Articles by Techcrunch from February 2012

iZettle, the Swedish mobile payments startup that basically competes with Square, has gone live on the App store in the Nordic markets today (Denmark, Norway and Finland). It's making 5,000 card reade...

As I previously announced, the startup conference I've run for the last three years has merged with the Dublin Web Summit to create the London Web Summit on March 19, in The Brewery Venue, in London's...

MakiBox is a riff on the open source RepRap 3D printer that fits a print head and motor inside a box about the length and width (but not the thickness, silly) of a sheet of paper. The MakiBox kit will...

Looks like CNBC was wrong. Apple just sent out invites for a March 7th event where they promise to have something we really want to see and touch. The event will be held next Wednesday at 10AM PST at ...

Mobile technology incubator Hatch Labs is announcing two new additions Ad.ly founder Sean Rad (pictured) and former Apple employee Alan Tran.Describing itself as a "technology sandbox," Hatch Labs wa...

Enterprise mobile security company Duo Security has raised $5 million from Google Ventures, True Ventures, and Resonant Venture Partners. This brings startup's total funding to $6 million.Duo Security...

Smart B2B companies have long known that winning big was predicated on redefining the rules of competition to your advantage over incumbent vendors. A more difficult question is whether you want to ow...

Smart B2B companies have long known that winning big was predicated on redefining the rules of competition to your advantage over incumbent vendors. A more difficult question is whether you want to ow...

CNBC just tweeted that Apple is set to announce the next iPad next week. Like previous unconfirmed reports, the next iPad will rock a quad-core CPU and 4G LTE data connectivity. But unlike every other...

CNBC just tweeted that Apple is set to announce the next iPad next week. Like previous unconfirmed reports, the next iPad will rock a quad-core CPU and 4G LTE data connectivity. But unlike every other...

You may remember StarStreet from last year's launch - it's the TechStars and SV Angel-backed sports investing game that turns fantasy sports into a stock market system where you build up portfolios of...

Throttling is a dirty trick employed by wireless data providers. The carriers say that it's a necessary tactic to cap heavy data users seemingly hoarding all the available bandwidth. Several studies s...

After hearing that Huawei had revealed "the world's fastest smartphone" in the form of the Ascend D Quad, we knew we had to seek it out. Well, we finally managed to score a little hands-on time with t...

College textbook rental startup BookRenter is announcing an interesting new venture today, pivoting slightly from the singular focus on rentals to a broader market. Rafter is launching as a network of...

For many women finding the right bra is a challenge. Enter Israeli startup Brayola, a new site that aims to make it easier for women to find their next favorite bra. Brayola helps women find their per...

For those of you who feel that the Galaxy Tab 8.9 is too big and the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus is too small, the LTE-packing Galaxy Tab 7.7 should feel just right. And according to Verizon, the little 7-inc...

Earlier today we saw a significant move from MTV to launch a social, mobile TV service and some research out from InMobi today underscores just why these kinds of moves are so important right now for ...

We've been hearing about Verizon's forthcoming shared data plans for quite a while, but it's possible that we've finally been given a timeline, albeit a vague one. At an investors conference Verizon C...

Float (no, not that Float - what is with the duplicate names for startups lately?), is a new, minimilist scheduling application for teams. The software comes from the New York-based startup Pixel Padd...

Captions on YouTube videos can't be all that exciting. It's been around since 2006. But apparently caption functionality has been widely extended, according to a blog post by YouTube. The video sharin...

Hearsay Social, a SaaS dashboard for national businesses and their local branches to manage Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and Twitter pages, is announcing that a number of financial firms have been...

Veteran VC firm Charles River Ventures is announcing its 15th fund today, increasing its fund size from $325 million in its last raise to $375 million in its latest "heavily oversubscribed" round.Char...

Mobile ad network Millennial Media says that it's now making its self-service advertising product mMedia available to the general public.The company filed for an IPO last month with documents stating ...

As we reported last year, Reply acquired online marketing network for small business owners MerchantCircle. Merchant Circle which provides a business directory for merchants in smaller towns and curre...

Ginger Software, the makers of contextual grammar and spell-checking tools, announced today that it has raised $6.3 million in series D financing, led by Israeli investment firm, Vaizra Ventures. Fo...

It was over a year ago that Nokia and Microsoft announced their partnership to make Windows Phone the primary operating system for Nokias smartphones. But the real test in the consumer market starts n...

I remember back when HBO Go first launched, and it was only available to Verizon Fios subscribers. All that True Blood, and so very few viewers to enjoy it. But in the past year HBO Go has extended it...

Samsung is quietly killing text messages. The company's cross-platform messaging app launched last October on the Android Market and then came to the App Store in January. But Samsung is looking to re...

Whenever I hear brands talking about advertising on social networks, one of the most common questions is, "Well, what's the actual return?" Now a startup called GraphScience says it has turned measuri...

Android is force that will not be stopped. Google's Andy Rubin announced yesterday that there is 850k daily Android activations, excluding devices like the Kindle Fire that doesn't use Google services...

The Padfone is a peculiar beast, to be sure. Given the right accessories (and enough money, I suppose), Asus's newest smartphones can easily transform into a tablet and a faux-notebook in the blink of...

Gnzo, the video startup that made its debut at TechCrunch Disrupt in September 2010 (it was called Gunzoo then), has its first consumer-oriented product ready. Named after the Japan-based maker itself...

Viacoms MTV is making one more move into trying to capture the youth market on the platform where it's increasingly spending most of its time: the company, in partnership with digital agency AKQA, has...

Here are some recent posts from TechCrunch Gadgets: TechCrunch at Mobile World Congress Texas Instruments Announces New Partnerships For OMAP 5, But WaitTheres More Quietly Brilliant, But HTC Sure Mad...

Mobile browser company Opera -- which claims to be the world's largest, with 160 million monthly users -- today announced two more developments in its drive to make more money from mobile: today it is...

DataSift, one of Twitter's data partners which currently provides developers and third parties with access to the full Twitter firehose in realtime, is about to unlock a whole new set of Twitter data ...

PowerReviews, a company that provides customer review technology for retailers and e-commerce sites, is debuting a new suite of tools that helps companies promote, reward and measure customer engageme...

Karma, a new social, mobile gifting service from the founder of TapJoy, has raised funding from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, The Obvious Corporation, Stephen Gillett, Felicis Ventures and other a...

Get your questions ready because Twitter founder and executive chairman and Square CEO Jack Dorsey will be hosting a video-mentoring session (which you can watch and participate in here) as part of an...

As I'm writing this the Daytona 500 is under a red flag due to a bizarre accident. Juan Pablo Montoya's #42 car malfunctioned under a yellow caution and hit a massive race track jet dryer directly in ...

My first reaction upon hearing about Nokia's 41-megapixel 808 Pureview was that it was an absurdity, a perfect example of the very worst of consumer electronics, and a total miss. But the more I read,...

San Francisco-basedHiGear, a peer-to-peer car-sharing service for luxury vehicles, has been acquired. The news follows the company's decision to shut down operations last month,after a criminal ring t...

I spent a good portion of my adult career as a graphic designer. I still look at the world through that lens, so I am always happy to stumble across some beautiful designs, no matter where they might ...

After years of positive relations, friendly blog posts, and referral traffic, Yahoo may have just been biding its time waiting declare war on Facebook. Today it suddenly accused its former ally of inf...

This is my 4212th post on TechCrunch, and my last as editor in chief. The past few months have been a whirlwind for everyone at TechCrunch. Weve had a lot of departures lately, but behind the scenes w...

Fugly offices kill morale and make every task a chore. But Poppin knows a happy employee is a productive one, and wants to keep yours that way with its online store full of colorful office supplies. W...

Another front has opened in the multi-faceted story of patent battles: Neonode, an optical touchscreen tech company based in Sweden, says that it has been granted a patent in the U.S. that covers the...

Another front has opened in the multi-faceted story of patent battles: Neonode, an optical touchscreen tech company based in Sweden, says that it has been granted a patent in the U.S. that covers the...

Texas Instruments announced earlier today that they are partnering with Harman and iRobot to provide OMAP 5 as the core processor for new products being developed in these two companies. To understand...

Barring a change of heart or a wild, consumer-driven financial upturn, it looks as if Dell is out of the consumer PC business and is turning its Sauron-like eye towards the enterprise - the one place ...

TechCrunch has been through a lot lately, and we need to focus on what truly matters: covering startups and innovation. So, this post is going to be short.But here is whats going on: Erick Schonfeld i...

Office represents an increasingly minor amount of screen time in my computing experience, while social computing is transitioning much of that work to stream-based objects. Googles forced march of Goo...

If there's one thing wrong with Google+ it's a lack of a real non-browser interface. There are workarounds and widgets, but there's never been a real way to pull your G+ feed into a more com...

The Wall Street Journal reports that AT&T will start to give app makers the option of being charged for the data their users are gobbling up while playing with the app. Let me just start out by ca...

JolieBox, which is basically a French version ofBirchbox, has just acquired the Spanish version of Birchbox, a service known as Glamourum. The acquisition comes a few months following the company's Se...

The mobile web, not the smartphone or traditional web, is Facebook's most popular interface. Now those hundreds of millions of users, including prepaid mobile customers in emerging markets who lack cr...

Wow. We expected a lot of news out of Mobile World Congress but who knew HTC would have so. freaking. much. I was having trouble keeping track of it myself, so for the good of the both of us, I though...

Social email startup Xobni, the social email plugin that makes your inbox smarter, has raised $10 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing. We confirmed the new round with the company. This ...

Only yesterday we reported that Evi, a new iPhone (iTunes link) and Android app (link) which was incredibly Siri-like - and some say it's better - had gotten a call from Apple that it was about to be ...

Do you really need another photo-sharing app on your iPhone? The founders of a startup called Pinweel think you do specifically, one that's focused on group albums.I've been playing with Pinweel this ...

Andrew Keen interviews Marcus Whitney, Co-Founder and CTO of Moontoast at SF MusicTech Summit 2012...

Its not nice to knock a company when its down, but I had a briefing earlier today in Barcelona with Alec Saunders, the head of developer relations at RIM, which -- depending on whether you support RIM...

The most profound of all the digital disruptions that have occurred over the last twenty years has been the breach in trust between the creative artist and audience. It's this disruption that decimate...

A new cloud-based service for collecting payments called ZenCash has launched today, with support for integration into popular invoicing applications like QuickBooks, Clio, Freshbooks, Harvest and mor...

Facebook, currently in a quiet period as it prepares for its IPO, is stone-cold silent on whether it really will ever launch a mobile device, and whether it plans to launch mobile advertising to compl...

If coders want to demonstrate their prowess, they can share code on GitHub, answer programming questions on sites like Stack Overflow and Quora, or just blog their thoughts and advice. What's missing,...

There's a growing focus on the intersection of education and technology, from Apple's initiatives to reinvent the textbook and Inkling's efforts to take virtualized textbooks to professional publisher...

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Visa announced a new over-the-air provisioning service for smartphones for use with Visa's payWave mobile payments system. The service will make it easier for op...

We've already caught wind of the Lenovo K800 and Orange's newly-announced Santa Clara but Intel CEO Paul Otellini isn't content to leave their push into mobile at that.Otellini has just announced that...

iCloud just works. That's the message of Apple's latest commercial titled iCloud Harmony. The service took off like a rocket when it first launched late last year. Partly fueled by the massive success...

Online payments platform and PayPal competitor WePay is adding a key new feature to its easy-to-use technologyInvoicing.For background, WePay is a Y Combinator backed startup that launched in 2009 to ...

Typically, when I think of an "early adopter," French President Sarkozy doesn't come to mind. The man who announced his intention to run for reelection on February 12th didn't even have a verified Twi...

TheElectronic Privacy Information Center, also known as EPIC, isn't backing down from its desire to have Google's privacy policy changes investigated by the Federal Trade Commission. On February 18th,...

The rumors are true! Dropbox has acquired stealth collaboration startup Cove for its talent, namely the brilliant engineering duo and couple Aditya Agarwal and Ruchi Sanghvi.Agarwal and Sanghvi were b...

Nokia's announcement of the Symbian Belle-powered 808 PureView and its 41-megapixel camera took many (including me) by surprise this morning, and there were more than a few demo photos being thrown up...

Wow. Netbooks. That's a blast from the past. It's like listening to a Maroon 5 song again and going "Wait, is that from that short period when they were ostensibly good or was it from the muddy period...

As you may remember, professional social network LinkedIn added a follow button for companies, which allowed users to follow a company on the network, and receive real-time alerts from its profile in ...

There's been plenty of news about HTC of late. If you've been following our MWC coverage, you know all about it and I won't bore you. Instead, I'll just let you in on a little tidbit that we learned h...

Mobile music discovery service Shazam has just revealed an updated version of its application for Android users which takes advantage of the new technology in Android 4.0 called "Android Beam." For th...

Reuters, usually taciturn in their coverage of technology, has written a nice tick tock about the rise and fall of trademark troll Proview in China. The company, founded around the same time the Mac P...

I'm no great fan of Samsung's 5+ inch Galaxy Note -- it's just too darned big for me to use the way I want to. The Galaxy Note 10.1 on the other hand pumps up size to a more familiar level, and t...

Samsung previously made it known that the Galaxy S III would not be announced at Mobile World Congress. But it leaked anyway. And it might steal the show. Forgot about the HTC One X and Sony Xperia U,...

Back in July, PayPal shelled out over $200 million for payments platform Zong, as a way to boost mobile payments technology. As you may know, Zong lets you pay for things, particularly virtual goods o...

Isis, the carrier-led joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, announced at MobileWorld Congress in Barcelona today new partnerships with Chase, Capital One and Barclaycard. Under the ter...

You rarely ever hear someone say, "boy, I sure did enjoy that mobile ad." In fact, it's rare to hear someone say they enjoyed any ad unless it's around Super Bowl time. But I hold firmly to the belief...

Brands are buying more social advertising, and increasingly those ads build off of published content like Sponsored Stories and Promoted Tweets. To absorb this spend, social marketing platform Buddy M...

Payvment, a startup that allows anyone to create and operate a retail storefront on Facebook, is debuting a new feature today that allows merchants to monitor key social commerce metrics to help drive...

Once upon a time the Asus Eee brand held some weight. The Eee name debuted with Asus' netbook line, which nearly instantly set the bar for low-cost, but still quality, computing devices. That's why th...

At The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, StumbleUpon, the veteran content discovery platform, will be announcing "its first partnership with Google," says Co-founder Garrett Camp. What does th...

Jason Spero, Google's head of mobile sales and strategy, will be taking the stage at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later today, where he'll be revealing new research about smartphone growth a...

There you have it folks. The Asus Padfone is about as real as a phone can be, now that Asus has formally unveiled the little beast here at Mobile World Congress. What we're looking at is a 4.3-inch Su...

We're here live with Facebook's CTO Bret Taylor at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. First as a keynote then a one-to-one interview.Facebook has made a very good friend in mobile up to now -- and t...

We're here live with Facebook's CTO Bret Taylor at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. First as a keynote then a one-to-one interview. Facebook has made a very good friend in mobile up to now -- Tayl...

Explosive growth. That's Android. Google's mobile platform is up 250 percent over last year and, according to Andy Rubin, SVP, Mobile and Digital Content, Google is seeing 850,000 activations every da...

musiXmatch, a large music lyrics content provider, is doubling down on mobile at Mobile World Congress. That makes sense - how often have you wondered about the lyrics to a song and ended up surfing s...

Ad tech company OpenX just announced that it's acquiring startup LiftDNA.The startup offers a supply side platform, which publishers use to automate and optimize the sale of their ad inventory. Combin...

I think it's safe to say that the new 808 Pureview handset was a surprise to just about everyone here at Nokia's press conference. Not only did Nokia manage to squeeze a 41-megapixel sensor (no, that'...

Back in 2009, Chris Dixon wrote a blog post called "Man And Superman," in which he talks about, among other things, what separates the best leaders (or CEOs) from the rest. Most companies (or leaders)...

Here are some highlights from the past week on TechCrunch Gadgets: The Tale Of A Wolfram Research Co-founder And His Beloved Periodic Table Table [Video] Tabber Adds An LED Light Show To Any Guitar Th...

In Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress, Taiwanese handset maker HTC yesterday gave us a glimpse of its new, lean-and-mean smartphone strategy, HTC One -- a unified set of Android complete with devi...

And there we have it! Nokia's Executive Vice President of Mobile Devices has just taken the stage again here at Nokia's MWC press conference to officially unveil their new entry-level Lumia 610 smartp...

I'm sitting in the packed press room for the Nokia press conference.Stephen Elop has just come out and right off the bat praised his company's performance in the last year, a huge one for the company ...

Ah yes, the One X. It's been shrouded by rumors and half-truths for so long now that it's quite a thrill to get one in my hands. While I like the One S's build quality quite a bit, I found myself taki...

Besides a fear of imminent conjunctivitis from handling the same phone as hundreds of others at the Sony Xperia Press Event at the GSMA Mobile World Congress...what else comes to mind?This phone a mo...

The HTC One X is clearly the device everyone wants to see, which is why I decided to give its little brother a bit of spotlight first.The One S is sort of a puzzle to me. Though it's meant to be more ...

The next step in Intels ambition to become a central player in the mobile ecosystem is dovetailing with mobile carrier Oranges strategy to grow its line of own-brand smartphones.At MWC, the two are to...

Face it; youre hooked. Its your uncontrollable urge to check for email notifications on your phone. Its your compulsion to visit Facebook or Twitter for just a few minutes, but somehow find yourself s...

Nearly a year ago, Square introduced us to the next evolution of its payments productCard Case. For anyone who has used and witnessed the app being used to actually purchase something (I have), the ex...

Six years ago I first set foot in Silicon Valley to attend one of the early "Hack Day" events that are now perpetual. It was an event where fellow nerds were creating web-apps using whatever technolog...

The rumors were true, everyone. After months of anticipation and speculation, the device once known as the HTC Edge (or Endeavor) has been officially revealed here at MWC as the HTC One X. The One X (...

Slotted in the middle of HTC's Android phone announcements tonight in Barcelona, the CEO of HTC, Peter Chou, revealed a new development that is the handset maker's answer to Apple's iCloud: a deal wit...

The rumor mill has been hard at work these past few months circulating information about HTC's latest line of smartphones, but now HTC CEO Peter Chou has announced that the company's new line of smart...

Pharmaceutical companies are in trouble with ongoing patent cliffs with a clear choice facing them. They can follow the path of the railroad industry which is the path most are on right now. Alternati...

Facebook's analytics tool Insights will soon begin showing Page performance data in real-time or near real-time rather than on average 48 hour delay, the company Facebook plans to announce at Wednesda...

Well, here we are. Excuse us while we unpack a few boxes, but as you can see we're just about moved out of the old EU.TechCrunch.com sub-domain, into this palatial place called TechCrunch.com/Europe. ...

Ahead of Mobile World Congress and an appearance by Facebook to explain its next moves in mobile, the social networking giant is coming under increasing strain over its use of users' personal informat...

While the idea of skipping Sony's event to watch a beautiful Barcelona sunset was strangely appealing, we nevertheless come to you from Sony's press event where the recently divorced company has just ...

Last month we reported on the launch of Evi, a new iPhone (iTunes link) and Android app (link) which was very Siri-like in its capabilities. Maybe it was too good at acting like Siri?Yes, Evi can't do...

We haven't heard much from Huawei lately. Aside from a few smartphones here and there, the company hasn't really made a huge push or impression as of late. But according to this release we're seeing h...

We're here checking out LG's media preview event, and so far, there are no surprises to be had here. LG's Daniel Hernandez is on stage as I write this talking about all of the phones that the company...

The vast event that is Mobile World Congress (all our coverage will be here) is just shifting into first gear. Although the show doesn't officially start until tomorrow various announcements are comin...

Adult content has long been a big draw, and one of the most profitable, in the world of digital media, but a recent move by PayPal is a sign of how one part of that business might be facing some probl...

In the world of mobile handsets, LG has been steadily losing market share to companies like Apple and ZTE in their collective march to catch up to market leaders Nokia and Samsung. But in the world of...

The next step in Intels ambition to become a central player in the mobile ecosystem is dovetailing with mobile carrier Oranges strategy to grow its line of own-brand smartphones.At MWC, the two are to...

You know who is a straight up, all around class act? Former TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde, who picked up the "Best General Management" award at this year's TechFellows Awards because, well, she deserve...

In the run-up to the Oscars tomorrow, social intelligence startup uberVU conducted a study of how and where people were talking about the Best Picture nominees.The data was collected during the week b...

Coverage of the NBA's All-Star game in Orlando began tonight at 5pm ET, starting with the Sprite Slam Dunk contest, featuring the Indiana Pacers Paul George, Minnesota Timberwolves' Derrick Williams, ...

Whether youre a mobile first publisher, app developer or carrier, all eyes are set on Barcelona at the end of this month for Mobile World Congress 2012. Its part conference, part trade show, part excu...

Pearson, the owners of Penguin, the Financial Times Group and a number of education imprints, has made some significant strides into digital with e-books and apps, but it is always on the hunt for mor...

A little more than a week ago, the Clik smartphone app launched, resulting plenty of press coverage and more than 100,000 downloads on iOS (at least according to Clik). But there was one area where th...

Its been said before, but it needs saying again (and again and again): PRINT IS DEAD. Across the publishing industry, year-over-year declines in revenue, subscriptions and circulation, are well docume...

LL Cool J began his 1991 song Mama Said Knock You Out with the famous lines Don't call it a comeback/I've been here for years." Today in the world of telcos and wireless operators, its a similar time ...

A vulnerability has been discovered on AT&T's website which allows anyone to look up the phone numbers of AT&T subscribers, provided they have the subscriber's email address. The issue involve...

Velti plans to announce two new initiatives aimed at helping mobile advertisers get ahead of data collection and privacy concerns, according to a source who has been briefed by the company.My source s...

We're on the ground here in Barcelona for the 2012 GSMA Mobile World Congress and are happy to report that, according to the GSMA press release, the planned strike by Metro subway workers has been sta...

Almost none of the stuff on the radar of the silicon valley echo-chamber is innovative or solves any real human needs. They won't cure anyone of disease, feed a child, improve the environment, or radi...

I just gave up all parenting responsibilities this weekend to Mark Cuban. Meaning, my kids and I watched eight straight episodes of "Shark Tank".For the past two years, people have been begging me to ...

Leadership in management is the art and science of getting others to do what they dont necessarily want or don't understand why theyre being asked to do. Doing it at a startup is accomplishing all o...

ChinaBang conference, an annual two-day event with a focus on local startups, innovation and entrepreneurship, was held last weekend in Beijing. With a mixture of keynote and panel discussions from lo...

Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Intelligent Design And The Modern Cellphone Dumb Buyer Beware: Chinese State Police Seize Hundreds Of Fake Apple iPhone Gas Stoves Microsoft To Repl...

The long-running "Live" name Microsoft has placed on its many connected services (Mail, messenger, photos, etc) is coming to an end in Windows 8, as part of their ongoing, major brand rehaul. Zune, of...

Digg's January was its highest traffic month since October 2010. When it dug into why, it found we're proud to look smart, hip, or funny by sharing tech news and offbeat content, but we keep our guilt...

Look, sometimes you just have to take a break and skim Etsy for cool iPad stuff. Are you thinking of picking up a new iPad 3 when they come out, or maybe just celebrating the release with a cool new c...

The Los Angeles Times reports that The Los Angeles Times will be adopting a paywall (they prefer the term "membership program") starting March 5th, joining the ranks of other large newspapers hoping t...

A single blogger recently relayed comments made by a single Tesla service tech who reportedly knew of five Teslas that were "bricked" by owners who left them off the charger too long. This single unve...

It's hard to believe that Mobile World Congress is right around the corner, but here we are with just under two days to go until the festivities begin. TechCrunch's MWC delegation is ready to bring yo...

Even though Google recently introduced a malware-blocking system called Bouncer to keep the Android Market safe from malicious software, crafty spammers and fraudsters are still managing to find ways ...

I've been mulling this concept over for a long while and it took Josh Helfferich's single image to bring the concept into sharp focus. My thesis (and you won't like this) is that every major "flagship...

Ever wish you could explore Paris on a Vespa? Or how about a tour of Santa Barbara wineries from a local? Vayable connects you with guides around the world who offer unique experiences in their city.I...

Hey everyone, we have a special giveaway for you this week. Yes, the iPad 3 is well on it's way, but the iPad 2 is still one of the most sought after gadgets out there. With special thanks to our frie...

It seems as though nobody's a fan of RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook. Last year, I would've agreed wholeheartedly. What's a tablet good for — ahem, an enterprise-style tablet no less — if you ca...

With all the developments weve seen in online advertising over the years, youd have thought that someone would have figured out how to put a halt to what must be one of the biggest issues of all: peop...

One of the marks of a great blogger is following your convictions and convincing the world of the truth you know in your heart. Jason Kincaid is that blogger, whether he is calling out Apple for enabl...

If my Mom asked me what smartphone to buy right this second, I'd tell her to wait -- wait until the Nokia 900 is released. It's that good. Windows Phone 7 is that good. It's faster and more idiot-proo...

Mail.Ru has issued a preliminary trading statement for the fiscal year 2011. The largest Russian-language Internet company, is looking at a margin outlook of 50 percent this year according to CEO Dmit...

In episode II of Chris Dixon'sFounder Stories interview with Warby Parker's co-founders,David GilboaandNeil Blumenthal, the trio discuss topics spanning Warby Parker's social responsibility efforts to...

Snackr (no, not that Snackr!), is a new iPhone application that delivers personalized audio news in bite-sized chunks for listening to while on the go. The app offers you a "5 minute snack" of the cur...

You're a start-up dude with carefully mussed hair. Your AWS is waiting. You've paid the designer. You and your family have created accounts. It's been a mad dash. You've maxed out your credit cards. Y...

Remember those two high-level executives from Swedish startup Klarna who were arrested earlier this month on sexual abuse charges? Their names are Jens Saltin and Niklas Adalberth, and they were arres...

Remember those two high-level executives from Swedish startup Klarna who were arrested earlier this month on sexual abuse charges? Their names are Jens Saltin and Niklas Adalberth, and they were arres...

Popset, a new mobile app from the current Winter 2012 batch of Y Combinator startups, is a way for groups of friends to privately share photos. Oh what, you've heard that one before? Yes, it's true - ...

The Microsoft-Nokia partnership is still in its infancy, but it would seem as though that little guy is about ready to start walking. Strategy Analytics today released Q4 numbers showing that Nokia ho...

Judging by the way Samsung is trying to eliminate bezels from their products, you'd think Samsung found that extra rim of material offensive somehow. The consumer electronics titan is already working ...

As Google inches closer to completing its Motorola Mobility acquisition, it made another strategic move in its mobile plans: today it announced it would sell its 6.5 percent stake in 4G operator Clear...

Today I learned a gas stove labeled as an iPhone cannot take Instagram pics, make phone calls and probably isn't a real iPhone. But some Chinese consumers might not be as educated. Good thing the Chin...

Playfire, a social network designed entirely for console and desktop video gamers launched in 2008. That makes it one of the older social networks, but unlike others of its ilk it has not rested on it...

TradingView, a social finance site that launched last September, has just been upgraded with some new features, including data on European stocks and US stock futures.The site was created by trading s...

A mobile game created to parody Canada's biggest teenybopper export in years was just asking for trouble, and that's what it's gotten: the developers behind 'Joustin' Beaver,' a mobile game available ...

Gaming is changing fast these days, especially in the browser. Sure, social games are great and everything, but there's always been a sense that, as browser-based technologies mature, the opportunitie...

Another development in the very long and winding road of mobile patent disputes: Apple has now had to disable the push email function used through MobileMe/iCloud, after a court ruled earlier this mon...

Another development in the very long and winding road of mobile patent disputes: Apple has now had to disable the push email function used through MobileMe/iCloud, after a court ruled earlier this mon...

If you like the idea of charting your life in a diary, and possibly sharing that detail with others, but lack the motivation to do all that logging yourself, then this might just be the social network...

Here are some of yesterday’s posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: The Tale Of A Wolfram Research Co-founder And His Beloved Periodic Table Table [Video] NVIDIA Rebrands The Tegra 3s Architecture, Wants ...

Last year, Dropbox raised a whopping $250 million funding round at a valuation in the ballpark of $4 billion. The raise had been rumored for months so it didn't come as a huge surprise, but it still r...

Last year, Dropbox raised a whopping $250 million funding round at a valuation in the ballpark of $4 billion. The raise had been rumored for months so it didn't come as a huge surprise, but it still r...

Just in time for the general elections coming up later this year, Votizen, the social media site that helps like-minded voters get together and influence how those elections go, has raised $750,000. A...

If you're tired of seeing the same news as everyone else, The Washington Post is now experimenting with personalized headlines.That experiment is called Personal Post, and it's available at personal.w...

Following San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee's presentation of the city's new government tech innovation plans last night at the TechFellow Awards, I caught up with him briefly to get a few more details on th...

Well, Kickstarter, it looks like you've finally arrived. And I don't just mean that you launched 27K projects, saw $99 million pledged, or attracted 30 million+ visitors last year -- all of which...

The dispute between Apple and Proview over the "iPad" trademark has just gotten a lot more domestic. Proview, which owned the "iPad" trademark in several countries until they sold the rights to Apple,...

Our SOMA neighbor and "clubhouse for entrepreneurs"Founders Denhad its second Demo Day today, out of its spacious office in SOMA. Many of the startups presenting were niche plays, trying to tackle the...

Facebook is complicated, but most users don't have the patience to dig through the Help Center to find answers. But thanks to a brilliant new update Facebook is testing, they won't have to.I just disc...

An interesting patent application from Apple has just been made public, and it looks like one that may actually get some use (and seems like a "legitimate" patent, to boot). It has to do with a new me...

With the countdown underway to 25 billion total app downloads, there's no disputing the success of Apple's App Store. We live in a world of hyperbole, but Apple's entry into this space really has chan...

Y Combinator-backed Interview Street is accelerating the pace of its CodeSprints, where programmers prove their worth to potential employers by completing coding problems in a limited period of time.T...

CEO, Hearsay Social...

Mr. President, I'm glad your administration has taken the time to craft what looks like a fairly forward-thinking and potentially globally influential policy towards consumer privacy on the internet. ...

Today Facebook rolled out a limited redesign of Groups, featuring a big new Timeline-style cover image, and a prompt for users to prominently label "What should people post in this group?". See, if yo...

CRM giant Salesforce just released earnings this afternoon, beating Wall Street expectations. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share was $0.43 for the quarter. Total Q4 revenue was $632 million, an incre...

There's been a few walkie-talkie mobile apps that have come out on iOS and Android over the last year or two, but it wasn't until last fall that when one of them had a breakout moment. Voxer suddenly ...

Mozilla took a momentthis morning to remind everyone that it invented Do Not Track in February 2011, was the first to implement it with Firefox, and 18% of mobile and 7% of desktop Firefox users curre...

Tiny Hearts, the Toronto-based studio behind Pocket Zoo, a top 50 iOS app (and one of my kid's personal favorites), has just released a new title that turns Instagram into a game. The new app is calle...

This is one of those posts where the video itself and the subsequent comments will be far more interesting than anything I can write, so I'll just briefly set the stage.For the past few months, as Klo...

Freshdesk, which has raised $1 million in funding from Accel Partners, is debuting a new version of its cloud-based customer support platform today. Similar to the leader in the space, Zendesk, the In...

Out of the annals of history comes this doozy. A man known by the name of Theodore Gray is a co-founder of Wolfram Research, best known as the creator of Wolfram Alpha, the two-year-old computational ...

With Googles purchase of Motorola nearing completion, some anonymous sources close to the situation have revealed that a management shakeup is in the works too. According to a new report from Bloomber...

Executives at the big music labels tend to get a bad rap. But some of the most innovative people in the music business began their careers at the labels. Take, for example, Ethan Kaplan, the VP of Pro...

Smartphone users are, country by country, starting to gradually outnumber those who are using feature phones, and at the same time, consumers have passed a different kind of penetration: a majority ar...

Carlos Bueno wrote a book called Lauren Ipsum. It's a book about understanding computers for kids. He priced it at about $14 and offered it as a print-on-demand title and ebook. All was going well, bo...

The Obama administration has announced that it will work with Congress on a new series of consumer protections dubbed a "Privacy Bill of Rights" that will detail how Internet companies can handle and ...

Cloud storage and collaboration platform Box is debuting a updated Android app today, which has been upgraded with a number of new collaboration features as well as support for several European langua...

Ever wonder what ad networks your mobile apps are running? Today, Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms, is releasing a new, free Android app that aims ...

Most Kickstarter projects are some permutation of the words iPad,iPhone,case,stand,shell, and stylus. But this project is a permutation of the words long-form, journalism, and website. The project, ca...

We're on post-PC watch here lately, tracking the many warning signs that we've crossed the imaginary line separating PC's heyday from that of a new landscape scattered with multiple mobile devices; it...

We're on post-PC watch here lately, tracking the many warning signs that we've crossed the imaginary line separating PC's heyday from that of a new landscape scattered with multiple mobile devices; it...

QVC, a home shopping network and e-commerce site, has acquired Send the Trend, a recently launched e-commerce site that brings personalization to the world of fashion accessories. Financial terms of t...

In his seminal work The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric Raymond put forward the claim that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." He dubbed this Linus' Law, in honor of Linux creator Linus Torv...

I just want to start this out by saying I love you guys. I really do. TechCrunch is lucky enough to have a really smart, well-informed readership which keeps us diligent in our reporting. You guys are...

Back during the heyday of #OccupyWallStreet in New York City (before winter dispersed most of the protestors there), an iPhone appcalled Vibebecame popular among that community. It allows people to po...

Another day, another take on Amazon and Apple duking it out in the tablet market. The data comes from NPDs DisplaySearch wing, and the results don't come as much of a shock. By their count, Apple is s...

For the last few years we've been tracking the growth of a service called Textfree, offered by San Jose-based startup Pinger. As the name implies, Textfree has a very attractive value proposition: you...

Nvidia unveiled the Tegra 3 platform last year at Mobile World Congress. Since then the chip has lived its short life mostly misunderstood. You see, it's a quad-core chip with another 500MHz companion...

Independent filmmakers have a pretty tough when it comes to marketing and promoting their films; they really don't have the resources or tools required to expand their outreach, and get in front of ne...

Geoloqi, a name you may know because of the mobile app that provides automatic Foursquare check-ins and geofenced reminders, is today launching its next-generation location platform as an SDK. Althoug...

George Kurtz, who was formerly the CTO of McAfee, has launched a new security technology company called CrowdStrike. The company is still in stealth mode, but has revealed a $26 million series A inves...

Swoop, a startup that's launching today, says it's giving food websites a new way to convince readers to stick around, and to make some money in the process.CEO Ron Elwell says Swoop's technology can ...

The PC industry is in decline, unless of course you count tablets. NPD is apparently doing just that, leaving Apple in the top spot among mobile PC vendors. According to the firm, Apple shipped nearly...

With Android accounting for the majority of smartphones worldwide at the moment, it's finally also starting to become the most dominant player in apps, too.Figures out today from analytics firm Xyolog...

With Android accounting for the majority of smartphones worldwide at the moment, it's finally also starting to become the most dominant player in apps, too.Figures out today from analytics firm Xyolog...

If you're an iPhone user, you may not be as familiar with Astrid, which has turned into one of the most popular "to-do," list-making apps for Android. We first wrote about Astrid when it joined thirte...

Cheap international calls, mobile gaming with simultaneous voice chat, distributed call centers. Developers can create these and more with Twilio's voice client iOS SDK that launches publicly today. T...

As we approach the date for Facebooks meet-up with brands and marketers in New York, another development in the world of Facebook that points to growing sophistication around social advertising.Techli...

Last year, Yammer debuted an integration with Salesforce to bring sales data from the CRM product into Yammer's social collaboration feed. Today, Yammer is debuting a similar product enhancement with ...

Grindr is awesome. So awesome it won a Crunchie this year for best location app, and so awesome that I often wish Blendr (Grindr's gender-open counterpart) wasn't just full of dudes. But the app that'...

It's something of a universal truth: standing in line sucks. The folks at GoPago know it and apparently so do the people at JPMorgan Chase, because the financial firm has just pumped an undisclosed am...

Luminate, a photo tagging service that has been called an AdSense for Images, has raised $10.7 million in Series C funding led by Nokia Growth Partners with participation from existing investors Augus...

It would be fitting to say that T-Mobile was derailed from its path in 2011. The company's big break came in the form of a bid from AT&T to acquire the nation's number four (and magenta-clad) carr...

CapLinked, the LinkedIn-meets-Salesforce for private investing, is launching new pro subscription accounts to help users raise capital and network with investors, companies. And the startup is announc...

When most people think of social gaming, they likely think of Zynga and its flagship titles, like FarmVille and CityVille -- or even Words With Friends. Yet, as Facebook social gaming matures (right a...

Amid theincreased speculationsurrounding Silicon Valley darling Pinterest's forthcoming revenue model, competitor Fancy, a social photo-clipping service popular among the style-conscious set, has been...

In case you live under a rock (I hate that played out phrase, someone please come up with something better) Path founder Dave Morin'shas been through a hellish past two weeks -- About a week before Va...

After filing its S-1 for an IPO, the largest independent ad network Millennial Media is releasing a yearly report on on performance of smartphone operating systems on its network in 2011. Continuing i...

Twitter says that 70 percent of its users come from outside the U.S. at the moment, and so it makes sense that this is where it is also investing more to grow the rest of its business. Today the compa...

Here are some recent posts from TechCrunch Gadgets: Tabber Adds An LED Light Show To Any Guitar The Tesla Bricking Story? Its Nonsense Heres The Epic Borderlands 2 Launch Trailer UltraViolet Hits 800k...

The most impressive thing about Scan is that it, as a humble QR code app, has raised over $1.7 million in seed funding from, wait for it, Shervin Pishevar via Menlo Ventures,Google Ventures, Charles R...

Boku is debuting a brand new mobile payments platform today, that aims to disrupt the current way that consumers pay for goods via their mobile phones or credit cards. As you may remember, Boku offers...

As Facebooks imminent IPO became the talk of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, you might have read from the social networking sites SEC S-1 filing that it pulled in more than $1 billion in profit on rev...

We're all becoming increasingly reliant on consumer cloud services, as cloud storage providers like Dropbox make it easy to share and store files, folders, images, sync between platforms, and more. Th...

Mobile video now accounts for half of all mobile traffic; and on some networks, that number is as high as 69 percent -- a testament to the rise of smartphones and tablets as the mobile devices of choi...

Clothes Horse, a fashion technology company based out of New York, ispubliclylaunching its platform today in an attempt to address one of the biggest challenges facing online shoppers: buying clothes ...

Tonight, Silicon Valley's heroes gave competition a rest and joined together to celebrate the spirit of innovation. An all-star committee of tech moguls carefully considered your nominations of vision...

San Francisco may not have intended to be become the startup mecca that it is today, but now the city government is working hard to make itself as friendly as possible to tech entrepreneurs. Makes sen...

You're probably familiar with OnLive, the company that made its mark by streaming brand new console and PC games to whatever devices could support a high-bandwidth video stream. Many doubted its techn...

The browser wars are in a tense state of suspension right now. The once-obvious advantages of one and disadvantages of another can't be counted on as much as they could a year ago, and fast-changing s...

It goes without saying that the death of veteran Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin and the French photographer Remi Ochlik - after an artillery shell hit their makeshift press centre in the ...

Though Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM, Amazon, and HP don't always see eye-to-eye, the six of them have entered into an agreement brokered by California Attorney General Kamala Harris to take a tougher...

Last Friday I visited the Aol* building on Page Mill Road in Palo Alto. But instead of the stench of death and decay you would normally find at a dying company, I found joy and the hustle and bustle o...

Every time a dating site succeeds in making a match, it loses two users. To offset churn, Zoosk tells me that tomorrow it's announcing a new business model that complements subscriptions with date dis...

As you probably know, bistable or passive displays like the E-Ink ones in e-readers focus on battery life and readability rather than color and interactivity. The latest devices have been optimized fo...

HP just reported mixed first quarter earnings. The company posted non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.92, down 32 percent from the prior-year period (GAAP diluted earnings per share were $0.73, ...

Aiming to become one of the giants of online advertising, ad retargeting startup AdRoll has hired Googler Suresh Khanna as its vice president of sales.In nearly six years at Google, Khanna held a numb...

Tabber is an upcoming Kickstarter project that essentially adds an LED light show to your guitar and, more important, allows you to learn to play chords and solos by following the lights on the fretbo...

Referral traffic is spilling out of both Pinterest and Facebook's Open Graph frictionless sharing. With Sociable Lab's licensable EverShare you can snatch their functionality without any serious devel...

Here's a fun fact: Batteries and cars require maintenance. The Tesla Roadster runs on batteries that also require maintenance. Out of the 2,200 Roadster owners, apparently at least five didn't read th...

It's safe to say we've all been in a situation where a few extra pairs of eyes could come in handy, and the folks at Google know just how that feels. In an effort to give people that backup when they ...

Firespotter Labs, makers of the food photo-sharing app Nosh (and more recently, the hilarious spoof app Jotly), is launching its latest creation today called NoshList, a new waitlisting application fo...

The WinZip iOS app, which lets you crack open .zip files from your iDevice, has only spent a short time on the App Store (and by short, I mean, like, a week). But there's already plenty to brag about....

Upstart photo-sharing service 500px is bringing some significant changes to the site that should be going live right now (although they're being hammered, so be patient). The site was already one of t...

Everyone's favorite way to share thousands of pages of sensitive information (and dump PHP code that you might use later) has upgraded to what it's calling version 3.1. This new version, in addition t...

After reports earlier this month that LinkedIn was buying contact management service Rapportive, the startup just published a blog post confirming that yes, it has been acquired.For those of you who d...

While the early history of the Internet is littered with the corpses of music start-ups, not all digital music companies have failed. Take, for example, Gracenote. Founded in 1998, the Berkeley based ...

Research firm eMarketer has put together a few interesting data points that show Google doing better in display ads than you might have realized. That is, by growing this business across properties th...

There's a new startup called Tugg launching today it's led by Nicolas Gonda, who was a producer on The Tree Of Life, and it promises audience members that they can create their own movie screenings a...

The Asus Transformer Prime was the great, grey hope for many Android lovers - until they realized that the bootloader was locked it was impossible to upgrade or install a new bit of firmware onto the ...

If you've ever shopped for a pair of prescription glasses, you've probably seen first hand how expensive a set can be. Warby Parker's co-founders are right there with you.Both fed-up and puzzled over ...

Job boards and company profiles on job sites can be fairly uninspiring, and bland. Usually there's a boring description of a job, followed by a list of skills needed followed by a boring description o...

Retickr, a social news reader application for Mac OS X, received a big update today, as well as a new round of funding. The startup just closed its Series A of $1.5 million led by the Lamp Post Group,...

Back during the heyday of CrunchGear (now known as TechCrunch/Gadgets), we couldn't get enough of Borderlands. The game masterfully combined the game play of a FPS with the best elements of an RPG. In...

For various reasons (groan) I'm not heading to SXSW this year, but then neither are millions of other people. But that won't stop the 20,000 attendees from clogging up our Twitter feeds trying to find...

SAP dropped a whopping $3.4 billion on human capital management software company SuccessFactors back in December. Two months later, the deal has finally closed and SAP isn't wasting any time in releas...

UltraViolet might sound too good to be true, but the service is growing. More Blu-ray titles are featuring the digital media option and consumers are at least trying the movie industry's alternative t...

Calling all developers: if you know your way around HTML5 and JavaSrcipt and have a great idea for an app, Mozilla wants to hear from you. The web-friendly nonprofit has just announced their intention...

I've enjoyed the PS Vita for a couple of weeks now. It's a fun device, but as John describes in our review, it feels like the last of its kind. Single function devices are no longer relevant and as mu...

While Apple is busy fighting Proview over the iPad trademark in China, it has lost a different trademark battle in Europe: Wapple, the mobile web developers, have won a suit filed by Apple over its na...

ToutApp, the email productivity app that emerged as part of the500Startups Summer Accelerator program last year, is rolling out a new feature that will let users track their emails right from within S...

When serial entrepreneur Martin Varsavky launched Fon in late 2005, his goal was to blanket the world with easily-accessible, crowdsourced Wi-Fi. While the service hasnt quite made it everywhere yet, ...

If you want to see what your friends or contacts are up to, you can check out Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Instagram for a realtime feed. But what if you want to read news about your friends? That'...

The European Union says it will refer the controversial ACTA anti-piracy trade agreement to the institution's highest court, the European Court of Justice, to check whether it complies with the EU's f...

140 Proof, a startup that says it delivers targeted ads to more than 50 social apps, is adding a video ad unit to its lineup.Like the company's existing 140-character text units, the videos can show u...

More news from Yandex, Russia's biggest search engine, that highlight the opportunity for more growth in digital in Russia and adjacent markets. One day after announcing a new real-time search partner...

Well, you have to hand it to the strategy team over at Zipcar. Arguably the largest on-demand car-sharing network, Zipcar went public last year and not long after saw its market cap cross $1 billion. ...

Nokia isn't all that great with teasers. In August the company posted a teaser for the newest version of Symbian which just so happened to include the release date in it. Today, the teaser (at least) ...

Are you ready for a revolution? Today, after 3 years of machine learning development in stealth, BloomReach reveals its big data solution for website relevance optimization. BloomReach is capable of b...

New York City startup InVision has raised $1.5 million in seed funding to help companies answers an important question: Are we building something that people will actually want to use?The funding come...

Atlassian, which makes product management software for software development, is debuting a new version of its collaboration software for product teams, JIRA. As you may know, JIRA is a product and is...

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Done right, it can also help the imitator tap into the zeitgeist and pick up more followers as a result.That looks like it might have been some of...

The landgrab for music streaming customers is on, and Rdio -- the U.S.-based startup from Skype founders Niklas Zennstrm and Janus Friis -- is joining that race in earnest.The company today announced ...

Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Googlighting, Microsofts Latest Viral Attack On Google Docs [Video] Samsung Galaxy Note Review: Who Do You Think You Are? Mr. Big Stuff? Tokyoflash ...

Twitter, Facebook and other social networks have long counted on the rise in smartphone usage to help fuel their growth: that trend, however, seems to also be taking a toll on mobile carriers -- speci...

Storify has become one of the main ways that people can create stories from social media the startup says it has been used by 22 of the top 25 news sites in the United States, and that its users have...

The addition of the iPad into the point of sale system or cash register isn't a new trend. Many small businesses are swapping out traditional cash registers for iPads and credit card processors like S...

Quora has fiddled around with its Credits system and unveiled some new features today, making two very notable changes. The first one is the eliminationof the original "Pay to show to Topics" feature ...

.... Whether or not Facebook's in-house analytics product, Insights, is working. Due to product changes in recent weeks, the tool has been particularly slow to update with the latest metrics, as the s...

Last week, a Mountain Lion roared "Mac is the next big gaming platform." Apple is bringingGame Center to Mac, it will support cross-platform iPhone vs. Mac play, and the Mac App Store will likely beco...

CCP Games, the makers of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game EVE Online , say the company brought in $66 million in revenue last year.The game, a science fictional adventure set in a st...

If you're a big website, you have a range of good options for staying protected from malicious hacks: hardware from enterprise-oriented companies like Cisco or McAfee, your own in-house support, or ho...

When Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and several others in the organization were arrested in raids a month ago, it was noted by prosecutors that Dotcom's rather wild lifestyle and propensity for spontan...

There's a lot of noise in our social media channels. I'm busy clogging up your Twitter feed with my deep thoughts, your friends are sharing their one-millionth baby picture on Facebook, and Scoble is ...

Twitter has just launched a new app refreshfor its mobile apps in Android and iOS, as well as expanded its offerings to the Kindle Fire and the Barnes & Noble NOOK and NOOK color.Returning to the ...

With stories of Terminator-esque Google glasses making headlines these days, you'd think a basic task like screen sharing would be something that'd be pretty well solved by now. But while there are ma...

Facebook's Timeline is a cool idea, but as a representation of my life, it doesn't have much to say about my experiences before 2004. Now, in its own small way, viral content site BuzzFeed is trying t...

Things are beginning to look even dimmer for LightSquared. Just one day after satellite network operator Inmarsat announced that LightSquared had defaulted on a $56 million payment, new reports indica...

Moral ambiguity, thy name is advertising. How are we to parse this advertising campaign in London in which an intelligent bus stop billboard only displays its content to women? You read correctly: the...

This complete project kit made by Adafruit allows you to print out things from the Internet. Want to print all your Tweets onto receipt paper? You got it. Want to print out your Facebook wall? Why the...

Are you enough of a photo geek to build your own camera? Maybe. But are you enough of one to build it out of LEGO and some spare bits you had lying around the house? Probably not. But Carl-Frederic Sa...

Yahoo's management of Flickr has been something of a mystery. The photo-hosting service, once far and away the frontrunner and choice of pros and casual shooters alike, has seen few improvements in re...

Suite anticipation, said The Daily. The News Corp iPad mag broke the news this morning that Microsoft was about to submit its productivity suite to Apple for review. They even had a photo of the app r...

"Wait, you want us to be your lab rats?" "Pioneers"If you need more proof that Microsoft and Google hate each other, just watch the video above. It's a direct message from Microsoft to businesses ever...

Sugar Inc., a media company that caters exclusively to women, is acquiring San Francisco-based Circle of Moms, a social network and online communityfor moms and moms-to-be. Financial terms of the deal...

Another cloud startup is making enhancements to improve the performance and functionality of its services. This one is squarely for enterprises and comes from Huddle, which today is announcing Huddle ...

12 months ago at SFMusicTech, I talked to StageIt founder and CEO Evan Lowenstein about what he called "the new intimacy economy". And last week at SFMusicTech, I met again with Lowenstein, a former p...

Following its recent raise of $2 million in seed funding, the still invite-only mobile payments startup Zipmark is today announcing the launch of its developer program and API. The New York-based comp...

There's a feature war brewing in the synchronous listening space. Turntable.FM-competitor LetsListen today added video chat to its music locker web app so you can listen to a song at the same time as ...

Though it may not always seem like it, big wireless carriers are still stuck on the concept of push-to-talk communication. Its easy to see why -- instanteous communication between multiple people can ...

Mountain Lion, Apple's latest version of OS X, is currently in beta. However, it is in a stable enough form that some journalists were given sneak peeks over the past few days. I've been working with ...

When I went to meet with Samsung to pick up the Galaxy Note, I was told something that I kept in mind throughout my last week or so with the phone. "People freak out and say it's too big until they pl...

Small business inventory management startup Stitch Labs is announcing a $1 million seed investment this morning led by True Ventures. In the same space as Bizelo and Ordoro, Stitch Labs allows design-...

Software and SaaS security company Cenzic is today launching a new security product for mobile application developers which will allow for the testing of mobile apps on any platform - iOS, Android, J2...

Music magazines are getting hit with a double whammy in the age of digital media. Like all print publications, their audience is going onlinebut so is the music. Why read about a new album when you ca...

Canonical's Ubuntu TV, unveiled earlier this year, was the first in a series of announcements about "Ubuntu on devices". The next device in Canonical's multi-screen strategy for world domination is be...

Kleiner Perkins-backed comparison shopping platform FindTheBest has been focused on solving a specific problem for the past year: how to help people compare different products and services so that the...

In the latest monthly report from app analytics firm Distimo, the company delved into the revenue generating possibilites for apps sold through both Google's Android Market and the Amazon Appstore. Lo...

Thank heavens: finally a Tokyoflash that you can read immediately without depending on a manual or detailed instructions. The Stencil is a fan design that uses for LCD blocks to display the current ti...

Thank heavens: finally a Tokyoflash that you can read immediately without depending on a manual or detailed instructions. The Stencil is a fan design that uses for LCD blocks to display the current ti...

Some rather inflammatory news has been making its way around the web today: a user posting on the Pirateweb message board has accused Google of removing copyrighted MP3 music files from a Gmail accoun...

You may not know this, but Turkey has a fever. And the only prescription is more games. That's right. Sifting through some of Pando Networks' recent numbers on international gaming, we found that Turk...

Like the original Galaxy S before it, Samsung's Galaxy S II sure knows how to get around. After having touched down on Sprint, T-Mobile, and AT&T (twice even), the Korean giant's one-time flagship...

Australian-based travel marketplace Jayride.comhas lined up $400,000 AUD in seed funding for its ride-sharing service, which also aggregates transportation data.The angel funding was led byAndrey Shir...

Entrepreneurs and small businesses are integral to the engine of job creation. According to the White House, companies less than five years old created 44 million jobs over the last three decades in t...

OMGPOP, the social game-maker formerly known as iminlikewithyou, says it has another mobile hit its app Draw Something has been downloaded more than 1 million times in 10 days.Draw Something is based...

Zynga'sGlobal Director of Brand Advertising Manny Anekal who led the company to a 233% increase in ad revenue this year is leaving to become COO of Kiip, which lets brands reward gamers with real worl...

Braintree, an online payments provider, is debuting a set of new tools for mobile app developers that allow merchants to accept payments within a mobile app, rather than through a web browser. For bac...

Netflix streaming just got a bit more classy. The Weinstein Company is releasing "a diverse slate" of its titles exclusively to Netflix streaming. These titles will hit the service within a year of th...

While initial reports pointed at a launch on February 22, Barnes & Noble has just taken to the wires to officially announce the release of the new 8GB Nook Tablet. As expected the new Nook variant...

We heard all the way back in November that Microsoft would launch an Office app for the iPad, and it would seem that the big day draws even closer. According to an unverified image captured by The Dai...

Attachments.me, the startup that promises to take the pain out of searching through email attachments, is gradually ramping up the services that it's offering to users: from today, it has an option to...

Barnes and Noble reported earnings this morning, with total sales increasing 5% compared to the prior year, from $2.3 billion to $2.4 billion, falling short of analyst expectations. Net income was $52...

The iPad 3 is still weeks away from being announced, but Chinese tech blog M.I.C.gadget managed to snag a back shell for the iPad 3 from "one of our most reliable sources." As you can see from the pic...

Pricelock is all about making the buying and selling of energy more efficient. It was true when the company launched the Marketplace, a customized online energy auction platform for utilities companie...

MHL had a huge 2011. The mobile high-definition connectivity standard went from a relativity unknown port to making its way onto more than 50 million devices. More than 90 licensees are on board with ...

By most accounts there aren't very many people out there in the world using PlayBooks, but for those that are, or are considering the purchase of one, comes some good news: RIM has finally updated the...

Microsoft and Apple should hate one another right now. I mean, really hate each other. After decades of domination, Microsoft has watched their rival move from death's door to become the most valuable...

A significant step for Twitter in its international growth: Yandex, Russia's search giant, today announced that it will carry Twitter data in all of its search results.The news also underscores one po...

Startup Rocket Fuel claims to use "rocket science" to ad campaigns, and it sounds like that science is turning into real revenue. The company says it made $44.5 million in revenue last year, compared ...

Apple may have seen $13 billion in sales in China last year, but apparently those numbers could have been higher if they'd had a bit more faith. The iPhone sold in huge quantities in the markets serve...

Word got around way back in the middle of 2010 that Apple was building a monster data center near Maiden, South Carolina. Later, it was shown to be hosting a ton of Nuance software, for obvious reason...

Google TV launched a year and a half ago. The platform has gone nowhere since according to a recent survey. It relaunched late last year, which brought improved performance and a sweet search tool, bu...

Cultivating the perfect party playlist requires more than a little time and effort, but when there are kegs to be tapped and cheese plates to be arranged, the task can sadly fall by the wayside. Thats...

Let's say that you're browsing the searchable web at your job, looking for some facts on some hot startup or whatever it is you get paid to do ... You're sitting there web surfing just going about you...

There have been some big numbers thrown at the medium of mobile advertising recently -- eMarketer says it will make $2.6 billion in the U.S. alone this year; the IAB says that 72 percent of top brand ...

A few years ago, we saw a wave of startups (such as Cake Financial and Covestor) that tried to reinvent the way people made financial decisions, usually by adding social features or more data and anal...

Three weeks after the launch of Samwer Fab clone Bamarang in Germany, the UK, France, Brazil and Australia comes the news that Fab too has decided to bolster its European front lines through the acqui...

I've been using Facebook since its early years. So today it has the most complete and accurate set of connections to people I've known throughout my life. Exactly because of its success in assembling ...

Just spotted in Orkut, Google's also-ran social networking site: a new Google+ badge, one of the first integrations between the two services. Orkut members who also have a Google+ account ar...

Microsoft's SkyDrive is an adequate cloud storage service (and one that boasts 17 million customers to boot), but it's not something that the folks at Redmond can afford to leave in its current state....

Among the expected chances to the next generation of iPad is an improved processor. Seeing as the original iPad had the A4 and the iPad 2 had the A5, it was logical to guess that the iPad 3 would have...

Still using Windows Vista? XP? Why? Well, whatever the reason, Microsoft has clarified some of their end-of-life dates for older versions of Windows, including XP. This is mostly about support on the ...

Mobilisafe, the stealthy Seattle-based mobile security startup with $1.2 million in funding from Madrona Venture Group and Trilogy Equity Partnership, is opening up access to its private beta program ...

Microsoft has added a new board member todayJohn W. Thompson, the chief executive officer of Virtual Instruments and former chairman and CEO of Symantec. This brings Microsoft's board's size to 10 mem...

A recent post on MinimalMac posits an interesting case for the slow, growing sense of the irrelevance of Microsoft, at least in the applications space. Go and read the piece - it's excellent - but the...

The Motorola Atrix line has been a big one for the company. Yet with two iterations out so far, the phones have yet to really wow anyone. But according to this specs/photo leak, the Atrix 3 may leave ...

Forkly, the food rating appfrom Brightkite foundersBrady BeckerandMartin May, just launched a major update dubbed "Forkly 2.0." Along with a user interface overhaul which features a faster feed, bigge...

comScore just released its monthly U.S. online video data, and while viewership dipped slightly in January 2012 (from December), long-form video content views are on the rise. According to comScore, 1...

Our phones can do all kinds of things these days. Hell, millions of people — people from all different OS persuasions — are walking around talking to their phone. But even some of the most...

Loyalize, a social TV audience platform, has been been acquired by Function(X) for $5M in cash and stock. The company intends to integrate Loyalize into Viggle, a television loyalty product designed f...

When I first saw the pitch for Splitflix over the weekend I guffawed a little into my bourbon. The site purports to allow you to "share" your Netflix or Hulu account with a random stranger using a P2P...

I must admit I was sceptical when Housebites first launched last year. It seemed a quaint little business attacking a hugely established market but in a way which looked, as least from the outside, to...

I must admit I was skeptical when Housebites first launched last year. It seemed a quaint little business attacking a hugely established market but in a way which looked, as least from the outside, to...

How would you like to crunch your way through big data on your iPad? That's one of the many promises of Lucky Sort, the stealthy new Portland, Oregon-basedstartup building a visualization and navigati...

New data from Nielsen released this morning takes a look at the typical U.S. smartphone user, specifically their age and income, as well as the penetration of smartphones into various demographic grou...

A local court in the Guangdong province of China has apparently ruled against Apple in its ongoing case against Proview over the iPad trademark, with the decision that distributors should stop selling...

Barnes & Noble seemed pleasantly surprised when they announced their Nook Tablet exceeded expectations over the holidays, but their 70% year-over-year jump in device sales paled in comparison to r...

Following the trend towards global platforms for raising money, such as Kickstarter, Ammado, which connects charities with donors, has raised 7 million ($9m), and signed up several multinational partn...

Here are some stories from the past week on TechCrunch Gadgets: Motorola Droid 4 Review: This Keyboard Rocks, But Thats About It OS X Mountain Lion Brings The Mac Into The Game Kikbo: Like A Hacky Sac...

Fujitsu once said that it didn’t have any plans to launch mobile handsets outside of Asia, but that strategy appears to be changing rapidly. Today comes a report that the Japanese handset maker ...

Bartle Bogle Hegarty today became the latest company to make the leap into social gaming, and it is on the lookout to give seed funding to social gaming developers who want to make the jump with them....

We've gotten a tip that Solvate, a venture-backed marketplace for hiring freelance work, is shutting down. Apparently, the freelancers who do work through Solvate have been told that the service will ...

Walmart is announcing this evening that it has upped its investment in Yihaodian, a massive B2C e-commerce company based in China. Walmart, which originally funded the retail giant last year, has made...

A combined hackathon and roadtrip to South by Southwest, the StartupBus is in its third year and becoming a bit of a tradition and this time, it won't be limited to the United States.That's because, ...

We are in a whole new world of platforms, a post-PC era, which Id more aptly describe as the always/everywhere era, finally, and that means a whole new set of opportunities. Add to it the fact that be...

Everyone is applauding Oracle and SAPs cloud acquisitions RightNow, SuccessFactors, and now Taleo. But the biggest cheers are coming from SAP and Oracles cloud competitors, salesforce.com and Workday...

Good questions have been asked lately of tech companies without gender diversity on their boards of directors. While women comprise 51% of the population, they make up only 15.7% of Fortune 500 boards...

This is not a rant against email. There are plenty of those out there. This is a story of hope.It sounds nuts, but I really enjoy email, though I realize Im in the tiny minority and that its legitimat...

Like many other services, goods, and commodities, prescription drug prices can vary widely depending on location and what particular vendor is offering them. Launching last September at the Health 2.0...

With the pending public offering of Facebook anticipated to be the largest tech IPO in history, its an interesting time to think about where we go from here. Some say social is done, Facebook is all t...

When Flurry published their chart on exponential mobile adverting growth late last year I had an uneasy feeling that I couldnt pin down immediately. It showed mobile inventory soon outpacing online in...

Last week, Forbes contributor Eric Jackson published a list on the 9 lessons that Jeremy Lin can teach you; number 2 on his list was Seize the Opportunity. Lins not the first, and he wont be the last,...

They say hindsight is 20/20.By now, everyone knows about the fastest-growing site on the web. Yet, for a period of time in 2011, despite all the signals pointing toward the phenomena, most in Silicon ...

Looking for internships and jobs after college can be exhilarating, especially for people with engineering and other technical expertise. In an otherwise tough job market, demand for software engineer...

Allow me just a little self-congratulatory chest-beating. Four years ago I started writing a near-fiction thriller about the risks of swarms of UAVs in the wrong hands. Everyone I talked to back then ...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor inaugurated a new title format where the topic replaces the date of the show release (it's in the URL). Today's topic: wh...

Editor’s note:Verne Kopytoff is a technology journalist who lives the the Bay area. A college textbook can cost a staggering $200. Over four years of study, students can easily spend thousands o...

How do you end up with millions of new sales overnight with low development and implementation costs? In the case of Chinese electronics companies Rock Chips and Box Chips the answer has been simple ...

Another acquisition for Groupon, and a sign of how the e-commerce company is getting more focused on mobile as a route to future growth: it has picked up Kima Labs, which makes mobile barcode reading ...

Another acquisition for Groupon, and a sign of how the e-commerce company is getting more focused on mobile as a route to future growth: it has picked up Kima Labs, which makes mobile barcode reading ...

Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Motorola Droid 4 Review: This Keyboard Rocks, But Thats About It Review: The Playstation Vita, Sonys Portable Powerhouse More Backpedaling: Netflix ...

It seems like everyone's discovered Pinterest this week! Alongside the countless posts dissecting its userbase over, sideways, and under have been a series of stories about how it's "secretly" "moneti...

In case it wasn't already clear to you that later-stage social, mobile and deal-oriented companies led venture fundraising last year, here's some analysis of CrunchBase data that drives the point home...

MacRumors has done something very bad - they went and got themselves an iPad 3 display module. Actually, it's not so bad when you can apparently just order one online. Normally this part even being on...

Groupon has just acquired Hyperpublic, a NYC-based startup that's spent the last two years building technology related to geo-location and the layers of information like deals and events that live on ...

So maybe there really is a sensible middle ground in the music business - somewhere between David Lowery's pessimism and Bram Cohen's blind faith in our digital future. That future may be the pop musi...

Does Address-gate have you terrified that your mobile apps are secretly slurping up your address book? AdiOS is a free new Mac program that in seconds detects which of your iOS apps have the ability t...

It's a tense time for Google: controversial policy and user-experience changes are combining with a growing distrust of tracking and advertising to produce something of a toxic atmosphere. Not the mom...

ProFounder, a startup that offered entrepreneurs ways to raise money for their startups and ideas, is shutting its doors, according to an announcement on the company's site today.ProFounder, which is ...

ProFounder, a startup that offered entrepreneurs ways to raise money for their startups and ideas, is shutting its doors, according to an announcement on the company's site today.ProFounder, which is ...

Gillmor Gang Live - Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor . Recording live today at 1pm PT....

With the end of February nearly in sight, the tech community is all abuzz with talk about Mobile World Congress, the huge mobile conference set to take place in beautiful Barcelona in just over a week...

In a move that demonstrates how cleanly Microsoft intends to cut itself off from the last 20 years of its most widely-used and widely-recognized products, they have given the Windows logo its most sig...

Like a line of hard-marching Lemmings (or a swarm of Patapons), Sony is up against countless, niggling enemies that would like nothing better than to distract and steal their hard-won fan base. The Pl...

I'm not even going to pretend that you don't know what Angry Birds is... that would be insulting to both you and the game. But do you know what Angry Birds Space is? Nah, I didn't think so. And truth ...

The mundane Address Book was big news this week due to the privacy fiasco, but here's a post about an impressive address book app with a different approach to privacy. Cobook is a Mac contact managem...

Following up on itsearlier report on iOS browser market share, ad network Chitika today released new results from a study which analyzed the impact mobile computing has had on traditional web browsing...

Having access to your documents and pictures is really easy these days. About a million services, including Dropbox and iCloud, allow you to sync your stuff between devices, but there's one little tho...

No, Facebook is not advertising yet on mobile platforms. Yes, that hasn't stopped people from speculating on what it will mean when it does. The latest: an estimate of how much the social network stan...

You'll never forget your first time.Huddled in a hallway three feet wide, arms reaching every which way for a cup or a beer or the microphone. It's hot and it's messy and it's noisy and everyone is pu...

Ethical Community, an online, eco-friendly marketplace (which has plans for a snazzier name in the works!), has secured a 200,000 ($316,640 USD) round of seed funding from a syndicate of angel investo...

Online video service Brightcove has just made its public debut on the NASDAQ under the symbol 'BCOV', with an opening trade of $14.50. This is up over 30 percent from the company's original pricing of...

VivaReal.com.br, a real estate marketplace in Brazil, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from a number of angels and investors, including Greg Waldorf, Simon Baker, Shaun Di Gregorio, Wences ...

Clipboard, the web clipping service founded by former Overture vet Gary Flake, has just completed the acquisitions of two competitors, Amplify and Clipmarks. The startup, which is taking on the challe...

The Droid 4 doesn't look much like its other Droid siblings, but it does promise the same stellar keyboard and a solid construction. At $199 it won't break your wallet, but it will offer most of the s...

It sometimes feels like a absurd story without an ending, trying to track who is attacking whom in the mobile patent game. But Google has now secured one patent that may demonstrate how companies are ...

Theres little doubt that Samsung knows how to put together a handsome television or smartphone, but to produce a stylish memory card well thats another story entirely. Samsung's certainly willing to ...

Clearly there needs to be a workshop or CBT or something on trademark in Cupertino because Apple simply cannot stop infringing! As you see here, the handsome icon for the Messages app looks a lot like...

Patent trolls - mere shells of companies that go after potential infringements in order to rack up some hefty legal fees and maybe a settlement or two - don't have an institutional memory. Take the gr...

Foxconn is under increased scrutiny as of late. The nearly 40-year old company assembles a big portion of the world's electronic goods but many are questioning its treatment of workers. But nothing ca...

Netflix is looking to make things right again. The company just reintroduced its DVD-only subscription plan. Consumers are finally able to sign up for this plan without also paying for (or trying) Net...

Apple has an undeniably huge opportunity in China, but it is still facing some big challenges. As the iPhone maker claimed the top spot as the world's biggest smartphone vendor in the last quarter (Oc...

Bambuser, a live mobile video streaming startup along the lines of Qik, has become something of an underground hit in the last couple of years because of its ability to stream video over poor mobile c...

This is definitely one way for unions to get some attention for their cause: as of this time of writing, public transport employees in Barcelona will be striking during the Mobile World Congress trade...

Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: OS X Mountain Lion Brings The Mac Into The Game Lytro Video? Maybe Later For Now, Lytro Focuses On Photos Amazon Steals 14% Tablet Market Share In Q4...

If anyone has any doubt that iPhones, iPads and other iOS devices are the future if Apple, just take a look at the chart above from Asymco. It shows all iOS products sold cumulatively versus all OS X ...

While larger carriers like AT&T and Verizon are duking it out to cover the country in LTE signal, it's sometimes easy to forget that there are other contenders in the ring too. Case in point: U.S....

California may be the 800-pound gorilla in the automotive legislation world, but their neighbor Nevada seems to be taking the initiative when it comes to self-driving cars. They've adopted a number of...

Twitter is now accepting sign-ups from small businesses that want to participant in its self-serve ad program.The self-serve rollout was reported this afternoon by Ad Age and others, and the sign-up p...

Independent game studio LittleTextPeople made waves at GDC with its eponymous interactive fiction game. Now it's been acquired byvirtual world pioneer Linden Lab, who will use its team and tech to cre...

Brands on Google+ are seeing tremendous growth in followers, according to a new report from SEO and digital marketing startup BrightEdge.Google+ was famously closed to brands when it launche...

We've talked about the Lumia line quite a bit in the past few months, but the series is finally starting to feel real. Just last week the 900 was made available for pre-order, and today we're seeing r...

We were recently able to pose a few questions to Ren Ng, founder and CEO of Lytro, and the person upon whose research the whole product is based. Their camera, which allows the shooter to set the focu...

Search engines like Google scour the web to figure out how to rank content. Measurement firms like comScore sample users to estimate traffic to web sites. But what if you want to know which of some 20...

As we heard last year, Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake was in the process of launching a new startup, with $2 million in funding from a number of high-profile investors, including True Ventu...

A reader of Geekwire has sent in what he claims is a shot of Google Drive, which apparently has activated early for him. It's entirely possible that the shot is fake — Google's stark interface i...

New York City seed investors are growing up, and raising bigger funds. IA Ventures justraised $105 millionandff Venture Capital closed its second $27 million fund last November (which I am reporting h...

There's a referral traffic goldmine on Facebook, and today 13 more news outlets are staking their claim. The Daily Show, MSNBC, Buzzfeed, and The Huffington Post are launching Facebook Open Graph read...

There's a referral traffic goldmine on Facebook, and today 13 more news outlets are staking their claim. The Daily Show, MSNBC, Buzzfeed, and The Huffington Post are launching Facebook Open Graph read...

At the Goldman Sachs Internet and Technology Conference in San Francisco Thursday, Groupon Founder and CEO Andrew Mason took to the stage to talk about the daily deal behemoth's newly-minted position ...

Chinese search engine Baidu posted Q4 earnings today. Revenues in the fourth quarter of 2011 were RMB4.474 billion ($710.9 million), an 82.5% increase from the same period in 2010. Net income for the ...

Having built a socially-driven market research business on Facebook and across the web, Peanut Labs is launching a new iteration of its crowd-sampling tool today called CrowdVi.be. The goal is to let ...

I believe the children are the future. (What, too soon?) But in the case of the new FTC report on mobile applications for kids, which referencesthe current data handling practices employed by mobile d...

Israeli company BIScience has a launched a new product called AdClarity, which it says will give advertisers more data than they've ever had about their competitors' advertising plans.CEO Orey Gilliam...

Social product review site gdgt is announcing a key hire today as the startup continues to try to innovate on technology product reviews. Gdgt has brought on Marc Perton, the former Executive Editor o...

There's a good reason Apple let Mountain Lion out of its cage this morning with no fanfare or event. Like Lion, the improvements are minor at best and some less than useless. Lion hasn't sold particul...

Not everyone agrees with BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen that the Internet has been good for the musician. Indeed, some musicians think the exact reverse. Take, for example, David Lowery, the lead singe...

Compass Labs, which aims to provide targeted advertising on social networks like Twitter and Facebook, has raised $6 million from NEA, and Presidio Ventures. This brings the startup's total funding to...

Ah, Hipster, the startup whose promotional ideas are either brilliant, obnoxious, or brilliantly obnoxious. This time the company, which allows you to share digital postcards, has outdone itself it's...

Top executives often get perks just because of who they are, like freebies and travel upgrades. The American Express Centurion Card for instance is also known as the black card for this reason. Eric K...

Whenever you see those photos and stories of the crazy crowds at Apple stores in China, they seem to always be about the launch of a new iPhone. But if Apple has its way, soon those masses will be cla...

From the one man team that brought you Photopile and Onesheet comes another drop dead simple app, TipList. Deciding to take a a trip around the world with his wife Elle last summer, creator Brendan Mu...

You may have heard the buzz by now about a young startup that's being fueled by some pretty impressive star power, including the likes of the one and only Lady Gaga. The project, called Backplane, was...

In the Studio at TechCrunch TV continues this week with a guest who began his career as a venture capitalist at the ripe old age of 18 and today, after eight years as an investor, is now going out on ...

Don't get me wrong -- Ice Cream Sandwich's stock keyboard is pretty fantastic, but after having spent the past year or two Swyping my way though text messages and emails, most other modes of text inpu...

more, More, MORE. STOP! Rather than cram more features into Bump 3.0, the team behind the 75 million-installs mobile app combed the data and brushed off all the features no one used. Now, instead of l...

On Tuesday, we covered the launch of Nimble 2.0, a simple, affordable social relationship manager designed to give SMBs the same mileage out of social that enterprise has been able to create with its ...

Lost Crates, a subscription service that previously focused on boutique stationary goods (as if there was a demand for such a thing!), is today announcing its relaunch and expansion into several new v...

We all love music. I mean, when's the last time you heard someone say they didn't like listening to music? But for some of us, plugging in some ear buds and cranking a jam or two on the iPod just does...

Since its name began appearing on blogs and in media early last year, and launched officially at DEMO in March, Pixable has been able to sustain that buzz -- no easy feat in a world saturated with pho...

We've known since the Fire first debuted that it would create some competition for Apple's iPad, which has dominated the market since it arrived. But today iSuppli has offered up a little insight into...

YC-backed Glassmap is a new mobile application publicly launching today that presents a viable challenge to realtime, location-sharing apps like Apple's Find My Friends or Google Latitude. Where those...

Saavn, a startup that's been called the Spotify for Indian music, has partnered with Facebook to launch its social and global music service on the social network. The integration, which debuted in Dec...

You've probably heard of Kik Messenger, a phone messaging app with the backing of Sequoia Capital. It turns out Kik was just the beginning of the company's plans today it's launching Clik, which is e...

The folks over at Hulu originally promised Wii users would have access to their Hulu Plus streaming service by the end of 2011, but things didn't exactly pan out the way they had hoped. Well, after a ...

"Shoot code here!" Don't you wish all programming were that easy? You're working on a huge PHP project for work and you need a dynamic table and all you do is whip out your code gun and shoot some int...

Memrise, an online community that attempts to teach people languages through crowdsourcing, is announcing its $1.1 million in seed financing today, from Matt Mullenweg's Audrey Capital,Avalon Ventures...

With today's reveal of the next version of OS X- OS X10.8, aka Mountain Lion - Apple is more deeply integrating its iCloud service into the operating system itself. No longer will storing your documen...

If you own a tablet and have children, chances are that this will not come as news to you. For those who don't but work in mobile, it's something worth remembering when you're concocting up your next ...

Ever since Apple released OS X Lion, its desktop operating system started the long trek towards iOS, Apple's other, more popular operating system. With the next version of OS X, Mountain Lion (release...

Startup Podio says it just addressed one of the top feature requests from the 40,000 companies that use its collaboration tools it now integrates with Google Docs.When TechCrunch's Alexia Tsotsis wro...

Kayak is boosting its hotel search today with the integration of hotel reviews from Trip Advisor into search results. Via an agreement with the reviews giant, Kayak will be integrating all all TripAdv...

If last week's showdown between the Droid 4, Droid 3, and iPhone 4S didn't get your blood pumping, prepare yourself for the heavyweight round. We've got the hotly anticipated Samsung Galaxy Note going...

Last spring I wrote about Nature Publishing Group's plan for a $49 electronic textbook packed with interactivity and unlimited content updates for life. The original publication date was scheduled for...

Gamers, start your engines, lift your fruit-slicing swords, and lace up your Temple-running shoes. Game Center, Apple's gaming/social hub for iOS, has finally made it's way over to the more mature Ap...

Members of the general public will have to wait a few more months before they can play with Mountain Lion proper, but one of the update's newest features is ready for a taste of the limelight. Apple h...

If you're sick of firmware lockdowns and failed reflashings on your other Android tablets, the Auraslate may be for you. It's basically an Ice Cream Sandwich-compatible tablet built from the ground up...

At Apple's WWDC event last June, Twitter made a new best friend: Apple. The tech giant announced that it would bake the social network into every single iOS device by way of the new iOS 5 software.Thi...

Google has overcome two big regulatory hurdles in getting its $12.5-billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility approved by both U.S. and European regulators. China now has until March 20 to decide wheth...

Confirmed: Apple can still surprise.On July 20 of last year, Apple began a journey. With OS X Lion (aka OS X 10.7), the company started taking some of what they had learned from iOS, and the iPad spec...

StockTwits is unveiling a new feature called Conversations, which should make it easier to not just track the online discussion about a stock, but to join in, too.Co-founder and CEO Howard Lindzon say...

There are still entire industries that are badly in need of new ideas, new blood, and disruptive technologies -- education, healthcare, and media, I'm talking to you -- and accelerators that focus on ...

A significant announcement today that could have a big impact on Facebook and its mobile strategy: the mobile carrier Orange, part of France Telecom, announced that it is rolling out a new service tha...

Here are some recent posts from TechCrunch Gadgets: Toy Fair 2012: Locomotion Kickstarter: A Bike Headlight To End All Bike Headlights Kikbo: Like A Hacky Sack With Feathers Utter Robustifies Voice Co...

Mobile browser company Opera today announced that it has acquired the mobile ad networks Mobile Theory and 4th Screen Advertising. The move is not just another sign of the ongoing consolidation in tha...

Facebook, a service built on real names and real identities, will tomorrow start allowing prominent public figures to verify their accounts and display a preferred pseudonym instead of their birth nam...

Things are going smoothly for Tesla. Their big Model X debut was a success, their cars are pre-ordered to capacity, and new business opportunities are presenting themselves. They're still posting a ne...

Last year I locked up my bike over on Pike street for an evening out with my friends. When I came back a few hours later, both my headlight and taillight had been stolen. What a crackhead was going to...

Android was doing voice recognition for a long time before Siri came around, but the truth is Apple's implementation of voice commands made Google's look limited and out of date. And that hasn't chang...

First, a word of caution: the Manhattan Research survey that yielded this data was performed online, so that's going to skew the results straight away. But even taking that into account, it's powerful...

After a week of confused coverage around which mobile app developers access user address books and how they do it, we are finally getting a product-level resolution. Apple says today (in time to beat ...

What if political candidates could see the public's reaction to their debate answers in real-time while they're on stage? That's the future laid out today at Stanford University during the Future Of ...

What if political candidates could see the public's reaction to their debate answers in real-time while they're on stage? That's the future laid out today at Stanford University during the Future Of ...

What if political candidates could see the public's reaction to their debate answers in real-time while they're on stage? That's the future laid out today at Stanford University during the Future Of ...

In 2009, Arjun Dev Arora left Yahoo to start ReTargeter In the interview above, he explains what retargeting is and why it matters. He also talks about building his company culture, the shift in how p...

Windows Phone is great. Really, if you're a phone geek and you haven't played with it before, you owe it yourself to give it a shot. Windows Mobile on the other hand... wasn't. It was arguably good en...

This guest post was written by Richard Price, founder and CEO of Academia.edu, a site that serves as a platform for academics to share their research papers and to interact with each other. Note that ...

Have you ever wanted to shoot a stream of liquid powerful enough to propel a small car 35 miles an hour for a hundred feet? You know you have. This is the BeAmazing Geyser Car and we got an eyes-on at...

It's cold comfort to folks in China who want to pick up an iPad on Amazon.cn, but some digging has led us to discover that Amazon was never an authorized iPad retailer and, as such, should have taken ...

Not surprisingly, Valentine's Day spurred lots of last-minute Web searches and phone calls and the Google mobile ads team just published a blog post highlighting how much of that activity happened on...

It's so rare that we get to share some of the most incredible inventions in the universe with you all, which is why I'm so excited about Kikbo, a small puck topped with feathers that lets you and your...

Yesterday I went to the 2012 Toy Fair, and to be honest I was really disappointed. I'm 23 years old, and I'd estimate that 90 percent of what I saw yesterday was a variation of a toy I played with as ...

Seattle-area startup Puzzazz began as a creator of online, mobile, and e-book puzzles. But they've established a new core technology that might end up being a bigger draw than their Sudoku apps. They ...

If you're not familiar with Jim Gaffigan, you should be. He's one of the funniest comics standing and he's a kind, gentle soul with a mid-westerner's sensibility and a hilarious bit about Hot Pockets....

Greenstart, the San Francisco-based startup accelerator dedicated to the cleantech industry - and more importantly, to making it "sexy" enough to attract investors - announced its second cadre of of c...

A new site called Frank & Oak wants to take the headache out of clothes shopping for men between 20 and 35.The site is a new product from men's clothing company ModaSuite (a startup based in Canad...

As one big tech merger gets approved by the EU, another might get kicked back into play. Today, Cisco launched an appeal against the purchase of Skype by Microsoft, a deal that was originally uncondit...

I've been waiting for this one. Bram Cohen is the Chief Scientist and co-founder of the P2P file sharing service BitTorrent. And he may also be one of the guys most responsible for the decline in the ...

Once upon a time wireless carriers offered unlimited data plans. Consumers signed the contracts, got their iPhone or Droids and went on to enjoy the smartphone revolution. Along the way streaming vide...

Interest targeting? Sponsored Stories? Advertisers need a whole new skill set to succeed in social, and Facebook must dispense this education to keep revenue growing. To smooth the learning curve, Fac...

PJ Gurumohan, CEO of tablet publishing startup Genwi, likes to talk about creating unique experiences tablet, rather than just porting over an existing website. A good example of what he has in mind: ...

"A good scalpel makes a better surgeon. Good communication makes a better doctor. The future of medicine in the U.S. is clear. The days of the "do more, bill more" model of reimbursement are numbered ...

As mentioned in yesterday's earnings call, Zynga revealed that the company's zCloud, its private cloud infrastructure has been scaling significantly in the past year. At the start of 2011, only 20% of...

Tablet publishing platform Onswipe is launching its content recommendation throughout its network of publishers today -- introducing a Outbrain like feature where readers are given choices of articles...

Motorola has already confirmed that the Xooms, Droid Bionic, Razr, Razr Maxx and the Droid 4 will get a hefty helping of Ice Cream Sandwich this year, but the company has added a few more devices to i...

Following five months of work, location-based Q&A platform Localmind is launching its biggest release today since its original debut with the arrival of Localmind 2.0. The newly revamped platform ...

Not yet familiar with digital storytelling platform Cowbird, despite recent glowing coverage from the likes of Wired and The Washington Post? Well, if you like reading, seeing or listening to a good s...

Remember when that Samsung product marketing manager Ryan Bidan let slip a few details on the next-gen GalTab and/or Galaxy Note? He mentioned the inclusion of an S-Pen, 3D gestures (courtesy of a fro...

Buck, the mobile payments company formerly known as Billing Revolution, is launching its new, single-click credit card checkout today, which allows shoppers to pay for goods or services without an acc...

You can't call StackMob a "backend service provider for mobile" anymore, because as of now, it's a full end-to-end solution. The cloud-based platform for mobile developers is today launching hosted HT...

Local Response, a social advertising platform that allows local businesses to respond to the "check-in" with marketing campaigns, is launching a pro version of its analytics and action platform for ma...

Flash memory maker and storage system technologies provider SanDisk announced today that it has acquired FlashSoft, a company focused on caching software products. Going forward, SanDisk will sell Fla...

MTV is unveiling an update to its Music Meter mobile app today. This is version 2.0, and also the first version to abandon the "beta testing" label, suggesting that MTV has worked out any early kinks ...

If for some reason you were to mosey on over to Amazon's Chinese website and perform a search for the iPad, you know what you'd find? No iPad. Now, you might think to yourself, "Wow, Proview pulled it...

Has this happened to you? You're trapped on a pirate ship with your pregnant wife and Bluebeard the Pirate wants you to walk the plank but after your wife has given birth to the baby boy that he will ...

When Groupon was gearing up for its IPO last year, there was a lot of talk about whether the company would be able to sustain its business on a diet that mainly consisted of daily deals. Today, a litt...

You'd be forgiven if you haven't heard of Kobo's Android-powered Vox eReader before -- it has a tendency to get glossed over in favor of bigger names like the Kindle or the Nook. Kobo's hoping to reme...

Popular sports startup Bleacher Report was announced as of YouTube's new content partners late last year. Now it's actually ready to debut its new channel and announce the initial slate of shows.Bleac...

We first covered Sell Simp.ly in November last year, as it looked to capitalize on the increasing interest in social media as not only a place to advertise and build an online presence for brands, but...

While the hand-wringing over the future of journalism, blogging, the nature of conflicts of interest, yada yada, has been deeply interesting (alongside the personal attacks - we all like a good public...

From Redbox and Verizon teaming up to take on Netflix to Connected TV and Netflixs premier of Lillyhammer, offering consumers video content where and when they want it is no longer just a second thoug...

After announcing a licensing deal with Hasbro last week, Zynga is debuting another licensing agreement. The social gaming giant is teaming up with game developer Slingo to license casual game Slingo; ...

Kabbage, which provides working capital to online merchants, is announcing a big deal today. The Atlanta-based startup is debuting a partnership with shipping giant UPS where for the first time ever, ...

FileTrek, a new cloud storage and file-sharing platform launching today, has raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Anthem Venture Partners, Telesystem, and Ontario Emerging Technologies Funds....

Scripted.com, a marketplace for freelance writers, has secured another $150,000 in seed funding on top of the $700,000 it raised back in late November 2011. The new seed financing round was led by for...

As the art world and the market for fine art and collectible items have becoming increasingly international, one would think digital platforms and technology would help speed their growth, open up new...

Weve seen handset makers like HTC, LG and Nokia all warning of declines in smartphone sales. But if there is a slowdown affecting some, its not because people are not buying smartphones; its because t...

Weve seen handset makers like HTC, LG and Nokia all warning of declines in smartphone sales. But if there is a slowdown affecting some, its not because people are not buying smartphones; its because t...

OZON, often dubbed the 'Amazon of Russia', has acquired 100% of Sapato.ru, often dubbed the 'Zappos of Russia'. I hope I don't really need to remind you that Amazon acquired Zappos back in 2009.The ac...

Here's why I love TC; because I'm going to just post this a little before midnight, and I dare someone to take it down while I sleep.I. triple. dog. dare. you. :PAnyways today we hired a bunch of peop...

The problem that former Sun Microsystems chief executive Jonathan Schwartz is trying to fix with his new startup is clear enough.More and more people are having to care for older relatives or children...

Clear, the heavily-anticipated touch-based to-do list app,is launching in the iTunes App Store tonight. And by heavily anticipated, I mean this app was getting tech blog coverage based on demos, previ...

What a week! In the past seven days I've watched the fact that an iOS app was uploading your Address Book tear our industry a new one. Path's "Find your Friends" feature has now ripped apart friendshi...

Guess who knows what's best for the future of Facebook? It's certainly not public investors looking to cash in on "social" 8 years after Facebook started. That's why those same investors should actual...

In 2010, former Dotomi and Jumptap employees Eric Brown and Elizabeth Zalman founded Media Armor under the belief that mobile advertising was not yet living up to the hype. Advertisers were coming to ...

When Siri was announced strictly for the iPhone 4S, the mod community likely took that as a challenge. Before long, the service had been hacked and shortly thereafter ported to a number of potentially...

Most of us know the guitarist and singer-songwriter Bob Weir as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. But Weir is also the founder of Tamalpais Research Institute (TRI), a state-of-the-art performan...

But, more importantly, it's Valentine's Day, and in the spirit of love, affection, and all things heart-shaped, Desmos (at abettercalculator.com) is offering a special V Day gift for all those geeky l...

Earlier today, Barry Diller introduced Aereo, a company backed by IAC, at a press conference in New York City. Aereo streams broadcast TV to your browser and provides a DVR in the cloud by miniaturizi...

As we mentioned in our coverage of Zynga's fourth quarter earnings, mobile has been one of the fast-growing parts of Zynga's business. On the company's earnings call, CEO and founder Marc Pincus revea...

A life spent caught up in the drudgery of retail is usually pretty free of frills, but Verizon Wireless employees may soon be getting a shot at some swanky hardware if some newly-leaked images hold tr...

Lab42, a startup that helps agencies and other businesses conduct market research, says it has raised "just under" $1 million in funding.President Gauri Sharma pitches Lab42's services (which involve ...

Following this month's debut ofLilyhammer, Netflix's first scripted series, word is that the company is now preparing to launch a second original show. The company has ordered 13 episodes ofOrange is ...

Zynga's first earnings release today makes the social game developer's business look notably stronger than it did when the company went public in December. Traffic, its paying user base, and its proje...

Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage today at the Goldman Sachs Technology & Internet Conference in San Francisco to talk about Apple's unbelievable first quarter, as well as the company's outlook go...

CEO Tim Cook described Apple's conquest of emerging markets today at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference. He said "In 2007, and we didn't launch the iPhone outside the U.S. until 2008...

Social gaming giant Zynga just released its fourth quarter earnings, the company's first earnings release as a public company. Analysts expected earnings of $0.03 per share on revenue of $302 million....

An entrepreneur receives lots of contradictory advice from really smart, experienced people. For example, youve probably been told to be both persistent and flexible; to have a clear vision you pursue...

I've played through my share of tower defense games in my day -- and have gotten hopelessly addicted to a few of them -- but none really approach Andy Wallace's Doodle Defense when it comes to executi...

India's Information Technology Minister, Kapil Sibal, has gone on the record to say that "once and for all, without any obfuscation, no government in India will ever censor social media." This must co...

Here's why social media marketing is broken:my company wants to launch a contest on our Facebook app and website and post about to all our fans and followers, post when we hit 1000 entries, and post a...

Startup XA.net has been offering its technology to Facebook advertisers for several years, but this week, with the launch of optimalKeyWord, it's trying to reach new customers who need help finding th...

Despite its long and boring name,Cisco's "Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update" is one of the more fascinating data-filled reports you'll read this year. The report...

I'm Ingrid, and from Tuesday I'll be writing for TechCrunch out of London.I'm actually from Monterey, California, but today I live nowhere near that part of the world. I think this can only be a good ...

Silicon Valley thrives on change. At TechCrunch, we chronicle change, honor it, and, lately, we've been living it. As we rebuild TechCrunch, it's the talent of our writers that sets us apart. We are a...

Three months after going public, Zynga is having its first quarterly earnings call this afternoon, and expectations are high.Public investors had given the social gaming developer a cool reception the...

Design-focused startupFab.com is launching a new type of shopping experience today with the debut of what it's calling "Weekly Speciality Shops." These new stores will be targeted across five of Fab.c...

Apple's iTV is reportedly in the labs of Canadian cable service providers Rogers Communications and Bell Canada right now. This is exciting news (it is real!), but its a bummer for those of us who wer...

The iPad 3 is coming next month. Or so says the endless rumors. These rumors also state the next iPad will have higher resolution screen and high-speed data connection. But I couldn't care less. The i...

AT&T Senior Executive VP John Donovan took to the company's Innovation Space blog to talk wireless data, and the statistics he brings to the table are nothing if not impressive. Among other tidbit...

You'll recall the battles between the RIAA and the technology industry over music licensing. Well something similar as been going on regarding how newspaper content is licensed to commercial clippings...

Sony is working on a new technology that authenticates devices via the power outlet, allowing for a few interesting applications. The system, based on the Japanese Felica standard, would allow authent...

Advertising in email newsletters is an old idea, but the founders of LaunchBit, a startup that's leaving closed beta testing today, say things haven't changed since the '90s.The biggest problem? When ...

Barry Diller always enjoys riling the media industry from which he sprang. A few minutes ago at a press conference at IAC headquarters in New York City, Diller introduced a new startup IAC is backing ...

Lover.ly, an inspiration engine and Pinterest-like startup for weddings, has raised $500,000 from Joanne Wilson, Michael Edwards, Michael Yavonditte, Charles Smith, Anu Duggal, Jordan Levy, and Rick W...

Oh crap, it's Valentine's Day. Did you just remember, too, courtesy of that clever Google Doodle? The blogosphere will be filled today with last-minute gift ideas and other such ephemera related to th...

Even if it isn't my favorite new device, I'm glad to see the Galaxy Note bring something totally different to the mobile table. At first glance you'd think it was a tablet, especially when you set it ...

Inkling Co-founder and CEO Matthew MacInnis tells us that, two years ago, the team set out to build a publishing platform that would redefine digital media, starting with the reinvention of the textbo...

Inkling Co-founder and CEO Matthew MacInnis tells us that, two years ago, the team set out to build a publishing platform that would redefine digital media, starting with the reinvention of the textbo...

Yes, there are going to be a lot of startups trying to capitalize on Valentine's Day. Postmates, however, has the advantage of doing something cool something that involves free chocolate.When the app...

Seattle and London-based nFluence Media emerged from two years of stealth mode to announce it has raised $3 million for a deal-targeting technology whose first application will be a daily deal aggrega...

Heres a roundup of recent stories on TechCrunch Europe:--- On-demand car service startup Cabify - which I likened to the 'Uber of Europe' - is starting to gain momentum in its hometown (Madrid, Spain)...

Motorola's latest handsets have been pretty impressive. The Razr and Razr Maxx, in particular, are excellent handsets. But it would seem that the (almost) freshly acquired company has no intentions of...

It would appear Dropbox is building a pretty wide ecosystem around its service and the latest today is an integration with WorldDesk. Who are they? Well they provide desktop virtualisation software, a...

Amazon is opening a 1 million-square-foot fulfillment center in Middletown, Delaware, which is the e-commerce giant's second facility in the state. Amazon says that the new center will create 850 full...

There are few aspects of growing a business that are easy. But when you think about the big picture, one of the most significant challenges -- besides hiring attractive, productive interns -- is custo...

No, silly, this isn't about murder - it's a program to remove people from a photo! Scalado has created a photo-taking system that allows you to selectively remove people in a photo. How does it work? ...

The Linux Foundation today posted their first ever Linux Jobs Report, created in conjunction with tech job site Dice.com. The report examines the current demand for Linux talent, and identifies a few ...

Digital audience measurement company comScore this morning reported its earnings for Q4 and full year 2011. Last quarter, comScore says it achieved record revenue of $62.6 million, a 22 percent increa...

ThinkGeeks 8-Bitty Gamepad Promises Fun Times And Blistered Thumbs ScottEVest Releases The Transforming Transformer Jacket Motorola Droid 4 Review: Head-To-Head With The Droid 3 And iPhone 4S False Al...

Pearltrees, a company offering a novel interface for sharing and finding content, has raised 5 million euros ($6.7 million US) in new funding.The basic unit of the Pearltrees service is the pearl, whi...

For Valentine's Day, Google has created one of its most ambitious Doodle's yet when you click on the Google logo today, you get to watch a one-minute animation showing the highs and lows of young lov...

Online payments platform and PayPal competitor WePay is announcing its growth data for 2011, and revealing details on the startup's product strategy for 2012. In case you aren't familiar, WePay is a Y...

Brazilian social gaming giant Vostu is laying off an undisclosed number of employees, we've learned. Vostu, which has raised $46 million from Intel Capital, Accel Partners, General Catalyst, and Tiger...

Television is going the way of the dinosaur, and the deadly comet is called BitTorrent Live. Today, Bram Cohen, the author of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer sharing protocol, demoed his latest creation a...

In what may, in a couple years, be remembered as a telltale remark of overconfidence, Samsung's AV product manager said today in an interview "TVs are ultimately about picture quality. Ultimately. How...

Shares of Apple (AAPL) closed above $500 today for the first time, ending the day at $502.60. Apple, the world's most valuable company, now boasts a market capitalization of almost $470 billion. That ...

Just hours after the European Commission announced their approval of Google's $12.5 billion Motorola purchase, the United States Department of Justice has announced that they too have given the deal t...

Droid 4 reviews are popping up everywhere. We're doing ours a little different. Instead of posting a "review" after spending just 24 hours with the phone like other sites, we're living with it for a w...

Tools cannot judge of their own use. The hammer does not rebel at striking pavement, the brush recoil at distasteful composition. This is true of the internet and its tools as well. What is bittorren...

Followingits November debut, HTML5 publishing platform (andTechCrunch Disruptfinalist)Pressly,is preparing to launch its self-serve platform for bloggers. Planned to go live this spring, the platform ...

Angry Birds has just launched on Facebook, and developer Rovio is trying out a different business model that flocks together with other freemium games on the social network. Rather than make you pay $...

How often has this happened to you: you're trapped in a Wampa cave on Hoth and your sleeve is trapped under a fallen icicle and you can't reach your light saber. The only way out is to pull your sleev...

Having rolled out Timeline at the end of last year, Facebook followed up in mid January by letting third-party apps integrate with the reverse-chronological scrapbooking feature. Apps like Pinterest, ...

The controversy that began last week with mobile startup Path being exposed for downloading users address books from their mobile device exploded over the weekend.Nick Bilton at the New York Timesopin...

While Google waits for the United States Department of Justice to sign off on their proposal to merge with handset maker Motorola Mobility, the European Commission has officially given the deal their ...

The professional networking space has been heating up over the last few years, with a number of players vying for control of our digital resumes, job and employment searches, and career buildings. For...

Founded just seven and a half years ago, Glam Media is one of Silicon Valley's few media success stories. Beginning in the women's interest vertical and expanding to entertainment, health and wellness...

The folks at ThinkGeek, bless their souls, have a knack for taking off-the-wall ideas and turning them into real products. After their tablet-friendly arcade cabinet made the leap from joke to reality...

As everyone and their dog moves to online production, podcasters have long hunted for a way to monetize their goods. Apps are available that let you sell podcasts for a set price, but what about aggre...

New data from app search firm Xyologic released this morning paints a picture of the relative success (or lack thereof) of the Google TV platform. By examining the install base for the apps exclusive ...

Domain names are important, and some might even say that a premium, memorable domain name is priceless. Wherever you fall, tough to argue against businesses moving to scoop up short, descriptive domai...

Austin-based cloud apps startupSpanning, which provides a backup service for Google Apps, just launched a new version of its service (Spanning 3.0) which includes a feature I.T. admins are sure to lov...

Matchbook was founded under the simple belief that mobile technology can make people's lives easier -- not just in the interest of early adopters and tech enthusiasts -- but for moms and grandmothers,...

CruiseWise, a new online travel agency dedicated to booking cruises, is opening its doors today. The startup aims to simplify the online cruise booking process, bringing it up to par with what you fin...

As you'll notice quite quickly from this infographic, we're pinning the Droid 4 against its predecessor, the Droid 3, along with the iPhone 4S. For anyone who isn't a die-hard Android fan, the iPhone ...

Following the attack on Microsoft's online store in India, in which a team of (purportedly) Chinese hackers defaced the site and stole user credentials, the company is now alerting users via email tha...

Samsung is no slouch when it comes to producing smaller tablets -- their first foray into the Android tab market was the 7-inch Galaxy Tab, and they recently revisited that form factor with the Galaxy...

SHAPE Services, the company behind the cross-platform IM+ messaging applications has raised $10 million from Russian investment firm Finam.IM+ unites all communication needs under a single i...

British video search company Blinkx saw its stock spike this morning, following an announcement that it will power AOL's video search. AOL is one of the largest video destinations on the Web, with abo...

I was walking home last week and the entire street - and some of the sidewalk - was blocked by large fire trucks and a gaggle of firemen in full regalia. The ladder truck was already planted firmly on...

As you'll notice quite quickly from this infographic, we're pinning the Droid 4 against its predecessor, the Droid 3, along with the iPhone 4S. For anyone who isn't a die-hard Android fan, the iPhone ...

Because I am going to be an awesome Mom, I will totally keep my ears open to the best possible options for my kids, because I've totally set my sights on that, focusing on family instead of career and...

Because I am going to be an awesome Mom, I will totally keep my ears open to the best possible options for my kids, because I've totally set my sights on that, focusing on family instead of career and...

Apple took the top spot from Google for the highest corporate reputation score, according to the 2012 Harris Poll Reputation Quotient, a survey which measures corporate reputation for brands and compa...

Bullhorn, which develops a recruitment software and applicant tracking system, is releasing a new Social Recruiting Activity Report, which examines the usage of social media in executive and job recru...

Pops, maker of an application that adds another dimension to the mobile notifications people receive on their Android smartphones, has raised $1.5 million from Mangrove Capital Partners, who were earl...

I was debating with myself whether this should be a post or not, and then decided I should just ask out loud on Twitter if it was a good idea or not. Because three people immediately told me that it w...

StopTheHacker, an aptly named provider of SaaS-based website security services, has secured $1.1 million in first-round funding from public and private investors, including Runa Capital and former Blu...

Marin Software, a company that helps advertisers manage large online ad campaigns, has raised $30 million in a new round of funding.Founded in 2006, Marin initially offered tools to manage search adve...

Here are some stories from the past week on TechCrunch Gadgets: Tesla Unveils The Model X, An Electric CUV With Futuristic Gullwing-like Doors Microsoft Explains Windows On ARM, The Latest Addition To...

Viber, the smartphone app that lets people call and text other users free of charge, has recently surpassed 50 million registered users.Yes, but how many of them are active users, you ask? Well, the I...

Sometimes it really does seem like we live in the Wild West of the digital age, the rules of the Internet get made up as we go along. Due to the newness, it seems like there's a scandal per week in te...

Two weeks ago at the Crunchies, Dan'l Lewin, Microsoft's top executive in Silicon Valley, came up to me and handed me a Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone. It was out of the box, fully charged, and ready t...

Last month, Google began showing the new versions of Google TV at CES, giving the press a taste of what was in store. One particular panel discussing Google TV's new capabilities led Rupert Murdoch to...

Uber, that pesky on-demand car service that lets you request a ride at any time using SMS or the company's iPhone and Android apps, has seen its fair share of struggles in providing a disruptive alter...

Back in August, Y Combinator held its summer session demo day, introducing the world to 60 new companies in one of its strongest batches to date. One of these companies, DoubleRecall launched as a pla...

Over the last year, you may have noticed that a once-niche trend not only crept into the mainstream, but is starting to really make a big splash. Gamification has become one of the hottest buzz words ...

While startups across the world are doing their best to disrupt mobile networks with clever voice call apps, like Viber, there remains the basic issues of actual voice and data access which still requ...

Its that time of the year again and if you havent started thinking about what to get that special someone in your life, better start thinking fast, or Cupids arrow might just speed right past you. Luc...

Pinterest is hot. White hot. The 2011 Crunchie award winner for Best New Startup has been on a roll lately, hitting almost 12 million monthly unique visitors and crossing the 10 million milestone fast...

More than ever before, venture capitalists are digging in. To stay competitive and top-of-mind, VCs are no longer loaning their advice and their capital, but actual core services that portfolio compan...

The News Corp. phone-hacking scandal continues to spiral out of control, sweeping up more and more of the companies employees and executives. In the UK, 8 peoplewere arrested, including five News Corp...

Y Combinator and Start Fund-backed startup SendHub, which offers a simple SMS solution for businesses, is killing it...and it never "officially" launched. Instead, the company soft-launched a couple o...

NewME Accelerator, the incubator launched last year to support minority entrepreneurs, just announced its latest group of startups.In her blog post about the new class (NewME's second), founder and CE...

Congratulations Facebook! You have made history and changed the world. So, here are some thoughts from one of your biggest fans. Like the rest of the planet, I love Facebook and use it every day. So, ...

Mobile strategy is about more than just phones. Mobile platforms and engagement strategies in our digitally enabled world need to support all marketing initiatives, both offline and online, and be tru...

Airy Labs, an educational gaming startup backed by Google Ventures and others, has cut the vast majority of its 20-person staff, leaving only a skeleton crew to keep the company going.That's what I've...

Many revolutions have been televised, but the publishing revolution has already become digitized, and now, mobilized.Theres no doubt that the second half of 2011 was a difficult period for newspaper a...

OMG. Pinterest now has over 10.4 million registered users, 9 million monthly Facebook-connected users, and 2 million daily Facebook users, according toInside Network'sAppDatatracking service.With gorg...

It's February, which means Toy Fair in New York City. Every year, Mind Candy CEO Michael Acton Smith comes to town to peddle his little monsters. Those would be Moshi Monsters, one of the largest soci...

I can think of few subjects less interesting than Facebook's forthcoming IPO. There, I said it.I honestly don't get what the big deal is. So a few thousand people will finally liquidize their locked-u...

The Gillmor Gang John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor took a leisurely stroll on a late winter Friday afternoon. The subjects: Path and the Address Book, SuperBowl dynamics,...

I was once backstage at a news show. Six people were on a box in the screen screaming at each other about the economy. The producer was laughing. He leaned over to me and said, the whole idea of this ...

Before we chat out the Droid 4 there's a bit of other news we need to address right quick. As you'll surely notice, we're doing smartphone reviews a little differently now. That said, this video and m...

Patience is one of the seven virtues, the lesser-known cousins of the seven sins. And indeed, patience is a virtue or so goes the saying. But another saying states that fortune favors the bold. So wh...

Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: Tesla Unveils The Model X, An Electric CUV With Futuristic Gullwing-like Doors Android Hack Exposes Google Wallet PIN On Demand Review: Benarus Megalo...

Photosharing app Instagramwent through a subtle redesignthis afternoon and in addition to the brand new "Sierra" filter, Notifications improvements and a UI/UX refreshwhere the feed, popular, share an...

Padma Rao's analytical marketing skills have made a big impact at more than one company in the Bay Area, and now she's bringing a decade of experiences to her new role as an entrepreneur in residence ...

When Google Music launched a couple months ago, there was some criticism regarding how the service was promoted. What many saw as just another music locker and streaming service (albeit a perfectly go...

Only about 5% Facebook gamers pay to play freemium games. If Facebook could up this percentage, it and its third-party app developers could make a lot more money. That's the idea behind a new promotio...

They say when it rains, it pours. That's not usually a good thing, but when it's raining money, things are a little different. That was the case at Kickstarter yesterday, where they had their biggest ...

If youre an AT&T customer coming off of a contract and looking to snap up a new phone, you should get on that right now. According to an AT&T memo obtained by BGR, AT&T will be raising the...

Scientists at the University of Cambridge in the UK have found a way to improve the efficiency of photovoltaic cells by as much as 25% through harnessing more of the sun's spectrum than most tradition...

On the surface, the StartX Demo Day last night could have looked like any other accelerator pushing its latest class of startups. Nine groups got on stage and fired off presentations about how they we...

The US Department of Defense Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit is look for a few good coders to help build apps and an entire app store for bomb technicians and soldiers involved in ordnance handling....

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Steve Gillmor, John Borthwick, and Kevin Marks. Recording at 1pm PT....

The Air Force's Air Mobility Command will be putting in a request for the purchase of a number of tablets soon in an effort to lighten their pilots' loads. Many commercial airlines are already taking ...

Rumors of a 7- to 7.85-inch iPad have been swirling around for a long while now. We've seen reports get killed moments after they initially break, only to be sneakily resurrected weeks or months later...

Just a little candy to kick off your weekend:Looking to get its state on the StartupBus radar, a groupofLousiana's innovatorsmet with founder Elias Bizannes this week for theBaton Rouge Area Chambers ...

Just a little candy to kick off your weekend:Looking to get its state on the StartupBus radar, a groupofLousiana's innovatorsmet with founder Elias Bizannes this week for theBaton Rouge Area Chambers ...

Yesterday I reported on a bizarre incident I witnessed at Sundance last month: VEVO, the music portal owned by some of the biggest record labels in the US, had a pirated NFL playoff game playing on sc...

The arcade scene here in the United States is but a fraction of what it was back in its heyday, but that doesn't mean that the love for those classic games has just evaporated. Capcom's CPS2 arcade bo...

Online directory of APIs and mashups, ProgrammableWeb, just hit a big milestone this week: 5,000 APIs listed. The site has a long history of tracking the API landscape, starting with the launch of its...

I rarely like to put my own little fetishistic watch reviews up here unless the watch is something amazingly unique or unless I think you, dear reader, will get a kick out of the quality or styling of...

OpenLabel, a startup that wants to augment everyday products' barcodes with crowd-sourced information that helps you decide whether to buy, has raised $80,000 in seed funding in a round led by Peter K...

Inherently, we like doing things in groups, as it makes our experiences more social. It's not about what we're doing so much as who we're doing it with that makes our experiences enjoyable. Group mess...

Wattpad, a Union Square Ventures-backed platform for sharing stories and interacting with writers, has been growing steadily, and it hit a nice milestone in January during that month, users spent mor...

SneakPeeq, a social shopping startup that debuted at TechCrunch Disrupt last year, has raised a new round totaling $2.67 million from Bain Capital Ventures; Metamorphic Ventures; Keith Rabois, Tim Ken...

Like most hacks, this discovery of a way to find an Android phone's Google Wallet PIN requires a lot of initial access but is disturbing nonetheless. Google knows about the hack and is repairing it. D...

NFC is picking up traction everywhere you look, and the latest news comes out of the UK's Proxama. According to a release sent out this morning, the company is planning a partnership with ARM to creat...

With MWC drawing ever closer, new handset leaks are hitting the wires hard and fast. Today alone we've seen the Galaxy Mini 2 break cover and new images of the LG Miracle Windows Phone emerge, and now...

In addition to the updated "Explore" feature that rolled out to Foursquare's Android and iPhone applications this week, the social discovery service also added a special feature to its Android app tha...

Tesla Motors' family is growing. The company just unveiled its first crossover, the Model X. Like the Roadster and Model S, the Model X is a purely electric vehicle, built on the same platform as the ...

After a year on the market, the Samsung Galaxy Mini is certainly due for a refresh. That said, GSMArena seems to have received promotional materials and photos for the Samsung Galaxy Mini 2 from an an...

The Droid 4 has landed. The fourth incarnation of the most important Android series is now on sale. Verizon is hawking the phone for $199 with a two-year contact, but the phone is also available throu...

Notorious industry insider Eldar Murtazin has made yet another forward-looking statement, this time regarding Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and one very special Samsung device. This leaves just one q...

Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Is Google Hard At Work On New Home Entertainment System? Microsoft Explains Windows On ARM, The Latest Addition To The OS Family Kodak Shutters Digi...

PaperKarma is one of those ideas that make you realize that the future is nigh. The concept behind it? See a piece of junk mail that offends you in your mail box -- anything from magazines, catalogs, ...

It looks like Amazon Web Services may be launching a new workflow manager called SWF. First spotted by TechCrunch reader Michael Hood, SWF is listed as a service under AWS' Free Usage Tier. Unfortunat...

When you listen, read, or watch through a Facebook Open Graph app, a few of your friends hear about through the news feed, Ticker, or Timeline.Starting this week, Facebook is allowing advertisers to p...

The culture of hacking continues to bloom in New York, evidenced last weekend by Columbia's DevFest 2012. DevFest is entirely student run, and had workshops and support from local VC firms and startup...

Yozma Venture Capital is selling its stake in startup Conduit for a massive return. The story was reported in the Israeli publication Globes, but I've confirmed the details with a source who has knowl...

The pioneer of vertical media, they call themselves. And Glam Media, the publishing network with more than 220 monthly million uniques, announced today their "logical next play" - a vertical food netw...

In a few weeks, Apple will unveil the next generation iPad,John Packowski of AllThingsD confirms today. If history (and carrier code) is any indication, it should go on sale shortly after that. Maybe ...

Ever since Steve Ballmer made that surprise announcement at CES 2011, there has been a lot of speculation about just how Microsoft would be bringing Windows to the ARM architecture. Would it be a whol...

Facebook isn't the only social network getting ready to monetize its mobile app with advertising. During today's analyst call to discuss its fourth quarter earnings, LinkedIn executives said they will...

It was just a few days ago that news of a mysterious home-oriented Google device was being prepped for testing in the homes of 252 company employees, but the associated FCC filing left most of the spe...

If you played PC games in the 90s, chances are you played some of Tim Schafer's work. He worked on the Monkey Island Series and Day of the Tentacle, later going on to create such classics as Grim Fand...

If you played PC games in the 90s, chances are you played some of Tim Schafer's work. He worked on the Monkey Island Series and Day of the Tentacle, later going on to create such classics as Grim Fand...

This might just be the sweetest Valentine's Day story I've ever heard. It's definitely the sweetest Valentine's Day story I've ever written.Kaitlyn Trigger is a marketing director at Rally.org. She al...

Professional social network LinkedIn just reported stronger than expected fourth quarter 2011 earnings today. Earnings came in at $0.12 per share. Revenue for the fourth quarter was $167.7 million, an...

In the Studio at TechCrunch TV this week welcomes a former California resident and current investor back to the west coast, where he and his partners have embarked on a new journey to build out a phys...

Mobile app developer Rovio has famously turned its Angry Birds gameinto a popular toy franchise, but most other new-fangled gaming companies haven't spent much energy going this route. But now social ...

Over the last decade the major music labels and their trade organization, the Recording Industry Association of America have established a repeated pattern of attacking consumers in the name of sque...

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and the majority of us are likely scrambling to find that special gift. (The rest of us, meanwhile, are cursing couples.) A Valentine's Day gift is usually m...

It won't stop with Google Search Plus Your World. When asked if we should expect more integrations of Google+ into Google products, G+ director of engineering David Glazer said at today's In...

As part of its 2012 US Digital Future in Focus whitepaper, comScore looked at the online ad landscape and found a mix of old and new names. The report includes a list of the top 10 display advertisers...

At long last, HTC fans can finally stop holding their collective breath. After months of relative quiet, the Taiwanese company has taken to their Facebook page to spread the word: the Ice Cream Sandwi...

Television is in trouble. Americans streamed 43.5 billion videos in December 2011, up 44% since December 2010, according to comScore's 2012 US Digital Future In Focus report released today. The study...

Some of us can't be bothered to check in, but still want to find interesting people nearby. The challenge for developers is how to do this in a way that is both useful and not creepy. Glancee, availab...

In December, Eric covered Open Home Pro, a startup that lets realtors sell homes via their iPads. Today, there comes a similar effort fromPixloo, except this service is designed for use by anyone - re...

The Pirate Bay, in many ways, is disappearing. It is one of the most popular torrent sites on the web and its database of millions of torrent files - essentially pointers to pieces of files hosted els...

Remember when the iPhone app GLMPS launched last summer, seemingly heralding the start of a new image format that blended static photos and video? No? That's OK. Today, there's a new twist on the idea...

comScore has released its 'explicit' U.S. search data for January of this year and while Google and Microsoft Bring's search share continues to grow, Yahoo's share dropped both year over year and mont...

After hitting 2 million members at the end of last month, design shopping startup Fab.com is today rolling out new iOS applications that offer a number of new features and improvements. In addition to...

Here's a fun example of the original programming that YouTube is supposed to be investing in these days a relay from Santa Monica to San Diego. With lightsabers.Geek celebrity Chris Hardwick is annou...

Consider today the end of an era for one of the most iconic brands in the imaging industry. While their bankruptcy protection filing from last month signaled the need for some drastic action, its stil...

The "toast" is an age-old, time-honored tradition, where we raise a glass to pay tribute to -- and express our goodwill towards -- friends, loved ones, and sometimes even our fellow man. They are even...

According to a new report from Nielsen, the number of U.S. homes that have broadband Internet, but only free, broadcast TV, is on the rise. Although representing less than 5% of TV households, the num...

It would seem that representatives from Change.org and SumOfUs.org have organized a global protest against Apple's use of Foxconn and other Chinese manufacturing plants to build the iPhone and iPad. T...

Appcelerator, the company behind the popular Titanium app-building platform, is announcing its third acquisition today. The company is buying Cocoafish, a mobile app infrastructure provider that lets ...

Don't you just hate when you're out skateboarding, minding your own business, and suddenly one of the wheels comes off and you break a kneecap? Well now there's a new startup called BoardProspects, wh...

Game-maker Trion Worlds is revealing its global ambitions it just announced a partnership with Chinese Internet company Shanda to release Trion's online roleplaying game Rift in China.The game had a ...

Shocking news of the day: Apple is preparing to announce the iPad 3. Crazy news, I know. That announcement, if AllThingsD is to be believed, should come in the first week of March. The next-gen tablet...

If you're one of the 12 million drivers who use real-time traffic data from Waze, there's a drawback the smartphone app depends on users to collect traffic data, but if a driver is stuck in traffic o...

With more companies vying for the attention of customers on social media channels, content producers, marketers and more are always looking for ways to better track the engagement and reach of their s...

In the same space as other "get random stuff sent to you" startups (but especially Manpacks) Meundies launches today to bring users high quality underwear choices in a month to month subscription mode...

European accelerator HackFwd just announced that Infogr.am from Riga in Latvia as its latest investment. Infogr.am's product is gunning to be a kind of Adobe Illustrator for online, allowing anyone to...

Amazon used to be able to sell the Kindle based on its readability in sunlight. That's a fair comparison to make and the old advertising featured little more than people being happy reading. To wit:...

I remember my freshman year of college. It was a tiny campus, but I still found myself looking for classes and wandering through a maze-like library for most of the first year I was there. At the time...

Mark one up for Samsung. After months of legal and PR battles, the South Korean company is finally able to sell and market their iPad clone in Germany. Just don't call it an iPad clone anymore. The Sa...

Oracle this morning announced that it is acquiring cloud-based talent management solutions provider Taleo for $46 per share or roughly $1.9 billion, net of Taleo's cash and debt. Taleo's solutions bas...

Glam Media, one of the largest publishing and advertising networks on the Web, is debuting its newest branded verticalFoodie.com. As its name indicates, Glam's newest vertical is aimed at covering all...

BaltCap, a leading venture investor in startups in the Baltics region, has signed a 1 million investment in Clusterpoint, an enterprise software startup created by Latvian programmers and backed by se...

We're running the first ever TechCrunch Baltics meetup today with a mini-conference and pitch contest in the lovely city of Riga, Latvia. The Baltic nations of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are tiny c...

Google has been going to great lengths to keep advertisers who sell counterfeit goods online out of its AdWords program, but as far as Montblanc, the Germany-based maker of 'writing instruments', watc...

It's been a long and winding road since Tariq Krim created and eventually left Netvibes, but today Netvibes has been acquired by huge French engineering giant Dassault Systmes for an undisclosed amoun...

Netvibes has just been acquired by European product design companyDassault Systmes (sure this isn't the type of thing I usually write, but I like the founder Tariq Krim so bear with me here ... ).Fren...

The following is a guest post from Hipster CEO Doug Ludlow, following yesterday and today's revelations that select apps were uploading user's entire address books to their database....

Let's try to parse this.Pirate Bay (.se) user allisfine just recently uploaded a torrent to the site that is a collection of all the magnet identifiers for the entire site (actually, only about a quar...

Got FOMO? (That's "fear of missing out" for those of you who don't do slang.) There will soon be an app for that, or so says the $3.4 million in angel funding the stealthy D.C.-area startup called tim...

When it comes to a marketplace for fine art, a space which seems to intrinsically resist digital services, technology really hasn't had quite the same disruptive influence it has in so many others. St...

Some people always see the good in people and some people always see the bad ... Gawker just published a post with what at first seems to be some pretty damning evidence against Path founder Dave Mori...

Japanese mobile gaming giant DeNA bought mobile app developer Ngmoco last year for $400 million. Since then, the company has acquired a range of other outfits and worked to tie the San Francisco start...

It's been a while since we've heard anything about Lytro (other than nearly grabbing a Crunchie (I voted for them)), the camera where you shoot now and focus later. And the latest news comes not from ...

Addressgate seems like an appropriate name for what is dominating Silicon Valley headlines: Path's mobile app uploading all of your contacts. Today Michael Arrington suggested that Path delete the dat...

In a few months time, here's what the world will be fighting to get its hands on, or get rid of depending on your confidence in Facebook's business plan. The image of a Facebook stock certificate was ...

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason just finished his first post-IPO earnings calls with Wall Street analysts. (We covered it live and looked at the numbers). "We believe we are on the cusp of a sea change in be...

Facebook is huge on mobile -- as an application developer. But questions have circled for years around how it can be a real mobile platform on top of operating systems controlled by Apple and Google. ...

Gumroad, the buzzy one-man startup launched by Pinterest and Turntable app designer (and 19-year-old college dropout) Sahil Lavingia, officially launches today with over $1.1 million in seed funding f...

It's a sign of the times, though not a particularly surprising one: Nokia has finally eliminated its European phone assembly infrastructure and will be moving those 4000 jobs to Asia, according to a R...

It's a sign of the times, though not a particularly surprising one: Nokia has finally eliminated its European phone assembly infrastructure and will be moving those 4000 jobs to Asia, according to a R...

This morning, Foursquare launched an updated version of its "Explore" feature for both its iPhone and Android applications. The new version brings over several of the features already available throug...

Facebook has just filed an amendment to its S-1 that exhibits the agreements between it and Zynga. These 2 developer agreement documents are the same as those filed in Zynga's own S-1 amendment from l...

Nest is ready to fight. The Palo Alto company just issued a followup statement regarding Honeywell's recent patent infringement suit.In short they're not going to roll over. They're going to stand tal...

Thanks to our friends at Antengo, who absolutely love the TechCrunch readers, we have two huge prizes to give away this week: an Xbox Kinect and a Samsung Galaxy S II. There will be two winners for th...

As part of news aggregator Techmeme's big redesign a couple weeks ago, it moved its flow of top stories to the left to make room for... white space. But founder Gabe Rivera promised at the time that t...

Groupon just announced its first earnings report after going public last October. For the full year, Google's revenues were $1.6 billion, up 419 percent. The daily deal company, however, lost $350 mil...

Groupon just announced its first earnings since its IPO in November. For the fourth quarter of 2011, it reported revenue of $506.5 million, beating analyst estimates of $473 million. It's also profita...

After spinning off from Expedia and debuting on the NASDAQ in December, trip reviews site TripAdvisor posted fourth quarter 2011 revenues of $137.8 million, a 30% increase over fourth quarter 2010. Fu...

Some people might say that there's no way Google could be more aware of your browsing habits. Not true! There is much they don't know. But it's not because they don't want to know.Last night Google ro...

Marketing software company HubSpot has brought on a new leader todayAkamai CFO JD Sherman. Sherman has been chief financial officer at Akamai for over 6 years.Prior to Akamai, Sherman served as the ch...

All smartphones do not depreciate equally. 18 months after purchase, iPhones can be sold for 53% of their original price, while Androids can only be sold for 42% and BlackBerries for 41% on average ac...

You'd be excused for not paying much attention to Thismoment or Position2. They do the dirty work a lot of entrepreneurs don't want to do, namely run marketing promotions and, in their wake, figuring ...

It looks like Path has heeded the words of investor Michael Arrington.Yesterday, the startup faced a major privacy backlash when it was revealed that the social app was uploading user's address book d...

I love it when a startup I've been covering for literally years suddenly finds itself in the spotlight, and for the right reasons. In this case, Skimlinks, originally from London but now with a growin...

Details are sparse and we have calls in, but the two execs at Klarna, Jens Saltin and Niklas Adalberth, were charged with rape and attempted kidnapping at the W Hotel in New York. The victim was a 19-...

Details are sparse and we have calls in, but the two execs at Klarna, Jens Saltin and Niklas Adalberth, were arrested at the W Hotel in New York for alleged molestation. The victim was a 19-year-old t...

Hot off the press release presses: tech blog GigaOm has acquired PaidContent, as was first reported by Peter Kafka at AllThingsD. ...

Call it a sort of a bear hug: Sprint, the also-ranniest of the also-rans in the carrier world, lost money selling phones that, on the aggregate gained them subscribers. It's also Catch-22, a blindside...

We first covered Finnish startup Ovelin back in June, when it was preparing for the release of its interactive, gamified app for the iPad that helps teach youngsters how to play the guitar, and having...

We first covered Finnish startup Ovelin back in June, when it was preparing for the release of its interactive, gamified app for the iPad that helps teach youngsters how to play the guitar, and having...

This year's Super Bowl was the most watched television program in history, but during its boring moments we turned to our second screens. A study released by Flurry today shows that during great ads a...

Texas-based data storage company Pivot3 has raised $23 million in new funding led by Samsung Ventures, with all existing Pivot3 investors participating including Focus Ventures, InterWest Partners, Li...

While Samsung's new low-key approach to MWC may have some gadget fans feeling blue, Microsoft's plans for MWC just made things much more interesting. The company has begun to send out press invitation...

Following yesterday's release of the new mobile version of the Chrome browser, Google is today launching an improved version of its desktop counterpart. The updated release of Chrome (Stable version) ...

The TechFellow Awards is the Oscars of high-tech entrepreneurship. As selection committee member Sean Parker puts it "Were shining a spotlight on individuals who are on the cusp of bringing us somethi...

In case you haven't noticed, the Internet has become a content fire hose. There's a lot of junk floating around out there (my posts not included, of course), and, as a result, a spate of digital reade...

Before big data was a hot investing theme, Roger Ehrenberg was one of the first seed investors to focus almost exclusively on startups using data as a competitive edge. His NYC-based fund, IA Ventures...

Live Matrix, the TechCrunch Disrupt '10 finalist that proclaimed to be the "TV Guide for the web," has been acquired by online video guide OVGuide.comin an all stock deal. As a part of the deal Live M...

PowerInbox, the email platform that lets you run apps for Facebook, Twitter, Groupon and Google+ inside your inbox, is today announcing the launching of its API. With this addition, companies tha...

A new legal startup is launching to the public soon, hoping to shake up the legal documents space. LA-based DocRun is announcing that it has raised $1.1 million in seed funding from VC Michael Hirshla...

Lance Tokuda was one of the masterminds behind viral apps on Facebook back at the end of last decade. He cofounded and led RockYou as its chief executive through the evolution of the Facebook platform...

After spending the past few quarters in the red, LG recently turned things around with a bit of growth in their once-ailing smartphone division. By focusing half of their 2012 capital expenditures bud...

Proving the rumors right, Amazon today announced a video deal with Viacom, Inc. which will allow Amazon Prime members to instantly stream TV shows fromMTV,Comedy Central,Nickelodeon,TV Land, Spike,VH1...

Here's a puzzler. Back in September 2011, less than 6 months ago, Jesta Digital loudly committed $15 million to establish Jesta Labs, a New York-based mobile services startup incubator. Fast forward t...

Nettle, a startup that has raised funding from Google Ventures, 500 Startups and others, is looking to make the act of going to the movies a more social experience. With the company's freeiOS app, Mov...

After scooping up rival Cotendo for $268 million recently, content delivery and web services giant Akamai is making another acquisition todayBlaze Software. Blaze's technology helps accelerate speed o...

Anti-consumer legislation SOPA and PIPA might be all but dead, but there isn't time to rest. There is a seemingly never-ending flow of proposed legislation, statutes and bills queued up, ready to bust...

Adding to the stream of reports about how people do more and more on their mobile devices, mobile ad network Greystripe just released the results of a survey about the movie research process.The netw...

Just a week after winning Best Tablet Application at the Crunchies, Fotopedia is launching its latest iPad and iPhone app. The app lives up to its title Women of the World, showcasing photos of women ...

On Saturday, February 4, something strange happened to Qihoo 360, a security software company. Their apps, at least the ones in the Apple App Store, were missing. After reaching out to Apple, the comp...

Mobile advertising took off in 2011, as tablets went mainstream and it seemed as if half of the world woke out of a daze to find they were holding some sort of Apple device. Meanwhile, advertisers and...

Blip.tv is going through some changes, with founder Mike Hudack gone and a search for a new CEO still ongoing. But the company raised a $6 million C round from its two main investors in December, and ...

Sprint Nextel this morning released its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011 as well as the full-year results.The company reported a net loss of $1.3 billion for the quarter, and $2.9 billion for t...

Extole, a startup which offers a suite of social media marketing has raised $10 million in Series C round funding, led by Shasta Ventures with participation from existing investors Norwest Venture Par...

Last month, we took a look at some of the ways mobile technology is transforming the health industry. While there are many factors affecting this transformation, like artificial intelligence, big data...

Vonage has been battling Skype for many, many years, but they're not letting up now that the latter has been acquired by Microsoft. The Internet calling company, which came dangerously close to dying ...

TastemakerX, an about-to-launch startup that will help music fans get credit for discovering the next big thing, has raised $1.2 million in Series A funding.The company plans to launch its mobile app ...

TastemakerX, an about-to-launch startup that will help music fans get credit for discovering the next big thing, has raised $1.2 million in Series A funding.The company plans to launch its mobile app ...

Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: Honeywell vs Nest: When The Establishment Sues Silicon Valley Thousands Of Webcams Made Publicly Accessible By Software Bug VooMote Zapper Turns Your ...

There's a reason why today's news that Path was uploading its users' entire address book to its database was stunning -- all this time Path has been positioning itself as one of the good guys! Sort o...

LA-based, Science-backed startup Eventup launched this morning, providing people who want to rent or rent out spaces for events like parties and conferences with an easy-to-use platform from which to ...

You have to love the accelerated development cycle that spins so fast in the tech industry's echo chamber. Just as most Americans are starting to get comfortable with this whole "social revolution," t...

So yes, LinkedIn has bought contact management startup Rapportive, according to multiple sources we've contacted, as was first reported by Liz Gannes at AllThingsD.The startup -- which aggregates and ...

People really like Instagram. Founder Kevin Systrom recently appeared in a Best Buy Super Bowl ad paying tribute to mobile innovators, a testament to how far its come with a team of six. (Over 15 mill...

Olympus is building on its significant micro four-thirds IP (i.e. mirrorless cameras with the M4/3 sensor size) with a premium offering with a stylized, retro look. The OM-D EM-5, digital successor to...

Yes, it's another startup that wants to help businesses manage their presence on Facebook. Social Candy CEO Darin Kotalik admits that the'res no shortage of competition, but he's hoping to differentia...

Photo startup Snapjoy launched a clever promotional scheme this afternoon to lure users over from Flickr. And it succeeded perhaps too well.The Y Combinator-backed company aims to be an online reposi...

It's beautiful, it's addictive, and now Pinterest is having its glorious hockey stick moment. TechCrunch has attained exclusive data from comScore showing Pinterest just hit 11.7 million unique monthl...

It's beautiful, it's addictive, and now Pinterest is having its glorious hockey stick moment. TechCrunch has attained exclusive data from comScore showing Pinterest just hit 11.7 million unique monthl...

It's beautiful, it's addictive, and now Pinterest is having its glorious hockey stick moment. TechCrunch has attained exclusive data from comScore showing Pinterest just hit 11.7 million unique monthl...

Silicon Valley investors have been going to Israel for decades to take advantage of its pool of hardcore tech entrepreneurs. But a new generation of consumer-focused companies has been emerging in the...

When we think about the distribution industry being disrupted, we tend to think about music and movies, whose physical media and vast shipment infrastructure have been rendered mostly obsolete over th...

Say you, like me, wrote a book about the two Lithuanian lovers who find themselves trapped in a basement and have to solve mysteries and learn magic to escape the traps set by them by an evil wizard r...

Say you, like me, wrote a book about the two Lithuanian lovers who find themselves trapped in a basement and have to solve mysteries and learn magic to escape the traps set by them by an evil wizard r...

For decades, Hollywood has been portraying machines that humans can converse with, delegate tasks to, and command. Remember the HAL 9000, KITT the car, COMPUTER from Star Trek, or even the brilliantly...

If you want to slay orcs and elves, there's plenty of options, but the millions of car racing gamers out there have few places to chase the checkered flag. That's going to change because today,Ignite ...

26 models of Trendnet webcams have been identified as vulnerable to a bug that lets anyone tap into the video stream with just an IP address. The flaw was noted a month ago and the company has been wo...

Yahoo has its new CEO, Scott Thompson, and founder Jerry Yang stepped down from the company and the board a few weeks ago. But all along, people have been asking when is the rest of the Yahoo board go...

Yahoo has its new CEO, Scott Thompson, and founder Jerry Yang stepped down from the company and the board a few weeks ago. But all along, people have been asking when is the rest of the Yahoo board go...

Enterprise software company Jive has just reported fourth quarter results, which represent the company's first earnings report as a public company. Q4 total revenue came in at $22.5 million, up 53% ye...

What started as a bit of aimless tinkering for developer Arun Thampi ultimately unearthed something very surprising about life-sharing service Path. As a fan of the app, Thampi took it upon himself to...

Gillmor Gang Enterprise - Steve Gillmor, John Taschek, and Ben Kepes, Analyst for Diversity Ltd. Recording at 1pm PT....

Do you remember the seventh grade? The first time your new girlfriend hated on your best friend? What about your first kiss? I don't remember any of that, but the memories came flying back to me afte...

Today, mobile promotion and discovery service AppsFire is launching a new toolkit for developers called App Booster. Meant to boost user engagement and retention, two of the toughest challenges develo...

An interesting thing is happening in hardware marketing these days and I think Devin noticed it yesterday when he pointed out that Samsung, in their marketing of the Samsung Galaxy Note, is changing t...

Popular restaurant app Urbanspoon is releasing new data today related to its growth over the course of 2011. The company says its traffic is up by 80%, with mobile growth outpacing the web. The site i...

Sometimes it's the quiet ones who end up doing the most damage. I always thought of Larry Downes, the co-author of the mega-selling Unleashing the Killer App, as an unusually gentle and wise soul. But...

Exclusive: WibiData, the big data management startup co-founded by Cloudera founder Christophe Bisciglia and Aaron Kimball, is announcing $5 million in new funding from NEA and Google Chairman Eric Sc...

Flush with new capital, Klout, the startup that measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Foursquare, Google+ and other social apps, is making its first acquisition. Klout is pu...

One of the more annoying aspects of starting a new jobs recently was switching email accounts I tried figure out an easy way to transfer messages and contacts, but after a few minutes of fumbling aro...

If you have one of the few Android devices currently running Ice Cream Sandwich, then you're going to love this post. The rest of you, including those of you on iOS, will have to gaze longingly for a ...

How do you meet new people in today's digital age, without over-exposing yourself the creeps, trolls and spammers? The answer, perhaps, is build a social service on top of Facebook, leveraging your ne...

Last year, venture firm Kleiner Perkins debuted its plans for a summer internship program to place top engineering talent from colleges at the firm's portfolio companies. The benefit is two-fold: stud...

If you're just waking up out of your post Super Bowl stupor, a crumble of Doritos dusting your chest and beer cans littering the coffee table, floor, and dog, you'll be excused for not knowing that al...

Honeywell filed a multi-patent infringement lawsuit against Nest Labs and Best Buy yesterday. The suit alleges that Nest Labs is infringing on seven Honeywell patents. Honeywell is not seeking licensi...

Spreecast, a social video platform that lets people broadcast together, is adding the ability to embed 'spreecasts' on their blogs, free of charge.The brainchild of StubHub co-founder and investor Jef...

Did your parents ever tell you how they switched television channels back in the day? You know, before the remote? They had to get up, and walk the twelve feet to the television set, turn some knob, a...

Web app error tracking startup Exceptional has acquired fellow error tracking application and competitor, Airbrake, from web design and development company thoughtbot. Financial terms of the acquisiti...

Telecom expense management (TEM) solutions company Xigo, which Greg likened to a Billshrink for large companies, has been acquired by one of its partners, IT services and solutions provider Dimension ...

Disruptive payments network Dwolla confirmed today it has raised $5 million in Series B financing in a round led by Union Square Ventures. Also participating in the round are Village Ventures, Thrive ...

In March of last year, DailyWorth, the personal finance community for women, raised $850K from Robin Hood Ventures, Eric Schmidts TomorrowVentures, Howard Lindzons Social Leverage, 500 Startups, and m...

The Lumia 800 is an excellent device, and if you're new to the world of smartphones, the Lumia 710 is quite excellent as well. But those of us who've been excited about the Nokia/Microsoft partnership...

It's been nearly a month since Verizon officially spilled the beans on the QWERTY-packing, LTE-sporting Motorola Droid 4, and now we finally have a release date to go with it. According to the nation'...

Microsoft announced this morning a new agreement with 24/7 Inc., a company that designs intuitive customer experiences. As a part of the deal, Microsoft will merge its interactive self-service assets ...

There's no shortage of Android swag floating around out there -- Android-themed watch anyone? -- but this thing is probably one of the more useful gifts for the Android devotee in your life. Take it f...

Remember that Bouncer Google put in the Android Market to act as a goalie for all potential malware attacks? It would seem that Google's Bouncer doesn't catch everything as Professor Xuxian Jiang, the...

If you've ever set up an automatic 'Bill Pay' feature on your bank account to pay off your utility and cable bills, then you've taken advantage of a nifty feature called an 'interbank transfer', also ...

Brands love marketing across social media, but it is a little like TV advertising in that it is hard to measure how effective it is. Sure, you can count retweets, likes, and Klout scores, but how does...

Because I live in Chicago, I tend to conduct a lot of demos and meetings with startups and companies over webinar products like GoToMeeting or WebEx. While they get the job done for the most part, the...

Good morning, and welcome to our Tuesday edition of People Suing Each Other. In the far corner, we have the number four PC maker in the world, Acer, based out of Taiwan; and in the other corner we hav...

Here's a roundup of recent stories on TechCrunch Europe:--- Internet publishing company Populis is expanding its network operations to South America with the acquisition of Cidade Internet, a popular ...

Here's a roundup of recent stories on TechCrunch Europe:--- Internet publishing company Populis is expanding its network operations to South America with the acquisition of Cidade Internet, a popular ...

In this economic climate, many small businesses do not qualify for loans based on the standards imposed by banks and financial institutions. For fledgling businesses, the establishment doesn't have en...

Jeff Atwood, the co-founder and CTO of Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&A sites mostly about programming and gaming, and Stack Overflow, is stepping down from day-to-day opera...

Judging from every single TechCruncher's inbox word on the street, there are job poachers amongst us. That's cool, all's fair in love and war and technology recruiting, right? Except when it's not whi...

Here’s a selection of recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: Brinno Peephole Viewer Is A Viewer For Peepholes LL Cool G: Ladies Love Cool Gadgets Too, Says Study Real Augmented Reality Google Goggl...

Traffic numbers provided by companies should always be questioned -- I mean, of course each company is going to try to present the data in a way that makes them look as good as possible. Which is what...

In the aftermath of the defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act, a long list of organizations have sent a letter to Congress asking members to "take a breath" before they trying to pus...

At CES, the AOL booth where we worked, did interviews, and ate lunch was just a few short feet from Samsung's huge Galaxy Note booth, where they were giving out free shirts printed with your caricatur...

Yelp built its ad business by attracting users that know what they want, just not who to buy it from -- exactly when ads are most effective. That's why I find today's VentureBeat piece by Rocky Agrawa...

There have been whispers in the past of augmented reality goggles or glasses, but generally we have been able to dismiss them as exaggerations or concepts. The technology, while it isn't unrealistic, ...

To say that RIM has had a tough time these past few months is an understatement, and today's news probably won't help raise the morale around Waterloo. According to AppleInsider, oilfield services gia...

I love the smell of acquisitions in the morning! We've just heard that Groupon has acquired Adku, a stealth startup that uses big data in order to personalize the online shopping experience for people...

I love the smell of acquisitions in the morning! We've just heard that Groupon has acquired Adku, a stealth startup that uses big data in order to personalize the online shopping experience for people...

Deep in the skunk works of its Research and Labs divisions, secreted around the Seattle area, Microsoft is working on totally reinventing the way people interact with their computers. Very little is o...

A few weeks ago we wrote about Backplanea platform for creating interactive, highly visual communities that counts Lady Gaga as one of its backers, along with plenty of the Valley's most well-known i...

I used to scowl when I saw people walking down the street with eyes locked on their phones, but necessity has gotten me in the habit of doing it too. Thanks to a new app called Transparent Screen thou...

Linux is the world's largest collaborative software development project. People from all over the world have influenced the Linux kernel code, and it runs on everything from mainframe computers to wri...

Israeli startup Appoxee has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from early-stage investment firm Cyhawk Ventures. The company offers a service that helps app developers and publishers increase use...

As healthcare goes through massive changes, health system CEOs would be well advised to study what newspaper industry leaders did (or perhaps more appropriately, didnt do) when faced with a similar si...

If you don't know a resistor from a Mister Mister, this is the app for you. Built by Adafruit, creators of DIY Arduino gear, Circuit Playground is a $2.99 app designed to help you identify and underst...

My own views about SOPA and the need to protect online intellectual property are well-known. But even I acknowledge that SOPA was a flawed bill that didn't represent a viable solution to policing the ...

Want to win some extra visibility for your brand on Facebook? Post about current events. Brands grabbed 99.7% higher engagement on their Page posts by talking about the Super Bowl yesterday, and 60% h...

There has been much debate about what the post-PC era is, when it will arrive, or whether it's already here. But key pieces of new data, emerging last week, are making the case that we crossed the ima...

According to GoodEReader, Amazon is planning to open a retail store in Seattle this year where they will sell Amazon-exclusive books and, more importantly, Kindles of all kinds. While this looks to be...

When Twitter shook up its product leadership in July, it let loose four Silicon Valley veterans into a talent-starved job market. While the three others have become a VC, a cofounder, and an engineeri...

Online video service Brightcove will price its IPO between $10 and $12 per share, according to a new filing with the SEC.The company first filed for the IPO back in August of last year, saying it want...

As the only girl on the Gadgets team, I often get asked to write what I call "lady-rants" about products targeted toward women. I have a problem with most of them, as the products themselves are eithe...

My Dad, bless his heart, spends all day on the Internet and, like a reverse Cat's In The Cradle, my dad is just like me in that he loves to find wild junk that he thinks is interesting. To wit: he jus...

So in the interest of supporting unique publishing methods and ideas, I thought it might be interesting to talk about Verdant Books and something they're calling an "interactive novel." Now my idea of...

So in the interest of supporting unique publishing methods and ideas, I thought it might be interesting to talk about Verdant Books and something they're calling an "interactive novel." Now my idea of...

Kleiner Perkins-backed social commerce network Lockerz is debuting a new Pinterest-like self-expression platform, where members can create and share collections of images and videos from anywhere on t...

Google today launched a somewhat mysterious website called "Solve for X," which will now be the official homepage for a conference by the same name. Solve for X, according to the description provided,...

Conglomerate Honeywell, which develops thermostats, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nest Labs, the developer of the innovative smart thermostat. The lawsuit, which was filed United Sta...

According to new research from the NPD Group, Apple passed LG and Samsung to become the top-selling U.S. handset brand in Q4 2011. Combined, the three available models of the iPhone (iPhone 4S, iPhone...

Do you believe in a thing called love? If not, just listen to the rhythm of my heart... Or head on over to AT&T's website to pre-order the Galaxy Note. If for some reason you don't remember, the N...

Samsung's next flagship smartphone needs to be huge, iPhone 4 huge. It needs to be as competitive as the Galaxy S II as its set to go head-to-head with the iPhone 5. But success won't be found as easi...

In November, eBay acquired Hunch, a service that provides a taste graph of personalized recommendations based on users interests. eBay wants to use Hunch's technology to used to drive more personalize...

Today, Rdio is releasing a brand new application for Android phones chock-full of fresh features, which is awesome. Mainly because it gives me an excuse to write up a rant I would have published at so...

Ladies and gentlemen, it looks like the mysterious Project Zoetrope will soon be seeing the light of day. Verizon and Redbox owner Coinstar have just taken to the wires today to announce their new joi...

Early last year we pointed out that implementing the proposed EU cookie law would profoundly affect European technology companies and anyone running a business online out of Europe. Let's review why.F...

Mobeam, the San Francisco-based startup whose technology enables mobile phones to interact with laser scanners at the point of sale, has added another $1.5 million to its Series A round. The company h...

Ridejoy, a YC-backed startup that brings people together via ridesharing on long-distance trips, has raised $1.3 million in seed funding led by Freestyle Capitalwith Lerer Ventures, Start Fund, SV Ang...

It's hard not to love the Galaxy Nexus, even if you're not a Fandroid. With a 4.65-inch 720p display, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor and Android 4.0 ICS to boot, what's not to love? Well, if you're bein...

The 2012 Super Bowl has come and gone, while you're left to clean up the beer cans, wash off that face paint, and get back to planning your next pivot. The game itself provided more than enough excite...

Tsavo Media, which operates a network of roughly 300 websites and blogs as an indirect subsidiary of Canadian online publishing and advertising company Cyberplex, is being retroactively charged $4.8 m...

Forget about the Lumia 900 for a minute. Nokia just announced white Nokia Lumia 800 is finally on the release block and scheduled to hit stores later this month. Availability will be limited to Europe...

In an effort to expand its reach into the e-learning market, Kenexa, a publicly listed provider of business solutions for human resources and talent management, has agreed to acquire Boston-based OutS...

Smartphones and tablets maker HTC this morning said it foresees a huge drop in revenue (PDF) in the first quarter, citing "short-term difficulties" as it gears up to - reportedly - launch four new pho...

Here are some of the past week’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: To Heck With The Super Bowl: GOG Features Sierra Game Three-Packs For $5 iModela Adds CNC Milling To Your Home 3D Printing Arsenal...

BTjunkie, a popular BitTorrent search service, has been 'voluntarily' shut down by its operator(s). In a goodbye message, BTjunkie writes:This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not ...

One of the challenges that many post-IPO tech company employees will face is when to sell stock and how much stock to sell once the their stock lockups conclude.Financial advisors can help with this, ...

All the major map apps like Google Maps, Bing Maps, and Mapquest have walking directions as a standard feature, but the folks at Lumatic don't think they are good enough. It is creating mobile maps de...

The entrepreneurial world loves nothing like a good meme. One of the more recent ones making the rounds from Palo Alto to Paris is that a startup simply cant get off the ground without a technical fou...

The enterprise is moving towards simplicity, and this extends to the data center. Nicira, a stealthy virtualization startup with backing from big-name investors, is pulling the curtains back on its di...

Big TV events are becoming an increasingly popular catalyst of activity on social media, with sporting events being at the top of the list. Many of us can no longer enjoy a Super Bowl without checking...

Lately, we've been seeing more and more big television events come with an online streaming counterpart. Big sporting and televised events are showing up online, with the 2010 Olympics seeming to be o...

Every year, Best Buy runs a big Super Bowl spot, and traditionally they go the route of hiring a big celebrity to hawk their brand message. Last year, it was "the Biebs" and Ozzy Osbourne. This year, ...

Good Old Games is running a $4.99 sale on multiple Sierra titles including Space Quest and Kings Quest. The games come in packages of three and are compatible with Windows (sorry, Mac users, but here'...

It may now be obscured by all the hoopla surrounding Facebook's going public, but back in November the popular user-generated review site, Yelp, filed to go public and planned to raise $100 million ah...

Back in 2009, my colleague MG Siegler wrote a brilliant piece titled 'Keep It Simple, Stupid,' which delved into how having a simple and easy to use product is a key formula for winning in the consume...

Facebook's late-comer HTML5 mobile app platform lags way behind the Apple App Store and Android Marketplace. Yesterday I spotted Facebook's latest effort to catch up -- a test showing bookmarks for th...

Apples all-in-one physical flat-screen iTV is coming, make no mistake. And, when it does, it will represent Apples attempt to reinvent the television experience in much the same way it did for music. ...

Reading Leena Raos recent article on Techcrunch about the personalization revolution, you get the sense that the tech world is waiting for a bus that isnt coming. Rao quotes well-known industry expert...

The Artist parades its conceit at every turn of its familiar romance. We're doing this no sound thing for you because it's good for you. Things will work out fine. The dog needs no dialogue. The music...

This guest post was written by Richard Price, founder and CEO of Academia.edu an online community that revolves around researchers and their work.Instant distributionMany academics are excited about ...

The future of easy home energy monitoring may be a little bit closer, thanks to a government initiative designed to allow consumers direct access to their energy consumption data.The White House's new...

As an investor, Ive seen hundreds of mobile application pitches. And as a consumer, Ive downloaded hundreds more some out of curiosity and others in the hope that Ill find something so useful and exc...

Now that Facebook is preparing the biggest tech IPO in history, it is possible to compare its financials and potential market value to Google's when it went public. At first glance, all of Facebook's ...

So it's Saturday night and you're out with friend. Are they the inconsiderate jerk who can't stop checking their smartphone? Or is that you?Either way, here's one way to make dinner a little more inte...

The New York Times released its latest earnings report earlier this week, spurring another round of discussion about the newspaper's paywall, which was near the beginning of this year. The consensus: ...

For more than a decade now, the Internet has done a great job of making things in our day-to-day lives more efficient by easily connecting parties who can have a mutually beneficial personal or busine...

Much ink has been spilled these past few days on the Facebook IPO filing. Much of it analyses the details revealed in the S1 initial document. Some of it has focused on revenue and growth; some of it ...

Change in the air. Its palpable.Those of us in the technology world are witnessing a transformation: a buyer-led revolution in how information technology is both produced and consumed. Smartphones and...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor trembled in the face of Facebook's IPO and all-out war on the open Web, also known as Google. Me, I go back to Bill Gates...

Quick, what's the second most traded commodity in the world, after oil? Sorry, no: it's not coffee. In fact, while hard data is scant, it may well be -- of all things -- carbon. No, really. According ...

Following in the tradition of "Shit Silicon Valley Says" and other Shit ______ Says memes, August Capital's David Hornick has made "Shit VCs Say." There are some gems in here, including:...

Leadership guru Warren Bennis asked whether leaders are born or made. When asked if Wall Street would accept a young Mark Zuckerberg in his early 20s as CEO, Facebook investor Peter Thiel said: Well, ...

Two days ago, I received an invite to Pinterest. (I know, I'm late.) After signing up, I pretty much ignored the welcome message, just as I do with most services. But last night I decided to get mysel...

Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: The Zen Table Practices Mindfulness So You Dont Have To The Wheel: What Is The Foxconn Debate Really About? iModela Adds CNC Milling To Your Home 3D...

I dare you to Facebook Like or even comment on this post. You can't, because the Facebook Javascript API, the backend system which allows developer applications and Facebook's own apps like Likes and ...

Those of us who have been following the social gaming industry already know that Zynga has made up a big portion of Facebook's revenues. But lots of public investors only seem to have gotten the memo ...

I just donated $40 to Wikipedia, because I promised myself I would every time I poked fun at its Holiday donation drive and then just never got around to it. Did you know that you could actually donat...

In interesting but ultimately not very shocking news, Google has signed on as a major sponsor of the Conservative Political Action Conference, which is more or less what it sounds like. Not that there...

Want to watch the big budget Super Bowl commercials, but can't wait till Sunday or don't care about football? Facebook and USA Today have just launched Ad Meter, a Facebook app where you canwatch many...

It's the Super Bowl season, when a host of services and apps debut just in time for the biggest television event of the year. And, if you're a fan of Madden's NFL Superstars (a web app that's availabl...

Silicon Valley absolutely, positively doesn't need a nap room because in theory we don't sleep, let alone nap (and if we do need to nap -- like in an emergency -- we take that shiz home, far far away ...

Earlier this afternoon Droid-Life noticed something strange: the Android developer devices page had been modified to remove the Verizon Galaxy Nexus, leading the site to question whether Google may ha...

The amount of stuff we trust to fly in and out of our smartphones is astounding. Just look at what happened when a couple of reporters got access to an unwitting (and rather unlucky) Apple employee's ...

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

Temple Jump, Tiny Birds, Numbers With Friends. These are not the apps you love. They're fakes designed to scam you out of $1.99 when you go to buy Temple Run, Tiny Wings, or Words With Friends. Today ...

The CEO of Micron Technology, Steve Appleton, died in a small plane crash today in Boise, Idaho. He was 51.Appleton worked at the company since 1983, starting on the night shift production line. He di...

Most popular mobile sports apps are trying to feed you scores and news, or show you fantasy numbers. OnSports, by HitPost, is in a smaller class of apps that's focused on users running the discussion ...

Remember those little Zen rock gardens they used to sell for desks? So you could take a minute of your busy day to contemplate the void? Thanks to the magic of Kickstarter, you can build your own auto...

Ansca Mobile, the Palo Alto-based mobile development company and makers of the popular Corona SDK, is accusing its partner PapayaMobile of ripping off parts of its SDK for use in PapayaMobile'sSocial ...

Maybe it was too thick, maybe it was too heavy, maybe you just didnt like Honeycomb. Regardless of your reasoning, you may want to keep your eyes peeled on your credit score if you bought and returned...

Tumblr is introducing a new feature today that lets its users pay a dollar in order to have their post featured on the Tumblr Dashboard. The option is called "Highlights," and it's now available right...

Tumblr is introducing a new feature today that lets its users pay a dollar in order to have their post featured on the Tumblr Dashboard. The option is called "Highlights," and it's now available right...

Thirty spokes meet at a nave;Because of the hole we may use the wheel.Clay is moulded into a vessel;Because of the hollow we may use the cup.Walls are built around a hearth;Because of the doors we may...

Online accounting software maker Xero has raised a new $16.6 million round of funding from existing investors including PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, whose most famous investment, Facebook, just fil...

There are few more articulate supporters of high speed broadband access than Sonic.net CEO Dane Jasper. Not only does he think Americans should have the right to high quality broadband, but he also th...

Earlier this week during the Crunchieswe snagged the founders of Warby Parker for a backstage interview which was fitting, as I've been wearing a pair of their specs myself (they seemed pleased by th...

The Super Bowl is just around the corner, but unfortunately most of us won't be able to attend the big game. Parties are fun and all, but there's nothing like leaving the stadium with arms full of jer...

You know what's funny? If you Google "how do you get kids to learn" (sans quotes, even), the first result goes to this TechCrunch blog post about an app that lets kids draw butts on the iPad. Really! ...

Nokia's UK YouTube account has posted a video promoting the pink Lumia 800, and shockingly enough it seems pretty targeted toward women. Here's the thing: It's pretty obvious that, with a pink phone, ...

Dropbox has no shortage of fans or users these days -- their stellar wins at the Crunchies are proof of that -- and now the cloud storage service is leaning on them to test an experimental new build o...

Google's move to demote the Chrome website in search rankings in January led to a decline in browser market share, according to new data from Net Applications. Google's Chrome web browser dropped from...

Upset that the Makerbot can't produce solid, smooth objects for your home 3D printing pleasure? Why not give the iModela a look. ...

Russian venture firm Troika Ventures is announcing that it has sold its share in productivity app Evernote to fellow investor Sequoia Capital. Troika Ventures was Evernotes first institutional investo...

Leads360, a consumer sales automation and telephony platform, announced today it has completed a $15 million round of new funding. The round was led by Volition Capital and saw participation from exis...

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there lived a website called Apple.de. And on this website, in historical Deutschland, there lived three iPhones and an iPad. They were a happy bunch: some w...

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there lived a website called Apple.de. And on this website, in historical Deutschland, there lived three iPhones and an iPad. They were a happy bunch: some w...

Bringing US business models to Europe might seem an obvious move for some - but it's frequently far harder than it might appear. US incumbents can indeed try to expand, but some fall at the first hurd...

[tc_ooyala code="Y1YjZmMzqrDqFLX3J2SsqbZOqcVZeKWm"]We covered the launch of Summly an application that summarises text last year, but I recently caught up with Nick D'Aloisio, the16 year year-old prog...

Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: The Peek Bites The Dust Steve Jobs Impersonator With Angel Wings And Halo Used To Hawk A Worthless Android Tab The $199 PlayBook Returns For A Limited...

Halfway to living up to its moniker with over 250 startups, 500 Startups held a series of demo days this week and last, where a group of 33 scrappy startups presented their wares to investors in both ...

Facebook is testing a new photo viewer layout that mounts engagement buttons and comments to the right rather than beneath images. See, Facebook doesn't want you to just view comments, it wants you to...

The Occupy movement, or rallying cry, or whatever you want to call it, is by its nature decentralized. By refusing to come together under one banner other than the word "Occupy," they've both diluted ...

Yammer grew like crazy last year. How crazy? Product VP Jim Patterson just tweeted out the Yammer 2011 Year in Review infographic below with the comment: "Pretty much everything tripled." Paid seats ...

The tale of Google Wallet's life thus far is a bit of a weird one, but here's the gist: Google launched it back in September, initially as an exclusive feature on Sprint's Nexus S. We reviewed it here...

In case you happened to be the victim of a day-long coma yesterday, it was a very exciting day for Mark Zuckerberg, Silicon Valley, and that quaint little social network we've all come to know, love, ...

Alan Lomax single-handedly (and some would say, heavy-handedly) saved the folk music from oblivion. Son of John Lomax, Alan travelled across the US and around the world recording folk musicians in the...

If you're anything like me (and hopefully for your sake, you're not), then you tend to do things --scheduling, booking, and so on -- at the last minute. For we Last Minute Scramblers, some highly usab...

Say what you will about The Huffington Post and AOL, their merger has given HuffPo the resources to conquer the online news aggregation business. Today HuffPo dropped some big stats about the year sin...

The big promise of location-based mobile apps is that they can help you find something great in real life without you meaning to look for it. But that hasn't usually been my experience. Instead, wheth...

Love it or love it less, Android is a force to be reckoned with. As Jordan wrote last night, Android cannot be ignored, and The Crunchies served as a timely illustration. The most successful apps work...

You may remember the Peek, a device that showed up back in 2008 (so long ago, now!) offering nothing but email. That's right, nothing but email in an age when smartphones were already becoming popular...

Parenting is already an extremely hard job, let alone the myriad issues tired parents find in trying to track down the best local babysitter and daycare services, schools, and more. Meanwhile, the bra...

A video detailing the new features of Windows Phone 8 Apollo — originally intended for Microsoft's smartphone partners — has leaked into the hands of PocketNow editors. Yay! In my opinion,...

Android malware has been an issue over the past year. Granted, most of the numbers we see out of security software companies are inflated — including malicious apps from third-party sources and ...

comScore just released its monthly mobile numbers, which charts smartphone usage from U.S. consumers for the three month period ending in December 2011. For the period, 234 million Americans age 13 an...

Back in November, there was a run on PlayBooks when the price was briefly reduced to $199. For a tablet that started out with a premium price, the deal proved enticing to many buyers. And again at the...

In the Studio at TechCrunch TV continues today with a guest who was once a Senior Scientist at Apple and CEO of Mozilla Corporation before eventually making the trek up Sand Hill Road, where today he'...

For those not from Silicon Valley or Wall Street, there's only 1 thing you really need knowaboutFacebook's plan to become a publicly traded company: Your Facebook is not suddenly going be drowned in a...

Ever wonder which of your Twitter followers you should be sucking up to? Well, you can go to MVF and find out....

Yesterday, Gizmodo ran a story about a supposed bug in iOS, specifically related to iMessage. The title:The Apple Bug That Let Us Spy on a Total Strangers iPhone. Essentially, Gizmodo got ahold of an ...

Travel and expense management company Concur revealed in its earnings today that it made an undisclosed investment in Room 77, a comprehensive and personalized search engine and review site focused ex...

It's always nice to see a small, plucky start-up take on the big guys and not only survive but also prosper. My excellent Santa Rosa based ISP Sonic.net is doing just that - laying its own fiber-to-th...

Just a little tidbit from everyone's favorite reading material this week, the Facebook IPO filing: the company noted that it now stores over 100 petabytes of media (photos and videos) uploaded by its ...

Sincerely, the maker of mobile apps that let you send your photos as print postcards, is pushing out a new version of its Sincerely Ink app today. The main change is that the theme now features Valent...

I know of no industry where technology is as despised as it is in healthcare. It's telling that it took government money to incentivize healthcare providers to finally do what virtually every other in...

Social video browsing app Showyou just launched version 3.0 of its iPad application, a major update with a ton of new features. Competing in a hot space with competitors like Fanhattan, Shelby.tv, Squ...

DocStoc, a document sharing site has been focusing on providing bundles of premium professional documents for businesses for some time now. But today, the startup is expanding to producing articles an...

Bad taste. Is nothing off-limits anymore? I'm always up for a good satire but this Action Electronics' video promo airing on Taiwanese for the Action Pad misses the mark. It's not the turtle neck, sta...

Hub Ventures, the San Francisco-based startup accelerator focused on funding entrepreneurs "building a better world," is the newest member of the TechStars network. The official announcement of its Te...

Mobile ad startup Mojiva is the latest startup to start throwing around the word "billion" in its press releases. The company says it now reaches one billion unique devices each month.Of those devices...

According to filings with the Federal Election Commission, Google spent approximately $390,000 (out of $3,760,000.00 total) on SOPA and PIPA lobbying including efforts to educate lawmakers on SOPA and...

When people watch the Super Bowl on Sunday, they may notice something different about the ads many of them will be touting a new way to interact with the advertised brands. Shazam, an app that allows...

Today, a company called ConnecTV is launching an ambitious new service for socializing the TV viewing experience using mobile and web-based applications. The new app, available first on the iPad, with...

Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Swarming Robots Will Fly Menacingly Towards Your Loved Ones In Perfect Formation Mint.com Launches Android Tablet App The New Android ...

Tucows is probably best known for their slew of web services and their extensive reseller network, but CEO Elliot Noss sees room to grow in another space: mobile. After spending the past few months co...

We learned a lot of things about Facebook today from its IPO filing. But there is one detail that sticks out for its improbable exactness: The $1.000 billion in profits Facebook reported for 2011.The ...

There is something to be said about the serendipity of shopping in a brick and mortar stores, especially when you're buying fashion. The dilemma with clothing is that you don't know what you'll like u...

The jobs and career community site Glassdoor is hoping to ride on the coattails of the Facebook IPO hotness with this evening's launch of a new Facebook-based product called "Inside Connections." With...

While sitting at the Crunchies last night something became quite apparent: almost all the big guys — even the ones who were stubborn about it — are currently available on Android. And what...

Photo organization service (andTechCrunch Disrupt finalist)Everpix just launched its first iPhone application. The app does two key things: it offers you a way to access your entire photo collection f...

I really wish this whole post could be about Google taking a big step forward in the field of wearable tech with the introduction of a new Android-powered wrist device, but their new Android watch is ...

Facebook put the "sexy" in S-1 today, with its IPO filing basically DDoSing the SEC's site and eventually Scribd this afternoon.Because it drives massive amounts of trafficwe are genuinely interested,...

Make no mistake about Facebook's ambitions. "There are more than two billion global Internet users," its S-1 filing states, "...and we aim to connect all of them." As evidence of its ability to reach ...

When Steve Jobs took the stage at Macworld in 1998, he did something unusual. For the first time in any presentation he had ever given, he ended with a slide reading, "Oh, and one more thing..." This ...

In the S-1 filing for Facebook's IPO, the company offers a little more insight into its advertising business, which it describes as "the substantial majority" of its revenue (and that's an understatem...

While we nerds may best remember LeVar Burton as a VISOR-clad Starfleet officer, he also spent much of the 80s and 90s instilling in children an appreciation for reading. In fact, Burton is still stuc...

A return to form for Panasonic, and a M4/3 camera that photographers won't be suspicious of. Its weaknesses are largely the weaknesses of its class of camera, but beyond those it's solid, comfortable,...

Within Facebook's S-1, the social network revealed that its Payments business is bringing in $557 million in revenue per year. As the company explains, it currently requires Payments integration in ga...

Well, that's the end of that dream for me. I was really looking forward to owning one of these lovely little cameras, but Fujifilm has just gone and priced it right out of my range. Amazon has put up ...

IP phone company ShoreTel has today announced that it is beefing up its offerings by acquiring unified communications company M5 Networks in a deal that is valued up to $146 million in cash and stock....

Facebook just revealed its financials in preparation for its public offering.Bear with me: This means no more "leaks" of Facebook's revenue numbers to spike its valuation in secondary markets. No more...

Since we were getting a little frustrated with the slow-loading, totally crashing SEC.gov website, we decided to do everyone around here a favor. We made a PDF of the filing and posted it publicly on ...

This past weekend, I find myself thinking about Steve standing at the crossroads of Art and Tech, and I wonder if this is what he had in mind as I navigate down a deserted industrial street in Bushwic...

Earlier analyst estimates from December had pegged the monthly active users of Facebook's mobile apps at around 300 million per month. This number includes smartphone apps, like those for the Android ...

If there's been one complaint my contacts inside large CE companies have had, career-wise, it's been the inability to rise far in the hierarchy. While there are clear exceptions to this rule, the comp...

Ever since I saw this mesmerizing commercial for the wood-clad (and unfortunately named) Touch Wood, I've been a sucker for phones of a more organic persuasion. While the Touch Wood ultimately never s...

Here's another way that Mark Zuckerberg is following his idol Steve Jobs: He will have a $1 salary, starting in 2013....

Facebook's S-1 IPO filing includes a detailed assessment of business risks. These include: its lack of mobile monetization and the fact that it doesn't own a mobile platform, government restriction of...

I've spent the last few years trying to figure out Facebook's regional traffic numbers via third party measurement firms and by scraping its ad tool. But now, I don't have to, because the company has ...

It appears that the excitement over the Facebook IPO has crashed the SEC's website. The link to the Facebook SEC filing, previouslyavailable here, is no longer loading. Instead, we're seeing a "this w...

Everyone likes to talk about how dependent Zynga is on Facebook, but that relationship cuts both ways. In the social network's S-1 filing, Facebook says that Zynga accounted for 12 percent of its reve...

Facebook's S-1 is finally out and we can now see how much stock Zuck, investors, employees and others own in the company. Facebook has raised a total of $2.4 billion in funding and seeks to raise as m...

Facebook just filed its IPO registration (SEC doc here) and its financials are off the charts. Facebook's IPO document provides the first peek at its financials.The company did $3.7 billion in revenue...

As part of its initial filing to go public, Facebook has just revealed some new user numbers that illustrate just how big it is.It had 845 million monthly active users and 483 million daily active use...

According to the National Center on Education and the Economy, only 1 in 6 high school freshmen will go on to graduate from college on time, and about 25 percent of Americans drop out before they fini...

Facebook has just filed its S-1 to IPO. Below is the letter from Mark Zuckerberg about the purpose of the company. We'll have more analysis shortly....

Facebook has just filed its S-1 to IPO. Below is the letter from founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook's purpose, in which he explains "Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It...

The wait is over: Facebook has just filed for its IPO.Facebook is looking to raise $5 billionand will mint hundreds (perhaps even thousands) of employees as millionaires in the process. You can find i...

The world loves to celebrate comebacks from failure, but the Crunchies and the companies it features are all so new that the show hasn't done much of that. That changed last nightat the 2011 Crunchies...

Man, it feels like it's been forever since the last time we've seen a seemingly legit Apple leak. Maybe they've tightened the security around the factory lines; maybe it's because the last two major h...

You've heard of Match.com, right? It's a dating site much like OkCupid or eHarmony, and from the bowels of the website's collective online dating profiles, a company called Zoomerang harvested an inte...

This video is making the nerd rounds today and it's pretty amazing. It shows a set of quadrocopters first righting themselves after a catastrophic failure and returning to a certain point (the scienti...

We've known for some time that Microsoft would be bringing official Kinect support to Windows this week, but one thing they kept quiet was the fact that they'd be debuting a new version of the hardwar...

Numecent, a stealth startup building a patented "cloudpaging" technology, just raised $2 million in Series A funding from undisclosed corporate investors. The $2 million tranche is a part of a larger ...

There's an interesting experiment afoot in the startup community, which poses the following questions to entrepreneurs: Would you be willing to trade equity in your startup in return for social media ...

When social network Bebo went down on Monday, what seemed like a flood of distraught users concluded that the site must be shutting down, and they took to Twitter to commemorate it. Instead, the downt...

The Nintendo 3DS just got a bit more connected. The gaming company has teamed with free-hotspot.com to provide 5,000 access points to 3DS owners throughout 22 European companies. 3DSs can now hop onli...

Zlango, a goofy but fun icon-based text messaging app, just hit one million U.S. users on the Android platform only four months after launching. Backed by Accel and Benchmark Capital, the app original...

They say news is what happens to the editor on his way to work, so here's some news: podcast distributor Mevio has apparently pivoted right out of the game. The company hosted a number of well-known w...

As more and more consumers user their smartphones for search, Google's mobile search and display ads are growing like crazy. As we reported a few weeks ago, Googles mobile ad revenues are expected to ...

Everyone out of the pool! Google is shutting it down. As announced late last year, Google Wave is now in the final stages of its life and became read-only yesterday. Come April 30 the Wave pool will b...

As online ad retargeting becomes more ubiquitous, retargeting startup AdRoll says it's growing quickly.The company wasn't willing to reveal exact revenue numbers, but it did share some statistics abou...

CEO Alexa Andrzejewski would like you to know some things about Foodspotting: It's not just for sharing food photos. And it's not just for foodies.Andrzejewski has been saying this for a while now, bu...

The Samsung Galaxy S II successor will not be in attendance at Mobile World Congress. The company issued a statement this morning indicating that the phone will get its own event, one that's closer to...

Three Zappos alums are trying to replicate the garage sale experience on your smartphone and their startups Rumgr just raised a $500,000 seed round from a group of investors that includes Zappos CEO ...

AOL reported better than expected fourth quarter earnings this morning. The company, which owns TechCrunch, reported revenue of $576.8 million, which is down 3 percent from Q4 2010 revenue of $596 mil...

Shopify, which provides a turnkey e-commerce technology that lets anyone create a storefront online, has acquired mobile app and game studio Select Start Studios.The acquisition will be used to furthe...

Mint.com, the financial service we first mentioned at TechCrunch40 in 2007 (wow, that seems like a long time ago), announced that they have launched a new native app specifically for 9 and 10 inch And...

Nothing is made in this country anymore. In terms of actual manufacturing, America is increasingly at a disadvantage. The logic of the global economy moves jobs overseas. Get used to it, we are told. ...

Facebook has an answer to those wondering how it will justify its IPO price and keep revenues growing as it saturates key markets: a new behavioral ad targeting system. Facebook hasbeen quietly rollin...

Berlin-based startup 6Wunderkinder has just launched their private beta for their productivity suite Wunderkit. This is an extension to their simple, yet well designed task list manager Wunderlist, wh...

Dropbox took home two of the big awards at this year's Crunchies: Best Cloud Service and Best Overall Startup. Both times, CEO Drew Houston came backstage to talk about the company's growth and its fu...

LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner won this year's Best CEO award at the Crunchies, and backstage he talked about LinkedIn's big milestone from the past year its IPO."The event itself was memorable, but for us i...

LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner won this year's Best CEO award at the Crunchies, and backstage he talked about LinkedIn's big milestone from the past year its IPO."The event itself was memorable, but for us i...

With the huge rise in the consumption of online video it follows that services to monetize that video are becoming hot properties. To that end, today Videoplaza, a 'sell side' ad management platform f...

Online pinboardPinterest, the hot new startup that's growing at a phenomenal rate,won the Crunchie for the Best New Startup of 2011 at this year's Crunchies. (This, despite the fact that it actually l...

Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: Peavey Builds An Auto-Tuning Guitar FlatFrog Offers Up A New Multitouch Table Self-Guided Bullet Could Strike Laser-Designated Targets From A Mile Awa...

After Twitter creator, executive chairman, and product lead Jack Dorsey accepted the company's award for Biggest Social Impact at the Crunchies, TechCrunch's Alexia Tsotsis asked him about a recent, c...

Here at the 2011 Crunchies, Imgur, the photo-sharing site made popular by the Reddit community, won the category of "Best Bootstrapped Startup." And given the traffic numbers the startup is seeing, it...

This years fifth annual Crunchies Awards have just finished up at the classy Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and it was a smashing success. We poked fun #humblebraggers, got cussed at by Siri, ...

Domo, the SaaS business intelligence startup launched by Omniture founder Josh James, has raised $20 million in new funding from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). This round brings total investmen...

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Were live at The Crunchies Awards at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. Once again weve partnered with fellow blogs VentureBeat and GigaOm to celebrate the best technology achievements o...

For months we've been waiting on Razer's Blade notebook, a $2800, 17-inch beast that we weren't sure whether to laud or mock. It's just that it's kind of a strange thing to see making a big debut when...

Two weeks ago, the excellent Building Windows 8 blog posted an in-depth look at the upcoming operating system's new file system, ReFS. It reminded me of the promise of so many years ago that OS X woul...

Investors seem pretty disappointed with Amazon's fourth quarter results (as of 3pm Pacific, the company's stock is down 8.6 percent in after-hours training), yet for most of this afternoon's analyst c...

Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak offered more details this afternoon during an analyst earnings call about the company's disappointing fourth quarterWhen it comes to physical media, Szkutak said the biggest hit...

You might remember the scene in The Hurt Locker where some soldiers are ambushed by a sniper and must do a little return sniping. That process of spotting, adjusting the sights, and altering the bulle...

Welcome, kids, to TIL - Today I Learned. Today's TIL is "Don't post your correspondence with AppleCare representatives or Apple will totally tell the government on you." David Boles had a nice Apple m...

The drip-drop of financial news about Facebook's impending initial public offering is starting to turn into a downpour. The company is planning to file its initial prospectus on Wednesday morning, Reu...

I know I say this a lot, but man that was fast. Valve's new pair of Steam mobile apps have been in their respective marketplaces for less than a week, and already they have graduated from beta status....

Guitar-maker Peavey has teamed up with audio electronics experts Anteres to create an auto-tuning guitar. While these things aren't new - Gibson has had robotic tuners for a while - this system is uni...

Amazon has just released fourth quarter 2011 earnings, missing sales expectations but beating earnings estimates. Net income decreased 58% to $177 million in the fourth quarter, or $0.38 per diluted s...

We saw a few touch-tables at CES, and while the Surface remains the gold standard, not everyone loves the price, form factor, or size. There's room for competition, and FlatFrog, based in Sweden, is h...

Wait, what group? A bug has caused a significant percentage of Facebook users to see a message atop their news feed announcing "This group is scheduled to be archived". But don't worry, your news feed...

I'm not sure how I feel about this. The object you're looking at right now is what the city of London calls a "smart bin." Built by Renew, the smart bins are being installed on the streets of London a...

"Who Wants A Stylus?"- Steve Jobs, MacWorld 2007As it turns out, plenty of people do. Not for navigating around the user interface, mind you Steve (et al.) was absolutely right about that. But for th...

Woothemes has just announced a new theme for musicians called Unsigned. To build the theme, the company worked with band managers and promoters as well as real, actual musicians in order to make a "ro...

Design This Home, the latest game title from iOS game development studio App Minis, is debuting as a new way to add gaming elements to designing your dream house, keeping your residents happy, and com...

Meet the future, everyone: The iPnoho6. Steve Jobs would be proud. This Shanzhai special isn't even an iPhone clone. It doesn't deserve that honored distinction. This is an IPDA as it's labeled on the...

You can't believe everything you read, nor can you trust everything you hear on TV. Especially if it sounds something like "four out of five people choose LG Cinema 3D over Sony and Samsung for overal...

For people who have been doing just one thing for a long, long time, it's amazing how many content distributors get things so catastrophically wrong.These last few weeks brought us quite a few unique ...

Would you like some gamification with your french fries? Well, one San Diego-based startup is willing to bet you just might. Mogl, which describes itself as not only "a party in your wallet" but also ...

Andreessen Horowitz is definitely killing it these days. The unconventional VC firm founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz is less than three years old, but just raised its third fund. The amount...

It was, of course, inevitable. After book after book explaining the importance of being forward, of aggressively networking and noisily self-promoting ourselves, the correction has finally arrived. An...

Not to be outdone by its southern neighbor, Canada has been hard at work on its own fleet of tech startup accelerators. Back in June, Montreal became the home to FounderFuel, Vancouver has GrowLab, an...

Way back in December, before a management shakeup saw him and his partner leaving RIM's top posts, co-CEO Jim Balsillie lamented the state of the company's marketing efforts. They hadn't "achieved the...

Last year, Hulu brought in $420 million in revenues, with was 60 percent above the year before. The news, however, was seen as a miss because Hulu earlier in the year suggested that it would make $500...

We measure every last click when it comes to the Web, but there remains a gulf between online and the real world. Yet the online world increasingly drives behavior offline, especially when it comes to...

In recent weeks, Americans from all walks of life came together to stop SOPA from advancing through Congress, demonstrating the power of the Internet to rally people around an important cause.In the w...

Electric car drivers deserve to see their positive impact on the environment and their wallets, but the official mobile apps for the Nissan LEAF and Chevy Bolt only display remaining battery. GreenCha...

Artspace, an e-commerce startup that helps connect contemporary artists and galleries with potential customers, has raised a $2.5 million Series A funding round with participation from Felicis Venture...

News of HTC's forthcoming Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Ville has been making the rounds since last November, but now with Mobile World Congress less than a month away, we're finally getting our first re...

Offers are a booming form of advertising in which consumers are presented with offers to try or buy products. It is particularly popular in social games where players receive virtual currency in retur...

Last week, we heard from Evelyn Rusli at the New York Times that venture firm Andreessen Horowitz was in the process of raising $1.5 billion for the venture firm. Today, partner Ben Horowitz has confi...

Accelerators, Accelerator, Accelerators! There's a rash of them appearing everywhere, and the latest is the Rockstart Accelerator, a new startup program aimed at Europes most promising startups that w...

After recently announcing the milestone of 3 million active users, geo-coupon system a Shopkick is revealing that its mobile app helped drive more than $110 million in-store revenue for partner retail...

Alice.com, the retail platform for household goods, has raised $3.6 million in funding from an undisclosed group of Spanish investors. This current round brings the total funding amount raised by Alic...

Toronto-based deal providerDealfindis expanding into luxury goods with the launch of a new service called Dream Deals. Starting now, in addition to Dealfind's everyday and weekly deals, customers will...

Like how there are all sorts of companies offering tools to let you build your own web site today, a new wave of them is doing the same thing for mobile apps. Appafolio stands out among the various op...

IBM just announced the purchase of WorkLight, an Israeli startup that provides a mobile app development and infrastructure software. IBM says the acquisition will help expand the enterprise mobile cap...

IBM just announced the purchase of WorkLight, an Israeli startup that provides a mobile app development and infrastructure software. IBM says the acquisition will help expand the enterprise mobile cap...

Location Labs' Safely, which provides mobile services that help parents ensure the personal security kids' mobile phones, is revealing that its Safely Family Locator has enabled more than one billion ...

Mobile app marketing companyFiksujust released new data revealing the impact the holiday season had on iOS app downloads and user acquisition costs. According to the company's App Store Competitive In...

Sumo Logic, a startup focused on enterprise log management and analytics, has raised $15 million in Series B funding round led by Sutter Hill Ventures, with participation from previous investors Greyl...

Way back in 2009 there was no large event dedicated to technology startups in the UK. TechCrunch, under Mike Arrington, was busy trying to get its TechCrunch50/Disrupt programme going in the US, and o...

Two weeks ago, we covered a fast-growing security startup called AlienVault, which had just stolen seven senior HP security executives. At the time, Barmak Meftah, who left HP Fortify to become presid...

NEC did it again: about 11 months after unveiling the world's slimmest smartphone at that time, the company is ready to release another super-thin Android phone with a set of impressive specs (via Jap...

Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: nanox: High-Quality iPod nano Watch Conversion Kit WiGig: Panasonic Tablet Wirelessly Transmits A Full DVD Video In 60 Seconds (Video) Flying People...

Last September, Salesforce bought social customer service SaaS startup Assistly for $50 million-plus to help expand its service cloud offerings to small businesses. Today, Salesforce is debuting a bra...

When it comes to networking, there is no shortage of ways to connect with other professionals to talk shop. LinkedIn has become the most popular professional networking platform, with over 100 million...

If you tend to play on the magenta network, a leaked document out of T-Mobile may require your attention. According to TmoNews, the carrier will impose new rules for domestic data roaming on April 5. ...

Does Twitter need Google or does Google need Twitter? It's a question complicated by recent events, such as the two companies not coming to an agreement to extend their previous partnership through wh...

So you want to take a photo of you and your buds on the slopes or at the bar or at A&F or whatever and you know, just know you're going drop that shnitz on the floor. So what do you need? A freaki...

Whether a "drastic change" is needed or there is already "a lot of change", former RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis (the same one who flipped out on the BBC during an interview) still believes in the BlackBerry...

Online content, portal and comprehensive front-end technology solution Synacor filed its amended S-1 today for an IPO looking to raise $75 million. The filing revealed that this month Synacor acquired...

Startup SoftKinetic just announced a new kind of advertising, one that combines its gesture-control technology with Intel's video analytics.The goal is for people to walk up to a digital display equip...

Last year, Nick Paumgarten wrote an interesting article for The New Yorker that detailed the rise of online dating and the effects it's had on web culture. What struck me most were some of the eye-ope...

Last year, Nick Paumgarten wrote an interesting article for The New Yorker that detailed the rise of online dating and the effects it's had on web culture. What struck me most were some of the eye-ope...

Having spun out of online broadcaster Justin.tv last year, SocialCam has managed to get a strong footing on iOS and Android. It passed 3 million downloads in December, and it's now sending 3 million n...

One of the most buzzed-about startups over the last few months has been Codecademy a site that looks to make programming accessible to just about anyone, with a variety of interactive, web-based cours...

Largely forgotten social network Bebo may have shut down today.Bebo users certainly seem to think that this is the end. The Bebo website is down, and as a result there's a steady stream of sad tweets ...

Largely forgotten social network Bebo may have shut down today.Bebo users certainly seem to think that this is the end. The Bebo website is down, and as a result there's a steady stream of sad tweets ...

How did Facebook become worth so much money that it couldfile for the biggest IPO in tech history? By buildinga highly defensible product, platform, and advertising business on top of brilliant talent...

How did Facebook become worth so much money that it couldfile for the biggest IPO in tech history? By buildinga highly defensible product, platform, and advertising business on top of brilliant talent...

The perks of getting into a top startup accelerator just got a little better. Microsoft is now offering startups in its new BizSpark Plus program$60,000 worth of costs for using its Azure cloud comput...

As everyone waits for Facebook to file for its IPO this week, one of the big questions is what will its valuation be. Will it hit the magic $100 billion?Well, we are not going to find out this week b...

Internet marketing agencyBlueGlass Interactivehas just acquired Voltier Digital, a digital agency specializing in content marketing, infographic creation and data visualization. Voltier, whose clients...