Articles by Techcrunch from May 2013

In-image advertising company GumGum has launched a bigger, more attention-grabbing ad unit one that it says is the industry's first in-image takeover.The company is calling the new unit the Canvas, a...

When James Avery of Adzerk met Alexis Ohanian in New York at an online advertising conference last year, he was ready. He had been angling to work with Reddit, the popular sharing site Ohanian had co-...

Video discovery startup Fanhattan is getting ready to change the way that viewers watch TV, with a new streaming set-top box that combines all of the best parts of TV, DVR, and VOD, while also giving ...

Andreessen Horowitz is boosting its investing team today with the addition of SuccessFactors Founder and SAP Exec Lars Dalgaard as General Partner....

A month after Tumblr introduced sponsored posts into its native mobile applications, the company is today bringing those same brand advertisements to its dashboard. Launch partners for these new "Spon...

Launched in late 2011 by Stanford grad and ex-Facebooker Ishan Gupta, Delhi-based EduKart is on a mission to bring online education to India and the developing world. Today, the startup announced that...

It's impossible to be in two places at once. But Double Robotics, a wheel-equipped robot with an iPad for a face, has finally made that possible. The company has begun shipping units of the Double to ...

Grouper has been around since 2011, breaking into the world of online dating by forcing a group situation. The service matches you with singles you may enjoy canoodling with, but asks that each party ...

As promised at the time of its acquisition by Twitter, mobile crash reporting toolCrashlyticshas not stopped development. In February, it opened up its enterprise featuresto all for free, and today th...

Google today announced that it is investing $12 million in a 96 megawatt solar photovoltaic plant in South Africa. This marks Google's first renewable energy investment in Africa and its 12th overall ...

Google has made a number of its apps and service available on multiple devices. Sundar Pichai, Google's SVP of Android, Chrome, and Apps, announced at the D11 Conference that there's another service t...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live today at 9am Pacific time....

Video discovery service Telly is launching its social video app on Android tablets today, a key step for the company as Google's mobile OS becomes more important to its overall strategy and audience. ...

500 Startups appears to be on a mission to take over the world. With about 20 percent of its capital going to international companies, the seed fund and accelerator has expanded its scope to include I...

Threadflip, the online and mobile marketplace that helps users clean out their closets, or buy from those who are doing just that, is today introducing a completely revamped mobile experience for its ...

Weotta is releasing a big update to its iOS app today, one that should make the app even more useful for planning cool things to do particularly with friends.The company, which first launched at Tech...

Google will make another mobile phone available with stock Android soon. Sundar Pichai, SVP of Android, Chrome, and Apps, announced at the D11 Conference that the company will sell the HTC One Google ...

Google will make another mobile phone available with stock Android soon. Sundar Pichai, SVP of Android, Chrome, and Apps, announced at the D11 Conference that the company will sell the HTC One Google ...

Google keeps adding new information to its Knowledge Graph and today it is bringing nutrition info to its search results pages. Want to know how many calories there are in an avocado or how much prote...

MoPub, a startup that helps mobile app publishers run advertising from multiple sources (such as ad networks, direct sales and cross-promotion), says that it reached a $100 million revenue run rate th...

Google is making it easier for webmasters to add more structured data to their sites that will then help Google index and display these sites with rich snippets on its search results pages. This struc...

Surprising no one, Motorola chief Dennis Woodside revealed at D11 that Motorola is tooling a new flagship Android device. This device, cleverly named Moto X, will be widely distributed and most likely...

Dering Hall, a New York City based startup that runs a digital platform focused on high-end home design, has landed $1.4 million in a new round of venture capital. The investment, which serves as a se...

Get ready, get set, Kickstart. The Pirate3D Buccaneer printer is up on Kickstarter, and the first 350 backers will be able to get it for just $247$100 off its regular price of $347. The 3D printer is ...

We're in Austin. It's hot here. I like it.Tonight, from 6 to 10pm, we're taking over the Stage on Sixth for our first meetup and pitch-off in Texas. We're stoked. Come out. There are still a few ticke...

There’s a reason why eBay founder Pierre Omydiar just shoveled $15 million in investment to political petition site, Change.org: the business of good citizenship is very profitable. While critic...

Although you can't ditch yourleather-boundbillfold yet, a startup calledLemonhas been slowly building up a mobile wallet platform that's encroaching on the traditional wallet's territory, and even mak...

The latest product from BlueStacks, the GamePop Android-powered gaming console, will retail for $129 once it exists its free pre-order offer, which is ongoing and will continue through the end of June...

After Evernote, the personal note-taking app with 60 million+ users, got slammed with a security breach in February 2013, today the company is turning on three new features to give users better contro...

Dropbox is undergoing a pretty widespread service outage, according to our own tests and multiple reports from around the world on Twitter. It's been down for around 3o minutes as of this writing, and...

Mobile gaming startup Scopely has signed on former Zynga general manager Reed Shaffner to lead its product team. Shaffner will oversee games from Scopely's developer partners as well as its infrastruc...

Windows 8.1, which will be available for download in a preview version on June 26, will feature the good old Start button in desktop mode. Users who dislike the new Modern UI/Metro interface will also...

Ok, so we kind of knew it was coming, but it's worth a post anyway: Postmates is launching its on-demand delivery service in New York City today, allowing certain users in the Big Apple to begin order...

The mobile messaging space is exploding with ever more colourful ways to communicate, augmenting the basics of text and voice -- whether that's stickers, one-to-many video chats or the ability to leav...

Big data enterprise search marketing company BloomReach has acqhired the founders of ShopLogic, an AngelPad-backed big data startup that helps ecommerce businesses optimize the discounts they offer to...

Self-driving cars will save roughly 32,000 lives lost every year to auto fatalities, reduce pollution and save us countless hours wasted in traffic. It will also obliterate the taxi industry -- like i...

Apple appears to have renewed interest in investigating gaze detection similar to what Samsung offers as "Smart Stay" tech on the Galaxy S3 and Galaxy S4, which can stop a screen from dimming and goin...

Pinterest is rubbing up against the limits of its own overmodest acceptable usage policy. The social site that lets people share images of things they really dig has told the FT it plans to allow mor...

Salesforce.com is not solely a CRM company anymore. Its a CRM company that has its sights on owning the enterprise SaaS stack, well beyond its core sales roots. The latest example comes with Salesforc...

Qriously, the "question network" that's trying to reinvent the mobile ad, has announced that it's closed a $3.5 million Series A round led by Spark Capital -- funds it will use to expand its U.S. and ...

Apple today dropped a mid-cycle refresh of the iPod touch, its iOS-based iPod, with 16GB of storage on board and without a rear camera, for $229. This slots in its existing lineup between the refreshe...

Samsung has officially confirmed the Galaxy S4 Mini, following a brief leak earlier this month. The new handset takes the name of its current flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4, but couples it with mo...

Stupid friggin' Dots.Seriously. When Dots first came out, it felt like half of my team was telling me I just had to play it. "It's beautiful!", they said. "It's so addicting!", they said.I, being a gr...

Betapond, the Ireland-headquartered Facebook marketing technology startup, has raised 2 million (~$2.5m) in a new round of funding led by The Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund -- money it plans to use t...

Supercell, the iOS gaming company that raked in $179 million in the first quarter of this year with just 100 employees, is pulling a social gaming veteran onto its board. Kristian Segerstrale, who sol...

Video ad startup TubeMogul has closed the $10 million second tranche of its Series C funding, which it will use to expand in Asia. The funding is led by SingTel Innov8, the venture capital arm of Sing...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will be tripling its supercharger coverage throughout the country. By the end of this year, Musk expects that it will cover most of the metropolitan coverage, allo...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will be tripling its supercharger coverage throughout the country. By the end of this year, Musk expects that it will cover most of the metropolitan cities, allowi...

Tesla founder Elon Musk said that he got into the electric car business after it became clear that no one else was going to build an electric car. In a keynote discussion at the D11 Conference, Musk a...

Another day, another big site hacked. 2013 really just hasn't been a good year for web security.This time around, the site writing the email that noone wants to write is Drupal.org, home of the popula...

Gartner Research reports worldwide server sales are down 5 percent for the first quarter of the year, with IBM, HP and the other members of the top five taking the biggest hit. Server shipments declin...

The smart home has grown in importance over the years, with new technologies being used to connect users with what used to be dumb objects. A startup called August, which provides a $199 keyless lock ...

Motorola has a new device coming out, which it thinks will change the game. In a discussion at the D11 Conference, Motorola Mobility CEO Dennis Woodside said the new mobile phone, called the Moto X, w...

Dave McClure's 500 Startups is no stranger to investing in international startups, with about 100 companies in its portfolio hailing from outside the U.S. But it's now looking to make a bigger bet on ...

Kyle and Liz von Hasseln aren't your typical designers. Initially focused on architecture, the pair stumbled upon an interesting business idea when they wanted to make a special cake for a friend's bi...

Good news! Microsoft super blogger Paul Thurrott details the return of the Start Button and the figurative demise of Metro/smart tile/Start Page thing with Windows 8.1's ability to boot right to Deskt...

Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann says that the startup isn't making any money currently. However, he said the company is looking for ways to give marketers tools to help them understand what's happening o...

Google has continuously made its Google Apps Admin Console for IT professionals who manage large Google Apps for Business, Education and Government deployments in their companies more powerful, but on...

Bloomfire, the Austin, Texas-based startup that makes cloud-based content-sharing software for enterprises, has taken on an additional $2 million from Silver Creek Ventures as an add-on to its $8 mill...

How much is a dinner with SV Angel's co-founder and managing partner, David Lee, worth? When you put it into the context of where the money will be going, the answer should be "it's almost priceless."...

Got so many Google+, YouTube, Google Offers, and Zagat emails you want to scream? Google's got you covered. No, it's not sending you less spam. It's organizing your spam into tabs! Google's blatant at...

Aereo investor Barry Diller says that the company isn't about taking free, over-the-air signals and charging for them, but is instead about moving TV from a closed system to IP. At the D11 Conference ...

Numecent has raised $13 million from T-Ventures, the venture capital arm of Deutsch Telekom for its technology to "cloudify," on-premise or desktop apps. The Series B round brings the total raises to ...

The world of payments is being turned over by the likes of Square, PayPal, Stripe and others, which are tackling the idea of payments based on hardware terminals, and new services that focus on innova...

These days, just about any cheapo Blu-ray player or game console can stream video from Netflix or Hulu, so what's a company that makes a slew of low-cost video streaming boxes to do to stand out from ...

Etece, a Spanish TaskRabbit style startup offering an online platform for people who need a job doing but don't have the time to do it themselves, has just closed a 450k Series A funding round, with i...

It's been a big year for Twitter, as the company has been aggressively trying to grow its ads business with broadcasters. It's doing that by partnering with big media companies for services like TV ad...

Mock the lowly QR code as you may. But people actually use it. In China. We already knew that QR codes were popular in Japan, but they never quite took off in Western markets. However, they are findin...

Facebook has just announced a new verified feature for pages and profiles, designed to give high-profile accounts an added level of authenticity. This is clearly a straightforward copy of Twitter's ow...

Quora's library of knowledge has been trapped behind inadequate topic search, but now any keyword generates a list of frequently asked questions and answers about the subject thanks to today's launch ...

Hey, aspiring film makers! Gumroad, the crazy simple platform for selling digital goods, is rolling out a pretty big new feature for you this morning: on-demand video streaming. You upload your video,...

Calling startups from London to Lyon, from Tel AvivtoTrondheim, fromAmsterdamto Athens: We want you. For the very first time, TechCrunch Disrupt is coming to Europe and we're looking for the very best...

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said that the recent launch of Facebook Home is just the first version of the company's effort to make the smartphone more social. Today at the D11 Conference, she said th...

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said that the recent launch of Facebook Home is just the first version of the company's effort to make the smartphone more social. Today at the D11 Conference, she said th...

Google today is introducing a new way to manage your Gmail inbox. This new view of your inbox puts a number of tabs at the top of Gmail's inbox column. By default, Google shows tabs - and automaticall...

Microsoft announced today that two of its big-name communications services - consumer-facing Skype and enterprise-ready Lync - will now interoperate, meaning users can access their Lync contacts via S...

Canadian startup Busbud, which bills itself as the "Kayak for intercity bus travel," today announced that it has raised a first $1 million funding round led by iNovia Capital and Real Ventures. Peter ...

Photo uploading and sharing is growing at an incredible pace, according to data shared by KPCB's Mary Meeker in the Internet Trends report she presented on stage at D11 today. Well over 500 million ph...

Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers partner Mary Meeker unveiled her annual Internet Trends report for 2013 today at the D11 Conference, showing robust growth in the number of broadband and mobile users. A...

When it comes to mobile app revenue, the general consensus is that Apple's App Store is still king. Last month, for example, App Annie reported the iOS App Store earned 2.6 times more revenue in the l...

The Loop's Jim Dalrymple is probably the best-connected Apple blogger on the planet at the moment, so when he posts an entry called "WWDC Expectations," the entire community's ears perk up. The annual...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a web identity service with support for Google, Facebook and its own AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). The service allows developers to grant temporary a...

The rush of new mobile messaging apps, building on the popularity of services like WhatsApp and Line, continues apace, with the latest twist is a service for business users. CoTap, an app co-founded b...

Duolingo, the popular free language learning service, just launched its first mobile app for Android in Google's Play store. Until now, the service was only available on the web and iPhone, but as the...

Apple CEO Tim Cook was on stage at D11, AllThingsD's most recent marquee annual tech conference, and he had a lot to talk about, given recent activity with corporate tax issues, stock price, a long de...

Apple CEO Tim Cook was on stage at D11, AllThingsD's most recent marquee annual tech conference, and he had a lot to talk about, given recent activity with corporate tax issues, stock price, a long de...

Are you in Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, or Slovenia? Have I got a treat for you. In an effort to spread the good word about TC in the rest of Europe, I will be rolling through Sofia, Belgrade, Zagreb, a...

When digital marketers do competitive analysis today, they're still cobbling together data from a variety of sources then tucking it into a PowerPoint presentation where, by the time it's actually rea...

When digital marketers do competitive analysis today, they're still cobbling together data from a variety of sources then tucking it into a PowerPoint presentation where, by the time it's actually rea...

Blekko, the alternative search engine that launched back in 2010, unveiled a major redesign today that uses some of its “slashtag” technology to help users go beyond the usual ten blue lin...

I’ve seen plenty of guitar apps in my lifetime – enough for two lifetimes, in fact – but JamStar, an app by an Israeli programming house, has almost won my heart. The premise is simp...

Microsoft's Surface Pro, the tablet/laptop amalgam device designed to perfectly showcase Windows 8, is getting a 256 SSD internal storage option, the biggest yet for the device. Previously, Microsoft ...

Another reason Twitter is awesome: Cambridge University linguists are using it to track how the usage of one of the U.K.'s Celtic languages, Welsh, is changing. Welsh is only spoken by around a sixth ...

MyCadbox, from Finland's CadFaster, is probably best described as a Dropbox for CAD files, but unlike its competitors it largely shuns the Web for native desktop and mobile apps that it says affords i...

TuneIn, the popular online radio service, today announced that it has raised a $25 million funding round led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) with participation from many of its previous invest...

Applications for Ignite100's third programme have duly opened. It's seems that rumours of the accelerator's death were greatly exaggerated. In fact, I'm hearing that this year's plans are more ambitio...

After closing a $4m round in March, led by Battery Ventures and Hasso Plattner Ventures, Berlin-based multi-mode travel search platform GoEuro has now launched its website in open beta in the U.K. and...

Spotify has launched Discover, a news feed that allows users to see recommendations, songs and playlists from their friends. The feature, which wasfirst rolled out last month in a limited release, is ...

After more than a year of speculation and delays, Amazon Kindle e-readers and tablets will reportedly be available for sale in China on June 7. E-readers like the Paperwhite and Kindle Fire tablets wi...

What? You thought that publicly calling out prominent groups of people didn't open you up to some criticism yourself? You know what they say about people who write open blogs (even when one of them is...

For a while, it looked like Trulia, the online marketplace for home buyers, sellers, renters and real estate professionals, was going to cede much of its ground to Zillow, Redfin and other newcomers. ...

Insight Venture Partners, a New York-based growth fund that’s backed Tumblr and Twitter, just raised $2.57 billion in what is likely one of the largest raises for a venture fund ever. This is th...

Apple CEO Tim Cook says he wants comprehensive reform of the corporate tax code in the U.S., even if it means that the company would pay a little bit more in the process. Today in a keynote conversati...

Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the company will continue to innovate, and has more game-changing products ahead. Today in a keynote conversation at the D11 Conference, Cook said the same people who brou...

Today, I have to say goodbye to my current home, TechCrunch. I've not only gotten the opportunity to work with this amazing team as a writer and Community Director, but I've been able to enjoy it as a...

Between Disney axing LucasArts and Monkey Island's creator waxing on about the sequel he thinks he'll never make, the last few months have been a pretty big kick to the gaming crowd's feels.Here's som...

Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar and CTO Richard Tom are working on a new stealth startup, according to sources. While details of their plans are still a little fuzzy, the two have secured office space in ...

Google unleashed a slew of updates to its Google+ social networking service at I/O earlier in May, and now a bunch of those new features are making it to the iOS app for Google+. The update follows th...

Microsoft ismoving its botnet protection group to the cloud to provide near real-time information about known malware infections starting to surface. Microsoft is making the new program available to I...

Maybe Netflix's original content isn't quite ready yet, after all. Today, a spate of bad news for the streaming service: its "Arrested Development" reboot failed to impress TV critics, and shares fell...

Aviary, the photo editing platform that has become a developer darling through its straightforward ability to integrate into iOS, Android, Windows Phone and HTML5 apps, has crossed a major milestone -...

Aviary, the photo editing platform that has become a developer darling through its straightforward ability to integrate into iOS, Android, Windows Phone and HTML5 apps, has crossed a major milestone -...

Earlier this year, Philip Kaplan expanded Fandalism, his social network for musicians, with a service called Fandalism Distro, which allows musicians to bring their songs and albums to iTunes and else...

Quora famously doesn't share its growth numbers. Due to this furtiveness, many people speculate that it is not growing. On Quora even:Has Quora as a business failed?is a Quora question that smacked me...

Quora famously doesn't share its growth numbers. Due to this furtiveness, many people speculate that it is not growing. On Quora even:Has Quora as a business failed?is a Quora question that smacked me...

Zortrax! Drukarka moja! Ty jeste jak zdrowie. The Zortrax (yeah, really) M200 is a $1,899 3D printer made in Poland that will be shipped internationally by a team of crack Polish engineers and designe...

On this week's Ask a VC show, we have General Atlantic Managing Director Brett Rochkindin the studio.As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here and wel...

Nobody can accuse Gary Reback, the acclaimed Silicon Valley antitrust lawyer, of being intrinsically anti-Google. After all, it was Reback, back in the Nineties, who spearheaded the US government's ef...

Many of today's tech companies and startups are still building their apps for iOS first, despite Android's growing marketshare. The problem stems from a lack of in-house talent, fewer Android-owning b...

Adobe just announced that it has acquired Ideacodes, a San Francisco-based creative consultancy that specializes in "the design and user experience of smart application, digital product and networked ...

Meetup.com has been around for a while, but growth has been staggering of late. The company recently announced that it has surpassed over 10 million meetups and 100 million RSVPs since it launched alm...

Meetup.com has been around for a while, but growth has been staggering of late. The company recently announced that it has surpassed over 10 million meetups and 100 million RSVPs since it launched alm...

Here we go: the TC team will be rolling into Austin on Thursday for our first Meetup+Pitch-Off in the Lone Star State. We're looking forward to seeing you and meeting our 24 finalists in the Austin Pi...

Judicata, a legal research startup based in San Francisco, has closed its second round of financing, a $5.8M round led by Khosla Ventures. Keith Rabois, a former PayPal and Square executive who recent...

With today's update to its iPhone app The Scoop, The New York Times may have accomplished something that advertisers and publishers often boast about but rarely achieve it may have found a genuinely ...

Zack Urlocker, the tech industry veteran and open source software expert, has stepped down as COO at next-generation customer service software provider Zendesk, sources tell TechCrunch.The move hasn't...

Chrome is a platform unto itself, and Google likes to push it forward to make it an ever-more powerful one, too. Next up for the browser and the desktop OS which is built upon it seems to be in-app pa...

Opera today launched the first preview version of its Chromium-based desktop browser for Windows and Mac since the company announced the switch from its own browser engine to Google's in February. Thi...

San Francisco-based startup Appurify is announcing its $4.5 million Series A round today, funding which will help the company continue to build out its exhaustive and extensive app testing platform, a...

Conversocial has been around since 2009, but only recently has the team decided to infiltrate the U.S. market with its social customer service software, which brings the social media response team int...

Kickfolio, a company offering tools that allow iOS applications to run in the browser using HTML5 technology, is today announcing both a name change and just over $1 million in seed funding, as well a...

Kickfolio, a company offering tools that allow iOS applications to run in the browser using HTML5 technology, is today announcing both a name change, just over $1 million in seed funding and Facebook ...

Everything.me, is a clever mobile app that lets users search for specific content across both native and mobile apps. The app, available in beta, is a replacement app launcher and home screen for Andr...

Skyscaper launched last year as a pretty straightforward blog advertising service with a focus on helping bloggers make money through direct ad sales. That’s still a main part of its business an...

There are few things as satisfying - and dangerous - as burning through stuff with a laser. Drake Anthony AKA Sytropyro is young man who enjoys making DIY lasers out of things and he recently complete...

New research suggests that noise canceling tech isn't just for blocking out the screaming baby or chatty couple sitting next to you on that transatlantic flight it could also greatly improve the qual...

Europe's Competition Commissioner has indicated he is very likely to ask Google for more concessions as part of the EC's ongoing investigation into Mountain View's search and advertising practices. Go...

Backlift, a Y Combinator-backed startup that bills itself as a back-end service for front-end developers, launched its first product today. Airfoil, which is obviously based on Backlift, is an A/B tes...

Beta testing mobile apps becomes only more challenging as the crop of devices and mobile OS versions continues to expand, and Israel-based TestFairy, a new startup launching its product to the public ...

A wellspring of interest in quadcopters for commercial applications is advancing globally. From Airware’s recent $10.7 million round from Andreessen Horowitz to the launch of AngelPad’s Dr...

Carnet de Mode (CDM), the Paris-based online fashion marketplace, has announced that its closed a $1.5 million Series A round -- yes, in Europe we call that a Series A -- led by Elaia Partners with pa...

Here's an opportunity for European app developers to work on a project aimed first and foremost at helping others, rather than on the off-chance it will catch Yahoo!'s eye and lead to insane riches. C...

Alibaba Group officially launched (link via Google Translate) the China Smart Logistics Network (CSN) today, which former Alibaba CEO Jack Ma says will become the backbone of the country's $190 billio...

Social news site and meme aggregator Buzzfeed is partnering with CNN and YouTube to create a new online-video channel called "CNN BuzzFeed" that will be unveiled later today. Chief operating officer J...

Microsoft's SharePoint always featured a core set of social tools, but with the acquisition of Yammer, as well as the ongoing integration of Lync and Skype, the folks over in Redmond are clearly ready...

New Relic CEO Lew Cirne asked himself a question upon embarking on developing a new startup inside the company he co-founded. He wondered: How would Jack Dorsey do it?” Dorsey started Twitter an...

There's no shortage of novel Kickstarter projects that aim to change how we think about the environment, but here's one that could literally change how we look at it. Infragram, created by the civic s...

Over the last few days, the website for video discovery website Matcha.tv has gone dark, and those who have downloaded the company's mobile app report that it's no longer working. Co-founder and CEO G...

Ten years ago today, WordPress, the open source blogging software, was born. It's amazing to think that it's been that long, but considering it had all of the elements that other startups and projects...

Because why do anything other than try out hot technologies on Memorial Day, I just bought some Bitcoin. I might finally play Dots and maybe 3D-print an ear later this afternoon.I would not have bough...

The campus of Washington State University in Southeast Washingtons agricultural region looks like a typical land-grant university. The connected mix of art-deco, modern and post-modern buildings that ...

One of the biggest challenges many entreprenuers face is finding the right technical partner when building a company. Some startups can have a single leader, but more often than not, there is a balanc...

So iOS 7, it seems, is going to do away with much of the skeuomorphic design that has crept into the operating system and its utilities. Jony Ive, rumor has it, has done away with all the textures and...

A lot of the gadgets that help people monitor and track their physical health focus on providing feedback related to physical activity for use with tracking workout data and energy expenditure during ...

A lot of the gadgets that help people monitor and track their physical health focus on providing feedback related to physical activity for use with tracking workout data and energy expenditure during ...

Spanish startup Ticketea, the leading DIY ticketing platform in Spain, has raised $4 million in a Series B round of funding. The investment is being led by newly-established Spanish VC Seaya Ventures,...

Nextpeer, the mobile gaming network that adds multi-player mode to indie titles, is entering private beta on the Android platform. Although the platform launched about two years ago, it only started p...

Mojang, the creative force behind Minecraft, isreleasingits next title to the public a week from today on June 3rd. The new game is a digital collectible card game, similar in concept to Magic: The Ga...

Facebook used to have a blogging feature called Notes. It still does, but it got buried by the Timeline redesign and widely forgotten. Facebook needs to overhaul Notes, and signs say a refresh may alr...

I have some really big news, you guys! It turns out that if you ask people whether they want to leave their wallets at home, 83 percent of them will say yes! And sometimes, people won't have cash with...

A new app created by Toronto-based developer and entrepreneur Alex Kennberg uses the Pebble to take users through a standard 7-minute workout (made popular through media coverage at outlets including ...

A new app created by Toronto-based developer and entrepreneur Alex Kennberg uses the Pebble to take users through a standard 7-minute workout (made popular through media coverage at outlets including ...

Even though Sal Khan is now running a platform that serves 6 million students and people a month, he’s still churning out a couple videos a week. What’s been most recently on deck? World W...

The $35/$25 Raspberry Pi microcomputer is being used by hardware hackers to power all sorts of creative projects. Including this Raspberry Pi powered laptop, which ties in the Motorola Atrix laptop do...

Nobody's quite sure when (and if) Bitcoin will go mainstream, but plenty of investors and entrepreneurs have begun to place their bets. The snowball is off and rolling. If this post doesn't make it cl...

Collabspot, an email CRM startup, has just received$79,000 (S$100,000) from a former mentor, Laurent Gasser, who also joins the company asdirector of business development. Collabspot provides a servic...

When I speak to technical founders, they often look back with fondness to days of tinkering with a Commodore 64 or Hypercard. But perhaps tomorrow’s founders will experiment with a very differen...

Samsung has yet to officially confirm the Galaxy S4 mini, but the smartphone's brief appearance on the company's app store earlier today backs up rumors of a summer launch. The listing was spotted and...

Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham just Tweeted an interesting data point about the valuations of YC startups. As of now, Graham says that 37 Y Combinator companies, out of 511 startups, have valuati...

It's no surprise that fitness gamification network Fitocracy is thriving — the company recently announced that it had surpassed 1 million users and has signed deals with personalities like the G...

Everyone has an opinion about Google Glass. Some fears are justified, since, as a culture, we don't have a pristine history of social etiquette always catching up to technology (see: loud-mouth cellph...

If your'e a to-do list junkie, then you've probably already heard about Any.DO. The leader in the space just nabbed $3.5 million in funding to dive deeper into the personal productivity space. One of ...

Google Glass isn't even on sale yet and there is already a noticeable backlash against Google's first experiment in wearable computing. It's odd to see a product that was greeted with so much hype a y...

Scott Brown had a question about the number of parked domains he was hearing about: Do the domain providers have an email reply set up? What he found has led to the launch of Bounce.io, a five-month c...

New Arrested Development is here! Have you heard? I could probably fall back on an "Unless you've been living under a rock.." joke here, but I'm pretty sure they've got WiFi under rocks now.Anyway if...

The problem for Home is Facebook has underestimated how important apps -- and, crucially, the customisation that apps afford -- are to the smartphone experience. When you step back and consider it, th...

Take off your silken cloak and get your dragon eggs ready because Cyvasse, the game that characters play in George R. R. Martin's Game Of Thrones series is now 3D-printable. Created by Arian Croft of ...

Take off your silken cloak and get your dragon eggs ready because Cyvasse, the game that characters play in George R. R. Martin's Game Of Thrones series is now 3D-printable. Created by Arian Croft of ...

Better Place, the Tel Aviv- and based electric car battery technology company that's raised more than $800 million in venture capital funding since its 2007 inception, confirmed today that it has file...

After spending time in the valley as a founder, operator, and venture capitalist, my friend Ryan Spoon left the comforts of Silicon Valley to head east -- to Bristol, CT of all places -- to follow the...

It might look like the bidding for Hulu is "heating up," just based on the number of possible acquirers. At the same time, it seems unlikely that whomever Hulu's parents sell to will do better than th...

It might look like the bidding for Hulu is "heating up," just based on the number of possible acquirers. At the same time, it seems unlikely that whomever Hulu's parents sell to will do better than th...

If there's one thing we know about the explosion in the use of tablets like the iPad, it's that people have been increasingly using them to consume video content. However, hard data on this has come i...

If there's one thing we know about the explosion in the use of tablets like the iPad, it's that people have been increasingly using them to consume video content. However, hard data on this has come i...

In this post, Ill attempt to scratch beneath the surface a little and explore the story behind the undisclosed investment or exit. It will draw on conversations with investors and founders who have be...

Editors note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive.Connectify, a Philadelphia-based software company obsessed with making the Internet faster and using Kickst...

Editor's note: Matt Turck is a managing director of FirstMark Capital.The emerging Internet of Things is experiencing a burst of activity and creativity that is getting entrepreneurs, VCs and the pres...

Its that time of the week for CrunchWeek, the show where a few of us writers chat up the most interesting stories from the past seven days.Ryan Lawler, Greg Kumparak, and I chatted about Yahoo's $1.1 ...

Heads up, Android fans. If you took the plunge and backed the rather sleek Shine wearable activity tracker from Misfit Wearables, you may want to get your money back. According to a recent update post...

Price and ship date are always the biggest concerns when new gadgets or hardware hits the market, but in the case of the Xbox One, it's likely to help determine whether the "home entertainment system,...

Microsoft's Xbox One presents a big and complicated machine whose primary purpose is a menu layer for watching television. This in an age where living room television is irrelevant. Having bet the far...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor neatly sidestepped the Yahoo Tumblr acquisition and segued into the wonderful world of messaging. As Faceboo...

Google Buzz, the social service that Google launched way back in 2010 and then killed in 2011, reminded former users that their data still lives in and will be moved over to your Google Drive accounts...

Although 3D printing technology has existed for some time, it's only now beginning to cross over into mainstream awareness, thanks to increasingly affordable access to the printers themselves as well ...

Your government is worried. The world is "going dark." Once upon a time, telephones were the only way to talk to someone far away, and the authorities could wiretap any phone they wanted. Nowadays, th...

Editor's note:Jon Gottfriedis a Developer Evangelist at Twilio, co-founder of the Hacker Union, and a StartupBus Conductor. Being one of the first cyborgs in the world has meant that I have been privy...

Digital dating is nothing to scoff at; it's a big business, and it's changed a lot of lives -- mostly for the better. Yet, while dating has seen enormous progress during the Digital Era, there's still...

A few weeks ago, Google briefly made a "Google Now" topics page available on the web and then took it down again. The page showed a list of topics Google believed you were interested in, based on your...

On this week's Ask A VC episode, Index Ventures partner Danny Rimer joined us in the studio. Rimer has been in the venture industry for over 11 years so he had plenty to share on how VC has changed, a...

Once a upon a time, Microsoft saw fit to put together a YouTube app for Windows Phone and it was actually pretty great -- it let users download videos straight from the app and there was nary an ad to...

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

In lieu of a formal review, Matt Burns and I sat down to take a look at the Samsung 700T AKA ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T, a convertible tablet that has a small button on the keyboard that pops out the Wind...

The WSJ has reported that Google is participating in discussions with emerging markets such as Southeast Asia and Africa about setting up wireless network infrastructure in cities and towns. A source ...

The folks over on Android Police must have spent some of their time rewatching I/O videos. While they were doing that, they spotted a potential leak during the "Structure in Android App Design" sessio...

Thank the old gods and the new that it's Friday, AMIRITE? You know what that means right? Friday is Gadgets Podcast day, and boy do we have a show for you! In this episode, John Biggs, Matt Burns and ...

The Chromebook Pixel is the Chromebook I'd pick as my personal Chromebook if money was no option, and if I felt I really needed a Chromebook. It's an impressive beast, like a Bird of Paradise, but in...

Erply, the startup that makes iPad-oriented and cloud-based point of sale and inventory management software for retailers, has raised $2.15 million in new funding, co-founder CEO Kristian Hiiemaa tell...

Continuing to grow its suite of services aimed at mobile app developers, Amazon today announced App Engagement Reports, free app usage reports which are now a part of the company's Mobile App Distribu...

TechCrunch Disrupt SF is back! We're very excited to announce tickets are on sale and stealth companies can now apply for Startup Battlefield.This September 7-11, we're bringing Disrupt back to San Fr...

Tumblr just can’t catch a break. Yeah, yeah, they’re getting a billion dollars from Yahoo but it’s been a torrent of criticism ever since. Angry users! Porn! Poooooorn! Know what pro...

A block from the Mariposa on-ramp and in the eye-line of 90,000 cars whizzing by on 280 sits an old warehouse that was home to the San Francisco Bay Guardian, a local alt weekly, and Digg. Most of the...

The ROI of social media is something of a black box for many e-commerce companies, but New York-based startup Olapic is beginning to change that. The company, which allows brands to collect user-gener...

Russian startup Unface.me has created a new social network inspired by the Gossip Girl TV series which lets users create an alter ego to -- let's face it -- troll their friends, or even post even wors...

Paul Adams, who was previously Facebook's global head of brand design, has joined a startup called Intercom, where he will be serving as head of product design.Adams told me earlier that he wasn't loo...

Automattic, the company behind publishing platform WordPress, has sold $50 million in a secondary offering led by investment management firm Tiger Global. The sale will allow some early investors and ...

Automattic, the company behind publishing platform WordPress, has sold $50 million in a secondary offering led by investment management firm Tiger Global. The sale will allow some early investors and ...

Two VMware executives have left to join Redpoint Ventures to help the firm extend its reach into the enterprise and mobile markets. Their leaving marks a string of recent VMware departures, following ...

Two VMware executives have left to join Redpoint Ventures to help the firm extend its reach into the enterprise and mobile markets. Their leaving marks a string of recent VMware departures, following ...

There are a number of password management solutions on the market today, but CommonKey, a new browser extension out this week, has a different take. Instead of focusing only on the needs of the indivi...

We're less than a week out from our Austin TC Meetup + Pitch-Off, and I can already smell the barbeque in the air. Austin, are you ready to rumble? The Austin Meetup + Pitch-Off is going down on Thurs...

A new report from 9to5Mac and its usually well-connected sources today adds a little more color to what we'll be seeing from the big iOS 7 redesign rumored to be making an appearance at WWDC this year...

Netherlands-based hardware initiative Fairphone began around three years ago as a project designed to highlight the use of conflict minerals in the construction of consumer electronics, and then evolv...

Google is the latest suitor to be reportedly circling around social sat-nav smartphone app Waze. Bloomberg reports 'people familiar with the matter' who say Mountain View is considering an acquisition...

It appears Yahoo-owned Flickr has suffered the first significant outage after its major revamp. People online are reporting the site going down, with some tweetsmarked as early as 5:30PM PDT, says TNW...

We're all familiar with the bill shock associated with roaming abroad with our cellphones. There are plenty of players that allow you to swap out your SIM card and use cheaper traffic, including Cubic...

AngelPad, the San Francisco-based accelerator founded by former Googlers, held its sixth demo day yesterday. I wasn't there (I know, it's super-embarrassing), but I did get to meet with founding partn...

Video ad network Tremor Video has filed for its long-awaited public offering. The company's shares will trade on the NYSE at TRMR and it wants to raise at least $86 million. ...

Adly, a startup that connects advertisers with celebrities willing to post promoted messages on social networks, recently raised $2 million in additional funding.The new funding came from previous bac...

No longer just an oddly flavored potato chip, the Limon is also a new sexy-time vibrator from a startup called Minna. The company is looking for backers for its "couples' vibrator", which just so happ...

It's almost impossible for the average computer to mine Bitcoins in any efficient way, hence the rise of Bitcoin mining machines so tuned to their specific purpose that they barely resemble PCs. To wi...

As great as the web is, I still haven't been able to kick my habit for buying fashion and lifestyle magazines off the newsstand. One of the things I love the most about monthly glossies are features l...

As great as the web is, I still haven't been able to kick my habit for buying fashion and lifestyle magazines off the newsstand. One of the things I love the most about monthly glossies are features l...

Bloomberg today reports that Google could face a new U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust probe into its display advertising business. As Bloomberg's Brian Womack and Sara Forden note, the FC...

Toshiba isnt exactly known for churning out attractive, high-end notebooks, which is why the companys new Kirabook is such an oddity. It's a handsome little thing if you're into very (and I mean very)...

Convertibles were all the rage back in the 1950s (thanks to tailfins and the Corvette) and in the early 2000s (thanks to Microsoft and Sony). In the 2000s, however, we saw convertibles in the form of ...

Salesforce.com met analyst expectations for its first quarter with non-GAAP earnings per share of 10 cents. Total first quarter revenues were $893 million, an increase of 28 percent on a year-over-yea...

Pandora has had a busy quarter. In March, the social radio company saw its long-time CEO Joe Kennedy abruptly step dow , leaving the board to scramble to find a replacement. On the bright side, Kenned...

Postmates is looking to expand its business and make mobile, on-demand deliveries a widespread thing throughout cities around the country -- that we already know. The company has been operating in San...

A new bulletin from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warns that lethal, undetectable 3D-printed firearms may be "impossible" to contain. After a Texas law student designed and released digital...

Google almost completely revamped the Google+ photo experience last week, but somehow the company didn't get around to announce one of the coolest photo-related features in its repertoire: Google now ...

After being acquired by Facebook, the mobile back-end service Parse has been extremely busy integrating itself into the company, as well as launching new services like web hosting for developers. The ...

Lambda Labs, an early stage startup out of San Francisco,is preparing to release a facial recognition API for developers working on Google Glass apps. The API will be available to interested developer...

It was just two weeks ago that fast-growing enterprise cloud storage company, Box, went out and acquired document embedding service and Y Combinator grad, Crocodoc. Apparently Aaron Levie sees what Ya...

It was just two weeks ago that fast-growing enterprise cloud storage company, Box, went out and acquired document embedding service and Y Combinator grad, Crocodoc. Apparently Aaron Levie sees what Ya...

After just a year with the company, Badoo COO Ben Ling is leaving the social networking site to join Khosla Ventures. Ling, who has formerly held senior executive roles at companies like Google, YouTu...

This isn't exactly the launch of Google Now for the desktop, which many of us have been patiently waiting for, but Google today announced that it is bringing a richer notifications experience to Chrom...

Score one for technology: Doctors 3D-printed an emergency airway tube that saved a 20-month old baby boy's life. After imaging the boy's faulty windpipe, doctors at the C.S. Mot Children's Hospital pr...

Imonomy, an Israeli startup which makes software that analyses webpages and automatically inserts relevant, copyright-free images to accompany the content, has closed a $400,000 seed round from a grou...

Toronto-based startup MyShoebox is facing a time in which photo sharing announcements are thick and deep; Google unveiled its updated Google+ photos experience last week at I/O, and this week we seen ...

Today a TechStars-backed company is launching out of private beta and into the App Store in an attempt to bring the Utopian notion of a barterer's lifestyle to fruition. Bondsy, founded by a long-hair...

Google today announced that it has been taking its Street View Trekker - the compact backpack version of its Street View cars - and its underwater Street View cameras to the Galapagos Islands and that...

Barely a month or two after launching the Y Combinator-backedphoto-sharing service Popset, the team realized they were solving the wrong problem. Users weren’t struggling to share their photos w...

LoyalBlocks, a startup that makes a mobile-focused technology platform for brick-and-mortar businesses looking to encourage customer loyalty, has raised $9 million in new funding. The round, which ser...

The U.S. House of Representatives just released its own version of a high-skilled immigration reform bill and is actively seeking input through the collective IQ of the Internet. House Oversight Chair...

At Google I/O last week, Google announced that its Google App Engine High Replication Datastore (HRD) - its schemaless object data storage service - currently processes over 4.5 trillion transactions ...

It was almost one year ago (to the day!) that we first wrote about Lyft and how the company was going to offer some lower-priced competition to on-demand ride leader Uber in San Francisco. Now, 366 da...

For those who use Evernote as a to-do list application, the service just became more useful today with the launch of a much-requested feature: reminders. Available to both Evernote and Evernote Busine...

TaskRabbit, the San Francisco startup that has made a name for itself by helping people connect with odd jobs, is now a place where you can find a real job too.Today TaskRabbit is launching a new set ...

Remember how over a year ago, everyone was all excited about the forthcoming Pinterest API? CEO Ben Silbermann even teased its release in a March 2012 email to Pinterest users detailing a Terms of Ser...

JustFab, the subscription-based fashion commerce site, is putting the $109 million that it has raised so far to use: today it is announcing the acquisition of The Fab Shoes, a European e-commerce shoe...

Twitter today made the latest push in its bid to cozy up to Madison Avenue and the world of big-budget advertising, by tapping more into the kind of mainstream mediums where advertisers like to spend ...

Twitter today made the latest push in its bid to cozy up to Madison Avenue and the world of big-budget advertising, by tapping more into the kind of mainstream mediums where advertisers like to spend ...

Another day, another acquisition by Yahoo.Yahoo said this morning it's acquired PlayerScale, a California-based startup that makes software infrastructure for cross-platform gaming. Financial details ...

The Fedora Project has been supporting Raspberry Pi, the diminutive $35 computer, for some time. Today they're making the Pidora "remix" of the core Fedora distribution available. Like the Raspbian di...

Paper by FiftyThree is one of the most beautiful digital products on the market today.The immersive drawing app for tablets has won Apple's Design Award, a Crunchie, and was most recently honored at T...

More signs today the HTC First might also be the last smartphone to ship with Facebook Home pre-installed: UK carrier EE confirmed today that the first Facebook Home phone won't be launching in the UK...

Nextdoor, the company that lets people create private social networks accessible only to their local neighbors, has launched its first native mobile app for iOS, Nextdoor for the iPhone.The launch com...

Become an investor is easier than it's ever been, and yet the vast majority of people today aren't making individual investments. To help get more people investing, Loyal3 has built a platform enablin...

The biggest names in technology have normally been unflinching champions for the rights of same-sex couples. Yet, they were conspicuously silent this week as the Senate rejected the right for American...

Being behind in a market sucks, and it's understandable to want to lash out at the top dog, as Microsoft has shown it's willing to do with Google in search and email, and now with Apple in tablet comp...

Being behind in a market sucks, and it's understandable to want to lash out at the top dog, as Microsoft has shown it's willing to do with Google in search and email, and now with Apple in tablet comp...

Sometimes, when a truly innovative startup is acquired by a larger company, innovation slows to a crawl. And other times, when an acquisition happens, a company gets the backup and investment it need...

WibiData, the enterprise data management startup co-founded by Cloudera founder Christophe Bisciglia and Aaron Kimball, has raised $15 million in a Series B funding led by Canaan Partners with partici...

Social networking and messaging firm Imo.im has an interesting new take on social networking, and it's raised money to get more people on board! The funding was led by co-founder Georges Harik, who al...

Although the majority ofShazam‘s over 93 million U.S. users still use the app on their smartphones to identify, tag and share the songs they’re “hearing,” a growing chunk of th...

After the aesthetic elegance of Dots, prepare for another injection of minimalist puzzle game beauty. Blip Blup is the new game from London-based design house and app studio ustwo -- maker of Whale Tr...

Jawfish Games, a Seattle-based startup run by a former professional poker player and the engineering team that built the Fult Tilt Poker site, launched a gaming platform that can host more than 100,00...

Amazon today took one more step in its strategy scale up its Kindle Fire tablet business. The company announced that it will now sell the two higher-end versions of the device, the Kindle Fire HD and ...

No, we still don't have any word from Amazon on where it stands with a smartphone, but it's definitely making its mobile ambitions clear anyway. Today, the e-commerce giant took two more steps in its ...

No, we still don't have any word from Amazon on where it stands with a smartphone, but it's definitely making its mobile ambitions clear anyway. Today, the e-commerce giant took two more steps in its ...

Mobile payment platform Square has announced that it is now publicly available in Japan, its first country outside of North America. The iPhone is very popular in Japan, making it a potentially strong...

OtterBox, which makes the top-selling protective case for smartphones, has announced the acquisition of LifeProof for an undisclosed amount. News of the acquisition comes one day after a lawsuit filed...

Samsung's Galaxy S4 has hit 10 million channel sales one month after its release. The company announced its latest milestone today just eight days after confirming that it had shipped over 6 million u...

A few weeks ago, Chris Dixon tweeted something thought-provoking:What were the last Hollywood movies you saw about technology & the future that were optimistic? They seem to be systematically dyst...

Oh, Kim Dotcom. You just never stop surprising us.Just hours after Twitter finally rolled out its long-awaited Two-Factor authentication, the Megaupload founder is claiming to have invented the entire...

Fresh from closing its purchase of newsreading app Pulse, LinkedIn has made another acquisition to dive deeper into the mobile space. TechCrunch has found out, and confirmed, that the social network h...

Cloud encoding vendor Encoding.com launched Vid.ly a couple of years ago to provide video creators with a way to publish a single universal video URL and then have that content accessible on any devic...

GiftCards.com, a Pittsburg-based company that has been around for more than a decade and has sold 5 million gift cards, agreed to buy San Francisco startup Giftly to grow out a mobile platform. The te...

After hundreds of thousands of accounts were potentially compromised a couple months ago, Twitter today launches two-factor authentication through SMS to protect people from hacks and phishing scams o...

After scores of accounts were potentially compromised a few months ago, Twitter today launched two-factor authentication through SMS to protect people from hacks and phishing scams on the web. Unfortu...

We've confirmed with Twitter that it has rolled out a new part of its #Music service for the web, charts that we were accustomed to from the company We Are Hunted, that it acquired and now powers the ...

For this week's episode of Founder Stories, I sat down with Ilya Sukhar, co-founder and CEO of Parse. The interview was taped days before Parse was acquired by Facebook last month. Parse is a cloud ap...

Another step for Adobe in its bid to become the go-to place in the cloud for those working in design and other creative industries: it is acquiring Thumb Labs, a bootstrapped, New York-based mobile ap...

One of the most rewarding aspects of TechCrunch's Disrupt events is the Startup Battlefield -- like a mini-startup school, the dozens of chosen startups that go through the Battlefield training proce...

After previously investing into the company, Google has now acquired Makani Power, a green energy startup that is currently building airborne wind turbines. The acquisition was first reported in Brad ...

Some of the Internet’s most notable personalities are bringing attention to the need for immigration reform in a 36-hour social media marathon, The March for Innovation. It’s an issue we k...

Some of the Internet’s most notable personalities are bringing attention to the need for immigration reform in a 36-hour social media marathon, The March for Innovation. It’s an issue we k...

Have you ever wished that you could navigate through the apps on the phone as easy as clicking links on the web? Such a thing may now become a real possibility thanks to a new service from Cellogic, c...

Have you ever wished that you could navigate through the apps on the phone as easy as clicking links on the web? Such a thing may now become a real possibility thanks to a new service from Cellogic, c...

A brain drain at a big tech company is never a good thing, and when a lot of that departing talent consists of high-level execs moving on in rapid succession it's bound to look like curtains to outsid...

A brain drain at a big tech company is never a good thing, and when a lot of that departing talent consists of high-level execs moving on in rapid succession it's bound to look like curtains to outsid...

Amazon has reportedly submitted plans for a new futuristic headquarters in Seattle that couples a skyscraper and an accompanying tri-sphere bio-dome like structure. According to the plans, the structu...

Runscope launched at the Glue conference today with $1.1 million in seed funding from True Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz for its tools that monitor API traffic and address the problems with broken ...

For years, the iPhone has carried a small etching on the back that says ‘Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China.’ It’s fueled the stereotype that China is the world̵...

Another photo sharing app bites the dust? Or is something with promise getting another chance? Either way you look at it, betaworks is adding more technology and team members to its arsenal, as photo ...

Google's Drive app for Android just got a major redesign that brings the Google Now-like card-style look the company introduced with Google Now to its mobile productivity app....

Shashi Seth, whose rsum includes management and executive roles at Yahoo, Aol, and Google, is joining the Tribune Company as the president of a new unit called Tribune Digital Ventures. Seth's role wa...

EAT Club, which is launching in private beta today, has a unique spin on the way that users get lunch. The service hopes to get rid of all the hassles around waiting in line, paying, and waiting for y...

Chrome 27 for the desktop arrived yesterday and today, Google updated Chrome for Android to version 27 as well. While the desktop update mostly focused on improved speed, the Android version actually ...

Chrome 27 for the desktop arrived yesterday and today, Google updated Chrome for Android to version 27 as well. While the desktop update mostly focused on improved speed, the Android version actually ...

Skyhigh Networks discovers,manages and analyzes data from all the apps that people use at work. Today the company raised $20 million in a Series B round led by Sequoia Capital with participation from ...

People are afraid that if they drive an electric vehicle, they’ll run out of juice somewhere. So to convince more people to buy electric cars and dominate the charging station locator market, Xa...

As Foursquare evolves, it wants to help you find either new places to check out or lead you to places where your friends have already been. Mixed in with that is recommendation technology to show you ...

With years of digital exhaust now behind us – over 240 billion photos on Facebook, 8 billion on Flickr, and not to mention the 72 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every month – we’...

Launching today is Cookening, a new French startup co-founded by Cdric Giorgi (previously co-editor of TechCrunch France) that combines elements of both Airbnb and Housebites. Starting with France fir...

Cloudscaling has raised $10 million from Trinity Ventures, Juniper Networks, and Seagate Technologies in a deal that shows how software defined networking has become a focal issue for companies buildi...

Every year Google creates a summary Zeitgeist feature to sum up the year in search data, showing what has been the most popular among its users. Now, it's rolling out Top Charts, a new monthly series ...

SparkLabs, the startup accelerator that wants to inject South Korea's startup ecosystem with Silicon Valley expertise, announced its second intake today. Its latest class is an international lineup of...

Gifs, man! They're trending harder than Jennifer Lawrence right now, but that doesn't mean that finding them is the easiest thing in the world. That's why Giphy, a startup that launched out of betawor...

Artkive, an app designed to eliminate the overwhelming guilt you get tossing your children’s brilliant artwork into the garbage, now has another purpose, too: you can order printed out books of ...

Truecaller, the Sweden-based creater of a crowdsourced phone directory app and online white pages service, has opened its API to a select group of "handpicked" developers. Truecaller said its director...

One interesting element of Google I/O this year were the sensors laid out everywhere around Moscone tracking environmental data throughout the event. Those types of sensors are now all around us, incl...

Sometimes a writer creates a universe so compelling that others feel the need to join and help flesh out that world with their own tribute fiction. And sometimes you make something crappy like Gossip ...

Los Angeles-based content delivery startup EdgeCast launched a new product called EdgeCast Transact, provides a dedicated CDN built just for e-commerce companies, with all the features that e-commerce...

Google has updated Chrome in build 27 to include conversational voice search, a feature it demoed on stage at Google I/O this year that allows you to search by voice, but also transcribes your queries...

Porn is the new Tumblr. It seems that everyone with a CS degree and a little free time is trying to cash in (or at least dabble) in the world of online sexuality, a happenstance that I'd chalk up to t...

Practice Fusion has made a name for itself over the past few years by tapping into enormous demand for digital health information -- particularly health records. From its inception in 2005, the startu...

The last time we met with the folks from Scanadu, we had a very limited look its much buzzed-about line of gadgets that aim to bring vital sign monitoring beyond the realm of the hospital and availabl...

Web security provider Blue Coat Systems -- itself acquired in a $1.3 billion deal by Thoma Bravo at the end of December 2011 -- is making an acquisition today: it's buying Solera Networks, a specialis...

Web security provider Blue Coat Systems -- itself acquired in a $1.3 billion deal by Thoma Bravo at the end of December 2011 -- is making an acquisition today: it's buying Solera Networks, a specialis...

Urturn, the social expressions platform that soft-launched as stealthily as possible last year by intentionally hiding under a really boring name, is getting ready to turn the volume up to 11 to start...

Australian startup, Airtasker, is keen to expand out of its home country into Southeast Asia, which it says hasn’t been touched by large competitors yet. The year-old startup provides job matchi...

SumUp, one of the myriad European Square-style mobile card reader startups, has expanded its coverage footprint by rolling into an 11th European market: Russia. SumUp is now operational in the U.K., G...

Chalk this up as one to watch closely in the world of consumer fintech. Numbrs, a mobile-first banking app founded out of Swiss company builder Centralway, has raised 7.5 million Swiss francs (~$7.7 m...

Rando only launched in March but the anti-social photo-sharing app that deliberately eschews the standard social network clutter of likes and comments and connections -- simply letting users share ran...

One of the early pioneers in the Quantified Self movement has quietly gone out of business. Zeo, a leading maker of hardware and software used by consumers to track sleep and improve their health, ha...

Zalora, a Zappos-style fashion e-commerce site in South East Asia backed by the Samwer brothers' Rocket Internet incubator in Germany, is today announcing its latest investment -- $100 million, led by...

The New York Times has a lovely interview up with SteveWilhite, the inventor of the illustriousGIF file.Wilhite wants you to know that the White House is wrong: He is proud of the GIF, but remains ann...

The New York Times has a lovely interview up with Steve Wilhite, the inventor of the illustrious GIF file. Wilhite wants you to know that the White House is wrong: He is proud of the GIF, but remains ...

David Karp, aka the CEO and founder of Tumblr, aka "Daddy" to some Tumblr users, has family who read TechCrunch....

Now in its fourth year, tech conference Echelon will gather 52 of the Asia Pacific's most promising startups from June 4 to 5 in Singapore. The event will also feature more than 50 speakers and judges...

China's e-commerce giant Alibaba and search company Qihoo 360 have teamed up to launch 360.etao.com, an online shopping search engine that rivals similar products by Baidu, the search giant known as "...

Like you and a lot of other people in the Valley, I read the blogs snarking on the Valley, because nothing is funnier than making fun of people just like us, technology elite who downloadhot apps, rin...

The New York Times spent months and had an entire team working on the creation of Snow Fall, and it shows. But what if I told you that you could recreate the same interactive experience in just about ...

The Saturday Evening Post has a prominent spot in the history of American magazines. It's where artist Norman Rockwell made a name for himself, and it has published classic American authors like Edgar...

Basho Co-Founder Antony Falco has raised $3 million for Orchestrate.io, a database API similar to Twilio in its capability to ease the complexity of adding features to mobile and web applications. Tru...

Editor's note:Kakul Srivastavais CEO and co-founder of Tomfoolery, Inc. She was General Manager for Flickr from 2004 - 2009 and helped the product grow from 37,000 users to over 60 million.Simon Batis...

OK Go (the band behind hit music videos like "This Too Shall Pass" and "Here It Goes Again") launched its very own game for iOS and Android earlier this month.Titled Say The Same Thing, you play the g...

In November, Jive Software acquired Israeli-American cloud-based, collaborative task manager, Producteev, to boost its social business platform. Going forward, as Alex wrote at the time, Salesforce.co...

Wall Street apparently wanted something more revolutionary out of the Xbox One that launched today, as Microsoft's stock is down 0.66%. In turn, investors pushed Sony shares up 9% as they expect its n...

Wall Street apparently wanted something more revolutionary out of the Xbox One that launched today, as Microsoft's stock is down 0.66 percent. In turn, investors on news of a potential spin off, pushe...

As edtech startups continue to challenge the current state of higher education, and various niche startups focus on educating people through digital means, yet another company is getting a boost when ...

Welcome to a brand new episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that goes straight into the heart of the action at the tech industry's hottest companies to show what it's really like for the people ...

Ditto, a startup that helps users virtually try on different pairs of eyeglasses, has launched an Indiegogo campaign to help fight a big threat the company says it's being sued by 1-800-CONTACTS and ...

If I could only have one MacBook (which is usually the case for your average laptop-buyer), this is the one I'd pick, without hesitation. Fewer issues than its 15-inch cousin, which pioneered the Reti...

Gaming has evolved from single-player to head-to-head to massively multiplayer, but also retreated from public arcades to isolated homes. Today's launch of the Xbox One makes the whole console experie...

"It's absurd for Congress to vilify businesses like Apple for wanting to minimize their tax code just like every other American rightly does," tweeted uber-Libertarian Senator Rand Paul, lashing out a...

The Xbox One was just unveiled at Microsoft's Redmond campus and, true to multiple reports that circulated before the official reveal, the new console will indeed come with a Kinect.And what a Kinect ...

While we don't have all of the details on the new Xbox Live features announced at today's XBox One launch, it's clear that Microsoft is going all-in when it comes to social and multiplayer gaming. Fir...

While we don't have all of the details on the new Xbox Live features announced at today's Xbox One launch, it's clear that Microsoft is going all-in when it comes to social and multiplayer gaming. Fir...

Now leading the pack in gaming consoles, Microsoft's future growth lies outside the gaming sphere. We'll surely see tons of games at E3 in a few weeks, but at the big reveal of the Xbox One, the compa...

Microsoft’s Don Mattrick pulled back the curtain on the Xbox One at a live event at the company’s Redmond campus, and it wasn’t long at all before the talk turned to software. One ap...

Microsoft has revealed its new Xbox, the successor to the Xbox 360. It's a next-generation console, with plenty of power under the hood, but it's also clearly about consolidating your digital entertai...

Microsoft is about to unveil the next Xbox home gaming console, and they're broadcasting the entire event live for all to watch. There will be thrills! Spills! Chills! Maybe some actual hardware, unli...

Virtual private networking is a great way to accomplish a number of things, including making sure that your secrets stay your own, protecting against malware attacks, and getting around the geoblockin...

It's Xbox day! Almost exactly 8 years after the announcement of the Xbox 360, Microsoft is back with another one.We're live on the ground at Microsoft's Xbox campus in Redmond, where the company is ab...

Clueful, the mobile privacy app Apple booted from its App Store for being too revealing- or possibly because of its own behavior-is staging a comeback. This time around, Clueful’s maker Bitdefen...

We are updating this blog during the live congressional testimony of Apple CEO Tim Cook. More details will be added soon.Apple's CEO Tim Cook came out firing during his Congressional grilling, declari...

Last year, Twitter announced something it called the Innovator's Patent Agreement (IPA), which would keep patents in the hands of the designers and engineers that came up with the technology behind th...

The Meta1 is a pair of virtual reality goggles that perform some very unique and useful tricks. While they are still in beta stage, the glasses are coupled with a Kinect-like camera to sense objects i...

Postmaster, an Austin-based startup that aims to simplify shipping and parcel tracking through an easy to use REST API, launched earlier this year and today, the company announced that it has raised a...

About.me, the online identity platform that spun out from Aol* at the beginning of the year before acquiring the one-time Digg spinout Wefollow, is now lifting the curtains on its plans to generate re...

It's Xbox day! Almost exactly 8 years after the announcement of the Xbox 360, Microsoft is back with another one.We're live on the ground at Microsoft's Xbox campus in Redmond, where the company is ab...

Smart watches are all the rage, and judging by the turnout and level of enthusiasm at the recently year one meetup for Pebble Kickstarter backers in San Francisco which I attended last week, there's a...

Airbrite, a Y Combinator-backed e-commerce startup, is debuting its first product today called Celery(its name a play on the world “sell”). Celery is designed to be a “pre-commerce&#...

Brow.si, a new product from MySiteApp, is launching in open beta today as an add-on for mobile websites that promises to bring a number of features to rival the engagement of native apps. These includ...

TeamSnap, a company that provides tools for managing sports teams, has today announced that it is acquiring Weplay, a social networking site for athletes, parents and coaches to help facilitate coordi...

Change.org got its start in 2007 as a social network for non-profits. For years, growth was slow for the fledgling social action platform, but, over the last year, that changed dramatically. Change.or...

Burstly's grand vision coming out of its TestFlight acquisition is getting full reveal today with the announcement of the company's new corporate structure, which rebrands Burstly's monetization tools...

More developments in the Sprint acquisition foodchain saga. As expected, Sprint is upping its offer for outstanding Clearwire shares to $3.40 per share, working out to an offer of about $2.5 billion. ...

Kudos to Apple's finance lawyers, who are the Cirque Du Soleil of legal contortionism. On the eve of live testimony from CEO Tim Cook, CFO Peter Oppenheimer and Phillip Bullock, head of Apple's tax op...

Expect a swathe of consolidation in the European e-learning sector in the coming months. Edxus Group, a new London-based corporate operating edtech company, is planning to plough in 50-60 million ($64...

In what is effectively a follow-on round, Brightpearl, the cloud software provider for multichannel retailers, has raised $8 million in Series B funding from previous backers Eden Ventures and Notion ...

The barrier to entry for the Unity game rendering engine for developers on iOS and Android has gotten lower, as use of Unity tech is now free on both mobile platforms. Unity CEO David Helgason announc...

The barrier to entry for the Unity game rendering engine for developers on iOS and Android has gotten lower, as use of Unity tech is now free on both mobile platforms. Unity CEO David Helgason announc...

Last week we reported that MessageMe, one of the latest messaging apps to hit the smartphone market, had picked up a $10 million Series A round of funding, and today, the company is officially confirm...

When it comes to diagnoses and the possibility of undergoing serious medical procedures, we want second opinions (and trustworthy referrals) whenever we can get them. So, in light of the fact that 30 ...

How many crowdfunding platforms is evidence of a crowdfunding bubble? Well, when an organisation feels the need to launch a directory to list and detail all of the options in a single market it's perh...

Uncovet, a startup that wants to be the recommendation engine for indie designer clothing and accessories, has raised $1.3 million from Javelin Venture Partners, Siemer Ventures, and L.A. angel invest...

Wanderful Media has raised another $9 million from the long list of media companies that were already backing the startup and its local deal service Find&Save.The announcement comes after the rela...

Browser maker Opera's first WebKit browser has exited beta. The full launch for the browser previously code-named Ice adds a few addition minor updates to the meaty feature-set demoed at the Mobile Wo...

Game developer Rocket Jump had already proved its mettle with the hit Major Mayhem. But the company's location in Wellington, New Zealand meant its team often felt isolated from the resources they nee...

MavenSay, a social recommendation app, just got a surge of unplanned downloads coming from Indonesia, and its founders are moving quickly to include Southeast Asia in its expansion plans, as a result....

Real-time parking startup ParkMe wants to help find you parking -- in real-time. The company, which originally started out on the Web, has been making a big push behind mobile apps, which is really sm...

HasOffers, a startup that helps mobile app developers see which ad efforts are actually paying off, is announcing that it has raised a $9.4 million round of funding led by Accel Partners.The company w...

Google Checkout is being sunsetted as the company focuses on shaping Google Wallet into a viable PayPal rival. Google Commerce announced today that Google Checkouts will be retired on November 20. ...

Founders Fund, the firm founded by Peter Thiel and other PayPal executives, famously declared that it wants to back companies with big, ambitious visions (not just dinky web startups). And that descri...

Does my music do better on Facebook or Twitter? Where should my next tour be? Is my new song too repetitive? Musicians can get free answers to these questions and more from BeatDeck, a Y Combinator an...

Automated Insights, a startup that translates raw data into plain English, is launching a new product that could make analytics data a lot more accessible. The new product, called Site Ai, pulls data ...

The bookend to Yahoo's Big News Day -- a major refresh of its photo sharing site Flickr -- will see the company drop is Flickr Pro pricing tiers as part of a bid to compete better with Facebook/Instag...

It's easy to forget that Yahoo has had a long on-again-off-again love affair with online video. But you might not remember that, because other online video platforms long ago left Yahoo in the proverb...

Yahoo’s Flickr photo-sharing service is now offering one full terabyte for users, enough storage space to hold whole swathes of the world’s photos. The service is offering this benefit in ...

The new Flickr is live. Smack-dab in the middle of Yahoo-Tumblr aqcuisition day, Yahoo is holding a major press event here in NYC. But announcements coming out of this event aren't related to Tumblr a...

Dell has decided not to build out its public cloud and will instead rely on partners such as Joyent to provide infrastructure services. A source close to the matter said layoff notices at the company ...

Today has been quite a roller coaster ride for Yahoo -- the company put days of reports and rumors to rest this morning when it confirmed that it would acquire the social blogging platform Tumblr for ...

The tech-dominated San Francisco Bay Area isn't exactly known as a hub for high fashion -- Facebook's new James Perse staff hoodies are about as fancy as things get around here -- and fashion shows ar...

This week on TechCrunch TV's Ask A VC show, we have Mayfield Fund Managing Director Navin Chaddha in the studio. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or ...

The valley has a bit of a thing for drones lately have you noticed? Airware, which builds brains for commercial unmanned aircrafts, just raised $10.7M. Longtime Wired Magazine editor Chris Anderson l...

Square's not just for businesses apparently, as an invite-only page for a product called "Square Cash" has popped up. Not many details are known about it, but we've reached out to the company for comm...

Dude, you got a Linux-powered Dell! In all the years I've reviewed laptops I've never been as pleasantly surprised by an Ultrabook as I was with the Dell XPS 13 Developers Edition. This ultrathin, ult...

Laptops are the new desktops. While you can buy a solid tower PC for about $500, this price represents how little manufacturers care about the desktop world. Barring a few huge gaming rigs, laptops ar...

10 days, people! TechCrunch invades Austin in just ten days from now, with our legendary Meetup + Pitch-off series. The magic started in New York this year, with a hugely successful pitch-off, an amaz...

As AT&T comes under the gun for blocking Google's new video chat app Hangouts on its cellular network, the company is today hoping to put a better spin on the news by offering a new statement deta...

Today, Googleupdated its Google+ app for Android to get up to speed with all of the changes announced during last week's I/O Developers conference. In all, there were 41 new updates, including a new s...

Last week, representatives of many of the world's leading cities - including London, Boston, Mexico City, Barcelona and Christchurch - came to San Francisco to learn from Silicon Valley entrepreneurs ...

Tumblr is still shipping.Despite all the noise surrounding the Yahoo-Tumblr acquisition, the company has just pushed out an update to its iOS application introducing a new user interface that now incl...

According to a new study, we really don't have to worry too much about the nearly 1 in 4 children without access to FarmVille at home."Our results indicate that computer ownership alone is unlikely to...

In the wake of releasing eight comedy series pilots into the wild last month, Amazon is starting to make decisions concerning which pilots will be purchased for development and which will get the axe....

How much of Tumblr is porn, and what is Yahoo going to do about it? On the latter, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer spoke to its plans for addressing content that is not “brand safe” earlier this m...

Las Vegas-based apparel retailer Zappos rolled out an update to its iOS app today that saw the company fold some neat new features into the mix. Strictly speaking though , it's no drastic overhaul -- ...

If the last few years have all been about building compelling mobile-first or mobile-only experiences, the latest trend seems to be bringing those experiences back to the web. (Just look at Instagram!...

Last fall, fashion commerce startup Monogram launched an iPad app that was aiming to be kind of like a mobile, shoppable magazine for those hip to fashion. It had all the makings of a great mobile com...

Maluuba, the Waterloo, Canada-based Siri competitor and TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 Battlefield finalist, today announced that it has added two new features to its voice-powered personal assistant app ...

Mac app Minbox launches to the public today, attempting to differentiate itself from competitors through speed and ease of use. The app allows Mac users to send files directly from their desktops -- e...

Microsoft PowerPoint facilitates presentation design with zero constraints. And startups like Prezi provide well-designed templates and other features to help you communicate what matters. Now an Isra...

After announcing its deal to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion, mostly in cash, Yahoo today started to lay out some of the details for how it intends to make use of the property while trying to stick to...

There is no sadder moment than the one where you realize it’s time to upgrade your computer. The load times are too slow, the battery no longer holds a charge, and it’s just too damn heavy...

Jolla has finally taken the wraps off the smartphone hardware that will be paired with its "unlike" Sailfish UI. Being a startup is challenging enough in any business sector but Jolla is seeking to co...

Today is turning out to be quite a memorable Monday -- hot on the heels of Yahoo's Tumblr acquisition announcement, online food ordering services GrubHub and Seamless have officially confirmed that th...

Sprint has decided to get deeper into the social and mobile space, announcing today that it has acquired Handmark and its subsidiary OneLouder. The acquisition is meant to beef up its Pinsight Media+ ...

Yahoo is officially buying Tumblr for a lot of cash. This move makes a few people very happy and very rich. But Tumblr's users, you know, the main reason Yahoo is buying the site, are seemingly very u...

Sensopia, a company which actually uncovered a practical application for augmented reality, has raised a $1.2 million Series A round for its floor plan capturing application called “MagicPlan.&#...

Yahoo has now officially confirmed that it is buying blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion mostly in cash, confirming speculation that started last week. It says it will keep it as an independent ...

Some more consolidation afoot in the worlds of mobile marketing and mobile payments: Payvia, one of the many startups working in the area of carrier-based mobile billing, is buying Mogreet, a mobile m...

A new report commissioned by research giant GfK claims that the growth of the high density cluster of technology companies in East London (dubbed Tech City by the UK government) is being "stunted" by ...

Alteryx has raised $12 million for its business intelligence service designed for data analysts to build tools out of their own internal data and that from third parties.The investment comes from SAP ...

Adelphic is announcing that Michael Collins (pictured), previously global CEO at WPP-owned mobile marketing agency Joule, has joined the mobile ad startup as its new chief executive. The current CEO C...

There's no shortage of channels for brands and celebrities to stay in touch with their customers, followers and fans in these socially connected times. Today's addition to the mix is the launch of bro...

It's nice to see a startup trying something different and garnering some promising traction along the way. The UK's Bloom.fm is a mobile-first music streaming service -- it currently exists as an iOS ...

Jolla, the Finnish MeeGo startup comprised of ex-Nokiansbuilding their own mobile hardware andSailfish OS, has finally taken the wraps off its first handset, revealing what the hardware will look like...

Jolla, the Finnish MeeGo startup comprised of ex-Nokiansbuilding their own mobile hardware andSailfish OS, has finally taken the wraps off its first handset, revealing what the hardware will look like...

YouLike describes itself asan interest-based social network and dating site that takes into account a user'sdislikes, as much as what they do like, when helping to find likeminded people to friend or ...

MediaCorp, one of Singapore's two largest media companies, has poured $40 million into Reebonz in a deal that values the designer brand flash-sales site at about $200 million. This is the first time t...

Pinterest announced two new features today that will help make the Web site more attractive to potential advertisers. The first is pins embedded with additional information about products, recipes and...

Amid grumblings of a “general fatigue” when it comes to software-based startups, a potentially transformative technology called 3D printing is poised to reach critical mass and mainstream ...

BrandYourself is expanding its efforts to take on the big names in the online reputation market (particularly Reputation.com) with the launch of a new version of its service.The company started out as...

There is a misperception about the new Google Cloud Platform that the company put into general availability last week at Google I/O. It's not a brand new platform. It's what Google has used for years....

It’s been a little over a year since Google started teasing something it called “Project Glass.” The futuristic, wearable computer that would change the way that you interact with th...

Digital media company and ad sales platform Ziff Davis is expanding its network of properties even further with the purchase of NetShelter's display advertising business, a well-placed source has info...

Lets say you've come up with a brilliant idea for some shiny new piece of hardware. You brush up your coding chops, scratch out a design, and set out to build a prototype.First, you'll need a programm...

While it was missing the skydiving antics of last year’s event, Google’s I/O keynote last week wasn’t short on product launches. In between the splashy updates to Google Maps, Search...

Joshua Pearce, PhD, is a researcher at Michigan Tech who rearches open source and low-impact solutions to engineering problems. He is also the founder of the Printers For Peace contest, an effort to b...

There's plenty of buzz about the concept of making our cities "smarter" -- that is, loading them up with sensors and data-driven services to improve efficiency and quality of life. Hell, even Google h...

An upcoming update will bring a web browser, email and update store app to Barnes & Noble's super affordable Nook Simple Touch line of eReaders, which will begin rolling out June 1 according to a ...

Sometimes, more medical information is a bad thing. The influential United States Preventive Services Task Force recommends against most women getting genetic screenings for their susceptibility to br...

Android UX and interaction design leads Helena Roeber and Rachel Garb gave a talk at Google I/O this year about the Android Design Principles (ADP) they helped create and introduced back in 2012 with ...

Apple has a good deal of cash. And, in the Valley, the startup ecosystem -- for many reasons -- wants to see Apple spend that cash. As their cash pile continued to grow as their stock price and market...

The Wall Street Journal is now reporting via Twitter that the rumored $1.1 billion cash acquisition deal for social blogging site Tumblr has been approved by Yahoo's board of directors. The Tumblr acq...

Editor's note:Glenn Solomonis a partner with GGV Capital. Some of his recent investments include Pandora, Successfactors, Isilon, Domo, Square, Zendesk, Quinstreet, and Nimble Storage.Stanford-born an...

Retooling the traditional public library for a more technically savvy populace is no small feat, especially when library budgets across the U.S. have been gutted these past few years. That sad state o...

Google is under fire in the UK for its tax practices in the country, and a new key witness (who spoke to The Sunday Times) might put them in deeper hot water when he hands over a reported 100,000 emai...

YouTube turns eight years old today, reminding each of us in some odd way how young or old we really are. Remember, the company launched back in 2005, the same year that Michael Jackson was found not ...

As the Tumblr/Yahoo deal continues to be negotiated by press, and the world gears up for whatever is being announced Monday morning, Tumblr founder David Karp is probably having a very interesting wee...

Editors note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive.An ancient and once-sacred bond between author and audience, reading and writing have become but two more t...

Mark Suster of Los Angeles' GRP Partners is known for his unique insights on the tech and digital media worlds, having famously had success on "both sides of the table" as a repeat entrepreneur turned...

Editor's note: Richard Bennett is a Senior Fellow with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and co-author of ITIFs 2013 report, "The Whole Picture: Where Americas Broadband Networks Re...

Editor's note: Keith Teare is the founder of just.me and a partner at Archimedes Labs. He is also the co-founder of TechCrunch. This was a momentous week for those of us who are watching the rapid tra...

We’ve all by now heard about how Yahoo is trying to get some “cool” with a supposed $1 billion purchase of hip blogging platform Tumblr, but it may be amoot point if Tumblr’s u...

With Xbox 360 having started well but ended in a very confused state, I worry that Microsoft is about to carry over much of its baggage to the new console. Will the company make the same mistake of no...

The idea of a VC having its own news aggregator was a bit outlandish in 2007. But Y Combinator was in an unusual position in those days anyway. Startup incubators had been a highly visible part of the...

It's that time of the week for CrunchWeek, the show where a few of us writers chat up the most interesting stories from the past seven days.Ryan Lawler, Drew Olanoff (clad in his Google Glass), and I ...

Did Google's conference succeed? It launched dozens of products in its 205 minute keynote, but did the world understand them? I saw some of the smartest journalists in technology struggling to handle ...

Its still practically a newborn but Indian mobile messaging app Hike is already channelling almost a billion messages a month between its 5m registered users. Those numbers sound insignificant when yo...

This Gillmor Gang was recorded live at betaday, the betaworks annual gathering in New York. The Gillmor Gang included John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Douglas Rushkoff, Paul Davison, and Steve Gillmor. ...

Google is prepping... something. An announced Google media streamer was recently found in the FCC's testing database. Details are nearly nonexistent as most are held under a confidentiality agreement ...

Editor's note:Tolga Ozuygur is the co-founder of Overdose Caffeine, an indie game-development company from Turkey that develops cross-platform, real-time multiplayer games.Follow him on Twitter @tolga...

Ive spent the last two weeks wandering around London, Paris, and Istanbul (not Constantinople.) As an experiment, I left my trusty MacBook Pro behind and brought only the $199 Chromebook on which I ty...

Google is facing another competition investigation, according to the Financial Post. The Canadian Competition Bureau has informed Mountain View of its plans to launch a formal investigation of its Can...

Sources close to to acquisition talks between Yahoo and Tumblr say the blogging platform feels that Yahoo's $1.1 billion offer as "too low" and view it as "only a first offer". Yahoo may have to signi...

Today, thanks to the maturation of the web, digital tech, and smartphones now in seemingly every pocket, startups are finding it easier than ever before to build scalable solutions to finally address ...

Today, thanks to the maturation of the web, digital tech, and smartphones now in seemingly every pocket, startups are finding it easier than ever before to build scalable solutions to finally address ...

Today, thanks to the maturation of the web, digital tech, and smartphones now in seemingly every pocket, startups are finding it easier than ever before to build scalable solutions to finally address ...

Today, thanks to the maturation of the web, digital tech, and smartphones now in seemingly every pocket, startups are finding it easier than ever before to build scalable solutions to finally address ...

Oh HTC. You've produced one of the finest Android smartphones ever (seriously, just look at all these reviews), but you've faced more than your share of challenges when it came to actually pumping you...

Google made a relatively quiet announcement today regarding how it's pushing the developer ecosystem forward around Google Now, its intelligent personal assistant for Android devices. The company has ...

Just about six months ago, Uber won a big battle with D.C. regulators to have its on-demand car service approved for operation within the nation's capital. But new regulations from the D.C. Taxi Commi...

Zynga has apparently told the makers of the dating website CupidWithFriends that they need to change the site's name, because it allegedly infringes on Zynga's trademarks.CupidWithFriends was built by...

Mozilla today bumped up Firefox Aurora, the pre-beta release channel of the popular browser, to version 23. With this, it is introducing a number of new tools for developers that will now slowly make ...

Google's Vikram Aggarwal, a software engineer working on the Android platform, revealed today that Gmail and Email, the native Android client that still ships on Android devices as well, now has a com...

Uh oh.Less than ten days after Bang With Friends made its mobile debut on the iOS App Store, Apple has changed its mind and given it the boot....

This week, we hosted Accel Partners' Rich Wong in the studio for our Ask A VC show.Wong, who has invested in Angry Birds (Rovio), Lookout, Atlassian, MoPub, talked about where he sees the next wave of...

Facebook still hasn't clawed its way back up to its $38 IPO price, but it's made steady progress since going public a year ago. Daily users up 26%, mobile monthly users up 56%, and revenue up 38% are ...

Any programmer or blogger knows that when you work on the Internet, on a computer, it's easy to gain weight. Tech office pantries are stocked with Red Bull, candy, chips and even things you wouldn't t...

Google's major developer conference, Google I/O, went down this week. Was it a bit of a letdown? Probably. Did cool stuff still come out of the event? Eh? Maybe? We discuss these topics and more this ...

One of the more interesting projects to emerge from Evernote’s 2013 Devcup hackathon is called Postach.io, a new blogging platform which turns your Evernote notebook into a Content Management Sy...

On Monday, it seems that we may get a better sense of what Yahoo plans to build in the wake of its acquisition spree, as CNBC is reporting that the company will be holding a "product-related" news eve...

About a month and a half ago, Google switched to its own WebP image format in its Google+ Android app, the company revealed at its I/O developer conference in San Francisco today. This,Stephen Konig,a...

Google held a session today at I/O 2013 about how to make money on Android, and in the initial few minutes it shared some updated stats around Google Play revenues and how those are progressing. Not s...

Google unveiled its completely redesigned Google Maps product on the web at I/O 2013, and at a panel dedicated to the new Maps experience, Maps User Experience Design Lead Jonah Jones and Engineering ...

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twin Harvard graduates who famously sparred with Mark Zuckerberg over the founding of Facebook and are now working as tech investors through Winklevoss Capital, are p...

Native Client - a technology that allows developers to run native compiled C and C++ code as part of their web apps - has long been a part of Google Chrome. Even though other browser vendors haven't a...

It sounds like a nice idea, if you don’t own a calculator. The governor of Wisconsin wants to give his residents a tax break, using the revenue from a proposed Internet Sales tax to lower the st...

Earlier this week we reported on how Backupify was closing down TweetBackup, a free service to back up your Twitter account that it acquired in 2010; now we have confirmed that, as we'd heard, this is...

Tripshare, an iPad application for travel planning, is joining a crowded space. But its CEO knows a little something about the industry – Bob Dana was the former employee #1 and first CFO of Vir...

How do you market a hot new TV show without the benefit of commercial space which you can fill with network promos? Just ask Netflix. The company has come up with a number of clever marketing stunts t...

Now that Defense Distributed is on the defensive, it's time to think a bit harder about what 3D printing really means. To that end, Michigan Tech is sponsoring a Printers For Peace contest that is enc...

Google impressed a lot of people when it debuted its Grand Canyon Street View imagery in October. The Trekker backpack used to capture that imagery, which is essentially a backpack-mounted version of ...

The march of the enterprise software IPOs continues, with not one but two companies debuting on New York stock exchanges today. Business intelligence provider Tableau Software, trading as "DATA", is o...

One year to the day of the troubled Facebook IPO, the climate for tech IPOs in the public markets is significantly less stormy, especially for companies in the enterprise space. Today, not one but two...

One year to the day of the troubled Facebook IPO, the climate for tech IPOs in the public markets is significantly less stormy, especially for companies in the enterprise space. Today, not one but two...

One year to the day of the troubled Facebook IPO, the climate for tech IPOs in the public markets is significantly less stormy, especially for companies in the enterprise space. Today, not one but two...

One year to the day of the troubled Facebook IPO, the climate for tech IPOs in the public markets is significantly less stormy, especially for companies in the enterprise space. Today, not one but two...

Vevo, popularny serwis muzycznych teledyskw, ogosi oficjaln dostpno w Polsce. Usuga, wczeniej niedostpna w tym regionie geograficznym, bdzie zawiera video-clipy najpopularniejszych polskich gwiazd jak...

The tech industry is, frankly, being greedy. They are going back and asking for changes to language they helped write and blatantly trying to roll back requirements that give high-skilled American wor...

The tech industry is, frankly, being greedy. They are going back and asking for changes to language they helped write and blatantly trying to roll back requirements that give high-skilled American wor...

I like little notebooks. I need a place for my introspective musings. Moleskine notebooks are fine. But now there's DODOnotes, a clever little notebook *slash* iPhone holder that could soon earn a pla...

If you were among the select few that signed up for NVIDIA's Shield newsletter then you've been able to pre-order the company's curious handset for a few days now. The remainder of the gaming masses o...

Samsung's latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4, is poised to pass 10 million shipments next week less than a month after the device launched, says co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun, according to the Korea Ti...

The first rule of being cool is not telling people you want to be cool. Yahoo is not following this rule, with its M&A team in full pray-and-sprayacquisitionmode post-Marissa Mayer hire, hitting o...

Despite rising costs and increasing competition from rivals like Tencent, Chinese Internet giant Sina narrowed its first-quarter net loss to $13.2 million from $13.7 million a year earlier, the compan...

Emotions play tricks on our memories, making our recollections of events much happier or heart-wrenching than they actually were. Smartphone app Expereal seeks to cut through those cognitive traps by ...

MessageMe -- a messaging app that launched in March with a little Facebookcontroversythrown in -- has raised another $10 million, according to an SEC filing earlier today. The Series A round was led b...

One of the most interesting product demos on display at Google I/O this year was a virtual sky diving simulation build using eight separate computers running Chrome, along with a Kinect-like motion se...

CrowdOptic, a startup with technology for identifying where people are pointing their smartphone cameras, has raised another $1 million in funding.When I've spoken to the team in the past, they've emp...

NVIDIA brought its new Shield handheld gaming system to Google I/O this year, and was showing off a near production device. The Shield made its debut at CES this year, surprising most since it's a con...

Data visualization software company Tableau Software, going by the symbol "DATA," will start trading tomorrow on the New York Stock Exchange at $31 per share, up from earlier today when the company sa...

Andrew Mason must be some kind of spirit animal of optimism. We assumed he was kidding when today he wrote toda he had recorded "a seven song album of motivational business music", we assumed he was j...

“Los Angeles is an underachieving city,” wrote the Los Angeles Times in its 2013 mayoral endorsement.”The candidate with the most potential to rise to the occasion and lead Los Angel...

Today, Steve Lee of the Google X and Glass Team, announced that as of last week, all 2,000 developers who joined up for the Glass Explorer program at last year’s I/O conference have now been inv...

Today, Steve Lee of the Google X and Glass Team, announced that as of last week, all 2,000 developers who signed up for the Glass Explorer program at last year's I/O conference have now been invited t...

Secret sharing app Whisper has seen tremendous growth since launching last fall. But until recently, its only been available on iOS. With a launch on Androids Google Play store this week, Whisper is g...

Leap Motion was showing off its still unreleased gesture motion controller for computers at Google I/O 2013. The demo unit allowed you to use the controller to navigate Google Earth, and the functiona...

Google's underwater Street View launched last September, but Google's Ocean program actually started six years ago when one of the founders of Keyhole (which, after being acquired by Google, later bec...

There has been a lot of talk about rooting your Glass device, or if it’s even possible. Well, it is. During a Hacking Google Glass session today, the team shared the steps to go through to gain ...

Y Combinator's Paul Graham revealed a bunch of personnel news in a just-published blog post.Let's see if I've got everything: The incubator has added one full-time partner (Wufoo's Kevin Hale) and fou...

Participating in hackathons is nothing new in certain parts of the world, especially Silicon Valley. Once in a blue moon, a small team of people creates something exciting that generates buzz, potenti...

If subjects like "XORing Elephants: Novel Erasure Codes for Big Data" get you all worked up, you'll dig the new "Research Publications At Facebook" site, which collects scientific papers written by Fa...

If subjects like "XORing Elephants: Novel Erasure Codes for Big Data" get you all worked up, you'll dig the "Research Publications At Facebook" site, which collects scientific papers written by Facebo...

I remember waking up 6am, going downstairs, and firing up my Atari 800XL. The disk labeled Karateka inserted, the drive would grunt a few dozen times and the screen would flash. Suddenly, with barely ...

The weekend isn't upon us just yet, but here's a little project to tuck away for when the Sunday doldrums set in -- the New York-based tinkerers/part suppliers at Adafruit Industries have worked up a ...

Austin, I wish I knew how to quit you. It's only been a few months since TC ventured down south to check out SXSW, but it wasn't enough. We're returning on May 30 with the legendary TC Meetup + Pitch-...

Google and Facebook working together? They're actually friends, in no small part to Erick Tseng. He's the former Android leader whose now Facebook's head of mobile, and today launched the official Fac...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Paul Davidson, John Borthwick, Douglas Rushkoff, and Steve Gillmor. Recording for today has concluded....

eBay has just updated its mobile app with a whole host of new features and a revamped look. To start, the refreshed UI makes it clear that eBay wants a more heavy-duty offering for its mobile users. Y...

This is the final episode of my show on TCTV, "In The Studio." The final guest is a good friend, Parth Shah (no relation), an engineer with VMware, and before that, at Yahoo! Parth combines the precis...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Paul Davidson, John Borthwick, Douglas Rushkoff, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live from New York City BetaDay conference 11am Pacific/2pm EST....

Google announced a number of new partner apps today on stage at Google I/O during the "Developing for Glass" session. Facebook and Twitter were the highlights of the list, which also included Evernote...

Google announced a number of new partner apps today on stage at Google I/O during the "Developing for Glass" session. Facebook and Twitter were the highlights of the list, which also included Evernote...

Google held a session today hosted by Timothy Jordan, developer advocate on Project Glass on how to develop for the gadget, and while most of it focused on what developers can do right now with the av...

FixYa, a Q&A site where consumers can seek advice from product experts, is launching a new feature today called the FixBoard, which should make the site more useful to big consumer brands.As the n...

Yahoo and Twitter have partnered to bring tweets directly intoYahoo homepage's newsfeed on web and mobile, the company announced this morning. The move follows the February relaunch of the front page....

Google revealed Hangouts, its unified text, video and multimedia messaging platform yesterday during its epic three hour I/O keynote, but while the platform pulls in Google Talk, Google+ and other sou...

Mobile app developers using Google's AdMob ad network will start seeing a new version that has been rebuilt "in a ground up sort of way," according to Jonathan Alferness, director of product managemen...

Luvocracy, a recently launched, Pinterest-like social marketplace where people can buy products recommended by friends and other tastemakers, has raised $11 million in funding from Kleiner Perkins, Go...

Google's decision to fork WebKit and launch its own Blink rendering engine came as a surprise when the company made the announcement just over a month ago. Yesterday, at the Google I/O developer confe...

Bloglovin, a site where readers can follow blogs about fashion and other lifestyle topics, is getting what CEO and co-founder Mattias Swenson said is its first major redesign.Until now, Swenson said B...

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone’s new and mysterious startupcalled Jellystill isn’t saying what it’s up to, but it has announced funding. According to details posted to the official com...

Telefonica is today announcing a deal with Samsung that will see it make an even bigger move into the area of carrier billing. Samsung will integrate the carrier's billing backend directly into its ow...

Get ready for a whole lot more Pebble. The smartwatch company just announced several software enhancements for the Pebble and a $15M Series A led by Charles River Ventures. Pebble is not going to sit ...

Google sadly scrapped its plans to introduce a plastic “universal” credit card that works at point-of-sale as a way to use its Google Wallet service out in the real world, but the company ...

Bitcoin exchange service Mt. Gox is experiencing some issues with U.S. authorities. The Department of Homeland Security issued a seizure warrant to Dwolla for the money in Mt. Gox’s Dwolla accou...

Amazon has just announced a new content deal with NBCUniversal, bringing a host of new television series to the video streaming platform. Some of those titles include Covert Affairs, Defiance, Grimm, ...

BitPay, the startup with ambitions to become the PayPal of the bitcoin world, is today announcing that it has raised another $2 million. And in what is a kind of poetic justice, the round is led by no...

BitPay, the startup with ambitions to become the PayPal of the bitcoin world, is today announcing that it has raised another $2 million. And in what is a kind of poetic justice, the round is led by no...

BonitaSoft, a provider of an open source business process management (BPM) solution, has raised a $13 million Series C round led by the FSN PME Fund, a French government initiative to invest in techno...

Social analytics startup Awe.sm has been growing quickly and getting a lot of interest from brands that want to use its platform for measuring the effectiveness of their social media campaigns. With t...

IDC today was the latest to publish its numbers on smartphone market shares after the major handset makers released Q1 earnings, and like Gartner, Strategy Analytics and the rest, it underscores the p...

AirWatch, the startup that helps businesses manage security and more on employees' mobile devices, is today announcing that it has raised another $25 million, led by Accel with participation also from...

AirWatch, the startup that helps businesses manage security and more on employees' mobile devices, is today announcing that it has raised another $25 million, led by Accel with participation also from...

While the world goes gaga for Google Glass, a small startup has come up with an intriguing new take on a device which can display information before your eyes. Instabeat is head-up display unit which ...

On the heels of Google wading into the music streaming waters with its Google Play Music All Access service, with a $10 fee for all-you-can-eat streamed tracks, the indie music agency Merlin has today...

On the heels of Google wading into the music streaming waters with its Google Play Music All Access service, with a $10 fee for all-you-can-eat streamed tracks, the indie music agency Merlin has today...

Marqeta, the startup that helps businesses nationwide attain the Starbucks loyalty Card pay-in-advance for your coffee model, is announcing $14 million in new funding from Greylock IL (an affiliate fu...

EdgeSpring, an enterprise business intelligence and analytics startup, is emerging from stealth and announcing $11 million in Series A funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Lightspeed ...

It’s clear that Google had other things it could have talked about on the first day of the I/O conference. Like Google Glass. Instead, the attendees heard more about how Google has developed new...

Google I/O, the company's sixth annual developer conference, got officially underway in San Francisco on Wednesday, and it was an eventful day. It took the company every minute of its epic three-hour ...

By now, you have probably heard about the Liberator, a 3D printed plastic gun designed, assembled, and test-fired by Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed. Is it legal?...

Sebastian Rodriguez waited in line 90 minutes to be the first person at Google I/O to get the Google Chromebook Pixel, the premium laptop given to all conference attendees today. Rodriguez is a a soft...

Today’s three-hour-long Google I/O keynote came with plenty of announcements, but the company mostly assured us that it is focused on building frameworks that can benefit developers and consumer...

Google isn't about search, apps, or devices. Those are just vehicles, and there's no destination. That's because Larry Page's Google is on an unending pursuit of the future, not just next quarter's ea...

Google’s stock price came close to its 52-week high on the first day of Google I/O today, hitting $915 per share at close. In comparison, Apple today dropped 15 points to close at $428 per share...

Google took the lid off of its new version of Maps at I/O 2013 today, which is a dramatic redesign of the long-standing navigation and place-finding software across all platforms. We got a chance to g...

Meet the PR2 personal robot from Willow Garage. The human-sized bot can learn to fold clothes and do other activities via voice commands, and it can even get into sword fights. Watch as I challenge th...

Google+ is getting a big update for its photos experience, which is rolling out to users now. Initial impressions show a work flow that makes it easier to tweak pictures quickly and even automatically...

It's becoming increasingly commonplace for startups in the so-called "sharing economy" to take heat from regulators who seek to hold them to the same business standards as incumbent businesses. The la...

It's rare to see a company that is so established yet so cutting edge as Shapeways. The company, founded in 2007 as a spin-off of Royal Philips Electronics, began as a one-off 3D printing service that...

Apple had a bit of a head start when it came to mobile software sales, since it launched its App Store earlier than the Android Market (which would later become what we call Google Play today). But th...

Google today announced a small but cool update to Gmail. For emails where the developer has enabled this feature, Google will now show action buttons next to emails in your inbox that let you take act...

Time for a back-up plan for your Twitter back-up plan. Backupify -- the cloud-based backup, search and restore provider for online services -- is shutting down its TweetBackup service for Twitter user...

Flying under the radar amid a flurry of announcements coming out of the Google I/O developer conference this morning, is the bigger news of how Google is stepping up its efforts to compete with online...

Indoor mapping software startup Meridian, continues to evolve their product strategy with a recent update to their offering.Called Zones, the companys newest update to their indoor mapping platform a...

At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced a new Maps API for mobile developers, updates to Maps for Android and iOS, as well as a completely refreshed Google Maps experience on the deskt...

Phew. Google just spent the last three hours or so showing off new developer tools, APIs, service overhauls, and the occasional gadget, but not everything the search giant rolled out today got a turn ...

Larry Page thinks we are, as a population, too negative. Especially the tech community.The solution? Amongst other things, Larry wishes the world had some sort of Burning Man-esque place for crazy bui...

Larry Page thinks we are, as a population, too negative. Especially the tech community.The solution? Amongst other things, Larry wishes the world had some sort of Burning Man-esque place for crazy bui...

Google announced today at I/O that it made Google Cloud Platform generally available,marking a milestone for the cloud community and the real arrival of a giant to contend with Amazon Web Services (AW...

Google announced today at I/O that it made Google Cloud Platform generally available,marking a milestone for the cloud community and the real arrival of a giant to contend with Amazon Web Services (AW...

Well, that was fast: Just about a week ago, Microsoft released a YouTube app for its Windows Phone 8 platform. And today, YouTube is telling Microsoft remove it, saying that the app violates its terms...

When we first met the team from Vivix their wild MIDI guitar, the Jamstik, promised a unique music-making experience thanks to a tether that connected it to a computer or iOS device. In the few short ...

YouTube’s live offering took a big step forward today, with the announcement that access to the feature will soon be available to a huge number of its partners. While YouTube Live was previously...

YouTube's live offering took a big step forward today, with the announcement that access to the feature will soon be available to a large number of its partners. While YouTube Live was previously only...

Wearable computing looks more and more like the inevitable future, so today Stained Glass Labs launches to help entrepreneurs develop apps and businesses around Google Glass and similar devices. The i...

Today, a day after discussing his voice issues, Google CEO Larry Page took the stage at I/O keynote. He skipped last year’s conference and a few earnings calls after it due to those same voice p...

Today, a day after discussing his voice issues, Google CEO Larry Page took the stage at the I/O keynote. He skipped last year's conference and a few earnings calls due to those same voice problems, wh...

Using Google Maps today is great for what it’s supposed to do, get you from point A to point B. But there’s a lot of information that Google collects that you never get a chance to glance ...

At its I/O developer conference today, Google today previewed the next version of Google Maps for mobile. Google’s director of Google Maps Daniel Graf demoed the new version on stage and showed ...

Google announced some fresh updates for Google Now today, consisting of six new types of cards that will show up in the automated, intelligent digital assistant feature for Android and iOS. The new ca...

We are more than two hours into the Google I/O keynote, the kickoff to a three-day event with 171 sessions. But something is quite different from last year. Google Cloud Platform now represents about ...

Today, Google announced that its conversational search that is available for its Android and iOS apps would be coming to the desktop within the Chrome browser. Until now, you could search for things u...

Amit Singhal, Google’s senior VP of search, today announced that Google’s Knowledge Graph will start exposing a number of statistics as graphs on the search results pages today. Google is ...

Today at I/O, Google rebranded "Hangouts" as a new unified, cross-platform messaging system. It lets people text, photo, and group video message across Hangouts' Android and iOS apps, plus its Gmail a...

Photos have always been at the center of the Google+ experience and at I/O today, Google announce a major update to Google+ Photos that now makes use of the many of the tools the company acquired when...

Google+, the social layer that Google introduced almost two years ago, has evolved quite a bit since its launch. Today, the company announced a complete redesign, taking cues from the mobile experienc...

Apple continues to lead both as the single-most profitable smartphone maker, and by default the most profitable platform, taking 57% of $12.5 billion in smartphone operating profits in Q1, according t...

Apple continues to lead both as the single-most profitable smartphone maker, and by default the most profitable platform, taking 57% of $12.5 billion in smartphone operating profits in Q1, according t...

Peer-to-peer ride sharing is one of the hottest -- and most controversial -- markets in the current tech startup world. And one leading player in the space, SideCar, is looking to hit the gas pedal on...

In the big new world of business intelligence, RJMetrics has found a market helping ecommerce companies easily analyze operations data and make smarter decisions as a result. Big startups have signed ...

Sundar Pichai, Google’s senior vice president for Chrome and Android today announced that the company’s Chrome browser now has more than 750 million monthly active users. That’s up f...

Google is offering a version of the Samsung Galaxy S4, arguably one of the top current Android devices, with Jelly Bean 4.2 unlocked on Google Play beginning June 26, the company revealed at I/O today...

Google just launched an on-demand subscription music service called “Google Play Music All Access”. It features millions of songs you can play instantly. personal recommendations, charts a...

Google just launched an on-demand subscription music service at I/O called "Google Play Music All Access". Its web and mobile interfaces feature millions of songs you can play instantly, recommendatio...

TechStars, the popular startup accelerator with locations in Boston, Boulder, New York, Seattle, London, and more, has today announced an expansion to Austin, Texas – a city TechStars founder an...

Today, during Google’s I/O developer conference, the company announced a group of tools for app developers, including a new developer suite called Android Studio. It’s an IDE based on Inte...

At its I/O developer conference, Google just announced its new Play Games Services API, a new API that allows game developers to save game states and sync them between different machines. This service...

At its sixth annual I/O developer conference in San Francisco, Google today announced that Android users have now installed over 48 billion apps. Just in the last two months, users installed 2.5 billi...

Today, Google announced that its Android operating system has reached 900M activations. This is a 500M increase from last year’s announcement. At one point, Google said that it was experiencing ...

It's that time again! After an endless series of whispers and all kinds of little leaks, it's time for the much anticipated Google I/O 2013 Keynote.We're live on the scene in San Francisco to bring yo...

Google’s annual I/O conferencein San Francisco kicks off this morning at 9am PT/noon ET and, as usual, the good folks from Mountain View are making a live video stream of the event available for...

Auvik Networks, a Canadian enterprise networking startup co-founded by repeat entrepreneur Marc Morin (co-founder of now-public Sandvine and of PixStream, sold to Cisco); David Yach, a former CTO of B...

Google seems determined to leak all the exciting Google I/O news ahead of the official event. We've already seen the new Google Maps go live briefly before being pulled down, are hearing reports of a ...

It's that time again! After an endless series of whispers and all kinds of little leaks, it's time for the much anticipated Google I/O 2013 Keynote.We're live on the scene in San Francisco to bring yo...

Samsung has confirmed via the Korean website Chosun Ilbo that it has shipped over 6 million units of the Galaxy S4 since its international release on April 26. According to the firm, this is the faste...

Fresh off its $2 million in Series A funding, in-app mobile payments platform ZooZis announcing a new product today: in-ad payments. Yes, that’s right, “ad” not “app.” Th...

Thanks to a new product from Ticketfly, concert promoters and event venues will now have a tool for identifying and rewarding the customers who attend their events -- and get other people to do so as ...

VERSUS IO, the natural language-styled comparison engine backed by Dave McClure (amongst others), has closed a $2.8 million Series A round led by Earlybird Venture Capital. McClure's 500 Startups also...

Jackthreads is a Thrillist company that features clothes and accessories for men. The style is all over the place – goofy t-shirts sit next to nice blazers and jackets – but it’s dec...

Skift, the travel industry-focused site that was launched in July 2012 by PaidContent founder Rafat Ali and Jason Clampet (who ran previously content and editorial partnerships at Frommers.com), is an...

Calling all hardware hackers: the Raspberry Pi camera module has gone on sale online via Pi suppliers including RS Components and Premier Farnell/Element14, providing the eye required for all those co...

If there was any question as to Sebastian Thrun and Udacity's resolve to re-imagine higher education in a more affordable, accessible virtual classroom -- or their ability to actually make any real he...

After more than a decade, digital media businesses are finally starting to come into their own, as advertising and subscription dollars are moving from traditional media online. With that in mind, the...

Ready for a sky full of robo-planes?Airware, a company that's building the brains and guts for commercial unmanned drones, is announcing this morning that they've raised a big ol' $10.7M Series A. The...

Another funding raise for a collaborative consumption startup: Spain-based private sales club Privalia, which sells branded clothes and accessories at discounted prices to members in the five markets ...

Singapore’s largest telecoms provider, SingTel, plans to set aside $1.6 billion (S$2 billion) over the next three years for startup acquisitions. Like those it has made in recent years, these ar...

As online advertising transitions from desktop to mobile, it stands that startups operating in the wider mobile ad ecosystem are well-placed to benefit. To that end, click-to-call startup Freespee is ...

SeedAsia, an equity crowd-funding site based in China, has just launched. The company is offering stakes in selected early-stage startups to the public. “It’s kind of a hybrid between Kick...

SeedAsia, an equity crowd-funding site based in China, has just launched. The company is offering stakes in selected early-stage startups to the public. “It’s kind of a hybrid between Kick...

As one iswont to do, I was checking the French iOS app store rankings this a.m. just to make sure that my old mainstay app"ameli, l'Assurance Maladie" was still in spot No. 3 when sacrebleu! --Path wa...

Collaaj has launched a service designed to make it easy to create videos and send them as messages. The SaaS tool includes an editor that people can use to make the videos, which might be in the form ...

Tomorrow is Day 1 of Google I/O, and you know what that means: it’s keynote time! We’re rolling out to the event in force, and will be bringing you along for the ride with our up-to-the-se...

Flowboard is trying create the best tools for "interactive storytelling" on a tablet. And the best way to illustrate those tools is through a demo, so founder and CEO Brent Brookler stopped by the Tec...

Google is ramping up to deliver a streaming music service, which could debut as early as tomorrow at the I/O keynote, sources have told The Verge. The report has since been picked up by other publicat...

I've been enamored with the Das Keyboard since it launched in 2005. These supremely clicky, IBM-style keyboards are some of the most rugged mechanical input devices you can buy. Their Pro model - an a...

If you can't program, the future's looking bleaker and bleaker. And if you can, learning to manage other code monkeys could get you promoted. Office-as-a-service provider RocketSpace's new RocketU is ...

Cydia, a platform commonly thought of as the alternative app store for jailbroken iPhones and iPads, has just today arrived on Android, of all places. Though Android is by its nature more open and cus...

Cydia, a platform commonly thought of as the alternative app store for jailbroken iPhones and iPads, has just today arrived on Androidof all places. Though Android is by its nature more open and custo...

BlackBerry's wryly jovial CEO Thorsten Heins spent quite a bit of time talking up the new mid-range Q5 at this morning's BlackBerry Live keynote address, but the folks in Waterloo may be working on a ...

This week on techCrunch TV's Ask A VC show, we have Accel Partners' Rich Wong in the studio. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here and well ask th...

This is the evening before Google's I/O developer conference and there's already been quite a bit of chatter about what the company will announce and share at the conference. One important thing to no...

This is the evening before Google's I/O developer conference and there's already been quite a bit of chatter about what the company will announce and share at the conference. One important thing to no...

Facebook is hoping to give developers a better way to get discovered and improve Graph Search. So today it announced it's finished rolling out "Sections" for Timeline that show what apps you use, whic...

Facebook is hoping to give developers a better way to get discovered and improve Graph Search. So today it announced it's finished rolling out "Sections" for Timeline that show what apps you use, whic...

We wrote about an app for Google Glass that let you share photos to Facebook, but another one has come out that has a way more interesting feature, the ability to create status messages or comment on ...

By now you've probably seen that 500 Startups Accelerator has a new class of startups, its sixth. And it's got a ton of international folks taking part and that is fucking awesome. You know what's not...

Nokia has added another device to its burgeoning Lumia portfolio of smartphones today, with the introduction of the Lumia 925: a sleek, PureView-branded handset that will be its first flagship on T-Mo...

Loop co-founder and CEO Rajit Marwah argued that "surveys and reviews are everywhere" but they're often ignored or delayed. With his new startup, on the other hand, Marwah said he's giving businesses...

Rushmore.fm, a new London-based startup founded by Fictive Kin and Betaworks, is de-cloaking somewhat today with what sounds like the rather lofty but noble mission to fix the music industry. Describe...

Open Garden, the San Francisco-based startup that allows Android, Windows and Mac users to create mesh networks between their devices to share Internet connections, today announced that it has managed...

Have a lot of stuff? Don't have a lot of space to store that stuff? Don't know how you'd get yourself organized enough to keep track of it, even if you did have the space? No worries, urban storage st...

Walmart, via its Silicon Valley innovation lab @WalmartLabs, announced today the acquisition of two startups: cloud computing newcomer OneOps and the software development shop Tasty Labs, from Delicio...

In a post on Google+ today, Google CEO Larry Page discussed the voice problems he’s been experiencing for the first time publicly. While it doesn’t sound like Page is experiencing lif...

Finally we have an app that ends the age-old debate about whether or not the earth is getting warmer. The Just Science app has collated all the data from the last two centuries to determine the earth'...

Pinterest works best on the web, with its big images and pinning from other browser tabs. But mobile is the future and Pinterest needs to play catch up there. Today Pinterest mobile added search sugge...

Rovio Entertainment, maker of the popular line of “Angry Birds” games, announced today that its expanding its business to include third-party titles, which it will publish, distribute and ...

Meet the Lumia 925, the latest smartphone flagship in Nokias increasingly populous Windows Phone portfolio. The 925 is clearly Nokias answer to criticisms of its high end devices being too heavy. The...

With a new iPhone app called Limelight, Oliver Cameron (best-known as the co-founder of private social network Everyme) aims to answer the question, "What am I going to watch tonight?"The app's basic ...

Not to be outdone by Square, which today launched Stand to complement its Square register product on iPad tablets, and Groupon, which today widened out and rebranded as Breadcrumb its own mobile point...

Parents of preschoolers can finally let go of "iPad guilt" - the term that refers to that terrible feeling you get when you use the iPad as babysitter. Today, a company calledKidaptiveis launching one...

500 Startups today is announcing the next 28 companies to take part in its Accelerator program, unleashing a largely international class of startups who have come to Mountain View to accelerate their ...

Ever since Google launched its new Google+ Sign-In for mobile and the web, the company has been saying that one of the most popular features on the platform is the ability for publishers to direc...

Mozilla today launched the latest version of its Firefox browser for Mac, Windows and Linux, and the highlight of Firefox 21 is additional support for Mozilla’s Social API. This API allows socia...

Windows Blue will be called Windows 8.1 and will launch as a public preview on June 26, Microsoft revealed today. While the company remains mum about what exactly we can expect from Windows 8.1 (boot ...

At an event in San Francisco at Blue Bottle Coffee, Square debuted a stand built specifically for the iPad, which turns the device into a card-swiping register. Hardware has always been a part of who ...

Cisco today announced the results of its study into consumer’s thoughts about connected and driverless cars. While a large part of the study focused on the role of technology in the car shopping...

A handwritten note is becoming a lost art in the age of email, Facebook, SMS, and more messaging apps than you can count. But if anything, that rarity has only led to increase its value and perceived ...

Today at BlackBerry Live, CEO Thorsten Heins announced BBM will soon be available on Android and iOS. The messaging app will launch globally this summer. This is a huge move for BlackBerry as it bring...

Welcome to the world of the sub-$1,000 3D printer. Manufacturer Pirate3D has promised that their Buccaneer printer will cost a mere $347, about $1,700 less than the cheapest extrusion-based printer av...

Thanks to a new module from video distribution platform Brightcove, the company will make it easier for customers to roll out live video streams on a wide variety of devices. The brilliantly named Bri...

A day after Groupon released (and then pulled) an iPad app with a new mobile payments dashboard for businesses, today the company is taking the wraps off a bigger piece of news around its larger plans...

Today at BlackBerry Live, CEO Thorsten Heins announced the availability of BB 10.1 for the Z10. This first major update to BlackBerry’s next-gen mobile platform starts rolling out today and pack...

ShapeUp Club is a startup out of Stockholm which has been making waves recently with a lot of under-the-radar growth. Originally built back in 2008 as a side project, it's morphed into an interactive ...

BlackBerry has just announced the BlackBerry Q5 smartphone, the latest BB10 handset to come out of the Waterloo-based firm. Like the Q10, the Q5 has a QWERTY keyboard and comes in a host of colors, in...

Fresh on the heels of announcing new streamlined pricing plans, Aereo is announcing plans to launch its service in Atlanta as part of its move to expand outside of New York and across the country. The...

Remember NVIDIA's kooky Project SHIELD tablet? The one it unveiled to an unsuspecting public at back CES? Well, it's officially not just a "project" anymore -- it's a full-fledged product, and NVIDIA ...

Realmac Software is showing off its latest app today, ahead of a launch to come later in the month. The app is called Analog, and is an iPhone version of its desktop quick and easy photo manipulation ...

Rightware, a Finnish startup that sells embedded user interface software and performance benchmarking tools to car makers and consumer electronics companies needing to build graphical user interfaces ...

Here is something you probably didn’t see coming: Outlook.com just enabled chat interoperability with Google Talk. This new feature, which is rolling out worldwide over the next few days, allows...

Rightware, the Finnish startup that develops software to build User Interfaces for embedded devices, such as automobile dashboards, as well as other consumer electronics, has announced that it's close...

Tracking oneself is all the rage, with devices like the Nike Fuelband, Jawbone Up, and Fitbit Flex enabling users to monitor their physical activity over time. But what about tracking your mental conc...

As a fourth generation venture investor, Adam Draper was pretty much predestined to work with startups. The son of Tim Draper, the founder of global VC firm Draper Fisher Jurveston, Adam has made it h...

GraphLab, the open-source distributed database, has received $6.75 million from Madrona Venture Group and NEA for its machine learning technology used to analyze data graphs for recommendation engines...

New York City-based Liberty City Ventures is announcing its Digital Currency Fund, a $15 million commitment to Bitcoin and other digital currency startups. Early investments by Liberty City Ventures i...

Nokia is going big on the camera features in its new 925 and 928 Lumia devices, continuing on in its PureView legacy first introduced back when it was still making Symbian devices. Within that it is a...

Fresh from last week’s Verizon Lumia device launch, Nokia has taken the wraps off a new smartphone in its Windows Phone-basedLumia range at an event in London today. The Lumia 925 is its first f...

Just before Google I/O, Microsoft is making a big pitch for developers with a high-profile announcement about a new team that will focus on building outside interest in app development on the Azure pl...

Gartner has just released its Q1 figures for mobile handset sales, and the key takeaway is that Android continues to steal the show, led by handset maker Samsung. Google's mobile platform now accounts...

There's consolidation afoot in the peer-to-peer car rental space. San Francisco-based RelayRides, which launched about five years ago and is now available nationwide, has gobbled up fledgling competit...

One of the most nervewracking and tedious parts of developing a Web site is making sure that it is safe from data theft and other security breaches. Taipei-based startup Lucent Sky's mission is to mak...

Pixel People, an iOS game, has raked in $700,000 over 2 million downloads in the span of three months, said the game's maker, Lambdamu. The key to their success, according to a company spokesperson, w...

TechCrunch favorite MC Frontalot and filmmaker Caly Monardo have created a video for "I'll Form The Head," a rap song about a Voltron-esque group of heroes fighting a worm monster in their rhino robot...

I'm addicted to Dots. It's betaworks' new game. 389. That's my high score. No power-ups. I'm pretty proud of it. The game consumes my time. I no longer browse reddit during my "private times"; I play ...

Co-founder Sean Percival is walking away from his CEO position at the children's subscription clothing startup Wittlebee after it had trouble raising a Series A. Amidst a tough fundraising climate for...

Today in San Francisco, Haxlr8r had its second demo day, introducing 10 new hardware-based startups which just spent the last two-and-a-half months building hardware in Shenzhen, China. Today's demo d...

Google today launched version 1.1 of its open source Go programming language. It’s been more than a year since Google launched version 1.0 of Go. The language, which puts an emphasis on concurre...

Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer has been placed in "administrative segregation," prison shorthand for solitary confinement for "investigative purposes." Supporters believe he was locked down and given no In...

If existing dating websites aren't working for you (or you're too busy to try them out), you can get help from paid matchmakers and dating coaches on the just-launched service Wednesday Night.Accordin...

Here's some encouraging news for the European startup scene, and London in particular. TransferWise, the online currency exchange that uses the crowd to undercut traditional money transfer services, h...

Formspring, the pioneering Q&A site that allowed people to invite other internet users to "ask me anything" anonymously, is apparently back from the brink. In a tweet and a company blog post, Form...

With the proliferation of smartphones, we're now able to use these mobile, mini computers to do just about everything we would do on our desktop while on the go. Yet, in spite of this evolution, mobil...

If you want a digital detox, you're going to have to pull the trigger yourself. Social Roulette is an app that would delete one in six users' Facebook account data, but its founder confirms it's been ...

If you're an old-school gaming nerd, then you might remember a little game released by Atari called Breakout. The idea was simple, just hit a ball around and break things. Don't let the ball get past ...

The crescendo of media reports about the advent of a DIYprintable firearm has caused an understandable uproar. In the wake of so many high-profile, mass-casualty incidents involving firearms -- and a ...

Learning a language is never easy. One thing that's usually missing in the way students learn a new language is the ability to use their new skills while talking to a native speaker. LanguageTwin, a s...

Who's ready to party, ya'll? That's right. It's finally happening. The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off series is officially underway, starting with the beautiful, historical and sometimes rowdy cit...

Lucky Sort, a Portland, Oregon-basedstartup behind a visualization and navigation engine called TopicWatch that helped to discover patterns in live data streams, has been acquired by Twitter. Terms of...

Google's big annual developer conference kicks off on Wednesday, and while Android lead Sundar Pichai has downplayed big new announcements at Google I/O this year, we've also seen reports that suggest...

After weeks of teasing, endless itty-bitty leaks, and about a zillion radio plays of the one track they'd released so far the entireity, the entirety of Daft Punk's new Random Access Memories has just...

ASMALLWORLD launched its invite-only social network for the rich and famous in 2004. Today it's becoming even more exclusive and pivoting away from its advertising model, as its relaunching as a subsc...

ASMALLWORLD launched its invite-only social network for the rich and famous in 2004. Today it's becoming even more exclusive and pivoting away from its advertising model, as its relaunching as a subsc...

It seems like every other day an upstart wireless service provided inks a wholesale deal with someone like Sprint or T-Mobile and effectively sells access to those big carrier networks under a differe...

In the interest of protecting children, a new iOS application called AppCertain has debuted a monitoring application aimed at parents. The app, whose goal is to alert parents about the nature of the a...

Gone are the simple days of running a small business; gone is the time when a disgruntled customer's voice had a lifespan of a few days.We live in the future now, where reviews live forever. Where a f...

If you're attending Google I/O this week, you will be a part of an experiment from the Google Cloud Platform Developer Relations team. On its blog today, the team outlined its plan to gather a bunch o...

Larry Yu, the public relations executive who has headed up Facebook's corporate communications operation for five years and helped steer the company through the publicity blitz surrounding its IPO, is...

Zapier, a service that automates tasks between online services,has launched a tool that monitors 200 APIs, sometimes catching an outage before the provider does.The new tool monitors the uptime and do...

Q: Why does a to do list application need $3.5 million in funding? A: Because it’s becoming more than a simple to do app. Today,Any.DOone of the more popular to do list applications for web and ...

Glympse has been in the news for its deals with the likes of Ford, Mercedes Benz and BMW/Mini to integrate its location-sharing and tracking technology into in-car systems on connected automobiles. To...

Glympse has been in the news for its deals with the likes of Ford, Mercedes Benz and BMW/Mini to integrate its location-sharing and tracking technology into in-car systems on connected automobiles. To...

Thank you, Newt Gingrich, for this YouTube gem; I think America needed a good laugh. Last week, the former Republican presidential front-runner and moon colony-enthusiast called upon the wisdom of the...

Silverpop, the marketing tech company that announced $25 million in new funding last month, is announcing a new feature to help customers adapt to all the different ways that people are opening their ...

Up until now, you've had to track your free storage on Google products separately. It was just another thing that Google hadn't brought together to make it easier on users. Today, the company announce...

Apple's AirPlay streaming media technology has a neat trick up its sleeve for game developers, enabling them to create multi-screen experiences that allow a player to interact with an interface on a p...

Bing recently introduced its updated people search feature and today, Microsoft is adding a few improvements to its people search that will make it even easier to find information about celebrities, p...

Online legal services platform Rocket Lawyer has raised another $15 million in new funding, we've confirmed with the company. We're told that the funding was raised from a "strategic investor," who is...

HTC's Facebook Home-laden First smartphone may only have debuted on AT&T last month, but it appears that the device may be a dud as far as consumers are concerned. According to a report from BGR's...

Aereo users, listen up. The company that has been bringing you access to 30 over-the-air broadcast channels on the cheap is switching up its pricing structure a bit to make things less complicated. Un...

Last week we reported that Facebook is in advanced talks to buy Israel-born social traffic and mapping app Waze for up to $1 billion, but that there were still some questions over whether Waze's R&...

Last week we reported that Facebook is in advanced talks to buy Israel-born social traffic and mapping app Waze for up to $1 billion, but that there were still some questions over whether Waze's R&...

The following is an excerpt from my new book Dont Go Back to School: a handbook for learning anything.To someone who has never tried, its not obvious how to learn the things you want to learn outside ...

A number of startups have been trying their hand at subscription-based children’s books services, or something like a “Netflix for kids’ books,” so to speak. Today, another ent...

Google continues to increase the reach of its Google+ platform, and today the company is launching a new mobile content recommendation service powered by Google+. These recommendations will ...

I've heard some suggestions that our extreme fascination with Google Glass is more a symptom of desperation for some kind of genuine gadget innovation than anything to do with the product's merits, an...

Amazon today is taking a step into social gaming with the launch of Amazon Coins, its new virtual currency that is now live in the U.S. To kick it off, Amazon announced that it would put $5 worth of t...

On-demand helper startup WunWun has for the past few months offered consumers the ability to get pretty much anything delivered for a flat rate. Now, the company is offering its service to businesses ...

Users are getting increasingly comfortable with the idea of booking and even listing spaces on Airbnb through their mobile phones. The company has tried to reach that demand through on mobile devices ...

Flipboard has just updated its iOS app to add a few more features for its 50 million+ readers. Back in March, Flipboard announced a new feature that would include user-created magazines, which se...

Finnish MeeGo startup Jolla has been trailing the launch of its first handset ever since it started work on its Sailfish UI back in 2012. Since then, Jolla has shown off its MeeGo-based Sailfish softw...

Google's Sundar Pichai spoke to Wired in an interview published today ahead of Google I/O this week, describing what it's like to be taking the helm of both Android and Chrome going into the annual co...

Groupon is once again expanding its portfolio of mobile payment services, putting it in closer competition with the likes of Square and PayPal's here targeting local merchants: today it has released G...

Posted without comment because it really doesn't need a comment. I mean, it's the new Arrested Development trailer -- just watch it and count down the days to the Bluth family returnson May 26....

Samsung is moving quickly to diversify its phone line, with variants of the S4 popping out of the wood work left and right, including the Galaxy S4 Zoom, which features a rumored 10x optical zoom on i...

Grotech Ventures, the Virginia-based VC firm behind LivingSocial, HelloWallet and others; is announcing the raise of its eighth fund, Grotech Ventures II (GV II), with $225 million in committed capita...

Disqus is launching a new feature today that the company says will help publishers get more value from everyone commenting on their site.The company already offers something called Disqus Single Sign-...

Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has announced it plans to invest around $50M into Japanese digital entertainment company Pioneer Corporation, which makes in-car electronics, to acquire approximately seven...

Today UK startup VirtualMob is officially launching its Augmented Reality self-service -- Point-at-Me (PAM) -- which mixes drag 'n' drop content creation, e-commerce, andanalytics in a bid to make it ...

With India’s annual GDP growth of about 5 to 6 percent per year, a new wave of affluent consumers is coming. While there have been e-commerce successes like Flipkart, a handful of local startups...

Rocket Internet, the German-based e-commerce startup incubator from the Samwer brothers, is today announcing another round of funding for its strategy to build out its footprint into emerging markets....

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has quit his position as a U.K. director of the company, days after Twitter subsidiary Tweetdeck was dissolved as a separate U.K. business by business registrar Companies Hous...

Samsung Electronics has developed core technology that will allow it to deliver high-speed 5G wireless data connections to consumers by 2020, the company announced today. The system allows data transm...

Video is becoming an increasingly important part of news coverage online. But it's also expensive and time-consuming to produce, and many publishers don't have the resources to create them on their ow...

My parents have yet to receive their Christmas gift. Because they are avidskiers, I bought them gift cards to Heavenly Mountain last December, and because of some issue with either the ZIP code or sec...

Though it's but a baby in the app world, Vine is already making brands, advertisers, and especially media industry members chomp at the bit for some 6-second looping action. The latest to join the her...

The global mobile messaging app space is the new social battleground. Startups that would have had little chance of unseating Facebooks dominance on the web are attacking Zuckerbergs empire by refocus...

We all know that big changes are happening in games, with the profusion of formats. What less of us realize is how much those changes have affected the underlying idea that one console or platform is ...

We’re just a few days away from the start of Google I/O, the search giant’s annual developer conference, and while we actually know very little about what Google plans to announce during i...

We’re just a few days away from the start of Google I/O, the search giant’s annual developer conference, and while we actually know very little about what Google plans to announce during i...

It’s a rare fall rainy day in Palo Alto and SAP Executive Board Member Dr. Vishal Sikka is as sick as a dog. It’s less than a week until SAP Sapphire in Madrid and the community around him...

Google Now is a great feature for Android users, and now those who are on iOS devices. The idea is that the more you use Google products, the more it learns about you and the better information it can...

SideCar co-founder and CEO Sunil Paul was part of what may have been the most spirited and feisty panel at our Disrupt NY conference earlier this month. Sharing the stage with Hailo CEO Jay Bregman (I...

We at TechCrunch have been referring to the phenomenon of peer-to-peer transportation services as "ride sharing." Not a post goes by, however, without someone jumping into the comments to point out th...

Nokia has run a TV advert teasing a new Lumia device it’s widely expected to unveil at an event in London on Tuesday. The advert ran during a prime time evening slot on Channel 4, during a scree...

It's nice to see people in a power position in the valley give up their time for charitable causes. Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, recently offered up his time for probably the most expensive cup of coffee ev...

Games dominate the app ecosystem.It's easy to forget that as we all dig for the next app of the moment, but it's the truth. 9 of the 10 highest grossing apps in the App Store last year, all games.Comb...

For generations in the past, parents have carefully put together "baby books" that capture the first years of a baby's life in photos, hand prints and more. My mother created one for me, and it's some...

Gun control is control of all guns. This tautology, in a developed society, is non-negotiable. If guns can exist in our country, then gun plans can exist, and, although I'm firmly on the side of draco...

Facebook didn't realize just how important widgets, docks, and app folders were to Android users, and that leaving them out of Home was a huge mistake. That's because many of the Facebookers who built...

What are the cool new apps youve seen lately? To this oft heard question, lately, there have been lots of answers. So, mobile is indeed exciting and moving fast. And, just recently, a fun new app came...

Google is well known for its regular bouts of spring cleaning when it kills off a number of products in one fell swoop, but it also sometimes makes quick changes in between the bigger announcements. O...

“Power is a lot like real estate. It’s all about location, location, location.” — Frank Underwood, House of Cards At this very moment, Mark Zuckerberg’s political lobby, ...

I'm probably going to be consigned to whatever level of hell is reserved for pretentious editorialists for saying this, but sometimes when I'm trying to evaluate some new piece of technology, I consid...

China now has more active iOS and Android devices than the U.S., up from about 40-50 million in circulation the last time I visited in late 2011. What that means is local entrepreneurs can finally bui...

Woot, the daily deals site that was bought by Amazon in 2010 for $110 million, built a reputation for its pile em high, sell em cheap business model for shifting goods. Now, the company is facing up t...

This Sunday, there's a lot you can do in honor of the woman who raised you. But the San Francisco-based startup Samahope hopes that funds usually reserved for cross-state chocolate delivery might be u...

While there's a perennial debate on the West Coast about whether and when business cards might become irrelevant, they continue to be at the center of business customs in China and Japan. That's why i...

Editors note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. These days, it seems that anything that whiffs of the traditional PC has all the market appeal of a month-...

This Sunday, there’s a lot you can do in honor of the woman who raised you. There’s TheMomtract, a project out of the ad agency Mother New York to give your mother authority back over some...

This Sunday, there’s a lot you can do in honor of the woman who raised you. There’s TheMomtract (a project out of the ad agency Mother New York to give your mother authority back over some...

3D printed guns are reportedly even too scary for the infamous free-information hacker, Kim Dotcom. After the U.S. State Department demanded that the designer of the world’s first fully printabl...

3D printed guns are reportedly even too scary for the infamous free-information hacker, Kim Dotcom. After the U.S. State Department demanded that the designer of the world’s first fully printabl...

After a one-week hiatus due to Disrupt (did you miss us?) we're back in the trusty TechCrunch TV studio with a brand new episode of CrunchWeek, the show where a few of us writers chat up the most inte...

Editor's note: Anthony J. Lombardi practices patent litigation and patent prosecution at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP. He also provides counseling to clients on prelitigatio...

After a legal kerfuffle with the band Rush's management company (no, seriously), the team at Anthm saw their social playlist app get unceremoniously booted from Apple's App Store. So what's a down-on-...

Just about two years ago, I went off the deep end. I had come home early from an event in an effort to do something responsible: email. I was on the road and knew the situation would be dire (since I ...

Facebook Home, the app which CEO Mark Zuckerberg touted as the “next version of Facebook,” has not been an immediate hit. Its Google Play rankings have been dropping steadily after the lau...

The Ouya is making its way out to backers even now (though my shipping notification still hasn't arrived. Grrr.) and judging by early impressions, it's no silver bullet to take down behemoths like Son...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor broke from the gate and never let up in a barnburner of a show about the post-Jobs era. Will Google assume t...

Editors note: Sid Venkatesan is an IP partner specializing in high stakes IP disputes and IP counseling for technology companies in the Silicon Valley office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP....

A few days ago I landed in England and, expecting little, slipped an old UK SIM card into my phone. Id bought it when living in London five years ago, and hadnt used it in over a year. But to my amaze...

Editors note:DerekAndersenis the founder ofStartup Grind, a 40-city community bringing the global startup world together while educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs. I remember when the p...

Editors note: DerekAndersenis the founder ofStartup Grind, a 40-city community bringing the global startup world together while educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs.I remember when the p...

Editors note: DerekAndersenis the founder ofStartup Grind, a 40-city community bringing the global startup world together while educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs.I remember when the p...

Singaporean price comparison startup Save 22 just got an investment of “mid six figures” in Singapore dollars, according to co-founder, Guyi Shen. S$500,000 translates to about US$400,000,...

Here’s a little noodle-scratcher for you fellow mobile hardware nerds to ponder this evening. This little Motorola Mobility beauty, brandishing the model number XT1058, recently passed through t...

QFPay's card reader admittedly looks a bit clunkier than its U.S. or European equivalents Square or iZettle. It looks like a wonky, old calculator. But that's because Chinese consumers don't trust mer...

Norway's Crown Prince Haakon and his wife Princess Mette-Marit were in Silicon Valley this week, and I asked them about their hopes to bring more startups and innovation to their home country.I interv...

The technology industry’s newest high-powered political lobby, FWD.us, is unraveling just a month after it launched, as two of its biggest partners, Tesla’s Elon Musk and Yammer’s Da...

The technology industry’s newest high-powered political lobby, FWD.us, is unraveling just a month after it launched, as two of its biggest partners, Tesla’s Elon Musk and Yammer’s Da...

One interesting thing to watch is how social networking platforms mature divergently as businesses around the world.Sina Weibo, the public microblogging platform that has had a huge impact on online d...

I've spent a little over three weeks with Google Glass, and I've noted that the utility aspect of the device is strong, but the fun isn't there yet. It feels a lot like the original iPhone did, before...

The boy geniuses of Formlabs, David Cranor, Maxim Lobovsky, and Natan Linder have posted a video detailing their Form One 3D printer, one of the most well-put-together 3D printing devices we've seen i...

Yahoo has been gobbling up startups. In the last week or so, it has announced the acquisition of Astrid, GoPollGo, and Milewise. In fact, in a tweet today, Yahoo said that it has "added 22 entrepreneu...

I'd been hearing whispers as of late that Twilio is meeting with VCs to raise another round, and I just got the good word from a very, very solid source. Twilio is in the process of raising a Series D...

After Bing and it's Scroogled campaign, Microsoft is now taking aim at Google Docs. Jake Zborowski, Microsoft's senior product manager for Office, actually published two anti-Docs blog posts today: on...

After Bing and its Scroogled campaign, Microsoft is now taking aim at Google Docs. Jake Zborowski, Microsoft's senior product manager for Office, actually published two anti-Docs blog posts today: one...

Facebook is not the only company to invest in development of products that take better advantage of the Android homescreen. South Korean messaging appKakaoTalk also recently announced its intentions t...

Facebook is not the only company to invest in development of products that take better advantage of the Android homescreen. South Korean messaging appKakaoTalk also recently announced its intentions t...

"House Of Cards" proved that great, exclusive content can create loyal customers. While Facebook isn't about to produce TV shows, it tells me that it plans to ramp up production of its Facebook Live o...

This week on the TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast we talk about Snapchat, DAS Keyboard, and the wild Amazon phone. This time we're joined by Matt Burns, Darrell Etherington, Greg Kumparak, and Jordan Crook ...

OpenKit, an open-source social platform for mobile games, is now open to all developers, according to co-founder Peter Relan.The service, first announced in December,has been in private beta since ear...

At last year’s I/O, Google launched its Cloud Messaging push notification service for Android and this week, it extended this service to Chrome and Chrome OS. This, Google says, allows Chrome ap...

Bing‘s social sidebar, which shows relevant entries from your Facebook friends, Twitter, Klout, Quora and other services, just got a lot more interactive. You can now like Facebook posts in the ...

Yes, we do need high-skilled immigrants because we don't have enough qualified workers. Contrary to a widely publicized report claiming that a tech-talent shortage is a myth, A new Brookings Institute...

Serial entrepreneur with too many ideas rattling around in your head? Then you’re going to like this one: a new mobile app called Elevatr will help you keep track of your inspirations, as well a...

This week, Bloomberg sparked a number of headlines with reports that iPad mini demand was failing based on supplier Pegatron's earnings numbers as revealed at an investor conference. Those claims were...

Video discovery startup Boxfish wants to help people find out what's new and trending on TV, by scouring broadcast and cable networks to find out what people are talking about. After making its second...

Who wants to see some boobs? Thanks to a new feature from Brayola, the startup looking to pair your boobs with the right bra, you can not only check out an endless stream of breasts but perhaps you ca...

As a parent of three technically savvy kids I find it disturbing that we haven’t even “scratched” the surface of Scratch, an amazing, object-oriented programming language from the MI...

Tweetwall, a Twitter display provider for events (you know, for “tweet walls”), which has been used by customers including CNN, PayPal, Yahoo, Intel, eBay, Microsoft, the Obama campaign, S...

Congress is on track to passing a nationwide Internet retail sales tax, but it has serious flaws that could majorly muck up the e-commerce industry. We think citizens are often smarter than the govern...

Nokia has officially pulled back the curtain on the Lumia 928 Windows Phone 8 device, which advertises its PureView camera as its marquee feature. The new flagship phone offers an 8.7-megapixel front-...

Google's I/O developer conference is happening next week in San Francisco, and one of the big questions around what we'll see there includes hardware. Now KGI securities analyst Mingchi Kuo (via 9to5G...

Apple faces a whole lot of inbound requests to unlock iPhone devices from law enforcement officials, according to a new report from CNET. Seized iPhones with a passcode lock are apparently secure enou...

Today in interesting moves comes the news that serial entrepreneur-turned-investor Russell Buckley - who co-founded AdMob (which sold to Google) is joining the UK government to accelerate its policies...

Facebook Home's circle of supported devices has just got a little wider. The Android launcher which Facebook unboxed with much fanfare back in April was only initially available for download to four d...

Rackspace will open trading this morning on the New York Stock Exchange with a share price that dropped nearly 25% on Thursday. The stock dropped after the company missed its earnings, raising concern...

Samsung is in a unique position among Android smartphone manufacturers, which allows it to create devices like the Galaxy S4 Zoom, a rumored S4 variant that showed up for certification at the Bluetoot...

Another move in the oh-so-hot mobile messaging space today: South Korea's Kakao Inc, which owns the KakaoTalk cross-platform mobile messaging app, has inked an agreement with digital marketing company...

Messaging app Line, which recently announced it has passed 150 million users, has withdrawn a function from its iOS app that allowed users to gift paid-for stickers to each other by paying for them wi...

Looks like Bebo, once an early star in social networking, is progressing to the next step in the long and messy struggle between majority shareholder Criterion Capital Partners and minority shareholde...

Dell shareholders Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management have teamed up to propose an alternative offer to founder Michael Dell's $24.4 billion leveraged buyout deal. ...

Alibaba Group is reportedly now the majority shareholder in AutoNavi, a German maker of electronic navigation tools. The Chinese Internet giant's investment gives it a 20 percent to 30 percent stake i...

Alibaba Group is reportedly now the largest single shareholder in AutoNavi, a Beijing-based maker of electronic navigation tools and location-based services. The Chinese Internet giant has formed a st...

The writing's on the wall. Mobile is the future, and it requires different skill than the web. Entrepreneurship is more fetishized than ever, making standard hiring tough. The result is days like toda...

Desire2Learn is a 10-plus year old Canadian company that makes learning software -- a learning management system to be precise -- and here's why, in spite of that description, it shouldn't bore you to...

Who do the idols idolize?Lei Jun, the CEO of Android handset and OS maker Xiaomi, is arguably the face of tech entrepreneurship in China as a long-time angel investor and serial entrepreneur behind co...

CapLinked, a startup offering workspaces for managing business deals, announced today that it has closed a $2.1 million Series A.The company previously said that it raised a $1.6 million round from FF...

Microsoft today announcedthat it will fold about 100 sales people from Yammerinto the Office 365 team. Microsoft also is making a point to focus on identity management and other issues as part of its ...

Well that was quick: The State Department has demanded that new blueprints for a fully 3-D-printed gun be taken offlinejust a week after they were posted. The Office of Defense Trade Controls Complian...

In an effort to provide its partners with an alternative revenue stream, YouTube announced today that it is officially launching a pilot program that enables its video stars to charge subscription fee...

If you’ve been using OpenTable to reserve tables at your favorite restaurants, the latest update for Android will help you discover new places to eat a little better and keep track of everything...

For the past several years, my New Year's resolution has been some version of "cook more often" or "try out a new recipe every week." But it never really lasts. The problem is, as much as I love the a...

Today is just jam-packed full of acquisition-shutdowns. Just hours ago, word broke that Yahoo! had acquired both MileWise and Go Poll Go, with plans to discontinue both service. Next up on the happy-n...

Today is just jam-packed full of acquisition-shutdowns. Just hours ago, word broke that Yahoo! had acquired both MileWise and GoPollGo, with plans to discontinue both. Next up on the happy-now-sad-use...

Though Snapchat has been picked on, picked apart, and blown up in the media, the technical aspects of the service are still somewhat mysterious to the average user. A new research report from a compan...

Matrix Partners just announced the close of Matrix X, the venture firm's tenth early-stage technology-focused fund. As Fortune's Dan Primack reported in a scoop in April, the firm raised $450 million ...

Matt Sanchez, co-founder and CEO of Say Media (which owns sites like xoJane, ReadWrite, and Dogster), just told me that the company has laid off about 10 percent of its 400-person staff.Sanchez descri...

BDC Venture Capital, the leading major investment firm for accelerators in Canada, announced today that it would add its financial and expert support to ongoing Canadian Technology Accelerator program...

It's only been a few weeks since the folks behind music charting app We Are Hunted confirmed that it was acquired by Twitter, and it seems that Twitter isn't done snapping up startups just yet. Ubalo ...

Rumors have been circulating that Google Glass may have a feature that lets you wink to take a picture. Within the kernel source code, developers have discovered that the feature does exist deep in th...

Cloud storage company Box has acquired HTML5 document embedding service and Y Combinator alum Crocodoc, both companies announced in a press briefing today. Financial terms of the deal, which was a cas...

This is the penultimate episode of "In The Studio." The show, which features developers and entrepreneurs working on enterprise technology, will be ending. This week's guest is Varun Singh, CEO and fo...

"Home is the first product we'vereleasedthat's really about 'mobile-best' and the transition beyond 'mobile first'" said Facebook's Cory Ondrejka.To further that, Facebook previewed some new features ...

Amazon offers a range of hardware, including its Kindle e-readers and tablets, but now it's looking to expand the line with two new smartphones and an audio-only device that streams music, according t...

Just a week after rolling out the latest version of its Firefox OS simulator, Mozilla has announced that it's offering a nifty new proposition to would-be FFOS developers. If you've got an idea for a ...

Bitcoins are nominally worth $113 as of this very moment. That means very little in the real world. As Forbes writer Kasmir Hill notes, it's pretty difficult to go up to the McDonald's cashier and off...

Google announced today an expansion of its online storage efforts with the release of a "Save to Drive" button that can be added to any website, allowing visitors to click and save files hosted on the...

Readers may have noticed this morning that their geekiest politically oriented friends are freaking out like teenage girls at a Justin Bieber concert. Today, the big man in the White House signed a ra...

It's hard to believe that it's been less than a year since ride-sharing service Lyft first launched in beta, offering a low-cost alternative to on-demand black car service Uber. But not only has it gr...

We all know by now that the right mentor can be a huge boon to your career. But actually finding the right Larry Summers to your Sheryl Sandberg can be awkward at best, and impossible at worst.A new s...

GoPollGo, a real-time polling tool that lets brands and media properties collect and analyse feedback, has announced that it has been acquired by Yahoo. The news comes just one week after the search g...

Yahoo has just acquired frequent flier search startup MileWise, whose team will move to New York to join the recently acquired Stamped team on Yahoo's mobile squad. I hear MileWise's investors made a ...

How big is the connected devices universe? Analyst ABI Research reckons theInternet of Things contains some 10 billion+ wireless connected devices today. But it's predicting this figure will trip...

When we we last talked to augmented-reality startup Dekkoback in September of last year, the company was building a platform on which it hoped to find developers to build a new generation of applicati...

App beta testing service TestFlight launched its closed Android beta back in February this year, and now the company is making those tools available to any and all. The private beta has included some ...

Though Foursquare is now busy trying to take on Yelp, one of its more rewarding, but personal, use cases (now that the fervor around badges and mayorships has died down), is its ability to add insight...

Dish.fm, the recently relaunched restaurant recommendation app which focuses on the best menu items, as opposed to overall venue reviews, is today rolling out an update which expands the service into ...

BlueStacks, the startup known for bringing Android apps to PCs and Macs, has been growing like a weed. Last week, the company announced that it had passed the 10 million user milestone, nearly half of...

Most people may not yet be using smartphones to pay for goods when they are out shopping, but that doesn't mean that they are not glued to their handsets anyway. Some research out today from Google in...

If you're sitting on a bunch of bitcoins that are burning a hole in your digital wallet, you now have another way to spend them. Today, mobile gift card company Gyft has partnered with BitPay, to star...

Since the launch of personalized magazines this March, social magazine maker Flipboard has added 6 million new users to its platform, bringing its total number of users to 56 million – and that&...

After reading about WeatherSignal, a new project from London startup OpenSignal which makes use of the latest sensors in smartphones such as the Samsung Galaxy S4 to crowdsource weather information, I...

Shazam and Rdio have offered something wonderful for U.S. users as of fall 2012, providing full track streaming for tagged music via Rdio, thanks to a "Listen Free on Rdio" link within the Shazam app....

When the AP Twitter stream was hacked a few weeks ago leading to a massive drop in the equities market, I went off. I found the fact that the AP - a news organization staffed by intelligent people and...

YCharts, a Chicago and New York-based startup that calls itself a financial terminal for the web, today announced that it has raised $3.875 million in its third funding round. The round was led by Mor...

Top Hat Monocle, the Toronto-based provider of mobile-based classroom response systems, has decided to get Lasik and has dropped the monocle from its name and logo. Top Hat, as the company will now be...

Politicians are increasingly getting used to talking to their constituents online, especially during election season. They're doing Reddit AMAs and virtual town halls to answer questions and enter deb...

After losing mobile product head and Facebook Home team member Charles Jolley to Battery Ventures, Facebook is facing another departure from a previous Home staffer. Draper Fisher Jurvetson announced ...

Online payments startup WePay is announcing the launch of Veda, an intelligent social risk engine that leverages social media data as well as traditional business data to catch merchant fraudsters....

Ovuline, the big data-driven fertility tracker backed by $1.4 million in funding from Lightbank, Launch Capital and others, is today launching an upgraded version of its Smart Fertility product which ...

A lot can change in 28 years, and Google has put together a very graphic demonstration of just how much can happen geographically with a new effort that combines global, annual Landsat satellite image...

Today, gaming console and software company OUYA announced that they have closed a $15 million round led by Kleiner Perkins, and with participation from the Mayfield Fund, NVIDIA, Shasta Ventures and O...

Pinterest is ramping up its international strategy by kicking off a localisation effort in the U.K. today, tweaking the site so that it deliberately foregrounds U.K. content to U.K. users and also add...

Pinterest is ramping up its international strategy by kicking off a localisation effort in the U.K. today, tweaking the site so that it deliberately foregrounds U.K. content to U.K. users and also add...

Line, a free-at-the-point-of-use messaging app made by NHN Japan Corp which recently passed 150 million users, has announced earnings for Q1 2013 -- revealing for the first time how much of its revenu...

Facebook appears to be close to making another billion-dollar acquisition to once again ramp up its mobile efforts: according to two reports in the Israeli press atCalcalistandYnet(both in Hebrew), Fa...

Facebook appears to be close to making another billion-dollar acquisition to once again ramp up its mobile efforts: according to three reports in the Israeli press atCalcalistandsister publication Yne...

Once again, news from a supplier is fueling rumors about Apple's future product roster. This time it's manufacturer Pegatron's announcement that it will increase its number of workers in China by up t...

Nokia has given its S40-based range of touchscreen Asha smartphones another push to try to keep up with the low end reach of Google's Android platform today. The mobile maker has announced a new addit...

If you're a fan of endless runner games like Temple Run, starting today you'll get your chance to do more than outrun a pack of demonic monkeys you can take on your friends too, with Zynga's new titl...

Chinese Internet companies Baidu, Tencent and Qihoo 360 are reportedly competing to purchase Sogou, Sohu's search business.Sina Tech's report cites unnamed sources in the investment industry(link via ...

AT&T customers who took the plunge on Nokia's Lumia 900 have had to sit idly by and watch Windows Phone 8 supercede the software loaded on their own devices, but they'll soon be able to experience...

Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC, the digital book and college book joint venture with Barnes & Noble and other investors, according to internal ...

"Google And The World Brain" is a new documentary about Google's plan to scan all of the world's books, which triggered an ongoing lawsuit being heard today. The hair-raising film sees Google import m...

"Google And The World Brain" is a new documentary about Google's plan to scan all of the world's books, which triggered an ongoing lawsuit being heard today. The hair-raising film sees Google import m...

One of the coolest features of the Google Translate for Android app is that you can just point your camera at a text, tap the word you want to translate and get a translation back. Starting today, thi...

While I wish not to throw any more fuel into the fiery fever dream that is Donald Trump, it is important to note the distinct similarities between his recent press release and the wording from an Indi...

When it comes to productivity apps, Office is still clearly the market leader, and Microsoft is now also quickly iterating on its online apps for Office. When it comes to its competition with Google's...

Quidsi, the Amazon-owned parent company to a collection of single word e-commerce domains including Diapers.com, Soap.com, Wag.com, Yoyo.com, and more, is today launching a new membership program call...

If you're a graphics professional, you know Wacom. The company consistently puts out the best in digital art tablets, and over the past year has announced and released a variety of improvements to its...

Google is bringingDebiantoGoogle Compute Engine and is making itthe default OS for developers using the service.Google will support both Debian 6.0 and Debian 7.0, which was released this week. There ...

The latest to join the cadre of startups offering tools for more private sharing outside of Facebook’s massive footprint is not, in fact, another startup, but rather another media giant: Disney....

Jack Conte is an Internet musician who became an Internet sensation and now, thanks to Patreon, he's an Internet entrepreneur. ...

Groupon just reported its earnings for its first financial quarter of 2013. The company, which is still looking for a new CEO after the ouster of Andrew Mason in February, posted a $0.01 loss per shar...

Groupon just reported its earnings for its first financial quarter of 2013. The company, which is still looking for a new CEO after the ouster of Andrew Mason in February, posted a $0.01 loss per shar...

With the introduction of Siri on the iPhone 4S in 2011, voice recognition, not exactly a new innovation, suddenly took center stage with consumers. But before that, and especially since then, there ha...

Whether or not you think that Google Glass is something that you'd wind up using one day, you have to admit that the technology is impressive. Packed inside of the pair of specs is a computer running ...

In November 2011, Identified emerged out of public beta on a mission to create a better professional job search engine. Built on top of Facebook data, Identified set out to nibble at LinkedIn's lead i...

Last week at Disrupt NY, I took the stage with Gentry Underwood, Founder and CEO of Mailbox, to talk about the challenges of being a first time founder. I first met Gentry a month after he started Orc...

Facebook may be trying to sweeten the deal to get Home into more hands, or AT&T and HTC might just want their money. But for some reason, the Facebook Phone aka the HTC First's price has dropped f...

A startup called Webflakes aims to bring some of the best international content on fashion, food, travel, and more to English-speaking readers with the help of volunteer translators. The site is offic...

Open Compute willdevelop a specification and a reference box for anopen, networking switch and will do it from the ground up in the fashion of open-source software efforts such as those developed by t...

Editor's note: Marco Rubio is a United States Senator from Florida. Follow him on Twitter @marcorubio.Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportationwill examine the role of...

So what does a high Klout score actually get you? The infleunce-measuring startup already offers prizes through its Klout Perks program, and there are bragging rights, too (unless your friends think y...

Path hasn't had a particularly smooth road in terms of PR lately, but today brings some good news from the social networking app.Path will announce today that its app will be built in for one-touch do...

New York City-based startup Cover seeks to simplify the process through the magic of mobile payments. It does that with a payments platform and mobile application that would reduce all the fuss and ca...

G2 Crowd wants to disrupt Gartner’s Magic Quadrant through a real-time, crowdsourced platform of peer reviews and social analytics targeting the CRM and marketing automation markets. The new ...

There's something about Soccer (and as a Brit, by that I mean Football, pulease...) that seems to have captured investors' imagination of late. A case in point: FTBpro, a large fan-generated content p...

Square has made another key hire todayDemetrios J. Marantis will be leading the companys international government, regulatory, and policy work. Marantis most recently served in President Barack Obamas...

Are you ready for Donald Trump to (not really) give you (not real) money for your (not really) amazing project? Well, (not really his) new site, FundAnything, is ready to take your money! The new fund...

The Syrian government claims it's working to repair yesterday's widespread Internet blackout. State-run media are reporting that a "fault in optical fibre cables" disconnected the beleaguered Middle-...

Today, Google announced the eventual rollout of a brand new look for its Admin Console, an area that only admins of Google Apps will see. The aim of the redesign is to help those admins get to informa...

Microsoft’s Office Web Apps have been around since 2010. Since then, they have slowly morphed from lightweight document viewers to relatively full-blown Office apps. Going forward, Microsoft sen...

Sure, your Android tablet probably works like a champ when you’re splayed out on the couch, but is it one of your go-to gadgets for when you go traipsing through the great outdoors. I’d wa...

Movable Ink, a New York City-based company whose technology lets clients create more relevant email marketing campaigns, has taken on $11 million in a fresh round of funding.The funding, which serves ...

That crunching sound you hear is software eating the world, and TechCrunch is always looking for ways to pull a chair up to the feast. For example, we have CrunchBase for data and CrunchBoard for jobs...

Before he co-founded last-minute hotel booking startup HotelTonight, one of CEO Sam Shank's previous companies was the hotel review site TravelPost. And today, he's launching what he said is a reinven...

Elena Fesenko grew up in the fashion industry. Her mother worked as a buyer for Bloomingdale’s, and she herself spent time both as a fashion design student and model. Now Fesenko has translated ...

Makerbot has released an inspiring video about how a group of hackers built 3D-printed hands for children and adults who are missing fingers or entire hands. The project aims to take the cost and comp...

Google Glass is still very much a pre-release product, but a new update today edges it closer to a shipping device, thanks to some core functionality additions that you'd expect to see in consumer Goo...

You know, it's been a pretty good few days for the (still mostly undercover) dudes behind Bang With Friends, the app that aims to help you do exactly what its name implies. Just days after word trickl...

OpenSignal, the UK startup that has made a name for itself with its Android and iOS apps that crowdsource cell phone coverage based on data picked up from users' devices, is branching out into another...

Crosswa.lk, a mobile application discovery which just over a year ago arrived on the iPhone as an improved version of Apple’s “Genius,” has been quietly building a new product over t...

Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference is only around a month away, and while we're already expecting to see iOS 7 at least previewed at the event, now we have some actual data to back up that...

This October we're looking forward to bringing you a full-blown, all-hands-on-deck, TechCrunch Disrupt Europe in Berlin, the only Disrupt conference outside North America. This will feature the bigges...

When this generation looks back to retell the best and most amazing past times of the early oughts, surfing YouTube will undoubtedly be on the list. But as we shift to a more mobile lifestyle, content...

CardFlight is launching with an encrypted, Square-like card reader of its own, as well as an SDK and APIs that will allow developers to create apps and take "card-present" payments on their mobile app...

Boston-based Localytics is fleshing out its mobile app analytics and marketing platform in a major way today with a variety of new features to help not just with customer acquisition, but also with mo...

HealthTap, the doctor Q&A site and mobile app, has closed a $24 million series B round of funding -- capital it says it will use to acquire "top talent", expand its web and mobile offerings, and a...

T-Mobile USA has reported its first quarter earnings for 2013, and this marks the first reporting period ever that the newly rebranded "Un-Carrier" has included iPhone 5 sales, which began at T-Mobile...

AOL (owner of TechCrunch) has just reported its Q1 results for the quarter, and it's a mixed bag, with sales of $539 million, up 2%, beating Wall Street estimates, but with diluted earnings per share ...

AOL (owner of TechCrunch) has just reported its Q1 results for the quarter, and it's a mixed bag, with sales of $539 million, up 2%, beating Wall Street estimates, with diluted earnings per share comi...

AOL (owner of TechCrunch) has just reported its Q1 results for the quarter, and it's a mixed bag, with sales of $539 million, up 2%, beating Wall Street estimates, with diluted earnings per share comi...

Online real estate company Trulia has announced it plans to acquire real estate SaaS CRM provider Market Leader for$355 million. The SEC filing is here. Trulia said the combined company will havesome ...

Online real estate company Trulia has announced it plans to acquire real estate SaaS CRM provider Market Leader for approximately $355 million. The pair said the rational for the merger is to create a...

As tablet ownership & usage continues its upward trajectory, little surprise that more people are expected to be paying for more stuff on tablets in the coming years. But analyst Juniper has put o...

A new federal database of hospital prices shows a massive disparity in medical costs. "Average inpatient charges for services a hospital may provide in connection with a joint replacement range from a...

Nokia is teasing the Lumia 928 -- a phone it has not officially announced yet, despite all the leaks, rumours and, er, magazine ads -- in a camera comparison video posted on its U.S. website. All this...

Codoon is one of the first wearable tech gadgets produced by a Chinese company. It's also an almost exact copy of the Jawbone UP. Sina Tech reports Chinese consumers will be able to get a Codoon on th...

The Chinese government will reportedly begin issuing 4G licenses (link via Google Translate) by the end of this year or early 2014 at the latest, following news that China Mobile is set to take constr...

Google's bound to pull back the curtain on some goodies at its annual I/O conference next week (though it's being characteristically quiet about the whole thing), but could a redesigned version of Goo...

Mass Appeal, a joint venture that's both reviving the Broolyn-based, graffiti-focused magazine of the same name and also moving into online content, is announcing that it has raised $1.2 million in fu...

Mass Appeal, a joint venture that's both reviving the Broolyn-based, graffiti-focused magazine of the same name and also moving into online content, is announcing that it has raised $1.2 million in fu...

LinkedIn, now at 225 million users, continues to introduce more features to its site to keep people returning to the it and staying there for longer. Today it's the turn of LinkedIn Today, its social ...

LinkedIn, now at 225 million users, continues to introduce more features to its site to keep people returning to it and staying there for longer. Today it's the turn of LinkedIn Today, its social news...

Cisco Meraki has launched a new service called Presence that provides data about mobile behavior across location and automatic login to wireless hotspots using a person's Facebook account....

Dots, a game launched just last week out of betaworks, has reached over 1 million downloads in just one week of availability.According to a blog post, the app hit number 1 in eight countries, and went...

What is Yahoo? Marissa Mayer just laid out the company's identity and future at Wired Business Conference. The key words she repeated over and over was "Every Day". That's when Yahoo wants you to use ...

It's been a while since the TechCrunch TV team has taken a tropical vacation, but we were able to take a walk on the wild side (no passports required) while shooting this latest episode of Cribs at op...

Earlier today, I had a chance to sit down with Adobe’s David Wadhwani, the senior vice president and general manager for Digital Media and public face of Creative Cloud at the company’s MA...

BitTorrent is taking a new step today in its efforts to help creators make money (and make money itself) it's releasing a new content packaging format called the BitTorrent Bundle in alpha mode.The c...

War-torn Syria is reportedly experiencing massive Internet outages. Both Google’s transparency monitor and security firm Cloudflare are reporting near zero levels of traffic out of the area. Thi...

"Where did my Android go?" is the common theme of Facebook Home reviews in Google Play. People want the widgets and old homescreen they meticulously curated. Facebook needs to preserve and offer quick...

As the days go by and developers get their hands on Glass, the basic apps that we need to survive in the wild and share our photos are popping up. Today, Glass To Facebook is available for those who w...

Google+ Hangouts allow for groups of friends or colleagues have an intimate face-to-face conversation, but the “On Air” feature of the service allows you to broadcast to the masses. T...

Microsoft’s Corporate VP for Windows Julie Larson-Green was at WIRED’s Business Conference today, and she was put on the spot when asked by interviewer and WIRED Senior Editor Michael V. C...

Windows 8 launched to mixed reviews just over half a year ago, and Microsoft has dutifully pushed out nearly 740 tweaks and updates over the intervening months. Even so, rumblings of a sizeable update...

Nest proved that energy monitoring can be tantalizing. And it's about to get even better. The company just announced that it has acquired MyEnergy to further enhance its suite of monitoring tools. Ter...

Google Docs, now Drive, have always had an option to create forms that would drop data right into a spreadsheet. This is super handy until you tried to do something like…collect date and time in...

Software quality assurance testing on Android devices is far easier than it was just a year ago, at least according to one of Asia’s largest mobile app developers, Animoca. The Hong Kong company...

Software quality assurance testing on Android devices is far easier than it was just a year ago, at least according to one of Asia’s largest mobile app developers, Animoca. The Hong Kong company...

Google just reminded developers that they can use Chrome as the default browser for their apps and easily switch back and forth between app and browser. With x-callback, Google says, developers can op...

Pi.pe, the file transfer and synchronization service which emerged from San Francisco-basedPixelpipe, has previously served as one of the only serious utilities to move photos and other media files be...

Shopping search engine TheFind is debuting a more personalized search feature today. Personalized search sifts through the millions of online products available to give you personal results based on a...

Startups of a feather flock together. Wefollow, a company that was spun out of Digg, has been acquired by About.me, a company that was spun out of Aol. And get this, there's more: Lead About.me invest...

Atlas is a mobile app not just for notifying you of when and where you have meetings, but more importantly, for setting them up. The app works by getting you through the gnarly process of setting meet...

As millions of 20-somethings defy the age-old tradition of young marriage for another decade of baby-less romance, one study suggests that the Internet is responsible for boosting holy matrimony 14% a...

Parse, the mobile back-end startup that Facebook recently bought to set up a new developer-focused business, just launched hosting. Parse It's meant to help mobile developers that have a desktop web ...

If you've flirted with vegetarianism like I have, then you're probably aware of a range of meat substitutes, all of which pale in comparison to the real thing. But now Beyond Meat CEO and founder Etha...

Facebook has finally found a permanent person for one of its key leadership positions in its international operation: Nicola Mendelsohn, a longtime veteran of the ad industry, is joining the social ne...

YouEye, a usability testing service that uses a pool of screened candidates to help designers and developer get feedback for their sites, today announced that it has raised a $3 million funding round ...

To paraphrase Cracker, I would wager what the world needs now is another content management system like I need a hole in the head. However, I’m pleased to note that I will allow Ghost a pass. Gh...

Serial entrepreneur Evan Williams spoke onstage at Wired's Business Conference, about going from Pyra Labs to Blogger to Obvious to Odeo to Obvious to Twitter to Obvious to Medium. Whew! "Turns out I'...

Hyper-local ad startup PlaceIQ has raised an additional $6.75 million in Series B financing to enable marketers to target their messages to users based on location. The funding was led by U.S. Venture...

Google has become the king of maps because of the technology that it has developed over the past eight years. One competitor, OpenStreetMap, has developed its own tools and built a community of map en...

Warby Parker, like so many other lifestyle/tech hybrid companies, faced the problem many small companies see while trying to launch a real brand: how do you make the story resonate?...

Urban Compass, a New York-based startup that last year raised an $8 million seed round while still in stealth mode, is coming out of the shadows of the city and debuting its first services in public b...

Angry Birds maker Rovio today finally introduced a way for users to save their gameplay and progress in the cloud, and then resume play on any device. Called simply “Rovio Accounts,” it...

It’s fair to say that the “ambient location” craze has passed. Several of the mobile apps intent on connecting people with friends and other recommended users nearby are still strugg...

The iPad mini is quickly becoming a key component of Apple's product lineup, and according to some sources, might even be the best-selling tablet Apple makes at this point. The smaller tablet hit shel...

TenFarms, a startup working on couple of interesting mobile product ideas, just announced that it has raised $2.7 million in funding from undisclosed angel investors.The company has already released i...

So far, the Pebble smart watch has done little besides offer up watch faces for users to tinker with, but the apps are starting to come in, and today marks the much-anticipated debut of early marquee ...

CircleUp, a startup that connects investors with retail and consumer companies that wouldn't attract traditional venture funding, has raised a $7.5 million Series A.The round was led by Union Square V...

More VC money sloshing around Europe. Creandum, the Stockholm-based VC best known for its earlyinvestments in the likes of Spotify and Videoplaza, has closed its third fund at 135 million (~$177m), la...

If anything on the Internet is like a mall right now, it's social shopping site Wanelo. Call it the Pinterest for products or the Twitter for products or the whatever for products, the platform is sta...

Viber has made quite a name for itself as a global mobile first company, but today that all changes as the company breaks ground in the desktop space. That means that starting today, Viber's 200 milli...

San Francisco-based Revel Systems is essentially the industry leader when it comes to iPad-based point-of-sale (POS) for restaurants, grocery and now retail, and today it's adding additional security ...

Chute, a startup that offers tools for collecting and displaying photos, has raised $7 million in Series A Funding.The round was led by Foundry Group, with participation from existing investors Freest...

Kim Dotcom and his legal team are seizing the moment of a meeting of attorneys general from the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in Auckland to bring more attention to his legal fight with ...

TripAdvisor already has more than 100 million reviews on its sites, but it needs even more in order to continue competing against rivals like Yelp and Foursquare. Review Express, a service the travel ...

The food delivery wars continue to heat up: today foodpanda, the Rocket Internet-incubated startup that offers a one-stop service to order food from a selection of restaurants and take-out joints to b...

The food delivery wars continue to heat up: today foodpanda, the Rocket Internet-incubated startup that offers a one-stop service to order food from a selection of restaurants and take-out joints to b...

After weeks of rumors, Baidu finally confirmed today that it has acquired the online video business of Shanghai-based PPS for $370 million. PPS will be merged into iQiyi, Baidu’s video platform ...

A year ago, Evernote kicked off its strategy to bring its personal organization app to China, with the launch of Yinxiang Biji on its own dedicated platform. Today, it's taking the next step in moneti...

A year ago, Evernote kicked off its strategy to bring its personal organization app to China, with the launch of Yinxiang Biji on its own dedicated platform. Now, with 4 million users of the Chinese v...

A year ago, Evernote kicked off its strategy to bring its personal organization app to China, with the launch of Yinxiang Biji on its own dedicated platform. Now, with 4 million users of the Chinese v...

Node.js is the everyman's platform for developing apps. It's JavaScript on the sever. It's relatively easy to learn and it's immensely popular. Now Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released the Node.js S...

Nokia's newly-appointed general manager of China, Erik Bertman, has plenty of experience in emerging markets, but it's unclear if he'll be able to reverse the Finnish company's rapid loss of market sh...

thePlatform is taking steps to make live event streaming easier for their customers. The company, which is a subsidiary of Comcast, is launching a new, SaaS-based platform which will allow networks to...

By most accounts, Windows 8 isn’t all that popular, but according to Microsoft’s latest numbers, the company has now sold more than 100 million copies of the latest version of its desktop ...

"im ddeleting the internet [sic]": A telling re-blog from a teenaged girl on the blogging platform turned social networking site Tumblr, in a chain of re-postings that had her pondering Tumblr's impac...

Jeet Singh and Joe Chung have already had a nice exit, taking their enterprise software company Art Technology Group public (it was acquired by Oracle for $1 billion back in 2010). Now they're hoping ...

In all the discussions I've had with hardware makers about their products, one thing is becoming clear: in the end, the cheap part is never cheap. Take a look at this post about a Kickstarter project ...

It wasn't until widely respected economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff shared the Excel files behind their influential paper on the relationship between government debt and economic growth, th...

Mondays aren't always smile-inducing, but today two news stories cropped up that were pretty fun -- and showed the increasing crossover between the worlds of technology and hip-hop. First, Facebook CO...

Thanks to Instagram, we rarely see photos taken from camera phones without some type of filter on it. Even Twitter’s photo service uses Aviary to drop an earthy overlay or black-and-white treatm...

The United States Senate overwhelmingly supported a tax on Internet sales today, voting 70-24 in favor of the Marketplace Fairness Act. The outcome was expected after a similar non-biding show of appr...

The United States Senate overwhelmingly supported a tax on Internet sales today, voting 70-24 in favor of the Marketplace Fairness Act. The outcome was expected after a similar non-biding show of appr...

SkyGiraffe, an enterprise mobile platform provider, has raised a seed round from well-known investors, including Parker Thompson, a partner at 500 Startups and Yuval Neeman, a former corporate vice pr...

Sick of high-paid tech employees driving up rent prices, protestors in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood held a "Anti-Gentrification Block Party" and beat on a Google bus pinata before cops broke u...

How much is your car worth?It's an easy enough question to answer. Punch in the details at Kelley Blue Book and bam question answered, ego stoked (or not.)But how do they know how much it's worth? Fo...

At its MAX conference in Los Angeles today, Adobe showed quite a few products that will soon be available to its customers, but it also highlighted a number of hardware experiments, including Project ...

Over the last few years, Samsung has been working hard on building technology to improve the communication between its connected TVs and mobile devices, whether they be iOS or Android phones or tablet...

In order to discreetly reach abused children, one aid organization designed a clever billboard that only displays a hotline number for people shorter than 4'5". The secret is a precisely serrated surf...

After a brief hiatus for TechCrunch Disrupt, Ask A VC is back this week with two all-star guests in the investing world. First up we have Freestyle Capital's Dave Samuel. Later in the week, Redpoint P...

Flash may be dead, but Adobe’s Flash Professional has already gone beyond just being a Flash tool and it’s getting a major update today. The new version, Adobe says, has been “rebuil...

Even with 84 million uniques each month, About.com tends to fly under the radar. But there is change afoot since IAC bought out About.com from the New York Times last year, most notably the appointmen...

The Syrian Electronic Army has apparently hacked The Onion’s twitter account, exposing the groups seriously morbid sense of “humor”. “UN retracts report of Syrian chemical weap...

Dropbox doesn't want to be a storage service. It wants to be the data layer uniting your information on all apps. To get more apps and enterprises integrated with its platform, today it announced DBX,...

Adobe‘s just announced the latest version of Dreamweaver, its tool for quickly developing web content. The new version has now caught up with a number of modern web development techniques and al...

Adobe surprised everyone by showing off a new hardware effort today at its annual MAX conference, including Project Mighty and Napoleon. Mighty is a pressure-sensitive digital pen that works with tabl...

The Israeli Foreign Minister has sent a strongly worded letter to Google CEO, Larry Page, warning him that their new Palestine search page could undermine Middle-East peace negotiations. “Such a...

An old saying states that "security is inversely proportional to convenience." This explains the slow adoption of many important security technologies. HTTPS, the secure version of the HTTP protocol u...

In his acclaimed new book, Who Owns The Future?, which is out today, Lanier takes Silicon Valley to task for monopolizing ownership of the future....

As part of its general update to Creative Cloud, Adobe today announced the latest version of Edge Animate, its timeline-based tool for creative HTML5 animations. While this is one of the minor updates...

After 19 months of working with our founder, Michael Arrington, on setting up CrunchFund, MG Siegler has moved on to a similar role at a firm that continues to make waves in the venture world, Google ...

Adobe believes its future lies in digital distribution and subscriptions – and it’s about to bet the company on this. As Adobe announced at its Max conference in Los Angeles today, it̵...

Adobe believes its future lies in digital distribution and subscriptions – and it’s about to bet the company on this. As Adobe announced at its Max conference in Los Angeles today, it̵...

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...

Adobe is having its annual MAX conference this week, and today it lifted the lid on a number of new products, including Photoshop CC, the new, Creative Cloud-era version of its incredibly popular phot...

When it comes to quickly growing markets, it's hard to beat Brazil, where an emerging middle class is driving strong demand for all kinds of products -- particularly in the e-commerce sector. The late...

It’s a big day for Adobe today, as the company is announcing new versions of all of its Creative Suite and Edge developer tools at its Max conference in Los Angeles today. All of the Creative Su...

It’s a big day for Adobe today, as the company is announcing new versions of all of its Creative Suite and Edge developer tools at its Max conference in Los Angeles today. All of the Creative Su...

As time goes on and more Google Glass developers start tinkering around with their Explorer kits, we’ll start seeing all types of apps pop up for the device. The fun part about this is that we&#...

Nintendo is trying to get people to buy the new Wii U, but it just isn't working, according to recent sales numbers. Now, the Japanese gaming giant is hoping that helping developers port their smartph...

Now that we have confirmation that the Liberator 3D-printed pistol can be fired without destroying the body, let's address what this means for 3D printed weapons and, presumably, weapons in general....

Australian startup Tapestry, which makes an app for Android tablets to help seniors stay connected to family members, has raised $400,000 in new funding in the form of a grant from Commercialisation A...

Today marks the latest step in Aereo's legal battle with major broadcast networks like Fox, ABC, CBS, and NBC, with the live TV streaming/DVR service filing a declaratory judgement action against CBS,...

Dell has acquired Enstratius, a provider of cloud management software considered one of the most innovative startups in the market by Gartner Research. The acquisition gives Dell another way to provid...

Panna, a video cooking magazine iOS application which connects users to celebrity chefs, has raised $1.35 million in a round of funding led by Anthem Ventures. Others participating include Lerer Ventu...

The Fitbit Flex is a Fitbit you wear on your wrist. And it's awesome.Without naming names, I've owned and extensively used just about every quantitative self gadget on the market. Most of them are jus...

Haven't quite gotten your fill of the Galaxy S4? We haven't, either. First came the announcement, then the obligatory berating posts about the crazy launch event, followed by the review, which brings ...

One of the most impressive things we happened upon at CES this year was the Tactus keyboard, a special fluid-filled layer that could be baked into a tablet or smartphone to provide users with a physic...

The mobile PC market isn't doing great, but that's only if you look at it independently of tablet device sales. NPD DisplaySearch now says that over the next five years, however, the mobile PC market ...

Apple has recently taken action against apps that violate clause 2.25 of its App Review Guidelines according to PocketGamer, a rule that says no app should replicate functionality of the App Store in ...

T-Mobile, fresh from the completion of its merger with MetroPCS and new NYSE listing, is now sharpening its focus on new customers and new products, beginning with small businesses and cloud-based, so...

Inventure-backed Froont has launched in public beta today with a web-based tool that aims to make it easy for designers to create, prototype and share responsive website designs, without the need to c...

Prepping for its US expansion, Singapore-based indoor positioning technology firm YFind has launched a broader analytics tool so that its customers can slice and dice foot traffic information in malls...

McAfee, the Intel-owned security specialist, has just announced that it is buying Stonesoft Oyj,a Finland-based specialist in firewall protection products, for $389 million in cash. The move will let ...

McAfee, the Intel-owned security specialist, has just announced that it is buying Stonesoft Oyj,a Finland-based specialist in firewall protection products, for $389 million in cash. The move will let ...

Founded in 2010, Israeli startup JoyTunes has been on a mission to become the Rosetta Stone of music -- to help those looking to learn play an instrument do so by turning practice into a mobile game, ...

Amazon quietly launched its Appstore in China this weekend in a surprise move that paves the way for the rollout of Kindle devices in that country. At the same time, Amazon also debuted its Chinese-la...

There were plenty of promising startups showing off at Disrupt NY 2013s Startup Alley (one of them even became a Battlefield finalist as an audience choice), but none managed to yank on the ol heartst...

When you're spreading like wildfire, why douse the flames to make a few bucks? Facebook's willingness to wait on advertising helped its site and mobile apps grow massive, and now it's applying the sam...

Everlane has built a really unique business that straddles the tech and consumer spaces, by using technology to provide luxury quality apparel at much lower prices than traditional high-end designers....

In the tangled web of digital social networks that we weave one thing is increasingly absent: a sense of mystery. We are so wrapped up in our digital social graphs theres rarely room for gaps. The cha...

Aaaand the Google Glass jokes have officially gone mainstream.Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update the bit that long ago became the best reason to tune into SNL took on Glass last night and, well, t...

Speed. That’s what it’s all about these days. The problem: it’s still more effective to use FedEx than trying to squeeze a data load across a network. It’s an absurd reality wh...

Andreessen Horowitz partner Chris Dixon has been a big part of the New York City scene for years -- and finance has long been a dominant industry in the city. So when talking about the ascent of Bitco...

Facebooks mission is to make the world more open and connected. Indeed, great things can come from this, and for many of its one billion users, Facebook isnt just on the web -- it is the web. It is wh...

For America to maintain its fragile role as the most innovative nation on earth, it must perpetually attract the world’s best and brightest. There will always be trailblazing engineers who stay ...

Editors Note: Nir Eyal writes about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business atNirAndFar.com. Follow him@nireyal. How do products tempt us? What makes them so alluring? It is easy to a...

Editors note: Hassan Baig is an entrepreneur who runs White Rabbit Studios, a South Asian gaming startup he founded four years ago in Pakistan. There areseveral metricsthat game developers keep an eye...

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.One of th...

Investor Chamath Palihapitiya's skeptical comments about the current wave of tech startups (comments that included a not-too-veiled dig at Snapchat), ended up fueling plenty of discussion at our Disru...

Sometimes the simplest product demos can be effective.Take a new web editor called Barley. To show off the product, co-founder Colin Devroe opened me a regular old web page, then changed the wording o...

Facebook's social graph went missing from yesterday's update to Path's smartphone app, and Facebook now confirms it has restricted Path's API access. Path can no longer look up your Facebook friends, ...

It's a little bit sexy and a little bit dorky, but Google Glass has finally arrived. Beyond the initial productivity uses of the device, how important are games going to be for driving its adoption, a...

Editors note:Howard Lindzon is co-founder and CEO ofStockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.The markets are not changing so much as the technolo...

Buy it in a store, laser scan it at home, upload it to the web, print it anywhere. 3D printing is poised for the mainstream, but what happens when one person's finely hand-crafted designs can be pirat...

Last October, Datahug, a business networking automation startup, which is also being used by VCs, secured a 2.5 million Series A financing led by European VC DFJ Esprit. But it's now adding to that po...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor well, we talked Google Glass. @scobleizer has certainly made the case for the life-altering shower-taking scenarios, but w...

Beep boop boop bee squeee! Happy May 4th a k a Star Wars Day (say the date out loud and you'll figure out why). In celebration, quite a few hardware vendors have released special gear for the day, the...

Editors note:James Altucheris an investor, programmer, author, and several-timesentrepreneur.A few weeks ago I wrote a post about how this was the year you had to quit your job. I gave the reasons why...

A new front has opened in the smartphone war, and for the first time in many years, Apple is both outnumbered and outgunned.I'm not talking about the phones themselves. iOS is still better than Androi...

Fake meats have been around for years, but a new crop of Bay Area startups backed by tech investors think they can make meat substitutes good enough to compete with the real deal. The most ambitious p...

In this day and age, if you own a small business, you need a web (and mobile) presence. It’s just the way it is. Some might opt just to go for a social media approach, a Twitter account and a Fa...

In this week's Ask A VC episode, we sat down with Index Ventures partner Mike Volpi.Volpi, who makes investments in both enterprise software and consumer internet companies, serves on a number of boar...

A little less than a year ago, a little company called LinkSmart launched to help publishers use text links to get their readers reading more. Now it has raised $5 million in Series B funding to take ...

A funny thing has happened in tech in recent years. It used to be that you could expect a venture-backed company to file for an IPO soon after a few rounds of funding -- after, say, its Series C or Se...

In the near future, the only difference between a smartphone, tablet, and a laptop will be the size of the screen. Hardcore gamers could play 3D intensive games in a smartphone, and Michael Bay could ...

Google Glass is finding its way to developers and othersand the reaction has been, well, predictable. So far, there are those who think that Glass will absolutely change the world, that it’s our...

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

If Google is worried about Google Glass being too "nerdy", they probably wouldn't be sending people rockin' the Glass into the heart of the most gloriously nerdy thing in the world, the Large Hadron C...

The quick adoption of Mailbox only came after the team behind it spent years developing and iterating on a productivity app called Orchestra. In a conversation backstage at Disrupt NY 2013 earlier thi...

When was the last time you talked about Acer? Never? Me too. The company, which is the fourth largest PC maker in the world by the way, announced the Acer Aspire R7 this morning. It's a mighty morphin...

My old boss used to say that a story is something you'd tell someone in a bar or at lunch, so I'm going to tell you guys the tale I've been telling people at bars and lunches. Yesterday, Aol Ventures ...

This week on the TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast we talk about Acer (WTF, Acer?), Disrupt, and Bitponics . This time we’re joined by Matt Burns, Darrell Etherington, Greg Kumparak, and Michael Seo as...

It's no secret that the amount of time that tech companies are spending in Washington, D.C., is at a high. And money spent on lobbying has also been reaching peaks for a number of well-known technolog...

Lightbank, the venerated Chicago-based venture capital firm, made a very good decision this morning: It's removing these large-scale photos of people falling from buildings that have been hanging in i...

While Defense Distributed, the Thingiverse for gun parts, has been working on a 3D-printed lower receiver for the AR-15 for some time now, they’ve finally announced that they’ve completed ...

While I kid a bit in the headline, this is actually pretty cool: Swatch, the largest manufacturer of mechanical watch movements in the world, has created a movement that is assembled entirely using au...

Acer just announced the Aspire R7, a strange hybrid of a desktop all-in-one, laptop,and a tablet that was previously teased in some promotional Star Trek commercials. It’s honestly really, reall...

Spotify has acquired Tunigo, one of the many music apps that are powered by its API, AllThingsD's Peter Kafka reported today. The details of the deal aren't being made public, but the startup will mov...

Though Southeast Asia is one of the world’s fastest growing economies and benefits from a youthful, tech-savvy population, the region’s startup ecosystem is still in its infancy and many f...

Thunderbolt, you were a tech with near unlimited promise when first introduced, but what have you done with all that power? Since my first Thunderbolt-equipped Mac, I've essentially been using the por...

You’ve likely heard whispers of a company called Wander in the past year. They nabbed $1.2 million, launched out of TechStars, and have since gone relatively quiet. Until today. Today Wander is ...

Innovation FTW! The Stinky Gaming Footboard reached its Kickstarter goal. The novel gaming controller is headed to production. I have a Stinky under my desk right now. Much to my surprise, the control...

To use text messaging and navigation on Google Glass, users currently have to pair it with an Android phone and install the Glass companion app on their phones. This will change very soon, however, on...

Do you guys have any Green Day? Really? Yeah, like the early Knitting Factory stuff. Not this Dookie garbage. Yeah, I liked them before they sold out. What about Neutral Milk Hotel? Is the new album a...

The Nook HD and HD+ got a great update late last night (via Engadget), as Barnes & Noble finally moved away from its closed and system-specific app and media ecosystem. The two Android tablet...

LG is an Android smartphone OEM that, like many others, finds itself in the shadow of Samsung. But it scored an impressive hit with the Nexus 4, the $300 unlocked Google-branded Android reference phon...

BlackBerry and Samsung devices have been given the go-ahead for use on Defense Department networks. The approved devices are BlackBerry 10 smartphones, BlackBerry PlayBook tablets using the Enterprise...

BlackBerry and Samsung devices have been given the go-ahead for use on Defense Department networks. The approved devices are BlackBerry 10 smartphones, BlackBerry PlayBook tablets using the Enterprise...

BeTheDancer is Alex Greenburg's name and handle on Instagram. He's a good friend and a brilliant photographer, but because Instagram doesn't require real names, I had a lot trouble using the app's new...

There are already plenty of journaling apps out there, but Step stands out as a personal data aggregator that records and helps you make sense of your life's minutiae....

Look over to one of the upper corners of the room youre in. Whats there? If youre like me, probably nothing.Three Stanford product design majors are building a speaker to take advantage of the wasted ...

Fortune reported earlier today that Mike Brown Jr. and much of the team that ran AOLs venture funding arm have formed their own VC firm Bowery Capital that aims to find and fund enterprise-friendly ...

Evernote is going after KakaoTalk’s 90 million registered users by inking a partnership deal with the South Korean messaging giant that would bring Evernote integration to KakaoTalk’s mobi...

Chef Sleeve has been selling its iPad-protecting plastic sleeves since 2011 to keep kitchen gunk off the iPad you're using while you cook. They also make a chopping board with a built in iPad stand. B...

Ron Conway, David Lee, and Brian Pokorny meet new startup founders practically every day as investors at renowned angel funding firm SV Angel. So when they came backstage at this week's Disrupt NYC ev...

LinkedIn has just reported Q1 earnings of $324.7 million, up 72% year-on-year, and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.45, both soundly beating analysts’ estimates (via First Call) of $317 million...

LinkedIn has just reported Q1 earnings of $324.7 million, up 72% year-on-year, and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.45, both soundly beating analysts' estimates (via First Call) of $317 million and E...

Transit trade groups pulled out the race card and managed to block smartphone taxi “e-hailing” a day after they were cleared to pilot in New York City. Associate Justice Helen E. Freedman ...

The rise of the company builders is right. As Leena wrote in her spot-on post, "Operators are foregoing the traditional path of joining a traditional VC to instead create a studio-like holding operati...

Songza, the app that matches expert-created music playlists to your mood or activity, has just released a huge update to its iOS app, streamlining the experience quite a bit and cleaning up the UI to ...

A new game today available for iOS devices called Heads Up! provides an entertaining experience you could only have with a smartphone, with a simple game mechanic and a video sharing feature that mean...

A new game today available for iOS devices called Heads Up! provides an entertaining experience you could only have with a smartphone, with a simple game mechanic and a video sharing feature that mean...

Those who know in the Valley know the name Sam Pullara. Whether it was his time as a repeat entrepreneur and technical founder, or stints as an EIR at some of the Valley's most premier venture capital...

Meet Lumu: a digital light meter for photographers that plugs into the iPhone's headphone jack as a smaller and smarter replacement for traditional analogue light meters. It's used in conjunction with...

Mozilla was keen to talk up the 3.0 version of its Firefox OS simulator back in March, but didnt have much to share about when eager developers could start fiddling with it. Thankfully for HTML5 buffs...

Zoho has a new Card Scanner app for iOS for its SaaS platform that allows a customer to take a photo of a business card and have that data stored in the Zoho CRM or as a new contact.The appscans busin...

Well, what do we have here? Somewhat under the radar, Google has hired the computer games veteran Noah Falstein to the position of Chief Game Designer. Yes, that's right, the search giant, not normall...

I hate using email. I get an average of 60 to 70 emails every day, and only one precent of them are from people I actually care about. Using email today is all about sifting through the clutter. Dextr...

Last month Skimlinks, the platform that allows publishers full control over affiliate links and content monetization, completed a growth financing round led by Greycroft Partners and others, while exp...

Redfin is launching a new feature today that allows prospective home buyers and sellers to better estimate a home’s value. Anybody who has ever searched for a house or tried to sell one is proba...

Today Instagram launches photo tagging, the feature that fueled Facebook's early growth. New Instagram iOS and Android updates rolling out now let you tag any person or brand in your own photos, which...

Five years after being started as back-bedroom project by Michael Acton Smith, Mind Candy, the company which came up with the hugely successful Moshi Monsters kids game, has achieved a lot. Unusually ...

SocialWire, a startup building Facebook ads for retailers, has raised $1 million in "seed extension" funding. The company is also announcing that Chief Revenue Officer Bob Buch, a former exec at Aol a...

SocialWire, a startup building Facebook ads for retailers, has raised $1 million in "seed extension" funding. The company is also announcing that Chief Revenue Officer Bob Buch, a former exec at Aol a...

Citrix today added a new real-time chat feature to its Podio social business platform that allows users to discuss projects, tasks, documents and other items by using standard instant messages, as wel...

Photo and video apps have rocketed up the app store charts driven by apps like Instagram and Vine, becoming the third largest category in iOS downloads. Most contain casual photo filters and simple ed...

While Foursquare has been the most hyped location startup out of New York, there is actually another startup that is growing a real business from serving merchants with about 150,000 locations globall...

While Foursquare has been the most hyped location startup out of New York, there is actually another startup that is growing a real business from serving merchants with about 150,000 locations globall...

I'm pretty much out of superlatives when writing about Dylan Collins' latest venture. Box of Awesome, which we previously described as a free Birchbox for kids, has acquired trading community Swapit. ...

If you do much photography at all, you probably have come across and enjoyed Adobe Lightroom, the digital darkroom suite that makes photo editing a snap, especially for RAW files, which preserves a wi...

Vox Media has very quickly become a huge force in online media. The owner of websites like SB Nation and the Verge is seeking to create a whole new generation of premium properties online, as a way to...

Poppin, an online office products and furniture shop whose goal is to make design more affordable (and Pinterest-worthy), is announcing today having raised $11.1 million in Series B funding. The round...

If, say, a company uses both Sharepoint and Salesforce inside a mobile app, to get that data into one app they need multiple levels of API integration. Because of the enormous boom in mobile and table...

This is the ground floor of one of the electronics malls in Shenzhen’s famed Huaqiangbei district. Huaqiangbei is a stretch of large malls and shops in the Southern Chinese province, and due to ...

China is investing $810 million into the development of Beidou (BDS), the navigation satellite system that it is positioning as a rival to the U.S.-developed GPS. According to China Daily, the money w...

Peer-to-peer lending platform Lending Club is announcing a huge new investor today: Google. Google and existing investor Foundation Capital have put $125 million in Lending Club, which was valued at $...

I've found that when people visit San Francisco, it's not unusual to hear them ask something like: "No seriously, is there a coffee shop on every block in this city?" Yes, San Francisco likes coffee. ...

Startups in the UK are upbeat about the future and usually more profitable (comparatively) than their US counterparts (which tend to focus on growth over revenues). But they find raising Series A mone...

The champagne bottles are empty. The startups are packing up. TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 is a wrap, and it was a hell of a show. Enigma won the Startup Battlefield, taking home $50,000 and the Disrupt...

I dont want to awaken the ire of any committed pet owners but I would be lying if I said I didnt cringe a little bit when I hear about extreme pet products and services like doggie treadmills, pet psy...

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. This year’s crop of Disrupt NY Battlefield startups has been one of our strongest yet, but out of the 30 that entered the fray only seven would go on to t...

Today, at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, Tumblr founder David Karp and Sequoia partner (and Tumblr investor) Roelof Botha took the stage to talk to TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington about how the blogging pla...

Happier, healthier,more productive. That was the goal of mobile app Astrid, and now Yahoo is taking up the mission as it’s just acquired the to-do app developer. Co-founded by a former Palantir ...

"Happier, healthier,more productive." That was the goal of mobile app Astrid, and now Yahoo is taking up the mission as it's just acquired the to-do app developer. Co-founded by a former Palantir engi...

"Happier, healthier,more productive." That was the goal of mobile app Astrid, and now Yahoo is taking up the mission as it's just acquired the social productivity platform. Co-founded by a former Pala...

Shakil Khan, an angel investor and advisor to Spotify, just launched Coindesk, a Bitcoin resource and news site, amid a boatload of hype and VC interest in the crypto-currency. Khan says Coindesk was ...

Facebook says that there are no plans for now to add advertising to Instagram, even though advertisers are approaching them, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today during the company's Q1 earnings call. But a...

Facebook says that there are no plans for now to add advertising to Instagram, even though advertisers are approaching them, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today during the company's Q1 earnings call. But a...

Take The H.E.L.M. 2.0 is a competition from theNew York City Economic Development Corporation that is designed to encourage tech startups and other fledgling companies to move their offices to lower M...

Microsoft has released WebMatrix 3, the latest version of its free web development tool. The new version now comes with deeper Windows Azure integration and support for GitHub. WebMatrix users can now...

Facebook app install ads were the star of Facebook's earnings call today. Sheryl Sandberg said 3800 developers, including 40% of the top 100 iOS app developers, used the ads to drive over 25 million ...

A lot of people don't carry cameras anymore, now that they have smartphones. But that means that you could miss opportunities to capture great moments, especially when you're missing out on the great ...

Recently we've seen a lot of news articles about the potential for chat apps to take over the role of SMS. Analysts Informa recently came out with the research that suggested that 2012 was the tipping...

Apple's iOS 7 will arrive "on time," according to a couple of well-placed sources following a report from Bloomberg this morning that suggests it was risking delays in the face of major software chang...

It appears that as people switch from the desktop where Facebook shows multiple ads per page to mobile, Facebook is earning less ad revenue per user in its most important markets. While user growth he...

Dogs, drones, and digital controllers, oh my! This year's Disrupt conference in New York was full of amazing webs services and software, but Hardware Alley brought out the best in hardware startups an...

Almost one-third of Facebook’s advertising revenue is now coming from mobile platforms, according to the company’s latest earnings release. About $375 million of Facebook’s $1.25 bil...

Yelp, the local online business and restaurant guide that first launched in the U.S. in 2004 and now lives in 21 countries and 12 languages, and has more than 100 million monthly unique visitors as of...

In Q4 of last year, Facebook’s mobile MAUs surpassed desktop for the first time in its history. That trend continued in Q1 2013 with 751M MAUs. This is what we learned with today’s release...

In Q4 of last year, Facebook’s mobile MAUs surpassed desktop for the first time in its history. That trend continued in Q1 2013 with 751M MAUs. This is what we learned with today’s release...

Facebook has just posted its earnings for the quarter that ended March 31, 2013. Facebook hit $1.46B in revenue up 38% from Q1 2012, beating the street. However, earnings per shared missed estimates, ...

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 NY today, Tumblr founder David Karp and Sequoia partner Roelof Botha took the stage with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington to discuss Tumblr’s history, the relation...

Brian Pokorny, who recently rejoined SV Angel as a general partner, weighed in this afternoon on the future of a number of high-profile companies Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo.Pokorny was interviewed ...

Kickstarter-funded Bitponics was showing off its finished product at TechCrunch Disrupt NY's Hardware Alley today in New York, which is shipping out to backers in the next few weeks according to compa...

Dave Gilboa, co-founder at Warby Parker, one of the e-commerce startups that has “made it” so to speak, shared some stories from the startup’s early days on an afternoon panel at Tec...

Yesterday, Viddy filed a regulatory document with the US Securities and Exchange Comission that seemed to indicate that the Los Angeles-based video sharing startup had raised $2.85 million in new fund...

Yesterday, Viddy filed a regulatory document with the US Securities and Exchange Comission that seemed to indicate that the Los Angeles-based video sharing startup had raised $2.85 million in new fund...

Michael Arrington began moderating a panel at Disrupt NY today with Ron Conway, David Lee, and Brian Pokorny of SV Angel by noting that he was "pissed off" by investor Chamath Palipitiya's comments on...

The team at Siminars has developed what they call an "online platform with all the tools you need to build, publish and distribute highly effective courses." It means that rather than just using a wri...

How could a site for explaining rap lyrics make good on its $15 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz? Because it's also a collaborative text-annotation platform that enterprises are asking for....

Brewster launched late last year with a simple goal: Replace your tired old A-to-Z contact list with an address book that actually understands your relationships and, in turn, helps you become a bette...

VC firm First Round Capital has steadily expanded its The Dorm Room Fund from Philadelphia, to New York. And today, the firm is heading west with its latest Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area-b...

For some of us, hanging out with our parents is something best relegated to off-work hours and holidays. But Kenneth Lerer and Ben Lerer have had some big successes working together at Lerer Ventures,...

One of the fundamental problems in intellectual property (IP) litigation is the lack of information available to both plaintiffs and defendants. The identity of the plaintiff and the defendant, the di...

After bringing on a new global business lead from Google, Square is making another key executive hire today. The payments company is announcing that Alex Petrov, a former PayPal exec, will be Square's...

A few months ago, Google announced the Windows Start button-like app launcher for Chrome on Windows, and with it, a way to easily launch Chrome packaged apps, a new way to write apps that are based on...

There's a long-held notion that China should be the go-to place for those in need of inexpensive manufactured products, but some prominent makers don't buy it. Our own John Biggs sat down with Adafrui...

Snackchat! Taco Bell tweeted, "We're on Snapchat" last night, urging their Twitter followers to add them for a "secret announcement" some time today. This is the first major brand to use Snapchat to r...

One of the common themes that we’re hearing from investors during Disrupt NYC has been that the areas that are ready to be disrupted might not be anywhere close to the sometimes sexier-appearing...

Because waiting for the check stinks.Tabbedout, a startup backed by $5.75 million from NEA and others, has been developing a platform that allows bar and restaurant customers to pay for their tab usin...

Anthony Noto, the global co-head of Goldman Sachs global telecommunications, media and technology group in investment banking, took the stage at this morning’s TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 event t...

Recently consumer electronics have tended to be more about closing things down then opening them up, but New York-based Adafruit is working to help reverse that trend, and to make it so that people ar...

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, Ashton Kutcher took the stage with Guy Oseary to talk about their A-Grade fund. Arrington started right away about a rumor that the fund is raising money at a $100 mill...

CopyTele, a "patent enforcement entity" based in New York, has filed a patent infringement suit against Microsoft in connection with its Skype IP calling and messaging service, now used by 280 million...

Datahero, here at Disrupt NY, represents how the market is segmenting for data visualization and data-analytics tools based upon level of skill, complexity and overall richness and sophistication of t...

If you aren't at Disrupt NY or watchin' the livestream back at home, you just missed something pretty special.Our own Josh Constine took the stage with the co-founders of Rap Genius for a conversatio...

Today at Disrupt NY, Ken Lerer and Ben Lerer took the stage to talk about Lerer Ventures and their respective entrepreneur stories. One thing that caught the attention of the audience is when Ken Lere...

LinkedIn today announced another upgrade to its site, part of a bigger plan to add more features and reasons for people to hang around on its pages for longer: this time it’s the turn of profile...

Asana, the high-profile productivity startup that's trying to redesign the workplace around tasks (instead of email), is tackling the scale of its productivity app with a new announcement today.Last y...

While you are riding into work on your bike commute, why not charge your phone? There's a bit more to it than that, but ultimately that is exactly what the Siva Cycle Atom does. A brilliant idea.Reach...

Line, a free messaging app made by NHN Japan Corporation that's competing with the likes of WhatsApp and Viber, has pushed past 150 million registered users globally, up from 100 million in January. L...

Companies like Google, BlackBerry, Earthlink, Red Hat, and others in the tech community, have been piling pressure on the U.S. government to take a stronger stand against companies that file patent su...

You remember the first time you played Angry Birds, right? What about the first time you picked up the iPhone 4 and realized just how beautiful a phone can be, both in hardware and software? Well, the...

Google’s Web Fonts collection of open source fonts is now available on the desktop (Mac and Windows). At first glance, that doesn’t make all that much sense, given that the whole idea of W...

The founders of lyric website Rap Genius revealed today that they're starting to move into annotating news content too, under the name News Genius.They were onstage at Disrupt NY, where they gave a su...

"The TLC protects the taxi industry. And I dont think anyone in their right mind can deny that fact, Sidecar co-founder Sunil Paul said to applause at Disrupy NY today.Paul argued back and forth with ...

LG's Optimus G successor, the G Pro, is coming to AT&T on May 10 with pre-orders beginning May 3, the companies revealed in a press release today. LG's Optimus G Pro offers a 1.7GHz quad-core proc...

During a panel discussion at Disrupt called “Urban Transportation,” the CEO and co-founder of Hailo, Jay Bregman, announced that the on-demand taxi service has gotten the go-ahead to opera...

Amazon today announced a number of new features for its Kindle for iOS app that aim to make it easier to use for blind and visually impaired users. Today’s update, Amazon says, will make it easi...

Bike sharing service Social Bicycles has raised $1.1 million to expand the reach of their social bike sharing service to new markets. The company, led by Ryan Rzepecki, reported the funding this morni...

Madrona-backed location analytics startupPlacedis today launching Placed Insights, a ratings service for real world locations which has been in development over the past two years. The system is desig...

This is it, friends: The last day of Disrupt NY 2013. After two days of kick-ass panels and 30 companies launching in the Startup Battlefield, we’re ready to wrap this year’s New York show...

Ride-sharing startup SideCar received the first enforcement action against it since launching in the city in March, as a couple of its drivers were stopped by police over the weekend. In response, the...

With the growing demand for video-based online education, Curious.com is joining the crowd today with a marketplace that aims help students and teachers connect around a range of subjects, from pipe s...

It’s been too long since we’ve had a “gate.” Remember Antennagate? Those were good times. We even got Steve Jobs toacknowledgethat one. But Pathgate, part 2, the sequel? Sorry,...

A victory for Facebook in its case against typosquatters -- those who own domain names that are similar to those of a popular site, which they use to confuse people and potentially capitalize on that....

Because there are so many small businesses out there on Main Street that don't have access to the same juicy venture capital rounds that seem pervade today's tech industry, On Deck set out in 2007 to ...

MindMixer, a startup that helps organizations like the City of San Francisco gather ideas from their communities, has raised $4 million in Series B funding.When the company announced its $1.9 million ...

23snaps, one of a number of mobile apps that target parents who want to share photos, videos and updates of their children within a private social network, has flicked the monetization switch today. I...

While some institutions of higher learning have grown skeptical of the MOOC phenomenon spreading through its ranks (and the startups responsible), you have to give Coursera credit for keeping its foot...

Pouring $586 million in Sina Weibo gives Alibaba Group several perks, including an inroad into social media and access to the microblogging platform’s data. Not only that, but its new 18 percent...

Looks like Lockerz, the social commerce and photo sharing service, may be moving on to yet another chapter in its life. After laying off 30% of its Seattle HQ staff, closing down its San Diego office,...

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013, there was a brand new batch of startups on display in Startup Alley, and we hit the floor this morning to check them out. There was a healthy mix, including the It...

Webydo is a cloud-based SaaS for designers who want to be able to sell their website design services without having to get their own hands dirty doing any coding or hire a developer to do it for them....

Mowbly, which recently launched and is here at Disrupt NY, takes a counter approach to mobile development platform environments. Instead of a steady stream of apps, Mowbly uses a single-app approach t...

Italian company and TechCrunch Startup Alley participant at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 Save The Mom has created an iPhone app that's designed to bring families closer together, with social networking ...

More than 2,000 people have filled up the historic Manhattan Center with our biggest hackathon and Startup Alley yet, and a set ofincisive discussions with tech leaders. Now it's time for the battlefi...

Here's a startup hoping to fill the gap left by the demise of Facebook Questions:French-Belgian startup Poutsch,now based in New York and exhibiting here at TechCrunch Disrupt NY's Startup Alley, has ...

A California federal judge has ruled that Craigslist can't sue real estate listings platforms 3Taps, PadMapper, and Discover Home Network for copyright infringement. But the judgement isn't a complete...

Local Market Launch, a startup that helps companies manage the online presence of local stores, is announcing that it has raised $1.5 million in Series A funding.The company was founded by Brian Corya...

Viddy co-founder Chris Ovitz has landed at another buzzed-about Los Angeles startup, the mobile gaming platform Scopely. He used to head up business development at the mobile video startup Viddy, whic...

How do you get hundreds of millions of people to consider downloading your app? One of the only answers is Facebook's app install ads. With the app stores overrun and every company going mobile, app i...

Wiosio is a Turkish company being featured at Disrupt NYs Startup Alley this year, and its a little like what watching television would be like if your friends took over the programming. At first glan...

Woisio is a Turkish company being featured at Disrupt NYs Startup Alley this year, and its a little like what watching television would be like if your friends took over the programming. At first glan...

David Tisch has made quite the name for himself as an investor based in NYC. Most notably, Tisch spent years at TechStars as the Managing Director, and has since left to co-found another investment fu...

And with the conclusion of the last Battlefield Startup presentation, the second day of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 has come to a close. The day kicked off with a talk between noted New York City ventu...

TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 Startup Alley audience choice for day two is ShipHawk, a Santa Barbara-based shipping startup that launched this week at the conference. ShipHawk, co-founded by Jeremy Boden...

UQ Life was founded as a smart platform for self-discovery and personal development, and its designed to help kids learn through collaborative games. Today, as part of TechCrunch Disrupt NYs Startup B...

If email is first in line for disruption, messaging has to be second. But a new company launching out of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 has a fresh take on our most favoritest form of communication. Talkz...

It's possible that you are an incredibly organized person who remembers everything important from your meetings, and you're part of an incredibly organized team where every post-meeting task is commun...

Mobile enterprise startups are like unicorns. Nearly every VC I talk to wants to have a bet in this space, yet there really aren’t that many new candidates each year. Everyone knows that workers...

Munich-based startup and TechCrunch Disrupt NY Battlefield contestant KISI Systems is launching its Indiegogo campaign today. KISI and KISIBox together comprise a keyless entry solution that lets user...

The White House will reportedly confirm that former telecommunications lobbyist Tom Wheeler will be nominated to chair the Federal Communications Commission. Current FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn wi...

The resume is going the way of the dinosaur. In the not-so-distant future, it's easy to foresee a time when a one-sheet becomes a interactive, multimedia portfolio of your skills and greatest hits. An...

Online real estate company Trulia just released its earnings for the first quarter of 2013, reporting that its revenue grew 97 percent year-over-year to $24 million.Despite the growth, the company sti...

New York-based startup HealthyOut already has a popular iPhone and Android app for quickly finding nearby restaurants and dishes that users can order and have delivered. Today at Disrupt NY 2013, Heal...

After Google’s announcement and demo of app activities being introduced into its Search product, I spoke with Seth Sternberg and Ardan Arac about how Google+ sign-in is coming along and wha...

A Columbus, Ohio woman found that her HTC Evo Shift had branded her after overheating while it was under her waistband. The woman, Jennifer Grago, reported that she was using the phone's FM radio whil...

Donay, a Dutch startup that’s officially launching at TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 NY, wants to make it easier for companies and users to provide incentives to open source developers. Say your compan...

Cincinnati, Ohio is best known for the Bengals, Bootsy Collins, and Skyline Chili but it's about to become famous as one of the first cities with a true market for 3D printable designs. 3DLT, a small ...

Nothing makes traveling to a new land more amazing than befriending a local or two. Meet the right person someone outgoing, with a knowledge of the locale and it's like punching in a cheat code. But...

If Skit had existed in the early 1970s, there is a chance that the career of Monty Python's Terry Gilliam could have been stunted because Skit can produce videos reminiscent of the aforementioned grea...

Docurated is a document management solution targeted towards enterprise users — it is publicly launching onstage at Disrupt NY. It aggregates all your documents in one place, turning them into a...

Docurated is a enterprise tool targeted towards enterprise users — it is publicly launching onstage at Disrupt NY. It aggregates all your documents in one place, turning them into a beautiful se...

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said that he hasn’t spoken to investors in a year and half about raising capital, denying reports that the company is raising funding at a $1 billion valuation. Reuters ...

Trustev, a Startup Battlefield company presenting today at TC Disrupt NY 2013, has developed a product to tackle online fraud using an algorithmic system of social signals, behavioural data and transa...

There's a sea of interesting public data out there just waiting to be tapped into, but there's a problem -- most people have no earthly idea how to access it. And even if they're able to make some hea...

On stage at Disrupt NY 2013 today, serial investor Ron Conway and filmmaker/actor Alex Winter took the stage with CrunchFund's MG Siegler to talk about the documentary Downloaded about the rise and fa...

It’s hard to gauge how popular Apple’s iCloud really is, but the idea behind it is solid: give developers a place to save their users’ data, give users control over this data and all...

When we first saw the Jamstik at CES this year we called it amazing. Now you can call it yours....

For large companies that have a long list of suppliers that they work with, it’s not only difficult to manage communication with all of them, but understanding the environmental impact of each s...

Online backlash is growing against Mark Zuckerberg’s lobby’s secretive ads supportingconservative senators who encourage the creation of the Keystone XL pipeline and drilling in the Arctic...

Braintree, the Chicago-based payments gateway that’s processing about $2 billion in mobile transactions per year, just poached one of Google Wallet’s creators Rob von Behren from Square. V...

We knew CrunchBase was big. We knew because there are 2 million people using the startup database each month. We knew because more than 120k people have contributed 1.6MM data points on companies, ent...

The builders of a Wii hacking devices, Wiikey, have announced that they've found a method to hack the Wii U to play content via USB media. The kit also claims to work on devices from any region and re...

Online video is booming, and today AOL (owner of TechCrunch) unveiled three new initiatives that spell out how it plans to tackle it: 15 original, unscripted shows; a new creative studio, Be On, to cr...

What do digital payments companies make of Bitcoin? Here at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, a digital money panel featuring PayPal, Stripe and Gumroad gave its thoughts on the currency that has VCs emptying th...

Troy Carter is one incredibly interesting guy. As Lady Gaga's manager, a tech company co-founder, and an investor in companies like Uber, Votizen, and Summly, he sits in a unique seat at the crossroad...

Google always said that its Chromebooks were “for sharing,” but even though they always had a guest mode, they weren’t necessarily set up to be used as public Internet kiosks. Today,...

Today at Disrupt NY, Stripe co-founder John Collison participated on a panel with Hill Ferguson (PayPal) and Sahil Lavingia (Gumroad) about digital money. He shared that Walmart’s Goodies.co is ...

At TechCrunch Disrupt NY today, VP of Display Advertising Products at Google, Neal Mohan, Facebook Ad Products Director Gokul Rajaram and Twitter Senior Director of Product Revenue Kevin Weil took the...

Building new infrastructure for digital payments may not sound sexy, but it’s an area that’s ripe for innovation. The legacy payments networks in existence today are bogged down with outda...

During the Disrupt NY Hackathon, we heard from a guy who didn't exactly hack anything, but who wanted to give you back the control over your private data. A TC Labs project exhibiting today in Startup...

When should an entrepreneur raise money, who should they raise from….and, well, should they even raise? These were some of the questions discussed on a morning panel at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 201...

Want the fun of losing your wallet without the free drinks and oxygen high? Now Nevada residents can legally gamble online at ultimatepoker.com, which could roll out nationwide as more states legalize...

Everyone's favorite tiny video maker Vine just updated their app with a few important features. First, the service has added front-facing camera support, allowing you to swap camera angles mid-Vine. Y...

During Disrupt, Lady Gaga’s manager and Atom Factory founder, Troy Carter, suggested that the area ripe for disruption in the music industry by technology is terrestrial radio. For those who sti...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a certification program to designate people who have the technical skills for building secure and reliable apps using AWS technology. The newAmazon Web Services ...

Kevin Ryan has had a lot of variety in his career so far, with a front-row seat building companies including DoubleClick, Gilt Groupe, 10gen, and Business Insider. And recently it's been reported that...

As a peer-to-peer marketplace for people's homes, Airbnb's success still relies on ensuring that its users trust one another. Today, it took another step toward that goal, with the introduction of Ver...

Crowdfynd is a Startup Alley participant at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 that is taking a crack at the age-old problem of managing lost and found items.How does it work?If you lose an item, you can use ...

Ebay CEO John Donahoe today described how the e-commerce giant is moving further into the world of offline commerce, using mobile technology to do it: the company planning a partnership with a retaile...

Ebay CEO John Donahoe today described how the e-commerce giant is moving further into the world of offline commerce, using mobile technology to do it: the company is planning a partnership with a reta...

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 NY, eBay’s CEO John Donahoe talked to Bloomberg’s chief content editor Norm Pearlstine about how the company screens its acquisitions and how he keeps founders f...

At today’s Hulu Upfront, the company offered an update on its online TV business, sharing that it had set records for revenue in Q1 2013, and had achieved a new milestone of having streamed over...

Google’s No. 1 strength is its search product, so it makes sense that all of their products feed back into it somehow. Today, the company announced the introduction of “App Activities̶...

Since graduating from Y Combinator in 2012, Grouper has been on a mission to help busy, overworked young people get away from the glow of computer screens and out into the real world to meet new peopl...

Back in 2011, PayPal debuted PayPal Access, a payments identity technology that would allow you to carry your payments identity to various retailers on the web. It's essentially a cross between Amazon...

After three years of slow roll outs and testing with specific partners, Twitter's Senior Director of Product for Revenue Kevin Weil just announced the general availability of its advertising options f...

Fred Wilson, legendary New York venture capitalist and partner at Union Square Ventures, is the latest VC to highlight his interest in startups that help move money, "an area that is still very much u...

Finnish startup M-Files, a provider of a metadata-powered content management solution targeting the enterprise, has closed a 6 million (~$7.8m) series A round led by DFJ Esprit, with participation fro...

John Borthwick and his investment company Betaworks made news last week by acquiring Instapaper, a popular read-it-later app. However, he's not just looking for companies that are situating themselves...

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins seems to be among the most transparent executives in tech in terms of showing his hand regarding future product plans, which may be partly because he doesn't have much to...

Today during Fred Wilson’s interview with Michael Arrington, the two discussed how, and how not to, pitch a VC. Hearing the two speak frankly about what works and what doesn’t is absolutel...

TicketFire is an app that allows ticket holders to scan the their paper event tickets, and then share, sell or transfer those tickets to other people also using the TicketFire app.Its an interesting i...

Search startup Leap2 is announcing that it has raised $1.6 million in new funding. It's also releasing new versions of its iOS and Android apps.Building a better search experience than the existing pl...

Jawbone is doing something a lot of developers will probably be interested in, by opening up the UP fitness tracking wristband as a platform play, with an open API coming soon. Jawbone's new version 2...

It was just about two months ago that Jawbone snapped up mobile health startup Massive Health, and now the company has acquired an even more prominent player in the health monitoring space.Jawbone has...

Everyone's favorite electronics hobby shop, Adafruit has posted instructions for building your own HAL 9000 replica out of a big red button, an Arduino board, and some cleverly cut plastic. Best of al...

It’s day two here atTechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013, and we’ve got another full day of fireside chats, founders’ stories and startup battlefield pitches for your viewing pleasure. As with...

This is a fascinating little blip that popped up this morning and bears a mention. Games company GreenHeart released a $8 game called Game Dev Tycoon. He sold a few hundred copies and, as a special tr...

Design-focused retail site Fab has announced its new pivot, along with an acquisition and much more.As we reported last week, Fab now has 12 million users and is continuing to grow at a fast clip afte...

Rocket Internet, the Samwer brothers' Berlin-based incubator that runs a vast global empire of e-commerce startups, is picking up a new, sizeable investor in Brazil. The Cisneros Group, the Latin Amer...

Expect Labs has already received funding from the likes of Google Ventures and Greylock Partners, but the San Francisco-based startup (and TechCrunch Disrupt alum) announced this morning that Intel Ca...

Lars Rasmussen, one of the two engineering directors who led in the creation of Facebook's new Graph Search and helps run its development, is leaving Menlo Park and setting up shop in Facebook's offic...

ClickTale, a company that helps businesses understand what visitors are actually doing on their websites, just announced that it has raised $17 million in Series B funding.The company tries to go beyo...

The steady rise of tuition rates, class sizes and student debt combined with the decline in the number of teaching assistants, courses and programs has pushed education into the spotlight over the pas...

The steady rise of tuition rates, class sizes and student debt combined with the decline in the number of teaching assistants, courses and programs has pushed education into the spotlight over the pas...

LinkedIn has acquired one million users in Singapore, or 20 percent of its 5 million population, since the service's launch there in 2011, the professional networking site announced today. This milest...

Microsoft has announced that it is launching a preview of Skype for Outlook.com starting in the UK. The service will be made available in the U.S. and Germany in the coming weeks before it is rolled o...

There are an abundance of startups trying to solve the problem of how to "try on" clothes online, with a range of different approaches and technology. Today, Virtusize launches its virtual fitting sol...

Accel Partners is making a big talent announcement today, with former Groupon COO and Yahoo exec Rob Solomon joining the firm as a venture partner.Solomon last served as Accel-backed Groupon's Preside...

TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 startup alley company Koupah is a fresh take on the tablet-based point-of-sale space, which is growing in popularity among SMBs who want a solution that's flexible, extensib...

Finding a parking space next to your favourite caf is always a lottery but Park Tag wants to change all that. The startup, which is exhibiting at Disrupt NY's Startup Alley, wants to make parking soci...

It’s only a matter of time before Twitter releases its own Google Glass app, as Kleiner Perkins’ John Doerr dropped the hint that the company was looking into building one during this mont...

MallWeGo is launching at the Disrupt NY 2013 Startup Alley today with a social, gaming shopping experience for web and mobile. The company has built a virtual world for socialising with friends in ava...

It looks like lightening has struck on the towers of Dailymotion. Yahoo’s bid to take a $200 million majority stake in the video site — known as the ‘YouTube of France’ —...

The first day of TechCrunch Disrupt NY is a wrap.The morning started with a fireside chat with Chris Dixon and Eric Eldon where the Andreessen Horowitz partner explained his take on Bitcoin startups a...

The first day of Disrupt NY 2013 is nearing its end, but we can't end things without giving our Audience Choice winner a chance to present in front of our judges. Today, the Israel-based folks behind ...

College recruiting is becoming increasingly competitive. Companies have begun to realize that top graduates not only bring a lot of talent and energy to the table, but they also tend to cost less than...

Kloudless launched at Disrupt NY 2013 today with its service for movingdata from email to different cloud platforms through connectors which act like pipes that flow between the different services. Th...

Menlo Ventures partner Shawn Carolan searched for over five years to find an investment tackling the problem of email overload. Carolan, who led investments in Apple-acquired Siri among others, person...

Major League Baseball has always been very strict about its content appearing on YouTube and other video streaming sites. Peruse YouTube for highlights from your favorite players and teams, and you'll...

Easy app creation, outside of the land of Ruby and Python, has become a huge phenomenon in the last year. And the latest company to join the fold,AppArchitect, is launching straight from our Disrupt N...

Yahoo is hoping to bring in more advertiser dollars with two new units that it's announcing today as part of the Digital Content NewFronts.Vice President of Product and Media Mike Kerns pitched the ne...

iOS 7 is probably right around the corner, at least as a preview coming at Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference in June, and it looks like it might be the most exciting change to Apple's mobile OS...

E-commerce is booming, but shopping for clothing online can still be a challenge. Unlike many consumer products, clothing is personal and often needs to be tried on for fit. Plus, there are numerous o...

Bidzy, a new platform for connecting local services businesses with customers who need the service they offer in the next few hours, is launching at Disrupt NY 2013 today. Like the best ideas, Bidzy's...

Disrupt NY 2013's Startup Battlefield competition is now well underway, and now New York native Keen Home is taking the stage to present its first-round pitch. Keen Home is a home automation startup, ...

Floored scans office spaces, apartments and houses using 3D camera technology and proprietary software to build customizable 3D models for real estate purposes. At Disrupt NY 2013, the company launche...

Paidpiper launched at Disrupt NY today, aiming to make your physical wallet, and presence, less necessary -- in a good way.Paidpiper aims to solve that problem with its consumer-facing app, Okd. Using...

Mobile device management company Good Technology has raised $50 million, according to a Securities and Exchange (SEC) filing. A company spokesperson confirmed the fundraising but had no comment about ...