Articles by Techcrunch from February 2013

Through new partnerships with top online and offline purchase data providers Datalogix, Epsilon, Acxiom, and BlueKai, Facebook is allowing advertisers to target hashed lists of existing and potential ...

Google just announced that users who participate in its Gmail and Google.com search field trial will now also see results from their personal calendar on Google's search results pages. You can see the...

In what appears to be a cyclical recurrence of post-success litigation, Snapchat is being sued by a man from South Carolina named Frank Reginald Brown IV, who claims that he originally came up with th...

Its been about nine months since Socialcam was acquired by Autodesk, and the company continues to innovate. Its just released a new version of its iPhone app and has a new Android app coming soon. Eve...

I love hardware. That's why I want you guys to bring some of the coolest hardware projects imaginable to Disrupt New York year. That's why I want you guys in our Hardware Alley....

If you're into DSLR photography, remotely controlling the thing is a pretty common want for new users and seasoned veterans alike. Satechi's BT Smart Trigger is a remote that works with a range of Can...

We've got a busy week ahead in the TechCrunch TV studio for our Ask A VC series, where you put VCs in the hot seat. First up we have Comcast Ventures' Managing Director Michael Yang.Later in the week,...

New photo-sharing app Cluster is focused on sharing photos with one's friends and family after a shared experience. Just like its namesake, the idea behind the app is to create a "cluster" of photos, ...

Like to use your iPhone on the toilet? Myshkin Ingawale has an app for that. Ignawale is the co-founder of Biosense, a med tech company based in Mumbai that specializes in cheap and functional medical...

Sharethrough, a startup that's focused on native advertising (a topic that CEO Dan Greenberg has discussed in several TechCrunch guest columns), is launching a new way to browse the most popular nativ...

Placed, the Madrona-backed location analytics startup which emerged from stealth around a year ago, has today released a study which details which retailers are more likely impacted bythe so-called "s...

LocalResponse, a network that targets ads based on social network data, has raised another $1.2 million in funding, we've confirmed with the company. Investors Cava Capital, Extreme Venture Partners, ...

Google’s Super Sync Sports Chrome Experiment is what happens when you put modern web technology, smartphones and a love of 80s sports games into one rather wacky package where cupcakes race moos...

With just a few taps on the screen of your iOS device, Snaptee lets you turn your photos into a stylish graphic T-shirt. Ten thousand designs have already been created by the app's users since it went...

In the latest episode of my Foundation video series, I talk with Smitten Ice Cream Founder Robyn Sue Fisher.Robyn Sue explains how she built a solid alumni network at the Stanford d.school, why she tu...

StellaService, a startup that measures and benchmarks the customer service performance of online businesses, announced this morning that it has raised $15 million in series B financing. The round was ...

StellaService, a startup that measures and benchmarks the customer service performance of online businesses, announced this morning that it has raised $15 million in series B financing. The round was ...

Dozens of major U.S. companies have come out in support of marriage equality, including Apple, Facebook, eBay, and Intel. In legal briefings submitted to help overturn California's ballot initiative, ...

JethroData, an analytics database company based upon Hadoop, announced today it has closed a $4.5 million investment round led by Pitango Venture Capital.JethroData, based in Israel, combines the stor...

Yota Devices, the Russian company that has nerds like me excited with its combo e-ink/LCD display smartphone designs, today announced at MWC that it has entered into a software licensing agreement wit...

It's with great pleasure that we can now reveal that TechCrunch's major conference, Disrupt, will be coming to Europe this October.Since TechCrunch started a European operation in 2007 we've been high...

PayPal is today announcing an expanded relationship with Coinstar, which you know as the maker of those coin-counting machines that you dump your collected pocket change into, in return for actual dol...

Fresh on the heels of a Windows Phone 8 launch, Spotify has just released a major update to its iOS app, which revamps the interface quite a bit. The latest version is dubbed Spotify 0.6.0, and it cle...

With nearly $70 million raised since its inception in 2005, Practice Fusion has become the frontrunner in the multi-horse race to become the go-to electronic health record platform. When Josh spoke to...

With nearly $70 million raised since its inception in 2005, Practice Fusion has become the frontrunner in the multi-horse race to become the go-to electronic health record platform. When Josh spoke to...

Only a couple of weeks after announcing Amazon Cloud Player integration with Ford SYNC's AppLink platform, the company has today updated its iOS application with native support for the Apple iPad. The...

Amazon yesterday updated its Kindle for iOS app, which works across iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, to version 3.6.1. The update was meant to fix a few bugs as well as the registration process. Instead, ...

Big screens are the talk of the town at MWC. Got nothing else to announce that makes your handset stand out from the crowd? Throw a huge screen on the sucker. Or just put phone features in a tablet an...

When I used to work in Fairfax, Virginia as a computer consultant during the dot-com boom (actually I was a documentation specialist) we'd all go down to Pizza Hut for their lunch buffet. They had piz...

Kickboard, a New Orleans-based startup that aims to help teachers and schools better capture, analyze and share student performance data, announced today that it has secured $2 million in series A fin...

Waze, the app that uses crowdsourced data to build its maps and provide real-time traffic information, is introducing a new feature today allowing users to report road closures.This seems like a prett...

NoshList, the restaurant waitlisting app for iPad launched just over a year ago, is today making its way to smartphones, including both the iPhone and Android devices. Although possibly not the ideal ...

A month after launching its subscription-based Office 365 Home Premium for individuals, Microsoft today launched a major update to Office 365 for business users. Just like in its previous incarnation,...

Currently, outstanding national student loan debt is over $1 trillion, $864 billion of which is backed by ye olde federal government. According to the Center for American Progress, the majority of tho...

Brightcove, one of the leading cloud content delivery providers in the world, today announced an end to a major experiment, and the start of something new for its mobile video app platform. The compan...

After selling travel itinerary startup TripIt to Concur for $120 million, the startup's co-founders, Gregg Brockway and his team are launching their newest ventureChairish. Chairish is an online cons...

Leap Motion today announced that its innovative motion controller for PCs will start shipping to pre-order buyers beginning May 13, and will launch in the U.S. at Best Buy locations on May 19. Full re...

Data storage software company Nexenta has raised $24 million in Series D financing led by new investor Four Rivers Group, with participation by existing investors Menlo Ventures, TransLink Capital, Ja...

Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm has a track record of pushing new capabilities into its chips faster than its competitors in a bid to carve out a bigger chunk of the market -- and one of its latest acquisit...

Im no great fan of Apples Passbook, but it seems at least a few people at Samsung have taken a shine to the same general concept. Earlier today, Samsung officially outed a new Samsung Wallet app at it...

Earlier this week, Mozilla made a splash at the start of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with the official launch of the first phones to be made on its new Firefox OS smartphone platform, and t...

Drew Houston, the CEO of Dropbox, said that staying independent was a key part of Dropbox's strategy; and with mobile being the most important platform for picking up new users, Dropbox was looking fo...

Aiming to solve the problem faced by parents who are outpaced by technology, Quib.ly officially launches today as a new Q&A site that invites parents to post questions on a range of technology and...

Editors note:Dave Chaseis the CEO ofAvado.com, a patient portal and relationship management company that was aTechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accentures heal...

Editors note:Dave Chaseis the CEO ofAvado.com, a patient portal and relationship management company that was aTechCrunch Disrupt finalist.For the first time, the federal government has provided large ...

America's elite institutions came out in full force for computer science education. First, the House of Representatives voted to update its traditional students arts competition to include a nationwid...

Every week, Eric and Alexia update the TechCrunch editorial team on our performance, providing important stat breakdowns for the week, such as total number of posts and pageviews. They also provide up...

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) minister Miao Wei announced yesterday(link via Google Translate)that the Chinese government plans to increase the number of households wi...

Adobe mobile Photoshop strategy has so far kept more heavyweight editing to tablets with Photoshop Touch, and left the iPhone with Photoshop Express. But today the company has officially released Phot...

You wouldn't think that a Pinterest where you can buy stuffwould be one of the hottest Series A deals of the quarter, but it was.Wanelo, a site that allows you to bookmark items that you like, and, th...

Kristian Segerstrale, the EA executive who was in charge of leading the company into a games-as-a-service era, has just left the company. CEO John Riccitiello just announced it in an internal memo and...

Celebrity chef Michael Mina has certainly conquered the world of haute cuisine. Through his Mina Group, he operates more than a dozen award-winning high end restaurants around the world, with his name...

What if you could actually grasp the sword you pick up in a video game, or if surgeons could feel their robots hit bone? That's the promise of the Tactilous glove, which won this weekend's Upverter &p...

What if you could actually grasp the sword you pick up in a video game, or if surgeons could feel their robots hit bone? That's the promise of the Tactilous glove, which won this weekend's Upverter &p...

Mhelpdesk is fielding a message to small businesses: help us help you. Headaches can ensue when businesses use separate applications to manage the daunting inflow and outflow of service tickets, sched...

After Sony released a string of curious Android tablets that failed to catch on, the company had no choice but to go back to the drawing table and try something different.That something different woun...

Months of mysterious Insights bugs duped Facebook Page owners. The median Page's analytics showed it reached 14.39 percent fewer people than it actually did, according to early data and graphs from Ed...

All the mobile OS underdogs are coming out to play at this year's Mobile World Congress, rushing in to fill the void left by Google's lack of any Android marketing mania. Now it's Tizen's turn. At an ...

BlackBerry may be launching a new platform in certain markets to try to win back users, but it's focusing on service additions in other places where the BlackBerry install base remains strong. Today i...

For the fourth year in a row, TechCrunch Disrupt will take over the San Francisco Design Center Concourse, and we're bringing the hottest startups and best minds in the industry with us. Block off Sep...

Tech analytics startup Synapsify announced a whopping $600,000 in seed money today from a cluster of investors that includes ICG Ventures, Fortify Ventures, and Middleland Capital. Its just another pa...

Last year, Onswipe noticed that despite considerable growth for the Kindle Fire during its first holiday sales season, interest seemed to drop off pretty quick a month or so after all the gifts were u...

From just two guys at rented desks to a $715 million sale to Facebook, a second wind on Android and a mess of privacy scares, Instagram today announced 100 million people use it every month to share t...

Wait. Thats a touchscreen?!That wasnt the first thought that popped into my head when I started to use the Chromebook Pixel -- it was about the tenth. But thats only because it seemed impossible that ...

Rollbar (formerly Ratchet.io), an error tracking product for developers, is launching its product out of a beta today, following nine months of private testing. Founded by former Lolapps engineers and...

Growth, to reach more users, and data, to improve the experience. That's what apps need in an identity and social system. They're what Facebook and Twitter deliver, and what the new Google+ Sign-...

Growth, to reach more users, and data, to improve the experience. That's what apps need in an identity and social system. They're what Facebook and Twitter deliver, and what the new Google+ Sign-...

Intel has launched its own Hadoop distribution, entering an already crowded market of major players all looking to get a piece of the big data pie. The company also announced an open-source effort to ...

Congress could learn some lessons from Silicon Valley. Extreme partisan gridlock over the federal budget is inching the country closer to drastic spending cuts, known ominously as "the sequester." Yet...

Calm.com, which began as a website that helped busy, information-overloaded web workers take a mental break, is now turning into a real business. The company is today announcing a $415,000 round of fu...

Web browser company Opera Software, now 300 million users strong, caught the world off guard the other week when it announced that it would be ditching its own Presto framework and moving instead to G...

Switftkey the intuitive typing interface for smartphones which has made its way into some Android phones and is reputedly behind the new BlackBerry touchscreen keyboard (though the company declines t...

The Pulitzer Prize winning technology journalist Matt Richtel is one of the New York Times' crown jewels. But while Richtel works his Silicon Valley beat during the day, he has a much darker night-tim...

With the release of the latest Chrome Beta today (version 26), Google is rolling outa new spell checker inside its browser and on Google Docs. The new version features support for three additional lan...

A new Kickstarter project called the Ego! Smartmouse blends together some recent trends in computing, including hardware identity authentication and 3D motion control to come up with a unique input de...

New York-based cable company Cablevision is suing cross-town content partner Viacom. The lawsuit is over Viacoms requirement for Cablevision to carry a bunch of channels its users dont watch, in order...

AppRedeem recently launched a new version of its AppTrailers app, which now allows users to watch TV show trailers too, and to earn points (and eventually rewards) for watching.There's a new section i...

VidIQ hopes to provide a layer of analytics on YouTube, as a way to help those who distribute their content on on the platform be they brands, marketers, or independent producers to reach more viewe...

The business of holiday home rentals has been one of the most natural areas to migrate to the world of e-commerce -- the ability to search for and view lots of properties makes it a significant improv...

Surface Pro fanboys? Take notice. Your hot little tablet will soon be the runner-up in the ever-growing category of "incredibly expensive Windows 8 tablets aimed at a tiny, but rabid demographic". Raz...

Surface Pro fanboys? Take notice. Your hot little tablet will soon be the runner-up in the ever-growing category of "incredibly expensive Windows 8 tablets aimed at a tiny, but rabid demographic". Raz...

500 Startups just announced recently that it would be using AngelList, a service that matches early-stage startups with investors, exclusively for startup applications to the incubator. Now Rock Healt...

In a roundtable discussion with reporters today, Google's head of Android Andy Rubin came right out and flatly denied the search giant was considering the launch of retail locations. "Google has no pl...

Senzari, the Miami-based Pandora competitor backed by $3 million in funding from 500 Startups and other angels, is making good on its recent acquisition of the Berlin-based streaming music app Wahwah....

Editors note:Legendary investor Vinod Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures.Most VCs pitch their venture firms as value added to a companys entrepreneurial founders. Personally, I think leading VC ...

Keith Rabois is going to be a full-time investor after more than a decade in operating roles. And fittingly, he’ll be doing that as a partner at Khosla Ventures — a high-powered firm as fe...

Google just announced a major update to itsGoogle+ platform that aims to replace today's ubiquitous Google sign-ins on third-party sites with Google+ logins. The new Google+ account-bas...

Fox already had its own series of second-screen apps for mobile devices, called Fox Now. Using Watchwith technology, those apps allowed users to sync up their mobile phone or tablet with the shows the...

They're cute. They're bouncy. And they're angry. Introducing "Angry Birds Toons". Seriously.Rovio has long teased the existence of Angry Birds cartoon series but held most of the details secret. Well,...

Haven't we all suffered enough abuse at the hands of Big Smart Watch? No? Well now there's Buddy, a Bluetooth smartwatch that aims to solve the problems associated with all those other watches. Buddy ...

Android got a late start compared to Apple's iOS in the worldwide smartphone battle, but it eventually grew to accomplish a larger worldwide market share, and it did so largely on the back of a single...

The online ordering market for restaurants has a new competitor today. A startup called EatStreet has made it to Series A by targeting the secondary markets across the U.S. for its expansion. The $2 m...

The clincher, the thing that made Quick Key go viral, was a poorly-lit video of an excitable guy holding his iPhone up to a Scantron page, one of those test pages you used to fill out in school. He th...

Postwire, the startup aiming to disrupt content sharing on a business level, launched out of Disrupt last year in May, and has since undergone nearly three redesigns. This may appear, to the surface o...

Code.org, the new non-profit aimed at encouraging computer science education launched last month by entrepreneur and investor brothers Ali and Hadi Partovi, has assembled an all-star group of the worl...

This sure took a while, but Microsoft just announced that Internet Explorer 10 is now finally available for all Windows 7 users worldwide. Previously, the release version of IE10 was only available on...

According to a new survey commissioned by Telerik’s Kendo UI, the majority of developers now prefer to work with HTML5 instead of native apps for their cross-platform development. Half of the 5,...

Ask any startup founder, and they'll tell you that engineering talent is in high demand, but the problem is that good talent is hard to come by. What's more, we have a computer science education defic...

Apple was issued a couple of interesting new patents today (spotted by AppleInsider), including one that could make an iPhone aware of changes in a user's situation, and alter phone settings according...

ZTE's press conference yesterday didnt really reveal anything we didn't already know, but it at least gave us the opportunity to play with the Chinese OEM's first Firefox OS-powered smartphone. The co...

Cloudflare, the content delivery network and website security company that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in 2010, just announced that the majority of the world's leading web hosting pro...

Editors note:Rep. Luis V. Gutierrezrepresents the Fourth District of Illinois in the U.S. Congress and is the Chairman of the Immigration Task Force of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.Vivek, I was s...

Codenvy (formerly Exo IDE), a cloud environment for coding, building, and testing apps, today announced it has closed $9 million in Series A funding led by Toba Capital with Auriga Partners and a numb...

Toronto-based Guardly announced today the launch of its indoor positioning system (IPS) tech, adding more specificity and heightened capabilities in environments like office buildings to their mobile ...

TunedIn Media, the German company behind the second screen "social TV' app TunedIn, has been acquired by European publishing giant Axel Springer. The amount isn't being disclosed, so it's unlikely to ...

Messaging startup Viber, which lets users of most smartphone platforms send free texts, calls and messages via its app, is continuing to ramp up its user-base. Speaking at the Mobile World Congress tr...

More VC activity in European e-commerce: Windeln.de, an online shop for baby products in Germany (or Diapers.com clone), has raised a 15 million (~$19.6m) new round of funding from existing investors ...

Smartphones have been getting more affordable but to connect the next billions of users they need to get more affordable still. Speaking at Mobile World Congress today Manoj Kohli, CEO of carrier Bhar...

Gary Kovacs, the CEO of Mozilla, today took aim at Apple and Google -- or possibly Apple and Samsung; you can take your pick about how you parse mobile dominance -- and made a impassioned for the mobi...

Gary Kovacs, the CEO of Mozilla, today took aim at Apple and Google -- or possibly Apple and Samsung; you can take your pick about how you parse mobile dominance -- and made a impassioned call for the...

China is now the world’s largest smartphone marketplace, with Flurry estimating that there will be 246 million smart devices in China by the end of this month. It’s a potentially lucrative...

When it comes to popular mobile apps for messaging and sharing content like Facebook and Twitter, carriers have been on the edges of the picture as data network providers rather than the developers of...

When the pan-Asian mobile carrier SingTel paid $321 million to acquire mobile ad platform SingTel in May last year, the thinking was that the Singapore-based SingTel could use Amobee to serve targeted...

Boston-based VC firm Spark Capital is announcing its fourth fund this evening, raising $450 million for the firm's biggest investment fund to date. Spark, who raised $360 million for its last fund, no...

Salesforce.com is launching Service Cloud Mobile, a package of four new features, including mobile co-browsing, in-line community support for game apps and a mobile chat capability. A fourth feature, ...

Mail digitizing startup Outbox is launching in San Francisco today, the first step in what co-founder Will Davis says is a broader national rollout.If, like me, you find physical mail to be an annoyan...

Many new cars now feature an automatic crash-detection system that will call 911 for you whenever you are in a crash that is bad enough for your airbags to inflate. Adding this kind of functionality t...

The physical world wasn't built for $500 devices we need every other minute. This is never more obvious than when I strain my back and curse like a sailor because my phone has fallen into the gap besi...

Twitter has announced that Twitter for Firefox OS will be available in the Firefox Marketplace when devices powered by Mozilla's new operating system start to ship....

You know, I'm sort of jealous. Because I've eaten something like threePo'boy sandwiches in the past three days, and every single time I've wondered, as I was eating, where the odd name Po' boy origina...

HP is late to the tablet game, but definitely not out. At $169, the HP Slate 7 is a sure thing. It's a guaranteed win for HP even if it doesn't outsell the competition.HP just announced the Slate 7. T...

If you've been part of a small- or medium-sized business or organization recently, you've dealt with "the spreadsheet." It's that document that's tacked up on the wall (or shared via email) where all ...

Its no big secret that Uber wants to get into the ride-share game, in an effort to compete directly with upstarts like Lyft and SideCar. After reaching a deal with the CPUC, the company announced plan...

Sure, there's a second screen these days. But it's not the one you might think. The second screen is the TV, where the decaying rules remain in force as network comedies atrophy and the fall season is...

CircleCI, a continuous integration platform for web application developers, has announced $1.5 millon in seed funding from a group of individualinvestors. ...

Nvidia only recently introduced its Tegra 4i processor, which pairs Tegra 4 power with integrated LTE -- an Nvidia first for mobile chips -- into a single system-on-a-chip. The company is now showing ...

Mobile app developers using a technology called "cookie tracking" (sometimes called "Safari flip-flop" or "HTML5 first party cookies") are starting to have their apps rejected by Apple's App Review te...

Mobile app developers using a technology called "cookie tracking" (sometimes called "Safari flip-flop" or "HTML5 first party cookies") are starting to have their apps rejected by Apple's App Review te...

It was just a year ago that Viddy was flying high, quoting massive user growth and raising a massive $30 million round of funding from NEA, Goldman Sachs, Khosla Ventures, and Battery Ventures. Viddy ...

It sounds like ridesharing startup SideCar is facing another regulatory challenge.According to a company blog post, the Philadelphia Parking Authority cited three SideCar drivers and impounded their c...

As more merchants flock to the web to sell their products, there has been a deluge of data to be indexed by retailers who are looking to see where certain products are being sold and for how much. Par...

Idle 3D printers are the bane of the creative class. That's why MakeXYZ.com is so important. It is a service that helps you find 3D printers near you and request print jobs. Like the remote batch jobs...

TokBox, the live video-chat platform that was acquired by Spain’s Telefnica in 2012, was one of the first companies to fully bet on WebRTC (the Web Real-Time Communication API), the quickly deve...

ZTE has just introduced the Grand Memo flagship smartphone at MWC in Barcelona. The Grand Memo has top-shelf specs including a 5.7-inch 720x1280 TFT display, a quad-core Qualcomm 800 processor, a 13-m...

App.net, the project that emerged from founder Dalton Caldwell's desire to build a social platform that wasn't driven by advertising, is adding its first free option today.Given Caldwell's emphasis on...

Microsoft only provides sporadic updates to how the Windows Phone Store is doing, but today, it used the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to offer a few new numbers. According to Microsoft, there ar...

A new survey from software security company AVG announced today reveals that a full 25 percent of mobile users keep "intimate photos or videos" on their smartphone or tablet device, a surprisingly hig...

Zynga is cutting costs further by closing its Baltimore studio and consolidating its presence in New York City and Texas. The moves follow a series of cost-cutting efforts that saw the closure of the ...

Internet access in many regions in Sub-Saharan Africa is still far from perfect, and a number of non-profits are working to improve this situation by providing technical assistance and working with lo...

Do you want to know whether cannibalism existed amongst Tyrannosaurus Rexes or whether specific viruses contribute to lung cancer risk? Better yet, do you want to be part of making this research happe...

It's no secret that cloud storage company Box is preparing for a public offering in the next year. Part of the company's growth strategy for the year is being able to go after large, enterprise client...

HowAboutWe launched its Couples product all the way back in September, but as an online dating site catering to both singles and couples, the startup is toying with the best way to market both product...

According to a number of reports, beleaguered bookseller Barnes & Noble could be shuttering its Nook hardware division and focusing primarily on connecting its digital content to other tablets and...

By Google's count, Google+ has over 500 million "upgraded" members and some 135 million people active "in just the stream." By researchers' best estimates, however, the answer is a bit more compl...

New York-based eyewear startup Warby Parker is off to a good start in 2013, having recently been fingered as a possible partner for Google Glass, and now is reported to have gained an additional inves...

Last fall, First Round Capital debuted The Dorm Room Fund in Philadelphia, which was a $500,000 fund run by an all-student investment team to invest purely in student-run startups in the area. Last ye...

If you listened to the online chatter about last night's Oscars' telecast, you might come away with the impression that the show tanked. Well, maybe it hit a lot of sour notes in terms of its question...

Intel officially launched its new dual-core "CloverTrail+" Atom system-on-a-chip today at MWC in Barcelona. The CloverTrail+ is a direct successor to Intel's first smartphone SoC, Medfield, ...

Visa is swiftly moving ahead announcing its first partners for its new NFC initiative and push into the wider world of mobile payments -- two programs it announced a few days agothat come with a set o...

This is it! Today, Monday, February 25, is the very last day to submit applications to Disrupt NY's Startup Battlefield. They have to be submitted and completed by 11:59 PST tonight. Stop procrastinat...

DoubleTwist, an iTunes alternative for the Android ecosystem, has teamed up with chipmaker Qualcomm on the release of "MagicPlay," which the two companies are describing as an open source media stream...

We need to face facts: WebOS is dead. Barring the unwavering support of the enthusiast community, the former mobile OS will never become a commercial product and, LG investment or no, the possibility ...

Appirio has launched a new partner program for connecting cloud apps through CloudSpokes, its 72,000 member developer community.Apps increasingly need to connect to offer a workflow that can appeal to...

Appirio has launched a new partner program for connecting cloud apps through CloudSpokes, its 72,000 member developer community.Apps increasingly need to connect to offer a workflow that can appeal to...

NeroKwik, the cloud photo organization service from the makers of the leading disc-burning software of old, is officially debuting its iPhone and iPad app today. The iOS clients join its existing Andr...

Aereo today announced that the cloud DVR/live TV streaming service will be expanding past New York City to more than 19 million people living in the surrounding NYC metropolitan area. The expansion wi...

Aereo today announced that the cloud DVR/live TV streaming service will be expanding past New York City to more than 19 million people living in the surrounding NYC metropolitan area. The expansion wi...

County Kerry, Ireland-headquartered Altobridge, a company that develops and deploys technology for mobile networks to help them cut the cost of delivering mobile voice and data, has announced that it'...

What a day folks -- mere moments talking up Asus' new Padfone Infinity, CEO Jonney Shih just revealed that the oft-rumored Fonepad is an honest-to-goodness product. Confused? I dont blame you. ...

In August 2011, Intersect won approval from the FDA for Propel, which, simply put, is a stent that doctors implant in the sinuses after surgery to help keep them open. The cool part is that, over time...

Sony today unveiled a new NEX camera, the NEx-3N. The new body is the latest addition to the company's celebrated lineup of mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras, and it manages to be the smallest a...

Asus introduced the new Padfone Infinity today at MWC in Barcelona. The successor to the company's hybrid tablet/smartphone has a redesign with an aluminum back and edge-to-edge glass display, a 5-inc...

Another Rocket Internet-incubated e-commerce company gets a significant cash injection today: Linio, the so-called 'Amazon of Latin America', has raised a 20 million (~$26.5m) round from previous back...

Social voting app Polar has raised $1.2 milliom from Yahoo founder Jerry Yang at AME Cloud Ventures, Greylock Partners' John Lilly, LiveOps Chairman and former eBay COO Maynard Webb, Ash Patel at Mora...

Y Combinator-backed startup Thalmic Labs believes it has a better way of determining user intent when using gesture control. To do so, its developed a new device, called MYO, which is an armband worn ...

Sony today announced a new entry-priced DSLT (Digital Single Lens Translucent) camera, the a58, priced at $600 bundled with a newly designed 18-55mm zoom kit lens, and coming to retail in April this y...

The 3G Nokia Lumia 720 slots into Nokia's Windows Phone 8 portfolio behind its two 4G flagships, the 920 and 820 -- with the aim of pushing some of their fancier features down to a more affordable mid...

Facebook is deepening its relationships with carriers in emerging markets today with a deal that would bring free or discounted data access for people who use Facebook Messages. The company has done t...

Switchcam has been working on a whole new set of tools that will help solve this problem, enabling event organizers to recruit contributors and to manage and curate video submitted by them. There are ...

The last time I bought an LG smartphone -- the unabashedly brown G2x -- I had to return it after a few weeks because it would randomly reboot if I so much as looked at it funny. From then on, I convin...

Opera just announced that it would spin off its advertising business into a brand new entity called Opera Mediaworks. Fully owned by Opera, the new subsidiary will consolidate under one roof multiple ...

The Lumia 520 is Nokia's new entry level Windows Phone device -- costing ~$180 before taxes and coming to the U.S. in Q2. So what do you get for not-too-many dollars? Besides the latest version of Win...

Troubled operating system webOS isn't defunct yet. According to CNET, LG just acquired software, licenses and the team working on webOS from HP. LG plans to implement it in its smart TVs -- not in its...

Digital advertising specialist Quantcast has become the latest U.S. tech company to put down roots in Dublin. The San Francisco-headquartered company has announced the opening of a new EMEA Operations...

Mobile device management startup AirWatch has raised a massive series A round of $200 million, led by Insight Venture Partners. The startup competes with others such as Good Technology and SAPs Afaria...

Remember "mobile TV", whatever that was? No we don't either, but that's not about to deter new startup Vinson which is launching their their new mobile OTT (Over The Top) TV app on iOS for broadcaster...

Smartphones have long been an important distribution platform for music streaming service Spotify, and today it is taking that to the next level of mobility: today it is announcing a deal with Ford to...

After co-investing in Mambu, a SaaS for alternative finance providers, earlier in the month, today sees Runa Capital fund another finance-related startup: An $8 million Series A round for uBank, a mob...

Sony Mobile Communications chief Kunihiro Suzuki took the stage to deliver something of a state of the mobile union address at MWC early this morning, and took a very brief detour to talk availability...

Ahead of its Mobile World Congress press conference today, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop sat down with TechCrunch to talk about the company's dual OS strategy, expanding product portfolio and the evolving co...

It's a given that if you get yourself into a big mess -- say, a major accident or a big financial pickle -- you're probably going to hire a lawyer. But if you are going through something a bit more ro...

Ginger Software is on a mission to become the go-to spell-checking tool for Android. This week, the Israeli makers of natural language technology designed to help native and ESL speakers better expres...

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a handful of Silicon Valley's top technology investors are planning a nation-wide social media campaign to pressure congress to pass immigration reform. The so-cal...

Google, sans a big Android standbut with the largest global smartphone share for its mobile platform,may not be making as much newsas in year's past at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but Yand...

Nokia is taking one more step to push its mapping and devices services as a standalone business. Today, Stephen Elop announced during the handset maker's press conference at the Mobile World Congress ...

Nokia is taking one more step to push its mapping and devices services as a standalone business. Today, the company announced during the handset maker's press conference at the Mobile World Congress i...

Nokia has announced two new Lumia smartphones at its Mobile World Congress press conference broadening its Windows Phone 8 portfolio to five devices and filling in some of the pricing gaps in the mid...

Nokia has unwrapped a new handset -- not a fancy smartphone but a budget feature phone: the Nokia 301 (pictured left) is an $85 mobile that doesn't have a touchscreen or a Qwerty keyboard but does pac...

Foreign visitors going to North Korea will be able to receive uncensored 3G data, starting Mar 1. Koryolink, a joint venture between Egyptian company Orascom Telecom Holding and North Korean state-own...

Kantar Worldpanel, the WPP firm that analyses how well smartphones are selling with consumers (not shipping to sales channels) across key worldwide markets, has picked the week of a major mobile show ...

ownCloud is a free software suite, written in PHP, that provides file storage, synchronization, and sharing. It provides the same basic features of Dropbox or Box.net. It also provides a whole lot mor...

It was just this past May that MasterCard expanded its stake in the digital payments arena with its PayPass Wallet Services, and its already getting a bit of an overhaul. Today, MasterCard has announc...

Enterprise network infrastructure company BTI Systems has raised $10 million in new capital led by Bain Capital Ventures and existing investors BDC, Covington Capital and GrowthWorks. The company has ...

It appears that Samsung has once again joined a growing list of companies that have decided not to release their flagship devices at Mobile World Congress. Reuters reports that the South Korean electr...

LG Electronics, which lost market share to Huawei and ZTE last year, aims to sell 40 million smartphones this year as part of its strategy to move away from basic handsets, said Park Jong Seok, the he...

When I travel to the East Coast, I sometimes feel like I'm living in a time warp, as my iPhone and Google Calendar keep notifying me about meetings that had happened three hours earlier.I've already m...

Apple hasn't done much to change the way iOS works at its core, in terms of navigating within and between apps and the home screen. In fact, iOS is maybe the mobile OS that has remained the most funda...

Microsoft will refund Windows Azure customers impacted by an outage last week caused by an expired SSL certificate. In a brief blog post, General Manager Steven Martin cited the scope of the attack as...

"Uh Facebook Gift Card?", the Jamba Juice cashier said with a twang. "I don't even know what that is." But that didn't stop her from ringing up my purchase with Facebook's big move into brick-and-mort...

"Uh Facebook Gift Card?", the Jamba Juice cashier said with a twang. "I don't even know what that is." But that didn't stop her from ringing up my purchase with Facebook's big move into brick-and-mort...

Google Glass is here but not quite here yet. What it will do to the way we live and work sometimes feels like a page out of an illustration of a man with a mechanical eye, who works according to a vis...

Flash back a month or so to CES -- NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang officially pulled back the curtain on the company's new Tegra 4 chipset, and called it the "world's fastest mobile processor." It was a hel...

The Chromebook Pixel is the best Chromebook ever made. As with all Chromebooks, that may mean nothing to you if you don't like ChromeOS, but there can be little doubt that the Pixel is a beautiful pie...

A calendar is a tool created many millennia ago, a tool that is vital to our very functionality as intelligent beings. Yet, when technology has ventured far beyond a simple grid of numbers, the Calend...

Editors note:Ross Rubinis principal analyst atReticle Research and blogs atTechspressive.Kickstarter has seen its share of campaigns that spin out of control, but its a lot more impressive when spin i...

HP surprised more than a few people earlier tonight when it officially revealed the Slate 7, a $169 Android tablet that's set to ship in the U.S. for $169 in April. It struck me as a safe move for HP,...

I was happily surprised to see Hunter Walk interview Jason Kincaid, one of the first TechCrunch employees. The interview is here and I’m reprinting it below. Jason joined TechCrunch when it was ...

WeVideo is rolling out its Android app to make it easier for users to create, edit, collaborate on, and publish mobile video projects on the web. The app will allow users to record video straight from...

"FOR every reporter employed in America, around six people work in public relations: a few too many, some might think." So began The Economist's obituary for Daniel Edelman in January 2013, a sharp eu...

Firefox OS, the new, HTML5-friendly mobile OS from Mozilla, is today taking a big step forward in its strategy to become a viable third player in the smartphone landscape currently dominated by Google...

Its time for CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show where a few of us writers take a look back at the past seven days and talk about a few of the weeks most interesting stories....

Chinese mobile maker Huawei has confirmed a new addition to its Android family: the Ascend P2. The P2 is the sequel to last year's relatively mid-range P1 but puts more power under the hood -- with a ...

Some of the best conversations I have about the tech space are with investors — along with being rich and generally smart, they seem to have the best predictive insights into the industry. At a ...

Editor's note:Mike Ghaffaryisthe vice president of business development at Yelp.Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman recently debated whether software would eat traditional retail, leaving no brick-and-mo...

Editor's note:Mike Ghaffary isthe vice president of business development at Yelp.Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman recently debated whether software would eat traditional retail, leaving no brick-and-m...

What if your browser could know when you are getting a call on your mobile phone? Earlier this month, Google and Mozilla demonstrated how their browsers’ WebRTC implementations could interoperat...

Up a steep hill, far away from the hustle and bustle of the Plaa d'Espanyain Barcelona is a small Luthier shop called Jerzy Drozd Basses.Last year in February of 2012, as my travels to Barcelona appro...

Editor's note:Adam Jackson is a San Francisco-based serial entrepreneur and angel investor. No part of building a startup is tougher than recruiting your team. Current supply is not meeting the demand...

Disruption comes in all shapes and sizes, and benefits people of all shapes and sizes. When you think about global entrepreneurs solving hard problems, you might not think about creating hardware prod...

Editor's note: Mrinal Desai is co-founder and CEO ofaddappt, developer of aniPhone address book app that your friends maintain.Many startups present themselves as mobile-first operations. These discus...

The Galaxy Note 8.0 -- the newest device in Samsungs many-sized range of tablets, unveiled today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona -- has just managed to trump Apples iPad Mini in the small tablet...

Editor's note:Brad Garlinghouse is CEO ofYouSendIt, the cloud file collaboration service. He is an avid angel investor in and advisor to several consumer and enterprise tech companies.The news that el...

That Samsung was tinkering with a slightly smaller Galaxy Note tablet shouldnt come as a surprise, but consider this the final word if you still weren't a believer. Samsung has just officially reveale...

Proposing that entrenched sub-cultures should try something new is dangerous. Going into guitar forums with a new idea is a prospect fraught with peril for anyone who dares move beyond the six-strings...

While the Sony press event this week has largely been received as a wasted opportunity, it speaks more to the fate of the game console than the PS4. Microsoft may win the next generation, but will win...

Editor's note:Bismarck Lepe is co-founder and president of products at Ooyala.Mobile World Congress kicks off next week, and business and technology leaders from around the world will converge in Barc...

Startup Battlefield is the heart and soul of Disrupt. It's one of the best platforms in the world to launch your startup, and we're looking for the very best startups to feature at Disrupt NY this Apr...

Its that time of year again mobile nerds and enthusiasts of all stripes have begun to descend upon Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, and naturally a TechCrunch contingent has set up camp in Spain ...

Editor's note: Alex Katz is partner and CFO with ff Venture Capital,an institutional investor in seed-stage companies.Many venture-capital firms and other investors insist on investing only in corpora...

The Gillmor Gang John Taschek, Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, and Steve Gillmor went bicoastal with @stevegillmor at @borthwick's Betaworks Studios in New York City. @scobleizer and @jtaschek held d...

Yes, you can fix that smashed iPhone on demand now. That means no visits to the Apple store, or intensive DIY efforts. A YC alum called iCracked launched a real-time, iPhone or iPad repair service a l...

After unboxing a pair of phablets at CES, Chinese mobile maker Huawei looks to be lining up a new flagship smartphone in its Android-based Ascend P line, ahead of the Mobile World Congress trade show ...

Editors note:James Altucheris an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He has started and sold several companies, run a VC fund, and is an active investor in many private companies. His late...

By now you must have heard of Unit 61398 of the People's Liberation Army: "an overwhelming percentage of the attacks on American corporations, organizations and government agencies originate in and ar...

In Mexicos drug-war-torn cities, a small number of Twitter users affected by narco violenceare acting as war correspondents to the masses, providing a public-safety alert system of sorts, according to...

Y Combinator-backed Vimessa launched in late 2011 with a free video voicemail app for the iPhone that allowed users to send high-def video messages to any cell number or email address. The idea was to...

Barbed wire and armed guards aren't your typical intro to a startup pitch event. But today, San Quentin Prison hosted The Last Mile demo day featuring presentations by seven inmates. The Last Mile hop...

Sokikom, a new startup that wants to help K-12 teachers motivate students to learn using games, is announcing today that it has raised $2 million in seed funding, half of which comes in the form of a ...

At its Chromebook Pixel event yesterday, Google didn’t just launch its new premium Chromebook but the company also announced that it is porting Quickoffice, the mobile productivity app that brin...

Following last month's rollout of free voice calling in its standalone Messenger app, Facebook has today updated its flagship iOS application to offer the same functionality. In the version 5.5 update...

As you know TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 is right around the corner. This April we will be, as they say, taking over the Big Apple. We have already announced a few of our special guests and speakers, in...

Framebench is a newly launched platform for creative collaboration, specifically aimed at those working in digital agencies and other creative design firms. There are a number of tools already availab...

The "silly sideshow" around Greenlight Capital and Apple issuing preferred stock, as Apple CEO Tim Cook put it, will go on according to a ruling today by U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan in NYC to...

There's a new formula in place, as forged by Instagram. This formula has been replicated in various shapes and forms for more than a year, but Quipio is bringing the Instagram formula to its basest le...

Don't have a place to stay yet at SXSW this year? No problem. As long as you don't mind sharing a room with six (or 12) people, social travel startup WeHostels has you covered. The company, which has ...

Francois Beaufort had a very good day yesterday. Not only did the leaked video of the Chromebook Pixel he discovered earlier this month turn out to be real, he also noticed that Google started work on...

Drawbridge, a Kleiner Perkins- and Sequoia-backed startup aiming to improve mobile and cross-device ad targeting, has raised $14 million in Series B funding. AdAge actually broke the news earlier this...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live today at 1pm Pacific time....

A number of solid reports, including a new domain name, XboxEvent.com register to Microsoft, are pointing to an Xbox event in April. While most console reveals happen at E3, as evidenced by Sony's mys...

A blog post from Flickr about new updates to its iOS application went relatively unnoticed yesterday. The post announced a series of incremental improvements to an app which has so far barely managed ...

A blog post from Flickr about new updates to its iOS application went relatively unnoticed yesterday. The post announced a series of incremental improvements to an app which has so far barely managed ...

Facebook Director of Product Blake Ross is leaving Facebook he announced in a Facebook post last night. For those of you who weren't reading TechCrunch in 2007, Firefox co-founder Ross and Joe Hewitt ...

Facebook Director of Product Blake Ross is leaving the company, he announced in a Facebook post yesterday afternoon.For those of you who weren't reading TechCrunch in 2007, Firefox co-founder Ross and...

In case you’re not vigorously refreshing ourDisrupt NYevents page like we are, TechCrunch Disruptis coming up. We’re receiving a record number of Startup Battlefield applicationsand watchi...

In case you’re not vigorously refreshing ourDisrupt NYevents page like we are, TechCrunch Disruptis coming up. We’re receiving a record number of Startup Battlefield applicationsand watchi...

A tipster has sent in a screen grab of what appears to be a landing page announcing registration dates for Google's massive I/O developers conference in May. The page has been pulled, so the link no l...

A tipster has sent in a screen grab of what appears to be a landing page announcing registration dates for Google's massive I/O developers conference in May. Update: Google's made it official. Registr...

So I was chatting with my dad yesterday. We had a long drive home after the Department of Homeland Security seized and impounded my boat. The mood was somber. We were talking about how awful America h...

The number of gadget-related thefts in major metropolitan areas has only continued to rise, and the number of resolved cases simply can't keep up. However, it would appear that Apple is now working di...

After making a visit to a disappointingly bland Google conference room behind frosted-glass doors in New York, the Verge's Joshua Topolsky got some hands-on time with Glass and his in-depth report inc...

We haven't heard too much from Fancy.com -- a competitor to Pinterest and other sites focused on social commerce -- since they raised $26 million in October 2012, but it looks like this is changing to...

We haven't heard too much from Fancy.com -- a competitor to Pinterest and other sites focused on social commerce -- since they raised $26 million in October 2012, but it looks like this is changing to...

If you do a search for "AngelList" in the Apple App Store, you'll only get four results - and one is an app featuring quotes from entrepreneurs. In other words, not a lot of selection, despite AngelLi...

Google seems to be looking to bring its ambitious Google Glass wearable computer to market much faster than many likely anticipated, according to the Verge. Google told the site that it hopes to have ...

Hard-working Americans may no longer need to buy a plane ticket to sin city to lose their kids' college savings: Online gambling is now legal in Nevada, and may soon be available nationwide. Nevada un...

For almost as long as Apple's iPhone has been in existence, analysts have claimed to see visions of a low-cost version of the device aimed at developing and prepaid markets. It's easy to see why these...

As American science students struggle to compete with the global competition, Oklahoma is moving forward with a law that could ban Biology teachers from failing students who argue that humans co-exist...

While trying to speed up its iOS and Android apps, Facebook accidentally stripped out too much data about news feed posts by Pages. This caused bugs in Page Insights that led to misreporting of metric...

Subscription commerce startup MeUndies has a brand new look and all new products. The company, which provides monthly shipments of boxers, thongs, and other underthings, is rolling out a new design fo...

It's rare to come across a service that's directly tackling a problem affecting a large number of people out in the real world, butAppCertainis doing just that. Designed for parents whose children use...

While I hate using Buzzfeed-stype headlines, this video warrants the hyperbole. We're all familiar with the magic of quadcopters - they can fly in formation, roll around obstacles, and even interact w...

Even though Facebook admitted that their detour into HTML5 didn’t fully pay off for their mobile strategy, a host of startups like Ludei and GameClosure are still betting on the technology. They...

A handful of cases seem to have leaked out for the forthcoming Galaxy S IV smartphone from Samsung. Since the phone has not yet been announced, we should approach each and every one of these cases wit...

Online college courses are replacing traditional classrooms at a crazy-fast pace, yet it is still unknown whether they are actually better for students. A new large-scale study of 40,000 community and...

Windows Phone 8 is Nokia's big play for the future, but as a result of focusing on those devices and their higher-end target market, the company is giving up ground to firms like Huawei and ZTE with l...

Credit card company Visa is ramping up its partner program to help integrate its payments technologies in mobile devices and platforms. The new initiative, called the Visa Ready Partner Program, aims ...

In a new report from mobile ad platform Millennial Media, the company compiles its data on mobile device share across its network for all of 2012, revealing that tablets in particular accounted for a ...

The European Union's two-year long antitrust probe into Google's search practices may be resolved after this summer, according to a Reuters report. The news agency quotes EU Competition Commissioner J...

Back in January 2011, Orange acquired 49 percent of Dailymotion for $78 million (59 million), and declared that they wanted to buy out the remaining 51 percent. But Dailymotion had to wait two years b...

Back in January 2011, Orange acquired 49 percent of Dailymotion for $78 million (59 million), and declared that they wanted to buy out the remaining 51 percent. But Dailymotion had to wait two years b...

7digital, the streaming music company that offers a direct-to-consumer service but also partners with the likes of Samsung and Pure to power respectively its Music Hub and radio music services on conn...

7digital, the streaming music company that offers a direct-to-consumer service but also partners with the likes of Samsung and Pure to power respectively its Music Hub and radio music services on conn...

Customer service software provider Zendesk announced a security breach that affects users of Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr. Zendesk said that the hacker downloaded email addresses of users who have co...

BoxTV, Times Internet's online streaming video service, doesn't just want to become the Netflix of India--it also sees itself as an Indian film discovery platform for viewers in other countries. It is...

When we first met PayrollHero.com was aiming to change the way small business timekeeping is done in Asia. With a $1 million seed round from 500Startups, LX Ventures, Futura, and others, it looks like...

As I start my trip in India along with Dave McClure’s “Geeks On A Plane,” I started to read about all of the startups in India that are used to prove that the country is making inroa...

Apple's stock price fell 2.8 percent after investors worried that a hiring freeze at Foxconn's China plants is related to lack of demand for the iPhone 5. Foxconn suspended recruitment at its factorie...

Apple's shares were hit after investors worried that a hiring freeze at Foxconn's China plants is related to slowing iPhone 5 sales. Foxconn suspended recruitment at its factories in Zhengzhou and She...

FastPay recently announced that it has placed $100 million in credit with digital media companies.That's $100 million used to deal with the common cash flow challenge in the ad business, where it can ...

Blog commenting systems are bizarre, broken and dated. TechCrunch recently switched from Facebook Comments to Livefyre - a change that, for the record, I had no say in. I'm not sure I see value. I don...

Blog commenting systems are bizarre, broken and dated. TechCrunch recently switched from Facebook Comments to Livefyre - a change that, for the record, I had no say in. I'm not sure I see value. I don...

Intel will not be left out of the party when it comes to being central in the mobile app ecosystem. The company today acquired a set of HTML5 development tools, originally created by appMobi and used ...

Perhaps aware of the tsunami of news that will hit during Mobile World Congress, we are seeing an increasing amount of news releases coming out before the actual event. France Telecom/Orange has alrea...

Make way for one more player in the European mobile payments space, and a big one at that. Today, the online payments giant PayPal announced that from this summer it will be rolling out PayPal Here in...

Make way for one more player in the European mobile payments space, and a big one at that. Today, the online payments giant PayPal announced that from this summer it will be rolling out PayPal Here in...

Wordpress, Blogspot and Tumblr have done a great job of making website creation accessible to anyone, but the novice can still be a bit overwhelmed by the back-end, especially when these platforms are...

Stitch Labs is making it easier for vendors to keep track of their finances by integrating with cloud accounting software provider Xero. By doing so, clients will be able to seamlessly pull in sales d...

Grishin Robotics, a Russian VC group dedicated to the commercialization of robotics, has dropped an unnamed sum into Bolt, a hardware incubator in Boston. Grishin's investment is part of a $3.5 millio...

Memolane, the startup that helped users archive and explore social network activity across different platforms, is shutting down. The company announced the closure in a blog post published this aftern...

Updated. Memolane, the startup that helped users archive and explore social network activity across different platforms, is shutting down. The company announced the closure in a blog post published th...

Over the past few years, Vevo has been working hard to simplify the process by which users search for and discover new music videos on its site. With that in mind, the company released a small update ...

Ask Facebook Graph Search for "books liked by founders" and you won't see The Da Vinci Code or The Bible first, though they're amongst the most Liked books. Instead you'll see books disproportionately...

Ask Facebook Graph Search for "books liked by founders" and you won't see The Da Vinci Code or The Bible first, though they're amongst the most Liked books. Instead you'll see books disproportionately...

Five weeks after launch, Facebook gave reporters a 'State Of Graph Search' today at its Menlo Park HQ. It's been rolled out from the original 100,000 users to "hundreds of thousands", and now a news f...

HP just released its Q1 2013 earnings report and for once, the company beat analyst expectations: revenue was once again down 6% to $28.4 billion, but still higher than most analysts expected. The com...

When talking about Apples rise from near-bankruptcy to become the most valuable company in the world, people often credit the amazing string of products from the iMac to the iPod to the iPhone to the ...

Google hasn't always been known for making breathtaking hardware, but today's announcement of the Chromebook Pixel -- arguably one of the best-looking laptops ever made, if nothing else -- means that ...

Although I, like many of you, suffered through Sony's interminable and boring press conference last night, I came away less concerned about the PlayStation's future as a platform. What I saw, in short...

"In the Studio" rolls on this week by hosting an ex-management consultant who grew tired of that career path, wrote a book about how to prepare for and perform well during case-style interviews, self-...

Google unveiled is fabled Pixel Chromebook today, and the thing does indeed have what looks to be a gorgeous, high-resolution display. It also has a touchscreen, as rumored, and the list gets more con...

Retargeting company AdRoll has released some data today intended to suggest that advertisers shouldn't rush too quickly to embrace Facebook Exchange (the ad retargeting service that the social network...

Retargeting company AdRoll has released some data today intended to suggest that advertisers shouldn't rush too quickly to embrace Facebook Exchange (the ad retargeting service that the social network...

In Silicon Valley and other tech entrepreneurship hubs, you don't meet many startup founders who are excitedly building products aimed at the government sector. But in an on-stage discussion Wednesday...

Do you cash out or stick to your guns? Twitter co-founder Ev Williams says you should only sell your company if the offer captures the upside, there's an imminent threat or you personally want to. "An...

After a few weeks of rumors, Google just announced the latest device in its Chromebook lineup: the Chromebook Pixel. Unlike previous Chromebook versions, the Pixel is aimed at power users who fully li...

These days it seems like everyone and their cousin is trying to craft the next smash hit game, but simply bringing a concept to fruition isnt enough. It's got to be engaging and well-designed, and tha...

More details have emerged about LivingSocial's new $110 million funding round announced yesterday. In response to a blog post characterizing the raise as an emergency round of debt financing, LivingSo...

With each fleeting moment, we inch closer to Disrupt NY. Today we're excited to announce that Kevin Ryan will take Disrupt's stage in late April, joining our ever-growing list of speakers, which so fa...

We have two guests joining us in the TechCrunch TV studio in the coming week for our Ask A VC series, where you put VCs in the hot seat. First up we have Menlo Ventures Managing Director, Shawn Carola...

Euclid, the analytics solution for brick-and-mortar retailers which first emerged from stealth back in late 2011, is today announcing $17.3 million in Series B funding, in a round led by Benchmark Cap...

Twitter announced via its blog today that it has begun using DMARC, a security protocol designed to cut down the number of fake emails that users receive from companies pretending to be Twitter itself...

We've been waiting since Doo closed its significant first funding round of $6.8 million at the end of 2011 for it big play to attack the world of collaboration and documents to appear. Big plays like ...

One of the the startup ideas that I've been hearing about for years is the social photo album in other words, a service that doesn't just let you share photos with your friends, but also create album...

Airbnb has seen amazing growth over the last year, doubling the number of listings and nights booked on the platform in 2012, and the company sees even more opportunity on the horizon. But surprisingl...

CloudOn, the popular free mobile productivity app that gives its users access to Microsoft Office on their smartphones and tablets, was only available on iOS and for Android tablets like the Nexus 7 u...

Today, Metaio announced the development of a new Augmented Reality hardware chipset called the "AR Engine". The German AR firm also announced a partnership agreement with ST-Ericsson that will lead to...

As 3D printing and modeling moves into the mainstream, it's interesting to see the rise of small players in the market and the capital raised. Take, for example, CGTrader. Originally designed as a mar...

Execution Labs, a Montreal-based gaming incubator, is teaming up with mobile game advertising and monetization startup Chartboost to create a new matchmaking program that will help indie game develope...

ManageEngine has launched the ServiceDesk Plus iPhone app that incorporates voice-recognition technology for IT professionals so they can make commands, dictate notes and do any number of other tasks ...

Watchup, a startup hoping to reinvent the news-watching experience on the iPad, has released an update that should make it even more convenient for users.When I spoke to co-founder Adriano Farano back...

Playhaven, a startup that had to do three major pivots before finding traction in helping other mobile gaming studios monetize their existing players, just scored another major hire. They just poached...

Shortly after market opening, Tesla shares (NASDAQ:TSLA) dropped 9.68 percent to 34.81 in the wake of yesterday's earnings. The company disappointed investors as it reported a quarterly loss of $89.9 ...

Shortly after market opening, Tesla shares (NASDAQ:TSLA) dropped 9.68 percent to 34.81 in the wake of yesterday's earnings. The company disappointed investors as it reported a quarterly loss of $89.9 ...

Canon announced the launch of its MREAL system for "mixed reality" today, which includes a head-mounted display that allows wearers to combine virtual objects with the real world in 3D, which essentia...

With Sony’s presser on the PlayStation 4 yesterday, it’s time to ask questions again about how console stalwarts like Sony and Nintendo are responding to an onslaught of Android and iOS de...

The bipartisan lovefest over immigration reform is officially over. As Senator John McCain returned home to gin up public support for a compromise on comprehensive immigration reform, he was heckled b...

Wedding Party, the mobile app that allows wedding guests, friends and family to contribute to a shared, digital album of photos and notes which can later be posted directly to the couple’s Faceb...

Startup Pack is back. After giving away 1,000 bundles of free web tools to newly established startups last October, the entrepreneur who set up the giveaway has gone ahead with a second, developer-foc...

Its not easy hard to find video on the web. But with dozens of premium content providers out there and millions of videos to choose from, figuring out whats worth watching can be a challenge. Thats wh...

Its not hard to find video on the web. But with dozens of premium content providers out there and millions of videos to choose from, figuring out whats worth watching can be a challenge. Thats why Fan...

After five months of testing, iterating, spit balling and pavement pounding, today Rock Health's fourth class of HealthTech startups took the stage at Demo Day to pitch their fledgling businesses to i...

King.com, the casual social games maker, today is announcing a couple of milestones in its growth: the company's Candy Crush Saga is now the number-one overall app on Facebook, on the back of 9 billio...

The USPTO has published a new patent application today from Google, which describes in comprehensive detail the complete system that would go on to become Google Glass, originally filed in August of 2...

It was just ten days ago that Snapchat launched a private beta version of its Android app, updated to include the video capture feature we've come to enjoy on iOS. Today, however, the company has turn...

Via Licensing Corporation today announced that China Mobile and Deutsche Telekom joined the company's LTE patent pool for standards-essential patents. The two telecom giants join AT&T, Clearwire C...

Master Lock has acquired Toronto-based software-as-a-service enterprise security solution provider Field ID in a deal the terms of which weren't disclosed. We've heard the deal involving the five year...

Graduway, a startup that wants to help colleges and universities more effectively engage with their alumni, is officially launching today with $1.1 million in seed funding from BTG Pactual (Latin Amer...

Jumio, theAndreessenHorowitz-backedmobile payments and ID-scanning startup, is today releasing a new version of itsNetverifyproduct designed specifically for mobile devices, both smartphones and table...

Smarkets, the UK-based peer-to-peer betting exchange, has raised a fresh $2.3 million round of funding led by Deutsche Telekom's T-Venture, along with existing backer Passion Capital. This brings the ...

Apple has a number of patents on wearable computing, but a new application spotted by AppleInsider blends some old and some new tech to provide a vision of what it might conceivably look like as a shi...

Nexmo has raised $3 million from Intel Capital for its mobile messaging API, carrier grade service. Also participating were NHN Investment Corporation and Initial Capital. Nexmo, founded in 2010, rais...

Fortumo -- a specialist in mobile carrier billing, which lets users to pay for apps and goods in apps without coughing up credit card numbers -- is today raising its game a bit against competitors lik...

SumUp, one of the many European mobile card reader startups, is adding support for American Express. Its mobile card reader system already accepts Mastercard and Visa payments but today the startup sa...

Blottr, the crowd-sourced (or citizen journalism) news service, has raised an additional 400,000 (~$612k) to help scale NewsPoint, its syndication platform that lets publishers/broadcaster purchase us...

Telenav's Scout for iPhone is a pretty capable personal navigator that gives you voice-guided turn-by-turn directions, access to local information and all the other features you expect from a GPS app....

Out of all the problems that friends run into, money is one of the stickiest. There's nothing that can degrade a relationship in quite the same way as an argument over rent, a restaurant bill, or even...

Google is reportedly in talks with Warby Parker to make glasses that look less like Geordi La Forge's eyewear and more like something a style-conscious person in the early 21st century would be happy ...

Google is reportedly in talks with Warby Parker to make glasses that look less like Geordi La Forge's eyewear and more like something a style-conscious person in the early 21st century would be happy ...

It’s almost as if there’s an arms race in online education. Which MOOC platform can expand the fastest? Place your bets now. On the heels of edX’s announcement that it will be expand...

Appecute launched last year with a platform that gave customers a single view across any platform as a service (PaaS). Today the company is showing a change in focus with an activity stream style serv...

Medikly, a startup that aims to help pharmaceutical companies reach and better understand physicians, announced today that it has raised $1.2 million in series A financing from Easton Capital.A recent...

When it comes to online education and massive open online courses (a.k.a. "MOOCs"), Udacity and Coursera have stolen most of the attention. But they aren't the only two choices for voracious distance ...

Like a growing number of students, Ben Kosinski attended multiple universities over the course of his collegiate career. Although these schools differed wildly in culture and the makeup of their stude...

The White House released a high-level strategy paper on combating international intellectual property theft and pointed a not-so-subtle finger at China. The report promises increased criminal sanction...

Tech companies try to stay lean. They don't want to hire too many sales people, and they can't build the perfect advertising tool for every buyer. So following in Google and Facebook's footsteps, toda...

Sony's PlayStation 4 made its grand debut today in a presentation with all the theatrical flair to be expected from an electronics company that's also a media company that's also a producer and publis...

When NVIDIA officially pulled back the curtains on its new Tegra 4 SoC at CES, it had no shortage of praise for the thing -- the company referred to it as "the world's fastest mobile processor" -- but...

Pinterest, the content discovery website that has achieved massive mainstream popularity by letting people clip and share their favorite photos and videos online with virtual "pinboards," is making it...

Gaikai's Dave Perry took the stage at the PS4 event today to describe how Gaikai would be adding cloud gaming elements to the PS4, which will make it possible to jump in and try games in the PlayStati...

You probably associate the idea of "comics" with things of a trivial nature, like the newspaper's funny pages, or maybe Saturday morning SpongeBob marathons. But according to Kevin Cheng, the web exec...

Sony had an event today and as expected, it introduced the PlayStation 4. The next-gen platform is designed to shift focus from the living room to the gamer, Sony said, and overall, PlayStation's appr...

Barriers to international manufacturing and high fuel costs have long made overseas production painful for small businesses. Now, an economic trend towards American manufacturing has created a timely ...

Join us live at the 2013 Playstation Meeting where Sony will hopefully unveil what's next for their iconic gaming console. The event runs from 6pm Eastern/3pm Pacific and I'll be posting images and co...

PernixDatatoday launched its Flash Virtualization Platform (FVP) for clustering flash to get higher levels of performance. It's similar to how VMware aggregates CPU and memory to give customers more f...

Mobile commerce startup PayDragon wants to simplify the process of purchasing various grocery staples via your mobile phone. The company already has one-click purchasing and two-day shipping for produ...

Average boat owners only use their vessel 14 days a year. That's why Boatbound is brilliant. It's a peer-to-peer boat-renting startup that lets you book everything from kayaks to catamarans to yachts ...

WebRTC, the plugin-free real-time video, audio and text chat protocol most browser vendors now support, is now activated by default in the latest bleeding edge Firefox Nightly release. While Mozilla h...

I recently had the pleasure of meeting Piazza founder Pooja Sankar and learned how her struggles in school inspired her to build an online question-and-answer platform for students to learn together. ...

The war for your living room is about to heat up. While Microsoft is still keeping its own next-generation console under lock and key, rival Sony is gearing up to take the stage in New York City and s...

Mobli is launching a new version of its photo- and video-sharing app, pushing into the next generation of this competitive space with a new feed of stories that’s integrated with Facebook and Tu...

In the deep and rich world of self-generated Internet content, there are few things as stark - and as starkly polarizing - as text on a colored background. Is it meme-cheating? Is it boring? Is writin...

Analyst Forrester is predicting tablet ownership in Western Europe will quadruple by 2017 -- with the percentage of online adults owning a slate projected to increase markedly from less than a fifth (...

YouTube just announced that it has partnered with Gengo and Translated.net, two popular translation services, to give its users a more streamlined process to get their video captions translated by pro...

Small businesses and new brands are mere sardines in the ocean of social media. But a school of small fish is much more powerful than a lone minnow, which is why Saber Blast, a new alliance marketing ...

TrustEgg, a Y Combinator-backed startup which lets parents set up trusts for their children is actually launching. That's a milestone in and of itself, because, as a financial services company, it had...

Toronto's Upverter is a startup that's poised to effect change that could reshape the landscape of entrepreneurship. That's not something you can say about most of the businesses we cover on a daily b...

Handy, a smartphone rental service out of Hong Kong, has launched operations in Singapore. The company offers smartphones for rent to travelers at $9 (HKD 68) a day$12 (S$15) a day in Singaporeand the...

VCs like to go around asking the same questions: "What's cool? What startups do you like?" Recently, the consensus answer to those questions is a startup called Vurb.Vurb is a contextual content engin...

VCs like to go around asking the same questions: "What's cool? What startups do you like?" Recently, the consensus answer to those questions is a startup called Vurb.Vurb is a contextual content engin...

It's South By Southwest time again, and you know what that means -- it's time for another round of apps to announce launches and updates to help make your mandatory fun time in Austin, Texas that much...

Xamarin, the service that helps developers write cross-platform apps in C# for iOS, Android, OS X and Windows, launched version 2.0 of its platform today. This new version features updates to most of ...

Over the past couple of years, TestFlight has become the standard choice for giving beta testers (and tech bloggers) early access to iOS apps. Today the service is launching for Android developers too...

GPS technology and the increasing ubiquity of smartphones has given rise to a plethora of mapping and other location-based services that work relatively well outside. But indoor positioning can still ...

Citus Data has launched CitusDB for Hadoop, a service that can process petabytes of data within seconds. The offering shows once again that thenew class of analytics databases that can analyze everyth...

Twitter just announced via blog post that it has launched an advertising API, which will allow brands to run ad campaigns through the company's API partners, rather than having to buy them through Twi...

WordPress.com just rolled out a new classroom vertical that is meant to help educators easily create good-looking websites for their classes. Over the last few months, WordPress.com, the fully hosted ...

Only a month after its expansion into juniors, online and mobile clothing consignment service thredUP is now expanding into women's apparel. This is the company's first step out of the kids' clothes m...

Daily deals might be out of fashion, but that hasn't stopped at least one company in the space from being able to attract more venture investment. Apparently LivingSocial sent a memo to employees this...

The time is nigh. Startup Battlefield applications need to be submitted and completed by Monday, February 25th. We're looking for the very best startups to launch on Disrupt NYC's stage, but first you...

MacBooks are on a straightforward path to becoming closed case devices, with very little in the way of aftermarket expandability options for consumers. Which is why the Nifty MiniDrive Kickstarter pro...

Something there is that doesn't love a viral video.To wit: we present Asus' baffling Spanish MWC teaser which involves a giant metal dildo landing on the Sagrada Famlia, Barcelona's beloved Gaudi mast...

RedBeacon has just released an update to its services that effectively closes the loop on the company's home services marketplace. The company announced the update on its blog, bringing mobile and onl...

At just about a year of age, Referly may be a tad young to be making its first acquisition. But the San Francisco-based startup is doing just that today with the purchase of 500 Startups-backed Launch...

Playnomics, a San Francisco-based startup that helps mobile game developers earn more from their existing players, just picked up another $5 million in funding from Vanedge Capital and existing invest...

Despite a rocky start to the year with the sudden departure of COO Keith Rabois, Square is still making a huge push to sign on new businesses on the Square platform and deliver smart, easy service for...

Illustrating how very, very hard it is to have a breakout hit in today's mobile app stores, a report from app store analytics firm Distimo released today finds that only 2 percent of the top 250 publi...

iZettle what you might call the 'Square of Europe' given it's also a dongle-based mobile payment service for small merchants will now launch a new Chip & Pin device alongside its existing soluti...

iZettle what you might call the 'Square of Europe' given it's also a dongle-based mobile payment service for small merchants will now launch a new Chip & Pin device alongside its existing soluti...

It can be a tough life out there for mobile-social gaming platforms. With Apple’s Game Center covering the bare basics and GREE’s recent shutdown of OpenFeint, it’s arguable that the...

Gigwalk, the mobile temp agency that allows users to get assigned jobs (or "gigs") from companies in need of real-world data or market research, is today upgrading its business-facing platform as the ...

Google is slowly pulling down Google Glass' veil of secrecy. With each announcement, the company reveals a bit more of its secrets. This time around, the video above shows Google Glass' UI in real wor...

OTG, the restaurateur that made waves when it installed free access iPads in some of the world's busiest international airport hubs last year, is improving its existing system with the deployment of a...

Yahoo plans to start rolling out a new front page at Yahoo.com starting right now, with the goal of making the new experience available to everyone in the United States within two days.I'm familiar wi...

Barcelona is coming alive with preparations for Mobile World Congress and we are pumped about the super-international TechCrunch Mobile Barcelona meetup in the same week. With thanks to our local supp...

A big step forward today for TechStars, the Boulder-based uber-accelerator founded in 2006 that has set up operations mentoring and funding startups in six cities across the U.S. as well as powering s...

Apple's iPhone 5 became the best selling smartphone globally in Q4, pushing past Samsung's flagship Galaxy SIII, according to research by Strategy Analytics. It's the first time the iPhone 5 sales hav...

In yet another an indication that big media powerhouses are starting to refocus their business on driving new business models like commerce, publishing giant Cond Nast has made what is understood to b...

On the heels of Kaplan linking up with TechStars to offer an edtech accelerator program in New York City, educational publishing giant Pearson is also wading further into startup waters to help propel...

Keyboard software maker SwiftKey's answer to Swype has now been added to the latest version of its software, SwiftKey 4, launching today on Google Play for Android smartphones and tablet users. The fi...

Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, has just announced the winners of the UK spectrum auctions for 4G spectrum on the low-frequency 800MHz band, used for LTE and other mobile broadband services. T...

Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, has just announced the winners of the UK spectrum auctions for 4G spectrum on the low-frequency 800MHz band, used for LTE and other mobile broadband services. T...

With early-stage capital front-loading the EdTech investment spectrum, it's a good time to start an education business. (Even if investors are still wary about doling out larger rounds, but ssshhh on ...

Russian phone maker, Yota Devices, will start making its first dual-screen e-ink YotaPhones in Singapore. The company has signed with Hi-P, a manufacturer in the country, to have it mass produce the d...

Blue Apron, a startup that aims to help you cook new foods while taking a lot of the inconvenience and waste out of the process, announced today that it has raised a $3 million Series A.The company de...

The War of the Korean Tech Giants: Battle Display is approaching a detente. LG Display has dropped its request for a domestic sales ban on rival Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1, reports Yonhap News Agency....

Thanks to the rise of social networking, the growing ubiquity of mobile devices and the cloud, and the fundamental maturation of the Web as a distribution channel (among other things), the opportuniti...

Can we talk about how ridiculous today was?It feels like we've reached a some kind of turning point.As a cultural idea, when hacking becomes a tool for social media marketers, it has well and truly le...

Despite investors' concerns over a slowing online advertising market in China, Sina's managed to post Q4 revenue that exceeded analysts' expectations, though its earnings fell 74 percent from a year e...

Despite investors' concerns over a slowing online advertising market in China, Sina's managed to post Q4 revenue that exceeded analysts' expectations, though its earnings fell 74 percent from a year e...

Once upon a time, the pinnacle of social networking was the ability to connect with former classmates and share what your cat had for breakfast. Today, the requirements for social networking have evol...

StartupQwikilauncheda new iPhone app a little more than a week ago, and it now says that the app was downloaded 125,000 times in the first six days, with 27,000 Qwikis created.What is a Qwiki? Basical...

Last summer, online fitness provider Wello launched to provide personalized instruction to users via two-way video conferencing. That allowed its users to work with trainers from the comfort of their ...

State wants to democratize opinion sharing, and make Twitter and Wikipedia looks like elitist popularity contests. Led by Jawbone founder Alexander Asseily, State has raised $14 million and will launc...

It's a great time to be a programmer right now, for many reasons -- one of which is the wide variety of open application programming interfaces (APIs) that are available that allow developers to build...

In today's fourth quarter earnings report, Demand Media (which operates sites including eHow.com and Livestrong.com, and which has been criticized for being a "content farm") says it's considering a p...

MTV has officially acknowledged that early reports of their hacked Twitter account was, in fact, a prank. An hour ago, MTV's twitter account began tweeting naughty comments about musicians (screen sho...

The small business world just doesn't get the love that it deserves. Salesforce.com and the other giants sell to big enterprise customers that need a far different set of tools than their small-busine...

Last night, Microsoft announced that it was taking its new webmail service Outlook.com out of beta and starting to transition its huge Hotmail user base over to the new interface and platform. That tr...

Vine has just opened up a few new positions for the NY-based engineering team, as tweeted by co-founder Colin Kroll. As it would appear, there are six positions available to work alongside the three-m...

It's not often that a 20-minute Office Hours session with TC Staffers turns into a spot on the Disrupt Battlefield stage, but for Buyou, it just so happens to be the case. The virtual mall app, founde...

Twitter is testing a new ad unit that gives direct marketers a way to generate leads directly from tweets.You can see an example of the unit in this tweet promoting Twitter's small business guide. Not...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new service called OpsWorks, whichmanages apps at any scale. But more interesting is the disruptive influence the move will have on the fledgling platform as a...

What many people don't realize is that Sand Hill Road VCs are not all sitting on the sidelines as seed and angel investors have their moment in the sun. Many of these firms have been very quietly gett...

Microsoft's Lync, the company's enterprise communications platform, doesn't get a lot of hype, but it's currently being used by 90 out of the Fortune 100 companies. The Lync ecosystem now includes ove...

Apple has revealed that it was attacked by the same group that went after Facebook in a recent attempt to break that network's security. The company says a "small number" of its Macs were affected, bu...

Mobile backend-as-a-service (MBaaS) platformStackMobis expanding upon its earlier launch of a marketplace for third-party services, with the debut of a marketplace targeted towards enterprise customer...

Quixey, the app search startup that signeda deal to power app search results on Ask.com this December, is today announcing another high-profile partnership, this time with U.S. mobile carrier Sprint. ...

Mobile industry analyst Benedict Evans has crunched the numbers on newly-released tablet sales figures from Asus and arrived at an approximate estimate of total Nexus 7 tablet sales for 2012, which cl...

Vengo, the maker of mini vending machines for bars, restaurants and offices, has raised $1 million in seed funding from a number of New York area investors and others including David Tisch (BoxGroup),...

According to a somewhat self-congratulatory update Google posted earlier today, it's getting significantly harder for hackers to successfully compromise its users' accounts. Google says it has "dramat...

An official, shadowy Chinese hacker group is reportedly responsible for more than 100 high-level attacks against major corporations and governments. The group, known as Advanced Persistent Threat (APT...

So, after months of leaks and speculation, HTC has finally revealed the HTC One. To say it's an important device for HTC is an understatement given the rough seas the company spent nearly all of last ...

Jolla, the Finnish startup formed by ex-Nokians with the hope of rising, phoenix-like, from the ashes of Nokia's abandoned MeeGo platform -- via its Sailfish OS -- has secure an outside investment fro...

HTC’s floundered of late, with a less-than-impressive 2012. Much of that can be attributed to Samsung and Apple, which chomped up even more marketshare last year than they did the year before. P...

Success can be determined by measuring the length of our index finger in comparison to our ring finger, Bronson told me about the research behind Top Dog. But that's not the only conclusion about succ...

Now that the number of tablet and smartphone gamers outnumber console players, there’s a race to see who will establish the big franchises and gaming companies of the mobile generation. In the e...

Thunderbolt expansion docks for MacBook Pro have been slow to come to get started with offerings from Matrox and Belkin only now coming to market after lengthy delays. And they're pricey, too, at $299...

It's been a long time coming, but Firefox now finally features a built-in PDF viewer. Previously available in the Firefox betas, the HTML5-based PDF viewer has now made it into the stable release with...

So far, Netflix has been mum on viewership of House of Cards, preferring not to break out numbers for the number of subscribers who have watched it or how many hours they've watched. But research from...

Hot on the heels of the announcement of Ubuntu on phones comes Canonical's latest announcement: Ubuntu on tablets. This is, in many ways, a no-brainer: Android and iOS have already demonstrated that ...

HTC has been struggling to get an edge against market leader Samsung when it comes to getting critical mass in Android smartphones, so during today's launch of HTC's newest HTC One flagship phone, the...

HTC has been struggling to get an edge against market leader Samsung when it comes to getting critical mass in Android smartphones, so during today's launch of HTC's newest HTC One flagship phone, the...

HTC unveiled its newest flagship phone, the HTC One at a special press event in NYC and London today, and the drastically different design marks a departure from a strategy of trying to beat other And...

There's little question that HTC wishes 2012 had gone just a little better -- the beleaguered smartphone company posted awfully disappointing results quarter after quarter, while rivals like Samsung a...

The art world doesn’t always get a lot of love from the VC community, but Artspace.com is ready to change all that with a new round from Canaan Partners. The Series B round adds another $8.5 mil...

While education startups like Khan Academy and Coursera are democratizing access to primary and secondary-level instruction, there are plenty of other hobbies where face-to-face teaching could be disr...

6Wunderkinder, the Berlin-based developer of cross-platform productivity app Wunderlist, today announced a step up in its ambitions as a “productivity platform” for a global audience: it h...

Meet Sunrise, the calendar app that will replace every calendar app that you've tried so far. It's the best calendar you'll ever use. Behind its apparent simplicity, there's a server component (like M...

We're sitting patiently at HTC's NYC Media Event at this very moment, itching in anticipating for what we expect to be the official debut of the HTC One. Originally leaked as the M7, the HTC One is se...

The Mac Pro is an endangered species in Europe. Apple decided to withdraw its towering desktop behemoth from the market after new regulations concerning power supply design hit the books. So, instead ...

Findables, a specialty case maker for smartphones and tablets, has just scored some significant distribution deals for its QR-coded, "connected" cases. Previously, the company was selling online and i...

3D printing can be complex or, if the 3Doodler is any indication, wildly simple. Built by a team of toy designers, the 3Doodler is a pen with a simple plastic extruder at the tip. When you press a but...

Nvidia today announced its latest Tegra 4 processor, the Tegra 4i, which ships with an integrated LTE modem, which also offers the highest performance rating of any single-chip mobile processor accord...

You're a new startup on the tech scene in Europe, perhaps you're a brand new entrepreneur. One day you get an email saying you've been shortlisted as a finalist for a "prestigious" award, putting you ...

Debt-management focused Student Loan Hero is ramping up the competition in the "Mint for Student Loans" space, with now 2,000 people on board, $63 million in debt under management, a platform built on...

It was just last week that BlackJet the so-called Uber for private jets threw a big launch event and announced plans to add San Francisco and Las Vegas as destinations. But BlackJet is not alone: Th...

When haptic feedback first became a buzzword of the mobile phone industry nearly half a decade ago, many imagined keyboards that would rise up out of the glass on smartphones to meet our fingertips. W...

Elasticsearch, a real-time, enterprise data search and analytics startup and open source project, has raised $24 million in Series B financing led by Mike Volpifrom Index Ventures. The round includes ...

Content recommendation and distribution startup Taboola has grown quickly over the past year or so. Its looking to accelerate that growth, adding another $15 million in funding led by Pitango VC, alon...

Yandex, the "Google of Russia" that runs the country's dominant search engine along with a number of cloud-based apps, has just announced its quarterly and full-year earnings. And while the company sa...

Anaplan, which provides a cloud-based solution for businesses to model and plan for sales, operations, and finance, has announced its expansion into Europe via the acquisition of Vue Analytics, an Ana...

HTC is holding a special event in NYC today at 10 AM, and it's all but guaranteed that the company will be showing off its latest flagship smartphone, the HTC One. But we managed to get in one last sp...

Futurelearn, the U.K.'s first large-scale alliance between traditional higher education institutions aimed at testing the waters of MOOCs (massively open online courses), has bolstered the number of p...

The technology industry has gone barking mad. Last week I got pitched by a dog named Mitzi. "We are Europe's BarkBox", yapped the excitable dachshund, before explaining that UK-based Fings For Fido is...

Shopspot, a startup out of Thailand with a mobile shopping app, has won $628,000 (S$779,000) after switching its shopper matchmaking app to a more traditional shopping interface. Its earlier app focus...

Being first to 4G may not be quite the advantage EE may have hoped. The U.K.'s first 4G network was up and running at the end of October last year but its Q4 results show the network it picked up only...

Instead of spending to grow virtual crops faster, Facebook gamers can turn those purchases into donations for cattle donations and fistula operations in the developing world. A new Facebook game comin...

Google announced today that it is kicking off A-Pop Star Week on March 8. The event will include Google+ Hangouts with C-, J-, and K-Pop singers (if you haven't guessed, the letters stand for Chi...

PayPal will stop allowing personal payments in Singapore on February 20. It said in an email to members that this was due to “regulatory instructions”. People will still be able to make co...

Despite being booted off his Sina and Tencent Weibo accounts for three days after criticizing state-run search engine Jike, former Google China head Kaifu Lee remains optimistic about social media in ...

The backpack arrived in the mail about 3 days ago perfect timing for a business day trip I needed to make and a great test of this backpacks capability.How did it work for me? Great. I love it. But w...

Six months after its initial launch, the preview of Outlook.com, Microsoft's free webmail service that is meant to replace the aging Hotmail brand and design, now has over 60 million active users acco...

For startups and small businesses, providing and managing benefits can be a huge headache. In the early stages, this responsibility generally falls into the hands of founders, who have to contact insu...

It was exactly a year ago that news began to surface of Fujitsu's intention to come to Europe with its Android-based smartphones. Now the Japanese company is finally coming good on those reports: on T...

2600hzis part of a new movement to turn the data center into the new telco. That's one way to puit it. Another is to realize that our 100-year old phone system is decomposing. ...

We're back with a brand new Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series where we go inside the gates of the hottest tech companies and get a grand tour of what the day-to-day work life is like -- warts, perks, an...

A Singaporean fashion retail site has secured $2 million (S$2 million) in funding from a government-backed group of VCs. When it launches next month, the e-tailer, called Inverted Edge, will carry a c...

A Singaporean fashion retail site has secured $1.6 million (S$2 million) in funding from a government-backed group of VCs. When it launches next month, the e-tailer, called Inverted Edge, will carry a...

I'm shopping for a car right now. Just something that can handle a little city driving and frequent trips to the cottage in the warmer months, with the ability to haul a decent amount of cargo. I'm we...

If you're a hardcore gamer, the name Turtle Beach most certainly means something to you. We met with the tournament-grade headset maker to discuss their new Seven series of headsets, originally debute...

Pebble smartwatches have been hitting doorsteps for a little while now, but my colleague Darrell Etherington and I have only just been able to join the party. The reasons for the extra wait differed f...

Last October, eBay debuted a completely new homepage experience and redesign, marking the company's biggest homepage in the marketplace's history. eBay's feed experience has been in pilot phase for se...

Sequoia Capital and the student-run Princeton publication Business Today held their first Start @ A Startup conference this weekend, where more than 100 students (largely, but not entirely, from Ivy L...

A five-minute video? Ain't nobody got time for that. Not to watch one, or to make one. But the Harlem Shake dance videos are capped at 30 seconds. That's why we're so willing to watch just one more in...

We all go through phases where we feel like we’ve seen every possible Kickstarter project that we’d ever want and then one like Mycestro comes along and reminds us that this is just the ti...

Ride-sharing is becoming increasingly popular, and more widely available, as San Francisco-based startups Lyft and SideCar have both begun expansion into new cities. But what if I told you theres a ri...

Every few months I'm reminded of the intensity of feeling some technologies - be they physical objects (they usually are) or web services - engender in a certain subset of the human population. It's a...

About 40 minutes ago hackers took over the official Burger King Twitter account, changing the branding to feature McDonald's fish nuggets prominently on the top and noting that Burger King "just got s...

Google is facing a privacy policy probe in Europe. Last year it consolidated more than 60 separate product privacy notices into one unified policy. The move drew criticism from European privacy regul...

Tutorspree has been quiet of late, but that doesn't mean it's not still plugging away on its mission to make high-quality, local tutors in any subject accessible to any student -- or finding continued...

Editors note:Adam Rifkin is co-founder and CEO ofPandaWhale, an online network of interesting things and people.Pop quiz: what is the favorite social networking site of Americans under age 25? If you ...

Global audiences of prosumer video producers will create content that is viewed by global audiences in numbers far in excess of traditional TV. TV will enter the era of "participation" and when the me...

HotelTonight, the startup that lets users make same-day reservations at nearby hotels, just launched a version of its app that's optimized for Android tablets.When they're thinking about tablets, star...

Last August, Affectiva, developer of a new way to track facial responses to online content, raised $12 million from KPCB, Horizon and others to take its tech to a wider market. Today comes one of the ...

In November, mobile app services company Flurry announced that China was on track to top the U.S. and Android install base at some point in the first quarter of 2013. Today, Flurry says that has happe...

Moment.me, a startup that debuted its automatic, social albums application for iPhone this past fall, has made its way to Android. The app allows users to combine not only photos, but also video, as w...

Did you happen to get an email from LinkedIn recently, which congratulated you on having one popular profiles on the site? Then, good news - you're special. Just like millions of others. The campaign,...

Did you happen to get an email from LinkedIn recently, which congratulated you on having one popular profiles on the site? Then, good news - you're special. Just like millions of others. The campaign,...

We're now about a week away from the start of the Mobile World Congress, the large, annual European mobile event put on by the GSM Association that has served as a barometer of the progress of the wir...

Opera has been making a lot of headlines of late -- with last week's announcement of its big strategic shift to WebKit. Followed hard on the heels by the news of its $155m purchase of Skyfire. But the...

Editors note: Peter Relan is aformer developer and Oracles former VP of Internet Division, a serial entrepreneur since 1998, and a Silicon Valley angel investor. Relan founded YouWeb Incubator in 2007...

We've seen a lot of fashion tech and fashion e-commerce startups pick up steam in the form of users, revenues, and venture backing. But because content remains king, it looks like less tech-tastic sit...

Another service has jumped on the “easy” site creation bandwagon, this time a small startup out of the Philippines, called Infinite.ly. The company competes with players like Wix.comto off...

Editor's note:John Geraci is head of marketing for innovation agency faberNovel, where he and his colleagues help organizations think and act like startups.Two years ago,faberNovelpublished a study ca...

LG's forthcoming flagship, the 5.5 inch Optimus Pro G, has been confirmed for the U.S. market. Writing in a release on its website (translated from Korean by Google Translate), LG said the device will...

LG's forthcoming flagship, the 5.5 inch Optimus Pro G, has been confirmed for the U.S. market. Writing in a release on its website (translated from Korean by Google Translate), LG said the device will...

DealAngel, the site that lets you search for hotels and compare prices based on their historic and broader market value to ensure you really are getting a good deal, has launched a private beta of its...

GREE, a Tokyo-based mobile gaming company worth $2.8 billion, is deepening its partnership with Yahoo! Japan through the creation of a joint venture that will build social games for smartphones. The n...

Higher education in the U.S. is a hot mess. For decades, funding for public universities and colleges has been in steady decline, which, as spending continued, led to rising institutional debt and eve...

It's unfair to take a particular moment in time, slice it, and pass judgement on that particular slice. Yet that's our precise function, as chroniclers of news, and our role in the startup community.L...

Kaifu Lee, former head of Google China and founder of Bejing-based startup incubator Innovation Works, said on Twitter yesterday (h/t Sinocism) that he has been banned from posting on Sina Weibo and T...

Just in time for Posterous’ closure on April 30th, a service has launched to bring Posterous blogs over to rival service, Tumblr. JustMigrate was announced the same day that Posterous unceremoni...

360Buy, the quick-delivery shopping site once described as the Chinese mashup of Amazon and Fresh Direct, announced $700 million USD in funding on Friday. While this gives the company, China’s s...

[Editors Note: This is 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.] One of the amazing things about t...

Rumors from an "extremely reliable source" speaking to 9t05Google have suggested Google will soon start to operate its own physical retail stores starting as soon as the 2013 holiday season in the U.S...

Editors Note:Event Partnerships Manager Leslie Hitchcock is a non-editorial TechCrunch employee. In addition to working at TechCrunch and being super fashionable, she reviews startups and tech product...

Editors Note:Event Partnerships Manager Leslie Hitchcock is a non-editorial TechCrunch employee. In addition to working at TechCrunch and being super fashionable, she reviews startups and tech product...

Google's Android platform dominates the U.K.'s smartphone landscape -- powering 54 per cent of the handsets in use at the end of 2012 (Kantar's data). But what apps are U.K. Android owners spending in...

The news that Opera is shutting down the development of its own browser rendering engine and moving to the open source WebKit enginecause quite a stir earlier this week. With WebKit powering the built...

Both Microsoft and Sony like to wow us with big numbers proclaiming how they are moving beyond games, but the numbers don't really stack up. For all its vaunted efforts in TV partnerships, for example...

New Relic has some pretty sweet digs in my hometown of Portland, high above the city on the 28th floor of the US Bank Tower. Couches are in the corners for engineers to chat and share ideas. Lacquered...

I find statistics absolutely delicious. Pew research released fresh stats on what slice of Americans are addicted to all of the various social networks as of December 2012. There are a few big busines...

Editor's note:Hunter Walk was most recently Director of Product Management at YouTube.Search engines have long memories. I think about this whenever reading new coverage of some immoral, misanthropic ...

This year we want to make it very, very obvious that TechCrunch events are open to all. In the past we've had startups appear from everywhere from Tokyo to Russia to Ghana, Africa. And this year we wa...

Microsoft and Apple already have their own physical retail stores, but thus far Google has managed to resist that particular temptationIf a recent report from 9to5Google is to be believed though, that...

The #1 request I hear when talking to founders in San Francisco is: "We are hiring engineers. Know any?" We all know this is a big issue that's only getting worse, and so do most of the investors. But...

Congratulations! You've managed to avoid the intergalactic debris that's been flying around to survive another action-packed week in the tech industry. And you know what else that means? It's time for...

There's a funny thing about the way proponents of Apple (I say this without denigration) cheerlead their champion as it enters (supposedly) the gaming world. In a lot of ways, there's already an Apple...

Editor's note:Dan Greenberg is the founder & CEO ofSharethrough, the native video advertising company. James Navin is the Vice President of Strategic Operations for Sharethrough. There has been lo...

Editors note:Ross Rubinis principal analyst atReticle Research and blogs atTechspressive.Inlast weeks Backed or Whacked, I discussed watches, one of the mixes of fashion and function that many wear ev...

Google's Android platform dominates the U.K.'s smartphone landscape -- powering 54 per cent of the handsets in use at the end of 2012 (Kantar's data). But what apps are U.K. Android owners spending in...

Editor's note:Michael Changis CEO ofYesVideo, a video-transfer and sharing service.There are three trends in the world of personal video, and they have one common theme: answering the call of the cons...

Editor’s note: Doug Renert isa co-founding partner ofTandem Capital, Silicon Valley’s first and largest mobile accelerator fund. Follow him on Twitter @dougrenert. Mary Meeker explains in ...

Editor's note: Michael Weinberg is vice president atPublic Knowledgewhere he focusesprimarily on copyright, issues before the FCC and emerging technologies like 3D printing.Mashups are one of the grea...

It's notif,butwhen. Between crooks, hackers, and foreign governments, Facebook probably can't avoid a serious user data breach forever. When it happens, Facebook may never be able to quiet fears that ...

Editors note:Leonid (Lenny) Kravets is a patent attorney atPanitch, Schwarze, Belisario and Nadel, LLP in Philadelphia, PA, focusing on patent prosecution and intellectual property transactions in com...

Palantir just scooped up some fresh minds to aid its mission of analyzing the world's information. Today Y Combinator Summer 2012 startup Voicegem announced its team is joining Palantir, and it will s...

Last May, Incident Tech launched the gTar, a guitar with real strings that connected to a smartphone for some amazing sound processing. In the last few months, the founder, Idan Beck and his team have...

Entrepreneur-turned-investor is a classic story arc in Silicon Valley but recently the plot has earned a twist. Certain operators are foregoing the traditional path of joining a traditional VC to inst...

Editors note:Andy Rachleff is President and CEO ofWealthfront, an SEC-registered online financial advisor.Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley love to talk about disruption, though few know what it really ...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor pondered the debatable relationship between Netflix' House of Cards and the tech community. From HBO's Jeff ...

Editors note: This guest post is written by Erica Kochi, the co-lead of UNICEFs Innovation unit. Her team started UNICEFs open source RapidSMS platform which has been adopted in developing countries w...

Editors note:Roman Stanek is CEO and founder ofGoodData.Private or public - either scenario for Dell will be interesting to watch. One of the most difficult skills Ive worked hard to master as an entr...

Editors note:Vivek Wadhwa is Vice President of Innovation and Research at Singularity University, Fellow at Stanford Law School, and Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Researc...

Editor's note: Dave Girouard is founder and CEO of Upstart, a company that lets college grads raise capital in exchange for a small share of their future income.Nobody uses email anymore - you get too...

"Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment phase," observes Angel of the Year and new Andreessen Horowitz GP Chris Dixon, who says that the turning...

The Internet makes it easy to collaborate across borders. But despite the rise of remote work and virtual teams, founders still need to travel for business sometimes. For some, travel practically beco...

Editor's note: Taylor Buleyis a senior developer at Conde Nast's PARADE. He's a former staff writer at Forbes and graduated from University of Pennsylvania and Stanford.On Thursday Lars Rasmussen, Goo...

Lonely? Wish you had someone to geek out with about the weird stuff you're into? Sodisco wants to find you a play date. It's the soon-to-launch startup from Christian Taylor, ex-CEO of Facebook e-comm...

Lonely? Wish you had someone to geek out with about the weird stuff you're into? Sodisco wants to find you a play date. It's the soon-to-launch startup from Christian Taylor, ex-CEO of Facebook e-comm...

In an effort to show the rest of the corporate world how "cool" and "spontaneous" their jobs are, hipster office workers around the globe have been making "Harlem Shake" tribute videos this week. Perh...

It was just a matter of time before Twitter shut the blogging platform Posterous down, after acquiring the company last March. The team had already been folded into the flock, but this means that nobo...

This week's Ask A VC show put Bain Capital Ventures' managing director Ajay Agarwal in the hot seat. Agarwalheads the firm's recently launched Palo Alto office....

One nifty feature of HTML5 is that apps can store data locally on your computer and have it available even when you are offline. Google today introduced a new API for Chrome, the Sync FileSystem API, ...

A number of Silicon Valley investors are starting the long weekend with a smile. That's thanks to Xoom Corporation, the online money transfer technology and services company, which made a very success...

As you might have noticed, TechCrunch went down entirely (thanks to WordPress VIP), sporting a fun “502″ error. If you’re not sure what that means, here’s the skinny on why you...

Analytics company KISSMetricshas acquired SourceNinja, a startup offering to help companies manage security flaws in their open source libraries.KISSmetrics co-founder and head of product Hiten Shah m...

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

With the looming threat of faceless drones buzzing around American cities, congress has proposed banning armed drones and regulating their use for law enforcement surveillance. The Preserving American...

GitHub has open-sourced "Boxen" an automated way to set up GitHub on just unboxed Macs.The one-command automation tool promises that a developer can install GtHub with one-command and be ready within ...

GitHub has open-sourced "Boxen" an automated way to set up GitHub on just unboxed Macs.The one-command automation tool promises that a developer can install GtHub with one-command and be ready within ...

TV commercials that automatically play could soon hit Facebook's news feed. This week Facebook CMO David Fischer admitted auto-play video ads might be distracting, but said "I believe there are ways w...

TV commercials that automatically play could soon hit Facebook's news feed. This week Facebook VP of Business David Fischer admitted auto-play video ads might be distracting, but said "I believe there...

Google Plus experienced an outage this morning, and almost no one noticed. Gizmodo poked fun. Engadget wrote a few sentences. Someone posted it to Hacker News. Where it gained zero comments. Google&pl...

Sage Software, facing competition from a host of cloud providers, has sold off $100 million of its "non-CRM," assets to focus on its core ERP and accounting practices....

According to InsideSocialGames, Zynga and EA have settled their legal dispute over the former’s alleged copying of EA’s popular game “The Sims.” It was clear to many that once ...

According to InsideSocialGames, Zynga and EA have settled their legal dispute over the former’s alleged copying of EA’s popular game “The Sims.” It was clear to many that once ...

Ingrid Lundenbegan working forTechmeme in February of 2012, after an extensive career at paidContent.org and regular freelance work for publications such as the Financial Times. Today, she celebrates ...

Earlier this week, Opera announced that it would stop working on its own Presto layout engine and switch to WebKit. It's obvious that the open source WebKit engine currently has a lot of momentum behi...

After spotting it on video and briefly playing with it at CES, Canonical's mobile-friendly version of Ubuntu will soon be available for the truly curious to muck around with. Starting on February 21, ...

It's the most wonderful time of year ... BecauseDisrupt New York is getting closer! We're now wrapping things up behind the scenes, and the show is shaping up to be our best ever -- We know, we know, ...

Sometimes, I feel like every single person in their 20s is hoping to either create or work at the next big startup. But Bryan Schreier, a partner at Sequoia Capital, said that's largely a West Coast p...

Another day, another salvo in the long-running NY Times/Tesla Motors war. This time the NYT journalist John Broder, writing on the New York Times blog Wheels, has refuted nearly all of Elon Musk's poi...

After this morning's news that the transition from Windows Live Messenger to Skype will be delayed, word comes that Skype will now begin testing a video messaging feature. Essentially like a video voi...

BitTorrent, the once-notorious P2P file-sharing site that has turned a new leaf as a legit, distributed computing provider, is today launching SoShare, a service to send large files from one computer ...

Just a few days after adding a new set of features to Dropbox for Teams, the cloud storage company rolled out a new version of its iOS application which introduces a few useful additions as well. For ...

Chute is a Y Combinator-backed startup that helps publishers and brands incorporate photos and other media (sometimes submitted directly by users, sometimes aggregated from social networking sites) on...

I've been receiving ominous warnings in my Gmail inbox for months now: "You are almost out of space for your Gmail account. Once you run out of space, you will not be able to send or receive any email...

The football season may be over, but with 202 days to go before the next NFL game kicks off again, Google today announced that it has brought its Street View cameras into the Indianapolis Colts' Lucas...

Good news for those of you still clinging to Windows Live Messenger in its current form -- it looks like you'll able to keep using it for just a little bit longer. It's no secret that Microsoft would ...

Today's incident involving a falling meteor in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia has resulted in an estimated 500 injuries, and while people are scrambling to figure out exactly what has happened in th...

Airport car rentals are a $10 billion business. But until recently, most travelers were stuck with poor customer service and high rates from the incumbent rental car agencies. Y Combinator-backed star...

For student jobseekers, in these challenging economic conditions, internships still rank as one of the best ways to prevent yourself from joining the growing ranks of the overeducated and underemploye...

Facebook has won a court challenge against its real names policy in Germany. Yesterday an administrative court in the North of Germany granted Facebook's request for "suspensive effect" against a ruli...

A double-dose of details today about the normally secretive e-commerce startups incubated by the Samwer bothers-backed Rocket Internet. Silvio Berlusconi was outed as one of the key investors in Squar...

Amazon’s onslaught in disrupting enterprise IT services continues. The company today announced that it would be making Redshift — its cloud-based data warehousing service — widely av...

Facebook announced in an SEC filing that founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg now owns 29.3 percent of Facebook shares (NASDAQ:FB), up from a 28.2 percent stake on the day of the IPO. With 632.7 million sh...

Fragments of a meteor reportedly crashed landed in Russia, causing an explosion that injured over 100 people. Amateur video of the meteor streaking across the sky (below) have gone viral and the Inter...

Opera Software is buying mobile video optimization and cloud solutions provider Skyfire Labs for about $155 million in cash and stock, the Oslo-based company announced today. The news comes a few days...

Heroku, the popular cloud application platform, may not be as fast today as it was three years ago. Yesterday, Rap Genius' James Somers , posted a widely read blog post, arguing that Heroku had quietl...

Tesla Motors has been getting plenty of attention lately because of its heated back-and-forth with New York Times writer John Broder, but that only helped to drown out news concerning founder Elon Mus...

What Im about to say is undoubtedly going to piss some of you off. And thats fine. Because in a few years, Ill be right and youll look silly.While everyone is focused on the next generation video game...

More journalists are now the target of cyber attacks, said the Committee to Protect Journalists. CPJ deputy director Robert Mahoney said cyber attacks on individuals and news organizations have increa...

Netflix succeeded in getting a shareholder lawsuit dismissed that had accused the company of inflating its share price by concealing rising costs, even as insiders like CEO Reed Hastings were selling ...

President Obama just concluded a group interview with a handful of bloggers on Google+. The 40-minute follow-up to the State of the Union covered a broad range of new issues: drones, Mark Zuckerb...

Twitter and search sound like two peas in a pod, but it’s actually not the marriage made in heaven that you’d think it is. When you think of search, you think of a search engine, like Goog...

Squarespace knows from fancy. They make dead-simple websites for people who require a high level of design and elegance and, unlike, say, our website, a lot of SquareSpace sites are surprisingly beaut...

Facebook has coded some special rules into Graph Search to make sure shady adults can't stalk minors. Today Facebook clarified that searches that could identify kids under 18 by age or location won't ...

As we reported this morning, Blackjet, the startup that aims to be the "Uber for private jets" by letting people book relatively lower priced private jet travel through web and mobile apps, today exte...

CrunchBase has grown like a tree planted in a quiet corner of the yard and left to its own devices. Today, our free and editable industry database gets 1.5 million unique visitors a month and has had ...

What if I there was an app that could make you healthier, smarter, and happier? That could turn your dreams into reality by breaking them into manageable steps and reminding you to take them? Everest ...

It's a little ironic that adrenalin-fuelled, sometimes dangerous extreme sports like windsurfing, kiteboarding and skiing also have a very pedestrian angle to them: it's hard to do them when the weath...

Fandrop, a new content sharing site started by a group of growth hackers, is debuting today to help you find out what's trending across the web. The site surfaces things like tweets and Facebook posts...

Namco Bandai has released a new Android Tamagotchi app called Tamagotchi L.i.f.e. The acronym standards for "love is fun everywhere," which is arguable depending on which stage of love you're in, and ...

Clipix, a bookmarking service that lets you organize links, documents, photos and videos, just announced that it is adding email to its repertoire of supported formats. Users can now forward their ema...

President Obama will be holding a townhall follow-up to his State of the Union speech on Google+ at 4:50pm ET today. We'll be covering the speech in separate posts. Readers are invited to watch t...

Its been a long journey for Bubble Motion, one of Singapores oldest startups. The company has been around since 2005 and made its name as a voice messenger app, allowing people to send voice clips to ...

Bitcoin is the “underground” digital money system that’s fueling growth and disruption in the online payment space.Coinbase is a “bitcoin wallet and platform” that lets m...

Until natural language processing improves, only humans can tell what's important. So Facebook today starts rolling out the option to pay to promote a friend's posts and get them seen by more people. ...

Over the last year, it seems that we kept hearing that quality, legit HTML5 gaming was right around the corner. Well, here we are two months into 2013, and the market is still yet to see a single, wid...

Apple is a unique company in that even if you break down its individual lines of business and view them as distinct from the whole, it can still be regarded as immensely successful in a number of diff...

"In the Studio" continues this week by welcoming a successful founder, entrepreneur, and angel investor, who happened to amass a truly eclectic set of experiences in the Valley, from running a venture...

Audience development startup Alphabird has made a number of acquisitions over the last few years, from social video platform Media Social to video distribution platform Castfire. Well add one more to ...

Last week's hot app, Mailbox, is currently down. In a very RIM-esque fashion, the startup's servers are not forwarding mail, resulting in a very quiet Valentines Day. I'm pretty stoked about it. I thi...

Social TV and the second screen experience is quickly catching on among viewers, but the space as a whole is still nascent. While many are eager for a better social TV experience, as there's plenty of...

Kleverbeast, co-founded by Hatch Labs CEO and founder Dinesh Moorjani, is today launching in public beta to bring quick and easy app creation to the multitudes, letting anyone (even someone with no pr...

Bump, the flagship contacts, photos and file sharing application from the company by the same name, is today getting an upgrade on both iOS and Android in order to support file-sharing to and from you...

Series A crunch? Who cares with seed rounds like this? Today, Y Combinator-backed Virool, a self-service social video advertising platform, is announcing its monster "seed" round of $6.62 million. And...

Crocodoc allows you to upload your PDFs, Word and PowerPoint documents and convert them into HTML5 so you can easily embed them on your own sites. The company, which has converted over 60 million docu...

Crocodoc allows you to upload your PDFs, Word and PowerPoint documents and convert them into HTML5 so you can easily embed them on your own sites. The company, which has converted over 60 million docu...

comScore just released its Digital Future In Focus report for 2013, offering a broad swath of data in areas like social networking, search, and mobile. But the most interesting finding, at least to me...

Once upon a time I thought I would be very short of charging solutions for my iPhone 5 thanks to the switch to Lightning. Now, for various reasons, I have an abundance of Lightning cables, one might e...

New Jerseys nascent startup scene is wedged between more established communities in Philadelphia and New York, but that hasnt stopped some ambitious teams like those at Princetons TigerLabs and TechLa...

While it gives me little pleasure to call out New York Times writer John Broder for his clearly weird Tesla S test-drive, I do appreciate the way Elon and the team at Tesla called him to task for seem...

Like a terrible San Francisco tech party in a poorly lit SOMA bar filled with awkward khaki- or T-shirt clad guys, men outnumber women by almost 2:1 in dating apps, mobile analytics startup Flurry fou...

If you kind of liked the idea behind viral sensation Bang With Friends, the controversial Facebook app that lets you privately nominate friends you want to hook up with, but balked at the idea of usin...

It can be such a headache trying to figure out what internal collaboration tools a company should use. Even at TechCrunch, where we have a few dozen writers, product and sales people, we’ve swit...

Hot on the heels of closing a "new" 40m fund, Point Nine Capital is announcing its involvement in another investment today. Together with Runa Capital, it's leading a $2 million Series A round in Berl...

HipChat has been doing some good things since it was acquired by Atlassian back in March 2012, including updating its iOS apps with much-needed improvements, but the sorry excuse for a Mac app it offe...

Adobe's launch of its Creative Cloud subscription service has been a success with over 325,000 paid and one million free members. Today, the company is updating the its suite of products for designers...

BlackJet, which we’ve described as the “Uber for private jets” has announced San Francisco and Las Vegas as two new destinations. The company was founded by Garrett Camp, the co-foun...

I love the idea of the Surface: compelling hardware, striking form factor, and, in the case of the Pro, smart compromises to offer a good value. But the products fail to live up to their promise. They...

As Rovio plans its entry into the cartoon business, the company has announced a round of new hires that will comprise its revamped Brand Advertising Partnership team, making the Finnish-based gaming c...

Y Combinator-backed startup Balanced offers a platform for collaborative consumption companies to both take in and make payments to users on either side of the transaction. But what if they only need ...

Method, a Toronto-based CRM solution, today announced the closing of a $3 million dollar investment round led by Klass Capital. The company, which is the number-one rated such app for Intuit's QuickBo...

At the risk of seeming like my father, a man who will beat a dead meme into the ground long after its moment in the sun, I present to you the Harlem Shake Bookmarklet....

In 2009, Google launched Commerce Search, a hosted enterprise search product to power online retail stores and e-commerce websites. Commerce Search was the the companys first custom-tailored enterpris...

Members of Oulu's Starttaamo startup hub have attracted more than 10 million in angel and VC investment over the past two years -- from Finnish and international investors. Add in government support, ...

Nintendo just announced that Google Maps with Street View is now available for Wii U systems in North America. So you now have the ability to wander around Martha's Vineyard if you don't have access t...

It's Valentine's Day and what better way for a crowdfunding site to show its love for you than release an iOS app? The new app will go live on iTunes shortly and allows users to follow their funded pr...

Vimeo has acquired GIF-style video making app Echograph, in a deal whose terms were not disclosed, the company announced today. The price paid for the iPhone and iPad app from Clear-Media was not disc...

Following up from its legal filing yesterday in the U.S., Google has now officially served BT with legal papers for patent infringements in its home market of the UK. While yesterday's suit concerned ...

A little consolidation underway in the world of mobile video streaming: Vuclip -- a Silicon Valley-based startup that offers mobile video streaming services to across some 200 countries and 5,500 devi...

A new patent filing uncovered by AppleInsider today shows that the company is still thinking about ways to upgrade the smartphone camera experience and deliver the best possible pictures you can get o...

"Don't want Google snooping on your Valentine?" That's the question Microsoft is asking today in its latest "Scroogled" video. Last week, Microsoft picked up its anti-Google campaign to put the spotli...

Editor's note:Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez represents the Fourth District of Illinois in the U.S. Congress and is the Chairman of the Immigration Task Force of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.First, thank...

With just a few quick steps, it's easy to open the phone app on any locked iPhone running iOS 6.1. From there a  person has full access to the photo library, can edit contacts, send emails, text ...

Over a decade after porting its QuickBooks desktop software to the web, Intuit is finally addressing the needs of its small business owner user base with the launch of a version of the QuickBooks appl...

I was really hoping this article would have ended differently. But after spending countless hours scanning tiny pixelated squares of people who were supposed to represent my mathematically determined ...

Social monitoring startup DataSift is releasing an open source, embeddable version of its Query Builder today, allowing anyone to customize and embed the company's tool for conducting social media sea...

Tesla Motors CEO and founder Elon Musk definitely isn't the best guy to try to pull a fast one on. The visionary entrepreneur set Twitter a titter when he claimed earlier this week that New York Times...

Ride-sharing startup SideCar is getting serious about expanding into new cities throughout the U.S. The company just acquired Austin, Texas-based Heyride to help it improve its product and introduce s...

Ride-sharing startup SideCar is getting serious about expanding into new cities throughout the U.S. The company just acquired Austin, Texas-based Heyride to help it improve its product and introduce s...

The European Publishers Council (EPC), whose members represent the interests of publishers in 14 European countries, has responded to Google's establishment of a 60 million fund for French publishers ...

Applifier, a Helsinki-based mobile gaming network, wants to see your game face.Their product Everyplay, which records players at their best (or worst) moments inside mobile games, is launching a new f...

The race for leadership in easy e-commerce in Europe is on. Stripe, the U.S. startup that has developed a simple payments API for developers to use in apps and on the web, is preparing to make its fir...

Serial games entrepreneur and sometimes angel investor Dylan Collins has a new project, which he no doubt describes as "awesome". Aiming to help solve the discovery problem faced by physical and digit...

In another setback for BlackBerry's key government business, the New Zealand police force has chosen iOS devices over smartphones and tablets running BlackBerry. Kiwi cops will be kitted out with iOS ...

Multiple Facebook employees just shared this clip of a bunch of Facebookers doing the "Harlem Shake"danceat their HQ. Supposedly some of the Instagram team and COO Sheryl Sandbergparticipated, but I c...

Instagram asked a federal court on Wednesday to throw out a class action lawsuit filed by users upset over the photo-sharing app's changes to its terms of service. The lawsuit was brought against the ...

Apple says it has identified a fix for a bug that causes excess activity on Microsoft Exchange accounts after users accept an exception to a recurring calendar event, and will make it available in an ...

Over the past few years, YouTube has been dramatically increasing the resources that it provides to the creative community that uploads videos on its platform. Today it expanded that effort in Japan, ...

Singaporean media outfit, e27, has raised about US$615,000 (S$760,000) through a funding round with investors in the region, and plans to expand into Southeast Asia. The round was raised with B Dash V...

Singaporean media outfit, e27, has raised about US$615,000 (S$760,000) through a funding round with investors in the region, and plans to expand into Southeast Asia. The round was raised with B Dash V...

Singaporean media outfit, e27, has raised about US$615,000 (S$760,000) through a funding round with investors in the region, and plans to expand into Southeast Asia. The round was raised with B Dash V...

Google Compute EngineLimited Preview beta customers who want to continue using the cloud service will have to fork over their credit-card numbers after receiving emails announcing the March 1 end of t...

Bislr, a startup that's officially launching today, was built to solve one of the problems that CEO Michael Sharkey said that he himself faced in his past startups the need to quickly build a website...

Geographically Hollywood is hundreds of miles away from Silicon Valley, but it seems like the two are getting closer and closer in metaphorical ways.The latest example of this is The Internship, the n...

Opera is that company that everyone knows about but never really stopped to understand why it is so important. The Norway-based company has always been an ankle-biter, pushing the envelope and calling...

A U.S. District Court in New York dismissed a shareholder lawsuit that claimed Facebook executives including Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg didn’t disclose enough about risks to the com...

Scout is a wireless security system that starts at $120 and is completely removable. The handsomely-designed units can protect windows and doors in your home and you can program reactions to various e...

Google today stepped up its battle to protect its patents, with the latest target a countersuit against BT, the UK incumbent telecoms carrier, along with Ipanema Technologies, which resells some of BT...

Real estate site Zillowcame in ahead of analyst estimates in its just-released fourth quarter earnings report, with $34.3 million in revenue and net income of $0.5 million.The revenue number is a reco...

Google just added a few more features to Google Now on Android 4.1+. Starting today, Android users will be able to see information from even more third-party services on Google Now, including mov...

HP is looking into getting back into the mobile hardware game, according to a new report from ReadWrite which the Verge says is being confirmed from their own sources. HP famously bought webOS and the...

Last night was the official TC Disrupt Pitch-Off in NYC, where three lucky startups won tickets to the Disrupt NY conference in April, one of which will get a spot on the Startup Alley floor. Over 20 ...

Sharing and keeping tabs on code is relatively simple for coders thanks to GitHub and the like, but developers arent the only folks who could benefit from services like that. Designers could also use ...

Technology is a wonderful thing, especially when your employer hooks you up with gadgets for free. Today, we’ve learned that LinkedIn has decided to give all of its employees an iPad mini. This ...

Brad Feld, the Boulder, Colorado-based entrepreneur and early stage investor, is well known for helping to encourage and establish new tech and entrepreneurial ecosystems in areas outside of the well-...

German luxury brand Loewe experienced a roller coaster day. A trader commented that "Apple supposedly wants to bid 4 euros a share for Loewe," which sentLoewe shares up as much as 44.5 percent to 3.93...

Printing out your Instagram photos isn't all that revolutionary. We've seen countless companies do this: CanvasPop puts your Instagrams on Canvas, Printstagram turns them into calendars, minibooks, an...

After operating for about 18 months in San Francisco, urban delivery startup Postmates is finally ready to expand into its second market. The company recently opened up deliveries in Seattle, allowing...

After operating for about 18 months in San Francisco, urban delivery startup Postmates is finally ready to expand into its second market. The company recently opened up deliveries in Seattle, allowing...

As a fan of monsters and 3D printing, in that order, I was intrigued by Autodesk's new iOS app, 123D Creature. Aimed at beginning 3D modelers, the app allows you to build cute (or scary) monsters righ...

The Apple TV could finally be getting a developer SDK that would allow third-party apps to appear on the platform, according to an analyst note from Jefferies analyst Peter Misek today. The note cites...

Cleverbug, a smartphone app that uses social network data to improve printed birthday cards, first launched in mid-January. The company tells me that as of early February, the app was downloaded 25,00...

Twitter surprised some folks when it acquired a mobile analytics firm called Crashlytics, but it’s clear that Twitter has an idea of what it would like to do with the firm. Step one since acquir...

On June 14th, 2010, Michael Arrington awarded a Crunchieto two members of Goatse Security via a blog post for discovering, publishing and trying to fix a pretty egregious security flaw that they disco...

At the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference this morning, Microsoft's CFO Peter Klein was asked about the importance of Bing for the company. According to Klein, Microsoft decided...

Apple has officially lost exclusive rights over the use of the iPhone trademark in Brazil, according to the BBC. The news was telegraphed earlier via a leak that said Brazil's regulatory body was plan...

Leanplum, a TechStars Seattle 2012 alum that wants to make A/B testing easier on iOS and Android, just announced that it has closed a $825,000 angel round from TechStars, Kima Ventures, VoiVoda Ventur...

Josh Tetrick, founder and CEO of Hampton Creek Foods, isn't the first person to try to convince people to eat fewer animal products (after all, someone manufactured the Tofurky that I eat every Thanks...

Adobe's launch of its Creative Cloud subscription service has been a success with over 325,000 paid and one million free members. Today, the company is updating the its suite of products for designers...

Smartphones may be invading pockets and purses across the world, but AOptix may soon bring those mobile devices to some far-flung warzones. The Campbell, Calif.-based company announced earlier today t...

When Y Combinator-backed Firebase first announced its app infrastructure service last April, it saw 4,000 developer sign-ups in the first week, and raised a $1.1 million round shortly afterwards. Sinc...

Today, it seems that everyone you know has their own startup. While this might be good for the economy long-term, it also has the makings of a talent drain. As more and more startups hit the scene, co...

Literally days after Amazon announced a unique content deal with CBS for in-season streaming of Stephen King's "Under the Dome" series this summer, the company today added that now has an expanded rel...

Depending on where you're at in life, Valentine's Day can be one of the best or worst days of the year.If you're with someone, then just go ahead and tick off February 14th as one of those obligatory ...

Microsoft-owned Skype is rolling out updates today to both its Mac and Windows desktop applications, which introduce the ability for Skype users to send each other gifts in the form of Skype credit Gi...

Even if you're not as laughably disorganized as I am, I'm guessing you've had a few of those "oh, crap" moments before a meeting or a phone call. You've sat there desperately trying to remember why yo...

TapCanvas, a startup that helps people build mobile applications without programming knowledge, is exiting beta today and announcing a partnership with Eventbrite for the creation of event apps. Altho...

To help publishers reach new users on mobile devices, a new startup called Strikingly enables publishers to quickly build mobile web experiences. The company, which is part of the current Winter 2013 ...

LG is cooking up a few different versions of its forthcoming flagship, the Optimus G Pro. According to various reports and leaks, the South Korea-bound iteration will look a lot like the Galaxy Note, ...

The Microsoft Surface Pro is just getting into its first week of consumer availability, and gadget repair blog iFixit has already cracked the case for a closer look at what makes the tablet/PC hybrid ...

It's been a crazy couple of months for Bombfell, the subscription clothing startup which aims to provide quality, fashionable clothing to men on a monthly basis. Since completing the 500 Startups acce...

Amazon Cloud Player, the company's online and mobile music streaming service fueled by purchases of MP3's, uploads and even previously bought CDs, is now going to be available in Ford SYNC AppLink-ena...

Plympton, the serialized fiction studio founded by former New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee and novelist Yael Goldstein Love, just announced that it has acquired DailyLit, which breaks classic a...

You could discover a song on Pandora, search for more by the artist on Spotify, and get context from satellite radio DJs, or do it all in one place with Slacker. After hitting 4 million monthly users ...

Rally Software has acquired Flowdock, a real-time collaboration service designed for developers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Flowdock received $650,000 in seed funding in October 2011 from i...

Israeli startup Getonic, which builds tools for small businesses wanting to sell via social channels such as Facebook, has announced it has raised $1.3 million in total funding. Getonic's seed backers...

AOL (owners of TechCrunch) today is taking one more step to build out its content empire: it has officially confirmed the acquisition of technology reviews site gdgt -- first reported by TechCrunch ne...

AOL (owners of TechCrunch) today is taking one more step to build out its content empire: it has officially confirmed the acquisition of technology reviews site gdgt -- first reported by TechCrunch ne...

The MacBook Pro with Retina and 13-inch MacBook Air got some mid-cycle improvements under the hood today, with a new 2.6GHz processor for the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, new 2.4 and 2.7GHz processors ...

The MacBook Pro with Retina and 13-inch MacBook Air got some mid-cycle improvements under the hood today, with a new 2.6GHz processor for the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, new 2.4 and 2.7GHz processors ...

Verve Mobile, an advertising network that focuses on delivering geo-fenced or geo-targeted ads, just picked up a third round of venture funding from Nokia Growth Partners and Qualcomm. BlueRun Venture...

If I was a betting man, I'd bet that HTC was carefully trying to engineer some buzz around its new flagship Android smartphone for the U.S. market, the HTC One we've seen leaked plenty of times before...

Cylance,a cyber security company founded by former Global McAfee CTO Stuart McClure, has raised $15 million in a round lead by Khosla Ventures and Fairhaven Capital.Cylance uses data to help keep core...

Persado, an ad-tech spinoff of digital marketing firm Upstream that specialises in “persuasion marketing”, has picked up a round of $15 million, which it will use to establish a new headqu...

Nexon, the freemium gaming company that went public around the time that Zynga did, saw its fourth-quarter revenues jump 39 percent to 30.9 billion Japanese yen ($331.4 million). It still posted a net...

Apigeelaunched a new big data analytics platform today that extends the company's mission beyond API management and into a new space that uses apps and data from APIs and other sources to gain context...

Not all small businesses and startups are lucky enough to raise venture capital. When Main Street business owners, like your local tailor, barber or florist find themselves in need of capital to help ...

Google this week fired off one of the first high profile tests of Russia's controversial new firewall -- erected November 1, 2012 to block child porn, drugs and suicide content; but seen by critics as...

Indonesian game developer, TouchTen, has been signed up as Gimmies exclusive game distributor in its country. Gimmie is a start-up by former lead programmer at PopCap Games, Roy Liu, and David Ng, who...

Indonesian game developer, TouchTen, has been signed up as Gimmies exclusive game distributor in its country. Gimmie is a start-up by former lead programmer at PopCap Games, Roy Liu, and David Ng, who...

Browser maker Opera plans to move to using the WebKit engine, as well as Chromium, for "most" upcoming versions of browsers for smartphones and computers. Its first WebKit product is likely to be a br...

Point Nine Capital, the Berlin-based VC that originally spun out of the investment arm of German incubator Team Europe, has announced that it has closed Point Nine Capital II, a 40 million (~$53.7m) f...

Chinese mobile maker Huawei rose to third place in the worldwide smartphone rankings for the first time in the fourth quarter of last year, according to analyst Gartner's lastest global mobile report....

Chinese mobile maker Huawei rose to third place in the worldwide smartphone rankings for the first time in the fourth quarter of last year, according to analyst Gartner's lastest global mobile report....

Up-and-coming Republican Senator, Marco Rubio, was facing the onslaught of a full-fledged Twitter meme, after he awkwardly took a sip of water during his State of the Union response. During the time-h...

Thanks to its complicated regulatory structure and the continuing popularity of Web-enabled feature phones, Japan's mobile market is difficult for foreign companies to penetrate--but Apple has finally...

Yahoo's search deal with Microsoft is underperforming, CEO Marissa Mayersaid during an appearance at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday....

New startup conference for the 'Baltic Rim' TechChill Baltics took place again this year in Riga, Latvia. Following in the footsteps of the online infographics tool Infogr.am (from Latvia), the winne...

During the State of the Union, President Obama has announced a plan to make the American education system more focused on tech skills. While there weren't many details in the short declaration, Obama ...

President Obama gave a huge shout-out to Apple during the State of the Union, using the company as an example of how manufacturers are once again seeing value in making things in America, “This ...

The third report in a week has surfaced about the Apple smart watch. Bloomberg just published a story citing two unnamed sources who say that the company has a team of about 100 product designers work...

On his current visit to San Francisco, today former United States Vice President Al Gore swung through local PBS radio affiliate KQED for an hour-long appearance on the program Forum With Michael Kras...

On his current visit to San Francisco, today former United States Vice President Al Gore swung through local PBS radio affiliate KQED for an hour-long appearance on the program Forum With Michael Kras...

Editors note:Howard Lindzon is co-founder and CEO ofStockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.There is just NO good reason Tim Cook should be spea...

There's nothing more terrifying than thinking you crossed the line by sending a risqu photo. Worrying that the person you sent a goofy Snapchat or Facebook Poke to thinks you're an idiot is no fun eit...

On a panel discussion at D: Dive Into Media with Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos and Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz, comedian Will Arnett praised the freedom that the streaming ...

At the D: Dive Into Media conference, Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said that the company's political thriller House of Cards has been the most-watched piece of content on the site, a few...

Okay so maybe you and two million of your closest peersmade "LinkedIns Top 1% most viewed profiles for 2012." But are you on "Forbes 450 under 30"? Or "TIME's 100 best randomly assorted names of peopl...

Comcast is already the countrys largest cable television provider, but its entertainment ambitions dont end there the company has just announced that it will spend $16.7 billion to purchase General E...

While the question remains whether or not you should be eating Domino's pizza at all, a clever service now allows you to pay for your pie with Bitcoins. The service is far from an official Domino's ap...

In its second earnings report as a public company, online real estate site Trulia saw both higher revenue and a bigger loss than analysts had estimated. The company saw revenue of $20.6 million and a ...

Microsoft launched its curious Surface Pro hybrid earlier this week, but it turns out that actually trying to buy one was a bit more problematic than people had hoped. Folks looking to get their respe...

A tablet is the missing piece of Nokia's mobile strategy. So far the company has only whispered about its plans, but more evidence of a Nokia tablet popped up at Pakistan Nokia event. For a brief mome...

Nike may not be planning to release an Android companion app for its activity-tracking FuelBand, but rival Fitbit is eager to make sure that health-conscious Droid owners are well taken care of. To th...

At the D: Dive Into Media conference over the last few days, we've heard a lot of executives discuss the big paradigm shift of binge-watching being brought about thanks to Netflix and DVRs. But not ev...

The TechCrunch NY Meetup is tomorrow evening, so get ready for a wild night of pitch-offs, pizza and beer....

Over the last several years, HBO has been making its streaming video product more attractive to users, by adding more and more devices that users can stream its programming on. At the D: Dive Into Med...

If Battlefield is the soul Disrupt, Startup Alley is the ever-beating heart. It's a wild marketplace where startups gather on the showfloor to demo their creations. And this year, at Disrupt NYC held ...

Today at the D: Dive Into Media conference, Michael Lynton, CEO of Sony Corporation of America and Sony Entertainment, said that the rise of Netflix, DVR are fundamentally changing the way that viewer...

Being based in Canada means that I'm often traveling for work, and that means fiddling with SIM cards. A new Kickstarter project from the same people who brought you the X-Wing joke campaign proposes ...

PayPal today announced that it has signed a deal with gas station checkout solution Gilbarco Veeder-Root, which will be implementing PayPal as a payment option at all their gas and convenience stores ...

Dropbox for Teams has a new set of features that gives IT deep visibility and control over the way both individuals and groups use the service. The new features show how Dropbox is entering a new chap...

Note: This is the second friend in a row whose funding I'm covering this week. Looks like my friends are doing okay for for themselves despite the Series A Crunch. Have at it, comments.Storenvy, a pla...

Apple doesn't care if competitors have cheaper products. It doesn't care if its next big thing canabilizes its last big thing. Not about buying big money-makers, and certainly not about how you think ...

Intel wants to be in the video business, and over the past few years has been investing heavily to build a new virtual cable service. The idea is that the company would to provide the same type of bun...

The federal government spent $200,000 studying why congressmen sometimes make vague statements. It's no surprise why leaders in Congress proposed cutting Political Science from the National Science Fo...

Today, mobile app company Alike has announced that it has been acquired by Yahoo! and will be joining the Yahoo! Mobile team. Alike allows you to recommend nearby venues that are your “favorites...

As Facebook is working to build partnerships with big media companies, the company sees a huge opportunity for growth in the sharing and discovery of movies, books, and fitness tools on its platform. ...

The Exploratorium is one of the best places in San Francisco to learn about science, especially if you're a kid and by releasing iPad apps, including today's launch of Sound Uncovered, the institutio...

For over two years, Pulse has been providing its over 20 million users with an easy way to read content from blogs and social networks. While other services like Flipboard and Zite used social updates...

Towards the end of Apple CEO Tim Cook's keynote appearance today at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference, he dedicated a good-sized monolog to the state of Apple's retail operation, wh...

Mobilewalla, anapp search and discovery website,Android application, and somewhat stealthy app developeranalytics platform has raised $4 million in new funding in a round led by early Amazon investorM...

Mobile messaging is hot, with companies like Snapchat, WhatsApp, and others providing new ways of connecting users on their mobile devices. One startup with an interesting take on the mobile messaging...

Exec — the Y Combinator-backed app that does your errands on-demand — just launched a cleaning-only app. It’s a decision that makes sense as housework has ended up being about 50 per...

Pertinotoday launched a service enabling any small business to go online and create a network that runs entirely in the cloud.Pertino uses Amazon Web Service (AWS) for its service making it possible f...

Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a keynote speech at the Goldman Sachs investor conference that Apple was going to close 20 of its retail stores, in order to move them and make them large enough to serve th...

Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a keynote speech at the Goldman Sachs investor conference that Apple was going to close 20 of its retail stores, in order to move them and make them large enough to serve th...

Once upon a time, Apple was a hardware company that also maintained a software and media ecosystem since it helped drive purchases of Macs, iPods and more. But over the years, the software and service...

Apple CEO Tim Cook said in today's keynote speech at the Goldman Sachs investor conference that while Apple picks acquisition targets based on opportunity, the company has a clear strategy if you look...

Stealthy cyber security startup Morta Security is announcing seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Data Collective, Larry Link, and Peter Wagner. While th...

Podio, the social business collaboration and project management platform Citrix acquired last year, just announced a set of product updates that bring more real-time features to the service. The over ...

Fresh on the heels of its partnership with UK educational app maker Mindshapes,San Francisco-based kids' app platformFingerprintis today rolling out a new version of its software which introduces kid-...

Last week, Apple was hit with a lawsuit from Greenlight Capital, David Einhorn's hedge fund, in order to contest a proposition which would include a requirement in Apple's charter that any move to iss...

Another victory for hackers and a blow for the security of open source systems: OpenX, the online and mobile advertising company that announced a $22.5 million fund raising just last month, says that ...

Every year around this time the entire TechCrunch team rolls into the Windy Apple for Disrupt New York, a showcase of startup talent so intense that this year we'll need two whole floors of a massive ...

Last year, mobile payments Square signed a massive deal to power credit card processing and integrate Square Wallet with Starbucks. Today, the company is announcing an integration with another coffee ...

A new study from video monetization company FreeWheel today reveals that the mobile video market grew from 2 percent in 2011, to 12 percent of overall online videos watched in 2012. That's a huge incr...

BlueStacks, the startup bringing Android applications to PCs and Macs, is today releasing a version of its App Player software optimized for new Surface Pro PCs and others running Windows 8. The move ...

Toronto-based startup KnexxLocal today announced a new app called Instamonial, along with a $1.1 million seed funding round from investors including Bruce Coxon, LavaLife co-founder and Dragon's Den (...

This won't come as a surprise, but the publishing industry is in trouble. Digital technologies have transformed the publishing landscape -- just as they did for music -- from the way companies distrib...

The Playbar (or PLAYBAR, in Sonos' inimitable all-caps style) is a nine-speaker soundbar that can be placed above or below your TV and connects to your in-home Sonos network as well as your television...

It was just a few months ago that Redmond, Wash.-based startup 9Slides launched to combine slide presentations with video in a simple and accessible player that could be viewed on nearly any device. N...

With tablets and smartphones consuming more and more video content, a new app for Android simply called PAUL aims to ease that ever-increasing network strain by using a predictive cache/download algor...

Infinio, a Cambridge, Mass.-based startup that is developing software solutions to increase storage performance in virtual environments, just announced it has raised a $10 million Series A round from ...

Vertu, the formerly-owned-by-Nokia maker of eye-wateringly expensive, leather-clad, gem-encrusted, handmade-in-the-U.K. 'luxury' smartphones, has launched its first Android-powered device: the Vertu T...

A little victory both for Amazon and the world of virtual commerce, today: the online retailer has topped the ranking for best reputation in a poll of 14,000 U.S. consumers, according to Harris Intera...

A little victory both for Amazon and the world of virtual commerce, today: the online retailer has topped the ranking for best reputation in a poll of 14,000 U.S. consumers, according to Harris Intera...

You may remember Winston from its private beta launch back in August, but the DreamIt Ventures-backed startup is ready to officially launch its digital assistant app in the App Store. Winston is a bit...

WD is no stranger to making media streaming devices — it’s been in the business for several years, most notably with its WDTV Live and WDTV Live Hub products. But those devices both are pr...

A few years ago, the organization rolled out its NCAA Vault from years and years of March Madness. Now its putting some of that footage to use, with the launch of a new YouTube channel, called NCAA On...

A new patent granted to Apple today by the USPTO (via AppleInsider) describes an invention called "microslot antennas," which would integrate cellular and wireless radio antennas directly into case ma...

Nextdoor, the company that lets people create private social networks with others who live in their local neighborhoods, has raised $21.6 million in a new funding round led by Greylock Partners with t...

The assets sale at Nokia, the world's former number one mobile maker, continues. After selling and leasing back its headquarters in December -- injecting $230 million (170 million) into its coffers --...

The assets sale at Nokia, the world's former number one mobile maker, continues. After selling and leasing back its headquarters in December -- injecting $230 million (170 million) into its coffers --...

Apple and Google are ennemies and partners at the same time due to asymmetric competition. According to a report from Morgan Stanley, Google could pay more than $1 billion in 2014 to remain the defaul...

Apple and Google are enemies and partners at the same time due to asymmetric competition. According to a report from Morgan Stanley, Google could pay more than $1 billion in 2014 to remain the default...

Deskarma, which originally launched as a knowledge sharing app aimed at professionals but has since pivoted to focus on collaboration in the enterprise, has launched Coffee Who, a single-use web app t...

Amex has extended its Twitter sync feature to enable customers who have synced their Amex account information with Twitter to also pay for certain products by tweeting purchase hashtags. Amex launched...

Azimo, the UK-based social money transfer service aiming to disrupt an industry dominated by legacy players Western Union and Moneygram, is rolling out integration with Facebook to make it easy for us...

North Korea reportedly tested a nuclear weapon tonight. For perspective, its recently demonstrated long-range missile could potentially deliver a bomb capable of taking out downtown San Francisco....

Samsung and The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf have placed Samsung-branded NFC stickers in all 51 outlets in Singapore. Their marketing campaign runs from 8 February to 7 March, and will reward Samsung NF...

Kabbage, which provides working capital to online merchants, is expanding to the UK, the company's first market outside the United States....

Snapchat has been on a roll lately, scooping up a $13.5 million funding round from Benchmark last week, toying around with monetization features, and becoming the world's favorite misunderstood mobile...

Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen had a few kind words for Netflix at the D: Dive Into Media conference today, saying that the streaming video provider would most likely be successful. More than that, thoug...

Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen is no stranger to controversy, so it should be no surprise that he has a controversial plan for the future of advertising. At the D: Dive Into Media conference today, the ...

A spokesman for Willow Garage said, "There are some changes afoot at Willow Garage" but the company is not planning to shut down. Willow Garage, the robotics maker that created the PR2, will likely sh...

Simulmedia has raised another $5 million in funding in an inside round from existing investors, the company confirmed today. The money comes from Time Warner Investments, Avalon Ventures, and Union Sq...

Today, weve learned that Pope Benedict XVI, sovereign of theVatican and leader of the Catholic Church, will be stepping down from those roles.Benedict, voted one of the100 most influential people in t...

The TechCrunch NY Meetup is tomorrow evening, so get ready for a wild night of pitch-offs, pizza, and beer. While we're accustomed to throwing a solid meetup, we're introducing a new ingredient into t...

Today at the D: Dive Into Media conference, representatives from Microsoft provided more details on its new video production studio, which will provide a whole new level of interactivity for viewers. ...

When Netflix bid on and won the rights to House of Cards back in 2011 buying the show before it was shot and committing to two full seasons it made headlines. And with good reason: Funding such a hi...

Ready to have your brain blasted to bits? U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi is a "virtual assistant" that is actually a green-clad humanoid robot. Users look at her using virtual reality goggles and instead of seeing a ...

Twitter released the details of a new study about its "primary mobile users," or those who engage with Twitter more on mobile devices and on the mobile web than on the desktop. The study, commissioned...

VMware shares are off to a rough start in 2013. They are down 16 percent since the beginning of the year, with expectations that shares could drop another 20 percent by year's end.Barron's, which repo...

The war for your living room rages on, and Microsoft has no intention of yielding any hard-fought ground to its gaming rivals. Rumors of a new Xbox have been flying around for months now, but Kotaku h...

After this year's Super Bowl, there were a number of articles proclaiming that Twitter had "won" the event thanks to the general explosion in usage, as well as the prominent use of hashtags in many of...

Automattic, the company behind the WordPress CMS and blogging platform, have today announced an update for the WordPress iOS app which introduces push notifications for comments, followers, likes, pos...

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and now co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has held his very first AMA on Reddit. He's surprisingly good at it, answering over 30 questions and veri...

Apple has just issued iOS 6.1.1, a bug-fixing update aimed at the iPhone 4S specifically to address issues around cellular issues on 3G connections for some European carriers, per the release notes. T...

As expected, Google will once again run its Summer of Code program for college students around the world this year. Students who make it into the competitive program get to work on open-source project...

GoDaddy, the web-hosting and domain registration giant, is taking one more step into the world of mobile, and another into offering small businesses a one-stop shop for all of their online activities ...

A new app called Pinion from a Toronto-based developer is making its official debut with a soft launch today, taking a new approach to the concept of an app that uses location services to remotely tra...

StyleSeat, a scheduling platform for hair stylists and other beauty professionals, is launching its "To You" feature in San Francisco today. To You is the product I told StyleSeat founder, and close f...

Of all activity tracking devices that have been churned out in the past year and half, Nikes FuelBand has been strapped to my person the longest. Sadly, the wrist-worn gadget has never been able to sy...

Google's Nexus 4 wireless charger has been a creature only of legend up until today, even though the phone itself shipped months ago, late in 2012. Now, though, American buyers can get their orb order...

Finding good lighting is hard and controlling it is harder. That's why the Lumapad programmable lamp is so interesting. It's a light source that can hit up to 8,000 lumens. You can either control from...

In July 2012, Jonathan Dharmaraj and his girlfriend of almost a year broke up. After spending every second together working in the same hospital and living two minutes from each other they both went...

Someone please make them stop. I know it's nearly Valentine's Day but couples apps: enough already. There aren't enough lovelorn long-distance teenagers in existence to sustain the rampant reproductio...

App development firmLemon Labsjustreleased a new iOS application aimed at mobile developers in need of tracking their app downloads and other metrics while on the go. The tool, which uses the appFigur...

Google hosted the second edition of its exclusive TED-like "Solve for X" gathering last week and today, the company posted some of the videos from the event. Just like last year, the point of Solve fo...

In the underground world of robotic tentacle makers, there are two rules: 1) don't talk about underground tentacle-making and 2) don't talk about underground tentacle-making. Both of those rules have ...

Livrada, a company developing new types of e-book gift cards, has raised a seed round of funding. Combined with earlier support from friends and family, the company has now raised a total of $1 millio...

Today on the Mojang blog, the developer announced general availability of Minecraft: Pi Edition, a version of Minecraft designed specifically to run on the open source Raspberry Pi computer. The versi...

A handsome man pulls out a Microsoft Surface Pro from his bag. He's wearing a well-cut suit (he's at work.) He's a hipster, but a serious one. While putting the Surface Pro on the table, two attractiv...

Apple iWatch rumors have hit the mainstream thanks to reports from both The New York Times' Nick Bilton and The Wall Street Journal's Jessica Lessin, with sources describing "curved glass" "watch-like...

Digital activist Aaron Swartz took his own life on January 11. Swartz was facing federal hacking charges after being arrested for downloading millions of articles from JSTOR from MITs network in exces...

President Obama will conduct a Google+ Hangoutafter the State of the Union tomorrow night, continuing his recent tradition of answering online questions after the speech. Additionally, there will...

Gruzobzor, which roughly translates to "cargo overview" in Russian, has announced that it's raised $1 million from Runa Capital and the startup's founders. It offers a cloud-based service targeted at ...

Continuing its rapid-fire addition of new content deals, Amazon announced today that it has signed an agreement with CBS which will bring the forthcoming summer TV series "Under the Dome," based on a ...

Google's ad campaigns haven't always been the best. Remember that silly Google+ ad that tried to put a romantic spin on Circles, only to make it look like a whole lot of work? Well, the search fi...

Fishlabs, the German studio behind popular space trading and combat sim Galaxy On Fire games for iOS devices, today announced that it is currently developing a massively multiplayer online game called...

Google Reader,the RSS feed-reading service Google has long since benignly abandoned, has gone completely mad, and Google has yet to acknowledge the problem even as it heads into its second day of unus...

Google is not currently looking to create funds to support digital publishers outside France. Google's comments follow calls last week by the head of the European Publishers Council for Google to pay ...

Sonic Notify has built a platform that will allow broadcasters and retailers to instantly provide users with multimedia content and deals, through audio recognition technology that instantly triggers ...

HTC's new flagship phone is likely called the HTC One, and will probably debut later this month ahead of MWC, and now we have an image of what looks like a render of shipping hardware courtesy of EvLe...

If there is one prominent U.S. politician who has consistently staked his reputation to the digital revolution, it's Gavin Newsom, the two-time San Francisco mayor, now Lieutenant Governor of Californ...

The Public Radio Player app for the iPhone has been a round for a while now, but today, Cambridge-based Public Radio Exchange (PRX) is relaunching the app with a revamped visual design, new interface ...

Over the next few months, all of Hearst Digital Media's titles are getting a new look.Tom Smith, Hearst's vice president of technology and strategy, told me that the whole company is switching to a ne...

DISH today formally announced the nationwide launch of its Hopper with Sling DVR device, which allows users to record their favorite shows for later viewing, skip ads and also download DVR'd content t...

Nomi, a startup led by former executives from Salesforce.com and Buddy Media, has raised $3 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital.Additional investors in the round include Greycroft Partn...

Personalization startup Sailthru has been growing rapidly, with revenues increasing 270 percent over the last year. With that in mind, the company has raised $19 million in new Series B financing led ...

Educators knew the online revolution would eventually envelop the physical classroom, but a torrent of near-revolutionary developments in the past month are proving that change is coming quicker than ...

We all love the idea of being able to connect and work with people in our always-online day and age, but ironically, when it comes to document collaboration, a lot of the software designed to aid in t...

RepairPal, a marketplace for auto repair, has raised $13 million in funding led by Cars.com and Castrol innoVentures, the venture arm of Castrol, BP-owned developer of lubricants for engines and machi...

A spot of acquisition news in Europe's digital video distribution space. Rightster, a U.K. video distribution and monetisation startup has made its first acquisition -- buying European content marketi...

Dublin and San Francisco-based Swrve, which offers an in-app direct marketing platform aimed at mobile games developers or anybody making or responsible for marketing an app, has launched SwrveTalk to...

Israeli early stage high tech startup VC fund Magma Venture Partners, whose current portfolio includes online video-editing software developer Magisto, mobile analytics company Onavo, and navigation a...

In the fall of 2011, we caught up with social commerce startup, Yardsellr, which the founders claimed at the time had grown into a community of over 5 million people. The Facebook-based social commerc...

After a couple early stumbles in building out a mobile gaming platform in the West, GREE did a bit of a pivot with its San Francisco office over the last year. Initially set up after the $104 million ...

Three American companies-Apple, Microsoft and Adobe-have been summoned by the Australian Parliament to explain why they charge higher prices Down Under than in other countries....

The difference between new and not-so-new technology has a way of revealing what is elastic and dynamic compared to what is rigid and static. It's not a measure of which technology is considered good ...

Daniel Raffel says that when he started work on the app that eventually became the how-to platform Snapguide, people advised him to make a food guide app (he has worked as a chef so might naturally gr...

Menlo Ventures' Shervin Pishevar and Goldman Sachs managing director Scott Stanford have left their day jobs to build a new venture called Sherpa. The creation of the firm, which was first reported by...

The year was 2004. I had just graduated college and my old Gateway mini tower PC was on its last legs. I was about to move out to California to begin my life. My parents asked what I wanted as a prese...

The sharing economy is great, but if we're talking about true efficiency, it seems to me that we're going to need to go a step beyond just the owner-renter model for the collaborative consumption mark...

Both The New York Times Bits blog and the Wall Street Journal have reported that Apple is currently developing a smart watch. According to anonymous sources, the company is experimenting with "wristwa...

Have you ever been at aNew York Fashion Weekrunway show and been irritated that you can't purchase a look from the collection right then and there? Oh. You haven't? Well, then you probably haven't hea...

TechCrunch TV recently made the trek to Las Vegas, where we had the chance to check out the burgeoning startup community that's taking shape there thanks in large part to a $350 million initiative cal...

A new report from German researchers reveals the five main ways people are organizing the applications on their smartphones. Despite the somewhat esoteric focus of a study like this, the resulting ana...

[Editor's Note: This is 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.] Random acts of kindness and good...

We've all been there youre right in the middle of a sensitive situation and just a moment later youre scrambling to find your ringing phone and shut it off like an ape groping for a particularly pesk...

The sold-out Surface Pro sure makes it look as if Microsoft had a pretty good week, but while its hardware division is out celebrating, the web division seems to be hell-bent on adding fire to its war...

You've only got four days left until Valentine's Day, and if you're scrambling for gift ideas, e-book startup Coliloquy has an unusual promotion. Be warned, though: It is, in the words of co-founder a...

You've only got four days left until Valentine's Day, and if you're scrambling for gift ideas, e-book startup Coliloquy has an unusual promotion. Be warned, though: It is, in the words of co-founder a...

Yesterday, it was confirmed -- SnapChat raised a big investment round of funding. By now, everyone also knows that SnapChat is a new communication medium, a phenomena reflecting a desire for ephemeral...

The BlackBerry Z10 running the new BB10 operating system is a pivotal phone for the company formerly known as RIM. It's BlackBerry's flagship all-touch device, and while it has fine specs and cool fea...

Its time for CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show where a few of us writers take a look back at the past seven days and talk about a few of the weeks most interesting stories.In this edition, Anthony Ha...

Editor's note:Vivek Wadhwa is Vice President of Innovation and Research at Singularity University, Fellow at Stanford Law School, and Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Resear...

It's been a few months since our last NYC meet-up and, in an effort to find some of the best startups in New York for Disrupt this year, we're planning a 60-second pitch-off competition. The winner wi...

The Nokia Lumia 620 is an entry level Windows Phone 8 smartphone that puts a polished mobile computing experience in your pocket without breaking the bank or compromising usability with awfully underp...

It's funny to me when I see people my age and thereabouts clucking with disapproval at people who are somehow managing to, in their eyes (and my own, occasionally, I'll admit), misuse or abuse the too...

Editors note:Ross Rubin is principal analyst atReticle Research and blogs atTechspressive. Each column will look at crowdfunded products that have either met or missed their funding goals.Last year, K...

Editors note:Tareq Ismail is the UX lead at Maluuba, a personal assistant app for Android and Windows Phone that was a Battlefield participant at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012.The release of Facebook'sGr...

Editor's note: Clint Oram is the CTO and co-founder ofSugarCRM. I have worked with companies that considered its customers to be obstacles to avoid or ignore: If only we didnt have to deal with those ...

Editor's note:Robert Weber is co-founder andsenior vice president of new productsatW3i. In the mobile world, companies often live and die by metrics: How are your monthly active users doing? Whats goi...

The news that next-generation consoles may lock games to devices is not controversial by itself, but the willingness to price those games effectively is not historically a strength of Microsoft or Son...

Editor's note:Richard Zwicky is CEO of BlueGlass Interactive, a digitalmarketing agencyand software provider.Does Wednesdays AdWords announcement mean Google is already acknowledging the end of the de...

The Death Star may be well on its way to Kickstarter success, with 224,596 pledged out of total 20,000,000 goal, but its construction won't go unopposed. Rebel forces have rallied to crowdfund a means...

Editor's note: Mike Moyer is the author ofSlicing Pie, a book about implementingdynamic equity splits.Few topics cause more rifts in startup teams than equity splits. Today, the vast majority of equit...

The back office is an unglamorous but crucial part of any venture firm. At Y Combinator, which has grown its seed-stage fund and incubator quickly in recent years, it also has to move at the pace of a...

Apple and Google still represent the bulk of reviewed commits contributing to the ongoing development of WebKit, the open source web browser engine that powers Safari and Chrome, among others. Google ...

The Gillmor Gang Danny Sullivan, John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor take advantage of the East Coast blizzard to toast some marshmallows on the fire. First up is the Series ...

Microsoft's 128GB Surface Pro has sold out in the online Microsoft Store in the U.S., just a few hours after going on sale today, February 9. The 64GB version is still available as of this writing, an...

Mailbox, the email inbox management app for iPhone that was released in beta this week, currently has around 700,000 users queuing up for access, at the time of this writing. That's according to the i...

Editor's note: Charles Edward Hudson is a venture partner withSoftTech VC and the CEO and co-founder of Bionic Panda Games.I have been trying to wrap my head around Amazons decision to launchAmazon Co...

Kickstarter occasionally has a watch project, but they're relatively rare, and even when one does pop up, it usually isn't impressive enough to turn my head. The Coastliner, a project going on right n...

This article might change your life or make you rich. It's time to save the world. There's a lot of bad news out there. Rising unemployment, soldiers being replaced in their jobs by drones that kill b...

A project I've been working on launched recently. Well, re-launched. A slick little iPhone app called Postography, which lets you send postcards with messages and pictures from your iPhone. Nifty, but...

Google's executives could soon be enjoying their own private airport space ahead of winging their way to various far flung locations around the world, according to a news release from the Mineta San J...

I'm heading out to India (Bangalore and Delhi) to meet with tech companies. We haven't had time to put together a formal event, but I do want to meet startups, VCs and entrepreneurs, so to that end I'...

Snapchat, the impermanent messaging app that won "Fastest Rising Startup" at the 2012 Crunchies, has finalized a $13.5 million Series A round led by Benchmark's Mitch Lasky.According to The New York T...

Editor's note:Aditya Mahesh is an associate product marketing manager at Google where he works on the Get Your Business Online program. I always knew I should have gotten a CS degree. Its challenging ...

Basecamp, the project management platform developed by 37 Signals that launched in 2004, is still alive and kicking, which is something of a feat considering how many companies have come and gone in t...

All too often, tech startup founders feel like they have to move their headquarters to an industry hub such as the San Francisco Bay Area in order to really be successful. But while it's good to be in...

Kleiner Perkins' partner Chi-Hua Chien was in the hot seat this week's Ask A VC series.Chien, who has helped led investments in Spotify, Klout, Path, Twitter, and Zaarly, among others; discussed his t...

Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt, the company today reported in an SEC filing, plans to sell about 3.2 million of the Class A common stock he currently owns through a stock trading plan, which...

Cooliris, theKleiner Perkins-backed photo browsing and sharing startup, is again expanding its footprint in key emerging markets, this time in Russia thanks to a new partnership with Yandex. The move ...

Cooliris, theKleiner Perkins-backed photo browsing and sharing startup, is again expanding its footprint in key emerging markets, this time in Russia thanks to a new partnership with Yandex. The move ...

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham tweeted today that the accelerator's 464 startup graduates (prior to its current batch) have raised an average of $3.18 million in funding each, which means YC's compa...

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham tweeted today that the accelerator's 464 startup graduates (prior to its current batch) have raised an average of $3.18 million in funding each, which means YC's compa...

I am not one to write about award recipients but I find it pretty awesome that the founders ofMo De, a mobile micro finance company from Kenya, won the IBM SmartCamp entrepreneur of the year award thi...

How are those New Year's resolutions to work out more holding up? Not so well? Not at all? Yeah, us too. So we figured that it's a good time to check back in with GAIN Fitness, the startup that aims t...

TechCrunch Disrupt NY, one of our biggest events of the year, is well on its way! We have already begun to announce which special guests and speakers will be joining us this April, but that’s on...

I’ve seen some unsuccessful attempts to build tools for video comments and discussions (includingan earlier version of Seesmic), so I was a little skeptical when I first heard about a startup ca...

Gillmor Gang - Danny Sullivan, John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live today at 12:45pm Pacific time....

Logitech had a definite winner on its hands with the Ultrathin Keyboard Case for iPad, a Bluetooth keyboard that attaches via magnets built into the iPad, protecting the screen and adding only minimal...

Lets face it: HTC may have its hopes pinned on its not-so-secretive M7 smartphone, but that sooner or later the company is going to have to drop the codename and let it fly under another banner. As it...

In an obvious move to position the company towards a planned 2014 IPO, Twitter has today enabled LOLcats translation capabilities for its user profiles.The translation of the sometimes obtuse service ...

Crashworks, a new Idealab-backedtravel startup, is today coming out of its semi-stealth mode with a fun mobile application called Crashand accompanying website for unique, crowdsourced tourist attract...

A study from Matthias Schlesewsky at Johannes Gutenberg University found that readers older than 60 benefit markedly from the backlit screen of many ereader tablets despite their perceived dislike of ...

As you may well know from Twitter (or the inordinate amount of heels clacking through a snowy New York this morning), Fashion Week is underway. It’s like the Superbowl for designers, retailers, ...

Simple online payments company Stripe quietly launched jQuery.payment, library of code for building credit card forms, validating input, and formatting numbers. It's basically a library that helps dev...

Aereo has been making headlines lately, not only for expanding its streaming cloud DVR service to 22 new markets in the coming months, but for being in active litigation with some of the nation's bigg...

Every Disrupt we run an amazing thing called Hardware Alley. For one day, Startup Alley becomes a haven for amazing hardware startups. We want you to join us....

With innovations like Square’s iPad register, small businesses and retailers face a slew of options for how to manage in-store sales without having to pay thousand of dollars for older point-of-...

With innovations like Square’s iPad register, small businesses and retailers face a slew of options for how to manage in-store sales without having to pay thousand of dollars for older point-of-...

Kera, a Toronto-based startup set to revolutionize the software product demo space with guided tutorials that are interactive and live on a site, instead of in a static video, has just launched new su...

The TechCrunch NY Meetup + Pitch-off is mere days away, and we're more excited than ever to hear about the latest and greatest startups in Silicon Alley. But we can't pack all the fun into one ni...

Spotify has just landed on the Windows Phone 8 platform, giving Microsoft's mobile users access to one of the world's largest music streaming platforms. Before today, the app was only available on iOS...

A new feature from Microsoft allows people to share and edit documents from SkyDrive in Office Web Apps without the recipient having to sign in to their Microsoft account....

The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard is now available for viewing on YouTube. The entire one and a half-hour movie just premiered in Europe and is also available for download on the Pirate Bay....

4chan founder Christopher Poole (a.k.a. moot) launched Canvas in 2011 as a place to remix images and reduce friction in the image creation process. But he found that unless you were an active member o...

Eric Feng, former Kleiner Perkins partner and Hulu CTO, is joining social magazine app Flipboard's executive team as CTO, running engineering and strategy....

One of the problems I’ve always run into as a reporter covering the app ecosystem, is that it’s so hard to find actual data about how well apps are doing. There are the top free and grossi...

AOL's Q4 earnings today saw that company (which owns TechCrunch) finally make a turnaround, after 8 years of decline, into revenue growth, with overall sales of $599.5 million. But there are still a l...

One of the great things about Twitter is that - unlike email - people are forced to get to the point by the limits on the medium. But unlike email, you can't CC anyone on a private communication. Howe...

More hardware startups are looking at everyday tools that have been relatively unchanged for a long time, like the Happi Fork we saw at CES this year. Today, a new startup called Wayki is adding its i...

Google just added the equivalent of an app store to Google Drive that lets you find Drive-enabled third-party apps like HelloFax, SlideRocket and the Open Office Document Reader right from within the ...

Tech entrepreneurship isn't all that different from artistry. Founders create and build a product that will hopefully be enjoyed by millions of users, just like artists create work for consumers. But ...

Right after yesterday's earnings, LinkedIn shares (NYSE:LNKD) have popped 19.16 percent to 147.86. It is clearly linked to the company's earnings. Revenue is up 81 percent to $304 million and net inco...

Getting a glimpse into the lives of astronauts in space has been de rigueur since the days of the Apollo program, but actually interacting with those busy space-dwellers? That's a much more modern tre...

There is a certain kind of Silicon Valley striver that I find abhorrent but, being separated by them by a full continent I feel I'm far enough removed to perhaps understand their wild-eyed efforts at ...

Often the stuff that gets press attention from Kickstarter tends to focus on the consumer market, but the Hydra is a new project on the crowdfunding site that could make big waves in everything from h...

Cincinnati-based enterprise social network startup Batterii, which describes itself as a co-creation software platform, has closed a $2.5 million seed round let by public-private seed stage investor C...

A European Publishers members' group and lobby organization has called for Google to expand an offer it made last week of financial help for French publishers. Reuters quotes Francisco Pinto Balsemao,...

Apple's next big growth market could be India a country where it has failed to find significant purchase with consumers up until this point. The Economic Times is reporting that sales of Apple device...

A European Publishers members' group and lobby organization has called for Google to expand an offer it made last week of financial help for French publishers. Reuters quotes Francisco Pinto Balsemao,...

AOL (owner of TechCrunch) has just reported earnings for Q4 2012 of $600 million on earnings of 41 cents per share. That matches analysts expectations on EPS but beats on revenues of $573.1 million. T...

Nexus 4 production run estimates -- crowdsourced by Android enthusiasts on the XDA Developer forum using each device's IMEI number -- suggest the millionth handset has now shipped in a little over two...

Big Switch Networks, the software defined networking company making a play on Cisco's turf, has raised $6.5 million from Intel Capital. he investment brings the total amount raised to $45 million from...

Today mobile payments company Bango -- provider of carrier billing services to the likes of Facebook, Amazon, Telefonica, Google, Blackberry, Opera and more -- doubled down on its emerging market stra...

Payleven, the mobile payment company from the Samwer bothers' Rocket Internet incubator, is now taking orders for its chip-and-PIN readers, which it says makes it one of the first of the Square-style ...

Editor's note: Anthony Lombardi practices litigation and patent prosecution at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP.Software patents continue to command the spotlight. The Federal C...

Stanford's student startup accelerator, StartX, had its eighth demo day tonight in Palo Alto, showing off the latest class of 11 companies* to go through the program. The accelerator, which just raise...

Alchemy API has raised $2 million to extend thecapabilitiesof its deep learning technology that applies artificial intelligence to read and understand web pages, text documents, emails, tweets, and ot...

Alchemy API has raised $2 million to extend thecapabilitiesof its deep learning technology that applies artificial intelligence to read and understand web pages, text documents, emails, tweets, and ot...

Car insurance is a necessary evil for all drivers. Of course, if you don't happen to be accident prone, paying expensive monthly or annual bills is a headache and seems equivalent to setting your wall...

Canalys just published its final mobile phone shipment estimates, which show that although Samsung is still on top of the global smart phone market, three Chinese manufacturers-Huawei, ZTE and Lenovo-...

Amazon wants to sell your used ebooks. It recently won a patent to allow people to hock off their read ebooks on its marketplace. Of course, ebooks dont suffer from wear and tear, but think of the res...

StartX, which is a startup accelerator for Stanford students, has raised another round of funding, adding $400,000 to its coffers since last December. That money comes from new investors that include ...

Well, that's embarrassing.Earlier this afternoon, as covered by AllThingsD and a number of sites, a Facebook Connect glitch caused serious problems on websites including the Huffington Post, Salon, MS...

Countries around the world have never quite been able to recreate the innovative prowess of Northern California's Silicon Valley. According to Berkeley Professor Anna Sexanian, a tradition of cultural...

Here's an unpopular opinion, especially on TechCrunch: The Valley needs a new Valleywag.On any given day, beneath the hype cycle of startupsthreatening to launch, then getting their VCs to blog/tweet ...

A Canaccord Genuity study found that Apple took 72% of all handset profits worldwide while Samsung took 29%. While that is obviously a bit disconcerting, the thinking is that these are rounded-up numb...

Last year, the buzz around the potential of online courses (particularly MOOC platforms) reached new heights, and this year is already shaping up to be the one in which online course platforms and the...

JackThreads, the Thrillist-owned men's shopping community, is seeing some insane mobile growth and conversion rates. But it has also found something surprising: some of its customers have been discove...

For years, Peter Platzer was pretty close to a stereotypical rocket scientist on Wall Street he was trained as a high-energy physicist, but he spent most of his professional career in finance. But he...

We're hearing from multiple sources that there was a small round of layoffs today at enterprise collaboration company Yammer. The number of people let go is around 20 staffers. UPDATE: Yammer has conf...

Goldbely is trying to connect its customers -- which it refers to as "Food Explorers" -- with interesting food such as Chicago deep-dish pizza, Philadelphia cheesesteaks, Texas barbecue, New York bage...

A new video showcasing the future of weapons was released on YouTube today: a enterprising 24-year-old gun enthusiast manufactured his own high-capacity 30-round gun magazine using a 3D printer. Hopin...

The business-focused networking site of record, LinkedIn, rode a wave of growth through 2012, turning itself into a Wall Street darling in the process. The race to win the professional networking mark...

Apple said this afternoon it is evaluating the possibility of issuing preferred stock as part of its ongoing effort to return $45 billion to its shareholders which was initiated in March of last year....

BlackBerry may have been much of the past few months criss-crossing the globe in an effort to drum up developer support for BlackBerry 10, but it turns out that theres at least one market where the co...

Google loves everything that makes the web faster and given that images typically account for more than half of a web page's size, it has now been working on its own WebP image format for a few years....

Just before launching its latest general update to Google Hangouts, Google also recently announced that it is bringing its new group video chat toolto India. Just like in other countries, Google is re...

Google wants to make all of its products accessible to everyone, no matter where they’re located or what Internet conditions they’re working with. For those of you who travel or aren’...

"In the Studio" opens up February by hosting a former Wall Street derivatives trader turned early-stage venture investor in San Francisco.Renee DiResta, an Associate with O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (...

On-demand car service Uber announced a new perks program that can instantly make a company cooler to work for. If you want to be able to provide transportation as a perk or benefit for your employees,...

Zite, the CNN-owned iPhone and and iPad app offering aggregated content that's personalized to your interests, launched a big revamp back in December. In some ways, Zite 2.0 was a success for one thi...

Gabe Newell, co-founder and managing director of Valve, took the stage today at the DICE gaming conference to deliver a keynote, and while he said upfront he wasn't going to be announcing any products...

The Winter Olympics are exactly one year away, which is why a team of Winter Olympians (past, present, and future) gathered together in NYC yesterday to ring the closing bell at the Nasdaq. We jumped ...

If you're one of those who have been waiting to try Mailbox, your wait could soon be over, as the app is going live in the Apple App Store. While users will be able to download the app, they might not...

Over Christmas, employees at ModCloth, the indie and vintage fashion site founded by a husband and wife team, noticed that about 30 percent of the site’s visits were coming mobile devices.The st...

It's not easy trying to make money as a hyper-local network these days (just ask AOL's Patch), but in a surprising move, NBC just announced that it is shutting down EveryBlock, the Knight Foundation-b...

iOS app Happier is launching today with the ambitions of, well, making you a happier person. The app is inspired by research that shows that focusing on the positive and sharing good things that happe...

Online real estate broker Redfin just launched a new feature called Offer Insights, which not only tells you what houses are on the market, but also what the actual purchase process was like for homes...

Ethan Anderson the co-founder of TechCrunch50 winner Redbeacon (which was acquired by Home Depot last year), is debuting his newest venture todayMyTime. In short, the startup wants to be the go-to des...

Telly has come a long way since being rebranded. In the seven months since adopting its new moniker, the company formerly known as Twitvid has doubled its user base to 7 million and continues to itera...

Hall, an AngelPad-backed business communications app which is taking on the likes of Yammer, Jive and Salesforce.com's Chatter, is out now with new native applications for iOS and Mac. The company is ...

Sean Suhl, the co-creator of the site Suicide Girls (an "alternative community" that's known for its nude photos of tattoed and otherwise otherwise alternative women), has a new startup that's launchi...

Hey Microsoft, 2004 called. It wants its privacy outrage debate back. Microsoft is on the rampage lately, aggressively attacking Google on search, shopping, and email, the latter which is now featured...

The Wikipad lives! After several delays, the company is ready to bring its gaming contraption to the market. The final model is different from the concepts, but it's more portable, cheaper and much mo...

T-Mobile says that Blackberry's new Z10 smartphone is "more stable than ... anticipated," and could potentially get a faster-than-expected launch on the network. As it stands, the new BB10-based smart...

It's been a few months since our last NYC meet-up and, in an effort to find some of the best startups in New York for Disrupt this year, we're planning a 60-second pitch-off competition. The winner wi...

Microsoft Office has long been the dominant office suite. Through the years there have been many contenders rise and fall: WordPerfect, Corel, StarOffice, and too many more to count. Sun Microsystem...

Search engine Trademarkia, which launched at TechCrunch50 in 2009, is rebranding as LegalForce to offer a comprehensive legal services platform. The new company is also opening of LegalForce BookFlip,...

One of the most-rumored features of the mythical Apple television set is Siri integration that would allow you to naturally ask questions and issue commands to your TV, but Microsoft may beat Apple to...

Diapers.com, the Amazon-owned e-commerce site targeting parents with new babies, is today launching a native app on the iPad, after seeing its mobile traffic increase more than 100 percent year-over-y...

After experiencing a roller coaster pre-production period, the folks over at FormLabs have announced that the Form 1 3D-printer is entering into full production. The "large majority" of Kickstarter or...

Some consolidation in the area of social influencer sites. PeopleBrowsr, owners of the social influencer analytics site Kred, is buying Swaylo, a specialist in measuring Facebook for influencer analyt...

Some consolidation in the area of social influencer sites. PeopleBrowsr, owners of the social influencer analytics site Kred, is buying Swaylo, a specialist in measuring Facebook for influencer analyt...

Fans of entertainment social network GetGlue have been subjected to a bumpy ride over the last few months. In November, the startup announced that it had agreed to merge with TV loyalty service, Viggl...

Apple had a new patent application published by the USPTO today, describing an unlocking method for digital devices that uses image identification to properly recognize an authorized user. The system ...

Airbnb has released some interesting growth figures this morning, proving that 2012 was the year that Airbnb stopped being something people were talking about and started to be something (a lot of) pe...

Freemium wireless service provider FreedomPop has been pumping out its fair share of hardware lately, and its momentum seems to have been received favorably by its backers. The company, which aims to ...

Softbank Capital, the venture arm of Japan’s massive Softbank Corp, has just announced a brand new growth fund of $250 million that the firm is calling “the Princeville fund.” Thus f...

In December, we wrote about Rabbit, a stealthy startup looking to change the way we interact via video chat. The company promised a video chat application that would shake up many of the conventions w...

The OUYA Android-based gaming console will get hardware refreshes on an annual basis, founder and CEO Julie Uhrman revealed in an interview with Engadget. Uhrman was at DICE, an annual summit that foc...

DataXu, a startup that sees itself at the head of a "programmatic marketing revolution," has raised $27 million in new funding.DataXu was founded by MIT aeronautics and astronautics engineers who team...

Sprint Nextel, the third-ranking U.S. wireless carrier, has just announced earnings results for Q4 2012, reporting a net loss of $1.3 billion, and a negative EPS of $.44. That's compared to a net loss...

Financial advice is big business; by some estimates "wealth management" is a 19 billion industry in the UK alone. But the quality of financial advice varies greatly, and finding a high quality Indepen...

Timbre launched last September as a bootstrapped mobile iOS app to help people discover and share live music recommendations in their vicinity. The simple-but-engaging user interface and service prove...

Turns out the BlackBerry Z10 was a weekend sell out after all. U.K. mobile phones retailer Phones 4u has confirmed that a majority of its stores sold out of the first BlackBerry 10 handset in its firs...

4GEE, the U.K.'s first -- and still it's only -- 4G network, owned by carrier EE, is continuing to grow its coverage footprint. Currently the network reaches less than half (45 per cent) of the U.K.'s...

With hacking and malware on the rise, Europe is cracking down on cybersecurity: today the European Commission, working with the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy...

Kim Dotcoms latest venture Mega, which opened its doors last month offering encrypted cloud-storage services, has a new CEO -- announcing today that Vikram Kumar, former CEO of not-for-profit open int...

The Android + iPhone duopoly in the smartphone space will ease up slightly this year, according to a marketshare forecast by ABI Research -- albeit Google's platform is still predicted to take a ...

Rally.org, the U.S.-based crowdfunding platform designed for socially-minded causes, is taking its mission to Europe. Today, the startup is opening an incubator in Berlin, its first outside of the U.S...

Evernote, the popular personal information and productivity app, is taking another step today in building out its premium service offerings: its enterprise app, Evernote Business, which formally launc...

Here’s yet another sad turn in the story of one of social networking’s also-rans. Bebo, the early U.K.-based social network that AOL bought for $850 million only to turn around and sell fo...

You may not be familiar with her name, but Judy Estrin has quietly become one of Silicon Valley's most successful serial entrepreneurs and executives. She began her career working with Vint Cerf's res...

TuneIn is a massively popular online radio service with over 40 million monthly active listeners according to its own data. The reason for its success is mostly due to its popular mobile apps and not ...

Now this is a watershed moment -- Microsoft is looking at offering a Linux version of Office in 2014.You know what I say? Stuff it all you bastards who say Linux does not have commercial viability. Mi...

NTT DOCOMO, Japan's leading mobile operator, has announced that it will invest in 500 Startups as it prepares to launch a 10 billion JPY ($109 million USD) venture fund in late February. The accelerat...

NTT DoCoMo, Japan's leading mobile operator,has announcedthat it will invest in 500 Startups as it prepares to launch a 10 billion JPY ($109 million USD) venture fund in late February. The accelerator...

Over the last few years, Netflix has been making its cloud management tools open source and available to other developers. Now its hoping to make it easier for others to implement not just one or two ...

At the beginning of this year, social GPS app Waze was the rumored target of an Apple acquisition. Had the linkup happened, it would have been a rare case of the Cupertino company acquiring a startup....

Earlier today, CNNMoney broke the news that well-known Googler/YouTuber Hunter Walk and former Googler Satya Patel would be starting a new VC firm called Homebrew. What wasn’t known was whether ...

A software company's conference in Las Vegas for hosting executives is not exactly where I'd expect to see a bunch of startups showing off what they do. But when the software company's chairman of the...

Early stage VC fund 500 Startups today held the first of several demo day events for the fifth batch of startups graduating from its accelerator program. It was a fun event, with 32 high-energy founde...

Our own Romain Dillet noted the regrettable lack of confirmed games for the upcoming OUYA Android-based home gaming console just yesterday, and today, as if in answer, OUYA founder and CEO Julie Uhrma...

Google is rolling out a new AdWords system over the next few weeks called Enhanced Campaigns, which it's pitching as a better way to advertise across multiple devices.As described inthe announcement b...

Ubuntu's recently-announced mobile operating system certainly has some panache, which has prompted more than a few nerds (myself included) to become enamored with it. Thankfully, Canonical founder Mar...

In an on-stage conversation today with Dave McClure at 500 Startups' fifth Demo Day event, AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant gave data-driven insights on the current state of venture capital. In sho...

Here's a surprise follow-up to the news yesterday of Twitter's acquisition of a social media analytics firm Bluefin Labs. NM Incite--an analytics JV between Nielsen and McKinsey that forms part ofNiel...

You know those mobile devices that everyone keeps raving about? Turns out it's a huge business. Shocker, I know. Strategy Analytics recently estimated that about 1.6 billion mobile phones shipped in 2...

500 Startups is already focused heavily on investing overseas, with partners looking at startups in markets like Mexico, Brazil, India, and Southeast Asia. Now you can add China to the list, as the fi...

Today on its staff blog, Tumblr shared that it is rolling out real-time notifications to people’s dashboards, so that you can have even more cat- and fashion-related content thrown in your face....

Today, we’ve learned that Joe Green, Co-Founder of Causes and NationBuilder, as well as an investor and advisor to Asana, will be stepping down as President from the latter. While specifics aren...

Today, we’ve learned that Joe Green, co-founder of Causes and NationBuilder, will be stepping down as president from the latter. Green, who is also an investor and advisor to Asana, will be join...

Just four months after announcing the sale of Lucasfilm production company to Disney in a $4 billion deal, George Lucas, the screenwriter and director best known for the Star Wars series, has made a m...

As first reported by AllThingsD, Yahoo has announced an advertising partnership with Google, not unlike working relationships it has with other companies. Yahoo in its current form has quite a few pag...

If paper books are going to survive anywhere for the next few years, it's in our schools and on our kids' bookshelves. However a company called Storybird has built a platform for kids and adults to bu...

At the fifth 500 Startups Accelerator Demo Day in Mountain View today, SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg gave some advice about how to build a great company based on his 20 years of experiences in tech. ...

Today, Yelp announced its fourth-quarter earnings, and they weren't as sunny as some as hoped. Net revenue was $41.2 million in Q4 of 2012 -- a 65 percent growth in new revenue from 2011. In turn, net...

Got your grains of salt at the ready? Good. Rumors of a more extravagant Chromebook have been making the rounds for months now, but the new, supposedly leaked video the new touch-friendly Chromebook P...

It's demo day time once again for 500 Startups, the early stage venture capital fund and startup accelerator headed up by Silicon Valley's favorite foul-mouthed investor, techie, and man about town Da...

Anturis is an IT monitoring service for the small business market (SMB) that launched this week at the Parallels Summit with the intent of providing a service that fits in between enterprise software ...

Over the years, Google has introduced input tools to allow you to interact with its services in a multitude of languages and non-Latin characters and today has introduced a whole new set of tools to t...

Going into the Super Bowl, folks who care about such things probably knew it was not just going to be theMost Social! Super Bowl! Ever!, but also a big win for Twitter on the ad side. Now the company ...

Google runs a Developers Live video channel for its developer ecosystem and starting today, Facebook will offer a very similar service under the Facebook Developers Live moniker. Starting today, the n...

My old university's library was a den of pornographic filth, but no one ever considered shading the windows strip-club black because a few stragglers watched sex on public computers. Yet, that's preci...

When a product idea turns into a meme, you're probably doing something right. I'm referring, of course, to Bang With Friends, the controversial Facebook app that lets you privately nominate who in you...

You would be forgiven if you thought jailbreaking was dead. There hadn't been a good, untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S or iPhone 5 running the current version of the iOS operating system for some ti...

Dropbox is unveiling a brand new API for developers today that should give mobile app makers an excellent new tool to work with. The Dropbox Sync API allows apps for iOS and Android to treat files sto...

According to an Edge report, the rumored next Xbox will have a game registration system that will prevent the 50GB Blu-ray titles from being resold on the secondary market. The Edge writes: Sources wi...

Twitter has announced a much-needed update to its search product today and it will be available on all mobile devices: iOS, Android and mobile web. The company boasts that the update will help you fin...

Apple today announced a new sales milestone for its iTunes digital music store, with 25 billion songs sold. The news follows an announcement made earlier this month that the App Store has had over 40 ...

Were proud of the fact that some of the tech scenes most innovative thinkers and problem solvers are going to be speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt NYCthis year, and are happy to be making our first speak...

In this episode of my Foundation video series, I talk with Jawbone CEO and Founder Hosain Rahman. Hosain and I discuss the entrepreneurial environment at Stanford in the 1990s, The Jetsons as design i...

A while ago, Google took its Street View cameras to the slopes and started documenting ski runs at a few select resorts. Today, Google is expanding its mapping options for skiers by adding 38 new run ...

The PC market is fast shifting into a touchscreen world, and Apple is leading the charge. Some new numbers from the analysts at Canalys note that in Q4 of 2012, one in every three PCs shipped was a ta...

A year ago, fresh off raising $1 billion from an IPO and the $180 million acquisition of red-hot gaming company OMGPOP, Zynga’s Mark Pincus did an interview with talk of doing “a few”...

A few weeks ago the Crazyflie Nano captured our collective imaginations by winging its way around an open plan office and looking like a cross between a hummingbird and the robotic butterfly that stea...

Recently, I spoke with Todd McKinnon, Co-Founder and CEO of Okta, who shared his experience starting the more than 120 employee identity management service. Todd explains that the first thing he learn...

Twitter-esque real-time chat platform, Menshn, is to close after around half a year after the co-founders' working relationship soured. The platform launched back in June, initially aimed at capitaliz...

In a blog post on the RP website, Liz Upton is showing off the new Raspberry Pi video camera, a tiny, single-lens unit that weighs "naff all" and will cost $25 when it is released this year....

Social commenting platform Livefyre has raised $15 million in funding led by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) and included existing investors Greycroft Partners, Cue Ball, HillsVen Group, and ff Venture C...

WishPop, an iPad application designed to help children, parents, and other family members better manage gift lists and thank you notes, is launching today on the Apple App Store. The app sends kids in...

Pebble, the smart watch that set the world on fire with its Kickstarter project, is already encountering a few growing pains as its device begins to trickle out to the earliest backers. Chief among th...

Young (kind of), NY-based TechCrunch team seeking approximately 800 tech-enthused attendees for the next TechCrunch meetup, where entrepreneurs will participate in a 60-second pitch-off competition, v...

For the myriad European mobile card reader startups taking advantage of Square's continued absence in the region, the race to build out their businesses continues. The latest step for Berlin-based mob...

Photo editing focused company Aviary has had the best six months ever in the tech space, snatching partnership deals with companies like Yahoo! and Flickr and most recently Twitter. What is becoming a...

Centzy, a local search engine which provides prices, reviews, hours, and ratings for nearby businesses, is today announcing its availability in the top 10 metro areas across the United States. When th...

A blog called RetractionWatch has been hit by a DMCA copyright notice from an Indian website with a tendency to plagiarize, which claims ten posts about a disgraced doctor – all of them copied f...

A blog called RetractionWatch has been hit by a DMCA copyright notice from an Indian website with a tendency to plagiarize, which claims ten posts about a disgraced doctor – all of them copied f...

Apple is set to lose its iPhone trademark in Brazil, according to a report from Reuters which cites a source familiar with a forthcoming decision from that country's copyright regulator. The trademark...

Urban Airship, the Portland-based mobile backend-as-a-service provider which has in recent months been expanding its focus beyond the backend with tools that help developers build for Apple Passbook, ...

Samsung has done an excellent job of keeping us in the dark regarding the forthcoming Galaxy S IV, but the folks over at SamMobile seem to have locked in an announcement date of March 15. However, pre...

In October last year "social reading" iPad app Readmill announced support for Adobe DRM-protected ePub and PDF formats, and integrated into the Kobo book store, among others. Prior to these moves Read...

Google continues to enhance its business in e-commerce and providing a portal for users to search and find things to buy alongside ads for those products. Today it was announced that Google has bought...

When BlackBerry unveiled its new BB10 line of devices and mobile OS, the company showed off both the Z10 and Q10 smartphones. The Z10 was released shortly after the announcement in many markets (the n...

Rovio's Angry Birds is a brand we all recognize, but the Finnish gaming company is finally moving past games and merchandise to push short animated cartoons to the masses. Rovio's CEO Mikael Hed said...

The UK's BBC began to test the waters for BBC Sport apps globally last summer with the launch of a special app featuring content from the London Olympics, and today that game is entering its next quar...

Klash, the mobile app that lets you challenge and dare friends to do things for the fun of it, has raised a "lower 6 digits" seed round from Cologne, Germany-based incubator Venista Ventures, and 'pre...

LG Mobile today posted an image to its Facebook page feed that strongly suggests we'll soon see the company officially reveal its next generation of smartphone devices. The teaser graphic promises tha...

In the U.S., when we're hungry and feeling lazy and don't want to cook, we've got GrubHub and Seamless to order food from online and on mobile apps, and to have that food delivered to us. In Brazil, t...

Vine, the Twitter-owned video sharing iOS app which lets users knit together snippets of video to create six second loops, has had its user age rating increased to 17+. The increase was bundled i...

Samsung continues to come good on its commitment to investing in more startups that will help it build out its portfolio of services beyond hardware. Today the company announced that it has taken a st...

A surprise move for Just Eat, the online food ordering and delivery site: long-time CEO Klaus Nyengaard is leaving the company. Nyengaard tells TechCrunch he is stepping down after five years to spend...

International cable company Liberty Global has struck a deal to acquire U.K. cable, broadband and mobile telephony company Virgin Media. Liberty's approach was confirmed yesterday by Virgin Media but ...

JFDI.Asia, the incubator program that seeks to "innovate in Asia, for Asia," just announced the eight startups that will be part of its accelerator program. The competition, which pushes teams to take...

FoodPanda, an Rocket Internet-backed online platform for aggregating and delivering food from take-out restaurants, is today announcing that it has expanded to 12 more emerging markets, taking the tot...

America got bamboozled yesterday, courtesy of an unintentional media fabrication: the government is not building a super-fast national Wi-Fi network. A somewhat confusing feature in The Washington Pos...

MediaTek reported lower-than-expected revenue in its fourth quarter, but the Taiwanese handset chip maker says its still poised to stand strong against rivals like Qualcomm. The company, which was fou...

It looks like just 10 percent of mobile data traffic will be based on 4G networks in 2017, according to Cisco Systems annual mobile forecast. Its significant growth from the extent of todays 4G deploy...

Think Big Analytics has raised $3 million from angel investors for what it calls its "big data as a service,"which combines data science and data engineering for customers invested in building out inf...

Well, since you asked: Yes, of course....

Google won a court case in Australia on Wednesday when the country's High Court ruled that the Internet behemoth did not violate fair trade law by allowing companies to purchase AdWords containing the...

I come bearing glad tidings. After decades of OEM malaise, a constant parroting of the speeds and feeds mantra, and an aesthetic that was formulated in the back room of a dingy Staples office supply s...

The gap between a full-fledged PC and a touchscreen tablet has finally found a bridge in the Microsoft Surface Pro. The Windows 8 device will be available for purchase on February 9, but we got a snea...

On the heels of impressive engagement around around this past weekend's Super Bowl football championship, Twitter today officially confirmed that it has purchased Bluefin Labs, a social TV analytics s...

With all the time, money, and embarrassment Apple has offered up on the altar of Siri, it's only a logical next step to see the virtual personal assistant migrate over to Mac OS X. The question is not...

When it comes to designing new hardware, most companies are pretty quiet about the design process. Microsoft, with its Surface tablets, is taking a far more open approach than many other companies. Ju...

Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Q&A network Stack Exchange, announced today via blog postthat he's launching a new startup called Discourse, which offers an open source platform for running discussion ...

Another change afoot at AOL today: Hipster.com, a hyperlocal photosharing app AOL acquired in March 2012, is shutting down as of February 16. Registered users are being sent emails (a copy is embedded...

Now that Zynga beat the street with a surprisingly positive $311 million in revenue, here are the highlights from the earnings call. Zynga shares are up about 13 percent since yesterday’s close ...

During this afternoon's fourth-quarter earnings call, Zynga announced three more game shutdowns CityVille 2, Party Friends, and The Friend Game.The most notable closure was probably CityVille 2, sinc...

Pinterest is a mecca for users to share home decor pictures they love, or to post their own remodeling efforts within their apartment or home. Houzz has also become a go-to destination to share and fi...

Today, Dave McClure's 500 Startups showed off some of its Latin America flavor. Just a day before its 500 Startups Accelerator Demo Day, the venture firm previewed some of the companies it has incubat...

The launch of FarmVille 2 was one of the big highlights of Zynga's past year, but CEO Mark Pincus said its predecessor FarmVille crossed major milestone too, having reached $1 billion in total player ...

As an inveterate chow hound I like to know if the restaurant I'm about to visit has a) a working bathroom b) PBR c) any health violations. While the first two are deal-breakers - it's not a dinner wit...

Zynga's revenue was flat year-over-year amid a tough fourth quarter that saw layoffs and a continuing series of executive and mid-level departures.The company's revenues came in at $311 million and th...

Heads up, Xbox Live Gold subscribers -- you'll soon have yet another way to access some sweet, sweet video content on your Xbox 360. Microsoft's Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb has revealed on his blog that...

TenHands, a company that offers video collaboration as a service for web and mobile applications, just announced that it now supports WebRTC, the increasingly popular standard for making audio and vid...

On the heels of winning best ecommerce application at the Crunchies last week, design-focused retail site Fab is revealing impressive sales data for January. The site added 1 million members in the mo...

In the wake of Twitter's acquisition of crash-reporting tool Crashlytics, there's been a renewed interest in and awareness of the bug tracking space. Sentry, a year-old service which also tracks appli...

The Death Star is undoubtedly a worthwhile undertaking. Sure, in the Star Wars films it's generally depicted as an offensive weapon but it could have terrific value as a defensive platform, too. The g...

Every year, Parallels releases a report about the small business market (SMB) to show its customers some possible directions to take their businesses.This year at Parallels Summit, its annual conferen...

Facebook is, of course, built around Mark Zuckerberg's ideal of a radically transparent world. Less transparent, however, is Zuckerberg's business genius, the secret behind his awesome success. But no...

Apple has collected a selection of self-published titles on the iBookstore under a new "Breakout Books" section. The section is intended to give special attention to "emerging talents," according to A...

The mobile job application mavens at JIBE have been keeping things quiet since talking up their most recent pivot back in July, but they've finally broken the silence to talk about something new. The ...

This week's Ask A VC show is kicking off with Bain Capital Ventures' managing director Ajay Agarwal, who heads the firm's Palo Alto office. You can submit questions for Agarwal either in the comments ...

If you're lost in the recession or are looking for a job with more social impact, one of the coolest jobs in tech has opened up a second round of hiring: the White House Presidential Innovation Fellow...

Today marks the official public debut of Bitcasa, the startup we first met at TechCrunch Disrupt back in September 2011 that promises to replace traditional hard drives with its own cloud-based "infin...

According to Google, a woman named Latanya is probably a lot more likely to end up in jail than someone named Jill. A new study finds advertisements linked to commonly African-American names are far m...

When it comes to social media management and marketing suites, most people think Hootsuite and move on, but there are quite a few smaller competitors that vie for a piece of this market, too. Viralhea...

Instagram has just announced that its full feed has made its way to the web, meaning that users no longer have to access through the dedicated mobile apps to check out all of their content, and partic...

Exec, the startup led by Justin.tv's Justin Kan that lets you hire people for errands and cleaning, is getting a new look today. It's also expanding beyond the San Francisco Bay Area for the first tim...

The recently launched,AngelPad-backed payments startup calledRibbonis today introducing new functionality that allows users to buy from merchants and other sellers directly in the Facebook News Feed. ...

For a while now, Google has regularly worked with well-known brands like Cirque du Solei and others to launch advanced web-based experiences optimized for its Chrome browser. Today is Disney's turn. G...

Way back in November 2011, a little startup called Luluvise raised $1 million to build a platform aimed only at young women networking privately. It was billed as 'girl time all the time' and riffed o...

Microsoft has been ramping up its retail presence in the past year, and has today announced that it will introduce five new stores to the U.S. over the course of 2013. The exact dates of the store ope...

Mophie is one of the most trusted names in iPhone and mobile backup batteries, and the company has finally debuted its battery case for iPhone 5. The Mophie Juice Pack Helium is around 13 percent thin...

With less than two months before OUYA's launch, it's time to tell the truth -- its future doesn't look promising. The OUYA is starting to feel like a gaming console without the games. Publishers and d...

Usually, when an entrepreneur pitches me something about the need for a more “private” or “intimate” social network because Facebook has gotten too cavalier about privacy setti...

Facebook is far and away the dominant social networking service in the U.S. -- used by two-thirds of online Americans, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. But in a new research ...

All things point to 2013 being a big year for cloud storage and collaboration startup Box. The company will be readying itself for an IPO and expanding its core product in a number of ways. Another st...

About.me, the personal profile page startup founded by Tony Conrad and acquired days after its public launch by AOL back in 2010, is going it alone again. The move was announced on about.me's blog. Co...

Expect Labs has been on a bit of a tear lately within the past six months the San Francisco-based startup showed off its fan-favorite app at Disrupt SF 2012, scored itself $2.4 million in funding fro...

Miami-based startup Guide today announced its seed funding round of $1 million, from investors including Sapient, The Knight Foundation and actor Omar Epps. The company is also launching the alpha ver...

Engagio, a social web platform for searching, discovering and following social conversations, has been acquired by marketing companyInfluitive, hot off the heels of its $7.3 million funding this past ...

After 13 years as a partner at VCs Doughty Hanson, Ivan Farneti says he is "returning my badge and my gun and moving back into the entrepreneurial life. The move had been doing the rumour mill rounds ...

Apple appears to be inching closer to opening an online store in Russia to manage direct sales to customers, adding one more store to its growing portfolio of localized operations: the company has pos...

It's not exactly reminiscent of BlackBerry's 2008 launch of the Storm, but the Z10 still seems to be off to a good start. BlackBerry today released the BlackBerry Z10 all-touch smartphone in its homel...

In 2012, the buzz around education technology reached new heights and, with the new year now underway, the hype surrounding the potential transformative impact of technology on both higher and K-12 ed...

New files possibly pointing to a forthcoming, Apple streaming radio service - or at least new functionality - have been discovered in the iPad's file system. The files include a button icon with a pic...

If you watch one paranoid fever dream video of a missle-blown New York set to a Muzak version of "We Are The World," make it this one. While the prospect of mass nuclear annihilation isn't funny, what...

Dell has indeed made the decision to go private, according to reports today from The AP and other sources. The deal reportedly involves a leveraged buyout worth $24.4 billion by company founder Michae...

Technorati has released a new Digital Influence Report, and the big theme (probably not surprising coming from a blog and social media ad network) is that most online marketing dollars aren't being di...

Amazon has just announced a new virtual currency for Kindle Fire owners to use on in-app purchases, app purchases, etc. in the Amazon Appstore. The service will launch in May, at which point Amazon wi...

Logitechs UltraThin iPad keyboard has been a favored traveling companion of mine since it came out on top of Matts keyboard case review battle, but the iPad mini has since supplanted my full-size iPad...

Apple has started selling the capacious new 128GB iPad, the latest update to its fourth-generation Retina Display-sporting tablet design. The 9.7-inch iPad is pulling away from its 7.9-inch younger si...

When you're ready to try a new product, Stephen Svajian, co-founder and CEO of a startup called Fresh, said that what you're really looking for are recommendations from consumers like you but the rev...

The little Android-based gaming console that could is in on track for March as promised for Kickstarter backers, but the public launch in June looks to be an equally splashy affair with retail support...

Well that was quick. Bang With Friends, the controversial Facebook app that lets you privately nominate who in your friends network you want to hook up with and alerts you if they feel the same, has g...

Another big enterprise deal to report as New Relic, an app performance monitoring service, has raised $80 million analyzing and is looking at an IPO....

The company formerly known as RIM is holding its first developer event in Europe since launching its new BlackBerry 10 platform last Wednesday. Speaking at the BlackBerry Jam event in Amsterdam, UK MD...

Sellfy, the one-click e-commerce platform for self-publishers, has expanded its payment options beyond Paypal to now include credit card processing via Stripe in the U.S./Canada, and Paymill in Europe...

Ravello Systems has raised $26 million for a new way to launch applications into the cloud. The funding round was led by Sequoia Capital, with Norwest Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners al...

Ravello Systems has raised $26 million for a new way to launch applications into the cloud. The funding round was led by Sequoia Capital, with Norwest Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners al...

Burpple, the social discovery app that seeks to connect food lovers from around the world, just released their Android app in public beta. Their iOS app was launched in December 2011....

The fertile enterprise startup field has created a space for customers seeking peer analysis of vendor offerings. VendorStack hopes to fill that space with a new service that Co-Founder David Cheng ca...

Chinese telecoms giant Huawei launched a Windows smartphone tailored for and exclusively available in Africa. The device, a customized version of the Huawei Ascend W1, was created in partnership with ...

Maynard Webb knows a thing or two about navigating through a career path. From the start of his professional life as an entry-level employee at IBM, he has risen to be one of the tech industry's most ...

Baidu's fourth-quarter earnings report presented a mixed bag for the company known as the "Google of China." Though its profit jumped by 36 percent in the quarter because of an increase in advertising...

The fertile enterprise startup field has created a space for customers seeking peer analysis of vendor offerings. VendorStack hopes to fill that space with a new service that Co-Founder David Cheng ca...

On-demand taxi service Hailo is looking east. After successful launches in cities throughout Europe and North America, the startup is intent on bringing its e-hail application to Tokyo, Japan. To do s...

Two makers on opposite ends of the globe, Ivan Owen in Bellingham, Washington and Richard Van As in South Africa, have teamed up to build a custom robotic hand and publish it on Thingiverse. The best ...

I’m hearing that gdgt (pronounced ‘gadget’), the consumer electronics review site founded by Engadget co-founder Peter Rojas and former Engadget editor-in-chief Ryan Block, is in lat...

Hosain Rahman's Jawbone may have first made a name for itself because of its line of high-performance Bluetooth headsets, but these days it has taken on a healthier image thanks to its more recent for...

Hosain Rahman's Jawbone may have first made a name for itself because of its line of high-performance Bluetooth headsets, but these days it has taken on a healthier image thanks to its more recent for...

High atop Weathertop where the Kings of Old Middle Earth once surveyed their kingdoms, the Smorn leers knowingly at the vale below. His hand rubs the grass and sniffs the air - hobbits had been here, ...

Bizo, a startup that helps advertisers reach a business audience, says that it brought in $22 million in revenue in 2012, and that its annualized run rate at the end of the year was $30 million.The co...

Tomorrow is the 10th annual “Safer Internet Day” celebration in more than 100 countries on six continents. The idea is that you’re supposed to take a step back and think about how yo...

Omg, Facebook Graph Search has exposed my private photos! This kind of email has been rolling into TechCrunch's tip line since the introduction of the new, and still beta, search service from Facebook...

Samsung announced today that it is committing to investments in new technology, with the launch of its new Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center (SSIC), as well as a $100 million commitment to a new ...

In a heartfelt tumblr, the girlfriend of fallen Internet activist, Aaron Swartz, explained why she thinks he committed suicide. After revealing intimate details of his seemingly chipper, curious lifes...

If you watched the Super Bowl yesterday, or seen any college or professional football game in recent years, you know that football can be a very high-impact sport. That is part of the beauty of the ga...

Spun, a mobile app pulling together news stories relevant to your city, is announcing several content deals with well-known publishers, including A+E Networks, AskMen, Gothamist, Untapped Cities,...

It's a sad, sad day when companies start reviewing their own products. Today is a sad, sad day. Nokia has just posted their review of the Lumia 620 budget Windows phone to the Nokia Conversations blog...

Wanted: An entrepreneur or team of rivals who want to stand on stage to present their project to thousands of investors and members of the media. Sounds like you? You’re in luck. TechCrunch is h...

Competition and activity continues to heat up in the mobile payments market. UK-based mPowa -- a mobile payments provider that, like Square and others, provides a dongle that merchants can attach to a...

I loathe using some websites. Twitter and Facebook are horrific on the web when compared to their iOS/Android apps. I simply refuse to use Zillow's website; I'll wait until my kids are done with the i...

Intuit's Mint has one less competitor now. Adaptu, a Portland-based startup which positioned its mobile wallet as an alternative to Mint, is closing its doors. The company announced the change via its...

Jailbreaking has returned. Today, a group of iOS hackers styling themselves as the Evad3rs team has released a usable jailbreak for the iPhone 5, as well as any other iOS device capable of running iOS...

Jailbreaking has returned, and already servers are overloaded. Today, a group of iOS hackers styling themselves as the Evad3rs team has released a usable jailbreak for the iPhone 5, as well as any oth...

British soldiers are testing out tiny 4×1-inch mini surveillance drones throughout Afghanistan. “We used it to look for insurgent firing points and check out exposed areas of the ground bef...

Eros Resmini, who oversaw developer relations for mobile-social gaming network OpenFeint through its $104 million acquisition by GREE, just left the Japanese gaming company not long after it transitio...

Betable, a gaming platform that enables developers to use real money instead of virtual currencies, just signed one of Canada’s largest independent developers Frima Studio. Frima, which has abou...

Between multiple simultaneous press conferences and sinking funds into a questionable Super Bowl commercial, BlackBerry is keen to make sure that its BB10-powered hardware is still on your mind. Reall...

Amazon, like competitors Hulu and Netflix, is set on producing original content for its Instant Video library. Along with various children's series, the company is also working on six new comedy pilo...

Google recently changed its payout schedule for Android app developers, moving from a window which saw developers paid two days after the month ends, to a new window where the payout date is 15 days a...

Last night's Super Bowl was a nail-biter, but most of today's conversation will likely center around the ads, not the Raven's last-second safety or Jacoby Jones' 108-yard kick return. But which ads we...

With the debut of BlackBerry's new BB10 OS and it's accompanying handsets, many have questioned whether the revamp is enough to pull iPhone and Android enthusiasts into the BlackBerry fold. But a new ...

Telefonica Digital, the tech arm of carrier giant Telefonica, has been making a lot of consumer-focused acquisitions and investments in the last year -- and now it's showing that it has an equal inter...

Fiksu, a Boston-based app marketing startup, is today rolling out support for Facebook mobile app install ad optimization. The company previously supported optimizations for display ads, video ads, in...

Nokia's slide down the mobile rankings continues: StatCounter figures for January 2013 show Apple dislodged the Finnish mobile maker for the first time as the most popular mobile vendor in terms of gl...

What Andre Cassagnes thought of today's beeping and whirring playrooms we don't know. We do know that the former electrician, born on September 23, 1926, created his iconic toy after noticing how grap...

It keeps getting worse for French iPhone owners. The agency for telecommunications ARCEP has just announced that it would meet with the four French telcos to know if and when it should refarm Bouygues...

Ever since it was launched in 2011, e-sports streaming specialist Twitch has been free to view. Like other streaming video sites on the web, Twitch has relied on ads as its primary source of monetizat...

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has given the company's clearest hint yet that it wants to get back into tablets. Speaking to the Australian Financial Review, he stopped short of announcing a Nokia-branded tab...

Oh, HP. How you try.The company just pulled the sheet back on its first Chromebook, the Pavilion 14 Chromebook. But in traditional HP fashion, the notebook is bulky and expensive. At $329, the most ex...

Rover, a Seattle-based startup that provides a 'Airbnb' for dog sitting, has raised $7 million in Series B funding led by Foundry Group with existing investor Madrona Venture Group participating. This...

The affordable Raspberry Pi microcomputer just got even more affordable: the slated $25 Model A Raspberry Pi board has now gone on sale in Europe. The Raspberry Pi Foundation said sales are being rest...

In its great expanse of servers, Facebook has deployed Opscode tohelp scale the social network's infrastructure. To do this, Facebook is using Private Chef, the web-scale automation technology that Op...

Following a significant reboot late last year, cloud-music player AudioBox has released a new app for iPhone that lets users stream their cloud-stored music collections on Apple's device. It supports ...

The U.K.'s smallest mobile network operator, Three, has committed to offering 4G/LTE technology at the same price as 3G -- i.e. with no upgrade fee -- when it's able to add 4G to its network later thi...

According to multiple sources cited in a Tencent QQ Tech report (link via Google Translate, h/t Tech In Asia), Apple removed all of Qihoo's apps from its App store last week for violating its terms of...

Japanese messaging app, Line, has just reported that new users in Hong Kong have been doubling each day for the past week since Jan 29. The app, which is the dominant messenger of choice in Japan, lau...

Ready for a break from all that football to talk some tech? Well you're in luck, because it's time for CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show where a few of us writers take a look back at the past seven d...

Speech technology company Vestec announced that it has landed $1.5 million in funding from V. Raman Kumar, the founder and former CEO of MModal, a provider of clinical transcription services and clini...

What if you found a blue envelope outside and it had a few dollars in it that you could use on whatever you like, say a coffee on Monday. This is a possibility with a new initiative that took off in L...

BlackBerry 10's first Superbowl commercial squeaked in right before a power outage delayed the game for 34-minutes. Instead of focusing on what the new OS can do, however, the thirty-second spot showe...

Look! Apple just released a new product during the Super Bowl. Actually, it's a new product for App Store developers - short "AppStore.com" vanity URLs. The domain made its first public appearance at ...

Look! Apple just released a new product during the Super Bowl. Actually, it’s a new product for App Store developers – short “AppStore.com” vanity URLs. The domain made a grand...

Look! Apple just released a new product during the Super Bowl. Actually, it’s a new product for App Store developers – short “AppStore.com” vanity URLs. The domain made a grand...

When I was but a wee lad, I hosed my share of family computers simply because I wanted to help out -- once I tried to free up space on a 6GB hard drive by deleting anything larger than 1MB. You can im...

When Google launched its Linux-based Chrome OS in early 2010 and its Chromebook pilot program later that year, most pundits didn't quite agree with our own MG Siegler's premise that Google had dropped...

It's the Crunchies' after party and GitHub Co-Founder and CEO Tom Preston-Werner is sitting at a table by the front door at Absinthe in San Francisco with the Crunchies statue he had just accepted for...

Superbowl Sunday is right around the corner, and the anticipation is palpable. I can't speak for Baltimore, but on my recent trip to San Francisco, I realized I had never seen such a large congregatio...

Tagwhat is a mobile startup trying to present users with content that's relevant to their location descriptions of nearby points of interest, social network messages related to those locations, and n...

Geeking out about your favorite things can be embarrassing or annoying on the big social networks. But Lady Gagas tech team Backplane proved with her Little Monsters site that fans want an online home...

Distribution is a hell of a drug. In a product-obsessed town, it's distribution that often proves most elusive, and when a person or platform can tap into it, they oftentimes move quickly to lock-in t...

Craigslist has taken another baby step forward to improve the usability of its retro-tastic web interface -- adding a photo grid view to certain types of listings that allows site users to visually br...

Editors note:David Tetenis a partner withff Venture Capitaland founder and chairman ofHarvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York.Modern encryption systems are, in theory, exceptionally ...

Editor's note:Richard Price is founder and CEO of Academia.edu, a platform for academics to share research papers.Aaron Swartz was determined to free up access to academic articles. He perceived an in...

Last year Etsy, the marketplace for hand crafted goods, was powering ahead with 20 million members in nearly 200 countries and had passed the $700 million mark for sales in 2012 (compared to $525 mill...

Editors note:Ross Rubinis principal analyst atReticle Researchand blogs atTechspressive. Each column will look at crowdfunded products that have either met or missed their funding goals.Beyond making ...

Editor's note: Dan Portillo joined Greylock as vice president of Talent in 2011.John Schmocker is on the Greylock Partners Talent Team and works closely with portfolio companies to help them build out...

Editor's note:Norman Winarsky is the Vice President of Ventures at research and technology development organization SRI International.What have we learned over more than 65 years of invention and comm...

Millions of people across the U.S. are preparing their jerseys, face paint and horrific nachos. Yes, football fans rejoice, the big game finally kicks off tomorrow in New Orleans -- that is, Super Bow...

Millions of people across the U.S. are preparing their jerseys, face paint and horrific nachos. Yes, football fans rejoice, the big game finally kicks off tomorrow in New Orleans -- that is, Super Bow...

Editor's note:Jelle Frank van der Zwet is Segment Marketing Manager, Cloud, forInterxion, andDavid Strom is a freelance writer.As businesses migrate and deploye more and more applications to the cloud...

Editor's note:David Barrett is founder and CEO ofExpensify.I would strongly encourage everybody who competes with Expensify to study Roman Stanek's latest article,"Forget Virality, Selling Enterprise ...

On Feb 20th, Sony is holding a press conference in New York for which we assume is the PlayStation 4. Yet, is that really the smartest move that the company could make? With the argument that the PS i...

Rather than trust your friends and favorite Pages to post interesting stuff, Facebook is taking news discovery into its own hands with "Articles Related To...". This special feed story shows you popul...

Peter Thiel, the tech industry magnate known among other things for co-founding PayPal and investing very early in Facebook, took home the VC of the Year award at the 6th annual Crunchies this week fo...

Google Chairman, Eric Schmidt's, upcoming book, The New Digital Age, isn't pulling any punches. From the "irrelevance" of anonymity to some juicy thoughts on Twitter, the Wall Street Journal published...

Like many great startup ideas, the formation of L.A.-based incubator, investment firm, and accelerator Science had its origins at a dinner. In 2007, Peter Pham and Mike Jones found themselves working ...

Tenthbit, the Y Combinator-backed mobile app studio behind the couples app Pair, is doubling down (literally) on its business ambitions: the company today is announcing that it has bought Cupple, a UK...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor is recorded live in the style of a jazz date, where the group improvises around the themes of the day or wee...

Editor's Note: Brenden Mulligan created Onesheet, a tool that enables musicians to create beautiful web presences in two minutes.MySpace. Or is it Myspace. Or is it My______. Truth is, it doesn't matt...

Editor's note: Jay Kirsch is the President of AOLs Business, Technology & Entertainment Group, which includes properties such as TechCrunch, Engadget, Autoblog, DailyFinance and Moviefone among ot...

Austin Meyer, creator of the popular and ultra-realistic flight sim, X-Plane, is facing a potentially destructive lawsuit by an East Texas patent troll, Uniloc. Meyer, who has worked on the simulator ...

A couple of years ago I wrote in this space: "A spectre is haunting Mountain View. No, not bed bugs: bit rot. Google is in serious decline."Well, credit where it's due. These days Google has put its p...

Editors note:Maria Rocio Paniagua currently works as a project manager atInnku, one of the top mobile and web workshops in Mexico.Mobile penetration in the Mexican market is currently at 20 percent, a...

According to Twitter, it was hacked and 250K useres were affected, so they received emails from the company to change their password. This is not the first time this has happened, but this time it was...

Twitter is sending out emails to 250,000 users it says may have had their accounts compromised in the last week as the site experienced "unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized...

Last night's Sixth Annual Crunchies Awards show was nothing short of a huge success. With big names like Marissa Mayer, Mark Zuckerberg, Ron Conway, and Mayor Ed Lee in attendance, and equally huge co...

For this week's Ask A VC episode, we sat down with Foundation Capital's newest partner Anamitra Banerji, who was just promoted from entrepreneur in residence to investment partner at the firm. We chat...

It's Superbowl week so its time to talk about chips the ones that go in "smart" things, not the ones eaten by Americans. This weeks headlines have been dominated by Facebook. I hear they are quite bi...

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

Google continues its push to bring its web-centric Chromebooks into schools and it looks as if the fact that Google is in this project for the long haul is starting to pay off. According to Google, 2,...

CrowdFlower, a startup that helps businesses manage crowdsourced labor for tasks like image moderation, is looking to expand the types of jobs it can tackle with the launch of new Skill Tests which, ...

Its never been easier for would-be inventors to take a harebrained concept and turn it into an actual, sellable product, but the process of getting those products to the masses could still use a littl...

San Francisco’s Flurry initially got its reach through offering a basic package of analytics that more than 95,000 different developers snapped up. But as the iOS and Android ecosystems have mat...

With a simple post on its privacy page, Facebook yesterday announced it had re-enabled its photo Tag Suggestions feature in the US after the feature was temporarily suspended last year, supposedly to ...

In an ironic twist of fate, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has threatened military force against thousands of student protesters through one of the very mediums used to liberate the country in 2011:...

When rumors come true! Two weeks ago we reported on a tip that social TV startup Dijit, maker of the NextGuide iPad app, was in the process of acquiring quasi-competitor Miso. The deal took a little b...

"Social infrastructure" provider Gigya released some data this morning that highlights its growth over the past year. The biggest number? The 1.5 billion unique users reached by Gigya's tools each mon...

Apple has managed to nab three of the top 5 spots for the top-selling mobile phones in the U.S. during Q4 2012 according to the NPD group, with the iPhone 5, iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 ranking first, thir...

Google Maps just won Best Mobile App at the Crunchies 2012 and Daniel Graff, Google's director of Google Maps for mobile talked to our own Colleen Taylor after accepting the award. In the interview, G...

InfoArmy -- a startup built on the "Data 2.0" concept of crowdsourced competitive intelligence -- has today sent out a letter, printed in full below, to its researchers informing them that it is pulli...

Question: when does your mobile app also need a web experience? Answer: when the app is essentially an e-commerce shop.Sesame, the recently launched mobile gifting app fromSincerely, a company known f...

A little more than three years after the company was first announced, personalization startup Gravity is doing a big launch today, opening up its suite of APIs so that they're available to any publish...

U.K. startup onefinestay -- which has attracted backing to the tune of $15.9 million -- has patented a keyless entry system to make it easier for homeowners to manage comings and goings. It's clearly ...

Truphone, a UK-based mobile network that lets its users make free or low-cost calls to other mobile devices, has today announced a large funding injection of 75 million ($118 million) from a group of ...

Path's 2012 included a major hiccup when it was discovered in February last year that the app uploaded user address books in their entirety to its servers. The company quickly responded by deleting th...

HTC is set to show off something at a special press event in NYC on February 19 (the day before Sony's, it turns out), and it's quite likely that the company will debut its rumored new flagship phone,...

The fallout from Ofcom's March 2012 decision to allow the company now known as EE to refarm existing 2G spectrum to build a 4G network continues. Now EE's rivals, Vodafone and Three, have asked the U....

Sony is gearing up for a big announcement on February 20, according to invitations it sent out to the media on Thursday. The smart money was already on a next-generation PlayStation console being the ...

Lululemon has been able to create an impressive business on selling its high quality, comfortable active wear for women and men online and in retail stores. But while I love my Lululemon workout gear ...

Google is apparently doing a good job of improving its supply stream issues and making good on promised delivery times for customers for new Nexus 4 orders better than good, in fact. UK customers are...

A European Union antitrust investigation into Google, launched in November 2010, is still ongoing but Google has now submitted detailed proposals to the EU's competition commissioner, Joaqun Almunia, ...

BlackBerry, the Canadian smartphone maker formerly known as RIM -- aka Research In Motion -- will start trading under its new name on February 4, with its new ticker symbols effective from the start ...

Apple took the title of largest mobile maker by volume in the U.S. in Q4 2012, according to Strategy Analytics, which said Cupertino rose to the top of the U.S. phone maker charts for the first time e...

Apple took the title of largest mobile maker by volume in the U.S. in Q4 2012, according to Strategy Analytics, which said Cupertino rose to the top of the U.S. phone maker charts for the first time e...

FTC chairman Jon Leibowitz announced on Thursday that he will resign, one month after the agency reached a settlement with Google after a 20-month investigation into the tech giant's alleged anticompe...

John Oliver played host at the Crunchies tonight. He's a funny guy who's either British or expert at pretending to be, and he's on the Daily Show, Community and other things so you might recognize him...

John Oliver played host at the Crunchies tonight. He's a funny guy who's either British or expert at pretending to be, and he's on the Daily Show, Community and other things so you might recognize him...

And like that, The 6th Crunchies Annual Award Show is in the bag. John Oliver provided a night of laughs while TechCrunch, GigaOm and Venture Beat jointly handed out 20 awards to the best and brightes...

And like that, The 6th Crunchies Annual Award Show is in the bag. John Oliver provided a night of laughs while TechCrunch, GigaOm and Venture Beat jointly handed out 20 awards to the best and brightes...

Airbnb was one of the trailblazers of the sharing economy, and so, when CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky today accepted the award for best collaborative consumption service -- the first time the catego...

In case you weren't sure that Silicon Valley had moved beyond from consumer web companies, take a look at the top five finalists for the best overall startup of 2012. Only one is even a purely consume...

seems as if, in our particular slice of time, many spheres of industry are coming to a breaking point; Will we be focused on marginal costs and continue doing things the old way, or chuck existing sy...

He navigated the company that he founded in his college dorm room to a $104 million IPO, the biggest in the history of tech companies; then led it past one billion active users; and now he's been name...

This year's Crunchies saw Instagram founder Kevin Systrom take top honors for the "Founder of the Year" category, which is likely a safe pick considering what his company accomplished in 2013. He mana...

As you may know, TechCrunch, GigaOm and VentureBeat host the Crunchies award ceremony each year to celebrate the most compelling startups, Internet and technology innovations of the year. But we also ...

Venture capital firm Red Dot Ventures has invested $482,000 USD in Pirate3DP, a Singapore-based startup that is developing an affordable, user-friendly 3D printer for the mass market. ...

Mobile photo messaging app Snapchatjust won "Fastest Rising Startup" at this year's edition of the Crunchies. If startups are really all about growth, then our voters couldn't have picked a better win...

After getting the boot as the default mapping application on iOS devices with the introduction of iOS 6, Google Maps returned to the App Store in December with a new look, new features, and it quickly...

Tonight, at the 6th Annual Crunchies Awards, the Mars Curiosity won for Best Technology Achievement. Because, you know, science is awesome.Presented by former Square COO Keith Rabois and VentureBeat's...

In an effort to create more synergy between its products, Microsoft's search platform Bing has announced that Office 365 Premium is now available to users. The five apps included in the add-on for the...

Intelhas announced that it will showcase Android devices running a new dual core, dual graphics platform at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 25 to 28. "Specifically, Intel will sho...

It's that time again, folks. The 6th Annual Crunchies Awards show is upon us, and it's set to be the best event yet. We're at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, again partnering with Gig...

It's that time again, folks. The 6th Annual Crunchies Awards show is upon us, and it's set to be the best event yet. We're at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, again partnering with Gig...

The U.S. International Trade Commission announced that it is launching a Section 337 investigation into wireless devices with 3G and 4G capabilities and components by Samsung, Nokia, Huawei and ZTE. T...

Wishpondis launching a set of eight new apps that bring the startup's social marketing campaigns to Twitter.The apps allow businesses to promoted different contests and offers from the Twitter account...

Another publisher, Time Inc., is laying off 6% or about 500 employees in an effort to streamline operations at the 21-title publishing house. The lay-offs came after a thorough examination by Bain ...

Thanks Exec, for reminding us that we spend most of our days in a hamster wheel. The point of its new infographic was to show that life is too short to waste time doing errands, so you should hire an ...

Dexetra, the makers ofFriday, a contextual personal search application for Android, has raised a Series A round of funding. The investment comes from Sequoia Capital (India) and Qualcomm Ventures, and...

After being announced in December, mobile gaming backend service OpenKit plans to bring in the first 50 developers into its private beta program tomorrow.Co-founder Peter Relan told me that when the t...

Apple might not need to make a TV set to make a big splash in the television market: a brand new report from Bloomberg claims that the company is negotiating with Time Warner Inc. to bring HBO Go to A...

There's already been plenty of talk about 3D printing entire buildings, but those ambitions may not remain strictly earthbound for too long. According to a new report from Phys.org, the European Space...

If you're not an aspiring musician, you may not be familiar with TakeLessons, but the San Diego-based startup is on a mission to change that. Today, TakeLessons announced that it has raised $4 million...

According to KeyHole analytics, Vine is twice as popular as the next biggest video-sharing app on Twitter, SocialCam, even after being removed from Apple's featured section after a slight porn inciden...

Fans of Star Wars can take their love of droids and kitten heels to the streets with this DIY Instructables project. Created by Mike Warren, an editor at the site, these are the droid shoes you're loo...

Amazon earlier today experienced an outage of its main Amazon.com homepage that lasted for nearly one hour, the company confirmed today. It is still not explaining what the problem was but TechCrunch ...

CEO Travis Kalanick previously had teased the idea of launching a ride-sharing option in a backstage interview at TechCrunch Disrupt. Now, however, with the regulatory risk associated with ride-sharin...

Best Buy Canada announced today that it will be closing 15 locations across the country, including seven Best Buy-branded locations, and eight stores bearing the Future Shop moniker (a Canadian electr...

Tapping into the growth of online education, Skillshare launched in 2011 on a mission to build a digital marketplace for knowledge. Yet, instead of going in the direction of traditional online educati...

Brightcove co-founder Jeremy Allaire plans to step down from his role as CEO, according to the company's fourth quarter earnings report.Allaire will continue to serve as the CEO during the "transition...

Brightcove co-founder Jeremy Allaire plans to step down from his role as CEO, according to the company's fourth quarter earnings report.Allaire will continue to serve as the CEO during the "transition...

I've tried to avoid chiming in on Blackberry 10 but the past few days have brought us an excellent set of reviews and assessments of the platform and, now that I've had the chance to play with the dev...

Since 2005, Stickam has been a haven for misfit youth, emo bands, and anyone else in need of a live streaming video blog channel to share their life. But at midnight tonight, Stickam will shut down fo...

Rumors that Google and Motorola are quietly working on a new handset known as the X-Phone have been making the rounds for weeks now (thanks in large part to a report from the Wall Street Journal from ...

Just yesterday, the California Public Utilities Commission announced that it had struck an interim agreement with Lyft, wiping away any fines levied against the ride-sharing service and allowing it to...

Updated. Amazon.com's main website appears to be down for many users at the moment, with the site returning a mostly blank page that reads "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable."A look at a cURL of the site s...

Live concert notification and recommendation app Bandsintown just released a Spotify app to make it easier to query its concert database. Whenever you are listening to something interesting on Spotify...

"In The Studio" rolls on this week by welcoming an experienced international venture capitalist who has spent time within the storied firms of Wall Street while also participating on a three-time nati...

Get out the rum, open-source cloud operating systemOpenStack has a new release, and its name is Havana.The OpenStack Foundation names its software releases in alphabetical order. This year it's the le...

At the end of 2010, Vinay Bhargava decided to leave Google -- not a decision he made lightly after spending seven-plus years in Mountain View and Washington D.C. But the decision became clear after ta...

It's already pretty darn easy to sign up to attend an event on Eventbrite, but I have to admit that there are still times when I grumble about having to fill out a short form. And if you're an event o...

CES today issued a press release announcing that DISH's Hopper with Sling technology built-in is the "Best of Show" after all, an honor it will share with existing winner the Razer Edge for the 2013 s...

My grandpa, like so many men with post-WWII PTSD, used hit the OTB downtown for a little Night Train, some betting, and some losing. That was then, this is now. You, too, can crack open a fine ripple ...

Facebook Gifts were one of the lower points of Facebook's earnings yesterday, but that doesn't mean the company isn't continuing to innovate on the gifting front. Today, Facebook announcedthe "Faceboo...

Using text chat to provide customer service is a pretty standard tool on the web, but when it comes to mobile apps, these chats are still very rare, despite the fact that a lot of online commerce has ...

TwelveSouth announced a new iPhone accessory today, one that probably looks familiar if you're aware of Apple's Smart Cover and Smart Case products. The SurfacePad for iPhone is a sheath of Napa leath...

Some consolidation in the world of mobile payments and mobile banking: mFoundry is getting acquired by FISfor $120 million. FIS — a banking and payment provider that works with some 14,000 banks...

Some consolidation in the world of mobile payments and mobile banking: mFoundry is getting acquired by FISfor $120 million. FIS -- a banking and payment provider that works with some 14,000 banks worl...

Some consolidation in the world of mobile payments and mobile banking: mFoundry is getting acquired by FISfor $120 million. FIS -- a banking and payment provider that works with some 14,000 banks worl...

Apple's Mac Pro has been on the chopping block for a long time according to many industry watchers and pundits, and as of March it will actually get the axe in Europe. But the Pro's debatable market a...

Apple's Mac Pro has been on the chopping block for a long time according to many industry watchers and pundits, and as of March it will actually get the axe in Europe. But the Pro's debatable market a...

Payments startup Square has scored another retailer partnership, as today Verizon Wireless says it will begin stocking the Square Card Reader in its stores, effective immediately. The readers, which a...

Ever since the launch of the 500 Startups Accelerator a few years ago, Dave McClure and his crew have filled five classes with recruits that have come through his vast referral network -- recommended ...

If you run your own WordPress site, chances are you are using a pretty secure password to keep hackers from posting random stories to your blog. Still, even the best password isn't as good as using Gm...

If you run your own WordPress site, chances are you are using a pretty secure password to keep hackers from posting random stories to your blog. Still, even the best password isn't as good as using Gm...

A new company called Connected Data wants to change the way people do cloud storage, with a dedicated, Internet-connected storage device called the Transporter. After a successful Kickstarter campaign...

42Floors, the Y-Combinator-incubated startup that has built a search engine for the office rentals market, has raised another $12.3 million -- funding that founder Jason Freedman says the company will...

This just in from the land of crazy: Republican Senator Lamar Alexander says that "video games is [sic] a bigger problem than guns." We've included the full quote and video below of his Interview with...

Munich, Germany-based online fashion moodboard startup, Stylight, has secured a multi-million euro investment from SevenVentures, the venture subsidiary of media company ProSiebenSat.1. The exact amou...

Braintree, an Accel and NEA-backed payments company that’s now processing more than $6 billion a year, is launching a new payments layer that lets users sign up to pay for goods and services wit...

A new update out today for Angry Birds Star Wars adds 20 new levels to the game for free, via the new Escape From Hoth content pack. It brings new types of enemies via the "mynock pigs," and adds anot...

ABI Research has put out its latest projections on the lay of the land for smartphones and tablets worldwide in 2013: it says that there will be 1.4 billion smartphones, and 268 million tablets in act...

ABI Research has put out its latest projections on the lay of the land for smartphones and tablets worldwide in 2013: it says that there will be 1.4 billion smartphones, and 268 million tablets in act...

ABI Research has put out its latest projections on the lay of the land for smartphones and tablets worldwide in 2013: it says that there will be 1.4 billion smartphones, and 268 million tablets in act...

Twitter is currently experiencing a widespread service outage that appears to be intermittent, according to our checks with the web client, third-party apps and website service status checking tools. ...

Twitter is currently experiencing a widespread service outage that appears to be intermittent, according to our checks with the web client, third-party apps and website service status checking tools. ...

For parents, Amazon's latest additions to its original video lineup is kind of a big deal. Today, the company says it has green-lit five new children's test pilots to beef up its catalog of original v...

App store analytics firm Distimo released a new report today which examines the effect that price changes, and specifically price drops, have on iOS app sales. When the price drops for iPhone apps, on...

Pond5 has grown its marketplace for finding video, photos, and other media pretty dramatically. But now that it has reached critical mass, it can be difficult to sort through all the millions of piece...

MusiXmatch, the song lyrics database and accompanying desktop and mobile apps, has announced a further $3.7 million in funding, bringing thetotalraisedby the UK/Italian company to $8.1m since it was f...

Productivity technology Evernote has been hard at work lately. Alongside the dramatic update to its personal contacts app Hello (which you can read about here), today Evernote also released an updated...

Pittsburgh-born, but now Austin-basedInsurance Zebra, a startup that aggregates car insurance quotes the way that Kayak aggregates flight and hotel deals, is today announcing $1.5 million in seed fund...

Communitech Hyperdrive, a newer Waterloo-based incubator program that graduated its first cohort of startups last year, today unveiled the second class of companies that will be able to take advantage...

Facebook’s No. 2 top dog, COO Sheryl Sandberg, recently said that Netflix’s company culture document “may well be the most important document ever to come out of the Valley.” T...

Video ad company FreeWheel is announcing this morning a big new client, which is also making a strategic investment in the firm. Satellite TV provider DirecTV has chosen the startup to improve monetiz...

Evernote today is releasing a dramatically updated 2.0 version of Hello for iOS, the app for remembering details about the people you meet that first launched just over a year ago in December 2011. Th...

Outspoken billionaire, Mark Cuban, is fed up with America's patent system. "Dumbass patents are crushing small businesses. I have had multiple small companies i am an investor in have to fight or pay ...

Google Now is probably one of my favorite things about Android, which is why it's great news that a new Chromium build includes a notification center, which, combined with a code change last month tha...

Today the USPTO published an Apple patent application that ventures a little farther afield than most, and describes a mobile banking concept that is truly innovative, which could essentially turn iTu...

Glow Digital Media, a social ad tech platform that sells services to Facebook advertisers to grow their marketing ROI, has closed a $1.3 million seed funding round. Investors in the round include Proj...

PagerDuty has raised $10.7 million from Andreessen Horowitz to build out an IT alert service that is modeled on what Amazon Web Services developed to manage its massive infrastructure. The funding wil...

There's a new early stage VC firm launching today that is focusing purely on enterprise and infrastructure investments. Former Batter Ventures partner Sunil Dhaliwal is debuting Amplify Partners, a $4...

Even though Microsoft itself would prefer to change this, many users still rely on older versions of Internet Explorer. For developers, this means spending hours on testing their web apps to ensure th...

When Google announced a new project it called Trekker last October, it sounded like a far-reaching and futuristic 20% type undertaking. Today, that project has come through with some of the most detai...

4GEE, the U.K.'s first and still it's only 4G/LTE network just got a little larger. Carrier EE has switched on 4G services in nine more towns, bringing the total number of towns and cities connected t...

Nokia's rebranded HERE mapping service has snagged another car-maker -- signing Toyota Motor Europe to use Nokia Local Search for Automotive for its Touch & Go in-car navigation and infotainment s...

Apple's iPad led the charge as total worldwide tablet shipments hit a record of 52.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to IDC's preliminary data from its Worldwide Quarterly Table...

On the web, there's plenty of room to throw a scattershot of ads at people and hope one resonates. On mobile where there's reduced real-estate, you have to make every pixel count by targeting ads with...

A few days ago, I readNilay Patels review of the Pebble smartwatch for The Verge. Like many others, I bought a Pebble on Kickstarter, and I cant wait to try it out myself. But one part of Patels revie...

According to Strategy Analytics, about 1.6 billion mobile phones were shipped in 2012, with 700 million of those being smartphones. That doesn't even take tablets into account. Compass Intelligence es...

The New York Times has revealed that over the last four months, it was repeatedly attacked by Chinese hackers using methods that have been linked to the Chinese military in the past. The timing of the...

A team of undergraduates at Queens College in New York led by Matt Sconce had a semi-bright idea: they'd make Forever Alone statuettes. Matt Scone and sculptor Sanden Henning got together to make a 3D...

If you're an independent band, or actor, or clown, or really creative of any stripe, you're probably looking for a gig. But try as you might, finding that gig is tough. But what if there were a platfo...

Facebook is poised to get a lot more expressive. Today it began tests of a new status composer that lets you select "what are you doing?", and share an emoticon of different activities such as feeling...

Congress is looking to keep popular Internet-only services, such as email and social networks, permanently free of taxes. Sen. Kelly Ayotte and Sen. Dean Heller are seeking a permanent extension of th...

The idea of the open cloud has different meanings. There are open infrastructure groups that are working toward federating clouds at the infrastructure level. These are groups such as OpenStack and Cl...

Because of the rankings, the top-grossing games and the ones that get the most downloads are known. But Apple and Google are much more conservative with what they reveal about apps and their active us...

Edo, the card-linked local offers platform which just closed its $15 million Series C round this past fall, is today introducing a new service for local merchants, which it's calling the "edo Marketpl...

Founded in 2007, Linkwell Health partners with health plans, consumer brands that want to be health conscious, grocery chains and drugstores to offer everyday consumers discounts, coupons and content ...

Prezi has come a long way since the days it was a struggling startup in Budapest building a new away for people to create presentations to blow the mind of an audience. Today they have over 100 employ...

If you've ever gotten a fake friend request, you know Facebook has spammers. But it's winning the fight against them. Facebook's estimate of the total percentage of monthly users that are "undesirable...

A lot of the discussion during Facebook's earnings conference call today revolved around all the stats that the company offered about the fourth quarter performance of various ad units. However, Faceb...

Its been a pretty big news day for Lyft, but lets make it even bigger. TechCrunch has learned that Zimride, parent company behind the ride-sharing service, has closed a new, $15 million round of fundi...

Facebook risked driving users away by showing more ads in the news feed last year, but to Mark Zuckerberg's surprise, a big increase in their presence during 2012 only reduced Likes and comments by 2%...

Facebook's user base is growing much faster outside of the U.S. than it is in its home market, but it has a little problem: those users are continuing to generate far less revenue than U.S. consumers ...

The next phase of ShoeDazzle's evolution will involve bringing back one of the founding premises of the e-commerce site: subscriptions. But the company's new subscription plan, which will be rolled ou...

The next phase of ShoeDazzle's evolution will involve bringing back one of the founding premises of the e-commerce site: subscriptions. But the company's new subscription plan, which will be rolled ou...

About one-fifth of iOS’ top grossing developers are testing out Facebook app install ads, showing some early traction for the new product. Sheryl Sandberg, the company’s COO, mentioned thi...

Kim Dotcom's Mega file hosting service puts an emphasis onprivacy, which makes it impossible for Google and others to index the files its users store on the service. Even Mega itself doesn't really kn...

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg highlighted the growth that Facebook Offers has seen since it launched last year she said that offers have been claimed by 42 million unique users.Sandberg's statement ca...

As Facebook looks for new ways to make money, it disclosed during its Q4 2012 earnings call today that its Gifts product and promoted user posts functionality accounted for less than $5M of Facebook&#...

On Facebook's earnings call today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a strong statement about the company's further investment in product development, especially those products that are making money for the co...

iOS 6.1 arrived just a couple of days ago, bringing little beyond support for new international LTE carriers and movie ticket purchasing via Siri in the U.S., but it's already been installed on a sign...

Facebook has been making some efforts to grow new business areas beyond advertising in areas like Gifts and Facebook Credits in apps, but so far the company has failed to convert that into meaningful ...

Facebook has been making some efforts to grow new business areas beyond advertising in areas like Gifts and Facebook Credits in apps, but so far the company has failed to convert that into meaningful ...

Electronic Arts has just reported lower-than-expected third-quarter fiscal year 2013 earnings today, missing on revenue but just squeaking out a win on EPS. Revenue came in at $1.18 billion for the qu...

Electronic Arts has just reported lower-than-expected third-quarter fiscal year 2013 earnings today, missing on revenue but just squeaking out a win on EPS. Revenue came in at $1.18 billion for the qu...

As part of today's fourth quarter earnings report, Facebook announced that mobile ad revenue has grown to 23 percent of the company's total $1.33 billion in ad revenue (so about $305 million). That's ...

Today is Q4 earnings day for Facebook, and we’ve learned some really interesting things about the growth of the social network. Surprisingly to some, mobile DAUs have exceeded those on the web, ...

Today is Q4 earnings day for Facebook, and we’ve learned some really interesting things about the growth of the social network. Surprisingly to some, mobile DAUs have exceeded those on the web, ...

Facebook said its fourth quarter revenue rose 40 percent year-over-year to $1.59 billion. Mobile revenues grew to make up 23 percent of the company’s total and mobile monthly active users rose t...

As your Internet use has evolved, Google has evolved with you. And for you. Its ability to make the right decisions about what to work on and at what time is a testament to the leadership at the compa...

Twitter has announced a couple of updates for its web service today, designed around media sharing. There's a new interface for viewing photos, which provides a larger look at pictures without forcing...

As companies have stayed private for longer, CEOs and founders have gotten savvier about letting early employees liquidate or diversify their holdings in their companies. With several of the heavily a...

Many entrepreneurs, investors, and early employees in startups in the state of California are now starting to receive big bills in the mail for back taxes that they never expected to owe. That's becau...