Articles by Techcrunch from March 2013

At the end of last year, Netflix suffered a prolonged outage because Amazon’s cloud services, which Netflix uses to host most of its infrastructure, went down. At the time, Amazon’s own vi...

Right after it launched the iPad mini, Apple filed a trademark application for the name with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). As Patently Apple noticed earlier today, however, th...

Right after it launched the iPad mini, Apple filed a trademark application for the name with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). As Patently Apple noticed earlier today, however, th...

The Gillmor Gang Doc Searls, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor takes turns sizing up the new season. With Steve Ballmer running out of room and close to the warning track, we talk about ...

Editors note:DerekAndersenis the founder ofStartup Grind, a 40-city community bringing the global startup world together while educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs. As anElectronic Arts&...

So there's this startup called SmogFarm, which does big-data sentiment analysis, "pulse of the planet" stuff. I spotted them last year, and now they've got an actual product with an actual business mo...

Its approaching three years since I emailed and got a reply from the late Steve Jobs. The topic of my caffeine-fueled missive that sunny day in June 2010 was the industrys move towards touch-based int...

Editors note:Maria Rocio Paniagua currently works as a project manager atInnku, one of the top mobile and web workshops in Mexico.Ondore,the leading Latin American big data analysis company that devel...

When Sequoia Capital India landed in Singapore, the buzz around town was that a big-name US fund being in the country was going to really jolt the market and provide serious cred to the startups here....

I love my tiny little Mazda, but I'll be honest -- I still don't completely understand how it works. That's never really bothered me before (I'd much rather geek out over a phone or something) but a K...

Editor's note:Jonathan Barouchis the founder and CEO of location-based startupRoamz, developer ofsocial media business product Local Measure.Foursquare has become entrenched in the fabric of the local...

My old boss Owen Thomas is very close to becoming the new editor-in-chief at the SAY Media-owned tech site ReadWrite, according to sources with knowledge of the company. I'm hearing that it's not quit...

My old boss Owen Thomas is very close to becoming the new editor-in-chief at the SAY Media-owned tech site ReadWrite, according to sources with knowledge of the company. I'm hearing that it's not quit...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is “partially” opposing a request by the estate of Aaron Swartz for the release of documents related to the investigation that led to Swartz...

Dell announced today that it has filed its initial proxy materials with the SEC in connection with a merger agreement between Dell, its Chairman and CEO Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners. Under th...

Bonobos' newly hired San Francisco engineering team is fracturing, but there's no disaster. Bonobos CTO Mike Hart has departed the company to become a co-founder, along with Cory Hicks, of a brand-new...

Super Awesome Party A has just ended, and you need to figure out how to get to Super Awesome Party B stat... and preferably by spending as little money as possible. So what do you do? Muni? Uber? Lyft...

Just a few days ago, Flipboard announced a new version of its app that allows anyone to make a “Magazine,” which is a curated collection of stories based on any topic that you can think of...

AngelList’s Naval Ravikant joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for our Ask A VC series, where we put VCs in the hot seat. Ravikant talked about the currency of Silicon Valley, which he says is...

Constant, close contact with your friends. That's the promise of a "Facebook phone". The modified Android OS and mobile homescreen replacement sources tell us Facebook will unveil April 4th pushes you...

Aaron Batalion, the co-founder and CTO of daily deals site LivingSocial, is leaving the company. He announced his departure in a post on his personal blog published Friday afternoon.We've reached out ...

The next version of jQuery, the popular JavaScript library, will drop support for Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8, but doesn’t mean Microsoft isn’t very bullish about getting developers to u...

Gillmor Gang - Doc Searls, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live today at 1pm Pacific....

Its only been six months since cloud data warehousing company Treasure Data launched its services, but theyre already reporting some impressive growth figures. Treasure Data achieved month-to-month pr...

Happy Friday, everyone. As you know, we love giving things away here at TechCrunch, and this week, we have a Fitbit One Wireless Activity + Sleep Tracker and an Aria Wi-Fi Smart Scale to give awa...

Video question-and-answer site VYou launched several years ago with a unique premise -- allow users to create video responses to questions posed to them by other community members. Now, about two-and-...

I've long believed that touchscreens leave a certain something to be desired when it comes to playing games, and if a new (and very curious) report holds true, Apple may feel the same way. According t...

This week on the TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast we celebrate episode number two of everyone's favorite audio file! We also talk about 3D printing, the Ouya console, and the Facebook Fone AKA the FF....

Video ad distribution company Jun Group has launched a new, wholly-owned subsidiary called HyprMX, offering mediation tools for mobile publishers and developers manage video ads from multiple sources....

Twitter's Vine app received a small, but notable, update today which allows the videos you create to be embedded across the web. The embedded posts are available in two styles (simple and postcard), a...

The spring tech tour continues next week in Santa Clara with Deploycon, and I will be there to discuss the spectrum of PaaS providers and how they play across this broad, malleable and often manipulat...

Sprightly, a newly launching startup whose founding team has an extensive history working in female-focused businesses, including Refinery29, Etsy, Chloe+Isabel, and others, is debuting its conte...

Adobe today launched Adobe Blank, a new open-source OpenType font that, at first glance, does absolutely nothing. Indeed, the whole point of the font, as its creator Ken Lunde writes today, is to rend...

Bespoke Post, a subscription-based e-commerce startup offering a hilariously titled "Box of Awesome" (no, not that one- Bespoke Post is for grown-ups), is today announcing having closed on $850,000 in...

Fanbase Media, a new social media marketing startup which has been flying under the radar for over half a year, helps companies use Instagram for connecting with their customers. Despite the company's...

3D printing is still in its infancy. But, to use an overused phrase, it is the future. From home use to enterprise use, 3D printing will continue to grow and break into new areas. With that comes pric...

Sprint Nextel and SoftBank have pledged not to use equipment from Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies after they merge. Congressman Mike Rogers, a Republican state representative fr...

When many people think of direct-selling, they envision Tupperware parties or pink-suited women lugging cases of cosmetics door-to-door. New direct-selling companies, however, are using social media t...

Hang around in the tech industry long enough and you or someone you know will be heard saying, "that's so crazy it just might work." Two years ago, if you'd told me that an open-source, P2P currency w...

Startups around the world are desperate for office space in the San Francisco Bay Area, so tomorrow RocketSpace will announce the lease of a new 50,000 sq ft office so it can house startups with up to...

Today is a big day for OUYA, the Kickstarter-backed, Android-based game console. The company is announcing that its $99 console will be available on June 4 (the news leaked a little early), and it's a...

The Microsoft Research team is building an epic map of the universe using data and photographs collected from the many telescopes around the world, including NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. They call i...

The Microsoft Research team is building an epic map of the universe using data and photographs collected from the many telescopes around the world, including NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. They call i...

Following this afternoon's announcement that Amazon has agreed to acquire Goodreads, I had a few minutes to talk to the Goodreads CEO Otis Chandler and Amazon VP of Kindle Content Russ Grandinetti. Th...

Following this afternoon's announcement that Amazon has agreed to acquire Goodreads, I had a few minutes to talk to the Goodreads CEO Otis Chandler and Amazon VP of Kindle Content Russ Grandinetti. Th...

It’s recently been very quiet around Delicious, the social bookmarking service Yahoo bought in 2005 and then sold to AVOS in 2011. Back then, the AVOS team said it was relaunching Delicious R...

Facebook has just invited members of the press to an event at its headquarters on April 4th to "Come See Our New Home On Android". Sources tell us it will be a modified version of the Android operatin...

Facebook just invited press to an event at its headquarters on April 4th to "Come See Our New Home On Android". Sources tell us it will be a modified version of the Android operating system with deep ...

He might not be bulletproof, but simultaneously running Twitter and Square qualifies Jack Dorsey as a superhero. This week a new unauthorized comic book about him was released, called "Jack Dorsey: Co...

You've probably heard something about the Downtown Project, the $350 million initiative spearheaded by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh that's aiming to bring a renaissance of sorts to Downtown Las Vegas, the ol...

Didn't get a chance to back the ambitious OUYAAndroid game console to lock in your pre-order? Considering how much press the thing has gotten, you don't have much excuse for missing that particular wi...

Social discovery startup MeetMe is ramping up the advertising in its smartphone app.CEO Geoff Cook told me via email that the app was already running ads, for example at the top of the screen, but its...

It looks like some changes are afoot at Booyah, the location-based gaming company best known as the maker of the MyTown franchise. MyTown and MyTown 2 attempted to evolve the location-based check-in m...

Today, Amazon has announced the acquisition of social reading service, Goodreads. Specific terms of the deal weren’t disclosed and it should close by the end of Q2. Goodreads had raised $2.75M i...

While the media continues to debate the severity of the denial-of-service attacks taking place across the web this month, they appear to have claimed another victim: payments startup Dwolla announced ...

While the media continues to debate the severity of the denial-of-service attacks taking place across the web this month, they appear to have claimed another victim: payments startup Dwolla announced ...

While the media continues to debate the severity of the denial-of-service attacks taking place across the web this month, they appear to have claimed another victim: payments startup Dwolla announced ...

Supercell is a very quiet, humble mobile gaming company out of the very quiet and humble city of Helsinki, Finland. Unlike their brasher, Angry Birds-making brethren a 15-minute drive away in Espoo, t...

For a team that has somehow stayed mostly off the tech press' radar, TiKL has had a pretty friggin' good year.With $0 spent on marketing, their two apps, TiKL and Talkray, have nabbed a total of 28M d...

"In The Studio" welcomes a digital media savant who has hustled his way up through the music world by interning for Rolling Stone, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum, MTV Networks (through Viacom...

The SEC today paved the way for a new era of venture capital investing by stating it won't pursue enforcement action against FundersClub, whose platform lets any accredited investor fund startups in e...

Last October, Google introduced the new email compose window for Gmail and starting today, there’s no way to go back and use the old compose screen anymore. The new compose experience, which is ...

Anytime there's a lull in our outrage over the public nature of social media, a new site shows up to again demonstrate its dangers. Like clockwork, the latest to play on users' fears is FireMe!, a web...

EBay is in the middle of its Analyst Day, and just a little while ago it announced plans for some significant expansions for eBay Now, its same-day delivery service, with Chicago and Dallasdeliveries ...

Sometimes the smallest, most mundane tasks are the things you really dread -- and put off for weeks. Like booking an oil change for your car, or finding a top-rated play to take your significant other...

My recently-purchased car has Bluetooth built-in to let me use my phone hands-free from the steering wheel, as do most cars coming off the line new these days. The one issue is that there's no way to ...

Storify has become a useful tool of media organizations trying to capture newsworthy or entertaining social media conversations for their readers, with its ability to combine tweets, photos, and more ...

Online shopping is happening at the expense of big national retail chains, which are having a difficult time keeping up with online competition. A new startup called Deliv hopes to provide retailers w...

After the amazing success of our New York Pitch-Off in February, we thought it would be fun to bring the energy and excitement of a mini-Disrupt to more cities across the country. We're pleased to ann...

Fresh from putting smiles on the faces of tabletop gaming geeks everywhere, with yesterday's news that it would be helping to bring Dungeons & Dragons to iOS devices later this year, mobile game p...

Google Analytics’ real-time feature is very useful for those who don’t need more specialized tools like Chartbeat or Woopra, but still want to get a basic overview of what’s happenin...

A federal judge has thrown out a patent claim against Rackspace, ruling that mathematical algorithms can't be patented.The ruling in the Eastern Disrict stemmed from a 2012 complaint filed by Uniloc U...

Klout, the service for measuring online influence, is boosting its integration with both Bing and Instagram today.On the Bing side, the news follows last fall's announcement of a strategic investment ...

Material Wrld, the fashion startup seed funded by Warby Parker and Bonobos investor Great Oaks VC, is today making its public debut. The e-commerce site has come a long way since the beta it had runni...

500 Startups has had a bit of personnel shuffling, with the promotion of George Kellerman to partner, the addition of Pivotal Labs' Parker Thompson as a venture partner, and the unfortunate departure ...

Google today pledged that it will not sue any users, distributors or developers who have implemented open-source versions of its MapReduce programming model for processing large data sets, even though...

It's not as compact as an Aeropress, but the Nomad looks like a solid way to get an espresso shot from a small device. The tiny machine, which is currently on Kickstarter, boasts the same principles u...

Though it’s well-known that many of today’s mobile applications generate revenue through in-app purchases, a new report released today shows how powerful this money-making mechanism has be...

Tapulous, one of the earliest, big mobile games makers for the iPhone, made its splash with Tap Tap Revenge, the first in a series of apps where users tapped on dropping balls in time with music -- a ...

A confidential presentation that describes a Shenzhen-based manufacturer's 2013 product plans points to a few interesting bits of information about the iPhone 5S launch in June 2013 and Foxconn's role...

A large billboard in Times Square formerly occupied by American Eagle is currently cycling through the following phrases: Piracy is progress. Piracy is freedom. Piracy is harmless. Piracy is inevitabl...

It's often been assumed that teens are one of the main culprits in the texting-while-driving epidemic in the U.S. It makes sense — teens are new drivers, and thus more reckless, and they also ha...

AT&T has just posted an update to its Consumer Blog revealing pre-order details of the Samsung Galaxy S4. The phone will be available for order beginning April 16, for $249.99 with a two-year comm...

Riding the consumerisation of IT trend that's blowing the cobwebs off enterprise software, Belgian startup Showpad -- which makes iPad software for sales teams -- has raised a $2 million Series A fund...

Samsung will reportedly be launching Samsung Stores in select Best Buy locations ahead of the Galaxy S4's U.S. launch, a new report from Geek.com claims. The new sections, which will occupy spots clos...

iOS calendar app Sunrise received its first update a month after its release, bringing more info and flexibility to your calendar. The team has pushed the LinkedIn integration a step forward by bringi...

Austin-based Moniker Guitars is running a Kickstarter campaign to create a line of semi-hollow-body guitars for discerning git-fiddlists. The company will offer their first guitars for a $700 pledge, ...

On the off-chance that youre running out of things to read on that Windows Phone of yours, just hang tight youll soon have plenty of mobile reading material to dive into. Digital magazine app Zinio w...

Indochino, the online one-stop shop for a custom tailored suit, has just launched a brand new Ultimate Spring Collection, with some brand new looks and some Indochino best-sellers in new materials. Th...

Egyptian authorities arrested three men off the coast of Alexandria for attempting to sever an undersea Internet cable. The SEA-ME-WE 4 main line was part of a cable network that spanned the Mediterra...

Google is finally opening up its Google Shopping Express service to the public today, with the same day delivery service being made available as a test to select users in San Francisco and the Peninsu...

Google is finally opening up its Google Shopping Express service to the public today, with the same day delivery service being made available as a test to select users in San Francisco and the Peninsu...

Web hosting giant Rackspace is acquiring Web app error tracking startup Exceptional Cloud Services and its subsidiaries to enhance its toolset for developers deploying and managing applications in the...

Toronto-based startup ShopLocket wants to enable its users to sell anything, anywhere with an ultra-easy e-commerce platform that pretty much anyone can figure out. So why not let people sell things o...

Toronto-based startup ShopLocket wants to enable its users to sell anything, anywhere with an ultra-easy e-commerce platform that pretty much anyone can figure out. So why not let people sell things o...

Marketing software company HubSpot is announcing that it has acquired two small startups Chime and PrepWork.The financial terms of the deals aren't being disclosed, but HubSpot says it's bringing on ...

Apple has a new patent filing just published by the USPTO today which details a wraparound-style AMOLED display that could make it possible to create an iPhone that's almost entirely screen, with touc...

For the past year BlackBerry has been trying to prove to the world that its not a mobile has-been just yet, and that all came to a head earlier this year when the company finally released BlackBerry 1...

The first -- and still, the only -- 4G network in the U.K. is now available to half the U.K.'s homes and businesses. Carrier EE said today it has switched on the network in 13 more towns and cities to...

The first -- and still, the only -- 4G network in the U.K. is now available to half the U.K.'s homes and businesses. Carrier EE said today it has switched on the network in 13 more towns and cities to...

Gartner has just released its annual projections on worldwide IT spend over the next two years -- arguably the analyst house's most wide-ranging report covering sales in hardware, software, enterprise...

As it already warned, ZTE posted its second-straight quarterly loss, due to vastly trimmed margins in emerging markets, as well as contract delays and falling handset sales in China. It made a net los...

Tim Cook has said that China will soon become Apple’s biggest market, but the government is not as besotted as Chinese consumers.China’s state-run media has taken several swipes at Apple t...

As it already warned, ZTE posted its second-straight quarterly loss, due to contract delays and falling handset sales in China. It made a net loss of 1.14 billion yuan ($183 million) in the three mont...

The funding bill President Barack Obama signed this week didn't just prevent a government shutdown. It also included a provision requiring that U.S. government technology purchases first go through a ...

Since emerging on the scene in early 2012, the Boston-based Boundless has been on a mission to give students of all ages a free, open-source digital alternative to the pricey world of hard-copy textbo...

Google made plenty of nerds happy earlier today when it began reaching out to the 8,000 people that would have the privilege of spending $1,500 on the company's head-mounted Glass display, but that th...

The leading online stock photography company Shutterstock launched a new search tool called Spectrum in January, which allowed users to search through the sites 22 million images with keywords and spe...

"Electronic dance music is what rock 'n' roll was decades ago. It's a 'fuck you' to your parents." "A lean-back, TV-like experience on the Internet is the future of television." MOX.tv is a web TV cha...

When my friends found out that I was going to interview Irrational Games' Ken Levine, who led the development of the acclaimed video game BioShock, as well as its just-released sequel BioShock Infinit...

Around four years ago, Riccardo Zacconi said he was close to selling King, the arcade gaming company that he had co-founded and bootstrapped six years earlier. The company, which has a destination sit...

AlumniFunder launched in beta this week with a simple mission: Help create a deeper relationship between current students and alumni, while supporting collegiate entrepreneurship and creativity. To do...

Here at the Citrix corporate headquarters for the presentations by the second class of the Alchemist Accelerator group. It's quite an eclectic class for the B2B accelerator....

Here at the Citrix corporate headquarters for the presentations by the second class of the Alchemist Accelerator group. It's quite an eclectic class for the B2B accelerator....

Still feelin' all ragey about the way Bravo portrayed the Valley in Start-Ups? Worried Mike Judge won't do it right (wait, does Mike Judge ever do anything not-right?) with his upcoming Silicon Valley...

For years now, Google has offered its Google Maps Engine to enterprises who want to visualize their custom geospacial data and starting today, anybody will be able to use a subset of this functionalit...

To make up for pesky competition from the Internet, the owner of an Australian retail store is charging patrons $5 for "just looking", in order to offset losses from shoppers who browse and then buy o...

Last week, Spanning, a Google Apps backup service, announced a $6 million investment from an unnamed strategic investor. ...

Encoding.com is trying to add a few features that will set it apart from the competition. One of these features is dynamic text overlays, which was showed off as part of a Google Hangout campaign late...

Two years after the devastating Thoku earthquake and tsunami, Google has launched Street View images of Namie-machi in the Fukushima exclusion zone. The area encompasses Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Plant...

Last week, Spanning, a Google Apps backup service, announced a $6 million investment from an unnamed strategic investor. ...

We've all been there: you'll be watching a movie when someone familiar enters the frame, and you just can't place a name to the face. Well, if you're watching said movie on an Android tablet, those da...

The Duo is a 3D motion sensing controller, much like the Leap Motion Controller and the Kinect – but with a DIY twist. Whereas the Leap Motion Controller comes in a small and elegant package, th...

Google Glass, the advanced head-mounted computing project the company is gearing up for a possible launch later this year, will be assembled in the U.S., according to a new report from the Financial T...

410 Labs, home to products like Shortmail and Replyz, was trying to fly under the radar when it first launched Mailstrom, a new email service aimed at those who consistently receive large numbers of e...

Don’t be mistaken. GreenLancer, while seemingly just another consulting firm, is a technology company utilizing the cloud for ambitious engineering projects. Instead of hiring a technology firm ...

Facebook just announced some improvements to the mobile app install ads that it launched last fall, allowing app developers to target their ads with more nuance.These ads run in Facebook's news feed, ...

Atlassianis getting more competitive with social collaboration companies like Jive Software with a new offering thst extends its social collaboration service beyond its core users....

OUYA is coming soon (tomorrow is the planned ship date for the earliest Kickstarter backers), and recent reports of emulators of classic gaming consoles made for the Android device are generating some...

A new kind of tech accelerator has launched in one of the more unlikely places: the Italian Alps. TechPeaks (see what they did there?) calls itself a "People Accelerator" because individuals and teams...

Google Translate is a very useful tool for when you are travelling internationally but sadly, that’s also the time when you are least likely to have an always-on connection to the Internet. Obvi...

Fortumo, the mobile payments company that puts carrier billing in the hands of developers, has announced that its brought its in-app payments solution to Windows Phone -- a move that it claims makes i...

It's not going to win any beauty pageants, but Eventful's 2.0 could make sure you never get bored. It's racked up 20 million registered users and shows of 4 million events at a time, but with today's ...

Champagne corks are a-flyin' this morning at Eventbrite, where the online event ticketing company is about to announce that they've just sold their 100 millionth ticket.All in all, that works out to $...

Champagne corks are a-flyin' this morning at Eventbrite, where the online event ticketing company is about to announce that they've just sold their 100 millionth ticket.All in all, that works out to $...

Champagne corks are a-flyin' this morning at Eventbrite, where the online event ticketing company is about to announce that they've just sold their 100 millionth ticket.All in all, that works out to $...

In the mosttechnologically advanced countries, filing a tax return is free, easy and fast: Instead of taxpayers painstakingly calculating figures themselves, the government provides estimates of what ...

Back in 2011, Epic ported its popular Unreal Engine 3 technology to Flash and showed how relatively high-end 3D games could run in the browser. It’s 2013 now, however, and Flash isn’t exac...

Access to online voter registration could spell doom for Republicans in the next election. Early research on California's online voter registration system finds that "A larger proportion of Latinas/os...

Expensify is now supporting Bitcoin to give international contractors an alternative to Paypal and the high fees associated with the service....

One of the things that’s frustrating about Apple’s Maps is that you don’t get the integrated transit information that’s the lifeblood of living in a place like New York City or...

Ask A VC is back this week with Google Ventures' general partner Karim Faris. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here and well ask them during the s...

Pokki, the web-to-desktop game conversion service from SweetLabs, has focused on web-based games and apps to the desktop, sort of like apps like Fluid do with site-specific browsers, but with a centra...

Fosbury, a new startup helping companies design iOS Passbook campaigns, is launching its online DIY design and distribution platform today, which is being made available on a pay-as-you go basis. Alth...

MakerBot and OUYA announced a partnership today that will allow gamers to print their own OUYA game console cases at home. The partnership will see OUYA create 3D design files for Thingiverse.com, Mak...

Gyft, theTechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012finalist working to bring the plastic gift card industry to mobile, is today announcing the general availability of its APIs, which allow developers to integrate Gyf...

Mobile advertising network InMobi today took one more step in its bid to be a one-stop shop for developers' app marketing needs, in the process taking advantage of the massive fragmentation that exist...

Mobile advertising network InMobi today took one more step in its bid to be a one-stop shop for developers' app marketing needs, in the process taking advantage of the massive fragmentation that exist...

Hot on the heels of Netflix's original series House Of Cards, the company hasannounced that it will release a new sci-fi TV series to the platform called Sense8. The show is being developed under the ...

Pool little Qualcomm: $100 billion in market cap but nobody knows your name. At least that's the song the company is singing in a new MIT Technology Review article today, which features Qualcomm Chief...

Centzy, a local search startup which is putting prices, store hours, ratings and specials for convenience-oriented businesses online, is today announcing $1.6 million in seed funding from Cowboy Ventu...

Notice a little extra red in the blue sea of Facebook the past couple of days? That's a new picture shared by the Human Rights Campaign, an advocacy group for LGBT individuals and their allies, which ...

The "free" in Free Software refers to "freedom", rather than cost. It is largely a happy coincidence that Free Software is available gratis. Copyleft licensing certainly helps, but there's no overarch...

Amazon just announced that it is adding its X-Ray feature to TV shows. The feature already worked with movies thanks to data from IMDb, but the company will now use this very same data for other video...

Amazon just announced that it is adding its X-Ray feature to TV shows. The feature already worked with movies thanks to data from IMDb, but the company will now use this very same data for other video...

Microsoft will be releasing an initial public preview release of Windows Blue, its next-generation desktop operating system, at its annual Build developer conference in late June, according to a new r...

Barnes & Noble content and tablet subsidiary Nook Media, part-owned by Microsoft specifically to help boost content for its new Windows 8 platform, today put some of that strategy into action: it ...

Tidemark is launching a new service today that provides a visual way to view a company's performance. The SaaS platform provides a way to see data that in many ways borrows from the infographic style ...

Another established hardware startup is turning to Kickstarter to help fund its next wares. This time it's the turn of Click & Grow, maker of the smart garden that lets you grow a plant indoors wi...

Maveron, the VC firm founded by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and Dan Levitan, is doubling down on seed investments. The firm, which has offices in both Seattle and San Francisco, has been making a few...

Apple is in court again in China, defending another of its products from attack based on pre-existing claims from a Chinese company. This time around it's Siri, Apple's virtual assistant, that has lan...

BlackBerry's App World now touts 100,000 BB10 applications. An impressive number for a platform just months old. But out of those 100,000 applications, roughly 20% are Android apps, simply ported over...

Strong growth in tablet sales is helping to drive overall growth in the global smart connected device market, according to analyst IDC. The analyst notes that market expansion last year was "largely d...

Wanelo, the hot social ecommerce startup that is reportedly raising new funding at a valuation north of $100 million, joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio to talk about how the company is NOT a Pinte...

Leybovich and long-time friend Francis Escuadro founded Meograph last year with the goal of creating an "Adobe for everybody" -- to let anybody create four-dimensional digital stories without having t...

Moovweb, a startup that offers technology for companies to build and maintain their mobile presence, just announced that it has raised $16 million in its first round of institutional funding.The fundi...

Demandbase, a company that develops B2B marketing software, has raised $15 million in new financing led by Scale Venture Partners with participation by existing investors Sigma Partners, Altos Venture...

Boxee TV has a new firmware update making its way out to its connected set-top boxes this week, which includes a number of big improvements including the addition of DLNA streaming. Spotted by GigaOM,...

Samsung lost out big to Apple last year in a mobile patent blowout in the U.S., but it's been slowly building up an arsenal of patents that potentially will keep it from falling into the same situatio...

Dutch startup SoSocio has raised $600,000 in second round funding from a European consortium of private investors to expand the reach of its Facebook Photobook application. The app lets users create d...

There is no single mobile payment company in Europe that has reached the scale and stature that Square has in the U.S., where the Jack Dorsey-led startup processed $1 billion in transactions in 2012. ...

If you've ever been in a sports bar with your friends to watch a big game, you've likely run into the "muting" problem. While the bar may have two dozen TVs, each might be playing a different game, an...

With the launch of Stocksy this week, Bruce Livingstone is officially taking another shot at building a digital stock photography service. His last attempt, iStockphoto, which he founded in 2000, has ...

Known as the Twitter of China, Sina Weibo is also infamous in the West for the number of high profile users who have had tweets censored, including Kai-fu Lee. The former head of Google China, who was...

Video distribution platform Ooyala wants to get more people watching more video on more devices. That's it's job, right? Well, ahead of NAB, the company is launching a couple of features that will hel...

"This is way better." That was the prevailing sentiment at today's Y Combinator Demo Day where 47 fresh startups strutted their stuff for investors. Compared to the 65 demos a year ago and tedious 75 ...

After the initial success of the Kickstarter campaign for a movie based on the TV show Veronica Mars (with a goal of $2 million, it has currently raised $3.9, and there are still 17 days to go), I had...

It's often difficult to discern the mind of Yuri Milner. Despite building his investments out of Russia initially, he hasn't invested in a startup there for over there years. What's luring him back? N...

Just weeks after first allowing foreign visitors to access 3G networks, North Korea has reportedly cut off mobile Internet service for short-term tourists, reports North Korea Tech (h/t Tech In Asia),...

Anyone remember the last time I said "Wow! Look at how pretty this web app is!"? Because I don't. At least, not before this morning when I saw Forecast....

Badgeville today launched a toolkit on the Salesforce Platform that is designed to get people more engaged in using online apps. The new toolkitputs a Salesforce Force.com wrapper around Badgevilles A...

TechCrunch is like most other publications founded before 2011 in that our readers have gone mobile way faster than our products have.In 2010, 10 percent of our readers were reading us from mobile dev...

Zendesk has released its first iPad app whose features reflect an approach that puts a premium on development and a focus on apps native to the iOS platform.And it is built for mountains and enhanced ...

Zendesk has released its first iPad app whose features reflect an approach that puts a premium on development and a focus on apps native to the iOS platform.And it is built for mountains and enhanced ...

Amazon just announced the launch of CloudHSM, a new service that provides Amazon Web Services users who need to meet corporate, contractual and regulatory compliance requirements for data security a w...

Here’s a familiar scenario: You’ve become bored with the current blogging platform you’re on or it decides to shut down like Posterous didafterTwitter acquired it.What do you do with...

Y Combinator was tougher to get into than ever this season, and the quality showed on stage. 33 startups presented on the record at the incubator's Winter 2013 Demo Day today. Picking the most promisi...

Y Combinator was tougher to get into than ever this season, and the quality showed on stage. 33 startups presented on the record at the incubator's Winter 2013 Demo Day today. Picking the most promisi...

Y Combinator's Winter 2013 Demo Day is a scaled back affair in many ways -- 47 startups are graduating at today's event, down significantly from the 84-startup Summer 2012 class and the 66-startup Win...

The Portland-based Vizify came out of TechStars' accelerator in 2011 with the goal of helping everyday people turn their personal data -- the stuff that's fragmented across scores of profiles, network...

Y Combinator Demo Day, where 47 startups are taking the stage to pitch investors and press, continues to roll along. Here are short descriptions of the second group of presenting companies (the descri...

Most of us have faced that sense of dread that comes when our phones lay drained and dysfunctional right when we need them the most. Sure, we could beat ourselves up for not charging them as long as w...

A new partnership between mobile game publisher Playdek and Wizards of the Coast, famed creator of Magic: The Gathering and other tabletop games will bring Dungeons & Dragons to the iPhone, iPad a...

Before the pitches kicked off at today's Y Combinator Demo Day, partner Paul Graham said the incubator was stricter than ever when selecting the current batch there are 47 companies demonstrating tod...

It's Demo Day time once again for Y Combinator, the startup incubator that has become a Silicon Valley institution since shaping its first class of startups back in 2005. A handful of us TechCrunch wr...

Google today announced that it has redesigned some of Google Analytics‘ social reports to make it easier for publishers to see when they get inbound links from other sites. The update also makes...

Shipping things to your house is so 2011, so companies like Amazon are setting up physical lockers for you to pick your online orders up from. Today, Walmart has announced that they’re testing a...

Even if you've got no idea what the Havok engine is, you've probably seen it before. Name a best-selling video game, and the odds that it's using Havok in one way or another are pretty huge.This morni...

Facebook stood loud and tall at today's Gaming Developers Conference, revealing that around 200 games on Facebook.com boast more than 1 million active users. Plus, more than $2 billion was paid out to...

Build is Microsoft’s developer conference for its Windows, Windows Phone, Windows Server and Azure platforms and the company just announced that Build 2013 will take place June 26-28 at San Fran...

The Jambox (or its many equivalents) is fine, but I much prefer the experience of visiting second-hand shops around the city in hopes of finding a tower speaker relic that smells musty but still has a...

Jelli, the radio startup offering local stations tools that allow their listener base to control the music selection and playlists, has just been awarded a patent on the concept of user-controlled bro...

Simpler, a new startup that wants to disrupt employee onboarding, is launching today and announcing $1.25 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, SV Angel, Data ...

Google just announced that it will send out invitations in the next few days to those who participated in its #ifihadglass campaign. Later this week, it will contact those who had the best ideas throu...

T-Mobile held a special event today to announce the death of the contract, with the carrier moving to a new model where customers purchase their own phone and are under no obligation to stick with the...

Zillow today launched the latest version of its Rentals mobile app for Android. The app includes a number of new features, such as integrated 3D maps from Google, but it also marks the company’s...

After serving two markets in California, ride-sharing startup Lyft is getting serious about expansion into other markets. To do so, the company has acqui-hired the operations team behind Cherry, the o...

Way back in January 2012, a service called Burn Note launched, aiming to protect your private messages by destroying them after a certain period of time. Right around the same time, the concept of eph...

Last year Facebook tested out and then launched Facebook Exchange ads in its right-hand column, a way for advertisers to market themselves to users based on those users' online browsing habits, using ...

We're pleased to announce John Donahoe, President and CEO of eBay, as a Disrupt NY speaker. Under his tutelage, eBay and its subsidiary PayPal have grown tremendously, with both companies expecting to...

The $25 Model A Raspberry Pi has gone on sale in Asia, following its launch in Europe last month -- suggesting a U.S. landing can't be too far off for the most affordable of the Pi Foundation's two lo...

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins is creating a new presence in L.A., announcing a partnership today with the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering and Un...

T-Mobile has announced its first LTE coverage areas today, with a network that launches in seven cities today, including Baltimore, Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Jose and Washington DC...

The iPhone has been make-or-break for carriers. AT&T had exclusivity for a while, hurting Verizon and Sprint until they got their hands on the iconic device. But T-Mobile is still in the dark, eve...

The iPhone has been make-or-break for carriers. AT&T had exclusivity for a while, hurting Verizon and Sprint until they got their hands on the iconic device. But T-Mobile is still in the dark, eve...

The iPhone has been make-or-break for carriers. AT&T had exclusivity for a while, hurting Verizon and Sprint until they got their hands on the iconic device. But T-Mobile is still in the dark, eve...

I love hardware. That's why I want you guys to bring some of the coolest hardware projects imaginable to Disrupt NYthisyear. That's why I want you guys in our Hardware Alley. And now time is running o...

Joining what is a newly-hot space within education -- those offering massively open online courses (a.k.a. MOOCs), from Khan Academy to Coursera and Lynda.com -- CreativeLIVE wants to bring quality on...

Following a soft launch in its native Netherlands back in October, Planspot -- described as an all-in-one event marketing tool -- is seeing its official International push today, including the U.S., n...

Embedly, the Y Combinator-backed content embedding service used by Yammer, bit.ly, 37Signals, Storify, Reddit, Kickstarter, SoundCloud, and others, is today extending its platform to include two new p...

As we raise a generation of extroverted over-sharers, some are making tools that ensure that our private moments - baby's first steps, junior's tumble down the ski hill - remain private. Take Tweekabo...

Nokia's Asha line of less-expensive smartphones (or high-end feature phones), not developed on Microsoft's Windows Phone but Nokia's own proprietary OS, is getting a new boost of attention today. The ...

Fast growing enterprise network security company OpenDNS is announcing a new investment this morning, raising an undisclosed amount of Series B funding from Sutter Hill Ventures. New managing partner ...

Things are moving fast in the world of Babbel, the language learning startup out of Germany which has been scaling its international presence since we first started covering them back in 2009. Today B...

Yandex, Russia's 'homegrown Google', is adding an English interface to its Yandex.Translate app for iOS, along with support for more language translation pairs, in order to widen the app's appeal and ...

The market for mobile advertising is forecast to reach $11.4 billion this year on the back of explosive growth in smartphones and tablets, but companies like Google, currently the world leader in mobi...

Insync, a startup offering an advanced, business-focused alternative to the Google Drive desktop client, is today taking the service out of a beta with a 1.0 release for Mac and Windows users. The upd...

Pocket, the save-for-later service that evolved from ReadItLater, is introducing new publisher tools today, including a way to see how content saved to the platform is performing, a button that publis...

CamBoard Pico is German firm pmdtec's next-generation gesture input reference device. We showed you before what it could potentially do to change the computer interface, and now there are a couple of ...

The European Commission wants half of the region's households to have Internet connections of 100Mbps or more by 2020, with minimum connections of 30Mbps for everyone; so today it kicked off one part ...

Apple was granted a patent Tuesday by the USPTO that describes a system for implementing multi-touch in a mobile device even when there the display itself isn't actively showing any images. It's a nea...

Another step along the long road of ICANN expanding the number of sanctioned top-level web domain names: it has launched a Trademark Clearing House to create a "foundation mechanism for brands to prot...

As quantified self devices and services come into their own, gamified social fitness tracker Fitocracy has found itself smack dab in the middle of a movement. But alas! The YC-backed company isn't sho...

No, Spotify has not just officially announced a reported move into video services, but the music streaming startup is continuing to put itself into the same places where video is. Today, Spotify annou...

Rev.com, a freelancer marketplace founded by early oDesk employees, is today announcing $4.5 million in Series A funding led by Venky Ganesan of Globespan Capital Partners. Alsoparticipatingin the rou...

Companies like Google, Twitter and Nielsen -- who respectively make money from digital advertising, want to make a lot more from digital ads, and get paid to provide data to justify ads online and off...

Zynga CIO DebraChrapaty has a new job as the CEO at Nirvanix, the Khosla Ventures backed enterprise storage company that she expects to further compete with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and extend into t...

Carl Icahn has said he is open to a partnership with Blackstone Group in a move that could make it easier for the rival investors to overtake Michael Dell's $24.4 billion buyout bid for the company he...

Yelp is announcing a new feature intended to highlight and quantify the value that the listing and review site provides for small businesses.A company spokesperson told me the feature is important for...

Facebook has confirmed to TechCrunch that a new bug has temporarily reset Like counts and comment threads on sites sporting its Like buttons and Comments plugin. Luckily, all the counts and comments s...

Facebook has confirmed to TechCrunch that a new bug has temporarily reset Like counts and comment threads on sites sporting its Like buttons and Comments plugin. Luckily, all the counts and comments s...

As a mechanism for payment, the credit card remains just as hardy as ever. It has so far defied the threat of mobile phones, and less plausibly, QR codes, among many other forms of payment. One YC-bac...

I love you Spotify, but you're freaking me out. Today you showed off your first television commercial. It's supposed to introduce the mainstream world to the wonder of listening to almost any song eve...

I love you Spotify, but you're freaking me out. Today you showed off your first television commercial. It's supposed to introduce the mainstream world to the wonder of listening to almost any song eve...

Once unfathomably expensive, thanks to scientific and technological advances, the cost of genome sequencing for your average Joe is dropping fast on its way to a big, historical benchmark: The $1,000 ...

Once unfathomably expensive, thanks to scientific and technological advances, the cost of genome sequencing for your average Joe is dropping fast on its way to a big, historical benchmark: The $1,000 ...

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins recently confirmed with CNET that the company would launch a midtier device yet this year and an "exciting" new flagship device could launch around the holidays. "It [the...

A few years ago, I received a panicked phone call from a friend I hadn't heard from in months. His Internet connection was on the fritz, and he had a huge project due the next morning. He'd called his...

The new book, Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think- written by Oxford University professor Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and The Economist journalist Ken Cukier - is the d...

Vine's ready for its close-up. The first footage of new Marvel comics superhero film The Wolverine was released today through a Vine "tweaser" tweeted by director James Mangold. That's a big departure...

Winter is almost over, but that isn’t stopping Google from expanding its list of ski runs on Google Maps. Just over a month after its last update, Google today announced that it has added trail ...

BitNami,a Y Combinator company, has announced that it will focus more on being an app store for server software. The goal is to provide customers with a Google Play or Apple App Store experience that ...

Any startups out there seeking to build a business by setting out to confuse as many users as possible with overly complex pricing structures, while tricking those who can't afford the full-fat servic...

Twitter has released an open invite to a developer press event it's holding April 2 on its dedicated developer website today. The event is mobile-focused, Twitter says, and will take place at Twitter ...

Twitter has done a great job at keeping the whole "blue badge" verification process a mystery. If curiosity eats away at you like it does me, you're in luck. A new video from comedians Hari and Ashok ...

BlackBerry delivered one of the world's most mysterious press releases a short time ago when it revealed that it had sold a cool 1 million BB10 devices to an unnamed partner, but now it looks like som...

I'm a little embarrassed to admit how reliant I've become on Uber when I'm traveling -- most regular cab drivers seem to find me terribly repellant -- but now the service is now is working to expand i...

When Twitter or Dropbox go public, they should remember May 18th. The SEC has just approved NASDAQ's pay out of $62 million to investors burned when the stock exchange's trading systems broke down dur...

Paul (not his real name) has never seen the movie The Divide. He's a horror buff and sometimes tries to find odd and decidedly bad flicks to watch with his wife. The Divide would have fit the bill. It...

Facebook today is rolling out two more features for Pages used by brands and businesses and public Profiles for individuals with more than 10,000 followers: it is adding replies and threaded comments....

The complexity of connecting tools in this new API economy is getting compounded by the inability to link this new breed of services so people can talk in context about the code. Application developme...

The mobile phone is today's PC, but not necessarily in the way you think. They've reached a pleasant plateau hardware-wise, and are poised for a diversification movement like the PC faced in the early...

While the number of seed financing deals has ballooned over the last few years as the cost of starting a company has fallen, the pace of Series A venture deals hasn’t kept up. Now it looks like ...

Proven, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed mobile app which allows users to apply to jobs from their smartphone, has now rolled out an update to its Android version (iOS to follow) that introduces a way fo...

In mere weeks, the TC juggernaut rolls into New York for Disrupt, and that means were going to be giving hackers all over the East Coast (and beyond) an epic platform to show just how amazing their te...

Sherpa, a stealthy startup that has built a personalized predictive intelligence app for the iPhone that's powered by your location data and other personal information, is announcing today that it has...

When Google acquired Nik Software, the development shop behind the popular Snapseed mobile photography app, it wasn’t clear what Google’s plans for Nik’s other products was. Today, G...

When Google acquired Nik Software, the development shop behind the popular Snapseed mobile photography app, it wasn’t clear what Google’s plans for Nik’s other products were. Today, ...

Today, Google has announced a mobile refresh for Google+, for Android and iOS, that includes some of the functionality that has come out for the desktop over the past few months. Both versions wi...

The federal government is reportedly going to allow passengers to use electronics during takeoff, after an internal study inevitably finds that an unattended Kindle cannot plunge a jetliner to its fie...

Digg today responded to early user feedback about its plans for a Google Reader replacement announced earlier this month, saying that it has narrowed down incoming requests to four key points: keep it...

Google's first trial to use the unused channels in the broadcast TV spectrum to provide wireless broadband access launched in 2010 in Logan, Ohio. Since then, Google has shown a lot of interest in thi...

Mozilla has announced a new workshop series designed to help spark interest in app development for the forthcoming Firefox OS, with the first three to take place in Madrid, Spain on April 20; Bogot, C...

Windows Phone Blue, Microsoft's upcoming update for Windows Phone 8, popped a minor leak over the weekend, but now Tom Warren over at the Verge has had a chance to go hands-on with an early version of...

Professional social network LinkedIn today is announcing an upgrade to its search features -- one of the first big overhauls that the search function has had in years, with new features including impr...

Continuing its investment in original content, Amazon today announced it is greenlighting "Zombieland," a new comedy series based on the Columbia Pictures movie of the same name, which will be made av...

Perhaps poor marketing is holding back Wii U sales for Nintendo. As Spike TV's GTTV host Geoff Keighley noted on Twitter, a new campaign from Nintendo is using flyers to show just how awesome the Wii ...

Tiny smartphone thermometer accessory Thermodo is on a funding roll, and it hopes to keep things going with new backer levels that it has shared exclusively with TechCrunch. Two new colorways are in d...

ShopInterest, the 500 Startups-backed e-commerce site that lets you sell from your Pinterest boards, is announcing plans to extend its beta period by six more months while it gets its SMB-focused sell...

The Barnes & Noble Nook isn't doing amazingly well by most accounts, including a recently introduced giveaway program from the company itself that isn't quite (but sure resembles) a fire sale. Now...

Evernote has just updated its Android app to version 5.0, the same update that recently hit both iOS and Mac OS X. The update brings with it an updated UI, as well as a number of new features such as ...

Oracle continues on its acquisition trail to build out a more full-service operation targeting the carrier market. Today it announced that it would acquire Tekelec, a provider of network signaling, po...

Yahoo! has picked up the pace on pretty much everything since Marissa Mayer became CEO, especially mobile acquisitions. Just five days ago, the company acquired social recommendation company Jybe and ...

On the heels of Apple buying WifiSLAM for $20 million to improve its indoor geolocation capabilities comes another piece of M&A in the space: Tibco Software, the enterprise software company, has b...

The OUYA Android-based gaming console is getting ready for its debut: the stated beginning shipping date for Kickstarter backers is March 28. At launch, it sill isn't clear exactly how many software t...

Shazam, the erstwhile exclusively music discovery app that has expanded into TV as a companion app letting users 'tag' TV shows (and ads) to get quick access to a plethora of related content, has toda...

HTC has revealed that it will finally drop the frankly stupid "Quietly Brilliant" tagline it has been using for the past few years, the WSJ reports, with company marketing chief Benjamin Ho saying the...

NTT Docomo, the largest carrier in Japan, is taking one more step into China today. The company announced that it will offer a localized version of its new "d game" gaming service on China Mobile. Thi...

Facebook is slowly beefing up the capabilities of its Messenger app as it moves to combat the rise of free VoIP apps like Whatsapp, Viber and Line. Today it's taking another baby step by expanding VoI...

Evernote, the popular note taking and personal organizer app, today took another step in its strategy to ramp up its international presence, with news that it has inked a strategic partnership with De...

Evernote, the popular note taking and personal organizer app, today took another step in its strategy to ramp up its international presence, with news that it has inked a strategic partnership with De...

Last October, Minecraft creator Mojang followed in the footsteps of Rovio's Angry Birds franchise and inked a deal with specialist children's publisher Egmont -- for book and magazine publishing right...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. It's 2013, over 20 years since Adobe first released Photoshop for the Macintosh, and here I am writing about a simple, yet seductive, photo editing...

We're fast approaching Disrupt NY, TechCrunch's big conference in the Big Apple taking place April 29-May 1 at the Manhattan Center. This year's event promises to be one of the most international yet,...

Catcha Group, a Malaysia-based investment firm has announced it will invest up to $150 million in Asean-based online businesses over the next five years. The funds will come both from the top as well ...

Many of the brighter ideas coming out of tech startups in the Philippines are health-related, with a heavy slant on mobile technologies. Filipino incubator, IdeaSpace just whittled a list of 700 entri...

Editor's note: Ethan Kurzweilis aVC at Bessemer Venture Partners.Every year at SXSW, a winning meme emerges thats attached to the latest hot new it company. Years ago it was tweet everything, includin...

ZTE is honing in on increased investment in 4G networks by China’s major telecom operators as it struggles to catch up with domestic rival Huawei Technologies, reports Reuters. ZTE and Huawei ar...

For the past week or so I've been at hanging out at Penn State University for its second annual Startup Week, an educational get-together of startup founders and entrepreneurs spearheaded by Weebly CE...

Something is seriously wrong in Larry Land. Oracle does not command absolute control like it once did. You can see what is happening pretty clearly when you review the earnings the company posted last...

Powerpoint presentations. Not once in the history of humanity has someone said “Oh man, I LOVE giving Powerpoint presentations” non-sarcastically. Really, I looked it up. Presefy, a four-m...

You’ve all heard stories about the infamous dot-com bubble burst of the early aughts. It wasn’t pretty, a lot of people lost a lot of money – and their livelihoods to boot. There wil...

Dell's board is looking at two surprise takeover bids from Blackstone Group and billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, reports Reuters citing sources close to the discussion. A special committee is...

In a land where entrepreneurs are struggling desperately to integrate location into the worldwide photo-sharing phenomenon, Albumatic may have swooped in just in time. Ventures like Color and others h...

Prizeo is a startup aiming to channel celebrities' social media influence into funding for charity.Co-founders Bryan Baum and Leo Seigal are familiar with the fundraising world, having founded the Alo...

If judged by my Twitter stream last week, the shutdown of Google Reader is the biggest story ever in the history of news. Of course, the reality is that Google is likely shutting down the product for ...

Amazon Web Services believes wholeheartedly that the cloud is the future. And not just the cloud, but the AWS public cloud. As a result, Amazon sees big opportunity for its technology in the enterpris...

Google, the world's largest search engine and one of the most powerful tech companies around, is now using its muscle to search for something new: social entrepreneurs. Today, the company is announcin...

Tablets are everywhere these days thanks to the iPad, but they lack a certain finesse necessary for fine digital arts work. That's where longtime players like Wacom and Modbook still excel. Recently, ...

This past week, TechCrunch TV was honored to host an intimate roundtable discussion of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's new best-selling book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead....

Confession: I have a few storage boxes in the loft containing old but barely used gadgets. Stowed away, still in their boxes, as if waiting for the right time to be brought out like unloved Christmas ...

Two years ago, Google’s Vic Gundotra keynoted the company’s 2011 I/O developer conference, and one of the big surprises of the day was the launch of Android@Home, Google’s attempt to...

At least Facebook didn't break anything, but the extra feeds and search box it recently launched have yet to drastically improve my experience. The homepage redesign is pretty, but I keep forgetting t...

I don't see any problem with this.In short, a West Virginia lawmaker wants to make wearing head mounted displays while driving against the law in his state. The devices would join other banned electro...

Happy Sunday! I hope you'll agree with me when I say TGICW (Thank goodness it's CrunchWeek) -- that very special time each week when a few of us writers gather around the TechCrunch TV cameras to shoo...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that Apple has acquired WiFiSlam, an indoor GPS startup that enables smartphones to pinpoint its location -- along with that of your friends -- in realtime u...

For this week's column, I wanted to write about something entirely different than the normal market trends and product analysis you'd see on "Iterations." When I moved back to California in the middle...

We sat down Foundation Capital General Partner Paul Holland and one of participants in the firm's Young Entrepreneurs Program, which offers MBA hopefuls and graduate students an opportunity to essenti...

Sitting in Snobar, a cool bar shaded by fir trees in deepest Ramallah, George Khadder is practically thumping the table as he speaks. A Palestinian who has worked in Silicon Valley, he talks passionat...

According to Israeli publications The Marker and Calcalist, IT software giant CA Technologies will purchase Israeli app deployment and management company Nolio. The acquisition price has been reported...

Editor's note: Sid Venkatesan is an IP partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.James Freedmanis an associate in Orricks IP group and a recent Stanford Law School graduate.Online content prov...

The annual Game Developer's Conference rolls into San Francisco next week. The event is always worth attending if only to see what the future will bring. This year's, more than most, will be a real be...

Watch out, Google. A recently published patent application reveals that Sony's head mounted display glasses are progressing down the evolutionary path rather nicely. What once amounted to just wide-ey...

Editors note:This is the second part of a two-part guest column byZach Noorani.Is angel capital an attractive asset class? Is the crowd capable of being good investors, willing to spend 20-40 hours do...

Editor's note:Byron Deeter is the lead cloud specialist at Bessemer Venture Partners.A few years ago, most people couldnt tell you what the cloud was, let alone anticipate a market in which the sexy, ...

Editors note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. Each column will look at crowdfunded products that have either met or missed their funding goals.Last week...

Editors note:Jason Shellen is aformer Googler and founding product manager of Google Reader. He is now co-founder at Boxer and advisor at Tapedeck.As part of Google's recent announcement that it is sh...

Startup founders just getting their projects off the ground can be so focused on finding money, period, that they don't think about being choosy about who it comes from. But according to August Capita...

“We’re going to have more visibility and less privacy. I don’t see how you stop that,” admitted New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, in a surprisingly candid interview about...

“We’re going to have more visibility and less privacy. I don’t see how you stop that,” admitted New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in a surprisingly candid interview about t...

If there is one sliver lining in the Google Reader shutdown that has enraged the blogosphere (OK fine, the tech blogosphere), it's the fact that Google offers a way for Reader users to export their RS...

If there is one sliver lining in the Google Reader shutdown that has enraged the blogosphere (OK fine, the tech blogosphere), it's the fact that Google offers a way for Reader users to export their RS...

Our beds used to be finite. A limited range of activities took place there. We'd sleep, or try to, make love, eat, and maybe read a paperback. But we could only hide from the world for so long. The na...

It's been said that there aren't many apps available for Windows 8. I've said that on occasion. But that's not entirely true. According to the MetroStoreScanner.com, there are now more than 50,000 app...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Danny Sullivan, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor convened with Gillmor in Boston and the Gang in California. We took another cut at the Google Reader damage, with @dann...

An Internet Sales Tax is inching its way to closer to being the law of the land: the U.S. Senate supported a non-binding vote of approval, 75-to-24, for a law that would allow cities, in some circumst...

We're back! After a long hiatus, we've started up the TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast, our weekly review of everything hardware. We'll be talking about hardware startups, flagship gadgets, and the wild and...

"I pledge allegiance to the logo of corporate marketing in Cupertino. And to the computers for which it stands: One notion, under Jobs, indispensable, for hardware and software for all." Steve Wozniak...

"I pledge allegiance to the logo of corporate marketing in Cupertino. And to the computers for which it stands: One notion, under Jobs, indispensable, for hardware and software for all." Steve Wozniak...

If you love books--heck, if you even like 'em--run, don't walk, and read this magnificent, magisterial essay by Richard Nash on their past, present and future. It's long. Don't be frightened. But even...

Editor's note: Boris Wertz is the founder of version one ventures.We already know that the most profitable companies from the first wave of cloud software were players in the horizontal space. Compani...

Editor's note:Mike Jones is CEO of Science, Inc., a Los Angeles-based technology studio.Content and commerce have always had a symbiotic relationship that many traditional content providers tried to s...

There are Twitter accounts for almost everything these days. Some people I know have accounts set up for their pets, then there are toasters, beds, drones and so on. The company itself has a fun accou...

Welcome back for the last segment of our roundtable discussion of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's new best-selling book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.We concluded the series with a discus...

Apparently, starting one popular T-shirt website wasn't enough for Josh Abramson.Last week Abramson, who previously co-founded the jokey T-shirt retailer BustedTees, launched TeePublic, which is basic...

In this week's Ask A VC, Comcast Ventures' Managing Director Michael Yang sat in the hot seat to talk about his passion for digital healthcare, and much more....

Theres been nothing but bad news coming from Barnes & Noble lately, and it seems as though the company has decided to resort to the desperate measure of giving away Nooks for free. Reuters is repo...

From an economic perspective, the fall of 2008 brought dark days all over the world. But one of the hardest-hit places was Iceland, the Nordic European country whose entire financial system went into ...

Where are the users headed following news of Google Reader's shutdown? To Feedly, it seems. We already heard the company announce it had passed half a million users, but more importantly, Feedly is no...

Damn it, Internet. I had things I needed to do this afternoon.So much for that. A VHS recording of a 1984 Apple enthusiast meetup was recently rediscovered, and it had at least one very special gem tu...

Gillmor Gang - Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recording for today has concluded...

Gillmor Gang - Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Kevin MArks, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live today at 1pm Pacific....

Since we started Makers I've made it a priority to try to visit Adafruit Industries, the amazing Manhattan-based electronics shop run by Limor Fried. Fried started her company out of her dorm room at ...

Heyzap, a Y Combinator-incubated social platform for mobile games, is releasing a software development kit today allowing developers and publishers to introduce Heyzap ads to their games.Basically, it...

Albumatic, the latest venture photo-sharing from Devon Gundry and Vine investor Adam Ludwin, is raising a $4.5 million round in funding, according to a recent SEC filing. Adam Ludwin, co-founder and ...

Albumatic, the latest venture photo-sharing from Devon Gundry and Vine investor Adam Ludwin, is raising a $4.5 million round in funding, according to a recent SEC filing. Adam Ludwin, co-founder and ...

Residents of our nations capital will now get to see what ride-sharing is all about, as San Francisco-based startup SideCar announced today that it is making its service available Washington, D.C. The...

Chatter will become the primary interface for Salesforce.com, CEO Marc Benioff said today at the kickoff of a national tour for the company's new "customer," focus.Benioff, speaking in Boston, provide...

Apple has made a tweak to the way it shows that free apps that have in-app purchases, the Guardian noted today. The new notice appears under the price bar and the app icon in app listings on iTunes on...

Theres something very thrilling about getting to play with something before everyone else does (thats at least partially why I fell in love with tech journalism), but opportunities for that sort of ea...

This is not a good sign for online education: 72 percent of professors who have taught Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) don't believe that students should get official college credit, even if they ...

When TechCrunch attended the San Francisco premiere of Game of Thrones Season 3, we didn't just ask the cast members about their smartphones. I also had a few minutes to talk to HBO CEO Richard Pleple...

Canonical announced via its blog yesterday that it will be building an Ubuntu-based open-source OS for China, in partnership with the Chinese government and members of the Chinese developer community....

Rovio is yet again breaking into new businesses with the introduction of the first Angry Birds interactive attraction, as the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is opening an Angry Birds Space Encou...

BlackBerry is launching the Z10 today in the U.S., but it's already looking ahead to what comes next, according to an interview between ABC's Joanna Stern and BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins. The compan...

Once Twitter acquired Posterous, we knew that it was going to shut down at some point, as there was no way that the micro-blogging service would support a fully-featured alternative platform. Once we ...

Roamz, a local search and discovery startup which has been struggling to gain traction as a consumer-facing service, is shifting its focus again. This time, it's shopping its aggregated location-based...

Last October, Google announced the limited beta of Universal Analytics, an effort to bring new features like cross-platform and mobile app analytics, as well as the ability to incorporate data from of...

Perpetual underdog Mobli, an app thats a cross between Instagram and Vine, has released a new update to its iOS app in their latest effort to gain some of the photo sharing market....

HTC's new flagship smartphone, the HTC One, will go on sale in the U.K., Germany and the company's home market of Taiwan next week, HTC has confirmed today. The rollout will then ramp up "across Europ...

Dropbox has scored another big win on the staffing front. Rasmus Andersson, the Swedish designer and technologist who for the past two years has worked at Facebook leading the design of mobile product...

Video sharing startup Vilynx launched to enable its users to quickly and easily manage videos that they have shot and stored across multiple devices. Linking in to cloud storage, and a ready stable of...

While T-Mobile is a bit late to the LTE game, the company confirmed on Monday that their new network would be launching by the end of the month. Where it would launch, however, was kept under wraps.Th...

Famil.io, a new service for privately sharing photos and videos with your family across web and mobile, is today officially launching to the public. The sharing platform can serve as a complement to F...

According to his brand new lawyer, Andrew "weev" Auernheimer, otherwise known as the AT&T hacker, will appeal his sentence of 41 months in prison, three years probation, and restitution of $73,000...

According to his brand new lawyer, Andrew "weev" Auernheimer, otherwise known as the AT&T hacker, will appeal his sentence of 41 months in prison, three years probation, and restitution of $73,000...

The first ad tech IPO of 2013 hit the NYSE today: Marin Software priced its 7.5 million shares at $14 each, raising $105 million at a valuation of $425 million. Trading under the symbol MRIN, the stoc...

Sources close to the situation claimed yesterday evening that Julius Genachowski would be stepping down from his post as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and today he has taken the p...

If you're looking for a smartwatch in the next few years, you likely won't want for choice. A new report pegs LG as developing its own take on the new category, according to The Korea Times on Friday....

Line, the messaging-app-cum-social network that started in Asia but has spread beyond its home turf to amass more than 100 million users globally, has just added French and Brazilian Portuguese versio...

Shopping and comparison engineDecide.com, which offers suggestions as to not just what to buy but also when, is announcing today that it has raised $8 million in Series C funding, in a round led by Vu...

Amidst Apple iWatch rumors and Google Glass sightings, it would appear that Google is actually working on its own smartwatch to be paired alongside connected Android devices. According to the Financia...

Today, TechCrunch has learned from sources that Crowdtilt has raised $12 million in Series A financing. It's the startup's second round of funding, following its $2.1 million seed round back in May, w...

Will Sasso, it is said, is an actor. If you were to, say, look for all of his Vines, you would also discover that this is the only man in the entire universe to use the medium correctly and, what's mo...

Do you have a favorite coffee shop or dressmaker in your neighborhood? Now you can do a lot more than simply rave about your favorite local business to a friend: microloan giant, Kiva, is bringing cro...

Sensor-laden watches that electronically measure the temperature, barometric pressure, and magnetic north are fairly cheap. A nice Casio can be had for about $200. But if you're one of those high-tech...

Google co-founder Sergey Brin took the stage at the TED Conference late in February, delivering a talk about Google Glass in which he dropped his now infamous quote about smartphones being "emasculati...

Australian hardware startup and Kickstarter success story LIFX has good news for people who missed out on backing the initial project: it's opening up a second round of pre-orders, with a new producti...

Amazon's on-demand video streaming service, LOVEFiLM Instant, which competes with Netflix in the U.K., is continuing to build out its children's content corner, today inking a content licensing deal w...

TripAdvisor, the travel site built around destination guides and user reviews, today made another acquisition: it has bought Tiny Post, an app that lets users take pictures, write captions over them, ...

The analysts at comScore have today published their latest research detailing how Europe is progressing in areas like smartphone penetration, broadband and consumer digital services like video consump...

The analysts at comScore have today published their latest research detailing how Europe is progressing in areas like smartphone penetration, broadband and consumer digital services like video consump...

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is a man with a mission: to try to drum up interest in the company's Windows Phone line of Lumia smartphones in a market saturated with Androids and iPhones. So what better way ...

For many travelers, their sense of adventure is only stymied by language barriers. With its roster of offbeat activities, however, travel site Voyagin seeks to give visitors a more intimate look at fi...

The research chief of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said yesterday (link via Google Translate) that there is still a significant gap between China's broadband coverage and th...

TheBlaze, a set of online ventures run by conservative commentator Glenn Beck, is raising $40 million in new funding, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.The filing state...

Sherpa, a personal assistant app that launched initially in the Spanish-speaking world, just announced that it has raised $1.7 million in funding from undisclosed angel investors.Sherpa users can spea...

Spanning Cloud Apps has raised $6 million, in part from The Foundry Group but primarily from an undisclosed strategic investor. One thing is for sure, Google is not the one investing. That is if Spann...

TechCrunch was lucky enough to interview several of the Game of Thrones cast members before the San Francisco screening of its Season 3 Premiere. Since we work for a tech blog, we weren't that interes...

Twitter rolled out the option to download a massive archive of your history on the service, which you could then review and search through on your desktop last december. On its seventh birthday, Twitt...

On the occasion of its seventh birthdaytoday,Twitter has announced that personal archives of tweets are now available for 12 more languages: In December, when Twitter rolled out the option todownload ...

Welcome back for part three of our four-part roundtable discussion of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's new best-selling book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.In this segment, we first tackled...

Compared to the glut of young tech startups that have popped up in the financial services space over the last several years, Yodlee is a veteran. Founded in 1999, the company got its start by developi...

Hot on the heels of Exec’s Cleaning Service launch in NYC, we couldn’t resist the opportunity to get CEO and co-founder Justin Kan in the studio for a quick chat. We also couldn’t re...

Bookboard, a subscription service for children’s books, has launched itsiPad app, which gives parents and children streaming access to its library of books. Like many kids apps startups,three fo...

In light of the recent PyCon debacle in which an offended party publicly shamed two developers at a conference for discussing dongles, I thought it would be interesting to address the problems of "lad...

Apple's hardware design chief is now collaborating more closely with software and interface design staff, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. Apple's mobile software team now gets ...

AngelHack has always been a little different from your average hackathon rather than taking place in one place over one weekend, it has become a global event that takes place in multiple stages. As a...

Last March, Zynga announced its ambitions to create a web and mobile platform for social games. Zynga.com is a destination for both the company's own games as well as for third-party developers who wa...

Apple has just issued Podcasts version 1.2, which brings a long list of improvements to the iOS app. Among the changes are a new feature that lets users generate their own custom playlists with any po...

Facebook has come up with another way to prevent you from leaving its site. While you’re setting up an event, especially one that’s going to take place outside, it makes total sense that y...

Facebook has come up with another way to prevent you from leaving its site. While you’re setting up an event, especially one that’s going to take place outside, it makes total sense that y...

BlackBerry has now issued a statement confirming that its relationship is still on with the Department of Defense -- hopefully, for its sake, closing the loop on the story that started with reports th...

A year ago, Kiip ran a "Build Fund" contest for independent developers, offering $100,000 in prizes. Founder and CEO Brian Wong told me recently that the fund was supposed to be a one-off promotion, b...

"In the Studio" opens the spring of 2013 by welcoming one of the most well-known "super angels," who arrived to Valley, by way of Boston, Philadelphia, and Istanbul, in the mid-1990s, held early produ...

Apple reached out to us today to clarify that regardless of comments made by Google Executive Chairman at the Big Tent event in India earlier today, it hasn't yet received an official submission of Go...

Pocket Change says its mission is to "build the world's first universal rewards currency," but until now it has been limited to Android apps. Today, it's announcing that it's opening to iOS developers...

In an age of blogs, tweets, Hacker News, Reddit and Anonymous, an off-the-cuff joke can spin wildly out of control. At least it appears that’s what happened with PyCon this week when a sexual jo...

Twitter turned seven years old today. The company posted a fun video about its history, which we already know plenty about. We’ll get to that later, though. Another thing we know about Twitter i...

Forrester has put out a new digital marketing report, off the back of a survey of more than 58,000 online consumers, looking at how brands can better sell themselves and create content that flies in t...

Browsers today are able to execute JavaScript code significantly faster than just a few years ago, but even as our web apps now look more like desktop apps, JavaScript performance is still a far cry f...

Microsoft is definitely ending support for Windows Phone 8 next year, but we’ve heard precious little about its successor. There are hints from job postings, but now a new leaked video (via The ...

Payments startup Stripe is announcing a new partnership with Parse, a mobile app development platform. The company is also revealing that its payments platform is being used by Lyft, Exec, SideCar, Or...

Last week, I agreed to a briefing about Tableau 8.0, the company's latest release and what they say is their most exciting news of the year. Well, I am unimpressed. The Tableau software is robust, whi...

Mashery API management platform has continued to grow steadily. After growing from 35,000 developers in its network to 100,000 in a year, the company now has over 185,000 developers on its network -- ...

Back when the Lockitron crowdsourced its way to a few million, there were still all sorts of questions that needed answering. How was this lil' WiFi-enabled box supposed to live off batteries for mont...

Google Japan has just put out what looks to be one of the more interesting Chrome experiments to date. This latest online demo lets you sync up your computer and mobile device, turning any website int...

For many app developers, TestFlight was a ray of sunshine that offered desperately needed beta testing tools in the early days of the App Store. I remember many developer friends literally asking Test...

Before he was upending the media and financial services, Twitter Co-founder Jack Dorsey was a proud hacker. During a 60 Minutes interview with Lara Logan, he recounted how hacking helped launch his pr...

Microsoft’s Bing search engine now knows quite a bit more about people and places, thanks to an upgrade to its Satori entity engine and a partnership with LinkedIn. This means Bing now featurest...

AppSurfer, an Indian startup working to bring Android applications to the browser so users can "try before they buy," is today launching an Android application which lets users browse, test, then inst...

As Vine celebrates a full two months on the App Store, other video-centric apps are making their public debut, not least of which is Glide. Glide lets you enjoy video chat on your own schedule. Just a...

Hulu Plus, Netflix, Amazon Prime offer compelling alternatives to cable TV for those who don’t want to subscribe to regular cable. But what if you could subscribe to an Internet-based cable TV s...

As far as group chat tools go, HipChat is among the best available options, and now the Atlassian-owned company is introducing a free tier to its existing pricing plans. The entry-level free plan will...

Back in December 2011, Omada Health grabbed $800K in seed funding from a long list of notable investors, including NEA, Aberdare, Kapor Capital, TriplePoint Ventures and Esther Dyson. After a year of ...

BlackBerry announced earlier today that its BlackBerry World content portal has officially crossed the 100,000 app marker, and has chosen to celebrate by talking up availability of some select, high-p...

Here's the rub. "Web 2.0" was an idea which came about to describe the Web not just as a series of pages, but as a platform in its own right. And thus we have seen the rise of a new technology wave ba...

The world of language learning startups is going international. Today, Berlin-based Babbel, which creates online and mobile-based language learning courses, is buying PlaySay, a TC Disrupt finalist th...

The world of language learning startups is going international. Today, Berlin-based Babbel, which creates online and mobile-based language learning courses, is buying PlaySay, a TC Disrupt finalist th...

Many investors and advisors will tell you that you shouldn't have professional services revenue at your enterprise startup. This is wrong. PS helps secure customer success and brings in quick revenue ...

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt was on stage today at the Google Big Tent Summit in India, and he discussed a range of topics, including Google Now. Recent rumors posit that Google Now could ma...

Digital coupon giant Coupons.com is today announcing that it has acquired San Francisco-basedKitchMe, a startup offering recipe saving, meal planning and shopping lists in a visual interface. The Kitc...

Spanish startup, Knok, a holiday home exchange community that competes with the UK's Love Home Swap and legacy player IHEN, has raised a further 500,000 (~$645k) to help it accelerate international gr...

Yahoo has been moving swiftly to bring talent back into the company -- with a number of acquisitions (one only yesterday) and etudes made to ex-employees to return to the purple fold. It's also, it ap...

Canon has indeed introduced a new, very small DSLR as rumored earlier in the week. The SL1 (as it's known in the U.S.) is "world's smallest and lightest DSLR camera," the company says, with a body tha...

EverTrue, the education fundraising and mobile alumni networking platform, is showing today that it's not familiar with this "Series A Crunch" you speak of -- in the education technology market or oth...

Y Combinator-backed Posmetrics, a new tool to help brick-and-mortar businesses collect customer feedback via the iPad, is today making its public debut. The company has designed its online surveys to ...

Advertising and measurement company Quantcast is launching a new service today called Measure for Mobile Apps. As the name implies, it collects data on the usage of a publisher's iOS and Android apps....

Spotify and Rdio have already made their mark (for better or worse) on Windows Phone 8, but that doesnt mean there isnt room in the Windows Phone Store for another claimant to the streaming music thro...

Leaf, the Cambridge, Mass.-based company that offers a point-of-sale solution based on its own Android tablet for small- to medium-sized businesses, announced that it will soon launch an app store for...

Toronto’s ClearFit, a company that uses automated software and algorithms to bubble up the top applicants for employers looking for quality hires, today announced the close of a $7 million Serie...

Google's Eric Schmidt has said Mountain View will keep its two OSes, Android and Chrome, separate after all, according to a Reuters report. Schmidt, who is in India attending an IT event called Big Te...

The founders of some of Europe's biggest technology startup hits -- Skype, Rovio, Spotify, and Tuenti -- along with key planks of the ecosystem, including accelerators SeedCamp and HackFwd, are throwi...

The bring your own device (BYOD) movement has been sweeping through the business world, contributing to the so-called "consumerization of enterprise," as employees are increasingly bringing their own ...

The religious right isn't having a good year: the new Republican National Committee roadmap almost entirely excludes religious issues, a majority of young conservatives support same-sex marriage, and ...

Silicon Milkroundabout, the London-based networking event started as an informal side-project by two of the founders of the live music alert service Songkick, is growing up. Three years on from its fi...

If you’re looking for stuff to do, in a new city or your own, there are various ways to get that info, including Yelp, Zvents, Frommer’s guides and more. Waterloo-based Rebellion Media wou...

Japanese group coupon buying site Luxa just closed its Series B funding of $5.3 million (500 million Yen) from JAFCO. The Japanese VC also backed Luxa’s Series A round in November 2010, when it ...

Louisville-based startup Red e App, a real-time private mobile messaging platform for enterprises with a high proportion of mobile workers that lets them send secure, trackable internal communications...

Louisville-based startup Red e App, a real-time private mobile messaging platform for enterprises with a high proportion of mobile workers that lets them send secure, trackable internal communications...

A new Apple patent filing describes a variety of methods to protect a dropped iPhone during a fall, lessening damage through a number of clever systems. The USPTO filing, spotted by AppleInsider, incl...

A note of consolidation in the world of digital music: Rumblefish, a company that works with the likes of YouTube, Amazon, Vimeo, Facebook and Slideshare to let users add licensed soundtracks to their...

Somewhere, there is a very sad music lobby analyst shedding a tear. "The vast majority of the music that is consumed illegally by the individuals in our sample would not have been legally purchased if...

Vidyard, a Y Combinator alumnus and enterprise startup that sells a video marketing platform with embedded analytics tools to businesses to help them track and monetise video content, has closed a $6 ...

Accel Partners has just this morning announced another hefty fund of $475 million. It's the company's fourth fund for Accel London and will be used for investments across a wide range of technologies ...

Accel Partners has just this morning announced another hefty fund of $475 million. It's the company's fourth fund for Accel London and will be used for investments across a wide range of technologies ...

As you've no doubt heard by now, March Madness is upon us, with the NCAA tournament officially kicking off tomorrow. Yes, March Madness brings April gladness, as the saying goes. In fact, difficult as...

As you've no doubt heard by now, March Madness is upon us, with the NCAA tournament officially kicking off tomorrow. Yes, March Madness brings April gladness, as the saying goes. In fact, difficult as...

The U.S. Department of Defense will order 650,000 iOS devices to replace older BlackBerry devices that are incompatible with the new BlackBerry 10 operating system after the sequester is over, reports...

Google's been awfully busy these past few weeks, but it seems that between sunsetting Reader (and pissing off most of the internet in the process) and rolling out new services like Google Keep, the co...

Braintree’s $26.2 million deal to buy New York’s mobile payments startup Venmo seems to be paying off once more for the Accel-backed company. The company is launching an easier way for col...

Braintree’s $26.2 million deal to buy New York’s mobile payments startup Venmo seems to be paying off once more for the Accel-backed company. The company is launching an easier way for col...

Today, YouTube announced that it has hit a billion monthly users, which is an extremely insane metric. We know that YouTube is the go-to place for silly, interesting and important videos, but these nu...

Facebook is preparing to roll out a new feature on Pages and popular Profiles that will help increase interactions with fans and readers: Replies. Up to now, visitors could comment on a post but other...

British Airways today announced the first of its "UnGrounded" innovation lab flights that will assemble 100 Silicon Valley luminaries on a flight to London to devise a platform for connecting tech tal...

Spotify today confirmed to TechCrunch that it has finally completed the rollout of its new social following features that model music discovery after offline behavior -- where you find songs through t...

When Y Combinator-incubated Perfect Audience launched last year, its stated goal was to make it easy for small advertisers (startups, small agencies, and others) to run retargeted ads on Facebook. Tur...

Concurrent has raised $4 million in a Series A funding for its big data application development platform and hired a new CEO. The investment was led by True Ventures and Rembrandt Venture Partners. Co...

As we mentioned yesterday, we took an in-depth look at Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's new book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead with a number of Generation Y women who are part of the Silico...

ImageBrief, a request-based stock photo marketplace that aims to give Getty a run for its money, has raised a $700,000 round from Square Peg's Paul Bassat and Justin Liberman as well as other Australi...

Word travels fast on the Internet. Especially when you don't want it to.Early this morning, DigitalRev (a hybrid blog/photography store/photo sharing social network) replaced a review of GoPro's Hero ...

It's time for another episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the hallowed gates of the tech industry's hottest companies to get a first-hand look at what they're really like....

Google finally released its personal note-taking app Keep today, after it “accidentally” saw the light of day last week. The product is as expected, a place to save notes, lists or photos ...

Vine has steadily made waves ever since its launch in January. First it was a porn scare, and then it was widening growth against competitors like SocialCam and Viddy. And throughout it all, we’...

After a brief early appearance, Google Keep, the note-taking app from the search giant, is now live. Google has officially unveiled Keep via a blog post, complete with a video detailing how it works, ...

A few years ago, E.ventures co-founder Tom Gieselmann decided to try to use data to give his firm a competitive advantage. And so he built a tracking tool to keep tabs on how different web properties ...

Oracle this afternoon announced the financial results for the third quarter of its fiscal 2013, a report that seems to have disappointed stock market investors who were projecting a stronger performan...

Joining the dozens or hundreds of photo-sharing apps out there, a new app called Throwback is aiming to put the nostalgia back in photos. Throwback is an app that lets you take a picture, and send it ...

It looks like Google is ready to expand the Google+ platform and is looking for engineers to help it do so. According to a new posting on the Google+ developer account, the Google+ Plat...

Pinterest said today it's acquired Livestar, the mobile recommendations app founded by Microsoft alum Fritz Lanman, who is also a noted angel investor who has backed the likes of Square, Getaround, an...

A Brooklynite named Matt Richardson has built a working prototype of a bicycle headlight that uses a Raspberry Pi to project his current traveling speed as he rides around the city. Richardson calls i...

For this week's Founder Stories, I sat down with Eric Frenkiel, founder of MemSQL, to compare notes on starting enterprise software startups. After being accepted as one of Y Combinator's first enterp...

On one day, the software runs on complex hardware systems behind the firewall. The next it is software operating as a service in the cloud. And so explains Kinvey, a startup that today announced a way...

Pebble has just updated its smart watch, complete with a much-improved interface and new watchfaces. But the exciting thing here is the addition of a game you likely remember from the days when your c...

Your phone knows you completely. It knows where you've been, and who you've been talking to. It knows which websites you visit in your idle time, and your many passwords. Hell, it probably knows what ...

Just a day after it started embedding its March Madness bracket into its search results, Google today announced that it has made a few more changes to how it displays results for sports-related questi...

Remember that nasty little iOS 6 lockscreen bug that let hackers access apps on any iPhone with a few smooth moves? Well, fresh on the heels of yesterday's iOS update that squashed the problem, anothe...

Digg.com and other links from its website have disappeared from Google's search result pages, following a recent update to Google's algorithms. It's unclear at this time exactly what caused the site t...

Google is shutting down Google Reader on July 1 and to say that quite a few people are unhappy about this move would be an understatement. Today, Google Reader moved one step closer to its grave as Go...

Realty Mogul, a site where accredited investors can can pool their money to back real estate deals, is going live today.Co-founder and Jilliene Helman argued that in the current financial landscape, r...

Dachis Group, the social marketing and analytics startup led by Jeffrey Dachis (who previously co-founded and led interactive marketing agency Razorfish), announced today that it has raised $7.5 milli...

Dachis Group, the social marketing and analytics startup led by Jeffrey Dachis (who previously co-founded and led interactive marketing agency Razorfish), announced today that it has raised $7.5 milli...

Wealthfront is one of my favorite startups out there today — because it has actually made me money. I’m not alone. The automated investments company has been growing its user base by 20 pe...

Uppidy, a D.C. area startup which last year launched a consumer-facing app allowing users to back up their text messages to the cloud, has just introduced a paid version of its service that now suppor...

If you listen to the likes of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, physical retail as we know it is on a slow march to obsolescence, with the world today in a "pre-death" state of good-but-transitory t...

We know that Google’s Street View team has been making its technology smaller and more mobile, especially when it comes to people snapping images for Google Maps. Today, the team has shared some...

Corona Labs is publicly launching Corona Cloud today, a cross-platform social gaming network that brings multiplayer support, leaderboards and achievements, chat and push notifications to a mobile gam...

Yahoo! has acquired Jybe, the company announced today via a post to its corporate blog. Jybe is a startup founded in 2011 by three ex-Yahoo! employees, including Arnab Bhattacharjee, who was VP of Yah...

Another day, another acquisition in the education technology market. As the old, familiar names in publishing and education move to get in line with the digital revolution, they're finding plenty of o...

Postmaster, a TechStars Cloud company based in Austin, Texas, just launched a new API in beta that will allow businesses to optimize their small parcel shipments. You’d think that shipping is pr...

I thought it was impressive that Withings now offers an affordable home scale that tracks your body fat percentage and heart rate, but scientists have developed a tiny Bluetooth-capable blood monitori...

How low will Amazon's tablets go? We're now hearing that a $99 Kindle Fire 7" tablet is in production, and will be shipping this year. At a price that low, the Kindle Fire would be able to more easily...

Facebook, in its quest to dominate mobile, has just released an incremental update to its Android app through the Google Play Store. The update lets users change their profile pictures direct from the...

Human Demand, a mobile ad startup which launched last summer targeting the long tail of app developers, has since expanded its focus to brands, and is today announcing having raised an additional $900...

One of the criticisms Android fans like to level at the iPhone is its non-get-at-able battery -- meaning you can't carry a spare (or rip the battery out to hard reset). So here's a bit of kit that pro...

One of the criticisms Android fans like to level at the iPhone is its non-get-at-able battery -- meaning you can't carry a spare (or rip the battery out to hard reset). So here's a bit of kit that pro...

Basho is open-soucing Riak CS, its storage software that integrates with Amazon Web Services. Riak CS will be available under an Apache 2 license.The move is a smart one for Basho, which has built a r...

Withings has built quite a name for itself since launching its first Wi-Fi Body Scale in 2009, and the newWithingsSmart Body Scale is perhaps the biggest update yet released for its original connected...

Visa today is announcing a key development in its bid to build a ubiquitous digital wallet service. It has signed on Overstock.com as the lastest retailer to use V.me. That service now has 35 online m...

Masabi, which develops and deploys mobile ticketing technology for the transport sector, has raised a further $2.8 million in a new round of funding from Detroit-basedFontinalis Partners, along with L...

Palo Alto-based publisher platform ShareThis, the maker of those "social sharing" buttons scattered across the web, is today announcing having closed on $23 million in Series C financing, in a round l...

Today, HotelQuickly, a Hong Kong-headquarted startup whose team is comprised of a number of ex-Rocket Internet executives, launches its last-minute hotel booking app which not only bears more than a l...

AdzCentral, an ad-matching platform from Singapore, has received $3.2 million (S$4 million) in funding from Electric Sheep Capital and Digital Media Partners . The company provides an engine to advert...

Amazon has yet to turn on any services on the back of adeal it signed with carrier billing specialistBangoover a year ago, but it looks like we may finally see the first fruits come out later this yea...

LA-based online fashion outlet Nasty Gal, which picked up almost $50 million in funding last year in two rounds (both from Index Ventures), is now using some of that cash to bankroll a limited time of...

Jawbone announced today that its app for UP, the company's movement-tracking wristband, is now available for Android on Google Play. The $129 UP was previously only compatible with iOS. The wristband ...

China Telecom, the third-largest telecommunications company in that country, reported better-than-expected 4Q profit as customers using the iPhone helped boost sales of wireless data.Net earnings fell...

Amazon just launched the Send to Kindle button, which clips Web content and saves it to Kindle readers and apps, for Web developers and Wordpress bloggers. The button is also now available on The Wash...

The news feed is getting increasingly complex. It's evident in Salesforce Chatter, which has added a new layer to the feed for sales people to add, edit or complete deals. Unison is breaking through t...

I'm at Founders Den Demo Night, where seven startups are making their pitch to investors, press, and other members of the tech community. As with most other demo events, these aren't launches per se (...

Who wins basketball games is an immutable fact. No one owns that information, so why should some random sports sites get the windfall of traffic as millions of sports fan search Google for the NCAA Ma...

As the last of the dust settles on the departure of Groupon's founder/CEO Andrew Mason, the daily deals and local commerce service today filed an 8-K form with the SEC to detail how it would be compen...

Teachers and students have suffered through the same model of educational testing for years. Sure, the SAT has changed -- it's now out of a possible 2,400 points, not 1,600 -- but both standardized te...

There has been a lot of buzz about Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's new book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, which made its chart-topping debut in bookstores on March 11th.But we at TechCrun...

Mobile delivery startup Postmates is gearing up for expansion, and it’s raised a bit of funding to help it along the way. The company, which recently opened for business in Seattle, has raised $...

Dan Lyons, the editor-in-chief at tech blog ReadWrite, is leaving for a position at marketing software company Hubspot. We heard the news from knowledgeable sources, and the part about Lyons' departur...

Remember Keyboard Cat? Of course you do. It's pretty much the Citizen Kane of the YouTube generation.The meme's creator has raised $200k+ on Kickstarter for a Cards Against Humanity-esque game wh...

Needs some pharmacologicals? Dirty deeds done dirt cheap? There's an app (or website) for that. For years, the Silk Road has been a source for black market dealings. Hidden on the Tor network, Silk Ro...

Now former Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch is headed to Apple, the company who famously blocked out Flash on the iPhone and likely precipitated that technology's long slide into relative obscurity. Lynch once w...

After spending most of his life tackling the world of digital media, 4chan and Canv.as founder Chris "moot" Poole has gone back to basics with a gamified iPad drawing app called DrawQuest. The idea is...

biNu, a startup that brings apps and content to feature phones and lower-end smartphones, is announcing the first partner in its third-party platform. And that partner isn't just another tech company ...

Adobe just announced its Q1 2013 earnings, which generally beat analyst estimates. Overall revenue for the first quarter was $1.01 billion and GAAP earnings per share of $0.12 and non-GAAP earnings pe...

When we first heard about Daniel Epstein's plan to bring his Unreasonable Institute startup accelerator to the high seas with a 100 day, around-the-world sailing expedition called 'Unreasonable At Sea...

Collegefeed launched today, offering a social platform for students to connect with each other and employers long before the career fairs and short interviews begin. The service is designed for colleg...

Wrapping your brain around technology trends here in the United States, or even just in Silicon Valley, is a chore. Figuring out the trends and who the major players are in an emerging market like Ind...

It looks like Github Enterprise, the on-premises version of the Github code-sharing platform, has today leaked out over 3,000 emails of individuals that use it. Those emails were then posted online on...

It looks like GitHub Enterprise, the on-premises version of the GitHub code-sharing platform, has today leaked out over 3,000 emails of individuals that use it. Those emails were then posted online on...

Microsoft wants to make Yammer the social layer across all of its products and today, at Convergence 2013, the company announced a more detailedroadmapfor how it plans to do so. Earlier this year, it ...

Botnets. To security researchers, they're like digital Hydra. For each head they slay, another two explode from the stump.Just a month ago, Microsoft/Symantec announced that they'd killed the massive ...

There are few people on the Internet who don’t enjoy a great animated gif. For some, having conversations only using these animated images is a way of life. But finding these images is a whole o...

The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation peop...

Federal regulators are investigating Microsoft for allegedly bribing foreign governments for favor in software contracts. “Lawyers from the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Com...

The Humble Bundles have been an amazing deal for gamers. Today, the company behind the bundles announced that they would introduce a new weekly sale, in addition to the usual bundles that happen every...

It's our pleasure to announce that TechCrunch and the fundraisers at Causes will take part in Teach For America's Challenge for Tomorrow's Leaders campaign. The goal is a lofty $250,000 and we're aski...

Google just announced the launch of its Google Drive Realtime API, a new tool for developers that will allow them to bring the same real-time collaboration features that power Google Drive to their ow...

Today, Google introduced a new app for one of its most popular products, Hangouts. While Hangouts let you chat with multiple people over video, there are those moments when someone makes a funny face,...

Amazon introduced Whispercast for Kindle back in October of 2012, and now the service is getting an update that allows it to deploy not just books and documents, but also apps. that means organization...

eBay is debuting a brand new fee structure and incentives for sellers today in an effort to remain the most competitive commerce platform next to e-commerce marketplace Amazon. For the first time, eBa...

Evernote Food, the now over a year old mobile app offering recipe search and a restaurant locator function, is today getting an update which adds support for OpenTable reservations, Foursquare ratings...

Apple has just issued an update for iOS devices, iOS 6.1.3, which fixes the lock screen bug we described in a previous post that would allow someone to bypass the lock and access the Phone app and pot...

Fivetran, a new Y Combinator-backed startup that is launching today, wants to bring spreadsheets into the modern age and make it easier for users to work with messy data and analyze large amounts of i...

Canon is said to be working on a new smaller DSLR called the EOS-b (or Kiss X7 in Asia), according to a series of recent reports, including one today from Japanese blog Digicame-info (via Canon Rumors...

PayPal phases out donations to non-profits and charities from Singapore accounts starting tomorrow, the 21st of March, and will complete this by the end of the month. This decision is a result of PayP...

PayPal phases out donations to foreign non-profits and charities from Singapore accounts starting tomorrow, the 21st of March, and will complete this by the end of the month. This decision is a result...

In 2011, Kleiner Perkins debuted its plans for a summer internship program to place top engineering talent from colleges at the firm's portfolio companies. The benefit is two-fold: students get to wor...

Verrrrry interesting. Last week, amid the Google Reader fallout, we noticed that Google had removed its RSS Subscription Chrome browserextensionfrom the Chrome Web Store. While the move was not as hig...

Move over cat videos, YouTube has a new series that’ll satisfy our need for midday adorableness and make us smarter. “Explain Like I’m Five” is a new web series from the wildly...

In a move that somewhat deviates from the Samwer brothers' usual playbook, Rocket Internet's DropGifts, the social gifting platform that lets users send each other gift cards and claim product samples...

Crowdfunding is catching on in a big way in the consumer space, as platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have provided new ways for people to back promising projects. But in the startup world, fund...

Smartphones have a lot of on-board sensors, but do they really have enough? No way, say a slew of recent hardware startups, of which Danish Vavuud is only the most recent. Vavuud is turning to Kicksta...

Skype released an update today for Windows Phone, which restores the "People Hub" integration (Windows Phone's fancy address book) that had been disabled in January due to bugginess and performance is...

An iPhone app called Awesome Baby Names has a secret Game Boy Advance emulator built into it, as 9to5Mac has discovered. The emulator is easily unlocked via a simple sequence of taps (depicted below),...

An iPhone app called Awesome Baby Names has a secret Game Boy Advance emulator built into it, as 9to5Mac has discovered. The emulator is easily unlocked via a simple sequence of taps (depicted below),...

Y Combinator-backed Kamcord got off to a strong start last year it locked up $1.5 million in seed funding just a few months after its official debut and now co-founder/CEO Matt Zitzmann says the tea...

Grokr, the mobile app offering a "Google Now" like experience for iOS users, is today relaunching with a major redesign in tow. And even more notably, the company says that it's planning to launch the...

MessageMe, the multimedia messaging app that got smacked by Facebook last week, isn’t letting that hurdle set back their growth. The company said today that it has more than 1 million users, is ...

Yesterday, Andrew "weev" Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison, three years of probation, and restitution of $73,000 after being convicted on conspiracy and fraud charges. His actions had r...

Location analytics startup Placed is debuting a new monetization option for mobile devs today, via its Placed Affiliate program. The new system would see mobile apps request that their users opt-in to...

Back in December, Nike unveiled the Nike+ Accelerator program, powered by TechStars. After going through hundreds of applications, TechStars and Nike selected ten finalists. They will now begin a...

BackupAgent, provider of cloud backup technology from The Netherlands, has won a $2 million investment round led by Runa Capital in Moscow to strengthen its global footprint and develop its platform. ...

Apple has been awarded a patent today (via AppleInsider) that describes an augmented reality (AR) system that can tag real-world items in a live video stream and display information about them in a HU...

Freetards rejoice. Spotify has ditched the 5 play limit imposed on UK users of the free version of its music streaming service, Spotify Free, which until today kicked in after six months usage and mea...

NewsCred, a company that licenses content from publications like The New York Times and The Economist for use in brand marketing campaigns, announced that it has raised $15 million in new funding.The ...

Videdressing, a 'social fashion' marketplace, has secured $6 million Series A in a funding round co-led by Earlybird Venture Capital, DN Capital and Piton Capital, who were joined by Generis Capital. ...

Samsung is indeed working on a smart watch, the company's Executive Vice President of Mobile told Bloomberg in an interview today. "We are preparing products for the future, and the watch is definitel...

Sift Science, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by former Google engineers, is today launching its fraud-fighting service based on machine learning - a system designed to adapt to the ever-changin...

Pinterest is now slowly gearing up to take more commercial control of its massive data stream of consumers pinning branded content, and brands and other businesses trying to use the wildly popular soc...

Canva, a stealthySydney-based startup building an online design platform, is today announcing having raised $3 million in seed funding from Matrix Partners, InterWest Partners, 500 Startups, and angel...

Warren East, the executive who has seen UK semiconductor juggernaut ARM Holdings through some of its most explosive growth, is stepping down. He had been with the company since 1994. He is being repla...

Warren East, the executive who has seen UK semiconductor juggernaut ARM Holdings through some of its most explosive growth, fuelled by deals with companies like Apple for its iPhone and iPad devices, ...

Wacom’s Cintiq line of drawing tablets is the cream of the crop when it comes to digital graphics editing and creation, and the 12WX long reigned as an impressive entry-level option for those wi...

Microsoft launched its flagship online store in China today on Tmall.com, in a move that could help bolster the market share of its hardware, including tablets and smartphones in that country....

Google has learned all that it needs to learn about the reception of its Chromebook laptops in the U.S. and UK and has announced availability of Acer, HP and Samsung flavors of its device in Australia...

Salesforce.com released an update to Chatter today that is designed specifically for mobile devices and represents the company's next generation CRM platform.Chatter, the company's activity stream ser...

Bowers & Wilkin's Zeppelin speaker is one of its best products, but as times evolve, so does the company and its products. That's why the British Speaker manufacturer is introducing the Zeppelin A...

Global PC shipments are expected to decline even more due to slower-than-expected growth in China, the world's top PC market, during the first quarter of 2013, according to new data released by IDC. ...

Nonstop Games, a Singaporean-Finnish gaming company (yes, really), just picked up $2.9 million from two Scandinavian venture firms, Creandum and Lifeline Ventures, to build out core games for iOS and ...

Legit, a startup working on a universal reputation system that could help sharing economy services verify whether users are trustworthy, has recently announced its team will join Facebook....

Legit, a startup working on a universal reputation system that could help sharing economy services verify whether users are trustworthy, has recently announced its team will join Facebook....

Google has been on a bit of a roll with its commercials lately, especially for its gadgets. Today, the company unleashed its latest commercial for the Nexus 10, its iPad killer competitor. The video t...

Editors note:James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur.I wish I had been smarter when I was 23 years old. I did everything wrong: I felt like I needed a college degree. I fel...

My phone buzzes. It's a text from Eric. We'd been talkin' for weeks about the idea of me returning to TechCrunch, and we'd just locked in the following Monday that is, today as my (re)start date. "...

Being as chiseled as I am is tough. You have to eat right (brownies only every other day), exercise (take the stairs to the attic), and keep tabs on things like your heart rate and body temperature wh...

Security writer Brian Krebs' phone was spoofed and a SWAT team called to his home last week by hackers who apparently took offense at his investigations into various online hacking organizations. His ...

A lot of headlines have focused on the new Galaxy S4 as a potential iPhone challenger in terms of hype and mindshare, but mobile ad firm Velti offers a different perspective in its February summary of...

The team at SnipSnap has been quietly plugging away on an Android version of its popular mobile coupon app for what seems like ages now, but the wait for all you cost-conscious Android devotees is ove...

Top Hat Monocle, the Toronto, Canada-based service that provides a web-based clicker and online homework tool that aims to make large lecture-based classes more engaging just announced that it is expa...

Windows Azure has added new support for a number of services including PhoneGap, Dropbox and Hadoop.According to a blog post byScott Guthrie, a corporate vice president in the Microsoft Tools and Serv...

Twitter wants brands to be able to target their ads effectively, otherwise why would you spend money to spray and pray your message to every single person on the network? Since the micro networking si...

EA’s CEO John Riccitiello has just submitted his letter of resignation to the company’s board. He’s stepping down on March 30 and Larry Probst is stepping in as Executive Chairman. P...

EA’s CEO John Riccitiello has just submitted his letter of resignation to the company’s board. He’s stepping down on March 30 and Larry Probst is stepping in as Executive Chairman. P...

Zynga’s biggest acquisition to date — the $180 million deal to buy Draw Something-maker OMGPOP last year — was the one it ended up being the most pilloried for. At its peak, Draw Som...

A lot of founders and companies will say that their big focus is on being taken seriously -- especially at the earlier stages. But Ben Huh, the CEO of the super popular Cheezburger Network of websites...

Political junkies may have a bit less change in their pockets after this summer: The Washington Post is setting up a metered paywall for its online content. The staple of D.C. news will begin charging...

Late last year, former Googler Gabor Cselle had a problem. He'd launched a fun app called DrawChat, and it was starting to see some real usage which would be great, except Cselle told me that DrawCha...

Want a chance to win a free ticket to Disrupt NY, as well asa free Kindle Fire HD and a Kindle Paperwhite? Yes? Who wouldn't? If so, keep reading....

CumuLogic is launching a new a modular service that provides customers with a way to choose what services to use on either a cloud or on-premise architecture.Executives say it gives customers a way to...

CircuitLab is coming up on its one year anniversary, and the startup (now part of Y Combinator's winter 2013 cohort) now boasts 70,000 monthly active users, who run an average of one circuit simulatio...

Emergence Capital Partners, an enterprise-focused venture firm that has backed Salesforce.com, Yammer and Box, just took on a new operating partner with the hiring of Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. She com...

Last week, Mozilla technology evangelist Paul Rouget asked web developers what improvements they wanted to see in Firefox’s developer tools. Based on the feedback the team got on HackerNews and ...

UK mobile games and app developer studio ustwo, creator of games and apps like Whale Trail and MouthOff to name a couple, has launched a new photo-sharing app called Rando. The kicker is it's entirely...

One of the Republican Party's top campaign masterminds, Karl Rove, is reportedly looking to build the epicenter of conservative digital campaign tools right in the heart of Silicon Valley. "We are wor...

It's often been said that we, as users, are "the product" of networks like Google or Facebook. But there is now a new wave of privacy centric start-ups seeking to give us back control of our personal ...

The Queen of England is not exactly known for being a digital-first champion of technology, but it looks like the British monarchy may be trying to change that association going forward, with a new aw...

Flattr launched back in July 2010 as a sort of 'Facebook Like' but with real money involved. A user that sets up a Flattr account pays a monthly fee a minimum of $2 that they are willing to contribu...

Errplane, a new Y Combinator-backed service for monitoring performance, uptime and errors for any type of web application, just officially launched its service. Currently, Errplane argues, developers ...

Toronto-based startup Whirlscape believes that taking a keyboard originally designed for a typewriter, turning it digital and calling it a day is the wrong way to go about making the best possible sma...

One of the problems with fashion magazines is that they lack the element of personalization and curation that is entering the online fashion industry and retail world. Kendall Herbst, a former fashion...

Google has been doing a lot to make Google Maps more about exploring the world, including places few will ever be able to see with their own eyes. Today, the company announced that it has added more l...

Google is experimenting with an Evernote-like service called "Keep," which accidentally made a brief appearance today before disappearing again. If such a launch is indeed on the horizon, then the tim...

Andrew Auernheimer, commonly known as AT&T Hacker Weev, has just received sentencing on one charge of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization (18 U.S.C. 1030(a)(2)(C) part of the Co...

It's official: The Samsung Galaxy S4 will support Qi wireless charging but only through an optional backplate. When the Samsung Galaxy S4 launched last week, Engadget spied several Qi wireless chargin...

The tale of this backpack review is one of love and regret; I love how this backpack works and I regret that I did not take it on my last trip. In short, its a good pack, generally does what it is des...

BlackBerry's first BlackBerry 10 smartphone is about to make its official U.S. consumer debut in just a few days, and the long wait has seen the size of the platform's app selection swell considerably...

Twilio, the cloud-based communications company that lets app and website developers embed calling and messaging features into their work with a bit of API code, is today taking one more step to streng...

Twilio, the cloud-based communications company that lets app and website developers embed calling and messaging features into their work with a bit of API code, is today taking one more step to streng...

When Whyd opened to the public in November it offered music bookmarking functionality along the lines of recently launched Songdrop, which we described as a "Delicious for music". However, the Paris-b...

Swiss mobile development and design firm Clever & Son bills itself as a "maker of premium apps," and judging by Couch Player, its latest creation, the startup lives up to its name. Couch Player is...

In the years I've been writing for TechCrunch, commenters have come and gone. BrooklynSurfer, SteveJabs, and some other dudes I forgot all graced our pages and made our lives special in one way or the...

Google Drive is apparently having some issues this morning, according to a number of complaints spotted on Twitter, plus TechCrunch's staff own experiences. However, the Google App Status Dashboard is...

Google Drive is apparently having some issues this morning, according to a number of complaints spotted on Twitter, plus TechCrunch's staff own experiences. However, the Google App Status Dashboard is...

Docracy, a TechCrunch Hackathon winner aimed at creating a database of open legal documents, has been relatively quiet over the past few months. After taking a $225k investment from Reed Elsevier and ...

Google's next reference smartphone is the subject of many rumors over the past few days, but only one stands out as not too outlandish. Phonearena reports that according to a source, the next Nexus co...

Divshot, a Santa Monica-based startup offering a drag-and-drop interface builder for web applications, has raised $1.1 million in seed funding, the company is announcing today. The round was led by Ri...

Video conferencing startup Vidyo continues to grow, thanks to the help of service provider partnerships and through sales to various enterprise, government, and health agencies. It's trying to make ad...

On the back of a new analytics product designed to help brands and others better track how well their pinned content is progressing through Pinterest's millions of pinboards, today the image-based soc...

On the back of a new analytics product designed to help brands and others better track how well their pinned content is progressing through Pinterest's millions of pinboards, today the image-based soc...

Aviary, the company that provides a fully customizable SDKs for applications that want to include photo editing, has announced the launch of its Windows 8 SDK in collaboration with AMD and Microsoft. ...

Kiva.org, a not-for-profit organisation that's been matching micro-lenders with low-income borrowers since 2005, has announced it's passed the one million borrowers mark. The total value of the crowdf...

Microsoft has published a support document on its website that indicates both Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.8 will stop being supported in the second half of 2014, in July for Windows Phone 8 an...

Former Google China head, Kaifu Lee, has been tracking how many times his Weibo posts on Tencent and Sina have been censored and deleted, and has helpfully made a graph of the past 8 months. The outsp...

Make way for one more big venture fund coming out of Europe, this one with some colorful backers. Oliver and Marc Samwer -- founders of the Rocket Internet startup incubator among other things -- have...

More developments on the grim story of ST-Ericsson, the JV between Ericsson and STMicroelectronics that tried to kickstart a semiconductor business in Europe. The owners say that they have failed to f...

Although playing against someone else in real-time has a kick that nothing else can quite mimic, turn-based multiplayer games have thrived on iOS and Android. That’s partly because slower data c...

Although playing against someone else in real-time has a kick that nothing else can quite mimic, turn-based multiplayer games have thrived on iOS and Android. That’s partly because slower data c...

WhatsApp, the popular mobile messaging app that eschews advertising in favor of a paid model, is getting ready to bring its iOS app in line with the apps it makes for other platforms by turning it int...

Note-taking app Google Keep briefly went live earlier today at https://drive.google.com/keep/ before disappearing, but not before Android Police spotted it and took screenshots....

Uber is unsafe. Lyft, SideCar, and other ride-sharing services are unsafe. At the very least, there is the question of their safety for passengers. And why? Because they represent a new type of techno...

Iraq War veteran and Troop ID founder, Blake Hall, has scored a cool $2.1 million from notable investors, such as David Tisch and Mark McLaughlin. The former elite soldier has raised a total of $5.7M ...

In another setback for the Japanese electronics giant, Sharp said it will miss a March 29 deadline for the second half of a $120 million investment from Qualcomm after failing to complete a plan to be...

For the first time in the six years of the iPhone’s life, Apple seems to be going on the defensive, and with good reason. Apple’s global marketshare is slowly shrinking alongside the growt...

As they reach the stage when theyre approaching profitability, fast-growth companies have a choice: they can either focus on profits - or on market share and scale. Our preference is that they continu...

Do you enjoy checking email? Probably not, since the word “checking” is something that sounds like work. Whenever you have to continually go back to a place to see if anything new is there...

So I finally finished watching the first season of House of Cards this weekend. Which is crazy, right? It's been a full month and a half since all 13 episodes went live on Netflix.How could I wait so ...

Out beyond the edge of SXSW last week, the ESRI team camped out in an old brick firehouse with the veneer of an old boot factory and the interior of an Italian palace. It felt like the home of an ecce...

Remember that console that Nintendo launched with the tablet controller? No, not the Wii, the other one. No? Strangely most of us seem to have forgotten all about it too, and quickly. Sales are terrib...

Google Reader turned into a zombie a long time ago and it’s good that Google finally killed it. For years, Google Reader has been sitting on Google’s servers without any appreciable update...

Last week Google announced the shutdown of Google Reader as part of its company wide bid to “focus” on “fewer products.” “We know Reader has a devoted following who will ...

Ditching HTML5 cost Facebook the flexibility to tinker and quietly try out design or feature changes on subsets of users. But now it can experiment again. Thursday Facebook launched a beta club offeri...

Line, an app made by South Koreas Naver Corp which has grown rapidly since its launch in summer 2011, is typically labelled as a messaging app and compared to the likes of WhatsApp, Viber and Skype. ...

One of the main problems with buying designer clothing off of eBay and other auction sites is that there is really no guarantee that the item you are purchasing is actually what it appears to be. Desp...

Apple doesn't need a miracle, but clearly the marketing department thinks the company needs to step things up. To wit: Apple's latest iPhone web page which touts "There's iPhone. And then there's ever...

The tech industry brought a lot of drama this week, so there was lots to dig into in this episode of CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show where a few of us writers give our personal takes on the stories...

On Friday, Dropboxs acquisition of Mailbox marked the first time the tech community lit up in amazement and awe of a consumer transaction since Facebook acquired Instagram back in April 2012. The atte...

Once, I envisioned Google's destiny as a rich tapestry, obscure services hooking in through engines and tools to a vastness of data, and, at the other end of the telescope, a single point of entry thr...

Editor's note: Nabeel Hyatt is a venture partner at Spark Capital.The last 12 months have seen an explosion in human-computer interfaces.Google Glass, Oculus Rift,Myo,Leap Motion and several others ar...

Editor's note: Zach Noorani is a former VC and current second-year MBA student at MIT Sloan.Isnt it fun to ponder the awesome disruptive power that equity crowdfunding might have over the venture capi...

Editor's note:David Selinger is CEO and Co-Founder of RichRelevance. He previously co-founded Redfin and led the research and development arm of Amazon.coms Data Mining and Personalization team.The li...

Editors note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. Each column will look at crowdfunded products that have either met or missed their funding goals.Back in J...

Everywhere you went around Austin this past week, there were people queuing up for things, Grumpy Cat, the GroupMe Grill, the Twitter party, Salt Lick BBQ.One startup fte was so packedeven a founder c...

Editor's note: Bill Ready is CEO of Braintree, an online and mobile payment provider to many of the top apps in the App Store, including Uber, Airbnb, Angry Birds, OpenTable, Fab and HotelTonight. Whe...

When you have a health question, what do you do? Likelihood is that you either search Google for the answer, WebMD, try to call your doctor, or set up an appointment. For most people, the latter two o...

After much fanfare the Pebble smartwatch made the leap from fanciful concept to full-fledged product earlier this year, but now that units have started to ship and people have started to wear them, wh...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor enjoys a week of actual tech news for the first time in quite a while. Samsung's latest big screen phone comes...

TechCrunch interviewed Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley a couple of weeks ago during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (referenced here). It was his third time visiting and speaking at the event, and pe...

This years SXSWi did not the herald the next Big Thing in tech, as someguessed it wouldn't, but it wasnt always this way. In 2010, a year when people were a bit more optimistic about the new new thing...

Editors note:Glenn Kelmanis the CEO of Redfin,a technology-powered real estate broker backed by Madrona Venture Group and Greylock Partners.At a recent wedding in San Francisco, a friend who runs engi...

Editors note: Glenn Kelmanis the CEO of Redfin,a technology-powered real estate broker backed by Madrona Venture Group and Greylock Partners.At a recent wedding in San Francisco, a friend who runs eng...

"First you see video. Then you wear video. Then you eat video. Then you be video." -- Pat Cadigan, Pretty Boy CrossoverSheesh. A whole lot of people who presumably have never actually seen Google Glas...

Editors note: Sunil Rajaraman is the co-founder and CEO of Scripted.com, a marketplace for businesses to create content at scale; Scripted has a pool of 80,000 freelance writers and 1,000 customers. F...

MessageMe, an app that launched last week and raced up the charts to the #2 spot in social networking in the U.S., is confronting Facebook’s touchiness around access to its social graph. The app...

Editor's note: Pter Halcsy is co-founder and CTO of Prezi.Startups identify with JavaScript. When you're just starting out, you need to be dynamic. You need to be flexible. You need to be able to bust...

In January of last year, Gil Ben-Artzy and Shuly Galili launched a startup accelerator with the intent to expose Silicon Valley to the next generation of hot Israeli tech companies -- and vice versa. ...

Uber drivers are pissed off. But that shouldn't come as much of a surprise... At least not to anyone who's been paying attention. A group of UberBLACK drivers congregated outside of the company's SOM...

A group of current and former Uber drivers gathered outside the startup's San Francisco headquarters to protest what they said was unfair treatment by the company. When I arrived at around 5:45pm, a g...

When Apple launched its app store about five years ago, the company had no idea it would become the success it is today. It disintermediated carriers from what would become a lucrative revenue stream,...

Talaria, a company that was building a “new, dynamic web application server with a JIT-based runtime at its heart,” just announced that it has been acquired by Google. The Talaria team wil...

Disrupt alumnus Dropbox made the second in a series of super-savvy, super-early stage acquisitions today, picking up hyped-up email management app Mailbox in an acquisition that we're calling "DropMai...

This is a bit of an odd story: according to paidContent – and as first reported by to PublishersLunch – Google’s Niantic Labs, the somewhat mysterious division of Google that is home...

Lawdingo, a startup that connects users with lawyers for online consultations (sometimes instantly), is announcing that it's part of the current class of startups at Y Combinator.I last wrote about La...

Formspring, a startup that helped pioneer the "ask me anything" format of anonymous Q&A online, is shutting down. The San Francisco company announced the news in a blog post this afternoon.The clo...

When it comes to high-flying superpowers of the tech industry, it doesn't get much bigger than Sun Microsystems back in its heyday, while it was under the leadership of co-founder and former CEO Scott...

Menlo Ventures Managing DirectorShawn Carolan stopped by the studio for our Ask A VC series....

Airbnb just announced that it has open sourced Chronos, the company’s replacement for the standard time-based Cronschedule that is probably familiar to everybody who has ever used a Unix-based s...

Mark Zuckerberg has just made an internal announcement to Facebook naming its veteran VP of Engineering Mike Schroepfer as CTO, I've just learned from an industry source. Facebook has since confirmed ...

Mark Zuckerberg has just made an internal announcement to Facebook naming its veteran VP of Engineering Mike Schroepfer as CTO, we've just learned from an industry source. Facebook has since confirmed...

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

Theres been a lot of talk lately about Samsungs growing rift with Google. But what about Samsung and Microsoft? Samsung has indeed been moving away from Googles native apps with their own complement o...

If you woke up this morning wondering why Samsung is being berated on social media less than 24 hours after announcing its latest flagship phone, might I point you here and here, where you can read of...

Dropbox earlier today caused a Friday boom with its acquisition of hot new mobile mail startup Mailbox. The move has two layers of significance for the company, and it points to what more we will like...

Video conferencing company FuzeBox is announcing two big hires today Amritansh Raghav, former engineering director for Google Compute Engine, and Eran Shtiegman, a former director of product manageme...

Last summer, we told you about the launch of Noodle Education, a startup co-founded and led by John Katzman, perhaps better known as a co-founder of The Princeton Review and 2U (formerly 2tor). The st...

Now that Sony, LG, HTC, and Samsung have all pulled back the curtains on their flagship Android smartphones, the rumor mill can churn with renewed focus on yet another nebulous device -- Motorola's se...

InstantCab has a unique twist on the transportation app business, by combining inventory of taxi drivers along with community ride-sharing drivers. Together, the company hopes to meet all of the dema...

Chope has raised $2.5 million (S$3.2 million) in Series B funding. The round was led by local publishing house, Singapore Press Holdings, which now owns about 25% of the startup, valued at $1.4 millio...

Chope has raised $2.5 million (S$3.2 million) in Series B funding. The round was led by local publishing house, Singapore Press Holdings, which now owns 27.8% of the startup, valued at $1.4 million (S...

BraveNewTalent launched as a social recruitment platform back in 2010 and went on to secure VC funding a year later. But last year saw the startup pivot in a big way. The original model was geared tow...

There are two governments vying to be the best at spying on U.S. citizens: the American government and the Chinese government. While I'm not thrilled about either military sifting through my private d...

With Disrupt NY just a month out, we're excited to announce former Facebook executive and unconventional venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya will be taking the stage at the Manhattan Center. ...

You know the drill, you order something from your favorite site and you can’t wait to get the package. Like a blogger normal person, you go to work and hope that the package is there when you ge...

Oh Google. Thought we wouldn't notice that you're trying to kill off not just Google Reader, but your support and endorsement for the RSS format itself? People have just started noticing that Google's...

AccessData was among the first companies to focus on digital forensics, cyber security and litigation support when it was founded all the way back in 1987. The company never took any outside funding. ...

The FCC has introduced a plan to give commercial space companies like SpaceX access to the spectrum they need to perform missions. The plan will allow companies to apply for spectrum on a temporary ba...

Sometimes it takes a bit more time to get something right -- especially when it's technically challenging. That's why Amiato, a Palo Alto, California-based startup, labeled itself as one of the "off t...

Dropbox has acquired Mailbox, the popular email app for iOS devices, in a deal the terms of which weren't disclosed. The companies reported the deal to the Wall Street Journal on Friday, saying that M...

Dropbox has acquired Mailbox, the popular email app for iOS devices, in a deal the terms of which weren't disclosed. The companies reported the deal to the Wall Street Journal on Friday, saying that M...

Samsung's new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S 4, has different chipsets in the U.S. and international versions of the phone. So while the U.S. S 4 has a 1.9GHz quad-core chip, the international vers...

After undergoing a round of layoffs in January, Lockerz, the social commerce and photo sharing service, is shutting down its photo sharing API (a.k.a. Plixi). The news was posted by Plixi founder Rodn...

The Wii U only sold around 64,000 consoles in the U.S. during the month of February, according to a new NPD Group report out today. That's a far cry short of how many sales it achieved from the time i...

Redbox Instant, the video-streaming servicethat arrived to the public this week, won't work on your jailbroken iOS device. Instead, upon launching the mobile app, users with jailbroken devices are pre...

In December, news leaked that former Microsoft exec Ray Ozzie had raised $4 million for a stealthy startup known as Talko, previously known as Cocomo. Not much is known about the company's plans, but ...

GiveO2 is an app that calculates your transport-related carbon footprint. The app uses your smartphones 3G or GPS connection to track your daily movements and spits out an answer, explaining in grave ...

Sculpteo, a French 3D printing company, is now offering custom iPhone adapters for older iPod docks, allowing you to add connect to your old Bose, Sony, JBL, and other docks with the new Lightning con...

The low-cost iPhone of fable got a little more material with some reports from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Before you balk at reports from an "analyst," note that Kuo has been spot on a numbe...

The Raspberry Pi affordable microcomputer is now almost entirely made in the U.K., after Premier Farnell/element 14 -- the largest of the Pi Foundation's distributors -- announced it has shifted all i...

A few years ago, T-Mobile hired a very excitable PR team to hold "parties" for their big launches. They would trot out celebrities, rent out whole downtown clubs, and try to make each launch - remembe...

As more viewing moves to mobile, tablet, and connected TV devices, the amount of viewing that happens online during the prime time hours continues to increase. And according to video ad startup TubeM...

Continuing the litany of neat things in the Galaxy S 4 that Samsung didn't talk about during its grand (some would say overwrought) unveiling last night, the smartphone's keyboard has gotten a boost t...

Samsung did something fairly surprising given that it included the most recent version of Android, 4.2.2, on its brand new Galaxy S 4 smartphone: it didn't talk about that much at all last night at th...

It's not easy being a crowdfunding tiddler in a pond where sharks like Kickstarter and Indiegogo are known to swim. Which doubtless explains why a group of homegrown U.K. crowdfunding sites have bande...

Just a few days after providing free rides to SXSW attendees in Austin, ride-sharing startup SideCar is announcing plans to continue expansion into new markets. The company, which previously launched ...

Jungle Ventures, a VC in Singapore, has added Alon Sobol as an entrepreneur-in-residence (EIR). Sobol was up till last year head of mobile partnerships for Facebook in Asia, and has been an advisor fo...

Free messaging apps are a dime a dozen these days. There's everything from Viber, to Skype, to WhatsApp to GroupMe. But while these startups concentrated on smartphone apps, it has been in the emergin...

Earlier this week, the Data Center of China Internet (DCCI) released a report(h/t Tech In Asia)that showed nearly 35 percent of the Android apps it surveyed were secretly stealing user data unrelated ...

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has appointed Boo-keun Yoon and J.K. Shin as co-CEOs following its annual shareholders meeting. That means the Korean tech giant now has three CEOs: current...

If you build it, they will come, right? Not exactly. Growth is actually a lot more complicated than that. Getting users to discover your product, and then stick to it, is more of a rigorous science th...

Samsung is releasing a bombardment of accessories along with their Galaxy S4, one of which is a fully functional, boda-fide wireless gaming controller.The oval shaped controller is a great deal smalle...

Samsung talked up the Galaxy S 4's features with a bit of Broadway flair here at Radio City Music Hall, but there still are some neat additions to the device that didn't get a moment in the spotlight....

I'm watching the live stream of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 launch event in New York, and I cannot stop laughing. In theory, illustrating different features with real-world scenarios isn't a terrible idea....

Samsung didn't just unveil a new flagship smartphone today, it also introduced a cover accessory for that device with unique features. The S View cover has an integrated pass-through window for the ma...

Samsung's S Band and updated S Health app are brand new features added to the Galaxy S 4. The updated S Health app improves upon the S Health design debuted in the Galaxy S III. It takes advantage of ...

As if it could be any other way, the just-announced Samsung Galaxy S 4 is Samsung's, and perhaps even Android's, best phone yet. In fact, it very well may be the best smartphone on the market, period....

Samsung is launching its Galaxy S 4 device (better known as the worst kept secret of all time) in New York today at a special event. The event is live streaming via YouTube, but we're also there cover...

The Galaxy S 4 is upon us and this is the official Samsung webcast. Of course you can follow along with our liveblog, or, if it floats your boat, watch the live video stream embedded here....

Andy Forssell will take over the position of CEO at online video company Hulu later this month, following the long-expected departure of the company’s current chief executive Jason Kilar. The su...

Andy Forssell will take over the position of CEO at online video company Hulu later this month, following the long-expected departure of the company's current chief executive Jason Kilar.The successio...

The hashtag (#), which is a hallmark of Twitter’s userbase wanting to categorize content, is rumored to become a part of Facebook’s Graph Search. The company is tinkering around with the n...

We all know that LeVar Burton has famously played a space traveler in the hugely successful Star Trek: The Next Generation series, but nowadays he is spreading the word that human travel beyond our so...

Google Translate just added a cool new feature that allows you to easily create a personalized phrasebook with the phrases and sentences you want to memory and/or find yourself translating repeatedly....

The idea behind JumpSeat is simple: There are a lot of people who want to fly private, but dont necessarily want to do so on a half-empty jet. Rather than pay for the whole jet themselves, they can in...

Thomson Reuter's Deputy Editor of Social Media, Matthew Keys, has been indicted for allegedly conspiring with hacktivist group, "Anonymous." According to the Department of Justice, "Keys provided memb...

Internet providers have been demoted to dumb tubes with the advent of services like Netflix, iTunes, Spotify and others, which is not where they want to be. Agawi, which has spent the past few years b...

Hot Studio, a design firm based in San Francisco and New York City, just announced that its team will be joining Facebook.Facebook has confirmed the news in a post of its own, writing:We began working...

Hot Studio, a design firm based in San Francisco and New York City, just announced that its team will be joining Facebook.Facebook has confirmed the news in a post of its own, writing:We began working...

Facebook already has tagging for people, Pages, and location, and could soon allow users to tag their posts with hashtags so they could be more easily indexed and surfaced by Graph Search. A source to...

Facebook already has tagging for people, Pages, and location, and could soon allow users to tag their posts with hashtags so they could be more easily indexed and surfaced by Graph Search. A source to...

As web-based learning platforms proliferate, and education increasingly happens in formal and informal settings and in both real and virtual classrooms, there is a growing need for a new form of crede...

In case you can't get enough of the folksy musings of "America's Happy Warrior," the White House has launched the Being Joe Biden Portal. "If you want to keep people away during an earthquake, buy som...

The Internet’s biggest organizations collectively rose up in outrage over a potential act of government censorship, yet have been conspicuously silent as Congress mulls sweeping new government s...

"In the Studio" this week welcomes a Silicon Valley veteran with decades of operational and investing experience under his belt, an active board member to many successful companies, and who holds a we...

Sean Parkers video chat startup Airtime is still alive and kicking, and has a new executive running it. According to sources, K2 Media Labs founder Daniel Klaus has joined the company, as it has moved...

Sean Parkers video chat startup Airtime is still alive and kicking, and has a new executive running it. According to sources, K2 Media Labs founder Daniel Klaus has joined the company, as it has moved...

After nearly being eradicated when the Dot-com bubble burst in 2000, the Brazilian startup community has been slow to come back. However, over the last two years, growth has been accelerating and Braz...

Google Reader being shut down by its malevolent overlords leaves a gaping, Google Reader-sized hole in the market where it used to be. Many are stepping up today to announce that their products or ser...

Times Square is where Samsung is gearing up to unveil the Galaxy S IV tonight at a special press event, but the leaks won't stop coming. The latest, from the same Chinese source that brought us videos...

Duolingo, the popular language-learning service founded by CAPTCHA co-inventor and reCAPTCHA founder Luis von Ahn, just launched the latest version of its mobile app for the iPhone. This new version i...

Sure, some last minute leaks may have ruined Samsung's big surprise, but that doesn't mean that there still won't be plenty to talk about when the Korean electronics titan shows off its flagship Galax...

DeveloperAuction, a platform where engineers can put themselves out to dozens or hundreds of potential employers, raised $2.7 million from NEA, Sierra Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Google Ventures, Jef...

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham just published a blog post suggesting a new way to handle handshake deals, i.e., verbal commitments for investments and other transactions.That kind of commitment is c...

Ever wanted to be that guy at the concert who holds his iPad up while recording video to post to YouTube, somehow oblivious to the people around him and all semblance of good taste? Well now you can! ...

The end of Google Reader is just a few months away, but RSS, the protocol that makes Reader and many other news readers tick, is alive and well. With its Qrius syndication service and the web and mobi...

Call it a fad, call it the Twitter effect, or call it another example of when it pays not to be the first mover, but it looks like two months out of the gate, Twitter's short-form video-sharing app Vi...

It's been a long time since I've been a student - we still carried "books" to school and would often enter computer "clusters" where we would do "homework" on "PCs" running "Windows NT" - but I do rem...

In today's episode of my Foundation series, I talk with Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, and founder of AVOS. Chad talks about life after YouTube, hints at his latest ambition in the video collabor...

CBS is today introducing a new iOS application for iPad and iPhonewhich brings its television programming to mobile devices, offering full episodes for streaming a week after they originally air. Show...

The Verge yesterday posted a lengthy look at what went wrong at Groupon, the e-commerce business that recently outsted its CEO and founder Andrew Mason after reporting another disappointing quarter. B...

Warby Parker co-founder Jeff Raider has teamed up with his old friend Andy Katz-Mayfield to bring a little of that Warby Parker magic to shaving with the launch of Harry's. In other words, to take a m...

Yesterday Google began removing ad-blocking apps from its Play Store on the grounds that they violate part of its Developer Distribution Agreement. Now one of the removed apps, AdBlock Plus, has hit b...

A new report from the Wall Street Journal just out say that Google has made more major executive staffing and organizational changes today, breaking up the Maps and Commerce units, with SVP Jeff Huber...

The Memoto is a tiny camera that you wear which takes a photo every 30 seconds and automatically uploads it to an online service. It's a dedicated lifelogger's dream, if there is such a being out ther...

“Google Reader will not be available after July 1, 2013″, read the popup message on Google Reader this morning. It’s impossible to ignore. It’s right there, in the center of th...

Netflix is announcing a new developer contest today called the “Netflix Cloud Prize,” which is promising prize money of $100,000 to those who improve the features, usability, quality, reli...

Creating awareness for your brand is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. This post provi...

Y Combinator-backed BuildZoom, a new service to help homeowners find licensed contractors to help them with their remodeling projects, is today making its public debut. The startup's database now cont...

SimCity is getting a lot of flack from players and consumers about its policy of requiring that they remain connected to EA's servers to enjoy the game, even when playing in single-player mode. Maxis ...

  Newark’s social media-happy mayor, Cory Booker, regularly grabs headlines for his impressively innovative uses of social media. In response to critics’ tweets, he housed residents i...

Google announced yesterday that it would shut down Google Reader, Google's RSS feed reading product, on July 1. In response, an online petition was started by Daniel Lewis (no relation) asking the sea...

A new gifting startup calledAggregiftis launching an entirely new way to purchase goods on Amazon. The company, which has been quietly running its beta tests with a few thousand users over the past se...

Some of Silicon Valley’s most influential investors have teamed up to tackle gun control through a new project that invests in startups that reduce or eliminate firearm violence. Noted Facebook ...

Rovio has just released its latest game, based on the Dreamworks animated film "The Croods".The Finnish based mobile gaming company partnered with Dreamworks to make the game a reality, using the same...

A routine sever firmware update resulted in an anything but routine outage for Microsoft's Outlook and Hotmail. On March 12, Outlook.com and Hotmail were unavailable to some users, and as Microsoft de...

You may not have noticed yet but Twitter added line breaks yesterday. This change clearly hasn't fully sunk in yet -- at least, not to my Twitter stream. But expect a few inflated tweets to start floa...

Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S IV today at its event this evening at 7 PM ET in New York, but the cat is pretty much out of the bag at this point, and new videos have surfaced to try to spoil any re...

Apple quietly updated its iMac options to include versions with a built-in VESA mount adapter today, available on both 21.5-inch and 27-inch models for a $40 additional fee. The option will come as a ...

Apple has a couple of new interesting glimpses into possible new future tech published by the USPTO today, including a patent application for an iPad Smart Cover with a built-in battery and induction ...

French real-time alerts startup mention, which describes its offering as 'Google alerts on steroids', has raised a "flash" seed round of $800,000 (600,000) from Alven Capital and Point Nine Capital. M...

Having proven the concept, Dylan Collins' Box Of Awesome, which we previously described as a "free Birchbox for kids", is launching a new box targeting 8-14 year-old girls only -- a move that feels li...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is tripling the amount of storage that can be provisioned for each Relational Database Service(RDS)database instance. In addition, AWS is also tripling the number of IOPS:...

New Relic has launched a new service for monitoring the performance of native mobile apps that the company claims can better track customer reviews on the iOS and Android app stores.New Relic for Mobi...

The Samsung Galaxy SIV will be launched in New York City in just a few hours, but another crop of leaked photos featuring the device has popped up on Chinese forum it168, a few days after a another ba...

The Samsung Galaxy SIV will be launched in New York City in just a few hours, but another crop of leaked photos featuring the device has popped up on Chinese forum it168, a few days after a another ba...

Clash of Clans, the title that’s made Finland’s Supercell the new darling of the mobile gaming industry, has doubled its marketshare among U.S. iPhone users over the last six months, accor...

Twitter just launched its first app for Windows 8 and Windows RT. It’s been a long time coming, but the new app does seem to do the platform justice, with a number of Windows 8-centric features,...

Xi3 recently opened preorders for Piston, the company's gaming-optimized personal computer. I actually had a chance to speak to the company's chief marketing officer David Politis over the weekend at ...

The idea of RSS was one that never quite gripped with normal Internet users. Sure, for us geeks who absolutely love consuming as much information as possible, RSS is a wonderland. When Google launched...

How long until Google shuts down FeedBurner? The company just announced that it is shutting down Google Reader on July 1. That will be a sad day for all of us who still regularly use it, but its demis...

The mobile payment market in Europe continues to get more crowded, with the latest wave of entrants coming from across the pond to join a number of homegrown startups targeting the millions of busines...

The mobile payment market in Europe continues to get more crowded, with the latest wave of entrants coming from across the pond to join a number of homegrown startups targeting the millions of busines...

Twitter is preparing itself to be a company taken seriously, more importantly, it wants to be one that is a darling in the public marketplace. Today, AllThingsD reports that the company has appointed ...

Twitter is preparing itself to be a company taken seriously. More importantly, it wants to be one that is a darling in the public marketplace. Today, AllThingsD reports that the company has appointed ...

Don't be evil? If that's the unofficial Google motto, then the company has failed to deliver today. Among the products Googlejust announced it plans to sunset (read: kill off), beloved feed-reading se...

Google just revealed plans to shut down eight of its services as part of what it's calling an ongoing spring cleaning effort. Some of them are pretty arcane, but among TechCrunch writers, anyway, we'r...

More than a few developers have worked to make web browsing and app use in Android as clean and ad-free as possible, but it seems their efforts havent made them any fans at Google. That displeasure wa...

Any geek worth his fedora and duster will know the name Days of Wonder immediately. The company makes some of the best boardgames around (Cargo Noir needs to win an Emmy) and Small World is probably t...

The Pebble smart watch is one of the most ephemeral pieces of hardware I’ve seen in a while. The watch is amazingly light and yet contains enough computing power to run a solid notifications sys...

Growing up, I pretty much had the standard dolls and toys everyone did — Trolls, Barbies and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures. But with the advent of 3D printing, kids today have acce...

After debuting its in-store mobile payments technology PayPal Here in the U.K. two weeks ago, the payments giant is announcing another set of news around the product: an iPad app. Not only is this the...

Google's Larry Page today announced in a blog post that former Android chief Andy Rubin would be stepping down from that position and moving on to something else within the company, to be replaced by ...

Bing Gordon has become known in recent years for his role as a partner at venerated Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, but anyone who knows him will tell you that ...

After a brief hiatus for SXSW, Ask A VC is back this week with MkII Ventures' Ron Palmeri. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guest either in the comments or here and well ask them ...

Israeli startup Umoove has attracted a lot of attention for its head- and eye-tracking technology after early reports that it might be powering a feature that does the same in Samsung's Galaxy S IV. N...

I love hardware. That's why I want you guys to bring some of the coolest hardware projects imaginable to Disrupt NYthisyear. That's why I want you guys in our Hardware Alley and spots are almost full....

Years ago Facebook made a wildly successful data grab by putting About details at the top of the profile. Now with its Timeline redesign's "Suggested" sections, Facebook could fill out graph search by...

Years ago Facebook made a wildly successful data grab by putting About details at the top of the profile. Now with its Timeline redesign's "Suggested" sections, Facebook could fill out graph search by...

BlackBerry issued a press release today that amounts to little more than "Look! We're selling handsets!" The four paragraph release hit the wire at 3:17 ET, and shares (which had been down on the day ...

If you were a fan of the teen detective TV show Veronica Mars, this was an exciting morning creator Rob Thomas launched a Kickstarter campaign to finance a Veronica Mars movie. (I'm a fan, and I've b...

When BlackBerry 10 launched, it did so with a dearth of big-name applications available in its BlackBerry World content portal. Even now some companies (Im looking at you Netflix) continue to shy away...

Oracle is buying Nimbula, the cloud OS startup started by some of the original creators of Amazon Web Services (AWS). But contrary to the reactionary hype, the purchase is for the team and the company...

With all kinds of content creation services out there, and numerous voice-enabled digital assistant apps sprouting up, TextAd is toying with ways to make your Twitter consumption more natural. That sa...

Google has opened applications for its third annual Google Earth Outreach Developer Grants. The program provides $10K-$20K of funding to nonprofits that are willing to use Google’s Map technolog...

The announcement that Sundar Pichai is taking over from Andy Rubin as Google’s head of Android sure came as a surprise. Pichai is a perfect candidate for the job, no doubt, but Rubin obviously d...

Photobucket, the longstanding photo and video sharing site, is raising $9.57 million in a new equity funding round, according to regulatory documents filed this week with the Securities and Exchange C...

Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel talks about Facebook rejecting a $1 billion offer from Yahoo in 2006. He and Accel’s Jim Breyer were on the same page – “take the money and run.”...

In the route to growing revenues, Twitter has been making a lot of upgrades to its advertising services -- most notably through the release of an API -- and today the social network added to that with...

Sometimes it's hard to pinpoint what's a clone, what's iterative and what's just inspiration. This is but one example. Greg Cohn, theCEO ofBurner, an iPhone application offering disposable phone numbe...

Twitter is reportedly planning to release a standalone music app on iOS, possibly later this month, according to a new report from CNET. CNET has learned that Twitter acquired music discovery service ...

Amazon just announced that it would be dropping the price of the 8.9-inch version of its Kindle Fire HD. The tablet will now cost $269 for the Wi-Fi only version and $399 for the Wi-Fi and LTE version...

Video ad startup SET Media is working hard to take deep ad analytics and apply what it knows about category and video inventory to help advertisers optimize their campaigns. It wasnt too long ago that...

Facebook just announced that it's rolling out a redesign that will make it easier to highlight your favorite books, movies, music, and TV shows, either directly on the site or through apps like Flixst...

Facebook just announced that it's rolling out a Timeline redesign that will make it easier to show off your favorite books, movies, music, and TV shows, either that you've Liked or consumed through ap...

Starting a service that lets people request real-life humans to do tasks for them or clean up their apartment is no small feat. Exec’s founder and CEO, Justin Kan, set out to build a service tha...

In Larry Page's note moments ago about Andy Rubin stepping down as head of Android to be replaced by Sundar Pichai, he also provided an update on Android device activations: there are now 750 million ...

London-basedEthical Community, which has now rebranded asEco Market,is an online eco-friendly marketplace - or something of an "Etsy for Eco," if you will. The company recently launched a completely r...

Google has just announced that Andy Rubin will be moving on to a new role at the company, and that Sundar Pichai will now lead the Android division, in an official blog post written by CEO Larry Page....

Google has just announced that Andy Rubin will be moving on to a new role at the company, and that Sundar Pichai will now lead the Android division, in an official blog post written by CEO Larry Page....

Social video startup YouNow wants to bring live video performers online and provide a social environment where they can show off their skills to anyone else tuning in. But to do that, you need users, ...

In what amounts to either a breathtaking breach of privacy or one of the most fascinating sex research artifacts of the year, PornMD (acceptably SFW as long as you don't search), a porn search engine,...

PayPal is acquiring mobile app development studio Duff Research today. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed....

Vyclone, a service for creating collaborative videos of events and locations launched its iOS app for last summer. Just about a week ago, the company launched its Android app and today, it is also lau...

Despite years of chewing the digital cud -- not to mention a global financial downturn -- there's no sign of the U.S. or European ecommerce cash-cows ailing, according to two new forecasts from Forres...

Mozilla's Firefox OS will soon be making its debut on devices sold around the world, but until then Mozilla is still working to get developers crafting web apps that will run nicely on Firefox hardwar...

You probably wouldn't exactly expect a short film about computer programming to be a blockbuster hit, but that's exactly what's happened with the 'Learn To Code' short film that computer science non-p...

Great news, you'll now know the viewing preferences of your friends' kids on Netflix, thanks to the service's foray into social sharing via opt-in Facebook integration, announced earlier this morning....

Just as we share all sorts of tidbits about our lives over the web, The scientists over at RoboEarth have created an open source network that robots can use to share and reuse knowledge amongst themse...

Google opened registration for its annual I/O developer conference today at 7 AM PDT, and just as it did last year, the event sold out pretty quickly. This year it took only 49 minutes for all the $90...

Google is releasing the results of a new study conducted with Nielsen on where people conduct mobile searches and what they do after their search. One of the big themes in the report is speed of all ...

VMware today announced Hybrid Cloud Services, a new business unit that puts it in closer competition with Amazon's Web Services for enterprise's cloud service needs. It also announced that the unit wo...

Netflix today introduced Facebook integration for U.S. users, allowing subscribers who opt in to see what their friends have been watching and what they like best when logged into the service. The int...

Corporate websites ranked as the top digital activity for marketing "success", according to a new poll of U.S. marketers conducted by Gartner, beating marketing on social networks such as Facebook, T...

The rise in cybercrime, malware and other malicious hacking is seeing a subsequent rise in the fortunes of tech startups that are setting out to fight it. Today, cybercrime solution specialist Endgame...

Though we still haven't gotten a peek of the LTE-capable Galaxy Note 8.0, it would appear that the 3G version is currently making its way through the FCC for final approval before retail availability....

The Xi3 Piston opened for pre-orders on Monday, and seemed to be the first of many Steam Box type devices powered by Valve’s online gaming store and service. But Valve quickly came out and said ...

It was less than two years ago that cloud storage startup Box announced a major integration with Google Docs, to let people use the online service from within Box itself. But now that the startup, bac...

Shortly after 4:00pm EDT on March 12 some Hotmail users took to Twitter, reporting they couldn't access their mail. Microsoft responded at 5:35pm confirming the service outage and stating that they we...

Blue Jeans Network was designed to make cross-platform video conferencing across multiple systems easy. As a result, it's also seeking to increase availability and usage of video conferencing through ...

Apple has indeed managed a significant turnaround in India's smartphone market, according to new figures out from IDC today (via CNN). The Apple smartphone grabbed 15.6 percent of India's smartphone m...

SAP just opened another co-innovation lab, this time in Singapore. The lab is its 21st globally, and the fourth in the Asia-Pacific region. The German software giant hopes it will allow member organiz...

Gary Wang, the founder of China's largest online video site Tudou.com, now plans to launch a Beijing-based animated film studio that the Wall Street Journal calls "China's answer to Pixar" on April 1....

Enterprise solid-state storage system maker Skyera announced that it received funding from Western Digital as part of its $51 million Series B round of financing. The two companies say the investment ...

While I was at South by Southwest Interactive, I had a chance to meet with the Leap Motion team and try out their upcoming gesture-based controller. We've been writing about the comapny for a while no...

As we reported last month, Microsoft decided to start migrating its old-school Hotmail users over to its shiny new Outlook service. That migration process might not be going so well, as users have flo...

To help companies take advantage of the cloud's "rock bottom" pricing, Egnyte has extended its file sharing and synchronization capabilities to a host of third-party providers, including Amazon S3, Go...

Music streaming may not be making much money right now, but that's not stopping music streaming hopefuls from trying. The latest development comes from Deezer, which is announcing a series of new serv...

Well, Google's M&A strategy is nothing if not diverse in focus. In November, it acquired package delivery startup Bufferbox. Last month, Google it made its first acquisition of the year, buying eC...

It's not an uncommon sight to see pundits and fanboys pit iOS's Siri against Google's mobile combination of Voice Search and Google Now, but persistent reports maintain that Google has been working to...

One of the big events coming up for comedy fans this spring will be the return of Arrested Development, which will debut its fourth season on Netflix after a long hiatus. Creator Mitch Hurwitz and sta...

With 48 hours until it's official unveiling, the Samsung Galaxy S IV isn't short on leaks. The debut date was well established before Samsung ever sent any invites, and the specs have been leaking sin...

Last year, to market the Highlight app the founders walked around Austin in company t-shirts telling people about the service. This year Highlight is doing a little bit more, by renting an ice cream t...

Newvem has launched a heat map that visualizes customer's usage of Amazon Web Services (AWS). The service is designed to replace the primitive tools AWS provides and gives customers an alternative to ...

The Acer C7 Chromebook is now a bit more powerful. With the RAM doubled to 4GB, the latest flavor of Acer's inexpensive but still tasty Chromebook should be able to handle a few more simultaneous task...

Weve heard a little bit about Facebook and Asana co-founder Dustin Moskovitzs new foundation, Good Ventures, specifically a company that the firm invested in last August. Today we’ve learned a l...

Cobook, aMac contact management app thatmade its way over to the iPhone back in December, is today launching version 2.0 of its service which introduces a new feature called "Livecards." This feature ...

The cloud storage buffs at Dropbox have spent quite a bit of time optimizing the service for mobile devices (and mobile developers, naturally), but the Dropbox desktop client looks and works much the ...

Matthew Inman is sick of memes about bacon and kitties. Better known as web comic artist The Oatmeal, Inman gave TechCrunch the lowdown on what's funny, what's not, and how he finds inspiration. In th...

No site is fully immune to getting hacked, but there are some obvious things every site owner can do to can make it a bit harder for hackers to break into a web server and add rogue links or take over...

Google recently killed a newly discovered feature called Google Now Topics, which apparently wasn't quite ready for primetime. The feature appeared to be a useful, if perhaps a little creepy, means of...

City governments here in the United States aren’t typically known as early adopters of the latest in technology and innovation — that means that New York City’s first-ever Chief Digi...

After a week of rumors, this doesn’t come as a huge surprise anymore: Google today settled the privacy case brought against it by 37 states and the District of Columbia. In total, Google will pa...

Geeks rejoice! Hot off exciting news from SXSW, Google just confirmed via the Google Glass G+ page that Glass will, of course, work with prescription lenses -- that is, in future models. The desi...

Facebook hasn't had a major, announcement-filled developer conference since September 2011's f8, and won't for the forseeable future. The Mobile DevCons it just announced won't have a ton of news, I h...

The to-do list has gotten Asana, the calendar has gotten Fantastical, and the inbox has gotten Mailbox, but nobody has made a word processor for this decade.Until Draft, which is launching today to so...

VEVO just rolled out its first new live and programmed music video offering, VEVO TV. The idea behind VEVO TV is to enable viewers to just sit back and have a stream of videos continuously shown to t...

Despite being such a new category of device tablets are racing up on their smaller cellular cousins, with rapidly growing user adoption and smartphone-surpassing web page traffic generation. Little wo...

Houzz is mostly known for the pretty pictures of homes on its web site and mobile app that will stir up house envy in even the happiest of home owners, but the service also offers a wide range of tool...

500friends, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that helps retailers manage their customer loyalty programs, is announcing that it has raised $5 million in Series B funding.The round was led by existing ...

Box has set its sights on Europe both to pick up new business, and as a place to hunt for the next important technology that might give it an edge over other players in the cloud-based enterprise spac...

Automatic wants to help people drive smarter. To do so, it's got two main components: There's a small hardware dongle that connects to a car's onboard computer, which provides data about the state of ...

Pressly, the mobile publishing platform and former TechCrunch Disrupt finalistwhich makes websites smartphone and tablet-friendly, is today launching to the public, accompanied by $1.5 million in outs...

Prezi has added audio capabilities to its presentation platform and has surpassed the 20 million user mark, more than doubling its base in the past year.The new audio feature allows users to add sound...

Pinterest Web Analytics, the site's traffic measuring tool for website owners that was unveiled earlier today, is a foray into services that could help the social network generate revenues some day --...

Crittercism, the San Francisco-based makers of a performance management and error monitoring system for app developers, announced today that it has raised $12 million in series B financing. The round ...

Apple has been granted a patent today (via AppleInsider) in an area where it hasn’t had tremendous success: social networking. But the system described in the patent isn’t specific to Appl...

The mobile app ecosystem isn't poised to decline any time soon, according to a new study from Compuware, which finds that the majority of smartphone users (85 percent) still prefer mobile apps to mobi...

LA-based GRP Partners is adding a new partner to its ranks for the first time in the past six years with the addition of former Hautelook CMO Greg Bettinelli. At GRP, Bettinelli will focus on investme...

Vimeo On Demand allows creators on the site to set their own prices and provides geo-fencing and other tools to control which areas their content is available in. They can also create custom landing p...

Vimeo On Demand allows creators on the site to set their own prices and provides geo-fencing and other tools to control which areas their content is available in. They can also create custom landing p...

Zalora, a Singaporean fashion and beauty e-tailer backed by Rocket Internet, has scooped up 20 million (about $26 million USD) from German retail conglomerate Tengelmann Group, just six months after i...

Gesture control is heating up, with a host of new entries finally following Microsoft's example with the Kinect, including Leap Motion and MYO. A German company called pmdtechnologies has also been in...

HTC has something else to worry about: it's facing the prospect of having to fork out for damages if it loses a patent litigation court case to haptics company Immersion. Immersion had been content to...

Evolv, a startup that develops science-based, on-demand talent matching and intelligence software, has raised another $15 million in Series D financing, led by VantagePoint Capital Partners with exist...

Evolv, a startup that develops science-based, on-demand talent intelligence software, has raised another $15 million in Series D financing, led by VantagePoint Capital Partners with existing investors...

Crushpath, a startup founded by former executives from Jive Software and Socialcast that aims to disrupt the sales space, $6 million in Series A funding led by The Social+Capital Partnership with...

Google Now on Android is one of the more genuinely exciting developments for that mobile OS in recent memory, and new evidence today signals it's on its way to the desktop, too. A new reference to Goo...

A video of a device purporting to be the Samsung Galaxy S IV has landed on YouTube. It shows a large handset, initially with the back off and the battery removed, before the battery is inserted, the p...

Legend has it that Anssi Vanjoki, the ex-Nokia VP who many inside the company once thought would be its next CEO, used to refer to the now-defunct MeeGo OS team as the Alpha team based on their hard w...

Sure, socially-powered recommendations or good old-fashioned serendipity can be useful tools for discovery, but, when it comes to deciding where you're going to take the family on vacation, you're pro...

Pinterest has started rolling out Pinterest Web Analytics, a tool that will allow businesses to see how many visitors the content-sharing service is referring to their sites. The first feature, which ...

Enterprise storage company SwiftStack has raised $6.1 million in Series A funding led by Mayfield Fund with additional participation from Storm Ventures and UMC Capital. This brings the company's tota...

South Africa's Naspers has agreed to merge its two Russian online classified Web site with Avito in a $570 million deal that will make Avito the world's third biggest classified site after Craigslist ...

South Africa's Naspers has agreed to merge its two Russian online classified Web site with Avito in a $570 million deal that will make Avito the world's third biggest classified site after Craigslist ...

From Yamtrader to Das Keyboard, the SXSWi trade show floor is a mixed bag. While not everything lent itself to a detail visit with the TCTV camera, we did find a few interesting companies in the mix....

Austin-based re:3D just started a Kickstarter campaign for the Gigabot, a large-format 3D printer designed to build things on a 24x24x24 inch built envelope, allowing you to make much larger objects t...

LeanIn.org, the community website dedicated to women (and men) leaning into their ambitions, recently launched in conjunction with today's release of Sheryl Sandberg's conversation-sparking book Lean ...

The landgrab for online music streaming services continues. On the heels of reports that Spotify is planning to take its web-based music player global to complement its desktop and mobile apps, compet...

We’ve been getting all sorts of new info since we first ran our story about Google dogfooding”Google Shopping Express,” its same-day Amazon Prime and Postmates competitor. While we o...

Rally Software, a company that provides agile project management applications to for software development, has filed its initial S-1 for a public offering. According to this filing, the company will r...

AnyPerk, which aims to provide companies and startups with discounts on web services and employee perks, is announcing $1.4 million in new funding from Digital Garage, Ben Lewis (a founder of Tapjoy a...

At SXSW this afternoon, Google provided developers with a first glance at the Google Glass Mirror API, the main interface between Google Glass, Google’s servers and the apps that developers will...

CreativeLIVE, the startup looking to bring a live, online classroom to creative entrepreneurs, announced today that it has raised $8 million in series A financing from Creative Artists Agency, William...

CreativeLIVE, the startup looking to bring a live, online classroom to creative entrepreneurs, announced today that it has raised $8 million in series A financing from Creative Artists Agency, William...

Vostu, the onetime darling of the social gaming world in South America, appears to have just had a fresh round of layoffs over the last few weeks. Multiple sources who have worked with the company sai...

Yammer CEO and Founder David Sacks said to me in an interview this past weekend that SXSW is showing that suddenly enterprise technology is sexy.Sorry, I don't buy it. Enterprise is as sexy as a hummi...

Whales are big spenders, the ones that prop up casinos and social games. In music, whales are bands' rabid fans. BandPage's new "Experiences"feature lets artists sell them seats on stage, unique merch...

It was something of a black eye for BlackBerry when it came out that Sprint wouldn't be carrying the all-touch Z10 BB10 smartphone. A huge relaunch, integral to the company's future success, and one o...

When OUYA launched the enormously successful Kickstarter campaign for its Android-based gaming console, CEO Julie Uhrman said she had "no idea" whether it would succeed."I was scared shitless," she sa...

Unicorn Apocalypse, the mobile game Samsung promoted in its TV ads that began airing at the beginning of the year, isn't fictional after all - it's a real, playable game live now in the Google Play ap...

Today, Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8′s Metro/Modern UI mode and on Windows RT blocks Flash by default and only allows sites on Microsoft’s curated Compatibility View (CV) lists to play...

Amazon Web Services will now offer the option for everyone to have their own virtual private cloud (VPC), another sign of the company's intent to push into the enterprise market. The service means tha...

Bonobos. Dodocase. Warby Parker. A generation of e-commerce companies is growing up using a vertically-integrated strategy where take more ownership of the design, production, marketing and branding o...

Julie Uhrman, the CEO/Founder of the smash Kickstarter-project-turned-gaming-console known as OUYA, was the third keynote speaker at SXSW Interactive 2013. Interviewed by The Verges Joshua Topolsky, t...

Spoiler: The video above shows SpaceX's 100-foot-tall Grasshopper rocket blasting off, hovering in the air for about 30 seconds and then descending back to terra firma. And it's set to Johnny Cash's R...

Google just announced that it is rolling out a new design for its Gmail mobile web app for Android, iOS, Blackberry and Kindle Fire. The new design looks very similar to Gmail’s recently relaunc...

Google just announced that it is rolling out a new design for its Gmail mobile web app for Android, iOS, Blackberry and Kindle Fire. The new design looks very similar to Gmail’s recently relaunc...

Google just announced that it is rolling out a new design for its Gmail mobile web app for Android, iOS, Blackberry and Kindle Fire. The new design looks very similar to Gmail’s recently relaunc...

Startupi, a site covering the Brazilian startup scene, has raised a $300,000 seed round of its own.The team was pitched to me as the "TechCrunch of Brazil," and in fact it has attracted the backing of...

Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley discussed the company's evolution from an app that was primarily focused around helping people to find their friends, to finding out more about the world that they live i...

In a statement on its blogtoday,Bitly has announced that CEO Peter Stern has stepped down as CEO. The reason is that Stern is to “pursue other interests”; further details aren’t know...

For the last few months, Netflix has regularly published a list of the fastest ISPs for streaming video. Today, the company launched a dedicated site for this data, the Netflix ISP Speed Index. The Sp...

Hot payments startup Stripe has made its first acquisition today --Kickoff,a chat and task-management app for teams. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed....

FacebookCOOSheryl Sandberg's highly anticipated book,Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead,is already a success - and not just because it has sparked a national conversation about women in the wo...

There is no shortage of cloud-based file storage and synchronization solutions: Dropbox, Box.net, Ubuntu One, and on and on and on. Most offer pretty much the same things. A few niche players offer so...

Valve's Steam Box initiative will probably not end up being a single device, but a platform approach which includes a variety of hardware from different OEMs. The first such device is available now fo...

TechCrunch TV sat down with Shaquille O'Neal yesterday afternoon here at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas to talk about his current focus on all things tech, and it was pretty amazing. People who a...

Following the announcement from February that Rovio would be introducing "Angry Birds Toons," an Angry Birds cartoon series, later this month, the company today revealed that the cartoons would actual...

OpinionLab, a company that powers customer feedback technology for websites, has raised $15 million in growth capital financing from SSM Partners....

With Office 365 out of the door, Microsoft has now set its sights on getting more college students to give it a try. The company, which already makes a heavily discounted $80/4 years version of Office...

Concur, the same folks who handle many of our corporate travel and expense systems, has quietly acquired conTgo, a cloud-based mobile communications and messaging platform aimed at the global travel i...

Google has put together a fitting tribute for what would have been sci-fi writer and humorist Douglas Adams 61st birthday....

When we cover a startup's launch, we often focus on the market opportunity, funding and investors and how the company's product is solving a particular problem. We rarely mention the initial set of ch...

Last September, we told you about Caviar, a food delivery service that works directly with awesome restaurants in San Francisco to have their food delivered for a flat fee of $9.99 in less than an hou...

When you think of crowdsourcing, you usually imagine something like the Pebble smart watch or the Misfit Shine - gadgets that are hard to build in mainstream ways but take off by sparking a groundswel...

Nielsen today released new data which examines trends in the "Zero TV household" - a definition which refers to those who no longer watch traditional television offered by cable or satellite providers...

Fleksy, the keyboard app that doesn't even require you to look at the screen or hit any actual keys to type, is busy at SXSW this week. The startup is showing off its software working with the Leap Mo...

Domo, the SaaS business intelligence startup launched by Omniture founder Josh James, has raised $60 million in new funding, we've learned exclusively. The round was led by GGV Capital with Greylock P...

Skullcandy's Crusher headphones may not be John's favorite, but I must applaud the headphone maker for stepping outside the box and doing something different with the Crusher headphones. The Crushers ...

Sensors are quickly becoming a category of external hardware gadgets unto themselves, and Slovenia-based CubeSensors is creating a set that essentially monitor your living space to provide you with ag...

Just days after Bloomberg ran a report claiming that AT&T would release BlackBerry's long-awaited Z10 smartphone on March 22, AT&T has issued a statement confirming that launch will indeed go ...

Audio platform SoundCloud announced changes to its subscription plans today, as well as a new plan aimed at content and brand partners. The company had previously offered five different tiers to its s...

Get ready for some more M&A activity in the real estate sector. This morning, the real estate search engine Trulia announced that it is looking to raise up to$100.3 million$150 million in a follow...

Apple has been working on the iPhone since long before it hit the market in 2007, and today a new prototype has come to light that shows how it might have looked if they'd rushed it to market earlier....

AppDynamics has added a new capability to solve application issues without manual intervention.Wit the new Application Run Book Automation, the customer pre-defines the conditions for the service to e...

Back in November, we wrote that Rent The Runway, a Netflix for designer clothes, accessories and jewelry, had raised $20 million in funding led by Cond Nast Publications, with Bain Capital Ventures, H...

Back in November, we wrote that Rent The Runway, a Netflix for designer clothes, accessories and jewelry, had raised $20 million in funding led by Cond Nast Publications, with Bain Capital Ventures, H...

Remember 2005 when the term TiVo meant something? It was a synonymous with DVRs. Crappy Comcast boxes were called TiVos because consumers didn't know any better. TiVo subscribers were locked into the ...

You'd be forgiven for thinking that the window has closed on the flash sales concept, but apparently not. Casabu, the UK startup that targets mums with time-limited sales of clothing, toys, nursery eq...

The Samsung Galaxy S IV is being announced later this week at a special event, but we've already seen plenty of leaks regarding the flagship phone's hardware, but now there's a new one that claims to ...

Chinese Android-based phone maker Xiaomi said it will produce 15 million handsets for this year, and expects no overstock. This is double the 7.19 million units that were sold in 2012, which netted th...

Video gaming for hours is exhausting, so surely it counts as some sort of workout too, right? One publication from Japan just estimated how many calories it takes to click a mouse button once. Convert...

Festicket, the UK site that aims to make booking and attending a music festival akin to the experience of purchasing a package holiday online, has raised $680k in a new round of funding.Its new backer...

The fast expanding universe of MOOCs has a new addition. Berlin-based startup iversity, founded in 2011 to offer online collaboration tools for learning management, has relaunched itself as a platform...

Today Twitter announced that it would be ramping up its archiving tool to cover people who use the service in 12 non-English languages: Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian,...

Today Twitter announced that it would be ramping up its archiving tool to cover people who use the service in 12 non-English languages: Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian,...

As the War of the Asian Mobile Messaging Apps heats up, Indonesia isbecoming one of the most important battlegrounds for players like WeChat and Line--and TV ads are a surprising but effective part of...

Alibaba, China’s e-commerce giant, today named insider Jonathan Lu Xaoxi as its new CEO — filling a hole two months after founder Jack Ma announced that he would be stepping down from the ...

Alibaba, China's e-commerce giant, today named insider Jonathan Lu Xaoxi as its new CEO -- filling a hole two months after founder Jack Ma announced that he would be stepping down from the position. T...

Samsung Electronics topped China's smartphone market for the first time in 2012, according to data from Strategy Analytics (reported by Yonhap News Agency). The Korean tech behemoth nearly tripled its...

Philips Hue is a lighting system that changes the definition of what your standard home lighting setup is, and now there's an official developer program for the innovative Wi-Fi-connected bridge and b...

LovePalz, the virtual sex gadget designed for long-distance couples, has finally set a launch date for both its products and Web-based control center. On March 29, you can get your hands (and other pa...

Electrostatic interfaces - systems that make your fingers "feel" textures on a smooth metal plate - have been around for a long time. They haven't quite caught on because the sensation is a little cre...

Imagine that you're a pretty good drummer, you're in a band, and you'd like to give lessons. You could charge for these lessons, of course, but you're really into helping out charities. A site called ...

Much like this gif, Aol added another layer of management last week. Aol Brands got its own CEO, Susan Lyne, to round out the triumvirateof Aol Networks CEO Ned Brody and Aol Membership CEO Ned Brody....

This coming week, we're likely to get a peek at Samsung's next generation Galaxy flagship smartphone, and by most accounts, it'll have an auto-scrolling feature that can use head movement cues to dete...

Since launch just a few weeks ago, email management app Mailbox has been a pretty big hit -- so big that more than 1.25 million people have signed up for the waiting list. The downside to that early s...

Senator Jerry Moran (CrunchGov Grade: A) left his tie back in Washington, D.C., and sat down with me for an informal, yet candid discussion at the SXSW Interactive conference. The folksy Kansas repres...

It's always a pleasure to talk to WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, as he's one of the more interesting and friendly people in the upper echelons of the tech founder sphere. So we took a few minutes t...

Yes, SXSW is marketers marketing to marketers and zombified cross-town walks staring at your phone. But when you ask the smartest people in technology to distill a year's worth of knowledge into hour ...

After my panel on Friday at SXSW, Paul Underwood ofDeloitteand Will Lovegrove, CEO of Datownia, approached me to talk about their companies. Their viewpoints demonstrate the direction of enterprise ap...

After I shelled out something like $200 for a Kinect bundle that I ended up shoving in a closet, the team at 4tiitoo may have finally given me a reason to dig the thing out. The Munich-based company r...

OK, so maybe we said it would be hard for an app to break out at SXSW this year. But that isn’t stopping several startups from trying. One startup called Hangtime, from serial entrepreneur Karl ...

The digital team from Marvel Comics is at South by Southwest Interactive this year to show off some new comics reading experiences that they've created.Today they're demonstrating a technology that's ...

People often ask me some variant of this question: Whats a startup out there that will be a great investment hit but no one really thinks of that way yet?There are many possible answers, but Ill focus...

The idea for Jifiti came about because Shaul Weisband one of the creators of the app wanted to teleport gifts to friends. While teleportation is still not really possible, the team at Jifiti, have d...

The one night stand is proof that human beings, despite our fancy computational glasses and smart fridges and our affinity for "higher learning," are still animals. And where else to live like an anim...

John Sundman is best known for his seminal dot-com-boom cyberpunk novel, Acts Of The Apostles but in his long career he has been a truck driver, a fireman, a construction worker, and an early employee...

John Sundman is best known for his seminal dot-com-boom cyberpunk novel, Acts Of The Apostles but in his long career he has been a truck driver, a fireman, a construction worker, and an early employee...

One of the reasons that coming to South By Southwest Interactive continues to be worthwhile despite all its flaws is that it still attracts some of the most intelligent and fascinating people to the s...

Editor's note:Hassan Baig isan entrepreneur who runs White Rabbit Studios, a South Asian gaming startup he founded four years ago in Pakistan.Services like AppData have been providing individual stats...

It's debatable whether or not SXSW is still a good place to launch your new hot SoLoMo app, not least because you'll likely get crowded out by all the other hopefuls, but that isn't stopping Swarmly f...

Howdy! Welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, the weekly show where a few of us writers get together and chew the fat on a few of the biggest and most interesting stories from the past week.As you ...

Services on code-sharing site GitHub have been interrupted for over an hour in what started as a "major service outage" because of a "brief DDoS attack." This is the second DDoS attack in as many days...

Services on code-sharing site GitHub have been disrupted for over an hour in what started as a "major service outage" because of a "brief DDoS attack." This is the second DDoS attack in as many days a...

Services on code-sharing site GitHub have been disrupted for over an hour in what started as a "major service outage" because of a "brief DDoS attack." This is the second DDoS attack in as many days a...

Editor's note: Ezra Galston is a VC at I2A Fund, a young entrepreneur atFoundation Capital, a Kauffman Fellows Finalist and a second-year MBA student at Chicago Booth.It seems like nearly every tech b...

Editors note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. Each column will look at crowdfunded products that have either met or missed their funding goals.Our furry...

Editor's note:Geoff Lewis is a principal at Founders Fund and formerly served as co-founder and CEO of Topguest.This email landed in my this week: Hi Geoff! Im organizing an exclusive dinner on March ...

Much like Twitter got a lot of its early traction at South By Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) in Austin back in 2007, Foursquare famously started off with a bang when it launched at SXSWi in 2009. So it...

Chaotic Moon is probably best known for dev work that its done for clients like Rupert Murdochs The Daily, or the Marvel Unlimited app that just hit the Apple App Store. But when one of their coworker...

While Foursquare has been concentrating on smartphones for some year now, much of the rest of the world has remained on a feature phone (though that of course is changing). So the opportunity to do lo...

While Foursquare has been concentrating on smartphones for some year now, much of the rest of the world has remained on a feature phone (though that of course is changing). So the opportunity to do lo...

After months of speculation that its backer Jabbar Internet Group were shopping around for a sale, the leading Middle Eastern daily deals site Cobone has been acquired by investment firm Tiger Global ...

Sim City 5 is yet another game that exposes an inherent conflict at the heart of the PC, about how connected and app-like or independent it should be. Publishers like EA might be trying to convince PC...

Sim City 5 is yet another game that exposes an inherent conflict at the heart of the PC, about how connected and app-like or independent it should be. Publishers like EA might be trying to convince PC...

Wired's Chris Anderson interviewed Mega-Entrepreneur Elon Musk about hs many projects, which include SpaceX AND Tesla Motors. Throughout their fairly technical and detailed conversation, Elon when in...

During this afternoon's keynote interview at South by Southwest Interactive, Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk briefly addressed his recent back-and-forth with The New York Times about a negative articl...

Elon Musk's SpaceX is getting closer to having technology which could dramatically lower the cost of space travel. In a keynote speech at SXSW Interactive, Musk demonstrated tech that could be used to...

Elon Musk's SpaceX is getting closer to having technology which could dramatically lower the cost of space travel. In a keynote speech at SXSW Interactive, Musk demonstrated tech that could be used to...

One of the sleeper hits on the charts over the last year has been a tiny game out of Denmark called Subway Surfers. It’s a runner game like Imangi’s Temple Run that has a character named J...

One of the sleeper hits on the charts over the last year has been a tiny game out of Denmark called Subway Surfers. It’s a runner game like Imangi’s Temple Run that has a character named J...

Electronic Arts’ SimCity was easily the most anticipated game of the season, but its launch was an unmitigated disaster because the DRM solution Electronic Arts and Maxis dreamt up means users h...

Every year, the tens of thousands of SXSW attendees who descend upon Austin cause a huge crunch on accommodations. If youre lucky, you might be able to book a hotel months in advance. If not, you can ...

Every year, the tens of thousands of SXSW attendees who descend upon Austin cause a huge crunch on accommodations. If youre lucky, you might be able to book a hotel months in advance. If not, you can ...

If Google is awarded the right to manage the domain registrations for .search, .app, .blog and .cloud, there is now a good chance that it won't just use them for its own services and will open them up...

Meet Google's "talking shoe," which aims to translate movement data in witty messages to users and their friends. The concept apparel, showcased at the search giant's swanky SXSW Interactive headquart...

Meet Google's "talking shoe," which aims to translate movement data in witty messages to users and their friends. The concept apparel, showcased at the search giant's swanky SXSW Interactive headquart...

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.My wife, C...

After winning LA Startup Weekend, Zaarly almost immediately raised $1 million from a long list of notable investors (even "Steve jOBS"), and then raised $14 million more before the end of the year in ...

Writing software used to be so simple. A giant pain in the ass, mind you, but simple. You were a Microsoft developer, with binders full of Visual Studio CDs; you were a Java developer; you used the LA...

Editors note:Steve Patterson is a writer who has covered Boston and San Francisco Bay Area startups for 20 years.Braintree Payments, Square and fellow disruptors are applying web and mobile technologi...

This could have been an absolute flop, a parody of itself. But this remix of the Gangnam style video to explain the NoSQL database is actually not so bad. It's really goofy and amateurish. But that's ...

Editor's note:Robby Walker is co-founder and CTO of Cue. His previous company, Zenter, sold to Google in 2007.Programming challenges are a fantastic way to connect great people with great jobs, partic...

Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery? As we reported this morning, PayPal just launched a number of new APIs and a brand new developer portal today. This also included the release of new REST A...

Netflix just used the quiet Friday afternoon to announce that it is effectively ending its public developer program. Netflix will stop issuing API keys immediately and will not accept new API affiliat...

It seems like hooking up at SXSW was never very hard, but it just got easier. If youre in Austin this week and looking for that special someone to have anonymous sex with, look no further: Bang With F...

The EdTech space is growing fast -- from every angle -- talent is starting to cross over from consumer-facing companies, schools are looking to go digital, national policy is changing and student debt...

It seems like hooking up at SXSW was never very hard, but it just got easier. If youre in Austin this week and looking for that special someone to have anonymous sex with, look no further: Bang With F...

Earlier this week, Path launched the 3.0 version of its privacy-focused and mobile-centric social networking app. It was an update that was important for two key reasons: It debuted private messaging,...

“Teleportation is the transfer of matter from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them, similar to the concept apport, an earlier word used in the context of spiri...

Facebook's no blogging platform, but Tumblr is and it's eating the social network's young. If Facebook wants to host our digital lives, it needs richer sharing. That's Storylane's specialty, so Facebo...

AskYourTargetMarket,a market research firm which got its start in the demo pit at TechCrunch 50 (in the pre-Disrupt days), is rolling out its biggest update to its service ever. According to CEO Lev M...

AskYourTargetMarket,a market research firm which got its start in the demo pit at TechCrunch50 (in the pre-Disrupt days), is rolling out its biggest update ever to its service. According to CEO Lev Ma...

Intel Capital, the venture arm of Intel, boasts over 120 portfolio companies to have listed publicly on the NASDAQ alone. In celebration of that, President Arvind Sodhani rang yesterday's closing bell...

Bre Pettis, founder of 3D-printer manufacturer MakerBot, announced their first desktop 3D scanner, the Digitizer, at a SXSWi keynote today. Pettis was coy about availability or final design but instea...

Google Research just launched its Wikilinks corpus, a massive new data set for developers and researchers that could make it easier to add smart disambiguation and cross-referencing to their applicati...

Wrike has added a type of chart that most seasoned project managers depend on for their work. It's called a Gantt chart and it's used to visualize projects in a way that a standard calendar lacks.Wrik...

Procrastinationis a hell of a drug. Don't let it ruin your life. And, for the purpose of this post, don't let procrastination cost you money. Today, Friday, March 8th, is the last day for the Disrupt ...

Facebook announced a number of new common actions today for Facebook activity, joining the "watch video" and other existing ones available to developers. These include actions in the Fitness, Books an...

More changing of the guard among the leadership ranks at VMware. CMO Rick Jackson is on his way out of the company. He's stepping down as CMO moving into SVP role, although he'll remain CMO until a re...

Dynamic Signal, the social marketing company led by Adify co-founder Russ Fradin, is launching a new product today called VoiceStorm that encourages, manages, and measures employees' efforts to promot...

After initially missing the boat on mobile-photo sharing and then having to turn around and plunk down nearly $1 billion for Instagram, Facebook wasn’t going to let a hot app (and potential exis...

A Bitcoin brokerage, Bitinstant was hit by hackers who used a bit of social engineering to take control of the company's DNS servers and ultimately funnel out $12,000 worth of Bitcoins. ...

This is the first Android device I would feel comfortable using on a regular basis.That doesnt mean Im going to, but I would be just fine with it.If I had to boil down my thoughts about the Nexus 4 in...

Tired of seeing every inane detail of yours friends lives pop up in that annoying Facebook sidebar ? Well apparently Facebook was too as the redesign announced yesterday eliminates Ticker, the real-ti...

Tired of seeing every inane detail of yours friends lives pop up in that annoying Facebook sidebar ? Well apparently Facebook was too as the redesign announced yesterday eliminates Ticker for some, an...

Hubbl, the app discovery service built by former TechCrunch Disrupt finalists, has introduced an interesting new feature today for users of its iPhone version: Passbook integration. To get started, yo...

Theres a new wrinkle in SideCars ongoing battle with local authorities in Austin. Just a day after announcing that its offering free transportation to SXSW Interactive attendees, the ride-sharing star...

Two startups responsible for helping push the envelope on collaborative design and the democratization of building hardware are launching a competition today that could take open source 3D printing to...

Sonos is a wireless audio company that makes solid - albeit comparatively expensive - audio hardware. Setup is drop dead simple - to add a component you simply press one or two buttons on the new devi...

That problem where you're meeting someone for the first time, maybe to pick up something you bought through Craigslist? Google Glass can help with that. A new app designed for Google's upcoming smart-...

Amazon just announced a large price reduction for its cloud-hosted NoSQL DynamoDB database service. Provision throughput capacity - that is, the number of reads and writes your application uses - now ...

Posse, a local discovery platform for web and mobile, is today arriving in the U.S. and making itsiPhone app debut. The company has also just raised another $500,000 in additional funding from existin...

From the beginning, Everpix has made it very clear that it is not just another photo-sharing app. The San Francisco startup, which first emerged on the scene as a Disrupt finalist in September 2011 an...

Question: How do you attract a key youth, mobile-first demographic to your social network and get them to increase engagement? Answer: Partner with an OEM handset manufacturer to create a powerful yet...

BlackBerry's top brass eagerly danced around the issue of a U.S. launch date for its new Z10 smartphone during its grand BlackBerry 10 unveiling, but the folks at Bloomberg may have shed some new ligh...

Gaming isn’t quite cyclical, thought it would seem that the big trend this winter is to remake old-school games from the 90′s for newer platforms. EA just released a brand new version of a...

In October 20011, PayPal debuted X.commerce, a fabric that weaved together PayPal, eBay and other commerce related APIs in the eBay family. But developers have been demanding more features and simplic...

Google's operating system Chrome OS survived all attempts to hack it at this year'sPwnium 3 competition, which took place at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, BCthis week. Google, which...

We're very excited to announce that Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir and Addepar, has been added to our roster of Disrupt speakers. After a stint as a PayPal intern, Lonsdale shook up Silicon Vall...

Yes, the messaging app space is super-hot and super-crowded. It’s probably the most competitive part of the consumer app space, with giants like China’s Tencent and Facebook in the ring al...

iZettle, one of the many mobile payment companies vying for the title of the "Square of Europe," is taking one more step to cover the market ahead of U.S. rivals like PayPal's here and Intuit's Europe...

The Philips Hue lighting system is pretty neat on its own it lets you control lighting in your house from your iPhone or iPad, adjusting bulb color and brightness remotely via your Wi-Fi network. Amb...

Someone in DC thought they had snuffed out an official Republican report on radical intellectual property reform by convincing the authoring agency to erase the document from the Internet and fire the...

After laying off 4,000 Motorola employees last year, representing around 20 percent of the total workforce, Google just announced that it would increase job cuts by a further 10 percent -- now represe...

For a company making a difficult switch from creating software to building hardware, Robocat is making very good early progress. The Danish startup's Thermodo smartphone thermometer accessory hit its ...

This morning, JDSU, a specialist in optical networking software, announced that it would pay $85 million in cash to acquire Arieso, a UK-based startup that makes location-aware mobile networking softw...

iCarsClub, a service that allows people to rent out their cars by the hour just got a seed round of almost half a million, a little under three months since its launch. The Singapore-based startup pro...

Bigpoint, the European free-to-play online gaming company that is thought to have raised $460 million since 2002, is finally announcing a new CEO. Khaled Helioui, formerly Bigpoints Chief Games Office...

Topix, a site for locally-focused online discussion that first launched in 2004, has seen significant traffic growth in the past year. According to CEO Chris Tolles, that's because of the big bet that...

At The Pool, the Los Angeles-based social discovery platform, is today rolling out a big re-design that sees the startup becoming laser-focused on creating the "anti-Facebook" social network for young...

"Fortune Favors The Bold" reads a 20-foot-tall poster in the room where Facebook unveiled its redesigned news feed. It's possibly the most looked-at page on the Internet, and if we don't like the chan...

I have five minutes to talk during the panel I am doing tomorrow at SXSW: Enterprise Invades the Apps Playground. It will cover this whole new world of enterprise apps marketplaces. A topic of interes...

It's hard to find a compelling use case for the Philips Hue. But Jim Rutherford and his son hacked the wireless LED lightbulbs to be in sync with the day/night cycle in Minecraft. It creates an immers...

We love talking with start-ups but sometimes we don't have time to sit down with everyone. That's why we started TC Office Hours. It's a chance to meet a few TC editors and pitch your business, ask qu...

Hot on the heels of a relatively strong quarter for the streaming music service, Pandora has announced that its long-time CEO and President, Joe Kennedy, will be stepping down. In a statement this aft...

Hot on the heels of a relatively strong quarter for the streaming music service, Pandora has announced that its long-time CEO and President, Joe Kennedy, will be stepping down. In a statement this aft...

Google's new Chromebook Pixel is a curious device. While its beautiful, seamless hardware nearly justifies its $1,299 price tag, the Chrome OS (which only offers access to Google products and the web)...

News broke out today that Spotify would be making a beta version of its web player available to all of its users in the UK, with the promise that a full release would come later this year. Im not comp...

Over the past few years there has been a lot writtenby meandothersabout Twitter's acquisition of the pull-down-to-refresh patent application with its purchase of Tweetie. According toPublic PAIR(searc...

Transportation around Austin during SXSW might not be as painful as usual. Increased competition in the ride share market means that getting around will be a whole lot easier, as conference goers won'...

While the folks at GroupMe have spent some time exploring the world outside group messaging, they certainly havent given up on refining the formula that made them so appealing in the first place. Earl...

While the folks at GroupMe have spent some time exploring the world outside group messaging, they certainly havent given up on refining the formula that made them so appealing in the first place. Earl...

Veteran streaming radio platform Pandora released its fourth quarter earnings today, in which it saw its fiscal 2013 revenue of $427.1 million, representing a 56 percent year-over-year increase, and f...

EA's anticipated SimCity launch has officially become a cavalcade of fail. Amazon is temporarily suspending sales of digital copies of the game in the face of massive negative buyer feedback, with the...

Apple's iOS is consolidating its grip on the enterprise market and taking share from Android, according to customer data from enterprise file sharing and hybrid cloud storage company Egnyte. The iPhon...

One week ago, Reggie Brown filed a lawsuit alleging that he is a co-founder of Snapchat, a red-hot impermanent photo messaging app, and is entitled to an original one-third ownership stake along with ...

Google’s VP8 video compression format, which the company acquired from On2 Technologies, is an open standard and covered by a free patent license. That, however, didn’t stop MPEG LA, the g...

"In the Studio" welcomes a co-founder of a company which went public, a native Texan who studied engineering in Silicon Valley and business on the east coast, and who, upon returning to the Valley to ...

There's always something else to browse on the redesigned Facebook unveiled today. Instead of churning through the main feed until you hit reruns and leave, Facebook hopes to keep you switching betwee...

There's always something else to browse on the redesigned Facebook unveiled today. Instead of churning through the main feed until you hit reruns and leave, Facebook hopes to keep you switching betwee...

Microsoft and Google are currently involved in a patent lawsuit in Germany that could, according to FOSS Patents’ Florian Mueller and a number of German reports, lead to an outright ban of Googl...

After launching out of TechStars NY back in June, PopTip has been building out a Facebook version of its instant polling product. PopTip originally launched for Twitter, letting brands ask questions i...

Two Italian VC firms and an institutional player, Fondo Italiano di Investimento, have combined to form United Ventures, closing a first round of funding at 30 million ($39M). The new firm has set a f...

Google's location-basedField Tripapplication has just made its way to the iTunes App Store today, after previously having been Android-only. The app, which works a little bit like Google Now, runs in ...

Automattic’s WordPress.com recently added a restaurant vertical to make it easier for restaurant owners to manage their sites and avoid the pitfalls of Flash-based homepages that auto-play annoy...

Today at Facebook's big news feed announcement, it made photos for users bigger, but the ads in the news feed will be getting bigger too. A Facebook representative explained "We're taking all the cont...

Today, VP of Product, Chris Cox discussed Facebook’s new-found focus on design consistency, something the company calls “mobile-inspired.” Today, with its News Feed and Photo redesig...

Today, Facebook has announced sweeping design changes to its News Feed, along with a total overhaul of its Photo experience. Photos are a huge part of what makes Facebook so engaging, and the company ...

Today at Facebook HQ, Mark Zuckerberg just unveiled a new look for news feed that uses a "mobile-inspired" consistent design across devices, lets you drill into specific content type feeds, and offers...

Facebook is having an event to show off changes to its News Feed today, and the company is livestreaming the event. Here's a video feed so you can watch along....

Our education system is broken, from lower-level public schools all the way up to higher learning. EdTech startups are coming at the numerous problems from every angle. Boundless, a startup out of Bos...

Now that its spent some time trying to navigate the gap between churning out PC accessories and actual, honest-to-goodness gaming computers, the folks at Razer have seen fit to look for some experts f...

Sproutkin, a newly launched subscription service for children's books, has raised an initial, but undisclosed (and still ongoing) seed round of under $1 million from investors which include 500 Startu...

Attorney General Eric Holder claims critics are wrong to blame prosecutors for misconduct in the handling of Internet activist Aaron Swartz.Swartz committed suicide after allegedly facing 50+ yea...

BeauCoo, the Calgary, Canada-based startup that wants to make it easier for women to discover new styles, brands and stores and shop for clothes online by matching them with other women who have a sim...

The only thing I want in this world is an all-you-can-read monthly comic subscription service, which I can use on the iPad. Which is why Marvel launching Marvel Unlimited on iOS seemed like a dream co...

3D printing company Shapeways had a banner 2012 -- it locked up a $6.2 million Series B last year in a round led by Lux Capital, and established a full-blown factory in Long Island City. And it's hopi...

The Dutch app analytics company Distimo has built a reputation around offering app developers a cross-platform look at how their apps are performing in terms of downloads, revenues and rankings, cover...

Just after reports peg Apple brass as meeting with Beats to discuss streaming music services, a new story in the New York Post today claims that the Mac maker is in talks with labels about such a serv...

Real-time creative collaboration startup, Scoot & Doodle, which piggybacks on Google+'s Hangouts feature as the arena for its learn-through-play app aimed at middle school age through to coll...

We're live in Berlin at a major announcement due to be made shortly by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. I'll be covering the event which has been rumoured to be a major policy shift by the German gove...

Spindle, the location discovery app from former Microsoft engineers backed by $2.3 million in funding from Polaris, Greylock, Lerer, SV Angel and others, is today releasing the biggest update to its i...

Jared Fliesler, who oversaw growth and user acquisition at Square, is crossing over to the venture side from the startup world and joining Matrix Partners as a general partner. A firm that has been ar...

Founder and CEO of Plum District, Megan Gardner, has left her position at the company, according to the Plum District website and LinkedIn. Susan Kim, formerly at Google, eBay and Minted, will be taki...

Who'd have thought email would suddenly be the hot app startups were going after, but that appears to be what's happening. And it's being driven both by a desire to make email 'work' better and by the...

TastemakerX, a music discovery mobile application, which previously operated as something of a “stock market for bands,” is today announcing $1.25 million in new funding from Baseline Vent...

Pearltrees, the Paris-based curation and discovery service, just launched a new version of its web and mobile apps. The update introduces a visual refresh with full-screen images that now automaticall...

Nokia today filed its 20-F financial report for the last fiscal year, in which it reiterated its projections for the next year ahead on device sales and margins for both devices and services, as well ...

Google published a blog post today in which it details the first fruits of a pilot program launched last year to reimagine digital advertising for the mobile app age. This year, Google says it's broad...

Barnes & Noble last week noted that Q3 Nook revenues were down some 28% over last year on a hardware slump, but the company also saw a rise of 13.1% on content sales -- and today it's announcing s...

Tango, the mobile video calling and communication service backed by $87 million in outside funding, is announcing today that it has reached 100 million registered users – up from 75 million in N...

Office for iPad is a long-standing rumor that frankly becomes less interesting to me with every day that passes, thanks in large part to great third-party apps like Haiku Deck that are stepping up to ...

The proportion of web traffic coming from tablets has pushed past smartphones for the first time, according to Adobe's latest Digital Index which looks at more than 100 billion visits to 1,000+ w...

The proportion of web traffic coming from tablets has pushed past smartphones for the first time, according to Adobe's latest Digital Index which looks at more than 100 billion visits to 1,000+ w...

A new patent application published by the USPTO today shows that Apple has been thinking hard about how it might be able to make it possible for users to resell or lend digital content they've purchas...

Pertino has raised $20 million for its networking technology that small businesses can use to go online and create a network that runs entirely in the cloud. New investor Jafco Ventures led the Series...

"I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game: It's called an eraser," Arnold Palmer once remarked. Yes, Even brave enough to wear ridiculous clothes and hack a small white ball arou...

Danish startup Robocat has built a lot of software for Apple's iOS devices, but today the company is branching out with the launch of a new hardware accessory for the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices...

Angry Birds may be one of the most popular apps of all time, but it's also not exactly a spring chicken, and so, to boost its downloads, publisher Rovio is now making the original iOS versions for iPh...

Angry Birds may be one of the most popular apps of all time, but it's also not exactly a spring chicken, and so, to boost its downloads, publisher Rovio is now making the original iOS versions for iPh...

Analyst Strategy Analytics is forecasting that the worldwide base of mobile subscriptions will rise to 8.9 billion over the next five years -- and a massive four out of five of these (80 per cent) wil...

Playcez, a startup out of Delhi, has closed a seed round of several hundred thousand USD for an events discovery app for Indian users. It wouldn’t say how much funding it got exactly, but noted ...

Is it because Android is the most popular smartphone platform in the world right now, or is it because it's just fundamentally easier to attack? In any case, Google's mobile juggernaut Android continu...

Is it because Android is the most popular smartphone platform in the world right now, or is it because it's just fundamentally easier to attack? In any case, Google's mobile juggernaut Android continu...

Adzuna, the UK startup that operates what it calls a next generation jobs search engine, is taking its wares to Germany, the first time the London-based company has expanded internationally. It's also...

Last night was the grand lighting ceremony for The Bay Lights, the $8.8 million art installation that will turn the historically drab San Francisco Bay Bridge into the world's largest LED light sculpt...

Trulia, the popular real estate search engine, just launched the beta of Trulia Suggests, a personalized real estate recommendation engine. The typical search experience on virtually every online real...

Boxbee, a startup that's looking to make urban storage (not of the digital variety) less of a pain in the ass, just won the best new startup award at the Launch conference in San Francisco.The winner ...

Boxbee, a startup that's looking to make urban storage (not of the digital variety) less of a pain in the ass, just won the best new startup award at the Launch conference in San Francisco.The winner ...

Over the last decade, the rise of mobile technology and the maturation of the Web as distribution and consumption channels has had a devastating effect on the music industry, among others. Yet, on the...

There's very little to be said about this viral video except that it's a cute rendition of what will happen for maybe the first two weeks after Google Glass is launched. In fact, I suspect it will alm...

According to a report by Boston Business Journal, Facebook appears to be looking for office space in its old neighborhood of Cambridge, Mass. As we all know, Facebook was founded in Mark Zuckerberg...

Korean startup accelerator SparkLabs hosted its first Demo Day in Seoul today with five of the six companies in the inagural class it revealed back in November (one company, online gaming studio Merry...

The TV news soundbite is about to get a lot shorter. NowThisNews, a New York-based startup that’s looking to reinvent video journalism for the Facebook and smartphone era, is hitting SXSW with a...

RelayRides founder and chief community officer Shelby Clark announced today that he is leaving his day-to-day role with the company, but will remain on the company's board of directors. The move comes...

RelayRides founder and chief community officer Shelby Clark announced today that he is leaving his day-to-day role with the company, but will remain on its board of directors. The move comes as RelayR...

After spending years working as technicians at public schools, Jeff O'Hara and Nicolas Borg launched Edmodo in 2008 to address what they had come to see as a huge gap in the teacher-student relationsh...

Yammer founder David Sacks just left the stage at the Launch conference in San Francisco, where he talked about his future at Microsoft and also weighed in on some hot tech topics including Yahoo CEO ...

Too much bad press and too many confused users. That's what Facebook got from silently tinkering with the news feed. BiltonGate was the last straw. Signs now point to Facebook beginning to announce ne...

About a month ago, if you'll remember, the very fabric of the Internet journalism game was rent asunder when CNET's parent company, CBS, refused to let it write about the Dish Hopper with Slingbox, a ...

I was an unpaid blogger and I'm proud of that. After a few days of back and forth between an established journalist and The Atlantic over the depressingly low-pay of freelance writers, I thought I'd e...

Facebook today added a new member to its board of directors, Susan Desmond-Hellman, M.D.. Dr. Hellman currently serves as the chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to assumi...

Twitter has updated its iOS and Android apps today, as well as its mobile site, to include more interesting content to keep you tapping and exploring as you perform searches. As we noted last month, T...

Sometimes the best Kickstarter projects are the simplest ones. Lumio is a lamp masquerading as a beautiful hardcover book with a wooden finish. To turn the lamp on, you open it up. To turn it off, you...

Grassroots digital activists are looking for a new another sweet, sweet hit of political success. After successfully lobbying the White House with 100,000 petitions to overturn a law related to cell p...

During my trip to India, one of the most interesting companies that I met with was ZipDial. In a really cool home-turned-office in Bangalore, a team of brilliant people have turned a phenomenon that i...

Don't ever sit on the black balls at the kids table in Apple retail stores, recommends supposed former employee and Redditor Mister_Rabbit. It seems that as 370 million people visit an Apple Store eac...

Samsung's Galaxy S IV hasn't even been revealed yet and news of another top-tier Samsung smartphone is already threatening to steal some of its spotlight. The Korea Times reported earlier today that t...

This morning Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg officially launched "Lean In," a non-profit organization aimed at creating a global community that encourages women to continue to be active and ambitious in ...

Google really wants developers to use the new Google+ application sign-ins it announced last week. As Google+'sKinnari Jhaverijustannounced, the interest in the new feature was "significant....

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

Ebay, the online marketplace that recently added a redesign reminiscent of Pinterest to enhance a personalized experience for its users, is paring down in other areas. Among them, the site has discont...

LifeBeam is kicking off an Indiegogo campaign for a new smart cycling helmet that uses smart sensors to track your heart rate.LifeBeam is an Israel-based startup that thus far has specialized in aeros...

Apple's iPhone made up some ground in the most recent comScore smartphone OEM market share numbers, covering the three-month period ending in January 2013. Apple's share rose from 34.3 percent curing ...

Retail giant Target's newlyannounced"Target Retail Accelerator" isn't really an accelerator - it's more a sponsored contest taking place at this year's SXSW event in Austin, Texas. Developers who part...

With DSLR sales up and Instagram setting a new bar for tastefully shot photos, there are countless hobbyist and amateur photographers out there. A new startup called Ourspot is tapping into that commu...

South by Southwest Interactive is coming up this weekend, and that usually means a flood of content on Twitter some of it interesting and relevant to you, much of it not. If you're starting to feel o...

Like many complex 3D-printed projects, this violin isn't entirely made on a 3D printer but it's interesting nonetheless. It is a violin that costs about $12 to build and uses paper, 3D printed parts, ...

Is the Internet ready for live jazz? Serial entrepreneur Brian Gruber thinks it is. With his latest start-up ShowGo.tv, Gruber has created an online music experience in which we can watch live jazz fr...

The arena of social data comparison has become a hot space over the last, say, three years. With the rise of Facebook and Twitter we have concurrently seen the rise of platforms like Klout and PeerInd...

Google just launched an update for Google+ that brings a number of significant visual updates to the company’s social backbone. The first things Google+ users will notice when they vis...

Washington, D.C.-basedContactually, which makes a lightweight CRM tool for email, is today announcing it has just closed on a $1 million in seed funding led by SaaS backersPoint Nine as well asBoston ...

Nine months ago, Twitvid rebranded itself as Telly, as the company sought to help users find interesting videos based on things their friends were sharing. Since that rebranding, its launched a web ap...

Editors note:Robert J. Moore is the co-founder ofRJMetrics, a company whose software helps online businesses make smarter decisions using their own data.In January, Twitter released Vine, a mobile ser...

Google has just announced via its official blog that Google Play is officially one year old today. The actual marketplace itself is older than that, with the Android Market debuting in 2008, but it ha...

In an interview with reporters today at the Venture Capital In The Rockies event in Beaver Creek Colorado, Gov. John Hickenlooper revealed that the state will be partnering with a number of local CEOs...

Depending on who you ask, Foursquare could be in a great place as far as growth, or in a bad place. We’ve heard about potential acquisitions, difficulty fundraising and everything in between. On...

Bloomfire, an Austin-based startup attempting to create a better way for businesses to capture, save, display and share information, announced today that it has raised $8 million in series A financing...

Endorsements, a lightweight way for people on LinkedIn to recommend each other's skills, has picked up some significant traction in its first five months of life. Today, LinkedIn is announcing that En...

The Galaxy S IV leaks are coming fast, from a number of sources including the company itself, and this morning brings two in rapid succession. First, as Matt reported earlier, shots depicting the addi...

I cant tell you how many times I wished my virtual pottery collection in Lets Create! Pottery, a fun game on iOS and Android that lets you sculpt and paint little pottery pieces, could be brought to r...

Rackspace, one of the original participants in the OpenStack project, has spent the last couple of years building a successful cloud business. Along the way, they've continued to contribute to OpenSta...

Reports suggest, and I have independently confirmed, that moving is one of the most awful, stressful, painful processes you can experience in a lifetime. Yet the cost of living in NY forces many to mo...

Hungry for a blue Raspberry Pi, anyone? RS Components has just that. With a blue board, blue casing, and a certificate of authenticity, this limited Model B Revision 2 is a great way to celebrate the ...

Online video is growing, and with it so are online video ads. But serving interactive video ads across multiple platforms and devices is still extremely difficult. To help solve that problem, interact...

Virtualization data management company Actifio has raised $50 million in Series D funding led by Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, ATV...

Virtualization data management company Actifio has raised $50 million in Series D funding led by Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, ATV...

Looker Data Sciences, a business intelligence startup founded by an early lead engineer from Netscape and LiveOps, is today emerging from stealth mode and announcing $2 million in funding from Frist R...

FreedomPop has spent the past year trying to turn the wireless industry on its ear with its freemium mobile internet service, but the Niklas Zennstrom-backed company is now setting its sights on repla...

AngelList has changed the investment landscape by creating an online space where entrepreneurs can connect with the investors. Now a site called Exitround may do the same at what, for many startups, i...

Public broadcasters continue to face a lot of pressure as going concerns in the face of bigger overall pressure for the media industry, and like all media companies, they are looking towards a new gen...

Discoverly, a San Francisco-based startup building a social enterprise tool, has raised $750,000 in a seed round and is opening up its product to private beta testers. The company's slate of investors...

Cable TV channel Bravo is extending their acceptably popular Play Live interactive/voting platform so that it can now be used for pre-recorded television shows broadcast on the network, allowing you t...

The Kinect is arguably Microsoft's most important innovation of the past decade, and has done more for changing the nature of computer interaction than pretty much any other recently created input dev...

If these leaked screenshots are the real deal, the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S IV will feature a rather innovative way to scroll. Called "Smart scroll" the phone can apparently scroll based on a user's ...

Kids app makerToca Boca, which operates like a startup out of the 200-year-old Swedish publishing companyBonnier, is making good on its earlier promise that it will soon begin to expand its product po...

Back in November, Basis officially took on Jawbone, Nike and Fitbit, releasing its long-awaited wrist-based mobile health tracker. Capitalizing on the popularity of the Quantified Self Movement, the $...

Apple CEO Tim Cook met with Beats Electronics CEO Jimmy Iovine in L.A. in late February, according to a report from Reuters today. The news comes just as Beats project 'Daisy," a streaming music servi...

E-commerce startupSoldsie, which just announced in January that it had raised $425,000 from 72 investors through FundersClub, has now officially closed its full seed round of $1 million in outside fun...

The European Commission today said that it will be fining Microsoft 561 million ($731 million) over antitrust violations related to distribution of its Internet Explorer browser -- and a humbled Micro...

The European Commission today said that it will be fining Microsoft 561 million ($731 million) over antitrust violations related to distribution of its Internet Explorer browser -- and a humbled Micro...

Public school systems are cheerfully decorated dictatorships: discipline, standards, and testing are the driving concepts of modern k-12 education. The very reason why districts purchase bundles of th...

In a world of big and small data it's easy to forget bricks and mortar supermarkets have been gathering intell on their customers for years, thanks to loyalty card schemes. U.K. supermarket Tesco is p...

In a world of big and small data it's easy to forget bricks and mortar supermarkets have been gathering intell on their customers for years, thanks to loyalty card schemes. U.K. supermarket Tesco is p...

Visa believes that by 2020 more than half of all payments made in Europe will be done through mobile devices, so it is continuing to put more investment into how it will remain a central part of those...

Foap, the iPhone app that lets users upload and sell their photos through the startup's stock photo marketplace, has followed through on its promise to open up the service to brands (yes, that word ag...

Metaps, a Japanese startup that offers Android developers a platform to monetize their apps, has secured a JPY 1 billion ($11 million) Series B round from Fidelity Growth Partners Japan and other unna...

As if there weren't enough technology startup accelerators already in Europe, yet another launched today with the hope of attracting 'cloud' based startups in the areas of Big Data, Machine Learning a...

Rocket Internet, the e-commerce startup incubator started by the Samwer Brothers, is once again ramping up its operations in emerging markets. Today it is announcing that Jumia, an Amazon clonelaunche...

Rocket Internet, the e-commerce startup incubator started by the Samwer Brothers, is once again ramping up its operations in emerging markets. Today it is announcing that Jumia, an Amazon clonelaunche...

The Raspberry Pi mini computer won't be blind for much longer: a video camera unit shown off last month that will allow Pi owners to build video applications is expected to go on sale in April, accord...

The new HTC One unveiled last month is increasingly feeling like last-chance saloon for the troubled Taiwan handset maker. Today HTC noted that its sales for the month of February fell by nearly 44% t...

The new HTC One unveiled last month is increasingly feeling like last-chance saloon for the troubled Taiwan handset maker. Today HTC noted that its sales for the month of February fell by nearly 44% t...

Project 'Daisy,' the streaming music service built internally by headphone and speaker maker Beats Electronics, has received a $60 million investment round that it is using to spin out as a standalone...

At the Launch Conference in San Francisco today, Twitter co-founder Ev Williams took the stage to talk to conference founder Jason Calacanis about everything from his experience at Twitter and the ris...

Adobe is in the middle of Summit, its annual digital marketing conference, and as expected it's making a bunch of product announcements. The biggest one is a new interface for Adobe Marketing Cloud, t...

YouTube plans to launch a music subscription service later this year, to allow people to listen to tracks online, and to possibly cut out the ads that precede each video for subscribers, according to ...

The Golden Gate Bridge has been an artistic landmark since it was finished in 1937, even serving as a modern-day muse for the tech industry visionaries such as Jack Dorsey. But its plainer stepsister,...

AdStage, a startup aiming to make it easy for small businesses and other advertisers to run cross-network ad campaigns, just launched today at the Launch conference in San Francisco.The company also a...

AdStage, a startup aiming to make it easy for small businesses and other advertisers to run cross-network ad campaigns, just launched today at the Launch conference in San Francisco.The company also a...

Roku is launching its new, $99 Roku 3. While keeping a similar form factor to previous Roku set-top boxes, the latest in its series should be much faster and more responsive, thanks to hardware upgrad...

At a big press event on Thursday,Facebook plans to launch new ways to filter the news feed. These include a Photos feed of Facebook and Instagram photos, as well as a revamped Music feed of what frien...

I had a little bit of time to play with the Chromebook Pixel today and I'm a regular user of the Acer C7, a $199 machine that is wildly underpowered but good enough on a bad day. I really like the con...

As it turns out, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell gets awfully chatty when he attends award ceremonies. His appearance at the (generally awful) Spike TV Video Game Awards got him ruminating about the futu...

A big part of what makes our Cribs series so fun to make is going behind closed doors to get a real glimpse at how a company works (and plays.) But it's not every day that Cribs take us behind a secon...

BlackBerry's platform has had some big name additions in the past couple of days, but unfortunately both came via sideloaded Android apps, likely created by the community using BlackBerry developer to...

Google just announced that it has released a new feature for the Chrome Beta for Android that could speed up web browsing and save bandwidth for mobile Chrome users. With this proxy feature turned on,...

Earlier today, I wrote about VMware selling SlideRocket to Clearslide, a service that allows sales people to upload collateral and presentations, as well as edit and analyze results. Yesterday I spoke...

Twitter's liberal bias is no shocker to anyone who saw "Binders Full Of Women" at a Halloween party last year. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's slip-of-the-tongue during a presidential ...

We're just over a week away from the Galaxy S IV's official unveiling in New York City, and slowly but surely the pieces are starting to fall into place. No, we still don't know what the thing is goin...

Cheers, the app and social network built around giving users the chance to celebrate the good things in their lives, has raised a $2.5 million Series A funding round led by MindFund and including Char...

A new startup called Vistar Media is looking to change the digital out-of-home advertising market by making it more programmatic, more targetable, and more predictive. In other words, it's hoping to m...

Pathjoy, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that makes it easy and affordable to have your home cleaned, is announcing that it has raised $1.7 million in seed funding. It's taking on a new name that sou...

Last year, Microsoft launched Azure Mobile Services, a cloud backend for mobile applications. But at the time, it only supported Windows 8, and the team then added iOS and Windows Phone 8 support a sh...

Jon Irwin, President of Rhapsody, told me at SFMusicTech that smartphone technology - particularly the IOS and Android platforms - has enabled a radically new experience for music lovers. As Irwin exp...

Just a few weeks ago, social-local-mobile app Highlight announced a big new update that would add photos and events -- just in time for SXSW! Well, now we have another just-in-time update of Highlight...

He founded the Atom Factory talent agency. He manages Lady Gaga, and when she wanted her very own social network for her millions of "little monsters", he co-founded Backplane. And he doesn't do weekl...

In the US startups like TaskRabbit, where anyone can run an errand for anyone else, seem like a novelty even today. But in emerging economies, where the mobile phone rules, it's become the mainstream ...

In a new report published today by Flurry, the company notes that optimizing apps to hit the majority of mobile devices that are active out there is an increasingly difficult task. In order to reach 8...

It seems the e-book market in Thailand has been quietly flourishing, at least according to a local provider of digital books and magazines, Ookbee. The company is the countrys biggest e-bookstore, wit...

We've known for some time that Google would be transitioning users away from its Picasa photo-sharing service to Google+ Photos, but now that process is nearly complete. Google has begun to redir...

Hubble, a new mobile application for private social networking created by the team that developed Flip Video, is launching today to serve as the secure hub (get it? Hubble?) for family communication. ...

Creating Google spreadsheets doesn’t have to be a boring undertaking, especially if you’re a fan of beer. Here’s a fun little auto fill option that the Drive team has put into place ...

Creating Google spreadsheets doesn’t have to be a boring undertaking, especially if you’re a fan of beer. Here’s a fun little autofill option that the Drive team has put into place t...

Bitcasa, with its infinite and instant cloud storage service, has had to go slow with distribution. After all, any service where you can store an unlimited amount of content and stream it instantly to...

Answering "What should I do this weekend?" just got a whole lot easier. 955 Dreams is following up its hit Band Of The Day with the launch of Applauze. The app helps you discover nearby events, then R...

While developers scrambled to cash in on the photo-sharing gold rush while Instagram rose to prominence and then got sold to Facebook, Aviary took a different approach. Rather than build a consumer-fa...

Automattic’s WordPress.com just launched WordPress.com for Business. The business accounts, which will cost $299 per site, per year, and will come with advanced design tools with support for cus...

Google Maps for iPhone received its first significant update today, with new features that are designed to improve in-app search, making it easier to find relevant place information. Google Maps now l...

Y Combinator-backedTagstand, an NFC startup which is carving out a niche for itself given the increased number of Android devices supporting the technology, has now signed several deals with mobile ca...

When Snoox, the web-based recommendation engine for friends, first launched in November, my only gripe was that searching for recommendations is best suited for mobile, even though giving recommendati...

FindTheBest, the data-driven comparison startup led by DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor has raised $11 million in Series B financing led by New World Ventures, with participation form Montgomery ...

Let's Date, the iPhone dating app founded by Suicide Girls co-creator Sean Suhl and backed by Los Angeles incubator Science, Inc., is releasing its first significant update since the app's national la...

Pond5 has tried to differentiate itself with an artist-friendly model, allowing its contributors to set their own terms and splitting sales with them 50-50. Thats a much more favorable revenue split t...

Mobile video app Vyclone launched last summer on iOS to enable users to easily create collaborative videos from certain events and locations. It works like this: Users shoot video with the Vyclone app...

Amazon is taking the first steps toward building a mobile ad network across its Kindle devices with a new advertising API in beta for developers. If you judge by the earnings of publicly traded mobile...

Vimeo, the IAC-owned user-generated video site with 15 million members that competes against YouTube and others like DailyMotion, is getting down to the business of making money, and to that end it to...

Matt Turck, one of the founders of Bloomberg Ventures, is joining FirstMark Capital as a managing partner where he will bring his entrepreneurial and operations experience to thehigh-profile and succe...

Matt Turck, one of the founders of Bloomberg Ventures, is joining FirstMark Capital as a managing partner where he will bring his entrepreneurial and operations experience to thehigh-profile and succe...

Today Appcore, a company that offers complete cloud computing infrastructure (read: hardware and software) to clients including mobile network providers, data centers, and enterprises, has announced a...

What's the matter with a little arbitrage between friends? ConcertIn.com is an interesting music discovery system that uses your Facebook social graph to find bands you and your friends like and, if y...

China's technology Ministry has criticised the dominance of Google's Android platform, according to Reuters. "Our country's mobile operating system research and development is too dependent on Android...

Amazon is cutting deep in its bid to compete against Google Compute Engine and Windows Azure as the cloud platform of choice for enterprises. Today Amazon Web Services it announced discounts of up to ...

KinderStuff is launching today in the U.S. with a new take on e-commerce – no, not subscription commerce – but an online store for kids’ clothes which you can buy new, then return wh...

Don't worry, the Samsung Galaxy S IV won't look like an iPad mini with the camera relocated after all. Famed Android device leaker Evleaks tweeted out a render he suggested was the upcoming Galaxy S I...

As YouTube has grown, a number of new networks, like Machinima and Maker Studios, have grown with it. But to date, while it provides massive reach and huge audiences for video content, YouTube hasnt ...

Scringo, which just launched version 2.0 of its SDK and announced that is has raised a $700,000 seed round led by Israeli venture fundInimiti and other angel investors, offers an SDK for mobile app de...

As consumers and businesses continue to move to a multi-screen world where they expect services like payments, and their e-commerce back-end systems, to work the same wherever they are, e-commerce com...

Tablets are continuing their rise as the preferred screen for consuming mobile data, according to the latest figures from mobile advertising network Jumptap. The company, which produces a monthly repo...

Apple received a patent from the USPTO today (via AppleInsider) that describes a technology that would allow device casings to employ a combination of pressure and capacitive sensitivity to detect inp...

Windows Phone fans are still waiting for Instagram to land on their mobile platform of choice but there's some good news for U.K. owners of Microsoft-powered smartphones: the BBC is porting its TV-on-...

VMware is exiting the collaboration market with the sale of SlideRocket to Clearslide, which will use the rich slide creation too to buttress its service that offers sales peoplepresentationcapabiliti...

After acquiring Vue Analytics, Anaplan, which provides a cloud-based solution for businesses to model and plan for sales, operations, and finance; is announcing $30 million in new funding led by Merit...

The U.K. has the highest proportion of online individuals out of the five leading economies in the EU, according to telecoms regulator Ofcom which has compared the U.K.'s fixed and mobile broadband pe...

Stamp.it, a newly launched UK startup that is building a mobile platform to help independent retailers offer their own customer loyalty scheme, has raised 150,000 (~$225k) from Mark Pearson's Markco M...

Lekiosk, the France-based digital newsstand that last year raised $7.1 million in a Series B Round to push its vision as a "Spotify for magazines", is today announcing a deal with Asus in a bid to gro...

Google is stealthily preparing to launch an Amazon Prime competitor called "Google Shopping Express." According to one source the service will be $10 cheaper than Amazon Prime at $69 a year and offer ...

Fitness technology and hardware startup Fitbit is raising north of $30 million in growth capital at a $300 million-plus valuation, according to multiple sources. The company last raised $12 million in...

MEETiiN, a meeting management platform startup based in Taipei, has received $500,000 from angel investors including Innobridge International.Since its launch last month, 2,400 accounts have been open...

Samsung has issued a rare public apology for a January 28 gas leakage at one of the company’s semiconductor plants that resulted in the death of a contractor. The accident occurred at Samsung...

Despite rumors to the contrary, Microsoft's Scroogled campaign is long from over. Earlier today, a number of publications picked up on a comment by Bing Search Director Stefan Weitz who told KQED that...

Microsoft just announced that it has acquired MetricsHub, a service that automates cloud performance management and helps its customers manage their cloud services more efficiently. MetricsHub partici...

TweetDeck, the feature-rich Twitter client that Twitter acquired in 2011, will soon mostly exist as a web-based service, and the native Mac and Windows apps will play second fiddle to the web and Chro...

The U.K. MOOCs alliance, Futurelearn, which was announced last December and will be offering its first free courses "from mid-2013" with the aim of creating a globally accessible British higher educat...

Hey Bros of Virool, I know you think it’s cool that your launch party is being written up in TechCrunch.But seriously, half-naked girls in silver mono-kinis dancing in front of floating arithmet...

It’s becoming very clear that crowdfunding isn’t just for nascent upstart projects anymore. The latest example of this: Everlane, the company that produces and sells luxury clothing and ac...

Chamath Palihapitiya, the early Facebook executive who left the company in 2011 to launch The Social+Capital Partnership, said today that he has raised a second fund.Palihapitiya, who was speakin...

Facebook today confirmed dwindling engagement with public posts to subscribers cited by The New York Times' Nick Bilton, other journalists, and I, but calls us isolated cases, noting public figures wi...

Chamath Palihapitiya, the early Facebook executive who left the company in 2011 to launch The Social+Capital Partnership, said today that he has raised a second fund.Palihapitiya, who was speakin...

PeopleMatter, a SaaS for hourly worker human resources management, has raised $19 million round of venture funding led by Scale Venture Partners, with Intersouth Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Harbe...

The Galaxy S IV, Samsung's next big flagship smartphone, is only around a week from its public introduction, and it's getting mighty leaky. Today, the NYT reported that Samsung will be including an ey...

Later today, Facebook will wage its war against your phone's "phone" application on a new front with an update to Messenger For Android that adds VoIP calling to US iOS users and Canadian iOS and Andr...

TripleLift is a New York City-based startup aiming to help advertisers embrace what Chief Strategy Officer Ari Lewine calls "the rise of the visual web.""The web is increasingly dominated by images, a...

BlackBerry 10 may have launched with over 70,000 apps, but fans of taking pictures of their lunch were saddened to learn that Instagram wasnt one of them. While theres still no official version of Ins...

Aktanahas raised $5 million in angel funding forits suggestion-engine technology designed for sales people in the field.Aktana provides data insights into sales activity that learns from interactions ...

When Facebook hit a limitation in Android's virtual machine Dalvik that would halt its app development, Google and Facebook worked together to create a patch for Gingerbread. "We're a significant app ...

Ever since Google launched its Chrome browser on multiple mobile devices, more people have been getting used to syncing their desktop browsing experiences for on the go usage. Being able to have one b...

Open Garden, one of the finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt New York last year, just launched the newest version of its Android, Mac and Windows app that makes sharing your mobile internet connections eve...

Samsung is about to show off a new flagship phone at an event on March 14, and details continue to leak out about the new smartphone. The New York Times' Brian X. Chen reports today that eye movement-...

Today was a big day for grassroots consumer activism: The White House officially came out in support of cell phone unlocking. After over 100,000 netizens demanded a response from the Obama Administrat...

"No, don't hit that button." "Hit the red X." "Don't tap on the ones with the stars." "No, go back with the arrow." "Not that one." "No, here."These are the kinds of things I'm constantly having to sa...

The RapGenius breakdowns of recent Andrew Mason and Warren Buffet statements by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz are, well, genius. And they got me thinking back to some of my favorite blog posts alon...

According to a new report from ad network Chitika, Chrome OS usage continues to increase, but it still trails the PlayStation and the various flavors of Linux that the company sees on its network. Sin...

Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire man of space tourism and founder of Virgin Airlines, is chiding New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer, saying the office will soon become a ...

As the race toward mainstream wearable computing heats up, watches are hot and smart watches are hotter.In fact, word on the street is that Apple is working on a new smart watch that would integrate w...

Apps can decay pretty quickly without updates after deployment. The problem is, most of the time the only one who can make the updates to the app is the person who developed it. AppGlu's new mobile en...

Some change atSkype, the messaging giant that is now a part of Microsoft: Jonathan Rosenberg, the chief technology strategist, and then later GM of product strategy and research at Microsoft who was b...

When co-founder and CEO Mikael Berner first showed me his app EasilyDo last year, he pitched it as a tool for increasing productivity and "making life simpler." The company is taking another step in t...

There are a number of ways to measure a mobile platform's relative success, but if you're looking at the number of mobile app downloads as the metric of choice, then the analysts at ABI Research have ...

Aunt Flo got you down? The Crimson Tide wearing you out? Well, the good news is that you no longer have to make that awful run to the drug store for tampons and pads, and better yet, you don't need to...

Apple's iWatch will run full-flavored iOS, according to a new report, and the company is indeed targeting an end-of-year approach, but will first have to tackle battery life issues. According to sourc...

Appy Couple, the same wedding-focused app creation platform that saw a wait list of 7,000 couples after launching a private beta, is now partnering with Brides and Brides.com to bring new themes to th...

Airpair, a newly launched service which connects entrepreneurs and expert developers over remote online sessions, aims to help startups build better software and speed their time to launch. The idea's...

Ford today announced the official launch of its Ford2Go car-sharing service in German, in partnership with the company behind the manufacturer-independent Flinkster car share network. Ford2Go is the f...

After taking so long to transition to its next-gen OS platform, BlackBerry has an awful lot riding on its first BB10 handset, the Z10. The device launched at the end of January in the U.K. and early F...

A couple of years ago there was an ambitious startup called Zoombu which concentrated on aggregating transport solution across platforms in other words linking up trains, buses and airline time table...

Apple's iWatch is the new primary focus of speculation for the company's unannounced products, and a new article at Bloomberg today detailing its market potential also let slip that the wrist-mounted ...

Forbes has today published its annual list of the world's richest people -- and once again tech and its related tentacles continue to lead the top of the list. Coming in at number-one for the fourth y...

Last June, online portfolio startup Pathbrite announced that it had raised $2.5 million in Series A financing led by Rethink Education, alongside a strategic investment from ACT, the college and caree...

Canon today announced the successful creation of a new full-frame CMOS sensor, designed exclusively for shooting video. The new sensor can capture full-HD video with extremely low noise in settings wh...

2012 was a big year for Bain Capital Venturesthe firm raised $600 million for new investments, and focused on expanding its newly launched operations into Palo Alto, under the direction of managing di...

Launching out of private Beta today is UK startup Repixl, which could be described as photo retouching-as-a-service. Backed by 100k of private funding and almost two years in the making, the two-perso...

Fon, the crowdsourced wi-fi hotspot provider that uses technology allowing people to securely share their home broadband connections, has announced a partnership with German telco Deutsche Telekom to ...

The race for online consumers continues to heat up in the UK, and local retail giant Tesco wants to make sure that it doesn't blink and let Amazon get the upper hand. Tesco today announced the launch ...

Now that Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy S IV will be revealed in a grand event in New York on March 14, mobile nerds only have one mystery to mull over -- what is the damn thing going to look l...

ShopSavvy, the mobile application best known for its barcode-scanning and price comparison features, is today moving into personalized deals, through a new relationship with Capital One. The app will ...

Rocket Internet-backed FoodPanda, an online platform for aggregating and delivering food from take-out restaurants, has expanded into two more emerging markets and also launched its first mobile app o...

Rocket Internet-backed FoodPanda, an online platform for aggregating and delivering food from take-out restaurants, has expanded into two more emerging markets and also launched its first mobile app o...

LockerDome, a social media publishing platform designed to connect sports fans with their favorite athletes, teams, brands and sports properties, announced today that it has raised $6 million in serie...

The market for children's and educational apps continues to grow -- evidenced by Apple last week announcing 1 billion downloads of educational apps from iTunes U -- and that growth is leading to both ...

Famo.us, which offers a JavaScript framework that's designed to power HTML5 apps that are faster and better-looking than what's currently possible, has raised $4 million in Series A funding. The round...

Facebook is showing your content to far less people than they used to, says Nick Bilton at the NY Times, pointing out that while his subscribers have soared, the number of likes per post has declined ...

CloudFactory, a distributed workforce company that also seeks to reduce poverty in emerging economies, launched its CloudFactory 2.0 platform last week after acquiring SpeakerText and Humanoid in Octo...

Just months after relocating from San Francisco to Detroit, Stik is relaunching its Facebook-powered recommendation service and announcing a new round of funding. The $2.3 million Series A round was c...

Less than two weeks ago, shares of Apple slipped after an announcement by iPhone manufacturer Foxconn that it was freezing hiring at several Chinese factories ignited concerns about falling demand for...

For the first time in 10 years, the lead-up to SXSW is, well, quiet. The usual influx of party invitations, Twitter stream inundation and press speculation around whats going to be this years "breakou...

With competitors such as Ex.fm and Whyd, it may not be the most original idea, but newly-launched Songdrop -- which is perhaps best described as a Delicious for music -- is a fun and well designed tak...

Most banks are notoriously bad at online, and especially mobile, experiences. Some don't have mobile apps at all, and those that do exist typically aren't that good. That's why the folks at Portland, ...

Anyone wanting to see the whole “history is written by the victors” thing in process should read Tim Wu and John Gruber battle it out over exactly why Apple has kicked the crap out of ever...

Roman Karachinsky, CEO of news personalization startupNews360, stopped by the TechCrunch TV studio earlier this week to show off the company's recently redesigned Android app. He also shared a little ...

Remember Facebook Questions? Checkins? Spotify listens? They had their time at the top of the news feed because Facebook favors new products, but their prominence diminished as they matured. This and ...

This is the original concept shot for Fruit Ninja which was pitched to the company during Halfbrick Fridays. This is literally the very first piece of Fruit Ninja imagery ever created, so its historic...

If you build it, they will come. Perhaps. And only if you dont chase them away.Recently Google co-founder Sergey Brin took to the stage at the TED "Ideas Worth Spreading" conference. His idea worth sp...

Farfetch, a London-based online marketplace for independent boutiques, has raised another $20 million, led by a new strategic backer, the fashion publishing powerhouse Conde Nast, along with participa...

Update: And in true old media fashion, the investment has now been formally announced by Conde Nast itself, some 15 hours after the news broke. The investment will be used for Farfetch to enter into n...

Update: And in true old media fashion, the investment has now been formally announced by Conde Nast itself, some 15 hours after the news broke. The investment will be used for Farfetch to enter into n...

I sensed a bit of desperation from VMware this past week aboutAmazon Web Services continues its push into the enterprise market.According to CRN, CEO Pat Gelsinger said at a partner event this week th...

Last Saturday, I got sauced for purely journalistic purposes: I had to test out what could be the first law enforcement-grade iPhone breathalyzer accessory. It was also Purim, the delightful Jewish ho...

Man was not meant to spend all day hunched over a dimly lit screen; disturbingly high incidences of obesity, joint pain and fatigue is our body’s not-so-subtle way of saying it wants to get up a...

Red Whittaker is a certified legend in the robotics community. The head of the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University, Whittaker has been instrumental building the driverless car that too...

The National Day of Unplugging is finally over, so go on and gather 'round your screen: It's CrunchWeek time again! It was another action-packed week in the tech industry, so Leena Rao, Ryan Lawler an...

Editors note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. Each column will look at crowdfunded products that have either met or missed their funding goals.Once reje...

Finnish startup Jolla is open for business. Thats the message CEO Marc Dillon was putting out, loud and clear, during two on stage appearances at the Mobile World Congress tradeshow in Barcelona last ...

Security and caching service CloudFlare has been down for more than 50 minutes due to a DNS issue. As the service adds a layer between 785,000 websites and their users, all of those websites are curre...

Security and caching service CloudFlare has been down for more than 40 minutes due to a DNS issue. As the service adds a layer between 785,000 websites and their users, all of those websites are curre...

Security and caching service CloudFlare was been down for close to an hour due to an issue with its edge routers. As the service adds a layer between 785,000 websites and their users in order to speed...

Editor's note: Erik Rannala isco-founder and managing partner of MuckerLab.Much has been written about the Series A crunch that is facing entrepreneurs and their investors. Those who believe the crunc...

Editor's note:Brandon Carter is a marketing manager atOutbrain,a content discovery platform on a mission to help readers find the most interesting content online. Its been nearly impossible to consume...

When Andreessen Horowitz invested a whopping $15 million into RapGenius this past fall, they were keen to point out that the platform can be used for things well beyond decoding the meaning of rap lyr...

When Andreessen Horowitz invested a whopping $15 million into RapGenius this past fall, they were keen to point out that the platform can be used for decoding more than song lyrics, and extend to othe...

Editors note:DerekAndersenis the founder ofStartup Grind, a 35-city event series hosted in 15-countries that educates, inspires, and connects entrepreneurs.He also founded Commonred and isex-Electroni...

Editors note: DerekAndersenis the founder ofStartup Grind, a 35-city event series hosted in 15-countries that educates, inspires, and connects entrepreneurs.He also founded Commonred and is ex-Electro...

There's this video making the San Francisco and tech industry rounds this weekend of Facebook staffer Jon Park proposing to his longtime girlfriend, Twitter employee Genevieve Wong. It's called the "T...

Editor's note: Jacob Mullins is a VC at Shasta Ventures. With the recent talk about the growing billion dollar club in startups, Ive been wondering what characteristics a $1 billion consumer tech comp...

It may be the case that real-money gambling is inching its way to reality in the U.S., much as it has in the rest of the world, but if so it's a phenomenally boring story. It's hard to get excited abo...

This week, Kleiner Perkins partner Matt Murphy joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for our Ask A VC series. As we discussed on the show, Kleiner Perkins has been making a solid bet on mobile for the...

Editors note: David Teten is a partner with ff Venture Capitaland founder and chairman ofHarvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York.I recently had an extensive debate with Tom Grossi, p...

Are you noticing that some things are a bit different today? People in cafes are actually talking to each other, no laptops in sight? Drivers at stoplights are accelerating as soon as the light turns ...

Over the past few weeks, I've been genuinely surprised by the depth and reach of the reaction to any moves made by Yahoo! As someone who hasn't been around the this place for too long, my sense is Yah...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor spent a beautiful Bay Area day chatting amiably about Android, Apple, and the GUI formerly known as the Lock...

We wander the streets with tiny computers in our pockets and in our hands. We talk casually to these computers, just like Captains Kirk and Picard talked to the computers on their Enterprises. With th...

We wander the streets with tiny computers in our pockets and in our hands. We talk casually to these computers, just like Captains Kirk and Picard talked to the computers on their Enterprises. With th...

Personal note-taking app Evernote is the latest high-profile victim of wide-scale hacking attempts, following breaches at Twitter, Facebook and others in recent weeks. In a blog post, the company has ...

Here's a rather unfortunate development: The proliferation of recording devices and instant distribution is matched by our ability to falsify the information they produce. While they don't exactly can...

As Nokia tries to separate out its mapping business and make it a standalone entity earning more than 1 billion euros per year, it has stripped its name entirely out of the unit. This past week, the c...

Their downside to pet projects is that they invariably teach you something you didn't really want to know. This time, it was that most of the people who do what I do are doomed.Let me explain. Mostly ...

Editor's note:Jeff Cavins is the CEO of visual collaboration company FuzeBox. I probably wont ruffle too many feathers when I say very few people love meetings. As much as wed like to think otherwise,...

There's no aphorism that describes successful women more than "damned if you do, damned if you don't."Yet, thankfully we keep doing. As we are Millennialwomen who've worked under plenty of women, and ...

Last year, Storylane launched a site for users to share stories that are a little more thoughtful or serious than what you'd find on other social media properties. And thanks to a recently launched iP...

By all accounts, next weeks SXSW Interactive conference should be huge for ride-sharing startup SideCar. The company will be introducing its service to a number of people who have never tried out ride...

Yahoo, which is now officially a technology company, just announced a Google-like spring cleaning campaign. Just like Larry Page started shutting down a number of under-performing Google properties wh...

Mophie caused a bit of a double-take by introducing not one but two rechargeable external battery cases for the iPhone 5 within a few days of each other. The Juice Pack Helium offers a sleeker body, b...

Google today updated its Inside Search site, its homepage for all things search, with a handful of educational and interactive features that explain in layman's terms how Google's Search works. Did yo...

As the founder of two KIPP public charter prep schools, an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at NewSchools Ventures and a former English teacher, Jason Singer is familiar with the starring role that technolog...

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

Apple's landmark $1 billion damages award over Samsung has been partially vacated by presiding judge Lucy Koh, FOSS Patents reports. The judge has orders just north of $450 million be struck from the ...

TechCrunch Disrupt NY is right around the corner! We have already announced many influential speakers, including Kevin Systrom of Instagram, Roelof Botha of Sequoia Capital, Ron Conway of SV Angel, Ke...

The app stores are overrun, and there's little way to get noticed until you break into the charts. So Google has just announced a new AdWords unit called "Click-To-Download" mobile ads that lead direc...

The app stores are overrun, and there's little way to get noticed until you break into the charts. So Google has just announced a new AdWords unit called "Click-To-Download" mobile ads that lead direc...

Shasta Ventures is doubling down on enterprise software experience with the additions of Zenprise CEO Jayaram Bhat as an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) and Issac Roth as Venture Advisor at the aarly-...

Yahoo today issued its annual 10-K report to the Securities And Exchange Commission. These kinds of forms have a lot of boilerplate language that is reused again and again -- often, companies just cha...

The German Bundestag passed an addendum to the country's copyright laws earlier today, the so-called "Leistungsschutzrecht," that allows publishers to charge aggregators and search engines for the con...

Defense Distributed, a group run primarily by gunsmith Cody Wilson, has released a video of an AR-15 with a 3D-printed lower receiver firing off over 600 rounds, a unique feat in the realm of 3D-print...

While America’s political and business elite are pressing Congress to ease high-skilled immigration laws, a new study argues that foreign workers aren’t necessarily better or brighter. ...

We've been bombarded by advertisers for so long it's rare we even remember this, but advertising is still valuable.HitBliss, a new service launching into beta, is looking to put the control back in th...

Live video service Ustream just announced "a small restructuring" of the workforce that will result in cutting approximately 6 percent of the current team. The company said the restructuring, along wi...

In one of Google's funnier Easter Eggs, users have a fun surprise awaiting them on YouTube. Conducting a YouTube search for "do the Harlem shake" initiates a UI-style Harlem Shake on the world's bigge...

Although there are a ton of DIY app builders out there, the majority of them are either designed for those with a little bit of coding know-how, or involve drag-and-drop components which are used to c...

President Obama inadvertently triggered national geek outrage, after he mistakenly mixed up the warring science fiction universes ofStar Wars andStar Trek. During a press conference related to recentl...

At the CSUN International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference this week, Google announced that it has added a number of accessibility to Chrome, Chrome OS, Gmail and Google Drive that ...

A lot of European startup competitions have avoided the 'pitch on the main stage' model of startup competition. Instead, to sort the wheat from the chaff, they often have a separate startup stage to t...

Mobile payments company Square appears to have just received a cease and desist order from the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation. You can access the document here. The C&#...

Facebook has just issued invitations to press, which promise a new look for News Feed, to be held March 7 at 10 AM PT. The announcement comes on the heels of news from January that Facebook was preppi...

David Einhorn has dropped the suit filed against Apple over a proposal the company intended to bring to a vote at its shareholder meeting this past week, Bloomberg reports. The proposal included a pro...

Salesforce shares (NYSE:CRM) are trading today at their highest price ever -- $181.46 a share. It represents a 7.23 percent increase compared to yesterday's closing price. Today's trend is directly re...

Wacom, the leading player when it comes to pressure-sensitive input devices aimed at photo and digital art professionals, has teased an upcoming mobile tablet product on its Facebook account. In respo...

Arro, a new mobile shopping companion app for iPhone, is publicly launching this week with a different idea about how to help shoppers in store aisles make a quick decision on whether or not to buy. I...

In what has ended up being a weird couple weeks for Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX founder should have a better day today after the launch of the Dragon capsule on its second resupply mission to the ...

Apple's greatest innovation in recent version of iOS was clearly enabling emoji keyboard support for all iPhone and iPad users, regardless of region. Emojis are fun for everyone, but they could potent...

While I'm sure there's some scientific reason for demonstrating how the quadrupedal Big Dog can pick up and throw cinder blocks across a workshop ("Ahem, urm, we're showing how the mass of the brick h...

AgLocal, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed marketplace that connects farmers to meat buyers and distributors, is now launching in New York City with 20 celebrity, top-rated and otherwise widely known che...

Logitech just took to the wires to announce an "organizational alignment" that will closely focus on new "strategic priorities". This "alignment to the strategic priorities" will save Logitech approx...

We didn't see a new phone from Sony at MWC this year, though it did take the opportunity to show off the Xperia Z it demoed early this year at CES, but a new rumor suggests we'll see a mid-year upgrad...

The Raspberry Pi project is one year old today, having launched on February 29, 2012 (they're going to have a rager of a party in 2016.) I sat down with the Pi-parents themselves, Eben and Liz Upton, ...

"Cloud communications" company Twilio and startup accelerator 500 Startups today launched Twilio Fund Europe 2013, a new micro-fund for companies from Europe and surrounding countries being built on t...

Stripe, the payments startup, has today opened a closed Beta of its platform in the UK. For now it will be limited to an undisclosed number of partners, but will be gradually "trickled out" to the cur...

The saga of the fight between Hewlett-Packard and Autonomy continued on stage today when Autonomy founder Mike Lynch repeated his allegation that HP has never made any formal representation to him or ...

The saga of the fight between Hewlett-Packard and Autonomy continued on stage today when Autonomy founder Mike Lynch repeated his allegation that HP has never made any formal representation to him or ...

If you are based in the U.S. or Europe, there’s a good chance that you haven’t yet heard of Cubie Messenger. Here in Asia, however, the free mobile messaging app, which lets users exchange...

SiSense won the Audience Award at the Strata Conference this week with its record-breaking claim that it can analyze 10 terabytes of data on a $10,000 Dell server in 10 seconds. Records are meant to b...

Following an online uproar over a law banning the unlocking of cell phones, the Federal Communication Commission will investigate whether the ban is harmful to economic competitiveness and if the exec...

Google just launched Zopfli, a new open source compression algorithm that can compress web content about three to eight percent more densely (PDF) than the standard zlib library. Because Zopfli is com...

If you've been to a live event recently, like a football game or a, you've probably noticed that the majority of people around you spent most of their time huddled over their smartphone. It's true of ...

Amazon Web Services has once again dropped its pricing. This time the decrease is for two of its services:Simple Queue Service(SQS) and the AmazonSimple Notification Service(SNS)....

At the Strata Conference this week, Marck Vaisman, a freelance data scientist, talked with us about the five commandments of data, a set of principles he has developed and written about in a book by O...

Private First Class Bradley Manning has pleaded guilty to leaking classified government documents to WikiLeaks. Reading from a 35-page statement, Manning said he leaked diplomatic cables to "spark a d...

I like to use my SLR, but there are many times when I leave it behind because I'm not sure whether it'll be able to handle the conditions I plan to be using it in. LA-based hardware startup Outex is t...

Fujitsu has taken its time launching smartphones outside its home market. It's best known for slick, slender high end smartphones in Japan but has eschewed the crowded top tier of Europe's smartphone ...

NFC has always struck me as one of those things that everyone says is going to get really big next year, and the growing number of smartphones and tablets that come bearing support for the standard is...

Andrew Mason's loss may just be Groupon's gain -- at least as far as its shareholders are concerned.Groupon's stock price got a rapid and marked boost in after-hours trading today in the first minutes...

Andrew Mason's loss may just be Groupon's gain -- at least as far as its shareholders are concerned.Groupon's stock price got a rapid and marked boost in after-hours trading today in the first minutes...

Andrew Mason's loss may just be Groupon's gain -- at least as far as its shareholders are concerned.Groupon's stock price got a rapid and marked boost in after-hours trading today in the first minutes...

Salesforce.com has announced its fourth-quarter earnings with revenues of $835 million, up 32%, compared to last year. Non-GAAP earnings per share were 51 cents. Financial analysts had expected revenu...

BestParking.com today launched a new version of its website aimed at helping people find the best short-term and long-term parking. It's also announcing that it's making its data available to third-pa...

Andrew Mason, CEO and founder of Groupon, has just been replaced by Executive Chairman Eric Lefkofsky and Vice Chairman Ted Leonisis, who will take over the new position of Office of the Chief Executi...

If you're at all familiar with mobile processors, you've likely heard a lot about 32nm vs. 28nm construction when comparing the current generation of chips from companies like Qualcomm and others. Tha...

After weeks of speculation and leaks, Facebook today announced it will buy the Atlas Advertiser Suite away from Microsoft. The Seattle-based Atlas team will stay put, but Facebook plans to invest in b...

A billion dollar business? Guess not. Despite lofty projections for Facebook Gifts from analysts, reporters, and me, a new report picks apart public statements from the company to suggest it earned a ...

Correction: The original version of this article was predicated on incorrect data. We'll be publishing a correction and explanation soon....

A billion-dollar business? Maybe not. Despite lofty projections for Facebook Gifts from analysts, reporters and myself, a new report picks apart public statements from the company to suggest it sold a...

Stitch Fix, the San Francisco-based startup that provides a subscription-based personal shopping and delivery service for women's clothing, has closed on $4.75 million in new funding, the company tell...

Online advertising company Federated Media just announced that current CEO Deanna Brown is stepping down, while founder and former CEO John Battelle will be taking on the role again.The company says t...

Beautiful design and utility are, in many ways, paramount when it comes to home electronics. That's why I was really impressed by the the new AM05 space heater/cooler from Dyson. It's a completely qui...

"In the Studio" welcomes a first-time founder with a diverse set of experiences -- ranging from economics to advertising, from product management to design, and from startup CEO to advisor of a ventur...

Product design company ZURBjust launched the fourth version of Foundation, its responsive design framework that directly competes with Bootstrap. The new version, ZURB tells us, has been completely re...

Yuilop, a European free messaging startup which launched back in 2011 and has amassed "millions" of users of its apps, will be launching in the U.S. in the next couple of weeks. Although the startup h...

Aol is really into hiring boss' boss' bosses. We've had a couple in my brief sojourn in the Aol Brand Group. Now we've got another one, former Gilt CEO Susan Lyne, who just sent out the following memo...

Google issued an update for its iOS application today that adds the "Send to TV" feature to its apps for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The feature allows you to quickly and easily pair your mobile phon...

Microsoft-owned Yammer has been relatively quiet since its acquisition by Redmond, but the company piped up today to announce plans to add instant message translation capabilities, which will allow mu...

For better or worse, the advent of smartphones and tablets mean that were rapidly moving away from the more tactile user experiences that were the hallmark of a bygone era in computing. As it turns ou...

Bing Maps just got a large update that brings a more detailed map of the ocean floor to Microsoft's mapping service. This new bathymetry data is based on the data compiled by the Scripps Institute of ...

Dear Vine,We've grown close over the last month. We've had so many great times together. You've helped me break news, have some LOLs, get creative, and even crowdsource information thanks to your awes...

Apple announced a new milestone for its iTunes U online digital education outlet, which has just crossed the 1 billion download mark. Alongside the announcement, Apple has also informed us exclusively...

Peer-to-peer car rental startup (and TechCrunch Disrupt winner) Getaround is built around the idea of helping customers to make use of cars they own, which are sitting around not being driven most of ...

People who read my emails must think my parents are Mr. Rogers and double-espresso. For a very strategic reason, I write with more emotions, LOLs, and exclamation points than a Twilight chatroom: huma...

Zumper -- the online home rentals startup and TechCrunch Disrupt alum that quickly raised a $1 million seed round from a list of top-shelf VCs that included Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, ...

OUYA, the Kickstarter-funded Android gaming console, has already shipped developer consoles, but had yet to specify an exact date when backers could expect their production devices. Today, the company...

Photos and the news feed are where people spend their time on Facebook. Yet its last two big products were relatively niche features, Timeline and the new Graph Search. Facebook today published exampl...

Koozoo is launching today in San Francisco and Austin with a new twist on social video.The emphasis here is on utility, rather than performance and entertainment (though it can be entertaining, too). ...

Good Eggs is a new service that delivers organic and sustainable meats, produce, and other goods from locally sourced farms and vendors. There are lots of delivery services that will bring groceries t...

Asana, the high-profile productivity startup that's trying to redesign the workplace around tasks (instead of email), has had an iOS app for five months, but had not yet debuted an Android app, even t...

Asana, the high-profile productivity startup that's trying to redesign the workplace around tasks (instead of email), has had an iOS app for five months, but had not yet debuted an Android app, even t...

As a middle-aged author of middling talent, I find myself often working on amazing book projects and finding no way to share them with the world. Formatting issues abound in many writing programs and ...

MYO, the gesture control armband from Y Combinator-backed Waterloo startup Thalmic Labs, has managed to rack up over 10,000 pre-orders over the course of its first two days of pre-order availability. ...

eBay-ownedSvpplyis debuting an Android version of its Svpply mobile application today, which brings its catalog of over 2.4 million hand-picked items from 110,000 stores to the Android operating syste...

Were positively sure no one ever in the history of the world looked at a soccer ball and thought of it as anything more than just a soccer ball. Thats why were a little astounded at SOCCKET, just a no...

Back in late 2009, Zynga quietly acquired a startup called MyMiniLife, a maker of virtual worlds that allowed players to outfit their characters and homes with virtual lamps, furniture and so on. You ...

Payments startup Balanced has been growing quickly over the past several months, with 30 percent monthly transaction volume growth since August. Due to popular demand, the latest update to Balanceds p...

Nielsen is today announcing the launch of 'Nielsen Innovate', a $25M Israeli fund dedicated to early stage investments in web, media, research, measurement, and advertising startups. Heading the new ...

There's not a lot of startups who've both raised $15 million from a top investor like Andreessen Horowitz but have also told Mark Zuckerberg and Warren Buffet to fellate them. We're not shy about cont...

Amazon is again announcing an expansion to its Amazon Instant Video lineup, with today's addition of back catalog content from Scripps Networks, home to HGTV, DIY Network, Food Network, Cooking Channe...

Motif Investing, a vehicle that allows you to invest in ideas, is now allowing individuals, organizations and brands to create and share their own collections of stocks or exchange-traded funds online...

Founded in 2011, Detroit-based startup UpTo set out on an important mission: Turn your daily calendar into a social network. Sure, social calender-ing may not reach out and grab you, but, when the sta...

A new patent application by Apple published by the USPTO this week describes a stand for the iPad that uses magnets to hold the Apple tablet in place. iPads already come with fairly powerful magnes bu...

Sonar, a social discovery service (andTechCrunch Disrupt alumni)which was among the top apps at last year's SXSW in Austin, is today announcing new investment from Bing Fund. This angel fund and incub...

In the 1940s, DC comics gave Superman a new enemy. After WWII, the Ku Klux Klan was rising to power. They were gaining adherents in the south and the mystery and mayhem of their secret society was wil...

Barnes & Noble has reported Q3 2013 earnings for the fiscal three-month period ending January 31, with a loss of $0.18 per share on quarterly revenues of $2.2 billion. That’s down 8.8 percen...

In spite of the fact that we now use smartphones to do just about everything, a winner has yet to emerge in the mobile payments space. Unlike mobile photo and video, consumers have yet to get fully co...

Julep Beauty Incorporated, a new cosmetics brand and e-commerce platform has raised $10.3 million in Series B financing led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Maveron, the venture capital ...

Vimeo is helping its creators to improve their videos through a series of visual effects that its calling Looks. The new feature will provide more than 500 different filters its creators can use to en...

Plastiq, an online payments startup aimed at bringing credit card payments to industries which tend to shy away from supporting them, has raised a $6 million Series A. The round was jointly led by Atl...

Google has officially shut down registrations for its #ifihadglass round of Google Glass pre-orders/applications. The competition was first announced on February 20, asking prospective Google Glass bu...

AOL today confirmed a couple of big changes at the top of the company, as first reported yesterday by Bloomberg and AllThingsD. Susan Lyne, the exec who had previously been at Gilt Groupe, is the new ...

AOL today confirmed a couple of big changes at the top of the company, as first reported yesterday by Bloomberg and AllThingsD. Susan Lyne, the exec who had previously been at Gilt Groupe, is the new ...

Andrew Auernheimer and Internet activist (and Crunchies winner) Andrew Auernheimer's sentencing trial will take place on March 11, 2013 at 10:30am. Auernheimer aka Weev revealed a security flaw in AT&...

Binary Formations is a husband and wife software company that has been building Home Inventory, a Mac app that makes it easy to keep a database record of your house and its contents for insurance purp...

Online payments startup WePay is expanding into new territory today with the launch of a new native app for iOS that allows small businesses to invoicing and charge credit cards on the go....

Online payments startup WePay is expanding into new territory today with the launch of a new native app for iOS that allows small businesses to invoicing and charge credit cards on the go....

With big data playing an increasingly critical role in healthcare and with the pervasiveness of archaic infrastructure and lack of data portability in health systems and hospitals, data warehousing st...

TuneIn, the popular online radio service that lets users listen to over 70,000 radio stations from around the world, just announced the launch of TuneIn Live, the company’s new service for helpi...

Google has yet to release the Mirror API that will open Google Glass as a platform, but developers of some of the more popular mobile apps today are gearing up for when it will. Today, at the Mobile W...

Just a few weeks ago, we told you about Rabbit, a new video chat app that launched in private beta. Separating itself from other video chat services, the company seeks to enable persistent, always-on ...

London-based payasUgym, a site that lets users search for and buy a discounted pass to a local gym, has announced that it's raised a further round of funding: 900,000 (~$1.4m) led by existing investor...

Deutsche Telekom, owner of T-Mobile USA, today reported its Q4 and full-year results, and it looks like it is starting to arrest some of the declines in its North American operations: overall subscrib...

Wellington-based Lightning Lab, which bills itself as "the southern-most digital accelerator program on the globe," just announced its first intake of nine startups from across New Zealand and Austral...

Singapore-based short term home rental marketplace, Travelmob is pushing steadily into the space with new features on its site. Today, it released a way for home owners to list last-minute discounts t...

Mobile video startup Viddy is launching a new iOS app, which it hopes will help users create and discover more interesting videos. To do so, its doubling the length that videos can be, and giving user...

Baidu, the search behemoth often referred to as "China's Google," launched its new English-language Web site for developers today. While the site is still in its infancy--right now there just a few in...

20 years ago, you discovered music on the FM dial. End of story. Now there's an uncharted frontier of outlaw torrents, renegade bloggers, on-demand gold miners, and fur-trapping radios. The zeitgeist ...

SXSW is a week away and we were having an internal pow-wow about whether there would be any breakouts this year.A collective "Meh" arose. No one could think of anything. HIGHLIGHT? GOOGLE GLASS?Are we...

When we last caught up with Getable, the startup formerly known as Rentcycle, it was announcing that Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph was joining Collaborative Fund founder Craig Shapiro and OpenTable...

The big systems companies are starting to put pressure on the startups in the growing field of data analytics. But the pressure is not as much related to innovation as it is to using their marketing m...

With 3D printing on the verge of going mainstream, you can manufacture almost anything. As of November 2010, you can add a 3D-printed car to that list, too. ...

For small businesses, buying and managing health insurance is a "pain in the buns," to quote my new favorite ad. Not only are its complicated terms, lack of transparency, slow quoting and on-boarding ...

America’s esteemed lawmakers want heavy penalties for those who abuse the patent system. A bipartisan bill has been proposed to force so-called patent trolls, those who hoard patents for the sol...

Marissa Mayer has succeeded. In getting people to have an opinion about Yahoo again. While many are skewering Mayer for not being progressive with her work from home "ban," people who are more familia...

AOL Chief Operating Officer Arthur “Artie” Minson could be departing the company soon, we’re hearing, possibly over how the company has been handling hyperlocal news site Patch. A sp...

Tinyview, a startup that wants to be the "mobile browser" for product search and shopping, is expanding its functionality today. Today the company has updated its iPhone app and adding a web presence ...

As it struggles to deal with rising royalty costs, streaming radio service Pandora is bringing back an old idea by capping free monthly usage at 40 hours.The company previously limited free desktop us...

Toronto-based startup AppHero launched version 2.0 of its service today, with a brand new interface and big behind-the-scenes changes to how it offers up recommendations to users. AppHero is on a roll...

New York City-based Enigma is trying to help users make sense of it all. And its raised $1.1 million in seed funding to get it started. The company, which is still in beta, looks at publicly available...

Groupon has just put out its Q4 and full-year results. It has reported quarterly revenue of $638.8 million with an operating loss of $12.9 million and a loss per per share of 12 cents, falling short o...

The bSafe 'panic alarm' app and service on iOS and Android by the startup called Bipper launched into the U.S. mid last year. ...

Just as some people are put on this earth to create things, others are prone to destroy everything they touch. Those people should probably spend some time with the Caterpillar-branded CAT B15, an alu...

For Vimeo, the David to YouTube's Goliath, the focus moving forward will be on creating and delivering mobile video, according to CEO Kerry Trainor. A big part of that future focus will come from Echo...

Julia Ferraioli runs developer relations for Google Compute Engine, the new cloud play the company now has in limited beta. I caught up with Julia at the Strata Conference yesterday to talk about her ...

It takes a lot to stand out at a trade show the size of Mobile World Congress. But here’s one device that caught my eye today: an e-ink smartphone.Unlike Yota Phone, the Russian startup thatR...

Maluuba, a service many have lovingly dubbed the "Siri for Android," is migrating to a brand new platform. No, the Disrupt finalist isn't planning on a hostile takeover of Siri's home turf, but Window...