Articles by Techcrunch from February 2014

Working with text is often a messy business for programmers. While code has to be unambiguous, words tend to be anything but. Over the years, a number of companies like Alchemy and Thomson Reuters hav...

Crashlytics, the testing and analytics company that was acquired by Twitter last year, is firing up a new beta distribution tool. The timing is pretty on-point as one of the major two players in the b...

The vast majority of Americans now use the Internet (87percent); nearly half would find it “very hard or impossible” to give it up (46percent), and an overwhelming percentage think it̵...

Soon, RobinHood will let anyone buy and sell stocks for free instead of having to pay E*Trade or Scottrade $7 per transaction. Today RobinHood begins inviting its 160,000 waitlisters to download its g...

Today Coinbase announced that it has created more than 1 million consumer Bitcoin wallets on its platform, pointing to increased interest in the market for the cryptocurrency. The company started 2013...

Toronto-based startup InteraXon, maker of the Muse brainwave-sensing headband, had a very interesting potential suitor, according to a source close to the startup speaking to TechCrunch. Specifically,...

In the past Google has take Street map into the inside of an Amsterdam Barge (which just happens to be the HQ of the startup MobyPicture) and the inside of Doctor Who's Tardis. Read More ...

Everyone is building “Flappy Bird” clones now, even Apple Design Award-winning app developers like Tapity, apparently. The company, known as the makers of well-built and beautifully design...

CodeNow is announcing that it has joined incubator Y Combinator move that founder and CEO Ryan Seashore said will help with the programming education nonprofit's ambitious plans for growth. CodeNow a...

Welcome to the next generation of wearable fitness tracking! The first round of fitness trackers focused on introducing the idea of data to your daily activity and workout, but a new company called Mo...

Just this week Samsung revealed the Galaxy S5. It’s water-resistant. Sony also announced the Xperia Z2, the waterproof successor to the also waterproof Z1. So where’s my waterproof iPhone?...

For the second year in a row, TechCrunch is holding a pitch-off competition in New York City. We’re stoked and are looking for a few of the regions best undiscovered startups to pitch to a panel...

Considering we humans now have a slew of gadgets, apps and products at our disposal that allow us to track and monitor our health and daily activity, it was only a matter of time before our best frien...

Google today launched the Google Maps Gallery, an extension of the Google Maps Public Data Program it announced last October. The new gallery is meant to showcase maps from the organizations Google is...

Senator Joe Manchin is calling for either strict regulation or an outright ban on the controversial digital currency Bitcoin. He argues in a letter to the Federal Reserve [PDF], that as countries such...

Activist investor Carl Icahn has been getting more aggressive with his proposal that eBay spin off PayPal as its own company, issuing open letters over the past few days attacking board members Scott ...

In yet another stunning revelation about digital espionage (though how stunned can we continue to be at this point), The Guardian reports that British surveillance organization GCHQ ran a program betw...

Uh-oh. Even though Big Blue squeaked out a profit last quarter and beat Wall Street’s expectations, the retailer is planning its biggest layoff since July 2012. About 2,000 managers will lose th...

Dash, the mobile payments service for bars and restaurants, has today secured a $1.2 million seed-2 round from Mike Germano, CEO of Carrot Creative, as well as existing investors like New York Angels,...

Remember when Google released a handful of guidelines explaining how to properly behave while wearing its new “face computer,” Google Glass? One rule in particular seems worth rehashing gi...

Remember when Google released a handful of guidelines explaining how to properly behave while wearing its new “face computer,” Google Glass? One rule in particular seems worth rehashing gi...

A new specification for mobile deep linking – a technology that lets apps work more like the web by supporting links that can move users from app to app – is being introduced today, along ...

Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects Division just announced its first developer event for Project Ara, a modular smarpthone, yesterday, and a new follow-up profile by TIME indicates we cou...

Boeing’s secure smartphone has been fully detailed after an FCC filing revealed its imminent arrival yesterday, and the Android device seems like an unusual, and mission-specific gadget. With a ...

In an effort to usher in the post-resume era and make the job application process less of a headache, Smarterer developed a platform that provides job searchers with an easy way to show off their skil...

In an effort to usher in the post-resume era and make the job application process less of a headache, Smarterer developed a platform that provides job searchers with an easy way to show off their skil...

Have you been in a Best Buy recently? The stores are starting to look more like exhibition halls than a warehouse retailers. And that’s by design. Stores within stores. Nearly every Best Buy sto...

ClearSlide, a SaaS company that helps make sales representatives more productive, has raised $50 million in Series C funding led by The Social+Capital Partnership with all current venture investors, i...

Little Borrowed Dress, an online bridesmaid-dress rental company, has raised $1.25 million in seed funding from Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Launch Capital, Neu Venture Capital, NYC Seed, C...

WePopp, an iOS and Android app to help youplan events with friends,is extending its monetisation strategy today via a partnership with restaurant booking engine OpenTable. The new integration adds the...

Google has become an increasingly active participant in the world of education, particularly when it comes to exploring the role technology can play in re-imagining the way we learn. With Google Play ...

Back at CES 2014, MakerBot announced three new 3D printers: one small (Replicator Mini), one huge (Replicator Z18), and one that’s about the same size as the one they’ve sold for years (no...

Sony announced today that it is shuttering 20 of its 31 retail stores located throughout the States. The 11 remaining stores are located near major markets. This shouldn’t come as much of a surp...

Apple has been busy in the IT department. Today, it released a slew of improvements and alterations to its large-scale deployment tools for education and enterprise customers. Some of the tweaks get w...

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, friends, but today we've got a few robots that will eventually take control of our lives and lead us into a bright, strange future. First up we present the "A Pruni...

HTC is proud of its smartphone speakers, especially on the HTC One – but it appears to be even more proud of the so-called ‘BoomSound’ (ugh) speakers on its upcoming flagship smartph...

Following AOL's acquisition of content personalization startup Gravity last month, co-founder and CEO Amit Kapur stopped by the AOL office in Manhattan to discuss where personalization technology goes...

After releasing earnings this afternoon, Workday has announced that it acquired Identified, a company that offered predictive analytics human resources software. Read More ...

Automatic’sdriving assistant, which combines a small hardware device with a mobile application in order to track, analyze, and even potentially improve your driving capabilities, is getting a wh...

T-Mobile CMO Mike Sievert is pumped about Samsung’s new Galaxy S5 smartphone: Today, the executive tweeted that Samsung’s latest flagship is a record-breaker at the carrier, with over 100,...

Google is not abandoning Project Ara, after taking over the ambitious experimental smartphone design concept along with the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group from Motorola. ATAP only just ...

Apple has shared some information around how Touch ID and its Secure Enclave keeps information private in an updated security document newly posted to its iPhone in Business microsite. The new info of...

What if you could get an alert to your phone anytime someone left a package on your doorstep? Or, if you could track whether your elderly parent took her medication in a given day? CamioCam’s in...

Listen up, future entrepreneurial superstars! Battlefield applications are due tomorrow, February 27th at 5pm PDT. Do NOT miss out on this once-in-a-six-month opportunity! Why apply, you ask? I could ...

Leading digital graphics and input company Wacom has launched an ambitious new project that aims to universalize digital ink across platforms and devices. Project WILL (Wacom Ink Layer Language) wants...

Crowdsourced e-commerce company Threadless has existed on the web seemingly forever, connecting t-shirt and hoodie wearers with interesting designs submitted by members of its community. Now it's taki...

Disrupt NY is back. On May 5-7, the show will once again takeover The Manhattan Center in New York City. This year marks the 6th year TechCrunch has held Disrupt in New York City. And we say this ever...

Do you have trouble making decisions? Do you to get your friends’ input on a bunch of things? Are you 15 years old? Then you might like Pop, a new iPhone application today making its official de...

Google reconfigured the Android home screen launcher somewhat with the Nexus 5, and that redesign didn’t make its way out to other Nexus or Google Play Edition hardware when they received the An...

Bark & Co., the doggie-themed technology company that currently offers a subscription service for dog treats and toys called BarkBox, is expanding its BarkCareservice in New York. Last month, the ...

Watsi, a non-profit startup that crowdfunds medical treatments for those who cant afford it, has a problem: a company with lots, and lots of money doesnt like their logo. Read More ...

Google has launched its own Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to teach the general public how to understand surveys, research, and data. Called "Making Sense of Data" and running from March 18 to Apri...

The e-commerce market in India continues to explode, fuelled by a rapid rise of online consumers and global investors keen to get a piece of the action. Today, eBay announced that it has invested $133...

Have you ever left a movie theater just as the credits start to roll, only to find out that there was a totally-amazing-oh-my-god-you-missed-the-best-part bonus scene tacked on to the end?Its okay. We...

In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about getting user tests set up, which includes deciding on a specific thing to test, deciding when and where to conduct the user study, deciding what type of users t...

Square is announcing an acquisition today--BookFresh. BookFresh is an online scheduling service aimed at small business owners. We've described it as an OpenTable for everything but restaurants. Terms...

A big move today for Google in its bid to play a larger role in how publishers sell online advertising. Today it has announced the launch of the Time Inc. Global Exchange, a new ad exchange, powered b...

BlackBerry still enjoys a number of government smartphone contracts, but a new Android device forthcoming from Boeing might threaten that relationship. The aviation giant copped to development of a se...

TechCrunch is rolling into DC on March 18th and hosting our first pitch-off in the city. We’re looking some of the area’s best undiscovered startups to pitch to a panel of judges and TechC...

TechCrunch is rolling into DC on March 18th and hosting our first Pitch-Off in the city. We’re looking some of the area’s best undiscovered startups to pitch to a panel of judges and TechC...

It's been three years since Collaborative Fund was founded to invest in startups in the collaborative consumption and adjacent fields. Today it's announcing that it's raised $33 million for its Fund 2...

Microsoft partner and soon to be subsidiary Nokia introduced Android-powered devices in an apparent bid to go after the low end of the market at MWC this year, but there’s more and more reason t...

Over the course of the last few years, few companies have done more to help content owners and brands understand how fans are interacting with their content on YouTube and other social platforms than ...

Tradeshift, the SF-based enterprise invoicing startup which originally emerged from Copenhagen, has now closed a $75 million in Series C growth funding from Singapores Scentan Ventures. The company wi...

Looking for a quicker way to find the drive time between two or more points, and optionally get directions? Google Maps may still be everyone’s go-to mapping application on mobile, but a new iPh...

Samsung’s Galaxy S5 includes a fingerprint scanner embedded in the home button, and that hardware will be made available to third-party devs, the company announced today at a developer-focused e...

So much for Twitter as the “second screen” and all its TV partnerships – Google announced this morning that it has bagged a deal with one of the top interactive TV shows in the U.S.:...

Blippar has come a long way in a short time, bringing lightning-fast image recognition and augmented reality to mobile advertising. But today, the company steps away from smartphones and puts on the w...

One of the more interesting devices here at Mobile World Congress is Blackphone: a pro-privacy handset being developed by Spanish startup Geeksphone, in partnership with U.S. security company Silent C...

In its most recent financial quarter B&N’s Nook business saw a 50.4% decrease in revenue and 58.2% decrease in device sales over the previous year. But the Nook is not dead. In fact in today...

Kahuna, a startup that helps marketers test and automate their push notifications, is announcing that it has raised $11 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital. The company launched last fall...

Learning to play the gTar, by Disrupt darling Incident, is about as easy as learning to ride a bike. A series of light-up LEDs, paired with an app on your smartphone, show the gTar player exactly when...

Today, at Samsung’s MWC Developer Day, the company introduced several software development kits with the hope of luring developers to its platforms. Among the kits were several aimed at the comp...

A watch is an opportunity to show something about yourself, and San Francisco-based Modify, a three-year old startup offering custom-designed products, wants to make it easy for anyone to upload image...

Greenlid was my heart of gold, the bard once sang, for she did not fill up with slime and mold so discourteously. Why? Because Greenlid is a biodegradable compost bucket with a simple plastic lid that...

Buying a new gadget or appliance can suck up a surprising amount of time. Going shopping and unboxing your new purchase is exciting, but then you have to deal with making sure all its paperwork--recei...

NuoDB, a Cambridge, Mass.-based database company that specializes in distributed database management, today announced that it has raised a $14.2 million funding round led by Europe’s second-larg...

Signing users in to a mobile or web app isn't necessarily hard, but keeping their credentials safe is something that's often best left to specialists. The OpenID Foundation today announced the launch ...

If You Can Company, a new startup from EA founder Trip Hawkins that uses gameplay to teach children social and emotional learning (SEL) skills, has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding led by Greyl...

Cal, the smart calendar app that integrates with to-do list maker Any.do, has launched a new feature called HeadsUp that helps you manage meetings and appointments. It is currently available for Cal o...

With the messaging app space suddenly running hot after the Facebook acquisition of WhatsApp, you can bet the other big messaging platforms are playing close attention to their products. And sure enou...

Line announced today at a press conference in Tokyo (covered by TechCrunch Japan) that it will open its sticker marketplace to all designers and companies. The platform was previously available only t...

Google is swinging its hefty lobbying power at state lawmakers who could ban Glass while driving. Google is lobbying officials in at least three U.S. states ((Illinois, Delaware and Missouri) to stop ...

Clever Twitter user @555uhzdelighted their followers by tweeting the entire Top Gun film through subtitled still frames, at a rate of about 2 frames an hour. The account’s roughly 5,200 follower...

Over-the-air broadcast streaming startup Aereo has good news for its customers in Denver and Salt Lake City: They can continue using the service, for now. The federal judge who handed down an injuncti...

"Do I need glasses?" is a question you have to get an in-person eye test to answer. But today, online eye exam provider Opternative is coming out of stealth to get you a doctor's perscription for glas...

Connect, a new location-based address book and friend-finder utility launching today for both web and iPhone, will tell you who’s nearby, allowing for more “serendipitous” encounters...

Looking to take on the rental tux market with a higher-quality, lower-priced suit and tie, Black Tux has raised $2.6 million in its first institutional round of funding. It’s the latest brand to...

As free online social tools now play a central role in how we communicate, interact and manage our interpersonal relationships, and as consumerization sweeps through IT and learning, the traditional b...

Meta, the augmented reality technology company, has captured the attention of the gadget world with the launch of the Meta Pro, the $3,000 gadget that aims to bridge the gap between fully immersive vi...

If you’re rooting for the drone team, then chalk up another win: Rolls-Royce is working on unmanned cargo ships, that would roam the Earth’s oceans packed with crates of goods, controlled ...

2U Files For $100M IPO, Adds Ex-Citigroup Chief To Board, But CBe The Next Big EdTech Company? When 2U emerged in 2008, online education was still struggling to be taken seriously. Despite steadily in...

2U Files For $100M IPO, Adds Ex-Citigroup Chief To Board, But CBe The Next Big EdTech Company? When 2U emerged in 2008, online education was still struggling to be taken seriously. Despite steadily in...

Google has begun pushing its “Auto Backup” photo archival software to Mac and Windows users via the company’s social networking platform, Google+. The promotion is new, we’ve c...

About a year and a half ago, Microsoft unveiled its TypeScript language to help programmers write large programs in JavaScript. Starting today, with the arrival of the first release candidate of TypeS...

Slowly but surely, Microsoft is making up for shipping the unfinished console that is the Xbox One.In February, they shipped an update that brought many an earth-shattering feature, from Being able to...

Typing using any kind of remote control that doesn’t include a full QWERTY keyboard is a nightmare, and everyone knows it. I still enter text into my Xbox One using the gamepad, despite its supp...

Today Box announced that it has picked up another Adult In The Room, increasing its leadership depth as it ramps towards a widely leaked, forthcoming initial public offering. Former Symantec CEO Enriq...

Motorola held a decided low-key press conference today at Mobile World Congress. It was a snoozer. But! But Rick Osterloh, Motorola SVP, confirmed that the brand is still working on smartwatch develop...

Google today added a couple of new locations to its underwater Street View imagery collection, including a number spotsaround Cancun and Isla Mujeres. Read More ...

You grow old, you slow down, and you die. That is, unless you can inject some fresh blood. After watching the last generation of tech giants wither or stagnate, today's juggernauts are relying on acqu...

When I started looking into the Bitcoin startup ecosystem in early 2013, there was something that was just off about half of the founders I met. “I consider myself psychologically unemployable,&...

Almost a year ago, Microsoft announced its plans to expand Windows Azure to Asia, with data centers in China, Japan and Australia. Today, the company announced that its two regions in Japan (Japan Eas...

Sony's new flagship Android, the Xperia Z2, risks being overshadowed here at MWC by Samsung's latest electronic tub-thumper, the Galaxy S5. But not on the show floor at least -- where a phalanx of Z2 ...

Sony's new flagship Android, the Xperia Z2, risks being overshadowed here at MWC by Samsung's latest electronic tub-thumper, the Galaxy S5. But not on the show floor at least -- where a phalanx of Z2 ...

Samsung is making a big push with its enterprise market appeal today, thanks to the introduction of the new Samsung KNOX Marketplace. This is a special mobile-focused digital software storefront that ...

In this morning's Mt. Gox "Crisis Strategy Guide" there was one page that was completely redacted. It dealt with Mt.Gox's projected financials and was a mass of black bars over the text. Thanks to rea...

Apple faced a considerable security threat with its SSL flaw, present in both iOS and OS X devices over the past few days. The iOS bug was plugged late Friday via the iOS 7.0.6 update made available t...

Apple has just released the iBeacon specifications for everyone who is a member of the MFi program, Apple’s program for hardware partners (“Made for iPhone program”, etc.). You’...

Well, it's official. The folks behind photo-sharing app Tracks have decided to put all their efforts behind their new app for social self-expression, Kanvas. In doing so, the team is rebranding as Kan...

Over 77 percent of college students are using Snapchat at least once every single day, according to research by Sumpto. And even more stunning, 45 percent of college kids aged 18-24 would open a snap ...

Airbnb is officially no longer just a cute way to make some extra cash by renting out a spare room in your apartment. It's a big business now. And like most other big businesses, it's entered a period...

We have a busy week in the TechCrunch TV studio for our Ask A VC show. This week, we have Merus Capital's Sean Dempsey, Javelin Venture Partners' Alex Gurevich, And YL Ventures' Yoav Leitersdorf, sitt...

When someone tells you they make the greatest hoodie ever, what do you do? You visit their factory outside of San Francisco and see just what all the fuss is about.Welcome to another edition of TechCr...

Affinity Networks, a company incubated in LA's accelerator Amplify, is debuting today as a network of mobile apps where users can connect and socially engage around niche topics (i.e. geeks, moms etc)...

Following the implosive death of the Mt.Gox Bitcoin exchange, a number of key players in the cryptocurrency space banded together to release a statement condemning the rogue and failed member of the l...

Meet Current.ly, the app that resurfaces interesting content on Twitter. It works a lot like Twitter’s own trending topics, but better. The startup tries to show more interesting content. ItR...

Apple has a long history of supporting the LGBT community, and today the company takes yet another step towards marriage equality for everyone. Think different, right? This time, the fight is going do...

Back in 2012, I wrote about a fun little project called MVF, which promised to reveal the most valuable person following you on Twitter. The project was shut down after its creators Alex Taub and Mich...

Following Apple’s acquisition of TestFlight owner Burstly, and the subsequent shutdown of its Android support, competitor TestFairy is touting its new migration option for Android developers lef...

Twitter just announced that it will now be showing Promoted Accounts in search results. For those of you who aren't familiar with Twitter's ad formats, well, the names are pretty self-explanatory. A P...

We came, we saw, we checked our heart rates. As Samsung moves into wearable territory with the new Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Gear 2 bands, including the Neo and the Fit, we found that the devices were less...

WhitePages Current, a free Caller and text identification application for Android users, has been updated today to counter the plague that is the “one ring scam.” In case you’re unfa...

Apple’s sapphire manufacturing partner GT Advanced released its fourth quarter fiscal results today, and they announced a bunch of numbers and stuff about profitability as you might expect, but ...

Apple’s sapphire manufacturing partner GT Advanced released its fourth quarter fiscal results today, and they announced a bunch of numbers and stuff about profitability as you might expect, but ...

I can show you the world, shining, shimmering splendid.All it will take is $45 every two months, and Try The World will send you a gourmet box full of locally sourced goods from countries around the w...

Wix, Weebly, SquareSpace, Moonfruit. There are Plenty of web site builders out there. But still they come. The latest is DudaOne, describing itself as a “one-click site builder” for deskto...

As the classic saying goes, don’t hate the player, hate the game. But HTC and Nokia couldn’t help themselves yesterday during Samsung’s big Galaxy S5 reveal and took to Twitter for a...

London-basedYPlan, a mobile application that helps you find last-minute events taking place either that same day or in the very near future, has now arrived in San Francisco. The company previously ex...

Veteran professional social network LinkedIn grew up on the desktop and is in the midst of retooling its 277 million-user strong business for a mobile-focused digital world. Today it said it’s n...

BlackBerry’s CEO made the stunning revelation that he’d accept a $19 billion (read: the price paid for WhatsApp by Facebook) offer for BBM, the messaging service that makes up one small pa...

The Xbox One is about to get a lot more social thanks to a supercharged Twitch experience. A March 11 Twitch update will bring a slew of new features including the ability to live stream video games a...

iHeartRadio, the streaming radio product owned by Clear Channel, has today announced integration with BandPage to bring artist profile data to the service. BandPage offers musicians and artists an eas...

Was it the Crown Prince of Spain attending the interview between Jan Koum and Martin Varsavsky that made the event start over 45 minutes late? Or the fact that if you've just sold your company for $19...

Was it the Crown Prince of Spain attending the interview between Jan Koum and Martin Varsavsky that made the event start over 45 minutes late? Or the fact that if you've just sold your company for $19...

Orange CEO Stphane Richard talked with BFM Business at the Mobile World Congress about Dailymotion — as a reminder, the YouTube competitor is fully owned by Orange. The French telecom company wo...

The Walt Disney Studios is launching a new app today for iOS devices and the web called Disney Movies Anywhere, giving users a place where they can watch the Disney, Pixar, and Marvel films that they'...

The Walt Disney Studios is launching a new app today for iOS devices and the web called Disney Movies Anywhere, giving users a place where they can watch the Disney, Pixar, and Marvel films that they'...

Samsung has quietly announced that there will be two variations of the Galaxy S5. One will run the quad-core Snapdragon 801 with a 2.5GHz clock speed along with another model powered by an octo-core E...

A recent internal Drone delivery video (via Engadget) that was made public on YouTube a few days ago shows the Netflix interpretation of how drone delivery might work – albeit with a more humoro...

BlackBerry has a couple of new smartphones in the offing, including the first sourced from new strategic partner Foxconn. The first Foxconn BlackBerry is the Z3, a Nokia-like touchscreen smartphone wi...

Along with funding to enable it to run three new programs, UK accelerator Ignite100 is taking the opportunity to iterate the Y Combinator/Techstars model from which it originally took inspiration. Nam...

Casper, a startup that says it's developing a "vertically integrated" approach to the mattress industry, is announcing that it has raised $1.6 million in seed funding.The round was led by Lerer Ventur...

Quixey -- the semantic app search engine that has raised some $74.2 million from the likes of Alibaba, Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors and others -- is raising the bar again in its bid to make app...

Mobile messaging platform Line, a WhatsApp rival thats very popular in Japan but is also gunning for global growth, has claimed it acquired two million new registered users in a 24 hour period after W...

Facebook made good on recent promises to highlight its group features and unveiled an updated groups discovery page today. As reported by AllFacebook, the page now features suggestions for groups to j...

Mt. Gox, one of the first bitcoin exchanges, is down after an apparent long-term operation bled the company of 744,408 BTC - about $350 million at today's rate - over a period of years. Bitcoin is tra...

While consumers around the world are debating the merits of Samsung's latest product roster, which debuted at the MWC in Barcelona yesterday, the company is facing accusations back in South Korea that...

Shape Security — the enterprise startup that emerged from stealth last month with an enterprise product that fights automated malware and bots by way of a firewall (or ‘botwall’ in i...

After a long tenure at the helm of Y Combinator — during which a summer “bootcamp” for undergrads turned into a Silicon Valley institution, pioneering the “seed acceleratorR...

The App Store is a strange and whimsical bedfellow. It is a kingmaker, but with that come the tears of the anointed, the displaced and the never-rans.As an example of the store's fickle nature, Flappy...

Facebook may be killing off its email address feature, but their uselessness will live on in iOS contact books around the world. You see, right before iOS 6 and its Facebook contact sync feature came ...

HackerEarth, a Bangalore-based startup that helps other startups hire programmers through technical challenges, has raised $500,000 in seed funding from Angelprime incubator. Launched in late 2012 by ...

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said he is donating $1 million to help solve global problems through technology. “I think I should put my money where my mouth is,” Schmidt told CBS, in a prom...

The National Security Agency has reportedly been surveilling senior German officials after it was ordered by President Obama to cease spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel. The report comes from German p...

Big banks do it, big phone companies do it, and even the biggest entertainment companies do it: After years of neglect, the world's biggest companies are throwing their weight (and a few dollars) behi...

Microsoft Executive Vice President Julie Larson-Green announced today in an internal memo that she is changing roles at the company (memo below).Leaving her role leading Microsoft's hardware efforts, ...

Big international news today for LinkedIn, the social media site for professionals to network with each other: the company is launching its first official site in China — in Simplified Chinese, ...

A lot of parents tend to want to limit "screen time" for their kids, and push them to read more books instead. Understandably so: Consuming television is generally a very passive activity, and many ga...

Watch out below! Falling prices! As the dust settles over Mobile World Congress, Qualcomm just announced a modest price drop for its Toq smartwatch from $350 to $250. With the new Samsung Gear, the Pe...

Monster Worldwide announced today that it has acquired TalentBin and Gozaik, two startups offering tools for recruiting on social networks."The acquisition of TalentBin and Gozaik completes one key co...

While the combined GrubHub-Seamless entity just filed for an IPO last week, there are a bunch of next-generation food and catering startups that are aiming to fix meal delivery. Chewse is focusing on ...

Facebook is putting an end to its @facebook.com email project, which means your life will probably go on exactly as it had been with no discernible changes whatsoever. For future reference, don’...

When you're mad, or happy, or looking into the eyes of your sweetie, do you know what your face looks like? Probably not, according to Dr. James Kilner, neuroscientist at the University College London...

Hello, and welcome to Moviefone!! The early 90’s was a strange time. Computers were becoming fairly commonplace, but the Internet still wasn’t. We pumped out new technology that defined ou...

That HBO Silicon Valley show has a new trailer out, which you can watch here. Anyway. This time we learn a little bit more about what's happening with the group of nerds engineers in the show. For ins...

If you are like me, life speeds by and you cling for something like normalcy as work and everything else swirls. Want a better grip on your daily activities, and how your habits are changing over time...

Rovi has announced that it will soon add advanced voice search to its portfolio of tricks, through the acquisition of video discovery startup Veveo. Rovi will pay $62 million in cash for the company a...

WinZip, makers of the file compression utility first launched in the early 90′s that still sees north of 30 million downloads per year, is today making a shift to the cloud. The company is launc...

A regulatory filing seems to confirm reports from the past couple of months that Dropbox has raised a large round of additional funding.Back in January, the Wall Street Journal said that the cloud sto...

Samsung just unloaded its mobile product pipeline in Barcelona. All at once, the company revealed the Galaxy S5, Gear 2, Gear Nano and Gear Fit. These are legitimately exciting products. The Galaxy S5...

Forget about the rest of Samsung’s MWC offerings. The Gear Fit is about the most exciting product announced in Barcelona today. It’s the first Samsung wearable that has a legitimate chance...

Samsung has announced three new smartwatch devices at MWC this year, including the successor to last year’s Galaxy Gear, the Gear 2, as well as a sleeker version called the Neo, and a fitness- a...

Deliv, the startup which hopes to provide same-day delivery with the help of a peer-to-peer network of shoppers and delivery people, has raised another $4.5 million. The funding comes from a number of...

The Samsung Galaxy S5 is here, and now we know everything about the 2014 flagship from the Korean smartphone maker. It’s pushing into phablet territory with a 5.1-inch, 1920×1080 display, a...

Atlassian, the company behind popular development tools like JIRA and Confluence, has long been focusing on Git as one of the main tools for getting enterprises to adopt the agile development methodol...

Samsung is introducing its Galaxy S5 smartphone today at a special event in Barcelona, but you don’t have to be there to watch the announcement live – Samsung will be streaming the event l...

Remember when Doom porting to obscure systems was a thing? You were only a true nerd once you had Doom running on your Ti-83. Now it’s Flappy Bird as witnessed by this C64 port. As the product p...

CloudFlare, the website security and content delivery service, today announced that it has acquired the anti-malware firm StopTheHacker. As CloudFlare founder and CEO Matthew Prince explains in today&...

More than a few people were surprised when Facebook said it would pay $19 billion for messaging app startup WhatsApp, but today Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today said that he believed it was actually...

GoDaddy is launching a Shopify competitor aimed at small business customers, TechCrunch learned and the company has confirmed. The “GoDaddy Online Store,” as the new product is being calle...

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations about the extent of the U.S. government’s surveillance dragnet of Internet users has had one positive impact, according to Facebook’s M...

Here’s the TL;DR for MWC 2014: Nokia is doing Android, HTC is still quietly boring and Samsung is launching a new Galaxy S smartphone. It’s another year and another MWC. We’re live f...

Flappy bird has been a wake-up call to our industry. Not because of its success but because of what it has revealed. This little game has unexpectedly reset to zero what works for users. And more. As ...

It can be hard for even the strongest entrepreneurs to succeed in cutthroat Silicon Valley. But throw in simmering civil conflict, an almost non-existent Internet infrastructure, a military junta that...

AdStage, which allows advertisers to create and manage campaigns across Google, Facebook, and other networks, is announcing that it has raised $1 million in additional funding.The money comes from pre...

Blink and you would have missed HTC Mobile World Congress announcements. The struggling phone maker unveiled two perfectly acceptable, perfectly boring mid-range phones and a Folding@home-ish smartpho...

French startup Lydia looks and acts a lot like Venmo — and it’s not a bad thing. Venmo is a great way to pay back your friends in a few taps without having to pay any fee. But its main iss...

HTC is wacky – in a good way. The smartphone company is one of the few that still does things that surprise me, and today’s MWC announcements are no exception. Sure, the Taiwanese company ...

SimilarGroup, the makers ofa would-be Alexa killercalledSimilarWebwhich analyzes web rankings via a panel containing millions of web surfers, has raised a Series C round of funding. The new funding co...

IBM is attempting to make up for its delayed push in cloud services by acquiring Cloudant, a YC alum and a cloud specialist in the area of NoSQL, database-as-a-service. This acquisition, the terms of ...

Get ready, DC and NYC. TechCrunch is coming your way in March. Apply for the pitch-off and get your tickets below. Hot off the heels of the fantastic Atlanta and New Orleans meetups, we’re pleas...

The Blackphone, a security focused smartphone from Silent Circle and Geeksphone, is kicking off pre-sales today after an official unveiling back in January. The Blackphone is billed as the "world's fi...

The Xbox One will soon be a bit cheaper ‘cross the pond. Starting this Friday, the Xbox One will be 399.99 in the UK. That’s a drop of 30 from its launch price. While the cut will certainl...

Samsung is introducing its Galaxy S5 smartphone today at a special event in Barcelona, but you don’t have to be there to watch the announcement live – Samsung will be streaming the event l...

Facebook has today announced that it will be moving its NYC location from Madison Ave in midtown to a building in downtown Manhattan, at 770 Broadway. Coincidentally enough, this also happens to be th...

The Samsung Galaxy S5 will get its official debut in just a few hours at a special event in Barcelona at this year’s Mobile World Congress, but you can see what it looks like right now thanks to...

My fellow nerds, our long horrendous nightmare is over. We will soon no longer have to slum with 64Gb microSD cards. SanDisk will soon start selling 128GB Ultra microSDXC cards -- a capacity double th...

Target is finally launching its Accelerator Program for Indian startups with five companies that can help the retailer test and build technology solutions across 3D imaging, mobility, personalized sea...

So we know with certainty that we'll hear about the Samsung Galaxy S5 today - whether it's a launch or something else we're not quite certain, but assume most rumors are true - but why is it launching...

Online ad company Turn is releasing its first Advertising Intelligence Index, which it says will reveal "the world's most competitive advertising markets."To do that, the company applied the Herfindah...

Nokia unveiled a few new Android powered Nokia X smartphones at MWC this year, and they look like an interesting combination of Nokia’s existing design choices with Windows Phone, Microsoft̵...

This morning Nokia finally took the wraps off a long rumoured (and leaked) Android phone unveiling a family of smartphones, called the Nokia X range, with the first three handsets being the Nokia X, ...

Back in October last year, I first heard rumblings that Nokia was working on an Android handset. "Devs rumor but rather solid, not confirmed by eye," said my source. Not long afterwards, others began ...

Back in October last year, I first heard rumblings that Nokia was working on an Android handset. "Devs rumor but rather solid, not confirmed by eye," said my source. Not long afterwards, others began ...

Today Jan Koum, the CEO of WhatsApp -- acquired by Facebook last week for $19 billion -- announced that the messaging giant is finally moving into voice -- a move announced at MWC, the conference for ...

Nokia and Windows Phone users have been asking for it -- and earlier today Nokia and BlackBerry confirmed it: free messaging app BBM is coming to Nokia devices, both the Lumia devices based on Microso...

New mobile chips are a big deal and 64-bit chips are an even bigger deal. To wit, Qualcomm has just announced the availability of 64-bit eight-core Snapdragon chips, an updated 600 series, with integr...

Later today Facebook CEO Marc Zuckerberg will be appearing onstage at Mobile World Congress -- his first appearance at the Barcelona-based event -- to talk about bridging digital divide. Ahead of that...

Payments company Square is debuting six new TV ads today, in a big marketing push towards attracting merchants on the platform....

More proof, if proof were needed, that Android won the smartphone OS wars: Nokia, the former world No.1 smartphone maker and, nowadays, the primary OEM for Microsoft’s third-placed Windows Phone...

Meet Sony's Xperia Z2 line. With the Z2 Tablet and Z2 smartphone, Sony clearly hopes impressive specs and waterproof technology will help the company gain marketshare in 2014. The tablet and phone are...

Sony introduced the SmartBand SWR10 at CES 2014. The diminutive wearable is part of Sony’s push into an ever-connected experience centered around its Xperia products. Sony was mum about the rele...

Russian mobile-making startup Yota Devices has just unveiled the next generation of its dual-screen smartphone, the YotaPhone. As with the current first-gen model, which went on sale in Russia and sel...

Mt.Gox has resigned from the Bitcoin Foundation's board of directors. The foundation made the announcement on its blog after the news was first reported by the WSJ....

Mt.Gox has resigned from the Bitcoin Foundation's board of directors. The foundation made the announcement on its blog after the news was first reported by the WSJ. In addition, Reddit users also noti...

Microsoft recently announced a number of changes to its Windows 8.x and Windows Phone platforms that underscore it is doubling down on Windows. Breaking Friday was the news that Microsoft will lower t...

When it comes to sales of smartphones, Android is the green giant that continues to tower over the competition. In the last three months that ended in January 2014, the Google-developed operating syst...

When it comes to sales of smartphones, Android is the green giant that continues to tower over the competition. In the last three months that ended in January 2014, the Google-developed operating syst...

Twenty years ago, small business owners lacked the tools to expand outside of their niche markets. Today, the Internet opens a flourishing global market of consumers ready and willing to engage with b...

Ready for a trip down memory lane? A nice little hike up Mount Nostalgia?Someone has set out to rebuild The Legend Of Zelda. As in, 8-bit, 1986, Its Dangerous To Go Alone Legend of Zelda. But with a ...

Homejoy offers its home cleaning services in more than 30 North American markets, but it managed to expand without opening any offices outside of its San Francisco headquarters until January, when it...

From the largesttechnology companies to early stage investors, American high tech companies and venture capitalists are increasingly supporting startups across the African continent. Whether it’...

Oh, what a night!For the second time in as many years, TechCrunch hit the streets of Atlanta to find some of the best and brightest startups the south has to offer. ...

You can only admire Mark Zuckerburg. If the game is Whack-A-mole he is prepared to whack them, small, medium or large - no matter the cost. Whacking moles is the only way to earn points and points tra...

eCommera, a software company that helps retailers use their customer purchasing data and more to improve the retail experience, has secured $41 million in Series C funding led by Dawn Capital together...

Your fitness band got into my bluetooth headset! No, your bluetooth headset got into my fitness band! Stop! You're both right!In what I suspect will be a minor blip in the interstitial wearable world,...

Netflix has reportedly entered a precedent-setting deal with Internet service provider, Comcast, to end a public feud over the speed of streaming video. The Wall Street Journal reports that Netflix wi...

About a week ago, Opera teased its new Max data-savings app for Android and allowed users to pre-register. Starting today, Opera will roll out Max to these pre-registered Android users in the U.S. on ...

Silicon Valley and the tech world at large are filled with a variety of conventions. These conventions are now created, captured, and shared ad nauseam disguised as blog posts, tweets with links, and ...

A while ago, HTC came up with this silly phone called the Bliss, which had a little charm that hung out of a purse and notified women when they were getting a phone call or alert. The idea — tha...

A new poll of Republican voters in Iowa shows why the technology industry may fail to get immigration reform – its top political goal – passed by Congress. The poll shows that 53% of Repub...

Just ahead of the start of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Mozilla today announced a number of new Firefox OS smartphones from partners like ZTE, Huawei and Alcatel, as well as a $25 reference...

Samsung has announced the availability of the Galaxy Gear 2 smart watch, a Tizen OS-powered wearable that will get up to three days of battery life and is promised to allow for a improved applications...

Microsoft is in the advanced stages of closing its acquisition of Nokia's handset business, but in the meantime Nokia is reportedly working on Android devices. How does Microsoft feel about that? "Th...

Despite saying it was doubling down to become a mainly Series A VC in Europe, Balderton Capital's latest investment is at the seed stage. The London-based VC has led a 1.3 million round in UK car buyi...

Windows Phone users hankering to get their hands on Facebook’s Messenger app don’t have much longer left to wait — the instant messaging service will land on the Windows Phone store ...

Today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft kicked off the action with a step ahead that points to the company’s ambitions to continue to press ahead with its multi-hardware strategy,...

Today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft kicked off the action with a step that points to the company's ambitions to continue to press ahead with its multi-hardware strategy, and to do i...

Wednesday was my birthday. It should have been a great day. Then I heard the news. WhatsApp had been purchased by Facebook for $19 billion. When I read about the deal I blurted out the words, "Holy Cr...

In the interest of expanding our general knowledge of all things hardware, I present another of my occasional weekend watch reviews, this time featuring Marvin's Malton Military Cushion watch, an auto...

For one founder who recently sold his startup, it was the culmination of a long journey. At the same time, the founder, who spoke to me on the condition of anonymity, had problems during the acquisiti...

Yesterday Apple announced a fix to a security bug in its iOS 7 system. Today Web security experts have parsed the patch to figure out what exactly the problem was… And apparently it’s a do...

On Friday Apple announced a fix to a security bug in its iOS 7 system. Today Web security experts have parsed the patch to figure out what exactly the problem was… And apparently it’s a do...

On Friday Apple announced a fix to a security bug in its iOS 7 system. Saturday Web security experts have parsed the patch to figure out what exactly the problem was… And apparently it’s a...

It’s that time of week for an episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few TechCrunch writers together to chat about the most fascinating stories of the past seven days in tech. This week, ...

Spurred by the Affordable Care Act, the American healthcare system in 2014 has entered a period of titanic change. The process will be messy and disruptive it already is. While challenging for consum...

Spurred by the Affordable Care Act, the American healthcare system in 2014 has entered a period of titanic change. The process will be messy and disruptive it already is. While challenging for consum...

WhatsApp is currently experiencing an outage. Users around the world are reporting that they can’t send messages, and WhatsApp just confirmedthis problems with a tweet stating “sorry we cu...

WhatsApp is currently experiencing an outage. Users around the world are reporting that they haven't been able to send messages for about two hours, and WhatsApp just confirmed this problems with a tw...

You probably have not heard of Oren Zeev, and he would prefer it that way....

The Gillmor Gang John Borthwick, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor bask in the afterglow of the 19 Billion Dollar Bash. The reasons for the WhatsApp deal are ma...

Google's long-rumored smartwatch is real, and still "officially" expected to begin shipping in mid to late March. However, many members of the smartwatch team inside Google believe that date will eith...

Scrolling through reports of recent venture financings, the names of the firms involved has changed quite a bit over the past few quarters. Of note, hedge funds have entered the later-stage, pre-IPO i...

It's been a hell of a week worldwide. Caracas, Venezuela: "What had been a slow-motion unravelling that had stretched out over many years went kinetic all of a sudden." Kiev, Ukraine: "Dozens dead as ...

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives will vote on legislation on phone unlocking (H.R. 1123). In January 2013, a decision by the Librarian of Congress made it a crime to unlock your phone, with ei...

Building hardware projects has become immensely simpler thanks to Arduino and Raspberry Pi. But Visionect scratches a far more-intersting itch: e-paper interface design....

WhatsApp did a great job of being surreptitious about its funding while growing into a messaging monster. But as they say, the truth always comes out.In this case, the truth is that the company had th...

Facebook said there were just big fixes in its 7.0 iOS update it released yesterday, but actually there's a big new feature it's testing called Highlights. Inside the People tab you'll see Highlights ...

Back when we first found out about investor Tim Draper's plan to break California into six different states (including one for Silicon Valley), we weren't sure how far the unlikely plan would go. But,...

Back when we first found out about investor Tim Draper's plan to break California into six different states (including one for Silicon Valley), we weren't sure how far the unlikely plan would go. But,...

In December, TechCrunch reported that Microsoft had met its earlier promise to bring rich 3D imaging of several cities to Windows 8.1 through a new Bing Maps Preview application. Today, Microsoft exte...

In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, VegasTechFund’s Jen McCabe joined us in the studio to talk hardware, and more. As McCabe explained, she’s particularly excited about hardware that...

Tickets are officially sold out for the MWC Bubble Over Barcelona Meetup and we couldn't be more pleased. If you've managed to snag a tick, you'll be able to join Mike Butcher, Natasha Lomas, Ingrid L...

Tickets are officially sold out for the MWC Bubble Over Barcelona Meetup and we couldn't be more pleased. If you've managed to snag a tick, you'll be able to join Mike Butcher, Natasha Lomas, Ingrid L...

With hardware suddenly all the rage, accelerators devoted entirely to the genre are popping up all over the place. And that includes the far-flung regions of Russia. The Navigator Campus will be the f...

The eye of big finance is finally turning towards cryptocurrency. Responding to requests from clients, Goldman Sachs has put out an early assessment of Bitcoin that says little about the bank's offici...

Ever thought about what might happen if you got rewarded, not for a Foursquare check-in, but for generating electricity? Changers, a startup which allows people to turn the creation of solar power int...

Gillmor Gang - John Borthwick, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific. Live chat at https://friendfeed.com/realtime-networ...

Swiss startup Threema probably didn't expect this. In 24 hours, the startup has doubled its user base, according to Sddeutsche. It is now sitting at the top of the paid App Store chart in Germany. Int...

Over the years, peer-to-peer lodging marketplace Airbnb has been working to increase trust and safety for guests that stay in listings on its platform. Today, it's launching an initiative that will ma...

Early Facebook investor and noted Silicon Valley libertarian Peter Thiel thinks that too many Americans have mistakenly blamed technology for rising inequality. "Technology is an easy scapegoat," he a...

Ambition says it's taking the process of tracking and motivating sales teams beyond white boards and gongs.The startup, which is part of the current class at incubator Y Combinator, launched its produ...

Fitness tracking company Fitbit has just issued a recall (and stopped sales) of their popular product the Fitbit Force, a wrist-borne activity tracker that follows their Fitbit Flex but adds a display...

After nine years at the helm of Y Combinator, Paul Graham is stepping away from his leadership role at the famed Silicon Valley startup incubator. Taking over as Y Combinator's president is Sam Altman...

LinkedIn has at last added a long-requested feature with the introduction of member blocking. This adds a new privacy control to the service, which lets you restrict access to your profile, direct int...

Waterloo-based BufferBox, which was acquired by Google in November, 2012, is shutting down its standalone service. The company sent out an email to members today alerting them to the news, stating in ...

Hot anonymous social network Secret has just pushed an update for its app that addresses a number of issues and improves performance. The new version allows users to subscribe or unsubscribe to any Se...

Facebooks surprising acquisition of WhatsApp signals that it has realized that users true social network is the contact list on their smartphones. Mobile contacts are usually limited to people a user ...

Burstly, the makers of an in-app ad management platform called SkyRocket and the parent companyofpopular mobile app testing platform TestFlight, has been acquired, we’re hearing. Though we’...

BlackBerry is taking a page out of its messaging app rivals’ books today – or should I say STICKER BOOKS. Because it’s stickers I’m talking about: BBM is getting them, via a ne...

BlueTalon, a big data startup that helps companies analyze information from both internal and external databases on-the-fly, is raising seed funding of $1.5 million from Data Collective. With the new ...

For the first time in its history, Berkeley saw an introductory computer science course with predominantly female students – 106 women vs. 104 men. This slight turnaround signals a promising tre...

I like backup batteries – I carry more than a few, and they all get used eventually, especially when I travel. But sometimes I worry: What will happen to my portable backup power in case of the ...

For people with busy lives, coming home and making dinner for the family can be a pain. Equally as painful? Trying to find a place to go out to or order from that the whole family can agree on. Y Comb...

Moving sucks. Especially if you have to jettison a load of furniture the next time you swap states or switch apartments. AptDeco, just graduating from YC, is aiming to fix that -- via its p2p secondh...

Y Combinator-backed online retailer platform and former TechCrunch Disrupt participant, 42, is today making its official debut. The company, founded only a year ago, is working to turn raw point-of-sa...

Korean messaging leader Kakao is negotiating with Morgan Stanley and Samsung Securities Co. to file for an IPO in Koea, according to the WSJ. The seven-year-old company is mostly known for its dominan...

We broke the news yesterday that Google was producing a prototype 3D sensing smartphone called Project Tango. We also broke down the capabilities of the vision processor inside the device and talked a...

The mobile market may still essentially be a two horse race, with Android and iOS enjoying a significant lead, but there are lots of upstarts trying to make inroads, too. One of those is Firefox OS, M...

As an expat, the proliferation of mobile devices is one of the best things that has happened in the seven years since I moved to Asia. I can send silly photos or pour my heart out to friends all aroun...

Samsung has a new teaser out for its “Next Galaxy,” which will be unveiled February 24 at an event during MWC in Barcelona. The short video, which clocks in at just over 35 seconds, featur...

London-based Spider.io has been acquired by Google, the company’s DoubleClick advertising blog announced today (via Re/Code). Spider.io is a startup that specialized in weeding out fraudulent cl...

A new report pegs Amazon’s potential TV set-top box launch for March. Re/Code reports that the ecommerce and digital media giant is indeed still hard at work on a streaming TV device, which has ...

In a Finnish startup love-in, Angry Birds maker Rovio and Sailfish OS smartphone maker Jolla are partnering for co-branded content on Jolla's first handset. Jolla is also working on an Android launche...

Well, that's an unusual school assignment.Colin Heilbut, who says he's a student at the Draper University for Heroes, emailed TechCrunch earlier today to inform us that he's selling Jimmyjane sex toys...

There are almost 900 million active cell-phone users in India now, and from newer startups to some of the biggest companies in the world, everybody is chasing the next mobile disruption that could pot...

Mt.Gox promised to get its house in order, and get back to the Bitcoin community and its users today. It did, but didn’t open up withdrawals, or set a firm timetable as to when users might be ab...

The White House isn't waiting for Congress to enact new intellectual property laws. President Obama has made good on his promise to go after so-called "patent trolls," businesses that hoard legal owne...

There are few canvases harder to find yourself portrayed upon than the US postage stamp. Unless you’re a state bird, a beautiful wild flower, or a historic/cultural icon, it’s pretty unlik...

King’s long anticipated IPO filing dropped some staggering figures this week. The $1.8 billion in annual revenue that the Candy Crush Saga-maker earned last year was about $600 million or $700 m...

YouTube is rolling out a new design to its users today that takes its cues from the "card-like" design Google now uses on many of its other web and mobile apps. The aim of the redesign, Google tells m...

Tackk is announcing that it has partnered with photo-sharing startup 500px, making a wide variety of photos available to Tackk users.Tackks, for those of you who don't know, are basically pieces of co...

Jon Mills, the founder and former CEO of real-world analytics startup Motionloft, has been arrested by the FBI. The arrest follows allegations that Mills lied to investors about an acquisition of his ...

Viki, a streaming video platform that crowdsources translated subtitles, will launch a beta version of its site for Japanese viewers tomorrow. The announcement comes five months after Tokyo-based Raku...

After the last two decades of consumer Internet and mobile innovation, is biotech or bioinformatics the next wave? There are a handful of San Francisco-based startups that cross the bridge between the...

On the web, no one can hear you converse – or perhaps they can, but it’s not terribly easy to surface them and have a sustained, engaged dialogue around any particular topic. Threaded comm...

Just because WhatsApp will "operate independently" doesn't mean Facebook won't put its 6,000-employee muscle behind its new acquisition. We've heard a lot about how WhatsApp will save Facebook from lo...

Today after the close, HP reported a slight beat in its fiscal first quarter, including net revenue of $28.2 billion, and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.90. Investors had expected $27.19 billion in...

In May of last year, we broke the news that Seamless and GrubHub -- two of the largest players in the online and mobile food delivery space and "arch rivals" -- were coming together as part of a block...

Tinder, one of the hottest dating apps, is making headlines for more than making matches. A security firm, IncludeSec, recently revealed a major problem in Tinder's app that could allow hackers to acc...

Amplitude, a Y Combinator-backed mobile analytics service aiming to take on the likes of Flurry and Mixpanel by offering advanced features at more competitive prices, is officially making its public d...

If any of your favorite sites don’t seem to be working right now, don’t panic — it’s not just you. Namecheap, the host of some 3 million-plus domains, is reporting that they...

Twitter announced its Ads API program a year ago today, allowing advertisers to run their campaigns through API partners like Adobe and Salesforce. Now it's giving the program a new name the Twitter ...

After reporting better than expected profit and revenue for its fourth quarter, Groupon surged. However, investors soured on its guidance, sending its share plummeting....

As crowdfunding is all the rage today, there are entrepreneurs like Ryan Caldbeck of CircleUp who approach opportunities a bit differently. A former private equity analyst focused on consumer retail, ...

As crowdfunding is all the rage today, there are entrepreneurs like Ryan Caldbeck of CircleUp who approach opportunities a bit differently. A former private equity analyst focused on consumer retail, ...

Now here is one spectacular tale. A company, with little PR or marketing, grows in just a handful of years to connect half a billion people around the world through a simple messaging app. The company...

I generally enjoy writing about startups, but I love writing about startups that are working on something undeniably good for the world. This is one of those.SoundFocus is trying to improve the experi...

If that seems like something out of science fiction, that’s because it very much could be – the AI assistant in Her, for instance, manages to be so convincingly human because it shares an ...

At the core of Google’s freshly announcedexperimental Project Tango smartphone platform is a vision processor called the Myriad 1, manufactured by chip startup Movidius and its CEO Remi El-Ouazz...

Google today announced Project Tango, an Android-based prototype phone and developer kit with advanced 3D sensors out of its Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) hardware skunkworks group. Using it...

Google Ventures and Jafco Ventures have co-led a $25.5 million investment in Ionic Security, which is developing a distributed data security platform based on encryption technologies.Security is once ...

Microsoft has a new virtual assistant, and it’s a hybrid of Siri and Google Now, with some artificial affect thrown in for good measure. The Verge’s Tom Warren dishes on the upcoming featu...

Om Malik, founder of venture blog Gigaom, is stepping down as contributing writer and will become a partner with True Ventures....

The Thalmic Myo armband promises to let you control pretty much anything computerized with simple hand gestures, and the videos that Thalmic itself has shown display impressive potential. But this new...

Shopping cart abandonment is a massive problem on mobile, and the Y Combinator-backed Two Tap aims to improve this for merchants and affiliate sites.It's no secret that mobile checkouts are broken. No...

News that Linksys and Belkin hardware was inherently insecure and could easily allow hackers to access your local network and control your gear. ...

Cylance, a cyber security company founded by former Global McAfee CTO Stuart McClure, has raised $20 million in Series B funding from Blackstone, Khosla Ventures, Fairhaven Capital and a group of priv...

Ad-tech company Criteo just acquired French startup Tedemis for $29 million (21 million). Originally from France, Criteo went public on the NASDAQ late last year. The company made around $250 million ...

Fresh off its $23 million in Series B funding fromAndreessen Horowitz and others, crowdfunding platformCrowdtiltis opening up its open source, white-label platform CrowdtiltOpen to all interested busi...

Payments platform Balanced has been gradually adding features to enable marketplaces to accept and make payments out to their users. Today the company is announcing that it's integrated with Coinbase ...

Atlanta-based Kanga has raised $1 million to create a new local delivery service that uses a crowdsourced approach to getting items from point A to point B....

Mobile gaming company Pocket Gems is taking a new approach to telling stories on smartphones with the launch of a new platform called Episode.CEO Ben Liu hinted at this last month when he talked about...

News has leaked (not really, I just wanted to say "leaked") that tampon delivery service HelloFlo is going B2B. As it stands now, HelloFlo offers customers an opportunity to choose what feminine hygie...

On February 7, Mt.Gox informed users that they were temporarily halting withdrawals of the popular electronic currency from their service due to a technical problem called transaction malleability. Th...

BlackBerry fanboys are... passionate. Obnoxious could be another word. At a moment's notice, they assemble and attack anyone who wafts a whiff of negativity against their fallen hero.T-Mobile's CEO le...

There is Salesforce.com for sales professionals, numerous off-the-shelf packages for finance and HR professionals and thousands of apps for several other enterprise utilities. But marketeers still don...

It’s been five years already, and Jolicloud still has a few tricks up its sleeve. Yesterday, at an event called the Jolicloud Ecosystem Party, the company presented its long-term vision for the ...

Banking startup Simple has been acquired, the company announced today. The acquiring company, BBVA, is a 150-year old financial services corporation that operates in a number of markets, and a leading...

Hop (formerlyPing), a mobile app that makes replying to email feel more like instant messaging, is now available on iPad, the company is announcing today. In addition, hop now also supports multiple e...

Thanks to Facebook’s $19 billion WhatsApp acquisition yesterday, the tech industry is going to be on the lookout for the next great mobile messaging app. With fortuitous timing, a new mobile vid...

Diamond Products, a pleasure product-centric holdings company, has announced the acquisition of Jimmyjane. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. ...

Disrupt Europe 2013 alumnus, What Now Travel, hasn't even launched its mobile roaming busting travel guide app yet but it's already forged an alliance with the tourist board in the city it's been conc...

We’re here andwe’re overjoyed to be in New Orleans for our first TechCrunch event in your fine city. Tonight’s meetup and Pitch-off will be great, and we need everyone to come out. T...

The dust has settled. The full weight of Facebook's acquisition should be evident. $19 billion. It's the modern age of HP buying Compaq, a move that many pundits at the time said signaled the end of t...

TV startup Aereo has been handed a decision that isn’t in its favor in at least one battleground where it’s fighting broadcasters in court: In Utah, a federal judge imposed a temporary inj...

Mobile analytics firm Distimo just released a new report showing how the most successful apps monetize around the world. According to it, the five most potentially lucrative markets for gaming apps ar...

Last we heard, Chrome OS was quickly increasing its reach in the business world, but despite its recent advances, a new study by ad network Chitika shows that it still remains a niche product. Chrome ...

Acompli, a company building a mobile email application which functions as an all-in-one productivity app for iPhone, has raised $7.3 million in Series A funding – a sizable investment that point...

Password manager startupPasswordBox,which closed a$6 million Series Alast November months after launching its freemium service,has added a new feature to its convenience boosting arsenal that improves...

Virtual keyboard Fleksy has made its iOS integration open and free to all today, after debuting the SDK with private partners back in December. Fleksy is completely free for developers to use, and int...

9flats, an early European competitor to Airbnb and others in the holiday rentals space, has seen a change of guard. Founder Stephan Uhrenbacher has stepped down as CEO and "stepped up" to Chair of the...

HTC is working on three wearables which it's planning to preview privately to carriers at next week's Mobile World Congress tradeshow in Barcelona, according to a report in Bloomberg....

Just ahead of the spring house hunting season, the online real estate service Trulia today launched a major redesign of its flagship mobile apps for iOS and Android.The new design puts real estate pho...

A new Apple patent application published by the USPTO today describes a magnetic connector similar to the one used to attach Smart Covers to the current iPad, but designed to be far more flexible with...

Sellsy, a French startup that offers a nifty suite of online tools to help businesses manage sales, is making its first push into the U.S. via opening a New York office. Its Software-as-a-Service comb...

ThreatStream, a SaaS-based cybersecurity startup backed by top Cloudera executives, has raised $4 million in Series A funding from investors led by Google Ventures. The other investors participating i...

Cloud security startup CloudLock will launch new encryption product to make it easier for service-as-a-service and cloud platforms to protect sensitive data. Called CloudLock Selective Encryption, the...

With new compliance requirements looming for already jumpy banks, startup software developer Strevus has raised $6.5 million for its risk and compliance service. The company raised its first instituti...

The stealthy business security company Apprity, launched by two former Oracle employees, has raised $8 million in its first institutional financing. For its first venture round, Apprity turned to seas...

With Facebook's massive $19 billion purchase of WhatsApp earlier today, any possible marriage between Facebook and Snapchat appears to be dead.After spending $20 billion on a photo sharing company (In...

Four years ago, Brian Acton was looking for a job. His job at Yahoo, where he’d filled many engineering roles over 11 years, had come to an end. He was networking with recruiters: networking wit...

Mobile messaging consolidation is coming fast and heavy recently, with the Viber/Rakuten deal and today’s WhatsApp acquisition by Facebook. Another contender in the space, Waterloo-based Kik, ha...

Facebook won't be throwing its advertising weight behind its new acquisition WhatsApp like it did with Instagram. But WhatsApp also won't be focusing on rolling out the $1 a year subscription fee it c...

Facebook today announced its huge, $16 billion acquisition of WhatsApp. Obviously the company has a lot to cheer about, having grown to 450 million active users over the course of the last five years....

Facebook today announced its $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp. Obviously WhatsApp has a lot to cheer about, having grown to 450 million active users over the course of the last five years. But from...

Facebook just announced its buying WhatsApp, a global messaging platform with 450 million MAUs, for approximately $19 billion. It’s one of the biggest tech acquisitions since HP bought Compaq fo...

With 450 million monthly users and a million more signing up each day, WhatsApp was just too far ahead in the international mobile messaging race for Facebook to catch up, as you can see in the chart ...

Facebook today announced that it will acquire WhatsApp for a combined $16 billion in cash and stock. WhatsApp’s employees pick up an additional $3 billion in restricted stock units as ...

Facebook today announced that it will acquire WhatsApp for a combined $16 billion in cash and stock. WhatsApp's employees pick up an additional $3 billion in restricted stock units as part of the deal...

Reports are out today in The San Francisco Chronicle, and just about every other tech publication, that Apple could be in preliminary talks to buy electric automobile manufacturer Tesla. With the mobi...

What happens when you combine anonymous messaging with college campuses? You get 100,000 users in three months. Yik Yak knows all about it. ...

Facebook is purchasing messaging giant WhatsApp for $16B in cash and stock, according to a regulatory filing. The deal is being cut for $12B in Facebook shares, $4B in cash and an additional $3B in RS...

Facebook is purchasing messaging giant WhatsApp for $16 billion in cash and stock, according to a regulatory filing. The deal is being cut for $12 billion in Facebook shares, $4 billion in cash and an...

The dates for this year’s Google I/O developer conference are June 25 and 26, Google’s Android and Chrome boss Sundar Pichai just announced on Google+ (via 9to5Google). The annual event of...

The dates for this year’s Google I/O developer conference are June 25 and 26, Google’s Android and Chrome boss Sundar Pichai just announced on Google+ (via 9to5Google). The annual event of...

Something fishy has been going on with Apple's App Store top charts. No, I'm not talking about "Flappy Bird" (well, maybe that too), but rather how on earth two different developers used a $10 GameSal...

CrowdTwist, a social loyalty rewards platform, has today announced two new heavy-hitting board members, Carol Kruse and Shiv Singh. Kruse spent nearly 10 years at Coca-Cola, where she led the interact...

Today after the bell, Tesla reported its fourth quarter financial performance, including non-GAAP revenue of$761 million and non-GAAP earnings per share of$0.33. In the period, the company delivered6,...

Fear not, owners of Belkin WeMo devices: you no longer have to lose sleep over the possibility that your smart plug will be hacked. Belkin has rolled out an update that patches the five vulnerabilitie...

Last October, Microsoft announced that it would roll out an LTE-enabled Surface 2 for AT&T's network. Sometime. The announced time frame was early 2014, and, sure enough, the device has just been ...

Venmo, the mobile payment app, has had a wild few years. They shook up their industry so hard that they were acquired twice within 4 years of launch; once by Braintree for $26.2M, and again when Paypa...

It's 1992. I am ten. I want to be an advertising executive when I grow up. I am watching a TV news segment about Barbie, "Teen Talk Barbie" specifically. Teen Talk Barbie says "Math class is tough" am...

The Federal Communications Commission is seeking comment on how to keep the Internet open and accessible to all. The agency’s outreach is in response to a recent U.S. circuit court decision that...

San Francisco-based InstantCab has raised some new funding, and plans to use that money to begin expansion into new markets. But first, the company has rebranded its service as Summon, and announcing ...

So this is a fun little bit of news: we're now officially accepting Bitcoin for TechCrunch Disrupt in New York which will happen on May 5 - 7, 2014 at the Manhattan Center. We are working with Coinbas...

According to Downes, the innovator's dilemma has now been replaced by what he calls the "innovator's nightmare". Today's new technology products are so much better and cheaper than legacy products tha...

This morningTruePosition and Skyhook Wireless announced that the former has acquired the latter. Skyhook is best known for providing location services to top mobile firms, including Apple and Samsung....

After just under a year in preview, Google today announced that it is now rolling out the new Google Maps to all of its users as the default option....

Google today announced that it is planning to expand Google Fiber to 34 new cities in nine metro areas, includingAtlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Phoenix, Portland, Raleigh-Durham, San Antonio, Salt Lak...

Technology has a way of making things that have historically been accessible to the wealthy and connected a bit more within reach to the rest of us. Uber's done it with limos, Fancy Hands with persona...

Ukraine is in the midst of what can only be described violent social upheaval, as protesters occupying a central Kiev square have been killed in violent clashes with Police last night.The wider politi...

It looks like 3-D virtual try-on technology will soon make an appearance on eBay. The marketplace giant is announcing the acquisition of PhiSix, a company that develops 3-D visualization and simulatio...

iversity, a Berlin-based MOOCs platform that's hoping to become the Coursera of Europe, has managed to pull in nearly 500,000 course sign-ups in the four months since its first massively open online c...

For those of you who were looking for an extra few days, the deadline for submitting applications to be a part of the Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2014 has been extended to February 27 at 5 p....

Google is amping up its investing efforts, today announcing Google Capital, a "growth stage" investment effort that has already put money into SurveyMonkey,Renaissance Learning, and Lending Club....

This is not a joke. PediaPress launched an Indiegogo campaign to print the entire English Wikipedia encyclopedia on around 1,000 books, representing more than a million pages. The startup printed the ...

Ubuntu will sell pre-loaded on smartphone hardware, despite the failure last year of the incredibly ambitious Ubuntu Edge crowdfunding campaign. The company detailed plans today (via TheNextWeb)to shi...

A new application, Postcard, launching today, will help you cross-post to various social media websites, but with a few unique twists. Unlike similar tools, this "Swiss Army Knife" of an app lets you ...

Square is debuting a special edition reader in partnership with AIDS organization (RED). The new 'SQUA(RED) Reader' is red in color, and for every order via the device, 97.25 percent of the $10 donati...

Sessions, the behavioral health startup that launched out of the Rock Health startup incubator in June 2012, has been acquired by MyFitnessPal for an undisclosed sum. This is MyFitnessPal’s firs...

PopTip, the Techstars-backed startup that offers real-time language tracking across social platforms, has today launched its Zipline analytics tool on Instagram.Unlike PopTip questions, the product th...

Glove, a new Android application launching today, is attempting to address a real-world pain point which affects an important decision that nearly every individual or family in the U.S. has to make at...

An MIT project that aimed to bring light field refocusing powers to existing cameras for less than a dollar is being spun out as its own commercial venture: Tesseract wants to provide the same capabil...

Loop, the mobile payments startup backed by $10 million in Series A funding, and the makers of a series of hardware devices that allows smartphones to function like magstripe credit cards at point-of-...

Israeli startup Umoove is reaching out to developers in the Android camp, with the launch today of a beta SDK for Android devs wanting to use its face and eye tracking technology....

Amazon Coins, the virtual currency introduced by the e-commerce giant last spring, are now available on Android devices, including both smartphones and tablets, in the U.S., U.K. and Germany. This is ...

Online retailer Grand St wants to be the go-to spot for interesting new hardware to be sold online. But after curating a daily selection of goods, the company is opening up its e-commerce shop for any...

Video game store Humble Bundle announced that the Humble Store has switched to more traditional Steam-like prices, with different prices depending on your region. European customers will have to pay m...

HTC is set to unveil its next-generation flagship phone, and all indications are that it will continue what it has accomplished with last year’s HTC One, but with some tweaks and enhancements to...

USA! USA! We are now officially almost as good as Canada! Why? Because the folks at Robocoin are officially turning on the first US-based Bitcoin ATM at the HandleBar in Austin, Texas where you can mo...

Peer-to-peer ride-sharing startup SideCar is releasing a brand new version of its app for both passengers and drivers, which will provide more flexibility for drivers and more choice for passengers. T...

ZenPayroll, the startup that offers an easy to use, cloud-based payroll application; is announcing a new round of Series A funding totaling $20 million. The round was led by General Catalyst Partners ...

Condition One has spent the last few years trying to find ways to make video more like real life. With the Oculus Rift, it might have found just the device to bring its vision of immersive experiences...

Apple is putting on a show on SXSW this year, the company just announced via press release. It’ll take place over five days between March 11 and March 15, at the Moody Theater where PBS’ A...

Cracking the riddle of whole home audio has been a sort of quixotic quest for most manufacturers. The only company to really pull it off, Sonos, is still well ensconced in the niche of audio obsessive...

Samsung is taking a completely different approach to its next-generation Galaxy Gear smartwatch, according to a new report from USA Today – that means eschewing Android altogether on the on-devi...

Online and mobile advertising company OpenX is announcing the appointment of Tom Fuelling as its new chief financial officer.Fuelling (pictured) previously served as CFO at Hulu for six years, startin...

Skyhigh Networks today debuted CloudRisk, a new tool to help corporations track and manage their potential risk due to use of cloud services.CloudRisk is a dashboard that tracks a firm's current surfa...

To date, LinkedIn has allowed a small, editorially selected group of "Influencers" like Richard Branson, Bill Gates and Barack Obama to publish their thoughts and advice to its network as long-form bl...

Apple has gained an entire percentage point of market share and cracked the top five smartphone manufacturers, according to the latest figures from research firm IDC. Apple’s share rose from 6 t...

Small businesses, by definition, are lean. With a price tag that includes license renewals, maintenance and upgrades to servers and IT support, the costs of adopting enterprise-grade software and serv...

Renaissance Learning, one of the leading cloud-based K-12 assessment and learning analytics companies, today announced that it has raised a $40 million investment from Google Capital. This marks the f...

SkyDrive is dead, long live OneDrive. In January, Microsoft announced that it would rebrand its storage service to OneDrive following a trademark dispute with British pay-TV provider BSkyB. Starting t...

UK-based Brand Embassy, a provider of social-media based customer care services to help businesses manage communications with customers via channels such as Facebook and Twitter, has closed a $1 milli...

myTomorrows is a Dutch startup that wants to disrupt the way patients with unmet medical needs currently have (very limited) access to development-stage treatments -- drugs that are still undergoing c...

Nokia has unveiled a new accessory designed to make sure users of its Lumia smartphone are never parted from their handset. Or at least, that when they leave the house with their tagged keys or bag, t...

It's been a very busy week for Rakuten as it seeks to take over the Internet. Earlier today the Tokyo-based online services giant announced the opening of its first R&D center in Europe. Just last...

Continuing to diversify beyond search, Russian tech giant Yandex has today launched a complete firmware kit for Android smartphones -- called Yandex.Kit -- that offers an alternative suite of Yandex s...

mig33, a mobile social entertainment platform based in Singapore, announced today that it has acquired AlivenotDead (AnD), an online community for celebrities to connect with fans through official acc...

Rakuten, the Japan-based Internet services company, opened its first European research and development center in Paris today. Called the Rakuten Institute of Technology, this is Rakuten's third R&...

As a biomedical engineering student at Duke, Max Hodak became intimately familiar with the sterile tedium of life in a research lab. Like many others who’ve spent wasted hours of their lives in ...

As a biomedical engineering student at Duke, Max Hodak became intimately familiar with the sterile tedium of life in a research lab. Like many others who’ve spent wasted hours of their lives in ...

Elastica, a cloud security startup launched in 2012, is coming out of stealth mode with $6.3 million in Series A funding from the Mayfield Fund. The startup is also launching its new appsthat offer re...

Atlanta's investment community thinks early-stage deals in the region are just peachy.As the TechCrunch Express rolls into town this evening, folks can expect to see an investment scene that's been ho...

This morning ephemeral messaging app Snapchat announced that it had poached a Googler, in addition to an Amazonian and a Facebooker. The company will be bringing Google App Engine director Peter Magnu...

In case you wondered whether the White House is deliberately ignoring its petition platform, the President's Chief Technology Officer, Todd Park, wrote an official blog post in support of net neutrali...

Mayfield Fund has announced that it has closed its second India-focused fund, totaling $108 million raised to invest in startups in the region....

The interfaces in modern cars are, with rare exception, awful. It’s almost absurd, really. The car is one of the most expensive things that people buy for themselves. It’s massive. It̵...

Apple has a lot of knowledge regarding its users, which it uses to improve its services and offerings, including names, addresses, locations and purchase histories. But what it doesn't do with that da...

A new Y Combinator-backed startup called Kimono wants to make it easier to access data from the unstructured web with a point-and-click tool that can extract information from webpages that don’t...

Roku today announced another big cable network is making its content available on its streaming video devices. This time, it's Showtime, which will enable cable viewers to login and catch up on previo...

SpoonRocket, the Y Combinator-backed startup that hopes to provide healthy, fast, and cheap meals to hungry customers, is now available in San Francisco. Or at least, part of San Francisco, for a few ...

Bitstrips, an app for building personalized comic strips, is raising a hefty Series B led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, according to sources familiar with the raise. ...

What's better than a selfie? A selfie that is also a gif. Meet Selfie360, the newest, and most aptly named, app from the Cycloramic team. ...

Today AT&T joined Verizon in releasing data concerning government requests for its customer information. Verizon released similar data in January. A host of technology companies have done the same...

In their first annual global mobile data report, analytics firm Mixpanel reveals that Android is the originating platform for the lion's share of app data generated from the top 15 countries as measur...

The revolution will be live-streamed. In violent clashes with police, tens of thousands of citizens have taken to the streets to protest the policies of President Viktor Yanukovych, who is accused of ...

Deepak Chopra believes we can have it all. Through a melding of science and spirituality, this author, guru, and speaker has worked tirelessly to create new methods for mindfulness. He shared a few wi...

Whisper, the popular anonymous social sharing startup that’s raised $24 million from venture capital giants including Sequoia Capital, may have just gotten its big break into celebrity gossip te...

Just in case you have $4,999 lying around and have a hankering to print in carbon fiber, the Mark One 3D printer is now available for pre-order. When first announced last month, the Mark One was going...

A new iOS application called Kidizen is launching a mobile, peer-to-peer marketplace allowing parents to buy and sell their children's clothing, toys, shoes and other easily shippable accessories. By ...

Here are the do's and don't's of wearing Google Glass. Right from Google. Apparently, and I know this might be a shocker, you're not supposed to stand in the corner of the room and record people with ...

This morning Microsoft announced updates to Bing apps for Windows Phone (News, Finance, Weather, Sports), and new Bing-based apps for the smartphone platform: Food and Drink, Health and Fitness, and T...

On-demand delivery startup Postmates has brought on a new round of funding to help roll out service in new markets. The Series B funding round totals $16 million and was led by Spark Capital, with Spa...

Last December, Opera announced Max, a free app that would use Opera's servers to compress all the non-encrypted data to your Android device. At the time, it opened up sign-ups for a small private alph...

Whoa. Irrational Games, the company that built the acclaimed BioShock video game series, is going away. Co-founder Ken Levine announced directly on the company’s front page this morning that the...

Online video distributor Hulu announced today that it has hired Sony Network Entertainment International SVP Tian Lim as its new CTO. While at Sony, Lim ran North American engineering and service oper...

Zynga stock rallied this morning to a 52-week high price of $5.15 after King Digital Entertainment, the European social gaming giant best known for Candy Crush Saga, filed a public F-1 with the U.S. S...

At Cluster, were big fans of iteration and experimentation. Since we launched publicly in February 2013, we have rapidly iterated the product on both iOS and Android. In the first eight weeks of being...

Lync, Microsoft’s little engine that could, continues to grow. The company announced at the end of its last fiscal year (2013) that Lync had brought in more than$1 billion in revenue. The group ...

The shift toward more private and anonymous sharing continues, and today another new application called Shortwave (or Shrtwv, as they’re now abbreviating it, to eliminate confusion with another ...

Samsung has a new flagship smartphone coming soon, likely at Mobile World Congress next week, and new details are emerging about what the next smartphone from the Korean mobile giant will be packing. ...

SuperAwesome, the European kids and teen-focused ad network and marketing platform, has crossed the pond via an acquisition. It's bought L.A.-based MobiGirl Media, a mobile ad network for girls....

The popular language learning platform Duolingo today announced that it has closed a $20 million Series C round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. As Duolingo's founder Luis von Ahn told me,...

Y Combinator-backed Eventjoy, a service that makes it easier to organize events using online and mobile tools, is officially making its debut today, offering support for online ticketing, event websit...

A new iWatch concept video produced by Fuse Chicken, the Cleveland-based design startup that’s currently funding a magnetic charging cable and dock for iPhone, imagines what a wrist-mounted Appl...

This newsletter is for you, French friends and people interested in French startups. Starting next Friday, we will send out a weekly newsletter with TechCrunch’s best posts of the week covering ...

We’re back. Two years ago, thanks to local ATL superfan Dave Moeller of CodeGuard, TechCrunch held an epic meetup in Atlanta. Over a thousand people turned out on that rainy day for a night of n...

For some fashionistas wearables can be clunky, and don't aesthetically combine well with the other jewelry women and men may have on their wrists such as bracelets, or a watch. Cuff is hoping to chang...

You've been able to convert a lot of your social media into a book for a while now. Back in 2012 founder Helen Spaul created Walnuts (still working) which allowed you to create a personalised book of ...

Expense reports are a special kind of hell. Employees are often stuck wondering when, if ever, they will get reimbursed. Managers and accountants, on the other hand, have to deal with extra paperwork ...

HTC’s big push for more smartphone buyers in 2014 might not focus on hardware, despite an incoming new flagship; instead, the company is announcing a host of new customer service initiatives tha...

Wattpad, an online community where readers can find and discuss a variety of free stories, is announcing updated versions of its iOS and Android apps.The two biggest changes in the updates, which went...

The HTC One was one of the best smartphones of 2013, according to just about anyone you could ask – the flagship Android device from the Taiwanese company bucked the trend of its major competito...

These days, many hotel interactions with their guests happen through third-party platforms: The Travelocities, Yelps, and Foursquares of the world get the feedback that hotels need and depend on, and ...

Over in the world of Enterprise, subjects such as security, compliance and governance remain dull but essential issues. In this arena SkyHigh Networks (backed by Sequoia and Greylock) and Netskope (ba...

TicTail, a DIY ecommerce platform out of Sweden, has today raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Thrive Capital. The company, which is a lot like Etsy in its mission to make online storefronts ...

Socialbakers, a social media analytics company founded in 2009 and headquartered in Prague, is announcing that it has raised $26 million in Series C funding.The round was led by Index Ventures, with p...

SparkLabs Global announced today that John Pleasants, the former co-president of Disney Interactive and former COO of Electronic Arts, has joined the fund as an advisor. SparkLabs Global, which focuse...

Apple has been granted a patent by the USPTO today (via AppleInsider) that could fit in with its apparent plans to get into health and fitness tracking in a big way: the document describes a headphone...

Fifteen years and one popped Internet bubble after it was first launched, the auditing software company Intacct is still alive-and-kicking… and raising new venture dollars. The company, which wa...

The studio behind addictive matching puzzle game Candy Crush has begun the process of filing for its U.S. IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Re/Code reports. The UK company will look to ...

Telefnica's global network of 14 Wayra Academies, which each incubate a yearly crop of tech startups in the hopes of spotting the next big thing so their carrier overlord doesn't have to, has gained a...

Sony has surpassed it own full-year target of selling five million PS4 units by the end of March, reporting today that it had sold 5.3 million units as of February 8....

English-learning platform TutorGroup announced that it has raised a $100 million Series B round from investors including Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group, Singaporean investment firm Temasek, and ...

Back at CES in January, TechCrunch met Fin, the Bluetooth ring that went on to become one of our Hardware Battlefield finalists. Fin, which turns your hand into a wireless controller for smartphones, ...

Back at CES in January, TechCrunch met Fin, the Bluetooth ring that went on to become one of our Hardware Battlefield finalists. Fin, which turns your hand into a wireless controller for smartphones, ...

The core advancement of the Internet was the capability to move information very quickly across a decentralized network of nodes. That advancement was predicated on the development of protocols like H...

There are things on the Internet that we humans were not built to understand. Over on Twitch, the largest platform for livestreaming esports and other gaming content, 70,000 people are playing Pokemon...

Coming off a day of global protest — both offline and off — that sent tens of thousands of emails and phone calls into the United States Congress, it appears that the USA Freedom Act hasn&...

This week, we have two VCs who will be joining us in the studio (separately) for Ask A VC Next World Capital's Ben Fu and Translink Capital's Jay Eum. As you may remember, you can submit questions for...

With sites like Codecademy and Stack Overflow, there are plenty of ways to learn programming and get help online but there's nothing like a live human being who can answer your questions and look at ...

With sites like Codecademy and Stack Overflow, there are plenty of ways to learn programming and get help online but there's nothing like a live human being who can answer your questions and look at ...

Take a Lite-Brite and turn it up to 11. Add Bluetooth, tuck in animation support, and let people draw their designs via smartphone. What do you get? Something like PIXEL. The (aptly named) PIXEL is a ...

The Fly6 is a cycle camera, currently seeking funds via Kickstarter, that wants to draw motorists' attention to the fact they are being filmed in order to police their behaviour for the better (or so ...

Beats Music is the latest of many streaming music services to hit the scene, pulling from some of the best parts of competing products to offer an excellent internet radio experience. Once you offer u...

Web development can be a complicated process which can go on too long because so much of the time is spent on really poor communication and mis-understandings. Project managers, designers and develope...

A new application called Tidy wants to help you better organize the photos you have stored on your smartphone, by grouping them into albums by time, distance, or even by “shapes,” meaning ...

Whether you are a seasoned programmer or a beginner, chances are you spend a lot of your time looking for code snippets on Stack Overflow and similar sites. There's no need to reinvent the wheel, afte...

Microsoft and eSignature service DocuSign today announced a long-term partnership that will make it easy for Office 365 subscribers to submit and sign documents without leaving Microsoft's Office apps...

Europe has gotten itself another hardware-based startup accelerator; this time Estonia is flying the hardware flag.Focusing on hardware in combination with software, Buildit is a new 3 month accelerat...

Pan-European train travel booking startup, Loco2, will add another chunk of coverage to its website tomorrow, when a partnership with Spanish state-owned rail carrier Renfe goes live -- enabling users...

It looks like investors think there's a big opportunity in Hampton Creek Foods' mission of creating tasty, affordable alternatives to animal-based foods the company is announcing that it has raised ...

You've heard of About.me for profile pages. Well, there are plenty of gaming communities out there, but Player.me hopes to be the "about.me for gamers". Obviously Playfire is a pretty big competitor b...

Blink, a mobile application that allows users to send each other self-destructing messages, has now arrived on Android. The app, which first debuted on iOS last spring, lets you share text, photos, vi...

MangoPay is a payments app specifically developed for marketplaces, crowdfunding platforms and collaborative consumption platforms which can accept third-party payments. It’s announced it will n...

Billing itself as the "Coinbase of Europe" Sweden based Bitcoin company Safello has raised a $600,000 investment round lead by Bitcoin advocates Erik Voorhees (co-founder of the Bitcoin company Coinap...

The quantified health movement is really just getting going, with basic stuff like fitness tracker bands. The potential for helping curious people measure, track, analyse and diagnose aspects of their...

Siemens Venture Capital, the corporate financing arm of Europe’s biggest engineering company, is launching a new, $100 million fund to back early-stage startups working in the areas of industria...

Outfittery, a curated shopping service for men's clothing, has raised 13 million in new funding to expand into other European markets beyond Germany, Australia and Switzerland where it currently opera...

Access to Dropbox has been restored in China for the first time since it was blocked in 2010. While users have periodically been able to share files and sync files from within the country, this is the...

Instead of simply displaying tons of stats and fancy charts, Echobox looks at a site's visitor data and, using its own algorithms and machine learning, actually recommends actions to take, including e...

High school sports is big business, but few schools can afford to support a robust athletic website with complete player stats, dynamic schedules and rich media. That's where Varsity News Network come...

Blurtt, which launched in its current form back in 2012, was a mobile app that allowed you to create their own digital expressions by allowing you to choose an image, add text and share either anonymo...

Watching the gyrations in the price of Bitcoin has been spectator sport the past several days. However, unlike with prior busts and races, the price of Bitcoin hasdiverged heavily across its several e...

Playbasis, a Thailand-based gamification startup that helps companies engage with customers and employees through cool rewards and social games, has raised $7,70,000 in seed funding from Ardent Capita...

Looks like Google might be ticking off a box on its wearables shopping list, or someone else might be. Basis Science, the company behind the Basis Health Tracker Watch, is on the market, according to ...

"Launch day" can be a pretty big deal in the world of tech. Some people define a successful launch day as getting written up by as many tech news sites as possible, hitting the top spot on the App Sto...

There can be little doubt that, just like Microsoft thinks touch is the future of computing, Google seems to believe voice will be the user interface of the future. Indeed, when I was in Mountain View...

On this week’s Droidcast, me and Chris Velazco get tough on smartwatches, but first we discuss Nokia Android “Nokia X” device plans and other infertile hybrid animals, and HTC’...

StackOverflow, the coding-focused Q&A site that’s proven to be an essential tool for professional and amateur programmers alike, had an approximately hour-long outage Sunday morning that aff...

Stack Overflow, the coding-focused Q&A site that's proven to be an essential tool for professional and amateur programmers alike, had an approximately hour-long outage Sunday morning that affected...

A year ago, I wrote a post titled Silicon Valley Slowly Awakens To Android. Recently, I purchased a Nexus 5 as we develop and begin the early tests of Swell for Android, and I wanted to share some of ...

SlickLogin has been acquired by Google, just five months after launching at TechCrunch Disrupt. Word of the acquisition is confirmed by a notice on the company’s site, where they say that they&#...

One of the problems of crowdfunding is if you dont need or want the reward offered in exchange for your donation, there isnt much incentive to support a project. This is a problem we can change, and b...

Daniel Suarez self-published his first novel, Daemon, in 2006. The book and its sequel Freedom chronicled the rise of a botnet that uses self-driving cars to kill humans, crashes the stock market, and...

Daniel Suarez self-published his first novel, Daemon, in 2006. The book and its sequel Freedom chronicled the rise of a botnet that uses self-driving cars to kill humans, crashes the stock market, and...

These days, it really seems we can't go a week without some big site getting hacked. The latest target? Kickstarter....

We're at the end of a week where snow was on the ground in 49 out of the 50 states in the U.S. What better way to escape the winter blues than by virtually pulling up your chair to the TechCrunch writ...

“I didn’t own my own laptop,” he said. That didn’t stop him from attending his first hackathon several weeks later at Hacka2thon, where he built his first website. The experien...

The Flappy Bird phenomenon shows no signs of slowing down, despite the fact that the original title was yanked out of the App Store by creatorDong Nguyen, whose newfound fame apparently became too ove...

iQi is a hardware add-on that brings the tech Apple hasn't -- wireless charging (using the Qi standard) -- to your iPhone without the need to put it in a bulky case. But perhaps there's a reason why A...

This past week brought the news of a fairly significant development for Square the rolloutof Square Stands in Whole Foods restaurants, bars, and other venues. This comes a year and a half after the hu...

Lyft is raising yet another big round of funding, according to sources. The company, which is seeking to make ride-sharing mainstream in cities across the U.S. and around the world, is expected to use...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor Boy, the way Glenn Miller played, those were the days. The Gang was a deck stacked against the Gillmor young v...

Almost any time someone asks about the Y Combinator experience they ask, "Was it worth it?" Its a difficult question to answer concisely given the complexity of such a program. During Y Combinator we ...

Dosomething, a not-for-profit focused on making volunteer work and social change exciting to people under 25, is going after its key demographic where they're comfortable: Snapchat. The company used t...

The liberal wonderland of the San Francisco Bay Area has one of the highest concentration of wealth in the country. Twitter’s IPO, alone, created an estimated 1,600 millionaires. But, are local ...

The liberal wonderland of the San Francisco Bay Area has one of the highest concentration of wealth in the country. Twitter’s IPO, alone, created an estimated 1,600 millionaires. But, are local ...

The Great Bifurcation is underway. The American economy is polarizing between the minority rich and the majority poor; technology is a major cause of this; and the rest of the world will soon follow, ...

Editor’s Note: This article is adapted from Hooked: A Guide to Building Habit-Forming Products, a new book by Nir Eyal and Ryan Hoover. On February 8, 2014, an app called Flappy Birdheld the cov...

Meaghan Rose wanted RocksBox to be a thing so badly that she singlehandedly built a WordPress site for the idea, and stocked it with her own jewelry. She sent out boxes of samples from her own closet ...

Meaghan Rose wanted RocksBox to be a thing so badly that she singlehandedly built a WordPress site for the idea, and stocked it with her own jewelry. She sent out boxes of samples from her own closet ...

In a Reddit AMA session today, HTC employees confirmed that the company's 8X Windows Phone handset will receive future firmware updates. This indicates that the company is working with Microsoft to br...

Hello, true believers. It’s amazing that today is Valentine’s Day and potentially the day the robots rebel. Luckily, the robots are all still pretty small and not at all mean. Take this li...

In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, we hosted Comcast Ventures’ Dave Zilberman to talk about mobile enterprise, corporate VCs and much more. Zilberman, who joined Comcast Ventures in 2006 ...

Solo investor Ronny Conway has closed the early stage fund he had left Andreessen Horowitz earlier this year to raise. Back in September, Dan Primack had reported that the fund was at least $30 millio...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: In an effort to jumpstart the U.S. economy amidst the runaway blight of the “Great Recession” and financial crisis beginning in 2008, C...

Gillmor Gang - Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session for today has concluded. find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/gillmorgang...

Pinterest isn’t just for elaborate napkin crafts for your book club soiree, or for bragging about inhuman feats of supernatural cupcakery; it also makes a pretty stellar travelogue. A new update...

Surprise! It's Valentine's Day, the stealthiest of all the holidays.If you're trying to get a gift today, you might be a bit short on options. Will you go with the gas station teddy bear? The twice-cr...

The Nokia-Microsoft deal that will see the former’s handset business find a new home at the latter is still a go, and should wrap in the first quarter of this year. That gives the deal around 1....

The crowdfunding rules in France will become startup-friendlier in the coming months. The government announced today that companies will be able to raise up to $1.4 million (1 million) per Kickstarter...

Little Bird, the startup led by former tech writer Marshall Kirkpatrick, is announcing that it has raised $1.7 million in new funding.Kirkpatrick, formerly an editor at ReadWriteWeb (now ReadWrite) an...

Happy Valentine's Day, lovebirds. We've got quite the treat for you. This week, rumors spread that Nokia and Microsoft are working on an Android phone, to be released later this month. Meanwhile, LG h...

It has been a rough time for Bitcoin these past few days, as three major exchanges halted withdrawals in the face of an issue that could impact the perceived integrity of exchanges of the currency. Mt...

Good news, everybody! Everything is really looking up in New Orleans and we're on track to at least beat a few of the smaller cities we've visited in terms of tickets sold. That doesn't mean you shoul...

Most of the reviews of the LG G Flex have already gone up but since the phone is slowly percolating out in the U.S. I thought I'd give it a full week of use to see just what the fuss was about. If you...

Does it matter that the love of your life doesn’t like your friends? If you hit the one-year anniversary mark, are you more likely to get married? Smitten worry warts are often obsessed with com...

One of America’s favorite liberal phrases has been sent through the political spin machine and polished into a Frankenstein of sorts, thus rendering it inaccurate and far from its original inten...

Tomorrow the first traunch of insider stock at Twitter will unlock, allowing non-executive employees to sell a portion of their shares. Nearly 9.9 million shares will be set free on Saturday, worth ar...

Attorney marketplace UpCounsel has spent the last several months helping startups and other small businesses get affordable legal help. But for the most part, that help has mainly been focused on shor...

Didn't get a ticket to the Crunchies before they sold out? Miss the live stream?Don't sweat it we brought the whole thing back to you in glorious HD. From the Broadway-style opener by the incredibly ...

Did men like this used to sit atop the technology industry? Atop our country? Tom Perkins, once an icon in the venture industry and now a spectacle, gave yet another talk last night at the Commonwealt...

The conflictbetween taxi drivers and urban transportation startups in France is not over — the French government has put a stop to new limo driver licenses for the next two months. This decision...

Watch out, Atlanta and New Orleans. TechCrunch is coming to town and we have lined up a stellar list of companies to pitch at each city’s meetup. We’re rolling into your fine cities next w...

FounderDating, a selective network where entrepreneurs can find co-founders, is adding a new way to pick up advisors.Advisors, who are usually paid with a small cut of equity, can bring lessons learne...

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. And all seem to be doing it about the new class of apps that rest on the premise of anonymity and/or ephemerality....

Smart home lighting is a growing field, with entrants including Philips and LIFX, but one other new contender has a different approach that might appeal more to some. The Brightup system consists of p...

UrbanSitter, an online service for parents and sitters to connect, has raised $15 million in Series B funding led by DBL Investors with participation from Match Group, a division of IAC and newly laun...

Lover.ly, the Pinterest for wedding planning, has been dominating the categorization and aggregation of awesome wedding content. Brides who visit the site are instantly able to search by vendor, color...

A new Kickstarter project aims to make your GoPro filmography easier to handle, with a case designed to hold the GoPro in such a way that you have a full view of the screen of your iPhone 5s or 5, so ...

I have a date tonight. And it's with Frank Underwood. The entire second season of the Emmy award winning series is now available for your enjoyment on Netflix....

Coding Cupboard is a new crowdsourced marketplace aiming to connect up budding coders with businesses needing to find developers to do one-off project work -- launching today in beta in the U.K. ...

Google has a Valentine’s Day doodle for their search homepage, the way they do every year. This one is fairly elaborate, however, and features stories supplied by Ira Glass and NPR’s This ...

London-based Blaze has officially launched it's innovative front bike light with a laser projection, and starts shipping worldwide at the end of this month. The Laserlight is the first of its kind in ...

Dhingana, the Indian music streaming startup battling to stay alive for past few months, has finally shutdown. We have been trying to speak with Dhingana CEORohit Bhatiafor past few weeks, but he̵...

A wearable tech research and consulting firm has put together a neat overview of the nascent space -- tracking the number of devices already in existence; areas of market focus; and even which parts o...

Well that was fast. Just a few days after it was revealed that Groupon product chief Jeff Holden was leaving the daily deals giant to join a Bay Area tech company, we now know where he has landed. Ube...

Rakuten, one of Japan's largest Internet companies, has announced that it will acquire messaging app Cyprus-based Viber for $900 million. The deal is the latest and largest in an aggressive acquisitio...

Xiaomi just announced that it will launch in Singapore on Feb. 21. This is a significant move because it marks the company's first expansion beyond China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan six months after naming...

Secret, which has fast become everyone's favorite way to share "anonymish" thoughts with friends and strangers alike, has launched a new program that is designed to find -- and squash -- bugs in its m...

Aerohive, a company that sells Wi-Fi products to enterprise customers, filed today to go public. The company's proposed $75 million public offering is not unexpected. It spoke directly about a future ...

2013 was a very good year for Twitter, so it's only fitting that Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo took home the award for CEO of the year at the 7th annual Crunchies Awards held this week in San Francisco.B...

It's just about Valentine's Day, which means love is in the air, even here among the workaholics in the tech industry. So for this episode of Cribs we headed over to the San Francisco headquarters of ...

Yahoo just acquired aSan Francisco-based startup calledDistill, which was working on a way to make technical recruiting easier by pairing video interviews and programming challenges. They had raised$1...

NYC's betaworks has taken $10 million in additional investment from Japanese digital media incubator and Twitter investor Digital Garage, which is tagged on to the $20 million round the company receiv...

What is everyone doing tomorrow? You do know that tomorrow is one of the most romantic days of the year, right? Do you have plans? Dinner? A trip? Is dessert made? Well, thanks to BloomNation, you don...

Silk Road 2 moderator Defcon reported in a forum post that hackers have used a transaction malleability exploit to hack the marketplace. The hackers stole over 88,000 bitcoins worth $41,474,415, empty...

Silk Road 2 moderator Defcon reported in a forum post that hackers have used a transaction malleability exploit to hack the marketplace. The hackers stole over 88,000 4474.26 bitcoins worth $2,747,000...

RentHop, which launched in 2009 and has spent the last several years refining its marketplace for apartment rentals, is now moving beyond just that market and has opened up nationwide. In doing so, it...

Kinvey, the enterprise-centric backend as a service (BaaS) platform for mobile apps, is launching a new feature today that will allow its customers to run their apps in a dedicated private cloud or on...

The Internet is melting, according to Linda Holliday, founder and CEO of startup Citia.Ive been watching this movement from solids and pages to liquids and flows, she told me. Everythings becoming ato...

Microsoft’s executive vice president Tami Reller announced today that the company has sold more than 200 million Windows 8licenses. TechCrunch confirmed the data point with Microsoft. The compan...

Dan Nelson has a dream. His dream is to offer an easy way to find the cheapest chronic in your pro-ganja neighborhood. While you could simply ask your buddy Badger how much he pays, Nelson thought, wh...

If there's ever a time in a person's life when she wants to keep tabs on everything that's going on with her body, it's while she's pregnant. Every inch added to her waistline, pound gained, heartbeat...

As a social-media focused startup in San Francisco that has raised a few hundred thousand dollars, you might think that Buffer would be Just Another Startup. Instead of being something to forget, howe...

An SEC filing details that True Ventures is looking to raise a new$250 million fund, its fourth. True Ventures’ last fund clocked in at$205 million, as TechCrunch reported at the time. According...

MuckerLab, a startup accelerator in Los Angeles, has raised a new seed fund, Mucker Capital. We hear the total amount of the fund is $20 million to $25 million....

Facebook has just updated the site to let users choose the gender pronoun they associate with. Aside from the usual “male” and “female” options, users can choose from up to ten...

While today’s update is a significant one for photo-sharing app Frontback, something unexpected is happening as well — Frontback is blowing up in Japan, China and Brazil. In fact, the app ...

Photo-sharing app Frontback just received a brand new update in the App Store. The two main new features are a new notification screen and the addition of a timer in the photo-taking screen. This way,...

Apple has released its annual Supplier Responsibility report, detailing its monitoring of supply partner labor practices, compliance with regulations and Apple’s standards of business, the envir...

Apple has released its annual Supplier Responsibility report, detailing its monitoring of supply partner labor practices, compliance with regulations and Apple’s standards of business, the envir...

500 Startups is launching the first of what will be not just one, but a whole series of AngelList syndicates. Actually, the firm is announcing two new syndicates -- the first of which has been creativ...

Happy Thursday. Kara Swisher is reporting that Jawbone is in the process of raising $250 million from Twitter, Flipboard and Square investor Rizvi Traverse.We heard that the financing has closed, and ...

WonderWoof is a new iOS app - joining the myriad of other such apps - aimed at dog-owners. This one helps dog owners track, train and 'socialize' their dog. They stay connected to the pooch via an on-...

EasilyDo, a smartphone app that aims to help users become more productive, is launching version 3.0 today with a number of additions, including its first premium features.The app basically provides us...

Front Desk, a software as a service platform and mobile business management tool that can handle things like scheduling, payments and client management, today announced that it has raised a $4 million...

Open source software powers the worlds technology. In the past decade, there has been an inexorable adoption of open source in most aspects of computing. Without open source, Facebook, Google, Amazon,...

Open source software powers the worlds technology. In the past decade, there has been an inexorable adoption of open source in most aspects of computing. Without open source, Facebook, Google, Amazon,...

Long running animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars will have a new home for its sixth and final season – Netflix. The show will debut all 13 episodes of its last run on March 7 on the stream...

Online ad campaign optimization startup Campanja, which has developed a search engine marketing platform aimed at maximizing customers' ad spend in real-time by adjusting for factors such as location,...

Online ad campaign optimization startup Campanja, which has developed a search engine marketing platform aimed at maximizing customers' ad spend in real-time by adjusting for factors such as location,...

A new Apple patent application published today (via AppleInsider) details a system for heading off email spam and tracking its source. The tech automates a process many people now use manually, settin...

Last October, Microsoft’s Skype promised a number of updates to its chat message syncing, and it looks like the service has now delivered on these promises. For the longest time, chat syncing ha...

Y Combinator alum The Dating Ring thinks it has a better way of getting people to meet one another and hopefully start dating, by matching up users in groups of six. After several months of operating ...

As the wearable tech space hits a boiling point, Jawbone is pressing onward and upward with a new $250 million investment led by Rizvi Traverse Management on the horizon, according to a report. The ma...

Thanks to the proliferation of smart devices, cloud-based services and more fluid content creation and distribution systems, technology is fundamentally changing the way we learn. Not only is it easie...

A new update to the BBM apps for iOS and Android add a laundry list of anticipated features to the messaging platform. BBM Voice makes its first appearance on the Android and iPhone clients, allowing ...

Rumors circulated yesterday that the cat was out of the bag on Apple’s next iPhone design: the picture above was one of a series leaked by a Twitter user depicting a supposed redesign of Apple&#...

Affectiva, an emotion tracking startup with big-name investors, is announcing the launch of its mobile software development kit.The company says it can analyze a users emotions by tracking their facia...

Presentation software startup Haiku Deck is finally bringing its software to the iPhone, after a successful run on the iPad. The smaller screen version of the app offers full access to your Haiku Deck...

Media storage startup Streamnation was founded with the idea of making it easy for users to store, view, and share content from the cloud. And now, the startup is making it easier for users to get the...

When you think about it, it's odd that wearable tech makers are so obsessed with wristbands. Most wearable tech products currently focus on fitness, and the most popular cardio exercises--biking, runn...

Lenovo may be getting Motorola’s handset business after buying the company from Google for around $3 billion, but it won’t be getting the company’s current CEO Dennis Woodside –...

Say hello to the G Pro 2, LG's new flagship smartphone -- leaked aplenty up to now but officially confirmed today by the mobile maker. The Android 4.4 KitKat powered 4G quad-core device packs a Qualco...

Today at the Palais des Congrs, Microsoft held its first demo day in front of investors and journalists. Investors in the room included well-known business angels, such as Xavier Niel, Marc Simoncini ...

After raising $300,000 on Kickstarter, the Fuel3D high res scanner has further added to that war chest for developing its tech and getting it to market -- snagging $2.6 million in early stage financin...

Infogr.am, which has built a platform for easily creating info-graphics which can be embedded on sites, has secured a $1.8 million (1.34 million) investment led by Point Nine Capital with participatio...

Switerzland-based Lemoptix -- which develops technology that enables micro-projectors to be embedded in mobile phones, automotive heads-up-displays, and low-powered wearable displays -- has raised an ...

2013 was the year when the inevitable happened: worldwide sales of smartphones surpassed sales of the more basic (and generally cheaper) feature phone devices for the first time, according to Gartner&...

Just a few months after it was first reported that the second-largest cable firm in the nation was looking to be acquired, Comcast, the number one cable provider, has made an offer of $45.2 billion fo...

The Obama administration unveiled Wednesday a long-awaited plan for bolstering the cybersecurity of critical-infrastructure providers -- including big information technology and communications compani...

Uber said today that it has expanded its system for conducting background checks on the drivers in its on-demand ride service network. In a post published this afternoon on the company’s officia...

Venture capitalistMarc Andreessen, Palantir co-founderJoe Lonsdale and Goldman Sachs COOGary Cohnsat down today at the Goldman Sachs conference in San Francisco, to talk about the thing investors alwa...

In what should be one of the greatest and weirdest pivots of all time, Jed McCaleb transformed Mt. Gox (short for Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange) from a card-trading platform into what became th...

The Internet has been getting a lot of criticism lately. But there are few people better able to coherently explain what's gone wrong than the Stanford University associate professor of communication,...

I told myself I was done writing about Flappy Bird. Really. I'm sort of sick of hearing about it too.But this this is something special. The creators of Canabalt and Super Hexagon two games that help...

We gave Edward Snowden an award and he can't even give us the courtesy to show up and accept it. Sure, he'd be jailed upon entering US soil and set on a pretty much pre-determined course for life in p...

Beacon, part of the current batch of startups incubated by Y Combinator, gives readers another way to support (and get access to) high quality journalism.Two of the companys co-founders, Dmitri Cherni...

Zillow today announced its Q4 2013 earnings. The company booked $58.3 million in revenue (up 70% year-over-year) for a GAAP earnings per share of $0.07 and non-GAAP EPS of $0.20. Net income was $2.7 m...

Dieting isn't easy. In fact, it's pretty damn hard. Most diet plans have strict guidelines that are difficult to stand by. Hiring a nutritionist can be effective, but the cost is generally out of reac...

Today, for a brief time, a post on the secret sharing app Secret and an image on Twitter caused a twinge in the cockles of every user’s heart. The image appeared to indicate that your email R...

Aviate, the contextualAndroid homescreen application Yahoo bought for $80 million in January, has rolled out an update today which introduces a smart “Listening Space” that allows users to...

Fwd.us, the advocacy group initially backed by tech luminaries like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, is adding a new paid membership model. The move is a bid to attract broader support from regular tec...

Today, the CDC estimates that there are more than 130 million Americans currently living with a “chronic disease” — in other words, the many types of long-lasting conditions that ...

The Walt Disney Company is getting into the startup incubator business with the launch of a new program called the Disney Accelerator.Disney says it's looking for 10 "early-stage companies with innova...

Here's what a top mobile game developer can make in a single year: $892 million off two games across Android and iOS.That's what Finnish developer Supercell said on a call last that night that it earn...

CircleUp, a crowdfunding service for startup consumer goods companies, has landed Virgin America as a partner for the food and beverage companies it backs. It's the latest example of how corporations ...

Tocomail, a new iPhone and iPad application launching today, aims to be kids’ first email service. The app was designed not only with children in mind, but also in collaboration with kids who pr...

Google and VMware today announced that they are working together to make it easier for Chromebook users in the enterpriseto access Windows apps and the Windows desktop to their machines. Using VMware&...

A small team of 10 people called Etalab recently released a brand new version of Data.gouv.fr, France’s open data platform.Etalab essentially acted like a startup within the French government, u...

Stewart Butterfield, the co-founder of Flickr who eventually left its acquirer Yahoo and started TinySpeck (and an ill-fated multiplayer game called Glitch), last year decided to take a different turn...

Depending on whom you ask, Silicon Valley and Israel have either had a long and prodigious symbiotic relationship when it comes to technology and technology companies, or Silicon Valley wouldn’t...

When you think ChromeOS, chances are the first thing that comes to mind are Chromebooks. Since 2012, though, Google and its hardware partners have also been quietly selling its Chromeboxes, the deskto...

As crowdfunding swings into the mainstream, the folks at betaworks are dreaming up new and creative ways to leverage the power of the masses. A new venture called Alphaworks takes the traditional crow...

Mobile messaging app startup UppTalk (a rebrand from its prior name Yuilop) is evolving -- and rather than following the social platform playbook of plenty of over-the-top (OTT) messaging players (suc...

On-demand taxi startup Hailo is ready to ramp up scaling and expanding its service into new markets, both in the U.S. and internationally. To do that, its bolstering its senior management team by brin...

Dinesh Moorjani, the mind behind the early stage technology incubator that launched Tinder, is leaving the startup world behind. Moorjani, whose long history in mobile tech includes a stint as an SVP ...

The wearables device market is still in its infancy but it's growing fast -- with more than 17 million wearable bands forecast to ship this year, according to a new forecast by Canalys. It reckons 201...

Open-source browser Firefox announced in a blog post that it is considering selling ads for its new tab page. Publishers will be able to purchase sponsored tiles that will appear alongside normal tile...

Capillary Technologies, the social CRM startup based in Bangalore, has raised additional funding of around $4 million from American Express Ventures. The startup plans to expand into the U.S., Middle ...

Jalousier, currently bidding for crowdfunding on Indiegogo, is a connected device that clips on to the venetian blinds in your home and automatically adjusts the position of the slats, depending on t...

Based in California, with an R&D office in Russia, AppScotch has developed technology to enable advertisers to offer a new kind of interactive ad unit that turns the humble banner ad into somethin...

Language learning software has never been particularly “sexy,” nor have its makers managed to produce a bounty of memorable user experiences, for that matter. While it might not be quite r...

If one of your friends randomly sends you a photo of a smoothie on Snapchat, don't go to the URL on the picture. It's a hack that has affected several accounts, as a Twitter search shows.Wired writer ...

Bitcoin traders are having a roller coaster ride everywhere and India is no exception. After initial momentum that saw several Bitcoin exchanges emerge in India, the Reserve Bank of India issued a war...

Remember Watson? Yes, the artificially intelligent, question-answering computer system developed by IBM that trounced two former champions on Jeopardy like they were a couple of kindergartners. That W...

Tapiture, a site where users can share content and buy related products, is announcing that it has raised $2.25 million in seed funding.That amount consists of $1.25 million in new capital, as well as...

Judging from recent earnings reports, Facebook's mobile ad strategy is paying off, but CFO David Ebersman said that doesn't mean you'll see an ever-increasing number of ads in your News Feed.Ebersman ...

New Zealand-based cloud accounting software company Xero is looking to step up its game in the U.S., and to do so it's boosting its board and senior management ranks. That includes adding former Micro...

Hey do you like Bitcoins? Yeah. I thought you might. Well you can use all those coins to buy things at stores running Revel Systems-powered point-of-sale terminals starting right now, as the company h...

Corporate Executive Board, the U.S.-based member advisory company has acquired Indian talent analytics startup, Talent Neuron, for around $10-$15 million. This is the third acquisition in the talent m...

Are you excited about the Oculus Rift? Because a whole lot of folks are. So much so, in fact, that the tech community picked Oculus as the Best Hardware Startup of 2013 and thats without them having ...

A planned day of protest against the NSA's surveillance efforts called "The Day We Fight Back" got off to a strong start. So far, more than 69,000 phone calls have been placed to Congressional represe...

The proliferation of FlappyBird clones following the abrupt departure of the game from iTunes has reached an all time high. The Apple App Store and Google Play - even the Pebble Appstore - are now fil...

The proliferation of Flappy Bird clones following the abrupt departure of the game from iTunes has reached an all time high. The Apple App Store and Google Play - even the Pebble Appstore - are now fi...

Tinder, the simple and addictive matchmaking app that launched just 16 months ago at a University of Southern California party, took home the Crunchie award for best new startup last night. I pulled a...

We rarely do this but we want you to work for us. We're looking for an SF-based Product Manager to help lead the site into the 22nd century using best-of-breed tools, HTML codes, and the magic of prog...

There’s a new Twitter redesign making the rounds, first spotted by Mashable’s Matt Petronzio, and it changes things considerably. Tweets no longer flow vertically in a single column like t...

Tristan Walker has gone from oil trading to hawking shaving cream in six years. As an economics major at Stony Brook University in Queens, Walker -- who was at the top of his class -- became enamored ...

After Bitcoin's fine showing last night at the Crunchies, we took a moment to talk to Peter Vessenes, Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation. Vessenes accepted the award and assured me multiple times that...

Last week, we sat down with Thrive Capital founder Josh Kushner at Rock Health's Digital Health CEO Summit in San Francisco, to talk about his venture into the healthcare industry through the launch o...

We’re finally starting to see some real consolidation around wearable tech, and Kickstarter projectThe Dashis a great example of that trend in action. It’s a pair of Bluetooth in-ear headp...

Joining other leading technology firms, Dropbox today detailed the number of national security requests it received in the preceding 12 months for user data of its customers: 0-249....

Today, a coalition of websites promised an Internet-wide protest against the National Security Agency, similar to the mass blackouts that rose up against the Stop Online Piracy Act(SOPA). Every major ...

Today the Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp stopped processing withdrawals following what it described as a denial-of-service attack. According to Bitstamp, balances are safe and no customer funds have been l...

Good things come in Threes, and it's both maddening and enthralling. I'm talking about the new iOS mobile game from developer Sirvo, which combines Sudoku-like puzzle mechanics with Candy Crush-style ...

Former Daily Show correspondent John Oliver returned to host this year's Crunchies, the tech industry awards show co-hosted by Gigaom, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch, and he didn't pull any punches. Afte...

Tough times for cross-platform personal search tools, maybe? Techstars Chicago gradFindIt, a mobile application offering universal search across your emails and files stored in the cloud, is shutting ...

Lithium Technologies, which helps companies engage with their customers online, has "signed but not closed" a deal to acquire Klout, according to a report in Recode. The deal is supposedly a mix of ca...

A leaker took to Reddit earlier today and listed details of Microsoft's coming Windows Phone 8.1 surfaced through early access to the update's software development kit (SDK)....

Intel Capital, the chipmaker's venture arm, has made two investments in 3D marketplaces, one in Austin and one in Lithuania. The companies, makexyz and CGTrader, allow users to upload 3D objects and s...

The investment pool in Toronto just got bigger thanks to a new $100 million fund closed by Canadian VC Georgian Partners, which is its second growth equity fund. The first one, closed back in 2010, wa...

Yahoo has acquired New York-based startup Wander. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but based on rumors I heard last night at the Crunchies, it appears that the price was north of $10 million....

After two-and-a-half years in preview, Google's Cloud SQL, the company's fully managed MySQL database service, has now hit general availability.As with most Google services that hit this milestone, Cl...

Groupon’s SVP, Product Jeff Holden is leaving the company,effective March 18, 2014, according to a new SEC filing. Though the exec been fairly tight-lipped about where he’s headed to next,...

The GoogleSearch Appliance(GSA) is a rack-based server for enterprises that allows them to bring Google’s search technology in-house.Today, Google is launching a software update to GSA (version ...

The GoogleSearch Appliance(GSA) is a rack-based server for enterprises that allows them to bring Google’s search technology in-house.Today, Google is launching a software update to GSA (version ...

Much of the digital security industry is focused on preventing hacker attacks. Cybereason, a security-focused startup founded by a team of former Israeli intelligence agency members which is launching...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor talk everything under the sun; Flappy Bird, Nadella and Bill, Foursquare, and the politics of health care. Not your usual ...

When testing for the possibility of certain types of cancer, doctors often do surgery to retrieve biopsies for genetic analysis. But when a patient has already had cancer, and is testing for a possibi...

Relatively easy to learn and highly scalable, Node.js has become a very popular platform for developing apps. Now npm, a package manager that installs, publishes, and manages node programs, has raised...

Residents of San Francisco and New York City have been lucky to have access to Sosh, a social concierge that helps users find fun and interesting things to do based on their location and interests. Af...

Cozy is tackling another part of the rental process today with the launch of a new feature for credit checks.The startup, which raised a Series A led by General Catalyst last year, already allows land...

DigitalOcean, the fast-growing SSD-based cloud hosting service, today announced the launch of its Singapore data center location. Hosted in Equinix’s Singapore 2 data center, Digital Ocean’...

Levo League, a site with career resources for young women, announced today that it has raised $7 million in angel funding from investors including Lubna Olayan, the CEO of Saudi Arabian firm Olayan Fi...

A year and a half after debuting a massive partnership with Starbucks, payments company Square is announcing its next big, in-store retail deal: Whole Foods. When Square debuted Stand last year, the a...

Stripe, the U.S.-based startup that lets developers integrate payments into their site or app with a few lines of code, is stepping up its game in the world of e-commerce. From today, users of its API...

Rumours that primary Windows Phone OEM Nokia has been two-timing Microsoft by keeping an Android phone project on its backburner have been doing the rounds for a while now. But the WSJ has tipped more...

Russian's largest travel search engine, Aviasales, which lets consumers find cheap flights and holiday accommodation online or via its apps (operating under the JetRadar brand outside Russia), has bag...

Social mobile shopping app and U.K. startup Depop has extended the reach of its marketplace by launching on Android. Depop launched its pocket m-commerce offering on iOS in April last year, and says i...

Clickdrive wants to be the first open platform device that connects all driving apps and aftermarket monitors. The small black box, which plugs into an adapter under your steering wheel, lets you run ...

As we have been writing, startup accelerators in India’s nascent ecosystem are beginning to seek more mature, late stage companies to work with. The latest to join this trend is Microsoft Ventur...

Over the last couple of years startups from Europe looking to scale in the US have had another 'planet' hove into their horizon other than San Franscico - and that's been New York. As I wrote in 2012,...

SalesGossip, a UK site that offers members exclusive access to fashion and beauty product sales, events and promotions, has closed a second angel round -- the majority of which is effectively follow-o...

As we have been writing, startup accelerators in India’s nascent ecosystem are beginning to seek more mature, late stage companies to work with. The latest to join this trend is Microsoft Ventur...

As we have been writing, startup accelerators in India’s nascent ecosystem are beginning to seek more mature, late stage companies to work with. The latest to join this trend is Microsoft Ventur...

Inside San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall was a packed hall with hundreds of tech’s well-to-do in ties, slacks and cocktail dresses for the so-bad-it’s-good awards show, The Crunch...

It was a night for the ages. At the 7th Annual Crunchies Award show, Kickstarter beat out CloudFlare, Snapchat, Twitter and Uber, and walked away with the Crunchie for Best Overall Startup. Chris Sacc...

It’s not often that a startup changes the way the world works, but Kickstarter has done just that. The crowdfunding site had a banner 2013 and has won the Best Overall Startup award at this year...

You know you’re doing something right when Silicon Valley rock stars are ditching cushy jobs at Google and Facebook to join your startup. This year’s Founder Of The Year Crunchie goes to t...

Benchmark's Peter Fenton just won the award for VC of the Year at the Crunchies.Fenton is probably best-known for backing and continuing to serve on the board of Twitter, which went public last year. ...

In the year in which Twitter went public, it’s hard to bet against one of the company’s earliest and most influential investors. Which is why it shouldn’t come as a big surprise that...

Tonight at the Crunchies, Edward Snowden’s massive leak of NSA material won the Biggest Social Impact category. Besting rivals like Code.org and CrowdTilt, Snowden’s successful efforts to ...

It’s hard for me to imagine a hardware startup that is more exciting, more fascinating, and that has more potential to ripple out into a million amazing things than Oculus and their Rift virtual...

This year’s best mobile app is Snapchat, at least according to the 2013 Crunchies Awards. The ephemeral photo and video messaging app beat out a tough crowd this year, including Mailbox, Tinder,...

Eyewitnesses at the Crunchies tonight reported seeing a shadowy figure hiding in the eaves of the opera hall, watching the proceedings with a gimlet eye. Perhaps, in light of the Best Technology Achie...

The Super Bowl. The Winter Olympics. The Grammys and the Academy Awards. ‘Tis the season for live spectacles, and as such, I’m pleased to welcome you to the 7th Annual Crunchies Awards whe...

Radiators are amazingly old technology and steam heat, while oftentimes charming in its anachronism, is also horribly inefficient. Luckily Radiator Labs is working on Cozy, a radiator cover that turns...

The Crunchies isn’t the only star-studded tech event in town this week. On TuesdayGoldman Sachs kicks off its “Technology and Internet Conference” and the attendees read like a who&#...

As a fan of robots, videos, and pucks, I was mesmerized by this project. It's a a cool 3D printer hack that allows you to play a robot in a rousing game of air hockey. The system uses a computer visio...

Hey, NOLA. What's up? Listen, we have a problem. While we know that Atlanta is a startup hub and we're already oversold in Georgia and Charleston, we're having trouble filling seats in your home town....

Google has long operated its fleet of private jets out of NASA's Moffett Field thanks to a long-standing deal with the U.S. government, but it looks like it's ready to expand its presence at the Silic...

Google has long operated its fleet of private jets out of NASA's Moffett Field thanks to a long-standing deal with the U.S. government, but it looks like it's ready to expand its presence at the Silic...

Mt. Gox, one of the original Bitcoin trading sites, has shut down its withdrawals system, citing problems related to transaction malleability (more on that shortly). Mt. Gox wrote on their site that t...

Young tech billionaires gave generously in 2013. Of the 50 top philanthropists compiled by the Chronicle Of Philanthropy, only 4 were under the age of 50 and 3 of those were in the tech industry: Mark...

Microsoft will soon rebrand its SkyDrive cloud storage service OneDrive. The OneDrive splash page currently reads “Coming Soon.” It now appears that there is more to the coming OneDrive ro...

You know those times when you spend multiple emails trying to set up a meeting time, and a meeting place, and once it's all done you then have to leave your email and then head into your calendar and ...

The Jolla phone is the first handset from the eponymous Finnish startup comprised of ex-Nokia employees. They've crafted a device that's different from Android and iOS powered smartphones -- sometimes...

A report from Business Insider earlier today claimed that Barnes & Noble had eliminated its Nook hardware engineering staff in its entirety. Barnes & Noble has confirmed to TechCrunch that the...

Headed to Barcelona for MWC? Love you some startup talk, presentations, and global mobile meet up chitter chatter? Join Mike Butcher, Natasha Lomas, Ingrid Lunden, and myself on February 24, 2014 at 1...

BlackBerry had another high-profile executive departure today, as Executive Vice President of BBM Andrew Bocking has left the smartphone and enterprise software maker. Bocking’s exit was first r...

eBay founder Pierre Omidyar revealed the first publication in his new media organization, First Look Media. "The Intercept" launched last night with revelations about the National Security Agency whic...

Last week Microsoft announced that its new CEO is Satya Nadella, and that its first CEO, Bill Gates, would be spending time at the company helping with product decisions. It was the culmination of a l...

Social photo sharing site Flickr is now 10 years old, marking a decade since Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield founded the originally Vancouver-based startup. The site was acquired by Yahoo back i...

Themer, the Android customization app from MyColorScreen which last fall raised a half a million in seed funding, has been pulled from the Google Play marketplace following a copyright complaint from ...

About a year ago, Google launched an Android app that allows Google Apps administrators to manage their users and services right from their Android phones and tablets. Today, it is bringing this app t...

A team with extensive experience working with the OEMs, carriers, and platform makers in the mobile industry, and who was most recently tasked with the creation of the Facebook mobile experience for f...

Robot eyes. That’s a terrifying sentence. But robotics vision is an immense area of research interest, and a key technological field in terms of building the future of a wide variety of devices....

Flappy Bird creatorDong Nguyenmay have pulled down his simple but maddening mobile game from the App Store and Google Play on Sunday, but that hasn’t stopped the swelling interest in the success...

After more than half a year in limited preview, Microsoft today launched Power BI for Office 365, its Business Intelligence for Office 365 Enterprise subscribers. In combination with Excel, Power BI a...

Headliner.fm, a site where users promote each others content, is taking on a new name, CoPromote, and announcing that it has raised $1.8 million in seed funding.If you're a CoPromote user, the site re...

Shazam’s iPhone app is getting an overhaul, starting with a release that puts a larger focus on TV results, music videos and lyrics, the company is announcing today. The update is the first of w...

Back at CES in January, among all the fun and interesting new projects we investigated, one gadget stood out among the rest. That gadget was Urb-E. And today, almost a month later, the Urb-E scooter i...

PlaceIQ, a startup that uses location data for mobile advertising, is announcing that it has raised $15 million in Series C funding.The company was founded in 2010, back when most of the interest in l...

More fintech news coming out of London. Kantox, a peer-to-peer foreign currency exchange for businesses, has raised 6.5 million in a series A investment. The round was led by Partech Ventures and Idin...

InMobi is making its biggest push so far in capturing a larger share of the $11.9 billion mobile advertising market, as it launches its new video ad platform today. The new mobile video platform also ...

Imagine that you are a teenager and the most annoying person in your class has a massive crush on you. No matter what you do, your would-be paramour keeps following you around like a lovesick puppy. W...

Hot on the heels of Silicon Valley competitor Xola raising $1.8 million last week, Swiss startupTrekkSoft, which offers a SaaS for tour and activity providers, has raised $800,000 in follow-on funding...

HTC has reported released its Q4 2013 results and the numbers do not look good. Furthermore, the Taiwanese smartphone maker expects revenue to decline even further in Q1 2014....

Germany and Palo Alto-based m-commerce platform Shopgate has made its first acquisition: The Creathor Ventures and Northcap-backed company has acquired Magento developer MagCorp for an undisclosed fee...

iSocket, which offers tools for selling online ads, is announcing that it has raised $5 million in new funding.The round was led by Time Warner Investments, with participation from Cond Nast, R&R ...

Debu Purkayastha, for the last six years a powerful force inside Google's international business working on M&A and investments has departed the tech giant's warm embrace to go solo. His first por...

Korean startup VCNC has received a strategic investment from Japanese Internet giant DeNA to turn its couples app Between into an open platform for third-party developers. The amount of the deal was n...

This week, Engrade put the finishing touches on an emblematic story in the world of education startups. High school student Bri Holt heard enough complaining from classmates (and teachers) about the f...

Between you and many of the things you use every day, there is a complicated but elegant feedback loop, a physical dialogue, the topic of which is harmony of operation. The relationship that you build...

We've seen the list of value added services offered by VC grow from recruiting to PR to marketing and more. Growth hacking isn't necessarily something that every VC is clamoring to offer, and there's ...

Following a stinging report in the New York Times explaining how Edward Snowden was able to collect his trove of top-secret government documents, Rep. Peter King(R-N.Y) this morning took to the Sunday...

Today, the UK's SportPursuit, a 1 million member-strong flash sales site for sports enthusiasts, is announcing a series B round of funding....

iSocket, which offers tools for selling online ads, is announcing that it has raised $5 million in new funding.The round was led by Time Warner Investments, with participation from Cond Nast, R&R ...

Open the app to see what's new. Check updates that have been posted on the secrets I've commented on first. Click through each of them. Go into the main feed, read down to where I last left off. Scrol...

bRight Switch wants to replace plain old light switch hardware with what's basically a small, Android-powered tablet fixed to the wall -- hugely expanding the functionality of the switch interface to ...

The bird is the word this week on the TechCrunch Droidcast: That pixelated fowl from Flappy Bird has wormed its way into everyone’s hearts. We discuss the game, and the strange circumstances sur...

Google Glass is still months from its public launch, but after the initial hype, most of the recent news around Glass has been negative. It seems like for every positive round of publicity Glass gets,...

Lynn Rothschild has short brown hair and smiley eyes. She cracks jokes about biology and microscopes with ease. Diana Gentry, her decades-younger Ph.D. student, loves classic video games and vegetaria...

Yesterday, the developer behind Flappy Bird said he would be removing the remarkably/mysteriously successful game from the App Store in just 22 hours.Sure enough, the game appears to be gone. And in i...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 10am Pacific. Find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/GillmorGang...

Late in 2013, I stumbled upon two bootstrapped entrepreneurs -- Timothy Lee and Nathan Esquenazi -- who were on very focused, technical, educational mission: To take some of the best web developers an...

Louis CK is the high priest of understanding our culture. I watch him every day. I watch the same routine over and over. I can spend hours breaking down every line of his routines. I watch him before ...

I caught up with Segerstrale to get his thoughts on how to manage acquisitions and make them successful. There are many facets of an acquisition, but Segerstrale focuses on the individual people invol...

Aol has backtracked on a controversial decision to delay employee 401(k) matching until the end of the year, a decision that could potentially cost employees like myself thousands of dollars. Thank yo...

Its that time of week for an episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few TechCrunch writers together to chat about the most fascinating stories of the past seven days in tech...

Louis CK is the high priest of understanding our culture. I watch him every day. I watch the same routine over and over. I can spend hours breaking down every line of his routines. I watch him before ...

Some books age well, and "Different" is no exception. First published in paperback two years ago, the book is a lurid text that seems more applicable to startups today than during its actual publicati...

Just a quick game. It only takes a second. I, I need to beat my high score. That stupid bird. DAMMIT! Ok this time I'll do better. DAMMIT! Alright the ad distracted me. F*CKKKK! I was doing so good. N...

A year ago a ruling went into effect by the Librarian of Congress that made it a crime to unlock your cellphone (changing the settings on the phone to be able to be used on a different phone carrier)....

The developer of the popular mobile game Flappy Bird just declared that he's taking the game down tomorrow.Dong Nguyen, an indie game developer based in Hanoi, Vietnam, tweeted, "I am sorry 'Flappy Bi...

Now that the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency has approved a pilot program to oversee tech commuter buses from the peninsula, they’re asking for feedback from the community. A few weeks ag...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 10am Pacific. Find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/GillmorGang...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 10am Pacific. Find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/GillmorGang...

Tea Party activists have shoved the small-government fringes of the Republican party into the spotlight, with Sen. Rand Paul a leading Libertarian figure. At the State of the Net ConferenceI spoke wit...

I reckon it's time to check in on one of my bolder predictions. Some 18 months ago, I wrote "In Five Years, Most Africans Will Have Smartphones."Let's get this out of the way: most of the smart money ...

Indian travel booking site, MakeMyTrip, has acquired EasyToBook, an Amsterdam-based hotel booking portal, for around $5 million. With this acquisition, MakeMyTrip is hoping to increase its proportion ...

Just a quick game. It only takes a second. I, I need to beat my high score. That stupid bird. DAMMIT! Ok this time I'll do better. DAMMIT! Alright the ad distracted me. F*CKKKK! I was doing so good. N...

The PlayStation. The Walkman. The Trinitron. The transistor radio. All icons in Sony’s storied history from an era when the Japanese giants still roamed the earth. The Sony of today is not like ...

The PlayStation. The Walkman. The Trinitron. The transistor radio. All icons in Sony’s storied history from an era when the Japanese giants still roamed the earth. The Sony of today is not like ...

The PlayStation. The Walkman. The Trinitron. The transistor radio. All icons in Sony’s storied history from an era when the Japanese giants still roamed the earth. The Sony of today is not like ...

Earlier this month, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone unveiled his mysterious startup Jelly. The question-and-answer app was met with a mix of criticism and head scratching. Tech-watchers asked if the worl...

Here it is. Mike Judge's long-awaited and irreverent take on the tech scene in Silicon Valley -- creatively titled Silicon Valley -- debuts April 6 on HBO. And we've got your first look at the show's ...

In aninterview with the Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Tim Cook explained his views on topics ranging from smartphones to cash return to shareholders. To understand how Apple will make decisions in th...

In this week's episode of Ask A VC, Storm Ventures' managing director Jason Lemkin joined us in the studio to talk about enterprise, sales models and more....

A merry TIDWRTWHUFOO to you and yours! This week’s installment brings you some DIY, some dangerous, and some fun. Can you guess which is which? Probably not, because all of these robots will eve...

This has been a long time in the making, but after almost three months of testing in the highly experimental Firefox Nightly release channel, Firefox’s new Australis user interface has now found...

Shutterstock, the publicly traded stock photography and video site, has quietly launched support for 4K video. As the company tells us, it has already amassed a catalog of over 11,000 videos that are ...

Displaying pixel art at larger sizes in your house can be as simple as making a large print, but that means you’re stuck with a single image. San Francisco’s Jeremy Williams wants to make ...

Somewhere between Snapchat’s rise and the NSA spying revelations, it became en vogue not to have our daily adventures and thoughts etched in stone on a timeline or profile page. Capitalizing on ...

With great power comes great responsibility, and as Snapchat continues to grow rapidly, security researchers grow increasingly interested in the security of the platform. Security researcher Jamie San...

Well that didn’t take long. The new anonymous sharing app Secret, which has morphed into Silicon Valley’s “blind item” (and a great place to troll reporters, apparently) has be...

Indian travel booking site, MakeMyTrip, has acquired EasyToBook, an Amsterdam-based hotel booking portal for around $5 million. With this acquisition, MakeMyTrip is hoping to increase its proportion o...

Google is rolling out an update to its Google Search for Android app today, and with this, it is introducing a number of new features for Google Now as well....

Paris-based startup accelerator and fellowship TheFamily recently unveiled a side-project called Koudetat+. From March to July, anyone can pay and attend a day-long class targeted specifically towards...

Google is reportedly putting considerable brain power into a smartwatch and we couldn’t help wondering just what they’d add to the burgeoning technology. More than any other company, Googl...

Smartphone maker HTC will have to pay up to Nokia to continue peddling its wares (via Android Central), as part of a patent license agreement set out by the two companies today. The settlement means t...

Sony's Vaio PC business is no more, with the company confirming reports that it will sell the PC division. But a forthcoming Samsung Galaxy S5 will soon arrive and comfort you during this very difficu...

TechCrunch is about to roll into Atlanta and New Orleans. You only have a few days left to apply for each meetup’s 60-second pitch-off. If you’re a budding startup in these cities, apply b...

Russia doesn’t do things by halves — Bitcoin can no longer be used by individuals and legal entities anymore. If you have a Bitcoin wallet on your computer, you are now breaking the law. T...

Russia doesn’t do things by halves — Bitcoin shouldn’t be used by individuals and legal entities according to a recent statement. If you have a Bitcoin wallet on your computer, the G...

Following Apple's crackdown on mobile apps' usage ofIDFA(Identifier for Advertisers) - that is, it's rejecting apps which are pulling the identifier for non-advertising related purposes - Appsfire is ...

LinkedIn is axing its feature that intercepted emails to iOS devices to inject them with information from the site. The announcement was made via email to customers today, where the company detailed s...

Yahoo has no current intention to update its Flickr application for Windows Phone. A user request for the company to both update its extant, but quite dated Windows Phone app, and perhaps build one fo...

Earlier this week, we learned that Facebook would soon let you edit the automatically-generated Look Back videos the company had made to celebrate Facebooks 10th anniversary. Sure enough: they just la...

Analytics company Mixpanel just released its first report about the broader patterns among the 17 billion mobile and web actions (such as sharing content or creating an account) that it tracks each mo...

I always think a little historical perspective is good in a fast-moving industry like tech. So when Facebook released Paper this week, I did what any decent tech journalist would do - I visited the we...

The issue with online photo sharing is that, inherently, you have no idea what will happen to your photos. On the Internet once, on the Internet forever, as the phrase goes. And that is a big problem,...

As company names go, Glam Media is pretty memorable but the name is about to change, according to co-founder and CEO Samir Arora.Back when the founders of the digital publishing and advertising compa...

While the whole of Silicon Valley got sucked into the vortex of insecurity and ego called Secret this week, something cooler (or colder) happened on the other side of the world today. Up in the city o...

iPhoto and iCloud, despite being the default photo application and accompanying syncing service that much of the Apple universe uses regularly, are actually kind of awful. iPhoto is slow and bulky. iC...

Sendwithus aims to bring optimization and A/B testing to marketers and anyone else sending out targeted promotional emails.The company, which is part of the current class of Y Combinator-incubated sta...

You can feel Carl Icahn’s presence in Tim Cook’s recent announcement to the Wall Street Journal — Apple just repurchased the equivalent of $14 billion in Apple shares as part of its ...

Action camera company GoPro has filed the initial documents for its initial public offering, according to a press release from the company this morningand confirmed by GoPro to TechCrunch. The announc...

People who haven’t used a Dyson often believe their reputation to be hype. How, after all, could one device designed for sucking up dirt so far exceed any other machine designed for the same tas...

Thanks to Google Now, other virtual assistants, and mobile applications that can tap into our location to feed us information at will, consumers are being conditioned to think of information-gathering...

In 2012, after five generations of iPhone, Apple switched up the size of their flagship smartphone. Rather than sporting a 3.5-inch display, as it had for five years, the iPhone 5 had a 4-inch display...

French hosting company OVH just updated its product offering for its Dropbox-like service called HubiC. Now, you get 25GB of storage for free, 100GB for $1.35 per month (1), and you can opt for a whop...

Today in bitcoin ephemera I present this interesting bet between VC Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz and Felix Salmon, noted bitcoin curmudgeon. Ben has invested in multiple bitcoin startups while ...

The lack of wearable technology created just for teenagers is surprising, especially when you consider how tech-obsessed kids are: the average American teen spends 7.5 hours consuming media, while 70%...

Barcelona-based startup Voz.io has closed a $150,000 seed round from Kima Ventures. Summann Gandham, co-founder and CEO of Voz.io, says the funding round will "allow us to vigorously pursue business d...

The presence of Bluetooth LE/4.0 in the latest generations of smartphones and tablets has let to an explosion of hardware/sensor add-ons that extend the capabilities of the mobile devices we all now c...

Who doesn't want to hang out in the museum after hours? London's Tate Britain art gallery houses a treasure trove of great works from Hogarth, Gainsborough and Whistler, to Bacon and Freud....

Mt. Gox has temporarily suspended Bitcoin withdrawals in order to resolve a technical issue, the company said on its site....

Google paid $750 million for a 5.94% stake in Lenovo Group on Jan. 30, according to a disclosure on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The purchase was made on the same day after Google announced that it h...

Google paid $750 million for a 5.94% stake in Lenovo Group on Jan. 30, according to a disclosure on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The purchase was made on the same day after Google announced that it h...

StartX, the non-profit accelerator for Stanford-affiliated entrepreneurs, introduced the most recent eight companies to have gone through its program at a demo day in Silicon Valley today. Those compa...

Hours before the 2014 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony is set to kick off, Google is putting some of its most valuable real estate their logo to good use: to show their support for the lesbian, gay,...

Snippit is a just-launched app offering a twist on photo-sharing.The idea is pretty straightforward instead of sharing a photo on its own, Snippit allows users to add a 4-to 10-second clip of their f...

For startups, there's usually a choice between hiring someone to take care of your PR -- which usually means retaining an agency -- or doing the work yourself. PressFriendly seeks to provide an altern...

Twitter had a difficult earningsday yesterday, reporting strong financial results but weak user growth. Some investors immediately dumped their stock. The company lost nearly $16 per share today follo...

It's 4:56 here at AOL headquarters and the keg is a-flowin', "Blurred Lines" is a-bumpin', and I'm filing this story.My corporate overlord has had a pretty good day. There're new products a-launchin, ...

The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today officially granted permission for Google to acquire Nest, the connected devices company best known for making a smart home thermostat. Google fir...

In Russia, spying on visitors is so pervasive, authorities don’t even seem realize that watching someone shower is cause for alarm. During a press meeting on the Winter Olympics, Deputy Prime Mi...

Restaurant reservation platform OpenTable, gearing up to announce its earnings any minute now, alsohas some other news: the company has acquired Ness Computing, makers of thepersonalized restaurant re...

Today, alongside a fourth quarter earnings report in which it beat Wall Street estimates yet again, LinkedIn announced its intentions to acquire data-savvy job search startup, Bright.com, for $120 mil...

Apple is preparing for a big push in sapphire crystal display manufacturing, according to some new information unearthed by 9to5Mac and told to TechCrunch via a source familiar with the company’...

Today, following the close of regular trading, LinkedIn reported its fourth-quarter financial performance, including revenue of$447.2 millionand non-GAAP earnings per share of$0.39 . Analysts had expe...

OpenTable is taking its restaurant reservations service into a new vertical today, the company says: mobile payments. According to a post on the OpenTable blog, a pilot program is currently underway i...

"I work at Evernote and we're about to get acquired... Watch this space"That could be the first big acquisition rumor to have found its way onto Secret, the new "anonymish" sharing app launched late l...

The hot new book about the digital economy is Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson's The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity In a Time of Brilliant Technologies. It's amongst the first bo...

At a small media event in Mountain View today, Google announced the launch of Chromebox for Meetings, a $999 Core i7-based ASUS Chromebox setup with a remote, camera and microphone for conference room...

Brazil's mobile content developer Movile is on the hunt for new investments after committing a fresh $2 million to its online delivery service company iFood.That recent investment is a sign of just ho...

Bloomthat, the Y Combinator-backed startup that delivers flowers in San Francisco Bay Area in less than 90 minutes, just picked up $2 million in seed funding. Their new backers include SV Angel, Ashto...

Pinterest is today launching a new version of its mobile website, which the company says is “complete rewrite and redesign” aimed at better integrating the features found in Pinterest̵...

Spare a thought for accountants. Slovak startup Datamolino has, by building a platform for SMEs to cut through the tedium of manual data entry of invoices and receipts, and it's proving to be a lucrat...

Think your Klout score's too low? Well, the social influence measurement startup is launching a revamped version of its website today that includes tools for improving your score.The main addition is ...

HackerRankis a social platform for fun coding challenges that launchedat TechCrunch SF Disrupt in 2012. It grew out of Interviewstreet, a technical recruiting platform that’s being used by compa...

Sony is calling it quits in the e-book platform market, the company announced today (via Engadget). The move isn’t entirely unexpected: Sony has always occupied a relatively small portion of the...

Streaming TV startup Aereo has reopened service in NYC after closing down new registrations last week. Bloomberg reports that the company has regained enough capacity to start serving new users, and j...

People already use their mobile devices for comparative shopping when paying visits to brick-and-mortar retailers – but it’s about to get a lot worse. Amazon has integrated shopping-by-cam...

Vungle, a mobile ad startup that focuses on 15 second, in-app videos, is announcing that it has raised $17 million in Series B funding.It's only been six months since the company announced its $6.5 mi...

Truecaller, the mobile phone number verification directory with over 45 million users, has today secured an $18.8 million Series B financing round led by Sequoia Capital, alongside existing investor O...

Sincerely, the mobile gifting companyacquired by Provide Commercein November, is introducing the first new application to emerge from their combined forces today, with a new app designed to make order...

A new bit of malware, Linkup, is a clever girl. First it takes control of the DNS servers your computer pings to connect to the Internet and, while you're wondering how to delete it, begins mining bit...

Shortly after Google launched Hangouts, it also started allowing you to add participants by dialing their phone numbers right from Hangouts. Even today, though, you can’t dial intoa Hangout. Tha...

Ross Ulbricht AKA the Dread Pirate Roberts of Silk Road fame is now facing a "kingpin" charge which carries with it a 20-year minimum sentence. By claiming that Ulbricht was part of a continuing crimi...

Plain Vanilla Games, the maker of QuizUp, has launched a new version of its app today that is optimized for the iPad. By doing so, they've been able to make the game easier to navigate and more fun to...

Following on the heels of Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft last week revealing data about NSA information requests, Twitter today has published its own disclosures for information reque...

Twitter today has published its latestTransparency Report, a list of information and takedown requests, as well as copyright notices. The report breaks out for the first time how Twitter is faring on ...

Twitter today has published its latestTransparency Report, a list of information and takedown requests, as well as copyright notices. The report breaks out for the first time how Twitter is faring on ...

Toronto-based startup Whirlscape has secured $500,000 in seed funding in a round that included Y Combinator, FundersClub, BDC Venture Capital and more, the company announced today. The startup created...

Apple is seeking physiologists to join its team, according to a new call for job applicants discovered by 9to5Mac today. The position on offer is for a “User Studies Exercise Physiologist,”...

Israeli startup CoolaData is taking its mobile and web analytics platform out of beta testing today and launching it in general availability.CEO Tomer Ben Moshe pitched the service as a way "to answer...

Cash-based payments platformPayNearMe, which allows consumers to pay their rent, utility bills and loans, buy tickets online and more, is today expanding its footprint significantly in the U.S., thank...

Tickets for this year’s Crunchies are almost gone. The show is next week. A few tickets can still be had, but sections are selling out quickly. This is the biggest night of the year for Silicon ...

Crowdfunder, the Venice-based crowdfunding platform which helps to connect entrepreneurs and investors, particularly in the area of local investment, has raised an additional million in seed funding, ...

Apple has patented a system that could greatly reduce the volume of material available for blogs like ‘Damn You Autocorrect,’ should it ever make its way to shipping software. AppleInsider...

Internet penetration and social media usage are on the rise in every corner of the globe, but few can hold a candle to the level of adoption one finds in Brazil. According to the Internet Telecommunic...

Apple has filed for three new patents, according to applications published by the USPTO (via AppleInsider) today. The applications all relate to the use of quantum dot-enhanced displays, which provide...

Looking at this Android-powered landline handset which U.K. telco BT has just started selling -- christened with the (relatively) catchy name of Home SmartPhone S -- you really have to wonder what too...

Is the startup accelerator bubble ready to burst in India? That’s the question several VCs, entrepreneurs and early to late stage investors have started asking in the country’s fledgling s...

AOL came in ahead of analyst estimates on revenue but not earnings in its in its fourth quarter of 2013, reporting $679 million in revenue and diluted earnings per share of 43 cents.Analysts had predi...

AOL came in ahead of analyst estimates on revenue but not earnings in its fourth quarter of 2013, reporting $679 million in revenue and diluted earnings per share of 43 cents.Analysts had predicted EP...

Today Jack Erwin, an upper-end male shoe ecommerce play, announced that it has raised a $2 million Series A led by Crosslink Capital. The funding event was participated in by Shasta Ventures and Menlo...

Remember when simply uploading a still photo of your brunch was enough to get dozens of likes on Instagram or Facebook? Well, those days are gone now, thanks in large part to the popularity of Vine, a...

Last week it was a new European Edtech accelerator pitching for startups. Today a new fintech incubator has been announced, by pan-European accelerator Startupbootcamp, which will be based in London, ...

Fintech startup Birdback reckons we already carry one loyalty card to rule them all: our existing credit or debit card. The London-based company has created technology to link online to offline offers...

Sony will sell off its lackluster PC division and focus on spinning off its TV business into a standalone entity by June. The company’s announcement confirms a report yesterday that Japan Indust...

As we reported on January 31, Indian fashion portal Myntra has just confirmed raising $50 million in fresh funding from investors led by Premji Invest. The new funding comes after Myntra preferred to ...

Lyft is seeking to combat questions about insurance and liability today, with the introduction of a new Peer-to-Peer Rideshare Insurance Coalition, as well as the announcement that it will be providin...

A couple days a week, 25-year-old Brian Clark (pictured above to the left) takes the Muni’s T line in from Bayview, where he lives in a house full of other founders through the NewMe Accelerator...

For the past 24 hours, my Facebook newsfeed has been predominantly filled with just two things: people sharing those cutesy automated "Look Back" videos that Facebook made for most of its users, and p...

Amazon has acquired a gaming studio called Double Helix Games, TechCrunch has learned, and Amazon now confirms. The deal may well add fuel to the recent rumors that Amazon is preparing to release its ...

Starting this year, AOL has changed how it distributes its matching 401(k) contributions for all employees, which could put a sizable dent in the retirement accounts for workers who part ways with the...

Starting this year, AOL has changed how it distributes its matching 401(k) contributions for all employees, which could put a sizable dent in the retirement accounts for workers who part ways with the...

Twitter wants researchers to turn its mountains of data into insights, from flu trends to New Years celebrations, that could delight and help the world. So today it announced the Twitter Data Grants p...

This week, VegasTechFund's Jen McCabe is joining us in the TechCrunch TV studio to talk hardware and more. You can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here and well ask them duri...

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo answered repeated questions this afternoon about the company's user growth. His big point seemed to be that (despite what appears to a decreasing number of new users joining t...

It's demo day again for the 500 Startups crew, as the seed stage investment firm and accelerator is showing off the latest batch of companies that have survived its three-month accelerator program. Th...

betaworks' John Borthwick has today announced, via the company blog, that Gerry Laybourne will be joining the board of directors. Alongside co-founding Kandu, a betaworks-backed technology company for...

Mozilla wants to help you find new apps and rediscover those you downloaded but forgot. So today it previewed Firefox Launcher for Android, a homescreen replacement powered by Israeli contextual compu...

Toronto-based startup and Extreme Startups grad Instaradio is unveiling a brand new Android app this week, and is also updating its iOS application with a significant overhaul. The app provides instan...

Today Pandora reported its fourth-quarter financial performance, essentially matching revenue expectations, and beating on earnings per share. For the period, Pandora had non-GAAP revenue of $200.8 mi...

I wake up with Northern Europe's low winter light filtering through the blinds in my bedroom. The silence is near perfect. It's too early to hear the week-day procession of parents ferrying their kids...

You'd think investors would be happy. Twitter just released its first quarterly earnings report as a public company, with revenue and earnings coming in significantly ahead of analyst estimates.And ye...

You'd think investors would be happy. Twitter just released its first quarterly earnings report as a public company, with revenue and earnings coming in significantly ahead of analyst estimates.And ye...

You'd think investors would be happy. Twitter just released its first quarterly earnings report as a public company, with revenue and earnings coming in significantly ahead of analyst estimates.And ye...

Materialise, a 3D-printing products and services company, has acquired Polish prototyping firm e-prototypy for an undisclosed sum, a move that further consolidates the 3D-printing space in Central Eur...

Twitter today reported its first quarter as a publicly listed company. And while the market may be punishing the company a bit for slower overall user growth (despite handily beating financial expecta...

At least one wealthy tech investor wants to encourage California's latent separatist tendencies and slice California into six different states, including one State of Silicon Valley. Per California la...

After the bell this afternoon, Twitter reported its maiden earnings as a public company, with fourth-quarter revenue of $242.7 million and earnings per share of $0.02 (non-GAAP). Analysts had expected...

Google was rumored to have been moving longtime employee and SVP of Ads & Commerce Susan Wojcicki over to the YouTube top spot, based on reports yesterday by The Information and Re/code, and now G...

When we first started our Meetup series I envisioned this as a quick and easy way to meet everyone in a particular city. We'd roll in like a band of miscreants, commandeer a bar, and meet people. Now,...

Slipping software release schedules are hardly new. Today ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley reported that she is now hearing, contrary to prior information, that Windows 8.1 Update 1 will ship not in March, but i...

When Max Good was born, it was clear that something was off. At first, he was a colicky baby. But then he wouldn’t make eye contact, revealing that he was almost 100 percent blind at birth. Occa...

Houzz, the popular service for all things home remodelling and design, is launching a new service today that allows home professionals like interior designers, architects, contractors and others to se...

It’s hard to turn that D into an R if you ain’t got friends. It’s with that thought that BlackBerry just released a tool to find friends on BBM. The tool will scour your phone’...

Oculus isn’t just supporting CCP Games from a distance in its creation of EVE: Valkyrie – the maker of the Oculus Rift VR gaming headset announced today that it will co-publish the game wi...

In the past five years, the number of bank loans under $1 million has dropped by more than 20 percent. This puts small business owners, arguably the driving force of our economy, at a severe disadvant...

This morning UXPin announced the completion of a$1.6 million funding round led by Freestyle Capital, with participation fromAndreessen Horowitz and IDG Ventures. UXPin is an online design tool designe...

Apartment List has raised an additional $6 million in funding led by Glynn Capital and Passport Capital. Other investors include Rothenberg Ventures, Hotel Tonight founder Sam Shank, Scott Stanford a...

France’s Conseil d’tat suspended the controversial decree against urban transportation services like Uber and LeCab. As a reminder, since January 1, drivers have had to wait 15 minutesbetw...

Canadian startup success story Shopify is continuing its market expansion with a new product rollout today: Shopify Plus is making its debut, as a one-stop, white label e-commerce solution that’...

Canadian startup success story Shopify is continuing its market expansion with a new product rollout today: Shopify Plus is making its debut, as a one-stop, white glove e-commerce solution that’...

Founded by ad agency man Tom Evans, BleepBleeps is a new London-based startup that's creating a range of cute, kid-friendly, connected (or IoT-styled) devices to help with the job of parenting....

Tempo is launching a new version of its smart calendar app today with a feature called Insights, which provides a lot more information about the people you're scheduled to meet.The app, which first la...

Y Combinator-backed Celery is a "pre-commerce" platform that's made it easier for the large -- and growing -- number of hardware manufacturers to accept pre-orders for their goods. And it just raised ...

Domo, the SaaS business intelligence startup launched by Omniture founder Josh James, has raised $125 million in new funding from This brings the company's total funding to $250 million. This round wa...

Domo, the SaaS business intelligence startup launched by Omniture founder Josh James, has raised $125 million in new funding in a round led by TPG Growth, the middle market and growth equity investmen...

Kik has a new version out today that makes it the first messenger app to offer a built-in browser experience that’s integrated into messages themselves for easy sharing. The browser is designed ...

Big news in the venture world this morning--longtime VCs Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad are leaving their respective firms to start Aspect Ventures, a new firm focused on investing in the "emergin...

The National Republican Congressional Committee is defending websites that have tricked some Democratic donors into funding the opposition. For instance, as seen in the picture above, the URL contribu...

Headed to Barcelona for MWC? Love you some startup talk, presentations, and global mobile meet up chitter chatter? Join Mike Butcher, Natasha Lomas, Ingrid Lunden, and myself on February 24, 2014 at 1...

The explosion in both online and offline programming platforms over the last year has made one thing clear: Learning to code is hot. (With two “t’s.”) Well, that and the fact that ou...

Samsung is expected to introduce the latest generation of the Galaxy S line at Mobile World Congress this month. According to the NYT, the Galaxy S5 is a more conservative flagship offering than earli...

Skit!, an animated video app in the same general category as Bitstrips, the cartoon-making app whichrecently scored $3 millionin Series A funding, is coming to Android. Like Bitstrips, Skit!is also fo...

For the first time, TechCrunch is hosting an event in New Orleans. And we’re stoked. On February 20, John Biggs, Jordan Crook and myself are hitting The Big Easy and hosting a massive meetup and...

The ProDesk3D by BotObjects has been one of the most controversial 3D printer products over the past few years. Built by a small firm in London and purported to print in full color - albeit only in ba...

"Mobile is opening up new opportunities in 'boring' products, Dnde co-founder and CEOAnthony Nicalo once said. His company, which makes a mobile product and store locator service for brands and retail...

Google is launching a broad new effort to support the arts, in a way particularly appropriate to its role and business, with a project called DevArt that highlights modern artists using technology in ...

Senior management at Google is being shifted around, with SVP of Ads & Commerce Susan Wojcicki taking over at YouTube. With that appointment, which was reported by The Information and Re/code, cur...

Total video game immersion might not be as far away as you think: The Oculus Rift is a huge step in the right direction, and it may have an optimal bedfellow in Thalmic’s Myo armband, the gestur...

There are dozens of ways for people today to look for and order food online, but one startup that is focusing on how to do this best for a specific vertical has found a competitive edge. Tapingo, whic...

Meet Premier, Newegg’s $49 answer to Amazon Prime. With free three-day shipping, discounted expedited shipping, and free returns, it’s a legitimate competitor to Amazon’s proven cust...

Once upon a time, Switchcam was built to find, curate, and stitch together all the best moments from live, public performances that were posted on YouTube. Now it's looking to provide a way for artist...

Easy Social Shop, which lets online sellers integrate existing shops with their Facebook pages, announced today that it has raised $1.1 million from lool Ventures. This brings the Tel Aviv-based start...

Party planning resource and digital invitations provider Punchbowlhas been betting big on the demise of paper cards. Today, it’s taking that wager a step further with the launch of a touch-frien...

About.me, the webapp that acts as a starting place for your online identity, spun out of Aol after a rumored $35 million acquisition one year ago today. For the past year, the company has focused on e...

The Lumo Lift is the second product from startup Lumo BodyTech, and the second to help users with their posture. The Lumo Back was the first, and it raised around $200,000 in 40 days on Kickstarter. T...

With the methodical proliferation of smartphones into what seems like every pocket, we now find ourselves living in the Golden App Age — or App Era, whichever you prefer. However, as mobile plat...

Meet Pixeom, a prototype device being Kickstarted by brother and sister duo Karishma and Sam Nagar, with the aim of offering alternative cloud services that don't require you to hand over the keys to ...

This morning Totango, a company that helps SaaS companies track customer engagement to find and fix user flow errors and friction, announced that it has raised a $15.5 million Series B round of fundin...

When Citelighter first emerged in the fall of 2011, the education startup was on an ambitious mission to help students take the pain out of online research. With the enormous amount of content on the ...

London-based social fashion platform Motilo,which offers a home for fashionistas to float their sartorial dilemmas,has taken in another tranche of post-seed funding from private investors. The startup...

Email management app Boxer wants to help users tame the inboxes on their mobile phones. But since launch last summer, it has only been available on iOS. To help speed the development of its app for An...

Joachin Alumnia, the antitrust commissioner in the European Commission, has today finally given his final verdict on an antitrust investigation against Google, which has been going on since 2004: it h...

Joachin Alumnia, the European Commission's antitrust chief, has today finally given his final verdict on a decade-long antitrust investigation over its search practices against Google: the U.S.-based ...

Joachin Alumnia, the European Commission's antitrust chief, has today finally given his final verdict on a decade-long antitrust investigation over its search practices against Google: the U.S.-based ...

Mileways, the Munich-based social app for frequent flyers, just got a little more useful. The iOS app has added integration with AirHelp, the flight compensation startup co-founded by Morten Lund, to ...

The rise in malware and online security threats continues to give a big boost to companies that are looking for ways to make the connected world a bit safer. Avast, one of the bigger PC and mobile sec...

ThoughtSpot, a company that aims to provide businesses with intelligent search and data visualization, has raised $10.7 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners....

It’s been a roller-coaster ride for Komli Mediaso far, the Indian digital ad network that has raised around $97 million from investors including Peepul Capital, Norwest and Nexus Venture Partner...

Sherpa Ventures, the "vague by design" investment group founded by Shervin Pishevar and Scott Stanford, has made its first close on a planned $150 million fund. As reported by Fortune, the first $87 m...

It’s been a roller coaster ride for Komli Mediarecently, the Indian digital ad network that has raised around $97 million from investors including Peepul Capital, Norwest and Nexus Venture Partn...

If we’ve said it once, we’ll say it again: Competition can get pretty fierce in the world of on-demand transportation. Consumer demand for better, faster and more convenient car services h...

Who will take over for Satya Nadella's now former role at Microsoft, helming the Server and Enterprise Group? It's longtime Sofite Scott Guthrie, a respected technologist.TechCrunch confirmed with Mi...

Google has long run a rewards program for security researchers who find vulnerabilities in its software. Today, the company is extending thisprogram to also cover its Chrome apps and extensions. These...

Through a filing, Microsoft has revealed the compensation package for its new CEO. In short, Satya Nadella is buying all the beers for the next few years.In numerical terms, Nadella will pick up a $1....

According to studies from the Mayo Clinic, more than 20 percent of Americans take more than five prescription medications each day. This fact goes a long way to showing how big of a role the pharmacy ...

According to studies from the Mayo Clinic, more than 20 percent of Americans take more than five prescription medications each day. This fact goes a long way to showing how big of a role the pharmacy ...

Major tech companies are giving away $750 million worth of products to help bridge the digital divide. During a speech earlier today, Obama gave details about the pledges from the tech companies, alon...

As content marketing becomes an increasingly significant part of the digital marketing arsenal, it it brings with it new opportunities, both allowing marketers to expand beyond traditional approaches ...

On Facebook, life begins at conception. "We're expecting!", your parents post. You don't have fingers but you're already accruing likes. A shared sonogram means hundreds have seen you before you've ev...

San Francisco-based Munchery, the startup that offers prepared gourmet meals on demand, is in the process of raising a new $20 million funding round, multiple sources familiar with the deal have revea...

Social advertising company Unified just launched the new version of its "social operating platform" today, and it sounds like the biggest change is the addition of business intelligence basically, mo...

Holy shit did venture capitalists spend a lot of money in January.Investments in new companies shot to $5.8 billion by the end of the month up from $3.5 billion over the same period last year, accordi...

Buzzy mobile video app Flipagram is raising $50 to $60 million in funding at a $300 million valuation. We're hearing from a source that Sequoia is in the round.The WSJ reported recently that Flipagram...

Buzzy mobile video app Flipagram is raising $50 to $60 million in funding at a $300 million valuation. We're hearing from sources that Sequoia is in the round....

Zynga broke a lot of hearts when it announced it would be shutting down YoVille, a virtual world online game that’s been running since 2008. The game’s players have been building their sim...

Microsoft crowned a new leader today, with Satya Nadella taking over the reins from exiting CEO Steve Ballmer. Bill Gates will spend a portion of his time at the company assisting with product choices...

Sony is apparently looking to shed the dead weight that is its PC business. According to Reuters, relaying a report by Nikkei, Sony is in talks to sell its personal computer business to investment fun...

FarFaria, which has built a children's subscription book service for the iPad, is announcing that it has raised $3.25 million in Series A Funding.The round was led by Inventus Capital Partners, with I...

Y Combinator-backed Taplytics is launching its A/B testing platform for iOS applications today, which allows app makers the ability to test different experiences and quickly push out minor fixes, like...

Barack Obama’s presidency was supposed to usher in a new wave of data transparency. And, with the exception of the NSA, the administration has pioneered groundbreaking open government initiative...

We have all heard of the story of Airbnb. They're a successful company that made it through their infancy by "bootstrapping by credit card." They ran out of money early on and rose to the occasion by ...

If you’re not familiar with Shark Tank, it’s a show on ABC that has a set of entrepreneurs presenting their products or companies before a panel of investors. They’re there to secure...

In case you feel the white Nexus 5 is too ostentatious and the black Nexus 5 is to monotonous, the Nexus 5 now comes in red. Because red says you’re confident and are not afraid to show it. Pric...

Another day, and another update from Evernote in its ongoing product sprint. Today the note-taking platform is rolling out descriptive search for its Mac app, which will let users look through their E...

Another update today from Evernote, the latest in its ongoing product sprint. Today the note-taking platform is adding "descriptive search" to its Mac app, based on what Evernote is calling "everyday ...

DFJ is announcing the raise of DFJ Venture XI, a $325 million early-stage venture fund. For background, DFJ Fund X was $350 million, closed in 2010. The firm says that while both Tim Draper and John F...

Learning the fundamentals of programming is easy. But becoming an expert? That’s damn hard. There are a million and one languages, each with their own nuances, strengths, and weaknesses. Worse y...

Yahoo appears to be experiencing technical difficulties across its network of sites, with outages occurring on the Yahoo homepage, Yahoo Weather, Yahoo Mail and Flickr. DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com con...

Greylock is announcing a new EIR today–former Director of the Facebook Developer Network and Googler Ethan Beard. Beard previously oversaw worldwide developer relations, operations and product m...

This ain't your mama's Facebook. Paper is almost too modern, or maybe it's just years ahead of its time. The free new iOS app released today in the US lets you browse your News Feed plus curated secti...

Today, Foursquare is announcing that it has received $15 million in funding as a result of a partnership with Microsoft. The deal will see Foursquare contributing to the Bing platforms location and co...

For more than an hour Her seems little more than metaphor meets Manic Pixie Dream Girl: charming, yes, but insubstantial. And thenLos Angeles, mid-21st-century: techno-utopia. The city is a forest of ...

Mozilla today launchedFirefox 27. The new version of the browser features a major update to the Firefox Social API, which now includes support for the old-school Web 2.0 social bookmarking toolDelicio...

AllCast, the Android application that provides users with something of a AirPlay-like experience for streaming music, videos, and photos to your TV via a variety of devices like Roku, Apple TV and Xbo...

Mobile-first photo printing app Kicksend launches in the U.K., France, and Germany. However, for the time being, Kicksend is providing the print-to-home service only. I'm told that in-store partnershi...

Farmers can benefit greatly from having up-to-date aerial imagery of their crops, but it’s virtually impossible for a smaller agricultural business to get this data. The YC-backed TerrAvion, whi...

Video news startup Watchup</a, is announcing that it has raised $1 million in additional funding.Co-founder Adriano Farano, a former journalist himself, has said that his goal is to create a new v...

Ice fishermen on Lake Waconia in Minnesota were pleasantly surprised when a Wisconsin brewery, Lakemaid, flew a twelve-pack of their frothy suds over the icy wastes to their warm fishing cabins using ...

As mobile devices become increasingly common, the world's largest tech companies are focused on grabbing the next billion users by targeting developing economies.But it's easy to forget that many of t...

Netflix formally announced today that it will raise $400 million in new debt to fuel international expansions, specifically in Europe, as well for other expenditures, including investments, acquisitio...

Yesterday, as Facebook launched its news reader app Paper, design-focused startup FiftyThree called out Facebook publicly for using their brand name. Facebook declined to change the name of their bran...

Apple is said to be working on a content delivery network (CDN) all its own, according to new information reported last night by the Wall Street Journal. Cupertino wants to build a large network capab...

SF startup atVenu today announced a $1.1 million seed funding round, led by Montreal’s Real Ventures and including private investors located in both the U.S. and Canada. AtVenu’s goal is t...

Last summer, Finally.io launched to help the vast number of companies using cloud services to monitor their performance and make changes when things went awry. Now the company is adding a whole new wr...

Mobile deep linking serviceDeeplink.meis today launching its new ad SDK, aimed at app developers, into beta. Created byCellogic, which also offers deep linking tools to developers and marketers, and w...

We’re headed back to Atlanta and want to see the area’s best undiscovered startups to pitch on our stage. On February 18, John Biggs, Jordan Crook and myself are hitting ATL and hosting a ...

Kathryn Minshew wanted to be Zorro when she grew up. Like, literally, the guy with the mask and the cape. "I was like, 'I'm going to learn how to use a sword and wear a black mask.' I would honestly a...

Modern governments have a problem. The Internet is becoming increasingly important to the future of economies, and yet the skills associated with it remain - for the most part - far down the priority ...

The days when developers built their applications on a single database are long over. Many services today use a variety of databases – and especially NoSQL databases – to power the differe...

Urban transportation company Uber just announced a brand new offering for Paris called UberPOP — and it looks a lot like Lyft. It’s a cheaper ride-sharing service built right into the Uber...

Facebook has turned 10 which is a very ancient age indeed for any digital service considering the blistering pace of technological change. To mark Zuck’s baby’s tenth Birthday, the Pew Res...

New regulations in California are set to open up the market for large-scale energy storage and battery technology developer Primus Power has just raised charge into the fray. The Hayward, Calif.-based...

In an open letter celebrating Facebook's 10th anniversary, founder Mark Zuckerberg explains why he and his college friends were the ones to invent the most popular social network in the world. "We wer...

Funambol, which provides a white-label "personal cloud", has signed a global agreement with Telefnica Digital to deploy the Funambol personal cloud solution across Telefnica operating units in Europe ...

Along with the news today that Satya Nadella will be the next CEO of Microsoft, another big change in the executive ranks: Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, is leaving his role as chairman of the boar...

Along with the news today that Satya Nadella will be the next CEO of Microsoft, another big change in the executive ranks: Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, is leaving his role as chairman of the boar...

Microsoft has made official what we all pretty much expected: Its new CEO, replacing Steve Ballmer, is Satya Nadella. Nadella has spent 22 years at Microsoft, and was previously Microsoft’s Exec...

Inside is a new indoor positioning technology, being launched today in beta by Israeli startup Shopcloud, that claims to be able to locate a smartphone user to within a meter (or less) of where they'r...

Toronto-based wearable startup Bionym’s Nymi band uses your ECG to securely identify you to various devices and services, and as of today there’s another trick up its sleeve – acting...

So far, India’s over $100 billion IT industry has been built mostly on software services and back office projects delivered byTCS, Infosys and Wipro for the likes of Citibank and GE, who have be...

NBC caught a lot of flak for its live video streams during the London Olympics, but for Sochi, the network promises to stream every event live. Just like during the London Olympics, NBC’s partne...

Groundskeeeper Willy's job just got a bit of a boost with Warburg Pincus' $100 million commitment to Dude Solutions Inc. a software company for maintenance management at schools, hospitals, and govern...

FlightCar is seeking to boost the number of business travelers who make their cars available through its peer-to-peer rental platform, with a new offering designed to appeal directly to them. While th...

It's been just a month since we first heard about Confide, the confidential messaging app designed for professionals. But already the app has drawn a lot of interest (and cash) from the very people it...

Apple has received a patent from the USPTO (via AppleInsider) for a method of wireless induction charging that can perform different actions based on the orientation of the device as it’s laid o...

Website building platform BaseKit, a Seedcamp winner from all the way back in 2008, has raised a further 4.5m in funding. The round was led by Angel CoFund, with participation from existing investors ...

AtTask, a company that vends a collaboration and workflow service for enterprise-level customers, has raised a fresh $38 million in capital, led by JMI Equity. The fund did see participation from prio...

Mobile analytics and marketing firm Localytics has raised $16 million in a Series C round that led by Foundation Capital and including existing investor Polaris Partners. The new funding is going to h...

We all hate CAPTCHAs, right? Those pesky additions to web forms that try to determine if you are a human and not a computer bot with nefarious intentions. A necessary evil to fight spam and other atta...

Crowdsourced photo marketplace startup PicHit.Me has secured its first tranche of external funding -- closing a $3 million early expansion funding round led by VC firm Almi Invest....

Brothers Brett and David Kopf launched Remind101 out of Imagine K12 in late 2011 to tackle what they saw as one of the key problems in primary education: The lack of simple, user-friendly tools that h...

The Line messaging app that spent last year pushing beyond its home market of Japan has inked a deal aiming to bolster its presence in markets in Latin America. Today it’s announcing a partnersh...

Rocket Internet-incubated startup foodpanda and its affiliate hellofood have received an additional $20 million in funding from investors including Phenomen Ventures....

French startup Wisembly just raised $2 million (1.5 million) from Alven Capital. It’s the company’s first round of funding after three years of existence. Wisembly wants to be the only too...

If humans are anything, it's adaptive. Give us a tool, and we'll figure out a use for it. That's what happened when we mapped out our social lives to the constraints of the Internet. After we construc...

I normally dislike writing about the issue of women in the technology industry. The media either ends up treating female entrepreneurs with kid gloves or the conversation ends up in some emotionally c...

Garrett Camp, co-founder of both StumbleUpon and Uber, is looking for help in funding his new company-building venture Expa. According to an SEC filing, Camp is looking to raise up to $75 million to b...

Twitter has not responded to reports, from others and from us, that it is building a marketplace-style platform where users can buy things, but Twitter is quietly building it out anyway. The latest de...

Google, Facebook, Microsoft and LinkedIn all made headlines today for releasing "transparency" reports about the number of users for which the U.S. government has requested data.We now know that major...

What fun is playing your favorite game if you can’t blast your favorite tunes? Today, Valve announced a pretty great new feature for its fledgling SteamOS and Big Picture interfaces: in-game mus...

Dropbox is growing so fast it will soon run out of room at its San Francisco headquarters. That's why it's just pre-leased a second office a ten minute walk away at 333 Brannan to house spillover of i...

Dropbox is growing so fast it will soon run out of room at its San Francisco headquarters. That's why it's just pre-leased a second office a ten minute walk away at 333 Brannan to house spillover of i...

Democrats in the House and Senate today introduced the Open Internet Preservation Act, a bill that would reinstate now-defunct net neutrality rules that were shot down last month.Net neutrality, in it...

Sometimes move fast and break things ends with broken things. Today news broke that theSan Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), a state agency, has told Google that it must mo...

Enterprise users who want to use common file-sharing services like Dropbox and Google Drive have a big problem: their IT guys will always be worried that one hacker will be able to bring down their in...

Here’s something that most people forget about the story of David and Goliath: both sides were at war. Facebook, our very own Goliath, and FiftyThree, the David-size company responsible for a de...

Adobe’s John Nack is leaving the company after 14 years to work at Google. Nack was on the Photoshop team for 8 years, working on features like Camera Raw, Smart Objects and Adobe Bridge. HeR...

Like the numerous tech companies that have come before it, including big names like Google, Facebook and Twitter, Tumblr has today (finally) implemented support for SSL security on its blogging platfo...

Like the numerous tech companies that have come before it, including big names like Google, Facebook and Twitter, Tumblr has today (finally) implemented support for SSL security on its blogging platfo...

Let us go then, you and I, to meet Skryf, a robot created by Dutch artist Gijs Van Bon. The robot uses a repurposed CNC machine to spray out a thin layer of sand in the shape of letters and Van Bon us...

In January, Windows 8.1 scooted past Vista's market share, taking the fourth-place slot behind 7, XP, and 8. In the month, Windows 8.1 picked up moderate market share, and Windows 8 eased as expected,...

There's a whole stack of apps named "Paper" in the App Store, but Facebook's new one may come out on top despite a requested name change from drawing app maker FiftyThree. The problem is that FiftyThr...

In the mid-90s, it was all about a/s/l. Then a decade later, Facebook conquered the web, becoming the dominant identity provider on the web. Mark Zuckerberg himself once said that having two identitie...

Heroku, the cloud platform Salesforce acquired in 2010, today launched a new class of dyno that has 12 times the RAM and 40 times the CPU power of a regular dyno. In Heroku’s world, dynos are th...

There's a whole stack of apps named "Paper" in the App Store, but Facebook's new one may come out on top despite a requested name change from drawing app maker FiftyThree. The problem is that FiftyThr...

All the big tech companies are opening up a bit more about requests made by the U.S. National Security Agency, with Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo and LinkedIn detailing new info included in their...

Recent Y Combinator grad DataRank, which helps companies track online conversations related to their brands and perform other competitive analysis, has closed on $1.4 million in seed funding, the team...

Good news: Facebooks super pretty new standalone app, Paper, launched today.Bad news: For some crazy reason, its only available if youre in the US.Good News, part 2: That restriction is a pretty easy...

When Google launched its Chromecast HDMI dongle, it only allowed a small set of developers to create applications for it. The company always promised, though, that it would soon open the platform up t...

Layoff rumors are rarely happy news and this is particularly unhappy: the Register is reporting that sources have told them that Dell is laying off 15,000 employees this week, almost 15% of its 108,00...

Layoff rumors are rarely happy news and this is particularly unhappy: the Register is reporting that sources have told them that Dell is laying off 15,000 employees this week, almost 15% of its 108,00...

Pebble started shipping its new Pebble Steel hardware last week, but until today, the version of the companion app available to the general public didn’t contain any of the version 2.0 goodness ...

Google Now is now available in Chrome beta for Mac, Windows and Chromebook. With this, Google’s automatic alerts for upcoming concerts you bought tickets to, flight delays, heavy traffic on your...

It’s a mobile world after all, even where PCs are concerned. Canalys today published its latest figures tracking PC sales in Q4, and thanks to the strength of the iPad — and Canalys’...

It’s a mobile world after all, even where PCs are concerned. Canalys today published its latest figures tracking PC sales in Q4, and thanks to the strength of the iPad — and Canalys’...

It's a mobile world after all, even where PCs are concerned. Canalys today published its latest figures tracking PC sales in Q4, and thanks to the strength of the iPad -- and Canalys' decision to coun...

Tickets for this year’s Crunchies are almost gone. The show is next week. A few tickets can still be had, but sections are selling out quickly. This is the biggest night of the year for Silicon ...

Last night, 100 million people (minus Seattle) were disappointed to watch the Seattle Seahawks spank the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII. But that doesn't mean that the night was a waste. There we...

Hollywood is going esports. Lionsgate, a large film studio, will sponsor a Starcraft 2 tournament this month to support the release of one of its movies to home video.The 'Enders Game on Blu-ray Tourn...

500 Startups has brought on two new venture partners, Sean Percival and Marvin Liao, and has announced the 28 companies that will participate in its eighth 500 Startups Accelerator class....

Facebook’s new standalone app Paper is now available for download on iOS to everyone in the US, and it’s more than just a content reader.Paper has messages, notifications, search, and a co...

This weekend, Apple began rejecting mobile applications from the App Store which retrieve the end user’s IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers), but don’t show any ads. The IDFA is today the pr...

With more marketing tools like Facebook's ad platform around, getting smartphone users to install your app is increasingly straightforward. A study recently found that the average American user has 25...

A new Kickstarter project debuting today offers a lower barrier of entry to those interested in testing the smart lighting waters. At just $25 for an entry-level pre-order of a single unit, the LuMini...

Amid the rush of attention that online education is getting from the tech world, universities, students and investors, a startup that focuses on content for brick-and-mortar classrooms has picked up m...

When you're at work, sitting in front of a computer screen, there's really nothing better than the moment a friend sends you a YouTube video. For a few minutes, life is good again. Charlie's biting fi...

Capital Factory, the startup incubator based in Austin, Texas, is announcing a new initiative in which companies can receive $25,000 each from venture firms Silverton and Floodgate, bringing their ini...

Asseta, the B2B marketplace for used manufacturing equipment which was sort of the odd one out in Y Combinator’s summer 2013 program last year, has now scored a seed round of $535,000. Investors...

While you’re welcome to head out to Atlanta and New Orleans in February for our official meetups, I’ll be in Charleston, SC the weekend before and would love to see some of you folks. I, p...

Apple didn’t do a Super Bowl ad, as some had suggested it might, but today it debuted a video designed to capture the spotlight all its own. The spot, which is a little over a minute long, is sh...

GoSquared, the feisty UK startup that competes with Chartbeat, Google Analytics and other companies in the real-time analytics space,is rolling out a new e-commerce offering today....

Tribune announced plans to acquire Gracenote from Sony for $170 million in cash, and to combine the company with its Media Services business. More specifically, Gracenote will be part of a recently fo...

2014 is starting off with a bang for hardware. The $3.2B acquisition of Nest, a four year old company, is great news for makers. The question is, then, should you be starting a hardware company rather...

Apple’s work on an upcoming smartwatch includes explorations of induction charging and solar-powered batteries, according to a new report from the New York Times. As part of a larger piece about...

Twitter bases the majority of its revenue on advertising in and around its main content river, but a new service fromThomson Reuters points to how it also continues to build up its position as a big-d...

Last summer we covered Petzila’s answer to keeping a pet pooch happy when you’re not at home: a remote treat dispenser called PetziConnect which also let absent dog owners view and talk to...

Some more consolidation afoot in the world of mobile money. Monitise, a UK-based company that works with the likes of Visa to build and roll out mobile payment solutions across banks and other financi...

Part of the problem with any powerful technology is how it is perceived. It might be something that is too early for its time or it may just need those years of development and use for the market to c...

On Sunday night, about 110 million people turned on their TVs to watch a series of lavish, expensively produced 30-second skits interspersed with live footage of men throwing a ball around. Fox Sports...

The LG G Flex is one of the most hyped phones of the year. Granted, it's only January and granted, LG isn't the most exciting Android manufacturer around, but it has a curved display! Curved, I say! A...

It's nice to know that the games industry can still surprise you and that - just when everybody thinks it's been figured out - there's room for a Flappy Bird. It's another Dots, Temple Run, Ridiculous...

There are countless weight loss apps available out there. Some pair up with dedicated activity-tracking devices, while others count calories, and yet still some gamify weight loss. Or socialize it. Or...

It’s a brave new dawn for the TechCrunch Droidcast as I take over hosting duties from Chris Velazco… who returns temporarily from the distant lands of Engadget to share his insights on Goo...

The people who read our site are a pretty savvy lot. You know not to accept checks from distant princes. You can spot a phisher from a mile away.But heres one that might be new for you: scammers are a...

In the world of mobile apps, the biggest news from this week was the announcement, by Facebook, of a new app, built by the social network, to read news and stories: Paper. Make sure to watch the video...

It looks like Microsoft has finally realized that Metro (or the Modern UI or whatever else they call it these days) wasn’t right for the desktop. If the rumors are true, it’ll continue to ...

If you're watching the Super Bowl today, some of those brand new ads may feel awfully familiar a growing number of them are being released online ahead of time, either in their entirety or as a parti...

When I joined the Industry Analyst community in 2000 the industry was much smaller. For those in the business and analyst community who were in the field decades prior it was even smaller still. Early...

Billionaire jewelry king Fred Mouawad has a different take on the world of task management. Most providers have some play on keeping a list or offer a schedule of reminders. But Mouawad, after hanging...

Everyone talks about user experience. Its often referred to in terms of how sticky an app is for its users how easy it is to use, how engaging it is, how relevant it is to what youre doing, etc. All ...

It's not every day we here at TechCrunch just point to someone else's work and say, "Here, you should go read this." But today's an exception, because The Economist has put together a 16-page Special ...

Earlier in January Bitcoin, as it receded as recipient of an infinite press, began to see its trading range tighten after months of wild swings. I pointed this out as perhaps the start of new stabilit...

With the Super Bowl right around the corner, for many Americans this weekend is all about football -- but tech certainly gave sports a run for its money when it came to interesting news this week. So ...

Peek is a new (paid) calendar app for iOS that’s aiming to appeal to the social middle ground of people whose lives don’t consist of non-stop meetings from 9 ’til 9.So not a calendar...

GoDaddy has updated its account security policies in the wake of the now infamous extortionof a Twitter account. As TechCrunch previously reported, a hacker claimed to have gained the Twitter userR...

In many of the old war movies, every elite unit has at least one member that has the critical talent to make something out of nothing: the scrounge. You know this guy: when everyone is out of rations ...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor seem perfectly willing to predict the futility of the next Microsoft CEO, and even perhaps the next Bill Ga...

Kickstarter funding will often lead to the more traditional kind, and in the case of Boombotix, that’s exactly what happened. The California startup raised $17,000 for its music syncing app, whi...

Flappy Bird, a game you can barely play for more than a few seconds without throwing your phone across the room in frustration, is dominating the App Store and Google Play. In an App Store first, an i...

I can't think of a buzzier phrase in the tech industry these days than growth hacking, and in some ways I also can't think of a more dangerous trend to glom onto. Sure, growth is good. But only if it'...

There’s more eye-candy footage of Felix Baumgartner’s epic space jump. Sports video camera hardware startup, GoPro, released a 30-second Superbowl spot of first and third-person perspectiv...

It's time for a little inside baseball! Be still your beating hearts.But admit it: secretly you want to know about the success/failure of the myriad news sources whose stories flit disconnectedly acro...

Indian digital media circles have been abuzz with rumors of potential targets being looked at in the social media analytics space by Twitter, Adobe and even WPP, the world’s biggest advertising ...

Alternative Commerce is a piece of cake, right? After all, while big box retailers are suffering, fun things like the Internet and mobile phones make it easier to sell stuff to customers without the e...

Yahoo could be getting back into the search game. Its long-suffering deal with Microsoft has underperformed, making recent revelations that the company is working on building new search products hardl...

The increasingly popular Sunrise calendar app faced a bit of a brouhaha last week, after a couple of well-respected developers (namely, Neven Mrgan and Instapaper creator Marco Arment) pointed out tha...

In this week's episode of Ask A VC, Manatt Digital Media Ventures' Peter Csathy joined us in the studio to talk about the return of content, his firm's investment strategy and more....

Peer-to-peer lodgings marketplace Airbnb has been focused on finding ways that it can help its hosts improve the quality of experience for guests that stay in their homes. As part of this effort, the ...

Apple’s plans for iOS 8 focus on redefining health tracking via mobile devices, according to a new report from 9to5Mac, which has a terrific track record when it comes to rumors it has sourced i...

The clothes may be cheap, but prices for tech companies launching mobile and web-based marketplaces to sell secondhand and consignment clothing keep going up. The latest company trying to get people t...

Despite incremental improvements, the gender bias issue in Silicon Valley remains an important one. Last month, in response to the furor over an interview about female hackers, Paul Graham announced a...

The march of the 2014 initial public offerings commences, with the latest one of the oldest brands on the internet. Coupons.com has just filed S-1 papers with the SEC for an IPO on the NYSE, trading ...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin MArks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific. Have you found us on Facebook yet? facebook.com/GillmorGang...

Marketing startup BrightFunnel is announcing that it has raised a small "advisory round" of slightly less than $1 million from some big-name investors.Co-founder and CEO Nadim Hossain served most rece...

Looking for a way to get through Friday? Here you go.Facebook launched a news reader app called Paper. (Teens will love it.) And Google sold Motorola to Lenovo for $3 billion, which made earnings week...

President Obama diplomatically defended embattled Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who is accused of lying to Congress about the existence of the National Security Agency's spying prog...

CollabNetis one of the leading agile development platforms in the enterprise and the company behind the Subversion version control software. It has millions of users on its platform, which launched ba...

TechCrunch's Battlefield is a proven springboard for startups destined for great things. Fact. We ran the data and we'll take you through it below. But before we get to that, we're announcing that it'...

Aereo, a TV streaming service looking to change the way we consume media, has just sold out of capacity in New York City. Founder and CEO Chet Kanojia confirmed the news via Twitter. The company launc...

Don't judge a book by its cover. Beauty is only skin deep. It's what's on the inside that counts. These are the mantras of millions of young singles scouring the internet for someone with which to hav...

Ouya’s original hardware featured just 8GB of storage onboard, but a temporary Limited Edition all-white version launched during the holidays doubled that to 16GB. Now, the game console startup ...

Yesterday in after-hours trading, Microsoft picked up a minor gain. The trading period was interesting as news that Microsoft's board was tipped to select its own Satya Nadella as its next CEO had bro...

Y Combinator has long allowed its partners to invest their own personal money in the's incubator startups--often times partners put money into these startups before institutional investors and angels ...

If you’re familiar with the ‘Bad Lip Reading of The NFL’ videos on YouTube, you might get a charge out of this hilarious mashup created by startup MeetBall. It puts the same spin on ...

Yesterday, a new faceless “watch” called Durr that simply vibrates every five minutes got a big feature over at Verge. It’s an interesting concept, and in his article Aaron Souppouri...

Why should college students waste their precious party days standing in line, when they can order Ramen from Amazon prime? The University of California at Davis recently inked a deal with Amazon to of...

Mobile app analytics firm App Annie has put out a retrospective report on app trends in 2013 and there are few interesting tidbits worth flagging for developers. Notably the continued dominance of the...

Online publishing platform Issuu is announcing that it has hired Jeremy LaCroix as its head of product design and user experience.Joe Hyrkin, who became CEO last year, told me LaCroix was particularly...

Late last year, a couple of venture firms sought to invest in LEAP Motion's gesture control technology by helping developers to build businesses around it with an accelerator. Today, the LEAP Axlr8r i...

A new Kickstarter project takes a useful thing and makes it even more useful, by offering a strap that not only carries your DSLR but also protects it when not in use. It’s the perfect way to mi...

TechCrunch understands that Skobbler wasn't the only OpenStreepMap-powered startup to be on Telenav's radar. We're hearing that the U.K.s Navmii, maker of Navfree, the free mapping and navigation app ...

India's e-commerce market is projected to grow sevenfold to $22 billion in the next five years, and investors and global e-commerce companies want to have a piece of the action. We have learned that M...

India's e-commerce market is projected to grow sevenfold to $22 billion in the next five years, and investors and global e-commerce companies want to have a piece of the action. We have learned that M...

Twitter announced today that it has acquired over 900 patents from IBM, and that it has entered into a cross-licensing agreement with the Internet services and software company. IBM had issued a compl...

Thanks to smartphones, digital photography has essentially become free - after the cost of the initial phone purchase, that is. Now, you no longer have to buy bulbs or film or batteries to have access...

Raising capital from investors is often a frustrating experience. While part of that frustration will always be present when working on high-risk projects, a lot of the aggravation comes from the lack...

Another development in the European edtech ecosystem: early stage startups with a plan to disrupt education are being encouraged to apply to join a new incubator that will kick off its first programme...

Cloud-based storage company Box is said to have filed an IPO, according to an initial report from Quartz, later followed up by confirmations from The Wall Street Journal and Forbes. It did so quietly,...

GSF, the Indian startup accelerator behind Little Eye Labs, which was acquired by Facebook earlier this year, is launching a cross-border program with increased seed funding and global exposure for it...

BTC China, the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, has started allowing users to purchase the digital currency with Chinese yuan again. This is significant because BTC China stopped accepting depo...

Inq Mobile, one of the first companies to build a Facebook phone, announced that it has shut down with a message on its site (h/t Android Police). The U.K.-based, Hutchison Whampoa-backed company didn...

Marketing automation platform Salesfusion has purchased LoopFuse, a social analytics platform that helps clients find promising new leads, for an undisclosed price. The acquisition comes two weeks aft...

Marketing automation platform Salesfusion has purchased LoopFuse, an analytics platform that helps clients find promising new leads, for an undisclosed price. The acquisition comes two weeks after Sal...

After five months of Microsoft CEO purgatory, we're finally reaching a climax: It's most likely going to be Microsoft enterprise head Satya Nadella, though everyone except Larry Page wants it to be Go...

Mobile messaging and mobile communications tools have grown like a weed on the consumer side -- but what about in a work context? With more and more people buying better and better smartphones, taking...

Implisit has raised $3.3 million from Gemini Israel Ventures for its self-learning platform that mines CRM data to help sales people close more deals and cut manual data entry....

Clinkle is the hottest app around to have done mostly nothing. The stealth payments service, which has raised $25 million, has yet to launch. But that doesn't mean it can't be hacked. Today, an uniden...

Amazon Prime might be getting more expensive. The retailer revealed during its quarterly earnings conference call that it might jack up the price of the yearly subscription by up to 50%. Prime current...

Last-minute hotel booking startup HotelTonight just announced that it has landed a personal investment from Barry Sternlicht, founder of Starwood Capital Group and former chairman and CEO of Starwood ...

CrunchFund, the early-stage investment firm that's basically one giant conflict-of-interest statement for TechCrunch, is raising $40 million for a second fund, according to a regulatory filing.I've em...

Google’s earnings call doesn’t feature CEO Larry Page this time around, which is a disappointment in terms of product discussion. But Chief Business Officer Nikesh Arora discussed briefly ...

The details are a bit sparse right now, but Yahoo has just disclosed by way of their Tumblr that theyve detected what theyre calling a coordinated effort to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo Mail acco...

After a search that stretched for months, reports are out today that Microsoft will select internal candidate Satya Nadella as its next CEO. Nadella is known for his work with cloud computing at Micro...

After reporting both a top and bottom miss, Amazon fell 10.32 percent in after-hours trading. The company had ended the day at$403.01 and is now trading at$361.41. As a company, Amazon is valued by in...

Paired with the news of a big half-billion dollar acquisition, Zynga is also laying off about 15 percent of its workforce, or about 314 employees. This is part of a cost-reduction plan that is suppose...

Today after the market close Amazon reported its fourth quarter financial performance, including revenue of $25.59billion, and earnings per share of $0.51. The company has operating income of$510 mill...

Today after the market close Amazon reported its fourth quarter financial performance, including revenue of $25.59billion, and earnings per share of $0.51. The company has operating income of$510 mill...

Google just published its Q4 earnings report and the results are mostly in line with Wall Street expectations, though it missed on earnings per share due to larger than expected losses at Motorola, wh...

Last summer we heard that German startup Skobbler was being courted as an acquisition target, in the wake of Google's purchase of Waze. Today Skobbler has achieved that exit -- albeit not Waze-sized -...

Last summer we heard that German startup Skobbler was being courted as an acquisition target, in the wake of Google's purchase of Waze. Today Skobbler has achieved that exit -- albeit not Waze-sized -...

Zynga has long been famous (or infamous?) for its data-driven approach to game design. The company never focused on building strong character IP, or intellectual property, in favor of releasing games ...

It was once a rare practice, but employees are now finding more ways to unload vested shares in their startups along the way. While employers have typically tried to control these sales, a new marketp...

Seamless and GrubHub have partnered with location-based check-in service Foursquare to help you retain your precious pear-shaped physique and avoid exerting even the bare minimum of effort: You can no...

Indie music? Pffft. Indie music is way too main stream, man. All the cool kids are into music that no one has ever heard.Meet Forgotify. Forgotify tears through Spotify in search of songs with zero pl...

One Kings Lane, an ecommerce company for home decor and furniture, has raised $112 million in Series E funding, bringing the company's total funding to date to $229 million. The round was led by new i...

One Kings Lane, an ecommerce company for home decor and furniture, has raised $112 million in Series E funding, bringing the company's total funding to date to $229 million. The round was led by new i...