Articles by Techcrunch from March 2014

Compact wireless HiFi systems are pretty common these days, but what is less common is startups thinking more deeply about how the same systems could move into home automation and the Internet of Thin...

Holy incremental music startup, Batman! Spawnsong is a (very) new music platform startup with a strategy to elbow into the crowded digital music space by focusing on a very thin wedge: individual song...

We crave approval, but we already knew that. Conventional thinking would suggest we seek digital validation because it means we've impressed people and raised our social status. But what anonymous app...

The post-Ballmer Microsoft is slowly taking shape now that Satya Nadella has become the company’s CEO. At the same time, though, those executives who were passed over for the CEO roleand those w...

Finally, Microsoft's flagship Office suite (Excel, PPT, Word) is available on one of its key rivals mobile operating systems: Apples iOS. Nearly seven years after Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone, Micro...

Microsoft had become an oft-ignored, behemoth to the North, despite $77 billion in revenue and $57 billion in profits. It seemed that the mobile revolution had passed it by. Although Steve Ballmer was...

We've focused on getting the tests setup, which includes deciding on a specific thing to test, when and where to conduct the user study and what type of users to study. We then covered actually runnin...

When Ursheet Parikh sold his company StorSimple in 2012 to Microsoft, it was one of the largest deals in the cloud infrastructure sector to date. But that wasnt the only thing unusual about it. It was...

In this special “Between Two Co-Editors” edition of Crunchweek, I was joined by my fearless bosses, co-editors Matthew Panzarino and Alexia Tsotsis at the White Table. We tackled Facebook&...

In 10 years, when we look back and think about which companies fundamentally changed the way viewers get their TV shows delivered to them, will Roku be a part of the conversation? Based on what the co...

As part of his departure from day-to-day operations at Y Combinator, Paul Graham announced today that he’s also handing over the reins of Hacker News, the technology and entrepreneurship-focused...

The portable music player is alive and well. Pono Music's PonoPlayer just crossed the $5 million milestone on Kickstarter, making it the fourth most funded project in the site's history. Twelve thousa...

Reporters and industry watchers go nuts when an S-1 is filed for an initial public offering because there are always a few surprises to be found while digging through the numbers. The Box IPO filing t...

Historically, creating an accurate 3D model of a physical space has been a time-consuming and expensive process that cost tens of thousands of dollars and required teams of people and days, if not wee...

The Gillmor Gang Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor barely came out of the gates before John Taschek let Comcast have it, and really you need to see the visu...

Have you whaled yet today? It's the new thing. Whale at the club. Whale at school. Whale in your cubical. Just don't whale at a funeral. That would be doing it wrong.As the Vines below show, the premi...

The IPO window is currently wide open. Riding the wave of strong IPO performance over the past few years (the classes of 12 and 13 IPOs have on average returned 234 percent and 78 percent, respectivel...

Now that the dust has settled, it’s time to have a little fun. Virtual reality itself used to be a punchline. Now, Facebook and its latest purchase of Oculus Rift is the joke. But can Facebook r...

Android apps are about to get cleaned up. That is, if the recently added changes to theGoogle Play Developer Program Policyare actually enforced. Google this week updated its policy that dictates to a...

Did you know that, to quote an angry hacker: The Internet from every angle has always been a house of cards held together with defective duct tape. It's a miracle that anything works at all. Those who...

There are many people out there who take a pessimistic view of Facebook. To them, Mark Zuckerberg is a huckster, out to sell us the snake oils of distraction and dopamine in exchange for our eyeballs ...

Mozilla employees across the web are calling for the removal of new CEO Brendan Eich, who previously held the position of CTO and has been with the company since its formation out of Netscape in the 9...

Oh, hey, there TIDWRTWHUFOO fans. Thinking about going for a little dip this summer? How about you go for a swim with a one-ton crab that will smash you under its massive legs? Sounds fun? Definitely!...

Astro Teller has your dream job, currently serving as the Captain of Moonshots at the Google[x] lab. There, he dreams and creates things like Google Glass, smart contact lenses, balloons that bring th...

Bob Sutton is one of Silicon Valley's most influential business gurus. Read More ...

Tesla can keep its dealerships in the state of New York. An agreement was made between the auto maker and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo that will allow Tesla to keep its five direct-to-consumer retail st...

Working at TechCrunch the past three years has been a privilege for me, but it’s time for meto move on. And this is an opportunity for you to move in. Really, being the Executive Assistant to Ma...

Once the Facebook hangover had lifted, Marketo and Tableau had big openings, and Twitter smashed the world on its opening day, the door for IPOs appeared to be wide open. King Digital and Aerohive bot...

Gillmor Gang - Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific. Live FriendFeed chat is here Read More ...

Free Space Optic lasers? Low earth orbit satellites? Solar-powered drones? Mark Zuckerberg has just penned a deep dive on how Facebook's newly revealed methods for delivering Internet to the developin...

Free Space Optic lasers? Low earth orbit satellites? Solar-powered drones? Mark Zuckerberg has just penned a deep dive on how Facebook's newly revealed methods for delivering Internet to the developin...

While Apple’s iBeacon technology is already being adopted by both large and smallretailers, we’ve started to see other use cases pop up for this newindoor positioning technology, which inv...

As TechCrunch’s Steve O’Hear predicted yesterday, Readmill just confirmed that Dropbox acquired the company and that the service will shut down. It is a pure acqui-hire as the team will jo...

Are you ready for the future? Facebook certainly is, considering the social giant just bought Oculus VR, which makes virtual reality gaming headsets, for a cool $2 billion. And Microsoft is joining in...

Microsoft has released a blog post from General Counsel and EVP – Legal & Corporate Affairs Brad Smith detailing changes to its practices stemming from a recent report detailing how it read ...

SRCH2, an enterprise software company founded by ex-Googlers and Stanford PhD's and focused on building faster, more efficient search technology, is expanding its reach to mobile consumers and mobile ...

Softcover is a startup offering what it calls a "frictionless" platform for self-publishing e-books. Co-founder Michael Hartl is an author himself, having written the Ruby on Rails Tutorial. (He's als...

After Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus, many were worried that Oculus’ top talent — many of whom are industry/VR pioneers — would leave out of spite. Seems quite the opposite i...

French startup Sigfox raised a Series B round of $20.6 million (15 million) from IDInvest and BPIFrance. Existing investors (Elaia Partners, Partech Ventures, Ixo and Intel Capital) also participated....

CloudGOO, a newly launched Android application with something of a silly name, offers a way for you to smushtogether all yourcloud-based file storage accountsto form one big cloud drive in the sky. Th...

For better or worse, Samsung, HTC, and the rest of the Android manufacturing lot just looove to mess with the way Google’s OS looks and feels. So much so, in fact, that the OS sometimes stops lo...

Have you ever wanted to stand on the bridge of your very own spacecraft and, in a stentorian voice, proudly declaim “Computer? What is the weather in Brooklyn tomorrow?” The Ubi, announced...

Movile, the Brazilian mobile shopping and entertainment company is doubling down on its investment in kids programming and entertainment with a new $5 million investment. The move, which occurred earl...

By being open to indie developers and relatively cheap, the Oculus Rift has done something that no VR headset has done before it: encouraged experimentation. This crazy augmented reality perception ex...

Want to stalk people via email, so you’ll know the moment they read your message? Or maybe you want to know if they gave your message a goodlook, instead of onlya glance? Mailtracker, a newly la...

Google TV is likely going away entirely, to be replaced by a familiar face – Android. Philips has just unveiled new Ultra HD (4K, whatever you prefer) TVs (via 9to5Google) that will be running G...

Apple is said to be exploring options to expand the facility it’s building with manufacturing partner GT Advanced Technologies in Arizona, a facility which is going to be sued to help the compan...

It’s hard to imagine a more terrifying text message than one that reads “Incoming ballistic missile detected. Please find shelter.” Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency ...

The BlackBerry that’s in the process of reinventing itself is an increasingly cross-platform creature — retrenching to serving itsenterprise core byseeking to help them manage the bring-yo...

Dear Google, please don't sue the guys who built this adorable Google Maps parody.Following on today's theme of laziness, two men from the Netherlands named Kakhiel and Venour have developed a smart l...

BlackBerry CEO John Chen discussed his company’s hardware plans for the coming year during the investor call following a disappointing, but not disastrous quarterly report card today. They didn&...

It's Basel time again that means we're going to be seeing some amazing watches coming out of Switzerland that cost more than an office block in downtown Detroit. Today we're looking at the Spacecraft ...

Facebook is gradually rolling out an update to its Facebook Messenger app for iOS and Android. Users will see a new dedicated “Groups” tab for group discussions. Instead of mixing one-on-o...

In what seems to be the beginning of a real-life Wall-E situation, Philips has introduced an even easier way to control your home’s Hue smart lighting system. Because, you know, fishing your sma...

Is the company blog dead? Instead of posting on the Tesla blog, Elon Musk announced a significant new Model S feature on the personal blogging site Medium. Read More ...

BlackBerry just posted its fiscal fourth quarter results, revealing a quarterly operating loss much smaller than analysts had feared. Shares of BlackBerry are up 6.63% (NASDAQ:BBRY) in pre-market trad...

French startup Tapvalue raised $2.2 million (1.6 million) to boost its international growth and keep iterating on the product. Tapvalue is an innovative cross-device tracking and advertising platform,...

The MOOCs movement has generally lagged in Europe compared tothe U.S. But regional providers are being established here in the Old World, such as Berlin-based iversity and the U.K.’s Futurelearn...

Fancal has such a simple but appealing concept that it's surprising there aren't more smartphone calendars like it. The iOS app showcases photos from your library, with dates laid out in an unobtrusiv...

With each class, the startups within Y Combinator vote to determine which colleagues they thought were most likely to be successful. One source sent us a list of those companies, listed in order. Read...

If you log onto Pinterest and see that one of your friends has suddenly developed a fixation with weight loss ads and butt pics like the ones below, don't click on the pins. Multiple accounts have bee...

We now live in an era when Mark Zuckerberg speed-dials Obama, controls fleets of drones, brokers $19 billion acquisitions in a week, and buys whole virtual worlds. Facebook's mission has changed. Whil...

TrueVault, the healthcare app data security startup that launched this week out of the most recent class of Y Combinator, has closed on $2.5 million in seed funding. The money will be used to further ...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? Not really. That’s just something that people like to say without really thinking about, because it sounds nice and makes them feel better. Ki...

Microsoft built it, and they came: Office for iPad is enjoying a big first day, with Word for iPad becoming the most popular app for the device in the United States just five hours after it went live....

Meet the Digital Paper, Sony's latest e-ink slate. It's part iPad, part e-reader, and must be made out of moon rocks. It's $1,100 and will be available in the States this May. But you're not going to ...

Microsoft has launched new Office for iPad software, finally, after people have been asking for it since, oh, say, the day in 2010 when the iPad originally launched. The new apps are currently availab...

If today isn’t your first day in the tech industry (or reading TechCrunch), then you’re likely familiar with the rise of the accelerator program, a phenomenon that has swept through Startu...

Microsoft is not just placating user demand with the Office for iPad apps it launched today; it’s also selling Office 365 subscriptions directly within the app. Those subs are worth a pretty pen...

Along with a new version of Office for iPad, Microsoft made Office for iPhone and Android smartphones free today. The apps have updated in the respective app stores and can be snagged here for iPhone ...

You have exactly four days, depending on how much sleep you require, to apply to the TechCrunch startup Pitch-Offs happening in Boston and Los Angeles on April 8 and April 10, respectively.And if some...

All signs point to Amazon announcing its streaming device at a NYC event next week. Not a lot is known about it, but a report from the WSJ today sheds a little light on Amazon's overall strategy, whic...

Facebook plans to bring Internet to the third-world via drones, satellites, lasers, and more. Today Mark Zuckerberg unveiledFacebook’s Connectivity Lab will work on the Internet.org project, and...

Facebook's quest to become a newspaper has seen it launch multiple News Feeds, the standalone Paper app, trending topics, and more. But you're not always able to stop what you're doing and read what y...

Today the government announced that the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, has passed the 6 million signup mark, putting it within striking distance of its original goals. The enrollment ...

This morning Microsoft unveiled and launched Office for iPad, as well asnew tools to help companies manage devices that run on platforms other than Windows. The move, while expected, underscoreda shif...

In the long, kabuki saga that is the fall of Mt. Gox, one point seemed always clear: the company lost loads of bitcoin to hackers using a bug called transaction malleability. It seems, however that th...

In the long, kabuki saga that is the fall of Mt. Gox, one point seemed always clear: the company lost loads of bitcoin to hackers using a bug called transaction malleability. It seems, however that th...

TechCrunch has learned from sources that Dropbox is in talks to acqui-hire Berlin-based ReadMill, the social and shareable reading platform. Read More ...

At a media event in San Francisco today, Microsoft's new CEO Satya Nadella announced the launch of the company's new Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS). The company says this bundle of services will make...

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz just announced that it has closed its Fund IV. And it's a massive $1.5 billion fund for all sorts of investments from seed rounds to late-stage rounds. Previou...

Apple is said to be readying to release its next iPhone in both 4.7- and 5.5-inch screen sizes, with a launch as early as September, according to a report by Japanese business newspublication Nikkei t...

In another validation of the bitcoin space, YC's biggest payments company, Stripe, said it has started to test bitcoin and ACH payments with a select number of users. They didn't disclose who they're ...

Google has seen a tremendous increase in requests for information made by the government, the company revealed in an update to its Transparency Report today. The updated report includes the number of ...

Zoobean, one of many startups to experiment with the “Netflix for kids’ books” business model – meaning, a subscription-based children’s books service where new books arr...

Nomi, a data and marketing startup that serves brick-and-mortar retailers, is announcing that it has acquired ad startup Media Armor.CEO Marc Ferrentino said Nomi's vision is to "digitize the offline ...

Today at its press event in San Francisco, Microsoft unveiled Office for Apple’s iPad. The news, while expected, matters: Microsoft supporting Apple’s tablet marks an important moment for ...

Sprig, a food delivery service that brings healthy, inexpensive meals to San Francisco residents' doors, has raised $10 million in Series A funding from Greylock Partners with Battery Ventures and Acc...

Web host and small business service provider GoDaddy is teaming up with payments network Dwolla, the companies are announcing today, to offer GoDaddy’sbusiness customers an alternative to paper ...

Sometimes we get the weirdest emails. For example, a few weeks ago someone asked me if I wanted to try the Smart CARA (the Food Cycler in the U.S.), a Korean composting machine that turns food waste i...

Remember all those rumors about Amazon's super secret media console? Turns out, it's probably pretty legit. We just got an invite from Amazon for a press event on April 2, where we'll get an update ab...

The online backup service IDrive today announced that it is going beyond only backing up your data and is adding a sync feature to its lineup that will automatically keep files on different machines u...

If today isn’t your first day in the tech industry (or reading TechCrunch), then you’re likely familiar with the rise of the accelerator program, a phenomenon that has swept through Startu...

Grado Labs appears to be a much bigger company than it is. Founded 60 years ago by Joseph Grado, the company made millions of phonograph cartridges in its long history and, during the rise of portable...

At a press event today, Lithium Technologies confirmed reports that it has closed the acquisition of Klout.Re/code first reported on the deal back in February, saying that it was "signed but not close...

A team of ex-Spotify engineers have raised $2.2 million in seed funding for Lookback, a platform allowing developers to record onscreen activity within mobile apps – and even record the userR...

Realty Mogul, a site that allows accredited investors to collectively back real estate projects, is announcing that it has raised a $9 million Series A led by Canaan Partners.The startup launched a ye...

Foodini is a 3D printer for foodstuffs. Its Florida-based makers are hoping their time-saving device becomes as ubiquitous on kitchen countertops as the microwave oven has become but also gets more pe...

Music streaming service Spotify could go public at some point in the fall of 2014, according to Quartz. Rumors of an IPO have been floating around for weeks. And there are a few signs that seem to ind...

YouTube is the latest victim in Turkey’s ongoing assault on social media. This comes one week after Turkey revoked access to Twitter within its borders. The removal of YouTube happened just hour...

Twitter has announced one part of its new music strategy today, with a Billboard partnership that will result in the new ‘Billboard Twitter Real-Time Chart.’ The new tool will follow real-...

India’s competition watchdog has imposed a fine of $166,000 on Google for delay in submitting details neededas part ofa two-year old antitrust probe. The probe focuses on whetherGoogleabused its...

Bill de Blasio, who took office as the mayor of New York City at the beginning of this year, will be delivering the keynote address at the opening session of Internet Week New York on May 19. Although...

Engaging design, marketing, and a solid user acquisition strategy are all key to making a successful app. But an app’s reliability often depends on factors beyond its developers’ control, ...

App developer UpTo is launching a free calendar app on iOS to give users a way to see what's going on around their lives, not just in them.The calendar is a small pivot for UpTo, which initially began...

Apple has a new patent for an iPad accessory (via Patently Apple) that incorporates keyboardfeatures into the design of a new smart cover. The touch-based cover resembles the one Microsoft’s Sur...

High above a scorched Earth, in a sleek yacht tethered to the tip of the Terra Two spindle, Chancellor Herman Worthy was doing paperwork. His cleaner bots were all asleep and his assistant, a lithe an...

Earlier this week, Facebook announced that it had acquired Oculus VR for $2 billion, andit turns out that this isn't the only recent piece of M&A in the category of head-mounted wearable computing...

Twitter has ditched its dedicated #Music app, the product of the acquisition of We Are Hunted, a social music discovery startup. But that doesn’t mean it’s dropping out of music altogether...

Songza, the app that brings music to you instead of forcing you to hunt for it, today announced a deal with The Weather Company to integrate weather data into the app. As it stands now, Songza uses th...

Today Tapestry, the story-telling service out of betaworks, has released a big update to the mobile application, allowing users to create tapestries within the app for the first time ever. Originally,...

Slingbox is coming to Chromecast and it could be the little streamer’s first killer app. According to a forum posting by a Slingbox employee, Slingbox is working on supporting Chromecast and the...

Snaptee, the iOS and Android app that lets users design and order their own custom T-shirts, has launched a new revenue-sharing program for photo-editing and design app developers. The startup's first...

Not to be outdone by LG or Philips, Samsung just introduced its own Internet-connected LED light bulb product line. Aptly called the Smart Bulb, these bulbs, available in several different styles, roc...

Apple has filed for a patent (via AppleInsider) that adds further fuel to the fire around the possibility it will use sapphire glass for future device displays. The the new application describes how a...

A new Kickstarter project plans to offer smart home features to a range of devices, for connecting small apartment buildings to entire enterprises and office buildings. The AngelBlocks gadgets are ope...

Sometimes it's the little things that matter. Like being able to carry on texting without walking into a tree. Apple apparently thinks so anyway. A patent Cupertino filed back in September 2012 has ju...

Yahoo Japan is to buyJapanese telcoeAccess from wireless provider Softbank in a deal worth $3.2 billion, it said today. Softbank itself acquired eAccess back in October 2012, in a share swap deal valu...

Analyst Gartner has just put out its latest worldwide devices forecast, predicting a growth rate of 6.9% for shipments of traditional PCs, tablets, ultramobiles and mobile phones this year. That’...

LinkedIn is introducing some new tools for businesses hoping to attract a following with their LinkedIn content. First up, there's a content marketing score, which measures the total effectiveness of ...

Social customer service company Lithium Technologies will announce on Thursday morning that it has acquired Klout for almost $200 million in cash and private stock, says Fortune. Read More ...

Aereo has today filed its response brief with the Supreme Court in a case that will make or break the streaming TV startup. So far, we're in the preliminary stages of this particular case, with the br...

I suck at grocery shopping, at least compared to some of my friends. One knows exactly what vegetables go into a killer get-the-hell-out-of-bed smoothie. A gymrat buddy can suggest a healthier alterna...

Today at its Box Dev developer event in north San Francisco, Box, a cloud file storage and enterprise collaboration company, announced a number of product changes, new pricing schemes, and some new co...

Instacart, the grocery delivery service popular in Chicago, San Francisco and other locations, landed in New York City today. I spoke to Instacart this morning about the New York City addition, which ...

Digital media holding company CPXi is announcing that it has raised $30 million in new funding.Founded in 2000, CPXi apparently raised no outside capital before this. The current round was a mix of de...

By now 350 employees at companies across the country might just be rethinking their day jobs, thanks to an email sent this morning by venture investment firm Bloomberg Beta. The early-stage investor, ...

Buying an engagement ring online feels like a strange thing to do. It’s up there with buying a car you’ve never test driven or renting a house you’ve never seen in person. But in the...

Buying an engagement ring online feels like a strange thing to do. It’s up there with buying a car you’ve never test driven or renting a house you’ve never seen in person. But in the...

Today Dell and Microsoft announced that they have signed an agreement relating to intellectual property, which will see the two companies "license each companys applicable" patents regarding Android a...

Among everything else that’s driving e-commerce growth in India, the ease of buying things sitting inside homes, avoiding the hazards of traffic snarls, worsening air pollution and finding a par...

Among everything else that’s driving e-commerce growth in India, the ease of buying things sitting inside homes, avoiding the hazards of traffic snarls, worsening air pollution and finding a par...

Twitter has been testing designs furiously all winter, including a tile-like format for tweets and a Facebook-style profile page on the web. But TNW has spotted an update in the Twitter app (which is ...

Twitter has announced a couple of additions to its image offerings today, including the ability to tag up to 10 people in a photo without using any precious characters up. You’ll also now be abl...

Timehop, the mobile app offering a way to recall your past one day at a time by displaying your old photos and posts from Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare and Twitter, is now launching its service on A...

Today King went public, and immediately was given a raspberry by investors who sent its stock price down throughout the day, hammering the company to the tune of more than 15 percent and $1.1 billion ...

Google is doing something different with registration for its 2014 I/O Developer Conference this year. The company isn’t doing first-come, first-served this time around, which has resulted in a ...

After years of stagnation, the media industry is in full-fledged evolution mode. Consumption is changing, creation is changing, and even the act of reporting is transforming right before our eyes. And...

I actually checked to see if today was April Fool's but, seeing as how it wasn't and seeing as how it would be quite simple to recreate this cool piece of hardware, I figured we could check it out. Ba...

The story goes BlackBerry senior vice-president for software Sebastian Marineau-Mes resigned from his post in late December 2013 after Apple offered him a position as vice president of Core OS. But Bl...

Less than two years ago, Oculus raised 2.5 million dollars on Kickstarter.Yesterday, they were acquired by Facebook for $2 billion.Oculus has definitely generated its fair share of buzz in its short l...

Amazon today announceda new round of price cuts for its S3 storage service, EC2 cloud computing platform and RDS cloud databases that will bring the cost of running applications on Amazon’s plat...

Amazon today announceda new round of price cuts for a number of services on its cloud platform, including itsS3 storage service, EC2 cloud computing platform, ElastiCache, Elastic MapReduce and RDS cl...

Robots will soon live among us - helping us out of bed, monitoring us, and assisting us in countless ways - but what if we just want to play a game of Scrabble? Victor is a Scrabble-playing robot crea...

Facebook has officially denied a claim by a New York Times source saying the social network will plaster its logo and interface onto the hardware of its new $2 billion acquisition Oculus. The New York...

High Fidelity, a new startup from Second Life founder Philip Rosedale, has raised $2.5 million in new funding from True Ventures, we’ve learned. The funding was also noted in an SEC filing. The ...

FileThis, the cloud-based document filing service that works something like Mint.com, in that it automatically logs into your online accounts then gathers data on your behalf, is now taking its servic...

Music discovery company Last.fm just announced that it will end its subscription radio streaming service on April 28th. The radio service is currently available in the U.K., the U.S. and Germany with ...

Adam Draper and Brayton Williams launched Boost.vc in 2012 at a time when the accelerator market was beginning to burst at the seams with new entrants — some would say it was nearing saturation....

Education technology-focused startups raised over $488 million already in the first quarter of 2014, marking the single biggest quarter for capital committed to the sector in the past five years. What...

Education technology-focused startups raised over $488 million already in the first quarter of 2014, marking the single biggest quarter for capital committed to the sector in the past five years. What...

AppGyver, an HTML5-centric development platform for quickly building mobile apps, today announced that it has raised a $2.5 million funding round led by Initial Capital, an early investor in companies...

Forbes released its annual Midas List today, which ranks the top venture capitalists by returns and more (you can check out the complete methodology here). Topping the list was Sequoia Capital's Jim G...

Video ad platform TubeMogul has filed its S-1, declaring its plans to go public with an offering of up to $75 million. And it's doing so with what appears to be pretty healthy gross margins, though wi...

A new application called BlinkMail, launching into beta today, offersMac users a different way to managetheir email inbox from their desktop. Thoughcompeting in the same general space as other OS X ma...

AOL's Tim Armstrong and Bob Lord are taking the stage at the ad:tech conference in San Francisco today where they're announcing a new programmatic ad platform called ONE. I met with Armstrong (CEO) an...

Garmin had the world by the tail. With their amazing in-car GPS devices and great sports watches, it looked like things could only go up. Until every phone on the market got a GPS chip and Google mapp...

BlackBerry, this is not how you handle a zealous fan base. CEO John Chen published a blog post today in which he promised that the company would pursue legal action against a “party who stole co...

Box CEO Aaron Levie made enterprise startups sexy again, though this week’s Box IPO announcement revealed that Levie only owns 5.7% percent of the company. (Levie sold off stock to raise the mon...

So, we know developers and publishers make money from apps and other mobile content often via advertising. But smartphone screens are small, so ads have to be small. And ad formats vary widely. LoopMe...

Toronto-based iPad POS startup TouchBistro has raised an additional $1.5 million in funding, adding to its existing seed funding and bringing the total to $6 million raised to date. TouchBistro’...

Amazon WorkSpaces, the company’s virtual desktop computing environment introduced last fall at the AWS re:Invent conference, is today available to the public. Up until now, Amazon was testing th...

Amazon WorkSpaces, the company’s virtual desktop computing environment introduced last fall at the AWS re:Invent conference, is today available to the public. Up until now, Amazon was testing th...

Indix, a big data startup building an index for over 1 billion consumer products in the world, is raising $8.5 million in Series A-1 funding from Avalon Ventures and Nexus Venture partners to achieve ...

Pedius is a four month-old Italian start-up that has an app currently available for Android that enables the deaf to make phone calls. The user texts a message, and that text translates to speech at t...

It’s not iBeacon, but uses a mix of Apple’s iBeacon technology plus their own “secret sauce,” whatever that is. What is it? VMBeacon is a new product enabling store mannequins ...

The Jawbone Up24 is no longer exclusive to the U.S. market. The wireless Jawbone fitness tracker is now available in 29 markets around our blue marble including in the UK, China and Japan. Previously,...

The Jawbone Up24 is no longer exclusive to the U.S. market. The wireless Jawbone fitness tracker is now available in 29 markets around our blue marble including in the UK, China and Japan. Previously,...

After a stormy few weeks, the ship of bitcoin seems like it's beginning to right itself.Regulators are beginning to refine their thinking around the currency, and new startups based on the cryptocurre...

Split, a newly launched “anti-social” application and competitor to the recently buzzed about app Cloak, is offering yet another way for users to tap into their social networks in order to...

Content marketing startup NewsCred isn't just connecting marketers with freelancers anymore through a new partnership program, it allows them to commission work from organizations like Getty Images a...

King Digital, publisher of the breakthrough mobile game Candy Crush Saga, began trading as a public company today on the NYSE not not with a pop but with a drop. The stock, trading as KING, commencedt...

Shyp wants to ease the pain of shipping by providing a mobile app and pickup service for anyone who needs to send items by mail. Customers who wish to use the service need only take a photo of the ite...

Earlier this month FreeWheel, which had become the go-to ad-serving platform for many TV networks that stream their content online, was acquired by Comcast for an amount in the region of $320 million....

Twitter has just announced that it has formally joined the cause of those defending use of its service in Turkey, by filing petitions for lawsuits in a number of Turkish courts after working with its ...

Subscription e-book startup Scribd is announcing a deal with famed travel publisher Lonely Planet. Scribd started out as a service where users could share different types of written content (writers a...

Hardware continues to be a hot sector in the startup community, with a number of investment firms backing startups that make physical goods to change the way we live. Lemnos Labs is one of those firms...

Sour grapes. In the era of multi-billion dollar acquisitions and high expectations, it's easy to have them. But what has driven the mass outrage against Oculus and their sale to Facebook for a cool $2...

Task management tool Producteev just launched a new iPad app and a native Outlook plugin. Now part of Jive, the company also launched a new pro plan. For $99 per month, you get the Outlook plugin, cus...

Technology's ability to harness the wisdom of crowds has created massive new businesses that support entrepreneurship around arts, craftsmanship, and technology while simultaneously re-shaping the mar...

Fitbit was a key part of HTC’s One (M8) announcement yesterday, as it’s coming preloaded on devices in select markets, to act as the fitness hub of the new Android flagship. But it’s...

Monument Valley, the much anticipated iPad and mobile game from London app & design studio ustwo (maker of the late lamented antisocial photo-sharing app Rando), will be launching globally on Apri...

John Biggs said it best yesterday: "Come For The Styling, Stay For The Warranty". Perhaps one of the best reasons to buy the new HTC One is the screen warranty, which iFixit just confirmed by awarding...

Tuesday evening, for the third time in a month, Twitter experienced technical difficulties. It wasn't an outage from high traffic or developmental testing — it was missing celebrity tweets. It s...

"All the News That's Fit to Print" was a viable business model for many years for the New York Times, but these days, as newspaper costs rise and readers look elsewhere for their information, the Grey...

Breaking: A Turkish court has granted a motion for stay of execution of the Turkish government’s application to block Twitter in the country. The decision was taken following appeals to courts b...

London is benefitting most from a global boom in fintech investment, according to research by consultancy firm Accenture. The firm saidthe growth of a London fintech cluster is being fueled bythe city...

Tencent, the maker of WeChat, has announced that it will pay $500 million for a 28% stake in CJ Games. The transaction will make Tencent the third-largest investor in the South Korean gaming company a...

Spacious, founded by Tushar Agarwal and Tom Watson last November as part of the Entrepreneur First programme, is an online marketplace for startup office space, initially targeting companies in London...

Dots, my favorite iOS game for about 2 and half weeks last May, is still going strong nearly a year after launching and is today launching a significant new feature. Challenge Mode. In the past, Dots ...

Rocket Internet has launched its price comparison site PricePanda in Thailand. The site, which is also backed by Tengelmann Group and AB Kinnevik, already operates in eight countries throughout Latin ...

While today saw Paul Graham officially pass the torch to new Y Combinator president Sam Altman, the bigger buzz at Demo Day was about how most investors thought this was the best batch yet. There were...

Apple has vowed to update its emojis after Miley Cyrus and actor Tahj Mowry complained about the cartoon emoticons' lack of diversity. MTV Act blogger Joey Parker emailed Apple CEO Tim Cook about the ...

In the realm of beautiful acquisition stories, someone posted on Reddit a month ago about a Mark Zuckerberg sighting at Oculus Rift's offices. Today Facebook bought Oculus Rift for $2 billion. Read Mo...

It’s no secret that the U.S. healthcare system is in desperate need of change, especially as costs have continued to rise, while the quality of care remains the same. While technology will play ...

Here are the 17 startups that presented in the third batch of companies and the four from the fourth batch that were on the record. Let's go! Read More ...

In the most anticipated gaming IPO of the last few years, Candy Crush Saga maker King priced its shares at $22.50 in an offering that will raise $326 million for the company and value it at slightly m...

The UK's Ometria is another startup that wants to help online retailers make better use of data, and, in turn, compete harder with larger, more data-driven players in the market. Read More ...

Today, in somewhat of a surprise move, Facebook purchased virtual reality company Oculus VR. The purchase elicited visceral reactions from people dismayed that Oculus sold out so early to snarky comme...

Following up the announcement that it's acquiring Oculus VR for around $2 billion, Facebook also shared some numbers about its growth, because why not?On the acquisition conference call, CEO Mark Zuck...

The past few years have taught once high-flying cellphone makers one or two things about demand. As Samsung rose in Android prominence, the rest of the manufacturers fell one by one. LG? Life's not go...

Frankly, the only way this ad could be more effective is if it was a "let me google that for you" link. HTC is right here. Dead right. In the first video ad for the new HTC One, Gary Oldman advises vi...

Facebook’s deal to buy Oculus VR for $2 billion happened relatively quickly and the negotiations were hammered out over the last five days, according to sources familiar with the deal. Mark Zuck...

Minecraft creator Markus Persson (aka Notch) has cancelled the Oculus VRversion of Minecraft because, in his own words, “Facebook creeps [me] out.” His studio Mojang had been in talks to b...

This isn't bizzaro world. We will soon live in a world where the maker of "Doom," "Quake" and most of my childhood memories works for Mark Zuckerberg. John Carmack will soon be a Facebook employee. Fa...

Facebook had a huge success with its web gaming canvas, but got locked out of mobile gaming revenue by platform owners Apple (iOS) and Google (Android). But Facebook seems determined not to miss the n...

There's a gold rush on, and the people striking it rich are the ones building things -- not apps, not software, but honest-to-goodness hardware, like the Oculus Rift, whose creator, Oculus VR, was jus...

Wall Street doesn't like what it sees. Facebook's stock price (NASDAQ:FB) is dropping in after-hours trading after the company announced its purchase of virtual reality startup Oculus Rift. The stock,...

Today's Y Combinator Demo Day started a little differently. Co-founder Jessica Livingston presented YC's former leader and her husband Paul Graham with a pair of his own shorts signed by all of this b...

Facebook has announced plans to purchase Oculus VR, the company behind the Rift headset, for around $2B in cash and stock.This includes$400 millionin cash and 23.1 million shares of Facebook common st...

The implosion of Mt. Gox is just every other Bitcoin exchange’s gain. Payward, which runs the alt-coin exchange Kraken, said it just raised a $5 million Series A round. Hummingbird Ventures, whi...

Portal, the now-classic first-person puzzle game from Valve, will finally get an Android port thanks to Nvidia, the company announced today (via Verge). It’s going to be a full port spearheaded ...

Intel has just announced its acquisition of Basis Science, the hot wearable technology company based in San Francisco. As TechCrunch first reported, the startup went to the chip maker for around $100m...

Intel has just announced its acquisition of Basis Science, the hot wearable technology company based in San Francisco. As TechCrunch first reported, the startup went to the chipmaker for around $100 m...

Enterprise relationship manager RelateIQ has raised $40 million in new funding from Redpoint Ventures, KPCB, Felicis Ventures, and News Corp. According to the WSJ, RelateIQ was valued at $245 million ...

Marc Andreessen and Balaji Srinivasan, two of Bitcoin’s biggest bulls in the venture capital industry, stepped up their rhetoric againstskeptics of the crypto-currency today at the Coin Summit c...

Let’s say you’re building an iOS app. Your iOS app has lots of little animations — and you (or your designers) want to get the timing on those animations just right. Should that fanc...

“The attraction of the American revolution transported me suddenly to my place. I felt myself tranquil only when sailing between the continent whose powers I had braved.” —Lafayette,...

Nvidia’s Shield is the best Android gaming handheld currently available, and though the field isn’t that rich or deep, a new update coming to the device in April takes a solid offering and...

Y Combinator is kicking off its 19th (!!!!) demo day today at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, and the TechCrunch crew is on the ground to let you know which hot new startups investors wi...

A notable personnel departure is coming up in Cupertino: Cathy Edwards, the co-founder and CTO of app search and discovery platform Chomp, is leaving Apple on April 11, TechCrunch has learned. Apple, ...

The IRS has officially stated that bitcoin is a property - similar to any other valuable commodity - rather than a currency. What does this mean? Not much. In short, if you pay someone in bitcoin - in...

Maxthon has launched its first cloud browser for Linux. The release is partly due to requests from Maxthon's users, but also because the open-source operating system has become speedier, says Karl Mat...

Google is launching Managed Virtual Machines today, a new service on its Cloud Platform that gives developers the best new option for hosting their applications in the cloud. Instead of having to deci...

At its Cloud Platform event today, Google announced a number of massive price drops for virtually all of its cloud-computing services. The company has also decided to reduce the complexity of its pric...

BigQuery,Google's cloud-based tool for quickly analyzing very large datasets, is getting a massive price cut today (up to 85 percent). But Google is also adding an important new feature that will make...

It can be hard to see the connection between My Love From the Star, a freakishly popular Korean drama series which has received some 15 billion views online, and Uber Korea. Yet, in the past few days,...

Google is launching a wide range of updates for its Cloud Platform today that aim to make it more competitive in a market where Amazon Web Services is still the de facto platform for cloud-based appli...

Square announced that it has signed a lease to open an office for about 50 employees in Santa Clara.This is Square's second office in the San Francisco Bay Area, the first being its San Francisco head...

Facebook has begunrunning a “privacy checkup” campaign which prompts Facebook users on the desktop version of the website to check that they’re sharing their posts with the rightaudi...

Bottlenose, a startup that helps large brands find emerging trends, is expanding beyond social media today with the addition of Broadcast Analytics, which allows customers to see TV and radio data as ...

HTC is hardly unique in facing challenges updating its software for its Android smartphones – carriers must approve OS updates, including those forthe UI skins that Android OEMs make for their d...

Showyou has released an update to its apps that will make it easier for viewers to stream videos from their mobile phones and tablets to the TV via Chromecast. The company has also made changes to its...

Last year, Google launched its new inbox for Gmail, which automatically organizes messages from social networks, deals and offers, receipts and other messages into a set of folders.Today, it is pushin...

Apple quietly introduced a new “related search” suggestion feature on the iTunes App Store, which began rolling out yesterday to iPhone users on iOS 7 devices. The additioninvolvesshowing ...

Marketing analytics startup Bizible just announced a new feature allowing integrate Optimizely with Salesforce.com.Bizible CEO Aaron Bird said this integration is the first of its kind for Optimizely....

Taking a page from the SolarCity playbook, the hosted energy efficiency software and services company Noesis Energy has raised a new $30 million fund for energy efficiency project financing. Read More...

Smartphone manufacturers are increasingly focusing on health and fitness as part of their platform offerings, but HTC didn’t build its own homegrown health tracking solution with the new HTC One...

HTC has revealed its HTC One (M8) smartphone, the gorgeous, if somewhat inelegantly named Android flagship and successor to last year’s original HTC One, the best-selling phone in HTC’s hi...

After launching an iOS app a few years ago, chef-led recommendation startup Chefs Feed is coming to market with an Android version. And, to help grow its business, Chefs Feed has hired former Zinio co...

Honey, the useful web browser add-on whichautomatically finds and applies promo codes to your orders when shopping online, is today launching a new version of its service (aka "Honey 2.0") thatintrodu...

Say hey to rumr, a new messaging app that's vying to draw your attention away from all the other ways to say hey already in play. Rumr has been in the works for around half a year, raising an $800,000...

Remember last week, when HP CEO Meg Whitman casually mentioned the company’s plans to make a “big technology announcement” about 3D printing some time in June? Whoops! Looks like she...

As eBay's May 13 annual stockholders' meeting approaches, the e-commerce giant has published another letter to shareholders to drive home its opposition to activist investor Carl Icahn, his belief tha...

Spotify is making a land grab. In a space that's continues to fill up with competition from small startups and incumbents alike, Spotify is trying to acquire as many new users as possible with the lau...

Clever launched out of Y Combinator in 2012 on a mission to help K-12 schools unlock student data, keep it up to date and safely share that data with developers. In other words, Clever’s technol...

HTC will be showing off their new One smartphone at 11 AM ET in NYC today, but you can also follow along live and see the thing yourself via live streaming video. If you want to check it out as it hap...

Freightos, the Israel-headquartered startup that operates an online freight network to bring efficiencies, such as realtime quotes, to the freight industry, has raised $4.6 million Series B funding. T...

Since its launch last year, Porch has amassed a huge database of historical records about home improvement projects and other work done at homes all across the United States. On its own website, it is...

A virtual keyboard with a gamification element? That’s what Fleksy’s Android software just became, thanks to the big version 2.0 update of its app that just went live. The update offers a ...

Tactile, a new enterprise company that wants to help workers brings together all their customer information into one app, has raised $11.2 million in Series A funding from Accel Partners and Redpoint ...

Forter, an Israeli-based start-up that has developed a one-of-a-kind fraud solution for e-commerce merchants, has raised $3 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital. Read More ...

The all new HTC One, which is often referred to as the M8, will have a Google Play Edition as expected, according to new information from an unlikely source ahead of its official unveiling. The Play E...

Here's a Kickstarter project that wants to use your smartphone to extend the powers of something else: a basic microscope -- allowing for real-time videos of microbes doing weird stuff to be captured ...

Sony isn’t going to be one of Android Wear’s OEM partners, at least not in the foreseeable future. The company’s head of U.S. mobile operations Ravi Nookala told CNET in an interview...

Enswers, a Seoul-based company whose content recognition technology is embedded in Samsung Smart TVs, has launched Enswers America to expand its global business. Founded in 2007 and now an independent...

Poland is to put $100 million (300 million Zloty) into supporting small Ukrainian companies, which will obviously include tech companies by implication, and allow more Ukrainian companies to list on i...

Train ticket booking startup Capitaine Train just released its Android app. If you used the iPhone app at some point, you won’t feel lost as the Android app is very similar in design and feature...

Since being launched just a few years ago, New Zealand-based cloud point-of-sale startup Vend has grown incredibly fast. To keep pushing forward, Vend has raised an additional $20 million in Series B ...

New research by puts ivi.ru – a Video On Demand (VoD) provider in Russia of licensed content, both ad-sponsored and paid – as leader of the Russian market. However, the study from consulti...

Alibaba's upcoming public listing is expected to be one of the largest IPOs ever, but there are concerns that the Chinese e-commerce giant's rapid growth is tapering off as merchant spending slows and...

Ebuzzing and Teads, a pair ofEuropean adtech companies focused on video advertising, are tomerge — setting their sights on an IPO in 2015. The “Ebuzzing and Teads” group is beingcrea...

The UK’s PayasUgym, a startup that lets users search for and buy a discounted pass to a local gym, has raised a further round of funding: 1.6 million led by Albion Ventures and MMC Ventures, wit...

As Adobe kicks off its Digital Marketing Summit in Salt Lake City, the company is announcing a number of new features and products in the Adobe Marketing Cloud, its suite of products for digital marke...

Lots of pretty writing in New York Magazine writer Kevin Roose's "Is San Francisco New York" and New York Times writer Nick Bilton's response "Why San Francisco Is Not New York" so you should read the...

While Box was widely expected to be a money-losing shop, the extent of its losses and that it is accelerating surprised some. What the losses mean in the context of Box and its future is a complex que...

It was just over a month ago that Bellabeat, the startup that aims to be the go-to quantified self app for pregnancies, launched its flagship “connected system” for tracking pregnancies th...

For years, pundits and analysts have been suggesting that the only way for Apple to compete against cheap Android phones, especially in China and throughout Asia, was to produce a cheap iPhone. Well, ...

Physicists at Ohio State University have successfully sent an electron “down” a wire made of diamond, a first that could mean new methods of transferring data inside computer chips. As you...

The vast collusion between technology companies to prevent poaching and hiring among themselves, thereby limiting fair-market wages for the workers in question, has a new wrinkle today: Facebook refus...

Google has signed on Italian optical wear firm Luxottica to help it design and build future versions of its Glass face-based computing system, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal co...

Box CEO Aaron Levie is credited with bringing sexy back to enterprise startups, but the big suprise in Box's S-1 IPO document filed today is that Levie only owns 4.1% of the company. Meanwhile, invest...

Media conglomerate Disney has taken a big step to embracing the new digital world of video, acquiring of YouTube network Maker Studios for $500 million, with a potential $450 million in performance-ba...

Media conglomerate Disney has taken a big step to embracing the new digital world of video, announcing the acquisition of YouTube network Maker Studios for $500 million, along with a potential $450 mi...

Telegram, the mobile messaging app that offers secure communications created by VK.com co-founders Nikolai and Pavel Durov, today announced a new milestone in its traction, which has increased conside...

Because your home can always be smarter, allow me to introduce Droplet, the smart robotic gardener. Effectively replacing your sprinkler system, the Droplet tries to save you money and the world's wat...

The Box S-1 is out at last. The cloud storage company is looking to raise up $250 million in the flotation. That sum is less than its competitor Dropbox recently raised from the private markets. Box h...

The tech press can make it seem like the most important people in the industry are those with "founder" or "chief" in their job titles. But the truth is, the people who really make the tech industry t...

Over the past few weeks, IBM India has fired at least half a dozen top- to mid-level executives, as well as several others accused of fraud. The fraud led to a portion of the over $2 billion outsourci...

As news that 400 Bitcoin ATMs may soon be gracing the byways and highways of Dubai, it's interesting to note the rise in actual cryptoATM activity in recent months and what exactly is happening in thi...

Personal finance startup NerdWallet is announcing a couple of big hires today Dan Yoo (pictured) is joining as chief operating officer, while Florence Thinh is the company's new vice president of tal...

Tumblr today added a very important security feature to its service, with the addition oftwo-factor authentication – an option available within the blogging service’s “Settings”...

According to a report in ZDNet, Microsoft will change the name of its Windows Azure cloud computing platform to Microsoft Azure. The announcement is expected tomorrow, with an effective date of April ...

Bzzzt. Your phone vibrates. The problem? It's across the room.Maybe it's a text. Maybe someone just liked your Facebook photo. Maybe some dumb game wants to remind you to buy fake food for your fake c...

3D printing is the best kind of printing and Peter Weijmarshausen is one of the biggest names in this emerging market. His company, Shapeways, is the largest 3D-printing marketplace in the world and h...

Hot on the heels of our thoroughly entertaining DC and NYC meetups, we're opening up pitch-off applications for the Boston and Los Angeles meetups, going down on April 8 and April 10 respectively.Get ...

Google has released its Google Now notification integration for its desktop Chrome browser, and the update will begin rolling out today and continue to percolate over the coming weeks. The new feature...

Last April, Mozilla announced that Gary Kovacs was stepping down as the organization's CEO and that it would start looking for a replacement. At the time, Jay Sullivan took over as acting CEO in the m...

Basecamp,makers of the popular online project management softwareof the same name (which as of this February became the company’s main focus) was hit with adistributed denial-of-service attack(D...

It sounds odd to be talking about another photo sharing app, but a young company has - incredibly - come up with an entirely new take on the concept. Povio, a young startup from Slovenia, gained early...

To boost confidence in answers, host exclusive content, and bring in new audiences, Quora today launched Verified Profiles. First up is President Obama who will answer two affordable care act question...

Hired, a startup aiming to make hiring employees and finding a job easier and more efficient, has raised a $15 million Series A led by Crosslink and Sierra Ventures with participation from SoftTech an...

Journalism is dead. Or so said everyone who told me never to pursue a career in news gathering. Given the news industrys bleak statistics the past few decades, such fears have certainly been well-foun...

Apple is teaming up with NPR to offer its first news content on its iTunes Radio streaming audio offering, Re/code reports. The new channel goes live today, offerins 24 hours of live news and previous...

Though the "Flappy Bird" craze may be winding down - currently, there's only one "Flappy Bird" knock-off in the top 20 on the iTunes App Store - the longer lasting effects of the viral game and all it...

Gbatteries has come up with a new technology called BatteryOS that provides better performance without battery life degradation. The first example of this technology is BatteryBox, a rechargeable Lith...

PiinPoint is launching the pilot of its online platform this week, a product designed to help companies find and select their next physical location. The tool is not niche, and is designed to help a w...

This morning Major League Gaming, an e-sports company, launched an application for the Xbox360 console. The app will bring content from MLG’s MLG.tv gaming network of streams and tournaments and...

In a new demo video of how Thalmic Labs’ Myo gesture control armband might be used to control devices in the future, we see a player of the addictive puzzler 2048 interacting with the game with ...

Codementor, a one-on-one learning platform for software developers, has raised $600,000 in seed funding. The Techstars-backed site, which launched to the public last week and currently has more than 6...

Security company Palo Alto Networks has bought Cyvera, a cyber security company out of Israel. The deal is worth $200 million. The acquisition is expected to close during the second half of 2014. Cyve...

Google has launched a new iOS app with Chromecast-specific features called Photowall. The app, as detailed by 9to5Mac, lets users send photos from their device to their Chromecast-connected TV, and wo...

We've seen more personal e-vehicles sprout up in the last year than I care to remember, but today yet another joins the fray. Meet the JiveBike. Read More ...

Apps that help users make sense of their ever-growing photo collections through automatic organization and curation would seem to make sense, and offer a service people need. But over the past year or...

With one eye on businesses abandonedin the wake of the financial crisis and the other onanew generation of investors,startup companies are now raising significant sums to challenge the hegemony of big...

Music streaming service Spotify has announced that it's no longer accepting new app submissions for App Finder, its own app directory for third-party apps that reside and operate within its desktop cl...

Music streaming service Spotify has announced that it's no longer accepting new app submissions for App Finder, its own app directory for third-party apps that reside and operate within its desktop cl...

Music streaming service Spotify has announced that it's no longer accepting new app submissions for App Finder, its own app directory for third-party apps that reside and operate within its desktop cl...

The HTC One (not the old one, the new one) is being introduced tomorrow at an event in NYC that kicks of at 11 AM ET, but in case you weren’t yet tired of the steady stream of leaks that have ru...

We've all been there. You met someone at a conference who seems interesting, so you get out the business cards. Fast, not awkward, and socially OK. An alternative is you stand there and fire them an e...

U.K. startup, Silent Herdsman, has raised 3 million for its wearable collars for cattle that are designed to help dairy and beef farmers better manage their herds by detecting decision-triggering cond...

Square is releasing its point of sale app, Register, in Spanish, in an effort to onboard more Latino businesses. The company says Square Register, dashboard reports and analytics, online market, and m...

Nokia’s weird foray into Android is the Nokia X, a small, affordable smartphone that uses Google’s mobile OS, painted up as though it were almost a Windows Phone software variant. It’...

Nuji, a U.K. competitor to Wanelo and Lyst which also offers its users a platform to curate and share fashion and lifestyle products they reckon are worth buying, has closed a $2 million seed round wi...

wireWAX, which tags up online video with product tags so that users can buy starlight from the video, has signed a distribution deal with major US network TBS to launch a ‘shoppable’ episo...

It's the second year of operation for TechStars London and the accelerator has just named the 11 companies in its 2014 cohort -- which this year come from eight different countries including the U.S.,...

Today AOL UK launches its 'AOL On' Network in the UK. This is a premium video syndication platform that includes both curated and original content. The UK is the first market outside of North America ...

Today AOL UK launches its 'AOL On' Network in the UK. This is a premium video syndication platform that includes both curated and original content. The UK is the first market outside of North America ...

Nokia has informed the world this evening that it now expects its behemoth deal with Microsoft to close in April of this year, as opposed to the first calendar quarter of the annum, a timeframe that w...

Actifio, a data visualization management company that is preparing for an IPO, announced today that it has raised $100 million led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from previous investor...

The Internet is abuzz tonight with a report from the Wall Street Journal that Apple and Comcast have been talking about a streaming, over-the-top video service. Reportedly, those streams would be deli...

One of the things that defines BuzzFeed's apparently successful approach to advertising is the way its ads mirror its editorial content. So there have been sponsored lists, a sponsored feed of GIFs, a...

A change in UK tax law that may take force at the start of 2015 would push the price of apps, music and other downloads and “e-services” higher in the United Kingdom. The legal shift would...

In an unsurprising move, ATM operators and other financial organizations are beginning to look to Linux as a replacement for their outdated Windows XP installations. That these organizations are decid...

When it comes to cyberbullying in his anonyous sharing app, Secret co-founder claimed "We don't see very much of that, if any" when we spoke on stage at SXSW. Secret's user might disagree, and through...

Virtual View App, a London startup that offers an augmented reality publishing platform and app designed specifically for the property sector, has raised $500k in funding. Read More ...

Oculus didn't invent virtual reality but they sure as hell made people care about it again. As of this week, however, they no longer stand alone in their arena. Sony has decided they want to play the...

Anonymity is all the rage these days, and so we bring our attention to Whisper. This week, we're joined by Leena Rao, who has some mixed feelings about the craze around anonymous social sharing apps, ...

Slowly, quietly, but increasingly more noisily, startups originally hailing from Europe but going global have been raising larger and larger funding rounds. The linch-pin in the ecosystem has been fin...

The cloud hosting service DigitalOcean is one of the big startup success stories of the last year. Earlier this month, the company announced that it had raised a $37 million funding round led by Andre...

A Kickstarter success has just closed its seed funding round, raising $375,000 to continue its work of measuring the wind using a network of smartphones with a low-cost, electronics-free hardware acce...

And now, the moment you've all been waiting for. In just mere moments (depending on your reading comprehension level), I will reveal the winners of the TechCrunch DC and NYC Meetup Pitch-Offs, and you...

Today, you can be anywhere in the world in a matter of clicks. Thanks to globalization and the plucky old Information Superhighway, our world is shrinking. Inquisitive globetrotters can pop over to Go...

Today, you can be anywhere in the world in a matter of clicks. Thanks to globalization and the plucky old Information Superhighway, our world is shrinking. Inquisitive globetrotters can pop over to Go...

Mobile analytics firm Mixpanel has iOS 7 adoption covering the vast majority of Apple mobile devices, with its real-time adoption stat tracker showing between 88 and 90 percent of devices on the lates...

In the last two months, tiny Silicon Valley startups have proven their ability to upset the well-laid plans of autocrats half a world away. Just this week, Turkey’s Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip ...

The National Security Administration hacked Chinese networking giant Huawei and apparently gained access to the company's source code, according to documents seen by The New York Times and the German ...

The National Security Administration hacked Chinese networking giant Huawei and apparently gained access to the company's source code, according to documents seen by The New York Times and the German ...

Slowly, quietly, but increasingly more noisily, startups originally hailing from Europe but going global have been raising larger and larger funding rounds. The linch-pin in the ecosystem has been fin...

Ask three different smart, knowledgeable people in tech about their views on smartwatches, and youre bound to receive at least four plausible opinions on the matter. As someone hilariously snarked on ...

If you've ever had a major surgery or medical event, you know that the education around recovery leaves much to be desired. When I had a C-section with the birth of my daughter, the hospital gave me a...

Good layout design frames a story and impacts how you are informed by the content. For example, in the hallways of Sports Illustrated, editors hang up every page of the print edition to be reviewed an...

From solar-powered electronic toilets to a prototype that helps recharge mobile phones from urine, and another one that could potentially offer advertising slots while pooping among several revenue ge...

Mobile TV has never been a thing. Since the Sony Watchman in 1982, weve been excited at the prospect of mobile TV, but no matter how good our devices are, there still seems to be something missing. As...

In Silicon Valley, its sometimes easy to focus solely on social and other types of cutting-edge, digital advertising when advising startups on their marketing strategies. But these businesses can also...

The absolutely lovely irony with Popcorn Time is that it's doing for the distribution of pirated movies exactly what the movie industry needs to do for itself. Read More ...

In its effort to curtail access to Twitter, Turkey is getting more aggressive with a block of the service's IP address, according to sources inside Turkey as well as a DNS provider. That means that ch...

In an effort to improve the quality of discussions that crop up on Hacker News, Y Combinator founding partner Paul Graham yesterday announced some imminent changes to the way comments would be posted ...

I was driving to a meeting in San Francisco when I got the message: Facebook to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion. I pulled over and watched as messages started to stream in. Everyone had the same question...

EyeEm, the Berlin-based startup which focuses on high quality photo-sharing, has signed a partnership with Getty Images to license EyeEm images across its platforms, including on iStock by Getty Image...

The social media crackdown in Turkey continues, as the country has moved to block backdoor access to communications services like Twitter via Google DNS. YouTube, another service offered by the global...

EyeEm, the Berlin-based startup which focuses on high quality photo-sharing, has signed a partnership with Getty Images to license EyeEm images across its platforms, including on iStock by Getty Image...

Vicarious, a San Francisco-based company that developed technology to solve Captcha queries last fall, just raised a big new $40 million round from investors including Joe Lonsdale’s Formation 8...

The Gillmor Gang Dan Farber, Semil Shah, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor wade into the rumors that Twitter is dumping @Reply and #Hashtag from the mix. Scoble and Teare in...

It’s Friday, and that means its time for another episode of CrunchWeek. This time, sitting around the White Table with me were my two excellent colleagues Kim-Mai Cutlerand Ryan Lawler. We dug t...

Imagine you're a 17-year-old girl at a well-to-do high school in Los Angeles, and you just discovered Snapchat. Until that moment, every time you thought about sending risqu photos to your romantic in...

Drop whatever what youre doing and go read Maciej Cegowskis absolutely magnificent essay Our Comrade The Electron, an astonishing history of the amazing Russian engineer Lev Sergeyevich Termen. Make s...

Almost exactly a year ago I wrote a piece about a new random photo-sharing app called Rando, built by a London app & design studio, ustwo -- an app that prefigured the current preoccupation for ap...

New York City-based CommonBond launched in late 2012 on a mission to bring the the power of person-to-person lending and crowdsourcing to the student debt crisis. With student debt in the U.S. having ...

According to TechCrunch, law is the sector with the least VC investment. Im not at all surprised by that. Ive been practicing law for nearly 25 years, in myriad settings (large firm, GC at a tech comp...

The best part of Sergey Brin's mid-90s resume is tucked away somewhere the casual observer generally wouldn't think to look: the source code. Read More ...

Apple already has iTunes Radio, but it's hoping to go further in the direction of on-demand music, according to a report in Billboard that cites "three people familiar with the talks" between Apple an...

It is officially spring and Disrupt NY is fast approaching. We have already announced some amazing speakers, which so far include Vine co-founder and GM Colin Kroll, Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler, ...

Twitter just announced that it will be removing its #Music app from the App Store "later this afternoon." For those who have already downloaded it, the app will stop working on April 18. #Music's disa...

Ready to be exterminated, puny flesh bag! TIDWRTWHUFOO thinks so! Today's robots will walk all over your heart, face, and stomach and, more important, smile while they do it! Read More ...

AT&T just turned the high-stakes debate between Netflix and telecommunications companies into a name-calling food fight. AT&T Senior Executive Vice President of Legislative Affairs, James Cicc...

In this week’s episode of Ask A VC Javelin Venture Partners’ Alex Gurevich stopped by the studio to talk about messaging, marketplaces and more. Gurevich, who helped establish one of the f...

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney today responded to the Turkish government's attempt to block Twitter in the country. The suppressive effort failed in the most basic sense, as Twitter users coul...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Semil Shah, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm PST. Chat here https://friendfeed.com/realtime-network/95d840cc/...

Ness, the personalized restaurant recommendation app acquired by OpenTable last month, now has an expiration date. The company announced that the app would be discontinued on April 21, just a few mont...

We're very pleased to announce that Sam Altman, the newly appointed president of the renowned Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator, will be joining us onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY in Ma...

Sony is selling its PS4 as fast as it can. But the company has experienced supply constraints ever since its launch in November 2013. And don’t expect to find a PS4 on your store shelf anytime s...

As Windows XP winds down, Microsoft has a problem: People still use the operating system. Many people. Given that support for Windows XP ends on April 8, the number of days left in which the OS is mos...

It's been an exciting week in the land of gadgets. Google revealed a version of Android built for smart watches, and LG and Motorola subsequently revealed their hardware to go along with it. A slew of...

Screenburn, which specialises in video-on-demand events, with fans paying to watch films or concerts, has raised $500K (302k) in angel investment to expand. The company is used by musicians and filmma...

Help appears to be at hand for Turkey, where Twitter access has been cut off after the Prime Minister accused it of helping people spread false information about him. Twitter has announced that it is ...

Imagine you have a huge sign-up list for your yet-to-launch startups or you are a quickly growing company with 50 new sales leads coming in every day. Who are those people signing up for your product?...

According to Bill Rouse, the GM of Yellow Cabs of Los Angeles, riding in an Uber car is more dangerous than catching a traditional cab. Read More ...

Funk band Vulfpeck is showing everyone what growth hacking is all about — exploiting weaknesses to promote your work. The band recently released a new album on Spotify called Sleepify. It consis...

If there's one thing 500 Startups knows pretty well, it's how to find companies that know how to sell. Over the course of the last few years, the seed-stage investment firm has made numerous bets on e...

A new game out now on the App Store features mechanics virtually identical to those found in viral hit Flappy Bird, but with a key twist – the game can be made easier through sheer physical effo...

If you build it, they will come? Half a dozen or so applications have launched in recent months, hoping to dominate what they all hope will be one of the next big trends in mobile messaging: the ̶...

Playing basketball is fun, but I am bad at it. I might be less bad if I used the Hoop Tracker smartwatch, which is designed very specifically for basketball, unlike most wearables that aim at a more g...

In a fascinating project, researchers at University of California San Diego and the University of Toronto have found that computers are far better than humans at recognizing the difference between rea...

There has been a lot of talk about iBeacons since they launched with iOS 7 last fall, but much of the focus has been on how they benefit retailers and add to the in-store shopping experience. They hav...

Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer is a troll, but he's not a criminal. This is clear. In his recent appearance in federal appellate court in Philadelphia, the ignorance surrounding his actions and the lack o...

Some consolidation afoot in the world of food and lifestyle properties. Gojee, a recipe aggregation site organised around big pictures, specific ingredients and themes, has quietly been acquired by XO...

Do you desire a teeny, tiny, little Arduino board with OLED display? You bet you do! Microview is a new "chip-sized" Arduino on Kickstarter that costs $45. What can it do? All kinds of stuff! Read Mor...

Website creation software is a dime-a-dozen. You press a button, type in some jazz, and come up with a one page website for you and yours. But what if I said there was something that could make it eve...

How many times have you stepped out of the group to click pictures, feeling left out as others posed? Or have there been instances when you’re jostling to get back for a group picture after sett...

Mt.Gox, the bankrupt online currency exchange, said that it has located 200,000 bitcoin in a digital wallet. In a filing, CEO Mark Karpeles disclosed that the currency, which is worth about $118 milli...

Following a court document revealing that Microsoft read the email of a third-party blogger to uncover an internal leak, the company this evening announced a policy change, effective immediately, rega...

It's still very early days for mobile payments, with the vast majority of consumers still not convinced that it really is a lot easier to pay for things using their phones instead of pulling out a pay...

Blogging platform Medium has released a simple app for the iPhone that allows users to read articles from the site. They're presented as a feed that's recommended for you automatically, though article...

After the Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoanpromised that he would “wipe out” Twitter after it apparently ignored court orders asking the site to remove certain corruption allegations, t...

When Netflix agreed to pay Comcast as part of a peering agreement in the wake of the legal demise of net neutrality, the landscape of the Internet changed.Netflix CEO Reed Hastings today published an ...

Leap Motion won a lot of buzz early on for its motion controller, which is designed to make it possible for users to interact with their computer through gestures alone. The early buzz and pre-order i...

All social issues aside, Google Glass is an impressive kit of technology. However, that might not be enough to secure its future. The novel PR campaign that is the Google Glass Explorer program seems ...

Model by model, the iPhone is getting better at taking photos at night without making everyone look like spooky-ass ghosts but you can only go so far with one or two little LEDs.But what about 56 lit...

Microsoft caught and fired an employee who leaked confidential software to a French blogger. That blogger then published screenshots of Windows 8 to the Internet before Microsoft's official announceme...

As the world continues to see more and more everyday objects become "hardware" controlled through operating systems and internet connectivity, an ex-Apple engineer called JP Labrosse is hoping to take...

A new report about the state of iOS usage in China from mobile analytics firm Mixpanel reveals a lot of interesting info about how one of Apple’s most important international markets is adopting...

Collaborative consumption marketplaces have taken off in recent years to let people share many of the big ticket items in their lives: houses, apartments, cars. A new startup called Style Lend is gunn...

Qik, a company that was very early on in the stream-live-video-from-your-phone trend that popped up and then quickly faded around 2008-2009, is being retired by its parent company, Skype. Skype acquir...

When Rey Faustino migrated from the Philippines to Southern California as an eight-year-old, he saw his family hustle to make ends meets in their new homeland. “I grew up in a working-class fami...

Last December, Google announced a new version of Sheets, its online spreadsheet app that's part of its Google Drive productivity suite. Until now, this new version was opt-in only, but starting today,...

Pinterest for education startup Learnist wants to provide its users with all the tools needed to create, curate, and share content that can be used to learn a wide variety of subjects. Now, less than ...

The Guardian newspaper made headlines yesterday for a story claiming the tech companies were not entirely truthful about their knowledge of National Security Agency spying. News outlets quickly picked...

A day after releasing the stable version of Firefox 28, Mozilla today launched the first beta version of Firefox 29. While there wasn't all that much interesting in Firefox 28, the latest beta version...

Perhaps you have heard of this thing calls ‘apps.’ As the app industry has grown and matured, its complexity has mushroomed. Making sense of what’s up and what’s down is incred...

Startups are flocking to Detroit for the cheap space, amazing engineering talent and sheer marketability of the area. Nothing says a company supports "Made in America" stronger than a Detroit address....

It would seem that Lily Cole set herself, literally, an impossible task. Trying to convince the world that it could go on Impossible.com or its associated iOS app, place almost any kind of wish, from ...

It would seem that Lily Cole set herself, literally, an impossible task. Trying to convince the world that it could go on Impossible.com or its associated iOS app, place almost any kind of wish, from ...

Today Google announced that it has enhanced encryption for its Gmail email service, bolstering security to protect customers from prying eyes, especially those of governments. As of today, Gmail will ...

Crowdtap, a startup that connects brands with consumers to spur the creation of promotional social media content, is announcing that it has raised $5 million in Series B funding. The company announced...

The Starbucks mobile app with digital tipping options, previewed last week, has arrived in the App Store. iPhone users can grab it now, and get the new digital tipping option if they’re based in...

Exclusive: Gigwalk, a mobile app that allows consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies to enable a mobile workforce, has raised $10 million from Nokia Growth Partners (NGP), new investor Randstad Holdin...

SimilarWeb, the Tel Aviv-based web rankings provider and competitor to services like comScore and Alexa, is announcing today that it has acquired fellow Israeli startup, Tapdog, makers of a competitiv...

Think Gaming already provides data that should help developers find out how users are interacting with their games and how those games stack up against the competition. Now, with the help of new game ...

Toronto-based startup and online electronic design automation platform and hardware hacker community has raised $2.3 million in seed funding, the company revealed to TechCrunch today. The funding is f...

Orange and France’s main intelligence agency (the DGSE) have been cooperating illegally for years. According to a newly found report by Edward Snowden and Le Monde‘s investigation, the DGS...

Shoobs is a U.K. startup aiming to become Ticketmaster for local nightlife events. Wondering which hot DJs are coming to your corner of town soon? Shoobs wants to be the place you go to figure out whe...

Hospitality startup Airbnb has seen more than 11 million guests stay on the platform since being launched in 2007, and increasingly those guests are traveling to, from, or in-between nations in Europe...

Whatever is happening in the political sphere (and let's face it, quite a lot is happening), Russia's home-grown technology market continues to grow as the market matures. Although the seed funding bo...

When Bret Taylor, the ex-CTO of Facebook, co-foundedmobile-first word processing app Quipwith ex-Googler Kevin Gibbs,the move appeared to be a world away from the work Taylor had done to help build th...

When Bret Taylor, the ex-CTO of Facebook, co-foundedmobile-first word processing app Quipwith ex-Googler Kevin Gibbs,the move appeared to be a world away from the work Taylor had done to help build th...

The Paris-based European childcare platform Yoopies has acquired local competitor (and neighbour) Yokoro to expand the range of homecare services offered via its marketplace. As it stands, Yoopies mat...

Twitter has launched a microsite called “#FirstTweet” that helps you find your point of origin on the social network site, which, if you’re a regular user and have been a member for ...

Samsung has released some pricing information on its Gear 2 and Gear Fit smartwatch devices, and the news should be welcome considering they’re both priced cheaper than the original Galaxy Gear ...

Sometimes lightning does strike twice. Mobile trivia app QuizUp gained a million new signups after just its first week on Android. With 100,000 new signups daily, that success on Android follows its i...

What happens when superheroes either commit or are the victims of violent crime? That’s the question Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming set out to answer with Powers, their original co...

Parents looking to plan their children’s extracurricular activities, find summer camps or day programs, are these days faced with a fairly time-consuming task, and one which involves more than a...

Munich, Germany-based mobile and web app crowdtesting startup, Testbirds, which lets companies outsource their app testing to its sizeable network of testers, has closed a 2.1 million ($2.9 million) S...

FitBit now faces a class-action lawsuit over rashes caused by the FitBit Force. The company previously issued public statements and recalled the product after 1.7% of Force users had reported an irrit...

Poncho, an email app out of betaworks, is my favorite little weather service. With a quippy email each morning, I’m always prepared for sun, snow or showers. The only caveat: In almost a year of...

We all know that chat apps are pretty hot right now and there are plenty of companies hoping for a WhatsApp-like exit. For the most part, all of those apps are pretty similar, but FireChat, which is l...

Since the Tribune Company launched its technology and innovation arm, Tribune Digital Ventures, it's been trying to find new ways to appeal to both consumers and its partners. The latest move in that ...

UberConference, the winner of our TechCrunch NYC 2012 startup battlefield competition, is relaunching its iPhone app today.The companypreviously launchedan iPhone appback in December 2012, but then re...

Ooooh, fishy, fishy, fishy fish! Tel Aviv-based Digigage has created a new form of digital screen for elevators that "adds depth," "can transport occupants to a completely new environment," and genera...

Technology has the potential to throw the old adage "it's the thought that counts" into disarray if an algorithm does the thinking for you. Enter Spanish startup Giftri, another attempt to tap Faceboo...

HP CEO Meg Whitman casually noted that the company would have a "big technology announcement" in June related to the 3D printing space, a move that could place 3D printers into the hands of casual hom...

Samsung is never shy about throwing shade on its competitors, and a new ad for its Galaxy Pro series of tablets is no exception. The new video calls out not only Apple’s iPad, but also the Micro...

In a world where everything from sensors in your shoe, to refrigerators, television and jet engines are going to be connected on the web to create the Internet of Things, there are many opportunities ...

Athletic wearable devices are not anything new, but a new product launching today on Indiegogo has a different take from the myriad activity trackers out there: The SmartMio connected sports muscle st...

Apple has a new patent application published today by the USPTO (via AppleInsider), which details a stylus with a nib that can be extended to take advantage of multi-touch capabilities for a wider bru...

Location-pinpointing startup, what3words, which is on a missing to reinvent the postcode has topped up its seed round with a further $1 million. Read More ...

KnCMiner, one of the few cryotcurrency miner companies that tend to ship product, has announced that they sold $2 million worth of their scrypt mining Titan rigs in four hours, a new record for the co...

Tango, the mobile messaging application that allows users to text, play games and make free voice and video calls, is today announcing $280 million in Series D funding, in a round led by China's Aliba...

Peer-to-peer lending platform Lending Club, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace, is announcing a major expansion today into business loans. Read More ...

Accel Partners, one of the Silicon Valley’s biggest venture capital firms best known for its early investment in Facebook, has raised two new funds totaling $1.475 billion, Forbes reported earli...

Ezetap, a Bangalore-based mobile payment startup thatuses a rectangular device to turn any mobile phone into a point-of-sales terminal when plugged in, is raising additional funding from American Expr...

Google co-founder Larry Page made a rare appearance at the TED conference and expounded on a few ideas he thinks will change the world. “Wouldn’t it be amazing to have anonymous medical re...

Microsoft released a OneNote client for OS X and made the application free across all five large mobile and desktop operating systems. The OS X app was a hit, spiking to the top of the Mac App Store a...

A lot of tech employees say that they are at the office "24/7" as they "eat, sleep, and breathe" whatever new gadget or app they're cooking up. But in this episode of TechCrunch Cribs, we toured a com...

Ryan McGeehan has recently announced on Facebook, fittingly, that he is leaving his role at Facebook as its Director of Security Incident Response, and taking up a security-related role at Coinbase.Hi...

Ryan McGeehan has recently announced on Facebook, fittingly, that he is leaving his role at Facebook as its Director of Security Incident Response, and taking up a security-related role at Coinbase.Hi...

TuneUp, the app that cleans up your iTunes and Windows Media Player library (by correcting song information, providing missing cover art, and more), seemed to reach the end of the road last month with...

Remember YouNoodle? The startup attracted some controversy all the way back in 2008 for saying it could algorithmically predict the success of startups. Since then, the business and the product may ha...

The White House needs a few good data scientists to help its climate change campaign. Instead of creating all of the doomsday scenarios itself, the White House is opening up government data so that re...

Striving to be as real as possible, more like in King of the Hill rather than Beavis and Butthead, Mike Judge's upcoming Silicon Valley TV show mixes in healthy doses of real startup life. That means ...

Today Box announced that Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior will join its board of directors, thus adding another outside member and woman to its leadership team. Warrior was also previously the CTO of Motor...

In the wise words of Rafiki, "it is time." The New York TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off is going down tomorrow night, Thursday March 20, at 6pm on the dot at Santos Party House. Be there, or hate yourse...

Take a new look at Facebook’s upcoming tree-studded Engineering Building. Sprawling over 22 acres of Palo Alto, the 435,000 square feet compound is designed by famed architect Frank Gehry. These...

Brazils Congress is days away from voting on Marco Civil, the countrys first major internet legislation, and the big issue at stake is net neutrality. Read More ...

Motorola hosted a live Hangout with Jim Wicks, the lead designer of the Moto 360 Android Wear-based smartwatch, and the discussion started with the inspiration for the product and moved to its specifi...

Prominent tech leaders flooded Twitter with outrage at Seattle’s decision to severely limit the number of private ride-sharing drivers from companiessuch as Uber and Lyft.“Corruption. Lite...

So you've decided you want to learn to code, but don't know where to start. There are dozens of services out there that can help you find your way, but a new YC-backed company wants to teach you how t...

Licensing a big 3D engine (like Unreal) to build your video game has always been... kind of hard. Pricing was done case-by-case. You had to explain what you were up to, negotiate for weeks; it wasn't ...

Pantheon is one of the most popular website platforms for Drupal, but today, it's also expanding into hosting WordPress installs. Read More ...

Toronto-based Aislelabs wants retailers to be able to see the path of their customers, from the macro level right down to their in-store experience, using a combination of technologies include GPS, Wi...

I hope you enjoyed your life over the past month and a half; Flappy Bird is coming back to the App Store after its removal earlier this year, according to the game’s developer Dong Nguyen. Gawke...

Comcast wants to make all of its content available on all devices, including its mobile apps. With that in mind, the company announced this morning that it was adding a host of new live channels to it...

There is an old saying in poker that if you don't know who the sucker at the table is - it's you. The same can be said of critical decisions in a board meeting or frankly any other meeting where major...

Less than a year after acquiring India’s largest online bus travel booking site Redbus for around $135 million, Ibibo is doubling down on the segment in India for a bigger merging markets play b...

Less than a year after acquiring India’s largest online bus travel booking site redbus for around $135 million, ibibo is doubling down on the segment in India for a bigger emerging markets play ...

Startup accelerator Y Combinator just announced that it's added a couple new partners, both of whom have been through the program. Alums Justin Kan and Aaron Harris have joined to help mentor the star...

Huawei this morning announced that it has changed its mind and will not release a dual-OS handset with both Android and Windows Phone in "the near future." This is a reversal of its previous strategy ...

LaunchBit, an email ad network that launched in 2012, is taking a new direction in the words of co-founder Elizabeth Yin, "LaunchBit is pivoting to a customer acquisition platform for SaaS companies....

Web browsers, for the most part, can't use the full power of your computer or mobile device. The code they execute tends to run in a sandbox that's abstracted from your hardware and doesn't give the b...

Google Glass is facing some challenges in terms of public perception and an ongoing debate about its role in the public forum, but it has some potential in specific realms that could be very exciting,...

Amazon.com-owned Quidsi is relaunching its eco products destination Vine.com under a new name today, VineMarket.com, and shifting its focus beyond just “green” products and healthy foods, ...

Oculus has unveiled a Rift development kit to replace the first-generation one it stopped selling just last week, and the $350 developer hardware ups the game considerably over its predecessor. The ne...

Ever wanted to buy a boat but couldn't swing the cost? Well, print one. That's what the guy behind Grass Roots Engineering did. Read More ...

LUUV is a camera stabilizer that lets you video fast moving action more-or-less shake-free due to its 3D printed design. What LUUV promises is something like the 'democratization' of the steady-cam. I...

Base, a cross-platform CRM tool for sales teams, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series B funding round led by RRE Ventures, Index Ventures and OCA Ventures. Other investors include S...

Google Maps is announcing a small update today that makes life a bit easier for developers who want to use the service by adding GeoJSON support to its JavaScript API. GeoJSON is an open-source data f...

It looks like Autodesk has taken one more step forward in its bid to compete more with the likes of Adobe in the business of providing tools to the design community, but also a bigger step into the ma...

SnipSnap, the growing mobile couponing app (and former TechCrunch Disrupt battlefield participant) with nearly 3 million users, launched a second app today to address a trend they had been seeing amon...

You're a musician that needs to make your music video look good. You might use Outlisten. On Fanfootage you could create a video by getting fans to video your gig from many angles. So there are a few...

Though Nest has made a dent in home automation with its smart thermostat, the company hasn't really addressed those of us who live in old apartment buildings with window AC units as our only summer sa...

Marketeers are often struggling to sift through available customer databases and identify customer leads that can be converted into revenue opportunities. While large enterprises treat this as a big d...

Second-hand designer fashion has become big business online. Just look at the success of Nasty Gal in the U.S. which has done well out of vintage pieces as well as new clothing, shoes, and accessories...

One of the problems with mailing lists today, especially when used for work-related purposes or organizing large groups around some sort of project, is that they can quickly become overwhelming. Annoy...

Samsung is in talks with SK Telecom to release a version of the Gear 2 which has its own SIM and can make calls without needing a smartphone connection, according to a new report from The Korea Herald...

As more people turn away from PCs and turn to smartphones and tablets for their online fix, the market for mobile ads continues to shift, too. Figures out today from research firm eMarketer note that ...

Sorry, Xbox 360 owners. EA hates you. Titanfall is delayed again. According to a blog post published this morning, the mech FPS is now launching on April 8 in North America, and beginning on April 11 ...

Blue River Technology, which uses robotics and computer vision to optimize agriculture by, for instance, determining which lettuces to thin out of a row and which to keep, has closed a$10 million Seri...

Since launching at SFO last year, FlightCar has taken the Airbnb model for peer-to-peer lending and applied it to the airport car rentals. But, as one might imagine, that's a logistically intensive bu...

The Konami Code strikes again. Go to a Google search bar and using voice, search for "Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right." And just like that, you'll have unlimited free Google searches.Of c...

Wickr, one of the wave of messaging apps built on the idea of private, encrypted and self-destructing data, has vowed never to make money off its users -- with its app remaining free, and user data ne...

New Relic, maker of server and application-monitoring tools for developers, today announced what is probably the company's biggest release since it launched in 2008. With New Relic Insights (formerly ...

Virtual reality is bound to be a part of the future of gaming, and Toronto-based Sulon Technologies is debuting their own take on this exciting space at GDC in San Francisco. Their Cortex gaming platf...

Kiip continues to build its relationships with the ad world, announcing today that it has partnered with VivaKi, the digital innovation arm of Publicis Groupe. The startup pitches its model, where bra...

Platfora, a startup focused on bringing businesses intelligence from big data, has raised $38 million led by Tenaya Capital, which brings the companys total financing to $65 million. Also participatin...

Parchment, a startup which has taken the offline, aging process of getting and sharing academic and other credentials online, today announced a $10 million round of follow-on funding, bringing its tot...

Invenias, a U.K.-headquarted company that sells cloud software for the executive search and recruitment sector and has an interface that works within Microsoft Outlook, has topped up its funding with ...

Meet Hublo, a recently launched analytics service that is easier to use than your average analytics tool. It works a lot like Mixpanel, KISSmetrics and others, but you don’t have to write a sing...

The UK's Meducation, an online education network for medical students and practitioners, has raised $1 million in seed funding. Part of the round -- approx. $300,000 -- comes from the UK taxpayer-fund...

Google's USB dongle, the Chromecast, which plugs into your TV so you can stream Google's browser/OS over your Wi-Fi network to the big screen to watch terrible quality YouTube clips on your HDTV, has ...

The dual-screen Android-powered e-ink hybrid YotaPhone smartphone, which bites its thumb at those that say there's nothing new in smartphone hardware, has gone on sale in the U.K. Read More ...

Over the last decade, Brazil has “come online” in a big way. The percentage of people using the Web in Brazil leapt from 9 percent in 2002 to about 50 percent in 2012, according to the ITU...

Y Combinator's new head macher has taken to the blogosphere to renew a call made roughly five years ago for the U.S. to create a "founders visa." Initially proposed by Paul Graham (Y Combinator's orig...

And just like that, the Virtual Reality wars have begun. Firing a shot across the bow of Oculus (the company responsible for getting many people excited about virtual reality again, after the myriad f...

Over a decade ago I was a happy man. In about 2002 I bought an Archos Jukebox. It was 6GB monstrosity, clad in metal and full of huge batteries, and it contained a clicking, whirring 2.5-inch hard dri...

The demise of Mt.Gox has been met with the launch of Bitcoin’s Ft. Knox and the establishment of new proprietary exchanges from institutional investment trading platforms as investors attempt to...

The National Security Agency has the capability to replay all telephone calls for 30 days from an entire country, according to documents obtained from Edward Snowden by the Washington Post. Read More ...

Pandora is getting a little more expensive. Starting in May, and for new subscribers, the Pandora One monthly subscription service will cost $5. Existing subscribers that remain active will keep payin...

Pebble is one company that came to mind when Google unveiled its Android Wear smartwatch (and eventually, other wearables) development platform. The small startup has been creating smartwatch hardware...

Nuzzel, the social news service created by Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, is leaving beta testing and opening to all users.Previously, you had to request an invite before you could use Nuzzel. In...

So, this happened Today: Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin hung out with whistleblower Edward Snowden, who was attending the TED conference via a telepresence robot. You may want to read that last sentenc...

Cloudera, the startup that commercially distributes and services Apache Hadoop based data management software and services, has raised $160 million led led by T. Rowe Price, and including an investmen...

In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a new book out about Apple by ex-WSJ reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane called Haunted Empire. Kane covered the Apple beat at WSJ for years, and her book deals ...

At Facebook, the security team isn't holed up in some basement wearing tinfoil hats. It's embedded across the company so any department dealing with sensitive data or access has security researchers i...

Boostable, which is part of the current class of startups at incubator Y Combinator, says it's giving the individual sellers on online marketplaces a smarter way to promote themselves. If someone's tr...

Anonymous social networking is the new social media. (Or the new “SoLoMo.” We’ll see.) Developers are attacking the space right and left these days, it seems, despite the controversi...

There's no question that the future of commerce lies in providing a more personalized experience to consumers. And Birchbox has quietly created an $80 million business out of a subscription e-commerce...

Entrepreneurs in India’s nascent, but fast growing startup ecosystem are realizing that getting an early investor who appreciates their idea is increasingly becoming difficult. Sometimes it̵...

With its $930 million acquisition of business-to-business travel software provider TravelClick, private equity firm Thoma Bravo is showing that it’s more than just venture capital firms that are...

The new HTC One might be the most leaked phone in history. Pics, specs, camera details release date and new features have leaked over the last few months long ahead of its March 25th debut. Even HTC i...

It seems like we can't go a week these days without hearing about some new startup making a new 3D printer that wants to be better and cheaper than everything else.MadeSolid, a YC-backed company out o...

OneNote for Mac has become most popular free Mac app in the App Store in a single day, besting OS X update Mavericks, which was released in October. The app is now available across both major PC platf...

Back in 2010, Nurph was a tiny boot-strapped startup working on a platform which turned Twitter into a realtime chat platform. Developed by Neil Cauldwell, the app got a little Angel cash and tinkered...

Dropbox's business software is ready for a big sales push a it bounds towards an anticipated IPO, so today it announced the opening of a sales and engineering office in New York City. In its first pla...

Mozilla today launched the latest version of its Firefox browser. The main feature in this release was originally supposed to be support for the Windows 8 Metro mode, but as the organization announced...

If you work at a startup or tech company, one of the perks you've probably gotten used to is a free lunch. Those meals have become ubiquitous through a number of tech companies in San Francisco, but t...

Until April, you can take a Timeful quiz to get some helpful tips, personalized to your current productivity level. Read More ...

Over the years, riders of Uber and Lyft have griped about the dynamic pricing that kicks in whenever there are periods of high demand. But that's partly because dynamic pricing only ever caused prices...

Even if you don't know what Unity is, you've probably played a game made with it. Unity is a game development engine that has skyrocketed in popularity over the last few years. Its main draw: you buil...

Motorola is an early partner for Google’s new Android Wear smartwatch SDK, and that’s not surprising given that the company was Google owned until Lenovo began the procedure of buying it i...

Unity and Mozilla today announced that they are bringing the Unity game engine to the web using the WebGL standard and Mozilla's asm.js. Read More ...

The cross-platform mobile software company BlueStacks may be rethinking its approach to living room-based mobile gaming with the GamePop and its distribution model, but it’s still signing up big...

Google has announced a new smartwatch platform called Android Wear, which offers it a way to help OEM partners come up with hardware to get users into wearable devices. The first such device will be t...

Google has announced a new smartwatch platform called Android Wear, which offers it a way to help OEM partners come up with hardware to get users into wearable devices. Among the first such devices wi...

Percolate, a startup that helps marketers create content and share it on social networks, is announcing that it has raised a $24 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital. Co-founder James Gross told me...

Nitrous.IO, which offers developers a flexible and collaborative online development environment, today announced that it has closed a $6.65 million funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Read...

My free lunch is about to end. I’m one of a few hundred thousand customers enjoying free monthly home phone service.* We use a low-cost analog telephone adapter (ATA) called an OBi, connected to...

Waygo, an app that lets you translate Chinese by hovering your phone over text, just added support for Japanese. Waygo recently won the SXSW 2014 Accelerator program and is also a 500 Startups alum. R...

Wedding startups are a plenty, but fewer reach the milestone of a Series A round. So Raleigh, N.C.-basedWedPicshas something to celebrate. The company,an online and mobile platform that allows couples...

Seattle-based Simply Measured announced this morning that it has raised a$20 million Series C round of capital, led by Trinity Ventures. Prior investors such as Bessemer Ventures, MHS Capital, and oth...

The European Commission has announced it is making 100 million ($USD140 million) available to entrepreneurs and startups from anywhere – not just Europe – to create a prototype ‘smar...

Facebook has reached a major milestone in computer vision and pattern recognition, with ‘DeepFace,’ an algorithm capable of identifying a face in a crowd with 97.25 percent accuracy, which...

Data management platform Lotame just announced that it's acquiring startup AdMobius. AdMobius was founded by three alums for Apple's iAd program and from Quattro Wireless, the company that Apple acqui...

This your final reminder to get tickets to our Washington D.C. Meetup, which is going down tonight. The event will start promptly at 6pm at The Park at Fourteenth. Not only will we have some of the bi...

Poshmark, the mobile marketplace that lets women swap and sell items out of their own closets, is announcing a big partnership with the United States Postal Service. This marks one of the first times ...

Equity crowdfunding platform FundedByMe has launched a fund-raising campaign of its own today. It's hoping to raise 3 million SEK (approx 315,000) through its platform. In other words, this is another...

New York-based startup Tawkers has launched a new iPhone app that lets users publish their texts to its platform and creates a public forum for text-based conversations from your cell phone. Let’...

HTC continues to do an absolutely terrible job of plugging leaks related to its upcoming HTC One flagship smartphone which replaces last year’s HTC One of the same name. Today, we learned the ne...

Pandora's Chief Technology Officer Tom Conrad announced on the company blog that he's shifting to an advisory role, and that Vice President of Engineering Chris Martin will be taking his place as CTO....

Google is said to be planning to roll Google Voice features into Hangouts, its cross-platform communication app, possibly in time for Google I/O, according to a new report from 9to5Google. The Hangout...

New York’s commercial real estate industry is about as close as you can get to the Wild West these days. Investors and lenders are spending far too much time researching properties and still com...

Postmates has spent the past few years offering delivery of lunch and other goodies in San Francisco and other markets. Now the company, which provides can get damn near anything couriered to your doo...

LifePrint wants to bring back the fun associated with printing out photos – something users once marveled they could do at home with store-bought printers until social media reached critical mas...

Some good old games are about to come to Linux. GOG.com just announced that it has been working on supporting Linux for sometime and expects to launch titles this Fall. Mint and Ubuntu will get the GO...

Google is announcing a number of updates today to its AdMob mobile ad platform the most-requested ones, according to Jonathan Alferness (Google's direct of product management for mobile ads), are int...

Companies like FON and Boingo have made hay the last few years with Wi-Fi marketplaces. Now an Italian startup wants in on the act. Cloud4Wi plans to expand internationally (starting with a new San Fr...

1248 is a Cambridge, U.K. based b2b startup, founded last year, to sell Internet of Things related consultancy, software and services to other companies wanting help to scale up connected devices plat...

AltSchool, a new startup aiming to transform K-8 education and schools, has raised $33 million in Series A financing led by Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz, with follow-on investment from First ...

Whenever a challenge lies before you, and you feel like you can't go on any further, I implore you to remember this article, and this startup, and realize that you, in fact, "Kandu" whatever you set y...

Valve has updated its Steam beta client(via Engadget), and the new software introduces an easier way to get at the company’s new virtual reality mode for its platform. Previously, access had to ...

Lenovo isn’t putting away its checkbook yet. The CEO of the Chinese PC giant said on Tuesday that the company will continue to acquire companies for overall growth. This comes as the company is ...

Soundwave, the music discovery app that tracks the listening habits of you, your friends and other users you follow, has enabled desktop tracking in the form of a Chrome browser extension so that a pl...

Apple has been granted a patent (via AppleInsider) for a wireless iPhone camera remote control, which has a built-in display for previewing and reviewing photos, and shutter buttons for both still and...

Fleep is adding Android, Mac and Windows to the list of supported platforms for its team-messaging app. Read More ...

Zotrax, a Polish 3D-printer company based in Olsztyn, is raising funds through public bond issues. They will begin selling 10,000 unsecured bonds worth 1000PLN ($329) each through Invista Brokerage Ho...

As per the rumours we reported on yesterday, Apple has now added an 8GB version of the iPhone 5c to European stores. On the U.K. Apple store the 8GB device is priced at 429 unlocked, shaving 40 off th...

As per the rumours we reported on yesterday, Apple has now added an 8GB version of the iPhone 5c to European stores. On the U.K. Apple store the 8GB device is priced at 429 unlocked, shaving 40 off th...

As per the rumours we reported on yesterday, Apple has now added an 8GB version of the iPhone 5c to European stores. On the U.K. Apple store the 8GB device is priced at 429 unlocked, shaving 40 off th...

iHear wants to give people with hearing loss an affordable device that they can easily customize at home with a Web-based hearing test. The startup's goal is to ultimately make its hearing aids availa...

Russia's search giant Yandex, which is increasingly rolling into new areas as a way to continue expanding its business, has made a small acquisition -- to the tune of "several million euros" -- pickin...

LitteBits, maker of simple, easy to build electronics kits, has announced what they’re calling the Cloud Module, a small, Internet-connected block that lets you build standalone projects using t...

After weeks of showing only legal notices, Mt. Gox's homepage now has a login screen that lets users check their bitcoin balances. But that's apparently all the beleaguered digital wallet service will...

After weeks of showing only legal notices, Mt. Gox's homepage now has a login screen that lets users check their bitcoin balances. But that's apparently all the beleaguered digital wallet service will...

Singapore’s Joyful Frog Digital Incubator has raised $2.1 million from investors led by Infocomm Investments to pursue the city state’s ambitions of becoming the startup hub for all of Sou...

Don't want all your friends to see your photos? That's a big reason Snapchat has become so popular, and now Facebook wants to capitalize on more private sharing. Facebook for iOS 8.0 offers an easy "S...

Dropbox has quietly acquired Zulip, the makers of a workplace chat solution for desktop and mobile, which had yet to publicly launch. Though still in private beta at the time of the acquisition, Zulip...

Real estate crowdfunding startup Realty Mogul is sharing a bunch of numbers about its growth since it first launched just about a year ago. The most impressive one: More than $100 million, which repre...

Microsoft and Nokia told investors that their deal would close in the first quarter of 2014. They have two weeks to meet that guidance, which remains unchanged even in the face of Nokia's recent legal...

Move, the company behind real estate sites like Realtor.com and moving.com, and the National Association of Realtors today filed a lawsuit against Zillow and its recently hired chief industry developm...

Microsoft has just disclosed that Marc Whitten, Chief Product Officer for the Xbox division, will be leaving the company. His new gig? Chief Product Officer at Sonos. Marc was a part of the Xbox divis...

In the biggest blow yet to ride sharing in the U.S., the Seattle city council voted today to limit the number of drivers available on Uber and Lyft in the city. The vote essentially kills any competit...

If anyone ever asks you what you'd use a personal drone for, you could say "Real estate photos".. or "monitoring rhino populations"... or you could say "pretending to be freaking superman."Armed with ...

As reporters around the country scrambled to push out stories on early-morning earthquakes that awoke southern California, The LA Times had a machine write its piece. “This information comes fro...

On Thursday, March 20, TechCrunch will hold it’s third Meetup + Pitch-Off in New York City, promising to be one of the biggest nights in Silicon Alley all year. As a warm up for Disrupt NY in Ma...

These days, Midwestern entrepreneurs and investors are seeding more than just fields. A resurgent U.S. technology industry, propelled by strong initial public offerings and a healthy M&A market --...

Today, GSN Games' purchase of Bash Gaming out of India went through. We've confirmed, through sources familiar with the matter, that the deal closed right around the $165 million mark. Pre-acquisition...

Nate Silver, the famous New York Times statistics blogger who correctly forecasted 50 out of 50 states in the 2012 presidential election, has launched an entire news site dedicated to data journalism....

Y Combinator-backed Next Caller, the makers of a caller ID system for businesses offering access to a secondary database containing a caller's personal information -- including their name, phone, numb...

Newly minted Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will hold a press event in San Francisco on the 27th to discuss the cloud and mobile industries. Read More ...

Facebook For Android's beta tier has been a success, with 1 million testers helping fix bugs before updates go out to its hundreds of millions of mainstream users. So today Facebook launched a beta pr...

Virtual pets are a natural fit for the wrist-borne Pebble smartwatch, and it was only a matter of time before a Tamagotchi-inspired app made its way to the platform. One of the new games debuting for ...

Airbnb is trying to find new ways to encourage guests to stay at its listings, and that could include a whole new set of amenities. Thanks to the hiring of new head of hospitality Chip Conley, the com...

Two-factor authentication! In this age of endless massive hacks we seem to be in the middle of, it’s one of the easiest ways you can dramatically boost security on your online accounts. But whic...

At a recent Mayfield Fund dinner for hardware entrepreneurs and investors hosted by the firm's partner Tim Chang, former Wired editor-in-chief-turned-drone entrepreneur Chris Anderson opened up about ...

Last year, voice technology giant Nuance quietly acquired VirtuOz, a developer of virtual assistants for online sales, marketing and support -- a "Siri for the enterprise" that counted with the likes ...

In hopes of luring in fresh audiences, Facebook Paper announced its first experiment in working with an outside group to populate the Ideas section of its stylized content reader standalone app. The "...

Twitter is experimenting with a new feature called “Fave People,” which allows you to keep track of your favorite Twitter users and accounts in a separate timeline. This feature, essential...

If you've messed with Arduino, the inexpensive micro controller, you'll know that you can run a small motor or turn an LED on and off, but anything else - powering a pump, turning on a light bulb - us...

Amazon is readying a game console/set top box of its own, and we’ve learned from multiple sources familiar with the device that the Lab126-produced gadget will have a form factor similar to the ...

Were thrilled to announce that Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler will be joining us onstage at Disrupt NY 2014 when he will school us on crowdfunding and the state of the startup industry. Strickler co...

This morning, Microsoft announced that it was making OneNote, its note-taking service that syncs across platforms, free. The PC app, the new Mac app, and a variety of small tools for the service are n...

Imagine for a moment if Napster were cloned hundreds of times. If there were a NapsterStanford, a NapsterMIT, or a Napster for your high school completely independent from, yet just as powerful as, th...

Samsung has just released an SDK for its Tizen-based smartwatches, the Gear 2 and Gear Neo, in the hopes that developers will pick up its wearable baton and run with it. Read More ...

Google’s real-time chat services, including Hangouts in Google+, Gmail, went down today, in an outage that appears to be fairly widespread. Messages in Gmail’s chat integration are receivi...

Apple is preparing an 8GB version of the iPhone 5c for launch, according to a series of new rumors today. There's a reported leak of a document from German carrier O2 alerting its staff to the new pho...

No one would likely describe WhatsApp as a beautiful piece of mobile software – in fact most would probably say quite the opposite. But it doesn’t have to be that way, and one designer has...

No one would likely describe WhatsApp as a beautiful piece of mobile software – in fact most would probably say quite the opposite. But it doesn’t have to be that way, and one designer has...

After nearly every dot and tittle had already leaked, Microsoft this morning announced that as expected, the Surface 2 tablet hybrid with AT&T services is real and will cost$679. The price, carrie...

Google has announced some new updates for its Google Play Games cross-platform SDK for game devs, and they should make it a lot easier for developers working on titles aimed at iOS, Android and the we...

Apple is widely expected to launch health-monitoring software for its mobile operating system, possibly as soon as iOS 8, which should make its developer debut at WWDC this June. The software would mo...

Android developers wanting a quicker and easier way to hack around with hardware should point their eyes at this Kickstarter project -- called USB2Go -- which is aiming to repurpose the micro USB port...

E-sports startup Twitch has spent the last few years building tools that will let developers build live streaming into their games on multiple platforms. After reaching the major gaming consoles, its ...

Today Gravie, a health insurance marketplace competing with the likes of Zenefits, has closed a $10.5 million Series A round led by Aberdare Ventures, with participation from exiting investor FirstMar...

The Khronos Group, a consortium that includes major media-centric companies like ATI, Intel, NVIDIA and SGI, will release the latest version of the OpenGL ES specsat the Game Developer’s Confere...

The Khronos Group, a consortium that includes major media-centric companies like ATI, Intel, NVIDIA and SGI, will release the latest version of the OpenGL ES specsat the Game Developer’s Confere...

Apple’s design guru Jony Ive sat down with John Aldridge, for Time/The Sunday Times for a lengthy interview and profile, and while the article doesn’t really expose any secrets of the long...

Mobile advertising company Tapjoy is launching a new platform today that it calls nGen, and CEO Steve Wadsworth told me it reflects a broader transformation at the company. In a lot of ways, its a new...

In the ongoing battle for more users and differentiation in the battle between messaging apps, today LINE has launched its newest feature: a flat-rate voice calling service called LINE Call, to expand...

In the ongoing battle for more users and differentiation in the battle between messaging apps, today LINE has launched its newest feature: a flat-rate voice calling service called LINE Call, to expand...

In the ongoing battle for more users and differentiation in the battle between messaging apps, today LINE has launched its newest feature: a flat-rate voice calling service called LINE Call, to expand...

In the ongoing battle for more users and differentiation in the battle between messaging apps, today LINE has launched its newest feature: a flat-rate voice calling service called LINE Call, to expand...

Online fast food ordering veteran Just Eat, which lets hungry web users in 13 global markets order a food delivery from a range of local takeaways, is preparing to float on the London Stock Exchange. ...

The drama around Bitcoin and its alleged creator fails to die, very much in line with the roller coaster ride the crypto-currency has been going through over past year. Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto who was...

Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, who Newsweek claimed was "the" Satoshi Nakamoto, credited with the creation of bitcoin, has now issued a statement through his lawyer Ethan Kirschner completely denying his in...

Boxfish is one of many startups that have popped up over the last several years to help TV viewers better find shows that they'd like to watch. Now looking to extend that technology to a number of con...

Unity and Applifier, the Kontagent and Playhaven merger, Zynga’s half-billion dollar deal to buy NaturalMotion, Kabam and Phoenix Age. A nice, little consolidation wave is floating through the g...

Unity and Applifier, the Kontagent and Playhaven merger, Zynga’s half-billion dollar deal to buy NaturalMotion, Kabam and Phoenix Age. A nice, little consolidation wave is floating through the g...

On Friday night, I was in a Manhattan movie theater watching Veronica Mars. Id contributed to the Kickstarter campaign that funded the films production, so I actually received a download code for the ...

Github is making moves to quiet the uproar surrounding the departure of engineer Julie Ann Horvath amidst claims of sexism and intimidation at the startup. This evening in a blog post, CEO and co-foun...

Google drastically dropped the price for storage on Google Drive this week, to the point where it now undercuts virtually all of its competitors. At $9.99 per month for a terabyte of online storage, G...

In 2010 the Iranian election Iranian election protests - the "Green Revolution" - was at it's tail end, though few knew the tumult of the Arab Spring was to come. The Iranian authorities were rounding...

If you've got a child between the ages of 3 and 8, you're in an interesting spot as a parent. The kid is old enough to be involved in activities such as school and play dates, which can keep them out ...

Behold the power of open-source software. After the untimely death of the original Popcorn Time, a so-called Netflix for pirated content, the project was forked several times on GitHub. And guess what...

Mochi Media, a Flash gaming platform acquired by Shanda Games for $80 million in 2010, has announced that it will be shutting up shop, with its services ceasing March 31. Read More ...

Cards Against Humanity! If you run around in any even-slightly-geeky circles, you've probably heard of it.Tired of the all those damned cards involved with this card game? It's now playable on Chromec...

It's been just about two months since FOBO launched its local marketplace app for consumer electronics. But already, the app has proven wildly successful in its home market of San Francisco, where it'...

President Obama’s hilarious “Between Two Ferns” cameo is on its way to becoming one of the most viral videos in Funny or Die history. It spiked visits to Healthcare.gov an impressive...

The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve GillmorIn a world where big planes can be lost without a trace and and drunk-drivers make the biggest headlines at tech conferences...

Cosy is a smart heating system being developed in Cambridge, U.K. -- and aiming to ship product next month -- that's hoping to stand out from the Nest-shaped competition by offering a more fully-featu...

Buckle up, NYC and Washington D.C., because we have a sick roster of Pitch-Off companies for this week's meetups. We'll be hitting D.C. on March 18, at The Park at Fourteenth, and then we'll rock on o...

Every Sunday, I try to write something about mobile thats relevant today or tomorrow. This week, I thought it would be fun to briefly look back in time. When it comes to mobile (and this doesnt includ...

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt took a not-so-subtle swipe at tech critics who say that college is overrated. “There are various people who run around and make claims that higher education is not a...

The exit of engineer Julie Ann Horvath from programming network GitHub has sparked yet another conversation concerning women in technology and startups. Her claims that she faced a sexist internal cul...

I have a theory. When it comes to new technology, there are a bunch of early adopters who start using it and everyone else sees the very worst in the technology, ultimately belittling, dismissing and ...

One of the most important functions of any modern financial institution is conducting valuations. On Wall Street, this means developing financial models projections of how a company will perform base...

VCs are publicly and privately debating the morality of investing in the burgeoning "anonymish" app space, after a series of negative posts, mainstream gossip, a high profile resignation and even bomb...

With the arrival of Obamacare, millions of uninsured Americans are entering the healthcare system for the first time. As these new patients happily stream into waiting rooms, doctors are scrambling to...

On a 10- to 20-year horizon, large-scale technologic innovation is going to center around machine intelligence, robotics and sensors. Each of these fields requires gargantuan amounts of capital and a ...

Tableau Software would like some more, please. The company, less than a year after its IPO that spiked64% in its first day, plans to sell$345 million in Class A shares to the public. Here’s what...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve GIllmor. Live recording session today at 10am Pacific. Chat with The Gang here. Read More ...

Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve GIllmor. Live recording session today at 10am Pacific. Chat with The Gang here. Read More ...

Interest in startup accelerators and incubators has exploded in the past several years, but how effective have they been? One thing that has become clear is that incubator and accelerator refer to two...

The Book of Berners-Lee And lo, it did come to pass, as prophesied by the geeks of yore, that in the twenty-fifth year of the Web, the world entire, from Kathmandu to Timbuktu to Zanzibar to New York,...

For most students, learning within the traditional confines of the educational system has been something to be endured, rather than something that’s just as fun as it is rewarding. Every student...

You like chicken. You like 3D printed stuff. Why not slam them together to make the ultimate in 3D printable model food? How does that sound? Cool, right? I thought so. So what's going on here: some d...

Editor’s note: Roger Huang is co-founder ofThoughtBasin, an edtech startup that connects students with organizations looking for difference makers. Follow him atcode(love). It started with one e...

Microsoft Founder Bill Gates doesn’t worry that Silicon Valley is the home of billion-dollar texting apps and farming games. “Innovation in California is at its absolute peak right now. Su...

So you are a company. You're about six years old. You've raised $181 million dollars to date, including a Box-esque $100 million Series D bloc. The tough bit is that your revenue in 2013 was a mere $1...

Sina Weibo, the microblogging and social media service that's often called China's answer to Twitter and Facebook, has filed documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to $...

Not many companies in the Y Combinator stable have executives who’ve spent time at both Tom Ford’s fashion powerhouse and the Korean online ticketing platform TicketMonster. I’m bett...

You know what goes great with your TGIF beverage of choice? A brand new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings three TechCrunch writers together to chat about the most interesting stories from th...

Security researchers at Securelist have found that the data "stolen" from Mark Karpeles' computer actually contained a BTC-stealing Trojan that masqueraded as a back-end app for managing Mt.Gox trades...

Hollywood won. The open source project called Popcorn Time is dead after just four days. It’s not really surprising. “Popcorn Time is shutting down today. Not because we ran out of energy,...

Sure, Babar was a pretty cool elephant, but what happens when he becomes a cyborg bent on the destruction of the mustache man who stole his crown in Babar Loses His Crown? He goes out and gets one of ...

It seems that school children are not the only ones who aren’t able to handle the power of anonymous social applications appropriately. Secret, the San Francisco-based (and now, newly funded) co...

Mozilla today announced that it will halt development of its Firefox for Windows 8 Metro browser after about a year and a half of development. According to Mozilla’s Firefox VP Jonathan Nighting...

GoDaddy, the well-known domain and hosting company, is preparing to go public. The company was sold for $2.25 billion in the summer of 2011 to a mixture of private money, including Silver Lake, a grou...

In this week's episode of Ask A VC, we hosted TransLink Capital's Jay Eum visited the studio to talk about expansion to markets in Asia and more. Read More ...

AOL had a round of layoffs today affecting a "double digit" number of employees, according to a source with knowledge of the company.We reported on larger AOL layoffs (with hundreds affected) in Augus...

Last week, everything was very different in the mobile landscape in France. France’s disruptive telecom company Free was about to make the best strategic move I had ever seen. Yet, it all fell a...

Tech giants, including Google to Apple, are notorious fans of offshore tax havens, which saves them billions of dollars. A new report from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism finds that "if this ca...

When Edward Snowden starts his official fanclub, he shouldn’t expect Bill Gates to sign up. The richest man in the world isn’t much of a fan at all, it turns out.In an interview with Rolli...

It's been just over a year since Vine launched into the world, catapulted by parent company Twitter to bring mobile video creation to the masses. A lot has happened in that year, including the launch ...

Gridspace has created an application based on technology that automatically saves and indexes meeting conversations. But the big breakthrough is that, though the magic of machine learning and natural ...

Today is an exciting day for Secret, one of the most talked about new startups in Silicon Valley which just raised another round of funding. I sat down with Secrets co-founder David Byttow this week f...

Dyson has a new line of its ‘Cool’bladeless fans out, and as you might expect from the UK-based appliance maker, they’re basically the best-looking fans you can buy. I got to take th...

When we visited Barcelona during MWC we met a very energetic team of programmers who created an app called dondeEsta, a “live indicator” that tells you exactly where your kids are based on...

TechCrunch has discovered a big, unannounced marketing tool from Facebook called Business Manager that lets teams at enterprises and agencies manage multiple ad campaigns and Pages in one interface. T...

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has taken to the company blog today to oppose a ruling by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission that it would no longer be able to sell directly to customers. The ban was ...

HoverChat, the first Egyptian Y Combinator startup and makers of an SMS replacement application currently available for Android smartphones, is focused on making messaging more of a multi-tasking expe...

Expa, a self-described "startup studio" created by StumbleUpon and Uber founder Garrett Camp, is announcing that it has raised $50 million in funding from some big names, including Virgin founder Rich...

Friday!Along with the weekend, and hopes for good weather, Friday also brings along with it the TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast. It's been a long week, what with SXSW, but we're still alive and well to tal...

Over the last three years, weve seen an increasing number of tech IPOs many from consumer facing companies that weve long known were headed for an IPO. Im talking about Facebook, Twitter, Pandora, Ye...

HappyFriday! We have something special to give away. Box is hosting its developer conference,Box Dev,onWednesday, March 26, in San Francisco, and we have some free tickets for you. The company has som...

What is your Lactate Threshold? Chances are you don't know, but if you're a serious athlete who runs or cycles, it could be just the key to improving your endurance and strength. BSX Insight, based ou...

The Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland-created show Rick and Morty, which loosely parodies the extremely unlikely and bizarre relationship between Michael J. Fox’s Marty McFly and Christopher Lloyd&#...

Nokia’s transfer of its Indian manufacturing unit and other assets in the country to Microsoft is facing a legal hurdle that could force the Finnish phone maker to take some extreme steps includ...

Secret, the anonymous social sharing app popular among the Silicon Valley and tech industry crowd, officially announced today it has raised$8.6 million in outside investment. The round included partic...

The Pocket Drone is a soaring success. Keep reading for more bad puns.The Hardware Battlefield contestant's Kickstarter campaign just ended with the company raking in over 2,000 preorders for the Pock...

You're a medium to large-sized business using a clunky old corporate intranet. Meanwhile your staff are using Facebook and Pinterest at home and in their daily lives. You're not going to exactly excit...

500 Startups, a Mountain view, California-based seed fund and accelerator, is making its first investment in Bangladesh, underscoring a growing investor interest in one of the most challenging startup...

What things do you want to accomplish before you die? What's on your "bucket list?" Me, I just want to take one solid, multi-hour nap, but I know there are people out there with slightly larger goals ...

Waterloo’s Thalmic Labs has a new demo video out for their upcoming Myo armband, a controller that uses the electrical impulses generated when you use your arms and hands to generate input for c...

Real-time search startup Algolia has been doing very well over the past few weeks. Slowly but surely, its search API is taking over every search engine on your favorite websites. The company also laun...

here are more than 2.5 billion people without a credit score in the world today, which means that theres no way for them to find banking help when they need it. A new startup called InVenture is looki...

Google’s Project Tango smartphone is a 3D environment sensing hardware experiment, which the company is hoping to ship to developers soon (today is the anticipated ship date Google stated, in fa...

Synthesio, the global social 'listening and analysis' platform, has announced it's secured a Series B funding round of $20 million in funding from a European private equity firm, Idinvest Partners. Re...

Online shoppers now have a new tool to help them save money at checkout, without having to do much work at all. Recently launched shopping companionZinc Savehelps you automatically find the best price...

Today Uber made a key move to help offer more assurance and support to its drivers, and also to passengers to use its mobile-app-based car service: it will start to offer insurance to its drivers to e...

Today Uber made a key move to help offer more assurance and support to its drivers, and also to passengers to use its mobile-app-based car service: it will start to offer insurance to its drivers to e...

Today Uber made a key move to help offer more assurance and support to its drivers, and also to passengers to use its mobile-app-based car service: it will start to offer insurance to its drivers to e...

In a world rediscovering its old tea drinking habits, finding a freshly-brewed cup of the hot beverage is still very tough, especially if you are a tea aficionado based in the U.S. or Europe. For the ...

This is a short post because it's important but not worth belaboring. This morning, CryptocoinsNews posted a piece on Leah McGrath Goodman. Goodman posted a Facebook update essentially telling her fri...

Our DC Meetup is going to be a “Who’s Who” of tech celebrities. In a few short days, TechCrunchers from across the country will pack their bags, hop on a plane or a train, and ventur...

Samsung isn’t limiting itself to software when it comes to improving its mobile hardware’s accessibility – the Korean company has introduced a trio of new accessories for the Galaxy ...

A new report from 9to5Mac details a number of small tweaks we could see in the upcoming iOS 8 release from Apple. As always, the blog stipulates that these are merely things that are in development or...

Coull is an online video ad tech company out of the UK which has trod a rather different path to the average high-growth tech company. For starters it's based in Bristol, studiously avoiding the Londo...

Salesforce today announced an interesting development in its leadership ranks: General Colin Powell is joining its board of directors. He brings the total number of members of the board up to 11. Read...

It looks like a cross between an Xbox controller and an Onlive controller. It looks ugly. Mr. Dave Zatz recently uncovered these photos of the gaming controller for Amazon’s upcoming media strea...

Analytics Engines — a Belfast-based company that has developed a suite of plug-in ‘software accelerators’ allowing for complex analytics and real-time processing of Big Data in finan...

Not many people come to SXSW Interactive to talk about an app they plan to launch but then proceed to give almost no detail and not even a name. Which is why it was all the more intriguing to hear Jus...

David Zhu, former COO of Chinese search giant Baidu, has joined GGV Capital as an investor. Based in Menlo Park and Shanghai, GGV Capital invests in companies that bridge the gap between the U.S. and ...

With current regulations, there are questions about who is protected against potential liabilities when something goes wrong. Tonight Lyft sought to alleviate some of those concerns with the announcem...

With current regulations, there are questions about who is protected against potential liabilities when something goes wrong. Tonight Lyft sought to alleviate some of those concerns with the announcem...

India’s troubled music streaming startup Dhingana, which announced it’s shutting down in February this year, is being acquired by Rdio. While Rdio will gain from Dhingana’s existing ...

If there were any thematic backdrops present at SXSW 2014, certainly privacy was one of them. To be sure, the Edward Snowden and Julian Assange keynotes were packed but there was also a more subtle co...

Venture capitalists Jonathan Teo and Justin Caldbeck are planning to launch a new fund that will focus on consumer technology. The news was first reported by Fortune and was confirmed to TechCrunch by...

Over the last year, BrightBytes has become a personal favorite in the ballooning world of education startups. The reason for this begins with the fact, when it comes to our beleaguered education syste...

Russia is blocking websites critical of President Vladimir Putin. The Prosecutor General’s office ordered Russian Internet service providers to cut off access to a handful of websites, including...

Shadow Networks, a stealthy new security company with high-powered backers, has raised over $10 million in a round of financing disclosed to the US Securities and Exchange Commission under its old nam...

When we reported that Apple had acquired Burstly last month, a lot of the attention was focused on TestFlight, the popular mobile app testing platform -- and specifically around how it would discontin...

With the implosion of Mt. Gox and the rising popularity of crypocurrency, it makes sense that someone would want to build an FDIC for BTC. Xapo thinks they may have figured out how. Read More ...

During the Interactive portion of this year’s SXSW festival, Secret, an app that lets users post secrets pseudonymously, pressed for attention. The app rolled out a website that tracked Secrets ...

Sheryl Sandberg has done it again: She's managed to rattle people by her sheer choice of words, and the logical fallacy that one woman's experience equals all women's experiences.I've spent some time ...

Gogobot launched in 2010 in the early stage of a wave of new interest in the social travel space, as a glut of new startups promised to as a new generation of companies promised to transform stodgy ol...

Today Layer3 TV, a company that will operate in the cable space, announced today that it has raised a$21 million Series A round of capital led by North Bridge Venture Partners andEvolution Media Growt...

Got a great idea for your favorite business? A startup called 9th Dot has created an app where you can share that idea, with potential rewards if your idea actually gets used. There are plenty of othe...

There isn't one. Sorry, Charlie. Amazon Prime stands alone as the best deal online. No other service offers the same amount of substance: Free two-day shipping on a ton of stuff, cheap overnight shipp...

Are you obsessed with the startup world? Do you read TechCrunch all the time? Good news! Were hiring paid interns for this summer.What will you do? Blog, blog, blog away. Were looking for independent,...

Tinder is announcing that it has made 1 billion matches between its users.As most (all?) of you know, Tinder works by giving users a stack of potential matches and allowing them to swipe right or left...

According to a study from the University of California, San Diego, feelings on Facebook can spread from user to user like a virus. In other words, your friends' moods can affect your moods, positively...

Pinterest publicly introduced a new “Gifts Feed” on Wednesday which only displays “Product Pins” – pins that are enhanced with additional details, including pricing, avai...

Streaming media platform Plex has a big update for users today, which includes opening up Chromecast support to all users, after debuting it as a feature for paid Plex Pass users only back in December...

The NSA has responded to allegations that surfaced yesterday indicating that the agency pretended to be Facebook to infect computers with malware. The revelation, built of course on top of documents l...

Tara Chklovski is the founder and CEO of Iridescent, a remarkable Google funded non profit dedicated to encouraging young women's innovation in technology. Read More ...

I know that the Ephemeralization of 2014 is generally traced to some privacy potion of Edward Snowden, NSA, and Target credit card leaks, but few seem willing to track its popularity back to its sourc...

It's never a dull moment when it comes to Clinkle, the mobile payments startup which hopes to one day replace your wallet. The young company's roller coaster ride continues with the news today that fo...

Long-time readers will recall one of my favorite series, The Song Of The Power Squid, a six-parter by inventor Chris Hawker. Written at the cusp of the hardware startup revolution, the story was part ...

It's that time of year again, friends. It's been a few months since the last iPhone was released, which means everyone is trying to figure out what the next iPhone will look like. Read More ...

Anonymous communication platforms and the pre-teen-to-teenage brain are two things that don’t mix all that well. Just look at Ask.fm, for example, the social Q&A platform whose shield of ano...

I’ve gotta give it to T-Mobile: they’re really doing a good job at this whole “Lets stop being awful” thing they’ve been up to lately. If you’ve been thinking about...

This post is not investment advice. Instead, it’s a meditation on the dynamics of the mobile gaming market in the context of an IPO which grants us raw data into a company in the space. The comp...

Facebook Co-Founder Mark Zuckerberg made a rare posting on his Facebook page to assure his followers that he takes government threats to Internet security seriously. “I’ve called President...

SocialPoint, Spain's largest mobile gaming studio, has today announced plans to release four new games to market. Unlike the company's previous "breeding games," wherein the user would play to create ...

Egnyte, a company that sells a hybrid file storage product that employs both cloud and local storage, raised$29.5 million last December. The enterprise cloud storage market is among the best funded ni...

A number of notable people have invited the masses on Reddit to ask them any question they want, or “Ask Me Anything (AMA)” — from President Barack Obama, to Bill Gates, to Madonna, ...

As the sole European company shortlisted for SXSW’s HATCH pitch competition this week, we thought we’d take a look at SupaPass. (For those who don’t know it, HATCH pitch is a competi...

In a scathing bit of reportage from Bloomberg Businessweek we discover that retailer Target had received word that its security system had been compromised nearly two weeks before it moved to act on t...

Google today significantly dropped the prices for its Google Drive online storage service. The first 15GB of storage remain free, but 100GB now cost just $1.99 per month instead of $4.99. Even more im...

Creation and collaboration software maker Autodesk is stepping outside of its usual enterprise-grade software world and dipping its toes into consumer or at least consumerized world of mobile apps t...

Facebook just announced that it's starting to run the video ads that it started testing last fall.In a company blog post, Facebook says it's working with "a select group of advertisers," and that user...

It looks like Twitter may add another feature to its Timeline on the desktop to generate revenue: Promoted Accounts, with the option for people to follow them directly with a button embedded in the Tw...

It looks like Twitter may add another feature to its Timeline on the desktop to generate revenue: Promoted Accounts, with the option for people to follow them directly with a button embedded in the Tw...

Google recently put its Street View cameras on a raft and, with the help of American Rivers, took it down the Colorado River. Today, it made the images from this expedition available in Google Maps. W...

Some new details about Google’s upcoming smartwatch, which is said to be made by occasional Nexus hardware partner LG, have emerged from mobile leaker @evleaks, who has a solid track record when...

Netflix and Dreamworks confirmed today that the internet television network will soon be home to three new original series aimed at kids, based off of characters from popular films including Shrek, Ma...

Microsoft today announced a new plan for Office 365 that’s geared to individuals who want to subscribe to its suite of productivity applications. For $6.99/month (or $69/year), you will be able ...

On the heels of a $200 million joint venture agreement with First Auto Works to build a factory in China, the motor technology developer EcoMotors has acquired manufacturing capacity in the U.S. Read ...

A new study reveals why women have a hard time cracking the glass ceiling in the technology industry: both men and women are twice as likely to hire a man for a math-based job. Read More ...

Cupcake Digital, the New York-based developer with a large portfolio of brand-name children’s mobile applications, has acquired competitor zuuka, best known as the maker of the iStoryTime librar...

Fashion app Flink just received an update in the App Store. As a reminder, this app is the perfect time waster for fashion enthusiasts — you can browse new looks from your favorite fashion blogg...

Fundable, an equity crowdfunding platform for businesses (including startups), just announced that it has acquired LaunchRock. LaunchRock, as the name implies, was initially focused on helping startup...

Since 1998, the Gerson Lehrman Group has been helping its clients answer their most difficult questions, using an algorithm to choose from more than 350k experts and then facilitating a conversation b...

Apple is working on iOS versions of both its Preview and TextEdit Mac apps, according to a new report from the reliable 9to5Mac. The new mobile apps are designed for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, accor...

Sosh has been around since 2011 and brought a curated activities concierge to SF, NY, and Seattle for three years. But today, the app that offers up cool things to do is adding a new layer to the plat...

This was bound to happen. A company calling itself “Ultimate Arcade” is attempting to trademark the word “Flappy,” following the fervor around the viral App Store game, “...

If you're like me, when you and your brood of 16 children sit down to watch television of an evening, you end up at an impasse? Not everyone wants to watch the Duggars marathon for the fiftieth time a...

Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News Soft robotics is a field that’s growing so fast MIT has created an entire journal dedicated to the field, and the first edition profiles a robot fish that can per...

Exclusive: Premise, a data technology company that is tracking macroeconomic and human development trends in real-time, is announcing an $11 million Series B round led by Social+Capital Partnership, w...

With competitors like Canary and Nest coming quickly behind, Simplisafe, a small, Boston-based security company, is pulling out the stops. After updating their software and mobile interface late last ...

The street likes what it hears. This morning, prior to the market opening, Amazon announced that it was raising the price of its Prime subscription membership by $20 to $99 a year. The company’s...

Whirlscape’s virtual keyboard software Minuum is exiting beta today with the launch of version 2.0, which changes up the look of the minimal input software, and adds quick access to emoji, plus ...

Your friend takes out his phone. "Duuude You've gotta see this game," he says, before showing you a particularly crazy scene.Is there really any more effective ad for a game?Unity doesn't think so. T...

Apple has applied for a patent for an improved wearable pedometer design, according to a new filing published by the USPTO today (via AppleInsider). The filing describes a way to vastly improve accura...

Startup Banjo has raised a new $16 million Series B round of funding, bringing its total raised to date to $21 million. The round was led by Balderton Capital, and included participation from BlueRun ...

It’s testament to the rise of crowd-equity financing that today m-commerce shopping app ShareEight has today bust the record on the Seedrs platform today, raising 600,000 (US $1,000,000) on the ...

It’s testament to the rise of crowd-equity financing that today m-commerce shopping app Shareight has today bust the record on the Seedrs platform today, raising 600,000 (US $1,000,000) on the p...

China may be the biggest of all when it comes to the sheer volume of users in its mobile market -- 700 smartphone and tablet users, and counting -- but when it comes to revenues from the new wave of d...

The day we all feared has come. Amazon has announced that the price of Prime will soon cost $99 a year. Starting in seven days, the cost for existing members to renew will increase by $20 from $79.99....

Wix emerged in 2006 as part of a new generation of startups on a mission to do for website creation what Blogger, WordPress and Tumblr have done for bloggers and content creators. Riding the increasin...

Travel meta search engine Hipmunk is launching "Hipmunk Anywhere" today, a cross-platform search feature that makes travel search a little bit easier for those of us who regularly use multiple devices...

Event ticketing startup Eventbrite has raised a new round of funding at around $50 million, Fortune’s Dan Primack reports, which values the company at over $1 billion and sees the tech company j...

Looking to develop a technology that gives batteries more capacity for energy storage and boosts the rate at which they charge, early stage company SiNode has raised new seed financing from the Chicag...

Microsoft has dropped its licensing fees for at least two smartphone OEMs, according to a new report from The Times of India (via Verge), making it much easier for those competing in low-cost markets ...

MuleSoft, an integration platform for connecting SaaS and enterprise applications in the cloud and on-premise, has raised $50 million led by existing investors NEA and Lightspeed Venture Partners as w...

Learning analytics service Renaissance Learning today announced that it has been acquired by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for $1.1 billion in an all-cash deal. The new deal comes just a ...

WhatsApp came under fire earlier this week after tech consultant Bas Bosschert published a blog post explaining how malicious developers can access your messages via the microSD card. Now, WhatsApp ha...

The number of active smartphones in China exceeded 700 million by the end of 2013, says a new report from analytics firm Umeng. Out of all the devices sold in 4Q 2013, 41% were to people purchasing th...

If you’ve ever dreamed of dustin’ off all those unfinished Xbox games and somehow becoming the first person to cross 1 million gamerscore: don’t bother — as of tonight, it has ...

Starting next month, United will offer an in-flight personal entertainment system that will allow passengers to pick from 150 movies and about 200 TV shows through their laptop's browser or United's i...

Have you ever watched a TED talk and thought, "That should be a company!" Well, that's happened a few times, I'm sure, and one of them is right here in Silicon Valley. Years ago, wordsmith Erin McKean...

Since Overstock.com started to accept Bitcoin as a purchase currency, the company has received a good press for its efforts to support the nascent cryptocurrency. Working with Coinbase to process Bitc...

As part of iOS 7.1, the recent update to its mobile operating system, Apple appears to have added a new feature to its iAd program, allowing the company to take credit for the app downloads driven by ...

Connecting your guitar to your iPhone should be fairly simple. With the right adapter you can blow a line in through a standard headphone jack and get some tinny audio. But what if you really want to ...

Trulioo recently announced that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding.The round was led by Tenfore Holdings, with participation from BDC Venture Capital and previous investor Blumberg Capital. ...

Apple has apparently learned a lesson. After several high profile stories of children spending literal fortunes on virtual nonsense, the latest version of iOS now reminds users of Apple's policies tow...

French American entrepreneur Renaud Laplanche founded Lending Club in 2007 to connect investors with borrowers and bypass banks altogether. Since then, the company has facilitated more than $3 billion...

If you've ever wanted to see Arnold Schwarzenegger crush a 5 ft. roll of bubble wrap with his own personal tank (and really, who hasn't?): congratulations! Today is your lucky day. Read More ...

A number of startups over the years have tried to reinvent PowerPoint with services that made it easier or quicker to create a slideshow presentation. Newly launched SketchDeck is taking a different a...

TheLi.st co-founders Rachel Sklar and Glynnis MacNicol have apparently voted for themselves as #2 on Lucky Magazine's list of "The Top 25 Most Stylish Women In Tech."The list, which includes Sheryl Sa...

Imagine going back 25 years in a time machine to meet the you of 1989. The you that was watching the Berlin Wall fall, the you that saw Jim and Tammy Baker come back to TV, the you that was probably p...

FiftyThree has thrived over the last few years, due to the massive popularity of its drawing and creativity app Paper and the release of its complementary Pencil stylus. Today its taking a big step to...

Threes, the number matching game that’s part Sudoku and part Bejeweled (or Candy Crush Saga for the young folk) is now on Android. You may not think this is a big deal, if you’ve never pla...

As a watch nerd, I love to see the stuffy old watchmaking industry try new things. That's why I was intrigued by the recent changes at Bobs Watches, a retailer turned website that buys and sells Rolex...

The next Angry Birds game features Rovio’s now very recognizable birds and pigs, but duking it out via different in-game combat mechanics in a turn-based RPG. Angry Birds Epic makes its debut in...

Today Yahoo announced that it has partnered with Yelp to bring local data into its search experience, both mobile and desktop. The deal will see traditional Yelp information, such as ratings and user ...

The story of advertising online in the last year has significantly also been a story about the rise of ad tech -- ways of serving users more relevant ads, and ways of monitoring how users have respond...

No, it’s not just you: Google’s search results may look different right now, thanks to a very large “bucket” test currently underway, which has dramatically changed the look-an...

Introducing a radical new pricing model to an existing business is not for the faint-hearted. Just ask veteran German taxi app startup, mytaxi, which last January was preparing to shift into a new gea...

Goldman Sachs thinks that bitcoin believers need to take a cold shower, drink some coffee, and sober up.In the wake of Mt. Gox's collapse, the supposed outing of Bitcoin's creator,and some high profil...

The National Security Agency reportedly has plans to control millions of computers by infecting them with malware, according to documents leaked to The Intercept by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. &...

After a few years without holding a major developer event, Facebook today opened the application process for its F8 developer conference in San Francisco on April 30th. Unlike other developer conferen...

Facebook's campus was temporarily locked down last night, with employees "held at the site" for about an hour, according to a statement from the Menlo Park Police Department.The department says it rec...

Starbucks announced this morning that it’s rolling out changes to its mobile application that will allow customers visiting its stores to tip their baristas from their iPhone. The feature will b...

Razer has built a number of Blade laptops, including an early,massive 17-inch device that cost$2,800. In 2013, Razer released a thin, 14 inch laptop that still contained impressive gaming guts.Best kn...

At last year's Game Developers Conference, Mozilla showed a port of Unreal Engine 3, the foundation for many AAA games, running in the browser. That was a bit of a wake-up call for many developers, gi...

Consumers now have just 14 days to return an iPhone purchased from Apple. This new time frame now matches up with the rest of Apple's products. Macs, iPods and iPads have long only had a 14 day return...

iOS 7.1 has already made its way onto as many as 12 percent of active consumer devices capable of running it, according to online ad network Chitika. The firm found that web traffic hitting its networ...

Tipbit, yet another startup attempting to re-imagine how email should work on mobile devices, is announcing $4 million in Series A funding, in a round led by Ignition Partners. Alongside the new fundi...

Customer reviews are the backbone of sites like Amazon (where they have turned into a platform for some of the most inspired comedic writing on the Internet), but it can be difficult for smaller retai...

King, the European makers of the hit game Candy Crush Saga, today moved one step closer to an IPO in the U.S., filing an updated F-1 with the SEC that priced 22.2 million shares between $21 and $24, t...

Fitbit issued a voluntary recall of its Fitbit Force after discovering that prolonged use could lead to skin irritation likely due to allergy to some of the materials used in its construction, but now...

Popcorn Time is a magical program that takes all the hassles out of torrenting a movie. It’s Hollywood’s worst nightmare. It’s essentially Netflix for pirated movies. And now it̵...

Neil Young - yes, that Neil Young - has a $400 portable music player he would like to sell you. Called the PonoPlayer, it's essentially an MP3 player for the audiophile. But it doesn't use MP3 files a...

Cubby, the Dropbox competitor from LogMeIn which opened up publicly near the end of last year, is rolling out a business-focused version of its service called LogMeIn Enterprise. The company is aiming...

The streaming radio race is still overwhelmingly dominated by Pandora in the U.S., but that’s not necessarily going to be the case forever: In a recent survey of streaming music users, iTunes Ra...

Poor famous, beautiful people: They can’t even get a good date using tried and tested methods like swiping right. Matchmaking app Tinder has high-profile users including Ashton Kutcher, Lindsay ...

Historically, the U.S. educational system has struggled to get young people excited by and involved with STEM-related fields, especially computer science, which has actually seen a steady decline in p...

Games making hub Finland — land of Rovio and Supercell, to name a couple of the higher profile games studiostucked up near the Arctic circle — has attracted another tranche of outside inve...

Just for giggs, we present Conan O’Brien and the COO of BTC talking about Bitcoin. I think the brief informational video is far more useful to understanding the cryptocurrency than any of the Bi...

Credit Karma, the online credit score provider and credit marketplace,has raised $85 million in a new round of financing led by Google Capital with participation from Tiger Global Management and exist...

Google has acquired Green Throttle Games – or at least what was left of the company after it essentially shut down late last year, according to a new report by PandoDaily. The startup followed O...

As part of what is predominantly an Android security issue, a CTO and consultant has discovered a vulnerability in WhatsApp encryption that could allow another app to access and read all the chat conv...

Music streaming service Rdio is getting rid of partner The Echo Nest, its CEO Anthony Bay told CNBC in an interview published this week (via Verge). The news comes despite promises by The Echo Nest an...

The photo-sharing juggernaut rumbles on. Dubble, a photo-sharing iOS app that launched last October, has expanded its feature-set to beef up the social networking side. Its Dubble’s largest upda...

Rover, the Seattle-based online community that connects dog owners with in-home sitters, is today announcing $12 million in Series C funding, in a round led by new investor Menlo Ventures. Existing in...

Tim Berners-Lee, the man who pioneered the interconnected information management system we now know colloquially as the Web (he called it the World Wide Web), has called for an online Magna Carta to p...

India’s largest online classifieds site, Quikr, has raised $90 million in fresh funding from a group of investors led by Sweden’s Kinnevik, according to this report. The latest round, whic...

India’s largest online classifieds site, Quikr, has raised $90 million in fresh funding from a group of investors led by Sweden’s Kinnevik. The latest round, which would take the total cap...

Shervin Pishevar was just a six-year-old child when when the bombs from the Iran-Iraq War started to fall in 1980.His father, a high-ranking television executive, felt the family was in danger during ...

Alibaba has agreed to spend HKD $6.24 billion (about USD $804 million) for a 60% stake in TV and film producer ChinaVision Media Group. The purchase will allow Alibaba, which already dominates China's...

AGHHHH. I’ve been staring at my copy of Titanfall all… day. I’ve been itchin’ to hop back in the saddle of my Giant-Robot-of-Doom since the Beta ended, and finally, launch day ...

I did a lot of cool things at SXSWi 2014, but one of the coolest things I got to do was go for a trip in a private jet and text out some cool new technology from Gogo. As you probably know, Gogo power...

More evidence that the online money transfer space is heating up significantly, as startups aim to disrupt the banks and incumbents such as Western Union. Money transfer startup Azimo has closed a $10...

WorldRemit, a London-based startup that is tackling the antiquated consumer money wiring/remittance market with an easy and traceable online solution, has collected some money of its own: a $40 millio...

Today Microsoft announced in a combined press release that it has named ValueAct Capital's President Mason Morfit to its board, and that it will issue a quarterly dividend of $0.28. Neither piece of n...

Qlika launched out of UpWest’s fourth batch of Israeli-American startups in March to tackle a big problem in online marketing: Localization. In other words, what’s the point of spending mi...

Today the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission passed a rule that will end Tesla's direct sales of cars to consumers. Tesla, a manufacturer of all-electric cars, does not lean on dealerships to sell it...

Two weeks ago, I did a small experiment. I put a campaign on Crowdtilt to raise money to go to Vietnam and talk to Dong Nguyen, the creator of the sleeper hit Flappy Bird. At the absolute peak of the ...

Financial planning startup SigFig has for the most part been flying under the radar since it launched a couple of years ago. But now its ready to get serious about expanding and supporting a growing n...

If you’re looking for a vaguely frightening realization of just how good robots are getting at activities that require a high degree of optical precisions and fine motor control, than the video ...

Anne Wojcicki, the founder of the popular direct-to-consumer genetics testing company23andMe,sat down with us at the SXSW Interactive gathering this past weekend in Austin, Texas to discuss both the p...

The Internet has a new trove of beautiful, simple explanations of fundamental scientific principles, from Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity to quantum mechanics. The much anticipated massi...

Back at CES, MakerBot announced three new 3D printers: one small, one huge, and one thats about the same size as their previous models (albeit with a bunch of new tricks). You couldnt actually buy any...

A team of engineers, who have asked to not be identified by name, are working to develop a new platform for anonymous posting called Cloaq (pronounced “cloak”). This upcoming web and mobil...

French last-minute hotel app VeryLastRoom just raised $2.1 million (1.5 million). The app is very reminiscent of its American competitor, Hotel Tonight. VC APlusFinance, Extend and Sigma Gestion inves...

Is Jimmy Wales testing out Bitcoin donations for Wikipedia? He is certainly considering it, according to a thread on Reddit. It first started with a tweet — Wikipedia co-founder set up a persona...

Twitter is down. I repeat, Twitter is down. According to the API status page, Downforeveryoneorjustme.com, and tests within the TechCrunch staff, the service is experiencing some serious performance i...

Twitter is down. I repeat, Twitter is down. According to the API status page, Downforeveryoneorjustme.com, and tests within the TechCrunch staff, the service is experiencing some serious performance i...

Newzmate, a Kiev, Ukraine-based startup that develops semantic data analysis, aggregation and recommendation services, has launched its latest product: "Traqli" is button (and service) publishers can ...

President Obama’s somewhat testy but endlessly hilariousBetween Two Ferns clipwith Zach Galifianakisis storming the Internet this morning, racking up more than 3 million views in just a few hour...

The Oculus Rift development kit is no longer for sale in most parts of the world, the company reports. The dev hardware for the virtual reality headset has been on sale since Oculus kicked off their K...

You can't make this stuff up. At a party thrown by Ashton Kutcher's A-Grade Investments at SXSW over the weekend, Nas took the stage while famed entrepreneur-turned-investor Ben Horowitz danced alongs...

Instagram has launched version 5.1 of its app on Google Play today, with a redesign that makes for a much speedier, resource-light experience. Your profile should load in half the time, according to a...

Say hey to Roboticky: a robot designed to be programmed by kids using a simplified drag-and-drop software interface on their computer. It's getting hard to keep track of all the startups looking for c...

Google today announced the launch of its add-on store for Google Docs'spreadsheet and word processorapps. The store, which resembles the Chrome Web Store in its design, currently features about 20 add...

Google made a couple of updates to its Chrome Web Store today and with these, developers can now use the store to offer free trials for packaged apps (which are able to run offline). But more importan...

India’s nearly 100 million smartphone users are beginning to shop online at a pace that the country’s biggest e-commerce companies such as Flipkart and Snapdeal are expecting the mobile tr...

Heads turned when Facebook forked out $19 billion for messaging service WhatsApp in February, and eyes popped when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it was probably worth even more. Now, analysts over...

Microsoft released a bundle of software updates this morning for its Surface line of tablets, including support for the Power Cover, which just went on sale, and improved touchpad input. Also out this...

Codementor, an open marketplace for one-on-one programming help, is now open to the public after finishing a three-month stint at TechStars Seattle. The site connects users with experts in a wide rang...

Niara, a stealthy enterprise security company, has raised $9 million in funding from Index and NEA, we're hearing from sources. Read More ...

Webflow, the Y Combinator-backed startup aimed at making it easier for creative professionals to visually design and host their own responsive websites, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding. The ro...

Advertising tech company Appsfire is rolling out a new ad unit, Sashimi. Like its previous units, the company is experimenting with native ads on mobile. Sashimi is very reminiscent of Facebook or Twi...

There are 300-plus million Americans and only 535 members of Congress: simple math is the big reason why it’s difficult to have direct democracy in a country with a 500,000:1 ratio of legislator...

There are 300-plus million Americans and only 535 members of Congress: simple math is the big reason why it’s difficult to have direct democracy in a country with a 500,000:1 ratio of legislator...

Think of Popcorn Time like Netflix, just with movies worth watching. Find a title and click “Watch It Now”. That’s it. The media catalog is impressive. Everything from first run movi...

Another day, another record high for Facebook. This morning the social company ticked up around 0.6%, topping an up market, and re-cresting the$72 mark comfortably, a level that it barely tasted yeste...

CloudMagic, the makers of apersonal search app which in February changed direction to become a search-focused email application instead, is out this morning with a significant update. The company is i...

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CarThrottle, which perhaps can be best described as a 'BuzzFeed for cars', is continuing to step on the gas. Founded 5 years ago by Adnan Ebrahim, now aged 23, while he was a student at the UK's UCL, ...

HTC’s new One smartphone is the worst-kept secret of the season, with leaks in abundance and even official teasers that are being more forward about unannounced product than you might expect. To...

And the winner of this week's "Confusing And Overcomplicated Branding" award is... (drumroll, please!) The diffr3nt|slim case!Unfortunate name aside, the diffr3nt case for iPhone is made of canva...

Apple has just shipped iOS 7.1, which brings a number of small enhancements and some considerable performance improvements to older devices, but now the way is clear for iOS 8, and already the rumor m...

Today WhatsApp, Facebook's new $19 billion messaging darling, has released an update to the Android version of the app. Among a few new privacy-related features, the update also brings with it an inte...

Metamorphic Ventures, the New York-based seed fund behind startups like the crowdfunding hit Indiegogo, has raised $70 million for a new super-seed fund. As follow-on rounds get larger and bigger inve...

There’s a rush on to be the first Android console maker to strike the right chord with consumers, and there’s no shortage of contenders. Bluestacks is one such contender, and their GamePop...

And the award for cutest wearable goes to… Moff!A smart bangle for kidsthat’s being developed by — you guessed it — a Japanese company (suchkawaii) on a mission to transform bo...

A whole host of connected hardware accelerators have cropped up in the last year in Europe and beyond, and now hub:raum, Deutsche Telekoms incubator, wants in on the action. It's running a three-day I...

Finally. The Jawbone UP24 now works with Android phones. The wireless UP fitness tracker launched in late 2013 and has so far only worked with iOS devices. But not anymore. The company just released t...

Joining the fray of business intelligence companies developing natural language search for data analysis, DataRPMhas raised $5.1 million. The Washington DC-based startup raised its Series A round from...

The maker of the popular Raspberry Pi just announced a little soundcard, perfect for pairing with the 'Berry Pi. The $33 card from Element 14 sits on the Pi's P5 pins and features all the inputs and o...

President Barack Obama made a special appearance on an extremely unlikely program in the talk show circuit – or rather, way off the circuit, on “The Hangover” star Zach Galifianakis&...

French startup accelerator Le Camping presented its fifth batch of startups today at Numa in Paris. Today is the first part of a demo day tour that will bring the 12 startups to London, Berlin and Lux...

Touchten, a Jakarta-based mobile games startup, announced today that it plans to add an online-to-offline (O2O) feature to its games, which it hopes will attract and engage users who don't use credit ...

Today BBC took the covers off a new version of its on-demand iPlayer, the first time that it has been rebuilt since 2011 (it was launched in 2007) -- with improved search, responsive design and more i...

Robocoin, the bi-directional Bitcoin ATM, is ramping up its nascent footprint -- with launches planned for 10 more global locations. The company said today it will be shipping its first Bitcoin ATMs t...

Never mind poor service or the food itself, the experience of actually paying the bill at the end of a meal is often cited as the biggest pain-point for restaurant goes. Or so says Flypay, a new UK st...

Ulmon, the travel app developer behind the popular CityMaps2Go apps, has raised its first round of funding, a seed investment from Global Founders Capital, VC started in 2013 by Oliver and Marc Samwer...

There are a couple of kinds of bubbles that we talk about in tech. The most prominent is the money bubble, which posits that companies and investors are riding a wave of faux optimism when it comes to...

As the costs of DNA sequencing and synthesis drop precipitously, a host of computer science-meets-biotech startups are cropping up in Silicon Valley. TeselaGen, which makes middleware for biotech labs...

Late last week, Apple quietly updated its loyalty pricing program with several improvements that should drive more sales to organizations, IT pros and education. Read More ...

Two quick hits from the Microsoft side of things: The Surface Power Cover is now up for pre-sale, and the rumor engine is kicking around the bit that LTE-capable Surface 2 devices have landed in Micro...

For those of you suffering True Detective withdrawal (and really, aren’t we all?) here’re the adventures of Rust and Marty as an 8-bit video game. Video game Rust won’t win any actin...

YuMe, a video ad company that went public last year, today announced the launch of a new brand called Video Reach. Senior Vice President of Marketing Ed Haslam told me via email that, like YuMes Conne...

Just weeks after Microsoft announced the Xbox One, they started touting a new feature that didn’t quite make it into the original debut: the ability to broadcast a video stream of your gameplay,...

Whistleblower Edward Snowden addressed the SXSW audience in a rare public Interview today and gave some policy suggestions about how the government can better protect our 4th Amendment rights. The goo...

Twitter, a big hit with news junkies and those in the media industry, has been working to widen that scope to bring in more mainstream users, as well as those with other special interests. The latest ...

Over the past several years, e-commerce startup Mulu has built a backend technology that allows publishers to instantly embed shoppable items in their web pages. But now the company is introducing a n...

If you invest in an open-source, crowd-funded Enigma machine today, make it this one. Created by S&T Geotronics of Columbus, Georgia, this device first appeared as an Instructable and is now avail...

Google is launching a new feature for advertisers today that highlights data Google gathered from its Consumer Surveys in their ads. These so-called "consumer ratings annotations" can appear under Goo...

There are many benefits to living overseas, but among the most valuable is the ability to dislocate yourself from your timeworn surroundings. The typical cadence of our daily behaviors driving down 2...

Contrary to what you may have heard, South by Southwest Interactive isn't just about high-minded panels and keynotes filled with big ideas. No, sometimes startups do fun, goofy promotions like asking ...

Facebook and Twitter had a good day in the public market, with each company picking up momentum from positive analyst comments. Both companies rose in the day, bucking a down day for the major U.S. ex...

Shopify has compiled data from its platform merchants to determine how much value commerce sites get from social media engagement, and put the results into a massive infographic. If, like me, you find...

RelayRides, the startup that runs a peer-to-peer marketplace for people to share their cars, has been ordered to pay a $200,000 fine to New York State after an investigation by the state’s Depar...

Your wrist is a hotly contested new battleground, with small fry like Pebble doing battle with giants including Samsung, and activity trackers like the Jawbone UP and Nike+ FuelBand fighting it out, t...

TrackR, the Bluetooth Low Energy-powered dongles that help you find missing or misplaced items, like your car keys, wallet, purse or bag, or even your dog, are now being upgraded in order to communica...

For 10 years now, Google has been bringing together open source software projects and students who are looking for a challenging summer project through its Summer of Code program. Starting today, Goog...

In another interesting wrinkle to the ongoing is-he-or-isn't-he Satoshi story, the alleged Bitcoin creator's brother Arthur has come forward to address some of the questions and concerns regarding Ne...

The bad news: Since November of 2013, there’s been a bug in Twitter that allowed people to read tweets they shouldn’t have been able to see. The kind-of-good-I-guess news: four months late...

Business accelerators like Y Combinator and TechStars have come to occupy a critical geography in the tech landscape, and today two professors are announcing the results of their survey to determine w...

Business accelerators like Y Combinator and TechStars have come to occupy a critical geography in the tech landscape, and today two professors are announcing the results of their survey to determine w...

Procrastination is a thing of the devil. We get that. And with that thought, our lovely events team has extended the extra early bird sale on Disrupt NY tickets. This cuts $250 off the price of the al...

Did you miss the chat between Edward Snowden andthe ACLU’sBen Wizner and Christopher Soghoian? The good news is that you can watch the entire thing now.Bad news: The currently available video is...

Spritz, a Boston-based startup that's been developing a speed-reading technology in stealth since 2011, is in the process of closing a $3.54 million seed funding round. Investors include Denis O'Brien...

Newly launched iOS application TheNeeds is the latest attempt at offering users a better, more personalized news-reading experience with a service that focuses not only on your interests, but also how...

Today at the SXSW conference, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden joined the event digitally to speak about mass surveillance. Since his revelations began to spill last summer, Snowden has been a lightni...

Whistleblower Edward Snowden gave a rare public interview today at the technology mega-conference, SXSW. When asked whether we should fear surveillance from government or Google more, Snowden argued t...

Apple has just released iOS 7.1, the first major update for iOS 7 since its launch back in September 2013. The update has been available to developers for some time now, and brings a lot of small but ...

Pebble is launching an online software challenge, powered by ChallengePost, which begins today – right now, in fact. Developers who are interested in participating can submit new or existing app...

If you're the kind of person who talks nostalgically about how you used to read novels (you know, before you got busy with work and life, and before you had a million Internet-connected devices to dis...

After WhatsApp exited to Zuck, the service, perhaps the best known ‘over-the-top’ (OTT) message service announced that it will add voice capabilities in the second quarter of the year. Tha...

Edward Snowden is set to give his SXSW talk at 12:00 EDT. Thanks to the Texas Tribune, the interview will also be live streamed and the video is embedded below. Christopher Soghoian, the principal tec...

Startup Movable Ink has been trying to improve marketing emails with real-time content, and now it's launching a broader platform called agileEMAIL. Co-founder and CEO Vivek Sharma said agileEMAIL inc...

We met first met Cincinnati-based 3DLT last year when they announced their 3D printing marketplace at Disrupt. The team is back in the news thanks to a new effort by Amazon to add printed items to the...

Google announced today the start of a new referral program for customers of its online office and productivity suite, Google Apps, which will encourage the company’s current users to recommend t...

The U.K. Prime Minister is clearly a fan of the HAPIfork. At a speech at Europe's CeBIT tech conference yesterday David Cameron announced an additional 45 million in funding for research in areas link...

Edward Snowden is set to give his SXSW talk at 12:00 EDT. Thanks to the Texas Tribune, the interview will also be live streamed and the video is embedded below. Christopher Soghoian, the principal tec...

The war of words between eBay and its new shareholder Carl Icahn continues to rage on. Today, eBay issued a notice of an upcoming annual meeting, in which the company asked shareholders flat out to vo...

Theres been a lot of discussion and debate around the benefit to brands of building a presence on Facebook and Twitter. At the same time, LinkedIn has been ramping up its efforts to get brands to crea...

Drifty, a participant in the TechStars Cloud 2013 incubator, and makers of a suite of tools for mobile developers building apps and websites, most notably, the Ionic framework, has closed on a million...

Waterloo’s Thalmic Labs is shipping out its Myo gesture control band alpha units to developers to get them building software compatible with the new hardware, and it’s already resulting in...

In the space between one iPhone launch and the next, a number of things happen: rumors abound, analysts throw out predictions on sales figures, specs trickle out slowly, and most entertainingly, desig...

You are on a blog. The latest news is at the top and scrolls down infinitely. The first story is about the 30th Anniversary Edition of Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy text adventure game. T...

Kabam, the free-to-play gaming company that has raised some $125 million in venture funding and looks to be among those weighing up an IPO, has acquired Phoenix Age, a games studio based in San Franci...

With a click of a button in the Xfinity Store, Comcast subscribers will soon be able to purchase access to House of Cards — Netflix is not required. The option should hit the service soon. Only ...

Apple offers the iPhone in a number of different storage capacities, ranging from 16GB to 64GB, but it doesn’t offer expansion storage options to let users add their own via micro SD or any othe...

Link shortening and analytics company Bitly is announcing the hire of two new executives Chief Technology Officer Rob Platzer and Vice President of Marketing Melissa Wallace. The company's current CE...

Link shortening and analytics company Bitly is announcing the hire of two new executives Chief Technology Officer Rob Platzer and Vice President of Marketing Melissa Wallace. The company's current CE...

Link shortening and analytics company Bitly is announcing the hire of two new executives Chief Technology Officer Rob Platzer and Vice President of Marketing Melissa Wallace. The company's current CE...

While existing patent suits between the likes of Samsung and Apple continue to drag on in Europe, Unwired Planet, the patent enforcement entity that acquired 2,400 wireless patents from Ericsson last ...

Get a cup of coffee. You’re going to need it. These official Samsung videos show off nearly every feature and function of the Galaxy S5 and Gear watches, but they’re rather mundane. Dull w...

Samsung is reportedly (via WSJ) preparing for a smart home control interface that uses your smart TV to recognize basic hand gestures, directed at the objects you actually want to control. So, for exa...

It looks like the rise of the "as a service" model, where people can buy software, platform access, security and more from a cloud-based provider for a fixed term, may have spawned its Damien: cybercr...

Google is readying a version of its Android OS tailored for wearable devices. Google’s Sundar Pichai told the SXSW conference Sunday that it would be releasing anSDK for makers of wearable devic...

For the last few years TechCrunch Disrupt, our headline conference, has become a staple of the industry calendar in both San Francisco and New York. Last year we brought this incredible event to Europ...

Apparently, preparing properly for meetings -- the who, what and where -- is a pain-point for some. This is especially true for sales people who have to hold a lot of meetings and where preparation ca...

Drive.SG, Singaporean car rental portal, has raised a SGD $1 million (or about USD $790,000) Series A from Insas Berhad, a Malaysian investment holding company. The startup will use the capital to exp...

ROIKOI is a very simple concept. At its core, it is a leaderboard that anonymously rates people you know based on one single criterion Would I hire this person at a job and work with them. Read More ...

When considering the economics of games, I'm more and more fascinated by the potential of a scalable patronage model and seen on Patreon. But also by the games industry's continuing resistance to new ...

Tencent, one of China's largest Internet services companies and the maker of WeChat, and JD.com, an online direct sales company, have formed a strategic partnership. The deal can potentially boost Ten...

Microsoft’s Build developer conference kicks off in a month, making it not surprising that we’re seeing increasing leaks and noise regarding platform changes the company is working on that...

While at South by Southwest Interactive, I had a chance to (briefly) interview one of my childhood heroes, Bill Nye the Science Guy. Nye was about to evaluate inventions at an event for Quirky, a star...

Music video streaming startup VEVO is building an updated version of its mobile apps, which are coming soon. It also took the step to making its videos available on partner applications with plans to ...

Anonymous hackers have defaced Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles' blog and have uploaded a data dump of customer data that, according to users with accounts on the site, is accurate. A Reddit user created an ...

Anonymous hackers have defaced Mt.Gox CEO Mark Karpeles' blog and have uploaded a data dump of customer data that, according to users with accounts on the site, is accurate. A Reddit user created an E...

Despite the popularity of travel booking sites likeKayak,TripAdvisor, andExpedia, venture capital firms are still investing in companies selling consumers a better way to travel. In the past few years...

This week on the TechCrunch Droidcast, I’m joined by Chris Velazco as he shares his recent MWC memories. We also dig into Samsung’s new Milk Music streaming radio service, and the Pebble 2...

Neither of the games industry's new flagship boxes -- the PS4 and the Xbox One -- is selling well compared to previous generations of flagship home consoles. The console market as a whole appears to b...

Google could face a penalty of up to $5 billion if found guilty by the Competition Commission of Indiain a two-year old probe launched to investigate if the company abused its dominant position in the...

In 2013, eBay announced a big focus on growth in emerging markets for its marketplace, in particular, Russia, Brazil and China. Some of this growth can be enabled through localization, but the marketp...

Greetings from a rainy (but always fun) Austin, TX. As is the case leading up to every SXSW, many wonder what will be the breakout app. As someone who works in, invests in, and writes about mobile, th...

The Gillmor Gang Doc Searls, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor talk the usual smack about the complete fantasy known as IM interoperability. You'd think these stalwarts would acknowledge t...

A couple of months ago, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone launched an app called Jelly, meant to make asking and answering random questions more fun. So, in a world where we wear out Google with inquiry af...

The bright minds at Stanford who createdOmlet have a different idea about how communicating and more importantly, the data that goes along with communication should be handled these days. Read More ...

The buzzy new app Secret -- which lets people post messages to their circles of contacts without attribution -- has closed a $10 million round of funding at a $50 million valuation, TechCrunch has lea...

Today at SXSW, two of Oculus' cofounders took the stage for a Q&A on the future of their burgeoning virtual reality headset.While they dodged the question that most watching wanted answered, they...

Editor’s Note:This excerpt is authored by Nir Eyal and appears in Michal Levin’s new book,Designing Multi-Device Experiences.Nir Eyal is also the author ofHooked: A Guide to Building Habit...

When we last left Baggg.it, the founders Eliyah Finkelstein, Jonathan Cook, and Michael Cook were busy building a shopping extension, a Baggg if you will, that allowed you to comparison shop between s...

Famed scientist and science popularizer Neil deGrasse Tyson talked about the importance of space exploration today during his keynote at South by Southwest Interactive. Despite advances by private com...

Wearables are being used by users to measure their activity and provide them with feedback that can help them improve their health. Today, a new startup called Lightwave is using wearable technology t...

Wearables are being used by users to measure their activity and provide them with feedback that can help them improve their health. Today, a new startup called Lightwave is using wearable technology t...

Wearables are being used by users to measure their activity and provide them with feedback that can help them improve their health. Today, a new startup called Lightwave is using wearable technology t...

BREAKING: SXSW is about to get even more interesting than normal. Secret, the app which lets you share anonymously amongst friends and friends of friends, has announced a web feed of SXSW 'secrets' th...

Facebook plans to reveal new ways for developers to grow and monetize their apps. Today it announced it will hold its F8 developer conference on April 30th in San Francisco. It will have been almost t...

Despite what many are led to believe, great startups rarely move linearly "up and to the right." They zig, they zag, they take detours and often pivot several times to get to a positive outcome. The B...

The Brazilian online travel agency Hotel Urbano has gotten a 120 million Reais ($50 million) reservation from the powerhouse hedge fund investor Tiger Global Management and previous backer Insight Ven...

Gillmor Gang - Doc Searls, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 12:00pm Pacific. live chat Read More ...

Its been an interesting few weeks for Silicon Valley insiders. Secret, the anonymous messaging app, has caused several communication crises for some prominent tech companies, and many more are no doub...

Google Director of Ideas and former technology advisor to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Jared Cohen, says that digital "crypto-currencies" like Bitcoin are here to stay. "I think it's ver...

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange gave a rare talk via video at annual tech mega-conference SXSW, where he came out swinging not only at President Obama but also Google and Facebook. Assange claimed th...

It was a week of wacky stories in the tech news world. That made for an especially spirited discussion on CrunchWeek, the show that brings three TechCrunch writers together to talk about the biggest s...

Here's something you might not have noticed if you were partying it up at SXSW and using Uber to get around: Your Uber might not be permitted in Austin, and the police department wants you to know tha...

On-demand ride-sharing startup Lyft is raising a new round of funding, according to a filing from the Delaware Division of Corporations. The new financing comes on top of about $83 million that the co...

If you don’t know about Mozilla’s Persona sign-in and identity, you’re apparently not the only one. Citing low adoption rates, Mozilla has decided to give up on this project and is a...

The White House is so happy with its internal residential hackers program that it’s making room for another round of job opportunities. Members of the Presidential Innovation Fellows program wor...

PayPal, the eBay-owned online payments platform that made up some 40% of its $16 billion in revenues in 2013, is starting to roll out a new version of its website -- it's biggest attempt yet at puttin...

Here comes another app which hopes to make messaging safe and secure, called Glimpse. The app, which enables users to quickly, easily, and securely share photo and video messages with each other, seek...

"Patents are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution for a single purpose: to promote the progress of science and useful arts." Alas, when it comes to software, it is difficult to imagine a system worse at...

I didn't have any money so couldn't start a business. And even if I started one, I didn't have an office, or clients, and I was too shy to cold-call clients. I didn't have connections or rich parents ...

While this is no Monsieur, this DIY Arduino project may be the next best thing. The system uses a kitchen scale, a little amplifier, and an Arduino Uno (you can add in a Bluetooth chip if you want thi...

It's a new year, and a whole new SXSW, but some things don't change. Thanks to an endless stream of parties with open bars, the (relatively) warm nights, and a large population of web-curious visitors...

Bustle, the unfortunately named and ill-marketed woman's publication launched by Bleacher Report founder Bryan Goldberg in August, has lost at least one prominent investor. Google Ventures has pulled ...

Yesterday, a National Transportation Safety Board judge ruled that the Federal Aviation Administration could not fine anybody for using small, hobby-plane-sized commercial drones use because it hadn&#...

The dogfight between BlackBerry and Windows Phone in the U.S. has a new leader. Microsoft's smartphone platform now controls more market share than that of the Canadian firm. But there is more to the ...

Secret is hoping to grow bigger and capitalize on SXSW with two new features. Share lets you post any Secret you see to Twitter, Facebook, SMS, or email. Nearby lets you opt in to seeing Secrets share...

Secret is hoping to grow bigger and capitalize on SXSW with two new features. Share lets you post any Secret you see to Twitter, Facebook, SMS, or email. Nearby lets you opt in to seeing Secrets share...

Tumblr today added a new audio posting feature which lets you dial a toll-free number with your phone in order to post a short recording directly to your blog. We nearly missed the news of the additio...

Those of you who are about to fight in the Great Human Rebellion, we salute you... with the robots that will kill you! Hello and welcome to another episode of TIDWRTWHUFOO where we meet the Gs that ki...

F.lux! If you haven’t heard of it, be warned: once you get used to f.lux, you’ll probably find yourself annoyed whenever you use a computer that doesn’t have it. The theory behind f....

In this week's episode of Ask A VC, we hosted YL Ventures Yoav Leitersdorf in the studio to talk about cyber security, innovations in Israel and more. Read More ...

Google’s Eric Schmidt told a SXSW audience in Austin today that Google is “very, very worried about”the growing financial inequality and subsequent protests in San Francisco. “...

This morning, Samsung launched a new service called Milk. The idea? Unlimited, ad-free music stations but only for people carrying Samsung Galaxy devices.Thing is, locking Android apps down on a devi...

It's Friday, which means your Pavlovian response to the nearing weekend has left you drooling to hear us chat about gadgets. Hooray! Read More ...

Extreme hobbies lead to extreme places. Bill Tai, the partner at Charles River Ventures who took up kitesurfing and turned it into a multi-annual gathering of Red Bull athletes and entrepreneurs calle...

Extreme hobbies lead to extreme places. Bill Tai, the partner at Charles River Ventures who took up kitesurfing and turned it into a multi-annual gathering of Red Bull athletes and entrepreneurs calle...

Today technology security firm FireEye sold a massive set of stock in a secondary offering, following up on its very successful IPO. The company recently purchased Mandiant for ten figures, so the cap...

Moven, a mobile banking service similar in some respects to recently acquired Simple, exited from beta this week, meaning users no longer have to request an invite to sign up for an account. Now publi...

Smartwatch maker Pebble has finally released its full version 2.0 app for Android devices, following a public beta originally brought the software and the Pebble Appstore to smartphones using Google&#...

On the way to an initial public offering later this year, the home furnishing online retail juggernaut Wayfair has picked up $157 million in a new round of funding. The online retailer is mum about wh...

A member of the House Intelligence Committee is denouncing the massive technology conference, SXSW, for allowing NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, to deliver a keynote. “Rewarding Mr. Snowden&#...

Spokefly is an Austin-based startup that is hoping to make it easier for users to find (and rent) bikes in the city. It operates on a peer-to-peer basis, allowing folks with bikes to make them availab...

Time is running out to snag a Disrupt NY 2014 ticket at a significant discount. You have mere hours to purchase the ticket at a $250 discount. Tonight, at midnight Eastern time, our events team is pul...

Printchomp does marketing collateral. Need a business card? Bingo. Need a brochure? Bongo. Need a picture of your CEO for the annual Secret Pin The Tail On The Tyrant Party at your house? Boom. Since ...

Stuck in an awkward situation? A newly announced application called Tickle has been promising to give you an excuse to get away in the form of an urgent, but fake, phone call, which you can slyly acti...

Samsung is doing something unusual for the company – focusing on mobile software design, with a new product out today called Milk Music. It’s a streaming radio app, with free (and ad-free)...

Two U.S. Senators warn that allowing in-flight calls will cause hostility among cramped passengers. “We are concerned that the addition of this entirely avoidable aggravation of a confined space...

General Assembly, the New York-based educational startup that offers tech courses in campuses across different cities, today announced that it has raised a Series C round of $35 million. The funding w...

Reelio, a startup that describes itself as "the Match.com of brands and creators on YouTube," is announcing that it has raised a "significant seven-figure" seed round (so, more than $1 million). As th...

23snaps, an iOS, Android, Web and Windows app that we've previously likened to a 'Facebook for families', has added a neat feature that lets you tell better stories by combing text, photos and video i...

The problem with navigation applications is that they assume you’re trying to find your way from Point A to Point B right now. They don’t permit busy travelers to pre-plan their trips in a...

As of right now it’s perfectly legal to operate a drone for commercial reasons. That’s according to a federal judge, in a ruling that notes the Federal Aviation Administration has not made...

What kind of stories are locked up in your Messages app? Love stories? Tales of friendships made, and lost, and patched up once again? What about the story of your first funding, or acquisition? Txto....

On the heels of raising a $60 million round at a $1 billion valuation in November 2013, Instagram competitor Mobli today is announcing another finance move: it is joining the NASDAQ Private Market, th...

HP has quietly announced a new tablet. Meet the HP 8. It’s a rather mundane tablet with a ho-hum screen and above par specs. It’s nothing special. But it’s cheap and cheap sells. The...

Desk jobs are slowly killing us. Perhaps even worse than dying early, our office-potato lives are making us more susceptible to joint pain, fatigue, and illness. To fight off these modern diseases, I ...

On the heels of the news yesterday that Spotify had acquired music discovery technology company Echo Nest, we now have a price for the deal: it was $100 million, with 90% of that in Spotify equity. Re...

With social media here to stay, it's become a powerful tool for marketing amongst musicians, especially when they have fans who do so much of the heavy lifting by promoting the artist. Some of those f...

In the late 1960s, the British Ministry of Technology turned Bedford SB buses into mobile cinemas that toured the country and screened films promoting modern production techniques. Half a century late...

Apple just added external retina display support in a recent beta of OS X Mavericks 10.9.3, According to 9to5mac. 4K monitors can now run the operating system at a pixel-doubled resolution, like on a ...

Workable, a startup founded in Athens, Greece, that has developed a cloud-based recruitment platform for SMEs, has today confirmed a new investment of $1.5 million led by Greylock IL, the Israel/UK-ba...

Meet the wannabe modular smartwatch that intends to offer a fully customisable wearable experience, by allowing the user to choose which sensors and features make sense for their wrist -- whether it's...

Following the implosion of Japanese exchange Mt. Gox, the Japanese government wanted to clarify its stance regarding the cryptocurrency. According to the Wall Street Journal, the government doesn̵...

Dorian S. Nakamoto is probably having the weirdest day of his life. In less than 24 hours, the Temple City, California resident has been the subject of a Newsweek cover article "outing" him as the elu...

Altitude Games, a Manila-based mobile game studio, has raised $275,000 in seed funding from investors Nix Nolledo, Level Up! Games co-founder Philip Cahiwat, an undisclosed angel investor, and members...

Nowadays, many people browse the web at the same time that they're watching TV -- the phenomenon is called the "second screen." But a new gadget called InAIR from a startup called SeeSpace wants to br...

South Korea is no stranger to controversy over its Internet policies. The country still mandates virus protection and security measures that essentially require the use of Internet Explorer and Window...

The first time people try on the Oculus Rift, they tend to have two immediate reactions. First: "Whoa." Second: "Wait, where's my keyboard? Hold on. Are my fingers on the keys? Just a second. Okay, go...

We aren’t supposed to get our mitts on Windows 8.1 Update 1 for more than a month yet, but it seems that a simple registry tweak is letting folks not only get their hands on the new code, but al...

Quipper, an e-learning platform backed by the London-based VC firm, Atomico, that's led by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrm, has closed a new tranche of funding. The $5.8 million Series A2 round takes...

For New York City’s startup community, the future venture capitalists have hoped for may be taking place right now. Over the past two days New York startups have announced nearly $200 million in...

"We want to enable straight playback from Spotify on other services", CEO Daniel Ek tells me. It's part of why his company just acquired The Echo Nest, the top music personalization and discovery API ...

Bloodhound, a company previously focused on providing software tools for the conference space, today released Android and iOS applications focusing on mobile lead capture. In short, Bloodhound built a...

Is this man really the father of Bitcoin? After a full day of wild speculation and anger, the LA press have finally tracked down Nakamoto and he's receiving a grilling. According to reports, Nakamoto ...

Shopping search and comparison engine TheFind, which launched its iPhone application last fall and has now grown its iOS footprint to over 1 million users, today launched its service on Android. Like ...

Jack Tretton has left the game. The longtime Sony executive is stepping down from his role as President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America where he was essentially in charge of the state-s...

Iddiction, an app developer and marketing platform backed by $4 million in funding, just launched a new app discovery network called Xplode. It’s a bottom bar that sits in apps across the networ...

You may not know the name Lumus now, but expect to be hearing a lot from them in the future. When we first met the Lumus rep Ari Grobman two years ago he showed us some amazing technology. It was basi...

On the heels of the news that Founders Fund has raised a massive$1 billion for its fifth fund, the venture capital firm is slimming down its top ranks, with now-former partnerSean Parker stepping down...

At this year’s Dx3 digital business expo in Toronto, one of the highlights was a Seattle-based company called Hointer that’s aiming for nothing short of a complete revolution in the way we...

Google’s Apps Marketplace, its directory of cloud apps that integrate with Google Apps, now features over 750 services. Today, at its Global Partner Summit, Google is expanding this program by c...

Silicon Valley’s role in the upcoming midterm elections is already getting a lot more interesting with a new tech-savvy candidate in the race who is looking to fill the unexpected departure of o...

When you give Dr. Craig Forest an inch, he takes a mile. The mild-mannered Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Georgia Tech helped set up the Invention Studio on the first floor of a nondescript ...

Another year and another Nexus device. If one report out of Germany is believed, LG is tasked once again to produce this next-gen Nexus device. If true, this would be the third consecutive Nexus devic...

Reggie Aggarwal, the founder and CEO of Cvent, describes himself as a "15 year overnight success". Read More ...

Last summer, Google announced a loan program for its backpack-like Street View Trekker cameras for organizations that want to help the company create imagery of interesting places. Today, it’s l...

Embarcadero Technologies is announcing AppMethod today, a new multi-device development platform for PC, Mac, iOS, Android and -- in the long run -- wearables. The platform brings together an IDE with ...

Convo, a social tool for companies to collaborate in real-time, today released new tools for its growing userbase: A Chrome extension, and a refresh of its Android application. As an app, Convo is som...

Flipkart, India’s biggest e-commerce company, has just hit the billion dollar milestone in annual GMV (Gross Merchandise Value), a goal the founders had forecast to achieve only by 2015. In an i...

Facebook has gone through many iterations, and some growing pains, in its quest to find a happy balance between an interface that people love to use, and that will serve the best business purpose for ...

Quiz Time! Which super popular trivia game that was previously iOS-only just launched on Android?A) Quizzington AlleyB) QuizUpC) Greg's Quiz CabinD) Angry Bird? I don't know. What is smart phone.If yo...

Senator Mark Udall has written a blistering letter to President Barack Obama, claiming he knew of the “unprecedented action” of CIA spying on members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, ...

How do you deal with email overload, and the incessant pings of incoming email alerts? Baydin, the company behind a suite of productivity tools for busy workers, has a solution: just stop checking you...

Having recently spent an evening listening to a twenty-something former Google developer (who shall remain nameless) discussing his burning desire to own a yacht, my ears pricked up on hearing of Sail...

People dont want ads, they want memories. To shift from spammy marketing to providing experiences, companies like Anheuser-Busch, Spotify, NPR, and Wired promoted 80,000 events in 2013 with a little s...

Dogs seem to benefit from watching other dogs, even if they are on TV. Thus, Dog TV exists. Yes folks, this is a real THING. Now, Dog TV, literally a television network for canines, is launching Dog T...

Dogs seem to benefit from watching other dogs, even if they are on TV. Thus, Dog TV exists.Yes, folks, this is a real thing. Now, Dog TV, literally a television network for canines, is launching Dog T...

Findery is launching worldwide on iOS today to bring these things out of purely the oral history and into the digital world. The app lets you take photos and notes from specific locations and tag them...

In October 2012, payments company Braintree set aside $2 million from its Series B to court startups to its platform by waiving the processing fees for the first $50,000 in transactions. At the time, ...

Amazon quietly launched a new mobile application designed for Amazon Sellers, the individuals and businesses who leverage Amazon’s scale to reach the company’s millions of shoppers by list...

Posted without comment. Because there is really nothing to say to justify or explain this commercial for the LG G Flex. Read More ...

New mobile app developer Trusper has just launched with $6.17 million to bring the knitting circle and the farmers almanac into the age of the iPhone. The Los Gatos based company is the brainchild of ...

Vimeo says it's making a big financial commitment a new $10 million fund to films distributed exclusively (for a limited window of time) through Vimeo On Demand. The IAC-owned video site launched Vim...

If you get sick while traveling, TraveDoc, an Uber for healthcare that currently operates in Ghana and Singapore, wants to be your go-to app.This week, CEO Marcel Muenster told me his company has immi...

New York-based startup Sunrise just added Microsoft Exchange calendar support to its iPhone and iPad app. Exchange support was the last missing major calendar integration — the app already works...

CloudPress is a year-old startup which has emerged from the chaos of the Egyptian revolution, only to be acquired by one of the world's biggest media companies: News Corp. Indeed, the media giant was ...

Spotify has acquired The Echo Nest, as revealed by an official blog post today. The financial details of the acquisition haven’t been revealed, but The Echo Nest is a self-described “music...

Head-mounted computing probably still seems a bit far-fetched to most every day users, but component manufacturers and tech suppliers are already gearing up to provide a future supply chain with the p...

Hosting company DigitalOcean raised a Series A round of $37 million at a $153 million valuation from Andreessen Horowitz. The VC firm is the sole investor in this round. Peter Levine will join the boa...

Cloud hosting company DigitalOcean raised a Series A round of $37.2 million at a $153 million valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz. Previous investors IA Ventures and CrunchFund also participated, but...

Emotient, a startup based out of San Diego that works in the emerging area of facial expression recognition, is today announcing a $6 million round of funding and its first steps into applying its tec...

A new mobile app called Banter wants to build an anonymous social network on mobile by carving out a niche for itself that falls somewhere in between mobile messaging apps, like WhatsApp or Facebook M...

Caffeine is a horrible, terrible, gosh-darn-awful part of my daily life. Two cups in the morning. I’m addicted. So are many of you. We need caffeine in our blood to function. Or at least we thin...

Digital comics storefront ComiXology has discovered a wide-reaching security breach during a security review and upgrade, and is requiring that all account holders reset their passwords, according to ...

Popular casual social game YoVille, which has a dedicated following of players despite having long since passed its peak in terms of popularity, gets a stay of execution today as Zynga has informed pl...

Popular casual social game YoVille, which has a dedicated following of players despite having long since passed its peak in terms of popularity, gets a stay of execution today as Zynga has informed pl...

It should come as no surprise that Newsweek suspects Satoshi Nakamoto, the reclusive creator of Bitcoin, is a shy, retiring Japanese-American man living in Temple City, California with his mother. The...

The Amazon effect continues to be felt among the brick-and-mortar faithful. Today, office supply superstore Staples announced that it would close 225 stores by 2015, some 10% of its worldwide footprin...

DailyThem.es is a social writing platform that wants to help English learners improve their language skills in an enjoyable and non-intimidating way. The concept behind the site is simple. Each day, u...

A new patent application by Apple just published by the USPTO (via AppleInsider) adds a feature to an iPhone that may not be as cool as an optical heart rate sensor, but could be just as (or more) lif...

Behind every great social media platform stands millions of great women. And boy do they love their smartphones! According to research compiled by FinanceOnline, which was taken from PEW, Nielsen, and...

OnDeck, an alternative lending company that provides working capital and loans to small businesses, has raised $77 million in a growth investment round led by Tiger Global Management with participatio...

The next war among smartphone makers will most likely be around health measurement, and the Wello is an iPhone accessory that recognizes that and wants to capitalize early. It offers iPhone users a he...

Another startup aiming to simplify the process of prototyping electronics by doing away with the need to wire up breadboards has taken to Kickstarter. This latest one, calledAgIC, combines the approac...

Searchlet launched three months ago to make online searches easier and help users avoid the dreaded Google amnesia. Now the Web app has added several features, including integration with Google Images...

There is a wealth of filmmaking talent across Asia, but it is very difficult for independent filmmakers there to gain exposure beyond occasional festivals. Founded earlier this year, Viddsee wants to ...

Gil Weinberg, who we met a few months ago at Georgia Tech, has a mission: to make it easy for amputees and the disabled to play beautiful music. His first project is a drumming prosthesis, a system th...

Earlier today Zite announced that it had been acquired for a second time – the first time CNN was the buyer, and this time around Zite’s main competitor Flipboard took it off the U.S. medi...

Founders Fund is announcing this evening that it has raised $1 billion for its fifth fund, which will be led by partners Ken Howery, Luke Nosek, Brian Singerman, Peter Thiel, Lauren Gross, Geoff Lewis...

eShares, a company trying to replace paper records for stock options and shares, has expanded its product lineup to include something called "409A-as-a-service." To be honest, until speaking to co-fou...

After Flipboard and CNN today announced that personalised magazine app Flipboard was buying Zite from CNN, I had a chance to talk with Flipboard CEO Mike McCue and CNN's digital head KC Estenson about...

Last year, Getty Images began to double down on how it could better control and ultimately make money from its library of 150 million of pictures (and counting) online. The first step was a groundbrea...

The new Time.com is here.Well, it should be here for some of you, anyway. A spokesperson said that the first few users should see the new layout now, and it will continue rolling out tonight and tomor...

If you were somehow still holding out hope that the hoverboard in that (very, very clearly fake) video from yesterday was in any way real: cue up the sad trombone.Why Are All These Celebrities Partici...

Today Gracenote announced that Rhythm, its Internet radio and music recommendation service, is becoming a bit smarter with new inclusion of social data fromMusicmetric. Rhythm is a white-label service...

If you’ve flown a quadcopter, you’ll know what happens when a propeller stops or fails: the thing flips around and crashes. Using a new system from Mark W. Mueller, Simon Berger, and Raffa...

Business Insider just raised $12 million more, at a reported valuation of around $100 million. The round was led by the Jeff Bezos, and included RRE Ventures, IVP, Jim Friedlich and Gordon Crovitz.The...

Dumbstruck, an Albany, NY based startup from Michael Tanski and Peter Allegretti, has a different take on video messaging. The app allows you to capture moments in video and send them to specific cont...

3D printer prices are falling steadily, something that shouldn't surprise anyone familiar with the vagaries of the electronics market. What cost a few thousand last year is now hovering at less than a...

At this year’s Dx3 digital business expo, Montreal-based Thirdshelf had a fully functional demonstration retail store with iBeacon proximity based shopper customization in place. The demo store ...

Online real estate marketplace Zillow today announced that it has hired Errol Samuelson, the former president of Realtor.com and chief strategy officer of Move, Inc., as its “chief industrydevel...

New York City, get ready for an epic night of rapid fire pitches from your area’s best startups. But we’re still on the hunt for startups to pitch. The application is below. Apply before M...

Stripe's is debuting a new seamless checkout experience on mobile and web today, which enables one click-payments for the first time on the payments platform. The new version of Checkout allows for an...

It’s no secret that mobile — and specifically Android — is becoming a major vector for malware. The result of this, according to a new report from CAPTCHA-based advertising firm Solv...

Daylight, an immersive iPad app dedicated to art photography, has been a decade in the making. The company’s founder Taj Forer and Michael Itkoff first built a bi-annual magazine about 10 years ...

On a first glance, it wouldn’t be apparent that Tom Kemp, a co-founder and the CEO of Centrify, runs one of the world’s best private enterprise technology companies. Turns out, he’s ...

Ad startup TripleLift is announcing that it has raised $4 million in Series A funding.The company's founders have said that they're trying to help advertising catch up with "the rise of the visual web...

Widely popular online learning platform Khan Academy closed a rare exclusive partnership with the College Board to bring free test prep software to the masses. As the College Board overhauls the panic...

Uh oh! Your flight was overbooked. You've been bumped off the flight, and they can't get you another ride for hours.Surely, the airline has to give you something, right? But what? A drink voucher? An ...

Congressman Jared Polis is calling on the Treasury to ban physical dollars in response to Senator Manchin’s plea to ban Bitcoin. “The exchange of dollar bills, including high denomination ...

Mozilla is launching mozjpeg today, a new JPEG encoder that promises to reduce file sizes by up to 10 percent on standard JPEG images. Mozilla says the idea behind the project is to create a productio...

Swiftype, the startup that promises publishers a genuinely good site search experience, is now giving those publishers more data about what people are searching for.Since joining Y Combinator and laun...

Boxever is a startup tackling the big data issue locked up inside airlines. It has a personalization platform for airlines and travel operators to gather and analyse customer data in real-time, creati...

Today Vizify announced that Yahoo has acquired it, adding yet another small company to the purple acquisition machine. Vizify helped its users better visualize and graph their social lives. Vizify, a ...

The United States is seeking millions from Sprint for allegedly overcharging authorities for the compensation normally paid for assistance with controversial surveillance programs.Sprint inflated its ...

You might think the MOOCs movement had saturated the edtech space. But Kunerango, an Italian startup that's built a SaaS platform for instructors to create branded online schools where they can sell c...

AppsFlyer, a mobile app measurement, attribution and analytics SaaS startup, has raised a $7.1million A Round from Pitango Venture Capital and from current investor Magma Venture Partners. The fundin...

One day after note-taking app Evernote announced image annotations for its Windows version, today it's Android's turn for some attention. Evernote is announcing that it is adding handwriting functiona...

One day after note-taking app Evernote announced image annotations for its Windows version, today it's Android's turn for some attention. Evernote is announcing that it is adding handwriting functiona...

Long before there were wearable devices, there was Jawbone. The brainchild of founder and CEO Hosain Rahman, the hardware and gadgets manufacturer is now a multi-billion-dollar company that is becomin...

Aspiration travel startup Peek launched a little more than a year ago to offer up interesting activities for travelers. Since then its expanded to 19 different locations and signed up thousands of act...

OnLive is still trying to bring gaming to the cloud despite a rocky last couple of years. Today, the company announced significant new services and the appointment of a new Executive Chairman. Meet Ma...

Google todayreleased version 3.0 of Gmail for iOS,which finally includes full support for iOS 7′s background app refresh. This means Gmail can now download your email in the background (even whe...

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

Facebook is on a mission to prove that social media-empowered education can help some of the poorest nations on Earth. It recently announced a big industry and Ivy League alliance to bring experimenta...

The ParaShoot wearable camera that got shot down by Kickstarter before turning to Indiegogo to raise over $150,000 has finally started shipping its first production units – but backers may not r...

Target Corp.’sChief Information Officer Beth Jacob is resigning, effective immediately, in wake of themassive data breach during the holiday 2013 shopping season which saw as many as 70 million ...

Blend, a social networking app for college students that looks to include brands right from the get-go, has today announced that it secured a $2.7 million seed round led by New Enterprise Associates, ...

Apple is working to make Siri play nice with more third-party apps and services, according to a new report from The Information. Within a larger piece on the mobile search battleground and app integra...

Canary, the folks responsible for a cute little $200 in-home security system, have today announced that they’ve secured a $10m Series A led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Bobby Yazd...

Apple has a prime opportunity in high growth emerging markets, according to a new study by Upstream, done in conjunction with Ovum, showed that among buyers in Brazil, China, India, Nigeria and Vietna...

As part of the announcement this morning that Flipboard is acquiring Zite from CNN, executives from both companies emphasized that bringing on the Zite team was a big part of the deal. However, that w...

Eventbrite has made a name for itself as one of the largest self-serve platforms for managing ticket sales and RSVPs, but until today organizers could only create events with general admission seating...

This just in: Flipboard is buying Zite from CNN, which acquired the site three years ago for around $20 million. As part of the deal, it will integrate CNN content on to Flipboard, covering over 300 f...

This just in: Flipboard is buying Zite from CNN, which acquired the service three years ago for around $20 million. As part of the deal, it will integrate CNN content on to Flipboard, covering over 30...

Menlo Park-based startup GuideSpark has raised a new $15 million Series B from NEA, as well as existing investors Storm Ventures and IDG Ventures. GuideSpark previously raised $5 million in a Series A...

LG and Verizon have today announced that the 8.3-inch LG G Pad will be available in stores starting tomorrow, March 6. Until March 10, the tablet will be available for an ultra low price of $99.99 (wi...

Just as the JOBS Act kick-starts bigger markets for shares of privately held companies, NASDAQ is launching its own entrant in the field. The U.S. stock exchange, which hosts tech companies like Apple...

A team of gaming veterans, including founder Patrick Mork, former global marketing director for Google Play, are coming together to form a new company called Unspoken Tales, which aims to bring story-...

Today Twitch, a video game live streaming platform, announced that it has accrued 10 million downloads of its mobile applications on the iOS and Android platforms, and that it has released a mobile SD...

Foursquare -- the app that has shifted its business model from a place to track where your friends are going to the go-to place for people searching for local information -- is fast approaching its fi...

MyCrowd, a startup that helps companies find freelance talent for specific tasks through Google Docs, PowerPoint and other software applications, is raising $500,000 in seed round from unnamed angel i...

TrackDuck, a visual feedback and issue tracking startup, is aimed at small and mid-size organisations and freelancers. It lets the clients of small businesses and freelancers send feedback on a web si...

T-Mobile ran a promo last month calling for BlackBerry owners to trade in their device for an iPhone 5s. Zero down. It was legitimately a good deal. But BlackBerry fanboys took the offensive and attac...

Apple is showing off CarPlay at the Geneva Auto Show this week with its first crop of car makers, and so far we’ve seen it in action in Ferrari and Mercedes-Benz vehicles, but a new video gives ...

Fullscreen is one of the top multichannel networks on YouTube today, with more than 3 billion video views per month. But there's always more it can be doing -- pulling in more money, helping creators ...

CloudBees, a Java-centric Enterprise platform as a service we’ve covered a few times in the past, today announced that it has raised an $11.2 million Series C funding round led by Verizon Ventur...

I love it when a software startup ventures into connected hardware, even if that hardware is a tad pricey and might not even see the light of day. Enter Hamburg-based Flying.com, maker of Flying, an i...

Berlin-based startup TVSmiles, which has built a second-screen app-based loyalty program to encourage people to watch TV ads, has closed a $7 million Series A funding round, from prior investors Vente...

With enterprises looking to achieve cost savings as their top priority in managing their IT systems, the IT help desk market is getting commoditized very fast, leaving little room for any disruptive i...

Yahoo is planning to push users of its online services to register for a Yahoo ID to access its services — and will be removing the extant option for users to sign in with Google or Facebook cre...

Microsoft used its pre-Mobile World Congress press conference last week to talk about how Windows Phone is closing the app gap with rival platforms — and hammered that point home bu also announc...

Fresh off its public debut last week, Google Capital is putting more money to work this week with the announcement of a $50 million investment in real estate marketplace Auction.com. The valuation of ...

Meet the Privacy Phone, a device that FreedomPop brags is the only smartphone and mobile service that allows for encrypted communications. Lovingly nicknamed the “Snowden Phone” by Freedom...

India’s e-commerce industry is on fire. After eBay doubled down on its India play by investing $133 million in Snapdeal a week ago, the world’s biggest retailer, Walmart, is now looking to...

inPowered, a company that helps businesses find and promote positive press coverage of their products, opened the doors to parts of its platform today. Specifically, inPowered said its "content discov...

TreSensa, which offers tools for the development and distribution for mobile games, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in Series A funding.Surprisingly (at least to me) TreSensa is focused on...

Anyone can create a self-portrait. Hell, we've been painting them since the stone age. But it's the way you share them that can be special. Are selfies narcissistic? Sure. Can they be annoying? Yes, i...

Welcome back to a new episode of TechCrunch Cribs, the show that knocks on the doors of some of tech’s hottest companies to see what the 9-to-5 life is like for the people who work inside. This ...

Like the King Solomon's Lost Mines or the treasures of the Spanish Main, the 750,000BTC lost in the Mt. Gox implosion isn't gone - it's just really, really hard to get back. The solution, then, is a s...

This week, Finish went freemium. The anti-procrastination to-do list app, built by teenagers Ryan Orbuch and Michael Hansen, saw more than 50,000 downloads in the first 48 hours of launching the free ...

A top British Prime Minister advisor, who helped design the country’s controversial Internet filtering program, has been arrested for possessing child pornography. Patrick Rock was arrested at h...

Have you ever found out one of your heroes is doing an ask-me-anything on reddit.... only to realize that it already ended like 10 hours ago?Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve and all around really-cool...

Today IDC predicted that the PC market will contract by6% in 2014, and will continue to decline at least into 2018. Unit volume according to IDC would slip from 315.1 million units in 2013, to 291.7 i...

With all the hubbub surrounding 3D printing as of late, it’s easy to think of it as something new. Something that, before 5 or 6 years ago, only existed in Sci-Fi novels. Surprise! 3D printing h...

One question we had concerning Facebook's interest in buying drone aircraft maker Titan Aerospace is why would Titan, a young company founded in just 2012, want to sell? Facebook's interest in the bus...

Yesterday at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco, Netflix CFO David Wells reiterated his company's financial forecasts. This means that the Comcast deal, rec...

Basis Science may not have two turnables and a microphone, but the company may have a deep-pocketed new owner in Intel (should the deal go through). On the heels of its market merry-go-round and possi...

French startup Mention launched an iPad app to monitor your online reputation from your tablet. At the same time, the company hired its first full time employee in New York — it will expand to t...

Washington, DC. TechCrunch is headed your way and will be hosting a massive meetup and pitch-off on March 18th. We’re looking for some of the area’s best, undiscovered startups to particip...

I got a text message today from a PR person - one I actually like - who asked me if I wanted the exclusive on two new bitcoin ATMs in Austin as well as a "roving" ATM that will, presumably, be spittin...

Want to see how Cortana works on Microsoft Windows Phone 8.1? Gander above and all of the virtual digital assistant’s functions and features will be revealed. Well maybe not all, but this video ...

Streaming video company Roku has been building hardware to make dumb TVs smarter, and unlocking a whole lot of over-the-top video content along the way. Today, the company is introducing a new version...

Streaming video company Roku has been building hardware to make dumb TVs smarter, and unlocking a whole lot of over-the-top video content along the way. Today, the company is introducing a new version...

Market share numbers for February are out, and it looks like XP is set to die standing up with nearly a third of the global OS market in its grip. NetMarketShare numbers for the second month of the ye...

At the Geneva Auto Show, Mercedes revealed the all-new C Class, its first vehicle to support Apple’s in-vehicle iOS platform called CarPlay.Forgive the production quality of the demo. It appears...

Sharalike, a new application that lets you create video slideshows similar to Facebook’s recently popular “Lookback” videos, is now launching into beta. The company’s technolog...

Yes of course you need another handy little iPhone charger cable. OK, so there are one or two iPhone charger cables out there. One we like is the Nomad. But a new entrant has just popped on Kickstarte...

So this is what it's come to. The Dating Ring, a Y Combinator-incubated group matchmaking startup that recently expanded from New York to San Francisco, is running a CrowdTilt campaign with the stated...

In 2009, Airbnb was close to going bust with revenue flatlining at $200 a week. Since then, over 9 million people have used it to find temporary housing. Etsy was founded almost a decade ago, but doub...

If you’re looking for a well-crafted but ultimately very fake video about hoverboard technology featuring Moby, Terrell Owens, Tony Hawk and Dr. Emmett Brown himself, today is your lucky day. Th...

HTC posted its Februaryrevenue tally (unaudited), and the number looks weak. The company hadNT$7.22 billion in top line during the month, or $238.1 million USD. That’s down 36.5% from the same m...

As Russia continues its military intervention into the revolution-rocked Ukraine, authorities are now blocking 13 activist websites on the Russian social media network, VKontakte. The Russian Prosecut...

BBM is looking to monetize its messaging platform sooner rather than later, at least judging by a new preview update for the app being pushed to Beta Zone members today (via MobileSyrup). The update a...

Recombine, a bioinformatics startup out of New York, has just raised $3.3 million to do carrier screening for expectant parents. The round was led by FirstMark Capital. Recombine is part of a new wave...

Ben Horowitz's new book on entrepreneurship and company building,The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building A Business When There Are No Easy Answers, is officially out, and it's the polar opposite of...

Facebook's hoping to get more people downloading Paper by adding new options to share articles by text message, email, or Facebook Message that automatically include a "Shared from Paper. fb.com/trypa...

The Lifesaver Case is kicking off an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign today, to fund the production of hardware that adds a unique personal safety twist to your existing iPhone. The Apple smartphone-sp...

Electronic signature platform DocuSign today announced that it has raised $85 million in a new funding round led by a group of large institutional funds. Sadly, the company isn’t disclosing whic...

Sony has today announced that HBO Go will land on the PS3 later today, with PS4 integration in the pipeline. This will allow PlayStation 3 owners to access all of HBO's content, including TV series, m...

Peekster, another recent graduate from the Wayra U.K. startup bootcamp, wants to help smartphone users connect their offline reading habits with their online social networks. Yes, this startup is bank...

Surprise! People have bitcoins and want to spend them, a fact that Overstock.com quickly discovered after they started accepting bitcoin payments. “We did not expect to hit this milestone so qui...

Love it or hate it, but there's no denying that WordPress continues to be the de facto solution for building content-driven websites. Besides WordPress.com, a number of dedicated WordPress hosting sol...

Startup ServiceMax, a company that develops field service software, has raised $71 million in Series E funding led by Meritech Capital and Kleiner Perkins with Cross Creek Advisors, QuestMark Partners...

A bit of follow-up onMeetup’s DDoS (denial of service) attackwhich saw the company’s website and accompanying mobile services down for several days: according to the company, this was an e...

Beats Music, the streaming music service recently launched by the similarly-named headphone company, just announced that it has acquired Topspin Media.The companies were already connected as Beats Mu...

Last month Apple disclosed and fixeda massive bug in its operating system that left users’ information exposed to theft; faith in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin is eroding; and revenues at the retai...

Janus Friis made his name founding a series of disruptive software startups such as Skype, Rdio, Joost and (much earlier) KaZaA — some more successful than others. Now the Swedish entrepreneur i...

For startups just beginning to gain traction, the joy (and relief) of watching user numbers grow can vanish as soon as support requests start coming in. If customers don't get their queries answered q...

Microsoft’s ambitious Project Spark open world game creator launched in beta on Windows 8.1 back in December, with the promise that it would make its way to the Xbox One eventually, too. Today i...

Ahead of the Geneva Auto Show, Tesla has announced plans to significantly expand its footprint in Europe. And for good reason. According to the news release announcing 30 new European service centers ...

Independent media has historically faced an uphill slog. Before the Internet, organizations had to deal with printing costs and very limited distribution networks. Web 2.0 gave them new outlets, but d...

Apple’s CarPlay is barely out in the wild, and only on display at the Geneva Auto Show with select partners including Ferrari. Our friends over at Engadget got to go hands-on with the in-car inf...

Skype for Outlook.com, the integration of Skype’s messaging features into Microsoft’s webmail platform, is now available worldwide, the company is announcing this morning. To get started w...

Toronto-based startup Slyce has raised a new round of $10.75 million in funding, led by Beacon Securities, and including PI Financial, Salman Partners, Harrington Global and more. The company builds i...

In the never-ending legal battle between internet TV startup Aereo and major network broadcasters, the DOJ has stepped in to voice its opposition toward Aereo’s streaming/DVR service. The Depart...

Flashnotes, a Boston-based startup that operates a marketplace for students to sell and buy study materials for specific courses, has acquired a smaller competitor called Moolaguides. The move comes a...

Apple has just announced that SVP and CFO Peter Oppenheimer, a longtime fixture on the company’s earnings calls, will be retiring as of September this year. He’ll be replaced by Apple VP o...

Today, while reporting its 2013 forth quarter results, the RadioShack announced plans to close 1,100 of its 4,000 stores in a bid to stem loses. The parts drawer. The RC toys. The various different ty...

Online fast food ordering startupJust Eathas acquired Meal2Go, a maker of electronic point of sale technology tailored to the restaurant sector, in a move aimed at growing its business by offering its...

Apple has a new patent published by the USPTO today (via AppleInsider), and this one is a result of its deal to acquire Nortel’s considerable trove of intellectual property with the Rockstar con...

If we’re going to prepare future generations for the increasingly technical workforce, and world, then computer science and engineering will need to be given greater credence in early education ...

Israeli startupRoojoom, arecent graduate of the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator,has closed a $600,000 seed round, from2B Angelsand private investors. The startup, which was founded a year ago, has buil...

Fresh from graduating out of the Wayra U.K. incubator,Buzzmovehas closed a $650,000 seed round to build out its removals comparison platform. The U.K. startup said it plans to use the new funding to b...

Reflektion, a predictive analytics startup that helps retailers such as O’Neill improve customer conversion rates, has raised $8 million in Series B funding led by Intel Capital and Nike. The st...

Borro, an online platform that lets people borrow cash and put up luxury watches, art and other fine goods as collateral, is today announcing a new funding round of $112 million, coming entirely from ...

Borro, an online platform that lets people borrow cash and put up luxury watches, art and other fine goods as collateral, is today announcing a new funding round of $112 million, coming entirely from ...

I'm doing a TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch-off in Beirut tonight, featuring some of Beirut's most exciting start-up founders under one roof. Startups will have to impress the judges in a 3min pitch-off....

SALESmanago, a cloud based online marketing automation platform based out of Poland, has raised a $1.7 million round of funding -- money it will use to for R&D, product development, and marketing,...

In a move that isn't very, well, startup-y, two London-based mobile payment startups look set to meet each other in the UK's High Court. TechCrunch has learned that Wayra-accelerated Ensygnia is suing...

Meet the Smart Keyboard. If you've ever wanted a full size QWERTY keyboard for your TV, this is for you. It packs all the goods of a Harmony Remote into a wireless keyboard that will be rather tough t...

Over the last hour or so, there’s been a big spike in the number of folks reporting that Twitter had sent them an email asking them to change their password for security reasons. What was going ...

Imagine your business is down to its last stretch of runway and your investors refuse to put more cash into it. Your friends and your most trusted advisers tell you that its probably time to throw in ...

Facebook, one of the primary backers of the Internet.org initiative, which aims to bring affordable Internet access to the 5 billion people in the world who still lack connectivity, is in talks with a...

Intel has won the Basis auction, we're hearing, at a price of around $100 million according to one source. A second source pegs the deal at closer to $150 million. Basis makes wristwatch health tracke...

Powa Technologies, a UK-based e-commerce startup that has raised nearly $100 million in outside funding in the last seven months, is today finally taking the wraps off its flagship product: PowaTag, a...

Powa Technologies, a UK-based e-commerce startup that has raised nearly $100 million in outside funding in the last seven months, is today finally taking the wraps off its flagship product: PowaTag, a...

Chaotic Moon co-founder Ben Lamm says he "remembers when it was cool to go to Pizza Hut" with his family and play Ms. Pac-Man on the classic arcade table. Hence, the firm built a big fat touchscreen-e...

Mobile ad platformAirpush, which recently bought Hubbl for $15 million to move into native mobile ads, is now in the process of being acquired byTel Aviv-basedPerion. We haven't confirmed the terms of...

The Council for American Job Growth, an affiliate of the Zuckerberg-founded and financed Fwd.us group, has released a new ad out blasting House Republicans for slowing the path to immigration reform. ...

Now, thanks to an update of Uber's mobile apps, passengers will never have to guess when surge pricing ends, as the company has added a field to allow them to be notified when the multiplier is turned...

VideoGenie is a startup that helps businesses collect and highlight video testimonials from fans. But it seems that founder and CEO Justin Nassiri doesn't want to limit this to video. So VideoGenie ha...

This week on Ask A VC, we are thrilled to have Google Ventures' general partner and Android co-founder Rich Miner in the studio. You can submit questions for our guest either in the comments or here a...

I like alternative business cards. In lieu of pieces of paper, for example, I like to hand out copies of my 3D-printed head. But I may have finally met someone with a far cooler business card than min...

So … what was the deal with Ellen DeGeneres’ already-famous, celebrity-packed selfie during the Oscars? Why did she use a device that appeared to be a Samsung Galaxy Note to take the photo...

Stock image and video service Shutterstock today announced that it has acquired WebDAM, a provider of web-based digital asset management software. The financial details of the transaction were not dis...

Stock image and video service Shutterstock today announced that it has acquired WebDAM, a provider of web-based digital asset management software. The financial details of the transaction were not dis...

Riding a wave of investor interest in new consumer-facing banking, trading, credit, and lending services, the online credit marketplaceCredit Karma is looking to raise at least $60 million in its late...

Massively Open Online Courses are becoming more mainstream, as more top-tier universities give the public access to their courses. A new study demonstrates continued wide-spread popularity with part-t...

Microsoft announced today that the business end of OneDrive, its cloud storage offering, would be unshackled from its other services, and sold as a standalone cloud storage solution for corporate cust...

Under fresh leadership from new CEO Don Mattrick, Zynga has gone back to the drawing board on some of its biggest money-makers. Today, the company is unveiling upcoming revamped versions of Zynga Poke...

Today Microsoft confirmed the raft of executive changes that leaked yesterday. Senior executives Tony Bates and Tami Reller will exit the company, Mark Penn will move to a more ‘strategic’...

Though none of them actually walked away with a tiny golden statue, Samsung, Jennifer Lawrence, and a particularly star-studded selfie definitely won the Oscars last night, according to social media. ...

Why can’t Carl Icahn and Marc Andreessenget along? Icahn, the billionaire activist investor, has been pushingeBay to spin out its PayPal division, while Andreessen — acting in his capacity...

Twitter has purchased two real, more-than-a-century-old log cabins to serve as dining areas for its employees inside of its headquarters in the heart of San Francisco. The recently public company has ...

Researchers have found that Twitter is a surprisingly useful tool for locating HIV outbreaks. “This study provides the first set of evidence for how real-time social media data might be used for...

I love cooking but hate shopping. I’m not alone. It’s from that vein several startups have appeared recently. Blue Ribbon, Plated, and HelloFresh are all trying to solve this decidedly fir...

I love cooking but hate shopping. I’m not alone. It’s from that vein several startups have appeared recently. Blue Ribbon, Plated, and HelloFresh are all trying to solve this decidedly fir...

These days may well be the next golden age for universities, and startups are leading the way. For institutions that can feel much like their counterparts from a thousand years ago, universities have ...

iOS in the Car is real and now called CarPlay. Along with several automakers, Apple announced the platform this morning ahead of the Geneva Auto Show where partners Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo al...

Samsung was one of Google’s earliest partners in the Chromebook project and it currently accounts for more than half of all U.S. Chromebook sales. Today, the company is announcing two new, sligh...

Zumper wants to be the tool that brokers and apartment managers use when they want to list their properties online. More importantly, though, it wants to be the app that apartment hunters turn to when...

Samsung was one of Google’s earliest partners in the Chromebook project and it currently accounts for more than half of all U.S. Chromebook sales. Today, the company is announcing two new, sligh...

AirPair, a startup that offers live, online consultation with programming experts, is announcing today that it has partnered with 16 other companies. Those partnerships are supposed to connect people ...

AirPair, a startup that offers live, online consultation with programming experts, is announcing today that it has partnered with more than dozen companies. Those partnerships are supposed to connect ...

Ask.fm, the personal Q&A site that's been steeped in controversy over safety concerns for its predominantly teen user base, shows little sign of growth slowing. It's now surpassed 100 million sign...

Vidpresso wants to change the way that TV producers insert media into their broadcasts, with a low-cost, software-based solution that could fundamentally change their cost structure. At just $500 a mo...

Ready, set, here we come. In early April TechCrunch is returning to Boston and hosting our first meetup + pitch-off in the City of Angels. Tickets are just $5 and available now. Last November TechCrun...

When we first broke the news about the 3Doodler I was pretty excited. It was supposed to bring 3D printing to kids in a way that was easy-to-use and fun. Created by a pair of veteran toy makers, it wa...

French startup TVShow Time just added a major new feature for its social platform for TV show enthusiasts. Not only can you keep track of your progress in your favorite TV shows, you can now play new ...

Meetup has been suffering from a prolonged DDoS (denial of service) attack which has caused the service to experience intermittent outages across both web and mobile for several days. The site is curr...

Instagram's app has been down or suffering extremely long loading times for some over the last 50 minutes. Many suspect the reason is that Justin Bieber posted a photo of his ex-girlfriend Selena Gome...

Microsoft announced a major update to Office 365 today that adds an intelligent, machine-learning powered social network and "intelligence fabric" on top of its productivity apps. This Office Graph, a...

Slice Bookshelf, a social community for readers taking on Amazon-owned Goodreads by offering a more modern experience, and one that was less dependent on manual input from users, is shutting down. The...

Apple’s CarPlay is close to being available in the wild via partnerships with a handful of car manufacturers, and Volvo is already showing off what that will look like in practice. The car maker...

Conference calling startup Speek, which offers online and mobile tools that make it easier to jump on calls regardless of which device you have on hand, and then do more on calls once connected, is to...

Conference calling startup Speek, which offers online and mobile tools that make it easier to jump on calls regardless of which device you have on hand, and then do more on calls once connected, is to...

Last year, a new type of photo-sharing popped up in the world. The app was called ThrowBack, and the idea was to take photos that would be sent to you and your friends sometime in the future, as a way...

The sale of WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion and the heightened awareness of data security in an NSA-watched world have created a perfect storm for apps that offer messaging with a privacy-first e...

The sale of WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion and the heightened awareness of data security in an NSA-watched world have created a perfect storm for apps that offer messaging with a privacy-first e...

Microsoft’s Cortana virtual assistant is coming to its mobile devices in Windows Phone 8.1, and a new set of leaked screens from The Verge shows a bit of what you can expect from the Siri clone....

Hopefully iPhone owners have gotten used to Apple Maps by now because it’s likely going to be the only mapping solution available through CarPlay. Apple just released a preview page for its fort...

Looks like video advertising platform Adap.tv will be doing more to live up to the "TV" part of its name. The company is announcing that ad buyers won't just be purchasing desktop and mobile ads throu...

Apple’s newly announced CarPlay, which is the rebranded version of iOS in the Car, a system for converting your vehicle’s in-car entertainment system into an iOS-powered dashboard fed cont...

Those interested in building a Bitcoin exchange should look no further than this chunk of source code posted by a “Russian leaker” called nanashi_. It alleges to contain the 1,700-line sou...

The life sciences technology development company RainDance Technologies has raised $16.5 million from new investors GE Ventures and Northgate Capital as it looks to make its liquid biopsy technology a...

The new HTC One gets its official reveal on March 25, but a new video leak from GadgetReviews shows you everything you could possibly want to see about the new flagship smartphone from the Taiwanese m...

Kickstarter, the crowdfunding platform for creative projects, reached a big milestone today: it's now racked up $1 billion in overall pledges -- with 5.7 million of us behind the effort, according to ...

A new tipping point in the world of tablets: today Gartner has released their tablet sales numbers for 2013, and Android has topped the list for the most popular platform for the first time, outsellin...

Two Berlin-based startups are merging: softgarden, which provides web-based recruiting software to handle the entire recruitment process, is joining forces with 1000jobboersen.de, a job ad media plann...

Mt. Gox, a leading Bitcoin exchange that filed for bankruptcy protection on Friday, just issued another statement today. The company, which had been conspicuously silent over the past several months a...

Mt.Gox, a leading Bitcoin exchange that filed for bankruptcy protection on Friday, just issued another statement today. The company, which had been conspicuously silent over the past several months as...

iOS in the Car has made its official debut.CalledCarPlay, the product will be added first to Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo vehicles, and also available as aniOS 7 update for iPhone 5 and later mod...

Four years ago the founder pitched at a small event I was at, amid what can only be described as a fit of nerves. But now DueDil founder and CEO Damian Kimmelman is a fully-rounded, confident founder ...

British authorities have plans to scrap a 20% “value-added tax” on Bitcoins, bringing regulation of the controversial crypto-currency in line with the way it treats other currencies. ̶...

Since the very beginning of electronic communication, we were warned about the light-speed cultural wasteland we were stringing together. When Henry David Thoreau first heard about the telegraph, he s...

The Chinese government has launched a new search site that is reportedly run by the vice president of Xinhua, the Communist Party of China's official mouthpiece. Called ChinaSo, its logo's color schem...

Well, they did it. A group of more than 1 million gamers managed to work in chaotic fashion to beat Pokemon. Over on the Twitch game-livestreaming platform, crowds swarmed for more than two weeks to c...

Google lost a bid to keep the controversial film "Innocence of Muslims" on YouTube. One of the actresses, Cindy Garcia, who wanted the film taken offline after receiving death threats, claims she has ...

It's amazing just how much small-team game development has changed. Not only it has become viable once again, small game makers have developed much more capacity. We seem to be living in a golden age ...

Earlier today Kara Swisher reported that Microsoft’s Tami Reller, executive vice president of marketing, and Tony Bates, executive vice president of the company’s Business Development and ...

Hotel metasearch startup, Top10.com, has closed an $8 million Series B funding round, led by Balderton Capital, following what it describes as rapid growth over the past 12 months. Its total funding r...

Guitarists love to shred. It’s a known fact. From Slash to Debbie Gibson, shredding is the way guitarists express themselves and/or meet their wives. But how can you show the world how hard you ...

Tech and social media blog Mashable has raised a total of $14 million in a Series A investment round led by Tribune Digital Ventures, the company announced today. The funding adds nearly $1 million to...

Early adopters rule Twitter. If Twitter wants to survive it will need to make the fight for power that rages inside the platform more fair for all. Read More ...

Earlier this week, Nilay at the Verge penned a provocative, and provocatively-titled, pronouncement on the state of the Internet. Never one to mince words, he declared it fucked.I beg to differ from M...

Samsung’s next Chromebook has broken cover, courtesy of pro device leaker @evleaks, and the Chrome OS-powered notebook has a familiar design trait that’s becoming a Samsung trademark: faux...

Mobile publishing startup Onswipe is releasing data today that looks at the popularity of mobile newsreading apps from the perspective of digital publishers. Onswipe's platform allows publishers to cr...

A few new details about Tesla’s upcoming ‘affordable’ electronic vehicle came out of a talk the company’s founder and CEO Elon Musk gave last week, and Electrek has the key tak...

How much money would you guess the Internet has collectively thrown at Kickstarter?Don't bother whipping out the ol' graphing calculator Kickstarter actually shares that number regularly. Sometime qu...

Its no secret that many entrepreneurs and investors are seduced by the specter of network effects. Walk around any young company fine-tuning their product to fit their market or any early-stage invest...

For this group of old friends, assembled for an impromptu reunion, the venue would feel familiar: an online chat room running on a secure private server. Each were former members of the elite hacking ...

With its ever-expanding programming, clusterfuckery of housing options and the commercialization of what was once considered a must-attend conference for anyone in the know, SXSW hasn't just jumped th...

AmEx has offered a number of different cards to consumers: The Blue Card appeals to those who like cash back options and the Platinum card is specialized for consumers who travel. There's even a Black...

Happy Birthday Raspberry Pi! The low-cost Linux microcomputer has just turned two years old. And boy how it's grown. Read More ...

In four years David Varvel went from no health insurance, to full coverage via the Japanese government, to purchasing a high deductible plan, and then full coverage through an employer. He said having...

Y Combinator held its first ever Female Founders Conference Saturday afternoon at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. In opening remarks, Y Combinator co-founder Jessica Livingst...

iOS in the Car, announced by Eddy Cue last year at the iOS 7 launch, was supposed to appear in 2014 and, according to the Financial Times, it's finally coming to Volvo, Mercedes, and Ferrari. BMW, a p...

Iceland has its own Satoshi. A programmer called Baldur Friggjar Odinsson has created an alternative to bitcoin that he is calling AuroraCoin and in twenty-three days he will "airdrop" 31.8 coins to e...

If you are not at the Female Founders Conference at the Computer History Museum this afternoon, you are either a guy, out-of-town or one of the many that got turned away from the oversubscribed event....

If you are not at the Female Founders Conference at the Computer History Museum this afternoon, you are either a guy, out-of-town or one of the many that got turned away from the oversubscribed event....

There's a lot to be excited about today: March is coming in like a lion, Mercury is finally out of retrograde, and it's time for a brand new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings three writers t...

There's a lot to be excited about today: March is coming in like a lion, Mercury is finally out of retrograde, and it's time for a brand new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings three writers t...

India is set to become Facebook's biggest market in terms of number of users later this year, but don't expect that to translate into ad dollars for the Palo Alto company anytime soon. India's online ...

Editor’s note:Bill Aulet is the managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the author of the recentl...

Finish, the anti-procrastination app built by teenagers Ryan Orbuch and Michael Hansen, is today trying out a new revenue model. Instead of offering the app for $.99, Finish will now be available for ...

FreeWheel has become the go-to platform for many TV networks that stream their content online. And it's about to become part of the biggest distributor of content online or off. That's because FreeWhe...

The Gillmor Gang Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor marked Farber's transition from the media to the new frontier. We don't know what his plans are, but I'm betting great things...

Seed capital availability exploded at the same time the traditional Series A ecosystem began consolidating to fewer and fewer funds. By some counts there are now over 135 active seed capital funds and...

OK. Let's take a step back from all the recent tech news, look at it with fresh eyes--and try not to burst into slightly hysterical laughter. In Japan, some half-billion dollars' worth of cryptocurren...

India’s largest business angels group has made its first investment in a UK start-up, investing in a London-based company SwiftShift. The amount was not disclosed. The Indian Angel Network (IAN)...

India’s largest business angels group has made its first investment in a UK startup, investing in London-based company SwiftShift. The amount was not disclosed. The Indian Angel Network (IAN) is...

Aimed exclusively at lesbians, bisexual and/or bi-curious women, the Dattch dating app ought to be a shoe-in for the large San Francisco market. So it's no surprise that the startup - after raising mo...

Puff puff pass the $1 billion valuation because e-cigarette maker NJOY has raised $70 million from Brookside Capital and Morgan Stanley Investment Management, at least according to a NYT report. The c...

"It's not every day that a new mobile operating system is born," says Jolla's Marc Dillon preaching to a congregation of the curious from atop a stool at Jolla's booth at the 2014 Mobile World Congres...

Hot damn, changes. ZDNet and The Verge reported on a story that, at first blush, sounds downright strange: Microsoft may do away with charging for Windows in the future. Microsoft selling Windows to O...

Davi Baker wasn't quite sure how to comply with the TSA's demands to inspect his bags for Bitcoin. Baker had found himself in a testy exchange with airport security personnel during an enhanced screen...

Davi Baker wasn't quite sure how to comply with the TSA's demands to inspect his bags for Bitcoin. Baker had found himself in a testy exchange with airport security personnel during an enhanced screen...

San Francisco's gentrification problem isn't all tech's fault, but the industry should still be helping communities impacted by the influx money and people its brought to the city. Today's donation by...

Quick! How's your car's tire pressure? Don't know? Better go check. Which, if you're like most people, means going out, kicking the tire, saying "seems good" and forgetting about it until something is...

The machines. They are learning. The Plotclock is a small, 3D-printed clock that forgoes the traditional gears and springs for servos and an Arduino microcontroller. It writes the time. And then erase...

In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, Merus Capital’s Sean Dempsey joined us in the studio to give us an inside look at corporate development, and how that translates into investing. Dempsey...

Here is a small but nifty update to Google Search: if you ask it to find a restaurant menu for you, it will now often just show you the menu right on the search results page. Try this for a search lik...

Israeli company Talo Games has been asked by Miley Cyrus’s legal team to remove “Flying Cyrus – Wrecking Ball,” currently the fifth most popular free iPhone application in the ...

Gillmor Gang - Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific. Chat found here https://friendfeed.com/realtime-network/c31ffbd8/gillmor-gang-recor...

Reporters are drunkenly finding their way home from a long week in Barcelona, where the Mobile World Congress conference yielded a number of exciting new phones and tablets. Most notably, Samsung laun...

The collapse of Mt.Gox this week has sent shockwaves through the early-adopting tech community. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoins have been lost, and account holders are justifiably an...

Email is probably the bane of your life. There is too much of it, and there's a special hate reserved for people who selfishly fill your inbox with balderdash. Read More ...

Skillshare launched one year ago to give those interested in continuing to learn outside the classroom a place to go for classes that took place both online, and in their local hoods. Since then, the ...

Do you block the ads on sites you love? Would you be less likely to do that if you knew a chunk of ad revenues were going to a good cause? That’s (at least part of) the thinking behind a new ide...

There was once a rumor that Apple would actually use a ring device for input to an Apple television. Neither of those gadgets exist yet, of course, but Ring is a Kickstarter project trying to fund a f...

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that, the entire Lerer Ventures partnership will share a stage at our very own Disrupt NY. Outside of being among the most prolific investors in New York City, ...

We’re thrilled to announce today that the entire Lerer Ventures partnership will share a stage at Disrupt NY. Lerer Ventures is one of the most prolific venture capital firms in New York City, a...

Apple’s TV business still consists only of an over-the-top streaming media box, and not a proper TV set despite longstanding rumors that kind of hardware was on the way – but it’s sh...

Bookmarking just got interesting again. Dragdis, a slick Chrome extension that lets you quickly save anything, including text, photos, videos, links and more just by dragging and dropping, is now taki...

Urban transportation company Uber is fighting very hard to conquer France. It doesn’t hesitate to redistribute bonuses of up to $1,100 a week to its drivers — these bonuses are higher than...

Mt.Gox is gone. The one-time biggest Bitcoin exchange closed its doors this week and filed for bankruptcy this morning. Questions about the future of Bitcoin have once again been up-leveled to the hea...

Yesterday, ex-Apple engineer Nikola Hu and friends launched a crowdfunding campaign around Moov, the next generation in wearable fitness tracking. The device, which lets you accurately measure your fo...

Flyby, a new messaging application that lets you share text and recorded videos attached to objects in the real world, is the first consumer-facing app to use the image recognition capabilities found ...

500 Startups has always prided itself on backing a diverse set of founders and startups. That includes investing in female founders, startups from the international community, and members of the LGBT ...

Like many who have been active in the New York startup ecosystem over the past decade, I am optimistic about its future. The last 10 years have seen an increasing number of startup successes in New Yo...

GrubHub, which has changed its name from the awkward ‘GrubHub Seamless’ it used since the two food delivery companies merged last year, has publicly filed for its IPO with the SEC today. T...

A company called Savor is trying to re-imagine how coupon aggregation websites and services, like RetailMeNot or Coupons.com, would operate had they been invented today. Instead of just throwing a bun...

So I bought a plant. I named it Stan. I’ve never really been a plant guy. But maybe Parrot’s new wireless plant monitor can help. Stan’s life depends on it. The Flower Power is a sma...

Apple has offered up a central location that houses a number of resources around designing software for iOS 7. The collection of videos, documents and whitepapers seems aimed at making it easier for d...

Google is now selling its own Glass-compatible frames for prescription lenses, but they’ll set you back $225 a pair, lenses not included. That’s a bit steep, especially when you’ve a...

Microsoft is looking at a cost conscious crisis, relative to both mobile and desktop hardware, and on the heels of the news that it might be reducing its Windows Phone software license fee, there̵...

The sell-off continues. The WSJ is reporting today that Sony is looking to sell its former headquarters in central Tokyo. This comes just weeks after the struggling consumer electronic maker sold its ...

French startup Capitaine Train wants to improve the cumbersome process of booking train tickets online and on your phone. It’s not yet another travel agency, it’s an alternative to popular...

Prezi, the cloud-based startup which competes with Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple Keynote, and Adobe are the latest technology companies to join President Obamas ConnectED Initiative to help the US ed...

Mt.Gox has filed for bankruptcy protection and has outstanding debt of about $63.6 million, a lawyer for the bitcoin exchange said today during a press conference at the Tokyo District Court. Read Mor...

Mt.Gox has filed for bankruptcy protection and has outstanding debt of about $63.6 million, a lawyer for the bitcoin exchange said today during a press conference at the Tokyo District Court. Read Mor...

Crowdonomic, a Singapore-based crowdfunding platform, has partnered with non-profit Earth Hour to help fund tech-based environmental projects. Read More ...

Crowdonomic, a Singapore-based crowdfunding platform, has partnered with non-profit Earth Hour to help fund tech-based environmental projects. Read More ...

With outstanding student debt now over $1 trillion in the U.S., it’s clear that college grads are struggling mightily to make payments and refinance their debt. Meanwhile, thanks to decades of p...

Camera360, which now claims more than 250 million users, is one of the world's most successful photo apps. But Camera360 still faces plenty of competition from other apps like Camera+ and Afterlight a...

Little Eye Labs was not the only acquisition Facebook was chasing in India last year. Salorix, a social media analytics startup that had raised $3.5 million in Series A from Inventus Capital Partners ...

This morning at Mobile World Congress, Google’sSundar Pichai discussed Android’s security and the impact of its ‘openness’ thereof. A local site quotedPichai as indicating that...

Spurred on by its entry into the digital and mobile age, the fantasy sports world is booming. From the fact that a hilarious and increasingly popular show based on fantasy sports is about to enter its...

Video streaming site Hulu is doing away with its Japanese subsidiary, the company announced today, selling the unit to Nippon TV. The sale might mark the end of the company's international ambitions, ...

Buried in its MWC slides, Microsoft announced that it now serves 4 million application downloads daily from the Windows Store, the application marketplace for Windows 8.x. Four million downloads per d...

Riz Virk and Mitch Liu have been through pretty much every wave of the shift to free-to-play mobile and social gaming. They had an early mobile gaming hit called Tap Fish (which even had its own silly...

Google today launched a new version of its Google+ Hangouts for iOS app.This new version is the first to be fully optimized for iOS 7, with a new loading screen and menus, cleaner look, different typo...

Good news, Californians. You can now, once again, use Google Maps on your phone while driving. That is, legally. Until this court ruling, map use was in a shady legal gray area. This comes two years a...

At an internal Netflix hackathon last week, a Netflix employee built an awesome hack: by using data from a Fitbit, it's able to detect when you've fallen asleep while watching a movie... and automatic...

We knew the day was coming, but it's probably worth pointing out all the same: Mobile personal assistant app Donna will cease working tomorrow, about one month after the company behind it -- Incredibl...

Salesforce reported its fourth quarter and full fiscal-year 2014 financial performance today. In the fourth quarter, the company had revenue of $1.15 billion, up 37 percent year-over-year. On an adjus...

Mojang game studio founder Markus Persson, who was the main creative force behind worldwide indie game hit Minecraft, revealed via his Twitter account today that his company has been in discussions wi...

Mojang game studio founder Markus Persson, who was the main creative force behind worldwide indie game hit Minecraft, revealed via his Twitter account today that his company has been in discussions wi...

Millions and millions of people use iMessage every day. But how many people know exactly what happens to a message once you send it?Maybe a handful. Up until now, the vast majority of what we knew abo...

Groupon’s stock picked up more than 3 percent in regular trading today following positive analyst comments regarding its future growth potential.Deutsche Bank reiterated a positive rating on the...

The Surf Air management team has hit a bit of turbulence, with founder and CEO Wade Eyerly officially stepping down, according to an email sent out to members. He's being replaced by someone who has h...

How do you listen to your music? Headphones you say? Sometimes on an Airplay or Bluetooth speaker? Oh. That’s pretty cool. I just listen to mine on plasma. Dancing electrical sparks that leap be...

How do we decide what to buy? According to Itamar Simonson and Emanuel Rosen, the authors of Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of (Nearly) Perfect Information, we used to mak...

If you were worried about the Federal Reserve trying to step in to regulate Bitcoin, breathe easy: Its leader doesn't think that the Fed has the authority to do so. Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Ye...

Music startup 8tracks just released a new app for the Xbox 360. Live Gold subscribers will be able to play 8tracks playlists for free on their consoles. In other news, the service just reached 8 milli...

The baby selfie app signals the “impending collapse of society” – or at least that’s one possible interpretation regarding this thing’s existence, admits the developer of...

Fortune today released its annual ranking of the world's most admired companies. Apple topped the charts yet again, but on the lower parts of the list something interesting happened: Microsoft fell fr...

There can be little doubt that Google is pushing voice as one of its preferred input methods. With today's launch of the latest Chrome beta for Windows, Mac and Linux, it's building voice search right...

If you're like me, you hate having to deal with your schedule. You're really bad at making sure that you've entered all the information you need in your calendar to show up to meetings in the right pl...