Articles by Techcrunch from July 2013

Sam Brin, 26-year old younger brother of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, has spent the last few months in a bit of borrowed office space with his college pal, Jon Li, quietly building a startup of thei...

Sam Brin, 26-year old younger brother of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, has spent the last few months in a bit of borrowed office space with his college pal, Jon Li, quietly building a startup of thei...

Today Microsoft released the Windows 8.1 Enterprise Preview, an early build of the coming Windows 8 refresh aimed at large companies that need extensive control features to keep their machines, softwa...

There is growing proof that the API is a core value piece for selling software and services. The latest example of this emerging form of commerce comes from AppDirect, a cloud marketplace provider tha...

Women Rule is a new programming and event series to recognize female leaders and bring them together to give advice to women in politics and business. The joint partnership between politics blog Polit...

Brian Solis says that the future of business lies with the sale of experiences. Serial entrepreneur Trevor Traina would certainly agree....

Y Combinator-backed Floobits, a new startup allowing two people to write software at the same time on the same codebase - an activity known as pair programming - is officially launching today to help ...

Today Facebook came within a kiss of its set IPO price, spiking to as high as $37.64, before easing slightly. It was the highest peak for Facebook since its first week as a public company....

Early last year, the team behind mobile chat app Yobongo was acquired by calendar- and photobook-printing company Mixbook, where it led development efforts for Mixbook's iPhone app Mosaic. Now Yobongo...

Applause is a new service that analyzes data from top app stores to help businesses understand how their mobile apps compare across user reviews from different marketplaces.We looked at the Applause s...

Philips graciously released an API for their Hue smartphone-controlled smart lightbulb to let developers tinker back a few months ago, and already there are a number of apps taking advantage. Today, m...

SmugMughas revealed the new design of its photo sharing site, aimed to increase web customization capabilities and photo organization.The website now features new templates and themes, customization t...

Crowdsourced cell phone signal startup OpenSignal has crunched data on 682,000 devices using its app to produce a visualisation of the diversity of the Android ecosystem. And despite showing growing d...

Saga, an app created by Seattle startup A.R.O., is introducing a social layer in today's update. In other words, all the data that Saga collects about you can now be shared with friends who are also u...

A flexible, customizable operating system that's farmed out to third-party hardware makers and dominates market share but not profits? You're not the only one experiencing dj vu. The parallels of Andr...

Today Judge Denise Lind announced her verdict in the case of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the young solider under prosecution for his alleged leaking of classified documents to the Wikileaks organization: no...

Mozilla, the non-profit organization behind the popular Firefox browser and other open source projects, today announced the launch of Minion, a new automated security testing platform. The platform is...

It now takes even less time to show off your mad shredding skills. With the latest update to the GoPro companion app, owners of the popular action camera can now view, edit, and, most importantly, sha...

Hublished started as a twinkle in the eye of a few college students, but has now received over $150K in seed funding, part of which came from Lawrence Lenihan, partner at FirstMark Capital and an NYU ...

Firefly, which took funding from First Round Capital’s Dorm Room Fund, is partnering with YC-backed Olark to give customer support specialists the ability to co-browse the web with clients that ...

Bitly is announcing that Mark Josephson, who was most recently senior vice president of Patch Labs at AOL, has joined the link shortening and tracking company as its new CEO.Peter Stern, who served as...

Bottlenose, a web platform to organize social media streams, has raised $3.6 million in Series A funding. The round was led by ff Venture Capital and joined by Lerer Ventures, Transmedia, Advancit, St...

It's been a tough week for Fab. Yesterday, word came that the company was being sued for trademark infringement and unfair competition by shoes and apparel site Just Fab, and today Fab is announcing o...

Playhaven, which works with mobile game developers to maximize the amount of revenue they earn from their players, is getting into push notifications. Push notifications, or those little pop-ups or me...

NFC-powered door locks are already a thing. But NFC is not the only transfer tech capable of powering a smart lock. Unikey has come up with a system that uses Bluetooth 4.0 to turn compatible smartpho...

Montreal-based startup The Transit App is expanding its mobile domain after a strong showing at the Founder Fuel demo day earlier this month. The app offers real-time transit directions, notifications...

A few weeks ago, we reported that Facebook was experimenting with becoming a mobile games publisher by offering distribution to studios in exchange for a cut of revenue. Today, Facebook is formally an...

It's been tried many times before. A way to keep all of your contact details up-to-date and have any changes automatically pushed to everyone in your address book, instead of having to email them or s...

It's been tried many times before. A way to keep all of your contact details up-to-date and have any changes automatically pushed to everyone in your address book, instead of having to email them or s...

For every event space, there is a poor soul (or two) who work tirelessly to create seating arrangements and diagrams for each and every event that comes through that space. This ranges from hotels to ...

The long-awaited Netflix user profiles have made their first appearance, ahead of their expected August debut. According to several reports, user profiles are partially available on Apple TV devices w...

They came. They saw. They Pitched. In the lead up to TechCrunch Disrupt Europe our team has been traveling all over and yesterday we hit London, at Campus London, for a new kind of event: a PitchOff....

Groupon launched its Groupon Reserve restaurant table-booking and fine dining discount service earlier this month, and already the company is bringing that service to its mobile apps via an iPhone upd...

Grid Grid, an Excel minus the equations app that helps you plan and organize more effectively and beautifully, announced today that it has raised a seed round. The app, made by a former Microsoft Exce...

Grid, an Excel minus the equations app that helps you plan and organize more effectively and beautifully, announced today that it has raised a seed round. The app, made by a former Microsoft Excel des...

The keyboard was a technological spin on the piano, and in that way really changed the instrument, but the keyboard itself has not really adapted to take advantage of modern tech. But TouchKeys, a new...

The Eclipse Foundation is probably best known for its work on the Eclipse IDE, but the project is also home to more than250 open-source projects that are hosted on the group's servers. One major goal ...

Online backup service IDrive today announced a new service that allows its users to back up large amounts of data to the cloud. Instead of waiting around for days to upload what are often hundreds of ...

SingTel has licensed Nara Logics‘ restaurant recommendation engine, in a bid to give its Digital Life assets a shot in the arm. SingTel is Singapore’s largest telecoms provider, and one of...

Apple has been granted a new patent related to camera tech by the USPTO today, which uses three different sensors and three different lenses to improve color capture accuracy and image resolution for ...

Viber is today announcing an update to its Android app with a few new features, including a doodling feature that lets you draw or paint over photos or on a blank page and then send those doodled up p...

Olapic has today closed a $5 million Series A round led by Fung Capital USA and Longworth Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors including Great Oaks and Scout Ventures. Olapic l...

YL Ventures, which backs SaaS companies such as ClickTale and Seculert, has announced the raise of $27.5 million in its second fund (YLV II). The VC firm says the fund was oversubscribed, and increase...

LinkedIn today is adding some new features into its "Influencer" program, the company's Klout-inspired network of experts and leaders in different fields launched in October 2012, who regularly publis...

No surprise: HTC's run of declining quarters is predicted to continue. But the dip now looks set to push into the red in Q3. The Android mobile maker has just issued guidance for Q3, warning investors...

California-based Trv has been quietly building a way for individuals to take stock of the assets that often go uncounted, those tangible assets that include physical possessions and general stuff, inc...

Accel Partners is announcing a major talent win tonight, with the addition of former Bitly chief scientist Hilary Mason as its first data scientist in residence....

The startup behind a "wearable smart vibrator" called Vibease has taken to Indiegogo with hopes of raising at least $30,000 from fans.That sentence kind of speaks for itself, doesn't it? I mean, I cou...

IT should ignore the naysayers and consider adopting the Google Chromebook. That's the conclusion of a Forrester Research Report that looked at the future of the networked computer in the enterprise....

In the last month, Zynga has quietly parted ways with three of its executive staff, early changes under the period of transition that the company's new CEO, DonMattrick, is currently leading.Bloomberg...

Kickstarter success Vaavud is a thing of beauty. Created by a Danish team of enterprising inventors, it plugs into your iPhone or Android device's headphone jack and connects with an app to tell you t...

Archenemies for decades, video games and exercise are about to unite. Atlas is a cheap, new "walk-around" virtual reality system that uses markers you put on the ground to track your movements as you ...

As part of our tour of new digital media companies throughout L.A., we checked out Machinima, which is one of the largest multichannel networks on YouTube. Over the course of that tour, we found out h...

It looks like Twitter is now hiring out of its new Sunnyvale, Calif. office.The leasing of an 8,000 square foot office in downtown Sunnyvale was first reported in May apparently that should hold betw...

Just Fab, the shoes and apparel e-commerce site that has raised $109 million, is taking to the courts to make sure that no one steps on its feet as it expands beyond its home market of the U.S. The co...

Andreessen Horowitz-backed analytics startup Mixpanel has been growing quickly over the last year, adding new customers and rapidly expanding the amount of data it tracks. Now it's looking to grab mor...

If you're a photographer who has gotten at all into the hobby, you probably know that it's a very expensive one which starts accumulating gear costs quickly. All those costs can be hard to keep track ...

Microsoft is in the smartphone game until the smartphone game is over, and Windows Phone is its vehicle. That said, the company's success thus far appears to be slightly lumpy and downright sluggish o...

None of the Internet giants have unionized employees, which has made Silicon Valley a favorite target for civil libertarians.Earlier this month, after several prominent Bay Area technologists came out...

You can't be a little pregnant, and you can't be slightly censorious. Word out of Russia is that the country is working to further denigrate free speech, this time with a proposed law that would make ...

This week on TechCrunch TV's Ask A VC show, we have Greylock's newly appointed partner Josh Elman. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here and well ...

Almost at a steady pace, Helsinki has produced a hit gaming company every couple of years: Rovio's Angry Birds blew up in 2009 and then Supercell took the crown as one of the highest-grossing iOS game...

Groupon continues to roll out new products that point to the e-commerce company's ongoing ambitions to move beyond the daily deal and further into becoming a central hub for local and mobile commerce....

Apple has released a new beta of iOS 7 today, which is the fourth in the series. There are only a couple of months to go at most before we see the final edition roll out, so it's not surprising that t...

The PC market is in poor health, and consumers love tablets. When do those two trends cross? No prediction is perfect, but given simple trend analysis, it appears that by the second quarter of 2014, t...

Google today gave Zagat, the restaurant review service it acquired in 2011, a set of new mobile apps for iOS and Android, as well as a complete facelift on the web. For the first time, Google says, al...

Google today gave Zagat, the restaurant review service it acquired in 2011, a set of new mobile apps for iOS and Android, as well as a complete facelift on the web. For the first time, Google says, al...

Spotify's scope keeps growing as it tries to attract free listeners and prove its worth a subscription. Today it began promoting a new "Official Comedy" app built by Bedrocket that surfaces its best h...

Nobody has ever accused Amazon Web Services of hiding its complexities and it seems even Amazon acknowledges that getting started with its ever-expanding cloud services platforms isn't easy. For a whi...

Native ads are all you hear about in media properties these days, thanks in no small part to big pubs like Buzzfeed wholeheartedly embracing the format, and Twitter and Facebook trying this format, to...

Kiwi, an Android-focused gaming studio from an experienced team that made titles at Playdom, just raised $9 million in round led by Sequoia Capital. The company is run by Omar Siddiqui, who oversaw ga...

A new game for Google Glass claiming to be "the first Google Glass game" (it's not, Battleship clone got demoed earlier this month) offers a look at what kind of things might be possible for developer...

Will algorithms or crowdsourced recommendations lead the way when it comes to the mobile shopping done via aggregators like Fancy, Wanelo, Polyvore or Fresh? A startup called Wish is betting on the fo...

Apple's plans to release a low-cost iPhone got a solid confirmation from a new report by China Labor Watch this morning. The unlikely source of new product info was an undercover investigation into Pe...

Jifiti, a startup trying to reintroduce thoughtful gifting in the age of the ubiquitous gift card, has raised $2.5 million in seed funding, the company is announcing today, along with the official deb...

Watch out, Tesla. BMW has officially entered the EV market. With the BMW i3, officially announced today, the Bavarian auto maker has a vehicle and, with that, a platform, that could shake up the elect...

Eric Migicovsky is an unlikely hardware mogul. His first product, the Pebble Smart Watch, came to him after experimenting with watch designs and then caught fire, going from $0 to $10 million in fundi...

Chris Hadfield, former Commander of the International Space Station, is among the most impressive living examples of my fellow Canadians, and also a huge fan of using social media and digital tools to...

A new iPad app called Kraams is hoping to become the sales platform of choice for small businesses reliant on face-to-face pitches with clients. The point of the app, which launches today, is to enabl...

Right now Google Glass sits at the apogee of geeky, wearable technology. Last month, interviewinga Glass-wearing Robert Scoble, Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxmanmemorably debunked it in his opening ques...

A new Kickstarter project seems like the wish-fulfillment of a child of the late 80s or early 90s: the Supertoy Teddy is a stuffed bear you can talk to, just like Teddy Ruxpin, but this one intelligen...

These days it seems as if a startup so much as glances in Marissa Mayer's direction, it can expect a bid within 24 hours. There's been a lot of buzz about Yahoo's new role as an acquisition hound of l...

Medifund is a crowdfunding Web site that wants to increase the number of doctors in countries with a shortage by helping students afford medical tuition.So far, the site, which is based in the Philipp...

Medifund is a crowdfunding Web site that wants to increase the number of doctors in countries with a critical shortage by helping students afford medical tuition.So far, the site, which is based in th...

There are a lot of factors that come into play when working to build a successful tech startup, and historically, a big one has been location -- hence the continued focus on Silicon Valley as a major ...

After promising to sell his shares at a discount and increasing the price of his offer, Michael Dell, founder of Dell, has today vowed to stay at the firm regardless of the success of his bid to take ...

Bob Mansfield is leaving his role as Senior VP of Technologies at Apple, but will remain at the company to work on special projects reporting to Tim Cook. ...

It's interesting to watch Microsoft pivot to liberalize their platform and allow self-publishing for indies, but that doesn't mean Xbox will suddenly be the home of the next SuperCell. There's still t...

Jawbone has made a key hire that shows some of the direction the company is headed towards when it comes to the quantified self and wearables development. The developer and manufacturer of the fitness...

The team behind Bootstrap, the immensely popular grid-based, front-end framework for web development, launched the first release candidate of Bootstrap 3 includes over the weekend. Besides a tweaked l...

The first mobile devices running Firefox OS are out in the market. It's too early to say how well Mozilla's fledgling open web HTML5 mobile platform is doing in its bid to steer budget buyers away fro...

For 100 years or more, architects have relied on a massive catalog sitting on their desk to find the right products to use in their architectural project — this brand of glass, or that brand of ...

Google's $35 Chromecast dongle may have made all the headlines this week, but the folks in Mountain View aren't the only ones working on curious gadgets that plug into your TV's HDMI ports.Dell showed...

Docker,an app container service from the co-founder at DotCloud, and Salt,an open DevOps platform from the founder of Salt Stack, were mentioned this past week at OSCON as two of the most exciting new...

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."It's probably the most overused quote in tech writing... which sucks, because I'd really like to use it to describe how I feel ab...

The Nokia Lumia 925 is the Finnish phone maker's latest attempt at wooing hapless shoppers over to the Windows Phone 8 platform, and it's a solid proposition. The real stand-out feature has to be the ...

Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is a contributor to TechCrunch. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil. Throughout high school and college, I took a heavy dose of political science and history classe...

When a leaked memo broke the news earlier this year that Yahoo was ending its work-from-home program, CEO Marissa Mayer was both lauded and lambasted for the decision. Companies such as Best Buy follo...

Today Publicis and Omnicom, two of the "big five" global advertising and marketing agencies, announced a "merger of equals", in which the two will combine to create a powerhouse with some $22.7 billio...

Today Publicis and Omnicom, two of the "big five" global advertising and marketing agencies, announced a "merger of equals", in which the two will combine to create the world's biggest agency, with so...

AngelList is testing out a new service that lets angel investors syndicate deals with each other, a feature that could allow startups to raise venture-sized rounds of money with relative ease.Called S...

AngelList is testing out a new service that lets angel investors syndicate deals with each other, a feature that could allow startups to raise venture-sized rounds of money with relative ease.Called S...

For the first time in years, I spent 72 hours without Internet or cell phone reception. While I didn’t experience any life-altering epiphanies that some claim comes from a digital detox, I now e...

Welcome to a brand new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us writers together in front of the TechCrunch TV cameras to dish on some of the more interesting stories from the past seve...

Traditionally photography is about preserving a moment in time; you take a picture literally because it'll last longer. The entire art is built around a quest for permanence, and archival desires. But...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor celebrate Google's gift to StreamTV. ChromeCast is cheap, small, simple, and extensible, just in time to kickoff the run u...

Although blogging is nearly as old as the Internet, it still feels like something is amiss. From Dustin Curtis’ Svbtle to Ev Williams’ Medium, there is a feeling afoot that existing platfo...

In preparation for TechCrunch Disrupt Europe I've been running around the Continent for more than a month, hitting the Balkans for a huge tour and Warsaw for an amazing meet-up. Now I'm back for a mee...

"Power tends to corrupt," said Lord Acton, "and absolute power corrupts absolutely."The sexism needs updating but the sentiment remains true. That's been all too obvious this week, during which the po...

It is a point of pride and, to an extent, shame that I introduced the TC audience to minimal running shoes aka crazy monkey shoes. Since first reviewing odd shoes back in 2009 I've tried to to keep up...

For small businesses, managing health insurance and payroll services can be a huge pain and time-sink. They probably don't have someone on staff dedicated to these issues, and they themselves would ra...

DoorDash, a Y Combinator summer 13 company, delivers food from restaurants in Palo Alto and Mountain View in an average time of 45 minutes.Sound familiar?Its a crowded space, but DoorDash hires and ma...

DoorDash, a Y Combinator summer 13 company, delivers food from restaurants in Palo Alto and Mountain View in an average time of 45 minutes.Sound familiar?Its a crowded space, but DoorDash hires and ma...

For whatever reason, this week has felt particularly long. It might be some astrological reason like Mercury rising. Or it might be just the emotions that are a package deal with being a woman at the ...

Over the last several years, we've seen a new group of digital media companies emerge in Los Angeles, driven by the growth of YouTube as a platform for distribution of video content. On Mondays and We...

Apple's Developer Center is finally back online, after taking a break for over a week. The developer site went down after a hacking attempt mid-week last week, and stayed down without any kind of retu...

It looks like Google is about to unleash a new wave of more powerful applications for Google Glass. Currently, Glass developers can only build apps that are essentially web-based services that talk to...

On this week's Ask a VC show, Lightspeed Ventures' Partner Bipul Sinha joined us in the studio to field reader questions and talk about enterprise investing....

Before being acquired by Dropbox for $100 million, before its app became one of the buzzier startups of 2013, the team at Mailbox had been known for Orchestra, a simple to-do list app with tasks you c...

Starbucks is seeing impressive adoption of mobile payments in its U.S.-based store locations, the company revealed during its quarterly earnings conference call last night (via WSJ). Mobile payments c...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific....

FindIt, a new mobile application offering universal search across emails and files stored in the cloud, is today making its official debut. With the FindIt app for iOS, you can quickly connect your Gm...

Comparing yesterday's closing price of $3.50, Zynga's current price of $3 is a just over a 14% decline. In dollar terms, Zynga today shed around $400 million of market capitalization. As you will reca...

Does the high-res Nexus 7 beat out the iPad mini? Why has Apple's average selling price gone down? Is Google's new Chromecast dongle an Apple TV/Airplay killer? ...

Hey, you! On the computer! You want fame? You want glory? You want more free pizza than any human should consume in a single night? Come build with us.We like to start off each of our conferences with...

Younity, which is in the current class of Los Angeles-based startup accelerator MuckerLab, purportedly creates a "personal cloud" for the files shared on all of your various devices to let you access ...

Pinterest announced today that it will add support for Do Not Track, the web browser mechanism that allows users to opt-out of having their personal data and activity collected by websites and third p...

Tesla is building a nationwide network of Supercharger stations in the U.S. to help give its growing fleet of consumer vehicles the juice they need to conquer the nation's highways, and now we at Tech...

It looks like Google is starting to cut back on some of its less successful mobile apps. Earlier today, we reported that the Google+ Local app has disappeared from the App Store a few weeks ahead of i...

It looks like Google is starting to cut back on some of its less successful mobile apps. Earlier today, we reported that the Google+ Local app has disappeared from the App Store a few weeks ahead of i...

Congress almost cut off funds for an NSA spying program, until San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi stepped in to save it. Rep. Pelosi, of California's 12th district,worked to kill the Amash amendment to t...

This has to be one of the most uniquely disruptive uses of 3D printing I've seen: an ink refill company has successfully 3D-printed a Kodak ink cartridge, refilled it, and printed with it. Using a Mak...

Apigee has a new platform for customers to manage API-driven business efforts that extends from purchase-to-payment of digital assets. The service is meant for organizations, such as telecommunication...

Fitness bands are a dime a dozen these days. Everyone has one, it seems, from audio manufacturers like Jawbone to upstarts like Fitbit and Basis. Now the EB Sports Group, a company that makes fitness ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has internally admitted that Microsoft built too many Surface RT units. We already knew that. That overproduction cost the company $900 million in its most recent quarter, ...

TechCrunch Disrupt Europe will be TechCrunch's major international conference this October. Featuring global startups, influential speakers, VIP guests and breaking news, you will not want to miss out...

The U.S. has pledged not to seek the death penalty for NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden. To persuade the Minister of Justice to give up Snowden, it appears that Eric Holder had to ironically assure Ru...

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo wears many hats. Not only is he helping lead Twitter into its possible future as a public company, Costolo is a master at improv from his days as a professional comedian, and ...

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo wears many hats. Not only is he helping lead Twitter into its possible future as a public company, Costolo is a master at improv from his days as a professional comedian, and ...

Connected gizmos for dogs are having a moment, thanks to the likes of FitBark and other canine activity trackers. But here's a connected gadget designed for dog owners to interact with their pet, rath...

British Prime Minister David Cameronhas proposed the democratized world's most aggressive anti-porn laws. Unfortunately, in order to restrict access to something as ubiquitous as porn, he'll likely ha...

The time has come. TechCrunch is coming to San Diego for a night of pitches, drinks and general tomfoolery. And we're looking for the area's best undiscovered startups to pitch their revolutionary ide...

According to a report circulating the web, Google is officially retiring its Google+ Local application for iOS as of August 7th. However, as far as we can tell, that app has already been removed from ...

Google likes to create things that gather data, which can be used to determine intent and for all kinds of profitable purposes. There's no bigger fish in that pond than the Babel fish that invention ...

LearnVest, a personalized financial planning program, has raised $16.5 million in strategic funding from existing investor Accel Partners, and new investors: American Express Ventures; Claritas Capita...

A new Kickstarter project wants to let a little light shine in on your mobile photos much more than the built-in flash on devices like the iPhone 5 can provide alone. The iblazr is an external flash ...

Google officially confirmed Android 4.3 on Wednesday. Among the new features/improvements in the update are Bluetooth Low Energy support, performance improvements and multi-user restricted profiles. B...

More proof, if proof were needed, that Apple needs a low cost iPhone to get its smartphone momentum mojo back: Cupertino's share of the global smartphone market fell to its lowest for three years in Q...

Amazon Web Services continues to enhance support for Microsoft workloads with added SDK support for Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps....

While present-focused social networks like Facebook and Instagram make plenty of room for the narcissists in us, there’s not really a dedicated and focused place to reflect on the past. Timehop,...

As the worldwide smartphone market slows, Samsung's second-quarter earnings showed that it is beginning to feel the pressure despite being the world's top smartphone vendor. ...

Fitbits. Fuelbands. Ups. The market for smart, connected activity trackers continues to get ever-more crowded. And yet, there’s not an obvious winner yet. Misfit Wearables’ Shine is a new ...

Fitbits. FuelBands. UPs. The market for smart, connected activity trackers continues to get ever-more crowded. And yet, there’s not an obvious winner yet. Misfit Wearables’ Shine is a new ...

Drawbridge, an ad targeting startup backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, is expanding its offerings today with a new feature allowing mobile advertisers to reach consume...

You can call it a first-world problem. Or you can say it distracts people from their passions and contributions to the world. Either way, laundry is a chore, and new Y Combinator startup Prim wants to...

In what is a solid example of the best sort of problem to have, Google's just-announced Chromecast video streaming dongle is already proving too damned popular for its own good.At yesterday's debut, G...

Catbird is a security company for the virtualized nature of the data center that has raised $10 million from Medina Capital, bringing its total to $12 million from the ventire capital firm....

Are you a developer? Do you wanna create wireframes and share them with your friends and collaborate and mashup and test out the user experience of new apps before you commit to code? Well here comes ...

Yesterday, an amendment proposed by Rep. Amash that would have dramatically undermined the NSA's authority to collect records on the phone calls of American citizens failed. Proponents of the amendmen...

Don Mattrick, the new Zynga CEO announced at the beginning of the month, offered his initial on-the-job observations today during the conference call discussing the company's second quarter earnings.M...

While the world has become fixated on the NSA's domestic and foreign surveillance activities in the past months, the trial of Private First Class Bradley Manning is coming to a close. Concluding argum...

Zynga is giving up what many investors had hoped might be its trump card: a real-money gaming business in the U.S. The company, which has been testing out real-money casino games in the U.K. said it w...

Want to build your own Postagram? You could withLob, a new developer API for integrating printing and shipping services into applications that's officially opening its doors today. The company makes i...

The new Google Nexus 7 is a big improvement over the original with a bunch of additions like LTE and a super high resolution display the best in tablets, in fact. And that's driving a lot of first ge...

Zyngas revenues for the second quarter of 2013 declined 31% year-over-year to $231 million in the midst of a challenging transition that saw former CEO Mark Pincus hand over the reins to Don Mattrick....

Amazon just reported second quarter earnings, with sales increasing 22% to $15.7 billion in the second quarter, compared with $12.83 billion in second quarter 2012. Net loss was $7 million in the seco...

Facebook's mobile ad revenue will quickly take over its desktop advertising income, and it's growing at four times the dollar amount. That's darned impressive, and paints a brighter future for the soc...

There are some 90 million homes in the U.S. without any security system whatsoever. Many of them are renters who don’t want to invest heavily in a place they don’t own, among hundreds of t...

Six years after selling Photobucket to News Corp. for $300 million, Alex Welch is launching a new way to share photos with your family and friends. Rather than making photos available on Instagram, Fl...

Smartphone companies have it pretty rough -- they've got to sink millions into research and development every year, all in the hope of making their next shiny touchscreen gewgaw the fastest, slimmest,...

If you want a rangefinder-style camera with classic styling and relative affordability, Fujifilm's X100, and its successor, the X100S are some of the very few options out there. But the X100 had quirk...

We get it: there's a silly number of mobile messaging apps out there, and a great many of them are meant for you to share your banalities more easily. But Philadelphia-based Seratis is different. Befo...

JOOR, an online wholesale fashion marketplace, has raised $15 million in Series B funding, according to an SEC filing from today. Based on the filing, it appears the round was led by Canaan Partners, ...

Bored of quantifying your self already? Why not quantify your pet instead? FitBark is a Fitbit style health tracker for your under-walked canine companion. We've covered this (frankly) barking mad giz...

Facebook has enjoyed large gains in the market today following a strong earnings report. However, the company is worth tens of billions of dollars less than when it went public. And it's our own damn ...

The National Security Agency has lost the political support it needs to maintain its controversial Internet and phone dragnet spying operation. Yesterday, July 24th, the House of Representatives nearl...

At TechCrunch Disrupt NYC back in April, former Facebook exec-turned-venture capitalist, Chamath Palihapitiya delivered a deflating critique of the tech industry — in particular, the quality of ...

Mozilla is working on a project that would make the browser a central repository for a list of all of your interests. Today, the nonprofit behind Firefox argues, many websites offer personalized exper...

In May, Google announced that its online and mobile payments solution Google Wallet would be integrated within Gmail in the coming months, but no exact time frame for the rollout was given. Now, it ap...

While iOS games started out as either simple physics or casual simulation titles when the platform launched about five years ago, the bar has gotten steadily higher and more hard-core. Midcore studios...

Home 3D printers - particularly FDM, Makerbot-like devices - are still in their infancy and, as such, are untested when it comes to safety. That's why some researchers at the Built Environment Researc...

On-demand car service Uber is looking to raise another big round of funding, this time led by private equity firm Texas Pacific Group. The round is expected to be around $200 million, at a valuation o...

Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder is adding more features to its new Wunderlist Pro paid tier of service today, answering the number one request of its users with the addition of file upload and sharing. Use...

In preparation for TechCrunch Disrupt Europe I’ve been running around the Continent for more than a month, hitting the Balkans for a huge tour and Warsaw for an amazing meet-up. Now I’m ba...

Amazon Cloud Drive Photos, the photo uploading utility that helps move photos from a mobile device into Amazon's online storage, may have to change its name. Now, the tool doesn't just support photo u...

A startup called Skillbridge is trying to create a new kind of marketplace for freelance work - not for the programming and writing jobs that you'd find on a site like Elance, but for strategy, financ...

Skimlinks, the platform which gives publishers greater control over affiliate links and content monetization, releases some major research today which could well concentrate the minds of online "publ...

Almost exactly a month ago, Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 11 as part of the Windows 8.1 preview and today, it is also launching a developer preview of IE11 for Windows 7.Sandeep Singhal, Micros...

Layoffs at Waterloo-based smartphone industry pioneer BlackBerry cut deep last year, with around 5,000 employees being let go. Those cuts continue into 2013 as BlackBerry undergoes what CEO Thorsten H...

Apple is cashing in big on three-year old tech, according to its earnings results last night. As the Wall Street Journal points out, it's seeing the iPhone 4 leading to big growth in markets like Indi...

With the release of the newest version of Google's Android operating system (version 4.3, still known as Jelly Bean), the company is making Android tablet computers, like its own Nexus 10 and newly an...

Over the last few years, a new wave of startups has emerged to tackle a range of inefficient, ignored or offline segments within the massive world of fashion and retail. The maturation of the Web and ...

Infographics are one of the most-maligned, yet most popular, ways that people share data with others, and today LinkedIn is releasing two infographics-related updates that it hopes will help it become...

BarEye, a social nightlife app that helps you purchase drinks at partner bars, is expanding after its pilot in Tallahassee to five major U.S. cities: New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta and Austin. ...

Two years ago, BillGuard launched to help consumers identify fraudulent charges on their credit cards. Now it's hoping to save them money with the launch of a new iPhone app determined to identify and...

Some companies have taken to using Kickstarter as almost a default step in their product pipeline, and New York's Lomography is one of them. The photography focused company has successfully Kickstarte...

Japanese startup freee, which provides online accounting software for small businesses, announced that it has raised $2.7 million in Series A funding from DCM and Infinity Capital Partners. Founded by...

Over the last few years, a new wave of startups has emerged to tackle a range of inefficient, ignored or offline segments within the massive world of fashion and retail. The maturation of the Web and ...

On a day marked by some tragedy, the Russian search giant Yandex posted Q2 earnings today of $281 million (9.2 billion Russian roubles), up 35% on a year ago and just beating analyst estimates 9.1 bil...

It's been more than a week and Apple's developer website is still down, following what turned out to be a hacking breach (which may or may not have been caused by a 25-year-old Turkish security resear...

Apple has been tinkering with ways to make the iPhone better at managing battery life intelligently based on usage pattern, a new patent filing published by the USPTO today (spotted by AppleInsider) r...

Trover, an app and website for travel, culture and photography enthusiasts, today announced that it has raised a $2.5 million funding round led by Concur Perfect Trip Fund. The company's existing inve...

Bigcommerce, a company that provides e-commerce software to online retailers and merchants, has raised $40 million from Revolution Growth, the firm founded by former AOL CEO Steve Case. As part of the...

Moped, a startup based out of Berlin, is an app and platform that lets you send IM-like private messages which allows for photos, maps, you name it. It's simpler than using an app like GroupMe for pri...

Spanish open hardware phone platform manufacturer Geeksphone, which created the first developer preview devices for Mozilla's Firefox OS (aka Peak and Keon), has announced it's now taking pre-orders f...

Stanford University urged network users to change their passwords late Wednesday evening, explaining that it "is investigating an apparent breach of its information technology infrastructure."Randall ...

The Irish Office of the Data Protection Commissioner has responded to two of the complaints filed last month by the Europe v Facebook (evf) campaign group against several U.S. technology companies for...

Very sad news this morning for Yandex -- "the Google of Russia" -- and for the country's wider technology community: Ilya Segalovich, Yandex's co-founder and CTO, has passed away from cancer complicat...

Fortumo announced that it has inked direct carrier billing agreements with China Unicom and China Telecom. Together with a China Mobile deal signed in February, this means that the Estonia/U.S.-based ...

The U.K.-based knitwear brand Wool and the Gang is hoping to shift fashion production away from factories by developing a global network of individual knitters. Although a knit sweater may be the ulti...

The NSA data center in Utah won't hold data on the scale of yottabytes, but instead will hold perhaps a dozen exabytes, a mere fraction of data compared to some early estimates. This is good news if y...

Baidu’s efforts to strengthen its mobile advertising business appear to finally be bearing fruit. Investors were reassured by the Chinese search giant’s 3Q outlook, sending its stock price...

Congress narrowly defeated a law to completely cut off funds to the National Security Agency’s dragnet spying program. We have a lot of readers who are furious that their representatives didn...

Today Rep.Amashs amendment to the 2014 Defense Appropriations Bill failed in the Houseon a vote of 205 in favor to 217 opposed. When it became known that the amendment would in fact come up for a vote...

While its roots lie in search, today, Google wears many hats. From self-driving cars and wearable technology to social networking and mobile operating systems, there are few industries where the searc...

While its roots lie in search, today, Google wears many hats. From self-driving cars and wearable technology to social networking and mobile operating systems, there are few industries where the searc...

OSCON, the open-source conference, is in full-gear today andOpenStack is celebrating its third birthday there with lots of fanfare, self-serving platitudes and an infographic -- the tell-tale mark of ...

I'm getting sick of all the "[new startup name] is the [more prominent startup name] of [random industry]" descriptions that people like to throw around these days, but it's hard to avoid that with a ...

Critics claim that Facebook is losing its cool amongst kids and expect teens to start tuning out in favor of hip apps like Snapchat, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg says "Based on our data, that just isn't tr...

Austin-based incubator Jutera Labs is putting even more of its weight behind Perk, a rewards-centric mobile web browser that blocks out ads when used on tablets. Perk, which originally started out as ...

Today Facebook reported its second-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $1.81 billion. Analysts had expected Facebook to earn $0.14 per share on a top line of $1.62 billion. The company...

In Q2 of 2013, Facebook grew to 1.15 billion monthly active users up from 1.11 billion at the end of Q1, 669 million daily active users from 665 million, and to 819 million mobile monthly active users...

The sixth group of startups from the 500 Startup Accelerator program will be making their debut today in Mountain View, Calif. -- and then going on to do demo days in San Francisco and New York City a...

Addvocate has raised $2.39 million for its service that helps companies put some operationsmanagement behind its social media efforts. The round was led by Rogers Venture Partners and included angel i...

Josh Fraser and Jon Fox founded Torbit in 2010 after becoming fed up with the amount of time they'd spent at past startups managing website performance optimization by hand. In 2012, the Sunnyvale-bas...

Josh Fraser and Jon Fox founded Torbit in 2010 after becoming fed up with the amount of time they'd spent at past startups managing website performance optimization by hand. In 2012, the Sunnyvale-bas...

Josh Fraser and Jon Fox founded Torbit in 2010 after becoming fed up with the amount of time they'd spent at past startups managing website performance optimization by hand. In 2012, the Sunnyvale-bas...

Boston-based Mediaspectrum, a company that has a subscription software service catering to big media publishers like Gannett, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Post and more, ...

Michael Dell and Silver Lake have offered improved terms for their proposed transaction to take venerable computer OEM Dell private. Their former offer was derailed by activist investor Carl Icahn, wh...

Google launched its $35 Chromecast device today that allows users to stream their Chrome tabs and videos to their TVs from virtually every popular platform. In addition, Google is also launching the G...

Pluralsight, the online training resource targeting professional developers which announced its raise of $27.5 million fromInsight Venture Partnersearlier this year, is now putting that funding to use...

Pluralsight, the online training resource targeting professional developers which announced its raise of $27.5 million fromInsight Venture Partnersearlier this year, is now putting that funding to use...

Cloudscaling CTO Randy Bias wrote an open letter to OpenStack today. In it he outlines why the open cloud effort will only win if it accepts Amazon Web Services (AWS) and creates a compatible API.He a...

A law to defund the National Security Agency’s Internet dragnet program is gaining surprising momentum. The House of Representatives’ vote today on Michigan Republican Justin Amash’s...

Every year I'm given the best job a guy could ever want: planning hardware alley, a one day extravaganza of some of the best hardware I've ever seen. This event, which happens on the last day of Disru...

At its Android and Chrome event in San Francisco today, Google announced that it is bringing textbooks to the Google Play store so students will be able to purchase and rent their textbooks for their ...

A key secret to Silicon Valley’s success is its professional class of employees who help build hit startup after hit startup in its formative stages. This know-how in engineering, product design...

Meet the Chromecast. As the name suggests, it's powered by Chrome and is designed to bring Google's browser/OS to the biggest screen in the house. The Chromecast is designed first to be a streaming de...

Tile, a connected objects startup that's trying to fix the problem of finding lost property with a Bluetooth tags plus app combo, has raised a massive $2.6M via its Selfstarter crowdfunding campaign. ...

Today at Google’s event, VP of Android Hugo Barra introduced the new Nexus 7 as well as Android’s newest version — Android 4.3. While the new tablet will ship with Android 4.3 today,...

Today the well-known and liked chief White House photographer Pete Souza announced that he has joined Instagram, taking parts of his work to a new digital realm. He confirmed in later tweets that he w...

Viki, a startup based out of Singapore that is vying to be the Hulu for the rest of the world with a combination of premium video supplemented by crowdsourced subtitles, is today announcing two new in...

Android 4.3 isn’t an overly dramatic advancement over Android 4.2, but the new version of Google’s mobile OS announced today does bring a number of improvements that should appeal to both ...

Google today unveiled its new Nexus 7 tablet at a special event hosted by Android and Chrome chief Sundar Pichai. The tablet isn't a surprise, thanks to a handful of early leaks, but it is an impressi...

eBay is testing a new local service provider marketplace in the UK, called eBayHire. It appears that the test is first rolling out in the UK, and there isn't a US-based site (yet)....

We're live from San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood, where Google has asked a couple dozen of us tech-minded folk to join them for the announcement of something.What exactly that something could be ...

At one point or another, pretty much every small business needs legal help. But hiring the right law firm isn't easy, and it can be expensive. But what if there were a platform enabling small business...

Fitness app and hardware accessory maker Runtastic launched version 4.0 of its product today in conjunction with Google's special Android and Chrome event. This update offers new features tailored spe...

Startup MoPub aims to help mobile publishers and developers manage advertising from multiple ad networks and other sources. Today it's adding a seemingly-obvious-but-important feature a dashboard whe...

3D printers generally have a pretty large footprint, so it was likely only a matter of time before someone decided to work on shrinking one to the point of portability. Just, well, because. Meet Bukit...

Loom, the new cloud storage and syncing service emerging from the ashes of Y Combinator-backed Popset, is today opening its doors, and heading into beta. Though the company's long-term vision for Loom...

31 San Francisco playgrounds, plazas, recreation centers, and parks are getting two years of free Wi-Fi thanks to a $600,000 gift announced by Google today -- with no strings attached. Pending approva...

One of the complaints I often hear from VCs here in Silicon Valley is that there just aren’t enough enterprise mobility startups. Clearly, with employees bringing their own devices to work in li...

After the success of timepieces like the Bradley, it's no wonder watchmakers are turning to crowdfunding to get their products out the door. The latest example is something called the A.Manzoni & ...

We're live from San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood, where Google has asked a couple dozen of us tech-minded folk to join them for the announcement of something.What exactly that something could be ...

MavenSay is an app focused around personal recommendations, but today the company is launching a brand new standalone app called Rithm. Seeing that users of MavenSay were spending a lot of time recomm...

Claire Perry [SFW] is England's Net Nanny who, over the past few months, has pushed that country's disastrous bid to censor the Internet through to the highest levels. Hackers defaced her primitive we...

Share Media is a four-person, bootstrapped company that aims to take on Kim Dotcom. Their service, basically a way to drag and drop files and instantly share them with others, offers 100GB free with ...

iHeartRadio is launching into the wide world of talk radio, with iHeartRadio Talk. Along with featuring content (which iHeartRadio calls audiosodes) from top national and local talk personalities such...

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has been evangelizing for programmatic advertising, where ads are purchased in an automated, data-driven way, usually through real-time bidding. Now the company plans to host wha...

London and Berlin, prepare yourself for a visit from TechCrunch at the TC Meetup + PitchOff events next week. We'll be hitting Europe to see what it's made of and to make sure you all know about TechC...

Video chatting app Glide is on a roll of sorts. In recent weeks this mobile messenger for iPhone and Android devices has been climbing the app store charts on both platforms, having gotten as high as ...

The Ubuntu Edge is the amazing future space phone of your dreams, which is why UK-based Canonical feels it needs $32 million to make the thing. The Ubuntu creator made some good progress in the initia...

At the SIGGRAPH conference going on this week, Nvidia has made a potentially huge announcement regarding the future of mobile gaming: the company is bringing its Kepler graphics architecture to mobile...

What's that? Too cool for our liveblog of the mystery* Google announcement this morning? That's okay. I understand, I guess. [Sniffle]If you've got some sort of super rad job that lets you take a few ...

Despite plenty of demand from users since it launched 2.5 years ago, one feature social media scheduling service Buffer has resisted adding is custom scheduling; the ability to manually program when t...

Mobile card reader startup iZettle has decided to shift the goal posts by launching a new per transaction pricing structure that means its fee can fall as low as 1.5%, depending on the monthly sales v...

Online identity and privacy startup Reputation.com continues its march along the acquisition trail. Today the company is announcing its third acquisition this year: MySocialCloud, which provides a clo...

We're excited to announce the latest round of speakers for the first-ever TechCrunch Disrupt Europe conference, to be held in Berlin later this year (26-29 October). Disrupt Europe will feature an out...

Adzuna, which operates what it calls a "next-generation classifieds search engine", with a heavy focus on the job ads market, is rolling out a pretty interesting feature in the U.K. today: 'Jobsworth'...

Bidgely, a startup that enables consumers to monitor and manage their household energy use, announced that it has raised $5 million in new funding from Khosla Ventures. The Sunnyvale, California-based...

The motion-sensing Leap Motion Controller, which lets users eschew the traditional keyboard plus mouse combo and interact with their computers via gestures, started shipping to pre-order consumers thi...

Easy Taxi, a Brazil-based Hailo-like app incubated by the Samwer brothers' Rocket Internet, is today announcing a $10 million round of funding and plans to tackle a whole new market: Africa. It is sta...

LightSpeed, an Accel-backed company offering tools for physical retailers to both manage their business and engage their customers, is aiming at a new audience today. It's launching LightSpeed Cloud, ...

We're live from San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood, where Google has asked a couple dozen of us tech-minded folk to join them for the announcement of something.What exactly that something could be ...

It's not easy to find original art for your home: Most first-time buyers feel like they're priced out or are not knowledgeable enough to crack the non-transparent art world. A new startup called ARTtw...

IBM is getting into the platfom as a service market by standardizing on Cloud Foundry, originally developed by VMware and now part of Pivotal, the EMC spinoff....

In May of this year, to raise its game against the likes of Square and PayPal, Groupon relaunched its Breadcrumb point-of-sale app -- originally conceived as a payments app for restaurants -- as a fre...

Investors tend not to be cool, sexy or "famous" in the traditional sense. After all, anyone can invest in one great company, but reproducing those victories habitually over decades is nearly impossibl...

Apple’s stunning growth over the past decade has been one of the biggest stories in all of tech. Even as the company released new product after new product, and grew larger and larger, its growt...

Bill Gates is not coming back to Microsoft as its CEO. Hes not. Hes said so again and again. And yet, today, some unsourced rumors began to circulate that the man was coming back to manage the company...

Manos Accelerator, a program to support Latinos involved in the startup community, has announced a partnership with Google For Entrepreneurs and will launch its first session for five to six startups ...

In the San Francisco Bay Area, there is no shortage of “accelerator” programs that promise to take fledgling technology companies to the next level by providing mentorship, funding, busine...

OpenWatch, which presented at media startup accelerator Matter's NYC Demo Day today, wants to become a video platform for citizen journalism worldwide. Founded in November last year, the company is at...

With app stores becoming ever more competitive, game makers have had to upgrade from building 2D games to creating 3D titles over the past two years. That has meant even more creative and intensive wo...

With app stores becoming ever more competitive, game makers have had to upgrade from building 2D games to creating 3D titles over the past two years. That has meant even more creative and intensive wo...

With app stores becoming ever more competitive, game makers have had to upgrade from building 2D games to creating 3D titles over the past two years. That has meant even more creative and intensive wo...

If you're a working journalist (or even an aspiring one),you're probably getting tired of hearing that it'simportant to build your personal brand. Now, leavingaside the obnoxiousness of the phrase "pe...

Matter, the San Francisco-based accelerator and early-stage venture capital firm, held a Demo Day in New York today for its first class after an initial Demo Day last month in SF. Matter formed last y...

Amid pressure from low-cost smartphone makers on Android and other platforms, Apple today reported a plunge in its Q3 revenues in Greater China, which includes Taiwan, Hong Kong and the world's larges...

As you may have heard, Verizon unwrapped three new Motorola Droid smartphones in New York earlier today, and to my surprise, they just may be the Droids you're looking for. Well, some of them, anyway....

Apple just reported June quarter results, and as expected, sales were pretty flat up just 1% from last year to $35.3 billion. It's been a while since Apple has released any major new products, and it...

Apple's quarterly results are up, and the one thing that many of the financial big brains are paying attention to is the average selling price of the iPhone: It currently sits at around $580, compared...

Apple today released its Q3 2013 earnings report, announcing X. million iPhones sold in the three-month period ending June, along with XX million iPad units sold. Both the iPhone and iPad sales are do...

Apple has just released its fiscal Q3 2013 earnings — it reported $35.3 billion in revenue (slightly up from $35 billion in the year-ago quarter) along with $6.9 billion in quarterly net profit ...

Apple has just released its fiscal Q3 2013 earnings — it reported $35.3 billion in revenue (slightly up 0.9 percent from $35 billion in the year-ago quarter) along with $6.9 billion in quarterly...

A quick glance at Yahoos balance sheet might have you worried: Only $1.14 billion in cash and equivalents, and the company just dropped $1.1 billion on Tumblr? It almost seems a bit profligate.But hap...

Viber has confirmed a situation earlier this morning in which Viber appeared to have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (a pro-government group of computer hackers aligned with Syrian President...

Hit 'em with a television commercial, then with a Twitter ad to really drive the message home. That's the promise of Twitter's TV Ad Targeting it's rolling out to all US advertisers today after its be...

Last week, L'Oreal awarded their annual Next Generation Awards to three dynamic young female entrepreneurs who are shaking up the cosmetics industry...

It's been quiet on the Windows Phone front since late 2012, when Windows Phone 8 hit the public markets alongside Windows 8. Since then, Microsoft has aggressively worked to iron out the quirks from W...

Regulators in Colorado want to make it illegal for Uber cabs to come within 200 feet of a hotel, bar or restaurant. Governor John Hickenlooper, who appoints the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) charg...

Motorola released a trio of devices today at a special press event for its line of Verizon phones in New York City. The company showed off phones that in many ways resembled their Droid devices of the...

Now that the CrunchBase team has spent some quality time improving our data sets, we thought it'd be interesting to see how our free database of companies stacks up against other industry sources on a...

Cloth is hard to simulate yet it's important in gaming, scientific analysis, and CGI. That's why scientists at Berkely and Carnegie Mellon have spent six months exhaustively exploring all of the possi...

When I first started visiting Central Europe about seven years ago, the response was dismal. The first meetup we held in Warsaw, for example, consisted of five dudes who thought I was selling Amway. N...

If innovations in 3D printing, and platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, are making it easier than ever for hardware startups to conceive and prototype new gadgets, then Flextronics, the China-bas...

As if we didn’t already have enough Motorola phones to wait for, Verizon showed off a trio of new Motorola DROID smartphones at a (surprisingly cozy) event in New York City. The flagship of the ...

Lemon, the makers of the mobile wallet by the same name, is today releasing a new mobile payment tool whose goal is to allow the app's users to make purchases from Lemon Network merchants without havi...

Enterprise social networking serviceHall has raised $5.5 million in Series A funding, bringing the AngelPad startup's funds to about$6.4 million. The series was led by Felicis Ventures, Signia Venture...

Over the last few years, YouTube slowly started putting a larger emphasis on channels -- especially channel subscriptions -- but until now, the only way to subscribe to a channel was on YouTube itself...

The mobile web is more social than the desktop web, and among mobile devices, the iPhone is the most social. These are the new findings from Palo Alto-based publisher platformShareThis, which is today...

Google's autocomplete search results can be a great help when you know part of what you're looking for, or when you want to be lazy, but they also carry a certain political weight. What they don't off...

Real-time team collaboration service LiveMinutes today announced that it has closed a $1.4 million seed round. The round was led by Great Oaks Venture Capital– a VC firm that previously backed t...

Users of the Let's Date mobile dating app can now let others know they exist, even if the other person doesn't choose them right away. The new Flirt Notes feature will let users pay a nominal fee to g...

Lately I've been playing with a great little app called Povio. Not unlike Snapchat, you snap a picture and send to one or more people and the app prompts them to send one back, though the photo doesn'...

Wantworthy, the 2011 TechStars NYC grad which offers an online shopping tool for tracking products you want to buy, is making its move to mobile with the debut of a new app, which also has a new name:...

Another home sous vide machine is about to enter the market. UK-made Codlo just passed its Kickstarter goal, with only five days to spare....

Akamai has today released its Q1 State of the Internet report detailing the latest figures in online and mobile usage and current security threats. The topline figure is that our connected world is ge...

Most people need to communicate at regular intervals -- which is the driving force behind the rise and rise of mobile messaging apps. Far fewer people feel a similar imperative to regularly broadcast ...

Opera Mediaworks today released its State of Mobile Advertising Report for Q2 2013, and the news from the largest mobile ad platform is that mobile ad impressions are growing globally, with U.S. share...

LinkedIn just announced the launch of Sponsored Updates, where the companies and other organizations with Company Pages can pay to promote their content to LinkedIn users who don't follow their specif...

Ember is a new tool available today on the Mac App Store for collecting inspirational digital bits and pieces from websites, images, apps or anything else. It's not entirely new, however Ember was on...

Flipboard started on mobile devices, but the magazine app is moving to the web today with the launch of a new site. Its 75 million registered users will be getting access to its superior formatting an...

Flurry last year noted that China became the world's fastest growing market for iOS and Android devices and today there is no sign of that slowing down. China now accounts for 24% of all of the connec...

Shopkick, the iOS and Android app that lets users search for products, find out where they are sold, and then automatically get checked in at retail locations for discounts to buy them in stores, is m...

Goodreads, the social reading service that Amazon acquired earlier this year, is announcing today that it has reached 20 million members.CEO and co-founder Otis Chandler said that since it launched in...

Cisco has just announced the acquisition of Sourcefire, a company that creates cybersecurity products to protect companies from attacks. The purchase price is $2.7 billion, or $76 per share in cash pl...

The tech world may be hoping for Apple to unbox some wearable technology in the near future but who cares about the iWatch when an NFC ring is a thing? NFC fans hankering for the convenience of having...

Subscription commerce startup NatureBox launched 18 months ago to create a line of tasty, healthy snacks shipped to customers once a month. Today the company is announcing that it's raised an $8.5 mil...

Apple has won a couple of patents today from the USPTO (via AppleInsider), and both are very practical advancements of tech that it's easy to imagine being integrated in upcoming versions of existing ...

Apple has won a couple of patents today from the USPTO (via AppleInsider), and both are very practical advancements of tech that it's easy to imagine being integrated in upcoming versions of existing ...

Datastax has raised $45 million for its scalable, high-performance database platform. The Series D round was led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Next World C...

TechCrunch Disrupt alumni Bitcasa has spent the last five months or so growing out of its beta launch, picking up new users and listening to feedback. Today, however, the waiting ends as Bitcasa is la...

Viableware, the creator of restaurant payment platform RAIL, has raised $6.5 million in Series B funding. Led by a group of angel investors and joined by Swiftsure Capital LLC, this round brings Viabl...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has joined the smart TV race, unveiling a smart TV OS and set-top box today. It hopes to create its own ecosystem of TV-related assets that will allow it to join in th...

Line continues its apparent growth tear. The mobile messaging app that's extremely popular in its home market of Japan has announced it's passed the 200 million global registered users mark, some two ...

Line continues its apparent growth tear. The mobile messaging app that's extremely popular in its home market of Japan has announced it's passed the 200 million global registered users mark, some two ...

After posting another quarterly decline in sales but steadily rising unit numbers for new-generation smartphones last week, today Nokia pressed ahead with yet another smartphone launch that will fill ...

Adobe Systems announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Neolane, a conversational marketing company with annual revenue of just under $60 million. As we reported at the end of last mont...

Each time we run a meet-up we like to have a brief interview with some of the major players in the industry. This time we spoke with Chris Devore, creator of Founders Co-Op and a serial entrepreneur a...

Kiip, a startup that delivers real-world rewards to app users when they perform desirable tasks and reach key milestones, is announcing its integration with Yahoo Japan marking the first time Yahoo J...

Although CEOs and the first engineers are often the ones most lionized for creating the founding blocks of great companies, there are others who shape corporate culture in ways that are sometimes hard...

If you weren't in Seattle last week for our TechCrunch meetup, we've got the pitches from the winners for your viewing pleasure.StowThat, RedRide and Pigeonewstook the top-three prizesfrom a field of ...

Today's big news, courtesy of Quartz, is about the expiration of laser sintering patents that will change the face of 3D printing in 2014. In short, the reason "good" 3D printers - namely the ones tha...

Online gaming companyZattikka suffered a precipitous decline on the London Stock Exchange today, falling a staggering 64 percent in normal trading.The cause of the plummet is simple: Zattikka is behin...

Alex Wilhelm is turning 24 today, but he’s been writing about tech since his sophomore year of college. So he’s joining us now with four solid years at The Next Web, where he wrote about M...

TechCrunch has written quite a bit about Science, the Los Angeles-based startup "studio" that's helping to create and grow some of the more interesting companies on the tech scene today. So when a few...

There's no shortage of mobile photo book applications on the market today, but a majority of these are focused on taking digital creations and turning them into offline, printed products.Memorability,...

At Fortune's Brainstorm Conference in Aspen today, eBay CEO John Donahoe joined the stage with Airbnb's co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky to talk about how they mentor each other (you can watch the live...

I like to think we've all been here at one point: You're bored out of your wits and rather than try to do something productive, you just spend hour after endless hour on YouTube. The problem that tend...

Following a second quarter that saw slower-than-expected subscriber growth, Netflix's letter to shareholders touted the progress that the company has made in original content and its future plans. Per...

Netflix just released its second-quarter earnings report, missing analyst expectations with lower-than-expected subscriber numbers. For the second quarter, Netflix reported earnings of 49 cents per sh...

Google today launched a number of updates to Cloud Print that finally bring it to Windows and make it easier to share printers with others. Even Google knows that there are still some occasions when y...

The original journalist-turned-investor, Michael Moritz, will be joining us onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisconext September. In his over three-decades-long tech career, Moritz, who rose from...

Apple's developer site went down unexpectedly last Thursday and stayed inactive for most of the weekend. The company revealed yesterday that it was because an "intruder" attempted to access personal i...

She++, a Stanford community for women in tech, publicly released a 12-minute documentary today featuring Stanford students, professors, and alumni discussing gender in technical fields.High profile Si...

From the team behind Checkthis, Frontback is a straightforward iPhone photo-taking app to capture the moment as it happens. You launch the app, take a photo of what you have in front of you, take a ph...

The startup scene in Seattle is for real. More than 1,000 people came to the Showbox theater last Thursday night to mingle, have a drink and hear the pitches from 18 local startups. Here are some scen...

Rovio has just released an update to Bad Piggies, the game that turned the tables, this time making the Bad Piggies the protagonists. Players are asked to build vehicles using various tools, boosts, a...

Think of the children! Like clockwork, anti-porn sentiment has broken out again, this time in the UK. PM David Cameron has announced something he is calling “Default On” access to ISP-wide...

Only weeks after Google rolled out the revampedtabbed interface for Gmail, users began spottinga new ad format, which placed advertisements directly into the "Promotions" section of the inbox. News of...

Autism, the disorder that affects social skills and communication and that is seeing a rising number of diagnoses, has a myriad number of causes from genetic to environmental factors. Because it’...

The Withings Pulse is the latest device in the personal activity tracker category, and it isn't a wristband, which runs counter to the latest fad. Instead, it's a portable rectangle not unlike the ori...

Google today announced three new features for its Cloud Storage service that brings it closer to feature parity with Amazon's Web Services (AWS). Just like AWS's S3, Google's Cloud Storage now offers ...

eBay Now, the same-day shipping service that first debuted for San Francisco residents nearly a year agobefore further expansions into San Jose and New York, is preparing to broaden its service yet ag...

Ubuntu Mobile isn't new; Canonical has already done much to promote its efforts to break into the smartphone mobile software space. But today the company is launching an Indiegogo campaign to fund the...

As a wannabe science nerd I've always been fascinated by oscilloscopes, wave generators, and sensors of all types. Sadly, because of my inability to add simple figures (even with a calculator) nobody ...

Meet Motorola's next flagship smartphone: The Moto X. Reportedly assembled in the great state of Texas, nearly every aspect of the phone has leaked prior to the phone's official unveiling on August 1s...

U.K.- and Spain-based recruitment startup Jobandtalent, which uses linguistic analysis to alert candidates to jobs they might otherwise have missed, has just closed a 2.5 million ($3.3 million) fundin...

Samsung has built itself into a consumer electronics giant to rival some of the biggest and baddest, and now it's following the example of some of its lofty peers and announcing its first annual devel...

Looks like Yahoo is trying to take control of its own destiny once again. The company today announced that it would repurchase 40 million shares owned by Third Point LLC at a price of $29.11 per share...

Looks like Yahoo is trying to take control of its own destiny once again. The company today announced that it would repurchase 40 million shares owned by the hedge fund Third Point LLC at a price of $...

Today Aereo, the live TV streaming/DVR service that brings content directly to any of your devices, at any time, has today announced its plans to launch service in Utah on August 19. Shortly after, th...

The much-anticipated Leap Motion Controller began shipping to pre-order customers today, as reviews of the input device hit the web. The startup behind the controller has done an impressive job raisin...

Shares of semiconductor maker Himax Technologies are jumping in pre-market trading with the news that Google has taken a 6.3% stake in Himax Display (HDI). HDI is a subsidiary of the Taiwanese company...

The Expect Labs team has been awfully busy these past few months -- the San Francisco startup has already locked up investment deals with major players in the mobile and hardware realms, and now the c...

Apple is reportedly testing out bigger iPhone and iPad screen designs, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. The Mac maker has been asking its supplier partners for prototype screens in sizes...

Invenias, a provider of cloud software for the executive search & recruitment sector, has closed a $1.5 million Series A round from new investor MMC Ventures, along with a number of private invest...

Coub, the Russian startup that lets you create Gif-like short looped music videos, has raised $1 million from local VCs Brothers Ventures and Phenomen Ventures.The site, which lets users upload videos...

As most entrepreneurs will tell you, it's not raising a funding round that concentrates the mind so much as wondering if you'll be able to raise a follow-on round after that. European startups have co...

Facebook announced that Facebook For Every Phone, a native app that works on feature phones, has been downloaded 100 million times. ...

After months of internal turmoil and struggling sales, HTC is trying to reboot its strategy by establishing a new unit to develop "innovative" products and putting its its global sales president back ...

In April 2005, current General Catalyst Partner (disclosure) Kevin Colleran replaced Eduardo Severin as Facebook's business development head and sales lead. He was Facebook employee number seven.And e...

In just a few days now, Google's Chrome and Android chief Sundar Pichai will be joined by a slew of journalists and media types to nosh on some breakfast and show off the newly-revamped Nexus 7. If yo...

Microsoft had a pretty bad week. The software giant announced disastrous earnings, which led its stock to tank over 11 percent the next day. One reason for the bad quarter was the $900 million charge ...

After 3 days of silence as to why the iOS Developer Center has been down, Apple has just confirmed that they are investigating a security breach. Developers just began receiving the email below; Apple...

Sports Illustrated is launching a standalone football website, MMQB, tomorrow morning. The sites name comes from star Sports Illustrated writer Peter King, who writes a weekly column, Monday Morning Q...

The prospect of iPhones supporting game controllers is cool. But why is Apple giving away the opportunity to seize the initiative and make a new cool new add-on of its own? It feels like a big mistake...

Earlier this week, the makers of personalized news app News360 announced that they have launched their monetization efforts with a sponsored content program, where companies can pay to have their cont...

Today Blippar, a two-year old AR advertising company out of the UK, is celebrating its one-year anniversary in the U.S. AR advertising sounds about as exciting API management, but 3 million users beg ...

In September 2012, Y Combinators Paul Graham penned a widely-circulated essay titled Startups = Growth. The message was clear -- startups are about growth. Once a startup stops growing, it gets busy d...

It took a while for me this week to judge the news value of the G2 Crowd analyst report about marketing automation. I thought about it, took another look and concluded that yes, marketing automation h...

Nate Silver and I are big fans of Google’s Consumer Surveys tool. “Perhaps it wont be long before Google, not Gallup, is the most trusted name in polling,” wrote Silver, on how Googl...

Every entrepreneur should self-publish a book,because self-publishing is the new business card. If you want to stand out in a world of content, you need to underline your expertise. Publishing a book ...

I'm not a huge fan of banks and when senior director Michal Panowicz approached me about mBank my interest was pigued. How could a banking spin-off of BRE Bank and founded in 2000 create one of the co...

Some days you're on call for weekend news duty and it's pretty boring and you get tired of just sitting around waiting for something to happen and you're just sort of hanging out and watching Twitter ...

About a month after shutting down its app, mobile coupon startup Endorse has been acquired by Dropbox, the team announced on its blog today. The deal follows a number of other recent acquisition Dropb...

The San Francisco Bay Area pays the highest median tech wage, at $123,497, but comes with higher taxes and housing costs, according to data assembled by Good April, an online tax-planning startup base...

In case you haven't heard, 3D printing has entered the mainstream, and it will disrupt every industry's manufacturing processes slightly differently. Let's talk about why it will work in fashion.3D pr...

Welcome one and all to a brand new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us writers together in front of the TechCrunch TV cameras to dish on some of the more interesting stories from t...

This is a guest post by Ciaran OLeary, a Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital in Berlin. Earlybird manages 600m in funds and are investors in companies such as Carpooling.com, Peak Games, SocialBakers...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb filter across our head. Television is going streamland in a big w...

Facebook Home's launcher was inspired by Lunchables. That's just one nugget of insight into Facebook's design process from a presentation it gave to Bay Area designers in May and that it's now release...

Jane Austen? Shakespeare? Tolstoy? Hacks. Beethoven? Bach? Mozart? Wildly overrated. Statistically speaking, at least.It's a curious fact that while the long-dead titans of literature and music are re...

Everyone passionate about the startup company funding ecosystem was overjoyed by the news last week that general solicitation would soon be okay for startups looking for angel investors. With one fell...

So, I was searching for pornography on Tumblr this morning. (It was work-related!) Word was, the now-Yahoo-owned blogging network made a significant change to the way adult-themed blogs could be disco...

Nate Silver, the statistician who rose to national prominence for his scarily accurate predictions of the 2008 and 2012 U.S. presidential elections, is leaving The New York Times for ESPN. Silver wil...

Apple has agreed to acquire transit navigation app HopStop.com, according to a report in Bloomberg.AllThingsD has apparently received confirmation from an Apple spokesperson. I've reached out to both ...

Apple has agreed to acquire transit navigation app HopStop.com, according to a report in Bloomberg.AllThingsD has apparently received confirmation from an Apple spokesperson. I've reached out to both ...

In this week's episode of Ask A VC, Resolute Ventures' founder Mike Hirshland joined us in the studio to talk about seed-stage investing, party rounds and how startups should structure boards....

Remember Poppy? It's that device -- now on Kickstarter -- that lets you watch and record 3-D photos and videos using your iPhone. It's kind of like a Viewmaster for the digital age. Now it's looking t...

Well, here we go. After a considerable amount of teasing (not to mention cheerleading from Google execs during earnings calls), Motorola Mobility is finally ready to unveil its long-awaited Moto X sma...

DeveloperAuction, an online marketplace that lets startups submit salary bids to talented engineers, has expanded to allow teams of coders and designers to put themselves up for auction as a group.As ...

With new parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) going into effect next year, Thrive Capital’s Josh Kushner is betting that health insurance — an area long ...

ModCloth, the indie fashion site best known for its vintage-inspired dresses, is today offering the first look into its revenue situation since 2009. The e-commerce startup, which is backed by roughly...

Google has just launched a brand new, but relatively ineffectual, feature for Gmail users: a full-screen compose option. Enabling this option will push the compose window to the center of your inbox, ...

Microsoft shares (NASDAQ:MSFT) dropped 12.2 percent, representing the biggest single-day drop in over 13 years. On April 24, 2000, shares dropped 15.6 percent -- since then, Microsoft has never experi...

Hello and welcome to another Friday. It's a scorcher out there, AMIRITE? But we're here to cool things down a bit with yet another episode of the TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast. ...

Blink(1), a Kickstarter favorite that launched a year ago is coming back for more. The indicator light, which plugs into your USB and simply blinks on command, is now selling for a pledge of $25 and s...

Adobe today launched version 3.0 of its PhoneGap open source mobile app development platform. PhoneGap has long been one of the most popular tools for developers who want to write cross-platform mobil...

If you're trying to get some iOS development done and just can't get to the tools you need, don't worry: you're not alone.Apple's Developer Center is down. Hard. But why?...

The team behind group photo sharing application Tracks has launched a new app today called Kanvas. The new app is aiming to create a whole new wave of social self-expression by giving its users the to...

Sometimes it feels like Microsoft just can't help itself. After yesterday's disastrous earnings report was made even worse because Microsoft had to reveal how badly the Surface RT had been selling, th...

Heads up, wearable tech aficionados: Motorola Mobility is looking to produce some new wearable gadgets and it wants some help. The Google-owned company quietly posted a job listing yesterday looking f...

The largest university system in the world has suspended a bold experiment in massively open online course (MOOC) education, after disappointing student outcomes. Last January, San Jose State Universi...

Coffee, Coffee BuzzBuzzBuzz! Today, for the second year in a row, Uber will be delivering ice cream -- vanilla, chocolate, and everything in between -- in 33 cities in 10 countries.You might think its...

Think you know about the hottest startups before anyone else? Equity crowdfunding platform and online venture firm FundersClub wants you to be their eyes and ears, so they're offering to give you 10% ...

The emergence of vertically integrated e-commece operations like Everlane and Flint and Tinder highlights how a new generation of startups is using entrepreneurial muscle for economic regeneration in ...

The emergence of vertically integrated e-commerce operations like Everlane and Flint and Tinder highlights how a new generation of startups is using entrepreneurial muscle for economic regeneration in...

Evernote recently updated its iOS app to include a bevy of new free and premium features to the note taking app. For those of you who happen to read TechCrunch but don’t use smartphones or appli...

Digg Reader, the Betaworks-backed alternative to the now dead Google Reader, is making progress in becoming a more solidified platform for serious feed reading. Shortly after its launch a couple of we...

Lernstift is a pen which vibrates when you spell the word incorrectly. However, it could also be capable of spawning its own App ecosystem. After launching on Kickstarter recently, it's picking up spe...

What makes Candy Crush so addictive? A combination of perfected game mechanics, built-in social media virality, and the maddening timer that tells you can't play right now - which somehow makes you cr...

Daniel Loreto, a former engineering lead and Google and Twitter, is headed to Venrock as an EIR in the VC firm's New York office.Loreto was previously part of the team Julpan, a real-time data analysi...

As questions continue to swirl around just how well artists get paid through streaming music services like Spotify -- and what they can do to improve that -- Nielsen today released numbersthat attest ...

Founded in 2010, Urbanara is an upscale 'home wares' site across Europe, but manly Germany. It has VC backing, 25,000 customers and will make about 5million in sales this year. It controls its entire ...

After breaking up with Google and forging its own way forward with its mapping service on iOS, Apple is now taking another step on that path: today it emerged that the company has bought Locationary, ...

Australia's top online shopping group The Catch Group, which boasts annual revenue of A$350 million ($321 million) and a database of 3.5 million customers, wants to give a hand to fledging startups. I...

The freemium debate continues to rage on. Some say it’s the future of how business will be run, while others say it’s synonymous with casual games (read: not for hardcore gamers). Now the ...

Have you ever been in, let’s say a discotheque,and gotten caught in a whirl of names, numbers and faces that you just can’t keep straight? Happens all the time. Luckily,NumberSnapjust beca...

This is the worst email our tips line received today. I look forward to having a drink with this dude....

The Freedom of Information Act Machine, an open online platform that automates Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests,launched on Kickstarter two days ago and has already surpassed its funding goa...

It turns out that DogVacay has also made a name for itself as a startup to watch in its local Silicon Beach scene -- while TechCrunch TV was visiting Los Angeles this past week, when we'd ask local te...

Windows RT is a dog. We've been saying that from the beginning. We weren't alone. It's very hard to find a positive review of Windows RT, and more specifically, the nine-month-old Microsoft Surface wi...

there's this company called FanHero, it's all about helping those YouTube guys make money in like, non-advertising ways. Giving the community ways to support them through commerce -- you know, selling...

Yelp has just announced that they've agreed to acquire SeatMe, the startup that set out to battle OpenTable in the restaurant reservation space.Looks like they'll acquire them for $2.2M in cash and 26...

Microsoft just posted its earnings for its fourth financial quarter of 2013. The company reported revenue of $19.9 billion and earnings per share of $0.59. While that’s in line with analyst expe...

Microsoft just posted its earnings for its fourth financial quarter of 2013. The company reported revenue of $19.9 billion and earnings per share of $0.59. While that’s in line with analyst expe...

It's that time again -- Google's fiscal second quarter earnings have just crossed the wires and they're definitely not what most people expected. For Q2 2013, the company reported consolidated revenue...

Yahoo has acquired Ztelic, a Beijing startup focused on social network-data, as first reported by the Wall Street Journa. This is Yahoo's second acquisition in as many days (something they've already ...

We're here, Seattle. And boy is it nice. Blue skies, cool weather, and great startups. We're loving it.Tonight, at 6:00, TechCrunch is taking over the ShowBox at the Market for an evening of good time...

Los Angeles-based content delivery network EdgeCast Networks is looking to expand its sales and engineering teams, and it's raised a fresh round of $54 million in new financing to help it do so. The f...

Superfly, which helps travelers take advantage of frequent flier miles and airline rewards programs, is expanding its services to include a mobile app for finding and booking hotels. Superfly first la...

Would you install an Android app that put ads directly on your smartphone's lock screen? No? What if you were paid to do so, and whenever you swiped to unlock your device, you made a little money? Tha...

Mexico's SinDelantal.Mx, the online take-out delivery service started by the founders of Spain's SinDelantal.com, which exited to Just Eat late last year for a figure we pegged in the range of "a few ...

We live in a world where Netflix is receiving Emmy nominations. The streaming video company received an unprecedented number of Emmy nominations -- 14 in all. That included nine nominations for the Ke...

Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page has said that Kleiner Perkins partner and legendary technology investor John Doerr "sees the future first." He's backed companies like Amazon, Intuit and Google. W...

The person using Google Drive faces a paradox. And it's one that many people face when they want to use a service not built from the ground up for the enterprise.It's just not secure enough. Google Dr...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 9am Pacific....

Kapost, a startup offering tools for content marketers, just announced that it has raised $5.6 million in Series C funding.This brings The TechStars-incubated company's total funding to $8.7 million. ...

Verizon CFO Fran Shammo confirmed during the company's quarterly earnings call that Verizon Wireless was working on a new, more frequent phone upgrading scheme called Edge, but didn't elaborate much. ...

The New York Times says it plans to release a Top News app for Leap Motion, the soon-to-be-released controller that will allow users to interact with their computers through gestures in fact, it will...

TechCrunch Disrupt Europe will be held in Berlin this October. It will feature an outstanding slate of global startups, influential speakers, VIP guests and more. But, attention new startups that want...

mxHero, a company that graduated out of the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, has just closed a $1.25 million seed round of funding, with investors such as White Star Capital, as well as angel inv...

Hullabalu, the New York-based kids app maker backed by $1.8 million from SV Angel, Great Oaks, and others, is today bringing its iPad storybook app to the iPhone. Like the big-screen version, the new ...

In today's Q2 earnings, Nokia noted declining revenues and overall unit sales in handsets, but also improving operating profits -- cross currents that point to a company still doing quite a lot of cos...

Facebook has just agreed to acquire certain assets and hire some employees of UK software verification developer Monoidics. Pending closing conditions, some Monoidics engineers will join Facebook's Lo...

Reddit just changed its default subreddits for the first time since October 2011. As part of the new Reddit switcheroo, /r/politics and /r/atheism, two of the most controversial areas on the site, wer...

Travel planning is a nightmare. So many moving parts cause decision paralysis and fear you're getting gouged. That's why 7-year Facebooker Ari Steinberg just raised $1.6 million for his new startup Va...

The trend toward more mobile applications going free continues, app analytics provider Flurry confirms this morning in a new report focused on app price changes over time. The company, whose analytics...

The OUYA Android gaming console has been met with mixed reviews. The console blew up on Kickstarter, and in the months leading up to its recent release, the hype has turned into slight concern over wh...

Swell, the app that brings a Pandora-like experience to news and talk radio content, is announcing that it has raised $5.4 million in Series A funding.The round was led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, wit...

Nifti, a new shopping service that helps you keep track of when items you want to buy go on sale, is officially opening its doors today, backed by $800,000 in seed funding from Google Ventures, Otto C...

Back in April we announced the CrunchBase Venture Program for the free CrunchBase startup database. We announced the firms that helped shape the CrunchBase Venture Program including Sequoia Capital, G...

More negative numbers for Nokia today, as the company reported its quarterly earnings for Q2, but it also noted sales of 7.4 million Window Phone-powered Lumia devices getting sold -- the most in any ...

Vlix -- an app that let users add filters and other features and then share them with others -- is shutting down in August, about a year after its developer, SpotMixer, was quietly acquired by Disney....

Vlix -- an app that let users add filters and other features and then share them with others -- is shutting down in August, about a year after its developer, SpotMixer, was quietly acquired by Disney....

What the world really needs is an anonymous meme generator with a chain letter-styled remixable twist. Meet Yarrly (to be said with your best pirate voice). Created by Dave Ganly and Holly Clarke, the...

At long last, HTC finally confirmed what we all already knew to be true -- the HTC One mini is a real mid-range smartphone, and it's going to start hitting store shelves across the globe shortly.Given...

Open-Xchange, maker of Web-based communication, collaboration and office productivity open-source software, has received $20 million in funding from United Internet, former Deutsche Bank COO Hermann-J...

Adobe says version 3.0 of Adobe Social, its set of tools for social marketing, is going live right now.When I met with Bill Ingram, vice president of product management for digital marketing, and Emi ...

In only a few months, the founders of IDerma, a medical technology start-up based out of Zagreb, Croatia, have developed and launched what they’re marketing as medical sensor technology for chil...

FiscalNote, a startup that promises to help businesses track and predict state and local legislation, is announcing that it has brought on two prominent advisors Chris Lu, former White House Cabinet ...

Hey, remember Magic: The Gathering? Maybe you're like me and you played the game religiously as a teenager, only to abandon it as you got older. (For those of you don't know what I'm talking about: It...

Singaporean online grocery store, Redmart, just raised an undisclosed Series A round that is “in the millions”, according to co-founder and CEO Roger Egan. Together with this funding amoun...

GoInstant, the startup that Salesforce.com bought for $70 million, has launched a new developer platform for what it calls the "multiplayer web."The company, which operates as a separate entity within...

Startups, I just give up on you for today.Because after whatever happened in this fustercluck of a story, the office arrival of these creepy dolls that some company made of co-editor Eric Eldon, Susan...

A 12-year-old maker named Super Awesome Sylvia (she is quite super awesome) is looking for $50,000 to build a robotic watercolor, the WaterColorBot, set that can draw nearly anything you design in a c...

Anyone who has had their website get some traction on Reddit knows that it truly lives up to its "front page of the Internet" label -- the kind of traffic the site drives can be remarkable. But the pr...

Casual games company Arkadium is announcing today that it's supporting HTML5 games in its Arena Network. In other words, the company is finally acknowledging the need to move on from Flash.The news s...

With the war for talent alive and well and jobs sites continuing to leave more than a little to be desired, San Francisco-based Venturocket is announcing today that it has raised $700K in Series A fin...

There's a new travel site launching that's focused on bringing real-time bidding to the boutique hotel market. The site, called Stayful, was founded by travel industry veterans from Expedia and Hotels...

As expected, eBay reported decent financial results in Q2 2013 today. Revenue was up 14% to $3.9 billion, compared to the same period of 2012. The company reported second quarter net income on a GAAP ...

As expected, eBay reported decent financial results in Q2 2013 today. Revenue was up 14% to $3.9 billion, compared to the same period of 2012. The company reported second quarter net income on a GAAP ...

Intel reported its fiscal Q2 2013 earnings just a few moments ago, and they just fell short of analyst predictions. The legendary chipmaker reported earnings of $0.39 per share and $12.8 billion in re...

Audiodraft, a platform where brands or anybody else can commissions custom music or sounds, just closed $400,000 in a funding round led by 500 Startups and Promus Ventures. The best analogy for what t...

Small startups are like families, especially when you found said company with your sibling. For this week's Founder Stories, I met with Kyna Fong, co-founder of ElationEMR, who has done just that. Ela...

If you ask me you don't mess around with people like that you get out of the room and then you get into the car and go home you don't call nobody you know or whatever, right? So I'm talking with Suffo...

I would've written this earlier, but I was busy picking pieces of my mind up off the floor. I get to write about cool stuff all day, but this... this is incredible.colAR is the coloring book of the fu...

Ready, set, click. We just released one of the last batches of tickets to our annual party at August Capital. Space is very limited. The deck at August Capital's beautiful Sand Hill Road office can on...

Puppet Labs is acquiring Cloudsmith, a provider of development tools for building out infrastructures that are automated in the manner that is becoming essential in this age of the cloud. Terms of the...

Tumblr users can now make four-frame GIFs using their webcams; the feature is not available yet for Tumblr apps. Users can press Take a Photo in photo posts and select GIF," then record themselves.Thi...

Hardware projects. T-shirts. People. Scientific research. Crowdfunding is getting applied to every possible niche vertical. Now a Y Combinator-backed team is looking to bring crowdfunding to real esta...

Health gadget company Withings will announce in a few minutes a new funding round from Bpifrance, Idinvest Partners, 360 Capital Partners and existing investor Ventech. Out of the $30 million, $15 mil...

Yahoo announced today that it has acquired AdMovate, a mobile advertising startup. A letter from AdMovate seems to indicate that the company was bought for their talent, rather than product. ...

With the word beginning to quietly leak out last week (thanks to its regulatory filing), San Francisco-based mobile learning startup, Inkling, officially announced today that it has raised $16 million...

With the word beginning to quietly leak out last week (thanks to its regulatory filing), San Francisco-based mobile learning startup, Inkling, officially announced today that it has raised $16 million...

Microsoft has not been shy in the past to spend its money on advertising its products against competition -- in 2011 apparently sinking up to $100 million on making sure that people knew about its sea...

E-commerce startup Grand St. is moving out of its invite-only mode and has opened up to everyone today, allowing customers to browse and shop the new gadgets that appear on the site daily. It's also l...

Potluck, the new link-sharing service from the team behind social conversation Branch, has now arrived on the iPhone, where BranchCEO and co-founder Josh Miller believes it may be able to better serve...

Tumblr founder David Karp was a guest on The Colbert Report last night - an appearance he wrote would be "one of the scariest moments of my life." But as it turned out, the interview went fairly well,...

Microsoft's Bing today announced an update to its autosuggest feature that expands the number of categories that will trigger this feature. In May, Bing firstintroduced this tool for celebrities, poli...

Microsoft's Bing today announced an update to its autosuggest feature that expands the number of categories that will trigger this feature. In May, Bing firstintroduced this tool for celebrities, poli...

Shortly after the stock market opened, Yahoo shares (NASDAQ:YHOO) have jumped to 28.91, representing a 7.55 percent increase over yesterday’s closing price of 26.88. More importantly, it represe...

Video discovery startup Redux has spent the last several years working to provide a new way for users to browse and find content that they love, and has focused mainly on the connected TV market. Toda...

Bit by bit, BitTorrent, the P2P platform that has worked hard to erase connotations of piracy, is building out a suite of services around its architecture that let users share, store and download larg...

Google Apple Engine (GAE) released a new versionn of its cloud platform today, offering dedicated memcache that allows developers to purchase in-memory data caching for their apps at a cost of 12 cent...

Folks from Silicon Valley are sometimes criticized for thinking that there's a tech solution to every damn problem. The Roominator, as demonstrated in the video below, is a prime example of this. Than...

Airbnb, the San Francisco-based marketplace for people to list and rent private rooms and homes from each other, has seen astounding growth since opening for business in 2008, with the service active ...

Airbnb, the San Francisco-based marketplace for people to list and rent private rooms and homes from each other, has seen astounding growth since opening for business in 2008, with the service active ...

Online travel site Peek wants to make it easier for people to find interesting things to do in cities that they're traveling to. And now it's extending that capability to new international cities, sta...

Apartment List, an apartment search engine that uses Facebook to personalize results, is rounding out its offerings today with the launch of its new “Roommates” app for Android, which help...

Former Googler/YouTuber Hunter Walk has been making angel investments for some time now, and recently began observing that although he was one of the smallest parts of the cap table, he often was the ...

Poor Apple Maps. While we see very minor improvement from Apple's year-old Maps application, Google continues to improve its world-class offering pretty rapidly. Why, today, in fact, Google just launc...

E-commerce startupSoldsie, backed by $1 million in outside funding fromFundersClub,500 Startups,e.ventures, and others, is today expanding its service internationally, with support for six additional ...

Anti-authoritarian data leaker Edward Snowden is officially seeking the warm embrace of Russia, a country known for disappearing journalists and running a propaganda arm in the guise of a public media...

EyeEm, the free Berlin-based iOS, Android and Windows Phone photo app that has at times been referred to as the "Instagram of Europe," is today announcing that it has raised a $6 million Series A roun...

EyeEm, the free Berlin-based iOS, Android and Windows Phone photo app that has at times been referred to as the "Instagram of Europe," is today announcing a new round of funding to help expand why it ...

Telerik‘s Kendo UI HTML5 framework for cross-platform development is getting a major update today that introduces a number of speed improvements and a new flat UI style, as well as some improvem...

The Congressman in charge of assembling immigration reform in the House of Representatives has come to reassure the public that a bill can pass, but it could take a (very) long time. To alleviate the ...

Makeshift, a new "Startup Lab" in London's Eastern tech cluster, has now produced its first product, HireMyFriend. Unlike an accelerator which invests in small startups, Makeshift plans to launch its ...

Your cell phone doesn't know what you're watching on your TV. Microsoft would like to change that. The company is launchinga new initiative today, called the "Companion Web," it says enables the Inter...

Xamarin, the cross-platform development platform for native apps for iOS, Android, OS X and Windows, today announced that it has closed an opportunistic $16 million Series B round led by Lead Edge Cap...

Why would you want to apply for a job via mobile? Because it could be filled by the time you get to your computer...if you have one. That premise has scored Proven $1 million in new funding led by And...

We are still waiting for the antitrust commissioner in Europe to make his next formal statement on negotiations with Google, after the search giant in April this year suggested remedies in the ongoing...

It could be argued that the file sharing problem has largely been solved thanks to the cloud and a plethora of services that ride its coattails. But still, I couldn't help have my interest piqued when...

Smartphone selfies come in a very limited variety of flavors: the arms-length shots that make your head look distended and blurry mirror pics. There are several self-timer apps out there, but it's sti...

Nasdaq-listed vacation rental site HomeAway has acquired a Singapore-based startup Travelmob, allowing it to compete directly with Airbnb in the Asia-Pacific region. HomeAway announced today that it a...

Weathermob, a mobile, social network centered around crowdsourced weather reporting, has raised an additional $650,000 in new funding today from a number of angel investors, including Mark Hastings, L...

China is the world's largest smartphone market, but data about app downloads is difficult to get because Google Play is inaccessible there. The Chinese app ecosystem, which will be worth $1.2 billion ...

While messaging has become a veritable war with apps like Line, KakaoTalk, WeChat, Path and Facebook Messenger across Asia and Western markets, there’s been one longstanding app that’s pre...

Back in January, Zynga’s chief game designer Brian Reynolds, who was also behind older hits like Rise of Nations and Civilization II, quietly left the company. He’s popping up back on the ...

Incredible Labs, the startup which built personal assistant app Donna, reduced headcount this week, as it seeks to streamline operations and improve its balance sheet while trying to raise its Series ...

Welcome back for a brand spankin' new episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV show that knocks on the front doors of some of the tech industry's hottest companies to take a look inside their offices. This...

Path is raising a $50 million Series C round at a $500 million post-money valuation. Sources tell us the company is still seeking a lead investor, the round is currently oversubscribed, and one of the...

One of the big themes that CEO Marissa Mayer kept returning to during the webcast discussing Yahoo's second-quarter earnings was mobile."Yahoo's future is mobile," she said, noting that the company no...

Remember that shiny new Maps web interface that Google started showing off at I/O back in May? It's here!Technically, the new Maps interface has actually been here for a while... assuming you signed u...

Yahoo just released its mixed Q2 earnings, and a few sentences may have given the answer everyone was waiting for — yes, Yahoo still has plenty of cash to pursue more acquisitions. Evidence of t...

Bitcoin has created an interesting solution for problematic economies. Because it allows seamless extraction of wealth out of a bank account and into the cloud, Argentinians have been ramping up usage...

Microsoft is tired of getting pummeled in the press over reports that it hands over emails and Skype conversations to the National Security Agency. Unfortunately, the federal gag order related to the ...

In the wake of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing,the United States government can no longer be seen as a beneficent oreven merely benign actor on the Internet. That could have disastrousconsequences, fi...

The day for purple exclamation points (or lack thereof) has arrived. Yahoo just released its earnings report for the second quarter of 2013, with better-than-expected (non-GAAP) net earnings of $386 m...

Soma, a startup that’s hoping to be the Warby Parker of water filters, has closed a $3.7 million round of seed funding led by Baseline Ventures and Forerunner Ventures. Other backers include Ler...

According to a report by Norwegian researchers at Ipsos, piracy has fallen alarmingly in that country thanks to viable alternative sources. For example, music piracy has fallen from 1.2 billion songs ...

Outlook is now available for the iPhone and iPad. Kind of. Don't expect full Outlook functionality. This isn't a MS Office Outlook app; this is Microsoft's stripped down mail, calendar and contact app...

Altimeter Group analyst Brian Solis is now thinking way beyond Twitter and Facebook. The future of digital business, Solis says, is "shared experiences". In his lavishly illustrated new book (itself ...

There ain't no party like a TechCrunch party 'cause a TechCrunch party don't stop. So hopefully you're ready, Seattle, because in just two days theTechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off is going to rock your s...

KeepSafe, which creates a password-locked photo galleryon people’s phones, just raised $3.4 million in a round led by Floodgate. They’ve also grown to 13 million users, 6 million of whom a...

Facebook's last big f8 conference was September 2011. It wants to get closer to developers, though, so its recently acquired mobile app backend-as-a-service Parse will hold Parse Developer Day on Sept...

Google today released the first beta version of Chrome 29 for desktop and Android. Most of the major changes in this update are happening on the Android platform, which now supports the Web Audio API ...

Y Combinator-backed StatusPage is in the fortunate position of having paying customers likeJawbone, Shopify, New Relic, Parse, Ping Identity and Zendesk, ahead of today's official debut. The startup, ...

Appcelerator, a Mountain View-based startup that helps businesses create and track the performance of mobile apps, just raised another $12.1 million in a round led by EDB Investments from Singapore. O...

Instagram designer Tim Van Damme is leaving Facebook to take a new role at Dropbox. Yesterday, we learned that Gowalla co-founder Josh Williams and Van Damme were leaving Facebook in unrelated departu...

Google today introduced a number of new segmentation features for Google Analytics that should make it easier for users to isolate and analyze subsets of their visitors or app users. Previously, segme...

It was just a little over a year ago that a little company called Zimride launched a new product called Lyft. The idea was simple -- connect drivers with a car and extra time with passengers who need ...

Estimote’s first prototype looked like a parrot. They designed it to sit in stores and count the humans entering and leaving the location and could register their paths through the aisles and ev...

It's that time of year again. That's right, it's time for startups to ready their applications for the 500 Startups Accelerator. And, just like last time (and the time before), the Dave McClure-backed...

Google today introduced 360-degree Street View imagery of all of the main floors of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. A few weeks ago, Googleintroduced Street View imagery for the world's largest building, t...

Tour guides or sites like Getyourguide (out of Germany), or Peek, the San Francisco-based travel site that gives users a curated list of options in individual cities, tend to come down on the experien...

Context Relevant has raised $7 million to add to its existing $2.8 million in seed funding. In the Series A round, existing investors Madrona Venture Group and Geoff Entress were joined by Vulcan Capi...

Union Metrics, providers of the first Tumblr-endorsed analytics platform for the now Yahoo-owned blog network, is upgrading its feature set today as well as introducing new lower-cost and free tiers t...

Clinkle, the much-hyped mobile payments startup that recently announced a $25 million round, announced today that it is opening its wait lists to college students across America.The most interesting r...

In June of 2012, a company called 10Sheet launched out of TechStars NY with a plan to revolutionize bookkeeping for SMBs through software. But despite the brilliance of online services, some things ar...

About.com has been around since 1996, but nearly 20 years later the company is undergoing a relatively large shakeup. Just recently, Neil Vogel took over as Chief Executive Officer to revamp About.com...

New York and Seattle-basedViewfinderis officially debuting amobile applicationwhich aims to serve as something between a photo organization utility and private social network. Built by a team of ex-Go...

Yet more exits for Israeli startups, with the latest two developments a throwback to the hardware and engineering muscle that raised the tech profile of the region in the first place, before the Waze'...

Yet more exits for Israeli startups, with the latest two developments a throwback to the hardware and engineering muscle that raised the tech profile of the region in the first place, before the Waze'...

The flash sales site TouchOfModern is looking to continue expanding overseas, after an eventful March in which it resolved its lawsuit with Fab.com and raised a $3 million Series A round. Having exten...

Scoopshot, the crowdsourced on-demand photography marketplace and accompanying smartphone app, is announcing $1.2 million in new funding, adding to the 4.5 million previously raised, including a 1 mil...

Social media analytics startup Awe.sm is getting serious about making its product available to different types of clients. The company, which provides a platform for measuring the effectiveness of the...

In Silicon Valley, “Big Data” is all the rage these days. For good reason: It’s all around us, and the world we live in today keeps producing more and more of it. Thus, the promise, ...

When True Ventures-backed Madefire launched last year, it was publishing its own line of digitally-enhanced comic books from creators like Watchmen's Dave Gibbons. Through a partnership with deviantA...

Printful, a product of Latvian incubator Draugiem Group and the same team behind motivation startup poster maker Startup Vitamins, and the similar Behappy.me, is launching its drop shipping and custom...

TalentBin, a startup that uses data to help recruiters discover hard-to-find technical talent, has raised $2 million in new funding led by Lightbank led the round, with participation from NEA, Foundat...

Cloud-based app-testing serviceSauce Labsclosed $5 million in Series C funding today, led by Toba Capital, with angel investor Scott Banister and previous investor Triage Ventures participating.This b...

In spite of their critical role within the health system -- and the life saving care they provide -- hospitals today continue to be bogged down by archaic practices and inefficiencies which are costly...

Rocket Internet, the Berlin-based e-commerce incubator that has been behind dozens of startups around the world, is preparing to spin out a few more. The company today is announcing that it has raised...

Android handset and OS maker Xiaomi sold 7.03 million handsets in the first half of 2013, the company announced today. Over that period, the Beijing-based startup made RMB 13.27 billion (about $2.16 b...

Android handset and OS maker Xiaomi sold 7.03 million handsets in the first half of 2013, the company announced today. Over that period, the Beijing-based startup made RMB 13.27 billion (about $2.16 b...

Here’s a sign of how valuable China’s biggest alternative app stores have become. The country’s leading search engine, Baidu, just signed a memorandum of understanding to acquire 91 ...

Yahoo will be allowed to prove that it fought against the National Security Agency’s internet spying program, PRISM. A secret court ruled on Monday that the government should investigate how it ...

Airbnb has reorganized its international team in an effort to improve its customer support while also boosting the number of local options available to visitors traveling overseas. With the re-org, th...

Salesforce.com has taken a $300 million loan from Bank of America to pay for its acquisition of ExactTarget which it acquired in June. The loan, when considered in the context of other debt, is reduci...

The Digital Dating World has seen its fair share of companies come and go over the years, and few have been able to give the usual suspects, like eHarmony, Match.com and OkCupid, a run for their respe...

Gowalla co-founder Josh Williams will leave Facebook, a year and a half after Gowalla was acquired by the social network. In an unrelated exit, Instagram designer Tim Van Damme will also leave Faceboo...

The White House is in league with top Internet advertising companies to rain on everyone’s free-software parade: a new industry standard has been adopted to remove ads from pirate websites in an...

Startup Alley is part wild west, part farmer’s market. But it’s all about startups. You’ll love it. It’s a three-day exhibition. The first two days will see web companies take ...

With the IPO door seemingly shut to gaming companies, some of the biggest privately-held studios in the world have been looking for new ways to reward longstanding employees. San Francisco midcore gam...

Tandem is announcing the three latest startups that have joining the Silicon Valley-based mobile incubator. It's also confirming some news that was revealed earlier this year in a filing with the Secu...

The shift to mobile is sucking the money out of e-commerce, but BloomReach thinks big data can save the day. Today it brings its big-data content optimization SaaS to the small screen to add smart pro...

The shift to mobile is sucking the money out of e-commerce, but BloomReach thinks big data can save the day. Today it brings its big-data content optimization SaaS to the small screen to add smart pro...

Gojee, the site that began as a recipe destination in July 2011 and expanded to high-end clothing last December, has made its first move toward serious money making. The company is launching a new app...

Privy, a Boston-based local marketing startup which was also one of the standouts from the 500 Startups Demo Day this past February, has raised $1.7 million in seed funding fromAtlas Ventures, 500 Sta...

Ken Lerer, a co-founder of Huffington Post, Chairman of BuzzFeed and Betaworks, and founder of Lerer Ventures, is starting another new media business, a website called The Dodo, launching this fall. T...

On-demand transportation Uber has unveiled another new feature that will make its rides even more affordable this morning: With its latest software update, users will have the ability to split fares w...

Once hailed as the nicest guy in tech, we're hearing that as of this morning that Engadget's Tim Stevens is out as Editor In Chief, with Engadet's Marc Perton replacing him as Managing Editor.It's not...

Once hailed as thenicest guy in tech, EngadgetsTim Stevensis no longer Editor In Chief, with gdgts Marc Perton taking over as Engadget head while a new EIC is found to round out the management structu...

Matt Mazur's Lean Domain Search launched on Hacker News in January 2012. Today, Mazur announced that the tool, which makes it easy to find available domain names based on a keyword, was acquired by Wo...

Startup renaissance man Elon Musk has spent the past year or so not-so-subtly dropping hints about yet another ambitious transport project of his, and it seems he's getting ready to describe it in mor...

Pew Internet released a study today that determined specific pros and cons of using digital technology in classrooms. According to its survey, the majority of middle and high school teachers believe d...

Google shares are on fire. Since June 24, 2013, shares have jumped 7.32 percent to reach an all-time high price of 926.47 shortly after the NASDAQ opened. As earnings are coming up on Thursday, expect...

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it just build it in a variety of sizes for profit. Duh! That seems to be the thinking over at HTC, as MobileGeeks has surfaced some new information regarding ...

A couple of engineers who used to work for About.me have launched a new service called Finally.io in private beta. That service is designed to help other developers and engineers to keep tabs on their...

The role of a lead developer and engineer within a young tech company has become increasingly important over the last five years, with their job descriptions now including a diverse set of responsibil...

The Hunt, a website designed to help shoppers find specific items to buy online, has added Tyra Banks to its list of high-profile backers. This is not the first time Banks has expressed interest in th...

Quick! Everyone! Jump on the smartwatch bandwagon!In what could be the most predictable smartwatch rumor ever, AmongTech and The Verge are reporting that Microsoft is working on an aluminum smartwatch...

Spotify, the music service with 24 million active users,says that it is on track to pay out $1 billion to artists that stream music on its platform in 2013, and that it has already paid out $500 milli...

Spotify, the music service with 24 million active users,says that it is on track to pay out $1 billion to artists that stream music on its platform by the end of 2013, and that it has already paid out...

Rovio and Lucasfilm have just confirmed that it will indeed launch a sequel to the much-beloved Angry Birds Star Wars game on September 19 across the globe. This confirms our earlier report from last ...

Stop procrastinating and hop on this deal. You have just a few short hours left to snag our best price for tickets to Disrupt SF 2013.Tonight, Disrupt SF tickets will increase in price from $1,795 to ...

Cloud-based Code Editor Koding has raised $9.25 million so far, while other similar businesses like Cloud9 IDE have appeared in recent years. However, Codeanywhere, one of the biggest players in the c...

After losing several board members in April, HP announced today that it is adding three new additions to the board. Robert R. Dob Bennett, former president and chief executive officer of Liberty Medi...

TrustRadius, an online platform for user-generated reviews of business software, has raised a $5 million Series A round from Mayfield Fund.The Austin-based startup, which had previously been bootstrap...

If there's one thing we know, it's that the mobile payment space is exploding. European players in this space include Monitise, Paddle, ValidSoft and left-of-field startups like Droplet. However despi...

Forrester has now released its annual look at the state of IT spend globally, and the analysts project that there will be $2.06 trillion invested across software, hardware, and IT services by enterpri...

Late last year I was chatting to a VC about Fab.com. He was just shaking his head. Why the scepticism, I asked? "Look, I just can't see how it's sustainable. They've raised an awful lot of money, but ...

Taxibeat, the hail-a-cab smartphone app and taxi driver marketplace, has raised an additional $2 million, adding to the approximately $1.4 million raised previously. Once again, the backing comes from...

I'm a big fan of the Surface... Pro. It is, in short, one of the most unique Windows machines I've ever used and is far more fun carry than anyone gives it credit for. However, the Surface RT - in thi...

Editors note:DerekAndersenis the founder ofStartup Grind, a 45-city community in 20-countries, uniting the global startup world together through educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs. A f...

Freemium app Color Band uses the iPad's front camera motion sensor to create a magical experience for children learning about music and color. With a few strokes of their fingers on the iPad's touchsc...

Freemium app Color Band uses the iPad's front camera as a motion sensor to create a magical experience for children learning about music and color. With a few strokes of their fingers on the iPad's to...

Freemium app Color Band uses the iPad's front camera as a motion sensor to create a magical experience for children learning about music and color. With a few strokes of their fingers on the iPad's to...

The desktop’s future isn’t bright, but it isn’t likely to go away anytime soon, Microsoft’s Chief Evangelist Steven Guggenheimer told me last week during a brief interview in S...

Over the last several years, we've seen a growing proliferation of multichannel networks (MCNs) pop up on YouTube, all of which are seeking to aggregate channels and audience in an effort to boost vie...

In time, we're all going to want to interact and shop from our favorite online at least, that's whatRandy Ross, co-founder and CEO of startup called Cinematique, argues, and he's hoping to enable tho...

Sadly, Tacocopter was not a reality. But maybe quadcopters could disrupt the near-dominant hold that children have on ring-bearing at weddings. Otavio Good, creator of Word Lens, the app that translat...

It’s been a couple weeks since I reviewed the Ploom ModelTwo e-cig vaporizer, but we thought it fair to have someone else weigh in on the tobacco vaporizer as well. That said, Engadget’s B...

While other formats gain huge swathes of coverage in the gaming press, the talk in mobile is almost always just about process, business models and money. The absence of a cultural layer is notable, an...

"The Number Facebook Doesnt Want You To See", an article from Thursday by BuzzFeed claimed Facebook is hiding the number of people who see your posts so you don't feel bad that most people don't Like ...

"The Number Facebook Doesnt Want You To See", an article from Thursday by BuzzFeed claimed Facebook is hiding the number of people who see your posts so you don't feel bad that most people don't Like ...

This morning brought news of the RETRAKT pen hitting $72,000 on Kickstarter. RETRAKT is a nice-looking pen made of aluminum that looks a little bit like a part that fell off of a space ship. But $72,0...

Despite its international heritage, Americans are not eager for more immigrants. A new Gallup poll finds that only 16% of Republicans and 29% of Democrats think that immigration “should be incre...

A Google engineer concluded on his Google+ pagelast week that a cloud platform can’t be built without some form of lock-in. That’s evidently true but there really is one main reason for ma...

Motorola's secretive Moto X smartphone has been spotted in its fair share of photos (leaked and otherwise) this past week, but there are only so many thrills to be derived by looking at still images. ...

Earlier this week, one of the Valleys most steady high-growth technology companies held its first-ever developer conference -- DBX -- marking a potentially historical turning point for an already larg...

AfterShip, the package tracking platform for small e-commerce merchants that we profiled back in January, is leaving beta mode today and launching to the public. The Hong Kong-based startup also debut...

I've been musing on whether or not to weigh in on the demise of PC World, a computer "magazine" that was once printed on "paper." Founded after the acquisition of PC Magazine by Ziff-Davis publishing,...

Imagine walking into a busy mall when someone approaches you with an open hand. Would you have some coins to take the bus, please? he asks. But in this case, the person is not a panhandler. The beggar...

For a profession full of business strategy experts, its impressive how rarely and narrowly the venture capital industry is subjected to conventional competitive analysis. Ask yourself: who are the VCs...

After a week off, CrunchWeek is back. Regulars Leena and Colleen were out of the office, but Greg Kumparak, Billy Gallagher, and I still got together to talk about the big tech stories from the past s...

When Freestyle.VC co-founder and investor Josh Felser walked into the TechCrunch office a few weeks ago, you could tell something was on his mind. He was in the midst of sorting through a hiccup one o...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor talked Microsoft reorg and the chance it might make a difference. No one is underestimating the power of the Windows giant,...

The meatiest article I ran across on the Internet this week was also--maybe--a harbinger of doom for life as we know it. I mean Drew Crawford's superb piece Why mobile web apps are slow. It's long, an...

This is a bit of a niche product, but it’s still interesting nonetheless. Artist Julius Tuomisto believes that VJs are the next DJs. Just in the same way that a DJ shepherds music lovers through...

In God we trust. All others bring data. This quote, widely attributed to total quality management pioneer W. Edwards Deming, came to mind this morning as I read an anonymous Tumblr post taking me to t...

CrowdFlower, which helps businesses manage crowdsourced tasks, announced that contributors have completed 1 billion "judgments" (which is the basic unit of work on the platform).The company says those...

Today the Indiegogo campaign for Scanadu Scout became the highest funded in the site’s five year history. At over $1,378,545 and counting, Scanadu has broken the $1,370,461 record set by LetR...

Looks like Flipboard is unhappy with Flowboard, the new "interactive storytelling" app from Treemo specifically with the app's name.In response to Flipboard's complaints that the Flowboard name could...

In this week's episode of Ask A VC, NEA's Jon Sakoda joined us in the studio to discuss his views on big data, seed investing and more.For background, Sakoda joined NEA in 2006 and focuses on investme...

AddThis has released a new platform called Smart Layers, which it says can improve traffic and engagement by just adding a single line of code.President and CEO Ramsey McGrory told me that Smart Layer...

Hey, Cricket customers! You’re about to become AT&T customers. AT&T has just announced that they’ve agreed to acquire Leap Wireless, the parent company behind Cricket Wireless. As ...

Nokia has apparently reinvented zoom with the newest addition to the Lumia family, the Windows Phone 8-powered Lumia 1020, with a 41-megapixel PureView camera. It lets you zoom after the fact and stil...

We reported yesterday that the most unproductive Congress in history may kill high-skilled immigration reform. Despite a comprehensive immigration bill being passed in the Senate, top Republicans in t...

Now that the 4th Amendment is no longer a guarantee against broad government spying, the floodgates have opened for tech companies to give users their privacy back. Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sundes ...

Lyft is announcing this morning that it has sold off its legacy ride-matching business Zimride to rental car giant Enterprise Holdings. The sale will allow Lyft to focus on its fast-growing on-demand ...

Home remodeling and inspiration platform Houzz is one of those secret gems of Silicon Valley that has avoided the hype cycle in favor of quietly building an innovative, compelling company. And the bra...

21st Century Fox, NBCUniversal, and The Walt Disney Company just announced that they're not selling online video site Hulu after all. They also said they're making "a commitment to recapitalize Hulu w...

An iPad app called SoundBrush is out to make music composition accessible, even those who don't play an instrument. After releasing a MVP in April 2012 to test out the concept of drawing music on a ta...

Every year I'm given the best job a guy could ever want: planning hardware alley, a one day extravaganza of some of the best hardware I've ever seen. This event, which happens on the last day of Disru...

Ebay is hopping on the 3D printing bandwagon. This morning, the company announced the debut of a new iPhone application called eBay Exact which allows users to browse and buy customizable print-on-dem...

It used to be that you had to pay a bunch of money to get basic information about private tech companies, like how much they've raised and who they've acquired. CrunchBase made that free. And it used ...

The Djoclate II is a portable, near pocket-sized music mixer. The idea is to enable the would-be DJ who brings it to a house party to pull tunes into the mix from any music storage device in the room,...

Rovio this morning teased the launch of its next gaming title due to arrive on Monday - a game which appears to be a sequel to the current Angry Birds Star Wars. An image accompanying the announcement...

Nokia's Brian Biniak has a tough job — he's the guy who forges partnerships with all the hottest apps to bring them aboard Nokia devices, which now means Windows Phone 8. However, even with it's...

Nokia's Bryan Biniak has a tough job — he's the guy who forges partnerships with all the hottest apps to bring them aboard Nokia devices, which now means Windows Phone 8. However, even with it's...

Looking for the perfect foodgasm? Epicurator, a new iPhone app, thinks it has what it takes to satisfy your needs. In the sea of online customer reviews, ratings and what people now know as “foo...

Job Change Notifier, a cool little utility that allowed LinkedIn users to track and be notified via email when one of their connections changed jobs, is shutting down due to new restrictions LinkedIn ...

Looks like we have a final chapter for Better Place, the electric car tech startup that raised $786 million plus $50 million in debt, only to then file for bankruptcy in May: it has now been acquired ...

Every market needs its own e-tailers and Poland is no exception. One of the major players in Central Europe is Answear.com, a Polish fashion e-tailer led by Krzysztof Bajoek, and it has just raised an...

HomeDine is all about getting more people cooking -- and eating -- home-cooked meals, with a peer-to-peer marketplace that connects people who like throwing dinner parties with those who like to atten...

Can't be bothered to type something you want to search for? Snaplay is a reverse image search app that lets you snap a photo of a piece of media to retrieve associated music and videos which can then ...

A designer named Tom Burtonwood has designed a book that contains 3D-scanned textures he has grabbed from museums and architecture in his home city of Chicago. The book, which is in the form of an acc...

Coinbase, the Valley darling focused on making it easier to buy, sell, and store bit coin, has made it far easier to buy and sell BTC - if you give up just a smidge of privacy. The company is now offe...

E-commerce giant Rakuten, often called the Amazon of Japan, is taking another step in a bid to square up to is rival: today it is officially launching a beta of its Wuaki video streaming service in th...

Maxthon may not have the name recognition of Chrome, Firefox or Safari, but the cloud browser, which launched Maxthon for Mac last month, has gained a global following of more than 100 million unique ...

Montreal-based accelerator FounderFuel held its Demo Day for its Summer 2013 cohort of startups today, and the nine companies taking part all offered pretty impressive pitches. Three companies stood o...

Vine has brought its Android app up to speed with the iOS counterpart, adding revining, camera tools, channels and more, along with one more update that the iOS doesn’t have– a capture wid...

Geek-focused digital media company Nerdist Industries did something kind of amazing in the lead up to last year's Comic-Con International it staged a relay race called the Course of the Force, where ...

Today, whether it be via Skype or Gmail, making phone calls over the Web has become part of our daily routine. While the name may not ring any bells for younger generations, Jeff Pulver is one of the ...

Perhaps the most understated announcement at Nokia’s Lumia 1020 release event today was the promise of Vine for Windows Phone 8 within the year. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced onstage from Pie...

Trulia, the online marketplace for buying and selling homes, has added a service that allows users to search specifically for real estate agents by location, name and company. The search engine return...

The Guardianrevealed more top-secret documents alleging that both Skype and Microsoft cooperated with U.S. spy agencies to give away the content of email and video chats. Though it’s unclear whe...

The Guardianrevealed more top-secret documents alleging that both Skype and Microsoft cooperated with U.S. spy agencies to give away the content of email and video chats. Though it’s unclear whe...

Tired of your dumb old microwave that just shoots friggin' radio waves at food to cook it? Stupid thing probably can't even play animated GIFs.In what is perhaps the coolest hack I've seen in ages, a ...

One of the startups showing their stuff at Montreal's International Startup Festival this year is Tattoo Hero, an Ottawa-based startup building a portal on the web to help connect those looking for ta...

The Pac-12 network released a beta version of its new website that is centered around unique event pages for 3,600 events across all Pac-12 schools and sports.Unfortunately for fans, though, the new s...

You and I might buy a pair of socks online without a second thought, but buying a car? Or a pricey bit of jewelry? The process becomes much trickier as the price of a product increases, and it isn't l...

Actian is pulling together the pieces ofacquisitionsit madeearlier this year with the launch of Actian Big Data Cloud Platform and ParAccel Big Data Analytics platforms.The Actian Data Cloud Platform,...

So, finally, Nokia has stopped teasing its flagship Lumia 1020 and let us event goers get some long awaited hands-on time with the thing. It's definitely not your run-of-the-mill Windows Phone, but is...

Smartwatch startup Pebble revealed today for the first time that it has received 190,000 pre-orders for its wearable computing accessory through its own web store following the tremendously successful...

The early bird, as they say, gets the worm. You, on the other hand, are not a bird. So you can get TC Disrupt SF Early Bird Tickets for far less than you will be able to at the door or even three days...

It's looking less likely that high-skilled immigration reform will pass soon, if at all. Comprehensive immigration reform is currently sliced up into several smaller bills, waiting for the long, drawn...

Any.DO, the makers of a smart task app for mobile, is today launching its next creation out of private beta. The company'snew Cal app for iPhone is now available, and is designed to integrate with the...

Snapguide -- the how-to app now that capitalizes on the ubiquity of smartphones and tablets in our lives to encourage us to create guides for everything from cooking to crafting and eyelash curling --...

IFTTT, the web services automation startup backed by $8.5 million from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, and others, is now available as a mobile app for iPhone. Like the web version of IFTTT, the app allows ...

Microsoft's Imagine Cup 2013 student technology competition in St. Petersburg Russia just ended with a high-energy awards gala hosted by Dr. Who's Matt Smith. This year, Microsoft awarded three main p...

Path is preparing to cross tothe Windows Phone mobile platform — one of the more ‘private’ mobile OSes currently in play, with its marginal marketshare compared to the dominant duo o...

Today, 67 million Americans are living with some sort of diagnosable mental illness, yet nearly 35 percent receive inadequate care and 50 percent receive no treatment whatsoever. For one of the bigges...

As we reported a couple of weeks ago, serial entrepreneur Peter Relan is sunsetting his gaming and mobile focused incubator YouWeb, which spawned Crowdstar, Agawi, Spaceport, OpenFeint and others. He'...

The much-leaked "focus" of today's Nokia news was its new 1020 Lumia handset with a 41-meagpixel camera, but behind the scenes the company has spent just as much time focusing on what apps would be on...

The much-leaked "focus" of today's Nokia news was its new 1020 Lumia handset with a 41-meagpixel camera, but behind the scenes the company has spent just as much time focusing on what apps would be on...

Video is beautiful but tough. Photos are easy but boring. Everlapse is something new in between. Built by the former CoTweet team, Everlapse launches today so you can compile photos into digital flipb...

Well, that was pretty anticlimactic. After teasing us mercilessly for the past few weeks, Nokia's Stephen Elop has taken the stage here in New York to surprise absolutely no one and officially reveal ...

We've been fans of AlterGeo for a little while. Around since 2008, this startup has a clever hybrid positioning system which combines WiFi, WiMAX, GSM, GPS, CDMA, IP (and for all we know NSA data :-) ...

SuperAwesome, the UK discovery platform for kids and teens that grew out of the recent acquisition of Swapit by Dylan Collins' newest venture Box Of Awesome, is launching a mobile ad network aimed at ...

One of the early pioneers of online education, Blackboard co-founder Michael Chasen, was one of the speakers at Startup Festival in Montreal today, and while he's focused on a new startup called Socia...

Microsoft made its biggest move yet to shift is focus on integrated hardware and software: today CEO Steve Ballmer announced a round of management changes that will see all the department heads change...

Taiwan is bracing for Typhoon Soulik, which is scheduled to hit the island country at winds of about 227 kilometers per hour late Friday. The arrival of the storm--now classified as a super typhoon--c...

As Rafiki from the Lion King once said, "It is time."Nokia is gearing up to make a big announcement with little-to-no mystery baked in. Leaks abounded for the Nokia Lumia 1020 in the past few hours, w...

Space: The final frontier for startups. Or if not final, at least a huge one that's ripe for exploration. Canadian astronaut and politician Marc Garneau took the stage at Startup Festival to talk abou...

Shopzilla Inc., the home to several online shopping brands includingBizrate,Beso,Shopzilla,Retrevo,TaDa, and others, as well as an affiliate network, has acquiredZappli, an early stage startup which h...

Since its launch in early 2012, Detroit-based UpTo has been on a mission to re-invent the mobile calendar by giving it a new type of social context. Through its Android and iPhone app, UpTo attempts t...

Duolingo, the increasingly popular language learning service developed by Luis von Ahn and his team, launched its iPad app today. The service, von Ahn tells me, now has more than 5 million active user...

Earlier this year Felix Miller and Martin Stiksel, the London-based co-founders of music streaming and discovery service Last.fm, launched a prototype of Lumi, a new service that applied a concept sim...

Mere hours before we expect Nokia to show off the Lumia 1020 in all its glory, the phone has found itself splayed across the internet for anyone to see. Alongside some leaked press shots, AT&T als...

Chartboost, the fast-growing cross-promotion network for mobile game developers, is adding another revenue stream to its belt. It’s launching a new back-end service that will power in-app purcha...

Lindsey Green, publicist to the NYC startup scene, has just been chosen as the Vice President of SKDKnickerbocker, a reputable political PR Firm that has just started an entire division focused on sta...

Blink and you'll miss it. That's the point of ephemeral messaging. But regardless of its brevity digital stuff that self-destructs is gaining in popularity. Witness the rise of Snapchat. Well, here's ...

Buffer, a social network scheduling startup, announced today that it is partnering with Echofon, a Twitter client with over 10 million users, to provide a smarter and more efficient Twitter experience...

Just.me, a mobile messaging app created byKeith Teare, co-founder of TechCrunch and partner at incubatorArchimedes Labs, whichlaunched on iOS back in Aprilhas now gone live on Google Playfor Android u...

Freemium wireless internet provider (and soon to be wireless carrier) FreedomPop revealed that it has just locked up another $5 million in funding from existing investors DCM Capital and Mangrove Capi...

SoundTracking, the iOS and Android app that lets users share with others the music they are listening to, is releasing an update today that takes the app to a new level of usefulness. It is adding son...

SoundTracking, the iOS and Android app with 2 million active users that lets users share with others the music they are listening to, is releasing an update today that takes the app to a new level of ...

Today my worst fears came to pass: Nokia will release a 41-megapixel monstrosity called the Lumia 1020. It is basically a Lumia phone, which is fine, but it has a bright flash, an acceptable lens, and...

BackOps is a back-office-as a service with a battalion of Moms managing startups and small businesses. Now with a new $7 million round in Series A funding, BackOps has the reserves to build an army of...

United Online Media Group is announcing today that it has chosen to use OpenX technology to manage the placement of ads on its properties including Juno, NetZero, and Classmates.These kinds of custome...

Looks like Latitude wasn't the only Google product that got shut down yesterday in the wake of a new version of Google Maps. Alfred, the local recommendations app that Google picked up through its acq...

Ladies and Gentlemen, we interrupt our normal programming about crazy entrepreneurs and even crazier VCs to bring you a little learning from the world of Engineering. Remember that? Recently Dropbox w...

Berlin-based map app maker Skobbler, which has its own map engine and combines it with OpenStreetMap data to power a range of navigation apps, has updated its iOS global maps app, ForeverMap 2, to add...

Berlin-based map app maker Skobbler, which has its own map engine and combines it with OpenStreetMap data to power a range of navigation apps, has updated its iOS global maps app, ForeverMap 2, to add...

Pitchfork Media, the company behind the music site that all my cool friends used to read (I use the past tense because, like me, my friends have gotten old and uncool), just launched a new property T...

Silvercar, a startup looking to improve the rental car experience at airports, has raised $5 million in new funding.The news was revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A Sil...

Rocket Internet, the incubator run by Berlin's Samwer brothers, has picked up hundreds of millions of dollars ($837 million, in fact) in funding this year for its e-commerce startups, with much of tha...

At Startup Festival in Montreal this week, one of the noteworthy pieces of data so far is how many non-startup folks are attending workshops ostensibly designed for startups. Ben Yoskovitz and Alistai...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific....

T-Mobile has been struggling to position itself not so much as a value carrier, but rather as a carrier that makes it a point not to screw its customers over. To that end T-Mobile CEO John Legere anno...

Drupal-based web development startup Pantheon is launching a new feature today called Multidev, which it says addresses the number one request from the developers using the platform the ability to "f...

While Windows 3D scanning software has until now outperformed any Apple counterpart, Occipital Inc. plans to remedy that today with the launch of Skanect for OS X. Originally developed by France-based...

After a big first year as CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer will be joining us on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this September. Tickets areon sale now -- come and hear what her plans are, now...

Plug just launched a Kickstarter campaign for its $69 adapter. It will transform your USB drives into a personal Dropbox for all your devices. Thanks to a deep integration in your filesystem, you won&...

On the night of July 18, we are going to witness the most anticipated pitch-off in the history of TC Meetups + Pitch-offs, for the Seattle Pitch-Off Battle Championship of the world! Pitch-off fans: A...

Conduit, the Israeli-based browser-toolbar and mobile startup estimated to be worth some $1.4 billion, has confirmed to us that it is splitting itself into two entities, but it declining still for now...

There's no shortage of mobile applications that serve as portable guides to the shows, specials, and movies now playing on our television sets, but a company called Yidio is today launching a new mobi...

If concerts are you're thing, there's a pretty good chance that you're slightly overwhelmed with all the upcoming concert information sent your way, from various subscriptions with LiveNation, AEG, or...

Linden Lab is continuing with its mini-acquisition spree in gaming: it has just announced that it is buying Desura, a digital distribution service for PC gamers. Terms of the acquisition were not disc...

On-demand ride-sharing startup Lyft held its first-ever community meeting in Los Angeles last night, inviting drivers and passengers to meet one another and share their stories. The prompt for the mee...

At Startup Festival in Montreal this week, today saw a Lean Workshop hosted in part by Lean Entrepreneur authors Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits. The two entrepreneurs and authors spent the mornin...

Beekeeping isn't exactly something you read about a lot in the tech press, but it's a big business with about $268.9 million in revenue in the U.S. alone, and technology is slowly finding its way into...

One of the more amazing things about our smartphones is that they don't just put thecapabilities of computers and cameras into small, portable form factors, they also leverage the combination of being...

The SEC has just voted 4 to 1 in favor of implementing section 201(a) of JOBS Act, which lifts the ban on general solicitation and permits startups, venture capitalists, and hedge funds to openly adve...

When we last saw Moniker Guitars they were trying to raise $50,000 to fund a custom guitar business. Now, three months and $60K later, they've beaten their goal and are now selling their axes online....

People so rarely use light string accompaniment as the soundtracks for their 3D printing projects these days, but I think this video deserves it. It depicts a new, syringe-based metal printing system ...

Yahoo-owned Tumblr has today addressed one of the more frustrating aspects of using its service via its mobile applications. No, not the problem where GIFs wouldn't actually animate - they already fix...

Yahoo-owned Tumblr has today addressed one of the more frustrating aspects of using its service via its mobile applications. No, not the problem where GIFs wouldn't actually animate - they already fix...

Braintree, the Chicago-based payments gateway that’s now processing over$10 billion in payments annually, including those for startups likeUber, Fab, Hailo, Airbnb, Rovio and others, is today ex...

Christian Hernandez, a long-time employee for Facebook in Europe, is leaving the company to go full-time at White Star Capital, an early-stage VC investment firm founded by Eric Martineau-Fortin. Hern...

Christian Hernandez, a long-time employee for Facebook in Europe, is leaving the company to go full-time at White Star Capital, an early-stage VC investment firm founded by Eric Martineau-Fortin. Hern...

While publishers have agreed to a settlement in the ebook price-fixing case involving Apple and all the major book publishers, the federal judge has ruled that Apple is guilty with its iBookstore, acc...

While publishers have agreed to a settlement in the ebook price-fixing case involving Apple and all the major book publishers, the federal judge has ruled that Apple is guilty of fixing ebook prices w...

Ampush Media, a bootstrapped social media marketing platform, was named a Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer (sPMD) today.Facebook says being an sPMD is the highest distinction of excell...

Ampush, a bootstrapped social media marketing platform, was named a Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer (sPMD) today.Facebook says being an sPMD is the highest distinction of excellence."...

The marriage of hardware and software is giving rise to a plethora of connected gadgets that can be controlled via your smartphone. Here's the latest connected gizmo hoping to find its way into your h...

It was just over a year ago that Coursera burst onto the higher education landscape with ambitious plans to throw open the doors to America’s top institutions, bring them online and offer an Ivy...

It was just over a year ago that Coursera burst onto the higher education landscape with ambitious plans to throw open the doors to America's top institutions, bring them online and offer an Ivy Leagu...

Europe has been focusing for a while on trying to revive its flagging hardware and manufacturing industries, and today the European Commission decided to put its money where its mouth is. It's proposi...

In a move that should give Twilight slash-fic writers pause, the Swedish copyright enforcement agency, called Intrngsunderskning, raided and seized the servers of Undertexter.se, a fansub site dedicat...

Zoomdata has raised $4.1 million for its data visualization platform that connects and analyzes historical and real-time data. The Series A round was led by Columbus Nova Technology Partners (CNTP) wi...

Japanese e-ticketing startup Peatix just closed a Series A round of $3 million, led by Fidelity Japan. The company is seeking to be the Eventbrite of Asia, and provides a platform for event organizers...

Japanese e-ticketing startup Peatix just closed a Series A round of $3 million, led by Fidelity Japan. The company is seeking to be the Eventbrite of Asia, and provides a platform for event organizers...

Silicon Valley VC firm Mayfield Fund is adding a new partner today, bringing on more enterprise talent with co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft-acquired enterprise hybrid storage compa...

YouSendIt has accumulated some 43 million users since it was founded back in 2004, with a straightforward name and a straightforward mission of helping people store and send data on the web. Thanks to...

Life360, the mobile family locator utility whose recent claim to fame was outgrowing Foursquarein terms of its user base (the service now boasts over 40 million versus Foursquare's 30 million+), is to...

We’re fifty kilometers outside of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in Bled Castle, overlooking a clear blue mountain lake, a set of gilded clouds scudding overhead and the sun is shining bright over miles o...

Iyzi Payments, in a bid to become the Stripe of Turkey, has announced that it's closed a $1.4 million Series A round from Pachicle Invest, a group of international "payment experts" led by Stefan Kles...

Flipkart, a homegrown Indian e-commerce site, has raised another $200 million from existing investors, according to reports in Indian media. The Economic Times says the deal is Flipkart's largest to d...

Amazon today announced that it is dropping the prices of dedicated instances on its EC2 cloud computing platform by up to 80%. Dedicated per region fees, which are charged on top of the regular EC2 fe...

The new Google Maps for Android just started shipping late last night, but folks are already grumpy about the disappearance of one of Maps' old features: offline mode. Previously, users could save chu...

Remember that new version of Google Maps for Android that Google previewed back at I/O in May? It's here! The new app began rolling out to Android devices this morning, bringing with it a new interfac...

Remember that new version of Google Maps for Android that Google previewed back at I/O in May? It's here! The new app began rolling out to Android devices this morning, bringing with it a new interfac...

French advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe announced today that it has acquired Net@lk, a Chinese social media service provider, as part of its five-year plan to spend $4 billion purchasing small...

Dhingana, a streaming music service for Indian and Bollywood tunes, announced today that it is launching Dhingana Gold, its first subscription service for iOS and the second part of its monetization m...

Today, the website creation market is dominated by a handful of veteran players, as companies like Wix, Weebly and SquareSpace now own the majority of mindshare and boast tens of millions of users bet...

*Screeeeech* That's your favorite app slamming on the brakes the second it loses its data connection. It seems ridiculous that apps can't function offline, until you realize that cloud data sync isn't...

You know that big announcement LG has scheduled for next month? The one with the invite that more or less shouts "HEY WE'RE ANNOUNCING A PHONE CALLED THE G2 AT THIS EVENT"?Yeah, so, the G2 seems to ha...

Several Android apps are offering discounts for customers using Google Wallet's "Buy with Google" button as the company tries to ramp up adoption of its payment processing service. The button, which a...

While messaging apps like Facebook Messenger, MessageMe and Path continue to duke it out in Western markets, the place to watch all the real action continues to be in Asia, where apps like TencentR...

Tom’s Planner, a web-basedproject management service, has acquired a competitor in providing Gantt charts to track projects: Y-Combinator-backedGantto. The company plans to mergeGantto’s u...

Some Google fans were mighty miffed when Google removed the ability to make voice calls from inside Gmail, but now the feature is back, flying under Google's Hangouts banner. Instead of just being abl...

These days it seems like just about every smartphone player worth its salt is devoting time and resources to upping their camera game, and Apple is no exception. A new report from 9to5Mac's Mark Gurma...

Twitter wants to prove it's not just for broadcasting the mundane details of your life so it's just launched the Twitter Media blog. The site plans to feature great uses of Twitter for "TV, sports, jo...

One of the questions that came up a couple of times during the press Q&A at Dropbox's DBX developer conference: What does today's news mean for the company's business model? Given the impressive u...

Foursquare has made a name for itself out of the growth in smartphones, but as it tries to build up business in newer markets, it's covering all of its bases. Today the company announced an update to ...

Path added stickers to comments, released a new iPad design, and introduced a new way to add friends in person today.Path introduced stickers in version 3.0 in March to extremely positive feedback. In...

Exitround, the website launched earlier this year where startups can anonymously seek acquirers, is announcing that it has facilitated its very first acquisition.Pretty exciting, right? But what's the...

Total new capital invested in the United States tech industry rose from $1.9 billion in April to $3.8 billion in June, a 100% increase in two months, according to quarterly data from Crunchbase. In th...

Do you have spark? Are you a hero? If so, Tim Draper may want to get inside your head. Draper, best known, of course, asthe founder and a managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, has founded a "...

Today Dropbox launched two powerful new APIs for syncing and viewing data within apps that will help the company expand beyond the traditional "file," storage system it has built its service upon.The ...

Firefighters are trained to go into burning buildings, but even with all of this training, they can get disoriented in the pandemonium around them. Hateya,Belgium's finalist for Microsoft's Imagine Cu...

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston just announced that the company will be launching a new version of Mailbox, the iOS email app that it acquired earlier this year.This will be the first real integration betwee...

Photo-sharing startupCooliris is continuing its push into two of the world’s biggest Internet markets, China and Russia. The Kleiner Perkins-backed company has just partnered with Tencent in Chi...

WeddingSnap, a 500 Startups-backed online and mobile photo sharing startup is today expanding beyond its original focus - weddings, obviously - in order to target a wider user base who want to private...

TechCrunch's annual party at August Capital is a few weeks away and we just released another round of tickets. The first two batches went within 24 hours so jump on these quick. Space is limited.Weve ...

I was speaking with a friend in the CE industry a few months ago about Nook and he mentioned an interesting bit of apocrypha. Back when the e-reader race was still an actual competition, Wal-Mart was ...

“Today is about making life easier for all of you” said CEO Drew Houston to launch his company Dropbox’s conference. The company now has 175 million users, up from 100 million in Nov...

Google teased the advent of rich Chrome notifications that would live in a discrete notification center outside of the browser back in May, but the company didn't offer any inklings about when we non-...

As we shift more of our computing to mobile devices and applications, there's also a need for a new crop of tools that help developers better build, design and test their creations, which are also spe...

Y Combinator-backed SpoonRocket was built to fundamentally change the way we think about food. More than just another food-delivery service, the company seeks to provide ultra-cheap gourmet meals that...

Some YouTube networks are designed to provide production help to their creators or connect them to others that they can collaborate with on videos. Then there's Fullscreen, which stands apart due to t...

Standard Treasury, a YC-backed company, is hoping to make it easier for businesses to deal with their banks through standard APIs that ease transfers and other transactions. The company says that inte...

Two years ago, ArtistData founder and serial entrepreneur Brenden Mulligan launched Onesheet to give bands and musicians an easy way to build a social presence on the Web. Akin to an "About.me for ban...

Two years ago, ArtistData founder and serial entrepreneur Brenden Mulligan launched Onesheet to give bands and musicians an easy way to build a social presence on the Web. Akin to an "About.me for ban...

There's been some buzz around Foodspotting co-founder Soraya Darabi's next project. Today, we have more details on what Darabi has been working on. Along with founder Maxine Bdat, Darabi is debuting a...

There's been some buzz around Foodspotting co-founder Soraya Darabi's next project. Today, we have more details on what Darabi has been working on. Along with founder Maxine Bdat, Darabi is debuting a...

Dispatch, the NYC-based startup launched out of the TechCrunch NYC 2011 hackathon, is flipping its product on its head - it's shifting from a project management tool with email features to become an e...

Dawn Capital has announced it has raised 63M ($100M) for its Dawn Capital II Venture Capital Fund. Dawn is best known for its investments in Wonga, Mimecast, Miinto, Cognitive Match, Optimal Print and...

Amazon is about to take on Marvel and DC with a new publishing imprint for comics, the company announced today via press release. The new publishing brand is called "Jet City Comics," and will begin w...

Adore Me, a fast fashion lingerie and swimwear site, has closed its Series B venture capital round at $8.5 million. The investments from Upfront Ventures, Mousse Partners, and Redhills Ventures bring ...

After picking up another location licensee yesterday in Esri, Nokia is continuing to push its HERE mapping business beyond its own smartphone hardware. Today it's announcing the forthcoming release of...

Pearltrees, the visual and collaborative library that lets you easily organize and bookmark information in tree-like structures, finally launched its Android app for phones and tablets today. The serv...

What happens when your app manages to attract The Woz as a fan, Mark Cuban as an investor, Stephen Fry to help launch, and you're featured by Apple and Google in its respective app stores?A shed load ...

After a week of boozing and schmoozing in the Balkans, we've decided to add one additional date to the CE itinerary: Warsaw on July 11. You can RSVP here and it will be held at Open Reaktor on Bohomol...

While smartphone growth may be reaching saturation point in some developed markets, the services that people are using on the devices continue to expand, and that is having a direct impact on the grow...

While smartphone growth may be reaching saturation point in some developed markets, the services that people are using on the devices continue to expand, and that is having a direct impact on the grow...

Nestio, a real-time real estate platform for renters and agents, has just announced a new $1.5 million round led by Joanne Wilson, with participation from other strategic angels and investors includin...

Apple has been granted a patent today for an in-car, touchscreen telematics system that would provide drivers with tactile feedback to help them keep their eyes on the road. It's a little like taking ...

Viber has just pushed an update to two of its newest versions of the app, Desktop and Windows Phone 8. If you'll recall, Viber launched a desktop version of the app back in May that let users message ...

Google has released a fix to its Android OEMs for the master security hole unearthed by Bluebox Security, according to ZDNet. The publication gained confirmation from Google's Android Communications M...

Every year for the last eleven years, Microsoft has organized Imagine Cup, one of the world's largest technology competitions for students. This year, more than 25,000 students participated in the pre...

ImpressPages, a Lithuanian startup behind an open source, drag and drop, widget-based web content management system aimed at broadening access to web development by simplifying the tools required to c...

As mobile payments company Square looks to online commerce for the next chapter of its growth with Square Market, its rivals in Europe continue to push geographical boundaries into the New World. Toda...

Over the last few years, digital health has emerged as a market rife with opportunity, and both startups and investors are beginning to take notice. Investments in digital health startups doubled from...

I live in the Milano building in Crescent Village in North San Jose.Since I moved in last month, I have had loud parties, late-night hot-tubbing sessions, and generally involved myself in other, nefar...

Samsung will break ground on its new U.S. headquarters in San Jose this week. Designed by architecture firmNBBJ, the new campus is part of Samsung's aggressive effort to build a more significant prese...

When Facebook Home launched, its Launcher was a joke. No dock, no folders, no widgets -- basically none of the personalization Androiders know and love. Even if they wanted their friends to come first...

Seculert has raised $10 million in a Series B round from Sequoia Capital for its advanced protection threat technology designed to thwart malware attacks. Existing investor Norwest Venture Partners (N...

In case you're somehow immune to all of Nokia's incessant teasing, the company's going to unveil a shiny new smartphone on Thursday in hopes that a tremendous camera will endear the thing to the masse...

Looks like things at Barnes & Noble will get a bit worse before they have a chance of getting better. The bookseller has just announced that William Lynch has resigned as CEO, effective immediatel...

TaskRabbit, the San Francisco startup that runs a marketplace for outsourcing errands and temporary work projects, has laid off a number of staffers as part of a larger restructuring, TechCrunch has l...

Fresh on the heels of a spam report which painted Twitter as the network with the largest underground economy for the buying and selling of fake followers, the social network has finally taken steps t...

Toy maker Hasbro just paid $112 million in cash to take a 70 percent stake in Boulder, Colorado’s Backflip Studios, the mobile game maker behind Dragonvale, NinJump and Paper Toss. The company w...

Google updated its Android version usage stats today, and for the first time Jelly Bean has pulled ahead as the most-used operating system. That's probably been helped by a number of OEMs pushing out ...

Fancy, the shoppable rival to Pinterest, is said to have raised $53 million from investors, bringing the company valuation to $600 million, Bloomberg reported this morning. The July 3 SEC filing discl...

Talk about trying to cover bases. Korean news outlet ETNews reports that Samsung's Galaxy Note III isn't going to be an only child when it launches later this year -- instead, it will be joined by up ...

The brainiacs at MIT created a cool visualization program to map how the National Security Agency can understand your relationships based on who you contact via email and how often. While we still don...

This week on TechCrunch TV's Ask A VC show, we have Lightspeed Ventures' Partner Bipul Sinha in the studio. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here ...

Science class is about to look a lot more boring. One million kids logged on to Maker Camp last summer, so today Google and Maker Faire announced the second year of its online summer camp that teaches...

Twitter announced updates to its Android, iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps today, as well as its desktop and mobile websites, plus TweetDeck. The main improvement isn't a huge change, but it does eliminate ...

If you need a bout of house envy, there's no better place to go than Houzz, the increasingly popular platform for finding ideas for your home remodeling projects and the professional that can realize ...

President Obama just held a blindingly fast press conference on open government, which probably left most citizens scratching their heads in confusion over one of his geekier executive obsessions. The...

It's been nine months since we first caught wind of Softbank's $20.1 billion purchase of a majority stake in Sprint, and the story is finally coming to a close. Japanese mobile carrier Softbank announ...

Canada has a strong and growing startup community, and one of the emerging hubs where a lot of that energy is concentrated is the Kitchener-Waterloo region, which plays host to the esteemed University...

As Facebook begins rolling out its Graph Search engine more broadly to its U.S. English-language user base today, it faces new challenges that were perhaps not at the forefront of our minds when the s...

Feedspot, the online RSS reader which jumped into action last summer following the removal of social features from Google Reader, is again stepping up to the plate in the wake of the Google Reader dem...

London-based U.K. startup what3words has set itself the ambitious task of reinventing postcodes/ZIP codes. Instead of a tricky-to-remember string of letters and/or numbers, it's created three-word seq...

It’s that time again. Korean electronics manufacturer LG is ramping up to release their latest flagship, the “successor to the Optimus G.” Teasing us endlessly, the company has relea...

One of Canada's largest accelerators, Montreal-based FounderFuel, is gearing up for its Summer 2013 Demo Day during Startup Festival this year, and the list of 9 companies on display this time around ...

While Nokia continues to plug away at picking up more consumer users of its new Windows Phone-powered smartphones, it's also looking for more licensees for its Here location data business: today the c...

Hippflow, which pitches itself as a 'Twitter for startups' with a service that makes it easy to update investors, mentors, team members and other stakeholders on a startup's progress and future plans,...

Likemind is another take on solving the 'how to meet local people with shared interests' problem. The iOS-only app, with an Android version to follow, lets you post and browse geo-fenced virtual 'flye...

Founder2be, the Helsinki-based co-founder finding network, is now operating in more than 100 countries, having expanded to accept would-be co-founders living in Africa and Australia. The network was a...

This is a guest post by Peter Nixey, a Rails developer and entrepreneur. The former CEO of Clickpass and a YC alum, he's now building Copyin.In 2006, the majority of Londons tech startup scene could f...

Garmin built its empire on dedicated GPS devices, but those are obviously facing extinction in the face of smartphones that can replicate their function without requiring an expensive secondary hardwa...

Some more movement in the world of ed-tech: TSL Education, the digital publisher behind services like TES Connect -- billed as the "largest" network of teachers in the world with over 52 million users...

Irish startup VideoElephant is launching its video content marketplace this week. Gunning to be something along the lines of an iStockphoto for professionally-produced short-form video packages, the s...

Irish startup VideoElephant is launching its video content marketplace this week. Gunning to be something along the lines of an iStockphoto for professionally-produced short-form video packages, the s...

It's not only Zynga feeling the pinch in the gaming world these days. GREE, the $1.8 billion Japanese mobile gaming giant, is downsizing operations once again, this time with a focus on Europe. TechCr...

Back in February Just Eat, the online food ordering and delivery site, lost long-time CEO Klaus Nyengaard after five years to 'spend more time in Denmark', rather than splitting time between there and...

Citysocializer is an early social site in the UK which attempted to marry both online networking and offline - not unlike Meetup.com, though the aim was more 'dating-lite' than community groups. Like ...

The beauty box concept is a few years old now, but some of the newer beauty box startups in Asia have modified their business models to be more data-centric, as competition floods the market. The way ...

Solar Impulse made history this weekend when its HB-SIA airplane touched down late Saturday night in New York's John F. Kennedy airport, completing an entire cross-country United States flight relying...

Alarm clocks rarely do much to get people's salivary glands fired up, but Ivee's Sleek may just change that. To be fair though, calling the Sleek an alarm clock is about as accurate as calling Microso...

In the world of self-driving cars and autonomous vehicle technology, Google gets most of the attention, but it's far from being the only player in the field. Earlier this month, Mobileye, the Israeli ...

Use Facebook in American English and aren't one of Graph Search's beta users already? Then you can expect to get the tool in a rollout that will begin on Monday and take place over the next few weeks....

Now that the dust has settled around the Instagram Video launch, we thought it was high time to take a good look at the photo-sharing phenom's new video venture. Does it live up to Vine? Is it better?...

An elegant iPad app is like a fine yacht. Built the right way, the app can have a sense of elegance that provides the customer with an optimal experience. The Google+ iPad app has that beauty and usab...

Shazam, best known for its music recognition app and platform which has become a global success, has raised $40 million in new funding from America Movil, the largest wireless carrier in the Americas ...

The Windows 8.1 Preview version has now been out for over a week. One of the highlights of this update is the return of the Start button (but not the Start menu), and after using the new version for a...

Solar panels need plenty of sun to work well so why not carry them around on your head? That’s the slightly off-the-wall thinking behind this U.K.-basedKickstartercampaign aiming to produce a pa...

Facial recognition, landmark detection, and even audio cues picked up through your phone’s microphone could let Instagram Video intelligently suggest a cover frame for mini-movies or even tag th...

As college debt skyrockets to over $35,000 per student, the state of Oregon has proposed a novel investment-approach to loans: free tuition at public universities in exchange for 3% of earnings for th...

Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is a contributor to TechCrunch. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil. The unraveling of the Enron debacle in 2001 became a symbol of corporate scandals of that era. ...

If we are to start again on the Internet with knowledge of prying eyes that turn the law to their own purposes, our founding principle cannot be the establishment of trust, but rather the impossibilit...

Editor's note:Julien Genestoux is the founder and CEO of Superfeedr.We all know that Google Reader, which used to be the most obvious RSS subscription tool, is now gone. At the same time, we see follo...

With the upmost respect for victims and survivors, may I question why we feel so compelled to personally spread bad news? Why with each bombing or disaster we all race to tell everyone we know what ha...

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg was almost on the plane that just crash-landed at San Francisco International airport this afternoon from Seoul, Korea. Another Samsung executive who was aboard the flight...

An Asiana Airlines flight that follows a popular route in the tech industry between Shanghai, Seoul and San Francisco crash landed at San Francisco International Airport this morning, killing two peop...

There's been an interesting phenomenon occurring lately, thanks to the increasing ability of companies to reach and serve ultra-niche audiences -- the rise of the app for the 1 percent. Now more than ...

It appears that flash sales site Ideeli has raised another $12 million in funding, according to an SEC filing from Friday. It's unclear who the investors are in this round, but this raise would bring ...

College Humor is putting out a feature film (via Verge), and it stars a bunch of people you might recognize, including Glenn Howerton (Dennis from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia), Adrianne Palciki ...

Your humble correspondent begs your indulgence for this flu-fuelled stream-of-consciousness post, but deadlines wait for no virus, so needs must I expel the contents of my febrile mind onto this scree...

Apple is said to be preparing a lower cost iPhone for later this year, with a plastic shell instead of its typical recipe of metal and glass to lower component costs, and now a site called Techdy that...

If you work for a company that depends on advertising revenue, you won't here people talk that often about using Adblock Plus, but it's something that millions of consumers probably can't imagine thei...

Yahoo has been snapping up companies left and right lately, and the revitalized company's hunger means that some well-received apps and services have gone (or will soon go) offline. Earlier today, ano...

Songza is one of the hottest music streaming services on the market, with a special feature called Concierge that matches specific, expertly crafted playlists with activities it thinks you might be do...

Good news, everyone! Wait, no. Not that one. The other one.Bad news, everyone!AT&T is considering selling your usage data (location, web browsing history, etc.) to advertisers, having seemingly de...

Microsoft knows how to build platforms, so when it announces a new one, it’s worth taking a closer look . Until last week, Microsoft mostly wanted you to think of Bing as a search engine that co...

In this week's episode of Ask A VC, Lightbank partner Paul Lee stopped in the studio. Lee, who is based in Chicago, joined Lightbank as a Partner in February 2011 and has led investments in BabbaCo, U...

Crowdfunding has been a godsend for getting lots of projects off the ground that otherwise may not have attracted dollars from traditional powers-that-be in retail manufacturing, music, movies, and th...

The Roost--stop hunching over your laptop, I read, back and neck aching as usual. I had been working at my laptop like a gargoyle since early in the morning. But in the Roost, a laptop stand thats rai...

Boxee got bought by Samsung this week, and announced that it would be closing down the Boxee Cloud DVR's cloud DVR feature. So that's done. Both Samsung and HTC disappointed investors, albeit in very ...

People like to eat, and generally don't like to cook. All of which means that food delivery is becoming all the rage among startups lately. There's a whole new food delivery service, called FLuc, open...

The five day work week. Chevrolet. Grand Funk Railroad. Steel plants on the shores of Lake Michigan. This is America.There is a rebirth happening right now. It's happening all over the country. Pocket...

The BBC has been running a pilot 3D broadcast program for the past two years. But not for much longer. It's decided to pull the plug on 3D TV production, in the face of massive audience 3D ennui -- an...

Samsung has missed expectations for its quarterly earnings guidance, which is bad news since those expectations were already pretty low. The slowing growth of the smartphone market dominator is being ...

I wear a health tracking watch that monitors, minute-by-minute, my heart rate, calories burned, steps taken, and if I’m sleeping. Anyone who had access to my data, like a spouse, could tell when...

Given the challenges faced by Facebook Home, an Android homescreen replacement app which makes interacting with the social network easier for mobile users, it's wise to be cautious about the chances f...

It was December 2009 and I was headed to a Christmas party at Number 10 Downing Street. This wasn't exactly a regular diary date for me. Two years in to working for TechCrunch out of London and it had...

It was December 2009 and I was headed to a Christmas party at Number 10 Downing Street. This wasn't exactly a regular diary date for me. Two years in to working for TechCrunch out of London and it had...

Google Glass is still a pre-release product that's fairly rough around the edges, compared to a lot of shipping consumer hardware, but new clues (via Slashgear) from the latest firmware update suggest...

Google's unified privacy policy continues to draw the attention and ire of data protection watchdogs in Europe. In the latest development, the U.K.'s ICO has confirmed it has written to Mountain View ...

HTC has just put out unaudited results for its Q2, with profits down 83% on last year. The Taiwanese phone maker, which is battling for oxygen in the fiercely competitive Android OEM smartphone space ...

You know those “CAPTCHAs” you run into from time to time during your Web surfing sessions and Internet escapades? Well, a startup named Solve Media has developed a way to upgrade and monet...

We're delighted today to announce the first round of speakers for the first-ever TechCrunch Disrupt Europe conference, to be held in Berlin this October. Disrupt Europe will feature an outstanding sla...

Jordan might not seem like the most obvious place for a tech hub, but the country is leading the Middle East's growing startup industry. 500 Startups' current class features two Jordanian companies, i...

Watching GoPro footage makes it clear that there is basically nothing cooler than first-person action sport shots. And for those who are spending the day at the skate park, one Kickstarter project is ...

We first caught wind of the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active back in May, before it had been announced. Ruggedized smartphones aren't always so tantalizing, but seeing that the Galaxy S4 Active is a variant o...

Qualtrics, the enterprise data collection and analysis software company, has become an established anchor of the tech scene in its native Utah since it was founded more than a decade ago. But the comp...

Help Me Help wants to make it easier for emergency responders to get a full picture of a situation after a disaster happens. The service combines crowdsourcing, a smartphone app and web service that a...

After a series of rapid fire pivots, Roamz, one of many services launched during the location-centric app explosion to try and help you find things to do nearby, has shut down.To date, the team had ra...

You’d think we’d have given up. Signs of the technology police state whip gale force at our flag. Our social tools serve to serve us tragedy while our legislative bodies do their best to s...

For many of us today the 4th of July signifies a day of patriotism, fireworks, and grilled meats, but it also means that there are only seven days left until Nokia opens the doors to a New York press ...

Happy Fourth of July to everyone who is celebrating today! We hope you are enjoying the sunshine, family and friends, booze, fireworks, hot dogs -- whatever you're into. To help commemorate the holida...

Shoebox, the mobile photo archiving app Ancestry.com acquired from San Francisco-based 1000memories last fall, has now gone live at its new home. The updated version of the app, Shoebox 3.0, still all...

Dell is reportedly investing in wearable tech, with an eye to developing smartwatch devices, according to a report from The Guardian. Dell itself is saying that it's looking closely at the wearable te...

Ask.fm, the Latvian startup that's been left carrying the personal Q&A torch after its inspiration, Formspring, pivoted to pastures new, is continuing to grow at an absolute clip. It's now at 65 m...

The Fourth of July was another record-shattering day for Instagram and Vine, as users shared millions of hours of video.As Americans fired up their barbeques and enjoyed the holiday, millions were fac...

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separat...

The NSA Prism spying scandal risks undermining trust in U.S. cloud computing businesses, the EC's vice-president, Neelie Kroes, has warned in a speech today. Kroes also reiterated calls for "clarity a...

Sacrebleu! The NSA isn't the only security agency to collect data. In fact, France's PRISM-like program is going very strong with millions of trillions of metadata elements stored in a Parisian baseme...

AngelList has quickly emerged as an indispensable resource for connecting entrepreneurs with investors. Started as an email newsletter, the website now has more than 18,000 accredited investors, inclu...

CommonFloor, a real estate search engine and listings site in India, has raised $7.5 million in funding from existing investors, Tiger Global Management and Accel India.CommonFloor is similar to Zillo...

Toronto-based startup Valta is looking for Kickstarter funding to help it bring its remote energy management system to life, in order to put complete control over power usage by devices in any home in...

Mobile security startup Bluebox Security has unearthed a vulnerability in Android's security model which it says means that the nearly 900 million Android phones released in the past four years could ...

The USPTO is big on Apple patents this morning, with a new application published around earbud technology. Apple's own earbud designs have been mostly underwhelming, even if the last change for the st...

After last month's full launch of its Si Evolution Qwerty alternative, invisible keyboard maker SnapKeys is launching a second keyboard later today -- called Si Revolution -- which pushes the typing d...

The US Patent Office has just published a new patent application by Apple that integrates crowdsourced traffic data for real-time information about road conditions, similar to what Waze does. Waze, wh...

Malaysian taxi booking app TaxiMonger has just expanded its service outside the capital city of Kuala Lumpur, to cover Johor Bahru (the state sharing the border with Singapore). Additionally, it will ...

Asia boosts almost half of the world's two billion Internet users, rapidly growing digital infrastructure and strong mobile penetration. So what's keeping the continent's startup industries from produ...

It may be a holiday in the U.S. but eBay never sleeps. Today, the American e-commerce giant announced that it is buying 2dehands.be and 2ememain.be, the two biggest online classified sites in Belgium ...

We have one more stop on the long road from Sofia to Ljubljana and each city has been better than the last. In Belgrade we met some exciting startups including the winner, Pubsonic, the winner that ni...

Today, TechCrunch has learned that Quarterly.co, a subscription giftbox service that features monthly instalments curated by respected entrepreneurs, designers and organizations is buying 12Society, a...

Apps don't have to be for everyone. Development tools, reduced costs, and the trend of nailing a single use case are spawning a generation of homespun applications. The latest is Dolo. Useful for find...

This morning, PandoDaily reported that Los Angeles-based eCommerce startup, BeachMint, had finally tanked after a long, “slow unraveling.” The problem, however, is that this doesn’t ...

New Zynga CEO Don Mattrick, who just left Microsoft to fix the ailing social gaming company, is getting incentivized heavily with stock for his new gig.He starts with a sign-on bonus of $5 million, a ...

Avid Twitter followers saw the short reign of Egypt's Mohammed Morsi crumble in real time this afternoon, as the army overthrew the mostly tyrannical ruler. Twitter began auto-translating Morsi, who i...

Xobni was acquired by Yahoo today, the company officially announced on its blog. Initial reports said the company was acquired for upwards of $30 million but TechCrunch has learned that total conside...

Xobni was acquired by Yahoo today, the company officially announced on its blog. Initial reports said the company was acquired for upwards of $30 million but TechCrunch has learned that total conside...

A little while ago, I reviewed the Cambridge Minx Air 200 and found it a solid new performer in the UK-based company's new lineup of wireless speakers. Today, I'm looking at the Cambridge Audio Minx G...

An ABC News report is dashing the hopes and dreams of Android fans everywhere. According to Joanna Stern, a version of the Motorola X will be available with custom casings and wallpapers, not customiz...

Yahoo has just announced that they've acquired Xobni, the startup that tries to make your inbox and contacts list less terrible by focusing on the people you communicate with most....

The video editing app Givit is releasing an update to their iPad app today, an effort to bolster the social, video watching side of the platform. The app updates include an expanded screen view, hasht...

"MODS = FAGS" is a pretty offensive suggestion for your ad copy, but that's what 4chan is suggesting as a way to show that its new self-serve advertising tool is staying true to its lawless image foru...

Vine, Twitter's six-second looping video-sharing app, has just launched some new features to the app, including a redesigned camera, categories for various vine genres, and the ability to revine peopl...

Azumio, the maker of health apps like Fitness Buddy and Instant Heart Rate, has another one up its sleeve. The Palo Alto-based startup, which is backed by Founders Fund, Accel and Felicis, is out with...

For today's Founder Stories, I met with Ram Ramkumar, co-founder and new CEO of Concept.io, which last week launched Swell, an adaptive mobile app that streams audio news content. Ram explains how, as...

Pave launched to allow investors to put their money not into startups or companies or ideas, but into people. In return, those who put money in to help would receive a small share of their future inco...

Seemingly tired of being chewed out by every third traveler to step through their scanners, the TSA is trying something new to connect with the people: Instagram.Over the last few days, the TSA has be...

Glympse, the navigation tracking app that has made inroads into location-based services by inking deals with the likes of Ford, Mercedes Benz and BMW to integrate its app into their in-car systems, is...

Doug Engelbart, an American inventor best known for creating the early computer mouse, passed away last night due to kidney failure. He was 88 years old.Engelbart pioneered many early Silicon Valley t...

Doug Engelbart, an American inventor best known for creating the early computer mouse, passed away last night due to kidney failure. He was 88 years old.Engelbart pioneered many early Silicon Valley t...

On-demand ride-sharing startup Lyft is looking to make more of an impact in Southern California, with a launch in San Diego and increased community efforts in Los Angeles. That'll open a new market fo...

A number of high-profile websites will be taking part in an online protest tomorrow against the National Security Agency (NSA)'s surveillance of online activity and phone calls. The protest is organiz...

Israel-based startup 24me isn't your typical to-do list app, since it's designed to not only help you make a list of stuff that needs doing, but to actually help get that stuff done. The startup has p...

LinkedIn is positioned to become the first global economic graph with the ability to mine the transactions of an emerging data economy. That’s the conclusion of a study by faberNovel, a Paris-ba...

The 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 to...

Another step ahead for Twitter in its bid to step up the pace with advertising on its platform: today the company announced that it would soon start "experimenting" with ways of making ads more "usefu...

Another step ahead for Twitter in its bid to step up the pace with advertising on its platform: today the company announced that it would soon start "experimenting" with ways of making ads more "usefu...

Viber has just confirmed to TechCrunch that it is running an extremely limited test that would allow Viber to act as a "call terminator" — which refers to the carrier that offers the last (and m...

In a post explaining why he thinks Google shuttered Google Reader, Marco Arment calls Google, Facebook, and Twitter "by far the three most important web players today" when it comes to how we discover...

Israeli and NYC-based streaming media and entertainment startup Boxee has been acquired by South Korean electronics giant Samsung, we've been told by reliable sources. The Tel Aviv-based startup launc...

Postagram, the mobile app fromSincerelythat turns your photos into postcards you can mail from your phone, just received its first big update in over a year, with the most notable change being the add...

If you are a frequent flyer, you have probable developed some kind of strategy to make checking in to your flights while on the go somewhat bearable, but mobile travel app Worldmate now makes it a sna...

Thalmic Labs today announced the launch of its MYO armband developer program. Interested developers can apply to become part of the program through the new developer portal, which includes an applicat...

Back in 2003, annoyed with his high school's loyalty to paper and the inability to view his grades online as a result, Bri Holt decided to build his own online gradebook that any student or teacher co...

The Practical Meter plugs into the USB socket you intend to use to charge your phone and has built-in indicator lights to show how fast the charging connection is. The problem its creators are attacki...

Where go the kids, so go their parents' dollars...at least in the video streaming battle between Netflix and Amazon, that is. Following Amazon's announcement last week that it had expanded its PBS dea...

Magine, the Swedish cloud-based cable operator, today announced that it has closed a $19 million Series A round led be a group of Swedish and international investors. The company didn’t disclose...

Appysnap is taking a second bite at the social gaming cherry. The first version of the photo-snapping challenge-based game for iOS launched back in 2011 before its creators decided to shutter it, havi...

For Americans, the long weekend looms, so it's great timing for the release of Limbo, the indie gaming title from Danish developer Playdead, on Apple's iOS mobile platform. The game is out now, and is...

With smartphones and tablets replacing PCs as the the default computing device for many consumers, so, too, is data traffic shifting from fixed to wireless networks. The analysts at Strategy Analytics...

With smartphones and tablets replacing PCs as the the default computing device for many consumers, so, too, is data traffic shifting from fixed to wireless networks. The analysts at Strategy Analytics...

“Voice Twitter” app, Bubble Motion, has just rebranded itself as Bubbly, and revamped its interface as it enters version 3.0 of its mobile app. The Bubbly app has been around for two years...

Mojang, the Swedish game developer behind Minecraft, Scrolls and Cobalt, has joined the list of tech companies that use Braintree as a mobile or online payment platform. Braintree also announced that ...

A Facebook phone isn't cool, you know what's cool? An Internet of Things-styled 'Like' counter for local businesses who want to proudly display their Facebook page metrics. Admittedly, it doesn't quit...

After a week of boozing and schmoozing in the Balkans, we’ve decided to add one additional date to the CE itinerary: Warsaw on July 11. You can RSVP here and it will be held at Open Reaktor on B...

YouTube confirmed that it has renewed its deal with music video distributor VEVO. Not only does the deal allow YouTube to keep VEVO's video on its site, but it also requires Google to invest in VEVO. ...

This was supposed to be the year that all the big video ad networks would begin going public, and it looks like its starting to come true. Less than a week after Tremor Video listed on the NASDAQ, com...

The fashion world was all abuzz this morning with the news that high-end fashion house Yves Saint Laurent was losing its CEO Paul Deneve. At that time, the announcement was that the San Francisco Bay ...

VC interest in Bitcoin is undoubtedly riding high right now. A few big names have even made some pretty big bets. But there's still plenty of confusion and uncertainty around the nascent digital curre...

Facebook is rolling out the ability to send private messages with stickers -- cute, pre-made, sometimes animated images -- from its website. Facebook first launched stickers on iOS and Android in mid-...

Facebook is rolling out the ability to send private messages with stickers -- cute, pre-made, sometimes animated images -- from its website. Facebook launched stickers on mobile in mid-April, but now ...

Welcome back for a new episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that goes inside the offices of the tech industry's hottest companies to see what day-to-day life is like for the whiz kids who work t...

Apple is said by Bloomberg to be working on a deal that would bring Time Warner Cable content to its Apple TV set-top streaming box, for subscribers to TWC's existing cable packages. Which is nice, fo...

When Bangstyle, the image-based site devoted to hair styling, came onto the scene in 2011, it hoped to fill a hole in online platforms for professionals and styling enthusiasts. As the company release...

In the homes and organizations of the powerful one finds the totems of predators. The Bohemian Grove bows to the owl spirit of Moloch. Both the USA and the Nazis took the eagle. Warmongers are "hawkis...

Google today announced one of its largest updates to Google Maps' 3D imagery since it launched last year. The service now covers a number of additional cities that weren't included in the previous rel...

Happy Independence Day, fellow Americans! It's time to go to the lake, eat some red meat, and, of course, buy a cell phone from a good ol' American company, Motorola and Google.Motorola is running a f...

Apple's iOS mobile operating system is winning even more ground in mobile advertising market share, according to mobile ad firm Velti. The firm saw Apple's share grow from 59 percent overall to 64 per...

Move over, Barbie -- there's a new toy in town now. GoldieBlox, the San Francisco Bay Area startup that has created an engineering-focused toy aimed specifically at little girls, has inked its first n...

In another display of their intent to buy the entire Internet, Yahoo has just acquired Qwiki, an iOS app that helps users create movies out of the photos and videos in their camera roll....

Who says that the Beltway always lags behind Silicon Valley? In The Center Holds: Obama and his Enemies, his best-selling book about Barack Obama's 2012 Presidential campaign, veteran political journa...

You've probably noticed how emoji and stickers have spread like a virus all over every messaging app under the sun. Well, New York-based startup Basno is hoping its digital badges platform can tap tha...

Apple's iOS 7 is growing quickly with more tablets and iPhones running the beta software than were running iOS 6 at the same time last year, according to new data released by mobile web optimizing com...

Following LinkedIn's overhaul of its mobile applications in April, the company today rolled out another major upgrade for its service on mobile, which now allows users to do more than search for other...

The Apple TV is already a game console, in case you didn't know, and a new app from independent developer and AirPlay-focused startup Splitmo shows why. The company has just released Poker Night TV, i...

Mingyian, a platform that connects Western celebrities to their fans in China, has raised $500,000 in seed funding from DominateFund, RRE Ventures, M. Night Shyamalan, Foley Ventures, and Eric Yao.Co-...

Lockerz, the social commerce and photo sharing network that has been busy working on a new fashion site called Ador, has taken one more step to streamline its operations: it is offloading social shari...

Lockerz, the social commerce and photo sharing network that has been busy working on a new fashion site called Ador, has taken one more step to streamline its operations: it is offloading social shari...

The problem with travel apps is that people generally don't travel that often. That means that they will open the app just a couple of times a year, when they actually travel. But what about all the r...

TechMedia Network, the digital tech and science publisher, announced yesterday that it has acquired Bestofmedia Group for an undisclosed sum, adding three new tech publications to its roster. The acqu...

Spotify's "Discover" feature, a news feed offering recommendations, songs and playlists based on your current listening habits, has today made its way to the iPhone through an update to the Spotify iO...

One of the highlights of Windows 8.1 is the new "smart search" feature, which pulls together results from Bing's search engine, Wikipedia, documents on your desktop and from apps that allow Windows 8....

Europe is better positioned as a better place to create Bitcoin-based startups than the US. That was the message coming out of Bitcoin London toay, the first major conference in London to cover startu...

Whistleblower Edward Snowden is quickly running out of options to evade U.S. capture, as nearly a dozen countries have rejected his request for Asylum. Snowden, who is holed up in Moscow’s airpo...

San Francisco-based men's denim startup Gustin changed the way dudes buy jeans, by creating a fully crowdfunded model for determining which jeans it makes. That cuts out a lot of costs, making high-qu...

The first, and possibly most important thing, for you to understand about the Ploom ModelTwo is that, unlike big brother Pax, the ModelTwo does not (I repeat, does not) play nice with anything but Plo...

Pebble is selling its smartwatch via Best buy stores soon, with the device going on sale at the major U.S.-based electronics retailer on July 7 for $149.95. The e-ink display for the Pebble and Blueto...

Last night in Sofia, Bulgaria was a blast. It was TechCrunch's first Balkans mini-meetup and we had six great startups pitch to win a spot in Disrupt Berlin's startup alley. Last night Farmhopping too...

SigFig, the startup that operates a web platform for tracking and analyzing your personal financial investments, has secured $15 million in a new funding round.The funding, which serves as SigFig's Se...

Flipboard users counting on the social magazine to retain their Google Reader subscriptions after the service's shutdown last night are waking up today to a bit of disappointment. Though Flipboard had...

Flipboard users counting on the social magazine to retain their Google Reader subscriptions after the service's shutdown last night are waking up today to a bit of disappointment. Though Flipboard had...

Canon has just revealed its long-awaited 70D DSLR, the successor to the 60D. The 70D fits above the Rebel line in terms of price and specs in Canon's interchangeable lens camera catalogue, and this ne...

It's just under five months since the announcement of TechStars London, the UK outpost of Boulder, U.S.-based uber-accelerator TechStars after it merged with Jon Bradfords Springboard. Today TechStars...

Converting the cash in your wallet to Bitcoin is one of the biggest hurdles to getting some skin in the digital crypto currency game. Time was when you had to meet a scruffily-dressed Bitcoin owner in...

As Foursquare focuses on the question of growing revenue, it has been slowly turning its game-style mobile check-in app into a platform to support location-based advertising and marketing. That strate...

Apple has just been granted a new patent (via AppleInsider) for unique bezel technology that could not only add touch controls to a bezel on a small device screen (like one for an iWatch), but that wo...

After a month of testing, Opera's radically new browser exits beta stage and is now available to download on Opera.com. Now based on the Chromium project, Opera 15 shares a lot of similarities with Go...

A few big changes underway in the automated retail space: Coinstar, the operator of coin-counting kiosks that has now rebranded as Outerwall, is acquiring ecoATM for $350 million in cash. EcoATM opera...

After shuttering its platform that enabled independent chefs to sell home-cooked meals as an alternative to a traditional take-out, the UK startup is rebooting for a third time today with its own twis...

Wall Street Magnate is a new site that opens the market to stock trading newbies. The fantasy trading community launched last month and is packed with real-time updates and data from all major U.S. st...

IT spend globally -- from devices through to data center investments and the services that run on them -- it set to reach $3.7 trillion in 2013, but that represents shrinking growth of only 2% on 2012...

IT spend globally -- from devices through to data center investments and the services that run on them -- it set to reach $3.7 trillion in 2013, but that represents shrinking growth of only 2% on 2012...

Pixate has closed a $3.8 million Series A round from venture capital firm Accel Partners. The Palo Alto-based plans to expand its engineering and support teams in order to build Android and Mac versio...

If you're a tech exec who finds Nickelback a bit too edgy, Groupon's former CEO Andrew Mason has just released an album for you. Now available on iTunes and Spotify, "Hardly Workin'" is 80's alternati...

"We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites.While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declin...

Although shares jumped by 10.4 percent today on news that Microsoft’s Don Mattrick is taking over Zynga as CEO, the most important audience the company needs to address for a real, long-term tur...

Facebook is doing tests in what could finally bring it direct revenue from the mobile gaming ecosystem beyond advertising. The company is working with a handful of small mobile game developers to do p...

"An Internet Treasure is something that consumers can't remember what life was like before they had it," Mark Pincus told Y Combinator's Startup School in 2009. Then, Zynga had hit titles and cash flo...

Do you have Google Glass? Do you also have a Tesla?Yes? Seriously? Who the hell are you, Batman?Anyway there's now an application that lets you bring these two extravagant toys together, allowing you...

Do you have Google Glass? Do you also have a Tesla?Yes? Seriously? Who the hell are you, Batman?Anyway there's now an application that lets you bring these two extravagant toys together, allowing you...

Do you have Google Glass? Do you also have a Tesla?Yes? Seriously? Who the hell are you, Batman?Anyway there's now an application that lets you bring these two extravagant toys together, allowing you...

Buckle up, people: We might be closer than ever to our first official Bitcoin IPO.It was just a couple months back that it emerged that Winklevoss Capital, the investment firm/family trust founded by ...

Oh, you thought Yahoo was done with the whole acquire-everything-in-sight bit? Nope!Yahoo has announced that they've acquired Bignoggins Productions, a one-man iPhone development shop which had previo...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, and a disappearing picture is worth $800 million, whats an idea worth?Reggie Brown filed a motion on Thursday in a California court to disqualify Evan Spiegel, ...

How to get customers for your product is a huge area of interest these days as we see the rise of the "growth hacker." Venture capital firm Greylock Partners is making an interesting move today relati...

Reggie Brown claims to have co-founded Snapchat, and in the latest twist to his suit against the company, he's trying to disqualify its high-profile law firm.Brown filed motions in a Los Angeles court...

As reported earlier this year, Menlo Ventures partner Shervin Pishevar and Goldman Sachs managing director Scott Stanford left their day jobs to build a new, company building venture and VC fund calle...

On July 9th, Drobox kicks off its first developer's conference. Tickets are no longer available for the invite-only one-day-event, but we have ten tickets to give away. Dropbox told us that the three ...

And Google Glass’ slow march toward market readiness continues. The development team shared a few details about an upcoming update on the official Glass Google+ page, and it finally unlocks some...

In an email to all employees, Zynga just announced that veteran executive Don Mattrick will be the gaming giant’s new CEO, and former CEO and co-founder Mark Pincus will now be its Chief Product...

The House Republican Majority Leader and Congressman with the most charming southern drawl,Eric Cantor,sat down with me at The Atlantic's Aspen Ideas Festival for an interview on the National Security...

This week on TechCrunch TV's Ask A VC show Resolute.VC founder and investor Mike Hirshland is in the studio. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here...

Another turn in the twisted life of social network Bebo, which has unfortunately gone in the direction of a downward spiral for much of the last couple of years: the site appears to have been bought b...

Early leader in the 3D printing space Makerbot may have just been acquired for $400 million, but we still can't forget about the Form 1 3D printer out of FormLabs. It started as a Kickstarter project,...

The first phone running Mozilla's Firefox OS phone goes on sale tomorrow in Spain. Mozilla'snascent open web HTML 5 mobile platform has garnered considerable carrier support already, months ahead of a...

Origami, the Y Combinator-backed social network for families which just launched to the public this month, has acquired competing serviceFamilyLeaf, another YC company. Financial terms of the deal are...

Zoho has released a new survey tool that allows customers to conduct surveys in customer satisfaction, education, human resources, marketing, marketing research and other areas usingcustom or pre-buil...

Over the years, Trinity Ventures has made multiple investments in enterprise startups, with a bit of a focus on SaaS, big data, and cloud computing. With that in mind, it's promoting Karan Mehandru, a...

Outbox, the startup that digitizesyour postal mail then puts it online for access via web, iPhone, Android or iPad, has raised $5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by previous investor Fl...

Social media curation startup Storify is unveiling a couple of new features that should be particularly useful for the brands that make up a growing part of its user base.The biggest change is probabl...

Revolution Ventures, the early-stage, technology-focused venture capital arm of Revolution LLC, the investment firm headed up by AOL founder Steve Case, is looking to raise $150 million for its second...

WeHostels launched its first mobile app last September, allowing users to find low-cost accommodations nearly anywhere in the world from their iPhones. Now the company is expanding its portfolio of mo...

Happy mid-summer Monday! To counterbalance the sudden burst of warmth that's (finally) hitting Europe and is probably making all of you a little less focused on work, we are throwing all you European ...

Wearable technology is all the rage right now, and I'm not just talking about Google Glass or Apple's forthcoming iWatch. Companies large and small are getting in on the trend, and that was made all t...

After withering in the dry heat for the last four months, Google Reader will quietly disappear into the horizon later today. It's a sad day, but the sun will rise tomorrow, and the Internet will keep ...

Amazons GameCircle, the company's answer to Apple's Game Center, is today receiving a major upgrade, which includes the expansion of GameCircle to all Android devices. The service, which at launch had...

After topping 180 million downloads, the iHeartRadio app is finally migrating over to the Windows Phone 8 platform. Starting today, iHeartRadio enthusiasts toting a WP8-powered handset will have acces...

A little over a year ago, Twitter kicked off an initiative to experiment with different ways of making tweets more interactive -- a strategy that has brought us Twitter cards with previews, and shortc...

A little over a year ago, Twitter kicked off an initiative to experiment with different ways of making tweets more interactive -- a strategy that has brought us Twitter cards with previews, and shortc...

A little over a year ago, Twitter kicked off an initiative to experiment with different ways of making tweets more interactive -- a strategy that has brought us Twitter cards with previews, and shortc...

Let the speculation merry-go-round continue. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple has trademarked the name iWatch -- again. This time Japan is the territory, while the trademark covering "product...

After a first year marked by explosive growth, the social video site Upworthy is now focusing its attention on turning that traction into revenue. They are piloting ideas right now, but don’t ex...

Groupon's built up a reputation for a soup-to-nuts approach to bargains for goods and services, with deals for usually-expensive meals pitted against offers for cheap leg waxes. Today, however, it is ...

TechCrunch has learned that CityGrid Media, the parent of local ad-based listings portals CitySearch, Urbanspoon and Insider Pages, is laying off two-thirds of its staff, or around 130 people. IAC, wh...

Back in February at the Mobile World Congress tradeshow a plethora of carriers pledged their support for Mozilla’s HTML-5 open web mobile platform, Firefox OS,which is hoping to shake up the low...

In a blog post published today, Seedrs, the UK site that makes it easy to invest in early-stage startups, sheds some light on what it takes to reach the required tipping point to get funded through it...

While others in the online food delivery space stumble, Delivery Hero is helping itself to some fresh Series D funding today: the online take-out ordering service has announced $30 million in addition...

Google is grappling with an ongoing antitrust case in Europe over its online search business, and if its rivals have anything to do with it, that might extend into Google's power in the mobile sphere,...

Taiwan-based Web and mobile game publisher Pubgame has raised a Series A round led by Shanghai-based venture capital firm The CID Group and super angel investor appWorks Ventures. Though Pubgames did ...

Editors note:DerekAndersenis the founder ofStartup Grind, a 45-city community in 20-countries, uniting the global startup world together through educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs. On ...

Editor's note:Dan Kaplanis a freelance Content Strategist and armchair futurist. He has worked in marketing for Asana, Twilio and Salesforce.In the wake of Apple's big iOS 7 reveal, there has been muc...

Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook employees celebrated the San Francisco LGBT pride parade from a decorated trolley today, as tech companies across the country very visibly supported equal rights. Accordin...

Oh, my. I think someone has actually done it.Someone has built a system that promises to help me find fun things to do near me that.. actually makes me want to do fun things near me. Like many a conce...

At the 500 Startups PreMoney Conference last week, Y Combinator's Paul Graham gave a presentation in which he suggested a new way for Series A investments to get done. Graham provided a few suggestion...

For all the attention this week about the cloud, it’s evident that it is pretty much a distraction when considering what is really happening. Developers are lifting the cloud, not the other way ...

For all the attention this week about the cloud, it'sevident that it is pretty much a distraction when considering whatis really happening. Developers are lifting the cloud, not theother way around. T...

In some ways the Qwerty-packing Q5, with its throwback BlackBerry looks, is a far more important device for BlackBerry than its current flagship, the all-touch Z10. The mid-tier Q5 should be priced to...

Like the audiophile who spends serious money on her music, the ludophile spends aplenty on games and consoles. Both want perfection. The question for the games industry, however, is whether perfection...

Facebook is not working on an RSS product, we hear, but itstill has a huge and truly social opportunity in news discovery.Facebook could turn what links we share with friends into anautomatic Digg for...

Barack Obama was never going to be a champion of civil liberties; he leads a very old and quickly growing strain of the Democratic party that prioritizes the collective good over individual rights. Th...

In the aftermath of the dot-com crash, a new era for the web began to take hold - a turning point whose seismic shift was hyped under the moniker "Web 2.0." The concept referred to the web becoming a ...

There is an interesting shift occurring in consumer websites and apps where users perform micro-work that reshapes experiences. Classic examples of this are how Pinterest users are grabbing images fro...

The NSA/Prism controversy rumbles on. Today the European Parliament President Martin Schulz said there could be a severe impact on EU-US relations if the claims that the US had bugged EU offices in Am...

Observe, ladies and gentlemen, the lyrics of true seduction. Dejamor, a startup out of TechStars that creates subscription romance-filled boxes to help couples spice up sexy time, has now launched a ...

Look, we've all heard the rumors that Google is toiling away on a smartwatch, and the company has said the Nexus Q isn't completely dead, so part of that recent report from the Wall Street Journal doe...

Two veteran investors who have been integral in the development of a new generation of Israeli startups are on a mission to reverse a trend in a country that has traditionally favored later-stage and ...

Editor's note:Ankur Jain is a venture investor at Nexus Venture Partners. Nexus invests in early and early growth stage companies across sectors in India and the U.S.The rapid growth of mobile device ...

As Twitter nears its IPO, CEO Dick Costolo seemingly refuses to focus on the money. "We think of revenue like oxygen. Essential to life but not the first thing you think about in the morning," he told...

Whatever happened to the slow and lazy summer news weeks of yore? This past week certainly wasn't one of them, as evidenced by all the fun stuff we had to talk about during this episode of CrunchWeek....

Google Reader is dying come Monday, and the whole Internet is sad. I'm not sad. I won't miss it at all.I used to use Google Reader a lot, as in every day, and it was once a key component of my arsenal...

Internet Explorer is a hard product to love. It was so bad for so long and Microsoft abused its position of having the dominant browser for so many years that even today, with a few solid releases und...