Articles by Techcrunch from November 2011

Our very own Greg Kumparak and Jason Kincaid have both reviewed one -- both giving it positive reviews. It's the first time Greg has been excited about Android from a software standpoint in a while, a...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just issued a statement on the Facebook Blog confirming that his company has settled with the FTC over charges that it has violated user privacy over the year. Facebook is...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just issued a statement on the Facebook Blog confirming that his company has settled with the FTC over charges that it has violated user privacy over the years. Facebook i...

Erly, a Kleiner Perkins-backed startup in the social 'experience' space that co-founded by Hulu CTO and former Kleiner partner Eric Feng, is renaming its first product Collections (which was similar t...

Google Maps for Android is fantastic. Between its free GPS Navigation feature, speedy downloads thanks to vector-based maps, and offline caching, the app is leagues ahead of the Maps app on iOS. And i...

Even though the spec is apparently dead, some of us may still want to tag numeric values to our gadgetry. The folks over at Futuremark seem to agree, and want to take their benchmark testing into new ...

Though I'm fairly sure that I disagree with him, Laszlo Birinyi of Birinyi Associates had some flattering compliments to lay on RIM today, putting the Waterloo-based company at the top spot of his fiv...

The CTIA and ESRB pulled back the curtains on their new mobile app rating system today, and it looks like with the help of their six founding partners, app ratings could soon grace a smartphone near y...

Last month,Verizon and Microsoft announced a partnership that will bring live HD TV channels to Xbox 360 customers who have active Xbox Live Gold subscriptions. Through the agreement, customers who si...

E-commerce site for art collectors 20X200 is expanding to new territory todayframes. Founded by Jen Bekman, 20X200 simulates the feel of a gallery, except online. Each online exhibit is curated with l...

Earlier this year, Mogulite launched as the seventh site in Dan Abrams' Media Metwork, which includes Mediaite, Geekosystem, Styleite, Sportsgrid, and The Mary Sue. At launch Mogulitefocused on chroni...

Mobile music discovery platform Shazam is reacquiring the intellectual property it sold to music royalty outfit Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) back in 2005. At the time, the startup had sold the IP, which...

Microsoft might have missed the tablet party bus. At least that's what a Forrest report published on Tuesday states. Consumers have lost interest in a Windows touch device even though just earlier thi...

As of yesterday afternoon, Cyber Monday online sales were up 18 percent but apparently a surge of activity yesterday evening helped push the day's e-commerce sales to record amounts. Cyber Monday onli...

As of yesterday afternoon, Cyber Monday online sales were up 18 percent but apparently a surge of activity yesterday evening helped push the day's e-commerce sales to record amounts. Cyber Monday onli...

Mobile ad optimization platformSmaato, Inc. released the results of its mobile ad report for Q3 2011 today and found that, for the third consecutive quarter, Windows Phone (156) led the company's "Sma...

This is important news for anyone who shops - or sells something - online in Europe. The European Commission this morning put forward a number of legislative proposals to alleviate some of the problem...

When news breaks on Thanksgiving, you can safely bet that it's bad news. AT&T's announcement last week that it had withdrawn its application to acquire T-Mobile (and started preparing for the $4 b...

Fitness fanatics in the U.K. will soon have another gadget to aid them in their quest for physical supremacy: Motorola has just announced that their MOTOACTV fitness tracker will hit stores on Decembe...

Lenovo, taking a page out of the Android history books, just announced the LePad S2005 tabletphone for the Chinese market. This Gingerbread device pushes the recent trend of supersize phones into tabl...

Automattic has teamed up with Federated Media to - finally - allow WordPress.com bloggers to make money from online advertising. The project is called WordAds and if you're on WordPress.com you can ex...

Puppet Labs, a data center automation company, has raised $8.5 million in Series C financing from new investors Cisco, Google Ventures, and VMware. Existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & By...

If you're going to waste your time playing games on Facebook, you might as well do it and help build a better world while you're at it. That's the promise, at least, of online entertainment company So...

Research In Motion this morning introduced a new enterprise mobility solution dubbed BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, aiming to help its business and government clients manage employees' smartphones and tabl...

Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Japanese Company Shows Robot Co-Working With Humans (Video) The 4Moms Origami: Look At This Robotic Stroller! Look At It! Show Off You...

Writer marketplace Scripted.com is announcing $700K in seed funding today, from Crosslink Capital, Shopzilla CIO Jody Mulkey and Douglas Feirstein.Starting out as an offshoot of scriptwriting communit...

Flavors.me, the dead-simple service for building your own personal profile page, is launching a major redesign on Tuesday, with features that position it to take on the blogging juggernaut that isthe ...

Yes, really.General Cannabis Inc. has just announced that it's acquired Marijuana.com. The company didn't disclose the details of the deal, but we've confirmed that the acquisition price was $4.20 mil...

In my home office sits a 27-inch iMac with a secondary 24-inch LED Cinema Display attached to it. It's a glorious vision of screen real estate.And yet, I dread using it.First world problem? It's perha...

Facebook will IPO in April or June 2012, right on time with our prediction and when it would need to start filing public financial reports,according the the Wall Street Journal. The outlet's sources s...

Here's one for all you do-gooder Cyber Monday shoppers out there. "Doing good" and online shopping have traditionally been at odds. You know what your favorite brands are, where to find them online, a...

The social layer has settled on the web like a dusting of multicolored snowflakes, gracing every story with a little menagerie of sharing counts and buttons. Once basic standards of content publishing...

Facebook has confirmed to us this morning that it did indeed acquire the Baltmore-based software firm WhoGlue earlier this month. WhoGlue builds social networking software for membership organizations...

SlideShare, the content sharing platform for business documents, videos, and presentations, has grown into a sizable platform. In 2008, SlideShare was but a simple app launched on LinkedIn to allow pr...

When Cyber Monday rolls around, everyone's eyes dart to the big boys like Amazon and Newegg for cheap goods, but niche retailers have their own deals too. Case in point: the DIY repair nuts at iFixit ...

Google has released yet another TV commercial to help demonstrate the features of its new social network, Google+. Like the other marketing efforts, the ad is slick, polished and even sort of fun...

The European Commission is going after web companies over their failures to explain how their ad targeting systems work. But it's not hitting the bulls-eye, because it's confusing targeting with data ...

When 90% of people discover an event they might want to buy tickets for, they leave the purchase funnel as they try to convince friends to join them. This group decision process is clumsy, and poor re...

Black Friday and Thanksgiving Day brought record mobile engagement for PayPal, with 511 percent and a 538 percent increase in global mobile payment volume when compared to Thanksgiving and Black Frida...

Online commerce giant eBay this morning ran a Cyber Monday deal for a white Apple iPad 2 WiFi 16GB, selling the popular tablet for $449 or exactly $50 off the MSRP (+ free shipping). Turns out a ...

Hyperlocal is all the rage these days, and content companies, deal sites, and everyone in between are trying to find better ways to access (and advertise to) local markets. Over the last decade, the m...

To paraphrase Cracker, I suspect what the world needs now is another method to assess the social metrics of various museums around the world like I need a hole in the head, but presumably this informa...

Before he became the three-time Mayor ofNew York City, Michael Bloomberg made billions running the financial information company bearing his name. But it might never have happened if he hadn't been fi...

The team behind security startup Whisper Systems has been acq-hired by Twitter, they haveannounced on their company blog this gorgeous Cyber Monday morning."We started Whisper Systems with the goal of...

Ready for this week's tale of someone turning down an absurd mountain of money in exchange for their company?According to a report by the New York Times, Rovio makers of the Angry Birds series (and ...

There are things you need to be afraid of when you're a new parent. There's gluten, pull cords, Disney products, and BHP, to be sure, but what about wild robotic strollers that look as if they'll eat ...

There are things you need to be afraid of when you're a new parent. There's gluten, pull cords, Disney products, and BHP, to be sure, but what about wild robotic strollers that look as if they'll eat ...

LaunchNow.co is a new startup that turns building startups into a game. (Yes, we'retherenow.) The idea is that players will pit their companies against each other in order to earn badges, achievements...

Apple Stores are awesome places to shop. All the latest Apple products are on tables, just waiting to be used and abused. The employees are generally very knowledgeable and they tend to let shoppers w...

AT&T sure isn't wasting any time on shoring up their LTE lineup: just a few weeks after the HTC Vivid and Samsung GSII Skyrocket hit the scene, AT&T has announced that the LG Nitro HD will hit...

With Angry Birds, Rovio found a way to transform normal, healthy people into raging bird-flinging addicts. This isn't really that big of a deal — at least not in most cases — unless some s...

Early results for Cyber Monday are looking good for retailers. Cyber Monday 2011 online sales are already up 20 percent for this same time period over Cyber Monday 2010, according to IBM's Coremetrics...

Early results for Cyber Monday are looking good for retailers. Cyber Monday 2011 online sales are already up 20 percent for this same time period over Cyber Monday 2010, according to IBM's Coremetrics...

Black Friday is an awful day compared to today. Sure, you might walk away with that one deal you had your eye on, but for the most part it's a lot of waiting, fighting, and pepper-spraying. To make up...

Google has kicked off the week by posting a six-minute video clip that gives a fast-paced overview of its history as a search company, from its earliest days of Larry Page and Sergey Brin's PageRank a...

Online retail always peaks around the holidays, and with the frantic purchasing of gifts come the inevitable deluge of email receipts. It's all too easy for them to slip unnoticed into the recesses of...

If you've been having trouble getting your Windows Phone 7 handset to connect with your Mac (I'm sure the hybrid Mac/WP7-owner exists out there somewhere, right?), it's time to give it another spin a...

French business media are reporting that Viadeo, the professional social network challenging LinkedIn in a number of countries, has acquired Soocial, a Dutch contact management, syncing and backup ser...

The U.S. comScore Video Metrixstats are out now for October, revealing that 184 million U.S. Internet users watched online videos last month, with an average of 21.1 hours per viewers. The total U.S. ...

With all the talk of iPhone vs. Android these days, it's easy to forget how the majority of the world's mobile users still make calls and access data: via feature phones. A recently released reportfro...

We're still waiting for our chance to nab a Galaxy Nexus on this side of the pond, but it seems European users haven't exactly been having the best luck with their first-run devices. Fortunately, it l...

We've heard rumors of a sort of MacBook Pro/MacBook Air convergence for the past few months and it seems Digitimes may be confirming the arrival of a larger, ultrabook-like 15-inch MacBook Air.The sou...

Recently I had a conversation with a friend of mine who was interested in doing product management at a startup. He was working as a consultant, but wanted to join a company like foursquare as a PM. H...

You know, I'm becoming something of a fan of Brandon Harris (the latest face of Wikipedia's fundraising efforts, which you should absolutely donate to.)First, he's a programmer on Wikipedia, which is ...

While Apple's engineers toil away deep in the heart of their Cupertino headquarters, developers have taken it upon themselves to make Siri even more impressive than usual. Forget about setting reminde...

We've been posting quite a few products over the past few weeks, starting with our exciting and inviting Bag Week, and now our nefarious mission has become clear: welcome to TechCrunch Gadgets' 2011 G...

The Black Friday madness has finally come to a close. Well, almost. We all still need to live through Cyber Monday — a much safer version of our public displays of consumerism — but for th...

The sheer number of new startups forming and getting funded these days is dizzying. Its never been easier to start a company to harness new technologies and turn them into products. Traditional ventur...

Back in early 2009, I wrote about an Italian startup called BeeTV, which showcased some impressive TV recommendation technology. The goal was to sell that technology to telcos and cable operators, but...

Matrix Partners and WI Harper Group, a Chinese VC, this morning announced that they've pumped $12.5 million into SNS Plus, an international publisher and distributor of games with a focus on the Asian...

We're one step closer to the Robocalypse: Japan-based Kawada Industries has developed a humanoid robot that's specifically designed to work alongside human beings. The so-called Nextage is certainly n...

Amazon this morning pounded itself on the chest once more for selling Kinde devices as if they were hotcakes, particularly during last (Black) Friday. According to the company, it was the "best Black ...

Last week, Erick posted a video in which the founders of a stealth, San Francisco-based startup called Undrip spit some rhymes in an effort to raise seed funding for their new venture. Undrip, which i...

Last week, Yandex, one of biggest search and advertising companies in Russia, announced that it would be teaming up with Microsoft, Nokia, HTC and Samsung to become the default search engine on both n...

In the post-iPhone era, a lot of things changed in Japan, once the most admired country in the mobile world. The number of cell phone manufacturers, for example, has fallen from 13 to five after massi...

Twitter photo sharing service YFrog has deleted the account of Grace Dent, an influential UK Twitterer and writer with over 94,000 followers. There appears to be no explanation for the blunder at the ...

Here are some of the past week’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Review: Super Mario 3D Land For The 3DS ScottEVest Introduces The Puffer Jacket Penguin Shuts Down Libraries Access To New E-Title...

Displayed at the Dieter Rams exhibit at the SF MOMA is a hand-held Braun television. Yes, an old fashioned television with a handle on it that never saw the light of day because the Braun marketing te...

The good news is that Wikipedia has finally switched up thatimage of Jimmy Wales begging for money on its homepage. The bad news is that they've replaced it with another unfortunately left aligned ima...

As we heard on Saturday, IBM reported a 24 percent increase in online sales for Black Friday this year. ComScore is announcing even stronger results for e-commerce, with Black Friday seeing $816 milli...

When someone you haven't seen in a while asks you "What's up?" or "How are you?", you probably give them a high-level summary of the major life events from the months since you last spoke. When you sp...

Something about the juxtaposition of things reminds me of the politics of disruption, the emotional spring of the social generation. By themselves, interesting, intellectual perhaps, but not of the pa...

Amazon's extra-large Kindle DX is available this weekend (which is to say for the next few hours) for the low, low price of $259, down from its normal $379. It's telling that even the lowered price st...

Most folks spent their Thanksgiving weekend ensuring that every inch of their intestinal track was thoroughly covered in gravy. Others spent it trying to get just drunk enough that their relative's wo...

As Ive written about before, were in an amazing period of the consumer Internet. Despite a shaky economy, many web companies are in hypergrowth. This is reminiscent of the five-year period over a deca...

New Facebook game CastleVille is one of Zynga's fastest-growing titles ever, as it announced a few days ago.That's good news for the company, but maybe not good enough when you consider its overall tr...

I get asked a lot why Instagram is so popular. It might be because we just threw the first iPhone photography conference,1197, or because Iallegedlyruna companythat studies and designs interfaces. It ...

Editors Note: Guest contributor and early TechCrunch writer Steve Poland (@popo) currently is exploring raising a fund to join the "overcrowded" early stage investment market. His last contribution wa...

Like putting a donk on it, it seems like every new website needs to have a daily deal. Take Curisma, for example. On the surface it's sort of an Oink-like website dedicated to the curation of cool pro...

Bump co-founder, David Lieblaunched an app that's secured roughly$20 million in funding and has been downloaded approximately 60-million times. In his final Founder Stories interview with host Chris D...

Classify this as a rumor for now, but Israeli business press is reporting that Akamai is poised to take over one of its competitors, website and mobile acceleration technology vendor Cotendo, for $300...

Remember, R.I.P Good Times, the Sequoia slide deck in 2008 warning its portfolio companies to batten down the hatches and "spend every dollar as if it were your last"? Things aren't yet quite as dire ...

It's not hard to love Mario. He's had his ups and downs - what, for example, was the deal with Paper Mario? And Super Mario Strikers was pretty hard to love - but darn it if the little guy doesn't kee...

On Thanksgiving, Pinterests co-founder Ben Silbermann sent an email to his entire user base saying thanks. It was fitting, as Pinterest was born two years ago on Thanksgiving day 2009. Ben had been wo...

Seeking a way to reduce friction while exchanging contact information, David Lieb and his two co-founders launched Bump - a service that allows users to trade personal data (and an array of items span...

When the term Cyber Monday was coined in 2005, the Monday after Thanksgiving was the 12th biggest online shopping day of the year. That year, Facebook had 5.5 million users and Twitter didnt exist. In...

Mobile is growing as a medium for ecommerce, with users sourcing deals from their phones and tablets before visiting physical stores according to a new study by Usablenet, The companywhich powers mobi...

Over the last month, Charles Stross memorably called the online influence measurer Klout "the internet equivalent of herpes," Rohn Miller of Social Media Today exhorted people to "Delete your Klout pr...

Weve heard endlessly how social will eventually disrupt and transform old, stodgy industries, perhaps even reinvent them for the better. The promise of this change, of course, is often tempered by the...

Thanksgiving brought record online retail sales for the holiday, with spending up 39.3 percent over Thanksgiving 2010. And today, IBM Coremetrics data shows a 24.3 percent growth in online sales on Bl...

Being from Jordan and having visited Silicon Valley on a number of occasions, this visit (along with others) continue to show how the realities of the Valley stand in stark contrast with what an emerg...

Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: ScottEVest Introduces The Puffer Jacket 2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Laptops Are A Geeks Best Friend LuvBook S: Japan Gets Super-Cute Hello Kitty Laptop T...

Want to be notified to turn on the AC when a room reaches a certain temperature? Or when your laundry's done? Well MIT Media Lab alumni Supermechanical have built Twine, a sleek 2.5" rubber square whi...

In a charming interview with Forbes Magazine, Microsoft's Craig Mundie discussed future products at Microsot, including the success and plans for the Kinect as well as their mesa para computacin, the ...

ScottEVest makes clothes for use geeks. They have lots of pocketses, plenty of acceptable style, and you can amaze people by stuffing a water bottle and laptop out of one of their coats with room to s...

When the Kindle Fire first shipped a couple weeks ago, the reviews were mixed. Uncle Walt calls it good, but not great. David Pogue at the NYT thinks it is "sluggish," lacking "polish or speed." But t...

As we heard earlier today, Thanksgiving proved to be a lucrative day for online retailers. IBM reported online Thanksgiving 2011 sales were up 39 percent over Thanksgiving 2010, with mobile shopping o...

As we heard earlier today, Thanksgiving proved to be a lucrative day for online retailers. IBM reported online Thanksgiving 2011 sales were up 39 percent over Thanksgiving 2010, with mobile shopping o...

Fire sales turned into a firestorm for Walmart this morning as the company's web servers buckled under Black Friday traffic. Shoppers from around the country waited until the middle of the night for s...

In his first Founder Stories interview with hostChris Dixon,Bump co-founder and CEO,David Liebrelates how he conceived the idea for Bump one week into business school at the University of Chicago. He ...

Black Friday often makes people act absolutely crazy. This is well-documented. Still, you don't expect to see consumer-driven insanity go down in countries that don't celebrate Turkey day and its acco...

We are entering into a new era, ladies and gentlemen. Well, "era" may not be the right word considering how quickly things change in these here mobile parts, but the fact remains the same: Quad-core m...

Banksyfans, this one's for you.Imagine an iOS photo app that swaps out Instagram filters for stencils from your favorite meme or art piece, then add a little augmented reality, and youll get Look.Buil...

Iovox is a startup specialising in something known as VaaS (Voice as a Service). Their telephony platform allows companies to build services on the telephone network that do real-world, heavy-lifting ...

This morning, AT&T issued a formal statement on the withdrawal of its application from the FCC regarding its merger with T-Mobile. The company had previously agreed to pay a $4 billion pre-tax cha...

Over the past year the WWE has continued to push the social media envelope by integrating Twitter and Facebook further into its regular broadcasts. Dwayne The Rock Johnson, now a cross-over star in bo...

Divorce. It happens to the best of us. As emotionally heart wrenching as it can be, its even worse now that were living out our lives on the public stages of Facebook, Twitter and the like. If the rec...

As we heard a few weeks ago, retailers were expecting Thanksgiving Day to be a major online shopping day as more and more consumers are hitting their laptops, tablets and more to get a head start on s...

There's certainly no shortage of social media monitoring and analytics service providers out there, with companies like Radian6, Visible Technologies, Sysomos, Socialbakers and Buddy Media among those...

No, this isn't a turkey-induced hallucination: ads for Verizon's LTE-capable Galaxy Nexus have begun to pop up on a number of Android fan sites, and they clearly state that Samsung and Google's latest...

It's Black Friday in the United States, but Amazon this morning revealed a couple of deals that it will be running from Cyber Monday and/or the next few days (specifically, starting at midnight on Sun...

Starting today, on the retail shopping holiday known as Black Friday here in the U.S., Walgreens will begin rolling out its new scannable mobile coupons which work at its over 7,700 stores nationwide....

Dude I know this happened a month ago but I've been staying at my parents' now for three days and we've already had the "You should start thinking seriously about your relationships" conversation beca...

RjDj's Michael Breidenbruecker, also a Founder last.fm, has certainly opened up the avenues for sound apps on mobile platforms. The startup's apps have become platforms for musicians, but are gradual...

I'm not convinced these are discounts you've really been 'waiting 364 days for', but Apple's Black Friday deals have gone live this morning. The prices leaked earlier, but hey.If you were looking at b...

We have covered the one or the other Hello Kitty gadget in the past, but it's been a while since the last notebook featuring the popular cartoon cat. But now Japan's Mouse Computer is selling the so-c...

Yandex, the Russian online search and advertising giant, has teamed up with Microsoft, Nokia, HTC and Samsung to become the default search engine on the latest - and upcoming - Windows Phone smartphon...

Online video is booming and the are tons of small video companies across production, advertising, distribution, and technology. Yet we have yet to see a serious attempt to roll up the industry. The re...

Q: Dad, what browser do you use? A: One that browses well. Q: Okay, what's it called? A: A browser.I dont know about you, but I try to avoid technological discussions with my parents. Even though they...

I know, I know. Apple totally stole its new Notifications Center for iOS 5 from Android. But let's be honest, they did a pretty good job with it. (Except for those impossibly small "X" buttons, that i...

It wasn't that long ago that the idea of flipping on a television and seeing a commercial for anything Google-related seemed totally implausible. For many years, the company seemed to take a certain p...

It's not always easy to tell when Chrome has been updated, and at any rate the changes aren't always significant enough to even wonder about it. But a pair of features worth caring about are user-boun...

When it comes to gift-giving, there are a few presents that siimply go above and beyond. Getting a first car on your sixteenth birthday (if you're so lucky) is one of those moments, and some young cou...

HTC's G1, the first Android phone, had a long and interesting life until it was retired last year, and although I loved the phone, I'll be the first to admit that being limited to Android 1.6 was kind...

Sex is like driving. In polls, nine out of ten people think they are above average. Lets say for a second that average equals median (I dont want to get into basic math arguments in the comments). Cle...

I recently hit Bucharest in Romania to experience the rising star event of the Central and Eastern European scene, HowToWeb. This annual conference is doing an amazing job of bringing CEE entrepreneur...

Would our society come crumbling down if Facebook suddenly disappeared? A hilarious new parody film trailer explores a ghastly future where "Zuckerberg deleted Facebook. And then he killed himself. Fo...

Well, this isn't the strategy I was expecting, but it seems the FCC's request to investigate the AT&T/T-Mobile deal under the lens of an administrative law judge last week just doesnt sit well wit...

Shenzhen is a town of migrants. The estimated median ages is between 15 and 25 and the old and battered sits in wild contrast with the brand new. Even in the few years between my last visit and this o...

The European Court of Justice this morning ruled that content owners can not strong-arm Internet service providers (ISPs) into filtering out copyright-infringing content.This case has its origin in a ...

Israeli startup Superfly, which debuted at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2010, launched earlier this year as a service to organize travel rewards (i.e. frequent flier miles or hotel rewards) and educate users...

Looking for a last-minute holiday gift? How about that Groupon you never used? Daily deal vouchers wouldn't actually make bad presents if there was a way to gift them that didn't involve an email prin...

Alibaba.com, the massive B2B e-commerce company based in China, this morning published (PDF) its results for the third quarter of the year. The company reported a 11.9 percent increase (to $64 million...

I recently had the pleasure of visiting a European city which is to a great extent a true example of how technology is changing society and business across Europe today. Once, Krakow was a city infamo...

Simroid, a super-realistic dental training robot developed in Japan, caused quite a splash in news outlets worldwide when it made its debut in 2007. The level of realism was pretty high back then, but...

Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Gadgets To Look For On Black Friday 2011 Holiday Gift Guide Move over Kinect Displair from Russia is a gesture interface in thin air Penguin Shuts ...

Several news outlets today wrongly reported that Anonymous Antisec hackers had leaked "newly available" Facebook law enforcement guidelines that explain how and what data can be obtained by officials ...

As AllThingsD reported in September, travel search engine Kayak has put its IPO on hold until market conditions improve. Kayak filed its S-1 for a public offering nearly a year ago. Today, the company...

Yesterday, Bloomberg published a story stating that Apple had made a major (and, frankly, somewhat surprising) change to its App Store policies: it was going to begin allowing game publishers to sell ...

Good news people who are really curious about Quora growth! You might one day be reading an article like this about Quora ...Because Quora has hired a former Twitter and Facebook guy, Andy Johns, to f...

Most of the communications apps that have gotten big on smartphones have been built by well-established companies that have existing user bases they can promote to, with Facebook, Twitter and Skype be...

Yesterday afternoon, we wrote about an Android developer who'd received a cease-and-desist letter from Carrier IQ, a company whose Android software he'd been investigating.This morning, under the ligh...

The consumer electronics search service Decide.com is teaming up with Consumer Reports on a new deals site which aims to help shoppers know what and when to buy new electronics. Although the companies...

Pro Tip: If your new business plan entails buying a bunch of domains that are clearly just one letter off from that of a major brand, you're probably doing it wrong.Such is the case for one gent from ...

Guess who seems to be most interested in the plight of the 99%? "Jetset urbanites" according to Experian Hitwise, which used its Experian Mosiac audience profiling system to track traffic to Occupy mo...

Where will the next billion-dollar startups come from? The tech world and most VCs tend to be parochial, looking at Silicon Valley, maybe New York, and a few other hot markets like China and Brazil. ...

Alright folks. If you're still young enough, immature enough, or bankless enough to own a piggy bank, it's time to crack that thing open. Black Friday is (count 'em) two days away, and if you don't ha...

Despite yesterday's FQ3 earnings statementindicating that Pandora beat Wall Street projections and that it has abundant long-term growth opportunities,Pandoras stock price fell 11.3% since yesterday t...

The primary focus for app developers, aside from making kick ass apps, is finding truly effective ways to monetize those apps, whether it be through targeted, location-enabled ad solutions, in-game pu...

If you were thinking of laying out the cash for one of the new touch-based e-readers, now would be a good time. Kobo is dropping the price of its Touch e-reader device, which I reviewed here, to $99 i...

The free-to-play model, while disparaged by some developers as exploitative of players, has certainly proved itself over and over to be financially sustainable if done right. And although I myself hav...

Apple's largest retail store is under construction in Grand Central Terminal in New York City. It takes up an entire mezzanine level at one end of the grand hall where there used to be a restaurant. ...

People are all caught up in today's Google Doodles but for all the wrong reasons. Yes, there's a customizable turkey for the US and a fun sci-fi game for Europe. But did you notice the G+ button ...

Email marketing software giant ExactTarget has just submitted its second S-1 for a public offering, seeking to raises as much as $100 million. In 2007, ExactTarget filed for an initial public offering...

Walt Disney Studios and YouTube have struck deal which will bring hundreds of Disney movies to YouTube, starting today. The new partnership between the two companies includes movies from Disney, Disne...

Home is where the heart is. It's also the place where most people will live and die so give a gift that will make someone's life a bit easier (or fun). No one wants a $20 coffee pot for Christmas. But...

Mobile app monetization platform Lunch Money, has raised $1 million in seed financing from Google Ventures, First Round Capital, Scott Banister, Baroda Ventures, David Sacks, Mike Jones, Kamran Pourza...

While smartphone adoption continues to pick up steam here in the U.S., new research from Strategy Analytics shows that China is hungrier for smartphones than we are. For the first time ever, China has...

Hello, what do we have here? A new facial recognition mobile app? Sure looks like it. The company is called Faced.me, and its upcoming app aims to recognize faces and then connect those faces to users...

Over the last few years, publishing companies have been forced to accomodate eReaders, tablets, social media, and a bevy of new multimedia channels. Perhaps more than others, they've been slow to evol...

Foursquare, and most of the apps built on top of the location service's developer platform, are great for exploring the physical world for entertainment. But a new iPhone app called 4sqwifi (download ...

You don't need to work on Wall Street to have seen this one coming: Today, for the first time since its NASDAQ debut on November 4th, Groupon has fallen below its IPO price, which initially placed the...

You don't need to work on Wall Street to have seen this one coming: Today, for the first time since its NASDAQ debut on November 4th, Groupon has fallen below its IPO price, which initially placed the...

The entrepreneur was fuming over the phone. He is arguably angry: he had heard of a company had just been raided on trumped up charges and I spoke to him one evening after he returned to the UK. "Chin...

When Bonfire went live last month we had high hopes for this tiny startup which planned to bring instant messaging to the Twitter web site, Facebook-chat style.With this IM presence, now you would kno...

Here in the States, Google's doodle greets us with a blinking turkey in anticipation of tomorrow's impending gorgefest. Not bad, but Europe clearly has us beat today: instead of a turkey, they get an ...

Among yesterday's service shutdowns at Google, which included underperforming and deprecated Web properties like Knol, Wave and Gears, there was also news of the end of RE<C.What's RE<C? Just ...

Please look at this video and tell me it is not magic. Displair, a Russian company from Astrakhan has come up with a technology to project images into the thin air, and use gestures to move them....

They say that fools and their money are soon parted, and no one knows that better than the sports junk hucksters at Power Balance. Despite filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in federal court on Friday, ...

By now you probably know there's a hidden camera feature that people can enable on iOS 5 devices, allowing users to snap photos in panorama mode (see video).However, to enable the hidden feature your ...

It's been an interesting journey for mydeco, the home design and furnishings startup founded by the management team behind lastminute.com, one of Europes most successful ever online businesses. Back i...

Chances are you've already heard about the beef between Amazon and Penguin over the sales and lending terms of Penguin e-titles through Amazon's Kindle lending program. If not, we can recap quickly. A...

It looks like will be a joyful holiday season for many online retailers this year. comScore is reporting that holiday retail e-commerce spending for the first 20 days of the November to December 2011 ...

Yesterday morning, we reported that Microsoft had acquired Israeli video startup, VideoSurf, for approximately $70 million. The deal indeed has been greenlighted, as Microsoft confirmed in its blog po...

If full HD resolution isn't enough for you, then how about 16 times the resolution of full HD? Japan's national public broadcasting organization NHK has been working on so-called Ultra HD technology f...

Nokia Siemens Networks would like you to know that it "puts mobile broadband and services at the heart of its strategy", and to demonstrate this they plan to fire roughly 17,000 people worldwide befor...

Never troll a troll, say men and women much wiser than moi. To them, I say no, in this case it's perfectly fine to troll the troll.From the funny dude who brought you the Mark by Mark Zuckerberg colle...

It's not the first cell phone that has been designed specifically for women, but it's certainly one of the most interesting, as far as features and specs are concerned. Fujitsu's so-called ARROWS Kiss...

VoteIt, a New Orleans-based startup focused on helping groups make decisions with realtime voting tools, announced today that it has raised $800,000 in seed funding from a group of local angels. And, ...

Zinio, which bills itself as the world's largest digital newsstand and bookstore, has raised $20 million in new funding according to an SEC filing.Zinio provides global access to thousands of magazine...

American pop band We The Kings, or rather their record label S-Curve, have teamed up with Israeli startup Interlude (earlier coverage) to produce a fancy interactive video that blends familiar gamepla...

Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Printrbot: A Cheap 3D Printer For You And Yours Researchers See Retina Display, Raise Them A Cornea Display The SlingPlayer App Makes Its Way To The...

A testament to how fast we are consuming culture these days, it only took ~72 hours for the UC Davis Casually Pepper Spraying Cop Photoshop meme to go from Reddit thread to CNN, with officer John Pike...

A testament to how fast we are consuming culture these days, it only took ~72 hours for the UC Davis Casually Pepper Spraying Cop Photoshop meme to go from Reddit thread to CNN, with officer John Pike...

Some people love Klout, while others are in doubt. But, the fact of the matter is that, in the end, all this talking about Klout is ... good for Klout. Apparently, in 100 million ways. At the very lea...

"It gives you social energy.It gives you taste of friendship." It's Facedrink!And you better go buy some because it will be sued out of existence any minute now. Following in the footsteps of the unof...

I've gotten to review a few pico projectors, but haven't had the opportunity to test one from AAXA. This new one, the P4, looks like it could stand up to my favorite so far, the 3M MP160. Like that de...

The distributive potential of the internet has done its part in disrupting the music industry, most visibly via iTunes. But iTunes was always a sort of simulacrum of a record store. Its icon was even ...

Ecommerce sites should consider how they can personalize their sites using Facebook data, as a new study shows 50% of visitors to ecommerce sites are currently logged in to Facebook. Using Facebook so...

Following my post last night about our effort to use CrunchBase in more ways on TechCrunch, some readers have shared how they're already using it. One was Dirk Neumann from "social supercomputer" star...

Online pinboard Pinterest is the new hotness. VCs are piling in because it is growing like crazy. How crazy? According to comScore, Pinterest generated 421 million pageviews in the U.S. in October,...

We crave inspiration. When energy is low or there's a pause in our day, we turn to Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram for stimulation. But there, exhilaration is buried within exhausting, endless streams...

One of the primary criticisms of the BlackBerry PlayBook, and rightly so, was the omission of native email, contacts, and calendar applications. It was troubling then that they hadn't considered these...

The holiday season is upon us, and no gift keeps on giving quite like a smartphone. Think about it — there's probably nothing in your dear friend or family member's life that he or she will use ...

Since Google CEO Larry Page took the helm this past spring, one of the company's most visible initiatives has been to trim and shut down its products that haven't taken off. These have included Aardva...

Folks who want to connect their Kinect to their PCs can now use specially-designed hardware to add real-time, 3D tracking to programs, games, and research projects. Using the Kintect SDK hackers can a...

The idea of information being presented directly to your eyes, be it by glasses, contacts, distant lasers, or brain implants, has existed for decades. But like so many sci-fi concepts, the engineering...

I hope you like the landscape you see here because if you buy Amateur Pixel's new Desert Bus app, you'll be looking at it for the next eight hours. Seriously....

You've changed something on your website, and everyone hates it. At least, that's how it seems. Once you've grown past, say... 10 users, change will almost always be resisted. You get used to it.More ...

In two and a half weeks since its launch, micro-recommendation app Oink has clocked in a 100k downloads, with a symmetrical 100k items added and tagged. A product of Kevin Roses Milk Studios, Rose tel...

In two and a half weeks since its launch, micro-recommendation app Oink has clocked in a 100k downloads, with a symmetrical 100k items added and tagged. A product of Kevin Roses Milk Studios, Rose tel...

The runaway growth of Sina's microblog service Weibo has been one of the hottest tech stories of the year in China, and we found out the power of the platform firsthand during the promotion and planni...

Based on the RepRap platform, the Printrbot is a $499 3D printer accessible to everyone. Designed to be built in a few hours, this Kickstarter project includes multiple levels of kit completion - $199...

Android security researcher Trevor Eckhart has recently found himself in some hot water after performing a deep dive into mobile tracking software from a company called Carrier IQ. He managed to figur...

Mobile analytics firm Distimo has taken a look at Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace one year after its launch in November 2010. Now available in 35 countries worldwide, the store has grown consist...

Last week, Intuit co-founder Scott Cook appeared on my show and extolled the virtues of the Chinese economic development model. Cook used the example of Deng Xiaopings establishment of Special Economi...

At its f8 developer event in September, Facebook unveiled one of the biggest reinventions of its user profiles since the site first launched: Timelines.Activate the feature, which is still in beta, an...

Last year, we wrote about email software company Xobni's survey that showed that going completely offline from email over the holidays is a thing of the past. And this year's survey from Xobni reports...

Love it or hate it, but Klout is one of the key players in today's influence/reputation market. Even if the whole concept of ranking people based on popularity feels a little icky to you (I feel you),...

New startup accelerator Advise.me, home to the global startup initiativewhich encouragesentrepreneursfrom around the world to apply for seed funding, is today announcing new partnerships with LinkedIn...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Doc Searls, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor talked SOPA, Amazon Fire, FaceBook Borging our data and not letting it out, the end of books, the beginning of Pad magazine...

Last May at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, Gauri Manglik and her two cofounders launched SpotOn, a mobile recommendation app for bars and restaurants based on where your friends have checked in on Foursquare...

I've always been something of a fan (a proponent, even) of white phones. Back in another life when I was consulting mobile manufacturers on their phone designs, it was always one of the first question...

I've always been something of a fan (a proponent, even) of white phones. Back in another life when I was consulting mobile manufacturers on their phone designs, it was always one of the first question...

Intel Capital, the chip maker's investment arm, this morning provided some details about a recently made investment in Insyde Software, a publicly listed Taiwan company that specializes in system fir...

Over 10 million people have created artful iPhonography with Instagram, but they've never seen their masterpieces any bigger than a Postagram postcard. But now, thanks to a peculiar synergy between th...

Driving from the Foxconn Factory, down the road from the main gate, we spotted a truck full of pigs in an open-sided container. They were huge, porcine pink, and surprisingly clean. They were still al...

Socialize, makers of a "Social SDK" for mobile developers, is today launching version 1.0 of its "Social Action Bar." This action bar is an easy-to-install mobile toolbar of sorts, which allows an app...

You know, I'm beginning to think that Samsung's factory lines are rigged up like the bus in Speed. If at any time they drop below 50 newly created Android phones per month, bam! Factory falls down and...

Facebook users are getting more connected to each other as the service grows older, according to a new study by the company's data team and the University of Milan. Instead of the traditional "six deg...

Facebook users are getting more connected to each other as the service grows older, according to a new study by the company's data team and the University of Milan. Instead of the traditional "six deg...

It's a good day for all you Android lovers out there, because today you're getting a killer app from iOS land: 360 Panorama. The app is from Occipital, the 2008 TechStars grad, also makers of the (now...

Boxee Box owners, get ready for even more content. The SlingPlayer app is available for your downloading(auto-playing video warning) and ready to catch content slung from a SlingBox Solo or Pro-HD.Thi...

Rocket Ninja, a developer of social 3D entertainment, has raised $7.5 million in Series B funding led by European private investor Marcel Boekhoor. This brings the company's total funding to $11 milli...

It's the age old tale. Company makes phone. Company codenames phone (sometimes multiple times). Company dabbles back and forth between a couple names before ultimately choosing the wrong one (*cough* ...

There may be no greater gift than a quality piece of home entertainment equipment. I mean that, too. Forget train sets, diamonds and puppies. Everyone wants entertainment this holiday season and we've...

Back in January, Yuri Milner and SV Angel partnered to offer every startup that was part of Y Combinator's winter batch (some 40 startups) $150K each in convertible debt. In September, national startu...

Back in January, Yuri Milner and SV Angel partnered to offer every startup that was part of Y Combinator's winter batch (some 40 startups) $150K each in convertible debt. In September, national startu...

We've all built up a ton of connections through networks like Facebook and Twitter. Now there's a way to greedily exchange that social capital for real-world dollars. Shopcade is a new affiliate ecomm...

Startups thrive on discontinuities and disruption. NPR and Kaiser Health News broke a major story that Walmart intends to become the largest provider of primary care in the country. While Walmart back...

According to Israeli businesspaper Calcalist (in Hebrew), Microsoft has acquired San Mateo, California-based video search technology company VideoSurf for about $70 million.We've confirmed the acquisi...

It looks like we can expect faster wireless connections in the near future: Japanese electronic parts maker Rohm yesterday announced [JP] it has developed a chip that reached a wireless data transmiss...

Mobile ad network Millennial Media is releasing its October Mobile Mix report this morning. In October, Android led the Connected Device and Smartphone OS Mix on Millennial with 56% of the impressions...

Mobile ad network Millennial Media is releasing its October Mobile Mix report this morning. In October, Android led the Connected Device and Smartphone OS Mix on Millennial with 56% of the impressions...

Hojoki this morning announced that it has raised $620,000 in seed funding as the German startup gears up for the launch of its public beta on the 7th of December (coinciding with the Le Web conference...

We've shown you many Kinect-based hacks and applications over the past months, and here is a new one from Japan: major robot maker Yaskawa has developed a humanoid that can be remote-controlled using ...

What exactly is a PC?That question is likely to become a hot topic over the next few years.Originally, we thought of PCs as the Apple II or then the IBM PC. They were machines that had to sit on a des...

Microsoft this morning blasted out an email to all subscribers of its Bing Daily Deals offering, informing users that the service will henceforth be known as 'MSN Offers'. It's a confusing move, but t...

Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: The Future Of Foxconn: The Birds Photojojos iPhone Lens Dial Ups Your Mobile Photography Game Hands On With The Wimm One Data Device Google Drops The ...

If you're running a political campaign, a charity, or any other group where keeping in touch with community members and/or delegating tasks to them is critical, then you'll probably be interested in a...

Earlier today patrons of Wine Libraryreceived an email informing them that the credit card information they had used to sign up to the WineLibrary.com site may have been compromised in a data breach. ...

As many of you already know, CrunchBase is a big, free resource for anyone trying to get the latest information on hot new startups, or competitors to their own hot new startups, the investing focus o...

Uh-oh. Samsung and Google are still in talks regarding its upcoming Google TV offering. Reuters is reporting that Samsung's president indicated that the two companies are in "late-stage talks" and tha...

It's possible new media will steal a page from the VCs and the economics of the Cloud, putting these streaming deals together on multiple networks (Facebook, YouTube, Ustream, iCloud) with talent owni...

Before we kicked off Disrupt Beijing, the TechCrunchTV team had just enough time to venture out into the city to begin exploring the local startup scene. One of our stops: The Garage Caf, a coffee sho...

Installing Windows has always been something of a joke. Not always warranted, of course, but we all know how funny and catastrophic anecdotes outlive the less thrilling reality of something as commonp...

Over the past few years, Facebook has partnered with a variety of handset makers to release smartphones and feature phones that deeply integrate the social network into software and hardware. These ph...

Turns out you don't have to charge an arm and a leg for SMS messages to make money off of texting.One startup that's proven this is Pinger, the company behind the massively popular free texting app Te...

We knew that HP's gamble on webOS was an expensive one, but thanks to the company's Q4 and full-year financials, we're finally getting a feel for just how dearly the webOS experiment cost them. This p...

If you've been paying attention this morning, you're perhaps somewhat aware of a program Microsoft has in place called Mobile Acceleration Week (part of its BizSpark program), where 12 hand-picked sta...

You know that scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise is walking through a mall and all the digital signs are talking to him and showing him highly targeted ads? Yeah, well, we are not there yet. Bu...

Facebook today began allowing a limited test of users to download a new Facebook Messenger for Windows 7 desktop client. It provides access to Chat, the Ticker feed, and notifications. Facebook is loo...

We first talked about the Wimm One in August, noting that no wearable device has ever made sense to me, at least in watch format. I believe I may need to eat my words. The Wimm is a clever little modu...

HP has just reported fourth quarter and fiscal year 2011 earnings today, with fourth quarter non-GAAP net revenue of $32.3 billion, down 3 percent from the same quarter in 2010. The company posted non...

Here's something I'm sure no one expected to see today: the CTIA Wireless Trade Association has just issued a release stating that they have struck a partnership with the Entertainment Software Rating...

Israeli company MyHeritage, which operates a huge family-based social network has acquired FamilyLink, the developer behind family historycontent sites FamilyLink.com and WorldVitalRecords.com.While f...

Facebook has classically been very reluctant to adulterate its social content streams with advertisements. But today, Facebook begins showing its Sponsored Stories ad units in the site-wide Ticker of ...

There is a lotto be said about TechCrunch founder and my former boss Michael Arrington, but nothing more true than this; The technology community owes him immensely for the value he created in the six...

I wore my yellow t-shirt to honor the return of Mike Daisey to TechcrunchTV. Daisey, the great monologist whose acclaimed show, "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs", is currently running in New Y...

Having successfully created and launched a business where robots dart through distribution centers securing e-commerce products for delivery, Kiva Systems founder, Mick Mountz reflects on growing his ...

By the end of the year, there will be an estimated 34 million tablet computer users in the U.S., according to new numbers out today from eMarketer. Of those, 28 million (or 83 percent) will be using a...

Zynga's newest Facebook game, CastleVille, has crossed five million daily active users. To put this in perspective, the social gaming giant's fastest growing (and most popular) game CityVille, only re...

eBay and PayPal are both pushing the term couch commerce, in which consumers will be using their tablets and mobile phones from the comfort of their couches to shop this holiday shopping season. eBay ...

At first I thought the birds in the trees at the Foxconn's largest plant in Shenzhen, China were fake. They sang so sweetly that I was sure my hosts had planted speakers for my benefit - a sort of Pot...

Hear that noise? That deafening, arrhythmic clomping that seems to be coming from every direction? That's the sound of a million geeks, all doing their happy dance.Square Enix has just announced that ...

Mint competitor HelloWallet is launching on the iPhone today, with an application that provides at-a-glance spending guidance, budget details and your available cash balance.As a company, HelloWallet ...

I'll admit that I'm a middling photographer at best, but that doesn't stop me from buying all sort of expensive gear. Photojojo's new iPhone accessory appeals to that same sense of camera gear lust in...

A while back, I used one of my phone reviews as a platform to make a desperate, but necessary, plea to developers: Please build cool apps for Windows Phone 7.5. Come to find Microsoft had been making ...

Peter Thiel is a grump, but a special kind of grump. He is a dystopian utopian (if such a person can exist). The investor who wrote the first check for Facebook both believes in the power of technolog...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Doc Searls, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor are recording live today at 9am PT....

HouseTrip, the holiday lettings marketplace raised $2.7m from Index Ventures back in April and relaunched to appeal to a wider market than its holiday apartments rental space. HouseTrip built a reputa...

Questli, one of the Audience Choice winners at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this year, is debuting its IOS app today. You can download the app here and you can use the code 'TC2011' to sign up ...

Happy holidays, everyone! Yours Truly, the Google Chromebook team!Google just announced several Chromebook updates that should wash away the holiday blues. First off, prices are dropping. Per a post a...

According to new consumer survey data from ChangeWave Research, Amazon's Kindle Fire is poised to become the first real competitor to the Apple iPad, with one in five planned tablet buyers (22%) indic...

It's a fact of life for many a new smartphone on the market: the impressive sales seen at launch and during the first few weeks will inevitably taper off. RIM's new line of BlackBerrys may have alread...

One of the great pastimes of the Web is rating places and things, but now with mobile phones you can rate them anywhere, and not just things but experiences. Enter Stamped, a New York City startup fou...

Washington, D.C.-based video indexing and discovery startup Veenome has raised $500, 000 in seed funding from Ecosystem Ventures(investors in Tube Mogul and Facebook), plus private angel investors fro...

Back in March we reported on Diagnosia, a startup that is aiming to become "a search engine for drugs" by providing a safe place for people looking up medicine information. Today it's a secured an und...

The fine folks over at iFixit just posted their latest trademark teardown guide. This time around the victim is the brand new Nook Tablet. Much like its Kindle counterpart, the low-cost B&N tablet...

Hunch, a service that provides a "taste graph" of personalized recommendations based on users' interests, has just been bought by auction site eBay, the companies have confirmed. The amount hasn't off...

Hunch, a service that provides a "taste graph" of personalized recommendations based on users' interests, has just been bought by auction site eBay, the companies have confirmed. The amount hasn't off...

Hunch, a service that provides a "taste graph" of personalized recommendations based on users' interests, has just been bought by auction site eBay, the companies have confirmed. The amount hasn't off...

It seemed, for a time, that the book on mobile Flash as we knew it was closed. Adobe announced just a few weeks ago that all development for mobile Flash would cease, and their development efforts wou...

The race is on to create a new class of consumer-driven health companies. One of the most popular health and fitness apps on the iPhone, RunKeeper, is started tackling by making it easy for people to ...

Domain name investment company XF.com Investments is putting one of the most valuable single-word domains up for sale today: tablets.com. The company says it feels like now is the perfect time to rele...

Raise your hand if you want a Microsoft Surface for a desk? Everyone, right? Of course. It's the hottest thing out of Redmond since this picture set. But they're damn expensive. There's no way I'd use...

Visa is making a major move in the commerce and technology space, teaming up with Shopkick, an innovative geo-coupon system that has received funding from Kleiner Perkins, Greylock, SV Angel and other...

Would you like to be able to turn your pizza box into a computer interface or use a banana as an alternative to your phone? Invoked Computing, a concept developed at the Ishikawa-Oku lab at Tokyo Univ...

Small OLED screens are being used in millions of devices already (like in Samsung's Galaxy S phones or Sony's upcoming portable console Vita), but we're still waiting for large-sized models to hit the...

Here are some of the past week’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Bag Week 2011 TouchPad Microwave Hack Finds Videos That End Right When The Popcorn Is Ready Students Hack The Kinect To Allow Blin...

Earlier in the year, I wrote an opinion column on TechCrunch that big data needs to think bigger. At the time, I kept hearing the term big data over and over, and wondered how much of the emerging ins...

So we meet again Wales ... Yes I know, another holiday season, another reason to poke fun at your silly, scopophobia-inducing banner ads belying the very noble cause of raising$29.5 million for an unl...

Intel-owned McAfee has released its third quarter security report, which shows that malware targeted towards phones running on the Android operating system continues to be on the rise. According to th...

Short version: While Skyrim does almost nothing to address the weaknesses of its predecessors, it expands on the strengths to such an extent that even its most substantial flaws seem microscopic. You ...

Bain Ventures, the Boston-based venture capital arm of private equity firm of Bain Capital, has recently opened a Palo Alto office, the firm's first presence on the West Coast. The new office is being...

It's no secret that technology has changed in-store shopping behavior. Whether it be through mobile phones, barcode scanning, or price comparison shopping sites; consumers are more prepared than ever ...

Your better half is off doing things more important than making you food. Looks like it's leftovers night! You stick the grub in the microwave, punch in the time, hit start... and you're bored. A minu...

In episode II of his Founder Stories interview with host, Chris Dixon,Kiva Systems founder, Mick Mountz discusses traversing the country in search of capital shortly after launching his company almost...

In Part III of my interview with Accel partner Jim Breyer, we get into the disruptions occurring in the venture capital industry itself with the abundance of angel money and the impact that is having ...

In this video interview, I ask VC Jim Breyer what he thinks about the current IPO market and whether he agrees with Steve Case, who argues that we need more IPOs to create more jobs90% of job growth i...

This story dropped a few days ago but it seemed like a good choice to share on a lazy Sunday and the topic is something that's been kicking around in the old sub-conscious for a while. Jim Romenseko h...

I hate these kind of videos. There's enough waste in electronics that we don't need to destroy stuff that is in already perfect condition (hence our refusal to post those ridiculous Will It Blend vide...

Keyboard-loving Android fans historically haven't had much luck with AT&T's lineup -- a quick look at their wares reveals only a handful of options, none of which are terribly impressive. The Capt...

In Part III of my interview with Accel partner Jim Breyer, we get into the disruptions occurring in the venture capital industry itself with the abundance of angel money and the impact that is having ...

Last weekend, I attended Myojo-Waraku 2011 [JP] in Fukuoka/Southern Japan, a three-day tech and creative festival highly inspired by SXSW. Much like the event in the US, the idea for the counterpart i...

Jim Breyer, the star venture partner at Accel, is a very busy man. He sits on the boards of Facebook, Walmart, News Corp, and Dell, among others. I caught up with him last week at the Techonomy conf...

Facebook's Open Graph is ushering in a monumental shift in how we curate what we share. Curation used to mean opting in to sharing. You found or did something you thought your audience would care abou...

When I was reading Walter Isaacsons biography on Steve Jobs it suddenly brought back memories of the FBI repeatedly hitting the buzzer for my apartment rather forcefully ten years ago. Isaacson mentio...

Hi children of the world, I actually dont have 5000 Facebook Credits to give to each of you. Im sorry about that, I wish I did. But before you get upset, let me explain.A few years ago, back when I wa...

I'm an author, but thankfully I'm not a member of the Authors Guild, that "not-for-profit American organization of and for authors", who a few days ago issued a statement that first lauded publishers ...

Unless youve been living under a rock, you cant have missed the recent dust-up over race and Silicon Valley. Like almost every discussion of diversity and meritocracy in this town, it turned ugly fast...

A few of the most forward thinking European watch designers have come together to bring the quirky and highly forward-thinking brand called Ochs und Junior. The brand offers watches that combine ease ...

Venture capital is flowing into video ad networks: Brightroll recentlyraised $30 million, Yume raised $12 million. Tremor Videos raised over $100 million.But not everyones buying the hype: its just no...

What is it?Is it a messenger bag? Is it a briefcase? How about both? Chrome's Anton laptop bag is equal parts business and play. It comes in both green and black and has a real military feel to it, at...

Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: Motorolas Droid XYBoard 8.2 Spotted Wearing Verizons Logo Review: Saddleback Leather Thin Briefcase Bag Week Review: Timbuk2 Swig Backpack Microsoft A...

There are a lot of sites popping up these days trying to make travel recommendations better and more precise. Some, like Triposo, are making travel apps based on algorithms, while Trippy wants to give...

The goal of social advertising is to amplify positive word-of-mouth. Ads show that your friend mentioned a company, checked in to a business, or that thousands have +1'd an ad, and you're more li...

Remember when Netflix piled blunder upon blunder and lost something like a million subscribers? And the bottom dropped out? And the CEO was forced to admit he'd made a huge mistake?Yeah, none of that ...

Like everyone else in the tech world, I've been reading Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography. Simultaneously, I've been reading the reactions to it. The one that seems to stand out above all others ...

A couple of what appear to be ultrabooks from Dell have snuck into the FCC for a bit of quiet emissions testing. The devices, spotted by Wirelesss Goodness, are pictured only partially, and in schemat...

"As Mark decides, so will Facebook go," David Kirkpatrick told me about the future of Facebook at his Techonomy conference earlier this week. Kirkpatrick, the author of the excellent The Facebook Effe...

I suspect we'll have to start picking and choosing our Apple rumor posts carefully in the coming months as the speculations begin flying fast and free, but until then a bit of gossip portending the ne...

Woz Spotting. It's something of a tradition amongst tech circles or, at least, amongst my particularly geeky tech circle. Any time someone spots Woz wozzin' his way around the Valley, it feels weird ...

We're back for a new episode of TC Cribs, and it's one of our most colorful yet: Eventbrite. The company, which offers a variety of ways to coordinate events and sell tickets, has a penchant for orang...

It's that time of year again when we start taking nominations for the fifth annual Crunchies Awards, the annual celebration of startups and technology. Once again we are co-hosting the awards with Gig...

HotelTonight, a mobile app that offers deep discounts on same-day hotel deals, has raised $9 million in new funding led by Battery Ventures with Accel Partners and First Round Capital participating. A...

While I think Motorola's marketing team really dropped the ball with the name, the 8.2-inch XYBoard has just become a little more official today. The team at PocketNow were able to get their hands on ...

Welcome to another exciting episode of the TechCrunch Gadgets Webcast. This week we talk about the Kindle Fire, the Nook Tablet, the Nexus, and SOPA. Plus, we have a special surprise for all those who...

The Kinect has proved fertile ground for hackers and innovators all over the world, from individuals to student teams to established researchers. But as yet there haven't been many commercial applicat...

This won't come as a surprise to a lot of people, but I am leaving TechCrunch.My departure is something people have speculated about since Michael Arrington's ouster two months ago, but it wasn't an e...

We have an Apple iPad 2 to give away today. Do you want it? Would you say you're a big Jimi Hendrix fan? Then you're in luck. Not only are we giving away an iPad 2, but we are giving one away that has...

The newspaper industry is struggling to make ends meet. Mobile could be the solution, but the Apple App Store comes with a 30% tax on the subscriptions that established news outlets depend on. To buck...

In February 2010, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman and chairman Max Levchin each pocketed $15 million each in a private sale of stock to Elevation Partners, which previously had bought $25 million worth of ...

Getting content from your Android device onto a bigger screen has never been terribly hard, but Sony Ericsson's Vscreens service makes it an absolute cakewalk. There's no fiddling with DLNA settings o...

Foursquare is giving away a free $25 credit to American Express cardholders through a new promotion taking place on November 26th, aka "Small Business Saturday." (Yes, everyone has their own Black Fri...

I chose this bag because it's a bit smaller than the other ones I tested this week and it could be good for a younger person or a svelte, slim lady/man about town. It is a fairly standard backpack but...

Few people are more intimate with economic bubbles than Esther Dyson, the peripatetic investor and entrepreneur who travels more than 25,000 miles a year around the world in search of new technologies...

Many people have believed that Facebook's initial public offering is due in 2012 since the company announced its giant funding round from Goldman Sachs at the start of this year. At that point, the co...

After electronically ordering a shredder for your files following a pivot and a case of bottled water to wash away lessons learned, you may have set in motion one ofMick Mountz'sRoombalike robots to f...

Who says Google has stopped experimenting? With little fanfare, the company has launched a new service, the "Google Supplier Directory Beta" earlier this month to connect companies with Chinese manufa...

So I promised that Bag Week 2011 would be worth it. There were the naysayers, the no-no-never Nancies, the nattering nabobs of negativism, and the like but you stuck through Bag Week 2011 and now it's...

What is it?So you've already heard about the Incase Alloy Series Compact Backpack, and perhaps you felt that the style was super slick but you tend to prefer messenger bags over backpacks. Well, no wo...

Google quietly added a trending topics section to Google+ last night which now shows up when you perform a search on the social network. The new "Trends" section appears on the right-hand side of...

Back in the early days of Android, people ooh-ed and aah-ed over every little thing, even the seemingly-innocuous pattern unlock feature. It appears that Google has bigger plans for that lockscreen, a...

Back in the early days of Android, people ooh-ed and aah-ed over every little thing, even the seemingly-innocuous pattern unlock feature. It appears that Google has bigger plans for that lockscreen, a...

Every year at the global electronic bazaar that is the Consumer Electronic Show, there is a product de jour. A certain product segment seemingly overloads the trade show. iPad killers were out in forc...

Every year at the global electronic bazaar that is the Consumer Electronic Show, there is a product du jour. A certain product segment seemingly overloads the trade show. iPad killers were out in forc...

Erick and I were pretty much of the same mind when it came to the Kindle Fire: it's pretty darn nice. But will it Fly or Die? Find out in this exciting, Fruit-Ninja-infused episode.We're working on ou...

An odd but interesting new photo-and-video sharing iPhone app calledChumkeeis officially announcing its public launch today. I know, I know. Anotherphoto-and-video sharing app - just what you need. Bu...

We covered Saddleback Leather's products last year and we thought it would be fun to bring these guys back on stage one more time for an encore. As you can see from the images, these are, in a sense, ...

Klip, an iOS app that allows users to capture, share, discover and view mobile videos, has raised $8 million in Series B funding from Benchmark Capital, with Matrix Partners and Alain Rossmann (the fo...

As the Occupy Wall Street movement keeps growing, many of the issues raised by the protestors continue to gain support from the average American. In particular, the erosion of the middle class due to ...

Onkyo Japan has been releasing quite a few Windows-powered tablets in the past months, and the company yesterday announced [JP] yet another model. The TW2A-A25Z7CK features Windows 7 Home Premium as t...

Today, Pushpins, the mobile app for saving on groceries, is relaunching as Pushpins 2.0, now a fully featured grocery shopping assistant. Previously, the app was focused only on delivering savings in ...

It's only been a couple weeks since Nokia debuted their first Windows Phones, but today we're getting something a little less official. The Nokia Lumia 900 has found its way to YouTube thanks to none ...

Slingbox has made the act of watching your television from anywhere stupendously easy over the years, and now the company has added yet another way to catch up on Community on the go: now you can watc...

Fuji Heavy Industries and Sumitomo have developed a cute robot that can help human workers clean offices. It's a follow up to a simpler model the two companies unveiled ten years ago. This new robot c...

Glam Media, one of the largest publishing and advertising networks on the Web, is launching a new rich media ad creation platform for advertisers, called GlamSplash. According to Glam, the new canvas ...

UserVoice, the maker of customer engagement tools, today announced that it has raised $1 million in equity funding. The round was led by Baseline Ventures, with contributions from Western Technology I...

The Europas, the annual European Tech Startup Awards, ended last night with a triumphant win by Peer Index the social ranking service, which clinched the Grand Prix award. The result was based on both...

The Europas, the annual European Tech Startup Awards, ended last night with a triumphant win by PeerIndex the social ranking service, which clinched the Grand Prix award. The result was based on both ...

We wrote about stealthy startup Personal earlier this year when the company announced $7.6 million in funding from Steve Case's Revolution LLC, Allen&Company, and others. This week, Personal final...

Sins used to require effort. In biblical times, even sloth meant having to sit around using your imagination. Now, a 1-inch hand gesture is all that separates human kind from the bookmarked sin of cho...

Peer to peer marketplace CustomMade has raised $2.1 million in Series A funding today, led by First Round Capital and Google Ventures with additional investment from Founder Collective, Launch Capital...

If This Then That (Ifttt) has been quietly building a tool to help you automatically share information from one web service into another web service.Buffer, meanwhile, has been quietly building a tool...

The WD TV Live may not have the clout of Roku or Boxee, but these little streaming boxes are a good choice for streamers and home media enthusiasts. They added Spotify to the lineup last month, which ...

Amazon's Kindle Fire is arriving at many a home this week, and as expected with a launch of this magnitude, there are a few bugs yet to be squashed. Some users are reporting issues with wifi reception...

PayPal relaunched a peer-to-peer payment Facebook app today that some news outlets are misinterpreting as a partnership between the two companies. I've confirmed with Facebook that it's not. It's just...

Yahoo's famous, long-standing billboard on the San Francisco skyline is coming down. In two weeks, the space will be available for some other company, according to a report in the San Francisco Egoti...

Android is growing up. The platform that began its life as something built for the anti-iPhone crowd is quickly evolving into something built for everybody. Today, Google has overhauled Android's webs...

Sometimes, it's the soft spoken guys who throw the biggest bombs. At this week's Techonomy conference, Intuit co-founder Scott Cook was pretty radical in his economic and political analysis. Arguing t...

In the mad rush to push out more and more Android slate products, Amazon and Barnes & Noble are like a calm port in the storm. Their devices are touted as ereaders but, after a bit of digging, you...

I consider myself a pretty understated guy when it comes to attire, so when Ogio offered to send me the Squadron RSS in Celebrity White, I surprised myself my taking a chance on it. A white bag? This ...

Turkey has been named the most social and mostflirtatious country in the world by a newstudy by social network Tagged. Turks, and specifically Turkish men, sent the most friend requests as well as the...

"You're a copycat!" "No, you're the copycat!" Apple and Samsung have entered the pre-trial discovery period in their dispute over whose smartphones and tablets violate whose intellectual property. In ...

While SOPA supporters have tried to present the copyright bill as a bipartisan effort to stop the "theft" of copyrighted material, the bipartisan opposition has been building fast this week. Today, Ho...

Of all the cool things going on in technology, one of my favorites is 3D printing. It's got such a futuristic quality to it: input a digital schematic, and you get a physical product custom cut to you...

What is it?Whether your apartment walls are covered in pop art or not, this Shoulder Bag from Incase's Andy Warhol collection brings an entirely new sense of style to the laptop bag. Granted, it's not...

Local recommendation site Yelp has finally filed an S-1 to IPO, wanting to raise $100 million.The site generated $58.4 million revenue in the first nine months of 2011, 80% growth over the same period...

If anyone has been thinking that we've deliberately avoided the Modern Warfare launch in favor of Battlefield 3 stuff, well, I wouldn't blame them, but it really wasn't on purpose. Let us demonstrate ...

Oh, you didn't hear? Tech investments are all the rage in celebrity circles these days. Purse-sized puppies? Meh. Crazy outfits at awards shows? Over it! Participation in an early stage funding round?...

About six months ago, local advertising company Yext made a big bet on a new market. It's pay-per-call business was growing at a rapid clip, but was limited in its potential reach. So CEO Howard Ler...

Venture capital firms put more money into US startups at higher valuations in the third quarter of this year versus the second, according to a new report out today by law firm Fenwick & West, with...

Roger McNamee, the co-founder of $1.9 billion fund Elevation Partners, wants to occupy himself. When I talked with him earlier this week at Techonomy, he expressed the not now uncommon belief that Occ...

One seemingly minor change that Google has introduced in the new version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, could actually have just as large an impact on the company as the various UI tweaks: anyone who...

The Galaxy Nexus is big.There, we've got that out of the way (don't worry, we'll revisit it shortly). Now onto the more important news: Ice Cream Sandwich, the new version of Android that ships on the...

Y Combinator-backed Vidyard, a 'YouTube for businesses', has raised $1.65 million from Softech VC, Jawed Karim (Co-Founder of YouTube), Y Combinator, SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, iNovia Capital, Pau...

Don't you sometimes wish you could just rip the display off your MacBook and use it as an iPad? OK, maybe that's a bit violent, but it's still worth dreaming of. The folks over at Apple apparently agr...

Amazon just entered the tablet market this week with its Kindle Fire. But this time next year, it could be introducing its own smartphone. A research report put out this morning by Citi analysts Mar...

It's Demo Day for Gazelle Lab, the new Tampa Bay-based TechStars Network member, which is seeing its first class of startups launch this morning in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. The accelerator, b...

The wait for the Galaxy Nexus is finally over in some parts of the world, but those of us in the States are still waiting for our turn with our noses pressed up against the glass. As if to torture us ...

After raising a whopping $81 million in funding from a group of all star investors, including Salesforce, SAP Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, NEA, Andreessen Horowitz and Draper Fisher Jurvetson;...

Facebook Pages can host as many applications as they want, but unfortunately, most visitors never click away from the single default landing tab. To let its brand and band clients offer ecommerce, cro...

Multi-device social gaming platform Sibblingz is debuting a new version of its game creation platform Spaceport. For background, Spaceport, allows game developers to build a game once, using Javascrip...

Fond as we are of Microsoft's touchscreen Surface table and all of the kooky things people have made it do, its replacement has come one step closer to seeing the light of day. Samsung and Microsoft h...

Angies List, which offers consumers a way to review and rate doctors, contractors and service companies on the Web, priced its IPO at the high end of the range, at $13 per share last night, and today ...

The nation's long nightmare is almost over. 50 Cent's headphones are finally fully detailed and SMS Audio is taking pre-orders for the over-the-ear models. The in-ears will be available later. Thank g...

Poaching talent through the "acqhire" model isn't just for giant consumer-facing web services. BLiNQ Media, provider of social ads tech to agencies including Havas and Starcom, gave us the exclusive n...

Back in August, Y Combinator debuted its largest (and I'd say most stellar) class of startups to date. One of those companies is now ready to fully peel back the curtain and launch its app into the pu...

For many of us, the Xperia Play just wasn't quite tempting enough to throw out your PSP or 3DS, but there's no doubt that mobile gaming is on its way to the big leagues. The dedicated D-Pad was an exc...

Braintree, an online payments provider, is announcing that Capital One co-founder Nigel Morris has joined the companys board of directors and invested in the company following a $34 million investment...

Mobile analytics firm Xyologic has released a market share breakdown that estimates the mobile ad and ad exchange network breakdowns on Android. According to its research, AdMob was found to be the do...

Digitimes, quoting "sources from upstream supply chains," is stating that PC manufacturers like Dell, Acer, and HP are building fewer tablet products in direct reaction to devices like the iPad, Kindl...

This is my new go-to bag. That's saying something, too. Despite reviewing dozens of computers bags during my tenure at TechCrunch, I've stuck with the Ogio HipHop for years. It's made four CES trips, ...

Rapid7, a company that develops security risk intelligence products, has raised $50 million in a series C funding from Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV). This brings the company's total funding to $...

As a long-time rhythm game junkie, Ovelin's new WildChords app strikes very close to home for me. Part Guitar Hero and part instructional aid, WildChords aims to take players though the basics of play...

Y Combinator-backed Paperlinks, which creates QR codes for businesses and brands with an emphasis on the design of the code itself, is hoping to reinvent takeout menus with its technology. The beauty ...

VigLink, a startup that helps publishers and bloggers monetize their outbound traffic, is debuting LinkWeaver, a new technology which detects product and merchant references within content on web page...

Well, it looks like Coda Automotive — makers of the zero emissions all-electric Coda Sedan — and General Electric (a name that requires no introduction) have teamed up to sell the Coda Sed...

Two years ago New York Times food critic Amanda Hesser and her co-founder Merrill Stubbs launched Food52 to collect and test recipes in an effort to crowdsource a cookbook. It took 52 weeks to researc...

Augmented reality has one more use case: a team of researchers at Japans National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has developed an AR guidance system that can help inexp...

Spotzot, the platform that powers deal targeting for shopping applications and web sites, today announced that it has closed $2.2 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Cervin Ventures, Inv...

YCharts, a startup that provides stock research, tools and analysis, has raised $3.25 million in Series B financing led by investment research company, Morningstar with participation from existing inv...

In September 2010, Sharp announced a 5.5- and a 10.8-inch Android tablet for the Japanese market, followed by a 7-inch version in August this year. After seeing they had no chance against the iPad 2, ...

This video was posted about ten days ago and is in the process of going viral. How do I measure "viral"? Do I have a yardstick? No, it's simple. When my mom emails me a website or a YouTube clip, that...

With no shortage of products and services that target small businesses in a generic way, some verticals really do need dedicated solutions. Personal trainers are one such group. Never having really th...

AOL doesn't have a chief product officer, but if it did, that person would be Brad Garlinghouse, the president of Applications and Commerce who heads up AOL's Silicon Valley office. As has been widel...

Research firm research2guidance this morning published a report that offers key findings from an analysis of mobile app trends in the Android Market. The first point is perhaps not so surprising: Alth...

GE is announcing the establishment of a new Global Software Center to be headquartered San Francisco. The new center will employ approximately 400 software developers.The company's current software po...

Rather than have them convince others that your party will suck, Facebook has modified its Event pages to hide people who explicitly decline invitations. You can still find out who couldn't just be ni...

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) had looked set for a quick and quiet passing through the House after it was introduced late last month. A string of Democrats and Republicans, and various big-media a...

Twitter Communication exec Sean Garretts departure from the company last week was a shock to many in the press who had the pleasure of dealing with him and the Twitter Communications Team. Garrett lov...

The daily deals space continues to morph with each passing month, and we all have our fingers crossed that it is indeed maturing. (Even though some would prefer to see the space vanish altogether befo...

Swag. Short for "Swagger", is what rappers and the youth of today call style. And now you can get it delivered to your door. Swag Of The Month is a new $9 subscription service that lets men receive t-...

The web is less than enthused by Google Music, which made its debut today with the usual fanfare. The criticism is withering in the usual semi-entitled way. "Where's the Spotify killer?" "Rdio already...

It always annoys me when I want to make an appointment, whether it be for a haircut or a doctor's visit, and I go online to make said appointment only to find that the company or provider doesn't offe...

Verizon Wireless finally got around to sending a polite email to customers informing them that everything they do on their phones is now used to target them with ads. Privacy policy changes implemente...

Roger McNamee might think that we are in the midst of the revolution, but according to Microsoft Chief Strategy and Research Officer Craig Mundie, the race to become the dominant technology company of...

Many in motoring are looking forward to an all-electric future, but as long as we're burning fuel we'll need to keep incentivizing low emissions. In California, a limited number of low-emissions vehic...

We'd been wondering why T-Mobile was lurking about at Google's Music event, and we've finally cleared things up: T-Mobile will be Google Music's first carrier partner, allowing their subscribers to ch...

Hipster shoppers, rejoice. You can do all your Etsy holiday shopping for those one-of-a-kind crafts on your iPhone, or any mobile phone with a proper browser for that matter. Etsy just launched its iP...

Today at its 'These Go To 11' special event, Google just announced that Google Music which launched over the summer in a private, invite-only beta is open to everyone. The service allows you to uploa...

Were here at Mr.Brainwashs Studios in Los Angeles, waiting for a Google "special event" to start at 2pm PST, where the company is most likely going to announce the Google Music store, because thats wh...

Were here at Mr.Brainwashs Studios in Los Angeles, waiting for a Google "special event" to start at 2pm PST, where the company is most likely going to announce the Google Music store, because thats wh...

Mark Armstrong founded his site, Longreads, in 2009. Using Twitter hash tags, the site simply aggregated user's picks for the best long-form non-fiction on the web, offering a poor man's content curat...

Six years ago, me and my cofounder Phil were sleeping on mildewy mattresses in a cold Mountain View garage, trying to start a company on a shoestring budget. Five years ago, WriteWith, our online grou...

Hate long e-mails? Love Shortmail, the Twitter-esque e-mail service that caps all messages at 500 characters? Good news: they've just launched an iPhone App....

Amazon has made the Android-based source code of the Kindle Fire available for download. It's quite large — over 800 megabytes — and won't be of any use to casual users. It will, however, ...

Ticketmaster screws artists and venues by charging big service fees that scare away customers. Chicago-based FanFueled thinks its time event ticketing and marketing platforms stop gauging and start ad...

If you think about it, your smartphone has some really nifty bits lodged inside of it. There's a GPS chip in there, not to mention an accelerometer, and occasionally even (gasp!) a compass. The folks ...

Sometimes you don't need space for clothes, lunch, paperwork and your pet hamster. Sometimes all you need is an easy way to get your laptop from point A to point B safely. If that's the case, then we ...

I've been a big proponent of the idea that Apple will be putting out a high-resolution iPad soon. But it looks like they're getting beat to the punch by Acer and perhaps others, according to some scra...

Because getting to the first million is the hardest, stealthy new startup Seed Edition is launching a subscription billing platform designed specifically for seed stage companies. And it's giving it a...

When Google finally launched the official Gmail application for iOS earlier this month, the tech world sang with joy... for all of about thirty seconds. Almost immediately, reports spilled in that the...

And just when you thought things had finally settled down, everything - and I mean everything - is changing once again. That's at least the view of Roger McNamee, the co-founder and Managing Partner o...

Last March when Google TV Product Lead Brittany Bohnet announced she was leaving Google to do her own thing, I was pretty psyched, after all our industry totally needs more female founders and I perso...

Given all the attention that Nokia's Windows Phones seem to enjoy, it's easy to forget that they won't just be duking it out with Android devices and iPhones. Nokia will also have to compete with fell...

openSUSE, the community developed Linux distribution sponsored by SUSE, has released version 12.1 today. At first glance, openSUSE 12.1 is pretty much in line with recent releases from Fedora and Ubun...

If the words Path and Milk mean something to you in more ways than one, or you happen to have heard of a few little companies called Airbnb, Flipboard or Instagram, boy do we have a treat for you. For...

Evernote is today introducing its first stand-alone product since Peek: a browser extension called Clearly that enables "distraction-free online reading". Only available as a Chrome add-on for now, Ev...

Just yesterday, we were applauding online retailer Wine.com for finally figuring out that having a mobile app is not enough - you still need a mobile website, too. Today, another big name announces th...

It's not a bubble until startups are rapping for seed funding. Mick Hagen, the founder of Undrip, a stealthy startup in San Francisco that is building a service to better filter your Twitter stream, ...

Congress is in the process of kneecapping the web as we know it with a House bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act (a similar bill, called the Protect IP Act, is in the Senate). In a misguided attemp...

You go on vacation, spend a day with the kids, buckle down on a project, and suddenly you're hopelessly behind on tech news. You could scan back through the pages of your favorite sites, but you'd hav...

IssueBurner, the combination task management and helpdesk solution from Webyog Inc. is now exiting beta and launching as a commercial product. The service, from the data management company behind Clou...

Today's giveaway is pretty exciting. For your pleasure, we have a Timbuk2 D-Lux Racing Stripe Laptop Messenger bag, a $120 value, yours for the low, low price of free. Like the previous contest (won b...

Next up during this year's Bag Week we have the oddly named but delightfully designed Wise-Walker from Nomadic. This Japanese import is a business up front and a party inside....

SEO firm BrightEdge is reporting that 61 percent of world's top 100 brands have already created Google+ pages. As we reported last week, Google launched "Pages" for Google+ to allows brands,...

Bubble Motion, which offers a popular a Twitter-like voice blogging service in India, Japan, and Indonesia, is announcing a number of high-profile executive hires to support its future growth in Asia....

Last year Marshall took their iconic amps, enlisted the help of Wayne Szalinski who shrunk them down to something that can fit on your ears. The Major and Minor earphones hit the market last November,...

With the HTC Vivid garnering mixed reviews, it looks like the devices name may be the most interesting thing about it. At least one company thinks so, anyway: the porn peddlers at Vivid Entertainment ...

What are your goals? To walk the length of the Golden Gate bridge? To run a 5K? To plant a tree in a magical forest? The Striiv lets you do all of those things and more. This wee device is a fairly ba...

While there are plenty of Apple fanbois out there with the full arsenal of i-branded goodies, not all of us have the cash to afford an iMac, MacBook Air, iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. While Fanhattan is proba...

Despite LinkedIn's professional focus, it's Facebook that's leading social networks to become a major way people find new jobs. 16% of those unemployed and looking, employed and looking, or employed a...

Exclusive - ZooZ, not to be confused with ZOOZ Mobile, has raised $1.5 million in funding in a seed round led by lool ventures (yes, that's really what they're called).ZooZ offers a comprehensive end-...

Apple met with leaders of five environmental groups in China yesterday to discuss pollution concerns. According to a report from The Wall St. Journal, Apple told the groups ithad launched audits of 15...

The Famitsu, Japan's (and maybe the world's) biggest video game magazine, has tested Zelda Skyward Sword (the newest Zelda game for Wii) in their newest issue. And apparently, they liked what they pla...

iTwin launched at TC50 back in 2009 and now, in 2011, Popular Science gave the device one of the publication's highest honors. Two years ago at iTwins first presentation, we were instantly taken by th...

What little word there was about Qualcomm's S4 class of chipsets has been keeping spec nerds on the edge of their collective seats, and now the company is ready to announce a handful of new additions ...

AOL (which owns TechCrunch) is releasing a preview of the new AIM today. It was completely redesigned by Jason Shellen's team, which joined AOL with the acquisition of Thing Labs (makers of Twitter c...

The folks over at Shazam have been busy little bees recently. After announcing Shazam for TV, offering up the ability to purchase products seen on television programming courtesy of Delivery Agent, an...

Many people think of television antennas as relics of the past:bunny ears and ugly wires, black and white, and fuzzy snow pictures. So, instead, we're happy to plop down upwards of $50 (or $85, or $10...

DataSift, a big data business intelligence and analysis platform for Twitter, is finally opening its doors today to the U.S. public. DataSift was born out of Tweetmeme and was announced at TechCrunch ...

Serial entrepreneur Mike Jones has led and help found a number of companies. As CEO of Userplane, AOL acquired the company in 2006. After leaving AOL, Jones started Tsavo Media, which was acquired by ...

Serial entrepreneur Mike Jones has led and help found a number of companies. As CEO of Userplane, AOL acquired the company in 2006. After leaving AOL, Jones started Tsavo Media, which was acquired by ...

After debuting a new $100 million big data initiative, Accel Partners is expanding its presence in another areas, though this time in a geographic region of the world. Accel is closing its third India...

Nokia is firmly a member of Team Microsoft. The Finnish telecommunication previously dumped most of its internal software OS development and in favor Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 system. But Nokia is s...

New Relic, a SaaS-based cloud application management platform, has raised $15 million in funding led by DAG Ventures and Four Rivers Group with participation from existing investors Benchmark Capital,...

Social gaming network PapayaMobile and the value exchange-based mobile ad network Tapjoy are today announcing a partnership that will combine the power of their two communities to help Android users b...

ServiceMesh, an enterprise cloud platform has raised $15 million in funding from Ignition Partners. Frank Artale, a partner at Ignition, will join the ServiceMesh board of directors. This is ServiceMe...

Marketo, a company that provides an on-demand marketing software that allows businesses to optimize their sales and marketing efforts, has raised $50 million in new financing led by Battery Ventures w...

Zuora, a SaaS startup that offers online services to manage and automate customer subscriptions and payments, has raised $36 million in new funding from Index Ventures, Greylock Partners, Workday CEO ...

Zuora, a SaaS startup that offers online services to manage and automate customer subscriptions and payments, has raised $36 million in new funding from Index Ventures, Greylock Partners, Workday CEO ...

I just finished reading an interesting blog post by venture capitalist Bill Gurley about Twitter, a portfolio company of his firm Benchmark Capital. In it, he argues that there's a misperception about...

Exclusive - Atomico, the pan-European investment firm started by the founders of Skype, has invested $4.2 million in 6Wunderkinder, an interesting startup out of Berlin that offers well-designed produ...

So the Kindle Fire shipped Monday, and the early reviews are out in full force. The reactions, as per usual, are varied. But, for what it's worth, The Fire is already the best-selling item on Amazon, ...

Japan-based Sanwa has announced the so-called Geiger Fukushima [JP], a portable and light (70g) geiger counter that uses the iPhone to measure beta and gamma rays in your environment. Just connect the...

Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets stories: Phosphor Releases The World Time Sport Aerial 3D: Amazing System Shows 3D Objects In Mid-Air, With No Screen (Video) Bang & Olufsens New Beolit ...

If you want to understand what is going on at the nexus of technology and youth protest movements around the world, watch this video. Jared Cohen, who is a director at Google Ideas writing a book wit...

Confirming rumors that started circulating earlier this week, music streaming phenomenon Spotify has finally made its way to my home country of Belgium, and is also launching today in Switzerland afte...

The daily deal aggregation service Yipit is launching its own iPhone application today, allowing users to track deals from over 800 sources, including Groupon, LivingSocial, Gilt City and others. In t...

YouTube has become the go-to source for video distribution and hosting, and, to date, the video giant has seen tens of millions of channels created, where users are uploading their video content in dr...

The web community is currently in an apprehensive uproar over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which threatens to create an Internet blacklist that operates at the DNS level in a misguided attempt t...

Meebo's been around a long time in Web years. The company was founded in 2005 as a universal IM service. But two years ago, it introduced the Meebo Bar, a social toolbar that sites could put along t...

Bonobos, a web-only premium clothing brand for men, just announced the hiring of Michael Hart, Netflix's former Director of Engineering for social systems. Hart says he wanted to "lead an earlier stag...

We've already articulated our stance on the PROTECT IP, SOPA, E-PARASITE, or whatever you want to call it bill, which creates a dangerous precedent of blacklisting domains and concentrates power on ri...

For all the benefits of living in a connected world, there is one huge disconnect: the economy seems to be growing, but it is not creating jobs. This disconnect is not a temporary blip that will disap...

Rethink Books has just shared with us news that it has closed a $2 million Series A round led by Ambassador Technologies. The Dallas-based Rethink Books will use the funding for product development of...

The Nook Tablet, announced last week to much fanfare, is a follow-up to the company's popular Nook Color and a direct competitor to Amazon's $199 Kindle Fire. I've only just got this device into my ho...

Back in July, Microsoft "accidentally" published a teaser for a social network being worked on by Microsoft Research. Socl.com appeared to be focused on search and sharing, but what little they showed...

Well, it looks like Intel is really putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to mobile. Intel's global investment and M&A branch, Intel Capital, today officially announced the creation o...

Based on official blog posts that were apparently posted early (and then pulled), developers will soon be able to access some key features of Google+ via the service's API: photos and videos.Goog...

The good news about information technology, according to Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, the authors of Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Pr...

Facebook has confirmed that just hired the two founders of MailRank, as they've just announced on their blog."We're happy to confirm that we've hired Bryan O'Sullivan and Bethanye Blount, the co-found...

iFixit, bless their hearts, have taken a Kindle Fire to pieces, though as it turns out, there aren't too many pieces to begin with. The battery is one huge unit, and all the processing and I/O occurs ...

Christmas is right around the corner, and what could be a better complement your gingerbread and eggnog than a full month of Christmas music. Nothing, right? Which is why you may need this new minimal...

Current Apple board member Arthur D. Levinson has been named non-executive chairman of Apple's board. Levinson, a PhD, has served on Apple's board since 2005. Disney CEO Bob Iger will also be joining ...

How many times have you checked in to Foursquare via the web? If you're like me and I'm willing to bet most people, the answer to that question is "None." Foursquare, who is likely well aware of this,...

Mobile marketing agency Velti has acquired Mobile Interactive Group ('MIG'), the UKs largest mobile marketing company. Velti will pay $25 million plus as much as $34 million over time by 2013, for a ...

A study by an international research team has shown a correlation between frequent gaming and a greater volume of grey matter in a part of the brain linked to an internal reward system associated with...

A UK startup called MiniatureMoments has created a fairly unique keepsake for you and yours. These things are 3D-printed negatives that appear when you hold them up to the light. They are translucent ...

After hitting $11 million in mobile payments volume per day, Square is announcing more newsan update to the startup's flagship iOS and Android payments apps. As you may know, Square Card Reader and co...

Last week, Google+ launched "Pages" to enable brands, products, companies, businesses, and everyone else under the sun, to build their very own tailored Google+ presence.As G+ Pages rol...

Bag Week continues with our review of Mission Workshop's Sanction backpack. It's a weather-proof pack made for short trips on your bike or long walks in the rain. It's their smallest backpack, far sma...

Fujifilm's retro-styled X100 threw the photography world into a loop with its combination of retro styling, serious photo chops, and the actually innovative "hybrid viewfinder." I had my issues with i...

Twitter was recently successful in obtaining the domain name Twiter.com after filing a dispute with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and has apparently grown an appetite for more. ...

Speaking at the Techonomy conference today, Sean Parker warns about the downside of the explosion of seed-stage startups."Little startups are ridiculously overfunded," he say. "The market is ridiculou...

Online ticketing service EventBrite has had a busy year, what with raising $50 million in Series E funding and a potential IPO on the horizon. Now the company is entering some unfamiliar territory: it...

Know exactly what you're searching for on Google? It's now a bit easier to find it.Google is constantly doing things to automatically tweak your queries it'll swap in common synonyms, correct spellin...

Altec Lansing has been trying to sell custom headphones with for a while now but this year they're getting serious. In a joint effort between A-L and ACS customs, a UK company, they are now selling $9...

As Erick wrote in September, over the course of the last year, Fotopedia has been hard at work at trying to reinvent the photo book for the iPad. To date, the so-called "Wikipedia for photos" has laun...

GO is new mobile application for the iPhone that allows users to broadcast and share photos, videos and commentary with others and post them to a live streaming portal. The app offers real-time access...

GO is new mobile application for the iPhone that allows users to broadcast and share photos, videos and commentary with others and post them to a live streaming portal. The app offers real-time access...

I get asked the same set of questions at least a couple of times each week: What is 4G, anyway? Does "4G" mean the same thing across all of the carriers?I've been meaning to do a quick and humorous vi...

The Apple TV is starting to look a bit stale. The current model was announced on September 1st, 2010, but being Apple's hobby, it always takes a back seat in the refresh van. However, recent changes a...

iPhone hacks are pretty cool and this is one of the cooler of the cool ones. It's an app that sends out an acoustic wave in order to measure the distance between two phones or between the phone and a ...

Technology is the most trusted business sector by a large margin, with just 10% ranking tech less trustworthy than other sectors, according to a newPublic Affairs Councilstudy conducted byPrinceton Su...

WP Engine, a powerful hosted WordPress platform for existing WordPress.org users, has raised $1.2 million in new funding led by Silverton Partners with angels Eric Ries, Loic Le Meur, Dharmesh Shah, J...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor took advantage of the early rays of the new rising sun to record. It must have been fun to watch the caffeine kick in, bu...

What is it?Boy am I enjoying bag week. Incase's Alloy series Compact Backpack was quite the treat, but I have wandering eyes which have now led me to the Chrome Krakow Laptop Bag. The thing about the ...

Baidu is one of the most known of the Chinese Internet giants. Some of the buzz is admiration for Robin Li, one of the pioneers of the Chinese Web scene who built a global giant that succeeded in a po...

LivingSocial is now testing a new food ordering and delivery service as a part of LivingSocial Instant, the company announced this morning. At launch, members in the Washington D.C. area can order foo...

We are not nearly as innovative as we think we are. That, at least, is the view of Tyler Cowen, a professor of economics at George Mason university and the author of The Great Stagnation: How America ...

OnSwipe competitor and TechCrunch Disrupt finalist Pressly is launching today with its first major publisher, Canada's largest newspaper The Toronto Star. Like OnSwipe or even iPad mag Flipboard, Pres...

AOL founder Steve Case has a three-point plan to get job growth back on track in America, and it all revolves around ways the government can spur more entrepreneurship. Over the past three decades, h...

Phosphor has just announced a new world time/dual timezone model, the World Time Sport. The company is well-known for their e-ink watches (we reviewed a few here) and this one uses a unique touch inte...

The $99 TouchPad fire sale was the best way to close the book on webOS and the TouchPad itself. It got the TouchPad into the hands of the fans. Only those that cared about the product lined up outside...

Since 2006, Tokyo-based Burton has been working on Aerial 3D, a technology that makes it possible to produce pictures in 3D in mid-air or underwater - without using a screen (that's what I call "True ...

Today, the online retailer for wine enthusiasts (with the killer domain name) Wine.com is finally launching a mobile site at m.wine.com. Like its desktop-sized counterpart, the new site allows custome...

When I joined TechCrunch (and AOL, by association), I found myself swimming in company-issued bags. The standard-issue MacBook Pro came with a hefty Targus beater of a shoulder bag, and AOL saw fit to...

Smartphone games developer and publisher Outblaze Ventures, better known as Animoca, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding in a Series A round led by Intel Capital and IDG-Accel (which tapped it...

I am in Tucson, Arizona this week at the Techonomy conference, where I caught up with host and journalist David Kirkpatrick who thinks that technology and the empowerment of the individual is the bigg...

In addition to outlining its plans in Dutch on Facebook, Sony Ericsson has clarified its stance on bringing Ice Cream Sandwich to the Xperia-toting masses on its blog today. As if you haven't been obs...

First, if you find the concept of Bag Week appalling (looking at you, achshar), read no further. We want no truck with you. Second, here's a free bag.eBags is offering a free Mother Lode TLS Weekender...

Kobo has partnered with social music discovery and streaming service Rdio to let users of its just-released Android-powered Vox eReader access more than 12 million tracks while they're reading.Kobo, w...

During last year's holiday shopping season, Amazon released Price Check for the iPhone, a comparison shopping app which allows users can scan the barcode of a product, take a picture of an item or say...

Minted, design community and e-commerce site for stationery and cards, has raised $5.5 million in Series B funding led Benchmark Capital, with IDG Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Marissa Mayer and Jeremy St...

Let this post be a lesson to would-be entrepreneurs: Don't turn down any party invitations. This advice is obvious if we're talking about fancy dinners as the homes of moguls. But apparently the Valle...

One of the fastest growing segments of online advertising is video ads (it was up 42 percent in the first half of the year, and expected to continue strong growth into 2012). One beneficiary of this ...

We may have gotten a glimpse at what RIM has planned for the future, but for now RIM devotees will have to make do with a new pair of current-gen BlackBerrys. The new Bold 9790 and the Curve 9380 both...

AudioMicro this morningannouncedthatitscelebritypicturemarketplace,ImageCollect.com, now boasts more than 3.7 million photos available or download.AudioMicro's Ryan Born says ImageCollect is quickly b...

Y-Combinator graduate and 500 Startups company Ginzamarkets announced it has raised US$1.3 million in seed funding for Ginzametrics, its SEO management and analytics platform for enterprises (our prev...

Earlier this year, LinkedIn acquired CardMunch, an iPhone app that lets you take a snapshot of a business card and have it added to your iPhone contacts. Today, LinkedIn is relaunching the CardMunch i...

Eric Schmidt-backed receipt tracking service Slice is debuting its first mobile app today. Slice for iPhone automatically tracks your shipments and gives you access to your online shopping history any...

Netflix took to the wires this morning to announce a new look for its Android tablet app. Gone is the old beige and red scheme (finally). In its place is an immersive user interface that takes full ad...

Red Hat's OpenShift platform as a service offering has been in public beta for a while now. It offers a fairly simple way for people to jumpstart "cloud" development efforts by abstracting out all the...

Network infrastructure startup Vyatta has raised $12 million in new funding led by HighBAR Partners with JPMorgan, Arrowpath Venture Partners and Citrix Systems participating. This brings Vyatta's tot...

Today sees the launch of the public beta of PortfolioDashboards.com, a site that wants to help angel investors and venture capital firms closely monitor the performance of their investment portfolios....

If you're the proud owner of a (actually, pretty much any) tablet computer, you can install Zinio, which bills itself as the world's largest newsstand. Starting today, you can also install the Zinio a...

Forbes Travel Guide is debuting Startle.com, a new online travel planning site for luxury travel. Launching in 72 U.S. markets and 5 international markets (Hong Kong, Macau, Beijing, Singapore, and th...

Thomson Reuters this morning announced that it has identified "the world's 100 most innovative organizations today" through a proprietary program. I wouldn't normally give such a list much attention, ...

Enterprise application software giant SAP this morning announced that it will spend $2 billion in China through 2015 to grow its business.In a statement, SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott said the company wil...

Exclusive - Boundary, a San Francisco startup developing a real-time network monitoring solution, has raised $4 million in Series A funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, TechCrunch has learned. Bo...

The deal has been in the making for months, but today Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi made the mega merger official. The three companies signed definitive agreements with the Innovation Network Corporation ...

Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Welcome To Bag Week 2011 Students Hack The Kinect To Allow Blind To Navigate Stumbling Towards The Future: The PC-ification of Android...

You may know Dan Porter as the CEO of the free multiplayer gaming and chat platform, OMGPOP, which specializes in making social games, like Puppy World, for example. What you may not know is that, fo...

Habitual component-stream eavesdropper Digitimes says that "a small volume of components" that fit the spec for a 15-inch ultra-thin notebook have shipped, and March of 2012 is their estimate for full...

Design-focused flash sale site Fab announced an important user milestone today, the site hitting a million members; The company celebrated by giving each of their users $10 to spend and another $10 mo...

Rear-facing car seats used to come at the expense of the trunk. That's because a giant combustion engine had to go somewhere. But that was before Tesla invented the "Flat-Pack battery". Laid along the...

Mobile gaming is big and getting bigger. You've heard it once, you've heard it one thousand times. Japan's mobile, social gaming giants are killing it; Android and iOS games now generate more revenue ...

Proud Princeton drop-out and imminent mega billionaire, Seth Priebatsch is the self-styled Chief Ninja of the gaming/payments platform SCVNGR. Having raised $20 million and now employing 120 people, P...

The click through rate for links posted to the news feed by Facebook Pages with over 100,000 fans is 0.14%, or 1 click per 715 impressionsaccording to a new study shared with us by analytics provider ...

On Friday, Rock Health, the startup accelerator for health-focused startups, hosted its Demo Day at UCSF Mission Bay, where the 13 startups in its latest class introduced their businesses to 250 atten...

In his New York Times opinion piece yesterday, William Deresiewicz calls the Millennial generation, those born roughly between the end of the 70s and the mid-90s, a generation of salesmen. Emotionless...

The Xoom hasn't been the big hit everyone was hoping for. After an inauspicious debut marked by bugs, a lack of Honeycomb apps, and a non-functioning SD card slot, the big debut tablet from Motorola w...

Live Gamer, an online marketplace for players to trade and buy video game virtual goods, has raised $8.5 million in new funding from Charles River Ventures and Kodiak Venture Partners. This brings Liv...

Everything, it seems, is becoming collaborative. From Airbnb to RentCycle to Zipcar, we are swapping our cars, our homes, even our clothes with each other. According to Lauren Anderson from Collaborat...

After five months of beta testing, Quora has made its Quora Credits and "Ask to Answer" User Suggestions live for everyone today.All users can now earn credits for a variety of positive and user engag...

The code for the latest version of Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich is now in the wild.According to a post from Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru, a software engineer on the Android Open Sou...

Serving as a stark reminder that there are people on the Internet who are way, way too damned clever, the guys over at the iPhone design/development house Applidium claim to have cracked open Siri to ...

What is it?Happy Bag Week everyone, and please kindly meet the Incase Alloy Series Compact Backpack. I've been reviewing this bag for a while now, and I have to say I much prefer it to anything I actu...

Here's your daily dose of viral marketing courteous of G-Form. These guys make device cases that can seemingly survive anything -- including in a drop from 500 feet and taking a bowling ball to the fa...

It's no secret that batteries are holding back mobile technology. It's nothing against the battery companies, which are surely dedicating quite a lot of R&D to improving their technology, hoping t...

Salesforce.com has announced the acquisition of cloud computing services startup Model Metrics. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2011, have not been dis...

Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they've sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which...

Last week, we got an invite for a mysterious Google press event that's being held in Los Angeles this Wednesday. The event didn't give any details as to what we could expect, but it's widely believed ...

RIM has been caught in rough waters for the past few months, and RIM has made no secret of the fact that their hopes for the future are pinned on BBX and their new BlackBerrys. The Verge has managed t...

Brands have typically used Twitter as a somewhat indirect broadcast platform, listing items for sale, but only doing so in a way that is intended to lure customers away from Twitter to their own websi...

Brands have typically used Twitter as a somewhat indirect broadcast platform, listing items for sale, but only doing so in a way that is intended to lure customers away from Twitter to their own websi...

I don't know many people who are chompin' at the bits for the launch date info on yet another Galaxy Tab, but I know you're out there somewhere. For you, kind soul: AT&T has just announced that th...

The Kinecthesia is a Kinect wired to a set of motors that allows the blind to navigate a room or open space, relying on feedback through the motors to assess objects in their path. The project, create...

The newly launched shopping discovery app Zoomingo announced today it has secured $1.3 million in funding from early-stage VC firms Naya Ventures and Benaroya Capital along with several prominent ange...

The Kindle Fire is has started to ship and w're hearing about the thousands of apps which will work on the customized Android tablet, including Facebook, Pandora, Netflix, Angry Birds, Zynga, Hulu Plu...

The ratio of awful tablets to good ones in this year's Black Friday ads doesn't exactly inspire much confidence, but there are some good deals to be found even at this early stage. Case in point: Best...

The music lover's social network Flowd, which recently arrived stateside after its European debut, just updated its mobile applications with a boatload of new features that make them worth a look. Up ...

We've been eagerly awaiting more news of Razer's Blade, a 17-inch beast that they claim is "the world's first true gaming laptop." Alas, we didn't think the news would be of the troubling variety: Raz...

An SEC filing surfaced this morning, showing that Chegg has made a yet unannounced acquisition for at least $1.1 million worth of common stock. The company that Chegg acquired is called Flux Software ...

"Klout is sort of a pass/fail. It's almost not relevantwhether someone's a 70, 90, or 40, because it's different than a 10." says brand presence management platform Vitrue's Director of Product John N...

Did you hear that Lenovo is releasing a 10.1-inch tablet powered by a quad-core Tegra 3 CPU? Exciting news, I know: quad-core on a tablet is huge.But is it really? Do we really have to be doing this? ...

Google has long been known as a company that favors algorithms andautomation which scale nicely to millions of people over human-powered services, which don't.That works well enough for them most of...

If you want to recreate what it was like for hobbyists before the advent of the integrated circuit, this clock is for you. This thing uses "215 discrete transistors, 518 diodes, 472 resistors and 101 ...

Well, that didn't take long. Invites to Google's big music-related event only went out this past Friday, but the folks over at TecnoDroidVe have already gained access to Google's new music store on an...

As expected, the launch of iTunes Match is now upon us, with today's release of iTunes 10.5.1, available from the iTunes website here. For those living under the proverbial rock, iTunes Match is the n...

What is it?If you're planning on taking a semester off and fly to Europe just to clear your head and get over "her" (or "him"), you're going to need a backpack. That's why Chrome made the Yalta, a bac...

We pay a lot of lip service to high-tech gadgetry and gizmos on TechCrunch, focusing on only the latest and greatest for your edification. But what abou the stuff that barely gets any notice? What abo...

Making an animated movie is a tedious process because of all the intense computing power and rendering required. "An expert animator can do about 3 seconds of animation in a week," Dreamworks CEO Jeff...

The Gillmor Gang is recording live today at a special day and time. Monday 9am Pacific Time. Guests: Robert Scoble, Danny Sullivan, Kevin Marks, and John Taschek....

Cloud storage service and device maker Pogoplug is unveiling its latest offering today: a new service for mobile users that offers 5 GB of free online storage. To use "Pogoplug Cloud," you first sign ...

Forget Festivus, today sees the return of the real fake holidayGrouponicus. The site from daily deal giant Groupon is back for the second time with a wide selection of curated deals Groupon users can ...

Sprint, always looking for a way to undercut their competitors, has just announced two new mobile broadband data plans that give you more bang for your buck. Mobile broadband customers can now play wi...

Nick Halstead, who founded 'big data' startup DataSift, has decided to step down as chief executive officer as the company gears up for its official launch later this week. Halstead will become DataSi...

Wrapp, a social gifting service, has raised $5.5 million in Series A funding led by Atomico, the venture capital firm formed by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrm. Zennstrm also joined Wrapp's board of ...

Normally, one doesn't learn about patent infringement litigation through press releases, and if it does happen it's usually the company initiating the lawsuit(s) that intends to make some noise. This ...

The news, Im afraid, is dire. The Internet is about to be destroyed by big media. It is about be killed by two Congressional bills The ProtectIP and The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that all-powerf...

Yellow Media, Canada's largest Internet company, this morning announced that it has divested its online classifieds business LesPAC.com. Its assets were acquired by e-commerce solutions company Mediag...

The reviews are in: The Kindle Fire is a dog. Mostly. But don't tell those that jumped on the bandwagon early because Amazon is shipping the Fire a day earlier than expected. The device was supposed t...

Formspring is launching its first user Directory later today in an effort to better highlight the more popular and famous users of its online social Q&A service. The directory will organize users ...

BigCommerce, a company that provides e-commerce software to online retailers and merchants, is announcing a major milestone today. The SaaS powers over 20,000 online stores for retailers who have proc...

The iPhone 4S launched in South Korea this past Friday to the delight of the country's Apple fans, but according to The Chosunilbo, Samsung very nearly threw a wrench into it. Samsung and Apple have b...

Rovio's hit game Angry Birds has made a business out of offering plush toys, and it was only a matter of time before social gaming giant Zynga would get into the market as well. Today, Zynga is announ...

Universal remotes are by and large misnomers. They're not truly universal. Even that remote from that dumb Adam Sandler movie couldn't control a HTPC. Universal remotes are often just for traditional ...

VeriFone is on a bit of an acquisition spree. After purchasing payments software developer Global Bay, the payments company is acquiring European e-payments giant Point for $820 million. The acquisiti...

You may have already been acquainted with the Samsung Captivate Glide, but it hasn't quite gotten as much attention as it deserves. Today, that changes. I got the opportunity to get up close and perso...

In a day and age where we can't seem to stop broadcasting ourselves to the world, Looxcie has added yet another way to share video clips via mobile. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm proud to introduce you to...

Social media marketing and analytics company Salorix has raised $3.5 million in Series A funding in a round co-led by Inventus Capital Partners and Nexus Venture Partners, the startup announced this m...

Today, Docphin is launching a new Web service the company likens to a "Bloomberg for Doctors." The site aims to help physicians organize, bookmark, read and track medical news and research from a numb...

All of the dudes in our office (okay, only Rahul) want one of these UP bracelet things. Apparently they use your wrist movements to determine how healthy you are, and then constantly judge you graphin...

SalesVu, a new mobile payments application and SaaS solution designed for distributed sale teams, has closed $600,000 in angel funding, the company is announcing today. Like Square, SalesVu's service ...

The Europas, the European Tech Startup Awards, will be held this Thursday, November 17, in London. As of today they are poised to sell out (there are just a handful left). And unfortunately you can't ...

Here are some of the past week’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Asimo: Honda Upgrades Its Awesome Humanoid (Videos) Kickstarter: The Present Is Half Art Project, Half Meditation On Time Nokias C...

So Nosh founder Alex Campbell came up with and shot a promo video of this parody app that allows you to review anything in the world and "launched" it on October 3rd. This is doubly hilarious because ...

Intel and credit card giant MasterCard are announcing a multi-year strategic partnership this evening, which aims to provide a more secure and simple way for consumers to pay for products online. The ...

Diaspora sent out a new round of invites to a redesigned alpha version of its open source social networktoday. The invites came just before the saddening news broke that 22 year old founder Ilya Zhito...

Part of the Angelpad inaugural class, "Yelp for the outdoors" AllTrails is today announcing a $400K round of seed funding by 500 Startups and 2020 Ventures.In the same trail review space as Trail...

Jack Dorsey's mobile payments startup Square is now processing $11 million a day in mobile payments, it was revealed today at the Techonomy conference in Tucson, Arizona. Host David Kirkpatrick threw...

Late last night, word began to spread around the tech community that one of Diaspora's four co-founders, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, had passed away. With much sadness, we've now confirmed this terrible news w...

Late last night, word began to spread around the tech community that one of Diaspora's four co-founders, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, had passed away. With much sadness, we've now confirmed this terrible news w...

I got to sit down with Steve Hallock, the North American president of MB&F and driving force behind the Swiss watch brand's western expansion. The watch he brought for us is the LM1 aka the Legacy...

Online holiday shopping reached record levels in 2010. And e-commerce spending is up this year. All signs point to consumers spending even more online this holiday season. I sat down with executives f...

Even though plants need only a few things to grow water, air, light and minerals maintaining the right proportions can make gardening feel like a high-maintenance hobby. Estonian company Click &...

Back in August, TechStars, the multi-city startup incubator, launched a "reality-documentary" TV series (in collaboration with Bloomberg) designed to give the world a peak at what it's like to start a...

In a move that demonstrates an incredible amount of either customer care or procrastination, Apple has issued a recall for the first generation iPod Nano. Not the one you use as a watch, not the fat o...

I've been writing a lot about Oink, the new mobile app from Milk, Kevin Rose's current startup. Oink launched about ten days ago (you still need an invite to unlock all of its features), and Kevin Ro...

The New Luddites are back, and they're packing heat. The mighty Economist writes of "the disturbing thought" that "America's current employment woes stem from a precipitous and permanent change caused...

Have a great idea, investors lined-up and a passion for technology? If you live outside America's borders, and weren't born inside them, chance are slim you'll be launching your company in New York, S...

I've written before on 10 reasons Parents Should Not Send Their Kids to College and here is also Eight Alternatives to College but it's occurred to me that the place where college has really hurt me t...

Why is content such a dirty word in venture capital? We have seen a few generations of technology entrepreneurs and investors, but there have been far fewer successful outcomes for media startups. I...

I gave my love a red, red rose but she actually wanted an iPhone 4S and now you, too, can hand over one of these exciting products to your loved ones thanks to Rebtel. This weekend's TC Gadgets giveaw...

Coding puzzles have been part of the Silicon Valley hiring process and lore since the days when Fizzbuzz was just a gleam in some HR recruiter's eye.Blue chip companies likeMicrosoft, Google and Amazo...

Coding puzzles have been part of the Silicon Valley hiring process and lore since the days when Fizzbuzz was just a gleam in some HR recruiter's eye.Blue chip companies likeMicrosoft, Google and Amazo...

The Kogeto Dot isn't necessarily new. We spotted it back at TechCrunch Disrupt New York and found it to be quite the fun little iPhone accessory, but back then it was merely a prototype. Today, we've ...

It may come as no surprise, but Americans are watching more and more online video. In fact, they're practically jonesin' for it. According to comScore's numbers, 182 million Americans watched online v...

There are a bunch of iPhone apps I own though I have no clue what they do. These apps include but arent limited to; FLUD, Apptitude, Cartoonatic, Cant Wait!, Punch, Pah, Prize Claw, Traveler, Concur, ...

When it comes to music and drinking, these activities are best enjoyed in the company of others -- hopefully friends. But, when combining music and libations, it's not always easy to know just what ki...

With its pink and white color scheme and emphasis on self expression, Pinterest has found a rapidly growing audience of women, and investors are lining up. But guys might not find content for them on ...

Have a great idea, investors lined-up and a passion for technology? If you live outside America's borders, and weren't born inside them, chance are slim you'll be launching your company in New York, S...

While plenty of platforms can go viral with consumers, VC idol Peter Thiel said today that he's impressed by platforms adding legions of small businesses. Speaking at the annual conference of electron...

San Francisco-based startup Giftly is looking to help you kill two birds with one stone: quickly give your friends and family gift cards via the web, and introduce them to interesting new restaurants ...

With great power comes great responsibility, and in few places is that more true than the healthtech industry. Practice Fusion is the leading provider of electronic medical records, now helping 130,00...

It's no secret to most readers at TechCrunch that technology is changing the world. Unfortunately, there are a surprising number of people who don't get it. Many of them, even more unfortunately, are ...

A little while back, I got an email from Atmel, one of the leading touchscreen makers, asking if I wanted to check out their latest creation: a new active stylus that works with an improved touchscree...

Adobe's mobile Flash efforts have recently gone the way of the western black rhino, and Principal Product Manager Mike Chambers isn't too pleased with how the Adobe chose to broke the news. In fact, h...

Within minutes of our big ol' Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) demo video going online, one question barraged my inbox: could the new facial recognition-based unlocking feature be tricked with a photo...

Look out, Sanrio. After dominating the mobile world for just shy of two years (haters be damned), Angry Birds is movin' on up into its own retail space. While Rovio plans on opening up shop in China (...

As you've likely heard by now, today is Nigel Tufnel day. Tufnel, who revolutionized the music world in the early-80s with the introduction of volume knobs that go to 11 (rather than a mere 10), is be...

The Droid RAZR was only just released today, but silly things like release dates don't mean anything to the folks at iFixit. In a strange departure from their usual process, they've taken a giant knif...

As the co-founder of Priceline, serial entrepreneur Scott Case is a natural startup guy. Indeed, his fever for startups is so intense that he is now CEO of StartUp America Partnership, a movement of e...

Instead of actually doing something productive this weekend (like getting a long overdue haircut), I may just lay around playing Atari's new iOS-friendly take on the Asteroids franchise. It's not easy...

Kleiner Perkins has just announced that search giant Google has joined the venture firm's sFund as a strategic partner. Kleiner unveiled the sFund last year $250 million fund dedicated to what partner...

Does the world need another photo-sharing app? That is the question John Biggs and I debate in this episode of Fly or Die (watch the video above). We take a look at one of the latest photo apps to h...

Since its very first moments in the public eye, Google TV has been something of a disappointment.Attendees of Google I/O 2010 will recall the product's flubbed launch demo, when a series of connectivi...

When I was a wee lad, Lego were dead simple: nearly every piece was a square or a rectangle, and if you were lucky, you could split two pieces off of each other without breaking a finger. Consider my ...

Nyoombl (pronounced 'nimble'), a stealthy startup we wrote about earlier this year, is finally debuting its social broadcasting platform. While the site is still private, we have a number of details a...

KinderTown is a newly launched app store for parents which offers a curated collection of kid-friendly applications. What makes the store unique is that it only includes apps which have been deemed to...

If winter's approach finds you yearning for warmer climes, Apple's got you covered no matter which tropical locale you've got your eye on. As promised way back when, Apple has begun to sell unlocked v...

The Kindle Fire is shipping next week, and Amazon wants to ship it with as many mainstream apps as possible. There will be thousands of apps which will work on the customized Android tablet, includin...

After Q3 2011 brought a 13 percent increase in e-commerce sales, Forrester is estimating that U.S. online holiday sales will grow 15 percent this year to nearly $60 billion. The study reports that thi...

Happy 11/11/11 boys and girls! Verizon is preparing to open the release their latest 4G smartphone into the world promptly at 11:11 this morning, but those of you whose wallets ache when they see that...

In about two weeks, we will see the formal launch of PaperShare, a social content and information network for technology professionals, although you can access the site now if you wish (word about the...

We got a pitch in our inbox from a company called Dujour Technology; they've developed an Android app dubbed 'Currently Tech News' (direct Android Market link) that mines Twitter to aggregate breaking...

In the pantheon of mechanical wristwatches, the Speedmaster holds a high place. Originally built in 1957 as a reaction to the first wrist-worn chronographs coming out of competing houses, the iconic d...

RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer will soon come pre-loaded with PressReader, a digital news app from a company called NewspaperDirect. The application offers one-click access to more than 2,0...

Fusible, always keeping a close eye on domain name registrations and ownership changes, has noticed that Google has taken over the domain name Schemer.com. Interestingly, that URL already leads to a G...

If you weren't paying attention to anything but important news today you might not have noticed that Ashton Kutcher had turned over his tweeting privileges to the social media division of company Kata...

Most robots that are labeled "humanoids" still have a common problem: they can only walk in a slow, mechanical and chopping motion. Even HRP-4C, in my opinion the most realistic humanoid ever created,...

In case you are planning to buy Sony's new handheld PlayStation Vita and were wondering what will happen to your UMDs, Sony finally made an announcement [JP] today, albeit for the Japanese market only...

Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: Nokias Crazy Bendy Kinetic Concept Blew Your Mind? Watch This! Class-Action Lawsuit Forces Apple To Replace Frayed MagSafe Power Cords Sony Hopes To D...

The story emanating from the Zynga is a wake-up call for startups.Reports allege the company threatened to reclaim stock options originally granted to employees who, in the eyes of the company, were n...

ArcticStartup recently broke the news about an ambitious seasteading endeavor called Blueseed started by Silicon Valley founders Max Marty and Dario Mutabdzija. The post came shortly after Max pitched...

Want to tell your friends that you've arrived somewhere, but you're too lazy to check in to Foursquare, Twitter, Instagram, Batch, iMessage/or text them? WELL YOU'RE REALLY SAD IN LUCK EXTREMELY PRIVI...

As the usage of smartphones increases in business operations, IBM is debuting a new service to help businesses secure mobile devices with access to corporate data. Called the Hosted Mobile Device Secu...

Flash-sale site Gilt is rolling out a slightly new look over the next few days. It features bigger pictures, better navigation to sister sites such as Gilt City, Gilt Taste, and Jetsetter, and new sem...

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston talked to Gigaom's Om Malik this evening at the GigaOm RoadMap conference and let slip some key insights about his company's product roadmap, namely that he wants to get past ...

By now you must have heard of the ongoing havoc being caused by flooding in Thailand. It's claimed a few product launches already; Nikon and Sony have both had to delay shipment of new cameras, among ...

ShervinPishevar and Matt Galligan have just formally announced the beta launch of their new organization 1% of Nothing. It's aimed atinspiring early-stage companies to donate 1% of their equity to a c...

Last year, Tim Heineke of Twones and Tone.fm, Marcel Corso and Diedrik Martens launched a new Amsterdam-based music startup, called Shuffler.fm, to let users listen to the tunes and artists being cove...

Sony CEO Howard Stringer isn’t in an enviable position. The company has had a rough few years, and expects to lose a cool billion dollars in the fiscal year ending in March 2012. The TV business...

NYC-based startup Dispatch, which just graduated from the latest batch of TechStars NYC, has raised a $965,000 seed funding round.The round was led by Thrive Capital, with participation from SV Angel,...

The initial run of of Nest's artificial intelligence thermostats will be shipped out to pre-orderers tomorrow, said Nest founder and CEO Tony Fadell at GigaOm's RoadMap conference today. Previously th...

Valve CEO Gabe Newell has contacted all users of the Steam game distribution platform to let them know that the company has suffered a security breach. The hack was originally thought to be limited to...

I couldnt resist it. When I bumped into Highland Capital General Partner Peter Bell at Fast Companys Innovation Uncensored event last week, I had to slip in a question about the equality of opportunit...

Twitter and Square co-founder Jack Dorsey took the stage at the GigaOm Roadmap conference to talk about his experience being well, basically a jack of all trades (drumroll). Dorsey revealed that both ...

Coming up with new gestures that can be performed with one, two, or three fingers is a surprisingly difficult job. Many are proposed; few actually make it into daily use. Here's one from Apple entitle...

Brandstack. Pitched as some sort of haven for designers, it was a marketplace in which creative types could sell off their logo concepts as they came to mind, rather than on "spec work" conjured up by...

We spoke to Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky after his talk onstage at the GigaOM Roadmap conference -- during the talk Chesky spoke about many possible avenues for the company's expansion but didn't commit hi...

Back in September we broke the news that Google was in talks to acquire Katango, a small Kleiner Perkins-backed startup that launched this past summer. Today, they've made it official: Katango just an...

Facebook has reached an agreement with the FTC to make all future changes to privacy settings opt-in, presumably including new features with their own privacy controls. The Wall Street Journal wrote t...

Real-time email marketing company Movable Ink recently launched a service that could dynamically change emails after they have been sent out. The technology can change emails based on time of open, re...

Today at GigaOm's RoadMap conference in San Francisco, Pandora CTO Tom Conrad revealed that his company aims to monetize the vast majority of listeners who pay little or nothing per year for music. Co...

Foodie favorite Gojee, which curates recipes from food bloggers around the web in a visually beautiful way, is branching out today to beverages, and will offer drink recipes (including both alcoholic ...

Remember those frustrating iOS 5 battery issues? It looks like they're about to be a thing of the past, as Apple has just released an update to its iOS mobile operating system, iOS 5.0.1, designed to ...

Nokia is totally ready for the future. They've already debuted a totally insane flexible kinetic interface concept, and now they've even drawn up an implementation for it: HumanForm. No, the phone doe...

Verizon's new 4G data plan promotion sounds awfully generous, but CFO Fran Shammo said at an investors' conference yesterday that it's more than just a way to push 4G hardware during the holidays. The...

Google has agreed to support the folks behind Startup Weekend to jumpstart and foster startup communities from around the world. Through a global sponsorship, the search and online advertising juggern...

Google has acquired Apture, a startup that brings instantaneous search to content on the web, we've confirmed with both companies. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Launched in 2008, Apt...

It's hard when you're new to a city and have no friends. When I visit a new city I tend to hide in trees and behind garbage bins and watch people from afar, seeing where they go to eat and socialize. ...

Social games outfit ngmoco, now a DeNA-owned company, is partnering with indie mobile game developer TinyCo in order to bring TinyCo's games to Android and the Mobage social gaming platform. The first...

It's not often that an iPhone user gets jealous of an Android application, but that's definitely the case here with Any.DO, the gorgeous new social To Do list app for Android launching today. The app ...

In part II ofChris Dixon'sFounder Stories interview withLivestreamco-founderMax Haot, Hoat offers his analysis of what he encountered while attempting to secure funding between roughly 2007 and early ...

Any Apple devotee has struggled through the charger situation. Those Mag-Safe T-shaped chargers fray pretty easily, at which point you have to twist and turn the cord to pull in a charge. It's a huge ...

The Lumia 800 may not have a gargantuan screen or a front-facing camera, but according to The Verge, the U.S.-bound version of Nokia's flagship Windows Phone may play nice with some of our LTE network...

The Lumia 800 may not have a gargantuan screen or a front-facing camera, but according to The Verge, the U.S.-bound version of Nokia's flagship Windows Phone may play nice with some of our LTE network...

We're lucky here in the old U.S. of A. App stores are pretty much monolithic and aside from a few odd stragglers, there's really only one place to find apps for each of the platforms. However, what if...

Hotspot Shield has long offered VPN services to Windows and Mac users alike, but the company has set their sights on a more secure mobile space with the release of their eponymous iOS app.As Ron Popei...

Amateur bloggers want exposure, while publishers and brands want cheap content they can monetize. Tidal launches today with hopes of connecting the two. Bloggers signup, and Tidal's licensable content...

Tagg is a newly launched iPhone application that uses offline facial recognition to detect the faces of your friends in your photos, so you can tag them and upload them to Facebook or post them to Twi...

At the beginning of the year, Josh Buckley and Tyler Diaz were busy building their new Pokemon-inspired social game, MinoMonsters, among Y Combinator's spring class of startups. At 18 and 17 years of ...

Gather round, dear friends, for a tale of courage and heroism is about to unfold. Rising from a year's worth of ashes, the Windows-powered Nokia Lumia 800 stands to rewrite Nokia's potentially devasta...

Eric Alterman is a quintessential serial tech entrepreneur. He's founded a fairly diverse set of software, telecom, and semiconductor companies that include Kickapps, which was acquired by Kit digital...

newBrandAnalytics, a company that provides business intelligence from social media customer feedback, has raised $26 million in Series B financing led by New Enterprise Associates with Steve Case's Re...

In September, two Stanford Business School, grads Brendan Wallace and Adeyemi Ajao, launched the beta build of Identified, a professional job search engine built on Facebook data that looks to take o...

Recipe search engine Foodily is arriving on mobile today, with an all-new iPhone application that will allow users to search recipes while on the go, see what recipes their friends have liked and shar...

StubHub co-founder and investor Jeff Fluhr is launching his next project todaysocial video broadcasting platform Spreecast. Simply put, Spreecast is a social video platform that lets people broadcast ...

Kontagent, an fbFund winner and social analytics platform has raised $12 million in Series B funding led by Battery Ventures, with Maverick Capital and Altos Ventures participating. To date, Kontagen...

Kontagent, an fbFund winner and social analytics platform has raised $12 million in Series B funding led by Battery Ventures, with Maverick Capital and Altos Ventures participating. To date, Kontagen...

Shareaholic, a plugin that makes it easy to share content across a variety of social and bookmarking sites, has raised $1.9 million in funding from 500 Startups, Dharmesh Shah (HubSpot), David Cancel,...

Virident, a company that offers flash-based storage solutions for enterprise, announced today that it has closed a $21 million series C funding round. The investment was led by Globespan Capital Partn...

Last night, over 500 people gathered in San Francisco for the eighth Founder Showcase, a quarterly startup pitch event that brings together technology CEOs, investors, and early-stage startups for a n...

Fujitsu announced it has adapted technology from its supercomputer "K" (which is the world's fastest) into PRIMEHPC FX10, a commercial model that will be offered globally. The PRIMEHPC FX10 can be sca...

Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Mad Catz MMORPG Mouse Looks Like Its Ready To Take Flight DIY Project Turns The Gameboy Into A Magical Musical Instrument Kickstarter: The Present I...

Remember that time the Wall Street Journal wrote an article about an influx of "start-up" companies raising seed/angel rounds and then all those companies subsequently trying to raise Series A rounds ...

Adobe has discontinued development of Flash-Player plugin for mobile browsers.This is a very important moment in the history of the mobile internet. Since 1997, Flash Player has been an important part...

Mixel is a new iPad app that just hit the App Store, but it's also a new art medium. Mixel allows users to assemble collages by manipulating images pulled from their device, Facebook photos, and Bing ...

Room 77, a comprehensive search engine and review site focused exclusively on hotel rooms, is rolling out the ability to actually book hotels from its site. Starting today, travelers can now use Room ...

The iPhone in your pocket can do a lot more than just play games or music. Used properly, that computer can help save your life. Consumer health apps are increasingly hitting iTunes. The latest one t...

Emboldened by solid pre-order numbers for their new Kindle Fire tablet, Amazon has bumped its order numbers from manufacturers yet again, this time to a round five million units by year's end. Presuma...

Bad news all ten of you that actually used this feature, Facebook has changed its Notes settings and will eventually eliminate the importing of blog items via RSS for personal Facebook pages. Because ...

M&A activity in the technology sector continues to grow in terms of value. According to an Ernst & Young report released today, big acquisitions drove the aggregate value of global technology ...

Because our resident automotive enthusiast Matt Burns up and decided to go camping this week, I was lucky enough to attend BMW's sneak preview event in NYC today where I got a first look at two new ec...

Facebook's Ticker shows the music listening, article reading, and video watching activity of your friends. However, to join friends in consuming that content users have to first hover over the Ticker ...

Gather round, friends, for I bring tales of yesteryear. Once upon a time, people young and old huddled around the warmth of their vacuum tubes, welcoming whatever cathode rays came their way in the ve...

Over the next few days, Facebook will roll out a "Sort" option at the top of the news feed that lets users select to see Recent Stories First instead of the default Highlighted Stories. The new featur...

First, let me apologize for the headline. And now, the news. It appears that Mac OS X Lion isn't exactly taking the Mac world by storm: after brisk initial sales following the July 20 release of 10.7,...

New data from search marketing platform Efficient Frontier and Ben Schachter, a stock analyst at the Macquarie Group, indicates that mobile search advertising is at an important inflection point and m...

According to Barnes & Noble, the Nook Touch 1.1 update should improve your reading life by allowing for nearly a month of battery life and faster page turns. Although we haven't tested the battery...

August 9th was a dark day for third-party Twitter photo sharing services like TwitPic and Yfrog. Twitter launched its own official service with Photobucket as its hosting partner. Now, stats shared wi...

An attractive and comfortable phone with a nice camera and enough speed for most users. The qHD screen is sharp and the design is understated. It's just too bad Motorola had to ruin the UI with a few ...

Those of you crazy brave enough to venture into Staples on Black Friday will be rewarded with the chance to buy a 16 GB BlackBerry PlayBook for $199, if their leaked ad is any indication.According to...

Enigmatic New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will be interviewed by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook next Monday, according to the email I just received in my inbox.Christie, who was rumored t...

Oh, the wonderful world we live in. Less than a year ago, I was meeting with the two-man team that was Satarii in their garage-office to check out a product they called the "Star". It was a camera doc...

The month before Apple revealed its "intelligent assistant," Siri, Amazon was quietly buying out a company that performs voice-to-text actions like transcribing voicemails, whatever those are. In fact...

The iPhone 4S is on the streets, and accompanying it is a helpful young virtual assistant named Siri. You've probably heard something about Siri by this point, as tech blogs and the media writ large, ...

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. According to new research from mobile analytics firm Flurry, iOS and Android games now generate more revenue than all of Nintendo and Sony's portable games combined.Nin...

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. According to new research from mobile analytics firm Flurry, iOS and Android games now generate more revenue than all of Nintendo and Sony's portable games combined.Nin...

Google is adding its +1 button to images surfaced through Google search results, the company is announcing today via blog post. That means that when you're doing searches in the Google Images ver...

LinkedIn Events launched in 2008 as a way for professionals to find events and conferences that match their career interests. Today, LinkedIn is improving events with intelligent updates to recommenda...

AVOS, the startup behind the newly re-launched Delicious.com, has acquired the link-saving service Trunk.ly, the company announced in a blog post this afternoon. AVOS, which is led by YouTube founders...

According to Virgin America CEO & President David Cush, we hate our airlines because of the dehumanizing nature of travel. And airlines, Cush explained to me after he spoke last week at Fast Compa...

Flowdock, a group chat application for teams and businesses, has raises $650,000 in seed funding from Gil Penchina, CrunchFund, Marten Mickos, and IDG Ventures. Flowdock, which aims to disrupt the gro...

A lot has been written about the Series A Crunch. The gist of the argument is that the number of seed financings have gone up (with the advent of incubators such as Y-Combinator, TechStars, and Excele...

It looks like someone over at HTC just can't keep their mouth shut. Not that I'm complaining, mind you: the newly-leaked HTC Ville looks like a device after my own heart.The Boy Genius himself reports...

I can't help chortling a little in Schadenfreude at Adobe's expected announcement that it is abandoning Flash for mobile devices. For most of the past two years, the anti-iPad contingent has cited fla...

Parse, a hot startup that serves as a 'Heroku for Mobile', has raised a $5.5 million Series A funding round led by Ignition Partners. Ignition's John Connors will be joining the Parse board of directo...

BiteHunter, the new mobile app for finding nearby dining deals, has just completeda $800,000 funding round. The round was led by angel investors Avraham Kadar, M.D. and Eyal Chomsky. The funding will ...

All signs point to an increase in e-commerce spending this holiday shopping season compared to seasons past. comScore just released its online retail numbers for the third quarter of 2011, and online ...

It may not be immediately obvious that you're looking at a clock, but that may just be the point that creator Scott Thrift was going for. The Present is what Thrift calls an "annual clock" -- it takes...

This must be the day of Kickstarter projects. This project turns an original Gameboy into a unique music instrument complete with analog controls and a stereo/mono switch. While this may be of use onl...

Location-based social planning platform Hotlist (formerly "The Hotlist"), is launching a revamped website and iPhone application today, with an increased focus on ease-of-use, improved discovery of up...

Flash sales site Beyond The Rack has raised $36.6 million in new funding led by Panorama Capital with Export Development Canada, Tandem Expansion Fund, Rho Canada, Inovia Capital, Highland Capital Par...

Have you been waiting for a taxi to come take you to an airport and it never comes? Or worse yet, you have ordered a car and dont know where it is. A Toronto based company named Winston aims to change...

Japan's biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo has developed a real-time Japanese <-> English translation service for mobile phones, the first of its kind. The way it works is that you speak someth...

Gnip, a provider of social media data to enterprise applications, is now delivering over 30 billion paid social activities per month to its customers. This is the largest number of paid social media a...

Crowdsourced SEM management startup Trada is released its version of a crowdsourced Facebook advertising marketplace. Trada, which launched in March of 2010, is launching a marketplace that lets adve...

Maybe the Kindle Fire isn't as "media-deficient" a tablet as BN CEO William Lynch would have us believe. Amazon has just announced that they too will have support for Netflix and Pandora, as well as "...

With button locks, 78 macro commands, and 13 programmable switches, the Mat Catz M.M.O.7 is the ultimate in gaming geekery. Based on Mad Catz's original R.A.T. 7, the mouse is not yet officially price...

Restaurant reservations service OpenTable is launching a completely redesigned mobile website today based on HTML5. The company says it was prompted to make the changes due to customer demand. Since 2...

Lightbank-backed oBaz,, a crowdsourced haggling service that launched in August, is shifting its focus towards product discovery today with the launch of a new Aisle-system on the site. As we reported...

If you have more money than sense, I have an iPhone case for you. Watchmaker De Bethune has created the DW4 aka the Dream Watch 4, an iPhone case made of bead-blasted titanium with an embedded mechani...

Chicago-based startup Sprout Social, the developer of a comprehensive social relationship management platform for businesses, has rebuilt its offering from the ground up, adding support for personaliz...

Storage memory solutions company Fusion-io this morning announced that it has filed a registration statement with the SEC for a proposed follow-on public offering of shares of its common stock. The co...

Online outsourcer oDesk is reporting today that its contractors earned a record $22.3 million through the oDesk platform in October. This represents 90% growth from 2010. oDesk offers a marketplace fo...

As brands increasingly turn to Facebook to host their online presence and their ads, they'll seek platforms that handle management of both owned and paid marketing. Today, Facebook ecommerce storefron...

On the heels of inking a deal with DailyMotion, AnyClip is today announcing a content licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution. Full movies from the movie studio, including the Harry...

If there's one thing missing from modern watches it's color. The 70s and 80s brought us things like Doxa's orange and Breitling's baby blue but no one, lately, has strayed from the old leathers and gr...

Recently we've seen reports flying around claiming that Apple has plans to put Siri on older generation devices, and may even be testing out the personal assistant on the iPhone 4. The news seemed mor...

Home services marketplace and TechCrunch50 winner Redbeacon is debuting its first mobile offering todayan iPhone app. The app essentially allows homeowners to be able to get quotes for services on the...

We just can't get away from the social recommendations space, can we? Just this past month, we've seen new startups like Oink and Wikets arrive, and even a hilarious spoof of the trend via the fake st...

Verious, the one-stop shop for mobile app components and TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 finalist, is today emerging from its beta period with a bang. It's announcing a partnership with online employment plat...

Medialets, which provides a rich media ad platform for mobile, has raised another $8.4 million in equity funding according to an SEC filing published this morning.We've contacted the company to learn ...

Back in 2006 (hell, back in 2002!), it was kinda lonely being a tech blogger in Europe. Not that there weren't plenty of tech sites and nascent blogs opining on 'social media'. Oh no, plenty of those....

With more than half of San Francisco precincts counted as of late Tuesday night, it seems as if tech-friendly interim Mayor Ed Lee has garnered a 31% percent vote in our fair city's mayoral race. In S...

A small news item straight from left field, but who knew someone would eventually cough up a six-figure sum for a 'Libyan' domain name (one that ends in .ly)? Well, someone did, and that someone is en...

Expense reports are a pain in the ass, which is why David Barrett founded Expensify in May 2008. Since then, the startup has raised nearly $7 million in funding and added a number of features, like re...

Epson Japan announced [JP] the so-called Moverio today, a see-through 3D head-mounted display (HMD), which is the first of its kind, according to the company. Think of it as mix between of NEC's trans...

Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms, is expanding internationally with native apps in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.For background, Lookout...

Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Scanadu Raises $2M: Check Your Body As Often As Your Email Nintendo May Enable Two Wii U Controllers At Once After All Griffins Beacon...

The year was 2008. I was at an event focused on mobile, sitting in on a roundtable discussion with several folks from key companies in the industry. One gentleman was from Adobe. The iPhone had launch...

The year was 2008. I was at an event focused on mobile, sitting in on a roundtable discussion with several folks from key companies in the industry. One gentleman was from Adobe. The iPhone had launch...

Today, Walmart is launching an updated iPhone application and a new iPad app, in an effort to better connect customers' offline and online shopping experiences. The iPhone app in particular brings a n...

Today, Walmart is launching an updated iPhone application and a new iPad app, in an effort to better connect customers' offline and online shopping experiences. The iPhone app in particular brings a n...

Let me introduce you to Pota-Toss, a gorgeous potato tossing artillery game currently seeking Kickstarter funding for development. It's like Scorched Earth, or Angry Birds but where you aim at the bas...

Let me introduce you to Pota-Toss, a gorgeous potato tossing artillery game currently seeking Kickstarter funding for development. It's like Scorched Earth, or Angry Birds but where you aim at the bas...

There have been a number of rumors circulating around Yahoo, Microsoft, and Aol of late, most of them focusing on a potential Aol/Yahoo merger, or Yahoo's acquisition by Aol or Microsoft, etc. Well, i...

There have been a number of rumors circulating around Yahoo, Microsoft, and Aol of late, most of them focusing on a potential Aol/Yahoo merger, or Yahoo's acquisition by Aol or Microsoft, etc. Well, i...

I don't usually link to huge collections of images focused on one theme unless I'm sending examples of potential frost maiden outfits to my LARP clan. However, this is too good to pass up: this is a s...

I don't usually link to huge collections of images focused on one theme unless I'm sending examples of potential frost maiden outfits to my LARP clan. However, this is too good to pass up: this is a s...

Back in July, a new cloud computing and productivity platform called CX.com raised $5 million from Eric Schmidts Tomorrow Ventures and Hanna Capital, bringing the startup's total funding to $10 millio...

Back in July, a new cloud computing and productivity platform called CX.com raised $5 million from Eric Schmidts Tomorrow Ventures and Hanna Capital, bringing the startup's total funding to $10 millio...

Prolific European venture capital firm Index Ventures has finalized raising a 500 million growth fund (roughly $700 million), its second such fund meant for later-stage investments. The firm will tap ...

Prolific European venture capital firm Index Ventures has finalized raising a 500 million growth fund (roughly $700 million), its second such fund meant for later-stage investments. The firm will tap ...

Finding great talent is a tough process. Recruiters and HR try to find out as much as they can about job candidates who purposefully seek to hide their own flaws. Resumes, interviews, and listed refer...

Finding great talent is a tough process. Recruiters and HR try to find out as much as they can about job candidates who purposefully seek to hide their own flaws. Resumes, interviews, and listed refer...

Federated Sample, a New Orleans-based market research technology firm, announced today that it has raised a $2.8 million series A round of financing. The investment was led by Sopris Capital and early...

Federated Sample, a New Orleans-based market research technology firm, announced today that it has raised a $2.8 million series A round of financing. The investment was led by Sopris Capital and early...

We've been hearing rumors of Adobe layoffs all day, and the company just released a statement announcing that it is 'restructuring' its business, which will result in the elimination of 750 jobs in No...

We've been hearing rumors of Adobe layoffs all day, and the company just released a statement announcing that it is 'restructuring' its business, which will result in the elimination of 750 jobs in No...

Twitter Head of Communications Sean Garrett(@SG) has just announced that he's leaving Twitter in a series of tweets -- of course. When asked to confirm his departure, Twitter Communications representa...

Twitter Head of Communications Sean Garrett(@SG) has just announced that he's leaving Twitter in a series of tweets -- of course. When asked to confirm his departure, Twitter Communications representa...

Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten has acquired e-Reading platform Kobo for $315 million in cash. Founded in 2009, Kobo is the developer of eReaders, eReading apps and more with a number of retail pa...

Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten has acquired e-Reading platform Kobo for $315 million in cash. Founded in 2009, Kobo is the developer of eReaders, eReading apps and more with a number of retail pa...

Viral startup launching platformLaunchRock is announcing a get of $800K in seed funding today, from investors 500 Startups, Venture51, Quotidian Ventures, Social Leverage,Lady Gaga's manager Troy Cart...

Viral startup launching platformLaunchRock is announcing a get of $800K in seed funding today, from investors 500 Startups, Venture51, Quotidian Ventures, Social Leverage,Lady Gaga's manager Troy Cart...

Facebook today released some stats trying to show the success of several of the Open Graph music applications launched at f8. Most of the stats were in percentages, though, which can give a rosy impre...

Facebook today released some stats trying to show the success of several of the Open Graph music applications launched at f8. Most of the stats were in percentages, though, which can give a rosy impre...

One of the big disappointments at E3 was the news that Nintendo's weird new console, the Wii U, would only support one of their tablet controllers at once. But recent losses have made them reconsider ...

One of the big disappointments at E3 was the news that Nintendo's weird new console, the Wii U, would only support one of their tablet controllers at once. But recent losses have made them reconsider ...

A handful of new Android tablets can take control of your television thanks to their built-in IR blasters, but Griffin has just come through with a solution for those of you stuck with less versatile ...

A handful of new Android tablets can take control of your television thanks to their built-in IR blasters, but Griffin has just come through with a solution for those of you stuck with less versatile ...

Eric Schmidt is continuing his Asian tour, speaking today in South Korea. Two sensitive topics came up: first, the question of whether Motorola Mobility would be getting special treatment if and when ...

Eric Schmidt is continuing his Asian tour, speaking today in South Korea. Two sensitive topics came up: first, the question of whether Motorola Mobility would be getting special treatment if and when ...

Well, I'm not sure whether to be worried about our impending laziness or thrilled that I can now shop while I watch TV (without the help of the Home Shopping Network). Shazam, potentially one of the m...

Well, I'm not sure whether to be worried about our impending laziness or thrilled that I can now shop while I watch TV (without the help of the Home Shopping Network). Shazam, potentially one of the m...

With almost a million users and six million songs shared daily, Schematic Labs' social music sharing app Soundtracking is today announcing that it has raised $4.75 million in Series A funding led by A...

With almost a million users and six million songs shared daily, Schematic Labs' social music sharing app Soundtracking is today announcing that it has raised $4.75 million in Series A funding led by A...

Following in the footsteps of co-founder Matt Galligan, SimpleGeo CTO and co-founder Joe Stump has announced he is leaving the company today; In a blog post titled "Looking Back While Moving Forward" ...

Following in the footsteps of co-founder Matt Galligan, SimpleGeo CTO and co-founder Joe Stump has announced he is leaving the company today; In a blog post titled "Looking Back While Moving Forward" ...

Music fans, listen up! 8tracks (the self-proclaimed "social, curated alternative to Pandora") is now available on Android.For the unassociated, 8tracks is a massive collection of handcrafted playlists...

Music fans, listen up! 8tracks (the self-proclaimed "social, curated alternative to Pandora") is now available on Android.For the unassociated, 8tracks is a massive collection of handcrafted playlists...

Twitter has begun the rollout, or at least a significant spot test, of the Activity and @USERNAME streams it announced in mid-August. The @USERNAME stream replaces the @Mentions and Retweets streams, ...

Twitter has begun the rollout, or at least a significant spot test, of the Activity and @USERNAME streams it announced in mid-August. The @USERNAME stream replaces the @Mentions and Retweets streams, ...

PayPal updated its Android application today and has added one notable new feature: support for NFC payments. Using NFC, or near field communication, two PayPal users with NFC-enabled phones can send ...

Imagine the world in five or ten years time will television and the Internet be the same thing? I asked HBOs SVP of digital platforms, Alison Moore, when I interviewed her at Fast Companys Innovation...

It's not often that you're attacked by a random stranger, but if/when it does happen preparedness is the key. Think back to your karate days, carry pepper spray, use the buddy system, and stay alert. ...

Short version: Battlefield 3 plays it safe and focuses on maximizing player engagement, but falls prey to a lack of variety, a shabby UI that's clearly a holdover from consoles, plus of course the ine...

Meet Scanadu, an innovative health tech startup I daresay you'll be hearing a lot more from in the future. It's not the easiest of tasks explaining what the company is building at this point, but let'...

Hey, broham, hitting the waves today? You better go pledge $49 to get the Proof Nano case, a case that turns your Nano into a waterproof watch. Designed by the folks at Boombotix, the watch will compl...

The new version of the Firefox Web browser, Firefox 8for Windows, Mac and Linux, has officially gone live. The update, which actually became available a couple of days ago via Mozilla's FTP servers, i...

Getting a carwash is one of those tasks that I avoid until I absolutely need to get it done. Frankly, it's not high up on the list of things I want to do when I have spare time on the weekend. Enter C...

Michael Birch, the founder of Bebo and now CEO of startup lab Monkey Inferno, wants to raise millions of dollars for Charity:Water using social networks and viral loops. His latest project is WaterFo...

The makers of the Peel iPod phone adapter have outdone themselves. Their new device - called the Vooma Peel PG92 - is a unique case that, in conjunction with a jailbroken iPhone - adds dual SIM capabi...

Microsoft may be preparing for a big Mango push here in the States, but the Wall Street Journal reports that Google chairman Eric Schmidt recently took them to task at a press conference for claiming ...

Here's some good news for web video publishers and producers. Online video advertising budgets are expected to jump sharply in 2012. Brand advertisers who purchased online video ads this year are pr...

After months of uncertainty and allegations thrown out left and right, Olympus admitted today that it has been hiding company losses for the past two decades. Here's what's up: Including the 2008 take...

BankSimple, the well-funded startup that's setting out to build 'a bank that doesn't suck', has some big news today: it's now allowing its first users into the service. And to mark the occasion, it's ...

Facebook has apparently completed yet another small acquisition, snapping up HTML5 app distribution platform company Strobe.In a blog post, Strobe founder (and creator of open source JavaScript framew...

Facebook has apparently completed yet another small acquisition, snapping up HTML5 app distribution platform company Strobe.In a blog post, Strobe founder (and creator of open source JavaScript framew...

Launchpad LA today announces it will accept applications for its third class of Los Angeles-based tech startups. There are significant VC commitments and every entering company will get $50,000 in fun...

In September, Wikets, Inc., announced it had raised $1.5 million from venture firmsAndreessen HorowitzandBattery Ventures, as well as from six angel investors, to build a new iPhone application that a...

Livestreamco-founderMax Haotsays 30-million monthly unique viewers depend on Livestream for coverage of events ranging from Occupy Wall Street to f8. This year Livestream expects to more than double i...

For SMBs, managing banking and payment processes is not as easy -- or as secure -- as it should be. So, coming out of stealth today is a Boston-based startup called MineralTree that is looking to fix ...

Exclusive - Tinkercad, a startup that aims to introduce browser-based 3D printing CAD to the masses, has landed $1M in seed funding from True Ventures, Jaiku founder Jyri Engestrom, Delicious founder ...

7-, 9-, or 10-inch tablets are out: NEC Japan today announced the so-called X-info Table [JP], a 52-inch "tablet" (NEC does use this term to market the device) with full HD resolution. Much like simil...

Disruptive mobile payments company Square has just brought on a new investor-Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group. This comes on the heels of the company's recent $100 million funding roun...

As a watch fan, setting your pieces back and forth a few times a year is trivial. But what if you're dealing with a collection of 8,000 watches? This video shows how the folks at Tourneau Time Machine...

Flash sales giant Gilt Groupe is announcing major expansion plans to today, with the company's e-commerce offering extending to over 90 countries. Additionally, Gilt will offer international customers...

Any casual observer, male or female, knows that social networking has taken off not just because it's a good idea but because more than 50% of the population - i.e. not just men - have found it appeal...

Yesterday, Google launched brand Pages on Google+. Like Facebook Pages, Google+ Pages allow brands, products, companies, groups and others to create a professional presence on the social net...

PunchTab, a startup that offers a social loyalty platform for consumers, publishers, and businesses, has raised $4.4 million in Series A financing, led by Mohr Davidow Ventures. The startup previously...

This morning, Amazon announced that Kindle Cloud Reader, the nifty HTML5-based Web app that lets customers read Kindle books in their browser, is now available for Mozilla Firefox 6 and above, in addi...

We knew it was coming. First J&R prematurely listed the tab for pre-order, and then Samsung came out with an official announcement, which leads us to today: T-Mobile has finally confirmed availabi...

I'm a DIY kind of guy. I feel that doctors are at best overpriced handymen whose skills and experience count for little when it comes to understanding my body. Hey, it's my body, right? I should be ab...

Yelp and Groupon are both being sued by a company called Mobile Commerce Framework, an obscure patent troll that earlier filed a similar patent infringement suit against Foursquare.On April 6, 2010, M...

Honda has been very silent about Asimo, its super-advanced humanoid robot, in recent years. After introducing the first version in 2000, Honda showed several versions through 2005, until the company f...

The holidays will soon be upon us, and with them will come the inevitable clogging of our nation's retail arteries. How fortunate then that Apple has just released an update to their Apple Store app t...

Piazza, a Q&A platform for students and instructors, is debuting iOS and Android mobile apps, allowing students to share ideas and get answers on the go. Piazza's platform helps classmates share ...

ToutApp was part of 500 Startups' summer batch of little monsters and launched this June with $350,000 in funding from Esther Dyson, Eric Ries, Daniel Eskapa, NYC Seed Fund, Joshua Baer, and more.Why?...

HMS Holdings has acquired technology-driven healthcare services company HealthDataInsights (HDI) for approximately $400 million. According to the press release, the transaction is not contingent upon ...

Back in May, Avado was chosen as a finalist at TechCrunch Disrupt in NYC. The startup's ambition was, said in reductive terms, to become the Salesforce.com of personal health records. (You can read ou...

In September, Salesforce founder Marc Benioff hinted at a new work management product, Do.com. Today, the CRM giant is finally releasing more details about Do, which is a simple task management mobile...

Qualcomm has acquired substantially all of the technology and other assets of HaloIPT, a provider of wireless charging technology for electric road vehicles. The move is meant to strengthen Qualcomm's...

Accel Partners has steadily been making investments in infrastructure and companies looking to manage big data for the enterprise, including funding Cloudera, CouchBase, and even Fusion-IO. But there'...

Recently, American Express has been pushing its own internal digital commerce initiatives including the company's digital wallet, Serve. Serve integrates a variety of payment options into a single acc...

Exclusive - Social gaming startup Mention Mobile has raised $250,000 from billionaire, entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban in exchange for a minority equity stake in the company. Mentio...

Mobile ad network Millennial Media is announcing an expansion to the Asia-Pacific region. Millennial is one of the largest remaining independent ad networks after AdMob was bought by Google and Apple ...

Advertising and content network operator Adconion this morning announced that it has acquired smartclip, a European digital video advertising startup. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disc...

There's already a bunch of music apps available for Logitech's Squeezebox (including Rhapsody, Last.fm, Pandora, DI.fm, Napster, Sky.fm, Spotify and Deezer) but this morning there was some good news f...

Korean online gaming powerhouse Nexon is seeking to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange next month, Japanese business daily The Nikkei is reporting today. According to the paper, the company aims to rais...

Strangeloop, the provider of web content optimization solutions and enterprise applications, today announced that it has raised $10 million in series B funding from a private investment group. Though ...

Guys I'm still really sleepy from China jetlag so I don't know if I'll get through the entire hour of this, but I know it'll interest some of you and probably me when I wake up so I'm posting it here ...

Last week we broke the news on a previously-stealthy mobile carrier calledRepublic Wireless, which I've been tracking closely since. The story so far: Bandwidth.com, which provides the VoIP backbone f...

Our own Josh Zelman grabbed some video of the new Windows Phones announced today, including the $50 Samsung Focus Flash. These are Microsoft's initial stabs at attacking the mid-range market in advanc...

We heard a while back that Windows 8 would support multi-touch via the trackpad. Sure, there's some stuff you can do right now, but the promise made by Microsoft and Synaptics has been deferred for th...

Judging by the option in the new Google+ Pages age selector to limit features to those over the age of 18, users under 18 will eventually be able to join the social network. Currently, Google&plu...

With over 12% of Internet users (approximately 125 million unique monthly visitors) passing through his network since its launch at TechCrunch Disrupt SF in September, Matthew Prince--CEO of website p...

By this point, women in technology, especially those in powerful positions, are probably tired of hearing about: Women in technology. But, tonight, during a conversation with Charlie Rose, Facebook CO...

Twitter today announced formal partnerships with Mass Relevance and Crimson Hexagon to allow the two companies to re-syndicate tweets for use on websites, television shows, jumbotrons and more. Mass R...

Google today launched the first iteration of its brand Pages product for Google+. The company has some big choices to make about it will flesh out this skeleton to challenge the Pages product Fac...

Kodak, which has been struggling to make enough money to keep the lights on next year, has sold its image sensor business. The buyer is holdings firm Platinum Equity, which is also picking up a large ...

It looks like Facebook has just acquired a mobile video and image app developer Digital Staircase, according to a blog post on the startup's site. We've embedded the blog post below and emailed Facebo...

It looks like Facebook has just acq-hired mobile video and image app developer Digital Staircase, according to a blog post on the startup's site. According to Facebook, Digital Staircase's team will b...

We've grabbed some footage of the Nook Tablet in the flesh and it was interesting to see how responsive and speedy the device was, especially when compared to the Nook Color. This is a full multimedia...

Last week we broke the news that Bandwidth.com was launching a disruptive mobile carrier called Republic Wireless. The service will use special handsets that take advantage of Wifi networks whenever p...

To many a casual Facebooker, Facebook is all about the games. From riveting titles like "Feed your fish so they don't die" to the action-packed adventure "Growing fake plants in virtual dirt", Faceboo...

Charlie Rose interviews Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg tonight on his show. In the preview video above, he tried to get them to talk about what looks like a "flat out war" betw...

Panasonic was one of the first strong competitors in the micro four-thirds camera arena, and we've been waiting on the next iteration of the G-series cameras for months. They've finally announced the ...

Samsung can't be too pleased about this. Gavin Kim, the company's VP of Consumer and Enterprise Services, has just announced that he will be leaving in order to join up with Microsoft as general manag...

Kevin Rose's mobile lab, Milk, has a new investor: Google Ventures. The startup raised $1.5 million in a seed round last April from investors including Chris Sacca, Evan Williams, Dave Morin, Joshua ...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $250,000 to the Startup Weekend EDU series of events, the dedicated education-focused vertical within the non-profit.TheStartup Weekend organization...

It's kind of hard to believe: even 4 years after the launch of the iPhone, visual voicemail still isn't ubiquitous. That's where YouMail comes in. Filling in the gaps where most platforms fall short, ...

Fast Company magazine has landed in San Francisco. Last week, the magazine put on its first Bay Area event Innovation Uncensored, which brought together innovators in many different industries from...

I'll be posting an epic Battlefield 3 review tomorrow, and giving away a few copies of the game, but before that I wanted to put up a little Q&A I got to have with DICE, the game's developer. I tr...

ElectNext, a graduate from DreamIt Ventures' Fall 2011 class, is launching out of beta today to match voters with the political candidates that best reflect their values. The site, which likes to desc...

Dual-core processors? How passe. If the story surrounding this leaked render holds true, then HTC is already hard at work on their first quad-core powerhouse of a smartphone: the Edge.At first glance,...

Vacation homes sit empty most of the year, representing a huge amount of untapped inventory waiting to be discovered online. Large services such as HomeAway, VRBO, and TripAdvisor's FlipKey are takin...

Cross-publisher digital comics distributor iVerse Media today announced a $4 million private equity investment from PS&J Group. The money will go towards expanding marketing and product developmen...

Google+ is taking another major step needed toward becoming a full-fledged Facebook rival: it's launching Google+ Pages, which allow brands, products, companies, businesses, places, groups, ...

Sleek real time chat + to do list app Orchestra is announcing its funding this morning, with a just closed $5 million Series A round from Charles River Ventures and SV Angel, in addition to an ea...

Today we take some time to dive into Clipboard, an intriguing new Web clipping and social bookmarking service started recently by Gary Flake, a former Overture executive who went on to found both Yaho...

The pending launch date of the next Google phone, Samsung's Galaxy Nexus, has been a bit of a mystery up until now. "November" has always been a sure thing, but when exactly we'd be able to get up clo...

Twitter has just announced a key engineering hire today. Adam Messinger will be joining the company as Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering. Messinger was previously Vice President Development...

Dum dum dum dummmmm. Do do do dee dee dooot! The London Philharmonic Orchestra has just released "The Greatest Video Game Music" featuring full orchestrations of all of your favorite themes including ...

Luxury car-sharing service HiGear is announcing a new product called "Swap Club," which will allow its existing car owners the opportunity to swap cars among each other in exchange for HiGear points. ...

Spotify just seems to be popping up everywhere, doesn't it? In addition to the myriad media streamers and network receivers that Spotify has been appearing on lately, the music streaming service has j...

Fresh off a $600K round of seed funding, developer education startup Treehouse is launching to the public this morning, using videos, quizzes and badges to take ostensibly anyone from n00b to 1337 in ...

Cloudera, the startup that commercially distributes and services Apache Hadoop based data management software and services, has raised $40 million in new funding led by Ignition Partners, Greylock, A...

Search analytics provider Searchmetricsspent the weekend examining the effects of last week's changes to the Google algorithm - changes that Google said would affect around one in three Web searches. ...

Never mind the Internet - the TV was invented for pr0n. And now Google TV users can get their fictional passion fix, too, thanks to adult film studio Vivid Entertainment. The latter, always aiming to ...

Ebook creators are notoriously tight-fisted with their sales stats but today William Lynch, CEO of B&N, announced the company has sold "millions" of devices and said the Nook Color was one of the ...

Steve Jobs was a tweaker, Malcolm Gladwell writes in a New Yorker book review of the Steve Jobs biography. He took existing technologies and perfected them, obsessing about everything from the title...

In late September, Amazon unveiled a $199 tablet called the Kindle Fire. Obviously this left a massive divide in the market between the much pricier iPad 2 and the new Kindle Fire, which Barnes & ...

Today, Adobe is launching a hosted service for online ad testing which it's callingProject Adthenticate. Available to publishers, rich media vendors and creative agencies, the service will help to tes...

Mobile marketing companies iLoop and Lenco are merging, according to a release issued today. Under the terms of the agreement, iLoop will become a subsidiary of Lenco, with iLoops shareholders receivi...

Unlimited streaming music service MOG is expanding its footprint yet again with a new AT&T deal that will see its mobile application pre-installed on AT&T's first new LTE smartphones:the Samsu...

The Droid RAZR has been one highly anticipated phone, but can its performance keep up with the hype? Is it too big to be comfortable? Is there a catch that comes along with that 7.1mm waist line? Does...

Enterprise CRM giant Salesforce.com is getting a COO today. The company is announcing that it is promoting George Hu to Chief Operating Officer. Hu previously held the title of Executive Vice Presiden...

Best Buy this morning announced its acquisition of mindSHIFT Technologies, which provides managed IT, cloud, data center and other professional services to small and mid-sized businesses all across th...

Back in June, HP announced something very unusual: a plan to shift production of business notebooks for the Japanese market from China to Japan. The company then actually started manufacturing these d...

Aksel Group, the company behind AkselParis.com, a direct-to-consumer online men's fashion store, announced this week that it has raised $500,000 in seed funding. The round was led by Inspiration Ventu...

Solar energy has just made one step forward: Sharp announced that it has developed a solar cell boasting the world's highest conversion efficiency of 36.9%. This number is 1.1 points higher than for t...

BagThat, a new online store that aims to leverage social networks to benefit consumers and suppliers alike through the power and economics of collective buying, this morning announced funding of 2 mil...

In recent years the fashion of incubating companies in physical spaces (desk, Wifi, funding combinations) has faded on favour of The Accelerator. These are typically a programme of a few weeks combine...

Tekelec, a publicly-listed mobile broadband solutions provider, is to be acquired by an investor group in a transaction valued at approximately $780m (or $11 per share) in cash. The investor consortiu...

Well, it's been an interesting last few weeks for Urban Airship, the startup that aims to give developers a simple way to build in-app purchases and push notifications into their mobile apps. A week a...

Netflix and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) this morning announced a multi-year licensing agreement that will make Netflix the exclusive subscription streaming service in the UK and Ireland for most...

Professor Tachi from Japan's Keio University has been working on telepresence robots since the 1980s, and TELESAR V, a so-called telexistence robot avatar, is the finest work of his lab yet. The robot...

Ericsson, which provides technology and services to telecom operators around the globe, is forecasting a tenfold increase in mobile data traffic over the next five years, mainly driven by video. By 20...

Here are some of last week’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Video: Japan Gets Robotic Guide Dog Negroponte On OLPC Future: Air Drops And Hands-Off Education Panasonics EVOLTA Mini Robot Finishes...

Semiconductor chip maker Quantenna Communications has a new strategic investor on board, and her name is Telefnica. Through its investment arm Telefnica Ventures, a division of Telefnica Digital, the...

Confirming rumors earlier reported by Bloomberg, mobile carrier France Tlcom-Orange and advertising juggernaut Publicis Groupe have teamed up to launch a venture capital fund. The companies have commi...

We caught up with Evernote's Phil Libin after his talk at TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing and delved deeper into a theme that he's touched upon many times when describing his vision of Evernote's future --...

The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experience. It's excuses. And you can understand why: Starting a company is scary. It's little wonder that even the best entrepreneurs...

"History shows that popular technology is often supplanted by entirely new models."That simple observation, presented in a letter from Google Chairman Eric Schmidt to the Senate Subcommittee on Antitr...

For the past few months, my wife and I have been traveling and meeting startups around the world. We've met entrepreneurs in Tokyo, Thailand, India, Israel, and Istanbul. In the next week we'll be mee...

Its an old dilemma. Should entrepreneurs rely on their reason or their instinct? Should they trust their gut or should they trust their mind?The good news, least according to the author of The Intuiti...

Apple has done the one thing it must do to stand up to Google and the loss of Jobs: go to the Cloud. Take the Beta designation all Google products were beta until Google Apps went after enterprise sa...

The current toast of the web is Pinterest, the visual pinboard for collecting and sharing content online. The pinning phenomena is spreading from its modest beginnings toappearing in national media ou...

When Congress updatedcopyright laws and passed theDigital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)in 1998, it ushered an era of investment, innovation and job creation. In the decade since, companies like Goog...

With over 100K weekly downloads coming in just from China, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom had a lot to say during his TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing talk, tackling head-on the issue of how to approach...

Last week at Disrupt Beijing, Sarah Lacy interviewed Skype co-founder and Atomico investor Niklas Zennstrom. (You can watch the full fireside chat in the video above.)Zennstrom was a pioneer in buildi...

In a little over two years of existence, the smartphone game Angry Birds is now a household name. A lesson in horizontal brand extension, Rovio "Mighty Eagle" Peter Vesterbacka wore an Angry Birds swe...

The "Virgin" king Sir Richard Branson teams up with Bulova for a special limited edition watch. 46mm wide and done in titanium, the watch features a GMT hand and world time function.May the high-end w...

If you check Facebook today for real-time updates in its Ticker feed, you may find yourself staring at ads. Some Facebook users are now seeing a redesigned version of the home page that places ad unit...

The backlash was inevitable.Siri has had a bit of an image problem this past week.Just like all technology propelled by the tailwinds of hype, it hit the inevitable wall of tech punditry. This magical...

By any measureDrew Houstonand hisDropboxteam are having ahugely successful run. In Houston's final Founder Stories episode with TechCrunch editor, Erick Schonfeld,Houston says he plans to maintain thi...

Of course not. And yet, as a key cause and effect of globalization, the Internet does play an important role in enabling the conditions that produce todays 27 million slaves around the world. But its ...

Happy anniversary to me: I've now been writing this here weekly column for exactly one year. In that time I have opined, prescribed, and predicted many things. And now, as part of my one-man crusade f...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor returned to the Social Wars with renewed vigor courtesy of two weeks of material. These issues included the Klout algorit...

Writing in 2002, Peter Drucker, the great management consultant, foresaw the future. In the next 30 years, he wrote, power will shift to the customer for the simple reason that the customer now has f...

I'm in even worse trouble now. A few weeks ago I had to speak at Barry Ritholz's conference but that turned out to be "only" a panel. It was a great panel but I knew I would only have ten minutes of t...

As you've likely heard, there's been a lot of upside that's been reported of late when it comes to Android's mobile OS. Thanks to Nielsen, we know that, yet again, Android is leader among mobile OSes,...

Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets stories: Video: Japan Gets Robotic Guide Dog Samsung Focus Flash Review: High-End Feel At A Low Price WhiteyPaint Turns Walls Into Whiteboards Without Crampi...

A year ago, at BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas, PageLines announced the release of Platform, a drag and drop design framework for WordPress. The product offered some cool CMS design options, a drag-and-dr...

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, SV Angel's Ron Conway, Andreessen-Horowitz' Jeff Jordan, Twilio's Jeff Lawson, Foursquare mobile VP Holger Leudorf and Lookout founder John Hering all gathered at Foun...

If you're a fan of the Parrot AR.Drone, you'll probably get a kick out its earthbound relative, the AirXRacer by AniApp. I got a first hands on with this iPhone- or Android-controlled racecar in Shenz...

After going from selling slippers with flashlights to being a 10,000 employee-strong business in three years, Groupon had its initial public offering today, to much fanfare and well, the opposite reac...

Photos were a little hard to grab but I got to see a real, live "transparent" iPhone last night in Shenzhen. The kit is apparently quite easy to install - a few screws on the bottom and then you just ...

If rap lyrics like "Real G's move in silence like lasagna" stump you, check out Rap Genius. The crowdsourced hip-hop lyrics explanation site will inform you that Lil Wayne is describing how skilled ga...

Editors note: This guest post is authored by Adeo Ressi, who is the founder of The Founder Institute and TheFunded.com. You can follow him on Twitter here.Every investor and entrepreneur knows there i...

Loren Brichter, the extremely talented creator of Tweetie which begat the official Twitter applications for iOS has just announced that he's leaving the company. Brichter wrote in a tweet that today...

Finally, there's a way for me to carve up the slopes with my pizza-wedge turns without having to endure the condescending smirks of strangers.That's because Liftopia, the startup gives you steep disco...

The sun has set on our first ever TechCrunch Disrupt conference outside U.S. soil. The Beijing event ended this past Tuesday, as OrderWithMe won the Disrupt Cup. With the 12 to 15 hour time differen...

Cinema tech isn't a big focus on TechCrunch, but with Canon it makes sense, especially when that cinema tech represents a major overlap with consumer gear. The Cinema EOS line introduced last night is...

Intel hasn't been able to make much of a dent in the smartphone or tablet markets, but they're not about to give up just yet. ComputerWorld reports that Intel is working to make Ice Cream Sandwich-pow...

Yesterday, Kevin Rose's new mobile app, Oink, hit iTunes. You can download the app, but you still need an invite to unlock all of its features. About an hour after the launch, I showed up at Milk, R...

Masabi, which develops mobile ticketing technology for the transport sector, has secured $4 million from London-based m8 Capital, the majority-owned affiliate of AGC Equity Partners that targets mobil...

RootMusic's BandPage, Facebook's most popular music app, just upgraded to HTML5 and now includes a powerful new viral channel. Using the Open Graph capabilities launched at f8, all songs within the ap...

ComScore just released its U.S. mobile subscriber numbers for the three-month average period ending September 2011. According to the report, 87.4 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during th...

The Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor - are recording live today at 12:30pm PT....

In this week's news from the front lines, the European Commission has decided to initiate a preliminary investigation of Samsung's litigation tactics with regards to its standards-essential patents. W...

If, like the author of Free Ride, Robert Levine, you believe that digital parasites are destroying the culture business, then the time has come for a major counterattack against both piracy and the fr...

We knew that at least one of the new Xooms would be able to double as a (rather large) remote control, but Motorola surprised us yesterday when they revealed that both of the Xoom 2 models featured IR...

It's been a big week in the news. We've wrapped up our first international Disrupt event in Beijing, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg & co-founder and former Ning CEO Gina Bianchini invested in Levo L...

John Ham, cofounder and longtime CEO of live streaming video service Ustream, is stepping down from the company he helped start four and a half years ago. Ham will be replaced by cofounder and (and Ha...

Zynga just filed a new S-1 today in its upcoming IPO, reporting new revenue, income, and usage stats. Revenue came in at $306.8 million for the quarter, which is up 80 percent from Q3 2010. Net income...

As we heard in September, VC Michael Hirshland (a.k.a. @VCMike) announced he was leaving Polaris Venture Partners, where he was a general partner, to start his own seed fund. Today, Hirshland is debut...

Back in June image tagging startup ThingLink launched launched Rich Media Tags for publishers, allowing anyone to interact with an image tag which might be embedded music, video, words, pictures and t...

Google TV 2.0 launched earlier this week, finally bringing Android Market to the living room platform. But Google TV still isn't perfect. For better or worse, the product's dependence on apps allows 3...

It looks like Best Buy managed to let a few of those 32GB TouchPads slip through their fingers, as TigerDirect has concocted a $279 bundle around HP's stillborn tablet.Yep, people looking to score a T...

Feeling useless? The folks over at WhiteyBoard seem to have a solution: WhiteyPaint. As WhiteyPaint's motto so clearly points out, "you're useless without it." While the verdict's still out on that on...

After some timing drama, daily deal site Groupon finally has begun trading on the NASDAQ this morning, in the most hotly anticipated and largest Internet company IPO since Google. The company -- which...

After some timing drama, daily deal site Groupon finally has begun trading on the NASDAQ this morning, in the most hotly anticipated and largest Internet company IPO since Google. The company -- which...

Today, 2houses launches in public beta, offering separated or divorced parents a set of digital tools to easily communicate about and make arrangements with regards to their children. This is obviousl...

Online learning platform and non-profit organization Khan Academy has been granted $5 million from The O'Sullivan Foundation. The organization has previously raised $2 million+ from Google and Th...

Naked-eye 3D displays, even large-sized models, are nothing special anymore, but they usually have a common problem: the 3D effect when viewing pictures isn't as strong as with displays that require u...

IBM's Coremetrics Benchmark is releasing data around holiday shopping trends we can expect over the next few months. Big Blue says that mobile retail traffic will more than double this holiday season....

The Samsung Focus Flash has achieved something I didn't think it would — it managed to tear me away from my new iPhone 4S. Granted, I've had the 4S a bit longer than the Focus Flash, but I don't...

If the Samsung Focus Flash had you even remotely excited, then the Focus S is sure to leave you thrilled. With almost all the same specs as baby brother, the Focus S brings a slightly larger screen an...

Lot18, the Gilt Groupe for wine, wine accessories and gourmet food, has raised $30 million in Series C financing led by Accel Partners with existing investors New Enterprise Associates and FirstMark C...

MADS, a provider of mobile display and messaging ad serving solutions, has raised 1 million - or roughly $1.4 million - in funding in a Series B round led by OTM Investments (both the company and the ...

Production of Sony's AIBO, probably the world's most famous robotic dog, may have been discontinued in 2006, but that didn't stop other Japanese companies to keep on developing similar robots. 12 year...

Just landed in our inbox: a link to this excellent documentary on connectivity, sponsored by Ericsson and entitled 'On The Brink'. Picked up earlier by GigaOm, the 21-minute documentary features folks...

Social dating company Zoosk has acquired Woo Media, the company behind sites like WooMe.com, Shufflepeople.com and Monsterchat.com, for an undisclosed sum. You may remember WooMe from when I called th...

DragonWave this morning announced plans to acquire Nokia Siemens Networks' microwave transport business, including its associated operational support systems and related support functions.The move tur...

'Tis the season of the IPO. So far, 2011 has seen companies like LinkedIn, Pandora, Yandex, Zillow, and RenRen come to market. As you've heard, Groupon and Zynga are next up in the IPO pipeline, with ...

Want to predict what your personal health will look like tomorrow, or 10 years from now? Well, look no further than 100Plus a new stealthy health startup founded by Chris Hogg, a healthcare and health...

In July, Kickanotch Mobile, a mobile marketing services startup based in the outskirts of Kansas City, raised $500K from a bunch of angel investors and was incentivized by the Kansas Technology Enterp...

As Zynga announced at an event a few weeks ago, the newest title in the "Ville" franchise, which includes FarmVille, FrontierVille, and CityVille, is CastleVille. The newest title from the social gami...

In this evening of dueling announcements (RED announced their compact high-res camera system tonight as well), Canon has shown that it's serious in the area of digital cinema with its new Cinema EOS s...

For more than three years, upstart camera maker RED has been teasing the Scarlet, a compact camera in the same class as their more powerful, but bulkier, RED One and Epic cameras. We actually saw one ...

Groupon has priced its IPO at $20 a share according to reports, which would give the company a $12.7 billion valuation and mean that it'd be seeking $690 million in tomorrow's offering, by floating on...

Amazon's Kindle Fire turned its fair share of heads this past September, but rival Barnes and Noble wasn't just sitting around twiddling their thumbs with the Fire grabbed headlines. Barnes and Noble ...

Following in the footsteps of GroupMe, another startup born at a Disrupt Hackathon is moving on to becoming areal company. Last May, Docracy was one of our Hackathon winners, and now it's raised a $6...

Oink, the first app from Milk, Kevin Rose's startup lab is now available in iTunes. Oink is an app that lets you rate things at different places, and uses social reputation to help others figure out ...

According to Robert Levine, the author of the just published Free Ride: How Digital Parasites Are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back, the Internet is destroyi...

With leaks galore and this afternoon's announcement, there's not much reason to rehash HTC Rezound deets. So I'll just cut to the chase and hit you guys with some first impressions....

In August, Y Combinator grad Kicksend launched in beta to make sending and sharing large files easy as pie, especially for the non-technical crowd. (Read our initial coverage here.) Since then, founde...

In its second quarter as a public company, LinkedIn posted Q3 earnings today. Revenue for the third quarter was $139.5 million, up 126 percent from the third quarter in 2010. GAAP Net loss for the thi...

New York City's Art.sy, which wants to change the way people buy fine art, recently closed a $6 million series A. Peter Thiel personally led the round, with existing investors Josh Kushner's Thrive C...

The HTC Rezound (formerly the Vigor) has been on our radar for what seems like forever now, but were here in New York City for HTCs big event, and they have just officially pulled back the curtains on...

Gogobot, a social travel site that launched less than a year ago, is on a tear. The company has racked up accolades including being named one of Time's top sites of 2011 and winner of the 2010 Crunchi...

Maybe we need a new website, IsSiriDownForEveryoneOrJustForMe.com, because it looks like Siri is experiencing an extended outage, according to several tipsters, tweets, and our own internal tests. Whe...

Ever since I became Editor of TechCrunch in September, Ive been looking for great writers to help fill out our coverage in Silicon Valley. And now I am pleased to announce that Ive hired not one, but ...

Today, Google announced a change to its search algorithm that the company says will impact 35% of Web searches. The change builds on top of its previous "Caffeine" update in order to deliver more up-t...

Extreme Venture Partners, the Toronto and Palo Alto-based early-stage venture firm, today announced that it is launching a new-and-improved version of its accelerator program, Extreme University -- al...

Everyone stay alert! Do a barrel roll! Or let Google do it for you. No, seriously. Go to Google and type in "Do a barrel roll" and watch, well, I won't ruin it for you. (LMGTFY link) Alternatively you...

In late 2008, news broke that Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz was leaving the company to launch a new startup of his own, joined by early Facebook engineer Justin Rosenstein. It was a move that le...

TV e-commerce company Delivery Agent has raised $35.5 million in new funding led by Intel Capital with strategic investors, Liberty Global, and Grazia Equity participating. The Series E raise includes...

Google is shipping more Google+ features today designed to increase user engagement and sharing. These include a YouTube slider that lets you watch and share YouTube videos with your Google+...

The daily deal space continues to be as active as ever. This means, on the one hand, there's a lot of innovation and experimentation with new models happening in the space, but, on the other, there's ...

Application performance and analytics solution provider Tracelytics has just closed a seed round of $600,000 fromBattery Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Google Ventures, and several prominent an...

A new startup called Euclid Elements emerged from stealth mode today to debut its customer-tracking solution for brick-and-mortar merchants it's calling "Google Analytics for the physical world." The ...

Moolah Media, a recently launched mobile ad network that uses a cost-per-action and cost-per-lead model, is rolling out a new performance optimized ad units for advertisers and publishers with the lau...

The music industry industry has taken some questionable stances on digital technology over the years. To call it resistant to change probably wouldn't be stepping too far out of line. That's why, as m...

According to new data from Nielsen, Android has continued to pick up steam in the United States, and retains its crown as the most-used smartphone OS during Q3 2011. Google's mobile OS now accounts fo...

Japan took the top spot from China in the ranking for the world's fastest supercomputer back in June, when the International Supercomputing Conference said "K", a supercomputer made by Fujitsu, is out...

This morning, popular audio platform SoundCloud is debuting its brand-new HTML5 widget which will now be offered in beta format alongside its current Flash widget, but will eventually replace it. The ...

It's with a heavy heart that I write this revised Google TV review. The product is teetering on a ledge between falling into an abyss of obscurity or sliding downhill into geekdom. There doesn't seem ...

We've been seeing them in one form or another for months now, but today Motorola has officially unveiled the Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition tablets.In most ways, the two tablets are nearly identical:...

Coraid, a developer of Ethernet SAN storage solutions, this morning announced that it has closed a sizable $50 million series C round led by Crosslink Capital. Coraid's existing investors Menlo Ventur...

We've shown you robots completing various tasks in the past, but this new model, a small hobby humanoid, can ride a bicycle like a human being. It's not the first of its kind (Murata's robot and Panas...

I wasn't surprised to hear that both Sony and RIM are spiraling into market irrelevancy. It's been an inevitability since about 2009 that Sony would see declining fortunes and it's been clear for mont...

Hewlett-Packard has announced that former Verizon Wireless SVP and CIO John Hinshaw has agreed to join the company to serve as its executive vice president of Global Technology and Business Processes,...

Hewlett-Packard has announced that former Verizon Wireless SVP and CIO John Hinshaw has agreed to join the company to serve as its executive vice president of Global Technology and Business Processes,...

This week, Technode's chief editor Gang Lu interviewed YouTube founder Steve Chen backstage at TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing. As we covered earlier, Chen and our own Sarah Lacy chatted on stage about the...

Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Heres The First GTA:V Trailer And Its Spectacular Video: Toyota Shows Four Healthcare And Nursing Robots Negroponte On OLPC Future: Ai...

Kaggle, a platform for predictive data modeling competitions, has raised $11 million in Series A financing led by Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures. SV Angel, Yuri Milners Start Fund, Stanford Manage...

In today's VC market, it's age before beauty. This is according to a new study released today by Shareholder Representative Services (SRS), the company that represents shareholder interests during the...

Barcode scanning and product search app ShopSavvy has raised $7 million in new funding led by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin with Brad Martin (Former CEO of retailer Saks Fifth Avenue), James Bai...

Australian-based crowdsourcing website for creative projects DesignCrowd has received a $3 million investment Starfish Ventures.DesignCrowd allows anyone to upload a design project, set a deadline, se...

Let's say you're a first-time entrepreneur. You've got a great idea for a product or business, but you don't know where to start. You don't know any VCs or angels, maybe your company isn't right for a...

By now you're probably well aware that Google released their long-awaited Gmail iOS app today, only to unceremoniously yank it from the App Store when people pointed out that it didn't really work. Go...

In October 2010, a Los Angeles-based startup called BeachMint launched JewelMint a service that sends you a new piece of jewelry every month, at a price that's much less than you'd typically pay for a...

-OLPC's Nicholas Negroponte at the Open Mobile summit...

RockYou, a social game developer, will be laying off a number of employees, we've confirmed with the company. The total number of employees being cut, explains CEO Lisa Marino, is 100, but there are t...

For the past couple of weeks, I've heard the same thing over and over again. "The iPhone 4S is awesome, but..." And it's a big "but". The battery life. It sucks.Well, to be clear, it sucks for some us...

Back in the heady days of the late 1990s, it seemed like everyone and their cousin was trying to break into the ISP business. NetZero once made a name for themselves thanks to their claims of free int...

Amazon subsidiary A9.com has just launched a new augmented reality iPhone appFlow Powered by Amazon. Flow uses augmented reality to help users explore and discover tens of millions of products in a re...

To say that things move quickly in the mobile space is putting it rather mildly, but an infographic from mobile ad exchange Mobclix aims to highlight what goes down every 60 seconds. In case you were ...

In what appears to be a test among some users, Twitter is adding "Top News" and "Top People" results at the top of its realtime search results. When you search for a hot story like "gmail" (which cam...

When Apple first unveiled the iPhone 4S, there was one feature that left every jaw in the room on the floor. Her name is Siri. Scott Forstall demoed the personal assistant at Apple's media event, and ...

Venuelabs, a company which got its start as Valuevine before a pivot in early 2011, is launching a new service called VenueRank this week at the Geo-Loco conference in San Francisco. VenueRank, simply...

China has the most cell phone users in the world, and according to mobile app analytics firm Flurry, they're using apps more than they ever have before.For their latest report, Flurry tracked mobile a...

Workers of the world, get ready to meet your robot supervisors. A new service called Humanoid wants to turn you into a "robot-supervised army" that it will rent out for $5 an hour. It already has 20...

Social TV app IntoNow, which Yahoo acquired earlier this year for $20 to $30 million, is heading to the iPad today with the launch of a native app. In case you aren't familiar with IntoNow, the servic...

Well, that was a big disappointment. Google just unveiled its first native application for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch this morning, and the app is a mess. It's unusable. It doesn't even launch pr...

Angie's List, which offers consumers a way to review and rate doctors, contractors and service companies on the Web, has just set the terms for its IPO. In a new filing, the company revealed that it a...

Angie's List, which offers consumers a way to review and rate doctors, contractors and service companies on the Web, has just set the terms for its IPO. In a new filing, the company revealed that it a...

Google is launching a new native Gmail application for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch today, which is now available in the iTunes App Store. As recently revealed by TechCrunch writer MG Siegler on hi...

Google is launching a new native Gmail application for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch today, which is now available in the iTunes App Store. As recently revealed by TechCrunch writer MG Siegler on hi...

With BBM Music, RIM has thrown their hat into the already crowded mobile music ring. The new service's focus on leveraging your social connections to score some new tunes is a novel twist, but it begs...

Former Google Reader Product Manager Brian Shih has posted a scathing, but fairly accurate, review of the update to Google Reader. The update, which removed Reader's own social sharing features in fav...

Rockstar Games just released the first trailer for the upcoming GTA V game and it's good to be home. Grand Theft Auto V is living large back in the beautiful state of San Andreas. The big city of Los ...

The Droid RAZR has certainly been the talk of the the town lately, with its 7.1mm waist line, 1.2GHz dual-core processor and uniquely beautiful design. According to the leaks, the RAZR should be graci...

Many companies have begun to realize that social is not just a new channel or a new fad, it's a new way of doing business. But learning the ropes, how to use social networks and social channels, and o...

Womply's "Efortless Offers" is a new offers platform that links local merchants' discounts to all major credit and debit cards, including Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. Live now in t...

Exclusive: Cloudera founder Christophe Bisciglia is debuting his new startup today, called Odiago. Odiago develops a product called WibiData, which leverages Apache Hadoop to manage and analyze large ...

Stealthy email security startup Agari has raised $2.5 million in Series A funding led by Alloy Ventures with participation from Battery Ventures, First Round Capital and Greylock Partners. Agari's tec...

Over a year passed since we covered powerful video editor LoiLoScope, but instead of resting on its laurels, maker LoiLo has kept innovating on the product. Aptly named LoiLoScope 2, the updated softw...

Alright BlackBerry fans, the time has come for you to experience BBM Music. If you haven't heard of it yet, it's a somewhat inexplicable music subscription service that integrates BBM. As of yet, the ...

Earlier this year, Square debuted a virtual card case that consumers fill with cards of all the merchants they visit and buy from who accept Square. These mobile cards include locations, merchant cont...

Honda isn't the only Japanese car maker active in robotics (with Asimo etc.), Toyota has been active in this area for quite some time, too. Big T showcased a total of four robots yesterday, all with t...

If you've found yourself yearning for a new memory card but all your options are just too pedestrian, then Monster and SDJ Technologies may have just brightened your day. The two companies have just a...

It's a big day over at ST-Ericsson. The chip maker, which has yet to turn a quarterly profit, just scored a major deal with Nokia to power its Windows Phone handsets. This deal effectively ends the mo...

Confirming earlier reports, luxury deals site Gilt City, a subsidiary of Gilt Groupe, Inc., is acquiring the assets of failed daily deals site BuyWithMe, after the latter saw massive layoffs following...

Asana, the web-based productivity service that counts Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz as one of its founders, is launching to the public today. No, it isn't anything like Facebook, but if you're l...

AOL reported third-quarter earnings this morning. Revenue was down 6 percent to $531.7 million. The company swung to a loss in terms of net income, losing $2.6 million, or $0.02 per share. Analysts ex...

Ooma's disruptive VoIP service is hitting Canada per an announcement Wednesday morning. Starting today, Canadian consumers can order the VoIP-in-a-box and place and receive phone calls to anyone withi...

Ooma's disruptive VoIP service is hitting Canada per an announcement Wednesday morning. Starting today, Canadian consumers can order the VoIP-in-a-box and place and receive phone calls to anyone withi...

At the Slush 2011 event held today in Finland, Rovio's Peter Vesterbacka revealed a huge milestone for the company's hit game, Angry Birds500 million downloads over the past two years. Vesterbacka cla...

Cloudability, a platform to manage and monitor all of your cloud costs in one place, is launching to the public today. For the past few months, the Portland-based startup has been in private beta.Clou...

Digital Folio is launching today as an intelligent web-based shopping list for consumers. The company is also announcing that it has raised $1.2 million in angel funding.Via a browser plugin, a shoppe...

STELLAService, a customer service ratings provider for online retailers, is today announcing that it has raised $5 million in series A financing. The round was led by Battery Ventures, with participat...

Rounds, a social video and gaming application, has raised $3 million in new funding led by Verizon Investments with Rhodium and DFJs Tim Draper participating. This brings the company's total funding t...

At the end of this month, China's capital city will begin rolling out free WiFi service in various hotspots across the city. The "My Beijing" wireless network, as it is to be called, is backed by thre...

Sony issued their latest financial results today, and in a nutshell, the numbers aren't looking good for the second quarter of the fiscal year, and they aren't expected to improve for the fiscal as a ...

Zero1.tv, the company behind the VooMote universal remotes for iOS devices, has raised a Series A funding round led by GoodVent, Signeo Ltd., and existing investor HTGF. The company isn't disclosing t...

In this time of timelines, it is easy to forget that Facebook didn't come up with the concept of a social timeline recording your life. But what do you do now if you are a startup like Memolane built...

As Erick wrote last week, SecondMarket, the marketplace for alternative investments, has been seeing quite a bit of activity of late. In fact, SecondMarket's private stock transactions in the first th...

We don't hear about Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg making many angel investments but we've learned that the executive has backed new startup calledLevo League along with co-founder and former CEO of Nin...

Unthink, the social networking platform whose marketing campaign involves a lot of Facebook bashing, has reached 100,000 registered users, the company is now reporting. As you may recall, the site qui...

Have you had your share of augmented reality this month? Between CMU's OmniTouch, Microsoft's HoloDesk, and Metaio's updated AR app, you could be forgiven. But trust me, you'll want to watch this vide...

Few devices have inspired a following quite as devoted as the Galaxy Nexus, and those fans will be glad to know that a recently leaked Verizon document pegs Samsung and Google's latest collaboration w...

You may not have heard of Tandem Entrepreneurs, the incubator and capital fund that officially launched in July, but for entrepreneurs focused on the mobile space, they're worth checking out. What's d...

Depending on who you talk to, the fact that you need a light to read e-paper-based e-readers like the Kindle is either a strength or a weakness. It's become part of the branding, after all: "just like...

After the company's former CEO Bob Kimball resigned in March of this year, RealNetworks has announced that its board of directors has named Thomas Nielsen as its new president and chief executive offi...

The so-called PROTECT IP act is under fire again as it enters the process of becoming law. We've talked about it on this blog before and no doubt the discussion will continue after it passes or is rej...

We were half-expecting to see the Xoom 2 officially break cover at Motorola's Droid RAZR launch event (especially since some incriminating photos of the tab leaked just prior to it), but according to ...

Last year, Twitter debuted a marketing campaign, called Twitter Tales, that showcased ways in which users interact with the microblogging platform. Today, the company is launching a similar campaign, ...

News360, the cross-platform news reader, is arriving on the iPhone today, after having been previously available on virtually all other platforms, including Android, the iPad, Windows Phone, the Web a...

News360, the cross-platform news reader, is arriving on the iPhone today in version 2.0, after having been previously available on virtually all other platforms, including Android, the iPad, Windows P...

Last year I attended a brand new event in Dublin called Founders (or F.ounders if you prefer the branding). I duly wrote it up here as an "overnight must-attend" and a welcome edition to the European ...

New startup accelerator Advise.me has today formalized partnerships with the law firm Perkins Cole, plus Xero, Zendesk, GetSatisfaction, and SEOmoz all of which will provide services to its startup pa...

As a Steve Jobs watcher, Alan Deutschman has been at it longer than almost anyone. He is the author of the 2000 biography The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, the e-essayHow Steve Jobs Changed Our World a...

TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing kicked off its second and final day with a bang last night, with Sarah Lacy chatting with Lei Jun (Angel Investor, Co-founder of Xiaomi), on how he plans to take on the like...

Google is rolling out a new design for Gmail. It features more white space, less clutter, threaded conversations, new themes, and better search.Messages aren't as bunched up as before and easier to r...

GarageBand, Apple's music creation app, is now available on the smaller screens of the iPhone and iPod Touch, after its introduction on the iPad earlier this year. Like the iPad version, the new app h...

Sprint is no stranger to forging big-name partnerships -- the NASCAR Sprint Cup comes to mind -- but this time the folks in Overland Park have struck a deal with a rather unexpected party. Sprint has ...

Dropbox co-founder Drew Houston has one of the hottest startups in the game. With$257.2 million in funding and a $4-billionvaluationit's poised to triple an already impressive user base of 45-millon.S...

Remember that one time Motorola and Verizon announced the new Droid RAZR, but failed to offer up any in-store availability dates? A date as vague as "November" can only tide over the masses for so lon...

Trustpilot, a site which rates the trustworthiness of shopping sites via a toolbar, has raised 3.3 million from two Nordic venture funds, SEED Capital and Northzone Ventures. The money will be used to...

As was previously leaked, Google is now launching its new GoMo service, which aims to help businesses easily create a mobile-friendly website. The website for the service was discovered earlier this w...

Despite RIM's successive screw-ups (including a massive server outage that left thousands of customers without BBM or internet service... twice), there are still some hardcore BlackBerry fans out ther...

Add this site to your bookmarks because I guarantee you, at some point, you're going to need it. CanIStream.it is a new search engine that shows you where you can stream, rent, download and buy movies...

The future may be mobile, but trying to shop at an online retailer from your phone is often a surefire way to get a headache.Sure, online stores are now much better about offering mobile-optimized sit...

People take photos of food with their mobile phones all the time. But to what end other than to gain cred on Foodspotting or brag about your gourmet meal on Instagram and Twitter? The Eatery is a di...

Mobile advertising Pontiflex is releasing an update to its AppLeads Smart SDK today, which brings its online "signup" platform to iOS5 devices and Android tablets, including the Kindle Fire. Previousl...

We've written a number of times about Trunk Club, a personal shopping service for men. The model is pretty simple-professional stylists on staff coordinate with clients via phone and email, and actual...

If Apple was a melody and Samsung was a beat, their legal battle would be the song that never ends. It's been more than six months, spanned more than half the continents, and is still in its formative...

D.C.-based Seva Search has raised $1.3 million in Series A funding for its first product, Seva Call, a search engine that lets consumers connect with local businesses in near real-time via the phone. ...

Porn sells. That's the dirty truth of the Internet and Boxee is adding a new source of adult material on its streaming platform. FyreTV (NSFW LINK) joins YouPorn, Husler, PinkVisual in serving up, umm...

Adknowledge, which bills itself as the operator of the world's largest privately held Internet advertising network, has acquired AdParlor, a Facebook Ads management platform that manages over one bill...

Adknowledge, which bills itself as the operator of the world's largest privately held Internet advertising network, has acquired AdParlor, a Facebook Ads management platform that manages over one bill...

While most of the furor over the the new iPhone has died down around these parts, Apple has announced that a few new markets will soon be able to get their proverbial hands on the iPhone 4S very short...

With two weeks to go before Amazon ships its highly anticipated Kindle Fire to the first 500,000 pre-order customers, folks in the developer community are finding it hard to sort out just what flavor ...

Traditional publishers and fledgling digital publications alike are trying to find the best ways to monetize their content on the Web and take advantage of the benefits offered by hyperlocal content a...

Yahoo has just announced that it is purchasing Interclick, a data-driven ad network. The total acquisition price is around $270 million, or $9 per share.Interclick is a technology company providing so...

Online video advertising company Jivox has raised $8.2 million in new funding led by Fortinsure Ventures with existing investors Opus and Helion participating in the round. In addition to the new fina...

Do you have files scattered over Google Docs, Dropbox and Box.net and look for a way to manage them all using just one platform? Then Jouuku, a file management solution supporting said services, might...

Rdio, the digital music service created by Skype foundersNiklas Zennstrom and JanusFriis, is making a big push to international markets. The startup is launching its service in Brazil later this week,...

Just a couple months after selling its 1 millionth hybrid hard drive, Seagate has some fresh news to announce, including the death of its Barracuda green drive and the announcement of its new enhanced...

Philip Rosedale, the founder of Second Life and Linden Lab, is debuting his new venture today Coffee & Power, a marketplace for skill-based jobs. The San Francisco-based startup has raised $1 mill...

As reported earlier this year, Yahoo and Benchmark Capital announced their backing and Apache Hadoop spin-off Hortonworks. The startup was launched to accelerate the adoption of Apache Hadoop, the ope...

Matchbin, a company that creates CMS solutions and hosts websites for community newspapers, radio stations, and TV stations, announced today that it has acquired NAVTEQ Media Solutions Radio and Telev...

Digital photo frames are a dime a dozen nowadays, and recently, 3D models have been popping up, too. Fujifilm today announced the FinePix REAL 3D V3, a so-called "digital viewer" that displays picture...

Coming on the heels of its $33 million series D financing last month, adaptive learning startup Knewton is announcing a very large deal with one of its investors, educational publisher Pearson. One o...

Qwerly originally pitched itself as a 'DNS for people', not dissimilar to About.me. But in May it pivoted, shutting profiles in favour of doubling down on its growing API business which integrated its...

He hoisted himself up a 500 meter-cliff at Grand Canyon, did his magic on the Le Mans 24 circuit in France, and traveled 500KM from Tokyo to Kyoto last year And now, he completed the Ironman Triathlon...

After many months of planning and countless flights to the other side of the world, our first ever international TechCrunch Disrupt event has come to a close. 15 companies have launched new products t...

Ben Huh presented his views on Internet culture at Disrupt Beijing, bringing a bit of the funny to the stage in our last presentation. Ben started out by describing how he bought ICANHASCHEEZBURGER, a...

Serial entrepreneur Brian Lee spoke with TechCrunch's Sarah Lacy today at TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing about his latest startup ShoeDazzle. ShoeDazzle is so hot right now, just this summer raising $40M ...

The VC market is still strong in China, despite indications to the contrary. The old saying goes, here, that 99% of the returns come from 5% of the firms. This means big bucks for the winners - and so...

I'll admit it right off the bat: Phil Libin (CEO of Evernote) is one of my favorite entrepreneurs. I consider myself an actual "fan" of very few living business men, but he's one of them.Phil joined S...

Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets posts: iPhone 4S Battery Life Bugs Got You Down? Try This Jawbones Fitness-Friendly Up Wristband Appears In Online Stores Amtrak Adds WiFi To 12 New East Coa...

Appcelerator, makers of the popular mobile cloud development platform Titanium, has raised $15 million in Series C funding in a round led by Mayfield Fund, Translink Capital and Red Hat. Existing inve...

The latest session at TechCrunch Disrupt was a fireside chat between Sarah Lacy and accomplished entrepreneur Fritz Demopoulos an expat who arrived in China in the late 90s while he was working at Ne...

Ecommerce in China is ready to take off and, more important, it's ready to reach great heights on its own terms. Lu Dong of La Mui, Haifeng Ye of Mbaobao, and Fangfang Wu of Greenbox are three ecommer...

At this point, it's no secret: Gaopeng (Groupon's nascent effort in China) is a train wreck. By September of this year, the seven-month old endeavor had already accumulated $46.4 million in net losses...

Memo to Chinese startups: You made for a late night of deliberations. We typically pick five finalists. There were a few companies that were clear picks, captivating everyone-- from the judges to the...

To kick off Day Two of TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing, our own Sarah Lacy interviewed Lei Jun one of the most successful entrepreneurs in China, whose resume includes cofounding Joyo.com (sold to Amazon i...

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom took the stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing to talk about the photosharing startup's international efforts in addition to how it plans to deal with the onslau...

I've been able to finalize the TechCrunch Shenzhen and Hong Kong meet-ups and thought I'd post here for folks who RSVPed and didn't get an email response. The Hong Kong Event (Facebook Link) will be ...

In case you haven't read through the 50 or so China posts on the site right now, the last day of our first international Disrupt conference will be starting at 9 am Beijing time/6 pm PST today. If you...

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What's most amazing about TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing is that our Startup Battlefield format has proved applicable internationally; There's something universal about giving your all in a pitch to peopl...

We are kicking off the last day of TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing 2011 at 6pm PST. Thanks to Ustream and Tudou, weve embedded the livestream of the event here.Be sure to tune in and don't forget to follow...

Anyone who has ever used a MacBook Pro can tell you that they can get awfully toasty after a little while. Countless laptop cooling solutions have hit store shelves over the years, but I don't think I...

It hits you when you least expect it. It slips away under a mask of dormant inactivity. And it can ruin your entire day. It's your iPhone 4S battery life, and it sucks. It's been 17 days since the iPh...

Talk about good timing.Over the weekend, I wrote a post pleading with Google to please, finally, bring VoIP capabilities to Google Voice namely, with an app for Android. The app would have some major ...

Airbnb, a marketplace that allows people to rent their homes and apartments via the web, is considering enteringthe car-sharing space. In a survey sent to us by an Airbnb host, the startup is asking h...

Airbnb, a marketplace that allows people to rent their homes and apartments via the web, is considering enteringthe car-sharing space. In a survey sent to us by an Airbnb host, the startup is asking h...

Everyone knows theres a war going on today in Silicon Valley: a war for talent. Startups are competing for a limited supply of engineering and product design labor, largely constrained by the failure ...

Battlefield 3 is here and in a major way. The latest shooter in the long-running franchise hit the interweb and retailers last week and EA just announced that they moved 5 million units within the fir...

Today, Google is rolling out its update to Google Reader which features the promised user interface overhaul, and, more importantly, the new Google+ integration. Now, Google Reader users can "&pl...

What do you do when you have more than a billion potential product combinations on your site? You hire a user experience (UX) guru. Gemvara, a jewelry e-commerce site that lets consumers custom-desi...

Back in November of 2009, former Digg Chief Architect Joe Stump and Social Thing founder Matt Galligan first publicly unveiled their new startup, SimpleGeo, which was slated to become the new infrastr...

For many, the methodology behind how technology news aggregator Techmeme chooses sources to link to for headlines has been an enigma. But today, founder Gabe Rivera has opened the kimono a little bit ...

By now it's no secret that HTC's Verizon-bound Rezound will debut shortly, but the stars seem to have aligned recently, because we're absolutely swimming in Rezound-related news. Most notably, a video...

Back in 2000, in the prehistoric age before the iPod, the iPhone or the iPad, the noted technology journalist Alan Deutschmanwrote a very well received biography entitled The Second Coming of Steve Jo...

Smule, the music app developer behind I am T-Pain and others, has raised another $12 million in funding, according to a recent SEC filing. The company previously raised $13.5 million in funding from B...

Smule, the music app developer behind I am T-Pain and others, has raised another $12 million in funding, according to a recent SEC filing. We've confirmed the funding with the company. The round was ...

Editors Note: This is a guest post by (@msuster) Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur, now VC atGRP Partners. Read more about Suster atBothsidesofthetableBack when I ran board meetings as a CEO, the biggest...

The Web: never before has there been a medium where it was so easy to find so much information. And never before has so much of it been so wrong. Somebody needs to fact-check the Internet. But who?...

Attention all Onkyo-using music lovers: if you've felt like your life has been too quiet as of late, a new update for the Onkyo Remote Android app may be just what the doctor ordered. Onkyo has announ...

Mobile marketing platform Appsfire is launching a new ad unit for iPhone that lets app developers promote the applications they're about to launch. The "Coming Soon" ad doesn't just announce the forth...

Y-Combinator-backed Chart.io, a startup that gives businesses access to enterprise level analytics tools for databases, has raised $3.15 million in a Series A funding led byAvalon Ventures with Bullpe...

Jawbone CEO Hosain Rahman turned a few heads when he unveiled the Jawbone Up at this past year's TED conference, mostly because it seemed like such a radical departure from the usual Jawbone lineup. W...

If you've ever met Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston of Y Combinator (YC), you quickly realize that the incubator they run is like a family and they are its attentive parents. They have managed to pu...

Fresh on the heels of its envisioned future video, Microsoft has posted an inspiring portrayal of the Kinect to YouTube. The video outlines the somewhat unexpected uses of Kinect in its one-year histo...

Have you picked out your Halloween costume yet? Are you trying it on right now? Is it one of those Anonymous/V Is For Vendetta masks? Good, snap a picture of yourself and upload it to Costume DB, a...

It's Halloween, so it's the perfect day to unveil the newest group of 500 Startups' "little monsters". Yes, this is the name that founder Dave McClure and his partner in crime Christine Tsai give to a...

TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing kicked off earlier today with our own Sarah Lacy interviewing Pony Ma, founder, Executive Director, Chairman, and CEO of Chinese giant Tencent. In the first interview Ma agr...

Is Tumblr facing a growing spam problem? For many regular users of the blogging platform, the answer is "yes." Although Tumblr hasn't taken to its own blog to provide a public update on its progress i...

GREE and Mobage are brand names that don't ring a bell with too many people (yet) as far as markets like the US or Europe are concerned, but these mobile social gaming platforms are hugely successful ...

The much-anticipated Google TV update is systematically rolling out today. Sony Internet TV devices are first in line followed by Logitech Revue units shortly thereafter. But wait patiently. As with m...

For a few months now AT&T has had an LTE network, but no phones that could take advantage of it. Well, that all changes today -- AT&T has just announced that the Android-powered HTC Vivid and ...

Daily deal outfit LivingSocial has just announced an expansion to 20 additional markets in North America, mainly U.S. cities, plus one town in Ontario, Canada. In some cases, the new cities are gettin...

Regardless of how you may feel about their anthropomorphic cast of characters, Outfit7 just keeps picking up steam. Today the company has announced that their Talking Friends series of apps have just ...

In case there was still any doubt about the long-rumored "GDrive's" existence, a page now appearing on Google's search results offers a pretty clear indication that something is going on. On Writely.c...

Attention workaholics: your business trip a la rail was just made that much more efficient, if you're using Amtrak, of course. The nation's intercity railway has just added Wi-Fi service to 12 new Eas...

Mobile shopping started to gain steam during last year's holiday shopping season, and this year is also expected to be a big year for m-commerce. Endless.com, the shoes and accessories website built a...

While Samsung's somewhat disputed earnings report has left it on top for the third quarter this year, HTC has also announced record numbers in its Q3 earnings report. ...

Mark one up for Amazon...and mark one up for Netflix. The two companies just announced separate streaming deals with the Walt Disney Co. that will provide subscribers with even more content from Micke...

Angie's List is the latest tech company to list in the Nasdaq, instead of the NYSE. This follows Groupon, Jive and Zynga both choosing the Nasdaq. Angie's List will be traded under the symbol ANGI.Ang...

Appia, a startup that powers a white-label content and commerce platform for everyone and anyone who needs a mobile app store, has partnered with Vodafone India to launch a new mobile app store for t...

The Ubuntu Developer Summit, starting today in Florida, is a gathering of Canonical employees, industry partners and Ubuntu community members to "define the focus and plans for [the] up-coming versio...

This evening at our Disrupt Beijing conference, Startup Battlefield competitor Gulu had some fightin' words for the reigning Disrupt Champs, Shaker....

And we're another step closer to Robocalypse: researchers at the Nara Institute Of Science And Technology (NAIST) in Tokyo are working on a robot that's supposed to one day dress humans autonomously. ...

The rise of the iPad (and, to a lesser degree, other tablets) has led to myriad new kinds of apps that are flourishing. And, as someone who still enjoys flipping through a good Dr. Seuss book from tim...

China-based Huohua (it translates to Spark) uses semantic analysis to find your social circle instantly.Founded by Carl Wu, Huohua is trying to solve a problem of where and with whom to have fun by in...

TouchPal is a mobile app that helps you "keep in touch with your contacts," namely by adding social aspects to your current contact list. Although much of TouchPal's functionality has been replicated ...

You run a news outlet. A big news story has broken, and you need a video now. Even if you've got a dedicated video staff, the research, editing, and encoding on the video is going to take at least an ...

Based out of Shanghai, UnitedStyles is a Facebook Connect-enabled service that lets any user create customized women's apparel, allowing them sketch out, adjust and share a design via an online interf...

NextGoals is an app that attempts to motivate the lethargic to exercise and stay fit. How does it work? By asking you to work out and then verifying that you actually rolled off the couch and out to t...

Stepcase, the Hong Kong based-startup behind 7.5 million-strong photo community Step.ly, is launching a photo viewer tailored for Sina Weibo to provide users with consistent, intuitive and light-weigh...

Stepcase, the Hong Kong based-startup behind 7.5 million-strong photo community Step.ly, is launching a photo viewer tailored for Sina Weibo to provide users with consistent, intuitive and light-weigh...

I'm the sort of person who likes to buy things online. Batteries? Yup. Groceries? You bet. And I just bought a garbage can that opens automatically when you get close to it (magic!).But there's one bi...

Getting folks to check into apps is hard. But what would happen if we could automatically check into events - like TV shows - automatically? Today at TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing, a Chinese team is tryi...

Here are some of the past week’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Apple Revealed As Purchaser Of Mapping Tech Company C3 Video: Murata Shows Robotic Walking Aid / Shopping Cart Just Look At My Bea...

My first thought as I looked at 8 Securities, a new startup launching today at TC Disrupt Beijing, was, "I didn't know financial dashboards could look sexy."But that's exactly what the Hong Kong-based...

Anquanbao is a cloud-based software program that helps protect websites from security violations like malware and denial of service attacks. Its product can be easily installed on any website. All tha...

Founded by husband and wife team Jonathan and Danielle Jenkins, OrderWithMe is a group buying site specifically designed for the small Western businesses who are having trouble navigating the somewhat...

Google's official Android Market is not available in China, leading to a plethora of independent markets - over 70 at last count. The system works - sort of - but users may find it annoying because yo...

Battlefield company AlphaOutlook has just launched their native social media monitoring service for the Chinese market. Founded by CEO Chad Pankewitz, the company currently has a major client, Burson-...

"Why can't credits be as convenient as credit cards?"This is the question with which TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing startup Richi opened their presentation, kicking off our first ever international Startu...

As is abundantly clear from all the entrepreneurial activity on display at TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing, China is growing as a startup center. In the third quarter of 2011, $1.3 billion in venture capit...

In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing today, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen reminisced about selling his company to Google. Was there any way you could not have sold? Sarah Lacy asked? Hindsigh...

The Mighty Eagle himself sits down with us at Disrupt BJ and talks about Rovio's plans for the future, the Rovio's desire to become more than a games company, and how the Birds won't end up like Pac-M...

At the Android Fever panel here at Disrupt Beijing, Wang Hua of Innovation Works, John Lagerling, Director of Android Global Partnerships at Google, and David Chao of DCM. These folks are bullish on A...

TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing kicked off with a bang this morning: Pony Ma, founder, Executive Director, Chairman, and CEO of Chinese giant Tencent took the stage for a fireside chat with our own Sarah L...

InnovationWorks founder and former Googler Kai Fu-Lee took the stage at TC Disrupt Beijing today with Sarah Lacy to talk about the startup ecosystem in China. InnovationWorks is a Chinese incubator fo...

Mobile development firm appMobi is launching a new HTML5-powered browser for iOS on Monday which will bring additional capabilities typically found only in native apps to the mobile Web. The MobiUs We...

As proven by the massive success of the Angry Birds plush line, the world has a hungry for real-world Angry Birds wares. No where is that more apparent than Beijing, where the halls of countless toy s...

As proven by the massive success of the Angry Birds plush line, the world has a hungry for real-world Angry Birds wares. No where is that more apparent than Beijing, where the halls of countless toy s...

[tc_newustream cid="9601267"]First up, Tencent CEO Pony Ma, and then YouTube's Steve Chen....

After many sleepless months, our first ever international Disrupt conference will be starting at 9 am Beijing time/6 pm PST. Even if you didn't make the trip over, you can still catch all the exciteme...

It is hard to pull of a good futuristic dive watch design as more traditional looks tend to be more timeless. Clerc however has done well with their Hydroscaph collection. Check out a review of the Cl...

Although most of the Hackathon Hackers escaped before we could interview them, we corralled two interesting groups backstage and asked them about their products and experience at TechCrunch Disrupt Be...