Articles by Techcrunch from November 2012

Amazon Wen Services announced AWS Data Pipeline at the re:Invent conference today. The new service is designed to help developers manage applications through a data driven process.With the Data Pipeli...

Yes, that headline. Obvious. But appropriate.Yes, after much delay (about a month), iTunes 11 is here today. And yes, it is one of the biggest overhauls of the media management service yet. Perhaps th...

Microsofts Windows RT-powered Surface has been polarizing to say the least, leaving many a gadget fiend pondering the prospect of buying the more powerful Surface Pro instead. The Redmond-based compan...

A year is a long, long time ago, especially in the technology world. I can't even remember what I was doing at this particular time last year without looking at my foursquare check-in history...sad, I...

Apple just released long-awaited iTunes 11. After downloading, users should expect a totally redesigned version. In October, the company said that there would be a one-month delay. Little has changed ...

London-based 'unhotel' startup, onefinestay, has bagged a West Coast exec as its CTO, convincing him and his family to relocate all the way from the Valley to rainy old London. Jackson Hull, the CTO i...

At Amazon's re: Invent developer conference in Las Vegas today, the company's chief technology officer Werner Vogels just announced that the company is launching two new large instance types for its E...

Apple's iTunes 11 officially launched to the public today, after an unveiling in September at the iPhone 5 special announcement event. Originally planned for an October release, iTunes 11 required a l...

It's not only Groupon that is feeling the crunch among daily deal sites: LivingSocial is laying off 400 employees today. There were reports of the layoffs out yesterday from more than one source; the ...

Editor's note:Tim Westergren is founder and chief strategy officer of Pandora.As Pandoras listenership has achieved significant scalea very exciting vision is coming into focus for how personalized ra...

Sincerely, the company known for its mobile photo postcard and greeting card apps, is today expanding upon its vision to become a full-on mobile gifting service with the launch of its latest applicati...

Just when you think that Republicans are developing a respectable reputation on innovation, they nominate the most reviled policymaker in the technology industry to chair House Committee on Science, S...

The 500 Startups-backed app analytics firmSearchManis debuting a new tool for mobile developers looking to quickly get a sense of how discoverable their application is inside App Store Search. This me...

Writing about billion dollar valuations and companies flush with cash is certainly fun, entertaining, and hopefully enlightening, but it's always fun to come across a teeny-tiny startup solving a smal...

Montreal-based FounderFuel, one of Canada's leading startup accelerator programs, announced a new plan this week to provide access to free work space at Rocketspace or Plug Snd Play in SF and Silicon ...

Klip is coming out with a new app update today that is designed to increase engagement for its users by providing better communication tools between them. The latest version of the Klip app adds two h...

According to multiple Internet monitoring services, Syrian authorities has cut off Internet. In the capital city Damascus, mobile services and land lines are affected as well. The news comes as an upr...

The folks at Microsoft have just released a clever commercial for Internet Explorer 10, the latest version of the company's once dominant web browser which has seen great competition from Google Chrom...

Koopedia, which sounds like an early edition of the Mario Brother's Encyclopedia, is actually a daily deals site with a twist. Business owners, instead of entering into a draconian deal with the site,...

Cloud emailing serviceMailjet, which competes with more established outfits likeSendGrid,Postmark,MailChimpandMailgun, has raised $3.3 million from Alven Capital and private investors, the company is ...

Xbox Music, Microsoft's streaming music competitor to Spotify and iTunes that began to roll out to Xbox and Windows-powered devices in October, today filled in one part of the picture for how it will ...

For Quantified Self devotees, data hounds and fitness enthusiasts, it's a good time to be alive. Recent improvements in sensor technology, battery life and connectivity (and lower costs) have given r...

Poznan, Poland-based startup Zapstreak has just brought its AirPlay-style media streaming solution for Android out of beta, making the SDK it provides available to developers worldwide after a six-mon...

Wello makes personal fitness easy and affordable, by providing low-cost training session by video over the Internet. Now it's raised a $1 million seed round of financing from investors in healthcare i...

Seattle-basedWavii, the news aggregation startup that finally launched into public beta this Aprilafter years of stealth mode, is today unveiling an entirely new product with today's debut of Wavii 2....

Literary retailer Barnes and Noble reported its fiscal Q2 2013 earnings this morning, and they're just a bit stronger than some had forecasted in the days leading up to the release. The company report...

Designer marketplace Etsy has not been an early mover when it comes to mobile, only releasing an iPhone app last year. Despite the late arrival, Etsy has picked up a strong following anyway, with 3.5 ...

Social video chat app Rounds has reason to be proud: the company has raised a total of $5 million in funding and now has more than six million users across the breadth of its platform, which includes ...

It was a year ago that Scanadu first came on the scene after raising some $2 million for a very interesting idea: Bringing the ability to monitor and track your body's vital signs to a portable and in...

The iPhone's Calendar app is pretty good overall, and that's something that even Fantastical creator and Flexibits co-founder Michael Simmons admitted to in an interview regarding the launch of Fantas...

Microsoft earlier this week made a point of noting that there have been 40 million downloads of Windows 8 since it launched a month ago, putting it ahead of where Windows 7 was at the same point in it...

CapLinked, a startup offering online workspaces for managing business deals, says that it has raised $1.6 million in Series A funding.The funding comes from FF Angel (the seed-stage fund operated by F...

Acquia, the company that makes a suite of software tools for the open source web development and content management system Drupal, has secured $30 million in a fresh new round of funding.The round, wh...

Instead of anxiously searching Google or WebMD, people would rather turn to a real human being for answers to their pressing health questions -- preferably one who's been to school for 10 years. The p...

Things seem to be on track for the iPhone 5 to meet its December release timeline in Greater China, since the device has now received approval for the final piece in the regulatory puzzle required for...

Microsoft today added another $250 million to its Partners In Learning Project, a global professional development program it has created to equip teachers with the skills they need to teach IT and oth...

Microsoft today added another $250 million to its Partners In Learning Project, a global professional development program it has created to equip teachers with the skills they need to teach IT and oth...

BlackBerry 10 devices are still months away from being launched but RIM is ramping up the noise about its next gen platform. In its latest play, it's hoping to woo app-building platform Appcelerator's...

Strikingly similar to U.S. startup Manpacks, Turkey's Erkek Paketi offers a subscription e-commerce service that delivers men underwear, socks, t-shirts, shaving products and condoms on a monthly, two...

After the success of Louis CK's direct-to-fan specials, video startup Chill is pivoting -- again -- and coming out with a new product that it hopes will provide a new channel for independent content c...

Indisys, a Spanish company founded in 2005 which makes natural language virtual assistants and telephone operators to power 24/7 customer services, has raised a new funding round of $5 million, led by...

Indisys, a Spanish company founded in 2005 which makes natural language virtual assistants and telephone operators to power 24/7 customer services, has raised a new funding round of $5 million, led by...

Leading mobile ad network Millennial Media today released ist Q3 Mobile Mix report, and it would appear that Apple has kept its lead as top manufacturer on the platform, with the top device being the ...

Restaurants are kind of notorious for having painful web experiences -- either with websites that are horribly basic and out of date, or needlessly souped up with music and Flash animation. So it was ...

Whether or not one believes Khan Academy is helping to reinvent education, it's hard to dispute the fact that Khan (and now his team) are an educational video-producing machine, or that the platform c...

So, this was bound to happen. A developer company that built itself on top of someone else's data lost access to it. And sued.I was sucked into the ploy at first, the whole "Klout but better for the p...

When the news broke earlier this evening that PeopleBrowsr had won a temporary restraining order protecting its access to Twitter's firehose of data, Twitter provided a terse response saying that it p...

In February of this year, Groupon acquired Adku, an e-commerce data targeting startup staffed with a whip-smart team that included several relatively prominent ex-Googlers. It was one of a series of a...

PeopleBrowsr, the maker of social analytics tools such as Kred, has won a temporary restraining order against Twitter, allowing the company to maintain full access to Twitter's firehose of data.The vi...

When I first saw this tiny gaming cabinet this morning, I was fascinated. Who was the creator, Sprite_tm, and why did he do such and excellent and thorough job of turning a tiny Rasberry Pi device int...

Technology is increasingly becoming a part of the classroom experience, particularly thanks to smart devices. Tablets and iPads offer students a more portable, engaging and interactive experience than...

I interviewed Amazon Web Services Senior Vice President Andy Jassy today at the AWS re:Invent conference.Before the interview I asked my Twitter followers for questions to ask.I could not use all of t...

In 1996, people in the U.S. bought about 2.3 albums per year. Today, thanks to services like Spotify and Rdio, some of us listen to that many albums a day. Last-minute concert ticket app WillCall want...

Financial software giant Intuit offers a Square-competitor, GoPayment, which allows users in the U.S. and Canada to accept payments via a reader that attaches to any smartphone. Today, Intuit is expan...

Groupon shares (NASDAQ:GRPN) closed at 4.42, 11.62 percent above yesterday's level. CEO Andrew Mason's interview was highly anticipated today. Yesterday, AllThingsD reported that the board questioned ...

Another crowd funding startup has entered the mix, and is announcing funding today (which was raised via its own platform, of course). Crowd investing startup Wefunder is announcing a $530,000 seed ro...

Norman Winarsky, vice president of SRI Ventures, offered his thoughts today on how Apple has handled the acquisition and subsequent relaunch of Siri as an integrated service in iOS. He was diplomatic ...

Microsoft might be figuring out that the best way to get users to use its product isn't by charging an arm and a leg for updates and releasing them only once every few years. Redmond is reportedly swi...

TiVo reported solid third-quarter financials thanks to subscription growth from MSOs and payments in litigation it settled with Verizon earlier this year. It reported service and technology revenues o...

Heyzap continues to build out its social platform with the addition of player leaderboards that developers can add to their mobile games.Other companies have released their own leaderboard options, mo...

Global payment and retail technology giant NCR Corporation announced this afternoon that it will acquire Retalix, a provider of point-of-sale software and services, for $30 per share in cash, a total ...

Microsoft started a rather controversial anti-Google campaign this morning that alleged Google is essentially misleading its users because all of the company's shopping results are now paid. The "Don'...

Windows Phone 8 has made its fair share of headlines lately but there hasnt been has much official chatter about Windows Phone 7.8, the update intended to bridge the feature gap between older and newe...

Don't be fooled by the iterative-sounding nature of this update: being able to edit spreadsheets on mobile devices - the functionality which Google has just now introduced in its mobile Google Drive a...

One of Steve Jobs' biggest pet peeves was external LED lights on cellphones. Oh how he would storm through the Apple offices, harrumphing at the thought of a Motorola KRZR lighting up like a tiny Chri...

Toronto-based cloud photo storage startup MyShoebox today announced a major milestone: the company has already stored and indexed 13.4 million photos from its users, in just its first month of availab...

I'm a big fan of Animoto and its automatic video-creation service. But even if you get a service to automatically create videos from photos that you've chosen and uploaded, you still have to choose th...

You scrolled right past the old design for Facebook's "Pages You Might Like" mobile ads. Too much gray, not enough description. But they just got updated to show colorful banners and explain what a bu...

I'm a big fan of conceptual designs. Basically, designers who love to look at things and want to make them prettier, will mock up what they think a product should be. One of the hottest properties in ...

As affordable Android phones start reaching consumers on developing countries like Indonesia and Bangladesh, more will spring for data plans. But the problem is that carriers see very low average reve...

What seemed like a disaster turned out to be a blessing for 31-year-old entrepreneur Justin Miller, founder of Deja Mi and WedPics. After a feature story by NewsObserver left the company with an evict...

Analyst ABI Research expects mobile phone subscriber penetration levels in Africa to pass 80 percent in the first quarter of next year. In Q3 this year, it said the continent's 54 countries and 1.08 b...

In June, recruitment software companyBullhorn got bought by Vista Equity Partners in a deal we heard was in the lower-nine figures. Today, Bullhorn is announcing two acquisitions of its own: it's pick...

Downtown Detroit has sadly not been known in recent years for having a bustling business vibe, but the people at the M@dison Building are working overtime to turn that around. Housed in a nearly 100 y...

Behavioral health analytics startup Ginger.io just announced that it has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding.The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from seed investors True Ventu...

Google has just acquired coupon targeting company Incentive Targeting. The acquisition was confirmed in a tweet from Mike Dudas, who is on the team building Google's mobile commerce business. Google c...

As we heard last week, online legal services company LegalZoom slapped rival Rocket Lawyer with a lawsuit over false and misleading advertising, trademark infringement and unfair competition. Now Rock...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched Redshift, a new petabyte-scale data warehouse service intended to disrupt the old-guard data warehouse providers.Senior Vice President for AWS Andy Jassy made th...

Startup Source Metrics is announcing a new feature to its social marketing tools today, which it's calling the Social Media Inbox.The idea of a new social network listening tool may not set anyone's h...

So let me get this straight: this years Cyber Monday (the worst fake holiday name in the history of fake holidays and names) was a new record day for Amazon when it came to Kindle sales. So was Black...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced on stage at AWS re:Invent that it has dropped pricing about 25 percent across the board for its S3 storage service. Senior Vice President of Amazon Web Services And...

YouTube announced today that its expanding the number of languages that will automatically be captioned in videos uploaded to its library, with support for six European languages. The new languages su...

Mobile analytics and ad company Flurry today released a new report examining the global growth of the smartphone ecosystem, including which countries have the largest install base, which are growing t...

During Business Insider’s Ignition conference, Groupon CEO Andrew Mason commented yesterday’s stories about his role at the company. AllThingsD reported that the board was discussing wheth...

At Amazon's first re: Invent developer conference in Las Vegas today, the company's vice president for Amazon Web Services Andy Jassy announced that its S3 storage service now stores a total of 1.3 tr...

From the outset, online banking startup Simple has been focused on supplanting the brick-and-mortar banks in its users' lives, but they haven't always been equipped to handle every little transaction ...

CloudFlare, the popular website security and CDN service, suffered an embarrassing security breach earlier this year when the company's CEO's Gmail account was hijacked, giving the hacktivist group UG...

Today at Business Insider's Ignition conference in New York, David Lee, founder and managing partner at SV Angel commented on Foursquare. As SV Angel is an investor, he had good things to say. "Foursq...

Visa is picking up steam quickly on its PayPal competitor, the V.me digital wallet service. Today it is adding another major U.S. bank, the Bank of America, to its existing list of 50 partners; and it...

It must be the day for Gmail platform apps - earlier this morning, TechCrunch announced the launch of a startup that automates contact management via Gmail, and now another company is debuting a new w...

The Vagrant open-source project has morphed into a startup, backed by Hashicorp, a new company that will further build out the tool designed to manage the complexities of modern development within a v...

Combine online flash sales with an emerging consumer market hungry for luxury clothing brands and you get what Bmbele CEO Dean Schaffer hopes will be a recipe for success in Latin America. The site, w...

For the men and women that serve our country, coming back from that life isn't easy. I don't have experience with it, but do know many veterans who are going through that.Today, Google launched a new ...

Has being blasted with Gangnam Style whetted your appetite for Korean pop, but you have no idea how to delve more deeply into the genre? Eumakh is an online video platform with a sleek, user-friendly ...

Avocado's new calendar feature was built from the ground up and is designed to allow couples to share scheduling, and both receive reminders for events. The feature sends notifications to multiple dev...

AgilOne, a a cloud-based predictive marketing intelligence company, has raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Mayfield Fund, with participation from Sequoia Capital. This brings AgilOnes fundi...

A hacker called [Sprite_tm] AKA Jeroen Domburg built his own teeny, tiny Raspberry Pi-based MAME cabinet using some laser cut plexiglass, some custom controls, and a eeny, weenie 2.4-inch TFT display....

Microsoft just launched a full-on offensive campaign for holiday shoppers called "Scroogled." Yes, it's what you think it is, it's an attempt to tell people not to get screwed over by Google this holi...

Shopaholics of the world, unite and take over. This past weekend, the first of the holiday shopping season, has already been breaking records for consumer online spend. Today comScore announced one mo...

Following last month's announcement which saw Amazon opening up itsMobile App Distribution Portalto developers in Japan, the company is today announcing its Amazon Appstore is now officially open for ...

LinkedIn is announcing a new Ads API, which could bring more large-scale social marketing campaigns to the professional networking site.In a blog post that the company plans to publish on its marketin...

A big day for online geneaology sites: MyHeritage, an Israel-based site that lets people research and share their family histories, has raised $25 million in new funding, and it has bought out one of ...

Soundrop, the popular Spotify app that lets users create "rooms" to share streamed-music playlists with others, is turning up the volume on its service. Today, the company is announcing a new SDK so t...

I was up in the Arctic Circle this past weekend, attempting to eat reindeer burgers, swim in non-existent ice holes and see the Northern Lights when we checked out a real, working Angry Birds activity...

Hot on the heels of acquiring the makers of a popular iPhone app for browsing the photos on its service, the Toronto-based photo-sharing startup 500px is debuting an iPhone application of its own toda...

If you can do basic subtraction, you might just be more math-savvy than a lot U.S. college students. A new research paper looks at the mathematical prowess of the roughly 50 percentof community colleg...

Skype has just updated its iOS app, making it much easier to merge Skype accounts with your Microsoft account. Microsoft recently decided to phase out Windows Live Messenger in favor of Skype, finally...

If you have kids, you know this situation all too well. You buy your toddler an adorable sweater khaki combo that they grow out of almost immediately, and it's back to the drawing board. But Sprucelin...

A Dutch court ruled today (via IDG) that Samsung Galaxy products running Android 2.2.1 and higher, which don't use Samsung's own proprietary image gallery software are banned from sale, for infringing...

Here's an app with a more local take on personalized news Spun, which aggregates a mix of content relevant to your city.Spun was created by the same startup behind Broadcastr, an app allowing users t...

Prezi has a new iPhone app and has enhanced its iPad app for editing on the go. The company has also released some data from a recent survey of its users that shows how deep mobile is reaching into co...

Video-sharing site Vimeo has updated its iPhone app, working to improve its upload process and simplify navigation for watching other people's videos. Changes revolve around things that Vimeo has take...

When I want to find a number to actually call someone on the phone and I know it's in an email signature somewhere, I generally search for that person's email address in Gmail and find the number that...

Native apps are stealing the show when it comes to usage and functionality on mobile devices these days, but a lot of companies continue to hold out hope that more open HTML5-based mobile web services...

Google Maps can transport a person stuck in Flint, Mich. to nearly any street in America. Go diving at the Great Barrier Reef. Explore art galleries. And now, thanks to some men in heavy jackets, a lo...

Apple continued to win out in terms of tablet market share this past quarter, according to the latest figures from ABI Research, with a 55 percent share of all shipments during the period. That's a le...

The U.K.'s first -- and currently only -- 4G network, run by carrier EE, has announced it is increasing the size of the data caps on some of its mobile broadband tariffs by around 60 percent, while ke...

Mindwork Labs, the startup behind discount website, MyDeals, has raised a new 1 million (~$1.6m) round of funding from serial entrepreneur, Mark Pearson, of MyVoucherCodes/Markco Media fame. Pearson i...

Pakistan's domain registry provider PKNIC has posted an explanation of what it says happened when visits to a number of high-profile websites last weekend redirected to another page -- in many cases t...

Microsoft will issue an update for Windows Phone 8 next month, to fix a random rebooting problem that can affect the OS, flagged up on user forums. "Were continuing to investigate some reports of phon...

Sumo Logic, a startup focused on enterprise log management and analytics, has raised $30 million in Series C funding round led by Accel Partners, with participation from existing investors Greylock Pa...

More bad news for RIM: Nokia has won a tribunal ruling against the BlackBerry-maker regarding its WLAN-related patents. The ruling means RIM will have to pay royalties for handsets now considered to b...

More bad news for RIM: Nokia has won a tribunal ruling against the BlackBerry-maker regarding its WLAN-related patents. The ruling means RIM will have to pay royalties for handsets now considered to b...

Deezer, which earlier this year announced a $130 million round of funding to ramp up its music streaming business internationally. But to make sure that its service can compete against Spotify and oth...

There's no denying times are tough for smartphone maker HTC, with sliding revenues and shrinking margins -- and no let up expected for Q4. But the company is aiming to put a new public face on its sit...

Tapestry, the latest contender in the fashion-tech startup space, wants to connect a shopper's digital identity with the physical products in the store they're in by using barcode/NFC-scanning smartph...

Looks like Pakistan is not the only place where major internet companies' domain names can get hacked. This morning, google.ro, was taken over by "Algerian Hacker" MCA-CRB. The site featured the pictu...

Looks like Pakistan is not the only place where major internet companies' domain names can get hacked. This morning, google.ro, was taken over by "Algerian Hacker" MCA-CRB. The site featured the pictu...

Looks like Pakistan is not the only place where major internet companies' domain names can get hacked. This morning, google.ro, was taken over, with the credit being taken by "Algerian Hacker" MCA-CRB...

Looks like Pakistan is not the only place where major internet companies' domain names can get hackedhijacked. This morning, google.ro, was taken over, with the credit being taken by "Algerian Hacker"...

As funding dwindles across the life sciences industry, researchers at major universities are increasingly adopting the entrepreneurial models forged by the tech world. With help from groups like NYC T...

This evening at Andreessen Horowitz's offices in Menlo Park, founding partner Marc Andreessen sat down with William Janeway, recent author, to discuss "Capitalism in the Innovation Economy." Janeway i...

This evening at Andreessen Horowitz's offices in Menlo Park, founding partner Marc Andreessen sat down with William Janeway, recent author, to discuss "Capitalism in the Innovation Economy." Janeway i...

Today, there seem to be more business accelerators than there are startups to fill their classes and cohorts. It seems that not a week goes by without the launch of another accelerator or seed starter...

A decade ago, the news cycle for a CE product worked like this: a PR person contacted a major title - Laptop, say, or PC Magazine - and offered an exclusive for a cover story. "Hey," they'd say. "Hot ...

Does the Internet exist to inspire and inform society and therefore limits copyright holders ability to block information? Hidden between the lines of Google's otherwise predictable "Defend Your Net" ...

Mozilla just launched a special customized edition of Firefox for fans of Microsoft's MSN portal. Firefox with MSN comes with MSN as the default home page and automatically opens msnNOW, the memetrack...

Two of the team of eight designers just left Foursquare to focus on Sunrise, a calendar product to do more with your calendar, with data from Google Calendar, Facebook, LinkedIn and others. They curre...

Microsoft just announced that it has sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses so far. This is the first update the company has given since it announced that it had sold 4 million upgrades over the first wee...

Back in July, we introduced you to At The Pool, a Los Angeles-based startup that thinks you could use some new people in your life. Said another way, the company is social discovery network that aims ...

Polyvore, the interactive fashion and style website that lets people create collages of apparel and accessories using images from any online store, has had solid growth since it first came on the scen...

Polyvore, the interactive fashion and style website that lets people create collages of apparel and accessories using images from any online store, has had solid growth since it first came on the scen...

Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab! A TechCrunch tradition: wasting time in the office by putting ourselves and coworkers into JibJab videos (and then posting them). They just rele...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expected to earn $1.5 billion in revenues this year but overall the organization still remains under appreciated as a core asset of Amazon.com, its parent organization.But...

In a surprise shake-up at mobile app marketing company Tapjoy, CEO Mihir Shah resigned today while a former Disney executive Steve Wadsworth stepped in. There was an all-hands meeting at around 11 a....

AppTrailers, an app that rewards users for watching videos that promote other apps,just released an update with a new "Free Today" section, which will highlight one app per day either a paid app bein...

The Internet has a hard time taking things seriously and will happily enact silly vengeance on websites daring enough to leave important tasks up to a vote. Time's coveted "Person of the Year" poll ha...

In typical Microsoft fashion, the company just announced a number of momentum numbers for Outlook.com and also launched quite a few new features for its web-based email service at the same time....

Remember when entire companies were launched, primarily to work around the fact that Microsoft Exchange-based email systems had message size limits that impacted the size of email attachments you coul...

A report today from Bloomberg claims that Apple SVP Eddy Cue, who took over control of Maps from Scott Forstall when that senior executive and iOS architect departed the company, has fired Richard Wil...

Dennis Albinus recently told me that it's time for a new kind of job site, which is what the CEO is trying to build with Revl.Albinus wants job seekers to build their profiles on Revl, which is coming...

Apple's iPod touch is arguably among the last of a dying breed, being a standalone media player that isn't also a phone. But just because you're among a species on the verge of extinction doesn't mean...

Lots of news this week in the platform-as-a-service market (PaaS) with companies like Apprenda extending its technology to offer on-premise and hybrid methods for deploying enterprise applications....

There is a lot of news this week in the platform-as-a-service market (PaaS), with companies like Apprenda extending its technology to offer on-premise and hybrid methods for deploying enterprise appli...

After nearly a year in development, Lift launched its first mobile product in August behind an ambitious goal: Boost human potential by helping people achieve their goals. It almost sounds New Age-y, ...

Streaming music startupRdiocontinues its battle with Spotify, today updating its two flagship mobile applications for iOS and Android. The new apps have been redesigned with a cleaner layout, introduc...

Creating stem cells out of adult cells. Amazing. Winning a Nobel Prize. Amazing. Saving lives potentially? Outstanding.Check out this video from David Prager and Glenn McElhose, formerly of Revision3,...

Stitch Labs wants to be the connective tissue between various online shopping carts and marketplaces, making it easier for small vendors to peddle their wares and manage inventory across them. Today i...

Something there is that doesn't love a QR code, but that hasn't stopped leading QR code scanner makers Scan from serving up 25 million copies of their software. The company, which currently processes ...

Cisimple is a new development platform, launching today, which automates the build, testing and deployment process for mobile applications. The company is offering hosted Continuous Integration for bo...

Red Hat's OpenShift platform-as-a-service started as a hosted solution for developers. It was, ostensibly, Red Hat dipping its toe into the platform-as-a-service waters. It proved successful enough to...

PowerInbox, an email platform company which offers interactive email apps for consumers and marketers, has raised a $10 million Series A round jointly led by Atlas Venture, Longworth Partners and Batt...

College football bowl season is finally upon us and with that comes countless bets, wagers and arguments. It's dangerous to go alone. Arm yourself with StatMilk.Everyone knows Notre Dame's record. Per...

Stray Boots, a New York-based startup that got its start delivering guided tour scavenger hunt games to tourists and city dwellers around the world via SMS, and which recently made the move to mobile ...

Microsoft made a big push to ensure that when Windows 8 went live in October, the apps in its Windows Store would not disappoint, claiming it would have more apps than any other platform at launch, an...

Thanks in part to some recent acquisitions, InMobi has been expanding its services for mobile developers. Its latest feature is something called the Lifetime Value Platform, which will help developers...

The latest 'Google phone', the LG-made Nexus 4, sold out within minutes of going on sale around the world but Android fans in the U.S. who missed out in the initial sales run are being offered a secon...

"What are you doing this weekend?" is an everyday inquiry - almost to a fault. UpTo attempts to disrupt this social interaction by making calendars social. And it works, too. By broadcasting part of y...

Our Northern Meetup tour was chock-full of great surprises, but none stand out in my mind like Resultly. It's a mobile app that keeps you up-to-date on... (wait for it...) anything.So let's say you're...

Amazon has released some detail on Kindle sales over Thanksgiving Weekend: as usual, it's giving no hard numbers but instead providing general buying trends. It says that Kindle device sales more than...

Chell is standing at the edge of an bottomless pit. She sighs deeply and stares longingly across the void to the immense energy shield. She hoped there is an exit over there. Exit is a funny term, she...

Make way for another company that's helping enterprises make sense of social media. LeadSift, a Canada-based social media startup that helps businesses mine social data on sites like Twitter and Fours...

It's rare that we here in Canada get exclusive access to devices, especially from big manufacturers like Nintendo. But that's apparently what the Wii Mini is, which first surfaced this morning on Best...

Apple today clarified when it will make the new iMacs available finally, after keeping customers waiting about specific shipping timelines since their unveiling. The 21.5-inch iMac will ship on Novemb...

Google is in the process of rolling out Android 4.2.1 to at least Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 devices as an over-the-air update. The minor update brings a fix for an embarrassing omission on Google's part: T...

Google is in the process of rolling out Android 4.2.1 to at least Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 devices as an over-the-air update. The minor update brings a fix for an embarrassing omission on Google's part: T...

Americans weren't just buying things online during last week's holiday. According to new numbers from Chartboost, they were also glued to their mobile devices playing games, with those types of mobile...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is on a mission to get more kids to learn to code -- and what better way to get children excited about the power of programming than by involving virtual block-builder game...

Samsung may be be the world's most popular smartphone brand, but in the influential U.S. market, Apple has climbed back to the top of the pack on the strength of its iPhone 5 sales. According to the l...

While a lot of heat has been generated around the startup scenes in London and Berlin, Barcelona has been slowly growing a scene focused both on the Spanish and Latin American markets and a new genera...

Techcrunch recently ran a piece by Michael Wu of Lithium. The following is a response written by Ferenc Huszar, who, prior to joining Peer Index PeerIndex as lead data scientist, was was a PhD student...

Fresh Dish, a new food delivery startup incubated by Science and backed by $500,000 in seed funding from Battery Ventures, is today launching its online ordering website, soon to be followed by an iOS...

Sony's PlayStation 3 and the Microsoft Xbox 360 have both seen physical hardware design changes in their many years on the market, but the Wii has remained mostly the same Wii since its launch, with a...

Habbo Hotel, the under-21 social networking site that had to close down and then "mute" users over the summer after itwas discovered that people were using it to send minors illicit content, is openin...

Swedish telecoms kit maker Ericsson has filed suit against mobile maker Samsung in the US for patent infringement. The move follows nearly two years of negotiations to renew a FRAND patent licensing a...

Swedish telecoms kit maker Ericsson has filed suit against mobile maker Samsung in the US for patent infringement. The move follows nearly two years of negotiations to renew a FRAND patent licensing a...

TransferWise, the online currency exchange that uses the crowd to undercut traditional money transfer services, has announced that its added support for the U.S. Dollar -- a move that it believes, alo...

Baidu shares have fallen 18% over the last quarter as investors worry that the search giant wont be able to monetize its mobile business quickly enough to outpace domestic competitors like Qihoo 360 a...

After hype cometh the fall. Gamification -- the catch-all term for rewards, incentives and loyalty services -- has become a very popular way to get users engaged in an increasingly noisy world of apps...

When push-comes-to-shove, people love to donate, especially when they believe that their donation (be it money, time, food or possessions) will make a real difference. While online charity and fundrai...

When you visit a review on Google Play for an app, book, song or movie, you won't have to worry as much about whether someone is sheepishly hiding behind a computer firing off nasty words, as Google h...

In the Silicon Valley Distortion Field, it can seem like everyone is learning to code -- that coding has become cool. Either way you slice it, talented programmers are in demand. This, in combination ...

Microsoft is targeting the growing mobile workforce with a 15% hike in license fees directed primarily at companies that have employees who use smartphone and other mobile devices in their work....

17,800 Facebook users have commented on proposed changes to Facebook's governing documents, enough to trigger a vote on whether they'll go into effect. Today the Electronic Privacy Information Center ...

17,800 Facebook users have commented on proposed changes to Facebook's governing documents, enough to trigger a vote on whether they'll go into effect. Today the Electronic Privacy Information Center ...

PayPal President David Marcus held an informal sit-down with reporters today in San Francisco to address the recent shopping activity over the holidays, PayPal's strategy on data and mobile, and the p...

The Pen Type-A is a pen milled from a block of type 304 stainless steel that should last at least 50 years. It looks and feels great, and it's a good writing tool as it uses Pilot's Hi-Tec C ink cartr...

Path's growth trajectory is leading it to Asia: CEO Dave Morin saidthat people in Japan and Korea were behind the mobile social network's second wave of new users after the release of Path 2.0, that C...

Path's growth trajectory is leading it to Asia. CEO Dave Morin saidthat people in Japan and Korea were behind the mobile social network's second wave of new users after the release of Path 2.0, that C...

PRWeb has just put out a press release about the fraudulent press release it released (and we erroneously reported) this morning. Ha.From the press release:"PRWeb transmitted a press release for ICOA ...

PRWeb has just put out a press release about the fraudulent press release it released (and we erroneously reported) this morning. Ha.From the press release:"PRWeb transmitted a press release for ICOA ...

Netflix is open sourcing its libraries for connecting the numerous services it uses on Amazon Web Services to keep its business running.Dubbed Hystrix, the offering is just another example of how Netf...

Google is now legally responsible for every crazy thing on the Internet--at least, in Australia. The Supreme Court of Victoriafined Google $200,000 for not removing defamatory rumors linking music pro...

I love a good comic jam. Back in my salad days at college, this generally involved sitting in a smokey dive bar with mostly strangers passing around notebooks of large format sketchpads taking turns p...

Twitter and Facebook usually aren't the last click before an ecommerce buy, but that doesn't mean they didn't inspire or influence the purchase. Yet IBM's Black Friday report says Twitter delivered 0%...

People like coffee. People like coffeemakers. People like coffeemakers that make great coffee. That's why you should look into the EA82, Krups' fanciest coffee maker, an all-automatic espresso and lon...

Today is beta release day at Mozilla and the organization is launching new beta versions of both Firefox for the desktop and Android. This time around, the desktop version is set to get the most inter...

Zillow just announced that it has acquired the San Francisco-based rental and real estate search site HotPads for $16 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2012. This...

Veenome, a startup that analyzes video content to improve ad targeting (as well as analytics and SEO), just announced that it has raised $600,000 in new funding.The company is also announcing a partne...

Hot on the heels of Shifthub comes PayrollHero, a Philippines-based startup aimed at streamlining payroll and time and attendance tracking for iOS devices. ...

'Tis the season for holiday-themed schticks from startups (and their accompanying PR pitches) -- and to be honest, most of them are more worthy of an eyeroll than anything. But today Copious, the soci...

Last Friday, I told you how to get your Nexus 4 working on LTE networks in Canada. All through this past weekend and today, I've been using that device as my primary phone on the LTE band the entire t...

Last Friday, I told you how to get your Nexus 4 working on LTE networks in Canada. All through this past weekend and today, I've been using that device as my primary phone on the LTE band the entire t...

Things change everywhere, especially at startups. Sometimes, the people who start something aren't the ones who end up "finishing" it, and that's the case today with one very important person at Twitt...

Groupon maintained its spot as the top mobile commerce app, but Best Buy saw the biggest overall one-day gain on Black Friday, according to Onavo, a Sequoia-backed mobile data compression startup.Usag...

Tumblr is announcing today that it has broken into the top 10 sites in the U.S., according to third-party measurement firm Quantcast. According to a post from Tumblr CEO David Karp, the site now reach...

Tumblr is announcing today that it has broken into the top 10 networks in the U.S., according to third-party measurement firm Quantcast. According to a post from Tumblr CEO David Karp, the site now re...

Google has dropped cloud storage pricing 20 percent, has added a set of new features, and is expanding its availability in Europe -- all in advance of rival Amazon Web Service's (AWS) first major even...

Just one day before the start of Amazon's AWS-focused re: Invent conference in Las Vegas, Google just announced a number of major updates to its set of Cloud Platform products. With this update, Googl...

Two years ago, Yuri Milner and Ron Conway created The Start Fund to put $150,000 into all Y Combinator companies. Y Combinator ended up managing the fund, and encountered a few issues. So the incubato...

Web of Trust (WOT), the safe surfing tool/browser add-on which is powered by the crowd, has raised a fresh 1M (approx. ~$1.3M) led by Finland/China-based VC firm, Inventure. Also participating in the ...

Facebook and Apple deepened their alliance today, as Facebook Gifts is starting to sell iTunes digital gift certificates. Upon purchase, Facebook users can suggest what music, video, or apps their fri...

Readers may want to break out the civil liberties pitchforks in response to a new court case against a Texas high schoolthat suspended a studentfor refusing to wear an ID badge implanted with a locati...

After a record-breaking Black Friday, retailers may be in for a big Cyber Monday as well. Early results for Cyber Monday, from IBM's Digital Analytics Benchmark, show a 24.1 percent jump in online sal...

After a record-breaking Black Friday, retailers may be in for a big Cyber Monday as well. Early results for Cyber Monday, from IBM's Digital Analytics Benchmark, show a 24.1 percent jump in online sal...

Well, that was quick. It's only been two or so months since LG pulled officially pulled back the curtains on its flagship Optimus G smartphone, but it seems the Korean company isn't done fiddling with...

Earlier this month, Ford announced that it had delivered its 5 millionth SYNC-enabled vehicle. Today, the company is announcing an update to its Microsoft-powered in-car entertainment and connectivity...

Location-based note-sharing app Findery, which famously had to change its name in July, thinks it might be onto a winner, creating a site for people to bookmark locations. But in fact, it was pre-date...

It's that time of the year again. Lucky applicants who got selected for an interview with three Y Combinator partners will pitch their startup starting tomorrow. Founders will have exactly 10 minutes,...

Twitter CEODick Costolo has once again promised that Twitter users will, indeed, be able to download a full archive of their tweets in just a matter of weeks. This latest announcement was delivered in...

Twitter CEODick Costolo has once again promised that Twitter users will, indeed, be able to download a full archive of their tweets in just a matter of weeks. This latest announcement was delivered in...

The social media media analytics space continues to grow, and and we've seen the likes of Statigram do cool things but with a B2C orientation. Olapic and Chute are putting customer photos and social m...

Chalk it up to process journalism, or to a sneaky "stock promoter." The CEO of WiFi provider ICOA Corp confirmed to TechCrunch -- and Google has now also confirmed -- that it has not been acquired by ...

Chalk it up to process journalism, or to a sneaky "stock promoter." The CEO of WiFi provider ICOA Corp confirmed to TechCrunch -- and Google has now also confirmed -- that it has not been acquired by ...

Mophie is best known for doubling your iPhone's battery life with the Mophie juice pack, but the company actually offers a wide range of iPhone accessories including the Outride Wide-Angle Lens iPhone...

Some more consolidation in the world of social media services and technology. UK-basedBrand Embassy, a provider of social-media based customer care services, is buyingBeepl, UK-based a semantic search...

As of today, LinkedIn is shutting down its LinkedIn Events application. As you can see, the events industry is gnashing its teeth over this move. The events side of the app has been long used as a mar...

You might be familiar with "sweding," the concept spawned by 2008 Michel Gondry film Be Kind Rewind that involves making low-budget remakes of your favorite movies with friends. That's a little like w...

OwnCloud Inc -- the business built on the back of widely used (650,000+ users worldwide) open source file sync and share software ownCloud -- has closed $2.5 million in second seed round funding....

I've seen a lot of pivots, but few continue to impress as much as Guardly's shift from a personal safety app aimed at consumers, to a comprehensive security suite designed to be used by educational in...

First Round Capital, a VC firm which has numerous investments in the e-commerce space, is today supporting its portfolio companies with the launch of a collective site where visitors can browse its st...

Bitcellar, one of the rare Japanese app developers that faces outward from the country and reaches a global audience, is finally making a debut on iOS after a long and successful run on Google's Andro...

The creators of Spark, a Wi-Fi-controlled lighting system, has announced that their product will be compatible with the Pebble smart watch, which means you'll be able to turn your lights on and off fr...

The numbers keep rolling in: mobile commerce startupBranding Brandreleased new reports detailing holiday shopping sales on mobile, but unlike the other e-commerce reports which came out over the holid...

Google today announced that it has acquired Rhode Island-based ICOA, Inc. in a deal worth $400 million, as it looks to "further diversify it's already impressive portfolio of companies." ICOA provides...

Update: It turns out that a PR agency or some other individual gone rogue was dead wrong on this. The announcement that crossed the wire is said to be not true at all, as per ICOA's CEO....

Jukeboxsms is a cloud-powered "virtual jukebox" aimed at bar, restaurant, and club owners -- an online/PC replacement for those giant hardware jukeboxes of yesteryear. The music streaming element come...

Social marketing startup Unified is launching the newest version of what it calls its Social Operating Platform, and with it a new application called adMonitor.Unified President and Chief Strategy Off...

Sega Rally at the arcade was a blast when I was growing up. But Portugese hardware hacker Luis Sobral and robotics company Artica made it even better by introducing remote controlled cars into the mi...

TicketForEvent, a London-based B2B online ticketing site with most of its operations in Russia, Ukraine and Turkey, has raised $3 million, which it will use to expand its business in the region, to ex...

The lawyers revved up their sand rovers, the heavy engines rising to a whine. It was near midnight plateau was lit but huge kliegs, the light spreading across the Hamada like a fire. Curley, the oldes...

Microsoft has been strangely silent about Windows Phone 7.8 -- the last ever update for WP7, the older version of the OS built on an entirely different kernel to WP8. But after five months of not sayi...

Microsoft has been strangely silent about Windows Phone 7.8 -- the last ever update for WP7, the older version of the OS built on an entirely different kernel to WP8. But after five months of not sayi...

Apple's retail stores are famous, taking on almost the status of local landmarks with their flagship locations in cities like New York. But how exactly did the Mac maker position their brick-and-morta...

Google is committed to the Chromebook and a report out of China indicates a Google-branded model is on its way. If true, this is a smart move and would help the fledgling desktop platform gain tractio...

In ongoing legal proceedings in California, Apple has added six new devices to its patent infringement claims against rival Samsung, getting them in late Friday evening ahead of a deadline on changes ...

Online design focused shopping site, Fab, has given its Android app its first update, more than a year on from the original app launch. The ecommerce site boasts more than nine million users and says ...

Online design focused shopping site, Fab, has given its Android app its first update, more than a year on from the original app launch. The ecommerce site boasts more than nine million users and says ...

Online design focused shopping site, Fab, has given its Android app its first update, more than a year on from the original app launch. The ecommerce site boasts more than nine million users and says ...

Another partnership for toptable: the OpenTable-owned restaurant-booking service has inked a deal with Yelp-acquired local reviews site Qype to provide real-time restaurant bookings for Qype.co.uk. Th...

Black Friday online shopping sales were up 26% this year, the number of people driving to brick and mortar stores increased even faster says Inrix. Congestion was up 32.5% this year according to thetr...

At the start of this month Samsung announced that channel sales of its mini-tablet-sized smartphone, the Galaxy Note II, had passed three million unit sales in 37 days on sale. Now the Korean mobile m...

Black Friday is not just for Thanksgiving-celebrating Americans. Amazon today announced that in the UK, where it has also been running Black Friday sales, it sold a record number of Kindle devices -- ...

Black Friday is not just for Thanksgiving-celebrating Americans. Amazon today announced that in the UK, where it has also been running Black Friday sales, it sold a record number of Kindle devices -- ...

Nokia has added another two models to its Asha range of Series 40 phones: the Asha 205, and a dual-SIM variant, both due to launch in Q4 with a price-tag in the $60 region. The Qwerty, non-touch hands...

Over the weekend we saw how much mobile impacted holiday shopping over the Thanksgiving weekend in the U.S. Today, Deloitte is publishing figures that show that this is more than a U.S. trend....

Collaborative consumption continues to be a hot trend in the eyes of investors as news comes today that Love Home Swap, the holiday home exchange marketplace, has raised a further 800k (approx. $1.28m...

It seems like it's been ages since SparkLabs revealed its intentions to nurture a handful of promising startups in South Korea (it was actually the end of July), but now the accelerator has officially...

Augmented reality (AR) -- the term does not exactly jump off the tongue. But the concepts behind the technology are beginning to change what we think of ourselves, objects and the people in the world ...

The Microsoft Surface is a great kitchen computer, and sadly, that's about it. You can tell a lot about a new product by how well you integrate it into your life, and for the Surface, the product has ...

It's been a big year for BitTorrent, said Matt Mason, the company's executive director of marketing. Mason and his team have been working with big names like DJ Shadow and Tim Ferriss to figure out ho...

The Nokia Lumia 820 is a Windows Phone 8 powered smartphone, with a generously sized 4.3 inch screen. It packs 4G/LTE and is powered by a dual-core Snapdragon chip. As well as running the latest versi...

The iPad seems to have dominated online shopping from tablets, according to an IBM report, and in fact won out over all other devices in mobile e-commerce. Arguably, that's because it offers more of a...

For your postprandial pleasure I present the an open-source vibrator that you (or your partner) can play like a theremin. The story of how it came to be is pretty amazing and involves FCC chip lookups...

A jury might not have acquitted Casey Anthony of the 'drowning' death of her daughter if they knew she Googled "foolproof suffocation" on the last day little Caylie was seen a live. It's the latest ex...

We seen the reports that Black Friday online sales increased this year, but the numbers are finally in. comScore is reporting that U.S. retail e-commerce spending was $1.042 billion on Black Friday, a...

Recently, while traveling, I came across a traditional print business magazine and read it on the plane. It had nothing to do with startups, so it felt novel. There was one segment in the magazine whe...

It's a curious thing that the most popular devices in the world right now are also, arguably, the best designed. Apple essentially made the Lamborghini of phones ubiquitous, but its lustre is diminish...

Editors note:Ross Rubinis principal analyst at Reticle Research and writer for Engadget.No, the Flomio FloJack doesn't track stolen boats with GPS. In the spirit of the Square credit card reader, the ...

Editors note:Dr.Michael Wu is the Principal Scientist of Analytics atLithiumwhere he is currently applying data-driven methodologies to investigate and understand the complex dynamics of the social We...

Editor's note: John Hauer is a sales, marketing and technology innovator with a 20+ career of working in print and related industries. He manages a blog which evangelizes 3D printing for traditio...

Editor's note:Ray Sobol is founder and CEO of EvidencePix, an enterprise-grade secure MDM service. Ray has more than 25 years experience in launching high-tech ventures and disruptive technologies.No ...

Editor's note:This is the second in a series of articles by Brad Woodcoxthat explores the patent system for entrepreneurs. The first examined the basics ofthe system.Now that you have background knowl...

Editor's note: Lucas Dailey is the Founder and CEO of political social network Our Ballot Box, a designer, and a local politico. You can follow Lucas on Twitter.Regardless of your views on our recent ...

Most of the talk around games tends to focus on climate. It's about finding the right customers, funding, platform, business model, partnerships, metric and discovery solutions, technology, route to m...

"In the early days we gave employees iPhones primarily", a Facebook spokesperson tells me. That decision and the rise of Android has left Facebook scrambling to get employees dogfooding its apps for G...

We don't know much about how successful Google's Chromebooks really are. Outside of talking about their adoption in schools and businesses, Google has never released any detailed sales figures. Most a...

Editor's note:Chlo Bregman is a product designer working on a new communications startup. Most recently, Chlo designed DrawChat and helped ignite Changemakrs.Pretty first is when a startup focuses on ...

Black Friday numbers are strong across the board, according to initial reports coming in today from retailers and payments companies. As IBM reported earlier today, total online sales saw a surge of 2...

It was only a matter of time and we're happy this happened on a slow news day on the weekend: Psy's viral music video hit "Gangnam Style" just passed Justin Bieber's "Baby" to become the most popular ...

Many businesses use shared mailboxes, public folders and discussion databases that, over the years, accumulate a lot of institutional knowledge. Most cloud-based email services don't offer this featur...

After a particularly strong Thanksgiving for online sales, shoppers continued to look for e-commerce deals on Black Friday. IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark is reporting the final tally for Black Frid...

Editor's note:Armando Kirwin is a filmmaker and consultant whose previous work has included Paramount Pictures, Microsoft, several startups, 13 feature films, and a handful of TV shows.In case you hav...

If you travelled by air for the wonderful holiday weekend, you might have been faced with the hell that is the typical airport car rental experience. There are the lines, the hassles, the constant ups...

Long have I hated Microsoft. For decades their bloated mediocrity infuriated every fiber of my being. Like Adam Sandler and leaf-blowers, for a very long time, they represented everything that was wro...

Pakistan's internet-using population were slammed today with a systematic take-down of local versions of some of the world's biggest names in tech, and several hours after first going down, Google.pk,...

Pakistan's internet-using population were slammed today with a systematic take-down of local versions of some of the world's biggest names in tech, and several hours after first going down, Google.pk,...

Pakistan's internet-using population were slammed today with a systematic take-down of local versions of some of the world's biggest names in tech, and several hours after first going down, Google.pk,...

Editors Note: Vanessa Clark is the co-founder of Mobiflock, a mobile safety and security company offeringparental control services for smartphones and tablets. She is involved in the mobile industry i...

KoKoCh is a mobile deals startup born in East Los Angeles aiming to bridge the gap for communities ignored by big social deal sites, specifically cash-centric small businesses. The app launched this s...

Dexetra, the company behindthe Siri-like Android app Irisand the activity tracking app Friday, is merging the two apps to work together more seamlessly on Android devices. Giving Siri a run for its mo...

Saudi men can now be alerted via text message if women try to escape from the country. The new digital leash on women is being resoundingly criticised over social media channels. "Hello Taliban, herew...

On Black Friday, discounted boxed smartphones seem to be the equivalent of dry foods in a post-apocalyptic movie. This video, first spotted by the Telegraph, shows customers of a Walmart in Moultrie, ...

Just in time for post-holiday guilt comes Autom, the diet robot that reminds you to eat healthy, asks you how much you exercised per day, and generally sits there being judgmental as you stuff your fa...

Swoop, a company that works with food websites to automatically inject relevant deals, coupons, and ads, has raised $3 million of a $5 million Series B, according to a filing with the Securities and E...

Early reports from yesterday pointed to better than expected online sales on Thanksgiving, and PayPal and eBay are reporting strong Thanksgiving numbers on mobile as well. ...

"In the Studio" powers through Black Friday by welcoming a serial entrepreneur, originally from South Africa, who has now started his third company out of Palo Alto and timed his moves perfectly for r...

[Note: This is the first of a weekly series, if your company is doing something amazing to help a charitable cause or doing some good in your community, please reach out.]It's a bird, it's a plane, it...

Tired of wading through irrelevant newspaper coupons? RetailMeNot doesn't want you to feel the same way about its massive website. So it's just launched a Facebook app that recommends coupons you'll a...

What do you get the person who already has everything? Sifteo Cubes might be the answer. These innovative little gaming devices work together to create interactive gaming experiences with very tactile...

Social data analytics startup, Likely, has secured a 1million (US$1.6m) equity investment led by growth capital fund New World Private Equity together with seed and early stage fund Charlotte Street C...

After an impressive day for online sales on Thanksgiving, Black Friday online shopping appears to be strong as well. According to IBM's Benchmark service, an ongoing measurement that covers some 500 o...

After an impressive day for online sales on Thanksgiving, Black Friday online shopping appears to be strong as well. According to IBM's Benchmark service, an ongoing measurement that covers some 500 o...

After an impressive day for online sales on Thanksgiving, Black Friday online shopping appears to be strong as well. According to IBM's Benchmark service, an ongoing measurement that covers some 500 o...

After an impressive day for online sales on Thanksgiving, Black Friday online shopping appears to be strong as well. According to IBM's Benchmark service, an ongoing measurement that covers some 500 o...

Nokia has recently made efforts to distinguish its smartphones with advanced photographic capabilities, introducing the PureView 808 with a 41MP rear camera. Now, Nokia's long-time head of imaging and...

While the day after Halloween is typically Facebook's biggest photo sharing day, Instagram had its busiest 24 hours to date over Thanksgiving when users shared 10 million photoswith holiday references...

"In the Studio" presents the first of two special holiday segments this Thanksgiving holiday by welcoming one of the co-founders of one of my personal favorite startup companies. Almost five years ago...

How much money have mobile apps made? By the end of the year the cumulative revenues of the global mobile app market will have exceeded $30 billion, says analyst ABI Research. This figure includes mon...

Google is bringing the Nexus 4 to another carrier in the UK, expanding availability to Three after debuting the device with O2 as its initial partner in that country. The Android 4.2-powered smartphon...

Some consolidation afoot in the world of enterprise cloud services in Europe: Claranet, a managed service provider, is paying $88 million (55 million) to acquire Star, a provider of cloud-based manage...

Some consolidation is afoot in the world of enterprise cloud services in Europe: Claranet, a managed service provider, is paying $88 million (55 million) to acquire Star, a provider of cloud-based man...

Some consolidation is afoot in the world of enterprise cloud services in Europe: Claranet, a managed service provider, is paying $88 million (55 million) to acquire Star, a provider of cloud-based man...

Apple has reportedly changed its battery suppliers for the iPad and MacBook lines to Amperex Technology Limited and Tianjin Lishen Battery, both Chinese firms, after Samsung SDI (Samsung's battery-pro...

Government sites get shut down all the time by hackers either worming their way through firewalls or via DDoS jobs. Today, it looks like someone decided to mess around a little with the site instead: ...

Reports surfaced this morning that the Nexus 4, Google's latest flagship Android smartphone, supports LTE via a relatively easy software hack. After testing, it turns out that's definitely true, so I'...

Everlane, one of the wave of vertically-integrated sites that is changingthe way that fashion is made and sold, is today disrupting something else. In protest against the over-the-top consumerism that...

Google's Nexus 4 smartphones have been selling like hotcakes, despite one big criticism being that the devicedoes not support super fast wireless broadband on LTE networks. But a video has emerged tha...

Legendary game designer Peter Molyneux has kicked off his first Kickstarter campaign -- with project GODUS, "an innovative reinvention of Populous". For GODUS Molyneux is continuing to work with 22can...

Last week, Priceline.com acquired Kayak for $1.8 billion. That’s more than twice what Google paid for ITA back in 2010. Why did Priceline make this move? And why now? Priceline acquired Kayak fo...

Induction charging seems ready for its time in the spotlight, with the Nexus 4, Droid DNA and Lumia 920 all shipping with wireless charging based on the Qi standard built-in. Now a concept design that...

It's Thanksgiving for us here in the U.S. of Gorging On Turkey and we wanted to give thanks for you, our dear audience. It's your constant readership and semi-trollish comments that keep us waking up ...

"In the Studio" kicks off some special holiday episodes this weekend by hosting a repeat entrepreneur, a product maker and marketer, a technology operator, a venture capitalist, an innovator in the ve...

ComScore yesterday predicted that e-commerce sales would jump by 14% this holiday season compared to last year, to $42 billion, and some numbers just out from IBM'sBenchmark service--an ongoing measur...

ComScore yesterday predicted that e-commerce sales would jump by 14% this holiday season compared to last year, to $42 billion, and some numbers just out from IBM'sBenchmark service--an ongoing measur...

Editor's note: Nate Barkeris publisher relations manager and Jamie Evans is advertising account manager at Chartboost.Here are a few things you need to know to stay calm, cool and collected this holid...

The life and times of Steve Wozniak are awesome enough already. But now Woz can add 'becoming an in-game character alongside a badass movie star' to his achievements -- having been rendered in pixel-f...

One of the most interesting startups to appear at the Slush conference in Helsink this week was Holvi. Not a million miles away from Bank Simple, seed-funded Holvi plans to attack traditional bank acc...

Along with the Thanksgiving-themed Google doodle gracing the Google.com homepage in the U.S. today (this year, it's a Thanksgiving Day parade with Google's letters as balloons), Google is also using t...

Verizon updated itsFiOS Mobile application for iPad, which now streams 75 channels of live TV. Unlike some of the mobile experiences Verizon has released in the past, the new application doesn't requi...

Amidst the awkward barrage of family disfunction that is the American Thanksgiving tradition, there is one constant: the interrogation of career-focused twentysomethings about why they haven't given ...

A new patent application from Apple spotted by Patently Apple describes a modification to the OS X dock that combines elements of the iBooks shelves it uses in iOS devices and Launchpad to provide qui...

Lattice Engines has raised $20 million in a round led by New Enterprise Associates for its predictive analytics platform that gives salespeople the information to sell their products.According to The ...

FishBrain won the startup competition at Slush in Helsinki this week. The startup is a social network that lets sport fishing enthusiasts share their fishing experiences with friends using web and mob...

How young will the casualties become in the ongoing war against online piracy? You have to wonder, when you learn that a 9-year old girl's laptop was seized by Finnish police in a raid on her home, fo...

LeWeb Paris in December is getting closer and conference organizersLoic and Geraldine Le Meur have put together a schedule featuring great speakers and companies around the theme of 'The Internet of T...

LeWeb Paris in December is getting closer and conference organizersLoic and Geraldine Le Meur have put together a schedule featuring great speakers and companies around the theme of 'The Internet of T...

Google began directing customers looking for the Nexus 4 in the U.S. to T-Mobile, since Google itself hasn't had stock for quite a while now. T-Mobile charges $199 on a 2-year contract, after a $50 ma...

Tablets and kitchens don't mix, but the QOOQ tablet blends these two differing flavors together into a delicious treat for whomever's lucky enough to own one. With a heat and humidity-resistant design...

Black Friday is best known as the day that consumers are bombarded with deals to kick off the holiday sales rush. Now Sourcebits, a mobile app development company,is hoping to use some of that mojo to...

The Wii U's GamePad is essentially the console's secret weapon, so it's good to see YouTube arrive on Nintendo's latest hardware with built-in support for its tablet-style controller. The Wii U versio...

Microsoft had a new patent application published with the USPTO today which shows a glasses-based heads-up display system that could overlay information on the real world for a user. If it sounds fami...

Festicket is a new UK startup targeting music festival goers, a market in Europe which, by some estimates, is worth 12 billion. Users browse the curated directory of music festivals and with 'one-clic...

Last time we checked in with Apple's ongoing court battle with Samsung in the upcoming Galaxy Nexus case, which will be tried by the same court that awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages this past su...

U.K. telecoms regulator Ofcom has taken another step towards enabling consumer devices to make use of white spaces spectrum. This spectrum is particularly coveted owing to its ability to travel large ...

Barnes & Noble's Nook HD and Nook HD+ have gone on sale in the U.K. today, landing on shelves in retailers John Lewis, Argos, Asda, Dixons, Sainsbury, Waitrose, Blackwells and Foyles, and ava...

Editors note:DerekAndersenis the founder ofStartup Grind, a 35-city event series hosted in 15-countries that educates, inspires, and connects entrepreneurs.He founded Commonred (Acquired by Income.com...

A U.S. court has ordered Apple to provide Samsung with details of a licensing deal it reached with HTC earlier this month, as part of ongoing patent battles between Cupertino and the Korean mobile mak...

Samba Mobile, a UK startup that gives its users free 3G mobile broadband in exchange for watching video adverts, and Whatsapp-style Spanish startup yuilop, which provides free VoIP calls and texts to ...

After we asked for clarification this morning, Oatmeal Studios has released a brief statement regarding their lawsuit against The Oatmeal and a chain of card and gift shops, Recycled Greetings, that p...

Today, Facebook shares (NASDAQ:FB) have jumped 5.28 percent, closing at 24.32. In fact, it represents a four-month high for Facebook, as shares have not traded at this level since the first lockup exp...

One of the really interesting things about Google Maps is that there's a huge, thriving community of people who love to help make the product better. Basically, when a road closes, or something is inc...

"Crowdvoicing" startup VoiceBunny is expanding its services today with a new feature called Search 'n Book.The startup launched a few months ago with what it's now calling its "Speedy" service, where ...

As the influence of technology grows in education, many have started to predict the coming obsolescence of classroom fixtures like textbooks, chalkboards, standardized testing -- and even teachers. Wh...

3D systems has filed a lawsuit against both Formlabs and Kickstarter for patent infringement. Formlabs is the manufacturer of a low-cost 3D printer called the Form 1. Thanks to the stereolithography p...

3D systems has filed a lawsuit against both Formlabs and Kickstarter for patent infringement. Formlabs is the manufacturer of a low-cost 3D printer called the Form 1. Thanks to the stereolithography p...

500 Startups yesterday filed an SEC document for a 500 StartupWallah fund, which presumably would be focused on investments in India. And today, a document surfaced for a 500 Luchadores fund, for inve...

Since we first covered its launch back in February, Crowdtilt has been on a mission to become the easiest way for groups of people to collaborate around money, specifically fundraising, for any cause....

In the post-FM era of streaming music, anyone can be a DJ.Spotifywants to provide the audience. That's why industry sources confirm Spotify will launch an enhanced influencer following system at simul...

Ruh-roh. While we were happy to discover a simple Gmail add-on from Grexit called InboxWhiz that keeps us from our email obsession, competitor Baydin was not so happy, as it turns out. Not happy at al...

Holiday travel season is underway, and, though it comes with the promise of turkey hangovers and time spent with loved ones, it also means having to endure high gas prices, inclement weather, traffic ...

The Onion has another hit parody on its hands: a clever take on social media "experts" that is sure to hit too close to home for many public relations firms. "Social media is the driving force behind ...

The timing is likely right for Linden Lab to change direction: reports recently indicate Second Life is shedding users, with passive viewing becoming the dominant interaction method. Gaming industry n...

HTC has dutifully been churning out smartphones to fly under Verizon's Droid banner ever since it released the Droid Eris in 2009, but in recent months the company seems to have lost some of its edge....

ER MAH GERD BLERCK FRERDER! We've been avoiding Black Friday deals thus far because a) it's free advertising for retailers and b) you'll have to shoot me with adrenaline and a taser to get me out of b...

Imagine it's Thanksgiving morning and you're with the family. You creep down the stairs, Sheriff in hand, and sneak in on dear old dad as he makes bacon pancakes. You set your weapon on "shotgun" and ...

Earlier today I posted a story about how France Telecom-owned Orange today announced a "partnership" with Facebook for a group calling service, Party Call. The plan is for it to go live in France firs...

The wedding startup space continues to heat up, and today another new entry calledCarats & Cakeis launching to connect newlyweds and the newly engaged for wedding planning purposes. The platform a...

Crossbar has raised$20.5 million from undisclosed investors for its memory storage technology that could be a possible successor to flash. ...

Instagram is definitely not taking its foot off of the gas, even after being acquired successfully by Facebook. Today, the team is introducing a widget to help you spread the word about all of your gr...

Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console has given the company a good foothold in the living room, but the company apparently isn't content with that and wants to increase traction with a new lower-cost de...

Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console has given the company a good foothold in the living room, but the company apparently isn't content with that and wants to increase traction with a new lower-cost de...

Part-time superhero, video platform entrepreneur, and Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Cory Booker, has entered into a bet to live off of food stamps. The bet was made entirely over Twitter, after heated ...

comScore is reporting its annual holiday retail e-commerce spending data. Already for the first 18 days of the November December 2012 holiday season, $10.1 billion has been spent online, a 16 percent...

At first, the marriage between Skitch and Evernote looked like a perfect match, but after Evernote launched the completely redesigned Skitch 2.0 for Mac, the company faced quite a bit of backlash as t...

Today Facebook will send its largest email blast to date, informing all 1 billion users that it's proposing to modify the site's governance structure and remove the ability for users to vote on change...

This weekend a company named Bizodo won the AngelHack NYC Fall 2012 Hackathon. But not for Bizodo, a form automation tool that launched in September out of the ER Accelerator. Instead, the company hac...

LinkedIn has confirmed it's experiencing an outage this morning, first spotted via reports on Twitter, sites like DownRightNow.com and DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com, and our own tests. The outage seems ...

You'd think the last thing mobile users need right now is another digital mapping service -- what with Google, Apple and Nokia all duking it out, alongside other established mapping companies such as ...

AT&T definitely didn't win any fans with its initial reaction to Apple's decision to open up FaceTime video chat services to cellular networks. Now, though, it seems like the carrier may be making...

CafePress, the company whose flagship property allows users to design, print, and buy customized merchandise like t-shirts, mugs, hats, stickers and more, is making its first major foray into mobile a...

Mobile app platform biNu just announced that it has closed a $4.3 million Series A round of funding.Back in August, the company said it had raised $2 million from Eric Schmidt's Tomorrow Ventures, alo...

Can Matthew Inman catch a break? This time the cartoonist also known as The Oatmeal is being sued by Oatmeal Studios, a card manufacturer famous for their Spenser's Gifts-style greeting cards includin...

In the world of social recommendations we've seen the appearance of startup like Amen, CircleMe and Stamped, which was bought by Yahoo. However, one does sometimes wonder whether these products are al...

Apple is aggressively ramping up its iPhone 5 supply chain in order to make sure that customers looking for the smartphone can get their hands on it easily and quickly come the holidays, according to ...

Thumb, the opinion polling mobile app, has been growing swiftly. But long ago, before users were asking about their love lives or how sexy their abs look from this angle, the vision for Thumb was focu...

Chance are, if you ask a kid in the U.S. what they want to find under the tree (or holiday symbol of your choosing) this year, they'll ask for an iPhone, iPod touch, iPad or iPad mini. Those devices o...

The UK fashion startup, SalesGossip, which offers members exclusive access to fashion sales events and promotions, has relaunched today with a much-polished redesign, following on from the cash inject...

The Toronto-based online advertising and marketing company Chango just announced that it has raised $12 million. All of the participants in Chango's last funding round also participated in this one, i...

When you play Angry Birds, at this point it's likely a completely unconscious, natural gesture; draw back, aim and release. But what if each time you did that, you produced an indelible mark, so that ...

"There was this moment in the industry when people thought that games were a science, not a form of art," said Ilkka Paananen, the CEO of red-hot Finnish gaming startup Supercell."But inevitably, game...

Apple's ambitious new second campus, which looks like a spaceship design straight out of Hollywood, is being delayed according to new info from Bloomberg. The huge circular new headquarters won't be f...

Facebook Phone it may not be (yet), but today we are getting one more glimpse at how Facebook is deepening its ties with carriers, and getting more involved with how we use our phones. Today, multinat...

Facebook Phone it may not be, but today we have one more example of how users will be able to useFacebook on their phones -- and in place of traditional phone services. Today, multinational French car...

Speaking at the new super-sized Slush conference in Helsinki today (seriously, this thing has gotten a lot bigger), Rovio heads Niklas Hed (co-founder) and 'Mighty Eagle' Peter Vesterbacka, revealed t...

HushHush has launched as a new "design-oriented" daily deals site in the UK, promising big discounts on fashion, interiors, gardening, and food and drink, from well-known brands such as the likes of C...

Nokia has just announced it's completed the acquisition of earthmine, a 3D street-level imaging specialist. Nokia has previously said it plans to use earthmine's technology to bolster its digital mapp...

The war for customers for streaming video is being played out at all age demographics. Today, Amazon's LoveFilm upped the ante on the youth front by announcing a deal with DHX Media (formerly known as...

Hulu Plus landed on the Wii at the start of the year and the company has now announced it's arrived on the Wii U -- utilizing the GamePad controller as a second screen so viewers can watch shows on th...

Jolla, the startup built by the team behind the smartphone OS that Nokia abandoned in favor of Windows Phone, announced its first big carrier deal today with Finland's DNA. They also gave a first look...

Baidu, China's search behemoth, has announced that it is raising $1.5 billion in a two-part bond sale to write down debt and build up its warchest: Baidu remains the country's biggest search portal bu...

Tuesday afternoon in federal court in Newark, NJ, a jury convicted Andrew Weev Auernheimer for his role in a 2010 exploit that caused an AT&T account maintenance website to leak 114,000 email addr...

Identity verification startup Trulioo is launching its first product today Profile Plus, a service that analyzes Facebook profiles and determines whether they're likely to be spoof accounts.The compa...

This is going to get ugly. Online legal services company LegalZoom is suing rival Rocket Lawyer, according to a release issued by the LA-based LegalZoom today. The charges are false and misleading adv...

The enterprise software space is a giant stinking mess. And it's going to get even messier if the vendors don't start embracing the new spirit of collaboration and social technologies that represent t...

Today was the official grand opening of the MakerBot Store in New York. Head over to 298 Mulberry Streetand you can buy MakerBot printers, filament, and pre-made items, such as bracelets, watches and ...

500px, the Toronto-based startup known for its slick photo sharing site, has already come a long way toward being the darling of the digital photo buff set here in North America. In 2013, the company ...

500px, the Toronto-based startup known for its slick photo sharing site, has already come a long way toward being the darling of the digital photo buff set here in North America. In 2013, the company ...

Earlier this month, angel investor Chris Sacca announced that his firm Lowercase Capital was going to be launching a new Los Angeles-focused fund through, and that he'd hired someone to run it. Now we...

Earlier this month, angel investor Chris Sacca announced that his firm Lowercase Capital was going to be launching a new Los Angeles-focused fund through, and that he'd hired someone to run it. Now we...

Direct democracy comes to the White House this Thanksgiving: Facebook users will be able to vote for which of two turkeys the President will pardon. "Turkeys have been carving out a special place in A...

I use Twitter a lot, as I've been reminded in the past by folks like my boss at TechCrunch. It's cool though, it's kind of my job to keep up with the latest trends and what-have-you. Twitter is a grea...

Facebook is on a quest to quantify the value of its ads, and TechCrunch has attained the first public details on its recently expanded ad tracking program called "View Tags". It lets advertisers drop ...

Facebook is on a quest to quantify the value of its ads, and TechCrunch has attained the first public details on its recently expanded ad tracking program called "View Tags"that looks beyond clicks. I...

Salesforce.com this afternoon posted its financial results for the third quarter of 2012, and the enterprise cloud computing giant's report bested Wall Street estimates at both the top and bottom line...

Salesforce.com this afternoon posted its financial results for the third quarter of 2012, and the enterprise cloud computing giant's report bested Wall Street estimates at both the top and bottom line...

A new AngelPad-backed payments startup called Ribbon is launching today with a simple concept: Make digital payments easy no matter the platform. To do so, the company has developed a one-page checkou...

We've called Saavn the"Spotify for India", and now the company is preparing to compete more directly with Spotify and other Western digital music services, because it's launching Saavn English.Saavn h...

It's all the rage these days, promoting new businesses on social services, ask Twitter. Today, Foursquare is getting into the act by adding a new section called "Recently Opened" to its iOS app (no wo...

For most consumer-focused apps, a redesign can be a daunting experience. If users don't love it, a startup must either go back to the drawing board or stick with something, with the bet that users wil...

Republicans have not had a friendly relationship with science these past few months: crazy theories about rape, attacking climate scientists, and referring to evolution as "lies straight from the pit ...

In conjunction with Small Business Saturday (that's November 24 this year), Twitter justannounced a promotion to bring up to 10,000 new small businesses into its advertising program.The company says t...

GrexIt, the company behind the email collaboration tools for Google Apps users, is out with a new product today designed to address our collective email addiction (or OCD, as the company puts it.) The...

Mixpanel, the analytics company that has made a name for itself changing the way analytics are handled in a world where models designed for web-based products don't necessarily transition to mobile mo...

Peek has rolled out a section of the site just for Perfect Days that are created by the community for cities all over the world. And it's giving users the tools to create their own curated lists of th...

After launching its mobile payments service in Canada a few weeks ago, Square is expanding its presence in the country with new retail partnerships....

The idea behind ShopNear.me is simple: Rather than going to big box retailers or shopping for goods online, it gives users an easy way to buy from boutiques and independent designers that are sold loc...

Today, Google announced a new initiative to support an open and free Internet called "Take Action." The company has set up a website with materials to help educate you on what your rights are and what...

Storify is launching a redesigned website that puts search front and center.The site which allows you to create stories out of online content from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram already i...

AwayFind is a service that notifies you when you get email from loved ones, bosses, and friends and keeps them in a special, separate app where you can reply to them at your leisure. It works best, fo...

Now more than ever, design has become a key part of product development and user experience. And this focus on design extends to all types of technologies, including both consumer and enterprise compa...

Google says that it will soon bring December back to Android 4.2. Google's latest version of its mobile operating system shipped with a rather embarrassing oversight: December is missing from the date...

It costs $1,200 to clear a single landmine. But Afghan designer Massoud Hassani has created a device that costs just $50 and can clear two or three mines in a single trip. In the video above, you can ...

Mozilla just launched the latest stable version of Firefox and the highlight of this release is the introduction of Firefox's new Social API with a preview of the first social integration with Faceboo...

Hoppit, the ambience search engine for restaurants that launched earlier this year, has launchedits Android app. With this new app, Android users will now also be able to easily find that one hipster-...

Apple put out a smartphone this year, which isn't unusual. But this time it changed the screen size, something it hasn't done since the iPhone's original launch. It also changed up the physical design...

Walgreens is today updating its mobile applications to include the Aviary mobile SDK, which will offer photo-editing capabilities to all Walgreens' mobile app users. In June, Amazon's Jeff Bezos (thro...

Skype now has 280 million monthly users, and mobile a been amajor part of Skype's growth story in the last few years. Today the company is releasing a new Android app -- its biggest update in over a y...

Skype now has 280 million monthly users, and mobile a been amajor part of Skype's growth story in the last few years. Today the company is releasing Skype 3.0 for Android -- its biggest app update for...

Analyst Gartner has just put out a set of predictions for the Chinese market -- and it's expecting a big role for PC and mobile maker Lenovo in the homegrown smartphone space. Noting that Lenovo has "...

VYou has built a community around question-and-answer type interactions via video, both on the web and through mobile apps. Now users can see and respond to questions on Twitter. The new feature allow...

eBay-owned Svpply is debuting a new app today, called Want, which aims to bring a daily catalog of the best products on the site, personalized to your tastes, to the iPhone. You can download the app h...

Highlight has come out with another update today, bringing new ways to embellish your profile page, new ways to communicate with others, and new ways to consume content on the app. Highlight is also f...

Launching officially next week, MiniManuscript is applying the Wikipedia model to manuscript summaries. Members can post, read and discuss condensed versions of scientific publications, enabling (lazy...

I like gadgets, and almost out of necessity I also like bags. The Phorce, a new project hitting Kickstarter today, knows that there are many out there like me, and wants to provide a bag-based chargin...

The NYT is on it, if by on it you mean the newspaper has successfully managed to get a Twitter account that parodied its news coverage suspended from Twitter by citing copyright concerns. According to...

U.S. parents are worried about the reputational damage of their teens' online activities, according to a new report by the Pew Internet Project and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Har...

At market opening today, HP took a big hit, with shares (NYSE:HPQ) trading at $11.65, 12.41 percent below yesterday's level. The company announced disappointing earnings before market opening. As anal...

We've seen a few apps try to manage the ambitious feat of becoming the journal for your entire mobile life, but a new Apple patent suggests the company may be trying to build that kind of functionalit...

YieldKit assigns affiliate links to over 20 million product offers on keywords, like product names, advertiser names and general keywords. Not unlike the Skimlinks and VigLink model, it then converts ...

Mobile video chat appTangois continuing its content push today, with the release of new freenium-based features to enhance the mobile calling experience: avatars and real-time filters. You may remembe...

The Galaxy S Mini didn't make a splash hitting U.S. shelves, but the teacup version of Samsung's flagship Galaxy S III has in fact arrived stateside. Right now, we've noticed that Amazon is selling th...

We told you about Nokia Here's iOS launch this morning, something Nokia CEO Stephen Elop promised us last week, but now we've had the chance to actually put it through its paces. Here's a short demo v...

HP’s earnings for Q4 ending on October 31 show a gloomy quarter. Revenue is down 7 percent to $30 billion compared to Q4 2011. But the real problem comes from GAAP net income, with a net loss of...

SumAll has raised $6 million in a Series A for its data connection service that analyzes and visualizes information from Instagram, Google Analytics and a broad range of other services. ...

Seattle-based enterprise data storage startup Qumulo, which was only founded back in March and has been in a quasi-stealthy state ever since, has raised its voice to announce a $24.5 million Series A ...

Nokia has released Here, its newly rebranded mapping application, for iOS devices. The app is universal, so it works on both iPhone and iPad, and it's free. Users of Nokia's Windows Phone devices may ...

The company is also gearing up to expand its push in physical stores. Physical Gift Cards are available for purchase with retailers in the U.S., UK and Mexico, and a Skype person tells me more countri...

Wantster, a site founded earlier this year in Canada that lets users collect images of things they want from around the web and pin them on a central page -- a kind of CanadianFancy-- has announced a ...

EE, the U.K.'s first 4G network carrier, has quietly launched SIM-only plans. The tariffs, which allow people who already own a 4G handset to use EE's network without having to sign up to a two-year c...

Social travel startup, Minube, has expanded to the UK and U.S. via newly launched English-language versions of its site and iOS app. The company wants to be the jumping off point for would-be travelle...

Today, the Startup Genome released the first half of its massive 160-page report on the world's top startup ecosystems. Of the many moving parts of the report, the most noteworthy (and potentially con...

Video management startup Kaltura is growing fast, but it’s looking to expand even more, and has raised even more money to do so. The company has closed a $25 million Series D round of funding, w...

Just in time for the holiday shopping blitz, it looks like Amazon is opening a new chapter in its role as an online marketplace for third-parties to sell their goods. The company is quietly pushing a ...

Earlier this month Apple and HTC agreed to settle their legal differences by agreeing to a 10-year licensing deal. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but following the settlement, Sterne Agee analys...

When Erick Schonfeld checked in with Gumi a year ago, they had about 120 employees and were on track to do $50 million in revenue. Now they're at more than 500 employees. While they're not disclosing ...

Back in July, we caught wind of a stealthy startup called theAudience, which purported to be on a mission to help busy celebrities navigate the world of social media. Fittingly, the startup was a pro...

We told you a bit about Ev Williams and his vision for the future of publishing with his new company, Medium, the other day. I mentioned in that piece that the company was hiring a variety of interest...

The era of connected data services continues to unfold with the advent of emerging platforms such as Presentz, an open-source slide show offering for people to mashup videos, images and other media fr...

Amazon and Barnes & Noble have always been good at building portable reading devices. But what happens when video and apps try to elbow their way into the pure reading experience? Well, you get de...

Another startup is wading into the crowded waters of music streaming today: Radical.FM, a web-based service that combines on-demand streaming and curated radio stations with a platform for artists to ...

As I write this, there are less than 18 hours remaining in what may be my favoriteKickstarter campaign thus far.Now, to share my excitement, you probably need an adolescence that was very similar to m...

Watch winders, like other special accoutrements of the rarified man (or woman), are ostentatious and useful. This one, made by Dottling and called the Gyrowinder, is just ostentatious....

Watch winders, like other special accoutrements of the rarified man (or woman), are ostentatious and useful. This one, made by Dottling and called the Gyrowinder, is just ostentatious....

As you look through Viggle's actual financials there are many troubling signs. Let's start with the merger itself, which is contingent on Viggle raising an additional $60 million in funding. The compa...

Clearly, I'm interested in how companies interact with their surroundings, as I feel like it's an important part of pushing our industry forward. Nobody likes to think about five developers locked in ...

In a lawsuit filed today by a former founding employee of Color Labs, one moment of clarity emerged amidst some seriously salacious allegations: Color's approximately 20 person technology team and som...

Today, ESPN announced that it is bringing live programming from its major properties -- ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3 and ESPN Goal Line -- to the Xbox with the official launch of WatchESPN. WatchESPN has...

Hunch and SiteAdvisor founder, and prolific angel investor Chris Dixon is leaving his current position at eBay to join Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner. Dixon will becom...

Microsofts mobile track record has more good points than bad Windows Mobile helped push the limits of what a phone could do, and Windows Phone is a refreshing competitor in a market currently dominat...

Venture firm O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures has announced its third fund, raising $85 million (you can see the SEC filing here). The firm, which makes seed stage investments, says that OATV Fund III is t...

It's not just for Android anymore. Either through API savvy or its iOS bake-in deal with Apple, Facebook figured out how to enable background auto-uploads and is now testing Photo Sync with a few iOS ...

Apple's share price rose considerably today, climbing 7.21 percent during today's trading to a closing total of 565.73. The climb comes after the company's stock hit a six-month low last week, hitting...

Today, Adam Witherspoon (pictured left in his LinkedIn profile photo), a founding employee of Color Labs who was laid off during the photo and video sharing startup's recent wind-down period, is filin...

When I saw the initial wave of Surface reviews hit, I started pinging some folks to see if I could get my hands on one to review as well. I wanted to try out Microsofts new device because I like testi...

"Giving machines the power to decide who lives and dies on the battlefield would take technology too far," said Steve Goose, arms division director of Human Rights Watch, which just released on ominou...

The question isn’t really whether you’ll watch the amazing Gangnam Style video with MC Hammer from the American Music Awards last night. It’s how many times you’ll hit “r...

The question isn't really whether you'll watch the amazing Gangnam Style video with MC Hammer from the American Music Awards last night. It's how many times you'll hit "replay." I've now watched it ha...

Revstreamhas a new offering for SaaS providers and subscription-based companies that takes into account the dynamics of managing cloud services as compared to traditional software billing.The new serv...

Do you like power? It's very useful for using all those electronic devices we have. But often, those devices have less power than we'd like them to, especially when we're traveling or fighting for soc...

Unless Specific Media hits a home run with the new streaming music service it's raising $50 million to pivot Myspace into, its bargain basement buy of the social network for just $35 million in 2011 c...

HireRabbit, a company offering tools for Facebook-based recruiting, is exiting private beta today with the launch of its software-as-a-service platform for building a customized job sites on Facebook ...

Oprah hasn't been shy about her love for the MS Surface. In early November, she claimed that it was one of her favorite things. This morning, she tweeted that she has bought 12 for Christmas gifts. Sh...

Mozilla has long offered Firefox for Android as an alternative browser option for users with phones running Android 2.2 and higher. Until now, however, you needed a device with an ARMv7 processor to u...

After lots of speculation and argument yesterday about whether Facebook is discussing a search partnership with Yahoo, Facebook just sent me a brief statement denying that such talks are actually taki...

Kontrol.tv is the next product from MOVL, a startup that has been working on dual-screen mobile and TV applications over the last few years. It's been building an ecosystem of device partnerships over...

An interesting thing has happened over the years in places like New York City and San Francisco, when you walk down the street, it's difficult to find someone not wearing a t-shirt that sports a techn...

Keeping with my theme of DIY projects as gifts, I present to you this little treat, a laser-cut marble machine that comes to us via merry old England. While the mechanism is cool - you turn a little c...

Microsoft really seems to enjoy giving users of competing products a few challenges to convince them to switch to its own tools: not only does the company want you to Bing It On, but Microsoft now als...

If you were wondering what the opposite of Apple secrecy is, look no further than RIM. In what was clearly a staged PR stunt disguised as a leak, CEO Thorsten Heins and Vice President Andrew Bocking w...

Google just announced that it has added Cherokee as Gmail's 57th supported language. While Google has continuously expanded its language support for Gmail and its other services, this marks the first ...

Flawed though it may have been, I was a quite a fan of Samsungs S Pen-friendly Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet even with flashy new devices like the Note 2 on the market, I still think the whole concept just...

In a study that could have ramifications on how we think of both online worlds including MMORPGs and online titles like FarmVille, researchers at UB School of Management have found that users return t...

ZestFinance, a company founded by former Google CIO and VP of engineering Douglas Merrill to legitimize the payday loan industry using machine learning and large-scale big data analysis, is debuting a...

Justin Kans startup Exec has been busy over the last few months, adding a new housecleaning service to its on-demand task management service. Its also been busy adding features to its mobile app. The ...

Earlier this morning, we got an email from a lady whose account was mistakenly charged a few times too many by an online pet food store. Even today, resolving those kinds of disputes is still hard. Mo...

A little detail in the 8-K form filed today by TV loyalty service Viggle, announcing its acquisition of social TV service GetGlue for $25 million (embedded below), notes that the deal hinges on Viggle...

App discovery service Appsfirereceived a major makeover today, debuting a new app which now combines app discovery and recommendation with deals. Previously, the company operated two separate apps for...

It would be easy to assume that giants like Apple, Facebook and the carriers will control smartphone messaging. But the reality is that the global messaging market remains fragmented with several inde...

autobutler, a startup which enambes users to compare prices and services across car garages, has secured seed capital from London-based investment fund Dawn Capital. Joining them is serial entrepreneu...

Google has reached a new arrangement with European music publishing entities which will give it access to 5.5 million tracks spanning 35 countries, including artists like Lady Gaga and Rihanna. The ar...

Mobee, a new Boston-based "mystery shopper" service, is launching out of private beta this week, backed by $1.1 million in seed funding. The round, now officially closed, includes investment from Laun...

In the past months I keep hearing the same two themes about Mobli. The first, that the company has been head-hunting product and technologists rather aggressively across the local industry here in Isr...

GetGlue, social TV app maker with 3 million+ users under its belt, has just entered into an agreement to be acquired by Viggle, a TV loyalty service. The cash and stock deal states that Viggle wi...

GetGlue, social TV app maker with 3 million+ users under its belt, has just entered into an agreement to be acquired by Viggle, a TV loyalty service. The cash and stock deal states that Viggle wi...

The world's tech pundits have already written quite a bit about how Windows 8 will likely see very little adoption by business users, but Emirates, the fast-growing Dubai-based airline, just announced...

World-renowned entrepreneur Elon Musk held a roundtable session at the Foreign and Comonwealth Office last Thursday in London. It was the kind of event the UK government has seen much more of lately....

Earlier this month Amazon quietly kicked off a monthly billing option for its Amazon Prime service, which offers free two-day shipping on purchases, plus access to other Amazon services such as Kindle...

While Gamestop is reporting record Wii U preorders and sales, it looks like the Wii gray market is in full effect, driving prices of the console into the thousands as unyielding children barrack their...

Restaurant app maker and reservation management system providerUrbanspoonis today expanding its international footprint through new partnerships with online reservation servicesDimmiandLivebookings. T...

We've seen designers and casemakers attempt to bring better sound quality to the iPad the Zooka wireless speaker bar comes to mind, as does the Sound Cover case. But we have yet to hear about a compa...

Intel today announced that CEO Paul Otellini will retire in May. In a press release, the company said that Otellini will take his leave at the company's annual stockholder meeting in May, with the sta...

In mobile device rankings, Samsung continues to pull ahead of the rest of the field as the leading mobile handset maker, and the leading smartphone maker specifically. But when it comes to mobile adve...

Lumawake, an innovative iPhone dock designed to work with both 30-pin and lightning dock connectors, today kicks off its own pre-orders in a self-run crowdfunding attempt to bring its product to marke...

AC/DC's catalog is now available on the iTunes Store. The band had been one of the last remaining major holdouts, outlasting the Beatles, Bob Seger, Kid Rock, Metallica, The Smiths and more. iTunes no...

A new report from 9t05Mac this morning claims that Apple will be delivering a couple of very interesting features to the desktop, in a move that continues its trend of making its traditional computers...

Back in July, Reuters reported that Apple was looking to acquire mobile security solutions company AuthenTec for around $356 million. Part of the company's business involved providing embedded mobile ...

Back in July, Reuters reported that Apple was looking to acquire mobile security solutions company AuthenTec for around $356 million. Part of the company's business involved providing embedded mobile ...

A little consolidation in the world of big data and Apache Hadoop development: WANdisco, a UK/U.S.-based provider of collaboration software that focuses on the open-source Apache Subversion revision c...

A little consolidation in the world of big data and Apache Hadoop development: WANdisco, a UK/U.S.-based provider of collaboration software that focuses on the open-source Apache Subversion revision c...

SeedCamp alumni, SocialBro, which offers a web app for the management and analysis of Twitter communities, has scored 500k (approx. $638k) from a syndicate of angel investors from the UK and Spain. Th...

Social analytics firm Socialbakers--the social media monitoring startup that counts Fortune 500 companies like McDonald's, Nestle, LVMH and Vodafone as clients -- has raised $6 million to continue bui...

Despite Apple's lead in the tablet market taking its first serious dent in Q3, the iPad's dominance of the tablet market will continue for the next five years, according to Strategy Analytics. The lau...

Despite Apple's lead in the tablet market taking its first serious dent in Q3, the iPad's dominance of the tablet market will continue for the next five years, according to Strategy Analytics. The lau...

Opera Mobile has built its reputation on its internet browser for mobile devices, but it has gradually expanded that remit to cover other services like apps -- and now, music. The company has soft-lau...

Some Windows Phone 8 users are reporting problems with random reboots and freezes. It is unclear exactly what is triggering the problems -- and whether they are related or down to specific issues with...

Another step in Facebook's plans to make more money out of its mobile business: the company is now accepting mobile payments in France, covering services like virtual gifts and game credits for its HT...

A year on from launch, TextMaster, the crowdsourced platform for content translation, copywriting, and proofreading, has raised its first funding round: 1.64 million from the French VC fund, Alven Cap...

Freelancer.com, the job outsourcing and freelance IT worker marketplace, has made another acquisition: it has bought vWorker, a job site for freelance coders and other tech professionals. Terms of the...

Analytics company KISSmetricshas hired a new CEO Will Hodgman (pictured), who co-founded mobile analytics data startup M:Metrics.Hodgman and Hiten Shah, the company's co-founder and previous CEO, met...

Livestar first launched at TechCrunch Disrupt a few months ago. It's a mobile app that lets you see (and write) reviews for the things you generally want reviews for - restaurants, movies, music and o...

The original Fitbit first saw the light of day over four years ago, and boy how things have changed since then. Now it seems like everyone from old incumbents to ambitious upstarts have offered their ...

Networking tech giant Cisco has just agreed to acquire cloud infrastructure startup Meraki, and my industry sources confirm the purchase price was $1.2 billion, all in cash. I've also gotten ahold of ...

Ideum has built a platform for developers to create complex gestures for apps that run on displays as big as 100-inch table top displays or the small screens ofUltrabooks running Windows 8....

Ideum has built a platform for developers to create complex gestures for apps that can run on 100-inch table top displays or the small screens ofUltrabooks running Windows 8. Ideum's GestureWorks plat...

It's not clear what Google's plans are for FeedBurner, its feed management and syndication platform. By the looks of it, FeedBurner has become a neglected platform, and I wouldn't be terribly surprise...

There's a lot of buzz about how new education platforms are making it easy to acquire the kind of skills that, traditionally, have been reserved for the hallowed halls of higher education. These servi...

When you're dealing with 1 billion people's personal info, security is critical. But Facebook didn't want to sacrifice speed. That's why it spent the last two years making infrastructure improvements ...

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg are discussing a potential partnership, according to a report in The Sunday Telegraph.The story is based on anonymous sources, who seem primari...

Didn't get quite enough chatter about tech this past week? Then you've come to the right post! This is our first episode in a new weekly TechCrunch TV show called CrunchWeek. The premise here is simp...

I'm in love. The Vers 1Q is a smallish, cube speaker. It costs $119 and its simplicity is the biggest draw. With a single speaker and easy connectivity, this little speaker easily fits into anyone's l...

VeriFone is no small player in the payments worldthe company, which is worth over $3 billion, is actually the largest provider of in-store credit card processing payments terminals in the U.S. But fac...

A remarkably bold policy report calling for radical changes to the patent system has been deleted from a Republican Congressional website, just 24 hours after it was released.In its place, Director of...

A remarkably bold policy report calling for radical changes to the patent system has been deleted from a Republican Congressional website, just 24 hours after it was released. In its place, the direct...

A remarkably bold policy report calling for radical changes to the patent system has been deleted from a Republican Congressional website, just 24 hours after it was released. In its place, the direct...

The act of bundling and the unleashed energy created by unbundling are both powerful forces. As consumers, weve all been subject to the bundling powers held by companies with unfair regulatory advanta...

The act of bundling and the unleashed energy created by unbundling are both powerful forces. As consumers, weve all been subject to the bundling powers held by companies with unfair regulatory advanta...

Editor's note:Matt Baker is an engineer atWealthfront, a software-based financial advisor that is democratizing access to high quality financial advice.In elections and finance, mathematical models ta...

Editors note:Ansel Halliburtonis a lawyer atComputerLaw Group. In the summer of 2010, a group called Goatse Security discovered a security hole in an AT&T website catering to users of the recently...

Editors note:Ansel Halliburtonis a lawyer atComputerLaw Group. In the summer of 2010, a group called Goatse Security discovered a security hole in an AT&T website catering to users of the recently...

Editors note:Ross Rubinis principal analyst at Reticle Research and writer for Engadget. Each column will look at crowdfunded products that have either met or missed their funding goals.Designers of i...

Flipboard has added one more content source to its social reading app, and in the process has openedup another revenue stream for the company as a marketing and advertising vehicle.The Red Bulletin, a...

Flipboard has added one more content source to its social reading app, and in the process has openedup another revenue stream for the company as a marketing and advertising vehicle.The Red Bulletin, a...

Flipboard has added one more content source to its social reading app, and in the process has openedup another revenue stream for the company as a marketing and advertising vehicle.The Red Bulletin, a...

There is a kind of memory called a "flashbulb memory," which is particularly vivid, and forms when something surprising or particularly affecting occurs: JFK, a car accident, or 9/11.What we call meme...

There are bugs, and there are pretty embarrassing and ridiculous mess-ups. This one was is a screwup straight from Mountain View, and it's a very real problem. If you're trying to add your friend's bi...

Six years ago, almost to the day, I remember sitting on the couch with my then one-year-old son playing Elebits on the recently launched Wii. I thought he'd understand the simple point and shoot game....

Editors note:Saar Guris a general partner atCharles River Ventures. Follow him on [email protected] Charles River Ventures, we seek to support founders who can build foundational companies in their ...

As a wristwatch brand, San Francisco-based Xetum has been making a bit of a name for itself by delivering high-quality Swiss movements in contemporary cases designed in California. Recently, the comp...

Editors note:Tadhg Kellyis a game designer with 20 years experience.There are plenty of people in and around games who make their living largely through behaving like wizards. Nowhere is this more tru...

For the past six months, Ive heard the same thing over and over again: "The MacBook Pro with the retina screen looks amazing. I want that screen on a MacBook Air. That would be the perfect computer." ...

Editor's note: Neil Florio is responsible for global marketing strategies and demand generation programs for Fiberlinks MaaS360 product.It seems we are living in an Android-dominated world, as the lea...

I use the Solemate. That's the highest recommendation that I can give a product. I use the Solemate around my house. The sound easily fills rooms. I travel with the Solemate to compensate for hotel's ...

Forget AP Biology and Latin class: get those pre-meds hooked on Call of Duty. The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston found that teenage video gamers were better at simulated surgery than ...

Editor's note: Jay Jamison is a Partner atBlueRun Venturesand is based in Menlo Park.Wall Street is basically demanding big public tech companies to answer the question, How mobile can you go? And bas...

MoviePass hopes to do for the theatergoers what Netflix did for DVD renters and streaming movies, which is to let them pay one monthly fee and enjoy as many movies as they want during that time. Movie...

What's the secret to staying fresh, lean and mean when you're a hot tech company on a fast growth trajectory? A fascinating document brought to our attention today today by Andrew Mager, hacker advoca...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor served up the Sinofsky firing as the main course of a dissection of the Microsoft playbook or lack of it. Wh...

Editor's note: John Frankelisfounder and partner offf Venture Capital and has been an early-stage venture investor since 1999. Follow him on Twitter.Having spoken with many limited partners, it is cle...

Editors note: James Altucheris an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He is Managing Director of Formula Capital and has written ten books.Every week for three years, I interviewed four pr...

When I first wrote about the Cygnett Icon case for iPhone 4/4S, I called it the perfect case. It wasn't rugged like the LifeProof case, and it didn't come with any extra tricks like a fish-eye camera ...

Two years ago I wrote a post entitled "Can Anything Stop The Facebook Juggernaut?" in which I marvelled at the fact that Facebook was then worth a whopping $35 billion, according to Second Market. Tod...

Airbnb took a while to roll out its international businesses -- for example, officially launching Airbnb.co.uk only in February 2012,despite being around since 2008. But in a sign of how Airbnb is foc...

Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Mat Morrison, Social Media Strategy Director with Starcom MediaVest Group. You can follow him on Twitter at @mediaczar or his blog.Generally the social media mar...

Far from being chained to the product pipeline, Microsoft's research labs operate more like university research departments -- with a remit to be the "farseeing eyes" of the company, says Andrew Blake...

Today, Dalton Caldwell, founder of things that have pivoted called out Twitter in a blog post for well...pivoting. His post received many "kudos" on blogging software Svbtle, which amounts to those fa...

Twitter does a lot of things well, but it hasn't really nailed context yet -- or search. After you first join the service, it takes a significant amount of following and unfollowing before you settle ...

Editor's note:Barry Eggersis a managing director at Lightspeed Venture Partners where he focuses on information technology infrastructure, with a specific interest in cloud computing, big data, storag...

Wi-Fi equipment maker Ruckus Wireless held an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange this morning at a share price of $15. It raised $126 million. While it was a nice move for the comp...

Personal care company Kimberly-Clark is ready to share some of the results it's seeing from a campaign for its Huggies diapers that it ran with social marketing company SocialTwist. According to Dan K...

Meet Sharky the Beaver, Sphero‘s first augmented reality character for their little robotic spheres. Over the past few months, Orbotix has been developing many new ways to use the toy. With this...

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers this week officially opened the doors to a brand new office in the heart of San Francisco. It's interesting news from the now 40-year-old venture capital firm, bec...

Ask any founders or CEO how they feel about the process of searching for office space for their companies, and the majority of them will shake their heads. Some may even lash out. There is a prevailin...

Youd think, after raising nearly $100 million over the course of the last seven years, that video conferencing specialist Vidyo would be all set for cash. But apparently not, as the company has raised...

A group of us TechCrunchers bundled up and headed to the Great White North last week to kick off our three-city Northern Meetup tour with a stop in Toronto. While we were in town, we visited the MaRS ...

A group of us TechCrunchers bundled up and headed to the Great White North last week to kick off our three-city Northern Meetup tour with a stop in Toronto. While we were in town, we visited the MaRS ...

Yesterday, I sat down with the folks who bring games to life on Facebook. Love 'em or hate 'em, there are a lot of people who like to hang out on the social network and play turn-based games. Sure, it...

NuORDER, a new LA-based startup that aims to bring the wholesale fashion business online, has raised $3 million led by GRP, with Greycroft, Aileen Lee, David Tisch, Creative Artists Agency, Brian Spal...

The Kive Company, the startup behind the mobile art app ArtKive, says it has raised $500,000 in seed funding.The ArtKive iPhone app allows you to take photos of your kids' art, then tag it with their ...

Gillmor Gang - John Taschek, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live at 1pm Pacific today....

The revolution has already begun. Television video content, notably news and live TV, are no longer relegated exclusively to the TV screen, and a new startup called Glocal is doing its part by being a...

After weeks of controversy and criticism about the news feed, and reduction in reach for Pages, Facebook outlined the four main factors it uses to determine if a post shows up in the news feed. It als...

After weeks of controversy and criticism about the news feed, and reduction in reach for some Pages, Facebook outlined the four main factors it uses to determine if a post shows up in the news feed. I...

BarkBox, the subscription-based service that sends pet owners a box of goodies on a monthly basis, has launched a companion mobile application. The app isn't merely a mini version of the online servic...

In a court filing this week spotted by Bloomberg, Apple indicated that it is "interested in resolving its dispute with Motorola completely and agrees that arbitration may be the best vehicle to resolv...

If you harbored any doubts about Toronto's seriousness about being a major center of technology and innovation, they'd probably be quickly put to rest with a look at MaRS Discovery District. Housed in...

Welcome to the future of 360-degree video.MakingView, a company out of Norway, has created a camera called the ViewCam, an ultra lightweight camera that can be mounted almost anywhere and take full 36...

The steadfast libertarian captain, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, is bidding farewell to Congress and has a call-to-arms for his legions of tech-savvy followers: The Internet is the savior of liberty. “The...

Many Americans owe far less actual debt than their balance sheets imply, since banks are willing to accept pennies on the dollar to ensure at least some repayment on defaulted loans. Traditionally, de...

The Little Printer is an internet-connected mini printer that wants to insert a little bit of paper (back) into your digital life. You can send it messages to print on its receipt-sized thermal paper ...

With billions of videos being created and uploaded to the web every day, Ive been bullish on the idea of discovery apps for services like YouTube, Netflix, and Hulu. One of the startups thats been foc...

Some iOS games have done some pretty cool stuff with AirPlay, including Real Racing HD 2, but it's always seemed like there's so much more possible from the technology, especially when it comes to gam...

I've had most of the week to wear the $129 Jawbone UP and I thought I'd offer a few impressions for those unsure which model pedometer to buy. I'm a Fitbit man myself because I've gotten used to movin...

Happy - almost - holidays! As you may have noticed, we have already started our ever-popular TC Gift Guide to hightlight some of the best gifts this year.Since Thanksgiving is next week (time really d...

Just about a year ago, SkyDrive launched a new set of APIs and, over the course of the last year, Microsoft's cloud strorage service also rolled out SDKs for virtually every major platform. Today, Mic...

Just about a year ago, SkyDrive launched a new set of APIs and, over the course of the last year, Microsoft's cloud strorage service also rolled out SDKs for virtually every major platform. Today, Mic...

Some consolidation afoot in the world of local online publishing: American City Business Journals, the Advance Publications-owned publishers of the Bizjournals network of local business sites, has bou...

Editors note:Jon Bischke is a founder ofEntelo and is an advisor to several startups. You can follow Jon on Twitter.Entrepreneurs built America. And while we celebrate pro athletes and entertainers an...

Warner Bros is now allowing U.S. customers to stream and download TV shows the day after they air via a new iOS application that works on both iPhone and iPad. The app, called "Day After US," makes th...

Warner Bros. is now allowing U.S. customers to stream and download TV shows the day after they air via a new iOS application that works on both iPhone and iPad. The app, called "Day After US," makes t...

Timbuktu, an educational and entertainment-focused iPad app for kids has relaunched with a revamped design, additional content, and daily updates. Previously, the company, a recent 500 Startups grad, ...

Apple devices benefit from a huge, rich accessory ecosystem that means device owners can get stuff for their gear anywhere. A similar ecosystem is beginning to build up around the top devices from And...

While we've seen the rise and fall of social games companies, most notably Zynga, there continues to be a stream of companies seemingly able to ride the rough waters of the space. In Berlin most notab...

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, and a stalemate between Amazon and big retailers, including Barnes & Noble, over the sale of books from the online giant's publishing imprint is gi...

The Internet is a many-splendored thing. For some it is a fount of knowledge and others a fount of porn. But for those with the Spark, it is a fount of illumination. Minnesota-based Spark is a projec...

There are a growing number of peer-to-peer marketplaces out there, helping to match up buyers and sellers. But for those marketplaces to work, they dont just need payment processing they also need to...

Tactilize, an iPad self-publishing service that aims to make it easy for regular users to create beautiful apps for Apple's tablet, just announced that it has raised a $1 million funding round....

Toronto-based Venio is hoping to capitalize on healthy eating trends with a mobile app that allows users to set dietary restrictions, and then provides them with a customized set of meals depending on...

Dell is making a deeper investment in providing converged infrastructures to automate data center operations with the acquisition of Gale Technologies. As part of the purchase, Dell plans to create a ...

Barnes & Noble is shutting down Fictionwise, a company running several eBook websites, including Fictionwise.com, eReader.com, and eBookwise.com. Although the move shouldn't be all that surprising...

Editors note: This is a guest post by Robin Grant, Global Managing Director of We Are Social, a social-media agency with offices in New York, London, Paris, Milan, Munich, Singapore, Sydney and So Pau...

There are strange dynamics associated with giving sex toys as gifts. So let's get that out of the way first. You really have to know a person well before you pick one of these up. This isn't a stockin...

There are strange dynamics associated with giving sex toys as gifts. So let's get that out of the way first. You really have to know a person well before you pick one of these up. This isn't a stockin...

The rise of networks like Tumblr -- a magnet for for ironic, self-created, animated Gifs -- has given the short-form, quirky video a new place in our hearts. Amazon is now capitalizing on that with th...

Boomerang, the Facebook-based gifting service that launched its beta test in Chicago earlier this year, just announced that it is now expanding beyond its initial market and making its first move to l...

When reviewing a new iPhone application called Glyph earlier this week that tells you which credit card to use in order to earn the best rewards, we mentioned that a competitor in this space, Wallaby,...

Apple has seen sales of its iPad soar following the resolution of a trademark dispute with Chinese company Proview, which had IPAD registered years prior to the release of Apple's iconic tablet. That'...

Mobile games dominate the charts when it comes to top grossing apps, but that popularity also breeds a lot of competition. Tylted, the games publisher recently rebranded from Cellufun, wants to tap in...

Qualcomm Technologies, a subsidiary of mobile chipmaker Qualcomm, has announced it has acquired "certain assets" from Israeli company, EPOS Development, which develops low cost, digital ultrasound pos...

In an ongoing California court case between Apple and Samsung, a judge on Thursday granted the requests of both companies to add recently released hardware to the suit. The iPhone 5 is now included, a...

Flint, a small business-focused mobile payment app that does away with dongles and NFC and instead uses the camera on a phone to "scan" a card's numbers, has come out of beta, with an iOS 6/ iPhone 5-...

Sprint announced this morning that it is now offering the iPad mini and fourth generation iPad with LTE connectivity in "select Sprint retail locations." Sprint is one of three official U.S. data prov...

Sony makes a lot of really nice things, but it has never taken smartphones seriously. That's to change if Sony Mobile's sales chief, Dennis van Schie, is to be believed. Speaking to the Financial Time...

SlickFlick launched earlier this year with an iPhone app allowing you to go the next stage with your photos - you can create fun stories around your pictures then share or embed them online - not unli...

The U.K.'s first 4G network has only just got up and running but telecoms regulator Ofcom is already looking beyond 4G to form a plan for the next generation of mobile network technology -- potentiall...

Latest missive from the games console wars: Sony has announced cumulative sales of its PlayStation 3 reached 70 million units on November 4, a few days short of the machine's sixth birthday. Microsoft...

Even though they just bought a baseball team, The Yokohama Baystars, and have gleaming new offices in a skyscraper peering down on Tokyo's famous Shibuya Crossing, DeNA still feels like it has so much...

Even though they just bought a baseball team, The Yokohama Baystars, and have gleaming new offices in a skyscraper peering down on Tokyo's famous Shibuya Crossing, DeNA still feels like it has so much...

Four years after it announced its first graduate program with USC, 2U today has announced its foray into undergraduate education through a new program calledSemester Online. The company will be poweri...

You might have heard a few things about Ev Williams and crew's new product, Medium. To some, it seems like "just another blogging software," but if you think about where Ev and Biz come from in the pa...

Bucking the trend of more software-centric winners at TechCrunch Disrupts in the U.S., a hardware startup named Whill took home TechCrunch Tokyo's grand prize this week.Whill, an electric add-on that ...

Just about a year ago, Wantful launched a gift-giving website offering product recommendations based on the information you provide about the person you're shopping for. Today, the company is moving i...

At the Defrag conference in Broomfield, Colo., this week, three themes came in the forefront: APIs, identity and data. The themes reflect the tenor of the times, which can be summed up in the turmoil ...

Tonight at Facebook Gifts event at toy store Fao Schwartz, the company announced that Facebook Gifts is available to tens of millions of users starting today. Many new partners were announced as well:...

Analytics company KISSmetrics has launched a new feature that should make it easier for customers to answer complicated questions that usually require lots of database queries and technical implementa...

3Scale has discounted the cost for managing APIs in the enterprise through a new plug-in it has added to Nginx, the open-source web Server technology. The plug-in runs inside Nginx and connects to the...

It's speedy, and for a streaming music service like Spotify making the jump from desktop software to the browser, that's of the utmost importance. This is just an early beta of what will rollout next ...

The good times can't last forever. Eventually the music dies off, the balloons pop and everyone goes home.Without sounding the hyperbole alarm, let's look at the facts. Apple's stock price has decline...

Mozilla's Firefox OS (also known as Boot to Gecko), a mobile operating system that focuses on web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript, is quickly moving through its development stages. While it...

As Twitter tries to surface more content from its network, it continues to beef up tweets and its Discover section of the site. Today, the company announced a few new features to make sure that you kn...

Lytro is on a roll. After launching manual controls just last month, the company today release a real treat. The Lytro desktop software just received an update that brings two new features into the mi...

To most companies, the two or three letters coming at the end of their URL probably don't make a huge difference (with exceptions). However, the company behind the .co domain has been working to chang...

If you've ever tried to look up guitar tablature on the Internet, you know how impossible it can be to find good stuff. A slick new web app called Soundslice could finally be the answer to those woes...

If you've ever tried to look up guitar tablature on the Internet, you know how impossible it can be to find good stuff. A slick new web app called Soundslice could finally be the answer to those woes...

Not to be outdone by Facebook's new mobile share button, Twitter has just added an option to "Share this tweet via email" so you can send content to less tech savvy folks. The button appears in the 'm...

Not to be outdone by Facebook's new mobile share button, Twitter has just added an option to "Share this tweet via email" so you can send content to less tech savvy folks. The button appears in the 'm...

Zulily, a private-sale shopping site targeted at busy moms and their kids has raised $85 million in Series D funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Fortune reported that the site, which launched in 2009,...

In what is the most-watched TED Talk to date, Sir Ken Robinson makes perhaps the most convincing case for why the educational system in the U.S. needs to be torn down and rebuilt: It stifles creativit...

After launching its same day delivery service in San Francisco a few weeks ago, eBay is debuting 'eBay Now' to to New York City. Users in the area can download the new app here. ...

Google is said to have distributed an external test version of its native maps app for iOS, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. Citing "a person with direct knowledge of the matter...

It's no secret that Microsoft is doing its best to get more developers to write apps for its Windows 8 platform. Today, the company is announcing its newest initiative: Microsoft will host app labsfor...

Editors note:Steve Patterson is a writer with 20 years of experience working with startups in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area.Boston-based startup Lookout Gaming has drawn attention to the city'...

Boston-based startup Lookout Gaming has drawn attention to the city's often-overlooked consumer and mobile gaming community with a $1.3 million seed round from Boston investorsAtlas VentureandNextview...

We broke news on the official rollout of Facebook new mobile share button yesterday. Now it's available for iOS and Android through app updates that also bring iOS users emoji for Messages, the abilit...

We broke news on the official rollout of Facebook new mobile share button yesterday. Now it's available for iOS and Android through app updates that also bring iOS users emoji for Messages, the abilit...

This is the iPad mini you've no doubt heard about. The one Apple introduced in October, the one that reviewers have mostly loved, and the one that's been my constant companion since I got one on launc...

The Wii isn't exactly the hottest console on the market anymore, and the lack of HD support makes it less than ideal for watching videos, but that hasn't stopped YouTube from finally launching its off...

The high-level executive exits just keep coming for Zynga. Today's departure is Mike Gupta, the financial executive who has served as Zynga's Treasurer since last year. He'll be taking on a new role a...

"In the Studio" welcomes an engineer, originally from India, who came to the U.S., earned an MBA, worked stints as a software engineer, investment banker, and database architect before becoming a vent...

Geek parents will get a huge kick out of the Solder:Time watch kit from Spikenzie Labs. It's a cute kit that contains all the parts you need to make a large, readable LED watch. Just grab a soldering ...

Over the last few years, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has emerged as one of the most popular cloud infrastructure solutions out there, managing an unusual feat for those of its ilk by appealing equally t...

Evernote has just released a major update to its desktop software dubbed Evernote 5 for Mac, "with over 100 new features." It's a pretty drastic redesign, and one that focuses intently to navigation. ...

Skype has long been talking about the different ways that it could monetise its calling and messaging platform. Now, with Microsoft as its now owner and 280 million monthly users passing over its voic...

Microsoft just announced a number of updates to its SkyDrive cloud storage service, including the addition of selective sync (so you can easily decided which folders you want to sync) and easier file ...

Anyone who has read the Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs (or just followed his story over the years) knows there's a lot of source material to draw from when crafting a movie. But Steve Jobs bi...

A picture is worth a thousand words, and now, so is a t-shirt. Litographs, a company known for putting entire books on posters, has just launched the same feature for t-shirts on Kickstarter. ...

Simple(formerly BankSimple), a startup that promises to replace your bank, today reminds early adopters why it can be problematic to put all your funds in one basket, so to speak. Over the past hour, ...

Simple(formerly BankSimple), a startup that promises to replace your bank, today reminds early adopters why it can be problematic to put all your funds in one basket, so to speak. Over the past hour, ...

ArmorHubis today launching a web security service targeting startups, small-to-medium sized businesses, and most importantly, the layperson who knows that website security is something to be concerned...

Digital music platformChromatikis today launching its web and iPad applications for learning, practicing, recording and collaborating on music with friends, bandmates, teachers, and others. The compan...

For years, LongTail Video has long offered up its open source JW Player as a free alternative for businesses that don’t want to put their videos on YouTube or pay SaaS-based content management p...

Dropbox introduced a new feature today, called Chooser, which allows developers to build in an "attach from from Dropbox feature" for their web-based products. The Dropbox Chooser makes it easy to sha...

Google Shopping's pay-to-play service is going global. The commerce-focused vertical formerly known as Google Product Search, is now expanding the roll out of its commercial model to other countries o...

Google just announced that it has invested $75 million in a 50 MW wind farm in Rippey, Iowa, a small town an hour outside of Des Moines. This is Google's second wind energy investment in the state. In...

Drawbridge, a mobile ad startup founded by former AdMob scientistKamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, is officially launching its first two ad targeting products and taking them out of beta.Back in May, the com...

Managing the deluge of email from daily-deal sites, retailers, flash-sales sites, and Amazon is a pain. Enter Sift, a startup that takes retailer email and transforms it into a centralized and persona...

Gnip is an interesting company. It might not be extremely sexy or one that gets a lot of attention in mainstream press, let alone tech blogs. But it's one that provides data from social services for a...

Location based apps like Sonar and Highlight have been largely obsessed with what is around us right now. Ban.jo played in this space, but also allowed users to surface what was going on elsewhere. Th...

In today's digital world, website performance and speedy load times are critical. This is now common knowledge. However, until recently, it's been tough to quantify the extent to which speed and perfo...

Mozilla just released its annual financial report for 2011, as well as the annual "State of Mozilla" report by the organization's Chair Mitchell Baker. According to this report, Mozilla's total revenu...

Zynga's arcade division is releasing its first mobile title today, with the launch of an iOS version of its popular game Ruby Safari Adventures (previously available on Facebook and Zynga.com), under ...

We've seen startups tackle location-based multiplayer gaming, with title's like Massive Damage's Please Stay Calm and Shadow Cities out of Grey Area, but now a heavyweight player has entered the ring ...

Zingaya, the startup the offers companies the ability to add one-click voice and video services into their websites and apps, today is announcing that itsclick-to-call widget is available on WebRTC on...

Spindle, an app that aids with social discovery, has just launched its latest version for iOS and it's something that not only helps you explore the areas around you, it will be a great place for busi...

TomTom has launched a location-based services platform and developer portal. The company supplies maps to some big names in the mobile space, including Apple, but is aiming to make it easier for devel...

If someone told you that you could get all your favorite blogs (in fact, your entire RSS feed) read to you while you go through your day, what would you say? "Sign me up?" "Black magic?"...

Flipboard has turned on new Books categories in its iPhone and iPad apps, and the content they contain might surprise you. There's a smattering of featured categories you can add to you Flipboard righ...

Locu, a local business data provider which works to extract structured data from business websites, is announcing a notable new partnership today with restaurant reservation service and guest manageme...

Birchbox, which offers a monthly subscription box full of new cosmetics and beauty products, is expanding to a new vertical today -- home and entertaining and design. The company is debuting a limited...

Amazon has just announced that the Kindle Fire HD 8.9-inch ships today, ahead of its previously planned schedule of a November 20 ship date. The larger-screened version of Amazon's Android-powered tab...

Cisco has announced it plans to acquire Cloupia for $125 million. The software company helps customers automate their data centers.Cisco sees Cloupia's infrastructure management software enhancing its...

In October Amazon added Japan for the first time to the list of markets where it sells its Kindle and Kindle Fire tablets, which will go on sale December 19. Today, it's giving those products a bit of...

These days OnLive is probably known as much for its unexpected meltdown as it is for its promise to deliver streaming video games to the masses, but ever since the company reformed it seems to have re...

In practice, most Wi-Fi routers offer much less than their advertised speeds. Although I've seen some fast throughput in my time, most of the gear we use is rated for much higher than network traffic ...

Not many game makers launch exclusively onto SMS (yes, SMS), but the guys over at Strayboots felt that their interactive urban tour guide games would only catch on if everyone had the opportunity to p...

DataSift - which provides developers and third parties with a platform to access realtime data from Twitter, Facebook and other social sources - is on a bit of a roll. This week it announced it had ra...

Apple's iPad mini seems to be a success, and that has attracted the criminal element's attention. According to the New York Post, a shipment of Apple's iPad mini, numbering 3,600 devices and with a to...

Belly, the Chicago-based loyalty platform, is announcing its expansion to San Francisco today. ...

Foodily, a startup that beganas a recipe search sitebeforearriving on iPhonein late 2011, is today rolling out a major revamp of its user interface that puts even more emphasis on social interactions....

Back in March we reported that Smartsync - a social contact synchronization service for the iPhone - was getting good traction because of its social calling features. The app displays the latest Faceb...

Voice-based search is all the rage these days in the video world, as Microsoft, Google, and Samsung are all rushing to offer new ways for consumers to navigate through billions of videos online, witho...

Apple has a couple new patent applications this morning, spotted by AppleInsider and detailing two very useful features for mobile devices. The first is a method for detecting and adjusting noise resu...

It took a bit, but the first Lightning-enabled accessories are finally hitting the market. JBL just announced a pair of speaker docks that works exclusively with the Dock Connector's replacement. The ...

You've heard this story before: Person sets out to find an apartment or buy their first home. Person struggles to navigate the noise of Craigslist, manage applications, impressions, notes, scheduling ...

Go Daddy has for a while been building out its domain registering and hosting business into business services to create new revenue streams to compete against the likes of Google and Amazon in serving...

Tradeshift, the free invoicing platform which seems to be making quite a bit of headway lately, has landed a very large client. Normally we wouldn't note such events, but this one is big. Vestas Wind ...

Another bit of news to add to the 'tech is now mainstream' pile: U.K. carrier Vodafone has launched a mobile tariff for perpetual early adopters -- which enables them to own the latest high end smartp...

Urban Remedy, the latest startup incubated by LA accelerator Science, launching today as an e-commerce destination for healthy juices, gluten-free snacks, meal replacements and more. ...

BlueGlass Interactive, an onlinemarketing agency headquartered in Tampa, Florida, is expanding its global footprint yet again with the acquisition of the London, U.K.-based firm Quaturo in an all-equi...

Magisto is opening up its API, which will allow third-party developers to be able to take advantage of its cloud-based video editing service in their own applications. By connecting to Magisto, these ...

Flatshare finder, SmoovUp, has expanded beyond its native France to launch the service in 6 new countries: UK, Spain, Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxemburg, and Australia -- and says that the U.S. ...

Click A Taxi, one of the many apps in the increasingly congested car-service apps market, is today announcing a couple of key developments that it hopes will help it zoom past the competition in the m...

TechCrunch's Kim Mai Cutlerand I are in the Land of the Rising Sun this week, completing a series of startup interviews and talks, and guest moderating TechCrunch Disrupt Tokyo 2012.Earlier today, ami...

Chipmaker Texas Instruments has announced it's cutting 1,700 jobs as part of a business restructuring move. The company says it's shifting its historical focus away from mobile chips because it's beco...

First Gagnam Style. Now Webtoons. Both are Korean phenomenons, and now both are available for U.S. audiences. The latter comes thanks to a new platform called Tapastic, which aims to help artists shar...

A deterioration in the global economic outlook is leading to scant overall growth in 2012 enterprise IT spending, says Gartner. However the analyst says its third quarter outlook points to "more subst...

Glitch, the online, multiplayer gaming world created by Tiny Speck, is closing down December 9after failing to get enough user traction, and then failing to find a buyer for the product. Right now Tin...

Design-focused e-commerce site Fab has been steadily trying to decrease the amount of time it takes from when a purchaser hits purchase on the site to when they actually receive the purchased item. Vi...

Brightcove expanded beyond video content management and rolled out its platform for mobile app development about 18 months ago. It then released an update to the platform, which included a free versio...

Tonight, during Steve Ballmer's interview by Reid Hoffman, the two talked about everything Microsoft. Now that Ballmer is talking about his competitors he let out a few bonzo words when it came to Goo...

At the Churchill Club in Santa Clara, two tech titans sat down to have a conversation. LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman interviewed Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer at an event with "tech influencers and in...

I've used a few wireless, always-on webcams in my day and I've found Dropcam to be the best. Suddenly, however, Dropcam just got better....

I spent a few hours on the LinkedIn campus a few weeks ago, with the sole mission of learning more about the new LinkedIn profile redesign. It was quite a shift from its previous iteration, and instea...

I spent a few hours on the LinkedIn campus a few weeks ago, with the sole mission of learning more about the new LinkedIn profile redesign. It was quite a shift from its previous iteration, and instea...

When you've got a lot of things going on, it's easy to lose track of where you left your mobile phone, keychain, wallet, or handbag -- and the time you spend trying to find them just as you're running...

If you've spent any time taking care of children, aging parents or those with special needs, you know it's hard work. Staying on top of and organizing files, contacts and medications, while coordinati...

Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Peter Levinetook the stage at the Defrag conference today and said what has become prettyapparent these days: There's a renaissance happening in the enterprise and ...

Thanks to the growth of the web in recent years and the advent of a number of startups making art- and design-focused marketplaces, the cliche of the "starving artist" may not stick around for much lo...

There are some erroneous reports floating around that investment firm Andreessen Horowitz is selling its stake in Facebook. Quite the contrary, it's holding on to all of its direct investment, and Wal...

New Jersey doesnt exactly have a reputation as a startup hub, but that doesnt mean there arent any ambitious tech entrepreneurs there. It could be that they just tend to migrate to more established lo...

Zynga’s not the only one mixing around management these days.Pocket Gems, a mid-size mobile game developer backed by Sequoia Capital, is seeing some changes at the top today. Co-founder Daniel T...

Zynga’s not the only one mixing around management these days.Pocket Gems, a mid-size mobile game developer backed by Sequoia Capital, is seeing some changes at the top today. Co-founder Daniel T...

Apple made a big deal about the iPad mini providing an uncompromised iPad experience for users, and it's standing by that by making it impossible for web developers to detect whether a web page is bei...

When I first started at TechCrunch oh so many months ago, I asked the team "Why don't we have an iPhone app?" Yes, as an iPhone user, I find it handy to be able to read the news from the publication t...

Today, Groupon has officially found its new chief operating officer. The daily deals leader announced this afternoon that it has promoted Senior VP of Global Sales and Operations, Kal Raman, to COO, w...

Facebook has just confirmed with me that it is launching a retweet-style "Share" button for the mobile news feed. The much-requested feature is now rolled out for the mobile site, and will soon come t...

Earlier today, Corte Madera-based attorney Gary Oswald filed a class action lawsuitagainst Uber. The suit arguesthat the startup's operations in San Francisco are illegal, because Uber is allegedly "a...

The California Public Utilities Commission has taken its next step against a new breed of transportation startups in San Francisco, issuing citations and leveling fines against the likes of ride-shari...

Today, The Next Web covered a post about a potential XSS "vulnerability" on Google's app and gadget hosting services used on Google-hosted domains. Of course, more people piled on, as a "hacker" in Bu...

The Israeli Defense Force announced a coordinated military offensive on Gaza militants via Twitter, marking perhaps the first time war has been announced in under 140 characters. The Twitter stream of...

The latest episode of my Foundation video series comes to you filmed live from the Google Ventures Founder & CEO Summit last week. I had the opportunity to sit down with Ben Horowitz, co-founder o...

Maluuba, the TC Disrupt finalist and Android-based Siri competitor today has unveiled a major new platform play, via its natural language processing (NLP) API for app developers. The Maluuba team beli...

As a real estate pro, often you essentially work for yourself, and have complete control over your own schedule -- it's a set up which has real perks, but it also means that you need superhuman organi...

Marketo is offering a new service called LaunchPoint, whichis meant to servethe "marketing nation," a term Marketo coined to describe an ecosystem of technology partners and professional service provi...

PayPal is rolling out a number of payments pilots this week in international markets, showcasing the company's mobile payments technologies. We've seen PayPal test out payments technologies before lar...

Following our scoop that Spotify made $200 million in revenue in the first six months of 2012, AllThingsD is reporting the streaming music service has closed a big funding round at a $3 billion valuat...

Woz spoke at TEDx Brussels this week and his presence electrified the 2,000 people in the audience. Afterwards, I had the great fortune to catch the great man ...

Square just announced that it is seeing $10 billion in annual payments through its mobile payments platform. That's up from the most recent stat from a few weeks ago of $8 billion processed annually. ...

Not fazed by Facebook's high-profile launch of Gifts, Sincerely is barreling into mobile gifting too. Best known for the postcard app Postagram, the startup has amassed a network of 1.2 million member...

Several months ago, we found out that a company co-founded by Apple’s former CEO John Sculley and a couple of hardware veterans who make those iPhone-connected glucose meters popular with diabet...

Today's massive lockup expiration has hung like a black cloud over Facebook. But there's no more specific moments investors can point to and say "I'm not buying until after that", and finally Facebook...

We know that Pinterest could turn into an absolute monster for eCommerce, and we've been waiting to see what the company would do to push that forward. We learned today, as the company announced new t...

It only seems like five minutes ago now, but we started a TechCrunch Moscow Meetup back in 2010. As one of the first ever startup and investment-oriented events in Russia, the reaction was fantastic, ...

The Social Jobs Partnership an initiative that includes The US Department of Labor, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), DirectEmployers Association, the National Association of...

Social video appVodiois out with a new version today that takes advantage of the app's ability to connect with a user's social accounts, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. In the updated app, y...

When Gabor Cselle showed off his app DrawChat at the Founders Den Demo Day in September, the entire presentation was pretty jokey, including a DrawChat-created "hockey-stick curve" displaying the app'...

In the world of restaurant recommendations, the focus these days is squarely on social recommendations. Nara, which is launching its mobile apps for iOS and Android today, is taking a different approa...

Apple may not be getting squeezed by a Samsung pricing change as previously reported, according to new info from Seoul-based newspaper The Hankyoreh. The paper received word from an unnamed Samsung of...

While smartphones are quickly becoming the center piece of our digital lives, much of what we do on our phones remains trapped on the device -- something that's particularly true of text messaging. So...

Students could soon receive college credit for taking free online courses. Massive Online Open Course platformCourserais working with accreditation standards institutionAmerican Council on Educationto...

As a degenerate clubber, I often find myself back in the VIP where I enjoy fine libations and the company of many ladies. But what about the pain point of knowing which club to visit and how much to s...

RSS readers, Instapaper, Pocket, Flipboard, etc., all provide ways for consumers to gather, collect, and share news. But each of these is aimed at the general user, and while definitely usable in a bu...

President Obama won the election for the same reason George W. Bush was re-elected: Americans overwhelmingly favor the incumbent. Sitting members of the House of Representatives have been re-elected o...

Today a new startup is hitting the scene aiming to grab some of the success we're seeing in the recommendations sector. It's a combination between recommendation services like LiveStar and Stamped, an...

TaskRabbit, the online marketplace that lets people outsource small jobs and tasks, has acquired One Jackson, an e-commerce site for kids' clothing. This is TaskRabbit's second-ever acquisition -- ear...

Apartment search startup Lovely is launching its iPhone app today the company's first mobile product.Co-founder and CEO Blake Pierson said the service helps young apartment hunters in "supply-control...

Invi, a startup trying to integrate a broad range of media into the texting experience, is launching on Google Play today. It's also announcing a seed round of $750,000 from Li Ka-Shing's Horizons Ven...

Turntable.fm, my music streaming service of choice, just updated its platform this morning. Along with a cleaner, much more sleek interface comes the ability to host huge rooms of listeners. How big? ...

Kids educational and entertainment app maker Night & Day Studios is taking an unconventional path to growth. The startup is announcing today, not a round of venture funding, but rather a partnersh...

In a move which which will send significant waves through the London and European startup eco-system, Bindi Karia, currently the 'Venture Capital/Emerging Business Lead' at Microsoft UK, is departing ...

SugarSync, the world's other cloud storage solution, has updated its desktop app, creating a more widget-like experience for selecting, storing and sharing files online. The service still uses the sta...

TinyTap, an iPad application that lets you or your children create playable books and games using easy DIY tools, is announcing having raised a $500,000 round of seed funding fromInimiti, a new $35 mi...

You may not know this but I was an English literature major in college, so books are things I'm fond of. But I'm also a tech lover, so I generally read on either an iPad or a Kindle. Cases like the on...

Editor's note:U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa has represented Californias 49th CongressionalDistrict in the House of Representatives since 2001. Follow him on [email protected] June 11, 2012, I went all i...

ntel Capital and Red Hat have invested in 10Gen bringing the total raised to $76 million for the company. 10Gen is the sponsor forMongoDB, the popular open source NoSQL database....

Intel Capital and Red Hat have invested in 10Gen bringing the total raised to $76 million for the company. 10Gen is the sponsor forMongoDB, the popular open source NoSQL database....

Google shows off what happens when you control both a social network and a mobile software platform, thanks to a new feature of Google+ spotted by The Next Web today that allows users to share an...

Facebook share prices are up today, with shares at 21.91, 10.22 percent above yesterday’s level — and still climbing. It represents a 5 billion market capitalization gain. Today the compan...

Facebook share prices are up today, with shares at 21.91, 10.32 percent above yesterday’s level. It represents a 4.6 billion market capitalization gain. Today the company is experiencing its big...

Image giant Corbis has acquired Demotix, the crowd-sourced, breaking news picture and video agency which launched in 2008 and recently hit the milestone of a million images uploaded. The move follows ...

LA-based incubator Science is debuting a new service today, HelloInsights.com, which is a platform for Pinterest influencer analytics. Basically, HelloInsights offers a way for brands to monitor compa...

Google TV is adding a new feature that could make it easier for users to search and navigate all the different content on various video applications, without having to use keypads or clunky text inter...

Apple has done a lot to push the envelope with mobile phone-based cameras, but where it's mostly made smart improvements to hardware and firmware, Camera+ has been a real innovator on the softwar...

PlayNice.ly, the UK startup that set out to make bug tracking fun, is to enter the deadpool. In an email sent out to users, the company has announced that it is shutting down the service in the New ye...

Bring up the topic of "enterprise security platforms" around polite company, and you may be quickly shown the door. The subject can be boring, but the truth is that enterprise security writ large are ...

As YouTube gets ready to make another round of investments into produced content for its video network, Base79, its largest partner in Europe with over 550 million views of its online video content pe...

A new Kickstarter project getting underway today brings your Instagram photos to the way-back world of home picture projection, in a small, adorable package that suits perfectly the faux-vintage feel ...

RIM is launching BlackBerry 10 in February 2013 with several devices. Little is known about these handsets but the pic here shows the touchscreen model next to an iPhone 5. Tantalizing, I know....

The Motorola non-Jelly Bean rebate program is finally here. Have a Motorola Android phone from 2011 or later that's not getting upgraded to Jelly Bean? Motorola will take the phone back and give you a...

Samsung has "no intention" to follow the example of HTC and work out a settlement with legal and consumer tech rival Apple, according to Samsung Electronics Head of Mobile J.K. Shin. He said so to rep...

Talk to an engineer, and the world is full of big data promise. But those who work at the front end the tech industry -- business development, sales and marketing people, for example -- have largely b...

Billtrust, a company that provides a SaaS to manage online billing for companies, has raised $25 million in from Bain Capital Ventures. This brings Billtrust's total funding raised to $30 million....

VitalFields, the Estonian startup that wants to help farmers make better use of data and act as a warning system for disease and pest issues, has raised a 250,000 (approx. $318k) seed round led by Sma...

Skype faced a fairly serious security threat today, thanks to a flaw in the system that allowed people to sign up with email addresses already in use by other users and then force password resets for ...

Continuuity, a company that provides a big data platform as a service for developers, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Battery Ventures and Ignition Partners. Andreessen Horowitz, Da...

Logitech launched the Alert video security system in August of 2010. It now works with Macs. About damn time, Logitech....

The landgrab among Square-influenced mobile payment companies in Europe continues apace: in today's development, SumUp -- which launched in August with more than $20 million in backing from b-to-v Par...

Mobile advertising network Mojiva has raised another $7 million in funding from current investors in the company, part of a larger raise the company is in the process of closing to hire more people, b...

Mobile advertising network Mojiva has raised another $7 million in funding from current investors in the company, part of a larger raise the company is in the process of closing to hire more people, b...

Many countries are facing a demographic 'time bomb', or so we're told, as people are living longer than ever before. As a result, 'seniors' make up a significant (and growing) proportion of the market...

Walmart’s experimentation with subscription-based commerce continues today, with the public launch of Goodies.co, a food subscription service featuring boxes of sample-sized treats shipped month...

Nokia is running ads in Europe for its Windows Phone 8 devices that are emblazoned with the legend 'everyone loves a comeback'. But with Google's Android OS now the undisputed champion of a market Nok...

Gartner has this morning put out its numbers for how the mobile handset industry has performed in Q3. The topline figure is that the mobile industry overall continues to see pressure from the wider ec...

Gartner has this morning published its numbers for how the mobile handset industry performed in Q3. The topline figure is that the mobile industry overall continues to see pressure from the wider econ...

Gartner has this morning published its numbers for how the mobile handset industry performed in Q3. The topline figure is that the mobile industry overall continues to see pressure from the wider econ...

The Japanese tech industry continues to feel the squeeze in the economy, with one of the most painful effects being more mass layoffs of workers. In the latest development, Panasonic Corp. says that i...

Here's some good news for mobile app makers looking to enter the Chinese market. Not only are there a whopping 200 million Android and iOS devices in circulation in China, jailbreaking is down from la...

Application providers of all varieties are using activity streams. Microsoft announced this week that it is all in on social and will integrate Yammer into Sharepoint and Office365....

Application providers of all varieties are using activity streams. Microsoft announced this week that it is all in on social and will integrate Yammer into Sharepoint and Office 365....

Another BYOD-focused investment to add to the pile: Miradore, a Finnish mobile device management startup, has announced it's just closed a 1.2 million Series B funding round, with new backers includin...

According to a tip, Twitter has hired away another Google employee, and this time it's someone with a heavy focus on business and sales. The Googler is Aliza Knox, who ran Business and Sales for Shopp...

Tonight at the New York Tech Meetup, SpaceSplitter presented the latest feature of its web application which makes it easier to get money out of your roommates for their share of the household items.O...

Tablets, with their larger touchscreens that are less cumbersome than laptops, have been shown to lend themselves naturally to long-form content consumption, and that is spawning a new breed of servic...

Netflix is going to the movies with its new Open Source Center on Github. In a clever play, Netflix has taken its well-known brand and placed it on GitHub to show each of its open-source projects as i...

Last week was a very busy one for those of us on the Northern Meetups, TechCrunch's three-city tour through a few of North America's hottest (well, not literally) burgeoning tech hubs outside of the t...

Foxconn has been planning to buy 1 million robots to replace human workers and it looks like that change, albeit gradual, is about to start....

Libratone's speakers are normally crazy expensive. This one is just temporarily insane. Plus it's got a direct mode for when you're outside of Wi-Fi range, and a built-in battery, two things rare on a...

Fundraising phone calls from strangers make people hang up. But if the caller's a friend, friend of a friend, or is similar to you, you're more likely to donate. Amicus has just raised $3.2 million to...

RIM will reportedly start selling smartphones based on its new BlackBerry 10 operating system beginning in February, 2013, the month after it officially announces them January 30 at an event announced...

Editor's note:Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, represents Californias 16thCongressional District, which includes parts of Silicon Valley and San Jose in Santa Cl...

Y Combinator startup Chartio has come out of its quiet mode with its service for connecting databases to create charts and graphs without ever needing to upload data....

Zynga justreshuffled its management team, and one interesting departureis formerCFODavid Wehner who has leftto become Facebook's VP of Corporate Finance & Business Planning. He'll bring along what...

Zynga today fought back against a slew of high-level departures it has suffered in recent months by announcing a slate of new appointments to C-level and executive roles. In all of these new appointme...

Do Facebook's efforts to make money come at the cost of the user experience? Company executives David Fischer (vice president of marketing and business partnerships) and Sam Lessin (who heads the Iden...

As a connoisseur of the standing desk, I can honestly say that the UpDesk is one of the best I've tried. Sure you can get them more cheaply, but this desk uses a built-in, electronic lifting system to...

Hey designers! You could build another app. Or you could save some lives by entering the White House's Health Design Challenge to give the electronic medical record a much-needed redesign. Right now t...

It ain't easy being a mobile game developer. Between developing an original, good-looking game to acquiring users, honing in on the right monetization strategy without bombarding users with annoying a...

As promised last month, Microsoft today expanded access to its Internet Explorer 10 web browser, by launching a preview of IE 10 for Windows 7. Previously, IE 10 was only available on Windows 8. The u...

Nokia today announced its plan to debut Here, the rebranded, enhanced version of Nokia Maps, on the iOS platform pending Apple's approval. It will be available as a free download, according to a Nokia...

Dan Lyons has a post over on ReadWrite facilitating a classic Mark Cuban rant. Cuban is pissed about the Facebook Promote fees for the Dallas Mavericks Facebook page - he was asked for $3,000 to reach...

Airbnb, the San Francisco startup that has become known for hosting an online marketplace for listing and and booking short-term housing accomodations, is expanding beyond homes and into the local caf...

"How do I love thee, cloud storage? Let me count the ways." You see, Dropbox's CEO Drew Houston is an inspiring guy, and a joy to talk to as a tech journalist because he's not afraid to describe the g...

It looks like it will be a very mobile holiday season for eBay this year. The e-commerce company is releasing new numbers today around its mobile growth. Specifically, eBay mobile-only dollars transac...

Ben Grossman, editor-in-chief of long-lived trade magazine Broadcasting & Cable, announced this morning that he's joining Twitter as Head of Global Operations, Twitter Media.Naturally, the announc...

As you might be aware, Google Fiber has set out to make all the world, or at least Kansas City, have fast and accessible Internet access. Today, the company announced that it is now wiring homes in th...

Today in San Francisco, Airbnb announced the launch of Airbnb Neighborhoods. The new product allows users to find the experiences they want based on their interests and the particular parts of a city ...

E la Carte, a company that develops a tableside tablet for the restaurant and related hospitality industries, is debuting a brand new version of its hardware for restaurants....

The new LocalBonus app provides an easy sign-up process, allowing users to simply take a picture of their credit card to begin receiving rewards. The app also lets users see merchants near them, as we...

StackMob, an end-to-end development platform for mobile applications, is today announcing the launch of the StackMob Marketplace for third-party services, as well as changes to its pricing structure f...

Nokia today is taking some big steps to upgrade its Maps division, starting with a big rebrand as Here. To beef up the service, today Nokia also announced that it has acquired earthmine, a specialist ...

Nokia today is taking some big steps to upgrade its Maps division, starting with a big rebrand as Here. To beef up the service, today Nokia also announced that it has acquired earthmine, a specialist ...

Nokia is capitalizing on its strong reputation regarding maps with a new product called Here today, which offers users a number of new features, like Collections, which lets users save and share locat...

HTC and Verizon's brief presentation wrapped up not long ago, which can only mean one thing -- nearly all the members of the press leapt from their seats and made a beeline for the demo units for some...

Google released an update to its Transparency Report today, detailing how government requests both for information about users and also for content removal from Google services. The numbers indicate a...

Remember the time when web sites were reserved for businesses, or niche designers? Before the days of Tumblr and Wordpress and even MySpace (where I learned my first bit of basic code). Now anyone can...

I have a confession to make... I've never-ever used a BlackBerry. I've been an iPhone owner since Gen 1, and frankly, can't even figure out how to operate an Android device (I tried). BlackBerry was n...

Etsy is releasing some new numbers this morning. The marketplace for hand crafted goods, which now has 20 million members (up from 15 million in May) in nearly 200 countries; passed the $700 million m...

TenderTree wants to provide a way for folks to find in-home caregivers that are perfect for their family members. It does background checks on all the caregivers who apply and checks their accreditati...

As we near the holiday shopping rush around Thanksgiving and Black Friday; Google is updating its maps and Shopping products to help consumers navigate crowded malls, stores and research and buy toys ...

We've heard a lot about how massive open online courses like Udacity are disrupting the traditional world of higher education. Not too long ago, Learndot, which is officially launching today, wanted t...

In July, after the Google I/O developer event, I reviewed the newly unveiled Nexus 7 tablet after using it for a bit. Most people fired out snap-reactions about their thoughts, but I decided to put it...

"At this scale, when you help people save 10 minutes or an hour, you're saving lifetimes of pain...And we're just getting started." That's what CEO Drew Houston thinks about his company hitting 100 mi...

Google's latest Nexus phone went on sale globally today but demand for the Android 4.2 smartphone has been burning through supply at a rate of knots -- apparently selling out in the U.K. in a matter o...

Glyph is a new mobile application, now live in the iTunes App Store, that will tell you the best credit card to use in order to earn the most valuable rewards, whether that's cash back, travel or hote...

Google has just put its new Nexus 4 smartphone and Nexus 10 tablet up for sale at the Google Play web store. The phone retails for $299 for the 8GB version, and $349 for the 16GB variety. If you want ...

While the online (and social) travel space has been contracting a bit after last year's barrage of new entrants, one of the few young companies that has been able to maintain not only a strong foothol...

It's anything but a secret at this point (really, the number of leaks is astounding even for HTC), but Verizon and HTC have just officially unveiled the Droid DNA here at their joint press conference ...

Windows Phone 8 is hitting Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile this year. But Sprint customers will have to wait until 2013. For unknown reasons, the carrier is not getting any versions of the Nokia or HTC...

The language learning service Duolingo currently has about 300,000 active users and continues to grow rapidly. Starting today, the service's users will also be able to work through their lessons on th...

Palo Alto-basedHoneyBook is launching its online wedding albums service into private beta today, offering a way for couples to organize and share all the digital media related to their wedding, includ...

Palo Alto-basedHoneyBook is launching its online wedding albums service into private beta today, offering a way for couples to organize and share all the digital media related to their wedding, includ...

With $2 million in seed capital from First Round Capital,Dave McClure, Joi Ito, Ariel Poler and Brian Sugar,SocialWire wants advertisers to hyper-optimize their Facebook ads experience. With SocialWir...

Loosecubes, a "community marketplace" for workspace which connected members with a desk or place to work, is shutting down. Friday, November 16th will be the last day the site honors reservations book...

Apple has once again come out on top in a RetailSails analysis of the top performing brick-and-mortar U.S. retail chains. Apple Retail does around $6,050 in sales volume per square feet in the United ...

Chicago-basedGrubHub, a startup that lets you order food for delivery or take out online or on mobile, is launching a new "Track Your Grub" set of features as a part of its DeliveryHub driver tracking...

Gyft, theTechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012finalistwhich lets you buy, store and share plastic gift cards on your iPhone, is starting its big holidays push with the introduction of a new feature which will al...

These days there's certainly no shortage of gadgets for the fitness freaks among you (some of them have even come back from the grave), and now the folks at Fitbit are finally ready to take another cr...

(Or pissing money up a wall?)Captive Media, the UK interactive washroom startup, has raised a $700K funding round to help roll out its product -- a "pee controlled" media system (yes, you read that co...

Cloud services are where the action is for enterprise IT companies right now, and Citrix, which bought the open source, cloud-computing platform Cloud.com for upwards of $200 million in 2011 (getting ...

The Jawbone UP was the quantified human's favorite device. The pedometer/silent alarm/sleep sensor was a rubber bracelet that just sat there - you didn't have to do much except charge it every few wee...

As Kaspersky Labs details in its latest State of the Union, the threats to the IT landscape are changing, as security teams now have to juggle threats coming from both new geographies and platforms --...

Travel startup Hipmunk is launching a big redesign of its hotel search feature today, one that should help travelers find a hotel in the neighborhood that best matches the type of trip that they're lo...

The addition of the Google TV connectivity to YouTubes Android apps will go a long way toward improving usability of both. The new feature will allow YouTube viewers to browse, search, and navigate vi...

Corona Labs(formerly Ansca Mobile), the makers of the cross-platform mobile app development framework known as the Corona SDK, has raised an additional $2 million in funding from existing investor Mer...

Vimeo is launching the preview version of its upcoming pay-to-view service, highlighted by six films that viewers will be able to pay to access not only through the Vimeo website, but also through mob...

It sucks being in a band. No, no, playing music and the groupies seem great, but updating all your web presences one by one with your new songs or videos must be a drag. BandPage Connect wants to make...

Quik.io works like this: Through an app, users are able to easily synchronize content across devices, enabling them to wirelessly move their photos and other media files to PCs or Macs. Once stored th...

When Foap first launched its iPhone app and markeplace to let users upload and sell their photos, it relied on a manual approval process designed to keep the quality high in a bid to give the traditio...

You may remember Evergramas the company whose co-founder, Duncan Seay,pitched the media in a wedding dress in the Startup Alley at this year's TechCrunch Disrupt SF. The dress may have brought him att...

Apple's iPhone 5 is a popular grey market item, and the proximity of Hong Kong to mainland China makes that country a particularly popular choice for stocking up on Apple hardware to be resold in the ...

The weight loss and health industries have collided head-on with the tech world, with even the most mainstream depictions of startup life pitching products to help people stay trim and out of the doct...

Have you heard? The Nexus 4 is a hit. UK buyers effectively depleted the Google Store's supply almost immediately after it was available. Of course without hard sales numbers that stat is a little use...

Disrupt finalist TalkTo is today bringing its powerful communication platform for local businesses and consumers to the web. In its most basic form, the result is a Google-type search experience combi...

As the digital wallet battle rages on here in the U.S., with Google Wallet, Amex's Serve, MasterCard's PayPass, Square, PayPal, carrier-backed Isis, and others all wrangling for a piece of the action,...

Google will be delivering Android 4.2 updates to owners of its Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy 7 devices over-the-air, and likely very soon, but if you're just not able to wait, there's a way to update manual...

According to The Bureau of Labor Statistics, while the unemployment rate among U.S. veterans has dropped to 8.3 percent, it still sits above the national average, and for younger vets, the rate is eve...

DogVacay, which launched in March this year as an Airbnb for dogs, has raised $6 million in new funding from Benchmark Capital. This round comes after previous funding from incubator Science, First Ro...

Latin American real estate and jobs classifieds company, Navent, has announced it's raised $30 million in incremental funding from global technology private equity firm Riverwood Capital and global in...

With an estimated 65% of big global companies looking to implement Bring Your Own Device policies by the end of this yea, the BYOD market - which turns your chosen smartphone into a fire-walled enterp...

The music streaming juggernaut that is Spotify continues to gain momentum, although today was possibly more of a gentle acceleration than a turbo charge: today the company quietly launched its service...

Wanderful Media, which aims to digitize circulars (the printed flyers you find in your mailbox full of the latest deals and coupons), has acquired iCircular from The Associated Press....

Ross Fubini, formerly of Kapor Capital, has joined Canaan Partners as a venture partner.At Kapor,Fubiniled investments in Piazza,CitrusLane,GingerIO,KarmaLoop,ElationEMR,OmadaHealth andHealthLoop. His...

Google's latest Nexus-branded hardware went on sale in Europe today. The Nexus 4 smartphone and Nexus 10 tablet both went on sale today on Google's Play store, alongside the refreshed Nexus 7 tablet. ...

Google has a number of initiatives aimed at entrepreneurs globally, and a thread of a strategy appears to be emerging in Europe, albeit with different approaches. The tech giant has already supported ...

iZettle -- often called the "Square of Europe" for being an early mover on its dongle-based mobile payment service for small merchants -- is definitely getting down to business. Today, the Swedish-bas...

A new startup, SeatID, wants to change the way you fly. Their service lets you use your social network to help pick your next flight and seat assignment. SeatID is available starting today on the Uk...

"Floored." "Wow." "Wild."Those are some of the reactions within Microsoft tonight upon hearing thatWindows and Windows Live President Steven Sinofsky would be leaving the company "effective immediatel...

Now that StevenSinofsky has left Microsoftas President of the Windows division, the question now comes down to what happened and the implications his departure means for the company....

DataSift, a company that provides developers and third parties with access to Twitter, Facebook and other social data sources, has raised $15.25 million in Series B funding led by Scale Venture Partne...

Emerging out of stealth mode today, San Francisco-based startup BuyVia is throwing its hat into the ring as another shopping service and mobile app designed for price comparisons. The company ispredom...

Microsoft has just dropped a major bombshell:Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows Division, is leaving the company, effective immediately. The news is being characterized as a mutual decision, but indu...

Two years ago, Jason Glickman stepped down as the CEO and executive chairman of Tremor Media, a company he co-founded back in 2005 and helped grow into one of the largest video ad networks on the Web....

Today photo sharing app Tracks has announced version 2.0 of its website. New features include the ability to create photo tracks via the web. In other words, Tracks just opened itself up to the world...

This Khan Academy Project video by Karl R.C. Wendt shows you what's exactly inside a cheap digital camera. Wendt explains a bit about what's inside a camera and, more important, why this camera in par...

This weekend, TechCrunch attended a very cool event called the Vets In Tech Hackathon. The teams at the event weren't normal hackers, the majority of them consisted of Military Veterans, which as a na...

An interesting team is getting back together for something new, and it's worth noting. The founders of CoTweet, a company which was acquired by ExactTarget, is joining forces for a new startup called ...

This afternoon's media-focused discussion at the Techonomy conference concluded with moderator Dave Morgan of Simulmedia asking panelists to predict the world's most powerful media company in 2020. Tw...

It may be a bit obsolete without Lightning support out of the box, but the Soundfreaq Sound Rise is a cool clock radio that offers great styling, Bluetooth streaming support, and some great speakers....

Today, Twitter made a huge splash with Nicole Wong starting her new role at the company. Why is this big? Wong was formerly a VP and Deputy General Counsel at Google. She spent over seven years with t...

Quora's priorities are growth, hosting a wider range of questions, and mobile -- which is now 25% of its traffic. So to attract people who need quick answers, especially on the go, it isstarting to sh...

Another big Internet company is the target of Direction gnrale des finances - Frances equivalent of the IRS - due to tax noncompliance. The agency is asking Amazon to pay $252 million in non-reported ...

Understanding relativity is hard but playing games is easy. What's a physicist to do? Why, make a game about walking near the speed of light, of course, silly!...

LeWeb Paris is less than a month away and conference organizersLoic and Geraldine Le Meur just posted this year's schedule. The theme of the event, which is scheduled to run from December 4th to 6th, ...

Since Google's social layer, Google+, is making its way into all of the company's products, its Shopping venture isn't being left out. Today, the company announced two new features for Google Sho...

Revel Systems, the company behind iPad-based POS products that have mostly been focused on restaurant customers, today announced the addition of two major new retail clients to its portfolio, as well ...

Josh Karp is an idealist. His last venture, the Printed Blog, is a charming, sometimes beautiful example of what can happen when you connect the immediacy of the web with the permanence of print. Now,...

Apartment List, an apartment search engine that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt this fall, says that Simon Rothman, an executive in residence at Greylock Partners, has joined the company's advisory boa...

Microsoft has issued a roadmap for Yammer that includes a drop in pricing and deeper integration with Sharepoint and Office365.The news comes as Microsoft holds its annual Sharepoint conference in Las...

According to Bloomberg, the FTC is turning up the heat on Google over ongoing antitrust talks about the company's practices. In fact, the FTC wants to settle the issue, or it will move forward with a ...

Facebook filters the news feed so you only see the 15% or so of stories it thinks you'll find most interesting. But a newly discovered "All" link shows you almost everything posted by your friends and...

Facebook filters the news feed so you only see the 15% or so of stories it thinks you'll find most interesting. But a newly discovered "All" link shows you almost everything posted by your friends and...

Facebook filters the news feed so you only see the 15% or so of stories it thinks you'll find most interesting. But a newly discovered "All" link shows you almost everything posted by your friends and...

Ever wonder what it would look like to travel at the speed of light? The folks at MIT's education games lab have created a simple 3D simulator to teach the masses about the counterintuitive principles...

Shipping times for Apple's iPhone 5 have improved from 3-4 weeks, to 2-3 weeks as of today. Times are now one week better for all models of iPhone, including 16 through 64GB of storage and on all carr...

Google and Samsung recently unveiled a $249 Chromebook, which seemed like a new pricing floor for a capable, light computer that's designed for users who spend most of their computing time on the web....

LaunchRock, the company that helps other startups acquire customers, is announcing a new, more customizable version of its service today.The initial version of LaunchRock was focused on helping startu...

Sure, it's a bit early but we've been saving up gadgets and gizmos a-plenty for you all and we're ready to share some of the coolest hardware, gear, and geegaws with you and yours. The goal is to get ...

Regardless of how you feel about the concept, Samsung's Galaxy Camera is finally making its way to the United States. AT&T has just announced it will it launch the curious camera on November 16 (i...

TechStars Boston alum Kinvey, a backend-as-a-service provider for web and mobile applications, is today announcing support for Facebook's Open Graph in the iOS and Android applications built on its pl...

TechStars Boston alum Kinvey, a backend-as-a-service provider for web and mobile applications, is today announcing support for Facebook's Open Graph in the iOS and Android applications built on its pl...

LiveU, a provider of video transmission technology that works over cellular and WiFi networks, and is used by media companies (including TechCrunch, but also the BBC and NBC) that need to record and t...

We did it Chicago. Thanks to you, we had a great meetup to close out our northern meetups series last week. People made the trek out to the Zhou B gallery on Chicago's south side for a night of networ...

All change in tech media! Ziff Davis, best known for PCMag.com, ComputerShopper, ExtremeTech, Toolbox.com and Geek.com, has been acquired by j2 Global, Inc. a provider of business cloud services. Acco...

The existence of Samsung's Verizon-bound Ativ Odyssey smartphone was one of the bigger surprises at Microsofts recent Windows Phone 8 launch event it was the only handset highlighted that hadnt alrea...

Online sports betting exchange Betfair has confirmed its UK MD, Peter Marcus, is leaving the company. Marcus, who was hired just over a year ago, oversees its UK-facing business including the Sports E...

When it comes to financing small businesses, loans remain an important option. Biz2Credit simplifies the process greatly by removing the need to contact different institutions and waste time. With the...

If you haven't seen Apple's adorable Heart and Soul iPad mini ad, you've probably been living under a rock. But chances are you haven't seen the last two ads, highlighting iPhoto and iBooks. Interesti...

Lots of people today already use eBay and its ticketing site StubHub for ticket event purchases and trades; today eBay extended and further formalized that role, with a new global partnership with AEG...

Cursive may be going the way of the Dodo bird and newspapers: Kansas is mulling a decision to cut cursive education and prioritize typing skills. Parents want to know what your school is doing to teac...

Some buyers of Apple's 4th generation iPad with LTE are receiving notices that their shipments will arrive by November 16, otherwise known as this coming Friday. The latest iPad had originally been an...

Harvest has today implemented a new way to integrate its time tracking product directly into existing project management applications. It's called the Harvest Platform. All it takes is 15 minutes to d...

Concur, a travel and expense management solutions provider, and owner of popular mobile trip planning app TripIt, is announcing today the launch of a $150 million fund called the "Concur Perfect Trip ...

NM Incite, a social media analytics and research joint venture between Nielsen and McKinsey, just announced that it has acquired New York-based social TV startup SocialGuide.SocialGuide's tools suppos...

A new report today claiming Apple is prepping an iPhone 5S for test production in December and volume manufacturing early in 2013 is spreading like wildfire through the blogosphere. The initial source...

ShopRunner, a company that offers two-day shipping across a network os retailers, is debuting a new service today, PickupPoints, which allows consumers to receive packages from purchases made online a...

Samsung has reportedly increased the price of the mobile processors it manufactures for Apple's iOS devices by 20 percent, according to South Korean daily newspaper Chosun Ilbo, which says it received...

Enterprise mobile startupDoubleDutchhas raised $4 million in Series B funding, in a new round led by Floodgate, with participation from Bullpen Capital and Lightbank. The funding will see Floodgate's ...

RIM has announced today that it will be holding a launch event for BlackBerry 10 on January 30, 2013. This will take place simultaneously at multiple locations around the world, and will include the u...

By a show of hands, who regularly watches content from YouTube's so-called channels? You know, the channels partly funded by YouTube with the goal to make YouTube more like traditional television. So ...

Since 2009 I have thrown together a little celebration of the technology startup scene in Europe. It started out very simply as an opportunity to get the best minds on the business to pour over the sc...

Arguably, the boat has already sailed for photo sharing and discovery apps, but that isnt stopping EyeEm from pushing on regardless. The Berlin-based startup, which has apps for iOS, Android, and Wind...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has told a French newspaper that sales of Redmond's shiny new Windows 8 tablet PC, Surface, have gotten off to a modest start. Talking to French daily Le Parisien, publishe...

Amazon's global march has yet to take it into emerging markets like Vietnam and Malaysia, so the Samwer brothers have smelled an opportunity to build out their own version in the absence of Amazon its...

The rules for the U.K.'s forthcoming 4G auction have been published by telecoms regulator Ofcom. The reserve price for the two swathes of spectrum going under the hammer (800MHz, 2.6GHz) has been set ...

With the NBA season now fully underway and our attention spans being continuously pushed to the max (not to mention Yahoo's pissing off fantasy football fans), it seems like the perfect time to introd...

TechCrunch's Japan office is bringing together folks from the local and West Coast's startup communities this Thursday for an all-day event in Tokyo's Roppongi Hills area.Doors open at 10 a.m. and a h...

Memories of Scamville have faded, and we don’t see the kind brazen customer ripoff schemes from the big gaming companies these days. But the main company behind Scamville, Offerpal (the company ...

Most of the discussion about "the Internet's Fantastic Four" at the Techonomy conference this afternoon focused on the ways Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google have come to dominate the online landsca...

Editor's note:This is Part II of a two-part guest post written by legendary Silicon Valley investorVinod Khosla, the founder ofKhosla Ventures. In Part I, he offered suggestions for founders on if, wh...

Whats the best feature of the Surface?Um, everything.Thus began my experience at a local mall buying a Microsoft Surface....

Detroit used to be the fourth most populous city in the United States. As of 2010, with a population of around 750,000, it ranks 18th. It's not news that the economy of the city, largely reliant on th...

Editor's note:In response to our recent article on Jolicloud's apparent third or fourth shift in direction, CEO and co-founder Tariq Krim wished to take the writer, Mike Butcher, to task on the 'perce...

APIs are the glue that connect apps. It's as true for consumer apps as it is for the enterprise. API management platforms have come into vogue as apps proliferate across the enterprise.As APIs rise in...

The Explore Shakespeare iPad apps are interactive versions of Shakespeare plays, made on behalf of venerable British publisher, Cambridge University Press. In addition to the full text of either Macbe...

Editor's note:Ansel Halliburtonis a lawyer at ComputerLaw Group, a boutique law firm in Palo Alto specializing in intellectual property litigation and entrepreneurship. Apple and HTC announced yesterd...

Driving through downtown Detroit is like seeing a city after the Fall. The streets are empty, and there are entire buildings devoid of windows, let alone occupants. It's the Rust Belt writ large, a re...

In todays world of popularized tech entrepreneurship, especially the consumer-facing variety, the constant (social) media attention maintains a fever pitch. In this current lifestyle wave, the plethor...

If social media mattered in elections, Ron Paul would have likely been the Republican presidential candidate, not Mitt Romney. Despite being the conversational hub of the election, Facebook is neither...

If social media mattered in elections, Ron Paul would have likely been the Republican presidential candidate, not Mitt Romney. Despite being the conversational hub of the election, Facebook is neither...

The education sector rarely if ever gets enough attention. It's simply not as sexy as social, mobile, local, but the tides are changing in a huge way in EdTech, and co-founder and CEO of eProf Trevor ...

Editor's note:Jonathan Wai is a researcher and writer at the Duke University Talent Identification Program and author of Finding the Next Einstein: Why smart is relative for Psychology Today. Follow h...

Editor's note:Maria Rocio Paniaguacurrently works as a project manager atInnku, one of the top mobile and web workshops in Mexico.Mexico 15 years ago may not look very different from today if seen fro...

Editor's note: Brad Woodcox is a technical specialist focusing on startup development for Novak Druce + Quigg, an intellectual property super boutique law firm.Patents. A single word that incites...

Apple and HTC today announced jointly a settlement of all ongoing patent litigation between the two, in a licensing agreement with a 10-year term, any further terms of which were not released. Many wi...

In a press statement released late tonight, smartphone titans Apple and HTC have said that they have settled all outstanding legal disputes. The settlement includes a 10-year-licence agreement between...

Beyond the levels, badges, reward points and promised engagement increases, there are many behaviourist game designers who see games as persuasive tools for social change. They see a very wide range o...

Spotify, the streaming music startup, was having serious trouble paying its bills, if you believed reports from earlier this year. Its 2011 financials showed a loss of nearly $60 million on revenues o...

We had an amazing time in Detroit this week, the second stop in our three-city tour for the TechCrunch Northern Meetups. We spent two very full days in the Motor City area talking with developers, ent...

As work on BlackBerry 10 continues behind closed doors, Waterloo-based RIM is gearing up to make yet another attempt to woo would-be BlackBerry 10 developers to its cause. This time though the company...

Editor's note:Peter Arvai, founder and CEO of Prezi, is working to help people share ideas.Just months before Twitter launched in 2006, a company launched in Helsinki, Finland -- the land of Nokia, ru...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor this one was recorded on location in Orlando at the Gartner Symposium late last month. It's the bleeding edge of LTE produ...

So before you think, "Wow, Drew's a self-promoting jerk", which I'm really not, I want to tell you a story about a little girl named Alex Scott. Alex and her family hail from my home city of Philadelp...

Editor's note: This is Part I of a two-part guest post written by legendary Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures. In Part II, he willexamine the signs it might be time ...

Happy anniversary to me: Ive now been writing this here weekly column for exactly two years. Over the last year I have opined, prescribed, and predicted many things. And now, like last year, as part o...

It's not quite as cool as working next to other startups on a boat in international waters, but when it comes to appealing settings in which to build a business, the Rocky Mountains aren't half bad. F...

Editor's note: Michael Wu is the Principal Scientist of Analytics atLithium.Social media is a required avenue for brands to engage their customers. However, social media engagement is primarily based ...

Editor's note: Michael Wu is the Principal Scientist of Analytics atLithium.Social media is a required avenue for brands to engage their customers. However, social media engagement is primarily based ...

We told you about a cool, futuristic, talking bear a bit ago, and apparently we weren't the only ones blown away by it. Today, The Next Web reported that ToyTalk has raised $11.5M from Charles Rivers ...

Custom product companyZazzle just announced that it's teaming up with Dodocase, the manufacturer behind what we've described as "one of TechCrunchs favorite iPad cases."When I met with Zazzle's co-fou...

Companies like LegalZoom try to replace the basic services offered by attorneys, but sometimes you still need to talk to a real, live lawyer. So a startup called Lawdingo makes it easier to find one.W...

According to multiple reports, China recently started blocking numerous Google services, including Gmail, Google Maps and others that usually pass through the country's so-called Great Firewall. Googl...

Zynga announced this morning that it has acquired game developer November Software for an undisclosed amount.The acquisition apparently occurred back in the spring, but Zynga is only announcing it now...

Just like every year, there will surely be long lines in front of your local Walmart, Best Buy and Macy's on Black Friday in two weeks (assuming you live in the U.S.). With the shopping season about t...

We had a blast, Detroit. Thanks for having us.On a brisk November night the city of Detroit -- no, the entire Detroit region -- turned out for our first Meetup in the Motor City. We took over all four...

How does Facebook know what features are good enough for its main smartphone apps? It tests them on the power users of its standalone apps Camera and Messenger. If the guinea pigs dig a new gesture or...

Facebook hasn't exactly had smooth relations with Europe. In September it had to turn off facial recognition in the EU, for instance. But operating conditions in Europe look set to get a whole lot tou...

I listened to the presentations from a group of "enterprise" startups last night and pretty much from the start I had to suppress my groans. This was dry stuff. But I knew underneath the companies rep...

What a change a year makes. SecondMarket, which helps arrange sales for stock of privately-held companies, said three-fourths of its transactions in the last quarter were for consumer electronics comp...

Three weeks ago, Microsoft announced that it would hold a freeglobal hackathon in over 100 cities around the globe. Today is the first day of this "Wowzapp 2012" event and Microsoft just announced tha...

Today, the New York City-based don't-call-me-an-incubator incubator known as betaworks is launching its latest startup following its acquisition of Digg this past summer. Betaworks is primarily focuse...

A video conferencing startup called Personify, Inc. (formerly Nuvixa)is launching its first product next week, which will allow users to take advantage of the motion sensing technology in Microsoft Ki...

A hackathon this Veteran's Day weekend in San Francisco is looking for a few good men and women. It's sponsored by VetsinTech, a group working to connect veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan ...

I love my iPhone. I also love tight jeans, not needing a wallet, and being able to fend off a gang of attackers with chemical weapons. Thanks to a new iPhone case with a sleek compartment for pepper s...

Profig, the Y Combinator-backed virtual phone system startup that launched out of the accelerator program's summer class this August, has shut its doors after fewer than three months on the market. It...

When done right, brands can go way beyond a static marketing symbol -- they take on a life of their own, and immerse themselves into customers' psyches. Take the number of people who have had a Nike s...

In one of the oddest cases of an April Fool's joke coming true, Digitimes is reporting that Foxconn is looking at opening LCD TV plants in LA or Detroit. These plants will focus on automated productio...

We're heading into the last leg of our Northern Meetup series. Toronto and Detroit have come and gone, and we now find ourselves in the Windy City. And what a wonderfully windy city it is!But even bet...

Apple is gearing up for the iPhone 5's launch in China, tracking down all the necessary certifications it requires ahead of launch, and now the Wall Street Journal is reporting that China Telecom, the...

High-tech watches are, arguably, a dime-a-dozen. But the Division Furtive electro-mechanical watch is something special. Built using a series of Swiss micro-motors (or LEDs), the face displays the tim...

4Mads, a small,San Francisco-based adtech startup launched at the beginning of the year, has been acquired by mobile marketer InSequent, whose main product involves the creation of instant mobile webs...

There are plenty of resources on the internet to maintain a professional profile. LinkedIn is the most prominent, but none really cater specifically to the creative professional. But a startup out of ...

Following news last month which saw Google TV users gaining access to Google Play movies, TV and music here in the U.S., Google has announced today that it will now deliver movies and music to select ...

Apple is donating $2.5 million to Hurricane Sandy relief, according to an internal staff email obtained by 9t05Mac this morning. The lump sum donation is in addition to the company's collection of mon...

Woven, the mobile photo organization app launched out of Litl last year, is now available on Windows Phone, in addition to iPhone and Android. And before the holidays, the company will push out more c...

App measurement and ad company Flurry has revealed significant traction for its iOS and Android app advertising and targeting platform, AppSpot. The platform was made publicly available just over thre...

Tom Moss and Mike Chan, who were early leaders and engineers on Google Android, are heading to Accel Partners as entrepreneurs in residence. Moss just left Google for the second time, after his enterp...

Rovios Angry Birds Star Wars mash-up launched yesterday -- and took just 2.5 hours to reach the number one spot in the U.S. App Store. In a blog post announcing the number the games maker noted that t...

Square has Starbucks and now Square-clone Payleven, which is backed by Germany's Rocket Internet incubator/investor, has signed up Berlin taxi association -- Taxiverband Berlin (TVB) -- to trial its C...

4G carrier EE, the freshly rebranded parent of Orange and T-Mobile in the U.K. which also owns and operates the U.K.'s first (and currently only) 4G/LTE network, has revealed it's behind schedule to l...

Over the past few years, there's been some question about what effect peer-to-peer lodging marketplace Airbnb has on the hotel and tourism industry. Now the company has some research to show that it's...

Microsoft has an impressive new universal translator demonstration - Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid shows a real time translation of English (voice) to Chinese (voice, via text), with the interest...

We're reporters, so we hear a lot of bullshit. Lately we've been hearing that it costs $750 to get a post on TechCrunch, which we initially thought meant that one of our writers was receiving direct c...

“News is something someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising.” — Lord Northcliffe We’re reporters, so we hear a lot of bullshit; Lately we’ve been hearing...

There's no shortage of travel guides and services on the web, but in some ways, that can be a curse travel-planning can become a long process of reading site after site and review after review. That'...

Xpert Financial set out with big dreams. Founded back in 2009, the company wanted to become an alternative trading system and marketplace that would allow pre-IPO, private companies to find funding an...

Talk to 500 Startups' Dave McClure about what's important for his seed fund and accelerator going forward and, it's not just about finding and supporting whiz-bang entrepreneurs, it's supporting entre...

Twilio was founded four years ago with the goal of creating a scalable API that would provide developers with an easy way to add SMS and calling tools to their applications. The company has grown quic...

"We could theoretically load up our pages with ads and probably make enough to cover our costs. However, that would significantly degrade the experience of using the site" said Reddit CEO Yishan Wong ...

Getting an iPhone in China has always been hard. For most of its life-cycle, the phone has been unavailable in the Mainland except through the grey market. Now that Apple is allowed to sell units in S...

At the beginning of this week, we kicked off our three-city TechCrunch Northern Meetup tour in Toronto, Canada. The Northern Meetups crew -- including John Biggs, Matt Burns, Jordan Crook, Darrell Eth...

We have no idea what this is about either, but Google is apparently running some kind of viral marketing campaign right now that involves something called the Niantic Project. The videos and puzzles o...

During today's analyst conference call for Groupon's third-quarter earnings, CEO Andrew Mason mentioned a new feature that's being tested in a couple of cities. Now, if you look at the deal listings i...

Facebook has a little-known feature called Friendship Pages that shows all the wall posts, updates, and photos you're tagged in with someone. Today it's getting a redesign, and Facebook is launching t...

People like to say that web search is a problem that has long been solved. But earlier this year, a small startup out of Toronto called Exponential Labs attracted some big attention with "MillionShort...

Online travel site Priceline.com just announced that it has agreed to acquired the travel search engine Kayak for $1.8 billion. Priceline will pay $40 per share for Kayak. About $500 million of the pu...

Online travel site Priceline.com just announced that it has agreed to acquired the travel search engine Kayak for $1.8 billion. Priceline will pay $40 per share for Kayak. About $500 million of the pu...

Last month, open Internet advocacy groups threatened to file complaint against AT&T with theFederal Communications Commission due to AT&T's decision to limit the use of Apple's FaceTime video ...

Groupon just released its Q3 2012 earnings report, marking the company's first full-year cycle of earnings reports since its IPO in November 2011. The company reported $568.6 million in revenue and a ...

Social news startup Nuzzel has raised more than $1.7 million in seed funding.I say "startup", but at this point the only person working full-time on the project is Jonathan Abrams, who previously foun...

While it started in a Massachusetts dorm room, Facebook's measure of presidential election mentions shows it's become an international news carrier. There were 88.7 million election-related mentions o...

While it started in a Massachusetts dorm room, Facebook's measure of presidential election mentions shows it's become an international news carrier. There were 88.7 million election-related mentions o...

"Last night was an epic event for San Francisco," says investor Ron Conway, whose advocacy group, sf.citi, championed the successful passage of Proposition E, which changes the San Francisco payroll t...

100 petabyte clusters! 60,000 hive queries a day! Facebook's latest 1800-word engineering blog post has one goal: proving to the world's top programmers that if they want a challenge, they should work...

"In the Studio" welcomes someone who created a project during his sophomore year of high school, released it to the world two years later, spent three years in college before dropping out to work on t...

Amazon.com announced the launch of a new marketplace today, Amazon Wine, which offers customers a selection of over 1,000 wines from various wineries around the U.S. The new store - Amazon's third att...

Myntra, one of India's largest ecommerce players for fashion, has acquired Exclusively.In, a members-only niche flash sales site for fashion, jewelry and home decor from Indian artisans and designers....

AT&T announced earlier this week that it start pushing its spate of Windows Phones starting this Friday, and now rival carrier Verizon Wireless has come out with an announcement of its own. Appare...

Microsoft killed the traditional Start menu with Windows 8. Now, however, it looks like Google's Chrome browser is about to launch a very Start menu-like option for its Windows users. As the good folk...

Its time! The first batch of tickets for the 6th Annual Crunchies Awards are available now. Tickets will be released in batches for the annual event honoring the best achievements in tech brought to y...

UberConference, the online conferencing calling solution (and TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2012 winner), today launched a version of its service designed for enterprise customers, and other larger organizat...

After comScore predicted a very healthy holiday shopping season for online retailers yesterday, Forrester is joining in, reporting that this holiday season is expected to generate $68.4 billion in US ...

You might not think there could be a new take on the Airbnb model but Flat-Club thinks it has found one. The startup pitches itself as a sort of LinkedIn for short-term renting - or perhaps Airbnb for...

Google is increasing the amount of money it makes available through its venture capital arm, Google Ventures -- from $200 million per year to $300 million, according to Reuters. The news agency notes ...

Pulse, the popular mobile news reading app, just launched version 3.0 of its apps for both iOS and Android. The update brings a new, much sleeker design to the apps, but most importantly, it introduce...

This morning, Hulu announced a new section called "Hulu Kids," which, as the name implies, organizes all the kid-friendly content in one easy-to-access section within Hulu's video library. The section...

Munchery, the Bay Area startup that lets customers order healthy, high-quality meals from professional chefs, said it raised $3.3 million of an ongoing $4 million in Series A funding in a round led by...

Automattic, the company behind the popular WordPress content management and blogging platform, just launched Jetpack 2.0, which brings a number of WordPress.com features to self-hosted WordPress insta...

Babyhuddle, a social shop focused around new parents powered by users who create lists of baby products, product reviews and answer each other's questions, launches in the US today. The idea is that n...

Twitter has responded to us with a statement regarding the password reset situation. For those of you just waking up or catching wind of this, a lot of folks have been reporting that their account pas...

Twitter has responded to us with a statement regarding the password reset situation. For those of you just waking up or catching wind of this, a lot of folks have been reporting that their account pas...

As we continue to search for answers on what's going on with the Twitter password reset situation, the company is giving us information very slowly. The situation is very complex, because the users wh...

Now a solid fixture on the Central and Eastern European scene, HowToWeb in Bucharest, Romania is a conference with international speakers as well as a healthy dose of CEE startups to boot. Now in it's...

It’s not just sitting at a computer all day long that’s killing modern man:hunching over to use our cell phones, leaning back to read tablets, and even the standing desk is wreaking havoc ...

It's true that the United States Senate now has an unprecedented number of women and its first lesbian member, but what about the silent plight of America's other minority: citizens who violently rava...

Having built a reputation over the past three decades as the 'Startup Nation,' in recent years Israel has also begun to establish a name for itself as a TV format exporting powerhouse.The most notable...

Google launched a nifty Chrome Experiment called "Jam With Chrome," which showcases the capabilities of its Chrome web browser via an online app you can use to make music. Think those interactive Goog...

Earlier this year, we wrote about The Ark Challenge, an incubator/accelerator launched in Arkansas with the support of non-profit Winrock International, as well as the University of Arkansas at Fayett...

The FreshBooks iPad app enables all the features that one might expect from the cloud-based accounting platform, including the ability to create and manage invoices, estimates, expenses, and projects ...

This morning, web browser maker Opera announced a new way for mobile operators to offer web access to subscribers who don't have a data plan. The service, called "Opera Web Pass," will instead allow s...

Fotopedia has two pieces of news today. The iOS-only travel magazine company is launching its newest app, this time with a focus on Italy, as well as a new ad format. The new AdStories advertising for...

You may remember Maluuba as the little voice search engine that could. The company launched at Disrupt, and while they didn't make it into the final round, they did end up expanding into new territori...

SOA Software has a new management platform that company executives say better addresses the enterprise API market more so than the open API providers whose services have come into vogue in the past fe...

Apple had a couple of new patent applications published by the USPTO today (spotted by AppleInsider), including one detailing how internal fans could be made to fit mobile devices to help dissipate he...

Back in high school when I worked at Arby's, I was very careful to punch in and out using an old, mechanical time clock. Now, however, I suspect I'd use something ShiftHub. This app, by a pair of char...

Keep your eyes peeled Twitter users: Twitter is sending out emails to some of its users telling them it has reset their password and asking them to create a new one. If you can't log into your account...

If Instagram and Draw Something had a baby, it would be Colorized. The iPhone app, which is developed by startup Happiness Engines, allows people to upload and turn photos into sketches, which they ca...

The Samsung Galaxy SIII smartphone overtook Apple's iPhone 4S to become the world's best selling smartphone in Q3, according to figures from analyst Strategy Analytics. The analyst does not expect the...

Elasticsearch, a real-time big data search and analytics startup,has raised $10 million in Series A financing led by Benchmark Capital. The other investors in the round include Rod Johnson, the creato...

A small but neat update for Russian search giant Yandex today: it's released a new version of its Yandex.Browser which incorporates Opera's Turbo webpage compression technology to speed up internet br...

As the Web evolves and hundreds of sites collect data every day on who we are and what we love to do, personalization has become fundamental to user experience to help users find signal amidst the noi...

BlackBerry users may not be able to download the latest Angry Birds incarnation, but at least they can look forward to being able to use forthcoming BlackBerry 10 devices in government agencies and re...

Perion Network is acquiring SweetIM (best known for its SweetPacks IM product) for a total of $41 million, with $2 million of that in shares and the rest in cash. SweetIM's founders will get a guarant...

Rovio's Angry Birds Star Wars mash-up has blasted forth, with app launches on Android, iOS, Windows Phone 8, Kindle Fire, Mac, PC and Windows 8 -- or pretty much every mainstream OS platform you can t...

The irony of the UK rolling out its first "super fast" 4G network last week, courtesy of EE, won't be lost on consumers for too long: we can now burn through our rationed mobile data plans even faster...

Clear for Mac had a unique challenge in making its way from the iPhone to the desktop, since Clear was obviously built with iOS in mind.. In fact, its primary appeal was the fact that it largely did a...

We knew that Square did a huge deal with Starbucks that would eventually wipe out the need for old-school cash registers, and the company shares tonight that the shift is in full effect.Starting now, ...

We knew that Square did a huge deal with Starbucks that would eventually wipe out the need for old-school cash registers, and the company shares tonight that the shift is in full effect.Starting now, ...

Tumblr, the micro-blogging service that allows everyone to be a creative publisher, has updated its iOS app to become faster and more engaging. Tumblr says it's "completely native."By "native", the co...

Intern Sushi is trying to improve the often-horrible internship application/selection process, and it's expanding with full nationwide support, as well as adding new industries.Here's the idea: Resume...

Intern Sushi is trying to improve the often-horrible internship application/selection process, and it's expanding with full nationwide support, as well as adding new industries.Here's the idea: Resume...

The No. 1 thing about the Internet that fascinates me is the fact that information can travel at the speed of light. One moment, something can happen in one part of the world, and seconds later, someo...

There's a prevalent myth in Silicon Valley, the myth that people aren't snobs here. This isn't true. A sort of reverse/meta-snobbery exists here, mostly intellectual in its nature, and the line betwee...

How are the recent class of tech IPOs faring? Real estate search engine and Zillow competitor, Trulia went public in September, debuting at $22.10 per share (up 30 percent from its initial pricing) wi...

There's a prevalent myth in Silicon Valley, the myth that people aren't snobs here. This isn't true. A sort of reverse/meta-snobbery exists here, mostly intellectual in its nature, and the line betwee...

Unmetric, a company that scores the social presence of brands, has launched a new tool called SatisfactionMetrics, which offers details about how companies handle customer service on Twitter.The new m...

We were pretty skeptical when newspaper reports circulated last December that the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, had commissioned his very own iPad app to stay on top of government business -- and ...

Scientists are yesterday's wizards and demigods. And Nate Silver is a scientist. One who's ability to predict the outcome of elections is so precise, it's nearly indistinguishable from magic. That's w...

If you're like me, when it comes time to actually pay for a hotel reservation online, you double- and triple-check the dates (and the schedules of your travel companions) before you click that payment...

TechCrunch is currently experiencing a success problem. We're growing - fast. And, thanks to you beloved readers, we've now got some hiring to do, also fast.Now while it's a given that we want the bes...

Rights groups were put an awkward position yesterday, after California passed an anti-human trafficking ballot proposition that deters anonymous speech from convicted sex offenders. Specifically, the ...

Just a few months ago, ride-sharing services SideCar, Lyft, and Tickengo received cease-and-desist letters from the California Public Utilities Commission. Well, at least one of them is taking that th...

In case you didn't hear the deafening roar coming from Comerica Park, this is a reminder that the Detroit TechCrunch Meetup is tonight. ...

Our TCTV show, Founder Stories, returns with a new West Coast host, Michael Abbott. Mike is a general partner at KPCB and was previously Twitter's VP of Engineering and a founder himself.Prismatic is ...

We cover a lot of startups using social data, but Eldar Sadikov, co-founder of a company called Jetlore, said whenever someone else wants to build a social app, they have to "reinvent the wheel again ...

We're very lucky at TechCrunch to get some really interesting and brilliant visitors. When I step foot into the office, I never know who's going to show up next. Today, we had a great group of folks c...

Last week, Airbnb waived fees for users affected by Hurricane Sandy. It also encouraged hosts with listings in affected areas to lower their prices and take in those without food, power, or housing. N...

QR codes have had a lot of hype, and you see them around all over the place -- from movie posters, to restaurant menus, to the roof of Facebook headquarters. But a common criticism of QR codes is that...

Joyent has appointed Henry Wasik as its new CEO and released Joyent7 to help companies develop the emerging, scaled-out global enterprise.Wasik replaces Jason Hoffman, who has served as the interim CE...

People have been screaming bloody murder, claiming Facebook purposefully reduced how many users see Page posts in the news feed to get Pages to pay to reach their fans. But that's just not true, and I...

MyShoebox, a Toronto-based startup whose launch we covered last week, has seen 1.9 million photos uploaded by its users in just one week, adding to its 600,000 stored pictures from its pre-launch beta...

Mobile platform company Appcelerator has acquired Nodeable, a company offering big data analytics processing for Hadoop. Once a startup buidling a "Twitter for machines" - a term used to describe its ...

First, Betabrand announced plans to protect your privates, with TSA-thwarting scanner-proof underwear. Then it offered up a solution to Mark Zuckerberg hoodie haters on Wall Street, with the launch of...

FiveStars, the loyalty card solution originally launched out of Y Combinator's Winter 2011 class, and now backed by $14 million in outside funding, is announcing a key new hire in its quest to expand ...

Our thirst for more Internet seems to be insatiable. According to the latest data from broadband network solutions provider Sandvine, fixed network data usage increased by 120 percent in the past year...

With the recent Foursquare changes, it's becoming very clear that the service is trying to spread its wings into the mainstream population. It's about discovery and exploration now, not just check-ins...

DC Comics is announcing the next big step in its digital plans today, saying it will sell monthly comics in the Kindle Store, iBookstore, and Nook Book Store.The company wasn't exactly missing from th...

LeWeb Paris, one of Europe's premier tech conferences, is just about a month away and like every year, part of the event includes a TechCrunch Disrupt-like startup competition. This year, LeWeb f...

LeWeb Paris, one of Europe's premier tech conferences, is just about a month away and like every year, part of the event includes a TechCrunch Disrupt-like startup competition. This year, LeWeb f...

Russian video sharing startup, ClipClock -- which is being billed as a 'Pinterest for video clips' -- has snagged a $2.5 million investment from VC firm Runa Capital. The startup, which was founded in...

Pinfluencer, a popular Pinterest analytics solution, is today announcing a new Pinterest ROI and Pin-to-Purchase tracking system for marketers and brands, as well as support for integrations with othe...

comScore's e-commerce numbers are out today for the third quarter, showing that online retail spending reached $41.9 billion for the quarter, up 15 percent versus year ago. This is the twelfth consecu...

There's been a rash of mobile apps offering last-minute deals on hotels, for booking on the same day. Perhaps one of the best known is HotelTonight out of the US, which has recently pushed into Europ...

Last week, the increasingly popular traffic and navigation app, Waze, launched a redesign that brought a deeper level of social integration to its user experience. Along with redesigned maps and a new...

AllTrails has built a comprehensive database of hiking, biking, and outdoor trails all over the world that its users can access on the go through its mobile apps. The idea is to become the definitive ...

HitFox, the Team Europe co-founded and styled 'startup factory' focussed on founding and acquiring games distribution startups, is stepping on the gas by expanding into the Asia-Pacific region with a ...

For more than a few years now, engineering talent has been in high demand but it also seems that, of late, coding has become cool. Okay, maybe not cool, but thanks to a fleet of startups and companies...

Apple can't catch a break in the courts right now. In the latest legal blow for Cupertino, a U.S. court has ruled its FaceTime videocalling technology infringes four patents owned by technology compan...

Researchers at the University Of Georgia have created a robotic dragonfly that can hover, dive, and climb like a real insect. With the help of a $1,000,000 grant from the Air Force, the team has built...

Legendary game designer Peter Molyneux, creator of classics like Black & White and Fable, has taken his first foray into mobile today with Curiosity, an app for iOS and Android devices that asks t...

AT&T announced this morning that it would invest $14 billion to significantly expand and upgrade its wireless and wireline broadband networks, with its 4G LTE network expansion expected to reach 3...

AT&T announced this morning that it would invest $14 billion to significantly expand and upgrade its wireless and wireline broadband networks, with its 4G LTE network expansion expected to reach 3...

Our first stop for our Northern meetup series was Toronto and it was an absolute blast! Almost 1,000 hungry and thirsty techies poured into theSteam Whistle Breweryto hang out, drink, eat, mingle, mee...

Pocket, the online service for saving content for later viewing that began life as Read It Later, today announced a brand new version of its API, designed to make things easier and better for its deve...

The New York Times election statistician, Nate Silver, perfectly predicted all 50 states last night for President Obama, while every single major pundit was wrong--some comically wrong. Despite being ...

Sprint today announced that it has made an arrangement with U.S. Cellular to acquire PCS spectrum and also wireless network customers for $480 million in cash, and Sprint's taking over of "certain lia...

U.K.-based distance learning university, the Open University, is developing a series of apps to deliver undergraduate course materials to students' smartphones and tablet devices, starting from next y...

Last Second Tickets, the UK site that helps live event organisers shift unsold tickets, last minute, while passing on discounts to consumers in return for soaking up that surplus inventory, has scored...

Telecoms infrastructure company Ericsson has announced a big round of layoffs in a cost cutting drive after weathering a tough Q3, amid the global downturn. Reuters is reporting nearly nine percent of...

Payments company MasterCard and ING Group have teamed up on a payment trial that mixes mobile and internet payments -- to cover off the use case whereby someone browsing the web on a device other than...

Online designer shop Fab.com, which boasts some nine million users, is insourcing its Indian technology partner, True Sparrow Systems, by acquiring the company. The buy was reported in The Economic Ti...

This could be a new political tradition. Barack Obama has just announced his win in the presidential election by sending a tweet and an email to supporters before going on stage in person to deliver h...

Barack Obama has won the election! What does this mean to the future of innovation and the technology industry? Based on Obama's record and statements released during the campaign, here's what technol...

Founded in 2007, Flat World Knowledge was one of the early pioneers in the move to bring free and open access to textbooks to students and educators. The independent publisher offered its learning con...

In its effort to challenge proposed regulations that would lead to the shutdown of its black car service in Chicago, Uber is trying recruit supporters via online petition at Change.org.The petition, w...

Kiip, a company that allows app developers to embed both real-world and virtual rewards and achievements within their own app has announced version 2 of its API this evening, and it sets the company u...

Just when you thought that the site Delicious was dead and gone, it's back...again. Since being acquired by AVOS, headed up by YouTube co-founders, the site has gone under a few revamps. It was purcha...

Yesterday, Instagram launched web profiles. To some, theyre lovely. To others, theyre long overdue. And to a great many, theyre ho-hum an obvious way to inject yet another zinger about Facebook buyin...

Earlier today, we noticed that Google was showing an increasing number of its users a new search results page with more whitespace and without a sidebar. At the time, we assumed this was an experiment...

iZettle, the European Square-a-like mobile payment dongle service that's raised 42.6 million to-date, continues to bulk up its activity in Europe. Today it's officially launching in the U.K. -- having...

The gifting space has been very hot lately in the web world -- Facebook is even seeing gift-giving as having major potential for boosting its revenue -- and now another brand new startup is throwing i...

In the same way that LinkedIn has become the home of your professional identity, and Facebook the home of your social identity, founder and CEO Adam Lieb wants to turn his startup Duxter into the cent...

In the same way that LinkedIn has become the home of your professional identity, and Facebook the home of your social identity, founder and CEO Adam Lieb wants to turn his startup Duxter into the cent...

Americans are notorious low-informationvoters: 41 percent can't name the vice president, and two-thirds can't name a single Supreme Court justice. As proof that Americans aren't getting any smarter ab...

AOL (owner of TechCrunch) reported earlier today its quarterly earnings for Q3 2012 ending September 30. The results beat expectations with a flat revenue of $531.7 million compared to Q3 2011. It's t...

Spriggle made its debut last week out of the NewMe Accelerator with the aim of building a new, super social way for parents to test out and shop for kids' toys -- by bringing the experience into in-ho...

Thanks to the "genius" of the electoral college, if you live in a sure-fire red or blue state you might feel like your vote doesn't matter much. You can still have an impact, though, by reminding frie...

Apple is hoping to add Samsung's latest tablet, the Galaxy Note 10.1, and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to a list of product it claims infringe its patents in an existing court case in California, Bloomberg ...

According to the latest data from web application performance management firm New Relic, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 currently has the fastest response time of any browser on Windows...

In 1987, as the first reduced instruction set computing (RISC) ARM chips hit the scene, programmers at Acorn Computers created RISC OS, a simple, 'co-operatively multi-tasked' OS designed for small co...

Monday night was our TechCrunch meetup in Toronto and we had a blast. The city's entrepreneurs and tech community showed up in full force for a night of networking and revelry, hosted at Toronto local...

Had enough big mobile announcements yet? Well, it turns out Verizon and HTC sure haven't -- the pair has just started sending out invitations to (yet another) mobile event in New York City, this time ...

Through bestselling books likeI Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, many of you will be familiar with the self-proclaimed asshole Tucker Max. ...

Confirming earlier reports, Microsoft officially announced today it would be retiring its Windows Live Messenger instant messaging service in favor of Skype. According to a post on the Skype blog,Micr...

A Pennsylvania voting machine has been removed after it was found turning votes for President Obama into a vote for Romney. Internet user, centralpavote, recorded the malfunction on his smartphone and...

NodeFly has raised an $800,000 Seed Round from Shasta Venture Partners and other investors to develop its service for measuring the performance of Node.js apps. NodeFly represents the next generation ...

About half a year ago, futurist, novelist and former media manager at Twitter Robin Sloan meditated on what the future of storytelling might look like on smartphones.The product of that was 'Fish,' an...

A voting fraud case looms in the crucial swing state of Ohio, as election watchdogs demand answers about new "experimental" software discreetly installed on election machines at the direction of Repub...

Google users in the U.S. may have other things on their mind today - like the need for a bit last-minute candidate research, for example, or searches to find out where the heck their polling place is,...

Two signs the the European startup eco-system is maturing came in the form of two major events today. The first was the NOAH COnference in London which has now matured after three years growth into a ...

Numbers don't lie:Google's Chrome web browser is indeed the dominant browser on the web. Since we surf the Internet so damn much, it takes a toll on our precious little devices. Be it a laptop, Chrome...

Microsoft has licensed technology from Wi-Fi hotspot locator, Devicescape, to power Wi-Fi maps in the Data Sense feature of its Windows Phone 8 platform. Devicescape maintains a network of 11 million&...

Google Voice seems to be having some issues with sending SMS messages today, as a number of blogs reported earlier this morning, the Google Voice customer support forums are filling up with complaints...

Google Voice seems to be having some issues with sending SMS messages today, as a number of blogs reported earlier this morning. The Google Voice customer support forums are filling up with complaints...

As I've noted before, Google's shift to social as a company comes with great responsibility. As the company makes this transition, there are a lot of things to think about when building social layers ...

Google Co-Founder, Sergey Brin, made an extraordinary call to America's politicians today: he pleaded for them to denounce political parties. "Please withdraw from your respective parties and govern a...

Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin made an extraordinary call to America's politicians today: he pleaded for them to denounce political parties. "Please withdraw from your respective parties and govern as ...

Become a political pro with a few handy web apps that will help you sort out which Presidential candidate is winning on Election Day. The first candidate to win 270 Electoral College votes will be cro...

It's not even Thanksgiving yet, but some startup founders already have their sights set on the holidays. Case in point, the launch of Giftivo, a new Facebook-enabled gift recommendations engine....

Opera just launched the latest version of its desktop browser. Version 12.10 brings the usual speed and technical improvements to the browser, including support for the SPDY protocol and the WebSocket...

Today, Facebook is encouraging its legions of users to declare civic enthusiasm to their friends, with a prominent "I'm A Voter" botton at the top of the newsfeed. Large-scale, experimental research s...

Global expansion doesn't come cheap, and to that end, mobile app marketing platform, Trademob, has raised a Series B of $15 million led by Kennet Partners. Specifically, Kennet has invested $12.5 mill...

Just in case you needed more proof that the leaked news revealing a forthcoming physical Google Wallet Card is indeed legit, you can just visit Google's own Help section on its Google Wallet website t...

Well, there we have it: after vaguely pointing to a November launch window for its first batch of Windows Phone 8 handsets, AT&T has finally decided to get a bit more specific. Nokia's long-awaite...

New data from social plugin providerShareaholicreleased today is showing a continued decline in traffic sent to publishers' websites from StumbleUpon. According to traffic trends on its network, Stumb...

Glogou is a startup offering to help businesses tap into the massive Chinese market, and with the launch of new, self-service tools, it may be able to reach a broader swath of customers.Language is on...

ShopLocket was launched earlier this year to provide an ultra-simple way for users to sell goods online. Now it's providing a way for merchants who use its system to combine both digital and physical ...

Amazon is now offering users a monthly option for its Amazon Prime service, priced at $7.99 per month, as an alternative to the $79/yearly subscription. It's the same service as before, offering free ...

Amazon is now offering users a monthly option for its Amazon Prime service, priced at $7.99 per month, as an alternative to the $79/yearly subscription. It's the same service as before, offering free ...

Last night at Bloomberg's San Francisco headquarters, Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker took to the stage to deliver one of her famed presentations on the prevailing trends in the tech ecosystem. It...

Apple was granted a couple of interesting patents today (spotted by AppleInsider), including one for multitouch surfaces embedded in devices that appear and disappear as needed, as well as a new cooli...

WiMP, the Swedish music streaming service owned by Aspiro, has announced that it is expanding into Poland, stepping on the toes of European competitor Deezer, who is the other major player operating i...

Hot on the heels of launching its own internet browser and an Android app store to build out its business and keep Google at bay in its home territory, Russian search engine Yandex has quietly extende...

Serial entrepreneur Michael Breidenbrcker -- founder of Last.fm and RjDj -- is joining the team behind Zurich-based app discover startup, 42matters, maker of the Playboard app for Google's Play Store....

The unstoppable rise of smartphones and tablets will see 1.2 billion of the devices being bought worldwide next year, analyst Gartner is predicting. It also forecasts sales of 821 million of the smart...

In response to the unworldliness of uber-marketplaces like eBay, Shpock ("shop in your pocket") is a new iOS and Android app from Austrian startup, Finderly, which wants to return the local classified...

A court case brought by Apple against Google-owned Motorola Mobility for seeking what Apple argues are excessive royalties for standards-essential patents has been dismissed by the judge in a Wisconsi...

Today, Bazaarvoice is officially beefing up its social commerce platform with advertising. The Austin-based SaaS company, which powers customer review and social commerce features for brands like Best...

It seems that Bazaarvoice is no longer content with simply being a suped-up marketing analytics company. The competition in social media marketing is intensifying (think Salesforce's acquisition of Bu...

KPCB partner Mary Meeker usually publishes her famed Internet Trends report once a year, but gave a small San Francisco crowd a mid-year update tonight. The biggest new facts? Android phone adoption i...

KPCB partner Mary Meeker usually publishes her famed Internet Trends report once a year, but gave a small San Francisco crowd a mid-year update tonight. The biggest new facts? Android phone adoption i...

Facebook just gave its iOS users some features that could make their Android friends jealous. Apple lovers can now upload multiple photos at once, give Gifts, and slide out a buddy list of who is avai...

Facebook just gave its iOS users some features that could make their Android friends jealous. Apple lovers can now upload multiple photos at once, give Gifts, and slide out a buddy list of who's chatt...

Last month, we told you about a new service called Circa, which set out to redefine the way that you consume news on your iOS device. The app itself is beautifully designed, and was based off of an id...

When Foursquare introduced the new web version of its "Explore" functionality for those who visit its homepage, we knew that something was up. This was absolutely the "new" Foursquare built on top of ...

When Foursquare introduced the new web version of its "Explore" functionality for those who visit its homepage, we knew that something was up. This was absolutely the "new" Foursquare built on top of ...

Jive Software is acquiring meetings.io, a real-time communications platform and Producteev, a cloud-based task management provider in a combined deal worth $7.6 million and 460,000 in Jive stock....

After reporting earnings today, Zillow has also announced the acquisition of mortgage software company Mortech....

Apple is reportedly looking into ways tot replace its Intel processors in Macs with new chips based on the designs it uses for its iOS-based devices. The company has previously been rumored to be cont...

CA has filed a lawsuit against New Relic, claiming it has infringed on a patent the comapny's founder sold to the mammoth IT management services company when it acquired Wiley Technology in 2006....

Real estate site Zillow just released its third-quarter earnings report, once again coming in just ahead of what Wall Street analysts had predicted. The company said it saw $31.9 million in revenue an...

Today's the day. Our Northern meetup tour has officially commenced, and we're kicking things off in the Great White North. The Toronto TechCrunch Meetup is tonight. ...

TokBox, the San Francisco-based WebRTC and video chat company recently acquired by Spain's Telefnica Digital, announced that it has launched what it calls the "first platform to power WebRTC video cha...

What is OffersBy.me? It's a new service offering discounts for goods and services. And although it is currently only serving up offers in the company's hometown of Columbus, OH (expansion is planned) ...

Verizon Wireless has been plugging away on its own carefully-controlled mobile app store for years now -- the carrier had planned to beef up the app discovery process with Chomp before Apple acquired ...

Get yourself to the voting booth in style: Uber is offering free black sedan services to the polls on Election Day (for first-time Uber users). Or, if you want to pick up some groceries after performi...

Kinect Fusion, the Microsoft Research project which uses the Kinect sensor to create 3D models of objects and environments, will be made available in the Kinect for Windows SDK, Microsoft announced to...

On Election Day, billion-dollar war chests and celebrity endorsements are infinitely less important than getting Americans off the couch and into the polling booths. We've rounded up some cutting-edge...

As a major media figure on the Internet, I often find it difficult to manage all of my content outlets. I have a Twitter feed connected to my Facebook connected to my Tumblr. I also have a personal bl...

Two years after its iOS-only launch, eight months after its billion-dollar Facebook acquisition, five months after designer Cole Reinke leaked an image of Instagram's efforts to bridge mobile and web,...

Shutterstock has just had an incredibly successful IPO, but that's no reason to rest on laurels, which is why the company has just launched an iPhone app in the Apple App Store.With much the same look...

At GigaOm's Roadmap event today, Microsoft and Ford just announced that they have delivered more than 5 million SYNC-enabled cars. SYNC, Ford's in-car connectivity system, is powered by Microsoft's em...

TinyPulse helps managers find out how their employees are doing. It works like this: Once a week, TinyHR takes a survey of all employees signed up through its system, and then compares results not jus...

David Karp, the CEO of New York-based Tumblr, revealed some fresh stats about the micro-blogging platform's growth today. The company is seeing 20 billion pageviews a month, up from 15 billion at the ...

Hulu has finally done a deal with CBS, bringing shows from the one broadcast holdout into its content library. Beginning in January, CBS content will become available through Hulu Plus. But don't get ...

Cubby, LogMeIn's answer to Dropbox, is launching out of private beta today and is now available to all users. The service is a late arrival to the crowded online storage space, dominated not only by s...

Today, LinkedIn's CEO Jeff Weiner tweeted out a link to a new initiative that his company is participating in. As I noted over the weekend, people really need to step up when it comes to those affecte...

The Apple Maps controversy cooled down over the last few weeks (though it got a bit of a replay when Scott Forstall's exit/ouster from Apple was announced last week), but one question still remains: w...

800,000 Instagrams were tagged [Hurricane] #Sandy, and Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom thinks that makes it the most digitally captured event in history.But "how do we mine all these photos, make s...

In this edition of my Foundation video series, Pandora CTO Tom Conrad shares his inspiration for reinventing the radio. He reveals how a jailbroken iPhone played a key part in Pandoras success, and ...

Exec, which is a service focused on San Francisco professionals, does all types of tasks for you at pretty decent rates. I've used the service to have papers scanned and faxed in the past, and it was ...

Wrike, the increasingly popular social project management and collaboration platform, just announced the re-launch of its mobile apps for iPhone and Android. In addition, Wrike also launched a new mob...

Social TV app makes Miso started out as just another TV check-in app, then launched a product to let users create and browse guides to all their TV episodes. Now its pivoting again, with the launch of...

Google and Microsoft are sniffing around white spaces spectrum in the U.K., according to a Telegraph report, with a view to possibly offering free built-in wi-fi for mobile devices running their softw...

Election day is nigh and many of us (including myself) haven't decided on how we're voting for each candidate. TechCruch is here to sooth your low-information guilt: Our CrunchGov Congressional report...

Well, that didn't take long. Following activist shareholder Carl Icahn's purchase of nearly 10% of Netflix stock, the company has revealed a plan which will prevent a hostile takeover of its company. ...

Twitter users now have the option in the weekly digest email to switch to a daily delivery. As was previously the case, you receive meaningful tweets in your email inbox. The feature is very reminisce...

BillGuard, the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2011 runner-up offering credit and debit card users protection against fraudulent charges, is today formally announcing its integration with Lemon's digital wallet...

The EC has decided Europe needs more 4G/LTE spectrum to run all the high speed mobile data services citizens in member states will require in the coming years. Today it's announced a plan to refarm 12...

YouTube is encouraging its users to "video their vote" on election day on Tuesday, just as they did back in 2008. The idea is not about recording video of you casting your vote, to be clear, but is ra...

OrderGroove, a startup that allows brands to create subscription and membership commerce, has raised $7 million from Fung Capital USA, with additional investment from Lerer Ventures, Legend and SWaN V...

Apple has just announced that the iPad mini and 4th generation iPad, both of which debuted on October 23 in San Francisco, have just topped 3 million sales in 3 days. The smaller, lighter tablet had b...

Google unveiled a new line of Nexus devices in a range of shapes and sizes, from the Nexus 4 smartphone to the Nexus 10 tablet, and some aspects of the product launch proved confusing. Why build a sma...

Nearly a year ago, tech blog advertising network NetShelter announced InPowered, a service that helped brands promote positive content about their products. In the months since, CEO Peyman Nilforoush ...

All-in-one inbound marketing software firm HubSpot has raised $35 million in a mezzanine financing round from a large, unnamed institutional investor, Altimeter Capital, Cross Creek Capital, and previ...

Welcome to TechCrunchs tech policy platform, CrunchGov, a portal for sourcing the most thoughtful people and ideas to facilitate more informed policymaking. Currently, it consists of three areas: a co...

Likened to a space race, there are a whole bunch of startups trying to solve the problem of how to 'try on' clothes online. And for the online fashion industry, it's a big problem, too. The inability ...

Despite Google tightening Android's security screw, by introducing an additional layer of security to the Play Store, Android's malware problem has surged in the third quarter. Security firm F-Secure'...

By now it's common knowledge that startups aiming at the medical/healthcare industry are pretty hot prospects. This is a sector waiting to be super-charged by cloud applications and devices. The lates...

By now it's common knowledge that startups aiming at the medical/healthcare industry are pretty hot prospects. This is a sector waiting to be super-charged by cloud applications and devices. The lates...

A win for DFJ Esprit today, the European partner of Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, following the news of a successful acquisition of its portfolio company Redkite F...

Apple's lead in the tablet market took its first serious dent in Q3, according to estimates from analyst IDC. Apple's dominant share of the market shrunk in the third quarter of this year, dropping to...

Another impressive sales milestone for Samsung. A few days after confirming it's sold more than three million Galaxy Note II devices in around a month of sales, Samsung has revealed that sales of its ...

Another impressive sales milestone for Samsung. A few days after confirming it's sold more than three million Galaxy Note II devices in around a month of sales, Samsung has revealed that channel sales...

Given how well LinkedIn has been doing of late, the headline for this post may seem a bit out of place. Just a few days ago, LinkedIn yet again exceeded Wall Street's expectations, posting strong thir...

Online tech support company, 24/7 Techies, has raised a $600,000 seed round led by Dave McClures 500 Startups to accelerate its offerings for small and medium sized businesses. Other notable investors...

Online tech support company, 24/7 Techies, has raised a $600,000 seed round led by Dave McClures 500 Startups to accelerate its offerings for small and medium sized businesses. Other notable investors...

Healthcare has long been a technology paradox. There have been few places further out on the cutting edge of technology than biotech and medical devices. In contrast, healthIT has been in a time warp ...

Editor's note: Jules Maltz is a general partner atIVP. Daniel Barney is a senior associate at IVP. For some, freemium is a business model that sacrifices revenues and forces startupsto support freeloa...

When I first met Micah Baldwin about five years ago, he was working at a company called Lijit, which helped bloggers monetize their content and keep track of how their sites were doing. I could tell t...

Editors note:This weekend were running a new column called Backed or Whacked byRoss Rubin, principal analyst at Reticle Research, focusing on consumer technologies, and writer for Engadget.The iPad mi...

I can't tell if this is a major social media gaffe by social media itself, or the most honest thing Facebook has ever said. Maybe it's both. Last night Facebook's official Facebook Page shared this: "...

The next generation of apps will require developers to think more of the human as the user interface. It will become more about the need to know how an app works while a person stands up or with their...

Siri got nice little boost a few weeks ago when she (or he, depending on your locale) was updated to handle sports information, restaurant reservations and movie listings, but it seems the virtual ass...

It's happening, just like Marc Andreessen said it would -- more and more companies that have historically operated in the analog realm are crossing over into technology. The latest cool example of thi...

It's not just Uber that faces regulatory issues. There are a number of other startups seeking to make more efficient use of assets users already own. Those services provide marketplaces for connecting...

"There's an app for that."Apple's marketing slogan -- meant to illustrate the vast size of its mobile application store -- is increasingly accurate in terms of appifying aspects of our everyday lives....

Jay Holanda has an odd relationship with Bravo's Start-Ups: Silicon Valley TV show (which premieres tomorrow night).He was originally one of the main cast members, but recently found out that he's bee...

Overstock.com is a giant in the discount e-commerce space, pulling in $1.05 billion in revenue in 2011 from its online storefront. So it's a little surprising that the company is venturing into social...

The Motorola Razr i is a mid-range 3G Android smartphone that packs a punch thanks to a powerful Intel Atom chip. Folk tired of oversized-phones will love its compact iPhone 4/4S-sized form, and marve...

On a crisp, sunny Sunday morning here in Brooklyn it's hard to imagine that devastation is just around the corner. Whole communities are burnt and swept to sea. Endless gas lines and power outages abo...

One thing that's become apparent about the iPad mini during my past few days with it is just how well it fills the role of a second screen device. The iPhone and the iPad both have their merits as a c...

If there was a time-lapse video chronicling how humans have shared and received news information throughout history, the transcript of that video would go something like this: Chest-thumping. Hand ges...

"LOL. He look like an evil dude. Zero out of ten, would not bang," said one commenter on Mitt Romney's Facebook page, as read on a hilarously spot-on Saturday Night Live spoof of political social medi...

Editor's note:Dr. Paul Judge is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He is Chief Research Officer at Barracuda Networks, co-founder and Chairman of Pindrop and Limitless Smart Shot, and previously led ...

Editors Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC atGRP Partners. Read more about Suster atBothsidesofthetableThe 2000 election was characterized by the narrative...

Editors Note: Nir Eyal blogs about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business atNirAndFar.com. Sangeet Paul Choudary analyzes business models for network businesses at Platformed.info.Tr...

Editor's note: Steve Patterson's observations and writing are based on his 20 years working in the primordial ooze of start-ups in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area.Silicon Valley leads the nation...

Editor's note: Bernard Moon is co-founder and CEO ofVidquik, a new web conferencing and sales solutions platform, and co-founder ofSparkLabs, a recently launched startup accelerator in Seoul, Korea. Q...

Wow. Registered voters in New Jersey displaced by Hurricane Sandy will be permitted to vote by fax or email in the upcoming election. New Jersey, along with about a dozen other states, already permit ...

Editors note:Steli Efti is the Co-Founder/Chief Hustler of ElasticSales and an advisor to several startups and entrepreneurs. One of the most common questions startups ask me is how to handle B2B outb...

Apple had to tone down the attitude in a re-issued "apology" it published today to its U.K. website after losing an appeal in a patent infringement case against Samsung.A U.K. judge smacked down its p...

Editor's Note: We had Lynda Harrison, writer Drew Olanoff's mom, review an advance copy of the first episode of Bravo's "Start Ups: Silicon Valley,"premieringMonday, November 5th. Because we can.Harri...

We're just now learning what level the devastation that Hurricane Sandy caused on the East Coast, specifically in New York City, and people are starting to send the wagons around to raise money to ass...

Love it or hate it, Windows 8 is a big deal which is only going to get bigger. Particularly the Metro side. The Windows Store will bring app store economics to the PC in a way that most users have nev...

To operate in the 21st century as if it is still the 20th is certain death for most businesses. Not instant, but certain. And it was certainly this practice that led two of the largest publishers to c...

Many would say Angel List has become an indispensable resource for investors and startups to find, connect and recommend each other. This almost altruistic effort has taken Silicon Valley to the world...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor stumbled through and upon the possibilities of an orbiting metadata cloud. Mark our words, Instagram's success with the p...

President Barack Obama, Julian Assange, Mayor Cory Booker and more. On the eve of America's political new year, Election Day, we highlight this year's most innovative people in democracy....

The last time I wrote about 3D printers, an appalling number of people in the comments - including VCs who really, really should know better - kept writing things like: "Nearly identical comments were...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking for help in explaining to the federal circuit why copyrighting APIs is such a bad idea.The EFF's request comes after a victory earlier this year when...

Editor's note: Boris Chan is a principal at Xtreme Labs who leads product development and innovation efforts. Apple finally unveiled the iPad minilast week. Perhaps its main selling point is that it r...

Recovering from Hurricane Sandy is no small feat as most of Lower Manhattan is still in the dark without power. I talked with a couple of people working in startups who had to find a place to get back...

Digital marketing company Kenshoo has raised $12 million in new funding.The round was led by late-stage investment firm Tenaya Capital, with participation from all past investors, including Sequoia Ca...

Happy iPad mini day. Since my review a few days ago, by far the number one question Ive been asked about the device is: how does it fit into my life? Do I really need another iPad let alone a smaller...

Nick Bilton of the New York Times is reporting that Twitter is working on adding filters for photos to its product. This is clearly an attempt to add to its current capability to upload photos. At fir...

Foursquare has been taking meetings on Sand Hill Road recently, looking into raising a Series D round of funding of between $50 million and $100 million according to multiple sources. In previous roun...

Foursquare has been taking VC meetings recently, looking into raising a Series D round of funding of between $50 million and $100 million according to multiple sources. In previous rounds, the company...

Foursquare has been taking VC meetings recently, looking into raising a Series D round of funding of between $50 million and $100 million according to multiple sources. In previous rounds, the company...

It may not have a cool name like "Siri," but you can't accuse Google's Voice Search app of lacking personality. Or self-awareness, for that matter. In case you missed it, Google upgraded its iOS searc...

Facebook's executives gained the right to sell stock this week and three are now starting to cash out. COO Sheryl Sandberg is selling352,904 shares to pull in $747,4506.72. That's just 2% of her massi...

Facebook's executives gained the right to sell stock this week and three are now starting to cash out. SEC docs show COO Sheryl Sandberg is selling 352,904 shares to pull in $7,474,506.72. That's just...

Facebook's executives gained the right to sell stock this week and three are now starting to cash out. SEC docs show COO Sheryl Sandberg is selling 352,904 shares to pull in $7,474,506.72. That's just...

The iPad mini may have a display that's being singled out in most reviews as below Apple's recent standards, but a look under the microscope by Repair Labs affirms what I've been noticing in person: w...

OMGPOP founder Charles Forman has raised some money for his new venture Picturelife, according to an SEC filing. The startup, which is focused on backing up, storing, and providing access to all of yo...

Apple's minor bug-zapping update for iOS 6, iOS 6.0.1, is already making up 7.5 percent of mobile web traffic as measured by ad network and analytics firm Chitika, just 24 hours after release. If you'...

Nexage is hoping to expand the capabilities of its mobile ad exchange with the launch of a new service called Nexage Connect.Mark Connon, the company's executive vice president of corporate and busine...

Silicon Valley might be in for a big weekend. The Giants won the World Series. Oh, and quite a few new Facebook millionaires were minted. The social network's employees got a $3.1 billion bonus this w...

Apple's 4th generation iPad boasts a faster processor, the new A6X chip, which makes it twice as fast as the 3rd generation iPad, based on benchmark tests, in terms of raw processing power and graphic...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live at 12:05 pm Pacific....

Originally a Kickstarter project, Ubi is a ubiquitous computing device. Designed to plug into your wall and remain dormant until you talk to it, this little computer can perform searches, wake you up,...

Chris Anderson, the longtime editor-in-chief at Wired magazine, is leaving the tech journalism stalwart. The news was announced at an all-hands meeting held at Wired's offices this morning, we're hear...

The iPad mini hit store shelves today, and I got the chance to get one for myself. The device is a terrific consumer tablet, but it has a lot of potential to be an even more impressive player in retai...

In a cool report by the Georgian Government, Georgian CERT researchers claim to have nabbed a hacker by infecting his PC with malware and tracking him down by grabbing his files, photographs, and even...

A new study shows that the media can significantly reduce partisan bias by simply making the text more difficult to read. Researchers found that participants in two different studies became more moder...

As you know, the devastation of Hurricane Sandy has hit millions. Many turned to Twitter to discuss what they were going through. Today, the company shared some interesting facts and numbers having to...

Digital metrics firm comScore today released its most recent mobile market share report, detailing trends in the mobile industry for the three month period ending in September. The survey of over 30,0...

The founders of LitPick have known each other since birth. Seth Cassel and his dad Gary founded their first company, FlamingNet in 2002 when Seth was in fourth grade. Designed as a book review site, S...

Can't say it's a huge loss, but it looks like Apple is finally going to starting removing apps whose sole purpose is to offer emoji, the emoticon characters popular with the younger text messaging cro...

A Facebook phone doesn't make sense. Mark Zuckerberg said it himself on our Disrupt stage just a few months ago. But that doesn't mean the rumors won't continue to fly. The latest comes by way of Pock...

Whelp, there you go. The MS Surface is one of Oprah's favorite things, thus winning the oh-so-important housewives demographic. But no iPad mini. She said "The Surface, Microsoft's first tablet, feel...

Microsoft plans to offer devices based on Perceptive Pixel technology that uses both pen and touch to create what is equivalent to the human as the user interface.Microsoft General Manager Jeff Han, w...

If new Facebook users understand their privacy on the site, they'll trust Facebook more and share more too. So Facebook has just made privacy education a central part of the sign-up flow. New users ar...

The European online swapping service, Netcycler, which uses an algorithm to match up multiple people with mutually sought after goods to trade, has acquired U.S. rival Swap.com, which offers simpler, ...

It seems like ages since Google and HTC first kicked off the Nexus experiment (it was 2010, but who's counting?). Now here we are, over two years later, and were on our fourth Nexus smartphone. Theres...

This week, Google announced a new lineup of devices that would be running its Android OS, Jelly Bean version 4.2. Those new devices are a phone and a new 10-inch tablet, called the Nexus 10. I've had ...

According to new figures released from analyst firm IDC, Android shipments reached 136 million units in Q3 2012, which accounts for 75% of the 181.1 million shipments during the quarter. Or, as IDCput...

The folks over at Android Authority have put together a cute little drop test for the iPad Mini and the Nexus 7, and you may be surprised at which tablet walks away victorious. ...

GetTaxi, the cab booking service that recently snagged $20 million funding, has launched new websites allowing people in the cities where it operates to book cabs without needing to have a GetTaxi acc...

Sony Online Entertainment's massively multiplayer online first-person shooter PlanetSide 2 will integrate Twitch into its ongoing live beta release, and will make one-click streaming available to all ...

It's taken more than five years to get here, but San Francisco-based mobile analytics and advertising company Flurry is hinting that an IPO might be around the corner. The company just took $25 millio...

First it built the Surface, and now Microsoft is said to be working on another new hardware product, this time a smartphone. That's according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, which says t...

Well, there goes another tech journalist with the startup bug.Ryan Singel, editor of Wired's security blog Threat Level, told me that today is his last day on the job, because he's leaving to run his ...

The e-sports juggernaut keeps on trucking: live-streaming video platform Twitch is partnering with Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) to incorporate in-game live streaming to PlanetSide 2, SOE's forthcom...

The iPad mini officially went on sale today, and the response at physical retail stores has been mixed. Some areas are seeing decent-sized lines, according to Reuters this morning, including Tokyo and...

Apple has pulled down a legal statement posted on its website after it lost an appeal in a U.K. court against a ruling that Samsungs Galaxy Tab tablets do not infringe the design of the iPad. It had b...

Apple has pulled down a legal statement posted on its website after it lost an appeal in a U.K. court against a ruling that Samsungs Galaxy Tab tablets do not infringe the design of the iPad. It had b...

Turns out there are an awful lot of phablet fans out there. More than three million, in fact, have lined up to cram Samsung's latest smartphone-cum-tablet, the Galaxy Note II, in their oversized pocke...

Today Neo Technology, makers of the NoSQL graph database Neo4j announced that it has raised a $11 million series B led by Sunstone Capital with participation from previous investors such as Fidelity G...

The signal du jour? This $195k Lamborghini for sale parked outside the Zynga offices (the Zynga dog eerily reflected in its window), uploaded to Instagram by Airbnb mobile lead Andrew Vilcsak, along w...

Small businesses may have been even more affected than big companies by Hurricane Sandy, as they don't have the same resources. When Squarespace sent an email on Monday morning, it looked like they ha...

Japan's second largest cellular provider KDDI just announced that it has made the first US investment with its Open Innovation Fund, putting $5 million into Fuhu.The Los Angeles-headquartered startup ...

You may know GetJar as the largest independent, cross-platform app store, and one of the largest distributors of Android apps outside of the Android Market. With more than 2 billion downloads and some...

Yelp narrowed its net loss to $2 million for the third quarter after pulling in $36.4 million in net revenue. The company said total reviews went up by 49 percent to 33 million, while the number of lo...

Google France could be ordered to pay $1.3 billion to France's equivalent of the IRS (Direction gnrale des finances) due to tax noncompliance in 2011. The agency has been investigating Google's revenu...

Google France could be ordered to pay $1.3 billion to France's equivalent of the IRS (Direction gnrale des finances) due to tax noncompliance in 2011. The agency has been investigating Google's revenu...

HyperFair, a startup with a platform for running online trade shows, says it has raised $1.1 million in seed funding.The idea of a virtual trade show isn't new, but the practice hasn't exactly taken o...

Despite the efforts of many different organizers over the years software developers have resisted unionization. The relatively high pay and good working conditions of developers, the stereotype of gee...

After a brief hiatus from any official tech role, former Tumblr president John Maloney will be joining the board of custom store platform Storenvy this week. A combination of a custom storefront build...

As a scientist practicing actual, bonafide science, I have often found myself in need of immediate g-force readings or barometric pressure analyses for my scientific problems. Whereas before I had to ...

Professional-minded social network LinkedIn once again beat Wall Street analysts' expectations this afternoon when it announced the financial results for the third quarter of 2012.LinkedIn announced t...

Professional-minded social network LinkedIn once again beat Wall Street analysts' expectations this afternoon when it announced the financial results for the third quarter of 2012.LinkedIn announced t...

If you don't live in New York City, you may not have heard of LocalVox. But the startup, which aims to simplify local marketing for small businesses and publishers, is beginning to take off. Headquart...

Another day, another regulator seeking to shut down Uber. At least that's what it looks like, this time in Chicago. The Chicago Business Affairs and Consumer Protection department proposed new regulat...

There's a company that people have been buzzing about for some time called ToyTalk, which was founded by former Pixar CTO Oren Jacob. He was also previously an EIR at August Capital.A video was releas...

We've seen a few companies rally behind the victims of Hurricane Sandy, and today Airbnb joins the fold. The peer-to-peer home sharing startup has decided to waive all of its fees for both hosts and g...

Hello, Great White North! We are officially out of tickets for the Northern Meet-ups, our flights and hotels are booked, and we're raring to meet all of you in Toronto, Detroit, and Chicago. For more ...

"In the Studio" this week hosts a first-time founder and entrepreneur who began his career as an engineering student at two of the country's finest universities and played baseball for his college tea...

Microsoft has made a deal with China to offer Windows Azure in the country. The deal is ballyhooed as a landmark agreement but, at its core, represents something that only the Chinese government can l...

Facebook's App Center added keyword search to its existing app name search last night, but what it might do next is more interesting. Facebook could soon let developers pay to buy search keyword ads i...

Facebookadded a search boxto its App Center, but what it might do next is more interesting. Facebook could soon let developers pay to buy search keyword ads in App Center search typeahead, similar to ...

Apple's share of mobile web traffic rose 5.96 percent between September and October, thanks no doubt to the introduction of the iPhone 5, and likely also helped by the shipping of the 4th generation i...

Its that time of year again when we start taking nominations for the sixth annual Crunchies Awards, the Oscars of startups and technology. Once again we are co-hosting the awards with GigaOm and Ventu...

Google is today announcing mobile support for its Google Wallet checkout service, which expanded to include micropayments for web content earlier this month. At that time, Google said it would allow o...

The story sounded far-fetched: OLPC researchers, working with a team of technicians in Ethiopia, created a special "hut" covered in solar panels where the children of a few distant towns could go to r...

Since its launch in 2009, Inkling has been on a mission to reinvent publishing for the mobile, digital era by building engaging, interactive learning content from the ground up for the iPad. Initially...

We first met Summly, an application that summarizes news stories algorithmically, and its "boy genius" founder Nick D'Aloisio back in mid-2011. At that time, the London-based D'Aloisio was 15 years ol...

iOS 6.0.1 arrives today ahead of the iPad mini, and it features some bug fixes that resolve issues around the famous horizontal lines appearing on the software keyboard bug, a camera flash issue, and ...

The U.S. Government will now be looking into solutions for provisioning iOS and Android devices in addition to those featuring RIM's BlackBerry OS, according to a new report from Reuters. That means R...

Facebook Gifts launched with the ability for you to buy something meaningful for a friend or family member on the social network. I've tinkered with it a bit and have bought a few gifts, including a b...

55Social, a Sao Paulo, Brazil-based startup that makes a social media marketing platform, has raised a new round of funding from Redpoint e.ventures that brings its total investment to more than $10 m...

Coaster's iPhone app lets you skip the line at the bar. Instead, you just place an order from your phone, sit back, and wait for your drinks to be made. When they're ready, you get a push notification...

Online consignment shop thredUP is launching a timely new feature called Groups, which allows consumers to use the service in order to generate cash donations for charitable causes. As you may have gu...

Three mobile operating systems dominate the market: iOS, Android, and now Windows Phone 7/8. Each has their interface strengths — iOS is clean where Android is customizable where WP8 is dynamic....

While I'm loath to point to certified Apple nerds like Marco Arment and Gruber in regards to Windows Surface (in this case the RT edition) I think it's important that we all take a step back and asses...

Monogram just launched a beautiful app that feels like you're shopping from a traditional catalog. The only difference, of course, is that all items are immediately purchasable. The app includes appa...

Cloud gaming may have taken a hit with the floundering of OnLive, but Agawi is still going strong and today, the Menlo Park company is officially launching its GameZen app for Windows 8. We previewed ...

Another Internet of Things-related development today: Neul has cemented some high profile industry support for Weightless, its would-be global open, royalty-free standard for M2M comms which utilizes ...

Lucky Sort, the Portland-based visualization engine for making sense out of live data streams, is announcing its first partner: StockTwits, a social network for traders that lets users share stock-rel...

"Movember is absolutely uniquely placed to smash up the rules," said Adam Garone, whose breakout nonprofit is on a mission to bankroll a global shift in cancer research -- from isolated silos of occas...

One of the underlying features launched originally with the Google+ project was its video conferencing platform, Hangouts. It's been a success from the perspective of user adoption and also grabb...

The California Attorney General is threatening scores of app developers with massive fines for non-compliance with privacy notification laws....

CloudFlare, the San Francisco-based service that makes websites faster and helps to keep them secure, just announced a very interesting new partnership with trust service provider GlobalSign. While mo...

Path, the iPhone-based social network from Facebook alum Dave Morin, comes to the iPad today with a brand new app designed to take special advantage of Apple's tablet. The new Path offers iPad-specifi...

This is clever. Instead of joining the fray with just another small, wireless speaker, JBL made the Soundfly, which is a small, wireless speaker that supports itself from an electrical plug. Talk abou...

Uber has just sent out an update via email regarding the pricing options in New York after Hurricane Sandy. Surge Pricing is back.Yesterday, the company implemented Surge Pricing — a higher rate...

First Round Capital is making a key hire today. The firm has brought on former LiveOps CEO and CallCast co-founder and CEO Bill Trenchard as a partner in First Round's San Francisco office. This is th...

eeGeo the startup behind Recce -- a rich, interactive searchable 3D mapping platform which aggregates data feeds from other services to create an animated birds eye view of a city and what is going on...

A U.K. Court of Appeal has ordered Apple to remove a statement on its website following a court ruling in which Apple lost an appeal against a ruling that Samsungs Galaxy Tab tablets do not infringe t...

A UK Court of Appeal has ordered Apple to remove a statement on its website following a court ruling in which Apple lost an appeal against a ruling that Samsungs Galaxy Tab tablets do not infringe the...

Amazon announced this morning the launch of a new photo-management application for Android phones, which takes advantage of its consumer-facing service known as Cloud Drive, a competitor to Google Dri...

In February 2011, Jason Goldberg and Bradford Shane Shellhammer were faced with one of the most painful experiences an entrepreneur must deal with: to decide whether to shut down their business, Fabul...

Apple's iPad mini got the teardown treatment this morning, one day ahead of its official launch in stores. The diminutive tablet gave up its secrets to iFixit's expert disassembly staff, revealing its...

A user milestone for social media management tool Hootsuite: the company has passed five million signups. It says expansion into Europe and Asia is driving its growth, and notes that while its first m...

A user milestone for social media management tool Hootsuite: the company has passed five million signups. It says expansion into Europe and Asia is driving its growth, and notes that while its first m...

In a move that coincidentally sees two App Store rebels join forces, music streaming service, Grooveshark, has added support for Flattr, the social micro-payments offering. The new integration means t...

If you have a notebook Mac and you use it both in an office and on the road, you probably know by now that having it at a comfortable viewing angle when in the office is key to the long-term health of...

Facepalm.Rovio just released a new gameplay trailer of the upcoming Angry Birds Star Wars mashup. As shown in the first trailer, the playable characters each feature unique abilities. R2-D2 has a trac...

An Apple patent application spotted Thursday by AppleInsider shows a system for detecting unusual motion via a portable gadget's accelerometer which would sound an alarm, making said device harder to ...

Dollar Shave Club, the startup offering a subscription razor service that costs as little as $1 per month (plus shipping), has raised $9.8 million in Series A funding led by Venrock.Co-founder and CEO...

On the heels of launching social commerce startup TopFloor, LA-based incubator Science is debuting a new retail technology, TripleThread. Additionally, this technology is powering personalization and ...

Freshplum, an analytics startup for online retailers that was founded by a former Facebook product manager, is going after small to medium businesses with an easy way for anyone to add a shopping cart...

Move over software, the London and Cambridge, U.K.-based accelerator, Springboard, is launching a dedicated program for hardware startups, focusing on the Internet of Things. The new three-month accel...

No one understands why President Obama didn’t hammer Governor Romney on his 47% secret video comments during the first presidential debate. In hindsight, a mistake. Like President Obama, Google ...

Instructure launched Canvas in 2011 to give educational institutions an alternative to the ubiquitous (but much criticized) software of educational giants like Blackboard. Today, the company is adding...

Fastmail is a popular e-mail provider among power users who want to be customers instead of products. But its interface has been stuck in the 90s -- until this week when it rolled out a brand new AJAX...

Electronic dance music (EDM) is all the rage with kids born after 1990 (Generation Z), and Turntable.fm founder Seth Goldstein is brining the scene online. Today he launches DJZ, a news hub website, a...

If you know me, you know two things about me: I love watches and I smell, faintly, of ferret. That's why I'd like to share my excitement at this review of the new Seiko SRP313K1 "Orange Monster," one ...

Apple released its 10-K filing with the SEC today, reflecting its financial status and records for the entirety of 2012. Most of the content is what we've seen already from quarterly results, but a co...

The tech press doesn't always give enterprise software startups as much attention as companies on the consumer-focused side. That is slowly changing now, though -- the words "enterprise" and "sexy" ha...

We knew that the Dailybooth team, creators of photo sharing app Batch, moved on to greener pastures at Airbnb. The acquisition was to bolster the mobile apps and presence for Airbnb. What we didn't kn...

Blue Box has raised $3.5 million for its OpenStack-infused cloud and hosting service designed for companies that have major traffic volumes and big apps and rely on a high level of uptime....

Carl Icahn has bought a big chunk of Netflix stock nearly 10 percent altogether. Its not clear exactly what his intentions are, but according to the filing, the investment was made because Icahn beli...

This time last year marked the debut of Nextdoor, a site that allows people to build private online social networks for their local neighborhoods. The startup has a very noble aim -- bringing people w...

Real estate search giant Zillow has acquired Buyfolio, an online and mobile collaborative shopping platform where home shoppers can search, track, organize and discuss for-sale listings with their rea...

ADstruc has been working to modernize the buying of outdoor advertising for the past couple of years. Now it's taking two big steps in that process with last week's launch of the new ADstruc platform,...

AT&T and T-Mobile have signed an agreement that lets subscribers to either company roam on either network in devastated parts of the country where Hurricane Sandy has left users with poor cellular...

According to Reuters, Google has settled a lawsuit brought by software maker Rosetta Stone over the search company allowing people to purchase keywords within its ad product using its trademarked name...

Google just launched an update to Google Translate that brings a few new features to the tool that will make it easier to decide which translation of a given word is the one you're looking for....

Following Monday'srevealof Windows Phone 8, the most recent update to Microsoft's mobile phone operating system, backend service providerUrban Airshipis announcing that it has entered into an agreemen...

First Amendment protections are a solemn oath designed to preserve a functioning democracy; they in no way logically extend to protecting the capacity to inflict harm on vulnerable citizens for mere a...

After launching its new 3D imagery on mobile a few months ago, Google today finally brought these 3D buildings in select cities and its new tour guide feature to Google Earth 7 on the desktop. With th...

The iPad mini seems downright hungry, and it has a taste not just for other small tablets, but for its larger brethren, the iPad with Retina Display. Some analysts are saying as much, with expectation...

Breaking into Japan can be tough for foreign companies since it's culture favors credibility and certainty. So Twilio has just struck an alliance with Japan's well-respected KDDI telecom who will now ...

The Pioneers Festival kicked off in Vienna this week and by the looks of the 2,300 attendees at the amazing Hofburg Imperial palace, the conference is shaping up to be a stand-out event in Europe, not...

Well here's a bit of a game changer for Google's social layer, Google+. The Google Drive team has announced that starting today you can now share things like documents with your circles and strea...

Tiggly is a toy for kids who might be past the "teethe on your iPad" and just below the "I want to play the birds game" stages of mental development. Designed by a parent, Steve Miller of Cambridge, M...

Google has continued its focus on "public service" projects today by announcing a new AMBER alerts project in conjunction with The National Center For Missing And Exploited Children. This comes after ...

Samsung and Google recently introduced the simply named Chromebook, a $249 computer with an 11.6-inch screen and around 6.5 hours of battery life in a slim and svelte 2.5 lb, 0.8-inch thick shell. It'...

San Francisco residents will be voting on Proposition E next week, an important measure aimed at eliminating the ridiculous payroll tax companies here pay and replacing it with a (slightly less evil) ...

Windows Azure Mobile Services will now support Windows Phone 8.The news came in the keynote this morning at the Build conference where today's focus is all about Azure, the Microsoft cloud infrastruct...

isocket, a direct sales platform for premium online advertising, announced this morning that it has closed an $8 million series A financing round, led by Foundry Group. New investor (and newly-launche...

There's an interesting thing that happens in the technology press world, and probably throughout all of journalism land. It's weird, and it's become quite annoying to me. Basically, whenever someone w...

Editor's note: Sen. Jerry Moran represents the state of Kansas. Follow him on Twitter.During the second Presidential Debate at Hofstra University, Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama found com...

It seems like there are an infinite number of marketing tools competing for local businesses' attention nowadays. A startup called LocBox helps those businesses manage their efforts in a way that's fo...

With the subway system down for the count in the wake of mega-storm Sandy, it's very, very tough to get around New York City today. And this morning, people who opened up their Uber apps to hail a car...

Any.DO, the mobile to do list app backed by $1 million in funding fromEric Schmidts Innovation Endeavors, Blumberg Capital, Genesis Partners and others, is today making good on its promise that it wil...

Zapier, which is essentially IFTTT for business users, just announced that it has raised a $1.2 million seed round from Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvesten, Wufoo co-founder Kevin Hale ...

Dave McClures 500 Startups has just announced the newest batch of companies to be accepted for its fifth accelerator class. This group is the first through which 500 Startups used an open application ...

King James (or LeBron, as he's known in more familiar circles) is the hottest thing to happen to professional basketball since a pre-rape-trial Kobe Bryant. But perhaps more central to his role in thi...

Apple announced Fusion Drive along with its new Macs and iPads last week, and while it may have seemed like a hardware option only available from Apple itself, it's actually more about how OS X handle...

Cyril Ebersweiler has launched one of the coolest incubators I've seen in a while. Based in Dalian, China, the incubator has already run one group through the ringer and now they're looking for hardwa...

Thomas Kjeldgaard, better known as the co-founder of Facebook Page builderPagemodo(acquired by Webs.com in 2011), is today launching another startup aimed at helping Facebook Page owners. The new comp...

Thomas Kjeldgaard, better known as the co-founder of Facebook Page builderPagemodo(acquired by Webs.com in 2011), is today launching another startup aimed at helping Facebook Page owners. The new comp...

Researchers from the Korean Institute of Science and Technology's Center for Intelligent Robotics (CIR) have been working on a robot named CIROS to help around the house. Earlier versions were fairly ...

Election Day is creeping up. Fortunately, Google has made it easy to find your nearest polling place and the candidates representing your registered address. The newly launched Voter Info tool pinpoin...

Clear, a simple task manager from Realmac software and Impending, has just announced that it will be delivering a Mac version of its client for OS X launching next Thursday for $14.99. The app looks a...

Threadlife is a new app from Zappos co-founder Nick Swinmurn and BLITZ agency co-founder Ken Martin. Threadlife works like pretty much any other social mobile video app, except for a few things: For o...

Pulse, the popular news reading app for Android and iOS, just announced that its users have now read over four billion stories since it launched in 2010. While it took the company 100 days to reach 10...

You never know when you might have the next Uber, Fab or Airbnb on your hands. Even though those three startups grew up relying on Braintree to power their payments, the Accel-backed company wants mak...

Curation and discovery service Pearltrees just announced the launch of its premium accounts. For $4.99/month or $49.99 per year, Pearltrees users will be able to create private pearls for their bookma...

Today, TechCrunch has some big news to share with you: TechCrunch France will finally become part of TechCrunch.com. Launched in 2006 by Michael Arrington and Ouriel Ohayon, TechCrunch France was one ...

Small business mobile payments startup Emu launched its flat-fee dongle-less m-payments service in the U.K. last month. Today the company has announced its opening up to accept card payments in 16 mor...

Small business mobile payments startup Emu launched its flat-fee dongle-less m-payments service in the U.K. last month. Today the company has announced its opening up to accept card payments in 16 mor...

You're supposed to toss your toothbrush in the trash and get a new one every three months? Do you? Either you do, and you waste a lot of plastic and bristle to keep your mouth clean, or you don't, and...

Maluuba, the Android-based Siri competitor and TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco finalist, just announced that it has partnered with OpenTable and the menu and restaurant hours database Locu. Maluuba i...

The Estonian/U.S. mobile payments company, Fortumo, has a pretty good track record of moving quickly. It was one of the first -- if not the first -- to give Android developers a way to offer in-app pu...

Apple added the Nike+ FuelBand to its online store this morning, with two new colors and availability not only in the U.S., but in the U.K. and Canada, too. In addition to Apple Store shelves, th...

At market opening today, Facebook took another hit, with shares trading at 20.94, 5.02 percent below Friday's level, the last day trades were made since Hurricane Sandy barreled over the East Coast. T...

If you think Sandy's slow, steady passing is a sign of good things to come, think again. It's going to take days (at the very least) to restore power to many of the 7 million+ people living in da...

Following Google's tradition of decorating its homepage to celebrate major holidays, the Google Doodle today is a cute and spooky interactive animation of haunted houses. Well, not haunted houses in t...

Apple's launch of its new mapping service, the ensuing backlash and management shakeup, have been anything but its proudest moments. Adding insult to injury, As Kim-Mai reported two weeks ago, Apple's...

Gliffyis moving to an all HTML 5 platform, showing the change in developer and business users needs to collaborate online across any platform and within third party application environments....

After more than a decade of helping to manage the friendly skies, it seems that mobile travel assistant WorldMate is coming in for a landing at its final destination as an independent company. Carlson...

Buck, a mobile payments startup previously known asBilling Revolution, is today heading into a new vertical with the debut of Buck Shops. These shops are e-commerce storefronts whose purchasing experi...

Apple CEO Tim Cook discussed December as the launch timeframe for iPhone 5 in China on the investor call last week, and now the smartphone is one step closer to launch; AllThingsD notes that it has re...

Gambling platform Betable, which allows developers to incorporate real-money gambling into their games (in markets where online gambling is legal) without themselves having to obtain a gambling licens...

The Nokia Lumia line of Windows Phone devices have reason to crow today, thanks to a new exclusive release featuring Rovio's wildly popular Angry Birds. The app, called Angry Birds Roost, was announce...

Asus CFO told The Wall Street Journal late Tuesday that the Nexus 7, Google well-received, affordable 7-inch Android tablet was nearing 1 million in sales per month. Chang noted that unit sales rose f...

Glassdoor, the jobs and career community website offering company reviews, salary comparisons and job listings, is today announcing an additional $20 million in outside funding. The Series D round was...

AdverCar, a startup promising to make it easy for drivers to turn their vehicles into rolling advertisements, has raised a $2 million seed round.The funding was led by Canaan Partners, with participat...

Boxee has grown up. It was just a few short years ago that the NYC startup was simply hawking beta copies of its innovative media center software. Then came the D-Link-made Boxee Box, which sold in li...

Crowdfunding site Kickstarter has kicked off the launch of U.K.-based projects today. The move marks the first time Kickstarter projects will be able to be built around bank accounts located outside o...

VitaPortal, a Russian provider of online and mobile health tools and content aimed at helping people live healthier lifestyles, has closed $2 million in Series A funding, led by Russian investment fir...

Thanks to MapMyFitness, RunKeeper, Nike and many more, apps that keep track of your exercise and push you to drop those extra pounds are by no means novel. Nonetheless, bootstrapped European startup R...

Manhattan, a place I've always considered a spiritual home and sometimes an actual one, actually turned intoa real life version of allthose post-apocalyptic movies about Manhattan on Monday evening as...

Mirroring a shift in the rest of the social gaming industry over the past few years, European developer King.com is making a big push onto mobile platforms with the release of its most popular Faceboo...

So why is iPad so phenomenally successful? Well it turns out that theres a simple reason for this, Apple CEO Tim Cook told an audience at the Apple event last week in San Jose. People love their iPads...

Zetrip,new startup offering to help users find "travel inspiration" based on the activity of their Facebook friends, just raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Inspiration Ventures.Co-foun...

Which mobile device you use says a lot about your buying habits. That's why Facebook just began allowing advertisers to select which devices and operating systems their Facebook mobile ads show up on....

Though it's obviously more of a show business story than it is a technology industry story, the news of Lucasfilm's $4 billion sale to Disney has reverberated throughout the tech world this afternoon....

The fallout from Hurricane Sandy is still affecting startups left and right. New York's Fab.com sent a memo out to customers today saying that it is temporarily halting shipments of packages because i...

Microsoft is sounding very bullish about the Sisyphean challenge facing it in the smartphone space: to transform Windows Phone from an also-ran into a serious, top-three smartphone contendor -- pointi...

The big emphasis during Disney's conference call discussing its acquisition of Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion was, not surprisingly, the enormous earnings potential of the Star Wars franchise. And that i...

Weve had such a great response and such persistent requests for additional tickets to the Northern Meetups that weve decided to release some more. While about 800 of yall will be able to hang out with...

Meraki wants to celebrate 150% revenue growth and its 10,000th customer by bringing Oprah's generosity to networking infrastructure. So now any company with angel, seed, or Series A funding can apply ...

The worlds of Hollywood, tech, and gaming are getting cozier than ever. The latest evidence of this came this afternoon, with the announcement that entertainment juggernaut Walt Disney Company will bu...

Barnes & Noble's Nook Color and Tablet are capable and affordable media tablets, but they run an old and locked-down version of Android. If you are fairly technical, you can obviously use Cyanogen...