Articles by Techcrunch from November 2013

Just in time for the holidays, virtual gift card service Kiindtoday announced that it now offers an API, which will allow third-party vendors to hook right into its services and to create gift cards f...

Google's Android 4.4 KitKat update is rolling out to Nexus devices globally, and I was eager to get it on my Nexus 7 tablet. Turns out, it's possible I should've left well enough alone. Immediately af...

Alice, a single mom living in Daly City, was facing major roadblocks with her public school system. Her five-year-old son was advanced enough to enter first grade instead of kindergarten. And her olde...

After a strong Thanksgiving holiday push in e-commerce spending, Black Friday online sales are already up more than 7 percent in 2013 over the same period last year....

After a strong Thanksgiving holiday push in e-commerce spending, Black Friday online sales are already up more than 7 percent in 2013 over the same period last year....

After a strong Thanksgiving holiday push in e-commerce spending, Black Friday online sales are already up more than 7 percent in 2013 over the same period last year....

After a strong Thanksgiving holiday push in e-commerce spending, Black Friday online sales are already up more than 7 percent in 2013 over the same period last year....

Just in time for Black Friday, Bond is bringing its gifting platform to the web after spending a couple months as a native mobile app. Bond, created by Sonny Caberwal, takes all the heavy lifting out ...

Last week, Om Malik atGigaOm reported that Instagram was working on a messaging feature to complement its already very-popular social photo app, now with some 150 million monthly active users. Now we'...

Detroit-based watchmaker Shinola is doing something pretty unique: hand-making watches in the United States, right down to the quartz movements contained within. The startup's founding team includes s...

Are you tired of watching expensive gadgets turn your friends into Abercrombie models? Well, my pudgy popper, we've got a holiday gift guide that'll give you five more ab packs without breaking your p...

For many years, Black Friday -- the day after Thanksgiving -- marked the start of the holiday shopping rush. But with many (not all) physical stores closed on Thanksgiving, a window of opportunity has...

Walmart is already crowing about Black Friday and we're only a couple of hours into the actual day itself. That's because depressingly, Black Friday has somehow subsumed Thanksgiving Thursday and beco...

With the success of SnapChat, Line and others, many have been wondering who will own the next big messaging service. Now, we're not saying it's necessarily the next big thing, but it is interesting to...

Apple has issued a formal objection to the court-appointed lawyer assigned to monitor its compliance with the decision handed down in its e-book pricing fixing case back in July. The monitor was assig...

The holidays are often less than merry if you have to deal with things like balancing work with travel, financial stress or seasonal affective disorder. I usually cope by listening to Merle Haggard's ...

One thing the UK, a huge finance market, has been lacking in recent years is something equivalent to Mint.com. Now Money Dashboard hopes to fulfil at least part of that role. It's a 'smart' account a...

According to Bloomberg, the potential pool of candidates being considered for the role of next CEO of Microsoft has narrowed, at least for the moment. Ford CEOAlan Mulally and current Microsoft execut...

It's Thanksgiving in the States and tomorrow is the biggest shopping day of the year. In fact stores will be open tonight so you can elbow your way into a scrum of bargain hunters and frotteurists. I'...

It's Thanksgiving! And, judging by the fact that you read tech blogs, you're probably at least a bit of a geek. Know what that means? Today's the day you get to answer all of your extended family's te...

Google's decision to share user data across Google services, revealed in an update to its policy back in March 2012, isn't strictly kosher with Dutch privacy law, the Dutch Data Protection Authority s...

If you thought the hype around mobile messaging apps had reached some pretty crazy heights already -- what with SnapChat apparently snubbing cash acquisition offers of $3bn and even $4bn, from Faceboo...

It's Thanksgiving, and IBM, via its Benchmark data service is once again tracking how U.S. consumers are taking to the web to kick off their holiday season shopping, with early indications that this y...

It's Thanksgiving, and IBM, via its Benchmark data service is once again tracking how U.S. consumers are taking to the web to kick off their holiday season shopping, with early indications that this y...

So you think you want to be a VC. It sounds like a pretty cool job, after all. You have good pay and benefits, get to meet with lots of interesting entrepreneurs and play with cool technology, can han...

Waterloo-based startup Palette is building a moddable hardware controller for your computer that can turn into a complete mixing board, should you need one. It's a hand accessory that fits the descrip...

In a bid to get a slice of the lucrative karaoke market, musiXmatch, the song lyrics database and maker of accompanying mobile apps that let you view lyrics of songs you're listening to, is getting in...

Bitcoin burning a hole in your pocket? Probably. If so, a new site has popped up to help you spend your digital currency during this hectic holiday shopping week: "Bitcoin Black Friday." Starting on F...

Tis the season for wish-lists. Addwish, a Danish startup offering online wish-list services for consumers and online businesses has closed $1.8 million in seed funding from Nordic-based early stage VC...

Google has been rumored to be building a streaming music service into its YouTube property, which is a little confusing because it also has its catalogue-spanning Google Play Music All Access service....

We can differentiate several steps in the life of a hardware startup: concept, minimum functional prototype (MFP), complete functional prototype (CFP), design for manufacture (DFM), first factory run ...

There's something intrinsically appealing about a choreographed blend of low and high tech. To wit, meet PowerUp 3.0: a Bluetooth device that turns a bog-standard paper airplane into, well, a smartpho...

Well that didn't take long. Google has removed Cyanogen Inc.'s alternative Android ROM installer app from its Play store. Cyanogen raised $7 million from Benchmark Capital back in September to turn it...

Amazon Japan has launched its Instant Video online platform, with more than 26,000 imported and local films and TV shows for streaming or download. Amazon's decision to enter the online video market i...

We're entering the peak season for shopping, and along with it a big rush on e-commerce services and getting packages before the 25th. Timely news, then, that MetaPack, a London-based provider of deli...

The Surface 2 appears to be easily besting the consumer interest that its predecessor, the Surface RT, engendered during its release in late 2012. In fact, the Surface 2 is now the most-searched-for s...

This holiday season, only one of the two major next-gen consoles will feature an out of the box game streaming solution: Sony's PlayStation 4. And that streaming feature taps into some powerful trends...

This holiday season, only one of the two major next-gen consoles will feature an out-of-the-box game-streaming solution: Sony's PlayStation 4. And that streaming feature taps into some powerful trends...

Firebase, a real-time back-end service for managing apps, has added an integration withZapier, a platform for connecting services such as SendMail, Twitter and Twilio. The new integration means develo...

A holiday week always tends to be a little quiet, but there's always something going on in the world of Android to dig into. This time around, though, Darrell and I roped inMobileSyrup's Daniel Bader ...

In an era of Google Glass, Siri, and Snapchat, small businesses will still have to enroll for some new health insurance plans by paper or phone. The White House admitted that on-going problems with th...

After releasing a brief statement when the FDA's decision to block the sale of 23andMe's home DNA testing kits was made public, the company's CEO Anne Wojcicki has sent a letter to her customers furth...

Having raised over $37,000 on Kickstarter to make a TV show about the future of money, Heather Schlegel knows a thing or two about both social and financial value....

Today Microsoft released a form letter for "guys" to send to "women" to encourage their partners to let them buy an Xbox One console, as it will be for "both of" them.The letter, which can be customiz...

Facebook is looking at implementing an Instapaper- or Pocket-like "Save for Later" feature, according to AllThingsD. There's no offline access at the moment, however, so it seems more like a way to tr...

After selling Etherpad-maker AppJet to Google four years ago, former YCombinator partner Aaron Iba is at work launching his next project. After getting frustrated with all of the unused gift cards he ...

New York City-based technology studio,betaworks, home to Digg, Instapaper, Dots, Bitly, Chartbeat, and many other products and services, is raising $20 million in new capital - news that betaworks CEO...

Ahead of the formal transfer of Nokia's hardware business to Microsoft in exchange for a few dollars, a new report out today details how dominant the Finnish handset company is in the Windows Phone ma...

Live music giant Live Nation is announcing today that it has acquired Meexo, a startup that first launched at TechCrunch's Disrupt conference in 2011.The companies connected through Exitround, a websi...

The average salary of Silicon Valley tech professionals is $101,278. So it's pretty embarrassing that shortages at local charities mean that many needy families in the San Francisco Bay Area are likel...

An app that was demoed at Apple's iPhone 5s launch just got its official release last week, and despite the wait, Clumsy Ninja proves a solid game that really demonstrates the power of Apple's new A7 ...

Twitter fielded a survey to a subset of its users yesterday about their live TV viewing habits. The survey began by asking age and gender info, then asked whether a user had watched live TV on Monday ...

Twitter fielded a survey to a subset of its users yesterday about their live TV viewing habits. The survey began by asking age and gender info, then asked whether a user had watched live TV on Monday ...

Happy pre-fat day, Super Troopers. Today Microsoft brought Xbox Video to the web, meaning that if you use the service on your Xbox or Windows 8.1 device, you can access your content on other machines....

I feel like when people freak out about the unknown threat to mass government surveillance, they're secretly worried a clandestine agent will reveal their naughty web-surfing habits to friends and fam...

Google has quietly brought back embeds to its new Google Maps interface today and announced that it plans to bring ads to these embedded maps in the coming weeks. When Google launched the new version ...

One of the popular use cases for Dropbox, which just this month hit 200 million users, is photo storage. In addition to saving photos from your desktop to Dropbox by way of drag-and-drop, the company ...

PayPal has been bullish on boosting its payments business by tapping into the growing use of smartphones, and this week the company launched a service in Germany to extend that further into Europe. It...

TuneIn has a good thing going with its popular online radio service, which now sees over 40 million monthly listeners, so why is the company veering into voice-based social networking? Yes, voice-base...

Nothing like a little bit of speculation gone wild to kick off the holiday spending season. Bitcoin just traded past the $1,000 per coin mark on Mt.Gox, one of its largest exchanges -- as we write thi...

Studies have shown that constantly viewing certain types of food, on your Instagram feed for instance, can make you feel tired of those foods. But what if your Instagram pictures were actually printed...

Studies have shown that constantly viewing certain types of food, on your Instagram feed for instance, can make you feel tired of those foods. But what if your Instagram pictures were actually printed...

The European Commission has today detailed the actions it believes are required to restore trust in data-sharing agreements between the European Union and the U.S. following revelations of surveillanc...

Last year FlatClub, a sort of Airbnb for top university students and their alumni, launched across 30 U.S. and UK universities (such as Columbia Business School, INSEAD, King's College). It's now rais...

The Southeast Asia film industry is rich with talent (for example, look at Thai horror cinema's growing fan base), but independent filmmakers have very few opportunities to reach a global audience. Vi...

Munich-based multimodal journey planner startup, fromAtoB– which operates under the rather less catchy name ofVerkehrsmittelVergleich.de in its home market of Germany - has closed a seven-figure...

In the wake of news that a potentially aggressive and well-tooled played is about to end the market for itinerant, time-based tasks (prompt.ly), and with TaskRabbit rolling out internationally to sign...

PayPal has added support for prepaid gift cards through PayPal Checkout, thanks to a "patent-pending and innovative method" that the company claims took "months of research and investigations" to deve...

Stop what you're doing and read "Diamonds Are Bullshit" or "What Happens To Stolen Bicycles?". This is content marketing, and Priceonomics is very good at it. So good that today the Y Combinator start...

Machinima has had a rough year, as plans to bring on more funding have fallen through and the company has gone through a series of layoffs. But as it faces that and a shakeup of its senior management ...

Twitter continues to pull the string on personalization and recommendation with a new account called @magicstats. The account, whose description reads ‘I favorite the best tweets I see in real-t...

Boxhas acquired dLoop, a startup that provides ways for ITadministratorsto control access to content with finergranularity. The acquisition will give Box a level of data analytics that is often a requ...

Eight Democratic senators are finally asking the Obama Administration to let startups act as an alternative to the malfunctioning healthcare website, Healthcare.gov. “There are long-term advanta...

Berlin is buzzing with entrepreneurial energy at the moment, and SoundCloud is one of the companies that has emerged as an anchor to the city's growing tech startup scene. So when TechCrunch TV was in...

Google has a new Chrome extension released today that brings a recent mobile feature to the desktop. The feature is automatic voice search, which is triggered whenever you utter the phrase “Okay...

Fantasy sports startup DraftKings has just raised $24 million in Series B funding led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation by GGV Capital, Atlas Venture, and BDS Ventures. The funding comes as the...

Wire Labs, a company founded by ex-Amazon engineersPiragash Velummylum andJordan Timmermann, has raised $1.8 million in seed funding for their new - what else? - mobile messaging application called si...

Augmented Reality pioneers Metaio hardly qualify as a startup these days (being incorporated since 2003 and funded by a stream of project work from the likes of Volkswagen and IKEA), but they behave v...

Motorola has done its best to deliver a premium experience with an affordable price tag with the Moto G, the little sibling to the higher priced Moto X. Both phones have Google's stamp all over them, ...

Microsoft's anti-Google Scroogled campaign is showing no signs of slowing down. Its latest target is Google's Chromebook. Microsoft has enlisted the stars of the successful reality TV series Pawn Star...

The fashion swap site Bib + Tuck launched in November 2012 as a private, invite-only community and opened up to the public late this summer. The startup is now pushing its product with the release of ...

Google says it's taking steps to address the increase in YouTube comment spam that arose from the recent shift to the new commenting system powered by Google+. YouTube users have already been fairly d...

Target has long looked to India to fuel its software applications and back-office projects. Now, the Minneapolis-based retailer is doubling down on the country's tech potential....

Target has long looked to India to fuel its software applications and back-office projects. Now, the Minneapolis-based retailer is doubling down on the country's tech potential....

University of Waterloo college students Dhananja Jayalath and Christopher Wiebe were frustrated by their workouts in the gym--they felt like there was no way to know whether they were actually working...

Ludei, which offers an HTML5 platform for building games and other apps, is announcing today that it's powering the games in Nickelodeon's upcoming Android app.Ludei CEO Eneko Korr said that Nickelode...

The mobile messaging app landscape continues to be highly geographically fragmented, with different messaging services doing well in different global regions. Despite ongoing localised variety, messag...

Google has reportedly sent out more invitations for developers to purchase Google Glass, according to Engadget. The invites were only sent to developers who have previously inquired about how to purch...

Motorola may have designed its cheap Moto X with international markets in mind, but cost-conscious phone nerds in the United States now join in the fun too -- the company has confirmed that it'll sell...

A recent change to Apple's App Store search engine now leads to improved search results for misspelled queries with small typos, we've learned. In addition, searchers looking for an app they know by n...

After a turn as a provider of software for the Philips Hue ecosystem, startup Goldee is getting into the messy hardware game. The company's first product is a smart light switch designed to be used wi...

Satellite imaging startup Planet Labs just successfully launched two satellites into orbit, but its biggest milestone is yet to come. The company, which builds inexpensive, low-flying satellites calle...

Personal finance startup BillGuard is launching an update to its iPhone app that will not only help users defend against fraudulent charges on their credit cards, but could also lead them to be more p...

If people feel comfortable renting out their houses, and cars, to strangers, why not bikes? That's the question that the Lock8 founders asked themselves, inevitably leading to one of the first true sm...

Apple has been awarded a patent today that describes a system for taking images that can change focus after their capture (via AppleInsider). The tech might sound familiar: Startup Lytro created its l...

Buffer, the social media scheduling service, experienced a potentially brand-damaging security breach last month that saw a slew of weight-loss spam posted to Twitter and Facebook on behalf of its use...

Extreme Reality, an Israeli startup that provides 3D motion analysis for use with standard 2D cameras, has raised a new $10 million Series D round from existing investor Marker LLC and one of its clie...

Kiip just announced that it's opening the self-service version of its ad platform to all companies globally.Kiip, for those of you who don't remember, is pitching mobile rewards as a way for advertise...

The number of 4G-LTE networks in service globally is set to roughly double over the next four years, according to data by GSMA Intelligence, the research arm of the global mobile carrier association, ...

The growth of tablet sales has been outstripping that of more traditional desktop and laptop personal computers for a while, and now it looks like we are finally approaching the tablet/PC tipping poin...

The growth of tablet sales has been outstripping that of more traditional desktop and laptop personal computers for a while, and now it looks like we are finally approaching the tablet/PC tipping poin...

The growth of tablet sales has been outstripping that of more traditional desktop and laptop personal computers for a while, and now it looks like we are finally approaching the tablet/PC tipping poin...

Android 4.4 KitKat update is now available for people who use the Google Play editions of HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4. They follow Motorola's Moto X, which first got access to Android 4.4 KitKat on ...

The hashtag has been creeping across social networks, but the broader conversations often remain locked on one site or platform. A startup called Tagboard is looking to change that, and today it's lau...

A technology company hiring a media personality might not make sense at first, but if you dig through the company's recent past, it begins to make more sense.In a widely leaked move, Yahoo has hired K...

It's only been two-and-a-half weeks since hit mobile trivia app QuizUp began to take the world by storm. It's fun, and it's addictive*... but if you haven't started playing yet, you might want to wait...

Mobile gaming companies — the revenue gorillas of the iOS and Android platforms — are at the forefront of refining how virtual goods transactions are done. But attracting the right kinds o...

I wore a calorie counter armband from BodyMedia that told me I was burning over 3,000 calories a day. If that were true, I would be emaciated enough to play Gollum in the next Lord Of The Rings sequel...

Byliner, a startup offering a new approach to monetizing long-form journalism and fiction, just announced that it has acquired mobile developer Seesaw.Seesaw launched an app of the same name that allo...

The offline navigation system Sygic is rounding out its offerings by integrating with Groupon, Foursquare, and ParkMe on a slew of new features for their U.S. and Canada user base. Although the Slovak...

The offline navigation system Sygic is rounding out its offerings by integrating with Groupon, Foursquare, and ParkMe on a slew of new features for their U.S. and Canada user base. Although the Slovak...

Host Analytics has launched a new platform to move Excel models into a cloud service that allows users to take spreadsheet data and reuse it for other purposes without manual intervention.The new plat...

Google now makes it easier for business owners to see who is reviewing them across the web. Verified business owners who are already using the recently updated Places for Business user interface can n...

Reports that Xbox users were losing their Xbox Live accountprivileges after uploading profanity-laced videos have surfaced over the past 24 hours. Xbox One customers complained that they were losing t...

Twitter introduced ‘age gate’ screening over a year ago in order to make the platform more legally sound for ‘adult’ brands like liquor and beer vendors. Today, it’s stre...

Instagram isn't only a place to share perfectly framed photos of sunsets and selfies - some business owners have realized that the site works for pushing product, too. Today, e-commerce startupSoldsie...

Twitter's stock is slipping today, shedding around 4.5 percent of its value in regular trading. That works out to around $1.3 billion in market capitalization, calculating with a fully diluted share c...

In early October, we brought you our thoughts on the seven-inch Kindle Fire HDX, of which John is a huge fan.Today we bring you the seven-incher's big brother, the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9....

A new mobile chat application targeting college students, Quad, is working to move student organizations off of email and onto smartphones for managing their group communications. Despite the populari...

A new mobile chat application targeting college students, Quad, is working to move student organizations off of email and onto smartphones for managing their group communications. Despite the populari...

In the early days of Google Glass, everybody who picked up their unit would also be whitelisted for access to the Mirror API, as Google only wanted developers with access to the actual hardware to dev...

Kingsoft Office Software, which makes an office suite that competes against Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, has landed $50 million in new funding from Morningside Group, GGV Capital and Shunwei ...

TV personality Katie Couric will indeed by joining Yahoo as first reported by AllThingsD, the company announced via a blog post today. She starts the gig beginning “early 2014,” and will c...

We've seen the rise of the 'on-demand' economy in the form of startups like TaskRabbit and FancyHands. What we have yet to see is a full-blown 'platform play' where it is not about connecting buyers a...

Tech news site PandoDaily is acquiring NSFW Corporation, the humor- and politics-focused publication founded by former TechCrunch columnist Paul Carr, according to a story in the Guardian.The NSFW Cor...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ordered 23andMe, the genomic startup co-founded by Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey and Paul Cusenza in 2006, to stop selling its at-home DNA testing kits as of Nove...

Google has at least partially crashed the website unwomen.orgtoday by placing a link to it on the front page of Google.com. The search giant is commemorating the International Day for the Elimination ...

Google has at least partially crashed the website unwomen.orgtoday by placing a link to it on the front page of Google.com. The search giant is commemorating the International Day for the Elimination ...

Aside from the 4,500 given to it by Google as part of going through the French accelerator Le Camping, social planning app WePopp has, until now, been bootstrapped. Today, however, it’s announci...

RelayRides is serious about entering the airport car rental market and enabling its users to make their vehicles available to travelers when not in use. It took a big step in that direction over the s...

I went to an event last week that exemplifies the enormous sea-change in tech startups that is sweeping across the Central and Eastern European region. I'll be writing about this more depth in due cou...

What would you pay for a one-of-a-kind item designed by Jony Ive? Folks who hung out at Sotheby's design-centric auction this weekend, with around 50 items curated and designed (in some cases) by worl...

Some developments for 7digital, the UK-based music platform that powers download and streaming services for the likes of Samsung, HTC, T-Mobile and Pure: it has entered into acquisition talks and a "r...

Some developments for 7digital, the UK-based music platform that powers download and streaming services for the likes of Samsung, HTC, T-Mobile and Pure: it has entered into acquisition talks and a "r...

Toronto-based startup Bionym has launched an SDK for its forthcoming identity-authenticating wristband, Nymi. It said today that more than 6,000 developers have registered their interest in building s...

BlackBerry's executive shifts may have only begun, after exiting CEO Thorsten Heins was replaced by John Chen earlier in November, as three more high-profile C-levels get the boot today. The company a...

Automatic, the smart driving startup that builds an accessory for just about any vehicle, is expanding its retail partners beyond Apple thanks to a new deal with Amazon. That means the car will be ava...

After months of speculation, China Mobile will finally be the first carrier to offer 4G LTE in China on Dec. 18, followed by China Unicom and China Telecom, the country's other two major carriers. The...

On the heels of Turntable.fm shutting down its recorded music listening rooms to focus on live events, Oslo-based rival Soundrop is doubling down on the social listening model. Today, it is launching ...

On the heels of Turntable.fm shutting down its recorded music listening rooms to focus on live events, Oslo-based rival Soundrop is doubling down on the social listening model. Today, to complement an...

Line has announced it's added another 100 million people to its registered user count in just four months, pushing it past the 300 million user mark globally. It revealed the new numbers at a press co...

Space Qube is a fun new addition for fans of voxel games with cool twist--you can bring the characters you build out of virtual reality and into real-life by ordering 3D prints of them. The retro-styl...

A door lock does not have the same status as a modern, wall-mounted television or a couch from a world-class designer. It's not like you invite a friend over to check out the new double bolt on the fr...

On-demand transportation service Uber is trying to get new drivers on the road, while also improving the experience for those who are already on its platform. To do that, it's partnered with a couple ...

Its 7:33 AM. Leo is leaning over his laptop writing some practice lines of code while I sit nearby on leftover sandbags from Hurricane Sandy. Its cold, but it is a great morning.A little less than thr...

It feels like over the last year, Google Glass went on a roller coaster ride that spanned the first half of the infamous hype cycle. It went from rumored prototype to completely overhyped object of on...

The Playstation 4 sold 1 million consoles in its first 24 hours on sale. The Xbox One matched the tally, but was on sale in more countries (11, to be exact). Still, the Xbox One cost $100 more per uni...

Well, it's about time. After months of speculation and persistent rumors, Apple today confirmed that it indeed acquired Israeli 3D sensor company Primesense, as first reported by AllThingsD. Early rep...

Love it or hate it (and regardless of how you choose to pronounce it), the GIF probably isnt going anywhere. Not too long ago, the GIF had become something of a joke around the Internet. No modern-min...

It doesn't get much more meta than this. Seedrs, the UK equity-based crowdfunding platform, is listing itself on its site in a bid to crowd-raise 500,000 for international expansion. At the same time...

About every three months or so, the early adopter tech crowd fixates on a new mobile app as the hip, new thing. Its not too similar from fashion, Id imagine, when certain looks go in and out of style....

Each year, e-commerce companies predict the new technology shopping trend for the holiday shopping season. In years past, it's been the rise of the iPad/mobile shopper, or the expansion of major spend...

Movement tracking could get a whole lot more granular if the New York-based startup behind this wearable sensor gets its way. Notch, currently being shown off in prototype form on Kickstarter, is a we...

Amazon is now preparing a new Kindle Paperwhite for release in early Q2 of next year, TechCrunch has learned. The marquee feature of the new device is a high-resolution 300 ppi screen that will bring ...

Meet Primo: a physical programming interface that teaches children programming logic while they control the movements of an Arduino-powered robot. All of Primo's electronics are concealed inside woode...

Tonara, the interactive sheet music app, has announced a new score synchronization feature for its iPad app. One of Tonara's most important updates, score synchronization can now help musicians review...

Multichannel wants to help marketers fully automate their online advertising so they can focus on developing campaigns instead of staring at software dashboards all day. Based in Hong Kong and the U.S...

With the emergence of connected devices, the entire home is being reinvented as a data product, opening great opportunities to entrepreneurs. A whole new generation of startups is rushing in. Nest, w...

As the federal government struggles to regain hope that it can get enough consumers to buy health insurance, it is piloting an option for consumers to purchase insurance outside of state websites. Con...

It's time for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the show in which a few of us writers sit ourselves down in front of a few TechCrunch TV cameras to discuss the most interesting news stories from the past s...

Daric, a new peer to peer lending platform, will launch next week as a place for individuals and small businesses to obtain loans, and a place for lenders to see up to 9-10% returns on their investmen...

Following a trademark dispute with Zynga, the team behind the hookup app Bang With Friends rebranded as Down, adjusted their approach, and launched on Android. Now those changes have come to iOS as we...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Adam Bosworth, John Taschek, John Rymer, and Steve Gillmor gathered at Dreamforce 2013 to celebrate what @scobleizer called the maturing of mobile. On the Salesforce ...

Sleeper agents are among the most sinister spy assets: they lie in wait, wolves in sheep’s clothing, and then deliver a critical blow when activated. The NSA has 50,000 of those waiting for the ...

Yahoo is reportedly going to make its Katie Couric-hosted talk show on Monday, according to a new report from AllThingsD's Kara Swisher, supported by an earlier article from the NYT. Swisher is known ...

Yahoo is reportedly going to make its Katie Couric-hosted talk show on Monday, according to a new report from AllThingsD's Kara Swisher, supported by an earlier article from the NYT. Swisher is known ...

A new patent application published by the USPTO (via MacRumors) shows some more detail around Apple's use of Touch ID and the fingerprint sensor in the iPhone 5s. Apple has been mostly quiet about the...

Long have I nursed a healthy contempt for the aid industry. As I spent much of a decade wandering around the planet, taking local public transit through poor and/or unstable nations, I kept encounteri...

The holidays truly are the most magical time of the year. The twinkly lights, the spiked eggnog... the designer collaborations on your favorite tech products. It warms the heart....

Anything that encourages people to stop hunching over their iPhones like a tech-literate Mr. Burns is a good thing--especially when it also looks cool and makes fun noises. The AUUG Motion Synth, a gr...

Back in July, Coursera announced a $43 million series B. Now the round has grown to an even more impressive $63 million with the addition of funding from three undisclosed university partners....

Editor’s note:Peter Yared is the CTO/CIO at CBS Interactive. Follow him on Twitter @peteryared. Only a couple of years ago, pundits were predicting an end to email. But instead of fading away, t...

Many of us yearn for a return to one golden age or another. But there's a community of bloggers taking the idea to an extreme: they want to turn the dial way back to the days before the French Revolut...

Microsoft sent out some Xbox One PR today to various outlets, you may have seen the numbers. Over 1 million Xbox One (our review) consoles sold within 24 hours! That’s pretty good, and far bette...

A recent CITEworld article written byMary Branscombe includes a quote from a Microsoft leader that directly hints at future harmonization of the various strains of Windows across disparate device clas...

As we learned from that TARDIS easter egg back in August, theres some pretty strong Doctor Who love goin on at Google HQ. Today, just in time for the shows 50th anniversary, the company found another ...

Twitter has enabled Perfect Forward Secrecy across its mobile site, website and API feeds in order to protect against future cracking of the service’s encryption. The PFS method ensures that, if...

IDrive, like most online backup services, has long focused on keeping the data on your local hard drive safe by backing it up to the cloud. Now, however, the company is launching a new product that ex...

There's no shortage of on-demand services popping up these days, as different startups each attempt to win the favor of users in specific verticals. One of the latest startups to launch in an "Uber-fo...

Video game legendJohn Carmack has left id Gaming, a company that he helped to found, to focus his energies on his role as the CTO ofOculus. It’s the end of an era, as Carmack wrote game franchis...

Travel startup Triptrotting is relaunching today on mobile as Wist, an app that gives you the top five personalized suggestions for dining and drink in any given neighborhood or city, based on your li...

Today, Turntable.fm has announced that it will shut down its ‘virtual dj’ product entirely to focus on its new Turntable Live platform, which attempts to replicate the ‘being there&#...

Among the youngs, competitive gaming, often referred to as esports, is growing at a rapid pace. The world’s most popular video game, League of Legends, this week reported the viewership figures ...

According to a Wall Street Journal report, Google is working with VSP Global to bring Glass to optometrists. VSP is a U.S.-based group that provides vision benefits and services to over 60 million peo...

According to a Wall Street Journal report, Google is working with VSP Global to bring Glass to optometrists’ offices. We have learned from sources close to Google, however, that Glass does not c...

Today Microsoft announced that it is shipping developer preview kits of its new Kinect for Windows sensor and software. That means the company is getting the new Kinect (a pre-release version) and the...

From little Parisian website to subscription service juggernaut, My Little Paris has come a long way. Earlier this week, Aufeminin acquired the company. We’ve learned from multiple sources that ...

A new feature on Twitter which will allow Comcast subscribers to tune to or record select television programs by clicking on tweets is now going live. Last month, Twitter and Comcast announced a strat...

The glitz. The glamour. The nerds. It’s nearly time for the 7th Annual Crunchies Awards, where TechCrunch, GigaOm, and VentureBeat put aside the day-to-day bloodsport of blogging and celebrate t...

An interesting idea sprouted up this week called KwikDesk, dubbing itself as a "Snapchat Meets Twitter." The service allows anyone to send self-destructing messages into the ether with tags, which can...

Niche, a startup that connects brands with popular users on social media, has opened its website to the public, and it's also announcing that it has raised $550,000 in funding.Niche isn't the first st...

BancBox, a payment services platform similar to Stripe, has a platform allowing developers to build a lot of different payment services. Earlier this year it launched BancBox Crowd (now dubbed BancBox...

A slim majority of Americans want airlines to ban passengers from making phone calls during flight, according to a *CrunchGov Poll. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Federal Communi...

Mobile shopping service Sift has closed on $2 million in seed funding, the company is announcing today, alongside its launch on iPhone. The startup first emerged almost exactly a year agoas a way to l...

Hey, there, bacteria farms! Robots are coming and they want to hold – and crush – your hand! First up in this week’s TIDWRTWHUFOOl; we present a series of robots that pay attention t...

Back when Motorola revealed that it's seriously trying to bring modular smartphones to the masses, it left more than a few of the particulars shrouded in secrecy. Granted, that's probably because most...

Appsfire, the makers of a suite of tools for mobile app developers acquire users, keep them engaged, and manage their advertising, has today released the second version of its app marketing SDK, which...

Holiday attractions booking startup, GetYourGuide, whose platform streamlines the booking of vacation excursions, rolled out its first mobile apps last month to European mobile users. Today it's pushe...

Holiday attractions booking startup, GetYourGuide, whose platform streamlines the booking of vacation excursions, rolled out its first mobile apps last month to European mobile users. Today it's pushe...

Along with a brand new app icon, Dropbox has redesigned its iOS apps with a new look and feel fit for iOS 7. Perhaps most important in the new features list is AirDrop support, letting users send link...

With a good enough premise, a fashion startup can build a community of thousands, all obsessing over the pieces that they want or need in their closets (it's basically the same). That in turns means t...

The rising tides of online surveillance, and the lack of safeguards from governments to protect individuals against them, are having a disastrous effect on how the internet will grow and have an impac...

London's mayor is planning to close almost all the ticket offices on the London Underground transport network by 2015, with the loss of around 750 jobs. Ecommerce giant Amazon is reportedly in talks w...

We've seen fire harnessed to power a phone charger for the great outdoors, with the nifty FlameStower, now meet Hydrobee: another Kickstarter project aiming to provide an off grid alternative for char...

Mobile ad retargeting startup TapCommerce is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding.When I first spoke to co-founder and CEO Brian Long earlier this year, he described the compa...

Automattic, the Wordpress hosting company, has long followed the letter of the DMCA in respect to copyright. This means that the company will side with a complainant rather than a customer, essentiall...

Deep in the wilds outside of Boston a team of mad scientists created the ultimate in robotic life: the iRobot Roomba, the ubiquitous, world-famous automatic vacuum that, for many of us, is our first b...

Node.js has quickly become one of the most popular platforms for writing server-side code. Windows, however, was never quite the right operating system to develop node.js applications on. That may be ...

Two developers who met at Harvard University 15 years ago, are the winners of the Salesforce.com $1 million hackathon for its service to create mobile reports for sales people using the Salesforce.com...

Two developers who met at Harvard University 15 years ago are the winners of the Salesforce.com $1 million hackathon for its service to create mobile reports for sales people using the Salesforce.com ...

Hardware startups seem to gradually be taking over the world. Thanks to the lower costs of developing and prototyping new products, it's easier (and cheaper) than ever before to build devices that can...

Already available in hundreds of countries, French startup Deezer finally announced that the music streaming service will become available to American users in 2014."The launch date is not final yet. ...

Twitter’s six-second video sharing app, Vine, today launches in a number of new languages. 19, to be exact. New languages include Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Jap...

Today Rewinery confirmed with TechCrunch that it has ended its San Francisco-area wine delivery service. As a company, Rewinery had a simple plan: Amazing wines delivered to you, now, at discounted pr...

To better serve a smartphone-happy user base that skews young and female, the fashion site The Hunt has released its first iPhone app. The startup closed a Series A round of $5.5 in early July led by ...

Reports surfaced recently that Xbox Live had gone dark. Other Microsoft services have followed. The problems appear to stem from Microsoft’s cloud computing service Azure, which is the brains fo...

Update: Things are back to normal, it appears. So you can now Netflix on your Xbox to your heart’s content. Still no word from Microsoft on what went down. More as we have it. Reports surfaced r...

Technology Crossover Ventures is making its biggest bet(ever/in years) by backing the entirety of Spotify new $250 millionround, a source tells TechCrunch. The Wall Street Journal's reportof Spotify r...

Tinder 3.0 will launch on Android and iOS shortly. For those of you who want even more in common with the random people you meet through your mobile device, the new Tinder update will have a major rev...

Arduinos are a godsend for the DIY/Tinkerer community, but theres all sorts of stuff they just cant do out of the box. Sure, you can add tons of functionality via strap-on boards called shields.. but ...

After five years in business, an ad-tech company called AdSemble is making its first move beyond the San Francisco Bay Area. CEO Matthew Oliveri said the company, which offers online tools for busines...

Look out, Henry Blodgett. The skies might get a bit more uncomfortable. The WSJ reports that airplane passengers may be allowed to use their cellphones, for both data and voice transmissions, based on...

It’s hard to overstate just how finicky game design can be, and a Copenhagen-based startup called GameAnalytics has been trying to help devs crack the design and monetization code going on two y...

“I believe there’s a real chance that we can eliminate censorship and the possibility of censorship in a decade,” Google Chairman Eric Schmidtsaid recentlyat Johns Hopkins University...

3D printing is all the rage and it's hard to know just where to start. If you have a budding manufacturing magnate on your Christmas list we've got a few fun things for them to check out. One word of ...

Google today released a formal response to the most recent chapter of Microsoft’s ‘Scroogled’ campaign: “Microsoft’s latest venture comes as no surprise; competition in t...

Samsung has been ordered to pay out $290 million to Apple in a retrial of the major, over-$1 billion patent infringement case that made headlines last year. Samsung won a retrial of around $450 millio...

In the last few daysBitcoin has dazzled, with record highs and steep declines. Though Bitcoin fell more slowly from its peak than I expected, the currency did manage to shed half its value in a roughl...

Looks like the llama may not get off so easily after all. AOL yesterday announced that it was shutting down Winamp, media playing software for Windows and Android devices that it picked up through its...

Commenting platform Livefyre is announcing today that it has acquired a company called Realtidbits. Apparently Realtidbits makes a number of social applications (we covered its real-time forum product...

App.net is fairly well-known for reinventing itself. The whole point of the business, according to founder and CEO Dalton Caldwell, is to take its core API and show what can be done with that with pro...

Microsoft is bringing message encryption to Office 365. The system will allow email to be automatically encrypted, even when sent to non-Office 365 users. So, you can use the protection with anyone, o...

Divorce is known for bringing out the worst in people. And while ending a marriage is never going to be painless, the people at a startup called Wevorce believe that it doesn't have to be as ugly as i...

Jasper Wireless, one of the oldest and largest providers of machine-to-machine and "Internet of Things" connectivity, has brought on a new CFO to help keep track of its growing business. Rajat Bahri, ...

Google today launched its latest Chrome beta, which brings support for animated WebP images to all of its supported platforms. On Android, this update features a new way to improve touch performance a...

Today Microsoft updated its SkyDrive application for iOS to include automatic camera backup. Users of SkyDrive can now opt to have every photo that they shoot on their iPhone saved and stored in Micro...

Quip, the mobile-first word processing app with an impressive pedigree (co-created by ex-Facebook CTO Bret Taylor and the father of Google Apps Engine, Kevin Gibbs), has seen hundreds of thousands of ...

Two-factor authentication is one of the most effective ways to keep your accounts safe, but it also means that if you ever lose your phone and don’t have access to a backup code, you won’t...

"There this guy, 'Slothdude'," Christopher Poole mentions excitedly in a small conference room that used to be a bedroom. "And he just makes the most amazing stuff." With a few taps, Poole has coaxed ...

Restaurant rewards startup Mogl has launched a new app that will make it even easier for users to get cash back or donate meals to local food banks. With the launch of the app, the startup is also ope...

Everything's a messaging app now!Potluck, the link-sharing service from the team behind the social conversation serviceBranch,began as a simple tool allowing users to share their interesting findings ...

Everything's a messaging app now!Potluck, the link-sharing service from the team behind the social conversation serviceBranch,began as a simple tool allowing users to share their interesting findings ...

Alternative Android keyboard maker, SwiftKey, whose software is set to be running on some 100 million devices by the year's end, has added another investor to its $17.5 million Series B round -- revea...

Alternative Android keyboard maker, SwiftKey, whose software is set to be running on some 100 million devices by the year's end, has added another investor to its $17.5 million Series B round -- revea...

Mobile personal assistant Donna has gotten another upgrade, making the app not only more powerful in its ability to help users manage their busy lives, but also more responsive when things go somewhat...

Global sports heavyweight ESPN has launched a new app that it hopes will satisfy all the needs of its biggest fans. The new SportsCenter app, launched today, is a reimagining of its old ScoreCenter ap...

Back in 2009, San Francisco-based mobile payments and carrier billing company Boku was born out of the merger of two other startups, Paymo and Mobillcash. Today, Boku is making its first acquisition i...

Google has just announced that HBO Go is now available on Chromecast. This means that Chromecast owners can now stream HBO Go content from their Android or iOS device, as well as the HBO Go web app. ...

Pearltrees, the Paris-based online curation service, today added the ability to upload and share any kind of file to its servers. The service started out as a tool for organizing bookmarks, but itR...

Chicago-based Lightbank, the VC firm started by Groupon investors Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, is launching a new co-working space at 600 W. Chicago Avenue today, called The Warehouse....

Chicago-based Lightbank, the VC firm started by Groupon investors Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, is launching a new co-working space at 600 W. Chicago Avenue today, called The Warehouse....

Restaurant recommendations serviceNesshas been steadily improving upon on its technology which helps you find the best place to eat based on your unique likes and dislikes, a place's popularity, time ...

The only thing better than porn is celebrity porn, but that doesn't mean you should use it as bait in a Facebook spam operation. That's what a man named Christopher Peter Tarquini is alleged to have d...

Songkick which allows users to follow music artists, their live music events and has links to book tickets is today launching a new iPhone app geared far more towards actually selling concert ticket...

The Echo Nest, a "music intelligence" company whose technology powers recommendations in services like Rdio and Clear Channel's iHeartRadio, is now looking to help partners make money from advertising...

Swipe launches out of private Beta today with a cloud-based tool for creating and consuming slide deck-style presentations. So far, so Prezi, you might say. Or LinkedIn-owned SlideShare and a number o...

Online consignment shop for women's clothing, Twice, has made the move to mobile, starting first with a dedicated app for iPad, out now. The company, founded in 2012 and backed by $4.6 million in outs...

Presentation software startup HaikuDeck had a very specific aim at launch: build an app for creating slide decks on mobile that didn't suck. Now, the company has amassed 800,000 downloads since its la...

Lovely, the site that aggregates home rental listings, is today moving up from studio to duplex status. The startup is announcing its first acquisition, Rentmatic, so that those finding apartments on ...

TripAdvisor puts a nice notch in its belt today with a Bing integration deal that places its results front and center on search results pages. The deal marks the first time that TripAdvisor has lent i...

Twitter is testing a new website design, which opts for a lighter, flat design that seems at least partly inspired by its shift to similar design trends on mobile. The screens below were sent in by Bo...

Centzy, a local search engine which provides prices, reviews, hours, and ratings for nearby businesses, is announcing a rebrand to Locality, and $4.3 million in new funding led by Matrix Partners with...

The wheel of fortune symbolism is clear: as Apple prepares to break ground on a new UFO-esque HQ, the former kingpin of mobile is quietly preparing to move out of its own headquarters -- to make way f...

After the super slick Ex1 circuit board 3D printer, say hello to Circuit Scribe: another Kickstarter project aimed at making it easier to prototype electronics by doing away with breadboards, but one ...

The high street is dead. Long live the high street. Appear Here, the UK online marketplace for short-term retail space and so-called pop-up shops, has raised 1 million in new funding. Leading the roun...

Pinterest released a new set of tools for users that would help them "explore" and share the things around them. At an event with 150 "Pinners" (and an untold number of journalists" at Pinterest HQ in...

Pinterest released a new set of tools for users that would help them "explore" and share the things around them. At an event with 150 "Pinners" (and an untold number of journalists" at Pinterest HQ in...

Pinterest released a new set of tools for users that would help them "explore" and share the things around them. At an event with 150 "Pinners" (and an untold number of journalists" at Pinterest HQ in...

Mobile startup accelerator Tandem is unveiling its fall 2013 class of three startups, who will each receive mentorship, office space, and $200,000 in funding.Co-founder Doug Rennert (pictured) told me...

Umeng, the analytics provider that has collected data from 180,000 apps and 590 million active devices throughout China, confirmed that it was acquired by Alibaba. The company is now a wholly-owned su...

After his company, Android app marketplace 91 Wireless, was acquired by search giant Baidu for $1.9 billion in the largest deal in the history of the Chinese Internet, CEO Joe Wu says he plans on turn...

Like clockwork, today brings yet another entrant into the fast-growing and noisy language learning space. Just last night we told you about the expansion of Verbling, which is putting a live, interact...

Do you sometimes read BuzzFeed and think, "This is great, but why is all this text getting in the way of the funny GIFs?" If so, there's a perfect new section for you, called the GIF Feed.It's actuall...

Enterprise cloud file storage firm Box is raising an additional $100 million in capital at a valuation of around $2 billion. A filing with the State of Delaware was first noticed by VC Experts. We've ...

Given the near ubiquity of its simply designed shoes, it's almost hard to believe that TOMS, the company that's known for donating one pair of shoes or eyewear to an impoverished child for every pair ...

TaskRabbit, the U.S. startup that runs a marketplace for people who need help with short-term work and errands, is hopping over the pond for its first international city launch. On Thursday, it will o...

This week, me and Chris Velazco talk about using the Moto G for a prolonged period, Motorola trying to attract more Moto X shoppers with no-money-down deals, and Google going after shopper activity wi...

One of the original architects of the Internet wants to remind us that privacy is a relatively new concept. “Privacy is something which has emerged out of the urban boom coming from the industri...

Payments startup Ribbon, which launched last year with a focus on making it easier to accept payments online across websites, blogs and social media services like Facebook and Twitter, is expanding in...

Microsoft hasstarted to sellt-shirts, hats, mugs, and sweatshirts that bear slogans from its Scroogled campaign that needles Google as bad on privacy. I confirmed with the company that the clothing li...

Today, Tumblr is releasing its redesigned client for iPhone and iPad, bringing along a completely refreshed look and feel for iOS 7. The redesign, unlike some others to come out of Apple’s big s...

YC-backed Coin, the electronic credit card that stores multiple cards on one Bluetooth device, made a big splash last week blowing past its $50,000 pre-order in less than 40 minutes. Turns out, people...

Today Instagram and Waze came to the Windows Phone platform, bringing two applications to Microsoft’s smartphone venture that it has long lacked. Microsoft also released a set of numbers that ou...

After a few snapped embargoes and more griping than even I can stomach, Instagram made it onto the Windows Phone platform today as a beta. Immediately, everyone lost their mind. You see, the Instagram...

If you had a PC and you listened to MP3s in the late 90s, chances are you managed your playlists with Winamp. Since then, Nullsoft sold Winamp to AOL (the parent company of TechCrunch) for $80 million...

For a while there a physical Google Wallet card seemed like the stuff of rumors, and then it looked like another project lost to the ages when former Wallet chief Osama Bedier (who purportedly pushed ...

Google has launched an ambitious Chrome experiment today, in partnership with The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. It's an interactive updated version of those great handdrawn maps Tolkien included in...

While there are unverified rumors that Chinese mega-giant Tencent is interested in joining a fresh, large round for Snapchat, mainland China’s biggest social networking platform actually already...

Shana Fisher is joining Andreessen Horowitz as a board partner, according to a blog post published by A16Z founder Ben Horowitz today.As Horowitz explains in his post, Fisher tends to keep a low profi...

Humans will still be driving cars “for the foreseeable future,” said a Senior General Motors official at a congressional hearing on robotic cars. Nissan has vowed to put them on the road i...

Okay Windows Phone and Instagram, what the hell? How is it possible that you've *finally* launched an official Instagram client for Windows Phone, but left out photo taking? Oh what's that? You can im...

Okay Windows Phone and Instagram, what the hell? How is it possible that you've *finally* launched an official Instagram client for Windows Phone, but left out photo taking? Oh what's that? You can im...

Ask any startup or business what its top priorities are at any given moment and, more often than not, the conversation begins and ends with recruiting. In spite of this, recruiting and hiring top tale...

Hold on to your selfies, everyone. Some news coming in from Instagram: the hugely popular photo app is finally arriving in the Windows Phone Store today -- at 11am Pacific time, to be precise. There h...

Kansas City residents are getting a second change to sign up forGoogle Fiber, says Google. The efforts to slowly build out a nationwide, high-speed network where Google acts as an Internet Service pro...

Google isn't just targeting a broader user base with Android 4.4 based on speculative assumptions TechCrunch has learned that the Internet giant recently sent teams of Android staffers all over the w...

As everyone knows, roadies are hired to set up gear, tear down gear, drink, and tune guitars. Now roadies can do one less of those things and do more of something else. The Roadie is an automatic tune...

Mobile shopping assistantSlicehas just launched a new version of its Android application today, that brings a full-screen, better optimized experience designed for those using Android tablets. This is...

Shake, a startup aiming to make it easy to reach legally binding agreements with help from your smartphone, is announcing that it has raised $3 million in funding.Companies like LegalZoom have already...

Google today launched Google Play Newsstand for Android, an app that brings together the current Google Play Magazines app available in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Australia, as well as Google Currents...

Google Ventures is debuting a brand new site today, complete with a new URL, lots of founder-friendly content and more. ...

Online menswear retailer and subscription service startup Frank & Oak is opening two new retail stores, including one pop-up shop coming to Toronto today (something it's experimented with before) ...

eBay is debuting a number of new, connected digital storefronts for shoppers today at the Westfield Mall in San Francisco. Similar to the marketplace giant's shoppable windows in New York, this new pa...

Stop me if you've heard this story before: A mobile game studio toils in obscurity for several years creating apps that no one seems to care about, and then one day it introduces its new project to th...

Onswipe is launching the new version of its publishing platform for mobile browsers today. The biggest change? It now offers full support for Android smartphones.The company has been talking about the...

What's a developer to do after building a successful To Do list app? That's what Clear developer Impending asked itself before embarking on the journey of what would become Hatch, a Tamagotchi-style a...

In August, a startup called KeyMe launched an app that allows users to scan and store digital copies of their house keys, which a locksmith can use to cut a new copy in case of a lock-out. KeyMe is no...

When Apple, with much fanfare, announced iOS 7 in June, it also quietly confirmed a new feature called iBeacons, which uses Bluetooth Low Energy signalling to enable micro-location services and to tri...

When Apple, with much fanfare, announced iOS 7 in June, it also quietly confirmed a new feature called iBeacons, which uses Bluetooth Low Energy signalling to enable micro-location services and to tri...

Today, Apple is launching its very first Apple Store app for iPad, bringing a gorgeous shopping experience to its tablet in a long-overdue move. The new app arrives just in time for the holidays and u...

The Apple Campus 2 is cleared for launch. Again. A unanimous vote by Cupertino City Council cleared the last hurdle for Apple’s so-called spaceship HQ. “We’re really proud that you d...

One month after acquiring the apartment reviews site RentAdvisor, Apartment List has closed $15 million in Series A funding led by Matrix Partners. With this raise, the startup will be building out it...

Learning to speak a new language with any kind of fluency is a daunting task. Not only only does it require time, patience, and a great teacher but, ultimately, there’s no “right” wa...

Just a reminder that we’ll be meeting up in Hong Kong and Shenzhen tomorrow and Friday. The time for the Hong Kong meetup has been changed to 9 to 11pm because of prior commitments. It’s b...

London-based Lifecake, a new photo-sharing service designed for families and built by former Skype, Qualcomm, and Yahoo engineers, is launching out of beta today, backed by an additional $1.1 million ...

PasswordBox, the increasingly popular password management solution, today announced that it has acquired Legacy Locker, a digital afterlife service that in the inevitable case that you pass away gra...

CatAcademy is a new iOS app from language learning startup, Memrise, best known (prior to this feline foray) for its eponymous crowdsourced mnemonic creation platform. Memrise's founding team has a ba...

Big things are coming for littleBits -- the New York-based startup that makes lego-style electronics kits. The company, originally conceived by founder Ayah Bdeir in the MIT Media Lab (and backed in p...

Selfies aren't done yet. Not by a long chalk. But neither are stickers -- and in a battle between selfies and stickers which comes out on top? The LA-based startup behind a new iOS messaging app, Reac...

Here's a noodle-scratcher for you: you have an iOS device and love playing games on it, but you've grown weary of effetely pawing at a touchscreen. What do you do? Well, now that iOS 7 is out on and h...

Two former Microsoft product managers beg to differ. They launched Cody earlier this year because they believe that a key part of the fitness puzzle is still missing: Social. Cody set out to create a ...

The final contender in the next-gen console battle has entered the arena. The Xbox One will launch this Friday, 8 years to the day after the 2005 debut of the Xbox 360. As someone who has happily play...

A unique, nicely designed fitness wearable just hit Indiegogo. Called the Digi-Care ERI, this Shenzhen-made wearable can track your steps and, most interestingly, trace your activity route using a mag...

With the launch of Aloha today, we can add another name to the fray of startups attempting to give us better ways to live healthier lifestyles. Founded by former nutritionists, health coaches and memb...

Protesters, targeting Walmart Board Member Marissa Mayer, disrupted a fireside chat today between her and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff at the SaaS provider’s annual conference at the Moscone ...

Clypd, founded by the creators of Paypal-acquired WHERE, has raised $7.2 million in series A-1 funding, gathering cash from Atlas Ventures, Freestyle Captial, and Boston Seed Capital. Angels included ...

If you read one book this year about green pixelated monsters that were originally supposed to be malformed pigs, make it Minecraft by Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson. This slim volume by two Swedis...

Acquirers and investors fear (missing out on) what they don't understand. That's one reason Snapchat won't reveal its user count. But everyone wants to know. The problem is that ephemeral messaging is...

Bitcoin! You almost have to shout it. The much ballyhooed currency has had a simply amazing last few weeks. It put on the finance nerd equivalent of a fireworks show, blasting from less than $400 per ...

Twitter is in full on experimentation mode with its latest app update. We’ve talked before about how Twitter is using data to push out big changes to small amounts of people and then make judgem...

Today FinanceIt, a company that brings financing options for consumer purchases to small and medium-sized businesses, announced that it has raised a $13 million Series A. The company declined to list ...

I think we've established by now that what happens in Vegas actually never stays in Vegas. And, as you can see by the agenda obtained by TechCrunch that's embedded below this post, the Goldman Sachs P...

Dianping, the restaurant review platform that is sometimes referred to as the "Yelp of China," turned down an acquisition offer from Google China in early 2007, co-founder Edward Long revealed at the ...

In today’s edition of “U.S. wireless carriers are dicks”, we’re going to look at the latest in how carriers and the CTIA are protecting valuable revenue streams by blocking fea...

Starting a company has never been easy. Not having to worry about market research and resources can be the difference between getting off the ground and moving back in with your parents. This might ex...

Locket, the Android application that puts ads and other content on your lockscreen, letting users earn small amounts of money every time they unlock their smartphone, has received an additional invest...

TokBox today announced that it is extending its OpenTok WebRTC platform to include support for building native Android apps. This marks the first time developers using OpenTok can add real-time video ...

Today, Flickr is announcing the ability to order photo books directly from inside the photo sharing site. This continues a series of announcements and acquisitions which started late last year, and ma...

At last count, Tiffany Shlain's massively successful new AOL short film series, The Future Starts Here, has already racked up 8.5 million views. An eight part series about life in our digital age, Sh...

Sometimes the thrill of letting a perfect stranger live your home just isn't enough. That's why an Airbnb with benefits has emerged called LoveRoom, which marries the idea of room/house-sharing with o...

Today Google released the Glass Development Kit (GDK) as a sneak peek for developers. Anyone can use it, but it lacks a Glass emulator, so testing apps without actually owning Glass will be nigh impos...

Google is currentlyadding some 5,000 businesses daily as users of its Google Apps platform. But it wants to have more, and to help do that, today it is launching an updated Apps Marketplace -- the fir...

The music streaming business can be tough, with market leaders like Spotify growing like weeds but still loss-making. Today, some bad news from competitor Rdio, the music streaming service startup fro...

The music streaming business can be tough, with market leaders like Spotify growing like weeds but still loss-making. Today, some bad news from competitor Rdio, the music streaming service startup fro...

Newly declassified documents reveal that the National Security Agency has a long history of ignoring or avoiding court protections of the 4th Amendment. The heavily redacted 1,000+ page data dump read...

Dropbox could be working to secure new capital at an expensive valuation, using recent financing events in the technology industry as comparable metrics. However, provided that its growth curve mainta...

What exactly is Kano? It's a build-it-yourself computer launching today on Kickstarter with the aim of pulling in $100,000 in crowdbacking to get 1,000 of its Kano kits to market by summer 2014. The s...

When the seven-year old company Mixbook introduced a mobile app for making photo books,Mosaic, last fall, the idea was to distill a process that had traditionally taken hours down to a matter of minut...

Weemo, a service that offers a WebRTC-based real-time video chat platform for software vendors, service providers and developers, launched its new mobile SDK today that brings the company's services t...

As we inch ever closer to the madness that is the holidays, I’ve been thinking that two Android smartphones deserve just a little more attention than the rest: the Nexus 5 and the Moto X. The fo...

Yesterday, we wrote about a new Facebook feature that was getting spotted by a few users showing them when their online friends were on web or mobile versions of Facebook. We were told by Facebook tha...

Nobody loves keeping up with bills and credit card statements. While you can automate most payments these days, you still have to keep an eye on them just in case your credit card was charged twice at...

Kabbage, the Atlanta-based company offering working capital to online merchants and sellers on marketplaces like Etsy, eBay and Amazon who wouldn't otherwise be able to get a bank loan, is today expan...

YouTube network Fullscreen is always looking for ways that it can help its large network of creators improve their videos. With the launch of its Fullscreen Creator Platform earlier this year, it unlo...

Yesterday, Amazon upgraded its newer generation of Kindle tablets with the release of an updated version of its mobile operating system, Fire OS, and today the company is extending similar updates to ...

70% of American car owners over pay for insurance because they don't drive much. Luckily, today MetroMile comes out of stealth to launch its per mile car insurance. The $14 million-funded MetroMile gi...

As announced earlier this fall, mobile security company Lookout today launched its new security suite for business customers. The product, Lookout for Business, represents the first time the company h...

Home automation startup August is getting ready to start shipping its first product to consumers early next year. But first, it's raised a bit more cash to add personnel and ramp up production of its ...

Home automation startup August is getting ready to start shipping its first product to consumers early next year. But first, it's raised a bit more cash to add personnel and ramp up production of its ...

Minicab marketplace apps Kabbee and Minicabster are both announcing new funding as the private taxi-booking app space in the UK moves up a gear. Kabbee has raised a 3.8m Series A round led by Octopus ...

LinkedIn is announcing a new feature called a Showcase Page that will allow businesses on the professional networking site to target the fans of a specific product or brand.David Thacker, the company'...

GrabCAD is pushing out a significant update to its Workbench product, adding a raft of new features that it says now makes it a complete platform for what it calls Collaborative Product Development (C...

FiftyThree, the company behind the wildly popular iPad creativity app Paper, is making its first foray into hardware with the launch of a new stylus it's creatively named "Pencil." ...

FiftyThree, the company behind the wildly popular iPad creativity app Paper, is making its first foray into hardware with the launch of a new stylus it's creatively named "Pencil." ...

Snapchat now shares 400 million snaps each day, according to an unnamed source who spoke with Business Insider. In September, Evan Spiegel announced on the Disrupt stage that the disappearing photo-sh...

Snapchat now shares 400 million snaps each day, according to an unnamed source who spoke with Business Insider. In September, Evan Spiegel announced on the Disrupt stage that the disappearing photo-sh...

Signpost, a startup offering an online marketing platform for small businesses, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series B funding.The round was led by OpenView Venture Partners, with ad...

CenturyLink has acquired Tier 3, the Seattle-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform and advanced cloud management company. The amount of the acquisition was not disclosed. Tier 3 has $16.5...

Nokia's shareholders have approved the sale of its devices & services unit to Microsoft at an EGM held today in Helsinki, the FT reports. The transaction is still expected to close in the first qu...

Recently we've seen the rise of a new wave of startups that give far more control back to users. They have avoided the public nature of Twitter and the - sometimes toxic - vagueness of Facebook which ...

Hightail, the file-sharing service formerly known as YouSendIt, has raised $34 million in new funding. The round, which serves as Hightail's Series E, was led by hard drive maker Western Digital. ...

While Amazon has been at the forefront of providing a personalized experience in online commerce, in-store retailers are still behind in using data in compelling ways to make the purchasing and shoppi...

Atomico, the VC firm co-founded and led by Niklas Zennstrom of Skype fame, has just announced its third and biggest fund, $475 million, which the firm says it will use mainly for later-stage rounds in...

Atomico, the VC firm co-founded and led by Niklas Zennstrom of Skype fame, has just announced its third and biggest fund, $475 million, which the firm says it will use mainly for later-stage rounds in...

Foxconn, the gargantuan manufacturer of electronics, is experimenting in the hardware accelerator market by turning an underused Nokia campus in Beijing into its first small business outreach center. ...

Following a $1 million seed round, UK money transfer Azimo has made good on its promise to begin expanding to other parts of Europe. Today the company has officially rolled out in Germany and Ireland,...

It was a lovefest here at Dreamforce today with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Dropbox Founder Drew Houston sharing the stage and asking each other questions in a fireside chat. Well, maybe, it was m...

KlearGear, a sort of ThinkGeek for folks who don't value good web design, is in trouble. The company recently rose to prominence when they charged a customer $3,500 for posting mean social media comme...

Armed with $258 million in new funding from Google Ventures and TPG, Uber is making a big change to its payments structure that could help adoption and transactions internationally. Uber is making Pay...

Pop quiz, hot shot. You walk into an Apple Store to buy the new iPad. But there are two new iPads. The iPad Air and the new iPad mini. You can only buy one. What do you do? What do you do? The new ...

According to Mt. Gox Bitcoin hit a high of $900 in the past few hours, something that even the frothiest of supporters will agree is ludicrous. This is a bubble and it won't be pretty when it pops. Th...

Grocery delivery service Instacart recently opened up shop in Chicago, marking its first expansion outside of the Bay Area. Despite self-described strong unit economics and a service that is quite pop...

Facebook is tweaking the way it counts up the small and medium businesses that have a presence on the social network. Why the change? Well, it increases the count. Dan Levy, who leads Facebook's small...

According to BloombergBusinessWeek, cloud file storage firm Dropbox is looking to raise an additional $250 million at a valuation of around $8 billion. The news comes on the heels of Pinterest’s...

In just the past couple years, I've noticed something: My colleague John Murillo, who shoots and edits video for TechCrunch TV, has increasingly become one of the most popular people in any room he en...

Today Microsoft announced that there are more than 1,000 games in its Windows Store and Windows Phone Store based on the Unity engine. On July 22nd this year, Unity took the beta tag off of its suppor...

Salesforce.com and HP are forming an alliance to create what they call a “Superpod,” that will provide customers with HP’s converged hardware to run on the SaaS provider’s infr...

Google has agreed to pay $17 million to 37 states for circumventing privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser in 2011. Safari blocked tracking cookies by default, but Google overrode the settin...

Payments platform Spreedly, which offers customers a credit card vault in the cloud that works with 54 different payment gateways, has just raised an additional $500,000 in seed funding from Emerge.be...

In the never-ending court battle between Aereo and major network broadcasters who'd have Aereo shut down, the NFL and MLB are chiming in on the matter. The MLB and NFL are asking the supreme court to ...

Today after the closing bell Salesforce reported its fiscal third quarter 2014 financial performance, with revenue of $1.08 billion and earnings per share of $0.09. Investors had expected the firm to ...

Apple's new iPad mini for 2013 introduces by far the most oft-requested feature that was missing from the original version: a high resolution Retina display for ultra-sharp rendering of text and image...

Earlier today,the New York Post reported that the newly launched Al Jazeera American cable news channel has very low ratings. For its first few months, the channel has averaged around 13,000 viewers. ...

Good morning, super troopers. Out fresh this week is a neat little app from Microsoft Research that turns your Windows Phone into a remote to control Office documents on your PC. Dubbed Office Remote ...

Deeplink.me, an open initiative which encourages app developers to embrace deep linking - that is, linking directly to content inside an application from anywhere on the web or mobile - is today rolli...

Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency on everyone’s mind, is booming in value. Currently trading around $645 per coin, it has never been worth more, or generated more headlines that I can recall. The two ...

The Supreme Court has rejected a call to challengethe National Security Agency’s secret telephone record surveillance program. Without explanation, the high court refused to entertain a suit fro...

If you're in the business of gift-giving, they say it's the thought that counts. That's all well and good unless of course you can't think of anything to buy. Launching officialy today, UK startup The...

Sling Media is trying to make place-shifted content available in more places and on more devices, now launching a Roku channel that will allow customers to stream live content to another TV and contro...

It's not Snapchat, but Facebook is looking to step up its game in messaging by adding more features to the product it already has. The social network is currently testing a new messaging feature that ...

Yahoo has announced this morning that it will make all traffic flowing between its data centers encrypted by Q1 of 2014. This follows moves by other companies like Google to do so after recent revelat...

Yahoo has announced this morning that it will make all traffic flowing between its data centers encrypted by Q1 of 2014. This follows moves by other companies like Google to do so after recent revelat...

You post "Goal!!!!11!!" but who scored? Facebook's on a drive to host more sports talk and get its trends shown on the news, so today it's partnering with SportStream to structure, enhance, and make s...

SurveyMonkey has been around for more than a decade, and according to CEO Dave Goldberg, it's used by a number of enterprise-sized businesses. Yet the company hasn't offered an enterprise plan or ente...

French startup LeCab announced that it has raised $6.8 million (5 million) in Series B funding. The company operates a black car service that is very reminiscent of Uber — but it works a bit dif...

E-sports programmer Major League Gaming has spent the last decade building an audience of video game enthusiasts, through events in which gamers go head-to-head with each other. Now it's looking to br...

Amazon's Kindle Fire tablets are getting a major update, starting today, with the launch of Fire OS 3.1, an upgrade to Amazon's mobile operating system, based on Android. The release introduces a host...

Last week we headed up to Boston to see what the local startup scene had to offer, and the founders, VCs, and technophiles we met did not disappoint. The city best known for its universities, hospital...

After a few years of bringing hands-free video broadcasting to the masses, Looxcie has updated its design language for the first time. Meet the Looxcie 3. The Looxcie is a digital recording device tha...

Back in 2008, a startup calledTotlolemerged, offering parents a kid-friendly collection of video clips pulled from the YouTube platform on a single destination site. But that company, a one-man show, ...

One of the best moments at our TC Boston Meetup + Pitch-off was an on-stage interview with Atlas Ventures' Fred Destin, a Belgian gone Boston investing in super early stage startups. To Destin, invest...

Microsoft took a big step into enterprise collaboration when it acquired Yammer, and an equally big step into VoIP when it bought Skype. Now it's taking an investment in Zula, a new startup that is of...

A new startup called Rubikloud seeks to provide a single platform that uses big data to analyze e-commerce businesses and improve conversion rates. To do that, the company has raised $1 million in see...

Meet the Qualcomm Toq. The $350 smartwatch will be available come December 2nd directly from Qualcomm. The watch packs some interesting features including Qualcomm’s own low-energy screen techno...

Right now some estimates put the revenues for the 'self storage' market in the US at around $22 billion in 2012, roughly accounting for 86% of the global market. In the UK the value is an estimated 35...

Charity donation platform startup, Believe.in, whose investors include Index Ventures and Greylock Partners, has expanded its reach outside the U.K. -- and beyond its own fee-less charity donation soc...

Forrester Research says that more than half of the enterprises in North America and Europe are implementing official BYOD programs so that companies do not find themselves with hundreds of security le...

Chinese Bitcoin exchange, BTC China -- the world's largest by trading volume according to Bitcoinity.org -- has closed a $5 million Series A from institutional investors Lightspeed China Partners and ...

Earlier tonight at the Food Hackathon in San Francisco, a chef took to the presentation area to pitch the audience on a whimsical new line of clothing designed to help make the folks who make the food...

It looks like another Israeli startup is getting to another sizable exit. This time it’s 3-D sensor manufacturer, PrimeSense, which is perhaps best known for producing (and licensing) the gestur...

Salesforce.com is launching Salesforce1, its next-generation CRM platform that it has designed for developers, independent software vendors and customers to connect apps and third-party services such ...

The holiday season is nearly upon us, and we're all scrambling to find each other the best possible gifts. Well, if you're close with someone who carries the world on their shoulders and always seems...

Twitter Alerts -- a service that Twitter launched in September for emergency, relief and charity organizations from the U.S., Japan and Korea to send out critical messages to opted-in users -- is gett...

Twitter Alerts -- a service that Twitter launched in September for emergency, relief and charity organizations from the U.S., Japan and Korea to send out critical messages to opted-in users -- is gett...

Political life is more like an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm than The West Wing. The deviously calculating minds of Aaron Sorkin political thrillers belie that sheer absurdity of elected life. Amazo...

It used to be the case that developers had a binary choice between a multi-platform strategy with lowest-common denominator game ideas, or make a bet on a single platform in the hope that its unique a...

A just-launched startup called Sponsify is looking to bring native ads to YouTube in a big way.I doubt anyone who visits YouTube is complaining about a shortage of ads, but those ads mostly take the f...

In Silicon Valley and the consumer technology world at large, the zeitgeist surrounding SnapChat is undeniably the talk of the town. In a way, it has been for the entire year. I wrote a post on SnapCh...

Back in the days before worldwide Disrupts and 1,300-person meetups, I used to land in countries and hold ad hoc meetups in various countries. Well I'm doing it again in Hong Kong and Shenzhen this we...

We are about to embark on amazing adventure and we need your help. In January we are holding our first Hardware Battlefield in Las Vegas, Nevada to coincide with CES. We will bring 15 great hardware s...

It's been a couple of weeks since the last CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show that brings a few writers together to chat about some of the most buzzed-about tech news stories from the past seven days....

If the printing press was about "anyone can read," the web about "anyone can write," the hardware ecosystem changed enough to say today "anyone can build." This idea - that anyone can build - is the c...

Nokia is preparing to rev up its engines in the location space and drive towards the future of maps. The company whose name is still synonymous with mobile phones in certain parts of the world will ha...

It seems every country needs it's own Square clone there days. iZettle has been busy populating Europe, alongside Payleven, to name just two. Indeed, Mexico has it's own version, Clip. Today it announ...

As with many startups, Zendesk's origins began at a table with a few laptops, three co-founders and lots of coffee. But the founding of the customer service software company has an unorthodox twist: Z...

If you listen closely, you can hear it: the eye of the console storm. We are between technologies and the big hardware makers know it. It's a move from an optical-disk-based, high-heat standalone devi...

The Gillmor Gang John Taschek, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor act their age in the style of Steve Ballmer, who thinks he's of an older time where the world's not going. I'm not so sure ...

The eternal startup question "Android or iOS first?" grows ever thornier, with news that Android's market share exceeds 80%. But never mind the managers and non-technical founders: what do developers!...

On November 8, U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken partially ruled in favor of a class of former Division I college athletes in finding that their antitrust claim for an injunction against the NC...

Closing the day at $37.70 a share, Zulily is proving to be a success among flash and daily deals sites. Its first-day performance could give other companies confidence in the possibility of going publ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was not forced out of his role at the company, but its board did hasten his exit, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, whose sources include Ballmer himself, a...

The assets of mobile messaging startup Just.me are up for sale. Yet when founder Keith Teare called me to discuss the news, he argued that it's not a failure."I feel like Just.me is not successful, bu...

The assets of mobile messaging startup Just.me are up for sale. Yet when founder Keith Teare called me to discuss the news, he argued that it's not a failure."I feel like Just.me is not successful, bu...

After a year and a half of keeping a flat fare on all its rides, on-demand transportation startup Lyft is set to begin a test of dynamic pricing based on demand. It's testing out the new pricing model...

Nokia's Lumia 2520 tablet will set you back $500 if you want to buy it flat out. AT&T is more than happy to sell you one at that price. Pick it up with a wireless contract, and AT&T will knock...

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

Twitter’s tests involving a new mobile interface that would do away with the app’s standard four buttons in favor of a “swipeable” menu at the top, have come to a halt. Previou...

Out today from Microsoft is a 3D-printing application called 3D Builder that will help the amateur set dig into 3D printing, provided that they 1) have a Windows 8.1 machine, and 2) have a Windows 8.1...

Postmates is expanding its service in the New York City area, crossing the bridge and making its mobile delivery service available in Brooklyn as well as Manhattan. The expansion also comes as the com...

Anonymous hacktivist, Jeremy Hammond, who leaked millions of emails from security firm Stratfor, has been slapped with the maximum prison sentence of 10 years. Hammond claimed the harsh ruling was a v...

A week after Twitter's IPO and two days after education company Chegg debuted on the NYSE, Zulily, the daily deals targeted at mothers, opened on the NASDAQ Global Select Market this morning under the...

For many companies in Silicon Valley, it's fairly easy to find, train, and evaluate technical talent -- for the most part, it's easy to determine and quantify how well a person codes. But evaluating a...

There's a new CEO at Onswipe Jonty Kelt, most recently co-founder and CEO of e-commerce startup Group Commerce.Until this week, that's the role Jason Baptiste held at Onswipe, and it sounds like he's...

Google Play Music arrived on iOS today, following reports from earlier this week stating that a launch was “imminent.” The app, which will compete with Apple’s iTunes Radio and other...

Not to freak everyone out, but there are six fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year. For shoppers, that means a tighter timeframe in which to negotiate parking lots and mall lines; ac...

King, the maker of the addictive and popular “Candy Crush Saga” game, and reported IPO candidate here in the U.S., released new numbers today indicating its growing user base and traction....

Location-based messaging has been tried before, and in a world where messages go in streams, go global, and go poof, one of these geo-fenced messaging companies will eventually float to the top. The l...

The PS4 is a lovely gaming kit. It's sleek. Monolithic. And relatively small in comparison to the Xbox One. Sony did its 4th generation console right. iFixit found in its teardown that the gaming syst...

Here's another twist on messaging aiming to make digital comms more fun. Toymail is a Wi-Fi connected toy that lets parents talk remotely to their kids via a smartphone app -- with their message spoke...

Time to chalk another one up for cryptocurrency bitcoin's reputation as a disruptor in the financial world? Today, news comes that Coinbase -- the YC-incubated startup that offers a bitcoin buying and...

A new report finds that U.S intelligence agencies are collecting more than data on telephone records and Internet behavior. According to the The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, the CIA "is...

Many members of the tech community have lent their skills to help Super Typhoon Haiyan rescue efforts in the Philippines. These include Viber, which rolled out a new feature called Viber Out, and peop...

There are several virtual stock exchanges, including ones just for kids, butTrakInvest stands apart by giving its members a chance to turn fantasy trades into real jobs. Founded by a former JP Morgan ...

Runscope, which develops tools that monitor API traffic, has launched a new automated API and backend service testing tool to improve the quality of mobile apps.The new Runscope Radar service, launche...

Google vice president Megan Smith gave a wide-ranging talk this morning at the Women 2.0 conference in Las Vegas, where she started out by talking about "moonshot" ideas, connected those ideas to the ...

Some Apple Stores have had their point-of-sale systems go down repeatedly today, TechCrunch has learned. There was an extensive outage early Thursday morning and there has been an ongoing outage this ...

In a recent speech, only now picking up coverage, the NSA's General Keith Alexander admitted that whistleblower Edward Snowden took up to 200,000 documents. Earlier estimates put the number at around ...

Startups and PR firms have long had a halting, if not embattled relationship. Spend time talking to entrepreneurs and those working at startups, and it won’t be long before you encounter the nag...

We are, I believe, in an interstitial zone when it comes to payments. Credit cards are still king - just ask Square - and NFC is just a dream in most countries. That's why Coin is so interesting. It's...

Microsoft, a company that has suffered from a flat stock price since I was in middle school, is in the midst of a surprisingly strong year. A quick scan of its long-term stock chart indicates that the...

Both the Xbox One and Playstation 4 are essentially repackaged PC parts at this point. Unlike the PS3, Sony’s new console uses standard X86 architecture and fairly standard components. This shou...

PowerInbox, the email platform company which merged with competitorActivePatha year ago, is today launching technology called SecretInk that enables "self-destructing" messages that can be sent over e...

After a test in the UK, it looks like eBay is launching its new local service provider marketplace eBayHire in the US. ...

The two biggest dogs in Silicon Valley are Google and Apple, and according to the writer Fred Vogelstein, they are waging a war for control of the $250 billion content industry. In his new book Dogfig...

Amazon is offering a new service called Kinesis that streams data in real-time with the ability to process thousands of data streams on a per second basis.The service, designed for real-time apps, all...

"Recruiting is our top priority," most serious startups say, yet they're terrible at it. Ad-hoc interviews, jumbled notes. But Greenhouse turns the messy hiring process into a well-oiled machine for f...

Apple updated its iWork for iCloud services today with several features that it had previously announced were on their way. These center around a bunch of new collaboration tools that aim to make it a...

Knozen is the new startup from Marc Cenedella, serial entrepreneur and founder of the veteran job matching site, TheLadders. Cenedella is not giving too much away about his new project at this early s...

Amazon today announced its fastest EC2 instance type yet. The improved C3 instance type, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels noted in the announcement at the company’s re:Invent developer conference today,...

As an author and former academic, I use Google Books almost every day. It’s become the primary reason I even bother exploring non-fiction books online, rather than looking up an article on the s...

Developers can now use Facebook login inside their Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 applications, helping users move from the start screen of an app and into its use more quickly. The move lowers the pro...

In-flight wireless data services are taking off in Europe. The European Commission has now approved two key pieces of legislation that could finally see passengers be able to use their phones and tabl...

Wormhole Games, which was founded by a former Google product manager and director in charge of EA’s publishing efforts, is out with its first title — a player-versus-player tank game. Call...

It's taken a lot longer than expected, but Shelby.tv is launching the next version of its product -- an iPhone app for short-form video discovery. The new product, which is different from the "Genius"...

At Amazon’s re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas, the company’s CTO Werner Vogels announced a new instance type for applications that need high I/O performance. As Vogels noted, the...

While the proliferation of baby photos may be unwelcome across wider social networks like Facebook, there's a growing interest in closed, more personal social networks built for private sharing on mob...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched PostgresSQL on Amazon RDS, showing the strength of the open-source database and its market maturity. CTO Werner Vogels said on stage at the AWS re:Invent conference ...

Good news, those of you who live in Seattle and New York City! If you haven't yet figured out how to get food delivered to your home or office, there's a San Francisco-based startup that's willing to ...

Apple has finally updated its iBooks app and store with an iOS 7-inspired design. The app was the last of Apple’s iOS stores to retain the older iOS 6 design, as both the iTunes Store and App St...

Created by a pair of self-avowed data nerds, Knotch is a discovery platform for opinions and ideas. The iOS app, which recently raised $1.5 million in seed funding, lets you ask for thoughts on any to...

Technology has played a huge role in giving Democrats and progressive an edge in recent elections, with many in the political world believing there's a "digital divide" between the two parties. So it ...

Signs of continued momentum in the U.K. tech startup scene today. Figures put out by Silicon Milkroundabout, which runs startup jobs fairs, and job ad search engine Adzuna, suggest there's been a sign...

Pinterest is today, at long last, finally releasing its first set of APIs for developers, which will let third party sites embed Pinterest pins, and make it easier to post content into Pinterest itsel...

Pinterest is today, at long last, finally releasing its first API for developers, which will let third party sites embed Pinterest pins, and make it easier to post content into Pinterest itself. First...

Kidaptive, the company behind a suite of children's apps for iPad which combine entertaining videos and games with a curriculum focused on kindergarten readiness, has raised an additional $10.1 millio...

You may remember the name Blippy from such startups as the one that shared your credit card purchases with friends. The concept died. But the name lived on. Another team of Silicon Valley entrepreneur...

Social mobile location apps were all the rage a couple of years ago but few seemed to take off, unless of course like Grindr and Tinder they scratched that hookup itch. A more general, friendly 'SoLoM...

TinyCo, an early iOS and Android game developer out of Silicon Valley, picked up an additional $20 million in financing from Pinnacle Ventures with existing investor Andreessen Horowitz participating....

The Pew Research Center is today releasing comparative numbers looking at how U.S. adults use social networking sites to read news (a follow-on from earlier research focusing on two specific sites, Fa...

Mobile wallet platform Isis, backed by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon here in the U.S., is kicking off its nationwide launch today, as previously planned. Alongside the launch, an updated version of t...

Blippar has been around since 2010 with the sole intention of making advertising fun again. The app uses high-speed augmented reality and image recognition technology to let brands add interactive adv...

The Mexico City branch of 500 Startups has picked the next group of Latin American companies that will go through its Accelerator program. This time around, for its third batch, there will be 17 compa...

With origins dating back to 2005, MapMyFitness has become a veteran of the online health and fitness space, having built a suite of websites and apps (like MapMyRUN.com, MapMyRIDE.com, MapMyWALK.com, ...

With origins dating back to 2005, MapMyFitness has become a veteran of the online health and fitness space, having built a suite of websites and apps (like MapMyRUN.com, MapMyRIDE.com, MapMyWALK.com, ...

When we last covered Pin Drop a year ago - an iPhone app and website which helps people bookmark locations - we described it as an Evernote for location. You could drop pins onto a map and build up a ...

In a world where many eyes have glazed over at the thought of PowerPoint presentations, Prezi, a startup that lets you create presentations online with dynamic features like zooming and audio tracks, ...

Streaming set-top box manufacturer Roku wants to have as much content that appeals to as many people as possible on its devices. Lately, that’s meant adding new content channels from big TV netw...

OneSpot, a startup focused on what it calls content advertising, is announcing that it has raised $5.3 million in Series A funding.I first wrote about the company in 2012, when it presented an interes...

Qloo, an iOS app that makes personalized recommendations across a wide range of categories, has closed a $3 million seed funding round with participation from angel investors Samih Toukan and Hussam K...

Hot on the heels of a new $37 million White House initiative designed to encourage data science work at American universities, education startup, Udacity, is responding with a data science initiative ...

Beginning with the likes of Khan Academy and Coursera, over the last two years, a new kind of learning has begun to emerge on the Web, bringing with it the promise of affordable, quality education at ...

Do you own a copy of The Lean Startup? Have you actually read it, or is it in your bedroom or ebook reader, barely touched? This is where Berlin-based startup Blinkist comes in. Aimed squarely at peop...

Appia, which operates a mobile ad network focused on user acquisition, has raised $4.5 million in new funding led by North Atlantic Capital.That might not seem like a big round for a company that has ...

Last year, Strategy Analytics made the prediction that we may have approached "peak Android" for how big a market share the operating system may be able to attain in the U.S. market. Fast forward to t...

MeeGo startup Jolla has just announced that its first smartphone will go on sale in Finland on November 27th. It will be sold by Finnish carrier DNA — the first carrier Jolla signed up to its Sa...

After what looked like a rather unsavoury boardroom struggle that saw Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine leave the UK startup he founded, the former MobiCart CEO has been recruited by m-commerce company (and M...

Go Launcher, an Android app maker out of Beijing that has been around for nearly a decade and has 42 million monthly active users across a portfolio of apps, just picked up $20 million in funding from...

Biz dev deals don't always bowl over readers, but in startup land they often point to good execution. Fanatix, the UK startup that offers a mobile-first app for sports fans to chew the fat, has done w...

On the iPhone, Apple Maps and Google Maps app have gotten all the headlines over the last several years, but MapQuest is still hanging in there, despite a lack of real innovation over the years. Today...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) isobviouslymaking it verydifficultfor competitors in the public cloud market. That could not have been made more clear than how IBM andRackspaceare choosing how to make their...

As the real estate market regains some life after an extended dip, people are beginning to get comfortable with the idea of selling their home again and, in turn, getting comfortable with looking arou...

After launching the iOS version of its mobile app advertising platform at TechCrunchs Disrupt conference in September, Voxel is announcing that it can now virtualize Android apps as well.The Voxel pla...

With Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates as founders, you’d think FWD.us would focus on building tech tools to push for immigration reform. Yet it’s mostly used money to buy campaign ads for su...

Facebook is continuing its assault on SMS and quest to become the only messaging app you use today by expanding its "contact via phone number" feature to Messenger for iOS. The option launched on Andr...

Facebook is continuing its assault on SMS and competitors like WeChat and Line today by expanding its "contact via phone number" feature to Messenger for iOS. The option launched on Android to a selec...

Today the Wall Street Journal reported that Snapchat turned down a $3 billion or more all cash acquisition offer from Facebook. The news has taken many by surprise, as Snapchat has no revenue, and is ...

When Google bought Motorola there were plenty of theories about why it wanted the mobile maker. Patents, being named chief among them. But todays launch of the low cost Moto G smartphone suggests the ...

Do you like Android? Do you like multiple people trying to talk at the same time about what’s new in the Android world? I thought so. This week’s edition of the TechCrunch Droidcast is jus...

Russia-based Yota Devices has been working on a curious beast called the YotaPhone for over a year now, and it's gained quite a reputation for itself because of its split personality. While the front ...

Twitter today expanded its ad targeting capabilities by allowing marketers to now more granularly segment audiences on mobile (iOS and Android) by operating system version, device, and Wi-Fi connectiv...

The Microsoft internal moves continue, with news out today that executive vice president Eric Rudder (pictured) is leaving his role atop Microsoft Research to instead focus on a perfectly un-parsable ...

In a press conference today, Amazon Web Services Senior Vice President Andy Jassy said that CEO and Founder Jeff Bezos believes AWS could be the company’s largest business. Amazon reported $61bi...

Google is no longer the best-kept secret in education -- that is, if Google's presence in any market is ever "a secret." Over the last year or so, the search giant has been quietly expanding its footp...

It’s clich to point out that most overnight successes in technology actually take years of work, yet in the case of Optimizely, we have yet another example of such a phenomenon. Earlier this yea...

A perfect GPA isn't cool. You know what's cool? Advancing an Open Source project. To help computer science students prepare for jobs (and boost its own recruiting efforts) Facebook today publicly laun...

Dropbox's acquisition of Mailbox for $100 million has fueled more interest and development of mobile applications aimed at helping users triage their way through overcrowded inboxes. The latest idea i...

Amazon today announced a new service for mobile developers at its re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas today. Amazon AppStream, which uses the company’s recently launched g2 EC2 instances...

Amazon today announced a new service for mobile developers at its re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas today. Amazon AppStream, which uses the company’s recently launched g2 EC2 instances...

Alas poor Zune, you are dead. Microsoft has stretched out the end of Zune over such a long time that I feel that we have called it RIP for years. Here's what I consider the last domino: By November 22...

AWS launched Amazon WorkSpaces, a virtual workspace that the company says is half the price oftraditionalofferings. Announced today at AWS re:Invent, the service, available today, allows access from a...

CEO Drew Houston today announced that Dropbox has hit 200 million users, up from 175 million in July. He said "Today we're here to talk about Dropbox for business." We'll be following up with details ...

According to new data sourced by the social marketers at Piqora (previously Pinfluencer), the value of a pin on Pinterest growing – today, a pin generates 78 cents in sales, on average. ThatR...

Amazon today unveiled CloudTrail, a new user visibility and resource-tracking service as part of its Amazon Web Services. This service, it seems, will complement Amazon CloudWatch, which provides moni...

This morning Square announced that it has removed deposit limits and holds on credit card transactions that are entered manually by its customers. In the United States, regardless of whether a transac...

The days are getting shorter, friends, and that can only mean one thing: winter is coming, and so too are the holidays. We here at TechCrunch like to think of ourselves as a gaggle of technological bo...

Every year around this time we post our TC gift guides. This long, storied tradition began at CrunchGear when we attempted to do 300 reviews in three months (it didn't work) and this year we're focusi...

Apparently, the U.S. government has no idea how much it will cost to fix the malfunctioning, multi-million-dollar federal healthcare e-commerce website, Healthcare.gov. During ongoing Congressional te...

Earlier this year, we wrote about TouristEye, a mobile app for planning trips and discovering new things to do while traveling. Today the startup is announcing that it has been acquired by travel heav...

Earlier this year, we wrote about TouristEye, a mobile app for planning trips and discovering new things to do while traveling. Today the startup is announcing that it has been acquired by travel heav...

Ever since Karen X. Cheng was young, she exhibited a kind of bull-headed determination to reach any goal. First, it was learning how to spin notebooks on the tip of her index finger, like all the cool...

After a nation-wide media manhunt, the mystery smiling woman on the face of healthcare.gov has finally revealed herself. For the high-crime of being a stock photo, the woman says she faced online bull...

Oh boy, another sticker-happy social messaging app raises money. This time it's the turn of Finland's Jongla. The youth-oriented messaging app for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and HTML5, has raised a ...

It's been a long-time in coming, but eight-year-old education company, Chegg, debuted this morning on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CHGG." In the days prior, Chegg priced its in...

Microsoft today launched the latest version of its Visual Studio tools for developers at an event in New York City. The new version includes a number of user interface improvements, smarter tools for ...

Mustbin, a new mobile application emerging from stealth today, and backed by $4.5 million in Series A funding, wants to become the go-to service for organizing everything you have that's important - i...

Today Motorola unveiled its Moto G smartphone, which is related to the Moto X in many ways, but very different in others. I had the chance to try out the Moto G in person at Motorola's Canadian HQ in ...

Yahoo has posted an interesting little tidbit on its tumblr today, announcing that it’s going to be auctioning off a bunch of premium domain names that it has been holding onto. The domains, whi...

Telecommunication giant Orange unveiled its plan for its startup accelerator named Orange Fab. In addition to announcing that the program is now taking applications for French startups, the company sa...

Carousell, a Singapore-based consumer-to-consumer marketplace app for iOS and Android, has raised a $1 million SGD (about $800,000 USD) seed round led by Rakuten. Other investors include Golden Gate V...

If you're new to London and/or want to get an in to the city's startup scene, the weekly Silicon Drinkabout, run by 3beards, has fast become the obvious landing point. Now the bearded ones, in conjunc...

Technologists are rushing to shield Todd Park, the President’s Chief Technology officer, from a Republican witch hunt to find the cause of heatlhcare.gov’s epic failure. Park was subpoenae...

Boston! TechCrunch is in you! And it's damn cold here. Tonight, at 6:00pm at The Estate, we're hosting our first Boston event in far too many years. The response from Boston has been overwhelming. We ...

Motorola held a special event today to reveal its new Moto G, a spiritual sibling to the Moto X and a way for the Google-owned smartphone maker to bring its vision of a customized mobile device future...

Founders and VCs are placing big bets on smartphone-powered photography, in a bid to disrupt the lucrative $2.88 billion stock photo industry. Scoopshot is one such startup.Today the crowdsourced on-d...

While Jawbones UP fitness tracking wristband has always seemed to be relatively popular (at least around these parts), its done so despite one obvious quirk: in a world full of wirelessly-syncing comp...

Peer-to-peer airport car rental startup FlightCar is opening in its largest and busiest location yet, as the company has just introduced service at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The launch ...

PasswordBox, a password manager startup that lets users generate, store and protect multiple strong passwords to skip the need to memorise them, has closed a $6 million Series A round, led by Omers Ve...

LinkedIn, the social network for the working world now with 259 million users, is today taking the covers off its latest moves to make itself more than just a place that people visit when they're hunt...

To help provide multiplatform TV services in Europe and Latin American, as well as to expand its existing practice in the U.S., Clearleap has raised $20 million in funding led by Susquehanna Growth Eq...

Moneytree, a personal finance iOS app, has received $1.6 million in seed funding led by DG Incubation (Digital Garage's investment branch), with participation from private investors, including senior ...

Finnish phone startup Jolla, which is on a mission to offer more choice in the smartphone space by building its own smartphone hardware and with a MeeGo-based open source smartphone OS called Sailfish...

Marissa Mayer's repainting of Yahoo's 'front door' has expanded its international reach, with the "more modern" looking homepage now being rolled out to seven global markets, six of them in Europe. Th...

MAG Interactive, a Swedish app maker that went on to create Ruzzle, a game that’s been downloaded more than 45 million times in the last 18 months, just picked up $6 million in funding from Noki...

MAG Interactive, a Swedish app maker that went on to create Ruzzle, a game that’s been downloaded more than 45 million times in the last 18 months, just picked up $6 million in a round of fundin...

Netflix is rolling out a new user experience for its TV apps today, which represents the biggest single product update in the companys history. The update introduces a whole new way for users to brows...

Sources familiar with the situation have confirmed with TechCrunch that Joe Belfiore, current corporate vice president of the Windows Phone project, will pick up some Internet Explorer duties in addit...

An Amazon executive said today at AWS re:Invent that NoSQL database DynamoDB now serves trillions of requests per month to its users. The news is in contrast to SimpleDB, another AWS NoSQL database, w...

The crowdfunding space has just got a little more crowded in the UK, with the official launch today of a platform for crowdsourcing donations aimed at doing social good. Yimby.com -- an affirmative pl...

Microsoft's Joe Belfiore will absorb some of the responsibilities formerly executed by Internet Explorer's corporate vice president, according to sources speaking to The Verge. Microsoft declined to c...

Cyanogen Inc. revealed a few months back that it closed a $7 million seed investment from Benchmark Capital. The vision it laid out at the time was no small one: it wants its cooked version of Android...

Last month, a number of us TechCrunchers grabbed our passports and jetted to Berlin, Germany for the first ever Disrupt Europe conference. The tech scene in Berlin is very hot at the moment, so while ...

When Photobucket redesigned its site and user experience with better uploading and new social features last fall, it did so in the hope of reestablishing itself as the go-to site for photo sharing and...

Sunsets? Landscapes? Latte art? Look back at your old photos and you'll notice they're boring unless there's a human face in them. Now think about teens on social media. Immaturity fuels bullying and ...

Cloud automation company Skytaphas launched advanced integration capabilities with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allow customers to develop and test on Skytap Cloud workloads that mirror AWS producti...

30% to 40% of Quora's traffic comes from people searching for specific things, so it tells me it's likely that search ads that leverage intent will be how it eventually monetizes its Q&A service. ...

IDC published its third-quarter 2013smartphone market share and sales estimatestoday. Winners this quarter are Windows Phone and Android. Apple was mixed, while BlackBerry managed to implode at a clip...

We don't cover Patch Tuesday much here at TechCrunch because the majority of you know how to leave Windows Update on and suck down the new software each month direct from the source. This month is a b...

This morning an internal memo inside of Microsoft detailed a new employee ranking system that will replace former policy. Microsoft's former method for judging performance was widely considered backwa...

Airbnb is hoping to get more of its hosts and guests on mobile, as it has launched a "reimagination" of its iOS and Android apps. Today at an event in Airbnb's new San Francisco office space, the comp...

Airbnb is hoping to get more of its hosts and guests on mobile, as it has launched a "reimagination" of its iOS and Android apps. Today at an event in Airbnb's new San Francisco office space, the comp...

Airbnb continued its pitch to regulators and hosts about the benefits of the new sharing economy, touting some some new stats about the number of hosts and lodgings available on the company's platform...

Twitter will let you create custom timelines based on topics, hashtags and more from Tweetdeck, it announced today. Twitter is also providing an API to allow developers to build this functionality int...

3D-printer company Makerbot is leading a crowdfunding drive to buy 3D printers for every school in America. The push, called Makerbot Academy, will begin with CEO Bre Pettis personally pledging a Make...

Early benchmarks, like this one at Geekbench, noted by Primate Labs founder John Poole, are getting posted for Apple’s new Retina iPad mini and they’re looking pretty good. The A7 in the s...

Streaming set-top box maker Roku has just lined up some more live programming from a couple of cable networks. Today the company is announcing availability of apps from ESPN and Disney channels on its...

Meet the new definition of an all-in-one coffee machine: the Bonaverde. It not only brews and grinds coffee beans, the tabletop machine roasts them as well. Put unroasted coffee beans in the machine, ...

Mesosphere, a startup that focuses on developingMesos, a technology that makes running complex distributed applications easier, is launching Elastic Mesos today. This new product makes setting up a Me...

AfterFive years and more than $500 million in investment, FirstMark Capital (early backer of Shopify, Pinterest, and others) has today announced its third fund of $225 million that will go toward earl...

Poshmark, the mobile marketplace that lets women swap and sell items out of their own closets, is launching on Android today. Poshmark, which offers iOS and web apps, launched nearly two years ago and...

Ever want to get a tattoo but didn't know what to actually get? New startup Tattoodo has created a crowdsourced platform where users can browse and purchase tattoo designs -- or even have custom desig...

A couple of weeks ago, when TechCrunch was in Berlin, we sniffed out and published the details on an investment for a local startup: 6Wunderkinder, maker of the task management app Wunderlist, had clo...

Google is releasing yet another update to Gmail today, which sees deeper Google Drive integration coming to the company’s email platform. Now users will be able to skip the whole process involve...

Y Combinator-incubated payday loan disruptier LendUp has raised $14 million in new funding from Google Ventures, QED (a firm that includes the founder of Capital One and Data Collective. This brings t...

Google's augmented reality specs, Google Glass, are getting a new set of features focused on audio. The new functionality gives Glass users the ability to ask Glass to pull up a track from Google Play...

Pounce, a recently launched mobile shopping app that allows consumers to snap photos of items found in circulars, print ads, and catalogs in order to purchase directly from their smartphones, is out w...

Vine, Twitter's six second video sharing app, has just released a version of the app compatible with Windows Phone. Video creators on the WP platform will have access to all the same features as iOS a...

Four months after raising $1,664,574 on Indiegogo and breaking the site's existing record, medical device developer Scanadu has closed $10.5 in Series A financing led by Relay Ventures, with participa...

Internet-of-Things startup SmartThings has spent the last year building a platform that people can use to connect to an increasingly wide range of devices in their homes. Now it's getting ready to bet...

Estonia-based Plumbr has developed a memory optimising tool that it claims can predict and avoid software failures. It already boasts paying customers such as HBO, Dell, NATO, TeliaSonera, and Ericsso...

Written.com, a startup that tries to connect marketers with existing content and audiences, is announcing that it has raised $1 million in seed funding.The funding comes LiveOak Venture Partners, Floo...

Once in a while a game comes along that blends gameplay and aesthetic design to such a degree that it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other starts. It was true of Limbo, and it also descri...

Viber has just released an update to version 4.0, introducing the revenue-generating sticker market for the very first time, as well as adding some new features and platform support. Along with the ne...

FoundationDB has raised $17 million for its unique industrial strength database with a data model similar to Google'sF1, a new scalable relational database management system used to run AdWords. The S...

Bill.com, a platform that connects payments, receivables and manages cash flow, has raised $38 million in anoversubscribedround led by new investor Scale Venture Partners.The round also included parti...

The Apple Store has come back online after a surprise outage this evening and the previously announced iPad mini with Retina display is now on sale. The sale data had not been announced previously, Ap...

The Apple Store has come back online after a surprise outage this evening and the previously announced iPad mini with Retina display is now on sale. The sale data had not been announced previously, Ap...

Steve Jobs was posthumously inducted into the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame last Thursday, and a video was posted of the ceremony a couple of days ago. Apple SVP Eddy Cue tweeted a link to the video,...

Line, the messaging app that blew up in Japan over the past two-and-a-half years, is now bringing in nearly $100 million in revenue a quarter.The app, which spun out of its parent company NHN earlier ...

Over the weekend, I got two emails from my mother. The most interesting aspect of them was the sign-off at the bottom: “Sent from my iPad”. This stood out to me for two reasons: First, I&#...

Line, the messaging app that blew up in Japan over the past two-and-a-half years, is now bringing in nearly $100 million in revenue a quarter.The app, which spun out of its parent company NHN earlier ...

Custom apparel company CustomInk just raised a whole lot of money, bringing on $40 million from Revolution Growth, the investment fund from Steve Case, Ted Leonsis, and Donn Davis. Along with the fund...

The Japanese version of Pinterest is now live as the site ramps up its global expansion. The launch comes 18 months after Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten became an investor in Pinterest....

According to information Microsoft provides to developers, the Windows Store marketplace for applications on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 racked up roughly 1.7 million daily downloads, both free and paid...

The PUC by Zivix is a clever little device that converts older MIDI systems into wireless powerhouses, allowing you to connect to iPads and the like with one small disc of electronics. Zivix, the make...

Late last week we published a piece about why Apple would want to build a factory to manufacture sapphire crystal, and why it might want to own over $570M worth of that production up front. Today, by ...

Yesterday, AppleInsiderpointed out that Microsoft appears to have made a calculation error in a billboard touting the fact that its Surface tablets ship with the Office productivity set of application...

Nathan Richardson, who joined AOL as the president of Live from AOL (the company's live video initiative) just a few months ago, has departed, according to a report in Politico.A spokesperson for AOL,...

The most realistic and detailed images yet of Apple's new spaceship headquarters have just been published in an awesome piece on Wired.The latest images of the 2.8 million square-foot campus show an e...

Fab.com, the design-oriented e-commerce site, is indeed seeing the departure of its chief operating officer Beth Ferreira, a person with knowledge of the situation has confirmed to TechCrunch. Ferreir...

Slowly but surely, Humble Bundle is expanding its offering to cover all your indie gaming needs. After the indie bundles and the smaller weekly bundles, the startup just opened the Humble Store. As th...

Bootstrapped startup Print.io has been quietly serving as the print supplier for a number of larger companies for a year now, includinginstacanv.as(now rebranded “Twenty20″), and others. B...

There are a number of Bitcoin exchanges out there today, but itBit seeks to differentiate from many of the more consumer-focused exchanges out there by providing a higher level of security and complia...

While there are plenty of opportunities for small businesses and merchants to advertise, market and even sell online, there aren't many platforms that allow them to actually communicate with each othe...

With Keezy, making music doesn’t require a lot of work, know-how, or talent. This dead-simple drum machine app lets you hold down one of its eight buttons to record a sound with your device̵...

Sen. John McCain is a stalwart of the Senate, a former candidate for president, prisoner of war and fighter pilot. As such, his voice is among the most prominent of the American Congress, and when he ...

Today Microsoft announced that SkyDrive, its online file storage product, will display user photo and video content onto their televisions via the new Xbox One console in a more attractive fashion tha...

Yesware, an email productivity startup for salespeople, which just this fall raised an additional $13.5 million in Series B funding, has made its first acquisition. The company is acquiring the email ...

Stackdriver, a monitoring service for Amazon Web Services, is adding a number of policy-driven automation features to its platform today. Instead of just getting alerts when there are issues, users ca...

Will tomorrow’s groundbreaking gadget solve world hunger, while destroying art and prompting teens to fornicate like bunnies? No, no, And yes. The ever-savvy web comic, XKCD,hit another one out ...

Rather than delay a product still in testing, Viber has rolled out a new feature called Viber Out to assist in the relief effort in the Philippines. The feature works almost identically to Skype Out, ...

Any journalist who snaps Sepia Instagrams of their brunch at the Sochi Olympics will promptly lose their accreditation for the games. Journalists using mobile phones to film athletes or spectators wil...

Bitcasa, a former TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield finalist, is growing quickly in Japan and other Asian countries. To fuel this kind of unexpected international growth, the company has raised $11 milli...

Google today is expanding the functionality of Gmail’s “quick action” buttons, which will now allow users to press a button next to emails in their inbox in order to take additional ...

Twitter's purpose is still widely misunderstood, and many people think they have no need for it. But it has great potential to enlighten us. Here's how:We are a specialized species. Each of us lives a...

Tim Ferriss, author of self-help bestsellers The 4 Hour Workweek and The 4 Hour Body (as well as an angel investor), is getting into the publishing business.He already took a step away from tradition ...

A year and a half after launch, Trendabl the Instagram-like social platform strictly for fashion photos has introduced e-commerce to its offerings. It's a natural next step for a service that alread...

Motorola’s Moto X is a solid phone, but part of its appeal are the customization options that allow users to engrave things into the back, change the color and even material of the back case and...

Are you ready to party, Boston? We're headed your way and there are still a few tickets available for this week's Pitch-off. We've lined up 20 amazing local companies to pitch their product to a few j...

Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical storms ever recorded, devastated the Philippines last week, killing up to 10,000 people. Relief efforts are now underway, including one by the Geekl...

3D printers are great if you want to print small plastic widgets. But what if you want to print something a bit smarter, like an electronic circuit board? Australia and U.S.-based startup Cartesian Co...

Flipboard is inching into Pinterest's territory today with the launch of a new "shopping" category which allows e-commerce brands turn their online stores into flippable, shoppable catalogs, complete ...

DesignCrowd, a crowdsourcing marketplace for freelance designers, has raised $3 million in new funding from investors led by Starfish Ventures. This brings the Sydney, Australia based company's total ...

ValoBox has already gone some way to address the shortcomings of eBooks with its purely browser-based approach and an innovative 'pay-as-you-go' payment model that lets readers dip in and out of conte...

Jessica Alba's clean-living startup, The Honest Company -- a subscription ecommerce service selling eco-friendly, non-toxic family-oriented products such as diapers, skin care and cleaning products --...

Among watchmakers, NOMOS Glaschtte is unique it’s a relatively young watch company at around 20 years old, but it’s also one of the few in the world to earn the distinction of being a ...

Founded by former Sony, Olympus and Toyota engineers, TechCrunch Tokyo 2012 grand prize winning hardware startup Whill not only wants to redesign the wheelchair, but also combat stigma by creating sle...

Amazon is already crazy busy during the month of November, and particularly towards the end, when U.S. shoppers go absolutely off the rails. Now, it's planning to ship on Sundays, in addition to every...

Big data analytics has given large enterprises a way of analysing historical and real-time data to monitor their business' performance, and to better predict what might happen next. Now, a startup out...

Line, the messaging app that blew up in Japan over the past two and a half years, is now bringing in nearly $100 million in revenue a quarter. The app, which spun out of its parent company NHN earlier...

Last week, Garantia Data raised $9 million in a Series A round led by Bain Capital and Carmel Ventures. The company had previously raised $3.8 million in seed funding to fund its managed service for d...

We've seen more than a few startups cook up their own impressive 3D scanners -- there's Makerbot and its Digitizer, and dark horse Occipital with its mobile Structure sensor just to name a few -- but ...

Vox Media, an online publisher of websites such as The Verge, has purchased the smaller Curbed network of websites for a reported $20 to $30 million according to the New York Times.The Vox logo now gr...

Hey, remember when people were still arguing about HTML5 versus Flash?The battle seems long over at this point, with the rise of the iPhone essentially killing Adobe's Flash platform, but Will Price, ...

With the new iPad Air, the question isn't whether or not the new tablet will fly or die. The question, rather, is whether or not you should upgrade from an older-gen iPad to the iPad air or to the iPa...

It's hard to escape the feeling in the mobile games space that times are tougher than they were. Budgets are going up, investors are staying away and the sense that there's just too many players in th...

Remember Unbaby.me? The browser extension that promised to end the endless torrent of baby photos uploaded to Facebook by your proud procreating pals, replacing those posts with pictures of dogs, or c...

The once respectable Los Angeles Times is leveraging its dwindling platform to attack individual teachers under the guise of data transparency. The editorial board won a court case allowing them to us...

On the web, marketplaces are the stuff of legend. With properties like eBay and Amazon, among many other, an online marketplace harnesses the openness of the web, more efficiently matches supply with ...

I sat down to write up the new YouTube comment system earlier this week, and before I finished the article, I had deleted my Google+ account my real one, not the joke one that you acquire during the ...

Apple is said to be working on two curved display iPhone models for the "second half of next year," according to a source speaking to Bloomberg, with a likely released planned for the third quarter, a...

The organizers of the hackathon at Yale this weekend aren't exactly sure how many students turned out for the sleepless grind. Gauging from the depletion of YHack t-shirts, they put it at about 950. ...

Nixie watches are nothing new - Woz wears one sometimes - but these glowing tubes, originally designed in the 1970s for heavy-duty industrial displays, are hard to power and hard to maintain. However,...

Prefundia wants to help crowdfunding projects get backers before they launch their campaign. The startup, for startup it is -- launching out of U.S. accelerator Boomstartup this summer -- has been ope...

A number of Instagram users are currently reporting difficulty accessing the popular photo-sharing service both on the web and mobile versions of the app. At 3:37 pm Pacific Time this afternoon, Insta...

Here in the tech industry, it seems that people are always talking about "how hard it is to hire." That's something that can sound a little odd, given that there are still so many unemployed people he...

Earlier this week, Microsoft updated its Office 365 suite with a couple of new features and licensing terms. Overall, the update was very much in line with the other 100 changes Microsoft had made to ...

There's mounting evidence that the tendency to favour smartphones over standalone cameras isn't just tanking compact camera sales it's affecting DSLR and interchangeable lens cameras, too. A new WSJ ...

The Gillmor Gang Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor find themselves in a quandary over Steven Elop's alleged exit strategy for Microsoft. Is he really seriou...

Our identities are fragmented across dozens of websites, mobile applications and databases. Its not simply that weve lost control of our identities. Its that we have multiple identities based on whate...

Happy anniversary to me: Ive now been writing this here weekly column for exactly three years. Over the last year I have opined, prescribed, and predicted many things. And now, like last year, and the...

Mobile is now the channel of choice for everyone, but even those of us who use technology with great alacrity are still digital immigrants. The Mobile Born is a generation of kids that have been raise...

Breaking non-news out today: Immigration reform is dead in 2013, meaning that high-skill immigration reform is also kaput this year. We already mostly knew that, but the third-ranking Republican in th...

YouTubers are not pleased about being forced onto Google+ for commenting, and one girl took a stand in the cutest, most profane way imaginable. "You ruined our site and called it integration, I'm writ...

We had a tip about, have now confirmed, Intel's latest acquisition: Kno, the education startup that started life as a hardware business and later pivoted into software -- specifically via apps that le...

Apple is building a manufacturing plant in Arizona that will be used by GT Advanced Technologies to make sapphire crystals for use in its products. Apple currently uses sapphire in its home buttons an...

Time is running out to apply to Hardware Battlefield. Have you submitted an application but didn't complete it? What the heck, man! Do it! Do it now! This is shaping up to be one of the coolest things...

'Ello ello! Welcome to another edition of TIDWRTWHUFOO. Today we're looking at flying drones, crabby bots that climb your body, and a robot that can roll, spin, and eventually decapitate you and/or yo...

Facebook's share price tanked upon IPO, scaring plenty of private companies away from the public markets. But with its eventual recovery and now the stellar performance of Twitter's IPO out the gates,...

Twitter priced its IPO at $26 per share. It opened yesterday at $45.10, closing the day at $44.90. Today it closed at $41.65, down 7.24%. Using a fully diluted share count (705,098,594), Twitter’...

Gillmor Gang - Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble. Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific time. Like us on Facebook at Facebook.com/gillmorgang...

The technology press is abuzz this morning after Bloomberg published an article concerning what Nokia's - and soon Microsoft's again! - Stephen Elop would do to reform Microsoft should he be selected ...

As much as I love stock Android sometimes you just need something different, and that's essentially been the guiding mission of the folks over at Cyanogen Inc. They've made plenty of strides with thei...

Thanksgiving is around the corner, which means that the Holiday season is actually upon us. And you know what that means? Electronics makers are literally spewing gadgets at us in time for gift-giving...

Thanksgiving is around the corner, which means that the Holiday season is actually upon us. And you know what that means? Electronics makers are literally spewing gadgets at us in time for gift-giving...

Tophatter, a flash sales site that sells apparel, makeup and electronics through 90-second auctions, released its Android app today and announced its first international expansion. The app is now avai...

What's your karaoke song? If you have an instant answer to that (or even if you don't), pay attention.The guys that helped create Guitar Hero, John Devecka, Charles Huang, and Kai Huang, along with mu...

A new mobile application called Impala is picking up where Everpix left off, in terms of automatically categorizing your photo collections using computer vision technology. Once installed, the app wor...

Late-night TV commercial stalwarts Neat may seem a little chintzy at first blush but rest assured that their products - essentially very simple document scanners - are surprisingly good. Their latest ...

Data from social media analytics companies Crimson Hexagon and Topsy give insight into the chatter during Twitter's IPO using data gleaned from (what else?) tweets. Most of the accounts that produced ...

Airbnb has been in the midst of a fight with local regulators in New York, where it was recently subpoenaed by the Attorney General's office for a wide-ranging amount of user data. Well today the comp...

Guitar Hero creator Charles Huang founded Green Throttle, a Santa Clara-based startup with $6 million in funding, to build out multiplayer Android gaming for the living room. Now, the company says it&...

ESPN's WatchESPN app has been wildly popular on every new device that it's launched on. But until recently, you had to log in as a cable subscriber to be able to actually "watch" ESPN on the app. Now ...

Game consoles are in an enviable position: right under millions of televisions. The popular line is that the big three – Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony – are dinosaurs choking on the smoke ...

In August, Twitter launched a beta testing program on Android which allows users to opt-in to try out early versions of the Twitter application and other unreleased features which are being considered...

It may be getting harder for mobile developers to break into the top charts in the various app stores, but there is a healthy and growing “middle class” app economy, according to new data ...

iHeartRadio, Clear Channel's digital radio service, has today announced that it has topped 40 million registered users and 260 million downloads since relaunching in 2011. Though the milestone is sign...

Building Robotics, a startup that makes intelligent software systems for office buildings, has raised $1.14 million in a seed round led by Claremont Creek Ventures (CCV), Google Ventures, Formation 8,...

The current crop of sensor-driven wearables are mostly aimed at quantified selfers who want to geek out over activity or fitness data. Not (generally) because they have a pressing need to, more becaus...

Microsoft has posted an extensive, 12-minute video walkthrough of what it's like to use the Xbox One, including showing off its Live TV, Skype, game DVR and biometric sign-in features, among others. I...

Nvidia has some side bets on Surface and Windows RT, but Android is the really exciting OS of the future, according to CEO and co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang on an investor call today to discuss the compan...

Google has admitted that at least one of its mystery barges (there are currently four registered, apparently) will host "interactive space[s] where people can learn about new technology. Now, we're pr...

TechCrunch International City events are 1-2 day events that TechCrunch does in conjunction with partners. Coming up this December will be TechCrunch Moscow.Since the first TechCrunch Moscow in 2010, ...

Smartphone maker HTC is going through a tough time -- and having something of an identity crisis that's playing out as a rebranding exercise. That's why it's spent millions hiring Robert Downey Jr to ...

BitNami has added a MongoDB stack for developers to build web apps on the popular NoSQL database. The stack allows developer to deploy and manage either on-premise, through Amazon Web Services (AWS) o...

President Obama sat down for an extended interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd about the epic failure of the healthcare website and National Security Agency spying. The video is embedded below. I̵...

In an internal message today, our AOL Global CTO Curtis Brown announced an "exciting event" that will be taking place next month in AOL campuses around the world. In an "exciting twist" on the TechCru...

Axel Hansen and Jonah Varon began building Newsle as undergraduates at Harvard to fill a nagging gap among today's news aggregators. The idea being that, as popular as Google Alerts may be, people wa...

Mass shootings have become unfortunately common in American life, so a few Silicon Valley's investors are launching a $1 million competition to see if technology can reduce firearm violence. With the ...

There are a number of apps out there seeking to displace SMS as the primary mode of communications between mobile users -- there's MessageMe, Line, WeChat, WhatsApp and others. And, of course, there's...

Apple’s newest version of OS X debuted to generally positive feedback a few weeks back… unless you were an Apple Mail user trying to use the app to check your Gmail. Then you probably had ...

As the offering date for Twitter approached, the bankers could not seem to make up their minds on the pricing, with the offering price rising from $17-$20 barely two weeks ago to $23-$25 last week to ...

Fresh from celebrating its fifth anniversary last week, Groupon today reported its Q3 earnings: it's a mixed picture but shows that Groupon continues to make good on its commitment to take its busines...

Before Twitter stock started trading this morning, journalists assumed that we'd see the company's founders and/or executives ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. And indeed, there...

It's been a long hard road for Dave Morin's Path, as it has seen lagging growth in a tough ("fruit fly experiments" anyone?) social market. These data points mean that it's had to trim down staff -- a...

With a suite of over 240 apps that have more than 220 million downloads between them, TabTale wants to strike while the iron is hot. The startup announced this week that it has raised $12 million in S...

Everyone loves a “where are they now” story — whether it’s about teen idols or once-hot tech apps. Bebo, the social networking startup that famously sold to AOL for a staggerin...

Espresso Logicreceived $1.6 million in seed funding todayfor its backend as a service to connect web and mobile applications to external databases including MySQL, Oracle Server and Microsoft SQL Serv...

If you were holding Twitter stock yesterday and didn't sell today, congrats. You can now afford an extra bedroom in your house in Pacific Heights. Or maybe a baby. But not both. Anyway, Twitter's IPO ...

Denver-based mobile couponing application Ibotta, which pays you cash back for items you buy in grocery stores by simply scanning your receipt, has today debuted its iOS 7-optimized version 2.0 that n...

Recently released documents reveal that the failed federal insurance e-commerce website, healthcare.gov, could only handle a measly 1100 users the day before it launched [PDF]. It has long been suspec...

Sessions is seeking to provide a more personalized approach to fitness, by connecting users with individual trainers who work with them to set realistic long-term goals and follow up to see how things...

Starting in January, Google’s Chrome browser will not allow you to install extensions that aren’t hosted in Google’s own Chrome Web Store. While Google had recently increased its sec...

Boombotix, a startup based out of SF building rugged speakers for active lifestyle use, today launched a new Kickstarter campaign, this time for a new technology it's building to complement it hardwar...

You've got to give Motorola credit these days: it's certainly not your average smartphone player any more. The company is trying to upend the traditional notion of a smartphone with Project Ara, and b...

What do Instagram, the Raspberry Pi and the movie "Up" have in common? When you mash all these things together, you get Upstagram, a neat hack that the Hackerloop team just unveiled.First, the team ma...

After strong demand, Twitter priced its IPO at $26 per share. Today Twitter went public,first trading at $45.10.The company is having a hell of an IPO day. But there is another group of folks who are ...

As the offering date for Twitter approached, the bankers could not seem to make up their minds on the pricing, with the offering price rising from $17-$20 barely two weeks ago to $23-$25 last week to ...

As Google gears up to expand its Glass Explorer program, it also continues its regular pace of Glass software updates. This month's update (X11) isn't all that big, however, and only introduces two ne...

Sincerely, the mobile gifting startup behind the Postagram, Ink, and Sesame apps which allow users to send everything from postcards to greeting cards to even physical gifts from their smartphones, ha...

The Liberator, for all the hoopla, was not really a gun. This 3D-printed firearm, on the other hand, is a gun. It is a copy of a 1911 made using public-domain plans and a laser sintering system that s...

Kickstarter success and Australian hardware startup LIFX is finally shipping its Wi-Fi connected smart lightbulbs this Friday. That's a little later than originally promised in its Kickstarter campaig...

L.A.-based startup At the Pool is relaunching its social network as a new mobile app today, pivoting away from its earlier focus on matching up users based on common interests to first and foremost co...

Slovenia has became a hotbed for hardware startups during the past year and the newest one to come out of this Southeast European country is Chipolo - a simple to use Bluetooth-based item finder for i...

Internet Explorer 11, the default browser of Windows 8.1, is now also available on Windows 7. Microsoft previously launched a number of beta versions and always said that IE11 would arrive on its olde...

From a humble beginning as a failing podcast startup to an online conversation service now used by over 230 million people worldwide, Twitter today started its first day of trading as a public company...

From a humble beginning as a failing podcast startup to an online conversation service now used by over 230 million people worldwide, Twitter today started its first day of trading as a public company...

Imagine you just got a new haircut, a drastic haircut. You go out to drinks with a friend, flipping and twisting your new doo about for everyone to see.How would you feel if that friend not only didn'...

After raising $22 million in 2011, the cleantech building developer Project Frog has now raised $20 million in Series D financing from CCM US LLC and McNally Capital....

Marvel and Netflix are teaming up for a sprawling, multi-year content partnership that will focus on NYC heroes centered in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, the company announced today. This will invo...

As Twitter’s IPO event kicks off this morning, the company’s social network is filled with Twitter-related tweets. So many, in fact, that “TwitterIPO” has now become a trending...

Modular things are having a moment. Just last month MIT created self-assembling modular bots. Today Modular Robotics, the Boulder, Colorado-based maker of the Cubelets robotics building blocks designe...

ThirdLove--the first brand to come out of the longtime-stealth, well-backed meCommerce group--entered the world with a bang earlier this year with a promise of a new app that uses smartphone data, by ...

Kaltura is releasing a new product, called MediaGo, which is aimed primarily at the growing number of media partners who wish to quickly roll up an end-to-end video platform and customize it. This so-...

Twitter's IPO event from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange today will be streamed live, in a first for the NYSE. It's fairly appropriate that Twitter would embrace real-time streaming online me...

Airports are perennially filled with exhausted people trying to figure out where they need to be. So enter stage left Google Street View. Google has stitched together more than 2,000 images taken insi...

Captive Media, the UK interactive washroom startup (seriously), has raised a further 250,000 (circa $400k) in funding via the equity crowd funding platform SyndicateRoom -- adding to the $700,000 it r...

Austin-based VC firm Silverton Partners has just raised $75 million for its fourth fund, which will be committed to investing solely in early-stage Austin startups. That includes $10 million of which ...

Facebook is apparently testing displaying star ratings, our of a possible five in total, on Pages on the desktop version of its site, according to a reliable tip received by TechCrunch this morning. S...

U.K. charity techfortrade reckons there's room to connect up the growing demand for 3D printing, with the surfeit of waste plastic in developing countries. It's developing a standard for ethical filam...

The USPTO has published an Apple patent application today (via AppleInsider) that could offer a glimpse at how any potential iWatch may work, in terms of gathering data from the web. The patent descri...

Even an app for affluent people needs cash at some point. Lime&Tonic, the digital concierge app for iOS that provides personalised recommendations of unforgettable experiences to help users fill t...

Facebook is now a TV guide. Or, at least, if you're using its Android app, you can now set reminders for upcoming episodes of TV shows in the U.S., on participating TV show Facebook Pages. A new versi...

Swiss mobile cloud-based field service app maker Coresystems has raised $15.5 million in Series A funding -- its first external funding round, despite being founded in 2002. The investment comes from ...

It's been a busy few weeks for Fab.com. First the design-focused online retailer launched an updated Web site the same week it filed a counterclaim against JustFab in an ongoing legal dispute. Then Fa...

It's been a busy few weeks for Fab.com. First the design-focused online retailer launched an updated Web site the same week it filed a counterclaim against JustFab in an ongoing legal dispute. Then Fa...

Cloud computing providers Zendesk and Tokyo-based Cybozu have announced a strategic partnership to integrate and market each other's products in the U.S. and Japan. The deal underscores the rapidly gr...

In August, TechCrunch launched a landmark Chinese edition in partnership with super awesome Chinese blog TechNode. Now we are coming together again, and bringing in some of the leading entrepreneurs, ...

The non-profit Internet Archive suffered a major setback this morning when a fire broke out at its San Francisco office, causing an estimated $600,000 in damages. Fortunately there were no injuries an...

Behind its platform aspirations, GAIN raised just under $1 million in seed funding from investors like Keith Rabois, Ben Ling and InterWest Partners, among others. Having recently crossed one million ...

It's been six months since Microsoft launched Office 365, its subscription-based version of Office for businesses and consumers. Over 2 million consumers now subscribe to Office 365 Home Premium (the ...

"The first, second, third company I went to work for, somehow I screwed them all up. Doing startups is all about making mistakes," Biz Stone nervously admitted onstage at the New Context Conference ye...

We're back, baby! Bitcoin's price has taken off again, forcing some to defend the value of the currency as utterly un-bubblish. This becomes a humorous exercise.The finance nerd community (of which I'...

We're back, baby! Bitcoin's price has taken off again, forcing some to defend the value of the currency as utterly un-bubblish. This becomes a humorous exercise.The finance nerd community (of which I'...

Like the legend of the phoenix Silk Road has risen from the ashes of a recent US crackdown and is now live and even more secure. The at 4:20 pm GMT on November 5 the so-called Silk Road 2.0 reappeared...

A fairly small poll of users on JessicaLessin.com found that, in general, users prefer smartwatches to smart glasses. While this is not definitive proof of any real preference - the sample size is far...

Launching today, Weebly's new eCommerce platform aims to bring simple online store creation to the masses, Rusenko says, and will provide businesses access to a mobile store and checkout, filtered pro...

When it comes to getting consumers to pay for things on a subscription basis, some services fare better than others. A growing number of people seem happy to pay for entertainment-based offerings like...

Today Twitter priced its IPO at $26 per share. At that price, the company will raise $1.82 billion from the public markets, and be valued at $14.16 billion, based on a non-diluted share count, and $18...

Twitter will start trading at $26 when it goes on sale, according to an announcement made today by the company on Twitter. That’s on the low side of expected pricing but still above the new offi...

Microsoft announced today that it is bringing together its Windows and Windows Phone developer programs. The commingling of both groups is a move by Microsoft to encourage developers to build for more...

Microsoft announced today that it is bringing together its Windows and Windows Phone developer programs. The commingling of both groups is a move by Microsoft to encourage developers to build for more...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its Elastic MapReduce console, making it easier to manage large amounts of data. The update centers on providing better usability and access to new features that ...

Google messed up Daniel Bader's Nexus 5 order, and that makes him sad. Truly, our guest from MobileSyrup and BetaKit deserves better than having half his hopes dashed by a UPS delivery man live on air...

Here comes Sprig, yet another food delivery service with an interesting new approach to the market. With its own executive chef and delivery team, the service officially launched in some select neighb...

After years of clinging to life, Dish Network has announced it will pull the plug on its remaining 300 Blockbuster Video brick-and-mortar locations by early next year, signaling another death knell to...

Facebook has today updated the design of its Like button for the first time since inception. An image of the new design can be seen below. According to the company, Like buttons appear on over 7.5 mil...

In September, YouTube announced that it would soon roll out a new commenting system powered by Google+. After testing it on channel discussion tabs for a few weeks, it's now starting to roll it out to...

Who would you like to build a startup which could address the massive amounts of security attacks apps and sites get these days? A bunch of standard grade IT people? Or a team of ex-white hat hackers ...

Snapchat is in the middle of its own epic founder lawsuit, Facebook-style. Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, CEO and CTO respectively, are being sued by their former classmate Reggie Brown, who claims to...

DISH announced this morning that it will be closing down the remaining Blockbuster brick-and-mortar retail locations that it owns, and ending the company’s DVD-by-mail rental service. The decisi...

Google has issued a statement (finally?) about its months-long mystery barge project. The barges, which are anchored in both Portland, Maine and San Francisco, have been the topic of intense interest ...

Google today launched an update to its new Google Maps for desktop that brings traffic data from Waze to the desktop for the first time (it’s already integrated into the mobile Maps apps). This ...

According to a report by All Things D, which Pinterest has now confirmed,San Francisco Chronicle president Joanne Bradford is joining the social sharing startup as its head of partnerships. The compan...

New Yorkers have just voted to conduct a grand experiment in whether innovation can help the least among them. Jolly Green Giant look-alike and newly minted Mayor-Elect, Bill De Blasio, has indicated ...

London-based U.K. startup what3words has closed a $500,000 seed round of financing from a group of angel investors, including Shutl's Guy Westlake. The startup launched an ambitious bid to reinvent ZI...

Pebble's creators didn't just make a functional smartwatch when they designed their device, they packed it with a lot of potential for the future, too. Much of that potential has lain dormant while Pe...

Not all exits have to see a product disappear. Case in point:Origami, the family-focused social service that arose from YCombinator-backed mobile social networkEveryme’searlier efforts, has been...

Google debuted version 2.0 of its Octane benchmark suite today, a set of 17 tests that measure how fast a browser can execute JavaScript code.The first version of this benchmark launched just over a y...

Assured Labor, a job hunting startup that began out of MIT and helps 25,000 employers hire across Latin America, has been doubling revenue month over month for four of the last five months and is beef...

Apple has posted a new page on its site, detailing features of iWork that it says it will be restoring. This is likely in response to the outcry by power users of its products that it has ‘strip...

Instagram ads are off to a strong start. CEO Kevin Systrom said about the early ads that “Over 5% of the impression led to Likes on these ads that we’ve run. That’s pretty tremendous...

Instagram ads are off to a strong start. CEO Kevin Systrom said about the early ads that "Over 5% of the impression led to Likes on these ads that we've run. That's pretty tremendous considering most ...

Google Ventures had added two new investment partners to its roster, bringing on Shanna Tellerman and Dave Munichiello to the ranks. The firm is also announcing a new EIR, Nikhil Chandhok, who led You...

Twitter might have wanted a quiet IPO, but massive demand for the relatively limited shares in its flotation are driving its listing price higher. According to CNBC, Twitter will go public at $27 per ...

Pokemon X & Y has been out for a while now, and there's been a lot of catching going on in my immediate environs. But it's still hard to catch rare Pokemon, no matter how much of your life you ded...

For its 15th birthday, San Francisco-based publishing house McSweeney's is getting into the crowdfunding game with a crazy-sounding goal a campaign "which we believe can be the most successful campai...

While more and more people are doing their shopping online, converting them from virtual window shoppers to actual customers can be incredibly hard. Typical e-commerce conversion rates can be surprisi...

Starting today, you can send your friends and family members gifts using only their email address or phone number. This new trick comes from Gratafy, a Seattle-based social gifting platform launched l...

Fans of outr 3D prints like the Liberator or trademark-protected Mechwarrior robots can now obfuscate their prints using Disarming Corruptor, a system that temporarily scrambles 3D objects and allows ...

Given the choice between locating a brand new Apple iPhone or iPad days after release or finding a pin in a haystack, I'd probably choose to go pin hunting. But a site called Apple-tracker.com tried t...

Gift cards are popular for a reason: shopping for someone else is difficult, and especially so online. With that problem in mind, a new SaaS service called Loop Commerce is launching today, having clo...

Amazon has not been seen as a fast friend of the brick-and-mortar bookstore business. The rise of discounted books sold online often undercuts what traditional retailers have been able to offer, leadi...

Appboy, a company that helps mobile app marketers better retain users and keep them engaged, is today announcing $7.6 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Icon Venture Partners, and saw p...

Samsung is doing all kinds of crazy things just to get kudos for being 'FIrst!' these days, and now it's added two more "achievements" to that list: coining the terrible term "fonblet" and promising d...

Today Yahoo refreshed the iOS application and website of its Finance service. The updates are worthy, and will help Yahoo remain relevant in the financial space, and perhaps support the continued grow...

Mobile picture and video sharing platform Mobli, a competitor to other image-sharing services like Instagram, is today announcing a strategic investment that it hopes will help it catapult itself into...

Tesla's share price is higher than makes any logical sense, given the number of cars it makes and sells, but the stock value got a little bit of a real-world correction last night after hours as the c...

SwiftKey 4.3, the latest version of the word-prediction Android keyboard, is coming out of beta today to land on Google Play for general download -- as a paid app for new users, or a free update for e...

Spotify may be the world's biggest music streaming company, but rival Deezer is inching closer to its terrain: today the company revealed that it now has 5 million paying users globally and 30 million...

Google is making Android's dialer smarter, and it already talked about KitKat features that add automatic caller ID for businesses that Google has in its places database. Early next year, the basic ph...

Smartphones have become so commonplace in developed countries that it can be hard to imagine life without them. But the worldwide Internet penetration rate is just 39%, according to the International ...

Zomato wants to eat Yelp's lunch. The Indian restaurant discovery service has been chipping away at the space since 2008, mostly in its home market. Today it's closed a $37M funding round from Sequoia...

One of the persistent themes in pre-IPO Twitter's S-1 filings is that the company has more users outside of the U.S., but when it comes to making money, that shifts drastically -- an issue problematic...

Twitter isn't the only company joining the list of public companies tomorrow. Israeli-American website creation platform, Wix, will also be vying for its share of media attention tomorrow, as the comp...

Microsoft’s forthcoming Xbox One console is the company’s vision for living room entertainment for the next half decade. Today at GigaOm’s Roadmap conference in San Francisco,Carl Le...

The distillation of one human life into a few hundred pages is a task herculean enough to trip up even seasoned biographers. Expanding that to include four co-founders and a company with as explosive ...

Our colleagues at CrunchBase found themselves in the spotlight this morning when Wired published a story about their legal dispute with a startup called Pro Populi over its app People+. Now the Crunch...

Provo, Utah-based video discovery startup i.TV has acquired GetGlue, we've learned, as consolidation in the market for second-screen or companion TV apps continues. The deal, which is expected to be a...

We in the tech press are great at covering what it's like to be a startup founder. But the world does not live by entrepreneurs alone. One big reason that companies are so keen to tout venture capital...

3Scale Founder Steven Willmott and API Evangelist Kin Lane have launched a non-commercial service today called API Commons,a mechanism for the copyright-free sharing and collaborative design of API sp...

Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act is one of the most controversial of an already hot-button portion of US law. Section 215 of the act allows for court orders, which can be made secret, to allow the g...

Highway 1, an incubator/accelerator run by Brady Forrest and underwritten by electronics powerhouse PCH International, is beginning its Spring Applications process and will close applications after TC...

There are founders, and then there are founders. Dwight Merriman is a rare breed of founder. A serial entrepreneur who has helped co-found and lead companies such as DoubleClick, BusinessInsider, Gilt...

Today, Apple has released its first ever report on government information requests, detailing exact numbers of account information and data requests internationally. The report highlights how restrict...

Corporate venture capital has always been dubiously titled ‘dumb money’, supposedly less interested in financial performance and only willing to make bets on strategically aligned startups...

Digg, a service devoted to helping users find and share the most interesting content around the web, has now more formally expanded into video, the company announced today. With the launch of Digg Vid...

Earlier today a Brazilian newspaper broke the story that ABIN, the top intelligence agency in that country, has employed low-tech spying techniques on foreign diplomats.This is sticky for the country ...

Can your mobile phone become a replacement for manually typing in a password? That's the promise of a new application called Knock, launching today, which uses an iPhone paired with a Mac desktop or l...

Whoops! Looks like someone found their way into FoxNews.com’s CMS (or an intern pushed an old test page live.) While it’s still not 100% clear what happened here, our tips inbox just went ...

Many businesses have now adopted tools like Yammer or Podio, but Google+ also wants a piece of this social enterprise action. While Google's social network started courting enterprise users more than ...

Google loves fast websites, and for a long time now, its PageSpeed Insights tool has been an easy way to surface potential speed bumps in a site’s design and setup. This tool, however, always li...

It's been a long time coming but the TechCrunch Boston Pitch-Off is almost here. We've picked 20 start-ups to compete on stage and the judges are ready to rock. Now all we need is you....

Twitter and Square co-founder Jack Dorsey took to the stage at GigaOm Roadmap today and, as Twitter was apparently an off-limits topic*, he took the opportunity to sound off on Square.Dorsey champione...

Valley-based startup Movimento is looking to further exploit the flood of data coming out of our wearables. By creating a platform which integrates familiar social gaming concepts with products like F...

Despite a torrent of outrage from the press, world leaders, and the United States Congress, most Americans still approve of the National Security Agency's surveillance practices. Most importantly, pub...

While Jeff Bezos' wife, McKenzie, only gave Brad Stone's new book about Amazon one star, most critics have been much more generous about the "engrossing" The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age o...

Amazon today launched a new type of instance for its EC2 cloud computing platform that is specifically designed for applications that require 3D graphics capabilities. When you think about cloud compu...

When it comes to photo-oriented web services, for every slam-dunk success like Instagram, there seem to be quite a few Color-like shutdowns. And today, another photo startup is hitting the deadpool.Ev...

Seriously, a new gaming startup from the execs who oversaw Angry Birds-maker Rovio’s game slate and licensing business, just picked up $2.35 million in seed funding. Leading the round are Los An...

Seriously, a new gaming startup from the execs who oversaw Angry Birds-maker Rovio’s game slate and licensing business, just picked up $2.35 million in seed funding.Leading the round are Los Ang...

Ladar Levison, founder of the now shuttered secure email provider Lavabit, has taken to Kickstarter to resurrect the concept of secure email in a new, open source form, called the project Dark Mail in...

Back in June, Unity announced that their cross-platform game development engine would support Microsofts Xbox One. Even better, the Xbox One Unity tools would be free! But there was a catch: theyd onl...

Zoomingo, a two-year old shopping and deal-finding app designed for use out in the real world, has raised an additional $1.25 million from its existing investors Benaroya Capital and Naya Ventures, al...

Linio, the Rocket Internet-incubated e-commerce portal that has aspirations to be the Amazon of Latin America, is today announcing a round of funding that brings on board the startup's first large, st...

Apps and devices that track motion are of questionable use value - it's true that they provide a general idea of a user's activity level, but that can very wildly from reality, since there's often ver...

Early this morning, author Brad Stone replied to a one-star review given his book The Everything Store, about the meteoric rise of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Why an entire article to reply to one review? ...

Google today launched the latest version of its Search App for iOS, which now includes improved support for Google Now reminders and notifications, as well as hands-free search using the “OK Goo...

Photo-sharing startup Albumatic is announcing a new direction today, and a new name to match it's now calling itself Koa.la.Back in August, when I last wrote about Albumatic, the company was already ...

In San Francisco, Jenny Haeg is known as the startup whisperer for commercial real estate. Whether you are a two person startup, or a multi-billion collar company, Haeg is the real estate agent most t...

MessageMe, which is dueling in the hyper-competitive messaging app war with backing from Greylock Partners and other top VCs, is adding a web client and overhauling its ID system in a bid to boost use...

BugBuster, a startup spun out of the Operating Systems Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), has raised just over $1 million in what's being described as a Series A round -- ...

Content recommendation service Zemanta has a new CEO, though he's not new to the company the new chief executive Todd Sawicki was already Zemanta's president. Meanwhile the previous CEO, co-founder B...

Nikon has introduced a new full-frame camera, and it’s no slouch on paper; with a 39-point AF system, with nine cross-type sensors, burst mode of 5.5 frames per second, a 16.2 megapixel FX0forma...

Three months ago Coinlab, an up-and-coming Bitcoin incubator, announced its first spin-off company, Alydian. Yesterday the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy....

Amazon is improving its suite of services for mobile app developers today, including those who build apps for Apple’s iOS platform in addition to Android and Amazon’s Android-based Fire OS...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has dropped the price 10 percent for its M3 instances, designed formedia encoding, batch processing, caching, and web serving. The price drop is effective November 1 and cove...

In the last few years there's been a resurgence of startups setting out to "fix" email, as zero inbox remains the Holy Grail of productivity. Fantoo, based in London, is another that's picking up the ...

We humans enjoy not having knives inside of us. Robots don't know this, three laws be damned. Therefore it's important for humans to explain this information to robots using careful training. Thankfu...

Following layoffs and recent other cost-cutting measures at its local news initiative Patch, AOL's Brand Group saw improved revenue and a move into positive OIBDA (operating income) in the company's m...

Sync, a file synchronization service from P2P platform BitTorrent that works as a kind of server-less Dropbox, has picked up some good traction since launching earlier this year, with 1 million active...

After launching in August, the conscious consumerism startup Zady is angling to boost its profile this gifting season by setting up camp in the beating heart of holiday foot traffic: the Delta termina...

The Android OEM space has just got a little more crowded. U.K. smartphone startup Kazam, which is rebadging Chinese-made smartphones with a logo and adding a few after-sales extras to try and pull in ...

Meet Bublcam: a 360 degree camera made by Canadian startup Bubl that lets you capture spherical panoramas of what's going on around you -- either as still photographs or spherical video that allows y...

Apple has released its iPad Air, and while we don't yet know how many it sold during opening weekend (it's likely waiting to reveal launch numbers until the iPad mini with Retina display goes on sale)...

Social CRM startup Nimble has been working on making connections between users a little more actionable, whether they happen via email or other social networks. Now it's hoping to extend that power ev...

Zola, the new wedding registry startup emerging from Gilt And AlleyCorp founder Kevin Ryan and a group of former Gilt employees, has raised $3.25 million in Series A funding led by Thrive Capital. Jos...

Struggling Taiwanese mobile maker HTC is planning to slash costs by nearly a quarter and sell cheaper handsets in the hopes of turning a profit in its Q4, it said in an investor call today (via Reuter...

AOL (owner of TechCrunch) today reported its Q3 earnings with a 6% rise in revenues over a year ago to $561 million, led by growth in its advertising business, specifically around the premium ad forma...

Tomcar Australia, a Melbourne-based startup that sells original off-road vehicles and equipment online, is now accepting Bitcoin payments in a move that it hopes will make international transactions e...

Philips announced an expansion to its Hue line of connected light bulbs today, with new BR30, GU10 and Disney StoryLight products. The new lights and accessories add to the growing family of Philips p...

Apple has just been granted a new patent (via AppleInsider) which describes a very comprehensive system for controlling connected home devices. The elaborate setup would make it possible for Apple to ...

Mobile services cloud company Infobip has launched Coins (pronounced Yen Coins), a virtual currency for Japanese mobile users. The online tokens are intended to help international companies break int...

Helpouts, Google’s fusion of Google+ Hangouts, Google Wallet, and its identity tools is now live. A ‘Helpout’ is a Hangout-like video chat, but instead of speaking with a friend, you...

Troy Carter has been making a name for himself in tech thanks to investments in Uber, Spotify, and Dropbox, but his biggest tie to the music industry has just been severed. Lady Gaga has split from Ca...

Sold launched early this year with a plan to help remove some of the frustration from selling online. Debuting on the iPhone before moving to Android in September, Sold aimed to help busy people avoid...

Hired.com, which runs weekly auctions of developers for hire, is looking to challenge the way that traditional recruiting agencies charge their startup clients. Technical recruiting in the Valley is o...

In the kennel of 3D printers, I'd equate the oddly-shaped and homegrown RepRap printers to lovable mutts. The Makerbot is a golden retriever, ready to please. And the $1,599 Afinia H-Series is a solid...

Apple has plans to build a manufacturing plant in Arizona that will extend its ‘Made in The USA’ efforts beyond the Mac Pro and other silicon facilities it maintains in Texas. The news cam...

Twitter could price its IPO well above the new $23-25 range it set earlier today, according to MicroVentures CEO Tim Sullivan. The pricing range was originally set at at $17-23. Though he’s prov...

Otoy, a company building rendering technology for running games and other applications in the browser, is announcing a new board of advisors, including Google executive chairman and former CEO Eric Sc...

OTOY, a company building rendering technology for running games and other applications in the browser, is announcing a new board of advisors, including Google executive chairman and former CEO Eric Sc...

This summer, the Y Combinator-backed startupLoblaunched a new developer API which lets companies easily integrate printing and shipping services into their applications. Today, the company is announci...

Microsoft today launched a large update to its Azure cloud computing platform that introduces features like WebSocket support, segmented customer push notifications, New Relic support and a new billin...

Local delivery startup Postmates has been growing fast, which is a good problem to have. That is, unless demand is completely outstripping supply. With that in mind, the company is taking a big step t...

Amazon was one of the first retail websites to allow negative reviews of the products that they sold to appear right in the listing. This revolutionary practice which has been mimicked earth-wide at t...

MediaSpike, which runs a marketplace for in-game product placement, is announcing that it has raised $5.2 million in Series A funding.The round was led by CMEA Capital, with the participation of exist...

Supernova is made up of the core engineering team that had been behind Viddy, about a dozen in all. It's led by technical co-founder and new CEO JJ Aguhob along with chairman Jason Rapp, and is using ...

When it comes to testing mobile apps, most developers today rely on Testflight or HockeyApp to get their betas in the hands of testers. Ubertesters, a relatively new player in this business, challenge...

In a world where consumers are just now beginning to understand how little privacy they have online and on their various connected devices, a company like AetherPal, whose pre-loaded software allows m...

In a world where consumers are just now beginning to understand how little privacy they have online and on their various connected devices, a company like AetherPal, whose pre-loaded software allows m...

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg tried to acquire Twitter not once but twice, through official channels and via co-founder Jack Dorsey. The details of the efforts are revealed in Nick Bilton’s n...

The elusive CEO of the richest company in the world, Apple’s Tim Cook, has taken a rare step into the spotlight to urge Congress to ban sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace. In a W...

Zesty is a new healthy eating app available in San Francisco that provides customers with only healthy options for delivery or takeout. It does this by working with restaurants to identify healthy opt...

Google's Eric Schmidt didn't pull any punches in a new interview about the NSA, which supposedly tapp...

WeddingLovely, asmall, but growing500 Startups-backedwedding planning service, has now launched a comprehensive wedding vendor directory which combines over 2,300 weddingvendor listings under one roof...

Hinge wants to be Match.com for mobile. You can find horny strangers nearby on Tinder, but Hinge uses its "romance graph" to pair you with friends of friends that fit your style. And now Hinge has a r...

It looks like BlackBerry's oft-cited transition period isn't over just yet. The company confirmed this morning in a statement that the Fairfax takeover isn't happening and that CEO Thorsten Heins is b...

Square has made it into the so-called Unicorn Club of startups with a $1 billion+ valuation, but to make sure it doesn't get kicked out, the company continues to take its services and sales channels i...

Square has made it into the so-called Unicorn Club of startups with a $1 billion+ valuation, but to make sure it doesn't get kicked out, the company continues to take its services and sales channels i...

Square has made it into the so-called Unicorn Club of startups with a $1 billion+ valuation, but to make sure it doesn't get kicked out, the company continues to take its services and sales channels i...

Although not a lock per se, The Cricket, which is currently running an IndieGoGo crowd funding campaign, is another attempt to bring a smarter approach to securing your bicycle. In that sense, the sma...

XL Marketing, a company co-founded by former Apple CEO John Sculley, is announcing that it has acquired the Adchemy Actions division from ad tech firmAdchemy.The company declined to share the deal's p...

Field trips generally venture only as far afield as the local heritage village, where you're likely to catch pilgrim 'Ezekial' behind the butter churning hut sneaking a modern-day cigarette. Google wa...

As Twitter embarks on its initial public offering roadshow, the company has issued another update to its S-1 today with a bit of a curveball: the company recently has been issued with a letter from IB...

Developed by two Cambridge PhD students, 1Checker is a proofreading platform that seeks to be a better alternative to Microsoft Word's spellchecker and Grammarly for non-native English speakers. 1Chec...

It seems like everyone wants to eat healthier nowadays, and with that in mind, there's a number of startups that have emerged to bring customers better food options. The latest is a startup called Urt...

BlackBerry is replacing its CEO and some of its board of directors, according to official PR this morning. The push to replace CEO Thorsten Heins comes as BlackBerry's purchase deal with investor Fair...

There are a fair few European startups attacking the travel aggregation space to make it less of a headache to get from A to B when crossing multiple national borders. Just last week, at our very own ...

Rapid-I -- a German specialist in analytics tools that wants to become the industry standard for how enterprises predict the future -- is today announcing its first round of funding, a rebrand to Rapi...

A year is a long time in startup life. In just over 12 months since we last covered PastBook, the photo book making service has lost a co-founder, and turned down an acquisition. Todaythe Dutch compan...

The numbers of portable blood glucose monitors linked to smartphones are exploding, given that there are some 26 million diabetics in the U.S. alone and hundreds of millions globally. Glooko is a star...

Google is expanding its Glass Explorer program once again, allowing current participants to invite three of their closest friends to drop $1,500 on highly experimental hardware. Hard to believe that a...

Windows Phone is continuing to make inroads into the European smartphone market, according to the latest smartphone sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, for the three months to September 2013. K...

Windows Phone is continuing to make inroads into the European smartphone market, according to the latest smartphone sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, for the three months to September 2013. K...

Apple may indeed have attracted a much broader audience of upgraders for its redesigned 9.7-inch iPad versus last year, according to new early data from mobile app analytics firms. The iPad Air enjoye...

On the heels of the Apple/Microsoft-backed Rockstar Consortium suing Samsung and Google over old Nortel patents Rockstar now owns, Samsung is tying up patent negotiations on another front: today Nokia...

Baseball, like many of the major sports, has swung and missed a number of times when it comes to "technology." Just look at how the league, historically, has approached instant replay; it hasn't even ...

Last week, Virgin America launched of all things, a safety video that has become a YouTube hit with now more than 4 million views. It's a musical that makes buckling a seat beat seem like fun. It cele...

There's no doubt that Bitcoin is getting plenty of attention these days -- we've seen folks like the Winklevoss Twins and Chamath Palihapitiya throw their financial weight behind Bitcoin in a big way...

Can YouTube create live content that inspires watercooler zeitgeist moments like television? Google's giving it a shot with the YouTube Music Awards, a celebration of do-it-yourself Internet culture l...

In its rush towards becoming a public company, Twitter is in danger of sacrificing focus on the altar of growth. And its doing it with decisions based heavily on data and testing, rather than an overa...

Given the degree to which graphics have not changed over the last few years in high-end games, it's surprising how strong the idea of graphical power remains in the games industry. Gamers are still ho...

Remember that night when you and your friends discovered how to draw with your cameras long exposure function? You started out simple, piercing the dark with a cheap handheld flashlight as you traced ...

UK-based Cambridge Audio has long made very well-regarded high-end audio equipment, but recently that's a market that has changed considerably, thanks to the advent of digital audio and online streami...

This past week, we were lucky enough to sit down with Benchmark partner and Twitter board member Peter Fenton backstage at TechCrunch Europe to talk about his magic touch. ...

There is a perfect storm brewing in consumer mobile: Developers, companies, and investors see the explosive growth of smartphones (with no sign of slowing down), yet consumers only have so much bandwi...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius is not a tech founder. President Barack Obama does not have a GitHub account. The failed launch of the new health insurance e-commerce website,...

The Swatch Group has long been the primary movement supplier to the majority of Swiss (and non-Swiss) watch manufacturers. These movements - essentially the guts of the watch - have powered 60% of the...

The Swatch Group has long been the primary movement supplier to the majority of Swiss (and non-Swiss) watch manufacturers. These movements - essentially the guts of the watch - have powered 60% of the...

Simulation video games are often purposefully, gloriously mundane. But they can also make the quotidian highly entertaining. And that's certainly true of this U.K.-made example of the genre. Meet: Chi...

Many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies.Why do investors seem to care about billion dollar exits? Historically, top venture funds have drive...

It's been a long time since flying was fun (unless you are reading this on the upper deck of a 747, of course). This week, however, things got a bit more bearable thanks to the FAA's decision that air...

The Gillmor Gang John Borthwick, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor move further and further toward the Golden Age of Push Notification. What some see as a fragmented sea of a...

Over the past few years, Women 2.0 has become one of the most reliable places to find stories from female entrepreneurs, successful and otherwise. It has also, according to co-founder and CEO Shaheros...

Dear Google: What's wrong?I ask because last weekend, while in San Francisco, I asked Google Maps for "hot chocolate mission" -- and was promptly directed to an ARCO station in Fremont, 40 miles away....

Despite having a very public job offer handed to him last August, Edward Snowden will not be joining Russian social networking website Vkontakte, its founder Pavel Durov has confirmed to Techcrunch....

I was a day trader for many years, and it almost killed me.I made money by making profits on my own money and also taking a percentage of the profits for the people I traded for. I traded up to $40 mi...

Today The Guardian reported that the GCHQ, Britain’s NSA equivalent, worked with several foreign governments to help them tap Internet traffic and phone communications. The Swedish, French, Span...

The furor over Googles mystery barges in San Francisco and Portland has reached a fever pitch over the past week. According to our sources the various reports about the barges being showcases for Goog...

If Apple decided to make updates to its OS X operating system free in part to drive more rapid consumer uptake, it was a great decision: Market adoption of its new OS X Mavericksoperating systemhas be...

Microsoft today announced that it has renewed its partnership with Twitter, giving Bing access to all of the public content Twitter’s users create. The terse three-sentence announcement is short...

Neither of them had any entrepreneurial history before they met. Abe Fetterman was a plasma physics Ph.D at Princeton and Lisa Qiu had worked in hospitality at Jean-Georges and Mario Batali before ent...

Gillmor Gang - John Borthwick, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific. Live chat at https://friendfeed.com/realtime-network/5d54b6dd/gil...

It’s been a long road home for the TechCrunch Gadgets team, but the lure of new hardware was too much to resist so we huddled around our microphones on a dreary Friday morning to gab about them ...

If you're a lady, you're probably well aware at this point that you're wearing the wrong bra size. Which is a bummer, because as women's magazines and lingerie companies will tell you, the right bra i...

Yesterday, JD Power released its newest tablet satisfaction study and the Internet went a bit nuts. For the first time, Samsung had edged out perennial favorite Apple in customer satisfaction on table...

About a month after Instagram announced that it would start running Sponsored Photos and Sponsored Videos, and about a week after it published previews of those ads, it looks like Instagram ads have a...

Microsoft's Windows 8.1 grew quickly in the first month of its general availability, outpacing the launch of its predecessor, Windows 8, according to numbers out today from NetMarketShare.In October, ...

New documents reveal that a mere six people managed to sign up for health insurance through the government's beleaguered e-commerce website, Healthcare.gov on it's opening day.Naturally, the press is ...

The latest chapter in the legal dispute between online retailers Fab.com and JustFab is unfolding. In July 2013, JustFab filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Fab.com, accusing it of infringi...

What do you do when your startup launches a product in a nascent category and then a behemoth like Google enters the space and validates it? And eats your lunch in the process?If you're video-streamin...

U.K.-based startup Unii is building a social network exclusively for students, with a plan to monetise that community by providing a range of student-centric services. The site launched back in May, a...

In early 1998, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and CFO Joy Covey co-authored a letter to shareholders discussing the previous years accomplishments. That letter has become holy writ inside the company, and ...

Google caught some attention this past week for mooring a huge barge in SF Bay for mysterious purposes. Rumors have been flying about what that barge could be used for, with some suggesting it’s...

Google caught some attention this past week for mooring a huge barge in SF Bay for mysterious purposes. Rumors have been flying about what that barge could be used for, with some suggesting it’s...

Apple's iPad Air goes on sale today it's easily the best iPad Apple's put out so far, but we're waiting with bated breath for the iPad mini with Retina display. Until then, however, the Air is also t...

Groupon hasn’t had a great go of things since becoming a publicly traded company; founder and CEO Andrew Mason was ejected earlier this year, and its so-called “third-party” or daily...

Wunderlist, a popular task management app fromBerlin-based6Wunderkinder, has built up a loyal following of some six million users, with about one-third of them in the U.S. and nearly 241 million "to-d...

The furor over Googles mystery barges in San Francisco and Portland has reached a fever pitch over the past week. According to our sources the various reports about the barges being showcases for Goog...

Similar to Google-acquired Bump, Airlike lets you share photos, videos and contacts with other iPhone users in close proximity, but with one key difference: There's no need to bump phones or fists....

Runtastic, an Austrian running start-up with an aim of hitting the Polars and Nikes of the world where it counts has released something its calling “Story Running,” essentially an app that...

Circle Internet Financial has launched with $9M of Series A funding to increase mainstream adoption of digital currencies like Bitcoin by providing a payment platform for consumers and merchants. Inve...

Less than one year after completing a $12 million Series A round, the multi-category retailer Nomorerack has raised $40 million in Series B financing led by Oak Investment Partners and HTV Industries....

Someone should probably go make a Wikipedia page for the "Warby Parker model," since it has rapidly become the go-to business strategy for online retail startups....

Most all of Tesla's IT is homegrown, saidCIO Jay Vijayan, appearing onstage at the Constellation Research Connected Enterprise event today. The reason: the traditionalenterpriseresource planning (ERP)...

The Snowden revelations have reignited a discussion about privacy -- especially privacy in the digital age. That discussion will eventually, we can hope, not only reform how the government views the p...

The mayor of Seattle has alleged that Comcast donated significant sums to his rival ahead of the November 5 election. The money could have been donated, perhaps, in hopes of scuttling the planned publ...

The Nexus 5 is here! The Nexus 5 is here! After months of hype and more questionably accidental leaks than any device in recent memory, Google announced their new flagship Android handset this morning...

The Rockstar consortium is an organization backed by Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, Ericsson and Sony. It purchased patents off of the defunct telecommunications company Nortel in 2011, in a bidding wa...

Today,Bloomberg’s Sarah Frier and Serena Saittoreport that Twitter’s highly anticipated initial public offering is oversubscribed, indicating booming interest for its shares as the firm lo...

Music-focused social network SoundTracking released a new version of its smartphone app today, one that co-founder and CEO Steve Jang said will make the app useful beyond "hardcore music lovers."We're...

In this week's special episode of Ask A VC from Disrupt Europe in Berlin, Germany, AngelPad founder and former Googler Thomas Korte talked to TechCrunch about his incubator's strategy, expansion and m...

Google Cloud SQLnow supports native MySQL connections, a move that is intended to make it easier to integrate third-party applications. With the support, native MySQL apps can be plugged into CloudSQL...

Workers from tech giants Google, Red Hat, and Oracle have reportedly joined with the govenrment to help fix the notoriously broken Healthcare.gov website, that is a key portion of the Affordable Care ...

How old is social media? Maybe we can date it from the birth of Facebook in February 2004. Or perhaps we can go back to 2002, to when Friendster was founded. Or even way, way, way back to digital anti...

It should be clear by now that there's much more at play in Android 4.4 KitKat that some early reports alluded to, and one of the most interesting (to me, anyway) tidbits managed to escape the early l...

Today Google announced details of its long-awaited Android 4.4 KitKat operating system for the first time, going beyond just the candy bar branding. KitKat is designed around three major tentpoles, Go...

At long last, Google has officially announced what has been perhaps their worst kept secret in a while: the Nexus 5. The Nexus 5 had seen more than its fair share of early outs, with everything from f...

Amazon today launched the developer preview of its AWS SDK for JavaScript. With this, developers can now easily build dynamic JavaScript applications that can access AWS services from the browser with...

Another chapter in the ongoing saga between city cab regulations and on-demand taxi apps: cab app Hailo, which in London relies on a portion of the city's black cabs to power its taxi-hailing-on-deman...

Hey, squishy human, ready to be imprisoned and forced to buff robot parts to a high shine by hand until your body and soul are destroyed? I bet you are! Today in TIDWRTWHUFOO we present the robot that...

Twitter did an interesting thing this morning with its @magicrecs recommendation service. It introduced a text-based menu system that you access via DM, which lets you tune the recommendations that yo...

Twitter did an interesting thing this morning with its @magicrecs recommendation service. It introduced a text-based menu system that you access via DM, which lets you tune the recommendations that yo...

FightMe, a social video app with what may be my favorite startup name ever, is announcing that it has raised $500,000 in seed funding from an undisclosed London investor.Using a hashtag system, app us...

Our European podcast this week mainly focuses on what we liked at Disrupt Europe. Marc Samwer opened the show in a rare public appearance, trying to respond to some of the accusations against the Samw...

HowAboutWe, a startup that recommends date activities for both singles and couples, is launching the first internationalized versions of its iOS app.The company bills itself as "the first offline dati...

For years now, most of us have been quietly not turning off our phones and devices at landing and take off, and merely putting the screens to sleep and stuffing them in seat pockets instead. Now, we'l...

58.com, the online classifieds marketplace often referred to as the "Craigslist of China," will hold its initial public offering of 11 million American Depository Shares (ADS) at $17 each on the New Y...

And so it begins. Twitter, now firmly on the road to IPO, has equally firmly turned its attention to monetisation -- which means it's turning on new features that are designed, first and foremost, wit...

Music video powerhouse VEVO is launching a major redesign this week, after rebuilding its back end from the ground up. The online music video site has undergone a complete overhaul, designed to make i...

A new patent application published by the USPTO this week indicates that Apple has been thinking about how to practically deliver the benefits of solar power to mobile devices, without requiring clums...

CamFind, the visual search app that wants to be a faster and more accurate alternative to Google Goggles, recently hit two milestones. Its iOS app just crossed a total of one million downloads (an And...

Google's Nexus 5 is not a real thing yet, but at this point it's a foregone conclusion; Google will update its Android reference smartphone, which comes with the clean stock version of its mobile oper...

Salesforce.com is launching thecapabilityfor customers to install a private version of AppExchange, the company's app marketplace.The new "Private AppExchange," available Friday, gets implemented as a...

TechCrunch Disrupt Europe 2013 wrapped up in Berlin yesterday, but the show lives on in memory, and in video. Here's a look at the companies that took part in our Hardware Alley exhibition, including ...

Intuit is acquiring FullSlate, an online scheduling company that allowsclients to offer theircustomersthe ability to makeappointmentsdirectly to web sites and Facebook pages. Terms of the deal were no...

This past weekend, we brought together 500 of Berlins finest coders, designers, and builders for our first ever Disrupt Europe Hackathon. Teams had to slam together the best thing they could build fro...

As part of itsthird quarter financial performance,Facebook today reportedthat 49 percent of its advertising revenue in the period came from mobile usage. That figure is up 8 percent from the second qu...

Today, in a somewhat surprising turn after yesterday's milestones, it appears that an impromptu version of the "Management Shuffle" will be rolling into Kickstarter. In a blog post today, Kickstarter ...

To paraphrase the one and only Gloria Gaynor, Darrell and I are back from outer space for yet another edition of the TechCrunch Droidcast. Well maybe not outer space per se, but the two of us have had...

Cloud management company ServiceMesh has been acquired by CSC, the long-time consulting company that has in recent years emerged as an IT management company that focuses on helping companies mover the...

Facebook may be feeling the pinch from teen-focused mobile-first social networks like Snapchat, as CFO David Ebersman said on today's earnings call that Facebook "did see see a decrease in daily users...

Facebook may be feeling the pinch from teen-focused mobile-first social networks like Snapchat, as CFO David Ebersman said on today's earnings call that Facebook "did see see a decrease in daily users...

Facebook's Q3 earnings, posted today, paint a very strong picture for the company on the mobile front, and show that the company is moving closer to a tipping point where mobile revenues and usage wil...

Facebook's Q3 earnings, posted today, paint a very strong picture for the company on the mobile front, and show that the company is moving closer to a tipping point where mobile revenues and usage wil...

Facebook's Q3 earnings paint a very strong picture for the company on the mobile front, and show that it is moving closer to a tipping point where mobile revenues and usage will soon be outweighing th...

The word "BlackBerry" did not come up during Facebooks Q3 earnings conference call yesterday, but you can see why such a crazy idea like the social network buying the beleaguered handset maker might h...

TechCrunch Disrupt Europe was a hit. Thousands of attendees, founders, and venture capitalists from around the world filled Arena Berlin. Startups from more than 80 countries exhibited their wares. 15...

Facebook announced its Q3 2013 results today, posting $2.02B in revenue with earnings of $0.25 a share. That blew away estimates of $0.19 EPS and $1.91B in revenue. Much of the growth can be attribute...

Kathleen Sebelius,Secretary of Health and Human Services, wins the award today for most creative political spin. During a congressional grilling about the failings of the federal e-commerce website, H...