Articles by Techcrunch from October 2012

Hope you weren't waiting for an Acer Windows RT tablet. The company is not releasing its offering until later next year. Originally, Acer was going to launch Windows RT tablets in the first quarter of...

Chasing a massive payday, lawyers flocked to a man who claimed to have evidence that he owned half of Facebook. But after Paul Ceglia's arrest for forging that evidence this week, his lawyer Boland ha...

As I've been digging deeper into companies, specifically their internal culture, one company that has stuck out to me is payments powerhouse Square. As I wrote last week, the company does some pretty ...

Google first announced its plans to bring enhanced voice search to iOS back in August, and now the company has finally made good on its word an update to the Google Search iOS app has just gone live ...

While Twitter plays both the rumor mill and fact checker for Hurricane Sandy news reports, Facebook is how people are leaving notes for loved ones about their own situation. "We are ok" was the most s...

Yelp is announcing a new feature today that allows users to browse restaurant menus (with accompanying food porn) directly from the Yelp website and mobile app.Last year, the company added the ability...

Here's to iteration. When Justin Kan first launched Exec, a service for getting errands done on demand, I was one of the first beta testers. We had a housecleaning and it took, well, six hours. Even t...

A quick update on Pinterest rival Fancy's massive $26 million round of funding, uncovered via an SEC filing yesterday. Because of the hurricane, the NYC-based team had evacuated the city, making it di...

Hurricane Sandy has clearly taken its toll on the East Coast. At least 7.4 million homes and businesses are without power this morning across seven states. Public transit has been shut down in New Yor...

Just as Google is known for giving away free devices to I/O attendees, Microsoft also used its Build developer conference today to hand out free hardware to all of its Build attendees. Every Build att...

Microsoft has released the Windows Phone 8 SDK for the Build developer conference, now taking place on the Redmond campus. The SDK is described as an environment “for building apps and games for...

As Hurricane-battered East Coasters turn to online crises maps for weather updates and evacuation notices, we should all take a moment to give kudos to the spreadsheet nerds who advocated opening up t...

It was nearly a year ago that SohoOS announced a second round of financing to the tune of $8M. The company has since been quiet on the PR front, so I I decided to check in with Ron Daniel (CEO) to see...

It was nearly a year ago that SohoOS announced a second round of financing to the tune of $8M. The company has since been quiet on the PR front, so I I decided to check in with Ron Daniel (CEO) to see...

The New York Times election oracle, Nate Silver, who in his fivethirtyeight blog correctly predicted 49 of 50 states in the last election, predicts that Obama could breeze to victory with a 75 percent...

General Assembly, the New York-based education startup that offers classes and mingling space to tech developers and entrepreneurs, has raised $10 million in new funding, via an SEC filing. A spokespe...

We've been following bike-sharing startup Spinlister for a while now, but now it's coming out with a whole new brand -- although the service will more or less stay the same. The young company will now...

At Microsoft's Build developer conference on the company's main campus in Redmond, Wash., today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that Microsoft sold 4 million Windows 8 updates since the operati...

Writing emails can be a drag, especially when you have to click a bunch of buttons just to send one off. Today, Google has introduced a new compose email view and reply experience for Gmail and it's s...

With the launch in its first urban market, Wheelz will be going up against existing peer-to-peer car-sharing services RelayRides and Getaround. But it seeks to differentiate itself by installing hardw...

At the Microsoft Build developer conference in Redmond, Wash., today, Nokia announced that it is launching a cross-platform ad exchange powered by mobile app monetization exchange inneractive. Through...

Last year, Abinash Tripathy and Baishampayan Ghose founded Helpshift to address what they perceived to be a significantly underserved market in customer service: Mobile. After months of testing their ...

MyShoebox provides mobile and web apps to aggregate and organize user photos from a number of sources. It also provides unlimited storage for users to backup all of their photos, and provide access to...

Shopping for cloths online is difficult, especially because one brand's size 10 can be another brand's size 8. BeauCoo, a Calgary-based startup that is launching out of beta today, combines social net...

There are a lot of dating application and website choices out there, but lets face it, some of them are kind of creepy. I'm not dating, but I have a lot of friends and loved ones that are and I watch ...

Last night Hurricane Sandy rocked the East coast in a way it's never been rocked before. And despite the fact that our mobile carriers did everything conceivable to prepare and mitigate the damage, ma...

Google+ Hangouts are a great way to interact with like-minded folks, even when they're not super geeky. The best people to add to circles are artists and photographers, as the content they share ...

Today, Google's Art Project added some new fun functionality that ties in Google+ features, and I think it's something that will really kick-start the project into new territory. The two things a...

FlockTag, a loyalty card startup built by SideCar co-founder Adrian Fortino (who has since left SideCar to focus on this project), has been quietly flying under the radar, growing its CRM solution for...

The new new iPad hits stores Friday, but an early Geekbench benchmark reveals some interesting details. Apparently, at least per this one-off report, the 4th generation iPad uses a dual-core ARMv7 CPU...

Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms, is bringing its Signal Flare feature to iOS. ...

Senzari, the Miami-based streaming music startup offering an alternative to Pandora in both stateside and international markets, is today announcing it has acquired Berlin-based wahwah.fm. Founded in ...

Despite a storm in the North East that started out as a sheepish school girl and ended up in leather pants with a cigarette (you know, Sandy), Google still managed to pull off their big announcement y...

In this month's report, app store analytics firm Distimo looked into how the top 100 global brands approach the Apple App Store, and how well they perform. Not surprisingly, most now have a presence t...

In the UK, the summer of 2012 is already being looked back on as the British summer of sport. It kicked off with a traditionally poor performance by the English football team in the Euros, followed by...

Revenues at Yandex, the Russian search engine which dwarfs Google in that territory, have rise by 41% year-on-year in its Q3 2012 financial results. Last quarter Yandex reported a 50 percent increase ...

Prezi, a popular alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint and other presentation applications, launched a new version of its interface today. The company, which is advised by Jack Dorsey, also announced th...

On the web, there are solutions that show you where users click on your website, providing a path analysis that gives you clues about where best to place key components and what qualifies as high-traf...

On the web, there are solutions that show you where users click on your website, providing a path analysis that gives you clues about where best to place key components and what qualifies as high-traf...

The Rainmaker Group, a company founded in 1998, has accepted its first investment -- $33.8 million from Norwest Venture Partners that the Atlanta-based company will use to extend its profit and price ...

SEO company Conductor has just raised a $20 million Series C. The round was led by Investor Growth Capital, with participation from previous investors FirstMark Capital and Matrix Partners.Conductor's...

Back in April Tel Aviv-based Yotpo raised $800,000 in seed funding. But what the hell is it? Well, it's out to "make your customers happy by allowing mainly eCommerce sites to engage visitors (getting...

In the endless back and forth between Amazon and B&N, the consumers are the lucky ones. Each product in the Nook and Kindle family have been consistently better and more compelling than the last. ...

QuantiaMD, one of a growing number of companies attempting to build the LinkedIn for the medical community, today announced that it has raised $12 million in venture financing from Fuse Capital. The e...

Apple's iPhone 5 only launched towards the end of last month but first week sales of Apple's latest superphone slowed Android's growth in Cupertino's two biggest markets: the U.S. and U.K. during the ...

The No. 1 gamification app on Salesforce.com AppExchange has secured $1 million from Detroit Venture Partners and ePrize....

SmartAsset, a Y Combinator-backed startup offering interactive tools to help homebuyers understand the financial ramifications of their decisions, has raised $1.5 million in new funding.The round was ...

Open source business intelligence vendor Pentaho today announced that it has received a $23 million round led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from previous investors Benchmark Capital,...

Originally launched as a way for companies to manage their branding assets in-house, OpenBrand has since pivoted to offer a SaaS for designers, agencies and their clients to collaborate and share what...

EverySignal, a social search startup incubated at Science, is launching a new service that alerts you to the important events from your friends and colleagues. Now, I know what you're thinking: wait, ...

Microsoft is really pushing the personalised angle of Windows Phone 8 -- so much so it's co-opted sometimes over-enthusiastic CEO Steve Ballmer into showing off his own Windows Phone and voicing one o...

iZettle, the Square-like app and mini chip-card reader, has partnered with DZ BANK and Deutsche Telekom to launch its payments service in Germany. Jacob de Geer, iZettle CEO and co-founder says their ...

Today EE, which owns the Orange and T-Mobile carrier brands, has flicked the switch -- turning on 4G services in 11 U.K. cities. EE has also rebranded more than 700 Orange and T-Mobile stores as EE st...

Even as data usage has skyrocketed, U.S. carriers have remained stubbornly wedded to post-paid plans that offer users a surprisingly limited menu of pricing options. Yes, we're talking about those mon...

As we brought to your attention last night, Google set up what it calls a "Crisis Map" as we waited for Hurricane Sandy to make land-fall. It has, and damage has been done, including massive power out...

Apple introduced the iPad mini last week, which hits shelves this Friday. In a video airing later tonight on his show, Conan O'Brien takes a look at Apple's ever-expanding range of tablet iOS devices,...

The Wall Street Journal has released a report with updated information about why Apple decided to part ways with two senior executives, including former iOS SVP Scott Forstall and former SVP of Retail...

After having seen its mug plastered all over the internet in the days leading up to its release, actually playing with LG and Googles new Nexus 4 seemed a bit anti-climactic. I mean, when youve seen a...

If Hurricane Sandy wasnt scary enough, its newest victims are in the blogosphere. Weve just learned that Gawkers fleet of sites, including Gizmodo are down. Also Hurricane Sandy victims? The Huffingt...

If Hurricane Sandy wasnt scary enough, its newest victims are in the blogosphere. Weve just learned that Gawkers fleet of sites, including Gizmodo are down. Also Hurricane Sandy victims? The Huffingt...

If Hurricane Sandy wasnt scary enough, its newest victims are in the blogosphere. Weve just learned that Gawkers fleet of sites, including Gizmodo are down. Also Hurricane Sandy victims? The Huffingt...

Amazon has revealed a bit of detail for how it views Google's cloud efforts in a lawsuit filed against a former employee on grounds he violated a non-compete clause.Amazon filed the lawsuit on behalf...

CaseMate, along with every other case maker out there, is launching a new wave of products alongside the iPhone 5, for both the new phone and the iPhone 4/4S. In (what I can only assume is) an attempt...

Bonfires in the street, people dancing on cars, body-armored cops, and...tablet computers? Last night was not your typical riot. Only one thing distracted people from the celebratory carnage caused by...

The Samsung ATIV S is a whopper of a Windows Phone. Indeed it looks like Samsung has repurposed the Samsung GSIII's generous form to accomodate Microsoft's latest WP8 OS. The phone is very thin and li...

Most companies tend to test new features and product designs in the wild with a small subset of people. The great thing about that is on the Internet, the world is a tiny place. A few tipsters have se...

Apple has just announced that Scott Forstall will be leaving Apple as of early next year, ending his tenure as SVP of iOS Software. As part of the management change, Jony Ive, Bob Mansfield, Eddy Cue ...

Pandora is one of the older and more established internet radio services out there, with 150 million registered users, 58.3 million active listeners and 115 million registered users on mobile. Now, wi...

One of the coolest (and most useful) features of Google's Android Jelly Been 4.2 update is multiple user account switching, offering up the option to have several users share access to a device, while...

Anyone who's spent any amount of time in Silicon Valley notices the prevalence of Stanford graduates at every level of the tech industry, from the engineers who build web startups to the financiers wh...

SeatGeek, the ticketing startup that launched at the TechCrunch50 conference back in 2009, tells that it had its first profitable month in August.That wasn't just a temporary blip either, said co-foun...

Google likes to skate to where the puck might be next game. They were first in the U.S. with a viable NFC payments solution (that isn't very popular) and they've been at the forefront of AR with Glass...

I'll admit it -- when those first leaked images of the Verizon-bound Nokia Lumia 822 started making the rounds, I hastily decided that the device was a bit too thick to be worth using in this age of s...

Google just announced that it is taking its Chrome Remote Desktop screensharing service out of beta. As the name implies, the Chrome Remote Desktop app runs in Chromeand allows you to share your deskt...

Cedexis, a company that specializes in helping companies use multiple cloud services to improve availability and load times, just announced that it is adding Amazon Web Services to its Openmix platfor...

Short version: Livescribe is refining its smartpen once again. The two major changes are the addition of WiFi and Evernote integration. Now, the pen uses and depends on Evernote for syncing and archiv...

Windows Phone 8 is coming to European carriers this weekend, coming to the rest of the world in November, with devices from Lumia, HTC and Samsung including the 920, 8X and Ativ S hitting online store...

Another update to Windows Phone 8 that's been announced today is a new feature in the People Hub called Rooms. This allows Windows Phone 8 users to parcel up their contacts so they send group messages...

Formed out of the 2008 Presidential campaign in the U.S., NationalField was built to simplify communications between in-the-field campaign volunteers and regional campaign offices. It's now focused on...

Formed out of the 2008 Presidential campaign in the U.S., NationalField was built to simplify communications between in-the-field campaign volunteers and regional campaign offices. It's now focused on...

Two lads from Ghent University in Belgium, Karel Bruneel and Benjamin Schrauwen, got tired of the traditional tools used to build electronics manufacturing. Rather than rage silently at their breadboa...

Google announced a host of new hardware today, including a new Nexus reference device for its Android mobile OS, the LG-manufactured Nexus 4. Reading through the Nexus 4's spec list is like checking b...

Today at the Windows Phone 8 press conference, Microsoft unveiled a new feature for the operating system. Kid's Corner is specifically targeted at your children who are so attracted by the vivid scree...

TechCrunch is launching CrunchGov, which offers a Congressional leaderboard on tech friendly legislators. But what about the race for the White House - should Silicon Valley be supporting Obama or Rom...

One of the major issues with the Windows Phone platform has always been a lack of apps. Microsoft argues quality over quantity, which is better for developers and consumers alike in terms of discovera...

Microsoft has unveiled a new lockscreen on Windows Phone 8 which takes a swipe at Apple by displaying personalised content, such as photos, and partnering with Facebook to offer an even more customise...

ShopperTrak, a company analyzing foot traffic data for retailers, just announced that it has acquired surveillance analytics startup ReTel Technologies. The financial terms of the deal were not disclo...

Another unfortunate effect of Hurricane SandyFacebook employees and shareholders whose lockup expired today may have to wait a few more days before selling shares. Today, lockups expired on 234 millio...

Hiring platform The Resumator has raised a $2.1 million Series B round led by Birchmere Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners and Salesforce.com. Innovation Works and ff VentureCapitalalso participated in...

Event cancellations aside, today is still shaping up to be a big day for smartphone fans -- Google has just officially outed some shiny new (if not entirely unexpected) hardware, and we're here at the...

Editor's note: Ron Conway is an angel investor and chairman of sf.citi.As the tech industry continues to grow its footprint in San Francisco, its leaders have a responsibility to help improve the city...

T-Mobile seems to be picking up momentum lately, announcing a few awesome phones like the Galaxy Note II and Galaxy S III, LG's latest handsets, and even a Lumia device. But today the company has adde...

In case you were wondering what Rovio's upcoming Star Wars/Angry Birds mashup would actually look like, the company has now posted a gameplay trailer to its YouTube account. It should surprise no one ...

Pinterest rival Fancy was rumored to be in acquisition talks with Apple, but that outcome is sounding more distant today because the startup has raised a big, new round of funding instead.According to...

A simple website displaying first-person accounts of Hurricane Sandy's impact from Instagram has become one of the best journalistic tools on the Internet. "Instacane" fallows hashtags from Instagram ...

When Google announced the Nexus 4 and the Nexus 10, they neglected to mention specific specifications for folks who specifically wanted them. Luckily, we just got our hands on a nice, complete list. A...

Google unfortunately had to cancel its Nexus event in NYC today, but not snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays this Google from the swift announcement of its appointed products. Android 4.2 ...

Google finally introduced its latest Nexus Android reference phone to the world (meaning the device that gets major OS updates first, and the one that's guaranteed to receive all of them first, untouc...

As we previously suspected, the Nexus 10 just launched on Google's blog, confirming what we knew about this 10.1-inch AMOLED device made by Samsung to Google's specifications. The new device runs a 1....

The Nexus 7 is now a little more awesome. Google just released the details on a significant update that includes larger storage options for less money. Starting today, the Nexus 7 is available with 16...

We've been hearing about these PayPal layoffs, and today the company confirmed this in a blog post today. Due to a product org redesign, 325 full-time roles (and employees) have been terminated. PayPa...

According to the latest data from comScore, U.S. Internet users watched 39 billion online content videos in September. That's up a bit from the 37.7 billion video views the company reported in August,...

The new Roku Search channel will search Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu Plus, Crackle, VUDU, and HBO GO. In addition to searching for a movie or TV show title, users can also search for available ...

A new report from Flurry Analytics released today details some of the key differences between smartphone and tablet usage. The study finds that tablets are used overwhelmingly during the evening, prim...

New York- and Seoul-based Moglue (last year's TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing finalist) has rolled out a few changes to make it easier to create and publish interactive ebooks on smartphones and tablets. I...

Roamz, a startup which recently relaunched its mobile applications with a new focus on local search (as opposed to serendipitous discovery), is now bringing its local search engine to the web. Today, ...

"Delivering parcels in the trunk of a car is new concept," said Cardrops co-founder Nick De Mey in what may be one of the finest examples of understatement in recent history. His startup sounds simple...

the new Pickie app provides a personalized shopping experience on the iPad. It shows users cool new apparel and other stuff that they will be interested in, as well as those suggested by their friends...

With Hurricane Sandy bearing down on the East Coast, the Federal Emergency Management Agency took to Twitter with a bit of sound advice: Use text messages or social networks to communicate. This will ...

A new iPhone application called Beamr, launching today, allows users to share high-resolution 8 megapixel photos and 28 megapixel panorama photos more easily, without reducing image quality. The app d...

Popular gadget repair site iFixit has taken the Microsoft Surface apart to see what makes it tick, and discovered a tablet/PC that scores higher on repairability than Apple's iPad and its Retina MacBo...

The Raspberry Pi mini computer that's become popular with the maker community but was originally conceived as a device to help kids learn how to code has had the lightweight TinyBASIC programming lang...

iJento, a provider of digital and multichannel customer intelligence for businesses who want to improve their customer targeting, has raised a new $8 million round of funding, led by MMC Ventures. Pre...

Hurricane Sandy, what may essentially be the biggest storm to hit the North Eastern seaboard in history, is barreling toward us, through the Atlantic, at this very second. It's estimated to cause betw...

Hurricane Sandy, what may essentially be the biggest storm to hit the North Eastern seaboard in history, is barreling toward us, through the Atlantic, at this very second. It's estimated to cause betw...

Snapchat, an impermanent photo messaging application, soft launched a version for Android today. Co-founder Evan Spiegel tells me users have shared over 1 billion photos (snaps) on the iOS application...

IMI.VC, a startup investment firm based in Moscow, just announced that it has raised $75 million in funding.The money comes from Michael Vinchel, who co-founded Mail.ru Group (the popular Russian emai...

Freemium wireless internet startup FreedomPop made good on its word by kicking off its public beta earlier this month and hocking USB modems and mobile hotspots, but that launch left many of its would...

Nokia today officially announced that it will be offering the Nokia Lumia 822 as part of its "Fall portfolio," bringing the Windows Phone 8-powered Lumia 820 variant exclusively to Verizon's network. ...

There's a lot of opportunity -- and big problems to solve -- in the current educational landscape. But it's not an easy road, and, for entrepreneurs and early-stage businesses in need of mentoring, se...

Vodafone Group is partnering with m-commerce company CorFire to bring NFC-powered mobile wallet capabilities to its smartphone users next year. CorFire said it would be "providing mobile wallet capabi...

Apple's iPad mini shipping times have slipped to two weeks across the board for Wi-Fi only versions, which were the only ones initially set for a November 2 delivery. The white version actually sold o...

Google is dropping the price on its 7-inch tablet. The 16GB model will soon cost $199, down from the original $249 MSRP. Likewise, a new model, a 32GB flavor, will occupy the $249 price point. There's...

MobiCart, the mobile commerce startup that makes it easy to build and manage a storefront natively for iOS and Android or as a HTML5 app, has raised a further 300k (approx. $500k). In what is effectiv...

Last month Skyscanner, which competes with Kayak on flight, hotel and car hire bookings, hit a nice milestetone with 11 million downloads of its free native mobile apps. Today it's adding to that with...

Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 event takes place later today -- where we expect to find out exactly how the integration between WP8, Microsoft's new mobile OS, and its new desktop OS Windows 8 will work....

Publishing giants Pearson and Bertelsmann are creating a joint venture to pool their respective consumer publishing businesses, Penguin and Random House, in a bid to go the distance in the digital age...

After this past weeks Apple event, one thing stood out to me above all others. And just to make sure, I watched the event again. Same result.The shots fired at Android tablets.For everything that Appl...

Rewind to the late 90s. Almost everything you needed email, news, sports, stocks, maps and more was conveniently on one site: Yahoo!. Yahoo! was the portal to the Internet that strived to deliver ev...

According to Reuters, the U.S. Stock Market will be closed on Monday due to interference that will be caused by the logistical nightmare that comes along with such a huge weather event like Hurricane ...

Back in June, I wrote about a startup called FastPay, which offers credit lines to digital media companies. At the time, CEO and founder Jed Simon pitched the service as an alternative to venture capi...

Ok, so this app made me feel really dirty when I downloaded it. It's called Badabing! and it basically goes through your friends' photos on Facebook to pull out the ones of them at the pool or beach. ...

When the world's gaze focuses on a single televised moment, it's what's in the periphery of our vision that unites us. The second screen brings awareness of the millions watching alongside, no matter ...

We're living in a pre-barbaric age. Gutenberg and the printed word cast out the darkness of a hundred mistakes, a thousand benighted cities hastened from the gloom, a million lights winked on in a mil...

Competition in the low-cost tablet space has been heating up for a while now thanks to strong new hardware from the likes of Asus, Google, and Barnes & Noble, but it seems the time has come for th...

"The art of narration and dramatic presentation, together with a keen sense of the oral epic style, became a characteristic quality of the Russian people." Vladimir Propp, Morphology of the FolktaleAt...

Over the past two weeks, Ive been involved in a Facebook ad campaign whose results are astonishing. Its a political campaign supporting Californias Proposition 37 (Label Genetically Engineered Foods)....

"The art of narration and dramatic presentation, together with a keen sense of the oral epic style, became a characteristic quality of the Russian people." Vladimir Propp, Morphology of the FolktaleAt...

Microsoft's heavy schedule of launches and events this month, including the Windows 8 and Surface events in New York last week and its Windows Phone 8 event in San Francisco on Monday, is set to reach...

Apple CEO Tim Cook said in the earnings call this past week that 80% of the Fortune 500 companies use iPhones and iPads. To make his point, Cook said companies such as Canon are outfitting its entire ...

So this guy, Rupert Murdoch, who is supposed to know a thing or two about technology, tweeted this out today....

This is what you do when you close down your startup: you call Rackspace and cancel the Windows SQL server plan. You email SendGrid and give them notice on your Silver SMTP Service Package. You close ...

Kenyas M-PESA is the poster child for mobile money services in Africa, but it is also increasingly gaining attention further abroad. It is, however, only one of the mobile payment systems on the conti...

As you know, gaming company Zynga laid off employees last week and shut down a few of its offices right before its quarterly earnings call. Well, Zynga has pissed off the online group Anonymous, and i...

Google has a fantastic program that prepares the world for major events involving Mother Nature, and it has set up a crisis map for people on the East Coast preparing for Hurricane Sandy....

Google has a fantastic program that prepares the world for major events involving Mother Nature, and it has set up a crisis map for people on the East Coast preparing for Hurricane Sandy....

It's almost Halloween, which means that all of your grown up friends with kids will be crowding up your Facebook News Feed with ridiculous photos of 2-year-olds dressed as the Incredible Hulk. It also...

very now and then, Ill get sucked into the distracting, immersive, emotional habit of flipping through pictures online. Rifling through albums can stop time. Its disorienting, like stumbling upon an o...

Watching the dawn come up with a bunch of European entrepreneurs on tour in Tel Aviv this week, and hanging out with many of them at the recent F.ounders conference in Dublin, made me realise one thin...

Editor's Note:Armando Kirwinis a filmmaker and consultant whose previous work has included Paramount Pictures, Microsoft, several startups, thirteen feature films, and a handful of TV shows. Follow hi...

Big Data is on every CIOs mind this quarter, and for good reason. Companies will have spent $4.3 billion on Big Data technologies by the end of 2012.But heres where it gets interesting. Those initial ...

Welcome to the future, where you can essentially make a movie with believable special effects right on your smartphone. Cinefy, an app that just launched on the App Store, makes this possible. ...

Sao Paolo, Brazil and the San Francisco Bay Area are many miles apart, both literally in terms of distance, and figuratively in terms of culture. But one tech startup called Predicta is taking on the ...

Developers tend to think "mobile first, tablet second" because tablets seem like stretched out mobile devices, and mobiles tend to have much higher install bases. The devs reason that if they design f...

When I started using LinkedIn (in 2008) the service put a lot of emphasis on only connecting with people you had indubitably done business with. Which made it pretty straightforward to decide when to ...

Diigo, a social bookmarking and annotation site, is finally back online 50 hours after the domain was first hijacked. It's an incredible story that involves crisis management, blackmail, investigativ...

In a lot of ways, with Windows 8, Microsoft got the jump on what Apple seems intent on doing with OS X and iOS: a convergence of desktop and mobile computing. But the approaches both companies are tak...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is looking forward to a future when 3D printing, thanks to "creative" patents, could no longer be free. The because the technology is so nascent, patenting parts of ...

Robert J. Moore is the co-founder ofRJMetrics, a company whose software helps online businesses make smarter decisions using their own data. He also previously served on the Investment Team of Insight...

There may be an app for almost everything, but there still isn't one for controlling Mother Nature.Google this morning officially canceled the Android event that was scheduled to occur on Monday, Octo...

Cindy Alvarez directs user experience at Yammer. At the Failcon conference this week she did an insightful if uncomfortable talk about the five types of people she should have fired sooner....

The Gillmor Gang John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor counted their pennies as Apple, Microsoft, and Google weighed in to the Tablet Sweepstakes with new entri...

Last week Glassdoor published its most recent software engineering salary report. Short version: it pays to code. Google and Facebook employees earn a base salary of ~$125K, not counting benefits, 401...

We've all beeninundated with political back and forth over the past few weeks. Curse you, social networks! And you too, Internet! And yet, what's really frustrating isnt the political back and forth, ...

A memory leak and a failed monitoring system caused the Amazon Web Services outage on Monday that took out Reddit and other major services. According to a post Friday night, AWS explained that the pro...

It's that time of year to be festive and spooky, carve up some pumpkins and get the candy ready for the neighborhood kids. One uber-geek Ashley Mayer, decided to take festivity to an all new level, ti...

I've greatly enjoyed watching the petty controversies that erupted this week, controversies having to do with what can only loosely be described as buyer's remorse: indignant iPad owners, a mysterious...

Cemmerce, an Israeli startup helping publishers monetize through affiliate linking, has raised $500,000 in new funding.The round comes from digital holding company Navitrio. The firm, which also offer...

One of the things that really excited me about coming to TechCrunch is that I have the freedom to explore companies in a deeper, more meaningful, way. I've worked for quite a few startups and the peop...

Uber for the home. Uber for car washes. Uber for this, Uber for that. And now theres an Uber for private jets. Difference is, this Uber for is actually backed by an Uber co-founder. And oh man, is he...

Who needs hunky space miners wielding megaton nuclear warheads when an new MIT paper argues that paintballs could save mankind from asteroid annihilation. Graduate student Sung Wook Paek estimates tha...

In case you haven't noticed, rapper Dr. Dre has his own line of headphones. They're called "Beats By Dre" and until now, they were made in concert with the company Monster. Apparently that has changed...

Six of Facebook's top officers (but not Zuck) filed Form 4s today to notify the SEC their RSUs will vest into 45.3 million Class B shares on 10/29, but they won't be selling any. Facebook will withhol...

Those of us who were looking forward to seeing Netflix and HBO go head-to-head will have to wait just a little bit longer. Thats because HBO has delayed the launch of its HBO Nordic subscription strea...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live (now) at 1pm Pacific....

Samsung is in the process of launching a new Samsung Galaxy Note II, but we've just received strong evidence the original may be even better. Courtesy of a Craigslist Toronto classified ad (via Twitte...

As youve no doubt already heard, Google is planning to unveil some new Nexus-branded goodies on Monday. LGs Nexus 4 smartphone has been examined in what seems like excruciating detail already, but now...

Just when you thought local deals couldn't be improved, Exploreka tries to provide something new. With that particular take, everything happens on mobile (iOS for now) with a map front and center....

The great thing about San Francisco is that it's a small town in size. As I was walking to the office today I walked by Steve Streza of Pocket and we caught up on what he's working on lately. Yesterda...

Microsoft just announced that it is bringing its Lync messenger to the Windows Store and the new Windows user interface. In addition, the company also just launched a new version of its OneNote note-t...

Althea Systems, the startup behind social video app Shufflr, is launching the Windows 8 version of Shufflr today.Of course, it's hardly alone in releasing a Windows app this week, since the Windows St...

Google App Engine is down with a major service disruption affecting thousands of customers around the world that use the platform-as-a-service.The Google Engine team posted the following update:...

Google App Engine is down with a major service disruption affecting thousands of customers around the world that use the platform-as-a-service.The Google Engine team posted the following update:...

My mom always said that the most dangerous lies are the ones mixed with truth. That's why the internet, namely Twitter, can be such a spurious environment. We sometimes forget that with the real-time,...

Last month we wrote about DevelopersAuction, a company that lets startups “bid” on developers who are looking for work. During the first two week long auction companies made $30 million wo...

DreamIt Ventures just announced that it is partnering with Microsoft's BizSpark initiative to offer its startups access to the resources available through Microsoft's program. As part of this partners...

Meet the Hex3 JaJa stylus, a pressure-sensitive drawing tool for the iPad (and other tablets, too) that transmits information to the device via sound waves, eschewing the need for a Bluetooth connecti...

LEAP Commerce, a somewhat under-the radar mobile shopping startup, is today releasing a major update to its "Best Decision" shopping iOS app which introduces a true universal cart for consumers. What ...

ExecOnline has raised $800,000 in seed funding from the Washington Post for executives to get online training from top 10 business schools.The service will target Fortune 500 companies that often send...

The fact is, Google News is absolutely irrelevant in Brazil, said Carlos Mller, communications advisor for National Association of Newspapers in Brazil (AJN), after a widespread boycott of Google's po...

Better late than never. With less than two weeks to go before the U.S. presidential election on November 6, Microsoft's Bing just unveiled Bing Elections. The site features news results from major U.S...

The Google Maps basemap is getting a visual overhaul today. Unlike most updates, though, this one is for the actual maps and not just the interface. Starting today, Google Maps will show you informati...

Google is about to throw down. At next week's NYC Android event, the big G is expected yell "me too!" and reveal a full line of Nexus devices. Watch out, Mr. Consumer. These devices aren't just for th...

This week, Pinterest cracked the top 50 most trafficked websites in the U.S. with its now 25.3 million stateside visitors, but the social photo-sharing site has yet to determine how it will monetize a...

A raft of smartphone market analyst numbers are out and they all continue to make very pleasant reading for Samsung -- the maker of the Galaxy range of smartphones -- underlining the success of the Ko...

Nearly a year after citizens blindsided the government with an unprecedented protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act, Congress is at a loss for how to proceed. Luddite officials see complex tech is...

Apple only offers its iPhone 5 in sober black or white/gray, and while I respect their minimalist design sensibilities, some people might want more color options for their smartphone companion. Well, ...

Streaming music startup8tracksis officially relaunching its iPhone application today, which offers a much-needed (and really well done) user interface revamp. For those who remember the earlier versio...

In the great, wide world of journalism, games journalism is a weird animal. Those who "practice" - and practice it well - face a barrage of PR perks, free trips, and angry houses. Access is given and ...

According to a report out of Bloomberg, Apple may be working on a radio product to compete with Pandora. The story cited sources "familiar with the matter," who confirm that Apple is in intensified ta...

Gamestop today announced plans to launch 80 new holiday concept stores called GameStop Kids across the U.S., offering kid-friendly shopping experiences. The storefronts will sell video games, but focu...

Good news for Japanese startups: Japan's largest mobile carrier, NTT Docomo, has announced a $125 million investment fund and incubator program for smartphone and tablet related startups -- to be call...

HTC today officially released its financials for Q3, and the news continues to be bad for the Taiwanese smartphone maker: the company reported revenues of 70.2 billion Taiwan dollars ($2.4 billion), d...

After losing an appeal in a UK high court last week against a judgement that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab tablets do not infringe the design of the iPad because it’s just not cool enough, Apple ha...

After losing an appeal in a UK high court last week against a judgement that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab tablets do not infringe the design of the iPad because their design is just not cool enough, App...

To drive more consumers to its handsets in Europe, HTC is turning to exclusive content. Today the company is launching a daily deals service called Best Deals, with the service rolling out today in th...

To drive more consumers to its handsets in Europe, HTC is turning to exclusive content. Today the company is launching a daily deals service called Best Deals, which is rolling out today in theUK, Ita...

A little more than two years after Japanese mobile gaming giant DeNA agreed to pay up to $403 million for U.S.-based mobile game developer Ngmoco, the subsidiary's CEO Neil Young has stepped down. Nei...

With the November elections right around the corner, education reform is a hot topic these days, thanks to a flood of reports indicating that the U.S. has fallen behind its peers on a number of educat...

If you're looking to get your hands on an iPad mini after the big reveal this past Tuesday, now's the time to pre-order, and shoppers can choose any version of the iPad mini or 4th generation iPad for...

Apple continues to go global with its App Store ambitions: the company has made eight additions to the list of supported currencies. The new currencies are the Russian Ruble, Turkey's Lire, India's Ru...

No so Pinteresting after all. Facebook began testing Collections on October 8th. But today I found that product photos users collected had disappeared and links to Collect posts were dead. Now Faceboo...

The Apple Store just went down, and we know what's coming next in this instance: iPad mini pre-orders start Oct. 26, and if past experience proves anything, they'll come online first thing in the morn...

Driving through Times Square is a tricky proposition even on normal nights, but for a few moments tonight it was basically impossible to cruise down 7th Avenue. Thats because Microsoft officially kick...

Apple's Q4 2012 results were mixed. As usual, reading Twitter, you'd think this was the end of the world. Nevermind that Amazon managed to post a loss on$13.8 billion in sales today Apple only made $...

With Apple just ending its conference call for its quarterly results, Strategy Analytics has published its numbers on global tablet sales for the quarter. Apple and the iPad remain in the lead with 57...

With Apple just ending its conference call for its quarterly results, Strategy Analytics has published its numbers on global tablet sales for the quarter. Apple and the iPad remain in the lead with 57...

Yahoo is looking to make a clean break with some aspects of its past with Marissa Mayer now at the helm -- and one of those, it seems, could be its logo.A TC reader says that he was asked to take an o...

Yahoo is looking to make a clean break with some aspects of its past with Marissa Mayer now at the helm -- and one of those, it seems, could be its logo.A TC reader says that he was asked to take an o...

According to a tweet from longtime Googler Russ Laraway, he has decided to join the flock at Twitter. According to Laraway's LinkedIn profile, he won a "2011 Great Manager Award", along with 19 other ...

What's going on with Amazon.com's profits? That's what a few of the analysts on today's earnings conference call seemed to be asking, albeit with some convoluted, finance-focused questions.The context...

Europe is a key market for Apple. Last quarter it remained the second-highest revenue generating region after the U.S. In its Q4 earnings today, Apple reported total revenues of $8,023 billion in Euro...

During the Q4 Apple earnings call, Cook addressed words spoken by Steve Jobs in the past regarding a 7-inch tablet On comments that Steve made before about 7 inch tablets, let me be clear, we would no...

During the Q4 Apple earnings call, Cook addressed words spoken by Steve Jobs in the past regarding a 7-inch tabletOn comments that Steve made before about 7 inch tablets, let me be clear, we would not...

On the Apple Q4 conference call, both CFO Peter Oppenheimer and CEO Tim Cook took a moment to defend the iPad's pricing in response to a question about what they think about comments it's too high. No...

Redbox and Verizon are moving closer to the launch of a new streaming service to compete with Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video, and other online video companies. Today, they announced that they sig...

It might not ship as many units as the iPhone or the iPad, but Apple TV continues to gain ground in the connected TV market. During today’s earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company sol...

During Apple's earnings call today, the company's CEO Tim Cook called Microsoft's Surface a "fairly compromised and confusing product," though he also admitted that he hasn't "played with one yet." Ac...

In Apple's Q4 earnings call today, Tim Cook today said that Apple had a "fantastic" quarter in Greater China, with revenues at $5.7B, up 26% year on year, but actually that revenue was flat on Q3. Sti...

In Apple's Q4 earnings call today, Tim Cook today said that Apple had a "fantastic" quarter in Greater China, with revenues at $5.7 billion, up 26% year on year, but actually that revenue was flat on ...

It's easy to forget the big picture when you report on a quarterly earnings. Apple has seen a tremendous year. With $156 billion in revenue representing 45 percent growth compared to 2011, and an incr...

With all those devices Apple is selling, it makes sense that the apps that run on them are being built -- and being sold -- at higher rates than ever.Apple announced today on the company's earnings ca...

During the Q4 2012 earnings call today, Tim Cook fielded a question regarding the upcoming strong financial push that Apple will be making this holiday season. As you know, Apple had a strong Q4 and h...

The iPad mini's gross margin is "significantly below" the rest of Apple's product line at $329, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said on the company's conference call today. He said that's driving lower gu...

During its Q4 2012 earnings call today, Apple announced that iCloud, its cloud storage and backup service for documents, contacts, photos, music and other data, now has 190 million users. That's up si...

Apple's Q4 results mean we also now have the total hardware sales the company managed for the 2012 financial year. The company sold an amazing 125.04 million iPhones, 58.23 million iPads, 18.1 million...

YouTube added a new way for users to promote their videos and channels today, with the launch of a new feature called InVideo Promotion. The feature was detailed on the YouTube Creator blog, where You...

Apple managed to sell a lot of iOS devices over the last three months. But iPad sales are still declining. They are down 17.6 percent to 14 million compared to 17 million in Q3. Analysts expected at l...

Apple managed to sell a lot of iOS devices over the last three months. But iPad sales are still declining. They are down 17.6 percent to 14 million compared to 17 million in Q3 a bit more than expect...

Today, as we check out Apple's Q4 2012 earnings, we learned that the company did an amazing $4.2B in sales in its retail stores alone. In Q3, that number was about $4B.People lining up at its retail s...

Apple had another solid quarter for hardware sales, with iOS device sales leading the charge. iPhone sales were up from last quarter, and increased 58% year over year thanks to the iPhone 5, which was...

Apple has just released its fiscal Q4 2012 earnings, and the consumer computing giant reported generating $36 billion in revenue (compared to $35 billion in Q3, and $28.27 billion in the year-ago quar...

I know Facebook and Twitter forever changed the political process and promises to usher in a new era of global citizenship. But, sometimes I just need a mind-numbing escape of drunken Vegas photos and...

Today, Twitter gave us an update on how the company is doing on its "expanded tweet" program. Right now, the company says that there are over 2,000 unique ways to engage and interact with a tweet:...

Amazon.com just released its third-quarter earnings report. Analysts had been predicted growth in sales along with a net loss, and that's what happened but the numbers still fell a bit short. Net sal...

It's the one-year anniversary of MoPub's marketplace for real-time bidding on mobile ads,and the company is celebrating by eliminating the cost for publishers to participate.CEO Jim Payne told me that...

"It used to be about as much spam as you could pump into the system as possible", Facebook's Alex Schultz told reporters today. But Facebook has managed to grow its gaming ecosystem 11% to 251 million...

"It used to be about as much spam as you could pump into the system as possible", Facebook's Alex Schultz told reporters today. But Facebook has managed to grow its gaming ecosystem 11% to 251 million...

Even though Microsoft has had a hell of time catching up with Google and Apple as tablet sales have eaten into PC marketshare, there is some hope. There are startups betting that the new Windows 8 OS ...

You might be familiar with the concept of the television being used to "babysit" kids. Back in my childhood days, my parents plopped me down in front of "Dukes Of Hazzard" and thanks to them, I really...

When I wrote about the launch of Y Combinator-backed Perfect Audience earlier this month, co-founder and President Brad Flora suggested that I test out the service for myself, so I could see how easy ...

"In the Studio" hosts an entrepreneur who, after studying astrophysics, went on to handle various product management roles at a small startup eventually acquired by Google and who know, most recently,...

Today at Microsoft's surprised Surface press conference, Steven Sinofsky, President of the Windows and Windows Live Division, reiterated what's behind Surface. In particular, when it comes to the devi...

Today at Microsoft's surprise Surface press conference, Steven Sinofsky, President of the Windows and Windows Live Division, reiterated what's behind Surface. In particular, when it comes to the devic...

Yahoo has bought Stamped, the New York City-based startup that built an app to let people record and share recommendations of their favorite things with friends. The pricetag is in the double digit mi...

Flashnotes, a marketplace where students can buy and sell their notes and other course materials, has closed a seed round of $1.8 million as it looks to take its platfrom nationwide, from 75 schools i...

Flashnotes, a marketplace where students can buy and sell their notes and other course materials, has closed a seed round of $1.8 million as it looks to take its platfrom nationwide, from 75 schools i...

Flashnotes, a marketplace where students can buy and sell their notes and other course materials, has closed a seed round of $1.8 million as it looks to take its platfrom nationwide, from 75 schools i...

BranchOut, the company that develops a professional social network that runs on top of Facebook, has made a key hire today, poaching a Yahoo exec for its leadership team. Ebbe Altberg, the former seni...

The main focus of Boxfish is to replace the cable box's electronic programming guide, or EPG. Anyone who has sat there on the couch and scrolled through the guide -- and that's all of you -- knows tha...

At Windows 8 launch event, Microsoft co-founder and CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage to discuss Windows 8 on desktops, laptops and tablets today. According to Ballmer, who was his own energetic self t...

Udacity, a startup focused on bringing free university-level educational worldwide, is today announcing a significant new investment: $15 million in Series B funding in a round led by top VC firmAndre...

Everloop, a social network for children backed by $3.1 million in seed funding, is today introducing its first mobile application. Called "Goobit" (remember folks, this is an app for kids), the new ap...

During Microsoft's official launch event for Windows 8 in New York City today, Steven Sinofsky, the president of the company's Windows and Windows Live division, said that the company's new operating ...

New Relic has added the capability to monitor data across multiple applications and systems for deeper, more detailed views -- another sign that the new era of Internet models is taking the enterprise...

Vineloop, a social recommendations platform which first launched into beta late last year, is today relaunching its mobile app for iPhone offering a completely redesigned user interface, additional ca...

Squarespace introduced a new mobile app for iPhone today, but it has little to do with the company's website creation platform. Instead, it's a simplified note-taking application that can publish to y...

A recent UN report from the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force reads like a primer on Internet control and censorship. Entitled "Use Of The Internet For Terrorist Purposes," th...

Pocket (formerly ReadItLater) delivered a new native Mac OS X app today, allowing you to save and access content for later reading from around the web. Pocket's rebrand was all about going beyond just...

Atomico could be raising money for a new fund, according to an form submitted a new SEC filing today. The form shows a raise of $286 million for a new fund, Atomico Ventures III, L.P....

Q: What do you do when you've shut down one startup before getting work on the next one? The answer, in Matthieu Vaxelaire's case, is help out some other would-be entrepreneurs by launching a not-for-...

Netflix announced today that it now has more than 30 million members streaming content via its video service. That's a lot of uses who've opted for on-demand, digitally delivered content. Netflix had ...

Besides spending some time with the Canon EOS M, I also got to test out the Canon 6D, a new full-frame offering from the camera-maker that's set to arrive later this year. The $2,099 DSLR lowers the b...

In almost every case, the conventional wisdom is that Apple follows but does not lead. The iPad happened long after the first Windows tablets flopped and the iPad Mini is a reaction to the Kindle HD a...

As promised last month,LearnVest, astartup which recently expanded its focus from teaching women to become more financially savvy to teaching entire households to so, is now available on mobile. Today...

Acquia was founded by Dries Buytaert, the creator of the open source content management system Drupal, to monetize the project offering hosting and support. Today the company launched a beta of a new ...

Earlier this month, I had the good fortune to attend DLD Bosphorus, an event held in Istanbul and featuring some of the hottest Turkish start-ups and entrepreneurs. It was a memorable evening. Held on...

We're seeing a lot of evolution and growth in the world of mobile ads -- Facebook's recent introduction of ads into its mobile platform being one key development -- but some stats are proving harder t...

It's a tale of two increasingly similar touchscreen keyboards: SwiftKey's latest move to counter Nuance-owned rival Swype is to adopt a Swype-style input method -- allowing users to drag their fingers...

I would have posted this sooner but I just noticed that amazing indie game Braid and Bioshock 2 just ended up in the MacHeist bundle and popped over to the site to check it out. To my surprise, I foun...

Google continues its election tradition of supporting gay marriage with a heartstring-tugging new video of Googlers confessing what equality means to them. “TheFour2012” alerts voters to i...

The Big Issue, a U.K. magazine sold by homeless street vendors to give them a steady income, is launching a digital edition, alongside its print edition. If a customer wants the digital version street...

Canon waited quite a while to get into the mirrorless interchangeable lens camera (MILC) market, biding its time as competitors like Olympus, Panasonic and Sony built up strong reputations for their o...

Some say Tel Aviv is almost like having Silicon Valley on Europe's doorstep, and you do get that feeling sometimes. The urgency of the people and their sheer energy is infectious. It's not for nothing...

WalkMe, an online guidance system that developers can plug into websites to create widgets that help walk users through their services, is today announcing that it has picked up a further $5.5 million...

Sprint, newly acquired by Japanese SoftBank for $20.1 billion earlier this month, has just announced earnings results for the third quarter, perhaps showing just how fortunate this acquisition will be...

Telefonica Digital, the new media arm of the giant Spanish carrier Telefonica, has made another big investment in its bid to become an international communications platform extending beyond basic voic...

Today, the popular image-sharing platform Imgur is announcing a significant change to its user experience in hopes of increasing the viral potential of its images. In what founder and CEO Alan Schaaf ...

Today, the popular image-sharing platform Imgur is announcing a significant change to its user experience in hopes of increasing the viral potential of its images. In what founder and CEO Alan Schaaf ...

Datahug, a 'business networking automation' startup, which we covered in depth here has secured a 2.5 million Series A financing from European VC, DFJ Esprit. The investment means Datahug wil now expa...

Persuading publishers to make their eBooks available to read over the Web is probably quite a big ask. Persuading them to sell those eBooks on a pay-as-you-go basis, enabling readers to purchase speci...

Amazon has confirmed it's using LOVEFiLM, the movie rental company it acquired at the start of 2011, to power the video service in Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD tablets sold in the U.K.. The slates g...

Hot on the heels of funding wins for Handybook and PeoplePerHour, another investment in an online labour booking company this month: Intel Capital is leading a $4 million Series A funding round into R...

We are still waiting for official word on when Spotify will make the move to a browser-based version, or port its App Center to its mobile app. But in the meantime, third parties continue to build out...

We are still waiting for official word on when Spotify will make the move to a browser-based version, or port its App Center to its mobile app. But in the meantime, third parties continue to build out...

Rock Health, the seed accelerator for startups focused on the health space, landed a big, new partner back in August: The well-known Silicon Valley venture firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. ...

Dhingana, a startup with a free service for streaming Indian and Bollywood music, has raised $7 million in Series B funding.The company's catalog includes 500,000 songs in 35 languages, which it makes...

Online real estate service Zillow is expanding its real estate listings today by adding "pre-market inventory" specifically, homes that have either been foreclosed or are in the foreclosure process.I...

There's been a lot of chatter about the amount of apps in the Windows Store ahead of this week's Windows 8 launch. Earlier today, I had a chance to sit down with Microsoft's corporate vice president f...

I use Google products for pretty much everything, including documents, spreadsheets (ew) and slide presentations (double ew). Now that these products are safely nestled under "Google Drive", they've ...

PageWoo seeks to solve a number of problems for mobile marketers: It is at once a content-generation engine, as well as a multi-image testing platform. It can target ads based on location and even on ...

I've been using Twitter for just about six years now, someone on Twitter informed me. Naturally. There are quite a few things that I've enjoyed about the service over the years, including the ability ...

Ever since we heard the first rumors about Microsoft dropping the "Metro" moniker for its new touch interface and its app, there has been a lot of confusion about what the new interface should be call...

In the conference call discussing Zynga's latest earnings report, CEO Mark Pincus acknowledged that the company has not met its own goals for growth, something he blamed on two things "game execution...

It's not much, but it's a start: Notify Me Not is a small, compact site dedicated to helping you and yours stop annoying emails from reaching your inbox. By focusing on the hows and whys of notificati...

Facebook's 10-Q reveals some juicy tidbits left out of its earnings call yesterday. The final price it paid for Instagram was $521 million in stock and cash plus 11 million unvested shares. Despite ru...

Facebook's 10-Q reveals some juicy tidbits left out of its earnings call yesterday. The final price it paid for Instagram was $715 million in stock and cash. Despite rumors that it has stopped growing...

Intimidating voters at the polls is so 19th century. And, now that courts continue to overturn Republican voter ID laws, based on the fact that just 10 incidences of voter fraud in the last decade doe...

Nithin Mathews, Anders Lyhne Christensen, Rehan O'Grady, and Marco Dorigo are researchers from Universite Libre de Bruxelles and Instituto Universitario de Lisboa and they are leading us down the prim...

Zynga is giving another carrot to investors. The company is kicking off a $200 million share repurchasing program. It's the first time Zynga has ever done this. The news comes on the heels of fresh co...

According to Reuters, Yahoo! is actively closing down its Korean business and cutting around 200 jobs. We've reached out to Yahoo! for comment and confirmation and will update you as soon as we hear b...

Zynga announced today its first move into online casino gaming, in other words, gambling-oriented games that deal with real money.Zynga announced this afternoon it has inked an exclusive partnership w...

Zynga said it saw third quarter revenue of $317 million, which was slightly above the lower range of $300 million to $305 million the company said it would see earlier this month.Bookings came in at $...

Condition One enables video producers to capture and share what typical video products miss, with a 180-degree field of vision. It's recently expanded its seed round to $2.35 million, coming from Mark...

Two of Salesforce.com's most high profile "social media" acquisitions are showing signs of trouble. At Radian6,Salesforce.com is reported to be laying off "less than 100 people." And at Buddy Media, t...

News.me, the social news service incubated at betaworks, announced today that it's officially shutting down its iOS apps and removing them from the App Store. The company is also claiming that it's ye...

News.me, the social news service incubated at betaworks, announced today that it's officially pulling its iOS apps out of the App Store. The company is also claiming that it's yet another victim of Tw...

Bolstering its arsenal of first-party games for the Japanese market, GREE acquired developer Pokelabo for $173 million in an all-cash deal. Asia-focused venture capital firm DCM gets a win with this a...

The Internet of Things. It's a phrase that holds so much promise but to date has not yet turned our world into one filled with tiny connected sensors feeding a vast matrix of data - just yet. Data sur...

Pricing for the U.K.'s first 4G/LTE network was announced earlier this week but despite offering five consumer phone tariffs there are no unlimited data packages at all. Yet the company does offer unl...

TechStars NY graduate Vizify has today launched a few new features, including a completely redesigned mobile interface for both iOS and Android, along with support for the iPhone 5. The service brings...

Obama was caught off-the-record revealing why courting Latino voters is a political priority and indicates why democrats have prioritized comprehensive immigration reform, often at the expense of high...

Apple announced a new iPad at its event on Tuesday, one that wasn't mini, and one that wasn't presented as a a stop-gap or mid-cycle replacement. The fourth generation iPad, as it's called, was pitche...

It's a cliche to say that Twitter allows the everyman to connect with the movers and shakers of the media and entertainment industries. But it's so true! Today's case in point: the humble Edward Barr,...

I love streaming music and I'm an avid user of Spotify for this purpose. I was pretty delighted when I saw that Taylor Swift's new album "Red" was available for listening when I opened up the app. I l...

Apple knows how to launch and promote new products better than any company in the world. Yesterday's 73 minute special event, introducing the iPad mini, new MacBook Pro, Mac Mini and iMac was, in App...

As a man who is interested in independent films, I find that sourcing soundtracks for these projects is difficult. That’s why there’s StereoBot.com, a new service that allows filmmakers, s...

Samsung really wants you to use NFC. They launched these TecTile NFC tags alongside the Galaxy S III, and they're already updating the app in Google Play to be compatible with the new Holiday flagship...

NextWorth, one of many websites that specialize in giving upgrade-hungry consumers a check for their used gadgets, said today that it experienced an over 1,000 percent increase in the volume of trade-...

Google just announced that it is taking the Trekker, its backpack-sized Street View camera system into the Grand Canyon to map the National Park's hiking trails. Instead of having to huff and puff you...

It was just over a week ago that Tweetie creator and former Twitter employee Loren Brichter unveiled atebits 2.0, the rebirth of his independent software development company, and announced that its fi...

Skype hit version 6 today, with a rare simultaneous release for both Windows and Mac. This brings a whole bunch of new features to the table, including single sign-on with both Facebook and Microsoft ...

Google announced today that marketers and advertisers promoting iOS applications can now monitor conversions - meaning app downloads - using Google's AdWords. The news follows Google's earlier move th...

The [US government? Federal government?] government has released new guidelines on facial recognition technologies and discretely tucked in a Trojan horse that is destined to have fierce opposition: a...

Powervoice, the social media marketing company founded by former IBM consultant Ryan Landau and his ex-Googler brother Andrew, has pivoted. Hard. And the founders have left the company. Originally, th...

If you told me yesterday that today there would be a robot that balances on a single ball and can locomote itself around the room on said ball, I'd say you were a crazy person. Well, you're not a craz...

Shine Security has raised $3.3 million for its next-generation anti-virus technology. The round was led byHorizon Ventures with further participation from Initial Capital.Shine addresses advanced pers...

Wall Street responds with enthusiasm to Facebook's earnings. Shares (NASDAQ:FB) are currently trading 22 percent above yesterday's price. During the earnings call, the company announced that 14 percen...

Wall Street is responding with enthusiasm to Facebook's earnings. Shares (NASDAQ:FB) are currently trading 22 percent above yesterday's price. During the earnings call, the company announced that 14 p...

Corning's Gorilla Glass got famous for being the scratch-resistant front screen cover material on Apple's iPhone. Then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs talked Corning CEO Wendell Weeks into producing production q...

Decide.com, the shopping search engine that tells consumers both what and when to buy, is introducing its premium level of service today. Starting now, Decide.com will begin to charge for its "when to...

Price was perhaps always the most anticipated feature of the iPad mini, and now it's proving the most controversial. My Twitter stream has been filled with arguments back and forth on the iPad mini's ...

Nintendo has stemmed operating loss slightly in the April-September quarter, the total falling from $718 million to $366 million. Console sales fell about 60 percent with DS sales of 970,000 and Wii s...

LinkedIn has given its BlackBerry app a much needed update to boost functionality. The new BlackBerry app is available for BB6 and BB7 and includes several new features and functions -- including the ...

LinkedIn has given its BlackBerry app a much needed update to boost functionality and speed improvements -- its last BB app update was in 2010. The new app is available for BB6 and BB7 and includes se...

In September we wrote about how the short-term accommodation-sharing site Airbnb was in the process of raising another round of around $100 million. A Form D filed with the SEC today shows that it's j...

In September we wrote about how the short-term accommodation-sharing site Airbnb was in the process of raising another round of around $100 million. A Form D filed with the SEC today shows that it's j...

In September we broke the story about how the short-term accommodation-sharing site Airbnb was in the process of raising a significant third round of around $100 million. A Form D filed with the SEC t...

In September we broke the story about how the short-term accommodation-sharing site Airbnb was in the process of raising a significant third round of around $100 million. A Form D filed with the SEC t...

AT&T has just released its Q3 2012 earnings report the telecom giant reported quarterly revenues of $31.5 billion (which is essentially flat year-over-year) and earnings of $0.61 per share as opp...

Mayfield Fund is announcing an Indian investment today, out of its Mayfield India fund. The venture firm is backing AngelPrime, a Bangalore-based incubator. The investment will be used as seed capital...

Another loss for Apple in the courts: a Dutch court in the Hague has ruled Samsung does not infringe an Apple multitouch patent, Reuters is reporting. Apple had argued last month in the court that Sam...

Another loss for Apple in the courts: a Dutch court in the Hague has ruled Samsung does not infringe an Apple multitouch patent, Reuters is reporting. Apple had argued last month in the court that Sam...

Square has taken its first step outside of the U.S. for its mobile payment service: it is now live in Canada. The company said today that its mobile card reader/processor is now available nationwide, ...

The average woman has worn just 20% of her wardrobe in the last year, but continues to spend upwards of $6,000 year on new clothing and accessories, leaving many (including me) with a closet full of e...

Looks like the European Commission is following through on what it's been reportedly planning to do for weeks: it has fileda formal complaint against Microsoft for antitrust violations related to Inte...

Looks like the European Commission is following through on what it's been reportedly planning to do for weeks: it has fileda formal complaint against Microsoft for antitrust violations related to Inte...

An Adobe poll of 1,250 U.S. consumers and marketers' views on online advertising makes amusing reading at times -- more than half agreed that 'most marketing is a bunch of B.S.'. The poll also underl...

This just in: Yelp is stepping up its game in Europe and buying its biggest rival in the region, Qype. It will pay 18.6 million for all of Qype's shares and is adding another 970,000 shares of Yelp's ...

A year ago sucked. I mean, it was actually great, but it sure seemed to suck at the time. We were getting CrunchFund off the ground and I think everyone thought we were going to do that in full conjun...

Amazon continues to extend its reach into new markets and increase its focus in Asia: today it announced pre-orders for its first Japanese-language Kindle, the Paperwhite, and, in another first, it ha...

Take that, Rakuten! Amazon continues to extend its reach into new markets and increase its focus in Asia: today it announced pre-orders for its first Japanese-language Kindle, the Paperwhite, and, in ...

Thanks to the growth of the web, our pop culture celebrities seem closer to us regular folk than ever -- we can Tweet to them, see their personal snapshots on Instagram, access their performances and ...

Do you want watch the by-now-obligatory product videos that Apple has created to promote its new iPad Mini, as well as the new smart covers? Sure you do.More than the product shots, the real staple of...

Apple made some pretty big announcements at an event held in Silicon Valley this morning, but it's been such a big day for tech industry news that you may not have had the chance to fully take it all ...

This afternoon, Google was sued over its Google Wallet smartphone application allegedly infringing U.S. Patent No. 7,298,271 (the '271 patent) in the Federal District Court of Delaware.According to Go...

The Microsoft Surface RT is a PC. Its not a mobile device and its not a tablet, it's a PC. And Microsofts first self-branded computer. It is, in short, the physical incarnation of Microsoft's Windows ...

Apple's iBooks 3.0 update just went out via the App Store, bringing the features it demoed on stage at the special Apple event earlier today. That brings iCloud books to the app's virtual bookshelf, a...

Today, on Netflix's third quarter investor call, Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings and CFO David Wells addressed the issue of Netflix's brand recovery -- something many Netflix users and invest...

Today, on Netflix's third quarter investor call, Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings and CFO David Wells addressed the issue of Netflix's brand recovery -- something many Netflix users and invest...

I already shared first impressions of a lot of Apple's new products, but we've also got video from the time we spent with the iPad mini and the Retina MacBook Pro. Watching these things in action prov...

After years of planning and step-by-step engineering, the U.K.'s switchover from analogue to digital-terrestrial TV broadcasts has finally been completed -- marking the end of more than 70 years of an...

12.8 million small business have a free-to-use Facebook Page, and 8 million use it monthly. By making advertising easier, Facebook got 300,000 of them to buy its new Promoted Posts ads, Sheryl Sandber...

Here's the confirmation. We'll be updating shortly:INTERNAL NOTE FROM ZYNGA CEO AND FOUNDER, MARK PINCUSTeam,Earlier today we initiated a number of changes to streamline our operations, focus our reso...

During the Q&A portion of the earnings call, Zuckerberg was asked if they would ever charge for APIs. It's an interesting question, and one that I've thought a lot about as I've watched Twitter ch...

On Facebook's earnings call today, CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg talked mobile, gaming and more. He touched upon Gifts, the company's big move into commerce. ...

Klout isn't the only startup dealing in perks, it seems. Today, ticketing startup Eventbrite is also expanding upon the concept of customer rewards, but in its case, doling out the perks is a decision...

No surprise here. Mark Zuckerberg just said he isn't happy with the growth of the gaming ecosystem on the Facebook platform on the earnings call today. "Gaming on Facebook isn't doing as well as I'd l...

Facebook announced its third quarter 2012 earnings today, and are participating in the customary phone call to discuss what has taken place over the past few months."We should be able to reach more pe...

Stoked by a bump in advertising revenues and increasing evidence that Facebook is making money from users on mobile devices, Wall Street investors sent shares of the company up by more than 9 percent ...

In its latest earnings report, Netflix addresses the seemingly constant concerns that it's losing out on valuable streaming content as its partners start pushing for more money.For example, the compan...

Mirroring the pain that we're seeing across the entire social gaming industry as players shift toward mobile devices, Facebook's payments and fees revenue declined 9 percent quarter over quarter to $1...

Sutter Hill Ventures has added two new directors from Twitter and Juniper Networks -- a move that speaks to the next big focus in investment -- enterprise IT and its integration with consumer technolo...

Facebook's big push on advertising in the last quarter is paying off for the company, judging by the growth in revenues. The company says that in Q3, it made $1.09 billion in advertising, a 36% increa...

Facebook answered the big question of whether it's transitioning to become a mobile ad company by noting in today's earnings report that 14% of total ad revenue from Q3 2012 came from mobile. The olde...

Facebook released the financial results for the third quarter of 2012 just after the stock market closed this afternoon.All eyes are on the social networking company to show Wall Street some sort of s...

Netflix's third-quarter 2012 earnings report just came out, with revenue reaching $905 million for the quarter, up from $822 million last year. It's also in line with Wall Street's consensus forecast ...

Today, Facebook introduced its third quarter earnings for 2012 and shared some updated stats on how the social network is performing. Recently, Mark Zuckerberg shared that Facebook had crossed the bil...

With all the hullaballoo surrounding the new iPad Mini, it's worth remembering that some actual Windows-flavored competition is ready to roll. We learned last week that Microsoft spent quite some time...

We have more on the backstory behind Zynga's layoffs today. None of the rank and file employees knew until this morning, although senior management had planned cuts ahead of time (just as Zynga indica...

In the old days, before Google Hangouts and sexting, kids used to invite each other to events like concerts, stonings, and bear-baitings. Inviteful hopes to bring us back to those halcyon days of dog ...

Apple unveiled a redesigned iMac today, one that takes the all-in-one computer and makes it even more of a tightly packed engineering marvel. The rumors proved true, and it got a tapered design that t...

Facebook, Twitter, eBay, and PayPal can breathe a sigh of relief: President Obama has apparently conceded to congressional critics on cybersecurity legislation and excluded regulation of social networ...

At its event today, Apple made much of the fact that the 13-inch MacBook Pro is still its top-selling notebook, right before unveiling the new 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro. It's clear that Apple wants t...

Hey.My name is Michael Arrington. For newer readers who dont know, I founded TechCrunch back in 2005. Last year I was fired and began writing on Uncrunched. ...

The iPad mini was announced today as expected, and it is a super impressive piece of hardware, judging by my brief hands-on experience. The smaller iPad retains much of the charm of its larger sibling...

The iPad mini was announced today as expected, and it is a super impressive piece of hardware, judging by my brief hands-on experience. The smaller iPad retains much of the charm of its larger sibling...

That’s a wrap! Apple made a lot of announcements today. Here is our entire coverage on TechCrunch. Live From Apples San Jose iPad Mini Event At 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern iOS App Store Now Offers ...

So now that we have our magical iPad Mini, which I must admit is pretty damn sexy, we listened to Tim Cook and Phil Schiller talk about all of the success that iOS 6 and the latest iPhone has had. But...

Wow, have you ever seen that much trash-talking an Apple event? After introducing the iPad Mini, Apple's SVP of Worldwide Marketing, Phil Schiller, did a side-by-side comparison of the new iPad versus...

That's a wrap! After today's press conference, many of you can't wait to pre-order a brand new iPad mini or any of the other devices announced today....

Possibly trying to hide the grim news by announcing it during Apple's event, Zynga just laid off over 100 employees from its Bingo and TheVille teams in its Austin office, according to Justin Maxwell,...

Possibly trying to hide the grim news by announcing it during Apple's event, we've just independently confirmed that Zynga has shut down its Boston office and laid off 2/3s of the employees in its Aus...

With the release of the iPad Mini, iOS developers wonder how it will work to develop for the new form factor. Even though the screen is smaller, Apple kept the same 4:3 aspect ratio. That is why iPad ...

Until very recently, the iPad mini has been the stuff of legend. Bigfoot, lost-city-of-Atlantis, unicorn style legend. But no more — the iPad mini is finally real, as CEO Tim Cook has unveiled t...

Until very recently, the iPad mini has been the stuff of legend. Bigfoot, lost-city-of-Atlantis, unicorn style legend. But no more — the iPad mini is finally real, as CEO Tim Cook has unveiled t...

Just as much of a hit the iPad has been in consumer, it's been almost bigger as an enterprise tool at the highest reaches of business. Today Tim Cook said that almost every company in the Fortune 500 ...

Theres been plenty of buzz about the iPad mini and the potential role in could play in reaffirming Apples commitment education, and now CEO Tim Cook is spending some time on stage to discuss the sort ...

Theres been plenty of buzz about the iPad mini and the potential role in could play in reaffirming Apples commitment education, and now CEO Tim Cook is spending some time on stage to discuss the sort ...

Today at Apple's press event, the company announced that the iPad would receive an update. In order to harmonize the product line, the iPad will now come with a Lightning port. A6X and expanded LTE wi...

If you've been anywhere near a PC (not a Mac, mind you) in the past few years you'd have heard of hybrid drives. These drives had a bit of flash memory that held often-accessed files - boot files, OS ...

Today, Tim Cook told us that Apple has sold over 100M iPads in just 2 and a half years of existence. That's pretty impressive and it's about to get bigger. But smaller...due to the iPad Mini that's a...

Today at Apple's press event, Apple unveiled updated iMacs. It is much thinner than previous iMacs. It uses friction stir welding for aluminium. The display is now laminated directly to the glass. The...

Apple has just updated the Mac Mini to a new, faster configuration with Intel Core i5 or i7 with Ivy Bridge as well as up to a terabyte of hard drive space. The Mini also comes in a server configurati...

Apple just announced a retina version of the 13-inch MacBook Pro. "It's incredibly thin," said Phil Schiler. The new model is .79-inch thin and weighs 3.57 -- 1 lbs lighter than the previous version. ...

Well, there you have it. As more than a few pundits had predicted in the days leading up to the event, Apple has just officially pulled back the curtains on an updated version of its iBooks iOS app.Th...

As we're waiting for the iPad Mini, Apple is discussing the Mac, which has become the #1 Desktop and Notebook, according to the company. This is huge, because the personal computer industry has been r...

In the last year, people have sent over 300 billion iMessages on Apple's messaging platform. Tim Cook just announced the stat on stage at what we expect will be the iPad Mini unveiling. For reference,...

Today, at Apple's event at the California Theater in San Jose, the company provided another update on growth of its App Store. The store now hosts 700,000 applications, with 275,000 designed specifica...

Yahoo announced today that it has signed a deal with CBS Television which will bring video content from CBS's celebrity gossip and entertainment news The Insider to its celeb-focused online property k...

Apple's event at the California Theater in San Jose is today, and we're going to be live on the scene providing a blow-by-blow of the company's announcements as they happen. Follow along with us start...

We've already talked extensivelyabout how we handle guest posts these days -- we publish one-off articles from people in the community who have something new and meaningful to say on tech topics. But ...

After over a year away, Michael Arrington will be writing again for TechCrunch as a regular weekly columnist, joining his fellow Crunchfund partner MG Siegler, who will now have an expanded role.Mike ...

You're a dude. You want to look good. No, you don't want to spend hours in a store.That's where Lookcraft, a brand new New York-based startup, comes in. Founded by some YC alums, Lookcraft has custome...

Now that Amazon has unblocked a Norwegian reader's Kindle account after, without reason or warning, locking down her Kindle, I think we're at a point when we need to start taking back our digital prop...

Prepaid card company PEX Card, which offers a prepaid Visa expense card to small and medium-sized businesses, has picked up another round of funding, with a $3.2 million Series B. The round was led by...

I remember my favorite Sony Walkman. It was yellow. And bulky. And slow. And ugly. I loved it. It played cassettes. Cassettes! I took it to Australia one summer. It's still something I think about fro...

U.K. carrier EE has revealed handset costs for those wanting to get a new phone when signing up for its 4G network. Prices range from free for one handset model on 41+ monthly tariffs, up to 380 ...

Apple's Passbook will become even more useful today, thanks to the availability of new Passbook-integrated coupons from several major retailers, including Macy's, Old Navy, PETCO, Barnes & Noble, ...

Apple's Passbook will become even more useful today, thanks to the availability of new Passbook-integrated coupons from several major retailers, including Macy's, Old Navy, PETCO, Barnes & Noble, ...

Believe it or not, there's still a part of online trip planning that hasn't been done to death by industry leaders in travel like Kayak, Expedia, Orbitz and the like: it's the part of the journey that...

AT&T has just announced that the Samsung Galaxy Note II, the next big thing to come out of the South Korean electronics maker, will be available on blue carrier shelves starting November 9. Online...

It's been a long while since Apple live streamed its press events. In fact, some people may not even remember a live-streamed Apple event, instead hunting out the best possible live blog until we can ...

As we witnessed last year, mobile has become an integral part of the holiday shopping experience for consumers. And retailers started to pick up on this, with more mobile-friendly sites, experiences, ...

Data storage company Scale Computing, which provides clustered storage infrastructure for SMEs, has closed a $12 million Series D funding round, led by Heron Capital Venture Fund. Reservoir Venture Pa...

You probably wont see the revenue bump in Facebooks earnings report today from all its new monetization schemes. But with this quarter's rollout of Gifts, a mobile ad network, app install ads, FBX, an...

Platfora has unveiled an in-memory big data app that tackles a lacking capability in most software offerings that leverage Hadoop for big data analysis. Most solutions that leverage Hadoop have a comp...

Facebook has its Gifts, and Chirpify today extended its Twitter in-stream purchasing to include Instagram: social commerce is definitely on the rise when it comes to new services. But a report out tod...

InfoArmy, only four months into its life as the operator of a crowdsourced competitive intelligence platform, is announcing a significant injection of capital as it continues to build out its business...

Nokia has announced its lowest priced Windows Phone to date: the WP7.5 Nokia Lumia 510 replaces the Lumia 610 as the entry level WP handset -- with an estimated retail price of $199 (excluding taxes a...

Rara.com, one of the newer of the music streaming services on the market launching in December 2011, is today ramping up its service to better compete against the likes of Spotify, Pandora, Rdio, Deez...

Rara.com, one of the newer of the music streaming services on the market launching in December 2011, is today amping up its service to better compete against the likes of Spotify, Pandora, Rdio, Deeze...

Chirpify, the social commerce platform that launched six months ago as the only in-stream way to make purchases on Twitter, is now starting to spread its wings: today the company is announcing that it...

European online footwear and bag retailer, Spartoo -- the 'Zappos of Europe' -- has raised 25 million ($32.5 million) in Series C funding led by Belgian investment holding company Sofina. Existing inv...

Today iZettle, one of the several Square-like mobile payments companies in Europe, announced that it was expanding its Series B round of 25 million and adding American Express as its newest investor. ...

Nokia's ongoing efforts to restructure and invest in a new direction for its mobile phone business is pushing the company into borrowing against its reserves: today the Finnish company said that it wo...

It's inevitable, right? With cameras becoming ever smaller and storage becoming ever cheaper, there will come a day when all of our life's memories are digitally preserved. Memoto, a Stockholm-based s...

Those eighteen words got a founder and I kicked off of the trading floor of the NYSE earlier this evening. Because, as we shuffed out of the Girls Who Code event held there earlier tonight, we looked ...

Those eighteen words got a founder and I kicked off of the trading floor of the NYSE earlier this evening. Because, as we shuffed out of the Girls Who Code event held there earlier tonight, we looked ...

Tely Labs has added new features to its conferencing suite and pitching its wide-angle video cameras up-market, to a new set of customers who might pay a little more than the average consumer. And it'...

Some consolidation afoot in the world on online payments coming at you, with a little blast from our social networking past. Rixty, a cash-based payment platform for games, virtual goods and other dig...

Some consolidation afoot in the world on online payments coming at you, with a little blast from our social networking past. Rixty, a cash-based payment platform for games, virtual goods and other dig...

I've never really been a fan of tapping a "Like" button on Facebook. Mostly because it doesn't always mean that I like something. I use that button as a way to say "hey I looked at this and it meant s...

When Instagram's roughly $750 million sale to Facebook closed, it seemed that the photo-sharing chapter in mobile app history closed. Instagram had definitively won, while many startups like Mixed Med...

Google just announced an update to Google News' search results pages that makes some changes to the popular news site's layout. Most importantly, Google News search now features click-to-expand news r...

Pricing for the U.K.'s first 4G/LTE network has been revealed. The new 4GEE tariffs start at 36 per month for a plan with a mere 500MB of data, and rise to 56 for an 8GB plan. The 4GEE network, a join...

In what is arguably her largest major public speaking appearance since taking over the CEO role at Yahoo this past summer, Marissa Mayer kicked off the third quarter conference call with investors and...

Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett predicts that Microsoft's Windows 8 will get off to a slow start in 2013, but will take hold in 2014. Windows 8, Gillett argues, will keep Microsoft relevant o...

Microsoft is already screwing it up. Microsoft can't win. Windows 8 is sunk. Seriously: to read the headlines this last week you'd think Microsoft wasn't still one of the premier tech manufacturers in...

Yahoo today reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2012, its first full quarter with new CEO Marissa Mayer at the helm. Mayer is back at work full-time after taking a short maternity ...

Successful people, not just "lazy stoners", want pot laws to change. That's the message of new website Marijuana Majority, which displays over 600 influencers including Peter Thiel, Sean Parker, Paul ...

It's time to fill up that new Square office, and it looks like the company is looking to add a slew of new engineer-types. I follow a Twitter account that spits out new jobs in the San Francisco/Vall...

What's better than checking the weather and finding out it's going to be a beautiful day? Checking the weather with adorable puppies on it, of course. A Miami based startup has just launched Weather P...

Tablets and PCs sporting the new operating system will also have access to some broadcast TV content from Hulu Plus, as well. On the companys blog today, Hulu announced that it will be launching its W...

Seven Italian scientists have been convicted of manslaughter for failing to predict and warn residents of a deadly 2009 earthquake in the city of L'Aquila. The scientific panel of the Grand Commission...

Google just published a new research paper that delves into the details of how tablet owners use their devices. Using diaries, in-home interviews and contextual inquiry observations, the company's res...

The U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) office, part of the Department of Homeland Security, recently revealed that it will be adopting iOS devices from a variety of service providers for...

A small issue is affecting some instances of Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) in North Virginia. In particular, the Elastic Block Store part seems to be down. All services hosted on Heroku's virtu...

What started as a small issue affecting some instances of Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) in North Virginia became a full-blown outage of AWS in North Virginia. Major services, such as Reddit, Fo...

Facebook has donated $250,000 to theCenter for Information Assurance and Joint Forensics Researchat theUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, in recognition of its efforts in tracking down the creators ...

Facebook has donated $250,000 to theCenter for Information Assurance and Joint Forensics Researchat theUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, in recognition of its efforts in tracking down the creators ...

Facebook has donated $250,000 to theCenter for Information Assurance and Joint Forensics Researchat theUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, in recognition of its efforts in tracking down the creators ...

I'm a fan of ReadWriteWeb, always have been, but other than not being able to pronounce the blog's name, I've always appreciated the technical and detailed analysis coming out of the brand. SAY Media ...

After a few months of public beta testing, Microsoft is taking the preview label of its updated Office Web Apps for SkyDrive today and making these new versions of its free web-based versions of Word,...

The legal battle between major broadcast networks and TV startup Aereocontinues to unwind, as Aereo has filed a brief with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. According to the 8...

Following a recent partnership with mFoundry which saw digital cash network Dwolla introducing more tools for banking partners, the startup is on the move again with the launch of a new service design...

Square has just announced plans for a new office in San Francisco. The mobile payments company, which is currently located in the Chronicle Building in downtown San Francisco, will only be moving a sh...

Yes, we know that Apple is probably maybe releasing an iPad Mini soon. It's not an iPhone, but larger. It's not an iPad, but smaller. It's...the Mini.Prepare yourself for thousands of parodies about t...

Mobile money is a big deal in emerging markets. When a farmer can simply SMS payment for a cow or two people can transact business by swapping airtime, that changes the entire dynamics of an economy. ...

It's no secret that the sexually explicit photos teens (stupidly) post online could be stolen, but a new study sheds light on how frequently such images are reposted. The Internet Watch Foundation fou...

According to AdAge, Twitter is taking this whole brand thing seriously, as it has hired away a prominent Googler, Matt Derella, to be its new Director of Agency Business Development.This is a huge dev...

New York-based startup Timehop is still digging through your old tweets, Facebook posts and Instagram photos to make you remember your past self. Originally, Timehop aggregated all this data and sent ...

Mosaic, the new app from Mixbookthat lets you create photo books right on your iPhone, is making its public debut today. The app is beginning to roll outto those who had previously requested early acc...

By integrating with LinkedIn, Blue Jeans will allow users to use their social network credentials to sign in. Once they've connected, other users they are video conferencing with will be able to see t...

Mixpanel, an analytics startup that was incubated by Y Combinator and backed by Andreessen Horowitz (among others), is announcing a new product called Engage, which co-founder Suhail Doshi described a...

Microsoft co-founder and current chairman Bill Gates recently sat down with the editor of Microsoft's own Next blog Steve Clayton to talk about Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and the Surface tablet. Unsur...

Another day, another improved interface for the selection and creation of men's dress clothing. Bleu Flamme, a custom shirt site that we covered a year ago, has just updated their ordering system to a...

Mobile app analytics firm Flurry has released an updated version of one of its most popular research reports, first published three years ago. In the prior report, Mobile Apps: Money, Models and Loyal...

Clever, a graduate of Y Combinator's most recent batch of startups, launched in late June to bring a bit of Twilio's vision to education. During their time at Y Combinator, the accelerator's co-founde...

Apple has an event planned for Tuesday, set for 10 AM Pacific in San Jose. It's got something to do with the iPad mini, to be sure, but there's tons of other stuff also rumored to be making an appeara...

Today cloud cost management company Cloudyn announced a new free service for calculating costs of Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances. Reserved Instances are sort of like cloud instances that you pay a reta...

Interesting development today in the browser wars, with the latest battlefield being who is best positioned to guard users' privacy. Mozilla today announced that it has started to test new social func...

A few months back, I was pitched over Skype 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 anythin...

Today, the relationship between social music startup SoundTracking and Spotify became a little more harmonious: the startup from Schematic Labs is the latest to launch an app for Spotify, making it th...

Telerik has developed a service called Iceniumto automate the otherwise tedious task of using traditional integrated development environments (IDE) for mobile app development....

As previously rumored, the carrier-led mobile payments venture known as Isis has officially launched in its first two test markets today: Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City, Utah. In those regions, Andr...

Election-mania has driven more than 60% of Facebook users to engage civically or politically on the social network. Yet, most political posts won't be seen by undecided voters in battleground states, ...

Days ahead of its official release, Microsoft has announced a new version of Skype built especially for Windows 8. The app is being made available in the Windows Store, and once installed, it will dis...

Samsung told The Korea Times on Monday that it will end its LCD panel supply relationship with Apple as of next year. That's according to a "senior Samsung source" who declined to be identified, citin...

We covered MOVE Guides when they announced their initial 400,000 seed funding. Now they are launching their public beta designed so address something we've seen very few startups tackle: international...

Home services marketplace Redbeacon has come a long way since it's inception at TC50. They've raised a total of $7.4 million, were acquired by Home Depot, and have made the difficult transition to mob...

In the ultra-competitive video conferencing market, Vidyo is announcing some stuff today which will blow away the competition and will provide new, best-in-class tools for users who want to do video c...

The latest Adobe Digital Index report into online advertising for Q3 underscores the twin challenges facing Google: mobile and social. While search advertising maintained steady growth in the U.S., U....

I'm not sure the world is crying out for more social media analytics, but France-based Kima Ventures obviously thinks it is. Today, the early-stage VC fund owned by Xavier Niel and Jeremie Berrebi, ha...

In recent times we've seen the rise of super-simple sites which make the creation of content or the ability to sell something as easy as possible. Sites like CheckThis, Tumblr, Shoply and Etsy have ma...

Outbrain, the well-funded, well-connected content discovery platform, today is announcing a new chapter in its business, which also points to how recommendation and referral services, already used wid...

Outbrain, the well-funded, well-connected content discovery platform, today is announcing a new chapter in its business, which also points to how recommendation and referral services, already used wid...

Apple executives will put the spotlight on the iPad's educational value tomorrow at its planned San Jose event, according to a new report. Businessweek cites "a person with knowledge of the planning" ...

Gigwalk, a mobile app that allows users to get assigned basic gigs or jobs from companies via their location, has raised $6 Million in Series A venture funding from August Capital with existing invest...

Q3 is the first full quarter that Facebook has been offering businesses the ability to buys ads across all of its mobile user base, and according to the latest quarterly report from ad agency TBG Digi...

As it ramps up to the launch of devices running its next-gen OS in Q1 next year, RIM has announced a new series of BlackBerry developer events focused on its traditional user-base by helping enterpris...

Genealogy website Ancestry.com -- which filed for an IPO back in 2009 -- has agreed to be acquired by an investor group led by European private equity firm Permira in a deal said to be worth about $1....

Genealogy website Ancestry.com -- which filed for an IPO back in 2009 -- has agreed to be acquired by an investor group led by European private equity firm Permira in a deal said to be worth about $1....

A bit like waiting for a London bus, you wait forever to pitch a London VC, and then nine turn up at once. In what appears to be somewhat unprecedented, and perhaps signals a new era of co-operation, ...

Rent The Runway, a Netflix for designer clothes, accessories and jewelry, is debuting a new way for women to search for designs to rent on the site....

Companies keep trying to affix touchscreens to our refrigerators and develop more infomercial-friendly variations of the blender, but the kitchen still remains a relatively low-tech sanctuary. Even as...

The super low cost computer called the Raspberry Pi is mind-blowing and awesome. As TechCrunch recently reported, the $25 to $35 mini computer on a circuit board is designed to give kids around the gl...

Luxury Swiss watch maker Urwerk is among the few top watch brands that can excite both gadget lover and traditional watch enthusiast alike. Their secret is consistently pushing forward in terms of mod...

Hold on to your pants: the rush to fund innovative fashion companies that are building out their businesses online continues apace.Flint and Tinder, a maker of premium, made-in-the-USA men's underwear...

Not too long ago, Google and Bing seemed fully focused on adding as many social features to their search engines as possible. For Google, that meant adding lots of Google+ features and for Bing i...

Somewhere out there, a woman named Sarah Perez is probably very frustrated by technology. No, not me, a different Sarah Perez. She signs up at websites to receive information, and it never comes. Frie...

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 fo...

In Silicon Valley, there's a widespread belief that VCs don't invest in content businesses.Here are 3 reasons - based on my experience with Hyperink - why investors hesitate to invest in content-heavy...

Editors note: Joe Medved, a partner at SoftBank Capital, focuses on early-stage consumer and enterprise mobile, social marketing, gaming, and commerce investments. He serves on the boards of BestVendo...

In this post, Im going to try illuminate a tactical problem many application developers face, but unfortunately, I must claim upfront that I dont know if any solution exists without a fundamental chan...

Windows Phone 7, Microsoft's big return to the smartphone stage after Windows Mobile's gradual decline and demise, turns two today, according to a tweet by Joel Belfiore, Microsoft's head of Windows P...

The boundaries of our personal rights have been summed up concisely in the observation that they end where those of others begin. And this is a perfectly good lamp by which to guide our actions in man...

According to a new report from The Next Web today, Google is readying a number of new devices for announcement at the event it recently announced for October 29, including new Nexus tablet hardware an...

This week, Splice Machine raised $4 million to develop its SQL Engine for big data apps. MongoHQ raised $6 million for its database as a service. A third startup, Bloomreach, announced $25 million in ...

Best Buy started accepting pre-orders today for the AT&T Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC 8X Windows Phone devices. Pricing details are also now available, with the Lunia 920 available for $149.99 on a new...

Last week, we got a peek at HTC's J Butterfly Japan-only Android phone, with a huge 1080p 5-inch display that manages a crazy 440ppi pixel density, and today, Android Central is claiming a new North A...

a couple of new reports that surfaced this weekend shed a little more light on what we might expect with iPad mini pricing. KGI Securities analysts Ming-Chi Kuo has an early look at the likely bill-of...

The holy grail of online marketing is a viral video campaign. And for good reason. Corporate 'design by committee' marketing departments aren't known for their Olympic-style archery skills for hitting...

Apple's new iPod touch and iPod nano, announced alongside the iPhone 5 at an event last month, saw their shipping times improve over the weekend, from an expected two week shipping timeframe to 5-7 bu...

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 th...

Today, at Y Combinator's Startup School at Stanford University, Rakuten Founder and CEO Hiroshi Mikitani took the stage to talk about the company's culture, acquisitions and its crazy growth over the ...

We wrote about Vibease back in early September and I called it the long-distance relationship you've always wanted. Since, LovePalz (with his and her's toys) has launched, along with quite a few other...

Surprising news for a Saturday evening in London. Joanna Shields, the vice president of Facebook's European, Middle East and Africa operations, is leaving the company to become the chief executive of ...

Another post-IPO executive departure for Facebook, this time on the international front. Joanna Shields, the vice president and managing director of Facebook's Europe, Middle East and Africa operation...

I just got back to San Francisco from the 15-year celebration of LIVESTRONG, the Lance Armstrong Foundation. It was an interesting time to be in Austin, as most of the world is still shell-shocked fro...

Busuu - the language learning community offering largely free audio-visual online courses - has been playing has been boostrapping away relentlessly for a few years and only last year raised an Angel ...

I read the news today oh boy. Well actually, I didnt. In a realtime Twitter world where everything looks like news, none of it is. The Steve Jobs anniversary stories are just one measure of this logja...

Several people have contacted me and asked whether such-and-such a game would work with crowdfunding, or whole sectors. Could educational games benefit from crowdfunding, for example. Or what about ga...

At Startup School today in the Memorial Auditorium at Stanford University, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke to Y Combinator founder Paul Graham about the early days of Facebook. He re...

Facebook didn't guess that users wanted to share photos. It learned it, Mark Zuckerberg explained in his talk at Y Combinator Startup School. "We really listened to what our users wanted, both qualita...

Facebook didn't guess that users wanted to share photos. It learned it, Mark Zuckerberg explained in his talk at Y Combinator Startup School. "We really listened to what our users wanted, both qualita...

Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Y Combinator's annual Startup School event this morning for a one-on-one conversation with Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham. It was his second major sit-down, on-s...

Editors note: Steli Efti is the Co-Founder/Chief Hustler of ElasticSales and an advisor to several startups and entrepreneurs. You can follow Steli on Twitter here. Selling to the U.S. market can be a...

Robin Sloan is the kind of guy who write a book like this one. He's a writer and "media inventor" which seems to be a lofty term for "cool guy who gets the Internet and understands that discourse need...

How's Your News began 15 years ago when a set of developmentally disabled adults hopped on a bus and travelled around the country interviewing folks on the street. The mixture of charm, astuteness, an...

On eBay's earnings call this past week, CEO John Donahoe revealed that the company's Square competitor, PayPal Here, had landed its first U.S. retail deal. PayPal Here is now being sold at 1,800 AT...

There are any number of good reasons why Windows 8 will do just fine in the work world. But in today's market, success is not guaranteed, especially as PC sales continue to slide. Gartner Research re...

I speak with little fear of contradiction when I tell you this is the first TechCrunch article posted from Myanmar aka Burma. Only a few years ago the Internet here was both tightly censored and insan...

Well, many have travelled but few will make the end. SmartThings won the Dublin Web Summit startup competition this week beating off the other three finalists Vibease, Ovelin and Tictail and winning 1...

Brewster, the relationship-centric iOS address book app that went live in the U.S. in July with some fanfare (and a little controversy for good measure), is picking up some more steam.On the heels of ...

So hey, remember that Sony Nexus X image that made the rounds earlier this week? The one that more than a few commentors called a hoax after I ran a story about it? Well, the skeptics among you were r...

TechCrunch Disrupt winner Qwiki appears to be shifting its focus, from a web-based creation tool to mobile-only....

The poor reception for Apple's new maps app temporarily boosted usage for other map applications, but it didn't actually increase longer-term marketshare for any of them -- except for one. Israel's Wa...

Pheed -- the celeb-fuelled social networking site that has gone a bit viral in the last few days -- may be going on a diet. ...

The city of New York has just launched the ConnectNYC Fiber Challenge to help small NY-based companies get a free high speed fiber build-out in their offices. In order to win the prize, you have to su...

Mark Zuckerberg has been understandably very busy in the months since he took Facebook public -- closing and integrating the billion dollar Instagram acquisition, overhauling Facebook's mobile strateg...

GoDaddy's email service experienced an extended outage this morning, affecting a portion of its customer base. The outage took down the email systems beginning around 7:00 AM ET (estimated) this morni...

Newsweek, the magazine that wasn't U.S. News & World Report or Time, is going completely digital and will offer something called Newsweek Global in place of its international selection of paper ti...

GOG (formerly known as Good Old Games) is having a huge Interplay sale that gives you 32 games for $34.99 (or more), or anywhere between $13.95 and $34.99 for 20 titles, or 8 games for whatever you wa...

Tomorrow hundreds will meet up for Startup School, YCs annual event for gutsy hackers thinking about founding a company. Its one of my favorite events, and this years attendees will get to hear from e...

I've been avoiding writing about Foldable.Me for a while because I find the process of paper craft to be in the realm of obsessive hobbies that require a degree of intensity and sufficiently unsweaty ...

A new report finds that 1 in 5 requested absentee mail-in election ballots never got counted in 2008, recommending that voters instead turn to polling places with electronic voting machines. So-called...

Ride sharing isnt just for San Francisco anymore. Fresh on the heels of securing $10 million in new funding, SideCar is ready to start its expansion into new markets. In an email sent to the SideCar c...

It was no Quora. Today Facebook finally confirmed it is retiring Questions, which originally launched in July 2010. The option to share a poll with friends is being removed the news feed publisher. It...

It was no Quora. Today Facebook finally confirmed it is retiring Questions, which originally launched in July 2010. The option to share a poll with friends is being removed from the news feed publishe...

San Francisco-based mobile analytics startup Apsalar got some plum access to Facebook's new ad network for promoting mobile apps. The company can now help developers see in real-time how their spendin...

"Since the start of this year, if you turned up at a product review and showed anything other than mobile at the start or for the bulk of the presentation, you'd be asked to go back and do it again" s...

Google just announced a small but interesting update to its Knowledge Graph panels. Instead of just showing you a list of related items that other people also searched for, hovering over these icons n...

Back in August ShoutEm launched a way for to easily create HTML5 apps that can be viewed in any mobile web browser. Now it's launched a native iPad app builder within its mobile app creator. This mean...

In what it describes as another effort to make its portfolio companies better at design, Google Ventures is announcing a new Designer in Residence program.The firm had already created a Design Studio ...

DoubleTwist, the popular desktop and mobile alternative to iTunes, has just launched a social sharing feature which allows its users to post what they're listening to on Facebook or Twitter. Alongside...

Amazon.com Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos stopped by the 37 Signals office yesterday and offered some wise thoughts about strategy. His views are especially refreshing in a time when people who change the...

I'm a sucker for OS X menu bar applications, and I'm also a big fan of browsing Instagram as a way to break up the day. Now, those two things come together in a single convenient package with Instabar...

This story of government overreach is so outrageous that we have to re-iterate that it is, in fact, real: the State of Minnesota has banned popular free online education site, Coursera, and has sent w...

There's nothing worse than mentioning someone on Instagram when their username is different from their Twitter name. If you tweet the image, then the username doesn't properly sync up. The team has fi...

Over the years, YouTube has grown into way more than a place to upload cat videos. In a way, it's become a new breed of "television" that lets people interact with the things they care about. This cou...

Over the years, YouTube has grown into way more than a place to upload cat videos. In a way, it's become a new breed of "television" that lets people interact with the things they care about. This cou...

Google had a big day yesterday, for better and for worse. However, one of the most exciting stories to come out of yesterday was Google's unveiling of a brand new, $249 Samsung Chromebook. Samsung's n...

Over 22 million students currently use Microsoft's Office 365 for Education online services, but today, the company is also announcing a new - and highly discounted - version of Office 365 for student...

Berlin-based music startup Musicplayr, which offers a service that allows users to collect and listen to songs from YouTube, SoundCloud, Vimeo, DailyMotion and music blogs, is now exiting its private ...

Considering the sheer volume of leaks and information floating around right now, it's becoming more and more clear that the so-called LG Nexus 4 is the real deal. In case you didn't already have enoug...

Chinese manufacturing company PCH International has announced its 2011 full year results -- reporting a big rise in revenue and record profits off the back of strong demand for smartphones, tablets an...

If you need more proof that FundersClub wants to radically change startup funding by letting non-VCs invest, it just closed a $6 million seed round, the largest ever from a YCcompany. There are still ...

If you need more proof that FundersClub wants to radically change funding by letting non-VCs invest, it just closed a $6 million seed round, the largest ever from a YC company. There are still questio...

If you need more proof that FundersClub wants to radically change funding by letting non-VCs invest, it just closed a $6 million seed round, the largest ever from a YC company. There are still questio...

Responsa is a tool for adding interactive FAQs (frequently asked questions) to your company website through an embedded widget.That sounded more like a feature than a business to me -- after all, help...

Apple's iPad mini is almost certainly set to be announced next week at an event in San Jose Tuesday, and we're now hearing that it will ship a week and a half after that unveiling. November 2 is the s...

OK, it's no Three Wolf Moon t-shirt, but it's still pretty funny. Following Mitt Romney's commentabout "binders full of women" at this week's presidential debate, the customer review sections for vari...

As you may have noticed in the last year, catering online services to women (especially wedding services) has turned out to be a big hit in Startup land. And one of the earlier companies out of the ga...

Italian startup and cross-platform development solution AppsBuilder today announced a 1.5 million (just shy of $2 million U.S.) venture funding round, led by Italian angel investors Massimiliano Magri...

E-commerce startup One Kings Lane is one of the first flash sales sites to partner up with a digital catalog company - in its case, the startup is joining forces with Catalog Spree, which lets shopper...

The U.K. government is trying to fix the problem of poor IT teaching in schools -- flagged up as a problem by Google's Schmidt last year -- and today it's announced measures to equip a new generation ...

A lot of people are going after something that's been dubbed the social CRM - companies like the much written about Brewster for instance. But there is more than one way to skin a cat, and the CRM spa...

Apple has reportedly begun work on a huge new data center facility in Prineville, Oregon, according to local reports from the Oregonian (as spotted this morning by Wired). The first phase of the proje...

Digital ad startup SiteScout has mostly stayed out of the tech press for the past couple of years, but the company says it has been growing quickly in that time, and now it's ready to share some of th...

Toronto-based startup TrendSpottr today announced a new partnership with Salesforce that will see its product made available to the larger company's customers directly through the Salesforce Marketing...

Wait! Belay that order for the $249 Samsung Chromebook! There's a 3G model coming and it's just $329. That's a great deal.For some reason Samsung and Google did not announce this upcoming model alongs...

With all eyes on an Apple event next week that many think will reveal a new, smaller iPad, the ad agency M&C Saatchi has come out with some compelling numbers that point to how tablets are overtak...

Yahoo has announced plans to close its Korean business by the end of the year. In a statement the company described the move as part of ongoing efforts to streamline operations and realign its global ...

Notorious smut peddler, "Violentacrez", gave his first Interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper last night. After beingoutedby Gawker last week, the 49-year-old softspoken software engineer has lost his j...

How low could the Raspberry Pi mini computer's price-tag go in future? Eben Upton, founder of the not-for-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation and the man behind the Pi's design, says that while he can't en...

Venture capitalists invested $6.5 billion in 890 deals in the third quarter of 2012, according to the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capital Association (bas...

This week, in a letter addressed to "The Education Community," Michael Chasen stepped down as the CEO of edtech software giant, Blackboard. In a way, it's the end of an era. Whether or not it was an "...

While education is becoming increasingly attractive to investors, there's still a lot of uncertainty in the space and companies with viable business models, revenue growth and substantial user bases r...

If you don’t know about Startup Health and you’re a healthtech investor or entrepreneur (or at all interested in the space, you need to rectify that. After all, as evidenced by the launch ...

Google just announced that it has added 25 million new building footprints to Google Maps. Most of the company's recent announcement around mapping had to do with flashy updates like 3D maps and build...

Mozilla just launched the latest Aurora version of Firefox for Android and with this, the organization is also opening the Firefox Marketplace to early adopters and testers. The Firefox Marketplace is...

What happens if Google boycotts an entire country's news content? We might get to witness such a trade war if Google excludes French news from its search results because of a proposed law that require...

When it graduated from Imagine K12's edtech accelerator last year, Goalbook was tapping into the excitement over technology's ability to personalize learning by embarking on a mission to give every st...

Google CEO Larry Page spent a good portion of his time on today's Google company earnings call to talk about multiscreen opportunities, and how Google is addressing them. He said that just as with sea...

During its Q3 2012 earnings call, Google's Larry Page, whose voice still sounded very hoarse and is clearly not back to where it was before a year ago, used the first couple of minutes of the call to ...

M.dot, a startup offering small businesses a way to manage their mobile presence, beginning with mobile websites, has launched. The company is backed by $700,000 in seed funding, having recently close...

In Google's earnings call today, the search giant's CEO and co-founder Larry Page revealed that its mobile run rate is now $8 billion. That's up from $2.5 billion a year ago. That's a pretty hefty lif...

On Wednesday, Telenav bought Techstars NY grad ThinkNear for $22.5 million, making it the largest Techstars exit to date. This comes a bit later in the year of mobile ad exits, including Millennial Me...

GitHub is down again for the second time in the span of a monthm this time from a Denial of Service Attack.Here's their most recent status update:"We are experiencing issues due to a DDOS attack, wor...

I bet Google is having a worse day than you are. First it was its earnings being leaked by its printer. Then it was a product announcement that leaked before its embargo. And now, YouTube is down. Rig...

I bet Google is having a worse day than you are. First it was its earnings being leaked by its printer. Then it was a product announcement that leaked before its embargo. And now, YouTube is down. Rig...

Twitter just announced that it's holding an online fiction festival that will run from November 28 to December 2. The announcement is being made on-stage at the New York Public Library, where Twitter'...

7digital is one of the oldest player in the digital music industry. The London-based company announced today that it has raised $10 million from two public technology companies. Even though the compan...

Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth says parts of Ubuntu 13.04 will be kept a secret, out of the public eye until its unveiling. The move, which he writes about on his blog, will sure to create a firestor...

Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth says parts of Ubuntu 13.04 will be kept a secret, out of the public eye until its unveiling. The move, which he writes about on his blog, will sure to create a firestor...

Microsoft just released its earnings for the company's first financial quarter of 2013. Microsoft posted revenues of $16.01 billion and earnings per share of $0.53. That's down from the company's Q4 2...

YesVideo has made that sharing even easier, with Facebook integration that lets users post their vintage videos directly on their Timelines. With the integration, users will be able to title, time-sta...

Validity Sensors, the San Jose-based maker of fingerprint scanning sensors and authentication technology, announced today that it has closed $10 million of a $20 million series E financing round. (It ...

Startup Ad Hoc Labs, creators of temporary phone number generator app Burner, today announced a new investment round of undisclosed quantity that includes some notable Silicon Valley angels like Dave ...

Lyft so popular you can barely catch a ride through the service anymore. Well, it's trying to solve that problem through a number of initiatives, including an increase in driver supply, as well as a f...

Google will resume trading at 3:20 PM EDT, reports Reuters.Google accidentally posted its Q3 2012 earnings earlier than expected today, thanks to a leakedSEC document. The company blamed financial pri...

"In the Studio" continues this week by welcoming a young founder, originally from Europe, who started tinkering with computers a decade ago, taught himself programming languages, began working and con...

If Facebook's going to make money on mobile, it needs developers building social apps that send it content and buying ads. That's why making it easy to build Facebook-integrated apps is critical, and ...

Political campaigns are set to spend over $159 million online in 2012, and Facebook is happy to soak up the advertising binge. However, a first-of-its-kind experimental study finds that Facebook banne...

Facebook just launched a new page in the Family Safety Center to help raise awareness during Bullying Prevention Month. It helps users navigate through different partners and all the specific actions ...

CompStak'sdata is wildly valuable. Without paying a penny, its crowdsourced real estate info platform has compiled the rent, size, and more of 40% of Manhattan commercial leases over the last decade. ...

Amid the flurry of prematurely posted Google earnings and Chromebook launches, Google also announced a new feature for merchants today: promotions. These promotions can be added to retailers' product ...

When Google announced the new $249 Chromebooks from Samsungthis morning, the big message was that these computers are "for everyone." If that sounds like a marketing slogan, well, that's exactly what ...

Beauty Army launched on January 1 with a simple idea, create a way to connect its users with beauty products that they'll love. Now it's adding health and wellness products to that objective. To tackl...

Google's Q3 earnings leaked today, and among the reported stats was a noteworthy gap in full-time employees between its Q2 and Q3 results. At the end of June, Google had 54,604 full-time employees, th...

Genetically modified food promises to cheaply feed the world, but is it dangerous? The agriculture industry will tell you no, organic food advocates will tell you yes, and science won't give you a fir...

One of the biggest challenges in mobile commerce is not the shopping part – it’s the buying. To address this problem, Zappli, makers of the myShopanion iOS application, have publicly launc...

Google's Q3 earnings just leaked ahead of schedule, and it appears that Motorola revenues accounted for $2.58 billion of Google's $14.10B revenue in the three-month period ending September 30. $1.78 b...

Google just released it's Q3 2012 earnings report. It's not clear if Google accidentally filed the report early (which currently still has some editorial comments in it) or if this was on purpose, but...

Google accidentally released its Q3 2012 earnings report far ahead of schedule today and is blaming the financial printer RR Donnelley for this mix-up. When the release first appeared on the SEC's web...

Google is announcing a new $249 Chromebook manufactured by Samsung, which you'll be able to order starting next week. It will feature a 11.6-inch screen, weigh 2.5 pounds, be 0.8 inches thick, and run...

Google's earnings for Q3 ending on September 30 leaked in a SEC document. Revenues are up 45 percent compared to Q3 2011 and now represents $14.10 billion. However, GAAP net income is down 20 percent ...

MESA, a boutique investment bank headquartered in New York City, just announced that it has raised $10 million for an early-stage investment fund that it's calling MESA+.Jacob Brody, formerly MES...

Tweetbot for Mac has finally arrived in retail release form, after an extended public alpha and beta testing phase. The native OS X Twitter client from iOS and Mac developer Tapbots is available from ...

Selectable Media lets publishers better monetize their games and other content by creating incentives to watch high-CPM video advertising. All they need to do is place a piece of Javascript code in th...

HotelTonight announced it was extending to Ireland at at the Dublin Web Summit today. The last-minute hotel booking app is already live in the UK. The news means every day at noon local time, HotelTon...

Munich-based augmented reality pioneers Metaio announce today a whole slew of new products. These include: A new SDK- powered by a new Augmented Reality Experience Language (AREL) An update to Metaio ...

Tracks, the mobile photo-sharing app once described as Color for normal people, is rolling out another major update to its iOS application today. It's also making its official debut on Android, follow...

Online shopping has failed to capture the natural activity of shopping between stores, and with friends. If you want to purchase something at Macy's but also want to see if Nordstrom has a similar ite...

Last year Groupon bought OpenCal. It's since launched Groupon Scheduler, management tool for merchants using Groupon. However, there remains a problem in the Daily Deals market. A lot of deal sites u...

Google's Ngram Viewer for Google Books, a tool that lets you see how the usage of specific words has increased and decreased over time, just got an update. The Ngram Viewer now draws upon a larger dat...

Google quietly announced the addition of an online magazine reader this week, which works within its Google Play media and applications store. The Magazines section of Google Play allows you to search...

The Droid Razr HD and Droid Razr Maxx HD have pranced their way across a stage or two, and they're even the stars of a new commercial, but today you'll get to go face-to-face with the hot new Googorol...

Grafetee today announced that its app is coming out of beta after a three-month public testing period, and is expanding to cover a global footprint. The Finland and London-based startup provides map- ...

Startups catering for developers, so-called B2D, are undoubtedly on the rise. Im starting to lose count of the number of times Ive been pitched with something along the lines of like Twilio but for X....

MongoHQ has raised $6 million from Trinity Venturesand a host of investors for its database service for developers. The company will use the funds to expand its public cloud offering and improve itsma...

App store analytics firm Distimo is rebranding its cross-platform app tracking service known as Distimo Monitor to Distimo Analytics today, and adding a new data service for mobile app developers and ...

Cloud financial management company Intacct has raised $13.5 million in a new funding round from existing investors, with Split Rock Partners leading the round with a $7.5 million investment. Bessemer ...

Apple's looking into some intriguing things in a couple of new patent applications spotted oday, including sonar-style echolocation for passive proximity detection, and a text-to-speech engine that ta...

Songza, a free app that streams expertly curated playlists to your phone, tablet or computer based on your activities, has topped 1 million downloads in Canada. The app only launched a couple months a...

Verizon posted strong Q3 financial results earlier this morning, and pegged much of its success on its robust wireless business. Smartphones (as always) played a key role in driving Verizon's wireless...

In the rush among carriers to be more than a dumb pipe,AT&T today became the latest to offer APIs to developers, in a bid to drive more revenue from its mobile network: it is partnering with mobil...

Placecast's ShopAlerts service, which delivers retailer and merchant offers and discounts to consumers via their mobile phones, is debuting a new technology today. Placecast is adding the ability to l...

GraphEffect, a startup that until now has focused on social media advertising, is launching a new collaboration platform today called Shift.com.CEO James Borow said Shift.com emerged from the GraphEff...

Foxconn admitted this week to hiring underage interns at its Yantai plant in China. Many assumed the Yantai plant has some association to the production of Apple products, but in reality Nintendo's Wi...

Newsweek, the U.S. weekly news magazine that's been in publication since 1933, today announced it would be going all-digital beginning in early 2013. The last print version will be the December 31, 20...

This holiday season may well belong to the affordable, small tablet, and Acer doesn't intend to be left behind in the dust of Amazon and Apple. The company has priced and dated its Iconia Tab A110, An...

The former world number one mobile maker Nokia has announced its Q3 financial results today, reporting yet another quarterly loss — posting an operating loss of 576 million ($754 million). Net s...

The world is becoming increasingly populated with robots, and consumers are eating it up. Now, the latest robot to hit the market will help you keep your calories down in the process. PCH Internationa...

Apple has lost an appeal against a ruling in a U.K. High Court that Samsung's Galaxy Tab does not infringe the iPad's design. The original ruling by Judge Colin Birss said Samsung's tablets were not c...

Telecommunications giant Verizon has just released its Q3 2012 earnings, reporting double digital growth for the third consecutive quarter. Wireless service revenues accounted for a good chunk of inco...

The rollout of multiple 4G/LTE networks in the U.K. took another step closer today with a joint statement from carriers EE, Telefnica O2, Three and Vodafone saying they formed a jointly controlled com...

Twitter has used country-by-country blocking powers for the first time to restrict access to a neo-Nazi Twitter account in Germany at the request of local authorities. The move was spotted by the FT, ...

The way we use email has changed dramatically in the past decade-plus written down like that, it seems like an almost laughably obvious statement. But David Temkin, AOL's senior vice president of mai...

Google's TOP SEKRET Google Zeitgeist event took place this week in Arizona. The company has released a series of videos from the event, featuring such speakers as Eric Schmidt and current Google CEO L...

It's been a crazy day for Color. Actually, it's been a crazy few months. But now it's looking possible that it could be coming to a happier ending than most embattled startups can dream of: After all ...

It's been a crazy day for Color. Actually, it's been a crazy few months. But now it's looking possible that it could be coming to a happier ending than most embattled startups can dream of: After all ...

Cucumbertown, although it may not have the coolest name (see what I did there?), has a founding story that is very much a sign of the times. Let me explain: The startup was initially founded by Cheria...

Big data will drive $232 billion in spending through 2016. It will directly or indirectly drive $96 billion of worldwide IT spending in 2012, and is forecast to drive $120 billion of IT spending in 20...

Quick to grow its user base and revenues, last month Treehouse decided to give back to its community by doling out $3 million-worth of free tech education to 2,500 college students.The scholarship rec...

There's a big difference between jumping ship and being forced to walk the plank. Yet every time a high-ranking employee leaves a tech company, people assume the boat is sinking. In fact, it can mean ...

Uber is starting to look like it's participating in a nationwide game of whack-a-mole -- and it's really fun to watch.Uber just announced in a blog post that today it is launching the lower-priced "Ta...

SigFig, a startup that tracks your investments and provides Mint-style graphics and recommendations, has reached an agreement to provide the technology for the "My Portfolios" section of Yahoo Finance...

Google just sent out invites for an October 29th Android event in NYC. The festivities start at 10:00 and the event will also be live streamed on YouTube, seemingly indicating this is a big announceme...

Last Wednesday, eBay unveiled "The New eBay", a completely redesigned website that is slowly being rolled out to all users, and released same day delivery service eBay Now in San Francisco. We got the...

Until now, a Facebook Page showed up only in the language it was created in, alienating foreign fans. Now Pages appear translated into a visitor's local language, which could inspire global brands to ...

Last Thursday Shutterstock went public under the ticker SSTK, becoming the first NY-based tech company to IPO since 2010. ...

Nuance-owned Swype, which makes virtual keyboards for mobile devices, has released a new version of its software which adds the ability to backup and sync your personal dictionary across multiple mobi...

A new startup called Clarity launched five months ago with a straightforward but lofty goal: It wanted to give people all over the world access to the kind of expert advice that could help them attain...

Windows 8 is almost here, but despite Microsoft's best efforts, there just aren't that many Windows 8-style apps available yet. To kick-start the Windows 8 development community, Microsoft today annou...

It's been a few months since App.net launched its new social platform, and the company has gotten some good feedback from developers. While not nearly the size of Facebook or Twitter, the company has ...

eBay just released Q3 earnings this afternoon, reporting earnings per share of $0.55 on revenue of $3.4 billion. Analysts expected EPS of $0.54 and revenue of $3.4 billion for Q3 2012....

Amiigo is a fitness app, bracelet and shoe-clip that uses gesture-recognition algorithms to identify the type of exercise you're doing and a variety of sensors tell you how well you're doing it as you...

Pinterest is generally known as a place where a mostly female user base gathers to share images and videos of shiny happy things such as cute animals, pretty clothing, and tasty recipes. But in any co...

The next frontier of computer hacking could be lifesaving medical devices: at a recent developer conference, a pacemaker was wirelessly hacked to send deadly 830 volt shocks....

This week comes the news about Media Temple and its plans with Dell and Morphlabs to give customers their own "private cloud," consisting of a souped up Flash-filled server, complete with all the fixi...

Color, the photo-sharing website which became well-known for securing $40 million in venture capital but has since had a bumpy road with lagging user numbers and turmoil at the executive levels, is no...

Depending on how you look at it, this is either the first floating four-wheeler, or the first jet ski with wheels. Either way, it's awesome from just about any perspective. ...

HBO GO's Latin American expansion continues today, with the service's launch in Columbia. The debut there follows the launch of HBO GO in Brazil earlier this year, where it saw 177,000 visits in its f...

Microsoft will finally launch a previewof Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 in mid-November, the company announced today. With the Windows 8 launch less than two weeks away, Microsoft has obviously b...

Apple's web traffic share among mobile devices is huge, according to new numbers from Chitika. The online ad network is seeing 43 percent of smartphone web usage coming through iPhones up to the 4S, p...

Deluxis is trying to build an a la carte TV service online that where consumers will be able to pick and choose the channels they want to watch online. Rather than paying upwards of $100 a month for a...

A new study today from NPD DisplaySearch shows the progress of smart and connected TVs in recent years and during Q2 2012. Connected TVs did well are doing well around the world, with shares growing r...

More established companies are turning to skunkworks projects -- relatively independent teams within large companies -- to compete with nimble startups or just generate fresh ideas. One example is Del...

Twilio's CEO Jeff Lawson gave a passionate keynote today at his cloud telephony startup's conference today peppered with big stats and quotes like "Communications is now in the domain of software. We ...

When you think of BuzzFeed, a few things come to mind. For me, it's animated GIFs, hilarious posts and a killer community. The company, founded by CEO Jonah Peretti, is on a mission to create its own ...

Rumors of an impending ISIS launch have been swirling around for a while now, but the company has just finally put an end to all that speculation. In keeping with previously leaked documents, ISIS has...

App developers pay huge sums for ads that gets them installs, and Facebook wants to gobble up that spend. So today Facebook begins allowing all developers to buy its recently announced app install ads...

Commerce Sciences, the Palo Alto-based e-commerce startup backed by $1.8 million in seed funding from EricSchmidtsInnovation Endeavors,Genesis Partners, and others, is rolling out a feature called one...

Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers. Twiliocon is going on this week in San Francisco, it's the second annual conference for the company that makes telephony easy for developers to integrat...

Facebook is testing out a new way of picking up mobile users in international markets -- a crucial part of its strategy to continue building out its user base as subscriber growth slows in markets lik...

Google today launched two new APIs for Google Maps that are specifically geared toward tracking the location of vehicles, mobile resources and employees. By announcing these new APIs on its enterprise...

Online social influence is something that can really rub people the wrong way. Klout obviously believes in it wholeheartedly; others, not so much. Now, in a move that's sure to generate its fair share...

CloudOn, the popular free productivity app that lets its users read and edit Microsoft Office files on their tablets, is launching version 2.5 of its apps for iOS and Android today. CloudOn is adding ...

A lot of mobile language software wants to be the equivalent of an automatic universal translation app, listening to spoken phrases and translating them using natural language processing and audio rec...

New Enterprise Associates, the venture firm that has backed Groupon, Salesforce, Workday, Fusion-io, and others, is opening an outpost in Chicago, to serve its growing portfolio in the region. The ann...

ScaleBase, a Newton, Mass.-based startup that helps companies keep fast-scaling databases up-and-running, today announced that it has landed $10.5 million in series B funding, led by Bain Capital Vent...

PayNearMe(formerly Kwedit), a cash-based payments network, is today announcing a partnership with property management software maker AppFolio. This deal will allow tenants to pay their rent using cash...

The officers at AndroidPolice have spotted a 32GB Nexus 7, Google and Asus' addicting mini-tablet, for $249 on the Staples website. The new model, which many believe should have been launched with the...

IOVOX, a provider of telephony analytics which we've covered before, has secured investment from London-based Octopus Investment. Specifically from the Octopus Titan 4 Venture Capital Trust (VCT) and ...

Our meetups are the things of legend. There's beer, sometimes food, but more important than any of that, TechCrunch promises the most wondrous geek party you've ever attended. And the latest round of ...

Samsung has already begun to roll out Android 4.1 Jelly Bean updates for international Galaxy S III owners (Spain, France, Austria, and Romania have recently joined the Jelly Bean party), but what abo...

Apple's new iPhone 5 is facing supply challenges, with shipping times via Apple's website continuing to sit at 3-4 weeks, and stock reportedly scarce in-store as well. That's because of challenges in ...

NewsCred, which offers licensed content to publishers and brands, has acquired a publishing startup called Daylife.The financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed. NewsCred did say that say th...

New York City-based Aereo, a startup that streams network TV over the internet, has today expanded its list of supported devices beyond Apple devices and Roku to all major web browsers. If you haven't...

Amazon subsidiaryQuidsi, which currently operates sites like Soap.com, Diapers.com and the newly launched eco site Vine.com to name a few, will launched two more sites this week, AfterSchool.com and B...

Online video education is a hot space right now, thanks to the likes of Khan Academy, Coursera, Udacity, StraighterLine, Lynda.com, CreativeLIVE (and many more), which are collectively on a mission to...

Remember the rumors of a new HTC flagship Android phone that started making the rounds last month? The ones bolstered by questionable leaked image after questionable leaked image? As it happens, the d...

The presidential debates finally embraced a question about technology. Last night, at the second debate, CNN moderator Candy Crowley asked each candidate how they would "convince a great American" com...

Amazon today unveiled its new its new Whispercast for Kindle service, which provides businesses and other organizations like schools a way to easily deploy Kindle content to members, students and empl...

White label social networking platformGrou.psis the latest to join the increasingly crowded "private networks for posting about babies" space (we may need a better title for this...), which has been h...

Talkbits, a Russian startup making a social-discovery voice-based mobile messaging app tied to where you're using it, has attracted $2 million in funding from Russia's Runa Capital early stage VC firm...

Yesterday we saw the funding announcement of HandyBook, and it appears this whole area of booking labour fast is really starting to take off. PeoplePerHour, a sort of 'European E-Lance' emerged in 200...

As the holiday shopping season approaches, startups and retailers are gearing up for a very mobile holiday. Location-based shopping app Shopkick, which is backed by Kleiner Perkins, Greylock, and SV A...

Hailo, the company that began life as an app for easily hailing and paying for black cab service in London less than a year ago, has now officially kicked off service in Boston, its first U.S. city. T...

The board of switchable battery makers Better Place have quietly removed CEO Shai Agassi and replaced him with Better Place Australia CEO Evan Thornley. According to Globes.Co.Il, the company lost $49...

Mitt Romney's "binders full of women" gaffe at last night's debate set off a viral firestorm of gender-themed parodies, including a Tumblr, a Facebook page with over 200,000 likes, a string of Twitter...

Netbiscuits, the mobile development platform that has worked with the likes of eBay, Google, Coca-Cola and 15,000 other developers on their mobile web services, is ramping up its game as smartphone us...

"Never give up, never surrender" is the pull out quote from Galaxy quest, and it's an actual phrase Jolicloud founder Tariq Krim used to describe the re-launch of the re-launch of the pivot of cloud-b...

We're now hearing from a source close to Apple's supply chain partners that the company plans to hold a conference in Shenzen for its MFI program partners on November 7 and 8. We're also hearing that ...

Braintree, an online payments gateway provider for online and mobile platforms, has raised $35 million in Series funding led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from existing investo...

It looks like Apple acquired Justin Timberlake-backed web apps company Particle last month -- maker of social video service robo.to, and a design UI/UX and HTML5 web app consultancy whose clients incl...

GoPro, the Half Moon Bay-based camera company that's etched out a very big niche for itself in action sports, just unveiled its latest line-up of Hero cameras. The company, which just turned 10 years ...

OpenTable is continuing its drive to push more people to its restaurant-booking service. Fresh from a partnership with Lastminute.com and another with FourSquare, the company has moved its attention t...

WonderVoice, a Tel Aviv-based startup I first ran into at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Alley, is today launching its brand-new iOS application which allows you to listen to content from Facebook while...

It's that time of the year for one of the Israeli startup community's staple events, TWS. This year the event's founder, and Pops CEO, Yaron Orentstein is collaborating with Israel's most popular tech...

Today, AirPR is officially launching its Match.com for startups and PR, peeling back the curtain on its PR marketplace for the first time. Essentially, AirPR has created a tech platform that aims to i...

Internet Explorer suddenly became one of the most widely available Internet TV browsers today as it starts rolling out to Xboxes. And early reports say its joystick-based interface is awful. Whatever....

We are just getting into reporting season, where some (but not all) handset makers tell us how many handsets they've sold in the last three months, but Strategy Analytics has taken a punt to say that ...

MacHeist 4's puzzles have been keeping members buzzy this year, but not the curtain gets pulled back and the entire software lineup is revealed. After delivering four missions and four nano-missions, ...

Placed is announcing the launch of Placed Panels today, giving its customers a way to constantly collect location data from a limited panelof users.Previously, Placed allowed publishers to collect loc...

AdRise hopes to bring more video to connected devices, by building cross-platform apps that can be watched on multiple platforms. It's also built an ad delivery service for monetization. With that in ...

In his six years at Facebook, Ari Steinberg sired the Platform, ran the news feed, and started the Seattle engineering office, but he's decided to move on, TechCrunch has learned and Facebook as well ...

Kixeye CEO Will Harbin is lashing out at Zynga for suing the vice president of product that the gaming startup poached earlier this month. Shortly after former Cityville general manager Alan Patmore l...

Kixeye CEO Will Harbin is lashing out at Zynga for suing the vice president of product that the gaming startup poached earlier this month. Shortly after former Cityville general manager Alan Patmore l...

You get an email, and it's a pretty important one. If you're using Gmail, there's a lot of things you can do with it to make it stand out. Basically, so you don't lose it. You can filter it to have a ...

David Fischer, Facebook's vice president of marketing and business relationships, just offered a new statistic on the Facebook Offers program: He said that among the 100 most popular offers on the soc...

Tap for Tap, a Victoria, B.C.-based startup is changing course with a new initiative just over half a year into its existence, based on feedback received from its initial crop of developers. The ad ne...

Now that Microsoft has officially announced pricing and availability for its long-awaited Surface tablet (albeit a little early), the time has come to get people worked up about it. Of course, commerc...

Mobile photo-printing and greeting card startup Sincerely wants to encourage users to vote this election season, and to do so, it has partnered with artistShepard Faireyon the creation of an exclusive...

Intel just reported its third quarter 2012 earnings with revenues of $13.5 billion, flat compared to the prior year. Intels net income was $3 billion, up 5.1% compared to last year. Operating income w...

IBM just released its Q3 2012 financials. Big Blue's GAAP earnings came in at $3.8 billion, up 3% from the last quarter. Non-GAAP earnings were $4.2 billion. Overall, the company reported revenue of $...

Does Facebook's first major video ad campaign confuse you? You know, that commercial that compares Facebook to chairs?You're not the only one. Not only has there been a video send-off of the ad using ...

Tagged is continuing its acquisition tear, having made its fifth purchase of the past two years. This time, it's acquiring location-based mobile discovery app Urbantag, and adding co-founders Andrew H...

In August, Etsy, the popular online marketplace for all things handmade, announced it would be launching the ability to give friends and family gift cards to the marketplace. Today, Etsy is debuting t...

Google just made it a lot easier for small businesses to track phone calls generated by their AdWords Express ads. For two years now, the full version of AdWords has allowed businesses to track phone ...

Google launched Dart, its class-based object-oriented language for writing complex web apps, exactly year ago and to celebrate its birthday, the Dart team is launching the first stable version of the ...

Uber has noted in a blog post today that it will indeed be shutting down its taxi beta after around a month of operation, claiming its efforts to provide adequate Uber yellow cab supply was quashed by...

Senior VP of Products and User Experience of LinkedIn, Deep Nishar, discussed the company approach to design and iteration, which is extremely interesting. He says that since January 2009, its members...

We learned that over 175K new LinkedIn profiles are created a day, and that 3B people searches have been made as of September 2012. That's just insane. ...

Statistics are everywhere these days, and it's difficult to know which ones to take seriously. Occasionally, a "report" comes out that's so misleading it presents a teachable moment on how to spot a b...

Today at an event in Mountain View called “Meet The New LinkedIn”, the company is discussing its direction and will announce some new things. LinkedIn, the public company that serves as a ...

SendHub, the messaging startup backed by $2 million in seed funding from Y Combinator, Kapor Capital, Menlo Ventures, 500 Startups and others, is today announcing a highly in-demand new feature with t...

SendHub, the messaging startup backed by $2 million in seed funding from Y Combinator, Kapor Capital, Menlo Ventures, 500 Startups and others, is today announcing a highly in-demand new feature with t...

Prism SkyLabs, a cloud-based service that allows business owners to bring video feeds online, capture images from these feeds and share this data with consumers and the public, has raised $7.5 million...

Last month we wrote about Famo.us, the company behind a forthcoming HTML5 framework that is claimed to make it easier to build HTML5 apps that perform as well as native apps, as part of our TechCrunch...

I've been using Y Combinator service Snapjoy for some time now to host all of my photos and I absolutely love it. What I dig about it so much is that it lets me go back and see all of my photos that I...

iTwin made some waves back in 2009 when it revealed its $99 namesake computer-connecting USB dongles at TC50, and the team has been working on ways to extend the thing's functionality ever since. Now,...

Twitter has made another acquisition to expand its platform development operation. It has bought Cabana, a platform for making highly visual mobile apps. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but...

Apple finally seems to be ready to show off a new iPad mini to the world, according to invites it sent out to members of the media today. The invitations are likely for the unveiling of a smaller tabl...

Adora Cheung, co-founder and CEO of Pathjoy, said her goal is to make maid service "ubiquitous" a basic service for a broad audience, rather than a luxury for the rich.To make that happen, Cheung and...

Glympse, the location-sharing app which first debuted back in 2009, is still hanging in there. The app arrived at a time when its competitors were the original, location-based social networks such as ...

It's definitely on between Samsung and Apple, with the two are battling it out in consumer hearts, courts around the world, and in supply chain arrangements. But now, the company's two flagship smartp...

Facebook is seeing more and more mobile usage, and wants to make sure those users aren't spreading scams and malware so today it begins offering free mobile anti-virus software downloads. The expansio...

A new study from NPD DisplaySearch today shows that on average, the diagonal size of LCD and other displays on electronic devices and public signboards is on the rise, with the notable exception of mo...

Beats By Dre is best known for its flagship line of headphones, which can be spotted on hip teenagers, Olympic athletes, and high-end celebrities alike -- perhaps partly because of the $200-some price...

Clink, snap, click, swipe - the sounds and the feel of the new Microsoft Surface comes alive today out of Microsoft's self-described Willy Wonka style workshops. This is the birthplace of the Microsof...

Performance-based mobile ad startup Moolah Media is announcing that it's taking its real-time bidding platform out of beta. It's also sharing its revenue numbers today.The company had already talked u...

Hard to believe, but the now-popular Iraeli-American startup, Wix.com, was founded in February 2006 -- back when Tumblr was only a twinkle in David Karp's eye. Since then, the company has made its nam...

It's no secret that all five major U.S. wireless carriers will be getting Samsung's Galaxy Note II, but they've mostly tended to dance around the issue of firm release dates or price points. Well, tha...

Apple has yet to announce the event at which it'll supposedly announce an iPad mini, but the rumors are reaching a fever pitch ahead of anything official. Now, a new report provides new info regarding...

MyFitnessPal, which a popular online service for tracking your exercise and nutrition, is launching an API today allowing users to sync their accounts with devices and apps from other companies.The in...

Meet the Boxee TV: A $99 TV tuner/DVR aimed squarely at cord cutters and casual cable TV subscribers. It packs a DVR with unlimited storage, dual ATSC/QAM tuners, and several key apps including Netfli...

Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator has popped out more than a few successful startups. Centzy, Number Fire, Bespoke Post, and Triple Lift come to mind. Not to mention Public Stuff, which recently ra...

Branding Brand, a startup powering the mobile commerce for sites and mobile apps from - you guessed it - big-name brands, has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding and has now brought in Jeffrey R. ...

With the majority of Facebook's users, and subscriber growth, now coming from outside the U.S., the company is taking ever more steps to building out its global footprint to reach that audience. To th...

The TechCrunch Northern Meetups are in two weeks! We're attempting to make the most of our short time in each city and thus will be holding office hours the morning of the meetup. John, Jordan, Collee...

The mobile wallet space is heating up — in that sun-peaking-over-the-mountains-and-evaporating-the-dew sort of way — and T-Mobile and co. won't be left behind.Isis, the joint venture mobil...

Last week Social reading iPad app Readmill announced it planned to put in new support for Adobe DRM-protected ePub and PDF formats, and today you can grab the updated app with all the new features. Ma...

A new Kickstarter project launching today wants to be the first officially licensed iPhone 5 dock, and possibly the last one you'll ever need for Lightning-bearing. The Dock+ comes with Lightning...

SweetLabs took the wraps off a new and improved version of its Pokki software this morning. It adds a Start menu back into Windows 8 that is loaded with functionality above that found in previous vers...

Today cloud app store company AppDirect announced its acquisition of open source billing company jBilling. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. AppDirect co-CEO Daniel Saks says existing jBilling won...

Founded in 2010, Boston-based Healthrageous has developed a platform that helps individuals, employers, health providers and everyone in between, to prevent and manage chronic health conditions. The s...

It's been a very long fight but British hacker and Asperger's sufferer Gary McKinnon has finally won his battle to avoid extradition to the US under the controversial Extradition Act. McKinnon admitte...

It's been a very long fight but British hacker and Asperger's sufferer Gary McKinnon has finally won his battle to avoid extradition to the US under the controversial Extradition Act. McKinnon admitte...

Boston and Israel-basedPerfectoMobile, the makers of a testing and monitoring platform for mobile apps and websites, is today announcing having secured $15 million in a Series C round of financing. Th...

You've heard of the social graph and the interest graph - but it may be time for the Opinion Graph. Opinsy, a new platform which lets people build viral communities and followings around their opinion...

Microsoft today detailed pricing for its Surface tablets, at least those running the scaled down RT version of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system designed for use on low-power processors. The Sur...

Apple was granted a number of patents today, including a couple that could have big implications for its range of mobile devices. One describes a Wii remote style 3D control mechanism that users senso...

What you see here is a mock-up provided by an Shenzhen-based accessories manufacturer who is planning to build cases and hardware for the iPad Mini. Although they will most likely be wrong about the s...

Redmond is getting ready to go to war, tablet war against iOS and Android -- with the looming launch of its Windows 8-powered Surface slate, due to get the final reveal on October 25. Microsoft has or...

The first Romo was a cute little hand-made robot with a cute little face that roamed around the room, turning your phone into a rat-sized telepresence rig. The Romo folks, Romotive, are based in Las V...

The Japanese mobile gaming company GREE continues to build up its international profile, after a year that has taken it outside of its home market in Japan to build up its profile in the U.S. with acq...

Authorities in Europe today kicked off a fresh wave of scrutiny over Google's privacy policy and called for changes to be made in how Google manages user data, calling Google's scope "too large", but ...

Authorities in Europe today kicked off a fresh wave of scrutiny over Google's privacy policy and called for changes to be made in how Google manages user data, describing Google's scope as "too large"...

Yahoo's CEO Marissa Mayer continues to staff out key positions as she's builds her new senior management team. The latest hire is former Google colleague, Henrique de Castro, who will take the role of...

Handybook spun out of Harvard's Innovation Lab earlier this year and is a platform to allow users to instantly book professional home services, like handymen and cleaners, online. Today it has confirm...

Infogr.am wants to create a sort of Adobe Illustrator in the Cloud, allowing anyone to create cool info-graphics on the fly. Back in February European accelerator HackFwd invested in the startup from ...

Accelerators and incubators have been popping up left and right over the last few years, becoming, as Peter Relan recently put it, "an industry segment in their own right." And while that industry seg...

Remember when Path was super quiet with your nice group of fifty people? That's all going to change now. As I broke at TNW, Path has been tinkering with the notion of importing items from other social...

Gridstore has raised $12.5 million in Series A funding for its scale-out storage offering. The round was led by GGV Capital with participation from Onset Ventures and existing investors. The investmen...

"When should I raise money?" You might not be able to ask startup sage PG in person, but new search engine "What Would Paul Graham Do?" will point you towards the YC co-founder's most relevant essays ...

"What am I getting arrested for?" said Alvin, a 17-year old New Yorker. "For being a fucking mutt", the NYPD officer can be clearly heard saying on the recording from Alvin's iPod, the only known audi...

ZocDoc is certainly not the new kid on the startup block. The company, which is best known for making a web-centric booking platform for medical appointments, originally launched way back in 2007 at t...

A few months ago, Google announced a new field trial for a search experience that rocked my world. Basically, you could search within your emails by using the regular old Google.com, if you were logge...

A few months ago, Google announced a new field trial for a search experience that rocked my world. Basically, you could search within your emails by using the regular old Google.com, if you were logge...

Tweetie creator and UX mentor Loren Brichter just announced a new project, Atebits 2.0. Atebits was the name of his previous company that was bought by Twitter in 2010. He announced as well that his f...

If you've ever watched The Voice on TV and thought, "Hey, I could do that," well, now you've got your chance to show off your singing skills in a new iOS app, The Voice On Stage.The app was developed...

If New York has The Times and San Francisco The Chronicle, then the digital world has The Daily Dot - the first online newspaper exclusively dedicated to news about the Internet. Backed by the Los Ang...

When it comes to maintaining a corporate blog, you may consider writing general thoughts on your industry and talking about more subjects rather than using it solely for your company's announcements. ...

Geoloqi, the Portland-based location-based platform that helps developers add location-based features to their apps, today announced that it has been acquired by Esri, a long-established GIS company t...

Nokia finally managed to offload its luxury-oriented Vertu brand to private equity firm EQT-VI late last week, but the parties involved seemed content to keep quiet at the time. Not so anymore Vertu ...

I drink a lot of coffee, if you can't tell. I love coffee so much that I make it a point to hit all of the best spots in every city that I visit. One of my favorite joints in San Francisco is Blue Bot...

Apple has poached an Amazon exec to take over its Siri department, according to a new report from AllThingsD's Kara Swisher. The move brings William Stasor, a former AltaVista executive who was in cha...

Streak has raised $1.9 million for its CRM service to share your email and track deals through your GMail inbox.Battery Ventures, Chris Sacca, g Lowercase Capital, Redpoint, Floodgate, Crunchfund, and...

As I've said before, I'm an avid user of foursquare, and it has become the de facto service for me when it comes to finding new places to grab dinner or just chill out with a drink. I've been using th...

Many of my Kickstarter dreams have come tumbling down in disappointing or non-shipping products, which isn't a knock against the site; that's a risk I fully accept and take with every project. But wit...

If you are a college student anywhere in the world, Dropbox just launched an interesting new program for you that . The Great Space Race, which will run for the next eight weeks, will allow college st...

AT&T has just announced that it's version of the LG Optimus G will be available starting November 2. But for those who need no physical introduction to make purchasing decisions, pre-orders begin ...

Gamification works at least, that's what SessionM is trying to show with some new data about its customer results.The company offers mobile publishers a platform for adding game mechanics to their ap...

Here's some amazing footage first-person footage of Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking skydive from the stratosphere. Yesterday, the daredevil successfully broke the speed of sound (at around 833 MPH...

Here's some amazing footage first-person footage of Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking skydive from the stratosphere. Yesterday, the daredevil successfully broke the speed of sound (at around 833 MPH...

This weekend, Nick Bilton of the NYT wrote an interesting piece called "Disruptions: Seeking Privacy in a Networked Age" about his experience at a recent dinner party he threw for friends. The crux of...

According to market intelligence firm iHS iSuppli, the market for paid and free cloud storage services continues to grow rapidly andthe total number of Internet users who use paid and free cloud stora...

Menlo Park-basedYogiPlay, the educational-focused recommendation service for children's apps, is todayannouncingits "Parent Center" app is available across all major mobile platforms, including iOS, G...

Here is an unintended dark side to a search engine that only provides the information we want to see: it cocoons us in an echo chamber of political information that confirms our pre-existing opinions....

When last we discussed the Settlers of Catan, there were weird rumors from the wilds of a wooden board replacement for the popular board game. Now a young man named Bill Trammel has done that one bett...

Google previewed new version of the developer console for its Google Play app and media store at its annual I/O conference in June. The new version has been in private beta ever since, but as of today...

Google previewed the new version of the developer console for its Google Play app and media store at its annual I/O conference in June. The new version has been in private beta ever since, but as of t...

After a few months of private beta testing, the product design company ZURB is officially launching Solidify today, a tool that aims to help designers and developers to quickly create and test clickab...

The way that we consume information on the Internet has changed dramatically over the years. The main reason for that is because there is simply more content available to us than we could ever consume...

Facebook today announced the winners from its Facebook Developer World HACK competition, a series of events the company hosted during the months of August through September 2012. The roadshow, which i...

RIM is busy beavering away on the next generation of its mobile OS -- BlackBerry 10 -- but the BlackBerry-maker needs developers working in parallel making apps for its new ecosystem. So today it's op...

Apple will be unveiling a new, smaller 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro alongside an iPad mini at a press event next week, according to a growing number of reports, including a brand new one from AllThingsD...

At this point LGs rumored Nexus phone is pretty much a lock, but a newly-leaked pair of images may indicate that the so-called Nexus 4 wont be in the Google Play Store alone. XperiaBlog happened upon ...

Over the last seven years, many of Hollywood’s most celebrated original movies, from Slumdog Millionaire to Juno, were studio rejects, resurrected through Hollywood’s little-known online g...

Payments giant PayPal is going through a transition. New President David Marcus has been trying to reinvent the company, restructuring product strategy and more. There are even reports of layoffs, as ...

Well, it’s taken a while, but SimpleTV is finally shipping its $149 streaming TV box to users. After previewing its hardware and CES, and following a successful Kickstarter campaign, the combina...

GREE, the Japanese mobile gaming giant, has continued its global investment spree, buying a minority stake in eBuddy, an Amsterdam, Netherlands-based web chat startup.In an email to TechCrunch, eBuddy...

Brett Bullington, long-time Silicon Valley advisor, board member, and angel investor, suffered severe brain trauma in a bicycle accident outside ofBartlesville, Okla. last Monday. He remains unconscio...

It's probably a little tricky to raise a protest march consisting of 10,000 Muslims outside the Googleplex in Mountain View, Santa Clara. But in the centre of London, it happens to be a cinch. Especia...

Since launching about a month and a half ago, Lettuce has processed more than $2 million in orders. But the SMB market is huge, so it's looking to expand pretty quickly. To make its platform more wide...

When Apple introduced the Retina MacBook Pro and new MacBook Airs in June, it also quietly noted it would be withdrawing its computers from voluntary EPEAT environmental standards qualification. It go...

Bizo, a startup offering to help online advertisers reach a business audience through services like retargeting, is launching a new website and weekly newsletter today called Digital Marketing Remix.I...

Glassmap, the YC-backed location startup launched at the beginning of the year as something of a "Find My Friends" app for Facebook users, is today introducing a new vertical for business customers. W...

How bad is the fight to get more users in mobile apps? Tough enough that TinyCo, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed mobile gaming company, is doing a revenue share with developers that successfully drive t...

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is unveiling proposed changes to the City of San Francisco's open data legislation today, creating more structure around how the city's data is shared with the public.You ca...

Y Combinator-backed financial serviceReadyForZero, which focuses on helping Americans pay down their $2.5 trillion in personal debt,is expanding its feature set today to include online payments. The n...

Paperless Post, a company that has built a name for itself offering a cloud-based, visually engaging, way of sending people invites by email, is going retro: today the company is officially launching ...

Referly, a YC-backed company that makes it easy for anyone to earn a bit of money while sharing links to products they adore, just raised $1 million in seed funding. Investors include New Enterprise A...

In 2009, Narendra Rocherolle of 83 Degrees and Webshots and Josh Felser of Spinner, Crackle, and Freestyle Capital founded The Start Project, an accelerator that would rely on the help of a group of h...

Apple and Samsung depend heavily on one another, despite the fact that they're also at each other's throats in intellectual property legal disputes around the world. But Apple is looking to reduce Sam...

The Launch48 event for potential startups to get together and each build a completely new online or app business in just 48 hours is back in London this weekend, with space for 100 budding entrepreneu...

Mojiva, the mobile advertising network, is today opening a new chapter in its bid to carve out a space for itself in the still-young market for mobile advertising: it is launching Mojiva Tab, an ad ne...

Nintendo has dropped the price of the Wii console to $129.99. Of course, this is to keep pace with holiday demand and maintain an edge in a market that's turned more difficult for the gaming company. ...

Dreamhost has built a public cloud service called DreamCompute that is built on OpenStack, the open cloud infrastructure. The new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) shows how a federated, universal c...

Rumors around the iPad mini are understandably reaching a fever pitch now that an announcement seems likely for Oct. 23, and a new one over the weekend claims to have a breakdown of iPad mini unit pri...

Finnish mobile startup Jolla, which is building a new OS based on the MeeGo platform with a strong focus on China, has named a new CEO as it moves towards its first product launch ahead of the unveili...

Visa is gunning against MasterCard's PayPass, PayPal, Square and others to become consumers' default digital wallet for online and mobile payments, and today it's announcing two pieces of news in that...

In the midst of its most successful year ever, now Tvinci has brought on new funding to invest more in it platform and to expand the system into new markets. The company raised $4.5 million in funding...

Serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Thiel has opened up applications for his '20 Under 20' Thiel Fellows for 2013 intake. The program awards 20 budding entrepreneurs $100,000 grants each to work ...

Serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Thiel has opened up applications for his '20 Under 20' Thiel Fellows for 2013 intake. The program awards 20 budding entrepreneurs $100,000 grants each to work ...

UrbanSitter, an online service for parents and sitters to connect, has raised $6 million in Series A funding led byCanaan Partners with First Round Capital, Menlo Ventures, Rustic Canyon Partnersand s...

GrabCAD, which offers an online community and cloud-based collaboration tools for those involved in designing and building physical products, has raised an $8.15 million series B round led by Charles ...

TopFloor, a startup born out of Los Angeles' Science Inc. incubator, is set to make its public debut today. The company, which is co-founded by Science's Michael Jones and Brian Lee, has built a video...

Is it a cognitive burden or much better than you think? While I'm going to side with both camps - I think Windows 8 is going to confuse a hell of a lot of people and make a lot of people happy - the r...

Secret Escapes, an online 'flash sales' free-to-join members club for luxury holidays and hotel rooms, has raised a new funding round totalling 8 million ($12.8m) to bolster its position in the U.K. m...

Secret Escapes, an online 'flash sales' free-to-join members club for luxury holidays and hotel rooms, has raised a new funding round totalling 8 million ($12.8m) to bolster its position in the U.K. m...

The Kindle DX (artist's rendition shown here), Amazon's 10-inch offering to the academic set, has been discontinued on the site and is only available from used dealers. Although there has been no offi...

The Raspberry Pi mini computer just got a RAM upgrade -- from 256MB to 512MB -- but the $35 price-tag is staying the same. Eben Upton, chip design and founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, said the ...

Amazon is in "advanced negotiations" to buy Texas Instruments' mobile chip business, according to Israeli newspaper Calcalist, with the price expected to be in the billions of dollars range. If the de...

Softbank has confirmed the news that it is buying Sprint, the third-largest wireless carrier in the U.S., for $20.1 billion (1.571 trillion). In fact, this is turning out to be full acquisition of wha...

A terse announcement from Sprint moments ago, scheduling a conference call at 4am Eastern (a couple of hours from now) could be a sign that Softbank's acquisition of Sprint may be coming to a close so...

Microsoft will soon become the next player to enter the streaming music business, with a service that will see it competing against the likes of Spotify and Rdio. Its new Xbox Music service will soon ...

We have a story on our site today about that guy who accomplished a very long space jump. Baumgartner, or something. Apparently this story has made the front page of Digg, and now that front page of D...

Lying's a lot harder than it used to be. Examples --Boss: "Where are you?" Employee: "On my way to the office." Boss: "Show me." ||| Mom: "Where are you?" Son: "At Jimmy's house" Mom: "...

Box gives a clear perspective about the approach to its business -- build a best of breed service for managing all those files in the cloud.Egnyte takes a different approach to file management. Instea...

Bonobos, the men's clothing company, has gained lots of ground since it was founded in 2007 for its presence on the web as a mostly pure e-commerce play. But in recent months, the company, which is he...

The official Windows 8 launch is less than two weeks away and judging by much of the commentary ahead of the consumer launch, you'd think that Windows 8 on the desktop is a total, unmitigated disaster...

Editor's note: Peter Relan is a former programmer and Internet executive. He founded YouWeb Incubator in 2007, spinning out a string of successful mobile and gamingcompanies.Incubators are now an indu...

Theres more to the Pi than a powerful processor at bargain basement prices. We got the chance to chat to Eben Upton, founder and trustee of the not-for-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation -- and the man re...

I am constantly amazed by the number of startups that build applications and take a huge business risk by building their company on an API call. Countless apps, particularly social apps, have popped u...

Pull out the ibuprofen, Redmond: it looks like the antitrust headache that bothered Microsoft for years in Europe may be coming back: the European Commission is preparing to bring charges against the ...

Earlier this month, Redbox announced that it's going to start selling live event tickets from its ubiquitous red kiosks. That seemed like a smart move for Redbox, which is best-known as a DVD rental s...

Editor's note: Anthemos Georgiades is founder and CEO of Zumper, a new apartment rental platform.Follow him on Twitter.Zumpers seed round story is far from perfect. Like most first-time founders we sc...

According to a conversation on Twitter between Danny Sullivan and a member of YouTube staff, Google considered sending Felix Baumgartner to space for his jump with a pair of Google Glass. That would ...

Editor's note: Nick Sedlet and Elli Sharef are co-founders of HireArt (YC W12), a platform connecting job-seekers with employers.Do tech start-ups create or destroy jobs?There is an obvious answer: th...

As I watch todays jump by Felix Baumgartner - it's been running non-stop on most major news channels, the same channels that gave a Space Shuttle launch about two minutes between video of a talking do...

Theres no shortage of blog posts, message threads, and Coupa- & Creamery-inspired banter around the topic of fundraising for early-stage startups. And, as nearly every founder knows all too well, ...

In case you thought Skype may be slowing down while settling into being a part of Microsoft and recently celebrating its ninth birthday, here are some numbers that seem to indicate otherwise: Last wee...

I'm not exactly sure who made being a "personal brand" a thing on the Internet, but I'd really like to sit down with them and ask them why they thought that it was a good idea. You see, an entire ecos...

Editor's note: Oliver Lo is vice president of marketing for App Annie. Developers the world over are looking to cash in on the Google Play gold mine, and with 137 percent revenue growth in the first s...

Facebook's first video ad is a bit strange. It compares chairs to Facebook. Because, you know, reasons. Obviously. The video parody here uses slightly naughty language and shows people sitting on toil...

A document alleged by TorrentFreak to be leaked AT&T training materials suggests that the RIAA is about to get real about piracy with significant actions on the ground, in concert with the operato...

Saturday Night Lives latest parody sketch gives life to that oft-quted phrase 'first world problems'. In a biting take-down of some of the legitimate, but sometimes whiny niggles us tech press have wi...

Editor's note:Suranga Chandratillake launchedblinkxin 2005, ultimately taking it public on the London Stock Exchange in May 2007. Entrepreneurs have plenty to worry about: raising enough capital, keep...

Editor's note: Peter Vogel is co-founder and CEO ofPlink, an online-to-offline loyalty program that rewards members for dining and shopping at their favorite national restaurants and offline stores. S...

Editors Note:Brenden Mulliganis an avid traveler and entrepreneur who created Onesheet, Webbygram, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. You can find him on Twitter [email protected] my opinio...

Editors note: Robert Wiltbank, PhD, is a professor at Willamette University in Portland, Ore. He is co-author of Effectual Entrepreneurshipand of The Catalyst, as well as many academic articles in the...

The Bay Area is the epicentre of a massive disruption which shook the games industry to its foundation. It erupted through what we call social and mobile games, drew huge audiences and changed the fun...

The successful public market debut of Workday this past week was breathtaking. The initial filing range of $21 - $24 was raised to $24 -$26 while the company was marketing on its roadshow. The IPO was...

We've got some new and interesting numbers to share about iOS 6 adoption three weeks after launch, from a couple of different sources, both of which show users continue to update to the new mobile OS ...

In dribs and drabs, the European venture capital scene has started to look gradually more like it will develop a broader range of VCs than in the past. True, the majority of European VC funds have not...

Both presidential campaigns released statements on how they would grow the technology startup Industry. In letters addressed to the regional trade organization, NYTechMeeetup, both candidates gave mod...

You may have caught on to the Verizon-flavored Nokia handset floating around the rumor mill. But just in case you missed it, a few recent leaks have led us to believe that the red carrier will lay cla...

You may have caught on to the Verizon-flavored Nokia handset floating around the rumor mill. But just in case you missed it, a few recent leaks have led us to believe that the red carrier will lay cla...

The Gillmor Gang Danny Sullivan, John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor bemoan the political dregs of the finally-engaged election before working our way back into tech waters. ...

Forty years ago, Eugene Kleiner and Tom Perkins set out to disrupt the then nascent venture capital industry. Kleiner, who was one of the founders of Fairchild Semiconductor, and Perkins, who was a me...

Dreamstime, a stock photo site with 5 million users and 140,000 contributors, has become the latest professional photography service to resolve its legal issues regarding the pinning of copyright-prot...

Yesterday I walked from Cambodia into Thailand. On the way out of Cambodia, I was fingerprinted; on the way into Thailand, I was photographed. While I waited for the train to Bangkok I read legendary ...

The Kindle Paperwhite is an amazing ereader. It's arguably the best on the market. But it's not flawless. Some users, including several TechCrunch writers, noticed the lighting on their Paperwhite is ...

There's been quite a bit of disruption in bikes recently and the Bicymple is no exception. Designed by Josh Bechtel, the bike aims to be easy to ride, trouble free, and less expensive than traditional...

Editor's note:Bruce Cleveland is a General Partner with InterWest Partners focusedon software and services sector investmentswith an emphasis on cloudcomputing, mobile and analytical applications.Most...

Social media optimization technology company SocialFlow has made a change at the top. We've learned that its Co-Founder Frank Speiser has stepped down from the CEO position to make way for former Mana...

Ad tech companies are trying get better at demographic targeting, especially on mobile, but a startup called Sensegonaims to go a step further targeting ads based on audience member's personality.To ...

It's been a long time coming, but private equity firm Providence Equity Partners has sold its stake in Hulu for $200 million, a person familiar with the matter has confirmed. The buyout of the firm's ...

It's been a long time coming, but private equity firm Providence Equity Partners has sold its stake in Hulu for $200 million, a person familiar with the matter has confirmed. The buyout of the firm's ...

Congratulations, Workday. Its share popped 74% when it IPO'd today. Or should I say condolences? $470 million ended up in the pockets of investors instead of the cloud startup's war chest.Meanwhile, F...

I've seen plenty of interesting and unique "resume sites" where people are trying to get the attention of the companies that they really want to work for. Sometimes it's a Facebook ad, a video or some...

The United States Postal Service (USPS) just informed the Postal Regulatory Commission that it plans to launch an experimental same-day delivery service called Metro Post. The USPS says this test is s...

Postmates has always wanted to be the go-to app for on-demand delivery of local items. It took off thanks to the launch of its Get It Now app, providing hundreds of warm meals a day to hard-working, h...

Instagram is huge because it's a network made of people who are all passionate about taking pictures of things that they see and then dropping a cool filter on them to enhance their vision. It caught ...

Instagram is huge because it's a network made of people who are passionate about taking pictures of things that they see and then dropping a cool filter on them to enhance their vision. It caught on i...

Today the Apache Foundation released a major update to the open source search engine building tools Lucene and Solr. Version 4.0 adds several new features aimed at making Solr easier to use, more scal...

As The Next Web reported, users are finding that their Facebook status messages aren't being cross-posted to Twitter even though they've set up their accounts to do so. I first noticed this the other ...

Gillmor Gang - John Borthwick, Danny Sullivan, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live at 1pm Pacific....

Even though it's taken for granted that you have to manage your own personal brand on the web, that still isn't necessarily the case in the slower-moving world of academia. But it's starting to happen...

Findery, the new location-based note sharing startup from Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake, launched in public beta yesterday afternoon. ...

Facebook likes to test things out on the live site, getting feedback in real-time. Sometimes, things make their way to some of your friends, but not to you. Some would call this an "inconsistent exper...

Facebook likes to test things out on the live site, getting feedback in real-time. Sometimes, things make their way to some of your friends, but not to you. Some would call this an "inconsistent exper...

It's easy to forget that the iPod touch didn't even include a camera until 2010. While such a key feature has been standard on the iPhone since its initial unveiling in 2007, Apple apparently didn't t...

Ecommerce has gotten friendly with the rise of Pinterest, Facebook Gifts, and more ways to sell to peers. So today Inside Network launched a new site called Inside Social Commerce to complement its bl...

The Windows 8 Store could sure use a few good apps before the official Windows 8 launch later this month, but at least we're seeing a slow trickle of interesting apps from known brands now. One of the...

The iPad is the first computer a generation of children will have access to - a shift in computing which has birthed an industry of kid-focused startups. While some companies build apps purely for ent...

The September mobile ad report from Velti is dominated by the launch of the iPhone 5 and iOS 6. For one thing, after two months where Android seemed to be gaining on iOS in mobile ad impressions, iOS ...

If you're a Path user, you know that you can share the movies that you're watching with your intimate group of friends and family. It's not a feature that I've used a lot, even though I'm a huge movie...

The Internet is taking a backseat at the next presidential debate: CNN's moderator Candy Crowley will not be "taking questions via email, Twitter, Google Moderator or any other online source for the O...

Jive Software is hovering below its post-IPO low, after an investment bank lowered its rating on the company, citing research that shows enterprise companies are taking a cautious view of private soci...

Richard MacManus, who founded tech blog ReadWriteWeb all the way back in 2003 and served as its editor in chief, has announced (through a post on his personal blog) that he's leaving the site.ReadWrit...

Wikileaks, the infamous government document leak service, is now charging for access to some of its files. After the United States championed a global payment system embargo against the site, Wikileak...

YouTube just announced that it is changing its search ranking algorithm to highlight videos that keep viewers engaged. The idea here, says YouTube, is to "reward engaging videos that keep viewers watc...

One of the often repeated criticisms of social media is that it tends to be glib and shallow. That's a simplification, but I think it has some truth to it when I'm on a site like Twitter, I'm usually...

Cloudscaling has opened up the Google Compute Engine (GCE) APIs to OpenStack, allowing customers that use the open, federated cloud to access Google's vast cloud infrastructure.Cloudscaling, a San Fra...

Word has come through that Nokia has completed its sale of luxury phone brand Vertu to EQT VI. But TechCrunch has heard sources that Anssi Vanjoki, the 20-year Nokia veteran who resigned back in 2010,...

Canonical isn't just the company behind the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, but with Ubuntu One, it also offers a cloud storage service with 5GB of free storage space, as well as a music locker, an...

Well, that didn't take long. Almost immediately after Tumblr announced Photoset, its brand-new standalone iOS application for photo-sharing, Dropbox updated its Android app with similar functionality....

PayPal spokesperson Anuj Nayar is putting up an interesting blog post today about how the company wants to be branded with regard to payments in the future. Basically, the company doesn't want to be p...

Enough's been said already about the iPhone 5's purple flaring issue. It's actually very common for modern-day optics systems, but long-time users aren't really used to it. So the folks atFotoDiox hav...

Apple's iPad mini event was rumored to be happening sometime around October 17, but this week brought no invite. Now, however, there's a very good sign that we could see it on October 23, thanks to a ...

Plenty of startups still believe there's room in the social recommendations space, and now, another new contender heads into battle. Chicago-based Mouthee is today officially debuting its website and ...

Late last month Apple was accused of copying the design of the iconic 1940s Swiss Railway Station Clock owned by SBB (Swiss Federal Railways) for the clock design used in iOS 6. Now Cupertino has agre...

By raise of hands, who goes to Best Buy to try something they intend to buy on Amazon or Newegg? Everyone? In what could be the retailer's smartest move in years, Best Buy intends to match the prices ...

Angry Birds-maker Rovio and CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, are to collaborate on developing "fun learning experiences" aimed at getting kids engaged with science. The collaborat...

Windows 8 launches on October 26. It's been said to be Microsoft's most important product launch to date. And Redmond is reportedly prepped to properly support the product with a massive marketing cam...

So much for all that Maps thunder and Lightning port issues, and what they might mean for sales of the iPhone 5: a new survey published today by 451/ChangeWave Research reveals that in fact Apple's la...

The global social TV market is already a multi-billion dollar industry, with TV giants betting big money on second screen viewing, but the market is set for double-digit growth in the the next five ye...

ExactTarget, the marketing software giant that went public in March of this year, has picked up a pair of smaller companies to build out its portfolio: marketing automation company Pardot for $95.5 mi...

Got any nominees for the "Silicon Valley of Latin America"? If you're like me (i.e., ignorant) you're probably going "Um ..." However, the founders of a new co-working space and "entrepreneurial cente...

Tonight at PandoDaily's PandoMonthly NYC event, Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley shared some thoughts about the service. The New York-based company now sees itself as a local search tool a...

Tonight at PandoDaily's PandoMonthly NYC event, Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley shared some thoughts about the service. The New York-based company now sees itself as a local search tool a...

During a fireside chat at Federated Media's San Francisco headquarters, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sat down to talk with John Battelle in the warmup for Battelle's first ever OpenCoSF event tomorrow, wh...

"There's a major piece missing from the social graph," Chris McCoy tells me over coffee, "and it's sports." Naturally, McCoy is a former baseball player, Quora devotee and a religious consumer of all ...

"There's a major piece missing from the social graph," Chris McCoy tells me over coffee, "and it's sports." Naturally, McCoy is a former baseball player, Quora devotee and a religious consumer of all ...

In American politics, incumbents generally have an unfair popularity advantage, by virtue of holding power and the soapbox that comes with it. Not so much is the case with Vice-President Joe Biden. Hi...

ComScore just published its latest U.S. search market numbers and things aren't looking too good for Yahoo. Yahoo's Bing-powered search lost another 0.6 percentage points and now has just 12.2% of the...

Breast cancer kills an estimated 39,500 women a year; yet if it's detected early enough, the five-year survival rate is over 95 percent. Now, the new Breast Tissue Screening Bra provides women continu...

Just three weeks after Facebook formally launched Custom Audience ads that can target people by lists of email addresses or phone numbers, TechCrunch has attained the first reports on their performanc...

CourseHorse, a New York City-based startup that runs a platform that curates the best classes from local education providers along with a centralized booking engine for prospective students, has raise...

As you may well know, we're going to visit Toronto, Detroit, and Chicago in November and we'd like to invite you all out for a beer. We're at the point in the game that we've found a venue, gotten nea...

Early last year, fabled satirical news source, The Onion, launched a sports TV show called "Onion SportsDome" that aimed to parody SportsCenter, ESPN's long-running daily news show about all-things sp...

Today, the San Francisco-based startupPixelpipeis adding a new feature called "Pipelines" to its file transfer servicePi.pe. The featureautomates file copying between cloud services, similar to the wa...

It was inevitable. Smartphone displays have gone from a standard 4 inches to ~5-inches in a short time, and the truth is that phones can only get so big before being too big. And so, as the tide ebbs ...

Facebook is down for many users in Europe, according to several TC tipsters and widespread reports on Twitter. Twitter user @AnonymousOwn3r is claiming responsibility, as he had done in the past for a...

Facebook is down for many users in Europe, according to several TC tipsters and widespread reports on Twitter. Twitter user @AnonymousOwn3r is claiming responsibility, as he had done in the past for a...

Big Switch, one of the hottest startups in the fast-growing software defined networking (SDN) market, has namedJason Matlofas its new vice president of marketing afterhe leftBattery Ventures as a part...

I've not had great results when using Apple's iOS 6 Maps app, in fact, my fiancee has banned me from using it completely after Siri tried to send us over a cliff. Clearly we didn't follow the directio...

Coderwall, a Y Combinator-backed startup that allows developers to build profiles around their skills and achievements, is ready for companies to start recruiting on the site specifically by customiz...

Here's the deal, I have some experience in the realm of trying to gather a bunch of folks around a cause to make an actual difference in the world for others. Over the past few years, I've seen quite ...

In August, Twitter acquired the small A/B testing service and development frameworkClutch.ioand announced that it would shut the service down on November 1st. Clutch, which Twitter describes as "an ea...

Heyzap has added a cool new feature to its social platform for mobile games the ability to actually start playing games with other users.The app already allowed users to check-in to games that they w...

Facebook has assembled one of the tech world's best and brightest team of engineers, and today we get a little glimpse at one process it uses to find and nurture that talent: trials by fire. It turns ...

EggDrop, a mobile marketplace application with over half a million downloads, is shutting down. The company will inform its current user base via email on Friday. According to CEO Dan Zheng, EggDrop w...

"In the Studio" rolls into the fall months by hosting a jack of all startup trades, someone who has founded a company (and is CEO), but who also is extremely generous with his time as an advisor, coac...

Verizon has officially announced the release of the Droid Razr HD and Droid Razr Maxx HD on October 18. That's a Thursday. ...

At CTIA MobileCon's third day keynote in San Diego, a panel of mobile commerce industry leaders discussed the state of mobile payments, the challenges it faces in terms of adoption and regulatory conc...

Welcome to TechCrunch’s ongoing series where we hold major tech companies accountable for spreading propaganda about their service’s value to the democratic process. Today, Google released...

After stating that a California district court "abused its discretion," the U.S. Court Of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has officially reversed a previously-issued sales injunction on the Samsung Ga...

Amobile back-end as a service (MBaaS) called Kii Cloud officially openedfor developers today, boasting 25 million end users and a group of distribution partners such as NTT docomo....

Amazon had another European announcement today. The Kindle Paperwhite is now available to pre-order in the U.K., Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Canada won't get it for now....

YouTube just announced a number of updates that will allow video creators to see more in-depth analytics for how users are watching their videos. YouTube's analytics now, for example, put a stronger e...

Amazon continues to roll out its content offerings in Europe. Soon, Amazon Prime members will be able to borrow books from the Kindle owners' lending library. 200,000 books are available at the time o...

Peek is an alternative to the fragmented, painful Web 1.0 experiences that most travelers have become used to. Combining beautiful design, smart editorial content, and e-commerce, Peek seeks to offer ...

At first glance, Teespring looks like it's trying to become a Kickstarter for t-shirts, with its recently launched website that allows anyone to design custom tees which are then crowdfunded into prod...

The Samsung Galaxy S III is the next big thing, and as Samsung's marketing squad won't let us forget, it's already here. But another "big thing" in a decidedly smaller package is making its way to cen...

Google just gave the old-school dining guide Zagat, which it acquired last September, a brand new (and free) Android app. The new app is available for free and, according to Google, was "re-built from...

Skyfire, which makes mobile browser products for both carriers and consumers, has raised $10 million in Series D funding.The company's main carrier product is currently the Skyfire Rocket Optimizer, w...

PunchTab, a social loyalty and rewards platform now backed by $5.25 million in venture funding, is expanding its platform to mobile. Until now, the company had focused on allowing businessesand agenci...

Zynga and Atari have launched their first game together, under the Zynga Mobile Partner Program -- announced this summer. The program allows third party companies to tap into Zynga's network, while he...

The IAB has published its half-year sales report for Internet advertising: just over $17 billion for the first six months of this year, another record for online advertising. But after two years of st...

The IAB has published its half-year sales report for Internet advertising in the U.S.: it's come out to just over $17 billion for the first six months of this year, another record for online advertisi...

Sprint has confirmed that it is, in fact, in talks with Japanese mobile carrier Softbank. The news leaked earlier today that Softbank may be making a $12.8 billion investment in Sprint, which "could i...

Tumblr is a company that has built a platform that seemingly morphs every single time I visit it. One of the most popular features of the service is its ability to share photos, and then of course wat...

On the desktop, and on notebooks, a touch screen interface has yet to really become a mainstream staple. There have definitely been attempts to bring touchscreen to desktop displays and all-in-ones in...

A brand new iPod touch has ascended from the depths of Apple HQ, and as sure as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, iFixit has torn the thing apart with heat guns and spudgers. If you kind...

Amazon's Appstore for Android has long allowed consumers to test apps in the browser before purchase, but a new startup debuting now wants to offer an alternative. AppSurfer, as the company is called,...

Frank & Oak a personalized online clothing retailer for men, has raised $5 million in funding from Lightbank with participation from BDMI, Rho Ventures Canada and Real Ventures....

Twitter's CEO may well be a failed comedian, but the many people that suffer the harsh experience of having their Twitter account hijacked surely think it no laughing matter. I'm been following the ca...

Here at CTIA's MobileCon in San Diego, me and colleague Chris Velazco got to sit down with RIM's Jeff Gadway for some extended BlackBerry 10 hands-on and feature demo time. We shot uncut video of the ...

Depending who you ask, Lenovo topped HP in 2012's third quarter to become the top worldwide PC supplier. Research firm Gartner reports Lenovo shipped just slightly more PCs than HP to hit a 15.7% mark...

Shutl, the London-based startup that promises to enable the delivery of online purchases within minutes of sale, has secured $3.2 million in funding that it plans to put toward its upcoming debut in N...

Design-focused e-commerce site Fab is constantly iterating and innovating. The company, which just hit 7 million users, unlocked the site from signing-in, expanded internationally, launched a major si...

The U.S. risks falling behind on online product innovation because it isn't gaining a critical mass of subscribers to superfast broadband services (of 25Mbps+). That's the scenario being painted ...

Minted, the marketplace for prints designed by independent graphic artists that is best known for its flagship stationery business, is spreading its wings. First came the debut of its wall art vertica...

We've been covering Demotix since their controversial launch in 2008 and frankly the jury at the time was out on whether they really could create what many had tried and failed to do: a crowd-sourced,...

After Rovio last week put out a teaser for its very first book app, with an announcement full of addled-looking pigs, today it's unveiled the actual product: it's an app for a cookbook about eggs -- w...

Crystal ball-gazing time from Gartner... The analysts, which last night published some stats on how PCs continue to reign as the woolly mammoth of the tech world, today followed up with a list of pred...

Video ad startup Sharethrough has raised $5 million in Series B funding.The round comes from its existing investors North Bridge Venture Partners and Floodgate. The key, says CEO Dan Greenberg, was sp...

Fixie riders are a special breed, to be sure, and very excitable. But what would happen if you took away their gearless chain systems and just slapped some pedals on their rear wheels? Blam. Heads exp...

Pricepanda, the Rocket Internet-fuelled South East Asian online price comparison venture founded in May this year and rumoured to be backed by less than 10 million ($12.8 million), has added Indonesia...

The world isn't exactly short of services offering to store your music collection in the cloud so that you can access it from anywhere. In recent times, major players Apple (iCloud), Google (Drive), a...

We last caught up with HD Trade Services in August, when the company, part of Y-Combinator's summer class, released a tablet app to help smaller enterprises manage the process of buying and shipping g...

Google is continuing to gain points on the mapping front, today launching yet more features for the product at a time when Apple's offering continues to appear weak by comparison. Today it announced t...

Google is continuing to gain points on the mapping front, today launching yet more features for the product at a time when Apple's offering continues to appear weak by comparison. Today it announced t...

Borro, a personal asset lending platform, has just received a massive $26 million funding round led by Canaan Partners. The service essentially classes up the idea of collateral loans, offering up to ...

Today, Morgenthaler Ventures and Health 2.0 concluded its "DC to VC" startup showcase, a nationwide contest that aims to find the most promising and "fund-able" young businesses in health IT looking f...

Google just launched the latest version of its Google+ apps for Android and iOS. The most important new feature in this update is support for Google+ pages. Page owners can now view, post an...

As we've mentioned before, Google+ has become a place for businesses and brands to set up shop and interact with their customers. Google is making sure that these folks have everything they need ...

As I've mentioned before, Google+ has become a place for businesses and brands to set up shop and interact with their customers. Google is making sure that these folks have everything they need t...

Surfing the Internet can feel like you're running in circles, constantly checking your favorite sites for updates. The RockMelt team believes that content should be delivered, not hunted, so its new b...

If iPods could dance, it would look a lot like this new commercial Apple has just posted to its website. The ad shows a plethora of colorful iPod touch, iPod nano, and iPod shuffles bouncing around. I...

One piece of the car puzzle that is often left out of discussions about the new generation of car rental, ridesharing and taxi businesses: The pain in the ass that is the airport car rental experience...

AT&T and T-Mobile have already pulled back the curtains (well, mostly) on their stock of Nokia Lumia Windows Phones, but rival carrier Verizon has remained awfully quiet on the matter. That may so...

I don't always play social games, but when I do, I like them to help me pay for my education. If "The Most Interesting Man In The World" were to endorse Grantoo, this might be his conclusion. Grantoo ...

Google rolled out its own integrated, social review system for businesses with Google+ Local in May of this year. Not only was this a nice addition for Google+, but it finally utilized Googl...

You can call Oyster the Netflix for books, but founders Eric Stromberg, Andrew Brown and Willem Van Lancker want to bring something more to ebook reading. The startup aims to be the first real subscri...

Telefonica today has announced a deal with Telenor as its first carrier partner to the BlueVia API platform -- one of the Spanish company's many efforts, via Telefonica Digital, to create new lines of...

Last month, Grouper expanded into 12 new cities, bringing its so-called online social into new markets. After launching a year ago, the Y Combinator grad is growing fast thanks to its unique spin on d...

Kickstarter today announced it will begin making it possible for projects to be based in the U.K. on its crowdfunding site beginning October 31. This marks the first time Kickstarter projects will be ...

Swarm, a startup that helps retailers connect with in-store shoppers through their smartphones, has raised $1 million in seed funding from an ... eclectic list of investors (more on that in a second)....

Facebook giveth and Facebook taketh.When the company first talked about the Open Graph at the last f8 developer conference in San Francisco last year, there was the promise of a whole slew of apps tha...

On stage at the second-day keynote, Major General Robert Wheeler talked about the changing role of industry and enterprise as it relates to technological innovation, and how where once the military le...

Facebook Gifts could make a lot of money on mobile by getting you to buy presents for friends, but birthdays were buried in Events and celebrations weren't shown on mobile. So today Facebook for iOS a...

BlackBerry 10 is still a ways away (exactly how long is a topic of hot debate) but RIM has been busy laying the groundwork for it for months now. Aspiring BB10 developers have seen that work firsthand...

On stage at CTIA's MobileCon keynote today, RIM's Jeff Gadway gave on on-stage demo of the upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system. It emphasized that RIM's goal with BB10 is to provide something for ...

Google just released the first stable version of mod_pagespeed, the company's open-source Apache module that can automatically optimize your web pages to improve download and rendering speeds. With th...

Online media and advertising companyCityGrid, the parent company of properties like UrbanSpoon, CitySearch and Insider Pages, is announcing a round of layoffs today that will affect about 15% of its w...

LocalResponse just announced a new way for its customers to target their ads.Previously, the startup's advertisers could reach audiences based on social network activity for example, after someone ch...

BlackBerry-maker RIM demoed another pre-release build of BlackBerry 10 in London today including showing the camera Timeshift software working in real-time, and detailing a feature which allows BB10 ...

Tel Aviv-basedKIDOZ, which got its start back in 2009 as a kid-friendly media browser for desktop computers is finally making the jump to mobile. The company is today officially announcing an Android ...

Over the last couple of years a new trend amongst startups has been towards addressing incumbent industries. And there are few such traditional sectors as the world of fashion. Hence we've seen a grea...

Have you ever clicked on suspiciously salacious videos or links from your Facebook friends, only to find out that it leads you to a website full of naughty images and pop-up windows? Chances are, your...

A teenage hacker who goes by the name of "Pinkie Pie" will receive $60,000 in prize money from Google, by producing the first Chrome vulnerability at the Hack in the Box conference on Wednesday. The e...

Bluetooth portable speakers come in many styles and sizes, and some are just wonderful. But when audiophiles go aquatic, options become much more limited.Enter the ECOXBT waterproof speaker. It'll tak...

Stripe, the YC-backed payments startup funded by Sequoia and Paypal's original founders, is launching a new way for marketplaces and collaborative consumption startups to let their users directly acce...

For you hardcore Twitter users, the main app just doesn't cut it for you. You need multiple windows and notifications and windows and stuff like that. For me, I enjoy the simple original web version o...

The Ubuntu Linux distribution has always been free. It's also always welcomed donations from users. Historically, though, the donation page hasn't been featured prominently on the Ubuntu website. As o...

I always get a warm and fuzzy feeling when two European tech companies cozy up. To that end, TechCrunch has learned that Deezer, the music streaming service that announcedambitious plans for growth to...

Hey, remember that $325 million fund that we said Trinity Ventures was raising last week? Well, the firm says it finished raising the fund yesterday.General partner Fred Wang tells me that the target ...

Social network for fashion photos Trendabl has raised $835,000 from Khosla Ventures, Forerunner Ventures and other angels....

Democracy just got an iPad upgrade: Citizens of San Francisco are now greeted by campaign volunteers with tablets who can sign-up voters through California's new online voter registration system. Face...

At today's New York press event, eBay set the bar high by stating that it would unveil "the new eBay" today. The company introduced eBay Now, the same day delivery service they have been testing, and ...

Chicago: Home of Groupon, the White Sox and a massive, odd silver bean thing. But soon, specifically on November 9th, Chicago will play host to a TechCrunch meetup. As the last stop on TechCrunch's No...

Some consolidation afoot in the world of social recommendations and referrals: Toutd, a site that lets networks of users share recommendations with each other, has bought Villij, a site from one of Te...

Another dispatch from the post-PC era: Forrester's latest report on mobile adoption in the enterprise found that 66% of employees now use two or more devices every day, including desktops, laptops, sm...

Maluuba, the Siri-like personal assistant that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt SF earlier this year, just announced the launch of its Maluuba International Edition. Until now, the service was only avai...

Interactive fashion community StyleCaster has acquired facial recognition startup and beauty tool Daily Makeover. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but StyleCaster says that the company ...

I use Windows daily. I have since Windows 95. I wouldn't call myself a fanboy, but I prefer Windows' desktop environment over that of OS X. Yet, like many of you, I'm not looking forward to Windows 8....

Another step in the OnLive saga comes to us from the Mercury News where reporter Troy Wolverton writes that investor Gary Lauder paid $4.8 million for the company assets and that OnLive was $18 millio...

Google's Cultural Instituteexpanded its work with museums, foundations and other archives to bring online 42 new historical exhibitions which help tell the stories of several major events taking place...

TBA Global, a leading event marketing company, just launched EventO, a full-service event management tool for events of virtually any size. EventO provides event organizers and marketers with responsi...

Online and mobile digital cash network Dwolla is partnering with mobile banking and payments service provider mFoundry, the companies are announcing today at the BAI conference in Washington, D.C. Thi...

Four months after buying restaurant-focused, point-of-sale app Breadcrumb, Groupon is putting the acquisition to work in its bid to grow its local commerce business. Today it is launching the iPad app...

Four months after buying restaurant-focused, point-of-sale app Breadcrumb, Groupon is putting the acquisition to work in its bid to grow its local commerce business. Today it is launching the iPad app...

Samsung will unveil a smaller version of its flagship Galaxy SIII handset in Europe tomorrow -- shrinking the screen from the 4.8 inches of its current flagship to an iPhone 5-sized 4 inches. Reuters ...

SideCar is announcing this morning that it's raised a Series A round of $10 million led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Google Ventures. The funding comes as the startup is looking to expand its ri...

Launched in 2010, Austin-based MyEdu set out to help students reduce the cost of earning a college diploma and remove the friction from every aspect of the higher education process, from deciding on t...

A new Y Combinator-incubated startup is entering the fintech scene today, aiming to disrupt payday loans and consumer finance. LendUp, is leveraging technology to redefine the payday lending experienc...

Armed with a fresh $130 million in funding from Warner Music owner Access Industries and Idinvest, music streaming company Deezer has this morning revealed more details on what it plans to do with tha...

Armed with a fresh $130 million in funding from Warner Music owner Access Industries and Idinvest, music streaming company Deezer has this morning revealed more details on what it plans to do with tha...

Kobo, the Rakuten-owned e-reading company, has announced that it is to acquire the French digital publishing platform Aquafadas to bolster the breadth of content that is available to its e-reader devi...

Samsung has signed a deal with Spotify to bring the streaming music service to Samsung's Smart TV range, Blu-ray players and home theatre systems later this year. It appears to be the first TV manufac...

It was only a matter of time before Jetsetter, Gilt's luxury travel vertical, got into same day hotel deals for travelers on the go. Another startup has been primarily playing in this spaceHotel Tonig...

At the Pepcom MobileFocus event at CTIA MobileCon, an unlikely underdog made a very big impression on me. It was the Kupa UltraNote, and it was my first hands on with a tablet that ships with Windows ...

At TechCrunch Disrupt NYC in May 2010, a young startup named Art.sy took home the "Rookie Disruptor Award" for its art-focused search engine, which allowed users to find art by style, category, size, ...

LG has been getting plenty of attention these days because of some recent carrier announcements (case in point: Sprint announced it would carry the LG Mach and Optimus G), but that's not all the LG ha...

Zillow just announced the launch of Zillow Rentals, the company's new ad free marketplace for rental professionals and landlords. Zillow Rentals, the company says, will allow it to help serve rental p...

T-Mobile recently announced it would be offering the Nokia Lumia 810 Windows Phone 8 device, sometime in the coming weeks, and it had the handset at the Pepcom's MobileFocus event at MobileCon today. ...

As the longtime editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, the author of The Long Tail, the coiner of the term "freemium," to name just a few of the things that he's known for, Chris Anderson is well-renowned...

Optimizely co-founder and CEO Dan Siroker shared some big numbers today about the A/B testing service's growth.Let's go with the biggest one first. Siroker says Optimizely, which makes it easy for web...

Slingbox is announcing two new products today: the Slingbox 500 and Slingbox 350. The devices have a lot of the same features as old Slingboxes -- but also have a few upgrades. For one thing, they can...

If you get the opportunity to hear Clayton Christensen hold court, seize it. Speaking at BoxWorks in San Francisco today, Christensen was characteristically soft-spoken, self-deprecating and good-humo...

Lenovo is apparently not convinced of the post-PC lingo, with its latest series of announcements. The good old ThinkPad brand is used once again for another model, the ThinkPad Twist. It is a 12.5" ta...

Attending this year's #BoxWorks conference has been extremely interesting for me, as I've gotten to talk to a group of people that I rarely interact with, enterprise folks. There's a nice mix of devel...

Facebook doesn't want to look like just another website, so it's testing colorful new versions of Facebook.com on a very small percentage of logged out visitors. One features a 3D polygon art map of t...

Everyone's favorite ebook bundle charity online sale thinger is back and you have 13 hours to grab eight sci-fi books from folks like Neil Gaiman, John Scalzi, and the Craphound himself, Cory Doctorow...

Tonight in New York, Lenovo introduced two brand new tablet/laptop hybrids under the name of IdeaPad Yoga. Those two devices will be Windows 8 powered. Two screen sizes are available, 11" and 13". The...

Humans, like the bonobos monkey or the blesmol, are social animals and, as such, they enjoy occasionally gathering for festive activities, such as sexually variant group mating, tunnel debris removal,...

Sprint finally joined the phone announcement fray earlier this morning and added a handful of new devices to its official roster. While LG's Optimus G may garner all the love, the newly-revealed LG Ma...

PublicStuff, the New York City based startup that makes a system to let citizens make real-time requests to their local governments for public services, has raised $5 million in new funding. The finan...

Sprint is going to be offering LG's new Optimus G this fall. The smartphone is LG's flagship Android device, and has the specs to own that role, with a Quad-Core 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro Proc...

Today, Microsoft announced a shakeup on the board side of the company by announcing that Reed Hastings will not be seeking re-election....

On stage at Boxworks today, Aaron Levie and his team unveiled a new service called "BoxEdit," that will allow people to like and edit documents within the Box environment....

Rapid7, a maker of vulnerability and penetration testing products, has acquired Seattle-based mobile security startupMobilisafe.In November, Rapid7 raised an additional $50 million in Series C financi...

The recently released Alike iPhone app is designed to let you know about nearby restaurants, bars, and cafes that are like those you're already a fan of. It's pretty simple to use: You just open it up...

It's been less than two years since Verizon first lit up its 4G LTE network, and there's little question that its been growing at a quick clip. To wit, Verizon Wireless CTO Nicola Palmer at MobileCON ...

According to AllThingsD, Twitter has decided to get into the business of hosting video by acquiring NYC startup Vine. We've reached out to Twitter but haven't been able to confirm this as of yet.If tr...

Pandora founder Tim Westergren denied claims that musicians earn peanuts from streaming services and said lower royalty rates would bolster innovation today at SF MusicTech. "There are a couple artist...

At the CTIA MobileCon keynote today, Zipcar CEO Scott Griffith took the stage to talk about the effect mobile technology is having on transportation. In the course of his talk, he also detailed the wa...

Writer and "Media Inventor" Robin Sloan wrote an interesting book called Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore about an out-of-work web designer in San Francisco who goes to work at a bookstore. The only t...

Despite continued stories about President Barack Obama's tech-savvy young army, a new poll explodes the myth of Republicans as the luddite party by revealing that both liberals and conservatives are e...

Samsung and T-Mobile today announced that the Samsung Galaxy Note II will be arriving on T-Mobile's network this fall, though specific dates and pricing weren't yet revealed. An earlier leaked report ...

Over the last year, early-stage venture firm First Round Capital has quietly built an arsenal of tools for its portfolio companies to connect and share resources. Now they're adding another tool (and ...

Microsoft just announced a post-RTM update for Windows 8 that will bring a number of improvements to the company's new operating system ahead of its full launch on October 26. This update, which follo...

GetTalent, a startup offering tools candidate engagement tools for recruiters, is emerging from stealth mode today. It's also announcing that it has raised $2.6 million in funding.The company's larges...

Follow the rise of GitHub and you have to also look at Atlassian and its powerful combination of tools for developers, particularly in the enterprise market....

Aaron Levie took the stage at the second annual BoxWorks developer conference in San Francisco today to talk about how Box is faring against competition from the likes of Google Drive, Microsoft Sky D...

Developers, rejoice! Theres now a quick, easy, and inexpensive way to quickly transform front-end user interfaces into usable code on the backend, thanks to Divshot.Los Angeles-based Divshot calls its...

The Craigslist crackdown on usage of its listings data by third parties has had some fairly strong fallout. Some have shut down operations after getting cease & desist orders; some, like 3Taps and...

Preen.me, a Tel Aviv-based social beauty startup, is today announcing having closed on a healthy $800,000 round of seed funding led by Genesis Partners. The round also saw participation from Li Ka-Shi...

Web-clipping serviceClipboard, which recently underwent a major redesign, is tweaking things yet again. While previously, the company focused only on serving as an outlet where users could clip web co...

The next Nexus phone is not official yet, but a ton of pics of the phone have leaked this morning and provide a clear look at the upcoming superphone. But let's hope it has a different name than rumor...

Google just announced an update to Gmail that will make life a bit easier for those of us who often write emails in different languages. Gmail users can now easily switch between over 100 virtual keyb...

Mozilla is launching Firefox 16 today. While this version of the browser only introduces a few new features for consumers, developers can look forward to using Firefox's new Developer Command Line. Th...

In a bid to beef up the kid-friendly credentials of its Hulu Plus online video streaming service, Nickelodeon programming is being added to the service for the first time. The move is part of an expan...

"It'd be awesome to use technology to fix some of the problems that San Franciscans see every day," says Twitter chairman and Square founder Jack Dorsey, in an all-star video promoting San Francisco's...

Opera just launched the latest version of Opera Mobile for Android, the company's fully-featured mobile browser. Version 12.10 introduces three major new features to the browser: a new fraud detection...

Wealthfront, a Palo Alto-based startup that wants to democratize wealth management, is giving users access to a once-exclusive investment trick called tax loss harvesting that lets them boost their lo...

Open source IT management and monitoring company Zenoss raised a $25 million series C lead by Summit Partners with participation from previous investors Grotech Ventures, Intersouth Partners and Bould...

Jack Dorsey has spoken out to comment on the profile of Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, out this weekend in the New York Times, which painted a slightly less than flattering picture of his role as chairman ...

Today the Lytro Light Field Camera is receiving a firmware update that unlocks manual controls such as ISO sensitivity and shutter speed. But just in case you haven't heard of it yet, the Lytro is a r...

White-label cloud service provider Funambol has closed a new $5.75m funding round aimed at speeding its global expansion. The company's customers are already deploying its OneMediaHub personal cloud r...

To become even more of a destination for casual gamers, AOL overhauled its portal Games.com with new personalization and discovery features today. They also made it cross-platform, with certain titles...

Sprout Social, a social management and publishing tool suite, is introducing new team and workflow features to its management console. The Chicago-based startup also hit a few milestonesSprout Social ...

The world's largest retailer, Walmart, is today announcing its plans to test a "same-day" delivery service in select markets called "Walmart To Go." The program, beginning now, will run through the ho...

Huzzah! Fine denizens of New York and the City Of Saint Francis, Microsoft beseeches you to untether your computing devices and connect to their ethereal Internet for the lofty sum of zero! Beginning ...

Today, three suspected syrup smugglers were stopped in an attempt to cross the Canadian border from the U.S. The suspects, already-sticky from what appeared to be an on-the-road maple candy feast, cla...

Forrester Research earlier today put out its latest forecasts on online display ad spend, and the picture looks relatively positive for digital media: online display ad spend in the U.S. will reach $1...

Neemware is a newly launched marketing platform for mobile developers which allows the integration of messaging, feedback forms, questions, alerts, promotions, and more, into mobile applications. You ...

Google is updating its search appliance, adding the Google Translate API and better recommendations in a new push for the global enterprise market....

At Box's annual Boxworks event today, the company debuted a new way for its cloud storage and collaboration platform to be accessed across the enterprise. Via a new HTML5 embeddable framework, develop...

With the rise of massive online open course platforms (a.k.a. "MOOCs") like Khan Academy and Coursera, a new model of online learning has emerged, promising quality, affordable education at scale. Thi...

Contre Jour, the imaginative mobile physics-based puzzle game launched in 2011, is now available on the web. Just like with Cut the Rope for HTML5, the Pulse web app and the recently launched Atari Ar...

Social CRM company Lithium Technologies has acquired fellow customer care application Social Dynamx. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed....

When Apple first announced the 5th-generation iPod touch, the only timeframe given for shipping was October. And here we are, receiving word that the first orders for the new iPod touch with a four-in...

Deezer, the web-based music streaming company that has just picked up $130 million in funding from Warner Music owner Access Industries and Idinvest, is gearing up for another announcement on Wednesda...

Hot on the heels of inking a partnership with MyVoucherCodes, OpenTable-owned restaurant-booking service Toptable has snagged another big win: it's been named as the exclusive restaurant reservation p...

Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms, is upgrading its mobile security app for Android phones today. The new version includes a sleeker management cons...

Invites have just gone out for a Microsoft press event to introduce its new Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system. An end of October unveiling for the next generation of WP had been expected but tod...

Invites have just gone out for a Microsoft press event to introduce its new Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system. An end of October unveiling for the next generation of WP had been expected but tod...

Back in the days before Google Analytics hundreds of thousands of sites relied on WebSideStory's Hitbox service for visitor stats. If you surfed the web in the late 90s you probably saw a lot of homep...

In a tie-up with the stock photography and digital media giant Getty Images, users of SoundCloud can now offer their tracks for commercial licensing, providing another avenue for monetization for musi...

Pivot3, the Texas-based data storage company, and Samsung Electronics are entering a new partnership aimed at broadening the pair's appeal to small and medium-sized enterprises wanting to deploy virtu...

Freespee, the European mobile click-to-call advertising and analytics startup, has raised a new round of funding: 3.3 million (approx. $4.3m) led by pan-European early-stage investor Sunstone Capital....

Freespee, the European mobile click-to-call advertising and analytics startup, has raised a new round of funding: 3.3 million (approx. $4.3m) led by pan-European early-stage investor Sunstone Capital....

BAMM.tv's iPad app is designed to look like a virtual music venue, allowing users to watch videos, learn more about different bands, engage with musicians via social media, check out tour schedules, a...

HouseTrip.com, one of the startups working at the accommodation end of the collaborative consumption market, with a platform for people to rent out homes online, has picked up a roomy $40 million as i...

Just as Pinterest has become increasingly important to marketers, it's been said that the first company to own sentiment, or the interest graph, in a social context will be a force to be reckoned with...

Two worlds exist when it comes to the enterprise. The new generation of cloud services represent one space. They rely on distributed infrastructures on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the rest of the ve...

Two worlds exist when it comes to the enterprise. The new generation of cloud services represents one space. They rely on distributed infrastructures on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the rest of the v...

Calxeda has raised $55 million for its ultra-low-power server chips that use ARM-based processors instead of the Intel x86 architecture that now dominates the market....

HouseFix launched a year ago at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco with the goal of becoming the Carfax for your home. The Pennsylvania-based startup aimed to bring social recommendations to the home...

GREE, the $4.4 billion mobile gaming company from Japan that's trying to break into Western markets, is attempting to grow its gaming platform through a new program for indie developers. Called GREE L...

As the only French in the team, I couldn't browse HeTexted's website without having strong opinions on the subject. There's nothing as cute as a great love story. HeTexted asks anxious women to write ...

Big data is one of the more fascinating developments in today's tech world -- harnessing the huge wave of information that comes out of our many internet-based networks, and then trying to make sense ...

Big data is one of the more fascinating developments in today's tech world: harnessing the huge wave of information that comes out of our many internet-based networks, and then trying to make sense of...

I'm at the #BoxWorks conference in San Francisco this week, which is an odd place for me to be at first glance. Why odd? Because I don't really get into or cover "enterprise" technology. It's nothing ...

Love it or hate it, your job is a big part of your life. But you probably don't go to LinkedIn everyday. Maybe you only visit a few times a year.BranchOut thinks your professional network should be mo...

Zynga just announced that it's launching the sequel to its hit CityVille today in a closed beta test.The company blog post doesn't offer too many details about the game itself, beyond saying, "It has ...

Before you start commenting about how much I cover Google+, just hop over to The Next Web (my previous employer), to see the root of it all. I'm a firm believer in Google's approach to become mor...

When T-Mobile announced it would carry the LG Optimus L9 earlier today, I bemoaned the carrier's lack of compelling exclusive devices. As it turns out, that may have been a bit hasty of me -- Nokia ha...

Jive CEO Tony Zingale zinged Zynga, Yammer, Oracle and you name who else in an interview with Box CEO Aaron Levie at Boxworks. But the real story comes with Zingale appearing as a mystery guest for th...

Google's Nexus 7 tablet has been quite a hit, but there can be little doubt that the average quality of Android tablet apps still ranks behind iOS. Google is clearly aware of this and today, the compa...

The telecom company Sprint is currently experiencing issues with its network. We first heard reports of the outage on Twitter but a recording message from Sprint confirmed the issue. The incident is d...

Wayne Plimmer, a retiree living in Sechelt, British Columbia, filed a class action lawsuit against Google last week. In it, he and his attorney allege that Google's Gmail service "intercepts, obtains ...

Google announced today that it's bringing Google Play movies, TV shows and music to its Google TV platform, through an update that will allow users to rent or buy content through the included Google P...

Makers of the most viral video in Internet history, Kony 2012, launched theirnext phase to bring down child soldier Kingpin, Joseph Kony: release a new video, explain their co-founder's infamous naked...

Social commerce network Lockerz, which just lost its founder and CEO Kathy Savitt to Yahoo, has raised $7.5 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing. A spokesperson for the company confirmed...

Hands up if you know what Ericsson does? Yes, we all know about that Sony-Ericsson smartphone thingamajig. But as Hans Vestberg, Ericsson's surprisingly youthful CEO and President told me, Ericsson ca...

Facebook has just begun testing "Collections" -- a new feature it says is "unrelated" to Pinterest but could be a competitor. It allows retailers to add "Want" or "Collect" buttons to news feed posts ...

AT&T and Sprint have already laid claim to LG's flagship Optimus G handset, but what of the rest of the Big 4 national carriers? Verizon has been keeping awfully quiet on the subject -- maybe beca...

Skype isn't exactly immune to malware and spam, but criminals are hoping that its users are perhaps less vigilant about clicking through on random links sent to their accounts. According to multiple r...

Skype isn't exactly immune to malware and spam, but criminals are hoping that its users are perhaps less vigilant about clicking through on random links sent to their accounts. According to multiple r...

First Uber, now Lyft and Sidecar.The California Public Utilities Commission, which sought to shut down Uber, has served cease-and-desist letters to ride-sharing startups like Lyft, Sidecar, and Ticken...

As if it wasn't tough enough being an entrepreneur in France right now (OK, it's not impossible, but let's face it it could be easier) news reaches us that a global tech company like Twitter is having...

Twice, a secondhand clothing marketplacewith $4 million in funding, has come up with a creative way to hire new talent. The company is now putting up $1 million to acquire any Y Combinator, 500 Startu...

A number of leading browser vendors and other tech companies, including Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Facebook, HP, Nokia, Mozilla, Opera and the W3C, just announced the launch of the Web Platform Docs pr...

Whenever I use a food or restaurant review app, I sometimes feel like I'm being overwhelmed with recommendations, and it can be hard to distinguish recommendations and reviews that are trustworthy fro...

It's no secret the U.K. has been a 4G laggard, with LTE only now finally starting to get off the ground -- while the first big 4G deployment from a mobile operator won't go live until October 30. But ...

Microsoft has rolled out a notable update to its Kinect for Windows SDK today, while also announcing the availability of the Kinect for Windows sensor in China. The new version of the SDK introduces a...

On November 7, TechCrunch is rolling into Motown, ready to party at the TC Detroit Meetup. Hopefully, the budding startup scene of Detroit will be down for a party, too. As part of our Northern Meetup...

Capitalizing on our increasing loss of memorization skills, Sprint is today launching a new product that will let users replace their usual phone number with their name. And the product has perhaps th...

After years of talk about wearable fitness devices, I've been seeing more and more of them in the past few months, especially Nike's FuelBand. However, Julia Hu, CEO of startup Lark, says devices like...

Since last year, Alphabird has announced a string of acquisitions, mainly focused on bringing new technologies to its audience development platform. Today's purchase will help Alphabird expand into a ...

You know the office is changing when old school executives tell you they work from home. They might go into the office to check in but often they are either working out of the house our out on the roa...

Samba Mobile, a UK startup founded in 2010 which incentivises ad-watching by offering free 3G mobile broadband for desktop PC, laptop and tablet users in exchange for watching video adverts, has raise...

Polycom's new RealPresence CloudAxis Suite is designed to allow users to connect with anyone using a number of B2C video chat systems, including Skype, Facebook, and Google Talk. The service works wi...

Another digital step forward for the UK's BBC today, this time involving the corporation's radio assets: the state-owned broadcaster today is launching iPlayer Radio a new, integrated mobile web and d...

Did you know that George Lucas will pimp out the Star Wars franchise to anyone with $10 and a Twinkie? It's true. In related news, the Angry Birds Star Wars mashup launches on November 8th on iOS, And...

Pearl.com, the Q&A site formerly known as JustAnswer, has raised $25.7 million in a Series B funding round.The San Francisco-based company plans to use the money to add to expand its product globa...

Fashion tech startup, SalesGossip, a platform that offers members exclusive access to fashion sales events and promotions, has raised its first angel round after becoming the winner of RBS Enterprisin...

A U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee report recommends that top Chinese telecoms equipment makers Huawei and ZTE are shut out of the U.S. market because of the risk of espionage, Reu...

Tallinn-based tech accelerator Startup Wise Guys - yes, really - has struck a useful deal for the alumni companies that pass through its programme. It's secured a deal with a venture investor SmartCap...

Google-owned YouTube is continuing its original channels push to attract more advertising dollars -- by expanding its programming line-up internationally with the launch of country-specific channels i...

As digital health data grows, wearable health-tracking devices mature, tools used in remote diagnosis and treatment improve and with healthcare providers soon to be prescribing mobile health apps, the...

Nutmeg, the UK-based online investment management service that earlier this year raised $5.3 million from Pentech,Tim Draper, Spotify board member Klaus Hommels and Armada Investment Group chairmanDan...

Following its story last week that suppliers to Apple had kicked off production of a smaller iPad -- the so-called 'iPad mini' -- the Wall Street Journal is now reporting Apple has ordered more than 1...

These days you can't fully understand consumer Internet technology unless you watch TV. Between entreaties to Like brands on Facebook or use hashtags interspersed between segments on your local news s...

I wrote this post with my voice. I made no changes, save for a few typo corrections, and used no keyboard. That's probably why it's so bad.It's an experiment of mine. The hypothesis is whether or not ...

It is starting to seem like there's a startup providing subscription delivery services for just about everything: Razors, snacks, kids items, makeup, underwear, DIY craft tools, even condoms and sex t...

Alteryxhas opened a big data-analytics apps studiofor people who do not necessarily have a deep knowledge of data science.The service is available as part of Alteryx 8.0, the analytics provider's late...

Editors Note: Nir Eyal blogs about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business atNirAndFar.com. We are caught in an endless cycle of messaging hell and the pattern is always the same. Fir...

With Apple and Samsung still duking it out in the patent courtroom, a survey of U.S. consumers conducted by Morpace has taken a look at how the dispute is playing out among the gadget-buying public. A...

With Apple and Samsung still duking it out in the patent courtroom, a survey of U.S. consumers conducted by Morpace has taken a look at how the dispute is playing out among the gadget-buying public. A...

Editor's note: Scott Rafer is CEO of Lumatic, a company that believes Cities are Humanitys Future so they must be easier to love. Mapsarereally hard, but the industry aspects are even rougher than the...

eBay founder Elon Musk’s SpaceX sure has come a long way since its rocky beginnings — a string of early launch failures threatened to ground the project permanently. Thankfully, they soon ...

It's ironic that for a country that invented the word entrepreneur, France has gained such a reputation for being frosty towards startups. Take French culture, where talk of money is generally frowned...

When small businesses need to make investments into IT or other operations, it's often the companies selling them the goods that help with financing solutions. Now it looks like Google is using that m...

Editor's note: After a rejection by Kickstarter, the co-founders of Lockitron, Cameron Robertson and Paul Gerhardt, decided to follow in the footsteps of App.net and take pre-orders for their innovati...

Only weirdos enjoy hugs in real life. These people, likely hopped up on some sort of drug or whatnot, actually enjoy the physical embrace of another human being. But that's gross. The touching, the em...

Hey, remember Reader's Digest? It's a magazine that I can saw on lots of shelves when I was growing up. Now Editor in Chief Liz Vaccariello tells me that the magazine has undergone a "digital transfor...

Editor's note:Jack Krawczyk is head of monetization at StumbleUpon, the discovery platform. Jack was a founding member of Google+ and tweets about stuff.Have we forgotten that being social means ...

Editor's note:This weekend we're running a new column called Backed or Whacked byRoss Rubin. Cloud-connected smartphones and tablets have become vast repositories of our information. Still, theres mor...

For the first time in years, I've made the decision to pay for cable. I'm not the first to try this experiment recently, but the experience has already reminded me, why I didn't want to pay for cable ...

The fractured state of the Android platform cam make it a task to get an app up and running that won't want to make a customer through their tablet in the river.Testing can be a bear but cloud-based s...

Because we just experienced the one-year anniversary of Steve Jobs' passing, I began to think about how technology has impacted my life, and how different it is for today's children. I thought about m...

Survival in a harsher age. That's why we evolved to fear for our privacy. Without somewhere secret to sleep, defecate, or have sex so someone couldn't run up an club us while we were vulnerable.Times...

Survival in a harsher age. That's why we evolved to fear for our privacy. Without somewhere secret to sleep, defecate, or have sex so someone couldn't run up an club us while we were vulnerable.Times...

I'll stop by any startup showcase I can, but it's always a bonus when it happens to be local. Last week's TechTomorrow showcase, sponsored by TechColumbussaw nearly 50 regional startups show off the r...

The topic of this weeks column is time-honored when it comes to business, perhaps even overused in many cases, and in the startup world, sometimes mocked, and at others, romanticized, but usually only...

There's been plenty of (digital) ink spilled about the iPhone 5 camera's occasional tendency to capture purple flares (even though it's not an issue exclusive to Apple's latest handheld), and Apple re...

Plenty of digital ink has been spilled about the iPhone 5 camera's occasional tendency to capture purple flares (even though it's not an issue exclusive to Apple's latest handheld), and Apple released...

This is a guest post by Phil Dwyer, author, freelance writer and in the 1990s the first editor of seminal UK tech title, NMA. You can follow him on twitter at @phildwyer or on his blog.The publishing ...

It's not easy for a $63 billion company to make a successful pivot, but if eBay manages to pull it off, it will be one for the history books. The e-commerce giant has been shifting focus from being pr...

Editor's note: Somrat Niyogi is the CEO ofMiso.Every time I turn on the TV, I see Twitter. Hashtags and Twitter handles are on TV shows. There are dedicated pages to world events like the Olympic Game...

"The period of unprecedented expansion of immigrant-led entrepreneurship that characterized the 1980s and 1990s has come to a close," writes an ominous new Kauffman Foundation report from Stanford res...

Editors note: Colleen V. Chien is an assistant professor of law at Santa Clara University School of Law. Stefani E. Shanbergis a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.Its no fun receiving a ...

Editor's note:Rodney Rogers is chairman and CEO of Virtustream.I am a large enterprise. I employ many people, and make a good deal of money. I am a large enterprise. A vast array of technologies with...

Today, Nick Bilton of the New York Times published a pretty extensive piece on Twitter, specifically its CEO, Dick Costolo. As I read it, one paragraph concerning the potential IPO of the company stru...

When Google started raising money in 1998, Sergey Brin and Larry Page didn't have a revenue model -- or at least that's how the story goes. The company's highly successful text ad program didn't start...

Editor's note: Julie Ruvolo is afreelance writerand digital editor for the New York Museum of Sex. You can follow her on.According to a growing list ofreligious groups,feminists, celebrities andpolicy...

Editors note:Tadhg Kellyis a game designer with 20 years experience. Zynga's misery continues, yet mobile seems a little rosier. Games using broadly the same game design as many of the successful Face...

San Francisco-based startup SuperBetter Labs is shifting the focus of its namesake social game to focus on strengthening mental resiliency, a decision that coincides with the release of its iPhone app...

The Gillmor Gang Scoble, Marks, Taschek, Teare, and Gillmor spend way too much time obsessing over the relative value of photos in the stream and Twitter's comprehensive dismantling of third party a...

Republican Congressman, Dr. Paul Broun, a member of the House of Representatives' Committee on Science, Space and Technology, was caught on video arguing that evolution and the Big Bang Theory are "li...

David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, has sent his first tweet. Despite joining Twitter in January 2010 his verified account had never tweeted anything — until a few moments ago, when he sa...

It strikes me as wrong that our most powerful and expensive and familiar objects should be the ones we love the least. We hold them and touch them every day, look at them for hours on end, sleep next ...

Skype alternative FriendCaller says it has doubled the number of users it has worldwide to 10 million in less than a year. The FriendCaller service, which lets people talk to other FriendCaller member...

In France, it is the biggest startup funding round ever. Warner Music Group's owner Access Industries and previous investor Idinvest are investing 100 million ($130 Million) into music streaming start...

Electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn has denied earlier reports that thousands of workers went on strike on Friday at a plant that assembles Apple's latest iPhone -- reportedly causing production o...

The maker movement is on the cusp of a boom. They're job-creating world-changers, on the verge of thoroughly disrupting everything from crafts to consumer electronics to, heck, well, everything, by de...

The best line of defense is attack -- and if you can couch your attack in authoritative legal language and attach it to lofty legal principles, so much the better. That's the underlying message behind...

It's official: the iOS6 Mapgate saga is not another antennagate. Consumer Reports -- which famously said it could not recommend the iPhone 4 because of reception problems caused by the phone's wrap-ar...

It's official: the iOS6 Mapgate saga is not another antennagate. Consumer Reports -- which famously said it could not recommend the iPhone 4 because of reception problems caused by the phone's wrap-ar...

It's official: the iOS 6 Mapgate saga is not another antennagate. Consumer Reports -- which famously said it could not recommend the iPhone 4 because of reception problems caused by the phone's wrap-a...

Internet retail giant Amazon is to spend more than $1bn to buy the Seattle corporate HQ it currently leases. Reuters is reporting the $1.16bn transaction is the biggest commercial real estate deal for...

Internet retail giant Amazon is to spend more than $1bn to buy the Seattle corporate HQ it currently leases. Reuters is reporting the $1.16bn transaction is the biggest commercial real estate deal for...

Editor's note: Michelle Snyder is executive in residence at InterWest Partners focusing on the transformative role that mobile, social, and data can play in the healthcare industry. You can follow her...

As the amount of digitally collectable data grows, we've entered a period of homebrew health, investor Esther Dyson said when being interviewed by the New York Times' John Markoff at Stanford School o...

Last week, we gave away 20 tickets to Box's annual BoxWorks event that's happening October 7th-9th in San Francisco. There will be incredible speakers going, some of which include: Box CEO Aaron Levie...

Lytics made its debut today at the PIE(Portland Incubator Experiment) Demo Day with the unveling of its real-time analytics service. Lytics, which is in the process of finalizing a seed round of fundi...

It's been exactly one month since Twitter announced the 1.1 version of its APIs and the fact that some things were going to change for third-party developers. A lot of folks, including me, took that t...

It's been exactly one month since Twitter announced the 1.1 version of its APIs and the fact that some things were going to change for third-party developers. A lot of folks, including me, took that t...

Early-stage investment firmTrinity Venturesis raising a $325 million fund, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.The firm was founded in 1986, and says it makes seed and ea...

Every once in a while, you attend an event that calls for a special suit. Leveraging technology and applying lean startup techniques to custom suits is what Proper Suit is all about. After having cont...

The year was 2008 and Zynga had it all figured out. Facebook became a portal to games for those who had never played. Viral growth there was unchecked. Facebook ad rates were low, so buying traffic wa...

ROCKZi, the social news service launched in July by search startup Blekko, has released a new feature allowing users to embed their "news boards" on other websites.VP of Marketing Mike Markson describ...

Gillmor Gang - Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live at 1pm Pacific....

Apple's iOS 6 adoption got off to a quick start, but now, two weeks on, it looks like it may be evening out. New data from Chartboost today, covering the time between iOS 6's launch and Wednesday, sug...

There's been no shortage of LG Nexus phone rumors these past few days, but it seems the time for speculation may have come to an abrupt end. CNET has apparently confirmed with sources close to the mat...

Using search engine optimization (SEO) to get unsuspecting web surfers to go to malicious websites isn't exactly new and it's a problem that Google, Bing and other search engines are very aware of. Ac...

Toronto-based accelerator Extreme Startups was first announced in January, with a $7 million fund to invest in early-stage companies, and its first cohort took place during the late spring and early s...

Unless you're a Hipster, eyeglasses are a major pain: kids wearing them get bullied, they're expensive, they don't play well with sports, and they can't make up for perfect 20/20 vision. Finally, ther...

At its three-day Global Leadership Conference this week, Starbucks announced further details about its planned rollout and support for Square's mobile payments platform. First revealed in August, the ...

If you are a regular eBay user, chances are that you are not constantly getting burned in your sales transactions, but for those who do run into trouble, it's good to know that you have options for ho...

Some interesting new stats from a study shared with us by Russian consulting firm Empatika provide a picture of how some of the most popular apps in Apple's App Store are reviewed, and what strategies...

Andreessen Horowitz continues building its arsenal. Days after the announcement that it had invested $15m in innovative hip hop annotations startup Rap Genius, we learn that it's hired Elizabeth Weil ...

Andreessen Horowitz continues building its arsenal. Days after the announcement that it had invested $15m in innovative hip hop annotations startup Rap Genius, we learn that it's hired Elizabeth Weil ...

Andreessen Horowitz continues building its arsenal. Days after the announcement that it had invested $15m in innovative hip hop annotations startup Rap Genius, we learn that it's hired Elizabeth Weil ...

Microsoft's Bing just announced that it is adding a section for news authors to its social sidebar. "Much of the information we consume and search for relates to current events," says the Bing Team, "...

Microsoft's Bing just announced that it is adding a section for news authors to its social sidebar. "Much of the information we consume and search for relates to current events," says the Bing Team, "...

One of the most frustrating things that can happen at work is finding out that an important email is locked away in a colleague's inbox, and you can't get ahold of some crucial information until that ...

Neumitra, a startup founded by neuroscientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has a big vision: It wants to help everyone stress less, no small feat in this turbo-charged world. The f...

We're clearly entering a time when 'big data' is increasingly crowd-sourced information. There are few better examples of this than what OpenSignal (formerly known as OpenSignalMaps) is doing. Via it'...

It's no secret that Uber's disruptive on-demand car and taxi service is ruffling feathers amongst the taxi industry. It seems that in every city in which Uber launches, there's legal pushback from the...

Little Bird, a startup that helps PR agencies, marketers, and media companies identify influencers on virtually any topic, is launching in private beta today.The company was founded by tech blogger Ma...

We should all thank Twitter for a world where powerful people can say delightfully crazy things without the silly filter of public relations professional protecting their reputation. This morning, in ...

Not everything needs a web server... or does it? The Visual Energy Monostrip is one of the first power strips - more an outlet, really - with a built-in server that allows you to configure, control, a...

Not everything needs a web server... or does it? The Visible Energy Monostrip is one of the first power strips - more an outlet, really - with a built-in server that allows you to configure, control, ...

The new iPod touch, with its 4-inch Retina Display and new multi-colored aluminum backs is reportedly preparing to ship out, reports claim. First, MacRumors reports that pre-order customers are seeing...

Rovio is doing something Star Wars-themed with Angry Birds on October 8, according to a new animated GIF the company posted to its brand new Tumblr page today. Obvious thing's first: That's clearly an...

Some of my friends are idiots. And by idiots, I mean they disagree with me about who should win the upcoming election. What's worse, is that they continually post these erroneous opinions of theirs to...

It's about that time. No longer just the source of hacking experiments for hobbyists, the Kinect is becoming a platform for real, venture-backed companies. 3Gear Systems is a new startup among this wa...

Editor's note:DJ Patil is a data scientist in residence atGreylock Partners. You can follow him on Twitter.The enterprise is back. Were seeing a resurgence of companies to help support everyday work t...

Intel looks as if it's finally getting its act together in the smartphone market. The chipmaker can now point to six phones that have launched this year with its Atom x86 Medfield chips inside, includ...

Kobo announced today via its company blog that the Kobo Glo and Kobo Mini e-readers are now on sale at Canadian retailers Indigo, Future Shop and Best Buy, and in the U.K. at WHSmith. The $80 Mini and...

HashTip is a new mobile app targeting savvy shoppers, primarily moms, who want to share tips with each other about kids' products, activities and deals. (OK, cue snarky comment about how we already ha...

I'm starting to wonder if Berlin can take any more injection of tech startup activity and whether the proliferation of accelerators has tipped over the top. Will Berlin have enough incoming people to ...

The battle for gender equality is played out on many levels, from the workplace to the playground -- and, as it turns out, the world of TV viewing: a new study out from Nielsen indicates that when it ...

One year later we can't forget him. It wasn't supposed to be this way. He made computers and phones and MP3 players. He wasn't a political figure, a missionary, a healer. He was a guy who knew how to ...

The Baltic country of Estonia -- known as the birthplace of Skype and a go-to market for tech companies in the U.S. and elsewhere needing developers -- is making another IT investment so that younger ...

According to the NYTimes, tens of thousands of users have seen the following message pop up on their Gmail, Chrome browser, or Google home page: "Warning: We believe state-sponsored attackers may be a...

Today in a Mannheim court a judge ruled that Motorola Mobility did not infringe a Microsoft patent that deals with allowing software applications to work with a phone's radio antennas across a range o...

Mobile network operator Cubic Telecom, which runs the MAXroam cut-price roaming MVNO, has inked a deal worth "tens of millions" of dollars with Australian retail giant Woolworths. Maxroam's virtual SI...

This. Despite Microsoft's best efforts, the only thing Internet Explorer is good for is loading ninite.com and downloading Chrome and Firefox. It's still bloated, it's still slow and it's still a pain...

When we covered the launch of f6s this year it looked like a simple but useful platform for founders and startups to keep track of all the events and accelerator programs that happen globally. The rea...

Apple has posted a video on its homepage today, with footage of Steve Jobs over the years speaking at keynotes and Apple events, showing images of him and the products he created that changed the way ...

Samsung is reporting a record quarterly profit of $7.3 billion in earnings guidance ahead of its full Q3 report. Reuters notes the figure is nearly double the amount of profit the Korean electronics g...

DEMO Fall 2012 wrapped up in Santa Clara today, where 77 startups took the stage to show off their apps, services and products. The young companies were given six minutes to pitch their ideas and impr...

Apple's online store went offline on Thursday evening -- sporting the usual "We'll be back. We're busy updating the Apple Store for you and will be back soon" missive (h/t to AllThingsD which spotted...

One of the coolest features that you can get from Google is the capability to see on a map and time it the time it will take to get to a destination either by walking, bike, car or mass transit based ...

When you think of the top-tier people in tech today, you'll certainly think of Vinod Khosla. From his role as a co-founder of Sun Microsystems to his current role at Khosla Ventures, his time has been...

Ubiquity and intelligence are the two maxims of the post-PC world that Base places most importance in its mobile CRM service.It makes sense. I have talked to several companies that see an opportunity ...

As Jon Ferrara what he thinks of today's CRM software, and he'll tell you, patently, that it sucks. Ferrara is the co-founder and former CEO of GoldMine, one of the pioneers of customer relationship m...

Altogether, some estimate San Francisco will have more than a million visitors entering the city this weekend for all these events. That's a huge amount, considering that on a good day San Francisco h...

Windows 8 will launch on October 26, but since it's already available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers, as well as through a free trial, it almost feels as though it's out already. Before it officiall...

After cutting its full-year projections for bookings and earnings, Zynga's shares fell more than 20 percent to an all-time low in after-hours trading. The company's shares are trading at $2.22, down m...

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."I've spent a good part of this morning defending two blog posts that hit the TechCrunch homepage last n...

For Oracle, it's about the machine, not the user; this became abundantly clear this week at Oracle Open World. Oracle talks the cloud talk but what the company is really doing is protecting its base, ...

ZEFR has been focused on getting Hollywood studios to let it license their movies, and create clips to put on YouTube. But it's recently added a new business focused on helping content creators across...

Here's a neat, well-deserved win for a startup company: Paper, the critically acclaimed drawing application for iPad is now being featured by Apple on iPad demo units in its retail stores, and now has...

The 3D printer craze shows no signs of stopping and Kickstarter is full of exciting examples of new printing hardware. Today's entrant in the 3D race? The devilishly cute PandaBot, a "fur white" 3D pr...

The passage of the JOBS Act earlier this year cemented that not just in practice, but in policy. As a result, it's been a huge year for crowdfunding platforms -- especially Kickstarter, which has rais...

Holy cow AT&T, another announcement? While most of the other national wireless carriers have opted to save some news for later on, AT&T keeps pushing out releases like its going out of style.A...

Gaming company Zynga has just released preliminary financial results for the third quarter of 2012, lowering its outlook for the year. The company expects to report full Q3 results October 24. Zynga e...

We've already seen that the new Facebook Exchange for retargeted ads is delivering impressive results for advertisers. Now a startup called Perfect Audience aims to make those campaigns accessible to ...

Facebook grew to 1 billion uses by adding massive value on top of what came before it. Specifically, authenticated identity. There may be no greater leap forward another social network could take, and...

Facebook grew to 1 billion users by adding massive value on top of what came before it. Specifically, authenticated identity. There may be no greater leap forward another social network could take, an...

Imagine Google Analytics but for world trade, with graphs showing data like shipping volume instead of site visitors. Combine that with LinkedIn-style profiles, but for manufacturers, and you get Panj...

TuneIn, the online radio service that just raised $16 million from an impressive group of Silicon Valley venture capital firms, quietly amassed over 40 million monthly active listeners over the last f...

AT&T has had a lot of announcements today, most notably the arrival of the Nokia Lumia 920 and 820, exclusively on their network. But Samsung and Android are getting in the mix too, as the blue ca...

We've heard of bags that charge your gadgets — the Powerbag Instant Messenger comes to mind — but none targeted directly at women. That's where the Everpurse comes in....

According to The Next Web, it has come to our attention that sending someone a link to something in a private message increases the "Like" numbers on public counters, by two....

Here's something straight out of science fiction: the University of Iowa is offering a new service to help students overcome test anxiety, using a mind-reading technology that guides them into a state...

Last week, we noted that Facebook's stock appeared to have gotten a nice little bumpafter it announced its move into the sale of physical gifts, potentially opening a new revenue stream for the compan...

Microsoft is sending out invites for a Windows Phone 8 launch event on October 29, to be held at 10 AM PST. The phone platform was shown off on stage during a joint event with Nokia, and also during ...

One of the benefits of the web is that you can eschew traditional models of distribution and talk to your customer one-on-one. In what I consider a first for ecommerce, guitar makers MacKenzie & M...

Microsoft has acquired PhoneFactor, a service which provides an additional layer of security during the authentication process, which today typically involves just a username and password (aka single-...

The Lumia 920 was supposed to be the savior of Windows Phone. It was going to finally usher Windows Phone into the mainstream. It packs the right goods for the job with forward-thinking features such ...

Google's Vic Gundotra flew to Baltimore yesterday and happily shared a photo he took during his flight on Google+. Nothing special there, but what's interesting is that he sent the photo to Googl...

Barnes & Noble has been aiming to spin off their Nook business since last April and now the ink is dry on a new partnership between Nook Media, a subsidiary of B&N, and Microsoft. Microsoft in...

Today Autodesk, best known for its AutoCAD product, announced that it has acquired enterprise social networking company Qontext from the India-based incubator Pramati. Terms of the deal were not discl...

"In the Studio" enters Q4 by welcoming someone who picked up computer science because he was bored in college, went on to build products and bootstrapped businesses before eventually packing his bags ...

Theres a growing tendency for peoples contacts to find homes across multiple services, and the prospect of wrangling them all together is one that more than a few startups have tried to tackle. Contac...

Facebook today announced that it now has 1 billion monthly active users, but although it is a social network, that doesn't mean that many on there are using it for social causes. Today the company sai...

Romney ended the night as the undisputed champion of last night's talking-point ping pong (er, "debate"). A post-eventpollby CNNshowed a Grand Canyon-size 2:1 gap among viewers in favor of Romney's pe...

With the official launch of Windows 8 just around the corner, Mozilla today unveiledits first preview release of Firefox Metro. The Metro version of Firefox, Mozilla says, was "designed from the groun...

As the market for angel and seed investments has heated up, Dave McClure's 500 Startups has been growing aggressively. It was just six months ago that 500 Startups raised its second fund, bringing on ...

Sunglass, a company that made its private beta debut back at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, is announcing its official, wide public launch today. The startup provides a web-based tool for sharing and co...

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...

"Frictionless sharing," the Facebook Open Graph mechanism which some news sites and video apps have poorly used to boost their own virality at users' expense, has been one of morecontroversialchanges ...

HP is hiring 50 developers for the WebOS platform, marking a new turn for the company's troubled mobile market play.The news comes as HP continues its effort to make WebOS a secure, open platform....

Well, it looks like Tim Tuttle is doing pretty well for himself. His last company, the video search platform Truveo, was acquired by AOL in early 2006 for an undisclosed (but reportedly hefty) sum, an...

A new patent application uncovered by AppleInsider today shows that Apple's is working on ways to make hybrid headphones that work via both Bluetooth and a wired connection, and can switch seamlessly ...

RainStor, makers of a "NewSQL" database, announced that has received a $12 million series C round led by Credit Suisse And Rogers Venture Partners with participation by previous investors Doughty Hans...

Google has finally made some headway on the litigation over copyright infringement for the Google Library Project; and the deal puts in place another key piece of the puzzle for Google Books. Google h...

BIB is a line-following robot that just took a job at the Technical Museum in Malmo, Sweden. She leads guests around the exhibits, talking about each one, and she stares at them malevolently with her ...

TechStars NYC graduate Moveline is having a big day. The company's mission to alleviate the struggle of moving your home just got that much sweeter, with the introduction of an iPhone app....

Flipboard, the popular social news magazine for iOS and Android, is now turning its editorial eye to the land of KickStarter. Starting today, the company will begin sourcing projects from the crowdsou...

AT&T has just announced plans to carry Nokia's new flagship Windows Phone 8 devices, the Lumia 920 and the Lumia 820. Nokia fans have been excited about these for a while, considering that Windows...

Finnish mobile startup Jolla has announced it will be unveiling its forthcoming MeeGo-based mobile OS -- codenamed Sailfish -- at an event in Finland next month. It says it plans to demonstrate Sailfi...

Amazon introduces Cloud Drive in Italy and Spain following September's launch in the UK, Germany and France. Cloud Drive is Amazon's digital locker offering to complete its media offering. As the Kind...

The proliferation of smartphones has made it incredibly easy for us to take numerous photos and record videos, but it has also left us to deal with massive media archives stored on our devices. When y...

ZocDoc, the startup that makes a web-centric booking platform for medical appointments, today is launching its first new product since its inception: ‘Check-In,’ a service that lets patien...

SmugMug's Camera Awesome is an App Store success story, with more than 7 million users on board since its debut on Apple's mobile software marketplace earlier this year in February. Now, SmugMug is ho...

First, the good news: There is now a full-featured TomTom navigation Android app. It features live traffic data, multi-stop routing, and a gorgeous interface. But there is a bit of bad news, too. In f...

Facebook also announced today that it will be kicking off an advertising campaign to promote its brand, specifically targeting 13 countries including Brazil, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, ...

Sourcebooks, a U.S. book publisher, has used Apple's iBooks Author tool to launch iPad editions of three Shakespeare plays on Apple's iBooks 2 store. The iBooks include extra content focused on the hi...

Last week saw a little skirmish in the mobile platform wars, when news broke that Huawei, which makes smartphones based on Google's Android OS, was working on an operating system of its own -- first r...

Today Acer officially unveiled the U.S. and Canadian availability, pricing and full spec list of its Iconia W700 Windows 8 tablet. The tablets will ship on October 26, the same day Windows 8 is schedu...

Local reviews site Yelp -- which is up against big competition in Europe in competitor Qype -- has launched Yelp Poland, giving it a stronger base in Central Europe.The U.S. publicly listed company al...

Today Trifacta, a company building a cross-platform interface for dealing with big data, announced that it received a $4.3 million investment from the Accel Partners Big Data Fund. The company also ra...

For the past three years the White Bull Summit in Barcelona has been doing something that too few tech conferences in Europe really do: talk about exits for startups. In recent times it's become so co...

Social network Facebook officially hit the 1 billion active monthly user mark, the company announced today. In a post on the official Facebook blog, founder Mark Zuckerberg shared a note celebrating t...

It seems like just last week that Zeebox launched its second screen app in the U.S., also announcing partnerships with Comcast, NBC Universal, and HBO to offer up exclusive content and tie-ins with th...

AOL's On Network, which is the company's distribution and syndication network, has steadily grown the number of videos in its library, as well as the number watched each month by viewers. It's now Num...

The online accounting space in the UK is pretty crowded, as multiple cloud players aim to take the thrown from the legacy incumbent Sage. These include the likes of KashFlow,Crunch, FreeAgent and Clea...

South Korean electronics giant Samsung -- which makes pretty much every gadget and gizmo you can think of from mobile phones to household refrigerators and even tanks -- is on a graduate recruitment d...

Google has yet to publish a native Google Maps app for Apple's iOS devices (although we hear it's coming soon), but in the meantime it continues to beef up the experience on its iOS-focused web app, t...

300 IT security professionals from across Europe are locking horns in a simulated cyber war exercise taking place today which -- if it was a real attack -- would be capable of disrupting services for ...

Back in June Amazon officially opened its appstore to international apps, adding support for software intended for the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Today it's expanded the international reach...

Yes, we know that tonight was a record-setting night for Twitter. The first 2012 Presidential Debate was the most tweeted about political event in company history. Whether you care or not, this is sig...

Cozy, a startup trying to take a lot of the headache out of the landlord-tenant relationship, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding.The round was led by The Social+Capital Partnership, the vent...

Angry Birds has become such a mobile institution, and its maker, Rovio, has gone so far in its extension of that brand -- toys, books, t-shirts, cereal, theme parks, films and more games-- that this m...

Amazon Simple Email Service(Amazon SES) is the kind of service that Amazon Web Services (AWS) does so well. It automates the manual task of adding email to apps so developers can focus on doing what t...

Jumio, the computer vision startup backed by$32 million in funding fromAndreessen Horowitz, Eduardo Saverin and others, is today announcing the first travel application to integrate its Netswipe techn...

So, Facebook launched its "Gifts" product, and I was keen to take it for a whirl. I proceeded to visit my fiancee's wall and pick something out that she might like. There were a ton of options, includ...

I've been waiting for this moment all day, so I want to thank Twitter comms for finally giving me the opportunity to write this post. Apparently and unsurprisingly, tonight's Presidential debate gave ...

When you're managing a collaborative space for your team at work or a group of folks working on a project, you know that security is extremely important. Dropbox knows this, too, and launched its two-...

Millions of people see the end products put out by DreamWorks Animation, the movie studio co-founded by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen. But the technology that makes those movi...

John Wiley & Sons, the 200-year-old publishing giant best known for its scientific, technical and medical texts and journals geared towards academic and scholarly audiences, appears to be on a mis...

Dobango, a startup that allows brands to promote themselves through fan competitions on Pinterest, just announced that it has raised $600,000 in seed funding.The company is led by Devkumar Gandhi, who...

Ben Horowitz loves hip-hop, but in an interview with TechCrunch he outlined a deeper vision behind his firm's $15M investment into Rap Genius. "Knowledge about knowledge over time becomes as important...

On September 24, French newspapers alerted Facebook that there could be a bug that would display private messages written in 2009 and earlier on users' timelines. It was then invalidated by Facebook. ...

We heard rumors about Google acquiring the augmented reality and image recognition firm Viewdle earlier this week. Turns out, those rumors were true. Google's Motorola Mobility unit just announced tha...

The x86 chip is an Intel crown jewel. It's the processor for millons of servers around the globe. But now it appears that software has invaded the land of hardware yet again with the news that a group...

LG's last big (and I mean big) smartphone release around these parts was the Intuition, a funky phablet that many a critic panned. Thankfully, the company's straight-laced follow-up -- the nicely spec...

It's rare to see the creation of a product from idea to implementation but Blink Steady, a unique, multi-sensor bike light, allowed us to do just that. Created by Benjamin Cohen, Stuart Heys, and Mark...

The fact is, the majority of tech industry investors are men -- that goes from the larger venture capital firms that fund companies in the mid- to late-stages, to the angel investors who help to get s...

YouTube today announced that it is making some important changes to its appeals process for users who think their videos were falsely flagged for copyright infringements by YouTube's Content ID system...

Apple posted multiple job ads today, and one in particular is interesting given the company's recent decisions. The posting is seeking an "SoC Modelling Architect / Lead," or in th words of the job de...

Bombay-based security software companySeclore has developed a way for your email to self-destruct. This may be just the way for companies to get past the paradox that collaboration poses....

Flinja wants to create a peer-to-peer jobs marketplace based on student and alumni networks within various universities around the country. It seeks to differentiate itself from other marketplace star...

In July of last year, Jon Bischke and John McGrath co-founded Entelo to help companies large and small identify and recruit technical talent. Since then, the startup has been in limited beta, providin...

Facebook says that today 220 million people are visiting its App Center every month, with 40% likely to return the day after they use it for more. But with thousands of apps available, and visitors lo...

Facebook says that today 220 million people are visiting its App Center every month, with 40% likely to return the day after they use it for more. But with thousands of apps available, and visitors lo...

Amazon apparently underestimated the success of its newest e-reader. The company just updated its shipping estimate, pushing back the delivery date to four to six weeks after ordering. Both models, wi...

App.net, the Dalton Caldwell startup that pivoted from being essentially an About.me for apps, and towards being a paid Twitter alternative, today got a boost on the software side thanks to the introd...

I love foursquare, I check in from pretty much everywhere I go. However, I would say that the Curiosity Rover on Mars is seeing cooler scenery than I ever have. Today, foursquare reported that the cra...

Photographers and designers often have to face problems mortal men do not. More precisely, they need to share huge files - up to 2GB - with each other in order to send around high resolution photos an...

Watch out below! HP's stock is tumbling to new lows as the company lays out its 5-year recovery program. Wall Street clearly doesn't like what it's hearing either. HP's stock opened at 17.35 and maint...

Amazon has quietly started to add closed captioning services to its Instant Video library, following a September 30 deadline from the Federal Communications Commission that required online media compa...

As the U.S. real estate market is slowly starting to gather some steam again, real estate portals like Redfin, Trulia and Zillow are again competing as important tools for prospective buyers who want ...

Hewlett-Packard was once the king of Silicon Valley. Not anymore. After years of executive turnover, the company has lost its soul although the money keeps pouring in. Meg Whitman intends to right the...

One of my favorite unconferences is the European edition of Stream, the WPP/Yossi Vardi hosted extravaganza held annually just outside Athens. Last year, I interviewed Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP's ebulli...

The Samwer brothers, their Rocket Internet investment vehicle and their portfolio of e-commerce companies have been some of the harder-to-penetrate parts of the European startup ecosystem. They often ...

Facebook is expanding to the US the controversial Promoted Posts feature that lets users pay to get their posts more visibility in the news feed. It will cost $7 per post and Facebook hopes it will be...

Startup Weekend, the organization behind the weekend-long hackathons encouraging entrepreneurship, has acquired local events resource and email newsletter provider StartupDigest for an undisclosed sum...

Presidential debates were not always a soapbox for ideological soundbites. During the heyday of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, debates lasted several hours and dared to tackle policy nuan...

Airbnb has been pretty disruptive to the hospitality industry, by allowing guests to find non-hotel lodging provided by other human beings, like, in their house or apartment or whatever. It's awesome!...

Despite the news that Facebook is going to implement Facebook Gifts which will literally allow you to send a real gift to a friend whose address you don't have, there's a startup out there that is not...

Apple's iPad mini is now the subject of a bumper crop of fall rumors, and the stakes are higher now that the Wall Street Journal has chimed in with a report that production is underway on the smaller-...

As the fallout from Apple's decision to launch its own mapping app for iOS continues, Google is clearly trying to turn Apple's problems into an opportunity for itself. Without a native Google Maps for...

Here's an investment out of left field, but not really. Andreessen Horowitz is dropping $15M into startup Rap Genius. It's not just about rap, though. Think of it as "crowdsourced explanations of lyri...

Mobile and social game developer Crowdstar is at it again with a new CEO at the helm. The company is promoting from within and giving Jeffrey Tseng, the general manager of products, the top slot. Pete...

I've become pretty familiar with the sinking feeling that kicks in when I realize I'm going to be late, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. San Francisco startup Twist set out to make those ensuing "Oh...

Carlos Rosillo, the CEO of Bell & Ross, has built and maintained one of the most interesting and recognizable watch brands in the world. His watches - angular, dark, and designed for rough treatme...

Although it wasn't among the services Google axed during its latest bout of "spring cleaning," it's definitely the end of an era for Google Shopping: starting on October 17th, the serviceformerly know...

Start to finish party planning site Punchbowl has raised $1.5 million in financing from Silicon Valley Bank. This brings Punchbowl's total funding to $5.5 million.As we've written in the past, Punchbo...

These days, it seems like every city and township in North America has its own startup accelerator and is on its way to creating a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem. While these apparent symptoms of ...

Twitter just announced a partnership with Nielsen that should give brands a new way to measure the impact of their advertising campaigns.Apparently, in the same way that you now see Promoted Tweets in...

Retail giant Target is adding a new technology to its mobile initiativesQR Codes. Target will debut QR codes in stores for the season's 20 most popular toys. You can use the Target mobile app to scan ...

In a new piece today that cites multiple current and former Apple employees as sources, Bloomberg Businessweek asks the question of whether Apple's maps fiasco would've happened under Steve Jobs. The ...

There are over 40,000 Apple retail employees out in the world, and if the rumors from MacRumors are true, at least some of them are working tirelessly to improve iOS 6 Maps. If you've been living unde...

Customers of U.K. carriers Orange and T-Mobile keen to sign up to the country's first 4G LTE network (launching from EE), which will go live in ten cities on October 30, will need an LTE handset to do...

A good chunk of Samsung's recent smartphone releases seemed intent on stretching people's hands beyond their limits, but it seems like the company may be ready to buck that trend very soon. According ...

Lemon, the makers of a mobile wallet application for iPhone and Android, is today launching its developer platform, cleverly called "Lemonade." The "ADE" stands for "Application Development Engine," a...

People who own iPhones are much more likely to research buying decisions, comparison shop, and actually purchase things on their devices than are mobile users on Android, BlackBerry or Windows Phone d...

Films of books can often help drive sales of those books, and bestsellers often make for movie blockbusters, so it's no surprise to see online bookseller Amazon today announcing that its content devel...

Square, the startup disrupting the payments industry with its easy smartphone/tablet card-reader, has today launched Square Directory. It is a web-based search engine that allows users to find new mer...

RIM is not done with the PlayBook. The company just announced a major update for its tablet. The software update will be available later today for the WiFi PlayBook and brings a host of significant im...

Mogreet, the Los Angeles-based startup that provides brands and marketers with a distribution platform for mobile video messaging, today announced the release of its API developer portal, which allows...

Betterment, an investment platform for your savings, has raised $10 million in financing led by Menlo Ventures with Bessemer Venture Partners and Anthemis Group also participating in the round. This b...

I've been watching Watchitoo for several years now, and to be honest, I never really got it. A few years ago, the startup launched with some pretty slick consumer-facing technology for group video cha...

ShoeDazzle, the online shoe and fashion retailer endorsed by Kim Kardashian and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Polaris, Lightspeed and others, has raised another $6 million in a mixture of equity and ...

The boards of T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom and MetroPCS has approved a deal to merge MetroPCS and T-Mobile USA, sources told the Wall Street Journal this morning. T-Mobile previously sough...

The boards of T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom and MetroPCS has approved a deal to merge MetroPCS and T-Mobile USA, sources told the Wall Street Journal this morning. T-Mobile previously sough...

Skype is coming out with a bunch of announcements today and perhaps (perhaps) it's sign of a re-invigorated operation even though there remains continuing grumbles from users about the actual product ...

1000memories, the San Francisco-based startup which offers web and mobile applications for storing, organizing, sharing, and most importantly, digitizing, your print photographs, has been acquired. Gi...

Microsoft's retail efforts continue to grow, with its first permanent international store opening in the Yorkdale Mall in Toronto in November, and now the company has also confirmed that temporary sto...

Via Licensing, a fully owned subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, today announced that ten major players in the mobile industry have banded together to join the organization's new patent pool for standar...

Zappos has teamed up with social fashion site Chicisimoto launch a microsite for social commerce. Chicisimo is a social media site for fashionistas to post and vote on pictures of their latest looks, ...

After becoming a 2011 MassChallenge finalist and graduating from TechStars Boston, Libboo shifted gears earlier this year, moving away from crowdsourced, team publishing to discovery. The idea being t...

The U.K.'s first LTE network -- run by EE (formerly Everything Everywhere) the parent company of the Orange and T-Mobile carriers -- will go live on October 30, EE's CEO Olaf Swantee has confirmed. Th...

Revel, maker of an iPad-based point-of-sales system that includes both software and hardware, today announced that not only has it become profitable after its first year of market availability, but it...

HotelTonight just announced that it has acquired a company called PrimaTable. This is the hotel booking startup's first acquisition.The financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed, but the com...

Back in June, Brightcove unveiled a new strategy to take its App Cloud development platform open source, and at the same time it introduced a new dual-screen Apple TV feature aimed at growing its busi...

Online kids clothing consignment shopthredUPis taking in additional capital in order to further scale its operations and expand to new verticals, the company announced today. New investor Highland Cap...

Appcelerator is all about speeding the development of rich, native mobile apps. One way Appcelerator does this is with Titanium, its next-gen mobile app development platform. But now it's looking to a...

More drama in the Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers / Ellen Pao discrimination case. Just hours ago, it was revealed that Ellen Pao had said that she was fired from the VC firm where she was a par...

The iPad Mini speculation could be about to be put to bed if a report in the WSJ is on the money. The paper is reporting that Asian suppliers to Apple have kicked off mass production of components req...

Promising to help online publishers increase engagement, ensuring that visitors stick around for longer and return more often, Blooies chat and analytics platform gets its official push today. In its ...

As Nokia continues to downsize its operations to conserve cash, the handset maker is looking to sell its global headquarters in Espoo, Finland for a price of up to $387 million (300 million). The news...

A company that has acquired 100% of the ownership of a patent for an off-site transcription system -- United States Patent 6,298,328 -- in order to, in its words, "effectively administer certain paten...

Another dramatic turn of events in the case of Ellen Pao, who has been suing the VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers over gender discrimination. Pao was fired on Monday -- a development Pao ...

Another dramatic turn of events in the case of Ellen Pao, who has been suing the VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers over gender discrimination. Pao was fired on Monday -- a development Pao ...

Another dramatic turn of events in the case of Ellen Pao, who has been suing the VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers over gender discrimination. Pao was fired on Monday -- a development Pao ...

Larry Ellison said today that Oracle does not plan to do any acquisitions in the next few years but would not rule one out down the road. Hemade the remarks in aCNBC interview at OracleOpenWorld in Sa...

Just Eat, the multinational online food ordering and delivery company that raised $64 million in April fromVitruvian Partners, Index Ventures, Greylock and Redpoint,is today announcing its first acqui...

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. -- Steve JobsA few months ago, former Facebooker Sacha Tueni and Mat...

Everyday your friends are getting married, breaking up, and getting drunk, but it can be hard to follow along. So today The Taploid launches its web app that runs natural language processing on your F...

Google just announced that Google Apps for Business, Education and Government customers can now call and email the company with their questions about Chrome. Google, of course, has always beensomewhat...

Google just announced that Google Apps for Business, Education and Government customers can now call and email the company with their questions about Chrome. Google, of course, has always beensomewhat...

The U.K.'s telecoms regulator Ofcom has announced "significant progress" has been made to speed up the delivery of high speed LTE mobile network. The timetable has been accelerated by as much as five ...

The U.K.'s telecoms regulator Ofcom has announced "significant progress" has been made to speed up the delivery of high speed LTE mobile network. The timetable has been accelerated by as much as five ...

When it comes to finding a cooking class or a tango lesson in your area for tonight, it isn't as easy as booking a table in a fancy restaurant. The newly launched service Vimbly acts as both a directo...

If you've followed the news, a collective of hackers recently rented a 3D printer to build a real, working gun. The group, Defense Distributed ,began the project but once the renter, Stratasys, discov...

With the launch of iOS 6, Apple added a new feature called Passbook, which will allow users to collect all of their loyalty, rewards, and payment accounts in a single virtual wallet. So far we've only...

Samsung loves to bash the iPhone and its legions of dedicated fans. And now Nokia has thrown down, too. Nokia announced the stunning Lumia 920 last month. In several ways, it's an anti-iPhone with a l...

The Internet is a great place for arguments, and a new startup called Deeyoon aims to take bring arguments to video.Of course, there are a bunch of other startups working on video chat. However, none ...

The update cycle of consumer electronics can make a mess of your Kickstarter plans, but one new project that just launched is designed to provide a useful products that remains useful no matter what c...

There's lots of criticism going around about Facebook's monetization strategy, and in a similar vein, like it's pretty common to criticize startups that grow without worrying about revenue. But ventur...

The Federal TradeCommissionbrought the hammer down on predatory advertisers who scare users into believing that their system is infected with virus and porn. The peddlers of so-called "scareware" are ...

The Federal TradeCommissionbrought the hammer down on predatory advertisers who scare users into believing that their system is infected with virus and porn. The peddlers of so-called "scareware" are ...

In response to a question by Charlie Rose at New York's IAB conference, "Have you guys made assumptions that were not right?" Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg confirmed yes, and referenced Facebook CEO Ma...

We know that Facebook is in full-gear when it comes to monetization. It was obvious the second that the company announced its "Gifts" offering, which lets you send a physical or virtual item to your b...

Oracle made a gesture to developers today with a new platform play it unveiled at Oracle OpenWorld. But a closer look shows Oracle is lumping developer services with every possible "cloud" offering yo...

Jelli, the crowdsourced social radio platform, is today announcing $9 million in additional funding, in a round led by new investors Intel Capital and Relay Ventures. The round also saw participation ...

As anticipated in August, digital game seller Steam is now offering Windows non-game applications. It acts like a traditional app store. After the reviewing process, apps are available to purchase in ...

Online communication tools for business are many, but as someone who has used a fair number of them in his life, I can tell you there's still room forimprovement. That's what Unison hopes to provide, ...

California Governor Jerry Brown struck down a privacy bill that would have required a warrant before tracking the location of a citizen's mobile device, signaling a trend among Democrats and Republica...

If you've wondered what you can do with your iPhone 5 panoramic photos, wonder no more. The folks at CanvasPop have proven that you can print your big honking photos onto big honking paper so you can ...

Here's the deal: Facebook is playing around with search right before our eyes.CEO Mark Zuckerberg even alluded to that fact at Disrupt.Today, Facebook introduced a revamped Help Center on its site. Th...

"Check out this link:https://bit.ly/QGuBiv "If you clicked that, you experienced something dumb but familiar on the web -- blindly clicking a link only to end up somewhere you've been before or you di...

The iPad mini is taking shape. Pics of the 7.85-inch tablet hit the interwebs today and show a tablet similar to the iPhone 5. The tablet is said to sport a nano-SIM card slot for wireless network sup...

In August, Google's Motorola Mobility filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Apple with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), asking to ITC to basically ban the import of virtually all o...

Opera just released the first beta of Opera 12.10 for Windows, Mac and Linux. With this update, which should reach the stable release channel within the next few weeks, Opera's desktop browser now sup...

Home automation in its current state can be costly and, more importantly, unintuitive. But platforms like iOS and Android have made the idea of automating one's home easier, more accessible and signif...

Social reading iPad app Readmill has been slowly increasing its footprint among publishers and today announces new support for Adobe DRM-protected ePub and PDF formats. While the startup has oft been ...

Social reading iPad app Readmill has been slowly increasing its footprint among publishers and today announces new support for Adobe DRM-protected ePub and PDF formats. The new app is coming next week...

Lenovo is looking to set up shop in America but don't expect your next ThinkPad computer to sport a Made In The USA sticker just yet.IBM offloaded its computer business to China-based Lenovo in 2005. ...

Apple has been sued over Passbook, newly discovered court documents show. The suit was filed by Ameranth, a San Diego company that wears its patents proudly on its sleeve (or the front page of its web...

comScore today released its latest U.S. mobile market rankings, covering usage by 30,000 consumers over a three-month period ending August 2012 -- that is, in the period just before the launch of Appl...

Live streaming startup Ustream has come a long way over the last several years, but one thing holding it back is its homepage, which is a hodgepodge of "featured" and recommended live stream feeds, so...

Today open source content management company MODX is launching a hosted cloud service to commercialize the product, much as Acquia and WordPress.com have done for Drupal and WordPress....

Dyn, the Infrastructure-as-a-Service company that's probably best known for DynDNS, just announced that it has raised a $38 million Series A round led by North Bridge. The New Hampshire-based company,...

Mark Zuckerberg is really going whole hog on this Russia thing. The Facebook CEO is currently on a visit to Russia as part of a campaign to expand his super-popular social network there. As part of hi...

Sharing a document online has never been easier, but maintaining control over that document once its left home, so to speak, is something different altogether. In the enterprise, that potential loss o...

A few days ago, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen quietly published an extensive review of Windows 8. In it, Allen - who resigned from the Microsoft board in 2000 but still consults for the company - ca...

Earlier today I posted about the comparative merits of Apple's iPhone 5 and Samsung's Galaxy S III, and in doing so it turns out that no matter what my conclusion, I probably helped Samsung move a few...

Gravity, the content personalization startup founded by a team of former Myspace executives, just announced that it has raised $10.6 million in Series B funding.When Gravity launched in 2009, it offer...

Today, Facebook is launching a redesign of its Help Center, with the goal of making it easier for Facebook users to find the information they need and get answers to their questions about the social n...

Mobile payments company Square is hoping to inspire and find talented women engineers with its first annual Code Camp Contest. The company is hosting a three-day, expense-paid immersion program at Squ...

Over the years, I've written about the need for a "Pandora for video" app -- something that will allow viewers to enter in a simple search term and then get offered up a continuous stream of related v...

It turns out people really are interested in hearing what brands have to say on Twitter in a presentation today at the IAB MIXX advertising conference, Twitter's vice president of global brand strate...

It's no surprise that the pace of technological innovation in the startup and web development world greatly eclipses the pace of technology adoption at most enterprise organizations. Enterprises are g...

Jolla, the plucky Finnish mobile startup that's largely comprised of talent cast off by Nokia as it slimmed down its own software development operations (in favour of leaning on Microsoft's), has anno...

Copious, the a San Francisco startup that makes a socially-powered online marketplace for buying and selling things, has catered to a primarily female audience since it launched last year. But today, ...

Editor's note: TechCrunch TV is very pleased to welcome a new show to our lineup, Kevin Rose's Foundation series. Kevin, a partner at Google Ventures, has been producing high-quality, riveting one-o...

As it turns out today is a good day to be an HTC fan -- the Taiwanese company announced earlier this morning that the revamped HTC One X+ was in fact a real thing, and now AT&T has just confi...

At Advertising Week, Google today introduced a new ad format called Lightbox, which is a standard ad unit that expands into a super-sized canvas takeover ad after a user hovers their mouse cursor over...

During our CrunchUp in Rome last week - where which I was blown away by the amount of Italian startups that have emerged from almost nowhere in the last year - I came across an extremely interesting (...

TripAdvisor, a site that offers free guides and reviews for various traveling adventures, has just acquired Wanderfly. TripAdvisor has been slowly but surely integrating more social layers to its plat...

An app that tells you if your mole looks funny? That's stupid, right? But for folks who are walking around with little mole-shaped time bombs on their skin, understanding the difference between skin f...

According to a new report from research firm IHS, Apple's iPhone 5 display lags behind the Samsung Galaxy S III's on the important measure of color gamut, which creates a more vibrant, crisp image wit...

Locu, a Boston-based local business data provider born out of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's lab at MIT, is today officially launching its commerce dashboard for merchants. The company, whichraiseda $4 million...

Locks are a necessary evil. They keep the bad guys out while allowing good guys in. The Lockitron aims to make the point of entry as safe as possible, but also as convenient as possible. Plus, it's pa...

The Form 1 3D printer, which you may recognize from Kickstarter, has topped $1.4 million in pre-orders in just under a week on the crowd-funding platform. With nearly 1,000 backers already, the FormLa...

The movie industry is facing a bit of a crisis: Attendance is down, as the high price of going to the movies, combined with a generally crappy selection of films to actually go to, threatens studios a...

Last month I said that collaboration and project management apps should focus on killing e-mail from within, not creating yet another place users have to look for communications and information. Today...

Cloud storage company Box has placed an emphasis on security for some time now, as most of its customers are large companies with massive amounts of data stored with the platform. But there have been ...

E-commerce, by its very nature, is an online business, but you can't always get away from the expense of bricks 'n' mortar entirely. And so it is that the Samwer brothers' Zalando, which originally la...

Only this summer we reported online ticket seller Eventbrite had sold a total of more than $1 billion worth of tickets. Today the company has revealed details of its year-old push into the U.K. market...

Well, there we have it -- after weeks and weeks of persistent rumors and unflattering spy shots, HTC has finally outed its refreshed HTC One X+ at a press event in the UK. For the most part, thos...

The New York Times this morning announced a new HTML5 web app for iPad, rounding out their lineup of web and tablet products for digital subscribers. The Times is soliciting feedback from its users ab...

Flite, the ad platform backed by Sequoia Capital, is expanding its services beyond the desktop web today with the launch of its new Touch Ad Studio.Judging from my conversation with the company and a ...

Today Nest Labs is taking the wraps off its second-generation Nest learning thermostat that the company says is 20 percent slimmer than the previous model and is now compatible with 95 percent of US r...

Professional social network LinkedIn has begun allowing its members to follow companies over two years ago, giving professionals a way to easily access company updates, such as job openings, new devel...

Today cloud-hosted database provider Cloudant announced it has received both a custom development agreement and an undisclosed investment from In-Q-Tel, an independent non-profit venture capital firm ...

The European Union's Commissioner For The Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes told a conference in Brussels on Tuesday that the EU's member nations should throw their support behind a plan to invest EU funds ...

The auction gianteBaytoday is taking one more step in its transformation into a wider online marketplace. It has launched a new service in the UK called Secretguru-- a concierge-style service where pe...

This ia a guest post by Tim Panton, a senior engineer at Voxeo labs.I'm in the middle of the desert in Nevada - a dusty, half-naked guy walks up to me: - "You have working cell service here ?"- "Yes, ...

Apple recently changed its developer guidelines to indicate that it might not be so happy with apps that essentially replicate what the App Store already provides, in terms of providing lists of apps ...

Peter Thiel is paying a little more attention to the Southern Hemisphere.His fund Valar Ventures, which does early-stage investments globally, is leading a $13 million round in Oppa.com.br. The compan...

Even as Tivo's stock languishes and its patent battles play out, the world of social, TV and touch screens are continuing to collide, and it's fair to say that most of the most interesting innovation ...

Mojang, the creator of Minecraft, has signed a deal with specialist children's publisher, Egmont Publishing, for book and magazine publishing rights for the virtual world block-building game that has ...

Secure enterprise mobility company Good Technology, which makes products for securing and managing the mix of mobile devices finding their way into businesses thanks to the BYOD (bring your own device...

We knew it was potentially on the cards (see background) but now an IPO for the B2B Services Exchange, Blur Group, has become a reality: The company has today announced that it's to begin trading on L...

Streaming music service Rdio, currently being trumped in North America by Spotify, probably needs to incentive its partners more, especially given the complains from labels and artists about the low m...

Streaming music service Rdio, currently being trumped in North America by Spotify, probably needs to incentive its partners more, especially given the complains from labels and artists about the low m...

As expected, Samsung has filed a lawsuit against Apple's latest iPhone -- the iPhone 5 -- alleging the smartphone infringes patents it holds. Commenting on the action in a statement given to Reuters,...

The Northern District Court of California has overturned a sales ban against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 won by Apple in patent litigation against Samsung, Reuters is reporting. This follows a ruling ...

If you're the kind of person who chooses bars based on the beers on tap, then Taplister may be the app for you.From a consumer perspective, the Taplister website and iOS app allow you to browse nearby...

Unicorn Media is launching a new product today that it says could become a key ingredient in helping video publishers make money from live content.The company demonstrated the product for me last week...

We don't often try to get the word out about conferences put on by other blogs here at TechCrunch, but we're about to. Because reasons. Namely: 1) We, as TechCrunch, will probably never ever ever, eve...

There's a new mobile app called Go-Matic that you can use to form instant groups with the people around you, giving you an easy way to make connections with people you've just met and to coordinate am...