Articles by Techcrunch from September 2013

Ten years ago, young adults and those in their late teens were among the fastest and earliest adopters of new social networks -- Friendster, Myspace, and ultimately Facebook -- and many other products...

Rohit Sharma from True Ventures likes to say: Mobile is the only under-hyped thing in tech. I think hes right. Yet, for mobile developers and mobile founders out there, an overheating iOS app ecosyste...

Unlocking the value hidden in data that has long gone unaggregated and unanalyzed is a hugely attractive proposition of big data and cloud-based SaaS startups, and newcomer VetCloud is no exception. T...

You've got stuff, but not all the stuff you need. Dutch startup and TechStars London first cohort member Peerby is hoping to unlock the use value of that stuff with a collaborative consumption model t...

Well that was quick: Not long after T-Mobile announced it would stop carrying BlackBerry hardware in its retail stores (but continue selling them online), the Canadian smartphone maker has revealed a ...

Are social media companies overvalued? The question is not just a matter of revenue multiples (low or high), but rather whether that revenue is actually generating new sales for advertisers. Google co...

Is it just me, or is it impossible to talk to technology entrepreneurs without mentioning user engagement and behavior? Im a behavioral psychologist, so that might be why I keep having conversations a...

If the NSA only invited TechCrunch to its birthday party, itd have to eat its cake alone. While we arent big fans of the NSA, it appears to fancy our readers, as it consistently advertises on our site...

Happy Saturday! It's time once again for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us writers together to chat it up about some of the most interesting stories from the past week in t...

Native advertising may be the buzzword stealing the attention of the advertising technology landscape, though a much quieter revolution is brewing around the space: the fight for the logged-in user ov...

The intersection of fiscal politics, national crisis, and technology regulation is a silly place, as there should be no overlapping space between the three issues. And yet. Good news: We’re not ...

The National Security Agency has slowly been mapping it's own massive network of suspects with associations to US citizens. The New York Times obtained documents that reveals how the NSA is utilizing ...

Over the past year, Facebook has seen its fair share of departures from employees and executives who are either starting a VC fund or camping out at a firm to figure out what their next startup or com...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor new iPhone + new OS = continued Apple domination. Twitter vacillates between NYSE and NASDAQ. Age of Context...

It's the first app I launch in the morning, and the first I install on a new phone, and my most-visited web site. Which is strange, because I don't much like most social media. I'm on Facebook only re...

Once upon a time, if you wanted your own website, you either had to speak fluent Internet, or write a large check to someone who did. However, thanks to the laundry list of companies and services that...

It's official, Nirvanix is shutting down its business. The cloud storage company has scrapped its web site, replacing it with a statementand how to get in touch with customer support....

The collision industry probably doesn't rank at the top of the "Sexy Markets" list for startups, but sometimes the most obscure, fragmented and pulchritudinously challenged industries can offer the mo...

Webvan is well-known as the poster child of the dot-com "excess" bubblethat led to the tech market crash in 2000.Business schools study Webvans overly ambitious rush to the biggest IPO to date in Sili...

The allure of top-tier Western universities isn’t lessening anytime soon for the hundreds of thousands of Chinese high school graduates emerging out of the country’s best schools. ThatR...

This Hacker News complaint about JustFab scamming a user's girlfriend -- which gets resubmittedwhenever JustFab raises money -- is a little off, because JustFab is not a scam in the traditional sense....

Palantir, the big data company that has counted the NSA, the FBI and the CIA among its clientele, has picked up $196.5 million in growth capital, according to an SEC filing. The company declined to sa...

Palantir, the big data company that has counted the NSA, the FBI and the CIA among its clientele, is raising up to $196.5 million in growth capital, according to an SEC filing. The company declined to...

Well, folks, it’s September. The holiday gift giving season is ON! Wish, the mobile shopping app that lets users create lists of items they would like to purchase later, has launched Gifting, a ...

Microsoft wants to take your Apple product off your hands, today expanding its trade-in programsto allow owners of dated iPhone hardware to cash in their now passelectronics. If you own an iPhone 4S o...

VMware VP of Engineering Mark Lucovsky is leaving the virtualization giant for a ‘new chapter’ he’s referring to as ‘#nine’ on Twitter. Lucovsky has been with VMware for ...

For all the good it's capable of, Twitter is all too often a cacophonous mess of marketers, celebrities, talking heads, and friends who all like to jabber at the same time. Sage Wohns and Mohamed Alta...

A big regulatory victory for Airbnb today: the company has managed to win an appeal in New York City over a fine against a host called Nigel Warren, whose landlord was fined $2,400 in June after Warre...

In this week's TechCrunch TVs Ask A VC show, we had Emergence Capital Partners Kevin Spain in the studio to talk about his perspective on investing in health tech and more.Spain, who has led investmen...

I don't consider myself a lazy man.To the displeasure of many a recent startup, I like to do stuff for myself. I like to clean my own house. If I want a Philly Cheesesteak from Philadelphia, I think "...

At its Build developer conference earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it planned to increase the roaming limits for apps purchased in its Windows Store. As the company announced today, that li...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific. Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/GillmorGang...

Online marketplace for men’s shopping,Bureau of Trade, has been acquired by eBay, the company announced today. FounderMichael Phillips Moskowitz is joining the eBay Marketplaces team, where his ...

Online marketplace for men’s shopping,Bureau of Trade, has been acquired by eBay, the company announced today. FounderMichael Phillips Moskowitz is joining the eBay Marketplaces team, where his ...

Swiftype, a Y Combinator-backed startup that creates a smarter search engine for websites, has raised $7.5 million led by NEA, with angel investors participating. The startup previously raised $1.7 mi...

The TechStars inaugural London Demo Day boasted an impressive group of companies, but we put our heads together and came up with a consensus decision on our top pick, as well as a couple of runners up...

A rare treat this week as you can hear the TechCrunch team react to breaking gadget news (the Steam Controller, to be specific) live as it unfolds. It's like being inside our brains without the echoes...

Evernote today announced version 2.0 of its business product, appropriately called Evernote Business 2.0.CEO Phil Libin introduced the product on-stage at Evernote's EC3 conference and said it will be...

Is #FeelGoodFriday a thing? With the launch of e-commerce site Zady last month, we’ve been keeping our eye on other conscious consumerism startups in the pipeline.Here for your consideration, th...

Today Microsoft reported the number of data requests it received from various law enforcement agencies around the world in the first half of (calendar) 2013: 37,196. Those requests dealt with, at most...

Nobody expected that, but Valve’s most exciting announcement of the week might be a game controller. The Steam controller is a futuristic touch-enabled gamepad with a small screen sitting right ...

Building a better calendar for mobile is a challenge a number of startups have taken on lately, some with the goal of helping you fill a calendar with events, others with simpler interfaces or behind-...

During aSenate Intelligence Committee briefing, Gen. Alexander refused to state that the National Security Agency (NSA) had never in the past collected the location information of American phone calls...

Italy, like many Southern European countries, is struggling with an economy in the doldrums. But the innovators in this proud and ancient country are not sitting idly by. As our Techcrunch Italy event...

The TechCrunch Italy conference featured a startup competition to showcase a number of new, early stage startups emerging from the growing startup ecosystem. In partnership with media company Populis,...

Sinceits launch earlier this summer,Palo Alto-basedFluc, one of what's now many, many food delivery startups, has been targeting the majority of restaurants that don't offer delivery.Today, the compan...

RingCentral is up 45% in early trading today, after pricing its IPO at $13 per share. Violin Memoryis down 17 % in its debut on the public markets.Violin Memory, a Flash-provider, priced its IPO Thurs...

The Harry Potter series is wildly entertaining, but so is Angry Birds, Snapchat, Facebook, YouTube Justin Bieber re-enactments, texting, Halo, The Disney Channel, Transformers 3, and a consumer flying...

Sean Rad's Tinder is growing rapidly and looking to Europe for new opportunities. With that we're excited to have him speak on expanding to international markets in a few weeks at Disrupt Europe.In 20...

Good Eggs, the startup that brings farmers markets online, has closed a $8.5 million Series A round from Sequoia Capital with participation from Harrison Metal and others. Sequoia partner Bryan Schrei...

The writing was on the wall. It was bound to happen. HTC has sold its remaining stake in Beats Electronics for $265 million. This is likely nothing more than a desperate bid to improve the battered ph...

Last year, online ski marketplaceLiftopia, which previously focused on offering skiers discounted lift tickets, launched an e-commerce platform for the ski resorts themselves called "Cloud Store by Li...

I drive a rental car through the rich gray green of overwatered, undersunned Seattle suburbs that border a city rising like a prize at the end of the road. The trees are the color of dried oregano, th...

Is there enough growth in the last-minute or same-day hotel booking app space? With HotelTonight raising $45 million in Series D funding earlier this month, the consensus amongst the Silicon Valley in...

TechStars London held its 2013 Demo Day today, with a cohort of ten startup presenting, having graduated from the bootcamp-style 13 week program. The startups presenting span a variety of industries a...

Things have been looking awfully bleak for BlackBerry lately, and today the company revealed just how rough things have gotten in its newest earnings release. In fiscal Q2 2014, BlackBerry raked in a ...

Hamburg-based Minubo offers aBusiness Intelligence as a Service that pulls in an online retailer's various data-points to present a holistic view of their analytics to enable them to make "better, dat...

It's not that much of a stretch of the imagination to believe that Apple might unveil gold, or "space grey," iPads in the upcoming month(s). That's why it's quite interesting that Chinese tech site Do...

In a move that could ease paper money's stranglehold over the Indian economy and society, Mobikwik is releasing a mobile wallet for the country's burgeoning Android smartphone-class to digitally buy g...

After a nine-month pause, Facebook is taking its mobile ad network out for another spin. "We're running a second test to show Facebook ads off Facebook in mobile ads and on mobile sites. Our goal is t...

Pin-Digital, a Barcelona-based startup that created PinSex and PinGay, says that it has raised $800,000 in funding.The names are pretty self-explanatory they're both Pinterest-style sites where users...

An app that lets people play the stock market without the risk of losing any real money has turned its virtual cash game into a pile of actual Benjamins, by closing out a $10 million funding round. Th...

Founded by a couple of MIT grads in 2010, Ministry of Supply set out on a mission to breathe a little fresh air into the starchy world of business attire. Using some of the same technology found in NA...

RingCentral, the cloud-based phone service, will open trading tomorrow on the New York Stock Exchange at $13 per share, offering 7.5 million shares and raising $97. million. It will trade under the ti...

Not sure what to make of this episode, but it matters and so here we are: A draft of provisions that Republican leaders in the House are attempting to demand in return for allowing the debt ceiling to...

Appcelerator, a company that supports multi-platform development, released its quarterly developer report today that details Microsoft's difficult market position. Developers are far more interested i...

Shutting down the U.S. government wouldn't lead to the NSA halting its controversial, and broad surveillance efforts. Leaked documents by Edward Snowden recently detailed the financial cost of the NSA...

The Republic of Sudan was digitally cut off from the world today, amid government protests. The government likely cut the cord to stem outrage over the termination of fuel subsidies, though they have ...

What I'm about to say may be considered blasphemy amongst a certain group of my peers: I think I like the iPhone 5c more than the iPhone 5s....

The very mention of the word "drone" often conjures up images of autonomous machines cruising over battlefields, but that's far from the future 3D Robotics has in store for its own aerial machines. An...

Between its struggles with the NSA and negotiations with privacy regulators, Facebook needs a lawyer that can fight to protect its data, and its ability to use yours. So today it announced that its ne...

For the last year or so, Google Research has been working on a project that aims to make it easier to migrate tasks between different devices. The premise of this work is that you are currently using ...

Fresh on the heels of its deal with Tumblr for access to the Tumblr "firehose," social data platform DataSift is putting that data, and more, to good use with the launch of a new API that performs his...

This week Microsoft updated its Windows Phone App Studio services with new images and improved SkyDrive integration. It remains in beta. As a platform, the Studio won't change the short-term fortune o...

Have you noticed recently that Google has gotten a bit better at offering up direct answers to questions? If so, there’s a reason for it: they recently flipped the switch on a new search algorit...

Google is turning 15 tomorrow and, fittingly, it’s celebrating the occasion by announcing a couple of new features for Google Search. The mobile search interface, for example, is about to get a ...

Product(RED) announced early today that its partner Apple had helped it raise more than $65 million. The announcement was made by U2 singer Bono at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting today. The $65...

(RED) announced early today that its partner Apple had helped it raise more than $65 million to finance programs which include prevention, treatment, counseling, HIV testing and care services. The ann...

Typo ruin your social media masterpiece? Facebook is starting to let you edit a post's text after you publish it. The feature comes to the web and Android in an update today, and to iOS soon. Previous...

This morning at an oddly mysterious* event in Mountain View, Google announced a minor, but not insignificant, update to their Google Search app for iOS: Push Notifications....

Evernote, the popular note-taking app with 75 million users, today unveiled the latest chapter in its bid to become the go-to place for people to store all their memories a decisive move into physica...

If you think screen sharing has already been mastered by the likes of WebEx and GoToMeeting, you probably haven't tried Screenhero yet. ScreenHero, which launched earlier this year out of Y Combinator...

Microsoft today launched BrowserSwarm, an open-source tool for testing JavaScript frameworks and libraries across devices and browsers. The aim here, Microsoft says, is to help developers "build great...

Today's news that eBay's PayPal is buying Braintree for $800 million in cash will open the door to Braintree taking its developer-focused payments platform to more markets and with more services. PayP...

Mesos is an open source project that helps developers manage server clusters more efficiently while providing resource isolation. It's currently being used by the likes of Twitter and Airbnb, where mu...

VictorOps has raises $6.5 million for its platform that adds a bit of the Twitter lifestyle for the DevOps pro, that person who fille a role somewhere between the IT and developer world. TheSeries A f...

If you're anything like me, you spend too much of your day at your desk, in front of your computer. During busy days -- especially once you go deep into "the zone" -- it's easy for a few hours to fly ...

Apple has today released iOS 7.0.2 for iOS devices with a fix for the lock screen bypass vulnerability discovered this week. The issue allowed users to jump past lock screen passcodes to gain access t...

Despite its recent acquisition, BlackBerry announced it will be releasing a desktop BBM app at BlackBerry Jam Asia 2013 this week. Unfortunately, the long-overdue app leaves much to be desired. BBM wi...

If you're anything like me, you spend too much of your day at your desk, in front of your computer. During busy days -- especially once you go deep into "the zone" -- it's easy for a few hours to fly ...

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Windows Azure multi-factor authentication for IT pros and users. The new security capability is available for most any application used on the cloud...

With growing animosity toward the government's massive spying programs, some reform is going to pass. Yesterday, a bi-partisan group of senior members of Congressunveiled a package that combines the m...

After a little bit of a rough start, the automatic address book updating serviceWriteThat.Namehas become one of my preferred "set it and forget it" tools for keeping things organized. Built by Paris-b...

Online art community deviantART is announcing that it has received a strategic investment from software company Autodesk.The financial terms of the deal aren't being disclosed, but deviantART co-found...

Dolphin, the Sequoia Capital-backed mobile browser maker, has inked strategic partnerships with four search engines to drive its global expansion. They are Yandex in Russia, Baidu in China, Yahoo! Jap...

Apple continues to roll out its staged partner additions, with two new channels appearing on the streaming media player today. The Major League Soccer channel brings soccer (or "football," depending o...

Ford Motors today is announcing the acquisition of Livio Radio, a maker of a platform for in-car apps, with a focus on audio and music services. This is the car-maker's first technology acquisition in...

While most mobile applications today are heavily concerned with getting users to remember to open them regularly, mobile deal-finding application Shopular has been content to run in the background, al...

The phrase “storage unit,” brings to mind one of two things: high-volume drug deals, or a huge hassle. Either way, not good. A startup called MakeSpace is launching in New York today with ...

After a short hiatus, during which most of TechCrunch's Europe-based writers packed their laptops and took off for San Francisco (for Disrupt), the TechCrunch Europe Podcast is back to chew over a few...

MUBI, the global curated film streaming service, has been in the process of rolling out its platform to multiple countries and today, at the TechCrunch Italy conference in Rome, it launches its servic...

Another day, another 3D printer. This time we have a model that comes from SUNY Purchase College where they are working on a laser-cut, compact 3D printer that can make extra tall models simply by swa...

Benchmark has stayed lean in a new world where Sand Hill Road is clamoring to offer its own value-added services. It seems like every venture capital firm is adding marketing, PR, recruiting, finance ...

Eniac Ventures is announcing its second fund to invest in mobile startups. The new fund is $12.9 million, significantly larger than the first $1.6 million fund. The company plans to use the new fund t...

If you've been to a nice wedding, anniversary, or milestone birthday party lately, you've probably seen this kind of video: A montage of friends and family from all over the world giving their congrat...

Something magical is happening: Indie bookstores are coming back for a few very interesting reasons. While the rise of digital books has definitely put a dent into the fortunes of bookstores - you can...

Rent the Runway, the site that has been leasing designer dresses to women at a fraction of retail price since 2009, is launching its first mobile app today. With the understanding that their target cu...

Meme-heavy image-sharing site Imgur says that it has now grown 100 million unique monthly visitors. The company also says it's profitable, with paid Pro subscriptions and some promising-if-early resul...

Before the world was informed of the massive and invasive government spying programs run by the NSA and other countries, a mobile app called Burnerappeared on the scene offering users disposable phone...

Applying to college is confusing. Straight up. Especially so when your only reference points are a copy of the Fiske Guide To Colleges and an over-booked guidance counselor. Admitted.ly, one of ten st...

Motorola is "ready to go on a hiring spree" in Waterloo, the home of BlackBerry HQ, according to a new report from the Financial Post. The Google-owned maker of smartphones already has an existing, sm...

Ebay's PayPal has acquired Chicago-based payments gatewayBraintree, in an all-cash deal worth $800 million. We had originally reported that Braintree was on the block, with Square and PayPal both in a...

I have two grandparents who are afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease. Unfortunately, in both situations we didn't find out that they had the disease until they were both showing strong symptoms. In the ...

For about five years, Richard Price and the team at Academia.edu have been quietly building a social networking platform for academics and researchers. For years, it was slow going. It took three year...

LeadPages, a Minneapolis company started less than a year ago, hasreceiveda $5 million Series A investment from the Foundry Group. The funding will help the company expand its service that provides cu...

Hot on the heels of its merger with rival ShoeDazzle (yes, pun intended), subscription-based fashion commerce site JustFab, now with 35 million users, is once again adding to its coffers, to pick up t...

Hot on the heels of its merger with rival ShoeDazzle (yes, pun intended), subscription-based fashion commerce site JustFab, now with 35 million users, is once again adding to its coffers, to pick up t...

A spot of consolidation in the Russian online health services space today. Health advice portal VitaPortal, which raised a $2 million Series A last October from Prostor Capital and Esther Dyson, has m...

London-based startup and Netflix for small children Hopster is on the verge of launching its unlimited TV content app, the company announced today, with a UK iOS App Store debut planned for November. ...

Apple's acquisition of Siri in 2010 gave the company the technology it needed to build a voice-activated personal assistant for its iPhone and iPad devices. A year later, Mads Rydahl -- one of the fir...

Apple's acquisition of Siri in 2010 gave the company the technology it needed to build a voice-activated personal assistant for its iPhone and iPad devices. A year later, Mads Rydahl -- one of the fir...

Apple is working on a way to renew the autograph for the digital age, with a technology that would allow authors, artists and musicians to "sign" their work for customers via a dedicated iOS app as de...

Charge your gadgets with fire! FlameStower, a startup that came out of Stanford's StartX Summer 2013 class, has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to get its alternative charger to market. ...

A number of sources, including tipsters reporting directly to TechCrunch, as well as Google support forum posters and individuals on Twitter are reporting that Google's Hangouts service is having some...

BlackBerry has cancelled its second-quarter earnings call, which was scheduled to take place along with the release of its financial results on Friday. The company said the cancellation was because of...

If you read the news yesterday, you might have run into a few articles discussing the exit of former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, the terms of his exit, the cost of said exit, and how he was a mole in the ...

What happens when it's easier to call tech support than to Google your problem? Amazon might discover the costly answer to that question depending on how much the owners of its new Kindle Fire HDX tab...

What happens when it's easier to call tech support than to Google your problem? Amazon might discover the costly answer to that question depending on how much the owners of its new Kindle Fire HDX tab...

As Bitcoin, the math-based currency that enthusiasts say could revolutionize online transactions, becomes more mainstream, its supporters have been looking for ways to make it more accessible to inves...

The Nest Learning Thermostat is about to get a little smarter (and perhaps the forthcoming Protect). Speaking at CEDIA Expo 2013, Tony Fadell, the company's co-founder and CEO, just detailed an API th...

Apple is leveraging the Bluetooth LE technology that it has been building into every iPhone since the iPhone 4S to enable automatic setup of an Apple TV 3G. Just touch a device running iOS 7 to a newe...

Apple is leveraging the Bluetooth LE technology that it has been building into every iPhone since the iPhone 4S to enable automatic setup of an Apple TV 3G. Just touch a device running iOS 7 to a newe...

Y Combinator alum Vastrm has been pretty busy lately. In addition to locking up another $1 million in seed funding from A16z, SV Angels, Ignition Partners, and Will Smith (to name a few), the startup ...

What would a Wednesday afternoon be without the TechCrunch Droidcast? Don't answer that.Sadly, I couldn't be around to take part in this glorious meeting of the minds (I was checking out startups here...

As Amazon's online business continues to cut into traditional retailers' revenues, Target today makes a move to fight back. TheMinneapolis-headquartered retailer has just launched a pilot program for ...

Apple and EA are both categorically denying a report that surfaced late yesterday that money exchanged hands to keep Popcap hit Plants Vs. Zombies 2 an exclusive to iOS. Reached for comment on the mat...

Google+ started supporting hashtags in May, and today the company announced that Google Search will now allow you to search for Google+ posts by using these hashtags. Given that there's a little bit o...

Google's Gmail application for Android is being updated today with a new design which will bring Google's now preferred "card style" user interface to the Conversation View within the app. This layout...

Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, has acquired file-sharing serviceCloudup, whichlaunched in beta in June. The acquisition will help Automattic improve two features of WordPress.com in ...

Today Instacart, a grocery delivery service, added an initial set of recipes to its service, helping customers purchase groups of items that combine into finished dishes. For the non-chef among us (he...

Apple has just announced a series of Tech Talks for developers building apps for iOS 7. This is a relatively common occurrence as Apple likes to get evangelists out to talk to developers and help them...

You didn't really need a Google+ account until now. You might have one whether you wanted it or not. But YouTube new commenting system requires a presence on Google+. And there's no real alternative t...

Instagram has been updated for Apple’s iOS 7 today with a new design that puts photos front and center. The app has not been re-written or torn down for the logic of iOS 7 so much as trimmed and...

Following the announcement of SteamOS, Valve just unveiled the long-anticipated Steam Box — sort of. Instead of releasing a Valve-branded Steam Box, the company will actually work with multiple ...

Rapidly growing mobile events application platform DoubleDutchraised $10 million in Series C funding TechCrunch learned, in an oversubscribed round led in large part by Byron Deeter of Bessemer Ventur...

Automated investment services company Wealthfront has made its name as an alternative to traditional financial advisory services for individuals, especially "Generation Y" techies just starting to pul...

Twitter is rolling out a new system called Twitter Alerts today that lets you choose to receive special alerts from emergency accounts, government organizations and NGOs. The system is designed to exp...

YouTube currently offers more than150,000 audio tracks on its site that video producers can use as background music for their videos. Those tracks, however, can't be downloaded or remixed, which makes...

Zoho has launched a service that centralizes contacts for customers, helps them share them across different groups and manage related tasks. As part of the effort to reach small business owners, the C...

Many brick-and-mortar merchants in the real world just want customers, but don't have the time to learn the nuances of the various performance marketing tools and other programs at their disposal toda...

After previously dogfooding and then beta testing itssame-day Amazon Prime and eBay Now competitorGoogle Shopping Express, Google says that today the service is launching to all those in its initial t...

After previously dogfooding and then beta testing itssame-day Amazon Prime and eBay Now competitorGoogle Shopping Express, Google says that today the service is launching to all those in its initial t...

Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) held its Summer 2013 demo day today — its fifth demo day in two years — with a customary ten companies taking the stage to show off the fruits of...

Carriers haven't typically been friendly with startups, especially over-the-top messaging players that circumvent native phone comms -- viewing them as thieves of traditional voice and SMS revenues, a...

Gyft, a company building a digital platform to bring the plastic gift card industry to both web and mobile, has raised $5 million in Series A funding, in a round led by Karlin Ventures, with participa...

Five percent of Americans have resisted the siren song of cat listicles and hashtags. Specifically, they think the Internet is “irrelevant,” to use words of Pew, which just released a repo...

Location-based photo and video discovery platform Tapastreet, which first unveiled its wares at our recent TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, has announced that it's closed a $500,000 seed round. Th...

Chute is a startup aiming to become a "complete visual platform" for brands and publishers, initially by helping customers collect and publish user images and videos. Today it's taking an important st...

The year-long saga of the Pakistan government's YouTube ban has just taken another twist, as a case to unblock the website has been referred to a panel of Lahore High Court justices who will now decid...

Hardware Alley is my favorite part of Disrupt and we're bringing the festivities to Berlin on October 29 when 30 lucky hardware companies can show off their wares. It is a crowd favorite and I'd love ...

DJ app edjing - which is available for iOS, Android, Amazon's mobile platform, and Windows -- has raised $2.5 million in funding led by Entrepreneur Venture, with participation from Deezer founder, Da...

Urban Compass, the young New York startup that emerged from stealth mode in May with a home rentals platform and accompanying hyperlocal social network, has closed a Series A round of funding totallin...

I'm going to try to write this without mentioning the gold iPhone 5s.Samsung just took the wraps off of two gold-themed Galaxy S4 smartphones: Gold Pink and Gold Brown. Both options are seemingly cosm...

Egnyte has a new look and with it a new platform that allows customers to share the most sensitive documents that historically file-sharing and storage services have not had thesecurityin place to man...

While the name is very reminiscent of 500 Startups, 1000startups is a brand new crazy project from Free CEO Xavier Niel. With the help of the Caisse des Dpts, Niel wants to create the world’s bi...

All you really need to brew your own beer is a spare bathtub and some ingenuity, or so I believe based on long-held unsupported and unconfirmed opinion, but if you want to get fancy, a new Kickstarter...

Back in July, iZettle launched a reducing per transaction fee that could drop as low as 1.5% for U.K. business processing more than 15,000 per month via its mobile card readers. That move looks to hav...

Kenyan accelerators, following mixed results from their rookie season,have tweaked their strategies for mentoring and investing in local entrepreneurs, in a bid to produce more successful startups.Acc...

Streaming media hardware company Roku, which is holding it own in a market that includes tech industry heavyweights including Apple and Google, has just introduced new models of its streaming players....

It’s been a busy last 24 hours for Rock Health — and last three years for that matter. Today, the San Francisco-based accelerator for digital health startups held its fifth Demo Day at UCS...

Amazon's Kindle line of Android-powered tablets, which sport a modified version of Google's OS that the online book seller is developing on its own, is looking more and more like a bunch of enterprise...

Naveen Selvadurai, the co-founder of Foursquare who departed the company in 2012, has found a new role at Oscar, the health insurance startup founded by Thrive Capitals Joshua Kushner that just raised...

Hotel booking app HotelQuickly has raised a series A round of HKD$9 million (about $1.16 million USD). Investors include Boon Hwee Koh, the former chairman of Singtel and Singapore Airlines. The start...

Hey, Berlin! Come show us what you've got.In just over a month, we're bringing the TechCrunch Disrupt conference to Europe for the very first time and with it, one of our big ol' Hackathons. The very...

Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group has acquired Kanbox, the personal cloud storage service sometimes referred to as "the Dropbox of China." This marks Alibaba Group's first personal cloud storage ac...

Last summer, Adam Draper and Brayton Williams launched Boost.vc, a 12-week accelerator program for early-stage startups. Taking a familiar approach to business incubation, the San Mateo-based accelera...

Live support has always been a dream for major retailers. While chat solutions already exist, today Amazon announced a new support service available on Kindle HD products called Mayday. It is a single...

Amazon has upped the Fire tablet ante with two new HDX models in 7- and 8.9-inch sizes with brand-new, high-resolution screens and running an updated Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor at 2GHz. Both m...

RealNetworks is announcing a big expansion beyond its RealPlayer media player today with the launch of a new service called RealPlayer Cloud, which is supposed to make it easy for users to access and ...

Yahoo will begin offering a new ‘Not My Email’ button this week that gives owners of newly claimed, previously dormant, user names the ability to ‘return’ messages that were no...

The Nest Learning Thermostat is about to get a sibling. The Protect. If this report is correct, the company behind the incredibly popular Learning Thermostat is prepping a smoke detector. Yep, a smoke...

Today Swipely announced that the flow of payments through its system has doubled since April, with the firm now processing charges at a yearly run rate of $1 billion. With a fresh capital injection th...

Everyone knows that the educational system in the U.S. hasn't changed much in, oh, the last 100 years. And that there's a lot of inertia within the system, gumming the gears and slowing its transforma...

Apple made a change to its AppleCare+ plans recently, around the time that the new iPhones were announced. It now allows you to get your iPhone, oPad, Mac, iPod, Apple display or Apple TV serviced in ...

Apple made a change to its AppleCare+ plans recently, around the time that the new iPhones were announced. It now allows you to get your iPhone, iPad, or iPods serviced in any country that offers Appl...

It's Oracle OpenWorld this week and so it's a fitting time for Engine Yard to show its support for the Oracle Public Cloud and Java, the lingua franca of choice for the enterprise world.Oracle is an i...

Today Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending platform announced that it has raised an additional $25 million. The round was led by Sequoia, a longtime investor in the company, and was participated in by Blac...

To combat the horrifying dearth of cute cat videos on the Internet, a startup called Petcube has launched a Kickstarter campaign today to manufacture a sleek box, tricked out with a laser pointer, wid...

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer seems to be on a bit of a press tour, and as result, a lot of her comments on-stage today at the IAB MIXX conference won't be a big surprise to folks who have been following he...

Flywheel, an Omaha, Neb.-based startup, is launching a new WordPress hosting and management service today that was built specifically for web designers, freelancers and agencies.WordPress has come a l...

While the film is extremely compelling, it turns out that there's actually a better way to learn about and visualize the human body than by watching Osmosis Jones on repeat. It used to be that student...

This week nine members of theSenate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the inspector general of the Intelligence Community,I. Charles McCullough III, asking him to conduct a full review of U.S. inte...

Twitter has announced a new push notification in its twitter apps for Android and iPhone that will deliver personalized recommendations for tweets and accounts to follow. The new notification is based...

Twitter has announced a new push notification in its twitter apps for Android and iPhone that will deliver personalized recommendations for tweets and accounts to follow. The new notification is based...

One the one hand, Jay Levy , as a partner in Zelkovo Ventures, is a conventional New York City tech VC with investments in promising start-ups like Fab, Klout and Crimson Hexagon. But Levy, as the fou...

Content discovery service StumbleUpon is announcing that it has acquired 5by, a video startup based in Montreal.The financial terms of the deal aren't being disclosed, but the companies say the entire...

The Pittsburgh-based mobile waitlisting service for restaurants,NoWait, which raised $2 million in Series A funding just over a year ago, is now rolling out its first consumer-facing product with the ...

YouTube today announced a new commenting system that will be powered by Google+. The system, which is launching on channel discussion tabs this week before rolling out to all videos over the next few ...

Yesterday Microsoft announced two new Surface tablets. They are now up for pre-order, though the Power Cover and dock will not be released until the early part of next year. Microsoft is selling its o...

California has passed a well-intentioned law allowing teens to scrub their youthful indiscretions from the Internet. Starting in 2015, any minor can request that a digital service provider delete pict...

Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of ad holding company WPP, weighed in on the digital media landscape today at the IAB MIXX conference in New York. One of his main arguments: That tech companies are also in th...

When AdStage launched earlier this year, the big selling point was the ease with which small businesses could create ads that ran across Google, Bing, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Today it's launching what...

As evidenced by sonogram photos posted to Facebook and the apparent popularity of “ultrasound parties,” pregnancy is a time ripe for sharing. A new startup called BabyWatch is taking those...

This week on TechCrunch TV's Ask A VC show, we have Emergence Capital Partners' Kevin Spain in the studio. You can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here and well ask them duri...

Too lazy busy to handle selling your stuff on eBay or Craigslist, or having a yard sale? Yep, same here. That's why a startup calledSold, launchedearlier this year, had me intrigued. Its big idea is t...

Earlier today Intuit announced a completely new version of its QuickBooks accounting software, and to kick it off, it's also announcing a new, and rather groundbreaking, partnership. It is integrating...

Earlier this year, Adobe launched its Primetime TV publishing and monetization platform to facilitate TV Everywhere solutions for TV networks and other video providers. Today, the company is updating ...

Only days after announcing the launch of ads, social networking site Pinterest is now making an appeal to publishers: the company is today rolling out an updated "article" pin type, designed to expand...

Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce powerhouse with ambitions to take on Amazon, is today kicking off a new feature on its U.S. site Rakuten.com that it hopes will help the company better differentiate i...

Google has apologized and offered up an explanation of sorts for yesterday’s lengthy issues involving Gmail delivery delays. For those who receive so little email that you may have missed this (...

We don't normally cover tech law firms, and fear not, we're not about to flood your feed with chatter about those guys. But the launch of a new firm specialising in tech is such a rare event (most law...

Discovr is one of those apps that has managed considerable success on the basis of doing one thing very well, in a number of different ways. The Australian startup behind the Discovr apps, Filter Squa...

Strikingly, the mobile Web site builder we profiled when it was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2013 class, is honing in on the Southeast Asia market to leverage the region's rapidly increasing smartpho...

Belgium-based big data startup NGDATA, which also has offices in New York and San Francisco, has closed a $3.3 million funding round, led by Capricorn Venture Partners. Existing investors also partici...

Every time Apple builds a new device, search firm IHS takes a look at the parts and tries to estimate the bill-of-materials for the new gadget. The resulting price is a rough approximation of what it ...

Click a link, click a petition, feel better without making a difference. That was the old Causes. Today, the new Causes launches to reactivate its 186 million registered million users. It's an indepen...

Apple has just released an updated version of its iMac all-in-one computer. The update is a minor one, unlike the considerable redesign it got at the end of last year, but it brings brand new improved...

The App Store is somewhat shrouded in mystery, thanks a secret recipe that Apple uses to determine what apps shoot up the charts. Downloads play a big, influential role, but they aren't the only facto...

Back at the beginning of this year the Openfund (a five-year-old investment fund out of Athens Greece) closed its second fund totalling 10 million under management. They set to work putting that to go...

There's no doubt that photo-sharing is hot, but among the hundreds of services out there tackling the space, there hasn't been an app that has made a splash in photo-sharing in this post-Instagram wor...

Live video company Ustream has been quietly transforming itself, according to co-founder and CEO Brad Hunstable, who said the company has switched from being an ad-supported media business to a techno...

The world of digital health startups has begun to explode over the last two years -- and innovation in healthcare along with it -- but nonetheless, the latest reports show a landscape that is still su...

The world of digital health startups has begun to explode over the last two years -- and innovation in healthcare along with it -- but nonetheless, the latest reports show a landscape that is still su...

CloudOn, the popular iOS and Android app for viewing and editing Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, is coming to the web today. After signing up more than 5 million users through its mobile a...

A company out to topple the stronghold Alexa still has on web rankings despite serious questions involving accuracy isTel Aviv-basedSimilarGroup, makers of an online web measurement tool calledSimilar...

Apple's iPhone needs a much smarter keyboard. I've said it before, but here's evidence Cupertino itself realises that hen-pecking individual letters is a "tedious task". Apple's US patent 8,542,206 de...

In 2009, Tomer Shoval went on vacation with his family to Mexico, which unfortunately ended on a sour note — and one with which many travelers can empathize — they all got sick. Back in th...

In 2009, Tomer Shoval went on vacation with his family to Mexico, which unfortunately ended on a sour note — and one with which many travelers can empathize — they all got sick. Back in th...

Zoom, the Santa Clara-based cloud video conferencing startup that last raised $6 million in January, has raised another $6.5 million in a Series B round of funding that has just closed. The new round ...

An unauthorised app that lets Android users chat on Apple's closed iMessage network is causing a big stir. It's had viral downloads in the tens of thousands amid claims that it could be spreading malw...

Spotify has launched in Argentina, Greece, Turkey and Taiwan, bringing its streaming music platform to a total of 32 countries. ...

E-commerce giant eBay today made its latest moves to blur the lines between online and offline commerce, and it's chosen the UK to do it: it launched a new Click and Collect service, where shoppers ca...

E-commerce giant eBay today made its latest moves to blur the lines between online and offline commerce, and it's chosen the UK to do it: it launched a new "Click & Collect" service, where shopper...

E-commerce giant eBay today made its latest moves to blur the lines between online and offline commerce, and it's chosen the UK to do it: it launched a new "Click & Collect" service, where shopper...

The largest mobile messaging apps are increasingly social platforms in their own right. More evidence of that today as NHN Japan Corporation's Line has added yet another feature to its platform play....

Buying indie games online can be a hit-or-miss experience, often involving some hunting, but IndieGameStand has just launched a new centralized online store where you should be able to access just abo...

Apple has re-issued the 6.0 update for Apple TV devices it released last week, after the original version's many problems including slow downloads, library loss and even some apparent bricking led the...

The Chinese government will allow access to some banned Web sites in the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone, including Facebook, Twitter and The New York Times, the South China Morning Post reports, citing anon...

For those who haven't yet heard of FormaFina, think of it as the Fab of South America. The ecommerce startup, which sells curated, limited-run collections of designer wares in Argentina and Brazil, ha...

Myself and the inimitableChris Velazco took to the TechCrunch TV screens to dig into the new Surface hardware that Microsoft announced today. Chris and I are both long-time Surface owners and users, s...

Cella Irvine has stepped down as CEO of ad tech company Vibrant Media, according to a source with knowledge of the company.I emailed and called the company earlier this evening, but I haven't heard ba...

Until this summer, a significant subset of US-based healthcare entrepreneurs were unable to legally use one of the most fundamental, integral, and efficiency-boosting development tools out there: Amaz...

Now that the dust from Microsoft's Surface event has settled, we're left with two new tablets and one grand vision for the holidays -- with three Surfaces now on the market, Microsoft has carved out a...

C9 has a new CEO and $12 million in funding for its platform that helps customers forecast sales revenues. The Series D round was led by existing investors Mayfield Fund, InterWest Partners and Leapfr...

Digital Chocolate, the long-troubled gaming company from original EA founder Trip Hawkins, has sold its 46-person Barcelona studio to France’s Ubisoft. The sale comes just months after the compa...

Facebook wants to put an end to typing billing details on the small screen, help developers and payment processors earn more money, and prove that its app install ads make money for ecommerce companie...

It's day one of the new general solicitation rules allowing companies to openly advertise that they're fundraising, and Betaworks is wasting no time. It's just emailed asking its thousands of Openbeta...

In the last three years, the only times Apple has ever frozen its App Store rankings has been over the holidays, so it’s interesting to note that the company actually froze rankings for a total ...

Good news! Today you can blame your non-responsiveness to all those important emails you’ve been ignoring on Google itself. The company’s online email service Gmail has been experiencing i...

Good news! Today you can blame your non-responsiveness to all those important emails you’ve been ignoring on Google itself. The company’s online email service Gmail has been experiencing i...

Today, the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission's final rules allowing general solicitation went into effect. In the fundraising context, general solicitation means publicly advertising the fact that y...

Developers are pushing to do more app development in the cloud, but IT has a history as a command and control environment that has focused on locking down infrastructure more than opening it up. Cloud...

The name "Netscape Plug-in API"(NPAPI) sounds like a relic from another age of browsers but Chrome, Mozilla and other browsers still support this architecture for writing browser plugins today. Its ti...

Valve just announced the first part of its living room strategy with SteamOS, a free Linux-based operating system that takes the 'Big Picture' feature one step further. In addition to playing your gam...

Flipboard, the mobile-first "social" magazine that lets people tag, assemble and then share collections of stories from around the web, has now raised another $50 million at an $800 million valuation ...

Today BlackBerry announced a $9 per share offer for its outstanding stock, a deal worth around $4.7 billion. The $9 per share price is a slight premium over its current stock price, which traded at $8...

With the loosening of the SEC’s restrictions around general solicitation or public fundraising by startups, AngelList is launching a whole suite of products that could extend its influence (and...

Khaled Naim, CEO of startup Addy, is hoping to create a new way for people to share their location.What's wrong with plain old addresses? Well, they usually get the job done, at least if you live in a...

App developers are struggling to make money in India because of low credit card penetration, according to Michael Stencl, CEO of maps provider Sygic, which has now dropped the $5.58 fee to download it...

App developers are struggling to make money in India because of low credit card penetration, according to Michael Stencl, CEO of maps provider Sygic, which has now dropped the $5.58 fee to download it...

With the launch of Windows 8.1 just around the corner, Microsoft today announced a new storage option for SkyDrive. The cloud storage service, which is now a built-in Windows 8.1 feature, now offers a...

Twitter and CBS just announced what Glenn Brown, who leads Twitter's Amplify program, called "probably one of the most comprehensive partnerships that you will see coming out of Amplify."The program w...

Online and mobile marketplace Threadflip, which lets you clean out your closet and shop those from others, is today publicly debuting its updated mobile application, now available for the first time o...

DogVacay has been assigned a tagline by the press that sounds a little ridiculous when you hear it -- "the Airbnb for pets" -- but the business itself is actually a very practical one. The Los Angeles...

So now that Microsoft has finally let its next-generation Surface and Surface Pro tablets out of the bag, there's only one thing left to dig into -- when can people buy them?Microsoft just confirmed t...

AngelList, the mailing list that turned into one of the Valley’s most powerful fundraising channels for early-stage startups, just picked up $24 million of its own. Like we reported nine months ...

TechCrunch flew to Microsoft’s Redmond campus ahead of today’s launch of the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2. I sat with Brian Hall and Panos Panay, the two key leaders of the Surface team for...

Today Microsoft announced the specifications and price points for its new Surface tablet hybrids. This post contains all pertinent statistical information regarding the Surface Pro 2 and Surface 2, as...

Today Microsoft took the wraps off its holiday hardware lineup, unveiling two new tablets, and a number of new and updated accessories. It's a lot of information to process, so let's go through each p...

The failures outweigh the successes on Kickstarter, but the Ubooly is one of those that have done well thanks to the crowdfunding platform. This kid's toy, created by Colorado-based husband and wife d...

Spanish startup Mobincube has closed a 700,000/$946,000 seed round for its drag and drop, web-based app builder which lets non-developers build their own mobile apps using a series of templates. The r...

Fitocracy, the fitness gamification network with over 1 million users andmore user engagement than Twitter, is today launching a group fitness pilot in a big move towards monetization. A big part of F...

We're fast approaching Disrupt Europe, the first flagship Disrupt conference that TechCrunch will hold in this part of the world. And to help us land in Berlin with a bang, we've put together a killer...

LinkedIn's Sponsored Jobs listings are getting increased visibility today, with a move that has them now appearing in LinkedIn's main feed on the member homepage. Before, Sponsored Jobs were only avai...

Rampersand is a new firm looking to invest in Australian startups and provide them with advice on sales, marketing, and pR>The firm is announcing that it has raised a $6 million fund for that purp...

Apple’s stock was up 6.15 percent, or $28.74 at market open this morning, on the back of news this morning that its iPhone 5s and 5c have sold over 9 million units during opening weekend, which ...

After seeing 15 million downloads of its song lyrics apps, musiXmatch is making its first foray into the living room. For premium subscribers to its newly updated iOS apps, the company has added suppo...

Apple has just issued a press release revealing it sold 9M iPhones during the launch weekend of its iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s. As is typical for the company with new hardware, it hasn’t broken out...

QR codes (you know, those square images that can be scanned by your phone and point you to mobile websites) have never quite taken off with a mass audience, but some startups aren't giving up the tech...

Instagram has yet to make a formal push into using its platform for paid advertising and marketing purposes (although its co-founder is certainly putting out some signals for what it might do when it ...

Instagram has yet to make a formal push into using its platform for paid advertising and marketing purposes (although its co-founder is certainly putting out some signals for what it might do when it ...

Tesco, the UK-based retail giant with 20 million customers in 12 countries across Europe and Asia, today took its biggest step yet into digital commerce and content: the company launched Hudl, an own-...

After closing a $9.7 million round this summer, Finnish startup Valkee -- which makes a light-emitting pair of earbuds designed to counteract seasonal affective disorder -- has put some of that cash t...

Businesses are eager to spend money on big data, but few have a clear cut plan for what they plan to do with the technology, according to a new Gartner report. 64% of organizations surveyed have alrea...

Quietly, gradually, but clearly Apple is building platform lock-in into its iOS products, with some features that are deeper than just a rich third-party software ecosystem. FaceTime Audio is the late...

Apple’s iOS 7 is really gaining steam when it comes to early adoption, with Mixpanel reporting that it has already passed iOS 6 in terms of traffic hitting its network of mobile sites and apps. ...

Netflix has won its first Emmy after House of Cards director David Fincher won the award for Best Director of a Drama Series, beating out directors from Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Downton Abbey a...

As the amount of user-generated video continues to grow, a startup called SparkReel aims to help companies harness those videos for their own promotional efforts. Now the startup should get a big boos...

Im sitting in an office on the thirteenth floor of the Mayors headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. Ive come to speak with Pedro Paulo, the Staff Secretary who presided over Rios first city-sponsored hackat...

In late July, news broke that Flud, the social news reader for iOS, Android and Windows Phone, was headed to the deadpool. Startup failure is an all-too familiar, even cliche, story in Silicon Valley....

In late July, news broke that Flud, the social news reader for iOS, Android and Windows Phone, was headed to the deadpool. Startup failure is an all-too familiar, even cliche, story in Silicon Valley....

App downloads are key metrics for all mobile-focused startups, but not many early-stage companies in the space can cite revenue-generating figures alongside their user growth. But Poshmark, the mobile...

Access to information is addictive. The moment we have more of it - and more of it available at opportune times - the more we crave. I learned this first-hand when I began wearing a Pebble smartwatch ...

I spent my formative years using up AA batteries at a frenzied pace, and I can't count the number of times my parents said they wished could zap my trusty Game Boy dead. While there's nothing they can...

Today the AP reported that the President’s promised NSA review panel is channeling the entity that it is supposed to inspect, hiding behind layers of government bureaucracy and obfuscating its w...

Into The Gloss, an editorial beauty website based out of New York, has raised $2 million in venture capital funding led by Forerunner and Lerer Ventures, along with several angel investors. Since it w...

With the extended overreaction to the Free The Games fund from the development community, the question to be asked is why do OUYA and the other microconsoles consistently draw a lot of negativity from...

Fingerprint scanners have always been vulnerable to hackers who are willing to go the extra mile to bypass them. Over the years, we've seen everything from people using Gummy Bears, Play-Doh and more ...

London-based startup Dattch is a dating app with a difference. I don't mean the fact it's exclusively for lesbians, bisexual and/or bi-curious women -- though that certainly makes it stand out from th...

San Francisco-based cult clothing retailer Betabrand is debuting a new way for customers to engage in developing new productsan online think tank....

BlackBerry trumpeted its intention to deliver the long-awaited Android and iOS versions of its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service this weekend, and so fans around the world eagerly awaited the mobile ...

Apple could learn a lot from the fall of Burberry. The once-exclusive fashion brand became associated with trashy youth by greedily licensing out its signature tan chequered pattern for use on basebal...

On Friday, Apple launched its 6.0 software update for its Apple TV set-top box, but soon after, some users reported that the update bricked their devices while others were a bit luckier and just lost ...

This is a post about cards as an interface in mobile apps. I am not a designer. I am also unable to mention every single app that uses cards -- feel free to mention others in the comments. Additionall...

The Makerbot Digitizer looked too good to be true. It was a solid, compact 3D scanner that could replicate a solid object without much fuss and had a level of detail unparalleled in the home scanning ...

Apple has finally take steps to better cater to the children who have adopted its devices, and especially family favorite the iPad, with the launch of a Kids App Store. Arriving this week alongside th...

GIFs are the hot new thing. News organization BuzzFeed.com, which has staked its future on dozens of GIF and listicle posts a day, now has a staggering 85 million unique visitors a month. Attention-st...

Blippar, the AR-advertising company that lets users scan real-world objects to bring up extended augmented reality content, has today released a huge update that not only increases the speed of the te...

The human body wasn't meant to sit. Chairs are an invention of our own laziness. That said, UpDesk is here to swoop in and give you a nice, comfortable desk to both sit and stand at without a whole lo...

Montreal-based Lagoa has acquired in-browser 3D editor 3DTin. The company announced its acquisition on its blog. 3DTin is used for 3D model and 3D printing....

This weekend's watch review is focused on the Mondaine Automatic, an older model that hovers right about the $500 price point - a rare departure into the bargain section for this series. The model I t...

Here's another way that digital currency Bitcoin could have a big impact, according to startup BitWall: it could give online publishers a real alternative to putting up paywalls or relying solely on a...

After much speech and pomp, it appears that general immigration reform is dead in 2013, ending with it the chance of positive change to how we handle high-skill immigration. It didn’t have to en...

It’s been a week chock-full of news in the tech world, so what better way to cap it off than by watching a brand-new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us TechCrunch writers to...

Atlantis was supposed to be an "better" alternative to popular, but hidden, Silk Road market. In short, it allowed the average user to buy and sell drugs, contraband, and whatever else using an encryp...

The Gillmor Gang John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Danny Sullivan, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor collected iPhone 5's from the corners of the tech world. Danny Sullivan ordered the elusive gold one a...

On Monday, the legal framework for startup fundraising will change. Because of the JOBS Act, you will be able to publicly announce that youre raising. This is not crowdfunding -- you still have to rai...

There's a crippling STEM talent shortage out there, stalking the streets of Silicon Valley; just ask any Valley executive in the choir crying out for immigration reform. But the IEEE, PBS, and Fortune...

Spain has long had a difficult reputation as one of the heaviest users of file-sharing services, crippling music and entertainment sales in the country for years. That's the way the cookie crumbles, s...

Spain has long had a difficult reputation as one of the heaviest users of file-sharing services, crippling music and entertainment sales in the country for years. That's the way the cookie crumbles, s...

FireEye made a debut on the public markets that any investor would be pleased to witness. In trading Friday, shares jumped 16 points for the security company. In total it raised early $304 million, gi...

FireEye made a debut on the public markets that any investor would be pleased to witness. In trading Friday, shares jumped 16 points for the security company. In total it raised nearly $304 million, g...

Mozilla's long-delayed Firefox for Windows 8 tablets has finally made its first public appearance outside of the relatively obscure and unstable Nightly development channel. As Mozilla announced today...

The passcode can't die yet. The iPhone 5s's Touch ID fingerprint security system can be unlocked with your finger even if you're asleep. That means a jealous lover could hold your phone to your thumb ...

Illumio, the startup backed by a who's who of A-list venture capitalists and charismatic CEOs, tells a story about what we can expect to be a constant stream of companies with one thing in common: The...

In this episode of Ask A VC, Telefonica Digitals Tracy Isacke joined us in the studio to talk about the telecom giant's venture arm.Isacke, who has led the companys acquisition of San Francisco-based ...

Rocket Fuel's first day of public trading seems to have lived up to the company's name.The ad tech firm revealed its intentions to go public last month, and last night sold 4 million shares at a price...

Gillmor Gang - John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Danny Sullivan, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific....

Yes, Apple CEO Tim Cook has started tweeting. The account, which we at TechCrunch (and everyone else following Twitter's magical recommendations service @MagicRecs) spotted this afternoon, is now conf...

In the personal shopping category of startups, we've seen numerous apps and websites that will learn your style and spit out recommendations for things you should buy. That's helpful, but will an algo...

BlackBerry temporarily halted trading this afternoon to deliver some grim news. Today the company confirmed earlier reports of massive layoffs — some 4,500 employees will be let go by the end of...

Sexism in tech can be as subtle as a false assumption about engineering competence or as blatant as a couple of hackathon apps that made it onto our stage last week. Changing our hackathon rules will ...

NFL running back Adrian Peterson has teamed with Driven Apps to release a new fitness and sports training app for aspiring athletes. This is the third time that Driven has paired with a professional a...

iOS 7 adoption is already reaching at least 35 percent of iPhone owners, and that’s just after two days. Themakeover has been a big one, with Apple promising 200 new features. The font is differ...

With the release of iOS 7 to the general public, Bing now has a prominent home inside of Apple's chief operating system. When you Siri, you will very often Bing. That might sound odd, but Apple is mor...

For the first time ever, customers of Verizon’s FiOS TV service are being allowed to watch live television on their mobile devices when they’re out of their homes, and disconnected from th...

Here’s a bit of supply chain nerdery for you on the iPhone 5s front. Teardown experts Chipworks have uncapped Apple’s A7 processor and discovered that it is indeed still made by Samsung. T...

Google may have glasses and Apple may be rumored to be making a smart watch. Now Microsoft may be effectively buying itself a wearables play by paying up to $200 million for a trove of assets and pate...

Crash detection and reporting are tough but important problems to solve, as companies look to increase the stability and reliability of their online and mobile applications. One newer startup taking o...

Crash detection and reporting are tough but important problems to solve, as companies look to increase the stability and reliability of their online and mobile applications. One newer startup taking o...

Crash detection and reporting are tough but important problems to solve, as companies look to increase the stability and reliability of their online and mobile applications. One newer startup taking o...

iCracked, the Y Combinator company that has quietly built up an empire on repairing broken iPhones and iPads, is launching a way to call someone up on demand to buy your old phones back. With the new ...

VCs are starting to get into content. First Round debuted its own version of Harvard Business Review. Andreessen Horowitz recently brought on Wired editor Michael Copeland to lead its content strategy...

Countless social planning apps have tried and ultimately failed to capture the attention of users in a way that produces any real action, which in turn would result in partnerships with vendors and me...

Receipt and business card digitization service Shoeboxed is now starting to do something with all the data it scans and stores online, which now includes tens of millions of receipts. The company this...

Apple's iPhone 5s and 5c are now on sale at retail and online stores around much of the world, and the general impression from consumers is one of high anticipation. In North America, lines are being ...

The phrase "made in China" is often synonymous with "cheap knockoff" in Western countries, but Bundshop's mission is to change that perception. Based in Shanghai and named after the city's famous wate...

Berlin will see Disrupt Europe, our major conference, arrive this October, featuring some of the best known names from the Valley and Europe. Ciarn O'Leary will be among those speaking....

Following an amazing event last year, which saw Italy suddenly ignite its startup scene, TechCrunch has created the TechCrunch Italy conference in partnership with media company Populis. Next week (Se...

Old iPhone docks are a depressing sight in this world of Lightning cables and connectors, sitting with their 30-pin connector exposed and lonely. There are a number of Bluetooth accessories that you c...

Crave, a San Francisco startup that creates upscale, tech-savvy sex toys, announced that it has closed a $2.4 million Series A investment from over 60 angel investors, many of whom it reached through ...

The gold iPhone 5s (which still seems more "champagne" to me) was a phone that seemed improbable when it was first rumored, but Apple did indeed make it and consumers seem glad. A report from the Wal...

Wrapping its analyst meetup, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer revealed his largest regret regarding product choices: Missing out on phones, which he claims has harmed Windows itself.If Gates was late to ...

Today at its analyst event, Microsoft announced a new milestone for its Office 365 Home Premium product, its cloud-based subscription-paid productivity suite, stating that it now has more than 2 milli...

The sad truth is that, if everyone on the Forbes 400 list simultaneously (and tragically) got Cancer, or Parkinsons (or any given disease for that matter), the world would probably be well on its way ...

Microsoft, like other public companies, doesn't like to disclose more about its business than it has to, but today, in the middle of a reorganization and a very public CEO search, a little openness co...

The Dow Jones-owned Wall Street Journal has confirmed today that it will part ways with All Things D. The media publication and conference powerhouse is still in talks with potential suitors but its...

This won't come as a surprise if you're familiar with the game's genre, but playing Starcraft 2 might make you smarter. Starcraft 2 is a so-called "real-time strategy game," a form of video game that ...

Summer's all but over, but it's no less important to stay hydrated. According to the CDC 43 percent of Americans drink fewer than four glasses of water a day, and while the actual amount you should dr...

In April, the Senate put together a comprehensive immigration reform bill that was then sent to the House of Representatives where it currently languishes.Once wrapped into the larger comprehensive im...

Hardware is king. VCs are investing, hackers are taking notice, and a subculture of "artisinal" design, prototyping, and manufacturing has grown almost overnight. And now we're looking for some of the...

Hardware is king. VCs are investing, hackers are taking notice, and a subculture of "artisinal" design, prototyping, and manufacturing has grown almost overnight. And now we're looking for some of the...

Vulnerabilities in Apple’s iOS lock screens have become a fixture of new iOS releases over the past few years. And iOS 7 is not exempt, as a new method for bypassing the passcode on a lock scree...

Vulnerabilities in Apple’s iOS lock screens have become a fixture of new iOS releases over the past few years, and iOS 7 is not exempt. A new method for bypassing the passcode on a lock screen h...

15Five, a startup backed by the likes of 500 Startups and Yammer's David Sacks that provides a platform to help the working world communicate better with its managers, has had a dose of its own medici...

After four years and massive growth, Pinterest is taking its first steps towards advertising and serious monetization. CEO Ben Silbermann today told users "we're going to start experimenting with prom...

After four years and massive growth, Pinterest is taking its first steps towards advertising and serious monetization. CEO Ben Silbermann today told users "we're going to start experimenting with prom...

After four years and massive growth, Pinterest will take its first big steps towards monetization. CEO Ben Silbermann today wrote "we're going to start experimenting with promoting certain pins" becau...

After four years, Pinterest is taking its first serious steps towards monetization. CEO Ben Silbermann today told users "we're going to start experimenting with promoting certain pins from a select gr...

You may not be familiar with the m-commerce vendor known asBranding Brand, but you've likely encountered its work. The company, which is today announcing a $9.5 million Series B, powers the mobile e-c...

Google just got a refreshed flat logo and the black navigation bar is gone. Earlier this morning, we reported that Google’s new “App Launcher” style navigational menu was just weeks ...

Just about every time I've spoken to Kamcord founder Matt Zitzmann in the year since the company launched, I've asked one question toward the end of our conversations to gauge the team's progress: "Ha...

It's been more than a year since Google acquired Quickoffice, a mobile app for editing Microsoft Office files on tablets. Over the last few months, it has slowly expanded the tool's availability by ma...

Silicon Valley has dramatically altered many aspects of our lives, but Congress still operates in the same way its horse-riding forefathers did. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not only optimistic...

LEGO Mindstorms EV3. Even the name is formidable, but just wait until you connect the dots and fire these dragon-esque robots up. The EV3 set of robotic, programmable LEGOs is the very best version of...

The California Public Utilities Commission has unanimously approved new regulations around ridesharing services such as Lyft, SideCar, and UberX (as initially noted in a number of reports on Twitter)....

The California Public Utilities Commission has unanimously approved new regulations around ridesharing services such as Lyft, SideCar, and UberX (as initially noted in a number of reports on Twitter)....

Earlier this week, we noted that Apple’s new policy of automatically serving up old versions of apps to users was good for the downloader, but not so great for the developer. Today, Apple has ad...

Earlier this week, we noted that Apple's new policy of automatically serving up old versions of apps to users was good for the downloader, but not so great for the developer. Today, Apple has adjusted...

Today a Nokia filing detailed the compensation package that outgoing CEO Stephen Elop will receive as he transitions back to his former home, Microsoft, along with large chunks of the company that he ...

Apple's big iOS 7 update rolled out to devices yesterday, around 1 PM ET, and while many users encountered a lot of frustrating server errors trying to get it, the numbers show that a lot of people we...

Google is reportedly making a change to its homepage and other online services which will see it dropping its horizontal, black navigational bar containing links to social, search, Gmail, images, news...

Google is reportedly making a change to its homepage and other online services that will see it dropping its horizontal, black navigational bar containing links to social, search, Gmail, images, news,...

Busuu managed to build out and bootstrap it's way to a healthy audience by being a language-learning site offering direct interaction with native speakers. Last year it raised a Series A investment ro...

The Internet of Things like true mobile wallets or Internet-connected coffee makers is on the horizon. It awaits us, a world where all of our devices are connected and communicate with each other in...

Social analytics startup Unmetric is announcing that it has raised $5.5 million in Series B funding.The company's website asks, "Is your brand social enough?" and Unmetric tries to answer that questio...

Two security researchers have posted an outline for a talk about Apple’s iMessage security to be presented next month. The report claims that Apple could but not that it does intercept iMessag...

Two security researchers have posted an outline for a talk about Apple’s iMessage security to be presented next month. The report claims that Apple could but not that it does intercept iMessag...

Artillery, the HTML5-centric gaming startup from a team of former Googlers and Facebook engineers, just teased its first title. Codenamed ‘Atlas,’ the game is meant to be the “spirit...

Artillery, the HTML5-centric gaming startup from a team of former Googlers and Facebook engineers, just teased its first title.Codenamed "Atlas," the game is meant to be the "spiritual successor" to S...

A number of well-known venture firms are getting behind Plaid, a startup that describes itself as "the modern API for banking data."The company is announcing that it has raised $2.8 million led by Spa...

Activity trackers are all over the place, except maybe on the wrist of the vast majority of the public. Moves is an app that launched with the goal of putting that power on devices people already carr...

Earlier this week, Google rolled out a new version of the Google Wallet app for Android, which dropped the requirement that phones had to feature NFC technology for in-store payments to run the app. N...

It sounds like tech recruiting startup Whitetruffle has already seen some early success the company says that in its beta test, its network has already grown to more than 2,000 employers and 30,000 j...

Shadow is an app for people to record their dreams. Currently seeking Kickstarter funding, it will incorporate an escalating alarm clock designed to wake sleepers gradually, to improve the ability to ...

Music startup TastemakerX has been described as a stock market or fantasy sports league for bands, but today it's launching version 2.0, which co-founder and CEO Marc Ruxin described as "a totally new...

GoDaddy has made another acquisition, its fourth in 14 months: it has bought Afternic, a specialist in aftermarket domain sales -- that is, reselling domain names that are already owned. Afternic was ...

Yahoo's rollout of new products and redesigns continues today, with the release of an updated My Yahoo homepage featuring the same, more modern look-and-feel which accompanies all its online and mobil...

As a fan of the noble Great Cat and 3D printing, I'm particularly interested in Lionhead, a $1,600 3D printer with built-in scanning facilities. The project, which just hit Kickstarter, is looking for...

Amazon has announced an update for its GameCircle and Whispersync for Games services for mobile gaming apps today, which introduces iOS support. That means that Amazon's GameCircle, which offers achie...

Investors have recently piled millions into same-day delivery startups such as New York's Zipments and San Francisco's PostMates, and now Palo Alto firm Deliv has become the latest beneficiary, with p...

In a new interview published by Businessweek this morning, wherein Sam Grobart sits down with Apple CEO Tim Cook, and SVPs Craig Federighi and Jony Ive, Cook comments on a number of things, including ...

DotCloud is a great example of a startup with a pivot that worked. The proof of that is in a new partnership that marries its Docker open-source app portability project with Red Hat and its OpenShift ...

SnapKeys, an 'invisible' touchscreen keyboard maker, has updated its Si Revolution Android keyboard app, adding the ability to position the keys anywhere on the screen. The size of the keyboard can al...

It’s no secret: With Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms now woven into the very fabric of the Web, the Share-pocalypse is well underway. Of course, while it’s easy to recognize t...

Cinegif, an Austin-based startup that makes it easy for companies to use GIFs in their marketing campaigns, has raised $500,000 in funding from Texas angel investors including the Baylor Angel Network...

Hardware startup Leap Motion, which managed to sell an impressive number of pre-orders for its standalone Leap Motion Controller gesture control computer accessory, today announced that the first frui...

According to Chirpify founder Chris Teso, "hashtags are the new URL." Though more than a few people at Twitter are no doubt nodding their head vigorously in agreement, everywhere you turn in the tech ...

As you can see in the video above, Apple's new fingerprint sensor in the iPhone 5s isn't restricted to human users. Using a ready-to-hand pet cat, I tested the hypothesis that you could register the i...

With APIs from the likes of Twilio (and emerging Layer) fuelling a new concept of how cloud-based archictecture can be applied to the worlds of telephony and communications, UK startup NewVoiceMedia i...

Ongoing trends in smartphone adoption -- which this year finally outnumbered the amount of non-smartphones getting purchased -- will drive 102 billion app store downloads this year, 90% of which will ...

When Grockit first emerged back in 2008, it had set its sights on building a full-service, social learning service that would give students a better way to study for standardized tests, among other th...

When Grockit first emerged back in 2008, it had set its sights on building a full-service, social learning service that would give students a better way to study for standardized tests, among other th...

Posthaven, the blogging platform co-created by Y Combinator partner Garry Tan after his previous startup Posterous was bought and shut down by Twitter, has reached financial sustainability. They’...

Is FWD.us really making a difference? Today it released its first hard numbers on its contribution to immigration reform, announcing that it drove 33,500 calls to Congress in August and September. Tha...

Is FWD.us really making a difference? Today it released its first quantified stats on its contribution to immigration reform, announcing that it drove 33,500 calls to Congress this summer and a total ...

Apple has increased the size of its download limits on cellular networks to 100MB from 50MB. The change comes as iOS 7 launches to the public as a ~700MB over-the-air upgrade to iPhone and iPad users....

Yesterday Microsoft announced the pricing scheme for Windows 8.1 and stated that, instead of selling "upgrade" and standalone versions of its operating system, all purchases of the new code will be co...

Apttus has raised $37 million for its platform that automates the "quote to cash" (CQT) process within Salesforce.com. The funding came from K1 Capital, ICONIQ Capital andSalesforce.com.Apttus is a se...

Just months after Tiger Global Management paid $50 million for a secondary stake in Automattic, the maker of WordPress.com, the investment management firm has done it again. We learned yesterday that ...

Happy iOS 7 day! Except for me. And legions of other iPhone owners who, for various reasons, had to activate their iPhone in the iOS 7 install process. Our phones are stuck in iOS 7 activation limbo....

Happy iOS 7 day! Except for me. And legions of other iPhone owners who, for various reasons, had to activate their iPhone in the iOS 7 install process. Our phones are stuck in iOS 7 activation limbo....

Selfie.com. It exists... shrouded in mystery and excitement. In a world where photo-sharing reigns supreme, Instagram and its mighty legion of copycats, wannabes and tweaked iterations leading a massi...

Back on schedule this week after TechCrunch Disrupt, me and Chris Velazco catch you up on the latest in Android news. We're somewhat distracted by another mobile operating system that has some news th...

Today Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, stated that he is "convinced that further protections" of the civil liberties of U.S. citizens are necessary following review of th...

Critics say Facebook is doomed because it's not cool to teens anymore. But Mark Zuckerberg said he doesn't care about Facebook being cool because now its goal is to be a ubiquitous utility, "Maybe ele...

At long last, iOS 7 has just arrived. That is, it just arrived for everyone who didn't say "Developer? Oh, yeah, I'm totally a developer. Cough." and wiggle into the Beta months ago.iOS 7 can be confu...

Amid preparations for its forthcoming IPO, Twitter rolled out updated iOS applications today which feature several small changes, including of course an updated design to better reflect the new style ...

Today brings the release of the most dramatic iOS update that Apple has ever made. More people will experience this change in a shorter period of time than at any point in computing history. “Me...

Hey BlackBerry fans, here's a bit of good news: BBM will officially land on Android devices starting on September 21, with the iOS version going live the next day. Hey BlackBerry employees, here's a b...

The folks at RoboBand have created a robotic band that plays the soundtracks to famous Nintendo games using a Raspberry Pi, a Yamaha Disklavier, and a robotic drum kit. The system took the audio outpu...

When it comes to voice search, Google still runs circles around its competitors. Today's update to Chrome for iOS adds a new layer of intelligence to this feature and now lets you use pronouns. The co...

Facebook lost its ability to "move fast and break things" when it switched its apps from HTML5 to native. But it's got its mojo back. Today it announced a big iOS 7-style app redesign featuring bottom...

"Help the aged," sang the bard, and that's what Lively aims to do. After all, one time they were just like you, drinking smoking cigs, and sniffing glue. This $150 device, on the other hand, ensures t...

It's been a turbulent few weeks for Pandora, with the company reporting earnings that included a net loss, appointing a new CEO, proposing a follow-on offering of shares to be sold, and today, winning...

Github, everyone's favorite nerdery, added STL object file support - basically a system for uploading and rendering 3D models - in April. Now, however, they've improved their service with a system for...

Photo-sharing services like Instagram have become some of the most popular of all mobile apps, and today Twilio launched a new service that could help a much larger swathe of developers tap into that ...

Photo-sharing services like Instagram have become some of the most popular of all mobile apps, and today Twilio launched a new service that could help a much larger swathe of developers tap into that ...

PayByGroup, a 500 Startups-backed payments platform which lets friends split the cost of purchase on bigger items like vacation rentals, parties, trips, sports tickets and more, is now making its serv...

Thanks to the ubiquitous spread of smartphones, and the ease of photo-taking they bring, our photo galleries have become filled with what are almost like disposable memories - we snap and share, but t...

Get your motor running, head out on the highway and download some software. Apple's big iOS 7 update is now available to all, or at least to anyone with an iPhone 4 or higher, iPad 2 or above, iPad m...

Twilio, the Skype and telco competitor that lets developers incorporate voice and text services into apps and websites by way of a few lines of code, is taking its cloud-based communications platform ...

Storytelling today means crowding around someone's phone as they describe their photos. Shadow Puppet bring that show & tell experience online by letting you share a voice-over with an animated sl...

While it’s been obvious for the last few years that Android and iOS have created a two-horse race in the world of smartphone OSs, is it possible that a third could emerge? Microsoft, especially ...

Google today announced a major update to BigQuery, its cloud-based service for analyzing large amounts of data using SQL, making it more suited to analyzing real-time data. Starting today, BigQuery us...

Apple has just released iTunes 11.1, the update to iTunes that brings iTunes Radio to its desktop music software. The Pandora-like streaming music service offers custom stations based on artists and g...

Tomfoolery, the mobile app lab founded by ex-Yahoo and AOL execs committed to making enterprise solutions more consumer-friendly, is today launching a new, iOS 7-friendly version of its debut app, the...

Swiss company builder Centralway is opening a new seed and early stage investment arm that will invest $50 million per year into 20 to 30 startups -- including both small seed-stage investment and lar...

Classrooms across the nation are adopting a new technology trend known as the “flipped” classroom, where students watch lecture videos as homework and teachers use class-time for discussio...

Feedly, a service making claims to the RSS reader throne Google abandoned by shutting down Google Reader, announced today that it's now opening up its API to all interested developers building RSS-bas...

Thanks to a slew of leaks and early appearances NVIDIA’s newest Tegra 4-powered tablet design has never really been a secret, but the company has finally confirmed what it’s been working o...

In a bid to relieve the staff from one of the most stressful and lengthy parts of an Indian employee's day -- the commute -- the fast-growing e-commerce marketplace Snapdeal has hired drivers to chauf...

In a bid to relieve the staff from one of the most stressful and lengthy parts of an Indian employee's day -- the commute -- the fast-growing e-commerce marketplace Snapdeal has hired drivers to chauf...

Classtivity launched out of TechStars back in June of last year with the promise to connect New Yorkers with any leisure or fitness class they could imagine, with expert reviews, pricing information, ...

Just about two months after it announced the developer preview of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7, Microsoft today launched an updated beta version of its browser. The so-called "release preview" w...

Welcome to another episode of "Cool Science Stuff That Probably Will Have Some Effect On Our Lives Later But We Probably Won't Realize It." In this week's installment we present graphene photosensors....

StrongLoop has raised $8 million in Series A funding for its backend-as-a-service (MBaaS) service that usesNode.jsas a platform for developing mobile apps in the cloud or in the data center. The fundi...

Project "Grand Slam", Yahoo's mission to "bring a more coherent look and identity to Yahoos pages" in the words of CEO Marissa Mayer, is today flying over one of Yahoo's flagship properties, the Yahoo...

Project "Grand Slam", Yahoo's mission to "bring a more coherent look and identity to Yahoos pages" in the words of CEO Marissa Mayer, is today flying over one of Yahoo's flagship properties, the Yahoo...

While many industries in the U.S. have undergone massive changes in the last 10 years -- such that some almost seem unrecognizable -- the educational system appears much the same as it did 100 years a...

While many industries in the U.S. have undergone massive changes in the last 10 years -- such that some almost seem unrecognizable -- the educational system appears much the same as it did 100 years a...

Snapguide, the crowdsourced, how-to app founded by a veteran from Yahoo Pipes and another from Google's Chrome business, is not yet focused on generating revenue, but it's quietly building up a platfo...

Snapguide, the crowdsourced, how-to app founded by a veteran from Yahoo Pipes and another from Google's Chrome business, is not yet focused on generating revenue, but it's quietly building up a platfo...

Memphis-based startupHealth & Bliss is hoping to save the medical system some time and money by developing a diagnostic solution for strep throat. The company, which graduated from the med-tech ac...

Hot on the heels of Groupon's acquisition of last minute hotel booking app Blink, another Spanish competitor has been gobbled up. Madrid-based Hot Hotels has acquired local rival ReallyLateBooking. Te...

Hot on the heels of Groupon's acquisition of last minute hotel booking app Blink, another Spanish competitor has been gobbled up. Madrid-based Hot Hotels has acquired local rival ReallyLateBooking. Te...

Apple may have just introduced a very cool new Slo-Mo video feature with the iPhone 5s, but it only scratches the surface in terms of what's possible with high-speed video. A new Kickstarter project w...

Jumio, a mobile payments and ID-scanning startup backed by $35.3 million in outside funding, is expanding its suite of identity verification tools with the launch of "Face Match," a feature which will...

A little over a week after Groupon announced the acquisition of hotel booking service Blink, today comes one more purchase that moves Groupon further yet out of the realm of daily deals. Groupon has b...

Blue Jeans Network, a video conferencing company that plays nice with other services, is announcing that it has raised $50 million in new funding.The round doubles the amount that Blue Jeans has raise...

Mobile app analytics and market intelligence serviceApp Anniehas long since established itself as a major player among app developers, publishers, enterprise customers, and even VCs digging in for due...

Pipedrive, the SaaS to help small to medium size companies manage and increase sales, has closed another deal of its own. The Estonia/U.S.-based startup and AngelPad alumni has raised a further $2.4 m...

Bright, a startup that is betting that data science and machine learning algorithms will be central to hiring and finding jobs, is announcing $14 million in Series B funding from Toba Capital and Pass...

Stackdriver, a monitoring service for cloud-based applications, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series B round led by Flybridge Capital Partners, with participation by existing invest...

BlackBerry has confirmed earlier rumours that it was flirting with building a phablet and quietly taken the wraps off its biggest phone yet: the all-touch BlackBerry Z30 packs a 5-inch Super AMOLED di...

FutureLearn, a U.K.-led MOOCs alliance, has launched its first set of free courses, nine months after announcing its intention to jump into the Massively Open Online Courses space. FutureLearn has gro...

YouTube has announced that it will launch a new feature on its mobile apps enabling viewers to watch videos even when they are offline. The new update will be available in November. ...

Following it's acquisition of Storify just the other week, Livefyre a commenting platform used by TechCrunch and other websites, has announced that it's opened an office in London to serve the UK/Euro...

Flat. With one word, Apple didn't just change its look on mobile, but mandated an industry-wide face-lift. With iOS 7's launch later today, chrome, navigation buttons, and textured title bars are gett...

A growing list of SaaS providers are launching Android apps. iPhone apps still dominate but the shift to mobile is forcing companies like Smartsheet to extend their mobile reach as much as possible. S...

Apple is launching two new iPhones, the iPhone 5c and the iPhone 5s, and the big question for many is going to be which is worth their hard-earned clams. Both present attractive packages, as detailed ...

This is a big week for Apple; it has two new phones hitting store shelves, and a brand new operating system that becomes available tomorrow for compatible devices. The new mobile operating system is a...

Apple's new iPhone 5s is set to go on sale this Friday, Sept. 20, and the phone is already generating a lot of buzz. The 5s is the more advanced of two new Apple iPhones, and offers a lot of technical...

Apple's iPhone release schedule has been predictable in the past when it comes to number of devices: each year, a single new smartphone. For 2013, that's changed with the iPhone 5c, as for the first t...

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC),America's super-secret spy court, has finally revealed the legal justification for the National Security Agency's phone record dragnet program. Accor...

Instagram is not yet launching ads on its photo and video-sharing network. But it has plans to in the next year, and this evening Kevin Systrom, its co-founder and CEO, made an appearance in London wh...

So, uh, what's going on with Sonar? The startup, which promised to connect users with relevant people nearby (using data from Facebook, Foursquare, and elsewhere), seemed to have disappeared from the ...

Microsoft has announced a new $40 billion share repurchase authorization with no expiration date. With the move, Microsoft in effectgranted itself $40 billion in latitude to buy its own shares wheneve...

Welcome to a brand new episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the walls of the tech industry's hottest companies to see what it's like for the smarty-pants staffers who work ...

Google has begun expanding access to its Chrome data compression feature to more users, specifically those on iOS devices who have the company's mobile browserapp installed. The feature's existence wa...

EA elevated Andrew Wilson, the company’s executive vice president overseeing EA Sports, to the top position as the company’s new CEO. The two widely rumored internal contenders COO Peter M...

In the early hours today, a user on Reddit discovered that Apple had updated the App Store to allow users on old iOS versions to download the ‘last known compatible‘ version of apps. At fi...

Adobe today reported quarterly earnings for its third financial quarter of the year. While the company reported another decline in revenue and earnings per share to $995.1 million and $0.32 respective...

There's plenty of commotion surrounding the smartwatch space these days, but let's not forget that some of us have essentially been strapping tiny computers to our wrists for years now. GPS-enabled ru...

Adobe’s first foray into hardware is about to become reality. When Adobe announced its thin-tipped Project Mighty digital pen and Napoleon digital ruler at its MAX conference earlier this year, ...

With recruiters viciously competing for the best talent in the Valley, startups end up with plenty of paperwork and files to contend with. A San Francisco-based startup called Distill is looking to ma...

It's been fascinating to track what has become a groundbreaking non-profit project to teach tech startup entrepreneurship in Ghana. We first covered the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology ...

Is the 3D modeling space big enough for multiple competitors? Martijn Elserman, Siert Wijnia and Erik de Bruijn sure think so. They're the founders of a new 3D object sharing site called YouMagine and...

There are over 30,000 photo apps, and many are dying a slow death with little way to make money. CanvasPop is about to give developers a hot cash injection by letting them earn 30% on framed photo pri...

Microsoft todayannounced the pricing structure for its upcoming Windows 8.1 operating system. Windows 8 users will receive the new code free of charge, but for those not currently on Microsoft’s...

Jeff Sandquist, who's currently senior director of developer relations at Microsoft, just announced that he's be joining Twitter as director of platform partnerships."Change invigorates the soul," he ...

Grocery delivery service Instacart today added its first new major market, expanding to Chicago. The company found its footing in the San Francisco Bay Area, growing its cadre of stores to include Cos...

Goldbely, the startup that delivers signature foods from regional establishments (think: Skyline chili from Cincinnati, Lou Malnati's deep dish pizza from Chicago, and so on) to hungry people througho...

For centuries the creation of geared automata has been sort of a dark art. To design a mechanical device to move like a human or animal was a trick in itself and to build the gears and rods necessary ...

Stitch Labs, the startup founded in 2011 to help small and medium-sized businesses manage their sales operations, has raised $3.5 million in Series A financing. Founder Brandon Levey said that Stitch ...

This week on TechCrunch TV's Ask A VC show, we have Telefnica Digital's Tracy Isacke in the studio. You can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here and well ask them during the ...

FirstMark Capital, investors behind major companies like Pinterest and Aereo, have today brought on two new partners at the venture firm: Rick Nucci and Josh Abramson. If the serial entrepreneur's nam...

The folks at San Francisco-based Occipital are very much software people -- the company's RedLaser app was a big hit in the early App Store days before the team sold it to eBay, as was 360 Panorama be...

Mozilla today launched the latest version of Firefox for Android. Version 24 introduces a number of new features, including tools for easier link sharing and support for WebRTC. With the introduction ...

Baltimore startup Apkudo already helps mobile manufacturers and carriers test their new phones before release, and it works with developers to give them a better idea of how their apps run on a wide ...

Google today announced a new version of its mobile payments platform, Google Wallet, which now allows users to send money to friends directly from credit and debit cards, or a bank or Wallet balance, ...

BitTorrent, the P2P network with 170 million users that has been building out a business as the go-to platform for writers, musicians and other media creators to share their content with each other an...

Onefinestay, the self-styled ‘unhotel’ that can be described as an upmarket Airbnb offering a select portfolio of luxury, city-centre homes kitted out with fancy linens, towels and toiletr...

Etsy, the marketplace for hand crafted goods, is adding a new feature today to engage brands with the its platform-Pages. The feature allows brands to create curated pages of items from Etsy, which us...

Where Houzz lets you find inspiration and contractors based on beautiful images,Porch is a Seattle-based startup that aims to do something very similar, but with the help of a massive amount of data a...

Where Houzz lets you find inspiration and contractors based on beautiful images,Porch is a Seattle-based startup that aims to do something very similar, but with the help of a massive amount of data a...

Disrupt Europe, our major conference, comes to Berlin in October. Some of the best known names from the Valley and Europe are coming and the latest is Jos Neves, Founder of Farfetch. ...

As the scourge of patent trolls continues to take its toll on technology innovators, some, like Rackspace and now FindTheBest CEO Kevin O'Connor fighting back with lawsuits of their own, Google is mak...

Ray Dolby, creator of the Dolby noise-reduction system that revolutionized recording, died on September 12, 2013. He suffered from Alzheimer’s and died of leukemia in his San Francisco home. He ...

Iranian Netizens were overjoyed yesterday after discovering that they had unfettered access to baby pictures and Justin Bieber updates (a.k.a. Facebook and Twitter). The glimmer of freedom, however, w...

Smallrivers, the Swiss startup behind news curation platform Paper.li, has raised further funding: $2 million from Debioinvestment, and Polytech Ventures (co-founded by the Swiss Federal Institute of ...

Amazon rolled out an update to its Instant Video application for iOS which now introduces support for AirPlay, allowing users to stream movie and TV content from Amazon’s service to Apple TV. Th...

Rhapsody International today announced that it would be taking a "significant", yet undisclosed, investment from Columbus Nova Technology Partners and Rhapsody president Jon Irwin will step down. More...

Shortly before market opening, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced a new massive buyback program as well as a dividend increase. The new buyback program comes after the expiration of a previous $40 bill...

Three major French banks have worked together on a new payment system for the web called Paylib. With a Paylib account, users will be able to pay on the web using a simple login and password instead o...

Barcelona-based Restalo, an online restaurant reservation service similar to OpenTable, has raised a $10 million Series B round from Seaya Ventures, and existing investor Active Venture Partners....

PubNub, a provider of APIs that publishers, developers and others can use to implement messaging, video and other social services on apps and websites, has picked up an $11 million round of funding th...

Avi Brown, co-founder and CEO of BrandAds, said there are big challenges facing companies that want to know if their online video ad campaigns are actually paying off.On the one hand, they can look at...

Airbnb has hired Chip Conley, founder and former CEO of boutique hotel chain Joie de Vivre, to lead new efforts to improve the guest experience by educating and creating new standards for hosts.When I...

Polyvore has made its name as a site for creating collages that represent the lifestyles they want to lead, complete with beautiful outfits accessorized down to the right handbag and perfect perfume. ...

Hoppit, a search engine that lets you find restaurants based on their atmosphere, today announced that it has been acquired by the “lifestage media” company XO Group (formerly known as ...

Appirio, the cloud services consultancy that last year raised $60 million from General Atlantic and Sequoia, is putting some of that investment into acquisitions to build out its business competing ag...

iOS 7 is the biggest change to Apple's mobile OS since it was born all the way back in 2007. The risk for Apple now is that the redesign disrupts its own user-base, so here's one sign of how Cupertino...

File-sharing company Hightail (formerly YouSendIt), has acquired startup AdeptCloud, a file sharing and collaboration company focused on security, control and privacy. Financial terms of the deal were...

FuzeBox, which provides online collaboration and communication tools, has raised $26 million in Series B funding. Led by Hermes Growth Partners and joined by existing investors Index Ventures, Khosla ...

Tictail is a more unusual e-commerce startup in that it is using its venture capital backing to power ahead on creating a platform which is super-easy to create a shop on. Now it's allowing third-part...

Tictail is a more unusual e-commerce startup in that it is using its venture capital backing to power ahead on creating a platform which is super-easy to create a shop on. Now it's allowing third-part...

Earlier this year, when Rocket Internet announced a new injection of $500 million into its Germany-based startup incubator, co-founder Oliver Samwer told me that a large focus for it would be emerging...

The army of auxiliary hardware being built by hardware startups to extend the native capabilities of smartphones shows no signs of slowing its march. Meet Nix: a colour sensor that lets you scan an ob...

DeveloperAuction, which launched in 2012 to revolutionize the engineer recruiting market, is today rebranding itself as Hired.com, and putting its sights on a much larger target covering designers, da...

Cinemacraft, a startup that wants to replace static video thumbnails with its interactive Videograms, has raised a $1.5 million strategic funding round from investors NTT DoCoMo, Turner Broadcasting's...

Microsoft has redesigned Bing's logo and user interface as it seeks to position the search engine as a developer platform. ...

When Twitter broke the news last week about its forthcoming IPO, I got a bit sentimental. In 2006, when Twitter was entering the world as a side project of the podcasting startup Odeo, I had just left...

In his keynote today at Linuxcon, Valve CEO and Founder Gabe Newell said Linux is the future of gaming and hinted about the announcement next week of a gaming box built on the open-source operating en...

Air Traffic Control, HipHop, WebP, and Supplemental Downlink are some of the futuristic technologies that will bring the Internet to the five billion people still disconnected. A 70-page whitepaper re...

Reddit has kept its promise to ban amateur manhunts. The sitehas banned a community forum, known as a subreddit, which attempted to crowdsource the search for the gunman who opened fire at the Washing...

In a world where your every move is tracked, what would you pay for a secure cellphone? Dr. Bjrn Rupp is willing to bet it's about $3,500. His company, GSMK Cryptophone builds cellphones that are secu...

Splunk has acquired BugSense, a mobile analytics platform used by developers to improve app performance and improve quality.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close d...

If a startup called Oyster is the Netflix for e-books, then iStoryTime is the children's alternative. One of the oldest players in the kids' interactive e-books app market iszuuka(aka iStoryTime), a c...

The Uber app for iOS and presumably Android is getting a couple of new features centered around estimated times of arrival today. The app now lets you share your ETA with contacts from the app, lettin...

Box showed off new versions of its file preview feature and iOS apps at its BoxWorks conference this morning. In doing so, it was also highlighting what recent acquisitions have brought to the company...

Bestselling author James Bamford is one of the world's leading authorities on the NSA. At Disrupt SF 2013, he spoke on a great panel about online security and afterwards I had the good fortune to int...

A small, Shanghai-based startup called SlideIdea made its official debut at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Alley this past week, with a new take on presentation tools built for iPad first. Though this s...

Box announced on-stage at its BoxWorks conference that it will be making the documents stored in its cloud storage system smarter, thanks to upcoming support for metadata.At first glance, this might n...

If you're already worried that journalists are writing for robots, it's time to press the panic button: here's an algorithm that can apparently rewrite journalists. Israeli natural language processing...

After months of speculation and quite a bit of skepticism, we're pleased to report that the ProDesk3D is real, it works, and it really does print in color. How, exactly, is still under question - we w...

Internet Explorer 8, which launched in 2009, isn't exactly a modern browser by any standards and it's slowly turning into the new Internet Explorer 6. Google stopped supporting Google Apps on IE8 last...

Movie and TV recommendations app Luma.tv has been working to solve the "what to watch" problem for years. The company first launched as Inveni.com, a free web service backed by nearly $2 million in fo...

Werables aren't just for adults anymore. There's a new crop of startups that are hoping to give parents peace of mind, and deliver more insights about young children and their sleeping patters through...

Box appears on the verge of becoming a publicly traded company. It may not happen until next year but the file storage and collaboration company has as much momentum as any enterprise startup looking ...

After raising nearly $20 million and becoming one of the most downloaded mobile apps but never finding real revenue, Bump Technologies has been acquired by Google. Its namesake app lets you physically...

Cambridge-based PushPage is launching its personal homepage and Q&A platform today, backed by $1.7 million in seed funding. The product, live now on both web and mobile, offers users an online pre...

A new travel platform called OLSET is launching its public beta to streamline the hotel booking process, with an algorithm for matching user preferences to reviews from TripAdvisor. Instead of providi...

iPad-based point-of-sale market leader Revel has just completed its biggest single deployment to date, outfitting the entire Alabama State University stadium with Revel POS equipment. The brand new st...

Withlocals, a peer-to-peer marketplace for locals to offer travellers various experiences, such as tours, home dining, and other local activities, has raised $500,000 in funding from startup builder a...

Bitcoin payment processor startup BitPay has exceeded 10,000 Bitcoin-accepting merchants using its services to take payments via the decentralised digital cryptocurrency. Around this time last year Bi...

Aaron Levie’s Box is a quickly growing enterprise-facing file storage company that has accreted to itself enough in-house technical prowess to expand its feature footprint to new niches that fit...

Aaron Levie’s Box is a quickly growing, enterprise-facing file storage company that has accreted to itself enough in-house technical prowess to expand its feature footprint to new niches that fi...

Upworthy, the website aiming to make meaningful videos go viral, has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Spark Capital, an early investor in Tumblr and Twitter, along with Catamount Ventures,...

Upworthy, the website aiming to make meaningful videos go viral, has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Spark Capital, an early investor in Tumblr and Twitter, along with Catamount Ventures,...

Yammer, Convo, and Jiveare among the business products seeking to provide collaborative enterprises with tooling to allow their respective denizens to work in better harmony and at a faster pace. Each...

The Liberator gun made headlines when its creator fired up his 3D printer and created them, building firearms that actually fire out of little more than plastic components that combined cost little mo...

Jolla, the Finnish startup that's aiming to build a mobile ecosystem around its MeeGo-based OS, Sailfish, has announced the Sailfish OS is now compatible with the Android ecosystem -- on both a hardwa...

New York based Zipments, a same-day delivery marketplace that connects retailers with couriers, has closed a $2.25 million seed round to further build out its product and expand to new cities. It's fa...

New York based Zipments, a same-day delivery marketplace that connects retailers with couriers, has closed a $2.25 million seed round to further build out its product and expand to new cities. It's fa...

When Yahoo acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion earlier this year, Yahoo's CEO Marissa Mayer and CFO Ken Goldman both pointed out that advertising on the site (and revenues from those ads) would ramp up s...

Google's Maps and Earth products are a good way to pass some idle time, zooming around the globe, but they're also tools that can be put to use in scenarios with considerable social impact. The search...

Conduit, the Israeli-based browser-toolbar and mobile startup estimated to be worth some $1.4 billion, has confirmed it is merging with Perion Network. Conduits Client Connect business and Perion wil...

Conduit, the Israeli-based browser-toolbar and mobile startup estimated to be worth some $1.4 billion, has confirmed it is merging with Perion Network. Conduits Client Connect business and Perion wil...

After ignoring repeated requests to appear in a court case challenging the Pakistan government's year-long YouTube blackout, the country's elusive IT minister is expected to appear at a hearing later ...

Microduino Studio wants to make Arduino more accessible by creating a smaller, flexible and cheaper hardware addition to the prototyping platform. All Arduino-compatible boards and extension modules c...

For the second week in a row, LinkedIn's market capitalization finished higher than Salesforce.com. Linkedin ended trading on Friday with a $32.56 billion market cap while the Salesforce market cap wa...

Back at TC Disrupt SF 2012, Famo.us announced a Javascript framework for building super complex yet still super-smooth HTML5 apps. They promised rich, 3D, Iron-Man-esque interfaces running in the brow...

Back at TC Disrupt SF 2012, Famo.us announced a Javascript framework for building super complex yet still super-smooth HTML5 apps. They promised rich, 3D, Iron-Man-esque interfaces running in the brow...

Google is betting big on photos on Google+. Indeed, most of the innovation on the company’s social network so far has been around photos, including the #AutoAwesome launch at I/O. Last week, Goo...

For anyone who's had to text a friend for another friend's phone number so, all of us Dubb is an app that lets users request contact information from those in their extended friend network, who can ...

Its one trend thats been hard to miss, being mostly clipped and/or strapped in plain sight. To spell it out, hardware startups and the devices theyre making -- are having a moment, thanks in major pa...

In case you didn't know, marketing games on mobile has become a big of a nightmare. In this article I talk about how this is part of a wider trend, a squeezing phase affecting many game makers in the ...

When it comes to competition, Pebble has plenty to be concerned about. In an interview on-stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, founder Eric Migicovsky seemed unconcerned about questions on competition...

Leading up last weeks Apple event and the unveiling of the iPhone 5s, the Internet may have led you to believe that Android is better. The reality for startups, however, is more nuanced. When it comes...

Leading up to last weeks Apple event and the unveiling of the iPhone 5s, the Internet may have led you to believe that Android is better. The reality for startups, however, is more nuanced. When it co...

Darrell and I pride ourselves on making the TechCrunch Droidcast a Wednesday staple, but alas, we just couldn't find the time at Disrupt to record the show. I know, I'm sorry.To make up for it, we rou...

Apple has a new trick up its sleeve with the iPhone 5s that was talked about on stage during its recent reveal event, but the impact of which won't be felt until much later when it gets fully taken ad...

Germanys Der Spiegel newspaper - increasingly joining the NSA revelations train - reports today that the intelligence agency is interested in international credit card transactions and may have found ...

Rich Barton may still be best known for his role as a founder at pioneering web properties such as Expedia and Zillow, but in recent years he has emerged as an investor in some really interesting star...

Over the course of the three day Disrupt conference, Michael Arrington interviewed 13 of the most influential people in the tech industry, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Yahoo CEO Marissa ...

What a busy week it's been for the tech industry -- and what better way to cap it off than by shutting down all your electronic devices and meditating alone in the forest watching a brand new episode ...

Think about that pure, unbridled feeling when you knew you wanted to be an entrepreneur. Now think about the unsexiest business you could possibly start.Did you think of an insurance product and finan...

Since its inception in 2010, AngelList has steadily transformed the way people think about gathering funding for their technology startups. But so far, nothing AngelList has done has garnered as quick...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor added up the Apple announcements, the Twitter IPO, and why Chromecast's Cloud-to-Device model will stick. No ...

Dale Vince sits in a spartan office in the corner of Ecotricity, one of the UK's few green energy electricity networks, and taps away on an Apple Mac at his standing desk. The office is bare, other th...

Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams has an ambitious new plan: to shift our daily reading habits away from consuming incremental news bites and towards engaging with enlightened ideas curated by an intel...

Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams has an ambitious new plan: to shift our daily reading habits away from consuming incremental news bites and towards engaging with enlightened ideas curated by an intel...

Maybe I'm just jaded and cranky. But as I wandered through Startup Alley at Disrupt this week, and even as I watched many of the Battlefield contestants, I found myself fighting eye-glazing ennui. App...

At TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 this past week, a Warsaw-based startup called IQ Intelclinic was showing off an intelligent sleeping mask which uses sensors to monitor the wearers' sleep cycles, includi...

At TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 this past week, a Warsaw-based startup called IQ Intelclinic was showing off an intelligent sleeping mask which uses sensors to monitor the wearers' sleep cycles, includi...

Once, on a brisk autumn night months and months ago, I went for a run around a park and promptly lost my car keys in the dark. The next hour was spent Googling local tow services and hoping that my ph...

With an abnormally high population of Google Glass owners in one convention center and ShopStyle’s API open to participants at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, it should come as no surprise tha...

It’s Friday, kids, so calm down and have a laugh. Do this: Stop caring about Apple and Microsoft and Google and the phone in your pocket and the platform of your dreams and all that. Instead, gi...

In this week's episode of Ask A VC, Spark Capital founder and general partner Bijan Sabet joined us in the studio to talk about investment syndicates and much more.Sabet was one of the early backers o...

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

Need to do some homework on who you're emailing? You could search their name on Google, Facebook, or LinkedIn, but on mobile that's a lot of taps, and it's hard to know if you've got the right John Sm...

In an interview backstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, Mailbox founder Gentry Underwood said that the company is actively working on an Android version of the app, and mentioned that ephemerality ma...

Journalists and netizens have mixed feelings about a long-sought federal media shield law that is headed to a vote in the Senate. The Free Flow of Information Act of 2013 would protect designated jour...

Days by Wander launched back in May with a very difficult mission: to change the way you think about photo-sharing. While some think that pictures of your feet or coffee are too mundane for photo-shar...

A little more than a year after Woot founder Matt Rutledge left the revolutionary daily deals company he sold to Amazon, he's bringing the team back together to hack e-commerce once again. The new com...

Intel has made another international acquisition in its push into artificial intelligence technology: it has bought Indisys, a Spanish startup focused on naturual language recognition. The terms of th...

Intel has made another international acquisition in its push into artificial intelligence technology: it has bought Indisys, a Spanish startup focused on naturual language recognition. The terms of th...

Seenth.is lets music fans hone their obsession by making it easy for them to track the most interesting social media updates from their favorite performers. The iOS app (an Android version will be rel...

Seenth.is lets music fans hone their obsession by making it easy for them to track the most interesting social media updates from their favorite performers. The iOS app (an Android version will be rel...

Chris Kemp, a former NASA CTO is stepping down as CEO of Nebula, the company he founded to provide hardware and software systems for building OpenStack cloud services. Kemp will become the companyR...

Technology makes it easy to turn the minutiae of our daily lives into useful data sets, but sometimes it feels bleak to see every experience or memory broken down into pie charts and bar graphs. mem:o...

Facebook launched its virtual currency Credits in June 2011 to simplify payments. In reality, Credits were a nightmare for international payments due to fluctuating exchange rates. But last night, the...

Import.io participated in the Startup Alleyat TechCrunch Disrupt, showing its service that makes data from a web site more accessible by turning pages into spreadsheets for pulling relevant informatio...

Before the five startups taking part in this year's San Francisco MediaCamp took the stage at Demo Day, the gathered investors, journalists, and tech/media industry folk were addressed by Turner Broad...

Before the five startups taking part in this year's San Francisco MediaCamp took the stage at Demo Day, the gathered investors, journalists, and tech/media industry folk were addressed by Turner Broad...

Online education providers may very well disrupt the higher educationestablishment, but, first, these for-profit companies need to find a way to finance the mammoth technical infrastructure needed to ...

Life is hard for famous people. You’re trying to @ reply with your celebrity friends on Twitter, but the conversation gets drowned out by rabid fans and spammers mentioning you. So Twitter’...

Life is hard for famous people. You’re trying to @ reply with your celebrity friends on Twitter, but the conversation gets drowned out by rabid fans and spammers mentioning you. So Twitter’...

Today Microsoft announced that it has added IMAP support to its Outlook.com webmail product. Outlook.com has over 400 million active users according to Microsoft, making it not only one of the most po...

The official Arduino IDE is a dour piece of software designed for uploading code to the ubiquitous and super-cool micro controller. It is a standalone, non-networked app that isn't very pretty to look...

Happy Post-Disrupt Day, super troopers. I trust you are rehydrated and back at work. A pity. While we were watching Zuckerberg knock the U.S. government for misbehaving while others managed to toss th...

Coder, a new project that’s coming out of Google’s Creative Lab, is an open source tool that allows you to easily turn a Raspberry Pi into a basic web server with a web-based development e...

Coder, a new project that’s coming out of Google’s Creative Lab, is an open source tool that allows you to easily turn a Raspberry Pi into a basic web server with a web-based development e...

Oh, you thought virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift were already cool? The folks at Sixense are trying to take it to a whole new level, with a set of motion tracking controllers that bring y...

The iPhone 5S announcement this week was punctuated with a lot of specs and buzzwords. Much of it centered around the new Touch ID fingerprint scanner and the 64-bit processor. But the most intriguing...

Today Twitter confirmed that it has filed an S-1 with the SEC and is therefore on the road to going public. This is an important moment for Twitter, and for tech, as it shows that the IPO window is op...

In a test that could make News Feed more engaging and pave the way for video ads, Facebook's mobile feed will start auto-playing user-uploaded videos in-line when they're scrolled over for a small sub...

Big data is a catch-all term for describing any form of data analytics that requires the processing of data, be it by the gigabyte, terabyte or in the nose-bleed realm of petabyte-scale workloads. SAP...

Russian startup Nettle, which is based in the Skolkovo Tech City area, is showing off a $28,000 holographic gaming set-up at TechCrunch Disrupt SF's hardware alley. The Nettlebox rig consists of a 3D ...

Insightly has raised $10 million for its CRM service that integrates with GMail, Outlook, Office 365 and other services. Emergence Capital Partners, Sozo Ventures and TrueBridge Capital Partners parti...

Circa, a startup that offers quick and mobile news consumption, is expanding its services to the web by launching its online platform for following and sharing news. While the website does’t hav...

Fring, an early startup that focused on creating group messaging and video calling apps for mobile phones, competing against the likes of Skype and WhatsApp, is calling it a day as an independent enti...

There are quite a few steps between starting to learn to code and developing a web application, and a new Y Combinator startup is trying to fill in those gaps. Appcubator has launched to allow users t...

Temnos is launching a new platform today that it says will give online publishers important data, which in turn will allow them to make their content more engaging. It's also announcing that it has ra...

Upfront has been adding new partners. In March, former Hautelook CMO Greg Bettinelli joined the firm as a partner focused on making investments in e-commerce, marketplaces, and consumer applications. ...

YouTube network Maker Studios just closed out its Series C funding round, bringing on an additional $26 million from a wide range of international investors. The funding will bring the full amount of ...

Zynstra, which runs hybrid cloud solutions for small and medium sized enterprises, has completed a $3.8 million Series A funding round, bringing the total amount raised to just over $6 million. It has...

Spotted in the Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, myTAG is a soon-to-launch online platform for local selling that aims to make the e-commerce experience more transparent between buyer and s...

WeatherSphere, a small Mountain View-based startup founded by former eBay engineer Raghav Gupta in fall 2012, is focusing on developing mobile applications that look at the weather space from the tech...

In a blog post, Nokia chairman and interim CEO Risto Siilasmaa gave more details about the company's plans now that it has exited the smartphones business. This marks the most recent reinvention for t...

Estimote, a Y Combinator graduate and Hardware Alley exhibitor here at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, was able to talk about something today that it's never been able to before: how its product will work...

There's a growing number of startups out there that are focusing on building new hardware, and that's an immensely different problem compared to building a software business, in terms of sourcing reso...

Cooking is set to get a whole lot smarter if connected kitchen device startup, The Orange Chef, pulls off its grand vision. Here at TechCrunch Disrupt SF's hardware alley it's showing off the Prep Pad...

After three days and some truly incredible pitches from each of our 30 Battlefield competitors, the time has finally come to crown a Disrupt Battlefield champion. Competition among this year's pack of...

Manufacturing and logistics giant PCH International alongside hardware incubator Highway1 have announced that Estimote, a tool for helping retail spaces interact with customers, has been chosen for Be...

Apple is now requiring that all users booking a Genius Bar appointment online sign in with an Apple ID. Previously, users could instead fill out a form with name, address and email in order to book an...

One of the longest-standing gripes about the iPhone on Verizon and Sprint networks will not change this time around. The new models of iPhone for those carriers will still not enable you to use both v...

FiscalNote, a startup that helps businesses stay up-to-date with state and local legislation, is announcing that it has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from investor Mark Cuban, New Enterprise Ass...

Facebook's mission to connect the world didn't stop when it hit 1 billion people. And it won't stop if connects everyone with web access. 'To make the world more open and connected' really means the w...

After participating in a panel discussion at TechCrunch Disrupt SF about the enterprise market, Box CEO Aaron Levie said to me in an interview that the industry needs an innovative and more prosperous...

It's not possible to cover every single company in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt. but we can give you a flavor of a handful with a quick run-though. Here's just such a selection in the video abo...

TechCrunch is coming to India with a Techcrunch Bangalore Meetup in November, so it's only right that we ran though the companies on the India Pavilion at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. As you c...

BotObjects is a 3D printer company that promises "full-color" printing in a system that uses a set of colored filaments to extract colored plastic in layers. Like the Makerbot, theProDesk3Ddeposits pl...

TechNode is TechCrunch's partner in China - translating many Techcrunch posts directly into Chinese on TechCrunch.cn. So during TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco we caught up with Kevin Chen of Tech...

Today at Disrupt SF, venture capital pioneers Tom Perkins and Don Valentine shared their opinions about what makes a good bet when it comes to choosing companies to fund. As a reminder, Perkins co-fou...

Zynstra, which runs hybrid cloud solutions for small and medium sized enterprises, has completed a $3.8 million Series A funding round, bringing the total amount raised to just over $6 million. It has...

It's been a very busy few months since the Enigma team took home the Disrupt Cup back in New York, and co-founder Hicham Oudghiri took the stage here in San Francisco today to deliver an update on the...

"I think the government blew it," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg bluntlysaidabout the NSA scandal today at TechCrunch Disrupt."We take our role very seriously," he said. "It's our job to protect everyon...

Running across a tiny startup from Cairo or one from Moscow is part and parcel of Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt, which often has companies from the farthest-flung corners of the world. I came ac...

The team fromGyft, an app bringing the gift card industry to your mobile phone,took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 today to introduce a new gift card registry option, which allows users to cr...

A year ago the guys at Nomad released a small, portable USB cable for iPhones and micro USB devices. Now they've launched the ChargeKey, a super-small "cable" for charging your device via any USB port...

Mark Zuckerberg today said that Facebook is working on a new version of the Home lockscreen that will feature Instagram and third party content, based on requests from users. The comments came today a...

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, today said that Facebook is working on a new version of the Home lockscreen that will feature Instagram and third-party social content, based on requests from use...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, speaking on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 this afternoon, spoke of his vision for Facebook, explaining that when he thinks about the company’s mission in conn...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today that he was previously too afraid of taking Facebook public. "I've been very outspoken about staying private as long as possible", Zuckerberg said o...

Ireland has a long history in technology and in recent years it's become clear that the country is able to push above its weight in the world of startups. We ran through some of the companies exhibiti...

What is this? An ordinary vending machine you say? If that was your guess, you would be wrong, but it would be understandable why you might not know there is something special about it. That's because...

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer detailed her views on Microsoft, and its coming executive shakeup. Her broad take is simple: “A strong Microsoft is good for the [technology]...

At TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer sat down with Michael Arrington to discuss the state of Yahoo. After touching upon the company's new logo and hires, Mayer talked a bit about the...

Yahoo has picked up a bunch of new talent through the 20+ acqui-hires it has made since Marissa Mayer took over as CEO in 2012, but Yahoo's push to grow the company, apparently is also starting to wea...

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced today at TechCrunch Disrupt that Yahoo monthly active users are up 20% to 800 million globally, including 350 million monthly active users on mobile. Mayer said those...

Zynga has reached a settlement around a lawsuit last year that accused a former general manager of “wholesale theft” of the company’s trade secrets after he left for rival social gam...

Two very important events went down this week. The first was Apple's iPhone announcement, which we covered thoroughly (and perhaps exhaustively). The second was TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, which was p...

When all else fails for your company, look to the heavens. Zynga -- the social gaming company that has in the last several months changed its CEO, laid people off, pulled back from original strategic ...

Pandora just announced that it has appointed former ad executive Brian McAndrews as its new CEO, president, and chairman.The company announced in March that its CEO Joe Kennedy would be stepping down,...

Consumers are showing an increasing interest in wearable health technology, and health tech startups offer an opportunity to cut on costs for a medical system that many would say is failing the countr...

Facebook shares closed at an all-time high of $45.05 on Wednesday afternoon. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckeberg will be interviewed by Michael Arrington this afternoon. Arrington interviewed Zuckerberg at D...

GitHub has made its name as an online repository for developers to post, borrow and collaborate on code together -- with active users now numbering 4 million -- but in the future it wants to take that...

Vinod Khosla, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems who later went on to create Khosla Ventures, says that the vast majority of VCs aren’t in a position to offer decent advice to startups. ...

At TechCrunch Disrupt SF, TechCrunch and CrunchFund founder Michael Arrington and KhoslaVentures founder Vinod Khosla took the stage to discuss the areas Khoslais currently most interested in. Besides...

This morning, intelligent thermostat company Nest struck a patent licensing deal with notorious patent hoarder Intellectual Ventures. There are a variety of reasons for the deal but the primary purpos...

Yesterday at TechCrunch Disrupt we hosted a panel discussing Bitcoin (a recap can be found here). During the course of that discussion, I noticed something interesting: The former boom in the price of...

Kleiner Perkins has invested in a startup that partnerJohn Doerrsays will improve battery power by 300% compared to the usual 1-2% improvements that we normally see in the industry....

Google had some news to reveal at this year's big Intel Developer Forum conference today, including new Chromebook hardware from brand new OEM partners, as well as a few existing ones. The new devices...

It's hardware day here at Disrupt SF and this morning's sessions kicked off with an interview with Nicholas Woodman, founder and CEO of action camera company GoPro. Woodman discussed how the GoPro evo...

Here's a question that more than few consumer hardware startups are struggling with these days: should they try and raise money from a slew of wary investors or bring their projects to the public in ...

Here's a question that more than few consumer hardware startups are struggling with these days: should they try and raise money from a slew of wary investors or bring their projects to the public in ...

Founder of smartwatch startup Pebble Eric Migicovsky took the stage at Disrupt, interviewed by our own John Biggs. He addressed head on the recently revealed competition from smartphone giant Samsung,...

Online direct democracy is coming to America. San Francisco will be the first major city to allow citizens to directly vote on portions of budget via the web.While details are still coming together, S...

TechCrunch will be the media partner on a $165,000 Knight Foundation grant to business consulting firm, Refram.it, which will develop a novel type of polling for media organizations. "deliberative pol...

TechCrunch will be the media partner on a $165,000 Knight Foundation grant to business consulting firm, Refram it, which will develop a novel type of polling for media organizations. "deliberative pol...

The last, and final, day of Disrupt SF 2013 is about to begin. Just like yesterday and the day before, today we have a jam-packed schedule, with some of the biggest names in tech making appearances. ...

The Mercedes S-Class has been the flagship of the German automakers sedan lineup since the early 70s. Its a car that provides the finest technology that the company has to offer with powerful engines,...

The European Commission has over the years been chipping away at how big carriers have milked European consumers in areas like international calling charges and broadband usage for certain content. No...

The European Commission has over the years been chipping away at how big carriers have milked European consumers in areas like international calling charges and broadband usage for certain content. No...

Greek startup Juengo (pronounced Joo-en-go), has an interesting spin on loyalty and are live with their concept in Greece.The concept which is on display at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 rewards consum...

Apple has secured the final government license needed to run the iPhone on China Mobile's proprietary wireless network. After years of negotiations, this is the latest of several recent signs that App...

Spotted in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, Uni Messenger is a new cross-platform mobile messaging application that lets you chat privately with friends on a variety of social networks, in...

Songdrop, the service that lets you bookmark, create playlists and stream music from the Web, has made good on its promise to launch an iOS app enabling curated music to be listened to on-the-go. The ...

Israeli startup Nubo is one of the companies at Startup Alley showing off their product at this year's TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco. The company offers enterprises an answer to their mobile device...

It's turning into a busy week for Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) providers, and the tech companies that love them -- particularly Google. On Monday, Udacity co-founder and CEO Sebastian Thrun and C...

U.S. weather app maker WeatherSphere is launching a new app called TurnCast which combines real-time and predictive rain and snow data with voice-prompted navigation -- so drivers can change their tra...

Social media management and marketing platform MarketMeSuite has landed a new strategic investment of $1.25 million from Talus Holdings, a media technology holding company. The Cambridge, Massachusett...

This year'sTechCrunch Disrupt San Franciscohas hit attendance records and been one of the most exciting we've ever had. Over the past few days, 3200 people have walked through the concourse to watch V...

There is much talk about "Big Data" and the power it can provide. But with Big Data can come Big Prices associated with the cost and complexity of wrangling all that information.According to TaDaweb ...

Is there room for another mobile messaging app? It's undoubtedly a very crowded space, packed with veteran behemoths and fast growing upstarts duking it out for users attention. But New Jersey-based ...

With short-form internet video reaching more and more consumers (Vine, Instagram), Vello's timing for bringing their video greeting card app to market is excellent. In short, Vello is an app that crea...

The "c" in the iPhone 5c title doesn't stand for "cheap". It stands for "clueless".As in, we were all clueless in our speculation on Apple's motivations for creating this device....

eGood, a new startup from Glendora, California, was chosen as one of the top startups to emerge out of Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt SF today for its charitable spin on mobile payments and loyal...

Soil IQ is a company that’s bringing the “Internet of things” trend to urban and rural farming. They’re building a probe that streams soil fertility and weather data back to a ...

Roaming the noisy byways of TechCrunch Startup Alley I found a startup today which plans to create a new kind of mobile payment and loyalty platform. Yoyo has today - at Disrupt in SF - announced it's...

The InsideMaps team, which is launching its app today on the Disrupt SF 2013 stage, is applying 3D mapping and capture technology to an interesting problem: How do you visualize furniture purchases in...

Russia is a booming market for startups as the county's internet access and 4G networks ramp up. It's now the biggest single market in Europe, passing Germany a year ago. At the same time the governme...

Everyone has cognitive highs and lows. Some of us are night owls, while others are early birds. Tidepool is a mobile app that learns when you’re at your cognitive peak and makes recommendations ...

In a world where the "quantified self" is now mainstream, Beestar is launching to offer one of the most precise location and activity trackers in the world. And not only that, the technology provided ...

As we’ve discussed before, thanks to a handful of names, including Kickstarter and Indiegogo and the gaggle of startups that have emerged in their wake, crowdfunding is on the “Big screen....

As we've discussed before, thanks to a handful of names, including Kickstarter and Indiegogo and the gaggle of startups that have emerged in their wake, crowdfunding is on the "Big screen." Yet, the t...

Trail is a rare thing indeed: a startup not aiming to appeal to elite geeks. Quite the opposite in fact: Trail targets the circa 60 million Americas who aren't digitally literate and could benefit fro...

Curiator, a new app launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, is not the first website that aims for people to discover and buy art, but it hopes its beautiful design, interactivity, and intelligent a...

Today, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced that it is going Down Under. It is opening up its network to Australia and New Zealand-based projects "in the very near future." The move comes just ...

Feed.fm just launched at Disrupt SF as part of the Startup Battlefield and if the service takes off, you may soon be hearing a lot more music on your favorite websites and apps.Co-founder and CEO Jef...

We are seekers. We always want something new to experience, but the iTunes Store is sorely missing social ways to discover music, movies, TV, and books. Bitcovery fills the gap. Add friends whose tast...

What do you get when you put a pair of board gaming geeks who have worked at NVIDIA, Google, LucasArts, and Ubisoft together in the same room? It probably looks like Tangible Play, debuting at Disrupt...

The National Security Agency improperly identified over 15,000 telephone numbers as “suspicious” because there was no one at the agency who understood the rules, according to a scathing co...

The NSA is designed to protect us from terrorism, so even if it oversteps its bounds, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin says we shouldn't hate it. That's diametrically opposed to the sentiment of many in ...

BRANDiD, a personal shopping site that presented today on the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield stage, is hoping to catch the eye of that particular demographic of men who would rather do anything else i...

Today at Disrupt SF, Frontback co-founder and CEO Frdric della Faille took the stage to introduce Frontback to the world. After 200,000 downloads in a month, everybody is trying to answer this intrigu...

Shortly after Apple's event this morning, Darrell and I got to spend a bit of time with the just-announced iPhone 5s and its more wallet-friendly lil' brother, the iPhone 5c.While we'll wait until we'...

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, a young, teacher-led education technology startup called Skaffl announced the impending launch of an iPad app that aims to help teachers make better use of technology i...

When Apple holds its iPhone event in Beijing tomorrow -- part of its push to simultaneously debut the product in multiple international markets -- it looks like Apple could use the opportunity of new ...

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Next Caller, a customer service call center tool announced that it has integrated with Zendesk in a bid to expand its customer base. It also announced that it has acquired...

First Cut Pro provides editing teams with a cloud-based tool for collaborating and monitoring all the different changes that are made to videos during the post-production process. The tool allows for ...

Startup Alley is a veritable cornucopia of new technology companies. The world's best descend on San Francisco annually for TechCrunch Disrupt. And this year, as in many previous, we had a pavilion fr...

Quick update from the CrunchBase team. Our dataset has now grown to 400k profiles and 45k investment rounds thanks to our community of contributors and members of theCrunchBase Venture Program. WeR...

Would you buy a robotic drink maker from these men? I sure would. These are the creators of Monsieur, a robotic bartender that will squirt out a great margarita or a nice Manhattan in about a minute u...

Apple introduced some cases to go along with both the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. The iPhone 5c’s case looks a lot like Crocs shoes. It also makes for one of the most annoying Apple design missteps...

Mood-based music streaming service Songza has raised a $4.7 million funding round, their second since they closed $2 million in 2011. Songza did not name a lead for the round, the investors for which ...

Apple's Cupertino keynote is finally over, but the ensuing sea of stories that emerged from the event can still be a little tricky to navigate. We've written plenty of full-length stories discussing w...

Open Garden, a former TC Startup Battlefield contestant, launched its latest product today. Wifi Opener, which is now available for Android, allows users to easily share the password to protected Wi-F...

Adi Tatarko, the CEO and co-founder of Houzz,the fast-growing online platform for home remodeling and design,took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF this morning to discuss the company’s past, p...

Apple's iPhone 5S is a major improvement over the iPhone 5, packing some changes to the hardware beyond the usual spec and performance improvements we see from "S" advances on iPhone. The big splashy ...

Apple has finally unveiled the long-rumored iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. For the first time ever, the company released two separate iPhone models at the same time, one a high-end continuation of the iPhon...

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, Naval Ravikant of AngelList, Balaji Srinivasan of genomics startup Counsyl, and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss took to the stage to discuss all things Bitcoin with TechCr...

Hardware hacking often seems like black magic to the uninitiated, which is why 123D Circuits is so cool: it allows you to learn electronics using a virtual Arduino board and breadboard without blowing...

Apple has released the Gold Master (GM) version of iOS 7 to developers, according to reports from Twitter. This is significant because the GM version is likely the last official pre-release version of...

Apple has released the Gold Master (GM) version of iOS 7 to developers, according to reports from Twitter. This is significant because the GM version is likely the last official pre-release version of...

Scaling a marketplace is a huge challenge, but Houzz seems to have cracked the code in connecting customers who wish to remodel their homes with local professionals who can get the job done. Backstage...

Apple today introduced the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S, and though the iPhone 5C is the less expensive of the two, it's nonetheless very impressive hardware. I got some hands-on time with the 5C immediate...

AppDirect has raised $9 million and is announcing the purchase of Standing Cloud, a Foundry Group investment. With the acquisition, Foundry Group is now the lead investor in AppDirect. iNova Capital a...

In conjunction with the announcement of two new models of iPhone today, Apple has also made severaladjustments to its AppleCare+ coverage. First of all, it has raised the service fees for accidental d...

In addition to announcing a new $1 billion fund, while on-stage today at Disrupt SF, Reid Hoffman and David Sze of Greylock Partners talked about how they actually choose the startups they back.In fac...

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff spoke of his relationship with Apple founder Steve Jobs at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 conference this morning - on the same day that executives from Apple were introduc...

Investing in enterprise startups is a long-odds game, but if you play your cards right you can hit the jackpot. That was one of the takeaways of a conversation today between Doug Leone, a partner at s...

Sugar Lab launched last May with some fanfare. The company was founded to print 3D confections using crystallized sugar. They could make some amazing things with a sort of Willy Wonka meets M.C. Esche...

Apple’s new iPhone 5C will run $549 for a 16GB and $649 for a 32GB model off contract, according to Apple’s store site. The iPhone 5C will be available for pre-order on September 20th and ...

Surprise! While the iPhone 5 won’t stick around, the iPhone 4S will still be available for free with a two-year contract. It’s an unexpected move as the iPhone 4S is now two years old. App...

Remember those persistent rumors of a fingerprint sensor that would be baked into the iPhone 5S? Well, it's not a rumor any longer -- Apple has just confirmed that the iPhone 5S will feature a 500ppi ...

World, prepare yourself for the next-generation iPhone. Rumors this season have included two new color flavors — gold and silver — along with the addition of a finger print scanner for add...

Today at Apple’s iPhone event, Apple unveiled a cheaper iPhone: the iPhone 5C. While the device in itself is not really a surprise after countless of leaks, the price of the iPhone 5C was still ...

Today at Apple’s iPhone event, Apple unveiled a cheaper iPhone, the iPhone 5C, as well as the iPhone 5S. While the devices in themselves are not really a surprise after countless of leaks, the p...

Today, for the first time in its history, Apple has expanded the iPhone line with a new model called iPhone 5C. The device will come in green, yellow, blue, white and red colors. Apple is also introdu...

Today at Apple’s iPhone event, Apple updated everyone on iWork for its mobile devices. While the productivity suite is a big seller for Apple, the company has chosen to release iWork for free fo...

The Dell deal is now all but done, according to Bloomberg who today reported that there are enough yes votes to ice the Michael Dell-Silver Lake proposal that will see the firm taken private for $24.9...

At its event this morning in Cupertino, Apple announced that iOS 7 will be available to everyone beginning on. iOS 7 was first announced back at WWDC in June, and has spent the last three months in a ...

Today at its iPhone event in Cupertino, Apple announced that it will ship its 700 millionth iOS device next month. The last numbers for Apple’s device sales came in June, when it had announced 6...

A key Republican leader in Congress wants to revisit defunding the National Security Agency’s surveillance authority. House Oversight Committee Chairman and technology enthusiast Darrell Issa in...

Running a great company is a lot different than starting one, and some lessons can only be learned with experience. If you're a founder, you could stumble by yourself until you figure it out. Or you c...

Here we go! After months of rumors and seemingly endless speculation, it's finally time for Apple to announce what they've been working on for the last few months. While we can never be completely sur...

Day 2 of the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 conference is upon us. We've got a jam-packed schedule, with appearances by Reid Hoffman and David Sze of Greylock Partners, Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures and K...

FoodieQuest is an app in the making that wants to turn the craze for taking photos of food -- second only to the selfie in the photo-sharing hierarchy -- into a sticky social game. The app will let us...

Here we go! After months of rumors and seemingly endless speculation, it's finally time for Apple to announce what they've been working on for the last few months. While we can never be completely sur...

TapInfluence, a company that connects marketers with bloggers and other online influencers, is announcing that it has raised $5 million in Series B funding.The round was existing investor Grotech Vent...

Datapipe, a managed services provider, has acquired Newvem, a company that provides heat maps and other forms of analytics for AWS customers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed....

You're going to have to do that chore yourself, because the venture capitalist won't pay for it anymore. Exec emailed customers tonight saying it would "sadly" be folding its San Francisco Errands on-...

Content discovery service Outbrain is announcing that it has hired Jeff Davison as its chief financial officer.The news comes about a day after multiple reports from Israel (where Outbrain has offices...

Numbrs, the mobile-first banking app founded out of Swiss company builderCentralway, has raised a further $3.8 million from its parent -- money that will be ring-fenced for a planned U.S. launch early...

Moglue, the online publishing platform that makes it easy to create interactive e-books, has launched its completely redesigned second version, which features a streamlined user interface and more des...

Here we go! After months of rumors and seemingly endless speculation, it's finally time for Apple to announce what they've been working on for the last few months. While we can never be completely sur...

French startup Diveboard was at TechCrunch Disrupt SF for day one of Startup Alley today, demoing its social network and e-commerce platform aimed at the thriving and avid niche of community of divers...

This morning, former San Francisco Mayor and current Lieutenant Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, and Udacity co-founder and CEO Sebastian Thrun took the stage to talk to TechCrunch co-editor Alex...

Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt this year is underway on day one, and pplconnect is one of the companies exhibiting today. This Montreal-based startup, co-founded by Jenviev Azzolin and Densil D'S...

Joyent co-founder Jason Hoffman is leaving his position as CTO of the pioneering cloud computing company. Hoffman said in a blog post that he will remain connected to Joyent as an advisor. We've reach...

Among the crowd showing at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Alley was Embrace Her Health, a two-year-old company at work on a suite of maternity apps that aim to enable women to manage their pre- an...

Snapchat co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel took the stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt and dropped a number of hints about Snapchat's future products, from wearable tech to social media feeds.What's part...

So our Hackathon technically ended yesterday, but that doesn't mean we're through shining the light on some of the great projects that presented on our stage.Take Mexican-based startup Driblet, for in...

Born at Berkeley as Politify, a fun app to compare the personal impacts of tax plans of then rival candidates for president, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, Outline is building a tool to demystify the p...

If you like DVDs but also like shelf space have we got a project for you. Called Jack the Ripper, this Raspberry Pi-powered system takes DVDs from one pile, drops them into a DVD drive for ripping, an...

Zula, a startup from Jeff Pulver, a co-founder of VoIP success story Vonage, and serial entrepreneur Jacob Ner-David, is hoping to make your life a little less reliant on your inbox. The app combines ...

Launching into closed beta in the Disrupt SF 2013 Battlefield today, SlickLogin lets you log into a website on your computer by holding your phone within a few inches of it....

Facebook knows what you talk about, just like Twitter. But its edge is that it also knows who you are. Facebook's newest APIs let select news outlets view search and see your public posts, plus it tal...

Launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, Shine Security is reinventing the idea of what it means to be an antivirus company in an age of cyber-warfare and zero-day attacks. The company's t...

Nexon, the publicly traded free-to-play gaming giant out of Asia, is continuing its streak of strategic investments in promising Western studios by taking a stake in former Zynga COO John Schappert...

Ansa is a new breed of messaging app, one that allows you to be yourself. Whenever you don’t feel like sending messages that will stay on your friend’s phone, you can go off the record. Ev...

LevelEleven, a developer of gamification apps, has raised $2 million from Detroit Venture Partners, Hyde Park Venture Partners, Salesforce.com and a group of investors, including two professional athl...

JumpCloud launched at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco today with a new way to secure the deep vulnerabilities that come with cloud servers, in particular Amazon Web Services (AWS).The service, in pri...

Shasta Ventures' managing director Rob Coneybeer likes the opportunity in hardware startups. A lot. And he's putting his money where his mouth is -- over the past year or so he's made investments in c...

Sous vide cooking is probably one of the most high-tech methods of food preparation that home cooks can perform without a degree in chemistry and/or killing themselves and those around them. That's wh...

Voxel, a startup aiming to make mobile ads genuinely representative of the apps they're promoting, just launched on-stage as part of the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF.The company's founding team i...

The 2600hz team took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt today, launching its service for disrupting the mobile telecommunications industry by opening its infrastructure through a set of open APIs that de...

The cloud computing services from Amazon, Microsoft and others make it possible for businesses to access a virtually unlimited amount of compute power for their applications. What’s hard, howeve...

After selling early mobile-social gaming network OpenFeint to GREE for $104 million two years ago, lifelong gamer Jason Citron is now setting his ambitions on bringing core gaming to tablets. The iOS ...

After selling early mobile-social gaming network OpenFeint to GREE for $104 million two years ago, lifelong gamer Jason Citron is now setting his ambitions on bringing core gaming to tablets. The iOS ...

Over the past hour or so there has been a massive wave of spam related to a ‘free Groupon of pure garcinia cambogia‘ rising on Twitter. The tweets are coming hot and heavy every few second...

Layer, a new startup launching at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2013 today, is ambitiously attempting to build a communications fabric - a "layer," if you will - for the Internet. The technology, i...

Today at Disrupt SF, Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston took the stage to share his experiences and give his thoughts on the product, future prospects, competition and more. With 200 million user...

Regalii, a Battlefield finalist presenting today at TC Disrupt, has devised a way for people, via their mobile devices, to send remittances to their families abroad, which are received in the form of ...

Startup Alley is a wondrous mix of foreign and domestic startups of all shapes, sizes and flavors. There are hundreds of companies pitching investors and media, demoing their products and fighting for...

Believe it or not, people still use MIDI. That said, wouldn't it be cool if you could connect your MIDI keyboards and drum machines to your iPad so you can add some serious breaks to your latest music...

Let's face it: tablets have grown to be tremendously popular (to the point where traditional PCs sales are slumping), but typing on them is still sort of a pain. After all, no matter how accustomed yo...

Breeze, a new mobile app for iOS that's launching at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 today, wants to help onsite vendors like plumbers, locksmiths, dog walkers and personal trainers to manage their busines...

Launching at Disrupt SF, Koality is a development tool that fills an important gap for engineering teams. It’s a seamless server-side application that sits between your startup’s repositor...

Wireless power. Its less sci-fi sounding than it once was, thanks to induction charging like that based on the Qi standard, but thats still a tech that essentially requires contact, if not incredibly ...

One of David Marcus's biggest challenges when taking on the role of President of PayPal was extending the platform into point of sale, and making it easier to pay with payPal than swiping your credit ...

MoPub, a startup that helps mobile publishers manage their ad inventory, may have been acquired by Twitter, according to sources familiar with the deal.We're hearing that the company was acquired for ...

MoPub, a startup that helps mobile publishers manage their ad inventory, has been acquired by Twitter, giving the social network another route into building its advertising business, specifically on m...

MoPub, a startup that helps mobile publishers manage their ad inventory, has been acquired by Twitter, giving the social network another route into building its advertising business, specifically on m...

The market capitalization of LinkedIn ($32.6 billion) has now passed that of Salesforce ($29 billion), but as Salesforce makes increasing moves into social media, and LinkedIn makes more moves into se...

You're the product, but when you're sold, it's only a lucky few who get rich. Technology lets big companies build tools that turn us into volunteers who contribute our time and data while they profit....

Today at Disrupt 2013, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo took the stage to deliver some basic leadership tips. The presentation was brief, but seemed like good solid advice that he was directing at the young c...

Looks like Recruit Co, the Japan-based HR and recruitment site giant that has long been gearing up for an IPO, is on the acquisition trail again, just a month after buying NuGrid in India and a year a...

Today at Disrupt SF, Snapchat co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel hinted at the company’s monetization moves. “The way that we think about monetization has changed substantially,” Spiege...

When the inevitable happens and the robots take over the world, let's all hope that Skycatch's real, live Taco Copter will bring delightful Mexican treats over the fence to the last remnants of humani...

Placecast, a mobile marketing company that has built out a business around services like its ShopAlerts geo-targeted messaging notifications for people physically near locations like stores, is now ta...

Snapchat users are sharing 350 million photos per day, according to CEO Evan Spiegel. That figure is up from 200 million in June, and Spiegel says a lot of the growth comes from Snapchat's Android use...

Starting today, Google+ users will be able to embed their postsanywhere on the web. The new feature provides its users with the code needed to embed posts, including a JavaScript snippet and the actua...

As Google and Facebook buses continue rolling through San Francisco neighborhoods and as storefronts give way to sleek coffee shops and bean-to-bar chocolatiers, an undercurrent of class angst has bub...

Livefyre, a commenting platform used by TechCrunch and other websites, is announcing that it has acquired social curation startup Storify.The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Livefy...

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, Lyft co-foundersJohn Zimmer and Logan Green discussed the regulatory scrap they deal with when expanding to new cities, stating that despite headwind, there is a “...

Today investor Carl Icahn surrendered his bid to take Dell partially private in a leveraged buyout. Instead, Michael Dell, the company's founder, will now certainly win in his efforts to take Dell pri...

Lyft founders John Zimmer and Logan Green shared the backstory of how they chose to sell off their original core business, Zimride, to focus on Lyft on stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt."Lyft came out...

Google, AT&T and a host of online education organizations are forming an alliance to develop standards for career readiness. Spearheaded by Massive Openly Online Course (MOOC) provider, Udacity, t...

Remember the Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch unveiled a week ago?Snapchat certainly does, and the ephemeral messaging app has released an app specifically for the wrist-worn gadget. Called Snapchat Mic...

Microsoft announced today that the Windows 8.1 RTM build is available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers, approximately one month ahead of the general public.Previously, the company had stated that devel...

Lyft President John Zimmer said the company will rely on its community, with its signature pink mustaches and fist bumps, to gain a large user base, even in the face of stiff competition from Uber and...

Ron Conway, one of the most powerful investors in Silicon Valley, today defended his position of not getting involved in issues around national security and consumer privacy, saying that he was alread...

Ron Conway, one of the more powerful investors in Silicon Valley, today defended his position of not getting involved in issues around national security and consumer privacy, saying that he was alread...

Fast-rising photo app Frontback just received its first major update in the App Store, bringing much-needed social features. Until now, the app didn’t have user profiles because the original ver...

Yahoo launched a new mobile application this morning called “Yahoo Screen,” designed for Apple iOS devices, including iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The app is meant to serve as a mobile hom...

And so it begins. The San Francisco Design Center is filling with investors, entrepreneurs, members of the media and general tech enthusiasts as the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 officially ...

Today Microsoft released invites to its forthcoming Surface 2.0 event in New York City. The shindig, taking place in Chelsea on the 23 of September, will show off new Surface hardware, though Microsof...

Freestyle.VC, the micro-VC firm founded by serial entrepreneurs Josh Felser and Dave Samuel, has raised $40 million for its second fund. The firm's inaugural fund, raised in 2011, totaled $27 million....

In another episode of "Sticking It To The Man Through Lego" we present a spider that manually clicks through the pages of a Kindle book and then signals a computer to take a picture of the e-ink scree...

Desire2Learn, the Ontario-based makers of one of the largest Learning Management Systems (LMS) that raised $80 million last year, has been going after M&A of late. Today, after buying student coll...

Today, StatCounter -- the research group that tracks Internet usage by browser, platform and device, among other things -- has released some numbers that indicate that while Apple continues to keep it...

Today, StatCounter -- the research group that tracks Internet usage by browser, platform and device, among other things -- has released some numbers that indicate that while Apple continues to keep it...

More changes of personnel in the London/European VC scene. Gil Dibner is moving from Index Ventures to join DFJ Esprit, the European VC firm that is also part of Silicon Valleys DFJ Global Network. At...

About a year and a half ago, a small team at Opera started working on a new browser for tablets and today, it is launching the result of this project: Opera Coast, a new, almost chrome-less browser fo...

Pistol Lake originally kicked off a Kickstarter campaign for its first line of clothing last year, which consisted of crew- and V-neck T-shirts and polos. Now its looking to expand its clothing line, ...

Rocket Internet, the Samwer brothers' Germany-based e-commerce startup factory, has announced that its brought iMENA Holdings on as a partner and investor in Foodpanda's Hellofood Middle Eastern opera...

More acquisition news in the online travel space. This time it's the turn of Groupon, which this morning announced that it's acquired Madrid, Spain-based Blink, a last minute hotel booking app that co...

Launched publicly last month, Mindsy is a new UK startup that's building a Netflix-style service for consuming e-learning content, specifically online video courses. Instead of selling individual cour...

Xbox Music will be available for iOS and Android today, as Microsoft furthers its bid to take on streaming music services like Spotify. Xbox Music is the first entertainment service from the Microsoft...

CrowdStrike has raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Accel Venture Partners for its security technology to identify advanced threats and put adversaries more on the defensive. Founding invest...

Adobe is launching the latest update for Photoshop CC today. Besides numerous smaller feature additions, this new version adds a tool called "Adobe Generator" that is, among other things, deeply integ...

Instagram Director of Business Operations Emily White told the Wall Street Journal that Instagram will begin selling ads within the next year. Are we ready? White comes to Instagram from Facebook, and...

TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013's Hackathon wrapped up today, with a demo session that spanned around five hours, after 24 hours of actually building hacks. We had a record 264 registered entrants this tim...

These days, there is more taking place at the intersection of fashion and tech than there ever has been. Of late, some of these synergies involve Google Glass. At the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 hackat...

Hackathon hacks can lead to fully fledged apps and companies. Other times they are intended to be nothing more than a great hack. 300ft is certainly that: a neat hack, built overnight at the TechCrunc...

There's a lot happening at Disrupt SF. So much so that it cannot be consumed on just one site. Produced daily at 6:00pm PDT (right after the last panel of the day) a new Flipboard magazine will be rel...

Dance is a creative art that has always had real mainstream appeal. But while big general platforms like YouTube and Twitter are decent for showcasing dancers, they're not ideal. Dance could certainly...

Yu Jiang Tham may not have rhythm, but that didn’t stop him from getting up on the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon stage and singing “Country Roads,” thanks to his self-strumming guitar...

Neil Mansilla and Rob Zazueta got a lot of laughs this afternoon for their Disrupt Hackathon submission, Hot Mess. The app aims to solve the universal nightmare of unwittingly walking around with a pi...

The federal government collects gobs and gobs of data on people, and thanks to a little something called the Freedom of Information Act, people can make requests to liberate some of it. It sounds simp...

Normally our hackathons are a showcase for developers of all stripes to create and share something cool. But earlier today, the spirit of our event was marred by two misogynistic presentations. Sexism...

For some time, Google has been experimenting with augmenting search results using personal data through its Search "field trials", but that's been limited to data stored only in Google's own services....

Disrupt Sf is bigger than one site can handle. Our Instagram, Flickr, Flipboard and Facebook accounts are packed with the happenings from Disrupt. If that’s not enough,we have accounts just for ...

The best way to build a great product is to really understand the problem it is trying to solve. The latest awesome example of this is Super Fun Kid Time, an app made for scheduling kids' playdates th...

The TC Disrupt Hackathon is just as much about the journey as it is the destination. More than 1,200 coders showed up in the SF Design Center to build something awesome, make some new friends, and pre...

When walking through a sketchy neighborhood that you don't know well, it doesn't always feel like a good idea to have your phone out. Disrupt Hackathon entrant Kovert is an app that allows you to keep...

Today at the Disrupt SF Hackathon, Brent Bovenzi presented SmartDrive, a neat Google Glass app. Thanks to this hack, you get a true heads-up display to see how your car is doing — a kid’s ...

Single-function wearable devices are old-school and a massive waste of potential, according to a new Toronto-based startup called Kiwi Wearable Tech that's building a hardware device as well as a clou...

YouTube could be filled with a whole lot more Police, Camera, Action!-style videos if this hack, put together overnight here at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 hackathon, keeps on rolling. The app buffers...

Have you ever wished you had something like the Marauder's Map from Harry Potter for businessnetworking at events? That's the promise of the app called TARGiT, emerging out of the TechCrunch Disrupt S...

One of the TechCrunch Disrupt hacks this year is the brainchild of Matthew Drake, an Atlanta-based employee of advertising firm 22squared. Secret Handshake, Drake's hack this year, uses the Leap Motio...

Alberto Garcia andTenoch Gonzalez came all the way from Mexico City to participate in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 Hackathon for the first time. Their hack, called Alerter, is a hardware device whic...

It's time! After almost 24 hours straight of nose-to-the-grindstone coding, the developers and designers at our Disrupt SF 2013 Hackathon are getting ready to debut their projects to the world. It's b...

Tutorspree, the New York-based tutor-matching startup that had been dubbed the "Airbnb for tutoring" when it launched out of Y Combinator's Winter 2011 class, is shutting down.The company's three co-f...

This summer, I jumped on the learn-to-code bandwagon, spending a couple of weeks on an online course before becoming completely frustrated and quitting. But there are plenty of people singing its prai...

I will admit upfront - I am finding it hard to keep up with all the major moves happening in mobile and among the top technology companies. I realize intuitively all these moves are critically importa...

The National Security Agency can reportedly spy directly on smartphones, according to leaked documents from Germany’s Der Spiegel. Der Spiegel reports that the NSA can “tap most sensitive ...

It's after midnight at TechCrunch's Disrupt SF Hackathon Ryan Lawler and I just walked the floor, interviewing teams about their experience and the (maybe, hopefully) amazing projects that they're bu...

Its not often that we get to see the Crunchies Monkey. When hes not busy shopping at the Facebook Store or taking a Lyft from Square to the TechCrunch office, hes usually working hard to identify the ...

It's that time of the week for CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us TechCrunch writers together in the TCTV studio to chat about the most interesting tech news stories from the past seven days...

The TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon not only marks the beginning of Disrupt SF 2013, but it also marks the beginning of potentially hundreds of new products, services, and gadgets. ...

Security expert Robert Graham has done a bit of research and posts that the encryption standard used by earlier versions of the "secure" Tor protocol is most probably insecure and readable by the NSA....

Facebook may have a billion users, and Twitter may be raking in the revenue, but if you were to ask the next young, hip person you saw which social network they love most, odds are they'll name Instag...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor why September 10 will be a turning point for Tim Cook, why the Microsoft/Nokia acquisition/Ballmer resignatio...

The near-unthinkable has happened. The dinosaurs are finally evolving. The publishing industry's long war against technology, the future, and its customers may finally be coming to a close....

You have an idea for a product that is going to change the world. For years you work day and night, and over time, that hard work turns into a company. You have users, revenue and, finally, the busine...

You have an idea for a product that is going to change the world. For years you work day and night, and over time, that hard work turns into a company. You have users, revenue and, finally, the busine...

Wantful, a San Francisco and New York-based gift giving and personalized e-commerce startup founded in 2011 is shutting down after failing to secure follow-on investment as expected. According to foun...

More and more of America's young people are coming to grips with a nasty truth: college can be incredibly, stupidly expensive. Drexel University student (and Philadelphia Dorm Room Fund member) Christ...

Skout, the app for meeting new people that picked up $22 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz last year, is adding a feature for travelers who want to scope out people in new cities before th...

Disrupt SF kicks off on Monday, September 9th. TechCrunch has put together an incredible array of offerings from our partners to make your Conference experience even better. As always, Disrupt SF will...

The days are getting shorter and the air is growing colder, which means that students across the country are trodding back to school once more. For a subscription e-commerce startup called Co-Ed Suppl...

It's time for another episode of Ask A VC, where we grill VCs in the TCTV studio! This week, Trinity Ventures Patricia Nakache joined us to chat about e-commerce, marketplaces and much more....

Here's another startup trying to turn content recommendation into a business: Ideal Media.Similar in concept to Outbrain and Taboola, Ideal Media works with publishers to add a recommended content uni...

The personal shopping site Keaton Row has raised $1.6 million in a second round of seed funding led by Menlo Ventures, an early investor in Fab and Warby Parker, with participation from Rho Ventures a...

We have some updates today from the other side of the TechCrunch office. The growing team at CrunchBase, our free database of tech companies, has a new mobile site available for your browsing pleasure...

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

betaworks-backed Dots has today announced its very first sponsorship/native advertising deal with GE. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. As part of the sponsorship, Dots is releasing a special ...

TechCrunch Disrupt starts on Monday, so that's on all our minds for this week's TC Gadgets Podcast. Hardware Alley showcases gadget startups on September 11, and if you're still looking for hardware f...

Newark mayor and Senate candidate Cory Booker is announcing today that he will be stepping down from the board of the company that he founded last year, according to a source familiar with the campaig...

Energy Excelerator, a Hawaii-based accelerator program for cleantech start-ups, has received an investment of $30 million from the Navy’s Office of Naval Research under the Asia Pacific Technolo...

Microsoft's OneNote note-taking app for iPad and iPhone got a small but important update today that finally makes the iPad version a completely stand-alone experience. Until now, you couldn't create n...

UK startups raising financing have a new route to funds in the shape of a government-backed fund which can supercharge an Angel round with extra funds. The Angel CoFund is a UK government-backed 100m ...

Apple's next-generation operating system for desktops, OS X Mavericks, is already in the hands of developers, but we likely won't see version 10.9 make its way to consumer devices ahead of October. So...

If we needed some more confirmation of how urgent the financial situation was over at Nokia, we got a glimpse of it today. The company announced that it would be drawing down the 1.5 billion ($2 billi...

Are the Path and Pinterest logos too similar? Path apparently thinks so. The mobile messaging startup is currently working to prevent Pinterest from acquiring the trademark to the letter "P" as a styl...

Nokia has been rumoured to be preparing a Windows Phone-powered phablet for months, with the aim of expanding the upper echelons of its smartphone portfolio and taking on Samsung's Galaxy Note line. I...

Apple's long-running antitrust case over e-book pricing is finally coming to a conclusion, with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York releasing its final judgment in the case, ...

Update: Apple says that it plans to appeal the final judgment that was issued earlier today in a U.S. District Court over antitrust practices in e-book pricing, saying it "did not conspire to fix e-bo...

A new report released today confirms earlier findingsindicating a mobile app's ranking in the iTunes App Store is now taking into account ratings and other metrics in order to help determine its place...

Web browser maker Maxthon has announced a partnership with Rolltech, the value-added services arm of MediaTek, the third largest global supplier of chipsets used in Android smartphones. This means tha...

Business management startup Front Desk has raised $3.2 million in seed funding, led by Second Avenue Partners and joined by Venture One Ventures, Rich Barton, Lloyd Frink and J.D. Delafield. Front Des...

Spotify, the very popular music streaming service, is moving ahead with its aggressive growth strategy, and it looks like it's raising more money to do it: a report today in the Swedish financial pape...

The growing importance of apps to Europe's economy is the subject of a new report which estimates that the 28 European Union member states account for more than a fifth (22%) of the global production ...

Rumors about Google's next Nexus device are heating up in the wake of a perceived leak via the company's own promotional video for Android KitKat earlier this week. Today, a filing from the FCC (via E...

A Kickstarter project that launched this week wants to put a mic on your wrist, for constant audio monitoring, in a twist on the wearable tech and quantified self movement. The Kapture, as it’s ...

BoostCTR, a startup that uses crowdsourcing and split testing to help businesses find the most effective words and images for their online ads, has raised $8 million in Series B funding.The round was ...

After a successful pilot project, Tel Aviv startup Jinni, a provider of natural language processing-based video content recommendations, has been chosen by Xbox to power its Xbox content catalog recom...

Mobile ad platform Millennial Media has released their latest Mobile Mix report, covering Q2 2013, and the company is changing how things work this time around by changing its "Top 20 Phones" list to ...

Salesforce.com has renamed Chatterbox, the file sharing service it launched as a competitor to Box and other services. ...

Today, technology is in the process of transforming healthcare. The whole nine years: From software, medicine and insurance to fitness, care delivery and the very science behind all of it. By now, thi...

Elon Musk, the world's busiest rich dude/mad scientist, has just posted a video showing off the Iron Man-inspired 3D modeling software he tweeted about last week. Because people don't compare him to T...

It's baaaack. New York Fashion Week, that is. And if you're a user of the Internet, it's pretty hard to miss this season. As Women's Wear Daily put it, ramped-up social media and live streaming have l...

It's clear more than ever that hardware is in vogue. The rise of crowdfunding coincided with the shrinking of processors and sensors. It's never been easier to create a smart device. And on Wednesday,...

Rotten Tomatoes founder Senh Duong has redesigned his new site, Movies With Butter, to be the "Google News for movies." Movies With Butter originally launched with more of a Digg/Reddit strategy, allo...

The National Security Agency’s most wanted man and newly minted Russian resident, Edward Snowden, has revealed new details about the ability of intelligence agencies to crack supposedly secret c...

At TechCrunch, we have a host of passwords for Twitter, Dropbox and so on that get shared amongst the staff. But inevitably, there’s always a scramble when a new employee signs up and doesn̵...

Bislr has launched a feature, calledAutopilot, that simplifies the process of creating and maintaining complex channel marketing efforts. SaaS providers and the growing list of companies that use subs...

Chicago-based payments gatewayBraintreeis currently shopping itself around to potential acquirers, TechCrunch has learned. The company has been on the block for some time, having previously tried to w...

The experience of watching televised sporting events has evolved dramatically in recent years, with data visualization technology making it much easier for spectators at home to understand what's real...

While the pace has slowed of late, thanks to Kindles, Nooks, iPads and the steady advance of mobile technology, the eBook market (and the demand for all manners of digital content) has grown steadily ...

Evomail, one of the many newer startups trying to rethink the email inbox for mobile, has now arrived on Android. Originally designed as a Gmail client for iPad, the service seemed inspired by a numbe...

Austin-basedInsurance Zebra, as the name implies, isn't exactly tackling the sexiest industry, but it's definitely one that's trying to help the everyday, mainstream consumer. The startup's goal is to...

Chamath Palihapitiya has been commonly referred to as the unconventional VC. And he's been open about his ambitions to turn his fund,The Social+Capital Partnership, into a vehicle that backs ideas and...

Many compare the process of picking a partner at a VC firm (or an angel) to back your idea to the process of getting married. You better be ready to be comfortable in the trenches with this person, be...

Many compare the process of picking a partner at a VC firm (or an angel) to back your idea to the process of getting married. You better be ready to be comfortable in the trenches with this person, be...

Just last week, ride-sharing startup Lyft announced that it was entering three new cities, launching in Indianapolis, St. Paul, and Atlanta ahead of the holiday weekend. Well, local incumbent Uber isn...

It's become clear in recent years that Foursquare's real strength is its database of more than 55 million places. Foursquare's database API serves as the "location layer" for many other apps, from big...

Google officially launched its Chrome Apps today, a “new” breed of native/web app hybrid for Chrome OS and Windows that isn’t actually all that new. Google’s Chrome offered so-...

We first met Detroit-based startup Rapt.fm back in November 2012, when we were swinging through town for the TechCrunch Northern Meetups. It's safe to say that Erik Torenberg was the first startup CEO...

Today at Parse's first Developer Day conference, Parse announced five new features: background Jobs for running Javascript tasks, a big partnership with game engine Unity, better ways to manage images...

Today at Parse's first Developer Day conference, Parse announced five new features: background jobs for running JavaScript tasks, a big partnership with game engine Unity, better ways to manage images...

Google uses its card-style layout across the majority of its mobile apps, but until now, the Google Drive app for iOS had lagged behind. Today, however, Google is launching a new version of Drive for ...

Meet AIO Robotics' Zeus "3D copy device": a 3D printer, 3D scanner and 3D object faxing machine that's blasted past its $100,000 Kickstarter funding goal after about a day on the crowdfunding trail. T...

Yahoo! earlier today revealed the fruits of its month-long logo labor: a new, still-purple Yahoo! with an animated exclamation mark (H/T Tumblr), no more serifs (H/T Optima), jaunty curves (H/T humans...

Artillery, the startup that’s looking to bring Starcraft-quality strategy games to web browsers, just poached one of competitive gaming’s better-known personalities. Sean “Day[9]R...

With the right tools, Google's Chromebooks make for cheap Linux development machines, but it takes a bit of work to get there. Nitrous.IO, which offers a fully cloud-based development environment for ...

Last year, Simple.TV launched a Kickstarter campaign for the first generation of its streaming DVR box, which it targeted at cord cutters watching television through a digital antenna. Since then, the...

Last year, Simple.TV launched a Kickstarter campaign for the first generation of its streaming DVR box, which it targeted at cord cutters watching television through a digital antenna. Since then, the...

Omnistream, a Web-based customer relationship management software developed to help luxury brands boost retail sales in China, is exiting private beta today after finishing the Alchemist Accelerator p...

HotelTonight, the startup that allows users to find and reserve same-day hotel rooms from their smartphones, is announcing that it has raised $45 million in Series D funding.The round was led by hedge...

Ever want to add ambient mood music or sound effects to a piece of text? Now you can with the launch of Booktrack Studio, a new tool that enables users to build their own soundtrack-enhanced stories....

Back in November last year Swedish startup FishBrainwon the startup competition at Slush in Helsinki. The startup is a social network that lets sport fishing enthusiasts share their fishing experience...

PayPal is announcing a major update to its iOS and Android apps today, creating a more seamless experience when paying for items in stores and retail outlets. Check out our video above for an in-depth...

Remember that time before smartphones, when people sent messages as individual texts, and had inboxes filled with little envelope icons? Then messaging transformed with iPhones and Androids into a sea...

Scoop.it, a startup that helps users highlight interesting content (and, implicitly, their own knowledge in the field), is bringing its social curation tools to the iPad today with the launch of a new...

First Round Capital has made a big bet on students sourcing and making investments at colleges around the U.S. with its Dorm Room Fund. the idea behind the Dorm Room Fund is that if students are motiv...

Among the more recent changes afoot at Twitter, the company recently announced that it would no longer allow third parties to use Twitter's API for bulk-following or unfollowing Twitter accounts -- sp...

The biggest tech news of the week came from Europe! Microsoft is acquiring Nokia’s phone business for $7.2 billion, and we needed to process the news together. This is the TechCrunch Europe Podc...

Munchery, the Bay Area startup delivering professionally prepared gourmet meals you can order from web or mobile, is announcing today it has closed on the remaining amount of its previously reported $...

Apple's iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 (generational markers, likely not official names by the way) will probably arrive later this year, as has been reported previously, according to KGI Securities analyst M...

Denmark's The Eye Tribe is not an indigenous group that worships the ocular organ, but a startup that works in machine vision, specifically developing eye tracking tech for use in consumer electronics...

Just what is Elite Daily?The site portrays itself as "the voice of Gen Y" but it also comes across as a content farm, or even "an astounding troll-hole." It claimed to have grown to 8.5 million pagevi...

Ali Rehan and his university cohorts had just won Pakistan's inaugural Startup Weekend hackathon when they decided to quit their PhD research project to build a photography app. Weeks later they were ...

Amobee, the mobile advertising company bought last year by SingTel for $321 million, has made an acquisition of its own to build out its platform with more ad-tech features. It has bought Gradient X, ...

The Dextrus hand is the working prototype resulting from Joel Gibbard's Open Hand Project, an open source hardware initiative that aims to lower the cost of robotic prosthetics dramatically. Dextrus i...

Over the last few years, Startup Land has played home to the dramatic re-emergence of a tried-and-true, familiar model: Subscription commerce. The rise of smartphones, tablets, “The Cloud,”...

BITalino is a simplified system for makers, app developers and researchers who want to quickly start capturing bio-signals. The low cost kit of modular blocks includes a swathe of physiological sensor...

With Nest, the smart thermostat startup founded by ex-Apple iPod chief Tony Fadell, seemingly getting closer to a UK launch, TechCrunch has learned that European competitor Tado has raised a further $...

Some further consolidation in the Russian online travel sector. Following last month's news that Russian travel startup OneTwoTrip had acquired the analytics-driven hotel price comparison site DealAng...

AdYapper, a real-time ad analytics service, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. The round was led by KGC Capital and joined by angel investors, including David Cohen, Laurel Touby, Paul Sethi, Sa...

Hearsay Social, a startup offering for reaching sales leads and customers on social networks, is announcing that it has raised $30 million in Series C funding.CTO Steve Garrity told me Hearsay has had...

Dash Robotics is using crowdfunding to help build its first hobbyist robot for home robotics enthusiast, with the aim of providing advanced tech for very little money thanks to a unique combination of...

The Tesla Model S is doing remarkably well, despite the challenges it still faces in terms of convincing average consumers that it can meet their everyday needs. One of the big remaining question mark...

When Boticca first appeared back in 2010 it might have looked a little like a normal commerce jewellery store. But underneath was an innovative layer of design, content and community features which ta...

Typeform, the Barcelona, Spain-based startup that takes the heavy-lifting out of creating user-friendly surveys and other types of online forms, has raised a 550,000 seed round led by Berlin-based VC ...

'Private' social network Path is getting a little more intimate, with new features that will allow its users to share moments with specific friends rather than everyone in their network. It's also ram...

Two years ago, Oren Jacob left his role as CTO at Pixar after working at the studio for over 20 years. After a brief stint as EIR at August Capital, he announced that he was off to start his own compa...

Two years ago, Oren Jacob left his role as CTO at Pixar after working at the studio for over 20 years. After a brief stint as EIR at August Capital, he announced that he was off to start his own compa...

Amazon Web Services has added support for Redis, an in-memory, key-value store, popular with developers for its superior caching and ability to support multiple data types. The news is significant for...

Amazon Web Services has added support for Redis, an in-memory, key-value store, popular with developers for its superior caching and ability to support multiple data types. The news is significant for...

After months of hype and countless dollars Yahoo! has unveiled the next big move in its ambitious transformation: a slimmed down logo....

Stanford University is going to start directly investing in students companies. Stanford is also giving a $3.6 million grant to StartX, a non-profit startup accelerator for Stanford-affiliated entrepr...

The ACLU is currently suing four officials in the Obama Administration, trying to get federal courts to put a stop to the NSA's metadata program and delete all existing records, but if you ask the gen...

The ACLU is currently suing four officials in the Obama Administration, trying to get federal courts to put a stop to the NSA's metadata program and delete all existing records, but if you ask the gen...

A federal jury has found Motorola Mobility failed to license standard patents at a reasonable rate and ordered the Google-owned handset maker to pay Microsoft about $14.5 million in damages, Microsoft...

The good corporate citizens at Square are aiming to bring more bring more diversity to Silicon Valley by expanding their computer science education program for girls from college to high school. Twent...

Secret-sharing app Whisper has closed a new round of funding, bringing in $21 million at a $75 to $100 million-post money valuation. The round, as originally reported by Om Malik, was led by Sequoia C...

“This is going to sound a little odd,” Ari Weinstein says, “but when I was a kid coding…was a lot harder.” Ari Weinstein is just 19. He’s about to start as a freshm...

SourceAudio, a startup aiming to connect buyers and sellers of licensed music, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding.Co-founder and CEO Geoffrey Grotz (who previously co-founded GameTrailers.com) sa...

Once a consuming hobby for a coterie of anarcho-libertarians and and others predicting an econo-apocalypse, Bitcoin started crossing over into the mainstream in a big way this year, attracting the int...

With Airbnb, HomeAway, Roomorama and plenty of others, there’s no shortage of vacation rental platforms for travelers to browse. Add to the listVacatia, a secondary marketplaceaimed at timeshare...

I love Nintendo. I love Nintendo. I love Nintendo.I feel the need to say that over and over again to begin with because this post will inevitably be read by some as some sort of anti-Nintendo screed. ...

The first time I caught wind of the Galaxy Gear, I laughed heartily. Of course Samsung was trying to make a smartwatch -- what haven't they tried to make over the past few years? It didn't help that s...

BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti published a memo to employees today that laid out some details about the site's growth, as well as its plans for the coming year.For one thing, Peretti said that...

We're sure glad the weekly TechCrunch Droidcast falls on a Wednesday, because this was a big one for Android. Samsung and Sony both had events at IFA in Berlin and revealed new hardware, and we're joi...

Twitter has established itself as top social networking destination, mentioned the same breath as sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, or YouTube, as well as a go-to destination for breaking news.But as a s...

Skout is a mobile app that wants to help you find fine folks around you. It's raised $22 million from Andreessen Horowitzand is more than half a decade old. It also had a recent spate of spamming-the-...

Startup Groopt is hoping to become the platform that nonprofits use to both build their websites and communicate/collaborate with members.I actually covered the company about a year ago, and the visio...

As a man named R. Kelly once said, "After the show, it's the after party. And after the party, it's the hotel lobby." So goes the story of this year's TechCrunch Disrupt SF, where for the very first t...

I'm sold. One picture did it. The one above by Josh Miller at CNET. I want the Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch. It doesn't matter if the UI is sluggish. I don't care if it requires charging once a day....

Adobe today announced its Photography Program, which for $9.99 per month offers photographers who own a previous copy of Photoshop (starting with CS3) access to a “lite” version of Creativ...

Today at Samsung’s Unpacked event in Germany, the company unveiled an updated version of one of its big tablets — the Galaxy Note 10.1. Until now, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Galaxy Note 1...

Sony's new smartwatch, which is actually named the SmartWatch 2, has been a known quantity since its official announcement in June at the Mobile Asia Expo in Shanghai, and now the Samsung Galaxy Gear ...

Nobody wants to throw away their child’s artwork, but when crayon drawings accumulate, finding a way to store the piles of 8.5″ x 11″s can be difficult. After dealing with this probl...

San Francisco startup Mobeam has been awfully quiet since it revealed a whopper of a smartphone partnership earlier this year, and today the reason for that relative silence has become clear. Mobeam a...

Microsoft's Bing today launched a major update to its video search experience that gives the service's video search results pagesa complete overhaul. The update, which Microsoft says was "designed fro...

Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS), which gives developers access to MySQL, Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server database engines, added a new instance type for applications that need a lot of...

Well, there we go ladies and gentlemen. After much anticipation, Samsung's Galaxy Gear is here and at first glance it's not quite as strange as some earlier reports made it out to be. In case you don'...

Samsung's big Unpacked Episode 2 event is underway, and as expected, the company has used the venue to announce the Galaxy Note 3 smartphone. The Note is the original phablet, and the new version cont...

Direct-to-fan video distribution is all the rage these days, with artists and performers like Louis CK and Aziz Ansari foregoing all the usual distribution channels in an effort to engage with their f...

Samsung's hosting an event today at 1 PM ET/ 7PM CET/ 10 AM PT at which it will debut its Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch, the new Galaxy Note 3 smartphone, and a potential bevy of other things covered...

SendHub, a business-focused call and messaging solution with a long-term goal of replacing PBX systems with mobile apps and online dashboards, has raised $3 million in Series A funding, the company is...

Google+ users are wondering what has happened to the service’s Photo Editor, which has been down for days. Specifically, users had previously been able to access an “Edit” button on ...

As the human race inches closer and closer to unadulterated consumerism, the need for extra storage space becomes imperative. But no one enjoys the process of packing up, renting or borrowing a truck,...

Fresh from a $258 million investment led by Google Ventures and TPG, tech-powered transportation service Uber today is announcing a key deal that speaks to a few ways that it's hoping to grow in the f...

Jumpstarter, based Stockholm claims to be a "disruptive new dev platform". So far so superlative. However, they may be on to something. With more and more of the planet's population learning to code (...

Taboola makes more than 3 billion article and video suggestions daily, powering recommendations for a number of high-profile publishers like The Huffington Post, USA Today, and Weather.com. Now it's l...

Smartphones have cameras. But they're mostly garbage when compared to a dedicated camera. Besides the Lumia 1020, of course. The cameras on smartphones have tiny image capture sensors and low-quality ...

Crowdsourced bug bounty marketplace Bugcrowd has raised $1.6 million from investors to grow the community of 3,000 vetted security penetration testers that can find vulnerabilities and weaknesses in a...

On-demand television? You got it! On-demand radio? Sure! How about news on-demand? Or books? It's all at your fingertips, dear readers. But what if I told you that you could have literally anything th...

Anyone who's ever aspired to be a professional musician (my 12-year-old self included) knows that it's a tough lifestyle with little guarantee of financial security. That's why a new startup,Set.fm, i...

Mozilla today is announcing the next stage of its efforts to get Firefox OS hardware in the hands of developers building software for it: the so-called “second phase” of the Phones for App...

Sony has named a new flagship in its Android-powered Xperia smartphone line up which focuses on beefing up camera capabilities. The 4G Xperia Z1, roundly leaked under the moniker ‘Honami’ ...

Sony has named a new flagship in its Android-powered Xperia smartphone line up which focuses on beefing up camera capabilities. The 4G Xperia Z1, roundly leaked under the moniker ‘Honami’ ...

The visual publishing house Graphicly, which makes it easy to distribute graphically rich content across a variety of platforms, has raised $1.3M from previous investors led by Mercury Fund and Dundee...

Livestream is introducing a whole new app for Roku streaming devices that will enable viewers to watch its live events and archived on-demand videos from their big-screen TVs. The new app is actually ...

Remember that time Sony hired pretty ladies to swim erotically with its new smartphone? It's apparently happening at IFA. And while I admit I'm advancing their cause by posting this, it's worth noting...

Are we at an Absolute low point in startup quality? Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive and founder of investment firm The Social+Capital Partnership, thinks so. Which is why he is devot...

Check, the makers of a cross-platform mobile finance app that allows users to track their cash, bills, investments and credit cards and pay bills while on the go, announced today that it has closed a ...

Dig out your camping gear and stake your spot in line now, ladies and germs. The Xbox One is hitting stores on November 22. And for those keeping track, that's almost a full week after the PS4's Novem...

First came the Jambox. Then came its bigger, beefier brother, BIG Jambox. This morning, Jawbone is announcing a third addition to its lineup of portable Bluetooth boomboxes: Mini Jambox....

Online movie storefront M-Go wants to be all the devices and screens where viewers plan to watch movies. To that end, it just struck a deal to get its video app embedded on connected TVs from LG, and ...

Highly downloaded keyboard app for Android SwiftKey has raised a Series B round of $17.5M (11.3m) led by Index Ventures to expand its product portfolio and do a major US push. Co-founder and CEO Jon R...

It's no secret that the iPhone's flash has never been great. So step forward Nova: a wireless external flash, currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, that wants to help you snap better-looking photo...

Samsung's hosting an event today at 1 PM ET/ 7PM CET/ 10 AM PT at which it will debut its Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch, the new Galaxy Note 3 smartphone, and potentially a bevy of other things cover...

SalesFUSION announced today that it has hired Christian Nahas, the former Vice President and General Manager of NCR Corporation, as its new CEO. The marketing automation software vendor has also raise...

It was only a week ago that Twitter updated its web, Android and iOS versions with a new feature -- a blue line -- that changed how Twitter presented you with conversations around tweets from people y...

There are plenty of online resources aimed at teaching kids coding but here's an offline take that uses old school gamification to get kids engaged and learning programming principles while they're ha...

Apple's supposed next-generation iPad case components are on display in a new high-definition video from Unbox Therapy, showing a design that is clearly inspired by the iPad mini. This agrees with wha...

Google today pushed an update out for Google Authenticator for iOS, the two-factor authentication companion app that makes your Google account and services where you use it to login more secure. But i...

Apple has sent out a second round of event invitations to media today this time directed specifically at Chinese publications and journalists, for a follow-up event to their September 10 shindig at A...

Baidu, the Internet giant that operates China's largest search engine, has launched its own smart TV to compete with rival platforms from Alibaba, as well as other companies including Xiaomi, Samsung ...

Lookout, a mobile security company which previously focused on consumer protections and anti-malware services, is today taking a step to expand its footprint further with the launch of a new, standalo...

A number of Twitter users apparently noticed Tuesday evening that their personal photo avatars had been abruptly replaced by the default "egg" image that accompanies profiles from users who haven't ad...

RocketSpace, a San Francisco office company that has hosted companies like Uber, Zaarly, Podio, and Pocket Gems (though not always the main team), recently moved into a new, bigger space two spaces, ...

Today, Amazon introduced a brand new model of its Kindle Paperwhite e-book reader, which looks pretty nice. But the bigger announcement was a brand new program called MatchBook, which allows authors a...

GraphDive, a startup that uses Facebook Connect data to give businesses a better understanding of their online visitors, has raised $2 million in new funding.Co-founder and CEO Shahram Seyedin-Noor sa...

Lithium has raised $50 million from a group of unnamed investors in what the company is calling pre-IPO mezzanine financing. Lithium will use the funding to further develop its technology platform and...

YouWeb founder Peter Relan's new accelerator has raised another $2.5 million in funding from several angel investors, bringing total funding for Studio 9+ to about $4.6 million. The program is also ex...

LinkedIn has filed to raise more than $1 billion by selling stock in its company to both the public, and banks that will underwrite the issuance. $1 billion will be sold to common investors, and the b...

San Francisco startup Optimizely has had a lot of success in making A/B testing much more accessible to the masses. And along the way, Optimizely's co-founders Dan Siroker and Pete Koomen say that the...

Graphical user interfaces are great, but sometimes, the good-old command line is all you need. Amazon today announced that its command line interface for AWS has hit general availability.For a while n...

The first batch of tickets for our Disrupt SF Hackathon (it's this weekend!) sold out so fast I thought something had gone wrong. We've released a few batches since, each bigger than the last and yet,...

Remember that time when your smartphone camera just wasn't good enough? That time when you wanted a picture that was just slightly better? You know, the time you lugged a pocket camera to your kid's k...

After announcing a $258 million funding round from Google Ventures and TPG, Uber is revealing a number of new hires today in finance, business and international growth at the executive level....

While startups are trying to replace your mobile calendar by making it smarter, there's a new-ish iOS app called Event Book that seems to built around the belief that what calendars really need is to ...

The news that Microsoft has purchased substantial assets from Nokia came as a surprise, but perhaps it shouldn't have. The underlying reason that Microsoft had little choice but to buy Nokia is plain:...

You'll see some startups trying to solve big problems in networking, business software and security next week during our Battlefield competition at Disrupt SF -- industries which at first glance may s...

"Average is over", says economist Tyler Cowen in his new book of the same name. And success and failure in a world dominated by digital technology, he says, will be defined by our relationship to smar...

This week on TechCrunch TV's Ask A VC show, we are fortunate to have two guests in the studioSpark Capital's Bijan Sabet and Trinity Ventures' Patricia Nakache. You can submit questions for our guests...

“We’re not building a Marxist society,” jokes Burning Man Founder, Larry Harvey, in response to a series of recent stories detailing the annual festival’s multi-million dollar ...

On the news that Microsoft will purchase substantial assets from Nokia, including its handset business and intellectual property, company investors have discarded the stock, sending it down 6 percent ...

Human is a newcomer in the crowded fitness space, but its take is different. Instead of being a stat-heavy activity app like RunKeeper or a life tracker gadget like Withings, Fitbit or Jawbone, Human ...

Ever since launch, music video distributor VEVO has been working to increase monetization of its digital properties, highlighting the pure volume of videos and high engagement that viewers have on its...

Google has apparently struck a wild licensing deal with Nestl to use the name ‘KitKat’ for its next version of Android. Though the announcement of the name by Google’s Sundar Pichai ...

Amid a bevy of Amazon-related announcements surrounding Kindle - some intentional (the arrival of Kindle MatchBook), some not (an updated Kindle Paperwhite leaked) - Amazon has also quietly launched a...

Along with Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap (OSM) is one of the flagship crowdsourcing projects on the Internet, but unless you are watching this space closely, it may come as a surprise that Steve Coast, the...

Apple made waves this morning when it announced its oft-rumored September 10 event, but Google isn’t giving up the day’s limelight without a fight — according to a post on Sundar Pic...

Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's Devices & Services division for $7.2 billion is a bet on emerging markets and a continuation of Nokia's emphasis on "connecting the next billion" users. In order...

Sunrun and Nest have teamed up to help their users get more out of both their solar energy panels and home automation products. The partnership will give customers who choose to use both products $500...

Apple has just sent out invites for a September 10 special event focusing on iPhone. The event is set to take place at 10 AM PT on the 10th at the Apple Campus in Cupertino, according to the invite, w...

Passwords could be pass if this Toronto-based startup has its way. Bionym, which was founded in 2011 and closed a $1.4 million (CAD) seed round last month, has devised a biometric recognition system i...

The move to mobilize e-commerce websites continues. Last week, a company calledShopPad, which turns Shopify andMagento sites into tablet-friendly formats,announced $500,000 in seed funding. Today, Han...

Amidst the "sadness" of today's news that Nokia would be splitting up, selling its Devices & Services division to Microsoft for $7.2 billion, there is a little silver lining for the Nokia fanboys ...

A neat iOS app called WePopp promises to do one thing only, and do it well: Help you plan events with friends in just a few taps with a simple way to poll the group to find a date, time and place that...

Amazon is revealing a new Kindle Paperwhite soon, and the cat's out of the bag early thanks to an apparent accidental leak of product details by Amazon itself. Spotted by a forum poster from Zagreb, C...

Amazon is revealing a new Kindle Paperwhite soon, and the cat's out of the bag early thanks to an apparent accidental leak of product details by Amazon itself. Spotted by a forum poster from Zagreb, C...

Amazon is revealing a new Kindle Paperwhite soon, and the cat's out of the bag early thanks to an apparent accidental leak of product details by Amazon itself. Spotted by a forum poster from Zagreb, C...

The deal hasn’t closed yet, but investors are already approving or penalizing Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia devices, depending on the company. Microsoft shares opened down 5.2 percent t...

With an ever-expanding selection of apps on the market making educational claims, parents today have a tough time deciding which apps are worth their investment. Earlier this year, app search and disc...

Amazon announced a new program today called Kindle MatchBook, which offers digital versions of print books purchased through its online bookstore to customers for between free and $2.99, depending on ...

Ticket company Eventbrite is announcing what it says are the first two acquisitions in its seven-year history London-based event data company Lanyrd and Argentina-based ticketing service Eventioz.Eve...

When Microsofts next-generation video game console launches in the fall, it wants to provide users with plenty of reasons to buy one. And what better reason is there than sports? With that in mind, th...

Toronto-based Kinetic Caf, a consulting firm aiming at startups and innovation-focused enterprises, has partnered with Freshii, a health food restaurant chain looking to shake up fast food while keepi...

Loggly, the cloud-based log management service, has raised $10.5 million from new investors Cisco and Data Collective. Trinity Ventures, True Ventures and Matrix Partners also participated in the roun...

Nokia is divesting itself of its hardware division, selling that business mostly off to Microsoft in a deal worth around $7.2 billion announced today. But it will continue to operate its own software ...

You don't get to be an almost 150-year-old company, as Nokia is, without being good at reinvention. The Finnish company's latest Houdini trick -- announced late yesterday -- is to exit smartphones by ...

Microsoft's landmark decision to buy Nokia's handset business for $7.2 billion will put Stephen Elop back into business working at the company where he was before he became CEO of Nokia -- he's now th...

A big request from parents regarding iOS has been that Apple implement user accounts on its mobile devices, in order to make it so that a parent can sign in with greater access to device features and ...

Microsoft gains a key advantage with its acquisition of Microsoft's handset and devices division today: control. Microsoft itself says that acquiring the phones business helps it highlight "high value...

Acronishas launched a new way to back up the VMware vCloud, filling a needed space for any IT manager realistically considering the virtualization company's offerings....

Vimeo is seeking to add more exclusive content to its platform, offering some independent filmmakers a $10,000 advance to make their movies available online through Vimeo On Demand. The offer for dir...

I spent last week in Black Rock City, where on Saturday night I and 60,000 others stood within a ring of hundreds of vehicles transformed into spectacular art, and watched a gargantuan wooden effigy e...

Spotify is today adding a new feature to itsiOS app that represents the streaming company's most ambitious move yet to position itself as the go-to music app on connected devices -- and in the process...

Spotify is today adding a new feature to itsiOS app that represents the streaming company's most ambitious move yet to position itself as the go-to music app on connected devices -- and in the process...

In a surprise move, Microsoft announced Monday evening that it has inked a deal with Nokia to acquire "substantially all of Nokias Devices & Services business, license Nokias patents, and license ...

At the same time that unemployment and low wages continue to plague the larger U.S. economy, Silicon Valley and the rest of the tech industry is having a hiring crisis -- many tech companies just can'...

Startup GlobeIn is building an online marketplace for artisans from around the world. When it first launched in February, it said it was working with more than 100 sellers in nine countries. Now the s...

CBS and Time Warner Cable finally reached a deal today, ending a long, protracted blackout of the broadcast network on TWCs cable system. While getting the deal done will mean that Time Warner Cable v...

Apple has been ‘pulling the string’ on the Apple TV for seven years now. Think about that one for a minute, it’s had a set-top box since before the iPhone. During that time, the land...

App Stores are broken. It’s virtually impossible to find the interesting apps among the thousands of low-quality offerings. If an app isn’t in the top 10 of its respective category, chance...

When a semester's worth of textbooks can add up to a couple (or three or four) hundred dollars, hitting the checkout line at the campus bookstore is a distressing experience for many students, to say ...

The future of enterprise software is anything but boring. Andreessen Horowitz partner Scott Weiss aptly predicted his guest post titled 30 New Franchises a few weeks ago, there a massive opportunity t...

Former Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun believes that in 50 years there will only be ten institutions in the world that offer higher education, and that Udacity — a startup that offers STEM-he...

Hex's tiny Airbot drone first turned heads earlier this year at China-based hardware accelerator Haxlr8r's second demo day, and now the team behind it is finally pushing to bring the inexpensive flier...

In a nice example of how Facebook's bounty program should work (in contrast with that mess a few weeks ago), a security researcher has unearthed a bug that would let anyone delete just about any photo...

Enfojer is a photo enlarger that wants to make it (relatively) easy to translate digital photos from your smartphone into analogue black and white prints -- so you can stick a few choice Instagram sho...

With the advent of online shopping and Amazon Prime 2-day shipping, humans are growing ever willing to pay for convenience and walk less. In the wake of this phenomenon, Plated has risen up out of Tec...

Rakuten's $200 millionacquisition of Viki -- the video streaming site where users worldwide contribute subtitles to premium content -- is a clear sign of how Rakuten wants to use digital content to bu...

While managing social media for different organizations and brands, I’ve spent hours scouring the web for relevant content to share on Twitter and Facebook. It takes a long time to find the righ...

Xiaomi, the break-out smartphone star of the Greater China market, is receiving lots of attention thanks to the somewhat salacious tale of ex-Android VP Hugo Barra and his recent move to the Chinese c...

Luxury marketplace Vestiaire Collective (ne Vestiaire de Copines) raised $20 million Series C funding from Cond Nast, Idinvest, and previous investors Balderton and Ventech — the magazine publis...

Swiss startup KeyLemon, which is a spin-off of the Idiap Research Institute and provides face and speaker recognition technology for the purpose of user authentication, has raised a $1.5 million Serie...

Handshake is a personal data marketplace startup aiming to cut out the market research middle man by building a platform where users can sign up to be approached by companies, negotiate a price for th...

Twitter is working on ways of getting more juice out of its vast trove of user content -- that new "blue line" for conversation threads, for example, is a way for older conversations to resurface -- s...

The good ship Galaxy Gear smartwatch is springing multiple leaks ahead of its official reveal this Wednesday, Sept. 4, and there are even leaks about previous leaks vying for attention. That said, the...

TechCrunch Europe was launched in September 2007, the same week Seedcamp - the European tech startup accelerator - also launched. So we've been on something of a journey together. That year and for at...

With the heavily-funded and U.S.-based TaskRabbit having a few teething problems, the jury is still out on how much growth there is in a reverse-marketplace for 'tasks'. But that isn't stopping a few ...

The latest smartphone sales figures are out today from Kantar WorldPanel Comtech, and in case you needed one more metric to underscore the topline trend that's been the case for years, the WPP market-...

The latest smartphone sales figures are out today from Kantar WorldPanel Comtech, and in case you needed one more metric to underscore the topline trend that's been the case for years, the WPP-owned m...

When a Kickstarter project goes well enough to inspire a sequel a few years down the road, it's generally a positive sign. In the case of Juicies, a startup that originally built itself up on the back...

Yahoo China, which is operated by Chinese e-commerce and Internet services behemoth Alibaba Group, has closed its Web portal. The site now displays a good-bye message before redirecting visitors to no...

Rakuten has confirmed that it will acquire Viki, a global video streaming platform that crowdsources translated subtitles. The Japanese e-commerce giant, which says it will sign an agreement to buy Vi...

It's becoming almost formulaic: An iconic game designer, backed by a legion of dedicated fans, turns to Kickstarter to allow them to break out on their own. The latest gaming giant to turn to the crow...

Internet companies represent the world's fastest-growing markets and they cover the global economy. Every market imaginable is affected by Internet companies. They are cloud-centric by nature and come...

Web Components will change how you build web apps in the near future. At its core, web components let developers create reusable custom HTML tags (think: <datepicker></datepicker>) for...

Samsung is getting ready to pull the curtain on its curious Galaxy Gear smartwatch (well, among other things) in just a few days, but what's a major product unveiling these days without a slew of last...

Last week's "Dispatch From The Future" got quite a lot of attention, in part because more than a few people got very excited about the prospect of driverless cars and the impact that they can have on ...

The Moto X has caused a rift between the TechCrunch Gadgets family. Chris Velazco and I think it's just fine, whereas Darrell Etherington and John Biggs are rather unimpressed. But why? ...

Verizon and Vodafone have reached an agreement on a $130 billion deal that gives Verizon total control of Verizon Wireless, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. Verizon has taken Vodafone’s 45%...

Not another photo-sharing app! is an oft-heard or tweeted phrase. After Instagram combined the power of a networked camera, nostalgic filters, and snappy sharing to various networks to create a mobile...

Strap on a tin foil hat and dust off your VHS tape of Hackers because a thrilling, civilized discussion of contemporary cybersecurity is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt SF. I'll be joined onstage by some...

Last week, geek-focused early smartwatch player WIMM Labs was revealed to have been acquired by Google, lending strong support to earlier speculation that the search giant would enter the watch-based ...

Only this August, wine retailer NakedWines, the customer-funded online wine retailer, announced it had raised $10 million in a third round of investment from a German group of direct wine-selling comp...

Shutterfly has acquired R and R Images. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.The company announced that it gave an inducement grant to R and R Images' founder Rod Key. The grant consists of up to 38,4...

If corporations can be people, why can't people be corporations? A stealth startup called Fantex aims to allow celebrities and professional athletes to file for initial public offerings (IPOs).Fantex ...

For sedentary medical patients, one of the easiest ways to reduce the time of hospital stays and decrease the risk of complications like blood clots and pressure ulcers is simply to get up and walk ar...

This weekend, summer is sadly coming to a close (in the Northern Hemisphere, at least.) But all is not lost! At least we still have CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us TechCrunch writers toge...

Returning for his fourth and final visit to the Indian offices that would grant him a coveted five-year business visa, social entrepreneur Alex Stevens* was confident his wild goose chase was almost a...

When it comes to personalization, Amazon has been one of the pioneers in mining and using data to create a more curated e-commerce experience for consumers. But by now, nearly all e-commerce companies...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor settle in for the Labor Day weekend with a tour of a busy news week. Stops along the way include iBeacon in ...

Coinchat is a Bitcoin-incentivised browser-based chatroom where you can shoot the breeze with strangers online and earn Bitcoin in the process. Where's the catch? Well, there isn't really one. The Bit...

It started with an idea: How can we get our drinks more quickly at the bar? Dreamed up at 2 a.m. in Coloft, a Los Angeles coworking space, future founder Mike Townsend doodled up an iPad application m...

Google has confirmed it acquired WIMM Labs last year, a company that previously made an Android-powered smartwatch before shuttering operations in 2012. At the time a message on its website said it ha...

A few weeks ago we reported that Nate Richardson, the CEO and co-founder of Waywire, would be leaving the company as it makes a strategic shift from content creation to content curation. Well now we k...

Back in June, Facebook said it would be rolling out a number of features for following public conversations, and it looks like it's holding true to that promise.Specifically, the company is testing a ...

A story published by Bloomberg floats the idea that Microsoft might spin off its Xbox business, which it calls "more likely [following current CEO Steve Ballmer's] exit." The publication values Xbox a...

Target's answer to Walmart's Vudu, Netflix, and iTunes, is preparing to launch. Employees at the Minneapolis-headquartered retailer were told this week that Target Ticket, as the service is called, wi...

In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, Bessemer Venture Partners’ Ethan Kurzweil joined us in the studio. Kurzweil, who leads Bessemer’s roadmap on developer platforms and has led inves...

You know what's cooler than reading TechCrunch every day? Diving into startup culture head first by attendingTechCrunch Disrupt SF.We're excited to announce that New Relic is giving away eight coveted...

Today Microsoft announced that it has reached a “cooperation agreement” with ValueAct Capital, an investment company that had been a thorn in its side. It was said that ValueAct wanted a s...

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