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11:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2013
Techcrunch DFJ Restructures Firm Partner Network
Back in 1990, then relatively young venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson started thinking about how to expand the firm's presence outside of Silicon Valley and share ideas and diligence with other VCs...
10:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2013
Techcrunch A Year After Launch (And With 300K Sites Created), Social Front Page' RebelMouse Mulls Ad Strategy
It's been a little more than a year since former Huffington Post CTO Paul Berry first launched RebelMouse, a service allowing users to pull their content together from across social networks. To mark ...
09:53 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2013
Techcrunch Nokia Launches Nimbuzz Chat App To Tell Indian Users To Trade Up To A Smartphone
After biding it's time in emerging markets, free messaging app Nimbuzz has ben ratcheting up the news and partnerships lately. It's hit 150m users globally, is strong in Asia, India and Saudi Arabia, ...
09:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2013
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Interdependence Day
The Gillmor Gang John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor marvel at the mutually assured creation of a partnership between Larry Ellison's Oracle and Marc Benioff's...
08:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2013
Techcrunch Why Oracle And Salesforce, Once Bitter Rivals, Are Now On Cloud Nine
Marc Benioff and Larry Ellison, the CEOs of two of the more powerful enterprise companies in the world -- Salesforce.com and Oracle -- are not known to be the chummiest of execs. Before this week's su...
07:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2013
Techcrunch If You Must Wear Your Tech, Try Not To Look Like An Idiot
Like Dance Moms or protein-only diets, wearable tech is oneof those things that simultaneously incites excitement,bandwagonning, distrust and disgust. Gut instinct tells us we'returning into cyborgs, ...
06:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2013
Techcrunch Pirate3D Printer Exceeds Kickstarter Goal By 14X
The Pirate3D Buccaneer printer has been successfully funded on Kickstarter, reaching $1,418,024 in fundsmore than 14 times its original $100,000 goal. The Singaporean startup burst onto the scene in M...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2013
Techcrunch Tomorrow's Surveillance: Everyone, Everywhere, All The Time
Everyone is worried about the wrong things. Since Edward Snowden exposed the incipient NSA panopticon, the civil libertarians are worried that their Internet conversations and phone metadata are being...
08:00 am GMT - Sat, June 29, 2013
Techcrunch Launching A Startup? Make A Clean Legal Break From Your Employer First
Editor's note:Stephanie Singerpractices law atWilmerHale, where she advises emerging companies in the technology and life sciences industries on formation, financings and ongoing corporate matters.Bef...
07:39 am GMT - Sat, June 29, 2013
Techcrunch After Three Months Of Work, Digg Reader Officially Opens To The Public
Despite much wailing and gnashing of teeth Google Reader is finally set to go dark next week, and more than a few companies (including TechCrunch owner AOL) are shooting to fill the gap it's going to ...
04:00 am GMT - Sat, June 29, 2013
Techcrunch Foundation: Evan Williams on Hatching Big Ideas
In todays episode of my Foundation series, serial entrepreneur Evan Williams talks candidly about his experiences building Blogger, Twitter, and his latest project, Medium. Ev recounts the early days ...
02:30 am GMT - Sat, June 29, 2013
Techcrunch Drew Houston And Bryan Schreier On Dropbox's Future As An Enterprise And Consumer Company
Dropbox founder and CEO Drew Houston and Sequoia Capital partner Bryan Schreier joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for a special three-part series on how Houston and Schreier work together on recru...
02:23 am GMT - Sat, June 29, 2013
Techcrunch Co-Founder Who Made Numbers God At Zynga Joins Bee Cave Games As Advisor/Investor
Ex-Zynga co-founder and godfather of metrics-based game development Eric Schiermeyer is now an investor and advisor to Bee Cave Games, makers of play-money gambling Facebook game Blackjack Casino. Sch...
01:30 am GMT - Sat, June 29, 2013
Techcrunch Ask A VC: General Atlantic's Brett Rochkind On Spotting Startups That Have IPO Potential
In this week's Ask A VC episode, General Atlantic Managing Director Brett Rochkindjoined us in the studio to talk about international investing and more....
01:09 am GMT - Sat, June 29, 2013
Techcrunch Yahoo To Sunset AltaVista, Axis, RSS Alerts, and Nine Other Products, Some As Soon As Today
Yahoo under Marissa Mayer is taking a page from her old employer, Google, and sunsetting 12 products, with some starting as soon as today. Included are Alta Vista and other search products like its ex...
12:07 am GMT - Sat, June 29, 2013
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang Live 06.28.13 (TCTV)
Gillmor Gang - John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live today at 1pm Pacific....
12:04 am GMT - Sat, June 29, 2013
Techcrunch Google+ Tries To Gain Photo Sharing Ground By Making It Easier To Move, Download, And Upload Your Pics
Photo sharing just got a little better on Google+, as the social network has made it easier for users to move, download, and upload their pictures.Google+ engineering manager Jon Emerson wrote today t...
11:45 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch YouWeb Founder Peter Relan Sunsets His Gaming Incubator, Will Open A New Company Building Studio Soon
Peter Relan is best known for his gaming and mobile incubator YouWeb, which spawned Crowdstar, Agawi, Spaceport, OpenFeint, Agawi and others. Today, the serial entrepreneur is announcing that YouWeb w...
11:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: Bye Bye BlackBerry And Vanilla Android On The HTC One/GS4
BlackBerry is "circling the toilet," as Chris Velazco puts it so eloquently. Meanwhile, Google is now offering stock Android versions of the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4. We're also mildly interested...
10:30 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch UK's BSkyB Wins Judgement Against Microsoft Over Use Of SkyDrive Name In Europe
Microsoft went big on pushing cloud services this week at its Build conference, but today it was dealt a blow for how it might to market them in Europe. BSkyB, the pay-TV broadcaster part-owned by New...
10:30 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch UK's BSkyB Wins Case Against Microsoft Over Use Of SkyDrive Name In Europe; May Have To Drop Name Or Pay Fines
Microsoft went big on pushing cloud services this week at its Build conference, but today it was dealt a blow for how it might get to market them in Europe. BSkyB, the pay-TV broadcaster part-owned by...
10:22 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Google+ Turns 2, Rolls Out Redesigned Follow Buttons And Badges, Introduces Badges For Communities
Google+ turned two today. To celebrate, Google's social network didn't just dress up Mr. Jingles, but it also launched a redesign of its Google+ plugins for websites, including its Follow, +1 and shar...
09:55 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch With All That Developer Mojo, Google Is Like An Ass-Kicking Octopus
For James Governor and the RedMonk crew, craft beer is a metaphor for talking about developer communities, the cloud and all that goes with them. It's something these guys do every day, providing thei...
09:31 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Announces New Review Policy To Prevent Ads From Running On Controversial Pages And Groups
Facebook just announced a new review policy for Pages and Groups, a policy aimed at reducing cases where ads run alongside content that the advertiser or their customers might find objectionable.Earli...
09:15 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Labster Gamifies Bio-Tech Teaching So Students Can Use Their iPads To Blow Stuff Up
Educational games to make learning more engaging for students are nothing new, but Labster, a bio-tech education startup founded back in 2011 and just now coming out of stealth, has gone further than ...
08:39 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch CE Week's Startup Pavilion Serves Up Bikes, Hydroponics, And Rotary Phone Photo-Sharing
In the Startup Pavilion at CE Week, there's just as much diversity as there is similarity among the new flock of products and services hitting New York. We saw a number of bikecessories, bike services...
08:37 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Mozilla Opens Its Firefox Social API To Developers
With the release of the first public beta of Firefox 23, Mozilla didn’t just introduce a new logo and kill the <blink> element, it also opened up its Social API for developers. This feat...
08:22 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Google Trekker Gets You Off-Limits Access To Exotic Locations Like The Island From Bond's Skyfall
Google Trekker just announced the expansion of its street view hiking map project to outside organizations, and today it's revealing another aspect of the program's broadening: Getting virtual tourist...
08:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Music App Songza Goes Ad-Free With A New Paid Service, Club Songza For $0.99 Per Week
Songza, the music streaming and recommendation service that has picked up some 4.8 million monthly active users with its free, ad-based service, is turning on a feature now that it hopes will convert ...
07:31 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Maker Nabs A 3D Model Of Marcus Aurelius With Google Glass
In what looks to be a first for the technology, designer and engineer Todd Blatt took 30 pictures of a bust of Marcus Aurelius with Google Glass and created a downloadable 3D model that you can grab a...
07:30 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Big Labor's Anti-Immigration Rumor Machine
Editors note:Vivek Wadhwa is a fellow at Stanford Law School, Director of Research at Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University, and VP of Innovation and Research at Singularity University.The pa...
07:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch First Round Capital Debuts Original Content And Knowledge Hub For Startups, Review
First Round Capital has been one of the few firms who started providing compelling services for startups before the agency model became popular. For example, the firm created a Yelp-like database of b...
06:30 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch BlueStacks Adds A Free Hardware Option To Its Netflix For Gaming' With GamePop Mini
Mobile virtualization startup BlueStacks only recently revealed the GamePop, its mobile home gaming console that offers all-you-can play gaming for a flat monthly fee, but it's already expanding the ...
06:25 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch How Hackers Beat The NSA In The '90s And How They Can Do It Again
While the world parses the ramifications the National Security Agency's massive snooping operation, it's important to remember an earlier government attempt at data collection and, more important, how...
06:22 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Google Expands Search Field Trial To Include Data From Your Gmail Contacts
Google announced that users who participate in itsGmail and Google.com search field trialare now able to also see results from their Gmail contacts from Search. This, the company explains, means you'l...
05:31 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Netflix Launches Max, A Goofy Virtual Assistant To Help With Recommendations, Available Now On PS3, iPad Next Week
Netflix this morning announced its own take on virtual assistants like the iPhone's Siri, with the debut of "Max," an on-screen guide for the Netflix app on PlayStation 3 devices which helps you find ...
05:31 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Netflix Launches Max, A Goofy Virtual Assistant To Help With Recommendations, Available Now On PS3, iPad Next
Netflix this morning announced its own take on virtual assistants like the iPhone's Siri, with the debut of "Max," an on-screen guide for the Netflix app on PlayStation 3 devices which helps you find ...
05:15 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Android 4.3 Available To Test For Adventurous Galaxy S4 Owners
Google's worst-kept secret is the upcoming Android 4.3 update for devices powered by its mobile OS (though a lot more secrets have come to light recently), and we're starting to see that update make i...
05:12 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch A Quarter Of US Consumers Has Heard Of Bitcoin - And The Majority Of Them Trust It
A survey of more than 22,000 U.S. consumers aimed at probing Bitcoin awareness and levels of trust has found around a quarter of consumers have heard of the decentralised digital currency and the majo...
05:12 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Survey: Quarter Of US Consumers Has Heard Of Bitcoin - And Majority Of Them Trust It
A survey of more than 22,000 U.S. consumers aimed at probing Bitcoin awareness and levels of trust has found around a quarter of consumers have heard of the decentralised digital currency and the majo...
04:59 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch BlackBerry Shipped Just 2.7M BB10 Handsets In Q1 2014
BlackBerry didn't break out its individual BB10 device sales in its quarterly earnings report released earlier this morning, but during its conference call to discuss its performance CEO Thorsten Hein...
04:40 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch BlackBerry CEO Confirms No BB10 Update For The Aging PlayBook Tablet
Here's a Friday morning PSA for you BlackBerry PlayBook owners: if you were feverish clutching your tablet in hopes that BlackBerry would finally update it with a shiny new OS, you can finally put the...
04:25 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Drop Everything And Watch Aol's Incredible Attempts At Finding A News Anchor
Clear your calendar today. History is being made. And you can watch live. Aol, TC's all-knowing, ever-evolving parent, is holding auditions for a news anchor for Aol.Live (which is apparently a thing ...
03:55 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch HandiBot Is The Robotic Carpenter Of Geppetto's Dreams
Given that I have no talent in woodworking I suspect Handibot may - dare I say it? - come in handy. The device is a motorized CNC machine - they're calling it a Universal Digital Power Tool (UDPT) - f...
03:31 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch With 100k Meals Delivered, Plated Will Expand Nationwide By The Fall
Having already raised a $1.4 million seed round in May, the meal ingredient delivery service Plated announced on the Techstars Demo Day stage that they will begin raising their Series A in the near fu...
03:31 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch BlackBerry Misses In Q1 2014: EPS Of -$0.13 On Revenue Of $3.1B, 6.8 Million Phones Shipped
BlackBerry has just released its fiscal Q1 2014 earnings today (yes, their fiscal calendar is a little kooky), and the company still can't seem to find its footing. The company reported generating $3....
03:30 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch After 17 Years In Business, Expense Management SaaS Replicon Raises $20M In Series A Funding From Social Plus Capital And Emergence
Replicon, the developer of a cloud time tracking and expense management application, has raised $20 million Series A funding led by The Social + Capital Partnership and Emergence Capital Partners. Thi...
02:21 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Tesco Will Work With A South African Empowerment Project To Create The First Social Wine. This Won't End Well
I usually don't like potentially viral feel-good PR BS from tech companies - let alone grocery chain Tesco - but, as a lush, I'm slightly intrigued by this campaign. Basically the chain is working wit...
01:46 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Reputation.com Buys Snail Mail Filtering App PaperKarma To Boost Its Mobile Privacy Management Business
Reputation.com, the online identity and privacy startup, has bought PaperKarma, a mobile app built to help users identify and then stop spammy snail mail. In a letter to users (embedded below), PaperK...
01:28 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch WSJ: Google To Push Android Further By Making A Games Console, Smart Watch, Media-Streamer & Low Cost Smartphones Itself
Google is working on building multiple new devices to keep pushing its globally dominant Android OS beyond smartphones and tablets. It's building its own games console and a smart watch that would con...
12:27 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch See You Next Week! Details On The Balkans Meetups
I will be rolling through Sofia, Belgrade, Zagreb, and Ljubljana next week for a series of informal meet-ups. If you’re in those cities, I want you to attend. Here are the details. Sofia (1.7) &...
12:22 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Office 365 Is Now A Programmable Service For Rapid App Delivery
Microsoft is offering new capabilities for building business apps with Office 365 and Windows Azure -- part of a larger effort to offer services that can leverage its cloud environment for rapid build...
10:56 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Translation App Linqapp's Developers Are Running Around Taiwan To Promote Its Startup Industry
Though Taiwan is known for its technological prowess, startup founders still face many obstacles, including the lack of early-stage funding. As a result, the developers of social translation app Linga...
08:23 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Uber Launches In Taipei, Just Two Days After Debuting In Seoul
Uber is moving forward with its Asian expansion at a quick pace with the start of limited service in Taipei, just two days after it launched in Seoul. The premium taxi calling app is currently in stea...
06:41 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Marc Andreessen: Beijing Should Be Another Silicon Valley, But.
Marc Andreessen, the Netscape co-founder and namesake behind venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, said that he’s skeptical that efforts globally to recreate the Silicon Valley ecosystem wil...
04:46 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch As Snapchat Grows Up, It Must Hold On To Its Youth
It has been quite a week for Snapchat. Now, the founders will try to keep their heads down and out of the spotlight as they work to grow the product and company.Snapchat is all about discovery and qui...
04:46 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch As Snapchat Grows Up, It Must Retain Its Youth
It has been quite a week for Snapchat. Now, the founders will try to keep their heads down and out of the spotlight as they work to grow the product and company.Snapchat is all about discovery and qui...
04:30 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Mark Suster On Being Upfront, Plans For His New $200M Fund, And High Expectations For The LA Startup Ecosystem
Mark Suster's venture firm just wrapped up a new $200 million fund, and it also has a brand new name: Upfront Ventures. Today, I got a chance to sit down with him to talk about the firm's new branding...
04:06 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Launches Related Hashtags And #Mobile Site Support
Facebook's on a quest to get you involved in real-time global conversations. Today it takes the next step towards challenging Twitter by adding hashtag support to its mobile site and launching relate...
03:25 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Propeller Gets $1.25M From A16z, ffAngel, Everyone Good Basically
The app that allows you to create your own native apps,Propeller, has raised $1.25 million from Andreessen Horowitz, ffAngel,Menlo Ventures,Foundation Capital,Max Levchin,Ashton Kutcher,Keith Rabois,S...
02:56 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Vine For Android Gets Updated With Front-Facing Camera Support
When Vine started shipping for Android, there was one, big, near-universal complaint amongst its users: it didn't support front-facing cameras. While the existing iOS port had been supporting front ca...
02:02 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Unity Game Engine Announces Xbox One Support, Goes Free For Windows Phone 8 Developers
Unity, the cross-platform 3D engine and game development tool that's been on something of a roll lately, has a few more bits of good news today.At Microsoft's Build 2013 conference this morning, Unity...
01:28 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Case Study Shows Google+ Sign-Ins Are Working, Increased Snapette Sign-Ups By 16%
One developer feature Google is really stressing these days is Google+ Sign-in, the company’s recently launched authentication tool for third-party sites and mobile apps. While the company will ...
12:59 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Incubator AngelPad Plans To Launch A New York Office, Says Its Startups Have Raised $100M Total
Startup incubator AngelPad is looking beyond its current base in San Francisco founder Thomas Korte just announced that he plans to hold one of his two annual sessions in New York City.That doesn't m...
12:54 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Immigration Reform Passes Senate, House Leadership Calls Bill A Pipe Dream
Immigration reform is half-way to its goal: The Senate passed a comprehensive bill this afternoon 68 to 32. The bill is loaded with tech-industry goodies, including more foreign visas, a special visa ...
12:44 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Adobe Acquires Conversational Marketing Platform Neolane For $600M In Cash To Bolster Its Marketing Cloud
Adobe today announced that it has acquired Neolane, a conversation marketing company with an annual revenue of just under $60 million, in a transaction that’s worth $600 million in cash. Neolane...
12:44 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Google Looking For Groups To Provide The Next Hikers To Don Trekker Street View Backpack
Google is trying hard to build out its Street View-style imagery of locales off the beaten path with its Trekker program. The Trekker, a roughly 40-pound backpack that has a camera-ridden sphere pokin...
12:34 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch New Relic Teams With Microsoft To Offer Performance Monitoring On Windows Azure
New Relic and Microsoft will offer performance anaytics to gain insight into the performance of native apps and websites running on Windows Azure. The company already provides app performance for the ...
12:17 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch Rolocule's Motion Tennis App Turns The Apple TV And iPhone Into A Legitimate Gaming System
Just in time for Wimbledon, Rolocule Games is releasing a new tennis game today. It’s not Rolocule’s first foray into virtual racquet sports, but it is the first that turns your iPhone int...
12:10 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch AdTech Star Nanigans Scoops Up Facebook's Retargeted Ads Director Antonio Garcia-Martinez
Facebook's just lost some critical business talent. Today, ads product director Gokul Rajaram was poached by Square, and now Facebook Exchange director Antonio Garcia-Martinez, who left in April, has ...
12:00 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2013
Techcrunch DigitalOcean Wants To Challenge Amazon, Linode And Co. With Better Prices, Marketing And Focus On Simplicity
DigitalOcean is quickly becoming a household name in the web-hosting world. For $5 a month, the company lets you rent a basic virtual private server (or "droplets," as the company calls them) with 512...
11:42 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Boombot Rex Makes Good On Kickstarter Promises With Durable, Siri-Friendly Bluetooth Speaker
Sometimes I refer to Kickstarter as the "land of broken dreams," especially when I'm looking through my backer history and noting how few projects actually delivered, and how disappointing were most o...
11:37 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Ex-Groupon CEO Andrew Mason's Album Of Motivational Music Is Coming Out Next Week
We already told you that Andrew Mason, the Groupon founder who was ousted from the CEO role there earlier this year, was dead serious when he said last month that he was planning to release a motivati...
11:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Applifier's FaceCam, Which Records Mobile Gamers' Reactions While They Play, Comes Out Of Beta
Applifier, which runs a mobile-social gaming network where players can share video playbacks of their virtual feats, is pulling FaceCam, a product using the front-facing camera, out of beta. FaceCam r...
10:37 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Opens Signups To Android Beta Program So You Can Help Test And Improve Its Apps
Today Facebook announced and will soon begin taking signups for its new Facebook For Android Beta Program that uses Google Play’s new beta system to push pre-release versions of its apps to user...
10:16 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Ranker, The World's Ranking Platform', Raises $2M From Lowercase And Others
Ranker, a startup that asks users to "vote on the best and worst of everything," is announcing that it has raised $2 million in new funding.If you visit the Ranker site, you'll basically be overwhelme...
10:16 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Ranker, The World's Ranking Platform, Raises $2M From Lowercase And Others
Ranker, a startup that asks users to "vote on the best and worst of everything," is announcing that it has raised $2 million in new funding.If you visit the Ranker site, you'll basically be overwhelme...
09:53 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch It's Time For The Concept Of Photo Albums To Die. Everpix Debuts What Comes Next
The idea of organizing photos by hand into online albums is pass. It's a concept that's a holdover from a time when our photo collections were in physical format, and therefore more limited. That's lo...
09:44 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Weddings Used To Be Sacred And Other Lessons About Internet Journalism
Editor's note: Sean Parker is the executive general partner at Founder's Fund. Previously he was co-founder of Napster and the founding president of Facebook. He currently serves as a director of Spot...
09:20 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch New Spying Reveal: NSA Maintaining Bulk Email And Browsing Data For Two Years
"The Obama administration for more than two years permitted the National Security Agency to continue collecting vast amounts of records detailing the email and internet usage of Americans," reports Th...
09:15 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Adds Auto Scaling To Windows Azure
At its Build developer conference today, Microsoft announced that it is adding auto scaling for web apps to its Azure cloud-computing platform. This will allow developers to dynamically scale their cl...
08:55 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Now You Can Browse Twitter's #Music iPhone App By Genre (And With New Charts)
Twitter released an update to the Twitter #music iPhone app today that should make it easier to explore different types of music.Previously, you could find different artists in the app through two cha...
08:55 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Windows Azure Web Sites, Mobile Services Now Generally Available
Microsoft has announced general availability of Windows Azure Web Site and Mobile Service, accentuating the emphasis on development using the Azure cloud service.According to Microsoft, Windows Azure ...
08:49 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Launches First Branded Stickers, Previewing A Potential Sponsorship Biz
One day, brands might pay Facebook to become downloadable sticker packs. Facebook just launched its first branded sticker pack for messaging -- a collection based on the new Universal film Despicable ...
08:48 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Xentry Wants You To Reuse Your Old Smartphone As A Wi-Fi Door Caller Display
U.S. startup, Xavage Technologies, has created a phone-housing-plus-app combo that turns an old iPhone or Galaxy S Fascinate into a door-mounted caller-display that live streams video so you can see w...
08:48 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Square Hires AdSense Godfather Gokul Rajaram Away From Facebook
While Square has seen several top senior people leave over the last year, it’s also making up for them with some notable hires. Today Gokul Rajaram, dubbed the “Godfather of AdSense,”...
08:43 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch TC's Picks From TechStars NY Summer 2013 Class
We're here at the TechStars 2013 Summer class Demo Day, and the graduates are nothing short of delightful, from a service that helps church congregations make donations to a Fitbit for cars to a servi...
08:41 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Adds Bootstrap Support To Visual Studio 2013
At its Build developer conference today, Microsoft announced that it has added support for Bootstrap, the popular framework for responsive websites that was launched out of Twitter in 2011. Visual Stu...
08:30 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Promising To Bring Mobile Ads On-Par With Desktop, Real-Time Bidding Startup Gradient X Leaves Beta
After a six month test period, Gradient X is the beta label off its mobile ad platform.Backed by $3.75 million from GRP Partners (er, I guess that's Upfront Ventures now) and others, the company claim...
08:30 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Promising To Bring Mobile Ads On Par With Desktop, Real-Time Bidding Startup Gradient X Leaves Beta
After a six month test period, Gradient X took the beta label off its mobile ad platform.Backed by $3.75 million from GRP Partners (er, I guess that's Upfront Ventures now) and others, the company cla...
08:23 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Windows Azure Now Stores 8.5 Trillion Data Objects, Manages 900K Transactions Per Second
Microsoft announced at the Build conference today that Windows Azure now has 8.5 trillion objects store on its infrastructure. The company also announced the following: Customers do 900,000 storage tr...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Content Recommendation Startup My6sense Raises $2M After Shifting Focus To Mobile Publisher Tools
Personalized content startup My6sense announced today that it has raised $2 million in new funding. It's also using the announcement to talk about its new focus the company's Content Discovery Bar fo...
07:33 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Leaked Details Of Facebook's New Chat Rooms Feature
Facebook has built a new feature codenamed Host Chat that lets people set up chat rooms their friends can join without an invitation, a source familiar with the feature tells us. I've contacted Facebo...
07:30 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Personal Assistant App Donna Goes Live, With Better Battery Performance And Instant Uber Requests
Personal assistant app Donna is ready to help simplify users' lives, and is being launched on the Apple App Store today to do just that. With the general release also comes a few new features, like in...
07:26 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Hasty Plans To Take On GrubHub With Super Healthy Takeout and Delivery App In SF
GrubHub or Seamless - and if you're in Europe, Just Eat and many others - is, as we all know, something of a guilty secret. On demand food ordering has exploded in recent years. But trying to pick the...
07:18 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch How Do You Break Into iPhone App Store Top 50? Try 23K Free Daily Downloads, 950 Paid, Or $12K In Daily Revenue
An iPhone app needed 23,000 free downloads per day to reach spot number 50 in the top Free charts in the Apple App Store, says mobile app analytics firm Distimo, based on research performed during the...
07:03 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Revealers, A New Social-Meets-Gaming App, Launches Today
A new social game called Revealers is launching today, and it’s betting on the feature of letting players add content to the game to make it more than a flash in the pan hit. Israeli founder Mul...
07:03 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Kickstarter Allowing Canada-Based Projects Beginning This Summer
Kickstarter just announced via its Twitter account that it will be opening up its crowdfunding platform for Canada-based projects as of "later this summer." Thus far, that's as specific as the company...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch YouTube Celebrates Pride With #ProudToLove Spotlight Channel
As Pride month comes to a close, YouTube is following in the footsteps of parent company Google in showcasing a collection of LGBT-themed videos on the YouTube spotlight channel to celebrate a histori...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Andreessen-backed Enterprise App Startup Tomfoolery Launches Anchor, A Real-Time Conversation Platform With Consumer Demands In Mind
Tomfoolery, the mobile app lab founded by ex-Yahoo and AOL execs that aims to make enterprise apps capturing some of the light and free nature of consumer services, is today debuting its first product...
06:43 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch After Waze's Big Exit, Car-Community App Fuelzee Wants To Gamify Your Trips For Gas
Google swooped on Waze earlier this month, shelling out $1.1 billion to acquire the crowdsourced traffic app -- indicating there is mileage (and cash) in crowdsourcing-plus-cars. Exactly how much of e...
06:26 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Need A Meme? Why Not Use Imgur's New Generator
Imgur, the image host for Reddit and most of the internet, just launched its own meme creation tool. And it's about the best meme generator available.This timely launch comes days after the popular me...
06:08 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch SketchFab Aims To Be YouTube For 3D Files
Alban Denoyel foundedSketchfab on the observation that the internet lives largely in 2D but could easily become a 3-dimensional landscape. The website, which Denoyel is calling “YouTube for 3D f...
06:06 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch AirBoxLab Wants To Tell You What's In The Air You're Breathing But Do We Even Want To Know?
Indiegogo project AirBoxLab, based out of Paris, France, is hoping to build the "Nest for air quality" with its sensor device that monitors and reports on how much VOC, CO2, CO, and particulate matter...
06:04 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Yahoo News Gets A Makeover, But The Bigger Improvements Are Under The Hood
A little over a month after Yahoo partnered with Twitter to beef up its homepage news feed with relevant tweets from news organizations, the company is today announcing a major makeover for one of its...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Clinkle Raises Celebrity-Filled $25M Round As It Gears Up To Eliminate The Physical Wallet
Clinkle, a mobile payments startup that aims to put your entire wallet on your phone, has raised a $25 million round from over 18 investors.The company was the subject of much hype and speculation in ...
05:48 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Concert App Jukely Rallies Groups of Friends, Then Sells Them Tickets
Jukely is a social concert app that helps friends get together a group to see a show and then acts as the ticketing agent. After quietly piloting in New York, Jukely formally launched at Techstars Dem...
05:18 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch We Heart It, The Social Photo Phenom That's Quietly Amassed 20M Monthly Users, Nabs $8M Funding
We Heart It, a photo-based social network that is reminiscent of Pinterest in functionality with a dash of Tumblr's youthful appeal, has raised $8 million from a group of investors including White Oak...
05:16 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Co-Founded By TC Alum Erick Schonfeld, TouchCast Aims To Reinvent Online Video With Interactive Apps
To explain TouchCast, a startup that's launching its first product today, my old boss Erick Schonfeld argued that the Internet has't really transformed video. Sure, with sites like Netflix and Hulu, t...
05:16 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Aereo To Launch Its Internet Streaming TV Service In Chicago On September 13
Despite court battles, Aereo is on a roll. The startup just announced its streaming TV service will hit Chicagoland September 13. This comes just a month after the company announced its Atlanta launch...
05:04 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Passion Capital Cracks Open Data On Investments, Deal-Flow, Founder Salaries, And More
It's not every VC that publishes annual stats on things like deal-flow, average size of investment, average founder salary, number of exits and startups dead-pooled. But openness -- within no doubt ca...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch GRP Partners Raises $200 Million Fund, Nabs New Office Space And Rebrands As Upfront Ventures
Los Angeles-based VC firm GRP Partners has raised a whole new, $200 million fund to make investments both in Southern California and throughout the U.S. With the launch of the new fund, the firm is al...
04:58 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch As The Lockitron Nears Shipping, Apigy Partners With Schlage And Details Building Gadgets On IOUs
Almost nine months after its massive crowdfunding success, the Lockitron is almost ready to ship. The first batch is scheduled to ship on July 15th. As I learned through a chat with Apigy's founder, i...
04:30 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Guardly Launches Mobile Mass Notifications With Indoor Positioning To Help With Emergency Response
Toronto-based startup Guardly is launching a new product today, a mobile mass notification system (MMNS) that will allow its clients to broadcast out alerts and notifications of emergencies to their u...
04:19 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Swell Launches A Personalized App For News Radio Listening
Swell, a smartphone app launching today, is quickly becoming my favorite way to listen to spoken-word content.There are other apps focusing on that kind of content for example, when we wrote about St...
03:55 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Quixey Adds Sponsored Results To Its App Search Engine, Its First Step To Revenue Generation
Quixey, the semantic app search engine backed by $24.2 million from the likes of Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, is taking its first step to making money: from today, it will start to add sponsor...
02:46 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Viki Moves In On Chinese Audiences With Two New Video Deals
Video sharing site, Viki, is continuing its push into China with two new video distribution deals with Chinese video-on-demand sites, LeTV and Xunlei Kankan. This move follows its first distribution d...
02:28 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch The DEA Seized Bitcoins In A Silk Road Drug Raid
In the underground world of the deep web there are few places as nefarious as Silk Road. The site, hidden on the Tor network has long been one of the primary venues for buying and selling contraband u...
01:59 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Call It The 25% Rule, ShareMyPlaylists Renamed Playlists.net To Reflect That Most Users Consume Content Only
The well-worn theory known as the 1% rule dictates that the number of people creating content within an Internet community represents only about 1% of the people consuming it. In other words -- shock!...
01:17 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Tokyo-Based Conyac Offers Fast And Cost-Effective Social Translation Services
Social translation services have helped the world become a smaller and more manageable place, even for companies with limited financial resources. Based in Tokyo, Conyac has two goals: to replace trad...
12:20 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch With $38M To Play With, NumberFour Could Become A Global Business Platform
The emergence of NumberFour in Berlin - which has today announced a $38m series A round - throws up a few interesting points worth briefly dwelling on. It may be the case that we are looking at a tipp...
11:23 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Digg Reader Now Available On Digg's iOS App
Digg Reader, Digg's alternative for the RSS aggregation addicts who will be bereft when Google Reader finally shuts down on July 1, is now available on the Digg iOS app. An Android app is expected to...
11:13 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Turns On Its First Carrier-Billing Deal For The Windows Phone Store With Bango, In Indonesia
Microsoft, unveiling a raft of product annoucements at its Build conference this week, is also making some advances further afield. Today, Bango, the UK-based mobile payments and analytics company tha...
10:27 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch NumberFour De-Cloaks In Berlin With A $38M Series A, Europe's Biggest To Date
NumberFour, founded in 2009 by former senior Yahoo executive Marco Boerries in Berlin to re-engineer small business processes, has secured an enormous $38 million in Series A financing led by Index Ve...
10:27 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Aiming At Small Business And Headed By Ex-Yahoo Head, NumberFour De-Cloaks In Berlin With A $38M Series A, Europe's Biggest To Date
NumberFour, founded in 2009 by former senior Yahoo executive Marco Boerries in Berlin to re-engineer small business processes, has secured an enormous $38 million in Series A financing led by Index Ve...
10:27 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Aiming At Small Business And Headed By Ex-Yahoo Head, NumberFour De-Cloaks In Berlin With A $38M Series A, Europe's Biggest In Two Years
NumberFour, founded in 2009 by former senior Yahoo executive Marco Boerries in Berlin to re-engineer small business processes, has secured an enormous $38 million in Series A financing led by Index Ve...
10:06 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch EFF Sues FBI, Wants Access To Records Of The FBI's Facial Recognition Program
Companies like Facebook have been scrutinized by government regulators over the use of facial recognition technology. Now the Electronic Frontier Foundation is putting a mirror up to the government to...
08:43 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Xiaomi Launches Its Own Text Message Service
Users on Xiaomi devices will be able to send international text messages faster and more reliably, it said. The Chinese smartphone maker just announced its enterprise international SMS platform at the...
08:00 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch With New Initiative Galactic,' PayPal Wants To Own Payments And Commerce In Space
In a slightly bizarre announcement today, PayPal is debuting PayPal Galactic, an initiative to own universal payments and commerce in space. Yes, outer space....
05:14 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch 21-Year-Old Thiel Fellow Raises Three-Point-Eight Million Dollars For Figma
Children are our future, and VCs are giving them the cash to make it happen. Dylan Field, one of Peter Thiel's 20-Under-20 fellows, just raised $3.8 million for his startup Figma according to an SEC f...
02:00 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Drew Houston And Bryan Schreier On Dropbox's Early Days and Stealth Code Name
As we mentioned earlier this week, Dropbox founder and CEO Drew Houston and Sequoia Capital partner Bryan Schreier joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for a special three-part series on how Houston ...
01:54 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch John Zimmer Says Lyft Will Work With Sidecar, Uber To Fight Regulators In Wake Of LA Cease & Desist
Lyft co-founder John Zimmer says the company is trying to work with other ride sharing companies to fight regulators after Los Angeles served Lyft, Uber, and Sidecar with cease and desist letters yest...
01:20 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch 3D Systems Invests In Asteroid Miners Planetary Resources, Opens Up New Seed-Stage Venture Arm
Planetary Resources' plan to scour the heavens and find asteroids to mine may seem a little out there as far as startup ideas go, but that hasn't stopped some big names from backing the company. Today...
12:59 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Zuck's Adorable Sheepdog Beast Is Now A Facebook Messages Sticker Pack
Now you and Facebook's CEO can unwind in the same way: playing with Beast. The billionaire's Puli dog just got his own Facebook Stickers pack, which lets you forgo typing and instead send friends anim...
12:50 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Confirms IE11 Will Support Google's SPDY Protocol
In a press briefing this afternoon, Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer 11 will support SPDY, the Google-backed protocol for speeding up download speeds for web sites. Microsoft only briefly me...
12:16 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Windows 8.1s Start Button Isn't A Start Button
The headlines are loud and clear today. Microsoft brings back the Start Button in Windows 8! Huzzah! ZONG! But don't believe the hype. We've been duped.Windows 8.1's Start Button isn't the Start Butto...
12:10 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2013
Techcrunch Google Removes All The Clouds From Google Maps And Earth
Ready for your regular reminder that technology is magic?Google has just rid the earth of clouds. Well, Google Earth, at least*. They've just pushed an update to the satellite imagery found in Google ...
11:29 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Ranku Launches Comparison Shopping Site For Legit Online Universities
Scummy for-profit schools like University of Phoenix spend big bucks to rope students into mediocre educations. SoRankulaunches today to help students find a reputable online university. Its site lets...
11:21 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch New Microsoft Visual Studio Features Show Importance Of Windows Azure, Developing For Connected Devices
Microsoft showed the new Visual Studio 2013 at the Build conference today. The new independent development environment (IDE) features include performance tools for power consumption, asynchronous call...
11:15 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch No Mailbox? No Problem. Boomerang For Android Brings Gesture-Based Email Management To Gmail Users
Baydin, the startup behind a suite of productivity add-ons for Gmail, Outlook, and Google Calendar, is today bringing its inbox management solution Boomerang for Gmail to the mobile platform. With a n...
11:13 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Nvidia's Project Shield Release Gets Pushed Back To July Due To Mechanical Issue
The Nvidia Project Shield, a handheld gaming device from the graphics card-maker that was set to debut Thursday, will be delayed until July, the company revealed today. In a statement provided to Tech...
10:59 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Maker Studios Co-Founder Danny Zappin Sues The Company Over His Ouster
It was only a few months ago that Maker Studios co-founder Danny Zappin stepped down from the CEO role, replaced by Endemol veteran Ynon Kreiz. Well it turns out that he didn't "step down," so much as...
10:07 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Updates Its Ad Manager Reports With More Customizable, Real-Time Data
Facebook's effort to simplify its ad products continues: Today it's announcing an update to Ad Manager Reports (a product whose name pretty much explains what it does helps advertisers track and mana...
09:51 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch How The Internet Helped Gay America Come Out Of The Closet
CrunchGov Essential is a scannable roundup of technology’s influence on the day’s big issues. Below a feature post, we present the most thoughtful, outrageous, and inspiring stories told t...
09:51 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch CrunchGov Essential: How The Internet Helped Gay America Come Out Of The Closet
The U.S. has always included a sizable population of gay citizens. Without a way to coordinate their latent collective powers, discrimination and isolation forced them into the shadows. As the U.S.slo...
09:47 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Opens Up Bing As A Platform For Developers
At its Build developer conference today, Microsoft today announced that it is opening up quite a bit of Bing‘s advanced functionality to developers. As Microsoft corporate VP Gurdeep Singh Pall ...
09:37 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Will Bring 3-D Imagery To Bing Maps For Windows 8.1
Microsoft just announced that the Bing Maps app for Windows 8.1 will offer 3-D imagery, just like Google Maps and Apple Maps. This previously unannounced feature, Microsoft’s corporate VP Gurdee...
09:37 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Will Bring 3-D Imagery To Bing Maps For Windows 8.1, Will Launch With 100 Cities
Microsoft just announced that the Bing Maps app for Windows 8.1 will offer 3-D imagery, just like Google Maps and Apple Maps. This previously unannounced feature, Microsoft’s corporate VP Gurdee...
09:37 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Will Bring 3D Imagery To Bing Maps For Windows 8.1, Will Launch With 100 Cities
Microsoft just announced that the Bing Maps app for Windows 8.1 will offer 3D imagery, just like Google Maps and Apple Maps. This previously unannounced feature, Microsoft’s corporate VP Gurdeep...
09:32 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Revel Systems Raises $10.1M To Help It Grow iPad Point-Of-Sale Business Internationally
Revel Systems, purveyor of iPad-based point-of-sale systems for restaurant, retail and other customer-service facing businesses, announced its $10.1 million Series B funding round today. The new inves...
09:27 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Google Play Edition Samsung Galaxy S4 And HTC One Now Available, Will Start Shipping By July 9
Despite plenty of rumors that attested to the contrary, Google didn't show off any new Nexus phones at its I/O developer conference -- instead it trotted out a version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 that ra...
09:07 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch With Windows 8.1, Microsoft Wants To Own The Kitchen, As Well As The Living Room And The Office
Microsoft is adding a bunch of new things to Windows 8.1, as the first part of its "rapid release" plan for its desktop OS. One aspect of the update is the new Food and Drink app for Windows 8, which ...
09:05 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Storefront Gets $1.6M To Grow Its Pop-Up Shop' Marketplace For Short-Term Commercial Rentals
Storefront, a startup that launched this past fall out of San Francisco startup accelerator AngelPad focusing on helping businesses find short-term real estate rentals for "pop-up shops" and other tem...
09:04 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft (Finally) Confirms WebGL Support For Internet Explorer 11
Our own Frederic Lardinois noted that the new version of Internet Explorer wasn't a major revamp, but it does play home to some very compelling changes under the hood. Take WebGL for instance -- nearl...
08:46 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Cambridge Audio's Minx Air 200 Earns The Crown For Best Home AirPlay Speaker
If you're a high-end audio fan, you've probably heard of Cambridge Audio, the London-based firm that makes some of the best equipment in the business. The brand is currently undergoing some changes th...
08:43 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Official Flipboard, Facebook And NFL Apps Are Coming To Windows 8/RT
At its Build developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer announced that Facebook, Flipboard and the NFL are about to launch their apps on Windows 8 and Windows RT....
08:43 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Official Facebook, Flipboard, And NFL Apps Are Coming To Windows 8/RT
At its Build developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer announced that Facebook, Flipboard and the NFL are about to launch their apps on Windows 8 and Windows RT....
08:35 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Tickets Are Now Available For The 8th Annual August Capital Party In Silicon Valley
TechCrunch's annual party at August Capital is almost here and we just released more tickets. The first batch went within 24 hours so jump on these quick. Space is limited.Weve hosted the TechCrunch s...
08:30 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Socrata Raises $18M For Platform To Open Government Data
Socrata has raised $18 million to further the extension of its open-data platform now used at all levels of government to present information for the general public. The Series B round of financing wa...
08:21 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Twitter Is Experimenting With New Live Events Platform, DVR Mode For Using Twitter With TV & More
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo todayhinted at several upcoming features for the social media platform, including plans to address cyberbullying through the use of programmatic means, as well as better ways ...
08:14 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Adds 3D Printing Support To Windows 8.1 For App Developers
Microsoft is doing its bit to help push forward the 3D printing revolution, by adding in native 3D printer support in Windows 8.1. A new API will let developers on its platform put 3D printing capabil...
08:14 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Adds 3D Printing Support To Windows 8.1 For Developers, Replicator 2 Coming To MS Stores
Microsoft is doing its bit to help push forward the 3D printing revolution, by adding in native 3D printer support in Windows 8.1. A new API will let developers on its platform put 3D printing capabil...
08:05 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft's New Camera App For Windows 8.1 Lets You Take Photo Sphere-Like Panoramas
With its Windows 8.1 Preview, Microsoft today also launched a new version of its camera app. For the most part, the app hasn't really changed all that much, but Microsoft has added a cool (though deri...
08:02 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Xbox Music For Windows 8.1 Preview Adds Pandora-Like Radio Feature
One of the redesigned apps Microsoft is introducing in the Windows 8.1 Preview is an update to its Xbox Music app that now puts the emphasis back on your own music – whether in the cloud or on y...
08:01 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Windows 8.1 Preview Gets Redesigned Windows Store With Automatic App Updates And Bing-Powered Recommendations
For the Windows 8.1 Preview, Microsoft took a close look at its Windows Store and decided to give it a facelift and make a few changes to the way the operating system handles Store apps. Windows Store...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft's Windows 8.1 Preview Introduces A Smarter Virtual Keyboard For Touchscreens
The Windows 8.1 Preview, which is launching today, includes a number of small improvements, and one of the cooler ones is the new touchscreen keyboard that's now significantly smarter and allows you t...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Launches Windows 8.1 Preview With Start Button, Deep SkyDrive Integration, Smarter Search Tool & More
Microsoft today officially launched Windows 8.1 Preview, the first public beta of its flagship operating system's next version, at its Build developer conference in San Francisco today. For Microsoft,...
07:48 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch With Echoes Of Summly And Siri, Wibbitz Relaunches Its Text-To-Video Service As A Consumer App
Chalk up another point for the growth of apps coming out of Israel that are focused on consumers, but draw on the country's better-known heritage for producing big data and enterprise startups. Wibbit...
07:20 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Telefonica To Give Windows Phone 8 An Extra Push To Try To Dilute Android, iOS
Microsoft continues to throw money down the Windows Phone well, perhaps buoyed by signs its ongoing marketing and platform support efforts are shifting the needle a few fractions. Today more evidence ...
07:19 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Google Gay For A Fabulous Easter Egg
In celebration of equal rights, the proudly gay-friendly search giant has hidden a fabulous easter egg for users who search "gay." This isn't the first time Google has come out in support of gay marri...
07:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Poppy, A Device That Turns Your Phone Into A 3-D Camera, Launches On Kickstarter
Poppy is the newest little device to go up on Kickstarter, offering up a new fun toy for anyone who likes to shoot or view 3-D video. And it'll be priced to sell -- at less than $50, Poppy is within r...
06:59 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch LinkedIn Gets A Little More Watchful, Now Tells You Who's Viewed Your Updates, And Where You've Been Looking
LinkedIn, the social network used by people for job hunting and making other business connections, is adding two more enhancements to its homepage that highlight one of its creepier, but occasionally ...
06:30 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Onefinestay, The Airbnb For The 1%, Launches Neighborhood Guides For Everyone
Onefinestay has been in the business of helping visitors to London and New York City find posh accommodations in other people's homes while they're in town. One side benefit has been that those visito...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Thumb Social Polling App Merges With YPulse Research Firm, Rolls Out Thumb Pro For Brands
Instant polling app Thumb has just announced that it has merged with YPulse, a research insights firm that focuses on millennial opinions and behaviors. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.Thumb ...
05:58 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Dialapp's Predictive Dialer For Android Knows Who You're Going To Call Next
A replacement for your Android smartphone's dialer (you know, the phone) may not sound revolutionary, but a new app, called simply Dialapp, wants to change your mind about that. From the makers of qua...
05:51 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch StickNFind Releases An SDK For Its Clever Bluetooth Tracking Sticker
Think of the possibilities, developers. Find lost keys or the TV remote, or a child. Make an electronic Marco Polo game! Embed the StickNFind Bluetooth sticker in an museum exhibits as a sort of super...
05:51 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Watch Microsoft Unveil Windows 8.1 Preview Live Here
Microsoft is kicking off its Build developer conference today at 9am. The company has already announced that it will unveil Windows 8.1 in a Preview version today, but beyond that, though, we actually...
05:16 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Real-Time Analytics Startup DataTorrent Raises $8M From August Capital, Joins Yahoo! Co-Founder Jerry Yang As Investor
Data Torrent has raised $8 million in a round led by August Capital for its Hadoop-based, real-time data streaming platform. The company had previously raised $750,000 in a seed round with participati...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Ludei Raises $1.5M To Expand Its HTML5 Platform To Mobile App Developers
Ludei has received $1.5 million in funding from Kibo Ventures, Vitamina K and several angel investors to expand its JavaScript/HTML5 engineering team and bring its development platform to app develope...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch YC-Backed Sponsorfied Becomes Partnered, Launches Platform For Brands To Find The Best Partnerships
Sponsorfied, a Y Combinator alum from last summer, is re-branding itself as Partnered to help brands choose the best partnerships with artists and other creative endeavors. The company’s CEO Bal...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch TokBox Launches OpenTok For Customer Service And New Tools For Managing WebRTC Calls
TokBox today launched OpenTok for Customer Service and a number of new WebRTC-based services for OpenTok that will bring advanced audio and video chat capabilities to developers that aren’t nati...
04:26 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Educational Tech For Tots Grows Up With LeapFrog's Summer Releases
Two years after LeapFrog launched its first kid-friendly learning tablet, the educational toy company in August will release the third iteration of the LeapPad: LeapPad Ultra. Hold on to your tiny pla...
04:20 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Danish Company Creates Software That Will Stop You From Printing A Gun
A Danish company called Create It Real has built a software package that recognizes digital gun part models and prevents them from being printed. The software compares each piece you are attempting to...
03:56 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Contentful, Out Today In Beta, Wants To Be The CMS For The Next Generation Of Screens
Contentful, a startup out of Berlin, is today releasing a beta of a platform that it hopes will be the future of how companies manage their content in a multi-screened world, where nearly any physical...
03:43 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Light-Bot Teaches Computer Science With A Cute Little Robot And Some Symbol-Based Programming
Light Bot has been around for a few years - it began as a Flash game in 2008 - but this newer version has been rebuilt for iOS and Android and offers an easy way for kids to learn concepts like loops,...
03:31 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch India Passes Japan To Become Third Largest Global Smartphone Market, After China & U.S.
India pushed past Japan to become the third largest global smartphone market in Q1, according to a new report by Strategy Analytics. The analyst notes it's the first time ever that India has moved up ...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Inadco Raises $11M As It Brings Its Lead Generation-Focused Ads To Search And Social
Advertising startup Inadco is announcing that it has raised $11 million in Series B funding.The company has developed an advertising product called Form Ads, which are basically cost-per-lead ads that...
02:15 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch BENDLAY 3D Is A Bendable Printing Filament That You Can Use To Make Clear, Flexible Straps And Bands
Kai Parthy is a German engineer who creates odd printing filaments for 3D printers. His previous projects, LayWoo-d3 and Laybrick, are two non-warping plastics that offer wood and brick-like consisten...
02:06 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Video Discovery Has Lost Its Way; Rockpack, Backed By Qualcomm, Pascal Cagni And More, Wants To Find It
Video -- as Instagram's recent launch, Yahoo's would-beand actualacquisitions, and others' new content initiatives show -- is a hot property today, with more people than ever before consuming video on...
01:55 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Skype & Yahoo Hit With Prism Data Protection Complaints In Europe
The European data protection activists behind the Europe v Facebook (evf) campaign group, that has long been a thorn in Facebook's side in Europe, have filed new complaints under regional data protect...
10:59 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Planet Labs Raises $13M From OATV, Founders Fund To Build The World's Largest Fleet Of Earth Imaging Satellites
Planet Labs, a space and analytics company formerly known as Cosmogia, is announcing $13 million in funding from DFJ, Capricorn, OATV, Founders Fund Angel, Innovation Endeavors (the investment arm of ...
10:59 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Planet Labs Raises $13M From OATV, Founders Fund To Build The World's Largest Fleet Of Earth-Imaging Satellites
Planet Labs, a space and analytics company formerly known as Cosmogia, is announcing $13 million in funding from DFJ, Capricorn, OATV, Founders Fund Angel, Innovation Endeavors (the investment arm of ...
10:59 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Planet Labs Raises $13M From DFJ, OATV, Founders Fund To Build The World's Largest Fleet Of Earth-Imaging Satellites
Planet Labs, a space and analytics company formerly known as Cosmogia, is announcing $13 million in funding from DFJ, Capricorn, OATV, Founders Fund Angel, Innovation Endeavors, Data Collective and Fi...
09:12 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch CE Manufacturing Specialist PCH International Launches Its Hardware Incubator, Highway1
Electronics manufacturing specialist PCH International is looking to find new clients just as they start. To do so, it's creating an incubator called Highway1 that will help young hardware startups bu...
08:01 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Brit Plus Co. Nabs $6.3M Series A Led By Oak Investment Partners To Go Big On Its Tech Media Hub For Makers
It's become crystal clear over the past couple of years that Brit Morin, the former Googler who has been dubbed Silicon Valley's answer to Martha Stewart, is not just another 20-something woman operat...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Surre.al Launches A Kickstarter Campaign To Fund A Cross-Device, 3D Virtual World
Surreal Games, an independent game studio created by the co-founders of mobile gaming company Cellufun, is looking to Kickstarter to fund what it says will be a 3D virtual world (also called Surre.al)...
05:30 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Voxer Transforms Into A Walkie-Talkie Service For The Business World
Voxer is making its entrance into the business world with a set of new high-end features for its walkie-talkie style, push-to-talk service.Voxer Pro and Voxer Pro For Business run on Android and iOS d...
05:16 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Intel Spinoff GainSpan Closes On $19M In Series D Funding For Its WiFi Chip Technology
GainSpan, the semiconductor company that deals in ultra low-power Wi-Fi technology, has closed on $19 million in a new funding round.The round, which first started gathering steam in 2012 and appears ...
03:46 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Watchup's Video News App Becomes More Automated And Context-Rich In Its Latest Update
Watchup, the startup aiming to create the tablet version of the daily news broadcast, has released version 2.0 of its iPad app, adding features for both casual and power users.The Watchup app pulls ne...
03:46 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Heads Up Haters, 70% Of The U.S. Has A Gay Friend On Facebook
Americans are growing more open about their sexuality, and that could defeat prejudice. In honor of Gay Pride week, Facebook ran the numbers and found 70% of US users are friends with someone who list...
03:46 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Heads Up, Haters, 70% Of The U.S. Has A Gay Friend On Facebook
Americans are growing more open about their sexuality, and that could defeat prejudice. In honor of Gay Pride week, Facebook ran the numbers and found 70% of US users are friends with someone who list...
03:35 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Havok's Completely Free 3D Engine For Mobile Game Developers Is Now Available
Hey, aspiring game developers! Listen up.Way back in March, we outlined Project Anarchy, a new 3D engine from Havok (the same people that built the engine behind some of the world's biggest games, fro...
02:07 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch BitTorrent Would Really Like Everyone To Stop Suggesting It's Being Used For Piracy
At this point, you've probably read about how popular Game of Thrones is on BitTorrent and there's at least one article calling the show "the once and future king of BitTorrent." Well, it sounds like...
01:35 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Digg Reader Is A Promising, But Still Incomplete, Google Reader Alternative (Hands On)
Digg's Reader is here, but it's not a Google Reader replacement...yet. For a subset of the Internet's population, Google's March announcement of its intention to shutter its dated, rusting RSS feed re...
01:24 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Digg Reader Is Now Open
Exactly one week before Google Reader shuts down entirely, Digg has opened up access to the Digg Reader beta. To celebrate this momentous occasion, we sat down with General Manager Jake Levine and Pre...
01:01 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch New Joyent Service Offers Analytics Without Having To Move Data
Data is really hard to move. It becomes pretty much intractable as it increases in mass. Sure it can be pulled out, but that takes time and bandwidth and incurs a host of costs typically associated wi...
12:58 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch A Professional Viner's Take On Instagram Video
I've already said my piece when it comes to the Vine vs. Instagram video debate, but what do other users have to say about it?Instagram and Vine user Meagan Cignoli posted the same stop-animation vide...
12:30 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2013
Techcrunch Keen On Ninja Innovation: What A Guy From Detroit Can Teach Silicon Valley About Innovation
Does Silicon Valley still lead the world in innovation? Yes, says Gary Shapiro, the long-time CEO and President of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and author of the best-selling selling new...
11:44 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Reminder: The Seattle TC Meetup Plus Pitch-Off Is Going Down On July 18
It feels like just yesterday we were congratulating the winners of our TC Meetup + Pitch-Off in Austin, and yet we're less than a month away from the very next epic evening of startuptacular pitchemon...
11:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Hortonworks Raises $50M For Expansion And Development In Growing Hadoop Oriented Data Analytics Market
Hortonworks announced on its blog this morning that it has raised $50 million in new financing to accelerate the growth and development of its Hadoop distribution for data analytics and the applicatio...
10:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With NEA's Jon Sakoda
On this week's Ask A VC show, we have NEA's Jon Sakoda on the show. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here and well ask them during the show....
09:18 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Google Launches Google+ Photos App For Chromebook Pixel, Coming Soon To Other Chrome OS Devices
Google has launched a Google+ photos app for the Chromebook Pixel, something it actually previewed way back at the Pixel launch, and screens showed up in February, but it has taken until now to get th...
09:12 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Partners With Deem To Expand Its Ad Inventory With More Local Offers And Deals
Microsoft and e-commerce platform Deem, which is still better known under its previous name of Rearden Commerce, have inked a partnership that will allow Microsoft to distribute Deem's large inventory...
09:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Movile Launches PlayKids TV, Its Own Video App Just For Kids
Let's face it: Video content for kids is a big business, with video distributors like Netflix and Amazon seeking to get the next generation of viewers hooked on their services. Mobile entertainment c...
08:40 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch On Its 2-Year Anniversary, Onswipe Says It Has Delivered Tablet Content To 125MPlus iOS Users
To celebrate the second anniversary of its launch, touch publishing startup Onswipe is releasing its first Onswipe Sage report, offering data on who's actually reading its publishers' content.The big ...
08:36 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Supreme Court Cuts Voting Rights Act, But Online Voter Tools Could Boost Minority Turnout
There's no reason to be entirely glum about the Supreme Court's decision to strike down provisions of the Voting Rights Act: the growing accessibility of online voting and registration spells good thi...
08:17 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Zumbl.com Is Like Chatroulette Without The Privates
Remember Chatroulette? That was a good time. Anyway, two IIT Delhi computer science students, Abhishek Gupta and Saurabh Kumar have created a chat system that allows you to find random people based on...
08:10 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Thalmic Takes A Cue From Google, Launches #ifihadMYO Campaign To Give Away MYO Armbands
Thalmic Labs, the Waterloo startup behind the upcoming MYO armband motion control device, is giving away five of its devices, to be delivered to the lucky winners early next year. The campaign may see...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch BabyList, A Universal Baby Registry Built By An Ex-Amazon Developer & Mom, Raises $650K
BabyList, the online universal baby registry which lets couples request unconventional items - like diaper service subscriptions, for example - in addition to gifts from around the web, has raised $62...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Livestream Combines Live Video Broadcasting And Viewing In Its Latest App
Livestream has benefitted from the growth in both mobile viewing and broadcasting, but it's decided to combine those functions into a singular app. That app also has been updated with features to make...
07:56 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Veteran Mobile App Marketers Launch Grow Mobile, A Way To Systematically Get Users
Although it still seems opaque, the top mobile game companies have honed the art of spending millions of dollars per month to bring in new users through ad networks and dozens of other channels over t...
07:31 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch The Xperia Z Ultra, Sony's Mini-Tablet Sized Phone, Wants You To Talk Less & Watch More
Sony is steering its mobile ship into deeper waters with the Xperia Z Ultra. The 6.4-inch device slots in the size gap between its former flagship handset, the 5-inch Xperia Z, and its 10.1-inch Andro...
07:05 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Firefox 22 Launches With Built-In Asm.js And WebRTC Support
Mozilla today launched Firefox 22, the first stable version of the popular browser that supports the WebRTC protocol and includes support for the organization's asm.js JavaScript subset that offers ne...
07:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Android-First Mobile Messenger Invi Raises $3 Million For Its SMS Replacement App
Invi, a mobile messaging app for Androidwhich lets users search for and share photos, YouTube videos and more, is today announcing $3 million in seed funding. Investors in the round includeLi Ka-shing...
07:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch HipChat Brings Mac Client Out Of Beta, Offers Up Overhauled iOS App As Trials Triple With Free Tier
HipChat has done a whole lot of overhauling when it comes to its desktop and mobile clients over the past year, and now the native Mac app, which was released as a beta on February 14, is getting its ...
07:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Pokki Partners With Acer To Offer Zynga Games On PC Desktops
Pokki is partnering with Acer and Zynga to offer a new game arcade, featuring the full Zynga.com library of games, on new Windows 8 PCs. The arcade, an extension of the Pokki Game Network, will be pre...
06:45 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch YC-Backed Contractor Directory BuildZoom Raises $1.4 Million Seed Round
BuildZoom, the Y Combinator-backed service designed to connect homeowners with licensed contractors, is today announcing having closed on $1.4 million in seed funding, in a round led by Formation 8 (J...
06:41 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch In A Shift, Crowdstar Launches A Lush Fashion App That's More A Catalogue Than A Game
Crowdstar, the social and mobile gaming startup that made a name by targeting younger women with fashion-focused titles, is veering further away from pure gaming with a new app that’s more like ...
06:18 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Evernote Sharpens Up Its Picture-Annotating App Skitch For Mac
After a rough couple of months last year when users slammed Evernote for updates to image-annotation app Skitch that they believed were for the worse, today the company is releasing a new version of t...
06:14 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Appington Raises $1.2M In Seed Funding To Give Voice To The World Of Mobile Apps
Mobile startup Appington today announced its $1.2 million seed funding round, which founder Risto Haukioja says will be used to help the startup better deliver on its goal of making it easy for mobile...
06:10 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch From The Team Behind Branch, Potluck Is A New Link-Sharing Service For The Internet's Lurkers Who Don't Tweet Or Blog
The team behind the social conversation platform Branch is today launching a new venture with Potluck, a service which seems almost the complete inverse of thecompany'searlier efforts at inspiring tho...
06:01 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch How Sony's SmartWatch 2 Stacks Up To The Pebble And The MetaWatch Strata
Sony's first go at the smartwatch mostly went unnoticed a lot of people, myself included, had to be reminded of its existence when the Pebble made big waves for its huge Kickstarter funding success. ...
05:27 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Hyrel 3D Printer Can Squirt Out Self-Setting Sugru And Even Play-Doh
The Hyrel 3D printer looks like any other single-extruder additive printer. But thanks to a fairly unique nozzle called the HYREL Emulsifiable Extruder (EMO-25) you can use it to squirt out usual mate...
05:15 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch B&N To Keep Selling Nook Tablets This Year While It Transitions To Licensing Its Ebook Brand
The Nook is on life support. Device sales are down. Digital content sales are down. Revenue is down. Things look bleak, but B&N plans to keep the devices around at least through 2013.Today in its ...
04:59 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch A Year After Microsoft Bought It, Yammer Nears 8M Users, Deeper MSFT Integration And Klout
One year to the day after Microsoft announced that it would acquire enterprise social networking tool Yammer for $1.2 billion, the pair are today publishing some updated usage numbers and news about a...
04:49 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Barnes & Noble Reports Loss Of $118.6M On $1.3B In Q4, Plans To Open Nook Brand To Tablet OEMs
Barnes & Noble reported its fiscal fourth quarter earnings this morning, and the financials make it clear that the company is still struggling to figure out how it fits into the larger digital rea...
04:49 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Barnes & Noble Reports $118.6M Loss On Revenue Of $1.3B In Q4, Plans To Open Nook Brand To Tablet OEMs
Barnes & Noble reported its fiscal fourth quarter earnings this morning, and the financials make it clear that the company is still struggling to figure out how it fits into the larger digital rea...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Lastline Raises $10M From Redpoint Ventures And E.Ventures For Its Malware Protection Service
Lastline, a service that offers a range of solutions for protecting businesses from malware, just announced that it has raised a $10 million funding round led by Redpoint Ventures and e.ventures. The ...
03:30 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Biba Comes Out Of Stealth With $15M In Funding For Mobile-First, Password-Free Conferencing And Messaging Service
The smartphone is changing how people work but so far the applications for web conferencing have not taken much of a mobile-first approach. Biba, a new company coming out of stealth, has spent more th...
03:30 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Greylock Deepens Enterprise Bench, Adds VMware Cloud And App VP Jerry Chen As General Partner
Greylock continues to staff up on enterprise-focused investment partners. Today, the venture firm is announcing that former VMware VP Jerry Chen is joining Greylock's enterprise investment team as a g...
03:19 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch OUYA Gets Its Official Retail Release, But The $99 Game Console Still Hasn't Reached Every Early Backer
The Android-powered OUYA gaming console is celebrating its official first day of general retail availability today, a major milestone to be sure for the Kickstarter-funded piece of hardware. Many thou...
01:54 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Sociomantic Launches Singapore Office, Hires Another Googler To Run Operations
Ad-bidding platform, Sociomantic is expanding into Southeast Asia with a Singapore office, to be launched on July 1. The startup provides a real-time bidding platform targeted at ad buyers. When a sit...
01:40 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Rent The Runway Acquires Fashion-Focused Photo Sharing And Styling App Go Try It On
Rent The Runway, the Netflix for designer clothes, accessories and jewelry; has acquired Go Try It On, a startup that allows users to share photos of themselves and get opinions on their looks. As par...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch European Publishers, Others Slam Google On Abusive Practices, Ask EC To Reject Google Proposal
Google originally published its draft remedies on April 25, which included suggestions for how it would offer competitors some concessions such as labelling Google's own links more clearly (a more det...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch European Publishers And More, Slam Google On Abusive Practices, Ask EC To Reject Google Proposal
It looks like it may be back to the drawing board for Google on the European competitive front: hundreds of publishers and publishing trade associations today are coming out in force to ask the Europe...
12:58 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Sony Supersizes Its Xperia Smartphone Line With 6.4 Full HD Xperia Z Ultra Phablet
It was only a matter of time before Sony jumped on the phablet bandwagon. And that day is today. The mobile maker has just announced the Xperia Z Ultra: a frankly gigantic addition to its smartphone l...
12:30 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Online Book Publishing Platform 7write Raises $250,000 Seed Round From Early PayPal Investor, Others
It's not too often that a startup from 'down under' up roots to join an accelerator in Europe and then gets funded before graduating. Enter online book publishing platform 7write, which originally hai...
08:08 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Uber Continues Asia Expansion With Seoul Test Runs
Uber has begun testing its taxi calling app in Seoul, the startup's second stop in Asia. ...
04:48 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Appfuel Is A Simple Way For App Developers To Balance Monetization And Growth
Appfuel is aiming to make it easy for mobile app developers to manage the tradeoff between user growth and monetization.Cross-promotion between apps is a big part of the ecosystem, but CEO Andrew Boos...
04:47 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch AppScale Launches As An Open-Source Backup Equivalent To Google App Engine
StartupAppScalehas launched its open-source backup up service for Google App Engine (GAE), which is compatible with standard cloud services that developers use when building apps.The company, which wa...
04:25 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Reader Is Real, But It's Not RSS Or A Google Reader Wannabe
Facebook is working on a fresh way to read news, a source tells TechCrunch, and an image leaked to us by another might show the "Facebook Reader" in action. It's not based on RSS, and Facebook isn't r...
03:00 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Datameer Smart Analytics Is Designed For The Person Who Is Not A Data Scientist
Datameeer, like a lot of companies, is trying to make its data-analytics platform accessible to people who are not data scientists. Its part of a growing trend to ease the complexity of data analytics...
02:21 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Medical E-Booking Platform ZocDoc Opens Up $55 Million In New Convertible Debt
ZocDoc, the company that makes a web-centric platform for booking health appointments, has secured $2 million of a new $55 million convertible debt note.In a phone call this afternoon, ZocDoc CEO Cyru...
02:00 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Dropbox's Drew Houston And Sequoia's Bryan Schreier On How To Recruit (And Retain) Top Talent
Dropbox founder and CEO Drew Houston and Sequoia Capital partner Bryan Schreier joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for a special three-part series on how Houston and Schreier work together on recru...
01:59 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Snapchat's First Monetization Move Will Be In-App Purchases
Fresh on the heels of the announcement that Snapchat received $60 million in funding led by International Ventures Partners, co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel has told TechCrunch that the first phase of...
12:00 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2013
Techcrunch Enterprise Leaders Marc Benioff, Jeff Weiner and Doug Leone At Disrupt SF
San Francisco, here comes Disrupt. Starting on September 7th, our annual conference kicks off at the San Francisco Design Concourse. As usual we've rounded up Silicon Valley's luminary entrepreneurs a...
11:51 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft and Oracle Team Up To Bring Java, Oracle Database, Linux and WebLogic Server To Azure And Windows Server
Ahead of their joint press conference later today, Microsoft and Oracleannounced a new partnership that will bring a number of Oracle products to Windows Server and the company's Azure cloud computing...
11:36 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Snowden Took Booz Allen Job With Intent To Expose NSA
Surveillance whistleblower and current Carmen San Diego impersonatorEdward Snowden was a man on a mission: According to his latest interview, he took a private contractor position with the intent of e...
10:03 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Honest Buildings Gets $5.5 Million To Scale Out Its Online Network For Real Estate Pros
Honest Buildings, a New York City-based startup that’s created a web platform to connect professionals in the real estate construction and design space, is announcing today that it’s raise...
09:45 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Hacker Scrapes Thousands Of Public Phone Numbers Using Facebook Graph Search
A hacker has exploited Facebooks graph search to collect a database of thousands of phone numbers and Facebook users. Both parties agree that all the information was left public by users (even if the ...
09:36 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Releases iOS 7 Beta For iPad And iPad Mini With New Update, Brings Voice Memos Back
Apple has released a new beta of its iOS 7 software for developers today, and the big news is that the iPad version has arrived. Back when Apple announced iOS 7, it said the tablet version would follo...
09:28 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Win A Case For The Unreleased Redesigned iPad
So I just got an iPad case in the mail. It's for the iPad 5. That model is not out yet. But you can have this case anyway. Of course I have no way of knowing if this will, for an absolute fact, fit th...
09:28 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch There Is No Google Reader Replacement, Only Alternatives
Google Reader is slowing down. Over the past few days, buttons have broken, marking feeds as read seemed to take a bit longer than usual, and the Android mobile website on some devices shifted over to...
09:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Leap Motion Opens Up Beta Access To Developers In Preparation For Its July 22 Launch
Leap Motion is about a month away from shipping its 3-D gesture controller to consumers, and it wants to make sure there are plenty of apps for users to play with. With that in mind, the company is op...
08:31 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Snowden Still Seeking Asylum, Wikileaks May Publish Rest Of His Docs
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is in political limbo as he seeks asylum with any country that will help him escape from U.S. extradition. On a press call today, Wikileaks Editor Julian Assange assur...
08:20 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Google Launches Cloud Playground, A Browser-Based Environment For Trying Its Cloud Platform
Google's Cloud Platform is slowly becoming ay fully featured environment for running complex web apps, but it's not easy to just give it a quick try. To get started with Cloud Platform, after all, you...
08:08 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Africa-Focused Savannah Fund Graduates Its First Batch of Startups
Even though the startup scene is still nascent, Sub-Saharan Africa continues to grow pools of capital and entrepreneurial know-how in hubs like Nairobi, Kenya.Today, the Nairobi-based Savannah Fund, w...
07:50 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch After Exiting From Crashpadder, Founder Hopes Pact Will Be The Zappos Of Coffee'
You can't really keep a good entrepreneur from continuing to launch companies. That appears to be the case once again with Stephen Rapoport. Rapoport previously built and sold the apartment sharing si...
07:36 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Despite Grumbles, Most Actually Prefer iOS 7 Icon Designs To iOS 6, Study Finds
iOS 7 is getting a lot of mixed reaction from blogs, critics and the Twitterverse, but it's actually winning over a lot of people, according to polls created by Polar, a mobile polling tool built by I...
07:36 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook's Creepy Data-Grabbing Ways Make It The Borg Of The Digital World
The latest Facebook data breach -- which exposed personal contact information Facebook had harvested on 6M of its users -- is a reminder that even if you're not handing over all your contact data to F...
07:15 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch My1login Raises Further $500K To Help Businesses Get Security-Savvy With Its Cloud-Based Password Manager
Aiming to help users double-down on their password security is 1mylogin, which offers a cloud-based password manager. Today the UK startup has announced that its raised a further $500,000 or so in fun...
07:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Customized Tablet For Restaurants E La Carte Raises $13.5M From Intel Capital And Others
E la Carte, a company that develops a tableside tablet for the restaurant and related hospitality industries, has raised $13.5 million in Series B funding led by Intel Capital with participation from ...
06:28 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Today Is The Last Day To Apply To The Disrupt SF Battlefield
As Disrupt SF gets ever closer we'd love to have you present on our Battlefield stage. But if you haven't applied, how can you appear? Your goal today is to head over here and submit ASAP. Registratio...
06:25 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Like Google Voice But Live Outside The US? Then Try VoxSci's New iO6/Andoid App
Google Voice remains a pretty useful service if you want your voice mails turned into text messages. However, it's ability to do so accurately is a little hit and miss. Indeed, there are numerous webs...
06:25 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Like Google Voice But Live Outside The US? Then Try VoxSci's New iO6/Android App
Google Voice remains a pretty useful service if you want your voice mails turned into text messages. However, it's ability to do so accurately is a little hit and miss. Indeed, there are numerous webs...
06:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch The Daily Muse Expands From A Community For Professional Women To "The Muse," A Career Destination For Everyone
The Daily Muse is rebranding today to serve a wider audience. The company has expanded and is going under the name The Muse now, which includes job listings, company profiles, and a career advice publ...
05:56 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Thanks To iOS 7s Game Pad Support, Flipside Controller Case Gets A Second Shot
The Flipside was a Kickstarter project I covered last December, which aimed to create a Bluetooth video game controller case that charged via solar power and used low-power Bluetooth 4.0. At the time,...
05:54 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Rocket Internet Revs Up Easy Taxi, Its Latin American Hailo, With $15M In Funding
Rocket Internet, the Samwer Brothers' Berlin-based e-commerce startup incubator, is taking its Latin American ambitions up to the next gear. Easy Taxi, a Hailo-like app for calling up taxicabs, is tod...
05:51 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch London Tech City' Cluster Gets Double-Speed 4G Networks Courtesy of EE
Back in April we were told that London's highest concentration of tech companies in the East - dubbed Tech City by the UK government - would be getting high speed mobile connectivity. Well, it turns o...
05:46 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Imgur's Android App Officially Debuts, Content Creation Tools Coming Soon
Imgur, the simple but popular photo-sharing site that's a favorite among Reddit's user base, is today "officially" launching its first mobile application. And Imgur, due to its unconventional ways, ha...
05:23 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch You're Funny, Huawei
And you thought holding a Galaxy Note II to your ear made you look like a tool. Meet the Huawei MediaPad 7 Vogue, a tablet from a company that is clearly in touch with the needs of the common man....
05:03 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Europeans Will Now Know When And What Data Gets Compromised In A Breach - Unless It Was Encryped
In the wake of the latest notice from a major internet company revealing that user data has been compromised -- Facebook's admission of a security bug compromising data from 6 million users -- the Eur...
05:03 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Europeans Will Now Know When And What Data Gets Compromised In A Breach - Unless It Was Encrypted
In the wake of the latest notice from a major internet company revealing that user data has been compromised -- Facebook's admission of a security bug compromising data from 6 million users -- the Eur...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1, 8.0 and 7.0 Coming To The U.S. July 7 For $399, $299 And $199
Samsung's new Galaxy Tab 3 line has been official for a little while now, but U.S. availability and pricing was up in the air until today. The relatively cheap tablets are going to be $199, $299 and $...
04:57 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Michigan's Huron River Ventures Partners Announces $11M Fund For Energy Efficient Startups
“Ann Arbor is the natural startup hotbed,” said Tim. “We intentionally opened our first office in Ann Arbor. That’s the center of talent in the Midwest.” Huron River Vent...
04:55 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Travel Search Site Wego Closes $17M Series C
Travel search site, Wego, just closed its Series C round of $17 million. The round was led by Crescent Point, a fund manager with offices in Singapore and China that focuses on investments in Asia. We...
04:41 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Bing For Schools Will Strip Out All Ads, Beef Up Privacy Protections And Adult Content Filtering
Bing is taking a step to hep make its products more appealing for school-age children, with Bing For Schools, an opt-in program targeting K-12 institutions launching later this year. The program is co...
03:40 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Turkish Police Shoot Down Drone As It Flies Over Protestors
As personal drones become more usable - and more ubiquitous - I think we'll see more and more scenes like this one. The video, taken in Istanbul by a protester named Jenk Kose, shows the quadcopter fa...
12:39 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Device Shipments Up 6% To 2.4B In 2013, Driven By Android Tablets, Smartphones Amid More PC Decline
Gartner today has released its latest figures charting its overall predictions for how IT devices -- from PCs to mobile handsets -- are going to perform this year and in 2014. As in years before, numb...
12:39 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Device Shipments Up 6% To 2.4B In 2013, Driven By Android Smartphones, Tablets Amid More PC Decline
Gartner today has released its latest figures charting its overall predictions for how IT devices -- from PCs to mobile handsets -- are going to perform this year and in 2014. As in years before, numb...
10:45 am GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Advice From The Game Maker That Made GungHo Worth $14B: Listen To Your Wife.
One of the most absurd stories this year has been the rapid rise of Gung-Ho, the Japanese gaming company that saw its stock surge by more than 6,000% because of a single hit mobile game called Puzzle ...
09:16 am GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Reminder: Let's Rock Out In The Balkans
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...
09:03 am GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch FAA Says It Will Be Months Before In-Flight Electronics Ban Is Lifted
Just two days ago, it seemed that the Federal Aviation Administration was finally going to relax the rules that require passengers to stow away electronic devices during take-off and landing. Now it a...
05:00 am GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch State Machinery For State Machines
My name is Andrew Auernheimer. I used to believe problems could be solved with criticism and discourse in our marketplace of ideas. Three years ago I incremented an integer on a public web API and ana...
04:00 am GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch New iOS App Lets You Record What You Heard Five Minutes Ago
Have you ever wished that you could record something that already happened? Your kid's first words. That perfectly timed comeback. The email address your boss told you to have those important document...
03:00 am GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Instagram, Give Me A Photos-Only Stream Or Give Me Death
You hear that? It's the sound of 130 million people closing the Instagram app. Ok, perhaps that's a bit hyperbolic, but I'm placing my bets right now: Instagram video is a big mistake. Huge. ...
01:34 am GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch Instagram Wanted To Be Instagram For Video Before It Was Cool
Calling Facebook a copycat isn't particularly creative; not only did Myspace, Friendster and Makeout Party have the whole social network thing down first, but Questions, Places, Poke, Messenger, Stick...
01:00 am GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch What Games Are: Reinventing The Games Console Half Way Won't Work
You've got to feel bad for Microsoft. After years spent trying to find ways to expand its Xbox idea, it's now having to revert some of them and go back to being a regular old games console. The compan...
12:00 am GMT - Mon, June 24, 2013
Techcrunch If The Government Can Access Our Facebook Data, What Happens When We Have Computers On Our Faces?
Is wearable computing the future or a trend whose bubble is about to burst? From fitness trackers to smartwatches to computers you wear on your face, this emerging market, enabled by the increasingmin...
11:00 pm GMT - Sun, June 23, 2013
Techcrunch Video Killed The Instagram Star
Instagram, an app best known for photo-sharing, added video last week, as it sought to defend against the advance of Twitters fast-growing video-sharing app Vine. It gave users a new way to share what...
10:24 pm GMT - Sun, June 23, 2013
Techcrunch BuzzFeed Says New Flight Mode' Campaign Shows The Consumerization Of B2B Marketing'
BuzzFeed always seems to be the first online publication that comes up when people want to talk about smart, creatives approaches to "native" advertising, so here's a cool example of what the site is ...
10:24 pm GMT - Sun, June 23, 2013
Techcrunch New York Assembly Shelves Bill That Would Shut Down' Tesla Sales In The State
The New York State Assembly has tabled a set of two proposed bills that would render Tesla Motors' business model for selling cars illegal in the state.Tesla's sales model takes a page out of Apple's ...
10:17 pm GMT - Sun, June 23, 2013
Techcrunch Ecuador, Where Edward Snowden Seeks Asylum, Is No Utopia For Journalists
NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden is bound for the sunnier skies of Ecuador, on this whirlwind tour of countries semi-hostile to the United States. While Ecuador has been a safe haven for world-class l...
09:00 pm GMT - Sun, June 23, 2013
Techcrunch The Series A Crunch Is No Match For Man's Best Friend
With all the barking in startup activity these days, it can be tempting to dismiss certain categories as another sign of the bubble. For example, how about an online marketplace for dog-owners to find...
08:33 pm GMT - Sun, June 23, 2013
Techcrunch NSA Whistleblower Snowden Leaves Hong Kong For Moscow, Looking For Asylum In Democratic Nation
Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who exposed the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program and a number of similar government initiatives over the course of the last few weeks, has left Hong Kong and is...
08:33 pm GMT - Sun, June 23, 2013
Techcrunch NSA Whistleblower Snowden Requests Asylum In Ecuador After Leaving Hong Kong And Travelling To Russia
Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who exposed the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program and a number of similar government initiatives over the course of the last few weeks, has left Hong Kong and is...
08:08 pm GMT - Sun, June 23, 2013
Techcrunch After Teasing Us At CES, Withings Enters The Fitness Tracking War With The $99 Pulse
And the battle to build quantified self gadgets rages on. The newest entrant is one that isn't exactly new to the space -- Withings has been churning out smart scales and body analyzers since 2009, bu...
12:00 pm GMT - Sun, June 23, 2013
Techcrunch How APIs Help Us Comprehend The Infinite Concept Of Data
Data is like oil. It only has a future value just sitting in a big pool. “Pure data,” as my fellow panelists said Friday night at API Days, has not proven to have much market play. I agree...
10:54 am GMT - Sun, June 23, 2013
Techcrunch Source: Snapchat Snaps Up $80M From IVP At An $800M Valuation
It's the second day of summer, and Snapchat has raised an $80 million Series B round at an $800 million pre-money valuation, according to a source. The phat Series B round was led by Institutional Ven...
09:00 am GMT - Sun, June 23, 2013
Techcrunch Virtuix Omni Takes Virtual Reality In Every Direction
Editors note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive.Part videogame accessory and part exercise equipment, the Virtuix Omni was inspired by the success of Kinec...
05:00 am GMT - Sun, June 23, 2013
Techcrunch Today's Acqui-Hires Will Become Tomorrow's Innovators
Editor's note: Peter Relan is a former programmer and Internet executive, as well as a successful serial entrepreneur, Silicon Valley executive, angel investor, and technology veteran.There is no doub...
03:51 am GMT - Sun, June 23, 2013
Techcrunch RIP Snapjoy: The Dropbox-Acquired Photo Service Is Shutting Down
Snapjoy, the online photo storage service that Dropbox acquired in December, has some bad news today for its users: it is shutting down. The company noted the information in a blog post, as well as in...
02:00 am GMT - Sun, June 23, 2013
Techcrunch CrunchWeek: Instagram Video; 3D Printing Startup MakerBot's Big Exit, And More Cash For Fab
Its that time of the week for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the weekly show where three of us writers plop ourselves down in the TechCrunch TV studio for some real talk about the most interesting stori...
01:00 am GMT - Sun, June 23, 2013
Techcrunch Stripe's Payments Payout Technology For Collaborative Consumption Startups Now Processing $500K Per Day
A few weeks ago, payments startup Stripe made it significantly easier for collaborative consumption startups to take and process payments. The company's new technology allowed for payments to be distr...
01:00 am GMT - Sun, June 23, 2013
Techcrunch Stripe's Payments Payout Technology For Collaborative Consumption Startups Now Processing Up To $500K Per Day
A few weeks ago, payments startup Stripe made it significantly easier for collaborative consumption startups to take and process payments. The company's new technology allowed for payments to be distr...
11:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 22, 2013
Techcrunch RSS Readersplosion Shows A Lot Of Skating To Where The Puck Has Been
Google Reader is turning off the lights in just over a week's time, but people will have no shortage of alternative options when it does die, since everyone and their brother is building an RSS reader...
10:01 pm GMT - Sat, June 22, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Adds Like Button To Mobile Messages, A One-Touch OK
"Alright", "Yes", and the much-hated "k" just got a visual redesign. Facebook's iOS and Android apps have rolled out the option in messages to reply with a one-tap thumbs-up Like button sticker. It's ...
09:15 pm GMT - Sat, June 22, 2013
Techcrunch FTC To Review Google's Waze Acquisition On Antitrust Grounds
Google's $1.1 billion acquisition of social mapping startup Waze has drawn the attention of the Federal Trade Commission after all. The Wall Street Journal reports today that Google has been contacted...
09:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 22, 2013
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Mo' Beta Blues
The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor welcome the summer solstice with a dip in the gene pool. With Google Glass two months new and iOS7 in developers' hands, t...
06:33 pm GMT - Sat, June 22, 2013
Techcrunch Rapiro Kit Robot For Raspberry Pi Gets Funded On Kickstarter In Two Days
Meet Rapiro, the kit robot with a space inside its kawaii head to accomodate the Raspberry Pi microcomputer. The gizmo is the creation of Shota Ishiwatari, the Japanese gadgeteer who came up with a br...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 22, 2013
Techcrunch The Technical Interview Is Dead (And No One Should Mourn)
Allow me just a little self-congratulation. Two years ago I wrote "Why The New Guy Can't Code," about my contempt for the standard industry interview procedure for software engineers, condemning Micro...
01:27 pm GMT - Sat, June 22, 2013
Techcrunch Here's The Security Breach Letter Facebook Is Sending To 6M Users
Facebook has started sending out warning emails to users whose personal information has been compromised by the security bug uncovered yesterday. The bug exposed some six million Facebook users' email...
01:27 pm GMT - Sat, June 22, 2013
Techcrunch Here's The Security Breach Email Facebook Is Sending To 6M Users
Facebook has started sending out warning emails to users whose personal information has been compromised by the security bug uncovered yesterday. The bug exposed some six million Facebook users' email...
10:49 am GMT - Sat, June 22, 2013
Techcrunch CloudUp Is A Fast, Dead-Simple Way To Share And View Files On Any Platform (Without The Folders)
In today’s world of email, social networks, SMS, chat applications and cloud services, there are plenty of ways to share share a file, folder, photo or video. And as intelligent devices and clou...
10:30 am GMT - Sat, June 22, 2013
Techcrunch Old Ideas Are Better Than The Idea You Just Thought Of
Editor's note:Jake Knapp is a design partner at Google Ventures.It drives me crazy every time I hear about Mailbox, the fancy-pants email app that Dropbox bought for a gazillion dollars. I mean, come ...
05:00 am GMT - Sat, June 22, 2013
Techcrunch Meet Cody, The Casual Fitness Coach And Social Discovery Tool For Everyone Else
Rather than simply adding another me-too product to an already-crowded space, two former Microsoft product managers launched Cody earlier this year to offer an experience they think has been missing f...
04:03 am GMT - Sat, June 22, 2013
Techcrunch Thanks To A Six-Figure Purchase By Reputation Changer, Brand.com Is A Thing Now
My boss Alexia Tsotsis is going to love this one.With a name like Reputation Changer, you can imagine that an online reputation management company would be stuck in the shadow of Reputation.com (which...
03:20 am GMT - Sat, June 22, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft And Oracle Will Announce Major Cloud Computing Partnership Next Monday
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer, its Azure chief Satya Nadella and Oracle's president Mark Hurd are holding a joint press conference next week, just two days before Microsoft's Build developer conferenc...
03:20 am GMT - Sat, June 22, 2013
Techcrunch France's Dailymotion Finds Stateside Tech Partner In Video Editing Service Givit
In other video news this week, the video editing app Givit has announced its integration with Dailymotion, the second largest social video site globally after YouTube. It is the first U.S. app to be b...
03:04 am GMT - Sat, June 22, 2013
Techcrunch Edward Snowden Charged With Espionage
According to the Washington Post, the U.S. government has brought the hammer down on NSA leaker Edward Snowden, charging him with one of the most serious offenses: espionage. Snowden, who is holed up ...
01:40 am GMT - Sat, June 22, 2013
Techcrunch Ask A VC: Mayfield Fund's Navin Chaddha On The Consumerization Of Digital Health Care
In this week's episode of Ask A VC, Mayfield Fund Managing Director Navin Chaddha sat down in the hot seat to answer reader questions....
01:03 am GMT - Sat, June 22, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Security Bug Exposed Personal Account Information, Emails And Phone Numbers, Six Million Accounts Affected
A Facebook security bug exposed users personal contact information (email or phone number) to other users who were connected to them; the bug has affected six million accounts....
12:34 am GMT - Sat, June 22, 2013
Techcrunch Google Makes Google News In Germany Opt-In Only To Avoid Paying Fees Under New Copyright Law
Google News in Germany will soon change. Starting August 1, it will only index sources that have decided to explicitly opt-in to being shown on the search giant's news-aggregation service. Google News...
12:05 am GMT - Sat, June 22, 2013
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang Live 06.21.13. (TCTV)
Gillmor Gang Live - Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live today at 1pm Pacific....
11:59 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Tobii And Synaptics Partner On Ultrabook Prototype With Eye Tracking Tech
You will gaze at your computer, and your computer will gaze back. That's the inevitable path of progress in interface design, as evidenced by ongoing projects from companies like Leap Motion, Umoove, ...
11:55 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Snapchat Has A Patent That Could Help It Become The Defacto Camera App
Snapchat could use a different weapon to be the first camera app opened: speed. Snapchat has a patent, Single mode visual media capture, on its technology that allows the user to take a picture by tap...
11:30 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Aiming To Disrupt Payday Lending, Andreessen-Backed LendUp Now Offers Instant Online And Mobile Loans
Y Combinator-incubated LendUp launched in October with backing from Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Kapor Capital and others, to bring a fresh solution to an old problem: You ha...
11:30 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Aiming To Disrupt Payday Lending, a16z-Backed LendUp Now Offers Instant Online And Mobile Loans
Y Combinator-incubated LendUp launched in October with backing from Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Kapor Capital and others, to bring a fresh solution to an old problem: You ha...
10:44 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Instagram Hit 5 Million Video Uploads Within 24 Hours
Judging by the massive spike in selfies and lunch shots in our Instagram feeds following the launch of their new video functionality, it certainly seemed like a successful launch. Now, thanks to some ...
10:40 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Scrooser Is A Motorized Scooter From The Future
The unfortunately-named Scrooser (the creators are from Dresden so maybe it sounds better in German) is actually surprisingly cool. It looks like a standard, two-wheel kick scooter but actually has a ...
10:30 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Thankful Registry Is A Wedding Gift Registry For Thoughtful Couples
Registries present an etiquette quandary for engaged couples. Open one at a major retailer, fill it with suggestions from a checklist and you end up looking greedy (how many newlywed couples really ne...
10:23 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch YouTube To Live Stream Wimbledon Matches For The First Time
YouTube has been getting deeper into live-streaming sports lately and today, Google’s online video site announced that it will live-stream the Wimbledon tennis tournament, too. The company says ...
10:20 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Adobe Photoshop CC Proves That The Cloud Isn't A Cure-All Refuge From Software Piracy
Adobe released Photoshop CC this week, as part of its Creative Cloud-only revamp of the entire Creative Suite of software products it offers. The new version of Photoshop offers some exclusive new fea...
10:16 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Instagram Video, Samsung Stuff, And MakerBot
Did you hear? Did you hear? Instagram now has video! It may or may not be better than Vines. Samsung released a bunch of computers and cameras and phones with strange names. That was fun. And of cours...
09:53 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Need An Artificially Intelligent Robotic System For Sorting Trash? ZenRobotics Has Them.
When Jufo Peltomaa and Tuomas Lukka were figuring out what to do next after selling Hybrid Graphics to Nvidia seven years ago, they knew it had to involve one thing. Robots. “Our business plan w...
09:11 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch UK Spy Agency Allegedly Taps Into Transatlantic Cables To Collect Data, Pays Companies For Cost Of Cooperation
According to the latest set of documents from Edward Snowden that were released by the Guardian today, the Britsh spy agency GCHQ has been tapping into 46 transatlantic fiber-optic cables that carry d...
08:38 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Kickstarter Says It Was Wrong About Sleazy Above The Game' Campaign, Bans Future Seduction Guides'
Kickstarter just published a blog post offering its take on a controversial campaign to fund a book called Above the Game: A Guide To Getting Awesome With Women.The title of the post, "We were wrong,"...
08:38 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Kickstarter Says It Was Wrong About Above The Game' Campaign, Bans Future Seduction Guides'
Kickstarter just published a blog post offering its take on a controversial campaign to fund a book called Above the Game: A Guide To Getting Awesome With Women.The title of the post, "We were wrong,"...
08:36 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Printic Lets You Caption & Ship Cute, Polaroid-Like Photos Prints From iPhone Or Android
Smartphones have long since established themselves as the preferred camera for the majority of users, and even though there are now a number of ways to share their digital output, there's still someth...
08:36 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Printic Lets You Caption & Ship Cute, Polaroid-Like Prints From iPhone Or Android
Smartphones have long since established themselves as the preferred camera for the majority of users, and even though there are now a number of ways to share their digital output, there's still someth...
08:35 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Sony May Take Another Stab At A Smartwatch And Show It Off Next Week
Neither of Sony's two previous smartwatches were runaway hits, but that doesn't seem to have stopped the Japanese electronics giant from taking another crack at the concept. A slew of tweets hash-tagg...
08:04 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Google Is Reportedly Working On A Service To Help You Share Your Gadgets, Clothes And Other Stuff With Friends
So here is one of the weirder rumors coming out of Mountain View we've seen in a while: as Google Operating System's Alex Chitu reports, Google is apparently working on an app called Google Mine that ...
08:01 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Cross-Network Ad Startup AdStage Acquires Semply, Raises An Additional $100K
AdStage, a startup promising to make it easy for small businesses and other advertisers to run campaigns across multiple ad networks, is announcing today that it has acquired Semply, an AdWords report...
07:46 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Amazon Video Games Store Xbox One And PlayStation 4 Pre-Orders Top 2,500 Per Minute Following E3
Amazon has seen a significant amount of interest in upcoming next-generation consoles, with pre-orders for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 skyrocketing in the wake of E3 and their initial availability ...
07:38 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Intuit Buys Elastic Intelligence, Will Use Connection Cloud To Help SMEs Build Apps
Some consolidation in the area of cloud services for enterprises: Intuit, the business services company that targets SMEs, is buying Elastic Intelligence, creators of Connection Cloud, a product that ...
06:44 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Twitter Said To Be Preparing Location-Based Ads For Clicks And Bricks
Twitter is reportedly working on geolocated promoted tweets to help retailers target specifically consumers within spitting distance of their stores, according to AdAge. The location-based ads might b...
06:40 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch 3D Printing Arbitrage Is The New Hotness
As the 3D printing space heats up and home printers gain ground, there's a new breed of start-up that aims to grab the transactional costs associated with connecting printers and people. The first one...
06:20 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch From The Makers Of Everyme, Origami Launches Its Private Sharing Service For Families
Origami, the new family-focused product from YCombinator-backed mobile social networkEveryme, has now arrived after nearly a year of development. A spin-off of sorts, Origami takes some of the origina...
05:59 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch HTC Courts Bully #2 From Weird Science For A Much-Needed Marketing Boost
Look, there's no question that HTC's in a bit of trouble, and it's at least partially because of its marketing woes. While HTC just recently posted some weak quarterly financials, rivals like Samsung ...
05:58 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch FAA Takes Further Steps To Abolish In-Flight Electronics Ban
In a move that’s sure to make gadgeteers cheer and worry worts grumble, the Federal Aviation Administration (lovingly called the FAA) is reportedly making plans to relax some of the rules put on...
05:30 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch iFetch Is The Perfect Balm To Soothe The Conscience Of The Lazy Dog Owner
A new Kickstarter project takes all the work out of playing fetch with your dog, replacing your throwing arm with a nifty gizmo and keeping your hands drool-free. It's essentially a more basic pitchin...
04:59 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Cheetah-Cub Is A Cat-Like Quadruped That's The Fastest Bot Of Its Size
We're still a ways away from electric sheep roaming the fields pretending to bleat but robotics researchers continue to look to nature for four-legged inspiration. Meet Cheetah-Cub, a European Commiss...
04:57 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch European Startups! Six More Days To Apply For The Disrupt Europe Battlefield
We're gearing up for Disrupt Europe this October in BerlinOctober 26-29-- the very first time that our flagship event is coming to this part of the world. And we want all the startups out there in Eur...
04:45 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Snowden Invited To Iceland By Founder Of Payment Provider DataCell
Reuters is reporting that Olafur Vignir Sigurvinsson, founder of colocation service Datacell, is offering to fly NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden from Hong Kong to Reykjavik in a private jet should th...
04:28 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch New NSA Warrantless Tactics Reveal Little Room For Presumption Of Innocence
The Guardian released new details about the National Security Agency’s spying practices, which reveals how analysts can store vast sums of data without a warrant. Specifically, if the NSA “...
04:13 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Poshly Gets Serious About Becoming A Data Resource For Beauty Brands
After a soft launch one year ago with no marketing campaign, the beauty data collection site Poshly has redesigned and is looking to pick up steam on its B2B offerings before beginning to raise its se...
02:37 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Line Expands Its Mobile Messaging Empire On Android With Third-Party App Downloads Incentivised By Line Coin
The new breed of mobile messaging apps -- Japan's Line & China's WeChat, to name two -- are already siphoning off social energy by adding features traditionally associated with full-fat social net...
01:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Analytics Firm Adeven Raises $4.3M To Continue To Push Beyond The Mobile Install Metric
Berlin-based mobile ad and app analytics startup adeven today announced that it has raised a $4.3 million Series B funding round, provided by Capnamic Ventures, Iris Capital and existing investor Targ...
11:46 am GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Tencent, Naspers India JV Ibibo Buys redBus To Grow Its Online Travel Empire
China's internet giant Tencent and South Africa's media powerhouse Naspers are doubling down on tech in India. TechCrunch has just found out that Ibibo, their domestic joint venture, has acquired redB...
11:46 am GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Tencent, Naspers JV Ibibo Buys Redbus To Grow Its Online Travel Empire In India
China's internet giant Tencent and South Africa's media powerhouse Naspers are doubling down on tech in India. TechCrunch has just found out that Ibibo, their domestic joint venture, has acquired redB...
10:27 am GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Tesla Shows Off A 90-Second Battery Swap System, Wants It At Supercharging Stations By Year's End
Tesla teased electric motorheads earlier this week by announcing an event that would show off its curious battery swapping system, and it wound up being even more impressive than most of us imagined. ...
05:00 am GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Mud-slinging Behind The Scenes As Malaysia's Taxi Apps Duke It Out
There is an ongoing land grab for taxi drivers in Malaysia, with taxi app startups aggressively targeting the handful of taxi drivers keen to jump on a digital platform. Two year-old taxi booking star...
02:27 am GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Cameron And Tyler Winklevoss Tell Us Why They're So Bullish On Bitcoin [TCTV]
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss first emerged as household names in the tech world because of their contentious relationship with that major social networking company and its famous founder. But these da...
02:21 am GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Highland Capital Partners Commits To Invest $25 Million In Leap Motion Developers
Highland Capital Partners, which is already an investor in Leap Motion, has committed another $25 million to back the young startup. To do so, its established the Leap Fund, which is designed to find ...
12:36 am GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch Automation Is The Driving Theme In Six Cloud Startup Presentations At GigaOM Structure
I am here at the GigaOm Structure conference where this morning, six startups presented before a three-judge panel of venture capitalists: Luis Robles, a partner with Sequoia Capital; Bipul Sinha, par...
12:01 am GMT - Fri, June 21, 2013
Techcrunch App Infrastructure Startup Firebase Raises $5.6M From Union Square And Flybridge
Firebase, a Y Combinator-backed startup that offers infrastructure for real-time apps, is taking the stage today at GigaOm's Structure conference, where it's announcing that it has raised a $5.6 milli...
11:44 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Instagram, Technology's Window To The Soul
Today Instagram revealed a new mission statement that reflects its true purpose. At our best, we don't share photos or videos to brag or get 'Likes'. We share to let others see through our eyes. Faceb...
11:30 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Video Ad Buying Platform TubeMogul Hires Google Media Platforms Head Chip Scovic As CRO
To help Tubemogul boost revenue and expand into new markets, the company has hired Chip Scovic, former head of Google's Media Platforms business for brands, as its new Chief Revenue Officer. Scovic le...
11:20 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Photoful Improves On iOS 7s Photo Gallery With A More Open, Gesture-Based App
Photoful, a new mobile application which is the rebranding and relaunch of the earlier app known as PhotoSocial, is hoping to attract iPhone users who want the Photos experience the new iOS 7 mobile o...
11:11 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Agawi Uses Its Cross-Platform Gaming Tech To Launch A Mobile Ad Unit That You Can Actually Play
Pretty much everyone agrees that mobile advertising isn't very good (or outright sucks). Here's an interesting solution from Agawi an ad unit for mobile games called AppGlimpse, which functions as a ...
11:09 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Instagram Video Vs. Vine: What's The Difference?
Instagram just launched video functionality. Glorious, 15-second, editable video functionality. Complete with image stabilization. So what does this mean for Vine?...
11:08 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Hands-On With Instagram's New Video Feature
We've just made our way out of Facebook's Headquarters in Menlo Park, where Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom took the stage to debut the app's new (and not un-Vinelike) video functionality....
11:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Samsung's Shape-Shifting Ativ Q Isn't Pretty, But Running Windows 8 And Android May Make It A Worthy Workhorse
Samsung just pulled back the curtain on a new line of Ativ Windows notebooks, but perhaps the most interesting of the company's new Ativs is a 13.3-inch convertible tablet it hopes will appeal those p...
11:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Hands-On With Samsung's Galaxy S4 Zoom, The Smartphone With A 10x Optical Zoom Lens
Samsungs Galaxy S4 Zoom steers its Galaxy brand into slightly new territory, by creating a hybrid smartphone-cum-pocket-camera. Unlike pretty much every other cameraphone around, the Zoom has a 10x op...
10:35 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Samsung's Galaxy NX Is A 4G Android Interchangeable Lens Camera That Lets You Post To Instagram
Samsung continues to push its Galaxy brand into new devices' types and categories, a strategy aimed at extending the success it's had with the brand in smartphones. Today the Korean giant has added th...
10:25 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Samsung Reveals The Ativ Q, A Convertible Windows 8 Tablet That Runs Android, Too
Samsung has just kicked off its Premiere event at Earls Court in London, and decided to lead with one particularly curious device -- in addition to the ability to transform from a tablet to a notebook...
09:30 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch I/O Ventures VC Paul Bragiel Goes On Hiatus To Train For The Winter Olympics
Some VCs are into kite-surfing. Some do triathlons. Then there’s i/o Ventures managing director Paul Bragiel, who has spent the last two and a half months in the Nordics, either cross-country sk...
09:29 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Instagram Launches Cinema, Its Fix For The iPhone's Shaky Camera
Instagram today finally unveiled its anticipated video service and served it with a kicker, great for those of us with shaky hands. It launched Cinema: a way to stabilize the video captured with the i...
09:17 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Instagram Launches 15-Second Video Sharing Feature, With 13 Filters And Editing
Instagram, the immensely popular photo-sharing app that was acquired by Facebook in a $1 billion deal last year, is not just for photos anymore.At a press event at Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters, ...
09:16 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Instagram Crosses 130 Million Users, With 16 Billion Photos And Over 1 Billion Likes Per Day
On stage at Facebook's big mystery event, Instagram's Kevin Systrom has just shared some new growth statistics for the photo-sharing platform. Instagram now boasts over 130 million active monthly user...
09:15 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Instagram: 16B Photos, 130M People, 1B LikesAnd 15 Seconds Of Beautiful' Video
Instagram’s Kevin Systrom told us today told us how people “come together to share the world in real time” as the company planned to unveil Instagram’svideo service — whi...
09:15 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Instagram Now Hosts 16B Photos For 130M People Who Have Interacted With 1B Likes
Instagram's Kevin Systrom told us today how people "come together to share the world in real time" as the company planned to unveil Instagram'svideo service -- which we first reported earlier this wee...
09:08 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Watch The Live Stream Of Facebook's Big Mystery Announcement Here
Facebook and Instagram are holding a very special event today. Will we soon be taking Instagram videos instead of pics? Will the giant social network integrate more closely with its billion-dollar bab...
08:55 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Live From Facebook's New Product' Mystery Announcement
Just last week, a small chunk of the tech press was surprised to find invitations for a Facebook announcement waiting in their mailbox."A small team has been working on a big idea," it read.The only o...
08:40 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch New Bing Experiment Adds Curated Lists Of Links, Images And Videos From Experts To Search Results
Microsoft today announced a new experiment for its Bing search engine that’s a bit different from the usual social search and algorithm updates we’ve come to expect from the service. Bing ...
08:03 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Aiming To Become The Valedictorian' Of Smart Calendar Apps, Tempo Raises $10M
Tempo, the SRI-incubated smart calendar app that launched in February, is announcing that it has raised a $10 million Series A.The round was led by Relay Ventures and Sierra Ventures. Relay also led T...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Tile Wants You To Stop Losing Important Stuff With Its Bluetooth Tags Plus App Combo
Startups aiming to tap into the ubiquity of smartphones and extend their reach with additional hardware add-ons (plus an app) are winking rapidly into existence. The latest entrant to this nascent spa...
07:55 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Now Allows Publishers To Highlight Their Pages And Authors' Profiles In Shared Links
This isn't exactly Facebook's mystery announcement (we'll still have to wait a little bit for that), but in the shadow of its press event today, Facebook also today made a small but interesting update...
07:47 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch YouTube Says It Will Bring Advertisers Into Its Partner Program, Starting This Fall
YouTube just announced (as part of this week's Cannes Lions advertising event) that it's expanding its partner program to include advertisers.The program already provides the top YouTube content creat...
07:40 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Timehop Debuts Sync, A Way To Time Travel Through Your Offline Photo Archives
Timehop, the startup dedicated to helping you remember your past in an ever more fast-paced world, is taking its first major step beyond collecting content solely from social media services. The compa...
07:24 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Yahoo Closes Its Purchase Of Tumblr For $1.1B, Reconfirms Karp At The Helm Of Social Site
In a week where Tumblr CEO David Karp did the rounds at the Cannes Lions advertising confab in France, Yahoo has now confirmed that it has completed its acquisition of the social network and blogging ...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Online Gadget Retailer Grand St. Goes Mobile By Launching An Android App
Online retailer Grand St. was formed to help customers find interesting new technology from the vast array of new hardware manufacturers out there. Now it's taking its online store, with one new produ...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Chartboost Launches Groups Where Game Developers Can Trade Traffic
Chartboost, a platform that helps game developers promote each others’ titles, is opening a ‘Groups’ feature where multiple developers that want to partner up from a specific country...
06:22 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch U.K. Video Startup Grabyo Launches Its Ad-Supported Real-Time TV Clip-Sharing Tech With Sky's Next Top Model
A new video-focused startup has just launched a second-screen offering, partnering with TV broadcaster Sky to allow TV viewers to legally share real-time clips of its content. There's just one support...
06:06 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Over A Year After New Content Policies, Self-Harm Social Media Still Thrives
About a year and a half ago, just in time for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week,Tumblr took a hard stanceagainst blogs on its network that encouraged "self harm." This includes those that glori...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Live From Facebook's New Product' Mystery Announcement
Just last week, a small chunk of the tech press was surprised to find invitations for a Facebook announcement waiting in their mailbox."A small team has been working on a big idea," it read.The only o...
05:45 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch SiteScout Acquires IP Developed By Defunct Ad Exchange adBrite
Ad exchange adBrite shut down earlier this year, but its technology isn't disappearing entirely self-serve ad-buying company SiteScout is announcing that it has acquired "certain intellectual propert...
05:38 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Logitech Decides To Retain Its Harmony Remote Division
Logitech took to the wires today to announce the Harmony Ultimate Hub, a device that turns an iPhone or Android device into a universal remote, is available for purchase. It's $100.But more importantl...
05:34 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Vine Has A Head Start, But There's Plenty Of Room For An Instagram Video Win
Facebook is making an announcement later today that we have heard could do with Instagram, its very popular photo app, getting a video service. If true, Facebook would be entering a crowded market-- b...
05:09 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Vine Goes On The Offensive, Teases New Features Ahead Of Instagram Video Launch
Nice timing, Vine. As we inch closer to Facebook’s big Instagram press conference today, Vine co-founders Dom Hoffman and Rus Yusopov have taken to Vine (what else?) to show off some new feature...
05:06 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch A Term Sheet Written In Plain English? Put That In Your Silicon Valley Pipe And Smoke It
From the painstakingly obvious in retrospect why did nobody think of it before department: London-based early-stage VC Passion Capital has updated its standard Term Sheet so that it's written entirely...
04:48 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch FitStar Raises $4M Round Led By Trinity To Make The Best iPad-Led Home Workouts
FitStar, the San Francisco-based startup that just launched a workout app with Atlanta Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez, just raised $4 million in a round led by Trinity Ventures to expand its line-up ...
04:07 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Fanboys Rejoice, GrabCAD Gets Mechanically Engineered For Android
GrabCAD, the online community and cloud-based collaboration tool for mechanical engineers and other stakeholders involved in designing physical products, is adding Android to its arsenal today. Like t...
03:10 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Valar Morghulis, Or, Why I Don't Care That HBO Go Is On Apple TV'
Apple TV got HBO Go and Watch ESPN and some other content yesterday. Cool. Am I supposed to care?Its asinine that the technology for producing quality content is so incredible (Blackwater Bay, anyone?...
12:30 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch AP Takes A Stake In Bambuser, The Real-Time Mobile Video Service That Helps Eyewitnesses Tell Their Stories
Bambuser, the upstart mobile video service that has carved out a name for itself as a crucial tool for eyewitnesses to record and transmit footage of major events -- be they political uprisings, bombi...
12:26 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Zuckerberg Replies To His Facebook Commenters' Questions On Immigration
"If it's just about tech wanting to hire more people, not as impressive" commented one of Mark Zuckerberg's 18 million Facebook followers. "It's definitely not just about tech immigration" Zuckerberg ...
11:52 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Live From Facebook's New Product' Mystery Announcement
Just last week, a small chunk of the tech press was surprised to find invitations for a Facebook announcement waiting in their mailbox."A small team has been working on a big idea," it read.The only o...
11:14 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Rad, A Parisian Hipster Fashion Portal, Gets $3.3M Led By Index To Go International
Because fashion never goes out of style, fashion portals continue to bring in the money not just from consumers looking for the next big thing -- be it style or bargain, and ideally both -- but also i...
09:24 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch LinkedIn Outage Due To Possible DNS Hijacking
LinkedIn confirmed via Twitter that its site suffered an outage due to "a DNS issue."...
09:24 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch LinkedIn Outage Due To Possible DNS Hijacking [Update: Fidelity.com Also Affected]
LinkedIn confirmed via Twitter that its site suffered an outage due to "a DNS issue."...
07:03 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Rocket Internet's Lazada Lands $100M As It Seeks To Become The Amazon Of Southeast Asia
Lazada, the e-commerce site founded by Rocket Internet in a bid to build the "Amazon of Southeast Asia," announced today that it has landed another $100 million from returning investors Holtzbrinck Ve...
03:23 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch 30 Days In, Bitcoin Angel Group BitAngels Doubles Network To 120, Puts First $100K Into Seasteading Venture, Blueseed
As has been written ad nauseam, we've seen a lot of activity in the wild and whacky world of cryptocurrency of late, thanks primarily to the tech industry's new obsession with Bitcoin. Depending on wh...
02:58 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch EMC Acquires Israeli Storage Startup ScaleIO For $200M-$300M To Compete Better With The Cloud Kings
Palo Alto-based ScaleIOis one of a new generation of startup storage providers that's using intelligent software to help big companies streamline and converge their data storage operations at scale, a...
02:41 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Why Makerbot Is Like Apple
When we first discovered that Makerbot was looking to partner with Stratsys I was a bit non-plussed. Makerbot, as I've noted before, has a certain indie cred that makes this move a bit unpalatable....
02:39 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Well Done, Microsoft
The reveal of the Xbox One didn't go as Microsoft hoped. Gamers loved the system, but hated the absurd restrictions placed on the games. But Microsoft listened and just today reversed its stance on so...
01:52 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Heeds Gamer Feedback, Dumps Xbox One DRM Restrictions
Attention gamers: you win. The folks at Redmond infuriated many when it revealed that the Xbox One would come with a long list of potential caveats -- there was the automated 24 hour check-in to keep ...
01:37 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Twitter Acquires Local Discovery Startup Spindle, Will End Spindle Service
Twitter acquired Spindle, an app for local discovering, today. The Spindle team will move to San Francisco and shutter the Spindle app."By joining forces with Twitter, we can do so much more to help y...
12:32 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Stratasys Acquiring MakerBot, Combined Company Will Likely Dominate 3D Printing Industry
Today Stratasys announced that it has acquired MakerBot, as we reported,in a deal the terms of which were not disclosed. The combination of the companies brings together a leader in 3D industrial prin...
12:32 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Stratasys Acquiring MakerBot In $403M Deal, Combined Company Will Likely Dominate 3D Printing Industry
Today Stratasys announced that it has acquired MakerBot, as we reported,in a stock deal worth $403 million based on the current share value of Stratasys. The combination of the companies brings togeth...
12:28 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Was Close To A Nokia Acquisition Before Talks Broke Down Recently, WSJ Reports
Microsoft and Nokia have gotten pretty cosy over the past few years, and at the time of the announcement of the Finnish company's decision to use Windows Phone OS to power its smartphones, many specul...
12:25 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Google's Dart SDK and Editor Hit Beta With Improved Performance, Smarter Code Completion And More
Google today launched the first beta version of its Dart SDK and Editor. With this update, Google says, the SDK can now produce significantly smaller and faster JavaScript code and make it easier for ...
12:05 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Zynga Acquires Spooky Cool Labs To Boost Its Social Casino Push
In spite of the recent layoffs, Zynga is still picking up talent in strategic areas like social casino gaming. The company bought a roughly 40-person team called Spooky Cool Labs full of real-money ga...
12:03 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2013
Techcrunch Cortica Raises $6.4M To Improve Visual Search And In-Image Ads
Cortica, a startup developing technology for analyzing in-image content, is announcing that it has raised $6.4 million in Series B funding.The round was led by previous investors Horizons Ventures (th...
11:20 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Wired Editor Michael Copeland Joins Andreessen Horowitz To Lead New Content Strategy'
Wired Senior Editor Michael Copeland is joining venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. We've confirmed with the VC firm that Copeland will be leading Andreessen's new 'content strategy.'...
11:02 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Twitter Adds Easier Column Navigation To Tweetdeck For Power Users
Twitter added new features to Tweetdeck today that makes it easier to arrange and consume various feeds.Column headers now have "grab handles" in the top-left corner so they can quickly and easily be ...
11:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Founder Stories: Airbnb's Nate Blecharczyk On Being The Only Engineer For The First Year
This week on Founder Stories, I sat down with Airbnb co-founder Nate Blecharczyk. One of the things that strikes me as original to Airbnb's founding team is that, unlike most startups I can think of, ...
10:59 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Backed By First Round's Dorm Room Fund, Pagevamp Turns Facebook Pages Into Websites
It feels like startups are taking more and more steps to make the website creation process as easy as possible. There are companies like Weebly, which offer drag-and-drop interfaces for building websi...
10:56 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Lytro Enables Its Camera's Hidden WiFi Chip, Launches A Companion iOS App (With Animated GIFs!)
It sure doesn't seem like many people have bought Lytro's crazy light-field camera (the one that lets you focus your photos after you take them) but if you're one of those who did: go plug it in. Lyt...
10:28 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch The Case For And Against Candy Crush-Maker King's Possible IPO
Zynga cast a long shadow when its stock tanked by about 75 percent in the first year after going public. But that apparently isn’t scaring off other contenders in the gaming industry from an IPO...
10:12 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Launches Security Bounty Program, Will Pay Up To $100K For Exploits
Microsoft has long resisted this move, but starting June 26 — the date the Windows 8.1 preview will ship — it will finally launch its own security bounty program. The company will offer bo...
10:11 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Surprise! You Still Get Six More Days To Apply To Disrupt SF Battlefield
Procrastination is a bitch. We get it. That’s why the new deadline to apply to TechCrunch Disrupt BattlefieldSan Francisco, our preeminent startup competition, is this coming Monday, June 24. In...
10:01 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Redesigns Page Insights To Give Businesses Clearer, More Actionable Data
Facebook is announcing some changes to Page Insights (the analytics tool for monitoring the performance of your Facebook Pages) in fact, Product Marketing Manager Galyn Burke told me that this is the...
09:58 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch BitTorrent Taps Public Enemy For Their Latest Creative Venture: Crowdsourced Music
BitTorrent, the content distribution network that has been angling for a position as the platform of choice for the creative industries, is today taking one more step to show artists how they can use ...
09:26 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch AnyPresence Launches A Meta-API Platform To Help Companies Build Developer Communities
AnyPresence, a mobile backend-as-a-service, is launching a platform that tailors front-end branding and functionality with a backend server that the company calls a meta API.Richard Mendis, chief mark...
09:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch YC-Backed Videopixie Launches To Create A Marketplace For Video Editors
Videopixie has created a marketplace devoted entirely to connecting users who have video with those who can edit it. By doing so, it's providing a way for anyone to have beautiful videos created out o...
08:41 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Google Launches New AdSense Scorecard To Help Publishers Better Understand Their Sites' Performance
Google launched a new scorecard in AdSense today that allows site owners to see how their properties are performing relative to other AdSense publishers. The scorecard is organized into three categori...
08:30 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Vdio, The TV & Movie Streaming Service From Rdio, Launches To Public
Vdio, the video streaming service which launched into public beta this April as a complement to Rdio's subscription music service, is today becoming available to all. Earlier, the service was availabl...
08:07 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Hike, India's Mobile Messaging Upstart, Expands Language Support & Adds Offline Messaging, Stickers & More To Fuel Growth
There's no room at the digital inn for more mobile messaging apps, but that's not stopping them crowding in. Hike, an Indian mobile messaging app that's only been around six months but has amassed mor...
08:01 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Customer Outreach Startup Intercom Raises $6M Round Led By The SocialPlusCapital Partnership
Intercom, a startup promising to help online businesses to communicate with their customers in a more personalized way, has raised a $6 million Series A.I wrote about the company last month, when Face...
08:01 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Customer Communication Startup Intercom Raises $6M Round Led By The SocialPlusCapital Partnership
Intercom, a startup promising to help online businesses to communicate with their customers in a more personalized way, has raised a $6 million Series A.I wrote about the company last month, when Face...
07:59 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Blackboard Co-Founder Michael Chasen Raises $12.75M Series A For SocialRadar, A New Take On Location-Based People Discovery Apps
If you thought the "ambient location" craze has passed, prepare to be surprised. A company called SocialRadar is announcing today that it has raised $12.75 million in Series A funding from NEA,Grotech...
07:47 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch After 80M Installs, MoboTap Updates Its Dolphin Browser To Highlight HTML5 Apps
Long-time Android fans (fandroids?) will probably be familiar with Dolphin, the third-party browser that first made a name for itself during the ways when the stock Android browser left much to be des...
07:41 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Twitter The Ad Player Wants To Push More TV Buttons, Adds Viacom To Its Partner List
The Cannes Lions mega advertising event is in full swing today in the south of France and while Twitter is marking its first year with an official presence there with a big sign at the entrance to the...
07:30 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Keen On Silicon Valley: How We Need To Scale Down Our Self-Regard And Grow Up
Oh dear, it hasn't been a good few weeks for Silicon Valley. And leading the charge in this Silicon Valley bashing is the New Yorker staff writer and award-winning author George Packer. In both his ne...
07:15 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Gracenote's New TV Sync API Could Spawn Indie Second-Screen Apps
Imagine watching a classic mystery film or seasons of Lost while using a second-screen app that gives you unofficial insights and conspiracy theories as their plots move along. That's the promise of G...
07:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Men's Clothing Startup Combat Gent Raises $1.84 Million From Tony Hsieh's VegasTechFund And Others
Men's clothing retailer Combat Gent wants to be the place where young people turn when they need a new suit or dress shirt for work. To do so, it's raised $1.84 million in seed funding from a group of...
06:59 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Feedly Cloud Goes Live To Replace Google Reader's Backend, Power New Web Version Of Feedly's App
In 10 days, Google's RSS feed-reading service Google Reader will shut down for good. In its wake, developers working on products in the RSS ecosystem have been stepping up to deliver apps, tools and o...
06:58 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch The Open Source RepRap Simpson 3D Printer Design Reduces Friction, Uses Less Vitamins
This is the Grounded Experimental Delta 3D printer aka the Simpson, a project built by computer science teacher Nicholas Seward that does away with the excess frames, pulleys, and hardware associated ...
06:58 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Rockmelt Brings Its Social Browser To Android With An Overhauled Interface
Back when Rockmelt killed off its social-centric desktop browser to focus on mobile, they promised that an Android version was on the way. Today, it arrives....
06:30 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Entelo, The Big Data Recruitment Platform Used By Box, Yelp And Square, Lands $3.5M From Battery And Menlo
In today's tech industry, if you ask a startup founder to describe the biggest hurdles that stand between them and total world domination (or at least market penetration), it won't be long before they...
06:13 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Apple TV Finally Gets HBO GO And WatchESPN, iTunes Shoppers Now Buying 800K TV Shows Per Day
Apple has added two major new content sources to Apple TV today, via HBO GO and WatchESPN integration. The new streaming services adds a considerable selection of content to the company's streaming co...
06:03 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch With $1M In Funding, Bunch Aims To Be The Center Of Your In-Depth, Topic-Based Discussions
The Internet isn't lacking for sites and services where people can post their comments and thoughts, but Andrew Sider, co-founder and CEO of a startup called Bunch, argues that there's still something...
05:42 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Elon Musk Demonstrates The Power Of Transparency With First Tesla Model S Recall
Tesla just issued a "partial recall" for its Model S sedan. Per the company blog, some Model S vehicles made between May 10, 2013 and June 8, 2013 might have a defect in the mounting bracket for the l...
05:40 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch A $100 Watch Can Tell If You've Had Too Much To Drink
The Japanese watch company Tokyoflash has long turned heads with their odd (if unreadable) designs but in a first they've added a breathalyzer to their Kisai watch, thereby allowing you to see just ho...
05:38 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Nestio Launches A New Initiative For Landlords And Brokers To Make Rental Listings More Accurate
Today Nestio, the same service that helps you sort through and organize rental listings in the hunt for a new apartment, has today announced a brand new initiative to help improve the accuracy of list...
05:14 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Velodroom Does What Every Bike Light Should Responds To Your Ride And Turns On And Off Automatically
Tartu, Estonia-based startup Velodroom leverages tech to solve a problem any bike commuter can sympathize with how to add lights to your ride that are convenient to use and require absolutely nothing...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Turner's Media Camp Announces The Next Five Startups To Go Through Its Media-Centric Incubator
Last Summer, Turner announced that it was creating a startup incubator focused just on young companies that were creating products for media businesses. The incubator, called Turner Media Camp, would ...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Pindrop Raises $11M From Andreessen Horowitz, Citi Ventures And Others To Detect And Block Phone Fraud
Pindrop Security, a startup that aims to prevent and protect against phone-based fraud, has raised $11 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Citi Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Redpo...
04:50 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch A Board Room Fall Out? MobiCart's Founder And CEO Resigns From M-Commerce Startup
It's a given that startup life will often consist of putting out fires, but as a founder you least expect one to be started in the board room. That appears to be what's happened in the case of mobile ...
04:40 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch SnapKeys' Invisible Keyboard Exits Beta & Lands In A Mobile Messaging App To Try To Drive Qwerty Aside
There is no shortage of startups attacking the virtual keyboard space, as you'd expect with so much scope to improve the experience of touchscreen typing. Yesterday Toronto-based Whirlscape launched a...
03:35 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch BT Appoints Insider Gavin Patterson As CEO; Ian Livingston To Become UK Trade Minister
A changing of the guard at UK carrier BT: the company has announced that it will be appointing Gavin Patterson as its new CEO effective September, to replace Ian Livingston, who is taking up a role in...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch ThousandEyes Raises $5.5M From Sequoia, Launches With Service That Pinpoints Problems For How Apps Are Delivered
ThousandEyes has raised $5..5 million from Sequoia Capital and angel investors for a service that pinpoints application issues between the enterprise and cloud services.ThousandEyes focuses on the way...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Tred Launches Its On-Demand Test Drive Service In Seattle
Tred, which hopes to provide a service thats like Uber for car test drives, is finally launching its service to the public. The company, which hopes to streamline the process of buying a car by bringi...
03:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch ScribbleLive Raises $8M To Continue Its Real-Time Media Content Push
ScribbleLive, from Toronto-based Scribble Media, was once nearly synonymous with the term "live blogging," but you'd be hard-pressed to find reference to that term on its site now. The company has mat...
02:19 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch TripAdvisor Continues Acquisition Spree, Buys GateGuru Mobile App For Real-Time Travel Information
Travel portal TripAdvisor continues to push ahead with its mobile and social acquisitions: today the company announced that it has acquired GateGuru, a mobile app that provides real-time information o...
02:19 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch TripAdvisor Continues Acquisition Spree, Buys GateGuru Mobile App For Real-Time Travel Info
Travel portal TripAdvisor continues to push ahead with its mobile and social acquisitions: today the company announced that it has acquired GateGuru, a mobile app that provides real-time information o...
12:30 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch ERN Raises Further $1.6M To Use Big Data To Help Banks And Merchants Push Loyalty-Based Offers
BIG DATA costs big bucks. Perhaps then, it should be no surprise to see ERN, the London-based startup that's planning to use Big Data to enable banks and merchants to create loyalty-based offers for c...
09:41 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Netflix Will Launch In The Netherlands Later This Year As Its International Expansion Slows
Netflix has announced that it will begin operating in The Netherlands later this year, further expanding its European footprint. The Netherlands, Netflix's seventh European country, is a relatively sm...
08:27 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Ooyala Sets Up R&D Center In Singapore To Chase Mobile Audiences In Asia
Video services provider Ooyala is setting up an R&D operations in Singapore, and is hiring researchers and data scientists for the facility. The company provides video technology to media companie...
08:18 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Teambox Adds High-Definition Video Conferencing, Market Looks for Deeper Collaboration
Teambox has added high-definition video conferencing, adding to a list of providers that are adding video to their collaboration platforms. The Teambox offering is of particular note, as it fully inte...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Fab Grabs $150M At $1B Valuation (And Is Raising Another $100MPlus More)
Design-focused commerce company Fab has raised that round of funding we scooped a few months ago. Fab is announcing today that it has raised $150 million in the rst tranche of the company's Series D r...
07:12 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Startup-PR Matchmaker AirPR Opens To The Public, As Data Begins To Reveal How To Fix A Broken Model
For pretty much as long as anyone can remember, a relationship triangle, or a "love triangle" if you will, has taken shape between companies and the PR firms that represent them and the press that cov...
05:38 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch New Yorkers Get Free Power In The Parks
Months after Hurricane Sandy left New York scrambling for power, the city is unveiling 25 solar powered charging stations in parks and public spaces throughout the five boroughs, starting today.The pi...
04:23 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Vine Will Survive!
Instagram is planning to launch video functionality in two days. But don't go deleting Vine just yet. Before shoving Vine's into the deadpool, let's just calm it down a second. Vine has been declared ...
02:19 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook iOS 6.2 Lets You Easily Change Who You Just Shared That Racy Pic With
It happened to me. Yes, I once uploaded a pic of my friend to Facebook from my phone, forgot to change the setting from "Public" to "Friends" and had the friend get told that day by a random person: "...
01:53 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch TC Cribs: Quirky, The NYC Startup Where Unique Inventions Are Brought To Life
More and more jobs deal in the virtual realm, and are done by people sitting down at desks at computers. Desk work can be made interesting in its own ways, but it's always fun to visit a company that'...
01:34 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Google Fights Spying Gag Order, But Key Details Would Lack Even If Successful
As it promised it would, Google is fighting the government's gag order on releasing how many users are monitored by the National Security Agency. Unlike Facebook and Microsoft, Google and Twitter publ...
01:34 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Google Fights Spying Gag Order, But Key Details Would Be Missing Even If Successful
As it promised it would, Google is fighting the government's gag order on releasing how many users are monitored by the National Security Agency. Unlike Facebook and Microsoft, Google and Twitter publ...
01:11 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch The Series A Round Is The New Series B Round
Editor's note: Jeff Jordan is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and is on the boards of Airbnb, Belly, Fab, Circle, Crowdtilt, Lookout and Pinterest, as well as Wealthfront and Zoosk.The venture indust...
12:37 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch GameStick Android Console Ship Date Delayed Until August To Refine UI
Android home gaming consoles are nearly arriving for the consumer market, but one at least needs a little more time in the oven to bake. It's the GameStick, the super portable USB-stick style device t...
12:14 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch The Offline Glass Ensures You Talk, Not Text, At The Bar
Tired of your friends texting on their phones while they should be getting schnockered? This clever hack is called the Offline Glass and it's designed to ensure that you and your friends don't sit at ...
12:08 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2013
Techcrunch Adobe's Q2 Earnings Beat Street With $1.011B In Revenue, $0.36 EPS, 700K Paying Creative Cloud Subscribers
Adobe just reported earnings for its second financial quarter of 2013. The company reported revenue of $1.011 billion and non-GAAP operating income of $247.3 for an earnings per share of $0.36 (though...
11:44 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Please Join Us For The 8th Annual August Capital Party: July 26 In Silicon Valley
It's that time of the year again for us nerds to infiltrate Sand Hill Road, let loose, and enjoy some good food and libations. We've been hosting the TechCrunch summer party with VC firm August Capita...
11:05 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Kazam Is Another European Startup Hoping Against Hope To Inch In To The Smartphone Hardware Market
Hardware is so hot right now. So hot, in fact, that another European hardware startup is formulating an attack on the smartphone hardware space -- joining the likes of Finland's Jolla and Spain's Geek...
10:09 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Weather Could Be Next On The Auction Block For Crowdsourced Data
Waze's big exit to Google proved one thing: if companies can harness the power of the crowd to deliver real-time, granular data, big tech corporations will be watching them closely as potential acquis...
09:45 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Google Updates Local Search Results On Desktop With Carousel Design
At the end of last year, Google introduced a new design for some local search results on tablets that put a carousel with the top results at the top of the page. Today, it’s bringing this design...
09:28 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Amazon's New Social Gifting Service Amazon Birthday Gift Leverages Facebook, Competes With Facebook's Own Gifts
Stealing a page right out of a startup called Aggregift's playbook, Amazon today launched a new feature called "Amazon Birthday Gift," which allows a group of Facebook friends to go in on an Amazon.co...
09:07 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Torch Browser Passes 10 Million Monthly Active Users, Adds Download Accelerator, Updates Torch Music Service
The world of alternative browsers is littered with also-rans like Rockmelt, but there are also companies that have managed to make a name for themselves in the shadow of Microsoft, Mozilla and Google....
09:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Rounds Brings Co-browsing To Mobile To Let Friends Surf The Web Together During Live Video Chats
Rounds, the video chat app and Israeli startup backed by $5.5 million in funding from Verizon Investments, Rhodium and DFJs Tim Draper among others, has been slowly expanding across platforms. Origina...
08:37 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Homejoy Announces A Perks Program, So Companies Can Pay To Clean Their Employees' Homes
As startups compete for the best talent, Homejoy is announcing a way for companies to offer employees an additional perk a clean home.Home cleanings may not a standard perk yet, but they're not an en...
08:15 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch TheLadders Debuts Its First-Ever iOS App, As It Aims To Make Being Mobile Last' Also Mobile Best
The mobile wave has been cresting for several years now, so when a decade-old web company is only now debuting its first ever native mobile app, it's a little late to the game. The folks at TheLadders...
08:07 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Developers Can Now Ship Hard Drives To Google To Import Large Amounts Of Data To Cloud Storage
Google just added a new service to Google Cloud Storage that will allow developers to send their hard drives to Google to import very large data sets that would otherwise be too expensive and time-con...
07:45 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch GetGlue Hires Digital Media Veteran Evan Krauss As President To Boost Monetization Of Its Second-Screen Apps
Second screen startup GetGlue just keeps on trucking. Originally launched as an app for checking in to your favorite TV shows and collecting stickers, the company has been steadily expanding its busin...
07:37 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch YC-Backed Filepicker.io Rebrands As Ink, Raises $1.8M From Andreessen Horowitz, Highland Capital & Others
Filepicker.io, the Y Combinator-backed "filesystem as a service," is today rebranding itself as "Ink File Picker," a name which, explains CEOBrett van Zuiden, stands for something much larger than the...
07:28 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch iZettle Takes Its Mobile Payment Service To Mexico, Its First Market Outside Of Europe, And One Step Closer To Square
iZettle, the mobile payments company that has been described as a European version of Square, is today making a move that puts it one national boundary away from the U.S. mobile payment company's own ...
07:11 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Minuum, The Super Simple Software Keyboard, Launches Android Beta Today
Toronto-based Whirlscape attracted plenty of attention when it first debuted its innovative Minuum software keyboard, and sought funding for the project on Indiegogo. Now, the project is moving forwar...
06:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Obvious-Incubated Lift Brings Its Smart Goal-Tracking And Self-Improvement App To The Browser And Mobile Web
Back in August, Lift launched the first rendition of its snappy-looking iPhone app that aims to help people build healthy habits and achieve their goals. Initially incubated and seed funded by Obvious...
06:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Maveron-Backed DarbySmart Launches DIY Crafting Marketplace For Fashion Accessories And More
While Pinterest has become a go-to destination for crafting ideas for accessories, parties, home design and more; the pinning giant (and Pinners) doesn't provide the instructions on how to actually ma...
05:50 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Reminder: TechCrunch Is Hitting The Balkans In Less Than A Month
Dobro utro, zdravo, and pozdravi, friends! In an effort to spread the good word about TC to the rest of Europe, I will be rolling through Sofia, Belgrade, Zagreb, and Ljubljana at the beginning of Jul...
05:48 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Battle For Family's Streaming Dollars Heats Up Between Netflix & Amazon, With Netflix Families Debut & Kindle FreeTime Expansion
Following a bit of backlash arising from the loss of popular Viacom-owned children's TV shows, Netflix today launched Netflix Families, which is essentially just a destination website designed to prom...
05:38 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch The Mini HTC One Will Be Called The HTC One Mini
There's plenty of information swirling about the HTC One Mini thus far, especially considering it's not an officially announced handset by any means. Still, we've seen pictures, learned about rumored ...
05:37 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Goji Is A Smart Lock For Your Home That Has Nothing To Do With Berries
Welcome to the era of the round, shiny in-home automation system. While Nest led the charge early on, a new device, called Goji, is taking up the mantle. The Goji is an automatic deadbolt that looks l...
05:34 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch SunnyBot Is A Solar-Powered Robot That Tracks The Sun To Reflect Sunlight Wherever You Want It
Here's a neat greentech idea currently seeking crowdfunding on Kickstarter. SunnyBot is a microcomputer-powered robot that continually tracks the position of the sun, angling its on-board mirror so th...
05:26 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Zuckerberg And Samsung Meet, Raising Questions About Facebook's Future Mobile Plans
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with Samsung President Shin Jong Kyun this week to discuss how the two companies might work together to help Facebook reap more revenue from advertising sales targeted...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch FiftyThree, Maker Of Drawing App Paper, Raises $15 Million From Andreessen Horowitz And Others
FiftyThree, the startup behind the wildly popular drawing app Paper, has closed a Series A round of financing from Andreessen Horowitz, we've learned. The investment was led by Chris Dixon, and could ...
04:58 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Nic Brisbourne Leaves DFJ Esprit To Help Forward Investment Partners Double-Down On VC Activity
There's some interesting news coming out of London today in the form of VC musical chairs. DFJ Esprit, the European VC firm that is also part of Silicon Valley's DFJ Global Network, has announced that...
04:02 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Yandex Takes Another Swipe At Google In Russia, Launches Yandex.Browser On iOS And Android
Yandex, referred to as the "Google of Russia" for its dominance in search and subsequent extension into cloud-based services like maps, online storage and apps, today is unveiling another service that...
03:33 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Tesla Battery Swapping Tech For Long Trips Without Charging Stops To Be Demoed June 20
Elon Musk took to Twitter early this morning (via Verge) to promote an event coming this Thursday that promises to show off new tech that allows quick swapping of Tesla battery packs for extended trip...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Filipino Gift-remittance Startup Ayannah Gets $1M Angel Round
Ayannah, a gift-remittance startup in the Philippines, just received $1 million in its first angel round. The company’s service is called Sendah, and allows Filipinos working overseas to pay for...
01:40 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Worried Who's Watching Your Web Browsing? Adafruit's Onion Pi Tor Proxy Project Creates A Private, Portable Wi-Fi Access Point
Adafruit Industries has put together a weekend project for people worried the NSA is watching how many reruns of Seinfeld they watch on their tablet. The Onion Pi Tor Proxy is a weekend project that u...
01:21 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Ad Giant WPP Takes Stake In Muzy, A Mobile Microblogging Startup With 20M Users
WPP, the advertising giant, is taking another step into the world of startup investments, this time specifically in mobile and social media. It is taking a stake in Muzy, a Pinterest-style social medi...
01:21 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Ad Giant WPP Leads $4.4M Round In Muzy, A Mobile Microblogging Startup With 20M Users
Advertising giant WPP is taking another step into the world of startup investments, this time specifically in mobile and social media. WPP Ventures, an investment arm of WPP digital, today announced a...
11:29 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Fear And Loathing OF Silicon Valley
Welcome to the Summer of 2013. Welcome to the summer when you’re not quite sure which of your Internet activities are being tracked. When you want to start Snapchattingeveryone because at least ...
11:00 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch MyFitnessPal Makes International Push With Versions In French, German, Spanish, And Portuguese
Popular exercise- and nutrition-tracking service MyFitnessPal is making its first significant effort to reach an international audience.Co-founder Mike Lee said that MyFitnessPal now has "well north o...
08:26 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Yahoo! Discloses Number Of Data Requests From U.S. Law Agencies, Says It Will Issue Transparency Report Soon
Yahoo! is now the latest tech company to disclose the number of government requests for data it has received over the past 18 months, prompted by the fallout from the NSA spying scandal. In a statemen...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Accel Closes $100M For Big Data Fund 2 To Invest In The Second Wave' Of Big Data Startups
The tech industry has been buzzing about "big data" for years now. And according to venture capital firm Accel Partners, the excitement around the big data space is not set to die down any time soon -...
07:25 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Yahoo Reportedly Offers $30M to $40M For Social Email Startup Xobni
Yahoo is offering to purchase social email startup Xobni for $30 million to $40 million, according to AllThingsD's sources. If the deal goes through, Xobni would be the latest acquisition by Yahoo as ...
07:25 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Yahoo! Reportedly Offers $30M to $40M For Social Email Startup Xobni
Yahoo is offering to purchase social email startup Xobni for $30 million to $40 million, according to AllThingsD's sources. If the deal goes through, Xobni would be the latest acquisition by Yahoo as ...
06:54 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Yahoo! Becomes Exclusive Partner Of 49ers Online Content
I get as excited as anyone thinking about the upcoming 49ers season. Quite a bit has happened since we were 5 years from winning the Super Bowl. The stadium was branded with the Levis logo, we got Anq...
05:40 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch If You Watch One Daft Punk Remix Performed By Robots (And Jack Conte) Today, Make It This One
Jack Conte, musician and founder of Patreon, has been on a tear lately with a set of unique music remixes performed by him and a group of pneumatic robots that fire off audio sequences to create some ...
05:13 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Why Was Apple Late To The PRISM Party?
If there’s one striking thing about those PRISM slides, other than their hideous aesthetics, it’s that Apple’s allocated yellow oval, instead of a date, has the words “(added O...
03:16 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Big Brands Are Growing More Quickly On Twitter Than Facebook (According To Optimal)
Here's a fun comparison from Optimal, a social advertising and analytics startup: If you look at big brands on social networks, their following seems to be growing more quickly on Twitter than on Face...
03:15 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Oculus VR Raises $16M To Build Their Crazy Virtual Reality Gaming Goggles
Following up on their massively successful $2.4M Kickstarter campagin, Oculus VR has just locked down a gigantic $16M Series A to help them build their truly amazing virtual reality goggles, the Ocul...
02:51 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Paltalk: It Was Flattering To Be Included In The PRISM Slidedeck
The eyesore of a Powerpoint deck that contractor Edward Snowden had leaked had globally recognized names: Microsoft. Google. Yahoo. Facebook. Apple. AOL. Skype. YouTube. The NSA had allegedly collabor...
02:48 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch With $1.9M From Venrock And Others, Trumaker Wants To Bring Made-To-Measure To The Masses
When most men go out to buy a casual shirt, they think of sizing in terms of small, medium, or large. But a new startup called Trumaker wants men to start expecting more from the fit of their day to d...
02:28 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch In First NSA Interview, Obama Can't Confirm If Courts Ever Rejected Spying Requests
President Obama finally took a sit-down interview on the National Security Agency scandal and we’ve pasted a partial transcript below. Disappointingly, most of it is (very) generic and defensive...
02:20 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Online Coupon Giant RetailMeNot (Formerly WhaleShark Media) Files For $230M IPO
Online coupon giant RetailMeNot has just filed for $230 million IPO, according to an S-1 released today....
12:47 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Living In The Future With The Form Labs Form 1
"The future is already here it's just not very evenly distributed," wrote William Gibson. He's right. Luckily, the future is mostly in my attic workshop.I've been lucky enough to have access to a For...
12:46 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Why Gaming Is Still A Great Bet For Investors
TechCrunch writer Kim-Mai Cutler and Benchmark Capital general partner Mitch Lasky recently wrote two insightful pieces on venture investment in games (here and here) both expressing some degree of s...
12:41 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2013
Techcrunch Win Admission To creativeLIVE's Secrets From Silicon Valley Workshop
Online education platform creativeLIVE is hosting a Secrets from Silicon Valley workshop later this week, where some of the Valleys best minds will be sharing their wisdom with just a handful of live ...
11:56 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Indonesian Instagram-Clone PicMix Gets Monetization Right From The Start
At first glance, the similarities between PicMix and Instagram are obvious. Both apps are photo sharing platforms with simple, square Polaroid-esque aesthetics, and display photos from friends in stre...
11:21 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Google Will Soon Start Selling Chromebooks At Walmart And Staples, Other Retailers Coming Soon
Google sure isn't giving up on its Chromebook initiative, even though it's not clear that the company's Chrome OS-based laptops are selling all that well. Today, Google announced that it's expanding i...
11:11 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Apple's 2013 13-Inch MacBook Air Sweetens The Deal For One Of The Best Available Computers
The MacBook Air was the only new Apple hardware to be announced and launched at WWDC this year (besides the new AirPort Extreme), and while it isn't a big change from the previous version, it packs so...
10:32 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch CrunchBase Daily, Everything You'll Need To Start The Day!
You know who you are. You check intoCrunchBaseevery day, maybe a few times, just to make sure your competition has not closed that new round. If you are that guy, CrunchBase is about to make your life...
10:30 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Squrl Updates iOS Apps To Simplify Video Discovery With Better Recommendations And Social Features
There is no shortage of apps on the market to help users find new, interesting videos to watch and enjoy. But video discovery startup Squrl still thinks there's work to be done. The company just relea...
10:27 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch GitHub Rolling Out Major Redesign, Emphasis On Speed, Content And Interactivity
GitHub is rolling out a major redesign over the next few days with the intent of putting more emphasis on content, speed and interactivity.A year in the making, the new redesign is meant to beoptimize...
10:11 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Sorry, Fashion Apps, Here Are 7 Apps Fashionistas Would Actually Use
This started out as a list titled Fashion Apps Actual Fashionistas Would Use, but in sifting through numerous style-centric apps, I realized that girls like Alexa Chung arent going to be using any of ...
10:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Truth Is Coming, And It Cannot Be Stopped: The Best Of Edward Snowden's Q&A
The most famous man on the lam, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, hasanswered reader questions in a live Q&A on the Guardian’s blog. Snowden skyrocketedto international fame/infamyafter leak...
09:53 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Encrypting Your Email Works, Says NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden
In the "ask me anything" format made famous by Reddit, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden returned to the Guardian's website this morning to answer questions from the general public as part of a live ev...
09:49 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Norway Cloud Service Touts NSA-Free Storage As Alternative To Dropbox, SkyDrive And Other U.S. Services
Jottacloud, a cloud storage service based in Norway, is promoting itself as a safe and secure haven, free of the NSA's long reach that it has with services such as SkyDrive, Dropbox and iCloud....
09:19 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Digg's Google Reader Replacement To Launch Next Week, Available To All By June 26
Digg today announced that the first public beta of its Google Reader replacement Digg Reader will launch next week and will be available to everybody by June 26th. Judging from the early screenshots t...
08:44 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch This Is The Best Ad Campaign In App History
What better way for an anti-social app to get noticed than by insulting its target audience? London-based app design studio ustwo has just put up a pair of billboards in the hipster heartland of Shore...
08:31 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Improves Windows Phone Voice Recognition: 2X Faster, 15% More Accurate
Google may have acquired Geoffrey Hinton's DNNresearch and is now using his technologies to power its Google+ photo search features, but the academic work Hinton did on deep neural networks (DNN) is n...
08:16 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Post $25M Funding, Russian Startup Ostrovok Slashes Staff To Aim For Break-Even
It was only in March that one of Russias hottest startups hotels booking service Ostrovok.ru - raised $25 million in a Series B round led by billionaire investor Yuri Milner. We said at the time that...
07:42 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Automattic Acquires iOS WordPress Client Poster To Improve Its Own Mobile Apps
Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, has acquired Poster, the popular iOS WordPress client. Its sole developer Tom Witkin will join the WordPress mobile team. Poster, which launched its 2....
07:29 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Sunrise Update Brings Foursquare, Crunchbase, And Google Maps Integration To The Already-Smart Calendar
Sunrise, the Google-friendly calendar app that focuses on design, may have some competition coming from iOS 7, but even with the added pressure, the Sunrise team is clearly making strides. Today, Sunr...
07:20 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Meet DotEEBubble, The Mysterious Estonian Start-Up Critic Who Throws Cold Water On Government-Backed Ventures
DotEEBubble is one of the most controversial startup blogs in the world and you've probably never heard of it. In the rah-rah world of entrepreneurs, accelerators, and incubators, it's rare to see muc...
07:20 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Meet DotEEBubble, The Mysterious Estonian Startup Critic Who Throws Cold Water On Government-Backed Ventures
DotEEBubble is one of the most controversial startup blogs in the world and you've probably never heard of it. In the rah-rah world of entrepreneurs, accelerators, and incubators, it's rare to see muc...
06:53 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Lumu Launches Kickstarter To Fund Its Digital Light Meter For iPhone-Owning Photographers
Last we saw Lumu Labs it was in Hardware Alley at Disrupt New York where the Slovenian startup was showing off a prototype of its digital light meter plus iPhone app -- aiming to convince photographer...
06:46 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Disconnect, An Ex-Googler's Social Enterprise/Privacy Startup, Raises $3.5M, Extends To More Browsers
As we continue to see more details brought to light in how the government requests and uses information about what we do on the web and on our mobile devices, an ex-Googler and a consumer rights attor...
06:41 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch iOS Platform Of Choice For Shoppers, All But Biggest Companies Focus On iOS And Android
Apple retains the top spot when it comes for uses making actual purchases on their mobile devices, according to a new Forrester report. iOS shoppers are around 30 percent more likely to make a purchas...
06:16 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Skype Brings Free Video Messaging Out Of Preview, Redefines Visual Voicemail'
Skype has just announced that the previously beta video messaging feature it's been testing is now a proper release feature of its Skype applications for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackB...
06:02 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Sign Up Now For The Seattle TC Meetup Plus Pitch-Off
In little more than a month from now, TechCrunch will host our first ever meetup + pitch-off in Seattle. We're stoked. Coffee, rain, more coffee, followed by more rain. It's going to be epic.General a...
05:53 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch PIP Is A Bluetooth Biosensor That Aims To Use Your Phone To Gamify Beating Stress
Irish startup Galvanic has just launched a Kickstarter to crowdsource funding a wireless stress biosensor it's calling PIP. PIP is a Bluetooth biosensor that monitors its user's stress levels by measu...
05:03 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch With More Than 2.5B Monthly Video Views, Fullscreen Closes Funding From Chernin Group, Comcast, And WPP
Online multichannel network Fullscreen has become the latest in a series of YouTube partners to raise funding. The company has officially closed a funding round led by The Chernin Group, which also in...
04:13 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Amazon's Grocery Business Learns From Webvan That Rapid Growth Is The Enemy Of Fresh
Amazon is moving deeper into at-home grocery delivery with AmazonFresh, which is expanding to L.A. as of last week, and which is set to continue to roll out to further markets over the course of this ...
03:55 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Source: Instagram Will Get Video On June 20
We've been working on getting more details on a press event that Facebook is having this week. Earlier, we wrote it could launch a news-reading app, but we have since heard more details that point to ...
02:46 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Netflix Keeps Driving For Original Content, Inks Largest Deal Yet For DreamWorks' Characters
Netflix has been using original programming to power its Internet-TV business, luring viewers to flagship programming such as House of Cards. Today another development showing no let up in its strateg...
11:19 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Reveals Number of Customer Data Requests From U.S. Law Agencies, Repeats Denial Of Prism Involvement
Apple posted a press release on its site reaffirming its "commitment to customer privacy" and stating that it first heard of the Prism program when questioned by news organizations on June 6. The comp...
11:00 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Supreme Court Ruling On Gene Patenting May Be A Boon For Biotech Startups
Buried in the ongoing PRISM debacle, there was actually some hopeful news out of Washington D.C. for startups this week. The Supreme Court ruled this week that naturally occurring genes can’t be...
10:00 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Social Web Privacy Wonk Andrew Keen Weighs In On PRISM - With More Than Just I Told Ya So' [TCTV]
Earlier this month many people were surprised to hear the revelation that a number of major web companies may have granted user data access to the U.S. government through a secret program called PRISM...
09:46 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Samsung Galaxy Owners Will Get Jay-Z's New Album For Free 72 Hours Before Its Official Release
If you own a Samsung Galaxy and are a Jay-Z fan, then you will probably be thrilled to hear that Samsung is giving away one million copies of "Magna Carta Holy Grail" to owners of its flagship smartph...
09:37 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Unofficial Vine App 6Sec Finally Lets Windows Phone Users Upload Their Own Micro Movies
A few people have taken up the challenge of bringing some kind of Vine support to Windows Phone, but so far all the ersatz Vine apps in the Windows Marketplace do is let people view those 6 second cli...
09:01 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch As Hardware Startups Take Off, Materials And Technology Marketplace Inventables Raises $3M
Chicago-based Inventables, a marketplace for technology and materials for developers and designers, has raised $3 million in new funding led by Tim Draper (via Draper Associates) with Dundee Venture C...
08:00 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Agent Smartwatch Banks On Design, Developers, Distribution To Survive Battle
Editors note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive.Stop me if youve heard this one. A guy walks into a watch store and... a smartwatch business partnership is...
06:21 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Thanks, Dads
My father put together a Heathkit shortwave radio in his youth. The radio is still there in my childhood home. He's still alive so this isn't saccharine reminisces of a man who passed. Dad still sits ...
06:00 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch The YouTube Paradox And The Off-YouTube Solution
A growing number of YouTube creators and multichannel networks are beginning to grumble about the revenue share that the site has with its partners and their inability to monetize their huge audience ...
04:34 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Is Building A Beautiful New Store To Overshadow Microsoft In Palo Alto [Images]
Apple is building a big, visually stunning store in the Stanford shopping center. A few hundred yards from the construction site sits a small, modest Apple location. Last spring, Microsoft opened a fl...
03:54 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch U.S. Government Denies Reports That NSA Analysts Can Listen To Domestic Calls Without Legal Authorization
Yesterday, a CNET story that alleged that the NSA disclosed during a secret Capital Hill briefing that its analysts can listen to domestic phone calls "simply based on an analyst deciding that," got a...
03:54 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch U.S. Government Denies Reports That NSA Listens To Domestic Calls Without Legal Authorization
Yesterday, a CNET story that alleged that the NSA disclosed during a secret Capital Hill briefing that its analysts can listen to domestic phone calls "simply based on an analyst deciding that," got a...
01:00 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch What Games Are: E3 Was Wild, But AAA Games Are Still A Mess
E3 was wild and loud, and Sony seemed to rise while Microsoft fell low. Yet it doesn't really change anything as regards the long-term future of big budget consoe games. With costs continuing to escal...
12:22 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2013
Techcrunch Speed And Automating The Connections Between Humans And Machines In The API Economy
This coming Friday night, Ill be at the API Days conference in San Francisco to talk for a few minutes about my perspectives of the API economy.I am not a developer -- just an observer -- so my views ...
10:38 pm GMT - Sun, June 16, 2013
Techcrunch Mayor Bloomberg Tells Stanford Graduates To Go To NYC For Tech
No other University in the world has so profoundly shaped our modern age," New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said today in his commencement speech at Stanford University. Bloomberg's speech was re...
09:47 pm GMT - Sun, June 16, 2013
Techcrunch Google Pledges $5M To Fight Online Child Exploitation
The Internet has plenty of dark corners, but one of the darkest is surely the growing number of sites that traffic in child pornography. Google, which has no interest in surfacing any of these sites a...
09:00 pm GMT - Sun, June 16, 2013
Techcrunch Iterations: Man Vs. (The Government) Machine
In 2013, we have seen a reincarnation of man vs. machine, except this time, the machines arent algorithms -- the machine is government. Within a few months, various levels of government across the Uni...
08:19 pm GMT - Sun, June 16, 2013
Techcrunch A Handy Guide For Comparing Spying Vs. Terrorism Disaster Scenarios
The week’s news has been a fear-mongering marathon between civil libertarians who are convinced we’re on the road to becoming North Korea, and security hawks who are building bunkers for t...
07:30 pm GMT - Sun, June 16, 2013
Techcrunch Sciencescape Wants To Solve Academic Research Discoverability, Deal With The Noise Problem
Toronto-based startup Sciencescape came about because of a problem that was significant enough to lure co-founder Sam Molyneux away from a bourgeoning career as a cancer researcher, and into a new ven...
10:30 am GMT - Sun, June 16, 2013
Techcrunch Up Close With Casio's Latest Edifice Surf Watch
With summer coming and surf season in full swing, I thought I'd take a closer look at the Casio EMA100-1AV Edifice watch with tide graph and moon-phase data. Casio is best known for their G-Shock line...
08:00 am GMT - Sun, June 16, 2013
Techcrunch The Curse Of The Network Effect
Editor’s Note: Nir Eyal writes about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business for Dashboard.io and on his blog NirAndFar.com. Follow @dashboard_ioand @nireyal. Ethan Stock lived ...
07:08 am GMT - Sun, June 16, 2013
Techcrunch For Some Reason, Square's Hiring Page Listed Chirply And SeatMe As Potential Acquisitions'
So, this is weird. Earlier today, if you visited the Square's hiring page on Jobvite, there were two unusual job listings, one for "Chirply Potential Acquisition" and another for "SeatMe Potential A...
05:00 am GMT - Sun, June 16, 2013
Techcrunch The Secret Science Behind Big Data And Word Of Mouth
Editor's note:Jonah Berger is a marketing professor at the Wharton School and author of the New York Times bestseller Contagious: Why Things Catch On.Why do some companies, products and services get m...
03:40 am GMT - Sun, June 16, 2013
Techcrunch Hampton Creek Foods Shows Off Its Egg-Less Scrambled Eggs
Hampton Creek Foods, a food tech startup backed by Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund, is getting ready to expand beyond its initial product Beyond Eggs though it's not leaving eggs behind entirely.The...
02:11 am GMT - Sun, June 16, 2013
Techcrunch Tristan O'Tierney, Square's Co-Founder And Early iOS Engineer, Leaves For Destinations Unknown
Tristan O'Tierney, a co-founder at payment company Square, announced via tweet that yesterday was his last day at the company.O'Tierney is less well-known than his co-founders, particularly the compan...
02:00 am GMT - Sun, June 16, 2013
Techcrunch Blue Apps Are All Around But Blue Tones Get Less Of A Role In iOS 7s Psychedelic Redesign
Why are so many apps blue? The obvious answer is many tech brands contain blue in their logo or tradedress. But why? What's with the love of blue tones? I ask because the number of blue icons on my ph...
01:00 am GMT - Sun, June 16, 2013
Techcrunch Doing Mobile Monetization The Right Way
Editor's note:ChrisMoore is a partner at Redpoint Ventures where he focuses on making investments inconsumer Internet, online marketing and SaaS companies. This year alone, there is an $11.4 billion m...
12:08 am GMT - Sun, June 16, 2013
Techcrunch CrunchWeek: Path's $1B Valuation, Google's Waze Buy And The WWDC Recap
It's that time of the week for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the weekly show where three of us writers plop ourselves down in the TechCrunch TV studio for some real talk about the most interesting stor...
11:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch Silicon Valley Real Estate Update: The Craziest Market In The U.S. Just Got A Little Less Crazy
Editors note:Glenn Kelman is the CEO of Redfin, a technology-powered real estate broker backed by Madrona Venture Group and Greylock Partners.Well what do you know! After writing on TechCrunch for the...
09:24 pm GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch Security Psychology And Why Even Messy Numbers Of Government Data Demands Are Valuable
People assume the worst. So when it comes to counting government "requests" for private data, a hard number, even a high number, is far better than the fear of infinity. That's why tech giants are fig...
07:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch Diary Of A 5,000-Hours-Per-Year Internet Troll
Editors note:James Altucheris an investor, programmer, author, and several-timesentrepreneur.I know you do it. We all act like we don't do it, like we're all pristine human beings who WOULD NEVER do p...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch Can BuzzFeed Be Stopped?
It's been a good week for old media. The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal have all done a superb job of reporting on the NSA/PRISM revelations. Unfortunat...
03:58 pm GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch Disrupt Europe Startup Battlefield Deadline Is Approaching - $50,000 Is At Stake
Calling all startups from Europe, the Middle East and Africa. We want you. For the very first time, the full TechCrunch Disrupt conference (complete with the main TechCrunch Editors and Writers) is co...
08:58 am GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch Google X Announces Project Loon: Balloon-Powered Internet For Rural, Remote And Underserved Areas
Google X, the secretive lab behind projects like Google Glass and Google's self-driving cars, announced its latest project today: balloon-powered Internet access for those areas of the earth where reg...
08:00 am GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch Trading Faster Than The Speed Of Reality
Editor's note:Michael Wellman is a professor of computerscience and engineering at the University of Michigan College of Engineering.At1:07 p.m.onApril 23, a hijacked AP Twitter account falsely report...
05:32 am GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Makes The First Big Dent On FISA, Releases Data On All Requests It Has Received From The U.S. Government
As the PRISM scandal shows no signs of dying down in the public consciousness, Facebook just released the fullest account to date of the requests it has received from United States law enforcement and...
05:32 am GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Makes The First Big Dent On FISA, Releases Data On All Requests Received From The U.S. Government
As the PRISM scandal shows no signs of dying down in the public consciousness, Facebook just released the fullest account to date of the requests it has received from United States law enforcement and...
05:32 am GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Makes The First Big Dent On FISA, Releases Data On All U.S. Government Data Requests
Updated. As the PRISM scandal shows no signs of dying down in the public consciousness, Facebook has just released the fullest account to date of the requests it has received from United States law en...
03:06 am GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch Elastic Path Raises $8M For Commerce Everywhere API Platform
Elastic Path has raised an $8 million debt round to fuel the development of its "commerce everywhere," API -- a hypermedia platform that abstracts backend complexity for the front-end developer and bu...
02:15 am GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch Google Quietly Kills Quick View For Wikipedia Results In Mobile Search
In April, Google announced a couple of new features that were meant to speed up mobile browsing. Among them was "Quick view," an experimental feature that added a badge to Wikipedia results on Google'...
01:45 am GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch Ask A VC: Canaan Partners' Maha Ibrahim On Why There Aren't More Women VCs
In this week's Ask A VC epsiode, we had Canaan Partners' Maha Ibrahim in the studio to chat about her perspective on social gaming, and more.Ibrahim, who has worked at Canaan since 2000, invests in cl...
01:39 am GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch Jack Dorsey, Mayors Bloomberg And Lee Will Co-Host Digital Summit On Sept 30th
Square CEO Jack Dorsey and the Mayors of New York City and New York announced today that they will be collaborating on a digital technology summit, to be hosted on September 30th in the Big Apple. At ...
01:38 am GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch With Big-Name Backing And Some eBay Flavor, These Startups Are Looking Shake Up The Art Market
Ebay is generally credited with being the first company to bring auctions -- a system that, for nearly 2,500 years, had exclusively taken place live in noisy, public (and offline) forums -- into the D...
01:38 am GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch With Big-Name Backing And Some eBay Flavor, These Startups Are Looking To Shake Up The Art Market
Ebay is generally credited with being the first company to bring auctions -- a system that, for nearly 2,500 years, had exclusively taken place live in noisy, public (and offline) forums -- into the D...
12:54 am GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Will Likely Launch A News Reader At June 20th Press Event
The upcoming death of Google Reader, RSS code in Facebook API, and the recent launch of hashtags signal that Facebook will likely launch a news reader at the June 20th press event it’s just sent...
12:54 am GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Will Launch A News Reader At June 20th Press Event
The upcoming death of Google Reader, mentions of RSS in Facebook's code, and the addition of hashtags signal Facebook will likely launch a news reader at the June 20th press event it's just sent out m...
12:39 am GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch Finally, Someone Likens Parenting To Marketing
You know what’s worse than waiting all day for an app (an app!) to get back to you? The fact that an article called “Fathers Day: Whats yourROI?” exists. Finally, someone likens pare...
12:31 am GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch Teenage Musician Uses The Crowdfunded Loog Guitar To Crowdfund Her Album
When we last left off with the Loog Guitar by Rafael Atijas it had blown past its funding goals on Kickstarter in early 2011 and shipped with much fanfare making it one of the first successful Kicksta...
12:19 am GMT - Sat, June 15, 2013
Techcrunch Groove Playlist Generation App Tops 85,000 Downloads In One Day After Going Free
Groove is a Canadian-made mobile app that's tearing up the charts, reaching a top 1o spot in over 30 countries, and climbing to number 1 in the Canadian app store over other music apps including Rdio ...
11:43 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Como Ha Crecido Path? By Buying Ads In Spanish
The mystery of Path’s mysterious growth deepens. The app, which has been around for nearly three years, miraculously jumped up the charts from between 500th and 600th place to the teens on the f...
11:43 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Cmo Ha Crecido Path? By Buying Ads In Spanish
The mystery of Path’s mysterious growth deepens. The app, which has been around for nearly three years, miraculously jumped up the charts from between 500th and 600th place to the teens on the f...
11:38 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Heyzap Says Its Mobile Ad Network Has Grown To 800 Games (And Makes Up The Majority Of Its Revenue)
Back in March, I wrote about how Heyzap was introducing advertising to its mobile gaming platform. Now co-founder Jude Gomila says the company has become a significant player in mobile advertising.Spe...
11:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: E3, The Death Of Symbian, And WWDC
It was a big week in gadgets, and thus, a big TC Gadgets podcast it shall be. This week, we discuss developments at E3, including Xbox One and PS4 pricing, the death of Nokia's Symbian OS, and of cour...
10:28 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch iOS 7 Eliminates MAC Address As Tracking Option, Signaling Final Push Towards Apple's Own Ad Identifier Technology
Apple has now taken another step to push app publishers to use its preferredad tracking option, the Identifier for Advertisers(IDFA), with the debut of the iOS 7 beta. Confirming what many have suspec...
09:26 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Disrupt SF Is Around The Corner So Submit Your Startup Battlefield Applications By June 19th
TechCrunch Disrupt SF is back! We're very excited to announce tickets are on sale and that companies in stealth mode can apply for Startup Battlefield for until Wednesday, the 19. After that, we're pu...
09:23 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch PiCloud Is A Model Cloud Made Of Raspberry Pi & LEGO For Teaching Students About Web Platforms
Here's another interesting implementation of the $35 Raspberry Pi microcromputer -- or rather a stack of 56 Pis, linked together to form a model web platform called PiCloud, using LEGO bricks as bespo...
09:16 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Optimizely Explains How It Boosted SimCity Pre-Order Revenue
Here's an example of a company using Optimizely's A/B testing tools for a high-profile game launch.The startup, which recently raised a $28 million Series A, is releasing a case study today about how ...
09:06 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Fly Or Die: Divvy
As photo-sharing truly hits its stride, an entire ecosystem is born around it. But what is creation without consumption? That's what Divvy is all about. We met the folks behind Divvy at the TC Meetup ...
08:55 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Adds Support For Google Cloud Messaging, Git And Custom APIs To Azure Mobile Services
Microsoft today announced a number of updates to its Azure Mobile Services that include support for Git source control, custom APIs and Android push notifications through Google Cloud Messaging to its...
08:33 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Some Foreign Telcos Reportedly Defied NSA Phone Spying Order
T-Mobile and Verizon reportedly refused to kowtow to the National Security Agency's demand to collect all phone call records. According to the Wall Street Journal, because T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wir...
08:29 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Me Books Brings Children's Favorite Books To iPad, Lets You Be The Narrator
Many of the children's e-book applications for iPad today use a combination of animations, video or even games to make books more "interactive" for their young readers. Me Books, a London-based digita...
08:28 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Silicon Valley To London, Passion Capital Hires Ex-Facebook Recruiter As Head Of Talent
Hoping to lighten the recruitment burden for its portfolio companies, Passion Capital, the London-based early-stageVC, has announced that it's hired ex-Facebooker Melissa Trahan to the new position of...
08:13 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Mozilla Launches ScienceLab To Help Researchers Use The Open Web To Shape Science's Future
Mozilla today launched a new initiative that's a bit different from the usual standards-based web projects the organization is usually involved in. Mozilla's ScienceLab, which will be led by open scie...
08:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch eBay Gets Physical With A Street-Side Sales Kiosk For Kate Spade Saturday
On the heels of eBay CEO John Donahoes statement at TC Disrupt in April that the company would be using mobile technology to push further into offline commerce, eBays Retail Innovation team unveiled i...
07:58 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Koge Looks To Shake Up The Vitamin Industry With Subscription Service, Personalized Combinations
Vitamin sales is big business: in the U.S. alone in 2012, it was worth $9.3 billion in sales, and the opportunity is only growing, as more consumers turn to preventative medicine and health strategies...
07:54 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Samsung Flaunts Its Smartphone Lead By Opening An R&D Center On Nokia's Doorstep
Not content with following Nokia's past playbook, by saturating the mobile market with countless iterations of its smartphone hardware, pushing a whole Galaxy of gizmos at every price point and form-f...
07:26 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Path Is On The Path To New Funding, Approaching $1B Valuation
We’re hearing from multiple sources that private social network Path is raising a new round of funding — that could value the company as high as $1 billion. According to one source, the co...
07:04 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch With Waze, Google Gets Access To Social Mapping Data - And A Possible Lawsuit From Nokia
The Google deal to buy Waze — reportedly for $1.1 billion — is a strong move for both companies to enhance their respective mapping services, and to help monetize them better. But it could...
07:04 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch With Waze, Google Gets Access To Social Mapping Data - And Patent Legal Heat From Nokia
The Google deal to buy Waze — reportedly for $1.1 billion — is a strong move for both companies to enhance their respective mapping services, and to help monetize them better. But it could...
07:04 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch With Waze, Google Gets Access To Social Mapping Data - And Possible Patent Legal Heat From Nokia
The Google deal to buy Waze — reportedly for $1.1 billion — is a strong move for both companies to enhance their respective mapping services, and to help monetize them better. But it could...
07:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Plum District Has Acquired AngelPad-Backed Spotivate For An Undisclosed Amount
Plum District, the hyperlocal deals site built by moms, for moms, has just acquired Spotivate, a startup led by ex-Googler Anthony Lee and former Telenav engineer Jorge Chang that launched out of Ange...
06:32 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch I Think We Can All Agree This Is Better Than Apple's iOS 7 Redesign, Right?
Lisa Frank. Dayglo Barbie. Rainbow unicorn. Fisher Price.A mess, trouble, confusing. Marketing department. What are, "words used to describe the iOS 7 redesign," Alex? Now that the Apple keynote beer ...
06:09 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Neighborhood-Oriented Social Network Nextdoor Adds Mayor Bloomberg And NYC As Its Newest Users
Nextdoor, the company for creating private social networks accessible only to your local neighbors, has had a lot of people join since it first launched in 2011: More than 14,100 neighborhoods have be...
06:05 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch EU Digital Commissioner Vows To Protect European Citizens from PRISM
Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission and the Commissioner for Europe's Digital Agenda has vowed to protect EU citizens from privacy invasion by outside entities like the PRISM monit...
06:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch ZEFR Launches BrandID To Give Advanced YouTube Analytics And Tools To Brands
Over the past year, Los Angeles-based startup ZEFR has been using its technology platform to help content owners identify and monetize videos on YouTube that have been uploaded by fans. Now its hoping...
05:45 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch BRIKA Wants To Tell Maker Stories, Help Handicrafts Become Haute Couture
Toronto-based startup and Extreme Startups Spring 2013 cohort member BRIKA is a sort of Etsy meets Fab company, with the goal of taking the current maker movement and helping it reach a broad and disc...
05:32 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Hey Silicon Valley, The British Are Coming (To Learn Your Startup Secrets)
Doing a startup in Europe is challenging for many reasons. The can-do attitude of Silicon Valley is undoubtedly fuelled in part by the amount of investor money flying around. But that's not the only r...
04:54 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Dots Updates iPad App For Improved Full Screen Gaming
It was but two weeks ago that Dots, the highly addictive connect-the-dots-style betaworks-backed game, migrated the app to the iPad and added multiplayer support. Today, however, the company has a bra...
04:54 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Dots Updates iPad App For Improved Full-Screen Gaming
It was but two weeks ago that Dots, the highly addictive connect-the-dots-style betaworks-backed game, migrated the app to the iPad and added multiplayer support. Today, however, the company has a bra...
04:45 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch If Office Hits The iPad, Even Fewer People Would Buy A Surface
Remember this ad? The ad where Microsoft attempts to position the iPad as a chopstick-playing toy and the Surface as a PowerPoint-editing machine? Yeah, that's why we can't have nice things. ...
04:35 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Songbird Sings Its Last Tune As Music Service Runs Out Of Money And Plans To Shut Down June 28
Songbird, an early digital music service that aimed to compete against the iTunes, Pandoras and Spotifies of this world with an open source platform, is shutting down on June 28, after running out of ...
03:28 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Releases Free Office For iPhone App, But Only For Office 365 Subscribers
Microsoft Office has finally arrived on iOS in an official app released by Microsoft itself, and it's free to download, but to use it there's a considerable catch: you need to be an Office 365 subscri...
06:58 am GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Online Banking Startup Simple Finally Makes It Easier To Move Money Into Your Account
Online banking startup Simple has made some serious strides since it opened up to the public last year, but there's one thing the service has just never been that great at: transferring money from one...
06:51 am GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Makerbot Updates Their Design Software And Firmware To Make 3D Printing Easier
Makerbot, besides making a darn nice printer, offers some amazing software for laying out and printing objects. Their product, Makerware, is free to download and use and supports some other 3D printer...
06:22 am GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch CenturyLink Acquring AppFog To Move Into Platform-As-A-Service Market
According to a source within the company, CenturyLink is acquiring AppFog, a platform-as-a-service company. Terms of the deal were not revealed. AppFog will become part of Savvis, a Century Link compa...
06:22 am GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch CenturyLink Acquiring AppFog To Move Into Platform-As-A-Service Market
According to a source within the company, CenturyLink is acquiring AppFog, a platform-as-a-service company. Terms of the deal were not revealed. AppFog will become part of Savvis, a Century Link compa...
05:20 am GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Inside The Storenvy Pop-Up Shop, Where E-Commerce Meets Brick And Mortar [TCTV]
Some people are afraid that online shopping will lead to the death of brick and mortar retail (and a spate of empty storefronts on our streets.) But Storenvy, the online marketplace that lets independ...
05:11 am GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Google Shuts Down Mobile Ad Aggregator AdWhirl, Asks Developers To Use AdMob Mediation Instead
Google, the worldwide leader in mobile advertising, today made another move that could help consolidate its position a little bit further. The company today announced to developers that it would be sh...
05:11 am GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Google To Shut Down Mobile Ad Aggregator AdWhirl Sept 30, Points Developers To AdMob Mediation
Google, the worldwide leader in mobile advertising, today made another move that could help consolidate its position a little bit further. The company today announced to developers that it would be sh...
05:00 am GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch GoodData Raises $22M From Latin America's Largest Enterprise Software Company
GoodDatahas raised$22 million in a Series D round, with funding led by Sao-Paulo-based TOTVS Ventures, the investment arm ofTOTVS S.A., the largest enterprise software company in Latin America. Also p...
04:17 am GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Lucas And Spielberg Predict Massive Implosion Of Hollywood Caused By Tech Industry
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg aren't so bullish on the future of the film industry. At a talk at USC, the pair agreed that it's on track to have a "massive implosion". At the core of their argumen...
03:57 am GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Extreme Startups Demo Day Wrap Up: Canadian Startups Make A Strong Showing
Today was the Extreme Startups Spring 2013 Demo Day in Toronto, and the cohort of five startups all delivered. The list this time included Brika, Instaradio, Koge, Polychart and Sciencescape. It was a...
03:41 am GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Smile! Hackers Can Silently Access Your Webcam Right Through The Browser (Again)
You know those people who put tape over their laptop's webcam to keep digital peeping toms at bay? They're not crazy.A new proof of concept is making the rounds today that demonstrates how a hacker ca...
03:34 am GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Disrupt Darling Trustev Wins Europe's Top Startup Award
An EU Commission has named Trustev as the EU's Top Startup, a prestigious that places the company head and shoulders above thousands of applicants. They announced the win the Finder's Forum in London....
03:18 am GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch A Look Back On Symbian On The Eve Of Its Demise
This summer the veteran Symbian platform, which started life back when handhelds weren't phones but PDAs, will quietly pass into development history. Or at least its primary supporter over the years -...
01:37 am GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch Glossi Adds Monetization To Its Digital Magazine Platform By Partnering With RewardStyle
When digital publishing platform Glossi launched its public beta last December, it hadn't quite addressed one of the big questions that revolves around any "future of media"-type platform how publish...
12:08 am GMT - Fri, June 14, 2013
Techcrunch GitHub Adds Maps To Give A View Of A Developer's Geodata
The ability to visualize geodata as a map is the latest feature GitHub is offering developers. The new capability adds to GitHub's family of visualization tools that now includes the ability to render...
11:44 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Tunebox Is An iTunes Match-Like App For Dropbox Music Files
When Dropbox bought Audiogalaxy late last year, industry observers wondered if cloud music player startup could turn into a new audio streaming product. But Audiogalaxy was promptly shut down, and the...
11:15 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Senators Say No Evidence NSA Spying Prevented Attacks
I just got flashbacks of seeing congressmen debate on C-SPAN whether there were, in fact, any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Only a decade ago, Members of select intelligence committees saw iden...
11:05 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch VigLink's Affiliate Links Get More Up-To-Date (And Lucrative) With A New Link Optimizer
VigLink is announcing an update to its VigLink Convert product that should help affiliate links stay up-to-date.The company promises to make publishers more money through affiliate links,i.e. links to...
10:13 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Google To Retire Chrome Frame For Internet Explorer And End Support Next January
Google just announced that it is retiring Chrome Frame, its open source plug-in for bringing Google Chrome's JavaScript and rendering engine to legacy versions of Internet Explorer. The company cites ...
10:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Begins Its Ad Consolidation By Eliminating Sponsored Results' In Search
Last week, Facebook announced that it will be streamlining the ad-buying process by eliminating more than half of its 27 ad units. Today it's taking one step towards that goal by announcing that it wi...
09:46 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch API Code Could Point To Facebook Building An RSS Reader
Move over Reeder, Feedly, Digg, NewsBlur, Feedbin and the rest of the RSS players who hope to pick up some new users with the impending demise of Google Reader. Facebook may also be looking to wade in...
08:59 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Betting On The Reinvention Of Local,' Sequoia Leads Thumbtack's $12.5M Series B
Thumbtack, a marketplace for local service providers, has raised a $12.5 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital.When co-founder and CEO Marco Zappacosta told me about the funding, he said he's excite...
08:59 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Google Adds 1,000 New Locations From Asia, Europe, Latin America, the U.S. and Canada To Street View
Google today launched a large update to Google Maps that adds more than 1,000 new locations from around the world to the service’s Street View feature. These include numerous locations that can&...
08:57 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Boatbound Launches Pier-To-Pier' Boat Rental Marketplace
Today Boatbound, the Airbnb for boats, launches its service to help boat owners offset the cost of ownership and let more people experience the joys of the water. With over $1 million in funding led b...
08:49 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Former WebEx President Joins RingCentral For The Office Move To The Cloud
RingCentral has hired David Berman, a former high-ranking executive from WebEx, a move that shows the market significance of a cloud-based approach to routing calls to different mobile devices similar...
08:44 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Sony Turns Its Lackluster SmartWatch Into A Developer Playground
Back during the heady days of 2012, before the Pebble raised a crazy amount of money on Kickstarter, Sony quietly released an Android-compatible smartwatch of its own. By most accounts it wasn't very ...
08:30 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Foursquare Tries To Find Revenue By Turning Your Data Into A Samsung Galaxy S4 Ad
Foursquare this morning has launched a pretty newvisualization feature called Foursquare Time Machine, which offers a new way to view a history of your check-ins on an interactive map. And oh, it's al...
08:22 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch British Airways' In-Flight Hackathon Spawns Solutions To The Engineering Crunch
An 11-hour flight, 150 techies, and one problem: How do we educate more engineers? This was the premise for the British Airways UnGrounded “Innovation Lab In The Sky.” While heavy on ideas...
08:21 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft To Set Up Windows Stores In 600 Best Buy Locations, Launching This Summer
Microsoft today announced that it is partnering with Best Buy to set up its own store-within-a-store in 500 Best Buy locations in the U.S. and 100 Best Buy and Future Shop locations in Canada. These s...
07:50 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch What Are Millennials' Favorite Kind Of Apps? (Hint: Not Games)
At theSourceDigital13 conference this morning, Flurry CEO Simon Khalaf offered a look into how mobile users on iOS are spending their time in apps, as well as the differences between men and women's a...
07:50 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Mobile Games Not As Popular With Millennials, Compared With Other Smartphone Users
At theSourceDigital13 conference this morning, Flurry CEO Simon Khalaf offered a look into how mobile users on iOS are spending their time in apps, as well as the differences between men and women's a...
06:56 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch The HTC One Mini Is The Perfect Robin To The One's Batman
The days of a standard phone size are gone. 3.5-inch? 4.3-inch? 5-inch? Phone makers are less concerned with which size is right, and clearly becoming more concerned with offering as many sizes as pos...
06:26 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Social Commerce Service Fancy Goes International, Now Ships Worldwide
Fancy, the one-time Pinterest competitor which has long since set its sights on social e-commerce, is expanding its reach today with the launch of its internationalization efforts. The company is now ...
05:51 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch In The Shadow Of YouTube, Vuclip Grows Its Mobile Video Network To 80M Uniques, Fends Off Suitors And Eyes Up Acquisitions
When it comes to online video networks, Google's YouTube is the oversized and undisputed king of the hill with 1 billion monthly unique visitors. Yet that domination sometimes obscures some of the int...
05:23 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Twitter Opens Up Tweet Performance Analytics To All, For Free
Twitter now provides you with pretty extensive metrics and analytics for the performance of your tweets via its Ads dashboard (via TNW), in a move that looks designed to get more people (including ind...
05:10 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Social Tech Entrepreneurs Get 1M Grant To Address UK And Global Social Issues
One of the areas of the tech scene in the UK which has received a lot of enthusiasm in the UK has been social entrepreneurship, especially in tech. But until now, not a great deal of money has gone in...
05:10 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Google, CodeAcademy And Mozilla Back Launch Of Code Club World
Codecademy has been a huge story in the last could of years. Now a new player his emerging with a complimentary real-world model. Code Club, a UK network of volunteer led after school coding clubs, is...
05:05 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Amazon Creates A 3D Printing Store, Vaulting The Technology Into The Mainstream
If you thought you and your RepRap were safe from posers, you're sunk: Amazon has just opened a store for 3D printers and printer accessories that seems to, at the very least, allow smaller manufactur...
03:50 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Reportedly Trying 4.7- and 5.7-Inch Screens On iPhones Next Year, Cheaper Model Coming In Fall
Apple is looking at various changes to its iPhone lineup over the course of the next year, according to a new report from Reuters, including two sizes of larger smartphone devices, in both a 4.7-inch ...
03:30 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Social Gifting App Maker Wrapp Closes On $15 Million In Series B Funding
There is a very real "crunch" going on at the Series A and Series B levels of funding, as a number of startups that launched to great enthusiasm a few years back are having trouble getting more suppor...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch CloudFlare's Mirage 2.0 Speeds Up Mobile Sites By Using Virtualized Images And Minimizing Requests
About a year ago, CloudFlare launched Mirage, a service for its paying users that aimed to speed up website loading times by delivering smaller images and using "lazy load" to just download images tha...
02:45 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch What's Fueling Growth In The Fragmented World Of Messaging Apps? Immigrants.
Even though it might seem intuitive that one messaging app will rule them all, WeChat, Line, WhatsApp and others are proving that messaging remains a stubbornly fragmented category with many geographi...
02:14 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch WhatsApp Still Killing It By Messaging Volume Despite Free Rivals Crowding In
Along with Skype, WhatsApp is the grand daddy of the mobile messaging app space. But despite its relative great age it appears to be continuing to build usage momentum. Earlier today WhatsApp announce...
02:05 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Encap Raises $2M For A Mobile ID App As An Alternative Two-Factor Authentication
As high-profile sites like Twitter, Google,and most recently Evernoteand LinkedIn turn to two-factor authentication to help their users protect themselves from malicious hackers and security breaches,...
01:34 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Tuenti Launches Zero Cost Data Tied To Its Social Network (With PRISM-Free Privacy)
You might not have heard of Spanish social network Tuenti, but it was acquired by Telefonica back in 2010 for $99 million and has garnered over 14 million users. Since then it's opened up to worldwide...
10:16 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Yahoo's Acquisition Spree Continues With Conference Calling Startup Rondee
Thought Yahoo's acquisition spree would culminate with its $1.1 billion Tumblr purchase? Well, not so much. In fact, the buy-happy company made its second acquisition of the day -- in two completely d...
10:16 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Yahoo's Shopping Spree Continues With Conference Calling Startup Rondee
Thought Yahoo's acquisition spree would culminate with its $1.1 billion Tumblr purchase? Well, not so much. In fact, the buy-happy company just quietly made its second acquisition in 24 hours -- in tw...
08:35 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch RelateIQ Launches With $29M From Formation 8, Dustin Moskovitz And More To Be Your Next-Gen Relationship Manager
Last summer, word started to trickle out about a young, stealth startup called RelateIQ that was rumored to be one of the more ambitious players among the new (and expanding) class of Big Data startup...
07:50 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Google's Glass Explorers Are Getting A Mystery Package From Google X This Week
It looks like Google is shipping something to its Glass Explorer community this week. Sadly, it's not clear what exactly it is the roughly 2,000 first Glass users are getting.As Jesse Stay, the author...
06:00 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook's Parse Grows 25% Month-Over-Month To 100K Apps Since Acquisition
Parse, the other big acquisition outside of Instagram that Facebook has given a fair bit of autonomy to, has grown about 25 percent month-over-month and now services 100,000 apps. Around when the deal...
03:46 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch The Twitter #Music Website Fills Out Its Artist Profiles With Tweeted Tracks And Similar Artists
It looks like Twitter #Music has gotten a couple of improvements on the web specifically to its individual artist profiles.Previously, the artist page just pointed to the other artists that they were...
03:31 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Google Says It's Seeing A Significant Jump In Phishing Attempts In Iran Ahead Of Elections
Google says it's seeing a massive increase in email-based phishing campaigns that originate within Iran and target Iranian users. These attacks, Google says, started about three weeks ago and the comp...
03:04 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch MySpace Punishes Its Few Remaining Friends By Vanishing Their Blogs
Obviously MySpace has very few friends left to alienate -- Tom has long since moved on -- but that hasn't stopped it annoying the hell out of its few remaining fans by forcing through an update to its...
03:01 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch New Active Authentication Allows Azure Customers To Identify And Secure Office 365, Other Apps
Microsoft is now offering multi-factor authentication for Windows Azure toallow enterprises to secure employee, partner and customer access to cloud applications. According to the Azure blog, the capa...
02:00 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Airbnb's Parisian Guests Want To Live Like Locals, With 70% Staying Outside Typical Hotel Districts
Airbnb has released the results of a new economic study in one of its major international markets. After a similar study conducted in San Francisco conducted last year, Airbnb this time is profiling t...
01:31 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Google App Engine Gets New Release, No Signs Of Slowing Cloud Push
Google just launched Google App Engine 1.8.1 with a host of new features, most notable among them a long-awaited search API and push-to-deploy feature similar to pushing code to a Git repository.The n...
01:07 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Congressman King Wants To Punish Journalists Who Published NSA Leaks
First Amendment pioneer and current Republican U.S. Congressman Peter King thinks that journalists should be punished for publishing the leaked documents about the National Security Agency’s top...
01:00 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Hublished Gets Funding From NYU Prof. (AKA FirstMark Capital's Lawrence Lenihan) During Spring Class
Hublished is still in private beta, so details are sparse on what the new content distribution platform (which reportedly helps content producers market their work through a webinar, e-book, podcast m...
12:33 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Orbeus Launches Visual Recognition (But Not Creepy Facial Recognition) APIs For Google Glass
Google took swift action to ban Google Glass applications with facial recognition capabilitiesrecently, followingthe launch of an API which would have allowed developers to build apps that could ident...
12:26 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2013
Techcrunch Yahoo Acquires Advanced iOS Photography App Maker GhostBird Software
Yahoo has just quietly announced that they've acquired GhostBird Software, the creators of advanced iOS photography apps, KitCam and PhotoForge2.Though details of the deal are still underwraps, Yahoo ...
11:58 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch ZenPayroll Now Gives Employers A Way To Pay Contractors That ADP Can't
ZenPayroll launched in December with $6.1 million from a group of new enterprise kingpins. Following the launch of a service for accountants in April, the Y Combinator startup today announced the capa...
11:29 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Showcases The Transformative Power Of iOS Apps In New Video
Apple has just posted a lengthy, nearly 10 minute video (via 9to5Mac) about how apps built for its platform are used around the world to make changes that significantly impact people's lives. It's a v...
11:08 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch With iOS 7, Apple Shows It Will Tolerate QR Codes But Not Further Their Cause
Apple had a great big belly laugh at the expense of near field communications (NFC) at its WWDC keynote this year, but it also quietly adopted a tech that has received an equal amount of general scorn...
10:29 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Apple's Golden State: Just Doing What's Right
Among his last advice he had for me, and for all of you, was to never ask what he would do. Just do whats right.That's what Tim Cook told the audience of Apple employees at the memorial for Steve Jobs...
10:20 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Google Launches Cube Slam, An Open Source Pong Clone, To Show Off The Power Of WebRTC And WebGL
Google today launched Cube Slam, an open source pong clone that you can play against the computer or a friend in the browser. That by itself wouldn't be all that exciting, but Google created this game...
10:13 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Red Hat Launches Linux-Based OpenStack Platform, Targets VMware For Control Of The Data Center
Red Hat launched an enterprise Linux-based OpenStack platform today that provides a way to build out cloud services from either inside the data center or from a services provider. Red Hat Enterprise L...
10:11 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Just Hijacked Every Ad Mentioning Twitter Hashtags
“[Twitter bird logo] #brand” just became an endangered species. Hashtags are becoming universal as Facebook will start supporting them. That neutralizes an important growth vector for Twit...
09:57 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch How Google's Acquisition Of DNNresearch Allowed It To Build Its Impressive Google+ Photo Search In 6 Months
During its I/O developer conference, Google quietly introduced a massively improved version of its photo search feature in Google+, which now uses advanced computer vision to let you search your perso...
09:42 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Apple's e-Book Market Share On The Rise, Desktop OS X iBooks Launch Should Help
Apple has been quietly growing its share of the U.S. e-book market according to its testimony during the current e-book price fixing court case against it, and now accounts for 20 percent of e-book sa...
09:39 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Redirecting Smartphone Surfers To Mobile Homepages Instead Of Content? Using Flash For Video? Prepare To Be Downranked By Google
Running a website not optimized for smartphones? Guess what, you've been put on notice. Google is using its influence and the power of its algorithm to finally force web publishers to fix their mobile...
09:39 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Thank You, Google Overlords
Running a website not optimized for smartphones? Guess what, you've been put on notice. Google is using its influence and the power of its algorithm to finally force web publishers to fix their mobile...
09:38 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Announces Searchable Hashtags, Promises More Features For Following Public Conversations
Facebook just announced that it is indeed launching ability to follow conversations via hashtags, as was reported in March.In the blog post announcing the new feature, Facebook acknowledges that this ...
09:05 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Looking Beyond Retargeting, AdRoll Acquires Analytics Startup Bitdeli
Ad retargeting company AdRoll is announcing that it has acquired a startup called Bitdeli for an undisclosed sum.Bitdeli is just a two-person team brothers Jyri Tuulos and Ville Tuulos, who founded t...
08:57 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch King Quits Advertising Since It Earns So Much On Candy Crush Purchases
King, the decade-old gaming company that staged a surprising revival through the iPhone and its hit Candy Crush Saga, is abandoning advertising as a source of revenue. Going forward, they’ll be ...
08:48 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch You're Not Wrong, Microsoft, You're Just An Asshole
"We have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity," explained Xbox chief Don Mattrick. "It's called Xbox 360."With those snarky words Microsoft lost E3. That much was clea...
08:44 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Austin-Based CMR Demos Programmable Magnets That Changes Polarity And Strength On A Whim
Magnets are pretty basic - some poles attract, some repel, and you can use them to hold stuff up on your fridge. However, what happens when magnets can be "programmed" to react in different ways? Aust...
08:44 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Alabama-Based CMR Demos Programmable Magnets That Changes Polarity And Strength On A Whim
Magnets are pretty basic - some poles attract, some repel, and you can use them to hold stuff up on your fridge. However, what happens when magnets can be "programmed" to react in different ways? Hunt...
08:44 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Perforce Swarm, A Developer Platform To Compete With The Likes Of GitHub and Atlassian
The code collaboration market continues to see new entrants, which illustrates the growing power of the enterprise developer. Perforce is the latest entry to the market with Swarm, a collaboration pla...
08:40 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Japan's Kii Launches A Publishing Service To Help App Developers Crack The Chinese Market
Now that China has surpassed the U.S. as the world’s largest smartphone market, it’s no surprise that many developers are intrigued by the prospect of a country that may have 500 million d...
07:56 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch SAP Becomes First To Test New Patent Rules In The America Invents Act, Gets Window Of Hope In $345M Versata Case
SAP, the enterprise software behemoth dealt a $345 million penalty in a patent case brought by Versata Software, has a window of opportunity in getting that case overturned, thanks to new rules in the...
06:46 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch NFC Stands For Nobody F****** Cares And Apple Gets That
If you think QR codes are a bad joke then consider NFC. Near Field Communications' evangelists have been trying to get smartphone owners to share stuff by bumping and grinding their phones for years. ...
06:44 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Online Fashion Exchange Bib Plus Tuck Addicts Shoppers With Virtual Currency, Scores $600,000 From Chris Burch & Others
The re-commerce sector just got another vote of confidence, this time from billionaire fashion mogul J. Christopher Burch, who along with a couple of angels have put in $600,000 in seed funding into t...
06:39 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Apple's iOS 7 Is A Smorgasbord For Game Developers, With Sprite Kit, Game Controller Support And More
Apple's developer bits are generally the bigger picture story that comes out of WWDC, and some details are slowly emerging about those 1,500 or so new APIs Apple has added for devs to take advantage o...
06:21 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch The Steve jOBS Biopic Will Finally Land In A Theater Near You On August 16
We've all been waiting restlessly for the release of the jOBS biopic, starring Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs, but dismay overtook us when we heard its April release date had been pushed back. But fear ...
05:46 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Ex-Tandberg and Cisco Executives Join The Quest To Conquer Old School Video Conferencing
A group of ex-Tandberg and Cisco executives have launched a software-based video conferencing service that works across traditional hardware systems, the browser and mobile devices. Pexip Infinity is ...
05:38 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Google Glass Gets A Teardown, Revealing It Can Be Hacked To Prescription Glasses
Google Glass isn't in the hands of consumers yet, but a pair of intrepid Glass explorers didn't let that stop them from taking the thing apart to see what makes it tick. This teardown is also especial...
05:34 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Targeting Lyft And SideCar, Uber Confirms Price Cut On UBERx Rides In San Francisco
On-demand transportation startup Uber is making a serious commitment to its UBERx service, making on-demand rides with hybrid cars and community drivers less expensive. Today on the Uber Blog, the com...
05:34 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Uber Confirms UberX Price Cuts In San Francisco To Target Rivals Lyft And SideCar
On-demand transportation startup Uber is making a serious commitment to its UBERx service, making on-demand rides with hybrid cars and community drivers less expensive. Today on the Uber Blog, the com...
05:16 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch The Mysterious Case Of The Missing Jawbone Up
It seems a week doesn't go by without finding out about a malfunctioning Jawbone Up band. The wearable step tracking bracelet measures how much you move each day and how well you sleep.It was relaunch...
05:11 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Synkio's Soundcloud For Licensed Music' Tries To Take Pain Out Of Soundtrack Mess
The sheer amount of media produced by film makers, advertisers and ad agencies is exploding. And of course, literally everything from a TV ad to an app like Angry Birds needs a soundtrack. That means ...
05:10 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Continues Lead In 3G Mobile Data Use, With iPads The First Tablets To Break Into The Top 10, Says Actix
Android has convincingly overtaken Apple as the most popular OS in the smartphone industry both in terms of sales and overall penetration. But when it comes to how much wireless devices are actually u...
04:58 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Singapore's DealGuru Spins Out Food Delivery Business To Chase New Funding
DealGuru, one of the major daily deals sites in Singapore, has spun out its food delivery subsidiary, called FoodRunner. Prior to the new name, the service was called Room Service Deliveries, which De...
04:58 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Reminder: Sign Up For The Balkans Mini Pitch-Off
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...
04:56 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Minilogs Raises 200K Because Social Bookmarking Isn't Done Yet - Apparently
You'd think that social bookmarking as a startup opportunity has had its day. But in actual fact, linking to, and therefore sharing content, is built into the Web's plumbing, while the success of Pint...
04:56 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Minilogs Raises 200K Because Social Bookmarking Isn't Done Yet - Apparently
You'd think that social bookmarking as a startup opportunity has had its day. But in actual fact, linking to, and therefore sharing content, is built into the Web's plumbing, while the success of Pint...
04:52 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Wave Partners With Box, MailChimp, General Assembly And More To Launch One-Stop Shopping Tool For Startups
A new convergence of startups and Internet companies has come together to provide other early-stage companies with the tools required to get up and running quickly, and most importantly, cheaply. It's...
04:44 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Qualcomm's Rob Chandhok On How AllJoyn Will Let Users Control Devices With Their Own Personal Clouds
Imagine walking into a new room and, like Harry Potter, being able to control all the devices in there with a few gestures. But (because you are a Muggle) instead of a wand, you use your smartphone. D...
03:47 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Sliverback Learning Adds $2.5M To Try To Unify The Fractured Education Software Market With Its SaaS Platform
Idaho-based education software provider Silverback Learning Solutions announced a new round of funding today, adding $2.5 million from a collection of angel investors to help fuel its continued expans...
03:47 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Silverback Learning Adds $2.5M To Try To Unify The Fractured Education Software Market With Its SaaS Platform
Idaho-based education software provider Silverback Learning Solutions announced a new round of funding today, adding $2.5 million from a collection of angel investors to help fuel its continued expans...
03:02 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Idomoo Closes $9M To Develop On-The-Fly Personalised Video Platform For Brands
Back in 2010 SundaySky raised $9 million in a series B to develop its technology capable of extracting content from any website and molding it into videos created on-the-fly. This enables consumer bra...
01:40 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Samsung Just Killed Nokia's True PureView' Windows Phone And It's Not Even UnBoxed Yet
Poor Nokia. Samsung doesn't stop. It's just announced a new iteration of its flagship Galaxy S4 handset which has a digital camera embedded in its rump. The Galaxy S4 Zoom has a 10X optical zoom lens ...
12:30 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch WorldDesk Raises Further $1.25M As It Adds Support For Chrome, Skype And Kindle To Its Virtual Desktop
Desktop virtualisation startup WorldDesk has raised $1.25 million in new funding, in what is effectively a follow-on round from existing backers Lough Shore Investments, the Belfast-based angel invest...
10:33 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Electric Kool-Aid iOS 7 Test
Flat, man. Flat is free. It doesn't tell us what to think. We don't need those metaphors. Skeuomorphism was a trap. A mental prison, holding us back. Let the people decide for themselves what a calend...
09:38 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Roam And Wander's TuTu Turns iPhones And iPod Touches Into Cuddly Children's Toys
Children's entertainment studio Roam & Wander wants spark children's imaginations by bridging the gap between touchscreens and real-life toys. The Hong Kong and Taipei-based startup's top-selling ...
09:19 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Netflix Will Launch Multiple User Profiles This Summer To Keep Your Recommendations Pristine
It's a nuisance many Netflix users are familiar with--you log-on to watch something from the Criterion Collection, only to find that your recommendations are now littered with "Dora The Explorer" or "...
08:17 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Reddit Adds Benefits For Gold Members To Further Monetize The Site Without More Ads
Social-sharing site Reddit has announced the addition of new benefits for Gold members as part of its efforts to further monetize the site without relying on banner ads. Reddit Gold members now have a...
08:01 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Behind The Maps: WTF Is Waze And Why Did Google Just Pay A BillionPlus For It?
The tech industry has seen its fair share of acquisition whoppers lately, with Salesforce acquiring ExactTarget for $2.5 billion this month, and Yahoo putting the icing on its acquisition spree by sna...
08:01 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch WTF Is Waze And Why Did Google Just Pay A BillionPlus For It?
The tech industry has seen its fair share of acquisition whoppers lately, with Salesforce acquiring ExactTarget for $2.5 billion this month, and Yahoo putting the icing on its acquisition spree by sna...
04:26 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch PRISM Would Have Come Off Better With Better PowerPoint Design
I don't know what to believe about the world anymore. First of all, how does an NSA contractor have the ability to wiretap anyone, ANYONE, from an infrastructure level to a legal level? Is the legal p...
03:49 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Is PRISM Precipitating A Bitcoin Sell-Off?
Bitcoin has experienced a fairly massive drop in value over the weekend and into this week, moving from a peak of $118 on June 7 to a low of $89 on June 9. While precipitous drops and dizzying highs a...
03:45 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Gmail's People Widget Now Lets Brands Highlight Their Google+ Profiles And Posts
Google today launched a small but nifty new feature for its Gmail people widget that allows brands and businesses to highlight their Google+ profiles and recent Google+ posts right in their customers'...
02:44 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Take A Peek At The Inner Workings Of MakerBot's New Brooklyn Factory
Brooklyn-based MakerBot is a darling of the 3D printing community, and it recently moved into its new digs in Sunset Park, so the crew can more efficiently build and ship their shiny new Replicator 2 ...
12:33 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Event Ticketing And Crowdfunding Platform Picatic Now Lets Event Organizers Pay What They Want
Online event ticketing startup Picatic is taking a novel new approach to signing up event organizers and getting them to use its services. The company's new FairPay initiative will allow users to pay ...
12:26 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Why Google's Request To Release More Spying Data Is Probably An Empty PR Gimmick
Google made headlines today for a letter to the federal government requesting the right to release more information on compliance with spy orders. The letter claims that if the public knew how many re...
12:26 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch Why Google's Request To Release More Spying Data Would Be *Uninformative [Updated]
[Update: Someone from Google has responded to us (by tweet!) We'll update this post as we get more questions answered] Google made headlines today for a letter to the federal government requesting the...
12:02 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2013
Techcrunch This Mechanical, 3D-Printed Entabulator Is An Amazing Tribute To The Power Of Clockwork
As a lover of all things mechanical I'm awe of Chris Fenton's Entabulator. Using an old book on mechanical loom-making, a 3D printer, and some serious patience he engineered a computer that can read a...
11:47 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Stays Closed As iOS Shuts The Door On Developers
Apple demonstrated that it will keep its iron grip on iOS 7, despite Tim Cook saying it's time for Apple to start openng up. Rather than debut new opportunities for developers, Apple squelched them at...
11:47 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch The Best Of iOS 7s Minor Upgrades
Apple revealed a number of notable new features with the debut of iOS 7 yesterday, but there are many smaller features which are now leaking out as developers have had a chance to play around with the...
11:30 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Zuckerberg Is (Still) Disappointed By Facebook Stock, Says He's Well-Versed' In Its Ad Business
Before Mark Zuckerberg started the question-and-answer session at today's Facebook shareholder meeting, he noted that many of the pre-submitted questions focused on the performance of Facebook's stock...
11:26 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch At Facebook Shareholder Meeting, Zuckerberg Stands Behind His Initial PRISM Denial
The PRISM story has progressed significantly since last week, when Mark Zuckerberg published Facebook's official response to the reports that it is among a group of tech companies that have been secre...
11:03 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Who Won E3?
By now we've heard most of what the big three have had to say. Nintendo is holding the line with the Wii U, Microsoft has announced an always-on box for $499, and Sony has made nice with gamers by off...
10:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Cider House Rules
The Gillmor Gang Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor absorb the WWDC keynote. iOS7, OS/10 Mavericks, Macbook Air refresh, and iTunes Radio were the big bullets, but underlying ...
10:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Keen On Internet Access: Does American Broadband Suck?
For years, it's been taken for granted that the US ranks low in the broadband performance table. But a controversial piece by ITIF's Richard Bennett explodes the myth of poor US broadband. Not everyon...
09:46 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Google Asks U.S. Government For Permission To Publish Aggregate Number Of National Security Requests It Receives
Google is one of the companies that were implicated in the PRISM leak last week, but the company continues to deny that it provided the NSA with special access to its servers. It is, however, now aski...
09:26 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Apple's Top Brass Looks Very Much In Sync At WWDC Following Last Year's Reorganization
Apple's WWDC Keynote yesterday left one impression on me above all others: the executive team seems much more comfortable and in sync under CEO Tim Cook now than they ever have before. Rarely has a ke...
09:24 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Europe Rattles Its Sabres Over Prism's Bulk Transfer' Of EU Citizen Data
The European Commission today outlined its concerns regarding the widely reported Prism surveillance programme run by the NSA. The Commission plans to raise the Prism matter with US authorities "at th...
09:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Animoto Updates iPhone App To Simplify Its Automatic Video Creation Workflow
Animoto has made a big update to its iPhone app, which reduces the number of steps it takes to create videos on the mobile app. With the simplified workflow, Animoto hopes even more users will start t...
08:40 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Google Boosts BigQuery With New Analytics Functions, Adds New UI, Drops Prices
Google BigQueryis getting a number of new updates to make it easier to analyze large amounts of data quickly and at a lower price.BigQuery is designed to process terabytes of data, and today's updates...
08:28 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Mozilla, EFF, Reddit And 83 Other Organizations Launch StopWatching.Us To Protest NSA Snooping
It’s still not quite clear what PRISM really is, but what has become clear is that the NSA is doing its best to tap into as much online communications as it can. To protest this, Mozilla, the El...
08:06 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Why Apple Gave Up On Genius For Apps, And What's Next For The App Store's Long Tail
Apple is no longer offering the "Genius" feature as a way to surface and discover new mobile applications in the iOS App Store in the latest version of Apple's mobileoperatingsystem, iOS 7. Instead, t...
08:06 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Why Apple Killed Genius For Apps, And What's Next For The App Store's Long Tail
Apple is no longer offering the "Genius" feature as a way to surface and discover new mobile applications in the iOS App Store in the latest version of Apple's mobileoperatingsystem, iOS 7. Instead, t...
08:03 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Barnes & Noble Kills Mac And PC Dedicated Nook Apps, Looks Like Part Of Larger Strategy Shift
Barnes & Noble appears to be distancing itself and its products from the e-reader and e-book category, and trying to move into more of a role as a maker of low-cost tablets. The shift is ongoing a...
07:47 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch If You Think Glenn Greenwald Should Interview Pres. Obama, Sign This Petition
Americans deserve answers about the National Security Agency’s spying practices. I urge readers to sign an official WeThePeople White House petition for President Obama to sit down with the jour...
07:44 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch After Closing $3 Million Series A, Qwaya Wants To Help SMEs Get Down With Facebook Ads
It's often said that if you're not on Facebook you don't exist, so dominant in our social lives has the uber-social network become. And so it wouldn't be surprising to learn that businesses -- big and...
07:37 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch It's Official: Google Buys Waze, Giving A Social Data Boost To Its Location And Mapping Business
After months of speculation, the fate of Waze, the social-mapping-location-data startup, is finally decided: Google is buying the company, giving the search giant a social boost to its already-strong ...
07:37 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Google Bought Waze For $1.1B, Giving A Social Data Boost To Its Mapping Business
After months of speculation, the fate of Waze, the social-mapping-location-data startup, is finally decided: Google is buying the company, giving the search giant a social boost to its already-strong ...
07:25 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch After A Week On Android, Vine Surpasses Instagram On Google Play Charts As Top Social App
Vine has already clarified just how quickly its userbase is growing, with the announcement that the app had hit 13 million downloads by the time Twitter launched it on Android. This was all just a wee...
07:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch In Writing Platform Push, Draft Lets You Collaborate Then Publish Anywhere
Draft, a streamlined online word processor with version control, is getting deeper into the new professional publishing ecosystem.The one-man team of Nathan Kontny has just introduced a new REST API t...
06:59 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch BrightEdge Raises $42.8M For Content Marketing And SEO
BrightEdge, a company that offers tools for search engine optimization and content marketing, is announcing that it has raised a big $42.8 million Series D.The round was led by Insight Venture Partner...
06:34 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Elite Daily, For When BuzzFeed Just Isn't Enough
Gen Y is obsessed with content. Addicted even. This explains why Reddit and BuzzFeed are two of the most popular websites on the internet right now. But that doesn't mean there's no room for disruptio...
06:30 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch AWS Adds Free Usage Tier For Red Hat Linux, Drops Prices For Relational Database Service
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added a free tier for Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL). The company also announced last night that it is dropping prices for its relational database service. AWS has offere...
06:25 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Jony Ive Debuts iOS 7: Bringing Order To Complexity
Apple debuted the next generation of iOS yesterday at WWDC and now you can watch Jony Ive's 7 minute iOS 7 introduction video. "True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absences of c...
05:57 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Modus Raises $10M For Data Driven Approach To E-Discovery
Its not often that a services provider gets a hefty venture capital investment. Last week, though, OpenStack cloud builder Mirantis raised $10 million. And today, Modus eDiscovery raised $10 million f...
05:30 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Marketo's First Launch SInce IPO Is A Machine Learning Engine For Social Campaigns
Marketo is coming out with its first launch since its successful IPO last month. Its a one-to-one marketing tool that applies machine learning for social campaigns that allows marketers to automatical...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Chirpify Goes Beyond PayPal To Bring Direct, In-Stream Payments To Facebook, Twitter And Instagram
Facebook and Twitter have become stellar venues for brands and small businesses alike to advertise their wares. However, while social-style gift-giving has seen some traction thanks to Facebook, socia...
04:30 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch InternMatch Lands $4 Million Series A To Build Its Data-Based Job Search Platform
InternMatch has raised a $4 million Series A funding round led by ARTIS Ventures and Subtraction Capital, as well as follow-on investors including Kapor Capital and 500 Startups. The company will use ...
04:13 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Europe To Formalize How Consumers, Companies Can Sue Big Fish Like Google Over Antitrust Damages
Feeling slighted by Google's dominance in search? In Europe, you may soon be able to sue for damages. A new proposal published today by the European Commission proposes to spell out the details, and e...
03:59 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Yep, Facebook Ads Are Better With Social Context (According To A Salesforce Benchmark' Report)
Salesforce.com is releasing what it calls The Facebook Ads Benchmark Report, which shows how Facebook ads performed on Salesforce's social advertising service Social.com.As the name implies, the repor...
02:41 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Zynga's Wake: Does The Venture Model Make Sense For Gaming Anymore?
Just about eight weeks ago or so, I was on a call with Zynga’s COO David Ko following the company’s first quarter earnings report. Zynga was trying to manage expectations for the coming tw...
01:50 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Kids' Game Moshi Monsters Set To Leap Onto The TV Screen As Animated Series
Mindy Candy, the U.K. company behind the hugely successful Moshi Monsters adoptable pet monsters kids game, is branching out into animation. Today it's announced plans to make a series of 52x11 minute...
12:45 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch BrickPi Is A Robotics Hacking Platform That Combines Raspberry Pi And LEGO Mindstorms
DIY micro-robotics is having a moment. The latest project to take the crowdfunding route to build out a platform for playing around with robotics is called BrickPi. As its name suggests, BrickPi is a ...
11:04 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Sony Wins The Next-Gen Console War (Or At Least My Heart) In Just 22 Seconds
While Microsoft busies itself trying to explain away a series of really bad decisions, Sony swoops in with a perfectly executed haymaker straight to the chin....
11:00 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch More Exits For Asian E-commerce Firms, But Valuations Still Small
There has been a growing rate of exits happening for Asian e-commerce companies, but valuations remain small on average. Most are under the $50 million mark, according to CB Insights’ latest rep...
11:00 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch iZettle, A European Square Rival, Gets $6.6M From Banco Santander As It Gears Up For A Global Push
With Square, PayPal and other U.S. players slowly rolling out their first international services, local mobile payments startups want to make sure they will keep up, too, and so today, iZettle -- some...
10:40 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Pinterest Pushes Global Growth With A Localized Version For France, Its First Non-English Site
Pinterest, the image-based social network, is picking up more global momentum: today, it announced the launch of a new site in French, with users in France getting pushed more localized content and mo...
10:12 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Looking To Beef Up Margins, Exec Hikes Hourly Rate For Errands From $25 To $30 And Triples Its Surcharge
Exec, the San Francisco startup that lets you easily hire people online by the hour to run your errands and do your cleaning, will be increasing the flat rate for its flagship errand-running service E...
08:29 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch iOS 7 Fights Mobile Spam With Option To Block Calls And Texts From Specific Numbers
Telemarketing spammers bothering you? Clingy exes calling in the middle of the night? iOS 7 will let you block calls from specific numbers to save your sanity. Rather than allow third-party developers...
07:03 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Sony's PlayStation 4 Will Launch This Holiday Season For $399, $100 Less Than Xbox One
Following up on their oddly detail-light press conference a few months back, Sony used their E3 press conference to finally disclose a bunch of important details: the price, a launch window, and, at l...
07:02 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang Live 06.10.13 (TCTV)
Gillmor Gang Live - Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live today at 8pm Pacific time....
06:13 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Design, And Insecurity, Is Back At Apple
“Can’t innovate anymore, my ass.” The phrase uttered by Phil Schiller during today’s keynote got a few laughs from the predictably enthusiastic WWDC audience. To me it dropped ...
05:47 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Apple's Flashlight Is Why We Can't Fund Nice Dumb Things
Flashlight apps are a testament to the power and simplicity of modern technology. Power outage because of a hurricane? There's an app for that. Need to stealthily kill a mosquito without waking up you...
05:27 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Take A Good Look At Apple's New iOS 7 With These Early Screenshots
iOS 7 was announced today officially at WWDC 2013, and it brings a lot of visual changes to Apple's mobile OS, plus a host of new features and functionality as well. The official release is still a fe...
05:22 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch The TechCrunch TV WWDC Wrap-Up: OS X Mavericks, iOS 7, Apple Steps On Pandora's Turf, And More
You may have heard that there was some Apple news today -- a lot of it, in fact. So to make sense out of all the news that came out of the WWDC keynote in San Francisco this morning, we brought in Gre...
04:59 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Watch Sony's 2013 E3 Press Conference Right Here
E3 2013 is in full swing. Microsoft kicked off the day with plenty of Xbox One news followed by several big-developers showing off their upcoming flagship titles. But now it's Sony's turn and, thanks ...
03:50 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Publishes iOS 7 Transition Guide To Help Developers Adopt Flat Design
As expected, Apple is introducing a completely new design language for iOS 7. For developers, this means they will have to adapt their apps to match the rest of the operating system if they don't want...
03:23 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch With $1.2M In Funding, TapCommerce Aims To Bring Ad Retargeting To Smartphones
Retargeting, everyone's favorite web advertising technology, is coming to smartphones thanks to a startup called TapCommerce. The company isn't exactly launching today, but it has been relatively quie...
03:23 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch MindTouch Delivers For SAP And Salesforce By Turning The FAQ Into A Self-Service Sales Tool
MindTouch is using data to provide context to customer support pages so people can get better answers to the questions they have about a product or a service. The FAQ just doesn't do it anymore.It's e...
03:01 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch iOS 7 Leaves Older iPhones And iPads Out Of The Fun
iOS 7 hits iPhones this Fall, but only the iPhone 5 and iPod touch will get all the features announced at WWDC. The iPhone 4 and 4S will get the new look and a splattering of features. And forget abou...
02:45 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Chinese Microblog Site Tencent Weibo Gets Baked Into iOS 7, Just Like Facebook and Twitter
It's been a big news day for all things Apple, and a lot of the buzz has been around the company's renewed focus on American manufacturing. But one feature announced today in Apple's new iOS 7 mobile ...
02:45 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Chinese Microblog Site Tencent Weibo Will Be Baked Into iOS 7, Just Like Facebook And Twitter
It's been a big news day for all things Apple, and a lot of the buzz has been around the company's renewed focus on American manufacturing. But one feature announced today in Apple's new iOS 7 mobile ...
02:42 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Are You Ready For The Seattle Meetup And Pitch-Off On July 18?
You may associate TechCrunch with the sunny climes of Northern California, but were ready to make it rain. Were bringing our TC Meetups + Pitch-Off to the great, tech-centric city of Seattle. You can ...
02:28 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Lamoda, The Samwer Brothers' Russian Online Fashion Store, Snags $130M Led By Access Industries
Lamoda, the Russian online fashion site incubated by the Samwer Brothers' Rocket Internet, is upgrading its wardrobe. On Tuesday, the company is announcing a new injection of $130 million -- understoo...
02:09 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Survey: Majority Of Americans Think NSA Spying Is More Important Than Privacy
Despite the conniption fit over the National Security Agency's Internet snooping, most Americans are perfectly okay with Big Brother spying on them. "A majority of Americans 56 percent say the Natio...
02:03 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch iTunes Radio? Pandora And Slacker Are Not Impressed
Apple unveiled its long-rumored iRadio, er, iTunes Radio service this morning at the Worldwide Developers Conference. Now that we know the basics of the streaming music service (which is supposed to l...
01:52 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Watch Sony's 2013 E3 Press Conference Right Here
E3 2013 is in full swing. Microsoft kicked off the day with plenty of Xbox One news followed by several big-developers showing off their upcoming flagship titles. But now it's Sony's turn and, thanks ...
01:49 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Walmart Labs Buys Data Analytics And Predictive Intelligence Startup Inkiru
Walmart, via its Silicon Valley innovation lab @WalmartLabs, has made another acquisition today, continuing its shopping spree. The company is announcing that predictive intelligence startup Inkiru wi...
01:41 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch The Best Features Of iOS 7
Users of Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices got their first look at the company's newest operating system, iOS 7, earlier today. Not only has Apple given iOS an entirely new look and feel, co...
01:37 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Canaan Partners' Maha Ibrahim And Lightbank's Paul Lee
This week on TechCrunch TV's Ask A VC show, we have Canaan Partners Maha Ibrahim and Lightbank partner Paul Lee in the studio. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in th...
01:33 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: iOS 7, OS X Mavericks, And Other WWDC Goodness
Today is the big day. The era of iOS 7, OS X Mavericks, the Mac Pro is upon us, even if we won’t actually enjoy these wonderful wares for another few months. That said, we’ve switched thin...
01:24 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Amazon's LOVEFiLM Pulls Its Subscription DVD And Streaming Service Out Of Scandinavia
Last summer it seemed like the subscription video segment in Scandinavia was heating up, as both Netflix and HBO announced plans to make their services available in that market. Now, less than a year ...
12:50 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch BuzzTable Forks Over Even More Restaurant Customer Data With New Control Center
BuzzTable seems to be progressing in its noble quest to make getting seated at a restaurant as quick and painless as possible. With its newly launched ControlCenter, BuzzTables guest communication pla...
12:50 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch BuzzTable Forks Over Even More Restaurant Customer Data With New ControlCenter
BuzzTable seems to be progressing in its noble quest to make getting seated at a restaurant as quick and painless as possible. With its newly launched ControlCenter, BuzzTables guest communication pla...
12:34 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch With iOS 7, Apple Could Win Back Your Home Screen
It starts innocently. One day you find yourself replacing Apple Maps with Google Maps when it becomes available. Or maybe you fall in love with a new email application. You find, after not really usin...
12:14 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Up Close And Personal With Apple's New Mac Pro, A Sleek Black Aluminum Beast
Apple's new Mac Pro is a radical departure from previous versions, and a redesign that in many ways has to be seen to believed. Which is why we've put together this gallery of the new pro desktop for ...
12:14 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Live From Apple's WWDC 2014 Keynote
Sure, theWWDC 2013 Keynote just ended, but we're going to just put this WWDC 2014 Live Blog placeholder post up one year in advance to get ahead of the Live Blog stampedeBY A WHOLE YEAR. Consider this...
12:06 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2013
Techcrunch Apple To Assemble Mac Pro In The U.S.
The U.S. manufacturing industry isn’t a lost cause after all: Apple has made good on its promise to make the new line of Mac Pros in America. There were very few details announced during the key...
11:59 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Skeuomorphism Is The Red-Headed Step Child At This Year's WWDC
Apple's keynote presentation at the Worldwide Developers conference this morning had a few moments of humor and several of them came at the expense of skeuomorphism, the design philosophy that seemed...
11:40 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Missed The WWDC 2013 Keynote? Apple's Replay Video Is Now Live
Apple's top brass has been busy these past two hours or so showing off OS X 10.9 Mavericks, a dramatically revamped iOS 7, and the gorgeous new Mac Pro, and the company has your back in case you misse...
11:30 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch New Google+ Dashboard Lets Businesses Manage Presence In Search, Social, Maps, AdWords
Google today launched a new dashboard for businesses and Google+ page owners that will provide them with a single dashboard to manage many of their daily activities around Google's tools. The new dash...
11:30 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Unified Google+ Dashboard Lets Businesses Manage Presence In Search, Social, Maps, AdWords
Google today launched a new dashboard for businesses and Google+ page owners that will provide them with a single dashboard to manage many of their daily activities around Google's tools. The new dash...
11:06 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch iOS 7 To Be Available For Devs Today, Full Release This Fall
Apple just took the wraps off the next version of iOS. Gone are the faux felt and wood veneers. In its place iOS 7 will feature a sleek look that really pushes Apple's mobile OS into the future (with ...
10:58 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Slips Default Bing Integration Into iOS 7
In an odd, throwaway line, Apple's Eddy Cue mentioned that Siri, the voice control app for iOS 7, will let you search directly in "Bing." In fact, the absence of Google was quite noticeable, reduced t...
10:58 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Has Sold 600M iOS Devices, But Android Is Not Impressed
While Apple touted selling a cumulative 600 million devices, their numbers will inevitably draw comparisons to the figures that Google shared last month at developer conference I/O. At that point, Goo...
10:55 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Updates Siri With Twitter, Wikipedia, Bing Integration, New Commands And Male And Female Voices
At its WWDC keynote today, Apple announced an update to Siri that brings a number of new features to Apple's voice-driven personal assistant for iOS. Not only is Siri getting a number of new high-qual...
10:54 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Working To Bring The iOS Experience To Cars With Honda, Mercedes, Nissan, And More
“What if you could get iOS on the screen that is built into your car,” Apple SVP Eddy Cue asked on-stage at WWDC. Turns out he wasn’t just being rhetorical — Apple has confirme...
10:54 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Working To Bring The iOS Experience To Cars From Honda, Mercedes Benz, Nissan, And More
"What if you could get iOS on the screen that is built into your car," Apple SVP Eddy Cue asked on-stage at WWDC. Turns out he wasn't just being rhetorical -- Apple has confirmed that it is working wi...
10:51 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Unveils iTunes Radio, A Streaming Music Service With The Full Power Of The iTunes Library
Apple had no shortage of new things to announce at WWDC 2013 today, and iRadio is one of the highlights. The company's new music service has been long-rumored, but now the curtains are drawn and we ca...
10:50 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch iOS 7 Steals Mailbox's Gestures, Sunrise's Layout, BB10s Back Button, WebOS's Multitasking
Today, Apple unveiled iOS 7 during its WWDC keynote. While the operating system boasts an impressive redesign, many features and UI choices were greatly inspired by innovative third-paarty apps or eve...
10:50 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Will Launch The Xbox One This November For $499
While that other big tech press event soldiers on, Microsoft just recently wound down its E3 media briefing with a long-awaited bit of news: the Xbox One will launch sometime this November, and gamers...
10:47 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Startup Famo.us Gets A Quick Demo On-Stage At WWDC
Apple usually shares the spotlight at its WWDC keynote with a few of its developers and partners. Today, the big winner was probably Andreessen Horowitz-backed AI startup Anki, but what also caught ou...
10:42 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Challenges Google Docs, Microsoft With iWork Coming To A Browser Near You
Apple is taking some big steps up in its bid to challenge the likes of Google and Microsoft in cloud apps, and one of those involves a big upgrade to its iWork suite: Pages word processing, Numbers sp...
10:42 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Challenges Google Docs, Microsoft With iWork For iCloud Coming To A Browser Near You
Apple is taking some big steps up in its bid to challenge the likes of Google and Microsoft in cloud apps, and one of those involves a big upgrade to its iWork suite: Pages word processing, Numbers sp...
10:42 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Challenges Google Docs, Microsoft With iWork For iCloud Coming To A (Non-Firefox) Browser Near You
Apple is taking some big steps up in its bid to challenge the likes of Google and Microsoft in cloud apps, and one of those involves a big upgrade to its iWork suite: Pages word processing, Numbers sp...
10:18 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Introduces iOS 7
We heard it would be flat. We heard it would be black and white. We heard that it would be a totally different experience. It is. iOS 7, the latest version of Apple's flagship mobile operating system,...
10:04 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Apple (Finally) Updates The Mac Pro
In a dramatic reveal on stage at WWDC 2013, Phil Schiller brought forth a new Mac Pro saying to the assembled faithful: "Can't innovate anymore, my ass." This new Intel Xeon machine with up to 12 core...
10:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch The App Store Gold Rush Has Only Just Begun
The app ecosystem is showing no signs of slowing down. That’s what Apple essentially announced today, revealing that there are now 900,000 iOS applicationsavailable for the iPhone, iPad, and iPo...
09:59 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Twitch Integrates With Xbox One For Live Broadcasting And Viewing Of Video Game Streams
Today at its E3 press conference, Microsoft announced that it has integrated with Twitch to allow live streaming and viewing from its upcoming Xbox One game console. The integration will allow Xbox Go...
09:56 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Updates MacBook Air With Haswell CPU, Claims All-Day Battery Life Up To 12 Hours
Today at WWDC, Apple updated the MacBook Air to give it a boost. Phil Schiller insisted on one of its main feature, its battery. The 13-inch now has 13 hours of battery life and the 11-inch is suppose...
09:56 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Updates MacBook Air With 1.3 GHz Haswell CPU, Claims All-Day Battery Life Up To 12 Hours
Today at WWDC, Apple updated the MacBook Air to give it a boost. VP of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller insisted on one of its main feature, its battery. The 13-inch now has 12 hours of battery life ...
09:50 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Anki Debuts At WWDC With An AI-Enabled Car Racing Game, Raises $50M From A16z And Others
Perhaps you blinked and missed the Anki Drive demo at WWDC this morning. Well, guess what, that car racing video game "in real life" is legit, having raised over $50 million from Andreessen Horowitz, ...
09:47 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Maps Comes To OS X Mavericks, Syncs With Your iPhone
Today in San Francisco at the WWDC, Apple unveiled its new operating system for its computers called OS X Mavericks. Among other features, such as a new calendar or iCloud Keychain, Apple demoed Maps ...
09:47 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Apple's iBooks App Comes To The OS X Desktop
Apple has just announced the availability of iBooks, Apple's 1.8 million title online bookstore, on their new version of OS X, Mavericks. The new app will allow you to read purchased books and textboo...
09:44 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Updates Safari With New Homepage, Sidebar, iCloud Keychain, Improved JavaScript Performance & Per Tab Processes
At its WWDC developer conference today, Apple announced the next version of Safari which will launch with OS X Mavericks. The new version, Apple’s Craig Federighi, will feature significantly imp...
09:29 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Rolls Out OS X Mavericks With Tabbed Finder, System Tags, And Improved Multiple Monitor Support
And just like that, OS X is off big cats and onto California locations. The next version of OS X brings a host of new features including tabs in Finder and vastly improved support for more displays.Fi...
09:28 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Has A New, California-Based Naming Scheme For OS X, Starting With OS X Mavericks
Apple's Craig Federighi said that the company was facing a big problem with the latest update to its Mac operating system, OS X. Having used names like Panther, Leopard, and Mountain Lion for its nine...
09:13 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Apple's App Store Hits 50 Billion Downloads, 900K Apps, $10 Billion Paid To Developers; iTunes Now With 575M Accounts
One of the more interesting metrics to regularly emerge from Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference is the one illustrating the growth of its app ecosystem. Today, the company revealed t...
08:58 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Announces Updated Xbox 360 And Vows To Maintain Gamer Support Through The Xbox One Launch
Microsoft announced their Xbox 360 in 2005 and has maintained the console for most of a decade. Today the company announced an updated version of the console that mirrors the look and feel of the upco...
08:53 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Fires Back At Sony With Free 360 Game Downloads For XBOX Live Gold Gamers
Well, Microsoft kicked off its big E3 media briefing today with a big middle finger to rival console player Sony. Starting on July 1, XBOX Live Gold members who still have XBOX 360s will get two free ...
08:49 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Live From Apple's WWDC 2013 Keynote
It's that time again! This morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook will take the stage at the company's own Worldwide Developers Conference to unveil everything they've worked so hard to keep secret for the past ...
08:45 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Google Art Project Gets A Redesign With Improved Navigation And Search Tools
The Google Art Project got a major redesign today that includes a much improved and faster navigation and new search features. The improved search tools now makes it significantly easier to filter any...
08:12 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Fab Finds Gold In Europe's Ecommerce Friendly Hills
Fab, the design powerhouse, appears to be going, shall we say, gang-busters in Europe. Figures released to us indicate that design-conscious Europe is becoming a crucial cost center, and may even affe...
08:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Giggem Provides A Matchmaking Service For Musicians, Managers, And Other Industry Professionals
If you know any serious musicians, you've probably heard them talk about the challenges of finding people to play with. You might also have seen those "drummer seeks band" ads in coffee shops or newsp...
07:45 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Data Scientist As A Service? Spinnakr Raises ~$1 Million From Andreessen Horowitz, 500 Startups & Others For Smarter Web Analytics
A newreal-time web analytics platform Spinnakris launching out of its closed beta today, accompanied by a seed round of just under a million from Andreessen Horowitz, 500 Startups, Point Nine Capital,...
07:45 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Amazon Bets On Web Groceries, Expands AmazonFresh To L.A.
Confirming reports from earlier this month, Amazon has today expanded its online grocery service AmazonFresh to it first non-Seattle market: Los Angeles. The company homepage was quietly updated this ...
07:30 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Live From Apple's WWDC 2013 Keynote
It's that time again! This morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook will take the stage at the company's own Worldwide Developers Conference to unveil everything they've worked so hard to keep secret for the past ...
07:15 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Thanks To Twitch, Watch Microsoft's 2013 E3 Press Conference Right Here
Forget WWDC. E3 is where it's at. Except we're not there in person this year. But of course all the action is streamed live on the interwebs, and Twitch is all over it. As expected, Twitch, the gaming...
06:23 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Grocery Comparison Site mySupermarket Launches U.S. Megastore For Finding Best Prices Across Amazon, Walmart, Target & More
On the heels of reports that Amazon is preparing to significantly expand its online grocery service AmazonFresh, grocery comparison shopping sitemySupermarketis today bringing its service the U.S. Ope...
05:13 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Crowdfunding Campaign Aims To Reward NSA Whistleblower For His Courage'
Edward Snowden is being hailed a hero by some, and now a Crowdtilt crowdfunding campaign is raising money to reward the whistleblower for his "courage" and pay his bills. Started by Facebook employee ...
04:55 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Here's The Live Video Stream For Apple's WWDC 2013 Keynote
It was a bit of a mystery as to whether or not Apple had plans to live stream their WWDC 2013 keynote out to the Internet at large, but consider that one solved: just hours before the announcement its...
04:32 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch iRobot And Cisco Build A Roving Telepresence Rig So Remote Workers Can Still Roam The Office
It's no secret that iRobot's domestic cleaning machines can carry some interesting things while they putter around and wipe up your floors, and iRobot and Cisco have taken that notion to its next logi...
04:05 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Fotopedia's Reporter App Focuses On Creation As Much As Consumption, Crosses 300K Downloads
Fotopedia has made quite a name for itself as one of the leading media consumption apps for travel, but the company (led by former Apple CTO Jean-Marie Hullot) is ready to zero in on media creation as...
02:49 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Angry Birds-Maker Rovio Picks Up A New COO In Nokia Veteran Teemu Suila
Rovio is continuing to cycle in new executive level management with Nokia veteran Teemu Suila taking over as chief operating officer after former COO Harri Koponen stepped down after about two years i...
01:31 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch France's MyJobCompany Brings Its Social Headhunting Platform Across The Channel
MyJobCompany is another take on the social recruitment idea. Its platform, which expanded beyond France and Latin Americato the UK last week,enables anybody to become what it calls a "social headhunte...
11:01 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Live From Apple's WWDC 2013 Keynote
It's that time again! This morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook will take the stage at the company's own Worldwide Developers Conference to unveil everything they've worked so hard to keep secret for the past ...
11:01 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Twitch Updates SDK To Boost Engagement, Get Its Streams Embedded In More Video Games
Streaming service provider Twitch is updating its software development kit to help its developer partners increase engagement with players and viewers that are tuning in to their games. The new online...
09:00 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch How Apple's iOS Fragmentation Problems Distort Design Thinking
Editor's note: Kevin Marks is VP of Open Cloud Standards at Salesforce.com, and a host and co-founder of TummelVision.tv.As someone who uses both Android and iOS regularly, I'm getting increasingly fr...
07:00 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch The Battle To Be First App Opened
Competition is heating up in the on-demand transportation industry, but unlike other segments of the market, there's no lock-in that keeps customers loyal to one service or another. Users looking for ...
06:23 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch What Android Has That iOS Has Not (Yet)
Android is open and customizable. iOS is closed, designed for ease. But iPhone users are maturing, demanding more personalization, and Apple might give it to them at WWDC. At D11, Tim Cook said I thin...
05:00 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch Waiting For Prometheus
What is the real issue brought up by this whole PRISM debacle? It’s not that the government is willing to overstep its role using national security as an excuse. That’s been going on for t...
04:49 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch To The Victors Go The Spoiler Alerts
Warning: this post contains minor spoiler alerts mainly that the penultimate episode of season 3 of Game of Thrones contains something major, worthy of a true spoiler alert. Something which you proba...
03:00 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch After Selling Its Display Network To Ziff Davis, InPowered Expands Earned Advertising' Beyond Tech
A few weeks ago, we broke the news that InPowered would be selling its NetShelter display advertising business to publisher Ziff Davis. Now the company is ready to talk about what comes next.Peyman an...
02:00 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch It's Time For Apple To Treat Us Like Adults
It’s time for Apple to treat us like adults. The company revolutionized the smartphone with iOS, no doubt. But as iOS gets older, its users are, too, and fewer and fewer of them are first-time s...
01:00 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch What Games Are: Have We Hit Peak Mobile?
Mobile gaming may still be a very hot ticket, but with the recent news from companies like Zynga and Tapjoy of closures an difficulty, it does seem to have become a more difficult landscape. With the ...
12:45 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch How The NSA Hunts For Startups Through VC Firm Dedicated To Serving Intelligence Community
In-Q-Tel (IQT) is a not-for-profit venture capital group thathelps the NSA and other agencies hunt forstartup and young companieswith core technology for the U.S. intelligence community. These young c...
12:45 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch How The NSA Hunts For Startups Through A VC Firm Dedicated To Serving Intelligence Community
In-Q-Tel (IQT) is a not-for-profit venture capital group thathelps the NSA and other agencies hunt forstartup and young companiesthat develop core technology for the U.S. intelligence community. These...
12:00 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2013
Techcrunch First Cut Pro Just Made Post-Production Collaborative Video Editing Much Less Painful
Editing video is tedious enough on its own, but it becomes a whole new world of pain when producers, editors, audio guys, and others are trying to collaborate on a single project. That's where First C...
10:53 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2013
Techcrunch Spy Whistleblower Comes Forward, Says NSA routinely lies
The NSA whistleblower who exposed America’s massive spying operation has come out and taken an interview with the leak reporter, The Guardian‘s Glenn Greenwald. “The NSA has built an...
10:31 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2013
Techcrunch Google's Inroads For Waze Could Roadblock Facebook And Apple
According to the Globes, an Israel-based publication, Google is reportedly set to acquire the Israeli transit and navigation company Waze for $1.3 billion, making it one of the larger Google acquisiti...
10:03 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2013
Techcrunch How Google Sets Goals
Goal setting within a startup or company is essential to success. But there are a number of different approaches to attaining these goals both within teams and individually. And what better framework ...
09:49 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2013
Techcrunch Skeuomorphism Isn't iOS's Biggest Problem
Word leaked out earlierthat the new release of Apple's operating system, iOS 7, is in for a major overhaul, most notably bringing an end toso-called "skeuomorphic" design (visual metaphors reflecting ...
09:33 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2013
Techcrunch Hacker Faces More Jail Time Than The Convicted Steubenville Rapists He Exposed
A 26-year-old farm dweller who helped expose the rape of a teenage girl is facing up to 5x more jail time than the high school football members who publicly assaulted the girl. The Steubenville rape c...
09:00 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2013
Techcrunch Iterations: Getting To Series A Is Not Sexy, It's Really Hard Work
If you keep up with all the tech startup news, its easy to develop the impression that money is just sloshing around the Valley and even the worst products and ideas curry investors interests. Thankfu...
03:35 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2013
Techcrunch New Facebook Patents For Colocation, Business Recognition, Photo Ranking Tease Future Of Sharing
Facebook's empire was built on photo tags and sharing, but it's a grueling process many neglect. Luckily, new Facebook patents give it tech to continuously capture video whenever your camera is open, ...
03:35 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook's New Colocation And Image Recognition Patents Tease The Future Of Sharing
Facebook's empire was built on photo tags and sharing, but it's a grueling process many neglect. Luckily, new Facebook patents give it tech to continuously capture video whenever your camera is open, ...
12:00 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2013
Techcrunch Is Your Enterprise Software Company Ready To Sell?
Editor's note:Ted Summe is the founder of Discoverly, an enterprise tool that puts social data to work. Earlier in his career, he worked with enterprise software companies at Morgan Stanley and bought...
11:31 am GMT - Sun, June 9, 2013
Techcrunch Dekko Debuts An Augmented Reality Racing Game Playable From The iPad
Dekko, a San Francisco-based startup that just closed extra funding to build a platform for augmented reality apps, just brought its first title to market with a racing game that has players drive vir...
10:00 am GMT - Sun, June 9, 2013
Techcrunch PlayJam Sticks It To The Video Game Giants
Editors note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive.Its been six months since PlayJams GameStick started its off-again, on-again Kickstarter campaign that nett...
08:00 am GMT - Sun, June 9, 2013
Techcrunch We Asked For This
There is a certain jollity in the reactions of the webby class to news that the NSA has been, first, spying on Verizon communications for years, and second has approached multiple information-gatherin...
06:44 am GMT - Sun, June 9, 2013
Techcrunch 3D Printer Manufacturer Stratasys In Acquisition Talks With Makerbot
Makerbot, the Brooklyn-based 3D printing company, is in talks with Minneapolis/Israel-based Stratasys regarding a possible acquisition according to a source close to the matter. While Makerbot founder...
06:00 am GMT - Sun, June 9, 2013
Techcrunch CrunchBase Adds 13,689 Companies And 1,462 Venture Rounds In May
This week, CrunchBase released theMay Excel Export Sheet, which includes charts and graphs that illustrate recent U.S. investments, acquisitions, IPOs and more. Though the charts and graphs focus on M...
02:00 am GMT - Sun, June 9, 2013
Techcrunch EFF's Peter Eckersley On Clever' PRISM Denials, Fighting FISA, And Why Privacy Matters [TCTV]
It's had to have been an interesting week for the people at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The non-profit has been beating the drum about the importance of digital rights, privacy, and meta...
01:22 am GMT - Sun, June 9, 2013
Techcrunch Snapchat Hiring Massive Sales Team, Said To Be Raising $100M At A Near $1B Valuation To Pay Them
Snapchat is aggressively recruiting sales people from Stanford as well as USC for its impending debut of a monetization scheme, we've discovered. Meanwhile it's raising $100 million at a valuation as ...
01:16 am GMT - Sun, June 9, 2013
Techcrunch Director Of National Intelligence Tries To Downplay PRISM Paranoia, Says The System Doesn't Mine Data
There have been plenty of juicy (and unsettling) PRISM details making the rounds these past few days, and unsurprisingly the Office of the Director of National Intelligence doesn't think the NSA's sur...
01:00 am GMT - Sun, June 9, 2013
Techcrunch Zazzle Pulls Fake NSA PRISM Program T-Shirt For Intellectual Property Infringement
Turn on your radio-activated tooth fillings and cover your windows in aluminum foil because someone - no one knows who, for sure - has asked that Gawker writer Max Read's homemade NSA PRISM t-shirts b...
11:38 pm GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch Windows Phone 8 Reportedly Gained A Notification Center Before Losing It Again
When I buy gadgets off of eBay, I'm lucky if half of them haven't previously been gnawef on by dogs. Meanwhile, this redditor who picked up a second-hand Nokia Lumia 920 from the auction sit seems to ...
10:09 pm GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch The Zen of Entrepreneurship
In Silicon Valley, its easy to find lots of advice on what I call the external how-tos of startups, including: structuring your company, building a minimum viable product, negotiating a term sheet wit...
10:07 pm GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch Girl Loses Friends Because Her Phone Is Too Big To Carry
Somewhere on the dance floor, she vanished. It would have a been no problem, except her smartphone was so large she left it at coat check. In the pursuit of a big, beautiful screen, she'd sacrificed w...
09:20 pm GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch Senate Candidate @CoryBooker: What We Know And What We Need To Know
Democratic celebrity Newark Mayor Cory Booker just announced his candidacy for Senate, to be decided in a special election on October 16 to replace the late Senator Frank Lautenberg. We named him one ...
09:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Back in the USSR
The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor view the world through PRISM glasses. We, or me, couldn't help wondering what part of surpised we are at the idea we're be...
08:07 pm GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch CrunchWeek: Zynga's Big Layoffs, OMGPOP Gets The Axe, NSA Spying Emerges With Verizon
Are you feeling like you're ready to kick off the weekend, but could just use three more opinions on the biggest tech news stories of the week before you really get the party started? Well you came to...
07:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch The Enterprise App Economy
Editors note:Aaron LevieisCEO and co-founder ofBox.Next week, thousands of developers will converge on WWDC, the vast majority representing companies and products that didnt exist before the creation ...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch Blanket Surveillance. Total Secrecy. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Imagine that one day you came home to find a shiny little bubble of one-way glass in an upper corner of every single room, and a notice left on your kitchen table: "As required by the Safe Society Act...
11:09 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch Tech Giants Built Segrated Systems For NSA Instead Of Firehoses To Protect Innocent Users From PRISM
The NSA may have wanted full firehoses of data from Google, Facebook and other tech giants, but the companies attempted to protect innocent users from monitoring via compliance systems that segregated...
11:09 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch Tech Giants Built Segregated Systems For NSA Instead Of Firehoses To Protect Innocent Users From PRISM
The NSA may have wanted full firehoses of data from Google, Facebook and other tech giants, but the companies attempted to protect innocent users from monitoring via compliance systems that segregated...
10:08 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch Malaysia Is Poorly Marketed To Entrepreneurs, Says 500 Durians' Khailee Ng
Malaysia is an easy place to get cheap, good, English-speaking talent, with overheads that are often far lower than in more advanced markets in Southeast Asia. But it continues to suffer the effects o...
09:23 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch Samsung And Nokia Could Be Gearing Up For A Smartphone Camera War
So Samsung's Galaxy S4 Mini and Galaxy S4 Active have officially made the leap from unimaginative rumors to unimaginative reality, which leaves only one oft-rumored version of the popular smartphone l...
08:00 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch An Ex-Googler's Take On The Internship
Editor's note:Caroline McCarthy is a writer and branded content consultant living in New York. Previously, she worked at Google and before that as a tech reporter for CNET.When I worked as a marketer ...
07:05 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch NYT Claims Tech Giants Gave NSA Access To Private Data, Just Not Direct Access
The fog of confusion is slowly lifting and the facts surrounding the NSA's PRISM surveillance program are becoming a little bit clearer. According to a new report by the New York Time's Claire Cain Mi...
06:40 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch Doublespeak Denials Of PRISM Participation Were Careful Lies
"Direct Access" didn't mean no access. "Back door" didn't mean no door. "Only in accordance with the law" didn't mean PRISM is illegal. And you didn't need to have heard of a codename to have particip...
06:40 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch Doublespeak Denials Of PRISM Hid The Truth About Participation
"Direct Access" didn't mean no access. "Back door" didn't mean no door. "Only in accordance with the law" didn't mean PRISM is illegal. And you didn't need to have heard of a codename to have particip...
05:59 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch Who's Telling The Truth About PRISM? Computer Security Expert Gene Spafford Weighs In [TCTV]
Between the reports this week about that the U.S. National Security Agency has been mining personal user data from some of the world's biggest Internet players through a project called 'PRISM', to the...
03:41 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch The Deep Space Tourbillon Is A One-Off, Handmade Watch That Will Take You To Infinity And Beyond
As you may well know, the tourbillon is one of the hardest (and most expensive) complications to build and only the very rich and very obsessed can afford them. This watch, however, may be just the ti...
02:24 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch Following Google's Lead, Zuckerberg Says Facebook Isn't Giving Govt Direct Access Either
Mark Zuckerberg has just taken to Facebook to personally respond to the accusations that Facebook is involved in PRISM, an alleged secret government program that gives the government access to user in...
02:01 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch After Picking Up ExactTarget, Salesforce Buys Enterprise Business Intelligence And Analytics Startup EdgeSpring
Salesforce is on a bit of an acquisition spree this week. After purchasing marketing software company ExactTarget earlier in the week for $2.5 billion, the sales SaaS giant has announced the purchase ...
01:59 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch CAPTCHA Ad Startup Solve Media Says 2013 Revenue's On-Track For $13M-$16M, Should Reach 4B Engagements
Solve Media, a startup that turns CAPTCHA verification systems into ads, says that it's growing quickly. There were more than 1 billion engagements with Solve's Type-In ads last year, the company says...
01:40 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch Ask A VC: Redpoint's Chris Moore On What He Looks For In An Ad Tech Startup And More
In this week's Ask A VC show, Redpoint Partner Chris Moore joined us in the studio to discuss how he sources and spots promising startups, and more.Moore focuses on making investments for Redpoint in ...
12:48 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch Your Arduino Is In My Android Device! UDOO Mixes It Up With An All-In-One Solution
For most beginning hardware hackers, Arduino is hard and Linux/Android is easy. The folks at UDOO, a Kickstarter project that ends tonight, aim to solve that by mixing the best of both worlds. The UDO...
12:22 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch Google: There Is No PRISM Back Door To Our Servers, No Open-Ended Access To User Data
All of the companies that are allegedly involved in the PRISM surveillance program have now issued short statements saying that they are not participating in this program and that they are not allowin...
12:19 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch Twilio Raises A $70M Series D As They Consider An IPO
Twilio, the company whose APIs help developers easily add SMS, voice, and VoIP functionality to their applications, has closed a Series D round of $70M dollars.The round was led by Redpoint Ventures, ...
12:11 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang Live 06.07.13 (TCTV)
Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live today at 1pm Pacific time....
12:08 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2013
Techcrunch iOS 7, OS X 10.9, MacBooks And iRadio: What To Expect At WWDC 2013
Apple is set to deliver its WWDC keynote address on Monday June 10, and there are bound to be a lot of new things revealed on that day. The exact details remain shrouded in mystery, but as with every ...
11:56 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Airport Car Rental Startup Silvercar Ramps Up Expansion, With Plans For 7 Cities By Year-End
Airport car rental startup Silvercar has increased the number of markets it hopes to launch in by the end of the year, as it seeks to more aggressively make its services available to more potential cu...
11:50 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch After Quietly Launching Down South, NoChains Wants To Help You To Find The Best Cuisine In NYC
Picture this: you're traveling somewhere new and when it comes time to eat you want to get a feel for some local flavors. You're not going to want to chow down at the nearby Applebee's in that sort of...
11:33 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Form 1 3D Printer, WWDC, And WWDC
If you've got that summertime sadness, look no further than this week's TC Gadgets Podcast. In it, we discuss the new Form 1 printer which is meant to compete with the likes of MakerBot, as well as al...
09:52 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch If PRISM Is Real, Why Are All These Companies Denying Participation?
PRISM is real. Even the U.S. government now acknowledges its existence. The question that remains unanswered, though, is how involved Google, Apple, Yahoo, AOL, Paltalk and Facebook were. These compan...
09:52 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch If PRISM Is Real, Why Are All These Tech Companies Denying Participation?
PRISM is real. Even the U.S. government now acknowledges its existence. The question that remains unanswered, though, is how involved Google, Apple, Yahoo, AOL, Paltalk and Facebook were. These compan...
09:52 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Despite Naming Coincidence, Palantir Not Part Of PRISM Program
It’s s dumb to postulate that, because big data and security startup Palantir has a similarly named product to PRISM, that it’s somehow culpable. And, in an emailed statement to the Financ...
09:52 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Despite Naming Coincidence, Palantir Says It's Not Part Of PRISM Program
It’s dumb to postulate that, because big data and security startup Palantir has a similarly named product to PRISM, that it’s somehow culpable. And, in an emailed statement to the Financia...
08:31 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch AdMob Founder Omar Hamoui Joins Sequoia Capital
AdMob founder Omar Hamoui is joining Sequoia Capital, we've learned. Sequoia confirmed that Hamoui is joining the firm as an investment partner and will be starting in a few weeks.Hamoui's mobile ad p...
08:23 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Piccolo Automatically Prints Your Facebook And Instagram Photos Every Month
The growth of mobile devices, smartphones, and social networking services have forever changed the way we take photos. Today, we continuously snap pictures, pausing only to selectively share the best ...
08:18 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Breather Founder Explains How On-demand Rooms Could Unlock Cities With An App [TCTV]
Breather is a new startup billed as a sort of "Zipcar for rooms. Announced at the LeWeb conference in London and due to launch later this year, it's closed $1.5 million in funding from Canadian VC Rea...
08:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch U.K. Security Agency Also Tapped Into The NSA's Prism Surveillance Program
Prism already looked like a pretty far-reaching program, but a new report claims the NSA also gave at least one foreign security agency access to this system. According to a report in the Guardian, th...
08:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Instafeed Lets Instagram Addicts Create Custom Photo Feeds
Want to check out Instagrams from celebrities, artists, brands, or specific topics without cluttering your main feed? Instafeed's free iOS app lets you build and browse custom feeds of Instagram accou...
07:26 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch LaunchRock Aims To Cover All Your Launching Needs With App Deals, Video Production, And More
LaunchRock is a startup that helps other companies launch it's best-known for putting up landing pages where beta users can sign up. Now, co-founder and CEO Jameson Detweiler said he's "doubling down...
07:24 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Obama Is An Open Government Pioneer, Spymaster Dataholic
Love him or hate him, President Obama is no hypocrite: he’s been as fiercely innovative at encouraging citizen input to improve governance as he has been in secretly stealing Americans’ pr...
07:05 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Valkee, The Profitable Startup That Shines Lights Through Your Ears, Raises $9.7M
Valkee, the Finnish company that built a contraption that shines lights through your ear canals to treat seasonal affective disorder, closed $9.7 million in funding from current and new investors. Bey...
06:48 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Amazon Continues Arming Its Legion Of Self-Publishers With Storyteller Launch
Amazon has been nothing short of experimental in its quest to compete and dominate in the streaming video space. Today, the company takes it a step further with the introduction of the Amazon Storytel...
06:37 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Larry Harvey And JP Barlow On Burning Man's Sharing Economy, And Our Tech Future [TCTV]
Larry Harvey is the main co-founder of the Burning Man festival, while John Perry Barlow is a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We caug...
06:24 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch In Response To PRISM, Anonymous Leaks DoD Documents
Followingnews of the NSA's data-mining program which taps into Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple servers, among others, the network of internet activists known as Anonymous have released a collect...
05:44 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Apple And Sony Reach Agreement, Giving iRadio Full Record Label Support, Report Claims
Apple's rumored iRadio support has just scored a major win, signing up remaining holdout Sony Music according to a new report from AllThingsD's Peter Kafka. This follows reports earlier this week that...
05:15 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch GamePop Adds iPad And iPhone Game Support, Giving The Console Access To iOS Exclusives
BlueStacks is hoping to take the clear early consumer interest in a home gaming console built with mobile technologies and make that into big business, and today it's announcing what could become a hu...
05:11 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Call-filtering App WhosCall Now Available To Help iPhone Users Avoid Spam Calls
With over 600 million phone numbers in its database, WhosCall allows users around the world ID incoming calls and texts, even if those numbers aren't already stored in their contacts list. Originally ...
04:47 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Taking A Different Tack With In-Store Offers, Trialpay Grows Its Mobile Revenue By 85% Quarter-Over-Quarter
The same week as its old rival Tapjoy restructured with layoffs, Trialpay says it has quietly grown mobile revenue 85 percent over the last quarter by giving gamers offers they can redeem offline in s...
11:35 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch As Competition Heats Up, Uber Plans To Lower Fares On UberX Rides By 25%
Uber is planning an aggressive strike against mounting competition in the on-demand transportation market, as it will lower fares for its low-cost UberX service by as much as 25 percent in San Francis...
11:35 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch As Competition Heats Up, Uber Plans To Lower Fares On UberX Rides By 25% In San Francisco
Uber is planning an aggressive strike against mounting competition in the on-demand transportation market, as it will lower fares for its low-cost UberX service by as much as 25 percent in San Francis...
08:01 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch VivaKi Partners With Nativo For Native Ad Campaigns
Native advertising startup Nativo and VivaKi, a tech-focused agency within ad giant Publicis, announced today that they've formed a strategic partnership basically, VivaKi will be using Nativo techno...
06:48 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch LightInTheBox's Shares Surge 22% To $11.61 As Etailer Launches 2013s First Chinese IPO In U.S.
Online e-commerce site LightInTheBox became the first Chinese company to hold its IPO in the U.S. this year. Trading under the ticker LITB, shares rose 22.2% to $11.61 during the stock's first day of ...
06:29 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch U.S. Government: Reports About PRISM Contain Numerous Inaccuracies
After the flurry of reports about the NSA's alleged PRISM surveillance program earlier today, the U.S.'s Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper just released an official statement. Accordi...
05:25 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Who The NSA Follows, On Twitter
It's not a surprise that our phone calls are being tracked by the U.S. government. It's not a surprise that our Facebook and Google and PalTalk accounts might be as well. What is a surprise is that th...
04:50 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch President Obama To Visit Silicon Valley Tonight, As Reports Of NSA Tech Data Mining Come To Light
President Obama's official schedule indicates that he is currently aboard Air Force One and en route to the San Francisco Bay Area for private events being held tonight with some of Silicon Valley's m...
04:50 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch President Obama Visiting Silicon Valley Tonight, As Reports Of NSA's Tech Spying Come To Light
President Obama's official schedule indicates that he is currently aboard Air Force One and en route to the San Francisco Bay Area for private events being held tonight with some of Silicon Valley's m...
03:53 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Google, Facebook And Apple Deny Participation In NSA PRISM Surveillance Program
The Washington Post today reported that Google, Apple, Facebook, Dropbox, Microsoft, Paltalk, AOL (TechCrunch's parent company) and Yahoo participated in the so-called PRISM program which provided the...
03:53 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Google, Facebook, Dropbox, Yahoo, Microsoft And Apple Deny Participation In NSA PRISM Surveillance Program
The Washington Post today reported that Google, Apple, Facebook, Dropbox, Microsoft, Paltalk, AOL (TechCrunch's parent company) and Yahoo participated in the so-called PRISM program which provided the...
03:53 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Google, Facebook, Dropbox, Yahoo, Microsoft, Paltalk And Apple Deny Participation In NSA PRISM Surveillance Program
The Washington Post today reported that Google, Apple, Facebook, Dropbox, Microsoft, Paltalk, AOL (TechCrunch's parent company) and Yahoo participated in the so-called PRISM program which provided the...
03:34 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch The RK-1 Is An Arduino-Based Mobile Robot You Control With Smartphone Swipes
London-based roboticist Evangelos Georgiou wants to offer an open-source platform for helping Arduino hobbyists take their projects mobile, thanks to a remote controlled robot called the RK-1 that com...
03:02 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Report: NSA Collects Data Directly From Servers Of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook And More
The Washington Post is reporting a top-secret National Security Administration data-mining program that taps directly into the Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple servers among others.”The Nat...
01:33 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Kamcord Now Makes Mobile Game Recordings More Interesting With Audio Commentary Tools
It's been just under a year since Y Combinator-backed Kamcord officially launched, and the young team has spent its time raising funding and quietly fleshing out its SDK for iOS games. The team had se...
01:02 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch FWD.us' First Big Call To Action Automatically Phones Your Senator
Mark Zuckerberg and Joe Green's controversial political advocacy group FWD.us started getting the public involved today with its new Speak Up campaign that calls you and connects you to your senator t...
12:57 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch OpenStack Cloud Builder Mirantis Raises $10M In Second A Round From Red Hat, Ericsson And SAP Ventures
Mirantis has raised another $10 million from Red Hat, Ericsson and SAP Ventures to fuel the growing demand for the build out of OpenStack systems for private and public cloud environments. The financi...
12:48 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch EasyPost, A Stripe For Shipping, Raises $850K Seed Round, Sees Transactions Doubling Every Month
With more commerce moving online every day, the shipping industry is in need of innovation. And one of the bigger pain points developers face when trying to integrate postage and shipping into their a...
12:26 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Shopgate Raises $7M To Help Retailers Maximize Mobile Storefronts And Sales
Mobile e-commerce startup Shopgate announced its Series B funding round today, which it revealed to TechCrunch totals $7 million in an interview. The Germany and Palo Alto-based company offers retaile...
12:18 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Taxi E-Hail Apps Get The Green Light In New York City Officially, Finally, Once Again
Good news for New Yorkers who don't want to walk outside and put their hands up on the side of the street in an effort to attract the attention of a yellow cab passing by: The New York State Supreme C...
12:08 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook To Simplify Ad-Buying Process By Eliminating Half Of Its 27 Ad Units
Facebook is wrapping up a press session at its Menlo Park headquarters where it talked about the progress that it's making with advertisers and announced it will be eliminating and consolidating a num...
11:29 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Home Gets A Much Needed Dock To Keep Your Favorite Apps Close
While Facebook Home hasn't proven to be a smash success so far, it picked up a handful of features today that might just coax a few more users to hop on board. Amongst other things, the new Home allow...
10:19 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch With $2.5M Injection From Nexus, Indian Housing Marketplace Launches In Bangalore
Indian housing marketplace, Housing.co.in has expanded out of its home base of Mumbai into another major Indian city, Bangaloreits fifth city in the country. The company, which operates similarly to T...
10:09 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Reportedly Planning Trade-In Program For iPhones, Similar To Existing Third-Party Buy-Back Plans
Apple is said to be looking into an iPhone trade-in program on used devices in order to "add sales," according to a tweet from Bloomberg today. Bloomberg says that this would be the "first time" Apple...
09:34 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Panzura Gets $10M For The Love Of Speed In A Global File System
Panzura has raised $25 million for its global file system that stores and moves data in a fast, secure manner. Meritec Capital Partners led the D round. The company has now raised $58 million and expe...
09:34 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Panzura Gets $25M For The Love Of Speed In A Global File System
Panzura has raised $25 million for its global file system that stores and moves data in a fast, secure manner. Meritec Capital Partners led the D round. The company has now raised $58 million and expe...
09:25 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch YouTube Founders Hurley And Chen Have Released An Asian Clone Of Vine
AVOS Systems, the company founded by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has just launched a new app that appears to be a Chinese version of Twitter's popular six-second video-sharing app, Vi...
08:59 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch To Spark Children's Imaginations, Hullabalu Raises $1.8 Million From SV Angel, Great Oaks & Others For iPad Storytelling App
New York-based Hullabalu is launching today with a new take on children's storytelling - instead of digital books with interactive bits as is now common on iPad, this new tablet app itself is the stor...
08:58 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Launches Bing Translator App For Windows With Augmented Reality Translations, Support For 40 Languages
Microsoft today launched its Bing Translator app for Windows (including Windows RT). We don't usually write all that much about Windows apps and translation apps aren't exactly new, either, but it's n...
08:10 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Amazon's Relational Database Service Hits General Availability, Gets SLA With 99.95% Monthly Uptime Promise
Amazon's Relational Database Service (RDS) today officially hit general availability and now offers a Service Level Agreement with a 99.95% uptime promise for multi-availability zone deployments.RDS h...
08:07 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch On Spying, A Deficit Of Trust
After it was revealed that the National Security Administration was collecting phone records of every single U.S. call on the Verizon network, even President Obama’s most ardent supporters are l...
08:01 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Fashion Brand Cuyana Lands $1.7M From Canaan Partners To Get Women To Buy Fewer, Better Things
It may seem counter-intuitive for an apparel and accessories company to encourage women to buy fewer things, but that's exactly what a new startup called Cuyana is doing. Cuyana, a San Francisco start...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Video Discovery Startup Showyou Launches Channel Platform, Unveils A Revenue Model
Over the past few years, Showyou has created an app which makes it easier for video viewers on a mobile phone or tablet to find new content, and share it with friends. Now Showyou wants to use the app...
07:28 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch BlackBerry Messenger Reportedly Taking The Cross-Platform Plunge June 27 With Android And iOS App Launches
BlackBerry Messenger is reportedly coming to iOS and Android on June 27, according to a tweet from T-Mobile UK's official account today. The tweet was accompanied by a picture of BBM in action on a Sa...
07:28 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch BlackBerry Messenger Reportedly Taking The Cross-Platform Plunge June 27 With Android And iOS App Launches (Update: Maybe Not)
BlackBerry Messenger is reportedly coming to iOS and Android on June 27, according to a tweet from T-Mobile UK's official account today. The tweet was accompanied by a picture of BBM in action on a Sa...
07:18 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Aiming To Be A One-Stop Shop For Social Marketing, Brand Networks Raises $68M In Its First Funding
Brand Networks, a company offering tools for brands to market themselves on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and elsewhere, has raised $68 million in its first round of funding.Founded in 2006, Brand Networ...
07:02 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Eric Schmidt-Backed Slice Moves Beyond Receipt Tracking With Debut Of Bookshelf, A Social Network For Readers
Is there room for another social network for book lovers, now that the biggest, Goodreads, has been snatched up by the largest online retailer (and Kindle maker) Amazon?Slicethinks so. Today, the mobi...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Comedy Central Launches Stand-Up App So You Can Watch All Your Favorite Comedians And Discover New Ones
Comedy Central has released a standalone app for watching and discovering awesome stand-up comedians. The app, called CC:Standup, has more than 6,000 videos from 700 comedians. That will allow stand-u...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Uber For Local Home Services' Provider ClubLocal Launches In The Bay Area
ClubLocal works by connecting users with pre-vetted home service professionals, without having to search Yelp or the phone book when they need a plumber or an HVAC technician. It's already signed up p...
06:51 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch France's Netatmo Raises $5.8M To Extend The Reach Of Its Connected Weather Station
Paris-based Internet of Things startup Netatmo, which makes personal weather station and air quality sensor devices (as seen in the video above) for use with Android and iOS apps, has just closed a 4....
06:39 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Social Video Network Keek Passes 45M Users, Adding Over 24M Users Since Vine's Launch
Toronto-based social video network Keek has seen some tremendous growth recently, adding on 24 million users in just four months to bring its network to a total reach of 45 million registered members....
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Box Wants To Help Enterprise App Developers Make Money Via New Monetization Program, Box $rev
In the consumer mobile app world, developers have a number of platforms including iOS, and Android, from which they can not only find users but also monetize and make money. Connecting with social net...
05:35 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch After Pivoting To Be U.S. Only, Mobile Messaging App Lango Adds Topical Emoji To Piggyback On Trends & TV Chit-Chat
Lango, the U.S. mobile picture-messaging app formerly known as Zlango and backed by Benchmark and DAG ventures to the tune of $20 million in total, is sharpening its focus on its target U.S. market by...
05:01 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch H.Bloom Floral Service Preps To Launch In 5 New Cities, Starting With Boston On June 11
H.Bloom has been disrupting the land of floral gift-giving for quite some time, but the startup is ready to spread its wings and fly into new territory. According to a release, H.Bloom will be expandi...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch 7digital Makes A Play To Be The Go-To Streaming Radio Backend As Google And Apple Services Loom
7digital, the London-based company that offers digital music store services to some of the world's leading consumer electronics companies, including Samsung and Blackberry, as well as to smaller compa...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch SnagFilms Launches Updated Website With Social Sharing, But Just In Private Beta
Indie movie distributor SnagFilms is preparing a new, more social user experience, and is ready to launch that experience in private beta. The startup's new website, at SnagFilms.com, will launch late...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch There Are Two Races In The Mobile Market, Claims Flurry, And Both iOS And Android Can Win
iOS and Android aren't necessarily competing for one mobile crown anymore, according to the latest Flurry mobile report, which shows that in the two-horse race the smartphone and mobile OS market has ...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Fitstar, The Startup Looking To Reinvent The Home Workout From The iPad, Finally Launches
Fitstar, the Google Ventures and Floodgate-backed startup that’s aiming to disrupt Richard Simmons, is finally launching its home workout app with NFL player Tony Gonzalez. Mike Maser, a longtim...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Mobile Messaging App Tango Debuts A Content Platform, Will Now Power The Social Layer Of Third-Party Apps & Games
Tango, a mobile messaging and video calling app with now over 120 million members worldwide, is expanding its service by opening its platform to third-party developers. By integrating the newly launch...
01:36 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch SocialBro Raises $1.8M To Help Businesses Manage, Analyse And Monetize Twitter Communities
The ability to drill-down and target specific groups of people on Facebook, based on their interests or affinity with a brand or its competitor's, is sort of a given. On Twitter, however,it's not so ...
01:31 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Tablets Continue To Build Momentum As A Place To Pay, Android & iPad Up 5% In 10 Months
Payments company Adyen has published the first of a new quarterly index intended to track the evolving landscape of mobile commerce. One notable increase flagged up by the data is the increasing popul...
11:59 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Logitech Acquires TT Design Labs, The Two-Person Startup Behind The Popular Kickstarter Project TidyTilt
Doing your homework may net you more than just a good grade in school. Two young designers have just found out that it may lead to a big company snapping up your tiny design firm. Logitech announced t...
11:47 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Russia's Yandex Has A New Take On Search Results, Take Action Inside The Page
With Google dominant in so many markets, one would thing that search is kind've 'done'. Of course, we have yet to really tap into social search, and Facebook Graph search is showing a clear direction....
11:00 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch FounderDating Expands Its Co-Founder Finding Network Further With London Launch
FounderDating, the networking service that matches startup entrepreneurs with potential co-founders who have complementary skill-sets, has launched in London. The platform already spans 19 U.S. cities...
10:29 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch AT&T May Join The Chernin Group To Bid On Hulu
AT&T may link up with the Chernin Group to make a joint bid for Hulu, reports AllThingsD citing unnamed sources close to the telecommunications company. If the discussions go through, the partners...
09:50 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch GREE Ventures Builds Its Southeast Asia Portfolio With Investment In UrbanIndo
GREE Ventures, the investment arm of the mobile gaming giant, has expanded its Southeast Asia portfolio as the lead in Indonesia real-estate startup UrbanIndo's preferred Series A funding. Other parti...
09:36 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch The Team Behind Ngmoco Raises $12M For N3twork, A Re-Imagined Way Of Browsing Mobile Content
The team that sold early mobile gaming company Ngmoco to DeNA for up to $400 million is back at the grind again. They’ve raised $12 million to re-imagine how people consume mobile content around...
07:50 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch TripAdvisor Ditches Popups, Now Displays Kayak-Style Price Comparisons On Its 100M Hotel Reviews
Since it was founded way back in 2000, TripAdvisor has established itself as one of the web's top go-to places for travel reviews -- but its booking capabilities for hotels have notably lagged behind....
06:30 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Fired Reuters Employee Previews No-Nonsense Breaking News Site MatthewKeysLive
Matthew Keys is getting back into the news game. He's currently previewing the beta of his new worldwide breaking news site Matthewkeyslive.com until the end of Philadelphia Mayor Nutter's press brief...
06:30 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Fired Reuters Employee Previews No-Nonsense Premium Breaking News Site MatthewKeysLive
Matthew Keys is getting back into the news game. He's currently previewing the beta of his new worldwide breaking news site Matthewkeyslive.com until the end of Philadelphia Mayor Nutter's press brief...
05:06 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Snapchat Launches v5.0 With Revamped UI, Swipe Navigation, And In-App Profiles
Snapchat, the app that lets you send pics and videos that self-destruct, has just released a huge update to version 5.0 "Banquo" (I'll get to that in a minute), which includes a dramatic revamp of the...
04:46 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Report: NSA Secretly Collecting Phone Records Of All Verizon Calls
The National Security Administration is secretly collecting phone record information for all calls on the Verizon network. "Under the terms of the blanket order, the numbers of both parties on a call ...
04:46 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Report: NSA Secretly Collecting Phone Records Of All U.S. Verizon Calls
The National Security Administration is secretly collecting phone record information for all calls on the Verizon network. "Under the terms of the blanket order, the numbers of both parties on a call ...
04:33 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch On A Mission To Build The Next Big Pet Brand, Whistle Launches A $99 Fitbit (And Health Monitor) For Pooches
Yes, it's become exceedingly clear that the Internet has entered into a prodigious, lascivious (and hilarious) relationship with cats. But, at the end of the day, when it comes to the title of "Man/Wo...
03:36 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Fastly Raises $10M For Content Delivery Network Built For Mobile, Real-Time World
Fastly has raised $10 million in a Series B round for its SSD-powered content delivery network (CDN) used by the likes of Disqus, Twitter and GitHub. The round was led by August Capital.Fastly, founde...
03:08 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Google Wants To Make Your Android Device More Like A Nexus With Its New Keyboard App
Heads up Android keyboard aficionados -- if your handset runs Android 4.0 or later and you're just not thrilled with the keyboard you already have, you can now download Google's stock keyboard app fro...
02:48 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Meet SpinMe, The iOS Alarm For People Who Suck At Waking Up
I'm not sure I can aptly explain just how absolutely terrible I am at getting up in the morning.I know, I know. "BOO HOO, GARFIELD, EVERYONE HATES MORNINGS".No. I don't just hate getting out of bed. I...
12:57 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Mourn The Loss Of Odwalla, Mourn The Loss Of Your Job
When the Odwalla and the Red Bull dry up, when the weekly happy hour becomes crappy hour, when you have to peel your own eggs these are the leading indicators that your company is in trouble. Thats o...
12:50 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch App Infrastructure Startup Buddy.com Gets Into The Analytics Business
Buddy.com today announced a mobile analytics service that's supposed to give publishers and brands a better sense of who's actually using their apps and how they're using them.There's plenty of compet...
12:15 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2013
Techcrunch Social Media Is Worst Menace To Society Says Turkey PM, 25 Twitter Users Arrested
Turkish authorities have arrested 25 protesters for the high crime of using Twitter. Amid widespread violent clashes, police rounded up netizens on Tuesday night for "spreading untrue information." Em...
11:09 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch TechCrunch Returns To China, For Keeps
TechCrunch has a big international readership, and we all know there are no geographical boundaries to the startup revolution. No country has ridden that wave better than China, where huge markets, a ...
11:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Founder Stories: Climate Corp's David Friedberg On Why Leading A Company Is Like Playing Poker
For this weeks Founder Stories, I sat down with David Friedberg of The Climate Corporation to talk about building a business around big data and machine learning. The Climate Corporation collects data...
10:57 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft: Internet Explorer 10 Is The Most Energy-Efficient Browser, Uses Up To 18% Less Power Than Chrome and Firefox
If everybody switched from Chrome and Firefox to Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8, we could save enough energy to power 10,000 U.S. households, a new study (PDF) commissioned by Microsoft says. The r...
10:33 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Amazon Resurrects The Kindle DX, That Most Awkward Cousin Of A Device Family On The Way Out
Amazon has made official the return of a device many thought was bound for the e-reader graveyard, the Kindle DX. The DX is Amazon's big-screen reader, with a 9.7-inch e-ink display and a full keyboar...
09:35 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Science Is Raising A New $30 Million Fund To Back Its Startups And Others
LA-based incubator and studio Science is in the process of raising a $30 million new investment fund, according to sources familiar with the matter....
09:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Google Backtracks On Its CalDAV API Spring Cleaning And Launches CardDAV API
All Google wants to talk about this week are APIs, it seems, but today's announcement that it is not making the CalDAV API partner-only, as it announced during one of its latest "spring cleaning" purg...
08:59 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Sincerely's New Thoughtfulness Engine Will Help You Remember Birthdays & Special Occasions, Won't Spam You With Alerts
Sincerely, the mobile gifting startup behind postcard and greeting card apps as well as newer arrival Sesamefor themed gift sets, is on a mission to make the world more thoughtful. To date, it has acc...
08:40 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Startups Pitch Their Wares At Le Web London - Here's An 8min Run Through
Le Web London features, just like other tech events, lots of startups. We did a fast sub-8 minute run through of the startups in the competition here and came up with a few gems. And here's a run down...
08:40 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Startups Pitch Their Wares At Le Web London - Here's An 8-Minute Run-Through
Le Web London features, just like other tech events, lots of startups. We did an eight-minute run-through of the startups in the competition here and came up with a few gems. Here's a run down of thos...
08:37 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch With New Extension, Google Allows Businesses To Add Images To Their Search Ads
Google just announced the beta launch of a new capability for the businesses that advertise alongside its search results the ability to include images.While the company offers a variety of ad formats...
08:30 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Developer Auction Begins Offering Free Intern Placement, Tests Expanding To Designers As It Pushes To Change Recruiting
Developer Auction, the startup that flips recruiting on its head by allowing engineers to put themselves up for bidding from companies in need of talent, is expanding its service to intern placement a...
08:08 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Airbnb Commits To Fighting New York Regulators In Nigel Warren Case
Airbnb is taking the offensive in the fight against regulators, providing legal support for Nigel Warren, a host who recently was fined $2,400 by an administrative law judge. The company, which provid...
08:06 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Le Web London Hears A Warning - Big Cos. Are About To Start Copying Startup Sharing Strategies [TCTV]
Long-time analyst and noted commentator Jeremiah Owyang, partner at research company Altimeter Group, spoke at Le Web in London today about the so-called 'sharing economy' and had a few home truths to...
08:04 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Google Launches Maps Engine API To Allow Enterprise Developers To More Easily Create, Share And Publish Custom Maps
Google’s Maps Engine, its enterprise-focused service for developers who need to be able to create their own maps based on custom data, launched about two years ago and has been available commerc...
08:02 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Stripe Makes It Easier For Marketplaces To Collect And Distribute Payments To Multiple Accounts
Payments startup Stripe is making an interesting move in the world of marketplaces that should make it significantly easier for collaborative consumption startups to take and process payments. The com...
07:44 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Google App Engine Adds Kinvey To Power Mobile Backend
Google is broadening its reach into the mobile app development world today through apartnership with Kinvey,which will provide an enterprise backend-as-a-service (BaaS) layer on top of Google App Engi...
07:40 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Yahoo Updates The Look Of Search, Bumping Up Results And Adopting A Google-Like Nav Bar
Yahoo has tweaked its search results page today (yes, it still does search, albeit now powered by Microsoft's Bing), with a visual refresh that's meant to better emphasize top search results, and that...
07:31 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Custom Goods Marketplace Makeably Raises $650K From Great Oaks, 500 Startups & Others, Shifts Focus To Remixes
Brooklyn-based custom-made goods marketplaceMakeablylaunched this past fall as a way to connect buyers with makers and other artisans who can craft unique, one-of-a-kind items ranging from apparel to ...
06:59 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Social Infrastructure' Provider Gigya Hires Paul Farmer, A CFO With IPO Experience
Gigya, which provides social login tools and other social networking and gamification features to customers like Pepsi and Verizon, has hired its first chief financial officer, Paul Farmer.Gigya says ...
06:58 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Mobile Wallet Kuapay Gets An Upgrade, Reaches 600 Locations Through Trials With KFC & Others
Kuapay, a startup offering a consumer mobile wallet application and accompanying loyalty platform for merchants, is rolling out an upgraded version of its mobile app today. The app focuses on improved...
06:42 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch OpenBrand Adds Live Comps To Help Designers Show Clients What Their Designs Look Like In The Real World
This is pretty neat. OpenBrand, the UK/Czech startup that provides a 'Dropbox for designers' and an online space for brands and agencies to manage brand-related design assets, has added the ability to...
06:02 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch betaworks-Backed Tapestry Brings Easier Discovery And A Bit Of Rebranding To The Storytelling App
Tapestry, the digital story-telling platform launched out of betaworks, has been relatively quiet since its inception in November of 2012. Today, however, Tapestry is releasing a major update to the a...
06:02 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Google Glass Should Be Banned For Privacy Reasons Say One In Five UK Residents, Per New Survey
Google Glass isn't even a product released for public consumption yet and already people are up in arms about its effect on personal privacy. A new survey of around 4,000 UK residents conducted by Rac...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Watch Out Amazon, Japan's Rakuten Buys E-Commerce Fulfillment Company Webgistix To Expand Further In The US
Japanese ecommercce giant Rakuten is making a acquisition of a US-based company today-Webgistix, a logistics and services company specializing in fulfillment technology for e-commerce retailers. The a...
05:58 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch HTC Hopes Shrinking The Best Android Phone Available Is The Way To Win
Let's say you've created an incredibly well-received smartphone and need to create another such device to send off into an incredibly competitive market. What do you do?Well, if you're HTC, the answer...
05:44 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch App-Only Horror Movie Haunting Melissa Challenges Traditional Storytelling
"Haunting Melissa" wants to challenge the boundaries of filmmaking by putting a ghost in your (iOS) machine. Created by Neal Edelstein, producer of "The Ring" and "Mulholland Drive," and Hooked Digita...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch With 35M Unique Viewers A Month, Twitch Hires An In-House Ad Sales Team To Ramp Up Monetization
E-sports streaming startup Twitch has already seen massive growth in its audience since launching to the public just about two years ago. Now it's hoping to better monetize that audience, with the cre...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Enterprise SEO Platform GinzaMetrics Launches Major Update, Names LaunchRock Co-Founder Sean McCullough As CTO
GinzaMetrics, the Y Combinator graduate and 500 Startups-funded SEO management and content marketing platform, today announced a major update and a new UI for its service. With this update, the compan...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Email Management App Boxer Launches To Put You In Control Of Your Inbox
The latest app to take on email is Boxer, which was founded by Pyra/Google/Thing Labs/AOL veteran Jason Shellen, along with OtherInbox alum Ian Ragsdale and the team behind email app Taskbox. The app,...
04:30 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Pandora Launches New HTML5-Based TV Experience, Starting With Xbox 360 and PS3
Pandora today launched a new browser-based interface for TVs that it hopes will help set the standard for using the service in the living room. The first devices to support this new HTML5-based interf...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch App Annie's Mobile App Intelligence Data Gets A Major Upgrade Now Available On Web, Updated Daily & Integrated With Tableau
The mobile app ecosystem changes quickly, even overnight at times. That's why today mobile app analytics service App Annie is expanding its paid App Intelligence service to now include daily estimates...
03:56 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch eBay To Make True Window Shopping A Reality With New NYC Virtual Retail Stores
eBay is debuting new "shoppable window" virtual stores over the course of this month and next (via Reuters), to help retailer Fifth & Pacific Companies Inc. sell its new line of Kate Spade Saturda...
03:35 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch MOwayduino Are Mini Robots Designed To Get Kids & Kidults Playing Around With Robotics
mOwayduino are programmable Arduino-based robot toys designed to be used in conjunction with apps plus hardware add-ons -- creating a rich environment for learning by playing with hardware and softwar...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Playhaven Acquires Staq.io To Beef Up Gaming Analytics
Playhaven, a startup that helps mobile game developers monetize their player bases, acquired a small three-person startup called Staq.io to beef up their analytics offerings. The company, which had ca...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Thalmic Labs Raises $14.5M To Make The MYO Armband The Next Big Thing In Gesture Control
Thalmic Labs, the Waterloo-based startup working on an all new form of user input for computing devices with the MYO amrband, today announced the close of its $14.5 million Series A funding round, led...
03:15 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Instructure Lands A Hefty $30M To Take On The Blackboards And Moodles In A Multi-Billion Dollar eLearning Market
The Learning Management System market is a wild and wooly place, relatively speaking, of course. "LMSes," as they are known, are software applications and platforms that allow educational institutions...
02:27 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch FreedomPop Will Take On Carriers This Summer By Offering Smartphones And A New Freemium Phone Plan
Freemium wireless internet startup FreedomPop has been out to undercut traditional wireless carriers on data plan costs for over a year now, but now the company wants to up ante once more. In exchange...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Personal Capital Closes $25 Million In Series C Funding For Online Wealth Management Platform
When many people hear "wealth management," they think of elite advisors meeting old money clients at the country club, or decades-old firms with big names such as Fidelity or Schwab. But in the years ...
01:29 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch The Galaxy S4 Active Is An Outdoor-Friendly Addition To Samsung's Flagship Phone Family
After unboxing last week's Galaxy S4 Mini, Samsung is keeping the pedal pressed to the metal by announcing another new launch variant of its current flagship smartphone -- this time aimed at users who...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Home Improvement And Repair Marketplace Porch Raises $6.3M From SV Angel, Jeff Skoll And Others
Porch, a soon to be launched home improvement and repair marketplace, has raised $6.25 million is funding from SV Angel, Chamath Palihapitiya, Javier Olivan, Jeff Skoll, Bill Lee, Geoff Entress, Charl...
11:05 am GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Windows RT 8.1 Update Will Bring Full Outlook 2013 Desktop App To RT Tablets
This has long been rumored, but Microsoft just announced that Windows RT, its operating system for ARM-based tablets and other small touch-enabled devices, will get Outlook 2013 once the free Windows ...
10:35 am GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Xyologic Gives A New Personal Touch To Its App Search Engine
Talk to most developers and they will invariably say that the status quo of app discovery through rankings can’t really last. People have, of course, been saying this for a couple years. While A...
09:41 am GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Email Reveals Google App Engine Search API About Ready For Preview Release, Charges Planned For Storage, Operations
Google is readying to move the Google App Engine Search APIfrom experimental topreview mode with plans to charge for operations and storage. The news comes from an email sent by a Google product manag...
08:53 am GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Zynga Co-founder's Junyo Is Using Big Data To Help EdTech Companies Better Understand What Schools Really Need
In 2011, Steve Schoettler left Zynga, the company he had co-founded four years earlier, to devote himself to a new project, called Junyo. With interest in education technology beginning to take hold, ...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Bloomberg Launches Bloomberg Beta, A $75 Million Early-Stage Investment Fund Led By Former IGN Exec Roy Bahat
Media company Bloomberg is launching its own venture capital fund today, putting aside $75 million to invest in early-stage startups. The fund, which has already put money into nine companies, is bein...
04:16 am GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Google Glass Updated With HDR Photography And Voice-Powered Photo Captions
Are you part of the lucky bunch that got offered a pair of Google Glass and had $1,500 bucks to kick down? Good news! The camera on your set just got a whole lot better.Following up on their promise t...
03:30 am GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch TC Cribs: Asana, Where Zen Yoga And Knife-Wielding Drones Are All In A Day's Work
Summer is just about here and the time is right for another episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the tech industry's most buzz-worthy companies to see what it's really like...
03:01 am GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch With $12M Burning A Hole In Its Pocket, London's YPlan Wants New York To Be More Socially Spontaneous
Yplan, the London-based startup that's building a platform for selling last minute event-booking on mobile, has closed a $12 million (7.9 million) Series A, led by General Catalyst Partners. Existing ...
02:49 am GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch DC Says Readers Are Downloading 1M Digital Comics Each Month, Announces New Interactive Features
DC Entertainment is announcing two new technologies today that should give readers more opportunity to interact with their digital comics. The company is also sharing some numbers about the growth tha...
01:23 am GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch U.S. ITC Finds Apple Violates Samsung Patent, Issues Limited Import Ban On AT&T iPhone 4, 3GS And Some iPads
Apple has been found to be in violation of a Samsung patent, which has resulted in a limited import ban on certain products, including the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, original iPad 3G and iPad 2 3G, all onl...
01:00 am GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Atlassian Bitbucket Passes 1 Million Users, Another Validation Of The Fast-Growing Developer Market
In September 2010, Atlassian acquired Bitbucket, the service for code collaboration, similar to GitHub. At the time, the service had 45,000 users. Today it has 1 million users, a validation that the m...
12:49 am GMT - Wed, June 5, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook To Webcast Its First-Ever Stockholders Meeting June 11th
Facebook's board of directors and stockholders will convene on June 11th, and anyone will be able to virtually sit in as Facebook today announced it will webcast its first stockholder's meeting. The m...
11:20 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Google's New Content Experiments API Turns Google Analytics Into A Full-Blown A/B Testing Platform
Google today launched its new Content Experiments API, a tool that allows developers to easily test their sites' content with programmatic optimization. The new API is deeply integrated with Google An...
10:45 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch 3 Silly Abuses Obama's Patent Troll Executive Order Could Stop
Allowing for the legal ownership of ideas has some silly unintended consequences. "Dumbass patents are crushing small businesses," Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban once told me. Roughly a third of st...
10:41 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Amazon Reportedly Looking To Expand Grocery Business, Roll Out AmazonFresh Beyond Seattle
Amazon has had an ongoing experiment for the past half-decade called AmazonFresh, which offers grocery service and delivery of fresh produce to customers in its home base of Seattle. That program is o...
10:30 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Berlin's Network Effect Will Make It A Global Startup Center
Editor's note:Matt Cohler isa General Partner atBenchmark and was the lead investor in Asana, Instagram and Quora among others.Throw a dart at a map. Theres a pretty good chance it'll hit near somepla...
10:19 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Bose Reveals SoundLink Mini Bluetooth Speaker And QuietComfort 20 In-Ear Headphones With Aware Mode
Today Bose is announcing two new products to its lineup, with the introduction of the SoundLink Mini Bluetooth speaker and the QuietComfort 20 In-Ear headphones. Both offer the same high quality audio...
10:07 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Google Updates Gmail For iPhone With Support For New Auto-Categorized Inbox And Improved Notifications
As promised, Google today launched the latest version of Gmail for iPhone. Just like the new Android version, which rolled out yesterday, the iOS version now offers support for Google’s new auto...
10:01 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Twitter Redesigns #Music To Further Highlight Charts, Offering A Hint Of What's To Come Site-Wide
As we noted a few weeks ago, Twitter introduced charts for its #Music product. The company's intentions for the service aren't known, and it seems like they're taking somewhat of a public beta approac...
09:26 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch With ExactTarget Acquisition, Salesforce.com Has Spent Close To $3.5 Billion To Get Into The Chief Marketing Officer's Suite
Salesforce.com added more marketing power to its arsenal today with the purchase of ExactTarget for $2.5 billion. It is the company's largest acquisition to date, second to Buddy Media, which it bough...
09:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Scripted Gets $4.5M Series A To Build Out Its Online Marketplace For Freelance Writers
Freelance writing doesn't exactly have the reputation lately for being a lucrative endeavor. But it looks like at least some investors are seeing some bright spots there -- at least when it comes to t...
08:58 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Playtox Raises $3M From Runa Capital To Take Its App Store-Shunning Mobile Browser MMOs Global
Playtox, the Russian developer of free-to-play mobile browser-based games, has closed a $3 million Series A round of funding from VC firm Runa Capital. The company said it will use the funding to expa...
08:35 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Google Will Soon Launch Google Web Designer, A Free HTML5 Development Tool For Creating Web Apps, Sites And Ads
Google will soon launch Google Web Designer, an HTML5 development tool for "creative professionals." The service, Google says, will launching within "the coming months" and is meant to "empower creati...
08:18 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch To Reach A Different Kind Of Shopper, Men's Styling Service Trunk Club Arrives On iPhone
Personal styling and retail platformTrunk Clubis going mobile. After finding that around 40 percent of its website traffic is now coming from mobile devices, and around 75 to 80 percent of that comes ...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Bill Gates, Benchmark And More Pour $35M Into ResearchGate, The Social Network For Scientists
Ijad Madisch started ResearchGate in 2008 to change the scientific method, and depending on where you sit, that either is or isn't as ambitious as it sounds. Madisch isn't on a crusade to overturn the...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Zynga Reportedly Shuts Down OMGPOP One Year After Acquiring It For $200M
As the dust begins to settle following yesterday's massive, sweeping layoffs at Zynga, the extent of the damage is becoming more clear.Remember when Zynga acquired OMGPOP last year for roughly $200M d...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Zynga Shuts Down OMGPOP One Year After Acquiring It For $200M
As the dust begins to settle following yesterday's massive, sweeping layoffs at Zynga, the extent of the damage is becoming more clear.Remember when Zynga acquired OMGPOP last year for roughly $200M d...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Backed By NEA And Andreessen Horowitz, Mattermark (Formerly Referly) Wants To Be The Data Signaling Platform For VCs
It's no secret these days that VCs are getting into data in a meaningful way.Firms can no longer afford to wait for companies, people and trends to come to Sand Hill Road. To start competing for deals...
07:57 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Google Launches Cloud SQL API To Allow Developers To Manage Their Databases Programmatically
Google's Cloud Platform has long featured Cloud SQL, a zero-maintenance MySQL database that's hosted on Google's cloud platform. What it didn't offer was an API to easily manage these databases withou...
07:33 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Google TV Adds Redbox Instant By Verizon App, Pitting It Against Netflix On The Platform
Google has just announced via its official Google TV blog that Redbox Instant by Verizon is arriving on the platform today. The newly launched app provides Redbox subscribers access to streaming movie...
07:07 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Augmented Reality Startup Daqri Raises $15M More, Troy Carter Joins Advisory Board
Daqri, a company that says it's creating the "Photoshop of augmented reality," just announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A led by Tarsadia Investments.As with other augmented reality comp...
06:59 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Sunrise Raises $2.2 Million Because It Is The Only Calendar App With A Design-Oriented Approach
When Sunrise introduced its calendar app to iOS users, it was already a crowded space. Yet, the company just raised a $2.2 million seed round led by Resolute.vc and NextView Ventures. It fosters a dif...
06:19 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Dollar Shave Club Goes Beyond Shaving (And Declares Goal To Own The Bathroom') With One Wipe Charlies
Dollar Shave Club, the subscription razor service incubated by Los Angeles-based Science, Inc. (and backed by firms like Venrock, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Andreessen Horowitz), is lau...
06:16 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Debuts Crowdfunding Program For Student Laptops, Offers Office 365 Free To First 10K Participants
Microsoft is introducing a new pilot project today called "Chip In," which sees the Windows-maker offering to help students crowdsource laptop purchases ahead of next school year. Students with a .edu...
06:10 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Wikipad's $249 Android Gaming Tablet Will (Finally) Make Its U.S. Debut On June 11
Remember the Wikipad? The Android-powered gaming tablet/hefty controller rig combo that was supposed to launch in 2012 before suffering delay after delay? Well, the wait is just about over -- the comp...
06:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Huge Labs Launches Honey, A Reddit-Like Message Board For Sharing News In Your Company
Want a way to communicate with your team, and are tired of doing so over email? Honey is a new communications platform that allows employees to have an internal message board for sharing interesting n...
05:42 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Bitfash Converts Your Bitcoins Into Fashion From Top Brands
Is your Bitcoin stash burning a hole into your digital wallet? Bitfash is a new startup that wants to help you spend your Bitcoins on clothing from top fashion brands. Based in Australia and China, Bi...
05:39 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Dora Streams Again Amazon Signs Deal With Viacom, Wins Popular Kids' Shows Netflix Lost
In a major win for Amazon (at least in parents’ eyes), the company announced today that it has signed a multi-year licensing agreement with Viacom, which brings to its Prime Instant Video servic...
05:39 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Hukkster Is Prepping Next Generation Of Price-Watching Mobile App For September Launch
Launched just last year, Hukkster is a platform that lets you tag items online, and then alerts you when those items go on sale or get attached to a coupon code. Hukkster makes money on a commission b...
05:35 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Fitness Tracking App Moves Introduces API, Allows Devs To Build Apps Using Its Activity Data
Moves, the smartphone app that does away with wearables and uses just software and your existing iPhone to track activity, telling you how much you've walked, cycled, run or driven during the course o...
05:15 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Now 27M Users Strong, DIY Web Publishing Platform Wix Takes First Step Toward IPO
Riding the growing demand for DIY website tools, Wix has grown into a sizable company and now employs nearly 400 people in its offices in Tel Aviv, New York and San Francisco. The Israeli-American sta...
05:15 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Now 34M Users Strong, DIY Web Publishing Platform Wix Takes First Step Toward IPO
Riding the growing demand for DIY website tools, Wix has grown into a sizable company and now employs nearly 400 people in its offices in Tel Aviv, New York and San Francisco. The Israeli-American sta...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Haiku Deck Update Brings Getty Images To Slides, Adds Image History, Public And Private Notes
Haiku Deck, the iPad-based presentation tool that aims to be both simpler and more effective than Microsoft's cumbersome desktop PowerPoint software, today unveiled version 2.1, which adds a number of...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Delivery.com Acquires Online Laundry Services Startup Brinkmat To Expand Beyond Food Deliveries
Delivery.com, the New York City-based company whose technology platform lets local merchants easily provide e-commerce and delivery services, has acquired Brinkmat, a startup also based in New York th...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Reportedly Refocuses iAd On New Streaming Music Radio Service
Apple is said to be directing engineering and sales talent from its iAd business, which currently supports mobile display advertising run by Apple on iOS, to help further its new music service offerin...
03:37 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch HTC Loses Another Senior Exec As COO Steps Down - But May's Phone Sales Are One Bright Spot Amid The Gloom
Troubled Taiwanese mobile maker HTC, which has seen its profits plummet as it struggles to compete in an Android mobile space dominated by its Galaxy-spewing rival Samsung, is losing (yet) another sen...
03:30 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Dexplora, Started By Founders Of BlackBerry-Acquired TAT, Raises $1.2M To Fix The CRM Experience
Swedish startup Dexplora is on a mission. Through its GetSalesDone mobile app and supporting service it wants to dramatically improve the User Experience of CRM systems, thus making data entry less of...
02:05 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Waygo Wins Most Promising Startup At Echelon Singapore Conference
Waygo has just won Most Promising Startup at the https://e27.co/echelonEchelon conference 2013 in Singapore. The judging panel of eight included Dave McClure, founding partner at 500 Startups, Edgar H...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Fiverr Updates Its Task-Based Marketplace With Slicker Look & More Buyer/Seller Tools
Fiverr, an online services marketplace that gives its community of skilled sellers a platform to market and sell whatever it is they can do from as little as $5, is relaunching its website with an ove...
01:54 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Cabforce Goes After The Corporate Taxi Booking Market With 30% Growth Month-Over-Month
While startups like Uber, Lyft, Hailo and Sidecar are upending traditional taxi markets across North America and Europe, Helsinki’s Cabforce is aiming to change corporate bookings for taxis acro...
01:40 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Rhapsody Expands Its Napster Streaming Music Service To 14 More European Countries
The Rhapsody-owned Napster streaming music service is expanding into 14 new European countries today, significantly ramping up its presence in the region. The Napster service was already available in ...
01:34 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Card.biz Adds Google Apps Integration To Its Org Chart And Company Directory Service
Card.biz originally launched in Summer 2012 as a me-too offering along the lines of About.me. But as startups are wont to do, the Paris-based company, backed by Kima Ventures, has since pivoted to off...
12:05 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Mobile App Monetization Network Tapjoy Restructures Top Management, With Some Layoffs
Zynga wasn’t the only company that had major layoffs this week. Tapjoy, which has been an advertising and monetization backbone for many mobile gaming companies across the entire industry, also ...
11:01 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch ActiveState Buys Appsecute To Enhance PaaS With Facebook-Style Feed For Developers And IT Pros
ActiveState, a platform-as-a-service provider, has acquired New Zealand-based Appsecute,a company with social monitoring tools for developers and IT professionals to monitor cloud environments. Terms ...
11:00 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Shopmium Raises $5.6M To Take Its Coupon-Powered Product Discovery App International
Shopmium has closed a $5.6 million Series B round, with backing from Ventech, Accel Partners and ISAI, to roll its product discovery apps into new markets -- pushing outside its home market of France....
10:13 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Brighter Launches A New, Free Version Of Its Dental Service To Bring Affordable Care To The Uninsured
It was just about two years ago that Jake Winebaum (who had previously sold Business.com for $360 million) quietly launched Brighter.com, an online marketplace for discounted dental care. Within a few...
09:09 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Come To The TechCrunch Singapore Meetup And Echelon After-Drinks Tonight
TechCrunch is serious about covering Asia Pacific. So we're holding a TechCrunch meetup today after the Echelon conference where you can connect with TechCrunch writers and teach us about the region's...
08:47 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Zynga Shares Plummet 12% To $2.99 After It Announces Layoffs
Investors were unsettled by Zynga's announcement that it is cutting 520 employees, or almost one-fifth of its workforce, with shares plummeting 12% to $2.99, before recovering slightly in after hours ...
08:12 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Messages Just Went Down For 90 Minutes For Some Web And Mobile Users, Back Now
Facebook confirms that Facebook Messages experienced a limited outage today. It prevented some users from sending or receiving messages on both the web and mobile for 90 minutes, but chat is back at f...
05:26 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch More Details On Why Zynga Laid Off 18% Of Its Workforce And How It's Shifting To Mobile
Earlier today, Zynga announced that it was laying off 18 percent of its global workforce. After the news broke, I spoke to a source with knowledge of the company's decision-making process to get more ...
05:22 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook NY Signs 10-Year Lease To Move Into ~100K Sq Ft Office With 2X Space, Designed By Frank Gehry
After weeks of rumors, Facebook has just signed a ten year lease to move its New York office into a new, nearly 100,000 sq ft office over two floors at 770 Broadway, Manhattan. The interior will be de...
05:22 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook NY Signs 10-Year Lease To Move Into ~100K Sq Ft Office With 2X Space
After weeks of rumors, Facebook has just signed a ten year lease to move its New York office into a new, nearly 100,000 sq ft office over two floors at 770 Broadway, Manhattan. The interior will be de...
03:59 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch One API To Rule Them All Segment.io Lets Mobile Developers Send Analytics Data To Dozens Of Services, Without Resubmitting To App Stores
Segment.io, a Y Combinator-backed startup making it easier for developers to integrate APIs from multiple analytics providers into their applications, is today expanding its service to include support...
02:58 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Vine Gets RickRoll'D With A Three Minute Video
Vine has over 13 million users now. And with this morning's launch on Android, chances are that number is climbing rapidly. But of all the Vines, from all the millions of users, across all of the worl...
12:38 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Reeder, gReader & Other Popular Feed Reading Apps Partner With Feedly Ahead Of Google Reader Shutdown
In less than a month, Google Reader will shut down for good according to the countdown timer on Digg.com, a company now in the process of building a replacement. Though for end users, the loss is one ...
12:33 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Twitter Is Experiencing Site-Wide Issues, Including Timelines Not Updating And Profiles Not Loading
According to Twitter's status blog and all of Facebook, the service appears to be experiencing site-wide issues including errors on just about every single feature of the site....
12:33 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2013
Techcrunch Twitter Is Experiencing Site-Wide Issues, Including Timelines Not Updating And Profiles Not Loading (UPDATED)
According to Twitter's status blog and all of Facebook, the service appears to be experiencing site-wide issues including errors on just about every single feature of the site....
11:25 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Acquires InCycle's Release Management Service InRelease To Improve Its Team Foundation Server
Microsoft has acquired InCycle's release management solution InRelease, a tool for automatically deploying application components to target services in different environments. InCycle is a Canadian co...
10:51 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Satiates Developers' Ever-Loving Appetites For Lower Pricing With Per-Minute Billing On Windows Azure
Microsoft is satiating customers' appetite for ever more affordable pricing with news today of per-minute billing, no charge for stopping virtual machines (VM) and discounted developer and test rates....
10:36 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Zynga Prepares To Lay Off 20% Of Global Workforce, Zynga LA (And Likely More) To Close
It looks like Zynga is in the midst of laying off hundreds of employees. At the end of last week, we heard that the company would be laying off 20 percent of its worldwide staff today. A Zynga spokesp...
10:36 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Zynga Confirms That It's Cutting 520 Employees (18% Of Workforce), Says It Will Save $70M-$80M
Zynga has confirmed the layoffs via press release, as well as the numbers (520 layoffs or 18 percent of the workforce) reported by AllThingsD.The company says this was result in $70 million to $80 mil...
09:53 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch New Android Alarm Clock App Warmly Wants To Wake You Up Right
Generally we seem content to be rudely shocked out of sleep, with alarms that blare at us and beep violently, rendering continued sleep impossible. New Android app Warmly, fromt he Seattle-based Chaos...
09:49 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Julian Assange Unmasks Eric Schmidt's Evil Plans To Enslave The World
The following is my fictionalized story based on a stranger-than-fiction, real life op-ed by Julian Assange, wherein he accuses Google of conspiringwith the State Department to dominate the world. Ass...
09:45 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Google Launches Mobile Backend Starter, A One-Click Deployable Cloud Backend For Android Apps
Google today announced the launch of its Mobile Backend Starter that allows Android developers to deploy a basic cloud infrastructure for their apps that runs on Google's App Engine. Mobile Backend St...
09:44 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Keen On Stephen Wolfram: Confessions Of The Most Quantified Person On The Planet
Stephen Wolfram, the founder and CEO of the software company Wolfram Research, may well be the smartest and most interesting guy in tech. A PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech at the age of twenty...
09:37 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Makerbot Opens New 50,000-Square-Foot Factory In Brooklyn
Makerbot, the hardware darling that closed on a $10 million round of funding 2011, has just announced that they will open their new factory and warehouse in Sunset Park, Brooklyn on Friday. The space ...
09:17 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Google Updates Chrome For iOS With Vastly Improved Voice Search, Faster Page Reloading
Google today updated Chrome for iOS to version 27, which introduces a couple of new features that should make using voice search on iOS a bit easier. Just like on the desktop and Android, as well as t...
09:17 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Google Updates Chrome For iOS With Conversational Voice Search, Faster Page Reloading
Google today updated Chrome for iOS to version 27, which introduces a couple of new features that should make using voice search on iOS a bit easier. Just like on the desktop and Android, as well as t...
09:06 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Fracture Raises Another $500K For On-Demand Printing Of Photos On Glass
Fracture, a digital "maker" startup offering an on-demand system for printing your photos on glass, has raised an additional $500,000 on top of its previous $1.5 million in outside funding, following ...
08:57 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Google Adds New Collaboration And Sharing Features To Its Analytics Dashboards
If you're using Google Analytics, chances are you have already customized a dashboard for your specific needs. But now, when you develop a new dashboard that may be useful to others, you can share bot...
08:27 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Conferize Joins A Crowded Conference Content Tracking Market With A New Platfom
It seems all you tech people are obsessed with making conferences work better, perhaps because you seem to go to a lot? Thus there are numerous 'conference startups'. There are apps to schmooze at the...
08:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Say Goodbye To Ugly Newsletters, Stamplia Launches Its Email Templates Marketplace
Stamplia, launching today from French startup Kiwup, is an email templates marketplace where web designers can sell HTML templates for newsletters, transactional emails and signup forms, and in turn l...
07:59 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch LinkedIn Upgrades Who's Viewed Your Profile Section With New Look, Better Analytics
LinkedIn has been busy upgrading pieces to its business social network in recent weeks, with updates to its contacts, the release of a new mobile contacts app for iPhone, revamped user profiles, the a...
07:52 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft Details Its Plans For Making Windows 8.1 More Attractive To Businesses, Adds New BYOD Tools, Selective Remote Wipe & More
Windows 8.1, which will launch in preview on June 26th, isn't just about bringing the Start button back. For Microsoft, it's also an opportunity to get businesses of all sizes to take another look at ...
07:46 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Apple's WWDC App Subtly Flattens Visual Elements, Developers Should Take Note Of The New Normal
Apple's dedicated app for its Worldwide Developers Conference arrived today, and it brings a look at some of the sessions happening during the event next week, but it also shows off a dramatically dif...
07:13 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Chrome Starts To Take Off In Mobile Browser Share, But Android Dips Among Mobile Operating Systems
Among mobile browsers, Safari continues to lead the pack by a wide margin according to this month's data from NetMarketShare, but the real movement is happening within the Android segment, with Chrome...
07:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch PlanGrid's Blueprint App Adds Automatic Hyperlinking And Web-Based Markup
PlanGrid, a startup that hopes to replace blueprint printouts on construction sites with those that can be viewed on an iPad, has just released its latest app update. PlanGrid version 3.0 is designed ...
05:55 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Grove Takes Skateboard Scraps And Turns Them Into The iPhone Skate Case
If you have an iPhone, chances are you're concerned with fine craftsmanship and design, but what about being green? A new phone case out of Portland could help you achieve both at once. Meet the Skate...
05:28 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Twitter Releases Vine For Android Smartphones As It Tops 13M Users
Twitter has released Vine for Android, bringing the 6-second video sharing service to Google's mobile OS for the first time. The Vine app is available for Android smartphones right now, and is a free ...
05:21 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Microsoft, Stop Trying To Make Windows RT Happen
Bloomberg is reporting this morning that Microsoft is cutting the price of Windows RT for small tablets in a seemingly desperate bid to spur sales. It's a rather predictable move and a touch sad. Tabl...
04:59 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Ericsson: Global Smartphone Subs To Hit 4.5BN By 2018 (25% CAGR), Video To Account For Half Of All Mobile Data Traffic
If you thought smartphones were ubiquitous now -- and in certain places they pretty much are -- prepare for a whole lot more people to be coming online on their phones in the next 5 years. Ericsson ha...
04:59 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Video To Dominate Mobile Data Traffic In Four Years, Says Ericsson
If you thought smartphones were ubiquitous now -- and in certain places they pretty much are -- prepare for a whole lot more people to be coming online on their phones in the next 5 years. Ericsson ha...
04:58 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Spotify Community ShareMyPlaylists Introduces Moods To Give Songza The Blues
Spotify community and playlist sharing site ShareMyPlaylists is rolling out a new feature today: Moods will let users select playlist based on, er, mood.Feeling happy? The site has you covered. Feelin...
03:52 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Reportedly Brings Warner Music On Board For iRadio Streaming Service Ahead Of WWDC
Apple has secured rights with Warner Music Group for publishing and recorded music, according to a report from the New York Times, and has recorded rights for Universal Music Group, but not for music ...
01:52 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch WorldStores Raises $15M Series C To Build Out Its Amazon-Style Ecommerce Model For Home & Garden Products
WorldStores, a U.K.-based online retailer of home and garden products going after supplier scale to fuel its growth, has raised 10 million ($15.2 million) in Series C funding, led by Serena Capital. E...
01:25 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch EZTABLE Targets China & SE Asia As It Seeks To Become The OpenTable Of Asia
With projected revenue of $7 million this year and 100,000 monthly active users, EZTable is one of the top successes to have emerged from Taiwan's young startup industry. Founded in 2008, the restaura...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Eliademy, The MOOC Founded By Ex-Nokians, Gets Android App To Benefit The Wider Moodle Community
CBTec, the e-learning startup founded by ex-Nokians and members of the now defunct MeeGo team, has released an Android app for its Eliademy MOOC platform that's also compatible with the widely used op...
10:06 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch EduClipper Launches Its Pinterest For Education To Bring Better Crowdsourced Curation & Sharing To The Classroom
Back in 2007, Adam Bellow launched a site called eduTecher to aggregate and surface the best educational resources and content on the Web. A high school teacher himself, Bellow set out to highlight ne...
10:04 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Nimbuzz Offers Free Service To Hutch In Sri Lanka, Continues To Push Telco Strategy in Asia
Nimbuzz is continuing its push for South Asian dominance with its latest telco partnership.The Indian messaging startup just announced a tie-up with Hutch in Sri Lanka, offering six months of free Nim...
08:33 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch The Sisyphean Problem Of Email
Advice that should begiven to modern people considering marriage: “Before you marry, consider this, ‘Is this the person I’d like to watch stare at their phone for the rest of their l...
08:08 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Transportation App Corral Rides Loses Access To Lyft's Driver Data
Looks like not everyone is embracing the vision behind Corral Rides, which aims to bring all of your transportation options together in one place cabs, ridesharing, mass transit, and more.A reader ti...
06:37 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Townsquare Media Acquires Shuttered AOL Music Sites And ComicsAlliance Plus Their Staffs
AOL shut down its AOL Music properties and comics book site in April, but tomorrow it will announce it's sold music sites The BoomBox, The Boot and NoiseCreep, plus ComicsAlliance to Townsquare Media ...
06:37 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Townsquare Media Acquires Doomed AOL Music Sites And ComicsAlliance Plus Their Staffs
AOL began to shut down its AOL Music properties and comic books site in April, but tomorrow it will announce it's sold music sites The BoomBox, The Boot and Noisecreep, plus Comics Alliance to Townsqu...
06:37 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Townsquare Media Acquires Doomed AOL Music Sites And Comics Alliance Plus Their Staffs
AOL began to shut down its AOL Music properties and comic books site in April, but tomorrow it will announce it's sold music sites The BoomBox, The Boot and Noisecreep, plus Comics Alliance to Townsqu...
05:34 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Divvy Is Photo Consumption And Sharing Done Right
There are dozens upon dozens of apps interested in your photo creation and sharing habits, but very few focus on the consumption of photos. Meet Divvy, an iOS app that lets you combine all of your soc...
05:00 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Calculating The Long-Term Value Of A Bitcoin
Editor's note:Joshua Seims is an angel investor andentrepreneurbased in San Francisco. He is currently building a company that provides secure storage of Bitcoins.A big question that's debated in the ...
04:00 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Online Publisher Lulu Angles For The Next Wave Of Self-Publishing With Picture.com
Founded in 2002 by Red Hat's Bob Young, Lulu is one of the oldest self-publishing houses on the Internet. Initially the company offered printing services and editing tools for self-published authors a...
03:00 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch As Mobile Devices Morph Into Wearables, Keyboard Maker MessagEase Wants Your Fingers To Settle On Its Qwerty Killer
MessagEase is an alternative keyboard that uses a mixture of taps and gestures combined with a radically different keyboard layout designed to speed up text input by minimising typing movements. Its m...
01:31 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Tries Letting You Message From Homepage Status Box To Battle Google Hangouts
Sources confirm Facebook will test the option to send private messages from its website's homepage status composer to increase messaging rates. It will also help Facebook compete with Google, whose we...
01:07 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch Maybe It's Time For Apple To Go Back Behind The Curtain
Like most people, I was following Tim Cooks talk at the D11 conference with great interest. And while it generated a lot of headlines, it became apparent quickly that not much was actually being said....
01:00 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch What Games Are: Who Will Create The No-Bullshit Games Console?
For a device category whose core appeal is supposed to be making games simple, we get complex ambitions, the rush to features and a proposition that increasingly makes no sense. What is a game console...
12:00 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2013
Techcrunch What To Watch For At WWDC 2013: More Freedom For Developers
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is only a little over a week away, and that means we're already seeing a lot of buzz surrounding what will and won't appear at the conference. Apple itself has ...
11:20 pm GMT - Sun, June 2, 2013
Techcrunch Why The Data Problem Is A Good Thing For The Open Cloud Movement
Piston Cloud Co-Founder Joshua McKenty says the OpenStackcustomer ecosystem has four emerging market segments. On one side are the customers who hire consultants to build them a cloud. On the other si...
10:00 pm GMT - Sun, June 2, 2013
Techcrunch Former Facebooker Noah Kagan Tells Us Why Austin Matters
Noah Kagan can work a room. That's the first thing you'll figure out about him. The second thing you'll learn is that he doesn't want you to move to Austin....
10:00 pm GMT - Sun, June 2, 2013
Techcrunch Bijoy Goswami Doesn't Want Austin To Be The Next Silicon Valley
Bijoy Goswami is a fascinating man. Born in India, the entrepreneurial evangelist lived in Taiwan, Hong Kong and the U.S. before attending Stanford University. Now, and for the last 15 years or so, he...
09:20 pm GMT - Sun, June 2, 2013
Techcrunch HitFox-Incubated Mobile Games Marketing Platform AppLift Raises $13M Series A
As mobile gaming has exploded, it follows that startups helping to feed and in turn feed off the mobile gaming ecosystem are poised for growth. One such company is AppLift, the mobile games marketing ...
09:00 pm GMT - Sun, June 2, 2013
Techcrunch Iterations: From Amazon Prime To Amazon Pronto, The Future Of Physical Delivery
Membership has its privileges. A slogan made famous by American Express today also applies to an online membership many, many people happily keep: Amazon Prime. Ever since committing to Prime -- and t...
07:00 pm GMT - Sun, June 2, 2013
Techcrunch Netflix CEO Reed Hastings On Arrested Development, Managing Content Licenses, And Coming Back From The Qwikster Debacle
In an interview at the D11 conference, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos talked about the company's plans for more original programming, as well as its relationship to o...
03:57 pm GMT - Sun, June 2, 2013
Techcrunch Yahoo Shuts Down Mail Classic, Forces Switch To New Version That Scans Your Emails To Target Ads
Starting the week of June 3rd, tomorrow, Yahoo is discontinuing Mail Classic. It's requiring all Mail users to switch to the new version and accept a TOS/Privacy Policy update that lets it scan emails...
05:00 am GMT - Sun, June 2, 2013
Techcrunch The New "Handmade" (Part Three)
Consumer interest in 3D printing is booming, thanks to increasingly affordableprinters,crazy stories about 3D-printed candy, humanearsand handguns, all of which are impressive technological leaps. But...
02:00 am GMT - Sun, June 2, 2013
Techcrunch CrunchWeek: Elon Musk Dominates Tech, Waze Sale Talks Falter (Again), Jury's Out On Arrested Development
Thanks to the Memorial Day holiday, it was a shorter week than normal for many of us (at least those of us in the United States) -- so here's to the weekend, and to a new episode of CrunchWeek, the Te...
01:20 am GMT - Sun, June 2, 2013
Techcrunch Crowdstar Picks Up An Extra $12M To Fuel Its Move Onto Tablets, Mobile
Crowdstar, the social and mobile gaming company that has built several fashion-focused titles, just picked up another $12 million from existing investors to bring two products to market later this yea...
01:19 am GMT - Sun, June 2, 2013
Techcrunch As Anti-Government Protests Erupt In Istanbul, Facebook And Twitter Appear Suddenly Throttled
A massive anti-government protest in Istanbul, prompted after days of unrest were sparked by plans to redevelop one of the last remaining central public parks, appears to have lead to a throttling of...
12:00 am GMT - Sun, June 2, 2013
Techcrunch Mozilla Readies Major Firefox Redesign As It Ponders What The Browser Of The Future Should Look Like
"Maybe we shouldn't even call it a browser anymore," Mozilla's VP of Firefox engineering Jonathan Nightingale told me a few days ago. "'Browser' is really an antiquated word. People don't really brows...
11:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 1, 2013
Techcrunch How Samsung Got Big
The cellphones were stacked up high in the Gumi factory yard and more were coming out every minute. Phones, TVs, fax machines, and other gear shattered as it hit the concrete and Samsung CEO Kun-hee L...
10:30 pm GMT - Sat, June 1, 2013
Techcrunch Austin Turns Out For A Hot Night Of Fun, Drinking And Pitching
Last Thursday, on a balmy night in Central Texas, over 900 people attended TechCrunch's first event in the Lone Star State. Just like every other TechCrunch meetup, the crowd was an eclectic mix of te...
09:55 pm GMT - Sat, June 1, 2013
Techcrunch The Quantitative VC
It's no longer sufficient in venture capital for firms to wait for companies, people and trends to come to Sand Hill Road. Seeing a startup on Demo Day at Y Combinator used to be the pipeline for scou...
09:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 1, 2013
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Wake Up Call
The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor recorded early on a Thursday morning, flush with Apple CEO Tim Cook's read-between-the-lines performance at ...
07:37 pm GMT - Sat, June 1, 2013
Techcrunch Policing Hate Speech Is Harder Than Nipples
No automated system can identify what will offend people. What some humans find disgusting, others find controversial, and others still find funny. Computers just don't understand. That caused trouble...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 1, 2013
Techcrunch After Your Job Is Gone
Do you have a job? Do you like having a job? Then I have some bad news for you. The Guardian is worried "today's technologies are going to remove people from economic activity completely." Techonomy s...
01:54 pm GMT - Sat, June 1, 2013
Techcrunch Coub's Gif-Like Looping Musical Videos Start To Pick Up Real Traction
While other file formats have faded, the lowly Gif has stubbornly stayed alive for more than 25 years through sites like Tumblr. Other apps like Vine and Cinemagram have also popped up to support the ...
11:11 am GMT - Sat, June 1, 2013
Techcrunch Oculus VR Co-Founder Andrew Scott Reisse Killed At 33, The Victim Of A Hit-And-Run
Our community has lost a brilliant mind.Andrew Scott Reisse, a founding member and lead engineer on the Oculus Rift VR headset project, was struck and killed by a vehicle in Santa Ana, California as i...
10:34 am GMT - Sat, June 1, 2013
Techcrunch Facebook Advertises That You Can Turn Off Home If You Need Some Alone Time
Desperate to make its homescreen replacement Home seem less invasive, Facebook is advertising that you can temporarily deactivate it and use your HTC First or other Android phone as normal. The fact t...
09:11 am GMT - Sat, June 1, 2013
Techcrunch Google Won't Approve Glass Apps That Recognize People's Faces For Now
The potential creep factor of Google Glass is something that the search giant has to mitigate as best it can if it wants that kooky head-worn display to become a mass-market sensation (and even that m...
07:02 am GMT - Sat, June 1, 2013
Techcrunch Big Impact On A Small Budget: Ben's Friends Wants To Build A Web & Mobile Support Network For Every Rare Disease
There's a lot of exciting and head-turning technology out there today, and it's changing our world in a multitude of ways, some more obvious than others -- and at a fairly astounding rate. But many of...
06:08 am GMT - Sat, June 1, 2013
Techcrunch Science- And Tech-Focused STEAM Carnival' Hits Its Kickstarter Goal
Looks like Kickstarter can add "reimagined" carnivals with "robots, fire, and lasers" to the list things that its users have crowdfunded.Earlier today, an event called the STEAM Carnival, put together...
03:35 am GMT - Sat, June 1, 2013
Techcrunch GitHub Announces Octokit, The Official Way To Build Using The GitHub API
GitHub officially announced Octokit today, anew lineup of GitHub-maintained client libraries for theGitHub API.Octokit comes in two flavors. It offers a kit for developing Ruby apps and another for Ob...
02:17 am GMT - Sat, June 1, 2013
Techcrunch Stilly Is A One-Button GIF Maker For iPhone That's Even Easier Than Vine
Like GIFs? Tumblr? Got an iPhone? $2.00? OK, good, then you'll probably like this new app called Stilly which is either the most ridiculous thing ever or the most fun you're going to have all weekend....
01:45 am GMT - Sat, June 1, 2013
Techcrunch Ask A VC: Freestyle's Dave Samuel On The Secrets To A Great Co-Founder Partnership And More
In this week's Ask A VC episode, Freestyle Capital's Dave Samuel joined us in the studio to discuss his investment philosophies and more.Samuel also talked about how and why his co-founder relationshi...
12:23 am GMT - Sat, June 1, 2013
Techcrunch With Over 12M Users, Wish.com Hopes Its AdWords For Shopping Will Stick
Hey kids, there's a new personalized shopping platform in town. Since it raised $1.7 million in angel funding, ads recommendation system ContextLogic has put its ads optimization technology to good us...
12:10 am GMT - Sat, June 1, 2013
Techcrunch After Four Years At Twitter, Director Of Platform Ryan Sarver Will Fly The Coop With No Plans But Rest
Ryan Sarver, who joined Twitter four years ago and is currently its director of platform, announced today he'll be leaving the company on June 28th, and has "no plans but rest". Fittingly, he announce...
11:54 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Twitter Just Made It Easier To Obsessively Tweak Your Profile
I don't know anyone who thought the process of editing their Twitter profile was just too complex -- talk about first world problems -- but they're surely out there somewhere and working themselves in...
11:51 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Despite Criticism, YouTube Founder Steve Chen And Web Mogul Barry Diller Fund FWD.us
Amidst widespread criticism, Mark Zuckerberg's political advocacy group FWD.us gained some momentum today as it announced Steven Chen and Barry Diller have signed on as financial backers. Chen was a c...
11:51 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Despite Criticism, FWD.us Adds YouTube Co-Founder Steve Chen And Web Mogul Barry Diller As Funders
Amidst widespread criticism, Mark Zuckerberg's political advocacy group FWD.us gained some momentum today as it announced Steven Chen and Barry Diller have signed on as financial backers. Chen was a c...
11:01 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Connecting Offline Shopping With E-Commerce, Curebit Partners With Bonobos On New Retail Referrals Program
Curebit, an e-commerce startup which has built its business around optimizing and tracking word-of-mouth referrals for customers like Bonobos, Restaurant.com, Jawbone, True & Co., and others, is n...
11:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: Moto X, Locks, And Austin
TechCrunch is in Austin this week for some excellent pitch-offs and BBQ. We also learned of the new Moto X, a secret phone that could change Motorola's fortunes, the August smart lock, and the new iPo...
10:29 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch ParStream And Panopticon Partner To Provide Analytics And Data
ParStream And Panopticon are partnering to offer data analytics and data visualization by integrating their respective platforms.ParStream offers an in-memory analtytics technology that it markets as ...
09:45 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Amazon Updates Route 53 DNS Service To Make Hosting High-Availability Sites On EC2 Easier
Thanks to an update to its Route 53 DNS web service, Amazon now makes it a bit easier to host sites that need high availability in multiple AWS regions. Route 53 has been offering DNS Failover since F...
09:41 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Two Years After TweetDeck Acquisition, Founder Iain Dodsworth Leaves Twitter
TweetDeck founder Iain Dodsworth announced today that he's leaving Twitter. In his tweet, Dodsworth noted that it's been two years since Twitter acquired TweetDeck, and he said "now feels like a perfe...
09:27 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch The Transit App Nabs 35K Downloads In 72 Hours, Blows Past Google Maps In Canadian App Store After Going Free
The Transit App, the app that provides real-time transit information on iOS, enjoyed a boost back when Apple cut transit out of its own Maps app during the switch from Google to its own in-house navig...
09:18 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch LightUp Helps Kids Learn Electronics With Augmented Reality
Understanding electronics is tricky. Electricity is invisible, the components are cryptic, and the concepts are hard to grasp. That's where LightUp comes in. This is an AR-based system for teaching el...
09:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Lyft Hits The East Coast With A Launch In Boston, Its First Big Post-Funding Expansion City
Lyft raked in a huge amount of new funding last week, raising $60 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Along with that funding, the company said it would be looking to aggressively expand it...
08:45 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Hulu Plus Upgrades Its Living Room Experience With A New Look, Search, Controls & Added Kids Section
Hulu may be courting biddersright now, but in the meantime, the company is shipping a new Hulu Plus experience for the living room, with updates hitting today. The user interface on Samsung TVs and Bl...
08:42 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch LinkedIn Launches SMS-Based Two-Step Authentication To Prevent Account Hacking
LinkedIn today announced that it has added optional two-step authentication to its sign-in process. With this move, LinkedIn joins Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook and numerous other services who ...
07:37 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch As TV Falls Apart, Tumblr And Twitter Aim To Pick Up The Pieces
For years, it’s been said that Internet use would cut into the time U.S. consumers spend watching television. Today, those premonitions are beginning to hit the tipping point. TV ratings have dr...
07:26 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Shapeways Introduces New Squishy 3D Printing Material, Elasto Plastic
While the name "Elasto Plastic" sounds like an 80s punk band, it is, in fact, a new material from 3D printing company Shapeways. The plastic is elastic to a certain degree yet maintains its shape afte...
06:42 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Sen. Rand Paul's Tech Tour To Argue Most Republicans Live In This Century
“My general impressions of Silicon Valley and California, in general, is that Libertarian-style Republicans would do better out here, and that Bush Republicans haven’t been doing well out ...
06:42 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Libertarian Senator Rand Paul Hopes Silicon Valley Can Love Some Republicans
“My general impressions of Silicon Valley and California, in general, is that Libertarian-style Republicans would do better out here, and that Bush Republicans haven’t been doing well out ...
06:27 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Pics.io Wants To Bring A Collaborative, RAW-Based Photo Editing Workflow To The Browser
A new startup called Pics.io out of the Ukraine hopes to take the next big leap in the online photography workflow, by making browser-based, fully collaborative RAW image file processing a reality. Th...
06:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Linea Raises $4M Seed To Push Past Slideshow Photo-Browsing With Scrolling Image Mosaics
Photo-sharing may seem a very saturated space but there's still room for disruption reckons Seattle-based startup Linea, which is aiming to reinvent how people share multiple sets of photos with its h...
04:58 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch HTC Reportedly Pulls The Plug On A 12-Inch Windows RT Tablet, But A Smaller Tab Lives On
HTC is currently sailing through a patch of rough seas, and it seems as though the company is starting to rethink its tablet strategy. According to a recent report from Bloomberg, HTC was planning to ...
04:26 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Apple Saw Over One-Third Of Mobile Ad Requests In Q1, Adfonic Says, But Samsung Surges In Engagement
Apple continues to rule the roost when it comes to mobile ad share, according to UK-based ad firm Adfonic, but Samsung is winning a small victory in terms of seeing higher engagement for ads displayed...
03:20 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Housebites Runs Out Of Runway For Its Airbnb For Take-Out, Reduces Staff As It Prepares Fresh Pivot
Housebites, the London, UK-based startup that enables independent chefs to sell home-cooked meals as an alternative to a take-out, has shuttered in its current form as it gears up to pivot -- once aga...
02:59 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Fee-less Charity Donation Startup, Believe.in, Partners With Stripe To Offer Faster Payment Processing
Believe.in, a VC-backed U.K.-based charity donation platform that's disrupting the cause-giving space by not charging any fees on donations, has announced a partnership with easy payments API startup ...
01:08 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Russia Hopes The Skolkovo Tech City Will Produce Its Great Leap Forward
During the height of the Cold War the Soviet Union built up a network of "Naukograd" or "Science Cities". These were state-created clusters of scientists working on technologies that could help it com...
12:30 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Incubator NEST Investments Wants To Help Hong Kong's Fledgling Startup Industry Take Flight
Though Hong Kong is one of the world's leading financial hubs, its startup industry is still embryonic. Incubator NEST Investments hopes to change that by helping tech companies take advantage of the ...
12:16 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Fanatix Bolsters Its Seed With Another $1M As Its Mobile Social Network For Sports Fans Hits 1M Monthly Actives, Up 566% Since January
Fanatix, the U.K. startup that's made a mobile-first social network for sports fans to chew over their team's performance as and after they watch them play, has bolstered its seed round with another $...
11:02 am GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Pirate3D Buccaneer Hits $100K Goal In 10 Minutes
The Pirate3D Buccaneer printer hit its Kickstarter goal of $100,000 in just 10 minutes after launch. At time of writing, it’s been roughly 15 hours since the campaign was started, and it’s...
05:05 am GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch StartX, The Stanford-Affiliated Startup Accelerator, Kicks Off Spring 2013 Demo Day With 10 Company Debuts
StartX, the startup accelerator for companies founded by Stanford students, is just about to kick off Demo Day for its Summer 2013 startup class at AOL's Silicon Valley headquarters in Palo Alto this ...
04:57 am GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch With $200K In New Funding, Photo-Centric Rental App RadPad Comes To Austin
RadPad is one of those startups that comes from a founder's real-world experience specifically, Jonathan Eppers (a former product manager at eHarmony and Myspace) said that he was trying to find a ne...
03:09 am GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Apple's New Product Strategy
Apple appears to be on a kick of delivering product refreshes to punctuate its major release cycle, with changes to devices and tweaked versions that go beyond what it has done in terms of spec refres...
02:00 am GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Wise.io Debuts Machine Learning Service That Offers To The Public What Google Builds For Itself
Google, LinkedIn and Amazon have thousands of engineers who point their work inward to build better recommendations, search and other Internet-scale features. Wise.iois launching today to offer a simi...
01:45 am GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch Google Loses Key Maps Engineering Director Raj Shah To Microsoft's Online Services Division
Microsoft just made a key hire that could help it re-energize its online mapping services. Raj Shah, who was previously heading up Google's worldwide maps operations as the Engineering Director for Ma...
01:45 am GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch SuperCalendar Aims To Fix Your Scheduling Woes With A Mix Of Tech And Superhuman' Power
Even though every major tech company in the world, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, has tried to tackle scheduling, the reality is that the options suck. If we can't afford a real personal assis...
12:58 am GMT - Fri, May 31, 2013
Techcrunch SoftBank Capital Raises $50M To Invest Exclusively In New York Startups
Good news, everyone! Well, everyone who's trying to raise capital in New York, at least.SoftBank Capital, the investment arm of Japanese mega-carrier Softbank Corp., has just announced that they've ra...