Articles by Techcrunch from September 2012

Facebook just launched a new version of its Messenger app for iOS. Messenger, the company's stand-alone chat app, got a bit of a user interface refresh with this update, as well as a speed boost and o...

Editor's note:Boris Wertz is the founder of version one ventures, and has invested in more than 35 early-stage consumer Internet and mobile companies, including Chloe & Isabel, Julep, and Indochin...

Twitter's Bootstrap, an open-source framework for quickly building web sites and apps, has been a massive success. It's even starting to spawn its own ecosystem of related services now. Mark Otto and ...

Editors note:DerekAndersenis the founder ofStartup Grind, a 30-city event series hosted in 15-countries that educates, inspires, and connects entrepreneurs.Hes ex-Electronic Arts as well as the founde...

Here is a reminder for developers who want to write apps for Windows 8's Metro mode (or whatever Microsoft prefers to call it these days): the only way to distribute your apps to consumers is through ...

The Gillmor Gang John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor watched in amazement as Twitter made good on its promise to hobble the core of its viral power adopter dev...

Editor's Note: Jim Dalrymple is a former Editor at Large at Macworld, and contributing expert on Apple-related topics on CNN, Fox, CBS and ABC. You can follow Jim on Twitter at@jdalrymple, and on his ...

Once upon a time, in 2003, there were two entrepeneurs with a dream. Their names were Evan Prodromou and Michele Ann Jenkins, and they dreamed of a collectively edited global travel guide -- a Wikiped...

Editor's note:Jeff Ma is the founder of tenXer, a startup that provides tools to help peoplebetter understand their performance, progress, and productivity at work.Previously, he helped start GolfSpan...

Earlier this month, I wrote about Silicon Valley Voice, a karaoke competition for the tech world hosted by Silicon Valley Bank and Coverflow (a cover band made up of techies including Mayfield Fund's ...

Apple has made a small but significant tweak to its App Store for iOS 6 users, changing the Apps for Passbook section of the store. Before, when you clicked through in Passbook the link that brings yo...

Decades before Steve Jobs, the Google founders, and Mark Zuckerberg, small groups of unglamorous technologists turned Santa Clara Valley into the world-changing region we are still reinventing today.M...

When you think about Detroit, you don't often think first about technology; you think about automobiles. But the reality is that nowadays, the two industries are more intertwined than ever. Indeed, it...

A little more than a week after announcing its acquisition by telecom giant SingTel, Pixable is releasing a substantially redesigned version of its iPhone photo aggregation app.As with the old version...

Apple has made a small but significant tweak to its App Store for iOS 6 users, changing the Apps for Passbook section of the store. Before, when you clicked through in Passbook the link that brings yo...

Happy Friday! We have something special to give away. Box is hosting its annual BoxWorks event October 7-9 in San Francisco. And we have a bunch of tickets. Box has some amazing speakers on tap. Box C...

As of today, one more enterprise cloud startup is now a publicly-listed company. Qualys -- trading as QLYS -- opened trading today on the Nasdaq with shares priced at $12, in the mid-range of the expe...

As part of its latest round of "spring cleaning," Google just announced that it is shuttering AdSense for Feeds. The service, which allows publishers to earn a bit of extra revenue by adding Google's ...

It's that time again when Google does its "Spring Cleaning." Basically, that means the company axes the stuff that really isn't working and takes up too much time or resources. But lets' call it what ...

Gillmor Gang - John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live at 2pm Pacific....

Well, Facebook shareholders sure like the sound of Gifts. Around Wall Street's close yesterday, the company launched a much anticipated e-commerce initiative that lets Facebook users send real, physic...

Earlier this month, Evernote launched version 2.0 of Skitch, the popular screenshot tool the company acquired in 2011. Sadly, Skitch 2.0 didn't just do away with Skitch's idiosyncratic but highly func...

The churn at Groupon's executive level continues apace. The company has just announced that it has appointed a new vice president for North America, Rob Kilgarriff, who is taking over the role from Ch...

Ever since Paranormal Activity hit it big in movie theaters five years ago, fans have been making their own spoof videos, essentially trying to replicate the found footage style of the movies in homag...

Making reservations just got really easy, thanks to a new partnership. Here's what Foursquare had to say about its parntership with OpenTable today...

Cloud-based data warehouse company Treasure Data officially opened its doors this week with $1.5 million in funding that includes an investment from Yukihiro Matz Matsumoto the creator of the Ruby pr...

Earlier today KTVU got a major component of the Apple Maps apology story wrong, tweeting that: "Apple CEO Tom Brooks apologizes for new Maps applicationhttps://t.co/YJbhg7tj." Obviously, KTVU got mixe...

MyStream, a mobile music-sharing app that launched on iOS more than a year ago, plans to go cross-platform next week with the launch of its Android app. Founder and CEO Richard Zelson also tells me th...

HP's TouchPad and Palm phones are dead, but webOS continues to enjoy some kind of existence as open-source technology. Following an initial beta release back at the end of August, Open webOS graduates...

Sources tell us there is turmoil at the executive levels of Color Labs, the startup that launched with a focus on photo-sharing but quickly became a poster child for Silicon Valley hype after landing ...

Well, if you still harbored any doubts that HTC was working on a slightly-tweaked version of its flagship One X smartphone, some new images courtesy of Pocket-Lint should help put them to rest. The ne...

Facebook is dipping its toes into the teaching space with a new class at General Assembly, a popular education nonprofit for startup co-working and vocational training. The new co-designed curriculum ...

Microsoft is really trying to increase the appeal of Window Phone to developers, and a new tool just released adds a small, but very useful feature: instant translation of user reviews from onelanguag...

Now that Motorola is owned by Google, you may think that past and present Motorola devices should get the latest and best version of Android. With Sprint announcing quietly on its forum that the Motor...

The U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh can decide whether or not to lift the ban on U.S. sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1-inch tablet, the court said...

Google just announced an update to its Flight Search feature that makes it easier for tablet users to search for and book travel from the couch. According to a recent study, 47 percent of all U.S. tab...

Today, Twitter announced some updates to its Discover offering. Here's what the company had to say:...

Now that Apple has told the world that it didn't come with its best offering for Maps, the company is now featuring other Map applications heavily within the App Store....

Now that Apple has told the world that it didn't come with its best offering for Maps, the company is now featuring other map applications heavily within the App Store....

I've seen a lot of iPad stands in my day. Comes with the territory. But only one has ever earned a regular place in my gadget bag and on my desk: A scrappy upstart from Kickstarter that made it to big...

If you're a heavy user of the startup community that is AngelList, there's a useful little application that you should know about. The under-the-radar iOS app called "AngelList Wings" is a native app ...

This isn't exactly the launch of Google Maps for iOS, but Google just updatedGmail for iOS, whichnow supports the iPhone 5's elongated 4-inch display. Instead of seeing black bars at the top and botto...

This crazy game of poker continues between Apple and Google in what has been dubbed by some people as #mapsgate. Today, Apple CEO Tim Cook stepped out and apologized for the poor experience that its ...

Square better get a move on launching its first non-U.S. mobile payment service because the market for point-of-sale mobile payments continues to hot up. We've been following the fortunes of Square-li...

One rumor that was nearly forgotten amid the iPhone 5's launch and iOS 6 media circus was that Apple was reportedly looking to release a Pandora-killer soon. The streaming music service would be a nat...

LinkedIn has shut off API access to fellow professional social network Viadeo and a number of other startups who have been tapping into LinkedIn's firehose of data via its open API program. The other ...

Adoption of Apple's iOS 6 continues to trend upwards, with touch-friendly website conversion provider Onswipe seeing more users flocking to the newly-releasedplatform, despite its apparent shortcoming...

Geckoboard, the London-based developer of an online dashboard product that lets businesses monitor company-related information in real time through the use of widgets, has today announced two key piec...

RIM is still bathing in the afterglow of yesterday's Q2 2013 fiscal results not being as awful as some had feared. The company remains in the invidious position of having to flog an out-of-date OS (BB...

Singer-songwriter-rocker Neil Young has been talking about problems with modern audio codecs for decades. He was angry at CDs back in the 1990s and most recently he lashed out against MP3s and digital...

Let our Passbook obsession continue! Since the debut of Apple's pseudo-mobile wallet in iOS 6 earlier this month, the extended developer community has rushed to deliver value-add solutions built on to...

Seattle-based mobile payments startup Seconds today unveiled a new direction for its product, looking to fill some of the space left behind by the acquisition of competitor Venmo and Square's growing ...

Google Maps gets more awesome by the day. Earlier this week, the service started rolling out stunning underwater imagery- if you will, a seaview mode. Now Google took to the Google Maps blog to announ...

Apple has finally made a real statement to its customers apologizing about the Maps drama that's been unfolding over the past few weeks with the introduction of iOS 6. According to CEO Tim Cook, the c...

Apple isn't delaying bringing its latest iPhone to regional carriers this time around, with launches across the U.S. going out today, at a list of carriers that includes C Spire, Bluegrass Cellular, A...

The rising star of mulitchannel retail is mobile, according to a survey of U.S. and U.K. consumers conducted by a digital marketing group Econsultancy. It's not a particularly surprising finding -- gi...

Thanks to the HomeAways and Airbnbs of the world, more and more people are looking to rent their apartments and homes. There are currently some six million active vacation rentals in the U.S. and Euro...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added a new pricing option for its Relational Database Service (RDS) running on Oracle with a micro instance. The addition follows announcements over the past few months ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added a new pricing option for its Relational Database Service (RDS) running on Oracle with a micro instance. The addition follows announcements over the past few months ...

In 2009, Eric Kuhn created FoundersCard as a way to give entrepreneurs the same kind of elite programs, perks and networking opportunities traditionally reserved for execs of Fortune 500 companies. By...

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A startup called Pluralisis taking a 99 Designs-style approach to solving a fairly specific problem improving the conversion rate on landing pages.Normally, if a business has a landing page that it t...

You've probably already heard, but just in case you forgot to wear your Angry Birds merchandise, Bad Piggies has just hit the scene. It's Rovio's latest and greatest, and it brings something slightly ...

A bit of good news amidst in the seeming rubble that is the iPhone 5 launch: the $30 adapter you have to buy to connect your Lightning iPhone 5 to your old and busted iPod dock should stream audio wit...

A newly signed California law forbids employers and universities from asking employees and potential recruits for their social media passwords. The law was hastily developed in response to a string of...

For the past year, Silicon Valley's geek-chic answer to Martha Stewart Brit Morin has been full speed ahead on Brit + Co., her tech-meets-fashion-media-and-lifestyle startup -- raising $1.25 mill...

After raising $500,000 to create an ad-free social platform for developers six weeks ago, Dalton Caldwell's App.net has silently been courting developers to build apps that rely on its APIs. Now it's ...

A tipster pointed out to us that Facebook integration in iOS 6 could fill in details someone might not otherwise have if they get a hold of a phone number and put it into their Contacts app. Daniel Io...

A tipster pointed out to us that Facebook integration in iOS 6 could fill in details someone might not otherwise have if they get a hold of a phone number and put it into their Contacts app. Daniel Io...

A tipster pointed out to us that Facebook integration in iOS 6 could fill in details someone might not otherwise have if they get a hold of a phone number and put it into their Contacts app. Daniel Io...

A tipster pointed out to us that Facebook integration in iOS 6 could fill in details someone might not otherwise have if they get a hold of a phone number and put it into their Contacts app. Daniel Io...

Google just announced that it is adding a 'trailer' button to movie-related search results. With this, you can now watch a YouTube-based trailer in an overlay on top of your search results page withou...

I told you about a new feature from the Snapjoy team just the other day, but it seems like things are picking up for the small Boulder company....

As the proud owner of a set of tiny Moo business cards with a big sexy QR code on them, I'm impressed to see that Moo itself has done me one better. They're now adding nearly invisible programmable NF...

After a roller coaster of a week, RIM has just released its fiscal Q2 2013 financials and -- shocker -- they're not as bad as some thought. The Waterloo-based company reported a net GAAP loss of $235 ...

Facebook today launches Facebook Gifts, its first ecommerce product that lets it earn a percentage of sales when you use it to buy friends real gifts for their birthday, wedding, or other special occa...

Facebook today launches Facebook Gifts, its first ecommerce product that lets it earn a percentage of sales when you use it to buy friends real gifts for their birthday, wedding, or other special occa...

Facebook today launches Facebook Giftsto make ecommerce social and more convenient. It turns user data into suggestions for gifts to buy right from where you spend your time, and without a friend's ad...

Facebook today launches Facebook Giftsto make ecommerce more convenient. It turns user data into suggestions for gifts to buy right from where you spend your time, and without a friend's address. Face...

Facebook today launches Facebook Giftsto make ecommerce more convenient. It turns user data into suggestions for gifts to buy right from where you spend your time, and without a friend's address. Face...

The eunuch led the blind man through the market, through the door in the wall, and into the gardens. They sat under a dead tree. The eunuch took out the meal. They ate."Tell me about the Unraveling?" ...

So far, the most successful company to be launched out of Bravo TV's incredibly popular suite of reality shows is a company that makes low-calorie cocktails for women. A lucrative business, sure, but ...

Fuze Network, a payments technology company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, has raised $2.5 million in additional financing, according to a new SEC filing. The round includes participation from NYC'sMe...

Fuze Network, a payments technology company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, has raised $2.5 million in additional financing, according to a new SEC filing. The round was led by Dana Stalder at Matrix P...

Fuze Network, a payments technology company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, has raised $2.5 million in Series A financing, according to a new SEC filing. The round was led by Dana Stalder at Matrix Par...

"In the Studio" welcomes this week a seasoned operational executive, a board member at some of the Valley's largest companies, and long-time angel investor who, upon leaving behind his work in industr...

Back in 2009, Rupert Murdoch closed the London Times down with a paywall, preventing even Google from perusing the stories contained within. Approximately 200,000 subscribers later (or 130,751 if you'...

Klout hasn't just defied influential tech pundits, its social reputation scorecard has won them over. Now the sometimes-controversial startup is aiming at search. The startup has just signed a strateg...

FixYa, the Q&A site for products where where amateur product experts give repair advice to consumers, is debuting a new app today that allows people to shoot a video of a product problem with thei...

Government censorship isn't confined to the religious hotbeds of the Eastern Hemisphere: Google's top executive in Brazil was just released from custody after YouTube refused to take down a video crit...

Netflix teased this update earlier, and now it has delivered full support for the iPhone 5's larger screen and new aspect ratio. It's a change that means users get access to an improved browsing exper...

Facebook mobile news feed ads are a hit with advertisers and they'rethe most efficient way to purchase Facebook fans, say five out of five leading Facebook ad-buying software startups.The data comes f...

Mozilla's Persona, the organization's experimental distributed login system that's an alternative to OpenID and OAuth, is now officially in public beta. Mozilla bills Persona as a "login system that c...

In another sign that mobile games are challenging or usurping other mediums like cartoons for creating powerful childrens' brands, Russia's Zeptolab just signed a deal with Burger King to bring their ...

FarmVille 2 is Zynga's second go at milking as much filthy lucre from its farm-based social gaming franchise as possible. There's no mystery to its existence. The franchise has been a runaway hit for ...

Google just announced that it is merging Google Trends, its tool for checking trending topics, and Insights for Search, its tool for comparing search terms over time, into one single Google Trends pro...

Apple's UDID replacement for iOS 6, a more private and tool dubbed the Apple Advertising Identifier that users can opt out of, isn't working according to mobile app marketing platform Trademob. I spok...

SAP is rebuilding its social tools with a service called Jam that it will launch in November. It will combine social networking, real-time updates, and the ability to build apps that are "purpose buil...

No need to let Facebook and Twitter have all the iOS-integration fun: today, Google announced a new, easier way for Gmail users to sync their Google Contacts to their iOS devices. The company is intro...

Get ready for another Samsung mobile launch. The Korean electronic giant just sent out invites for an October 24th NYC event. And judging by the prominent S-Pen graphic, the Samsung Galaxy Note II is ...

Google just launched Fieldtrip, a new location-based app that, as the company says, is meant to be "your guide to the cool, hidden, and unique things in the world around you." Just like Google Now sho...

Goddess of the Harry Potter Universe, J.K. Rowling, released her new book to instant global stardom, but if eager fans rush to Amazon to see if Rowling still has her literary magic, they will be dread...

Camera+ is a consistently top-selling app in Apple's iOS App Store, providing users with enhanced camera features and effects. Developer tap tap tap hopes thatsuccesswilltranslateto the larger sc...

Rumors have been coming in that Amazon is readying a mobile payments product that could compete with Square, Intuit GoPayment and PayPal Here. A tipster and an industry source both tell us that Amazon...

Editors note:Matt Cohler isa General Partner atBenchmark Capital. Hes responsible for identifying investment opportunities in Internet-related companies in addition to working closely with companies a...

It's a good time to be a healthy geek -- and to start becoming one. Of late, we've seen an exponential increase in digital health data thanks to growing popularity of a new generation of smart, wearab...

And from left field comes a wild rumor. Digitimes is reporting today, citing unnamed sources, that Google and Asus are preparing the next generation of Nexus 7 tablets. There are two versions on tap: ...

To inspire developers to build apps that help kids get into, stay in, and graduate from college, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched an education tech Facebook app contest today with 30 p...

Woobox, a two-year old social marketing platform, recently added support for Apple's Passbook in its coupons app. The integration lets businesses create Passbook coupons using its system, and can even...

3D printing is coming into its own. No longer relegated to the professional sector, anyone who has the cash can essentially join in the fun with a Makerbot or a RepRap. But FormLabs has found a way to...

Apple has made a lot of stuff, like a lot. One enterprising fan, August Brandels, has created a three-and-a-half minute video that provides a good overview of most of that stuff, cut from various Appl...

Mobile startup Skyfire is launching a new platform called Horizon today, which is supposed to offer an integrated experience for consumers to access applications like Facebook, Wikipedia, and Yelp whi...

Online stock photography company Shutterstock, which filed for an IPO in May, has today filed its S-1. It will be offering 4,500,000 shares,pricing them between $13-15, the document revealed today. Bu...

"The WWW project was started to allow high energy physicists to share data, news, and documentation," Tim Berners Lee wrote in his Usenet post announcing the World Wide Web in 1991. "We are very inter...

Airbnb is raising a whole lot of money at a big valuation, we reported yesterday, as the company continues to see hockey stick-like growth. But as quickly as its web usage is taking off, the company i...

Today is apparently Apple patent application day, and there's another new one just published and unearthed by AppleInsider that describes a method for inductive charging. "But inductive charging alrea...

Yep. This really happened on a recent Asian business trip to help launch the Nexus 7. Good for Schmidt. Homeboy knows how to have fun. Next up, Steve Ballmer doing the Macarena....

Among consumers, AOL is probably best known for its media holdings (it owns sites like TechCrunch, Engadget and HuffingtonPost, as well as AOL.com) and its past life as an ISP, but it has long been tr...

TechCrunch has been running guest posts since the early days. Here's one aboutThe State of Online Feed Readersfrom 2006 (hey, it was a hot topic back then!).But times have changed (not just for RSS!),...

The chameleonic Google Doodle is currently marking a very special occasion for Mountain View: today is the search giant's 14th birthday. The Birthday Doodle is a rather simplistic affair, compared to ...

Editors Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC atGRP Partners. Read more about Suster atBothsidesofthetableIn the first phase of the Internet - roughly from 19...

"Headlines from Britain to Malaysia, France to China, Germany to Brazil, Australia to the US. An apology can go a long way," said Kim Dotcom in a recent tweet. It's true. This comes after the New Zeal...

Flashback! Remember this one? Last year, Apple filed a trademark lawsuit against Amazon, claiming that Amazon's use of the term "App Store" (as in "Amazon Appstore") could contribute to confusion amon...

Helping couples to stay happy, connected and in love is what HowAboutWe is all about. Each month, couples receive a DateBook with beautifully presented, one-of-a-kind dates specifically curated for it...

I've avoided posting videos of people shooting the iPhone with bullets, dropping iPhones into squirrel pens, and ingesting and then excreting iPhones because I think such videos are wasteful and point...

Joomla, the open-source-based content management system that competes against WordPress, Drupal and others in the world of blog, website and intranet creation, has today taken a step up in the world o...

Nokia was eager to talk up its new pair of Windows Phone 8-powered Lumia smartphones earlier this month, but the company left one weighty question on the table: when can we actually get our hands on t...

Apple has filed a sizeable 51-page patent application continuation with the USPTO according to AppleInsider, which covers Siri in general terms, described broadly as an "Intelligent Automated Assistan...

And just like that, Rovio is back to number 1. The Finnish gaming company today launched Bad Piggies, an entirely new game that features some of the same characters from the smash hit, Angry Birds. In...

Quantcast, an internet audience measurement and ad targeting service, processes over 20 petabytes of data per day using Apache Hadoop and its own custom file system called Quantcast File System (QFS)....

Madefire just launched the iPhone (and iPod Touch) version of its comics-reading app, expanding beyond the iPad and optimizing the experience for a smaller screen.The company has recruited some impres...

Future, an international publisher whose titles include T3, Official Xbox Magazine and websites like GamesRadar, revealed in a new trading update today that it is building up a good incoming gross rev...

Angry Birds is now a household name. Even Rovio (the company responsible for the ultra-successful bird-flinging app) is a logo as familiar as EA's. But today we'll have to add another bit of vocabular...

Apple has published a new patent today, one that takes the possibilities for future iOS mobile devices and adds a whole heap of abilities seemingly ripped from sci-fi thanks to flexible display techno...

BlueStacks, the startup that's bringing Android applications to Mac and Windows computers, is today announcing a partnership with chipmaker AMD which will see its catalog of applications optimized for...

The cost of bringing in new users to mobile apps declined last month as developers and consumers waited for the new iPhone 5. The average daily download volume for the top 200 free iPhone apps dropped...

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is in Seoul attending the launch of the Nexus 7 in Korea Thursday, and he's been very talkative on a number of topics, as he was in Tokyo earlier in the week. Th...

Up to now, the European Commission has kept a relatively light position on where it stands with cloud services -- putting more effort into the wider issues like broadband and mobile regulation and ens...

European Union regulators are preparing to charge Microsoft for failing to comply with a 2009 ruling ordering the company to offer users of its desktop operating system a choice of web browsers, Reute...

European Union regulators are preparing to charge Microsoft for failing to comply with a 2009 ruling ordering the company to offer users of its desktop operating system a choice of web browsers, Reute...

Kabbage, which provides working capital to online merchants, is announcing that Scott Thompson, CEO of ShopRunner, former President of PayPal, and former Yahoo CEO is joining its board of directors. C...

As Facebook continues to mature as a platform, the companies working on it are scaling up to meet the challenge of catching attention on a social network now pushing 1 billion users. In the latest dev...

Google's Android smartphone OS is facing a lot of challengers in the low-cost smartphone segment, from Huawei, ZTE, Samsung and Nokia at the vendor end to Mozilla coming from its position in browser s...

LG has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against fellow South Korean electronics giant Samsung over the latter's use of advanced OLED display technology in smartphones and tablets, the Wall Street J...

The European take-out wars continue to heat up. This time it's the turn of Russia's Delivery Club to receive an injection of cash, raising a $4 million second round of funding from existing investor,A...

Zumper, the San Francisco-based startup that's assisting apartment hunters find the most ideal abode, announced today that it closed a $1 million seed round. The announcement comes two weeks after lau...

Mimecast, a startup that offers a email archiving, continuity, and security software for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, has raised $62.15 million in Series C funding led by private equity firm, In...

We're delighted to showcase Italian startups at our CrunchUp event in Rome today, which we've dubbed TechCrunch Italy. Check out the live stream. Our thanks to Populis and Mind The Bridge Foundation f...

Hoover's co-founder Patrick Spain has launched a new venture today, aiming to provide an online, subscription health care service to the U.S. First Stop Health provides individuals and families immedi...

RIM is holding its yearly developers conference this week, playing host to over a thousand developers still dedicated to the BlackBerry platform. The company detailed several novel features to BlackBe...

Since being launched in the U.K. last year, second-screen TV app Zeebox* has gradually been making its way to other geographies. About a month ago, I reported that Zeebox would be coming to the U.S. m...

Exec, the Uber-meets-Taskrabbit app that allows you to instantly hire people to perform basic jobs, is testing out a new version of its cleaning service. In the future, cleaning with Exec should be a ...

In case Facebook Poking wasn't addictive enough, the Pokes pagerecently began updating in real time. That means you can leave your finger on the trigger and poke back the instant a friend pokes you.I'...

It's the darling of "sharing economy" startups, Y Combinator and a good portion of Silicon Valley's top investors, and a symbol of consumer web startups moving beyond entertainment to solve real life ...

Speaking about trusting early reports, it seems that the A6 used in the iPhone 5 runs at 1.3GHz rather than 1GHz as previously reported. This comes from the latest build of the iOS benchmarking softwa...

There's been plenty of complaining from consumers about the often-inaccurate new maps in iOS 6, and it sounds like Uber isn't too happy about the update either.Uber drivers tell us that the company se...

RIM is holding some sort of developer conference this week somewhere in North America. It's unclear what they actually announced or revealed because everyone keeps talking about this dumb music video....

A new chapter today for Digsby, the social/instant messaging client bought by social network Tagged in April 2011 and effectively put into an idle state soon after: it has now been taken open source, ...

Times are tough at Sharp and the 100-year old company is desperate to turn things around. A Japanese news outlet revealed yesterday that massive layoffs are looming, and Sharp plans to relieve itself ...

I'm a huge fan of taking photos. Let's just get that out of the way. The problem that I've always had is that I don't have one central place to put those photos. Sure, there's Flickr and iPhoto, but I...

Froyo and Gingerbread might be the Windows 98 and XP of the Android world, but Google has not given up on the aging, but still very popular platforms. The latest YouTube app serves up new features and...

The icon on the left represents iOS's music app. The icon on the right is for a now-shuttered Myspace service called iLike. Apple introduced the Music app to iOS in 2011. iLike was founded in 2006, gr...

Your makeup, hair, and clothing look fabulous, and the lighting is just right. But that neatly planned headshot or cute self-pic may ignore an important factor in how people judge trustworthiness, att...

If you have bought an AT&T iPhone 5 without a contract over the past few days, chances are that you want to unlock it to use it on another carrier. The traditional process involves filling out an ...

Google just added a nifty new feature to Google Takeout, the company's "data liberation" service for downloading your personal data from Google's various services. Starting today, you will also be abl...

High-end Danish speaker company Libratone makes some quirky clothed speakers, and the latest, the Zipp, is no different. But like most things, appearances don't always tell the whole story.The Zipp, i...

Andreessen Horowitz is announcing this afternoon that Adrian Fenty, the 41-year-old political star best for his work as the Mayor of Washington, D.C. from 2007 to 2011, will be joining the venture cap...

Some Facebook business Pages lost tens of thousands of fans today, but they shouldn't fret. Facebook has confirmed with me that it's currently purging fake accounts and Page Likes as it implements sit...

No doubt you've already heard about the tragic mess that is Apple's iOS 6 Maps. In fact, you've probably already gotten lost on the way to something important thanks to Apple's faithful geographical g...

If you happened to pass through AOL's offices in Palo Alto last November or December, you might have had your first run-in with the elusive creature "founder squatter." Say what? Following in the gran...

If you happened to pass through AOL's offices in Palo Alto last November or December, you might have had your first run-in with the elusive creature "founder squatter." Say what? Following in the gran...

The Nintendo Wii U launches on November 18 with the support of 23 games. Nintendo stated previously that there would be 50 available before March 31, so, relatively so, the Wii U is launching with a s...

Facebook has responded to reports of a security issue that lets people post in Groups as if they're someone else. It says this is a known problem with SMPT email standard that it is working with email...

I'm going to let you in on a little secret: most of the reviews you read online are performed in a manner that you, as an intelligent consumer, would find abhorrent. I'm not naming names nor am I poin...

When Desmos launched at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC last year, the startup was on a mission to create platform-agnostic software that would allow users to build and share their own educational content. In ...

Apple and Google's Maps rift on iOS 6 was apparently caused by an inability by the two companies to see eye-to-eye on one key feature, turn-by-turn navigation. That's according to new information AllT...

Emails, for the most part, are static, but Google today launched a new Gmail feature that makes Google+ event notifications moreinteractive. Gmail users will now be able to invite friends, read a...

A new laundry detergent that coatsclothing in pollution-eating nano-particles is on its way to store shelves. The "CatClo" detergent would expand the hot new trend in green fashion to those environmen...

Using its ownproprietarycryptography algorithms and a chip that will soon arrive in consumer electronics devices, DeTron Inc. wants to become the first company to "meet the evolving global demands for...

We've just learned that the iPhone 5 camera may be faulty, showing a purple haze (yep, I said it) in certain lighting conditions. If you take a picture with the iPhone 5, and there's a bright light th...

A new report today suggests that Apple might be working on a next-generation iPad with a widescreen display, something that it would inherit from the new iPhone 5. The claim, from L.A.-based tech cons...

Tibco hasa new enterprise social graph that includes a partnership with Box and a Klout style service for the enterprise.What a contrast to Salesforce.com and its new Chatterbox. Instead of building i...

Tibco hasa new enterprise social graph that includes a partnership with Box and a Klout style service for the enterprise.What a contrast to Salesforce.com and its new Chatterbox. Instead of building i...

Facebook announced today a new integration with personal file storage company Dropbox. Now, people can share files to Facebook Groups using Dropbox's cloud-based storage system.Facebook tells us that ...

Twilio's business is getting a huge boost today, as AT&T has just announced it will resell the startup's voice and SMS API and apps as the "AT&TAdvanced Communications Suite". Businesses can b...

Love Etsy, but looking for something even more unique? Makeably, a new marketplace for custom-made goods, can help. The site, founded by twoex-Googlers and longtime friends,Ryan Hayward and Anastasia ...

RIM is no stranger to rough seas -- the past few days alone have seen a service outage in the EMEA regions, news of a dwindling user base, and a new 52-week low for the company's stock price. Naturall...

In June, Mozilla and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the Mozilla Ignite challenge. During the first phase of this $500,000 challenge, the two organizations invited anybody to submit id...

Kickstarter is a place I regularly turn to for hardware accessories, mostly because I'm often bored by the safe bets being put out there by the general crop of hardware makers. But all too often latel...

"Theres a debate right now in Washington about rules that could discourage the innovative on-demand car service company, Uber. Not hard to guess which side Im on Im on the side of innovation," said F...

This past summer, TaskRabbit, the online marketplace letting people outsource errands and odd jobs, unveiled a feature extension for its iPhone app called "Deliver Now," which lets users get on-demand...

What do you get when you put a Navy SEAL, a pastor, and a graphic designer in the same room? While I'd wager you'd get some pretty badass Jesus comics out of the collaboration, what you really get is ...

Apple's changes in iOS 6 are already proving plenty beneficial for some of its developers, including mass transit app-maker Embark. The San francisco-based startup has seen 1.3 million trips routed th...

Cisco has made an interesting acquisition today, announcing the purchase of ThinkSmart Technologies, a company that delivers location data analysis using Wi-Fi technology. Financial terms of the deal ...

Megaupload will not be stopped. After a dramatic take-down followed by an anticlimactic trial, Kim Dotcom is quickly rebuilding the Megaupload empire. TorrentFreak recently detailed the relaunch, stat...

EA continues to beef up its cloud-based gaming offerings. Today it was announced that it is buying ESN, developers of the Planet web-based games framework, for an undisclosed sum. The two had already ...

Electronic Arts continues to beef up its cloud-based gaming offerings. Today it was announced that it is buying ESN, developers of the Planet web-based games framework, for an undisclosed sum. The two...

To date, Microsoft has kept hands on time with its Windows Phone 8 devices to a minimum (read: you can look but don't touch) and until recently, a finalized build of the SDK has been limited to only a...

Sharethrough CEO Dan Greenberg has been talking up the benefits of native advertising for a while now often on this very site. Naturally, Sharethrough has been offering services around native video a...

Evidence of market saturation in the U.S. can be seen in new research from IDC that takes a look at the global connected device market. Shipments and revenues declined here, even as worldwide market s...

Peer into the drawers of the average gadget addict and you're sure to find a tangled mess of unused chargers gathering dust. Mobile phones are a prime offender in creating redundant gadget junk, with ...

According to a new Forrester Research report, among U.S. mobile device users, those who use apps tend to be younger and more affluent than those who stick just to the web. Nearly one-third of those wh...

Like an Airbnb for bikes, Spinlister's marketplace lets users with a spare set of wheels list their bikes for rental. Founded in May 2011, the company wants to make use of the millions of bikes that j...

Vibrant Media, the company best-known for its in-text advertising, is unveiling a revamped product lineup today. The changes should make it a little more clear that Vibrant's in-text ads are indeed ad...

Social project management software-as-a-service Wrike released a big update today, including in-line integration of the open source text editor Etherpad. The idea is that instead of attaching document...

The service operates in a crowded space, where dozens upon dozens of apps offer ways to stream, record, broadcast, and/or share video recorded on mobile, but Cloudee's niche was in the emerging "priva...

Coffee Meets Bagel is a dating site based around the idea that volume isn't necessarily a good thing when it comes to finding romance. Instead, it provides one match per day, every day at noon. We cov...

TechCrunch has obtained a secret copy of what may be a mockup for the new Yahoo home page. Yesterday, Yahoo's new CEO Marissa Mayer shared her broad vision for the future of the Internet company with ...

TechCrunch has obtained a secret copy of what may be a mockup for the new Yahoo home page. Yesterday, Yahoo's new CEO Marissa Mayer shared her broad vision for the future of the Internet company with ...

Scoot Networks has been called the "Zipcar for scooters," and is quietly building a (small) fleet of electric, short-range vehicles for getting around San Francisco. The startup started with just 10 s...

HootSuite has carved out a position as a popular way for businesses to manage their social media profiles on sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, but in its quest to become more of a one-stop "d...

Medallia, an enterprise company that offers customer experience management software, has raised $35 million from Sequoia Capital. Sequoia partner Doug Leone be joining the company's board of directors...

Mobile advertising startup Metaresolver is launching today, and like a number of other companies emerging in recent months, it's tackling what its founders see as the big problem holding back mobile a...

Apple's iOS 6 doesn't appear to be doing the company any favors when it comes to user satisfaction, according to a new poll conducted by mobile customer research firm On Device. The survey of just und...

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is planning once again to let stories from its paywalled UK newspaper The Times get indexed by the search giant Google. This reverses a two-year-old policy in which News Cor...

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is planning once again to let stories from its paywalled UK newspaper The Times get indexed by the search giant Google. This reverses a two-year-old policy in which News Co...

Hailo is making the trip overseas from the U.K. with its first North American launch today, as itofficiallydebuts its service in Toronto. From launch, Hailo faces stiff competition Uber is offering f...

DuckDuckMoose, the startup behind a series of educational apps for children, is today announcing having closed on $7 million in Series A funding led bySequoia CapitalandLightspeed Venture Partners, wi...

Well, that didn't take too long -- Google has just announced that it now has another app-related milestone under its proverbial belt. According to a new post on the official Android blog, the Google P...

Samsung's mobile chief Shin Jong-kyun will meet with Google's Eric Schmidt today to discuss Samsung's patents battle with Apple, The Korea Times is reporting....

Samsung's mobile chief Shin Jong-kyun will meet with Google's Eric Schmidt on Thursday to discuss Samsung's patents battle with Apple, The Korea Times is reporting."I will meet Google Executive Chairm...

Enterprise Wi-Fi provider Xirrus has raised $23.5 million in a Series E financing round aimed at accelerating its global sales growth by pushing into Europe and Asia-Pac. It also plans to use the fund...

CANDDi, developers of analytics software that lets websites create profiles of individual visitors, which can then be used to customize the site and improve conversion, has announced that it has picke...

Bureau of Trade, a new online marketplace for men's shopping, is today launching into public beta and announcing a $1.2 million round of seed funding led by Foundation Capital,with contributions from ...

Yesterday we reported that select Samsung handsets running its TouchWiz UI were affected by a flaw that could allow them to be remote wiped after clicking on a malicious link. Samsung has now confirme...

Social recruitment startup, Zao, which offers a platform to enable employers who are hiring to leverage the social web and gamification in their referral programs, is rolling out quite a neat iteratio...

According to the Center for Disease Control, 25.8 million Americans (or 8.3 percent of the population) have diabetes, while an estimated 79 million people (aged 20 and older) have prediabetes -- makin...

B&N is making some big strides in the land of digital, and though these new tablets aren't the most gorgeous slates I've ever seen, they do have what it takes to be contenders against the Fire HD,...

John D. Rockefeller, the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, late on Tuesday sent letters to Google, Microsoft and Yahoo alerting them to how their search en...

Sony is expected to approve a plan to invest around $642 million (50 billion yen) in Olympus. As the Japanese manufacturer of cameras, optics and reprography products is currently facing a trial for h...

The last time I talked up AngelHack, I was impressed that the hackathon had spread to two coasts. Looks like that wasn't enough for founder and CEO Greg Gopman the fall version of the event has now g...

I sat down with Scott McNealy today after he spoke on a panel here at TUCON, the Tibco annual conference here in Las Vegas.McNealy covers a lot of topics. He discussed his new startup WayIn that provi...

Analytics company Datameer raised $6 million today according documents filed with the SEC. The company's PR manager Susan Puccinelli confirmed the funding and said the round came from Redpoint Venture...

For people who live and work around Silicon Valley, sightings of self-driving cars have become pretty common -- especially on the roads and highways near the Mountain View, California headquarters of ...

Thanks to a partnership with The Catlin Seaview Survey, Google Maps now displays Street View-ish images of the Great Barrier Reef and popular underwater spots around Hawaii and the Philippines. Clear ...

New York City-based video advertising startup Genesis Media has raised $3 million in Series A funding.The round was led by digital media holding company Black Ocean (which had previously invested) and...

We in the media have a love-hate relationship with public relations firms and their professionals, with that relationship tending to skew heavily to the latter. Companies pour countless hours of blood...

Veteran content discovery platform StumbleUpon has had a rough go of it over the last six months. In order to keep pace with sexy, young newcomers like Pinterest, StumbleUpon pushed a major redesign a...

Twitter has announced a new email newsletter initiative, hoping that you'll find people that you might already know on the service and then come back to interact....

The new big happy Facebook family is certainly ontheball with iPhone 5, delivering and update not only for its own app, but also one for new subsidiary Instagram designed to work on the new iPhone and...

Facebook has just released theFacebook SDK 3.1 for iOSwhich lets app developers on its platform to take advantage of single sign-on through native login and other features from the social network gett...

Facebook has just released theFacebook SDK 3.1 for iOSwhich lets app developers on its platform to take advantage of single sign-on through native login and other features from the social network gett...

The bags are packed. The passport is on the counter. The Nook Simple Touch is about to hit the road. In its latest retail expansion, Barnes & Noble is sending its ereader to the UK. The little ere...

Just as man-hacks can repair their trajectories as they whiz towards Gordon Freeman's head, these little robots from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems can now pick themselves back up when they cra...

Editors note:Matt Cohler isa General Partner atBenchmark Capital. Hes responsible for identifying investment opportunities in Internet-related companies in addition to working closely with companies a...

This morning, Apple's marketing chief Phil Schiller reportedly told a user that the iPhone 5's aluminum back obviously makes it more prone to scratches. That's all fine and dandy, but that's only a sm...

OK, we are not at Gangnam Style or Call Me Maybe viewing levels. Those videos have more than 274 million and 269 million views, respectively, on YouTube. But today, TechCrunch's YouTube channel pass...

Foursquare wants you to keep in touch with your friends, thats why it has released a new notification setting for the system....

Foursquare wants you to keep in touch with your friends, thats why it has released a new notification setting for the system....

Finding the right game for your Android device can be hard. Are you a tower defense kind of guy or are you in the mood for a Bejeweled clone? Do you like zombies? The military? Fart apps?Thankfully, t...

Finding the right game for your Android device can be hard. Are you a tower defense kind of guy or are you in the mood for a Bejeweled clone? Do you like zombies? The military? Fart apps?Thankfully, t...

Angie Hicks is the co-founder and Chief Marking Officer of Angie's List - the customer review service she helped found in Columbus, Ohio. At Angie's List, subscribers find services and submit non-anon...

Apple's new iPhone 5 comes with a completely new connector, a first since the introduction of the 30-pin model alongside the 3rd generation iPod (though that version received updates including video c...

When most of us play video games, our greatest accomplishment is the mound ofCheetosdust we can collect in a single sitting. At MIT, researchers have hacked the Microsoft Kinect's laser into a wearabl...

Google just launched a new stable version of Chrome today that adds supports for the Pointer Lock JavaScript API. The purpose of this API is pretty simple: in 3D games on the browser, for example, the...

According to Twitter, the Monday Night Football game last night caused quite a stir in the Twitterverse. One player in particular caused a fuss with his very angry tweets about the replacement refs in...

According to Twitter, the Monday Night Football game last night caused quite a stir in the Twitterverse. One player in particular caused a fuss with his very angry tweets about the replacement refs in...

As the iPhone 5 went on sale last Friday, the impressive number of stolen Apple products in New York City should continue to grow. So far this year, the NYPD statistics state that 11,447 devices were ...

As the world of technology gets more and more mainstream, and some of us ponder how the story of startups and tech is namely one of scale and fast growth, the folks at Twitter Counter have been in tou...

As the author of the New York Times' bestselling Hamlet's Blackberry, William Powers taught us how to build a good life in the digital age. And now Powers himself is doing just that. At Crowdwire, a B...

The Internet collectively freaked out yesterday after rumors swirled that Facebook accidently began posting private messages to users' public timelines, exposing all the nasty, salacious, and incrimin...

Yesterday, Google launch the alpha version of RoboHornet, a new open source browser benchmark that, as Google engineer and project lead Alex Komoroske put it, is "a living, dynamic benchmark that aims...

If I'm a company that makes a third-party mapping app for iOS, I am putting up billboards, tackling people in the streets, emailing every tech blog known to man and potentially stalking some of them t...

Damn: Alec Saunders, VP Developer Relations & Ecosystem for RIM, has got some pipes. This little ditty, sung to the tune of Keep On Loving You by REO Speedwagon, is RIM's way of saying that they s...

Capillary Technologies, a social CRM company that helps retailers engage over mobile, email, social and in-store channels, is announcing the close of $15.5 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia C...

BlackBerry 10 is still a ways away, but RIM VP of Business Development Martyn Mallick has revealed that the operating system's App World storefront will sport plenty of new content very shortly. Despi...

Disregard the buggy presentation. RIM and Facebook revealed the BlackBerry 10 Facebook application today at BlackBerry Jam. This native app looks and feels very similar to its iOS and Android counterp...

Music mixing app djay released an update for its iPhone and iPad apps today,introducingiOS 6 and iPhone 5 enhancements andcompatibility. The changes are not just superficial: developer Algoriddim is r...

Ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty, which recently invested in social gaming via a new venture (Chuck Studios) in Asia, has agreed to provide marketing, strategy and services for U.K. sports companion web...

Qvivohas raised $1 million from SingTel Group's corporate venture capital fund for a media-only cloud that people can use to store and watch movies and television shows, as well as and listen to music...

Crowdfunding startup GoFundMe is picking up steam, raising about $3 million in campaigns each month, compared to $2 million just three months ago. Now it's looking to accelerate its growth with a new ...

“BlackBerry has always been crazy about keyboards,” said Thorsten Heins, CEO of RIM, at today’s BlackBerry Jam developers’ conference. And of course, we already knew that. The ...

"BlackBerry has always been crazy about keyboards," said Thorsten Heins, CEO of RIM, at today's BlackBerry Jam developers' conference. And of course, we already knew that. The Canadian phone maker has...

The iOS 6 App Store changes are being met with mixed reviews, and I actually am not a huge fan of how they work from a user experience standpoint. But how are the changes affecting the ranking of apps...

The service has a slightly different focus than some of the crowdfunding platforms that have sprung up as of late, like CrowdTilt for example (which the TechCrunch team used this summer). Unlike those...

Google today announced that it is bringing its indoor maps for places like airports, museums, and malls in Google Maps for Android to France. So the next time you stop by Galeries Lafayette in Paris, ...

Online travel info aggregation and tools startup Traxo has announced the acquisition of frequent flyer miles tracker GoMiles to add customers and beef up its suite of digital travel organization and t...

Do you ever wish you could know when a sports game was really getting good? Like, imagine if a Monday Night Football game ended with a controversial Hail Mary touchdownterception that everyone was tal...

I tend to take naps everywhere on park benches, at my kitchen table after lunch, and most certainly on the subway. In fact, I'm convinced that I have some sort of sleep disorder, despite my doctor's ...

Apple SVP of Marketing Phil Schiller has reportedly responded to a customer complaint regarding the scratching border of a black and slate iPhone 5, via an email received by 9to5Mac this morning. Schi...

ShopInterest.co, an e-commerce platform that lets anyone turn their Pinterest boards into online stores,is today announcing a small, undisclosed investment from 500 Startups, via its newly acquired fu...

In the cut-throat world of desk organization, style often trumps functionality. In the case of Twelve South's HiRise, style meets functionality. See what I did there?The HiRise is a little storage loc...

I've never been a huge fan of the TouchWiz UI Samsung throws onto most of its smartphones (for aesthetic reasons, mostly), but now it seems there's another reason to be wary of the custom Android inte...

Disruptive, on-demand car service app Uber has been experimenting with creative ways of using its logistics infrastructure to add compelling services and experiences to its rides. We've seen seen the ...

Have you ever tried to search the web for reviews of web hosting services? Search results typically fall into two categories: A) Spammers posting rankings and positive reviews to get a cut of the sign...

Everything old is new again... at least in 2012, where some of the new businesses that launch these days seem to - some jaded eyes- to be a little, well, familiar. But, we are assured, it's all going...

Vox Media's 312 SB Nation sites for sports teams around the country are getting a major upgrade today that spans its user interfaces, editorial workflows and ad displays (including for mobile). Publis...

Mobile and social gaming have exploded in popularity over the last few years and both are quickly becoming multi-billion dollar industries. With an estimated 35 million players in the U.S., fantasy sp...

Research firm IHS has followed up its virtual teardown of the iPhone 5 with a brand new physical teardown, confirming its materials list and also the cost of manufacture for the latest Apple smartphon...

Fresh off the heels of a $1.2 million round of funding, the furniture-focused e-commerce siteDeal Dcoris today announcing its official nationwide launch. The company, which we once referred to as a "G...

To address the new reality of our data driven world, we need better ways to manage the network. Google and later Amazon Web Services (AWS), embarked on that journey long ago. Now the market is beginni...

You get a thick skin when messing around on the Internet, and that can go either way. You can react, like a nerve burned raw, or you can become a troll. This is a story of both.I'll paraphrase the sto...

Video recommendations startup Taboola is growing fast, now serving up more than 800 million recommendations per day. But it sees a huge opportunity to expand even more quickly, and is looking to Europ...

European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes has decided the billions of euros stored over at the EU might well be better spent. In a speech today in Brussels she proposed a number of new ideas abo...

Start to finish party planning site Punchbowl is getting into e-commerce today with the launch of Shopping Aisle, a way to shop for supplies, decorations, gift cardsand more for Halloween, Thanksgivin...

If your ecosystem of choice happens to be the Barnes & Noble platform, you'll be happy to know that the book retailer is now offering Nook Video, a service that lets you buy digital copies of your...

That was fast: Mobiplug Networks, a startup focusing on smartphone-controlled smart home technology, which was featured only in August as part of TechStars' most recent class in Boulder, Colorado, has...

The $399 Lytro camera is a marvel of imaging technology and it will soon be a whole lot easier to buy. Starting in early October, the novel camera is hitting Amazon.com, BestBuy.com and Target.com, al...

Amid all the recent brouhaha over why Craigslist has failed to improve for so long (in part leading to frustrated developers building things) the entire classifieds market continues to chug along in i...

A startup called Wanderful Media wants to find a place for circulars (those printed flyers full of the latest deals and coupons) in the digital world.Circulars have long been a staple of printed newsp...

One of the reasons Apple's supply of iPhone 5 devices couldn't meet the opening weekend demand may be due to its decision to use thinner touchscreens vs. previous generations, which combine touch sens...

Sharp is in a bit of trouble and is looking to trim its businesses as a result. The company plans to slash its worldwide workforce by 11,000 souls. The company also plans to generate $2.74 billion by ...

Less than a month after sinking reportedly $40-80 million into Lamoda, Rocket Internet's "Russian Zappos", JP Morgan is investing once again in the Samwer brothers and their vision for a global e-comm...

Crowdfunding is so hot right now, and not just the big, sprawling platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo but the proliferation of more focused/specialised funding platforms that aim to serve a parti...

HuffingtonPostcontinuesahead with its international expansion: the news blog today formally announced its Italian edition, L'Huffington Post, in partnership with Italian newspaper publishers Gruppo Es...

HuffingtonPostcontinuesahead with its international expansion: the news blog today formally announced its Italian edition, L'Huffington Post, in partnership with Italian newspaper publishers Gruppo Es...

Another startup offering to help publishers unlock the full potential of the images they publish, by making them interactive, shareable and, potentially, 'shoppable', gets its full public launch today...

Nokia has announced its cheapest capacitive touchscreen Ashas to date: the Asha 309 and the Asha 308 were unboxed in Jakarta, Indonesia, and like the rest of the Asha range will primarily target emerg...

Another move ahead for carrier billing and making it something practical and useful for developers: the billing company Mach is announcing a wide-ranging deal that will see it offer direct carrier bil...

Another move ahead for carrier billing and making it something practical and useful for developers: the billing company Mach is announcing a wide-ranging deal that will see it offer direct carrier bil...

Last week, TechCrunch broke the news that Everyday Health was buying EQAL, a social media marketing company, for a price of up to $20 million, to fuel Everyday Health's push into more ad-funded video ...

According to Reuters, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt told a crowd of reporters that the company has not submitted a native Google Maps app to Apple as of yet....

European online video startup, Brainient, whose BrainRolls system enables advertisers to incorporate interactive elements into online video adverts to boost brand engagement and recognition -- such as...

Trapit is announcing its platform ambitions today, saying it wants to power a broad range of content recommendation apps. And it's revealing the first big partner, namely Astro, the leading satellite ...

AdMobius, a startup founded by team members from Apple's iAd program, is coming out of stealth mode today, and co-founder/ CEO Dan Grigorovici says the company is tackling oneof the biggest problems i...

AdMobius, a startup founded by team members from Apple's iAd program, is coming out of stealth mode today, and co-founder/ CEO Dan Grigorovici says the company is tackling oneof the biggest problems i...

The world of startup accelerators and incubators seems to be buzzier than ever, so it is hard to think about how a program could really stand apart from the pack. But the people behind the Boulder, Co...

The data center is a mess. They consist of old physical networks, endless snarls of cables and storage boxes the size of refrigerators that stand in contrast to the comparable elegant world of the web...

If you see your friends are registered to vote, you might register too be more likely to actually cast your ballot. So in hopes of making us better citizens, Facebook now lets youdeclare you're "regis...

The developers of Pocket have shared someinterestingstatsaroundApple's latest product releases with us. The web content clipping service is already seeing 20% of its daily app traffic coming from the ...

Craigslist may have a peace sign as part of its logo, but the war over its data continues. As TechCrunch reported it would yesterday, 3Taps has today filed a countersuit against Craigslist in the U.S....

Google just released a research paper with the grandiose title "Understanding the Modern Gamer," which looks at search and purchase activity around blockbuster video game titles.The conclusion: Gamers...

SeatGeek aims to become the definitive search engine for live events, but until now, the tickets available on the site only came from secondary resale sites like StubHub in other words, if a ticket w...

"Behind the scenes it was a real struggle," said Howard Posner, a veteran legislative staffer who helped Google lobby behind-the-scenes for autonomous cars in California. In an usually candidate inter...

Feed stats, one of FeedBurner's main features, is currently broken, and Google quietly wrote a shutdown notice for the API. FeedBurner is a product that has been neglected by Google over the years. Ye...

At just a year of age, Amazon's app store is a relative newcomer against both Google Play and Apple's app store. Yet given Amazon's prowess in e-commerce plus the Seattle-based company's willingness t...

Apple today released its iOS 5.1 update, which brought a number of new features to the table, including the ability to set up custom network configurations using Apple Configurator, the device managem...

Ok, folks, dust off your old web browsers, because Myspace is teasing a brand new design! Yes, the Justin Timberlake-backed whatever-it-is-now has slapped a new coat of paint on something that has alr...

Every once in a while gag sites pop up in our email that make us chortle lightly and say "Sure, we'll bite." To wit: SexDistance.com allows you to see, ummm, how far you go when you have intimate rela...

On Saturday, the financial magazine Barron's published a very damaging cover story against Facebook and its business model. The article doesn't break any news about the company, rather it sums up all ...

Google today announced that its third Code-in contestfor high school students will start on November 26. The contest, which aims to introduce 13-17 year old pre-university students to open source soft...

But this month, the 40-year-old was a featured speaker at a popular tech conference in San Francisco along with the founders of Twitter Inc. and new Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer....

Three weeks ago, we had announced that CrunchBase has partnered with Mashery to move the CrunchBase API to a managed solution. At the time, we simply cutover the API calls to their proxy servers. Over...

IBM has acquired Butterfly Software, a privately held data analysis and migration software company headquartered in Maidenhead, England. Financial terms were not disclosed. Butterfly's main capability...

Want to see exactly how the iPhone 5's speedy new A6 processor compares to the now-somewhat-pokey iPhone 4S A5 chip? I shot a side-by-side comparison shot of the two devices executing a number of task...

YouTube just announced that it is now making it easier for video creators to translate their video captions to more than 300 languages by integrating the YouTube Video Manager with the Google Translat...

SkySQL released its first version of a configuration tool for deploying databases to a cloud environment.To start, the company will offers its configuration tool for use on Amazon Web Services (AWS). ...

Social media managers looking to prove their ROI of what they do, today have a new option for tracking social analytics, thanks to the official public launch of a service called Ohtootay. Crazy name a...

Verizon has officially told the AP that the SIM slot on its iPhone 5, which shipped unlocked, won't be re-locked later on, as was the case with the initial shipment of Sprint iPhone 4S devices sold la...

Some Facebook users are seeing private messages written in 2009 and earlier showing up on viewable Timelines as messages "Posted by friends."We first heard reports of this through emails from readers....

Updated. Some Facebook users are seeing private messages written in 2009 and earlier showing up on viewable Timelines as messages "Posted by friends."TechCrunch has investigated more, and we have foun...

eBay has just debuted a new tool, called Setify, which allows users to basically allows people to create collections of items on eBay. Setify, which is in private beta (but you can request an invitati...

Kickstarter is a machine to build dreams. Whether it's funding the publication of a novel, production of a movie, or the manufacture of, say, a little bike light, the site has proven time and time aga...

Get thee to the 4Mommery because if you're the parent of an infant/toddler, you have got to get you one of these. This is the smoothest, nicest playpen ever made by a home robotics company ever in the...

I know, I know. You're tired of hearing about Apple Maps in iOS 6, but it's a hot topic. Because of it, Google is being discussed in the news more and more. The fruits of that labor is now reflected i...

Google today announced the launch of Google For Entrepreneurs, the company's new umbrella for all of its programs that support startups and entrepreneurs around the world. The program's focus, says Go...

Today Adobe announced that its Adobe PhoneGap Build service is now out of beta. The service is based on the open source Apache Cordova and enables developers to use HTML, CSS and JavaScript to build c...

The United States does not have the "freest" Internet in the world, according to the annual Freedom House transparency and access report, Freedom on the Net. Slow and gentrified broadband access and o...

Groupon continues its acquisition march to beef up its service and take itself beyond daily deals. Today it announced that it has bought Savored, a restaurant reservations and discount meal provider. ...

UbueVu tries to go beyond social media monitoring by providing actual suggestions of things for social media managers to do. Today its Signals service, which we covered previously, is out of beta. The...

This morning during its Create the Web event in San Francisco, Adobe officially launched its set of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript-focused Edge Tools & Services offering for designers and developers. ...

Google has been sprucing up its Hangouts video calling service with anupdated APIfor features like private messages, and the ability to block people and change a Hangout from private to public. Avideo...

Sex. We all have it, and most of us enjoy it. But what do you do when your partner (assuming you only have one) moves out of town or goes on a business trip? Well, you could buy the tiniest Bluetooth ...

Gyft, the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012finalist, which lets you buy, save, redeem and share gift cards using your iPhone, has just launched Passbook integration. Because Gyft supports storing your plasti...

Just about a month ago, we wrote about Ustream's new Broadcast for Friends app, which for the first time allows users to post videos directly to Facebook, so that their friends could watch those video...

Factual is a company that provides open data sets for developers, most notably its location data sets and APIs. The company just announced that it has added thousands of new locations to its U.S. poin...

Well, it started with a conversation. I'd never run a TechCrunch Meetup or 'CrunchUp' in Italy, so I asked my contacts there, where and when should we do one? Little did I realise the tsunami I'd unle...

Professional social network LinkedIn has allowed you to write recommendations for contacts for some time now, but usually these involve actually writing out a recommendation that can posted on a conta...

Apple's iPhone 5 was bound to shake up the accessory market, as it always does. That means new cases, with new features. One new one debuting on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo today called the ReadyC...

A sign that all the TV advertising dollars in the world can't always buy you market share (useful lesson for politicians, too): a list of top ads in the U.S. for tablets puts Samsung way into the lead...

Remember that one time you downloaded iOS 6? You were so excited about features like Panorama and... well, Maps. There was nothing else to be all that excited about, at least from a Christmas-morning,...

Mobile device management (MDM) company Mformation Technologies, which tried to juice millions of dollars from BlackBerry-maker RIM in a patent scuffle but ultimately failed, has been acquired by inves...

TrackVia, a company that provides tools that enable non-coders to build simple web apps, announced today that it raised a series C round of funding Led by Longworth Venture Partners and Fairhaven Capi...

A week after Netflix debuted its new iPhone application, just in time for the iPhone 5 launch, the company is today announcing it has brought a similar updated experience to users of Android devices. ...

Ubooly, A toy that uses Apple's iPhone or iPod touch as a means to turn a cuddly plush into an interactive experience, today revealed to TechCrunch that it has raised a $1.5 million seed funding round...

Sports New Media (SNM) is something of a curiosity. Combining both media management and a technology platform, it works with athletes, sports agents, sporting associations and sport governing bodies t...

Ad tech company eXelate, a provider of data and analytics to help advertisers know more about who to target and how, has announced that it's raised a $12 million C round, led by NewSpring Capital with...

Apple broke records again opening weekend, with the iPhone 5 selling more than 5M in its first three days, compared to 4M for the iPhone 4S....

TiVo announced today that Verizon will pay it a total of $250.4 million in compensation through July 2018 in order to settle an ongoing patent dispute between the two companies. The companies will als...

The iPhone 5 hit stores last Friday. It's the lightest, thinnest, most sleek iPhone yet. But owners are quickly discovering that with those advantages, there are some inherent downsides. The slender i...

SimpliVity has raised $25 million in a Series B round for its "data center in a box," technology. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) led the round with existing investors Accel Partners and C...

Modelled after its New York-counterpart, London is to get its own FinTech Innovation Lab. Supported by the Mayor of London, the City of London Corporation and the Technology Strategy Board, and backed...

PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is offering to sponsor software that lets students poke around the innards of frogs -- without actually, you know, poking around the innards of frogs...

The German online tutoring platform, Sofatutor.com, has raised a new round led by Acton Capital Partners, with participation from existing investors J.C.M.B. Beteiligungs GmbH and "VC Fonds Kreativwir...

Samsung has begun rolling out Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) to its Galaxy S III smartphone in Europe -- which could mean it's the first non-Nexus Android phone to get the 4.1 update....

Another step ahead for Facebook's strategy to make more money out of its mobile business: the company is now accepting mobile payments via carrier billing in the U.S., UK and Germany, with further rol...

Another step ahead for Facebook's strategy to make more money out of its mobile business: the company is accepting mobile payments for its mobile web service via carrier billing in the U.S., UK and Ge...

Last week online commerce and design powerhouse Fab was admitting, with some irony, that the design of its user experience had not been great, given that it required users to log-in before viewing ite...

A group of long-running alternative weekly newspapers is changing hands. Village Voice Media Holdings whose titles include the LA Weekly, Westword, and, yes, the Village Voice is selling its publica...

Editor's note: Saad Khan is a seeker of bad-assness. He found it at Evolution Robotics (not to mention Blekko, Zaarly, Jobvite, Luminate, and LendingClub). Hes a Partner at CMEA Capital. And hes doing...

Evan Williams and Biz Stone are probably still best known for their roles in co-founding Twitter, but what many people in the general public don't realize is that Twitter was actually born as just a s...

Everywhere you turned last week, there was another story about iOS 6 Maps. Some feel like it’s a great new direction for Apple, but people like me feel like we’re left with an ugly experie...

Richard Lai is reporting that over 2,000 employees of the Taiyan Foxconn plant rioted last night, causing damage on the factory campus after a guard allegedly hit a worked at 10pm.The Taiyuan plant is...

Editors note:Jon Bischke is a founder ofEnteloand is an advisor to several startups. In the interest of full disclosure, the author is a National Co-Chair forTechnology for Obama(T4O).You can follow J...

The handsomest man in the world, Bre Pettis, gives the second handsomest man in the world, Phil Torrone, a nice visit to the Makerbot Store in Manhattan. The store is now selling Makerbots, filament, ...

Editors Note:Tadhg Kelly is a game designer with 20 years experience. He is the creator of the leading game design blog What Games Are, and consults for many companies on game design and development. ...

Intels second bite at the smartphone market has been more akin to a gentle nibbling around the edges. At the end of last year the chipmaker teased a smartphone reference design running its new Medfiel...

Editor's note: Michael Weinberg is a staff attorney atPublic Knowledge, an organization thatpreserves the openness of the Internet and the publics access to knowledge; promotes creativity through bala...

It seems that the Iranian government is working to take even tighter control of the country's already heavily-censored version of the Internet.The government said that it's going to launch its own dom...

Apple is pursuing people with experience working on Google Maps to develop its own product, according to a source with connections on both teams. Using recruiters, Apple is pursuing a strategy of luri...

Editor's Note:Leonid (Lenny) Kravets is a patent attorney atPanitch, Schwarze, Belisario and Nadel, LLP in Philadelphia, PA. Lenny focuses his practice on patent prosecution and intellectual property ...

Just about an hour after Apple's iPhone 5 became available for pre-order, the company's website started alerting customers that their phones would likely arrive a week or two after the phone went on s...

Most Apple fans become slightly uncomfortable at the sight of Apples latest television commercials featuring celebrities talking aimlessly to their iPhones. A subtle message in these ads is that consu...

Editor's note:Daniel Gross is CEO and co-founder of Cue. You can follow him on Twitter here.After meticulously analyzing virtually every aspect of his digital life since 1989, Stephen Wolfram noticed ...

The legal fight between mega-listings site Craigslist and third parties that have used its data in their own applications looks like it is taking on a new dimension this week. 3Taps, the company sued ...

Editor's note: Sarah Downey is a senior privacy strategist at Albine, provider of online privacy solutions. Keep track of her on herblog and on Twitter.The ad industry says that Do Not Track will dest...

Editors note: This guest post was written by Mike Shema, director of engineering at Qualys, a leading provider of cloud security and compliance solutions. Mike is also author of the recently published...

Yes, Apple Maps redirect to Google Maps on desktop, Android and any non-iOS 6 phones when you share your location. Womp. Obviously this is happening because there's no hub for Apple Maps on web, but s...

I was always a smart kid. Did very well on tests all through grade school, didn't have to do much work because the work I did do suggested to my teachers that there wasn't an issue. Just a couple miss...

Editors note: Ronen Shilo is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Conduit, a provider of cloud-based solutions that empower web and mobile publishers to engage their users across multiple platforms. Foll...

Editor's note:Navin Chaddhais a Managing Director atMayfield Fund, aglobal early-stageventure capital firm with over $3 billion under management, whose portfolio companiesleverage the drivers of cloud...

The Gillmor Gang John Taschek, Adam Bosworth, Robert Scoble, Victoria Barret, and Steve Gillmor convened at Dreamforce 2012 to honor the burgeoning Celebration of the Cloud. As Marc Benioff and Sir ...

Editor's note: Justin Moore is CEO of Axcient, a cloud solution for data, application, and system uptime. You can follow him on Twitter at @justinrmoore.Many great technology breakthroughs are subject...

You'd think that doing an iPhone 5 Fly Or Die would be a piece of cake, what with 2 million pre-orders in 24 hours, but it's not so simple. All the complaining of boredom and slight lack of innovation...

Late on Friday night in California, Apple made more legal filings against Samsung (we've embedded them below), in which it is requesting a further $707 million in damages related to the $1.05 billion ...

Grant Paul AKA @chpwn has posted the first screenshots of a jailbroken iPhone 5, taller screens and all. While the method isn't public yet, chpwn has posted screenshots of the "alt" App Store Cydia ru...

There are very few things that will get me out of bed at 5am: a family tragedy, more than $100,000 in cash, and a new iPhone. Of course, Matt and I were there to cover the launch of the iPhone 5 live,...

Pandora listeners may notice their regularly scheduled commercial breaks of Ford products and tight jeans were interrupted by a call to support a bill called "The Internet Radio Fairness Act." The pro...

Editor's note:Glenn Kelman, is CEO of Redfin,a technology-powered real estate broker, backed by Greylock Partners and Madrona Venture Group, with more than $7 billion of home sales. He previously co-f...

There have been a lot of social marketing efforts aimed squarely at making content go viral, but equally there seems to be a rising trend, fuelled by big data analytics, of brands (and social media si...

This week Google was granted a patent for "Social computing personas for protecting identity in online social interactions"; in other words, "a pseudonym could be presented as someones name based upon...

The venerable DODOcase is expanding its stately collection of iThing cases to include sleeves. These cases, DODOcase calls them Durables, are handmade in San Francisco and is a departure from the comp...

Editors note: Steli Efti is the Co-Founder and Chief Hustler of ElasticSales and an advisor to several startups and entrepreneurs. You can follow Steli on Twitter here.It is common entrepreneurial wis...

Not saying that it won't happen, or that it can't happen, just that it hasn't happened yet, so if a young looking blond TechCruncher in a pushup bra friends you on Facebook, beware."TechCrunch employe...

Apple's making commercials again, but this time they're really really good. If you're not sold on picking up an iPhone 5 yet, these ads first spotted by Macstories will probably get you stoked....

Apple's making commercials again, but this time they're really really good. If you're not sold on picking up an iPhone 5 yet, these ads first spotted by Macstories will probably get you stoked....

LetsLunch continues to spread its vision of professional networking through lunches it just launch in the United Kingdom. Tied to its UK launch, the startup says it's also releasing version 3.0 of th...

Ok, I'm not a fan of Maps in iOS 6 Maps as you might have read. Seems like the folks over at Google aren't either. By way of Motorola Mobility's Google+ page, the company which is now owned by Go...

Earlier today European regulators collectively scored a victory for privacy when the Irish Data Protection Commissioner revealed it had managed to get Facebook to drop all facial recognition activity ...

Beauty ecommerce site Coterie is today announcing a seed raise of $1.5 million from SoftTech VC, Javelin Venture Partners and Michael Jung.Coterie allows women to sign up for exclusive limited deals o...

Im a fan of maintaining as a direct a route between my stomach and food as I can, but thats the sort of proposition that gets dicier when multiple people are involved. As it happens, multi-person cate...

Users might able to download all of their past tweets by the end of the year, according to reports from those attending Twitter CEO Dick Costolo's talk at the Online News Association conference. In re...

Users might able to download all of their past tweets by the end of the year, according to reports from those attending Twitter CEO Dick Costolo's talk at the Online News Association conference. In re...

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, who was speaking today at the Online News Association conference and awards, was asked to respond to the general controversy over Twitter's recent API changes particularly th...

Poor Romain. Being TechCrunch's only remaining intern, we had him brave the New York City night and blog from the iPhone 5 line. He did it like a champ. And now he's sleeping. In his Aol cubicle. He's...

Even though search history on search engines like Google is totally private, some people still enjoy the ability to delete it. Now Facebook is following suit, allowing you to view and delete all or pa...

We reported earlier that iOS 6's first day adoption was high, but now new information provided to TechCrunch by mobile publishing analytics company Apsalar shows that over time, users are picking up A...

Need more positive reviews for your smartphone app? Well, you can always interrupt your users by inserting one of those annoying review requests when they're inside the app itself, but analytics start...

Apple's iPhone 5 hit store shelves and consumer hands today, and I got a chance to score some hands-on time with a couple of the games that were announced at the event where Apple's smartphone was ann...

For the rest of today, every story you read in TechCrunch's main news river will contain words.This is an experiment, and its probably less of a risk than it might look. Words have always been central...

This is quickly becoming somewhat of a routine event after Apple's latest iPhone goes on sale: a number of early adopters are having issues with the screens on their new phones. When the iPhone 4 firs...

I noticed some odd behavior in mobile Safari on iOS 6, and while I thought it to be just a minor quibble on my part, it turns out that it's actually something of a notable bug, now affecting web devel...

The iPhone 5 has arrived, and it comes with a larger screen than its predecessor, which actually makes for quite a different experience when it comes to software, so long as you have the right apps. H...

When Washington D.C. threatened to raise the price of an Uber cab by a few dollars, the online community staged a full-fledged panic attack.Yet it barely whispered a peep of discontent when Congress i...

There are reports circulating related to the security of users' Pandora passwords. It's not a password leak or an attack, however, but there's concern that passwords aren't being well secured on users...

Editor's note: Matt Cohler isa General Partner atBenchmark Capital. Hes responsible for identifying investment opportunities in Internet-related companies, in addition to working closely with companie...

One of the things that I wanted to do immediately when I joined TechCrunch was to create things that made browsing our news, Instagram photos and tweets pretty and interactive. I personally enjoy usin...

One of the things that I wanted to do immediately when I joined TechCrunch was to create things that made browsing our news, Instagram photos and tweets pretty and interactive. I personally enjoy usin...

Weve all been there sometimes theres work that needs to be done, but its too tedious or too time-consuming to devote your own resources to. Services like Amazons Mechanical Turk have popped up to pro...

Google just launched a new free API that will make it easier for developers to add civic information like polling places, early vote locations, candidate data and election official information to thei...

Thorsten Heins, RIM's President and CEO, has put out a statement apologising for the network outage that struck BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa this morning. ...

Thorsten Heins, RIM's President and CEO, has put out a statement apologising for the network outage that struck BlackBerry users in Europe and Africa this morning. ...

We're here at the ERA Demo Day in New York City, set to bring you the latest and greatest new startups to launch out of the program. In case you're unfamiliar, ERA stands for Entrepreneurs' Roundtable...

Google's early stumbles with Wallet are the startup ecosystem's gains. Chicago's up-and-coming Braintree just poached Aunkur Arya, who headed partnerships for Google Wallet, to be its general manager ...

Apple's iPhone 5 is here, but there are still plenty of people in line. A lot of you might be asking, "Why?" Who better to answer than the people in line themselves? I interviewed some of the first pe...

How popular is Apple's Passbook, the new iOS 6 application that lets you store tickets, cards, and coupons in a mobile wallet-like interface? According to some early data from Branding Brand, the comp...

The iPhone 5 is now on sale in most launch markets starting today, and as daylight approaches on the U.S. west coast, the coveted device will be hitting that market as well. According to early reviews...

"This is a 20 year project" according to Seedcamp founder and chairman Saul Klein, who also just happens to be a partner in the Index Ventures VC firm. It's five years on since Seedcamp's launch in 20...

The ongoing investigation into Facebook's transparency on user data and privacy by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner has come to a positive conclusion for the social network. The DPC, whose decis...

Chinese web and eCommerce giant Alibaba plans to spin off the team developing its first mobile OS -- Aliyun -- Reuters is reporting, you know, the OS Google claims is an inappropriate fork of Android....

While Apple continues to weather very bad press (and embarrassing photographic evidence) over its fumble on Maps in iOS 6, one of its existing mapping partners is getting a little injection of cash to...

While Apple continues to weather very bad press (and embarrassing photographic evidence) over its fumble on Maps in iOS 6, one of its existing mapping partners is getting an injection of cash to conti...

While Apple continues to weather very bad press (and embarrassing photographic evidence) over its fumble on Maps in iOS 6, a mapping company that contributes to another Apple service is getting an inj...

While Apple continues to weather very bad press (and embarrassing photographic evidence) over its fumble on Maps in iOS 6, here's another development in the mapping world, also related to an Apple ser...

Investment fund Grishin Robotics just poured $250,000 into Double Robotics, a telepresence system that uses an iPad and self-righting wheeled base to allow remote users to survey a scene.Grishin is a ...

The fanbois — not the 2 million that pre-ordered within the first 24 hours, but the rest of them — have only recently showed up to Apple's Fifth Avenue flagship store in New York City. Rom...

A network outage has struck BlackBerry users in the EMEA region this morning -- on, irony of ironies, iPhone 5 launch day -- affecting BBM, email and internet but not voice or text. ...

A network outage has struck BlackBerry users in the EMEA region this morning -- on, irony of ironies, iPhone 5 launch day -- affecting BBM, email and internet but not voice or text. ...

With VCs like Sequoia and Nexus Ventures pouring money into India's startup scene, it was only a matter of time before those focused on early-stage funding would follow. Today, GSF India, in partnersh...

We interrupt our normal proceedings to just quickly mention a pretty cool thing a bunch of tech startup founders are doing for charity. This morning "Techbikers" - 40 people from Londons tech communit...

Without sounding too much like a reality TV show, I can't sleep. Observing the wasteland in front of the Apple Store Fifth Avenue helps a bit. Yet, the Apple line heroes have no problem to sleep at al...

When we wrote about Napkin Labs last year, the Boulder-based startup had created an online lab space that functioned as a collaborative community in which fans could help their favorite brands incubat...

With Shazam infiltrating our TVs, showing up in Super Bowl ads, and passing 200 million users, you just might think that the market has its music-identification king. But SoundHound would beg to diffe...

When talking with other people in the line for the iPhone 5, most of them have been doing Apple launches for a long time and are used to living in these conditions. As I'm experiencing it for the firs...

Earlier this week, Space-Time Insight raised $14 million to further develop its geospatial and visual analytics software.The Series B round brings STI's total to $t16 million.EnerTech Capital, Novus E...

Earlier this week, Space-Time Insight raised $14 million to further develop its geospatial and visual analytics software. EnerTech Capital, Novus Energy Partners, and ClearSky Power & Technology F...

YouTube videos may soon be getting a little more interactive. There's now a page on the YouTube website describing a feature called "Video Questions Editor Beta," which was spotted by the Dutch tech s...

Oh, it's on. Over the last year or so, ESPN has been experimenting with better ways to present and distribute its content on the Web and on mobile. Essentially, they realized (or at least I hope they ...

Twitter may be slowly closing the window for how some third parties can use its river of Tweets, but Twitter is also cherry picking others that might prove useful for its own traffic -- and it's using...

The team behind the ridiculously named food daily deals site MunchOnMe is on to the next one, launching a new startup, Caviar after Munch On Me's acquisition. Caviar isSeamless "done right" i.e. a pla...

The team behind the ridiculously named food daily deals site MunchOnMe is on to the next one, launching a new startup, Caviar after Munch On Me's acquisition. Caviar isSeamless "done right" i.e. a pla...

So today, IFTTT sent out an email to users letting them know that they'd be dropping support for certain services due to Twitter's API restrictions. That's a correct statement, but the timing is very ...

For reasons I've never been able to discern, some people really seem to get a kick out of sharing every bit of banal minutia that peppers their daily lives. Should you happen to fall into that categor...

No one got just how powerful it was that Facebook recently said it would allowad targeting to lists of email addresses. Today it became clear as Facebook ad chief David Fischer formally launched"Custo...

As Jordan told you earlier, I am standing in the line for the iPhone 5. Unexpected buyers showed up as well. Occupy Wall Street demonstrators planned a strategy to hijack the event. They are currently...

Adam Freed, who was appointed chief operating officer at Etsy just over a year ago in August 2011, has stepped down from the COO role at the online crafts marketplace. News of the change first came to...

I've never been a fan of animated avatars on any service, let alone Twitter. I am an avid user of the web client, and I cannot stand seeing things flash before my eyes along with 140 characters, but m...

Apple has finally broken silence on the customer reaction to Maps in iOS 6, which spawned Tumblrs, fake twitter accounts and generally a lot of mockery and confusion. The statement, provided to AllThi...

Editor's note: Michael Beckerman is President and CEO of The Internet Association, a new policy lobby representing Google, Amazon, and Facebook, among many web-based technology companies. This piece, ...

Here's an email that IFTTT sent out today to users, and it's not good news for Twitter fans....

It turns out it's really hard to map the world. Along with theiriOS 6update, many amateur digital cartophiles were in for a rude awakening: Apple Maps, which looked so cool in Apple's launch demo, are...

Oracle just announced mixed third quarter earnings this afternoon, reporting that revenues were down 2% to $8.2 billion. GAAP earnings per share were $0.41, up 15% compared to last year while non-GAAP...

Today Facebook awarded the 12 best social marketing tool and service providers with a new "Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer" distinction. The exclusive sPMD list will help brands sort through t...

Today I dropped off TC writer Romain Dillet at Apple's 5th Ave flagship store in New York City, where he'll be waiting in line for the iPhone 5. He'll be bringing you updates from the front lines all ...

Hackers have exploited agaping identity flaw that allows them to easily crack Oracle databases.The flaw allows anyone to do a brute force attack and access the data. A researcher presented the finding...

We just reported that Apple's iOS 6 saw an adoption rate of around 15 percent according to Chitika, and now Chartboost has provided numbers that back up that uptake. Chartboost is also seeing 15% upta...

There are a lot of dating sites out there and the world doesn't really need another one. That's why the young, New York-based startup, Grouper, calls itself an "online social club" even though its mem...

Every time Apple releases a new iPhone, Steve Wozniak is going to be waiting up all night on line to get one. TechCrunch was planning to talk to him at one of his usual digs at an Apple Store in Los ...

With the launch of iOS 6, Apple finally brought a clock app to the iPad. Now, however, the design of the clocks in the app has become somewhat of a controversy as Swiss Federal Railways (mostly known ...

"In the Studio" continues after last week's Disrupt conference by hosting a guest who, after various stints in finance, venture capital, and at one of the Valley's storied Internet companies, joined a...

A lot of news coming out of Facebook today, it seems. This afternoon, the social network is also announcing a series of updates for Android users, which include improvements to both the Facebook for A...

A new report just released by ad network and data analytics firm Chitika says that Apple's iOS 6 has already been adopted by 15% of eligible iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users, just 24 hours after the ...

A new report just released by ad network and data analytics firm Chitika says that Apple's iOS 6 has already been adopted by 15% of eligible iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users, just 24 hours after the ...

The United States Congress' website got an expensive new facelift this week, but access to its incredibly valuable data was conspicuously absent. Most citizens are unaware that Congress has its own in...

Since the iOS 6 update, there's been a lot of negative reaction from users, around issues of accuracy (this Tumblr says it all) and the lack of built-in transit directions. In particular, as a carless...

ngry Birds started life as a mobile app but it's since become a sprawling merchandising and rights licensing empire for its creator Rovio -- helping it rake in earnings of $106m in 2011. From clothes,...

As you should already know, the iPhone 5 is upon us. The phone goes on sale tomorrow morning, with doors opening at 8am Eastern Time. There are already a few dozen people in line at New York's 5th Ave...

News360, a startup promising a personalized newsreading experience, just announced its beta publisher program, where it works directly with publishers to create a custom, branded experience in the app...

Facebook just announced a new social plugin that should cut down on moments that leave you thinking, "How did this end up on my profile?"Thanks to Facebook's Open Graph, users can automatically publis...

Not that it should come as a big surprise, given that Target was one of the brands showcased in the Passbook demo at Apple's WWDC in June, but today it's official: Target's app is now Passbook-enabled...

Why would Facebook quietly hide everyone's real email addresses and only display @facebook.com addresses on our profiles? Signs, rumors, and one source point to pressure from Apple to join forces and ...

Oh, Apple, we love you so much. Well, a lot of us do anyways. The company has been pretty amazing when it comes to introducing new products to the marketplace, and most of that is definitely because t...

Oh, Apple, we love you so much. Well, a lot of us do anyways. The company has been pretty amazing when it comes to introducing new products to the marketplace, and most of that is definitely because t...

BlockAvenue, which is launching today, has acquired and aggregated about 50 million data points from across the U.S. to assign a letter grade to virtually every neighborhood and city block in the coun...

Everyme, the Y Combinator-backed startup with an app focused on private social circles, is announcing a new product today called Origami, which customizes the private sharing concept for a specific gr...

Once again, the list of places where you can buy one of Amazon's Kindles has gotten shorter. According to a new report from Reuters, low-cost retail titan Walmart has completely dropped Amazon's full ...

I've been in this boat: your heart sinks as you watch pre-order times slip for the latest Apple hotness while you wait to amass the necessary funds, or you wake up to find that the first batch rolling...

Taptu, a competitor with Flipboard and Pulse in the 'tablet news reader' stakes, was aiming to be the new-new thing when it launched back in 2010. A few iterations and fund-raising's later it's fair t...

Opera just released version 7.5 of its Opera Mini for Android browser. The main feature here is Opera's so-called "Smart Page," which is meant to give you a quick and easy-to-read update of what's hap...

Many sites want to offer video, but they can't afford their own studio or a quality video production team. Magnify entered the picture in 2007 to give publishers and brands the opportunity to offer c...

Crowdfunding is all the rage these days, isn't it? People are crowdfunding their hardware startups, crowdfunding their vacations, even crowdfunding their weddings. And now, you can crowdfund concerts ...

Competition in the social task/project-management market is heating up. Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz's startup Asana and Salesforce.com's Do.com are some of the most visible players (see my pr...

Simple.TV, whichattracteda lot of attention at this year's International CES show in January, is finally announcing the ship date for its DVR solution for live and recorded TV: September 27 for U.S. c...

The patent dramas of the last couple of years have included fights between the very biggest tech titans -- Oracle v. Google; Samsung v. Apple; etc. -- those picking on the little guys -- remember pate...

The patent dramas of the last couple of years have included fights between the very biggest tech titans -- Oracle v. Google; Samsung v. Apple; etc. -- those picking on the little guys -- remember pate...

Apple's power to drive downloads cannot beunderestimated, as a new report from notes. Yesterday, Apple released iOS 6, as well as an update for OS X and just about every first-party app it offers on i...

TechCrunch just got its hands on the new Aakash UbiSlate 7Ci, the super-cheap tablet that will attempt to connect every student in India to the Internet. Educators have long hoped that cheap computing...

A Republican immigration reform bill to grant more visas to high-skilled immigrants is facing an uphill battlein Congress. The proposed bill, The STEM Jobs Act, trades the 55,000 visas allotted under ...

When a mobile game pivots: Y Combinator-backed MinoMonsters, a Pokmon-inspired game from two of the incubator's youngest founders made a bold move earlier this summer when they released version 2.0 of...

App discoverability is a constant thorn in the side of developers. It's also an obvious annoyance for consumers who have to spent time sifting through app store chaff to find the bits of software real...

Pinterest may have had its start several years back led by three non-technical co-founders, but the company is showing that it's serious about being an engineering powerhouse.Pinterest, which recently...

Real estate listings and search site Trulia has just made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "TRLA." The company's stock opened at $22.10, up 30 percent from the company's prici...

A patent newly-published by the USPTO and filed by Apple in June reveals plans for a system through which devices could be charged by the movement of a person's body, thanks to electromagnetic inducti...

Samsung has been widely expected to add the iPhone 5 to itsongoingpatent disputes with Apple, and today the Korean electronics company made that official, noting in a U.S. court filing uncovered by Re...

Oh look, maybe Facebook commerce can work. Soldsie, a San Francisco-based startup which was previously operating under the name Central.ly, is today officially launching a social media point-of-sale p...

Offers, a free couponing service launched by Facebook back in May to beef up its commercial profile with businesses, is getting an update. From today, and gradually rolling out globally, Facebook is a...

If you're going to the North Country Fair where the wind hits heavy on Lake Michigan, we want you to attend one of our TC Northern meetups to be held in Toronto on November 5, Detroit on November 7, a...

Netgear unveiled an all-new lineup of streaming media players today, including the NeoTV, NeoTV PRO and NeoTV MAX, available for $49.99, $59.99 and $69.99 respectively beginning today, September 20. T...

The iPhone 5's partial support for LTE frequencies in Europe means that when the iPhone 5 goes on sale tomorrow, the only Europeans who will be able to use it for 4G speeds are customers of T-Mobile, ...

We've seen that the new Apple-created iO6 map which replaces the Google Maps app has had - how can we put it - a little bit of a backlash. But this morning, as Europeans woke up to a little screen en...

While I doubt this guy will replace the Homer Simpsons of the world, Baxter by Boston-based Rethink Robotics is a robot that could definitely give the average button pushers a run for their money. The...

MoPub, the Accel-backed mobile advertising startup founded by ex-AdMob and Google employees, is today announcing a $12 million round of Series B funding which the company says will be used for hiring ...

Moo.com, the online-to-print business card company that was one of the UK's earlier startup successes, is branching out: it is buying all of the assets ofFlavors.me, the site where people can create o...

Natural language-styled comparison engine VERSUS IO is boasting some decent growth today, along with adding new verticals -- cameras, camcorders and apps -- to its initial offering which targetedbuyin...

Lesson for social networking startups: don't mess around with your early adopters. Tiny Post, the 500 Startups company that lets users post photos with short messages attached to them (like a visual T...

Lesson for social networking startups: don't mess around with your early adopters. Tiny Post, the 500 Startups-backed company that lets users post photos with short messages attached to them (like a v...

Earlier this year, Roku announced plans to release a Streaming Stick, which would bring all the same streaming capabilities that users have come to expect from its streaming boxes -- but at a fraction...

Can somebody please tell this guy that he doesn't work here anymore?...

CB Insights is releasing a report that shows that corporate VCs are investing at a high. In fact, after a lackluster Q1, corporate VCs are opening up their wallets as deal activity hits a five quarter...

Over the past day or so the vituperation against the iOS 6 Maps app AKA the Maps app that makes you wish you were running Android has been rising on the blogsphere? Why? Well the app is kind of wonky,...

There's trouble brewing in Pinterest land. Sex.com [SFW] (a site that can be arguably described as a Pinterest with yoo yoos and ha has) has been banned as a source for user pins, thereby reducing the...

Aaron Greenspan, a programmer and web entrepreneur who was a contemporary of Mark Zuckerberg's while the two were students at Harvard University, has released a new batch of instant message conversati...

Singaporean telecommunications giant SingTel has acquired intelligent, social photo aggregator Pixable, for $26.5 million. The company develops sleek social photo creation, aggregation and categorizat...

It looks like there's been another bug in today's launch of iOS 6. We've been getting multiple tips stating iOS 6 is causing a bug in users' WiFi several hours after it's installed. There are also twe...

Moment.meis a newly launched iPhone application which automatically aggregates photos, videos and tweets from social networks, and then organizes them into multimedia albums it calls "moments." It cur...

At its I/O developer conference earlier this year, Google showed off an upcoming browser-based collaboration with Cirque du Soleil that was meant to bring some of Cirque's imagination to the browser. ...

Back in June, Bright announced a new recruiting tool called Bright Score, a system that automatically scores whether someone is a good fit for the job. But that's just one way Bright can make use of a...

Silicon Valley, residents of California, and citizens in 11 other states can now register to vote online. California, the newest state to ease the inconvenience of vote registration, launched their on...

Silicon Valley, residents of California, and citizens in 11 other states can now register to vote online. California, the newest state to ease the inconvenience of voter registration, launched their o...

Already, apps are hitting the App Store with Passbook support, providing tickets, loyalty cards and coupons you can actually use. So I tried to do just that, using the newly updated Cineplex (Canadian...

Already, apps are hitting the App Store with Passbook support, providing tickets, loyalty cards and coupons you can actually use. So I tried to do just that, using the newly updated Cineplex (Canadian...

TuneUp, the iTunes plug-in that improves your music library by fixing mislabeled songs, adding missing cover art, and the like, is introducing a fun new feature today the ability to view the lyrics o...

Adobe Systems reported third quarter earnings, missing analyst expectations. Adobe's revenue came in at $1.08 billion, up 7 percent from the same quarter last year (analysts expected sales of $1.1 bil...

The popular screenshot tool Skitch is launching on the iPhone today and Evernote, which bought the tool about a year ago, also just released version 2.0 for Mac and iPad. With this update, Skitch is a...

Here we go again. Samsung (and its agency) has historically had no problem poking fun at overly-obsessed, iPhone-idolizing Apple fanatics, and just like clockwork, the Korean electronics giant has rel...

Makerbot has just announced the Replicator 2.0, a brand new Makerbot Replicator with a larger build plate, coated metal chassis, and improved software as well as better print resolution. In short, thi...

As you know, Apple has released iOS 6 widely, and I'm not too stoked about the new Maps application. I've been using it for a few months thanks to the developer version, and my experience has been mad...

Today. comScore released a study on U.S. smartphone behavior with respect to retail and shopping. The study found that 4 in every 5 smartphone users, which represents 85.9 million U.S. users, accessed...

Today. comScore released a study on U.S. smartphone behavior with respect to retail and shopping. The study found that 4 in every 5 smartphone users, which represents 85.9 million U.S. users, accessed...

So it looks like another social media marketing company may be close to getting acquired. We've been hearing for a month now that Eqal -- which builds "influencer networks" around celebrities and bran...

Apple has released an update to OS X that brings Facebook single sign-on to its desktop operating system. That means you can use your Facebook credentials to sign in to the network under "Settings ...

Here's an example of awesome technology working, but potentially at the wrong time. The Salesforce/Dreamforce keynote was interrupted during its Ustream streaming due to copyright protection....

Here's an example of awesome technology working, but potentially at the wrong time. The Salesforce/Dreamforce keynote was interrupted during its Ustream streaming due to copyright protection....

Millions of people are downloading iOS 6 right now, and many will use the Facebook contact sync feature to pull in photos and current phone numbers of friends. But rather than your real email address ...

Facebook engineer Sean Lynch has built a mind-blowing, custom server-monitoring tool for the company that uses heat mapping to keep tabs on a huge number of servers at a glance. Lynch is part of the c...

We're hearing that Nils Puhlmann, the cloud security expert who has worked as Zynga's Chief Security Officer since 2009, resigned from the company yesterday, according to two sources familiar with the...

Courtesy of a new partnership with Buffer, users of the 'make-your-own-online-magazine'-styled service, Scoop.it, can now schedule social media updates at the same time as they curate their topic-base...

One of the worst things about getting drunk far from home is having to abandon your car overnight which you then have to painfully retrieve it the following day, hangover and all. Sometimes, the car i...

A theme is emerging Marc Benioff's keynote. Man, machines and social networks are part of the next evolution in technology and compares to the movements of the past forty years dating back to the main...

Apple introduced an update to OS X alongside the iOS 6 update today, version 10.8.2. It offers Facebook integration, allowing users to sign in with their Facebook integration at the system level and ...

So, iOS 6 is upon us and people are going to start getting their new iPhones this week as well. What they'll soon (maybe) realize is that Maps for iOS is no longer powered by Google. And it sucks some...

iOS 6 is here, and you're probably in some stage of trying to download or install it on one or more device if you're reading this, or at least contemplating an upgrade. Some might bethinkingabout hang...

Apple has pushed iOS 6 live, meaning you can update now, either by visiting Settings > General > Software Update on your iPhone 3GS or later, iPod touch 4th gen or later, or iPad, or by pluggi...

Today at HTC's press conference, the company introduced two new phones. The Windows Phone 8X is the bigger brother, the flagship device. With a 4.3-inch display and competitive specs, it is no surpris...

The Windows Phone 8S isn't necessarily the most impressive of HTC's latest line-up, being baby brother to the 4.3-inch 8X and all. It's design, on the other hand, looks and feels great. HTC has a knac...

Apple is launching iOS 6 today and one of the changes that will likely spark a lot of discussion is the new Maps app that does away with Google Maps and replaces it with Apple's own (and by most accou...

Good Magazine, the publication aimed at socially-conscious consumers, has been through some ups and downs in the last year -- buyingsocial media platform Jumo (up), getting rid of editorial staff (dow...

If you don't know about HaulerDeals, you probably should. The network of YouTube personalities has more than 5 million subscribers and a billion video views in total, and is quickly establishing a new...

Stripe announced today that it is expanding its service to Canada, marking its first launch outside of the U.S. and the first step in a larger strategy of broad international availability. The Canadia...

If you've ever needed a better way to manage your contact lists directly on your iPhone, a new app called Ringya (yeah I know, kind of a dopey name, but stay with me here) can help. But what makes thi...

HTC just revealed its family of Windows Phone 8 devices and HTC says mid-range 8S model is aimed squarely at the general consumer. But it's missing a lot of features. Apparently the general consumer w...

There are a handful of startups that are going to build mobile-social gaming platforms or die trying. Los Angeles' Scopely is one of the latest. The company, from AdSense Co-creator Eytan Elbaz, is cl...

There are a handful of startups that are going to build mobile-social gaming platforms or die trying. Los Angeles' Scopely is one of the latest. The company, from AdSense Co-creator Eytan Elbaz, is cl...

HTC has been one of Microsoft's longest-standing mobile partners (think back to the Windows Mobile days), and today the Taiwanese company officially pulled back the curtains on the newest fruit of tha...

Here we are, in New York City, prepping for HTC's New York press event. Three phones are expected, all of which will run the very capable Windows Phone 8 OS. The invitation gave nothing away, simply a...

Last week it was revealed that personal data management app Evernote would integrating Skitch--the image-editing app it acquired last year that has now seen 10 million downloads -- further into its se...

Munich, Germany-based company, Carpooling.com, whose ride-sharing service helps shift more than a million people around Europe each month, has launched a new Android app -- adding a PayPal payment opt...

Munich, Germany-based company, Carpooling.com, whose ride-sharing service helps shift more than a million people around Europe each month, has launched a new Android app -- adding a PayPal payment opt...

Just when you thought you had settled on your preferred news magazine for the iPad (be it Flipboard, Zite, Currents, or something else entirely), another new contender enters the ring. Today, the Newz...

Gnip is announcing a new product today that provides access to the full database of public tweets from the beginning of time or rather, the beginning of Twitter. The company says that's only availabl...

LG's new top-tier Optimus G certainly looks like a contender on paper -- its 4.7-inch HD IPS display, 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, 2GB of RAM, 13-megapixel camera, and LTE support mak...

StumbleUpon is releasing a new version of its iOS today I've played with a little, and it's a good-looking, intuitive-feeling app that could make the content discovery service more addictive than eve...

Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia investor conference today, Time Warner Cable's president and COO Rob Marcus explained during a webcast session that the cable provider is willing to sacrific...

Heroku has added Java for a new enterprise focused service so companies and IT organizations can build and run Java applications in the cloud.In a press release, Heroku boasts it will allow companies ...

As we reported earlier this year, VC Charlie ODonnell, who has worked as at both First Round Capital and Union Square Ventures, launched his own venture firm, New York-based Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. ...

When it rains, it pours. Today, Apple is rolling out the new version of its iOS 6 mobile operating system, and already we've come across several companies building apps poised to take advantage of one...

Photo- and video-sharing startup Mobli has gotten a lot of attention since it launched for signing up celebrity investors. Well, you probably haven't heard of its newest investor -- at least, not unle...

Robin, a virtual assistant application for Android that's a bit like KITT in app format, is out with its first major update since its public beta launch in June. Not meant as a Siri clone, Robin is fo...

Salesforce.com is setting up the next big battle in the market with a new service they are calling Facebook style identity for the enterprise.The new service, which Marc Benioff first discussed on sta...

Like the Galaxy S III before it, Samsung has just announced that the new Galaxy Note II will indeed hit all five major U.S. carriers -- AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular, and Verizon Wireless ...

Startup Health first announced Round One of its startup academy roster in March. There were ten different companies, ranging from a device that made it possible to conduct high-risk pregnancy at home ...

Vimeo is a great site that's done a lot for independent online video creation and publishing, but one thing that's been missing from its platform is a way for creators to make money directly from thei...

T-Mobile USA has just announced that John Legere, who has been in the U.S. and global telecommunications industry for 32 years, will take over as CEO of the company. The change is effective September ...

Last week during TC Disrupt Salesforce's CEO Marc Benioff referred to how the company was planning a Box-style competitor called Chatterbox. Today, the company has officially announced it. It is name-...

Hope you already ordered your iPhone 5. Apple just updated the shipping estimate, pushing the window for all variations from 2-3 weeks to 3-4 weeks. And with good reason, too. It's a great phone.It's ...

Salesforce has made some pretty hefty bets on social monitoring, engagement, content and advertising with the acquisitions of Radian6 and Buddy Media. As you may remember, the CRM giant shelled out $3...

Nearly a year ago, Salesforce acquired social performance platform Rypple, and revealed that it will be entering the human capital management (a.k.a. employee and talent management software) market. E...

At Salesforce's annual conference, Dreamforce, the company announced a number of new improvements to its Sales and Service Clouds. First, the company is launching Salesforce Touch, which is powered by...

Washington DC-headquartered lobby group The Internet Association -- which named its president and CEO earlier this year -- has now unveiled its full membership roster and policy platform....

Bromiumhas released its first software product -- a micro virtual machine (micro-vm) that traps malware and analyzes it for IT administrators to examine once an attack takes place.Bromium is a startup...

You've probably never heard of interactive media firm RGM Group, which is beyond a ton of custom ad experiences online. But after eight years of operating profitably without raising any money, RGM is ...

E-sports are becoming big business. How big? Big enough that San Francisco-based live streaming startup Twitch (formerly TwitchTV) has about 20 million gamers watching e-sports on its platform. And so...

Some development in the e-book price war being played out in Europe -- and an indirect victory for Amazon and any other retailer not called Apple in the process: the European Commission has announced ...

SnapLogic, a company that helps enterprises integrate their cloud environments with on-premise solutions, has raised $20 million Series C funding round led by Ignition Partners, joined by Triangle Pea...

One of the highlights of Apple's iOS 6 launch today is Passbook, the company's new tool for managing your loyalty cards, coupons, boarding passes, movie tickets and similar cards that you may currentl...

The Wi-Fi Alliance has launched a device certification program for the new Miracast wireless streaming standard which aims to simplify video and audio sharing between different devices -- doing away w...

If, one day, we really are all going to be carted around in driverless cars from the likes of Google and others, then we may as well have some apps on board to keep us occupied. Today, the Linux Found...

Our boss Jay Kirsch often refers to TechCrunch as "Forbes during the sixties," a description that royally annoys me because I think TechCrunch is just TechCrunch during the 2010s.He also thinks that w...

For decades, the door to America's top-tier universities has been closing, and today your chances of being admitted to these prestigious institutions is slimmer than ever. This year, the acceptance ra...

For decades, the door to America's top-tier universities has been closing, and today your chances of being admitted to these prestigious institutions is slimmer than ever. This year, the acceptance ra...

You pick it up and it almost feels fake. That's not to say it feels cheap; because it doesn't quite the opposite, actually. It just doesn't seem real. Certainly not to someone who has been holding th...

Salesforce.com will announce new features for its "Facebook for enterprise" service Chatter this week at its annual Dreamforce conference. CEO Marc Benioff already revealed during his TechCrunch Disru...

News broke tonight that The Blackstone Group, which operates the second largest equity fund businesses in the world, has agreed to acquire home automation giant, Vivint, in a deal that's worth just ov...

You pick it up and it almost feels fake. That's not to say it feels cheap; because it doesn't quite the opposite, actually. It just doesn't seem real. Certainly not to someone who has been holding th...

Twitter has released numerous "user experience enhancements" this summer including today's update. But subtly embedded in each are the building blocks of a better business plan. Twitter is slowly and...

Ask engineers about their favorite toys growing up, and chances are, LEGOs will be mentioned. Often, they'll be discussed with great intensity and detail, as in, "The best Christmas ever was in 1988, ...

Founders Den, the "clubhouse for entrepreneurs" (it's like a co-working space, but classier) based in San Francisco's startup-heavy Soma neighborhood, just kicked off its third demo day....

Last July, TeliportMe launched an Android app that allows users to capture and share panoramic images. The app, appropriately called 360, is gives users the ability to not only capture high-res 360 pa...

Today, the Google+ team shared some insight into a few tweaks that it's made to the Hangouts experience over the last couple of months, as well as some new initiatives.In a post on Google+, ...

Correctly anticipating that Twitter's API crackdown would reach photo sharing services, Twitpicis actively talking to at least two potential acquirers and has received offers over the past few weeks s...

As startups, mega-corporations, and governments strain to promote women leaders in technology, new evidence suggests that the relative timidity of women may simply be a function of voting procedure. W...

Google officially launched its Google Business Photos (a.k.a. Indoor Streetview) initiative in April 2010, but this indoor imagery was often hard to find and only appeared on Google+ Local and in...

Apple's latest mobile operating system gets released tomorrow, a few days ahead of the iPhone 5's launch on Friday. iOS 6 brings a lot of new stuff, and we've covered that in detail in previous posts....

I spoke to Square today about some of their latest moving and shaking in recruiting, and learned that the company has nabbed a 5,000 square foot office space in the Atlantic Station section in Atlanta...

Do we need another subscription service to deliver things to the doorstep? Blue Apron surprises with a new take on the market: every week, all the fresh ingredients you need to cook three meals are de...

Facebook today begins testing its own mobile ad network where advertisers can pay to target ads for app stores or websites at you based on your Facebook data that appear while you're on other apps and...

Facebook today begins testing its own mobile ad network where advertisers can pay to target you with ads for app stores or websites based on your Facebook data that appear while you're on other apps a...

We've written a lot about our Hackathon hackers: their shirts, their hats, their ability to code all night sustained by only junk food, beer, and Red Bull. But this year we decided to do something a l...

Microsoft just announced a few small but interesting updates to its cloud storage service SkyDrive. Just like your desktop, SkyDrive will now offer a recycle bin that allows you to recover files you m...

Analysts have begun making their predictions about the iPhone 5's odds of success for launch weekend sales, and in fact there's quite a range when it comes to how the experts see things shaking out. A...

Virident Systems, a company that develops flash-based storage class memory solutions for the enterprise, has raised $26 million in Series D funding led by Mitsui Global Investments with Globespan Capi...

Market research firm Harris Interactive today announced that it is partnering with Google's recently launched Google Consumer Surveys "to develop and bring to market a new product that allows business...

While Mitt Romney fends off the press, after he was secretly recorded denigrating 47% of Americans, let us not forget that his rival, Barack Obama, and other illustrious politicians, have also forgott...

While Mitt Romney fends off the press, after he was secretly recorded denigrating 47% of Americans, let us not forget that his rival, Barack Obama, and other illustrious politicians, have also forgott...

The Badgeville gamification service is now available on Salesforce.com's AppExchange. The new service will allow people to give out badges for use on any app in the Salesforce.com ecosystem....

Personal Web has filed patent complaint against Rackspace for hosting GitHub. Documents embedded within....

You've heard of Kickstarter and IndieGoGo and I'm sure you've heard of plenty of other crowdfunding startups. But clearly there was a gap in the market waiting to be filled. That gap was farms. Yes, f...

RIM has licensed the exFAT file system from Microsoft. This will enable BlackBerry devices to handle files larger than 4GB....

Open Ocean, the VC fund led by former MySQL and Nokia execs, is investing $1.3 million in Stockholm, Sweden-based startup Truecaller -- maker of the crowdsourced phone directory app and web white page...

Paris-based VC Ventech is in the process of closing its fourth fund. Called Ventech Capital F, the new vehicle is aiming to be a 100 million fund ($130M). It's raised 75% of the final target so far fr...

The growing prevalence of massively-open learning platforms and open education resources is bringing a sea change to the educational landscape. High-profile institutions have begun to adopt and launch...

Last year, BlackBerry maker RIM acquired the social calendaring app Tungle.me. Since then, the Tungle team mostly focused on the BlackBerry Calendar app for RIM's less than successful Playbook tablet....

Almost exactly a month ago, Google's Motorola Mobility filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Apple with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington. Today, the ITC announced its ...

One of the main selling points of HotelTonight, the app that allows users to reserve hotel rooms for, yes, that very evening, is its simplicity. In most cities, you just see three hotels, each in a di...

The iPhone 5 brings a lot to the table, but a lot of its changes lie under the hood away from prying eyes. Or away from those eyes, at least until Friday, when it'll get opened up by a host of folks, ...

CloudMagic, the cross-platform cloud search utility, is one of those little undiscovered gems that has turned into an app that I now launch every day. The service, which started back in 2010 as a brow...

In July, Google announced its plans to shut down iGoogle, its personalized homepage which users customized with gadgets of their choosing, including things like Twitter updates, shopping lists, calend...

10gen, the sponsor company of the open source NoSQL database MongoDB, today announced undisclosed investment from In-Q-Tel, a non-profit private equity and venture capital firm that invests in technol...

Five years after launch, Livestream is making it even easier for video producers to begin live streaming events to their audiences -- and to do so in a way that doesn't annoy them with long pre-rolls,...

Fourandsix Technologies has launched FourMatch, a software extension for Photoshop CS5/CS6 that analyses the authenticity of JPEG images....

Before the hot-selling iPhone 5 launched into existence, most of the surprise had already been ruined. We saw parts, heard about launch dates, and even saw full-fledged photos of the device. So if tha...

Sneakpeeq, a social shopping startup that debuted at TechCrunch Disrupt last year, is launching its iPad app today. The company has also hit the one million members mark. You can download the iPad app...

Don't call it electronic sell-through. Call it "Digital HD."20th Century Fox, the studio behind hits like Prometheus has got a whole new type of movie to sell you online. And while the actual product ...

American Express has hired an experienced payments exec and technologist to help lead and scale product management for consumer products. Erich Ringewald, the former CTO of mobile payments platform BO...

Care.com, the site that helps parents and families find babysitters, nannies, child care and senior care professionals, is today releasing a new iPhone application called Karoo which is designed to co...

AT&T announced early on that users wouldn't be able to use FaceTime over cellular connections on its network, for subscribers who aren't on the carrier's Mobile Share Plans. The decision was obvio...

Hasselblad announced today that it will be introducing a new mirrorless interchangeable lens camera (MILC) called the Lunar early in 2013, something which you can be pretty sure will appeal to a very ...

Outbid's real-time mobile auctions are neat enough as is, but the company has just pushed out an iOS app update that packs a much-needed feature to make the auction experience complete -- users can no...

Motorola outted its first Intel powered smartphone today: the Razr i. The debut, strategically planned in London, raises questions of whether Motorola can claw back market share in Europe -- where it'...

Dropbox has been busy. After adding new security features in the wake of an accounts hijacking, and adding support for the Galaxy Camera and the Galaxy Note II, the company has now released an update ...

It's no secret that developing and testing Android applications can be difficult, but a newly launched solution called DeployGate intends to take the pain out of part of the process. In a nutshell, De...

Video discovery, video discovery, video discovery -- it's like this is the thing that's on everyone's mind, right? You've got billions of hours of video being made available on the web and no good way...

Social publishing network Wattpad today announced that Toronto's OMERS Ventures has joined its existing Series B round of investment, which totals $17.3 million, the amount announced back in June (OME...

Looks like Nuance has been up to more than just updating its myriad applications. The company has announced that it will acquire San Jose-based Ditech Networks for $1.45 per share, which works out to ...

Philadelphia-based Perceptual Networks has raised $1 million in funding from an impressive group of VCs and angels, including First Round Capital, Bullpen Capital, Max Levchin, Steve Chen, Michael Bir...

Skyscanner is somewhat of a Scottish success story. Founded in 2003, the travel search site, best known for its flight comparisons (though it's branched out to include car hire and hotels), is reporte...

Today, Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo announced a new design with a focus on profile pages and an iPad update on the TODAY Show, live. The show teased "big changes" coming to Twitter, and drew it out pret...

While magazines and newspapers have slowly made the transition from print to digital, they're still coming to grips with mobile. For publications (big and small) to survive amidst the industry's decli...

Mobile commerce will obviously become huge, as more and more users get used to making purchases through their phones and tablet devices. But a lot of mobile apps still make it too difficult for users ...

Spigit, the maker of collaborative innovation management software for enterprises, has acquired Crowdcast, a provider of social business intelligence solutions. Crowdcast has raised $6 million in fun...

Now it's easier than ever to start your own radio station and earn money on the ads thanks to Radionomy. Today the European do-it-yourself online radio platform with 13 million listeners is scrapping ...

Apple's going to have to temporarily share its design wizard Sir Jonathan Ive, with high-end camera maker Leica, as Ive will be creating a special, super limited edition of one version of the new Leic...

The screensaver is not dead! Familiar, a startup that lets friends and families privately share photos directly to each others' Macs, PCs, smartphones, and tablets, has been steadily gaining traction ...

Some consolidation afoot in online media: Dice Holdings, the career website owner, has bought the online media business of Geeknet, which includes the high-profile tech websites Slashdot, SourceForge ...

Some consolidation afoot in online media: Dice Holdings, the career website owner, has bought the online media business of Geeknet, which includes the high-profile tech websites Slashdot, SourceForge ...

Square's $200 million Series D and $3.25 billion valuation yesterday may have risen expectations massively for where mobile payments will ultimately go, but for now the vast majority of us are still p...

SquareTrade, a company that provides warranty repairs for consumer electronics, revealed in a report today that Americans have spent an approximate cumulative total of $5.9 billion on damaged iPhones ...

Intel's mobile chipsets have popped up in a handful of devices over the past few months, but Motorola -- arguably the biggest of Intel's smartphone partners -- has been content to keep quiet about the...

There seems to be an endless supply of startups in the social recruitment space right now. The premise being that friends of existing employees make the best potential job candidates. And so it is tha...

File in "Silicon Valley Things That Are Amazing/Ridiculous"*: Apparently free iPhones and food aren't the only cultural changes being enacted in Marissa Mayer's Yahoo! ...The new head honcho tweeted t...

I can't imagine someone being able to watch every keystroke as I write a post like this, but author Silvia Hartmann is writing a novel, and is welcoming you to watch her progress. Live and in real-tim...

The cost of higher education in the U.S. today is ridiculous. Student debt shot north of $1 trillion earlier this year, for example. So it's not surprising, then, that we're seeing growing adoption of...

SAP is having a blogger and analyst event this week that is an education in how a big company can one day be exciting and another offer a reminder of how different it is from the startups of the world...

Kabbage, which provides working capital to online merchants, has raised $30 million in Series C financing led by Thomvest Ventures, the venture capital arm of Peter Thomson, the founder and managing d...

Just a quick reminder that the Taipei Mini-Meetup is Tuesday, September 18, 2012, at about 8pm atOnTap Taipei, which is located atNo 21, Alley 11, Lane 216, Zhongxiao East Road. I'll be there - just l...

If you're a first-time entrepreneur, there can be a lot of confusing financial jargon to deal with especially when you're raising funding. If you don't want to get screwed, some things are probably w...

SAP's Sanjay Poonen said in a meeting of bloggers and analysts today that Windows 8 will rise to the number two spot in the tablet market in part due to Samsung's patent lawsuit loss to Apple last mon...

SAP's Sanjay Poonen said in a meeting of bloggers and analysts today that Windows 8 will rise to the No. 2 spot in the enterprise tablet market in part due to Samsung's patent lawsuit loss to Apple la...

Aggressive demonstrations in and near Panasonic's and Canon's Chinese factories have forced the companies to temporarily suspend operations. According to the French news agency AFP, demonstrators are ...

Muslims found an unlikely opening to voice their opposition to mainstream stereotypes, exploiting a social media misstep by Newsweek's inflammatory cover on Muslim violence. In response to Newsweek's ...

Someone told me last week that National Cheeseburger Day was on the way. As far as I'm concerned, every single day could be National Cheeseburger Day, because they're yummy. Tomorrow is the official d...

ReelSurfer, which graduated from Y Combinator's most recent batch of startups, is a "tl;dr" for video. In other words, ReelSurfer was born out of the frustration of trying to find quotes and scenes fr...

Don Dodge is well known to longtime TechCrunch readers. Dodge was the guy who Mike Arrington turned into a bit of a martyr after he got unceremoniously fired by Microsoft back in November 2009. Indeed...

You call a car, it rolls up, you get into the front seat and you give the driver a fist-bump. This sounds like something you do when your best friend picks you up, and that's exactly the experience th...

Kairos, a startup that launched earlier this year out of the Spring 2012 class of the NewMe Accelerator, has landed $500,000 in seed funding from a group of angel backers.The money will be put toward ...

Oracle has acquired SelectMinds,a provider of cloud-based, social talent sourcing apps that allow companies to use social networks such as Facebook to recruit employees.Terms of the deal were not disc...

Home (and military) robot maker iRobot has just acquired Evolution Robotics, the makers of the Mint floor-cleaning robot with an R&D shop focused on navigational tools. The Mint cleaner will join ...

Leica has long been a high-water mark in photography, and its digital offerings are no exception. Today, the company took the covers off of four new models in its lineup, owing to Photokina getting un...

Even though Hong Kong is an important Asian city, technology entrepreneurship is still nascent. The infrastructure in place does not foster competitiveness. That is why Stephen Forte and TechCrunch Di...

Virtually all of Google's APIs currently support OAuth 2.0, a framework for allowing third-party apps limited access to your data from other services, as their standard authentication mechanism. Start...

While this isn't a major feature update by any means, foursquare is definitely pushing its Explore functionality forward by making it more prominent in its mobile apps, site and now by letting you add...

Samsung and LG have already crossed the 5-inch smartphone screen barrier, and now it seems that HTC is planning to make a similar leap any day now. The folks at Engadget happened upon what appears to ...

Apple joined theillustrious$700 club today in after-hours trading, a list of stocks that have traded at or above that price per share which includes only a few select companies, includingGoogle, which...

Zynga isn't just for your stereotypical stay-at-home mom anymore. The company's breaking away from its casual gaming past with a deal to buy midcore developer A Bit Lucky today. What this means is tha...

Did you receive your business cards on time for TechCrunch Disrupt? Last week, a company in the Startup Alley showed Disrupt attendees a new service to solve that issue at a good price. Printchomp is ...

Despite the inherent academic dangers, when it comes to researching their papers, homework assignments, etc., students primarily turn to the Web for information. Naturally, with the diversity of conte...

Cloze, the startup that helps users score their relationships, is expanding its features today it's now incorporating data from social networks, and also sorting updates from those social networks ba...

One of the magical things about the Internet, and software in general, is that when you have a huge platform that is home to a large load of data, you can do cool things by opening it up a little bit....

Today Freshdesk announced Freshdesk Arcade, a new game mechanics system for its web-based help desk software.Freshdesk Arcade will award points based on several factors, including the amount of time i...

Salesforce.com acquired GoInstant earlier this year for $70 million. The startup found a way to break through the complications of software-based web conferencing with a service that allows the sharin...

The closely guarded cashcow of political insiders has been released to the public: the "voter file", which stores detailed information on likely voters necessary for campaign ad targeting. Prior to it...

Over the weekend, USA Today unveiled a top-to-bottom redesign as part of a new "digital-first" strategy being undertaken by the 30-year-old newspaper.Given USA Today's mainstream appeal, it's a big co...

They've been hinting at it for more than a year now. Rovio has long said that the Angry Birds universe isn't limited to the vantage point of the birds. The pigs, in fact, have a long backstory.And thi...

Vox.io's innovative take on VOIP replaces what would normally be a phone number into a hyperlink, which you can put a lot of controls on and share around. And it's getting real traction. The service n...

The rise of online accommodation booking services like Airbnb and HomeAway has given way to a lot of attention to, and faith in, the idea of giving up your private home to total strangers. One early m...

GREE, the $4.7 billion mobile gaming giant from Japan that's trying to break into Western markets, just bought another American studio to bolster its first-party game development. The company acquired...

"Google+ is a ghost town" - Everyone."Google+ putting hold on acquisitions" - Us."Blah blah blah blah" - Everyone else.These are all things that people have been saying since Google+ la...

Apple decided to forgo NFC support with the release of the iPhone 5, but that hasn't stopped payments companies from continuing to invest in the space. Case in point: today, MasterCard released a soft...

Apple's iPad is the primary driverresponsiblefor a 56 percent annual bump in shipments in the tablet display market, according to a new report from supply chain research firm IHS. Total shipments are ...

Google has acquired Nik Software, the company behind Snapseed, the popular Instagram-like photo editing app for desktop and iOS. Besides Snapseed, though, the company also offers numerous other tools ...

Editors note: Eva Galperin is the International Freedom of Expression Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Follow her on Twitter: @evacide.On Wednesday, YouTube announced that it had bl...

Google's Vic Gundotra just announced that, about a year after the service went live, 400,000 people have now activated their Google+ accounts. More importantly, though, Gundotra also notes that G...

Everyone hates filing expenses, but at least now there are a few companies out there building mobile apps designed to improve the overall experience. New mobile expense apps typically allow users to h...

Coaches on nearly all levels have used video to evaluate their players' performance and to figure out how they can improve their game. Cambridge, Mass.-based startup Ubersense wants to make the proces...

The iPhone 5 was supposed to be a flop. Consumers were supposed to be disgusted with the lack of innovation. No one was supposed to buy it. That is, of course, if you listened to the buzz during last ...

It's been a fascinating road since I joined TechCrunch in September 2007 to build out TechCrunch's European arm. Five years on to the week, I'm today sitting at the still-fresh Campus London venue whe...

eBay is entering the territory of mobile shopping app Shopkick with the latest update in the e-commerce giant's barcode scanning app, RedLaser. Today, eBay is adding geofencing to its RedLaser applica...

Canon unveiled a new entry in its DSLR lineup this morning, the full-frame Canon 6D which arrives sometime in December. The camera is priced at $2,099 U.S., at or slightly above where its previous gen...

Put yourself in Samsung's shoes. You've just lost more than $1 billion in a very public patent trial. Your shining star, the Galaxy S III, was just blown out of the water by a brand new iPhone —...

Duolingo, the language learning and crowd-sourced translation service founded by reCAPTCH founder and Carnegio Mellon professor Luis von Ahn, just announced that it has raised a $15 million Series B r...

Duolingo, the language learning and crowd-sourced translation service founded by reCAPTCHA founder and Carnegie Mellon professor Luis von Ahn, just announced that it has raised a $15 million Series B ...

Station X, which develops software for scientists and clinicians who work with large-scale human genome data, has announced that it's raised $5 million in a second funding round, led by Runa Capital. ...

Station X, which develops software for scientists and clinicians who work with large-scale human genome data, has announced that it's raised $5 million in a second funding round, led by Runa Capital. ...

Shutterfly, the photo and personal publishing company founded in 1999, has todayacquiredPenguin Digital, a company whose flagship product is an iPhone application called Mobile Photo Factory, or just ...

Parking Panda, the startup that lets individuals rent out their unused parking spaces and allows garages to discount their lots during slow periods, is now available as a mobile application. The app c...

Recently, I took a look at IK Multimedia's iRig STOMP digital stomp box. In order to test it out, I usedAmpliTube Slash a version of the same company's amp modeling app that's based on the Marshall a...

Square has announced that it has finally closed its Series D round, totalling $200 million, with investors including Citi Ventures, Rizvi Traverse Management, and Starbucks Coffee Company. It values t...

Cloud storage company Box has massive amount of data uploaded to its servers everyday. In fact, Box now has 11 million users, and 125,000 businesses using the service, representing 92 percent of the F...

Panasonic has officially introduced its successor to the GH2, the Lumix GH3 (via DPReview) a Micro Four Thirds camera that looks, and in many ways, behaves like a DSLR. The GH2 was a shooter that caug...

Apple today announced that it managed to rack up 2 million pre-orders for the iPhone 5 in 24 hours, two times as many as it managed for the iPhone 4S last year, which sold over 1 million devices durin...

Fake fans, fake "likes" and fake reviews are some of the worst aspects of social media -- or at least for those of us earnest enough to take user-generated content and the will of the crowd seriously....

This week is the annual Photokina conference in Cologne, and that means one thing: new cameras. Olympus today outed two of its new offerings, compact interchangeable lens cameras based around Micro Fo...

This week is the annual Photokina conference in Cologne, and that means one thing: new cameras. Olympus today outed two of its new offerings, compact interchangeable lens cameras based around Micro Fo...

Just when you thought it was safe to ignore the app economy we have the LIFX, a Kickstarter-funded lightbulb you control from your iOS or Android device? Why, you ask? Because it's a lightbulb control...

Fitbit just announced two new devices, the $99 One, a replacement for the Ultra pedometer, and the Zip, a $60 entry-level model that adds a bit of mirth to the Fitbit family. The One won't be availabl...

Whether or not you're an Apple or Android fanboy or fangirl, it's no secret that the iPhone has been selling like hotcakes. Every time Apple launches a new iPhone or iPhone(S), it seems that the Inter...

Apple's gradual extrication from Google services is having a knock-on effect in international markets -- and Google's competitors elsewhere. In Russia, the local search leader Yandex is now powering A...

Apple's gradual extrication from Google services is having a knock-on effect in international markets -- and Google's competitors elsewhere. In Russia, the local search leader Yandex is now powering A...

Since launching its first product in 2008, Beats has gone from an obscure niche headphone brand to a multi-million dollar business with plenty of star power (Dr. Dre, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, etc.) c...

When you use Shazam, you're probably identifying a song on the car radio, in a coffee shop, or anywhere else. Recently, however, the company has been expanding into the world of TV, thanks to partners...

Bookmarking things is one of those quiet, thoughtless interactions with content that probably peppers your days without you even being aware of it. Did you just discover an awesome recipe for tabboule...

The great thing about Hardware Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt is - apart from the fact that it seems to grow bigger at event event - is the sheer variety of companies exhibiting. There's pretty much anyt...

CloudFlare launched almost exactly two years ago at the first TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. It was an incredible experience for us, and we owe a significant amount of our success to the stage D...

BoingBoing just pointed out a nice piece about Grant Shapps, UK Conservative Party Co-Chair and Member of Parliament for Welwyn Hatfield. The Conservative Party has fallen under scrutiny for being too...

With all the new features in the iPhone 5, there have been a couple of standout omissions. Reuters, WSJ and others on Friday published articles about how last week's iPhone 5 launch has put Europe in ...

In March we wrote about the launch of UpTo, an iPhone app that attempts to build an event-based social network around your calendar, using the iPhone calendar API. Whether you use Google Calendars, Ou...

With the rise of cheap and affordable manufacturing facilities, combined with new sources of financing such as crowd-funding, hardware startups are hot once again. And there is no better evidence of t...

Excuse the belated chortle here but it bears noting that Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!, seems to have pushed the old maxim of a "new broom sweeps clean" all the way into the darkest recesses of Yahoo. ...

Chances are you have a few iPhone or iPod chargers and cables in your house right now and maybe even a speaker dock or alarm clock that lets you plug in your iPhone. In one fell swoop, Apple made thes...

A few months back, I was pitched by the CEO and co-founder of a startup building a platform that was going to realise the "true potential" of science. Okay, I said, but have you got anything you can a...

Facebook's share price has rocketed up from 19.46 to 22.00 since Mark Zuckerberg talked at TechCrunch DisruptTuesday, and numerous sources in the investment community tell us it was his declaration th...

This weeks iPhone announcement and last weeks release of the new Kindle Fire, Windows 8/NokiaPhone, and Droid RAZR by Google/Motorola offer the latest evidence that, over the past few years, theU.S. h...

Not only were there country pavilions at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco last week, but also themed ones like Hardware Alley and the Impact Pavilion. Here, you could peruse startups in the themes ...

At the time that Path was first introduced as a new social network for mobile devices, there were already many options for connecting with friends, family, and coworkers. So why build another? Path CE...

When Ning co-founder and former CEO Gina Bianchini launched Mightybell a year ago, a startup aimed at helping you accomplish things in small, incremental steps and show others how to do the same, it e...

As a long-time contributor to TechCrunch, I again had the privilege of hanging out backstage and seeing the TechCrunch team put on what was, in my mind, the best Disrupt conference Ive been to. In add...

In the last of our three part series of video highlights from Disrupt SF, we focus on Wednesday when YourMechanic won the Startup Battlefield competition. Earlier in the day, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick...

The South American entrepreneurial community is no longer a small band of companies vying for attention. Instead, it is a full-fledged movement with an ecosystem that is creating new connections for t...

Editors note: Spencer Rascoff is CEO and a director of Zillow Inc. He previously co-founded Hotwire.com, which was sold to Expedia in 2003. Before his consumer Web career, Spencer was a private-equity...

The Chilean Pavilion joined the rosted of other Latin American startups at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco last week. Our task was to show you as many of them as we could in as short amount of tim...

"In the Studio" taped a special segment this weekend during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, welcoming backstage an engineer, PhD dropout, entrepreneur, founder, and long-time investor in enterprise ...

The United States has never ranked at the top of international education tests, since we began comparing countries in 1964, yet has been the dominant economic and innovative force in the world the ent...

As you may have noticed last week that I planned an impromptu mini-meetup in Taipei. We've decided on a location - OnTap Taipei - on Tuesday, September 18, 2012, at about 8pm.To RSVP pop over to Planc...

Editors note: Bernard Leong is co-founder of SGE, an online portal dedicated to entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia, and This Week in Asia, a podcast dedicated to tech news in Asia. Follow him at Berna...

Editors note: Ariel Garten is the co-founder and CEO of InteraXon, a Toronto-based company that builds brainwave-enabled products and applications. In her work as a neuroscientist and entrepreneur, Ar...

Editors note: James Gross is co-founder of Percolate, a marketing company with a mission to help brands create content at a social scale. Follow him on Twitter: @James_Gross.Theres been much buzz arou...

LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman has become known for giving solid advice -- both to the entrepreneurs in which he invests, as well as the general public with his recent book The ...

Continuing our look back at the SF Disrupt conference video highlights, Tuesday featured the standing-room only interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In his first interview since the IPO, he ca...

Delta is joining American Airlines and Southwest Airlines as the third major brand to deny travel startups access to users' frequent flyer accounts for the purpose of tracking airlines miles and rewar...

Apparently not wanting GoDaddy and GitHub to have all the outage fun this: Cloudflare confirmed on Twitter that it had issues this morning. Some sites may still be experiencing issues....

Apple is rumored to be prepping a Pandora-like service providing virtual radio stations to users, according to the WSJ, and though it didn't debut at this past week's Apple event, I think there's stil...

Editors Note: Tadhg Kelly is a game designer with 20 years experience. He is the creator of the leading game design blog What Games Are, and consults for many companies on game design and development....

For anyone that has followed Silicon Valley for the past ten years, Jay Adelson is a name that you know quite well. He's best known for his work with Digg, during its heyday. After moving into the CEO...

For anyone that has followed Silicon Valley for the past ten years, Jay Adelson is a name that you know quite well. He's best known for his work with Digg, during its heyday. After moving into the CEO...

Moonshark, a startup backed by Qualcomm and talent agency CAA, teams up with big-name creative talent to create mobile games and apps. For its first game, it partnered with Jennifer Lopez. For its sec...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor split right down the middle on the new iPhone 5. Well, @scobleizer did. He was bored by the announcement, impressed by th...

Editors note: Nasir Jones is co-founder of 12Society and a multi-platinum recording artist. Follow him at NasirJones.comand on Twitter: @Nas.On July 24, I found out that my newest album hit No. 1 on t...

Editors note: Scott Weiss is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and the former co-founder and CEO of IronPort Systems, which was acquired by Cisco in 2007. He blogs at https://scott.a16z.com and you can...

Want to catch up on some of our Disrupt conference highlights that you might have missed? This weekend, we'll be posting videos from each day of Disrupt. Monday's agenda featured a keynote from Twit...

This was my second TechCrunch Disrupt, and what a difference a year makes.Not this year. I mean the year that began in July 2006, when Twitter launched. Two months later, Facebook finally opened up to...

Editors note: Eric Wheeler is CEO and co-founder of 33Across. He brings 20 years of experience leading successful Internet businesses to 33Across.Much has already been discussed in the media regarding...

While Marissa Mayer is busy trying to figure out what to do with Yahoo's new $4.5 billion in cash -- recently gained from selling 20 percent of its holdings in Alibaba back to, well, Alibaba -- the Ch...

Depending on who you ask, Jack Dorsey started off the latest Disrupt on either a very controversial or a very non-controversial note. "We need revolution, not disruption," he said, words that would be...

Well here's a Twitter bug that is kind of alarming. Apparently, for some verified accounts, avatars were swapped out with other random users'....

Earlier today, Zynga filed a scathing legal response to EA's copyright lawsuit with a few sensitive areas redacted. However, it turns out that TechCrunch readers are even more awesome than I expected...

A database migration gone awry caused the outage and poor availability that GitHub customers experienced this week.In a lengthy blog post today, GitHub'sJesse Newland, apologized for the outage and sa...

A database migration gone awry caused the outage and poor availability that GitHub customers experienced this week.In a lengthy blog post today, GitHub'sJesse Newland, apologized for the outage and sa...

When Google first announced the details of its Kansas City fiber rollout, one of the knocks against it was that its channel lineup was a little thin. While it had struck deals to bring video subscribe...

Alright folks, maybe you've already pre-ordered your iPhone 5. Maybe you're still on the fence about whether to make the upgrade. I know there's a lot of techy things that have changed which make the ...

We had the chance to catch up with entrepreneur and investor Kevin Rose during TechCrunch Disrupt, asking him about a multitude of startup zeitgeist topics, including the Y Combinator versus Google Ve...

Just under a week ago, we kicked off our hackathon at TechCrunch Disrupt. Before the event started, Ford hard already picked a number of teams that would get access to the otherwise closed Ford AppLin...

If you had to take a guess at what has been at or near the top-grossing spot in the U.S. iPad App Store for the past month without looking, I'd bet a bingo simulator wouldn't be high on your list. But...

Zynga just filed its legal response to Electronic Arts' lawsuit. The response has three parts: A motion to strike portions of EA's suit, an "answer and demand for jury trial" on other portions of the ...

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

Today, the Google Apps team announced that it will no longer support Internet Explorer 8. Thank goodness. This will affect everyone using Google Apps: businesses, educational and government institutio...

Calling all developers, YouTube has taken steps to join Stack Overflow and bring discussions about its API there. For those who are using the API, you know that Google Groups hasn't really been cuttin...

After months of resistance, Twitter has succumb to legal pressure to hand over the protected tweets of an Occupy Wall Street protester to a New York court. Prosecutors in the case believe the private ...

Given the ubiquity and power of today's online networks, it's become a cliche to describe the race between Obama and Romney as a social media election. But few social networks have become as explicitl...

Apple's iPhone has had its crime-fightingcapabilitiesdetailed before, but a new story today out of Atlanta (via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution) has its Find My iPhone feature helping to catch two su...

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byershas been quietly holding its CEO Summit for its team and the leaders of its portfolio companies over the past few days. The event isn't a total secret -- there have...

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byershas been quietly holding its CEO Summit for its team and the leaders of its portfolio companies over the past few days. The event, which is celebrating Kleiner's 40...

While Marissa Mayer is busy trying to figure out what to do with Yahoo's new $4.5 billion in cash -- recently gained from selling 20 percent of its holdings in Alibaba back to, well, Alibaba -- the Ch...

Intel will not support Linux in its upcoming chip for laptops and tablets. That leaves Windows 8 as the only operating system that will run on the Clover Trail Atom chip.To be clear, Linux can run on ...

There are a number of websites that offer form legal documents to users. But it can be difficult to complete the next step of the process of establishing a will, or forming a company, when it comes to...

On-demand car service Uber has launched in yet another new market today, opening up to everyone in Dallas. And it's also done a major deal with Virgin America, which could result in tons of new custom...

Mobile app Thumb, which has been asking users to provide their opinion since its original private beta launch in June 2010 as Opinionaded, today revealed to TechCrunch that it now has more than 1.2 mi...

PlanGrid co-founder and CEO Ryan Sutton-Gee doesn't exactly fit the mold you might expect from the founder of a San Francisco-based that recently graduated from the super selective Y Combinator incuba...

Mobile marketer Velti just released its August report on the mobile ad marketing, but instead of focusing on the past month, it's looking ahead to the growth of the iPhone 5.The report points out that...

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is bullish on wireless innovation happening in the U.S., but says there are reasons to be concerned about the ability to cater to growing demand for mobile applications...

Today, the Google Chrome team celebrated a milestone for its "Experiments" project that it launched in 2009. It's a site that features some really great innovation for web browsers, highlighting HTML5...

One of the things that I'm really passionate about is helping charitable causes and organizations in any way that I can. A lot of my friends and family try their best to give, either money or time, bu...

Argentina's tech startups scene continues to bloom and we saw that at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco.Despite a still nascent VC scene, there's plenty of talent, some key universities and a growin...

We've probably all heard horror stories about businesses that offered deals on Groupon or similar sites, only to lose a lot of money on a promotion that didn't bring in any repeat customers. Now a sta...

We've probably all heard horror stories about businesses that offered deals on Groupon or similar sites, only to lose a lot of money on a promotion that didn't bring in any repeat customers. Now a sta...

It's been an awesome week here with the TechCrunch Disrupt conference so we thought we'd celebrate by giving three lucky winners another chance to win a Vizio Co-Star! This hot item is the first Googl...

Foundry Group, an early investor in Zynga, Jiraffe, Awe.sm, Modular Robots and many more, has today announced that it has closed another $225 million fund. The news was announced in a blog post, which...

Apple's bringing its brick-and-mortar retail operations to Sweden for the first time tomorrow, with a new flagship location atTby Centrum in the city ofTby, which is just about 20 miles outside of Sto...

Preoders for the iPhone 5 went live at midnight tonight and, true to form, they went like hotcakes. You may remember that it took 22 hours for the iPhone 4S and about 20 hours for the iPhone 4 to sell...

Treehouse launched last November with an admirable (or terrifying) goal: To teach the world how to design and develop for the Web, iOS and now Android. Essentially the lovechild of Lynda.com and Codea...

Pre-orders for the iPhone 5 are now live via Apple's website. We've found that the fastest way to order one is through the Apple Store App. As a reminder, the iPhone 5 is $199 on contract for the 16GB...

Despite my not-so-great experiences with AT&T today, the company is getting the iPhone 5 party started early and drumming up excitement, as a timer has replaced its site:...

I'm going to be heading over to Taipei next week and I'd love to connect with entrepreneurs, programmers, nerds, hackers, fun people, and/or sourpusses. To that end, I'd like to propose a small meet-u...

One of the biggest concerns I've had about the Apple's new Lightning port is the perceived (or real) obsolescence of a whole constellation of iPod 30-pin compatible devices. Now that fear seems confir...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expanding in Japan through the opening of a new availability zone. The move means that AWS will most likely be adding more data centers to keep up with the steady demand i...

Not a joke, not an imaginary story: Silicon Valley Bank and Coverflow are hosting an event next month that was described in an invite as "American Idol for the geek set."Now, there's nothing special a...

The new iPhone 5 has a new screen with new dimensions, and this time making existing apps fill that space and look good isn't just a matter of doubling dimensions of all assets like it was with the in...

The engineering team at Dropbox re-wrote its browser-side codebase one week last July, according to a post on the Dropbox tech blog. The rewrite was done to translate all of its JavaScript into a lang...

The engineering team at Dropbox re-wrote its browser-side codebase one week last July, according to a post on the Dropbox tech blog. The rewrite was done to translate all of its JavaScript into a lang...

The great thing about country-based pavilions at TechCrunch Disrupt is that one can see innovation and new tech companies coming from countries you might not have associated with startups before. As y...

Apple's iOS 6 will be available for users to download and install on September 19, two days before the iPhone 5 is set to hit shelves. As per usual, the update brings a lot of new stuff to the table. ...

Apple has definitely perfected their magic trick. There's no doubt about that. The company has the ability to brainwash, and I say that as someone who has been brainwashed myself by the beauty and sim...

After its Facebook dating app didn't pan out, New York's Kingfish Labs built a data service for optimizing Facebook ads, and now the startup has become content cornucopia Buzzfeed's first acquisition....

Start-Up Chile is an accelerator program that is financed by the Chilean government and meant to jumpstart the tech community in the South American country. Today, the program is holding its first dem...

Lerer Ventures, one of the better known seed stage venture capital funds based out of New York, is raising a $30 million fund, according to its Form D filed today with the SEC. It's the third fund in ...

So here's an interesting predicament that I've found myself in today. As you know, the iPhone 5 pre-sale begins at 12:01 Friday morning. I'm ready to pre-order like every other geek, but I can't. Here...

So here's an interesting predicament that I've found myself in today. As you know, the iPhone 5 pre-sale begins at 12:01 Friday morning. I'm ready to pre-order like every other geek, but I can't. Here...

YouTube is looking to give some much-needed celebrity status to the most engaging teachers in the world. They're conducting an Internet-wide competition of the best video lessons, which will be judged...

The end of needles is nye: researches have developed a laser-based system "that blasts microscopic jets of drugs into the skin could soon make getting a shot as painless as being hit with a puff of ai...

So much for the YouTube competitors. The owners of Veoh, a video portal that claims to have millions of users worldwide, has said it has enlisted the help of Equity Partners CRB to explore strategic o...

Apple's website now shows the unlocked pricing for the iPhone 5 in the U.S. Using the site's compare tool, you can see that the 16GB model starts at $649, with the 32GB version costing $749, and the 6...

Jonathan Abrams, whose resume as a founder or co-founder includes the Founders Den startup workspace, event service Socializr, social bookmarking service HotLinks, and Friendster (I don't need to expl...

Birchbox, which offers a monthly subscription box full of new cosmetics and beauty products, is crossing the Atlantic with the acquisition of Paris-based JolieBox (which offers a nearly identical serv...

Location-based check-in and promotional service foursquare has announced that it will hold another Hackathon after a successful first one. This time, the event will be focused on its new Connected App...

"In the Studio" welcomes this week a first-time entrepreneur who, after years of academic research at two of the world's finest universities, years of industrial research at some of America's most sto...

Facebook will still push HTML5 innovation, but stripping it out to speed up Facebook for iOS app has been very successful. Half of its iOS users updated their app in just 4 days, and its App Store rev...

Credit Sesame, the personal finance service (and TechCrunch Disrupt alum), which provides free credit scores and other information aimed at helping consumers get out of debt, is today launching a new ...

One of the interesting things that happened when Facebook acquired the FriendFeed team is that the service lived on for a certain segment of users. Content continued to flow, and in fact, it looks lik...

One of the interesting things that happened when Facebook acquired the FriendFeed team is that the service lived on for a certain segment of users. Content continued to flow, and in fact, it looks lik...

Everyone needs a job, but submitting resumes is a pain and they're not discoverable, so they don't help you get recruited. That's why Work4 Labs has just raised $10 million to let you apply or get rec...

When I sat down with Jack Menzel from Google last week, we discussed all of the cool possibilities that are to come for search. One of the most interesting projects the team is working on is Knowledge...

I'm not a fan of pitting two or more companies against one another and calling "war", but the reality is that there's such a thing as competition and advantage in any marketplace. One of the hottest v...

Magistos dead-simple automatic video editing service is no stranger to Googles ecosystem. It was integrated with YouTubes Create tool just under a year ago, and the Magisto Android app just hit the Go...

Back in May, TalentBin (formerly Honestly.com) launched a people search engine for recruiters. Now it's releasing that search engine in iPhone app form, aimed at a different audience not recruiters, ...

Google launched Chrome for iOS in June. By mid-July, Google's browser for Apple's operating system had managed to get about 1.5% of the market and has been adding new users ever since, despite the fac...

Dave McClure's 500 Startups is looking for participants to join its next incubator program, which will run from October through January. And for the first time ever, it's going to open the process up ...

Nintendo will finally make its Wii U available to customers this November, after having previewed the next-gen console for over a year now, the company announced at a press event today. The Wii U will...

Following in the footsteps of Microsoft, eBay is debuting a new logo today. The colors of the logo are the same, but the font is a bit more modern and sleek, and the word eBay is cleanly aligned in a ...

One day after Apple's big iPhone 5 news day, an accolade for Apple in the tablet category: J.D. Power and Associates has put the brand at the top of its annual tablet customer satisfaction survey. Thi...

Ubuntu Linux, which started with the tagline "Linux for human beings," was originally an easy to use Linux distribution for desktop users. Canonical picked what they considered to be the best of breed...

Big news and a big admission for online designer shop Fab as it continues to scale up and make itself more user-friendly: the site is, for the first time, now letting people browse its online shop wit...

Big news and a big admission for online designer shop Fab as it continues to scale up and make itself more user-friendly: the site is, for the first time, now letting people browse its online shop wit...

Facebook began allowing partners in its Exchange cookie-based real-time bidding retargeted ads programto share results this morning, and data from AdRoll, Triggit, and TellApart show the ads earn busi...

Social widget-maker AddThis is announcing several updates to its service today, which should collectively make for a smoother social sharing experience.One of the main additions is a feature called in...

For the first time, customer experience analytics company ForeSee has begun measuring mobile satisfaction when it comes to the retail experience. As you may know, ForeSee has been measuring online ret...

Edo, a card-linked local offers platform which targets customers based on their real-world spending behavior, has closed a $15 million Series C round of funding, the company announced today. The round...

With little time for the Reality Distortion Field to wear off, a survey conducted just hours after yesterday's Apple press event reveals that a whopping 44% of current iPhone owners in Britain want to...

The opening dialogue of Christopher Nolan's 2006 film, The Prestige:Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ord...

Socialance is a startup out of London that has moved to Santiago, Chile, for six months. The reason for the move is pretty straightforward: Start-Up Chile is giving the company $40,000 without taking ...

At TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Wallwisher showed us the new version of their web application. Wallwisher allows user to write, collaborate and share content on an empty canvas.The idea is del...

Online dating is a huge business, but most dating sites are still stuck in the 90s. They don't take advantage of developments in video and social networking, and they don't have good mobile experience...

When I read Spestle's pitch for Startup Alley I thought it was either a prank or a goofy place holder for a stealth startup: "Create your own custom seasoning & herb blends."But Spestle is real an...

After nearly three days and plenty of pitches, our list of 30 hungry startups was trimmed down until there were only seven startups left standing: Expect Labs, Gyft, Lit Motors, Prior Knowledge, Saya,...

Brazil is rapidly taking its place in the tech world as a fertile place for startups. Evidence of that was clear at TechCrunch Disrupt this week in San Francisco. In order to give you a sense of the s...

Brazil is rapidly taking its place in the tech world as a fertile place for startups. Evidence of that was clear at TechCrunch Disrupt this week in San Francisco. In order to give you a sense of the s...

When Twitter struck a deal to move to San Francisco's mid-Market neighborhood, the tradeoff seemed pretty straightforward in exchange for relocating to an economically challenged area, the company wo...

Apple's conference was full of small and big announcements and very dense. Between the announcements of the iPhone 5 and the updated iPod line-up, it is hard to keep track of all the details. It is no...

Ezbob is a new microfinancing company for online merchants which launches this week in the UK. It makes working credit of up to 20,000 available instantly to eBay and Amazon Marketplace sellers throug...

Apple changed its long-standing 30-pin dock connector out for an 8-pin new standard called Lightning. But what does that actually mean for users? Well the advantages are mostly passed on through what ...

The "Go Google" campaign is aimed at companies who want to adopt collaborative software on the cloud in their work environments. Basically, to get away from installing software like Microsoft Word and...

There's little question that Apple knows how to put on a show, and barring some minor omissions (iPad mini, anyone?), Apple's iPhone/iPod event was one for the books.That said, only journalists and Ap...

Our national fixation with shiny new Apple gadgets has overshadowed impending military action in Libya for the killing of an American diplomat. If CNN’s public “news pulse” is any in...

There's little question that Apple knows how to put on a show, and barring some minor omissions (iPad mini, anyone?), Apple's iPhone/iPod event was one for the books.That said, only journalists and Ap...

Pick1 has raised $1 million from private investors for its opinions database and automated market research platform that serves as an open graph for opinions.The investment is what the founders say re...

Right after the Apple press conference, an all-star panel took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. Jim Dalrymple (The Loop), John Gruber (Daring Fireball), Tim Stevens (Engadget), MG Sie...

CloudFlare, a San Francisco-based company that helps businesses protect their websites from security threats and boost their load times, got its start at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2010, where it was a run...

CloudFlare, a San Francisco-based company that helps businesses protect their websites from security threats and boost their load times, got its start at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2010, where it was a run...

Industry analyst firm RedMonk published today its latest quarterly programming language popularity ranking. JavaScript came out on top, followed closely by Java, PHP, and Python.The rankings are based...

The legendary mentor Vinod Khosla criticized accelerators like Y Combinator who produce startups with overly slick pitches that he says garner "so much hype that they get valuations that no one who wi...

In a discussion on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco today, Sequoia Capital's Jim Goetz said it is shocking that more startups are not focused on the enterprise.It's the notion of reinventi...

One of the most noticeable consumer-facing changes in the new version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 6, is the updated App Store application for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Apple chose not t...

Jack Dorsey recently offered a look at the early days of Square, but today at the Techonomy Detroit conference, he was asked about the company's future specifically what Square will look like in five...

Google just launched an update to Chrome for Android that provides the browser with a strengthened sandbox. Google says this will help ensure that malicious mobile sites remain contained and can't imp...

The legendary* Vinod Khosla spoke with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington at Disrupt today, discussing some of the unordinary startups he has invested in, including an efficient lettuce picker, dair...

Following its lengthy outage on Monday, hosting provider GoDaddy today sent an e-mail to customers containing a mea culpa and a credit good for one month of free service for each "active/published" si...

Michael Arrington hopped on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF for a fireside chat with Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures. The two discussed Khosla's perspective on how companies within his firm's portfolio...

This morning at TechCrunch Disrupt, I interviewed Uber CEO Kalanick backstage and got him to elaborate on a few things he mentioned during his interview earlier in the day -- mainly on competition tha...

Apple's new EarPods are available to order today in the Apple Store, but we were lucky enough to get a pair here at TechCrunch for some early testing. The new design is definitely eye-catching, but do...

If Passbook is the secret payload in iOS 6 like I suspect, Facebook integration is the more obvious time bomb. Apple has proven in the past that putting social networks deeply into its products result...

Some of the speakers at today's Techonomy Detroit conference talked about how entrepreneurship and technology can help Detroit diversify its economy beyond automobile manufacturing. But that doesn't m...

Apple's long-neglected iPod Touch just got a considerable upgrade with a new design, improved camera, and 4-inch Retina display. Not unlike the iPhone 5, the new model also supports iOS6 and has a 5-m...

Israel has been called "The Startup Nation" by some and, indeed, that was even the title of a fascinating book by journalists Dan Senor and Saul Singer.Israel's ability to churn out technology compani...

What are Valley investors excited about? That was one of the topics discussed in an afternoon session at TechCrunch Disrupt SF today. The group seemed to get stuck on the topic of commerce and transac...

Facebook stock rose 8.9% to a high of $21.16 per share today, the first day of trading after CEO Mark Zuckerberg's first public interview since the company's IPO. The stock rose in after-hours trading...

How often do you finish reading an article and want to chat about it with someone right away? Especially if it's a politics piece that I feel strongly about, I'll be feverishly curious about how anyon...

Meet the new Nano, definitely not the same as the old Nano. This upgraded model is more akin to the original Nano design with a longer screen and physical home button. The device is definitely far sma...

iTunes is getting more social, but not with Ping.Today Apple announcedthat iTunes 11 will display your Facebook friends who Liked each entry, Facebook and Twitter sharing for purchases, plus let music...

iTunes is getting more social, but not with Ping.Today Apple announcedthat iTunes 11 will display your Facebook friends who Liked each entry, Facebook and Twitter sharing for purchases, plus let music...

The iPhone 5 is real and nearly ready to ship and we got a bit of hands-on time with it today. The new phone is just a bit longer than the current iPhone 4S and far speedier. Maps and photos flew by a...

Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt today to discuss Medium, their new online publishing platform coming out of Obvious Corp with YouTube's Hunter Walk...

Less than three months after Yammer got bought by Microsoft for $1.2 billion, founder David Sacks says that it is preparing to announce the first signs of integration "soon". Speaking on the sidelines...

Ev Williams went through a phase after he left Twitter. He became a ski bum. It turned out he was not very good at it.Williams and Biz Stone appeared on stage today at Disrupt San Francisco 2012 to ta...

One of the more interesting paradoxes of the last five years on the consumer web has been how small teams of developers have been able to build products that reach tens or hundreds of millions of user...

Alongside an avalanche of new hardware, Apple also offered up a new adapter to ease thetransitionto its new Lightning connector for the iPhone 5 and new iPods. The adapter will let users charge and sy...

And that's a wrap! The Apple Store is back up now, following this morning's announcement of the new LTE-enabled iPhone 5's, which are going to be the same price as the iPhone 4S's. To refresh your mem...

Apple managed to get a new standard for SIM cards approved by the European Telecommunications Institute (ETSI) back in June, and today we see the result of that effort. The new nano-SIM is 44 percent ...

"From all of us at Apple, we say, 'We're good. We don't need any more of your money now,'" says the fictional Apple CEO played by Christopher McDonald.Apple just rolled out its latest iPhone and iPods...

Apple has just announced the iPhone 5. And new iPods. And the fact that they're number 1 in U.S. notebook sales. Oh, and that they've sold over 400 million iOS devices in total. And one more thing, th...

On stage Apple highlighted a new game for iOS 6 to emphasize the latest iPod touch's video gaming prowess. The game, called Clumsy Ninja, is basically a powerful Tamagotchi using a ninja as the main c...

Emmy award-winning director, angel investor, and TechCrunch Disrupt Judge, Greg Yaitanes,has released the promo toBanshee, his much-anticipated follow up toHouse (the most popular show on the planet, ...

Apple redesigned its signature headphones today, with a new geometry that's made to better fit the ear. They don't seal like in-ear phones, however, and have three ports designed to maximize air flow ...

In June, Microsoft closed its acquisition of Yammer, the hot young enterprise social network that got its start at TC50 back in 2003. It was a big exit for the company, which sold for a whopping $1.2 ...

Apples iPhone 5 is sure to get most of the attention today, but the Cupertino companys press event also saw the unveiling of a drastically revamped iPod Touch meant (once again) to bring iOS to the ma...

Of course all eyes are on the brand new iPhone, but everybody loves a good iPod refresh. Today, the company has announced a new batch of iPod models, not least of which is the brand new iPod nano. Th...

Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham announced this morning that the famed Silicon Valley startup incubator has begun accepting applications for its next class.The announcement came in the thick of tod...

As with every new hardware releases, Apple updated iTunes. But the media software received a major update today during Apple live event. The interface is now totally new with an edge-to-edge design. B...

At TechCrunch Disrupt today, our own Greg Ferenstein interviewed Mitt Romney's Digital Director Zac Moffatt. The discussion touched upon a wide variety of issues, ranging from the importance of online...

Now that everyone's appetite for the iPhone 5 has been whetted, when can people actually get one? Apple's Phil Schiller took the stage after playing a brief video to talk up the new iPhone 5 to finall...

At the Apple live event, Tim Cook announced that the iPhone 4S will still be available and the price will drop to $99.Apple is perpetuating the same strategy by keeping the previous generation iPhone ...

Apple first previewed iOS 6 back in June at WWDC, but today it showed off the shipping product in detail.In the intervening time you may have forgotten what it brings to the table, and since it's actu...

Apple first previewed iOS 6 back in June at WWDC, but today it showed off the shipping product in detail. It arrives September 19 as a free update.In the intervening time you may have forgotten what i...

Apple is showing offthe new iPhone 5 camera this morning, which is essentially the same as the iPhone 4S's camera, but packed into thinner housing. The camera offers an8-megapixel sensor, a 5-element ...

The iPod dock connector was built in in every iPhone and iPod (except the iPod Shuffle) since 2003. But Apple finally upgraded the port to Lightning for the iPhone 5 at the press conference today. It ...

As car service Uber continues its growth across the U.S. and beyond, it has found itself on the wrong side of rules and regulations, and in the firing line of the Taxi Establishment. Today, the compan...

The founders of Oblong Industries said myopia is a real problem in the world of startups today at Disrupt San Francisco 2012.TechCrunch writer and moderator Josh Constine set up the discussion when he...

Apple demoed Real Racing 3 on stage today with the help of games publisher EA. The new racing game, arriving later this year for the iPhone 5, showed off terrific new graphics that looked very much li...

At the Apple press conference today, the company announced that they integrated a new kind of chip inside the iPhone 5. They call it the "Ultra Fast Wireless" chip because it goes a bit further than s...

Apple's iPhone boasts a taller screen, as rumored, and that means basically an extra row's worth of information in terms of the home screen. That's going to result in some changes in the design langua...

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said UberX, the lowest-cost option of the popular car service, is "probably at or above" rival Lyft in numbers. Kalanick discussed Uber's struggles against regulators, expansi...

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick took the stage to discuss the state of the disruptive limo and taxi startup and its prospects for the future. Kalanick spoke abou...

Last March at WWDC, Apple announced that it had sold over 365 million iOS devices globally since March 2012. Today, however, the company has taken that number to 400 million since June. Siri tells me ...

And just like that, months and months of breathless speculation have finally come to an end. Apples Phil Schiller has just officially announced the new iPhone 5 at the companys massive press event her...

As usual, Apple took time today in the spotlight to talk about how awesome it is. Since this is a mobile-focused event, that's the angle they chose to highlight, and the numbers around iPhone and iPad...

The Apple live press event has started, and the first thing Tim Cook wanted to talk about was Apple Retail. He specifically mentioned the opening of a new store in Barcelona, noting that the new addit...

Last March at WWDC, Apple announced that it had sold over 365 million iOS devices globally since March 2012. But perhaps more important, Apple has just announced that its number 1 in US notebook sales...

Twitter wants to make money, make no mistake about it. Today, the company announced some tweaks to its marketing tools which will allow brands to geo-target folks to reach out to on the platform....

"Now to put this in perspective, we sold more iPads than any PC manufacturer sold of their entire lineup." That about says it all. Sales of the Apple iPad is exploding, with the company announcing it ...

The first large-scale experimental research on the political influence of social networks finds that Facebook quadruples the power of get-out-the-vote messages. While the single-message study produced...

We, like most of the Internet, are waiting for Apple's annual iPhone launch event where we expect to meet the new LTE iPhone 5, a new dock connector, and, if the rumors are true, a few new iPods....

Our own Josh Constine is speaking to Oblong Industries at TechCrunch Disrupt today, and they're discussing the future of human interface when it comes to technology.Kwindla Kramer and John Underkoffer...

This is it. TechCrunch Disrupt is back in San Francisco, and even though the show is sold out, we're still going to bring you all the action on our official Ustream feed and on the site. Disrupt is ju...

Now that the pre-registration process is over, the citizens in the 180 Kansas City neighborhoods that qualified for it will be able to actually start registering for Google's TV and gigabit Internet s...

Editors note: Joe Kraus is a partner at Google Ventures. In 1993, he co-founded Excite.com, an early Internet search engine. He also co-founded JotSpot in 2004, a wiki company acquired by Google in 20...

It's that time of year again: time for the annual carnival in celebration of the iPhone. Today we're expecting new iPhones, new iPods, and a new version of iOS to tie things together and we're going t...

A big advance today for Huddle, the enterprise cloud collaboration platform: the company has announced that it is developing a version of its platform for two federal U.S. government organizations, th...

Detroit might seem like an odd place to hold a tech conference, but when Steve Case, CEO of Revolution and founder of AOL (TechCrunch's parent company), took the stage this morning at Techonomy Detroi...

We, like most of the Internet, are waiting for Apple's annual iPhone launch event where we expect to meet the new LTE iPhone 5, a new dock connector, and, if the rumors are true, a few new iPods....

Apple's search engine is mistakenly revealing the details of today's Apple news announcements in advance of today's press event where it's been expected Apple will announce new iPhones. As spotted fir...

And so it begins. In typical Apple fashion, the Apple Store has now gone down in advance of today's Apple press event (yes "event," not "press conference") here in San Francisco. It's expected that Ap...

Steve Case, CEO of Revolution andfounder of TechCrunch-owner AOL , was a key player in advocating for the JOBS Act, which will allow for a much broader range of of crowdfunding (specifically, equity c...

Amazon, like its competitor Netflix, has been making some moves to increase the amount of exclusive, original content under its brand, and today it took one more step in that direction with the news t...

Online customer service company Zendesk has raised $60 million in new financing led by Redpoint Ventures with participation by Index Ventures, GGV Capital, Goldman Sachs, Silicon Valley Bank, Charles ...

Open Garden, a Disrupt New York 2012 Battlefield finalist, just announced that it has raised a $2 million seed round from a group of leading technology industry angel investors. The service, which all...

Open Garden, a Disrupt New York 2012 Battlefield finalist, just announced that it has raised a $2 million seed round from a group of leading technology industry angel investors. The service, which all...

Poland, Cracow-based Social learning networkBrainly, which operates a number of sites across Europe,has secured a $500k investment from VC firm Point Nine Capitaland local angels, including Mariusz Gr...

Whenthe mobile analytics and ad verification startup AdevenunveiledApptrace, its free tool to enableusers to get an overview of key performance indictors for apps residing in Apples App Store, we were...

Scoot Networks, a system of smartphone-enabled, shared electric scooters calling itself the "Zipcar for Scooters," has closed a seed round of $550,000, which will help the company move from private be...

Tags are the key to understanding visitor behavior for any web business, but installing, serving and managing them can be incredibly complicated and time consuming, and it can also actually negatively...

This year's TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco has been the biggest yet. Nearly 3,000 people poured in to watch a wonderful keynote by top product CEO Jack Dorsey, talks with legends like Reid Hoffman a...

Student debt is a very serious problem that can no longer be ignored. Recently, student debt in the U.S. topped $1 trillion, eclipsing both national credit card and car loan debt. Naturally, a debt cr...

I've had a sense for a while that infrastructure-as-a-service (like Amazon Web Services) and platform-as-a-service (like Heroku) are converging. Developers love the idea of using a PaaS to speed up pr...

M-Go, which seeks to launch an digital storefront for movies online, has just announced deals with fe of the top six Hollywood studios that will allow it to sell UltraViolet-enabled movies and play th...

Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt tricky enough to navigate when you're being pitched every few feet by hungry young startups. So we've harnessed that energy into a fast run through of some of the c...

Think about when you go to a wedding (in my ripe old age, I have been to one) and you jot down a note in a big book for the couple. Imagine if instead you could record a video or audio message (or be ...

Do you remember life before the Internet? Can you recall a time when meeting someone new took place serendipitously and was uncluttered with all the profile searching and stalking? A time when there w...

Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco is full of disruptive companies, and it's hard to pick a favorite. But to give you a sense of the craziness, you need to tune in for just 5 minutes an...

Yesterday, famous cartoonist Hugh MacLeod started drawing all the action taking place at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. We present you the second batch of drawings.In these cartoons, you will se...

Quora co-founder and early Facebook engineer Charlie Cheever is stepping back from a day-to-day role at the company after starting it in 2009. He'll be taking time off after a very long stretch of bui...

It's Day 2 in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, and the startups just keep coming. This year's Alley is bigger than it's ever been, so it's pretty tough to get through all the compani...

What a day! TechCrunch Disrupt SF day two kicked off with super angel Ron Conway and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. Then we had Kevin Rose, Marc Benioff, Aaron Levie and many others. Not to mention Mike ...

Peer-to-peer bike rental service Spinlister was chosen by the audience from amongst the Startup Alley companies today to pitch on stage as part of the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in San Francisco t...

As Eric Ries pointed out in a TechCrunch post last year, although many may be familiar with "A/B testing" as a direct marketing technique (what it was initially developed for), it can be an even more ...

The Kindle Fire is Amazon's digital strategy incarnate. When it launched a year ago, the Fire seemed almost rushed. It looked like RIM's failed Playbook tablet and it worked, at best, like the low cos...

The Kindle Fire HD is a big deal. Big.It has rather excellent specs — a 1280x800 7-inch display, TI OMAP processor, dual stereo speakers, and dual-antennae Wifi (with MIMO) — and it comes ...

This was no sweaty, hoodie-clad boy genius. Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated he's a business man, a mobile product visionary, and most importantly, a leader Facebook's employe...

This was no sweaty, hoodie-clad boy genius. Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated he's a business man, a mobile product visionary, and most importantly, a leader Facebook's employe...

Debuting at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012, Chronos is a new time-tracking application for iPhone that shows you how you spend your time as well as who you're with, where and when, so you can set goals fo...

Ever since Apple launched its voice-driven personal assistant Siri, a slew of clones have appeared on the scene. Most of these, however, clearly show that Siri was the result of a massive research pro...

North Carolina-based INRFOOD aims to add some much-needed context to the food we eat every day by highlighting all the (occasionally funky) ingredients that tend to appear in it. To that end, the boot...

Studyhall, which launches at TechCrunch Disrupt SF today, is a peer-to-peer platform and network that is built specifically for students. Sorry, teachers, it's not for you. Yet.A number of startups ha...

Prior Knowledge debuted its predictive database for application developers today at Disrupt San Francisco 2012.Based upon work first done at MIT, the service is offered through the company's Veritable...

We've all been there before. You're on a phone call or video chat when someone brings up a topic you're unfamiliar with. What are your options? You either lie about knowing what the other person is ta...

HackerRank, a new social platform for coders, is launching at TechCrunch Disrupt today. The Y Combinator-backed company, which was founded by the same team as job site InterviewStreet, wants to create...

The web makes it easy to find instructional videos on practically any topic. There are 18,600,000 search results for "how to" on the site at the moment. Obviously not all of them are relevant, but tha...

TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington sat down with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong this afternoon at TechCrunch Disrupt SF - yes, the CEO of the same company that Arrington sold the blog he created totwo years ago...

Well, that's that then. All the talk a while ago about AOL possibly merging with Yahoo is officially off the table for now, according to AOL's CEO Tim Armstrong."I've never talked to Marissa [Mayer, t...

Well, that's that then. All the talk a while ago about AOL possibly merging with Yahoo is officially off the table for now, according to AOL's CEO Tim Armstrong."I've never talked to Marissa [Mayer, t...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social network is focused on supporting Instagram's growth, following the close of a roughly $750 million deal to buy the photo-sharing app. Instagram is the most...

Organizer, a startup that just took the stage at Disrupt, aims to bring political campaigns a smarter, faster way to manage their field work through smartphone apps and eventually to do the same thin...

Alicanto, launching today at Disrupt San Francisco 2012, is bringing machine learning, data analytics and the concept of forming neighborhood business alliances to the small business market.Alicanto i...

This afternoon at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Facebook chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat down with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington for his first interview since the com...

This afternoon at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Facebook chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat down with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington for his first interview since the com...

Maybe you've just gotten out of a relationship or you're looking to move to a different neighborhood. Whatever the case, you're on the search for a new apartment. But where do you go? Craigslist? (Hop...

In a riveting conversation today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Zuckerberg underscored and underscored and underscored again the importance of mobile for Facebook. He gave a telling and sort of chilling anecd...

In a riveting conversation today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Zuckerberg underscored and underscored and underscored again the importance of mobile for Facebook. He gave a telling and sort of chilling anecd...

Back in 2009, Republic Project launched to give bands and labels a platform to sell pre-orders of new music direct to fans, while receiving 100 percent of the revenue. The platform essentially provide...

FashionPlaytes, which runs a fashion website for "tween" girls called FPGirl.com, has raised $5 million in Series B funding.The site is aimed at girls between 5 and 12 years old. Users can design clot...

CareTicker has created a mobile platform that provides all the necessary planning and coordination for pre- and post-procedure hospital stays. And it's planning to roll out a host of different apps fo...

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, closed off his interview with Mike Arrington today at TC Disrupt with a very modest assessment of himself and what Facebook (reminder: world's biggest social netw...

On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Mark Zuckerberg named a few products that he is impressed by. In particular, Spotify, Airbnb, Nike+ and Runkeeper caught the attention of Facebook...

YourMechanic, a peer-to-peer car repair marketplace that enables mechanics to fix users cars at their home or office, launched at TechCrunch Disrupt SF today.It claims it will lower costs 30-50% from ...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's talk with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington drove up Facebook stock 4.58% in after hours trading today.The stock closed at $19.43 today but rose to $20.32...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's talk with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington drove up Facebook stock 4.58% in after-hours trading today.The stock closed at $19.43 today but rose to $20.32...

"I've been bugging you about Facebook phone for months," said Michael Arrington in Mark Zuckerberg's first interview since the Facebook IPO. "You say there's nothing, but I don't believe you." But Zuc...

On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook co-founder and CEO, said that he still codes sometimes for fun. But there is a rule at Facebook: "if you are checking in code...

On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook co-founder and CEO, said that he still codes sometimes for fun. But there is a rule at Facebook: "if you are checking in code...

Mark Zuckerberg is on stage at Disrupt talking about the potential for Facebook to get serious about creating a search engine, saying "we're basically doing 1 billion queries a day and we're not even ...

In CEO Mark Zuckerberg's first public appearance since Facebook's IPO in May 18, with the stock losing roughly half its value, employees selling options and many questions about the company's core bus...

Today, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook's mobile strategy relied too much on HTML5, rather than native applications.Not only was this a big mistake with mobile, but Zuckerberg says that its bigg...

Today, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook's mobile strategy relied too much on HTML5, rather than native applications.Not only was this a big mistake with mobile, but Zuckerberg says that its bigg...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington dived right into the most glaring and obvious question of the day following the company's May IPO. How does Zuckerberg feel about ...

In his first post-IPO public appearance, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed a packed house at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF conference where he was interviewed by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington....

The talk that everyone has been waiting for at TechCrunch Disrupt is happening, and Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg is on stage with Michael Arrington.The two are talking about everything that Facebook...

According to Bloomberg, Siri co-founder and Apple Engineering Director post-acquisition Adam Cheyer has left the company. So far, the only information available is that Cheyer "recently" left the comp...

During a panel at TechCrunch Disrupt today, Trigger Street's Dana Brunetti noted that in his view, Silicon Valley will likely become a major funding source for original content soon. For a company lik...

Those lucky folks in the Nordics just recently got access to an on-demand, over-the-top HBO service that bears more than a passing resemblance to HBO GO, but we here in the States haven't been quite a...

Ron Conway and San Francisco MayorEd Leesat down withTechCrunch to chat about two crucial upcoming policies for the technology industry. First among them was Proposition E, a ballot initiative to reve...

The first thing I asked Andres Godoy and Jos Daire about their new app called Hop.in launching this week at TechCrunch Disrupt was "isn't this just like Pinterest?" Andres was quick to note that poi...

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff said that Google chose to use his company's productivity app Do.com over Asana, which was founded by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovit...

Millennial Media sent out its quarterly Mobile Mix report for the second quarter of 2012 today, and the number tells a story of rising fortunes for Samsung in smartphones, and of continued success for...

Salesforce.com is a major force in the CRM space (it even managed to nab CRM as its stock ticker when it went public on the NYSE) for the trailblazing they have done in taking enterprise services into...

Google launched an open source course building web application for the growing list of K-12 and big-name universities developing online classes. The barebones website is a light-weight way to bring co...

Microsoft just announced that the Windows Store, the app store for the company's upcoming Windows 8 release, is now open for app submissions from all developers, including individuals. This marks the ...

Marc Benioff is not buying a private island even though, like rival Larry Ellison, apparently, he finds the need to head out to tropical destinations like Hawaii to recharge. He says that running high...

At TechCrunch Disrupt today, Salesforce CEO and founder Marc Benioff revealed the SaaS company's next productfile storage. We don't know much more, but the new product will be announced next week at S...

On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO and founder, only had good things to say about Facebook. "They have a great CEO, they are a great company," he said. But M...

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff said on stage at Disrupt San Francisco 2012 that Yammer should not have sold to Microsoft and that he passed on buying them due to the conflicts with Chatter -- it's ow...

At TechCrunch Disrupt SF today, Mike Arrington talked to Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff about the future going forward for Salesforce, and how the company is taking on Asana, Box and Okta, and why th...

TechHub, the startup workspace and community, has announced that it's expanding its UK presence with the opening of TechHub Manchester. That's right, it seems that this poster child for the 'Silicon R...

A year or two ago, it might have been easy to brush aside Quora for being another Valley water cooler with little mainstream crossover potential. But the content on the site has since diversified into...

During an enterprise-focused panel at TechCrunch Disrupt today, Box co-founder Aaron Levie noted how startups have "an unfair advantage" over the incumbents in the enterprise world today. In his view,...

It's pretty interesting to learn about how a company got its name, and every company has a story. We learned about Square's today, and it was almost called "Squirrel", according to founder Jack Dorsey...

The data center is what's sexy,not the mobile device. That's what Kirk Dunn of Cloudera had to say on stage this morning at Disrupt 2012.That is such an enterprise perspective but it is true in many r...

Ssh, the personal concierge and offline activity recommendation app that debuted back in July of last year, is announcing a $4millionSeries A round of funding today, led by Battery Ventures. The money...

We wrote about WeHostels (under its old name InBed.me) back in March, when it offered a social booking website for hostels and was planning to launch on mobile. Now, the company has released an iPhone...

Mobile looks like a threat to the growth of Facebook's profits, because advertisers aren't spending much and users aren't enjoying the experience. But Matt Cohler, thinks that mobile ads are going to ...

TechCrunch founderMichael Arringtonsat down withBenchmark CapitalsMatt Cohlerthis morning at TechCrunch Disrupt SF to discuss the state of tech investing. One of the first questions Arrington asked wa...

Payment service Stripe has announced a few new features that will make it more customizable. Among the new features, the two most notable additions are customizable billing interval and volume purchas...

Riding uphill on a Boosted Board feels like you're cheating gravity. Today this powerful, easy-to-control electric skateboard debuts onKickstarter, and after riding it a few times all I could think wa...

Although Antisec claimed that they Jason Bourne-d a laptop last week in order to leak 1 million UDIDs and device names, the truth is far more mundane and yet far more interesting.As we learned yesterd...

Kevin Rose reflected on his relationship with the media today at TechCrunch Disrupt.TechCrunch reporter Colleen Taylor asked Rose what he thought of the media, given that his career has been more publ...

Last week the former Yobongo team (now at Mixbook) announced their plan to launch an iPhone app for building photobooks, but today a company called Keepsy has beaten them to the punch withan app of th...

Parse, a Y Combinator-backed startup that makes it easier for mobile developers to handle their back-end infrastructure, is launching Cloud Code -- a way to easily write custom code without worrying a...

Today Kevin Rose came out in defense of Google Ventures in response to the fracas raised by Paul Graham at Y Combinator accusing Google Ventures of low-balling on valuations and investments. "Nobody's...

Kevin Rose defended Google Ventures in response to the fracas that Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham caused when, in an internal note, he accused Google Ventures of low-balling on valuations and inv...

Ed Lee, Mayor of San Francisco, and Ron Conway, angel investor at SV Angel, spoke about "Proposition E," a proposal to change the payroll tax in San Franciscoat TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco tod...

To help you navigate the city of tech, San Francisco, Mayor Ed Lee has announced the launch of a "Startup Map", which shows you where all of the hottest startups in the city are....

Founder Collective, a seed-stage investment fund, has rasied $70 million for a new fund (Founder Collective II), according to a blog post from the firm. The fund, which started making investments in ...

Yesterday popular hosting provider GoDaddy suffered a major, multi-hour outage that the company claims was due to an internal network error (and not a DDoS attack by a member of Anonymous).GoDaddy rep...

Yesterday popular hosting provider GoDaddy suffered a major, multi-hour outage that the company claims was due to an internal network error (and not a DDoS attack by a member of Anonymous).GoDaddy rep...

Our first group on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt is Michael Arrington speaking with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and VC Ron Conway. The group is discussing the amazing growth in tech jobs within the city...

Dashlane, a desktop and mobile app which helps you login to websites, fill out forms and speed through checkout faster, has launched a new feature which will alert you if one of your web accounts may ...

Some people are Googling rockstars. No matter what you want to find out, they can pull it up in a search result. Even though Google wants to make searching easy, there are tips and tricks to becoming ...

This is it. TechCrunch Disrupt is back in San Francisco and even though the show is sold out, we're still going to bring you all the action on our official Ustream feed and on the site. Disrupt is jus...

Real-estate network Honest Buildings just announced a new round of funding led by RockPort Capital and Mohr Davidow Ventures. Originally a service to measure the environmental impact of your next offi...

Boingo just announced that Google Play is now sponsoring free WiFi at 4,000 hotspots, including a number of major airports like New York's JFK, Chicago's O'Hare and Seattle-Tacoma, as well as Manhatte...

Boingo just announced that Google Play is now sponsoring free Wi-Fi at 4,000 hotspots, including a number of major airports, including New York's JFK, Chicago's O'Hare and Sea-Tac in Seattle, as well ...

Machina, is a menswear clothing brand that is in the process of mounting a Kickstarter campaign to promote a brand new product. The campaign doesn't start for about a month but they actually have a de...

GoDaddy has confirmed that its DNS problems yesterday, which caused thousands of websites to go down for most of the day, are now finished. And while an alleged member of the hacktivist group Anonymou...

We're getting close. I can almost smell that new iPhone. But what else will we see at the event? There have been plenty of rumors leading up to Wednesday's announcement, as is often the case with Appl...

Clipboard, the recently launched web clipping service with the Pinterest-like layout, is today debuting version 2.0, which brings a website redesign, several new features, and the debut of the Clipboa...

Estimize, a site where users try to beat Wall Street analysts by accurately predicting public company earnings, has raised $1.2 million in Series A funding.The company was founded by Leigh Drogen, for...

Inktank has raised $1 million in the form of a convertible note from Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth to further services play for Ceph -- an open source, next generation distributed storage techno...

LearnVest, a TechCrunch50startup originally aimed at teaching women to become more financially savvy when it debuted back in 2009, has come a long way in the years since. Following its $19 million Ser...

Livefyre is best known as a commenting system, but it's launching a new product today for large brands and publishers called StreamHub comments are part of StreamHub, but just one part.There are two ...

Back in March, VEVO rolled out a huge new redesign, which saw the major-label-owned music video giant add continuous playback and beef up its personalization and social features. Thanks to tight new i...

The mobile app market, currently still led by app trailblazer Apple, is continuing to grow at a rapid pace: according to new research from Gartner there will be nearly 46 billion mobile app downloads ...

DataSift, the social data platform that provides developers and third parties with the ability to access and interrogateTwitter, Facebook and other real-time social sources, is continuing its march on...

Viber has essentially been a smash hit right from its conception. The company hit 50 million registered users in February of last year, extending that to 70 million by May. But today marks one of the ...

Today Everything Everywhere, the JV between Orange and T-Mobile UK, unveiled some more details about its new 4G network -- the first commercial LTE service for the UK market. It is going to be branded...

Today Everything Everywhere, the JV between Orange and T-Mobile UK, unveiled some more details about its new 4G network -- the first commercial LTE service for the UK market. It is going to be branded...

Last month, news broke that the YouTube iOS app -- which had been pre-loaded on all iPhones since their launch -- would be taken off the mobile device with the launch of iOS6. And at the time we noted...

If you're even a casual gamer, you know that video game systems and platforms have come a long way in the past twenty years. I'm old, so I remember rockin' out to the Atari 2600, enjoying each and eve...

Cross-platform Video conferencing company Blue Jeans Network announced today that it will integrate with Salesforce.com.Blue Jeans makes it possible for people using different video conferencing and t...

[tc_5min code="517474975"]Instruments on iPads and Minority Report-style gesture applications. Yes the variety of startups exuded like an ectoplasmic goo from Startup Alley today, where the atmosphere...

Recapp wants to make it more convenient to read sports news curated around your favorite sports and teams. The iPhone and iOS app, which I saw in TechCrunch Disrupts Startup Alley today, cracked the T...

Foundation DB, here in the Startup Alley at Disrupt San Francisco 2012, is a modern database with features that have been the foundation for databases since the 1970s. The result, they say, is an infi...

In amongst the 160 Startup Alley companies exhibiting in San Francisco each day of Disrupt there are an enormous variety of companies. It's possible to switch from a startup aimed at new moms to a new...

Day one of Disrupt SF is officially over, and what a day it's been. We kicked things off this morning with Bill Campbell and Ben Horowitz. Followed by Jack Dorsey, Brian Lee and Jessica Alba, Michael ...

Day one of Disrupt SF is officially over, and what a day it's been. We kicked things off this morning with Bill Campbell and Ben Horowitz who were followed by Jack Dorsey, Brian Lee and Jessica Alba, ...

We're all familiar with price comparison shopping on high value items but less so on day-to-day consumables like groceries or household items. In effect it feels like just too much work and most of us...

Whatsapp has emerged as the leading, cross-platform messaging app among smartphone users, reaching the 10 billion messages per day mark a couple of weeks ago. But when it comes to offering cheap messa...

If you're reading this article, chances are you're pretty well connected, at least in terms of your various social networks. But it can be overwhelming: there's Facebook, Twitter, foursquare, Instagra...

Dispatch reached a milestone today. More than a year ago it became one of the winning hacks at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2011 Hackathon. Today at Disrupt San Francisco 2012 the company showed what th...

Livestar, which is officially launching at TechCrunch Disruptin San Francisco today, wants to help you find personalized recommendations from your friends and authoritative sources around the web. Liv...

Citrix Systems announced today that it has acquired Beetil, a Wellington, New Zealand-based startup that makes cloud-based customer service management software built on the ITIL framework.According to...

Gyft, a new mobile application launching at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, allows you to buy, save and redeem gift cards using your mobile phone. Unlike the numerous mobile gifting applications currently avai...

If clothes make the man, you might say that the equivalent for fashion e-commerce sites is that they are made (and broken) by how well they can sell you clothes. Fitiquette, launching today at TechCru...

PayTap, a shared social bill payment platform, launched today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Users can chip in to co-pay bills online and use social features to aggregate financial resources from friends a...

PayTap, a shared social bill-payment platform, launched today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Users can chip in to co-pay bills online and use social features to aggregate financial resources from friends a...

If clothes make the man, you might say that the equivalent for fashion e-commerce sites is that they are made (and broken) by how well they can sell you clothes. Fitiquette, launching today at TechCru...

Earlier today we reported how GoDaddy suffered a major outage, affecting millions of websites andhosted e-mail accounts that are run through the hosting and domain registrar's DNS services. Now it loo...

So many of the financial startups from the last several years have been geared toward getting consumers to buy more. Think Blippy, Swipely and then the glut of flash sales and group buying sites. But ...

Queremos was founded in Rio de Janeiro to increase the number of concerts held there. Many big-name bands from the U.S. and other major markets wouldn't perform there despite the city's high populatio...

Kuyam is an online marketplace dedicated to empowering busy women, working moms, and their families to discover and schedule appointments with local lifestyle businesses. By "lifestyle," they mean thi...

Today, security company Palo Alto Networks reported its first earnings after becoming a public company in July. Revenue for the fourth quarter grew 88 percent year-over-year to $75.6 million, compared...

Today, security company Palo Alto Networks reported its first earnings since becoming a public company in July. Revenue for the fourth quarter grew 88 percent year-over-year to $75.6 million, compared...

"It's all about what you can measure in the private sector, and it should be in the public sector as well," says Newark Mayor Booker, in a candidate discussion about how the government must adopt perf...

Robots can do almost anything - build cars, explore Mars, and run through the woods like a monster - but now they can sing and dance and even play songs after hearing their rhythm lines clapped out by...

The power of online fundraising is back in action: Barack Obama beat his fundraising losing streak by raising $114 million in August, narrowly inching head of Romney by just $3 million. Leveraging the...

Real time. Big Data. Im hearing those phrases a lot these days, but a startup called BrightContext, which is launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt, wants to deliver on the promise of those buzzwords f...

Mobile app analytics firm Localytics is introducing a brand new marketing platform, in what seems like a natural new direction for the company, since it takes the insights they've been providing via t...

As if human interaction in the post-Internet age wasn't weird enough, here's RISR. It's a web of sensors that connects to a cellphone and scans your "target" for body language. RISR then vibrates on y...

Georgia-based Social Fortress may have started out as a pet project to make communicating on Facebook more privacy-friendly, but over the past two years, its ambitions have grown considerably loftier....

Famous, brought to you by the same guy that founded PowerSet (Steve Newcomb), lets developers write fully 3D apps without having to depend on complex programming tricks or compiled apps. It's a lot li...

The recent influx of both high- and low-end EVs and electric motorcycles have shown promise but current battery technology is still limiting, and the cost of entry is far too high with the benefits of...

Kicking off the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 sessions wereThe Honest Companyco-founders, actressJessica AlbaandBrian Lee,also of ShoeDazzle, Teeology and LegalZoom. The two teamed up to launch Honest, a...

Kicking off the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 sessions wereThe Honest Companyco-founders, actressJessica AlbaandBrian Lee,also of ShoeDazzle, Teeology and LegalZoom. The two teamed up to launch Honest, a...

Sure, Disrupt is jam-packed with tech celebs, VCs, and the drama of the Startup Battlefield. But there's perhaps an even more precious gem lying within the massive venue: Startup Alley.This year in Sa...

I didn't think that I would travel 2,400 miles to attend and help cover TechCrunch Disrupt, only to run into a startup from my home town of Columbus, OH, but lo and behold it happened.guestHub, are h...

SoundGecko is a Startup Alley contestant with a mission: to turn your favorite blogs into MP3 files for later listening. The founders, Ed Hooper, Andrew Armstrong, and Long Zheng, initially founded 12...

Intuit is announcing today the availability of a new API that will give third-party developers access to the financial data service that powers Quicken, QuickBooks, Mint.com, and FinanceWorks. Basical...

Cloud-based gaming provider Agawi, which began life as iSwifter for iPad with a much more narrow focus on delivering Flash-based gaming to Apple's tablet devices, today announced a new collaboration w...

"50 is the perfect number of friends" Dave Morin found when looking at the usage of his personal networking app Path, as he explained in his talk at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Add more than that and peopl...

We covered the initial launch of a service called Findings, a place to sort through all of the ideas that pop into your brain on a daily basis. The product came out the Betaworks stable, and the team ...

With 75 companies pitching last Demo Day, Y Combinator is bigger than ever. The early-stage firm has gone from some very humble roots with about a dozen founders out of Boston seven years ago, to host...

Famous cartoonist Hugh MacLeod will be capturing the essence of TechCrunch Disrupt by putting what is happening on stage into drawings. As MacLeod is interested in startup culture, it is a great match...

On stage today at Disrupt San Francisco 2012 TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington asked LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman about the enterprise. Then Arrington yawned. He later said this:""I like Ferrari'...

MapMyFitness has been on a roll lately. Debuting in 2005, the veteran of the online health and fitness space has built a suite of websites and apps (like MapMyRUN.com, MapMyRIDE.com, MapMyWALK.com, et...

I know you guys might have forgotten to get your favorite robotic horse a gift today, but this is International Creepy Robotic Boston Dynamics Robotic Horse Day, and it's important to get out there an...

Zynga just announced another big change in its management team: The departure of Chief Marketing Officer And Revenue Officer Jeff Karp, who joined a little more than a year ago....

Feedly, as its name implies, is a service that started out as a better way for users to read their RSS feeds. But RSS nevercaught on in the mainstream, although it powers many of the social news-readi...

Path CEO Dave Morin offered some updates on the company's growth while on-stagetoday at TechCrunch Disrupt.Version 2.0 of the journaling/personal networking app launched back in November, and Morin sa...

All good things come to an end, right? That certainly seems to be the case for one of Google Wallet's earliest perks -- since the company's mobile payments service first launched almost exactly one ye...

"People with strong attachments to the Republican Party were more likely to see their paper as leaning toward Clinton, independent of the paper's actual coverage. Similarly, people with strong democra...

As one of Facebook's very earliest backers (with a $37,500 investment at a $5 million valuation), LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman sounds neutral on the company for the next six months, but bullish ov...

At the upcoming Apple event on September 12, the company is expected to release a new iPhone compatible with 4G LTE connectivity around the world. Yet, competitors such as Samsung and HTC are already ...

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, TC's own Greg Ferenstein was joined on stage by Khan Academy founder Sal Khan, former Chancellor of New York Public Schools and an EVP at News Corp., as well...

At our TechCrunch Disrupt conference today, Joel Klein, the former Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education who now runs News Corp.'s education division, talked about some of the diffic...

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman discussed the removal of Twitter's feeds from its product, even though it was not their decision.Hoffman says at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco that its product is b...

On the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Michael Arrington got LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman to open up about his initial investment into social networking giant Facebook. Apparently it was $37,...

After a successful first Hackathon series, VC firm Greylock Partners Greylock has announced Hackfest II, to continue the mission of building a network of interns and talent to build great companies an...

Nielsen had previouslyannounced in May that more than half of U.S. mobile owners now owned smartphones, and today that metric has grown again, going from 50.4% to 55.5%. But the more interesting figur...

Bill Moggridge, noted consumer electronics designer, died on September 8th, 2012 of cancer. He was 69.Wizards like Bill Moggridge stayed up late to build our future. As the co-founder of vaunted desig...

Apple is pretty much single-handedly driving the growth of worldwide PC sales to companies and government, according to new data from Forrester research. In an otherwise dismal outlook, which sees gro...

According to many customers, sites hosted by major web host and domain registrar GoDaddy are down. According to the official GoDaddy Twitter account the company is aware of the issue and is working to...

When discussing social media and how he uses it for his political work as Mayor of Newark, Cory Booker called out Facebook CEO Mark Zuckberg as an "American Hero" for his work on connecting the world....

#Waywire (yes, the name comes in hashtag format), the video news-sharing service co-created by Newark Mayor Cory Booker, just opened to everyone in a public alpha.Booker made the announcement on-stage...

Airbnb founder Nate Blecharczyk, Brit + Co founder Brit Morin, TaskRabbit founder Leah Busque, and Lyft co-founder John Zimmer took the stage here at Disrupt SF to talk about their experiences as...

Do you love your pet? Do you have a phone? Are you alone and have little else to do? Klooff is the way to go. The app is, as I understand it, a way for pet lovers to share their love for their pets. Y...

Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 in San Francisco. We all know him as the Mayor who has taken Twitter by storm, and also the fellow who has no problem jum...

Upstart venture firm Andreessen Horowitz is betting that as software permeates more and more traditional industries, venture returns will break out from their stable track record. "Historically, the t...

Back in May, HP announced that it would cut 27,000 jobs in an effort to reduce costs. In anSEC filing today, the company announced that the plan will be even more important than that by bringing the j...

"We probably need to change the name of this conference," Twitter and Square co-founder Jack Dorsey said today from the stage of TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. As much as we love this conference...

Jack Dorsey never wanted to be an entrepreneur. But you can't predict your life, and we've just learned from his keynote speech that you can't predict the path of a company either. "A founder is not a...

Computer vision/robotics company Blue River Technology announced today that it has raised a $3.1 million Series A round of funding from Khosla Ventures. Steve Blank, Ulu Ventures and Stanford Angels a...

Last week, we caught a blog post Google wasn't supposed to publish yet. In it, the company announced that it would soon bring editing features to the Google Drive app for iOS. Today, Google made these...

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 in San Francisco, Jack Dorsey took the stage to give us a ten minute run-through of how he got to where he is today. I'm not sure that there's enough time in the day t...

"... I wanted to be Bruce Lee. I wanted to be a sailor. I wanted to be a tailor. I wanted to craft products and share with others."Speaking today at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Jack Dorsey to...

"... I wanted to be Bruce Lee. I wanted to be a sailor. I wanted to be a tailor. I wanted to craft products and share with others."Speaking today at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Jack Dorsey to...

"We're big believers in founders," Ben Horowitz says, explaining part of Andreessen Horowitz's strategy. "We really wanted to back founder CEOs."Horowitz and Bill Campbell, chairman of the board of di...

What better way to kick off TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012, than to bring together Silicon Valley legend "Coach"Bill Campbell, Chairman of Intuit and Apple board member, with Andreessen Horowitzco-founder...

What better way to kick off TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012, than to bring together Silicon Valley legend "Coach"Bill Campbell, Chairman of Intuit and Apple board member, with Andreessen Horowitzco-founder...

Apple's leaked UDIDs didn't originally come from the feds, as originally reported, according to new information obtained by NBC News today. Instead, the information came from app publishing company Bl...

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, Ben Horowitz, co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, said that Jack Dorsey and his startup Square are changing the world through software, in the same w...

FuzeBox is trying to entice startups to use its video conferencing and online meeting tools with its new FuzeFund, which offers FuzeBox Pro accounts at an appealing price point free.CEO Jeff Cavins s...

FuzeBox is trying to entice startups to use its video conferencing and online meeting tools with its new FuzeFund, which offers FuzeBox Pro accounts at an appealing price point free.CEO Jeff Cavins s...

RidePal, a company providing a turnkey commuter bus system for companies, is today announcing having closed half a million in seed funding from 500 Startups, Amicus Capital, and Jeff Clarke, Chairman ...

This spring, Tangoraised $40 million in a Series C round, and announced plans to expand beyond its original focus of enabling video calls between mobile users. In fact, it's no longer accurate to call...

Microsoft just announced a partnership Attachments.me that will make it easier for Gmail users to save attachments to Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage service. After you install Attchements.me's Chr...

This is it. TechCrunch Disrupt is back in San Francisco and even though the show is sold out, we're still going to bring you all the action on our official Ustream feed and on the site. Disrupt is jus...

We were talking with the New York fashion community about postponing New York Fashion Week for a few days while we ran Disrupt, but they just wouldn't listen. What's more, Sergey Brin and Google sent ...

Ivi.ru the "Hulu of Russia" that offers streamed premium TV and films from international and local big-name content holders, has raised another $40 million round of funding. The investment was led by ...

"This is my personal vendetta against the broken healthcare system," Ari Tulla tells me, mid-pitch, while standing on the sidewalk after a recent TechCrunch event in Redwood City. He's talking about B...

Buenos Aires-based startup Mural.ly opened its doors to the public today, delivering a new way to collect, share and brainstorm on the web. The tool mixes a little bit of Evernote with a whole lot of ...

Amobee, the mobile ad serving company recently acquired by Asian carrier SingTel, is launching a new ad building product called PULSE Create.Amobee CEO Trevor Healy says the PULSE Create technology co...

When Kieron Donoghue launched ShareMyPlaylists back in 2009, I thought he was just a little crazy to be building a startup on the back of Spotify's lack of social features and an ecosystem that didn't...

Money management service Personal Capital, which launched last year, is announcing a new addition to its platform relating to 401ks. The company is debuting its own 401k plan and is launching a free 4...

If you're trying to use online advertising to make a quick sale, determining how effective an ad is can be pretty simple -- did users click through or not? But when it comes to brand advertising, ther...

When SendmyBag founder and CEO Adam Ewart stepped into the Dragon's Den on last night's episode of the UK television show asking for a 100k investment in return for 5% equity, valuing the startup at 2...

Enterprise mobile software provider DoubleDutch today announced thereleaseof its newest product, a mobile customer relationship management tool called Hive. Mobile CRM is a tricky needle to try and th...

San Francisco-based FatFractal is today launching a competitor to backend-as-a-service (BaaS) providers like Stackmob, Parse, Kinvey, and Applicasa, and it's not just following in the others' footstep...

SimpleTuition, a company that offers online tools, tips and advice to college students to help them save money on education-related expenses, is announcing this morning that is has acquired ValoreBook...

Nimble Storage, the developer of flash-optimized,hybrid storage and backup solutions for the enterprise has raised $40.7 million in funding from led by existing investors Sequoia Capital and Accel Par...

Madvertise, the European mobile ad network backed by the likes of Earlybird and Blumberg Capital, is adding a raft of new options for advertisers using its platform, including the introduction of AdWo...

Two weeks ago, things didn't look so great for Google Fiber, but after a last-minute push, 180 out of the 202 'fiberhoods' in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri managed to reach Google's go...

I recently read Ben Austens WIRED article about Steve Jobs, which prompted me to put together mythoughts about the tradeoffs of being a successful entrepreneur. Austens article draws a caricature ofJo...

Editor's Note: This guest post was written by G. Nagesh Rao, an IP-Law and Technology Commercialization Strategist based out of San Francisco and Washington DC. He most recently worked for The City of...

David Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal founded Warby Parker last year in an attempt to breathe new life into the eyewear industry. The New York City-based startup has since rocketed to popularity by selling...

Back in June, Silicon Valley's health-focused startup accelerator, Rock Health, kicked off its third program. What was notable about this third batch -- other than the encouraging fact that a health-o...

It seems that every week there's a new company, startup, or financial institution that is launching a new way to pay from, issue rewards, or power transactions from a mobile phone. The question that a...

The night has been a long one for our intrepid crew of hackers, and all their arduous, caffeine-fueled work has led to this moment. A stunning 147 teams have taken the stage here at Disrupt SF to deli...

As we approach the Technological Singularity it's important to keep an eye on the harbingers of true superhuman artificial intelligence. While many will point to primitive projects by researchers at M...

On the web, we have a host of user names and passwords we have to remember, whether for news sites or apps or Netflix. So Michael Thomas and Vahur Roosimaa of Los Angeles-based startup Scopely have ha...

Using off-the-shelf hardware, SafeHouse aims to disrupt the home security space. Raspberry Pi and Ninja Blocks are used to build a surprisingly robust security system. As seen during their Battlefield...

Yesterday, Josh wrote about how Spotify is planning to push out a browser-based version of its music streaming service. Earlier today AllThingsD further confirmed this and added a bit more color: the ...

During a visit to the Googleplex last week, I sat down with someone so passionate about search, it's as if it's his job or something. Well, it is, and Jack Menzel, Director, Product Management of Goog...

Unlike something like Evernote, which helps you store and reference information, TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon entrant Memstash helps you actually memorize stuff. For example, if you want to memorize a...

This team at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon found a great idea to keep them motivated through the development. When you are visiting a city, Local Drunk connects you to a local who knows a good p...

This hack comes from a pair of charming Germans who created an app to find books related to apps you just opened. For example, when you download or install an app - Word, Photoshop, Skype - it will au...

It's become more clear than ever that analytics about how people interact with things -- from physical stores to television screens to websites -- are key for businesses to optimize their relationship...

Peter Ma says hadn't switched on his HP laptop for nearly six months when he booted it up at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon yesterday afternoon.From May until August he backpacked alone in the Sierr...

At the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon, a presentation on stage was very polished and caught our attention. Advise.ly provides a peer-to-peer career advice on demand. It uses both the LinkedIn API th...

It was a long and trying night here at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse, but after it all the sun did rise in San Francisco this morning, bringing in a new day for the scores of programmers a...

If you're working on an iOS app and would like to demonstrate key features to users, Appetize.co makes things a little bit easier. Rather than hacking together in-app videos, Appetize allows programme...

A mere 24 hours ago an eclectic group of coders gathered outside of The Concourse at San Francisco Design Center intent on hacking together the next great app. And now after a sleepless night these gr...

With the introduction of the $499 8.9-inch Kindle HD with LTE, Amazon now has a device with the same price tag as the new iPad. Of course, the devices are very different when it comes to capacity, con...

In less than 20 years, the feats accomplished by Seattles Amazon are simply astounding and, curiously, often taken for granted. It is the worlds largest online retailer, a master of logistics, an orac...

TechCrunch has millions of readers around the globe, and they speak far more languages than our staffers or guests at Disrupt. To make it easier for our global readers to enjoy the conference, we are ...

Hex3 founder Jon Atherton didn't have any hardware hacking experience when he launched Kickstarter campaigns for the company's debut products, the AppTag Laser Blaster and the JaJa Pressure Sensitive ...

To date, Facebook has focused the majority of its revenue efforts on ads, and, to a lesser extent, payment services around apps that run on its social platform. But Facebook commerce, where users buy ...

The Hackathon never sleeps, and neither do the hackers. Just like the Disrupt NY 2012 Hackathon, and the San Francisco Hackathon before it, this year's bunch of coders are up and at 'em, ready to disr...

TechCrunch has millions of readers around the globe, and they speak far more languages than our staffers or guests at Disrupt. To make it easier for our global readers to enjoy the conference, we are ...

As this is being published, it's just after midnight at the Disrupt SF 2012 Hackathon, and programmers are elbows deep into their projects (or perhaps in the middle of a well-deserved nap) with a very...

Pardon the pun, but peer-to-peer car-sharing service RelayRides is on a roll. In March, the startup expanded beyond its first two regional markets -- Boston and San Francisco -- and made its marketpla...

Every Disrupt we like to walk around the hall and meet with the uber-cool hackers who have dedicated their lives to making cool stuff in less than a day. We cornered five hackers and asked them what t...

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has written a very levelheaded and fair analysis of Paul Graham's "Google Ventures" email leak and the media "he said, she said" that followed.Gearing up for Disru...

If you've been put off by the (arguably obtrusive) Special Offers on the Kindle Fire HD, Amazon has just announced that they will allow users to pay $15 to opt-out of the ads for the life of the devic...

Chris Hawker, the founder of Trident Design, LLC, has over 20 years of experience developing and commercializing his own and others inventions. His most famous product, the PowerSquid, was the subject...

Here's a heartwarming story for a Hackathon Saturday: Chad Ruble's mother suffers from aphasia due to a stroke. She hasn't been able to use a keyboard for years because she is simply unable to recogni...

Babelverse, the language translation startup that landed the title of "Audience Choice" at Disrupt NYC this past May, has raised a seed round led by 500 Startups along with a group of other angel inve...

It's that time of year again. Pencils are being sharpened, school buses are making their rounds, and hackers are coding to their little hearts' desire. The Disrupt SF Hackathon has officially commence...

If you're wondering why the Spotify desktop software has hardly been updated in a year, it's because the company is preparing to launch a completely overhauled browser-based version of its streaming m...

If you're using non-Retina-ready apps like Word and you'd like to see things in a clearer light, there's an app for that. Retinizer is a very simple app that allows you to update standard Mac applicat...

Oh, to become the Instagram for video! THAT is the dream of scores of new tech start-ups. And, that is the holy grail for all the VCs who continue to plow money into those companies. After all, Facebo...

If you've been paying attention at all, you know that the next iPhone is right around the corner. Apple has sent out invites to a September 12 event — that's on Wednesday, by the way — jus...

Images shock, delight, inspire and provoke. They grab our emotions in ways that text simply cannot. Would Facebook be Facebook without photos? You want to see whats going on in the lives of your frien...

The Gillmor Gang Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor handicap the latest entries in the Tablet Stakes. It feels like a game of musical chairs, with three chai...

If you really want to become a hate figure in GamerVille, predict the doom of single player games. This is territory that Frank Gibeau from Electronic Arts inadvertently strayed into this week when he...

Behind most productivity problems is a learning problem.Productivity is a loaded term for good reason. Weve seen an endless parade of newfangled systems and near-religious dogma -- high aspirations an...

"Nicodemus Jones" was a big fan of bestselling crime author RJ Ellory. His five-star Amazon reviews of Ellory's books were littered with phrases like "modern masterpiece", "will touch your soul", "a m...

This week Twitter launched its new API. There are still lots of questions about what this means for developers, and what role developers have played in Twitter's rise. But the general consensus seems ...

The Internet has been the most disruptive vehicle in modern memory, from buying shoes to connecting with friends. The profession of marketing was no less transformed over the last two decades. Marketi...

You might have heard of Uber and its quest to transform the way we transport ourselves from one place to another. You might have also heard that the company has faced some challenges along the way, ch...

Clever On Demand, a company whose technology allows publishers to manage multiple ad networks, has acquired AudienceFUEL, a publisher-to-publisher marketing platform (more on what that means in a seco...

As we've chronicled, the folks behind Uber definitely have some balls. That's why this standoff between the New York City Taxi and Limo commission and the Bay Area-based startup is so fascinating. It ...

I hope PrePay users read their email closely. Otherwise they may have missed the alert that the I/O Ventures-backed merchant loyalty and payment app is closing down and any prepaid credit will evapora...

I hope PrePay users read their email closely. Otherwise they may have missed the alert that the I/O Ventures-backed merchant loyalty and payment app is closing down and any prepaid credit will evapora...

Intel announced today that its sales for the third quarter will be lower than expected due to a decline in demand. Intel microprocessors use the x86 architecture found in most PCs and Macs today. Inst...

The Kindle Fire HD is a big deal. Big.It has rather excellent specs — a 1280x800 7-inch display, TI OMAP processor, dual stereo speakers, and dual-antennae Wifi (with MIMO) — and it comes ...

Tandem Capital, the Silicon Valley startup accelerator that focuses exclusively on early-stage mobile businesses, is today revealing the six companies that are participating in its most recent batch. ...

We've covered Dyson fans and vacuums for years now, being constantly amazed at the utility and wild designs that come out of James Dyson's wee English workshop. He makes things that suck and blow and ...

I had a chance to discuss an amazing new non-profit program called CODE2040 with one of its founders today, Laura Weidman Powers. The mission of this program is to bring diversity to Silicon Valley by...

So Amazon launched a new publishing program called Kindle Serials yesterday, but it's not the only company with serialized fiction on its mind. In fact, three of the eight Kindle Serials launch title...

Earlier this year, VEVO unveiled a huge new redesign, adding continusous playback and social features designed to get more people engaged when watching its music videos. And while it made that experie...

Apple's new iPhone, which the company is set to unveil next Wednesday, will have better worldwide support for LTE than the latest iPad, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. While th...

When you search for "Bettina Wulff" on Google, the search engine will happily autocomplete this search with terms like "escort" and "prostitute." That's obviously not something you would like to be as...

Motorola unveiled the new RAZR family at a big media gala in early September. The company proudly rolled out the supercharged RAZR HD and RAZR HD MAXX. The $99 RAZR M stole the show. The 4.3-inch RAZR...

Loic Le Meur, the French entrepreneur who moved to Silicon Valley to found Seesmic back in 2007 and led it through to its sale to Hootsuite this week, has taken a long and winding road to this most re...

When we launched our iPad app (to much fanfare) you all asked us when the Android version was coming. We finally have an answer: Right now. It's real and it's spectacular. The new app, built by the ex...

Editors note: This is a guest post by Bryan Schreier (@schreier), Dropboxs board member and partner at Sequoia Capital. Sequoia is an investor inDropbox, Evernote, Stripe, Tumblr, Instagram and Airbnb...

Gillmor Gang - Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live at 1pm Pacific....

What do you do after you spend years working on very serious, infrastructure problems supporting Gmail and literally hundreds of millions of users globally?You build a drawing app. Or at least that's ...

Just a couple of weeks ago, Facebook officially launched its Sponsored Results program, which allows advertisers to place sponsored links in the social network's search results and the early results ...

Current Kickstarter-du-jour Instacube just announced new planned Facebook integration, which will allow it to stream photos from that social network as well as its newly-acquired subsidiary Instagram....

It would appear that Siri is down. We've tested five iPhone 4S models, all of which are running iOS 5.1. One of the iPhones in the TechCrunch office is running iOS 6, and Siri seems to be working fine...

Wolfram Alpha just announced a useful new feature if you plan to follow Disrupt San Francisco closely. It has added CrunchBase data to its computational engine. You can now learn more about a specific...

Wolfram Alpha just announced a useful new feature if you plan to follow Disrupt San Francisco closely. It has added CrunchBase data to its computational engine. You can now learn more about a specific...

The data scientist in me has a new crush: Google Surveys. Last night, Google's consumer marketing division released a deliciously rich dataset of citizen reaction to the Democratic National Convention...

A lot of "personalized TV guide apps" just display shows that users have already watched or shown an interest in, which, frankly, is a little boring. I mean, you already know that you want to watch th...

It's still a hairy problem for every mobile app developer: how do you attract new users in a hopelessly crowded app store?Last year, video trailers for apps emerged as one popular for developers (and ...

VirusTotal, an online malware and virus scanner, was just acquired by Google. The company already had a partnership with Google. VirusTotal will continue to operate independently and maintain its exis...

Are you dying to tell your friends about all the new startups you read about on TechCrunch? A newly launched iOS application called Just Because is now making that possible. With Just Because, you can...

Next week, Apple is expected to announce a new iPhone complete with a new dock connector, finally putting to bed the 30-pin design that's been in use since time immemorial (so long as you can't rememb...

Locu, an app that makes it easy for restaurants to update their menus, will debut its public API at the TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco Hackathon tomorrow. The API will provide access to much more th...

BillGuard has come a long way in a short time. The company launched its SaaS product, which automatically scans your credit card statements for unwanted and fraudulent charges, in May of 2011 at Disru...

Google just announced that it is bringing its 45 degree imagery in Google Maps to 30 new cities, including Bloomington, IN; Buffalo, NY; Columbus, OH; Indianapolis, IN; Lincoln, NE; Louisville, KY and...

Custom product website Zazzle is making its first big move into mobile today with the launch of an iPhone app called Zazzle Instant.Apparently, the app started out as a side project by one of Zazzle's...

Google currently operateseight massive data centers in the U.S. and Europe. It is also constructing new data centers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan right now, but one glaring blank spot on the com...

The team behindYobongo, the location-based mobile chat application that was acquired by Mixbook in March, is finally ready to reveal what they've been up to in the months since. We already knew that M...

Clever 'gif animations' startup Loopc.am has released it's new version which has been more or less been rebuilt from the ground up. This is an infectious app and has cleverly hooked into the craze fo...

"As a campaign we would not presume to know more than the collective intelligence and resources of the marketplace. We find the best firms in the country and glue them together to achieve our goals," ...

New iOS app Timbre wants to help get you out to more concerts, by giving you a glimpse at shows nearby along with a free preview of what exactly you'll be getting if you buy a ticket or pop into a fre...

Augmented reality is one of those things where users will try an app once, and then never open it again. There are a number of reasons for this: For one thing, for it to work users need a specific pie...

Oh did you hear? Amazon announced a bunch of new Kindles yesterday. And here's another little tidbit - those devices, the Kindle Fire and Fire HD, are also getting an updated version of the Amazon Sil...

The rise of native apps as the primary medium for mobile content is a trend that shows no signs of slowing down at the moment -- if anything, it's growing, with smartphone-wielding consumers in the U....

Back in August, TechCrunch received word that Verizon was planning a vacation blackout for September 21 to September 30, indicating that would be the release date for the new iPhone 5. Now, new info s...

In June, Fotopedia, the company best known for its beautiful iPad travel magazines, launched its current ad model with partners like Flipboard, Jetsetter and National Geographic. Today, after serving ...

Fantasy sports startup DraftKings, which announced a $1.4 million seed round led byAtlasVentures in July, is moving into mobile with a new app for Android and iOS called Big Baller, which, like the Dr...

Atlanta-based Urjanet announced today that it has closed a $4 million Series B round of funding, two years after its initial launch. The company provides energy data for heavy energy consumers, mostly...

Spreecast, a social video platform that lets people broadcast together, has raised $7 million in Series A funding from Meakem Becker Venture Capital, GGV Capital and MentorTech Ventures as well as Sta...

Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital just became yet another of several upstart venture firms that have been able to raise progressively larger funds this year.The New York-based fund just quickly closed a...

It's only my third official day on the job at TechCrunch, but it's been a pretty awesome time thus far. We saw an email come through the wires that stopped us in our tracks during our Amazon coverage ...

18 companies presented at the StartX summer demo day today.The summer 2012 class is StartX's seventh and largest class; the accelerator, started in 2010, has now had over 90 companies in its history, ...

The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, spoke at the Democratic National Convention tonight and broke some Twitter records while he was at it, according to the company.Extra point...

The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, spoke at the Democratic National Convention tonight and broke some Twitter records while he was at it, according to the company.Extra point...

A year later and one hundred dollars cheaper than its predecessor, Seattle-based Contour announced its Contour+2 action camera this week and will be available later this month. The latest improve...

Syncapse wants to get bought. All it's well funded competitors -- Buddy Media, Vitrue, Involver, Wildfire -- already have. So today it releases a new analytics suite, making it a more appealing turn-k...

Zynga first announced its Zynga Platform for social gamesback in March. Since then, Zynga's own games have gone live at Zynga.com, and the company has been revealing more details and partners. What se...

If you are attending this weekend's Hackathon - that is if you have tickets and are raring to go - I have some fun news. As we mentioned before, Makerbot will be in attendance with two of their 3D pri...

This evening at the StartX demo day, the Stanford-based incubator provided a few metrics as a validation of its model. Among other things, StartX announced companies that have gone through its program...

StartX, the startup accelerator for companies founded by Stanford students, just kicked off Demo Day for its Summer 2012 startup class at AOL's Silicon Valley headquarters in Palo Alto this evening. T...

Much like it is for entrepreneurs, being an inventor isn't easy. From the moment that magic light bulb appears, product developers have to navigate a bumpy road of financing, engineering, legalities, ...

During today's Amazon Kindle Extravaganza, one of the slides that was popped up during the event got the attention of quite a few of us. It was a slide showing an in-app offer on a Kindle device.It's ...

Here's a piece of Twitter news that would really make me sad. According to former TechCrunch full-time writer guy, MG Siegler, Twitter will cease to support and develop Twitter for Mac....

Here's a piece of Twitter news that would really make me sad. According to former TechCrunch full-time writer guy, MG Siegler, Twitter will cease to support and develop Twitter for Mac....

Giftly, a San Francisco-based startup that lets you send any kind of gift to a friend or family member, has just come out with a native mobile app that makes it easier to send presents on the go. It's...

When it comes to finding a good iPad keyboard case, two accessories come out of the pack, the Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard and the Belkin YourType Folio. The Logitech one was the clear winner in Matt B...

MasterCard has acquired acquisition of Truaxis (formerly BillShrink). Financial terms were not disclosed. The company had raised $9 million in funding from Trinity Ventures and Bessemer. BillShrink or...

DeveloperAuction has built what they call the first transparent marketplace for recruitment, allowing engineers to put their talent up for auction from startups that need talent.In the companys first ...

Along with Amazon's big tablet announcements earlier today, it's finally also unveiled the first markets to get the Kindle Fire tablets -- both the new Kindle Fire and the HD version -- outside of the...

... Literally, like on the presentation wall of what seemed like the longest Amazon Press Event in Amazon Press Event history.For those keeping track at home, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos continued his one m...

Twitter is moving the bus forward on monetizing itself and allowing brands to handle all of their advertising on the site. Today, the company announced two new self-service features that companies hav...

The all-new Amazon Kindles are all now available for pre-ordering from Amazon's website. The Kindle Paperwhite retails for $119, or $179 for a version with built-in, free 3G connectivity, and those ve...

Amazon just announced the Kindle Fire HD, and we heard all kinds of magical promises: a beautiful display, super duper fast WiFi, and a host of new features. On almost every count, Amazon delivered, a...

eBay has just announced the acquisition of Svpply, a New York-based startup that aims to replicate the feeling of window-shopping online with a social, curated and personalized experience. The acquis...

So, Disrupt is right around the corner. And, we've put a few things together with our partners and sponsors that we think will help make your conference experience great!Our conference app: After slog...

Oh, couples. A wife sends her husband to the grocery store, and there's always some thing that he forgets to bring back, or worse, he messes up and brings home the Tom's Fluoride-Free Clean & Gent...

"In the Studio" kicks off the fall season by hosting a data scientist who, originally trained in mathematics and physics, worked his way through the Valley through a variety of analytics and research ...

Amazon introduced one last Kindle Fire today, the HD version with LTE capability and 32GB of storage for $499. That's a much better deal than the competition is offering, at least in terms of straight...

Amazon in its ongoing press conference has hinted at some improvements to the Kindle Fire software. It seems to be a completely new interface with great improvements to existing apps or, in some case...

Amazon just introduced new Kindle Fire tablets, including a revamped old version that costs $159, and is both faster and has longer battery life, as well as two Kindle Fire HD models, one with an 8.9 ...

At Amazon's press conference today in Santa Monica, the company is unveiling new devices, but to help sales along through the range, it's also dropping the price of the old one.The older, $79 Kindle i...

Pose has made some serious traction since it first launched its iPhone app in early 2011. Its mobile photo-sharing platform that lets people share snapshots of their outfits and tag them with brand an...

Confirming the reports that TechCrunch's Peter Ha was hearing yesterday, Amazon just announced the launch of a new publishing format: Kindle Serials, where a book-length story is delivered over severa...

Now that Twitter has introduced all of these fancy new things via its latest API, it's time to get rid of some of the legacy stuff. One of the legacy items is a platform called @Anywhere, which was in...

If we've said it once, we'll say it again. Many startups and businesses have sought the Holy Grail of collaboration/task management software -- in other words, offering a product that's flexible, intu...

Whoa! That was quite a response. TechCrunch got 445 entries to our Disrupt Remix Contest. Check them all out inside the post. After many hours of music screening, our busy Event Director Joey Hinson...

There's plenty to talk about here at Amazon's Los Angeles press conference. The Kindle Fire 2 is obviously a hot topic of discussion, but lest you forget the product that started it all: The Kindle. A...

One of the pieces of functionality that Google+ provides is the ability to share your location with your circles. It's pretty handy when you're using Google+ from a mobile device. The way t...

In advance of the expected new iPhone launchtaking place on September 12th, app analytics firm App Annie has taken a look at some of the traction Apple's Newsstand is seeing in terms of both revenue a...

Facebook's purchase of Instagram finally closed today, and here's what we think happens next. Instagram's founders will work at Facebook for a while but some of their team may soon leave for another s...

Rocket Fuel, a startup that optimizes ad campaigns using artificial intelligence, is announcing a new product for publishers (and vertical ad networks) called Audience Accelerator.Vice President of Bu...

The iPad is a great canvas for beautiful apps, but unless you are a pretty competent developer or designer, getting your own content onto the iPad isn't exactly easy. Tactilize wants to make it signif...

From outside a massive hanger in Los Angeles, California, grown men and women members of the press just literally ran into the venue for Amazon's special 2012 press event. A next-generation Fire is ...

In the rush to find the next great tech company, VCs eschewing the crowded scene in Silicon Valley are looking further afield for their gems. For some that means other cities in the U.S. and going to ...

Prince Siddhrtha is said to have left behind his life of privilege, and his wife and child, to dedicate his life to the search for enlightenment and eventually become the spiritual leader known as Gau...

I've backed a few things on Kickstarter in the past year, and I'm apparently not the only one. Today, the company shared some numbers as to what types of things are getting the most funding on the pl...

Asana, the high-profile productivity startup that's trying to redesign the workplace around tasks (instead of email), has a new iOS app out. It's worth a closer look, even if you really love email. Th...

In the last few months we've seen the rise of location-based mobile networking the likes of which some people envisioned a while ago but few executed on. And the executions are patchy but often intere...

Amazon is a company that just cannot stop leaking information about its new products. Before the live coverage of Amazon's press conference on TechCrunch at 10:30 in Santa Monica, it is now a good tim...

London-based Top10 has had a busy first year, with a September 2011 launch for their original web service announced alongside a $3.5 million Series A round, and then a Spotify app released in January ...

OMGERD! RBRTS! Another day, another robotic Kickstarter project. This sassy little fellow is called Multiplo and it's a cute robotics kit for DIYers and students. It will include servos, plates, arms,...

New data on the state of the Android ecosystem has been posted toGoogle's Android Developers site. The big reveal? Gingerbread, the version of the Android mobile operating system released back in Dece...

Facebook has officially closed itsacquisitionof Instagram as of today, the companies announced. In two separate posts on their official corporate blogs, the now-joined companies talked about how they'...

Doxo's mission is to rid your life of paper-based documents and bills, but for many businesses, sending out bills by mail is still the default. To bridge the gap between paper bills and mobile payment...

With the launch of UltraViolet and the introduction of a number of new streaming video services, Hollywood studios and TV networks are increasingly looking to make their content available over the Int...

In a world where stock video footage and production is typically expensive to license and is bound by restrictive licenses, Video Blocks wants to provide a low-cost alternative to incumbents like Gett...

It's been over two years since Box CEO Aaron Levie declared here at TechCrunch that enterprise is sexy again. Since then there have been a few strong enterprise IPOs, like Jive Software, Palo Alto Net...

Zimride's local ride-sharing service, Lyft, has gotten a lot of positive press since launching as an alternative to cabs and Ubers in San Francisco. But it's always had some legal, regulatory, and saf...

The researchers at eMarketer have put out their latest figures on mobile advertising revenue in the U.S., and while they are holding firm on their forecast that they will bring in $2.6 billion this ye...

Bing has a bit of an image problem and despite its best efforts, Microsoft claims, many people still have the perception that Google is simply "better." To combat this, the company is launching its Bi...

It's a terribly common situation: after hundreds of hours of thinking through and building a product, a startup finds that its users stumble through a sign-up flow or in finding a feature. That's in p...

According to some estimates (such as from XyoLogic) around 0.1% of iOS apps get 50% of the the downloads on the app store (there are 650,000+ iOS apps), with as much as 60% of iOS apps never down...

Gannett is on a shopping spree. After the media company snapped up advertising company BLiNQ for $92 million a few weeks ago, Gannett is announcing the acquisition of Mobestream Media, maker of the Ke...

Although reports trickling in are raising questions around Pinterest's ability to convert its network of enthusiastic photo sharers to e-commerce shoppers, the site itself is still growing quickly. Ac...

IK Multimedia's iRig STOMP pedal interface for iOS is now officially available.I should also mention that approaching this official launch, I've been playing with the iRig STOMP for a week or so, (cou...

In a matter of days, the team fromFirespotter Labs, makers of conference calling solutionUberConference, will be on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012, handing off the trophyfor their Disrupt NYC 201...

LinkedIn plans to roll out a new version of its company pages today, part of a broader attempt to redesign and simplify its core products, including its homepage.I went down to the LinkedIn office yes...

As a small startup, the mobile payment space shouldn't be appealing. Every carrier and credit card company seems to have its own system, the space is fragmented, crowded and no standard for payment me...

Moscow-based online air travel booking startup OneTwoTrip announced this morning that it has raised $9 million in funding from Phenomen Ventures fund in exchange for a minority stake. The site offers ...

Alcatel-Lucent is open-sourcing a new API software engine and management platform called apiGrove that is meant to serve as a services layer for enterprises and large service providers.Alcatel-Lucent'...

It's not news that developing countries are growing faster than the developed world. But in regions less wired and smartphoned-up, attaching business models to that growth requires some innovative thi...

Now, I don't pretend to know very much about the relationship between big pharmaceutical companies and healthcare professionals, except that I do know it's complicated. A huge amount of money is spent...

Nokia and Motorola had their day in the device spotlight yesterday, and today it Amazon's turn, with Apple's next week. So in the middle of all of this, just to make sure we don't forget about it, Sam...

TechCrunch first reported earlier today that enterprise social media platform HootSuite is buying another social media platform, Seesmic. That fact has now been confirmed by HootSuite itself.Ryan Holm...

It's funny. I was only the other day standing on the rooftop of a London startup's office as we cracked jokes over beers about the ridiculous amount of money SEO and marketing agencies used to charge ...

Startup Sauna has always been a slightly puzzling thing. It acts ike an accelerator but does not fund startups. It simply offers European (mostly from Nordic countries) and Russian startups coaching s...

The big September reveal-a-thon is set to continue tomorrow with some new product announcements courtesy of Amazon, but a rival player in the e-book space is trying to capture some thunder of its own ...

On the eve of Amazon's first non-New York event, we're hearing from multiple sources that the online retailer could be announcing new publishing deals in addition to a slew of updated Kindles tomorrow...

The title of this Disrupt SF panel is terrible (two 'Disrupts,' seriously?), but its premise is pretty amazing: How do Millennials deal with shaking up an industry to the point where they define it, a...

Singapore-based Bubble Motion, the company behind sound-based social network Bubbly, unveiled a new version of its app today. The version 2.0 of Bubbly introduces filters users can apply to their voic...

After several months in beta testing, Adobe is launching Adobe Social, which it's pitching as a way to connect social marketing campaigns with real business results.That was the big emphasis when the ...

Video distribution company Brightcove announced its acquisition of Zencoder to coincide with its second-quarter earnings announcement in July, paying $30 million for the cloud encoding startup. And it...

Recurly had some very bad news for its clients this morning but at leastinitialfixes are now on the way. A cascading hardware failure erased some end customer recurring billing info, preventing them f...

If you use Tumblr to host a blog with a custom domain name, you might notice that it's not functioning properly. That's apparently the case for companies like Airtime, Pinterest and Path, as I've come...

If you use Tumblr to host a blog with a custom domain name, you might notice that it's not functioning properly. That's apparently the case for companies like Airtime, Pinterest and Path, as I've come...

If you're an NFL fan like I am (Go Eagles), then you are probably following some of your favorite teams and players on Twitter. The season starts tonight with the Giants vs. Cowboys, and I really don'...

4chan, the often anonymously-used imageboard that's spawned memes like Lolcats and hosts the weirdest porn you'll ever see, just released an API and its first new features in five years for its 22 mil...

Even in our age of Yelp and Google Places, finding the right restaurant can often be hard. In April, Hoppit launched its "ambiance search engine for restaurants" to make it easier to find a nice spot ...

Google's Knowledge Graph has become a handy tool when you're searching for things that interest you. There are a few reasons why it's a handy feature, but most of all it provides context to what you'r...

Tumblr today revealed a new and hopefully improved design for its default handling of mobile device blog rendering. It's a clean layout that brings liking and re-blogging to the main page, as well as ...

Last month, Twitter announced that some big changes were coming to its API. So developers and the Twitter ecosystem knew this was coming. But, today, the company officially unveiled the newest version...

After debuting on the NASDAQ last year, real estate search engine Zillow is filing a follow-on offering, seeking to sell 3.175 million shares of the company's Class A common stock. An additional 325,0...

More brands are gravitating towards Google's social offering, Google+ as of late, and it looks like the latest comes from the high-end fashion realm.During New York Fashion Week (NYFW), brands an...

It's a good time to be a nerd. The "nerd economy," as we're now calling it, is slowly but surely paving the way for geeks and nerds and nerd-geeks to someday rule the world. At long last. For me, it c...

Disrupt SF right around the corner and is shaping up to be the biggest event of the year. We're looking forward to hearing from Mark Zuckerberg for his first post-IPO interview. Jack Dorsey will share...

UK-based Neul today announced a new $5 million investment from Mistui & Co. Ltd. subsidiary MGI, as well as existing investors DFJ Esprit, IQ Capital, Business Angels and founding company employee...

Don't mess with Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia when it comes to Internet freedom, because he will use harsh words to lash out at you. Today, according to the BBC, Wales had some choice words for the Britis...

It's a classic quandary -- getting people to participate in online communities can be hard, but getting people to participate well in online communities is even harder. To that end, behavioral managem...

With the updated models of Motorola's flagship phones, the company did not surprise us a lot. It did what it knows best: putting big batteries in Android phones so that you can enjoy long hours of 4G ...

Google now lets companies rent Chromebooks for $30 per month and Chromeboxes for $25 per month. There are no long-term contracts to sign and rentals are always month-to-month (with the monthly price d...

I know, I know, how can I be talking about Disrupt NYC 2013 when Disrupt SF is right around the corner. Well, we want to make sure that all y'all put us on you calendar for the spring and we wanted to...

We're here at the Motorola event in New York, and I just got my hands on the Droid Razr M, the "little big secret" that Motorola's been amping up for. As you'd expect for a phone of this size, it feel...

Zyngas FarmVille proved to be a runaway hit when it launched back in the heady days of 2009, and three years later millions of faux-farmers still habitually tend to their digital crops every day. Slow...

Motorola just wrapped up its press event detailing the Razr HD, Razr Maxx HDand Razr MAndroid phones, and now the full video is available for viewing via YouTube. At the very least, that's better turn...

Businesses understand the importance of implementing a social strategy in the Facebook Era -- and not just because it's cool, but because it can have a real effect on user engagement. Just ask Salesfo...

Without a doubt, Spotify is my service-of-choice for listening to music these days. It was a huge win when I was in Mexico, and its offline mode is an absolute life-saver.For those of you that use th...

There's no doubt that AngelList has evolved into an incredibly powerful (and disruptive) platform in the investing world. The hybrid social network, communication and crowdsourcing platform allows sta...

Motorolas new RAZR HD may be getting all the attention, but thats definitely not all the company was planning to reveal today. As expected, the new (and Verizon-exclusive) RAZR M has just taken the st...

Motorola just revealed that its new phones today will come with Chrome pre-installed. Traditionally, Android phones have come with different browsers, but never Google's own, which officially came out...

Seesmic is one of those startups that never quit, it just kept pivoting. And today, it's getting rewarded for all the work -- we're hearing it is about to close a sale to Hootsuite. We're still trying...

Bam! Eric Schmidt just dropped bombshell number during the opening of Motorola's "On Display" event. Giving context to the sheer size of Android's growing ecosystem stated that there are now 1.3M Andr...

San Francisco-basedFingerprint Digital, a mobile gaming startup with a focus on educational apps for kids, has taken in new investment, the company announced today. The lead investor, Canadian-based m...

The Droid Razr HD has been spinning its way around the rumor mill for quite some time. But today, in rainy New York city at Gotham Hall, Motorola is officially unleashing the device on the world. Not...

After a long wait, Quora just arrived on Android today. The knowledge-sharing site from Facebook's first chief technology officer Adam D'Angelo and early Facebooker Charlie Cheever sees about a quarte...

Hello, Moto. We're live at Motorola's late summer press event and the stakes couldn't be higher. The Samsung Galaxy S III is currently selling like mad, Nokia just announced killer hardware and the ne...

A lot of Facebook's future subscriber growth hinges on how well it does in markets outside of the U.S., and on non-smartphone devices; and today a deal was announced that looks like it could help the ...

Google just mistakenly announcedupdated versions of its Google Drive apps for iOS and Android that will go live within the next couple of days. Google has since deleted this post, but the updates are ...

Rootsy is the latest entry in the private, family-focused social networking space - an area which has seen a surge of startups in the wake of Facebook's rise to become the largest social network world...

Editors Note:This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC atGRP Partners. Read more about Suster on hisStartup Adviceblog:Both Sides of the TableAh. We're back to discussi...

Apple now has made an official statement on the UDID AntiSec fiasco we wrote about Tuesday. In a statement delivered to AllThingsD's John Paczkowski by Apple spokesperson Natalie Kerris, the company e...

Silicon Valley's answer to Martha Stewart Brit Morin is going full steam ahead with Brit & Co, the San Francisco-based geek-chic lifestyle brand and tech/media startup she launched last year. The ...

LinkedIn has quickly turned itself into more of a communication hub for professionals than simply a place to connect, as of late. Today, the company has announced new functionality for those of you w...

Twitter announced a new feature today that's supposed to make it easier for publishers embed a timeline of relevant tweets the company describes it as a way for "publishers, writers, developers, and ...

If you're booking reservations at restaurants, you know that OpenTable is an extremely viable option to do so. In fact, I use OpenTable quite often. Once in a while I'll review my experience, and I'm ...

Toronto-based Guardly, a startup providing mobile apps to help increase personal safety, today announced a partnership with Code Blue, one of the earliest pioneers of emergency phones for high traffic...

Google announced a couple of updates to Google Maps today. The Google Maps Navigation app for Android, for example, will now offer turn-by-turn navigation for India. In addition, Google has also turne...

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Robotic arms haven't been the same since Tomy stopped making the Armatron but that doesn't mean you have to live your life without a robotic helpmate. The Fixbot Robotic hand is a DIY project that req...

Making great panning time-lapse shots has long been the domain of auteurs like Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, and Uwe Boll. Now, however, you can use the CineMoco (coupled with the CineSkates) to ...

Nokia just revealed more details behind its new touchscreen tech being built into its 820 and 920 Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices. The technology is actually coming from Synaptics, a name anyone who's e...

Gojee, a design-driven recipe sharing website which has grown its user to over half a million, is today debuting mobile apps for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. The company, which raised $2.8 millio...

Nokia has taken the stage in New York City, hand-in-hand with Microsoft of course, to deliver its latest round of Lumia smartphones, powered by Windows 8. While it's not quite as impressive as big bro...

Nokia is making a big push around "wow-factor" features that it hopes will turn consumers' eyes away from Apple and Android devices. Along with integrating the Pure View camera, Nokia is also pushing ...

You're looking at the future, friends. Nokia just announced the spectacular Lumia 920, which could very well be the most feature-packed phone ever made. Along with wireless charging, a super display, ...

Identity is one of the most difficult of tasks when you want to control it. It's therefore not an issue for Twitter or Facebook. Those services leave it up to you to manage your identity. That's not t...

At Nokia's press event today, held in New York, Microsoft's Joe Belfiore hopped on stage to demo Windows Phone 8 on the new Lumia 920. Windows Phone 8 was announced a while ago, but the manager of the...

Joining a new group of companies looking to build services on the backs of users' social networks,Irrive is debuting its social scrapbooking website, soon to be followed by its mobile apps. The compan...

As a fan of beautiful things (looking at you, Robert Pattinson) I've always loved TwelveSouth's BookArc laptop stands. Designed to keep your laptop up and out of the way on your desk.It's not amazing ...

D-Day (that is, device day) for Nokia and Microsoft has kicked off with their press conference in New York. But speaking to analysts in Helsinki beforehand, Nokia revealed a sales number: it said that...

Nokia has finally put weeks of speculation to rest at its New York press conference today, as the Finnish phone company just pulled back the curtains on its newest flagship handset: the Windows Phone ...

BigCommerce, a company that provides e-commerce software to online retailers and merchants, has raised an additional $20 million in new funding from General Catalyst Partners and Mike Maples' FLOODGAT...

After appointing former Lockerz CEO Kathy Savitt as Yahoo's CMO, the company's new chief Marissa Mayer is staffing another key roleexecutive vice president of people and development. Mayer has tapped ...

Starting with Iron Man, Disney-owned Marvel famously built a connected cinematic universe for its superhero movies, and the strategy paid off spectacularly this year with the release of The Avengers. ...

Last year, Zaarly launched its real-time mobile marketplace to connect users who need stuff done with those who will do it for them. But Zaarly is going beyond just making its platform available to al...

Chapel Hill, NC-based Splitmo is a brand new company looking to build a business on an emerging trend: dual screen content consumption. The startup debuted its first app today, Air Show, a universal a...

Earlier this month, Jordan mentioned Astrid in her list of must-have back-to-school apps. For those not familiar with Astrid, it was one of the first task and list management apps to show up on the An...

It looks like Apple is planning to make some improvements to app discovery in iOS 6, but for the time being, app discovery remains broken on virtually every mobile platform available today. Ooomf want...

And we're live from Nokia's joint press conference with Microsoft here in rainy New York City. On tap for today's festivities include the launch of one or two new Windows Phone 8-powered handsets code...

In the beginning there was Amazon Simple Storage Service. And it was good. Soon after came Rackspace Cloud Files. And it was good. Today DreamHost is announcing their DreamObjects cloud storage soluti...

As carriers drop unlimited data plans and throttle bandwidth, the need to stay under a data limit is on more people's minds."The thing about web data is that no matter how bad you think it is now, it'...

PlaySpace, which develops social games for Spanish and Portuguese speakers, has scored a $1.9 million funding round led by PeopleFund, along with participation from the Spanish VC Faraday Ventures.The...

Ten One Design, maker of some popular iPad accessories, has been teasing its Pogo Connect pressure sensitive iPad stylus (nicknamed "Blue Tiger" since March, but today it made things official, reveali...

Podio, the collaborative work platform that was acquired by Citrix earlier this year, just launched its first iPad app.Podio already offered native apps for Apple's iPhone and Google's Android platfor...

Robert Albert, CEO and co-founder of Routehappy, says that "flying doesn't have to be a crap shoot." It looks like investors agree, since the startup just raised $1.5 million in seed funding.Abert say...

When Walgreens rolled out its "Print to Walgreens" feature last month, media-sharing startup Kicksend was one of a select group to integrate it into its iPhone app. Now all Kicksend users will now be ...

Tenable Network Security, which was founded back in 2002, has raised its very first round of institutional funding specifically, a $50 million Series A from Accel Partners.Accel makes it share of nor...

Livestream, one of the leading video companies enabling live web broadcasts, is taking a big leap today into the hardware business by offering its own video production switcher. Years ago, creating a...

HeiaHeia is a startup that's been flying somewhat under the radar outside its native Finland. But today that's set to change as the social exercise platform sees its official UK launch.Founded by Juss...

HeiaHeia is a startup that's been flying somewhat under the radar outside its native Finland. But today that's set to change as the social exercise platform sees its official UK launch.Founded by Juss...

A mobile payment joint venture from the UK's biggest carriers,first announced over a year ago,today finally received "unconditional" clearance from European regulators. The move means that now Vodafon...

Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of visionary Apple co-founder and CEO, the late Steve Jobs, is joining the board of trustees of Stanford University. She has beenelected for a five-year term that will begin...

In the old days of the web Plaxo tried to solve the problem we all have when friends change their contact details, but by avoiding the tedious manual entry. But Plaxo was heavyweight, complex and had ...

Ahead of Nokia and Microsoft's big event in New York today, where they will formally announce new Nokia/Windows Phone devices, Microsoft is making a little pre-show appearance in the form ofSkype, the...

Doctors social network Doximity has raised another $17 million at a ballpark $80 million valuation led by Morgenthaler Ventures, TechCrunch understands from sources. We've reached out to the company f...

Online video platform Kaltura has always been focused on getting videos in front of more viewers. Now, more than ever, that viewership isn't happening in a web browser, but on a wide range of devices ...

Nebula, a company that allowsbusinesses to deploy large private cloud computing infrastructures has raised$25 million in Series B funding led by Comcast Ventures and Highland Capital Partners with Kle...

If you're into all of this political hoopla and you gauge the interest of America from the number of tweets during political events, then Michelle Obama has put the Democrats into the driver's seat wi...

The rise and fall of Facebooks stock has been one of the most-covered topics of the summer, and for good reason.Everyone wants to know what will happen next, so we asked investors, CEOs and media pund...

It turns out we may have beenover-thinkingit.If the invite sent out this morning by Apple is any indication,the next iPhone is likely to be called the "iPhone 5". No, it doesn't technically make sense...

Over the last two years, there's been a significant increase in the amount of educational media available to the world's learners, but teachers and parents are hard pressed today to navigate the educa...

Hey, remember those bulletin boards in your neighborhood coffee shop? The ones where people would post all kinds of fun, random crap? To a certain extent, Craigslist has replaced those boards (heck, y...

This piece of news comes wrapped up with quite a few bows-of-interest. If you're familiar with how Google+ Hangouts work, then you'll be interested to know that Steven Spielberg and Joseph Gordo...

The next iPhone will be called simply "iPhone" if this pic is to be believed. Published by iPhonenieuwsblog.nl, the image is reportedly of the next, ahem, new iPhone's packaging fresh off a massive pr...

So much for that. In a victory for all of us who find the idea of trying to trademark generic-sounding terms tedious -- and a victory, too, for those who actually work in the world of social enterpris...

So much for that. In a victory for all of us who find the idea of trying to trademark generic-sounding terms tedious -- and a victory, too, for those who actually work in the world of social enterpris...

So much for that. In a victory for all of us who find the idea of trying to trademark generic-sounding terms tedious -- and a victory, too, for those who actually work in the world of social enterpris...

With its share price ailing, Facebook doesn't want to flood the market with any more stock, so it's cancelled its secondary offering and will instead pay for taxes on its RSUs with cash as detailed in...

Facebook retired Face.com's facial recognition APIs less than a month after its $55-$60 million acquisition of the Israeli-based company, which previously offered developers tools to build application...

Once, buyers were overwhelmed with choice. Now, they're just overwhelmed with a choice of tools to help them choose. But gdgt, one such site, is hoping that it can build the ultimate solution for cons...

When James Deer led digital design agency DEER/digital, he says he encountered the same issue over and over when his team built content-rich websites, it was largely an email-based process, where the...

Earlier today, hackers at AntiSec claimed that it had got its hands on a database containing around 12 million UDID numbers from iPads and iPhones from an FBI employee-owned computer, a breach my coll...

As if our new hardware-based Hackathon opportunities weren't enough, we'd love to draw your attention to Disrupt Hardware Alley, a collection of hardware startups who are ready to amaze, delight, and ...

Four years ago, people like me were quite scared to think of a world where we'd only have Internet Explorer and one or two more options for our web browsing experience. Luckily, Google stepped up and...

We're four days away from the TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco Hackathon.We're crossing the t's and dotting the lowercase j's, and passing the savings onto you!But more importantly, we've been working...

New entrepreneurs dream about making an impact that spans decades. Bill Campbell has done it. Some readers may know him as a key early Apple executive featured in the Steve Jobs biography, and as an A...

Yesterday, NPR's All Things Considered produced a piece on accountability in crowdfunding. That is to say, if a business fails to produce or follow-through with its goals, how do financial backers get...

Some members of the Tesla community are currently directing a movie about the incredible life of inventor, Nikola Tesla Electricity, The Life Story of Nikola Tesla. Tesla is the scientist was mostly ...

Following earlier moves which saw Dropbox's cloud storage service integrated into devices like the big-screened Galaxy Note 10.1, Galaxy S III, Galaxy tablets, and even some Sony Ericsson Android phon...

If there's one problem with 3D modeling and printing its that you never really know what you're going to get. That's where Augment comes in. It's a new program for phones and tablets that allows you t...

Google is now pushing an aggressive Chrome marketing campaign once used to steal users from other browsers. For some, every time they boot up Firefoxor Internet Explorer with Google.com as their home ...

We have one more free ticket left to give away to a lucky fan who wants to come to Disrupt SF with us! We just announced a big surprise -- Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.Mark will be joining our all-star ...

Everpix, the cloud-based photo-sharing platform which debuted at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011, is now officially exiting its beta period with the debut of a revamped website, premium services, support f...

One of the staples of tech news sites is the liveblog not everyone loves them, but for folks who really care about the latest iPhone launch, a liveblog allows you to follow along with every piece of ...

Apple made its iPhone event date official today after weeks of chatter. What will the new version bring that its predecessor didn't? What won't it do that people want it to? Luckily, this may be among...

So here's the good news: There are more movies available online than ever before. And the bad news: There are also more movie services than ever. What that means for consumers is a hugely fragmented e...

The comedian B.J. Mendelson is a master of social media. Mendelson was one of the few non celebrities included on the old Twitter suggested user list and has now over 770,000 followers - a number that...

At TechCrunch, we have a long and illustrious track record when it comes to hiring the absolute best-of-the-best in technology journalism.Like many, I remember the day vividly when we hired MG Siegler...

Do you have hardware project that's been simmering on the back burner because you can't get access to a 3D printer? Come on down to the Disrupt Hackathon and use one of the MakerBots and Raspberry Pis...

The whole world wants to know what's on Mark Zuckerberg's mind, and we're going to find out. The Facebook CEO has agreed to his first interview on stage since his company's IPO, and it's happening at ...

E-invoicing startup Tradeshift has landed another client. Tradeshift founder and Christian Lanng would neither confirm nor deny the name of the client but well-placed sources have confirmed to us that...

Desire2Learn, a Canadian online education startup that offers an increasingly popular cloud learning platform for higher education, K-12 and Fortune 1000 companies, just announced that it has raised a...

We last heard from Pirq when the company announced a nice deal with Apple to offer its employees a special app for discounts on food at restaurants near its offices in Cupertino -- a relationship that...

There are plenty of "Get Things Done" apps out there like Things and Priority Matrix which either focus on GTD or don't rely on a time management philosophy. Then there are those like hot Berlin-based...

Video sharing app Socialcam was recently acquired by Autodesk, but just because it's no longer an indie startup doesn't mean it's stopped innovating and rolling out new features. About six weeks after...

HTC is having a party and the media is invited. Scheduled for September 19th in New York City, it's highly likely that HTC will debut Windows Phone 8 devices at this event. The rumor mill has been slo...

The latest data from online analytics company comScore shows that Apple's share of the U.S. smartphone market has grown to just over 33%. That's up 2% since April 2012. The study, which surveyed over ...

12 million Apple UDIDs (unique device identifiers) may be in the wild, or at least that's the claim from the hacker groupAntisec, which has released a sampling of that data, allegedly retrieved from a...

We knew it was coming and now it's official. Apple has just sent out press invites for its rumored September 12 event. By the looks of the invite it's pretty plain to see what product the company will...

You can only kill so many pigs in Angry Birds before you inevitably start to feel a bit of empathy with them, so it doesn't come as a huge surprise that the next game in Rovio's franchise will let you...

Hot on the heels of news that Telefonica is ramping up its activity with a new fund for Latin America and an acceleration of its incubator network, comes the news that Deutsche Telekom is getting frus...

Today Atlassian announced a new version of its enterprise wiki Confluence. The big new feature is "WorkBox," which adds a task management system to Confluence's activity stream.Ever since Y Combinator...

Look at the number of videos being viewed online and the amount of money being thrown at them, and it's no wonder we're seeing a whole bunch of new media ventures. Thanks to lower costs of production ...

Hacker group Antisec has released 1,000,001 pieces of data related to Apple's UDID identification scheme. This data, if cross-referenced with Apple's developer resources, could potentially identify a ...

Amazon's steady growth in building up its Amazon Prime Instant Video collection continues today with yet another deal with a content provider: this time, EPIX, a newer, premium channel with access to ...

Windows Phone has done an excellent job with messaging. Mango offered threaded messages to users, allowing you to convert from a Facebook chat, SMS, and Windows Live messenger all from the same conver...

Windows Phone has done an excellent job with messaging. Mango offered threaded messages to users, allowing you to convert from a Facebook chat, SMS, and Windows Live messenger all from the same conver...

This post is written by Serguei Beloussov, PhD, is a Senior Founding Partner at Runa Capital, a founder of a virtualization technologycompany Parallels. Follow him on twitter.Money can be different; i...

Nokia didn't fare so well with its streamed mobile music service called Ovi Music Unlimited. Now it's remixing that track and launching a free music streaming service in the U.S. as part of its redoub...

Cast your minds back - if you can - to the days when the Web was a jumble of random pages. 'Web surfing' consisted, quite literally, of somehow finding a web site and then clicking through links to ot...

Cast your minds back - if you can - to the days when the web was a jumble of random pages. 'Web surfing' consisted, quite literally, of somehow finding a website and then clicking through links to oth...

Another development in the UK market for e-readers, tablets and e-books as Amazon and Barnes & Noble move closer to launching more of their services and devices in the UK and Europe: the retail gi...

Ozon, the Russian e-commerce giant that started as an online and electronics bookseller but has since branched out into fashion and logistics services for other companies, is often called "Russia's Am...

Some of our most precious memories exist online-only, in the form of photographs scattered across various and disparate social networks. And when the time comes to share those memories with grandchild...

There are a few significant trends going on in this particular era. We're all aware of the growing of developing regions like Latin America. We all know about the explosion in technology adoption and ...

Self-funded and hailing from Russia,Buy Me A Pie!is boasting some big numbers: The cloud-powered grocery list maker for iOSnow claims 2 million downloads for the fully-featured version of its app -- a...

Maybe you haven't heard of the Hugo Awards, but to science fiction geeks, especially print science fiction geeks, they're a big deal. They're given out at the World Science Fiction Convention, and as ...

Have a good day off? Some of us will return to work Tuesday morning rested and ready to go. Others may have enjoyed the holiday a bit too much and will be paying the price for a long weekend of celebr...

Imagine a mobile phone plan, such as the one from Free in France, with unlimited talk, unlimited SMS and MMS messages, tethering and, even more important, unlimited data with a speed reduction after 3...

Peer-to-Peer car sharing service, Getaround, is making waves in the crowded sharing economy market, signing up over 10,000 cars in the last year. Before Getaround raised $13.9 million from VCs, such a...

Are you catching up on emails and the web after a couple blissful days (and a few beverages) during the Labor Day weekend? Has the extent of your keeping up on the news these past few days been readin...

Twitter has a fair number of open jobs available, but this one caught our eye: The startup is looking for a data editor to make sense of and tell stories around its user data. According to the job lis...

Students learn faster when learning from robots that make mistakes. The counter-intuitive study finds that Japanese children learn English quicker when they correct theintentional translationerrors of...

English learning app Voxy hit the scene nearly two years ago exactly, on our Disrupt SF stage. It was a great presentation, but perhaps more importantly it was a great business idea. Since then, Voxy ...

GiftRocket, a 2011 Y Combinator grad, is a simple P2P digital gifting service that lets users send and receive digital gift cards via email. Originally, the startup was focused around location-based g...

Modern parents will recognize the dilemma: we want our children to learn about hardware engineering and design at birth but we don't want them using soldering irons until they can keep their heads upr...

Big Dog is the huge quadrupedal robot that stomped its way into our hearts a few years ago with its wild gait and hydraulic whine. Now, however, there's a new Dog in the mix, the StarlETH, a smaller r...

In 1967, 25-year-old Damyanti Gupta immigrated to Detroit with one goalto be an Engineer at Ford Motor Company. Only there was one problem: there were no female engineers at the company. When a hiring...

With the focus of many in the startup community shifting towards emerging markets, Mexico is a prime target for VCs looking to support a new group of entrepreneurs. Ideally situated a quick flight awa...

Earlier today, there was a rumor that Bruce Willis was considering to sue Apple to clarify who owns content downloaded from iTunes. The U.K.'s Daily Mail reported - and as with all things involving Br...

Last winter we ran a series of articles called the Touchfire Chronicles about a cool little on-screen keyboard add-on for the iPad called the Touchfire. The creators, Steve Isaac and Brad Melmon, sent...

Russia's Runa Capital has announced a $5 million investment into Dnevnik.ru, an educational platform in Russia. Dnevnik wants to expand the platform into the EU, China, Israel, the US and develop a sy...

According to Matthew Prince, CEO of CloudFlare, the service that makes websites faster and more secure, he and co-founder Michelle Zatlyn, had their heart set on launching at TechCrunch Disrupt ever s...

Israel's Pitango -- backers of Boxee, Anobit (now part of Apple), fring, mySupermarket, and many other startups -- is gearing up for a new round of investment activity: the venture capital firm has an...

Carriers are fiercely competitive, but swallowing their territorial tendencies, several around Europe have started teaming up to share mobile spectrum and other resources in the ongoing race to serve ...

President Barack Obama managed to steal an impressive amount of Gov. Mitt Romney's press coverage with a few, cheap social media tricks, including the most retweeted post of the convention. In compari...

T-Mobile today becomes the latest operator to leverage the popularity of free internet phone calls and texts in hopes of luring in more users around its brand. CleverConnect borrows from services like...

We've seen a lot of images of an (alleged) iPhone coming soon with a bigger screen, and some numbers out from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the WPP-owned market analysts, underscore how a bigger iPhone m...

Swarmly, a newly-released app for iPhone, thinks it's seen a gap in the location sharing market. Unlike check-in apps like Foursquare or indeed Facebook's own location sharing feature, it places far l...

Less than a month after JP Morgan put an undisclosed investment into Zalando, the Zappos-like European shoe site from the Samwer brothers, the bank is taking an equity stake in another Rocket Internet...

Less than a month after JP Morgan put investments into two Rocket Internet-baked fashion sites modelled on Zappos -- anundisclosed investment into Zalandoand $45 million in Brazil's Dafiti, the bank i...

For all the millions spent on the Republican National Convention, the entire operation could only speculate whether their keynote speeches had any meaningful impact. Until Facebook achieved near unive...

Over the last year, we have seen some notable advances in mobile carrier billing -- which lets people pay for services and content on their phones by charging it to their carrier bills: Googleexpanded...

Editor's note:Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. More about Benhere. He hangs out 24*7 onTwitter. At VMwares annual extravaganza in San Francisco ...

Back in July, Dalton Caldwell (of imeem and picplz fame) announced an "audacious" goal: To create a better, developer-and-user-supported (and ad-free) alternative to Twitter. And so App.net was born. ...

While rumors of the new iPhone have been rampant for most of the summer, not much has been leaked about accessories other than a purported new cable. That is until now. Vietnamese tech blog Tinhte.vn,...

As the web becomes an increasingly crowded place, users are desperate for solutions to sort through the online clutter. The Internet has become a giant hairball of choice-inhibiting noise and the need...

Chicago-based startup eSpark Learning, which founder and CEO David Vinca describes as "Pandora for education apps," has secured $5.7 million in series A financing from MK Capital, Learn Capital, NewSc...

Chicago-based startup eSpark Learning, which founder and CEO David Vinca describes as "Pandora for education apps," has secured $5.7 million in series A financing from MK Capital, Learn Capital, NewSc...

Love it or hate it, but Windows 8 will soon arrive on computers around you. While virtually all of your old programs will likely run without a hitch in desktop mode, it's the Windows 8 Metro interface...

Earlier today I was showing a friend this spectacular Oregon Duck Gangnam Style parody video and saw a two and a half-minute ad in which James Franco displays the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1.My first rea...

Back in the 15th century, Johannes Gutenberg changed the world with movable type, laying a foundation for a new printing press to spread ideas faster. Fast forward a few hundred years, and the compari...

For all the millions spent on the Republican National Convention, the entire operation could only speculate whether their keynote speeches had any meaningful impact. Until Facebook achieved near unive...

Two Berkeley economists have found that the tiniest changes in online restaurant reviews can make or break a restaurant. A simple half-star improvement on Yelp's 5-star rating makes it 30-49% more lik...

Editor's note:Michal Tsur is a serial tech entrepreneur, having co-founded online security firm Cyota and open-source video platform Kaltura, where she is currently president. Leah Belsky is a fellow ...

Editors note:Dan Greenberg is the founder & CEO ofSharethrough, the native video advertising company. Dan has been honored as an AdAge Media Maven and was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 ...

In this series titled Defining a growth hacker, I will be exploring the meaning and practical application of growth hacking through a number of interviews with prominent growth hackers. This is the fi...

Editor's note:Steliis the Co-Founder / Chief Hustler ofElasticSalesand an advisor to several startups and entrepreneurs. You can follow Steli on Twitterhere.At ElasticSales, weve had the honor to crea...

The Savannah Fund is an African seed investment fund that aims to "bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap" in the region. A big part of that strategy is the fund's startup acc...

Activity streams and social networks now represent a fundamental aspect of the modern application. We use activity streams on Twitter to converse in 140 characters or less. We use the "like" gesture o...

Editor's Note: Charles Moldow is a general partner at Foundation Capital, focusing on consumer Internet companies. He was previously a founding executive at TellMe Networks and at @Home.Friends and fa...

Ready your grocery list for Labor Day: the White House has released the recipe for its official home brew, The White House Honey Ale. In a pun-tastic blog, Assistant Chef, Sam Kass, buckled to overwhe...

There's real movement behind the democratization of space. Not in the form of sending more people into space, but in giving more people access to satellites.Nano-satellites are getting cheap enough no...

Editor's Note: Benjamin Joffe is the founder of the Asia-focused digital research & strategy consultancy +8* | Plus Eight Star and has been living in Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Sin...

Editors Note: Brenden Mulligan is an entrepreneur and product designer who created Onesheet, Webbygram, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. You can find him on Twitter at @mulligan.QR cod...

Amazon is holding a press event in Los Angeles on Thursday, in which it's likely to announce new versions of its Kindle tablets. You know, now that the Kindle Fire is all sold out. There have even bee...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor laughed all the way to the bank, if the bank was the burgeoning integration of the push notification bus. Am...

We've seen quite a few startups try to disrupt relationships lately. There's Dejamor, which sends you a box of romance each month, Boink Box, which sends you a box of sex toys, and I seem to remember ...

Editor's note: Rob May is the CEO and co-founder of Backupify, the leading provider of backup and recovery solutions for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications.Google recently announced that it wil...

Look, I get it. It's a great story, maybe the greatest in the history of American business. From Day One, Apple did things the right way: clean, elegant, beautiful. But they were brought to their knee...

Editor's note:Ruben Daniels is CEO and co-founder of Cloud9 IDE, a leading cloud-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that enables web and mobile developers to work together and collaborate ...