Articles by Techcrunch from June 2015

 Music discovery platform Shazam is today rolling out a new feature in partnership with over two dozen artists that will allow Shazam users to see which songs their favorite musici...

 “Someone in this room, I am very confident is going to found a multi-billion dollar company and change the world in a big way, and 90 percent of the people in this room will end up with a ...

 Update: In an interview, Microsoft indicated that Bing now doesn’t lose money. That’s a several quarters ahead of its stated public cashflow schedule. Following the news that it will...

 Amazon today announced two new tools that make it easier for developers to control their expenses on its AWS cloud computing platform. Read More ...

 Whilecompanies likeWarby Parker and Toms Shoeshave made corporate responsibility more popular over the past few years, the technology industry hasn’t adapted as quickly. Meet LSTN, a headp...

 Facebook wants to become your favorite Internet TV by tracking what a television never could. Today it announced a News Feed algorithm change that will show you more videos similar to ones you e...

 Construct co-founders Drew Beaurline and Patrick Albert are taking on one of the nation’s most corrupt and bureaucratic industries – possibly a job only twenty-something foreigners w...

 It’s the eve of Apple Music, which launches tomorrow, and all through the house, not a creature was withholding their content, not even a Taylor Swift. Also, Force Touch is basically a loc...

 Following last week’s eavesdropping reports, WikiLeaks shared new documents with Libration and Mediapart. This time, the new documents reveal that the NSA was spying on France’s best...

 Livecoding.tv, a startup in Y Combinator’s current class, is launching today to help coders learn from their peers in real time.The way Livecoding works is pretty simple. Developers stream...

 Digital privacy is on the ropes, and public cynicism is running high. But there are glimmers of innovation in what could be a new phase for Big Data: empowering the customer. Read More ...

 Uber will acquire assets from Microsoft Bing, including roughly 100 employees focused on the product’s image collection activities. In short, Uber is absorbing data-collection engineers fr...

 French Minister of State for the digital economy Axelle Lemaire announced last week a new entrepreneur visa package called the French Tech Ticket. With this package, foreign entrepreneurs could ...

 Diversity is a problem even Silicon Valley cannot solve — something Tracy Chou plainly highlighted in2013 when sheset up a databaseto help quantify the Valley’s diversity issue with ...

 The worldwide eSports market has now reached 143 million viewers, but there is still no easy way to get up-to-date information on these competitive video game tournaments, which include games li...

 PayPal today announced it’s updating its User Agreement to clarify the language it uses to communicate to customers how the company is allowed to contact them. The company had recently com...

 Microsoft today announced that Visual Studio 2015 (VS 2015), the latest version of the company’s integrated development environment, will launch on July 20.This latest version greatly emph...

 It’s been said that Facebook Video is becomingbigger than YouTube, as brands upload more video directly to the social network than ever before. Now, Facebook is catering to the needs of vi...

 A week after Craiglist finally got its emancipation from eBay, some closure on another long-standing legal battle for the listings site: the local listings gianthas now finally reached a settlem...

 Uber France CEO Thibaud Simphal and Uber Europe GM Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty were both taken into custody today in Paris. The news was first broken by the AFP. The police started investigating on...

 The wild valuation swings of Bitcoin are something of a sideshow when compared with the potential of the underlying blockchain engine. Focusing on the utility of this distributed, consensus-base...

 GoogleClassroom, the company’s educational initiativethat launched last year to allow teachers and students to communicate and collaborate with each other using Google tools and services, ...

 A Japanese company called Aerial Burton has been using lasers to ionize air molecules in midair for a few years now, thereby creating bright pixels that float in space. Using the original system...

 If 17-year-old Google is at all worried that it’s losing its mojo, it should find some new data highly reassuring. According to a survey of 19,000 students across 340 universities around t...

 If 17-year-old Google is at all worried that it’s losing its mojo, it should find some new data highly reassuring. According to a survey of 19,000 students across 340 universities around t...

 UrbanClap, which claims to be India’s largest mobile-based services marketplace, wants to become even bigger. The New Delhi-based startup recently scored a Series A investment of $10 milli...

 Apple Music is coming tomorrow, and Apple Music Senior Director and former beats CEO Ian Rogers wants you to be ready, so he has revealed the specifics of when it’ll star rolling out. The ...

 A company like Facebook encountersthat kind of choice constantly, but back in the 2009/2010 timeframe, it had an extraordinary one. It was growing faster than just about any company on the plane...

 Most programmers like two things: pizza and things that make their work easier. That’s why I was especially interested in SlashDB, a product that purports to turn any data source into acce...

 Everyone knows there are entrepreneurs all over the world now, not just in developed countries. Why? Because the internet and technology has empowered so many. Indeed, a 2013 survey put out by B...

 The eagle-eyed among you will notice something interesting about the Riverside Photocuring 3D Printer pictured above. Almost all of the design – from the removable build plate to the jolly...

 Drippler, the iOS and Android app that delivers news about your smartphone and recommends new apps, has raised a $4.5 million Series A round. Read More ...

 Uber surprised China watchers this month when it was revealed that the company is processing one million rides per day in the country. That impressive number, which leaked out via a letter to in...

 Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman recallsa tense board meeting when his companydiscussed eliminating itscustomer commission refund in the latest Greymatter video from Greylock Partners.Typically in real e...

 With Apple’s banning of games wholesale because of a flag we have yet another example of how games are censored more than other media, how games are devalued and treated as second class me...

 More than a year ago, Matthew Panzarino wrote an article on TechCrunch in which he described a new type of mobile app experience that he coined the Invisible App. He predicted that we would immi...

 The recent ruling by a hearing officer with the California Labor Commission in a case involving an Uber driver is bad public policy. The issue this ruling addresses — whether the driver sh...

 As Airbnb closes in on a major round of financing that will reportedly value it at $24 billion, smaller startups riffing on the same model of renting out private homes arealso heatingup. Onefine...

 We need economics that sees dollars as means and improving the connection between people as the meaning. Read More ...

 It’s not entirely clear what happened during the launch of SpaceX‘s Commercial Resupply Services 7 (CRS-7) mission Sunday morning. A SpaceX cargo ship set out to deliver samples and ...

 We read a lot about the seemingly 50-plus eight-figure venture rounds happening every day. All those great stories; this Razor-a-Day company raising at $600 million, that Valets-for-Pets company...

 Face it. Your photos aren’t all that interesting. But Facebook’s going to help you jazz them up with its shiny new photo uploader, which just began testing on iOS. It lets you add ov...

 Instagram is big. But Upwork and YouTube are bigger. Twitter is big. But Uber and Airbnb are bigger. Your startup idea is big. But your startup idea that pays people is bigger. What do YouTube, ...

 The blowback to Uber reached a new level of intensity this week with massive and occasionally violent street protests in France. Our very own Romain Dillet walked around Paris snapping photos of...

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 Geographic saturation is the key to network effects and profitability in the ridesharing business. The more drivers Uber or Lyft have in a given region, the faster the pick-up times, the better ...

 Above, the feed for SpaceX’s CRS-7 resupply mission for the International Space Station is live. The streaming begins at 10 AM ET, with a liftoff targeted for 10:21 AM ET. The mission also...

 LATEST: Watch the NASA press conference above, which should begin no earlier than 12:30 PM ET, to learn more about what happened during today’s failed CRS-7 mission launch. Here’s a ...

 Most people didn’t notice last month when a 35-person company in San Francisco called HoneyBook announced a $22 million Series B. What was unusual about the deal is that nearly all the bes...

 The obsession with “millennials” continues to fascinate me. Despite being the most outspoken generation in history, people – very important and powerful people – claim th...

 Robot writers are hot. No, that statement is not a call to fix their air conditioners, much less to date them. It’s to acknowledge that pioneers in artificial intelligence (AI) and automat...

 I’m going to come right out and say it: few areas have been as hopeful and as disappointing as innovation in education. Education is probably the single most important function in our soci...

 YC-backed Cymmetria, which is uncloaking from stealth now after around a year working its cyber security startup business, wants to tilt the traditional security odds so it’s hackers who a...

 The music business is about to undergo another seismic shift. And Apple’s streaming service is the tsunami that will force the industry to rebuild. Again. It was around 2005 when I joined ...

 Hearken to me, my fellow developers. We live in complex and confusing times. Once we sought to make things ever simpler. Then we discovered that simple isn’t necessarily scalable, or effic...

 On the heels of Microsoft’s acquisition of the Berlin startup darling 6Wunderkinder for a price between $100 and $200 million, the debate rages on about whether Berlin startups should be b...

 Euphoric reaction to superstar tech businesses is rampant — so much so that the tech industry is in denial about looming threats. The tech industry is in a bubble, and there are sufficient...

 Hello, friends, and welcome to a slightly more important episode of CrunchWeek. This week, we became vassals of a new empire, Taylor Swift bequeathed her most recent album to Apple’s new s...

 Intuit has confirmed to TechCrunch that the company has laid off 399 people, or just under 5% of the company’s roughly 8,000 employees, in a re-alignment of the company. Patrick Barry has ...

TechCrunchhas an unofficial tradition of welcoming people back into the fold. We like to think that they go out into the cold, realize how warm and toasty it is by our fire and want to get themselves ...

 It’s Friday, so you deserve a modest respite. Happily, the Chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, gave a speech today to The Brookings Institution that should provide sufficient argument fodder...

Parrot unveiled 13 new minidrones this week, all for under $189.The terrestrial “Jumping” drone got a major upgrade, with LED lights for nighttime driving, an internal 4GB memory to record...

 You might think that YouTube has the kid video demographic locked down, particularly since it launched a dedicated video app for kids, but a company out of Brazil would challenge that. And it...

 The Y Combinator-incubated Meteor JavaScript application platform today announced that it has acquired Percolate Studio, a design and engineering shop with a lot of experience in building and su...

 Although the Apple Watch boasts the ability to instantly notify users with important updates — breaking news stories, changes to their bank account or the achievement of a fitness goal ...

 Early adopters who signed up forProject Fi, Google’s recently announced initiativeto provideitsown cellularservice, can now keep better tabs on the status of their requested invite thankst...

 Lyft has acqui-hired the team behind Leo,a disappearing messaging app for one-on-one or group conversations. We’re told the deal was finalized this past weekend and that co-founders Carlos...

 This week, Taylor Swift went head to head with Apple, anti-Uber protests took place in France, and Amazon Echo went up for pre-order. These are the stories to catch you up on everything that hap...

 There’s a lot to love about being a venture capitalist. You meet with smart people every day. You make money regardless of whether your investments work. People assume you have smart opini...

 Livestreaming app Meerkat has launched an embeddable player so that content being broadcast to the app can be embedded into and viewed on other digital services. The first implementation of the ...

 French startup Snips just raised $6.3 million (5.6 million) in a seed round led by The Hive, with participation from Eniac Ventures, 500 startups, Brent Hoberman, Xavier Niel and Bpifrance. The ...

 Disney has now somewhat belatedly joined the ranks of thenumerous app publishers offering their own custom keyboards for iOS 8 users with the launch of an iOS applicationcalled Disney Gif. The n...

 The Apple Watch is expanding beyond the launch group of countries today, shortly after the device first became available for in-store purchase at Apple Retail with a reservation. The internation...

 Kindle e-book reader owners will nowhave a new way to socialize with their friends about their favorite books or book quotes by way of mobile messaging apps, including Facebook Messenger, WhatsA...

 One in five Americans suffers from a diagnosable mental health or substance disorder, but 70 percent are undiagnosed. This fact prompted David Ebersman, former CFO of Facebook and Genentech, to ...

 Some of you may know that I hail from Canada, the country to the north of most of you that only occasionally enters your consciousness when someone mentions Drake or Bieber. Our nation’s s...

 U.K. startup Naturebytes is bringing a different emphasis to the tech-plus-education space. It’s aiming to combine hackable technology with a mission to spark kids’ curiosity in the ...

 Researchers at the University of Tokyo have created a single-step process to print conductive material on cloth, allowing manufacturers to build stretchable wearables that can test vital signs l...

 In what could be the most interesting conspiracy theory of the morning, the folks at ABlogToWatch have found a watch that could have been the inspiration for Apple Watch. It’s a Patek Phil...

 JD.com has become the latest internet company in China to venture into the consumer credit space, after the Nasdaq-listed online retailer — a rival to Alibaba — launched a joint vent...

 Sophos, the security company that makes antivirus software, firewall hardware and other products for networks, individual users and servers, isgoing public this morningon the London Stock Exchan...

 As malicious hacks, data breaches and other forms of cyber crime continue to persist in our networked, Internet-connected world,Sophos, a maker ofantivirus software, firewall hardware and other ...

 Playbasis, a company that offers gamification solutions for business and enterprises, has closed a $1.85 million Series A round as it bids to broaden its services and develop new technology such...

 You may know Alibaba for its huge e-commerce business in China and the record-breaking U.S. IPO that it held last year. But there’s a lot more to the Hangzhou-based company than that, and,...

 It turns out geography is still a thing. Recently, Whittl, a Chicago-based company raised a $3.3 million Series A round of capital. The new monetary event follows a $1.3 million seed round that ...

 Reserve Strap just announced the final details for its Apple Watch battery band, which it claims will add an additional 30 hours of battery life to the device. The Reserve Strap will ship at the...

 Gordon Gekko is but a distant blip in the rear-view mirror for this generation’s best and brightest. In lieu of Wall Street, today’s top graduates are flocking to Silicon Valley and ...

 PayNearMe is a financial services startup that has managed to fly under the radar of the tech-savvy. That’s largely because the six-year-old company is focused on the roughly 25 percent of...

 FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler rejected calls from T-Mobile and others Thursday to expand the amount of wireless spectrum being reserved for small carriers in the upcoming wireless spectrum auction. I...

 Zumper, the platform tolist, find, and apply to apartment rentals has raised $6.4 million as a Series A1, a year after raising a $6.5 million Series A round. This round was again led by existing...

 Apple has now joined a host of merchants in removing the Confederate flag from its platform – in its case, the iTunes App Store. Several app developers are now reporting that their Civil W...

 Apple has now joined a host of merchants in removing the Confederate flag from its platform – in its case, the iTunes App Store. Several app developers are now reporting that their Civil W...

 Facebook’s team is still dominated by white and Asian men. Diversity improved only slightly despite Facebook adding 2897 employees this year,according to its new demographic report. The 10...

 Google has an update on the status of its self-driving car project – the latest prototypes of its vehicles are road-ready and already driving in Mountain View. These are the same adorable ...

 PayRange, which makes a small device that plugs into vending machines that enables customers to pay with credit cards, said that it has raised $12 million in venture financing. The company produ...

 Personalization algorithms influence what you’ve chosen yesterday, what you choose today and what you’ll be choosing tomorrow. Simultaneously, there seems to be something wrong with ...

 Following the rollout of Tumblr’s GIF search engine earlier this month, the blogging platform is today launching another new feature aimed at helping users discover and share GIFs: Tumblr ...

 On-demand service Postmates just closed a $80 million Series D round.The company told TechCrunch that the new funding values them at close to $500 million.The roundwasled by Tiger Global Managem...

 Businesses desperately want your email address, but it’s annoying to type in on mobile. Cue Facebook’s latest News Feed ads. A marketer can buy an add asking for you to sign-up for a...

 HBO’s premium content finally became available in April without requiring customers to have a cable or satellite TV subscription, thanks to the launch of the standalone streaming service H...

 Taylor Swift has confirmed on Twitter that after Apple decided to pay artists for music streamed during their Apple Music three month free trial period, she will indeed be offering 1989 (her lat...

 As if we weren’t full enough, there’s another a new on-demand food delivery service in San Francisco called Bento. Forget all those Postmates burritos and DoorDash deep dish pizzas, ...

 Apple is set to begin broadcasting its Beats 1 24-hour live radio station at 8 AM PT on June 30, according to Apple Music Senior Director and former Beats Music CEOIan C. Rogers, who posted the ...

 GitHub’s highly extensible Atom text editor hit 1.0 today. The editor release has only been available to the public for about a year now, but it has already been downloaded over 1.3 millio...

 He’s the former co-founder of the social startup Loopt, which was funded by his current company — Y Combinator — in 2005 and acquired by the Green Dot Corporation in 2012. He&#...

 Dear city of Seattle, This is a love letter. Because I love you. Wow. Seattle, you're more gorgeous then I remember. — Jordan Crook (@jordanrcrook) June 25, 2015 Which is why I have c...

 The U.K. parliament is today debating issues around the forthcoming new Investigatory Powers Bill, ahead of a draft bill being introduced this autumn. MPs asked the Home Secretary whether the go...

 LittleBits, a 3.5-year-old, New York-based maker of electronic components that both children and designers can snap together to create everything from toy robots to lightweight industrial produc...

 Amazon has provided a strong answer to a desire I expressed only yesterday for broader software and hardware support for Alexa, its virtual assistant, and Echo, the speaker hardware that is the ...

 The first HomeKit accessories launched earlier this month, just ahead of Apple’s WWDC event (at which Apple also announced new HomeKit features coming in iOS 9). Now,new additions to Apple...

 The vision of a virtual desktop right in your browser has long danced in the heads of IT administrators and most solutions were interesting but underpowered. Now thanks to HTML5, however, itR...

This $4500 camera turns the real world into the virtual one. Today, Matterport’s hardware is a hit with real estate agents. But fueled by the $30 million Series C it just raised, Matterport̵...

 Do you everfind yourself searchingfor a specific photo or song, only to realize it’s eitherstuckon a different device orhidden away in one of yourmany cloud storage services like Dropbox o...

 In anticipation of a likely 2017 IPO, Invoca, a call marketing automation company based in Santa Barbara, Calif., announced Thursday that it has hired Mark Woodward to lead the company as CEO.Wo...

 Apple has a new patent application (via AppleInsider) that could make it easier to manage shared household tasks like picking up groceries or remembering to grab a bottle of wine on the way home...

 Today’s taxi driver protest is getting out of hand. According to the police, 2,800 taxi drivers are protesting today against UberPOP, the European equivalent of UberX. With UberPOP, everyb...

 After five years of research and $13 million in venture funding, Eargo has created a hearing device that people actually want to wear. Launching out of beta today, Eargo’s invisible, recha...

 Amazon announced this morning the launch of a unique – if somewhat odd – new service it’s calling “Treasure Truck,” which introduces a different way for customers t...

 Beats 1 is a key part of Apple Music, the service launching next week on June 30. The 24-hour live global music station has a trio of star DJs at the helm, including Zane Lowe, BBC alum who is h...

 Automatic, the connected car platform whose sensor and app combination is sometimes referred to as a “Fitbit for your car,” announced this morning $24 million in Series B funding, le...

 Redis Labs, a company that offers enterprise-grade services around the open-source NoSQL Redis database and memcached object caching system, today announced that it has closed a $15 million Seri...

 Palo Alto-basedCurbside, a company offering a mobile app that allows shoppers to buy from local retailers like Target and Best Buy then pick up items at stores without exiting their car, is toda...

 Oh, irony. Only a day after WikiLeaks revealed that the NSA has been spying on the past three French presidents as well as many French officials, France’s lower house adopted the very cont...

 Today in our ongoing series of people putting one thing into another thing, we present Android running on a Texas Instruments TI-Nspire CX, a robust graphing calculator popular with the pre-calc...

 Genius is evenly distributed; opportunity is not. That truth is the driving principle behind Andela, a startup currently building a network of top tier computer science education programs across...

 U.K. telecoms regulator Ofcom has called for more to be done to improve broadband services for startups and SMEs, publishing a report assessing the problem and setting out an action plan to impr...

 Lost My Name, the London-based startup behind the hugely popular “The Little Boy/Girl Who Lost His/Her Name”, a personalised picture book for kids, has picked a $9 million Series A r...

 London has emerged as a major hub for digital advertising and marketing, and today one of its faster growing startups is getting some funding to go to the next level. Yieldify, a marketing tech ...

 TextMaster, the Belgium startup that offers a platform for content translation, copywriting and proofreading, has raised a new $5 million round of funding, adding to the approximately $3 million...

 PayPal teamed up with Uber back in 2013 to offer the U.S. taxi-hailing service’s customers additional payment options. The world has changed a lot in those 18 months — Uber is now pr...

 Ola, India’s homegrown rival to Uber, paid out $200 million to buy smaller rival TaxiForSure in March, and now it has begun to integrate the service into its own app. Read More ...

 Inspirock wants to take the hassle out of travel planning with a site that automatically creates customized itineraries. The startup announced today that it has raised $3 million in seed funding...

 Bootstrapping is a tougher choice than ever for startups. Seed capital is so widely available that deals for the hottest companies can close in days, and many entrepreneurs never even consider b...

 It’s been a busy 24 hours for Netflix stock.Yesterday the company announced that its board has approved a 7-for-1 stock split. This announcement immediately sent shares soaring more than 3...

 With all of the revelations of data snooping and privacy violations taking place at the hands of government agencies and clandestine hacker groups, a new report suggests young people are having ...

 Facebook set an all-time high today, closing at $88.86 per share, valuing the company at just under $250 billion. Positive analyst sentiment has helped propel the company’sshares in recent...

 The live streaming app battle may not have much room for many offerings besides early mover Meerkat and Twitter-owned Periscope, but that doesn’t mean people aren’t going to try. The...

 Spotify wants to own big data about bands. Today it acquired analytics firm Seed Scientific to forge a new Advanced Analytics unit tasked with understanding and improving how artists, listeners,...

 HubSpot, a company best known for its marketing tools, took its CRM product out of beta today. According to the firm, some 60,000 companies used the tool during its beta period. The product is f...

 Voice-powered interfaces are the way forward. For me to make such a pronouncement is kind of ridiculous, as I’ve been an incredibly slow adopter of features like Goole Now and Siri, based ...

 Google today announced that its next data center — its seventh in the U.S. and fourteenth worldwide — is coming to Alabama. Google will build the new data center on the grounds of th...

 Dropbox said today that it now has more than 400 million registered users — a jump fromthe last public figure about its user base in May last year.Previously, the company had said it had 3...

 Teespring, thecustom apparel startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz,Khosla Ventures and others, has laid off 70 employees from its Providence, Rhode Island-based location, TechCrunch learned and ...

 Maybe Snapchat can make ‘the youth’ care about politics. It’s certainly going to try. Snapchat is hiring a ‘Content Analyst – Politics & News’“to co...

 We’ve known for some time that Windows 10 will cost either $119 or $199 in the U.S. once the year-long free upgrade period ends. The price differential, of course, is predicated on which v...

 Online culture has been obsessed with cats since the Japanese text board 2channel first posted Giko Neko in 1998. Cat cafes have capitalized on this obsession and brought us a cache of cats in r...

 A study of the quality of policymaking in 40 cities around the world, considering how supportive city governments are to entrepreneurs and tech startups, has ranked New York at the top of its &#...

 Digital scarcity is an oxymoron. Unless it isn’t. Thanks to a recently funded startup called Ascribe, artists and writers can now create unique copies of their work that can be bought and ...

 FutureAdvisor (YC S10) recently announced that users andassets under management (AUM) have grown 10x over the past 12 months, with AUM now totalingmore than $603 million dollars. The company, wh...

 A few years ago a slightly forgotten (a least in Western eyes) mobile messaging app called Nimbuzz launched little ‘chat bots’ on its platform. The bots could tell you about the weat...

 Mona, a new app from former Amazon.com employees launching now, wants to put a personal shopper on your phone. While many mobile shopping apps today work to provide users with recommendations on...

 Facebook wants even the people who hate Facebook to use Messenger, so it’s opening the option tosign up for its chat app without an account on its social network. Users can sign up with ju...

Where General Assembly got a reputation for technology education in an offline-teaching environment, last year CareerFoundry out of Berlin launched an online, customisable training platform for vocati...

 Apple is finally throwing its money around to help Apple Music win. Singer Pharrell today announced that his new single “Freedom” will be available exclusively on Apple Music the day...

 If there is one product category that is arguably crying out for a bit of so-called collaborative consumption, it’s the latest gadgets. If only to slow down the rate of landfill or save us...

 Astro, a newcomer to the connected home space, is launching its first product today for apartment dwellers and renters in big cities. Twistis a wirelessly-controlled LED light bulb, with a built...

 Workplace collaboration platform Slackhas been a runaway success since opening up for business just over a year ago: the company co-founded and led by Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield now has ...

 Microsoft this morning announced the official launch of Office for Android phone, five weeks after the company rolled out the suite of applications as a preview. Today’s release, which inc...

 It appears GoFundMe’s founders have decided it’s time to cash out.The company’s cofoundersBrad Damphousse and Andy Ballester told the Wall Street Journal today that the pair ha...

 Amazon announced today that it has rolled out, in limited fashion, support for HDR (high dynamic range) on Amazon Instant Video. It will initially only offer HDR videos to Amazon Prime members i...

 El Capitan is already something I associate almost by default with Mac OS X, but it was a real mountain before that – millions of years before Apple previewed OS X 10.11, in fact, though i...

 Well everyone’s now racing to make a hoverboard because we decided some time in the last couple of years that proving Back To The Future II prescient was the best way to highlight technolo...

 Groupon’s deal-finding iOS application was updated today to include support for Apple Watch. Like many Watch apps, Groupon takes advantage of its ability to tap into a user’s locatio...

 Shyp, an app that enables customers to summon a courier and ship an item, has hiredFoursquare’s Varun Shetty to run the company’s business development operations. Shetty’s prim...

 One of the biggest issues with online marketplaces is that buyers and sellers rarely know or trust one another, which often leads to disputes between thetwo parties.PromisePayaims to fix this is...

 The upcoming Apple Watch software update gives third-party developers access to the hardware’s accelerometer data, and that’s the feature one company is using to add Wii-like motion ...

 Mashape today announcedthe launch of its analytics service for APIs. Over the years, the company built out its own analytics service to monitor the over 13,000 APIs the company serves. Now, it&#...

 Nearly all startups use the same methodology to figure out when to raise their next round of capital. The founder projects the planned burn rate and estimates the day they will run out of cash. ...

 HackerOne, makers of a bug bounty platformwhere companies pay hackers to find vulnerabilities in their products, announced a$25 million Series B round today. The round was led by NEA. Benchmark,...

 Have you ever been hungry at a sporting event but didn’t want to deal with the lines? Well VenueNext has raised $9 million to roll out an app for your lazy ass. From mobile ordering to in-...

 How many meetings has Google gained with top European Commission officials since December? According to data compiled by anti-corruption advocacy organization Transparency International’s ...

 If you’ve ever wanted to plug a Windows machine into your TV for a little hot and heavy Excel slinging, you’re in luck. Lenovo has just announced a $130 stick, the Ideacenter Stick 3...

 Weathernews Inc. Japan, the owner of Sunnycomb and Weathermob apps, is striking a new partnership with Paris-based Netatmo to use data from its home weather sensors for crowdsourced forecasts. R...

 Google today announced that it has partnered with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvardto launcha limited alpha ofthe institute’s Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) on Google’s Cloud Pl...

 Nick Lee, a dedicated programmer with access to WatchOS 2.0, has ported Mac OS 7.5.5 to his wrist. That’s right: the OS you used in the 1990s to make your zine can look keel can now boot &...

 TechCrunch has learned that Dave McClure and co. are officially setting up shop in London with the launch of “Distro Dojo”, a new three-month program for ‘post-seed’ star...

 Sean Parker, the tech billionaire, best known for his leading roles atNapster and Facebook has donated more than $600 million to the Sean N. Parker Foundation to date.But up to now he’s be...

 IBM is going Levie. This evening, Box and IBM announced a partnership that will see their technologies integrated, and their cloud products commingled. As part of the arrangement, Box will also ...

 Reddit turned ten-years-old today, and it’s been quite the wild ride since University of Virginia roommates Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman founded the site in 2005. Reddit has been a maj...

 It turns out Angela Merkel wasn’t the only state figure from an American ally whose phone calls were being monitored by the NSA. Today WikiLeaks dropped another bombshell collection of sec...

 There’s been some debate about how many consumers are actually cutting ties with their pay TV providers and replacing them withover-the-top streaming media services – a trend general...

 Uber made an important move last March, a move that reinforced my vision of where the Internet is headed. For the first time, users are able to summon an Uber ride from other applications withou...

 Immersive headsets continue to lift off company drawing boards, in the hopes of powering a new wave of virtual reality in the consumer space — whether it’s the Facebook-owned Oculus ...

 Reddit had its 10th birthday today and to commemorate the major milestone, they released a ton of interesting data on the site’s subreddits, users and content. Amusingly, they also release...

 Your speaker is in my lightbulb! No, your lightbulb is in my speaker! Thanks to the new LightFreq Square2, we’re both right. The Square2 is a lightbulb with built-in speaker and intercom. ...

 People can now add loyalty rewards programs to the way they can acquire bitcoin thanks to a new partnership between the online rewards system Tango Card and the bitcoin wallet Snapcard.Tradition...

 Hulu and Showtime are announcing a notable partnership today which will see Showtime’spremium streaming service made available to Hulu’s nearly 9 million subscribers. This marks the ...

 Docker today announced the general availability of its commercial solutions for businesses that want to use its container management software. Docker’s commercial solution will be availabl...

 Instagram has real-time coverage of almost everything happening in the world. Now its unlocking that content with a revamped Explore tab featuring Trending Tags, Trending Places, curated content...

 As anyone who has attended online meetings knows, traditional software with its clunky user interfaces and required software installations was in need of a change. That’s why LogMeIn’...

 Often when we think of the wearable tech category, we imagine consumer-focused general purpose devices like Fitbit’s range or the Apple Watch. Google has unveiled a new niche device that&#...

 Frame, a cloud-based service that allows users to run desktop programs like Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Excel directly from their browser, just announced that it has closed a $10 million Series...

 In April, Arizona State University and edX announced a first-of-its-kind program that will have important repercussions for the future of higher education. The Global Freshman Academy (GFA) will...

 Monument Valley remains one of the best mobile games of last year, and likely ranks among the better titles of all time, in terms of unique design and imaginative gameplay mechanics. The ustwo g...

 Fresh on the heels of the Apple Music launch, Google has just announced that Play Music will now offer a free, ad-supported version of the service to users who don’t want to pay $9.99/mont...

 Dropbox today released a redesign for its Android application designed to streamline the process of sharing files and uploading folders.The new Android app is a redesign of the user interface th...

Beth Seidenberg is a licensed physician immunologist who helped bring drugs like the asthma drug Singulair and the pain medication Vioxx to market before turning to venture capitalism. As a partner at...

 The Resumator first launched back in 2009. As the name implied, the platform first focused on getting getting the word about an open position out and managing the incoming resumes. Over time, ho...

 Envoy, the startup behind an iPad app designed “to kill the lobby sign-in book” — as we reported last year when it landed $1.5 million — is perhaps not one that you’...

 Recipe-sharing site and online shop Food52 expanded its service today to include a wider selection of products and a wedding registrywhich includes cookware, plusother kitchen and home goods. Th...

 French startup studio eFounders just raised $6 million from Fotolia co-founder Oleg Tscheltzoff to build its next batch of software-as-a-service startups. So far, eFounders is behind five startu...

 The rush of funding for fintech startups continues. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Credit Karma— a platform that provides credit scores to users but also serves as a portal for ...

 Givesurance, a startup that helps users donate a cut of their insurance premiums to charity, is launchingout of beta today.Usersprovide Givesurance with the name of theirinsurance company, polic...

 Replicated, a company that wants to helpSaaS vendorsship an on-premises version of their applications more easily, made a series of announcements today including a $1.5M seed round and several B...

 Clifford Stoll wrote one of my favorite books, The Cuckoo’s Egg, and then went a little goofy about the future of the Internet. But that’s OK because Cliff now sells Klein Bottles, &...

 If you own a business, you probably want to know how many people walk into your stores. If you’re a city, you may want to know how many people use a given sidewalk or drive down a certain ...

 Shuddle, acar service founded one of the co-founders ofSidecarwhich focuses on providing rides to busy families – including kids and seniors – is today launching a new mobile applica...

 Amazon has opened up U.S. availability of its connected speaker-cum-virtual-assistant, the Echo. Previously it was limiting who could buy it to invite-only. It’s now put the speaker on gen...

 Sense360, the company that received $2.75 million in seed without ever telling us publicly what it is that they do, has just come out of stealth with the launch of their SDK. The idea behind Sen...

 Known for its on-demand phone repair services, startup iCracked has even bigger ambitions.The company is on its way to being a full-service consumer electronics sales service, and it’s sta...

 Meet Ily, a brand new take on personal communication between family members. Ily is a new connected device for your home as well as a smartphone app. Developed by New York-based startup Insensi,...

 Popular task manager Todoist just received a major Android update with a completely overhauled user interface and very efficient new features. First, the company switched to Material design in o...

 Well, that was fast: Verizon has just announced that it has completed its acquisition of AOL, owner of TechCrunch, purchasing all outstanding shares for $50 per share in cash for a total price o...

 Jelli, makers of an ad platform for radio broadcasters to digitise how they fill space on their airwaves — think “AdWords for audio” — has raised a $21 millionround of fu...

 Olapic, which helps brands boost sales with user-generated images from social media, has raised $15 million in new funding.Olapic aggregates images submitted by users on various social media cha...

 Goodservice wants to give users in India a personal assistant in their smartphone. The Mumbai-based app just scored seed funding of $1.6 million from Sequoia Capital, which it will use to increa...

 The U.K.’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the judicial oversight body which handles complaints relating to domestic intelligence agencies, has ruled that GCHQ acted unlawfully in the...

 Yotpo, a platform that helps businesses with original content marketing, just announced the closing of a $15 million funding round. This brings total funding so far by the company to $30 million...

 Snowflake, a novel data warehousing service that’s run by former Microsoft server and tools executive Bob Muglia, is coming out of beta today. In addition, the company today announced that...

 Wayook, the Spanish on-demand cleaning startup, has quietly raised its first funding round: a modest 640,000 from Axon Partners Group. The investment closed a few weeks back but went mostly unde...

 While Spotify has been building up its own warchest in preparation for the battle withApple and others to win more music streaming consumers, it’s also funding a smaller company that’...

 Startups that help people send money to each other or pay for goods and services online have been growing like weeds, fuelled by consumer demand,increasingly ubiquitous connected devices to make...

 Offpeak, a Malaysia-based restaurant booking startup, has raised a Series A round of $800,000 led by Gobi Partners. The company will use its new capital to expand into Southeast Asian cities, st...

 Online-to-offline (O2O) commerce and providing ultra-speedy local deliveries are two of Alibaba’s main growth targets. Now the e-commerce giant is significantly increasing its commitment t...

 EduKart, a New Delhi-based company that connects students with educational institutions, has landed $1 million to increase access to learning in India. Read More ...

 With its high smartphone penetration rate, extremely speedy broadband, and government support, South Korea’s startup ecosystem is one of the most notable in Asia. SparkLabs, one of Seoul&#...

 Apache Spark’s effect on the data landscape is akin to the leap in Internet applications enabled by the move from dial-up to broadband. Read More ...

 It seems that even the stars have come to rest on Casper beds. The 14-month-old startup has just closed on $55 million at a $550 million valuation to expand its business. But almost as impressiv...

 When thinking of business “turnaround,” names like McDonald’s and Samsung come to mind as they struggle to navigate the changing market and waning consumer interest. Yet, a bus...

 In a recent visit to Yahoo’s Sunnyvale headquarters, we got a better look at how the company is adapting the the mobile-first world. Read More ...

 If you didn’t keep your ear to the page this weekend, especially regardingthe news that relates to how Microsoft will allow — or not! — folks that pirated previous versions of ...

 A few months back, we looked at Iminit’s video stabilization technology; now the Swedish video technology wizards are back with another demo of what its final product will be able to do wi...

 If you’ve ever bought or solda home, you know how expensive a six percent real estate commission can be.SQFTis an app thathelpsreduce these fees by allowing you to buy and sell a home with...

 While my curlicued co-worker Josh Constine continues to cover the Meerkats and Free apps of the world,there’safascinating counter-trend of serial entrepreneurs, who havebeensuccessful in t...

 While my curlicued co-worker Josh Constine continues to cover the Meerkats and Free apps of the world,there’safascinating counter-trend of serial entrepreneurs, who havebeensuccessful in t...

 There’s a myopia blinding e-commerce players to the reality of opportunities in Southeast Asia. Everyone is looking at Asian economies from underthe shadowChina casts on the economic lands...

 Montreal-based Kinova Robotics was founded in part because of one man – the founder’s uncle, Jaco, a disabled inventor who created a manipulator for his wheelchair out of a hot dog p...

 In these post-Snowden times a lot has changed. Big picture stuff, like politicians legislating to curtail intelligence agency capabilities (or not). And smaller stuff. Like a ‘post-quantum...

 The NSA and its British counterpart the GCHQ have put extensive effort into hacking popular security software products to “track users and infiltrate networks,” according to the late...

 There’s no doubt that as data grows, Hadoop has proven to be the platform of choice for big data. According to Allied Market Research, the Hadoop market is worth an estimated $3 billion, a...

 Mayorships. Enthusiastic users of the old foursquare likely feel a little pull at the heartstrings when they hear the word, given that the title was totally removed from both the new Foursquare ...

 Chevy announced earlier this year it would be bringing Apple’s CarPlay to production vehicles this year, and now those first cars with the infotainment feature from Apple are rolling off t...

 Our sources have given us some additional information since crowdfunding site GoFundMe confirmed its funding round last week, saying that the company is now valued at around a range of $600 mill...

 Docker, CoreOS, Google, Microsoft and Amazon are now working on a new standard for software containers with the help of the Linux Foundation. Other members of this coalition include Apcera, Cisc...

 Docker is holding its developer conference in San Francisco today, so it’s no surprise that the company is rolling out quite a few updates to its software container solution. Maybe the big...

 Dollar Shave Club, the subscription service for razors (and more!) has closed a $75 million Series D round at a pre-money valuation north of $500 million. This funding comes less then a year aft...

 Sources are telling TechCrunch that Grand Rounds, which sells companies a service that gives employees access to healthcare advice and treatment from experienced professionals around the United ...

 New research on mobile behavior released today points tothe growing struggle thatapp businesses face inestablishing themselves as a must-have download on users’ smartphones. Today’s ...

 Dropoff, an on-demand delivery service, has raised $7 million in new funding to be the logistics provider for businesses of all kinds. Greycroft led the Series A round, with participation from n...

One of Android Wear’s bigger bulletpoints over Apple’s Watch: it can run totally custom third party watch faces. You can be damned sure Google is going to play that card hard until Apple g...

 Right in time for the beginning of DockerCon, Docker‘s developer conference in San Francisco, Google today announced that its Kubernetes-powered Container Engine service for managing conta...

 TodayBox announcedthat itis releasing Box Governance, its governance tools,from Beta to general availability with three tools available today. The announcement itself is really less important th...

 The Pebble Time has already been percolating out to backers of the record-breaking Kickstarter campaign, but now anyone can pre-order the wearable. In the U.S., pre-orders are routing through Be...

 Get ready, Austin. For the fourth year running (maybe more, it’s hard to keep count) we’re visiting one of our favorite cities in the world to check out the shining stars of Austin&#...

 Of the companies betting on Apple Watch’s third-party ecosystem as a source of consumer interest, DODOcase might be one of the most aggressive out of the gate. The company has launched two...

 Numericable acquired France’s second biggest telecom company SFR just last year, but the new telecom giant is back on the acquisition market. This time, its target is Bouygues Telecom, the...

 Homebase, a San Francisco-based startup,is launching out of beta to take the pain out ofscheduling and payroll management for small business restaurants and retailers. 90 percent of retail and r...

 Google today announced the launch of a new site called News Lab, a destination that aims to connect journalists with programs, data and other resources to aid in their reporting. The site will f...

 Twitter’s board of directors gave a brief update to its search for a new CEO, saying it would only consider candidates “who are in a position to make a full-time commitment to Twitte...

 As we spend more and more of our lives on social networks and marketplaces, YC-backed Smyte is launching out of beta to make sure we don’t get defrauded, spammed, or harassed. While the Go...

 California Governor Jerry Brown recently imposed mandatory water restrictions to combat severe drought that “demands unprecedented action.” Many investors have grown familiar with th...

 China’s e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba has been clear about its ambitions to grow its presence in the U.S. — in partas a facilitator between Western companies and Chinese consumers by...

 Google wants YOU to test their Jump virtual reality video capture platform. Or, well, some of you. Maybe like two, given how I imagine the percentages will work on this. The company is opening u...

 Grocery delivery service Instacart announced today that it will allow its personal shoppers in some cities the ability to switch from contractor to employee status. The company says it was alrea...

 TechCrunch Disrupt New York Battlefieldfinalist, DigitalGenius announced its first serious funding today with a $3millioninvestment round. The company was looking for $2 million, but garnered so...

 Commercializing a new tool to bring the basic eye exam into the palm of a doctor’s hand could save the eyesight of nearly 1 billion people worldwide. That’s the goal that Zhou Yaopen...

 The 1TB Microsoft Xbox One announcement at E3 meant this was probably inevitable, but Sony has officially revealed a 1TB version of its own console, arriving in Europe and the PAL territories st...

 “When VCs tried to give us money we asked: ‘How would it help us democratize football and reach 200 million users?'” says Patrik Arnesson, co-founder and CEO of Football Addict...

 Just a reminder that we’ll be holding the first summer TC Pitch Off in Warsaw on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 8:30 PM to Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 2:00 AM (CEST). We’ll be taking over...

 Another day, another cute dog with a new lease of life thanks to 3D-printed wheels. Today we meet Bubbles, a Dachshund born without front legs. Her owner, Trevor Byers, noticed she was missing h...

 Amazon is changing how it pays royalties to writers who have self published via its Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform and opted to make their book exclusive to its platform to qualify for ...

 Shortly after the recent Office Of Personal Management data hack, word surfaced on the Dark Net – essentially the hidden Internet – that some of the personal records were for sale. A...

 As waterlevels inCalifornia droptoan all-time low, agriculture analytics startup CropX has developed a solution to help farmers optimize irrigation while keepingwater usage to a minimum. CropX u...

 Evan Spiegel released a zero-fun informercial about Snapchat‘s ads today, extolling the virtues of “3V: vertical video views” in a way that would bore most of his users to tear...

 VR’s coming whether you like it or not. How best to make use if it? Read More ...

 If you care about tech news in Asia — and you should! — then the chances are that not only do you read us here at TechCrunch — thanks and hi! — but you might also be awar...

 Apple’s Eddy Cue has just announced that Apple Music will change its plan and pay royalties to artists even during its three month free trial for users, following Taylor Swift’s publ...

 The kids over at Addappt are back with a new build of their contact app for Android, so I snaggedMrinal Desai, a founder of the startup to dig into just what is new, why we might care, and where...

 App updates are a strategic tool used by developers to revive waining interest in their software and spark downloads. That’s one of the conclusions from a study by a group of Italian acade...

While there is a lot of existing data tying board diversity to better company performance, most of it focuses on companies that are already public. That misses the broader and potentially much more im...

 Some, like the legendary Guns N’ Roses guitarist known as Slash, head to BitTorrent.Slash is the latest artist to release his work in a Bundle on the peer-to-peer file sharing site. He and...

 From starting out as a door-to-door vacuum salesman in the suburbs of Boston to founding and running the online media powerhouse Netflix, Hastings’ experiences moving from the sales trench...

Slack’s valuation soared to $2.8 billion in less than two years, and has doubled in the past six months alone — all without any big marketing campaigns. The startup’s adoption curve ...

 There is a massive opportunity for startups to define a new era of work, and it’s not just the products and platforms they build that will look completely different, but in some cases, the...

 Apple is acting greedy despite being one of the richest companies ever, and Taylor Swift is angry. When the Apple Music streaming service launches June 30th, users will get a three-month free tr...

The debate on overtime pay has surged in the last year: Who should be paid for overtime? How many people should receive these benefits? As the Department of Labor prepares to revise the rules this mon...

 TechCrunch is headed to Cannes for the Cannes Lions. We’re going to hold a small meetup there on June 25, while the Cannes Lions Festival is on. But why, I hear you ask! Well, the ‘L...

 Think the hiring process is tedious and a waste of time? You are not alone. Lately, there has been growing concern among policymakers and journalists about the increasing time gap between the po...

 The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, Frank Radice, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Saturday, June 20, 2015. From across the Pond and beyond, the Gang bi...

Many first-time founders underestimate the value of junior VCs, which can be a costly mistake. Investors look for hungry founders because they have the grit to fight through sleepless nights, setbacks...

 First, some ranting: getting and Indie book reviewed is almost impossible. It took a publisher’s backing to make the The Martian a hit and Hugh Howey had to create his own publisher, Broad...

 Just a reminder that we’ll be holding the first summer TC Pitch Off in Warsaw on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 8:30 PM to Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 2:00 AM (CEST). We’ll be taking over...

 Last year was fantastic for startup fundraising, continuing an upward trend with a dramatic increase to more than $47 billion (a 62 percent increase from 2013’s figures). On the surface, t...

 In 2005, Steve Jobs delivered his now-famous Stanford Commencement Speech, wherein he explained that attempting to attend a four-year university had been a poor choice. The school was astronomic...

 In screenwriter William Goldman’s famous words, “Nobody, nobody — not now, not ever — knows the least goddamn thing about what is or isn’t going to work at the box ...

 You have to hand it to American democracy. After many years of political back-and-forth, we have finally reached a consensus: government blows. Government can’t do anything, least of all b...

 Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today starting at 10amPT/1pmET.Gillmor Gang live chatroomGillmor...

 Take a quick look, a sneak peek, into our not-so-distant future, courtesy of the great science-fiction writer Peter Watts(1), who writes in Aeon magazine: “You already know that we can run...

 Snoop Dogg should become CEO of Twitter and I’m about to tell you why. But first, leave Dick Costolo, the outgoing CEO, alone. When Dick became CEO, Twitter was valued at about $3 billion ...

 “You take the blue pill –- the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill -– you stay in Wonderland and I show you how ...

 Crowdfunding just got a little bit more interesting. According to SEC Regulation A+, as of today companies can secure funding via crowdfunding provided they are compliant with a set of very spec...

 Were you one of the first to identify Uber as a game changer? What about being one of the first to use Amazon or Google in the early days? If you had invested in Uber (now valued at $40B) in 201...

 It seems like Sony just can’t catch a break. On Thursday, WikiLeaks added276,394 more private documents, emails and financial files, leaked from the embattled tech and media giant, intoits...

 Here’s an unusual pricing plan for air travel — instead of paying for each trip, hand overa $1,500 monthly fee and fly as much as you want. That’s what startup OneGo is promisi...

 Hello, friends, and welcome back to another round of CrunchWeek. This time around the white tableroom, Kyle Russell, Sarah Buhr, and your humble servant gathered to dig into the recent FitBit IP...

 Silicon Valley and corporate America would be a better place if more people led their companies like Dave. Read More ...

 The E3 gaming conference was last week. We didn’t actually go, but we watched from afar and soaked up all the latest that the gaming world has to offer. John’s in Poland, but Greg, M...

 The financial services industry in America is locked into a business model of exploitation. For far too long, this has gone largely unchecked and unquestioned, even when advances in technology m...

 Reg A+ does not directly solve the ongoing dilemma of access to venture capital dollars for women and minorities. But it does disrupt the investor status quo and provides a much needed alternati...

 Disrupt San Francisco 2015 is still a few months away, but if you’re a startup looking to get your product in front of some of the best entrepreneurs, investors, and journalists around, it...

 In a brief blog post released today, Google said that it will soon introduce a formal process that will allow web users to request removal of “revenge porn” images from Google’...

 When we randomly got an invite to a Bay Area preview event for McLaren’s new $3 million hypercar a few weeks ago, we had to attend. Who could be there? Would we run into some familiar star...

 Former Facebook and Apple engineer Scott Goodson is joining Pinterest to run the company’s mobile platform and web teams, focusing on improving the app’s performance across various d...

 Fitbit took a wearable activity tracker and built a $6 billion dollar company — Sano, a stealthy startup out of San Francisco, wants to do better. Since physical activity is only one eleme...

 This week, we learned that Facebook now cares about how long we linger on News Feed posts, Sean Parker’s new political discourse app, and got introduced to Microsoft’s new Xbox One c...

 Next week, the TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off is coming to Austin and Seattle, and we have some amazing companies prepping to hop on stage and show their stuff. If you don’t know about the ...

 A mobile application called WeMesh wants to make watching videos more of a real-time social experience by allowing you and your friends to watch videos together in perfect sync, while also texti...

 Twitter just announced new capabilities that it says “make it easier to discover products and places.” The company has been moving into e-commerce and rolled out a Buy button last fa...

 Startup studio Expa is unveiling its newest company today — Spot, which promises to help users to find “the best places in the world.”In other words, Spot will deliver personal...

 Have you been putting off getting your application in to the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF? Well, the good news is that you now have one extra week to get your applications in. The deadline ...

 So much for terse denials. Former world number one mobile maker Nokia, which sold its device making unit to Microsoft last year, is indeed intending to get back into the mobile game next year &#...

 We have come a long way from the first event in a bar in Bermondsey in 2009, but in front of almost 800 of Europe’s top tech entrepreneurs and investors, The Europas Conference and Awards ...

 He founded the Atom Factory talent management agency, helped pop artist Lady Gaga reach millions of little monsters with a branded social network, and launched a VC firm with investments in heav...

 AmazonFresh, Amazon’s grocery delivery service which lets customers shop for both fresh produce and other packaged goods, is now being made available to Amazon Prime membersin select marke...

 Sigma has a new zoom lens that could be the perfect walk around lens for street photographer: A 24-35mm zoom lens designed for full-frame cameras, with a unique feature that’s sure to add ...

 Apple’s original iPad mini, the only non-Retina iPad still on sale, was quietly removed from Apple’s online store last night, as noted by 9to5Mac. Comparing the iPad section of the s...

 Artesian Solutions, the U.K.-based platform that provides companies with better intelligence on their B2B customers and future prospects, has raised $8 million in Series B funding. Read More ...

 E-commerce obstacles are falling just as the second wave of digital natives is getting their hands on credit cards and debit cards and exercising their newfound online purchasing power. The rise...

 There’s no doubting Eton’s grip on the British establishment. The number of U.K. Prime Ministers who were educated at Eton College is 19 (by Wikipedia’s count). So how does a r...

 Tamr, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup that helps companies understand and unify all of the disparate databases across acompany, announced a $25.2 million Series B round today. The inves...

 A new hair extensions startup in San Francisco’s East Bay called Mayvenn ischanging the old brick-and-mortar distribution model for buying longer locks — bygivingstylists their own o...

 The first happy hour the aggregation platform held had a line down the street and around the corner. This time I breezed right through the doors at 620 Jones, a full hour after the party started...

 After years of hype and unfulfilled promises, the concept of the smart home looks tobe losing the attention ofconsumers. This is due in no small part to the lackluster innovation emerging from m...

 The concept of deep learning or deep structured learning has been a frequent topic of conversation in recent months because of the commitment and advancements of some of the world’s larges...

 Signs outside the New York Stock Exchange declared that “Wall Street Is Getting Fit.” Activity tracking company Fitbit began public trading today, initially surging to more than 50 p...

 Founders Forum, the 10-year-old gathering of international entrepreneurs, started in London, but has now expanded to several international gatherings. Sometimes (mistakenly) confused with the F....

 As the number of connected mobile gadgets — from smartphones and watches to cars — continues to grow, the market is heating up for accurate location data to serve those of us who use...

 LogMeIn wants to give away a Meldium license and a MacBook Air to a TechCrunch reader. Meldium is a single sign in password manager that helps large teamsaccess the cloud services they need secu...

 A recent article in The Economist noted that fintech is “arguably the hottest spot in a bubbly funding environment for startups.” For the last few years, investors have dumped remark...

 The time is now. Well, technically the time is next week, but it is getting really close to game time. TechCrunch is bringing its world-renowned TC Meetup + Pitch-Off to Austin on June 23 and Se...

 Lyft agreed today to pay New York State $300,000 to settle allegations that the on-demand ride service violatedNew York laws. Last summer NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and former NY Supe...

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 Ellen Pao not only lost on all counts of a high-profile sexual discrimination case earlier this year, but Judge Harold Kahn has officially ordered the interim Reddit CEO to pay more than a quart...

 If you’ve been putting off buying your ticket to Disrupt San Francisco 2015, now is the time to act. Seriously, right now. There’s only one day left to secure your extra early bird t...

 Storing loads of data is costly, especially if companies can’t figure out the most best ways to manage all that information. Komprise wants to make big data less overwhelming so its client...

 Routific is the latest startup hoping to take advantage of growing interest in on-demand services. It’s not trying to build the next Uber or Instacart, but instead giving small businesses ...

 Knyttan, the London-based on-demand fashion startup and graduate of Techstars London, has picked up 2 million in seed funding to help it disrupt the garment production industry. London-based Con...

 Roku users will now begin to see more personalized, targeted, and interactive video ads in their Roku apps, thanks to a new partnership between the streaming media device maker and video adverti...

 That was fast. All the 2-for-1 tickets to Disrupt London have gone. Did you miss out? Don’t sweat it. Soon, you’ll have yet another opportunity to partake in this unique opportunity ...

 The Apple Watch poses a potential problem for traditional watch companies – your wrist is extremely limited real estate. It’s something that even smartphone makers don’t face t...

 Twitter’s plan to expand its reach doesn’t require that it also grow its user base, something which it has not done at a pace investors have found satisfactory since going public in ...

 GoFundMe confirmed that it has raised venture capital financing in a blog post today, infusingthe previously bootstrapped company with cash that will give it room to grow. TechCrunch previously ...

 Facebook is boring when your best friends get lost in a sea of acquaintances. To make sure that doesn’t happen, Facebook is testing a new feature called “See First”, which I sp...

 Native apps have overtaken the web as the main place where smartphone users go for entertainment, information and more. So it should come as no surprise that one of the companies that profitsthe...

 Native apps have overtaken the web as the main place where smartphone users go for entertainment, information and more. So it should come as no surprise that one of the companies that profitsthe...

 The Apple Watch is still very young, having only made its official debut about two months ago, but a new report claims to have information about the next version of Apple Watch, which it says co...

 Fitbit went public this morning, soaring more than 50 percent at one moment. The wearables firm priced its equity at $20 per share. Early trading saw the shares crest the $30 mark.At the time of...

 The Article 29 Working Party — the European body comprised of representatives from member states’ data protection authorities (DPAs) — has been considering how well the appeals...

 QuizUp, the trivia app with over 33 million users worldwide,announced today that it’s releasing an app for Windows phones. First released as an iOS app, QuizUp quickly became a runaway hit...

 The school year has come to an end for students across the country and for newly minted college graduates it can be a tumultuous time filled with anticipation, anxiety, happiness and disappointm...

 Devialet, known for its Phantom speakerwhich supposedly sounds better thanspeakers 20 times bigger, just announced that it has closed a $20 million Series B round. LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, Xavi...

 YouTube announced today a trio of initiatives designed to expand the video-sharing site’s role in new media journalism, including eyewitness news. Most notably, the company is launching a ...

 Russell Simmons and I discuss his new app, his vision for transcendental meditation and whether technology and meditation can coexist. Read More ...

 Your iPhone camera is already one of the better mobile cameras available, but a new accessory from imaging technology leader DxO could up the iPhone’s game considerably. The Lightning-enab...

 If you have a terrible, 10 or 15-year long affliction of wanderlust like I do, Hitlist’s Wandertab on Chrome and Firefox is the worst. Or the best. Or the worst. Well, one of the two. It&#...

 Google hasbeen making gradualprogress expanding its payments services outside of the U.S. market,withP2P money transfer servicesnow working in the UK and a deal with Visa Europe to expand Androi...

 Salesforce announced a new Wave analytics app today called Sales Wave Analytics,the first ina line of what the company is calling ‘role-based’ packaged apps for the Wave platform. Fi...

 Today Toshiba’s announced their entire back-to-school lineup of laptops and 2-in-1 products. The company is expanding its Satellite C Series, which iscurrently its top selling line of port...

 Toshiba has announced their entire back-to-school lineup of laptops and 2-in-1 products. The company is expanding its Satellite C Series, which iscurrently its top-selling line of portable compu...

 Managed By Q, the startup that handles all the cleaning, maintenance and re-stocking of your office, has today announced the close of a $15 million Series A funding round led by RRE Ventures. Gr...

 Are you the kind of person who says, “I read BuzzFeed for the news”? Do you secretly wish you didn’t have to wade through all those listsicles and quizzes to get to the serious...

 The company’s logo on the doorbell was so tiny that I wasn’t sure I was at the right door. After 18 months of hard work, I was the first journalist to see Molotov in action, a brand ...

 Amazon quickly established itself as an online bookstore behemoth, before expanding into almost every facet of our e-commerce lives. It’s super convenient, competes aggressively on price, ...

 Digital rights organization the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published its fifth annual Who has your back? report into online service providers’ transparency and privacy practi...

 Remember Pepper, the intelligent robot that SoftBank unveiled in Japan last year? Pepper goes on sale in Japan this coming weekend, but in advance of that launch SoftBank has revealed that Aliba...

 Hong Kong’s Spacious is a latest in a series of startups that has raised money to change the way people in Asia find houses to rent or buy. Read More ...

 Cameo, the video editing platform which was bought by Vimeo last year, today launched acomplete rebuild of its app. While the new update contains familiarfeatures like easy importing, editing, a...

 Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba held the largest IPO in U.S. history last year, but going public isn’t all sweetness and roses for every Chinese tech firm. In fact, a resurgent public mark...

 Judge Harold Kahn has tentatively ordered Ellen Pao to pay $275,996.63 back to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers for costs incurred during a high-profile sexual discrimination case earlier th...

 Southeast Asia-based VC firm Monk’s Hill Ventures has welcomed a big name investor to its list of LPs after Yahoo Japan, the internet portal and multi-billion dollar joint venture between ...

 If you are a bit behind on the day’s Microsoft news, and there is quite a lot of it, TechCrunch is here to fill you in. We cut the above video to get you up to speed in quick fashion. Keep...

 Winston Churchill said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.” Until recently, the same could be said for the factory model of educa...

 Another day, another robotic bartender that can make your favorite drinks using a pod-based system of flavors and booze. This time the robot is called Bartesian and it uses little K-Cup-like pod...

 Some bad news broke for Uber today — the California Labor Commission ruled that one of the company’s drivers was an employee.Uber has long insisted that those drivers are independent...

 TodayLeadPagesannounced it has raised a $27 million Series B round, led by Drive Capital with participation from Foundry Group and Arthur Ventures. LeadPages allows a user to create a custom lan...

 Remember Ello? The social network that promises to be ad-freewill drop an iPhone app starting tomorrow, June 18. The announcement about the app is already on the homepage of the Ello website in ...

 With big initiatives under way from Google, Apple, Daimler and more, the autonomous car is driving into view as the future of transportation. Whenever we imagine this technology, the reality alw...

 The US Office of Personnel Management is beginning to reach out to victims of last week’s extensive and unprecedented hack of its records. According to documents seen by TechCrunch, the OP...

 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announcedWednesday that it plans tofine AT&T, the nation’s second-largest wireless carrier by subscribers, $100 million for misleading consu...

 U.S. Senator Bill Nelson sent a letter to Google CEO Larry Page on Tuesday asking the company to detail how it selects content for the YouTube Kids application, and what steps Google is taking t...

 Microsoft fired a number of executives today, including Stephen Elop, an executive that returned to the company following a tenure as Nokia’s CEO. Elop made his way back to Redmond after M...

 Japanese mobile messaging app Line has turned to keyboard apps as it looks to grow its service in the U.S. and other parts of the world outside of Asia. Read More ...

 Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and some of the engineers on the WebKit project today announced that they have teamed up to launch WebAssembly, a new binary format for compiling applications for the ...

 PartPic, which launched at last year’s TC Startup Battlefield in San Francisco, announced it has closeda $1.5 million dollar seed round from a group of 15+ angels, VCs, and strategic inves...

 Like many kids in my generation, I grew up with Star Trek. I’d watch the original series in re-runs and then the Next Generation in college. I found their take on space exploration fascina...

 This is the age of Digital Darwinism, where technology and society evolve faster than any organization can adapt. The best advantage you can leverage is being built for the newly possible. Read ...

 Remember when Nest bought Dropcam? That first fruits of that purchase are finally dropping today: Nest has just announced the Nest Cam, an oh-so-Dropcam like security solution. At first glance, ...

 It’s been a while since we’ve heard much from Nest — they bought Dropcam, then went a bit quiet.Today, they’re breaking the silence at a press conference in San Francisco...

 While companies like Facebook have been relatively open about their data center networking infrastructure, Google has generally kept pretty quiet about how it connects the thousands of servers i...

 Square is bringing in Earvin “Magic” Johnson to its board of directors this summer. The former basketball player is one of the most successful business leaders in America and a great...

 Twitterannounced today that it has acquired Cambridge-based machine learning startup Whetlab in an effort to accelerate the company’s own in-house efforts on the matter. Deal terms were no...

 Danish fashion-focused social network Fitbay, which last year raised a $2 million seed round, is preparing for a partial pivot, that will put photo-sharing front and centre — because fashi...

 Google launched a redesigned version of Google Trends today that brings real-time data to the service. So if you feel the need to get up-to-the-minute data on how Donald Trump’s hair is ho...

 Edward Snowden says we should support Apple’s newly stated commitment to privacy rather than a business model driven by personal data collection, whether or not Tim Cook is being genuine. ...

 Cohesity, a startup founded by ex-Googler and former Nutanix CTO Mohit Aron, wants to change how enterprises think about secondary storage — that is, the kind of data storage that supports...

 Optimizely has become synonymous with A/B testing, but founder and CEO Dan Siroker told me years ago that his vision went beyond testing out different variations of websites (and now mobile apps...

 Dropbox today rolled outa new feature that will allow thosewithout an account to share files with currentDropboxusers. Called “File Requests,” theoption givesanyone you ask the abili...

 Email advertising company LiveIntent has raised $32.5 million in new funding.This effectively doubles the amount that LiveIntent has raised. The round was led by private equity firm FTV Capital,...

 With questions swirling over who may end up buying Nokia’s mapping division Here, a startup trying to disrupt it and other big boys like Google has raised some major funding. Mapbox, a dev...

 Pronoun, a self-publishing platform that says it places authors’ needs first, announced today that it has raised $3.5 million in new funding.The company is actually a new incarnation of bo...

 It would appear that the California Labor Commission has ruled that Uber drivers are employees. As it stands now, Uber employs its drivers as third-party contractors, operating as a logistics co...

 It would appear that the California Labor Commission has ruled that at least one Uber driver is an employee. As it stands now, Uber employs its drivers as third-party contractors, operating as a...

 This morning Microsoft announced changes to its organizational structure and leadership team.Some of its most senior executives are departing, and the company is shifting internal teams in what ...

 The media is blowing up right now at a startup called Swiftkey which was named in an announcement at a Black Hat conference about a bug in most Samsung smartphones that could allow hackers to at...

 A new mobile application from BitTorrent called Shoot wants to make it easier to move batches of photos or big video files between mobile devices – even when you’re sharing between i...

 Commuting in Beijing is an endurance test, but a startup called Ubo wants to make life a little easier for drivers. The app connects users with valets at service stations in the city, who then d...

 Come one, come all to the first summer TC Pitch Off in Warsaw on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 8:30 PM to Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 2:00 AM (CEST). We’ll be taking over the Champions Sports ...

 Sean Parker, who changed the music industry as a teenager and then went onto have an early and formative role in Facebook, has long had one frontier that he’s wanted to change: American de...

 Amazon has just announced the availability of a new $119 Paperwhite e-reader with a 6-inch 300ppi display and a new font and book layout system that will make it easier to dig into The Martian d...

 The arrival of Apple’s News appand question marks over the futureof Flipboard, areputting a new focus on how we as consumers read news online and how that will be developing in the future....

 Telemedicine startup Doctor on Demand announced that it has raised $50 million in Series B funding and signed up it’s 200th customer today. The funding will be used to continue to grow the...

 Brightwheel, a mobile platform for early education, is launching today with $2.2 million in seed funding to provide both teachers and parents of young children with peace of mind. Read More ...

 Salesforce.com is announcing a new version of its Marketing Cloud.The company is unveiling the new features today in New York City at its Connections event for digital marketers. It’s addi...

 Apple Watch has been severely supply constrained since launch, but you can now finally get one in a physical Apple retail store. The Apple Store website now supports online reservations of the W...

 For thosewho just graduated college with a computer science degree, landing ajob at a startup shouldn’t be too difficult. For non-technical graduates, however, it’s not so simpleR...

 FreedomPop is taking another step ahead today in its bidto build out a globalmobile business based on free voice, text and data bundles and upsellingadditionalservices. Amid months of M&A ru...

 FreedomPop is taking another step ahead today in its bidto build out a globalmobile business based on free voice, text and data bundles and upsellingadditionalservices. Amid months of M&A ru...

 When venture capitalists open their wallets and hand out $3.3 million for a seed round, you have to the figure the new companyhas some industry veterans with startup experience,and such is the c...

 Gogoro, the Taiwan-based startup that raised $150 million in stealth mode before unveiling its flagship electric scooter, has finally revealed how much the vehicles will cost. Read More ...

 This Swiss startup has built a social radar app with a pro-privacy twist: instead of tracking users via GPS, or other location triangulating technologies, it’s opted to use peer-to-peer pr...

 Alibaba’s logistics arm is opening refrigerated distribution centers for fresh groceries in three major Chinese cities. Located in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, the warehouses will not...

 Think smartphones are thin enough already? Well, they might be about to get thinner still, if Sharp has its way with a new type of screen that it has begun manufacturing. Read More ...

 My home theater system recently stopped working and I found myself in the market for a specific piece of relatively complex consumer technology: a new receiver. A new home theater receiver is no...

 Microsoft announced a new Windows 10 Mobile build today. Windows Insider fast ring users can download it now, provided that their phones are running Windows Phone 8.1. Due to a migration bug, us...

 Hello! I’m Lucas, and I’m the newest writing intern at TechCrunch, reporting from their SF office. I am a rising senior at Northwestern University, where I’m studying journalis...

 Inexplicably, Snapchat has posted a video to its official YouTube page in which CEO and cofounder Evan Spiegel describes how the app works – four years after it was founded. In it, he uses...

 Snapchat may have finally found a way to monetize that its users will actually like.The company is now extending its custom geofilters to businesses as a monetization strategy.On Monday, McDonal...

 Vessel’svideo subscription service, headed by former Hulu CEO Jason and CTO Richard Tom, has today expanded to Android. The app is initially offeredas an open beta available for download f...

 Kleiner Perkins has launched a new, small seed stage investment initiative within its latest fund to invest intechnology like virtual reality and dronesthat will offer foundersa suite of additio...

 Apple is working with mobile device management shop MobileIron to help deploy applications into the enterprise. The collaborative effort is part of a larger enterprise push by Apple that has it ...

 Pushbullet, the company that makes a handy utilitythat moves notifications, links and files between devices, is out today with a newapp called Portal, which focuses on file transfer alone. Launc...

 Amazon is apparently enlisting everyday humans in its network of endless online shopping delivery. The WSJ reports that the ecommerce giant is working on an app internally that would allow the a...

 Start-Up Chile, the government-backed accelerator program that’s funded over a thousand international startups in the past four years, is launching The S Factory, a pre-accelerator for fem...

 It’s a new day for how we interact with money. You can pay for your morning latte without reaching for a credit card, let alone cash. Most of the recent buzz around financial technology fo...

 Crushpath, a service that helps marketers more easily find leads, has hired Andy MacMillan as its CEO. MacMillan formerly led Data.com at Salesforce, and joined earlier this month. Marketers wor...

 BloomThat wants to be the “Make someone happy” button. Open its app, choose between a few curated bouquets, and a beautiful flower arrangement is delivered to someone you care about ...

 Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said that potential changes in the way its Alibaba spinoff could be taxed would not be an issue as the company continues its proposed spinoff of its Alibaba assets. Yahoo...

 Nintendo is letting players take control of its Mario platform game building tools with Super Mario Maker, and now we know when it’ll be available: September 11, 2015. The “game̶...

 Dick Costolo stepped down as Twitter’s CEO last week, and since then theories about who will lead Twitter next have flown throughout the Internet. Costolo, on stage at the Bloomberg Tech c...

 As promised earlier this spring at the NewFronts, Hulu is now officially dropping the “Plus” branding from its service in order to eliminate consumer confusion about the st...

 Nintendo kicked off its special ‘Digital Event’ at E3 2015 with a trailer for Star Fox Zero, the upcoming sci-fi fighter game based on Nintendo’s much-loved dogfighting title. ...

 Box has integrated into Microsoft’s Office Online product, burrowing the enterprisefile storage and sharing company deeper into the latter firm’s cloud productivity offering. Previou...

 Nintendo’s E3 press event happens at 9 AM PT today (12 PM ET), and the company is in a tough position as both Microsoft and Sony delivered solid conferences. In particular, Sony tried to b...

 Gesture recognition and motion tracking hardware startup Nod Labs has raised $13.5 million in Series A funding to market the latest addition to its ring controller family – the Nod Backspi...

 Tidemark, the cloud financial planning platform announced $25 million in additional funding today along with some new growth numbers.Existing investors Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Re...

 Reveal, a startup focused on the mobile-social space, has raised a $1.5 million seed round. The capital eventwas led byResolute Ventures, and participated in byDigital Currency Group and Boost V...

 Twitter has introduced auto-playing video and animated GIFs to its official timelines in both the iOS application and on the web, with support for the feature coming to the Android app soon. The...

 Misfit has long since expanded its product line beyond its original Shine fitness tracker and now offers a range of devicesfrom the more affordable “Flash” to the pricierSwarovski Sh...

 Google’s App Engine for PHP is now out of beta and generally available on the company’s platform as a service offering. This meansPHP apps are now covered by Google’s App Engin...

 The new Shield (not to be confused with the old Shield, which is now the Shield portable) is an over-the-top box that uses Android TV to provide access to a range of mobile apps and games format...

 Pinterest is releasing a small update to its search engine that’s designed to make the process a little simpler for its users. These updates are small, but even these little refinements br...

 Mobile news magazine app Flipboard may be putting on a brave face in the wake of new competition from iOS 9’s forthcoming News app, practically a Flipboard clone. But there’s no doub...

 Techstars — the startup incubator that has built up a network of programs across the U.S. and Europe and specific verticals like health and education — is expanding once again. The c...

 Starbucks, whose embrace of mobile payments and mobile loyalty in-store hasalready established the company as a forward-thinker when it comes to new technology, is this morning announcing the ex...

 Instacart has added Smart & Final to the list of retailers it works with for its food delivery service. Like many other on-demand startups, a company like Instacart can grow its overall foot...

 ExtremeFliers are back crowdfunding the third generation of their micro drone. This time the teeny quadcopter will be able to livestream footage straight to Meerkat. Or it will if they raise the...

 Sketchfab, the online platform for 3D file sharing, has today announced the close of a $7 million Series A round led by FirstMark Capital. Existing investors TechStars, Balderton, Partech and Bo...

 There are remote control cars and then there are Remote Control Cars. This is the latter of the two. Range Rover UK developed a prototype system that allows a Range Rover Sport to be controlled ...

 After several months of development, the Google Ventures and FKA-backed bloom, is unveiling its first generation of products aimed to combat dementia, and (perhaps equally as important) the disi...

 Siteslike LinkedIn and and Monster.com have become online mainstays both for people looking for jobs and also companies looking to find the right people to fill a role. Now a newstartup hopes to...

 We’re all familiar with the kind of satellite imagery on Google Maps and similar services at this point. Those images, however, are only updated every few months. BlackSky Global, a “...

 The mostly under-the-radar biotech startup Zymergen has gone about making microbial DNA manipulating robots for the last couple of years. It has now raised a total of $44 million to use these mi...

 Nintendo’s E3 press event happens at 9 AM PT today (12 PM ET), and the company is in a tough position as both Microsoft and Sony delivered solid conferences. In particular, Sony tried to b...

 Google today announced the launch of a security rewards program for Android at Black Hat’s Mobile Security Summit in London. The Android program will only cover vulnerabilities that affect...

 Google today announced the launch of a security rewards program for Android at Black Hat’s Mobile Security Summit in London. The Android program will only cover vulnerabilities that affect...

 Startup activity in France around Internet of Things continues to heat up. Followingyesterday’s news that Samsung had taken an investment in Sigfox, today another IoT startup, Actility, an...

 Forget about your supermarket and buy directly from your local farmers and foodmakers. French startup La Ruche qui dit oui (also known as The Food Assembly in the U.K.) has been making waves in ...

 Microsoft has launched its own branded store on Snapdeal, one of India’s top e-commerce sites, as it aims to grow its share of the country’s fast-growing mobile market. Read More ...

 The wacky world of wearables has a new would-be entrant: meet doppel, a wrist-worn device that’s not a smartwatch, not a fitness tracker, and not (just) a heart-rate monitor. It’s a ...

While it may seem far away, Disrupt London will be here before you know it. Disrupt London 2015 takes place December 7-8 at the Copper Box Arena in London, and you aren’t going to want to miss t...

 Y Combinator-incubated SigOpt is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding. The company’s aim is to help customers optimize anything, whether it’s an ad campaign or a ...

 BitReserve, the currency conversion and transaction platform based on Bitcoin that was launched by CNet founder Halsey Minor, has created a platform for application programming interfaces (APIs)...

 Wahanda, the startup out of the UKthat has built a platform for beauty salons and consumersto find and book appointments based on time and location, continues on its march to expand by rolling u...

 Wahanda, the startup out of the UKthat has built a platform for beauty salons and consumersto find and book appointments based on time and location, continues on its march to expand by rolling u...

 TechCrunch has come a long way in 10 years. As well as covering the most important tech news from the U.S. and Europe, we very much into Asia. We have two writers in the region — Catherine...

 India is one of Android’s fastest-growing markets, but its extremely low credit card penetration rate is a challenge for Google as it goes after sweet, sweet app revenue. The tech giant is...

 Fans let out a collective squeal of joy when Shenmue 3 was announced at Sony’s E3 conference and then rushed to pledge their support on Kickstarter. In just three hours, the campaign has r...

 Adobe’s Creative Cloud may be a subscription service with updates that roll out at regular intervals, but once a year, the company also announces a major update to all of the Creative Clou...

 Adobe today unveiled Adobe Stock, a stock imagery service with deep integration into Creative Cloud tools like Photoshop, InDesign and Premiere Pro. This marks the company’s first foray in...

 Conan got to play Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer before you did, and he played it with three of his own crew including Andy Richter, against three of the stars of Silicon Valley, including Thomas...

 Today at Sony’s E3 2015 press conference the company announced that it will unbundle its Vue streaming channels and offer the stations a le carte. In doing so, Sony becomes the first provi...

 Sony is showing off a live four-player local multiplayer mode for its Morpheus virtual reality headset for PlayStation 4 at E3 2015 this year. This marks the first time the company has hadthis k...

 Azimo, a mobile money transferstartup out of London that was once feted by Facebook, is jumping into the funding ringwith a$20 million raise. CEO and co-founder Michael Kent says the company wil...

 A full-scale next-gem console remake the game everyone in the world loves more than anything is coming to PlayStation 4 first: Final Fantasy VII is the game, and based on footage shown during th...

 The PlayStation 4 will soon stream content from DLNA source or connected USB device. The update comes tonight. Finally. Sony announced the impending update in a pre-show to its E3 press conferen...

 The Last Guardian, the long-awaited spiritual successor to Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, is coming to PlayStation 4. The game was originally made official back in 2009, and has been in develop...

 The technology industry is booming and contrary to popular belief, it’s not just early stage venture funding that’s steering the ship. Helping to propel this rapid expansion is actua...

 Sony’s E3 press event happens at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET tonight, and we can expect a lot in the way of game announcements, along with likely pricing and release timeframe info for Project Morpheu...

 WhileApple isrethinkinghow it aggregates, filters and presents news to iPhone and iPad users, Twitter is also sharpening its focus on news media, while also honing the kinds of ads it presents t...

 WhileApple isrethinkinghow it aggregates, filters and presents news to iPhone and iPad users, Twitter is also sharpening its focus on news media, while also honing the kinds of ads it presents t...

 WhileApple isrethinkinghow it aggregates, filters and presents news to iPhone and iPad users, Twitter is also sharpening its focus on news media. We have found that the social networkis currentl...

 Less than a year after raising $3 million in its first outside financing, The Players Tribune has closed on $9.5 million of a planned $15 million round led by the white-shoe venture capital and ...

 AHHHHHHHH.I feel like I’ve been waiting years for this. The first real footage of Star Wars Battlefront — an EA-made sequel to the wonderful first person shooter of the same name t...

 This week’s AppleCast is actually last week’s, and it’s us recapping the WWDC announcements, including iOS 9, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Apple Music and watchOS 2. We also dive a l...

 The FCC’s net neutrality rules took effect last Friday, and TechCrunch is content to report that the broader technology landscape did not melt down. A court denied a requested stay of the ...

 TechCrunch is headed to Austin and Seattle next week, and we’re bringing the world-renowned TechCrunch Pitch-Off with us. But what is a pitch-off without expert judges to weigh in on the c...

 I see a lot of articles written by well-intentioned people about how tech companies want to attract more diverse candidates. Usually, I don’t get more than three sentences in before I read...

 Researchers at the University Of Tennessee At Knoxville have confirmed what my kids believe they already know – that some video gaming can be as physically intense for younger gamers as pl...

 Filmaster, a movie recommendation engine built by a team in Warsaw, Poland, has sold to Samba TV for a little over 1 million. Filmaster was funded by HackFwd and HardGamma Ventures although the ...

 Microsoft’s E3 2015 press conference just ended. And unlike in year’s past, the company actually showcased games. Imagine that: Showing off games at a gaming conference.This is novel...

 Netflix officially announced the launch of its new website today, designed to offer viewers a “richer, more visual experience,” featuring speed improvements, better animations, and a...

 Here’s a look at some of the marquee features, and what they bring to the experience. Video Preview Notes I’m starting out with something that may seem minor to many because it happe...

 Scholly, the scholarship appbest known for being featuredonShark Tank, recently announced multiple bulk purchases by both government and educational institutions.Scholly works like this: After s...

 Adobe launched four new Android apps today (slightly ahead of schedule). While the company has long offerediOS toolsfor popular apps like Photoshop, Lightroom and others, it has generally not ma...

 For peoplewho didn’t grow up in the U.S., navigating the Americanstartup scene can be intimidating. Dat Venture, a Boston-based accelerator for international entrepreneurs, wants to change...

 Brazil is the largest market in the world for beauty products behind the US and China, pushing $43 billion of cosmetics, perfume and personal care products to a population of almost two hundred ...

If you’ve been putting off buying your ticket to Disrupt SF, you should definitely stop procrastinating. You have just a few days left to purchase extra early bird tickets to the show at the dis...

 There are two potential audiences for Sling TV, Dish Network’s relatively new internet TV service aimed at cord cutters: those who have wanted to ditch their cable or satellite TV subscrip...

 There are two potential audiences for Sling TV, Dish Network’s relatively new internet TV service aimed at cord cutters: those who have wanted to ditch their cable or satellite TV subscrip...

 Microsoft showed off a version of Minecraft designed specifically for HoloLens today for the first time at its E3 2015 press show. The HoloLens augmented reality display lets you view Minecraft ...

 The way people watch TV in a multi-device world is changing, which has led a number of consumers – especially among the younger demographic – to cut the cord with traditional payTV, ...

 Microsoft recently announced an updated controller with a 3.5mm jack input instead of a proprietary input, but this new controller is an entirely new beast. The new Elite wireless controller com...

 Microsoft recently announced an updated controller with a 3.5mm jack input instead of a proprietary input, but this new controller is an entirely new beast. The new Elite wireless controller com...

 Frustrated with friends who take photos of you, say they’ll pass them on, but never do? Facebook’s newest companion app Moments could retrieve your memories trapped on other people&#...

 Microsoft just announced that Xbox One will soon be able to play Xbox 360 games, which gives it backwards compatibility with the previous generation hardware for the first time. Microsoft’...

 Ambassador, a startup that helps companies like Spotify and T-Mobile manage their referral marketing programs, is announcing that it has raised $2.35 million in Series A funding. For those of yo...

 Mobli, the photo- and video-based social network, launched three years ago, but it has just uncovered its flagship product, a real-time image search engine called EyeIn. Now available on the Web...

 Hello, the creator of the Sense sleep tracker, is valued between $250 million and $300 million as part of its latest funding round, sources tell TechCrunch.The company has raised $40 million in ...

 Lavu, an Albuquerque-based startup that provides iPad-centric point of sale systems for restaurants, has raised $15 million in new funding led by Aldrich Capital Partners. Previously bootstrappe...

 SpaceX isn’t building a Hyperloop, the sci-fi transportation system that would use low-pressure, miles long tube track to essentially shoot transit pods between destinations at super-fast ...

 Skype has opened its web-based client beta to the entire world, after launching it broadly in the U.S. and U.K. earlier this month. Skype for Web also now supports Chromebook and Linux for insta...

 PowWow, a startup that specializes in technology like a tooldetect leaks and help farmers keep track of their water usage, has raised $3 million. PowWow uses a combination of data from aerial im...

 What do you do when your primary physical sales channel is drying up? You sell something that your audience loves, preferably online, and if that doesn’t work you buy someone that does. To...

 For several years now, we’ve been hearing that we should follow that data and the truth will set our businesses free, but one of the chief proponents of data-driven decision making are spo...

 Sigfox’s $115 million mega round has yet to close (100 million). Today, Samsung announced at a press conference that the company invested in the French startup as well. The amount of this ...

 We first looked at the original Benarus Megalodon dive watch in 2012 when the massive timepiece first appeared on land. Designed by Steve Laughlin of Overland Park, KS (not a place normally asso...

 Facebook is being taken to court in Belgium by the national data protection watchdog over the tracking of non-users via social plugins. Last month the Belgian data protection authority (DPA) iss...

 Sony’s E3 press event happens at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET tonight, and we can expect a lot in the way of game announcements, along with likely pricing and release timeframe info for Project Morpheu...

 While FIFA tournaments have always been a popular ad-hoc activity among gaming communities, a new startup is hoping to add a social component and turn these tournaments into an actual business.F...

 Facebook has been working to improve customer service-focused features for Page administrators for some time, most recently with the introduction of “Saved Replies,” a feature that a...

 Apple spent a lot of time at its Worldwide Developers Conference last week getting devs used to the idea that the best way to design app experiences is with size fluidity in mind. Ostensibly, th...

 Watch live video from Twitch on https://www.twitch.tvMicrosoft’s E3 2015 press keynote gets underway today starting at 9:30 AM PT (12:30 PM PT), and the company is likely going to talk mor...

 Some more reorganization afoot at Stratasys, the 3D printing and manufacturing company: it has announced that it has spun off Bold Machines, a unit of the company founded in September 2014 focus...

 Ever wanted to find music you might love from decades gone by? If the answer is yes, or you’re just a musical and curious soul, then Spotify has a new feature that is right up your alley. ...

 Our handwriting, though slowly disappearing from existence, is one of the most unique things about us. But anyone who has ever sit down to write more than a dozen “thank you” notes k...

 A long running reform of European data protection legislation which kicked off in 2012 has passed a big milestone today; ministers in the European Council have ostensibly agreed on a general app...

 Your phone is about to get a lot more Fallout; Bethesda Softworks held its own E3 press event last night, wherein they revealed a lot about upcoming title Fallout 4, and launched a new Fallout d...

 IBM today pledged it would devote 3500 researchers to the open source big data project, Apache Spark. It also announced that it was open sourcing its own IBM SystemML machine learning technology...

 China’s taxi app war is about to enter its second era. Just days after a leaked memo showed Uber is raising $1 billion solely for its business in China, Bloomberg reports that Didi Kuaidi ...

 Are we headed for yet moreprice wars in the worldof cloud computing? Amazon and Google have made huge inroads into the market on the back of deep discounts and generous storage allowances, and a...

 BigBasket, India’s largest online grocer, is boosting its logistics network to compete with companies that offer very fast deliveries. The Bangalore-based company, which was founded in 201...

 Perennially struggling smartphone maker HTC has poured cold water on suggestions that it is an acquisition target for fellow Taiwanese tech firm Asus. Read More ...

 In 1989, the creators of “Back to the Future 2” imagined a 2015 very similar to the one we live in today – accurately predicting technologies like flat-screen TVs, Google Glass...

 When students work together to solve coding problems, their mentors tell us they spend more time asking each other questions and less time coming to them for solutions. Read More ...

 President Barack Obama changed campaign history by embracing social media in 2008. Now former Senator, Secretary of State, and First Lady Hilary Clinton has taken note and launched a full-court ...

 We (the accessibility community) are on Apple’s radar, and, in my view at least, it feels great to be acknowledged. WWDC is the center of the Apple universe — and accessibility plays...

 Advancements in robotic surgery continue to make headlines, especially with the latest news about Ethicon, a medical device company in the Johnson & Johnson family, entering into a partnersh...

 Here’s a random pet peeve: When I’m traveling, I always kick myself for watching movies on mediocre in-flight entertainment systems — we all do it, but there’s something ...

 In the 14th century, the Medici Family used the power of their newly-invented double-entry accounting system to build a cross-border banking empire that banks still use today. Now more than six ...

 Last autumn I moved back to Finland after spending five years in the U.K. and Germany, building Futurice’s international offices. The Finland I returned to was a very different economy fro...

 If you were looking to build a company, and you were looking to build a unicorn, what conditions should be present for the best chance of success? Based on current unicorns, your best chance is ...

 Contract work is becoming the new normal. Consider Uber: The ride-sharing startup has 160,000 contractors, but just 2,000 employees. That’s an astonishing ratio of 80 to 1. And when it com...

 LastSunday, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party, known by its Turkish initials AKP, took a hit. But it’s ahit that’s stirring the hopes of the nation’s entrepre...

 Every time I hear people talking about Unicorns, I think “all hat, no cattle” or “another person living in the land of style over substance.” In spite of the fact that I&...

 One thing was clear to me this week as I wandered the halls of the Hilton at Torrey Pines for the Cloud Identity Summit, and it had nothing to do with the famous golf course or the trees for whi...

 The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, June 12, 2015. Jack is back to do it again as Team Twitter shuffles the cards. Apple goes ...

 In work and personal online communication, I find myself using animated GIFs almost more than words these days. Between Slack and iMessage, there’s little that needs to be said that isn...

 A U.K. review of state surveillance capabilities takes the view that more widespread use of strong encryption within the technology industry ultimately sanctions government agencies conducting m...

 Over the past three years, the Emergence Capital team has closely monitored the growing ecosystem of mobile enterprise applications. We have been fortunate to learn from our investments in a few...

 Whatever the relative merits of the various browser options, there’s one big advantage that Apple’s homegrown Safari has over most of the competition – using it as your browser...

 The great thing about Bitcoin, for a tech columnist like me, is that it’s simultaneously over-the-top cinematic and technically dense. Richard Branson recently hosted a “Blockchain S...

 Fintech is hot. It is the home of the fabled unicorn. There are now 36 fintech unicorns in the wild. This is up 25 from 11 over the last year. This staggering growth is a reflection of the hype ...

 It’s Friday afternoon, and that means it’s time for CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few TechCrunch writers together to talk about the biggest stories from the past seven days in t...

 You probably don’t always like/share/comment on the stuff that pops up in your Facebook feed, even if it’s something you care to see. Take, for example, a breaking news items about a...

 Looklist has raised a small seed round to build out its “inspiration engine” for fashion and hair. I know, I know, this sounds a bit like a bunch of other fashion startups, not to me...

 Oculus doesn’t want to make you puke or scare you to death. So when its revamped app store launches for its consumer Rift headset shipping Q1 2016, it will review games and experiences for...

 The Federal Trade Commission just posted some fascinating details regarding a settlement related to a failed crowdfunded project. The project, a board game called The Doom That Came to Atlantic ...

 Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today.Gillmor Gang Chatroom during live recording sessionGillmor Gang on Fa...

 Shaq — champion NBAcenter and businessman — was on a plane one day when someone was playing a slots game next to him.He liked the game so much he downloaded it, played it for four ho...

 Shaquille O’Neal — former champion NBA center and businessman — was on a plane one day when someone was playing a slots game next to him. He liked the game so much he downloade...

 TechCrunch thrives on change. And it’s a good thing that it does because we’ve seen plenty of it in recent weeks. Today, we’re happy to announce more changes — with some ...

 Apple just announced brand new operating systems across all of its devices, from Macs to smartphones and tablets to the Apple Watch. Oh, and let’s not forget Apple Music. Darrell, unfortun...

 Catalia Health chief executive Cory Kidd has spent the past 20 years working on how to apply robotics to improve personal health. Now, nearly a year after launching his latest startup, Catalia H...

 I remain puzzled as to why Pandora has chosen to wage an expensive and exhaustive fight against the songwriters that form the very foundation of its business – in courts, in the media and ...

 Deep linking has become one of the hottest topics in mobile over the past year as dozens of startups have launched around using, improving and discovering deep links. All of the big platform com...

 Today’s announcement of YouTube Gaming, a standalone app and site focused on video game related content, shows the company isn’t sitting idly by while outside forces steal attention ...

 Do you like Star Wars? Do you like virtual reality? The venn diagram of those two fan bases presumably has quite the overlap — and yet, there hasn’t been much official Star Wars VR s...

 The FCC has responded to concerns that PayPal’s updated user agreement, which givesthe company the right to robocall and text customers,by informing PayPal that it may be in violation of f...

 Apple and Oculus dominated tech headlines this week with announcements from WWDC and the Rift press event. We also saw news about Dick Costolo’s resignation from his CEO title at Twitter, ...

 “Let’s take a selfie in front of that window with the galaxy,” I say to an excitable robot that looks like Wall-E’s svelte girlfriend EVA. On the other end of the Interne...

 Amol Sarva has been making cool things for most of the past decade. You’ll remember him from devices like the Peek and Halo but his new web company, Knotable, is building cool productivity...

 I’ve been writing aboutthe enterprise for a long time, and back in the day whenI was covering content management, there was forever talk about busting down content silos and putting the co...

 Car rental, at least at the airport, hasn’t really changed in a long time. Texas-based Silver Car is looking to change all that. The company just launched in Chicago, and to date has grown...

 The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipediaand a number of other wiki-based projects, announced this morning that it’s now implementing HTTPS by default across all its sites in order to...

 Confusingorcomplicated website and software design can cost companies a lot in lost traffic and business, but for one startup, it’s a problem that is proving to be lucrative. WalkMe, which...

 The French data protection watchdog has ordered Google to widen its implementation of the so-called European ‘right to be forgotten’ so that links are also delisted from all Google d...

 Boxful, a Hong Kong-based startup that enables customers to store unwanted items in warehouses, has landed $6.6 million to develop its domestic business and expand into other parts of Asia. Read...

 Medium has brought its blogging/publishing platform to Android, after the company announced the launch of a beta version for Android. Read More ...

 Uber may be on the wrong end of a 95 percent-plus marketshare that its chief rival Didi Kuaidi enjoys in China, but the country is on track to overtake the U.S. and become the U.S. firm’s ...

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 SOS Venture’s biotech accelerator IndiBio held its first ever demo day today. The event held in downtown San Francisco showcased startups working on some pretty wild science projects like ...

 SOS Venture’s biotech accelerator IndiBio held its first ever demo day today. The event held in downtown San Francisco showcased startups working on some pretty wild science projects like ...

 If you’ve been following the buzz around artificial intelligence lately, you may have gotten the impression that machines will soon take over the world and destroy it. Hollywood is fueling...

 Amazon today decided that there’s no better time than a late Thursday afternoon to announce a new instance type for its EC2 cloud computing service and so the company today announced the l...

 Apple is hoping to lure developers away from the temptations of the URL scheme, which Twitter infamously made use of last year to track what apps are installed on your iOS device, To do that, th...

 As is my wont, I like to spend the warm summer months in Central Europe, far from sandy beaches, palm trees and pia coladas. Instead, I prefer Zywiec, the Baltic and conifers. Therefore I invite...

 Earlier today, we got the chance to check out the Oculus Rift consumer virtual reality headset, which has finally been fully revealed to the world. We also get a first look at the Oculus Touch C...

 Launched on Indiegogolast week, PureWrist is a fashionable silicone bracelet that contains an embedded NFC payment chip that lets you go through life without Apple Pay. The chip inside the brace...

 Housing activists, San Francisco policy makers and Airbnb are in the midst of another showdown over short-term rental regulation that will stretch into next month and potentially into the Novemb...

 Oculus may be focused on this generation of hardware with today’s big Rift VR headset unveiling, but it’s also keeping an eye to future generations. We caught up with Oculus CEO Bren...

 Apple has just opened up its sixthlocation in New York City on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It’s located at 940 Madison Avenue, between 74th and 75th streets, in a building that was o...

 After years of user growth struggles, Twitter just announced that its CEO Dick Costolo will be stepping down July 1st, though he’ll remain on the board. Twitter co-founder and Square CEO ...

 After years of user growth struggles, Twitter just announced that its CEO Dick Costolo will be stepping down July 1st, though he’ll remain on the board. Twitter co-founder and Square CEO ...

 Twitter is a public broadcast platform, but it’s also increasingly a one-to-one and one-to-many private communication mechanism. The company announced today it’s taking that even fur...

 It’s no secret that the smart home is a hot industry generating big-time buzz from VCs and large technology companies alike. The dream of a fully automated and connected home, where contro...

 After launching at Disrupt NY 2013, theHR management startup Zenefits is taking the enterprise human resources world by storm. Parker Conrad is the co-founder and CEO of Zenefits, and we’r...

 There are a few major players in the niche of watch media and Ben Clymer’s Hodinkee is one of the biggest. The site, which features bold photos of classic and contemporary watches worth mo...

 Bitbucket, Atlassian’s GitHub-like Git and Mercurial code management service, is getting a major update this week that now allows third-party tools to integrate their applications right in...

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 Bumble, the dating app founded by ex-Tinder employees,announced that its female users have started more thanone million conversations on the platform. Bumble is a dating app that prescribes to t...

 Oculus wants to go beyond the Xbox One controller shipping with the Rift, so today it showed off the prototype of Oculus Touch, a set of handheld motion controllers that let you see your hands i...

 You might not have heard of Gin Lane, but chances are you’ve come into contact with their work. The design and development studio helps some of the biggest consumer brands in the world bui...

 Oculus today announced its Rift headset will ship with an Xbox One controller. To make sure you’ll have something to play with it, Oculus worked with EVE Online developer CCP Games to make...

 This is no developer kit. Oculus today gave the world the first look at its consumer virtual reality headset which will ship with a wireless Xbox One controller. It also comes with a small, tabl...

 This is no developer kit. Oculus today gave the world the first look at its Rift consumer virtual reality headset which will ship with a wireless Xbox One controller. It also comes with a small,...

 Music streaming service 8tracks has been profitable since 2012, but wants to move faster. For its new round of funding, the company chose to secure a $2.5 million debt financing from Silicon Val...

 In 2013, Twitter launched a beta testing program for Androidwhich allows users to try out new builds of the Twitter application as well as test experimental features ahead of a public release. T...

 We’ll be at Dogpatch Studios in SF to check out the latest from Oculus, which is most likely going to share some details regarding its upcoming consumer Rift headset launch (set for early ...

 When Alexis Ringwald exited her last energy startup, the U.S. labormarket was still in the long hangoverafter the Great Recession.The country’s unemployment was about double what it is tod...

 Facebook today announced that it is open sourcing Infer, a static program analyzer the company uses internally to find bugs in mobile code before it’s shipped. Internally, the company uses...

 Ever had an Uber driver that didn’t know where they were going? It’s a pretty frustrating experience, and there are plenty of Uber customers voicing their opinions about the problem ...

 HomeSuite CEO David Adams wants to give people forced to move an easy way to stay somewhere nice for the duration of their visit or acclimation to a new city. His startup focuses on finding furn...

 Ministry, a new mobile game developer based in Helsinki has raised 1.8M in funding from Index Ventures, Initial Capital, Sunstone Capital and Proxy Ventures, among others.To put that in context,...

 Skype says this morning that it will next month discontinue its Windows “modern” application and instead make the Windows desktop application the main Skype app for Windows users. In...

 As companies vie for top-tier talent, New York City startup Vettery is offering an alternative to the traditional recruiting process. Although Vettery is officially launching its marketplace tod...

 Sick of lonely nights at home browsing feeds? Free tells you which friends arefreeand let’s you ask if anyone wants to meet up without making you look desperate. Launching today on iOS, Fr...

 We’ll be at Dogpatch Studios in SF to check out the latest from Oculus, which is most likely going to share some details regarding its upcoming consumer Rift headset launch (set for early ...

 A long-awaited independent review of U.K. government surveillance capabilities, conducted by QC David Anderson and published today, has recommended that interception warrants should be signed of...

 Oculus is hosting a special, pre-E3 press event today in San Francisco, and the festivities kick off at 10 AM PT. The stream above will provide live video from the show so you can follow along w...

 Another day, another attempt to shoot a crowdfunded pornographic film in space for three million dollars. PornHub has created an Indiegogo page to help support their effort to film the first por...

 Today’sapp stores each may host well over a million apps, but consumers only use roughly 26 or27 of these per month, according to new data from Nielsen out today. However, the time they sp...

 The most important part of your startup is your brain. If your brain is not okay, then you are not okay and your startup will also not be okay. As a founder, your brain’s most common state...

 Product Hunt, the platform for upvoting the top tech products,is making its first expansion outside of tech into gaming and has pulled in game publication Polygon co-founderRuss Frushtickto head...

 Former advertising executive and mad men wunderkind, David Jones, is launching a new $350 million investment and development firm focused on “brand tech”. After all, since software ...

 As the summer travel season goesinto full swing, a travel app that hopes to give you a new way of experiencing physical spaces is growing. Detour — an immersive city guide appconstructed a...

 The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into Amazon’s ebook distribution practices. The commerce giant is currently the largest distributor of ebooks in Europe. Initiall...

 Matt Murphy, who left his role as a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers earlier this year, is joining Menlo Ventures as a managing director. Murphy will be focusing on enterp...

Personali, an online service that retailers can use to adjust prices and discounts in real time, said it has raised $12 million in a round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Retailers can integrate Pers...

 Matt Murphy, formerly of Kleiner Perkins, is joining Menlo Ventures. The latter firmis currently investing a new $400 million fund. Murphy led Kleiner’s investment intoAerohive Networks, w...

 Reddit, the hugely popular online community know as the ‘front page of the internet’, has dropped the hammer on five groups on its site judged to be in violation of its policy agains...

 Google is best known for internet search and services but the company also runs a host of other projects that use technology to solve other kinds of problems. The latest of these — known a...

 Messaging app Line began testing music streaming when it launched a $2 per month service in Thailand in May, and today it has introduced a larger service in its native Japan. Read More ...

 If you hate typing long passwords into super small screens, I have good news: smart people are trying to fix the problem. Yes, the whole rigmarole of creating a word that has at least one capita...

 Rather than positioning privacy and openness as opposing forces, the fact is they’re different sides of the same coin – and equally important. This might seem simple, but it might al...

 Apple famously keeps info about upcoming products locked down on a need-to-know basis, but that doesn’t mean it waits until hardware is fully-formed before creating software for it. Nor do...

 TechCrunch’s annual summer soire is coming. It’s hard to believe we are 10 years old, but we celebrated that this weekend, and now we want to take the party down south for our annual...

 Apple’s HomeKit is getting some great new abilities in iOS 9, including new features developers can use to improve their connected home apps, and things that make using HomeKit easier and ...

 There is a surprisingly rich ecosystem of devices, a plethora of uses, and importantly, a wealth (both in quantity and value) of markets that are investigating the value of wearables in the ente...

 Today following the bell, Box reported its fiscal first-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $65.6 million and adjusted earnings per share of negative $0.28. The street had expect...

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 Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) and a group of Democrats have proposed the Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act, legislation that would require all guns to contain enough metal to be detected by m...

 Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) and a group of Democrats have proposed the Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act, legislation that would require all guns to contain enough metal to be detected by m...

 Pachyderm, the startup that has built an open source platform for employing containers, such as those made in Docker, for running big data analytics and processing jobs, has raised $2 million in...

 You don’t really need to put on a suit, but you do need to hurry. Tickets are selling out quick and I don’t want you to miss out. TechCrunch is headed to Austin and Seattle and the p...

 Today HotelTonight announced the launch of two new features, HT Escape and GeoRates. HT Escape is a simpler way to book a quick driving-distance getaway. While you could always manually view rat...

 The Apple Watch is set to become almost an entirely new device with the introduction of watchOS 2 this fall, but the changes set to arrive with the update seem like they’ll have extreme be...

 Twitter today has taken another step aimed at helping its users fight abuse on its network – the company has introduced a new feature that allows users to share block lists with one anothe...

 Payroll giant ADP has filed suit in federal court against HR startup Zenefits and its founder Parker Conrad for defamation. ADP and Zenefits are locked in an on-going battle over client informat...

 We’re hearing that Razer, which creates laptops and other gaming hardware, is in the process of acquiring Kickstarter-backed Android console maker Ouya.TechCrunch couldn’t learn the ...

 Facebook wants itsads to sell you stuff directly so you never have to click away to another app or site. Until now, Facebook was testing a Buy Button that does that with just a few selected test...

 Facebook wants itsads to sell you stuff directly so you never have to click away to another app or site. Until now, Facebook was testing a Buy Button that does that with just a few selected test...

 Sony has a couple of new cameras it revealed today, including the RX-100 IV and the RX-10 II. The new compact cameras offer powerful sensors in small packages, continuing Sony’s long tradi...

 Following the consolidationof Apple’s developer programs under one roof, the company has also made a slight, but perhaps notable, change with regard to the number of devices developers can...

 The Apple Watch is set to get a lot more powerful thanks to the all-new watchOS 2, the first major platform update for the wearable. Apple’s next watch software is due to launch this fall,...

 Leica has just announced the Leica Q, a fixed-focus camera aimed at street photography and folks who don’t want to carry lenses around. The camera, which has a non-removable Summilux 28mm ...

 Prominent voices in technology journalism are criticizing the global startup community for building software products and services that cater to the 1% or have zero societal value. They claim th...

 Iin the last few years, companies like Counsyl and 23andme have made DNA testing a reality for thousands, pulling useful information from small samples of saliva or blood. To get a better idea o...

 Urban transportation company Uber found a neat way to keep UberPOP afloat in Paris. For the past few months, policemen have been tracking UberPOP drivers in order to fine them as the low-cost of...

 Launched on Kickstarter this morning, Holus is a tabletop device that converts digital content into a 3D hologram. Created by H+ Technologies out of Vancouver, the campaign has nearly doubled it...

 U.K. search comparison service Foundem, one of the long time complainants in the E.U.’s antitrust investigation into Google Shopping, has published a rebuttal of Google’s claims that...

 Marketing startup Local ID is announcing a $1.9 million seed round.The company was founded last year and, according to CEO Alex Nocifera, aims to help large businesses manage their marketing acr...

 Microsoft today announced that it has acquired BlueStripe, an application management service that helps enterprises monitor and troubleshoot applications that have been deployed across different...

 Apple is encouraging developers to stop thinking about their user interfaces in terms of specific devices and orientation, and to start thinking in terms of different view types, in the interest...

 Whitepages will today announce the acquisition of San Francisco-basedNumberCop, in order to bolster its own abilities in detecting spam and scam calls within its Caller ID smartphone application...

 In an exciting example of the Streisand Effect, an Indian Airtel customer, Thejesh GN, discovered that the carrier had begun using Flash Networks Layer8 “monetization” (read “a...

 India is Asia’s fastest growing e-commerce market and shoppers there face an increasingly unwieldy array of options from different sites. Voonik wants to make shopping for fashion easier b...

 Among big businesses the proliferation of these on-demand services significantly trails their adoption amongst consumers, despite B2B services representing well over $1 trillion in annual spend....

 Among big businesses the proliferation of these on-demand services significantly trails their adoption amongst consumers, despite B2B services representing well over $1 trillion in annual spend....

 These days, many of our mobile photos are snapped, shared and then forgotten. But photo publishing company Shutterfly has built a business on top of the idea that some people want to do more wit...

 Pax Labs, the folks responsible for the Pax botanical vaporizer, have today announced a massive round of funding. The company is receiving $46.7 million in Series C financing led by existing inv...

 Duolingo, the free language learning service co-founded by reCAPTCHA inventor Luis von Ahn, today announced that it has raised a $45 million investment round led by Google Ventures. The company&...

 Duolingo, the free language learning service co-founded by reCAPTCHA inventor Luis von Ahn, today announced that it has raised a $45 million investment round led by Google Capital. The company&#...

 Facebook announced a new Creative Accelerator program earlier this year, with the aim of delivering more effective advertising in emerging markets like India and Kenya. The early results, it say...

 Microsoft will start acceptingpre-orders of its Surface Hub device on July 1 in 24 markets. The devices will commence shipping in September.The larger device, weighing in at 84 inches, will cost...

 Researchers have invented a non-invasive way for thousands of nanometer sized robots to perform tissue biopsies.Developed by Professor David Gracias at Johns Hopkins University, these starfish s...

 In the rush of companies crowding into the mobile payment space, a startup out of Europehas announced more funding to grow its footprint and add contactless hardware. SumUp, a startup originally...

 Online measurement and advertising company Quantcast has hired a new chief financial officer — Stephen Collins, former CEO at Bazaarvoice. Collins has also served as CFO at Bazaarvoice and...

 This weekApple wrapped it’s keynote at WWDC, their annual developer event, andit’s clear from the numbers that the app ecosystem continues to grow at an incredible pace with 100,000,...

 Streaming music service Spotify is not confirming the reports today about its latest funding round, but it’s putting out some of its own news: the company today announced that it now has 2...

 AppNexus has become one of the big names in ad tech, but CEO Brian O’Kelley (pictured above) recalled that back in 2012, the company had to pull backin a major category — namely, vid...

 Timed to offset the big Apple Music launch earlier this week, popular music streaming service Spotify has finally closed its latest financing round. Among the investors is Sweden’s main ca...

 Timed to offset the big Apple Music launch earlier this week, popular music streaming service Spotify has finally closed its latest financing round. Among the investors is Sweden’s main ca...

 Facebook Messenger’s quest to own all the ways you connect with friends is now expanding to games.Today I spotted “Doodle Draw Game” in the Messenger platform app list, and Fac...

 Well, it could be argued that the likes of Mark Benioff and others kicked off the most recent wave of tech philanthropy, but his “1%” pledge of equity, time and product to good cause...

 Well, it could be argued that the likes of Mark Benioff and others kicked off the most recent wave of tech philanthropy, but his “1%” pledge of equity, time and product to good cause...

 HR startup Zenefits and 50-year-old corporate payroll incumbent ADP are pulling no punches in a battle over the use of third-party data. The dispute seems to have started around June 4th wh...

 This week’s episode of Cribs takes us to Postmates, the startup that runs an on-demand delivery platform that promises to bring you practically anything — from lunch to office suppli...

 Tomorrow is the best day of the quarter. Why? Because Box will report its financial performance andeveryone has a hot take on Aaron Levie’s enterprise collaboration firm. I may be guilty o...

 Vine has today updated its app to include even better search results. When you go over to the Explore Tab, Vine will serve up the top results and the most recent posts for your search. Before, V...

 If you’ve spent much time in San Francisco over the past few years, you’ve seen the city slowly congest itself into something Gordian. Getting around has become increasingly difficul...

 Good news developers: You’re able to create native Watch apps that track a wearer’s activity, and can report back to Health with information about the workout, as well as remain acti...

 Since millennials don’t use credit cards, cash, or even beads and shells, the only way to get them to pay for anything is through their smartphone. Add in a text-to-pay service like Rhombu...

 Apple’s iOS 9 updates for HealthKit will greatly expand the range of data types it can track, with significant additions around monitoring signals vital to tracking female reproductive hea...

 Ron and Topher Conway are the father and son duo behind SV Angel and we’re thrilled to announce that they will be joining us for a live onstage interview at Disrupt SF. SV Angel is an earl...

 DVR maker TiVo announced today a new product called TiVo Online that will allow its subscribersto stream both their DVR recordings as well aslive TV over the web. The free site also includes an ...

 Stripe, a service that companies can use to acceptpayments, has a new way for businesses to track purchases and user activity — an iPhoneapp. The new iPhone app does basically everything i...

 The version of Safari that ships with OS X 10.11 ‘El Capitan’ allows web developers to build custom experiences that work with Force Touch input, similar to how native app developers...

 Founder and executive chairman Jack Ma said there’s a big opportunity for Alibaba in the United States: “Alibaba was founded in China, but it was created for the world.” Ma spo...

 AppFormix, a startup that aims to help enterprises to more efficiently run their application in the shared infrastructure environments of public clouds, today announced that it has raised a $7 m...

 Apple’s under-the-hood changes in OS X 10.11 will offer some good advantages to developers hoping to create better web-based content for consumption in Safari. One such advantage is the ex...

 According to the Labor Department, the U.S. economy is amidst the strongest stretch in corporate hiring since 1997. Given the rapidly escalating competition for talent, it is important for emplo...

 Only two companies have apps with over 1 billion Google Play downloads, and the other is Google. Today Facebook proved just how big a business replacingSMS can be, as its leader David Marcus ann...

 Apple will at last address a glaring oversight with regard to its Health application and its usefulness to women: in iOS 9, the app will support the ability for women to track their reproductive...

 Blendle, a Dutch startup that’s applying a Netflix style marketplace to journalism, has signed up the mainstay of German publishers to its pay-per-article market. It said today that all ma...

 Microsoft isn’t waiting for next week’s E3 show to start showing off new things – the company revealed a new version of its Xbox One console today, with a matte black paint job...

 What happens when you put a bunch of people who have worked at Apple, GoPro, Path, Google, and so on, in a room and ask them to design an oven? The answer, apparently, is June:a countertop smart...

 Bignews today for Brit + Co., the lifestyle media and e-commerce businessaimed at people interested in crafty projects. The startup has confirmed that it’s raised $20 million in funding, a...

 TalkDesk, which creates software that helps companies create digital call centers that integrate with their other internal company software, said it has raised $15 million. Companies use TalkDes...

 Tile, the square-shaped lost item tracker that attaches to everything from bikes to bags to key chains and more and then helps you locate those items if lost or stolen through a mobile app, has ...

 Bloglovin’ has brought on Giordano Bruno Contestabile as its new CEO. With a background in video games (he was executive producer of PopCap Games’ Bejeweled franchise), Contestabile ...

 Wigo, the app that helps college kids meet up and go out, has today opened up the service beyond just .edu users. The company is calling it Wigo Summer, and 99 percent of the marketing focus is ...

 Applications for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF are now open, and you only have until 9 a.m. PT on June 22 to apply. Disrupt SF will take place on September 21-23 at Pier 70, and Startup ...

 Ebay today is launching its first attempt at building a smartwatch experience for users of the Apple Watch with the debut of a new app that allows both buyers and sellers to receive updates and ...

 Millennials in SF seem to have it made with on-demand everything, including services that will pick up their dirty clothes and wash them so they don’t have to. Rinse, an SF-based on-demand...

 Three years ago, the White House launched the Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program, inviting innovators from across the country to drop whatever they were doing, join federal agencies, ...

 Roomi, an app that wants to help New Yorkers find the perfect roommate, is today launching with $2 million in seed funding led by DCM Ventures. Great Oak Ventures, Sand Hill East, Jeff Dishner, ...

 While summer is just around the corner, it won’t be long until the leaves start to fall and winter rears its head. Fortunately, with winter comes Disrupt London 2015, which takes place Dec...

 Blue Apron has just announced that it closed a $135 million round of funding led by Fidelity Management and Research Company, with participation from existing investors. The WSJ reported last mo...

 Blue Apron has just announced that it closed a $135 million round of funding led by Fidelity Management and Research Company, with participation from existing investors. The WSJ reported last mo...

 GoPro doesn’t want to be known just as a camera company. Instead, as I learned from GoPro’s CEO and Founder Nick Woodman, GoPro wants to be a lifestyle media company. To that end, th...

 Tinder — one of the most popular dating apps currently available across the globe — laid off around 10 percent of its staff last week. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that the c...

 AOL-owned MapQuest has confirmed a big product and brand overhaul for its mapping product, including a partnership with developer mapping platform Mapbox to improve the product’s performan...

 Mesosphere’s container-centric Datacenter Operating System (DCOS), the product the company has been building toward since it launched in 2013, hit general availability today. As a part of ...

 Spring, the marketplaceshopping app which recently closed $25 million in Series B funding, announced that users will now get free shipping on every order. Spring is a mobile app that provides an...

 Right on the heels of adding a new social network for the DIY folks called MakerSpace, Maker Media has raised $5 million in funding from Ev Williams’ Obvious Ventures,Raine Ventures, Azure...

 Imagineyou’re a red-blooded hacker and you want to break into a corporate network. You find your way in, probably by stealing someone’s credentials. Then you go to work. You move aro...

 Amid the noise of Apple’s annual WWDC keynote yesterday, Twitter posted a note about a new tweak it’s made to the conversation view of tweets that suggests it’s doing (yet) mor...

 The advent of smart cars means that automakers have to figure out how to collaborate closely with tech companies—and that means making changes to their business models. During a panel at t...

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 Apple had a lot to announce at its Worldwide Developer Conference this morning, and it was easy to miss big news as it happened during the two-hour-plus keynote. We’ve summed it up right h...

 If your goal is to build a world-changing product (or to create one of those unicorns everyone is talking about), at some point you’re probably going to need the help and resources of outs...

 Bigcommerce, the Austin-based platform that helps retail businesses go online, now has a new chief executive officer. The company announced today that Brent Bellm, who is a former CEO of Paypal ...

 Apple broke quite a lot of ground today at its yearly developer conference. The company, the most valuable in the world, announced new operating system builds for PCs and mobile devices and made...

 Finance is littered with the graves of startups that have tried to do social. Remember, Kaching, Cake Financial, Robinhood.io? Everyone has failed. But this has not deterred a new crop of fintec...

 Apple’s Design Award is a sleek aluminum cube with a lit logo and no seams. It’s available nowhere else but Apple’s yearly developer conference WWDC.It’s incredibly covet...

 Apple has a new streaming Music app, and it’s pushing users of its old one Beats Music to switch. Following Apple Music’s unveiling at WWDC today, Beats Music’s FAQ has updated...

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 Apple announced a ton of stuff today at WWDC. Don’t have time to catch up on all of it? Here’s everything they announced in rapid fire, bite-sized bits. Read More ...

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 Apple has consolidated its developer program, bundling together access to developer tools and pre-release software builds for iOS, OS X and watchOS all under one umbrella. The unification of the...

 If you’ve been following my coverage of E-Nable, a volunteer organization dedicated to 3D-printing prosthetic hands for kids, you’ll be familiar with Aaron Brown’s work. He mak...

 Apple’s Jimmy Iovine announced Beats1, the first ever live worldwide 24-hour radio station would be coming to Apple Music at WWDC15 today.“Trent Reznor called me up. He says‘I ...

 Apple wants to be the way you socially connect to musicians, not Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Spotify. As a tab in its new Apple Music on-demand streaming service, Apple is launching Connect, ...

 Apple wants to be the way you socially connect to musicians, not Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Spotify. As a tab in its new Apple Music on-demand streaming service, Apple is launching Connect, ...

 One of Apple’s biggest announcements at this year’s WWDC event was its brand new streaming music service. The offering has long been rumored, but Apple made it official this morning,...

 Apple is continuing to put blue water between itself and data-mining mobile rivals such as Google by engineering its services with a clear focus on user privacy.At Apple’s WWDC developer c...

 Apple didn’t kick off this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference with updated stats about the App Store — but it didn’t leave them out completely. More than one hour into...

 Apple didn’t kick off this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference with updated stats about the App Store — but it didn’t leave them out completely. More than one hour into...

 Today Apple announced at WWDC that CarPlay will now be able towirelessly connect to your iPhone. Previously, interfacing your iOS device with CarPlay required a constant wired connection with th...

 Apple capped off its announcement of new features in iOS 9 with information about timing — the public beta will become available in July, followed by a full launch this fall. Read More ...

 The Apple Watch just became a much more interesting development platform with the announcement of watchOS 2 and a true native app SDK at WWDC this morning. Apple vice president Kevin Lynch came ...

 It’s pretty much tradition for Apple to announce a new version of iOS at WWDC. For the past few months, rumor had it that Apple was taking a gap year to focus on fixing existing features a...

 Apple senior vice president Craig Federighi just announced that the company is open-sourcing Swift, the programming language it debuted at its Worldwide Developer Conference last year. In additi...

 Today at its WWDC keynote, Apple announced ‘News,’ an application for iOS that combines news content from a number of sources and an interface that will be familiar to anyFlipboard u...

 It’s just a keyboard, and so it should be limited to keys. But with the new version of iOS 9 for iPad, announced at WWDC, the touch-sensitive QuickType keyboard now has the ability to tran...

 Apple is looking to make iPads more functional devices for business productivity with a new split-screen app mode which allows iPad users to run two different apps side-by-side. This sort of fea...

 Apple’s ongoing work to improve its search features got a big boost on mobile today: Applelaunched a search API for iOS 9. This will let developers index and link out their apps, making th...

 Apple just introduced a few new updates to the Apple Pay service at the WWDC conference in San Francisco. Alongside adding your usual debit and credit cards, Apple Pay now lets you add store car...

 With the update to iOS 9, iPhone users will find transit directions in Apple Maps. So yes, city-dwellers, we can finally stop complaining about this.“Yes, it’s transit,” Apple&...

 Apple announced at WWDC that Apple Pay is coming to the U.K. as soon as next month. “We will launch with eight of the most popular banks, more coming this fall,” Jennifer Bailey said...

 Apple today announced a new partnership for Apple Pay with Square, which will release a new card reader designed to allow small businesses to take Apple Pay payments as well as credit card chip ...

 Apple today announced a new partnership for Apple Pay with Square, which will release a new card reader designed to allow small businesses to take Apple Pay payments as well as credit card chip ...

 Apple today announced ‘Proactive,’ its rumored Google Now competitor and update to Siri, which will launch with iOS 9. The proactive assistant is a mix of Google Now and similar tool...

 For the first time, Apple is live streaming the WWDC Keynote (as well as more than 30 different developer sessions). And to open up the conference with a little style, the company tapped comedia...

 Snapchat just introduced an update that will let you switch between the front-facing camera and rear-facing camera while recording a snap. Users have long been able to switch between the front- ...

 At its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Apple just announced the latest iteration of its desktop operating system.Apple senior vice president Craig Federighi took the stage to d...

 As PayPal moves closer to its spinoff from parent eBay,the companycontinues to expandthe services it will have to generate revenue as a standalone business. In the latest development, today PayP...

 Like New York, Los Angeles is experiencing quite the renaissance in technology and entrepreneurship. Notable companies like Snapchat, TRUECar, DogVacay, Tinder and The Honest Company were all st...

 When you’re a startup on a budget, free publicity can be hard to come by. But TechCrunch wants to put the little guy in the lime light (at least for 60 seconds), and that’s just what...

 In the same way that Snapseed made high end image post-processing accessible to anyone with a smartphone, via easy-to-use mobile tools, Relook is aiming to repeat that trick focused on selfie ed...

TechCrunch has been supporting Tech Open Air Berlin since it started on 2012, and we want to continue to do so as our commitment to the European ecosystem. (Just as we’re doing with The Europas ...

 Ahead of Apple’s WWDC event, analytics firm comScore releasedon Friday a new report detailing Apple’s mobile operating system iOS’s growth in the U.S. market. The reported note...

 Jott, a messaging app that works without a data plan or WiFi connection, has caught on among junior high and high school students, according to co-founder Jared Allgood. He says the app more tha...

 French politicians may not be going on a vendetta against Google after all. In April, the French Senate voted two very tough amendments aimed at Google. Part of Emmanuel Macron‘s economy b...

DocSend, astartup thatprovides peoplewith a secure and private way of sharing files like offer letters or legal agreements,studied more than 200 pitchdecks to figure out the right way to graduate from...

 Ping Identity announced a platform approach to identity management today at the Cloud Identity Summit in San Diego that includes the ability to get your second authentication factor using an App...

 Order stuff to your phone not your home is the pitch for this Belgian app, built for mobile carrier BASE by comms agency DDB — and launched last week in a test phase. Read More ...

 When Showtime debuted its standalone streaming service aimed at cord cutters last week, there was some speculation that Apple hadscored another exclusive for its platform, similar to its deal wi...

 Vinli launched at TechCrunch Disrupt SF last September by promising to bring the car into the smartphone age. The company is making a small sensor that plugs into a vehicle’s ODB port and ...

 Kobalt, the London-based startupthat has built big-data technology to track and collect digital music royalties from across multiple streaming platforms, is turning up the volume on its business...

 If you’ve ever used PopcornTime you’ll agree that the Internet is at once amazing and highly subversive. PopcornTime, for example, is a great celestial jukebox of movies streamed fro...

 There’s a new survey commissioned by the Interactive Advertising Bureau that examines mobile video consumption across the globe.Not surprisingly, many respondents said that they’re w...

 In the wake of U.S. surveillance reform, civil liberty group Privacy International has filed a legal challenge to the GCHQ U.K. intelligence agency’s ongoing domestic bulk data collection ...

 Ecoisme is an Indiegogo project that supposedly uses a single device to track the energy usage of each individual appliance or gadget throughout your home. However, upon further investigation, i...

 Xprize may be best known for its effortsinspace travel, but it’s also working to solve social problems here on Earth. The foundation announced a $15 million competition last fall, focused ...

 Bustle, the millennial woman’s news site with over 30 million monthly readers, today launched its revampediOS App. While the site’s old app was just a clone of the Bustle website, th...

 AsAirbnb continues to add more features to its online accommodation rental marketplace to meet demands both from regulators and its growing audience of hosts and guests, a startup in the same sp...

 Menlo Security, a company with a unique plan to battle malware, emerged from stealth today and also announced $25M in Series B funding. The idea is an intriguing one. Many security problems eman...

 Remember web site builders? Well, they are still around and still raising money. Jimdo, which was originally from Germany but grew most in Asia, has today raised a 25 million minority investment...

 This year’s Worldwide Developer Conference keynote kicks off later today at 10 AM PT at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, and we’ll be there live to fill you in on all the action ...

 This year’s Worldwide Developer Conference keynote kicks off later today at 10 AM PT at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, and we’ll be there live to fill you in on all the action ...

 There are very good reasons for Apple’s recent change to the App Store’s listings, especially for games, as the charts had become over-dominated by incumbents at the expense of newer...

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 Delivery Hero, the takeout food ordering service based out of Berlin, has raised yet more money — possibly some of its last before anIPO sometime after 2015. It’s picked up another $...

 With graduation season upon us, many graduates entering the workforce are understandably anxious about their future employment. However, at least one group is poised to take advantage of a marke...

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 One of the most pronounced misalignments between investors and entrepreneurs is around the concept of “optionality.” I’m not talking about stock options, but the freedom to cho...

 Today, in some enormous mansion, or perhaps aboard a private jet streaming towards a glamorous destination, Jay Z is sitting back and cracking a broad grin.For in Cannes, Sony Music CEO Doug Mor...

 The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals is a tough contest. Designed encourage researchers to create robots that can handle multiple difficult environments and tasks including breaching a door, turn...

 Paying at a local coffee shop or superstore with your smartphone instead of your bank card is convenient, but not much more convenient than using a credit card. While there is significant disrup...

 With reports coming out in the last couple of days that Apple has postponed plans to introduce a redesigned Apple TV set-top box at its Worldwide Developers Conference next week, Google is makin...

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 In the future, everything will be made of Lego if the Legoizer has anything to say about it. This system, really a piece of pixelation software, turns images into Lego creations by breaking them...

 Forget about HuffPo or what’s left of the surprisingly profitable subscription dial-up unit: One of the primary reasons Verizon bought AOL was for its ad tech business. The deal is a valid...

 Fans of tech blog ReadWrite got a grim message last week. A new page is asking them to “Bring ReadWrite Back,” and it declares, “To be completely frank, we’re struggling ...

 Amid talk of the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law, one may be tempted to ask: so what? Three years before co-founding Intel, Gordon Moore observed that transistors would decrease in cost an...

 I’m a two-foot-five short gnome. That’s a lie, but this supposed fact is now in the pool of information that is the internet (cesspool may be the more apt term). The chances are good...

 A new report into U.S. consumers’ attitude to the collection of personal data has highlighted the disconnect between commercial claims that web users are happy to trade privacy in exchange...

 Rowing has been a social activity since the time humans started paddling in the water. It’s one of the oldest Olympic group sports, and many an Ivy League college has a crew team. But indo...

 Money is pouring into fintech. In 2014, global investment in financial technology startups spiked to more than $12 billion. That’s three times what it was just a year prior, according to A...

 I’ve been a software developer, a novelist, a journalist, and a manager–and managing developers is easily the trickiest thing I’ve ever done. (Not the hardest. But the trickies...

 The many success and failures of mobile payments and related solutions witnessed so far brings home a very simple fact-one mobile-based financial solution will not cater to all markets. After al...

 The sharing economy is growing and impacting cities. Collaborative consumption feeds into, and off of, desires for immediate gratification. With “on-demand everything” the way of the...

 Happy Friday! It’s time for another episode of CrunchWeek, the show that throws a few of us bloggers in front of TechCrunch TV cameras to chew the fat about some of the more interesting te...

 HTC and Valve are playing catch-up a bit with Oculus in terms of getting their virtual reality headset out in the wild, but today they began shipping their developer hardware, which by all accou...

 We hear a lot of startup origin stories here at TechCrunch, and sometimes they can blur together. But this one’s a little different.It’s about Ramesh Haridas, an entrepreneur and ang...

 In late May, Apple began offering same-day delivery of the various products and accessories it sells through its Apple Store app on mobile devices through a partnership with on-demand delivery s...

 Hello, friends, and welcome back to another episode of TCBTC, TechCrunch’s bitcoin podcast. This time around the bend, our own John Biggs and myself sat — live, in person! — in...

 Matt is huddled in Vail, Colorado. Why? To hang out with GoPro, as they “throw stuff into pools and dogs chase after it.” But more seriously, GoPro is reportedly unveiling a service ...

 Now that I’ve nearly abandoned my collection of watches thanks to the evil Apple Watch, I’m starting to miss the staid, steady ticking of a good mechanical. But how can I be endlessl...

 Building an app isn’t just coming up with an idea and then coding (or finding someone to code it for you). There’s a lot involved in the end-to-end process that you wouldn’t ne...

 As the number of unicorns, those private companies valued at a billion dollars or more, has moved from a handful to a herd in Silicon Valley, many are left wondering just how arbitrary valuation...

 If you’ve ever wanted to contribute photos or videos to your local newscast, you might get your chance soon, thanks to a new startup called Fresco News. There have been lots of other exper...

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 Online annotation platform Genius, which originally began as a way to mark up rap lyrics before expanding to supportany page on the web,is now making its service – including its collection...

 Online video news company NowThis Mediasays it has seen dramatic growth, going from 1 million video views a year ago, to 50 million earlier this year, to 200 million in May. That’s a lot o...

 Are you an undergraduate or graduate student looking to attend the hottest show in tech? We have set aside a number of tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt SF exclusively for students, and you can snag...

 This week, we wrote about the new announcements made at Google I/O, power moves Instagram is making to give more from its service to advertisers, and what you’ll need to know about Windows...

 PayPal this week caused an uproar when it rolled out an updated user agreement that added a clause that allowed the company to pester users with robocalls and text messages – not only to t...

 Services like Pandora, Spotify and whatever Apple is working on tend to get most of the headlines, but iHeartRadio says it has been buildinga big audience of its own — specifically 70 mill...

 This year’s kick-off eventat WWDC will likely have a developer focus, given the nature of the event, but there will plenty for everyone to pay attention to, especially if you’re a fa...

 Skype’s web-based client, along with both IM and video/audio call functionality, is now available to all users in open beta, the company announced today. The web-based version of the popul...

 Disney knows a it has a good thing going with its Infinity line of interactive toys, which is way it wasted little time integrating Star Wars into the franchise. The new Disney Infinity 3.0 Edit...

 Either this keyboard is too good to be true, and it is currently only a prototype — so that’s entirely possible. Or it’s a stroke (swipe?) of overdue genius. Read More ...

 After a $46 million cash injection and a $171 million majority acquisition by Japan’s Recruit Holdings last month, Wahanda, the StyleSeat-esque European salon and beauty booking platform, ...

 Baidu is pushing its brand into the public WiFi space, after the Chinese internet — responsible for the country’s most popular search and maps services — led an $11.5 million i...

 Auto rickshaws have been a staple in Indian cities for decades. Now a company called Jugnoo wants to make it easy to hail them on smartphones for both rides and deliveries. The Chandigarh-based ...

 Google has brought its suite of free services for nonprofit organizations into Asia for the first time, allowing organizations in selected parts of the region to take advantage of its services. ...

 Next week is a big one for TechCrunch around the world. We’re celebrating our 10th anniversary—and holding our TechCrunch Shanghai international event with TechNode, our China partne...

 Siri can handle questions and make jokes in 17 languages. Is that a lot or little? How many languages must your startup know to reach its entire target audience? We studied some of the most succ...

 Microsoft’s Office product remains popular, unsurprisingly, given its historical record.According to the software company, more than a million folks are using the Office 2016 preview on OS...

 Researchers at Binghamton University have discovered that, with a bit of training, your computer can identify you based on the way your brain reacts to certain words. This means that instead of ...

 JuiceBox Games today announced the upcoming release of Sword Storm, their second title in the collective card game genre (CCG). Founded by three former Zynga developers, Juicebox has had tremend...

 Facebook is ditching the confusing, slightly creepy always-on location sharing feature in Messenger for a more explicit, one-time way to share where you are or will be. Location will no longer b...

 Facebook is removing the confusing, slightly creepy always-on location sharing feature in Messenger for a more explicit, one-time way to share where you are or will be. Location will no longer b...

On Tuesday, Doppler Labs unveiled their second audio product with the Here Active Listening System. In short, these are two independent ear buds that (with zero latency) give you complete audio contro...

 Auto-playing Flash content can drain your laptop’s batteries (and — if it’s some auto-playing ad with audio — get on your nerves). Thankfully, Google has now partnered wi...

 Swarm has just released an update that brings with it the ability message friends of friends. This means that whenever you come across a user in the app with whom you have a mutual friend, you&#...

 The Obama administration expanded the National Security Agency’s (NSA) warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international web traffic in pursuit of Internet hackers, the New York T...

 Before there were toolslike IFTTT,which lets you mash up data from webservices along with othercontent in newways, there was Yahoo Pipes, an online (and somewhatgeeky) visual interface that let ...

 Facebook can be painfully slow on weak network connections or prohibitively expensive on stingy data plans that are common in India, Africa, and Southeast Asia. So today, Facebook is launching a...

 The Internet can seem like a place without adult supervision, but in a space where minors are a growing segment of the online audience, companies are subject to a complex landscape of laws, regu...

 The updated machine gets super fast flash storage, as well as the new Force Touch trackpad, an improved dedicated GPU and an extra hour of battery life. It didn’t get new processors, but i...

 Dropbox announced several updates today designed to appeal to larger enterprise customers and make them feel more comfortable using Dropbox for Business. Dropbox faces a huge challenge with ente...

 Airbnbrenters will now get pricing recommendations for their listings as part of an update to the room-sharing service today. It’s called Price Tips, and it creates ongoing suggestions for...

 Google’s second foray into television, Android TV, has been a bit slow off the starting blocks in some respects – app support was one area where it definitely felt a little threadbar...

 In a merging of Los Angeles new media glitz and Brooklyn hipster chic, Danny Zappin’s Zealot Networks is acquiring the Brooklyn-based media and events mini-empire, the Northside Media Grou...

 Pie, the Singapore-headquartered enterprise messaging service for ‘normals’ that we profiled last summer, has raised a $1.2 million Series A round as it prepares to monetize its serv...

Instapaper, the app that lets you save and share online articles, has just launched a new annotation functionality called Notes. The feature allows users to select a piece of text from an article or o...

 HAX-alumnus Electroloom is builidng a “3D printer for fabric,” spraying a solution containing a polyester/cotton blend on a template to create clothing without seams. Electroloom co-...

 Third-party Twitter client Tweetbot, from two-man development studio Tapbots, has long been the unofficial default option for iOS and Mac users who weren’t satisfied with first-party clien...

 Ebay today is expanding its professional selling service known as eBay Valet, where select, pre-approved Bay sellers will handle listing, selling and shipping items on consumers’ behalf in...

 The buzz around native and video advertising isn’t just hype — they’re bringing in more dollars for publishers, according to a new report from Twitter-owned MoPub. MoPub offers...

 PicsArt, a photo-sharing service that’s building a community around creatively editing pictures, has raised $15 million in a venture round led by Insight Ventures with Sequoia Capital also...

 Half of concert tickets go unsold because fans don’t know the shows are happening. To fix that, 10 million user concert discovery app Songkick is merging with white-label artist-to-fan tic...

 The gears are starting to turn for Disrupt SF 2015, and in just a few short months, TechCrunch editors and a host of the most influential people in tech will be gathering to talk about the futur...

 Google launched a new batch of regular and underwater Street View imagery today that lets you swim with humpback whales off the Cook Islands, dive with parrot fish off the coast of Bali, or walk...

 New Cisco CEO, Chuck Robbins, unveiled his new executive team in a blog post today, and he’s favoring diversity and youth ashe tries to sell Cisco to a new generation of customers. He̵...

 Gawker Media’s editorial staff will be joining the Writers Guild of America, East. The efforts to bring the companyinto the WGAE (a union best known for representing film and television wr...

 London-headquartered fashion shopping site Styloko, whose image recognition technology helps women find similar products to those they like at better prices, today begins testing the concept tha...

 Tinder has just announced that it has appointed Hugh Williams, formerly of eBay and Microsoft, to lead the Tinder dev team as VP of Engineering. Williams comes from Pivotal Software Inc. where h...

 Tumblr this morning is rolling out a new feature designed totake advantage of the extensive collection of GIFs hosted on its service: a GIF search engine. The news follows that of Facebook’...

 Periscope users will now be able to open up a map that will show which videos are live around the world as part of an update today. Instead of just selecting from a feed, users will have a secon...

 LogMeIn has made one more acquisition to build out the features of its online collaboration and meeting app join.me: it has boughtZamurai, a San Francisco-based startup that had built a popular ...

 One Drop, an app for diabetes management, has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by RRE, with participation from Box Group, Capital Factory and existing investors LAUNCH and Neu Ventures....

 The U.K. government is facing a legal challenge to surveillance legislation that was rushed through parliament last year. At the time the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill was critici...

 While smart thermostats have been around for years, they typically have only been able to interface with a home’s central heating or cooling system which are much more expensive than porta...

 Line, the messaging upstartout of Japan, is adding group calling into its ever-expanding webof services. Popcorn Buzz, as the app is called, is entering a crowded market for group calling servic...

 Apple will begin selling some models of the Apple Watch starting in two weeks, according to a press release from the company today. Also, on June 26, we’llsee Watches go on sale in seven m...

 Solomon Kahn, who runs Paperless Post’s data team during the day, is building (and crowdfunding) a data visualization tool for U.S. political campaign contributions — to make it easi...

 Alibaba, the Chinese internet giant, is currently focused on investing internationally to grow its business, but is also continuing to build out operations at home. In the latest move, it has in...

 Alibaba, the Chinese internet giant, is currently focused on investing internationally to grow its business, but is also continuing to build out operations at home. In the latest move, it has in...

 Do you like spiders? Do you like the idea of wearing spider webs? Well, you’ll soon be able to wear clothing made from the same material as spider webs if a new startup called Bolt Threads...

 Whenever many large technologyhave a new feature they want to test, they roll it out to a small set of users before letting it go live.That those companies get feedback on the feature and iron o...

 Hyperlocal e-commerce services, which deliver products to customers within hours, are a hot sector in India right now. Zopper is the latest to score a significant round of funding. Its $20 milli...

  (hi!) TechCrunch is back in Moscow! TONIGHT we’re holding a ‘Mini Meetup’ in conjunction with the Strelka Institute. We’ll hold a Pitch-Off competition consisting of one...

 Collaborating on data is burdensome and often results in increasingly unwieldy email chains loaded with multiple PowerPoint and Excel attachments. A startup called Chartcube wants to make sharin...

 GitHub has opened an office in Japan, its first location outside of the U.S., as the bids to gain a foothold for its online code repository in the lucrative enterprise software market in the cou...

 Amid reports that Russia will be one of the first countries to get access to the new music service that Apple is reportedlylaunching next week, Russian search giant Yandex is enhancing its own. ...

 In a sign that the market for wearable devices remains nascent, China’s Xiaomi has risen from nowhere to become the industry’s second largest company responsible for one-quarter of a...

French startup S4M (Solutions for Mobile) has raised a $8 million Series A round of funding from Entrepreneurs Venture and Bpifrance digital fund to grow its mobile performance technologies globally. ...

 The boom around property industry in India has gotten more momentum today after Propstack, a Mumbai-based company that manages a range of data around commercial real estate, landed a $3 million ...

 Datasift, which has raised a total of $77.9 million to date, is partnering with social analytics platform Pulsar to make anonymized Facebook topic data available to any brands, government, chari...

 Learning Chinese as an adult is like playing a game of chicken with your brain. I spent nine months studying Mandarin in Taipei and every time I sat down with a new stack of flashcards, I wonder...

 It’s getting increasing difficult to call SoftBank a Japanese telecom company. While that description reflects its core business, the company has a multitude of large investments out of it...

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 President Barack Obama signed the USA FREEDOM Act into law late on Tuesday. The law will temporarily restore the nation’s phone bulk metadata collection program until it transitions to tel...

 Ellen Pao’s gender discrimination suit against Kleiner Perkins is one data point in the discussion of diversity in Silicon Valley’s venture capital industry. We spoke with more than ...

 Q: What do you get when you combine the swipe-to-like mechanism, popularized by dating app Tinder, with a wealth of potential equity crowdfunding investment opportunities? Read More ...

 Signs were indicating an Apple TV refresh coming in time for the Worldwide Developers Conference next week, but a new credible report indicates it’s not something we should expect to see; ...

 New technologies continue to change every facet of the way we do business, including how we identify, recruit, and hire the best people. Thanks to the latest tech innovations, today’s recr...

 If you’re anerdy sort of iPhone user, then you know the frustration that comes fromtapping a link on the web and then being directedto some crappy mobile website for the app instead of the...

 Despite big exits, big new rounds of funding, and a steady drumbeat of new product launches, investors seem to be taking a step back from the education industry in 2015. Read More ...

 As a slave to fashion, I have to look great all the time. But how can I do that when I have to wear so many amazing wearables? You can’t have fashion and electronics. Luckily, Tokyoflash h...

 Both extremes bother me. On one hand I can’t play games like Witcher or Bloodborne with the kids in the room and I don’t want my 9-year-old playing them. On the other hand I see no v...

 In our lives, there will be moments when mere seconds can make the difference between life and death. A fire starts in a home and quickly starts to spread while the occupants are asleep upstairs...

 Forty percent of all Americans will be arrested at least once,and even though around half will have the opportunity to expunge that arrest from their record, only one percent of them will actual...

 As with Windows 8, so it will be with Windows 10, at least when it comes to builds of Microsoft’s operating system that lean on Bing to monetize. Bing is best known as Microsoft’s se...

 The time has come, my friends. This time next week, we’ll have chosen around 20 amazing companies to participate in the TechCrunch Pitch-Offs in Austin and Seattle. Applications close on F...

 Another day, anotheracqui-hired shutdown, albeit a pretty long, drawn-out one. Branch Media, acquired by Facebook in January 2014, has shut down the two sites that it created, online “conv...

 As big as billion-user YouTube is, its ad revenue sharing is not where musicians make their money. They earn it on the road. But YouTube’s reach can make artists famous all over the world....

 Showtime will be following in HBO’s footsteps with the debut of a standalone streaming service aimed at cord cutters, which will allow customers to subscribe to the network’s program...

 DST Global, Yuri Milner’s late stage VC fund, took the lead on the purported $500 million financing round invested in Wish, the mobile shopping app, according to people familiar with the m...

 Cisco announced this morning it has purchased private cloud — and OpenStack — specialist PistonCloud Computing.The acquisition comes on the heels of its Metacloud purchaselast Fall, ...

 Global Founders Capital, the European investment fund set up in 2013 by Rocket Internet founders Oliver and Marc Samwer, has led a $3.5 million Series B funding round in Middle East hotel bookin...

 If you’ve ever gotten stuck messaging friends back and forth just to get the answer to a simple question, a newiPhone and Apple Watch application called Re:quest wants to help. Designed to...

 Make way in the VC world for a new player that’s opening for businesstoday in London. Frederic Court, a former parter at Advent who is considered one of the more successful investors in Eu...

 Apple has issued a voluntary recall for the Beats Pill XL Bluetooth speaker, which is made by the company it acquired last year. The speaker, originally created pre-acquisition, apparently poses...

 As expected, Bethesda Softworks has revealed Fallout 4, the next instalment of its beloved post-apocalyptic game franchise. The last game in the series was 2010’s Fallout: New Vegas, so th...

 Fantastical fans will be happy to hear that the indie calendar app for Mac and iOS is making the jump to the Apple Watch. For those wondering why the app hadn’t made the jump sooner (̶...

 Skype today has rolled out a fixfor the bug that has been causing its client software applications to repeatedly crash ifusers receiveda particular string of characters as a message. If someone ...

 TechCrunch has found itself in Moscow and we’d like to say hi! We’re going to hold a Mini Meetup in conjunction with the Strelka Institute. Details are below. But we need sponsors! P...

 Some moreexec shifting afoot at daily deals and local commerce site Groupon. Today the company announcedthat Rich Williams would be its next chief operating officer. And at the same time, the co...

 Pharmaceutical delivery startup PillPack has raised a $50 million growth round in Series C financing to start building retail pharmacies and take on other retail drugstores like RiteAid and Walg...

 Drug discovery platformAtomwisehas raised $6 million in seed funding to dig deeper into artificial intelligence and potentially speed up the process in which we discover new drugs. The funding c...

 Berlin-based early stage VC firm Point Nine Capital has announced it’s closed its third fund. The new $60 million fund will be used to invest up to $1 million in around 40 startups across ...

 I’m a big fan of the real Silicon Valley and HBO’s Silicon Valley. My favorite episode this season features the boys of Pied Piper crisscrossing Silicon Valley pitching investors as ...

 Right now, millions of children around the world are in danger. They’re facing violence, disease, hunger, and the chaos of war and disaster. Innovation in technology has the potential to h...

 June is already looking like a big month for SoftBank. Just days after upping its stake in billion dollar gaming startup Supercell, the Japanese telecom giant revealed it is investing a cool $1 ...

 June is already looking like a big month for SoftBank. Just days after upping its stake in billion dollar gaming startup Supercell, the Japanese telecom giant revealed it is investing a cool $1 ...

 Being a small child is awesome because every little thing is an adventure. As a jaded adult, it’s hard for me to remember the overwhelming wonders of growing up. ShapeKit, however, recaptu...

 Today there are 2.6 billion smartphone subscriptions globally, and while growth has been levelling off in developed markets, it’s not stalling altogether by a long shot. By 2020, we will s...

 To get more enterprises on board, Revel is launching wired ethernet connections, a move that it hopes will convince large retail businesses to replace their cash registers with iPads. Read More ...

 HidrateMe aims to help you fill up on your H20 with a sensor that monitors your intake and syncs that information up with an app on your smartphone. Should you need more water than you are inges...

 Lawn care startup LawnStarter is announcing that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding.The company describes itself as “your personal lawn care concierge” — the idea,sai...

 As anticipation continues to rise for the new Star Wars film to open at the end of this year, a hardware startup central to the makingof one of thecharacters has raised a new round of funding. S...

 Startup accelerator Boost.vc is diversifying its next cohort of startups, shifting its line-up of accepted startups from focusing solely on Bitcoin to include those working on virtual and augmen...

 “I’m speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about thei...

 Forget billboards or magazineads, if an advertiser wants to put its brand in front of a big audience today, you may as well slap that ad on an Amazon shipping box. Or, at least, that’s the...

 Forget billboards or magazine ads. If an advertiser wants to put its brand in front of a big audience today, you may as well slap that ad on an Amazon shipping box. Or, at least, that’s th...

 Magic Leap wants game makers, filmmakers, and other creators to build augmented reality experiences on its platform, and today on stage at MIT’s EmTech Digital conference, it announced how...

 Today’s episode of Cribs had us criss-crossing the country to New York City, where mobile payments juggernaut Venmo has made its home. Venmo has become enough of a phenomenon that it has b...

 Following Pinterest’s unveiling of Buyable Pins — a way for merchants to sell things that users can buy directly within Pinterest — I had an opportunity to sit down with the co...

 On a vote of 67 to 32 today, the Senate passed the USA FREEDOM Act. The bill, which will now race to President Barack Obama’s desk, marks the first time Congress has moved to reform the Na...

 Instead of spending over $10,000 on a golden Apple Watch Edition why not use the Midas Touch USB, a DIY kit that uses electrochemistry to plate your boring old steel Apple Watch with 24 karat go...

 Pinterest grew tall on the backs of bloggers, some who were incentivized to rabidly fill the discovery network with content because they got a little affiliate fee when their Pins led to purchas...

 It was a big morning for Mic — the company announced that it has raised $17 million in new funding, and that it’s hired Madhulika Sikka, previously executive editor at NPR News, to t...

 Experts could debate all day long the ingredients for a killer entrepreneurial climate and the virtues of one city over another. But if I’ve learned one thing over the years, it’s th...

 Facebook is testing a new feature called “Saved Replies,” which will allow business Page owners the ability to write, save and then re-use canned messages when communicating with the...

 Pinterest unveiled what it’s calling “buyable pins”at an event at its headquarters in San Francisco today. Here’s how it works: Rich Pins — pins which have much mor...

 Disney is expanding its foray into the connected toys (or toys-to-life) category with a new offering called Playmation, which combines figurines and wearable devices from popular franchises incl...

 Mozilla’s Firefox now features a full integration with the Pocket read-it-later service for saving text and video. In addition, Reader View now offers users a distraction-free reading mode...

 Brazil is one of the world’s fastest growing mobilemarkets, with 90 million smartphones in circulation among a population of about 200 million, and today a fin-tech company that has focuse...

 Instagram continues to expand its ad program, today announcing three broad changes — new ad formats, new ad targeting and new ad-buying tools. For Instagram users, the most obvious change ...

 Email clients are like noses: everyone’s got one and they’re absolutely essential to your survival. There’s Mailbox and Outlook and Gmail and all the rest and now there’s...

Until now Russia’s Skolkovo Foundation has been best known for an enormous ’tech city’ built just outside of Moscow. But today it expands its reach with the signing of a deal with th...

 Oculus made waves earlier this year when it announced it would be developing its own original film content for consumption on its VR devices – now there’s a second movie coming out o...

 France has many hidden gems, and Facebook is well-aware of that. The company is building a new artificial intelligence research team in Paris in order to work on ambitious futuristic projects. T...

 App store intelligence platform appFigures today rolled out a new iOS app that will allow app developers to track their own apps’ performance, including things like downloads, revenue and ...

 Thync is launching its mood-altering headset today, letting you find a state of calm or boost your energy with controls on your smartphone. Read More ...

 Microsoft has indeed added Wunderlist to its growing collection of fabulous productivity apps, the companies confirmed today. After the Wall Street Journal reported the deal as done yesterday, W...

 There’s likely a Fallout 4 official announcement happening, since developer Bethesda Softworks posted a teaser video today with a countdown that started at 24 hours this morning. The seque...

 Everyone has, at some time or another, experienced the frustration that comes from missing a delivery – that is, coming home only to find a delivery notice stuck to your door. A company ca...

 Unicorns and dragons have become so ubiquitous that some argue investing in these companies is the only way for VCs to survive. This phenomenon makes for excellent entertainment, and for some ei...

 There’s lots of news from Imgur, one of the internet’s most popular sites for funny images and GIFs today. The site has officially launched paid-for advertising, and made significant...

 Sorry, Android fans. Nintendo’s next gaming system will not be based on Android. The official word comes from a Nintendo spokesperson speaking to a Japanese report that indicated that the ...

 Meet Aircall, a French startup specialized in creating a modern platform for your phone support needs. The company started as an easy way to create a virtual number that would ring your support ...

 In July 2014, Google announced Baseline Study, a Google[x] “moonshot” that involvescollecting and analysing diagnostics from people to paint a picture of“what it means to be he...

 Amazon is crowing about its big Fire TV app and channel catalogue this morning (I have to wonder if the timing has anything to do with the Apple TV announcement rumored for next week), but the b...

 Hi. I’m Fitz, TechCrunch’s newest writer/intern. (West) Philadelphia born and raised, on the computer is where I spent most of my days. Seriously, though. I started playing Power Pet...

 Apple has a patent for earphones (via AppleInsider) that pretty ingeniously suits common usage – the headphones described in the document can automatically detect multiple users using one ...

 Urban Massage, the U.K. startup that offers an Uber-style massage booking service similar to U.S.-based Zeel, has picked up a new round of funding. The backing — amount undisclosed —...

 Most of you know about SoundHound, right? It’s a popular music recognition app that never quite captured the public imagination the way Shazam did.Well, according to founder and CEO Keyvan...

 MongoDB, the open source database platform announced several updates today at its MongoDB World user conference in New York City, including integration with Tableau and other data visualization ...

 Doppler Labs, the same folks that introduced us to the totally mechanical Dubs ear plugs, is today unveiling its second product. The Here Active Listening System was just launched on to Kickstar...

 It’s fairly common practice for cheaper manufacturers to ape more expensive “premium” brands as soon as its clear that customer sentiment is headed in a certain direction. This...

 Intel has revealed all about its new Thunderbolt 3 specification at this year’s Computex conference, and it could be the port that best serves Apple’s single I/O vision of the MacBoo...

 AOL.com is getting a new look.Unless you’re a regular visitor, the changes might not seem all that dramatic, but Maureen Sullivan, President of AOL.com and the company’s lifestyle br...

 Apple’s HomeKit is finally starting to roll out to actual consumers, via the first crop of HomeKit-enabled accessories from third-party manufacturers. This means you’ll soon be able ...

 Vimeo wants to provide new ways for creators to make more money from their content. A few years after launching a video on demand offering so creators could rent out or sell access to their vide...

 Leanplum started out as a mobile A/B testing service, but over time, the company has morphed into a mobile lifecycle solution for marketers as it added new features to its platform. Last year, f...

 HWTrek, a Taipei-based platform that connects hardware startups with manufacturers and other resources, has scored a $4 million series A. The funding was led by WI Harper and ITIC. Legend Star C...

 Fitness tracker FitBit has updated the filing for its initial public offering with new pricing details.The company plans to sell just under 22.4 million shares priced between $14 to $16. At the ...

 Udemy, the online education marketplace that wants to help anyone learn anything, has pulled in $65 million in new venture funding. The Series D round was led by Stripes Group, the late-stage Ne...

 Mobile gameplay streaming service Kamcord has launched on Android, letting users share clips of their time playing games on their phone with voiceover. Read More ...

 Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, today announced the launch of the second Ubuntu phone in partnership with Spanish manufacturer BQ. While it can’t rival any rec...

 Here’s good news for those of us who are based in Asia, Google is increasing the capacity of its two data centers the region. That means better performing sites and services for those of u...

 As the European Commission turns the heat up on Google over allegations that the company has abused its dominant market position in areas like search and mobile to create an anticompetitive envi...

 U.K. hardware startup Blocks Wearables, which is in the process of building a modular smartwatch — shown off in concept-form in this teaser video last fall, and originally inspired by Goog...

 Qunar, one of China’s largest online travel booking platforms, plans to expand its mobile business with a new $500 million investment led by Silver Lake. Read More ...

 Unless they are also Taylor Swift fans, Urbanspoon users will no longer be able to shake it out. The restaurant app has shut down following its acquisition by Zomato for about $50 million to $60...

 Apple’s ‘Shot on iPhone” campaign is probably something you’re already familiar with, given the ubiquitous presence of billboards, print and transit ads created using iPh...

 Reddit CEO and former venture capitalist Ellen Pao has filed a notice of appeal in her long-running gender discrimination case against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, ...

 Amid controversy around nail salons following several reports of poor and hazardous working conditions, a startup called Pamper is hoping the moment is right to change how the business works. Pa...

 Love the idea of swimming in a fresh pool on a hot summer day, but don’t like the idea of swimming in something over-chlorinated or possibly full of bacteria? There’s a new Bluetooth...

 There’s no doubt Google Photos is a massive landgrab for personal data — at a time when visual imagery is the biggest social currency of the web. Read More ...

 See a yummy recipe, instantly order all the ingredients. Find a cool product, instantly add it to your Amazon Wish List. That’s the plan for “Action buttons” on Pinterest’...

 Microsoft announced today that Windows 10 will be available on July 29. The date matches prior leaksand promises from the company regarding when the new operating system will touch down. The rel...

 In a rare Sunday session, the Senate voted 77 to 17 yesterday to advance the USA Freedom Act, a bill that hopes to rein in, albeit partially, the NSA’s surveillance programs that touch Ame...

 SoundCloud is desperately trying to go legal and pay royalties before labels pull their music from the streaming service. A contract for legal licensing with independent music publishers shows j...

 When most Americans hear the term “net neutrality” their eyes begin to glaze over, confusion sets in, and an almost instant-boredom takes over them. But in an emerging market like In...

 Adobe bought Mixamo, a 3D character creation service today and will incorporate it into the Creative Cloud.Mixamo has been improving 3D character creation since its inception and has really push...

 In case you haven’t heard, TechCrunch is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a meetup at the Presidio’s Civil War Parade Ground this Saturday, June 6. There are easily 10 good reas...

 AdStage, a startup that helps businesses run ad campaigns across platforms like Google and Facebook, announced today that it has raised an additional $1.5 million in debt funding.The funding com...

 AOL founder and former chairman and CEO Steve Case has moved on to investing, and is doing so in a big way. Revolution Growth, the firm he founded in 2005 along with former AOL execs Donn David ...

 We are but a week from the application deadline for the Austin and Seattle Pitch-offs. So if you were thinking you could put it off and do it later, you were wrong. Time is of the essence. So if...

 The Peek, or Portable Eye Examination Kit app, is a smartphone based system for diagnosing eye problems. It uses a 3D-printed add-on that can allow ophthalmologists to give detailed and complete...

 Disrupt SF 2015 is the place to be if you want your startup to get noticed. According to CrunchBase, of the 126 companies on display in Startup Alley at Disrupt NY 2014, 24 have since been funde...

 Another day, another highly advanced pleasure device on Indiegogo. This one is called Whoop.De.Doo and comes to us from Anna Maresova, a designer in Prague. Maresova, who studied at the Faculty ...

 Apple will indeed reveal anew streaming music service next week, according to the Wall Street Journal, and said service will cost $10 per month and provide unlimited listening. The service will ...

 Apple will indeed reveal anew streaming music service next week, according to the Wall Street Journal, and said service will cost $10 per month and provide unlimited listening. The service will ...

 Netflix has always shied away from advertising, preferring instead to make money from a monthly subscription it charges users to gain access to its content. The company has no plans to change th...

 Amazon is testing a new way for users to discover products on its website and save them to a wishlist with a feature it’s calling Amazon Stream. On a page offering a grid of product photos...

 Apple quietly made a number of changes to the way it features and organizes mobile applications in the iTunes App Store in May which are of particular interest to mobile game developers. Previou...

 This morning Intel confirmed it had bought Altera, maker of programmable chips, for $16.7 billion. That may seem like a big number until you consider thatAvago Technologies Ltd. boughtwireless-c...

 In the latest game of VC musical chairs, more personnel changes have taken place in London’s Venture Capital community, including departures at MMC Ventures, Balderton Capital, DFJ Esprit,...

 The first TechCrunch post appeared on June 11, 2005. It was a profile of a new version of Technorati which had begun scanning real-time news feeds called “blogs.” These news sources ...

 You can now instruct Facebook to encrypt every email it sends to you so nobody — not even the NSA — is likely to be able to read your messages anytime soon. All you have to do is imp...

 Almost every company today screens potential hires for cultural fit. But what constitutes a company’s culture and how can you tell if a particular person fits into this particular mold? Re...

 When Minecraft came out, I heard a lot of people describe as sort of like virtual Lego. Now, there’s a game for which that description is even more apt: Lego Worlds, an open world building...

 We’ve written about how TodayTix has been working to help the theater industry adapt to the world of on-demand, mobile-centric commerce — today it’s crossing the Atlantic, to L...

 Latin American mobile commerce powerhouse Movile and Just Eat, the global online take-out service, have announced a $50M investment in Brazil’s leading food delivery service, iFood. The ra...

 Lully, the YC-backed startup that built a device to help prevent night terrors, is today announcing the close of a $2.1 million seed round. The company is also presenting at the Highway 1 Accele...

 Canary, the smart home monitoring system, has just closed on $30 million in Series B funding led by Walden Riverwood Ventures, with participation from Cota Capital, Khosla ventures, Flextronics,...

 Google this morning announced an improved set of privacy controls for online users, as well as a dedicated website that attempts to answer people’s concerns regarding Google’s data c...

 The difficult shakeout among less successful mobile handset makers continues apace. According to a report, and Sony confirmation, fromSwedishlocal publication 8till5,Sony Mobileis cuttingnearly ...

 The shakeout among less successful mobile handset makers continues apace. Sony Mobileis cutting 1,000 jobsin Sweden,one of the company’skey manufacturing and R&D centers, as part of a ...

 Simple, the U.S. banking startup now owned by BBVA after it was acquired in early 2014, seems to have forgotten what it’s like to be a fledgling upstart already.The company’s lawyers...

 BlackBerry has successfully ended the short but dazzling life of Typo, the hardware keyboard for iPhone spearheaded by longtime BlackBerry user and iPhone switcher Ryan Seacrest. In a short pres...

 Crit (as in Critique) is a new iPhone and iPad app by Morpholio that allows designers, architects, photographers and other creative types to upload and markup images as a form of real-time commu...

 Foursquare and Uber are teaming up, with the help of mobile deep-linking startup Button, to offer Foursquare users a button within the app to call an Uber. The idea is that, as you look up resta...

 Android-powered gaming systems are not the weird outlier they once where, with Nvidia shipping multiple devices that fit that general description. News from Japan’s Nikkei business news ou...

 U.K. civil rights group Big Brother Watch has obtained data revealing the extent of domestic police forces’ access to web users’ communications data. In a report published today the ...

 Microsoft kicked off June with news that Windows 10 will ship on July 29, just a little under two months from now. The next big update for MS is designed as a unifying platform that will offer c...

 Microsoft kicked off June with news that Windows 10 will ship on July 29, just a little under two months from now. The next big update for MS is designed as a unifying platform that will offer c...

 Meet the GoPro Hero+LCD. The new camera is part of the company’s growing entry-level Hero line that sports capabilities perfect for YouTube. As the product’s name suggests, it featur...

 Some ownership changes afoot at Supercell, the mobile gaming giant out of Finland behind blockbuster titles like Clash of Clans and Hay Day. Japan’s SoftBank has upped its stake in the sta...

 Some ownership changes afoot at Supercell, the mobile gaming giant out of Finland behind blockbuster titles like Clash of Clans and Hay Day. Japan’s SoftBank has upped its stake in the sta...

 Uber launched a nonprofit car-pooling service in China called People’s Uber last year, and now its biggest rival — and China’s largest ride-sharing service — has followed...

 Klook, a service that helps travelers find interesting things to do while they are overseas, is in the money today, after closing a $1.5 million seed investment round. Read More ...

 Klook, a service that helps travelers find interesting things to do while they are overseas, is in the money today, after closing a $1.5 million seed investment round. Read More ...

 In this year’s annual letter to shareholders, JP Morgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon warned that “Silicon Valley is coming.” From investing to payments and lending, the rise of fint...

 India’s is Uber’s second largest market worldwide behind the U.S., and today the company showed its commitment to the South Asian market by appointing its first India President to he...

 In games most studios follow that “distribution” strategy to a greater or lesser degree. A lot of them are concerned about where to find players, how to hold onto them, how to moneti...

 Natural language and machine learning company AKA says it’s taking the next step toward the creation of a robot that you really, truly talk to with a new project called Musio. Members of t...

 While the war to control mobile payments has been broadly covered over the last several years, it seems that the tactical warfare that has been at play is less understood by most observers. It&#...

 The Senate voted 77-to-17 to take upthe USA FreedomAct, a bill already passed in the House that would reformNational Security Agency (NSA), in a rare Sunday session. The procedural vote came jus...

 McLaren, based in Woking, UK, is one of the biggest names in F1 but is now using their know-how in real-time data to help surgeons. Dr. Caroline Hargrove came to McLaren 18 years ago and is now ...

 Few will argue that this year’s I/O keynote was Google’s flashiestyet. If you were expecting people to jump out of blimps to bring you a new version of Google Glass, the event surely...

 If you’ve been reading the site lately you’ll notice we’ve gone Digital Gold-crazy. First we started with an amazing excerpt outlining the story of 21.com. Then we posted a rev...

 Change doesn’t come easily to large organizations. Over time theyhave established a firm set of core businessprocesses to give them the structure to manage massive workforces, which makes ...

 Recently, Taiwanese lawmakers approved the “Child and Youth Welfare and Protection Act,” making it illegal for children under the age of 18 to use electronic devices for excessive pe...

 Ignorance has been a fait accompli throughout the history of human society. There was never enough information about the world and how it functions, and even when we had it, few people had acces...

 I’m ashamed because I felt the need to brag to my 13-year-old. But she asked for it. My daughter Mollie had a homework assignment for her guidance class that had her ask me what I do for a...

 London hit an important milestone this month, but you may have missed the news as it emerged with a characteristically British lack of fuss. For the first time, the city’s technology start...

 Raising massive rounds these days is so commonplace that most of us tune out fundraising news altogether. The fundraising environment has changed so dramatically over the past four years, itR...

 There are many commentators who argue that there is a bubble in Silicon Valley today. They may or may not be right, but there is certainly a bubble in places named after the preeminent global te...