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11:17 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Google Said To Be Planning Android TV Launch At I/O In June
 Google has long been rumored to replace Google TV with Android TV, a new crack at the home media market with more roots in its mobile OS and less of a separate focus, but a new report from GigaO...
11:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Apple/Beats, LG, And A $200 3D Printer
 Apple bought Beats, for $3 billion. LG released the next generation of the G2, which is aptly named the G3. Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel had a few old emails leak that don’t paint him in ...
10:20 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Googles Rumored Stars Bookmarking Service Gets A Bit More Real As Chrome Extension Leaks
 We’ve been hearing rumors about Google Stars — a new bookmarking service from Google — for quite a while now, but today, the project got a bit more real thanks to an extension ...
10:13 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch CluckCluck Helps Busy Parents Book, Pay And Message Their Childrens Caregivers
 Heather Joyce and Erin Matzkin, hard-working technology attorneys who also happen to be moms with a total of five kids between them, spent many years helping companies build websites and apps, b...
10:09 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Arts And Tech Non-Profit Gray Area Is A Symbol For A Changing City
 All great art institutions were once startups too. I was wandering around the U.S.’s largest art museum, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the other week (on one of those #museu...
09:54 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Swivl CEO Brian Lamb Talks About Life After Crowdfunding
Brian Lamb started Swivl with a vision: he wanted to make it easier for videographers and presenters to film themselves live. Using a clever little dock that panned around to follow a Bluetooth remote...
09:54 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Bitcoin Crosses The $600 Mark As Its Rally Endures
 After a flat period, bitcoin is back, rallying through the $600 level today. The cryptocurrency, which had zipped north of $1,000 in late 2013, fell under the $400 mark this year on lessened med...
09:43 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft, Salesforce Partnership Is Proof That Business Makes Strange Bedfellows
 It’s often been said that politics makes for strange bedfellows, but the same could be said for business. If you want proof, look no further than yesterday’s partnership announcement...
08:49 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch House Votes To Fund Intelligence Programs Through 2015
 While there is some appetite for reform of the intelligence activities of the United States government in the House of Representatives, votes to not fund the NSA and other agencies remain slim. ...
08:36 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Mark Zuckerberg And Priscilla Chan Donate $120M To Bay Area Schools
 At a time when the boy kings of Silicon Valley are making the worst possible names for themselves, the original boy king, Mark Zuckerberg, and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan are setting a good exam...
08:33 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Visually Will Tell Marketers Whether People Actually Cared About That Infographic
 Infographic and “visual content” marketplace Visually is the latest startup trying to take a new approach to measuring the effectiveness of content marketing. In the past month or so...
08:32 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Motorola Mobilitys US Moto X Assembly Plant To Close By End Of Year
 Part of the sales pitch for Motorola Mobility’s (then Google-owned) Moto X smartphone was that it was partly U.S.-made; an assembly plant to put together the Moto X opened in Fort Worth, T...
08:26 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch MIT Researchers Create An App That Turns Selfies Into Works Of Art
 Sure you can add filters to your Instagrampicturesto make that shotof your dog sitting near a puddle look like some kind of lobotomized-Ansel-Adams gelatin plate but can you make your head shots...
08:23 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Streams WWDC Platform State Of The Union, Design Awards To Developers For The First Time
 iOS developer Patrick McCarron spotted something interesting in the original press release for Apple’s WWDC event next week from back in April – for the first time, the company will ...
08:22 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch HelloWallet, A One-Time Mint Competitor, Acquired For $52.5 Million
 Personal finance software providerHelloWallet,a one-time competitor to Intuit’s Mint, has been acquired by investment research provider Morningstar, which was already a minority investor i...
08:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch WeddingChannel Co-Founder Jenny Lefcourt Joins Freestyle
 It was 1998, and Stanford Business School student Jenny Lefcourt and her fellow female co-founder wanted to raise money for an e-commerce meets retail idea they had around weddings. They were th...
07:49 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Spor Solar-Powered Battery Charger Wants To Kickstart A Cooler Clean-Energy Ecosystem
 Spor is a portable solar-powered battery charger that wants to shake things up with its fuss-free, compact form factor that’s still capable of delivering a power punch. It’s also aim...
07:18 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch TrueCrypt, An Open-Source Whole-Disk Encryption System, Leaves Users High And Dry
 Users of TrueCrypt, the open source whole-disk encryption solution for Windows and Mac, should probably find something else ASAP. Ostensibly attributed to Microsoft’s decision to stop supp...
06:51 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch What To Expect At Apples WWDC 2014
Starting Monday, Apple will be unloading a week’s worth of news and resources for software makers at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco at the Moscone Center. Apple alwa...
06:15 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Nokia Buys SRI-Spinout Desti To Add AI To Its Here Mapping Business
 Nokia, now lightened of its handset load thanks to Microsoft, has made an acquisition to expand its HERE mapping business, one of the assets that has remained with the Finnish company. It has bo...
06:15 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Nokia Buys Desti To Add AI To HERE Maps, Will Shut App Down
 Nokia, now lightened of its handset load thanks to Microsoft, has made an acquisition to expand its HERE mapping business, one of the assets that has remained with the Finnish company. It has bo...
06:07 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch New iOS Blocks Concept Video Imagines How Widgets Could Work On The iPhone And iPad
 A new iOS concept video and extremely detailed explanation from UX and graphic designer Jay Machalani imagines how Apple’s iOS operating system could have its own version of Android’...
05:41 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch ExactTarget Co-Founder Scott Dorsey Steps Down As CEO, COO McCorkle Steps Up
 A changing of the guard at ExactTarget, the email and digital marketing company that Salesforce acquired last year for $2.5 billion, its biggest acquisition to date. ExactTarget co-founder Scott...
05:41 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch ExactTarget Co-Founder Scott Dorsey Leaves Salesforce, McCorkle New CEO
 A changing of the guard at ExactTarget, the email and digital marketing company that Salesforce acquired last year for $2.5 billion, its biggest acquisition to date. ExactTarget co-founder Scott...
05:40 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Regarding The Sick Fixation On Detroit Blight Porn
 The GooBing Detroit Tumblr chronicles the state of the crumbling metropolis. By using Google Maps images captured in 2009 and more recent pictures captured by Bing Maps in 2012, this Tumblr offe...
05:14 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Samsung Starts Updating The Galaxy Gear To Tizen To Give It Better Battery Life And More
 The new Samsung Gear 2 smartwatch closely resembles its predecessor, the Galaxy Gear, and in fact most users might not be aware from its UI that it’s actually running a different OS than t...
04:50 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Kim Kardashian Steals Most-Liked Instagram Photo From Bieber
 If you’re wondering where we’re at as a society, this should help clear things up. The above photo, posted by Kim Kardashian of her wedding to Kanye West, now has more than 1.95 mill...
03:48 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Additive Analytics Launches New Tools To Help Patients Compare Surgery Costs
 TechCrunch first met Additive Analytics when the health data startup launched Maternity Compare, a site that helps parents find trustworthy obstericians. Now Additive Analytics’ founder La...
03:30 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Hipmunk Raises $20M Round For Its Agony- And Ecstasy-Based Travel Search
 Flight and hotel search startup Hipmunk is announcing that it has raised $20 million in Series C funding.The round was led by Oak Investment Partners, a firm that previously backed flight searc...
01:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch MyNextRun Raises 500K To Help Runners Find Events
 What is it about Finnish startups and fitness? We’ve recently covered Sportsetter, an app that lets you discover different fitness experiences, and HeiaHeia, the corporate wellness platfor...
12:46 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Google Offers Webform To Comply With Europes Right To Be Forgotten Ruling
 Live in the European Union and want some old, irrelevant info about you deleted from search results? Google has now implemented a search removal request mechanism for people living in Europe who...
12:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Headspace Releases New Version Of Its Meditation Platform
 Headspace is a web and mobile meditation platform that allows you to cram 10 to 60 minutes of calm and clarity into each day of your over-connected and fast-paced life. The company is releasing ...
10:07 am GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch KakaoTalk Launches Its First Desktop Client For Mac
 KakaoTalk has launched its first desktop client for Mac, which is currently available in Korean and English. The release, which can potentially help South Korea’s top messaging service sco...
08:19 am GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Emergence Backs SteelBricks Technology For The New, Mobile Salesforce
 Just a few months after acquiring the pricing and quote-check software developer SteelBrick in a $5 million transaction, Godard Abel, the serial entrepreneur behind BigMachines and G2 Crowd, has...
06:45 am GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch This Is SpaceXs First Ever Manned Spacecraft, The Dragon V2
 Not too long ago, the idea of a commercially-built craft that could carry people back and forth into to space was but a sci-fi pipedream.Tonight, SpaceX revealed a spacecraft built to do just th...
05:50 am GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Watch Elon Musk Debut SpaceXs First Manned Spacecraft Tonight [Update: Live Now!]
 Back in May of 2012, SpaceX proved that they could launch a spacecraft filled with cargo, have it dock with the International Space Station, and return it to earth safely. Tonight, they’re...
05:50 am GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Watch Elon Musk Debut SpaceXs First Manned Spacecraft Tonight
 Back in May of 2012, SpaceX proved that they could launch a spacecraft filled with cargo, have it dock with the International Space Station, and return it to earth safely. Tonight, they’re...
05:04 am GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Maker Studios Culls Content On Blips Video Platform
 A lot of online video platforms have disappeared over the years. Now it looks like one — while not shutting down — is having a pretty briskspring clean. Blip, the video distribution ...
04:56 am GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Will Use Curation To Beat A Path To Mainstreaming Music
 Ask the average person who their favorite musicians are and they’ll struggle to name more than a few. That’s one reason search-based streaming services haven’t hit critical mas...
03:38 am GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Said To Buy LA Clippers For $2B
 Steve Ballmer, best known for his long tenure as the CEO of Microsoft, is reportedly set to purchase the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team for $2 billion,according to the LA Times. Previously...
02:36 am GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Ousted RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal Promises To Sue His Board
 In a publicly released letter, former RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal promised legal action against his former board of directors today. He also announced his resignation from that board and provi...
01:47 am GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Foursquare Loses Biz Dev Head To Postmates, COO Also Departing
 Foursquare’s COO Evan Cohenand VP of Biz DevHolger Luedorf are leaving the company, reports Re/Code’s Mike Isaac. The departures come amidst major changes for the company. The Foursq...
01:40 am GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Heres The First Hands-On Video Of Android Wear In Action (Spoiler: Lower Your Expectations)
 The video above is a hands-on report with a beta unit of LG’s upcoming Android Wear smartwatch. Not a lot is shown. Hopefully that’s because it’s in beta and not the true depth...
01:02 am GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Amazon Prime Music Streaming Service Pegged For Summer Launch
 Amazon is about to round out its Prime subscription service with a music streaming service, Buzzfeed reports. The service will stream old and new-ish music to Prime subs and will launch in June ...
12:59 am GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch The NewViewWear Wearable Camera Hides In Your Shirt
 Elvis Costello once sang of watching detectives, an act that, to most of us, has been difficult. Now with the always-on, always-recording wearable NewViewWear camera, however, you can see them &...
12:52 am GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Philz Coffee Drops Euclid Analytics Over Privacy Concerns
 In the conflict between advocates of consumer privacy and those promoting the benefits of wide-reaching data collection, it’s not often we hear about the former getting a win. Yet it appea...
12:46 am GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft And Salesforce Announce Broad Product-Integration Partnership
 This afternoon, Microsoft and Salesforce announced a broad partnership that will bring their respective software and service products closer together. Salesforce will support Windows, Windows 8....
12:45 am GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch Twitters Senior Vice President Of Engineering, Chris Fry, Has Stepped Down
 Christopher Fry, Twitter’s Senior Vice President of Engineering (read: the man responsible for fighting off the fail whale), has stepped down from his position. The news comes by way of do...
12:32 am GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch A 3D Printed Cast That Can Heal Your Bones 40-80% Faster
 It looks like something from the Borg (read, cool), but it’s actuallya cast for healing bones. The Osteoid, created byTurkish student Deniz Karasahin, incorporates 3D printing and ultrason...
12:17 am GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch The Best News Reading App, Reeder 2, Returns To Mac
 For all five of us who still prefer managing our own news reading experience through a dedicated RSS reader application, there’s good news out today: one of the best newsreaders on the mar...
12:17 am GMT - Fri, May 30, 2014
Techcrunch The Best News-Reading App, Reeder 2, Returns To Mac
 For all five of us who still prefer managing our own news-reading experience through a dedicated RSS reader application, there’s good news out today: One of the best news readers on the ma...
11:46 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Watch The Finale Of HBOs Silicon Valley With TechCrunch
 That HBO show about Silicon Valley is actually good, so good I binge-watched all 7 episodes last Friday. The last two episodes take place at TechCrunch Disrupt, replete with my former colleague ...
11:19 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Skycatch Raises $13.2M To Field Data-Gathering Drones Both High And Low
 Drones distract, drones deliver and drones do battle. But what else can drones do? That was the question facing entrepreneur Christian Sanz when he began building his own drones a few years back...
11:16 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Watch Elon Musk Debut SpaceXs First Manned Spacecraft Tonight
 Back in May of 2012, SpaceX proved that they could launch a spacecraft filled with cargo, have it dock with the International Space Station, and return it to earth safely. Tonight, they’re...
11:06 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Read The Email Snowden Sent To The NSA
 In an interview yesterday, former NSA contractor and now infamous leaker Edward Snowden indicated that the NSA had record of his internal complaints regarding government policy. Today the United...
10:50 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Qeexo Raises $2.3 Million To Tell A Knuckle From A Nail
 Qeexo, an offshoot of Carnegie Mellon’s Human Computer Interaction lab, has raised $2.3 million led by Sierra Ventures. The technology allows smartphones to tell the difference between the...
10:33 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Lyft Strikes Back With Be More Than A Number Billboard Outside Ubers Office
 Lyft has had it up to here with Uber reps requesting rides from its drivers only to offer them cash and phones to switch to Uber. So yesterday Lyft went on the offensive, parking a giant driver ...
10:24 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Unity Shows Off How Its Long Awaited GUI Editor Will Work
 Unity 3D, the increasingly popular WYSIWYG—ish engine for building video games, does a lot of things really well. Helping you build in-game user interfaces? That’s not one of them. A...
10:23 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch House Republicans Look To Curb FCCs Authority To Enforce Net Neutrality
 A bill introduced late yesterday in the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives would “limit” the Federal Communications Commission’s ability to regulate the Intern...
10:16 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Kiwi Calendars New App Does More Than Organize Your Meetings, It Also Recommends Local Events
 Beijing-headquartered PapayaMobile is known best asa social gaming network and the operators of mobile ad network AppFlood, but today, it’s going in a new direction with the release of a m...
09:45 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch This Oculus Rift Project Brings You One Small Step Closer To That Hoverboard Youve Always Wanted
 The bad news: Yeah, that cleary fake Hoverboard video from a few months ago is still, sadly, quite fake.The worse news: Unless we figure out a quick and easy way to defy a few laws of physics, w...
09:44 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Twitters Crashlytics Launches Cross-Platform App Beta Testing Service
Back in February, Crashlytics announced its first product since being acquired by Twitter. That product was an app beta testing platform that would allow developers to distribute test apps to users to...
09:27 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Mozilla Partners With TokBox To Bring Built-In Communications Service To Firefox Nightly
 Mozilla today announced that it has partnered with TokBox to experiment with building a WebRTC-based communications feature right into its browser. For now, these experiments will happen in the ...
08:58 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Samsonite Scoops Up iPhone Case Maker Speck Products
 Making iPhone cases is big business. How big? Samsonite just announced its acquisition of Speck Products for $85 million in cash. Read More ...
08:55 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Our New Favorite Mad Scientist Builds A Terrifying Wrist-Mounted Flame Thrower In His Garage
 Insane garage mad scientist Colin Furze promised three absurd 3 X-Men themed projects by the end of the month — and man, has he delivered.First came his ridiculous, automatically extendabl...
08:53 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch These Tween Girls Created An Android App For The Blind
 A group of six gradeschoolgirls in Los Fresnos, Texas took it upon themselves to solve a problem for blind kids. They built an app for them.The app, Hello Navi, first came from the imagination o...
08:26 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Beijing Says Ni Hao To Bitcoin ATMs While Dish Teams Up With Coinbase
 Robocoin, makers of a bitcoin ATM, have announced the availability of the first BTC ATM in Beijing. Based at the 798 Art Zone, an old factory in Beijing’s Chaoyang District, the ATM can be...
08:20 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Mind Candy Releases Teaser Of New World Of Warriors Game
 Mind Candy, the company that came up with the hugely successful Moshi Monsters kids game, began back in 2003 as a back-bedroom project by the colourful entrepreneur Michael Acton Smith. It’...
08:11 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Makes The Case (Again) For Strong Net Neutrality
 Streaming video company Netflix is dependent on connecting with ISP networks like Comcast’s to reach their subscribers, and that has become an issue for the company as it has recently been...
08:07 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Google Shames Slow U.S. ISPs With Its New YouTube Video Quality Report
 The relationship between ISPs and large content providers like Netflix, Hulu and YouTube has become pretty contentious lately. To bring some transparency into how well ISPs deliver video content...
08:03 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Former Gilt Groupe Exec Sean Foster Joins Brand Advocacy Startup Crowdtap As CEO
 Crowdtap, a startup that helps companies connect with fans for the creation of promotional social media content, is announcing that Sean Foster has joined as its new CEO. Foster isn’t sche...
07:59 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Twitters Zero Service Lets Emerging Markets Tweet For Free
 Mobile carriers around the world are touting their involvement in a program called “Twitter Zero,” but that’s not its real name. In 2010, Facebook revealed an initiative design...
07:57 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Selphee App Is Snapchat, Instagram And Vine Combined
 Just in case you were getting tired of the same old mainline options for taking fun, shareable photos and videos on your phone, here’s another app (iOS and Android) that combines a sprinkl...
07:55 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch In A Bid To Be The MS Word Of The Mobile Generation, Quip Adds Better Search, URL Links
 Quip, a mobile-friendlyword processing app co-founded by theex-CTO of FacebookBret Taylor andex-Googler Kevin Gibbs, has picked up some 5,000 companies as users since it launched last August, wi...
06:57 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch The Moment Reading Rainbows Kickstarter Campaign Crossed $1 Million
 Butterfly in the skyI can go twice as highTake a lookIt’s in a bookA Reading RainbowI can go anywhereFriends to knowAnd ways to growA Reading RainbowI can be anythingTake a lookIt’s ...
06:18 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Hands On With The Avegant Glyph, A Head-Mounted Display For The Average Commuter
 Every day, I see commuters hunched over their iPhones and other smartphones watching videos on their devices, and it looks uncomfortable and full of compromises. Michigan-based Avegantran a Kick...
06:10 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Inky Launches A Smarter Email Client For iOS That Sorts And Filters Your Email For You
 Thanks to a resurged interest in mobile email applications following the sale of popular “email triage” utility Mailbox to Dropbox last year, a number of new email applications have ...
05:55 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch 2014 Tablet Growth Revised Down To 12% On Longer Ownership Cycle, Phablet Popularity
 The growth of tablets has been held up as one of the big, disruptive forcesin personal computing, with the more portable, touchscreen devices eating into sales of laptops and other, larger PCs. ...
05:50 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Roger Easton, Father Of GPS, Dies At 93
 Roger Lee Easton, Sr., the father of GPS and pioneer of modern day navigation,died May 8 at his New Hampshire home, according to BusinessWire. After attending Middlebury College and the Universi...
05:36 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Sunrise Comes To Android And The Web
 Calendar app Sunrise just launched on Android phones and desktop (thanks to a new web app). It’s a major release for the company as the app was only available on the iPhone and iPad until ...
03:46 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Patents Power Efficient, Sensor-Filled Noise Cancelling Earbuds
 Apple has a couple of new patent applications (via AppleInsider) for headset tech that could drastically reduce the power consumption of noise cancelling earbuds, which could also stop or start ...
03:44 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Trifacta Raises $25 Million For Its Data Transformation Software
 While companies spend trillions of dollars on big data technologies to compile, store, and deliver the volumes of data they’re collecting and the software and services that they have to ma...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch ExtraHop Raises $41M Series C Round For Its Real-Time IT Analytics Service
 Seattle-based ExtraHop, a service that offers real-time analytics based on analyzing data right offthe wire instead of using software that runs on the server, today announced that it has raised ...
01:09 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Giroptic 360-Degree Camera Smashes Past Half A Million Raised On Kickstarter
 The nascent market for360-degree camerasis getting more crowded. MeetGiroptic, which joinsthe likes ofBublcam, Centr Cam and Panonoin buildinghardware to capture a more fuller picture of what...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Uncovering Data For Credit Worthiness Earns DemystData $5 Million
 In the modern, credit-rating-dominated world having little or no credit history — what the financial services industry calls a “thin file” — makes life much, much harder....
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Europe! Launch Your Startup At Disrupt! Apply to Startup Battlefield NOW
 Last year we brought the juggernaut of TechCrunch Disrupt to Berlin, in the first ever Disrupt event on the continent. And after that incredible success, how could we not come back for more? But...
11:02 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Hachette And Amazon Fire Verbal Shots Over Contract Dispute
 When we last left retail giant Amazon and publishing giant Hachette, the companies were at an impasse over contract negotiations, resulting in some of the most egregious efforts by Amazon to bur...
10:00 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch GrabTaxi Raises $15M Series B Led By GGV Capital
 GrabTaxi, the taxi-calling app that claims to be the largest in Southeast Asia, said today that it has raised a $15 million Series B led by GGV Capital with participation from Qunar and returnin...
08:25 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch With 20 Million Units Sold, Eddy Cue Says Apple TV Will Continue To Evolve
 Apple TV has been a pretty modest success when you compare it to some of Apple’s other products, but with 20 million units sold, the product has clearly captured consumer attention. Tonigh...
08:01 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Payments Firm Swipely Raises $20M More As Its Processing Tally Crosses The $2B Mark
Payments company Swipely has announced that it raised a Series C round totaling $20 million. This round, led by the Pritzker Group and including previous investors Shasta Ventures and First Round Capi...
07:28 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Jimmy Iovine And Eddy Cue Talk Acquisition, Say Beats Music Has 250k Subscribers
 Now that Apple has formally announced its $3 billion acquisition of Beats, both Apple SVP Eddy Cue and Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine have a lot to talk about. Three weeks after the deal was firs...
07:17 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Google Admits It Hires Too Many White Dudes
 Today, one of thevalley’s biggest employers, Google, is finally opening up aboutworkplace diversityand how itgoes about hiring women and minorities. The gist is that they know they have a ...
06:35 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Spark Capital Raises $375M For Later-Stage Investment Fund Spark Growth, Adds Jeremy Philips As Partner
 Spark Capital, the venture capital fund known for its savvy early stage investments in web hits such as Twitter, Tumblr, and Foursquare, announced today that it has raised $375 million for a new...
05:07 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch CEO Tony Fadell Hates When Nest Is Called An Internet-Of-Things Company
 We here in the tech press have gotten used to categorizing new, interesting products that are getting smart and connected under the umbrella term “Internet of Things.” But today at C...
04:43 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Urges Tech Community To Give Back Right Now
 Over the years, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has emerged as one of the greatest philanthropists in the San Francisco Bay Area, and he wants others to join him. Today at the CODE Conference, Benio...
03:02 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Beats Parts Ways With Design Firm As Apple Takes Over Hardware
 Now at Apple, Beats Electronics is leaving behind the design firm that made Beats synonymous in popular culture. The news came from Ammunition’s founder, Robert Brunner, in a blog postshor...
02:39 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Twitter CEO Says Its Reach Goes Beyond Its 255M Users, But Can It Monetize That?
 Wall Street thinks Twitter has a growth problem, but CEO Dick Costolo said at CodeCon its reach includes people who see tweets on TV and embedded online though they aren’t counted in its 2...
02:39 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Twitter CEO Says Its Reach Goes Beyond Its 255M Users, But Can It Monetize Reach?
 Wall Street thinks Twitter has a growth problem, but CEO Dick Costolo said at CodeCon its reach includes people who see tweets on TV and embedded online though they aren’t counted in its 2...
02:36 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Now Makes Apps For Other Mobile Platforms Which Could Be Huge For The Future Of Media
 Apple became something more with the Beats acquisition today – a multi-mobile platform developer at least for the time being. The company will continue to operate Beats Music on Android an...
02:29 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Sequoia Backs Coupang, South Koreas Answer To Amazon, With $100 Million
 Coupang, South Korea’s answer to Amazon, has raised $100 million in a round of financing led by Sequoia Capital. The investment led by Sequoia chairman Mike Moritz adds one of Asia’s...
02:24 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Mystery New iMac Models Caught Lurking In Pulled OS X Beta
 If you’re looking to grab yourself an iMac sometime soon, you might want to wait a few more weeks. Based on details left lurking in the latest beta of OS X Mavericks, it looks like an iMac...
02:16 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Distil Networks $10M Funding Round Valued The Bot Detection Company At Around $30M
 Bot detection startup Distil Networks announced today that it has raised a $10 million Series A. A source with knowledge of the deal says the round valued Distil at about$30 million. The company...
02:00 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch HackerOne Get $9M In Series A Funding To Build Bug Tracking Bounty Programs
 HackerOne, a startup that was started by the former head of the Facebook security team, announcedit was getting $9M in Series A funding and that former Microsoft lead security strategistKatie Mo...
01:24 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Twitter Soars 10%
 It’s been a big day for Twitter, with its shares picking up just over 10 percent. What caused the spike? An analyst upgrade from Nomura. The new buy rating came with a reiterated $43 price...
12:54 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Will Operate Beats Musics Streaming Service Separately From The iTunes Download Store
 Apple just bought Beats, but rather than risk cratering iTunes download sales by evolving it into a streaming service, it will operate Beats Music’s streaming service in parallel to give l...
12:49 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Samsungs Health Event Was All Hype, No Substance
 Samsung’s “Voice of the Body” event held earlier today had seemingly everything Samsung could squeeze out the door before Apple’s Healthbook’s big WWDC reveal. A co...
12:31 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Buys Beats Electronics For $3B
 Apple has indeed purchased Beats, which includes both Beats Audio hardware and Beats Music, the streaming radio service that was founded by rapper Dr. Dre and longtime music industry exec Jimmy ...
12:00 am GMT - Thu, May 29, 2014
Techcrunch The Most Important Facts From Mary Meekers 2014 Internet Trends Report
 Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker’s data dumps have become a highly anticipated event in the tech industry, as her research helps everyone else level up.The only problem is the 2014 Inte...
11:56 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Uber Confirms Record Breaking Fundraising, Hopes For Driverless Ubers
 Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has just confirmed a “record breaking” valuation to Kara Swisher at the CODE Conference today. That financing, which couldtotal more than $500 million, would...
11:56 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Uber Confirms Record Breaking Fundraising, Interest In Driverless Ubers
 Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has just confirmed a “record breaking” valuation to Kara Swisher at the CODE Conference today. That financing, which couldtotal more than $500 million, would...
11:51 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch MakerBot Responds To Critics Who Claim It Is Stealing Community IP
 MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis made an official statement regarding the claims that the company has patented a number of community-created 3D printing improvements and tools. The claims appeared after ...
11:44 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Uber Switches New Drivers To Android, Ties Up With AT&T To Install Its App On New Android Phones
 Uber wants to be the app that consumers use to get around town, and it’s looking to gain a lot more distribution, thanks to a new deal that the company is announcing. Today at the CODE Con...
11:44 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Uber Ties Up With AT&T For Driver Service And To Pre-Load Its App On New Android Phones
 Uber wants to be the app that consumers use to get around town, and it’s looking to gain a lot more distribution, thanks to a new deal that the company is announcing today.At the CODE Conf...
11:06 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Secretary Of State Kerry Offers Snowden A Flight If He Wants To Come Home
 The U.S. Executive branch still isn’t much of a Snowden fan, despite his leaks spurring calls for change both in the Judicialand Legislative parts of the government. This is hardly surpris...
10:42 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Confirmed: Snapchats Evan Spiegel Is Kind Of An Ass
 I’ve known Evan Spiegel, Snapchat CEO and co-founder, for a while now. We have had more than half a dozen in-person conversations, far more phone calls, and even shared twenty minutes toge...
10:42 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Five Super Successful Tech Pivots
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10:32 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Sony To Broadcast Its E3 Press Conference To Movie Theaters
 Sony really wants you to watch its June 9th E3 2014 press conference. For the first time ever, Sony’s massive show, which is always amazing, will be available for viewing at 40-50 movie th...
10:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch CENTR Cam Is A GoPro Competitor That Captures Everything Around You
 While smartphones have decimated the point-and-shoot camera market, the emergence of GoPro as a $1 billion company has shown that there’s still an audience willing to pay for a device that...
09:54 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Box Courts Nonprofits With Free And Discounted Cloud Storage
 Box, a cloud storage provider, today announced Box.org, an effort to offer free and discounted products to nonprofit and development organizations. It’s a simple plan: 10 free licensesper ...
09:54 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch iOS App Stores Top Charts No Longer Show Top 300 Apps, Now Only Top 150 Get Ranked
 Apple has made a significant change to the“Top Charts” sectionin the iOS App Store just ahead of its Worldwide Developers Conference next week in San Francisco – it’s now...
09:29 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch LeVar Burton Takes To The Internet To Bring Reading Rainbow To All Kids
 If a butterfly is in the sky and you feel you could, feasibly, fly twice as high, why not turn to Kickstarter to bring about the second coming of the Reading Rainbow? If you’re LeVar Burto...
09:24 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft Plans To Bring HTTP/2, Web Audio And JavaScript Promises To The Next Version Of IE
 At its Build developer conference earlier this year, Microsoft promised that it would become more transparent about which new features theInternet Explorer team isconsidering for upcoming versio...
09:11 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Ben Davenport, One of Facebook Messengers Creators, Joins Bitcoin Startup BitGo As CPO
 Ben Davenport, who co-founded the startup Beluga which Facebook acquired to build its Messenger app, just left the company after several years to dive into the world of Bitcoin. He’s joini...
08:44 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Comcast CEO Defends Time Warner Cable Acquisition, Downplays Netflix Concerns
 Comcast is trying to win public support for its planned $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable, which the company announced earlier this year. Today at the CODE Conference, Comcast CEO Bri...
08:27 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Datalogix Raises $45 Million Series C To Pipe Offline Purchase Data To Facebook And Twitter
 Social networks have to prove return on investment to get advertisers to buy bigger campaigns, so they turn to Datalogix to tell them when ads drive brick-and-mortar sales. Datalogix has become ...
08:13 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Open APIs Fuel Creation Of New Cloud Services Ecosystem
 There is obviously a growing marketrelated to moving traditional on-premises enterprise software to the cloud, but what you might not know is that beyond that group of products, there is a whole...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Bindo Raises $1.8M To Help Small Brick-And-Mortar Stores Go Online
 The growth of e-commerce behemoths like Amazon and the convenience they offer to shoppers have been especially hard on local brick-and-mortar stores. A startup called Bindo wants to reverse that...
07:28 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Enterprise Fund Notion Capital Gets Close To Startup Wiseguys Accelerator
London-based and enterprise-focused fund Notion Capital has announced it’s going to back the early stage Startup Wise Guys accelerator based out of Estonia. What does that mean? The form of this...
07:15 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch App Annie Acquires Competitor Distimo, Raises Another $17 Million From Existing Investors
 Big news in the world of mobile analytics providers this morning: App Annie is this morning announcing the acquisition of competing firm Distimo, as well as $17 million in new funding. The new r...
07:14 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Silently Becomes One Of The Most Influential Companies In The Smartwatch Industry
 Somehow, despite the fact that Apple hasn’t even announced a smartwatch product, the company is still the second-most influential corporate entity in the smartwatch industry, just behind S...
07:08 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch New Tracking Software Lets Leap Motion Keep Track Of Every Bone In Your Hands
 Leap Motion, the company behind the desk-mounted sensor that lets you control you computer like Tony Stark in the “Iron Man” films, has today released a major update to its software ...
07:07 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch The $199 MOD-T Printer May Not Amaze, But It Points Towards The Future Of Home 3D Printing
 When netbook prices fell below $200 around 2010, it was a big deal. This milestone meant that the race to the bottom had started, but the resulting firestorm of popularity brought about the rise...
07:07 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Heres Mary Meekers Big Deck On Key Internet Trends
 Mary Meeker, a partner at VC firm KPCB and one of the legendary observers of the Internet industry, is presenting her annual outlook on the industry this morning at Code Conference put on byRe/c...
07:05 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Retargetting Startup Cognitive Match Acquired by Magnetic
 Since it was founded in 2009, we’ve been tracking Cognitive Match (CM) for a while now. The display ad and onsite predictive targeting platform created in London by founder and CEO Alex Ke...
07:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Xamarin 3 Launches With UI Design Tool For iOS Apps, Cross-Platform Interface API And More
 Xamarin has long been one of the most popular tools for building cross-platform mobile applications and today, the company is taking a major step forward by launching version 3.0 of its service....
06:54 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Jawbone Patents Body Fat Percentage Measurement Using Smartphones, Tablets And Wearables
 Device makers are increasingly looking for ways to move the health tracking market forward, and a new patent filing from device maker Jawbone offers a clue to what might come next. Jawbone had a...
06:45 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch A New Yorkers Take On Swarm
 But I have complaints, many of which are compounded by the fact that foursquare is our New York City champion. It’s the darling of Silicon Alley. You’re here in NYC, foursquare. So w...
05:59 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Personal Data Organizer Mustbin Raises $1.5 Million More, Adds Secure Messaging
 Mustbin, a personal data organizer that lets you snap photos of important documents – like financial statements, home and vehicle information, medical documents, and more – and store...
05:50 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft Buys Mobile App Management Platform Capptain, Will Integrate It Into Azure
 Yesterday, Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadellanotedthat Azure, the company’s cloud platform, had more work to do getbettertraction with startups and developers — an area where one of...
05:50 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft Buys Mobile App Management Platform Capptain To Beef Up Azure
 Yesterday, Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadellanotedthat Azure, the company’s cloud platform, had more work to do getbettertraction with startups and developers — an area where one of...
05:26 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Includes The Entire iPad Lineup In Education Discounts
 The iPad is graduating; to Apple’s discount Education store, that is. The tablet now gets a price cut for qualifying education shoppers looking to buy either an iPad Air or iPad mini eithe...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Infinit Raises $1.8 Million To Become The Definitive File Sharing App
 French startup Infinit raised $1.8 million in funding from Alven Capital and 360 Capital Partners. The Infinit app differs from WeTransfer or CloudApp as it uses peer-to-peer technology to boost...
04:52 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch How Google Uses Machine Learning And Neural Networks To Optimize Data Centers
 Google has released some new research about it efforts to maximize performance and minimize energy use at data centers through machine learning today. Long story short: Google is building superi...
04:33 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Commerce Leader Ecwid Picks Up $5M, Passes 500K Merchants Across All Platforms
 Ecwid,an e-commerce platform originally founded in Russia that lets merchants create online stores on social networks like Facebook, their own websites and on mobile, is today announcing a $5 mi...
04:33 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Commerce Leader Ecwid Picks Up $5M As It Passes 500K Users
 Ecwid,an e-commerce platform originally founded in Russia that lets merchants create online stores on social networks like Facebook, their own websites and on mobile, is today announcing a $5 mi...
03:48 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Smash Is A Wearable For Tracking Tennis Technique
 Fitness wearables are getting more specialized. There’s Sensoria’s smart running socks. The Krack trick-tracker for skateboarders. And nowSmash: a wearable braceletfor tennis players...
03:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Need, For Men Who Dislike Shopping But Love Fashion, Raises $500,000 Seed Round
 Need is an online magazine and retailer for men who hate to shop, but still want to find unique clothing and lifestyle items. The Dallas-based startup announced today that it has raised $500,000...
02:59 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Asks Europe To Review Its $19B WhatsApp Buy In Bid To Head Off Local Opposition
 Facebook has already had its $19 billion acquisition of messaging serviceWhatsApp approved by the Federal Trade Commission in the U.S., but in order to make sure that nationalregulators in Europ...
02:59 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Asks Europe To Review Its $19B WhatsApp Buy: An Explainer
 Facebook has already had its $19 billion acquisition of messaging serviceWhatsApp approved by the Federal Trade Commission in the U.S., but in order to make sure that nationalregulators in Europ...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Square Begins Offering Data Driven Cash Advances To Small Businesses
 Today, payment processing company Square is announcing its first big additional vertical based on its enormous amount of business data. That offering is called Square Capital, and it enables the...
01:18 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Strooder Turns Cheap Plastic Pellets Into 3D Printer Filament
 Here’s another project with the worthy ultimate aimofrepurposing household plastic waste as useful 3D filament for making newstuff with your home 3D printer.The Strooder — currently ...
12:05 pm GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Alibaba Ramps Up Its Asian Logistics With A $249M Investment In SingPost
 Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, is today taking a play from the books of Amazon and eBay as it makes a key move to expand its presence across other countries in Asia. Today the company,ge...
11:28 am GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch NTT DOCOMO, Japans Largest Carrier, To Start Carrying The iPad Air And iPad Mini 2 On June 10
 Apple announced today that it will begin to sell the iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina display in Japan on NTT DOCOMO’s network starting June 10. NTT DOCOMO is the country’s largest...
08:35 am GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Why Google Made Its Self-Driving Car So Darn Cute
 While Google is notorious for knowing computers better than people, it understands that people might be a bit afraid of its self-driving cars. So rather than show the power and cool-factor of it...
06:53 am GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Wavii Founder Leaves Google
 Lots of Google executives are at the Re/Code Code conference in Rancho Palos Verdes this week. But at least one of them won’t be a Google executive for very much longer. Wavii founder Adri...
06:26 am GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin On Google Xs Translation Of Research Into New Businesses
 Google co-founder Sergey Brin wants the company to explore new areas of technology and develop projects that could have a huge impact on the world. Which is why he’s thrilled to be leading...
06:14 am GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Google X Built A Fully Self-Driving Car From Scratch, Sans Steering Wheel And Pedals
 Google’s experimental Google X division has been working on self-driving cars for a while, but it’s created the prototype for a brand new version that looks nothing like the retrofit...
05:18 am GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Valve Delays The Touchpad-Happy Steam Machine Controller
 The future of gaming will have to wait. Valve has pushed the Steam Machines’ novel controller release from 2014 to 2015. Essentially, it will be released when Steam thinks its ready and no...
05:02 am GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says Company Will Keep Bing, Xbox
 Ready for an update fromthe no-surprise department? Microsoft isn’t keen to sell either its Xbox or search businesses. Today at the CODE Conference Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella indicated th...
04:54 am GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft Demos Real-Time Speech-To-Speech Translation On Skype
 Microsoft’s Skype has long enabled people in different parts of the world to communicate with one another through video, voice, and text chat. Now the service is looking to expand those ca...
04:25 am GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says Weve Entered The Post-Post-PC Era
 Microsoft’s new CEO Satya Nadella said the company is looking beyond the post-PC era that we’re currently in now, which is defined not by consumers and businesses being tied to a sin...
01:55 am GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch How To Mine Bitcoins With The HexFury ASIC USB Miner
 At this point, unless you steal power from the electrical grid in some weird squat or you have your own hydroelectric plant, home bitcoin mining is a sucker’s game. Sure you can make a lit...
01:47 am GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch TC Cribs Tours Twitch, Where Playing Games Is Part Of The Job
 In this episode of Cribs, we stopped by Twitch, the San Francisco-based startup that’s created a massively popular video platform for live streaming online gaming. With traffic that surpas...
01:37 am GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Despite Exits, Aerospace Deals Are Crashing To Earth
 With Google and Facebook both interested in drone and satellite companies, perhaps other investors are taking the time to look to the skies. Last week we reported that Google was in advanced dis...
01:02 am GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch These Kids are 3D-Printing Their Education
 A group of junior high and high school studentsin Cambridge, Mass., are part of an experimental education program that aims to provethey’re capable of solving real-world problems early wit...
12:12 am GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Iran Summons Zuckerberg Over Instagram, WhatsApp Complaints
 Iran has summoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to court overprivacy concerns involving WhatsApp and Instagram.He won’t go, of course, because the U.S. and Iran do not have an extradition t...
12:11 am GMT - Wed, May 28, 2014
Techcrunch Foursquare Declares Local Search (Yelp And Google) Broken, Vows Fix With Personalization
 Foursquare escalated its battle versusYelp and Google today with a blog post explaining that its redesigned app will beat their “one-size-fits-all results” that users get “rega...
11:50 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Watch Dogs Launch Day Uplay Disaster Is A Reminder That PC Game Sales Are Broken
 Today I made a mistake: I bought a PC game. I’ve been good – I haven’t bought one in a while, since Just Cause 2 probably. But I was looking at graphics comparisons of Watch Do...
11:43 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Western Digital Has Lost Its Mind
 Western Digital has a new $100 media streamer it would like you to buy. At first glance the new WD TVis a standard affair with the usual A/V jacks, Miracast support and a focus on local media st...
10:53 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Pictorian Offers A Uniquely Designed Photo Storage App, Perfect For Your GIF Collection
 On an App Store that today sports over a million applications and a set of recommended design guidelines that hold a heavy influence over how developers proceed, it’s rare to come across a...
10:51 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Slidely Launches New Show App For Making Videos Out of Pictures
 Israel-based Slidely,which claims 50 million users across several image apps, recently closed $7.3 million in funding but it was something of a mystery what the cash was actually for. They did s...
10:38 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Isnt Axing Auto-Shares From Other Apps, But Will Favor Explicitly Shared Stories In Feed
 Facebook isn’t giving up on auto-sharing, it just doesn’t to show it all those Spotify listens, Instagram Likes, and more in the News Feed. Facebook has no plans to discontinue ̶...
10:36 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Twitter Lands $230M Deal With Omnicom
 Twitter’s MoPub will integrate with Omnicom’s programmatic ad purchasing product in a two-yeardeal valued at $230 million.According to AdAge, the agreementincludes a “‘fi...
10:05 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch German Researchers Build A Plane Controlled By Your Brain
 While the more pedantic among us would argue that every plane is controlled by our brains, German researchers at the Technische Universitt Mnchen and the TU Berlin have created a plane that esch...
10:05 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Twitter Trades Higher On Reports Indication Of Coming Asian Growth
 It’s been a rollicking few weeks in the stock market for Twitter, a company that has seen its share price knee-capped as part of a larger retreat of so-called “momentum” techno...
10:04 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Chrome For Windows Will Now Only Install Extensions From Googles Web Store
 This has been a long time coming, but starting today, Chrome users on Windows will only be able to install extensions from Google’s own Chrome Web Store. Google argues that this is meant t...
09:21 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Will Stream The WWDC 2014 Keynote Live On June 2
 Apple will be streaming this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on June 2 at 10 AM PT (1 PM ET), the company announced today. Apple only sometimes streams live video of its spe...
09:01 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Watch LGs G3 Flagship Android Smartphone Launch Here
 LG’s keynote event for the new G3 Android smartphone is about to get underway, so you can follow along live with the video stream above. The G3 has been leaked amply in the last little whi...
09:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch The Next Open Source Battle Is Being Waged In The 3D Printing Industry
 More than twenty years ago, Linux began wending its way out of the primordial soup that was the early Internet and ensconcing itself in servers and workstations around the world. After its creat...
09:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch LG Officially Outs Its Leaky G3 Smartphone: Bigger Hardware, Flatter Software
 LG has officially outed its new flagship smartphone, the G3, at events taking place in London, New York and San Francisco.TechCrunch was in attendance at the London event, taking place in a rain...
08:55 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Songkick Passes 10M Monthly Fans And $100M Revenue To Date
 Former YC startup Songkick, which makes tickets for music gigs social, claims it is now bringing in 10 million “unique fans” every month. Unfortunately that term is rather vague R...
08:55 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Songkick Passes 10M Monthly Fans And $100M Revenue
 Former YC startup Songkick, which makes tickets for music gigs social, claims it is now bringing in 10 million “unique fans” every month. Unfortunately that term is rather vague R...
08:44 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Drupal Platform Acquia Raises $50M Funding Round Led By NEA
 Acquia, the Drupal hosting platform launchedby Drupal founder Dries Buytaert, today announced that it has raised a $50 million financing round led by New Enterprise Associates, with participatio...
08:39 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Fake App Reviews Are More Common On iTunes, But Google Play Has The Worst Offenders
 Contrary to popular opinion, iOS applications have more fake reviews than appson Android. According to a new analysis of both app stores fromApptentive, a company which offers feedback and reten...
08:26 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Firefox OS Flame Developer Phone Pre-Orders Kick Off Today For $170
 Firefox OS seems like it’s had a number of different and distinct launch-type occurrences, but for what it’s worth this is the first time an official “reference device” h...
08:01 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch FTC Says Data Brokers Need To Open Their Huge Information Trove To Consumers
 Big data and the growth of services that help us make sense of it are some of the more fascinatingdevelopments of our connected world, but in some cases they can bealso some of the more scary, w...
08:01 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch FTC Says Data Brokers Need To Make Their Information Trove Clearer To Consumers
 Big data and the growth of services that help us make sense of it are some of the more fascinatingdevelopments of our connected world, but in some cases they can bealso some of the more scary, w...
08:01 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Atlassians HipChat Removes User Limits On Free Plans
 Atlassian’s HipChatis switching up its monetization strategy a bit — and mostly for the better: instead of offering small teams with up to five members access to the service for free...
07:26 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch With Polagram, Print Photos From Your Phone In Just A Few Taps
 French startup Polagram just released a couple of new features and raised a round of funding. You can use theiPhone or Android app to print your photos directly from your phone and receive your ...
07:05 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Quick Key, The Quiz Scanning App For Teachers, Raises Over $250,000
 When we last saw Quick Key, founder Walter Duncan was working to get his quiz grading app into schools across the country. Now they’ve announced a $250,000 raise to help expand their reach...
06:51 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch BarkBuddy Is A Tinder For Dogs
 Like many dog lovers and potential new dog owners, when it came time to adopt a new pet, my first stop was not the pound, but the internet. I read about the various dog breeds and their respecti...
06:23 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Spotify Was Hacked, Warns Android Users Of Impending Update
 Spotify users, take note. The music streaming service just posted a message on its company blog indicating that one user’s account was hacked, but assuring that steps are being taken to en...
06:10 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Revel Adds A Drive-Through Option To Its iPad-Based Retail And Restaurant Sales Systems
 California-based iPad point-of-sale maker Revel Systems has added a drive-through option to its lineup of software and hardware accessories, making it possible for business owners to get set up ...
05:49 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Twitter User Growth Will Come From Asia-Pacific Region Accounting For 40% Of Users By 2018
 Figures out this morning from eMarketer estimate Twitter’s growth to continue in the double-digits through 2018, with the Asia-Pacific region playing a large part in that growth trend. Tod...
05:29 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Google Looking At Dropcam And The Home Security Market, Says The Information
 Google has reportedly ben interested in Dropcam as an acquisition target, according to a new report by The Information today. The supposed purchase would help Google with its aim of getting into...
05:28 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Indie E-Book Printer Blurb Buys Graphicly; Will Shut Down Comic E-Publishing Platform
 Asthe ongoingdispute between Amazon and Hachetteseesthe hugeonline retailer continue to block and/or delay sales of some of the publisher’s books, two smaller startups in the industry are ...
05:13 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Ku Is A Social Network For Composing CreativeStatus Updates
 The plain social network ‘status update’ has been superseded by the rush to share photos. Quicker, easier and less likely to get lost in translation, the selfie and its subsidiaries ...
05:11 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Aver Informatics Raises $8.5 Million To Tackle Healthcare Payments
 If you’ve ever been to a doctor in the U.S., you know the befuddling bundle of bills that awaits at the end of the road for your treatment. The ugly truth is that those bills aren’t ...
04:30 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Patents LiquidMetal And Sapphire Mobile Device Construction Method
 Apple has just renewed its exclusive licensing deal with LiquidMetal, a fairly exotic metal alloy that behaves like plastic, and today it was granted a patent by the USPTO (via AppleInsider) for...
04:30 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch The Prodigal Sony Returns To China
 The PS4 is headed to China. After China dropped a decade-long ban on gaming consoles, Sony is making plans to bring its latest gaming console to the massive Chinese market. The last time a Sony ...
04:01 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Toshiba Unveils Bendy Laptops And A Few Tablets For Back-To-School
Toshiba has just unveiled slightly more than a handful of new devices in anticipation of the back-to-school buying season. The new offerings include three laptops, all of which with some tricks up the...
02:58 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch If You Love IFTTT Then This Connected Hardware bttn May Push Your Buttons
 Internet connection and automation serviceIFTTT, whichjoins the dots between different Internet services and mobile OS components to create recipes to do things automatically for you, is awesome...
02:47 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Intuit Adds Check To Its Finance Stable In Roughly $350M Deal
 Intuit has added Check to its menagerie in a roughly $350 million deal, according to people with knowledge of the transaction. A report from The Wall Street Journal published yesterday placed th...
02:47 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch [Confirmed] Intuit Adds Check To Its Finance Stable In $360M Deal
 [Update: Intuit has announced its acquisition of the mobile payment and bill management services company, Check, in a $360 million deal.] We had reported earlierTuesday that the deal would bearo...
01:59 pm GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch AppInTop Enables App Developers To Market Their Mobile Wares On A Budget
 AppInTop, a new automated mobile marketing platform that opens in public Beta today, is perhaps noteworthy on two counts.Firstly, the startup wants to significantly lower the barriers for mobile...
09:24 am GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Retro Is One Of The Most Beautiful Instagram iPad Viewers
 Despite being one of the fastest growing social sites in the world, Instagram still hasn’t come out with an iPad app. This has allowed several developers to step into the breech and offer ...
09:02 am GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Taking Lots of Selfies Is Not A Mental Disorder
 Have you heard? TheAmerican Psychological Association says that taking an excessive amount of selfies isnow considered a mental disorder.But of course this claim, which predictably spread like K...
05:28 am GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch You Talkin To Me? Londons App Car-mageddon
 Protests by London Black Cab drivers outside Hailo offices. Protests by taxis in Paris against Uber. In some case actual violence is taking place across the globe as private car hire apps and ta...
05:28 am GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch You Talkin To Me? Londons App Car-mageddon Is Underway
 Protests by London Black Cab drivers outside Hailo offices. Protests by taxis in Paris against Uber. In some case actual violence is taking place across the globe as private car hire apps and ta...
03:13 am GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Weev Talks About His Time In Prison And Why He Trolls
Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer would like you to try to understand him but doesn’t care if you don’t. He admits he’s a troll, he revels in it, and his efforts are, according t...
12:11 am GMT - Tue, May 27, 2014
Techcrunch Bitcoin Rallies As Allegations Of Trading Irregularities Swirl
 It’s been a torrid few days for Bitcoin, the now globally-known cryptocurrency. A price rally kicked off that has, over the past week, pushed the value of Bitcoin up by around 25%. Trading...
11:13 pm GMT - Mon, May 26, 2014
Techcrunch Rap Genius Drops Co-Founder Following Elliot Rodger Manifesto Annotations
 Rap Genius, the startup which wants to annotate the world, sees the departure of co-founder Mahbod Moghadam today, owing to Moghadam’s ill-advised annotations on the rambling manifesto of ...
11:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 26, 2014
Techcrunch Home Alone?
 Connected devices companyNest, now owned by Google, has been lauded — mostly, it must be said, by the tech press — for turning its attention to theutilitarian devicesin your home. Th...
09:17 pm GMT - Mon, May 26, 2014
Techcrunch Fly Or Die: Microsoft Surface Pro 3
Forget everything you thought you knew about the Microsoft Surface tablet, as the latest generation of the Windows-powered Surface Pro is a clear step up from the Microsoft slates of yore. In terms of...
08:51 pm GMT - Mon, May 26, 2014
Techcrunch Samsung Wearable Patents Feature Circular Face, Gesture Controls And Image Recognition
 Samsung has a group of new patent applications it filed recently related to wearable tech (via 9to5Google), and these could describe an initial foray into Android Wear, which Samsung has said it...
08:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 26, 2014
Techcrunch On The Set Of HBOs Silicon Valley
Thanks to an unlikely series of events, I, a civil/environmental-engineer-turned-tech-media type, found myself on the set of HBO’s Silicon Valley last fall, serving as a consultant to HBO, which...
07:11 pm GMT - Mon, May 26, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Said To Be Prepping Smart Home Software Platform For WWDC Reveal
 Apple is going to make a big play in the connected smart home space, according to a new report from the Financial Times. The company is planning a platform that would turn its iOS devices, inclu...
06:16 pm GMT - Mon, May 26, 2014
Techcrunch The iPhone Is Still The Best Smartphone
 I see a lot of phones in my work here at TechCrunch, and I’m genuinely impressed with where the average level of quality is at compared to where it was event just five years ago. I’v...
04:36 pm GMT - Mon, May 26, 2014
Techcrunch Messaging 2.0 is Now Over
 With the news today that Korea’s leading messenger KakaoTalk is merging with one of that country’s largest internet portals, Daum Communications, we are witnessing the end of the ris...
02:21 pm GMT - Mon, May 26, 2014
Techcrunch #YesAllWomen Shows That Misogyny Is Everyones Problem
 If the actions of the U.C. Santa Barbara shooter last week turned the Internet into a crime scene, then the Web is also where we turn to grieve and try to process something that is truly incompr...
01:18 pm GMT - Mon, May 26, 2014
Techcrunch Flipkart Raises $210M In New Funding From DST Global And Returning Investors
 Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce company, announced today that it has raised $210 million in a new funding round led by DST Global, with returning investors Tiger Global, Naspers, and ...
07:00 am GMT - Mon, May 26, 2014
Techcrunch Finding Game Design
 Editor’s note:Tadhg Kelly writes a regular column about all things video game for TechCrunch. He is a consultant, game designer and creator of leading game design blogWhat Games Are. You c...
05:58 am GMT - Mon, May 26, 2014
Techcrunch Kakao And Daum To Merge, Creating One Of South Koreas Largest Internet Companies
 Kakao Corp and Daumannounced today that they will merge through an equity swap, creating a company with a 3.4 trillion won (about $2.9 billion) market capitalization. Kakao is the maker of Kakao...
05:15 am GMT - Mon, May 26, 2014
Techcrunch R.O.W. With Butch: Despite A Dark Past, Sarajevos Tech Scene Emerges
 ‘R.o.W. With Butch’ is a weekly column about tech outside Silicon Valley, in the Rest Of the World. This week it comes from Sarajevo, Bosnia.At the height of the Bosnian War between ...
05:00 am GMT - Mon, May 26, 2014
Techcrunch The Crazy Genius Behind Solar Roadways
 Here’s an idea crazy enough that it just might work: Pave the streets with solar-powered panels that have their own built-in heat and LED lights. That’s what Scott and Julie Brusaw h...
03:00 am GMT - Mon, May 26, 2014
Techcrunch Getting In Bed With Mattress Startup Casper
 Earlier this year, I wrote about Casper, a Lerer Ventures-backed startup that says it’s trying to reinvent how mattresses are built and sold. Since then, the company actually launched its ...
02:55 am GMT - Mon, May 26, 2014
Techcrunch Founder Stories: Guy Goldsteins Make-Or-Break Bet With Check
 To listen to Guy Goldstein, the CEO of Check (formerly Pageonce), tell the story, you’d think he never sweats under pressure. Six years ago, Goldstein helped found what is now Check, a mob...
02:00 am GMT - Mon, May 26, 2014
Techcrunch #Love: Wanderlust
 Editor’s Note: The author of this essay is Jocelyn Voo, a nomadic photographer, writer and social media strategist. Her furniture lives in New York City. All likenesses to people in her re...
12:18 am GMT - Mon, May 26, 2014
Techcrunch From The Ivy League To State Schools, Demand For Computer Science Is Booming
 For years, people in the tech industry have worked to persuade more young people in the United States to become interested in studying computer science. It now looks like they’ve finally g...
11:54 pm GMT - Sun, May 25, 2014
Techcrunch Apples Expanded Your Verse Campaign Pitches iPad As Mobile Creation Tool
 Apple is releasing two new TV spots today, along with companion sections on its website. The spots will continue its ‘Your Verse’ advertising, which attempts to demonstrate the ways ...
10:34 pm GMT - Sun, May 25, 2014
Techcrunch Now 100 Cities Strong, Startup Grind Aims To Spread The Entrepreneurial Bug Worldwide
 One thing I often hear when talking to entrepreneurs who live outside of the San Francisco Bay Area is that it’s hard for them to connect with other entrepreneurs nearby. It’s not th...
08:00 pm GMT - Sun, May 25, 2014
Techcrunch Women Vs. Women, Or The Ugly Side Of Feminism
 With the birth of the new feminist narrative sweeping popular culture, it is bound to enter its awkward teenage phase. And just like a teenage mean girl, the new feminism is growing unwieldy bef...
07:04 pm GMT - Sun, May 25, 2014
Techcrunch Long-Delayed Connected Device Tile Finally Starts Shipping
 The Bluetooth-powered lost item finder called Tile, which last summer raised $2.6 million via crowdfunding, has finally begun shipping, the company now claims. Early backers may be a bit skeptic...
06:56 pm GMT - Sun, May 25, 2014
Techcrunch Envy
 Elliot Rodger, a young man with some horrible ideas and serious mental problems, killed at least six people in Santa Barbara. He left pages of digital photos and hours of video detailing his pai...
06:56 pm GMT - Sun, May 25, 2014
Techcrunch The Internet Is Now Part Of The Crime Scene
 Elliot Rodger, a young man with some horrible ideas and serious mental problems, killed at least six people in Santa Barbara. He left pages of digital photos and hours of video detailing his pai...
06:00 pm GMT - Sun, May 25, 2014
Techcrunch How Cloud Startups Are Changing The Face Of Innovation
 Editor’s note: Pete Sonsini is a general partner at New Enterprise Associates. After more than a decade of hype and billions of dollars of value creation, it would be reasonable to expect ...
08:00 am GMT - Sun, May 25, 2014
Techcrunch The Promise, Progress And Pain Of Collaboration Software
 Editor’s note:Jason Green is a founder and general partner at Emergence Capital Partners. He was an early investor in Yammer and Success Factors, and he currently sits on the boards of Ser...
06:00 am GMT - Sun, May 25, 2014
Techcrunch Amazon Keeps Fighting Big Publishers But Authors Pay The Price
 It’s Amazon’s world and we’re just living in it. As the company continues to flex its muscle against big publishers – this time against Hachette – the average autho...
05:00 am GMT - Sun, May 25, 2014
Techcrunch Dont Believe Anyone Who Tells You Learning To Code Is Easy
 Editor’s note:Kate Rayis the technical cofounder ofscroll kit, a visual webpage creation tool that was recently acquired by WordPress.com. One of the most dangerous things I’ve seen ...
01:39 am GMT - Sun, May 25, 2014
Techcrunch Hands On With Microsofts Surface Pro 3
Microsoft’s newest Surface, the Surface Pro 3, is an interesting gadget. Akin to its predecessors, it sits somewhere between a tablet and a laptop. In Microsoft’s estimation, the Pro 3can ...
01:00 am GMT - Sun, May 25, 2014
Techcrunch Deciphering The Economics Of Venture Capital
 Editor’s note:Matt Oguzis managing director ofPalo Alto Venture Science.WhenNassim Nicholas Talebdeveloped his popular theory to explore way-out-of-the-norm surprising events, he outlined ...
12:00 am GMT - Sun, May 25, 2014
Techcrunch For Better Or Worse, Anonymous Apps Allow Us To Be Ourselves Online Again
 Anonymous apps like Secret and Whisper are all the rage right now and maybe that shouldn’t be a surprise. This feels like the inevitable reaction to all the major social networks wantingto...
11:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch 5-Tiles Keyboard Targets Wearables To Hunt The Post-Qwerty Holy Grail
 Meet the 5-Tiles Keyboard, (yet) another contender taking aim atdisrupting Qwerty — andhoping to increase its chances by firsttargeting smallerwearable devices, such as smartwatches. The r...
10:17 pm GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch The ROI Of iCloud Photo Storage
 “When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don’t consider the bloody ROI.” That’s Apple CEO Tim Cook, speaking at the company’s annual sharehold...
09:55 pm GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch Kill The Hamburger Button
 That little three-lined button is the devil. Whether you call it a side menu, navigation drawer, or a hamburger, hiding your featuresoff-screen behind an nondescript icon in the corner is usuall...
09:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Hollywood & Vine
 The Gillmor Gang — Alexia Tsotsis, Keith Teare, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — kick off the holiday weekend with a primer on cloud politics. Techcrunch co-editor Tso...
08:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch Watch This DJ Pound The Default iPhone Ringtone Into A Crazy Catchy Dance Track
 Happy Saturday! Ready for your semi-regular reminder that some people are just too damned talented? You know that one iPhone ringtone? Yeah. That one. Some call it “Opening”; others ...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch The Internet Is Burning
 Online security is a horrifying nightmare. Heartbleed. Target. Apple. Linux. Microsoft. Yahoo. eBay. X.509. Whatever security cataclysm erupts next, probably in weeks or even days. We seem to be...
05:09 am GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch What Googles Favorite Bay Area Nonprofits Would Do With A $500K Grant
 Yesterday, Google announced its finalists for the Bay Area Impact Challenge, its latest effort to assist nonprofits in the region through grants and support from Googlers willing to volunteer th...
03:41 am GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch Twitter Closed At $30.50 Today, Its Lowest Conclusion So Far As A Public Company
 Twitter closed out regular trading this afternoon at $30.50 per share. That’s its lowest end-of-day tally yet in its history as a public company. The company traded below the $30 mark earl...
03:06 am GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch If Jawbone Were For Sale, Who Would Buy It?
 Is Jawbone in play? That’s a question that has been bounced around the rumor mill lately, likely driven by a few other huge recent acquisitions in the hardware space. Over the last few day...
02:38 am GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch A Paralyzed Teen Will Kick The First World Cup Ball Thanks To A Robotic Exoskeleton
 The 2014 World Cupbegins next month in Brazil and will feature something truly amazing: the plan is for a paralyzed, non-ambulatory Brazilian teenager to stand up and kick the first ball of the ...
01:22 am GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch A Badass Darth Vader Is Running The Internet Party Of Ukraine
 Who here wouldn’t like to live life like Darth Vader? And wield political power at the same time? Look, just go with it. For this is what a local politician in the Ukraine likes to do. A l...
01:20 am GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch CrunchWeek: Secrets Massive Expansion And Why Apple Wants Beats
 This week our inimitable boss Alexia Tsotsistook to the Round Table with Kyle Russell, one of our latest hires, and your humble servant to dig into the intersection of technologyand the personal...
12:59 am GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch Priori Data Rakes In $1M To Build A Bloomberg For App Data
 Priori Data, an app store data and analytics provider, has secured $1 million in seed financing to build a kind of Bloomberg style platform for mobile industry professionals and analysts. The ca...
12:50 am GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch Writers And Editors Call Out Amazon For Going After Hachette, But Will It Matter?
 Amazon.com appears to be flexing its muscle against publishers once again. The New York Times reported this morning that Amazon had removed preorder options for upcoming titles from publisher Ha...
12:34 am GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch eBook Platform Bookmate Secures $3M To Target Emerging World
 Betaworks-style ‘startup studio’ Dream Industries – based in Moscow – has raised a $3 million Series A round from retail giant Ulmart (in Russia) to develop its subscript...
12:34 am GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch E-Book Platform Bookmate Secures $3M To Target Emerging World
 Betaworks-style ‘startup studio’ Dream Industries – based in Moscow – has raised a $3 million Series A round from retail giant Ulmart (in Russia) to develop its subscript...
12:14 am GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch Croatian Incubator ZIP Poised To Raise A Fund Via Seedrs Crowd Equity
ZIP, a start-up programme based in Croatia, has decided to dump the idea of raising a fund via Limited Partners and has turned instead to equity crowd funding. And it’s poised to hit its target ...
12:09 am GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang Live 05.23.14
 Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Alexia Tsotsis, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm PDT. Facebook.com/GillmorGang Read More ...
12:09 am GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang Live 05.23.14
 Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Alexia Tsotsis, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session has concluded for today. Facebook.com/GillmorGang Read More ...
12:08 am GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch The Kairos Mechanical Smartwatch Blends Tradition And High Tech
 As a watch fan I’ve seen them all: the Fossils, the Rolexes, the Omegas, and now the Kairosii. Created by a team of engineers, designers, and entrepreneurs, these watches feature a standar...
12:00 am GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch Farmeron Raises Another $2.65M To Disrupt Dairy
 Farmeron, a SaaSstartup aimed at the agriculture industry (run your dairy farm in the cloud instead of grappling with Excel etc), has raised an additional $2.65 million in funding from agricultu...
12:00 am GMT - Sat, May 24, 2014
Techcrunch 5 Questions For Beacon Providers
 Editor’s note:Mark DiPaolais chairman and co-founder of inMarket. From concert venues to your neighborhood grocery store, beacons are ushering in an age of touchless, context-based mobile ...
11:13 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Microsoft Surface Pro 3, Bug A-Salt, And OnePlus One
 It’s been a wild week in the land of gadgets. Microsoft unveiled its latest and greatest generation of the Surface Windows-powered tablet, while Matt discovered a fun new toy to help him c...
10:35 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch DARPA Is Using Oculus Rift To Build The Mega Man Battle Network Of Cyberwarfare
 In a surprising amount of futuristic visions of how hacking will work in the future, the experience is immersive, rather than something done hunched over a computer looking at lines of code scro...
10:18 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft Confirms Windows With Bing
 Surprising a grand total of zero people,Microsoft confirmed the existence of Windows with Bing today, and its post on the matter is deliciously vague. The core bit, in keepingto earlier reports,...
10:14 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Stash For iPhone Finds The Best Prices For Beauty Products And Personal Care Items, Makes Re-ordering Easy
 A company called Stash wants to take the hassle out of shopping for beauty and personal care items, while also scouring across the web to find the lowestprices as well asthe best products, as re...
09:52 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Google Is Building A Creator-Focused Mobile App, Channel Donations And Crowdsourced Captions
 Google’s letting YouTube creators know they’re special and important with a new Creator Preview series of videos (via 9to5Google) to keep the updated on new developments, and the fir...
09:47 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Personal Assistant Startup Fancy Hands Taps New CEO To Focus On Growth
 Fancy Hands, the New York City based startup that lets you book a remote personal assistant to complete tasks for a flat fee, has hired a new CEO to focus on business partnerships and growth, fo...
09:30 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Google Makes CoreOS A First-Class Citizen On Its Cloud Platform
 Google today announced that CoreOS, a specialized Linux distribution forcomputing at the scale of companies like Google and Facebook, is now officially available on its Compute Engine. This puts...
09:20 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Fleex Lets You Learn English By Streaming Content With Popcorn Time
 The beauty of open source software strikes again. Fleex is a platform to learn English by watching movies, TV shows, TED talks and more. The French startup just forked Popcorn Time, the so-calle...
09:19 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Think Silicon Valley Is Cool? Apply To The Real Startup Battlefield
 Just weeks after Vurb took home the Disrupt Cup in NY, we’re at it again! Startup Battlefield applications are now openthrough June 16 for bothDisrupt San Francisco and Disrupt Europe, whi...
09:05 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Bellabeat Lands $4.5M Seed Round To Grow Its Quantified Self App For Pregnancy
 Bellabeat, the startup that launched earlier this year with a system to help moms-to-be to track their pregnancies, has closed on a $4.5 million round of funding.The investment, which counts as ...
08:14 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Samsung SmartCam HD Pro Review: A Dropcam Competitor That Works Well, But Lacks Charm
 It was inevitable that major OEMs would try to beat startup Dropcam at their own game, by providing inexpensive, HD IP camera for home security enthusiasts, people with babies and folks who just...
07:49 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch With $5M In New Funding, Tinybop Releases Plants, Its Second Educational App For Kids
 Children’s app-maker Tinybop is announcing that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding. The round was first revealed in a regulatory filing last fall, but the company didn’t co...
07:31 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Panda Reveals A Web Dashboard For Developer And Designer News And Inspiration
 A new website (or Chrome extension, if you prefer) called Panda is offeringentrepreneurs, developers and designers an easy way to keep up with industry news and inspiration from a variety of sou...
07:24 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch South African E-Commerce Giant Takealot Raises $100M From Tiger Global
 Takealot, a South African e-commerce site, has raised a whopping $100 million from Tiger Global Management. The company is still relatively young, launching in 2011, post the acquisition of an e...
07:05 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Samsung To Launch A Tizen-Powered Smartwatch That Works Without A Smartphone, WSJ Says
 Samsung is working on a smartwatch that can make calls and manage sending and receiving texts without being tethered to a smartphone, the Wall Street Journal reports. It can also send email, and...
06:40 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Dating App Coffee Meets Bagel Ditches Twilio With New IM Features
 When I wrote about the Coffee Meets Bagel dating service more than two years ago, I hoped (but didn’t quite believe) that it would last this long. Yet, here we are. The company has receive...
06:27 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Several U.S. States Now Investigating Ebay Cyberattack
 Several U.S. states, including Connecticut, Florida, and Illinois, are jointly leading an investigation into eBay’s security practices, following eBay’s reveal this week of a massive...
06:22 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Medium Super Sizes Its iOS App With An iPad Version
 Platisher (publishing platform, natch) Medium initially launched a dedicated iOS application back in March, which is designed strictly for consumption, not for writing. Medium is ripe for a mobi...
05:18 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Google Close To Snapping Up Satellite Startup Skybox Imaging For $1BPlus, Say Sources
 In April, Google made a play for the skies when it swept in andacquiredTitan Aerospace amid reports that the drone makerwas being pursued byFacebook.But Google’sinterest in hardware compan...
04:48 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Love My Provider Helps Parents Of Autistic Children Find The Best Services
 While working as an autism specialist for the state of California, behavioral psychologist Sara Gershfeld met hundreds of families and realized they all had the same problem while seeking care f...
04:26 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Scout, Zuora Partnership Could Help Subscription-Based Businesses Soar
 Scout Analytics, a company that helps customers maximize subscription revenue, announced a partnership today with Zuora, the subscription billing service. It’s seemingly a sensible partner...
03:15 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Google Said To Be Working On A Tablet With Project Tango 3D Vision Powers
 Google is reportedly working on a tablet version of its Project Tango advanced mobile vision device, to be launched starting next month with around 4,000 initial developer beta units, the Wall S...
02:27 pm GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Lighthouse Is A Crowdfunding Platform Built On Top Of Bitcoin
 Meet Lighthouse, a bitcoin-powered app to create and manage your own crowdfunding campaign on your computer. Bitcoin core developer Mike Hearn showcased the app at the Bitcoin 2014 conference in...
08:49 am GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch YOYO Holdings Snags $1.3M For Its Prepaid Mobile Consumer Survey Platform
 YOYO Holdings, a rewards platform that targets prepaid mobile phone users in developing economies, has secured $1.3 million in funding from Japanese venture capital firms GREE Ventures, CyberAge...
04:27 am GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Pentagon Report Calls Scope Of Snowden Leaks Staggering, Their Impact Grave
 The Snowden Effect, that mix of consciousness raising and potential legal reform of government surveillance, has another side to it: the impact of Snowden’s revelations on those revealed. ...
02:56 am GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch GuideSpark Rolls Out New Platform To Serve Up HR Video To Phones And Tablets
 GuideSpark, a Menlo Park-based startup that provides employers with customizable video templates for conveying what would normally be incredibly boring HR paperwork, is rolling out a new platfor...
02:38 am GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Researchers Plug Googles Project Tango Into A Drone To Let It Fly Itself Around A Room
 Remember Project Tango? Google’s crazy project to add 3d environment mapping abilities to a smartphone? Yeah, someone just went ahead and took the next logical step: they plugged it into a...
02:23 am GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch DoorDash Raises $17.3 Million From Sequoia To Expand Its On-Demand Delivery Service
 DoorDash is one of many on-demand food delivery startups to crop up over the past few years. But the company has big ambitions to move beyond food, and thanks to new investor Sequoia Capital, it...
01:02 am GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Wants Beats Music Because Transitioning iTunes To Streaming Could Kill Download Sales
 Why would Apple buy Beats when it could just evolve iTunes into astreaming music service? Well, it wants the talent of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre. But according to a source with direct knowledge o...
12:55 am GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch The EFF Blasts Twitter For Censoring Itself In Russia And Pakistan
 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today upbraided Twitter for censoring itself in Russia and Pakistan, stating that the company has stepped “down from the free speech party.” ...
12:35 am GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch Apples Beats Deal Is Happening, And Its A Dre Acquihire
 A well-placed source has confirmed rumors that Apple’s acquisition of Beats “is happening” but was close to falling apart multiple times. The source said with “70% certai...
12:05 am GMT - Fri, May 23, 2014
Techcrunch HP Shares Dip As FQ2 14 Revenue Disappoints
 Today HP’s earnings slipped out earlier than expected, with the company reporting a second quarter revenue tally of $27.3 billion, and earnings per share (non-GAAP) or $0.88. The market ha...
11:31 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft Challenged A National Security Letter That Included A Gag Order And Won
Microsoft challenged a National Security Letter from the FBI last year –and won. The documents relating the case were recently unsealed, making the effort public. The gist is simple: Microsoft r...
11:31 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft Challenged A National Security Letter That Included A Gag Order And Won
Microsoft challenged a National Security Letter from the FBI last year –and won. The documents relating the case were recently unsealed, making the effort public. The gist is simple: Microsoft r...
11:27 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Naveen Selvadurai, Former foursquare Co-Founder, Joins Expa Startup Studio As NY Partner
 Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai is joining the Expa startup studio, founded in May 2013 by former Uber and StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp. Selvadurai joins Expa as a partner focused on...
11:27 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Foursquare Co-Founder Naveen Selvadurai Joins Expa Startup Studio As NY Partner
 Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai is joining the Expa startup studio, founded in May 2013 by former Uber and StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp. Selvadurai joins Expa as a partner focused on...
11:25 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch California Will Start Granting Licenses For Driverless Cars In September
 You need a license to drive a car. But does a robot? For now, yes. Come September, the California DMV will begin granting licenses to select driverless cars and their human co-pilots which will ...
10:45 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch The Era Of Good-Enough Smartphones
 And they aren’t just getting affluent consumers to purchase them.As NPD Group data shows from 2013, iPhone sales grew 64 percent among consumers with incomes below $30,000. One reason for ...
10:31 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Airbnb Now Waiving Charges For Those Displaced By The Floods In Southeast Europe
 Whenever disaster hits an area that Airbnb covers, the company works with local hosts to try to offer free housing for those who’ve been impacted. In response to the massive floods in Sout...
10:27 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Notifyr Is A Nifty Little App That Sends Your iPhone Notifications To Your Mac
 Notifyr lets you receive iOS notifications on your Mac. When I work, I put my iPhone on the table next to my Mac. Every time it buzzes, I look away from my screen to see whether it’s an im...
10:15 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Netflix Is Bidding Big On New Original Series The Crown, Which Could Cost More Than House Of Cards
 Netflix is close to reaching a deal for what could be its next big original series. Called The Crown, the latest in a string of exclusive new TV shows will likely cost more than House of Cards, ...
10:14 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Metaios Thermal Touch And The Future Of Augmented Reality User Interfaces
Metaiois demoinga newpossible future in the evolutionary path for input control of wearable computing devices and it should be no surprise that Augmented Reality plays a role. There is a known UI prob...
10:11 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch JD.coms IPO Lands Strongly, With Shares Currently Up Over 8%
 After pricing above expectations, JD.com’s IPO has performed well, with its shares currently up more than 8 percent from its $19 per share debut. JD.com popped higher this morning in its f...
09:49 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch AppGyver Launches Composer, A Drag-And-Drop Tool For Building HTML5 Apps
 Until now, AppGyver was mostly known for its app prototyping toolsand Steroid.js, a command-line based tool for quickly building HTML5 apps. Today, the company is bringing both of these ideas to...
09:41 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Ebay Says Lists Of Stolen Customer Data Now Appearing Online Arent Legit
 Following yesterday’s announcement of a cyberattack which compromised a “large number” of eBay users’ personal information, several lists purporting to contain that illeg...
09:23 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Weakened NSA Reform Bill Passes The House Despite Losing Key Votes
 This morning the House passed the USA FREEDOM Act by a vote of 303 to 121. The bill, aimed at curbing the National Security Agency, was, in the views of privacy groups and the like, neutered lat...
09:05 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Cliptone Is A Silly Twitter For Video App With Voice Filters, Background Music And More
 A new application calledCliptone, which lets you share short video clips with friends, has grown to over 22,000 downloads in the five days it’s been live on the App Store. And that’s...
09:04 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch TVTY Raises $4.5 Million To Sync TV And Online Ads
 French startup TVTY raised $4.5 million from Partech Ventures, 360 Capital Partners and business angels. This is yet another sign that French companies’ efforts to advertise technology hav...
08:26 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Pearltrees Radically Redesigns Its Online Curation Service To Reach A Wider Audience
 Pearltrees, the Paris-based online curation service that launched back in 2012, was always known for its rather quirky Flash-based interface that allowed you to organize web bookmarks, photos, t...
08:05 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch WholeWorldBand Bags 5M From Balderton And Others To Grow Its Music Collaboration Platform
 WholeWorldBand, an iOS app that aims to generate new revenue streams for professional musicians bygiving fans an opportunity to collaborate with them on unfinished tracks, has closed a 5 million...
08:04 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Samsung Plans A VR Headset For Its Galaxy Mobile Devices, Report Says
 Samsung is prepping an Oculus Rift competitor of its own, according to a new report by Engadget. The Korean electronics giant is no stranger to stepping into emerging market categories, and virt...
07:48 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch That Guy Who Built His Own Wolverine Claws? He Just Built Shoes To Walk On The Ceiling
 Remember the crazy gent (Colin Furze) who built the fully automatic Wolverine claws in his garage? He promised more preposterous DIY X-Men themed hackery in the coming days, and he just came thr...
07:45 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch BitLit Helps You Get E-Book Versions Of The Physical Books You Already Own
 Chances are, you’ve got a good number of those old-school physical books in your house but have mostly moved to e-books at this point. What if you could potentially get a cheap or free e-b...
07:40 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Mobile Photo Sharing App Cluster Now Focused On Private Groups, Adds Support For Video, Notes And Tablets
 Mobile photo-sharing applicationCluster,one of the better-designed apps for creating albums which can be shared with andcollaborated on with friends, is rolling out several significant changes t...
07:40 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Brandwatch Raises $22M To Boost Its Social Media Monitoring Platform
 As social media solidifiesits role as the beating heart of the consumer internet, the companies that play the partsof arteries and veins in the system continue to gain ground, too.Today, Brandwa...
07:26 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Minecraft Xbox One, Vita And PS4 Edition Arrive This August For $19.99
 Minecraft is the golden goose, and it lays its golden eggs on all platforms. So far, it hasn’t hit the next generation of home consoles, however, but that’s set to change in August w...
06:59 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Former Googlers Launch Osmo, A Gaming Device That Combines Real-World Play With The iPad
 A number of companies have attempted to combine physical objects and the iPad in an effort to create new kinds of children’s games, whether that’s Crayola with their DigiTools colori...
06:54 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Tim Hortons Launches In-App Mobile Payments For U.S. And Canada
 Tim Hortons is Canadian-born, much like myself, and it offers up affordable coffee and donuts, much unlike myself. The company has been making inroads in the U.S. market over the past few years,...
06:18 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Actually, Every Company Is a Big Data Company
 Every day companies collect data about their customers and industries, simply as an artifact of the act conducting business. As I listened to a panel on Big Data yesterday at the MIT Sloan CIO S...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch A Danger Programmer Pours One Out For The Hiptop
 With all this talk of laplets, tablets, iPhones, and GalTabs, we often forget one of the finest mobile platforms ever created, the Hiptop. But Chris DeSalvo didn’t forget. One of the origi...
05:44 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Is Winning The Smartphone Game For Now
 Since the dawn of smartphone time, Apple and Samsung have been battling for the throne. Today, according to research by Counterpoint, Apple currently wears the crown, selling the more iPhones th...
05:41 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Google Adds Okay Google Voice Search For All Chrome Users
 Maybe you already talk to your computer but now there’s even more reason to – Google has just released the latest version of Chrome, which includes “Okay Google” triggere...
05:10 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Codecademy Takes Its Online Learning Portal To The UK, France, Brazil, Estonia And Argentina
 Back in 2012, when the online coding-education platform Codecademy announced a $10 million round of funding, the startupsaid it would invest the money in international growth. Two years later, C...
05:03 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Fix For iMessage Related Bug Coming In A Future Update, Should Help Platform Switchers
 Apple’s iMessage feature has long been a bit of a headache for people looking to switch away from iOS to some other mobile device platform; often, they’ll find that when they put the...
05:02 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch With Spotify Integration, Algoriddims Djay App Gives iOS DJs Access To Millions Of Tracks
 Algoriddim is updating its iOS app djay today with a big new feature — integration with Spotify. This is the first time djay (which the company says has been downloaded 10 million times, m...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Stops Irresponsibly Defaulting Privacy Of New Users Posts To Public, Changes To Friends
 After four years of putting new users at risk of oversharing by defaulting the visibility of their status updates and photos to public, Facebook is switching the default to “friends”...
04:44 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch HP Crashes Downmarket With The $99 HP 7 Plus Android Tablet
 How bad do you need an Android tablet? HP’s latest Android tablet isn’t packed with the latest components, but it’s cheap. The buyer gets, um, a screen, some bits and bytes, an...
04:16 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Patents Mechanical Shutters That Could Ruggedize Speakers And Mics On Future iPhones
 Apple has applied for a patent (via AppleInsider) that would introduce mechanical shutters to mobile devices that would slide shut when they detect a potential fall or impact, protecting sensiti...
03:35 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Home Cleaning Startup Homejoy Acquires Competitor Get Maid
 Homejoy just announced its first acquisition — New York-based “Uber for maids” startup Get Maid. Both Get Maid and Homejoy announced their cleaning services towards the end of ...
03:35 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Home Cleaning Startup Homejoy Acquires, Shuts Down Competitor Get Maid
 Homejoy just announced its first acquisition — New York-based “Uber for maids” startup Get Maid. Both Get Maid and Homejoy announced their cleaning services towards the end of ...
03:30 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Storehouse Raises $7M From Sherpa And Others To Spread Its Story Creation Tool Beyond The iPad
 Storehouse is a company we’ve written about a bit before. It’s a beautifully constructed iPad app that lets you build stories on the fly from text, video and images. It features one ...
03:30 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Tinder-Style Clothes Shopping App, Mallzee, Swipes 500K To Grow At Home And Abroad
 ‘Tinderfaces’ are in app vogueright now. By which I mean Tinder-esque ‘swipe to filter’ interfaces. ‘X app is the Tinder of Y’ has become thestandard descript...
12:43 pm GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Indian Ecommerce Giant Flipkart Buys Fashion E-tailer Myntra To Fight Amazons Growth
 India’s biggest e-commerce company,Flipkart, is acquiringfast growing online fashion retailerMyntra,the two companies confirmedtoday. The pair share two investors,Tiger Global Management a...
08:00 am GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch How TheFamily Is Reshaping The French Tech Ecosystem
 French startup accelerator TheFamily is raising up to $2 million from angel investors and Index Ventures. It’s an open round — so far investors have committed $1.4 million (1 million...
05:00 am GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Google To Announce Finalists For Bay Area Impact Challenge
 Tomorrow, Google will announce the10 finalists for its Bay Area Impact Challenge, its latest effort to give back to communities in Silicon Valley and the greater Bay Area.For the next 10 days, a...
04:30 am GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch ROLIs Radical Musical Keyboard Attracts A $12.8m Series A Round
 The Seaboard GRAND, is a completely new type of keyboard musical instrument. It has soft rubber keys which can bend and shape a tune, the way you can bend the strings on a guitar. It’s a g...
04:26 am GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Fab Lays Off One-Third Of Global Headcount, Slashing New York City Staff
 The day of reckoning has come for Fab’s New York City office, where it is expected to have widespread layoffs due to yet another change in the company’s business model. The layoffs w...
03:20 am GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch New Tunepics Social Network Is Like Instagram With A Soundtrack
 If you mashed up Instagram with music tracks, what would you get? A timeline of pictures from friends with evocative soundtracks thatstimulate the ears as well as the eyes? Perhaps even tug at t...
02:54 am GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch JD.com Prices At $19, Higher Than Its Initially Proposed Range
 JD.com, fresh off rumors that its IPO is massively oversubscribed, priced at $19 per share, higher than its initially proposed range of $16 to $18 per share. The pricing indicates market appetit...
01:39 am GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Weibo Drops 5% After Reporting In-Line Q1 Revenues Of $67.5M, Better-Than-Expected $0.03 Loss Per Share
 This afternoonWeibo reported the financial results of its first quarter, including revenue of $67.5 and non-GAAP earnings per share of -$0.03. The market had expected the company to lose 5cents ...
01:02 am GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch May 22 Is Bitcoin Pizza Day
 Four years ago this week, on May 22, 2010, a BTC fan and programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz offered 10,000 Bitcoins – about $40 at that time – for two Papa John’s pizzas (pictured...
12:45 am GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch The White House Throws Its Weight Behind Weakened NSA Reform Bill
 In the wake of criticism that the USA FREEDOM Act had been so neutered that it has lost sight of its initial goals of limiting NSA mass-surveillance, the Obama Administration today stated that i...
12:45 am GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Theres A New Segway And It Has Three Wheels
 Is a Segway still a Segway if it has three wheels? Meet the Segway SE-3 Patroller, a Segway with three wheels designed for mall cops everywhere. The new model forgoes the traditional two-wheel, ...
12:22 am GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch The Oculus Rift Is Coming To Chuck E. Cheese
 We can all agree Chuck E. Cheese is a great place to get shoddy pizza and various diseases. But! Are you willing to risk contracting the flu or meningitis to try the Oculus Rift? The children...
12:12 am GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Nest Recalls All 440K Protect Smoke Alarms, But Will Have them Back On The Market In Weeks
 Google’s Nest has recalled all440,000 Protect smoke alarms sold over fears that the alert will fail to sound due to a false triggering of the “Wave” feature, which disables the...
12:12 am GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Nest Recalls 440K Protect Smoke Alarms, Says Theyll Return To Sale Within Weeks
 Google’s Nest has recalled all440,000 Protect smoke alarms sold over fears that the alert will fail to sound due to a false triggering of the “Wave” feature, which disables the...
12:12 am GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch Recalled Nest Protect Smoke Alarm Will Return To Sale In Weeks
 Google’s Nest, by way of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, has issued a recall notice coveringall440,000 Protect smoke alarms sold over fears that the alert will fail to sound due...
12:08 am GMT - Thu, May 22, 2014
Techcrunch True[X] Raises $6M More As It Tries To Enlist Big Publishers For Its Interactive Ad Platform
 Interactive ad startup true[X] is announcing that it has raised $6 million in additional funding. CEO Joe Marchese told me that the money was an extension of the $20 million Series D that true[X...
11:15 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch ZeniMax Sues Oculus And Palmer Luckey
 Who would’ve thought being acquired for $2 billion dollars would earn you a few enemies? Following up on legal threats over the past few weeks, ZeniMax — the parent company behind id...
11:12 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Google Plans Low-Cost, High Quality Wi-Fi Networks For Small- And Medium-Sized Businesses, Report Says
 Google is apparently planning to offers subsidized, commercial-grade Wi-Fi hardware to small and medium-sized businesses, The Information reports, alongside software to help greatly improve the ...
11:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Giphy Taps Alphaworks For The Final $100K In Its $2.5M Series A
 Giphy, the betaworks-backed search engine for gifs, is today opening up a slice of its $2.5 million Series A on the equity crowdfunding site Alphaworks. Alphaworks is a site run by Nick Chirls, ...
10:59 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Spotify, Please Chill With The [Censored] Music
 Spotify is a magic music box. It’s [Censored]an amazing tool. I like to [Censored]people that the $10 I send it each month isthe [Censored]money I spend. Having access to such a massive ca...
10:48 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Whistle, The FitBit For Dogs, Adds GPS Features To Make Sure You Never Lose Your Pet
 The “Internet of Things” has made it easy to keep track of lots of things, from where you parked your car to where you left your phone. And now Whistle, the San Francisco startup tha...
10:35 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Xbox Ones June Update Will Finally Fix Two Of The Consoles Most Annoying Shortcomings
 Everybody celebrate! Or, at least, Xbox One owners celebrate! Two of the Xbox One’s most frustrating quirks are being swept away come June. First up: auto sign-in is coming. As it currentl...
10:07 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch BlackBerry Reveals Project Ion, Its QNX-Powered Effort To Underpin The Internet Of Things
 BlackBerry is mostly discussed in terms of its slow decline in the global smartphone market, which it once pioneered. But it acquired QNX in 2010, and that would provide the basis not only for i...
10:06 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch NSA Reform Amendments Fail As The USA FREEDOM Act Stumbles
 The USA FREEDOM Act, a bill designed to reform the NSA, picked up a number of dismissals recently from privacy and technology groups unhappy with the strength and potential impact of its provisi...
10:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch SmartThings Updates Mobile App And Developer Tools In Its Bid To Power The Internet Of Things
 There’s a growing number of “smart” connected devices available around the home these days — including everything from smart light bulbs to smart locks to smart refrigera...
09:54 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Tony Hsieh, Vegas Tech Fund Put $10M Into Factorli, A Factory For US Hardware Startups
 Initiatives from behemothslike Appleandstartups like Maker’s Row have been part of a wider effort to bring more manufacturing back to the U.S. after many years of it gradually, largely mov...
09:44 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Pulls Number One Game Weed Firm From The App Store
 Apple has pulled the number one game in the U.S. called “Weed Firm,” from the App Store. The game, which had been described as something of a “Grand Theft Auto” for thema...
09:44 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Pulls No. 1 Game Weed Firm From The App Store
 Apple has pulled theNo. 1game in the U.S., called “Weed Firm,” from the App Store. The game, which had been described as something of a “Grand Theft Auto” for themarijuan...
09:10 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Lithium Unveils First Plans For Klout: Pop-Up Communities And A Klout Score For Products
 If you’re wondering what Lithium Technologies is going to do with Klout, the social influence measurement startup that it acquired earlier this year, the company is giving its first real h...
08:46 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Founder Stories: Wanelos Deena Varshavskaya On The Evolution Of Being A CEO
Everyone knows starting a company and building it up into something is very hard. For Deena Varshavskaya, CEO of Wanelo (“wa-ne-lo” for want, need, love), the path is slightly more difficu...
08:43 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Whos Excited About The TechCrunch Meetups In Austin And Seattle?
 Since Austin and Seattle have very little in common (other than awesome startups), I don’t have a very clever way of starting out this post. Luckily, I don’t really need one. The Tec...
08:37 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch A Microscope-Inspired Extruder Design Could Add Fine Detail To 3D Prints
 If you’ve ever used a microscope, you’ll recognize the C.E.M. Crown Extruder. The brainchild of German engineer Cem Schnitzler, this specially designed head can twist to bring hot fi...
08:06 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Adds Shazam-Style Audio Recognition To Help You Automatically Tag Posts With TV Shows And Songs
 Facebook has a new weapon in the battle against Twitter to host lucrative conversations about media. AShazam-esque opt-in feature coming to theiOS and Android status composer can activate your p...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Mystery Science Launches A Program Aimed At Inspiring Kids To Love Science, Not Just Learn Its Conclusions
 A former Facebook Product Manager has teamed up with the former science director from Southern California-based LePort Schoolsto create a new educational platform designedto inspire kids to lear...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Brit Plus Co. Doubles Down On E-Commerce, Launches Etsy-Like Marketplace For Makers
 There’s no shortage of e-commerce companies betting on content as a way to engage with consumers and increase transactions. And we’re also starting to see content companies turn on e...
07:30 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Netflix Confirms Plans To Expand Into Six European Countries By Year-End
 Netflix announced yesterday its plans to expand its operations in Europe, launching in six new countries by the end of the year. While it was widely expected to bring its streaming video service...
07:30 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Anonymish Sharing App Secret Launches On Android And Opens Up Internationally
 It’s hard to believe it here in Silicon Valley, but it’s been just four months since the “anonymish” social sharing app Secret could first be downloaded in the U.S. Today...
07:11 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch LinkedIn Takes Another Page From Klout, Intros How You Rank In Profile Views
 LinkedIn’s profile views — where you can get a quick rundown of a person’s current and past professional experience, provided it’s up to date — are some of the most...
07:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch With $38M In Funding, Mimosa Networks Comes Out Of Stealth To Make Wireless Broadband Affordable
 There’s a growing digital divide between consumers who live in highly dense areas where it’s relatively cheap and easy to deploy fiber, versus more rural areas that lack the underlyi...
06:47 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Airbnb Agrees To Provide Anonymized User Data To New York Attorney General
Airbnb and the New York Attorney General’s Office announced this morning that they’ve come to an agreement around the AG’s subpoena seeking records for Airbnb hosts. The company says...
06:47 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Airbnb Agrees To Provide Anonymized Host Data To New York Attorney General
 Airbnb and the office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced this morning that they’ve come to an agreement around the AG’s subpoena seeking the records of Airbnb&#...
06:30 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Restaurant Payments App Cover Launches In San Francisco
 Payments app Cover wants to make it easier for restaurant goers to “dine and dash.” To do so legally, at least. And now it works in select San Francisco restaurants, in addition to t...
06:18 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Apples WWDC Keynote Happens June 2 At 10AM PT, New Hardware Said To Be Revealed
 Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote will take place Monday, May 2 at Moscone West in San Francisco, according to a schedule for the conference just released via the companyR...
06:16 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch X.ai Lands $2.1M To Build Amy, An AI-Powered Personal Assistant For Meetings
 From the sometimes disappointingbut oftengreatreality of Siri to thecomplicated potentialof Samantha, the idea of virtual personal assistants helping us with our digital-fuelled liveshas capture...
06:06 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Amazons HBO Partnership Brings Rome, The Wire, The Sopranos And More To Prime Instant Video
 Amazon’s HBO partnership kicks off officially today, meaning a whole host of older shows are now available for Prime members to stream. The inaugural lineup includes The Sopranos, The Wire...
06:04 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Voycee Is A Social Network That Eats Itself
 Sometimes the startup stars appear to align. Snapchat, now valued in the Billions, ushered in the concept of ephemeral messaging, where each message self destructs shortly after the recipient ha...
05:39 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Selfie Science Reveals Your Love Of The Rise Filter May Be Misplaced
 A new study covering over 160,000 Instagram selfies might help you keep your selfie game tight. HubSpot ‘Social Media Scientist’ Dan Zarrella is behind the research in this emerging ...
05:25 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch eBay Alerts Users To Change Passwords Following Cyberattack
Following an odd blog post which appeared overnight and then was quickly taken downwhichalerted eBay users to reset their passwords, eBay has now published its official statementinforming itsusers to ...
05:25 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch eBay Advises Users To Change Passwords Following Cyberattack, Large Number Of Users Affected
 Following an odd blog post which appeared overnight and then was quickly taken downadvising eBay users to reset their passwords, eBay has now published its official statementinforming itsusers a...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Activehours Raises Seed Financing To End Payday Lending
 Paydaylending services are amongthe worst of the bad actorsin the financial services industry in the U.S. today, charging people who have the least means and greatest needs the most usurious fee...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Dyn Acquires Internet Intelligence Service Renesys
 Dyn, the Internet performance service best known for its DynDNS service, today announced that it has acquired Renesys, a company that specializes in monitoring the Internetto provide data about ...
04:50 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Google Anticipates Serving Ads To Thermostats, Refrigerators, Cars And More
 When Google acquired Nest, there were a lot of jokes made about a thermometer serving you ads, many of which were only half kidding. Now, Google has stated in plain English that it does see a fu...
04:25 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Highland Capital Partners Europe Closes 250M Tech Growth Fund
Highland Capital Partners Europe is perhaps best known for investments including Matchesfashion.com (London), GetYourGuide (Berlin), NewVoiceMedia (London), TalentSoft (Paris), Outfittery (Berlin), Wo...
04:13 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch The ISKN Slate Is A Smart Surface To Digitize Your Sketches Without Even Realizing It
 French startup ISKN (also known as iSketchnote) just launched preorders for its first product, a smart slate. It’s different from competing technologies, such as Livescribe pens or more tr...
04:01 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Mobile Fitness Coach App, PumpUp, Launches Out Of Beta After 1MPlus Downloads
 Fitness app PumpUp,which offers personalised workouts to act as a virtual personal trainer in your pocket, is launching out of beta today– having racked upmore than amillion registered use...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Drizly Booze Delivery Service Drinks Up $2.5M In Seed Funding
 Drizly, the East Coast-based Uber for liquor, has today closed a $2.5 million seed round of funding to expand into new markets and build out the team. The round was led by Continental Investors ...
03:59 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch As The Public Markets Beckon, Streaming Startup Spotify Reveals 40M Users, 10M Paid Users
 As the music streaming market continues to heat up,Spotify has released new usernumbers today that solidify its position at the front of the pack: it has now passed 40 million active users, with...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Wealth Management Startup FutureAdvisor Raises $15.5 Million
 Looking to bring top-flight wealth management services to the middle class, FutureAdvisor has raised $15.5 million in fresh capital.The round was led by new investor Canvas with participation fr...
03:06 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Fred Destin Joins Accel Partners London As Partner
 Accel Partners has appointed Fred Destin, formerly with Atlas Venture in Boston, as Partner. Destin has along reputation as an experienced early stage VC, first in Europe, then the US, and now h...
02:03 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch UK Home Cleaning Startup Housekeep Raises $1M To Take On Hassle, Homejoy, Mopp And Others
 The UK home cleaning market continues to lather up. Hot on the heels of Hassle.com’s $6 million fund-raise from Accel Partners, local rival Housekeep is announcing it’s closed a $1 m...
01:28 pm GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Pro-Privacy Blackphone Pulls $30M Into Silent Circle
 Encrypted comms firm Silent Circle has just announced a new funding round which it says has been fueled by demand in the privacy-focused smartphone, Blackphone, the security hardened Android han...
09:39 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch The Fourth Internet
 Not very often do you read something online that gives you the chills. Today, I read two such things.The first came from former Gizmodo, Buzzfeed, New Yorker and now Awl writer John Herrman, who...
09:14 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch AUGMENT Is A Stylish, Lightweight Charger And Case Set For iPhones
 Keeping your iPhone fully powered is a pain, especially if you like running a lot of battery draining apps. Mophie’s popular cases can hold a charge forever, but they are bulky. Separate b...
05:26 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Messaging To The Tune Of A Remix
 When you’re speaking to someone who’s created a photo sharing app that has a social component, there’s a certain kind of mutual understanding. This isn’t the first time t...
05:12 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Google Accused Of Denying AdSense Payouts In Fishy Class Action Lawsuit
 Last month, an anonymous blogger claiming to be a former employee slammed Google with shaky allegations it canceled AdSense accounts so it wouldn’t have to pay publishers. Despite a strong...
05:05 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Indian E-Commerce Site Snapdeal Raises Another $100M From BlackRock And Others
 Snapdeal, one of the larger online e-commerce companies in India, has raised $100 million from Temasek, BlackRock, Myriad, Premji Invest and Tybourne. This follows a $133 million round of fundin...
04:45 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch The Little Surface That Didnt
 Earlier today whenMicrosoft’s Surface event was wrapping, andGreg Chiemingo took to the stage to head off a stampede of writers tryingto get their hands on the latest device, tweets were s...
03:30 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Investors Circle Taptalk After Facebook Clone Rumors
 Facebook was recently reported to be working on a new “ephemeral messaging” app similar to Snapchat, allowing users to send short video messages very easily. Dubbed Slingshot, the ap...
03:29 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Dropbox Buys Bubbli, Will Integrate Its 3D Photo Tech Into Dropboxs Photo Service
 Dropbox has made another acquisition today in the photo space: it has acquired Bubbli, a startup that has built some innovative ways of incorporating 3D technology into typical 2D photo views. W...
03:29 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Dropbox Buys Bubbli, Will Integrate The 3D Photo Tech Into Its Photo Service
 It looks like Dropbox has made another acquisition today in the photo space: it has acquired Bubbli, a startup that has built some innovative ways of incorporating 3D technology into 2D views, a...
03:28 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch A Walk Through The Surface Pro 3, Microsofts Ultralight Laplet
To top off our cavalcade of Surface coverage today, I present a very quick walk-through of the Surface Pro 3 with a special guest star. So far, the laplet (laptop-tablet) is quite an improvement over ...
03:12 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Twitch Is Basically League Of Legendsville
 Google might be paying a billion dollars for an audience that’s mostlyinterested in watching people play a single game. If you take a look at the most-viewed games on Twitch, there’s...
03:06 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Local Services Marketplace Thumbtack Raises $30 Million
 Thumbtack, a marketplace that connects local professionals with clients, has raised a $30 million Series C round from Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global Management, TechCrunch has learned. The sta...
03:00 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Major U.K. Real-Time Train Database Opens Up To More Developers
 A long-standing pain-point for U.K. developers wanting to do cool things with real-time train data looks like it’s going to ease up, thanks to changes in the terms of access and usage bein...
03:00 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Gogo Opens Up Its APIs To Allow Developers To Build Better In-Flight Apps
 Now that most airlines allow you to use your mobile devices duringflights and many offer Wi-Fi on their planes, it’s no surprise that we are also seeing more applications that enable thati...
02:59 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Captora Raises $22M To Help Marketers Increase Their Reach
 Captora, a company led by former Marketo and SuccessFactors executive Paul Albright, announced today that it has raised $22 million in Series B funding. Albright said he co-founded the company t...
02:19 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Weev Sends A Screed To The Federal Government Asking For 28,296 Bitcoins In Restitution
 Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer penned a long letter to the United States Federal Government today asking for restitution for the 38 months he spent in custody, including time he spent in an upstate N...
01:36 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Dating Website Plenty Of Fish Hit By DDoS Attack
 Add Plenty of Fish to thelist oftechnology companies whose websites have come under DDoS attacks from unknown cybercriminals in recent days. The company says that it was the today the victim of ...
01:01 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch OnePlus One Review: Smartphone Value Redefined By A Newcomer
 OnePlus is a rare beast: A startup building smartphones. Their first device is the Android-based OnePlus One, which, despite its unnecessarilyrepetitive name, is impressive hardware in a market ...
12:58 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Heres What HTCs Next Flagship Phone Might Look Like
 Oh, you thought HTC's 5-inch flagship phone was already huge? Just you wait.I'd heard whispers on more than a few occasions that HTC's next flagship would come in with a big ol' 5.5-inch display...
12:53 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Salesforce Beats In Its FQ1 With Revenue Of $1.23B, Up 37%
 In the first quarter of its fiscal 2015, Salesforce turned in earnings that beat expectations. Revenue for the period totaled $1.23 billion, of which $1.15 billion came from "subscription and su...
12:47 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Pinterest Rolls Out A New Business Insights API To Select Marketing Technology Companies
 Fresh off the heels of another massive $200 million funding round which values the company at $5 billion, Pinterest is preparing to announce a new initiative thatwill allow businesses to gain a ...
12:34 am GMT - Wed, May 21, 2014
Techcrunch Rep. Matsui Calls For Congressional Oversight Of AT&T And Comcast Deals
 Earlier today Rep. Doris Matsui called for a Congressional hearing on the proposed deals between Comcast and Time Warner Cable, and AT&T and DirecTV. The massive deals would further consolid...
11:03 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Autopilot Raises $10M Series B Round To Expand Its Marketing Automation Platform
 Autopilot, the marketing automation platform formerly known as Bislr, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series B funding round led by Rembrandt Venture Partners, with participatio...
11:01 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Mobile Music Streaming Startup Bloom.fm Fails To Escape The Deadpool, Will Shutter In Next Few Days
 Just in: After a gallant effort to avoid the deadpool after its investor, Russian TV channel TNT, withdrew funding a few weeks ago, mobile-first UK music streaming startup Bloom.fm is to shutter...
10:49 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft Will Continue To Sell The Surface Pro 2 At Least For Now
 Earlier today Microsoft took the wraps off the Surface Pro 3, a 12-inch device that starts at $799. The Surface Pro 2 was introduced in September 2013, making the new Surface Pro 3 a speedy addi...
10:02 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Microsofts Surface Pro 3 Sings A Better Tune, But In A Frequency Only Few Can Hear
 Microsoft announced its third-generation Surface device today, and the Intel Core-powered line of tablet/notebook hybrids mainly tries to tackle the same problem as its predecessors: How do we b...
09:14 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch To Raise Its Game In Travel Big Data, Sabre Launches New Developer Portal, Advanced APIs
 A month into its new life as a public company, Sabre is unveiling some new services to raise its profile with developers, in a bid to grow its business through third parties. Today the travel da...
09:01 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch How Google Can Avoid Ruining Twitch
 With Google’s courtshipof Twitchand Facebook’s purchase of Oculus back in March, it seems that tech giants are getting serious about being part of the nextbig trends in gaming. That ...
08:20 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch The Surface Pro 3 Is Microsofts Answer To The MacBook Air. Again.
 Microsoft just announced the Surface Pro 3 and a new direction for the Surface line. Microsoft is no longer looking to counter the iPad. The Surface Pro 3 is Microsoft's answer to the "heavy" Ma...
08:16 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Screenshotter Is A Simple Tool For Organizing Mobile Screenshots
 As a tech reporter who spends a lot of time covering new mobile applications, I tend to have a fairly large collection of app screenshots on my iPhone, which can be difficult to organize and sea...
08:14 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Privacy-Focused Search Engine DuckDuckGo Gets A New Look, Smarter Search With Instant Answers
 DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine whose popularity grew last year following the NSA and PRISM leaks, is today rolling our an updated interface for its website, which features “...
08:12 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Shutterstock Introduces Music Licensing Service, Starting With 60K Tracks From Rumblefish
 Shutterstock isn't just a place where users can find stock photography and video anymore today it's launching Shutterstock Music. Vice President of Product Wyatt Jenkins demonstrated the new se...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Kik Makes Screening The Default As It Moves To Embrace New Friend Network Status
 Social network and instant messaging app Kik is making a small, crucial change to its platform today: new messages from strangers now show up with both avatar and any pics and content contained ...
07:23 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft Announces The Surface Pro 3
 This morning at an event in New York City, Microsoft announced that it is releasing a new Surface device, the Surface Pro 3. The new tablet hybrid sports a 12″ screen, as expected. Interes...
07:23 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft Announces The Surface Pro 3 With A 12 Screen, $799 Starting Price Tag
 This morning at an event in New York City, Microsoft announced that it is releasing a new Surface device, the Surface Pro 3. The new tablet hybrid sports a 12" screen, as expected.Interestingly,...
06:47 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Google+ Stories And Movies Offer More Reasons To House Your Media With Google
 Google has been doing some impressive things with its users’ personal media – it introduced its Auto Awesome features last year at Google I/O to bring some instant editing magic to u...
06:46 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch China Bans Windows 8 On Government Computers
 Microsoft was just socked with another blow in China. The Central Government Procurement Center has banned the use of Windows 8 on government computers. Reuters reports that computer security re...
06:24 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Watch Microsofts Surface Event Live Right Here
 Microsoft’s Surface event in NYC is set to get underway at 11 AM ET (8 AM PT) so check it out here. There have been rumors of both a so-called “Surface mini” and a Surface 3 un...
06:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft Surface Event Live Blog
 Microsoft is holding a Surface event today, and that means it’s probably time for some new tablet hardware from the Windows-maker. The Surface tablets are a somewhat unusual family of devi...
05:24 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Indiegogo Pulls In Additional Investment From Max Levchin, Sir Richard Branson And Others
 Following a massive $40 million Series B, Indiegogo has just announced ithas secured additional investments from Sir Richard Branson, Max Levchin, Megan Smith, and Maynard Webb. Additional inves...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Restaurant Waitlist Platform NoWait Raises $10 Million Series B
 Mobile wait listing service for restaurantsNoWaithas raised $10 million in Series B funding, the company is announcing this morning. The new round was led by Drive Capital, the $250 million Ohio...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Career Sushi Launches A Monster.com For Millennials
 Taking the next step in its own professional development, the millennial-focused intern placement site Intern Sushi has launched a new professional job placement and career planning site —...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Orange Harp Brings Socially Conscious Shopping To iPhone
 A new e-commerce startup called Orange Harp – a phrase referencing theco-founders’ own nickname for the San Francisco bridge – is looking to make it easier for consumers to buy...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Data Discovery Technology Nets DataPad $1.7 Million
 Take a guy who literally wrote the book on Python programming tools and add some of venture capital’s top investors and you have the recipe for DataPad, a new data discovery technology ven...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch AfterShip Lands $1M From IDG-Accel To Make Tracking Packages Less Nightmarish
 Tracking packages is a huge hassle for online vendors.AfterShip, which TechCrunch first profiled last year, solves that hassle by enabling lets vendors track multiple shipments through different...
04:06 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch iMacompanion Adds An Accessible USB 3.0 Port To Your iMac
 iMacompanion already ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the creation of their USB extender for iMacs, which brings a port to the front where it’s useful instead of hidden around...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Team Downey Veteran Launches Epoxy, Providing Tools To Help YouTubers Engage With Fans
 YouTube might be the primary distribution channel for most young and emerging video creators, but it's not the only place where they will find an audience. Los Angeles-based Epoxy, which is offi...
03:47 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Centrify Nabs $42M From Samsung And More For Cloud-Based Enterprise Identity Management
 The rush to fund interesting companiesin the world of online security continues apace. Today, Centrify — a specialist in cloud-based identity management for enterprises — is announci...
03:34 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Patents Solar Panels Integrated Into Flexible Touch Displays
 Apple has a new patent that could pave the way for future solar-powered mobile devices, according to AppleInsider. The new intellectual property describes a method for embedding a solar array wi...
03:11 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Ex-Beats, Spotify Execs Debut Soundtrack Your Brand To Stream Spotify In Public Venues
 Spotify todaydominatesthe market formusic streaming services for consumers.Now a new startup, started by Spotify’s ex-head of business development Andreas Liffgarden and co-founder of Beat...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Investors Back Jibe With $20 Million To Fix The Mobile Hiring Process
 Jibe Inc. has raised $20 million from a clutch of new investors as it looks to expand its business helping employers fix their hiring processes. The New York-based company has its roots in the T...
01:05 pm GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Barobot Is A Hackable Cocktail Mixing Robot
 Barobot is an open, hackable automated cocktail machine that aims to give you more time to chat with friends by taking the strain out of your drinks mixing. Just add bottles of beverage, decide ...
11:42 am GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Amazon Invests $20M In Shanghai-Based Food Delivery Site Yummy77
 Amazon has poured $20 million in Yummy77, a food delivery site based in Shanghai. Yummy77 confirmed the funding in a post on Weibo and said it will use the capital to expand into new markets and...
09:58 am GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Should Twitter Crack Open Its Nest Egg To Acquire SoundCloud?
 SoundCloud might be the YouTube of music, but that doesn’t mean Twitter should play Google and acquire it.Considering Twitter is having growth issues, can’t seem to prove itself to t...
04:47 am GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Moving Techs Moral Compass From The Inside Is Harder Than It Looks
 Whether or not it actually lives up to its ideals, the tech industry has a long history of trying to hold itself to a higher standard in its rhetoric. (This literally goes back like 50 years or ...
04:47 am GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Survios Snaps Up $4M To Lead The Next Generation Of Virtual Reality Tech
Survios, a San Francisco startup that aims to pioneer the next-generation of virtual reality (VR) technology, has raised $4 million in series A funding. The round, which was reported this morning by V...
04:13 am GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft Likely To Break Out A Bigger, Not Smaller, Surface Tomorrow Morning
 Tomorrow in New York, Microsoft is holding a Surface-themed event that was expected for a time to include the unveiling of a new, smaller Surface device -- the Surface Mini as it was dubbed by t...
04:11 am GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Andreessen-Incubated Teleport Aims To Make Location Irrelevant For Mobile Workers
 Is finding housing getting you — and apparently, the rest of San Francisco — down? Then leave. Go somewhere else! Stop coming here! (Just kidding.) But not really. Because that’...
02:57 am GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Insight Venture Partners Raises $510M Coinvestment Fund
 Insight Venture Partners announced today that it has raised a $510 million coinvestment fund to invest alongside the $2.57 billion fund it announced last year. Founded in 1995, the firm focuses ...
02:41 am GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Inside Jobs: What It Takes To Be The PR Lead At A Startup
 When a tech company makes the news, the public usually sees the names of a few people: tech executives and the journalist who wrote the story. But oftentimes, a public relations person was invol...
02:23 am GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Machine Vision App PetMatch Finds You A Dog Or Cat That Looks Like Your Old One
 Still mourning the loss of your little buddy Chairman Meow? Upload a photo of him or your favorite Lolcat into PetMatch, and the app's machine vision algorithms will find a similar looking kitty...
01:36 am GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Kyle Russell, Sarah Buhr And Ron Miller Join TechCrunch
 TechCrunch is incredibly happy to announce three new hires today including Kyle Russell, Sarah Buhr and, somewhat belatedly, our enterprise reporter Ron Miller. As a Business Insider reporter, K...
01:30 am GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch HackerRank Wants To Build A One-Stop Shop For Technical Phone Interviews
 When it comes to hiring engineers, many companies now use a real-time web platform like TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield and Y Combinator alum HackerRank to see how candidates write their code. Th...
01:18 am GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch GoPro Files For $100M IPO With 2013 Revenue Of $985.7M, Up 87.4% From The Year Prior
 This afternoon GoPro filed its S-1 document with the SEC, detailing its financial performance as it looks to go public. The company states that it will raise up to $100 million in the offering, ...
12:49 am GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch IBM Watson Acquires Artificial Intelligence Startup Cognea
 IBM’s Watson group has announced a new acquisition today–artificial intelligence company Cognea. IBM confirmed the acquisition via a blog post. Cognea developed a cognitive computing...
12:45 am GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch Glass Half Empty
 Last week Google made Glass available for purchase to anybody who wants to pay $1,500 for it. You'd be forgiven if you didn't notice. What started out as one of Google's most hyped products more...
12:21 am GMT - Tue, May 20, 2014
Techcrunch FCC Chairman Cites Google Fiber As Model For The Rollout Of Speedy Broadband
 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler's prepared remarks for his trip to the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology have been published, detailing the FCC's v...
11:52 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Alibabas Massive IPO Could Touch Down In August
 According to CNBC, Alibaba's IPO could kick off in the first full week of August. That timing would give the company enough time to respond to questions that the SEC may have regarding its busin...
11:42 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Hugh Howey, Author Of The Silo Saga, Talks About Making It Big In Self-Publishing
 Hugh Howey is a best-selling Sci-Fi author with a long and interesting pedigree. He's been a yacht captain, a computer guy and, most recently, a bona fide publishing sensation. His book, the Woo...
11:29 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Western Union And eBay Try To Horn In On Bitcoin With New Patents
 Two weeks ago, Western Union received a patent for “Alternative value exchange systems and methods,” which, in short, is a way for the company to use and accept “alternative cu...
10:49 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Google Launches An Instagram Account
 Instagram is so hot that no one can resist joining in. Not even Google. The search giant, in a joint-celebration over the 40th anniversary of the Rubik's Cube (??), has today launched its own In...
10:02 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch US Gov Alleges Chinese Hackers Compromised American Companies To Steal Trade Secrets
 Remember the Mandiant report that highlighted an advanced hacking threat from inside of China, presumed to be tied to that country's military? Today the U.S. government announced an indictment o...
09:49 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Networkr Is A Tinder-Style Networking App For LinkedIn Contacts
 Meet Networkr -- a Tinder for professional networking powered by your LinkedIn contacts. No, it's not the dating app that uses LinkedIn data to find prospective love matches (that's LinkedUp in ...
09:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch AMC Debuts New Series Halt And Catch Fire On Tumblr?
 AMC's new series "Halt and Catch Fire" attempts to takes us back to the early days of the personal computer and rewrite history to make that era of technology actually look interesting. In an ef...
09:21 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch TypePad Claims It Was Hit By Another DDoS Attack
 A number of technology companies, includingMeetup,Basecamp, Vimeo, Bit.ly and others have undergone website-crashing DDoS attacks (distributed denial-of-service) in recent months, butSAY Media-o...
09:04 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Sen. Al Franken Says AT&Ts Purchase Of DirecTV Will Lead To Higher Prices
 News broke this weekend that AT&T intends to acquire DirecTV for nearly $50 billion. No one was surprised. The deal had leaked in advance, making its final announcement something approaching...
09:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Tamr Gets $16M From Google Ventures, NEA To Connect Enterprise Data Sources
 Tamr, a Cambridge-based startup emerged fromstealth today with a coming-out party at the DataBeat conference in San Francisco. Tamr also announced $16 million in funding from Google Ventures and...
08:44 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Jacquelyn White Joins Newsletter Startup Daily Secret As Its New CEO
 Daily Secret, the maker of popular daily emails with local tips, has a new CEO Jacquelyn White, who was previously vice president of strategic partnerships at LearnVest and sales director at Dai...
08:38 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Dating App Loveflutter Reboots As A More Quirky Tinder
 Loveflutter is rebooting somewhat today with a mobile-first approach aiming to be a more "quirky" Tinder. Or, more accurately, with a dating app that, along with interest-based matchmaking, asks...
08:14 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch New Glasses From Tobii Aim To Make Eye Tracking Research More Flexible
 The eye tracking experts at Tobii announced the Tobii Glasses 2, their latest combined glasses and software system built for advanced eye tracking analysis. Built "to obtain real-world gaze data...
08:09 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Cliqs NFC Case Puts Buttons Back On Your Smartphone
 More backside phone innovation incoming! The latest to contemplate all that unused rear space and see dollar signs is London-based hardware startup, Cliq Cases. It's taken to Kickstarter to crow...
07:52 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Netflixs Neil Hunt Says Personalized Recommendations Will Replace The Navigation Grid
 Netflix Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt said today that the streaming video service will eventually evolve beyond its current navigation scheme, where users have to browse a seemingly endless gr...
07:23 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Nielsens Twitter TV Ratings Now Identify The Age And Gender Of Those Tweeting About TV (Or Just Lurking)
 Measurement firm Nielsen is expanding the type ofinformationit provides for itsTwitter TV Ratings service this morning, with the launch of demographic data. This new feature, delivered overnight...
06:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Whisper Confirms $36M In New Funding, Adds Related Posts, Categories, And Explore Feature To App
 Anonymous social sharing startup Whisper has confirmed a new round of funding and is launching an updated version of its app that will make it easier for users to connect with others sharing sim...
05:50 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch I Dare You Not To Spend Your Entire Day Playing The Rubiks Cube Google Doodle
 The Rubik's Cube, both a torture and a delight to many of us, today celebrates its 40th birthday, and Google has joined in with an interactive Rubik's Cube Google doodle. I've already spent abou...
05:43 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Groupon Goes After Square Register With New Gnome Point-Of-Sale Hardware
 Groupon is expanding its footprint beyond daily deals yet again this morning, with an announcement of an iPad-based point-of-sale solution called Gnome. The platform includes an “all-in-on...
05:37 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Watch Hardware Hackers Fly A Drone Over The Burj Khalifa, The Tallest Building In The World
 Robotics isn’t all stomping metal men and robotic dogs – it’s also about beauty. The folks from Team BlackSheep proved this by flying a powerful, long-range drone over the Burj...
04:54 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Dashlane Raises Record $22M For Its Client-Based Password Manager After Clocking 2M Users
 Dashlane came to life in 2011 as a somewhat stealthy startup out ofParis that promised a smart approach to the sometimes-frustrating art of consumers managing multiple passwords.Nearly threeyear...
04:54 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Dashlane Passes 2M Users, Collects $22M For Its Client-Based Password Manager
 Dashlane came to life in 2011 as a somewhat stealthy startup out ofParis that promised a smart approach to the sometimes-frustrating art of consumers managing multiple passwords.Nearly threeyear...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Telenav Takes On Google With New OpenStreetMap-Based Offline Navigation SDK
 Telenav has made a large investment in the crowdsourced OpenStreetMap (OSM) project and currently employs the project’s founder Steve Coast. With the help of this, the company hopes to tak...
03:48 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch 6Sense, A Predictive Sales Intelligence Tool, Exits Stealth With $12M Led By Battery, Venrock
Of the manyways that big data analytics is impacting how enterprises do business, one of the most interesting has been in the area of predictive intelligence — the idea that by looking at all of...
03:48 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Born Out Of A Cisco Consulting Gig, Predictive Sales Tool 6Sense Raises $12M
 Of the manyways that big data analytics is impacting how enterprises do business, one of the most interesting has been in the area of predictive intelligence — the idea that by looking at ...
03:21 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch MBA & Company Raises Further 800K So Anybody Can Hire An MBA
 MBA & Company, which we've previously likened to an "Elance for MBAs", offers a marketplace for businesses to connect to a "vetted" pool of brain box-types -- sorry, MBAs -- as an alternativ...
03:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Japanese Contact-Management Service Sansan Raises $14M To Tackle The U.S.
 Sansan Inc., a cloud contact-management service, has raised $14 million in funding led by DCM. The Tokyo-based startup plans to use the capital to break into the U.S. market this month, as expan...
03:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft, SAP Strengthen Ties With Mobile, Data, Cloud Partnership
 Microsoft and SAP are two old-school enterprise vendors that have been partnering for almost 20 years, andthis week their partnership is taking a pronounced leap into the future as they come tog...
02:27 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch After Alibabas IPO, Yahoo Japan Rethinks Its $3.2BN eAccess Acquisition
 Yahoo Japan has dropped a planned acquisition of telco eAccess from Softbank that was due to be worth $3.2 billion (324 billion yen) to the Japanese wireless provider. Read More ...
02:17 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Shazam Pulls The Plug On UK Spotify Users
 Just over a week ago, Shazam updated the free version of its mobile apps for iOS and Android so that users in the UK (and Germany, Mexico and Brazil, as it happens) could now open and play track...
02:10 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Tank Top TV Lets Developers Add Online TV And Movie Search And Recommendations To Their Apps
 The UK's Tank Top TV launched back in August 2013 with a site that lets you search across the myriad of video on-demand and movie-streaming services to find the best place to view a TV show or m...
12:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Epidemic Sound Takes In $5M To Grow Its Rights-Streamlined Production Music Library
 Swedish startup Epidemic Sound, founded back in 2009 with the idea of taking the hassle out of music licensing for broadcasters and online video producers by building a library of songs it wholl...
11:11 am GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Sequoia-Backed Bubbly Launches A Third-Party Payment Engine For App Users Without Credit Cards
 Bubbly has launched a new platform that lets users share voice messages on featurephones, smartphones, and its website. The Singapore-based startup also launched a payment engine that lets users...
06:03 am GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch The NSA, Cisco, And The Issue Of Interdiction
 It’s been a hectic week of NSA news in light of Glenn Greenwald’s recently published book, which furthered the revelationthat the NSA intercepts (interdicts) hardware from US compani...
04:10 am GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Google/YouTube Reportedly Set To Buy Twitch For Over $1 Billion
 Yowza. So much for Sunday being a slow news day. About an hour after AT&T officially announces their plans to buy DirecTV, word of another billion-dollar acquisition has surfaced.The story t...
04:10 am GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch Google/YouTube Reportedly Prepping To Buy Twitch
 Yowza. So much for Sunday being a slow news day. About an hour after AT&T officially announces their plans to buy DirecTV, word of another billion-dollar acquisition has surfaced.The story t...
03:34 am GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch An Adorable Android Easter Egg, Hidden In Plain Sight
I’ve always had a special place in my heart for design Easter Eggs. Particularly the ones that are hidden in plain view — the ones that I’d somehow looked at a hundred times without ...
03:00 am GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch EverPurse Raises Seed Round For A Different Kind Of Wearable
 Two years after we first wrote about them, the fashion technology company Everpurse is back in the proverbial saddle with a new product and big plans for the future of a different kind of wearab...
02:00 am GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch #Love: Design For It
 If you believed the hype, youd think technology was killing love. To start, the search has been tainted, or so people say. Algorithms are turning serendipity into superficial math. Swipe right a...
01:12 am GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch AT&T Officially Announces Plans To Acquire DirecTV For Nearly $50B
 As has been rumored for the past few weeks, AT&T has just officially announced their plans to acquire DirecTV. As rumored, the deal came together at roughly $95 per share, which comes to a g...
01:12 am GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch AT&T To Acquire DirecTV For Nearly $50B
 As has been rumored for the past few weeks, AT&T has just officially announced their plans to acquire DirecTV. The terms of the deal came together at roughly $95 per share, which comes to a ...
12:42 am GMT - Mon, May 19, 2014
Techcrunch As TrueCar IPOs, The Fuelist Launches Classic Car Pricing App
 TrueCar’s public offering on Friday showed that investors are willing to back a service bringing price clarity to new car buyers — and the founders of The Fuelist are hoping that sam...
10:18 pm GMT - Sun, May 18, 2014
Techcrunch Novena, The Crowdsourced, Fully-Open Laptop, Is Shipping This Winter
 Hardware magician Bunnie Huang's Novena laptop, a completely open source computing machine, is fully funded and will ship in January. There are thirteen hours left in the crowdfunding effort but...
09:14 pm GMT - Sun, May 18, 2014
Techcrunch What Games Are: Welcome Back, Xbox One
 In the tech press the news that Kinect got unbundled from Xbox One has been received as a sign of the company backing away from the future, but in the games press the news has been well received...
09:00 pm GMT - Sun, May 18, 2014
Techcrunch An Adorable Android Easter Egg, Hidden In Plain Sight
I’ve always had a special place in my heart for design Easter Eggs. Particularly the ones that are hidden in plain view — the ones that I’d somehow looked at a hundred times without ...
08:51 am GMT - Sun, May 18, 2014
Techcrunch WePay Withholds Funds From Sick Woman Due To Offer Of Porn For Donations
 Should credit card processors and crowdfunding sites be able to deny funds to adult entertainers and sex workers? That's the thorny question at the heart of an unfortunate situation where donate...
05:00 am GMT - Sun, May 18, 2014
Techcrunch The End Of The Acqui-Hire?
 A few years ago, before seed investing was as well defined as it now is, I co-hosted a bean bag sitting circle at The Lobby on the topic of the seed round. While I assumed the topic would appeal...
03:34 am GMT - Sun, May 18, 2014
Techcrunch An Adorable Android Easter Egg, Hidden In Plain Sight
I’ve always had a special place in my heart for design Easter Eggs. Particularly the ones that are hidden in plain view — the ones that I’d somehow looked at a hundred times without ...
12:00 am GMT - Sun, May 18, 2014
Techcrunch For Aspiring Female Engineers, A Square Meal Of Code
 Last year, high school student Michelle Nguyen had all but given up her hope of becoming an engineer. A Senior at Mission High School in San Francisco (which did not offer a computer science cla...
11:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 17, 2014
Techcrunch Cue Is A Connected Lab-In-A-Box For On-Demand Health Testing At Home
 The quantified self and quantified health trends frequently overlap -- but few startups are quite as tightly screwed into that sticking place as Cue. Not yet anyway. This San Diego-based startup...
08:59 pm GMT - Sat, May 17, 2014
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Fits and Starts
 The Gillmor Gang John Borthwick, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor take a walk on the wild side as The New York Times publishes all the news that fits. Except, that is, t...
08:01 pm GMT - Sat, May 17, 2014
Techcrunch With A Revamped Website, Geek Culture Hub Nerdist Enters Phase Two
 When I got on the phone with the team at Nerdist Industries to talk about the geek culture site's recent redesign, I had a confession to make even though I'm a regular listener to the Nerdist p...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 17, 2014
Techcrunch The Western Twitterers Burden
 Sigh. Here we go again. The eyes of the world turn to something awful happening in a remote corner of Africa, and what feels like half of the Western population immediately rushes to proudly emb...
07:07 am GMT - Sat, May 17, 2014
Techcrunch Qleek Brings Your Music Back In To The Physical Realm
 When I first heard about Qleek I was a little skeptical. You see, it's a music player that uses physical, wooden blocks called Tapps to activate digital playback. You want to listen to some Jazz...
06:41 am GMT - Sat, May 17, 2014
Techcrunch 2008 TechCrunch50 Finalist TrueCar Goes Public, Raises $70M In Its IPO
 Today TrueCar, a company that was selected as a finalist in the 2008 TechCrunch50 eventwent public, raising around $70 million and gainingnearly 12% toend its first day as a public company at $1...
05:26 am GMT - Sat, May 17, 2014
Techcrunch Apple And Google Agree To Dismiss All Direct Legal Action Between Themselves
 Late today, Apple and Google announced that they have agreed to dismiss direct lawsuits aimed at one another, and will work together to help push patent reform forward. It’s a huge change ...
04:23 am GMT - Sat, May 17, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Hires Both Founders Of Video Startup Switchcam
 Facebook's mobile video feature is pathetic. No multi-shot recording, multi-clip uploads, stabilization, or editing. Hopefully it will get an update soon, though, as a source has tipped me off t...
04:23 am GMT - Sat, May 17, 2014
Techcrunch Switchcam Video Shuts Down, Facebook Hires Founders
 Facebook's mobile video feature is pathetic. No multi-shot recording, multi-clip uploads, stabilization, or editing. Hopefully it will get an update soon, though, as a source has tipped me off t...
04:12 am GMT - Sat, May 17, 2014
Techcrunch CrunchWeek: Net Neutrality, Big Late-Stage Raises, And Snapchats Latest Features
This week is all about CrunchWeek East, as we're bringing this episode to you from AOL HQ in New York. Anthony Ha, Jon Schieber and myself dive into the most recent madness in the industry, including ...
01:23 am GMT - Sat, May 17, 2014
Techcrunch The Zeus Is A 3D Printer, Scanner, And Teleportation Machine All In One
 The future, as they say, is already here, but it's just not very evenly distributed. To wit: the Zeus, a 3D printer that can scan and copy objects and, using the Internet, "fax" objects to other...
01:15 am GMT - Sat, May 17, 2014
Techcrunch The Once And Future Web Platform
 As a developer, articles declaring the death of the web are easy to dismiss out of hand. It's not unusual or unexpected for people to predict (or herald the arrival of) the next big thing and de...
12:38 am GMT - Sat, May 17, 2014
Techcrunch After Pushing Ahead With Net Neutrality Vote, FCC Chairman To Face Congress On Tuesday
 Following theFederal Communications Commission’s vote to move ahead with new open Internet rules that could allow for some companies to pay for faster delivery of their content online, cal...
12:18 am GMT - Sat, May 17, 2014
Techcrunch The App Store Is Proof Were In Idiocracy
 The number one game in the iTunes App Store is a game about selling weed. Yes, really. The app, “Weed Firm,” however, looks brilliant when compared to what comes next: it sits just a...
12:08 am GMT - Sat, May 17, 2014
Techcrunch Zendesks Stellar IPO And The Current Tech IPO Climate
 Following a nearly 50% pop on its first day of trading on Thursday, Zendesk is up double digits again today, rising more than 11% in midday trading. For tech companies and their investors, it...
12:07 am GMT - Sat, May 17, 2014
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang Live 05.16.14
 Gillmor Gang - Kevin Marks, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, John Borthwick, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm PST. Join in our chat community here on Friendfeed And find us on Fa...
11:29 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Lets Face It, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft All Have Weaknesses
 Venture capitalist Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures made waves recentlywhen he told TechCrunch’s Ingrid Lunden that by 2020, (that’s less than 6 years, folks),Apple won’t...
11:22 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Samsung Goes For Another Round In The Wearables Ring With The Gear 2
 If I've noticed any sort of trend in the wearables space it's that watches now look like watches. Runners will remember early Garmin GPS watches that looked like bulbous alien egg sacs on your w...
11:05 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Google Maps Adds Elevation Profiles To Bike Routes To Help You Avoid Those Steep Hills
 Google Maps now features elevation profiles for bike routes. Google added biking directions to Google Maps and specialized mapsthat highlight bike routes a few years ago. If you are weak like me...
11:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: WunWun, Samsung, Cheap Phones, Amazon, And More
 We had trouble narrowing down podcast topics this week, which means that we're kind of all over the place. But the upside is that there's plenty to learn during this week's discussion. We start ...
10:56 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Under Ex-Googler CEO, LiveJournal Gets A Revamp, Promises New Services, Apps And More In 2014
 LiveJournal wants to matter again, and is making a number of changes over the course of 2014 which the company hopes will make it a more relevant social networking destination, starting with a m...
10:17 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Google Has Acquired Quest Visual, The Maker Of Camera-Based Translation App Word Lens
 Word Lens wowed when it debuted back in 2010, with its tech that could translate the wording on signs captured with your smartphone’s camera automatically. Now, Quest Visual, the maker of ...
10:02 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch ShopDrop Alerts You To Local Sales From Major Retailers To Small Boutiques
 A new shopping and sale finder app called ShopDrop, also the Audience Choice winner from our recent TechCrunch NYC pitch-off, is now live on the iTunes App Store. Today the service helps users, ...
10:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch As Samsungs Chairman Remains Hospitalized, South Korea Prepares For Its Next Act
 There is a tension at the core of all great startup stories between the cold technology that powers these businesses and the raw, emotional hearts of founders discovering their humanity under so...
10:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch The Price Is Right: For Early-Stage SaaS Companies, It Needs To Be
 Steven Sinofsky is a board partner at Andreessen Horowitz, an adviser at Box Inc. and an executive in residence at Harvard Business School. Follow him @stevesi. Read More ...
09:32 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Kayak Co-Founder Raises $20M For Design-Focused Incubator, Blade
 Kayak co-founder Paul English is revealing more details about his Boston-based startup incubator, Blade. The new company has raised $20 million in new funding from Accel and General Catalyst (bo...
09:05 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Sharethrough Takes On Crappy Native Ads With Its New Content Quality Score
 Native advertising is sometimes hyped up as being just like regular content but I think it's fair to say that isn't always the case. In fact, Dan Greenberg, the CEO of ad company Sharethrough, ...
08:42 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch SweetLabs Rolls Out An App Recommendation Platform For Android, Windows OEMs
 Building on the success of Pokki, a lightweight app store and Start Menu replacement originally built for Windows, SweetLabs today announced itsnew “App Install Platform,” a service ...
08:17 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Dear Montebourg, Please Dont Kill French Startup Acquisitions
 Arnaud Montebourg has a huge responsibility now. He’s France’s minister of the economy, industrial renewal, and the digital economy. He just signed a decree that allows the governmen...
08:15 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch First Opinion Raises $1.4M To Update Its Text-A-Doctor App
 First Opinion has raised $1.4 million in new funding from True Ventures and returning investor Felicis Ventures. This brings the total raised by the text-a-doctor service to $2.6 million. Prior ...
08:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Stealthy Timeful Raises $7M From Khosla To Help You Manage Your Time
 A few months ago, we reported on the pending launch of Timeful, a new startup that wants to be an intelligent time manager. Although still in stealth, the company is revealing a Series A round o...
07:59 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Brick And Bullet Kickstarter Aims To Deliver Home Network Audio Streaming For Live Music
 If you have AirPlay or any other kind of wireless home network audio setup, you’ll no doubt be aware there’s a delay. You click play, there’s a few seconds of silence, and then...
07:48 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Amazon UK Gives Its Music Website A Retro 1994 MakeoverTo Advertise An Oasis Album
 Apparently, someone at Amazon U.K. really, really likes Oasis. Or the company hasjust stumbled upon a whole new form of native advertising! In case you missed it, the entire Amazon.co.uk Music w...
07:34 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Airbnb Experiments With Experiences, Offering Everything From Bike Tours To Home-Cooked Meals
 Over the last few months, Airbnb has been quietly testing out a platform for connecting visitors not just with places to stay, but with new offline experiences to try out while in town. Experie...
07:11 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch The TechCrunch Pitch-Off Is Coming To Austin And Seattle, Apply To Compete Now!
 Hold on to your butts! TechCrunch is coming to Austin and Seattle in less than a month and we’re looking for the best and brightest startups in each area to compete in the TechCrunch Pitch...
07:10 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Making A Chick-fil-A Clone With The New Anova Sous-Vide Circulator
 It's rare for a founder to offer to make Chik-fil-A sandwich clones for you, let alone in your own kitchen. But that's just what Jeff Wu, creator of the Anova sous-vide cooker is doing. Now runn...
06:25 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Homesnap Pro Lets Real Estate Agents Access Real-Time Listing Data On Their Smartphone
 An app for interested homebuyers (or nosy neighbors!) calledHomesnapgot its start by allowing usersto snap a photo of any home in the U.S. in order to get all the details about it, including thi...
06:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch OLSET Raises $1.1 Million To Personalize Your Business Travel With Big Data
 OLSET wants to make travel better for the business workers who are tasked with planning their own trips through online travel sites. And to do so, its just raised $1.1 million in seed funding. R...
05:01 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch OTTO Is A Raspberry Pi-Based GIF Camera That Says Weve Reached Peak Hipster
 Most cameras take either photo, video or both – but the OTTO, a new Kickstarter project, is a piece of dedicated hardware that actually captures animated GIFs. It uses a hand-crank to do i...
04:52 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch New Google Glass App Lets You Nod To Pay With Bitcoin, Will Add Dollars This Summer
 WhileGoogle maybe working on addingGoogle Wallet to Glass, andotherbigpayment playersare “eyeing up” (!) ways of integrating into Google’s computingheadgear, a Dutch startup ha...
12:30 pm GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Contract Live Raises $1.4 Million, Because Signing Contracts Sucks
 French startup Contract Live raised $1.4 million from Poutrel’s family who founded Ingenico, Jean-Marc Tassetto, Arnaud Vaissi, Bruno Deschamps and more. Contract Live lets you manage and ...
08:44 am GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch ANTVR Is An Open-Source, Cross-Platform Virtual Reality Gaming Kit
 A hardware startup called ANTVR Technology has created an open-source, cross-platform virtual reality gaming set that works with games made for Oculus Rift, Xbox, Playstation, iOS, Android, and ...
08:18 am GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Circle Emerges From Stealth To Bring Bitcoin To The Masses
 Circle, the bitcoin-based financial services company, is emerging from stealth with a suite of products and services aimed to take bitcoin’s blockchain to mainstream consumers. Since its l...
06:53 am GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch SV Angel Leads Pinterests $5 Billion Round
 News broke this afternoon that Pinterest has raised a $200 million Series F valuing it at $5 billion. We've just confirmed that SV Angel led the massive round that could fund Pinterest until its...
06:53 am GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch SV Angel Leads Pinterest Financing At A $5 Billion Valuation
 News broke this afternoon that Pinterest has raised a $200 million Series F valuing it at $5 billion. We've just confirmed that SV Angel led the massive round that could fund Pinterest until its...
04:45 am GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch 9 Tech Firms Receive Perfect Scores In EFF Ranking Concerning Data Protection From The Government
 Apple, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, and Dropbox were each awarded perfect scores in theElectronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) yearly scoring of major tech companies’ practices...
04:28 am GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Marketing Exec Ivy Ross Is The New Head Of Google Glass
 Some significant HR changes at Google Glass we're hearing. First off is the departure of lead electrical engineer Adrian Wong, to competing facecomputer Oculus. Second off is the bringing on of ...
04:02 am GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Grand Theft Auto III Series Lands On The Fire TV, Kindle Fire
 There are finally quality games available for the Amazon Fire TV. The entire GTA III series just launched today on Amazon's Fire platform, finally giving owners a legitimate reason to buy Amazon...
02:25 am GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Is Testing Promo Codes For In-App Purchases
 Apple’s app store has let developers create promo codes for ages. It’s also supported In-App purchases for ages. But promo codes for in-app purchases? That’s crazy talk. You wa...
02:01 am GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Heres The FCCs Language Asking For Comment On Banning Pay-For-Priority Service
 After much sturm und drang, the Federal Communications Commission this morning voted to proceed on a set of controversial net neutrality rules. The proposed regulations now enter a four month co...
01:50 am GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Google Glass Lead Electrical Engineer Adrian Wong Defects To Oculus
 Adrian Wong still lists himself as a “professional daydreamer” on LinkedIn, but he’s just left Google[x] where he was a lead electrical engineer on Glass to start “Buildi...
12:42 am GMT - Fri, May 16, 2014
Techcrunch Crazy Dude Builds Fully Automatic Wolverine Claws In His Garage
 Hello! Welcome to this week’s edition of “Things You Really Probably Shouldn’t Do At Home! Seriously.” Armed with a pinch of ingenuity and a heaping fistful of insanity, ...
11:44 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Mens Personal Shopper Site The Cloakroom Raises 1.2M
 Online personal shopping has become something of a ‘thing’. In the UK we’d seen the launch of Thread, for instance, which matches you with an online personal shopper. Now The C...
11:33 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Watch A Myo-Controlled Humanoid Robot Lay The Groundwork For Real-World Real Steel
 The Thalmic Labs Myo gesture controller is already in the hands of some early developers, and it’s producing some pretty interesting looks at what might be possible using the gadget. The d...
11:28 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Madesquare Turns Square Pictures Into Home Decor Objects
 You’re reading TechCrunch. So you’re probably heard of FourSquare. Well, now there’s Madesquare, and, well, other than having square in the name there’s no resemblance. T...
10:56 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Is Adding Live Video Moblis Last Throw Of The Photo App Dice?
 Mobli, the social-mobile photo and video-sharing app which competes with Instagram and the like, has a major update out today that adds one, single important new feature: live broadcast streamin...
10:52 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch FCC Passes 2015 Spectrum Auction Framework On Party-Line 3-2 Vote
 Following its historic vote to proceed with new, and contentious net neutrality regulatory proposals, the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to approve a framework for its coming spectr...
10:33 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Apples Podcasts App For iOS Gets Siri And CarPlay Support
 An update to Apple’s native Podcasts application for iPhone and iPad brings Siri integration to the app, as well as support for its new CarPlay mode for in-vehicle entertainment systems. Y...
10:23 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Google Play Store Adds Wallet Rival PayPal As A Payments Option
 Here is a somewhat surprising move by Google: starting today, the company will accept PayPal as a payment option in its Play store in twelve countries, including the U.S., Germany and Canada, as...
09:49 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch U.S. Text-To-911 Service Goes Live, But You Probably Cant Use It Yet
 Starting today, all four major U.S. carriers, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint, have begun to offer text-to-911 in select markets. The new service, as the name implies, allows you to reach...
09:41 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Are Tech Companies Overvalued? Top Investors Think So
 Is Winter coming? It's already here, according to VCs like Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures and John Lilly of Greylock. We asked some of the world's most respected tech investors about "the ...
08:49 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch OpenGov Secures $15M Series B Led By A16Z To Bring Cities Financial Data Online
 OpenGov, a company that helps cities and other local governments bring their financial data onto the cloud, has picked up a $15 million Series B round of capital, led by Andreessen Horowitz, and...
08:45 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Google Launches Magazine-Style Ads That Brings Text Ads To Display Ad Units
   Google gives publishers the ability to run display andtext ads on their sites. They can run both styles of ads, or just pick a single one. The same goes for advertisers, who also have to ...
08:45 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Google Launches Magazine-Style Ads That Bring Text Ads To Display Ad Units
   Google gives publishers the ability to run display andtext ads on their sites. They can run both styles of ads, or just pick a single one. The same goes for advertisers, who also have to ...
08:32 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Tapsule Lets You Create Time Capsules Of Photos, Video And Text On Your iPhone
 A new mobile application called Tapsule, launching today, combines group messaging with photo and video-sharing, allowing users to create private or public collections which can be shared in who...
08:20 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Zumper Launches An Android App To Help You Find Your Next Apartment
 Zumper has been trying to close the loop between apartment hunters and property managers by providing each with iOS apps for directly connecting with one another. Today, its greatly expanding th...
08:01 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch The FCCs Contentious Net Neutrality Rules Are Voted Into A Comment Period
 This morning, proposed rules regarding net neutrality passed the FCC on a vote of three to two, as expected. We now enter a comment period in which the “Protecting and Promoting the Open I...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Soldsie, The Service That Lets You Shop Via Facebook And Instagram Comments, Raises $4 Million
 Soldsie, an e-commerce serviceenabling businesses to sell directly to their Facebook fans and Instagram followers through the comments section, has raised $4 million in Series A funding from Fir...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Nuzzel Releases An iPhone News App With Simple Setup And Personalized Alerts
 For those of us who have been following social news startup Nuzzel, there's been a long wait for the startup today's iPhone launch. I first spoke about Nuzzel with founder Jonathan Abrams (who a...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Meet Skylock, The Solar-Powered Smart Bike Lock From Velo Labs
 In a world in which all formerly dumb objects are currently being outfitted with microprocessors, accelerometers, and wireless transmitters, it seems it was only a matter of time before someone ...
07:57 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Autodesk Announces A Cheap, Open-Source 3D Printer Called The Spark
 Autodesk has been moving decisively in the home 3D printing space, buying 3D modeling software Tinkercad and releasing apps to help amateur modelers create 3D goodies using their phones. Now the...
07:54 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch TomTom Cardio GPS Watch Review: Put Your Heart Rate In The Drivers Seat
 I like running, perhaps to a fault, if only because while running you basically can’t pay attention to anything else once you get up to speed so long as you’re doing it right. So bas...
07:41 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Giphy, The Betaworks-Backed Gif Search Engine, Raising $2.5 Million Series A
 Giphy has raised a $2.4 million Series A round of funding, according to the SEC website and an official blog post announcing the round. betaworks led, with participation from Lerer Ventures, RRE...
07:41 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Giphy, The Betaworks-Backed Gif Search Engine, Is Raising $2.5 Million In Series A
 Giphy has raised a $2.4 million Series A round of funding, according to the SEC website and an official blog post announcing the round. betaworks led, with participation from Lerer Ventures, RRE...
07:33 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Amazon U.K. Brings Standalone Shoe Website, Javari, In House Under Amazon Fashion Brand
 A spot of brand consolidation is in the works at Amazon U.K. The online retail behemoth is planning to migrate users of its standalone shoes and accessories website, Javari.co.uk, over to Amazon...
07:30 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch What Every Cloud Vendor Knows (Or Ought to)
 Last week while I was the Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit, I noticed a sea change when I talked to vendors, especially cloud vendors who rely on subscription revenue. They inva...
07:15 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch PayPal Updates Its Account Pages To Look More Mobile, Less Old School
 To propel itself away from the perception of being old fashionedand behind the times, PayPal has been systematically updating its image, from a logo change through to a homepage refresh. Today i...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Backed By Google Ventures And Eric Schmidt, Urban Engines Wants To Solve Urban Congestion Using Data Intelligence
 It's no secret that as our population grows, buses, trains and other transportation infrastructure in cities are becoming more congested. Public transportation departments use qualitative date f...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Foursquares Swarm And The Rise Of The Invisible App
 Swarm is a new app from Foursquare out today that chisels off the check-in and proximity features of the main app and places them in a sparse, focus-driven new home. The app is nicely done, thou...
06:36 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch PeopleDoc (Ne Novapost) Raises $17.5 Million To Digitalize HR
 Formerly known as Novapost, French startup PeopleDoc raised a $17.5 million round led by Accel Partners. Existing investors Alven Capital and Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet’s Kernel Investisseme...
06:22 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch An Oculus Rift For Chickens Gives Animals The Freedom To Roam Without The Roaming
 Oculus Rift has plenty of potential for changing human interaction, but what about other animals? One project from Iowa State University assistant professor Austin Stewart (via FastCo Exist) ima...
06:20 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Social Media Scheduling App Buffer Adds Content Feeds In Dashboard Play
 Buffer, the social media scheduling app with 1.5 million users, picked up a bit of notoriety when it gothacked and its users started sending out weight-loss spam to followers, but alsokudos for ...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch LittleBits Grows Up With New Arduino Module
 The world of littleBits (the “not-a-toy” toy that I reaaaally wish existed when I was younger) just got a little bit bigger: it can now play friendly with Arduino. If you’re no...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Spoonrocket Confirms $11M In Funding From Foundation, Expands Lunch To All Of SF
 In whats becoming an ultra-hot market for food delivery, Spoonrocket wants to corner the market by providing high-quality meals delivered to your door in minutes all for just $8 each, with no d...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Rumr Adds Real Identity And Picture Messaging To Its Anonymish Group Chats
 Google Ventures-backed Rumr, an anonymish group messaging app which launched in the US. back in March, is adding a component of real identity into its quasi-anonymous messaging mix by letting us...
05:59 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Zendesk Sees A 27% Pop On Its First Day Of Trading After Raising $100M In IPO
 Riding what has been a tumultuous wave for publicly-tradedtechnology stocks, today the cloud-based help desk business Zendesk debuted on the New York Stock Exchange. Setting its pricing at $9 pe...
05:42 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Reissued Brings Vintage Shopping To Mobile
 Today, there are a number of ways to shop from your mobile phone ranging frombig companies like Amazon and eBay down toindividual e-commerce retailers. But a new application called Reissued, lau...
05:39 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Google Gets New Requests To Be Forgotten Following Ruling, Plans Request Mechanism For Germany
 Google has already started to see a stream of new requests to be digitally “forgotten,” following a ruling by the European Court of Justice on a complaint by a Spanish man seeking to...
05:38 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch OhMiBods New Remote App Will Let You Pleasure Your Partner No Matter The Distance
 Long-distance is where it's at for sex toy makers, and though OhMiBod was one of the first in the industry to deliver app-compatible vibrators, the implementation didn't allow truly long-distanc...
05:22 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Famatic Is A Social Photo Frame For Grandparents
 In the age of social media and endless baby photos clogging up your Facebook feed, Dutch startup Famatic is another attempt at a hardware/software combination to help seniors -- or grandparents,...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch A Mash Note To George Lucas Museum, Signed By M.C. Hammer (And Tech Leaders, Too)
 In an effort to keep the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum in San Francisco (and out of Chicago), advocacy group sf.citi (San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation) will publish a...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch BillGuard Launches Its Personal Finance App On Android And Adds Data Breach Alerts
 BillGuard is expanding its reach with the launch of an Android app, and also adding a new feature that will alert users when their cards have been affected by a Target-style data breach. The new...
04:33 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Patents Photo Backgrounds To Help You Remember Who Youre Texting With
 Apple has a new patent application published by the USPTO (via AppleInsider) that makes it easier to remember who you’re texting. This could help alleviate the incredibly painful SMS fails...
04:33 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Hey First World Folk, Kangeroo Light Wants To Help You Find Stuff In Your Bag
 Meet the Kangeroo Light, the latest Kickstarter project from the off-the-wall design studio that created the Ostrich Pillow. This time around they're cooking up a portable, rechargeable, touch-s...
04:30 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch G2 Crowd Raises $2.3 Million To Challenge Gartner
 With an eye on capturing some of Gartner’s $6.28 billion market cap, the crowd sourced software review service G2 Crowd has raised $2.3 million in its first institutional round of financin...
04:28 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Photos Of NSAs Bug-Injecting Workshop Are Show The Banality Of Surveillance
 The photo above, released to coincide with Glenn Greenwald's new book No Place To Hide, depicts the TOA - the Tailored Access Operations - division at the NSA where busy techs unpack expensive n...
04:28 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Photos Of NSAs Bug-Injecting Workshop Show The Banality Of Surveillance
 The photo above, released to coincide with Glenn Greenwald's new book No Place To Hide, depicts the TOA - the Tailored Access Operations - division at the NSA where busy techs unpack expensive n...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Netskope Brings In $35 Million More As Cloud Security Competition Heats Up
 When it comes to understanding the profusion of applications employees are using to conduct business, IT departments are increasingly lost in the cloud. Over the past several years a number of s...
03:30 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Pantheon Raises $21.5M Series B Round To Expand Its Web Hosting Platform
 Pantheonwp_front_promo, which currently offers a professional hosting solution for Drupal and WordPress sites, today announced that it has raised a $21.5 million Series B funding round led by Ro...
03:01 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch HTCs New Phone Aims For The Masses With A Selfie Camera
 HTC is making good on its pledge to expand its range of mid-tier smartphones with the launch today of a new handsetcalled the HTC One Mini 2. It’s the strategy the current senior managemen...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Chinas Fast-Growing Android Phone Maker, Xiaomi, Launches An iPad Mini Competitor
 China's Xiaomi has announced its first tablet, expanding a device portfolio that has been focused on selling lots of smartphones running its MIUI Android firmware. The announcement confirms earl...
08:01 am GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Google Glass Aims To Entice Travelers With New TripIt, Foursquare, And OpenTable Integrations
 A day after Google announced that it will sell Google Glass to anyone in the United States, the company is unveiling some new "Glassware" (basically, Google Glass apps) that's supposed to be par...
08:00 am GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch OpenDNS Raises $35M From Cisco For Its Cloud-Based Enterprise Network Security As A Service
 Cloud-based enterprise network security company OpenDNS has raised $35 million in Series C funding from Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures, Glynn Capital, Cisco, Evolution ...
08:00 am GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Now Processing $2B Annually, Swipely Adds Support For Multi-Location Businesses
 Swipely, a company that helps physical merchants collect credit card payments and market to their customers, now processes $2 billion in annual sales for its customers, it told TechCrunch. The c...
05:00 am GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Monks Hill Ventures Launches $80M Early-Stage Fund For Asian Startups
 Though there are many promising startup ecosystems in Asia, founders there have to cope with a lack of venture capital funding and mentorship. Monk's Hill Ventures hopes to address those challen...
04:37 am GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Theres An Upcoming TV Show Called Selfie And I Hate Everything About It
 Aspiring TV Showrunner: So, have you heard about these things called "selfies"?ABC Executive: What? No.Showrunner: Didn't you watch the Oscars?Executive: Are you kidding me? That thing's like si...
03:22 am GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Comcast Wants To Put Data Caps On All Customers Within 5 Years
 If you're a Comcast customer living in one of the many states where they've imposed no real limits on bandwidth usage for the last few years... enjoy it while it lasts. Read More ...
03:07 am GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Former About.com CEO Darline Jean Joins Ad Tech Company PulsePoint
 PulsePoint, a startup offering tools for automated ad-buying and selling, announced today that it has hired Darline Jean as its chief operating officer. Jean spent the past decade at About.com, ...
02:24 am GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Airbnbs NY Battle Continues, With Attorney Generals Office Issuing A New Subpoena
 Airbnb won a legal victory against New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman yesterday, but the AG's office hasn't given up. Airbnb was subpoenaed last fall, with Schneiderman seeking records ...
01:55 am GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Contextly Launches Its Editorial Tools To Find Related Content Thats Actually Related
 If you're tired of seeing "related content" widgets that are full of links that are, at best, kinda, sorta related, a startup called Contextly is trying to make things better. The company was in...
01:54 am GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Betaworks-Backed Giphy Launches Gif Link Shortener For Twitter And Facebook
 Giphy, the betaworks-backed search engine for gifs, has released a brand new tool that makes sharing gifs on social networks even easier and more efficient. Giphy is a search platform that is ba...
01:42 am GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Share The Music With The Wearhaus ARC
 True story: a few years ago I was in the East Village when I heard the disco version of the Superman theme playing loudly. A man on a skateboard was riding back and forth, around and around, bla...
01:25 am GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Bid To Meet With SV Angel, First Round Capital And Others In VC Auction For Cancer Charity
 Getting a meeting with a top venture capitalist is tough unless you've got the right connections. For all the talk of meritocracy around product development, raising money is still a bit of an o...
01:23 am GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Clever Kinect Hack Brings This Guys Full Body Into Virtual Reality
 It’s one thing to bring your mind into virtual reality. Get some snazzy VR goggles in front of your eyes, bump the framerate up high enough — bam, you’re a good part of the way...
01:10 am GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Flappy Bird Creator Promises Games Return With Multiplayer And Fewer Addictive Qualities
 It’s Episode XVII of the Flappy Bird Saga, and this time the formerly recalcitrant (he’s on a media tour at the moment) creator of the addictive game is promising the game’s re...
12:36 am GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Fab Unveils Private-Label Products And A Physical Showroom In NYC
 Senior executives at design-oriented e-commerce startup Fab.com are in the midst of determining what the companys future could look like in a series of strategy meetings this week. But thats not...
12:32 am GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch MakerBot Scores Sesame Street As The First Big Partner In Its 3D Printing Store
 If MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis’ dreams come true, we’ll one day see a 3D printer in every home. And when you’ve got a 3D printer in every home, what do you need? Things to print, o...
12:00 am GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Pinterest Is Testing A New Q&A Feature, Pinterest Questions
 It looks like Jelly and Quora arenot the only startups that are interested in how asking — and answering — questions can be used as a way to advance conversationsand user engagement ...
12:00 am GMT - Thu, May 15, 2014
Techcrunch Ask Pinterest Anything? Site Tests Q&A Feature
 Jelly, Quora, Yahoo (sometimes toabsurd ends), and othershave looked to question-and-answer services as a way to boostuser engagement and advanceconversations. Now another player could be enteri...
11:59 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Windows XPs Enterprise Market Share Slips Under 10%
 According to security firm Qualys, Windows XP's market share among enterprise-level corporations has slipped under the 10 percent mark, falling from 10 percent in April to "close to" 8 percent i...
10:57 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch House GOP Leadership Calls For FCC To Abandon Proposed Net Neutrality Regulation
 Ahead of tomorrow's vote on the consideration of new net neutrality rules, House GOP leaders today published a letter to the FCC's Chairman Tom Wheeler, pushing back against regulating the Inter...
10:27 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch The Sure Chill Company Raises Gates Money To Store Vaccines Anywhere
 One in five children who need vaccinations can’t get them. And while that fact is neither startling nor incomprehensible, it is tragic. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent se...
10:11 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Mozio Raises $750K For Its Airport Ground Transportation Search Engine
 Around a year and a half ago, a company called Mozio debuted its plans to introduce an airport ground transportation search engine that would help travelers book that “last leg” of t...
10:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Walmarts Vudu Now Allows UltraViolet Users To Share Their Movies With Up To Five Friends
 Vudu is introducing a feature that will allow its customers to share their UltraViolet collections with up to five friends or family. With the new Share My Movie feature, Vudu customers will be ...
10:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook For iOS Tries Popping Up Cards Of Related Content To Browse After You Post
 Facebook is taking a swing at suggesting contextual content to keep you surfing after you share. A new test on iOS surfaces related content cards including photos of restaurants you say you're a...
09:57 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch BlackBerry Confirms Development Of An Upcoming QWERTY Handset With A Crazy Pixel Density
 Predictably, BlackBerry is working on a new QWERTY handset. According to the BlackBerry 10.3 SDK, the device will rock a square screen with a 14401440 resolution and pixel density of 453 DPI ...
09:54 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Mozilla Relents, Says It Will Implement HTML5 DRM Solution In Firefox
 Mozilla today announced that it will reluctantly implement the HTML5 DRM standard in its Firefox browser. With more and more copyrighted content being streamed over the Internet, rights holders ...
09:21 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Googles Self-Driving Car Project Is A Worlds Fair Fantasy Turned City Street Reality
 Google has made a lot of progress on its self-driving car project in the past few years, and just this week it began ferrying journalists around Mountain View in the autonomous vehicles. The com...
09:04 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Movie Theater Pre-Shows Are About To Become Shazam-able, Thanks To Partnership With NCM
 You may not have heard of NCM Media Networks, the company that Shazam is announcing a partnership with today, but if you've been to a movie theater recently, chances are you've seen their conten...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Rebtel Spins Out Sinch, With $12M In Funding, To Offer Communications Tools To Developers
 Rebtel has just infused $12 million into a new spun out company called Sinch, aimed at making communications tools accessible to mobile developers for any app. Not unlike Layer or Twilio, Sinch ...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Real-Time Analytics Startup Chartbeat Adds Data For Native Ads, Raises $3M More
 Native advertising is seen "as this great new hope for publishing," said Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile, but there's also a fair amount of skepticism and outright dismissal. He argued that one of the ...
07:07 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Here Are The Best And Most Interesting iPhone 6 Mockups So Far
 Apple hasn’t yet said anything about any iPhone 6, nor will it until the fall (or whenever it actually announces it) but that hasn’t stopped the Internet’s collective imaginati...
07:02 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Jacks Passive-Aggressive Memo To Square
 Thought leadership disguisedas an internal memo? Most obvious #humblebrag ever? Square co-founder Jack Dorsey has posted an internal companymemo to Medium this morning, where herantswrites about...
06:03 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Litely Is The Best New Photo-Filtering Application For iOS
 A new photo editing application for iOScalled Litely, created by the professional photographer responsible for a number of Instagram’s filters, has climbed its way to the top of the App St...
06:01 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Said To Be Testing 1704960 Resolution Display For iPhone 6
 A new report from 9to5Mac’s Mark Gurman claims Apple is testing a 1704×960 resolution display for its upcoming iPhone. The new display res for the iPhone 6 would allow the device to k...
06:01 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Wheretoget Raises $2 Million For Its Powerful Shazam For Fashion
 Meet Wheretoget, a community of dedicated fashion enthusiasts. Whenever you see an outfit that you like on the web or in the street, you upload a picture. Wheretoget’s community will take ...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Early Alibaba Backer GGV Raises $620M For Fifth Fund
 GGV, the backers of US and Chinese tech companies like Alibaba, Pandora, Qunar, Zendesk and Tudou, has raised $620 million for its fifth venture capital fund. GGV Capital V is just $5 million sh...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch After 500K iOS Downloads, iPad Game Monument Valley Arrives On Android
 Monument Valley, an iOS game made by London-based app design studio ustwo, has launched on Android -- after racking up an impressive 500,000 downloads on the App Store in just over a month. Read...
05:38 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch dEXTRIS Is The Latest iOS Gaming aDDICTION
 dEXTRIS has melted my brain. It's as mind-numbing as Flappy Bird and the design hearkens Geometry Wars combined with the vertical scrolling action of 1942. The premise is simple yet the game is ...
05:30 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Samsung Said To Be Set To Launch Its Google Glass Competitor This September
 Google Glass is kinda sorta now a publicly available product – the launch came with a series of fits and starts, culminating in an open, unlimited public beta that kicked off yesterday. It...
05:14 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch George R.R. Martin Writes Everything In WordStar 4.0 On A DOS Machine
 George R.R. Martin is an impressive man. Not only can he kill off characters like it's NBD, and magically make you care for characters who have been historically evil, but he writes millions of ...
05:01 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Incident, Makers Of The gTar, Launch Sequence App So Anyone Can Make Music
 Incident, the same folks that brought you the gTar, are today opening up the platform to a new group of users. Launching Sequence, the company wants to make it as easy as possible for total amat...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Darby Smart Raises $6.3M For DIY Craft Marketplace
 Darby Smart, a do-it-yourself crafting startup, has raised $6.3 million in Series A funding led by Maveron, with participation from Forerunner Ventures, Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and existin...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Sift Science Lands $18M Series B From Spark Capital To Stop Credit Card Fraud
 Today Sift Science, a credit card fraud prevention company, has closed an $18 million Series B round of funding led by Spark Capital, with participation from Union Square Ventures, Max Levchin, ...
04:57 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Electric Cruisebeast Creator Elon Musk Tells The Oatmeal Hes Happy To Help Fund Tesla Museum
 In one of the loveliest peans to modern technology ever penned on the web, The Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman posted a lengthy comic describing what it’s like to own a Tesla Model S, and it...
04:51 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Celmatix Begins Clinical Trials For Big Data-Based Fertility Planning Services
 Now a startup company named Celmatix is starting clinical trials for its technology, which aims to make the process more transparent and provide better therapies to women who want to get pregnan...
04:50 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch To Scale Up, Swiftkey Hires The Guy Who Built MailOnline
 UK startup Swiftkey has landed one of Europe’s most experienced tech executives. James Bromley, the former managing Director of the MailOnline.com and who over-saw the sites gigantic growt...
04:49 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Artist Helps You Become Him With The URME Mask
 Artist Leo Selvaggio wants you to be him. Not completely - that's impossible - but as a commentary on surveillance technology, Selvaggio has created something called URME, a mask that replicates...
04:13 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Googles Battle To Keep Maps Relevant In The Age Of Apps
 The battle to own the digital map continues -- with Google stepping up its game in the U.K. today by significantly expanding the transit data embedded within its mapping interface. It's now offe...
03:56 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Image Is Everything: Snapchat Tops WhatsApp As Biggest U.S. Messaging App
 Snapchat may begetting a rap on the knucklesright now from regulators over how it handles user privacy, but the ephemeral messaging appis still a hot commodity. According to areportout today fro...
03:56 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Image Is Everything: Snapchat Tops WhatsApp As Biggest U.S. Messaging App By Volume
 Snapchat may begetting a rap on the knucklesright now from regulators over how it handles user privacy, but the ephemeral messaging appis still a hot commodity. According to areportout today fro...
03:51 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Satago Secures $1M To Boost Its Automated Credit Control For SMEs
 UK-based Satago, which officially launched at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe in Berlin last year, has secured a $1 million second round funding to expand its automated credit control business. The st...
03:24 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Microsofts Surface Pro 3 Could Be Unveiled Next Week
 Microsoft might be gearing up to show off the third iteration of its Surface Pro Windows-powered computer/tablet next week at a special event. The surface event is confirmed, and reports suggest...
03:05 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Google Makes Chromecast Available In Korea, Its First Asian Market
 Google's Chromecast has launched in Asia for the first time--but it's currently only available in Korea. In a post on its Asia Pacific blog, the company explained that Korea was chosen because o...
02:56 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Passworks Raises $1M For Passbook Campaigns Platform
 I’ve been gradually impressed by the startups coming out of the growing Lisbon tech startup scene – Seedrs is developed out of there for instance – and they are now joined by P...
01:56 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Samsung Apologizes And Offers Compensation To Sickened Workers
 Samsung Electronics issued an official apology for the first time and promised today to compensate the families of semiconductor workers who suffered illnesses that may have been related to fact...
01:32 pm GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Against The Odds, Bunkr Raises $1.4 Million For Its PowerPoint Killer
 French startup Bunkr raised $1.4 million (1 million) from Idinvest Partners, Deezer co-founder Daniel Marhely and Free founder Xavier Niel. When I first covered the online presentation service i...
04:34 am GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Backed By John Legend, Adventr Allows You To Build Choose Your Own Adventure-Style Videos
 Startup Adventr (pronounced "adventure") is betting that it can make online video even more addictive with interactivity. For example, here's a promotional video for Adventr itself at the begin...
04:26 am GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Tracour Locks Up $335K To Help Uncover The Best Financial Analysts
 Tracour, a company buildinga web-based tool to track analyst rankings of stocks, has raised a $335,000 seed round of funding. The company expects to enter abeta period in July. The modest seed r...
03:36 am GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch All The Important Stuff From TechCrunch Disrupt NY
 So what happened at Disrupt NY? With 25 panels, 27 startup demos, and a hackathon, TechCrunch's annual gathering in New York produced plenty of news, insight, and controversy. Even if you were t...
03:34 am GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Conductor Says It Wants To End Ads And Turn Web Presence Management Into A Real Thing
 Conductor first built its business (and raised $35 million in venture capital) by helping companies improve their search engine rankings. Now it's pursuing broader ambitions with the launch of a...
03:26 am GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Google Will Now Sell Glass To Anyone In The US Who Wants It, Indefinitely
 With surprisingly little fanfare, Google has gone ahead and opened up Google Glass sales to anyone and everyone in the US, indefinitely. If you’ve got $1,500 and the desire, Google is down...
03:26 am GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch NSA Docs Detail Efforts To Collect Data From Microsofts Skype, SkyDrive, And Outlook.com
 Last July, Glenn Greenwald published a set of claims regarding a number of Microsoft services that were, especially at the time, unsettling: That Microsoft had helped the NSA "circumvent its enc...
02:59 am GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch ISPs Claim That If The FCC Reclassifies The Internet As A Utility, Paid Prioritization Wouldnt Be Banned
 In a letter signed by a swath of broadband CEOs, the ISP industry pushed back against the idea of reclassifying Internet service into a Title II utility, under which it could be more heavily reg...
02:45 am GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Yahoo Acquires Self-Destructing Messaging App Blink, Which Will Soon Disappear
 Blink, a mobile messaging application that lets users share self-destructing messages, has been acquired by Yahoo, TechCrunch has confirmed. The app competed in an increasingly crowded space alo...
02:36 am GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch TC Cribs: A Stroll Through Shutterstock, Up Sky High In The Empire State Building
 For today’s episode of Cribs, we crossed the continent and headed to New York City to check out the headquarters of online stock photography powerhouse Shutterstock. Fittingly, Shutterstoc...
01:36 am GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch New Snowden Docs Highlight Weaknesses In Facebook Data Security
 Journalist Glenn Greenwald released a bunch of new documents from "the Snowden archive" today to coincide with the publication of his book No Place To Hide. Those documents include a presentatio...
12:47 am GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch Judge Strikes Down NY Attorney Generals Subpoena In Airbnb Case For Being Overly Broad
 Airbnb received some good news in New York today, as the State Supreme Court quashed a subpoena issued by the Attorney General there. The decision puts an end to the first part of a legal battle...
12:44 am GMT - Wed, May 14, 2014
Techcrunch The Gi-Bike Is Electric, Foldable, And Looks Like The Future
 When I head into the future in my magical time machine, I'm going to want to bring a few things with me. One of those things is a Rambo knife. Also CD of In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. And also ...
11:40 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Julep Is Heading To iPhone With App That Lets You Customize A Monthly Box Of Beauty Products
 Julep, the beauty brand whose nail polish shades are virtually unavoidable on Pinterestis todaylaunching its own personalized subscription-based "box of the month" club, as something of an alter...
10:24 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Coatue Adds Top Goldman Tech Banker
 Multi-billion dollar hedge fund investor Coatue is getting a new, heavy-hitting talent with the addition of former Goldman Sachs investment banker Anthony Noto, TechCrunch can confirm. News of t...
10:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft Improves Windows Store Navigation And Discovery, But Pricing Pitfalls Loom
 Microsoft wants its Windows Store to be the main gateway for buying apps on its platform, but the store was always hard to navigate, and the quality of the apps in it is often dismal. Today, Mic...
09:43 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Outlook.com Bests Gmails Filters With A New Inbox Automation System
 Microsoft's Outlook.com announced a new method for users to create complex "rules" for how to handle email today -- think of them as akin to IFTTT recipes for your inbox -- along with a number o...
09:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Health Data Startup SolveBio Raises $2M From A16Z, Max Levchin, SV Angel, And Other Investors
 SolveBio wants to make DNA reference data easy to access. The health startup announced today that it has raised $2 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Max Levchin, SV Angel, and other investors. R...
09:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch The Case For Censorship In The New Social Age
 Intellectuals for centuries have campaigned against censorship. From Ben Franklin to John F. Kennedy to Justice Earl Warren, the argument has been much the same: Censorship is antithetic to demo...
08:39 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch MakerBot Patents An Automatic Filament Switching System For 3D Printers While Parent Company Stratasys Enjoys A Financial Bump
 A MakerBot patent shows that the company is working on a dual-filament solution that can change print colors on the fly. By leading the filaments through the heated extruder using a sort of R...
08:39 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch MakerBot Patents An Automatic Filament Switching System While Parent Company Stratasys Enjoys A Financial Bump
 A MakerBot patent shows that the company is working on a dual-filament solution that can change print colors on the fly. By leading the filaments through the heated extruder using a sort of R...
08:31 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Fly Or Die: Garmin Vivofit
The Garmin Vivofit is the company's answer to the relatively new craze around wearable fitness trackers. After all, Garmin became relatively useless after every smartphone in the world got access to G...
08:11 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Firebase Adds Web Hosting To Its Database Platform
 Firebase started out as a database backend service for real-time apps, but today it's taking a step in another direction. The company is expanding its platform with a hosting service for web app...
08:05 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Co-Founder Departs Ostrovok Citing Role-Overlap And Russian Focus
 Kirill Makharinsky, the co-founder of Ostrovok, the Hotels.com for Russia which has raised $38.60 million, has posted to his Facebook page today saying he is departing the company. Read More ...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch FounderFuels Spring Cohort Includes Wearables, Anonymity, Ink And More
 Montreal-based accelerator FounderFuel is graduating its spring cohort this year, and the group includes startups tackling a wide range of different problems, including how to run the web-based ...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Airbnb Adds Last-Minute Bookings And Weekend Getaways For Mobile Users In SF And LA
 Airbnb is introducing last-minute bookings and weekend getaways for guests searching for places to stay in San Francisco and Los Angeles. With an update to its mobile app, the company will now s...
07:31 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Flipps, Metrekare, Tjobs Are The First To Get Backing From Earlybirds New CEE Fund
 Earlybird, the Berlin-based VC, turned a spotlight on Central and Eastern Europe earlier this year when it announced the launch of a new $130 million fund dedicated to tech startups specifically...
07:21 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch U.K. Wanelo Competitor Nuji Launches A Weird App With An Interactive Woman As Part Of Its Interface
 What are today's mobile shopping applications missing? You know, the social and collaborative e-commerce services, like Wanelo or Polyvore, for example? Better search? Streamlined checkout? No? ...
07:21 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Small Biz Financial Dashboard BodeTree Grabs $2M Series A
BodeTree, an online service aimed at helping small business owners better understand their finances, has closed on $2 million in Series A funding, led by its seed round investor Denver-based Greenline...
07:20 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Apples Beats Acquisition Is Its First Step To Buying Everything, Says Funny Or Die
 Apple’s supposed Beats acquisition had analysts and journalists scrambling to reason out its logic in doing so, as on the surface it isn’t in keeping with their normal M&A strate...
07:11 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft Will Ship A Kinect-Free Xbox One For $399 On June 9th
 Microsoft has just announced that they will begin shipping a $399 version of the Xbox One console that doesn’t include the Kinect. When the Xbox One was first announced, Microsoft casually...
07:05 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch SocialRank Raises $1M To Help Brands Find Their Competitors Most Valuable Followers
 SocialRank, the startup that promises to help users find their most valuable, engaged, and all-around "best" followers, is announcing that it has raised $1 million in seed funding. It's also ope...
06:56 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft Will Drop Xbox Live As A Requirement For Netflix, Hulu, Others
It’s never really made a whole lot of sense: to use Netflix or Hulu on an Xbox 360 or Xbox One, you need an Xbox Live Gold subscription. So, to use something you’re already paying monthly ...
06:53 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Edtech Startup LearnSprout Takes In $4.2M To Unlock More Insights From Schools Data
 U.S. edtech startup LearnSprout has taken in more funding -- announcing today a $4.2 million round which it actually closed last August. Investors in the new round are prior investor Formation 8...
06:36 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Sonos Updates Its Controller App, Bringing Whole Home Music Control Into The Jony Ive Age
 Sonos has updated their decidedly dated and frustrating app to reflect a more modern, user-forward aesthetic. What's changed? Pretty much everything. If you've used Sonos in the past few years, ...
06:32 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Spell Up, A Chrome Experiment, Uses Voice Recognition, Gaming To Improve Your English
 No stranger to rolling out services in extendedbetaand temporary projects,Google today unveiledits latest “experiment” for Chrome: Spell Up, a browser-based game that uses voice reco...
06:02 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Google Glass Gets A Keyboard Thanks To Minuums Minimal Tap-And-Turn Typing
 Google Glass can do a lot of things, but until now it was mostly limited to single tap, scroll or voice-based input. Now, there’s a keyboard for Glass, courtesy of Toronto-based startup Wh...
05:55 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Square Launches A $10 Per Month Customer Feedback Tool For Sellers
 Square continues to reach for additionalrevenue streamswith today’s announcement of yet another new product called Square Feedback – a tool that turns a company’s digital recei...
05:50 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Chinas HAXLR8R Hardware Accelerator Projects Hit Over $3.5 Million In Funding
 HAXLR8R, a Shenzhen-based accelerator, held its demo day in San Francisco yesterday and has announced they've raised over $3.5 million in crowdfunding pledges with many projects reaching six fig...
05:47 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch LG To Release Its Fitness Trackers On May 18th
 LG is getting into the fitness tracking game with the Heart Rate Earphones and Lifeband. Both products will be available on May 18th. Prices have yet to be released. Read More ...
05:43 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Said To Be Planning Split-Screen iPad Multitasking In iOS 8
 A new report from 9to5Mac’s Mark Gurman, who has a strong track record in predicting the future of Apple’s software, says that Apple will be building split-screen multitasking into i...
05:26 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Phenox Makes A Drone More Of A Companion By Dropping The Controller
 Drones are great, but for the most part, they can get old pretty quickly. A new Kickstarter project wants to throw some additional variety into the mix with a programmable, “intelligent...
05:22 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch To Battle Yammer, Slack And Hipchat, Convo Adds GIFs And In-Stream Doc Support
 Convo, a platform that lets workerspost messages to and converse withothers in their companyin real time, is today releasing an update with a couple of notable features that alternately make the...
05:20 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Comparison Site FindTheBest Adds Real Estate Data To Help Home Buyers
 FindTheBest, a site where users can find data-driven comparisons of everything from smartphones to colleges, is getting a facelift today, along with a new comparison category homes. Alex Rosenb...
05:03 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch BlazeMeter Secures $6.5 Million in Financing Led By YL Ventures
BlazeMeter, which provides the JMeter-based performance testing cloud, has secured $6.5 million in a series A financing round led by YL Ventures, a previous investor. Read More ...
05:02 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch BlackBerry Officially Unveils The Z3 Jakarta Edition, Its $200 Foxconn Phone
 BlackBerry’s future, especially in the hardware biz, is uncertain, but it did take the wraps off a new handset today (via MobileSyrup). The Z3 “Jakarta” edition is unique to th...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Jawbone Jambox Mini Update Adds Social Jamming
 The Jawbone Mini is the de facto small Bluetooth speaker. It sounds good, is compact enough, and thanks to Jawbone’s dominance in the market, is widely available at multiple retailers. And...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Wholesale Shopping App Boxed Raises $6.5M From Greycroft, First Round, And Signia
 Last summer, mobile commerce startup Boxed launched its app to enable customers to buy wholesale goods and have them shipped to their doors. With ultra-fast growth over the last several months, ...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Former Digg CEO Matt Williams Launches Pro.com To Connect Homeowners With Nearby Contractors
 A new marketplace for home service professionals called Pro.com seeks to reduce the pain associated with hiring someone, by providing price transparency around the jobs that need to be done whil...
04:57 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Popcorn Time Is Now On Android
 Hollywood'sworst nightmarejust went mobile.A popular fork of Popcorn Time just launched its Android app. Time4Popcorn's Popcorn Time app is now available for consumption on the developer's websi...
04:34 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch EU Court Rules Google Must Give Individuals Right To Be Forgotten (Or Not To Be Found)
 The European Court Of Justice has ruled that Google must respect the "right to be forgotten" and, at the request of private individuals, remove "irrelevant" and outdated information that contrav...
04:13 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Heroku And Salesforce Aim To Link Business Process and Customer Experience
 Salesforce announced today that it was releasing two new products to help ease the integration between Heroku mobile development tools and Salesforce 1. The new products should make it easier to...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Auxmoney Pulls In $16M To Take Its P2P Money-Lending Platform Beyond Germany
 Germany's Auxmoney, a peer-to-peer marketplace for lending money, has closed a $16 million Series B funding round, led by Foundation Capital. Partech Ventures and Scott Bommer also participated...
03:51 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch NSA Reportedly Intercepts And Alters Routers And Servers Exported From U.S. To Facilitate Surveillance
 A new report from NSA leak story breaker Glenn Greenwald claims the U.S.-based National Security Agency actually intercepts and alters routers and server hardware exported from the U.S. to impla...
03:14 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Patents Wraparound Edge-Mounted iPhone Displays With Virtual Buttons
 Apple has a new patent granted today (spotted by AppleInsider) for a side-mounted wraparound display that could be used to add virtual buttons to the edges of future iPhones in place of physical...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Instart Logic Bags $26M in Series C Funding To Continue Reinventing Content Delivery Networks
 Content delivery network company Instart Logic today received $26 million in Series C funding from KPCB, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures and Tenaya Capital. The Seri...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch With A New Generation Of Leaders Norwest Venture Partners Raises $1.2 Billion
 Giving its new generation of leadership a deep capital pool to invest from, Norwest Venture Partners is expected to announce the close of a new $1.2 billion fund. The announcement of Norwest Ven...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Swagbucks Raises $60M From Technology Crossover Ventures, Appoints New CEO
 Swagbucks, a rewards site, announced today that it has raised $60 million, its first round of funding, from Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV). It also appointed Swagbucks and Prodege executive...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Yelp Bites Back At OpenTable, TripAdvisor And Google With Free Yelp Reservations Service
 TripAdvisor last week consumedLaFourchette to make a big move into online reservations against OpenTable, and Google gobbled upAppetasto battle with Yelp and raise its game with restaurants look...
01:08 pm GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Motorola Ups The Budget Android Ante With $130 Moto E, And LTE Moto G
 Budget Androids still get a bad rap but Motorola is on a mission to change that, with the launch last year of the Moto G. Today it's stepping on the gas at the low end -- outing an even cheaper ...
11:01 am GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Anaplan Rakes in $100M In Series D Funding And Announces Anaplan Hub
 It’s a busy week for Anaplan: They open their user conference later today, announced $100M in new funding and introducedAnaplan Hub, a marketplace where customers can share and find pre-de...
11:01 am GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Moju Is Instagram For Moments In Motion
 As our phones become more camera than phone, it only makes sense that innovators would try to take on the very 20th-century concept of the "photograph." We've thus far seen a slew of apps using ...
09:50 am GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch ReShare App Offers International News Articles Translated Into 11 Languages
 ReShare is targeted at news junkies who are tired of relying on Google Translate to read articles from foreign-language publications. Instead, the app offers articles translated into 11 language...
02:03 am GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Inside Jobs: Why The Best Software Engineers Never Stop Learning
 How often are you so impressed by a website or technology service that you think, “I really want to be a part of that” — so much that you set out to get a job at the company? T...
01:46 am GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch NSA Allegedly Intercepts Shipments of Servers To Install Spying Backdoors
Today in a published excerpt of his forthcoming book, No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald reports, citing documents from 2010, that the NSA intercepts routers and servers being shipped from the United S...
12:41 am GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch Original Stitch Is A Shirt Company That Offers 1 Billion Computerized Style Combinations
 Menswear, like sewage treatment and rabies, needs to be disrupted. I’ve already seen about a dozen folks trying to change the space, most notably Bonobos and Indochino, but no one has quit...
12:33 am GMT - Tue, May 13, 2014
Techcrunch A Random Walk Down Hardware Alley
 I've been in a lot of alleys and my favorite one is Hardware Alley. Every year at TechCrunch Disrupt I get to invite a few dozen hardware companies to show off their wares on our show floor. Eve...
11:45 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Office For iPad Apps Have Racked Up 27M Downloads In 46 Days
 In just over a month, Office for iPad has picked up another 15 million downloads of its applications. Microsoft reported 12 million downloads in early April, and 27 million today. That’s a...
11:29 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Mute Me
 I remember the moment I fell in love with Twitter. I was crashing on a couch in Portland, Ore., with the Clicky Web Analytics guys back in 2008, and we were watching the live stream of a TechCru...
10:59 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch The New Dynamics Of Unicorn Startup Acquisitions
 The rumors of a possible $3.2 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics by Apple spread far and wide last week, and rightfully so. It wouldnt just be the largest acquisition of all time for the 3...
10:26 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Google Hangouts In Gmail Gets New Presence Indicators, Improved Search
 Google is updating Hangouts in Gmail today. While it's not a major new release, but the update brings back the green "availability" bubbles that Google did away with when it replaced Google Talk...
10:12 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Shortwave Shows Off Anonymous Chat As Another Consumer Use Case For iBeacons
 Apple’s iBeacons are being trialled and demoed in retail settings all over the place, but they’re slowly becoming more interesting to average users, too. A new app called Shortwave o...
10:12 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Tech Puts Points Back On The Board As Twitter, FireEye And Netflix Surge
 The recent decline in tech stocks has led to a broad narrative: The market's appetite for young tech stocks in late 2013 and early 2014 led to valuation excesses, and the ensuing declines have a...
10:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Very Foundation, Much Wow: A Conversation With Dogecoins Jackson Palmer
 In my latest Foundation interview, I sit down with entrepreneur Jackson Palmer. Jackson is the brains behind the fast-growing cryptocurrency known as Dogecoin. We discuss the Dogecoin community&...
09:50 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Jason Hirschhorn Goes From Teen Concert Promoter To Internet DJ
 Former president of Myspace Jason Hirschhorn is no stranger to media. But before selling his company Mischief New Media in his twenties, and before stints at Viacom, MTV, News Corp, and Sling Me...
09:50 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Jason Hirschhorn Goes From Teen Club Promoter To Internet DJ
 Former president of Myspace Jason Hirschhorn is no stranger to media. But before selling his company Mischief New Media in his twenties, and before stints at Viacom, MTV, News Corp, and Sling Me...
09:37 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Heading For A Vote, The FCCs Spectrum Auction Plan Draws Mixed Reactions
 AT&T might not be a big fan of the FCC’s plan to reserve some spectrum for smaller carriers in the coming 2015 auction, but that doesn’t mean the effort doesn’t have suppor...
09:34 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Twitter Officially Introduces The Mute Button For Android, iPhone And Web
 Twitter has officially announced “mute,” a new feature for its Android, iPhone and web clients that lets users selectively turn off the posts of certain users they follow, without un...
09:32 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Researchers Teach A Robot To Catch Flying Objects Like Yogi Berra
 When the robot uprising begins, don't try to take on our new overlords by throwing assorted household items at them. It won't work, man. IT WON'T WORK. Read More ...
09:12 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch AllTheRooms Lets You Look At All Available Rooms At Your Destination
 Air travelers have Kayak to aggregate flight deals but once you land you need AllTheRooms. Founded by a former Travelocity exec and Morgan Stanley trader, the company has raised $1.1 million to ...
08:51 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Square M&A Lead Rishi Garg Joins Twitter To Head Corp Dev
 Twitter is bringing on a new head of corporate development--Rishi Garg. Garg joined the company from Square, where he headed corporate development for the payments company. Read More ...
08:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch SalesPredict Lands $4.1M In Series A Funding
 SalesPredict,a company that helps sales teamsfind the best customers using predictive analytics, announced $4.1M in Series A funding today. The chief funders in this deal are Yandex and KGC Capi...
07:47 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Nvidia Shield Gets Half-Life 2 And Portal As Valve Classics Get Their Android Moment
 Nvidia’s Shield mobile gaming console has two powerful new titles under its belt today – Half-Life 2 and Portal, both from celebrated developer turned platform creator Valve, and bot...
07:01 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Pinterest Launches Paid Ads With Select Brands In Form Of Promoted Pins
 Last fall, Pinterest announced it would begin experimenting with advertisements on its service in the form of “Promoted Pins,” which would be featured placements from select retailer...
07:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft Previews ASP.NET vNext
 At its TechEd event in Houston today, Microsoft talked about the future ofits .NET and ASP.NET frameworks. While the company isn’t quite ready to announced .NET 5 just yet, it’s clea...
06:38 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch This Is How iPad Multitasking Should Look
 Even after Jony Ive took the helm of the entire user experience at Apple and redesigned iOS, multitasking has remained an area that leaves us wanting. But a new jailbreak tweak brings all the br...
06:15 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Windows Azure Gets New Tools For Hybrid Clouds And Simplified Cloud Storage Service For Businesses
 Today is a big day for Microsoft. It’s making a largenumber of announcements around its developer tools at its enterprise-centric TechEd event in Houston today and in addition, it is also ...
06:15 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft Azure Gets New Tools For Hybrid Clouds And Simplified Cloud Storage Service For Businesses
 Today is a big day for Microsoft. It’s making a largenumber of announcements around its developer tools at its enterprise-centric TechEd event in Houston today and in addition, it is also ...
06:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Microsofts Visual Studio Adds Support For Building Cross-Platform Hybrid Apps With Apache Cordova
 At its TechEd event in Houston today, Microsoft is launching the latest update toVisual Studio. There are no massive changes here compared to the release candidate the company announced at its B...
05:45 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch LG Teases The Android Wear-Powered G Watch, A Smartwatch Ready For Anything
 LG is showing off a new teaser video (via 9to5Google) of its G Watch, the Android Wear device it’s launching later this year. Android Wear is the operating system that Google has created f...
05:13 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Brain-Linked Prosthetic Arm Wins FDA Approval As Our Bionic Future Looms
 DARPA’s initiative to build a prosthetic arm that’s fully controllable via a wearer’s mind has won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (via Verge), a key green ...
05:04 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Wochit Raises $11.2 Million For Automated Text-To-Video Service
 Media companies looking for a way to ride the waveof customer demand for online video content may have found their vesselwith the new $11.2 million financing for New York-based Wochit. The compa...
05:04 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Wochit Raises $11 Million For Text-To-Video Content Creation Platform
 Media companies looking for a way to ride the waveof customer demand for online video content may have found their vesselwith the new $11.2 million financing for New York-based Wochit. The compa...
05:02 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Tado Cooling Launches On Kickstarter To Make Your AC Internet-Connected And Smarter
 Internet of Things startup Tado has today unveiled its most ambitious product to-date. The German company and maker of the Tado smart thermostat has taken to crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to...
05:02 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Tado Cooling Launches On Kickstarter To Make Your AC Smart
 Internet of Things startup Tado has today unveiled its most ambitious product to-date. The German company and maker of the Tado smart thermostat has taken to crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to...
04:31 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Wants Beats For Paid Streaming Conversion Rate And To Improve Beats Hardware, Report Claims
 Apple is after Beats for its streaming music expertise, not the hardware that most find mediocre at best, according to a new Bloomberg report on the deal, which is expected to be made official l...
03:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Unlimited Messaging Therapy Startup Talkspace Raises $2.5M From Spark Capital And Softbank
 Therapy startup Talkspace has changed the model for those seeking help, providing an affordable alternative typical weekly talk therapy sessions. It's just raised $2.5 million from Spark Capital...
03:27 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch With New Food App Square Order, Square Wants A Bigger Bite Of The Restaurant Industry
 Square, by many accounts, is hungrily in search of new revenue streams to feed its expanding ambitions in e-commerce, and today we are getting another glimpse of where that strategy istaking it....
12:28 pm GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Peer-To-Peer File Sharing Service Send Anywhere Raises $1M Seed Round
 Like Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive, ESTmob's Send Anywhere offers file sharing--but with a key difference. Instead of first saving files to cloud storage, Send Anywhere enables users to share c...
07:48 am GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Alibabas Cloud-Computing Unit To Open First Hong Kong Data Center
 Alibaba Group’s cloud computing unit, called Aliyun (or AliCloud), said today that its first data center in Hong Kong will launch on May 12. This is significant because it marks AliyunR...
05:24 am GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch FCC Said To Tweak Proposed Net Neutrality Rules, But Preserve Pay-For-Speed
 Call it a non-fix: According to the Wall Street Journal, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has tweaked the language of his proposed rulesto allow content providers to pay for faster delivery of their con...
05:06 am GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Parrots Newest Drone Packs A Serious Camera, Extreme Range
 Say hello to Bebop, aka the AR Drone 3.0. This is the latest drone from Parrot and it's a big upgrade from the much-loved AR Drone. It's essentially a flying camera that can even pipe imagery di...
05:00 am GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch If You Read One Book With A Hashtag For A Title This Year, Make It #GIRLBOSS
 Motivational stories are banal, personal anecdotes of people you don’t know are boring, and most business books contain about one postcard’s length of wisdom, spread out over several...
04:05 am GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch What Games Are: The Politics Of Play Matter
 As Nintendo's PR gaffe around Tomodachi Life shows, it's all too easy to get game politics wrong. But more than that the politics of representation, identity and money are becoming important for...
04:00 am GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Does The Beats Aftermath Usher The Next Episode For Wearables?
 As Beats potentially prepares to move on to the next episode, there are a few things about the news that should have tech investors’ ears ringing. One, Dre may hate embargoes more than rep...
02:00 am GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch #Love: When Mothers Text
 Editor’s Note: Fara Warner is the editorial director of Aol Tech, overseeing editorial teams on TechCrunch, Engadget, Joystiq and TUAW. She also heads up editorial for Aol’s newest p...
01:44 am GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Q: Why Did Quora Join Y Combinator? A: It Was Almost Free
 Quora has plenty to learn from Y Combinator about growth and monetization, but it's not giving up the traditional 7% equity share to join the accelerator. Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo tells me "YC in...
12:58 am GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Why We Cant Forget About Dre
 The potential acquisition of Beats by Apple has captured the public imagination. Though it is not yet official, we’ve spent all weekend making jokes about it on Twitter, shocked at Andre R...
12:00 am GMT - Mon, May 12, 2014
Techcrunch Mozilla Is Moving Ahead With Sponsored Tiles On Firefoxs New-Tab Page
 Despite what you may have read, Mozilla isn’t canning its plans to sell sponsored tiles on its new-tab page. A few days ago, Mozilla’s Vice President of Firefox Jonathan Nightingale ...
10:40 pm GMT - Sun, May 11, 2014
Techcrunch R.O.W. With Butch Either Tax Tech Giants In Europe Correctly, Or STFU
 How do you do? My name’s Mike Butcher. I’ve been writing for TechCrunch since 190 I mean 2007, based out of London, England, although I seem to find myself on a plane a lot. Generall...
10:26 pm GMT - Sun, May 11, 2014
Techcrunch Q: Why Did Quora Join Y Combinator? A: It Was Almost Free
 Quora has plenty to learn from Y Combinator about growth and monetization, but it's not giving up the traditional 7% equity share to join the accelerator. Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo tells me "YC in...
09:10 pm GMT - Sun, May 11, 2014
Techcrunch A Tour Through Autodesks Pier 9 Workshop, The Fabrication Facility Where Out-There Ideas Turn Into Reality
 Autodesk is, of course, known primarily for enterprise software. They make great stuff and make a lot of money doing it, but it’s not exactly the type of company you might expect to have a...
06:07 pm GMT - Sun, May 11, 2014
Techcrunch Why I Go To Disrupt
 It's never good for someone inside an organization to defend its actions to the outside. It smacks of self-serving and one-sided debate, and, as the Bard wrote, "the lady doth protest too much, ...
05:00 pm GMT - Sun, May 11, 2014
Techcrunch Adform Raises $5.5M To Expand Its Rich Media Ad Business In The US
 European ad-tech company Adform is announcing that it has raised $5.5 million in Series B funding.The company was founded more than a decade ago, in 2002. Chief Marketing Officer Martin Stockfel...
12:53 pm GMT - Sun, May 11, 2014
Techcrunch SketchVid Turns Your Doodles Into Eye-Catching Animations For Instagram
 SketchVid is a cool new iOS app that lets even the most ham-handed doodler make striking animations for Instagram. Read More ...
07:24 am GMT - Sun, May 11, 2014
Techcrunch People Go Bananas Over MonkeyParking
 It was inevitable. In a place where you could pay for almost anything to come to you via mobile, to have empty parking spots eventually come to you via mobile. That is the premise behind Italian...
02:00 am GMT - Sun, May 11, 2014
Techcrunch Fjuul Activity Tracker App Measures Exercise Intensity, Not Just Steps
 Finnish startup Fjuul is tackling activity tracking with an iOS app aiming for mainstream users that can track the intensity of activity. It's been backed by 400,000 ($550,000) in funding thus f...
01:26 am GMT - Sun, May 11, 2014
Techcrunch Q: Why Did Quora Join Y Combinator? A: It Was Almost Free
 Quora has plenty to learn from Y Combinator about growth and monetization, but it's not giving up the traditional 7% equity share to join the accelerator. Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo tells me "YC in...
01:00 am GMT - Sun, May 11, 2014
Techcrunch Were Still Traveling Like Its 1996
 Travel still provides some of the highest human anxieties of anything we do on a routine basis. There are countless variables when it comes to travel: weather, mechanical issues, overbooked flig...
09:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 10, 2014
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Eat Your Beats
 The Gillmor Gang Josh Miller, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor welcome the latest Jobsian takedown of the music cartel, the presumed acquisition of the Beats hardware...
06:27 pm GMT - Sat, May 10, 2014
Techcrunch TechCrunch Is Invading Austin And Seattle In June, Pitch-Off Applications Are Open Now!
 Fresh on the heels of TC Disrupt NY, we're already thinking about our next events. Austin and Seattle, are you ready to get down with TechCrunch? Our tour will take place the week of June 10, bu...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 10, 2014
Techcrunch Google Maps Has Forsaken Us
 Once upon a time, in the days of yore -- meaning, in hyper-fast-forward Silicon Valley, five years ago -- there were things you could count on, evident truths on which you could rely, cornerston...
04:12 am GMT - Sat, May 10, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Is Down For Many
 Facebook’s website is down for many. The voluminous reports on Twitter, and corroborating evidence, arepretty plain: For many, Facebook is not working at the moment. Young services are inf...
02:26 am GMT - Sat, May 10, 2014
Techcrunch As Mobile Roars Ahead, Its Time To Finally Admit The Web Is Dying
 While discussions about tech bubbles have been heated, few commentators seem to be targeting their invective at the real underlying bubble: the World Wide Web itself is crumbling. Like any outmo...
02:01 am GMT - Sat, May 10, 2014
Techcrunch Manilla, The Hearst-Backed Service For Managing Bills, Is Shutting Down On July 1
 Account management startup Manilla says that it will be shutting down on July 1. We received several tips about the shutdown today, then when I visited the site and tried to sign up, I was direc...
01:51 am GMT - Sat, May 10, 2014
Techcrunch 10 Senators Blast FCC-Proposed Internet Fast Lane Net Neutrality Rules
 TenU.S. Senators, including Sens. Wyden, Warren, Franken, and Booker, todaypublished a letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler in opposition to his proposed rules-changes to net neutrality that would...
01:46 am GMT - Sat, May 10, 2014
Techcrunch Ask A VC: Google Ventures Rich Miner On Android Growth And More
In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, Google Ventures’ Rich Miner joined us in the studio to talk about Android’s massive growth, and more. Miner, who was the co-founder of Android and...
01:20 am GMT - Sat, May 10, 2014
Techcrunch Jawbones Newest Investor Is Rizvi Traverse
 Back in February, Re/code reported that Jawbone was nearly finished raising a $250 million round of funding led by Rizvi Traverse Management, the investment firm that has backed Twitter, Square,...
12:04 am GMT - Sat, May 10, 2014
Techcrunch Gearing Up To Raise More Capital, TrackVia Is On Pace For 100% Revenue Growth In 2014
 After booking 50% revenue growth in 2013, TrackVia is looking to grow its top line 100% in 2014. The company is on track to meet that benchmark, it told TechCrunch. TrackVia is an interesting co...
12:04 am GMT - Sat, May 10, 2014
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang Live 05.09.14
 Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Josh Miller, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific. Click here for the live chat that accompanies the show. Read...
12:04 am GMT - Sat, May 10, 2014
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang Live 05.09.14
 Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Josh Miller, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session has concluded for today. Click here for the live chat that accompanies the show. R...
11:40 pm GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch PrintToPeer Networks Your 3D Printer So You Can Build Your Own Bot Farm
Calgary-based PrintToPeer is a crowdfunded project aimed at networking open-source and commercial 3D printers in one location or around the world, thereby allowing users to send jobs to distant printe...
11:06 pm GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch Monegraph Uses Bitcoin Tech So Internet Artists Can Establish Original Copies Of Their Work
 People don't want to buy copies of art, they want the original. And that's been a huge problem for artists who create digital works that are easily copied. No scarcity means no market, so artist...
11:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Disrupt Hardware Rocks Our Socks
 This week, TechCrunch was consumed by Disrupt NY 2014. It was an amazing week, and made even better by the appearance of three hardware companies in our Disrupt Battlefield finals. Mink, an inkj...
10:52 pm GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch Fabs Future Could Be Decided In The Coming Weeks
 Design-focused e-commerce startup Fab has fallen on hard times over the last year, going through multiple rounds of layoffs and losing key executives along the way. But according to sources, the...
10:13 pm GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch Despite Furor, Proposed Net Neutrality Changes Appear Headed For A Vote
 The rising furor regarding proposed changes to net neutrality has so farfailed to delay a vote next week on proposed new Open Internet rules at the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC...
08:41 pm GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch Media Temple Expands Its WordPress Hosting Features With Backup Service And Git Integration
 WordPress now powers more than 20% of websites, andgiven this huge market, it’s no surprise that the number of specialized hosting services for WordPress sites also continues to grow. Medi...
07:01 pm GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch Dattch, The Dating App For Queer Women, Launches In LA
 Dattch, the far more sophisticated version of Tinder aimed exclusively at queer women, is today launching in Los Angeles with some updated features. Dattch is currently operating in the UK and S...
06:52 pm GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch Style-Focused Community And Shopping Service Polyvore Arrives On Android
 Polyvore, the style-focused community whose members regularly pincollages of outfits and accessories toPinterest, has now arrived on Android. The app follows the company’s iOS debut by rou...
05:59 pm GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch Netflix Learns From Past Mistakes, Increases Prices The Right Way
 When you make a really big mistake, the best possible outcome is that you learn from it and never make it again. It would seem Netflix has done that, based on an email sent out Friday about the ...
05:07 pm GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch Intel Pays Up To $30M For A Personal Assistant Platform From Ginger Software
 Apple has Siri, and now Intel has Ginger. The chipmaker has made one more acquisition to bolsterits advanced computing and artificial intelligence holdings: it has purchased selected assets, and...
04:30 pm GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch GE Buys Wurldtech To Beef Up Internet of Things Industrial Infrastructure Security
 This morning General Electric announced it had completed a deal to buy Wurldtech, a Vancouver-based cyber-security firm that protects big industrial sites like refineries and power plants from c...
04:12 pm GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch ZTE Is Selling The $99 Open C Firefox Phone Exclusively On Ebay
 If you're into open source, unlocked phones that cost less than a month of phone service, you've come to the right place. Manufacturer ZTE is selling their first Firefox OS phone on Ebay for a p...
04:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Hires Nokia Lumia Image Quality Lead, Ari Partinen
 It’s been a busy week for Apple news, with rumors swirling of a big Beats acquisitionandits long-time PR chief stepping down.Apple alsoconfirmed it acquired power efficient LED company, Lu...
03:07 pm GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch Why Apple Wants Beats
 We shouldn't be surprised that the strongest brand in the world is looking to buy another solid brand. Far beyond the guffaws of audiophiles and tut-tutting of those who know what Apple would do...
02:51 pm GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch Twitter Makes Like Instagram
 Twitter is sending email blasts to its users with the urgent subject line: "Share your best photos on Twitter" -- and describing its offering as being "beyond words". Read More ...
02:47 pm GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch Dr Dre Appears To Confirm Beats/Apple Deal, Calls Himself The First Billionaire In Hip Hop
 “It’s not often you get to listen to Beats with Mr Beats himself.” So starts what looks like a selfie-video by rapper Tyrese Gibson, who was hanging out with Dr Dre last night....
12:45 pm GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch With $3M Total In Funding, Shakr Makes Video Ads Affordable For Small Businesses
 Shakr Media announced today that has raised a total of $3 million in funding so far to expand its tech platform, which enables small companies to automatically create video clips from snippets o...
10:59 am GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch As Square Struggles, European Payments Rival iZettle Takes Another $55.5M In Funding
 As mobile payment startup Square faces down reports that it’s delaying an IPO amid growth problems and other pressures,iZettle, the Swedish mobile payments company that has been referred t...
08:14 am GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch Indian Fashion Discovery Site LimeRoad Lands $15M Series B
 LimeRoad has closed $15 million in funding, which it says is one of the largest Series B rounds secured by an online commerce company in India. Investment was led by Tiger Global. LimeRoad, a fa...
06:46 am GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch An Interview With Mink CEO Grace Choi, Whos Taking On The $55 Billion Beauty Industry With A 3D Makeup Printer
 Though it was Vurb that took home the winning “Cup” from the Disrupt New York 2014 Startup Battlefield competition, there’s no question that Mink is the company that hit the bi...
04:16 am GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch Apples Beats Purchase Could Have Saved HTC
 In what would have been a truly strange storyline, Apple would have effectively saved one of its chief rivals from collapse -- had HTC held onto its controlling stake in Beats Electronics. The F...
04:00 am GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch Subscription E-Book Service Oyster Crosses 500K Titles, Plans An Android Launch This Year
 Oyster, a startup that offers offers unlimited access to its collection of e-books for $9.99 per month, has crossed a nice milestone it says its library now includes 500,000 books, compared to ...
03:00 am GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch SCiO Shows Off Its Molecular Food Scanner In TechCrunch Disrupts Hardware Alley
 Dror Sharon, the CEO of ConsumerPhysics, was showing off a prototype of his handheld "food scanner" at TechCrunch Disrupt NY's Hardware Alley this week, called the SCiO. The device is a pocket-s...
02:17 am GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch Apple In Talks To Acquire Beats For $3.2 Billion, Says FT
 This could be Apple’s largest acquisition to date. According to the Financial Times, Apple is about to close the acquisition of Beats Electronics. Beats is the maker of the popular Beats h...
12:47 am GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch SuperSummit Launches Its Network For Live Events And Online Courses
SuperSummit, a London-based startup, today launched itsplatform for online live video interviews with experts out of beta after testing the service for a few months in Italy. During the beta, the comp...
12:42 am GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch Bitpay Is Raising $30M At A $160M Valuation From Index, Richard Branson
 We’re hearing that Bitpay, a platform that processes payments in Bitcoin for merchants, is raising the field’s biggest round yet. The company is raising $30 million on a roughly $160...
12:38 am GMT - Fri, May 9, 2014
Techcrunch Japanese Man Arrested For Printing His Own Revolvers
 Police arrested a 27-year-old university official from Kawasaki City, Yoshitomo Imura, after he posted a video of himself firing a 3D-printed six shooter called the Zig Zag revolver. Imura was e...
11:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Kamino Offers Crowdsourced Walking Tours On Your iPhone
 In TechCrunch Disrupt NY's Startup Alley this week, we came across Roger Obando and Louis Huynh, co-founders of Kamino, a new mobile app offering crowdsourced city guides. Unlike the recommendat...
09:51 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Highway 1 Is Ramping Up In Their Search For Startups With $50,000 In Seed Money
 Brady Forrest's Highway1 is looking for a few good hardware startups. The accelerator that brought us LittleBits and the Metawatch are working on their Fall 2014 program and they've increased th...
09:51 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Highway 1 Is Ramping Up Their Search For Startups With $50,000 In Seed Money
 Brady Forrest's Highway1 is looking for a few good hardware startups. The accelerator that brought us LittleBits and the Metawatch are working on their Fall 2014 program and they've increased th...
09:44 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch The Pressure On Enterprises To Transform Intensifies
 Business is under intense pressure to transform these days whether it’s finding way to capitalize on mobile, social, the cloud or big data or taking it a step further and becoming a truly ...
09:25 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Snapchat Settles With FTC After Being Dishonest With Users About Privacy
 Snapchat has entered into a consent decree with the FTC to address concerns over the company's privacy policy, app description, and in-app notifications after Snapchat was at the center of a hug...
09:04 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Build An Event Crew Qwerkly With Werkly
 Finding workers in this economy sounds like it should be easy. But what if you're searching for someone with a very particular set of skills, skills they have acquired over a very long career? S...
08:55 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Intuit Buys Lettuce Apps For $30M To Add Inventory And Order Management To Quickbooks
 Some consolidation afoot in world of cloud-based enterprise services.Intuit has made another acquisition to help position its Quickbooks product as the go-to place for small and medium businesse...
08:49 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Amazon Goes Big With Sunday Delivery Expansion
 Amazon has just announced a huge expansion for Sunday deliveries with 15 new cities enjoying the pleasures of receiving shipments on the weekend. So far, Amazon has only offered Sunday deliverie...
08:41 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Patents Optical Image Stabilization For Higher Resolution iPhone Pics
 Apple has been working on optical image stabilization tech for use in their iPhones and other devices, according to a new patent application filed with the USPTO (spotted by AppleInsider). This ...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch 8tracks Launches New iPhone App To Take On Pandora
 Music startup 8tracks just released a major new version of its iPhone app. The 3.0 version comes with a completely redesigned interface, a simpler user experience and a new advertising strategy....
07:30 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch TechStars Alum AdYapper Raises $1M, Receives Accreditation From The Media Rating Council
 AdYapper, a startup allows marketers to see how often their online ads are viewed, has raised $1 million in new funding from angel investors, including movie producer Jack Giarraputo. In additio...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch OMsignal Opens Pre-Orders For Smart Shirts That Track Activity, Fitness And Stress
 After raising $1 million last year and debuting its smartwearclothing-embedded sensor tech, Montreal-based OMsignal is now ready to start accepting orders from customers. Its first product is th...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Phonebloks Issues A Call To Action For Industry Partnes To Support The Modular Phone
 Phonebloks, the company started by Dutch designer Dave Hakkens with the aim of developing modular electronics, is touting its success in moving its mission forward today, while also calling for ...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Phonebloks Issues A Call To Action For Industry Partners To Support The Modular Phone
 Phonebloks, the company started by Dutch designer Dave Hakkens with the aim of developing modular electronics, is touting its success in moving its mission forward today, while also calling for ...
06:41 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch London Black Taxis To Cause Chaos In Protest Of Uber
 There's a certain irony when black cab drivers in London are inadvertently empathising with the French. The BBC is reporting that drivers of the UK capital city's fully licensed "meter"-equipped...
06:31 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Box Scores Huge Win With GE
 Box announced a huge customer score this morning with General Electricagreeing to use Box across the entire organization. According to information supplied by Box, this will involve rolling out ...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Hopscotch, An iPad App That Helps Kids Learn To Code, Raises $1.2M
 There are lots of systems clamouring to help educate the next generation of coders. One of them, New York-based startup Hopscotch, closed a $1.2 million seed funding round last August which it's...
05:26 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Can Music Streaming Startup Bloom.fm Avoid The Deadpool?
 Just over a week ago, UK startup Bloom.fm dropped a bombshell. Its backer, Russian TV channel TNT, had withdrawn funding and the young company was calling game over. But a week is a long time in...
05:20 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Uber Now Offers Child Car Seats For Passengers With Kids In NYC For A $10 Surcharge
 On-demand ride service Uber continues to test out new products and services in New York City. Just a few weeks after making a courier service available there, the company is now launching a prod...
05:06 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Stock Investment And Wealth Management Service Motif Investing Raises $35 Million
 Retail investors in the U.S. looking for ways to play the stock market have several startups offering them services, and now Motif Investing has raised $35 million in late-stage funding from new...
04:51 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch MLB Fan Podcasts Removed From iTunes To Return Shortly
 Over the last couple of days theres been a furor in the podcasting community related to the removal of some MLB fan-produced shows being unceremoniously removed. The long and short of it is that...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Smart Keyless Access System KISI Lets You Swipe To Open Your Door
 In TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s HardwareAlley this week, smart keyless access system maker KISI was showing off its mobile-connected device, which allows you to control entry to a building with...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Online Learning Marketplace Udemy Raises $32M To Scale Up Internationally
 Long time player in the online learning space, Udemy, which has built a skills-based marketplace where individual tutors can sell their skills and learners can get access to courses (both paid a...
11:39 am GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Hipstamatics Makers Introduce Cinamatic, A New Video Editing App
 The makers of Hipstamatic, the app that was introduced in 2009 and gained a loyal following for its square-format photos and filters before Instagram took over in ubiquity, has launched a new vi...
11:00 am GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Yahoo News Digest Comes To Android
 Yahoos popular News Digest app is now available on Android, and offers two new editions of content: International and Canada. Previously, the app, which gives readers twice-daily digests of news...
11:00 am GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch European Home Cleaning Market About To Get Messy After Hassle.com Raises $6M From Accel
 Home cleaning startup Hassle.com has closed a $6 million Series A from Accel Partners. Money it plans to use to expand across major cities in the UK -- beyond London and Manchester -- and Europe...
10:13 am GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Samsungs Head Of Mobile Design Resigns After Galaxy S5s Poor Reception
 Samsung Electronic's head of mobile design, Chang Dong-hoon, has resigned following criticism about the Galaxy S5 smartphone's lack of pulchritude. Though the Galaxy S5's design did not actually...
05:40 am GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Lyfts New SUVs Are Tricked-Out But Will Cost 2X
 Lyft’s forthcoming premium SUV service will cost twice as much as normal Lyfts, but come with extra perks, say a Lyft contractor who refused to be named as the plans are still private. I s...
05:29 am GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Google Ventures Leads $130M Series B In Cancer Data Startup Flatiron Health
 Flatiron Health, a startup that organizes real-time oncology data to help cancer patients and doctors, has raised $130 million in Series B funding led by Google Ventures, with participation from...
02:24 am GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2014 Is Vurb
 It’s been a long, tough road, but it’s finallytime to crown the winner of the Disrupt Battlefield. This year’s batch was truly awesome. Twenty-sevenstartups took the stage to p...
01:17 am GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Greylocks Lilly: Techs Landscape Is Unfair In An Invisible Way To Women
 Ah, that perennial issue — women in tech. Solving it is so intractable and talking about it can be thankless because readers get emotional without arriving at pragmatic solutions. It requi...
01:17 am GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Tesla Slips Despite Beating Estimates In Q1 With Non-GAAP Revenue Of $713M
 It's not a good day to be a public technology company. Today despite beating non-GAAP revenue and non-GAAP profit expectations, Tesla is down around 5 perecent in after-hours trading. The compan...
01:05 am GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Zennstrm Going Global Outside The Valley, We Were Too Eager With Fab
 Despite being quite a self-effacing person, it’s clear Niklas Zennstrm, co-founder of Skype and now a VC with his Atomico fund, is actually something of a rebel. He has consciously chosen ...
12:59 am GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Beloved Image Sharing Site MLKSHK Saunters Off Into The Sunset
 There are only a handful of sites that I visit every day aside from TechCrunch. Among those was the lovely, lightweight image sharing site MLKSHK, which is set to shut down on September 1st. Rea...
12:56 am GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Ad Tech Company Marin Software Names David A. Yovanno As Its New CEO
Marin Software, maker of tools for managing online ad campaigns, is announcing a new CEO David A. Yovanno, a former executive at Conversant and Gigya.Co-founder Chris Lien has served as CEO since Mar...
12:45 am GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Zillow Posts A Loss Due To Ad Expenses But Q1 Revenue Up 70 Percent To A Record $66.2M
 Real estate marketplace Zillow announced Q1 earnings this afternoon, with revenue for the quarter increasing by 70% to a record $66.2 million from $39 million in the first quarter of 2013. GAAP ...
12:45 am GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Zillow Posts A Loss Due To Ad Expenses, But Q1 Revenue Up 70 Percent To A Record $66.2M
 Real estate marketplace Zillow announced Q1 earnings this afternoon, with revenue for the quarter increasing by 70% to a record $66.2 million from $39 million in the first quarter of 2013. GAAP ...
12:25 am GMT - Thu, May 8, 2014
Techcrunch Pst! Secrets Android ETA Is Two To Three Weeks
 Secret, the anonymish app du jourthat’s enabling iOS users to thrill their own friends and people in theirsocial circles by saying stuff freely, without having their own identity attached ...
11:46 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Anova Updates Their Sous-Vide Device For The Smartphone-Toting Cook
 Another day, another sous-vide cooker. Anova, a company I’ve covered before, has announced the next generation of their platform, a precision circulator/heater that uses your phone to cook...
11:30 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Yahoo Is Doubling Down On Mobile Again
 “Mobile is doubling on every traffic metric we have,” she said. But it doesn’t mean that Yahoo’s mobile strategy is already successful. Yahoo ended 2013 with no apps in A...
10:56 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Layer Raises $14.5M From Homebrew, Jerry Yang To Be The Communications Platform For Mobile And Web Apps
 Communications platform for mobile and web apps and Disrupt SF 2013 winner Layer has raised $14.5 million in Series A funding from Homebrew, AME Cloud Ventures (Jerry Yang's investment vehicle),...
10:54 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Hover Adds Gestures And Touch To Your DIY Electronics
 Arduino hackers rejoice: you can now add touch sensitivity and gesture controls to your tiny electronics projects, something that could add some very compelling user experience tweaks to existin...
10:53 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Marissa Mayer Explains Yahoos New Video Strategy
 Speaking on stage at Disrupt New York, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer explained the strategy behind the company's new foray into producing original television content."Can you tell me what Yahoo is?" T...
10:52 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Talks Funding, Investing And The Future Of WordPress
 Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg today took the stage at Disrupt NY for a wide-ranging chat with our co-editor Alexia Tsotsis. During the conversation, he touched upon everything from raising the c...
10:45 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Kloudless Makes Connecting Apps To Multiple Cloud Storage APIs Easier
 At last year's Disrupt NY, Kloudless launched its service for easily moving data between email and various clouds. That, however, was just the first stage in the service's evolution. Returning t...
10:38 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Marrisa Mayer Explains Why Yahoo Is Undervalued
 On stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer pushed against the narrative that Yahoo is worth nothing. The company has a market capitalization in the tens of billions, ...
10:38 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Marissa Mayer Explains Why Yahoo Is Undervalued
 On stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer pushed against the narrative that Yahoo is worth nothing. The company has a market capitalization in the tens of billions, ...
10:34 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Knotable Hopes Its Alpha Will Fix The Email Headache
 Email, email, email. It’s the bane of our life but it’s also incredibly necessary. But out of the hundreds of emails you might get a day, perhaps only 25 are actually really, really ...
10:23 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Google Nest Parody Protest Site Holds A Funhouse Mirror Up To The Search Giant
 Google acquired Nest Labs last year, bringing the Nest intelligent thermostat to the search giant, and rumor has it they’re now working on a range of hardware projects. A newsite popped up...
10:22 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Whisper CEO Michael Heyward Defends Gwyneth Paltrow Post
 It's not easy being interviewed by Michael Arrington. Over the last several years, we've seen our share of VCs, entrepreneurs, and big tech execs wilt under the pressure. But not Michael Heyward...
10:16 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch SEC Publishes Laundry List Of Bitcoin Risks, Cites Governmental Regulation As A Potential Headache
 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) doesn't appear to be bitcoin's biggest fan. Today, the government agency published a long list of potential risks that bitcoin presents, and it'...
10:06 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Workshare Scores $8.4M Line Of Credit from Wells Fargo
 Workshare, a company that helps law firms and others manage, secure and collaborate around documents, today announced financingof $8.4M in the form of a revolving line of credit from theTechnolo...
10:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Google Acquires Cloud Monitoring Service Stackdriver
 Google today announced that it has acquired cloud monitoring service Stackdriver. The company plans to roll many of the service’s features into its Cloud Platform in the coming months. The...
09:42 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Alibaba Is Not A Threat To US Internet Companies
 Everybody loves superlatives, and it is definitely Superlatives Week for the tech press. Alibabas IPO will represent surely one of techs largest ever Kara Swisher of Re/code intoned. Heather Som...
09:35 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Watch Michael Arringtons Fireside Chat With Marissa Mayer Here At 2:00 PM EDT
 As Disrupt NY comes to a close, Marissa Mayer is set to take the stage with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. The interview will start around 2:00 PM EDT, following a talk with the creator o...
09:35 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Watch Michael Arringtons Fireside Chat With Marissa Mayer Here
 As Disrupt NY comes to a close, Marissa Mayer is set to take the stage with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. The interview will start around 2:00 PM EDT, following a talk with the creator o...
09:26 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Longtime Apple PR Chief Katie Cotton To Retire
 Apple’s VP of worldwide communications Katie Cotton is retiring, the company revealed today. Cotton has been with Apple for more than 18 years, and in that time she’s helped coordina...
09:18 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Square Board Member Roelof Botha Says There Were No Acquisition Discussions
 On stage at Disrupt NY today, Sequoia partner and Square board member Roelof Botha set the record straight around those rumors that the payments company was in acquisition talks with Google. "Th...
09:15 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch TechCrunchs Parent AOLs Stock Falls After Disappointing Earnings Report
 Among theretreating technology and technology-facing stocks, AOL stands out today in terms of the scale of its decline.As of this writing,AOL is down more than 24%, and could easily end the day ...
09:04 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Hey Boss, Let Me Know If CrunchBase Is Getting Sold?
 If there's one thing to take away from the conversation CrunchBase co-founders Mike Arrington and current President Matt Kaufman had on stage, it's that if venture investors want to make a bid f...
08:27 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Sen. Franken Calls Net Neutrality The Free Speech Issue Of Our Time
 In a video posted to the website NoSlowLane, Senator Al Franken made the argument for pure net neutrality, calling the principle "the free speech issue of our time." Citing YouTube in its infanc...
08:01 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Restaurant Reservation Service LaFourchette Gobbled Up By TripAdvisor For ~$140M
 European restaurant reservation service LaFourchette -- the so-called OpenTable of France -- has entered into agreement to be acquired by NASDAQ-listed travel site TripAdvisor, with whom it alre...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch To Battle Yelp, Google Buys Appetas, A Website Builder For Restaurants; Will Shut It Down
 Google today made one more acquisition that points to its interest in building up its relationship with local businesses, and particularly in the restaurantvertical to compete better against the...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch To Battle Yelp, Google Buys Appetas, A Website Builder For Restaurants
 Google today made one more acquisition that points to its interest in building up its relationship with local businesses, and particularly in the restaurantvertical to compete better against the...
07:44 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch The MEMI, A Smartbracelet For Women, Vibrates When You Get Calls And Texts
 In TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley today, MEMIco-founder and president Margaux Guerard is demonstrating her company’s iPhone-compatible smartbracelet. Aimed at women who tend t...
07:22 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Shapeways CEO On 3D Printing Gold, Generation Minecraft And Bringing Memes To Life
 What's the future of additive manufacturing? In a wide-ranging talk here at TechCrunch Disrupt New York with TC's John Biggs, Shapeways CEO Peter Weijmarshausen, discussed the current state of ...
07:05 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Tech Stocks Crumble As The Market Demands What They Cant Deliver
 It's a nasty day for technology companies in the public markets, as aging giants like AOL are falling right alongside upstarts with larger market caps like Twitter and Groupon that are popping n...
06:42 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Reportedly Discontinues The iPhone 4 In India After Recent Relaunch
 Apple has decided to stop selling the iPhone 4 in India, the Times of India reports today. Apple’s retail channel partners in the country have reported that stock of the device have stoppe...
05:28 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Watch The Disrupt NY Day 3 Live Stream Here!
 This is the beginning of the end. Day 3 of TechCrunch Disrupt NY has officially begun, and we've saved some of the best for last. We'll be hearing from Skype founder and Atomico partner Niklas Z...
05:06 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch The Feeling Skin Is An iPhone Charge Case With A Configurable LED Light On Its Back
 A bizarre, “organically” shaped iPhone case called The Feeling Skin was spotted at this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley, purporting to be the first “smart battery...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch LinkedIn Gives Up The Ghost On CardMunch, Inks Deal With Evernote To Migrate Users
 An interesting development todayforEvernoteto push its stature with premium and businessusers, as well as someclosure on an app that was nearly left for dead:LinkedIn and Evernote are today anno...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Wine App Delectable Raises $3M Series A
 Delectable, an iOS app that lets you find and share wine recommendations, has announced a $3 million Series A round from angel investors including Ron Conway, Max Levchin, David Sacks (the found...
04:35 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch The Outdoor Exchange Is Crowdfunding A Subscription-Based Lending Service For Outdoor Gear
 Being an outdoor enthusiast can be expensive these days. With camping equipment, kayaks, binoculars, fishing gear, and of course, Dropcamsto record your sweet bike stunts, the costs can really a...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Event Discovery App Fever Gets $3M Seed Funding From Flickrs CEO And Other Investors
 Fever, an event discovery and booking app for iOS and Android, has received $3 million in seed funding from investors including Jeff Pulver, an early investor in Twitter and Foursquare); Bernard...
03:08 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch AOL Q1 Beats Street On Revenues Of $583M, Misses EPS On $22M Of Charges
 AOL today reported earnings of $583.1 million butstartlingly low earnings per share of $0.11 and a 66% drop in net income to $8.7 million. Those numbers beat analyst estimateson sales but EPS wa...
03:08 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch AOL Q1 Beats Street On Revenues Of $583M, Misses EPS On $22M Of Charges, Patch Pain
 AOL today reported earnings of $583.1 million butstartlingly low earnings per share of $0.11 and a 66% drop in net income to $8.7 million.Advertising revenues, the bread and butter of AOL’...
03:08 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch AOL Down 20% As Q1 Earnings Beat On Sales Of $583M But Miss EPS On $22M Of Charges
 AOL is trading down almost 21% on the day that itreporteditsfirst quarter earnings. It posted revenue of $583.1 million but had startlingly low earnings per share of $0.11 and a 66% drop in net ...
03:08 pm GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch AOL Down 24% As Q1 Earnings Beat On Sales Of $583M But Miss EPS On $22M Of Charges
 AOL is trading down almost 24% on the day that itreporteditsfirst quarter earnings. It posted revenue of $583.1 million but had startlingly low earnings per share of $0.11 and a 66% drop in net ...
11:00 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Balderton Leads $3.5M Investment In Trademark Checking Tool TrademarkNow
 Making good on its promise of a renewed focus on Series A investments in Europe, Balderton Capital has led a $3.5 million Series A round in trademark checking tool, TrademarkNow. Previous backer...
07:07 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch The 6 Disrupt NY Finalists: Boomerang Commerce, ISI Technology, Mimi, Mink, Showkit and Vurb
 Oh New York in the springtime! In the past two days, 1600 people have passed through the Manhattan Center for TechCrunch Disrupt NY, in hopes of seeing or being the new new thing. We've seen Fre...
06:01 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Alibabas IPO Means Consumer Tech Innovations From Asia Cant Be Ignored Anymore
 Asia’s tech companies still have a reputation in the West for being copycats. But Alibaba’smassive IPO is proof that consumer tech innovations from Asia can no longer be ignored. Ali...
05:11 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Digital Publisher Inkling Lays Off Consumer Staff To Focus On Enterprise Business
 Inkling is shutting down its consumer business and laid off part of its workforce yesterday.We first heard the news from a source who said the layoffs represented 25 percent of the company's wor...
03:19 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch An Awkward First Date Shot Through Google Glass
 We as humans are terrible at expressing our desires. You never quite knowwhat’s going on in someone’s head. We’re not so different from Google Glass in that way. It’s tou...
02:30 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Smore Raises $1.7M Seed Round For Its Single-Page Website Builder
Smore, a platform for easily creating single-page promotional websites and TechStars Seattle alum, today announced that it has raised a $1.7 million seed round (including converting notes) led by Foun...
02:09 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Codeanywhere, The Google Docs For Developers, Rocks Startup Alley At Disrupt NY
 Codeanywhere, a self-proclaimed Google Docs for coders, wants to become the defacto standard for code development on the go. Co-founders Ivan Burazin and Vedran Jukic presented on stage at Disru...
01:53 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Buzzstarter Provides A Platform For Brands To Do Programmatic Content Marketing
 Buzzstarter wants to make it easier for brands to reach specific demographics audiences in the places where they can be found -- that is, on various blogs and social networks. The company makes ...
01:52 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Alibaba Dominates Mobile Commerce In China, With 76% Of All Sales And 136M MAUs
 Mobile is mentioned a grand total of 254 times inAlibaba’s IPO filing out today –underscoring the influence that phones and tablets haveonAlibaba’s business today and will have...
01:38 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Notivo Wants To Be A Google Now For Everything Else
 Early stage startup Notivo, launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt, is a mobile search assistant that helps you track events and receivenotifications when information you care about changes or is...
01:30 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Online Consignment Store For Luxury And Designer Goods The RealReal Raises $20M
 TheRealReal, an online consignment store for luxury goods, has raised $20 million in Series C funding from DBL Investors, Canaan Partners, InterWest Partners, eVentures, Greycroft, and Expansion...
01:27 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch AirHelp Lets You Claim Money For Messed Up Flights
 Airline websites are terrible. It’s hard to book flights, so imagine how hard it must be to claim compensation for delayed, canceled or overbooked flights. Meet AirHelp, the startup that w...
01:16 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Alibaba Files For Massive IPO With 9-Month Revenue Of $6.51B
 This afternoon Alibaba filed for its hotly anticipated IPO, detailing its recent financial performance, including revenue for the first nine months of its fiscal year 2013 of $6.51 billion and n...
01:04 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Check Out Media And Entertainment In Startup Alley At Disrupt NY
We took a walk around the Media And Entertainment Pavilion at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York. Companies this year are as diverse as ever, but mobile remains a continuing theme. Check out the fast-pace...
01:04 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Epson and Metaio Get Us Back On Track For Wearable Augmented Reality
 One of the big promises of a smart-glasses approach to wearable tech was always augmented reality. Context-specific augmented reality was the most interesting though meaning that the AR content...
12:52 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Koala Band Is An App That Motivates My Kids To Play Piano, And Thats Music To My Ears
 Luis Sampedro Diaz, an engineer hailing from Spain but now resident in Silicon Valley, cut his professional teeth at Volkswagen, where he wrote code for “things that didn’t exist yet...
12:42 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch DocSend Is The Analytics Tool For Documents Weve All Been Waiting For
 Meet DocSend, a comprehensive toolbox for your documents. It doesn’t sound sexy, but it could rapidly become a major part of your workflow. A startup successfully raised $20 million by tak...
12:36 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Aol Buys Marketing Analytics Company Convertro For $101M (Memo)
 A day before its quarterly results, AOL, owner of TechCrunch, has announced anotheracquisition to beef up its ad tech operations. It is buying Convertro, a marketing optimization platform, for $...
12:33 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Sedicii Aims To Better Protect Your Passwords And Information
 How many times did you enter a username, password or other details about yourself into a website today? Sedicii, which just launched onstage at Disrupt NY, aims to keep that information safer an...
12:25 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Unglue.it Sets Books Free After Authors Get Paid
 Giving away your books is easy for fancy guys like Cory Doctorow, but what about the rest of us poor hacks? While the impetus to release books into the Creative Commons is noble, a writer needs ...
12:13 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch HealthCrew Makes Your Doctor Scalable With Online Patient Mentorship
 Getting medical advice online can be terrifying. Who knows if the information is true and safe, or just someone's crackpot opinion. People want guidance from their own doctor. Unfortunately thos...
12:10 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Groupon Beats In Q1 With $757.6M In Revenue, Non-GAAP EPS Of -$0.01
 After the bell today Groupon reported its first quarter financial performance, including revenue of $757.60 million, and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.01. Analysts had expected for the compa...
12:06 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch I Flew Coach Here Is The New I Woke Up Like This
Money, and the inequality it causes, has been somewhat of a loose theme here at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. From Fred Wilson’s edict that “Money is never the recipe for success” to T.J. M...
12:05 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch Mimi Launches An iPhone App To Combat Hearing Loss
 Mimi, a company launching today as part of TechCrunch's Disrupt NY Startup Battlefield, plans to use the iPhone to help people with hearing loss. I didn't know much about the issue before discus...
12:00 am GMT - Wed, May 7, 2014
Techcrunch FireEye Buys nPulse Technologies For $60MPlus To Beef Up Network Security Suite
 Today, FireEye, a security and intrusion detection company, bought nPulse Technologies to beef up its security platform bygiving customers easier insight into the nature of a networkintrusion. A...
11:35 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch The Memes Of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2014 #disruptmeme
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11:32 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch ISI Technology Reinvents The Water Heater With The Heatworks Model 1
 Water heaters aren't exactly the most splashy consumer product. But they're key to comfortable living. Meet the Heatworks Model 1, a digital water heater using today's technology, which ISI Tech...
11:25 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Recreating TechCrunch Disrupt on HBOs Silicon Valley
 How did Mike Judge and his team of merry pranksters build Silicon Valley, the TV show? By learning as much as they could about the real Silicon Valley. The team appeared at TechCrunch Disrupt NY...
11:13 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch ShowKit Brings Mayday-Style Customer Support To Any App
 When Amazon launched MayDay on the Fire tablet, thousands of sons-in-law breathed a sigh of relief. The same should be true today, as ShowKit launches out of private beta on the Disrupt Stage. T...
11:08 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Coinbase Acquires YC-Backed Kippt To Beef Up Its Product, Design Talent
 Coinbase, one of the biggest Bitcoin consumer wallets and merchant processing platforms in the world, just acquired Kippt, a two-person YC-backed startup that had been working on a platform to s...
11:07 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Fidesmo Aims To Be The Only Card You Need For Public Transit (And Eventually, Anything Else)
 With all the talk about the "mobile wallet", you might assume that smartphones will eventually handle most of your purchases, coupons, and related accounts. But Fidesmo, which just took the stag...
11:01 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Silicon Valley Creators Say Entourage Was Way Harsher
 The HBO show Silicon Valley pokes fun at, uh, Silicon Valley, but the creators and cast who appeared on-stage at Disrupt New York insisted that it's not meant to be a mean-spirited satire. "I do...
10:53 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Kwoller, A Tinder For Fashion Price-Tracking, Launches At Disrupt NY
 Kwoller, a new mobile commerce startup launching its product today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, wants to speed up your next impulse buy. Got an idle two minutes in a queue for latte? Then whip out ...
10:42 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch StandWith Is A Social Task-Management App For The Toughest Times In Your Life
 When a loved one gets seriously ill, your life spins out of control no matter what. The most basic lifestyle tasks like doing the laundry, getting groceries, and taking care of the house all tak...
10:23 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch A Walk Around The Brazilian Pavilion At TechCrunch Disrupt, New York
We took a quick walk around the Brazilian Pavilion At TechCrunch Disrupt in New York to see what companies are playing in that market these days. Check it out. Read More ...
09:49 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Twoople Lets Anyone Chat With You Via A Simple, Personalized URL
 Spotted in the TechCrunch Disrupt NY Startup Alley today was Twoople, a newly launched web and mobile chatting service that lets you give out a simple, memorable URL that allows anyone to start ...
09:30 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Google Debuts Classroom, An Education Platform For Teacher-Student Communication
 Google is tackling the persistent need in education for better software with Classroom, a new tool launching in beta preview to help teachers make, collect and track student assignments, and to ...
09:07 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Doorman Acquires Luna To Create Consolidated Package Delivery Service
 Doorman, a startup that help customers receive packages when they're actually at home, is acquiring competing service Luna. Both companies are trying to solve a similar problem the fact that pa...
08:59 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Secret Is Working On A Private Chat Feature
 Anonyfish has been the only way to move a Secret conversation offline or somewhere with real names. But anonymous sharing app Secret plans to release its own native private chat feature, founder...
08:56 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Developer Tools Are The New Enterprise Tools
 Wondering what areas of technology are still ripe for change in the I.T. environment? This afternoon onthe TechCrunch Disrupt NY stage, the creators of top developer services including Stripe...
08:55 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Twitter Tanks To New Record Lows As Hundreds Of Millions Of Its Shares Unlock
 Today a massive quantity of Twitter stock unlocked, allowing shareholders in the firm that have long held stock in the social giant to sell their equity. The impact, perhaps as expected, is a bl...
08:50 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch The Sights And Sounds Of Disrupt NYs Startup Alley
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08:45 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Android Still Growing Market Share By Winning First Time Smartphone Users
 Android is continuing its onward march. The latest market figures from analyst ABI Research peg the platform at 80% marketshare of smartphone OSes, with just under 300 million smartphones runnin...
08:25 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Comcast CEO Neil Smit Says Improving Customer Service Is His Top Priority
 Comcast Cable President and CEO Neil Smit spoke at Disrupt New York today, discussing his company's recent deal with Netflix, his thoughts on Aereo, and more."I think if there's one thing to dis...
08:19 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch TruckTrack Aims To Capture A Trucking Sector Still Running On Old Tech
 Over the years, fleet management software used by trucking companies has languished in the old technology world. Old school companies like Keeptruckin and Truckingoffice in the U.S., or Mandata,...
08:19 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Google Acquires Adometry To Bring More Attribution To Google Analytics
Google just announced that it has acquired ad attribution company Adometry.The news broke in the Wall Street Journal and it's discussed further in posts from the Google Analytics and Adometry teams. R...
08:19 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Google Maps On Mobile Gets Uber Integration And More
 Google has updated its apps for iOS and Android with a bunch of new features, including Uber integration directly in its collection of options for travel directions. The Uber option will appear ...
07:58 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch How Google Plans To Work With Telcos On Project Loon
 During his appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt NY today, Google's "Captain of Moonshots" Astro Teller briefly talked about Project Loon, the Google X project that uses stratospheric balloons to bri...
07:41 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch HipChat Launches One-To-One Video, Audio And Screensharing For All Users
 Real-time communication platform HipChat is facilitating more than just text-based messaging with its most recent feature addition – it now supports one-to-one video chat, audio calls and ...
07:38 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Mellow Is A Foolproof Sous-Vide Machine For The Busy Chef
 Sous-vide is a cooking method that allows you to make amazingly tender vegetables and meats by cooking food in a warm water bath. It’s risen in popularity in the last few years and home ma...
07:22 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch SV Angel And People.co To Launch An NFL Combine For Hackers, Draft.Me
 Recruiting great technical talent is a challenge for small startups, later stage companies and even public tech companies. SV Angel and one of the firm's new startup, People.co, is launching a n...
07:22 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch OneDrives Mobile DAUs Up 3X Since October, Microsoft Updates Its Android, Web Experiences
 This morning Microsoft announced a sheaf of updates for its OneDrive cloud storage product, improving its web and Android experiences. The new stuff will be seeping out across the world over the...
07:01 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch The Head Of Google X Reveals Its Anti-Technology Mission Statement
 Astro Teller gave a keynote at Disrupt NY to talk about what he’s doing. He is the head of Google’s forward-looking innovation lab, Google X. The team is responsible for the self-dri...
07:01 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Google Xs Astro Teller: Glass Is The Worlds Worst Spy Camera
 At TechCrunch Disrupt NY this morning, Google X's "Captain of Moonshots" Astro Teller sat down with TechCrunch co-editor Matthew Panzarino for a brief discussion about Google X and Google Glass,...
07:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Munchery Lowers Delivery Fees By 40 Percent, Launches $39 Per Year Unlimited Plus Plan
 Food delivery startup Munchery is looking to get more people ordering more meals. And to do that, it's lowering its delivery fees, while also launching an Amazon Prime-like yearly unlimited plan...
07:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Security Cam Maker Dropcam Announces A Location-Based Motion Sensor
 Dropcam, the makers of a plug and play security camera system, announced a new sensor, called Tabs, to add new functionality to the camera platform. The device, which is about as big as a stick ...
07:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch GitHub Open Sources Its Atom Text Editor
 Earlier this year, GitHub launched a private beta of its easily expandable Atom text editor. At the time, it open-sourced 80 of the editor's libraries and packages, but the editor itself remaine...
06:52 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Mela For iPhone Lets Anyone Collaborate On Videos
 Mela, a new application launching this week at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley, lets you create collaborative videos with friends and other Melausers. Like other video-sharing applic...
06:26 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch NowThisNews Is Working With Snapchat On An Ephemeral News Service
 Mobile news startup NowThisNews, built around the idea of short and viral-friendly clips of news stories,has made some inroads into big media with aninvestmentand content partnershipwith NBCUniv...
06:21 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Bitcasa Debuts CloudFS, An iCloud In A Box For Developers
 Former TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield company Bitcasa, is today rolling out an offering to developers called CloudFS, which effectively makes the Bitcasa consumer service available via APIs, all...
05:48 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch VSCO Pulls In $40M Series A To Build Out Its Photo-Focused Creative Community
 VSCO, a creative platform for photographers and designers to share quality work, has just pulled in a $40 million Series A round from Accel Partners -- the fifth largest Series A round the inves...
05:07 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Watch The Disrupt NY Day Two Live Stream Here!
 If it's even possible, today might just be better than yesterday. Disrupt NY 2014 Day Two is underway, which means that Lerer Ventures, Astro Teller from Google X, Secret, and the folks who have...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch App Annie Now Lets App Developers Track Ads, App Store Optimization
 Mobile app analytics platform App Annie is expanding itself product lineup today with features designed to help publishers better analyze their advertising and App Store Optimization (ASO) effor...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Top Hat Raises $10M Series B Round For Its Classroom Response System
 Top Hat, the mobile and web-based classroom response and engagement tool, today announced that it has raised a $10 million series B led by Georgian Partners, with participation from Emergence Ca...
04:27 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Flux Emerges From Google X Stealth, Nabs $8M For Its Eco Home Building Platform
 Google X, the search giant’s lab that has dedicated its work tonew, unchartered moonshot concepts, has made a name for itself through its workon self-driving cars, smart contact lenses and...
04:27 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Flux Emerges From Google X And Nabs $8M To Help Build Eco-Friendly Buildings
 Flux, a platform that lets the building industry design eco-friendly homes by drawing on big data to do a lot of the hard work, is coming out of stealth with $8 million in funding from a pretty ...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Salesforce Launches Its Social Studio For Marketing Collaboration And Custom Integrations
 Salesforce.com says it's launching a new set of tools for marketers on social media, one that's supposed to improve collaboration and integrate with third-party partners. The full name of the pr...
02:42 pm GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Planday Raises $3.75M To Take Employee Shift Planning Software To U.K. And U.S.
 Planday is another startup that wants to help companies weans themselves off the use of pen and paper and those damn Excel spreadsheets. It offers a cloud-based "shift planning" solution for var...
11:49 am GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Job Listing Site Zhaopin Is The Latest Chinese Company To File For An U.S. IPO
 Zhaopin, China's biggest job recruitment site, has filed for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol ZPN. It plans to raise up to $100 million. The company ...
11:49 am GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Job Listing Site Zhaopin Is The Latest Chinese Company To File For A U.S. IPO
 Zhaopin, China's biggest job recruitment site, has filed for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol ZPN. It plans to raise up to $100 million. The company ...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch @WalmartLabs Buys Adtech Startup Adchemy, Its Biggest Talent Deal Yet
 @WalmartLabs, the retailer’s Silicon Valley-based innovation lab and R&D center, has now made its twelfth acquisition with the purchase of e-commerce technology company Adchemy, its bi...
07:33 am GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Tencent To Buy 11.3% Stake In Mapping Company NavInfo For $187M
 Tencent, one of China's largest Internet companies, will spend 1.17 billion yuan, or $187 million for a 11.3% stake in NavInfo, one of the country's largest mapping companies. Best known abroad ...
02:44 am GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Google Wallet Is Coming To Glass
 Google Wallet is coming to Glass soon. According to a source close to the company, Google is currently testing a way for Glass users to send money to their friends through Wallet by simply using...
01:59 am GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Evercam Makes It Easy To Integrate Cameras Into Any Project
 Programmers don’t like to leave the confines of their offices. Therefore, access to closed-circuit cameras would be a great addition to any programmer’s arsenal, at least to see if t...
01:58 am GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Oculus CEO Says Selling To Facebook Convinced Big Developers To Build For It
 "Do we want to be Game Boy, or iPhone or Android?" That's how Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe says his team considered the acquisition by Facebook. Without the financial backing, Oculus may have had to...
01:55 am GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Audience Choice Winner Roadie Automagically Tunes Your Guitar
 Roadie is a nifty little robotic device. It’s a small box that you put on your guitar’s machine heads. You connect it to your phone and it automatically tunes your guitar, all by its...
01:28 am GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Boomerang Commerce Helps Retailers Get Their Prices Right
 Today's e-commerce retailers are under serious competitive pressure from all sides, but maybe most importantly from Amazon. That company has developed a massive big data analytics service for it...
01:26 am GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Mobile Social Networking App Skout Acquires Nightlife App Nixter
 Skout, a social networking app that’s backed by $22 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, just acquired nightlife app Nixter. Skout’s CEO Christian Wiklund (pictured ...
01:23 am GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch OfferBoard Brings Crowd Investment To Growth Capital
 The U.S. Platform Development Group has a pitch for companies looking for growth capital and the investment bankers that love them. The group launched OfferBoard, its new growth capital crowdfun...
01:16 am GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Simply Grid Is Putting Clean, Easy Power Where People Need It
 Power is readily available for most people in North America these days, which can make it hard to grasp how annoying it can be when it isn’t – especially if you’re trying to ru...
01:14 am GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Alignable Is A Social Network For Local Business Owners
 With all the handwringing about the future of local business, a startup called Alignable aims to connect those businesses and help them work together. The company was co-founded by Eric Groves (...
12:46 am GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Tom Hadfield Is Trying To Make Fetch Happen To Improve Mobile Shopping
 Fetch, a mobile app that connects users with personal shopping assistants, launched today onstage at Disrupt New York.Users can simply open Fetch and type what you want, record yourself saying w...
12:41 am GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch After Years, Michigans Attempts To Build A Startup Ecosystem Bear Fruit
 Five years ago, Michigan had seven early-stage companies raise money from venture capital investors in the first quarter. This year that number climbed to 31.The story behind this growth was mor...
12:30 am GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch The NSAs Code Tweet Deciphered
So, the NSA tweeted this earlier: tpfccdlfdtte pcaccplircdt dklpcfrp?qeiq lhpqlipqeodf gpwafopwprti izxndkiqpkii krirrifcapnc dxkdciqcafmd vkfpcadf. #MissionMonday #NSA #news— NSA (@NSACareers) ...
12:28 am GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Tango PC Wants To Be The First Everywhere Computer Without Compromise
 Smartphones are more powerful than they’ve ever been, but PCs are still able to do more, and do some things better, too. Size advantage has generally meant sacrifices when it comes to comp...
12:10 am GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch CEO Shane Smith Says He Wants VICE To Be 10 Times Bigger Than CNN
 VICE Media seems to be getting more journalistically legit, particularly with its international coverage, but CEO Shane Smith said today that he doesn't consider himself a journalist, and doesn'...
12:02 am GMT - Tue, May 6, 2014
Techcrunch Kurbo Health Debuts A Mobile Service To Help Fight Childhood Obesity
 This afternoon on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage in New York, Kurbo Health debuted its mobile subscription service designed to teach children -- and their families -- how to eat healthy. The overa...
11:35 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Oculus VR Created A Research Group To Advance Virtual Reality
 Oculus VR was recently all over the news because it was acquired by Facebook for $2 billion. But Oculus VR is still operating independently and trying to figure out the future of virtual reality...
11:27 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Smoretgage Launches To Bring Real-Time Mortgage Data To Real Estate Investors
 Today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, S'moretgage kicked off its service that aims to get more real estate data to real estate investors more quickly.The more you know, the better choices you can make...
11:15 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Peekster, A Shazam For Print Media, Launches In The U.S. At Disrupt NY
 It may surprise youbut print media isn’t dead yet. Hell — some people even like reading ink off of pulped tree. And that curious fact is somethingU.K. startup Peekster is intendingto...
11:07 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Cosmic Cart Simplifies Affiliate Links For Publishers To Make Their Web Sites Shoppable
 Cosmic Cart wants to make shopping on sites easier both for the publisher and for the reader. It does this by giving publishers a drop-dead simple tool for adding items that can be purchased onl...
11:05 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch The Memes Of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2014 #disruptmeme
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10:56 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Mink Is A 3D Printer For Makeup
 3D printing is all the rage these days, but for now, it's mostly centered around little plastic doo-dads. The Mink, launching today on the Disrupt NY stage, is a bit different.The little printer...
10:40 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Vurbs Contextual Search Engine Blows Away Those Stupid Lists Of Links
 Search is broken. Google steers you to right section of the library, but doesn't answer your question or compile that answers with others to help you make a decision. Luckily, today Vurb is lau...
10:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch PlanGrid Makes Its Blueprint App Now Available On Android Tablets
 For the last two years, Y Combinator alum PlanGrid has helped modernize the construction industry by move blueprints to tablets. After originally launching on the iPad, the company will now offe...
10:28 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch As Cloud Upends Traditional IT Sales Channel, Software Companies Eye End Users
 When I spoke to SugarCRM CTO Clint Oram last week, he sang a familiar refrain: The software sales process was changing profoundly from one which had been completely IT-focused to one centered on...
10:19 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Hansure Soft Launches, Aims To Help Doctors Keep Their Hands Clean All The Time
 Hansure, a Czech company built by a team of Indian designers, is soft launching their unique hand cleansing solution today in honor of Global Hand Hygiene Day, which is apparently a thing. Their...
09:54 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Said To Be Mulling Health And Fitness Services Platform
 Apple is reportedly working on building a “full health and fitness services platform,” which would resemble and be modelled on its App Store software marketplace, according to a new ...
09:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Jobr Wants To Be Like Tinder For Your Job Hunt
 Jobr is a moile app that takes the Tinder "swipe left, swipe right" model and extends it to searching for a job. Officially launching today, Jobr seeks to connect job seekers and recruiters in a...
08:57 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Automattic Raises $160M To Catch Up With The Webs Evolution
 Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and the open-source WordPress platform, today announced that it has raised a $160 million Series C round from Insight Ventures, True Ventures, Chris ...
08:52 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch The Future Of Jawbone Could Be In Wearable Identity Tech
 Wearablesso far have a pretty limited audience overall in terms of the global consumer market, but they could become a lot more integral to the lives of average people in the future. On stage at...
08:44 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch After Exiting Phones, Nokia Launches $100M Fund To Drive Connected Cars
 Nokia has launched a new $100 million investment fund focused on connected cars, as the 150-year-old company seeks to pull off its latest reinvention trick. The fund will be managed by Nokia's v...
08:26 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Base Brings Smarter Notifications To Android
 A new application called Base, debuting here atTechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Alley in New York, brings smarter mobile notifications to the Android’s homescreen. The idea with Base, wh...
08:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Cross-Platform Developer Service Xamarin Adds Amazon Fire Support
With its Fire TV platform, Amazon is making a major push for the living room. One of the advantages for developers is that Amazon is using Android as the basis for its living room set-top box and that...
08:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Cross-Platform Developer Service Xamarin Adds Amazon Fire TV Support
With its Fire TV platform, Amazon is making a major push for the living room. One of the advantages for developers is that Amazon is using Android as the basis for its living room set-top box and that...
07:54 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Sam Altman (Reluctantly) Says Y Combinator Has An Accelerator Monopoly
 If you think Y Combinator dominates the world of the startup accelerators, YC President Sam Altman agrees with you. In an on-stage interview at TechCrunch's Disrupt New York conference, TechCrun...
07:20 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Surprise! That Wild Rumor About Apple EarPods With Biometrics Sensors Was A Fake
 Shocking, just absolutely shocking: the wild rumor claiming that Apple was developing new “EarPods” headphones that included integrated heart rate and blood pressure sensors, which h...
07:17 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Y Combinator Squares Up To 500 Startups, Takes Its One-Day Event International
 Y Combinator, the mother of tech accelerators, says it is not planning to run its three-month YC program anywhere but Mountain View, but it is definitely starting to look further afield. Today Y...
07:10 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Coin Demoes The Tech That Scored A $15.5M Round Led By Red Point
 People haven't shut up about Coin since the credit card replacement debuted in November, yet we've never seen the tech demoed in real life. Today, all that changes. Read More ...
06:48 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Dont Trust Bitcoin Startups That Centralize Everything
 Peter Smith of Blockchain.info and Susan Athey of Stanford University took the stage at Disrupt NY to update everyone on the state of bitcoin. In the last few months, Mt. Gox collapsed, bitcoin ...
06:37 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch There Are Things That Are More Important Than Money, Says Kickstarter CEO
 Yancey Strickler, co-founder and CEO of Kickstarter, has confirmed the crowdfunding platform will not be getting involved with crowd equity. Strickler was in conversation with TechCrunch's John ...
06:33 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Fred Wilson On The New York Startup Scene And Why Too Much Money Is The Root Of All Evil
 When Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson took the stage today at TechCrunch's Disrupt New York conference, he elaborated on a recent blog post about "the valuation trap" and argued that "too much...
06:08 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Snakables New USB Charging Cable Will Never Need Duct Tape
 If you’ve ever owned a USB charging cable (and if you’re reading TechCrunch, odds are you have), then you’ve encountered the problem that Snakable wants to solve. That is, afte...
05:43 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch VC Fred Wilson: In 20 Years Apple Wont Be A Top-3 Tech Company, Google And Facebook Will
 Fred Wilson of New York’s Union Square Ventures, one of the top tech investors around, believes that in 20 years, the biggest tech company in the world — Apple — will cease to ...
05:43 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch VC Fred Wilson: By 2020 Apple Wont Be A Top-3 Tech Company, Google And Facebook Will
 Fred Wilson of New York's Union Square Ventures, one of the top tech investors around, believes that by 2020, the biggest tech company in the world -- Apple -- will cease to be the most importan...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Drivy Raises $8.3 Million For Its Community-Based Car Rental Service
 French startup Drivy raised a Series A round of $8.3 million (6 million) from Index Ventures and Alven Capital. These two investors already put $2.8 million (2 million) in seed funding. As a rem...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Website Testing Company Optimizely Raises $57M Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz
 Looks like Andreessen Horowitz sees a big opportunity in A/B testing the venture firm is leading a $57 million Series B round of funding in Optimizely.Andreessen partner Scott Weiss (co-founder...
04:56 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Oculus: Not A Single Line Of ZeniMax Code In Any Oculus Products
 Oculus today responded pretty forcefully to allegations that John Carmack, the creator of Doom, violated his non-disclosure agreement with ZeniMax when he joined Oculus shortly before the compan...
04:56 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Following Massive Data Breach, Target CEO Resigns
Following the massive data breach that saw as many as 70 million Target customers’ personal information stolen, along with40 million credit and debit cards, the company’s board has announc...
04:40 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Watch The Disrupt Live Stream Right Here!
 TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2014 is officially underway, and the day could not be packed with more excitement. Not only do we have a Startup Alley filled to the brim with up-and-coming companies, but ...
04:29 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Amazon Extends Its Shopping Cart To Twitter
 Amazon has just introduced a new feature that lets Twitter users add items to their Amazon cart by includinga hashtag within a tweet. After the user connects their Twitter account to Amazon, the...
04:27 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Beatswitch Wants To Help Festival Organisers Get Organised
 Beatswitch has closed a 250,000 seed round from Strike4 to further develop its cloud-based platform that lets artists, booking agencies and festival organizers collaborate more efficiently, and ...
03:45 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch App Tester uTest/Applause Acquires Germans Testhub To Grow Its Presence In Europe
 The crowdsourced app testing startup formerly know as uTest, which is rebranding to Applause and earlier this year took in a $43 million Series E funding injection led by Goldman Sachs, has just...
03:42 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Mingle Debuts A Gesture-Based Contacts App For iPhone
 If you’re still in search of a better Contacts application than the one that ships on your phone, a newly launched gesture-based app called Mingle might catch your attention. This app, bui...
03:32 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Box, Foursquare, SpaceX Backer DFJ Growth Raises $470M For Later-Stage Investments
 DFJ Growth, the DFJ investment practice that focuses on later-stage investments in technology startups, has closed its latest fund of $470 million. This was an oversubscribed round that fund co-...
03:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch After Betting On Mobile Ads, UberMedia Raises Another $8M
Mobile ad targeting company UberMedia is announcing that it has raised $8 million in new funding.UberMedia first became known for creating social apps, and it still offers the Twitter apps UberSocial,...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Kabbage Grows: The Online Platform For Small Business Loans Raises Another $50M
 Kabbage made waves last month when it closeda $270 million credit facilityto pass on to small businesses that use itsonline platform to borrow working capital and extend credit lines. This month...
01:23 pm GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Recommendation Engine Startup Predictry Lands $230,000 Seed Funding
 Major e-commerce sites like Amazon depend on powerful proprietary recommendation engines to drive user engagement and sales. Smaller businesses, however, lack that advantage. Predictry wants to ...
10:00 am GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch ThriveOn Wants To Make Mental Health Care Affordable And Accessible
 Since 1986, spending on mental health has equaled about one percent of the U.S. economy. So much is at stake that it's surprising how few tech companies focus on mental health. A gradually growi...
07:00 am GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch What Games Are: Is Formal Game Design Valuable?
 While many people are familiar with the term "game designer", they're not sure what that job actually entails. Indeed inside the industry game designers often get little respect because they're ...
06:13 am GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Peer To Peer Lending Marketplace Prosper Raises $70M
 Prosper.com, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace in the U.S., has raised $70 million led by Francisco Partners, a private equity firm with Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) and Phenomen Ventur...
04:30 am GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Twitter Is Here To Stay
 Rakesh Agrawal’sPayPal-trashingtweet disaster — and the subsequentchicken/egg storyofwhether he quit or was sacked — was a slightly surrealturn of events for a company whose mo...
03:00 am GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Pressing The Button
 The Mytro Project is almost over. Over the past few months I've been writing about my experience crowdfunding and self-publishing a YA fantasy book called Mytro. After running an Indiegogo campa...
01:49 am GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch HANA Visionary Vishal Sikka Resigns From SAP
 This afternoon, SAP announced in a statement thatVishal Sikka, Executive Board Member for Products and Innovation, has resigned for personal reasons. The resignation was effective immediately. A...
12:18 am GMT - Mon, May 5, 2014
Techcrunch Star Wars STREET By 50 Review: These Are The Headphones Youre Looking For
 Today is a day of celebration: It’s Star Wars Day, and that means on onslaught of Star Wars-themed gadgets – like these special edition STREET by 50 headphones I got to test out, whi...
11:30 pm GMT - Sun, May 4, 2014
Techcrunch Business Travelers Get A Boost At Disrupt NY Hackathon
 How many times have you taken a trip for work, landed in a city you didn’t know and wondered how to get the most bang out of that sweet, sweet expense account buck? Thanks to Disrupt, ther...
10:12 pm GMT - Sun, May 4, 2014
Techcrunch Vrban Wins The Disrupt NY 2014 Hackathon Grand Prize, Indulge And MixTape Are Runners Up
 Yesterday, hundreds of hackers convened at the Manhattan Center for the Disrupt NY Hackathon. They have worked tirelessly for the past 24 hours. After a long night, they all took the stage to pr...
09:31 pm GMT - Sun, May 4, 2014
Techcrunch Disrupt Taco Bell Hack Stretches Your Dollar On Late Night Burrito Runs
 Its 1 am, youre hungry and youve only got $5. How do you figure out what the maximum amount of grub you can snag inside that budget is? Enter Taco Bell Disrupt Read More ...
09:23 pm GMT - Sun, May 4, 2014
Techcrunch Getting Girly At the Hackathon With Indulge: The Nail Snob App
 Ladies (or so inclined gentlemen). Picture yourself at the nail salon, searching for the precise color you want applied to your fingers or toes. If you’re anything like me, you make that s...
09:22 pm GMT - Sun, May 4, 2014
Techcrunch The oRouter Is A Tor-Powered Linux Box That Secures Your Internet Connection
 Longtime TechCrunch Disrupt NY hackathon participants, Kay Anar and Gilad Shai showed off their hardware hack today called the "oRouter" - a Linux-powered, Raspberry Pi-like computer offering se...
09:11 pm GMT - Sun, May 4, 2014
Techcrunch Ooberdocs Takes Incoming Email Attachments And Copies Them Into Your Dropbox Account
 Tired of having your files pile up in different buckets, and want better harmony between your email and cloud storage account? Ooberdocs, built during the TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon and pre...
08:38 pm GMT - Sun, May 4, 2014
Techcrunch 3Dioo Hardware Hack Is A DIY Oculus Rift
 It's always great to see hardware hacks. This one, called 3Dioo, just demoed on stage here at the TechCrunch Disrupt New York 2014 hackathon turns a standard Samsung smartphone into a 3D capture...
08:35 pm GMT - Sun, May 4, 2014
Techcrunch WhichBeers Wants To Help You Find The Right Beer
 At our TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon today, Andrew Kae and Xiaoan Yan presented one of the most useful hacks of the day: a new way to find good beer.Imagine you're in the store and looking at ...
08:20 pm GMT - Sun, May 4, 2014
Techcrunch Hackathon Project Data Injector Adds Public Data To Anyones Facebook Page
 This morning at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY hackathon, web developer William Wnekowicz and teammate Edward Yu presented Data Injector, a Chrome extension that adds relevant public data links to a ...
07:05 pm GMT - Sun, May 4, 2014
Techcrunch Watch The Disrupt NY Hackathon Live Stream Right Here
Over 1,000 hackers registered to participate in the 24-hour Disrupt Hackathon, and now comes the moment of truth. Each of our hacks will have exactly sixty seconds to pitch their product to a panel of...
12:46 pm GMT - Sun, May 4, 2014
Techcrunch Its Everybodys Birthday At The Disrupt NY Hackathon
 As I write this, it's about 1am on a Saturday night in New York City, yet TechCrunch's Disrupt NY hackathon is still humming along. Ryan Lawler and I spent the past hour wandering around, interv...
08:00 am GMT - Sun, May 4, 2014
Techcrunch Crowdfunded Gadgets That Let You Play Music, Charge, And Wash
Musicians have trouble spending time away from their instruments. But bulky instruments, especially guitars, arent very portable and cannot be left in cars or public places where they may be stolen. T...
05:00 am GMT - Sun, May 4, 2014
Techcrunch Pure Internet
 The Internet wasnt supposed to be so...Machiavellian. In 1963, Stewart Brand and his wife set out on a landmark road trip, the goal of which was to educate and enliven the people they encountere...
02:12 am GMT - Sun, May 4, 2014
Techcrunch eBay To Settle Antitrust Suit Regarding Its Hiring Practices For $3.75M
 This week eBay announced that it has agreed to a settlement with the United States Department of Justice, and theAttorney General of California, regarding a non-hire agreement with Intuit. The s...
02:10 am GMT - Sun, May 4, 2014
Techcrunch PayPal Strategy Exec No Longer With The Company After Sending Inappropriate Tweets
 PayPal's new director of strategy Rakesh "Rocky" Agrawal is interviewing. The company publicly confirmed that the relatively new hire is "no longer with the company" after sending a series of bi...
01:43 am GMT - Sun, May 4, 2014
Techcrunch The Hackathon Is On!
  The Hackathon is officially underway here in the Manhattan Center in New York City, where hundreds of coders have gathered under one roof to build something awesome and hopefully make a few fri...
01:00 am GMT - Sun, May 4, 2014
Techcrunch The Censorship Effect
 How much does censorship affect digital media from a business perspective? Unsurprisingly, it's clear that censorship has a huge impact on how social platforms develop and on how individuals use...
11:47 pm GMT - Sat, May 3, 2014
Techcrunch SweetLabs Picks Up HP As Its Fourth OEM Partner
 SweetLabs has picked up another OEM partner, HP, to preload its software platform that includes a Windows Start Menu replacement on some of its PCs. SweetLabs, the creators of Pokki, a popular S...
11:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 3, 2014
Techcrunch Lost In Translation Dont Mistake British Reserve For Lack Of Ambition
 Editor’s note:Robin Kleinis aVenture Partner at Index Ventures in London. This post has been ‘brewing’ in my mind for a number of years now. It’s only taken a shape worth...
09:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 3, 2014
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Pattern Baldness
 The Gillmor Gang John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Topics include Twitter Dead media bait, FourSquare's move toward the new cross-app mode...
07:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 3, 2014
Techcrunch Managing Growth In A Volatile Market
 Over the past several years, founders have been operating in a steadily improving macroeconomic environment. Stock market performance has mirrored the economic recovery, with the tech-heavy NASD...
05:56 pm GMT - Sat, May 3, 2014
Techcrunch A Users Guide to Disrupt NY 2014
 The TechCrunch Disrupt Conference is almost upon us and we've partnered with some amazing folks to make your experience this year better than ever. Read More ...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 3, 2014
Techcrunch After Technology Destroys Capitalism
 In honor of May Day, let's think big for a moment. No, no, no. Bigger than that. Consider all the furious attention paid to economic inequality of late, courtesy of Thomas Piketty and Capital in...
02:35 am GMT - Sat, May 3, 2014
Techcrunch CrunchWeek: Foursquare Splits Into Two Apps, Facebook f8, Twitter Stock Sinks To New Lows
Most of the TechCrunch team has converged in New York City in advance of our annual Disrupt NY conference. So in this episode of CrunchWeek, we’re out of the TCTV studio and in a room at the his...
02:00 am GMT - Sat, May 3, 2014
Techcrunch Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs
 Good morrow, Bluffkin! How dost thou find thouself this good day? Not afraid of robots? You should be! Our first robots of the day are Avidbots, a swarming cleaning team that can fix messy floor...
02:00 am GMT - Sat, May 3, 2014
Techcrunch With IPO Hopes Fading, Square And Box Face Reality Of Commodity Products
 Square and Box would seem to be the very epitome of every startup founders dream of reaching the pinnacle of entrepreneurial success. Take a kernel of an idea and turn it into a massive, multi-b...
01:49 am GMT - Sat, May 3, 2014
Techcrunch MyFitnessPal Moves Into Asia With Localized Apps For China, Japan, And Korea
 MyFitnessPal, a nutrition and fitness startup that says it now has more than 50 million registered users, is announcing the last big piece in its international expansion.The company launched its...
01:08 am GMT - Sat, May 3, 2014
Techcrunch Steve Ballmer Now Owns More Microsoft Stock Than Bill Gates
 Bill Gates sold 4.6 million Microsoft shares recently, an SEC filing released today indicates. That action lowered his holdings to 330,141,164 shares in the company. Former CEO Steve Ballmer own...
01:02 am GMT - Sat, May 3, 2014
Techcrunch Ugggghhhhhh
 At a time when Silicon Valley is facing increasing scrutiny over thetreatment of women in technology, there emerges a website calledCodebabes.com, where, as you may have already heard, involvesw...
12:10 am GMT - Sat, May 3, 2014
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang Live 05.02.14
 Gillmor Gang - John Taschek, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific. Click here for live chat Read More ...
12:01 am GMT - Sat, May 3, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Promotes VP Of Product Chris Cox To Chief Product Officer, But No Organizational Change
 Chris Cox helped invent News Feed and devised Facebook's "Social By Design" strategy, so now the company is recognizing his critical contributions by promoting the VP Of Product to Chief Product...
11:47 pm GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch Making Child Support Easier, SupportPay Raises $1.1 Million
 Managing child support payments sucks. Even when divorces are amicable, the process of figuring out who pays for what when it comes to raising a child can be devastatingly difficult.Looking to m...
11:03 pm GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Acquires Power Efficient LED Tech Company LuxVue
 Apple has acquired LuxVue Technology, a stealthy company that had been working on micro-LED, screen technologies, we've heard from sources close to the transaction. The company had raised $43 mi...
11:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: The Harman/Kardon HTC One, LumaFit, and TC Disrupt
News was flowing this week, as HTC launched a new Spotify partnership alongside the ultra-premium HTC One M8 Harman/Kardon edition. Meanwhile, we took a closer look at the Lumafit health tracker, and ...
10:15 pm GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch Announcing Your Disrupt NY Startup Battlefield Final Judges: Borthwick, Botha, Dixon, Mayer, Pokorny And Wilson
 Welcome to sunny New York City, where people wear jackets to parties and time is of the essence! As you can probably guess, our whole team is here for the Disrupt NY conference at the Manhattan ...
09:37 pm GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch Google Buys Rangespan To Add Supply Chain Management To Google Shopping
 Google has made another move to build out its e-commerce business, and specifically Google Shopping. It has acquired Rangespan, a London-based provider of back office services for online retaile...
09:37 pm GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch Google Buys Rangespan To Add Big Data-Based Inventory Management To Google Shopping
 Google has made another move to build out its e-commerce business, and specifically its retail portal Google Shopping. It has acquired Rangespan, a London-based provider of back office services ...
09:37 pm GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch Google Buys Rangespan To Add Big Data Inventory Management To Google Shopping
 Google has made another move to build out its e-commerce business, and specifically its retail portal Google Shopping. It has acquired Rangespan, a London-based provider of back office services ...
09:30 pm GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch Tweets Can Guide Emergency Responders Almost Immediately After An Earthquake
 Aggregated data from sites like Google and Twitter have given researchers new ways to track things ranging from diseases to emergency responses after a disaster. Now Stanford researchers are usi...
09:06 pm GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch White House Report On Big Data Calls For Email Privacy Reform
 The White House this week released a report on big data in which it calls for an update to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). The act, which should in fact be called the Electroni...
08:43 pm GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch Foursquare Swarms Over Swarmly
 News that a major company or extremely well-funded competitor has launched a new product with a similar or identical name is certainly the kind of thing that keeps startup founders up at night. ...
08:05 pm GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch KidAdmit Wants To Take The Hassle Out Of Applying For Preschools In The Bay Area
 Applying to pre school in San Francisco is not that different from when you may have applied to college fifteen years ago. You have to complete a bunch of applications, either by hand, or print ...
07:35 pm GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch Sphero And Ollie Robotic Toy Maker Orbotix Has Raised Another $20M, Say Sources
 Orbotix, the company that makes fast-moving, robotic toys that you control with smartphone apps, has raised another $20 million in funding, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed with a reliable s...
07:24 pm GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch Heyzap Is Killing Its Standalone Social Discovery Apps For Gamers
 Mobile ad network Heyzap is shutting down its standalone applications, company CEO Immad Akund confirmed to us. The iOS application, which previously served as something of an app discovery serv...
07:05 pm GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch Happy Birthday, BASIC
 Fifty years ago this month, in 1964, a computer programming language winked to life that changed the course of a generation. While many would point to the rise of Unix and other ubiquitous progr...
06:47 pm GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch Windows XP Declines To Die, Sheds Mere 1.5% Market Share In April
 Massive worries about security? Check. Officially past its support date? Yep. More than a decade old in an industry that values youth not as a virtue, but as a weapon? Certainly. But akin to the...
06:26 pm GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch New Networking App NextSociety Helps You Find Your Most Relevant Connections For Any Purpose
 Heading out to TechCrunch Disrupt NYC next week? A newly launched mobile application called nextSociety canhelp you figure out who to meet there. Using a combination of your iPhone’s conta...
05:15 pm GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch Everything Facebook Launched At f8 And Why
 This year's f8 didn't see comedian Andy Sandberg bumbling around on stage parodying Mark Zuckerberg. And that was smart, because Facebook is no joke to the millions of developers that earn their...
05:05 pm GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch Adcade Launches Its Platform For Advertising Across Multiple Devices
 Stealthy advertising technology developer Adcade has a proposition for advertisers worried about the death of Flash. Get over it. The New York-based company has launched with a new technology th...
10:04 am GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch Puzzle Pieces $19 Tablets Help Children With Autism Learn Social Skills
 Almost as soon as the iPad came out, parents and therapists began incorporating apps into autism therapy. Many parents, however, cannot afford to buy a device for their child. New startup Puzzle...
03:14 am GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch Fab May Suffer Yet Another Round Of Layoffs
 Weve heard that design-focused e-commerce site Fab is planning another round of layoffs. At an internal meeting today, sources tell us that the company said it would be making a decision on the ...
12:54 am GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch Meet AltSchool, The Startup That Is Going To Reinvent Primary Education
Education is one of the last industries that is still going through massive change and disruption with the introduction of technology. In particular, we’ve seen the rise of iPads, the introducti...
12:28 am GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch Box IPO Delay Wouldnt Be Without Compromises
 It hasn’t been a great couple of weeks for Box. First came word that Intralinks bought DocTrackr, an information rights management vendor that Box reportedlyhad its eye on. Then last night...
12:12 am GMT - Fri, May 2, 2014
Techcrunch LinkedIn Beats The Street In Q1 On Sales Of $473M, EPS Of $0.38, Raises Outlook
 Amid a marketcorrection that has seen many tech stocks lose value, LinkedIn, the social network for the working world, today reported Q1 earnings that beat analyst estimates. Sales came in at $4...
11:58 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Flipt Wants To Help You Make Smarter Home Investment And Flipping Decisions
 While the U.S. real estate market is still experiencing its ups and downs, the number of online real estate startups continues to increase quickly. The latest entrant in this business is Flipt, ...
11:48 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Sleevely Tells You How Much Milk Your Wee Bairn Slurped All Day
 Babies, sweet bairns or waukrife rogues alike drink from bottles. But how is a poor parent to know how much the wee ones drank, how fresh the formula was, and how much more they should imbibe be...
11:06 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Vine Launches A Six-Second YouTube
 When Vine first launched on the web, all you could do was view your stream and check out profiles for individual users. The desktop version came with TV Mode, too, which was admittedly addictive...
10:48 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Ambient Proximity Is The Next Phase Of Location Sharing
 It's not where your friends are, but how close they are that matters. After years of exact coordinate check-ins, both Foursquare and Facebook are now focusing on ambient proximity -- constantly ...
10:48 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Netflix Accidentally Pulls Popular Shows Off The Service
 Twitter has exploded again, which can only mean one thing: Netflix has experienced technical difficulties that are keeping people from their favorite TV shows. Hell hath no fury like the scorn o...
09:21 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Screw It, Yelp Should Do Three Apps
 After this morning's announcement that Foursquare will become Eightsquare in order to be a "true Yelp-killer," we have the following advice to give competitor Yelp: "Screw it. Do three apps."As ...
09:08 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft Patches Latest Internet Explorer Security Flaw Even For XP Users
 Microsoft is issuing an update to Internet Explorer today that patches a very serious security issue in its browser. This issue came to light over the weekendand what made it especially problema...
09:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Meet The Vanhawks Valour, A Connected Bike With GPS Navigation To Help You Get Around
 Vanhawks seeks to make bicycles smarter, and is starting with a bike called the Valour that is Bluetooth-enabled to connect with smartphones and other devices. That connectivity also provides th...
08:57 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch TechCrunch Giveaway: Ben Horowitzs The Hard Thing About Hard Things
 Ben Horowitz's story is nothing if not empowering, fascinating, and -- to many in our community -- relatable. In his new book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building A Business When There Ar...
08:53 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Microsoft Acquires High-Performance Cloud-Computing Company GreenButton
Microsoft today announced that it has acquired GreenButton, a U.S.- and New Zealand-based high-performance cloud-computing company that has long had a close relationship with Microsoft's Azure group. ...
08:51 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Robocoin Is Leading The Way With The First ATM-Based Bitcoin Banks
 Robocoin, a popular bitcoin ATM provider, is announcing that they're upgrading all of their ATMs to turn them into full service "banks" complete with account control, payment systems, and a meth...
08:35 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch SpaceX Wins An Injunction Against United Launch Alliances Purchase Of Russian Rockets
 After announcing last week that it would be filing suit against the U.S. Air Force over thegovernmentagency’s decision to award a contract for national defense-related rocket launches excl...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch MakeSpace, The Dropbox For Physical Storage, Packs Up $8 Million Led By Upfront Ventures
 NY-based MakeSpace, the Dropbox for physical objects, has today closed an $8 million Series A funding round led by Upfront Ventures, with participation from Founders Fund, OATV, and follow-ons f...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch First Class Graduates From Data Elite Big Data Lab
 Stamos Venios, Managing Partner of Data Elite says his company had a vision when they conceived of Data Elite, a lab of sorts, providing a support system for people withideas for big data compan...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Kamcord, The SDK That Allows You To Record Mobile Games, Raises $7.1M From TransLink Capital
 Kamcord, the SDK that allows gamers to record in-game video on mobile, has raised $7.1 million in Series A funding led by TransLink Capital with participation from SV Angel as well as DeNA, KLab...
07:37 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch The Golden Goose, A Nifty Gadget That Scrambles Eggs In Their Shell, Kills It On Kickstarter
 A Kickstarter-backed gadget called the Golden Goose is a new kitchen utility that lets you scramble eggs in the shell. Why? Because you can. I have to admit, I sort of love it when people find a...
07:37 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch The Golden Goose, A Nifty Gadget That Scrambles Eggs In Their Shells, Kills It On Kickstarter
 A Kickstarter-backed gadget called the Golden Goose is a new kitchen utility that lets you scramble eggs in the shell. Why? Because you can. I have to admit, I sort of love it when people find a...
07:25 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Box: Our IPO Has Never Had A Set Date, Well Go When It Makes Sense
 Nobody going to rain onBox‘s cloud. The cloud-storage startuphit the news yesterday when the WSJ reported that it would be delaying its IPO to June, a story that was further elaborated wit...
06:58 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Amazons Smartphone Design Reportedly Leaks, Looks Like A Galaxy S Crossed With An iPhone
 Amazon’s smartphone is looking more and more like an imminent reality, and now BGR is bringing what it says is the first look at the actual design of the hardware to the table. The phone a...
06:38 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Foursquare Splits Into Two Apps, But Will Either Be Strong Enough To Survive?
 Foursquare is planning to split its core app into two separate experiences, one that provides recommendations and another that acts as a “social heat map” where users check in and se...
06:25 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Indoor Positioning Startup Wifarer Not Acquired By Apple, But Its CEO And Founder Now Works There
 Ifa CEO and co-founder quits his indoor positioning startup to work for Apple, should his staff and customers be concerned? Wifarer, astartup which offers tools to help consumers navigate malls,...
06:25 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Indoor Positioning Startup Wifarer Not Acquired By Apple, But Its Founder Now Works There
 Ifa CEO and co-founder quits his indoor positioning startup to work for Apple, should his staff and customers be concerned? Wifarer, astartup which offers tools to help consumers navigate malls,...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Web Performance Monitoring Startup Catchpoint To Expand In China And Russia
 Catchpoint Systems, a web and infrastructure performance monitoring company, will expand its monitoring locations to 206 backbone nodes, focusing on Eastern Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. T...
05:58 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Amazon Same-Day Delivery Arrives In San Francisco And Dallas, With Expanded Ordering Hours
Amazon is expanding its same-day delivering to new cities including San Francisco and Dallas, starting today, according to a report from The WSJ. The four-year old program todayreaches a dozen other c...
05:46 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Samsungs Newest Galaxy-Exclusive App Is Basically Just LeBron James
 Samsung is in the app-making business, and while it has been for some time, it’s now focused on releasing Galaxy-exclusive software that adds post-purchase value to the experience of ownin...
05:17 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Decide.com Founder Brian Ma Returns With Weave, Which Is Like Tinder For Professional Networking
 If Tinder is the solution to the spammy nature of say, Match.com, then Brian Ma's new app Weave could be the solution to LinkedIn -- helping busy professionals to connect with only the people th...
05:14 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Apple Patents MacBook Keys With Built-In Displays, Touch Sensors And Haptic Feedback
 Apple may be planning a big upgrade for the standard computer keyboard, according to a new patent filing published by the USPTO and spotted by AppleInsider today. The filing describes a notebook...
04:42 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Halo, The Brain-Improving Wearable, Raises $1.5 Million
 While the thought of applying electricity directly to the brain in unsupervised conditions is, to some, a bit scary, Halo Neuroscience has gotten over a million smackers to allow you to do just ...
04:05 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Vhoto Launches App Capturing Still Images From Video
 Taking the perfect picture is tricky (at least for me). I'm famous for being the world's worst photographer (seriously... there's an award), but a new app called Vhoto which launched for the iOS...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch MyCheck Now Lets You Pay At Table, Split Bills And Tip Right From PayPal App
 PayPal users will now have more options to pay with their phone when dining out. Thanks to a collaboration with Tel Aviv-headquartered checkout technology provider MyCheck, users will be able to...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Groupon Goes After Costco And Sams Club With Groupon Basics, A Portal For Home Goods
 Last year, Groupon’s CEO Eric Lefkovsky said that his ambition was to makethe e-commerce company’s Goods business more like Costco, not Amazon. Today, the company is launching a new ...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch HowAboutWe Launches You&Me Messaging App For Couples
Prepping for a summer of love, dating apps and services are putting on their game faces. Fresh on the heels of a new Match.com app release, HowAboutWe has just launched a standalone messaging app for ...
03:34 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Social Marketing Company Unified Acquires Analytics Startup Awe.sm
 Unified, which has created what it calls a "social operating platform," is announcing that it has acquired analytics startup Awe.sm.Unified offers tools for buying ads on social media, and for m...
03:30 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch General Catalyst Backs Agile Software Development Shop For Government Orgs, OGSystems
 OGSystems is announcing an undisclosed amount of funding from VC firm General Catalyst, and the appointment of Tad Elmer, an XIR at the firm and former CEO of BBN Technologies to its board of di...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch LeapFrog Hops Into The Kids Wearables Space With A Gamified Fitness Tracker
 LeapFrog, a purveyor of tablets and other education tech designed specifically for kids, has leapt into the wearables space -- with a gamified fitness-focused wearable, also for kids, which lets...
02:06 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Amazon Takes A 25% Stake In Colis Prive To Ramp Up Its Delivery Network In France
 E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly made its first investment into the French market: it has acquired a 25% stake in Colis Priv, a delivery company that competes in France against the likes o...
02:03 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Snapchat Adds Ephemeral Text Chat And Video Calls
 Snapchat is slowly adding features on top of its highly successful ephemeral messaging platform. Today’s two new features are a good old chat interface and a new FaceTime-like video callin...
12:30 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Cloud Storage Startup Tresorit Raises $3M To Put Security Spotlight On Dropbox, Box And Others
 Swiss-Hungarian startup Tresorit is a cloud-storage solution it claims one-ups the likes of Dropbox and Box in terms of security and privacy because it employs end-to-end encryption, meaning tha...
12:09 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Security Firm CertiVox Bags $8M To Grow Its Secure Alternative To Passwords
 London based security company CertiVox, which sells information security infrastructure-as-a-service, has closed an $8 million Series B round of investment from new investors NTT Docomo Venture...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Logitech Just Entered The Smartphone Accessory Market In A Big Way
 Meet Case+, Logitech’s first iPhone accessory line. But unlike most iPhone accessories, this isn’t a race down the crapchuteto the bottom. This line of products brings a novel featur...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Swiping Is The New Liking Now Applies To Shoe Shopping
 Swipe right if you like. Swipe left if you dont. Stylect, a shoe shopping app for iOS, has a Tinder-esque UI, underpinned by its own recommendation engine, to help women find and purchase the pe...
10:51 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Londons Farfetch, The Luxury Fashion Boutique Platform, Raises $66M
 Farfetch, the global e-commerce site for independent luxury fashion boutiques, has raised a $66m Series D round of investment led by Vitruvian Partners, a private equity firm. Farfetch’s e...
08:07 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Elance-oDesk Launches In Australia To Compete With Freelancer.com
 Elance-oDesk launched today in Australia with a new country manager and two city managers based in Melbourne and Sydney. The company also said it plans to hire more city managers to oversee its ...
05:14 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Box Might Put Its IPO Back In The Box
 Box was rumored to have filed to go public on January 31. On March 24, its S-1 dropped, showing the world quick revenue growth but stubborn and expanding losses.Today the Wall Street Journal rep...
04:41 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Farfetch, An Online Marketplace For Designer Fashion Boutiques, Raises $66M
 Farfetch, an online marketplace for independent fashion boutiques, has raised $66 million led by private equity firm Vitruvian Partners, with existing investors Cond Nast International and Adven...
04:30 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Will Soon Open-Source More Of The Core Technology Behind Its Paper App
At its F8 developer conference Facebook today announced that it will soon open-source more of the technology behind its Paper mobile app for iOS. In a few weeks, the company will upload the code for D...
04:21 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Selling Your Firm? Prioritize Dollars Over Prestige
 Right after Adobe acquired EchoSign, I ran into a friend whose company had recently been acquired for several hundred million dollars after having raised very little capital. It was a great outc...
04:21 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Selling Your Company? Prioritize Dollars Over Prestige
 Right after Adobe acquired EchoSign, I ran into a friend whose company had recently been acquired for several hundred million dollars after having raised very little capital. It was a great outc...
04:07 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Visible Measures Launches Fabric, A Self-Serve Ad-Buying Platform For Content Marketers
 Ad company Visible Measures is launching a new ad-buying platform called Fabric, which the company says is "the first of its kind to focus on native experiences" and other ads that consumers "op...
03:32 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch PunchTab Raises $6.25M To Turn Loyalty Programs Into An Enterprise Data Business
 PunchTab, the startup led by YouSendIt (now known as Hightail) founder Ranjith Kumaran, is announcing that it has raised $6.25 million in additional funding. The company started out by helping b...
03:28 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Google Takes On Microsoft For Productivity Dominance Of Apples Mobile Platform
Earlier today Google released Docs and Sheets, two productivity applications for iOS. The unified apps work across iPhone and iPad devices.The new apps are just picking up their first ratings and rank...
03:09 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Facebooks New APIs Let Media Outlets Visualize Trending Topics And Hashtags
 TV news and other media sources now have a way to show off what’s popular on Facebook and with whom. Today Facebook launched theTrending, Topic Insights, Topic Feed, and Hashtag Counter AP...
03:03 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Netshow.me, Brazils Answer To StageIt, Raises Seed Round
 Tired of ticket fees, sweaty seething masses of teeming humanity, clubs that smell of body odor and stale beer, and concerts that sell out before you can even take out your credit card?Well, if ...
03:02 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Waggl Raises $1.1 Million With A New Take On Enterprise Messaging And Polling
 A new San Francisco-based startup has raised $1.1 million in seed financing with a new take on messaging and polling for businesses. The company takes its name from the informative dance that be...
02:17 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Why Payment Innovation Is Not Enough For Retail
 Once a key differentiator, mobile payments are fast becoming a commodity and are widely used by retailers. Yankee Group found that 61 percent of large merchants already use a mobile checkout or ...
02:17 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Payment Innovation Is Not Enough For Retail
 Once a key differentiator, mobile payments are fast becoming a commodity and are widely used by retailers. Yankee Group found that 61 percent of large merchants already use a mobile checkout or ...
02:13 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Oracle Announces Its Cross-Platform Marketing Cloud
 Oracle today announced the launch of the Oracle Marketing Cloud, a platform that combines technology from a number of the company's acquisitions, including Eloqua, Compendium, Responsys, and Blu...
01:22 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Internet.org Lets f8 Developers Test Apps On A Simulated Low-Bandwidth Network
 Until now, Internet.org has been a lot of talk about connecting the world without much to touch. But today at f8, Facebook and Ericsson gave Internet.org its first physical incarnation with a ha...
01:18 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Google Will Also Stop Scanning Google Apps Inboxes For Ads
 Earlier this morning, Google announced that it would stop scanning students' Apps for Education accounts to target ads at them. What was somewhat lost in that announcement was that Google will a...
01:11 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Ambri Raises $35 Million For A New Approach To Grid-Scale Power Storage
 The use of renewable energy is growing in the U.S., but its adoption has put pressure on old, overtaxed power grids. The intermittency of wind and solar power means that transmission systems nee...
12:16 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch Yelp Drops 6% Despite Posting Better-Than-Expected Q1 Revenue Of $76.4M, EPS Of -$0.04 [Update: Now Plus5%]
 After the closing of regular trading today, Yelp reported its first quarter financial performance, including revenue of $76.4 million, and earnings per share of -$0.04. The market had expected t...
12:00 am GMT - Thu, May 1, 2014
Techcrunch SV Angels David Lee And Brian Pokorny Will School Disrupt NY On Whats Broken In Startup Land
 There are few venture capital funds as close to the street as SV Angel. That's why we're bringing SV Angel co-founders and managing partners David Lee and Brian Pokorny on stage at TechCrunch Di...
11:49 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Gives 450K Ecwid Ecommerce Merchants Autofill For Billing Info To Simplify Checkout
 Facebook today announced a partnership with ecommerce site platform Ecwid to let its merchants easily integrate Autofill With Facebook, a feature that lets customers pull in credit card, billing...
11:49 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Rolls Out Billing Info Autofill For Simpler Checkout To 450K Ecwid Ecommerce Merchants
 Facebook today announced a partnership with ecommerce site platform Ecwid to let its merchants easily integrate Autofill With Facebook, a feature that lets customers pull in credit card, billing...
11:49 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Rolls Out Billing Info Autofill For Simpler Checkout To 450K Ecwid E-Commerce Merchants
 Facebook today announced a partnership with ecommerce site platform Ecwid to let its merchants easily integrate Autofill With Facebook, a feature that lets customers pull in credit card, billing...
11:35 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Facebooks Stock Picks Up Momentum After Announcing Its Mobile Ad Network
On the back of an analyst upgrade based on optimism about the future of its ad products, Facebook today picked up nearly 2.5 percent in the public markets. After starting the day at a deficit, Faceboo...
11:20 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch The Lumafit Wearable Activity Tracker Will Make You Drop Down And Give It 20
 If you're like me, your exercise goals primarily consist of not looking like Jabba. That said, what if you could put on a wearable that would coach you through workouts, commenting on form and i...
10:49 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Audience Network Actually Plays Nice With Twitters MoPub
 With today's announcement of Facebook's mobile ad network, you might assume that it poses a threat to Twitter's ad efforts, particularly MoPub, the mobile ad company it acquired last year. The d...
10:33 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler: Internet Will Not Be Divided Into Haves And Have-Nots
 At a meeting of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association this afternoon, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler took to the stage and again addressed net neutrality, along with municipal broadb...
10:28 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Version One Ventures Founding Partner Boris Wertz Joins Andreessen Horowitz
One of (if not the) most well-respected fixtures in the Canadian venture capital scene has joined Andreessen Horowitz as a board partner, as Boris Wertz addsthe Valley-based firm to his resume. Wertz ...
10:19 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Yext Acquires Software Consulting Firm Citrrus To Build Its Professional Services Team
 Yext is announcing its first acquisition software consulting and development company Citrrus.Yext focuses on helping businesses large and small synchronize the content and data on their listing...
10:16 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Updates Parse With Lower Prices, Improved Analytics, Offline Capabilities
 At Facebook’s F8 developer conference today, Parse CEO and co-founder Ilya Sukhar announced that the company is significantly lowering its prices for developers. Until now, Parse offered d...
09:56 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Announcing The Disrupt NY Hackathon Judges And API Workshops
 The Disrupt NY 2014 Hackathon kicks off Saturday at noon and we’re excited to announce the judges and API workshops for the event. Tarikh Korula is returning to reprise his role as the Hac...
09:56 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Announcing The Disrupt NY Hackathon Judges, API Workshops And Awards
 The Disrupt NY 2014 Hackathon kicks off Saturday at noon and we’re excited to announce the judges and API workshops for the event. Tarikh Korula is returning to reprise his role as the Hac...
09:56 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Audience Network Mobile Ad Network Launches At f8
 Facebook today launched its mobile ad network called Facebook Audience Network so developers can make money without having to sell their own ads, do their own targeting, handle measurement, or r...
09:51 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Launches Mobile Like Button For Sharing From Apps
 Facebook today announced the launch of its mobile 'Like' button for sharing from apps. This complements Facebook's Like button for the mobile and desktop web. Given the importance of mobile apps...
09:36 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Launches AppLinks To Make Deep Linking Between Apps Easier
 At its F8 developer conference today, Parse CEO and co-founder Ilya Sukharannounced the launch of AppLinks.org, a new initiative that will make deep-linking between native apps easier for develo...
09:34 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch This DIY Geocaching Bracelet Shows The Power Of Wearables
 Geocaching is a fun activity that involves finding little things hidden in the real world. The kids and I try to do it when we travel and we usually end up circling a bush for a few minutes befo...
09:18 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Launches Anonymous Login So You Can Try Apps Without Giving Up Your Data
 At its F8 developer conference today, Facebook announced a new version of its login system for third-party apps that lets people log in anonymously so they can demo apps before they provide thei...
09:18 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Finishing Its Third Batch, Koreas KStartup Accelerator Sees Great Hope For Seouls Tech Ecosystem
 KStartup, a Seoul-based non-profit accelerator started by David Lee and KJ Byeon, is designed to not just assist startups, but to build a wider ecosystem. Its a harder job here versus a lot of t...
09:16 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Themes f8 Around A Stabile Mobile Platform, Offers 2 Year API Stability Guarantee
 The theme for today’s f8 Facebook conference is “Stabile mobile platform”, an effort to give developers an assurance Facebook won’t change and break things like it used t...
09:16 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Themes f8 Around A Stable Mobile Platform, Offers 2-Year API Stability Guarantee
 The theme for today’s f8 Facebook conference is “stable mobile platform,”an effort to give developers an assurance Facebook won’t change and break things like it used to....
09:16 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch App Analytics And Personalisation Platform, Liquid, Raises $1M And Opens Public Beta
 Liquid, a startup with an app analytics platform that lets developers dynamically serve different versions of their app based on whose eyeballs are looking, has closed a $1 million seed round, w...
09:15 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Yahoo Screen Arrives On Android
 Yahoo Screen, Yahoo's relatively new mobile app for streaming video, is now available on Android. The app first launched last September to iOS users on iPhone and iPad. The news comes only a cou...
09:00 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch IoT Startup Evrythng Secures $7M Series A From Atomico, BHLP, Cisco And Dawn
 We last covered Evrythng, an ‘Internet of Things’ startup in depth, back when it was first funded by Atomico to go and realise the vision that many digital prophets had talked about ...
08:43 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch One Month After Microsoft Office Hits iPad, Google Debuts Dedicated Productivity Apps For iOS
 Google has released standalone apps for Google Docs and Google Sheets, breaking out these two productivity applications from within Google Drive, which is where users could go to access them on ...
08:16 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Hulu, Now With 6 Million Subscribers, Will Make Some TV Episodes Free On Mobile
 Today at Hulu’s upfronts, the company announced a major change for its business with the reveal that it would begin streaming a selection of ad-supported TV episodesfor free on mobile devi...
08:01 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Protecting Against CyberAttacks Through Social Networks ZeroFOX Raises $11 Million
 Anyone can be anyone on social networks. It’s part of the allure of sites like Facebook and Twitter. They enable self-expression, but increasingly the ability to assume any identity online...
08:01 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Protecting Against CyberAttacks Through Social Networks, ZeroFOX Raises $11 Million
 Anyone can be anyone on social networks. It’s part of the allure of sites like Facebook and Twitter. They enable self-expression, but increasingly the ability to assume any identity online...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch 500 Startups Accelerator Announces Its Ninth Batch Of Companies And Two New EIRs
 The 500 Startups Accelerator keeps rolling along. Now about two years old, the program is already on its ninth batch of participating companies. It's also added a couple of entrepreneurs-in-resi...
07:48 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Twitter Shares Hit All-Time Low
 Following yesterday’s earnings, Twitter shares (NYSE:TWTR) have been tanking to an all-time low. This morning, shares opened at $37.66, or 11.6 percent below yesterday’s closing pric...
07:44 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook f8 2014 Developer Conference Keynote Live Blog
 Today is the day: Facebook kicks off its 2014 f8 Developer Conference in San Francisco, with a keynote beginning at 10 AM PT (1 PM ET). You can follow along right here as we bring you live updat...
07:44 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Surprise! Mobile Users Are Internet Savvy
 Congratulations! Act now to read this entire post to win some understanding about human nature! Researchers at the Penn State Media Effects Research Laboratory have found that time sensitive ban...
07:36 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Nate Bolt Leaves Facebook To Focus On His User Research Company Ethnio
 Even by the evolving standards of Silicon Valley "talent acquisitions", Nate Bolt joined Facebook in an unusual way. The social networking giant hired part of Bolt's design research firm Bolt Pe...
07:30 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Shoebox Raises $1.2M To Not Only Store Your Photos In The Cloud, But Help You Rediscover Them, Too
 Toronto-based cloud photo storage, backup and management startup Shoebox has raised a $1.2 million seed round, the company told TechCrunch exclusively today. The round is led by Canada’s B...
06:37 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Aiming To Build Beautiful, Internet-Connected Displays, Electric Objects Raises $1.7M
 Jake Levine, most recently the general manager of Digg, is hoping to build devices that change the way we interact with the Internet, and he's raised $1.7 million in seed funding to make that ha...
06:35 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Cloaq, The Anonymous Social App That Doesnt Require An Email Or Phone Number, Goes Live
 On the same day that anonymous social sharing app Secret isofficially crossing the pondto launch in the U.K.,Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, another new anonymous app called Cloaq is making ...
06:28 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Ubi, The Ubiquitous Computer, Can Now Control Your Lights
 When we first met Ubi, a voice-activated Android computer that hangs out on your wall, she was fairly powerless. While she kind-of-sort-of worked well, I found her to be very limited. That chang...
06:06 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Facebook Messenger For Android Gets Improved Photo And Video Sharing
 Facebook’s dedicated Messenger app for Android now offers the features that hit the iOS app earlier this week, including quick access to photo and video sharing in the same window as your ...
06:05 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Indias Snapdeal Now Gets Over Half Its Sales Through Mobile As M-Commerce Goes Mainstream
 India’s largest e-commerce marketplace, Snapdeal, now gets over half of its sales from mobile-based transactions, up from just 5% from the same platform nearly a year ago. In a statement, ...
06:02 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Augment Raises $1.5 Million For Its Augmented Reality Solution
 French startup Augment raised $1.5 million to fuel international growth. Three private investors participated in this round — Alain Roubach, Georges Saier and Stanislas Cromback. Augment m...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Moveline Packs Up $3 Million Series A From ffVC
 Moveline, the company that makes moving less torturous, has today announced that they closed a $3 million Series A round led by ff Venture Capital, with participation from Vegas Tech Fund, Tony ...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Blue Apron Closes $50M Led By Stripes Group At $450M Valuation
 Just as we had previously reported, Blue Apron has officially closed a $50 million Series C round of funding led by Stripes Group. According to our sources, the $50 million came at a $450 millio...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Sunnycomb, The Weather App That Creates Personalized Forecasts, Launches On Android
 Sunnycomb, the app that tries to predict how each day's weather will make you feel, is now available on Android. Though there are already plenty of well-known weather apps on the market, includi...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Online Music Video Distributor Vevo Launches In Mexico
 Since launching in 2009, Vevo has become the go-to place for watching music videos online. But it hasn’t been available everywhere. Today, it continues its country-by-country rollout, laun...
05:45 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Marc Benioff Funds Social Network For Film Lovers MovieLaLa
 “Movie studios are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to market movies without the analytics and data to know where to target that marketing and to know it’s working,” sa...
05:41 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch The Onion Asks Itself What Kind Of BuzzFeed Parody Are You? With New Website ClickHole
 BuzzFeed and Upworthy are tough to parody, since they seem to cross the line into self-parody often enough, but news lampoon site The Onion is going to give it a shot anyway. The joke media gian...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Proto.io Lets You Create Mobile App Prototypes And See Them Run In A Native App
 Proto.io, a mobile prototyping platform that's been organically growing its footprint over the last couple of years, is now offering a fairly notable new feature: In addition to being able to ea...
04:55 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Tinitell Is A Wearable Phone And GPS Tracker For Kids
 Wearables continue to be an area of focus for device makers, large and small. Here's another would-be entrant to the space: Tinitell is a wearable phone and GPS tracker for kids, with electronic...
04:50 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Q App Aims To End Queuing At The Bar At The Royal Albert Hall, Among Others
 In the age of the smartphone, queuing for stuff shouldn’t really exist. Why can you not be alerted when it’s your turn to be served or to be seated? A number of startups are looking ...
04:45 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Carats & Cake Introduces Premium Vendor Profiles Just In Time For Wedding Season
 As wedding season swings into top gear, NY-based Carats & Cake is looking to cash in a bit. The company, which has been an online marketplace for couples to connect with wedding vendors sinc...
04:11 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Red Hat Buys Ceph Provider Inktank For $175M In Cash To Beef Up Its Cloud Storage Offerings
Red Hat, the open source software provider, has just announced that it is buying Inktank, a developer of open-source storage systems, for $175 million in cash. Red Hat says it will combine InktankR...
04:11 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Red Hat Buys Inktank For $175M In Cash To Beef Up Its Cloud Storage Offerings
 Red Hat, the open source software provider, is squaring up to Amazon in the storage market. It has just announced that it is buying Inktank, a developer of open-source storage systems, for $175 ...
03:41 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Google Stops Mining Education Gmail And Google Apps Accounts For Ad Targeting
 Google will no longer scan student and teacher Gmail messages or use data from Apps for Education for advertising purposes, the company told the WSJ today. The move comes after Google’s us...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Aviso Aims To Take Guess Work Out Of Earnings Forecasts
 Aviso came out of stealth mode today with the goal of helping companies provide more accurate earnings forecasts. K.V. Rao, co-founder and CEO at Aviso explained thatthe company has been working...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Aviso Aims To Take Guesswork Out Of Earnings Forecasts
 Aviso came out of stealth mode today with the goal of helping companies provide more accurate earnings forecasts. K.V. Rao, co-founder and CEO at Aviso explained thatthe company has been working...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Understory Raises $1.9M To Deploy Its Network Of Hyper-Local, Ground-Level Weather Stations
 Weather data currently comes from high-altitude locations, and rarely reflects conditions on the ground with a high degree of accuracy. Boston-based startup Understory wants to change that, and ...
02:40 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Sherpalo Partner Launches $90M India Fund As Ram Shriram, Kleiner Shift Focus Away From India
 Sandeep Murthy, a general partner at Sherpalo who managed the firm’s India investments, is launching two new funds — Lightbox Ventures I that has already acquired stakes in 6 startup...
02:34 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch LGs Next Flagship Smartphone Will Launch On May 27
 Smartphone maker LG is preparing to take the wraps off a new flagship handsetat six launch events in cities around the world planned for May 27 and 28 . It’s not specifyingthe name of the ...
12:25 pm GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Lix, A More Precise 3D-Printing Pen, Passes Its Kickstarter Goal In 2-Hours
 Remember the 3Doodler? A U.K. startup is taking aim at building a more precise 3D-printing pen for the professional user -- designers, architects and so on. Their Lix pen prototype passed its Ki...
11:14 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Opera Buys Another Mobile Ad Startup, Apprupt, As Sales Rise 40%
 Opera Software, the Norway-based company that makes browsers for mobile and other devices, today reported its quarterly results and announced another acquisition along the way: apprupt, a mobile...
11:14 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Opera Buys A Rich Media Mobile Ad Startup, Apprupt, As Sales Rise 40%
 Opera Software, the Norway-based company that makes browsers for mobile and other devices, today reported its quarterly results and announced another acquisition along the way: apprupt, a mobile...
11:14 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Opera Buys Rich Media Mobile Ad Startup Apprupt, As Q1 Sales Rise 40%
 Opera Software, the Norway-based company that makes browsers for mobile and other devices, today reported its quarterly results and announced another acquisition along the way: apprupt, a mobile...
11:04 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch iOS App AsthmaMD 3.0 Makes It Easier For Patients And Physicians To Manage Symptoms
 When TechCrunch first covered AsthmaMD in 2010, the medical tech startup's goal was to gather data that would help researchers better understand when attacks are more likely. Since then, the sta...
09:56 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Concur Increases Stake In Indias Cleartrip, Buys Out Sherpalo and Kleiner
 Travel and expense management company Concur wants a bigger pie of the $3 billion Indian online travel market. The company has just concluded negotiations withSherpalo Ventures and Kleiner Perki...
09:14 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Looks Like Facebook Will Make Ecommerce And User Testing Announcements At f8
 What exactly is Facebook launching tomorrow? It's hard to say. But we know it's planning coordinated announcements with at least one ecommerce platform and one product testing service, as these ...
06:17 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Foxconns FIH Invests $2.2M In Social Media Site mig33
 Project Goth (PGI), the holding company of social networking platform mig33, has received $2.2 million in funding from FIH, one of Foxconn’s handset manufacturing service providers. Founde...
03:54 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Before Rebranding As Mode Media, Glam Raised An Additional $15M
 Online publisher and ad company Glam Media announced several major initiatives today for one thing, it's now called Mode Media. For another, it's launching a new video business, with a new cont...
03:08 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch 500 Startups Partner George Kellerman Joins Paul Singhs Crystal Tech Fund
 500 Startups Venture Partner George Kellerman is jumping ship to join former colleague Paul Singh to be part of his Crystal Tech Fund, which was launched earlier this year. He will be doing the ...
03:02 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Watch The Nymi Heartbeat Identification Wristband Personalize Its Wearers PC
 Toronto-based hardware startup Bionym gave a special public demo of itsNymi ECG authentication and identification wristband at the monthly We Are Wearables event yesterday, and talked a bit abou...
02:36 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch FCC Chairman Promises To Regulate The Internet As A Utility If Needed To Protect Net Neutrality
In a sternly worded blog post today, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler further explained his views on net neutrality, detailing how he plans to implement them. Most important in his comments is a promise to re...
02:00 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Food Ordering Site Delivery.com Expands To Hong Kong
 Delivery.com is launching outside the U.S. for the first time with a new site in Hong Kong that provides online food ordering and delivery to corporate consumers. The company is backed with an u...
02:00 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch MITs Bitcoin Club To Give $100 In BTC To Every Student
 YOU get bitcoin! And YOU get bitcoin. In fact, everyone at MIT gets bitcoin. Two ambitious MIT students, CS sophomore Jeremy Rubin and MBA candidate Dan Elitzer, have raised over $500,000 so tha...
01:48 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Twitter: We Have No Plan For A Secondary Offering
 Today on its earnings call, Twitter indicated that it has no plan to host a secondary offering of its shares to provide liquidity to its large shareholders and early investors. In a filed 8-K, T...
01:43 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch DollarPhotoClub Expands Into More Markets, Hits 11,000 Users
 Stock photo provider DollarPhotoClub is a shot across the bow of the Big Stock Photo Cartels. Created by a repeat entrepreneur and owner of one of the biggest modeling agencies in England, the c...
01:41 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Adly And Nestivity Merge, Will Integrate Their Social Marketing Tools
 Social marketing companies Adly and Nestivity have announced that they are merging. Moving forward, they'll be one company doing business under the Adly name. As you may recall, Adly connects ad...
01:40 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch This Monstrous Linksys WRT1900AC Router Is For Folks With A Real Appetite For Networking
 There are wireless routers, and then there are wireless routers with a 1.2GHz dual-core Marvel Armada SoC processor and 256MB RAM that supports USB 3.0 drive transfer speeds and has four massive...
01:33 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Sony Xperia Z2 Review: A Waterproof Android Smartphone That Goes Beyond Gimmicks
 Sony hasn’t had a great time of it in the U.S. smartphone market over the past few years, and it recently announced that its new flagship, the Xperia Z2, would only be made available to U....
01:12 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Twitter Shares Test New All-Time Lows After Its Q1 Earnings Fail To Excite Investors
Twitter’s stock is plumbing thedepths today, hitting a new low of $38.27, belowitspreviously recorded lowest-point of $38.80. Twitter went public for $26 per share and shot to more than $74 per ...
01:11 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Google Denies Shady Claim That AdSense Robbed Publishers
 An alleged former Google employee has anonymously published unconfirmed allegations that AdSense purposefully banned publishers right before their periodic payout so it could keep their ad reven...
01:00 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch TC Cribs Tours Optimizelys Spacious HQ, Where Table Tennis Is A Serious Sport
 It’s time for a new installment of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV show that takes you inside the doors of some of the tech industry’s hottest companies. This time around, we headed to the ...
12:19 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch eBay Beats, Q1 Non-GAAP Earnings Up 11 Percent to $899M, Revenue Up 14 Percent To $4.3B
 eBay just reported first quarter earnings this afternoon, beating expectations. Non-GAAP earnings increased 11%, to $899 million or $0.70 per diluted share, over the prior year, driven by strong...
12:13 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Twitter User Growth Accelerates To 5.8%, With 255M Monthly Users (And 78% Of Them On Mobile)
 Twitter just released its earnings report for the first quarter of 2014, saying it has grown its monthly active user base to 255 million. Will that be enough to avert more awkward questions abou...
12:06 am GMT - Wed, April 30, 2014
Techcrunch Twitter Beats In Q1 With $250M In Revenue And Picks Up 14M New Monthly Active Users
 Twitter released its first quarter financial performance this afternoon, reporting revenue of $250 million in the period, and earnings per share of $0.00 on a non-GAAP basis. The street had expe...