gaming company Vostu is unveiling its first title that mixes casual gaming with social gaming, Golmania. The multi-player soccer game will launch on Orkut and Facebook in English, Spa...

When you woke up this morning, did you think that the world would change? Well it did, people. It did. Boardcrafting is a Kickstarter project that will change the way people play Settlers of Catan for...

Earlier this month, third-party mobile app store GetJar announced the public launch of its GetJar Gold Program (previously in beta), a catalog of premiumAndroid applications made available for free. T...

Ever had cows instead of users? You've probably never thought about building software for farmers, but Farmeron just raised a round of investment as well as support from 500 Startups, a seed fund and ...

We've already shown you the three coolest smartphones Japanese carrier SoftBank announced for its home market today, the LUMIX Phone 101P from Panasonic, Sharp's AQUOS PHONE 102SH, and the DELL STREAK...

Search engine Blekko has raised $30 million in new funding Yandex, MLC Private Equity, and existing investors U.S. Venture Partners, CMEA Capital and PivotNorth Capital (Ashton Kutcher is also a previ...

Quora can be an addiction. You visit the site just to see what's going on, 30 minutes later you're still there. Today, the addiction goes mobile. Finally.The service has just released their first iOS ...

Lego (or LEGO if you're adamant about trademarks) has just dipped another toe into electronic gaming with their clever "Life Of George" iOS title. The game uses 144 pieces and a piece of cardboard cov...

Compete.com, a Kantar Media company, today released its ranking of the top 250 websites for August 2011 (click here for the top 50). We can't repeat this often enough, but take these stats with a grai...

Mobile users with NFC-enabled devices will no longer need a special application in order to exchange contact details or other types of data between their phones thanks to a new NFC specification which...

It looks as though the carriers are ready to weigh in on the Apple vs. Samsung case, with Verizon and T-Mobile both voicing their opinions over the past week. Since the original showdown in April R...

The Amazon Kindle Fire isn't the only low-cost tablet option in town. Sure, it might be the hot new kid, but there are a multitude of tablets that can be had for $300 or less. Some are cheap and clear...

Travel discounter Priceline.com is launching a new daily deals service aimed at helping users find cheap hotel rooms. (Or maybe it would be more accurate to call it a "nightly" deals service?)Starting...

Although in this economy you can probably hire someone to walk behind you who will occasionally remind you of your mortality, it is probably a bit more efficient to just put up this Mr. Jones Accurate...

We reported earlier this week that Staples and Office Depot are running sales promotions for the ailing BlackBerry PlayBook, and today another big-box retailer has jumped into the fray. CNET reports t...

Hot flight search startup Hipmunkis about to land on Android. The app will be available for free, and you can install it right here.I've tested the app and it looks great (it's a nice reminder that An...

Networked Insights, the developers of a marketing decision platform has raised $20 million in new funding led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management. This brings the startup's total funding to nearly $30 m...

Real estate search engine Trulia is expanding its mobile offerings today with a new Android tablet app as well as an Android app devoted specifically for rentals. The company already offers comprehens...

Redfin, the online platform for real estate search and brokerage services, has made some noise in the past, building a service that's currently being valued at $230 million, at least according to trad...

Universum, a company that specializes in employer branding, has published some findings based on the preferences of over 160,000 career seekers with a business or engineering background from the world...

And here's the third phone from Japanese carrier SoftBank's fall/winter line-up that deserves a dedicated article: it's the so-called DELL STREAK PRO 101DL [JP], which the company will start offering ...

SweetLabs, the San Diego company behind the Pokki app platform and the OpenCandy advertising network, has raised $13 million in funding in a Series C round led by Intel Capital, with earlier backers G...

Sharp's AQUOS PHONE 102SH wasn't the only cool Android phone to hit the Japanese market today. Local carrier SoftBank will also start distributing the so-called LUMIX Phone 101P [JP] as part of its fa...

As you may have heard, the San Francisco Port Authority recently shut down the tech hub located at Pier 38, which was home to companies like Automattic, True Ventures, 99Designs, and others. One of th...

Social media analytics company Socialbakers, previously known as Facebakers, has raised $2 million in funding in a round led by Earlybird Venture Capital. The funding will enable Socialbakers, which w...

Sharp has been producing quite a few nice Android phones for the Japanese market lately (with a 25% share, it's the leading manufacturer over here), and today, the company introduced [JP] another grea...

Earlier tonight, Alexia found and posted some screenshots of something that sure looked a lot like the mythical "Project Spartan". Shortly thereafter, Facebook took down the page in question. And for ...

Nokia this morning announced "plans to take additional actions to align its workforce and operations". You know what that means: mass layoffs and then some. In a press release, the Finnish mobile gian...

AVOS has been getting a whole lot of criticism by former Delicious users and fans - and even original founder Joshua Schachter - after the recent launch of the all-new Delicious. And granted, perhaps ...

With all the recent TechCrunch drama-- not to mention my own busy September giving birth-- you might think our upcoming Disrupt Beijing conference had gotten pushed to the back-burner. You'd be wrong....

This Facebook mobile developers page is pretty interesting, first of all because it starts with a statistic, "350 million users access Facebook from a mobile device every month," which was just releas...

This Facebook mobile developers page is pretty interesting, first of all because it starts with a statistic, "350 million users access Facebook from a mobile device every month," which was just releas...

And that, by the way, is why anyone who cares about real journalism mistrusts TechCrunch Dylan Tweney, VentureBeatTechCrunch has plenty of critics. But I don't think I've ever read such a botche...

It looks like the wait for the elusive Nexus Prime may soon be over. Samsung has just started sending out invites for a special Samsung/Google event that's being held on October 11 at 11:30 AM in San ...

Being an Android user as well as a Flickr user has been dangerous territory for quite a long time now. There's been no official app, and the third-party ones haven't been too hot. Luckily for us, Yaho...

Why is it that random eBay shoppers always seem to have the best luck? In what has to be one of the most fortuitous purchases I've seen in a while, someone picked up a Nexus S off of the auction site ...

Boston-based BetterLesson launched in 2009 with a simple mission: Provide an easy way for educators to connect with each other and share their lessons. As Co-founder and VP of Operations Erin Osborn ...

The highlight of today's Amazon event was when CEO Jeff Bezos finally announced the Kindle Fire about midway through. We captured it on video, and you can see for yourself how Bezos introduced the d...

Xoom users, rejoice! Despite having to stick it out for a few extra months, the 3G version of Motorola's ambitious 10-incher is finally getting a piece of the LTE action starting tomorrow.Frustrated u...

As Twitter CEO Dick Costolo told the media a few weeks ago, advertising is a key strategy for the company. "Our advertising method is the only one we need to be a big business,  he said at the ti...

While giveaways and "follow us and win!" contests aren't always worth calling out, this promotion from @NASA is too great to pass up. They're planning on inviting 150 of their followers to watch the C...

isocket, a startup that makes it easy to buy and sell online advertising, is making a few big announcements today, including the closing of a million dollar-plus series A round of funding from their e...

Mango has already begun to trickle out into the wild, and Microsoft is still trying to figure out exactly what their Windows Phone users want. Case in point: they've just unveiled their new Suggestion...

If you've watched the gaming world at all over the last year or so, you're probably aware of the Humble Bundle, a charity-orientated promotion where you pay what you want for a few standout indie titl...

The Kindle Fire is the device we were all waiting for and when it arrived it did not disappoint. The Fire is a 7-inch media device that plays well with all of Amazon's media services including the boo...

Your cell phone knows all sorts of stuff about you. It knows where you've been, which websites you've visited, who you call most, and, depending on how many times you've found yourselves drunk with yo...

We're hearing that Google is in talks to acquire Katango, the Kleiner-backed startup that uses algorithms to automatically sort your friends into different groups, with very little effort required on ...

The first device Jeff Bezos showed off at today's Amazon event was the diminutive Kindle Touch, a $99 e-ink device that should be on everyone's Christmas lists this year. The Touch has an 6-inch, IR-b...

God I love this stuff. Microsoft's head of communications, Frank Shaw, has just responded to Google's "extortion" claims   on Twitter, of course.This type of response isclearlyMicrosoft's M.O. An...

New York-based startup Hyperpublic has some big news today that should catch the eye of developers looking to do anything with local: they're opening access to a new Point of Interest (POI) database c...

Earlier today, Microsoft and Samsung disclosed that they reached a cross-licensing agreement over patents. The key point: it's a bad blow to the notion that Android is free. Instead, it's more like "f...

mDialog, a video-advertising-as-a-service company, has closed a $5 million Series A round of funding led by the BlackBerry Partners Fund. The company says the investment will be used to expand its of...

Earlier this month, Foursquare held its second hackathon, with 500 developers from around the world contributing. Today, the company is announcing the winners.The grand prize goes to Plan Your Next Tr...

Cloud storage platform Box.net has raised a whopping $50 million in new funding with participation from CRM giant Salesforce.com. Past investors also participated in the round, as well as new 'strateg...

At the company's first customer conference today, cloud storage platform Box.net is revealing a number of new features and products. The company is debuting a cross-platform enterprise sync solution f...

The first startup to come out of New York-based incubator Jesta Labs is Gush, which launches today with a (currently invite-only) service that lets people put all their photos - no matter how many the...

It wouldn't be utterly shocking to find that you are unaware of the Occupy Wall Street protests currently underway in downtown Manhattan. The mainstream media coverage of it has been shockingly minima...

While startups in the US, especially in the Valley, tend to be able to find funding at different stages of their life-cycle, there remains significant funding gaps remains in Europe, a disparate marke...

If Amazon's new slew of keyboard-less Kindles leaves you feeling frightened and confused, you've still got time to pick up one of their soon-to-be classic models. The 3rd generation Kindle (which has ...

Last week, Facebook introduced one of the boldest makeovers to the Facebook profile page since the company's launch with the new Facebook Timeline. The updated profile provides a deeper look into your...

Today, at an Amazon event in New York City (read our liveblog), Jeff Bezos unveiled the Kindle Fire, a new media tablet that pulls together all of Amazon's media services from the cloud. These includ...

One week after its launch, new startup accelerator and incubator Advise.me has received over 200 applications for its "Global Startup Initiative," a program that encourages companies from all parts of...

It's no secret (at least, not anymore) that Samsung is scrambling to diversify its mobile platform offerings. Bada, while smart, is kind of a bust, and Android is currently hanging in the balance unti...

The Android tablet electoral races are done. There's a new mayor in droidville. But this guy didn't roll into town with pomp and circumstance. He strolled down mainstreet and simply offered more than ...

The Internet Advertising Bureau just released its numbers of the first half of 2011, and it looks like internet ad revenue reached record highs during the time period. Internet ad revenues rose 23.2 p...

Kicking it into fifth gear and zooming out of stealth and into the public sphere today is Wheelz, a new person-to-person car sharing platform for campuses -- designed to connect students who have cars...

Jeff Bezos announced a new family of Kindle's today, including the Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch. But he also had one more thing. The Kindle Fire tablet is coming with an entirely new mobile browser ...

Today at Amazon's press conference in New York city, the company announced the Kindle Fire 7-inch tablet. But that's not all CEO Jeff Bezos had to say — the Amazon boss spoke on the success of K...

Looks like the Kindle Fire wasn't all Amazon had planned for us. Amazon has revealed a new line of E-Ink Kindles that looks to bolster their "traditional" eReader lineup. The three new models have tak...

Mobile device management company Zenprise is today introducing its new enterprise-grade mobile DLP (Data Leakage Prevention) that aims to help I.T. departments with the growing "bring your own device"...

Amazon's not-so-secret project is finally unveiled and is the company's first real tablet contender. The Kindle Fire is Amazon's prize fighter in the battle for tablet dominance.The Fire itself is rat...

We know the iPhone 5 is being debuted soon and reports point to Sprint as the new carrier. But just how popular will the device be off the bat? InMobi, one of the largest independent mobile ad network...

There are two sides to the story of Google's move to create a massive, seven storey startup / developer hub slap bang in the middle of of Shoreditch, where so many London/UK/European startups seem to ...

Watch this space because beginning at 10am Eastern/7am Pacific we will be live from the Amazon event in New York City. What are we expecting? The Fire, of course - Amazon's newest Kindle that will com...

It won't be long now before Amazon kicks off their big press conference, where the much-awaited Kindle tablet is rumored to make its first public appearance. We've learned recently that Amazon will be...

We covered quite a few personal assistant robots from Japan in the past, but none of them were labeled as "personal porters". But now Professor Gen Endo from the Tokyo Institute of Technology has buil...

You'd have to be living in some cave to not know that IP wars are all the rage this season, especially with our favorite electronics/software companies. Samsung, in particular, has been the target of ...

Ocean Group, a massive private holding company founded by entrepreneurs Timur Sardarov and Oliver Ripley, has announced the creation of - and a $100 million investment commitment in - a new digital me...

Employee rewards services company Achievers, formerly known as I Love Rewards, has raised $24.5 million in a Series C round of financing led by Sequoia Capital, with earlier backers JLA Ventures, Gran...

Parking In Motion has raised an undisclosed amount of capital in a Series A financing round co-led by IDG Ventures and Fontinalis Partners, the investment firm co-founded by William Clay "Bill  F...

Hitachi Maxell, in cooperation with Murata, has announced [JP] the so-called Air Voltage for the Japanese market today, a combination of a wireless charging pad (dubbed "Energy Stand") and jacket ("En...

We'll all been there. You are craving that delicious sandwich from that place a couple of miles from your home for lunch, when you realize your wife took the car to go shopping (again). So you hop onl...

Mark Goines may not be the most familiar name in the Valley, but he was a prolific angel investor, investing in some 40 companies since 2000, including BabyCenter, Mint, PayCycle and Nolo.com. As Sara...

In just about one of the weirdest press releases that has come across my radar, mobile gaming rewards network Kiip and the old-school Guinness World Records (seriously) are announcing that they are te...

Back in February this year, Hitachi Displays took the wraps off a super-advanced LCD for smartphones that boasted a 4.5-inch IPS LCD with 720 x 1,280 resolution. Fast forward to today, and the company...

Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets posts: HOSPI-Rimo: Meet Panasonics Cute Assistance Robot "Toilettenpapier Drucker  Is What You Think It Is The Future Of Books: A Dystopian Timeline Kob...

It may just be a simple mistake, but it's an interesting mistake nonetheless.Earlier tonight, Amazon's Kindle YouTube page was updated with a new video. The name? "NYC Test". Considering Amazon is hol...

Even though Larry Page has been CEO of Google for just about 6 months now, he hasn't been as visible as many other high-profile CEOs. In fact, the most we've heard from him has been during earnings ca...

It's hard out there for an tech investor! You're now competing with flashy Hollywood folk like Ashton Kutcher, who have unparalleled opportunities, like getting to show off their investment affiliatio...

It's hard out there for an tech investor! You're now competing with flashy Hollywood folk like Ashton Kutcher, who have unparalleled opportunities, like getting to show off their investment affiliatio...

In this, our third installment of "Free Startup Tools", we wanted to highlight an agreement launched by Seedcamp, the European startup accelerator, to help startup founders negotiate the early stages ...

Groupon may be struggling to get its IPO out the door, but that is not stopping it from introducing new products. Up until now, Groupon has built a billion-dollar business by getting local merchants ...

Back in May, we reported that Facebook now accounts for one out of three ad impressions in the U.S., and that, really, no other web property in the U.S. comes close (Yahoo was second with 10 percent)....

I remember when we first got cable, back in the late 80s I suppose, and even as a youngster one of my first thoughts was "man, do we really need all these channels?" That suspicion, that we were perha...

Location-based service Loopt is getting some nice promotion for the next three months, courtesy of San Francisco's International Airport and Virgin America. And it might make your trip to the airport ...

Toshiba's entrance into the Android tablet market was a pretty good one — Android 3.1 Honeycomb, a wide array of connectivity ports, and interchangeable batteries. But all those ports coupled wi...

Since 2008 we've been covering the gradual emergence of a cluster of technology startups in East London. Hell, we've even made films about so-called Silicon Roundabout. But it wasn't until the Prime M...

Since 2008 we've been covering the gradual emergence of a cluster of technology startups in East London. Hell, we've even made films about so-called Silicon Roundabout. But it wasn't until the Prime M...

This month marks the 20th anniversary of Microsoft Research, perhaps the most consistently interesting division of the hulking software company. Take a few minutes to peruse the timeline of their work...

Facebook has their sights locked on mobile. We know that. This afternoon at GigaOm's Mobilize conference, Facebook Mobile Chief Erick Tseng touched on just how crucial mobile is to them   and mor...

The battle between Apple and HTC (and Android in general) is getting fiercer.The United States International Trade Commission has justannounced that it's instituting an investigation into Apple, based...

"This makes me happy on a lot of levels," says Facebook Product manager Sam Lessin, about this Mad Men homage to Facebook's recently unveiled profile Timeline. Aside from founding (and selling) Drop.i...

If you've been in photography for more than ten years, you probably remember the way things used to be on old film cameras. There was no electronic interconnect between the lens and the body, so lens-...

If ever there was an audience for a silver and neon green laptop, kids would be it (and also maybe people who like lime green a lot). That said, Toshiba has just launched its updated kid-friendly lapt...

Looks like the HD7 won't be the only Windows Phone on T-Mobile's shelves for much longer. Right on the heels of yesterday big smartphone announcement, T-Mobile has pulled back the curtains on the newe...

Kobo has been cultivating their Reading Life initiative for a while now, and with the announcement of their new Pulse feature, they're digging even deeper into the social space than before. Slated to ...

Last week, OnStar made some changes to its terms of service which were almost universally recognized as being overreaching and unnecessary. The two primary changes were, first, that OnStar would conti...

In the final episode ofChris Dixon'sinterview withThe Lean StartupauthorEric Ries, Dixon asks him whether Google was "lean" when it rolled out Google+? Dixon says in some ways it appeared so, as ...

We've written plenty of times about Shopkick, a geo-coupon system that has received funding from Kleiner Perkins, Greylock, SV Angel and others. Today, the company is revealing a number of impressive ...

Skype's updated iOS app is turning out to be a bit of a mixed bag. It manages to add a few useful new features, like Bluetooth headset support and in-call video stabilization, but one addition may hav...

Microsoft promised just a few days back that the Windows Phone 7.5 update (otherwise known as "Mango", because updates need funny little names now) would roll out "sometime in the next week or two" &n...

With the launch of the Kindle Fire tomorrow, I thought it would be fun to write a little bit sci-fi and imagine what the publishing market will look like in the next ten or so years. I'm a strong prop...

WordPress theme provider WooThemes is launching a new service today called WooCommerce, which lets users install a plugin on their WordPress site in order to turn that site into a professional e-comme...

We first wrote about a service called 1000memories back in July 2010. The site was setting out to address a topic that people don't like to talk about, but is universal all the same: when people pass ...

The latest report from mobile analytics firm Distimoexamines in detail the trends surrounding the localization of mobile applications. That is, which app stores tend to have a higher or lower number o...

Xobni always was a clever name (it's Inbox backwards), but perhaps it was too clever. Today, the startup that tries to make your email smarter is rebranding its newer products Smartr and launching th...

Sprint is clearly in a tough spot. It's been a step behind in getting the iPhone which should be remedied soon, but the yellow carrier is also facing a mega-merger between AT&T and T-Mobile that w...

It's finally confirmed: Apple's next event will be held on October 4. And they're not even being coy about the topic  the invite says, "Let's talk iPhone".In typical Apple fashion the invite is c...

I wasn't much for playing with toy cars as a kid -- you'd have found me parked in front of a Sega Genesis, if anything -- but I suspect Disney Mobile's new line of Appmate iPad peripherals would have ...

Yesware, a startup that helps track email and improve productivity for salespeople, has raised $1 million in funding from Google Ventures, Foundry Group and other investors.Yesware is a suite of produ...

When social music startup Rexly launched at Disrupt NYC last May, we called it the social music discovery app that Ping should have been. It shows you what your friends are listening to on iTunes, bu...

Peak Games, a social gaming company that designs titles that target emerging markets in Turkey, the Middle East, North Africa, and South America, is making some significant announcements today, includ...

Pandora, LinkedIn, Box.net and many others are moving to HTML5 to give users a cross-platform, rich media experience. The latest to participate in this tend is SlideShare, a sharing platform for busin...

Isis, the carrier-led joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, is today announcing support for its mobile wallet system from the majority of leading device makers, including HTC, LG, Moto...

Tykoon, a sites that helps families engage children in becoming fiscally responsible, has raised $1.35 million in funding from Doug Lebda, RRE Ventures, Rick Thompson, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Bach...

Huawei has a history of partnering up with brands to build highly targeted phones, a good example being the Red Bull-branded RBM HD rugged phone (otherwise known as the Impulse for AT&T). This tim...

I could swear that I've had a dream about this before, or at least written about it*, but it looks like Microsoft beat me to the patent office. On September 22, Microsoft filed the "Mobile Communicati...

Today,Formspringis adding support for photos to its Q&A service in an update the company is touting as the biggest in the nearly two years since its launch. With the addition, Formspring users wil...

All the way back in May, Microsoft revealed that they were hard at work developing a web version of the Windows Phone marketplace. Now that the new Mango update is nearly upon us, Microsoft has offici...

Yammer, an enterprise social network and communications platform, has raised $17 million in new funding led by The Social+Capital Partnership, a new fund established by former Facebook Vice Presi...

If you told me two-and-a-half decades ago that this tow-headed youngster from Columbus, Ohio who spent his evenings looking up at the stars, engrossed in endless wonder at the boundless horizon of the...

Put one big, fat candle on the cake. One year ago today, a startup named CloudFlare launched on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, where the startup placed second to Qwiki. (You can read ou...

Glitch, the storied massively multi-player online game we've been chronicling for 23 months now, opens to the public today at 10 am PST. In case you were wondering, Glitch has been garnering so much a...

Exclusive - Social Q&A site Sharecare.com, created by WebMD founder Jeff Arnold and TV's Dr. Mehmet Oz, is partnering with Healthline Networks, a provider of intelligent health information service...

MOG is following the tried and true method of expanding its appeal by expanding onto new hardware and just announced that the music streaming service is now streaming on select Samsung Smart TVs and B...

Close proximity technology TransferJet is evolving. Toshiba has developed an LSI (pictured) that supports TransferJet and is designed specifically for mobile devices. The LSI is sized at just 4.04.0 0...

Joyent, a San Francisco-based cloud computing software and service provider, has secured $5 million in debt funding according to an SEC filing.The company, which was founded back in 2004, offers an in...

It's happened again: a Foxconn plant explosion has caused a large fire in Yantai. According to MICGadget the fire stemmed from "improper operation of workmanship on color spraying" which suggests a ae...

Two weeks ago, we covered Chomp's news that it will be powering app search on Verizon's app store for all Android phones. Today, the app search early player is announcing some more big news, and this ...

Panasonic Japan announced [press release in English] the development of the so-called HOSPI-Rimo yesterday, a cute "Communication Assistance Robot" specifically designed for medical use. HOSPI-Rimo (R...

Luxury home decor flash sale site HomeSav.com this morning announced that it has raised $1.2 million in seed financing from multiple retail angel investors and entrepreneurs including the Koffler fami...

Nokia this morning announced that its sleek new smartphone, the N9 - which will almost certainly be the first and only MeeGo handset to ever see the light of day - has begun shipping to customers who'...

Wikets, Inc., a young social commerce startup, announced today that it has raised $1.5 million in seed funding from venture firms Andreessen Horowitz and Battery Ventures, as well as from six angel in...

Tokyo-based human translation service myGengo ("Mechanical Turk for translations") has raised a Series A Round of funding. The US$5.25 million round was led by Atomico, the London-based VC firm headed...

Delicious is back. Million dollar question is not: will you use the revamped social bookmarking service? But rather, will your mom, sister, and that dorky teenage kid from across the street use it?As ...

Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets stories: Japan Gets 8 New Cell Phones: KDDIs Entire Winter Line-Up Amazon, Fox Streaming Deal Brings 11k Movies And TV Shows To Prime Instant Video Bose Anno...

For baseball fans, that magical month is almost afoot. October: The month in which we look on, annoyed, as our favorite team heads to Florida to play golf, or stumbles, is injured, and whimpers quietl...

Google recently removed its realtime traffic data from its Maps product, informing users that they are "currently working to come up with a better, more accurate solution." It looks like that solution...

Apparently my former colleague and fellow Diet Coke fiend Paul Carr is founding a startup post-TechCrunch, instead of heading back to professional blog jockeying like the rest of us pixel-stained wret...

In honor of President Obama's LinkedIn town hall meeting today -- and the impending campaign -- we bring you a political startup. Before you gag, give it a chance; I think this is a political startup ...

Q&A site Quora has just unveiled a revamp of its commenting system, the most notable change being the implementation of a threaded commenting feature for the discussions under a question and its s...

You might be familiar with Walk Score, a site that crunches mapping data into a simple "walkability" score for a neighborhood or region. You know, whether food and entertainment are nearby, whether tr...

Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. is today emerging from stealth and introducing its new enterprise-ready cloud operating system for private clouds called pentOS. The new OS is built on OpenStack, the open...

The news that Amazon's tablet was real was a great scoop, but not quite a shock to the industry. Bezos all but confirmed it months ago, and supply-line leaks had it coming in late summer, which was op...

In took them a few years, but Y Combinator has finally stormed Manhattan. Albeit  much to the chagrin for some of the people reading this  for one night only.No, despite some of the rumors t...

Last week, Morganthaler Ventures, the 40-year-old Sand Hill Road VC firm wrapped up its "DC to VC Startup Showcase", a nationwide contest geared towards finding the most promising young health tech st...

Last week, Morgenthaler Ventures, the 40-year-old Sand Hill Road VC firm wrapped up its "DC to VC Startup Showcase", a nationwide contest geared towards finding the most promising young health tech st...

I've always hated the notion of ratings based on five stars. It makes no sense. Sure, something that sucks is "1 star" and something awesome is "5 stars", but what determines a "2 star" rating? What a...

Though its had some legal ups and downs of late, Samsung is still pumping out products. Today, the Galaxy Tab 8.9 has been made available for pre-order, with shipments to begin October 2. And rather t...

Chinese social network Renren has purchased China-based video and photo sharing site 56.com.The deal size is around $80 million, according to a release.Founded in 2005, 56.com is a Chinese video shari...

The video below shows TAG Heuer's Mikrotimer Flying 1000 Concept watch in action. This mechanical watch times things to 1/1000th of a second - 300 times faster than a human blink. As the watch spins m...

Facebook has filed to establish FB PAC, a political action committee intended to "give [Facebook's] employees a way to make their voice heard in the political process," presumably over and above votin...

Last week at its f8 developer conference, after months (years, even) of rumors and speculation, Facebook finally got its music service. Well, it got a bunch of them: Spotify, Rdio, MOG, and others are...

At some point in the game, every entrepreneur and startup founder becomes familiar with the term sheet. But "familiarity" can be a tricky qualifier. Even by one's third startup, entrepreneurs are not ...

In case you're still using Google+ (I kid, I kid, the other social network is doing well, apparently), the Google+ team has made it easy to "share" your Circles with friends today, by enabli...

Since we first caught wind of the HTC Vigor, things have been blurry. And I don't just mean leaked photos — we've been back and forth on a few different features like display resolution, or whet...

Last Friday, Amazon sent out invites to a press conference being held this coming Wednesday. They didn't give away any details in the invite, but given our scoop earlier this month, everyone assumed i...

This week the lads show off some of the latest gear in their collections including the new Logitech Harmony remote that allows you to surf TV on your iPad. We also talk about the new Kindle coming on ...

You can call T-Mobile a lot of things, but "awesome at keeping secrets" probably wouldn't be one of them. This morning at GigaOm's Mobilize conference, T-Mobile announced details surrounding two phone...

You can call T-Mobile a lot of things, but "awesome at keeping secrets" probably wouldn't be one of them. This morning at GigaOm's Mobilize conference, T-Mobile announced details surrounding two phone...

Launching this week at Health 2.0 is a startup called, WellnessFX, which offers a simple value proposition: It wants to help average people take charge of their health. As the medical industry expands...

You may recall that two months ago, we found and leaked Facebook's iPad app. What was especially awesome is that the entire app was buried the code for Facebook's iPhone app, you just had to do a few ...

At Disrupt NYC in May, a startup called Meporter launched its location-based news app that enables every man, woman, and child to write, photograph, and record their own video of local news -- as it b...

"Remind me to watch the Doctor Who season finale this Saturday."If new reports are to be believed, then the iPhone 5's new Assistant functionality can take voice input like that and automagically conv...

Coming off a weekend of Silicon Valley fundraising, President Barack Obama is visiting LinkedIn this morning, in order to talk about jobs, economy, entrepreneurship and the state of employment in the ...

U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to make a stop with professional social network LinkedIn, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View today to chat about job creation and the economy from...

At last week's Facebook developers conference, f8, the company introduced the radically redesigned profile page now called the Facebook Timeline. Instead of a single column stream of status updates, s...

Six days ago, Instagram pushed version 2.0 live in the App Store. A big time upgrade with a focus on the camera, co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom expected signups to pick up some significant steam. Bu...

"Its an honor to serve , Americas Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, told me when I caught up with him at AT&Ts gleaming new Foundry innovation center in Palo Alto last week. Appointed ...

Can't get enough of that Facebook Timeline? Want to copy it wholesale in your own Wordpress blog? Do you want to support an "Italian boy" named Julian? I bet you do.We just got this excellent tip from...

Head down into the bunkers and lock the door, friends   there be flamewars a comin'.The Nielsen Company released a new mobile research report this morning, with at least one big landmark stat wit...

Fan "relationship management" service FanBridge is launching a new feature today, called the "Social Digest,  which gives influencers and brands a way to stay in touch with their fans and followe...

How do you sell the Facebook phone in a Facebook-free environment? Luckily for HTC, China isn't short on homegrown social networks, one of the largest being the instant messaging service QQ. So as the...

Doot doo doot doo doo doot! Hacker Retrobrad created a handheld console that displays Super Mario Brother in a very special way: each sprite is reduced to one pixel. The console, called Super Pixel Br...

AdMob founder Omar Hamoui has made an investment in Gigwalk, a mobile app that allows users to get assigned basic "gigs  or jobs from companies via their location. The startup has raised a total ...

Good morning, and welcome to today's edition of: "Apple and Samsung love to hate each other." Though it's only been a short weekend since the latest update, the dueling electronics makers have again w...

It seems premium streaming music service Spotify just inexorably linked its future to Facebook. Fresh from integrating so deeply with Facebook's OpenGraph that users' Ticker stream are teaming with th...

The denizens of the green dells of Wisconsin are a bit happier these days, at least in Eau Claire (French for "City Of Very Nice, Quiet People Who Will Smile At You"). The L.E.Philips Memorial Library...

Facebook has teamed up with theNational Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in an effort to help grow American small businesses and create jobs. Starting in Janu...

If you are wondering why Tumblr just raised $85 million, all you have to do is look at its pageviews. The super-easy blogging platform saw its pageviews jump from about 2 billion a month to 13 billion...

Canadian RIM fans have been privy to some solid deals on RIM's ailing PlayBook tablet recently, and now those price cuts are beginning to pop up Stateside. Both Office Depot and Staples are now offeri...

A group calling itself "The Script Kiddies" hacked USA Today's Twitter account this weekend and used it to solicit requests for future targets and even to promote its own Facebook page. Although this ...

Back in July, Google and Zynga announced that the social gaming giant would be bringing Zynga Poker and other game titles to Google+. But it wasn't clear if Zynga would be bringing its major and ...

Bose just announced two soundbar systems for home theaters, the Lifestyle 135 System and CineMate 1 SR System. The devices use a single bar to emit what many would call surround-sound audio and can be...

After competitor GrubHub raised a boatload of cash and bought New York-based food delivery network Dotmenu, online food ordering service Seamless is making a major purchase for its expansion today&nbs...

Braintree, an Accel-backed online payments provider, announced that it now is processing more than $8 million in online credit card payments daily, which is 268 percent of the same quarter of last yea...

Exclusive - Endomondo, which offers users a way to automatically track their sports data and monitor their performance over time, has raised $2.3 million from SEED Capital, TechCrunch has learned. The...

AT&T is buying Superclick, an internet provider for the hospitality industry, in a cash transaction valued at approximately $15 million.Superclick provides network design, deployment and infrastru...

Amazon quietly announced a huge deal with Fox Broadcasting Company over the weekend. Posting directly on Amazon.com, CEO Jeff Bezos brought the big news to Prime subscribers who will now have unlimite...

Today Huawei has announced its latest Android smartphone: The Huawei Honor. Unlike some recent mid-range offerings, this thing is quite the little powerhouse. The company has been focused on wallet-fr...

Blogging community operator Tumblr has raised $85 million in new funding from Greylock Partners, Insight Venture Partners, the Chernin Group, Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures and Sequoia Capital. ...

Realtime semantic startup Evri is debuting its brand-new iPad application today, where it joins the crowded "iPad news magazine" space filled with the likes of Flipboard, The Daily, Zite, Pulse, NewsM...

TechMediaNetwork (TMN), a publisher of technology and science media, this morning announced that it has raised $33 million in funding in a Series B round led by ABS Capital Partners, with earlier back...

Japans second biggest carrier KDDI took the wraps off [JP] a total of eight new cell phones for the domestic market today. To be more concrete, the telco (which is likely to become the second in Japan...

Microsoft has filed for a trademark on "Put People First", the tagline it has recently attached to the imminent Windows Phone 7.5 update (often referred to as 'Mango'), which is expected to roll out t...

We're not exactly surprised. As we predicted in May, Twitter is setting up its European HQ in Dublin (in fact this is its first international office outside the Valley). The reasons are simple: money....

Back in May, a sort of revolution started in the London tech scene. You see, London is a special place. It has massive industries in the shape of the financial sector and the media industry (like the ...

It will probably take a few more months until Japan's five major cell phone makers really start shipping smartphones to the US and other regions, but in their home market, all signs point to an Androi...

"Whats happening?  The text entry box on the Twitter homepage innocently asks us constantly, compelling us to type in a <140 character window into what were doing RIGHT NOW. For the most part...

Last week, an Australian company called Pixel Capital acquired the domain name creditcard.net for $138,000 in a bid to more adequately market its financial comparison website network in the United Sta...

Here are some stories from the past week on TechCrunch Gadgets: Watch Out For Lightsabers In Tokyos Subway Cars Hey, Did You Happen To See The Nerdiest Watch In The World? Zappin To The Oldies: A Tesl...

Netflix has taken a few hits lately with the reaction to its plans to split its streaming and DVD business, but now it is punching back. The company signed a deal with DreamWorks which will give it a...

"'What?.' 'We made it to Disrupt,' Sarah said calmly. 'We screamed so hard we woke up the building.'"After the screaming ended, the Israel-based Shaker team ditched Burning Man plans for TechCrunch Di...

It's been over 72 hours since Facebook first debuted a series of groundbreaking new features at f8, which is all the time I need to predict the company's long-term outlook, the way it will reinvent th...

Wow. PayPal released some new public numbers recently that show the payments platform is processing a massive number of payments per day. PayPal says that it saw $3,650 in Total Payment Volume every s...

As I watched the Google antitrust hearings last Wednesday, with its gotcha moments and Senators pontificating about the dangers Google poses to society, it struck me that what I was watching was theat...

In part III ofChris Dixon'sFounder Storiesinterview withEric Ries, the Lean Startupauthor explains how Toyota's "lean manufacturing" production model can be applied to startups. Ries tells Dixon one ...

Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Brenden Mulligan, entrepreneur and creator of Onesheet, who is currently traveling around the world meeting startups with his wife and IDEO designer Elle Luna. Y...

What can I say, I just dig Kutiman. I first covered the work the Israeli-born artist back in 2009 with the release of 'Thru You,' a seven-track music project created by splicing and dicing YouTube cli...

So apparently there's a new Xoom in the works. Big surprise, right? The old one is nearing its eight month birthday and thanks to the rapid Android aging process, it's about as a relevant as a Handspr...

Some forum-goers at Mobileread found evidence of something called Prime eBooks in the online Kindle code. Searching for images of the new Kindle Tablet, he instead found a variable describing somethin...

About a month ago, some additions to the code in Chromium (the open source browser behind Chrome) suggested that the long-fabled "GDrive" may be on the verge of actually launching. A week later, user-...

Yesterday Erick and I had an interesting discussion about Facebook vs. Google+ and I came down on the side of G+. Why? Because tools are important, toys aren't. Granted Facebook's 500 millio...

Have you been watching the skies? I have. As the US expands its unmanned air force, researchers are testing and demonstrating autonomous drones -- ones that could "hunt, identify and kill the enemy ba...

The Gillmor Gang   John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor   talked Facebook, Spotify, Netflix, Twitter, and, oh what was that oh yes, Google+. In a post-Arrington...

How does Switzerland do US patriotism? With a watch of course. Like it or not, Perrelet has just released this spinning stars and stripes version of their Turbine watch called the Turbine XL America. ...

Our own John Biggs and his former Gizmodo co-worker, Charlie White, have just released a book about blogging called Bloggers Boot Camp . These gents produced tens of thousands of posts between them, w...

Resuming their conversation from episode I, Chris Dixon asksLean Startupauthor Eric Ries to offer evidence of uber successful "internet/software companies that have adopted or used the lean startup mo...

Here is a selection of yesterday’s Gadgets stories: HTC Vigor Packs Beats Audio, LTE, But No DROID Branding? Samsung Asks To Ban iPads, iPhones In The Netherlands Blockbuster Movie Pass: Dish Ne...

After yesterday's announcement of its expanded Open Graph capabilities, Facebook has been sharing your music listening activity over its News Ticker, allowing for music discovery and the realization t...

Editors note: This post is authored by guest contributor Jon Bischke. Jon is a founder of RG Labs and is an advisor to several startups. You can follow Jon on Twitter here.San Francisco. Palo Alto. Ne...

For years, Ive pointed to Netflix as one of the shining examples of the Subscription Economy. But in two painfully long weeks, Netflix has taken a huge misstep, violated the trust of its customers and...

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, who recently left the company he founded over six years ago, is back in action. Or at least, he has proven that he still knows how to set up a WordPress blog.Arri...

Here's a noodle-scratcher to ponder over the weekend: the HTC Vigor was supposedly going to hit Verizon as the Droid Incredible HD, but files leaked from the forthcoming device hint that the phone may...

Groupon has lost its second COO in six months.Back in March of this year, Rob Solomon, who joined the company in March 2010, announced that he would be leaving the company. A month later, Groupon hire...

One of my favorite bits from Disrupt SF was the set of rapid-fire presentations from Imagine K12, an incubator for education-related startups. We heard in June that some 200 applicants had been narrow...

Kissmetrics, an analytics startup that helps you keep tabs on how your users are using your website, is adding a new tool to its suiteof products today: Cohort Analysis.Cohorts, for those that aren't ...

California-based electric vehicle charging station developer 350Green will purchase and install over 400 charging stations from manufacturer Coulomb Technologies, the company has announced. The new ad...

If you get your DVDs from Netflix, soon the name on the familiar red envelope will be Qwikster. But how long is Qwikster for this world? In this episode of Fly or Die, John Biggs and I dig into the ...

The Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, John Borthwick, and Steve Gillmor are recording live at 1pm PST....

After being teased for months and months, nine months to be exact, of when Verizon and Motorola would release the DROID Bionic, the wait is finally over. The DROID Bionic is now out in stores and the ...

I'm not often the fan of startups that are "the this, for that," but I think I could get into something like Deal Dcor: it's the Groupon for furniture. This San Francisco-based startup is using the gr...

So remember that one time I said that Samsung was planning on stepping up its game against Apple? That was no joke. In the same court that granted an EU-wide injunction against three of its Galaxy sma...

Along with being one of the worlds leading seed investors in technology start-ups, Israeli entrepreneur Yossi Vardi is also an acknowledged expert in renewable energy. He once ran the Israeli Ministry...

At 500 Startups' Smash Summit in New York today, Robert Scoble revealed that PayPal is launching something big with Facebook in two weeks, and that it would be a more expansive partnership than the ex...

At 500 Startups' Smash Summit in New York today, Robert Scoble revealed that PayPal is launching something big with Facebook in two weeks, and that it would be a more expansive partnership than the ex...

Word of an Amazon press conference slated for September 18 at 10 AM is making the rounds. Could the fabled Amazon tablet make its first appearance?If so, then the invitation does a great job of playin...

You've likely already heard about that defunct six-ton satellite hurtling its way to the Earth's surface. Unless you're paranoid, you also know that the chances of this changing anyone's life, anywher...

Dish Network has the answer to Netflix: Blockbuster. The company bought the bankrupt Blockbuster six months ago at auction for $228 million and apparently wasted no time integrating Blockbuster's curr...

The ninjas at The Digital Reader have uncovered the names of two new Nook Color versions - the Encore, priced at $249, and the Acclaim, priced at $349. The Nook Touch (now called the Nook Smart Touch)...

When it was released in 1991 on the Amiga, Another World was one of those games that drew you into its world from the very first second, and kept you at rapt attention even after you died countless ti...

In this episode ofFounder Storieswith host Chris Dixon, Dixon sits down withThe Lean Startupauthor,Eric Ries.Ries tells Dixon about his early experience with startup failure in Silicon Valley and how ...

Blockbuster is back. Today it is expected to launch a new streaming video service to take on Netflix. Blockbuster was bought out of bankruptcy by Dish Network for $230 million last April and everybo...

ViKi, an international video site for world TV series and movies translated in 100+ languages by its community, is debuting a new iPhone app today, called ViKi On-The-Go. As we've written in the ...

It's only been a few days sincethe launch of the official Google+ Hangouts API (application programming interface), but we're already starting to see some interesting implementations make their d...

Texas Instruments has closed its $6.5 billion acquisition of fellow semiconductor manufacturer National Semiconductor. In April, Texas Instruments announced all-cash deal, which was valued at $25 per ...

If you were to take a good hard look at the Apple-Samsung trail of destruction (otherwise known as their world-wide patent war), you'd likely come to the conclusion that Apple is ahead by a few key po...

I've been using a pretty cool app of late called Fantastical. It's OS X-only but I suspect the Windows crowd would get a kick out of it as well. Basically it's a natural language calendar app. You can...

While it's near impossible to say what exactly Apple has in store for us come October, a new report from DigiTimes reveals that there may be fewer iPhone 5s to go around if it indeed makes its debut. ...

StartApp is a new monetization and distribution platform for Android applications designed to address the challenges the platform has created in terms of revenue generation for developers. Using the n...

Mintigo, a company that provides big-data analysis for customer acquisition, has $9 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital, Giza Venture Capital and other private investors.Mintigo helps c...

In case you missed the news, Star Wars launched on Blu-ray this week. Lucas & Co. never miss an opportunity to soil their brand and so, along with turning to annoying in-game advertising, recently...

Japanese tech company Murata, in cooperation with Kansai University and Mitsui Chemicals, has developed a remote control that doesn't require users to push buttons. Instead, TVs or other electric appl...

Chicago-based startup FeeFighters</a, a comparison shopping site for credit card processers, is launching a new product to simplify online payments. FeeFighters Samurai is debuting as a gateway f...

Mobile ad network Millennial Media, is releasing its monthly report which gives a view into how each OS, device and manufacturer is performing on one of the largest remaining independent ad networks ...

Here are some of yesterday’s posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: German Artist Creates 4000-Watt Sound Tank RED Founder Teases Laser-Based 4K Projector Build-A-Bear Releases Kinect-Capable Teddies Revi...

Before I lost my voice earlier today (yes, that's me up there asking all those questions, NOT Marge Simpson), I sat down with Spotify CEO Daniel Ekat F8. We spokeabout today's "launch" of Facebook Mus...

As you may have heard, today Facebook held its fourth f8 developer conference, showcasing an array of new features that represent what Facebook says are the biggest changes to its Platform since it la...

After raising $9 million in venture funding from Norwest Venture Partners and Doll Capital Management this year, Basis Science has been able to continue their year-long research and design development...

F8 is afoot and it looks like Facebook schooled the Internet. But what about G+ and, most important, the new features added to head Facebook off at the pass. Erick and I discussed the pros and co...

Last week, another photo sharing app hit the scene. But before you commence with groaning, Piictu is more than just another photo sharing app, it's "a fun and simple way to talk and play with pics". S...

Hulu does TV shows better than just about everyone. In fact, other than YouTube, Hulu attracts the highest level of engagement of any web video platform (with the average web viewer watching an averag...

The last ten years have been kind to game publishers. The mainstreamification of console gaming has led to enormous sales numbers, budgets rivaling Hollywood's, and an arms race between the majors to ...

ComScore's August web video rankings are in, and this is for sure: Americans watch an enormous amount of online video content, with most of that taking place on -- you guessed it -- YouTube. Of course...

Meg Whitman is back in the corner office. Earlier today, she was officially named CEO of HP, taking over from Leo Apotheker, who lasted less than a year. In the video interview above, I talk to Forr...

After last year's f8 keynote, my initial thought was prettystraightforward: I Think Facebook Just Seized Control Of The Internet. Between the Like Button, the Open Graph, and the Open Graph API, I fel...

"Whatever, man. I've got 10 girlfriends. And they're supermodels! You just don't know them, because they live in Canada.""Oh, okay. Call one of them and prove it."Well, crap   now what? Enter Fak...

Meg Whitman just took over as HP's CEO and President hours ago and she, along with the new executive chairman of the board, Ray Lane, didn't waste anytime reaching out to their more than 300,000 emplo...

A few days ago, leading up to f8, we noted that we heard from a source that Facebook would soon be expanding their buttons offerings beyond the Like button. Specifically, we heard that "Read" "Listen"...

Good startups often emerge from situations where the founder is attempting to solve a problem they themselves have. That was certainly the case with collegiate events site Fampus, created by 22-year o...

I'm sitting here at #F8 with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek and he's just told me that Spotify is no longer invite only in the US, and that the service will have no limitations (essentially be free) for a user...

This guest post was written by Joe Green,the Founder and President of Causes. Causes is the largest online platform for activism and one of the original Facebook Applications. Green's approach to buil...

Leo Apotheker was made the president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard on September 30, 2010. Today, just shy of a year later, he has stepped down from his post and HP's board of directors appointed Meg Whit...

This morning Facebook announced Timeline, a crazy (and kind of creepy) omnibus look at everything that has ever happened in your Facebook lifespan. It's like a story book of your life   or at lea...

Just over a week ago, Apple filed requests with the Western District Court of Wisconsin and the Southern District Court of Florida to put their current patent battle with Motorola at a stand-still. In...

Today at Facebook's f8 conference in San Francisco, CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off a huge change to the service: Timeline. It's the Profile reborn, and it looks great. Later, Facebook's head of produc...

Have you ever had a song stuck in your head to the point where you just need everyone else in a six-block radius to hear it? Apparently that's a common affliction in my neighborhood. Last time it was ...

Yahoo News, one of the most popular news portals on the web, is deepening its integration with Facebook. Yahoo has formed integrations with the social network in the past with its products, but we're ...

Netflix is coming to Facebook in a really social way. At Facebook's F8 developer conference today, Mark Zuckerberg previewed how Facebook members will be able to see what movies or TV shows their fri...

Color.That one word is enough to elicit a remarkably strong response from anyone involved in tech startups   and oftentimes that response consists of a lot of derision and talk of a bubble.The st...

In typical RED fashion, the company's founder Jim Jannard has posted vaguely on the Reduser.net forums regarding an upcoming product. No renders this time, though, just some laudatory quotes from indu...

It's an age-old scenario: You're building a company, you have a product idea, and you've got the framework laid out in your head, but you want some expert advice and guidance on how to take the next s...

Facebook has just used their keynote at f8 to unveil a major new feature: Timeline. It's your Profile re-imagined in a more visual way. "It's the heart of your Facebook experience, completely re-thoug...

Space buffs like me are sure to get a kick out of this one: NASA has released a score of historical sound bites from the space program for use as ringtones or system sounds.I ask you, what could be mo...

Hey look! It's Mark Zuckerb.. wait a second.Mark Zuckerberg opened the Facebook F8 conference keynote with some laughs this morning   or at least, SNL's Andy Samberg dressed as Mark Zuckerberg (c...

Hey look! It's Mark Zuckerb.. wait a second.Mark Zuckerberg opened the Facebook F8 conference keynote with some laughs this morning   or at least, SNL's Andy Samberg dressed as Mark Zuckerberg (c...

If you've been on Facebook for more than a year or two, you probably remember a time when it was possible to embed third-party applications in your profile. Initially it was possible to actually embed...

Today at Facebook's f8 conference in San Francisco, CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage to unveil the next evolution of the service. The first major change? The Profile.Zuckerberg noted that the origin...

At Facebook's F8 conference today, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the network is passed an important milestone last week 500 million people used Facebook in a given day. Facebook has publicly said...

At Facebook's F8 conference today, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the network is passed an important milestone last week 500 million people used Facebook in a given day. Facebook has publicly said...

So, I asked the legendary Israeli investor Yossi Vardi, is the boom in social finished?"Social didnt run out of steam since the birth of civilization,  Yossi shot back. We were, appropriately eno...

If you had your heart set on taking some rad video of your skateboarding moves but spent your hard-earned dough on an iPhone 4 instead of a GoPro camera, you're in luck. A graphic designer from Califo...

After raising $50 million in funding from DST in early August,ZocDoc, has raised another $25 million in Series C funding from Goldman Sachs. This brings ZocDoc's total Series C round to $75 million, w...

In the weeks leading up to Facebook's 2011 F8 conference, there have been rumors and leaks and more rumors and more leaks. While we're pretty sure Facebook will be announcing Facebook Music, Facebook ...

"This thing actually works." That was my thought a few minutes after unboxing the Logitech Wireless Trackpad last week. I had pushed my Logitech G700 out of the way and placed the new trackpad defiant...

Evoz, the modern baby monitoring system that works over iOS, will finally start shipping on October 4th. Unlike traditional, walkie-talkie-like baby monitors, you don't need a separate receiver to use...

There's still an hour to go until Facebook's f8 keynote kicks off, but the last two weeks have already been filled with Facebook news, including the launch of a revamped News Feed and Facebook's real-...

Group buying platforms aren't hard to find on the Web, but there's been a growing backlash against the daily deal model, with some consumers and merchants finding the process to be more akin to highwa...

A month ago, we revealed that Index Ventures will lead Dropbox's new, massive funding round, which values the company at $4 billion. Now TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has revealed in a Tweet th...

Multiple sources are reporting/positing that Meg Whitman, former eBay head, will be sitting in the CEO seat at HP after today's market close. Current CEO, Leo Apotheker, will get a $35 million pay out...

Bing is not a bad search engine. I repeat: Bing is not a bad search engine. But when you're wondering directions to a place, shopping for something new, or just curious about what this or that means, ...

While most studios team up with developers to create games that support existing properties, Disney is going the opopsite direction with the release of their latest iOS game. Their goal for Swampy the...

Uber began testing in Chicago a month ago, but today the startup is officially launching its disruptive service and fleet of black cars in the Windy City.In case you aren't familiar with Uber, the ser...

This thing has been sitting on my desk for most of the summer, like a sad-eyed puppy. It wanted me to review it, but like a petulant, spoiled child, I ignored it. "You're just a scanner," I said. "Who...

Digital media startup and online news platform Business Insider has raised $7 million in new funding. The round was led by new investor IVP, writes the site's co-founder and CEO Henry Blodget. The com...

Erwan Mac, the founder of Bitsmedia, a Singapore-based mobile apps development shop, is putting his mobile apps up for sale as he heads off to Google. You may remember these apps, branded under the na...

The analysts at Gartner have released a new report today, detailing tablet market trends and forecasts. Not surprisingly, their findings confirm the obvious: the iPad is killing it. According to the f...

Rumor has it that the iPhone 5 will be headed to Sprint in the coming weeks. In the lead-up to that, Sprint's implemented some big cut-backs/price hikes, including a jacked up early termination fee an...

Microsoft and Build-A-Bear (a store where children can taxidermy the flayed corpses of teddy bears killed in the wild) are working together to create Kinectimals Now With Bears, a Kinect-connected gam...

Here's a little inside baseball for you all but I wanted to get a pet peeve off my chest: all these darned watermarks on gadget imagery. It got pretty egregious this morning over at BGR where they pos...

Japan's biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo unveiled a few pretty interesting smartphone add-ons today. Perhaps most notable are a set of special cases the company developed to not provide extra protect...

Since its launch in 2009, content discovery engine Thoora has been in private beta. But today the site, which combines aggregation, curation and search for personalized news streams, is stepping our o...

Oracle this morning announced that it has acquired GoAhead Software, which sells packaged service availability software to network equipment providers (NEPs) and other players in the commmunications i...

Finding the product that best fits your specific requirements is not always an easy feat, not even on the Web. Get.com recently launched as a product discovery / Q&A service, aiming to make life f...

It happened in the US a few months ago, and now something similar is about to happen in Japan, too: in one of Apple's biggest markets, mobile carrier SoftBank is reportedly about to lose its exclusive...

I'm sorry, but this is just too funny not to share. A guy called Mark Davidson, a Social Marketing & Communications Strategist according to his LinkedIn profile, apparently hired three people to g...

Visible Measures, a third-party online media measurement solution for advertisers and publishers, is announcing $13 million round of funding, led by DAGVentures with participation from new strategic p...

Silver Tail Systems, a provider of predictive analytics for detection and prevention of online fraud, this morning announced that it has secured an additional round of funding from Citi Ventures, a un...

Hacktivist group Anonymous have been busy bees this year, and they're not planning to cool down any time soon. Earlier this morning, Anonymous (or some 12-year old kid labeling himself Anonymous, who ...

Nokia this morning announced that it has appointed Henry Tirri, formerly Head of Nokia Research Centre, as its new chief technology officer and executive vice president. He's replacing former CTO Rich...

Last week during TechCrunch Disrupt SF social video serviceChill set up a special Disrupt Chill lounge, which allowed people to watch and chat about TechCrunch Disrupt live in Chill's virtual home the...

A couple weeks ago during TechCrunch Disrupt, Gowalla co-founder and CEO Josh Williams took the stage to preview the latest version of his service. And while it is technically called Gowalla 4.0, as W...

With Sequoia's Doug Leone talking up Color Labs' next pivot at TechCrunch Disrupt, and in-the-wild signs of a Color Labs Facebook app called Blue already beginning to appear, it seems like many are ra...

With Sequoia's Doug Leone talking up Color Labs' next pivot at TechCrunch Disrupt, and in-the-wild signs of a Color Labs Facebook app called Blue already beginning to appear, it seems like many are ra...

Facebook Music is launching tomorrow. This, everyone knows. But not everyone knows exactly how it will work, since Facebook been tweaking things right up until launch. But tonight one Facebook employe...

Vehicle assistance service OnStar has always struck me as slightly creepy, but I can appreciate its utility unfamiliar locations and emergency situations. And the notion of a company tracking your loc...

RelayRides, a marketplace that lets car-owners rent out their cars a few hours at a time, has named former Shopping.com chief Andre Haddad as its CEO. The well-funded startup has raised $10 million to...

I hate 3D videos. Chances are, you hate 3D videos too. And yet, the electronics makers of the world insist on shoving 3D display technology into everything from TVs to smartphones, regardless of the f...

There has been a lot of whispering about Nvidia's next-generation Tegra chip, code-named Kal-El (Superman's Kryptonian name, for the uninitiated), since it was first detailed on a roadmap back in Febr...

Yeesh   talk about a grand debut. After just going into public beta and announcing a $5.5 million Series B yesterday, cloud-based video editing service Magisto will later today announce a rather ...

At the risk of not only beating a dead horse, but cremating it with self-reflective posts, this video is too good not to post. Jonathan Mann, our favorite singer/songwriter is back with a song about w...

Since we first heard of BankSimple when Twitter's Alex Payne left to join the venture, there has been a steady stream of funding news but not much in the way of real product. They've remedied that tod...

Google is announcing today that websites that are optimized for mobile will now factor into ad quality. The company says that last year it began to limit ad serving on smartphone devices if they point...

Menlo Park-based VC firm Shasta Ventures is announcing the closing of its Shasta Ventures III fund today, topping off at $265 million. With the participation of mostly already existing investors, the ...

RIM's stock took a bit of a tumble after the release of their underwhelming Q2 earnings report last week, and it looks as though it won't stop dropping anytime soon. Before the market closed for the d...

This afternoon the Senate Judiciary Committee held a series of hearings investigating whether Google may be violating Antitrust law. During the first panel of the day, Google Chairman (and former long...

So what happens when you've just built this awesome camera app but your client wants you to manually test it out like... 10,000 times? You have two options: you can spend the rest of your earthly days...

Salesforce has just bought social customer service SaaS startup Assistly. The purchase price is $50 million, and the deal is all-cash. Assistly helps companies collect and organize all of their custom...

The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding Antitrust hearings on Google today and Google chairman Eric Schmidt is in the hot seat taking questions under oath. The hearing is under way right now (you c...

Multi-device social gaming platform Sibblingz is announcing that a number of Facebook game developers have selected their platform to go mobile. BitRhymes, IKIGames, LuckyLabs, Fortune Planet, DeezGam...

Multi-device social gaming platform Sibblingz is announcing that a number of Facebook game developers have selected their platform to go mobile. BitRhymes, IKIGames, LuckyLabs, Fortune Planet, DeezGam...

Stealthy consumer Internet startup Dashlane is announcing today that it has closed $5 million in Series A funding led by New York City-based firms Rho Ventures and FirstMark Capital. Also participatin...

It's always nice to see mega-brand corporations give a little something back. For the most valuable company in the world, Apple, it's only fitting that what they give back would be one of the more val...

We're just about a year away from the next Presidential election. That means one thing: campaign ads. A shit ton of them. Everywhere.And that includes Twitter.Yes, the old: "This message has been appr...

Wyse Technology, the developers of cloud storage app PocketCloud, is launching a new version of its service today, which turns smartphones and tablets into virtual desktops by letting you control anyt...

Those of us who live in a world overpopulated with smart phones often forget that feature phones currently dominate the global cell phone market. In a nod towards its users that aren't on iPhones or A...

In 2006, Google acquired the exclusive rights to a search algorithm called Orion. They outbid Yahoo and Microsoft on the deal, which was the PhD work of a 26-year-oldUniversityof New South Wales stude...

File this one under "It's about time" -- Microsoft has announced today that they intended to roll out their Windows Phone 7.5 (a.k.a "Mango") update to current devices within "the next week or two."Su...

Ah, the majestic serial entrepreneur in its natural habitat. GroupMe may have cashed out with a $50+ million acquisition by Skype (after the initial product was built overnight at a TechCrunch Ha...

One end of this cable connects Apple's proprietary 30-pin connector and the the other end connects to an audio jack or mini USB port. You can then hook up any PMP or phone to any set of Apple speakers...

With Hewlett-Packard now considering whether to fire CEO Leo Apotheker less than a year into the job and perhaps replace him with Meg Whitman, let's take a look at what happened after it fired its las...

iOS and Android are great, clearly. But that doesn't mean we don't have room in our hearts for a third platform. Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam feels the same way, expecting a third "smartphone ecosystem" ...

Today at the oh-so-aptly named Twilio Conference, Twilio announced a convenient new feature: Twilio Connect. (Go ahead, just try to squeeze the word "Twilio" into that sentence one more time.)Twilio, ...

Is LinkedIn ripe for disruption? There have been various attempts in the past, and now New York-based Workfeeds, launched today, is throwing its hat into the ring - and they have a good chance of maki...

SAIC Motor Corp., Ltd. Chairman Hu Maoyuan and General Motors Co. Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson signed an agreement this week to jointly develop a new electric vehicle architecture in China. The compon...

Executives at the now-bankrupt solar manufacturer Solyndra won't testify at the Congressional hearing which is looking into allegations of improper dealings between the green tech company and the Whit...

Exclusive-Flush with $45 million new funding in new funding, Kleiner-backed social commerce network Lockerz has acquired personalized video curation platform Vodpod and all related assets from parent ...

Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphones, has raised $40 million in new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Current investors Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners and In...

Sprint's version of the Samsung Galaxy S II was the first to hit the streets, but AT&T isn't far behind with their own model. While it's not available just yet, AT&T has announced today that t...

In July, we covered a study released by Pando Networks that outlined some striking disparities in the current quality of internet access and speed across the U.S. Among the study's more revealing find...

Rumor has it that HP isn't quite happy with Leo Apotheker's plans for the company and that he may be fired less than a year after taking the job.As you'll recall, Apotheker's background is in SAP and ...

Exclusive - Starting today, Home Shopping Network will begin selling - for the first time - an online storage product on air. With a reach of about 89 million households per week in the United States,...

While there's a bit of a learning curve, 3Defy is a great demo of, at the very least, the latest in Flash programming. It's basically a site that lets you add 3D effects to 2D photos that you upload o...

AdRise is launching today as an advertising platform for connected devices and TVs. AdRise is a real-time bidding platform that allowing advertisers to reach audiences via Internet-connected TVs, and ...

AirPrint allows for iOS printing on a select number of HP printers. Well, that list just got a little more competitive thanks to a Canon. This marks the first non-HP option for AirPrint. Previously, u...

At F8 on Thursday, The Social Network will by all accounts be making its official foray into music, with scrobbling and music content galore headed straight for our news feeds. Ahead of Facebook's new...

As everyone is well aware by now, a key part of every social network is gaming. Even when Google+ launched amid fanfare this summer, everyone quickly wondered: where are the games? And they quick...

The Web-based social performance platform Rypple is now available on the iPhone, the company is announcing today. Like the desktop-sized website, the new mobile application will allow managers to give...

Popular personalized radio service Pandora, which went public in June, has just announced that it's rolling out its overhauled, HTML5-based music player to everyone. The service has been testing the p...

The San Mateo Chamber of Commerce has partnered with digital loyalty app Chatterfly to create a neighborhood rewards program for its 1,000 members. Participating local businesses will leverage the app...

No? Well here it is: it's the Click watch and it's a standard digital timekeeper with either DIP switches or a tiny rotating switch that you use to set the features. Thats right - need a small stylus ...

Startup incubator and network TechStars has raised $24 million in new funding from the Foundry Group, IA Ventures, Avalon Ventures, DFJ Mercury, SoftBank Capital, SVB Financial Group, RRE Ventures, Ri...

In the past few months, have you felt like something's missing? Apple's new Fall release strategy has made it seem like someone just knocked Christmas right off the calendar, and so of course we're al...

Microsoft and Nokia have teamed up on a package of new tools aimed at getting Nokia developers prepared for the transition to Windows Phone. Announced today are three jointly developed tools and guide...

Microsoft and Nokia have teamed up on a package of new tools aimed at getting Nokia developers prepared for the transition to Windows Phone. Announced today are three jointly developed tools and guide...

Japanese tech powerhouse Kawasaki is working on the so-called Power Assist Suit, a wearable robot that helps humans carry objects weighing 30-40kg without any effort from the muscles. The suit is actu...

The full line of Nook wares are hitting Radio Shack stores and RadioShack.com beginning October 3. The Nook will join the Kindle and a dozen generic ereaders within the 3,000 Radio Shack locations and...

E-commerce solutions company Rearden Commerce today announced that it has raised a monster round of funding, securing a whopping $133 million in new financing from current backers American Express and...

After months of leaks and speculation, it seems as if Apple is finally ready to unveil its next iPhone. AllThingsD pegs the announcement date as October 4th, which falls in line with most of the previ...

Market Leader, a NASDAQ-listed provider of online marketing and technology solutions for real estate professionals, this morning announced the acquisition of RealEstate.com.Financial terms of the acqu...

Japanese mobile carrier Willcom has announced [JP] the WX03A today, the world's smallest ten-key cell phone complying with the PHS standard (Willcom is Japan's only telco left supporting that network ...

Even more news from the Netflix camp, which has just signed an agreement with media juggernaut Discovery Communications to renew and expand their licensing deal. The companies this morning announced a...

Zimride, a service that makes it easy to find people to ride-share with, has raised a $6 million Series A funding round led by Mayfield Fund. This round brings Zimride's total funding to around $7.2 m...

Advertising technology company Adchemy has raised $61 million in Series E funding from Microsoft, August Capital and the Mayfield Fund. This brings Adchemy's total funding to $120 million. As part of ...

JustFabulous, a fashion retail and styling platform, has raised $33 million in Series A funding lead by Matrix Partners (who also invested in flash sales giant Gilt Groupe) with co-investment from Tec...

The developers of Wi-Fi video camera monitoring and intelligent streaming service Dropcam, has raised $5.8 million in Series A funding led by Accel Partners with participation from existing angel inve...

Krux Digital, which helps Web publishers safeguard, manage, monetize and make responsible use of consumer data signatures across devices and formats, has secured $11 million in a Series B round of fin...

Last we heard, video had killed the radio star. But thanks to the Web, radio is finding new distribution channels and a new mobile home. When you think of Web radio, you might think of Pandora -- and ...

If you're not happy with the changes Facebook made with regards to the News Feed, and the addition of the 'Ticker', there's an easy way to revert back to the 'old' Facebook user interface.Simply go to...

Exclusive - eBuddy, the Dutch company that enables millions of people worldwide to communicate with each other on the Web and a wide range of mobile phones, says it's the first independent messaging a...

Amazon, take (another) note.Rakuten, a massive consumer and business-focused Internet service company, this morning announced that it has acquired e-commerce site Play.com, one of the UKs largest onli...

Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets stories: Is Printing A Gun The Same As Buying A Gun? Origo: A 3D Printer For Kids Angry Birds Costumes Arrive Just In Time For Halloween Bell & Ross Rele...

In November of last year, TechCrunch broke the news that Yardsellr, the eBay for Facebook (without the auctions), had raised $5 million in series A funding from Accel Partners. At the time, the invest...

NoSQL database company Neo Technology has raised $10.6 million in Series A funding led by Fidelity Growth Partners Europe with Sunstone Capital, Conor Venture Partners and Rod Johnson, the founder and...

Steer your way to Google.com and you'll find yourself staring at perhaps its boldest Doodle yet. No, Google hasn't outdone itself with another musical tribute or interactive game  it's running an...

Patience is a virtue. Or so people say ... While I've never been particularly patient, I have a sneaking suspicion that it totally works, like if youstick it out longenough you eventually get everythi...

This guest post was written by Joe Green,the Founder and President of Causes. Causes is the largest online platform for activism and one of the original Facebook Applications. Green's approach to buil...

After many twists and turns, DIY social network Ning has finally found a home. Glam Media is buying the network of social networks. A final price is not being disclosed. It is likely more than the ...

After many twists and turns, DIY social network Ning has finally found a home. Glam Media is buying the network of social networks. A final price is not being disclosed. It is likely more than the ...

It's usually a company's social media reps that get caught tweeting things they shouldn't be, but ex-Microsoftie Joe Marini was a bit higher up on the food chain than that. Formerly the principal prog...

Ah, the life of young startups is exciting isn't it? Pivots. Ramen. Courting investors. A year ago, we covered a fledgling startup called numberFire that is attempting to bring a deep, scientific appr...

London-based Top10, which operates an eponymous social recommendation and discovery platform, has raised $3.5 million in a Series A round of financing led by Accel Partners, with Founder Collective, I...

Google made a series of announcements this morning, most notably opening up its Google+ social product to everyone as its 100th feature. Not content to stop there, Google followed up with Google&...

A while back, rumors surfaced about a new Android smartphone built by HTC. Rumors and leaks happen with just about every phone, but for this particular Android handset, we were hearing quite a lot abo...

I don't know about you, but I'm awful at remembering the lyrics to songs, and I often find myself turning to Google search to answer my lyrical questions -- and frequently, to lose arguments. Apparent...

Bell & Ross, not content to rest on their aviation laurels, has released the WWI-92 edition, a watch based on a World War I era pocket watch. The watch is strikingly simple - just a black face wit...

One of Facebook's most important products is getting much smarter   and a little easier to use.Less than 48 hours before its f8 developer conference, Facebook is rolling out an updated version of...

There were quite a few thoughts running through my head when I purchased an iPad, but I can honestly say that "I wish I had an iPad as big as a coffee table" wasn't one of them. Now, after having seen...

Facebook's f8 developer conference is two days away and the company has been trickling out additional information related to the event, includingthe roster of speakers that will be appearing on its 'T...

With 17 million monthly uniques at its disposal, news aggregator Digg, which is attempting to overcome the user exodus caused by its unpopular Version 4 redesign in late August 2010, needs to find a w...

Card.io, the mobile commerce company started by two former AdMob employees, Mike Mettler and Josh Bleecher Snyder, is launching asoftware development kit (SDK) for Android today.The SDK for iOS launch...

Klout, a startup that measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Foursquare, is now integrating Google+. For background, Klout evaluates users' behavior with complex ranking ...

There's an interesting back-and-forth going on at Thingiverse, a site founded by Makerbot to share 3D projects. Two designers have made two parts for the AR-15 rifle platform. The first part is a stan...

With over 200,000 pre-launch signups and 40,000 users in their beta program, its very likely that you saw a vizualize.me resume link show up in a friends Facebook status update last week when the site...

Location based app Foursquare has just one billion checkins, it just announced on its blog. The app has grown from 100 million checkins in July, 2010 to 200 million in Oct 2010 to 750 million checkins...

Is Google a media owner or a technology company? According to Sir Martin Sorrell, The co-founder and CEO of WPP, the worlds largest marketing and advertising company, Google is a "media owner masquera...

Simplee, a Mint-like platform for your healthcare bills, is launching a new feature today that will help simplify the process of paying medical bills. Just like with Mint and your financial accounts, ...

For the past year, Fotopedia has been laser-focused on reinventing the photo book for the iPad. Now, with 7 apps and 4.8 million downloads under its belt, it is turning its attention back to its webs...

In addition tothe slew of new Hangout-related features announced today on the official Google blog, the Google+ team also announced the launch of the Google+ Hangouts API for developers. Thi...

Bad news T-Mobile customers: you may have to cross the iPhone 5 off of your holiday wish list. According to a leaked document from T-Mobile's OneVoice intranet, Chief Marketing Officer Cole Brodman ha...

Collaboration startup Podio, which is taking on the worlds of Yammer and BaseCamp, allows users to create easy-to-build apps (closer to widgets) on their platform. Today it's launched the ability to d...

In the wake of Netflix's announcement that it will separate its DVD and Internet streaming businesses, with the old DVD business being renamed Qwikster, the backlash among customers and investors has ...

In the roughly 90 days that Google+ has been available, Google says that they've made 91 different improvements to the service. Today brings nine more   a few of which are big.First and fore...

It was exactly one year ago today that I wrote up my initiallengthypreview of Instagram. I had a feeling that when it launched, it was going to be big. I underestimated it.Fast forward to today. Insta...

Chicago-based startup GrubHub, a service that lets you order food for delivery or take out from local restaurants online or by mobile phone, has raised $50 million in Series E funding led by Lightspe...

After launching new title Adventure World on Facebook, social gaming giant Zynga is revealing details about its next Facebook game Mafia Wars 2. You can watch the trailer below. Originally launch...

TrustYou, a social media monitoring and semantic technologies startup, has raised a $5 million Series A round. It's also acquiring Dallas-based competitor ReviewAnalyst. The round was led by Credit Ag...

Advise.me is a newly launched startup accelerator and incubator with locations in the San Francisco and New York areas. However, through its "Global Startup Initiative," the group is encouraging compa...

As predicted in "Mimsy Were the Borogoves," toys will change the world. Our kids, growing up with computers, game consoles, and endless visual delights, will have different minds than previous generat...

A new report today suggests that instead of snatching up a mobile operating system whose future is uncertain at best, Samsung hopes to help grow their Bada OS by making it open-source within the next ...

Sobees, the startup that develops social newsfeed for the iPadNewsMix, is bringing digital news curation to Facebook via a new app. The aim of NewsMix is to make sense of the most popular content bein...

As reported earlier this year, Amazon and digital content distribution service OverDrive are teaming up to bring Kindle library lending to thousands of public libraries across the U.S. That partnershi...

Honestly Now, a Q&A social game, has raised an undisclosed round of seed funding led by Golden Seeds and Canrock Ventures.Honestly Now is a Q&A social game aimed to help women ages 30 to 50 ye...

DIY mobile app creator appsbar is launching a new toolkit for garage bands and other budding artists today called "Discography." With this option, available in the "create new page  section of ap...

After wondering for a while what HTC's mysterious media event would uncover, the woman-friendly (because women, like yours truly, apparently need gender-specific handsets) HTC Rhyme for Verizon has fi...

Practice Fusion, a web-based electronic medical records and healthcare community, has raised over $6 million in new funding from SV Angel, Western Technology Investment, Scott Banister, Founders Fund,...

The man glassed the road, watching the long procession slump south across the valley, armed and ragged like a band of crusaders for some dark creed. The rain caught them earlier, somewhere further nor...

And with the sound of Wall Street's opening bell, Netflix surpassed its 52 week low after falling from the top its perch atop the streaming mountain. [NASDAQ:NFLX] Over the past two months the company...

And with the sound of Wall Street's opening bell, Netflix quickly dipped below its 52 week low, opening at $141.40 but falling within a few seconds under $140. [NASDAQ:NFLX] Over the past two months t...

Social recommendations app GetGlue is debuting a new web UI and iPhone app in time for the Fall TV season. The mobile and web apps have become more conversation centric, with content surfacing around ...

Logitech's Harmony division has long made some of the very best universal remotes. But their latest product turns the very best smartphones and tablets into a great universal remote. Meet Harmony Link...

After conquering online retail in diapers, soaps, beauty products, most recently pet supplies, Amazon-owned Quidsi is moving into its next vertical toys. Quidsi is debuting YoYo.com, a toy e-com...

And we're yet another step closer to the Robocalypse: mini humanoid Nao (pronounced "Now"), which was first shown back in 2005, can now walk to a charging station whenever his battery is running low t...

Bill Harris has spent his entire career at the nexus of the financial and technology industries, first as the CEO of Intuit, then PayPal, and then as an investor over the past decade. Now he is bring...

All these ruggedized computers available on the market out there aren't tough enough for you? Then you might want to take a look at the ShieldPRO N22G that NEC announced [JP] today for the Japanese ma...

A new startup is throwing its hat into the mobile video sharing and discovery space this morning Klip. Klip's newly launched free app allows users to capture, share, discover and view mobile vide...

Magisto, which offers a cloud-based video editing service, is launching its tool in public beta today, in an effort to "make your videos worth sharing". The company is also announcing that it has rais...

Exclusive: In a push to boost its payments platform for the gaming industry, American Express, has acquired virtual currency platform and in-game payments provider Sometrics. The total deal value is $...

Stipple, a technology that allows you to tag people in images no matter where they reside on the web, is debuting a new product today image licensing platform Stipple Marketplace. Instead of payi...

Exclusive - Right on the heels of Populis acquiring mokono for 8.2 million, the latter completed an acquisition of its own. Mokono over the weekend closed the purchase of German premium blog network A...

If you're using Skype for iOS on your iPhone or iPod touch, consider yourself warned: a cross-site scripting vulnerability looms in the "Chat Message" window in version 3.0.1 and earlier versions.The ...

MyHeritage.com, a relatively heavily-funded Israeli startup operating a huge family-based social network, this morning announced that it has acquired BackupMyTree, which enables people to automaticall...

Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Zappin To The Oldies: A Tesla Coil Plays The Hits A Twitter Poem: Next Nexus Leaked With Specs, Details, And Launch Info Take Me To Yo...

Earlier today, we heard social network Hi5 was laying off a large number of their remaining employees. When we pinged them about this, we expected the usual "no comment" or simply no response. Instead...

Last night, Jason went to bed a normal man, with a normal Twitter account (albeit one with a weed-smoking Elmo as the avatar), and a few dozen followers.This morning, Jason woke up to an inbox full of...

We're not done announcing our all-star lineup for Disrupt Beijing. In addition to top Chinese Internet names like Tencent co-founder and CEO Pony Ma, proven successes like YouTube's Steve Chen and top...

The Technical University of Denmark has put together a portable EEG system consisting of a low-cost scalp monitor and a smartphone app. It's not the biggest technical breakthrough, but I find it comfo...

New York TechStars 2011alumnusImmersive Labs is announcing its $810K in seed funding today, led by investors Dave McClure, Robert Semmens, Windquest Group, Teddy Schiff and followed on by Quotidian Ve...

The cat is out of the bag that Facebook is going to launch something big at its developer conference f8 this week. We've heard about the social music services that could be debuting in a few days, but...

Facebook's f8 is quickly approaching   by all accounts, it's going to be massive. Ten days ago, I laid out some of what we were hearing would be coming. Now it's time for one important update &nb...

A new Nikon website has just gone live, the rather curiously-named iamcomings.com. I guess these guys didn't want to sell. It consists of a lot of yellow, a countdown at around 43 hours as of this wri...

The "Scene," a loosely-knit network of hackers extant in some form or another since the days of diskette-based media, is in many ways the precursor to Anonymous. Unlike that slightly schizophrenic col...

Silicon Valley, President Obama just can't quit you. In the Bay Area and free this weekend? Got 35K to toss around? Well if you've ever wanted to meet an in-office President now's your chance to atten...

I have seen the future, and it is called Google Wallet.Note, however, that this future is just that: the future. As in, something not now. I've lived with Google Wallet in my life for the past week or...

As we predicted yesterday, Google has just announced the official launch of Google Wallet. Google Wallet, if you recall, allows you to pay for products in the real world by tapping your NFC-enabled An...

Is the second time the charm? Probably not, but Devin, Matt, and I all discuss the gadgets lying around our offices including Logitech's new remote trackpad. We also discuss Deus Ex, Qwikster, and the...

Looking for a nice pair of new glasses? What about glasses that make you feel like you're watching 3D content on a 75-inch display? Well, that's quite a specific request you've made but Vuzix has what...

Everyone's favorite smartphone-controlled robotic ball got a minor facelift when we saw it last, but it may need just a bit more polish before it officially gets pushed out the door. That's why Orboti...

Its Stream time again. Last year, when I interviewed Sir Martin Sorrell, the co-founder and CEO of WPP at the companys annual Stream unconference in Athens, Sir Martin argued that "free=fail. And...

The Tokyo Game Show 2011 closed yesterday with not too many spectacular announcements, but several interesting games were on display. Japan's Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association (CESA) asked...

Last week at our TechCrunch Disrupt conference, I had the opportunity to interview Facebook's VP of Engineering Mike Schroepfer. It was a great talk: I asked him about his favorite features on Google&...

I popped into the Microsoft tent at Maker Faire yesterday and spied the new Robotics Developer Studio 4, a beta product that allows programmers to control robotic platforms from within Windows. Micros...

Amazon's self-run Appstore has always been a great place to pick up great Android apps on the cheap, but it came with one caveat: ever since its launch this past March, it has only been available to U...

Mobile cloud platform company Appcelerator, makers of the cross-platform Titanium platform for building mobile, tablet and desktop applications, is today announcing the launch of the "Appcelerator Ope...

It's rare to see a scam play out in real time and to watch a potential victim turn the tables on the offender. After receiving an invoice from an unknown company for services he did not pay for, Ken f...

Being the pedigreed gadget geeks that we are, most of us here at TechCrunch are always up for a good gadget tear-down. We've seen everything from phones, to tablets, to friggin' FBI tracking devices g...

Local recommendations mobile app Alfred has arrived in a new, iPad-optimized format(iTunes)which includes deeper integration with Facebook. The optional Facebook Connect sign-in feature enables Alfred...

Identified this morning launched its eponymous search engine for professionals, hoping to challenge the likes of BranchOut and LinkedIn by leveraging Facebook's vast database of information about peop...

Gather round, young and old, for our first and last glimpse at the never-to-be-released HP TouchPad Go. The seven incher was supposedly a couple weeks away from shipping when HP decided to send webOS ...

It should come as no surprise that AT&T may have to make a few sacrifices to settle their pending T-Mobile deal, but a new report today reveals who exactly AT&T has been starting conversations...

Mobile ad optimization platform Smaato, Inc. released the results of its latest mobile advertising report today, for Q2 2011. The findings include a look at mobile ad adoption, fill rates and the over...

The folks at MIT's Electronics Research Society know how to put on a show. In this short video they show us a Tesla coil connected to a keyboard that can play jaunty tunes using pure, unadulterated en...

Japan and the US aren't the only countries in the world boasting advanced robot cars. Now Germany has one, too. A team of researchers at Freie Universitt Berlin has roboticized a conventional VW Passa...

Mobile browser maker Opera Software today announced the acquisition of Handster, Inc., a mobile application store platform company. Handster, based in Illinois with operations in Odessa, Ukraine, supp...

As the pending case tally reaches almost two dozen, Samsung has decided to both go big, and go home once Apple's flagship iPhone 5 debuts. With its Galaxy Tab 10.1 officially banned in Germany, and th...

Late last night the Android community was taken hostage by a rogue Twitter user. @tfleming223 started tweeting lines from a cryptic poem said to contain launch details about the upcoming Nexus phone a...

Late last night the Android community was taken hostage by a rogue Twitter user. @tfleming223 started tweeting lines from a cryptic poem said to contain launch details about the upcoming Nexus phone a...

Cardcloud, formerly known as My Name Is E, is today - finally - launching an Android application.Cardcloud for Android basically allows users to create and exchange an unlimited amount of online busin...

CrowdTwist, a social loyalty and rewards platform, has raised $6 million Series A funding led by SoftBank Capital and Fairhaven Capital with kbs+p Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments ...

Facebook earlier this morning announced that it will feature a live discussion between COO Sheryl Sandberg and a trio of House Republican "Young Guns" next week on Monday, starting at 3 PM PST / 6 PM ...

NICE Systems this morning announced that it is to acquire UK company Fizzback for approximately $80 million in cash. Fizzback is backed by Advent Venture Partners, Nauta Capital and TAG.Fizzback sends...

Although the U.S. employment and jobs economic outlook is bleak, a new study released today reports that Facebook is creating a thriving economy around its social network. According to new research fr...

ActivePath, a New York-based developer of interactive email and messaging solutions, has raised $10 million in funding in a Series B round led by Battery Ventures and Gimv, with participation from exi...

Here are some of the past week’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Makerbot Releases New Extruder Dyson Turns Up The Heat, Releases The Dyson Hot AM04 Air Multiplier Super Mario Bros. Recreated In ...

DailyDeal.de, a German Groupon clone launched in Berlin in December 2009, has been acquired by Google, the company says in a message on its website (see below). TheNextWeb reported the acquisition fir...

Fresh with new funding, Buddy Media, a company that provides Facebook Page and social media management tools to brands, is launching ConversionBuddy, a data and analytics platform for brand marketers....

Movie delivery service Netflix has just announced that it is rebranding its DVD-by-mail service as Qwikster and that it will keep calling its streaming service Netflix. Shocking news yes, but already ...

Amongst all the hollering going on over the merits of Netflix spinning their DVD shipping service into a separate company and whether or not the new service's name, "Qwikster", was pulled at random ou...

I know that a lot of you have probably already seen this awesome awesome video, but for some reason I missed out on it probably because I've been asleep all weekend so I'm reposting it again, in ...

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings just dropped a bombshell. In the wake of a rapid decline in Netflix's stock price last week, Hastings is taking a bold step by separating the DVD and video streaming service...

In The Facebook Effect, David Kirkpatrick posits the great social network is the one entity that could bully Apple, todays most powerful technology company. As the iPhone and other iOS devices have pa...

Over two million users strong, flash sales site for home dcor, furnishings and accessoriesOne Kings Lane, has raised $40 million in new funding from led by Tiger Global Management. Institutional Ventu...

Netflix took a beating on Wall Street last week. After revising subscriber estimates downward by 1 million subscribers, its stock went into free fall, closing the week at $155, down from a $300 peak i...

Last week, Google posted an awesome teaser video for Google Wallet featuring George Costanza. The implication: Google Wallet would finally be launching soon. Now we think we know when: tomorrow.As you...

The timeless Timewalker from Montblanc gets a fantastic new movement totally made in-house by Montblanc in Switzerland. It is the Timewalker TwinFly Chronograph and it is covered and reviewed here in ...

It's no secret that there's been a major amount of controversy surrounding Color, the photo sharing app that launched earlier this year with $41 million in funding from Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital, ...

It's not very often I get to write that it's a good day to be an HP employee. But it's also not everyday that HP employees are offered some of the last TouchPads. The company is set to release a final...

Carla Holtze is the co-founder of Have-to-Have, which is offically launching later this week. She calls it "a digital shopping platform" that allows consumers "to save, share and shop for any product...

TechCrunch Disrupt finalist Bicasa, a new cloud storage provider, was met with a healthy dose of skepticismlast weekwhen it claimed to be able to provide "infinite storage." How does it do that? It ca...

It's been a very busy week at TechCrunch with our Disrupt conference and other internal disruptions, so you may have missed some great and revealing interviews. Devin Coldewey wrote a post with the S...

Despite our busy week, Jason and I had the chance to sit down to do an episode of OMG/JK yesterday. We focused on a few key topics: Facebook's new subscribe social option, their smart lists, the first...

Early on Day One of Disrupt SF, Silicon Valley legends Peter Thiel and Max Levchin came out on stage with a grim message of doom: "Innovation in the world today is somewhere between dire straits and d...

I love Yvo Schaap, even though I've never met him in person. Wanna know why? Because the man keeps on digging up interesting stuff by simply perusing code, and then alerting us.Schaap found the embedd...

Chew on this: two days after unveiling the developer preview of the next generation of its Windows operating system ("Hands On With Windows 8"), Microsoft filed a U.S. federal trademark registration f...

Just as Google combined its superior economic model with a simple, fast and better set of results to fight its way into search and gain share through publishers, its extraordinarily likely that well s...

At TechCrunch, we don't just want you to survive, we want you to thrive. That's why we're offering one 10-inch Toshiba Thrive tablet to one lucky commenter. What is a Thrive? It's a 10-inch Honeycombe...

TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 is over. After three days of launches, pivots, interviews, and demos, I've finally had a chance to catch up on sleep and digest what just happened. In no particular order, here...

A solar-powered light bulb may sound like an oxymoron (what's the point of a lightbulb that only works when the sun's out?), but a company called Nokero has a prototype in the works that will charge a...

Paul Carr, one of our columnists who was hired for his grandstanding ways, has decided to fall on his own sword and quit very publicly on TechCrunch. I believe this is the second or third time he's q...

Um, oh hey guys, what's up? Nothing much over on my side, except that I'd really like a Diet Coke. Also, I'm hearing that nascent photo sharing app ne blogging platform Posterous is raising some money...

"This proposed merger would stifle competition in markets that are crucial to New York's consumers and businesses, while reducing access to low-cost options and the newest broadband-based technologies...

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark  that place where the wave fin...

While Google Wallet didn't come out this summer as expected, Google has just unveiled first Google Wallet commercial, starring none other than Seinfeld's George Costanza and his overstuffed wallet....

If you're advertising a product, would you rather simply have an image of that product, or have your consumers be able to watch a video of that product in action? Unless you're sarcastic like myself, ...

RIM, to put it mildly, has been having it rough these past few days. Among other things, they've failed to hit their quarterly revenue goal, sold far fewer PlayBooks than they had hoped, and potential...

It's been a long while since we had a formal Gadgets/Mobile meet-up and I'm proud to say that this even, sponsored by Samsung, was a roaring success. We had people who drank far too much, people who a...

One of the cooler gadgets we saw at Disrupt this year was the new Retrieva GPS dog tracker. Completely redesigned, this device lets you track Fido wherever he does roam and will let people know where ...

There's a new concept for social networking services taking root, and it's not about re-creating your offline social graph on the Web, like Facebook does today. It's about discovering the people who a...

Just last week, I wrote about a data dive by mobile research firm Flurry (who, thanks to their mobile analytics SDK, has a sample group of about 20 million users across 110,000 iOS/Android apps) on wh...

Just last week, I wrote about a data dive by mobile research firm Flurry (who, thanks to their mobile analytics SDK, has a sample group of about 20 million users across 110,000 iOS/Android apps) on wh...

Education technology startup TenMarks has raised $3 million in new funding led by Catamount Ventures with Birchmere Ventures participating. James Joaquin, new partner at Catamount Ventures, is joining...

"Artists need to be business people too," filmmaker Tiffany Shlain told me when she came into San Franciscos TechCrunchTV studio. Shlain, whose movie Connected launched earlier this week, is a pioneer...

While Nintendo has officially disavowed the notion of making smartphone games, their long-time software associate Square-Enix seems to have no compunction in churning them out. They've pumped out over...

As we reported yesterday, social media dashboard company HootSuite had raised a new round of funding, according to an SEC filing. We've confirmed the funding with the company, and today, the startup ...

See ya in two weeks, paycheck! Belkin.com is running a huge sale today. Everything, and I mean everything as there isn't a minumum purhcase amount, can be yours for 50% under list today. That is if th...

Moprise is launching a new iPad application it's calling a "Flipboard for the Enterprise." The app is a tablet-optimized version of the company's currently available Coaxion iPhone application. The Fl...

Two of Twitter's earliest investors, Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures and Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital, are leaving its board of directors, Twitter has just confirmed with me. Peter Kafka reporte...

When the first shots of the HTC Vigor started making the rounds, I offhandedly mentioned that the funky backplate and red trim made it look like a new entry in Verizon's Incredible series. As it turns...

Tethras is launching its mobile app localization platform in the U.S. The company, which is based in Ireland, helps developers translate their iOD and Android apps into various languages.The company'...

While the retail or 'high street' fashion world has been gradually populated by startups looking to create communities of fashion lovers (such as WIWT), the more rarified world of high fashion has rem...

We've covered more than one electric bike over the years, but the so-called PAS Brace-L Yamaha introduced last year on the Japanese market is probably the nicest looking. And now the company announced...

Now this is some pretty hardcore dorkitude, but our buddies at Makerbot just released a new extruder for their building devices. Why is it special? Well, the first extruders did 3mm streams while this...

After months of teasing, the long wait is finally over: Sprint's version of the Samsung Galaxy S II has launched today, and is available for just shy of $200 with a new contract on Sprint.com. Though ...

Does the world need another social network? Arguably, nooooo, but I happen to believe there's room for a lot more niche social networks to complement the existing social media juggernauts. Enter Islan...

It's amazing that in 2011, roughly 1,000 years after the earbud was originally created, a model could come along that's actually innovative. But Bowers & Wilkins actually did it. The C5 in-ear he...

Austin-based video startup latakoo has a funny name (it's some kind of lark), but a great idea: make it easier to transfer HD video. Built by a group of journalists and technologists to solve the real...

Stateside Android fans have had over a year to put Google's nifty Voice Actions for Android through its paces, and while it's always technically been available to foreign users, it only ever officiall...

ViKi, an international video site for world TV series and movies translated in 100+ languages by its community, is announcing some major syndication deals and traffic numbers. For background, ViK...

Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets stories: Dyson Turns Up The Heat, Releases The Dyson Hot AM04 Air Multiplier Netflix Releases Revised Subscriber Estimate, Stock Takes A Nosedive Did Case-Ma...

955 Dreams is on a roll. They've released five iOS apps so far, and all five have been featured by Apple as an "App of the Week". Band of the Day is the latest one, earning the distinction this week.A...

Apprupt, which operates a performance network for mobile in-content ads, this morning announced that it has raised more funding from existing backers T-Venture (a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom), Neuh...

Here's a 3D screen of a different kind: a research team at Japan's Keio University has developed a display that allows users to "touch" virtual 3D characters. The way the so-called RePro3D works is th...

The turnover continues at Twitter. Following the exit of Biz Stone, the firing of four key product guys, and the departure of a number ofearly Twitter employees,we've learned that another big name has...

The ins and outs of the advertising business aren't usually that fascinating, unless of course they involve a company that is attempting, out of necessity, to revamp the entire model.When you think ab...

Back in September 2009, I wrote about Line2  a startup that offers similar functionality to Google Voice, but with a focus on catering to businesses and 'prosumers' (it offerseasily-accessible ph...

Ad network Longboard Media is announcing $6 million in Series A funding today, from Level Equity. Managing the ad inventory for over 30 online properties includingthefind.com,shop.com,overstock.com,bu...

An uninhabited playground for green tech and innovative experiments is in the works to be built in New Mexico. The pseudo town will be used to research and test new green tech, wireless and traffic te...

Bose has a new toy for your desktop. The Soundlink Mobile builds on the company's SoundDock pedigree but ditches the physical dock in favor for a bit of streaming magic. But no AirPlay here. Bose inst...

HTML5, HTML5, HTML5   it seems to be the only thing anyone wants to talk about these days. And that excitement could get kicked into overdrive next week when Facebook unveils Project Spartan, the...

If you've attended any mass gathering of investors in Silicon Valley lately, you've probably heard some buzz about invite-only visual bookmarking site Pinterest raising a "massive" round; Business Ins...

Social media dashboard company HootSuite has raised $3 million in new funding according to a new SEC filing. HootSuite has previously raised $1.2 million from Blumberg Capital, Hearst Ventures and Geo...

Microsoft has confirmed its commitment to a separate and separately-optimized ecosystem in Metro by announcing via the ever-interesting Building Windows 8 blog that IE10 in Metro will not support plug...

I've liked Windows Phone Mango since I first laid eyes on it, but the truth of the matter is that most of the features being implemented are merely catching up to competing platforms. The Bing integra...

This beauty is a Nikon F Photomic T, which first hit the streets all the back in 1965. Aside from being a gorgeous piece of retro tech, it's also one of several NASA-owned cameras from the estate of c...

Mike Shaver, one of the founders of the Mozilla project and longtime VP at Mozilla Corporation   the maker of Firefox   has announced that he's leaving Mozilla Corp. Shaver has worked at the...

Fifteen members of Congress aren't too pleased with the Department of Justice's recent anti-trust suit, as instanced by a letter they sent to President Obama. Penned by Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC) the le...

MeLLmo, the developer of business data visualization platform Roambi, has raised $30 million through its first round of institutional funding led by Sequoia Capital. This brings MeLLmo's total funding...

I reviewed the Mint floor cleaning robot just about a year ago, and found it a delightful little device as long as you know what you're getting. While it doesn't have the capabilities of the Neato (or...

Apple is famous   hell, notorious even   for their culture of secrecy. With the strictest of NDAs, discussions between even the closest of teams limited to need-to-know matters, and whispers...

A week ago, we noted the talk amongst developers that a Google+ API could be months away. The next day, we learned that Google was reaching out to "trusted" developers   among them, Google V...

In honor of the Iron Man Triathlon in Hawaii, Panasonic has created a tiny EVolt mascot that will run, swim, and bike the course's full 142 miles in about a week. The teeny little robot will run on EV...

And like that it's gone. Before I could hit the publish button on this post, Case-Mate pulled the page in question and replaced it with a landing page. But for a second there, Case-Mate had what seeme...

One of the most interesting movies of the year launches tomorrow. Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death and Technology is the work of the award-winning filmmaker Tiffany Shlain and it deals ...

AT&T CFO John Stevens dropped a bit of a bombshell while speaking at a Bank of America/Merrill Lynch event today. According to him, AT&T will officially launch their LTE network in five market...

The Archos G9 tablet comes in two flavors, 8-inch and 10-inch, and runs Honeycomb 3.2. The specs are more than acceptable with the 8-incher starting at $299 for 1 GHz of power and $100 more for a half...

Main Street Power, a national solar financier, is partnering with AlsoEnergy for a nearly three megawatt distributed generation solar project in California. AlsoEnergy, an energy monitoring and financ...

IntercastNetwork is a rich-media interactive platform that allows brands to connect to audiences using a combination of live-streaming video, real-time polling, live chat, Q&A, payment processing ...

Meteocontrol North America, a global provider of solar performance monitoring software and hardware, bankable energy yield reports, technical due diligence and operations management services for photo...

Klout, a startup that measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Foursquare, Instagram, Flickr, Tumblr and others, is expanding its product lineup today with the availability of topic...

TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley participantThingLinkis aHelsinki, Finland and U.S.-based startup that lets you add rich media tags to online images. These tags appear as small dots when you hover you...

It used to be that T-Mobile's myTouch line consisted exclusively of HTC devices, but a video uploaded to T-Mobile's official YouTube account has revealed that the myTouch club may have some new member...

Fanzila is a new startup that lets brands upgrade Facebook pages with blogs, forums, competitions and more. The company announced this week that it raised $1 million in Series A funding in round led b...

Panasonic sure knows how to promote their EVOLTA brand of rechargeable batteries: first, a cute mini robot powered by the batteries hoisted itself up a 500 meter-cliff at Grand Canyon, then an EVOLTA ...

When we showed you the so-called TEEWave AR1 last week, reactions were mixed, with some readers calling the latest electric car from Japan "pretty", while others said it's plain "ugly". But now news s...

It may have started with a quiet rollout, but a recent announcement shows that it's AmazonLocal's time to get loud. According to Amazon, their Groupon-esque deals service will start displaying bargain...

Online vertical media publisher Populis, which we've likened to Europe's Demand Media or Associated Content in the past, this morning announced that it has acquired Berlin-based mokono, Germany's larg...

Mobile video app Vlix is launching a new version of its Instagram-like mobile video sharing iOS app with text-in-video options to video effects, filters, effects and more. The app is currently availab...

While I would be absolutely thrilled to indulge my Pokemon addiction on my smartphone (officially, anyway), Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has gone and shot down my dreams. According to a post-press ...

Netflix is crashing and burning in pre-trading as the company just released a statement to shareholders that cut forecasted subscribers by 1 million users. This comes after Netflix started rolling out...

When Google+ launched a few months ago, I got in relatively quickly and liked what I saw. I believed the social network would make a great challenger to the likes of Facebook and Twitter, mainly ...

No common household product is save from a Dyson disruption. This time around the company is taking on the household space heater and just announced an air multiplier fitted with a ceramic heating ele...

Exclusive - Unigo.com, a website that provides information for finding, getting in and paying for college, has raised its first round of institutional funding. The startup has raised $1.6 million in f...

Canon took the wire this morning to announce two new significant point & shoot cameras. The PowerShot S100 replaces the much-loved S95 while the PowerShot SX40 becomes the company's latest mega zo...

San Francisco startup SaveUp has raised $2 million in early-stage funding from BlueRun Ventures and True Ventures. The company has developed a rewards program for personal savings, but has yet to laun...

About a year ago, Sharp decided to enter the rapidly growing tablet market with the terribly named Galapagos, two Android devices sized at 5.5 and 10.8 inches that went on sale in Japan last December....

GCT Semiconductor (GCT), a Korean-American fabless designer and supplier of 4G wireless semiconductor solutions, this morning announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the ...

FireHost, a company that specializes in secured cloud hosting, has raised $10 million in Series B funding in a round led by family-owned private equity firm The Stephens Group, with earlier backers al...

InMobi, which bills itself as the world's largest independent mobile ad network, has raised a whopping $200 million in funding from Softbank. The investment will come in two tranches: half this month,...

Here are some of yeterday’s Gadgets posts: Intel: 75 Million 2nd Generation Core CPUs Shipped, Fastest Selling CPU In Companys History Windows 8 Has A Friendlier Blue Screen Of Death Sony Has Tw...

Earlier today at The Paley Center for Media's International Council, IAC Chairman and Senior Executive Barry Diller took the stage for a keynote conversation with Jason Hirschhorn, CEO of reDEF Group....

TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco has just wrapped. In the feverish air of anticipation we carefully cultivate during the Disrupt season, you may have missed some of the talks, panels, launches, or sta...

Elon Musk, co-founder ofPayPaland founder ofTesla MotorsandSpace Exploration Technologies(SpaceX), sat down with Erick Schonfeld tonight just before TechCrunch Disrupt's closing ceremony. During the b...

Three days and 31 startup pitches later, the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2011 has been determined. Out of the 29 startups and two audience choice winners, we whittled the list down to s...

The TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield semifinals started off in an unorthodox way, with moderator Paul Carr bringing on TechCrunch co-founder Mike Arrington to join tech celebrity judges Ron Conw...

A year ago, a huge controversy erupted before TechCrunch Disrupt (sound familiar?). Michael Arrington walked into a bar in San Francisco, Bin 38, and walked out feeling dirty. It was in Bin 38 that he...

This year's Startup Alley was the biggest ever, with 200 companies exhibiting throughout the conference. Perhaps as a result it's attracted even more international companies and the variety of startup...

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, the closing talk was between Michael Arrington and Google's Marissa Mayer. As Mike noted, the two of them have been on stage together more than any other interview duo at ...

PayPal held an event today in Los Angeles for merchants to get a early look into the eBay owned payments giant's new technologies. As CEO Scott Thompson says in a blog post, PayPal is re-imagining mon...

To recap: on September 15 at 6:30pm TechCrunch Mobile and Gadgets will host our first meet-up at Roe @ 651 Howard St. in sunny SF. Sponsored by Samsung, this meet-up will be the first chance for our r...

Over the weekend, over 400 hackers gathered for 24 hours of hacking, Red Bull, and networking. From these late night toils, over 130 hacks emerged from the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon. On Sunday afte...

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, last year's winner, Qwiki, took the stage to give an update on their business. We originally noted that they may be the future of information consumption. But that informa...

One of the companies taking the stage this afternoon at TechCrunch Disrupt is Miso Media, a startup that's looking to help you learn how to play guitar with the help of your smartphone or tablet. In a...

This afternoon at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, Sonar announced that they'd added in what is likely their userbase's most requested feature: LinkedIn support.Launched just months ago at Disrupt NY, Sonar tap...

It's no secret that Clearwire is looking at rolling out an LTE network of their own here in the States, but a recently announced partnership could bring them some big support from overseas. The 4G int...

Erick and I did a quick Fly or Die on the Windows 8 pre-release tablet they sent along with us from Build this year and we were split right down blue (screen of death) state/grey (screen of death) lin...

Ten companies from the Imagine K12 incubator in Palo Alto pitched their wares onstage this morning at TechCrunch Disrupt. In order to participate in the three-month Imagine K12 program, which runs out...

Today during TechCrunch Disrupt, Michael Arrington led a discussion between a panel of angel investors. There was a ton of good content, but one thing that sticks out as particularly interesting is th...

Mertado, the social shopping startup that allows users to find and buy products on Facebook, today launched "Mertado TV", a new product that will combine lifestyle video content with product selection...

Along with that sushi, Apple has a lot on its plate. The company has been battling Samsung since April in one of the most widespread patent wars ever, but many forget that Apple and Motorola Mobility ...

On stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Kevin O'Connor, the former Co-founder of DoubleClick and current Founder and CEO of FindTheBest, offered some pointed advice to aspiring entrepre...

Orbotix has spent the last few months hustling, and it shows: they landed a $5 million dollar Series B investment in April, and now they have made it known that fans won't have to wait much longer to ...

Mike Schroepfer, Vice President of Engineering at Facebook, spoke with Jason Kincaid at this morning's TechCrunch Disrupt conference. The topic of the conversation focused on many of Facebook's newest...

One of the exhibitors at TC Disrupt was BookLikes.com, a Polish start-up dedicated to letting you know which book you should read next - among other things. The site is essentially a bookstore melded ...

Votizen, a new platform for connecting registered voters with elected officials, is launching the first-ever "virtual" precinct walk today, starting withSan Franciscans for Jobs and Good Government,ac...

Facebook finally did it. After years of people like me begging them to adopt a friend and follower model, Facebook rolled it out today (well, it sort of was already available, but it wasn't obvious at...

To celebrate the opening of their new AT&T Foundry in Palo Alto, AT&T is talking about some of the ambitious projects that they and their partner developers have been cooking up. One of the mo...

At TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco today, TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld took the stage to chat with Facebook's Product Director for Ads at Facebook Gokul Rajaram about the social network's advert...

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Michael Arrington sat down with Kleiner Perkins' partner John Doerr. They kicked off the talk by discussing Doerr's history. When he started at Kleiner in 1980, the person...

Intel clearly has a hit on its hands. Mooly Eden, vice president and general manager of the PC Client Group, took to the IDF 2011 stage today and announced several things including that, as this posts...

Today, in the buildup to its f8 conference, Facebook is rolling out another key new feature: a one-way follow model called Subscriptions. It's sort of like Twitter, sort of like Google+, andit ma...

Back when we reported that Eric Feng, newly appointed partner at Kleiner Perkins and previously founding CTO of Hulu was leaving the venture fund for a new stealth startup, we were sure it was going t...

The third and final day of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011 has started this morning and you can watch live here. Over the past two days, 31 startups have battled in front of the judges and an audience of t...

Last time we heard from the UK's Advertising Standards Authority, they had blocked Motorola from claiming that their Atrix handset was the world's most powerful smartphone since its processor is slowe...

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Foodie favorite Gojee, which curates recipes from food bloggers around the web in a visually beautiful way, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding led by Kapor Capital. As part of the round, Presiden...

MindJolt, the game distribution company that was acquired by MySpace founder and former CEO Chris DeWolfe, is revealing that it will introduce seven additional games this calendar year.For background,...

While Windows 8 was widely expected to have a black screen of death, the developer build released yesterday has revealed that Redmond has opted to stick with the historic blue. It does, however, come ...

Watch out, Dr. Dre, 50 Cent is ready to challenge Beats headphones with his own line of headphones. Curtis Jackson's vast empire includes a headphone company, SMS Audio, which recently acquired KonoAu...

Apart from fixing the Japan release date for the Playstation Vita (December 17) today, Sony also announced [press release in English] the handheld's full launch line-up for its home market: a total of...

The members-only design marketplace Fab.com is expanding beyond its 72 hours flash-sale model this morning, with its U.S. Design Pop-Up Shop, created in conjunction with Fast Company magazine's U.S. D...

A few weeks ago, we wrote about Life Is Crime, a new location-based mobile game. The premise is pretty awesome: it's like Foursquare meets Grand Theft Auto. You go around (virtually) beating up friend...

First spied in a slide deck last month, HTC's rumored Special Edition Sensation has been officially revealed today, albeit with a new name. Aside from its snazzy new paint job, the Sensation XE will a...

iPhone docks are everywhere. iPad docks? Not so much. Sony just outed two new models that work with both and in true Sony fashion, are loaded with colorfully named proprietary technologies. ...

Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) this morning announced that it has acquired India's AppLabs, a provider of software testing and quality management services. Financial terms of the deal were not disclose...

It doesn't happen too often that a European web startup (or any foreign startup, for that matter) makes it in Japan, but Jimdo is one of the very few examples. After reading an article on the website ...

One of the challenges for Indie movies is getting exposure to consumers. Studio films have massive marketing budgets, and are able to use these channels to get traffic. But movies created by independe...

Opera Solutions, not to be confused with browser maker Opera Software, has raised a whopping $84 million in its very first round of outside equity funding. According to the Wall Street Journal, the ro...

IAC-owned Match.com this morning announced that it has acquired a 20% interest in Zhenai, a provider of "online matchmaking services" in China, for an undisclosed sum. Launched in 2005 by CEO Dr. Song...

We are two days into Disrupt SF, and 31 startups have battled in front of the judges and an audience of thousands to vie for the Disrupt Cup and $50,000. The caliber of the startups across the board ...

The slidedeck below just landed in my inbox (actually, a link to a Slideshare presentation, which is infinitely better). The sender: InSites Consulting, one of Europe's finest research firms imho. The...

Turntable.fm founders Seth Goldstein and Billy Chasen sat downwith TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch Disrupt to talk about the rise of Turntable.fm from the ashes of Stickybits, among ot...

Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: High School Student Pitches ReactOS Project To Russian President Pedal Power: Two Empress Guitar Pedal Reviews For Knob Twiddlers Japan Is Getting A...

Earlier today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Instagram co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom was on a panel with Eric Ries and Scott Cook talking about Ries' "Lean Startup" concept. In many ways, Instagram can now...

Today's TechCrunch Disrupt audience choice winner was digital business card sharing app CardFlick, a recently launched iPhone app that allows you to trade contact info either with other people who hav...

Mobile Roadie, which allows anyone develop and create sleek, rich media iPhone and Android apps, is launching today in China. Mobile Roadie offers a self-serve app development platform that integrates...

Sony is currently holding a press conference in Tokyo where the company said that the Playstation Vita, its new handheld console, will hit stores in Japan on December 17, just in time for the holidays...

You know what's not that fun? Apartment searches. Also landlords. Luckily, launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt is Rentlord, a social platform that allows landlords and lessees to painlessly create a...

In the video game world, little can do more to send your sales soaring than being banned in one way or another. Be it because a country's government got upset over how their people were depicted (a la...

Vanguard browser collaboration technology Go Instant launches in private beta today at TechCrunch Disrupt, for the first time allowing people to surf the web with each other without having to download...

Launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt, PlaySay is a Facebook app that takes advantage of the social graph and the fact that most of us spend an inordinate amount of time on Facebook in order to help p...

For starters, Mike doesnt care in the least about startups or VC dynamics or whatever. He does care about the bits of humanity that fly off the wheel as he spins through the Valley and its impact on o...

ReadMIll, a young Berlin-based startup subjected themselves to a withering interrogation by YCombinator founder Paul Graham at yesterday's TechCrunch Disrupt conference ni an on-sage Office Hours sess...

Its almost magical how Vocre works, speak into the app while the phone is vertical and it translates it directly, while the phone is horizontal. All users need to do is give the language and the gende...

If we've said it once, we've said it one thousand times. Online dating has grown into big business, but it's still pretty creepy. There are a lot of startups out there trying to do it better, trying t...

Jiffpad is an iPad app that lets doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other medical professionals communicate with patients via the iPad. Allowing users to select from pre-determined medical diagrams or u...

Walmart has acquired OneRiot, a mobile and social ad targeting startup. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, and OneRiot will be joining Walmart Labs. As we've written in the past, OneRiot ...

What's better: an employer giving you $500 or an employer giving you an iPad? At first, you may think it's better to get the cash. But often, that money is used on things such as paying bills   i...

What's better: an employer giving you $500 or an employer giving you an iPad? At first, you may think it's better to get the cash. But often, that money is used on things such as paying bills   i...

The number of vegetable gardens is skyrocketing, and organic food and healthy eating are also on the rise. There are more than 70 million gardens in the U.S., which is generating a potential multibill...

I've been a fan of Dropbox for a long time. It's convenient, it 'just works', and 2GB of free storage can go a long way. But it isn't perfect  if you're dealing with very large amounts of data, l...

With the proliferation of social networks today, we are by no means at a loss when it comes to connecting with our friends, colleagues, and acquaintances. However, in today's highly networked world, w...

There are hundreds of travel sites out there that will help you plan your trip, but often these guides come in the form of game-ified networks or consist mainly of questionable crowdsourced content fr...

Couriers have been around forever. You've probably seen them on bikes, with messenger bags in tow. For a world teeming with innovative technologies, it seems somewhat surprising that the courier indus...

Couriers have been around forever. You've probably seen them on bikes, with messenger bags in tow. For a world teeming with innovative technologies, it seems somewhat surprising that the courier indus...

When you're just a wee babe, the idea of a new toy is the most exciting thing ever. Then you grow up, and "toys" become ridiculously expensive. You want a Chevy Corvette C6 Z06? That'll be $70,000, pl...

Prism SkyLabs was able to draw media attention before it was even launched thanks to buzz among angel investors (including TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington). When we last reported on Prism, we onl...

Well-known software developer Joel Spolsky has built popular Q&A network Stack Exchange, and launched FogBugz, a project management system for software teams. Next up on the docket is Trello, a te...

When it comes to business intelligence and competitive analysis, large businesses hire consultants and employ in-house analysts to help determine where a business should be operating, how to compete, ...

The single most interesting thing I noted when watching Windows 8 at Build last night was the insistence that the Windows 8 devices were all PCs. Windows 8 on a desktop? PC. Windows 8 on a touchscreen...

Over the past few years, millions of consumers have bought into the deal of the day and group buying craze. But what about small to medium sized businesses? There are 26 million SMBs (small to medium ...

Have you ever called a local restaurant, store or service professional and been put on hold for more than give minutes? Or worse, you can't get through to a representative and are left leaving a messa...

Finally! Astute readers may recall that when Samsung officially unveiled their three Galaxy S II variants at a New York event, the T-Mobile model was trapped in an acrylic prison. While Samsung's reps...

In an interview that was almost a time capsule, Digg founder Kevin Rose and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF exactly year from the last time they talked ons...

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Founder of Intuit Scott Cook, writer and former CTO at IMVU Eric Ries, and Instagram Co-founder Kevin Systrom gathered to discuss concepts from Ries' new book, The Lean St...

Two months before Apple won its import ban against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany, Samsung was launching an attack further West.The South Korea-based company filed a complaint against Apple ba...

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is announcing his return to investing this morning, leading a $7 million dollar investment in private jet company JetSuite. This will be Hsieh's first investment since personally...

New York-basedAngelSoft,a platform that connects entrepreneurs with hundreds of angel investor groups around the world, announced today that it's rebranding and relaunching as a new service called Gus...

Didn't grab a TC G/M meet-up ticket last week? Here are 150 more. To recap: on September 15 at 6:30pm TechCrunch Mobile and Gadgets will host our first meet-up at Roe @ 651 Howard St. in sunny SF. Spo...

During a recent high school visit, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev received an unusual request from a local student. In what was probably the most ambitious pitch of his young life, Marat Karatov as...

Tech investor Ashton Kutcher took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt today to talk with TechCrunch's Michael Arrington to talk about his investments and participation in the technology community. Interes...

Web and mobile payments platformDwollaannounced today that it now includes integration with LinkedIn's API, allowing users to send and receive payments to their connections on LinkedIn's social networ...

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, five VCs gathered to talk about the state of investing in Silicon Valley and what skills and qualities make a successful venture capitalist. James Slavet of Greylock, Joe ...

2011 Boulder TechStars graduateSimple Energyhas raised $900,000 in seed funding from a group of angel investors, including David Calone, managing director of Jove Equity Partners, and Dean Mathew, the...

We heard a few months ago that Google is planning to launch an ITA integrated-flight search product. For background, the DOJ finally approved Google's $700 million acquisition of airfare software com...

At this morning's TechCrunch Disrupt,Michael Arringtonsat down withnearly half a dozen VC's, including Joe Kraus (Google Ventures), Rich Wong (Accel Partners), Shervin Pishevar (Menlo Ventures), Georg...

Apple is prepping to open its second Shanghai location after opening the first in Pudong last year. This new location is going to be massive and feature five stories of Apple goodness over a sprawling...

I love analog tech and I love analog sound. That's why I wrote up these two basic reviews of two Empress analog pedals for guitarists sick of bleeps and bloops and color LCD read-outs. I added a few v...

It's well known that one of the missing parts of Twitter's offerings for publishers is an in-depth analytics platform. Last year, the network started offering a Tweet button which publishers could emb...

It's well known that one of the missing parts of Twitter's offerings for publishers is an in-depth analytics platform. Last year, the network started offering a Tweet button which publishers could emb...

Today during TechCrunch Disrupt, Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla sat down with Erick Schonfeld. They talked about a range of issues but there were three things Khosla kept coming back to: the "Post-PC" ...

Here onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt, newly minted VC Shervin Pishevar has just announced that Menlo Ventures has launched a $20 million early stage fund, Menlo Talent Fund, with partners Keith Rabois a...

Here onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt, newly minted VC Shervin Pishevar has just announced that Menlo Ventures has launched a $20 million early stage fund, Menlo Talent Fund, with partners Keith Rabois a...

Pixel Qi screens have found a new friend in San Diego based Sol Computers. The computer shop just announced a pair of products that do away with standard screens in favor for Pixel Qi's sunlight-frien...

Earlier this week, we reported that Facebook had quietly activated a nifty new feature: smart friend lists that use algorithms to generate a handful of lists of your friends, coworkers, acquaintances,...

There are quite a few nifty app search engines out there, but Chomp is trying to be the Google of search engines, not the AltaVista. Mobile apps are everywhere you look, but when it comes to finding t...

The line of investors trying to press their way into Turntable.fm's latest round of funding was appropriately similar to the line outside a crankin' dance club: a mix of money and celebrity. And not e...

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, who had never run for office before his stint as San Francisco mayor, took the stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt in order to talk about how the city of San Francisco can fu...

TechCrunch is kicking off the second day of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011 this morning. We've embedded the livestream of the event below. ...

Today, Microsoft has announced quite the milestone for Windows 7: since its launch in October 2009, a full 450 million licenses have been sold. The numbers are somehow more impressive when broken down...

Over the past two days, I've been working with a prototype Windows 8 tablet - really a PC - and finding that instead of a disappointing mish-mash of Windows XP and some strange touch UI that the Windo...

I've just been given a demo of a new upcoming social networking service called AnyBeat, which was formerly known as Altly and was started by Veoh founder and former MySpace Music exec Dmitry Shapiro.I...

Aviary has made a name for itself over the years with its powerful photo editing - and other tools - and API for the Web and mobile. Today, they're somewhat changing course, business-wise, henceforth ...

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HTC's Bliss and Runnymede smartphones have been making waves recently, albeit for completely different reasons. While the Bliss has gained its notoriety for being HTC's first female-friendly smartphon...

Competition for the iPod? Sony Japan announced [JP] the NW-Z1000 series today, their three newest Walkmans, which come with an array of flashy features. The new series was showcased for the first time...

It's amazing what people can do with one of AMD's new eight-core FX processors, a specially built chassis, and a few tanks of liquid helium. In a pre-release stunt, AMD rounded up a small group of exp...

That horrible 3DS cradle Nintendo showed during the Nintendo 3DS Conference 2011 [JP] today wasn't the only official hardware-related announcement of the show: big N also took the wraps off a very spe...

The Tokyo Game Show 2011 is starting tomorrow, an exhibition that Nintendo isn't taking part in traditionally. Instead, big N organized a separate event today, the so-called Nintendo 3DS Conference 20...

Today sees the launch of the Social Business Index, a project from social business services company Dachis Group. In essence, the information service aims to provide some insights into how 'social' co...

After announcing a slew of new features on Facebook, video publishing platform Ooyala is announcing another bit of news today a new investor. The venture arm of Motorola Mobility, which Google is...

Europe is growing quite fond of Google's Android operating system, according to market research firm ComScore. Android devices now account for nearly a quarter of all the smartphones used in France, G...

There are plenty of apps that let you watch TV and movies on your iPad: Hulu Plus, Netflix, Vudu and even trusty old iTunes. But how do you know what's available out there? Guess what! There's an app ...

There are plenty of apps that let you watch TV and movies on your iPad: Hulu Plus, Netflix, Vudu and even trusty old iTunes. But how do you know what's available out there? Guess what! There's an app ...

Exclusive - Startup accelerator TechStars, arguably one of the best of its genre in the world, is today announcing the launch of its first thematically focused business kickstarter. Dubbed TechStars C...

Apsalar, a San Francisco startup that offers mobile analytics, behavioral targeting and optimization solutions to iOS and Android app developers and publishers, has raised $5 million in funding in a r...

Nintendo took to the Tokyo Game Show stage today to announce several new products including the new features of 3D video capture and upgraded online distribution. But they didn't announce the Slidepad...

Looks familiar, eh? Logitech clearly drew inspiration from Apple for the Wireless Touchpad, but that's fine in my book. The Wireless Trackpad doesn't have the magic repertoire of the Apple counterpart...

BonitaSoft, a provider of open source business process management (BPM) solutions, this morning announced that it has landed $11 million in funding in a Series B round led by Serena Capital. Existing ...

Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: HP Offers TouchPad Refund Program To European Customers Barnes & Noble Courts HTML Devs With Appcelerator Partnership Super Mario ...

Mike first covered Amie Street back in 2006. At the time, he was a big fan. Back then, the startup was targeting a new music model, which allowed musicians to upload their songs to Amie Street's platf...

Y Combinator startup B2Brev wants to help small to medium size businesses figure out which products and services to use, by serving as a venue for aggregated reviews. Starting out by dipping its toe i...

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, the audience winner was Quest.li. It's a mobile application that turns real life goals into a game. FounderDanil Kozyatnikov traveled from Siberia to present.In the game y...

If you were into PC gaming in the early 2000s, you know what Black & White is.Peter Molyneux's 2001 classic published by EA gave every gamer the role they wanted: God. A new startup is aiming to b...

It's been a long time since we were delighted and even slightly bemused by the utter stripped down simplicity of Twitter. And let's face it, there have been many pretenders to that simplistic interfac...

We've all dealt with the frustrations of auto-correct, from accidentally declaring that you're getting a divorce to having your bitter, angry diatribe suddenly mutate into something involving a lot of...

There is a lot of junk on YouTube. But there are also a ton of undiscovered gems. Imagine if you could have a hand in surfacing the best stuff. And imagine how much more exciting that would be if you ...

If you're planning to get work done on your house in the near future, you'll probably be interested inHouseFix, one of the latest companies to launch this afternoon at the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefie...

It's sort of ridiculous how huge gift card programs are   Americans spend some $100 billion on them each year, and they're now offered by myriad physical stores and online companies (like Zynga) ...

Facebook is the social network. But it's still not really all that social. Yes, you chat here and "like" things there. But it's not the same as going out to a bar with a group of friends. Shaker, a ne...

TechCrunch Disrupt finalistEverpix is a new service that automatically organizes and combines all your photo libraries into an elegant interface, whether they're stored on the desktop or in the cloud....

The cloud is now your hard drive. And not just a few dozen Gigabytes, Terabytes or even Petabytes, but all of it - infinite storage - for only $10 per month. This is the incredible promise of the new ...

TechCrunch Disrupt finalist Pressly is an HTML5-based platform that turns online publications into tablet-friendly websites that work on the iPad, Android tablets or the BlackBerry PlayBook. The sites...

Today, TechCrunch Disrupt finalist Verious is launching the world's first marketplace for mobile application components - that is, the libraries, the SDKs (software development kits), the add-ons, the...

Qualcomm is one of biggest players (if not the biggest) in the mobile chipset space, and their dominance of the market is forcing other manufacturers to seek alternative strategies. While Qualcomm's h...

Spool is a new service aimed at addressing the problem created by the multi-device, multi-screen environment we now live in, where the content consumption experience can vary widely from platform to p...

No matter how healthy you are, health insurance still has the uncanny ability to give you a headache.First there are the bills, which always seem way steeper than you were expecting. Then there are th...

Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook and, more recently, of enterprise collaboration software company Asana, spoke toTechCrunch Editor in Chief Erick Schonfeld at Disrupt this afternoon in a brief...

The Android Market continues to explode. Recent statistics published by research firm Ovum predict that app downloads in Android's marketplace could reach 8.1 billion this year, compared to 6 billion ...

It's no secret that fresh produce straight from the farm can often beat the potato skins off of its supermarket counterpart   and why farmer's markets are becoming increasingly popular. But unles...

So, you bought an HP TouchPad. No, not the 89 TouchPad — the 399 TouchPad. Understandably, you're pissed. Well, everything's going to be okay. HP's "way of saying thank you for choosing HP webOS...

If you've ever played an instrument, there's a very good chance you're familiar with the annoyances involved with sheet music. For one, it can be tough to find the piece you're looking for, and then t...

One of the best sessions of TechCrunch Disrupt NYC was Paul Graham's Office Hours  where Y Combinator founder Graham sat down for a few minutes with entrepreneurs, analyzing and critiquing their ...

Peter Thiel and Max Levchin are busy guys. Thiel, aside from being on the Board of Directors for companies like Palantir Technologies, Geni, Asana, and Facebook, also happens to be founder and preside...

The Philadelphia Media Network has had an ambitious summer: in July, the company announced their intention to sell subsidized Android tablets with subscriptions to the digital editions of Philly's two...

Although it is free to develop for the B&N Nook Color's homegrown version of Android, the company is courting devs who may or may not be as comfortable with the vagaries of Android development by ...

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Michael Arrington sat down with Sequoia's Doug Leone. While he's been with the venture capital firm since 1988, not many people know who he is because he keeps a low profi...

We've mentioned a few times the possibility that GameStop would be launching its own GameStop-branded tablet. Turns out, this mystery tablet is already in the testing phase, says GameStop President To...

At the TechCrunch Hackathon on Saturday, the 108-year-old, All-American automaker, Ford, teamed up with the newly-American music service, Spotify, to showcase the growing opportunities for developers ...

Given that I don't even really need to write an introduction for it, it goes without saying that Angry Birds is a massive, massive brand. It's available for everything from iOS to the PS3, and just re...

The location wars had a number of casualties. Some companies shut down, some sold off their remaining tech and talent. Others are still out there plugging away, but at this point, it seems clear that ...

Today to kick off TechCrunch Disrupt, LinkedIn founder, Greylock partner, and prolific angel investor Reid Hoffman took the stage for a chat with TC founder Michael Arrington for a conversation that s...

Flipboard CEO Mike McCue took the stage today with TechCrunch Editor-in-Chief Erick Schonfeld, talking about the future of tablet publishing.He revealed that the app has hit 3.5 million downloads in a...

Founder and CEO Mary Lou Jepson has always had high hopes for Pixel Qi's low-power, super-reflective LCDs. While the displays popped up in niche tablets like the Notion Ink Adam, they have yet to reac...

There's no more exciting place to be than TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011 this morning. I'm not kidding. In case you can't be here because of an act of God or something just as urgent, we've embedding the ...

AOL has issued the following statement: “The TechCrunch acquisition has been a success for AOL and for our shareholders, and we are very excited about its future. Michael Arrington, the founder ...

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Tesla is getting some competition from Japan: Tokyo-based chemicals giant Toray has taken the wraps off Teewave AR1 (short for "Toray Eco Efficient Advanced Roadstar 1"), a two-seat sports car over th...

This is side-scrolling done right, ladies and gamers. Simple graphics, instant enjoyment, and not much of a learning curve is the classic formula for success. (see Angry Birds and Lemmings) But this t...

Searching for apartments sucks. It's nerve-racking, frantic, and searchers often find themselves settling for less. In July, we covered the seed raise of Nestio, a young TechStars grad that allows use...

Customer support startup Zendesk is unveiling Zendesk Voice, a cloud-based call center that integrates with the startup's popular help-desk platform. Launched in 2008, Zendesk offers a web-based, SaaS...

If their latest press release is any indication, AT&T really loves their Windows Phones. Their current lineup consists of four WP devices, with three of them having launched alongside the OS last ...

It was nine months ago when we first wrote about TestFlight, the super-simple over-the-air (OTA) iOS app distribution service. As we noted at the time, the service seemed perfect for developers lookin...

HTC has produced devices running a handful of operating systems over the years, from big names like Android to more lightweight options like Qualcomm's BREW. What we've never seen though is a device t...

Video publishing platform Ooyala is adding a social component to its videos today with the launch of Ooyala Social, a new HD-quality Social TV experience that brings video sharing and and viewing to F...

Exclusive - StatSheet, which specializes in realtime content automation, is expanding beyond sports to apply its technology to other data-intensive verticals where the cost of creating high-quality co...

Sony finally unveiled its upcoming tablets earlier this month and at least two retailers just put the more traditional Tablet S up for pre-order. Both Amazon and Best Buy are allowing awaiting buyers ...

It's been a year since social rewards and analytics company,Badgevilletook home the prize forAudience Choice Winner at TechCrunch Disrupt 2010. Today, Founder and CEOKris Dugganspoke atthis year's Dis...

For the past few years, longtimeentrepreneursJosh Felser and Dave Samuel have been investing in seed and early-stage startups under the name "Freestyle Capital". Now that a few of the nearly 30 compan...

When eBay bought GSI Commerce for $2.4 billion in cash and debt in March, it was somewhat surprising to lean that the e-commerce giant's founder and CEO Michael Rubin was not staying on with eBay. Ins...

Mouse Without Borders, much like the real world counterparts, doesn't care about your screen's boundaries. It doesn't care where one OS stops and another starts. Mouse Without Borders essentially bust...

As I wrote last week when Seedcamp made a flurry of announcements, including fresh funding and ambitious plans for international expansion, I spent some time in London last week to get acquainted with...

Start to finish party planning site Punchbowl is moving beyond just offering online invitations to the digital greeting card business. The company's digital greeting cards allow you to send a thank yo...

Broadcom this morning announced that it has agreed to acquire NetLogic Microsystems, which delivers a range of semiconductor solutions.Under the agreement, NetLogic shareholders will receive $50 per s...

Broadcom this morning announced that it has agreed to acquire NetLogic Microsystems, which delivers a range of semiconductor solutions.Under the agreement, NetLogic shareholders will receive $50 per s...

CityDeals.com, one of probably far too many online daily deal sites, has been acquired by Seven Peaks, which owns and operates a number of water parks in the United States. Turns out CityDeals.com rec...

FriendFinder Networks this morning announced the acquisition of BDM Global Ventures, the company behind daily deals business JigoCity, for a combination of stock and warrants, in a deal worth up to $6...

10gen, a company which offers enterprises a big data database built off of MongoDB, has raised $20 million in financing, led by Sequoia Capital and with participation from 10gens other existing invest...

Mobile Interactive Group (MIG) this morning announced that it has acquired global mobile payments business Zaypay, a startup based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. MIG says it will continue to operate Z...

NEC announced [JP] the so-called LaVie Touch for the Japanese market today, a tablet with two rather special features: it's powered by Windows 7 Home Premium, and it comes with a total of three hardwa...

Nurun, a global digital marketing agency owned by Quebecor Media, has acquired Odopod, a San Francisco-based fellow digital agency. I realize this isn't our typical field of coverage, but I thought th...

A group of investors led by Juha Pinomaa, former President of Suunto and a former Nokia exec, has acquired the connected watch business of a company called Meta Watch, as well as related IP assets.Joi...

Here is a selection of stories from the past week on TechCrunch Gadgets: Video: Learning About Picture And Color Modes On Your DSLR Video: Japanese University Uses Fish Scales To Develop Stronger Arti...

Lots of announcements today from Mindjet, which aims to help people work together more efficiently. The company this morning announced an upcoming cloud-based service dubbed Mindjet Connect, work mana...

I was recently asked to spend some time with an early stage startup that has a revolutionary new product. I asked them if they thought they were making their product better. As with every other startu...

In light of reports that the company was canceling its investor roadshow and postponing its IPO, daily deals aggregator Yipit has come up with some positive information regarding to Groupon's trajecto...

Team Let's Drink Tonight, consisting of developers Zephyr Pellerin, Allen Romero, Jeremia Kimelman and Hunter Hastings, took advantage of its opportunity at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon and attemp...

We're back for a new episode of OMG/JK, featuring your hosts reunited at TCHQ as we prepare for TechCrunch Disrupt SF.This week, we talk about Amazon's upcoming secret tablet (which MG recently tried ...

Over 700 hackers signed up and over 400 stayed the night in order to come up with over 130 hacks at this year's TechCrunch Disrupt HackathonSF. Fueled by Doritos and RedBull among other things, many a...

It's been nearly 24 hours since the start of the Hackathon and the hax0rs have hax3d. We've seen 130 projects pitched in just 60 seconds each, all created in under 24 hours.While all of the projects w...

Not a day goes by that I don't see one of the Twitter users I follow Tweet a request for an item, such as last-minute tickets; or post about a newly available item, such as an apartment for rent. As T...

Hundreds of hackers participated from late last night to early today morning at the fourth annual TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in San Francisco, building in teams and waking up or popping enough coffe...

Hundreds of hackers participated from late last night to early today morning at the fourth annual TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in San Francisco, building in teams and waking up or popping enough coffe...

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September 11 is our generation's JFK assassination: everybody remembers where they were on that traumatic day. Whether you were nearby the attacks in New York City, Washington, and Pennsylvania or wa...

It's been a solid 12 hours since TechCrunch Hackathon commenced, and things are getting a bit loopy. For the most part, this place is pretty quiet. We have a few sleepers in corners, and just about ev...

Hackers aren't necessarily known for their sense of fashion. Usually, it's all about the code. They might as well be wearing jumpsuits -- or their birthday suits, for that matter. But here at the Disr...

We're back with another look at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon, where hundreds of programmers are currently burning the midnight oil as they work to get their projects in demo-ready shape by tomo...

Today at the TechCrunch Hackathon, Ford, the second largest automaker in the U.S., teamed with Spotify, the fast-growing Swedish music service that recently arrived in the states, to demonstrate the c...

We ran through the Hackathon this afternoon, asking folks what they were working on. The results, obviously, were quite varied and very impressive. Our favorites? The dudes working on an air guitar pi...

Here are ten hackers we met at today's Disrupt Hackathon. These folks have steeled themselves with snack food and coffee and are hacking away as we speak....

Every hacker is different, and that's exactly what we expect to see when this is all through. Something new, something different — all with the potential to disrupt. So far about half of registr...

You may remember that back in July 2009, Twitter made a big stink about developers using the term 'tweet' in their Twitter apps. Oddly enough, while Twitter has long been trying to register the 'tweet...

Yesterday, we outlined a bit of what we've heard about Facebook's upcoming f8 conference. One big launch will be their official foray into music. Today, we've heard more about that launch.One thing we...

It's nearly noon and the Disrupt Hackaton Hackers are converging on the Design Center like zombies hunting only one thing: caffeine. We'll bring you posts from the floor as the festivities start but w...

There's no question that the cost of patents is rising. Google is paying $12.5 billion for Motorola mainly for its huge mobile patent portfolio. In July, an anti-Google consortium raised $4.5 billion ...

Is there anything Samsung doesn't do? The same week I bought myself a shiny new Galaxy S II, they launched a solar-powered netbook for use in the developing world. Unlike any American or European comp...

The Gillmor Gang   Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor   rallied from big media's confusion over how to grapple with reality. For @dannysullivan, the ...

One of the most popular Disrupt sessions is Paul Graham's Office Hours. (See video below). We are bringing it back to Disrupt SF on Monday, September 12th. If you are attending Disrupt and would like ...

Mobile devices are shifting many individual computing behaviors, perhaps none more significant than how we search for and receive information. Right now, it's moving at warp speed. In between the time...

The job of CEO at a 200 person company is pretty different from the life I had 6 years ago just before Meebo launched. Its a lot less about what I do and a lot more about how I enable others. In ...

Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets posts: After Ice Cream Sandwich Comes Jelly Bean Rumored Specs For Nikons Mirrorless Cameras Nvidia: Were No Longer In The Processor Business Because Intel "...

It was an absolutely perfect day in Austin this past Wednesday, a temperate and breezy 89 degrees. The kind of day that seemed ripe with possibilities. Austins startup community gathered en masse at ...

Car rental community Getaround is announcing a $3.4 million seed round today, with participation from Netflix founder Marc Randolph, Powerset founder Barney Pell, Wordpress' Matt Mullenweg, Redpoint V...

In case you've lain awake nights wondering what tasty treat will follow Ice Cream Sandwich in Google's sweet parade of Android versions, allow me to set your mind at ease. According to a "trusted sour...

All the cool kids are going mirrorless these days. Micro 4/3 cameras like the E-PL3 and luxury compacts like the X100 are starting to capture market share as the format matures and people see the bene...

We're now less than two weeks away from Facebook's f8 conference. While it's later than usual this year, Facebook uses the event to lay out their vision for the upcoming year and beyond. Typically, th...

If you needed any more proof that the age of dead-tree books is over take a look at these alarming style changes at Ikea: the furniture manufacturer's iconic BILLY bookcase - the bookcase that everyon...

Oh, what's this? Sprint is reportedly blacking out vacation days between September 30th and October 15th? For a "major phone launch"?Major phone launch. Early October (right when the iPhone 5 is said ...

On September 1st, Google's popular browser, Chrome, celebrated its third birthday. In a relatively short span of time, Chrome has gobbled up 22 percent market share among browsers, compared to Firefox...

Just... wow. It was sort of a given that Nike's limited edition, McFly-inspired Air Mag sneakers would be fetching pretty pennies on eBay, but TMZ reports British rap act Tinie Tempah spent more than ...

TokBox, a Sequoia-backed startup that offers tools for quickly integrating videofunctionalityinto apps and websites, is launching a new feature today for its OpenTok suite of video APIs: video recordi...

The Gillmor Gang   Robert Scoble, Danny Sullivan, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor   are recording live as we wait for editorial guidance from above. Or sideways....

If the meek capitulation in the headline sounds uncharacteristic of Nvidia's infamously outspoken CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, it's probably because he's bitter. Though the GPU-focused company announced way b...

Take it from a former retail drone: trying to give customers a good shopping experience can be tough when you have to jostle with other employees for open computers. In-store networks are slow, and mo...

Reports are coming out that AOL is talking to Yahoo's bankers about merging the two companies in the wake of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz getting canned. We have an independent source who confirms discussio...

This morning, I logged into Tumblr (where I run my personal blog) and saw confetti flying everywhere on the screen. Was Tumblr hacked? Were they converting the platform to be Geocities-powered complet...

French entrepreneurs Christophe Camborde and Yannick Lacastaigneratte, who founded cloud storage storage Steek and sold it to F-Secure for close to $40 million in 2009, are apparently at it again.A ye...

When it comes to selling products on the Web, the more consumer reviews a product attracts, the more conversions and sales it sees as a result. This is why PowerReviews has built a social commerce net...

Google Docs suffered an extended outagethis week, which raised concerns, yet again, about the reliability involved with storing mission-criticaldocuments in the cloud. Personally, I'd rather trust Goo...

Ardent iOS supporters have been clamoring for true Flash support for years, and with the announcement of their new version of Flash Media Server, Adobe completely fails to deliver. Instead, they've ma...

Disrupt SF is literally right around the corner. We are kicking things off this weekend with the incredibly popular Hackathon, where we have more contests and prizes than ever before. Disrupt starts o...

Mobile payments company BilltoMobile now has direct carrier relationships with all four of the major carriers in the U.S., including Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile (the deal with T-Mo...

BuyWithMe, which rivals group buying / daily deal sites LivingSocial and Groupon in the United States, has been busy this year. The company this morning announced its sixth acquisition for 2011, scoop...

"Come celebrate in style with HTC," they say. Celebrate what?HTC has just begun to send out press invites for a mystery event in New York City on September 20th. Unlike Samsung, who tends to make it b...

"We are planning things that will make Vlad the Impaler look like Mr. **** Rogers." That's what Graham Davies, the fictional Apple VP of Marketing in Conan's many Apple spoofs, stated in response to s...

MeeGo is up in the air. Nokia turned its back on MeeGo a while ago. Intel, meanwhile, promises to continue to support the open-source community, but reports claim that it has decided to temporarily su...

Google is advising users in Iran to take specific steps in order to re-secure their Gmail accounts after last week's reveal of the man-in-the-middle attacks that targeted Iranian users. The attackers ...

First off, this isn't what you're thinking: this scanner doesn't actually allow you to scan objects in 3D but it allows you to scan physical objects. Think of it as a larger camera. That said, the HP ...

IAC-owned local media and advertising property CityGrid Media is unveiling a brand new API today that provides places data for more then 15 million local businesses and data for 1 million local advert...

Joyent has revealed the winners ofNode Knockout, the annual Node.js hacking competition it hosts. This year's hackathon, which encourages developers to build apps using the increasingly popular server...

Reports of the iPhone's forthcoming launch on Sprint just don't seem to quit, and today is no exception. Sources close to the situation say that Sprint plans to retain their unlimited data plans for u...

Gor blimey, Danger Mouse! The Touchpad suddenly appeared at UK retailed PC World for a mere $398, a far cry from the impressive $99 models offered on this side of the pond....

Battlefield 3 launches late next month and DICE/EA have so far strategically released bits of video of what looks to be awesome gameplay. The Frostbite 2 engine looks astounding. Here's the latest vid...

Smozzy is a new Android application that lets you search the Web on your mobile phone without a data plan. The app works only in the U.S., only on T-Mobile phones and requires that you have a messagin...

My overclocked quad-core beast of a desktop takes 3 minutes to start after loading Windows 7, never mind the time it takes to POST and run through all the pre-Windows crap -- and that's with Soluto in...

Short Version It's hard to recommend the E-PL3 over the more powerful and touchscreen-capable E-P3 but if you're in the market for a much more compact micro 4/3s shooter and you can survive without a ...

The first email hit TechCrunch's tip line at 11:32 EDT. Others quickly followed saying the same thing: major Microsoft cloud services are down worldwide. Hotmail, Skydrive, and Microsoft's recently la...

Ebates.com, the online cash back shopping website originally started in 1998, this morning announced the creation of a new company called Performance Marketing Brands (PMB), which will specialize in s...

Apple and Samsung have toured the globe over the course of their patent war, leaving a number of loose ends in their wake. We're still unsure just what could happen in Japan, Australia, and even here ...

First KDDI's iida INFOBAR, then Sharp's clamshell Android phone HYBRID oo7SH, and now the so-called Smart Bar [JP]: Japan is getting more and more specially designed Android handsets. As you can see o...

Japanese chemicals company Teijin has developed a plastic that emits a blue light when exposed to radioactivity (pictured). Named SCINTIREX, the company expects the polyester-based resin to be used as...

You've got 500-something friends, all of about 50 you really interact with. You went to school with Lucy and Henry, you've worked with Mike for years, and Joe lives just down the block. Facebook knows...

In the days of yore, travel guides were written by intrepid travelers who spent months scribbling in diaries and field journals, or by teams of adventurous souls exhaustively scrap booking their trave...

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo confirmed its first $400 million tranche of a $800 million Series G this morning, saying that the company has just closed "more money than I've ever seen before" and therefore...

The huge variety of robots is a thing to marvel at. Just a few years ago, the best they could do was roll around or walk stiffly on poorly-hinged limbs. Now we have robots that gallop, slither, and fl...

Over the past few months, my colleague MG Siegler has been piecing together the puzzle around Facebook's Project Spartan, which is the social network's secret plan to bring applications to the mobile ...

Notifo, a YC-backed company we once described as a "simple mobile notifications platform for anything", is shuttering the windows and heading for the deadpool.The idea was simple enough: Notifo would ...

Vodafone. It's a brand that most folks here in the states would, at first pass, almost certainly chalk up as "that one European company that puts their name on a bunch of football soccer jerseys" &nbs...

MOG, the all-you-can-eat streaming music service that competes with the likes of Spotify and Rdio, has some good news for Mac users: it's just launched a native application for OS X, which is now avai...

The Web has been home to a fair number of questionable memes and websites over the years, really too many to mention here. One among them that you're likely familiar with is "Hot Or Not", the site tha...

In 1971, Michael Hart was given some operator time on a Xerox mainframe, and felt obligated to produce something worthwhile. Struck by an idea, he typed in, letter by letter, the text of the Declarati...

Nike made a legion of sneaker geeks' dreams come true when they sent out their Back To The Future-themed invitations earlier today, but the official word has come down from on high: the Air Mags are r...

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo held a press briefing at Twitter HQ this morning in order to talk about the Twitter's path moving forward. Costolo indicated how important it was that Twitter  focus if i...

During hissit downwith the press today, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo offered up some good information. Some of it was in the form of stats, some was in their thinking on the business model (get this: occa...

Now that Google Music Beta has been out there for a few months, it's time to focus on how toget people to use it. One key: mobile.While Google launched an Android app for Music Beta alongside theiniti...

The fourth annual TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon is just around the corner! Spend an intense 24 hours hacking, learning and presenting with the Bay Areas finest developers. On Sunday morning, youll have...

A few years ago, Zagat was trying to shop itself around for $200 million. Today, Google bought it for less than $66 million. The price wasn't disclosed, but there was no FTC antitrust review, which i...

About a week ago, I noted that Google may be on the verge of resurrecting the "GDrive" project, also known as "Google Drive". The service, which was previously used internally at Google under the code...

The Contour family of cameras, which competes with GoPro and other small, hardened imaging devices, has a new member. The Roam rounds out the range at the low end, providing the primary functions of t...

Oh boy. At this point, even the shit-show is becoming a shit-show. According to Dan Primack at Fortune, Mike Arrington has been fired by AOL. My inbox is full of emails from journalists, friends and t...

Though Windows 8 is slated for a Fall 2012 release, we may get our first official taste of it next week. Samsung is reportedly building a new tablet based on the Windows 8 operating system, which is s...

So, you're ready to make a freemium game. You've got the designers, you've got the coders, and you've got the rough idea for what you want the game to be about   now, who the heck are you making ...

Sometimes it seems like phone manufacturers are locked in a race to deliver the fastest, most feature-packed phones, but sheer power does not a great phone make. According to a recent report from J.D....

Ning cofounder and former CEO Gina Bianchiniis back, and she's launching her latest startup: a service called Mightybell. Its promise? To help you accomplish things in small, incremental steps (and to...

HotelTonight, a mobile app that offers deep discounts on same-day hotel deals, has landed a big fish for its marketing chief Travelocity executive Beth Murphy. For background, HotelTonight offers...

Today at Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco, CEO Dick Costolo sat down with some members of the media to talk a bit about the state of the company. He rattled of plenty of stats, and also gave th...

Cloud-based phone systems provider RingCentral has raised $10 million in new funding from new investor Scale Venture Partners and Cisco. The company previously raised $45 million in funding from Cisco...

We're at Twitter HQ listening to Twitter CEO Dick Costolo talk about the state of Twitter as business. Costolo begins the talk dropping some user numbers. ...

What does former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz think about the Yahoo board that summarily fired her? Going out in typical, feisty Bartz style, she minces no words: "The board was so spooked by being cast as ...

Powerinbox, the new email platform that lets you run apps for Facebook, Twitter, and Groupon inside your inbox has today added support for Google+. Despite not having access to an official Google...

Apple has hit Samsung here in the U.S., Australia, the entirety of Europe, and even on its home turf in South Korea. But that's not enough, apparently. Japan is our latest battlefield, with Apple agai...

Google has acquired Zagat, one of the most well-known names in restaurant reviews. Zagat is best known for its small guidebooks (the dead-tree sort) that offer reviews and recommendations on restaura...

SOS Online Backup, a company that markets cloud-based data backup and protection solutions, has raised $3 million in Series A funding from Splashfond Investors. The financing round brings the total of...

In my previous post about Mobli, I claimed it would be the break-out photo sharing app of the year. I went to say that like Instagram, it has something special in between the pixels. I backed that up ...

GE is leading a $22 million investment in San Francisco-based green builder Project Frog, which helps speed up and reduce the cost of traditional construction by using a combination of new technologie...

Are we in the post-PC era or aren't we? A tipster sent in this Verizon "quick tip" that suggests the best way to keep your smartphone fresh and fun is to reboot it once a day.Your phone has capabiliti...

If the model number GT-i9250 means nothing to you, you best brush up on your mobile news. It's supposed to be the next Google phone, the Nexus Prime, and the first phone to run the much anticipated Ic...

Payvment, a startup that allows anyone to create and operate a retail storefront on Facebook, is releasing a new version of its social commerce platform that aims to meet needs of larger retailers, br...

Motorola's no stranger to shoehorning social media into their devices (I'm looking at you, MotoBlur), but a new device passing through the Bluetooth SIG website reveals just how serious Motorola is ab...

If you've heard it once, you've heard it thousands of times: Children are the future. Both literally and figuratively, that's a hard one to debate. Now then, if adults are adopting digital technologie...

Startup accelerator DreamIt Ventures is introducing its Fall 2011 Philadelphia class today, which includes five minority-owned companies selected in collaboration with Comcast Ventures. In May, DreamI...

Platfora, a startup focused on bringing businesses intelligence from big data, raised $5.7 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with intelligence technology company In-Q-Tel particip...

With an October/November launch window more or less confirmed, the next burning question is which devices will get to benefit from the Ice Cream Sandwich treatment first. Motorola's Sanjay Jha mention...

From the "click-clack, click-clack" of your car's turn signal to the honking of a passing bus, life is a symphony of sound   there's just no one conducting. This morning, Smule (makers of many a ...

APIs are hot. Twitter attracts 15 billion API calls per day, and Saleforce.com receives 50 percent of its traffic through its API, to site a few big name examples. So here's a simple thought: If every...

Social video advertising startup Sharethrough is debuting 'Sharethrough HQ,' an analytics dashboard designed specifically for social video campaigns. Sharethrough's ad network basically takes video a...

Taptu, a social media and social search company, announced today its plans to expand beyond its current lineup of mobile apps in order to include a new, white label offering called Tapform. As the nam...

From the "click-clack, click-clack" of your car's turn signal to the honking of a passing bus, life is a symphony of sound   there's just no one conducting. This morning, Smule (makers of many a ...

Remember Chumby, the huggable, widget-powered alarm clock that everyone wanted but just couldn't figure out what to do with? Well it's back and it wants to mate with your TV. The NeTV is a Chumby that...

Gartner just lowered its forecast on PC unit growth for both 2011 and 2012. The technology research firm cites many reasons, but now expects to see 364 million units shipped in 2011, up just 3.8 perce...

Today, third-party mobile application store GetJar is publicly launching its GetJar Gold service, which has been in beta testing for the past month. The new service presents a viable challenge to Amaz...

FullContact, a startup that just 'graduated' from business accelerator TechStars, has raised $1.5 million in Series A funding from 500 Startups, Tango / High Country Venture, BulletTime Ventures, SK V...

Japan's biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo is stepping up its efforts to bring Xi, its LTE service, to the masses: today, the company announced two tablets that are compatible with the standard for the...

Qosmos, a Paris, France-based network intelligence technology company, has raised close to 20 million euros (approximately $28.5 million) in a deal that was co-led by DFJ Esprit and FSI, a French gove...

Personal styling and retail platform Trunk Club has raised $11 million in Series funding led by U.S. Venture Partners with Greycroft Partners, Apex Venture Partners, and Anthos Capital also participat...

The patent war between Apple and Samsung is continuing, and this time the battlefield is Japan: Japanese news agency Kyodo is reporting that Apple filed a lawsuit against Samsung with the Tokyo Distri...

I've spent the past couple of days in London getting caught up in the Seedcamp Week craziness, meeting some of Europe's finest entrepreneurs and investors. Me and Mike Butcher will soon post a round-u...

Just yesterday, we wrote that those developers waiting on a Google+ API would have to wait a while   months, even. This disappointing information came to us by way of one eager developer bas...

Here are some of yesterday’s posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: Video: Japanese University Uses Fish Scales To Develop Stronger Artificial Bones Is Nike Planning To Release Back To The Futures Auto-La...

Today, three NFC (near field communication) specialists are announcing a global alliance to help promote the use of the technology as a viable mobile marketing tool. The firms involved in the NFC Worl...

January 5th. That's when Motorola and Verizon first announced the DROID Bionic.9 months grueling months later, it's here. It's seen delay after delay, and revisions to both its internal specs and its ...

Call hold deferral app FastCustomer is announcing that it has raised $750K worth of seed funding from 500 Startups, Bullet Time Ventures, Andrew Warner, Maneesh Arora, Fortify.vc, Carnet Williams...

HP's PC business may be up in the air right now, but that doesn't mean we won't see any more HP notebooks. The company today announced the updated DM1 ultraportable laptop with a new, fresher look. St...

Because this reminds me of that time when Facebook unveiled that the Facebook Places logo was, no joke, a "4" in a square, I'm just going to copy the intro sentence to that post:On the right is the st...

It's no secret that an employer can, and probably should, do a little check-up on your internet presence before hiring you, and possibly afterwards. But as several unhappy people have found out, somet...

As the legal challenges against Android have mounted, a few voices have risen more quickly than the rest. One of these is patent analyst Florian Mueller's, whose site FOSS Patents has chronicled cases...

For the past few months, few things on the web have been hotter than Turntable.fm. The Stickybits pivot got so hot, so fast, that a "trough of disillusionment" was inevitable   and we've probably...

In addition to everything else going on at TechCrunch this week, we are also gearing up for Disrupt SF, which starts this weekend with the Hackathon followed by the main three-day event Sept 12-14. An...

Short version: Absolutely worth a play, but there are a number of flaws that cause DEHR to fall short of greatness. The bosses, the "domestic" environments, and certain je ne sais quois mais ce n'est ...

Marty McFly's crazy kicks in Back To The Future II have long been a geek's dream. Ostensibly made by Nike in the film, they would tighten themselves around your feet automatically and, more important,...

Marty McFly's crazy kicks in Back To The Future II have long been a geek's dream. Ostensibly made by Nike in the film, they would tighten themselves around your feet automatically and, more important,...

Perhaps best known for their line of rugged, work-anywhere satellite phones, Iridium Communications has revealed today that they're looking to try something new. Alongside news of a new handset dubbed...

Location-based group chat. It's just one of those ideas that everyone seems to be convinced is a good one, but that no one has really pulled off well just yet.Tossing their chips into the local chat g...

Evri, the realtime content discovery engine, acquired Radar Networks early last year, incorporating the startup's semantic indexing technology into its products. The move laid the groundwork for Evri'...

With Yahoo! firing Carol Bartz by phone no less, we are left to wonder what the next chapter will be for the one-time Internet pioneer.So, what can Yahoo! do? Lets look at the options:OPTION 1: B...

Yep, Google Docs is down, and has been for at least the last thirty minutes. I've been trying to access the site in Chrome and am met with a white screen andan endless 'waiting' message in the status ...

With a new NFL season starting tomorrow, it's good timing for daily fantasy sports operator FanDuel to close a $4 million Series B investment round led by venture capital firm Piton Capital. Existing ...

The vaguely controversial .xxx top-level domain is about to open up to all comers, but before the main event, a little prep work is required. ICM Registry, the company administrating the launch, can't...

It's your mid-year Facebook revenue update; When we last spoke DST and Goldman Sachs' investment in Facebook has brought to light some interesting revenue numbers, namely that Facebook had a net incom...

Facebook has quietly added support for Microformats to its "Download Your Information" feature, it appears. The addition provides developers with a way to parse the profile information, posts, photos ...

While at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference, Google chairman Eric Schmidt let fly a juicy tidbit as he ran through how Android came to be. According to him, the next big version of Android is bein...

Ever heard of the Wavit remote? It's totally okay if you haven't; that's not what this story is about. The Wavit Remote's makers on the other hand... Well, they've decided to up and sue Nintendo over ...

Breezy, the Oakland-based mobile printing startup, has been awfully busy since last we heard from them. What started as a BlackBerry-only solution to one man's mobile printing headache has gone mass m...

After adding Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to its board a few months ago, Facebook has added President Bill Clinton's former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles to its board of directors. We've past...

Some people see Elvis in a potato chip. Some see the Virgin Mary in water stains.Others, meanwhile, see the iPhone 5 hiding in the reflection of a plate....

Mixpanel, an analytics startup that helps websites and apps track key stats in real-time, has launched a new feature that will help data-hungry site owners do even deeper dives: retroactive funnel ana...

Today, FLUD, the social news reader that allows users to read, bookmark, and share personalized news, is announcing an agreement to offer premium content in its mobile applications from six AOL brands...

TiVo is quite proud of their DVRs - so proud, in fact, that they gave the new Tivo Premiere Elite an extra superlative, just to ensure you understand the current elite-ness of this TiVo. Other than th...

If you're an Android developer, there's not really any reason why you shouldn't submit your App to Amazon's alternative App Store. It's extra exposure, won't cost you a dime, and, because there's cons...

Two new little Android tablets have joined the ever-growing tablet race, this time from Velocity Micro. Both the 8-inch Cruz T408 and the 10-inch Cruz T410 are nice enough, but whatll really catch you...

Data marketplace Infochimps is announcing the acquisition of  Tweet bookmarking service Keepstream this morning, in a deal that was primarily a talent acquisition and stock. The three Austin, Tex...

Gild, which provides a way for developers to build and share their 'skill profiles', this morning announced that it has acquired Coderloop, the Italian startup behind the eponymous real-time coding as...

"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." And then times got worse, and worse, and worse. At least for RIM.After jumping through hoops for the Saudi Arabian government, and then doing the...

IndieGoGo, a crowdfunding platform that was founded in 2008, has raised a $1.5 million funding round led by Metamorphic Ventures and Zynga cofounder Steve Schoettler.As with other crowdfunding service...

Back in January we noticed a clever little device which claimed to ease seasonal depression - sometimes known as Seasonal Affected Disorder or SAD. The Finnish Valkee is an awesome Sci-Fi style device...

That rather bland looking meal right there could have been captured with an iPhone 5. That's what the Internet says at least. The picture's EXIF says it was taken with an iPhone 4, but the cropped ima...

Locu, a data-focused startup founded by MIT graduates and computer science researchers,is closing a seed round of over $600,000 from East and West coast investors, including Factual founder GilElbaz, ...

That rather bland looking meal right there could have been captured with an iPhone 5. That's what the Internet says at least. The picture's EXIF says it was taken with an iPhone 4, but the cropped ima...

That rather bland looking meal right there could have been captured with an iPhone 5. That's what the Internet says at least. The picture's EXIF says it was taken with an iPhone 4, but the cropped ima...

BountyJobs, which operates an online marketplace that connects corporate recruiters with a network of headhunters, this morning announced it has secured $5 million in funding from existing investors....

Adfonic, the European-based global mobile advertising marketplace, has raised $7.5 million (4.7 million) to expand globally. The startup says revenue has grown ten-fold in the last 12 months. The plan...

Shoes4you, a company then sells shoes through a monthly subscription model, has received a round of Series A financing, led by Redpoint Ventures and with Accel Partners Flybridge Capital Partners, Rom...

Microsoft has set out a pretty lofty goal for whomever applies to their latest job listing -- they want some deeply technical people who, among other things, will help "find the location of every Wind...

Mobile users acquired through "incentivized" installs can be valuable, according to a new study, if managed properly. The term refers to users who download a mobile application in exchange for somethi...

Remember Matthew Epstein, the guy that wanted to work at Google so badly that he created an interesting campaign in order to get the search and advertising giant's attention? Well he did get their att...

Netflix is clearly on the prowl for some extra cash and just closed a popular loophole. The company's terms of service has long restricted the number of concurrent video streams to the number of DVDs ...

Netflix is clearly on the prowl for some extra cash and just closed a popular loophole. The company's terms of service has long restricted the number of concurrent video streams to the number of DVDs ...

Netflix is clearly on the prowl for some extra cash and just closed a popular loophole. The company's terms of service has long restricted the number of concurrent video streams to the number of DVDs ...

After its debut in June of this year, Google's deals service Google Offers is now expanding to five more cities: Austin, Boston, D.C., Denver and Seattle. It's already up-and-running in the original t...

Ceramics, metallic alloys, bone powder, wood or stem cells are just some of the substances doctors have used to replace or heal broken bones so far. Now a group of researchers at the Tokyo Institute o...

RadiumOne, an online ad network that aims to combine social and intent data to serve ads, is getting into the group messaging space today. The company is releasing a free, group messaging app for iOS ...

Today Motorola and Verizon announced the Droid Bionic. It took its sweet time getting here, but it's finally official and set to hit shelves September 8. We are forevermore free of writing posts about...

Asus is hoping to capture some of the Kinect's good will starting this October by kicking off a marketing campaign for its motion controller clone. The WAVI Xtion was created in partnership with Prime...

This week's issue of the Famitsu, Japan's biggest video game magazine, is due out tomorrow, but gaming geek @south1996 appears to have made an early and pretty interesting snapshot: it's the first pic...

InternMatch, a 500 Startups-incubated company has raised $500,000 in funding from Netflix founder Marc Randolph, Roger Dickey, Angel Fund Social Leverage, 500 Startups and other investors. This brings...

TrueCar, which publishes real-time vehicle transaction data in the US market for both new and used cars, has secured over $200 million in debt and equity financing to grow the business and explore acq...

Luxury floral subscription service H.Bloom $4.7 million led by Battery Ventures with participation from existing angel investors, including Brian Lee, the founder of ShoeDazzle and LegalZoom; and Anto...

Here are some of yesterday’s posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: Blu Cigs Smart Pack Alerts You When Other e-Smokers Are Nearby Angry Birds In Real Life Ataris New iPad Joystick Meant For Budget Gamers...

Serial entrepreneur and former Xmarks CEO James Joaquin is announcing today that he has joined Catamount Ventures as a Partner. Prior to Catamount, Joaquin was the CEO bookmarking startup Xmarks, whic...

Chill.com, the infamous Turntable for video, is announcing today that it has raised a $1.5 million angel round from Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint, Atlas Venture and investor Paul Kedrosky. The site, entry...

In markets like China and India, which are showing explosive growth in the connectivity and tech sectors, there's a bit of a gap between supply and demand. Not that the two are ever at parity even und...

One of the most popular sessions from our last Disrupt conference was Paul Graham's Office Hours (watch the video below). And next week at Disrupt SF, he will be back giving startups advice onstage. ...

Carol Bartz is officially out as the President and CEO of Yahoo. In an email this afternoon to Yahoo employees, Bartz, who has been in the top role at Yahoo since January 2009, confirmed that she'd be...

DSLRs are a powerful and popular tool for creating video, but it's likely that very few users of this fairly new product category have gone deep into its settings. For taking pictures and the occasion...

Title says it all. This is the note Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz just sent out to Yahoo employees:To all,I am very sad to tell you that I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's Chairman of the Board. I...

Days after headlining Vanity Fair's "New Establishment" list for the second year in a row, Facebook CEO and TIME Person of the Year Mark Zuckerberg has updated his Facebook status with the following s...

A few weeks ago, we heard that the San Francisco Port Authority had red-tagged Pier 38   putting up warnings that the space was unsafe. This is a big deal because Pier 38 is something of a tech h...

Regardless of your thoughts on what OS should be used on HP's TouchPad, work on getting a fully-featured version of Android up and running continues unabated. There's been a lot of progress in the pas...

San Franciscans, start your thrusters. On September 15 at 6:30pm TechCrunch Mobile and Gadgets will host our first meet-up at Roe @ 651 Howard St. in sunny SF. Sponsored by Samsung, this meet-up will ...

And the fun just goes on, and on, and on.Following this morning's news that Sprint is suing AT&T/T-Mobile in an attempt to block their proposed merger, AT&T has just returned with a response. ...

eBay has brought on former Thomson Reuters Exec Devin Wenig as President of its global Marketplaces business unit, which includes eBay's online marketplace; eBay's classifieds sites and ticket marketp...

And the fun just goes on, and on, and on.Following this morning's news that Sprint is suing AT&T/T-Mobile in an attempt to block their proposed merger, AT&T has just returned with a response. ...

Obligatory Minority Report reference. There, it's out of the way, and we can enjoy this interesting video without worrying about when the allusion is going to drop.The University of Lincoln in the UK ...

HP's PC business may be up in the air right now, but that doesn't mean we won't see any more HP notebooks. The company today announced the updated DM1 notebook with a new, fresher look. Starting at $5...

Monster Beats by Dr. Dre has a new set of cans on the horizon. Per a FCC filing the headphones are appropriately named Beats Wireless and feature the brand's trademark unibody construction. Bluetooth ...

Researchers at Tufts University have put together a "molecular motor" that is only about a nanometer across. It's not the first single-molecule motor ever made, but this one, unlike others, can be act...

Happy Tuesday after Labor Day everybody! In other news, beloved Internet hangout reddit has spun out of Conde Nast and will become its own independent entity, reddit inc, owned by Conde Nast parent co...

You're excused if you didn't notice a pair of memos leaked to PreCentral this weekend. It was a holiday and, more important, neither of them particularly matter.They involved HP's WebOS initiative and...

In its unending quest for tablet market supremacy (as if it hadn't yet achieved such a feat), Apple has been asked by the Australian court to provide iPad sales data from the U.S. and the U.K. Samsung...

RIM's latest touchscreen BlackBerry is launching on Verizon later this week. The Touch 9850 will hit VZW's online marketplace on the 8th with retail stores getting the handset on the 15th.The phone ta...

There's confusion - way too much confusion - about my status at TechCrunch and TechCrunch's status at Aol after last week's announcement that I was launching a venture fund, partially backed by Aol. T...

Short version: A nice-looking device, and it works more or less as advertised, but the quality of the printing simply isn't good enough. If you want instant photos, analog is still the way to go....

Your Kindle doesn't have to be mystery. Electronic paper technology is a rather simple concept as shown by the video after the jump. Voltage toggles so-called microparticles between white and black pi...

4chan founder Christopher Poole (a.k.a. moot) made waves this past year when he unveiled his newest project  Canvas. Canvas is a place for people to post media (i.e. images, video) and start a di...

While gaming has spread its tentacles throughout the world and major game development houses can be found everywhere from Calgary to Cambridge, there's one place that will pretty much always be consid...

Sprint's clearly no fan of the pending AT&T/T-mobile merger: in recent memory, they've pledged to complain to Congress, commissioned a study to illustrate how awful it would be, and cheered on the...

Female-focused site The Daily Muse officially launches today, wanting to provide smart women with a place to go online for relevant content that doesn't dumb itself down.Positioning itself between glo...

Google Takeout, the recently launched "data liberation" service that lets you export files, photos and data from Google services like Picasa and Buzz, now includes support for Google Voice.With the up...

Lanyrd, which bills itself as a social conference directory, has raised a seed funding round of $1.4 million from Index Ventures Seed and PROfounders Capital in London, as well as a number of high pro...

Groupon is thinking about delaying its IPO, according to a report in the WSJ today. The company had intended to go public after Labor Day, according to the article, but is now "reevaluating plans for ...

Austin, Texas-based startup Spanning launched a new version of its Google Apps backup service today, which now includes business-grade backup for Gmail. Previously, the company provided backup for oth...

Sorry, Rovio. A Chinese theme park located in Changsha, Huna China clearly skipped Trademark Infringement 101 and built a very real, very authentic-looking Angry Birds game. Players pull back a gigant...

The Pew Internet Research Project has come out with a new report showing the growing number of U.S. adults that are leveraging location-based technologies in social and mobile apps. According to Pew, ...

Wibbitz, a new service that functions as sort of a "play button" for the Web, has just raised a seed round of approximately half a million. The service is similar to former TechCrunch Disrupt winner Q...

Wibbitz, a new service that functions as sort of a "play button" for the Web, has just raised a seed round of approximately half a million. The service is similar to former TechCrunch Disrupt winner Q...

Developers anxiously awaiting the Google+ API (application programming interface) will have to wait a little while longer, we're told. Although Google is hard at work on building the tools which ...

Still think mobile gaming isn't a big deal? GameStop disagrees. Though they may not be as in-depth or graphically stimulating as console or PC-based games, mobile gaming is accessible to everyone. My ...

Apple will be opening a new store in International Finance Center Mall in Hong Kong this quarter. Ming Pao Daily, a local paper, noted that the store should open on September 24.The store is the first...

China, your savior is on his way. Per a WSJ report China's certification agency recently gave a nod of approval to the iPad 2 3G. The iPad 2 has been a hit in the China market since its May debut, but...

Photographers, take note. A startup called JPEGmini is introducing a new photo compression technology for JPEG photos which reduces the overall file size (by up to 5 times), while preserving the photo...

ThinkGeek's iCade certainly has a sense of visual flair going for it, but discerning iPad gamers who could do without the retro throwback may soon have another choice. The existence of the Atari Arcad...

Hot on the heels of Baidus new mobile OS launch, reports are circulating that the Chinese search giant is partnering with Dell to build tablets and mobile phones. China is a goldmine in terms of poten...

After announcing the rollout of its movie and TV show streaming service to Latin America, Mexico and the Caribbean, Netflix is announcing a significant content deal for this international expansion. F...

Japanese stationery maker Kokuyo has come up with an easy way to digitize and permanently store what you jot down on paper notepads: all you need is a an iPhone (or soon Android handset), a special ap...

Apple is seemingly sucking all the air out of the PC market. Major players are weary of launching an entirely new product type even one with such draw as ultrabooks. Digitimes is reporting that the fi...

Do you remember the 3D HD display specifically designed for gaming that Sony Computer Entertainment unveiled back in June at E3? It took them a while, but now big S in Japan announced [JP] the final r...

With the Xoom now officially six months old, a major price drop is likely in the works. Various European tech blogs are reporting sales and/or price drops regarding the first Honeycomb tab. Register H...

Cloud Platform startup Morphlabs has raised $5 million in Series C funding. The round was led by strategic partners BBT of Japan and a private, Indonesia-based investor group. This brings the startup'...

Seedcamp Week, the annual week-long session run by Europe's oldest tech startup accelerator, has kicked off in London, and it looks like the biggest yet. In particular, this week sees changes to the w...

This is a post I never thought I'd have to write. Unfortunately, I do. And the worst part about it is that it should be Michael Arrington writing this post, not me.But he can't.TechCrunch is on thepre...

There should be a word for an op-ed that is so ambiguous that all sides are able to use it to support their argument. A "failure" perhaps.When I wrote my post criticizing Tim Armstrong and Mike Arring...

As we announced last week, we've been busy securing some of the most exciting names in China for our Disrupt Beijing conference this October including Tencent Founder and CEO Pony Ma and Chinese entre...

Hopefully, anyone who has attended our Disrupt San Francisco and Disrupt New York conferences knows why we charge $2,995 for tickets: Between the Hackathon, Startup Alley, the big names on stage and t...

One glance at my closet after coming back from vacation this morning and I realized that I owned A LOT of clothes, many of which I had forgotten about while purchasing presumably complimentary accesso...

Despite being the only TechCrunch writer in Seattle, I don't get out to Microsoft nearly as much as one might expect. The fact is it's on the other side of a big lake and getting there usually involve...

When you look at the combined 70 percent smartphone market share of Android and Apple in the U.S. compared to Microsoft's measly and shrinking 6 percent, it seems like it's game over before it really ...

Bidmyway is a newly launched local deals app operating in the Chicago market. As opposed to being a deals aggregator for more popular brands like Groupon or Living Social, the app offers exclusive dea...

Joining recent tech companies MobiTV, Angie's List, Brightcove, and Jive; Guidewire Software, a company that develops technologies for the insurance industry, has filed its S-1. The company aims to ra...

So it looks like people are ready to slap the word "social" onto just about anything. Case in point: Blu Cigs Smart Pack. It's a new offering from electronic cigarette maker Blu Cigs that comes with a...

If you recognize the phone up top, ye ol' hypothalamus is probably already hard at work churnin' out the "Do Want" signals. If you don't, here's all you need to know: it's called the HTC Amaze 4G (or ...

The debate on pseudonyms persists in the NY Times, as Google continues to eject pseudonymous accountsfrom Google Plus. Google crafted its Common Names Policy in order to promote trust and transparency...

If you keep up with the TC/Gadgets crew you know we can't resist a good R/C anything. We've reviewed AR remote control cars, and just recently a Syma S107 R/C chopper, but those are toys compared to w...

Last week, TUAW.com editor in chief Victor Agreda talked to me about the post Steve Jobs epoch at Apple. Today, he talks product iPad 3 &4, Macbook Pros and Airs, Apple TV, IOS 5, the death of th...

For a little under $300 you, too, can ruin passing satellites with what is purported to be the brightest legal laser available. The Krypton S3 goes up to 1000mW for an output of 86 million lux - "8,0...

In, according to Bloomberg, "anticipation of supply bottlenecks," Deutsche Telekom aka T-Mobile is offering pre-order coupons to folks who call in asking for the next iPhone, whatever it may be....

It's 2011, but most doctor's offices are still stuck in the 1990s when it comes to patient-facing technology. The receptionist probably has a computer to manage appointments, but typically you still s...

Movie and TV subscription service Netflix has announced the arrival of its service in Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean in the coming week. Netflix launched today in Brazil and will be launched ...

Perfect World, a publicly listed Chinese online game developer and publisher that specializes in 3D MMORPGs, this morning announced that it - or rather, "one of its entities" - will be investing in a ...

A lot has been said about gamification, dubbed badgification by some, and it seems people are still divided over whether it's a fad or the future. Be that as it may, one area where I think it just mig...

We've covered our fair share of animal robots from Japan in the last years, but PIGORASS, developed by Yasunori Yamada from the University of Tokyo surely stands out: Yamada has developed a four-legge...

The Tokyo Game Show 2011 is just ten days away, but Square Enix preferred to hold a separate press conference in Tokyo to announce their next big game, Dragon Quest X [JP]. Perhaps the biggest surpris...

Here are some of the past week’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Lost In Legoland: A Gazillion Bricks And A Mini Star Wars Geekfest Terrahawks M.U.S.T. Is A Mobile Guard Tower In A Shady-Looking ...

The past three days have brought us a trio of interesting "tabs:" the Samsung Note, the 7.7 Gal Tab, and (bear with me) the new, flatter iPhone. Sadly, two of those may not make it to the US of A (and...

I was going to leave this one alone. In the interests of light and shade, I wanted my next column to be something fun and positive. Whiskers on kittens and warm woolen mittens -- all that good stuff. ...

The idea of offering your product or a version of it for free has been a source of much debate.Pricing is always tricky. Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs don't give it enough thought. They will often...

What happens when a geek winds up in Legoland? He has loads of unfiltered fun, that's what.You can spend hours just looking at the fantastic creations, big or small, go on fun rides or visit some of t...

At any company level, the board of directors has a direct impact on the organization's product strategy, hiring, fundraising and much more. And startups have to be very selective in choosing board mem...

TV is moving to the cloud. It is inevitable, just as other kinds of media from books to music are increasingly delivered over the Internet. Netflix, Hulu, and even Apple TV are making inroads when i...

I spent the better part of last week hanging out with some fellow tech bloggers in Denmark - in Aarhus and Billund, to be more specific - and mingling with the people who organized and traveled to att...

LONDON, Summer, 2011: When you can gather 1,500 startup people into a car park on a warm summer evening in London, you know something is going on. When you can tell 800 people at a joint startup party...

I'm a pretty good salesman, but Im the worst negotiator. If I say, "buy my car for $10,000  and someone says "$8,000,  Id just shrug my shoulders and say "ok . In fact, that happened.So...

When Google bought mobile ad network AdMob for $750 million in 2009, the company was clearly trying to capitalize on the growing mobile advertising market. Mobile advertising, both on apps and the mob...

"We've seen Mubarak fall," said Salesforce's Marc Benioff of the corporate need to focus on social networks at the recent Dreamforce conference. "We've seen Khadafy fall. When will the first CEO fall ...

The Gillmor Gang -  Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor   calmed down after a week of Dreamforce, the annual salesforce.com user conference. As the editor...

I got a chance to play with two of Microsofts three touch mouse offerings — the Explorer Touch Mouse and the flagship Touch Mouse — and as far as ideas go, theyre absolutely wonderful. But...

Brian Snyderis the Founder and CEO ofMadbrook Publishing,an educational/entertainment company that publishesEverything Butt Art.Snyder saysEverything Butt Art'smissionis to "teach kids to draw, always...

One future source of green energy may be as close as the nearest dumpster thanks to companies vying to make fuel from trash. Enerkem, based in Montreal, and Fiberight, in Maryland, hope to turn munici...

Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Evul Todai: A Relaxation Lighthouse Lamp For The Living Room Nike Apologizes For Nike+ Issues, Promises Fixes, New Platform Soon ...

The Amazon Kindle tablet is real. Very much real. As in, MG has held it in his very own hands. I threw together the mockup above based on what he shared with me.As MG explained, we now know that the K...

An automatic scribbling machine sounds less than useful, admittedly, but it's really just the style of line created by this motorized drawing machine. It's reminiscent of ASCII art, in which heavier c...

The world's largest game franchises have become industries unto themselves. World of Warcraft supports a huge halo industry of gold farmers and grey markets. Farmville and its ilk have turned microtra...

Since 2006, Zave Networks has been working on digitizing coupons and loyalty rewards programs with products like Zavers. With the rise of smartphones, the market has been exploding. Today, Zave Networ...

Chinese search giant Baidu is reportedly developing a cloud-based smartphone platform in attempt to dip its toes into the mobile pool. Mobile internet users in China totaled 233 million in 2010, proje...

Chinese search giant Baidu is reportedly developing a cloud-based smartphone platform in attempt to dip its toes into the mobile pool. Mobile internet users in China totaled 233 million in 2010, proje...

Well, it looks like the brooms and axes are out at Google today, for a little late-summer cleaning. The company announced via its blog today that some of its products and features will be riding into ...

It's called simply the "Amazon Kindle". But it's not like any Kindle you've seen before. It displays content in full color. It has a 7-inch capacitive touch screen. And it runs Android.Rumors of Amazo...

One of the beautiful things about Android is how extensively you can customize things, if you so chose. A quick peek in the Android Market reveals tons of widgets, skins, and launcher replacements, al...

Instagram is growing like crazy. In June, we noted when the service hitthe 5 million user milestone, with 95 million photos uploaded. At the beginning of August,Instagram hit 150 million photos. And n...

National Security isn't always about the flashy solutions. Not everything can be rail guns and one-winged drones. Sometimes you just need a sort of seedy-looking van that slowly, slowly turns into a c...

Google is working fast and furious to streamline their product offerings. Just a couple weeks after killing off all but one of the projects in their Slide division, today comes another death: Aardvark...

Google's Bradley Horowitz just Tweeted out a note indicating that Google is about to add a Twitter-like Suggested User list to Google+. From the Tweet: We're about to pilot a 'suggested user'-lik...

For days, our inboxes have been filled with tips and screenshots about Amazon.com's redesign, which offers a cleaned up Amazon homepage, without the old site's iconic blue and orange navigation. Inste...

If you are sick of Steve Jobs stories, then this interview isnt for you. But, of course, you probably arent. On one hand, even though Jobs resigned from Apple more than a week ago, there appears to be...

The Internet is awash in purported iPhone 5 cases. Like most iPhone related rumors, it's hard to decipher fact from fantasy, but the sheer amount of nearly identical cases seem to state that at least ...

In more news of Flash's impending decline, Google is announcing that it's "deprecating" the Google Maps API (application programming interface) for Flash. This API previously allowed developers to add...

Want to attend an enterprise software conference after party with Third Eye Blind?Cloud content management startup Box.net is holding its first-ever customer conference, BoxWorks, on September 28th in...

TouchPads are in hot demand right now and it seems as if Office Depot just is ready to ship out another round. This comes from an email set to us that indicates at least some 32GB TouchPad orders were...

Salesforce CEO and founder Marc Benioff sat down for an hour-long interview with Google's Chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt last night at Dreamforce, and here's the full video of the interview. We'...

The Droid Bionic has been a long time coming. It was originally announced back in January at CES and it's now September, but we're willing to forgive the incredibly annoying wait for that dual-core LT...

Remember when Sears.com temporarily listed an iPad for $69? It was obviously a mistake made by one of Sears' third-party vendors, but a good deal of people attempted to buy the tablet on the off-chanc...

Yesterday afternoon, Mike Arrington and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong announced the launch of "the CrunchFund", a venture fund that will -- according to the New York Times -- "invest in start-ups, including s...

Based on its history, you probably wouldn't expect to see Windows Phone take off like a rocket. But apparently that's what it's going to do. Research out of Gartner and IDC says that Microsoft's platf...

Several iPhone app developers have teamed up to launch PhotoAppLink, a new open source initiative that aims to simplify photo editing by tying multiple photo-editing apps together.As you know, there a...

Barnes and Noble's Nook Color eReader is a fan favorite, not only because it's great for reading, but also because with a little hackery it becomes a surprisingly decent Android tablet. A new report f...

Jayme Martin, VP and GM of Nike Running, has emailed a letter to Nike+ users, apologizing for the platform's performance over the past few months. He says that Nike is aware of a number of issues...

Most businesses still use pen and paper or spreadsheets to manage employee work schedules, which is way too old fashioned these days. Shiftplanning literally shifts that process into a web application...

In spite of the antitrust lawsuit recent filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, AT&T has been hard at work to make sure their pending T-Mobile acquisition doesn't fall apart. Sources close to th...

2011 Boulder TechStars graduate Simple Energy is teaming up with San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E) to help the utility engage its customers in energy conservation efforts.To accomplish this, Simp...

The future of webOS is a little less uncertain now that Samsung's CEO, Choi Gee Sung, grabbed rumors of buying HP's webOS business by the cuff, laughed in its face and then coldly stabbed the rumor in...

It's a tough environment out there for an OS. But a few have risen to the top of the food chain — most obviously iOS and Android. And at the very bottom, like an orphaned and endangered baby buf...

SHAPE Services, makers of the popular, cross-platform IM+ mobile instant messaging applications, is today launching its first video chatting app: IM+ Video. The new app, available here on iT...

Apple bas been accused of a lot of things. Being too secretive. Pandering to an obsessive fan base. But until now it's never been accused of blocking out the sun.That at least is the complaint of loca...

Jim Breyer, a partner of venture capital firm Accel Partners, has been nominated for election to the board of directors of media conglomerate News Corporation, the company announced this morning. Brey...

Epson has been working on HTPS (high-temperature polysilicon)-based TFT panels for years now, and yesterday the company announced the launch of the world's first such panel for 3D 3LCD projectors. The...

Before the TouchPad dove head first into the bargain bin, HP tried a little pricing experiment. Early in August, they dropped the TouchPad's price by $50, and very shortly after, the discount was bump...

Sigh. Samsung is apparently not planning on launching two of its latest tablets in the states. This comes right from an IFA Samsung rep who stated there are no plans on bringing the tablets to the kin...

Lighting gadgets and accessories are a dime a dozen, but the so-called Evul Todai from Japan manages to stand out. The device is designed like a Japanese-style lighthouse and behaves like it, too: whi...

Visier, which builds 'analytic applications for human resources', has raised $6 million in funding according to an SEC filing published this morning. It's the startup's first institutional venture fun...

Sharp Japan announced [JP] the Aquos Quattron 3D LC-70X5 for the local market yesterday, a follow-up of sorts to the LC-70LE735U that's been available in the States for a few months now. Just like tha...

Self-proclaimed "technology innovation and licensing company" WiLAN, billed as a notorious patent troll by most anyone else (and often, much worse), this morning announced that it has initiated litiga...

GraphOn, a developer of cloud application delivery solutions, this morning announced that it has secured $7.1 million in equity financing in a private placement to a group of investors, employing inte...

Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: Pico Dolly: A Diminutive Dolly System For Smaller Cameras Review: The Syma S107 R/C Helicopter Is The Coolest Thing $20 Can Buy Pogoplug Debuts New Ha...

I often think about how my computing life would be different if I weren't a professional blogger. I mean, I have my laptop on me at basically all times just in case I have to duck away and write somet...

Eric Schmidt, Google's Executive Chairman and former CEO, took the stage at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco today to talk about a host of topics, including the success of Google Apps, his f...

Everyone's a filmmaker these days, what with the widespread availability of fairly high-quality HD video and the tools to edit and distribute it. But the camera isn't the only thing you need to make m...

Erick Schonfeld is back with another episode of TechCrunched. Here are some of the news highlights this week.Apparently HP's $100 TouchPad liquidation "success" has sparked the company to release more...

In a conversation with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said that Steve Jobs is probably the best CEO in the past 50 years, maybe 100 years. He said of Jobs: Steve Jobs gave t...

Google's Chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt took the stage at CRM giant Salesforce's annual conference Dreamforce this evening. Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff is interviewing Schmidt. Googl...

In June, AppRedeem raised $750,000 from SV Angel and Blue Run Ventures to offer mobile app developers innovative, effective solutions aimed at driving app installs and engagement. Since then, the star...

Those reveling in the thumb-in-the-eye the DOJ gave to AT&T over the T-Mobile merger should pause a moment to consider the politics of spectrum allocation in the US.Anyone who has an iPhone on AT&...

If you're one of the brave souls who dares follow me on the Twitters, you probably know exactly where this post is going. I haven't been able to shut up about this thing for over a day.As someone who ...

If you're one of the brave souls who dares follow me on the Twitters, you probably know exactly where this post is going. I haven't been able to shut up about this thing for over a day.As someone who ...

It may not be quite the savings we got from the $100 TouchPad, but taking $150 off the top of the PlayBook's price may help move a few more units. We haven't heard much lately regarding RIM's first ta...

While Apple has been catching much of the flak for collecting iPhone and iPad user location data without consent, it turns out that rival Microsoft may have been quietly up to the same. A recent class...

Last May, at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, Airbnb cofounder Brian Chesky announced that there would be a new category of rentals coming soon: Sublets. It's been a few months since then (the launch may well ...

Earlier this week, we covered Blackbox, the young company responsible for creating The Startup Genome Report, an ongoing, collaborative R&D project designed to take a comprehensive dive into what ...

Earlier this week, I posted a review of the Fujifilm X100, a unique and highly-anticipated camera that, while compelling, I felt simply wasn't living up to its own promises. But we've been hearing rum...

Starz and Netflix have been embroiled in negotiations over the network's premium movie content. For the past year, the Liberty Media-owned Starz has had ongoing discussions over the terms of the agree...

Gootip, the location-based Q&A startup from France, launched in May to take on Hipster (we think, as Hipster is still stealth) and other sites like it trying to make Yahoo Answers, for example, a ...

Earlier this year at All Things D, Groupon CEO Andrew Mason said one of his regrets was not opening an office in Silicon Valley earlier. The implication was that he was talking about not taking advant...

This TV is a beast. It's called the ZL2, and to be honest it's the only TV I actually have gadget envy for right now. The rest of the 3D TVs out there rely on end-of-life active shutter glasses or imm...

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey just posted a note to third-party Twitter developers, asking for feedback. He writes: We want to know what additional materials you need from us to help you build products,...

OpenFeint, a plug and play mobile social gaming network with 115 million players, is extending its popular feature GameFeed to its iOS SDK.OpenFeints plug and play mobile social platform and applicati...

OpenFeint, a plug and play mobile social gaming network with 115 million players, is extending its popular feature GameFeed to its iOS SDK.OpenFeints plug and play mobile social platform and applicati...

Yes, that headline sounds a little ridiculous. But it's not much of an exaggeration.Today Google has posted a video showcasing how the Nexus S is being used by NASA to power its SPHERE satellites &nbs...

Zynga teased us earlier this week with a short promotional video of its newest Facebook game, Adventure World, which allows users to team up, explore lost worlds, and unearth adventures.' Now we have ...

Yesterday, we noted that Google quietly rolled out their +1 Button Chrome extension a couple days ago. It's more powerful than it may seem because you can now easily +1 any page you're brows...

It's a little hard to believe, but it's been three years to the day since Google first launched its Chrome browser in September 2008 (sure, we found out about it a few days early due to a leaked comic...

Look out, Postagram: there's another player embarking on the quest to turn everyone's smart phone photos into real-world postcards.This morning, Josh Brooks (previously the VP of Programming and Music...

It's no surprise whatsoever that Sprint isn't down with the AT&T/T-Mobile merger, and with good reason. There's no telling just how severe the effects of this deal may be on Sprint, but we know fo...

While Spotify has only just made it over the US - after about 3 years of threatening to - there's a slightly lesser known streaming music startup which has yet to even launch in the UK. This is despit...

Cloud Engines, Inc., makers of the Pogoplug line of devices and accompanying software, are launching a new hardware product today called Pogoplug Mobile. The device works like the company's current Po...

While the patent wars continue to rage on, a recent move by Nokia may signal an aggressive new stance on handling patent infringement. Canadian IP firm Mosaid has announced a strategic purchase throug...

The iOS App Store is quite the volatile place. Even if you manage to fight your app up to the top of the charts, keeping it up there is an entirely new challenge. You've got to know exactly what's wor...

It's taken long enough, but it seems that with Intel's Ultrabook spec, PC laptop makers are actually starting to put together a few notebooks that are competitive with the svelte and successful MacBoo...

It's taken long enough, but it seems that with Intel's Ultrabook spec, PC laptop makers are actually starting to put together a few notebooks that are competitive with the svelte and successful MacBoo...

Just like the rumor stated, Toshiba used IFA 2011 to announce its latest Android tablet and it's just as tiny as it looked. The AT200 packs a 1.2GHz TI OMAP 4430 CPU, up to 64GB of memory, and most of...

Let's all agree that traditional media companies have, for the most part, struggled with the Internet. It turned up on their doorstep a few years ago and, like a startled bull in a china shop, startle...

There's a whole lot going on at IFA right now, and while big announcements like the new Wave phones or Sony's rather odd Android tablets get all the love, the little ones deserve some spotlight too. T...

Netflix adjusted its pricing back in July. The new two-plan system started immediately for new subscribers with current subs having until today, September 1st, to opt out of the higher-priced plans be...

PayPal is boosting its leadership in Asia today with the addition of Visa exec Rupert Keeley. Keeley is joining eBay-owned PayPal to run its payments business in the Asia Pacific market.This is a win ...

Every year the World Economic Forum picks a number of up-and-coming technology startups from around the world and dubs them Technology Pioneers. Past members of this club include Google, Mozilla, Mint...

Appsfire, a mobile application marketing platform, is introducing its own solution for the issue created by Apple's decision to phase out developer access to the UDID (unique deviceidentifier) on iOS ...

Today, Strobe Inc. is launching a new platform that helps developers build HTML5-based Web applications for desktops, smartphones and tablets, and centrally manage them from a single interface.The lau...

Size matters. Don't let anyone tell you different. Samsung understands this, and has thus tried to build a tablet for just about any size pocket or backpack you may own. We all know about the GalTab 1...

"Did you see this photo of you?" "Look on your face in this pix is priceless!" "LMAO this video of you is funny!"If you're a regular Twitter user, you've probably see tweets like those come through as...

Is IBM making up for lost time? After acquiring crime data intelligence software developer i2 yesterday, Big Blue is announcing another purchase this morning. The company is buying Canadian risk manag...

LinkedIn has taken a number of deep data dives on the profile information of its 120 million members to highlight trends. The company has compared men and women networkers, professional names and more...

This morning at the IFA conference in Berlin, Samsung took the stage to announce three new cameras. Sometimes new cameras are about as boring as old cameras, but that's not the case here. We were luck...

Japan is getting yet another special edition PS3: Sony announced [press release in English] the so-called "PlayStation3 NINOKUNI magical edition  bundle pack for the local market today. In the pa...

Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Colorio E-820: Epsons New Photo Printer Is Portable, Comes With Display And Remote Control Sonys Head-Mounted 3D OLED Display Is World...

Exclusive - After just having raised a ton of money ($165 million in venture capital in its first institutional funding round since its inception), online home-goods retailer CSN Stores is today conso...

Sharp Japan announced [JP] the i3board PN-L702B for the Japanese market yesterday, a 70-inch electronic whiteboard targeted at businesses and schools. The device is essentially a 70-inch touchscreen (...

Next Jump CEO Charlie Kim wants you to earn and burn his company's WOWPoints, a loyalty reward currency that can be used to pay for real merchandise. WOWPoints are redeemable for thousands of offers ...

In 2006, Google was internally testing a project codenamed "Platypus", an online storage service. When it was accidentally disclosed during an analyst meeting as "GDrive", it quickly captured the web'...

In what marks its first expansion abroad, Hulu is now available in Japan. As expected, the video streaming service will offer both TV shows and movies across various devices for a subscription of abo...

Kai-Fu Lee has a fairly unique perspective on the tech industry, having spent years in high roles at Apple, Microsoft, and Google. Lee spent six years as VP of Apple's Interactive Media Group, before ...

Olympus is trying to do with their new E-PMT1 PEN Mini camera what other manufacturers already have: bring DSLR power to the masses. It's their smallest Micro Four Thirds camera to date, and it's defi...

Assistly, the cloud-based customer support platform that's backed by Bullpen Capital, Index Ventures, Salesforce, as well as several other angels and VCs, launched version 2.0 of its platform back in ...

You may recall that back in May, we spotted something in Google's "Dear Sophie" commercial: an unreleased +1 Chrome extension. This was pre-Google+, when the +1 button still didn't do a...

I don't always post about iPhone cases... but when I do, I prefer retro gaming ones. Sure, you could have a cool metallic case, or go all-leather, or make your phone look like R2-D2 — but when y...

Hey, what do you know! It's been just shy of two weeks since Apple's last Beta release of iOS 5, and just like clockwork, they're back with another serving.You guys all know the drill at this point: a...

Today won't be remembered tomorrow. Nothing of consequence happened today. Steve Ballmer didn't resign, Dell didn't get out of the PC business and I didn't stop procrastinating and actually go to the ...

The ever-volatile issue of the costs surrounding globalized manufacturing looks to be looming again as a harshly critical report on Apple's Chinese suppliers gains visibility. The report, by environme...

On one hand, you have to give Windows chiefSteven Sinofsky some credit, he's being very open, proactive, and engaged leading up to Microsoft's unveiling of Windows 8. And that's great. But on the othe...

Mobile TV and video platform MobiTV has filed its S-1 with the SEC this afternoon. In the public offering, MobiTV plans to raise as much as $75 million.For background, MobiTV was founded in 1999 and ...

We first covered Game Closure this spring when it opened its private beta to the world to test out its new cross-platform HTML5 game engine and SDK. The startup has since gone on to work with multiple...

It's iconic. That soft, pulsating light emanating from the button that controls life and death. Press it when it's glowing and creativity flows. Turn it off and a little bit of your inner child dies. ...

In June, we covered the launch of Impermium, a young startup aimed at zapping the Internet's social spam wherever it hides. Not only is the startup bringing the heat to user generated spam like spammy...

Y Combinator is about to wield its rapidly-growing influence in the tech community to help startups everywhere. And it's taking on one of the hottest (and most fear-inspiring) issues around: patents.T...

Since HTC's purchase of a majority stake in Beats Electronics, the big question was which of their snazzy new handsets would be the first to benefit from an audio overhaul. Rumor had it that the Vigor...

Update: The Gang is scheduled to start around 1:30pm. From the inside out, salesforce.com is a rapidly growing cloud computing company at the head of the enterprise social wave. From the outside in, t...

Good news, HTC Thunderbolt/Droid Incredible owners! You're gettin' some Gingerbread!It's a bit late in the game (Gingerbread has been around for nearly 10 months, after all) but HTC has just announced...

Index Ventures is on a roll. The company is leading Dropbox's $4 billion valuation round, and today, we've heard that the fund is making a major investment in Europe's Square competitor iZettle. We've...

With more than 600,000 apps available for an estimated 350 million Apple and Android mobile devices, it's not difficult to see how mobile app advertising could soon eclipse online display advertising....

The Walkman brand has taken a beating over the last decade or so. The culprit, of course, is the iPod, and while other players do sell perfectly well all over the world (Apple's reach isn't always goo...

There isn't much about an iPad 2 that would lead you to hesitate before buying, except maybe a glance down at the price tag. Today, that's slightly less of an issue. Apple has started to sell refurbis...

Today, at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference, founder and CEO Marc Benioff took the stage to adress the event's 40,000 attendees. We know Salesforce is bullish on the social enterprise and Benioff kic...

If you've visited TechCrunch on your mobile you know it's been a generic experience...until now. With the introduction ofour new look and snazzy/abominable logoit was time for something better: the al...

Ah, your first days on Twitter. A time of innocence and serendipity.Look, your friend just made a witty joke about their burnt toast! And there   Oprah's tweeting about her new favorite book! It'...

Following today's reports that the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a complaint opposing the $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T, the big blue carrier has issued a response stating pla...

As we reported at Google I/O in May, Google has been working on offline versions of their three most popular apps: Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs. Google previously offered offline access fo...

It seems Sarah wasn't kidding about working right up until she givesbirth. In this week's positively-last-before-the-birth episode of Why IsThis News?, Sarah andPaulare prompted by the ongoing reports...

Mobile app analytics firm Flurry has released a new report comparing the U.S. mobile app inventory to traditional Internet display advertising spend, and the results are impressive. According to data ...

Crowdbooster, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is debuting its intelligent social media optimization, monitoring and analytics platform for companies and brands. What differentiates Crowdbooster from o...

Pushpins, Inc., the makers of a mobile app for saving on groceries, have launched a new service called SimpleUPC targeted towards mobile app developers. SimpleUPC, which is available as an API (applic...

These days, it's getting tough for companies that make eBook readers to differentiate. Brief forays into jumbo models aside, Amazon's Kindle has kept things simple and elegant since day one, while Bar...

Reports from Bloomberg and the WSJ this morning say that the United States Justice Department is looking to block AT&T's proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile on antitrust grounds.According...

Music streaming service Spotify is releasing a new API today, called 'libspotify,' which allows third party iOS developers to write applications for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad with Spotify inside...

You may remember Noca, a startup that wanted to disrupt the payments industry with a debit transaction product that promised low transaction fees for merchants. Today, the company is debuting its cred...

Today at the IFA conference in Berlin, Sony Ericsson announced its new Xperia smartphone, the Xperia Arc S. Unfortunately, details were pretty sparse in the initial announcement, but here's what we do...

If ever your iPhone or iPad starts acting wonky, chances are you pack it up and head on over to your nearest Genius Bar. Its a hassle, but its a small price to pay for your beloved iStuff. Still, ease...

"It's not about who makes them first, but who makes them better." That's how Sony's Sir Howard Stringer announced his upcoming tablets. Zing.Meet the S and P, everyone. Sony just took the wraps off it...

HTC's Jetstream (nee Puccini) has been the stuff of rumors for weeks now, but AT&T has officially announced the 10.1 inch tablet this morning.The Jetstream is HTC's first to run Android 3.1 Honeyc...

Ford Motor Company and the leading car-sharing network Zipcar have just announced a partnership that establishes Ford as Zipcar's largest auto source for Zipcar's University program. The new, two-year...

InChris Dixon'sprevious Founder Storiesepisodewith Buddy Media'sMike Lazerow, Lazerow told Dixon that Buddy Media was "Facebook plus," meaning Buddy Media helps brands manage consumer interaction and ...

Samsung made it known at last nights big announcement that they intended the Galaxy S II series to be more IT-friendly than its predecessor: improved Exchange support and on-device data encryption we...

IBM is announcing the acquisition of i2, a company that provides intelligence and investigation management software for law enforcement, defense, national security and private sector organizations. Fi...

Marketing technology company Fiksu has released new data that shows a downward trend in mobile application installations on iPhone. The increase, in broad terms, is marginal, given the size of the iPh...

This whole system of two-year contracts and early termination fees is far and away the worst thing about owning and enjoying a smartphone. Granted, contracts reduce the actual price of the phone by qu...

This whole system of two-year contracts and early termination fees is far and away the worst thing about owning and enjoying a smartphone. Granted, contracts reduce the actual price of the phone by qu...

Striiv is launching a new device today that blends gaming, fitness, and more. The device itself is a little larger than an Apple Nano, and includes a high-resolution color screen. Striiv acts partly a...

The first round of ultrabooks are upon us. Acer and Asus are said to have several models ready for an IFA debut later this week, but Notebook Italia just located a product page for the Acer Ultrabook ...

Wikio Group, best known for operating the Wikio news engine, has secured $25 million in financing from Gimv, one of the main investment companies in Europe and is chaining its name to ebuzzing, an exi...

Wikio Group, best known for operating the Wikio news engine, has secured $25 million in financing from investors and is changing its name to ebuzzing, an existing product in its portfolio.Gimv, one of...

RootMusic, the company behind BandPage, a platform that helps musicians make the most of their Facebook presence, has raised a Series B round of funding to the tune of $16 million after raising $2.3 m...

Epson announced [JP] the Colorio E-820 for the Japanese market today, a photo printer and wireless keyboard set somehow designed like a computer from the 1970s or 1990s (at least when looking at the t...

Like a catwalk model pivoting on the runway, Garmz, a startup which allows upcoming fashion designers to cut out the traditional network of buyers and sell clothes straight to consumers, is today rebr...

Nokia this morning announced that Tero Ojanper, former CTO and currently Executive Vice President and a member of the company's 'Leadership Team', is leaving the flailing phone manufacturer at the end...

Yesterday, we reported about Sony, Hitachi and Toshiba planning to establish a joint venture for small and mid-size LCD panels in Japan. And today, the three companies, plus major shareholder Innovati...

Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Help Us Celebrate TC Gadgets And Mobile At Our First San Francisco Meet-Up On 9/15 Wacoms Inkling Captures What You Draw On Paper Digi...

Earlier this year, during CES 2011, Sony showcased a prototype of a wearable 3D display that looked much like those virtual reality helmets we've been seeing since the 1990s. And today, the company an...

Everything's candy and roses for Dropbox today as the company simultaneously breaks out the expensive champagne and whispers "no comment" to anyone asking about the news. No matter, though, I'm right ...

Hot damn, I want one of those HP TouchPad tablets. Why? Because they’re sold out! Perception of scarcity is a fascinating human condition. It’s one of the first things we learn as children...

Salesforce's 'social network for the enterprise' Chatter has been the company's first real foray into incorporating social with business functions. Salesforce originally announced Chatter back in ...

When did the robot-vacuum world become such a crowded space? It's starting to sound like a monster movie. RoboKing versus Smarbo versus Roomba II: Electric Vuumaloo. But it makes sense, when you think...

When photos started circulating yesterday of the new interface for Windows Explorer in Windows 8, I was sure they were a joke. Surely, this was an Onion mock-up. Or maybe they were from some Apple fan...

When photos started circulating yesterday of the new interface for Windows Explorer in Windows 8, I was sure they were a joke. Surely, this was an Onion mock-up. Or maybe they were from some Apple fan...

While gaming company higher-ups aren't always the best bellwether for the direction the industry is taking, they do tend to view the sector as an RTS commander views his troops and resources. What the...

While gaming company higher-ups aren't always the best bellwether for the direction the industry is taking, they do tend to view the sector as an RTS commander views his troops and resources. What the...

Since February, we've been waiting for our turn with the Galaxy S II. With the handset floating around Europe and Asia, it's been hard to remain patient. But today is the day: the U.S. versions of the...

Since February, we've been waiting for our turn with the Galaxy S II. With the handset floating around Europe and Asia, it's been hard to remain patient. But today is the day: the U.S. versions of the...

San Franciscans, start your thrusters. On September 15 at 6:30pm TechCrunch Mobile and Gadgets will host our first meet-up at Roe @ 651 Howard St. in sunny SF. Sponsored by Samsung, this meet-up will ...

One of the marquee features of Sony's new Alpha and NEX cameras, which by the way look excellent, is the new electronic viewfinder. I've never been particularly attracted to these things, preferring t...

One of the marquee features of Sony's new Alpha and NEX cameras, which by the way look excellent, is the new electronic viewfinder. I've never been particularly attracted to these things, preferring t...

It's coming! It's finally coming!After months of gallivanting around the world with launches everywhere from South Korea to Canada since May (plus a one day delay thanks to Hurricane Irene) Samsung's ...

Asteroid. The iPad is an awesome device, but it costs money. Even second-hand models often command more than a new Android tablet. They're just that much in demand. But look, if a guy, moreover a guy ...

Asteroid. The iPad is an awesome device, but it costs money. Even second-hand models often command more than a new Android tablet. They're just that much in demand. But look, if a guy, moreover a guy ...

As students start going back to college, they are downloading Kno's new Textbooks app for the iPad in droves. It is currently the No. 1 iPad education app, No. 2 grossing iPad app overall, and a top-...

As students start going back to college, they are downloading Kno's new Textbooks app for the iPad in droves. It is currently the No. 1 iPad education app, No. 2 grossing iPad app overall, and a top-...

We're back for a new episode of TC Cribs, and this time we're scoping out our first enterprise company: Box.net.Don't worry, despite what you may have heard about enterprise software, this office isn'...

Game reviews are always inadequate, in that while they can describe how it feels to control your guy, or how the level design is frustrating, you can only kind of get it. Video reviews help, but you c...

The long-awaited Chromebooks finally hit retails in June but they're already seeing significant price reductions. Both Acer and Samsung entered the market with modestly priced options with the Samsung...

The long-awaited Chromebooks finally hit retails in June but they're already seeing significant price reductions. Both Acer and Samsung entered the market with modestly priced options with the Samsung...

Think back to the last time you put together a PowerPoint presentation. Try not to shudder.If you're like me, you probably had a few moments when you wondered if the slide you were working on made sen...

Think back to the last time you put together a PowerPoint presentation. Try not to shudder.If you're like me, you probably had a few moments when you wondered if the slide you were working on made sen...

Whoops! With just 2 hours to go before Samsung finally announces the details surrounding the U.S. launch of the Galaxy S II , things are starting to get leaky.At least three variants are expected to b...