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11:39 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Why Snapchats Only Non-Ephemeral Content, The Profile GIF, Is A Big Deal
 Not everything on Snapchat disappears. As much as the app wants memories to span just 10 seconds and live for just 24 hours, one piece of content doesn’t self destruct. The profile GIF. An...
09:59 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch ZeroCater Says 20 Of Its Small Catering, Restaurant Partners Have Done More Than $1M In Revenues Through It
 For more than 35 years since its founders emigrated from Lebanon to the Bay Area, La Mediterranee has served falafels and tzatziki to locals in San Francisco and Berkeley. It’s one of the ...
09:59 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch ZeroCater Says 20 Of Its Small Catering, Restaurant Partners Have Done More Than $1M In Revenues
 For more than 35 years since its founders emigrated from Lebanon to the Bay Area, La Mediterranee has served falafels and tzatziki to locals in San Francisco and Berkeley. It’s one of the ...
09:19 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Google Maps Comes To Apple Watch
 At Google’s pressevent today, the company announced a number of new products and updates, including two newNexus smartphones, two Chromecast devices, a new Android tablet and more, but one...
09:15 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch A Quick Hands On With The All New Chromecasts
Amidst a flurry of announcements today, Google debuted not one but two new Chromecasts – one that works just like the original Chromecast, and an audio-only version meant to be plugged into your...
09:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Forget Apps, Now The Bots Take Over
 As the number of mobile apps increases while the size of our mobile screens decreases, we’re reaching the limits of the mobile “OS + apps” paradigm. As an alternative, messagin...
08:55 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Panorama Education Launches Playbook To Give Teachers Some Answers
 After two years in operation, Panorama Education, a startup that surveys students, teachers and parents to provide feedback to schools, realized it had a problem on its hands. The Boston-based s...
08:53 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Instacart Hires Its First CFO: Ravi Gupta
 Instacart is growing up. To wit, the three-year-old, grocery delivery startup – which hit “unicorn” status late last year when it raised $220 million at a reported $2 billion v...
08:52 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Interviewed Raises A $2M Seed Round, Expands Beyond Basic Job Simulations
 Interviewed, a company that provides simulations for job candidates, has closed a $2 million seed round with participation from YC, SV Angel, Red Swan Ventures, and Jason Calacanis, among others...
08:28 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Why The Nexus 6P Wont Wobble
 Google officially unveiled the Nexus 6P, the successor to its somewhat underwhelming Nexus 6 phone today. The company designed the phone in partnership with Huawei and after today’s event,...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch GE Predicts Predix Platform Will Generate $6B In Revenue This Year
 Like many big companies, GE has been in the process of trying to reinvent itself, andPredix, its Industrial Internet of Things platform has been a big part of that.Today, at its annualMinds +Mac...
07:31 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Mr. Obama, Tear Down This Liability Shield
 Social media companies, however much their marketing departments may instruct them to talk a big game about being anti-abuse, have an active financial disincentive to actually be anti-abuse. Rea...
07:17 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch YouTube Introduces Shopping Ads
 YouTube videos are goingto get more shoppable, with the company announcing a new ad unit today called Shopping ads. The Google-owned video site has been moving in this direction for the past few...
06:39 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Googles Giving $5 Million To SF Bay Area Nonprofits Focused On Social Impact
 Google just unveiled the 10 finalists for its second Impact Challenge: Bay Area, an effort to drive social change through funding local nonprofit organizations and charities. The top four organi...
06:27 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Box Wants To Be The Center Of Your Companys Content Universe
 Last week, at Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s enormous customer conference, Salesforce personnel talked at great lengthabout how everything they did was in the service of the customer. If it ...
06:14 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Everything You Need To Know About Googles Nexus And Chromecast Event
 Today, Google held a massive event to announce a few new products. In particular, the company two new flagship Nexus phones — the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P. But that’s not all, Google al...
05:51 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Elon Musk Says Tesla Cars Will Reach 620 Miles On A Single Charge Within A Year Or Two, Have Fully Autonomous Cars In Three Years
 Tesla CEO Elon Musk sat down with a Dutch TV show last week and had some interesting predictions to share. Asked, for example, when he thought the company could produce a car that can “bre...
05:51 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Elon Musk Says Tesla Cars Will Reach 620 Miles On A Single Charge Within A Year Or Two, Be Fully Autonomous In Three Years
 Tesla CEO Elon Musk sat down with a Dutch TV show last week and had some interesting predictions to share.Asked, for example, when he thought the company could produce a car that can “brea...
05:21 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Google Announces Pixel C Android Tablet With Magnetic Keyboard Add-on
 Google has announced it’s working on a 10.2 inch tablet called the Pixel C at its Nexus event in SF today. The slate was revealed by product management exec Andrew Bowers, who talked up bo...
05:05 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Spotify Comes To Google Chromecast And Chromecast Audio
 Every platform and device needs a “killer app.” For Google’s brand new Chromecast and Chromecast Audio, that killer app might just be music streaming app Spotify. Today, at Goo...
04:57 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch How Successful Is The Chromecast? Google Has Sold 20 Million
 Before unveiling two new Chromecasts, Google gave an update on the existing Chromecast. It seems like everyone and their dogs have a Chromecast. And it’s not just an impression as the comp...
04:54 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Google Announces Chromecast 2 And Chromecast Audio To Bring Intelligence To Your Living Room
 Google is ready to take over your living room. The company has announced version 2 of its Chromecast product, along with a new Chromecast Audio, which turns any speaker with an AUX out into an I...
04:49 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Tim Cook Offers Microsoft An Olive Branch At Box Enterprise Event
 Today at its BoxWorks event, Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie sat down with Apple CEO Tim Cook to discuss enterprise technology and collaboration. Although he leads a company that has been in ...
04:48 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch You Can Now Follow Edward Snowden On Twitter @Snowden
 For more than two years, you’ve been following news about Edward Snowden on Twitter. As of this morning, you can follow the man himself.However you probably won’t get a follow back. ...
04:45 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Google Introduces Google Play Music Family Plan, $14.99 For Up To 6 People
 Google is expanding its Google Play Music service with a new family plan. The company announced at its big event that families will be able to subscribe to Google Play Music for $14.99. For this...
04:38 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Google Photos Users Have Already Uploaded 50 Billion Photos And Videos
 Today, Google Photos announced that users have already uploaded 50 billion photos and videos. The product launched about four months ago, being pulled out of Google+ as a standalone product. The...
04:32 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch DCs Vertigo Becomes The First Comics Publisher On Wattpad
 Attention comics fans: Social reading app Wattpad is giving you a new way to connect with your favorite publishers and writers. Well, one publisher and four writers initially — the publish...
04:27 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Googles Android Marshmallow Will Officially Launch Next Week
 Google first announced Android 6.0 Marshmallow at its I/O developer conference earlier this year. At the time, the new version of Android was still codenamed Android M. As part of its launch eve...
04:18 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Google Hardware Event
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04:15 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Say Hello To Googles Nexus 5X, Starting at $379
 As expected, Google today announced a new version of its Nexus 5 Android phone, the successor of what has likely been the most popular of the company’s Nexus phones. Prices start at $379 f...
04:10 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Google Announces Nexus 6P, Featuring A Powerhouse Of A Camera Starting At $499
 Last November, we were introduced to the Nexus 6. At the time, our own Greg Kumparak referred to it as a “A Big, Beautiful, Cumbersome Beast.” It was a huge step in the life of the N...
04:08 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Android Now Has 1.4 Billion 30-Day Active Users Globally
 Google’s mobile platform now has 1.4 billion 30-day active users globally. Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed the new Android-related data point at its Nexus event in San Francisco today. R...
04:02 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch The Online Buy Now, Pay Later Service, Klarna, Adds AmEx As A Partner
 Inking the deal with AmEx completes the set of credit companies that are working with the service. The Stockholm-based company had already signed up Visa and MasterCard as partners. Read More ...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Eden, Offering On-Demand Tech Support, Launches A Business Product
 Eden, the on-demand tech support and installation startup out of Y Combinator, is today introducing new revenue streams to the platform. Originally, Eden launched to serve the consumer market, c...
03:57 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Watch Googles New Treats Android Event Here
 Google is holding a press event in San Francisco today. The company’s invite-only event promised “tasty new treats,” but according to the latest rumors, Google will unveil two ...
03:45 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Live From Googles Massive Hardware Event: Nexus, Android, Chromecast, And More!
 The day is finally here! The rumor mill has been whispering about a massive Google announcement for weeks, and we’re live on the scene. So what’s coming? According to whispers, we...
03:17 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch We Didnt Start The Fire (Amazon Did)
 In honor of the new Amazon Fire Tablet, we decided to take a quick look at the history of a tablet that gives the iPad a run for its money. Amazon’s attempts to corner the tablet market ha...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch The Transition From Sick Care To Well Care And The Rise Of The Patient-Consumer
 Globally, healthcare is one of the costliest and simultaneously least efficient sectors from an economic standpoint. According to the World Health Organization, worldwide spending on healthcare ...
02:56 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Amazon Launches Flex To Rival Postmates In On-Demand, Crowdsourced Delivery
 Amazon looked at buying Postmates earlier this year, but in the end it built a service that will go head to head in competing with it: the e-commerce giant today took the wraps off Flex, a new o...
02:20 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Sonos Announces A New Speaker To Embiggen Your Audio
 Sonos has just announced the PLAY:5, a new speaker to replace the similarly-sized PLAY line. The new speaker is designed as a successor to the PLAY:3 speaker. Sonos, you’ll recall, offers ...
02:20 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Urban Airship Goes Beyond Push Notifications, Announces New Data Streaming Service For Marketers And Data Teams
 Portland’s Urban Airship is probably best known as apush notifications service, but it definitely has designs to go beyond this. Today, the company is launching Urban Airship Connect, a se...
02:13 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch The TC Meetup Pitch-Off Is Coming To New Orleans Surprisingly Soon
 New Orleans, prepare yourselves. TechCrunch is coming at you with the world-renowned TC Meetup + Pitch-off and it’s going down way sooner than you might suspect (mostly because Disrupt dis...
02:03 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch You Can Now Skype From Your Android Wear Smartwatch
 Microsoft’s continued focus on making its products available cross-platform continues today with the launch of its communications apps, Skype for Android Wear smartwatches. The app, which ...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Azure Gets India Regions, Container Management Service, GPU-Centric Virtual Machines And More
 Microsoft is holding a virtual Azure conference today and as part of that, the company is announcing a slew of updates to its cloud computing services this morning as well. These updates range f...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Product Hunt Adds Podcast Discovery To Its Fleet Of Channels
 Product Hunt is continuing its expansion of channels, this time with podcasts. But it’s not about the actual podcast show so much as certain episodes of those shows that will be added to t...
12:15 pm GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Axel Springer Spends $343M To Buy Business Insider
 German media giant Axel Springer has announced it’s acquiring online business news publication Business Insider, spending some $343 million to acquire 88 per cent of BI’s shares. Axe...
11:55 am GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch PepperTap Lands $36M To Expand Its Grocery Delivery Service To 75 Cities In India
 PepperTap, a nine-month-old grocery delivery service in India, has closed its third round of investment this year after announcing a $36 million raise. Read More ...
08:38 am GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Qualcomm Plans $150 Million Startup Fund For India
 Roll up, roll up, there’s more funding incoming for startups in India after Qualcomm announced plans to invest up to $150 million in strategic investments in the country. Read More ...
07:17 am GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Blows Up The Concept Of A Privacy Policy
 Three years ago, a common human being interested in the privacy policy of a gadget or service it was using was a rare bird. With the revelation that a large amount of the communications and priv...
07:06 am GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Alibaba Increases Its Investment In Indian Payments And Commerce Firm Paytm
 Alibaba has sharpened its focus on India after it made a second investment in Paytm, a mobile wallet and shopping service run by One97. Read More ...
06:30 am GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Walmart Doubles Down On Online Grocery Shopping With Curbside Pickup
 Walmart today is announcing an expansion of its online grocery shopping service with launches in eight additional markets, as well as plans for a continued rollout to several more regions in the...
05:39 am GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Slacks Revamped Posts Feature Is An Alternative To The Company-Wide Email Blast
 Slack, the $2.8 billion valued company behind the messaging app that is changing how many businesses communicate internally, just launched an update that might once again spare your inbox. Read ...
04:28 am GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Civitas Learning Gets $60 Million Commitment From Warburg Pincus
 Looking to roll up more technologies into its portfolio, higher education software provider Civitas Learning, has gotten a commitment of up to $60 million to consolidate its position in the fiel...
01:53 am GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Academia Pushes A New Kind of Peer Review For Research With Sessions
 For several years, Richard Price has had a quixotic dream tomake cutting-edge academic research universally available to everyone. “I want a world where a 19-year-old kid in China can acce...
01:00 am GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch The Evolving Landscape Of Recommendation Systems
 Everyday decisions, from which products to buy, movies to watch and restaurants to try, are more and more being put in the hands of a new source: recommendation systems. Recommendation systems a...
12:45 am GMT - Tue, September 29, 2015
Techcrunch Who Is Chris Poole Without 4chan?
 “Last year if you asked me if I wanted to start something, I would have said ‘fuckkkkk noooooo'” 4chan founder Chris Poole laughs. But he’s changed his tune and is ready ...
11:46 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Women Could Be The Solution To Fighting Cybersecurity Threats
 Cybersecurity professionals are more in demand than ever before, but a new report finds the number of women in the field hasn’t grown.Women represent just 10 percent of the cybersecurity w...
09:36 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch 15 Super Useful Ways To Use 3D Touch On The New iPhones
 Though the new iPhones pack improved cameras and better specs overall, the flagship feature is something completely unique to the iPhone line (and, really, smartphones in general): a touch scree...
08:38 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Apply Now For TechCrunch Includes Diversity-Focused Office Hours With A16Z
 It’s happening. TechCrunch Include Office Hours are finally here! On October 15th, Andresseen Horowitz partners Scott Kupor and John O’Farrell will join TechCrunch editors in providi...
07:43 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Madison Reed Locks In $16.1 Million Series C To Grow The Business And Push Into Television
 At-home professional hair color delivery startup Madison Reed tells us they’ve pulled in $16.1 million in Series C financing to “scale the business and invest in expanding marketing,...
07:24 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Yes, Facebook Is Down
 Yes, friends, the (not really) unimaginable has happened: the titan that is Facebook is down. We don’t usually raise our eyebrows too high when Facebook goes down for a minute, but it̵...
07:24 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Yes, Facebook Is Down (Update: Its back up!)
 Yes, friends, the (not really) unimaginable has happened: the titan that is Facebook is down.We don’t usually raise our eyebrows too high when Facebook goes down for a minute, but it’...
07:22 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Medium Raises $57M, Will Hold Event On October 7th To Announce New Features And Partnerships
 Today, publishing platform Medium announced that it has brought in $57M in new capital in a series B led by new investor Andreessen Horowitz. That makes the total raised for Ev Williams’ M...
07:22 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Medium Raises $57M, Will Hold Event On October 7 To Announce New Features And Partnerships
 Today, publishing platform Medium announced that it has brought in $57 million in new capital in a series B led by new investor Andreessen Horowitz. That makes the total raised for Ev Williams&#...
07:09 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Early-Stage Investors Apply The Brakes
 InJune, Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures penned a widely read postusingdata from the law firm Cooley that showed,in Wilson’s words, thatseed and Series A deals were “more or less...
07:03 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch President Bill Clinton Steps Into VR
 As I mentioned during my VR panel at TC Disrupt last week, Bill Clinton has been messing around with virtual reality. Today, Felix & Paul Studios’ production “Inside Impact: East...
06:31 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch uBeam Banks $10M For Ultrasound Wireless Power, Adds Mature COO And CFO
 uBeam’s getting ready to ship its wireless phone chargers, so its 26-year old CEO Meredith Perry has hired some hardware industry veterans to whip the business into shape.Former Apple and ...
06:21 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Triplebyte, The Technical Recruiting Platform From Former YC Partner Harj Taggar, Raises $3M
 Triplebyte, a technical recruiting platform started by former YC partner Harj Taggar and two SocialCam alumsAmmon Bartram and Guillaume Luccisano,just raised $3 million from a long listof invest...
06:06 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch DOM Indoors Tiny Robots Can Assemble A Room In Minutes
 In an industrial workspace in a not-so-hip area of Brooklyn, a construction robotics startup called Asmbldis working on a projectthat aims to change the way we live within indoor spaces.The late...
06:06 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Another Day, Another Origami Robot That Walks And Jumps
 At this point I think there are more origami jumping robots than there are grasshoppers on Earth. This latest iteration, called the Tribot, uses shape memory alloy to crawl along surfaces like a...
06:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Synthetic Biology Is Not Just Good, Its Good For You
 Synthetic biology (synbio for short) is a term that circulates freely through the tech world, but what exactly does it mean? It inspires both excitement and concern, depending on application and...
05:38 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Getarounds Revenue Has Doubled To Tens Of Millions In The Last Six Months
 Getaround, the peer-to-peer car rental startup that launched on the Disrupt NY stage in 2011,recently hit revenues in the tens of millions of dollars, Jessica Scorpio told TechCrunch. And in the...
05:31 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Even For The Kardashians, App Store Fame Can Be Fleeting
 Kim Kardashian’s initial foray into the iTunes App Store with her “Kim Kardashian: Hollywood D-List” game may have grossed the star and development partner $200 million in annu...
05:21 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Google Is Preparing To Take Over Your Living Room
 At Apple’s last event we heard about their plans for Apple TV. It’s something we’ve all been waiting for…APPS! On the TV! It’s set to ship in October and goes for $...
04:57 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Samsung Pay Launches In The U.S.
 Samsung Pay, the device maker’s competitor to rival NFC-based payment services including Apple Pay and Android Pay, is now live in the U.S. following its earlier launch in South Korea, whe...
04:27 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Googles Expeditions Pioneer Program Brings Cardboard To Schools
 Earlier this year at its I/O developer conference, Google announced ‘Expeditions,’ an app that lets teachers create synchronized virtual school trips using the company’s Cardbo...
03:47 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Nasa Finds Liquid Water On Mars
 In a Mars-related press conference this morning Nasa has announced that “under certain circumstances” liquid water has been found on Mars. “Mars is not the dry arid planet that...
03:47 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Nasa Finds What It Thinks Is Liquid Water On Mars
 In a Mars-related press conference this morning Nasa has announced that “under certain circumstances” liquid water has been found on Mars. “Mars is not the dry arid planet that...
03:34 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Floored Launches Protofit, A Space Layout Service That Makes Test Fits Suck Less
 Floored launched two and half years ago at Disrupt NY 2013 as a great way to generate 3D models for real estate purposes. Now, it is tackling another aspect of the real estate industry — t...
03:16 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Brainiac Steve Jurvetson on DFJ, Elon Musk, and the Growing Divide Between Rich and Poor
 Steve Jurvetson is widely recognized as among the smartest people in Silicon Valley, which is saying something. He graduated from Stanford at the top of his class in two-and-a-half years. He han...
03:16 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Brainiac Steve Jurvetson On DFJ, Elon Musk And The Growing Divide Between Rich And Poor
 Steve Jurvetson is widely recognized as among the smartest people in Silicon Valley, which is saying something. He graduated from Stanford at the top of his class in two-and-a-half years. He han...
03:15 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Unique Turns Your Dumb Watch Into A Smart Watch
 The oddly named uBirds is manufacturing while Switzerland burns. Their product, called the Unique, is essentially a smart watch hidden inside your watch band. This way you can strap on your Pane...
03:11 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Pitch Your Startup In TC Radio Pitch-Off On Sirius XM
 Pitching your startup, with all its nuance and potential, can be a difficult task. So, as lovers of the new new entrepreneur, John and I have decided to make it more difficult. Enter, the TC Rad...
03:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Smart Homes Need Smart Communities
 Home automation may not be described as life-altering just yet, but it is pretty cool to be able to control your lights from a smartphone app, change your music automatically as you walk into a ...
03:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Asana Picks Up Google Exec Chris Farinacci To Run Its Business Ops
 Asana, a company that provides tools to help teams collaborate, has hiredChris Farinacci, now formerly of Google, to run its business operations. At Google,Farinacci worked for nearly a half dec...
02:36 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Online Content Manager Acquia Raises $55 Million For Online Customer Relationships
 Acquia, the eight-year-old service provider that helps businesses tailor their websites to internet browsers and mobile application users, has raised $55 million in a late stage round of financi...
02:31 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch The PayPal Here Card Reader Comes To U.S. With Support For EMV, Apple Pay, Android Pay & More
 With the arrival of Apple Pay and, more recently, Android Pay,consumers are becoming more comfortable with alternative waysof paying that don’t involve credit card swipes. And now, with th...
01:38 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch CubeSensors Releases Three New Cube Sensors To Keep You Safe And Dry
 Original participants in our world-famous(TM) Hardware Battlefield, the folks at CubeSensors are back with three new devices that promise to make our lives a bit better. The original CubeSensors...
12:48 pm GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Sells 13 Million iPhones In Opening Weekend, Or 3,000 iPhones Per Minute
 Apple just announced that it has sold 13 million iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus devices over its first weekend. It’s a new record for the company as it sold 10 million units last year, and 9...
11:30 am GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Walker & Company Brands Raises $24M Series B, Inks Bevel Deal With Target
 Building a lifestyle brand is nothing like building say…an app. Higher degree of difficulty for sure. That’s not stopping Tristan Walker, though. Today, his company Walker & Comp...
11:29 am GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Blackphone 2 Goes On Sale, As BlackBerry Priv Decloaks
 You wait ages for the next gen of pro-privacy smartphones to come along and then a couple of contenders start making noise at once… Today Silent Circle’s Blackphone 2 has gone on sal...
11:11 am GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Ometria Raises Further $2.5M To Let Online Retailers Automate Marketing Campaigns
 Ometria launched in 2013 with a mission to help online retailers make better use of data, and, in turn, compete harder with the likes of Amazon and more data-driven players in the market. But mo...
08:00 am GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Kreditech Nabs $92M To Build Financial Services For The Underbanked
 Another startup out of Europe focused on finance has raised a hefty round of funding. Kreditech, a German company building a suite of credit and banking products forconsumers who have little or ...
04:31 am GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Google Targets Intent With Email, YouTube And Search Matching And Universal App Campaigns
 As Ad Week rolls into New York, the tech giantsare rolling out their ad product news. Today Google announced movesfurther into Facebook-style targeting territory, with a new product called Custo...
03:11 am GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Chinas Didi Kuaidi Confirms Investment In Indias Ola As Uber Rivalry Heats Up
 More funding developments in the highly competitive world of car services. Didi Kuaidi, an Uber rival based in China, has today confirmed that it has invested in Ola, another Uber rival based ou...
02:00 am GMT - Mon, September 28, 2015
Techcrunch Researchers From Arizona State University Take The War Online Back To ISIS
 Data analysts and “information cascade” experts are using their skills to frustrate the spread of terrorist ideology from groups like ISIS, who grow increasingly adept at online recr...
11:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 27, 2015
Techcrunch How We Bootstrapped A SaaS Company To 4 Million Users And Why Google Owes Us 400,000
 At 7 PM on February 7, 2007, MindMeister went live in private beta. Today, we have almost 4 million users worldwide, and have become the market leader in online mind mapping. It’s a story ...
10:41 pm GMT - Sun, September 27, 2015
Techcrunch Google Turns 17 Today, Celebrates Its Least Random Birthday
 Here’s something that didn’t pop up for me on Facebook. Happy Birthday Google! Or is it Alphabet? No, it’s Google. The search site now CEO’d by Sundar Pichai is almost an...
08:06 pm GMT - Sun, September 27, 2015
Techcrunch Dont Panic Over The Rise In Personal Data Theft
 Instead of freaking out and retracing our steps, we must take the necessary precautions to save our personal and corporate lives. Perhaps the silver lining in all these attacks is that it has ra...
07:32 pm GMT - Sun, September 27, 2015
Techcrunch Google Announces Plan To Put Wi-Fi In 400 Train Stations Across India
 Today, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai shared details on a new plan to bring more Indian residents online. He notes that there’s still over a billion of them in his native country that ar...
07:17 pm GMT - Sun, September 27, 2015
Techcrunch Medvedev To Hold A Google Hangout On Russias Tech Future
 It’s been five years since Russia began its huge project to literally carve out its own version of Silicon Valley in a huge technology park, being built just outside of Moscow. The project...
07:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 27, 2015
Techcrunch The Future Of Coding Is Here, And It Threatens To Wipe Out Everything In Its Path
 APIs — the rules governing how software programs interact with each other — not user interfaces, will upend software for years to come. When Intel CEO Brian Krzanich doubled down on ...
06:43 pm GMT - Sun, September 27, 2015
Techcrunch Use Tinder Or Grindr? This Billboard Suggests Getting Tested For An STD
 I’d like to point out that there is no scientific evidence saying that just using the apps Tinder or Grindr will cause an STD. However, what happens after using those apps as partially int...
06:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 27, 2015
Techcrunch As Brazilian Economy Descends Into Crisis, Tech Is Growing Double Digits
 Despite a miserable macro-economic mix of circumstances, including the worst recession in almost 100 years, the biggest corruption scandal Brazil has ever seen, and calls for President Dilma Rou...
05:22 pm GMT - Sun, September 27, 2015
Techcrunch Indian Prime Minister Tells Zuckerberg Social Media Creates A New Form Of Diplomacy
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Mark Zuckerberg that social media can show governments where they’re going wrong, and allow heads of state to connect more personably than ever before. Du...
04:42 pm GMT - Sun, September 27, 2015
Techcrunch Coding In The Cloud Era Demands A Structural Rethink To Bake In Security And Privacy
 Protecting privacy in an age of big data, cloud processing and increasingly interconnected digital services demands a structural shift in how software is developed. Read More ...
03:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 27, 2015
Techcrunch Using The Blockchain To Fight Crime And Save Lives
 Blockchain technology has been described as email for money, but it has the potential to be so much more. Blockchain technology is a hyper-secure record of digital events that is distributed amo...
02:00 am GMT - Sun, September 27, 2015
Techcrunch Augmented Reality Has An Image Problem
 To date, Augmented Reality has been referred to as “the biggest technological advancement of our lifetime,” a mere “gimmick” or, worst yet, the next iteration of the QR c...
10:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 26, 2015
Techcrunch Designing Next-Gen Virtual Reality Gaming Experiences
 It wasn’t until I conquered my first dungeon in The Legend of Zelda at my friend’s house that I decided to throw a convincing tantrum at my parents about why I also desperately neede...
09:35 pm GMT - Sat, September 26, 2015
Techcrunch Turntable.fm Clone Plug.dj May Shut Down By The End Of The Month
 Remember the hotness that was Turntable.fm? It was a one of my favorite apps of a few years ago (2011 to be specific), since it was social and focused on music. For those who aren’t famili...
09:03 pm GMT - Sat, September 26, 2015
Techcrunch 3D Touch Is Apples New Secret Weapon
 I’m here to praise Apple again. Sorry. I have to do it. It’s not in my contract nor am I paid to do it – imagine if we were! We’d be rich! – but after manhandling t...
07:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 26, 2015
Techcrunch A Closer Look At European Investing
 We’re bullish on Europe, and that strikes some folks in the U.S. as a bit strange. It’s not that Europe is all we know — we’re an investor in early venture stage funds (a...
05:54 pm GMT - Sat, September 26, 2015
Techcrunch Lyft Moves Customer Support Team To Nashville To Combat High-Priced SF Market
 Peer-to-peer ride-sharing startup Lyft informed 20 members of its San Francisco-based customer support team this week it will be relocating them to Nashville, Tennessee. Lyft is building out its...
04:05 pm GMT - Sat, September 26, 2015
Techcrunch 11 TechCrunch Stories You Dont Want To Miss This Week
 It was a big week in tech, including everything from Disrupt SF 2015, the launch of the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus and a big Oculus announcement. But before we get into the top stories of this we...
03:32 pm GMT - Sat, September 26, 2015
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Special Edition
 The Firesign TheatreA conversation with David Ossman and Philip ProctorThe two surviving members of the Firesign Theatre took to Skype to remember their late colleagues Phil Austin and Peter Ber...
03:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 26, 2015
Techcrunch Can Entrepreneurs Succeed In Todays On-Demand World?
 Intuit recently released an eye-opening new survey reporting that there are currently 3.2 million American workers who participate in the on-demand economy. By 2020, it’s estimated that th...
01:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 26, 2015
Techcrunch I Like To Block It Block It
 And lo, on the day of the ninth release, the Lord Cook did cry ‘havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of flamewars, and permitted ad blockers in iOS; and there was much rejoicing, and much w...
03:00 am GMT - Sat, September 26, 2015
Techcrunch Globalize, Dont Localize: Three Ways To Properly Ignore Boundaries
 A hipster in New York is not that different from a hipster in Bangalore. Ten years ago, this would not have been the case. Our marketing textbooks tell us that the highest classes of society in ...
12:00 am GMT - Sat, September 26, 2015
Techcrunch Its Time To Embrace, Not Fear, Shadow IT
 At this very moment, the IT department at a typical enterprise is staring at a mind-numbing list of IT project requests from employees and business units — ranging from building a custom m...
09:54 pm GMT - Fri, September 25, 2015
Techcrunch Uber Has A New Pre-Paid Ride Service Called UberEVENTS
 Uber just announcedUberEVENTS, a new service for event organizers to pre-pay rides for their guests.Uber is launching the service first in New York for “select riders” and Uber for B...
09:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 25, 2015
Techcrunch Open-Sourcing Data Is The Only Way Forward For An Advanced Internet Economy
 The founder of all that we survey on the web, Tim Berners-Lee, said on this site a few years ago that, “Data is the New Links.” He argued that with the ever-expanding world of data-d...
08:39 pm GMT - Fri, September 25, 2015
Techcrunch 55 Memorable Quotes From Disrupt SF 2015
 Disrupt SF 2015 has come to an end, but the stories and experiences will continue to inspire us for years to come. The TechCrunch social media team has compiled 55 of the most memorable quotes f...
08:30 pm GMT - Fri, September 25, 2015
Techcrunch Creating A New Type Of Internet
 Creating the infrastructure for satellite internet is a capital intensive business, requiring potentially thousands of satellites to be built and launched. It also needs ground-based infrastruct...
08:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 25, 2015
Techcrunch 5 Reasons To Incorporate Your Startup As Early As Possible
Since the benefits aren’t immediate, it’s easy to delay incorporation. Yet, unlike first-time entrepreneurs, serial entrepreneurs often learn the hard way just how quickly things can get u...
07:26 pm GMT - Fri, September 25, 2015
Techcrunch CrunchWeek: iPhone 6S Madness, Telling Time, And Instagrams Growthsplosion
 Hello internet aliens, and welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup show where we talk the biggest things in tech. As you can tell from the show, we spent the ...
06:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 25, 2015
Techcrunch The Worst Possible Name For Your Brand And Three Things You Can Learn From It
 Let’s say you want to come up with a great brand name for a new beverage brand you’re launching. You know what consumers are looking for, and you’re the creative type. WhatR...
05:22 pm GMT - Fri, September 25, 2015
Techcrunch Twitter Polls Are An Awful Idea
 They’ve done it. Twitter has cracked the code. No, it’s not a new CEO. Nope, it’s not a new way to deliver content with context that you might be interested in.It’s polls...
03:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 25, 2015
Techcrunch Live Broadcasting Is Too Important To Be Left To The Broadcasters
 When we founded the mobile live video broadcasting service Bambuser several years ago, we embarked on a mission to democratize live video broadcasting — something that was available only t...
01:20 pm GMT - Fri, September 25, 2015
Techcrunch Data Driven Everything Remains Elusive
 One thing was clear at Dreamforce last week, Salesforce’s enormous customer conference — something that has become apparent to anyone paying attention. It’sbecoming a data-driv...
12:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 25, 2015
Techcrunch Apples iPhone 6s Produces A Colorful Vision Of Haiti Through A Painters Eyes
 In advance of the release of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, Apple gave oneto RYOT, maker of VR and documentary films. They produced a short about a painter in Haiti who is trying to transform the ve...
03:00 am GMT - Fri, September 25, 2015
Techcrunch An Investors Journey To Future Science And Technology
 Venture capital is booming again. VCs invested a total of $48 billion last year — the highest amount in a decade. The lion’s share went to software, which attracted $19.8 billion, ve...
12:00 am GMT - Fri, September 25, 2015
Techcrunch The Problem With Rental Marketplaces
 Most of the successful peer-to-peer marketplaces are purchase-oriented. There are two fundamental problems with rental marketplaces: The average order value for most of them is too low, and freq...
10:32 pm GMT - Thu, September 24, 2015
Techcrunch Oakland To Tech: Please Dont Screw This Up Like Last Time
 A few weeks ago, I was having lunch with Darrell Jones III, who heads up business development at Clef, at the southern restaurant Pican a few blocks away from the Oakland building that 3,000 Ube...
10:19 pm GMT - Thu, September 24, 2015
Techcrunch Meet Jukin Media, The Company That Now Owns Pizza Rat
 PizzaRat, the lovable scampering rodent that took the Internet by storm last week, now has representation in Hollywood. An entertainment company called Jukin Media bought the rights to the 15-se...
10:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 24, 2015
Techcrunch The Surprising Bias Of Venture Capital Decision-Making
 Stories of entrepreneurs launching innovative ideas, raising millions in venture capital and turning startups such as Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat into multi-billion dollar companies has catapulted...
07:50 pm GMT - Thu, September 24, 2015
Techcrunch Oculus Positions VR For Primetime
 TodayOculus gave 1,500 developers at the Oculus Connect 2 conference (as well as those at home via livestream or on Gear VR a chance to watch) a look at how the consumer version of the Oculus Ri...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 24, 2015
Techcrunch Net Neutrality And Modern Exchanges
 A great victory was won earlier this year for supporters of innovation, competition and openness — net neutrality rules were adopted by the FCC. Those rules have recently come into effect,...
05:32 pm GMT - Thu, September 24, 2015
Techcrunch Oculus New $99 Samsung Gear VR Makes Serious Virtual Reality Affordable
 At half the price of its last mobile VR headset, the new $99 Oculus-made Samsung Gear VR is cheap enough to unlock virtual reality for the mainstream. Revealed today at the Oculus Connect confer...
05:06 pm GMT - Thu, September 24, 2015
Techcrunch Amino Raises $6.5M To Build Mobile Communities
 Amino, a startup that’s built 41 different mobile community apps (so far), is announcing that it hasraised $6.5 million in Series A funding. I first wrote about the company a little more t...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 24, 2015
Techcrunch The Magic Numbers For Startup Health
 In this new age of so-called tech “unicorns” and their eye-popping valuations, it’s important to remember that not all revenue is created equal. Indeed, recent volatility in th...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 24, 2015
Techcrunch Early-Bird Tickets To Disrupt London Are Now Available
 Disrupt London is fast approaching, and we’re thrilled to announce that attendee registration is now open. You can now grab your tickets here at the Early Bird rate of 800 and join investo...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 24, 2015
Techcrunch Ledge Is A Mobile Peer-To-Peer Lending Platform Powered By Venmo
 Launching today with $900K in seed funding, Ledge is an app that lets users easily borrow money from their peers. Everyone knows it’s hardtolend money to family or friends. The process is ...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 24, 2015
Techcrunch The Case For A Large Founding Team
 It is common wisdom nowadays that a founding team consisting of 2–3 founders is ideal. Doing it solo is simply too hard. Founder burnout is an imminent possibility, and statistics are simp...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 24, 2015
Techcrunch Beyond Tech IPOs
 Technology darlings like Uber, Pinterest and Airbnb may be taking their time on the way to exit, but that doesn’t mean IPOs aren’t happening. They’re alive and well in the cons...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 24, 2015
Techcrunch Glowforges 3D Maker Machine Now Available On Pre-Order
 Glowforge has flipped the switch to on for pre-orders of its 3D laser printer. Makers can now purchase the machine in advance on the Seattle-based startup’s website starting today.The Glow...
11:30 am GMT - Thu, September 24, 2015
Techcrunch Premise Raises $50 Million to Outsource the Collection of Economic Data
 Three-year-old Premise, an economic data tracking platform, has raised $50 million in Series C funding from earlier backer Social + Capital Partnership and new investor Valor Equity Partners, wh...
11:00 am GMT - Thu, September 24, 2015
Techcrunch How Smart Founders Avoid The Risk Of A Down Round
 Talking about down rounds in a bull market feels like shopping for an umbrella in this unprecedented California drought. You get some funny looks, but it pays to be prepared. When the current ma...
11:00 am GMT - Thu, September 24, 2015
Techcrunch Onshape Raises $80 Million Led By Andreessen Horowitz
 VCs strive to find passionate founders. Well, it’shard to find someone as passionate about computer-aided design (CAD) software as Jon Hirschtick, the cofounder and CEO ofthree-year-old, C...
03:31 am GMT - Thu, September 24, 2015
Techcrunch LinkedIn And Ubers China Rival Didi Kuaidi Ink Deal To Partner On Apps, R&D And Recruitment
 LinkedIn took a step today to build up its presence in China, and China’s Uber rival Didi Kuaidi took a step to make more inroads into the U.S. tech industry: the two companies have signed...
02:00 am GMT - Thu, September 24, 2015
Techcrunch The Internets Vanishing Point?
 Technologies only become truly integrated into society when they move from requiring forethought to becoming an afterthought. It’s the progression of all innovations and it’s now hap...
12:43 am GMT - Thu, September 24, 2015
Techcrunch And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 Is Agrilyst
 At the very beginning, there were around a thousand startups. We hand-picked the 25 greatest companies so that they could compete in our incredibly competitive startup competition — the St...
12:07 am GMT - Thu, September 24, 2015
Techcrunch Andre Iguodala Says Wearables Can Help Win Championships
 At Disrupt yesterday, one of the most interesting talks was with Golden State Warriors forward Andre Iguodala. Other than being the MVP of the latest NBA Championship series, Iguodala is a busin...
11:56 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Georamas Live Virtual Reality Platform Lets You Explore The World From Your Sofa
 St. Augustine of Hippo said “the world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page”—-which is somewhat unfair to people who can’t travel because of financial...
11:55 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch RePhone Lets You Turn Anything Into A Phone
 Making a cellphone is easy. You go into a mine, pull up some ore, extract various metals and then add components that you manufacture from other mines. Then you have to get FCC clearance and cre...
11:24 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch The Truth About Streaming: It Pays Labels A Lot, They Dont Pay Musicians
 Musicians, it’s time to stop hating streaming services, and here’s why. Troy Carter, one of the world’s most powerful artist managers (John Legend, Meghan Trainor, and previous...
11:17 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Hydroswarms Drones Could Solve Our Ignorance Of The Oceans
 The earth consists of 70% ocean and 30% land. And yet, famously, we know more about the surface of the moon than what lies beneath the waves, because only 5% of the world’s oceans have bee...
10:52 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Smule CEO Defends The Companys Lawsuit Against Former Employees
 Is Smule being a bully? Or is it just mounting a reasonable defense of its intellectual property?In a nutshell, those are the questions I was trying to answer during interviews withSmule CEO Jef...
10:11 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch DJ Patil And Phaedra Chrousos Pitch Public Service For Technologists
 Today at Disrupt SF, our own Sarah Buhr took to the stage with DJ Patil, this nation’s Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Data Policy and Chief Data Scientist, and Phaedra Chrousos, who h...
10:01 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Photo Narrative App Storehouse Rethinks The Whole Damn Thing With 2.0 Update
 Storehouse, a company we voted our favorite mobile app at the Crunchies in 2015, just launched a major revamp of their photo sharing app that completely drops the newsfeed and the rest of its so...
09:49 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch The Story Behind The New Pebble Time Round
 Pebble has a new watch, the Pebble Time Round. Announced this morning, Pebble co-founder and CEO Eric Migicovsky was interviewed on stage by our own Greg Kumparak at Disrupt SF to share the stor...
09:41 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Troy Carter Discusses The State of Entertainment And Technology
 Troy Carter, talent manager, VC, and founder of Atom Factory, spoke today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF about how his experience in entertainment has influenced the way he approaches the startup worl...
08:06 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Sprig Wants To Kill Fast Food And Make Braised Kale More Accessible
 It’s not enough to get meals to customers as fast as possible, SprigCEO and co-founder Gagan Biyani told the audience at TechCrunch Disrupt that his company wants to kill fast food entirel...
07:07 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Why Were Still Talking About Diversity
 Diversity isthe hot topic in Silicon Valley and the tech industry at large these days. Today atDisruptSF 2015, TechCrunch Former Co-Editor Alexia Tsotsis took the stage to lead a discussion on d...
06:59 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Square Opens Up An Office In Jack Dorseys Old Stomping Grounds, St. Louis
 Square announced the opening of its fourth office today, and the location holds a special place in the hearts of its founders. Both CEO Jack Dorsey and co-founder Jim McKelvey are from St. Louis...
06:43 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch How PlanGrid Is Disrupting The Paper-Dominated Construction Industry
 A company that saw the potential in the iPad as a tool for work, not just play, is PlanGrid, a construction management software application that’s like a Google Docs for blueprints. But ge...
06:18 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Y Combinator President Sam Altman: Im an Optimist, But Im Not Optimistic About Government
 At Disrupt today, Y Combinator Sam Altman had a somewhat gloomy prediction for attendees and the broader audience following the conference: If the state and federal government “can’t...
06:03 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Piper Lets Kids Design Circuits Using Minecraft And Electricity
 There is a disease destroying our young people. It is silent, malignant, and fatal. It is called Minecraft and something must be done. If you have children of a certain age chances are they have...
05:37 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Qualtrics Founder Ryan Smith Talks Bootstrapping His Company And Then Raising A Boatload Of Cash
 Qualtrics spent most of its life bootstrapped and trying to be profitable. Then it raised $220 million — and Qualtrics CEO Ryan Smith was worried he’d have to move to Silicon Valley....
05:35 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Fly Or Die: iPhone 6s
We’re back with a special TechCrunch Disrupt SF edition of Fly or Die,where we had an early preview of the new iPhone 6s. As is now routine with iPhone releases, the 6s is an off-year incrementa...
05:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch If Apple Made A Cat Toy, It Would Be This One
 Amazing design isn’t just for us humans. What about the cats who want a toy to play with like the new pretty iPhone? Nobody is really trying to make a cat’s playtime as enjoyable as ...
05:21 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Brings VR-Style 360-Degree Video To News Feed
 Hold up your phone, spin around, and Facebook’s newest News Feed videos will spin with you, showing you every angle of a scene. Today, Facebook announced that its News Feed will now suppor...
05:04 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Pearltrees Can Now Automatically Import And Organize Your Twitter And Facebook Posts
 In 2009, Pearltrees started out as a bookmarking service with a quirky interface. Since then, the service has added a number of new curation features like support for uploading files, taking not...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Pebble Debuts Its First Round Smartwatch With The Pebble Time Round
 Pebble, the company that arguably sparked the whole smartwatch trend with a $10M Kickstarter back in 2012, is shifting things up today. After years of sticking with square-faced displays, the co...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Lending Clubs Renaud Laplanche On His White Knuckle Moment
 In the beginning, back in 2006, Lending Club – the marketplace where borrowers and investors connect – was nothing more than an idea in the head of a French lawyer-turned-tech-entrep...
04:59 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch CliniCloud Raises $5M For Its Connected Home Medical Kit
 CliniCloud, a company that is building aconnected home medical kit,has just announced a $5M seed fundinground and anew retail partnership with Best Buy. The round wasled by Tencent and Ping An V...
04:20 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 Begins Now Watch It LIVE!
Two days down, one to go.We’ve seen the likes of Ron Conway, Yuri Milner, Aileen Lee, and John Doerr cross our stage. Snoop Dogg and Andre Iguodala also sat down for a chat. And then, of course,...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Google Launches Cloud Dataproc, A Managed Spark And Hadoop Big Data Service
 Google is adding another product in its range of big data services on the Google Cloud Platform today. The newGoogle Cloud Dataprocservice sits between managing the Spark data processing engine ...
03:48 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch HBO NOW Is 2015s Top Video Streaming App By Revenue, Study Finds
 Video streaming apps that target cord cutters and those who want to watch video on their mobile phones are on the rise. According to new data from app store analytics firm App Annie, apps like t...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch This Week On Bullish: When To W2 That 1099
 Hello friends, and welcome back to another episode of Bullish, TechCrunch’s first talk show. This week we taped at Disrupt SF, so our setup looks slightly different than usual. It was also...
11:30 am GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Spanish Invoice Trading Marketplace NoviCap Raises $1.7M
 NoviCap, the invoice trading marketplace headquartered in London but with offices in Barcelona and a customer base largely in Spain, has closed a$1.7million seed round. Backers include Partech V...
11:30 am GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Blue Jeans Network Raises $76.5M To Bring Video Conferencing Beyond The Office
 Blue Jeans Network, a company that provides cloud-based video conferencing services, has raised $76.5 million in its fifth round of financing. NEA led the Series E round, joined by Accel Partner...
11:30 am GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Fancred Video Lets Every Sports Fan Be A Live Commentator
 Fancred, the social network for sports fans wants to move beyond pure social into media. Today it announced an update that lets fans post-Periscope style videos from the stadium or their couches...
03:38 am GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Xiaomi Announces Impressive $200 Smartphone And Prepaid Mobile Services In China
 Xiaomi has announced its latest smartphone, the Mi 4c, an impression $200 (budget) version of its flagship Mi 4 device. That’s not all: the Chinese company also ventured into mobile operat...
03:05 am GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Announcing The TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 Battlefield Finalists
 We’ve officially closed Day Two of TC Disrupt SF 2015, complete with speaking appearances from John Doerr, Andre Iguodala, Nick Woodmon, and Tim Westergren. But as Tuesday of Disrupt comes...
02:54 am GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Uber Is Testing UberCommute, A New Carpooling Service, In China
 Uber is testing a new kind of carpooling service after it announced UberCommute, a service that will be piloted first in China. The news comes weeks after UberChina closed a $1.2 billion funding...
12:57 am GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch ShieldSquare Takes A New Approach To Malicious Bot Traffic
 While the world of viruses has given rise to a number of antivirus companies, not least of which was Macafee, who we had at Techcrunch Disrupt this week in SF, the world of bots has become a big...
12:49 am GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Arielle Zuckerberg, Zucks Youngest Sister, Is Joining Kleiner Perkins
 Arielle Zuckerberg, the youngest sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is joining Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers next month as the firm bids to inject youth and diversity into its line-u...
12:35 am GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Separate.Us Wants To Bring Divorce Online
 Divorce is painful enough. Separate.us wants to at least make the paperwork easier. Much like TurboTax, Separate.us, which launched today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, takes complex, confusing forms...
12:21 am GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch Money Intel Wants To Help Companies Quickly Set Up And Manage A 401(k)
 For smaller companies, setting up a 401(k) can be one of the most difficult exercises — but it’s still one of the most important ones. That’s why Money Intel is trying to simpl...
12:05 am GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch ProtonMail Adds Support For Facebook PGP
 Today, end-to-end encrypted email provider ProtonMail has added support for PGP encrypted Facebook emails — allowing Facebook users to get their encrypted missives automatically decrypted ...
12:02 am GMT - Wed, September 23, 2015
Techcrunch WakaTime Wants To Be The Fitbit For Developer Productivity
 If you’re a developer, do you know how much time you actually spend coding every day? And do you have a breakdown of which languages you’re working in and what files you’ve bee...
11:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch GoPro To Help Nonprofits Bring Attention To Their Causes
 Companies often throw money at social causes, but GoPro is doing something a bit different. It’s providing nonprofits with GoPro cameras, financial support, video producers and content dis...
11:29 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Preemadonna Turns Your Smartphone Into A Nail Salon
 Preemadonna just unveiled the Lacey Nailbot, a nail decorating robot, at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015. The Lacey, which will retail for $199, uses your smartphone’s back camera and prints fu...
11:22 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Stampery Leverages The Blockchain To Certify All Your Documents
 Meet Stampery, a startup that wants to replace notaries with bitcoin’s blockchain. The service can issue legally binding proofs for all your sensitive documents, and the company is present...
11:04 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Emburse Looks To Help Companies Issue Prepaid Company Debit Cards On The Fly
 Not every employee, especially those at smaller businesses, can get a corporate credit card — but they still need to pay company-related expenses. That’s where Emburse, a startup tha...
11:04 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Crdit Mutuel Arka Acquires Money Pot And Payment Service Leetchi
 French startup Leetchi has been acquired by French bank Crdit Mutuel Arka. While the startup isn’t giving any official number, Les chos reported that Crdit Mutuel Arka spent more than $56 ...
11:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch FreedomPop Launches In The UK, Intros Free And $18/Month iPhone-Only Plans In US
 FreedomPop, the startup that is stirring upthe world of mobile carriers with free phone services, is announcing two new advances that will help the company spread its brandto new demographics an...
10:52 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch John Doerr Talks Diversity, Execution And The Future Of Kleiner Perkins
 Kleiner Perkins’ John Doerr hopes that his firm will find itself at a “50/50” ratio, where it has successfully brought in a diverse set of new partners — a problem that h...
10:51 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Rollout.io Puts Mobile Developers Back In Control Of Their Apps
 A new startup, Rollout.io, launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2015 wants to put mobile app developers back in control of their software by allowing them to make code-level chang...
10:39 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Leaf Is A Plug N Plant Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home
 Marijuana is a sticky subject. While 23 states (and D.C.) have legalized some form of medical use, possession, growth, and distribution are still illegal in the majority of the United States. Ho...
10:21 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Ava Is A Bracelet That Aims To Predict The Most Likely Days For Women To Get Pregnant
 Ava, a health tracking bracelet for women collects hormonal and other data in an effort to predict a woman’s periodand the days of the monthsheis most likely to get pregnant. The bracelet ...
09:55 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Filter.ly Helps Publishers Cut Through Internet Noise
 Tired of wading through clickbait? Filter.ly, launching today at Disrupt Battlefield, wants to make sure that website visitors only see the content they are most interested in. Many recommendati...
09:42 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Green Bits Launches Point Of Sale Service For Cannabis Shops
 Originally, I was trying to come up with a really whip-smart headline for this…like: “Weed Is The Gateway Drug For Gateway Point Of Sale Services,” but there was no need. The n...
09:38 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Wellthy Provides Respite For Patients And Families Coping With Long-Term Health Conditions
 Getting diagnosed with a chronic illness is stressful enough, but it is just the beginning of a difficult journey. Arranging appointments, researching new treatments, and filing insurance paperw...
09:21 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Instagram Hits 400M Users Just 9 Months After Announcing 300M
 Today, Facebook-owned photograph-centric social network Instagram announced that it has hit 400 million users. This comes just nine months after announcing that it hit the 300 million mark. Read...
09:20 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch One in Three Farms Are Using FarmLogs To Power Their Yields With Big Data
 The American farmmay not be the first spot you’d expect to be disrupted by big data, but today’s farmers are already heavily utilizing new technologies to monitor their crops. Jesse ...
09:20 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch One In Three Farms Is Using FarmLogs To Power Their Yields With Big Data
 The American farm may not be the first spot you’d expect to be disrupted by big data, but today’s farmers are already heavily utilizing new technologies to monitor their crops. Jesse...
08:55 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Communications Platform Layer Adds Support For Webhooks
 Layer, the former TechCrunch Disrupt winner that makes it possible for developers to add rich messaging capabilities to their apps without having to build their own infrastructure, has been stea...
08:41 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Tim Westergren On What Makes Pandora Different
 Pandora co-founder and chief strategy officer Tim Westergren took the stage with our own Josh Constine to talk about Pandora’s unique model in the very competitive music space. Read More ...
08:35 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch CloudFlare Hints IPO Coud Be Coming, But Not This Year
 Just this morning,CloudFlareannounced a $110 million round led by Fidelity Investments, andon stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt,Michelle Zatlyn, CloudFlare’s head of customer experience, t...
08:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch If You Watch One Video Of Robots Making A Rope Bridge Today, Make It This One
 As we enter the next era of rope bridge construction we must ask ourselves “Who shall make the next rope bridge?” The researchers at ETH have the answer. Their solution, created in c...
08:16 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch The White House Joins Periscope And Broadcasts Popes Visit
 The White House created a Periscope account on Tuesday, just in time for Pope Francis’ trip to the United States. The White House live broadcast Pope Francis stepping off his plane and gre...
07:55 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Fitbit CEO And True Ventures Jon Callaghan On The Big Fitness Opportunity
 If you’ve ever glanced at your wrist and wondered why so many tech companies are vying for such a relatively small strip of flesh, chances are you’re not thinking big enough. And you...
07:55 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Imgur Is The Anti-Facebook
 Why is Imgur one of the most popular websites on the Internet? Is it the connection with the so-called “Internet’s front page” Reddit? Its community? The addictive nature of br...
07:08 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Zortrax Launches A 3D Model Library For Its Robotic-Arm Loving Users
 Polish 3D printer manufacturer Zortrax has announced that they’ve added a 3D model library to its Z-Suite software suite, a closed place where Zortrax users can store and share their model...
07:01 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Startup Battlefield Applications Extended for Disrupt London!
 Startups, it’s time to get your act together and apply for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt London on December 7-8th. We’re looking for the most promising companies from London to ...
06:43 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch SoftBanks Nikesh Arora Says The Key To Investing Is Big Bets And Close Friendships With Founders
 A leading Japanese telecom, SoftBank is also one of Asia’s most prolific tech investors and known for taking big stakes in growth-stage companies. In an onstage interview at Disrupt today,...
06:23 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Facebooks Ad Chief Boz Announces Click To Message A Business Ads
 Today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015, Facebook ad chief Andrew “Boz” Bosworth sat down with Josh Constine to discuss the state of advertising on the social network.Boz started by disc...
06:21 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Meet Nuclear Powers Comeback Kids
 Leslie Dewan and Jacob Dewitt are part of a new generation of nuclear scientists pushing for use of safer technologies. Both young founders took to the TechCrunch Disrupt stage today to chat abo...
06:17 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Houzz CEO Adi Tatarko Wants To Redefine The Term Unicorn
 Houzz co-founder and CEO Adi Tatarko says she wants to redefine the word “unicorn” in tech industry lingo. The term, which refers to companies whose valuations are in the billion-dol...
06:09 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch AOL/Verizon Completes Spinout Of CrunchBase Funded By Emergence Capital
 CrunchBase, the database of startups, other tech companies and the people who work in them that was originally developed alongside TechCrunch, is spinning outfromAOL/Verizon. Emergence Capital i...
05:42 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Twitter Loses Its Sr. Director of Engineering, Growth and International Team To Uber
 Twitter is losing some key talent and leadership lately, which we told you about before…specifically to the company a few blocks over, Uber. Today, Akash Garg announced that he was leaving...
05:40 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Pingpad Launches Mobile-Centric Tools For Group Collaboration
 Ross Mayfield said that at his new startup Pingpad, “We’re trying to build the next great productivity app.” Mayfield previously worked as director of business development at L...
05:34 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Gmail Now Lets You Easily Block Annoying Senders
 Here is a small but useful new feature in Gmail that’s launching today: you can now block specific email addresses with two clicks. So whenever you’re getting a lot of email from som...
05:08 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Asks Developers To Verify Their Version Of Xcode Following Malware Attack On Chinese App Store
 Following the recent reveal that the Chinese Apple App Store had become infested with malware, thanks to dozens of infected consumer-facing mobile apps that had been built and updated with a com...
05:05 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Get Ready For A GoPro Drone
 GoPro founder and CEO Nick Woodman confirmed that a GoPro drone was on its way in an interview with our own Matt Burns at Disrupt SF. “Development is on track for the first half of 2016. W...
04:59 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch MasteryConnect Raises $5M From Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan For Personalized Education
 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have been quietly amassing a portfolio of both philanthropic and venture investments in education from a $120 million commitment to Bay Area schoo...
04:34 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Periscope Turns Screenshotting Into A Social Experience
 A new version of Periscope popped up on the App Store today that allows viewers to share screenshots that they take during your stream. Additionally a little screenshot icon will show up in chat...
04:32 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch CloudFlare Locks Down $110M From Fidelity, Microsoft, Google, Baidu And Qualcomm
 CloudFlare has secured a $110 million round of private financing, led by Fidelity, and participated in by a cadre of technology giants, including Baidu, Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm. The compa...
04:10 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Quirky Files For Bankruptcy While Flextronics Puts Up A $15M Bid For Wink
 Quirky, the long-suffering startup that was once held up as a model for bridging the maker movement and corporate world, has filed for bankruptcy. Read More ...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch With Focus On Improving Sams Club Customer Relationships, WalmartLabs Snaps Up Silicon Valley-Based PunchTab
 WalmartLabs, the retailer’s Silicon Valley-based R&D group, announced this morning that it has acquired loyalty startup PunchTab, in order to better connect with and engage customers w...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Backblaze Announces Low-Cost Cloud Storage Service To Compete With Amazon S3
 Backblaze is best known for its consumer and enterprise backup service — and how many hard drives it buys to power that service. Today, however, the company is taking a step in a slightly ...
03:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Review: Apples iPhone 6s And 6s Plus Go Tick
 Tick, tock. Tick, tock. This is the familiar sound of Apple’s iPhone. Popularized by chip maker Intel, ‘tick tock development’ has come to refer to a major change in a product ...
03:05 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Hands-On With The New Formlabs Form 2 3D Printer
 When I first turned on the original Formlabs Form 1 I knew I was in the presence of something special. This 3D printer could make amazingly detailed models using lasers and resin, a process that...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Atlassian Updates Its Git Services, Combines Them Under The Bitbucket Brand
 Atlassianhas long offered a number of Git-based developer services under the Bitbucket and Stash brands for developers who either need a cloud-based or on-premises code management service. Now, ...
02:45 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Starbucks Mobile Order & Pay Now Live Nationwide, Delivery Service In Testing By Year-End
 Starbucks, a longtime industry leader when it comes to adoption of mobile payments and mobility loyalty in-store, announced this morning that its “Mobile Order & Pay” system is n...
02:41 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Amazon Prime Memberships Drop To $67 On Friday Only
 Amazon is always looking for ways to boost the numbers of Amazon Prime customers, whether that’s by holding a Black Friday-like “Prime Day” sales event or bundling in subscript...
02:31 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Hardware Club Is A Community Of Promising Hardware Startups Facing The Same Challenges
 Hardware Club‘s team has been quietly building a community of promising hardware startups to share resources when it comes to manufacturing hardware products. Today, the company has two th...
01:19 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Groupon Is Laying Off 1,100 At A Cost Of $35M, Shutters Operations In 7 Countries
 Some significant downsizing is underway at Groupon, the daily deals and local-commerce site. The company is today announcing that it will be cutting 1,100 jobs — mostly in its sales (aka &...
01:07 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch French Time-Delayed Photo-Sharing App Flashgap Scores $1.5M To Head To U.S.
 Flashgap, the time-delayed photo-sharing app inspired by the movie ‘The Hangover,’ has closed a $1.5 million seed round — money the French startup plans to use to launch across...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch With $10M From High Profile Angels, Globality Will Aim To Restructure Global Trade
 Globality, an ultra stealthy startup based in Menlo Park, has raised $10 million from a group of high profile angel investors to build an ambiguous new ecosystem for global trade.The funding com...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Porch Now Guarantees Work Done By Pre-Screened Home Professionals It Sends To Your Home
 Two years ago, Porch started out as a platform that allowed you to see what kind of remodeling projects people in our neighborhood were doing to their houses and how much they paid for it. Today...
12:40 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch UK Govt Leads $56M Round For Daraz, Rockets Amazon Clone In Pakistan, Bangladesh And Myanmar
 Earlier this month,Rocket Internet announced that it would be stepping up aggressivegrowth in Asia once more, with one new launch per quarterto expand inemerging markets. Today, the e-commerce g...
12:26 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Passion Capitals Eileen Burbidge Appointed Chair Of Tech City UK
 You’d be forgiven for thinking venture capitalist and self-described recovering work and tech-aholic Eileen Burbidge didn’t have a day job. Adding to a plethora of additional roles s...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Review: Apples iPhone 6s And 6s Plus Go Tick
 Tick, tock. Tick, tock. This is the familiar sound of Apple’s iPhone. Popularized by chip maker Intel, ‘tick tock development’ has come to refer to a major change in a product ...
11:50 am GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch CoverHound Raises $33.3M, Expands To Insurance Comparisons For Businesses
 CoverHound, a sitethat lets people search for, compare and buy auto and property insurance both through its own site and Google’s insurance search, is today announcing that it has raised a...
11:34 am GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch French Music Streaming Service Deezer Files For IPO
 French music streaming service Deezer has filed for IPO on the Paris-based stock exchange Euronext. Planned to take place at the end of the year, the company isn’t disclosing how much it h...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch The Final Batch Of 2-for-1 Disrupt London Tickets Is Coming Soon. Sign Up Now
 Still haven’t pulled the trigger on those tickets to Disrupt London 2015 you’ve been eyeing? We’re giving potential Disrupt attendees one last chance to win the rare opportunit...
06:30 am GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Opera Gives Itself A Brand Refresh With New Logo
 Opera Software is no more. The company today announced a rebrand with a new logo and brand identity. In the process, it has changed its name to simply “Opera.” Read More ...
05:00 am GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch iAdvize Grabs $16 Million For Its Customer Engagement Platform
 French startup iAdvize just raised $16 million (14 million) from Iris Capital, Bpifrance and existing investor Alven Capital. This company is all about making your online customer service experi...
02:08 am GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch E-Book Subscription Service Oyster To Shut Down
 E-bookworms now have one less option. Oyster, which launched its “Netflix for books” app two years ago, announced in a blog post that it will close down the service by early 2016. Re...
01:06 am GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Do You Have To Be In San Francisco To Be A Tech Entrepreneur? The VCs Say No.*
 With sky-high rents on both housing and commercial office space, do you really have to be in the Bay Area to hit a home run? A number of VCs today at TechCrunch Disrupt said not necessarily. Dan...
01:00 am GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Google Wallet For iOS Becomes A Peer-To-Peer Payments App
 Earlier this month, Google launched Android Pay in a move that turned the company’s existing Wallet app into a peer-to-peer payments service. That new app went live on Android when the new...
12:53 am GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Bravos App Makes It Easy To Tip When You Dont Have Cash
 Though the majority of today’s payment transactions are digital – credit card swipes, online bill pay, tap-and-pay at point of sale, etc. – there are still a few places where c...
12:42 am GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch H2L Launches Their Next-Gen UnlimitedHand VR Haptic Controller
 It’s often said that seeing is believing, but with virtual reality, touch is a critical part of an immersive visual experience. But the current generation of VR input controls are stuck in...
12:30 am GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Artomatix Is An Artificially Intelligent Game Designing App
 The video game industry is worth a staggering $80 billion. What’s crazier is that more than 60% of game development costs are spent on efforts related to the painstaking process of designi...
12:23 am GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Track Your Cats Eating Habits With Some Cardboard And A Spare Android Phone
 My favorite thing about Disrupt is that you never know what you’re going to find in the Startup Alley. I walked through the Taiwan Pavilion and found a company called CatFi. They make a pr...
12:16 am GMT - Tue, September 22, 2015
Techcrunch Cohero Health Aims To Improve Patient Care For The 26 Million American Asthma Sufferers
 Cohero Health, a startup that aims to improve care and medicine adherence for people with respiratory issues justdebuted its comprehensive connected health platform for asthma patients on stage ...
11:49 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Robo Wunderkinds Programmable Bricks Are Like Legos That Teach You How To Code
 Meet Robo Wunderkind, the Lego of the future. This startup is building programmable Lego-like bricks that teach your children how algorithms work. It is launching today on stage at Disrupt, and ...
11:43 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Aircall Wants To Reinvent Customer Support By Making All Representatives Mobile
 Slack efforts to reinvent email are inspiring others to simplify different forms of communication. Aircall, a company that presented at TechCrunch Disrupt today in San Francisco, wants to remove...
11:34 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Zumper: One-Third Of San Franciscos Rent Is Attributable To VC Funding
 Well, this is sure provoke to some debate. Zumper, a venture-backed startup that focuses on creating a more efficient and transparent apartment rental marketplace, ran a study of housing costsin...
11:24 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Agrilyst Wants To Be The Google Analytics For Greenhouses
 Agrilyst, which is officially launching in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Battlefield today, helps greenhouse operators run their operations more efficiently by pulling in data from sensors in the gr...
11:15 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch EasyPaint Wants To Take The Pain Out Of Getting A Room Painted
 If there’s one thing I dislike about owning a home, it’s when the time comes to paint a room. If I do it myself, I go crazy before the prep work is even done. So. Much. Masking. Tape...
11:07 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Robinhoods Vlad Tenev On Stock Market Turmoil And Eliminating Trading Fees
 This might not seem like the best time to be running a startup focused on stock market trading, but Vlad Tenev, co-founder of Robinhood, still sees plenty of opportunities. “There’s ...
11:01 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Discovr Labs Brings Virtual Reality To The Classroom, Lets Teachers See What Students See
 As consumers, we tend to focus on how virtual reality will work in our homes — the new types of games it allows, the insane 360-degree cinematic experiences, etc. Some of VR’s greate...
11:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Postmates Unveils Revamped Platform, Announces 4 Million Deliveries
 Postmates recently unveiled a revamped version of its app, dubbed Postmates 3.0, which features category discovery, delivery tracking, gifting and estimated delivery times.In addition to providi...
10:27 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Humon Is A Wearable That Helps Endurance Athletes Train Smarter
 Make way for another wearable. Launching sign-ups for its alpha program on stage today, here at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, is a startup called Humon — which is building a real-time lactic acid...
10:26 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch 21 Announces The Bitcoin Computer, A Mini-Mining Machine Coupled With A Payment System
 Buying and running a bitcoin miner is either a labor of love or an effort at profit… but rarely both. 21.co, for their part, seems to have reached an interesting parity. Their new Bitcoin ...
10:14 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Mother And Daughter Team Launch Scrumpt, An Easier Way To Pack A Healthy School Lunch
 A new wave of startups, including companies like Blue Apron, Plated, HelloFresh and more, have been catering to consumers looking to cook healthier meals at home, but lack the time to shop and s...
10:10 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Mixmax, Which Adds Rich Media, Polls, Scheduling To E-mail, Integrates With Google Inbox
 Mixmax, an e-mail startup that recently raised $1.5 million from Harrison Metal and Floodgate, integrated with Inbox to turn e-mails into much more than just a text-heavy experience. With Mixmax...
10:09 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Virtual Reality Goes Beyond Gaming
 Virtual reality’s breakthrough moment might not be gaming. Claude Zellweger from HTC, Dr. Richard Marks from Sony, Paul Raphal from Felix and Paul Studios took the stage with our own Drew ...
10:03 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Stitch Is Slack For Healthcare Messaging
 Stitch, a central messaging hub for healthcare providers, is launching today on stage at Disrupt to cut down on the $11 billion that U.S. hospitals waste each year due to breakdowns in communica...
10:01 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch An Interview With Brady Forrest On The New Hardware Startup Stars
 Hardware startups are really cool and Brady Forrest has brought more of them to market than anyone we know. Now he and Dave McClure are the stars of Bazillion Dollar Club, a new show on SyFy tha...
09:57 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Weight Loss App Rise Launches CoachLine, A Personal Assistant That Boosts Human Advice With AI
 Rise made its name in the world of healthapps as a platform for people to connect with human coaches, to help them tailor their lifestyle and eating choices tolose weight. Now, Riseis adding in ...
09:51 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Staffly Supplies The Workforce For Independent Retailers
 Independent retailers often have a hard time finding and retaining qualified employees.TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield participant Staffly, a startup created by husband and wife team Bjorn and Ma...
09:39 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Leap Financial Puts Detailed Business Reporting In Startups Hands
 Most startups struggle when it comes to understanding the underlying financial metrics that typically determine the success or failure of theirbusiness. At the same time, they are often keeping ...
09:30 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Healthcare Is The Last Industry To Be Disrupted, Says KPCBs Beth Seidenberg
 Tech has changed almost every aspect of our lives, from shopping to transportation. But despite the enormous amount of money Americans spend on healthcare, many treatments are decades old. In an...
09:10 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Felix & Paul Studios Spins Off 3D Sound Unit As Headspace Studios
 Virtual reality company Felix & Paul Studios announced Monday onstage at Disrupt SF the launch of a separate division focused on 3D, 360-degree sound mixing. Led by Jean-Pascal Beaudoin, Hea...
09:06 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Telegram Now Seeing 12BN Daily Messages, Up From 1BN In February
 Pro-privacy secure messaging app Telegram is seeing some impressive usage growth this year. Here at TechCrunch Disrupt SF founder Pavel Durov revealed on stage the platform is now seeing 12 bill...
07:58 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Drones Will Deliver Your Pizza, And Much Much More
 Drones will deliver your pizza in the future. That was one of the tastiest takeaways from TechCrunch writer Frederic Lardinois’ interview with Helen Greiner, the founder of drone maker CyP...
07:50 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch IBM Watson Wont Be Replacing Humans Any Time Soon
 There is little doubt that IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence systemis an incredible piece of technology, It’s capable ofsearching across vast repositories of unstructured digital ...
07:50 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch IBMs Watson Wont Be Replacing Humans Any Time Soon
 There is little doubt that IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence systemis an incredible piece of technology, It’s capable ofsearching across vast repositories of unstructured digital ...
07:36 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch If You Watch One Video Of A Quadcopter Walking A Quadrupedal Robot, Make It This One
 The folks at the Autonomous Systems Lab at the Eidgenssische Technische Hochschule Zrich in Switzerland have created the ultimate robot combo. Need a quadruped? You got one. Need a quadcopter? Y...
07:03 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Snoop Dogg Launches Merry Jane, A Pot-Flavored Lifestyle Media Platform
 Snoop Dogg, world-renowned entertainment icon and unofficial representative of all things weed, has been investing in tech products and platforms for the past year or so, with a particular focus...
06:52 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch French Data Protection Watchdog Rejects Googles Search Delisting Appeal
 France’s data protection watchdog has rejected Google’s appeal against an earlier enforcement notice in which the CNIL told the company to expand search delisting requests across all...
06:23 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Dont Be Afraid Of Killer Robots, Says Yuri Milner
 Unlike some, billionaire Russian VC Yuri Milner is not scared that killer robots are coming to destroy humanity in the years ahead. His view about the rise of artificial intelligence is better d...
06:22 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Streaming Services Amazon, Netflix And HBO Win Big At Emmys
 Streaming services are continuing their march into Hollywood, competing head-on with network television not only for viewership numbers, but now also for critical acclaim and industry recognitio...
06:09 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch #MakeAndTell
 Last week a 14-year-old boy brought a tech project to school setting off a wave of controversy. He is a Maker and he wanted to show his teacher a fun thing he put together. The resulting reactio...
06:04 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch What Bitcoin Is Now And What It Could Become
 Is it time to stick a fork in bitcoin? The digital currency has been making the news for a couple of years now. Yet, many are taking a step back and wondering whether bitcoin as we know it will ...
05:49 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Drew Houstons Mission: Get The World Working Together On Dropbox
 He seemed surprisingly calm, in a casual Silicon Valley attire (black shirt, jeans and sneakers), for the CEO of a company many critics say will not live up to its $10 billion valuation. He cont...
05:31 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Uber Brings Its Car Pooling Service To India, As Rival Ola Prepares Its Own Version
 Uber has introduced its car-pooling program, Uber Pool, in India in its latest move to grow its presence in the world’s second most populous country. Read More ...
05:31 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Uber Brings Its Carpooling Service To India, As Rival Ola Prepares Its Own Version
 Uber has introduced its carpooling program, Uber Pool, in India in its latest move to grow its presence in the world’s second most populous country. The service is initially being piloted ...
05:29 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Meditation Startup Headspace Raised $30 Million To Help You Be More Mindful
 Headspace, a guided meditation and mindfulness startup, recently raised $30 million from The Chernin Group, Advancit Capital, Allen & Company, Breyer Capital, The Honest Company CEO Jessica ...
05:29 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Meditation Startup Headspace Raises $30 Million To Help You Be More Mindful
 Headspace, a guided meditation and mindfulness startup, recently raised $30 million from The Chernin Group, Advancit Capital, Allen & Company, Breyer Capital, The Honest Company CEO Jessica ...
05:19 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Zenefits Parker Conrad Talks Hyper Growth And How To Hang On To A Rocket Ship
 Today at Disrupt SF 2015, Zenefits’ Parker Conrad joined our own Matthew Lynley on stage to dig into how the startup has managed to become one of the fastest-growing companies in the world...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch The Apple Watch And The Smartphones Second Act
 The smartphone was supposed to free us from our computers. And it did, for a while. You didn’t have to sit at your desk to check your email! You could delete a voicemail without even liste...
04:59 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Portea Medical, One Of Indias Largest Home Care Providers, Gets $37.5M From Accel
 Portea Medical, a startup that provides in-home healthcare in India, has raised a $37.5 million Series B led by returning investor Accel. The round’s other participants include Internation...
04:58 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Releases watchOS 2
 Apple just released the final version of watchOS 2. The updated operating system is now available to download for everyone. It is available as an over-the-air update. You may not see the update ...
04:36 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch A $750 Pill And A Founder Who Doesnt Know When To Stop Tweeting
 A Twitter account in the hands of a hothead startup founder can be a dangerous thing.The New York Times ran a piece Sunday looking into why a 62-year-old pill saw its price skyrocket from $13.50...
04:29 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Ron Conway And Topher Conway From SV Angel: Theres No Bubble
 Disrupt SF started off with a bang this morning with a fireside chat including Ron and Topher Conway, both investors with SV Angel. TechCrunch founder and CrunchFund investor Michael Arrington p...
04:03 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store
 Apple has confirmed a security breach in its Chinese App Store which saw nearly fortypopular applications infected with malware – a result of app developers being tricked intodownloading a...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Announcing The Startup Battlefield Of Disrupt SF 2015
TechCrunch is pleased to announce the 25 startups selected to participate in the Startup Battlefield of Disrupt SF 2015. Over the next three days, these companies will compete on tech’s biggest ...
03:45 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch TC Disrupt SF 2015 Day 1 Begins Now Watch It LIVE!
The time is now. Disrupt SF 2015 is upon us and we have a jam-packed show with some of the greatest minds in tech. Today we’ll be joined by Dropbox’s Drew Houston, international investor Y...
03:30 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch A Solution To Bitcoins Governance Problem
 The software that runs the Bitcoin network is managed by a group of volunteer developers.In theory, the developers answer to Bitcoin users who choose whether or not to run a particular version o...
03:12 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Lockitron Releases 3rd Gen $99 Connected Door Lock, Aims To Improve Product Accessibility
 If the connected home has struggled with anything overthe past few years it’s accessibility. Ease of use has been improving rapidlybut most internet-connected devices are still multiples m...
03:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Jungle Ventures Returns To The Table With A New $100M Fund For Asia
 Jungle Ventures, one of a group of fresh VC firms that have burst on the scene in Asia these past few years, is stepping things up after announcing a new $100 million fund. Read More ...
02:34 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Announces 50% iOS 9 Adoption And iPhone 6s Launch Day Specifics
 Less than a week after Apple released iOS 9, the company announcedthe software has hit50 percent adoption, meaning more than half of existing iOS deviceshave installed iOS 9. This comes after an...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Is The U.S. And Chinas Cyberwar Reaching A Detente Or A Flashpoint?
 The U.S. government is seething over the increased cyber-attacks against American targets originating from China, and the two nations are set to either move toward detente or the U.S. may adopt ...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Lands End Is Monument Valley Maker ustwos First Careful Foray Into VR Gaming
 How do you design a VR game that’s less likely to make a player’s stomach churn? Turns out you need to put some pretty strict limits on how they can interact within the alternative w...
12:50 pm GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Payments Startup ShopKeep Buys Ambur To Cater Better To Restaurants
 More consolidation underway in the area of point of saleservices. New York-based payment startupShopKeepis buying Ambur, a payments service forrestaurants, food trucks and other food and drink e...
11:00 am GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Flow, The Best Third-Party App For Instagram, Comes To The iPhone
 Flow, a third-party Instagram app that landed on the iPad nearly two years ago, has now made its way to the iPhone Read More ...
09:00 am GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Monese Launches In U.K. To Let Immigrants And Expats Get A Mobile Banking Account
 Monese, which sees a throttled launch today, could grow the banking pie in the U.K. and European Union. That’s because the London and Tallinn, Estonia-based company is targeting immigrants...
07:51 am GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Udacity Expands Services And Announces Scholarships In India
 Online computer programming educator Udacity announced on Monday it would expand on the ground in India, the country where the service is growing the fastest. Udacity’s free and nanodegree...
04:03 am GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch CentreStyle, Built By Teenagers, Helps You Get Dressed In Any Weather
 At the Disrupt Hackathon here in San Francisco, we were joined by a relatively large group of young female coders as part of the Built By Girls Challenge. A team of them came together and, using...
01:35 am GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch 30 Women Who Have Revolutionized A Male-Dominated Industry
Approximately 5 percent of America’s Fortune 500 Companies are led by women. Though this might seem small, it proves one thing: women are taking up the reins and leading their companies — ...
01:33 am GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Andy Samberg Gives Out A Functioning HBO NOW Login On Tonights Emmys
 So remember that time when HBO CEO Richard Plepler said that he didn’t care if users shared their HBO accountpasswords? Apparently, so did Emmy host Andy Samberg. Joking around tonight at ...
01:00 am GMT - Mon, September 21, 2015
Techcrunch Is Virtual Reality Gaming Bound To Crash?
 Techies of all varieties constantly look forward to the next great revolution. For video gamers, that revolution promises to be virtual reality. Countless new companies have emerged to research ...
11:55 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch Keep Track Of Friends In Hazardous Weather Areas With PocketWatch
 PocketWatch was built today at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 Hackathon by a team of five brand-new programmers. PocketWatch is an easy, free way to keep tabs on friends and family who you migh...
11:54 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch Jobot Helps You Get Hired Using WeChats Messaging App
 WeChat bots are huge in China. The one Microsoft runs on China’s most popular messaging app has 20 million followers alone — and it is a cult hero — which shows that messaging ...
11:01 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch QuickActions Wins The Disrupt SF 2015 Hackathon Grand Prize, PitchPal And Harvest Are Runners Up
 It’s been a long night at Pier 70 in San Francisco. Yesterday, hundreds of hackers spent the day in front of their laptops even though it was a beautiful Summer day. That’s because t...
10:50 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch Hack My Mood Turns Social Media Postings Into A Mental Wellness Tool
People with mood disorders like depression or anxiety are often encouraged to record their emotions in a notebook or app. That often starts to feel tedious, however, especially since many mood tracker...
10:08 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch Good Email Club Reads You The Positive Emails In Your Inbox
 I’ll admit it: Sometimes a mean or pushy email can ruin my whole morning, especially if it’s the very first thing I see.It seems like JeanCarl Bisson (a technical evangelist for IBM)...
09:59 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch BrainPal Tracks How Different Apps Affect Your Mood
 Ever emerged from a Netflix marathon in a brainfog? Been tempted to set things on fire after an hour of reading stupid Facebook statuses? Felt surprisingly refreshed after pinning mason jar sala...
09:50 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch Falling Down Uses Music To Stop You Getting Road Rage
 Driving is so often an emotional affair. Even the mildest mannered people can turn into aggressive monsters when put behind a steering wheel. AtTechCrunch Disrupt’s Hackathon today we saw ...
09:48 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch Entangled Is A Watch App To Fight Loneliness
 Not every app here at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon has its roots in ideas of quantum entanglement and the ineffable quality of human connection, but that’s what drove Freddie Iboy and ...
09:36 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch Hack Helps Patients Prevent Adverse Drug Reactions
 For anyone who’s ever Googled “what happens when you take [prescription drug] with [other prescription drug],”idodrugs.club is a hack that gives you an answer based on scientif...
09:24 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch Tech Community Grieves Over The Death Of White House Tech Advisor Jake Brewer
 Jake Brewer, an avid cyclist and asenior policy advisor to U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith, passed away during a charity bike ride this weekend.Brewer, 34, of Alexandria, died Saturday...
09:04 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch TrialMatch Aims To Ease The Pain Of Clinical Trials Recruitment
 Clinical trials landed in the tech spotlight earlier this year when Apple launched an iOS software framework to let users sign up for medical trials. The challenge generally for medical research...
08:53 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch These Two Little Founders Impress With Beanstocks, A Parent-To-Child Payments App
 Two of theyoungestco-founders to take the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Hackathon on Sunday wereKieran Mann, 9, andRohan Chopra, 10. The duo impressedthe crowd as they delivered a killer p...
08:45 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch TrumpThis! Club Is A Drinking Game For Presidential Debates
Even if you don’t care about politics, news about Donald Trump is pretty unavoidable. TrumpThis! Club thinks if you have to listen to Trump, you should at least be able to have fun while you do....
08:35 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch BetterDriver.Club Wants To Make You A Better Driver And Help You Win Money
 We saw a couple of car hacks during our Disrupt SF Hackathon today. One that stood out for me was BetterDriver.Club. Mike and Peter Tuszynski, two brothers who flew in all the way from Poland to...
08:16 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch FoodHigh.Club Is A Yelp For Hungry Stoners
 Anari Sengbe hopped up on the TechCrunch Disrupt 2015 Hackathon stage today to present an app with an aim to help ganja consumers enjoy smoking weed and eating at the same time. Enter FoodHigh.C...
08:14 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch Eleven-Year-Old Alex Jordan Shows Off Famtastic, An Online Family Planner, At The Disrupt SF Hackathon
 For families where the children spend time commuting back and forth between parents’ houses, keeping track of everyone’s schedule can be a challenge for moms, dads, and kids alike. T...
08:10 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch Cruizing Club Tracks Driving Quality So Jerks Cant Rent Your Car
 Just because a renter didn’t crash your car, doesn’t mean they didn’t damage it. You don’t want to rent to someone who red lines the engine, drives in too low a gear, or ...
08:01 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch Kno Uses IBM Watson To Fill Your News Feed With Quality Content
 It’s not easy to find quality news sources on subjects that matter to you. At the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon this weekend, a team of four strangers came together and using IBM Watson ...
08:01 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch Foodie Wants To Help Pick Your Lunch With A Tinder-Like Swipe System
 Jeong Uk Lee and John Kim are hoping a different spin on flipping through food reviews is going to help you decide where to eat for lunch.It’s an app called Foodie, which the pair showed o...
07:58 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch Walmart Simple Text Could Be Walmarts Version Of Magic
 One of the very cool things about hackathons is that you learn what type of technology that people are really using. We’re all wondering what the hot “trends” are going to be a...
06:30 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch Avoiding Apes By Building Equity Culture
 Great companies don’t start with massive office leases and hundreds of thousands of dollars thrown at a party. They start by building a culture of maximizing value with the minimal capital...
05:57 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch Watch The Disrupt SF Hackathon Live Right Here!
Before each Disrupt conference, something very special happens. Hundreds, sometimes thousands, of hackers come together to build a product in less than 24 hours. There is food, booze, caffeine, and us...
04:36 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch Diversity, Tamales, and Hardware at the Disrupt Hackathon
 We are back, friends, in San Francisco for the year’s biggest Disrupt conference. The hackathon is currently in full swing, swarming with nerds, cars, technology, a Surface Pro 3, what I c...
03:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch Spurring Investments And Innovation In Agriculture
The federal government is often criticized by Silicon Valley for being outdated and slow to react to cutting-edge technologies. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture is striving to shed old-school la...
02:42 am GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch The TC Disrupt Hackathon Is Officially Underway
Another September, another Disrupt SF. And with any Disrupt comes the Disrupt Hackathon, where more than 700 hackers have gathered to build a product in under 24 hours. They’re given food, bever...
02:00 am GMT - Sun, September 20, 2015
Techcrunch Tech Is Driving Collaboration In Behavioral Health
 The proliferation of electronic medical records (EMRs) has left much to be desired. Though designed with care improvement and data exchange in mind, the necessary connective tissue layer is abse...
11:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 19, 2015
Techcrunch Bursting The Top Three Myths To Get Your Healthcare Startup Funded
 The evolution of the healthcare industry has brought forth innovative startup opportunities in the past few years. A few are actually helping to change the world. Unfortunately, typical buzzword...
09:25 pm GMT - Sat, September 19, 2015
Techcrunch This Guys Periscoping A Marathon From His Wheelchair
 The great part about livestreaming apps like Periscope and Meerkat is that we get to see things that we rarely (or never) get to see from a completely new perspective. Today is one of those days...
08:53 pm GMT - Sat, September 19, 2015
Techcrunch Ford Brings In-Vehicle Notifications And Sensor Access To Its Sync AppLink Developer Platform
 Ford is holding its annual developer conference in tandem with the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon this weekend and ahead of the event, the company announced an update to its Sync AppLink develo...
08:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 19, 2015
Techcrunch Is Personalized Discovery A Feature, Category Or New Paradigm
 What do you do when you don’t know what you want to read, watch, listen to or do next? What do you do if you don’t know what to search for? Or can’t describe clearly what you&#...
07:19 pm GMT - Sat, September 19, 2015
Techcrunch Reminder: Dont Retweet ISIS Or You Could Go To Jail
 According to a report by the NY Daily Times, the FBI considers your retweets to be endorsements…especially when it comes to chatter about the terrorist organization ISIS. It’s not th...
07:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 19, 2015
Techcrunch The Internet And Its Discontents
 The free market of ideas has been unleashed in all its fury, just as we’ve unleashed the free market in everything else — leaving ordinary, unlucky people to bear the costs of our gr...
03:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 19, 2015
Techcrunch How To Be A VC Without Any Capital
 One of the most frequent questions I get as a VC is how to become a VC. Newly minted MBAs and startup veterans alike want to get into the investing game in increasingly large numbers. Unfortunat...
01:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 19, 2015
Techcrunch Its Raining Donuts, Or, The Limits Of Exponential Decline
 In 1913, in what is now an affluent suburb of Cairo, Egypt, an American engineer named Frank Shuman built the world’s first solar thermal power station, which pumped 100 gallons/second of ...
01:37 am GMT - Sat, September 19, 2015
Techcrunch Its Now Officially Sundar Pichais Show At Google
 Welp, journalists got some inbox candy on a Friday from Google. An invite to an event on September 29th. What will the event be about? Is it hardware? Has to be hardware! Is it software? Has to ...
01:00 am GMT - Sat, September 19, 2015
Techcrunch Wearables: A Pandoras Box For Security?
 As many have noted, we’re entering a new era where wearable gadgets — from watches and fitness bands to glasses and health aids — are at the forefront of the new technological ...
12:48 am GMT - Sat, September 19, 2015
Techcrunch Youre European, In A Tech Startup, In SF On Sunday? Come For Drinks
 You’re a European tech entrepreneur in San Francisco or nearby, or you’ve just landed in town for Techcrunch Disrupt and you want to connect to other Europeans in the city while you&...
12:45 am GMT - Sat, September 19, 2015
Techcrunch The Commissioned Makes Getting Personalized Artwork Easier And Less Expensive
 If you’ve ever wanted to get a perfect picture to accompany your new bedroom interior, or fell in love with a piece of art you spotted on holiday, then you’ll know that buying artwor...
11:58 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Google Is Unveiling New Treats Like Its Next Nexus Device On September 29
 Good things are coming this month, and I don’t just mean our Disrupt San Francisco event. That’s because Google just pulled the trigger on invites to a press event later this month w...
11:58 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Google Is Unveiling New Treats Like Its Next Nexus Device On September 29th
 Good things are coming this month, and I don’t just mean our Disrupt San Francisco event. That’s because Google just pulled the trigger on invites to a press event later this month w...
11:12 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Users Guide to Disrupt SF 2015
Hard to believe that Disrupt SF is just around the corner! TechCrunch has partnered with an amazing array of sponsorswho promise to make your experience at the conference better and better. Party with...
10:16 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch CrunchWeek: iOS 9 Is A Hit, Facebook Has Empathy, & Snapchats Rainbow Barfers
 Hello fellow disrupters, and welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup show where we talk the biggest things in tech. This week we’re chatting about iOS 9...
09:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Autonomous Cars Break Uber
 As Bill Gurley (General Partner at Benchmark Capital and board member of Uber) notes, Uber will be the dominant player in the ride-hailing business. Why? Because Uber’s business model is p...
08:43 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Move Over Slack? Automattic Mulls Commercializing Its Own Internal Messaging Product
 On Wednesday night, at anevent in San Francisco, Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg answered a wide range of questions inconversation with one of the earliest investors in the company, To...
08:38 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Drops A New Windows 10 Build, Promises Cortana And Xbox Improvements
 Microsoft released a new Windows 10 build to the ‘fast ring’ of its operating system testing community today. The new code, dubbed build 10547, has quite a lot to it, including impro...
08:35 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch First Data Buys Spree Commerce To Move Into Open Source Payments Technology
 Another move by a large company to up its stakes in the world of open source technologies: Payments giant First Data Corporation has acquired Spree Commerce, an open source storefront platform o...
08:19 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Durov To Outline Telegrams Next Moves At TechCrunch Disrupt SF
 On Monday at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, we’ll be grilling Pavel Durov, the CEO and co-founder of Telegram, a messaging application that claims to have attracted over 60 million active users in...
08:14 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch How Will Pandora Survive Apple Music? Co-Founder Tim Westergren Will Tell Disrupt SF
 Pandora put radio on the Internet, but now startups like Spotify and giants like Apple are trying to knock it out of the three comma club. When every music app is building its own radio feature ...
08:10 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Harrison Barnes, Golden State Warrior, Gives Us An Inside Look At His Favorite Tech
Harrison Barnes, Golden State Warrior and NBA Finals Champion, has interests that vary far beyond the world of basketball. In fact, Barnes has a true passion for technology, with plans to potentially ...
08:06 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch The Corporate Battle For Global Internet Connectivity
 This article is Part 1 of a 3-part series. Twenty years ago less than one percent of the world was connected to the internet. In 2015, roughly fortypercent of the global population can log on to...
07:58 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch 13 TechCrunch Stories You Dont Want To Miss This Week
 This week at TechCrunch we’re gearing up for Disrupt SF, but the news cycle does not rest. iOS 9 launched for iPhones and iPads as the watch OS 2 release was delayed due to a bug. Content ...
07:56 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Farm-To-Fridge Food Delivery Service GrubMarket Grabs $10M Series A
 The experience of walking through the booths and shopping for produceat afarmers market is moving online. GrubMarket (YC W15) allows consumers to order fresh, locally-sourced food through their ...
07:54 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch The Devialet Phantom Is A Living, Breathing Music Robot With Real Power
 I’ll admit that, at first, I was skeptical of Devialet’s claims. They were telling me that a single speaker, alone in an untuned room, would offer the kind of sound expected by snoot...
07:22 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Peace, The Top Selling Ad Blocker From Instapaper Founder, Removed From App Store
 Only a day after the launch of Apple’s new mobile operating system, iOS 9, a number of new applications aimed at blocking ads shot up to the top of the App Store’s charts. One ad blo...
07:14 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Cruise Raises $12.5M From Spark, YCs Sam Altman For Self-Driving Cars; Poaches Teslas Lead on Autopilot
 A few months ago, I took a ride down the 101 in an Audi that had been modified to self-drive down Bay Area highways. The tech was developed by a company called Cruise, which was started by Socia...
06:45 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Adi Tatarko Is In The Houzz For TC Disrupt
 Founders often like to say that they are passionate about their companies, but it’s not always a sure bet that your labor of love can be converted into a grand slam success. Yet that is ex...
06:25 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Reiterating The IRS, A U.S. Government Agency Declares Bitcoin A Commodity
 Is bitcoin a currency or a commodity? According to the United Stated Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), bitcoin is the former. Its recent decision mirrors former verbiage by the IRS de...
05:55 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Diary Of A Cord Cutter In 2015 (Part 11: Adding Showtime To Your Cord-Cutting Mix)
 2015 has been a good year to be a cord cutter. There are more ways than ever to watch television and movies over-the-top without a subscription to a cable or satellite TV service. And now, some ...
05:55 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch A Year In Review: The Disrupt Startup Battlefield 2014
 It’s been a year since 2014 Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield companies took the stage to compete for the coveted Disrupt Cup, a $50,000 prize, and the attention of media and investors. This ...
05:21 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch James Currier And Stan Chudnovsky Take The Wraps Off Their New Incubator, NFX Guild
 A new Bay Area accelerator, NFX Guild, has emerged on the scene with plans to run a three-month-long program twice a year for between 10 and 15 companies. It has a novel approach, too. For one t...
05:11 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Hotspot Shield Launches VPN Plugins For Chrome And Firefox To Help People Liberate Their Internet Browsing
 Afree and unrestricted internet can be a dangerous place, but it’s always important for the tools that prevent government or corporate censorship of the web to stay one step ahead of the b...
04:17 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch The Teenaged Maker Who Was Arrested For Building A Clock Is Switching Schools
 CNN is reporting that Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old boy who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school, has switched schools. He is leaving MacArthur High School and he and his parent...
04:09 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Purch Acquires Active Junky, A Loyalty Platform For Outdoor Gear
 Purch, owner of tech and science sites like Tom’s Guide and Live Science, is announcing that it has acquired Active Junky.Active Junky partners with outdoor gear retailers to offer its mem...
04:04 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Presidential Candidate John McAfee To Talk At Disrupt SF
 The eccentric millionaire John McAfee will be joining us on Disrupt TV Live at TechCrunch Disrupt SF next week to discuss his presidential ambitions and new political party. The developer of the...
03:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch CaterWings, Rocket Internets Latest Food Startup, Targets Corporate Catering Industry
 Rocket Internet has its fingers in pretty much every part of the online food ordering and delivery pie. Heck, it even has a special division, the unimaginatively-named Global Online Takeaway Gro...
02:42 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Shelfie Is Shazam For Your Bookshelf
 If you’re like me, you have a lot of Mad Magazine books from the 1970s, a classic copy of Oui from 1979, and three Hungarian cookbooks. In other words, you’re a well-read individual....
02:11 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch New Chromecast Rumored For Later This Month
 Hot on the heels of Apple’s newly announced, more powerfulApple TV and Amazon’s just launched 4K-ready Fire TV (and Fire TV gaming edition), Google is also prepping the release of th...
02:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Beyond The $1K Genome: DNA Writing Comes Next
 The “$1,000 genome” has been one of the most visible tech goals in the last 10 years, even sporting its own XPrize for a short time. It refers to the ability to “sequence”...
02:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Bumpn Uses 3D Touch To Let Users Show How Much They Like A Photo
 3D Touch may have just found its killer use case. Now on the App Store, bumpn is a photo sharing app that willlet users take advantage of 3D Touch to show how much they “like” a phot...
01:49 pm GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Padlet Raises $1.2 Million For Its Easy-To-Use, Collaborative Website Builder
 While there’s no shortage of online website builders today, most are focused on providing professionals or small business owners with an easy-to-use set of tools to quickly create their ow...
05:02 am GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Clover Health, A Data-Driven Health Insurance Startup, Raises $100M
 Clover Health, an insurance startupbased out of San Francisco, is hoping that with its data-driven approach it can rebuild healthcarefor senior citizens from the ground up.It wantsthat by tracki...
12:54 am GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Recruiting Startup Hired Has A New CEO
 There’s been a bit of a leadership shuffle at Hired: President Mehul Patel has been promoted to CEO, while the previous CEO, founder Matt Mickiewicz, has become chief productive officer. P...
12:52 am GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Dave McClure Says Bazillion Dollar Club Is Not Just Another Contrived Reality Show
 Dave McClure is back on your TV this fall in yet another reality show focused on startups in Silicon Valley. Enter the ‘Bazillion Dollar Club. Call it a sign of the times. In the last tech...
12:20 am GMT - Fri, September 18, 2015
Techcrunch Servy Raises $800K To Let Restaurants Offer Discounts In Exchange For Feedback
 Servy, an app that lets restaurants offer a partial discount in exchange for private feedback, hasjust closed $800K in seed funding. Investors include RiverPark Ventures, Beacon Fund, Food-X, Dr...
11:53 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Try To Land The SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Yourself
 Elon Musk’s SpaceX is trying to launch a spacecraft and have the rockets return safely back to Earth…specifically on a floating barge. As it turns out, it’s not that easy. And ...
10:24 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Facebooks Not-Quite-A-Dislike Button Could Just Be Emoji
 How do you convey empathy concisely and unambiguously across languages? The Dislike button has been the most requested feature from Facebook’s users for years. Finally, this week CEO Mark ...
10:20 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch This Week On The TechCrunch Bitcoin Podcast: Million-Dollar Electric Bill
 Hello friends, and welcome back to another episode of TCBTC, TechCrunch’s most esteemed bitcoin podcast. This week we dug intoDisrupt’s coming bitcoin panel, which our own John Biggs...
10:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch The Web-Tracking Tipping Point
 With Apple’s content-blocker announcement, the way we see and understand our users on the web is going to profoundly shift. It doesn’t seem like a very big deal. Adblockers have exis...
09:47 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Sequoias Bryan Schreier And Qualtrics CEO Ryan Smith Talk Dollars And Sense Disrupt SF
At this year’s Disrupt SF event, Sequoia’s Bryan Schreier and Qualtrics CEO Ryan Smith will make a co-appearance. I’m hosting the duo. Schreier is best known for his early investment...
09:10 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Wins Again In Ongoing Patent Litigation With Samsung
 A federal appeals court on Thursday ruledSamsung should have been barred from retailingproducts that infringe on Apple’s patents. Apple had been denied an injunction against Samsung by a l...
08:31 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Airbnbs Joe Zadeh Talks Product Direction And Keeping Things Simple
Airbnb’s had a busy summer. It rolled out an Apple Watch app, hit 1 million guests staying in an Airbnb in a single day, and over the summer Airbnb members hosted 17 million guests. But the comp...
08:19 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch LogMeIn Co-Founder Debuts Caret, An Address Book That Tells People If Youre Available To Chat
 Ever since our contact lists moved out of Rolodexes and onto our smartphones, mobile app developers have been trying to improve upon the built-in – and typically, very basic – addres...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Sneaker Website Campless Relocates To Detroit Following Investment By Dan Gilbert
 What started as a hobby is now a serious tool for those buying and selling sneakers. Today, Campless is announcing an investment by Detroit Venture Partners and the launch of a new product that ...
07:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Sandhill.NYC Is Bringing The Valleys VCs To NYC
 Calling all New York startups: starting next month, Silicon Valley’s iconicSandhill Road will be coming to you. Launching today, Sandhill.nyc is program organized by seed stage NYC fundFun...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch What The Hack? API Workshop Schedules And Judges Announced
 Hello, again. It’s your Disrupt Hackmasters, Reshma and Jeffery. We’ve got the inside scoop on the upcoming workshops and judges, and we’re passing the information on to you. F...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Ubers Latest Justification For Surge Pricing
 Uber would not be a reliable service if it didn’t implement surge pricing. Well, at least that’s what Uber is suggesting in its recent case study on surge pricing.Surge pricing is an...
06:52 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Apttus CEO Kirk Krappe Talks Growing Pains And IPO Plans At Dreamforce
 In the midst of the chaos of the Dreamforce conference floor, we interviewed Apttus CEO Kirk Krappe at the company’sbooth today. We discussed Apttus’rapid growth and how he has dealt...
05:57 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Twitters CashMoji Campaign With Coke Also Leverages Niche And Vine
 Now that we can see that the custom emojis on Twitter are an ad unit, there’s a few more interesting things to point out about the campaign with Coke. It appears that the company has lever...
05:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Introducing Disrupt TV Live From Disrupt SF
 We’re just a week away from TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015, and the TechCrunch video team has a packed schedule: broadcasting interviews, updates and all sorts of other great startup action li...
05:20 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch A Day After iOS 9s Launch, Ad Blockers Top The App Store
 One of the better features in this week’s newly released version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 9, is the ability for users to block ads on mobile websites, along with other...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch iOS 9 Hits 12% Adoption After Just 24 Hours
 According to analytics firm Mixpanel, iOS 9 is making its way into the mainstream with the quickness, even though there were some early download troubles for some. The company tells us that iOS ...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Uniting The CEO And The Board
 Cat people and dog people. East Coasters and West Coasters. Capitalists and communists. They all look at the world so differently. Now consider venture capital board members and CEOs. Sure, they...
04:29 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Google Is Now Surfacing The Worlds Constitutions In Its Search Results
 Google has partnered with the Constitute Project to surface, analyze and compare key passages in the US Constitution, as well as the constitutions of Afghanistan, Bhutan, Estonia, Finland, Franc...
04:24 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Chat.Center Reports Really, Really, Ridiculously Good-Looking Growth
 Chat.Center, a project by friend of TechCrunch Keith Teare, has successfully navigated the shoals of freemium and is now steaming steadily through solid growth. Teare announced numbers at DEMO T...
04:15 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch The Four Best Reasons To Attend Disrupt SF
 The 6th annual Disrupt SF (Sept. 21-23) kicks off Monday next week at Pier 70 in San Francisco’s Dogpatch. We expect record-breaking attendance.Maybe you should be there too, and here are ...
04:15 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch iPad Game System Osmo Wants To Make Learning Math Fun
 iPad gaming accessory Osmo announced on Thursday the launch of a Numbers game it hopes will revamp the unimaginative worksheets educators use to teach math now. Numbersis an under-the-sea themed...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Plume Air Report Is A Weather Forecasting App For Urban Air Pollution
 It’s easy to resign yourself to accepting pollution. While you won’t stop giant factories, you can do something to reduce the risk of having pollution-related health issues — a...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Introduces Signal To Help Journalists Source And Discover Social Content
 Facebook has always been captivated by the 24-hour news cycle. They’ve made efforts through endeavors like Facebook Stories to show the viability of Facebook embeds as a truly dynamic prim...
03:51 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Stacklist Launches As A Way For Entrepreneurs To Recommend The Best Enterprise Software, Tools
 Serial entrepreneur Amanda Moskowitz has beenrunning into this problem for 10 years. Afterstarting company after company, shealways needed to consult other founders for the best software, payrol...
03:33 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch New IBM Tool Wants To Bring Shadow IT Under Control
 This morning IBM introduceda new tool called IBM Cloud Security Enforcer, whosepurpose as you might guess is helping IT to root out unauthorizedcloud apps inside organizations. The use of cloud ...
03:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Biometrics Company Tascent Raises $18.5M Series A Round
 Chances are you’ve never heard of Tascent, but the biometrics identity company with a focus on iris recognition systems already has customers around the world, including Dubai Internationa...
03:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch The NFL And Snapchat Partner On Weekly Live Story Videos
 The NFL has teamed up with Snapchat. No, you won’t be able to watch games through the social messaging and video-sharing app, of course, but NFL fans arenow able to watchexclusive, origina...
03:28 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Chamath Palihapitaya on Insane Burn Rates, IPOs And Raising A New Real Estate Fund
 Last night, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, startup investor Chamath Palihapitiya of Social + Capital had some harsh words for what’s become the standard startup set-up in San Fran...
03:28 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Chamath Palihapitiya on Insane Burn Rates, IPOs And Raising A New Real Estate Fund
 Last night, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, startup investor Chamath Palihapitiya of Social + Capital had some harsh words for what’s become the standard startup set-up in San Fran...
03:07 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Braintree To Break $50B In Payment Volume In 2015, Now Has 154M Cards On File
 As Apple Pay continues its expansion to more retailers and payment providers (most recently, it appears, in-store at Best Buy), and Stripe continues its expansion march, another one of the big c...
02:42 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch The New Roomba 980 Can Now Watch Your Dirt
 It knows when you’ve been sleeping, it knows when you’re awake, it knows when your kids spilled Rice Krispies next to the couch and covered the spill with the dog. The new Roomba 980...
02:29 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Amazon Tempts Parents With A $100 Tablet For Kids
 How can any companycompete with iPad when it comes to being the preferred tablet for children, thanks to the App Store’slarge selection of educational apps and age-appropriate games?Amazon...
02:15 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Amazon Releases Jolly Candy Fire HDs In Tangerine And Blue Along With A Cheaper Fire
 Amazon has announced a number of interesting improvements to their Fire HD and tablet line today, improvements that bump the processor speed and tweak the styling of the Fire HD 8- and 10.1-inch...
02:05 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Twitters Custom Emojis Make Their Debut As An Ad Unit With #ShareACoke
 A few months ago, I wondered out loud if Twitter was missing the boat by not charging for its custom emojis. I mean, brands want to spend money on ads, I bet they’re salivating over having...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Fundera Picks Up $11.5 Million In Series B Funding
 Fundera, the online credit marketplace that helps small business secure loans started by GroupMe cofounder Jared Hecht, has today announced the close of a $11.5 million Series B funding round le...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch GitLab Raises $4M Series A Round From Khosla Ventures For Its Open Source Collaboration Platform
 GitLab, the open source Git-based collaboration platform for developers, today announced that it has raised $4 million in Series A funding from Khosla Ventures.The YC-backed company, which offer...
01:55 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Latest Amazon Fire TV Features 4k Video, Alexa Voice Assistant
 Amazon just took the wraps under the latest Fire TV, and just like the leak stated, it sports 4K video and improved voice search thanks to integrated Alexa support. Best of all, the new and impr...
01:53 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Overtime Is A Social Network For The Sports Obsessed
 Overtime, a social network for sports fans created by the team behind viral game studio OMGPOP, is launching today to provide a better outlet for fans to create, share and debate all things spor...
01:49 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Breather Raises $20M From Peter Thiels Valar Ventures To Expand Its On-Demand Private Room Business
 Breather, the on-demand private room service has raised $20M led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures. The series B brings Breather’s full raise to $27M. This round also had participatin ...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch ZenPayroll Is Now Gusto, Adds Benefits To Take On Zenefits
 Payroll startup ZenPayroll changed its name to Gusto today and is moving beyond payroll, into benefits such as health insurance and workers compensation. Sound familiar? We’ve heard that c...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch News Startup Slant Combines Crowdsourced Content With Pro Editing
 Here’s an impressive claim: Slant says that it’s creating “America’s most diverse newsroom.” The structure of that newsroom isn’t exactly traditional — ...
12:01 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch U.K. Spy Chief Reiterates Call For Web Firms To Pass On More Intel
 It’s a familiar refrain from the intelligence agencies. The notion that big technology platforms have an “ethical responsibility” because of their reach and quantity of user da...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch DWNLD, The Easy Bake Oven For Apps, Picks Up $12M In Series A
 DWNLD, the publishing platform that takes any website and seamlessly turns it into an app, has today announced the close of a $12 million Series A funding round led by Greylock Partners. The pla...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch DWNLD, The Easy-Bake Oven For Apps, Picks Up $12M In Series A
 DWNLD, the publishing platform that takes any website and seamlessly turns it into an app, has today announced the close of a $12 million Series A funding round led by Greylock Partners. The pla...
11:00 am GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Typeform Gets $15M To Expand Its API For User Interaction
 Barcelona-based Typeform has landed a $15 million Series A round of financing. The round — a pretty sizable one for a South European startup — was led by Index Ventures, with partici...
10:00 am GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Hooked Is An App For Readers Who Think Fiction Should Be More Like Text Messaging
 Will the next great novel be nothing more than a series of text messages?Uh, maybe not, but there’s always room to experiment with new formats. That’s what husband-and-wife team Para...
09:00 am GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch European Meeting Room Booking Platform Book2Meet Raises 2M
 Although not on the scale of Take Eat Easy, perhaps we should chalk this up as another Belgium startup showing early momentum. Book2Meet, the meeting room booking platform, has raised a 2 millio...
08:30 am GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch European Pre-Owned Clothing Startup Percentil Bags 3.2M Series A
 European pre-owned clothing startup Percentil has closed a 3.2 million Series A. Leading the round is Seaya Ventures, with participation from existing shareholder Active Venture Partners, and ot...
08:10 am GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Tapglue Wants To Make It Easy To Add Social Features To Your App
 Tapglue is a Berlin-based startup that wants to make it easy for developers to build social into their app. The company, which exits private Beta today, provides an API and mobile SDK to help ta...
06:56 am GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Eurocorn? HelloFresh Raises Another $84.7M From Rocket Internet
 Fresh meals delivered to your home weekly on a subscription basis have become a big business in recent years. Today that trend is confirmed as Rocket Internet pumps $84.7 million or 75 million E...
06:56 am GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Eurocorn? HelloFresh Raises Another $84.7M
 Fresh meals delivered to your home weekly on a subscription basis have become a big business in recent years. Today that trend is confirmed as Scottish investment firm Baillie Gifford pumps $84....
05:53 am GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Intel Invests $67M Into 8 Chinese Companies, Including Segway Owner Ninebot
 Fresh off of a $60 million deal with Shanghai-based drone maker Yuneec, Intel is continuing to ramp up its investment in Chinese tech startups after the U.S. firm revealed that it has pumped $67...
01:00 am GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch NGINX Brings HTTP/2 Support To Its Commercial Release
 NGINX, thewell-funded and increasingly popular weband application server company, today announced that it now supports HTTP/2, the next generation of the HTTP standard, in its latest commercial ...
01:00 am GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch Todoist Updates Its Web App With New Features And Design
 Popular task management service Todoist has been hard at work on a new brand identity and a revamped web app. These two updates bring feature and design parity between the iOS, Android and web v...
01:00 am GMT - Thu, September 17, 2015
Techcrunch The Mobile Gaming Business Model For Freedom And Fantasy
 Mobile gaming has by far made the greatest impact on — and effected the most change overall in — the gaming industry. From a dollars and cents perspective, mobile gaming revenue is p...
11:49 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch #IStandWithAhmed Garners Support from Silicon Valley
 Ahmed Mohammed, a 14 year old who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school, has gotten the attention of Silicon Valley. After news about thearrest spread, the#IStandWithAhmedhashtag ...
10:35 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Boz Led Facebook To Conquer Mobile Ads. Hell Tell Disrupt SF How To Adapt
 Facebook has become the supermassive black hole of mobile. It’s sucking every other business towards it, from publishers to small businesses to app developers. At this point, you ever figu...
10:11 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch HelloTech Raises $12.5M Series A To Expand Its In-Home Tech Support
 HelloTech has confirmed that the company justclosed a $12.5M Series A led by Madrona Venture Group with participation from Upfront Ventures, CrossCut Ventures, and Accel Partners.This round brin...
10:09 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch The Davy Crockett WiFi Portable Grill Is The Connected Barbecuing Upgrade You Need
Beforethelime-a-ritas get busted out at your summer barbecue bash, sometimes you need to appoint a designated griller to handle the sensitive task of keeping an eye on the meats and veggies getting fi...
10:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch The Mozilla Story: Making The World You Want
 It’s easy to forget how powerful Microsoft was only fifteen years ago. In 2000, Microsofthad 97% market share of its operating system in computersand, at its peak in 2004, Internet Explore...
09:20 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Zenmarketing.io Helps Developers Measure The Payoff For Their Marketing Dollars
 A new startup promises to help mobile developers spend their ad dollars more effectively, and it has raised $3.5 million in funding Zenmarketing.io was founded by Sizhao Yang and Abhi Kumar, bot...
09:18 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Apples Move to iOS App For Android Helps You Make The Switch
 In case you haven’t heard, iOS 9 has hit the streets and is ready for you to download. While it’s downloading, read this thorough review or check out these hidden tricks. And…....
08:46 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Meet The Disrupt SF 2015 Speakers And Judges
 Disrupt SF is just a few weeks away, and we have some of the most iconic entrepreneurs and thought leaders in the tech industry lined up to speak throughout the three-day-long conference. Read M...
08:28 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Theres A New Reality In Town And Were Chatting About It At Disrupt
 One of the biggest topics in tech over the past year is virtual reality. This is one of those technologies that we’ve talked about forever, but it never quite got to consumers. That’...
08:27 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Tech Firms Support Bill Expanding Privacy Rights To Non-U.S. Citizens
 American tech firms are lining up behind a House bill that would allow non-U.S. citizens to seek records U.S. agencies have collected and pursue legal action when such records are disclosed. The...
08:22 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Explore Awesome Events Handpicked By Local Extroverts In DoStuffs New App
 Algorithms can’t tell you what to do tonight. You need a local who knows the scene, hears about all the events, and can tell you what’ll actually be fun. That’s why DoStuff hir...
08:17 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Kardashian Website Security Issue Exposes Names, Emails Of Over Half A Million Subscribers, Payment Info Safe
 Alongside the launch of the Kardashian and Jenner mobile apps, which are now dominating the App Store after seeing hundreds of thousands of downloads apiece in their first days on the market, th...
08:05 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Salesforce And Microsoft Continue To Broaden Partnership
 Salesforce.com and Microsoftannounced today that the companies would bebuilding upon previous integrationsand further strengtheningtheir partnership.They made the announcement this afternoonin S...
08:02 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch ivee Is A $99 Voice-Controlled Amazon Echo Competitor
 Voice-controlled deviceshave kind of been invading every square inch of our lives. Our phones have boasted highly personal assistants for some time, and now major forceslike Amazon are selling h...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Virtual Reality In Healthcare: Wheres The Innovation?
 Virtual reality is no longer just about video gaming; it holds promise as nothing short of revolutionary for just about every other industry, as well. Since 2012, there has been an incredible ex...
07:29 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Chinas Didi Kuaidi Put $100M Into Lyft, Inks Ridesharing Alliance To Rival Uber
 Didi Kuadi, Uber’s dominant Chinese rival, announced a deal with ridesharing startup Lyft today that will allow the two services to share riders across continents. Didi confirmed an earlie...
07:02 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Traveling Spoon, An Airbnb For Home-Cooked Dinners Globally, Launches With $870K In Funding
 When abroad in China or India, I sometimes take a couple of hours to seek out a cooking lesson from a local. It’s the way I’ve learned how to make hand-made roti, pork buns and papay...
07:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch From Plaxo To Docker, Ben Golub Talks Innovation And Mentorship
 In this podcast, Golub talks with Mayfield Fund’s Navin Chaddha about picking apricots in Silicon Valley, learnings from the challenging Plaxo journey, his excitement around leading Docke...
06:56 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch LearnUp, A Startup Closing The Skills Gap For Entry-Level Job Seekers, Raises $8M From NEA, Shasta
 In the time leading up to starting her next company, LearnUp co-founder Alexis Ringwald spent six months at unemployment centers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area trying to learn exactly wha...
06:27 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch 15 Hidden New Features Tucked Away In iOS 9
 After months in beta, iOS 9 hits iPhones and iPads today! Hurrah! Want to be the master of all things iOS 9? We’ve compiled a list of some of the neat but not-so-obvious features, many of ...
05:46 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch HappyFresh Lands $12M To Expand Its On-Demand Grocery Service In Southeast Asia
 HappyFresh, the grocery delivery service that opened its doors in Southeast Asia earlier this year, has landed a $12 million Series A round to develop its service and further expand across the r...
05:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Y Combinator Launches Open Office Hours To Give Diverse Founders Access To Its Partners
 Y Combinator, one of the most prestigious and well-known startup accelerators in Silicon Valley, is piloting a new program called “Open Office Hours.” The aim is to connect with foun...
05:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Lumity Raises $14M To Crunch Data And Devise Better Health Insurance Plans For Companies
 Lumity, which devises and recommends health care plans to employers by comparing employee profiles against its own historical data, said today that it has raised $14 million.Social+Capital led t...
05:28 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Envoy, A Part-Time Concierge Service For Seniors, Raises $3M
 Envoy, which provides early elderly care with a concierge service for tasks like delivering groceries, has raised $3 million and is launching today. Envoy’s pitch is that it provides a one...
05:16 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Oscar Mayer Releases Sizzl, A Dating App For Bacon Lovers
 Apps like Tinder have gained popularity by shallowly focusingpurely on physical attractiveness. It’s unfortunate, but also understandable. How is one supposed to boil down something as com...
05:11 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Uber Hits Roadblock In India After Being Denied Permission To Operate In Delhi
 The Government of Delhi rejected Uber Technologies’ application to run taxis in the state on Tuesday, the latest roadblock the ride sharing service has hit in its foray into the Indian mar...
05:05 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch iOS 9 Now Available To Download
 Apple has just released iOS 9. The update is now rolling out to eligible devices. It’s available both over-the-air in the Settings app, and by plugging your device into iTunes for a wired ...
05:04 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch iOS 9 Review: A Powerful iPad Experience And Many Refinements Make iOS Flow Better
 Apple has been relentlessly releasing major iOS updates every year for the past 8 years. And it doesn’t look like the company is going to slow down any time soon as iOS 9 once again brings...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Vinebox Offers Wine By The Glass As A Monthly Subscription
 There are plenty of subscription services out there that will hit you with a box of various wine bottles, but none offer subscription tastings by the glass. Until Vinebox. The new startup has ju...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch CrunchBase Introduces a Detail-Rich Leaderboard for the Unicorn Obsessed
These days, everyone seems to have a unicorn list. And why wouldn’t they? The number of privately held companies to pass the billion-dollar valuation mark has soared so dramatically in recent ye...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Twitter And Bloomberg Expand Partnership To Bring More Data To Terminal Users
 Tweets move markets. As silly as you might think Twitter can be, with all of its Kardashian drama, there is important information flowing within those 140-character chunks. The example I’v...
04:54 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Write As Many Words As You Need To
 Heya, this is the web, welcome. There is a lot of room here for activities. So much room, in fact, that you couldwrite as many words as you want and it would literally never fill up all of the s...
04:49 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Brings Send, Its Short-Form Email App, To Android
 Earlier this summer, Microsoft announced Send, a project for Office 365 users that aims to bring together the best of email and instant messaging. At the time, the service was only available on ...
04:31 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Hersheys Chocolate 3D Printer Whips Up Any Sweet Design You Want
 Hershey’s chocolate scientists are now 3D printing uniquely designed candy. The confection company is taking its CocoJet 3D printerfrom 3D Systems to different exhibits throughout the U.S....
04:18 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Fullscreen Announces Its Own Streaming Service Targeting The YouTube Generation
 Confirming reports from last spring, YouTube multichannel network Fullscreenannounced today its plans to launch its own streaming service aimed at an audience who grew up using mobile devices. T...
04:11 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Google Fiber Installers On Time For 96% Of Appointments, Call Center Hold Times Under A Minute
 As Google Fiber grows out its operations into other cities, things will get more difficult as far as keeping up with demand. Until then, Google would like you to know that its installers are on ...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch RoomKey Books $1M In Seed Funding To Bring Mobile Check In To Boutique Hotels
 RoomKey, a company that lets hotels offer their guests a suite of mobile guest services, has closed a $1M seed round led by 500 Startups, 500 Mobile Collective,and Horizon Partners. While large ...
03:45 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Sidewire Is Your Hotline To Political Insight
 Aiming to help people cut through all of thepolitical noise, Sidewire, a political news analysis platform, is launching today on iOS, just in time for tonight’ssecond Republican presidenti...
03:10 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Delays Release Of watchOS 2 Due To Bug
 Apple has delayed the release of watchOS 2, which was expected to be available today to owners of the Apple Watch. “We have discovered a bug in development of watchOS 2 that is taking a bi...
02:55 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Amazons Prime Now Expands To L.A., Ramps Up For SoCal Grocery Deliveries
 Following news from earlier this month which saw Amazon testing the waters with a Grubhub-like restaurant delivery service via Prime Now, the company announced this morning its one-hour delivery...
02:32 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch News Corp To Buy Unruly For $176M To Drive More Video Ad Views
 London-based digital ad tech company Unruly, which sells video ad tech including services to track and step up engagement, is to be acquired by global media conglomerate News Corp in a deal wort...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch A Case Study Of Startup Failure
 Startups fail. In fact, startups often fail. Anyone who has spent any time in the startup and venture capital ecosystem will tell you that failure is the most pervasive characteristic of the eco...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Hollywood Super Connector Anjula Acharia-Bath Joins Trinity Ventures
 Founder of DesiHits! Anjula Acharia-Bath is the newest partner at venture capital firm Trinity Ventures. Bath has been named one of Billboard’s ‘International Power Players’ an...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Bullish: The Future Of Payments
 Hello and welcome back to Bullish, TechCrunch’s first talk show. This time ’round we’re handling payments. After all, what’s the point of having money if you can’t ...
01:52 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Amazon Prime Members Can Now Get The Washington Post For Free For 6 Months
 When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post back in 2013, there was some speculation regarding why the exec, who claimed to know nothing about the newspaper business, would want to pur...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch PopKey Rehauls Its App To Focus On Discovering And Sharing GIFs
 Remember the sticker albums that were massively popular during the Eighties and Nineties? PopKey is creating a new version for the smartphone era with the launch of its redesigned mobile app for...
12:34 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Hyperloop Technologies Is Raising $80M, Names Ex-Cisco Pres Rob Lloyd CEO, Emily White As Advisor
 Some big moves ahead for Hyperloop Technologies, the LA-based futuristic tubular transportation startup with high ambitions to rethink high-speed transportation services to “work anywhere ...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Panoply.io Raises $1.3M Seed Round For Its Data Warehousing Platform
 Panopoly.io, a new data warehousing platform that recently launched its private beta, today announced that it has raised a $1.3 million seed round from the likes of Blumberg Capital, 500 Startup...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Vungle Launches A Premium Marketplace Where Video Advertisers Can Find The Top Apps
 Mobile video startup Vungle is launching a new private, programmatic marketplace for ads, which it’s calling Vungle Premium. CEO Zain Jaffer said that the company has already addressed a n...
11:58 am GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Spanish Restaurant Booking Startup Restalo Acquires Local Rival Restaurantes.com
 Spanish restaurant booking startup Restalo, which is very similar to the much larger Open Table, has acquired local competitor Restaurantes.com to consolidate its leading position in Spain. Term...
11:48 am GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Kinetise Aims To Let You Make An MVP In A Box
 When we first met Kinetise they were building a tool to allow anyone with no programming experience build a solid app for iOS and Android. Now, with a bit of improvement, they’re ready to ...
11:45 am GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch First Drone-Owning Brit Convicted Of Illegal Flying
 The rules around drone use are being reviewed in many regions as the technology accelerates and commercial companies apply pressure to exploit the tech. Read More ...
11:30 am GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Iron.io Raises $8M Series A Round For Its Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Services
 Iron.io today announced that it has raised a $8 million Series A round led by Baseline Ventures with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Divergent Ventures, Ignition Partners, and Cloud Ca...
11:30 am GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested For Bringing Homemade Clock To School
 A 14-year-old boy in Irving, Texas named Ahmed Mohamed was taken into police custody after he brought a homemade clock to school. The boy, who, according to a piece in the Dallas Morning News, &...
11:30 am GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Lightspeed POS Raises $61M To Boost Its Retail And Restaurant Sales System
 As Square gears up for a public listing that may come as soon as next month,another startup that makespoint-of-sale systems for restaurants and other retailers has raised a big round of funding....
01:32 am GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Uber Is Appealing Judges Recent Class Action Ruling
 Uber is appealing U.S. District Judge Edward Chen’s recent ruling that acaseagainst the car-hailing startup can proceed as a class action lawsuit. This comes as no surprise, given that Ube...
01:00 am GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch The Best Things Come In Threes
 The ’80s were fun, fabulous and economically stimulating. What brought us Michael Jackson, the Sony Walkman, Star Wars and Pac-Man also ushered in the era of Analytics. Toyota pioneered ju...
12:43 am GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Phil Libin On Joining General Catalyst as Its Newest General Partner
 Phil Libin, the longtime CEO of the popular digital note-taking serviceEvernote, has joined General Catalyst Partners as its fourth general partner in Palo Alto, Ca.Libin stepped down from his r...
12:35 am GMT - Wed, September 16, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Is Building An Empathy Button, Not Dislike. Heres How It Could Work
 The Dislike button has long been the most requested feature from Facebook users. So when Mark Zuckerberg today said in a public Q&A that the company was working on a way to show empathy for ...
11:02 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Lyft And Uber Start Accepting Rides In Vegas
 What happens in a Lyft will now happenin Las Vegas, Nevada. On Monday, the Nevada Transportation Authority gave both ride-sharing startups Lyft and Uber permits to operate in Sin City. Lyft just...
10:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Launching Startups The Kogi Way: Three Lessons From The Food Truck Pioneer
 Many founders ask me for advice on their latest startup. Of all the things I’ve learned, some of the most compelling tips come from starting a business out of an old truck. When I joined t...
09:48 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Twitter And Square Partner To Create Another Way To Throw Money At Political Candidates
 Donating money to a political candidate is now as simple as firing a 140-character joke about Donald Trump’s hair. Twitter on Tuesday announced it would partner with payments service Squar...
09:06 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch TC Cribs: A Look Inside Lyfts Quirky, Hot Pink HQ
 We enter the land of ride-sharing startup Lyft on this week’s episode of Cribs. Lyft’s San Francisco headquarters are a bit like entering Willy Wonka’s factory – if it wa...
08:52 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Skype Introduces Its Own Version Of Emojis
 Skype introduced a method to bring brief film segments into its chat service today, adding something akin to GIF support inside of the communications platform. Dubbed ‘Mojis,’ Skype&...
08:27 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch AOL Exec Maureen Sullivan Is Joining Rent The Runway
 Maureen Sullivan, president of AOL.com and the company’s lifestyle brands, is departing AOL to join fashion rental service Rent the Runway as president. In her current role, Sullivan has b...
07:35 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch EdCast Launches New Interactive Learning Platform To Bridge Formal And Informal Learning
 With an eye toward building what EdCast chief executive Karl Mehtacalls “the next big social media company”, his company has launched a new interactive platform with the help of some...
07:32 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Want To Take A Spin In A Tesla Model S? Just Get Arrested In Los Angeles
 If you’ve dreamt of taking a ride in one of the beautiful Tesla S sedans, you have options. You could go to one of Tesla’s showrooms and try to take one for a test drive.Or you could...
07:02 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch New Form Digital Is The New Hollywood, Combining New And Old Media For Online Distrubution
 New Form Digital is a video distribution and production company backed by Discovery, Brian Grazer, and Ron Howard. But, as the name implies, the company has stepped away from traditional channel...
07:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Last Call For Disrupt SF Hackathon Tickets, Plus Sponsor Prizes
 We’re excited to be hosting this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon. We’re less than a week away from the main event and are giddy with excitement.Throughout the week, we&#...
07:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Snoop Dogg Is Rollin Down The Street To TechCrunch Disrupt SF
 The man (the legend, rather) needs no introduction, though that’s exactly what Snoop Dogg is going to get at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015.Snoop will be joining us onstage for a fireside chat...
07:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Private Social Networking Service Grou.ps Regroups To Focus On Health And Fitness
 White label social networking service Grou.ps is now closed for new signups as the company is changing its strategy from being a general private social networking service to focusing solely on t...
06:58 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Stripes John Collison Talks Stripe Relay And Bringing New Tools To Retailers
Stripe yesterday rolled out a set of new tools called Stripe Relay geared at helping retailers essentially put buy buttons in multiple platforms. This offers retailers a big opportunity to reduce the ...
06:56 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Sonys Project Morpheus Virtual Reality Headset Is Now Just Playstation VR
 No one really expected Sony’s upcoming VR headset to keep its “Project Morpheus” code name when it eventually made it to the shelves — but no one knew what its actual nam...
06:31 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Snapchat Acquires Looksery To Power Its Animated Lenses
 Snapchat’s new animated selfie Lenses come courtesy of a new acquisition: Looksery. In a suspicious turn of events, Selfie animation app Lookserydisappeared from the App Stores this mornin...
06:26 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Pushup Social Adds Social Media To All The Things
 Deep in the wilds of St. Louis, a little company run by Dan Lohman, Yomi Toba, and Jan Christian Andersen wants to add all the social media things to all the web things. How? With Pushup Social....
06:01 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Bill Gurley On Some High-Flying Startups and Their Economics: Its the Same Shit as in 99
 Today, at an interview sponsored by the Benchmark-portfolio company SailThru, legendary VC Bill Gurley appeared on stage with Bloomberg reporter Emily Chang to discuss the future of e-commerce.G...
06:01 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Bill Gurley On Some High-Flying Startups and Their Economics: Its the Same Sh_t as in 99
 Today, at an interview sponsored by the Benchmark-portfolio company Sailthru, legendary VC Bill Gurley appeared on stage with Bloomberg reporter Emily Chang to discuss the future of e-commerce.G...
05:49 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Jeff Bezos Blue Origin Heads To Florida To Take On Elon Musks SpaceX
 Today, Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled plans around setting up a rocket manufacturing plant in good old Florida. The news was announced in Cape Canaveral, of course. The company that Bezo...
05:29 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Alphabet Hires Director Of The National Institute of Mental Health For Its Life Sciences Team
 Alphabet has hired the (soon to be) former Director for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIH), Thomas Insel for its Life Sciences group, according to a statement from the agency. Insel h...
05:22 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch EPIX Becomes First Network To Offer Offline Video Downloads On Mobile Devices
 Amazon may have made waves earlier this month with news that it would now allow users to watch Prime Instant Video titles while offline, but now othervideoservice providersare beginning to follo...
05:10 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch FLUID Is A Smart Water Meter For Your Home
 Did you take a shower this morning? That’s 30 gallons of water down the drain. Flush the toilet a couple of times? That’s another four or five gallons. Run the dishwasher, too? Add a...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Postmates And Walgreens Team Up For On-Demand Delivery
 Walgreens just announced an official partnership with on-demand startup Postmates to offer same-day delivery for, initially, a flat delivery fee of $4.99.The on-demand delivery service...
04:54 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Neighborly Raises $5.5M From Formation 8, Ashton Kutcher To Transform The Municipal Debt Market
 For American cities that need to raise millions or billions of dollars to finance projects from local parks to suspension bridges, the fractal-like complexity of global financial markets means t...
04:49 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch On-Demand Delivery Service Quiqup Picks Up Backing From Delivery Hero And Global Founders Capital
 London’s Quiqup, an on-demand delivery service that competes with Ingite alumni Jinn and U.S. Postmates (if and when it launches in the U.K.), has raised a “multi-million pound”...
04:38 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Class Action Lawsuit Accuses Twitter Of Listening In On Your Direct Messages
 The Hollywood Reporter has reported that Twitter is the target of a class action lawsuit having to do with how private direct messages are treated on the service. While it’s quite obvious ...
04:36 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Accenture Acquires Cloud Sherpas To Enhance Cloud Consulting Chops, Especially Around Salesforce.com
 Accenture, the worldwide consulting company, announced today it was buying Cloud Sherpas, a firm that specializes in helping companies incorporatecloud services like Salesforce.com, Google and S...
04:26 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Conservative Entrepreneurs Want To Force Tech Issues Into GOP Debate
 A group of conservative technologists wantseliminating regulatory policies affecting small businessesto be a key issue in 2016.Lincoln Labs, a conservative technology group pushing for small gov...
04:10 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Snapchat Starts Charging $0.99 For 3 Replays, Adds Face Effect Lenses
 Snapchat is debuting its first in-app purchase. It’s a new way for it to make money by letting users purchase three extra Replays of Snaps they just watched for $0.99. The company is also ...
04:02 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch BTCChina Rebrands To BTCC
 BTCChina, China’s original bitcoin exchange run by Bobby Lee, has rebranded to BTCC. “We’re excited to introduce a new logo and identity that modernizes and reinvigorates the B...
03:45 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Frameri Partners With EnChroma To Offer Fashion Eyewear For The Color Blind
 For the one in twelve men (and one in two hundred women) who suffer from color blindness, online eyeglasses retailerFrameriispartnering with color-enhancing lens manufacturer EnChroma to create ...
03:41 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Launch Center Pro Now Lets You Launch Apps From The iPhones Notification Center
 When Apple first introduced its widgets platform in iOS 8, the company blocked developersfrom releasing apps that launched other apps via widgets added tothe “Today View” in the Noti...
03:27 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Limejump Raises 1.4M To Use Big Data To Transform U.K. Energy Market
 Limejump is a classic example of a startup bringing a big data and cloud-based solution to a legacy market, and in doing so has the potential to transform that market. Read More ...
03:06 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Ben Narasin Joins Canvas Venture Fund as Its Fifth GP
 Ben Narasin was, until recently, president of TriplePoint Ventures, the seed equity practice of TriplePoint Capital. As of this morning, he’s instead the fifth general partner with Canvas ...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Google Delivers Mini-Marketing Lessons In Its New Google Primer App
 Nearly a year ago, Google launched a new mobile application called Google Primer, offering startups mini-marketing lessons aimed athelpingusers get up to speed on Google-specific subjects like s...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch The Inaccuracy Of Historical Accuracy In Gaming And Media
 As a dabbler in history who holds a bachelor’s degree on the subject I’ve always strongly disagreed with people who use “historical accuracy” as an excuse to oppose diver...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Soothe, An On-Demand Massage Service, Acquires Unwind Me
 Soothe, which lets customers book in-home massages, has acquired competitor Unwind.me. Unwind.me took part in Y Combinator’s summer 2014 batch and its other backers include 500 Startups an...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Trello Launches Revamped Business Offering With Third-Party Integrations
 Back in 2013, project management service Trello launched its ‘Business Class’ service as a basic paid offering for teams that needed extra features like Google Apps integration and m...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch To Fix Cybersecurity Law, Ask More Questions
 When a company realizes that it may have been hacked, its first call often is not to outside forensics consultants, security firms or even to law enforcement. Too often, the company first must c...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Accel Partners Looks To Map The Marketing Technology Ecosystem
 Accel Partners wants tosolve the question for startups, “Who does this marketing thing I need?” It’s doing that with an online tool called Growthverse, an interactive visualiza...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Panama Lets You Share Anonymous Location-Based Video
 Though there are plenty of video-based social networks out there, few are focused more on the content than the following. But Panama, a new app launched from Ocho cofounder Jonathan Swerdlin, is...
01:45 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Target Launches On-Demand Grocery Delivery Pilot Program With Instacart
 Target announced this morning it would begin testing an on-demand grocery delivery service, in partnership with Instacart, that will allow Target shoppers to order groceries, household items, ba...
01:39 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Agrees To Do More To Help Combat Hate Speech In Germany
 Europe’s refugee crisis has spilled over to Facebook. In Germany, where thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing conflict in their own country are being offered asylum, Facebook has found itse...
01:38 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch The Nuke Kids On The Block Are Coming To Disrupt SF
 Solving the nation’s energy problem is not for the faint of heart, a topic we’re excited to bring to Disrupt SF this year.Leslie Dewan, of Transatomic Power, and Jacob DeWitt, of Upo...
01:22 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Moviepilot Raises $16M For Its Fan-Centric Publishing Platform
 Moviepilot, a movie site targeting (you guessed it) millennials, is announcing that it has raised $16 million in Series B funding.The company started in Germany before launching in the United St...
12:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Datos IO Raises $12.5M Series A Round For Its Big Data Recovery Platfrom
When you have a lot of data in your data warehouse, NoSQLdatabase or cloud-native data store, recovering all of that data after it has become corrupted or inaccurate is difficult. Datos IO, which was ...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Salesforce Announces New Internet of Things Cloud, As Dreamforce Opens
 When you think of Salesforce.com, you probably don’t think about the burgeoning Internet of Things, but Salesforce wants to help customers make sense of all of the data coming from thegrow...
11:30 am GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Clear Labs Aims To Be Google Search For GMOs In Packaged Food
 How much gluten, genetically modified organisms and other allergens are in that cereal you ate this morning? Not many people know what is in their food right now, but genomic data startup Clear ...
11:29 am GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Compass Raises $50M At An $800M Valuation Led By IVP To Supersize Its Real Estate Platform
 While siteslike Zillow, Trulia and Redfin have become synonymous with how people list and find property online, a startup out of New York calledCompasshas raised $50 millionto help secure its pl...
11:02 am GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Meet Kimas New Team, With Jean De La Rochebrochard And Vincent Jacobs As Partners
 You can call this Kima Ventures 2.0 — the very active French early stage fund has a brand new structure, which could significantly change the firm’s investment strategy. Jean De La R...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Opera For Desktop Gets Password Sync, Starts Integrating SurfEasy VPN
 Earlier this year, Opera Software bought SurfEasy, a virtual private networking (VPN) service that helps users maintain their privacy and surf safely. With the release of Opera 32 for desktop to...
07:00 am GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Casual Trading App Bux Raises $1.9M
 Dutch startup Bux is on a mission to open stock trading to a much larger market — namely, those who have never traded before. Its casual trading app for iOS and Android attempts to gamify ...
05:15 am GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch The Tail Behind Japans Cat Street View
 Earlier this month, the Internet’s raison d’tre was unleashed when Cat Street View launched. Created to purr-mote tourism in Onomichi, a port city in Hiroshima Prefecture, the site q...
05:04 am GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Linux Light Bulbs Allow Devices To Talk To Each Other With Flashes Of Brilliance
 Who’s the leader of the club that’s made for you and me? M-I-C- See? See the visible light carrying data quickly and easily from light bulbs to gadgets! -K-E-Y Why? Because light is ...
03:56 am GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch Homeland Security Shuts Down Librarys TOR Node Citing Situational Awareness
 In a move that is sure to end well for the Department Of Homeland Security and the police in Lebanon, New Hampshire, officials have asked a New Hampshire public library to shut down its TOR node...
03:00 am GMT - Tue, September 15, 2015
Techcrunch 29 Productivity Apps To Help You Rule The Office
 Here’s a list of 29 of apps for maximizing your productivity. Read More ...
11:15 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Works With Google To Let Mobile Web Users Get Push Notifications Via Chrome
 A big reason developers hate mobile websites is that they lack the push notifications which help re-engage people with native apps. That was a serious problem for Facebook. It sees a tonof users...
10:25 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Start A Fire Helps You Take Credit When You Turn Stories Into Viral Hits
 If you’re the kind of person who shares TechCrunch articles on social media, a) thank you, and b) do you ever wonder how much traffic you’re bringing us?Oren Barzilai, co-founder and...
10:20 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Indian Cab-Hailing Firm Ola Is Raising Over $500M At A Valuation Of Around $5B
 It looks like yet more fuel is about to get pouredon the already-hot transportation app market in Asia. India’s Ola is raising $500 million+, at a valuation that we’ve heard is aroun...
10:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch If The New American Dream Is Entrepreneurship, Why Are So Many Black Millennials Missing Out?
 Entrepreneurship is the New American Dream, and millennials are hearing its call loud and clear. However, as we explore, we all need to be conscious to not leave behind our minority groups. But ...
09:34 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch SpaceX Has Nearly A Full Uber Funding In Contracts
 Sending things to space isn’t cheap, which is exactly why Elon Musk got into the business with SpaceX. In a press release today about some newly signed contracts for use of its Falcon 9 an...
09:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Attention Investors: Introducing The TechCrunch Disrupt SF Startup Alley Hub
 We’re thrilled to announce the companies that will be participating in the Startup Alley at Disrupt SF 2015, and you can catch a glimpse of all of them at our Startup Alley hub.In addition...
08:40 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch In A Virtual Press Event, AltspaceVR Announces Its Chat Room Coming To Samsung Gear VR
 VR chat platform AltspaceVR today announced that it is opening support for the Samsung Gear VR, making it the first social chat experience on a mobile VR platform. But rather than gather reporte...
08:20 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Etsy Opens To Manufacturing
 Taking another step away from being a marketplace known only for “handcrafted” goods to instead focus more broadly on enabling smaller sellers to scale their businesses, online marke...
08:07 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Confused About the Market? These Four Investors Will Set You Straight At Disrupt
 Raising money these days is a confusing morass, what with all the unicorns and hedge funds and secondaries and pre-seed, post-seed, and Series B crunches to process. But good news: At our Disrup...
07:50 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Indian Cab-Hailing Firm Ola Is Raising Over $500M At A Valuation Of Around $5B
 It looks like yet more fuel is about to get pouredon the already-hot transportation app market in Asia. India’s Ola is raising $500 million+, at a valuation that we’ve heard is aroun...
07:35 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch The Pod Pro Will Keep Both Your Apple Watch And iPhone Charged
 Since Apple wants us to put their hardware all over our body, it’s becoming harder and harder to remember to charge everything. The number one reason that I don’t wear my Apple Watch...
07:11 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Twitter Has Itself A Monday, Desktop Version Goes Down For Over A Half-Hour
 It doesn’t happen that often anymore (that’s the real story!), but Twitter.com is down. For the count. As of the time of publishing, it’s been down for about 45 minutes. WeR...
07:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Silicon Valley, Its Not You Its Mexico
 It is not your fault that VC markets such as Mexico and other emerging VC hubs are still quite not ripe. The responsibility to create irresistible investment opportunities for local and foreign ...
06:17 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Google Names John Krafcik Its Self-Driving Car Project CEO
 Easily one of the most exciting areas of Alphabet/Google’s future is its self-driving car unit. Today, that group got a CEO with a massive amount of automotive experience. Right now, the c...
06:02 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Hands On With Three iOS 9 Content Blockers: 1Blocker, Blockr And Crystal
 Apple’s support for ad blockers on the new version of its mobile operating system, iOS 9, launching Wednesday, is poised to change how consumers interact with the web on mobile devices.Fol...
05:46 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Drones Take The Runway At New York Fashion Week
 As the lights dimmed at the Rebecca Minkoff runway show at New York Fashion Week on Friday, a drone hovered above the band in thecenter of the runway. The drone, a Yuneec Typhoon quadcopter with...
05:44 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Russia Says Google Has Violated Competition Rules With Android, Yandex Stock Jumps
 Back in February, the “Google of Russia”, Yandex, filed an antitrust complaint with Russia’s watchdog agency (FAS) over Google’s leverage with what comes pre-installed on...
05:38 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch LivnList Is A Social Planning App That Taps Video For Invites
 Social planning is a difficult space to tackle. Plenty of apps have tried and failed at creating a popular social planning app, and even Foursquare’s Swarm has shied away from being a util...
05:27 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Open Sources React Native For Android So Devs Can Reuse Code Across Web And iOS
 Facebook built the React JavaScript library so its engineering team could build interfaces for iOS, Android, and web with the same code. Now it’s giving that development super power to eve...
05:23 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Stripe Unveils A New Tool To Help Retailers Build Native Buying Experiences In Apps
 Stripe unveiled a new set of tools, called Stripe Relay, for retailers that help them build native buying experiences within apps like Twitter. Think of it as abuy button that merchants can plac...
05:17 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Conichi Secures $7.9M From Hotel Group HRS For Its Check-In Platform
 Berlin-based travel startup conichi has secured a $7.9m (7 Million) seed-round from Hotel portal HRS. conichi simplifies check-in and check-out at hotels by using Beacon technology to display a ...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Counsel To Founders In This Time Of Uncertainty
 If the IPO climate remains chilly then the opportunity for a positive outcome on their late-stage private investments is diminished. Those public market investors who were contemplating a push i...
04:58 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Super Mario Brothers Infiltrate Google Search Results With An Addictive Easter Egg
 The Nintendo game Super Mario Brothers is the cornerstone of a lot of our respective childhoods. I remember playing that game for hours upon hours, and I even have an original Nintendo sitting i...
04:29 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch We Took A Trip To The eSalon Professional At Home Hair Color Factory
 Think of eSalon as a trip to the salon in a box. The Culver City, California startup ships packages of custom hair colorand other styling products by mail anywhere in the U.S. The concept is sim...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Reid Hoffman to Teach Blitzscaling at Stanford This Fall
 You might wonder how, exactly, 13-year-old LinkedIn became a $25 billion company. It wasn’t the first social network. The company admits that, even today, people find it very confusing. Pl...
03:26 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Releases Invites For Its October 6 Windows 10 Hardware Event
 As expected, Microsoft will host a hardware-focused event on October 6. The company released invites this morning. The shindig may include news concerning the HoloLens ‘nerd helmet,’...
03:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Future Transhumanist Tech May Soon Change The Definition Of Disability
 Radical technologies around the world may soon overhaul the field of disability and immobility, which affects in some way more than a billion people around the world. MIT bionics designer Hugh H...
02:28 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Input Is A Faster (And A Bit Geekier) Way To Interact With Your Most-Used Apps
 If you have a bunchof apps installed on your iPhone, it can be challenging to locate the right one when it comes time to jotting something down in a hurry – like adding an item to a grocer...
02:27 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Extent Of U.K.s Surveillance Dragnet Probed In Fresh Legal Challenge
 A new legal challenge to U.K. intelligence agency surveillance practices has been filed in the U.K. by human rights organization Human Rights Watch and three unnamed individuals working in secur...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Heres Why You (Yes, You) Should Display In Disrupt London Startup Alley
 We’ve still got a few spots left for startups who want to display in Startup Alley alongside dozens of other startups at Disrupt London 2015, so if you haven’t yet purchased your tic...
01:38 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch iPhone 6s And 6s Plus Sales On Track To Break Last Years Record
 Customer demand for Apple’s iPhones is again poised to break records, Apple announced on Monday. The companysaid this morning that sales for its newly announced iPhone 6s and 6s Plus are o...
01:29 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch MoEngage Raises $4.25M Series A To Grow In The U.S.
 MoEngage, which provides user analytics and automated mobile marketing for some of India’s biggest mobile apps, is setting its sights on the rest of the world. The company announced today ...
01:07 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Deepomatic Grabs $1.4 Million For Its Deep Learning Visual Search Technology
 French startup Deepomatic just raised $1.4 million (1.2 million) from Alven Capital and business angels, such as Pierre Valade and Jean-Charles Samuelian. The company has built a smart search en...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Makeup Subscription Delivery Service ipsy Raises $100M
 ipsy, an online makeup subscription delivery service, said today that it had raised $100 million. Users subscribe to ipsy, paying the company $10 per month, which then sends them a monthly packa...
10:16 am GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Doctor Search Portal Practo Buys Hospital Management Platform Insta Health For $12M
 Doctor search platform Practo, which recently closed a $90 million Series C round led by China’s Tencent, is broadening its focus on catering to hospitals after buying up healthcare manage...
03:00 am GMT - Mon, September 14, 2015
Techcrunch Patent Reform Tries Again
 Patent reform, long a decidedly unsexy topic best discussed over a strong espresso, has been a hot topic in recent years. Even though Congress substantially overhauled the patent system just thr...
11:07 pm GMT - Sun, September 13, 2015
Techcrunch Blizzards Final Starcraft II Expansion Lands November 10
 In case you were not tuned into the finals of WCS Europe earlier today, Blizzard, a popular gaming company, announced that the final chapter of its Starcraft II will touch down on November 10. T...
11:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 13, 2015
Techcrunch Youve Only Got One Shot At Building A Consumer Unicorn
 Imagine if the founder of a very successful consumer technology company knocked on your door and offered to get you in on the ground floor of their new enterprise. Almost any VC would jump at th...
07:52 pm GMT - Sun, September 13, 2015
Techcrunch HandUp, A Startup Combatting Homelessness, Is Setting An Example For The Tech Industry
 On the heels of launching donation gift cards for the homeless, HandUp hosted a community outreach day this past Friday in San Francisco to continue to bring awareness to homelessness, as well a...
07:30 pm GMT - Sun, September 13, 2015
Techcrunch Drones X
 Small drones are advancing quickly. They used to be little else but sophisticated remote-controlled toys and people love to complain when we call them ‘drones’ because that implies t...
07:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 13, 2015
Techcrunch Techs Role In Fighting Wildfires
 “Burn rates” are perennially on the minds of Silicon Valley VCs and entrepreneurs, but what about the very real burn rates that ravish the surrounding California countryside, as well...
03:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 13, 2015
Techcrunch WatchOS 2 And The Future Of Apps
 With flashier announcements at this year’s WWDC, such as Apple Music or more hardcore developer news on the iOS 9 front, it’s easy to lose sight of a real game changer: watchOS 2, wh...
02:00 am GMT - Sun, September 13, 2015
Techcrunch Who Invests In Hardware Startups?
 While many angels and VCs are still skittish about hardware startups, there has been a massive renaissance in the hardware-funding ecosystem over the last few years. Since 2010, venture capital ...
11:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 12, 2015
Techcrunch Here Is How To Address Car Hacking Threats
 When you connect a car to the Internet, it is no longer just a car: It is a computer on wheels. When a car can search Google, send tweets and be remotely accessed from a smartphone app, that car...
08:53 pm GMT - Sat, September 12, 2015
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: God Only Knows
 The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, September 11, 2015. Apple Tax announced, fanboys and girls prepare dee...
08:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 12, 2015
Techcrunch How Wearable Tech Could Spark A New Privacy Revolution
 Fears over privacy are nothing new. As users began to see the sheer availability of information online, and the amount of personal data being seen and used by tech companies, they became rightly...
06:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 12, 2015
Techcrunch Building Smart City Security
 As urbanization intensifies and public sector technology initiatives advance quickly, the once-futuristic promise of “smart cities” is coming to fruition. Cities have always been ...
04:35 pm GMT - Sat, September 12, 2015
Techcrunch Ras Labs Is Testing Futuristic Muscle Material That Could Make Robots Feel More Human
 Synthetics startup Ras Labs is working with the International Space Station to test “smart materials” that contract like living tissue. These “electroactive” materialscan...
03:30 pm GMT - Sat, September 12, 2015
Techcrunch For Media And Gaming, Virtual Reality Is The Wolf Standing Just Outside The Door
 For the last 20 years VR has been just around the corner, but there have been three major hurdles in the way to mainstream adoption. Today, all three hurdles have been removed. It is no longer a...
03:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 12, 2015
Techcrunch BlockTrail Launches Multi-Platform Bitcoin Wallet With No Access To Your Coins
 Does the Bitcoin community need another wallet? Amsterdam-based BlockTrail reckons there’s space for another player, despite some sizable and well-funded wallet entities already — su...
02:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 12, 2015
Techcrunch What We Talk About When We Talk About Ad Blocking
 So here’s an awkward question … How many of you are reading this article without ads? Don’t be shy if you are. You’re definitely not alone. You’ll be getting even m...
01:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 12, 2015
Techcrunch Surviving The Technical Cambrian Explosion
 I’ve been doing a lot of recruiting lately. My employers HappyFunCorp are in the midst of another growth spurt. One of my most illuminating questions is: “What’s your strategy ...
12:32 am GMT - Sat, September 12, 2015
Techcrunch Tackling A $5.5 Trillion Market, Betterment Enters The 401(k) World
 Betterment, the New York-based automated asset management company, is announcing a 401(k) retirement service, called Betterment for Business, aimed to make it easier for employers to establish, ...
11:42 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Addresses Privacy Questions About Hey Siri And Live Photo Features
 Though Apple has long been vocal about its stance on security and privacy, it has recently begun utilizing that stance as a sales tool. If you’d like to keep personal data — anonymiz...
11:25 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch Study: Free Stuff Wont Convince Bloggers To Write About Your Startup
 Once upon a time a startup sent me a full gasoline can full of coffee beans. These beans, once infused by the malodorous fumes of the plastic container, were useless. The can, which was fairly s...
10:06 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch CrunchWeek: Slack, Diversity, And Have You Heard Of Apple?
 Welcome back to CrunchWeek, friends. We are glad that you are here. Very glad in fact, because the TC crew has new digs. New in that we just rebuilt a large chunk of the office — not new i...
09:49 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch Welcome To Hipster Hell, Tumblr Now Has Its Own Clothing Line
 If the pervasiveness of shitty memes on the webwasn’t enough, it seems they’re soon going to be inhabiting the real world… worn by people walking on the streets of Earth. Tumbl...
09:27 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch Rep A Cause With Facebooks New Temporary Profile Pics
 Your profile picture is the message you send most. There’s no easier, more ubiquitous way to raise awareness for a cause then splashing your pic rainbow for gay rights or green to promote ...
09:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch Performance Evaluations In A Results-Focused Culture
 Netflix’s culture deck has been a source of inspiration for many businesses since it was first published five years ago. In it, Netflix argues that companies must find a balance between fl...
08:50 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch The Nest Is Being Robbed
 Another day, another Tweetstorm by Chris Sacca about Twitter’s CEO situation. His tune is the same, with the volume turned up ever so slightly. Most importantly, the signal he’s send...
08:46 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch Translation Startup Unbabel Unveils New Smartcheck Technology
 Unbabel, a startup backed by Y Combinator, that combines human editing and machine learning into an online translation platform, announced a new feature today called Smartcheck. The system consi...
08:40 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang LIVE 09.11.15
 Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, Michael Arrington, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 1:30pmPT/4:30pmET.Gillmor Gang chatroom (during l...
07:39 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch 3D Touch Will Change The Way You Use Your iPhone
 Don’t call it Force Touch — Apple’s new flagship feature 3D Touch is a completely different software implementation of the technology that is already available on the Apple Wat...
07:08 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch Pitch Your Startup In The TC Radio Pitch-Off On Sirius XM
 Calling all entrepreneurs! The TC Radio Pitch-Off goes down every Tuesday at 6pm on TechCrunch Radio on Sirius XM Insight 121, and we need you to make it happen. Each week, five early-stage star...
07:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch Legendary Productivity And The Fear Of Modern Programming
 JavaScript master Douglas Crockford once said that software is the most complex thing that humans have ever created. It’s made up of intricate bits and bytes pieced together like virtual p...
07:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Toutes Les Pommes
 In case you missed it, which would actually be quite difficult, Apple had a press event this week. The company unveiled new Apple Watch wristbands, a new Apple TV and remote, the iPad Pro (which...
06:08 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch Talking (About Tech Diversity) Is Hard
 In the past seven years, diversity in tech has gone from a “nice to have” to a “need to have” to a “desperately need to have”, which is the state we are in no...
05:28 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch Yahoos CISO Ramses Martinez Quietly Left For Apple; CMO Savitt Joins STX As Digital President
 Today comes news of not one but two C-level executive shifts at Yahoo. Ramses Martinez, who had been the interim chief information security officer at Yahoo for only a month, quietly left the co...
05:14 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch Online Bank Simple Ditches All Fees
 When the online banking service Simple got started, one of its promises to customers was that it would eliminate many of the excessive fees that traditional banks charge while also offering an i...
05:09 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch 13 TechCrunch Stories You Dont Want To Miss This Week
 This week, Apple held an event in San Francisco during which it announced tons of new hardware, rival transportation apps in Asia battled for more funding, and Periscope added Facebook sharing. ...
04:42 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch At 10 Years Old, True Ventures Is Killing It
 True Ventures turned10 years old this month, and it has plenty to celebrate. The early-stage venture firm, with offices in San Francisco and Palo Alto, was the first investor in WordPress parent...
03:37 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch On-Campus Internet TV Service Philo Expands, Now Live At Over 40 Universities In The U.S.
 Philo, the NEA and HBO-backed startup that’s bringing traditional cabletelevision, including both live TV and DVR functionality, to consumers’ mobile devices, has been working to exp...
02:52 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch Apples Moment On The Catwalk Is Here
 If you, like Andy Sachs, don’t believe that fashion is important, Apple just gave you a nudge in the right direction. While not many particularly cared, the first Apple Watch Herms is a ha...
02:25 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch A Month After Launch, Discount Shopping Site Jet.com Becomes #4 Marketplace
 Jet.com, the e-commerce newcomer that’s taking on Amazon with the promise of lower prices (fueled for now by hundreds of millions in venture funding), is off to a strong start, according t...
01:56 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Bashers, Dont Start Your Photocopiers Do Think Different
 Apple is frequently bashed for not being first to the punch with an idea. And if that’s the way your mind works there was no shortage of material to riff off of coming out of the latest Cu...
01:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch Airbnb Acquires Multi-City Trip Planning Service Vamo, Will Shut Down Product
 Airbnb is acquiring Vamo, a service that helps in the process ofbooking trips with stops in multiple cities, and shutting the product down. Airbnb might not use Vamo, but the company’s app...
06:23 am GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch Smart Wristband Moff Raises Seed Funding To Tackle The U.S. Market
 The fitness wearable space is becoming increasingly crowded and many users are feeling their excitement wane. Japanese startup Moff, however, believes the space still has plenty for innovation. ...
02:59 am GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch See What Had Developers Heart Rates Racing At Yesterdays Apple Event
 Turns out developerswere in pretty heavy anticipation of seeing Tim Cook take thestage at yesterday’s “Hey Siri” event, but some new featuresgot thema little more excited than ...
02:00 am GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch This Could Be The Year Of The University Hack
 You’re a college freshman relishing in your newfound freedom. You wake up in your cramped dorm room, roll over and grab your laptop to check Facebook — but when you type in your pass...
12:39 am GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch Glassbreakers Is Launching Enterprise Software For Diversity
 Glassbreakers, the mentorship platform for women, is getting into the enterprise software business, after recently doing trial runs with Box and Pinterest. Next year, Glassbreakers will off...
12:15 am GMT - Fri, September 11, 2015
Techcrunch DJI Announces Two Micro Four Thirds Cameras For Its Inspire 1 Drones
 DJI, the largest drone manufacturer in the world, announced two new cameras for its high-end Inspire drone.The Zenmuse X5 and X5R are the first micro four thirds cameras designed specifically fo...
11:35 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Ubers Are About To Start Carrying Their Own In-Car Magazine
 Startingthis week in NYC, you can grab a copy of Uber’s newin-car magazine, called “Arriving Now,” from the seat back pockets. A new print publicationisn’t exactly a revo...
11:17 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch NASA Created A Material That Can Heal Itself In Less Than A Second From Hurtling Space Debris
 Scientists at NASA’s Langley Research Center are studying new materials that can self-heal in seconds under extreme temperatures and from flying space junk. The research is a combination o...
10:55 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch INNOVATE2016: A New Brigade Launches For Civic Engagement
Matt Mahan launches Brigade as a new tool for civic engagement — with the help of friends like Ron Conway, Marc Benioff and Sean Parker. Read More ...
10:06 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Fama Helps Businesses Find Social Media Red Flags Before Hiring Someone
 Fama Technologies aims to help companies screen potential employees by analyzing their social media posts.You might not like the idea that something dumb you posted years ago on Twitter could af...
09:57 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Box Slips After Earnings Beat
 Quick hit here, friends. After Box, a cloud storage and file sharing shop, reported better-than-expected earnings yesterday, its shares suffered despite a generally positive session for domestic...
09:01 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Fender Goes Digital So You Dont Quit Guitar
 90% of people trying to learn guitar quit in the first year. That’s a big problem for the musical instrument industry, but also a big opportunity for one of the top guitar makers — F...
09:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Pencil First Impressions: Will It Win Over Creatives?
A lot of digital ink has been spilled over Apple’s new stylus input device for the iPad Pro over the last 24 hours. The collective hot takes of the Internet have been asking whether Steve Jobs&#...
08:26 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Pocket Points Rewards Students For Staying Off Their Phones
 There’s a new addiction sweeping college campuses, and it’s not a drug.A Baylor University study last year noted that “approximately 60 percent of college students admit they m...
07:55 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch This Week On The TechCrunch Bitcoin Podcast: A Reprise
 Hey friends, and welcome back to a partially new episode of the TechCrunch bitcoin podcast, better known as TCBTC. A few weeks back, this little show hosted Jason Rowley on the program, shooting...
07:22 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Tracy Young, Co-founder Of PlanGrid, To Speak At Disrupt SF
 Tracy Young is anything but a typical startup founder and we’re excited to announce she will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt SF in late September. Youngwas working as construction engineer in ...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Big Data Doesnt Exist
 My customers always lie to me. They don’t lie about what they can afford. They don’t lie about how much (or how little) customer service they’ll need. They don’t lie abou...
06:35 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Announcing The Judges For The Disrupt SF 2015 Startup Battlefield
 TechCrunch is excited to announce the judges of the next round of Startup Battlefield. These are kind folks tasked with picking the finalists and winner of the startup competition held at Disrup...
06:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Abra Raises $12M In Series A Funding For Its Bitcoin-Based Remittance Service
 Abra, a remittance service built on top of the Blockchain, has closed $12 million in Series A funding. Investors in the round include Arbor Ventures, RRE Ventures, and First Round Capital. Total...
05:46 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Ellen Pao: I Wont Appeal My Case Against Kleiner Perkins
 More than three years after former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Ellen Pao filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the storied Sand Hill Road firm, the case is coming to an ...
05:07 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch You Have One Week(Ish) To Apply To The TC Pitch-Off In Denver
 Dear Denver, If you happened to miss the original announcement, I’ve got some good news for you. TechCrunch is headed to Denver and we’re bringing with us the world-renowned TC Meetu...
05:05 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Camera, The Third-Party Camera App With 14 Million Users, Goes Free
 Tap tap tap, the company behindthe popular third-party camera app Camera+, ismaking itsflagship application free today. The app, which has grown over the years to reach 14 million users and $18 ...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Gives Verified Profiles Its Mentions App With Live Streaming And Posts Just To Followers
 Journalists might start sharing a lot more of their links to Facebook, as now they can finally opt out of spamming their friends and instead only post to their public followers. Today, journalis...
04:37 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Marketo CEO Phil Fernandez On The Art Of The Pivot And Ignoring Investors
 In this podcast, Marketo chief executive Phil Fernandez talks with Mayfield Fund’s Navin Chaddha about the long march to the initial public offering and the hard choices along the way. Rea...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch TechCrunch Giveaway: SnapPower Guidelight 10-Pack
 It’s time for another TechCrunch Giveaway!SnapPower is giving away aGuidelight 10-packto 3 TechCrunch readers. What is a Guidelight, you ask? The Guidelight isessentially a super sweet nig...
03:42 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch IBM Buys StrongLoop To Add Node.js API Development To Its Cloud Platform
 IBM has today made another acquisition to expand its business in cloud services — specifically in the area of enterprise app development. It has acquired StrongLoop, a startup based in San...
03:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Android Pay, Googles Apple Pay Rival, Arrives Today
 Google’s new payments platform Android Pay, a rival to both Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, is starting to roll out, the company is announcing today. The system allows consumers to make purchas...
03:15 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Stanford Partners With Life Sciences Marketplace Quartzy For Campus Lab Supplies
 Quartzy is a lab suppliesmarketplace often used among life scientists at various universities, but particularlyatStanford. The academic institutionmade that relationship official today. Quartzy ...
03:09 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Periscope Adds Facebook Sharing, Support For Landscape Broadcasts Ahead Of Its Apple TV App
 Twitter’s live-streaming app Periscope rolled out an update today which introduces support for broadcasting and watching streams while your mobile device is in landscape mode. While addres...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Vivek Wadhwa Joins Board Of French Startup Accelerator TheFamily
 French startup accelerator TheFamily has a new board member, entrepreneur turned academic Vivek Wadhwa. He has been involved with many different research centers, including at Singularity Univer...
02:36 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Announces Office 2016 Will Arrive September 22
 Microsoft announced this morning the official launch date for the long-anticipated new version of Microsoft Office: Office 2016 will be broadly available starting on September 22, the company sa...
01:59 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Wuaki Moves Ahead Of Netflix With Offline Downloads, Starting First With Mobile Devices
 While Netflix has remainedfirm in its stanceagainst offline downloads of its streaming video catalog, one of its competitors in Europe has jumped ahead of it with its own offering. Wuaki, the on...
01:59 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Rakutens Wuaki.tv Beats Netflix To Offline Downloads, Starting First With Mobile Devices
 While Netflix has remainedfirm in its stanceagainst offline downloads of its streaming video catalog, one of its competitors in Europe has jumped ahead of it with its own offering. Wuaki.tv, the...
01:55 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch U.S. Consumers Now Spend More Time In Apps Than Watching TV
 At yesterday’s Apple event in San Francisco, CEO Tim Cook spoke about the need to bring apps to the TV’s big screen, while introducing the new Apple TV. Today, a new report from Flur...
01:54 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Okta Beefs Up Multi-Factor Authentication
 Okta, the company best known for cloud identity management, is introducing a new level of multi-factor authentication(MFA)thatit is calling Adaptive MFA. It uses intelligence and a rules engine ...
01:10 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Curatum Is A Mens Ecommerce Platform That Recommends One Item Each Day
 There’s a running theme in tech. The less choice you have, the easier it is to make a decision. That’s what a new startup called Curatum is banking on. The mobile app is a men’...
01:09 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Wave Broadband Buys Layer42, Expanding Its Silicon Valley Customer Base
 Amid the forest of large cable and telecoms carriers that dominate broadband services in the U.S., a profitable, smaller upstart out of Washington stateis making an acquisition of another small ...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Whats Better? Incentivized Or Non-Incentivized App-Install Campaigns
 The concept of incentivized traffic for app-install campaigns is far from new, but there is still much debate in the industry regarding the advantages comparing rewarded versus non-rewarded camp...
12:48 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Salesforce Launches App Cloud, Integrated Mobile Development Platform
 Salesforce, which will have a flurry of announcements in the coming days with its annual Dreamforce user conference coming up next week, gave us a teaser ahead of the show, launchingthe Salesfor...
12:24 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Amazon To Answer Apple With New Fire TV
 Don’t call it a hobby. Amazon is serious about its living room aspirations and is about to launch a second generation Fire TV media receiver. The company launched the original Fire TV a ye...
12:15 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch With $23M From Accel And Salesforce, CartoDB Will Bring Mapping To The Masses
 So maybe you’ve heard that deforestation is destroying 200 kilometers of the world’s forests each day. Obviously, that doesn’t sound good. But visualize this data on a map of t...
12:11 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Plytix Bags 500K Seed For Image-Based Product Analytics
 Born out of ex-Googler Morten Hellese Poulsen’s own frustration with the limitations of Google Analytics, Copenhagen-based Plytix offers a way for brands to track the performance of their ...
12:10 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch IBM Watson Health Begins To Take Shape
 IBM doesn’t build new units lightly, but last April it launchedIBM Watson Health. Since that time the company has been busy buying companies including Merge Healthcare, forging partnership...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Ifeelgoods And DAC Group Partner To Let Brands Offer Digital Rewards Through Line
 Digital reward platform Ifeelgoods and DAC Group, one of Japan’s largest advertising agencies, are working together to let companies create promotional campaigns on Line messaging app. Thi...
11:58 am GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch IronSource Merges With Supersonic In Mobile Ad Consolidation Play
 On the heels of AOL snapping up Millennial Medialast week comes another mobile advertising consolidation play. IronSource, a specialist in mobile app distribution and promotion services, has mer...
11:37 am GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Uber Inks MOU With Tamil Nadu To Add 30K Drivers And Smart City Initiatives, Valued Up To $35M
 After a period of major regulatory strife for Uber in India, the transportation upstart continues apace with its bid to grow business in India by working in tandemwith the authorities.Today Uber...
11:30 am GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Social Marketer Unified Raises $30M Round Led by iHeartMedia
 Unified is announcing that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding, plus a $10 million credit facility from Silicon Valley Bank. That sounds like a nice chunk of change, but equally notewo...
11:30 am GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Vintage Apparel Marketplace thredUP Raises $81M Series E Led By Goldman Sachs Investment Partners
 Sometimes ordering secondhandclothing online is a little sketchy. Is this shirt going to smell awful? Will there be inexplicable stains? ThredUP, a marketplace for used apparel, is hoping to off...
10:57 am GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Fundbox Secures $50 Million More To Power Small Businesses
 Less than six months after announcing a $40 million Series B investment, alternative lending startup Fundbox has closed on another $50 million in funding to provide small businesses with the imm...
09:18 am GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Attention! Apply To The Startup Battlefield At Disrupt London NOW
 Attention Europe! Applications are now open for the Startup Battlefield competition at Disrupt London. The Battlefield is TechCrunch’s premiere startup competition.Three times a year, the ...
08:46 am GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Indias OnlineTyari Raises $5M To Help Job Seekers Prepare For Exams
 OnlineTyari, which helps people prepare for job exams in India, has raised $5 million. The startup’s goal is to build its online and mobile platform and add all of the country’s top ...
07:09 am GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Alibaba Lowers Its Sales Estimate As Chinese Consumers Become Reluctant To Spend
 China’s economic headaches will impact Alibaba’s sales as consumers shy away from spending, but the e-commerce giant hopes that Singles’ Day in November will help get things ba...
07:00 am GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Big Data For Humans Secures $1.2M Seed Funding For Data Science-As-A-Service
 Big Data For Humans, the U.K. startup that offers a data science-as-a-service for the retail and travel sector, has picked up seed funding.The Techstars London alumni has raised a $1.2 million r...
04:17 am GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Promo Video Confirms The 6s Has A Smaller Battery
 While rumors of the iPhone 6s having a smaller battery than its predecessor emerged about a month ago, Apple today made no mention of the new device’s exact power capacity. However, a 3D T...
04:08 am GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch John McAfee Just Put Out A Very Strange Official Presidential Campaign Announcement
 John McAfee is officially enteringthe presidential race. He announced via YouTube today that he isjoining the crowded 2016 race, but will be doing so under his ownnewly-created political party, ...
03:43 am GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch iPad Pro: Hands-On With Apples New Tablet For Professionals And Creatives
 Apple unveiled its tablet behemoth, theiPad Pro, today at its event. The gorgeous 12.9″ screen gives users enough screen real estate to engage in the split-screen multitasking that iOS 9 a...
03:34 am GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Hands On With The New Apple Watch Options
 Among this morning’s torrential blast of Apple news were a handful of new options for would-be Apple Watch buyers, from new finishes to fancy new watch bands.The Watch Sport now comes in a...
03:27 am GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch First Look With The New, Siri-Enabled Apple TV
 Today at Apple’s media event we took a look at the new Apple TV. The new device is made for gaming and features an updated OS, dubbed “tvOS,” a touchpad remote that includes a ...
03:04 am GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Pencil: Hands-On With Apples Stylus For The iPad Pro
 After talking a good amount of smack over the years about styluses, today Applerevealed the Apple Pencil, an input device that allows iPad Pro users insanely pixel-precise input with almost no l...
03:00 am GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch To Win Over Voters, Politicians Can Learn From Online Marketers
 Another political season is on the horizon and a relatively large field of candidates will be vying for the hearts, and sometimes the minds, of eligible voters. That means we will hear a number ...
02:08 am GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Gobi Partners Launches $94M Fund For Early-Stage Startups In China
 China’s economic slowdown is causing concern all over the world, but that doesn’t mean tech innovation in the country will grind to a halt. Gobi Partners believes companies still hav...
01:19 am GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch iPhone 6S And iPhone 6S Plus: Hands-on With 3D Touch And Live Photos
 Today at the Apple event we went hands-on with the new iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus. The new devices feature an additional layer of sensors that makes them able to detect varying levels of press...
12:00 am GMT - Thu, September 10, 2015
Techcrunch Mobile Devices Will Either Have 3D Sensors Or Suffer Flat Sales
 When Apple’s “Shot on iPhone 6” ad campaign covered billboards and posters in 24 cities around the world, it proved two things: The quality of mobile camera technology is astro...
11:33 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch This Is The Automatic Skittles Sorter Apple Should Have Launched
 Worst. Keynote. Ever. Amirite? Absolutely. If Apple had any smarts they would have released this 3D-printed automatic Skittles sorter. Instead we got a bunch of walled garden stuff we don’...
11:10 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Balderton Hires Away Ubers Mobile VP As Its Latest General Partner
 Uber has made some notable hires in the last year as the transportation upstart continues its march for more growth, but as of this summerit’s also lost one of its key employees.Lars Fjeld...
10:24 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Gets Hardcore About Its Hobbies
 The iPad wasn’t versatile enough forbusiness. The iPhone camera wasn’t sharp enough for photographers. And none of Apple’s products were fast enough for diehard gamers. Until t...
09:50 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Slack Releases Diversity Data, Reports Higher Percentage Of Black People In Engineering Than Company-Wide
 Team communication startup Slack just released its diversity data, becoming the fourth Unicorn startup after Airbnb, Dropbox and Pinterest to do so.Here are the stats around the racial and ethni...
09:37 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Inrix Buys ParkMe To Add Smart Parking Services To Its Real Time Traffic Data
 Inrix, a startup out of Washington that provides real-time traffic and other data to car companies like BMW and Tesla, tech companies like Samsung and Google, and 400 other enterprises, has made...
09:06 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Uber Gives $5.5M To Make Amends For Stealing Carnegie Mellons Self-Driving Car Scientists
 Uber poached around 50 scientists working on self-driving car technology at Carnegie Mellon University’sNational Robotics Engineering Center earlier this year. Uber had been partnering wit...
08:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Watch All Of The Apple Videos From Todays Event
If you’ve ever watched an Apple press event, you have likely grown accustomed to the format. Usually, Tim Cook steps out on stage and throws around some numbers, like total iPhones sold, iOS mar...
08:21 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch iOS 9.1 Beta Now Available To Apple Developers
 Apple didn’t make a note of it during its event this afternoon in San Francisco, but the next generation of its mobile operating system, iOS 9.1, is already being seeded to developers as o...
08:14 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Everything You Need To Know From Todays Massive Apple Event
 Damn, Apple just dropped a ton of new hardware today, including new iPhones, iPads and a brand new Apple TV. There were a lot of goodies snuck into today’s event at the Bill Graham Civic A...
08:13 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Box Beats In Its FQ2 With $73.5M In Revenue And Lower-Than-Expected Loss, Bolsters Full-Year Guidance
 Following the bell, and Apple’s massive media meltdown, Box detailed its fiscal second-quarter financial performance. In the period, the company lost $0.28 per share, using adjusted metric...
07:51 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Apples Product Line Has More Color Diversity Than Its Executive Team
 Apple put on a big event today in San Francisco to show off its new lineup of products and updates — from Apple Watch bandsto the iPad Pro to the new Apple TV. Apple released a bunch of ne...
07:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Piazza Rolls Out Recruiting Tool to Identify Superstar Programming Students
 Piazza, a Palo Alto, Ca.-based class discussion platform, has more than 30,000 educators, 1 million students and 1,200 universities in 70 countries using its platform.That’s not too shabby...
07:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Apples New iPhones Still Start At Just 16GB Storage
 Despite hardware upgrades to the cameras of its new iPhones, the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, announced today — including larger sensors that yield higher megapixel shots and support for 4K reco...
07:20 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Apples New iPhones Let You Snap Harry Potter-Like Animated Photos
 Alongside the introduction of the new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus smartphones, Apple today showed off a new way to shoot photos with these devices, which it’s calling “Live Photos.” ...
07:08 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch iOS 9 Will Launch On September 16
 Apple’s next mobile operating system, iOS 9, now has an official release date: September 16. The company first announced the update in June, with transit directions in Maps, a new Flipboar...
07:07 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch With New iPhone Upgrade Program, Get A New iPhone Every Year For $32/Month
 Today at Apple’s keynote, the company introduced a new program available in Apple Store in the U.S. The iPhone Upgrade Program is a 24-month payment plan with an option to upgrade for a ne...
07:06 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Heres How Apples New Surface Compares To Microsofts Surface And Some Laptop
 Apple announced a new iPad today at its media event. Yes, the iPad Pro is real, matchingthe various leaked statistics that have rattled around the media-scape for weeks. Pro users can pick up an...
07:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Google Updates Play Games Player Analytics With Improved iOS Support, New Ways To Track Players
 Earlier this year, Google launched Play Games Player Analytics, a service that allows game developers to get improved analytics for what their users are doing while they are playing their games....
06:41 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Apples iPhone Market Grew 75% Year Over Year In China
 Apple’s iPhone market grew 75 percent in China year over year, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced on stage today. The Greater China region is Apple’s second-largest market after the Americ...
06:33 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Brings 3D Touch To The iPhone 6s
 Apple just announced the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, a brand new phone in a familiar casing with a few tricks up its sleeve. In addition to new cameras and chip, the new phone features a new F...
06:27 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Introduces The iPhone 6S And iPhone 6S Plus
 Today, Apple has unveiled the latest generation of the iPhone in the form of the iPhone 6S and the iPhone 6S Plus. Rumors have been swirling for the past few months, with suggestions that Apple ...
06:20 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch YC-Backed Non-Profit OneDegree Opens A Search Engine, Portal For Bay Area Affordable Housing
 Rey Faustino, founder of a Y Combinator and Google-backed non-profit called OneDegree, found out first-hand what it’s like to search for housing after an eviction three years ago from the ...
06:18 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch The New Apple TV Remote Packs A Touch Surface, Microphone And Motion Sensors
 Apple just unveiledthe new Apple TV, and it will come with a brand-new remote featuring a slew of new sensors and buttons. The top half of the remote is a glass surface, allowing users to swipe ...
06:12 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch With The New Apple TV, Apple Is Getting Serious About Video Games
 The Apple TV is a brand new beast. You shouldn’t compare it with previous iterations as you can do much more with it, starting with gaming. As expected, Apple announced a new App Store for...
06:05 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Apple TV App Store Launch Partners Include Airbnb, Guitar Hero, Gilt
 Apple just announced an App Store for its new Apple TV 4, and launch partners include tons of games, plus shopping apps, fitness apps, content readers, and video viewers. Apple Music will also b...
06:04 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Almost Forgets To Mention The New iPad Mini 4
 Behold, oh tablet lovers, Apple’s latest gift to you — a new mini iPad: the iPad Mini 4! You can just see it, fourth from the right, in the new iPad line-up, pictured above, on a sli...
05:58 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Unveils A More Powerful Apple TV
Confirming earlier reports, Apple unveiled the fourth-generation Apple TV today at its September press event in San Francisco. The updated device features a more powerful hardware, a new mobile OS, an...
05:58 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Unveils A More Powerful Apple TV, Shipping In October
 Confirming earlier reports, Apple unveiled the fourth-generation Apple TV today at its September press event in San Francisco. The updated device features more powerful hardware, a new OS dubbed...
05:54 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch iPad Pro Coming In November, Pricing Starts At $799
 Apple unveiled its new iPad Pro today. If you’re wondering when you can get your hands on it, and how much it will cost, here you go: Apple says the iPad Pro and related accessories will b...
05:34 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch The Apple Pencil Is The iPad Pros Secret Weapon
 Apple unveiled the iPad Pro, a bigger, more powerful iPad. While in many ways it looks and feels like a bigger iPad Air, the iPad Pro has a secret weapon — its stylus. Apple calls it the A...
05:21 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Unveils The iPad Pro
 Meet the iPad Pro, Apple’s latest and greatest tablet. Apple introduced the long-rumored device at today’s fall event. As expected, it has a huge 12.9-inch device and a few neat feat...
05:19 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Watchs Airstrip Can Differentiate Between Baby And Mothers Heart Rate
 Apple announced a new Apple Watch app for healthcare providers today called Airstrip. The app canreceive and view vital information sent over to physicians by nurses and staff. Co-founder of Air...
05:16 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Releases New Gold And Rose Gold Apple Watch Sport, New Bands
 Apple has a lot to announce at today’s keynote with new iPhones, a new Apple TV and new iPads. But the company can’t just ignore its new baby, the Apple Watch. In order to keep thing...
05:10 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Messenger Comes To Apple Watch With Audio Messaging And Location Sharing
 Facebook is finally coming to the Apple Watch in the form of a Messenger app that allows users to send text messages, audio messages, and share their location. The ability to simply talk to Mess...
05:04 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch How To Watch The Apple iPhone Event Live (Even On Windows!)
 You woke up, and it felt like a regular Wednesday. And then you realized that today is actually Apple iPhone day, where each year the internet crashes over what is, essentially, a new internet d...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Duolingo Launches Free Quick Test Assesments, Partners With Uber To Certify Colombian Drivers English Skills
 Language learning platform Duolingo is announcing a number of updates around its testing services today. First, the company now offers a free basic language assessment test. Unlike the company&#...
04:40 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Apples Hey Siri iPhone Announcement Live Blog
 It’s time! After weeks of speculation, today is the day that Apple is taking over the massive Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco to announce… a whole lot of things! Accord...
04:35 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Amazons Fire Phone Is Off The Market
 As Apple prepares to debut two new iPhone models at this afternoon’s press event in San Francisco, another smartphone maker is apparently exiting the market…at least for the time bei...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch SteelBrick Nabs Missing Billing Piece With Invoice IT Acquisition
 SteelBrick, the company that provides configure, price and quote (CPQ) software built on top of Salesforce.com’s Salesforce 1 platform, announced today that it was buying Invoice IT, an on...
03:51 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Crown & Caliber Unveils A New Marketplace For Watch Lovers
 For those of you who still like something ticking on your wrist Crown & Caliber has rebuilt itself from the ground up in an effort to sell some of the watches they’ve bought. Originall...
03:06 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Sailfish Update Seeks To Simplify Jollas Alternative Mobile OS
 It’s been a long time coming but Finnish mobile startup Jolla has pushed the release button for early users to get their hands on an overhauled version of its mobile interface, Sailfish. R...
03:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Tinders Super Like Says More Than A Simple Right Swipe
 Tinder has today unveiled a new feature called Super Like, which is just about as close to ‘love’ as you can come on the ultra-popular dating app. In essence, Super Like lets users a...
02:59 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch TiVo Sues Samsung For Patent Infringement
 TiVo is preparing to launch a next-generation device reportedly called “Bolt,” which may replace the current Roamio models which have recentlyseen their prices slashed. But TiVo hard...
02:27 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Ahead Of WatchOS 2.0 Unveiling, Developers Built Nearly 11,500 Apple Watch Apps
 Ahead of today’s Apple event, where it’s expected the company will officially introduce the next version of Apple Watch’s software, watchOS 2.0, among other things, app store a...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch This Week On Bullish: To Correct Or Not Correct, That Is The Question
 Hello and welcome back to Bullish, TechCrunch’s first talk show. This week we’re digging into the financial markets, the disconnect between public and private valuations, and, of cou...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Apples Hey Siri iPhone Announcement Live Blog
 It’s time! After weeks of speculation, today is the day that Apple is taking over the massive Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco to announce… a whole lot of things! Accord...
01:48 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch With A Fresh $14M, Freightos Wants To Power The Global Freight Industry
 Take a look around you. From the screen you’re staring atto the shoes on your feet, chances are you’re surrounded by products made in China, India, and Europe. Whether you realize it...
01:35 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Spotify Introduces Found Them First So You Know How Cool You Are
 The definition for hipster is ever-evolving, but I have one go-to tell to determine whether or not someone is a real hipster. If a sick tune comes on, and you hear “I listened to this befo...
01:34 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch The Atari GUI OS Brings Point And Click Goodness To An Old Platform
 If you were born in the 1970s and early 1980s I need you to summon your 10-year-old self to the computer. Go ahead. I’ll wait. All here? Cool. Welcome to the future. So hey guys I know you...
01:32 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Amazons Kindle Scout Crowdsourced Publishing Platform Expands Globally, Remains English-Only
 While Amazon expandsinto new areas like food delivery, the e-commerce gianthas continued to look at ways of expanding its original, legacy business of selling books. In the latest development,th...
01:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Apples Latest Design Could Be A Premium Internet
 Apple’s IOS 9 could see Apple attempt to redesign and upgrade something bigger than Music or News, Apple gives us a cleaner, faster, better designed internet. The internet has always felt ...
01:17 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Entrepreneur First Demo Day: Meet The Nine Startups That Presented (And Read Our Take)
 Yesterday afternoon I attended London-based Entrepreneur First‘s fourth Demo Day. EF isn’t an accelerator, co-founder Matt Clifford was at pains to out. Instead, the self-described &...
01:05 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch The Black Tux Grabs $25M To Dress Men To The Nines
 The Black Tux, a suit and tuxedo rental startupbased in Santa Monica, has scooped upanother $25 million in funding to make sure groomsmenno longerlook like they’re wearing their dads’...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch How To Watch The Apple iPhone Event Live (Even On Windows!)
 You woke up, and it felt like a regular Wednesday. And then you realized that today is actually Apple iPhone day, where each year the internet crashes over what is, essentially, a new internet d...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Google Partners With CloudFlare, Fastly, Level 3 And Highwinds To Help Developers Push Google Cloud Content To Users Faster
 Google shut down its freePageSpeed servicelast month and with that, it also stopped offering the easy to use content delivery network (CDN) service that was part of that tool. Unlike some of its...
11:30 am GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Apperian Snares $12M As Mobile Applications Management Catches On
 Apperian, a mobile applications management (MAM) firm from Boston, announced a $12 million round today led by Malaysia-based First Floor Capital. Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufi...
11:30 am GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Are We At The End Of The Android Heyday?
 Over the past years, Google’s Android has come to dominate the world of mobile and tablet devices. Even though sales declined slightly at the close of 2014, Android devices still accounted...
10:00 am GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch What Steam Engines, Robots And Analytics Have In Common
 Are robots going to put us all out of work? That seems to be the question on every click-bait economic article’s mind. The short answer: They aren’t. The long answer: They will chang...
10:00 am GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch DevOps Automation Service Chef Raises $40M Series E Round Led By DFJ Growth
 The Seattle-based DevOps and IT automation service Chef today announced that it has raised a $40 million Series E round led by DFJ Growth, DFJ’s fund for investing in $10 million+ rounds. ...
09:42 am GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Twitter Unifies Its iOS App Design And Development
 RIP designed for iPad? Twitter has unified the design and development of its iOS apps, switching from developing and designing each app separately, off of a shared code base, to using responsive...
07:54 am GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Eileen Burbidge And Alexandra Chong Join Speakers At Disrupt London
 Here are the next round of speakers who’ll be appearing at TechCrunch Disrupt London conference on December 7-8, 2015. The conference will feature an outstanding number of global startups,...
07:44 am GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch On-Demand Logistics Startup Lalamove Scores $10M To Fuel Its China Expansion
 Lalamove, an on-demand logistics service that lets users hail delivery vans with an app, will expand into twelve new cities in China after getting $10 million in fresh funding. The round was led...
07:01 am GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Apples Hey Siri iPhone Announcement Live Blog
 It’s time! After weeks of speculation, today is the day that Apple is taking over the massive Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco to announce… a whole lot of things! Accord...
07:00 am GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Berlin-Based Online Fashion And Lifestyle Retailer Lesara Bags 15M Series B
 Berlin-based online fashion and lifestyle retailer Lesara wants to make it easier for consumers in Europe to buy ‘direct’ from factories in Asia, thus passing on significant discount...
06:25 am GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch FeeX, Which IDs Hidden Fees In Financial Products, Scores $2.75M In Fresh Funding
 FeeX, a free service that sniffs out hidden fees in retirement and savings accounts, announced that it has raised $2.75 million in new funding. The round was led by Collaborative Fund. Read More...
05:37 am GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Netflix Plans Launches In South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong And Taiwan In Early 2016
 Netflix just dipped its toes into Asia with a launch in Japan this month, and now the U.S. video streaming service has revealed plans for a major expansion that will see it hit four more countri...
04:14 am GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch CrunchBase Is Spinning Out, Backed by Emergence Capital
 Eight-year-old, San Francisco-based CrunchBase looks to become a standalone company in the very near future. According to several sources, the unit, which calls itself the “definitive data...
04:00 am GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Instagram Ads Go Global, Including New 30-Second Commercials
Instagram is done experimenting and is ready ramp up ad revenue. It’s making three big changes today to attract marketing dollars from around the world and other ad mediums. Finally, Instagram w...
01:00 am GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Is Enterprise Hyper Growth The New Normal?
 The enterprise cloud has entered a new era of hyper growth thanks to a combination of dramatically expanded global markets, access to unprecedented later-stage private growth capital and the abi...
12:30 am GMT - Wed, September 9, 2015
Techcrunch Antivirus Software Pioneer John McAfee Is Running For President
 Fresh off of a DUI and gun possession arrest last month, software pioneer John McAfee has decided that the presidency of the United States is his next logical step. After hinting the move to Wir...
11:45 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Fresco News Raises $1.2M For Crowdsourced Journalism
 Fresco News has raised $1.2 million in seed funding.I first wrote about the startup back in June, when founder and CEO John Meyer (pictured above) explained that the company was working an app w...
10:56 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Shots Raises Another $4M As It Strives To Reclaim The Selfie
 Selfies might bethe social currency of our generation, butthecompanies based around them still kind of need cash. Shots, aselfie app made famous by high-profile celebrity supporters like Justin ...
09:15 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Equips Business Pages With Mobile Storefronts For Shopping And Services
 Likes Dollars. Facebook wants Pages to actually earn money for the 45 million small businesses that use them. So today Facebook is upgrading Pages with a tabbed mobile layout that lets them dis...
09:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch The Shifting Sands Of Sand Hill
 For as long as I’ve paid attention, Sand Hill Road has been synonymous with venture capital. But that is changing. As the epicenter of the technology renaissance age has shifted, or expand...
08:35 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Ryan Block Leaves AOL Alpha For Something New
 GDGT co-founder, Engadget founding editor and VP of Product at AOL, Ryan Block is leaving the company for parts undisclosed. Block came to AOL with the acquisition of GDGT in 2013 and has headed...
07:57 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Full Coverage Of The Apple 9/9 Event
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07:57 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Full Coverage of the Apple Event in San Francisco
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07:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Enter To Win A Pair Of Tickets To Disrupt SF And The 2015 UX Awards
 TechCrunch is giving away another pair of tickets to Disrupt SF, as well as a pair of tickets to the 2015 UX Awards (the UXies). One lucky reader will score a pair of tickets to both of these aw...
06:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Periscope Is Secretly Building An Apple TV App
 Periscope is developingan app for the new Apple TV, according to multiple sources. It will allow users to watch livestreams on their television that are broadcasted from Twitter’s Periscop...
06:01 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Details Surface Enterprise Push Ahead Of Apple Event
 Ah, the Apple press cycle, when other technology companies either try to preempt Cupertino’s news, or bury their own nasty bits inside of themedia whirlwind. Today, Microsoft announced sev...
06:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Drupal And WordPress Hosting Service Pantheon Launches New Enterprise Product
 Pantheon, a well-funded website hosting and management platformfor Drupal and WordPress sites, today announced that it is launching a new enterprise service.Pantheon Enterprise builds on the com...
05:36 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Help Us Rename Our Collaborative Consumption Category Because It No Longer Makes Sense
 Halp!For years, TechCrunch has had a “Collaborative Consumption” category, which included companies like Airbnb, Uber, etc. But as time passes, and more and more ‘on-demandR...
05:18 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch TC Cribs: Trulias Cozy New Office Made Us Feel Right At Home
 This week’s Cribs episode brings us to Trulia’s newly designed real estate headquarters in the heart of downtown San Francisco. Zillow snatched up the rival real estate site earlier ...
04:46 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Indias Taxi-Hailing Firm Ola Adds Shuttle Service In A Bid For More Scale
 While Uber dukes it out in China against Didi Kauidi, a homegrown rival in India is also piling pressure on the U.S.-based transportation app with globalambitions. Ola, a taxi app backed by the ...
04:35 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Rating The Websites Of The 2016 Democratic Political Candidates
 I asked four web design, branding and marketing exerts to review and rate the sites of the leading Republican candidates. Now we’re taking a look at the sites of the top four Democrats in ...
04:15 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Techs In Vogue This YearLiterally
 I know this might be shocking to you, but I’m not a fashion expert. I’m lucky if I can find two matching socks to wear. Most of the time I give up and don’t. However, it looks ...
04:11 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Chat App Kik Introduces QR Codes To Connect Users And Brands
 Mobile messaging company Kik recently landed investment from Tencent at a billion dollar valuation, and now it is borrowing a hallmark of the Chinese company’s blockbuster WeChat app: QR c...
04:10 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch ShapeShift, A Cool Cryptocurrency Converter, Clinches $1.6 Million In Cash
 Do you need Clams? Nucoin? ShapeShift.io is here to help. This oddly simple system is a universal and anonymous cryptocurrency converter created by one of the pioneers in bitcoin, Erik Voorhees....
04:01 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch What To Expect At Apples Hey Siri Event
 Tomorrow’s Apple event is going to be a behemoth. First, it’s going to take place in San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium, which seats a huge crowd of 7,000 people. Second, rumor h...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Jawbone Adds Passive Heart Rate Tracking And Auto Sleep Mode To Its Wristbands
 Jawbone is releasing a firmware update that will add passive heart rate and an automatic sleep mode to their wristbands. The UP2, UP3, and UP4 trackers are also getting a facelift in the form of...
03:43 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Adblock Plus Finally Lands On iOS And In Google Play As A Browser App
 Popular desktop ad-blocking software Adblock Plus, which has some 50 million+ monthly active users worldwide, has finally launched an iOS app. It’s also managed to convince Google to allow...
03:31 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Emergence Capital, Long a Top SaaS Investor, Shifts Focus to the Next Big Thing
 Since its founding a decade ago, Emergence Capital Partners has become among the startup industry’s mosthighly regarded investors in enterprise software-as-a-service companies. Fact is, fe...
03:25 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Raspberry Pi Now Makes A Touchscreen Display So You Can Build Your Own PiPad Pro
 So you decided to stick to the Raspberry Pi architecture and have completely eschewed the Orange Pi? Good for you. In honor of your decision I offer a new $60 Raspberry Pi touchscreen that can t...
03:19 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Kokoroe Lets You Find Your Next Ukulele Or Math Teacher
 French startup Kokoroe is a marketplace for any kind of course. On the company’s website, you can find a guitar teacher or a photography teacher and book a course in a few clicks. Teachers...
03:05 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Verizons Mobile Video Service Go90 Launches Into Beta
 Verizon’s new mobile video service dubbed Go90is launching this week, a report fromThe New York Times confirms. Verizon tells us the service is actuallydebuting into beta with Verizon Wire...
03:02 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Eden Raises $2 Million To Expand On-Demand Tech Help Service
 Eden, the on-demand tech help service launched out of Y Combinator, has today announced a new chunk of cash to be added to its previously announced (rolling) seed round. This brings Eden’s...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Capriza Update Helps Surface Important Information
 By now, we all probably know the cloud and mobile havesimplified many of the applications that have been used inside of companies for years. Yet as revolutionary as the cloud and mobile havebeen...
02:40 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Okta Joins Unicorns With $75M Round And Looks Towards IPO
 Okta, the cloud identity management company, announced a $75 million round. Okta was valued at $1.2 billion in this deal, meaning it has entered the hallowed halls of the Unicorn club, according...
02:04 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Azendoo Grabs $1.5 Million For Its Collaboration Platform For Marketing Teams
 French startup Azendoo just raised $1.5 million from TheFamily, Thibault Poutrel and Arnaud Vinciguerra. Since I last covered the startup, the product has changed quite a bit. Azendoo is now an ...
01:58 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Disney Partners With Amazon And Microsoft To Expand Its Digital Movie Service
 Despite itsname, Disney Movies Anywhere, the studio’s cloud-based digital movie service, hasn’t really been available anywhere you want to watch its titles. But today, that’s b...
01:38 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch 500 Startups Targets $200 Million for Fourth Fund, Plans Growth Fund Next
 Just days after the third fund of 500 Startups was officially closed with $85 million, the five-year-old Mountain View, Ca.-based firm has kicked things into high(er) gear, officiallysetting out...
01:01 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Announces Major Update To Dynamics CRM Coming In Q4
 Microsoft began what promises to be a long road to the fourth quarter release of its Dynamics CRM product today. The product has been completely redesigned, with the on-prem and cloud versions r...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Ebay 4.0 Introduces A Unified Mobile Experience, Plus Features From Shuttered Fashion, Motor & Valet Apps
 Ebay is today rolling out a new user experience on mobile, called eBay 4.0, which will for the first time introduce a unified look-and-feel to the company’s iOS and Android apps, while als...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Google Compute Engines Preemptible Virtual Machines Are Now Generally Available
 Google’spreemptiblevirtual machine instancesfor Compute Engine are now generally available.The company launched these preemptible virtual machines (VMs)about four months ago. What makes th...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Amazon Launches A Food Delivery Service Via Prime Now, Starting In Seattle
 Amazon announced this morning that it’s making restaurantdelivery an option via its one-hour delivery app Prime Now. The news confirmsearlier reports which indicatedAmazon was staffing up ...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch The Clinton Campaign Taps Silicon Valley Talent As 2016 Approaches
 The Clinton campaign’s CTO, Stephanie Hannon is a former Google executive, meaningthat she is well-versed in the arcana of Silicon Valley.Hannon’s job — assemble a world-class ...
12:45 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch CommonBond Attracts Another $35 Million For Its College Lending Marketplace
 New York-based lending marketplace, CommonBond, has managed to attract a more modest — but still significant — $35 million in fresh financing for its own expansion plans. Read More ...
12:16 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Trading Ticket Gets $4M From Thiels Valar Ventures, Citi, Launches Instant Trading Tool Trade It
 Finance technology has been one of the morelucrative areas in the world of disruptive startups, with companiespicking upbillions of dollars in private investment; and, by Goldman Sachs’ es...
12:07 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Confirms Purchase Of Cloud Security Firm Adallom
 Microsoft announced this morning that it purchased cloud security firmAdallom. According to sources familiar with the matter, the deal cost the Redmond-based software giant $250 million. That do...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Why Southeast Asia Is Leading The Worlds Most Disruptive Mobile Business Models
Earlier this summer, more than 35,000 industry leaders gathered at Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2015 to discuss the future of mobile, making it the largest-ever mobile-focused event in Asia. I was j...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch GoPros 16-Camera Rig Is Called Odyssey And Costs $15,000
 Remember the massive GoPro rig unveiled during Google I/O? Well, it’s now available. Kind of. Called Odyssey, professional content creators can apply to purchase the camera array with an e...
11:56 am GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Marc Dillon, Jollas RocknRoll Co-Founder, Departs
 Dillon’s visibility and personal passion for Sailfish has, at times, made him feel like the de facto face of the entire Sailfish project — eclipsing the other co-founders with his ca...
11:30 am GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Docker Hires Former Twitter Exec Mike Gupta As Its New CFO
 Docker today announced that it has hired former Twitter CFO and Zynga treasurer Mike Gupta as its new CFO. Last July, Gupta moved to the role of senior vice president (SVP) in charge of strategi...
10:02 am GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Wrio Keyboard App Reshapes Keys To Reduce Typos
 Another keyboard contender is taking aim at the touchscreen typing experience. Meet Wrio, a keyboard-in-development that changes the shape of the keys from squares to honeycomb-style hexagons in...
09:47 am GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch BlaBlaCar Is Raising $160 Million From Insight, Valuing Ride-Sharing Startup At $1.2 Billion
 A little more than a year after announcing a $100 million mega-round, we’re hearing from multiple sources that long-distance ridesharing platform BlaBlaCar is in the process of raising ano...
08:33 am GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Smile Telecoms Raises $365M To Expand Its Broadband Coverage In Four African Countries
 Smile Telecoms plans to grow its broadband network in Africa after raising $365 million in debt and equity financing. The Mauritius-based company, which already operates LTE networks in Nigeria,...
03:09 am GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch 500 Startups Announces A $30 Million Fund For Japan
 500 Startups is continuing its quest to cover Asia after the U.S.-headquartered VC company launched a $30 million microfund for Japan. Read More ...
01:36 am GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Facebooks Messenger And The Challenge To Googles Search Dominance
 To understand how a digital personal assistant that lives inside a mobile messaging app represents a disruptive threat to Google, let’s look at why Google is in this situation in the first...
01:00 am GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Commoditized Wearables
 Xiaomi reported it sold 2.8 million of its Mi Band activity tracker in the first quarter of 2015; in the same time period for 2014 (first quarter), they sold exactly 0. Newer reports have stated...
12:17 am GMT - Tue, September 8, 2015
Techcrunch Airbnb Hosted Nearly 17 Million Guests This Summer
 Growth is up and to the right for Airbnb. Nearly 17 million people worldwide booked their guest stays with the peer-to-peer lodging platform this summer, according to a new travel report. That&#...
10:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch How Legal Immigration Failed Silicon Valley
 Twelve years after filing for U.S. residency, I finally took the oath of citizenship in a quaint suburban theater, having spent seven of those prime entrepreneurship years mired in the Green Car...
09:56 pm GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch An Inside Look At Betaworks, The Startup Studio To Rule Them All
betaworks has been around for almost ten years now, standing as a leading example of how a startup studio should run. Years ago, I asked betaworks founder John Borthwick how he would define betaworks....
07:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch Obligatory Burning Man Think Piece
 Larry and Sergey and Eric are burners. So are Zuck, and Dustin Moskovitz, and the Winklevii; so are Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Shervin Pishevar. Every year thousands of techies flock to ephemera...
07:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch The Next Food Frontier: How AgTech Can Save The World
 As investors, our job is to find the visionaries that dream up the future and partner with them to help make that dream a reality. In agriculture, with the latest advancements in technology, we ...
06:03 pm GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch Why Are Tech Companies *Really* Looking For Heads Of Diversity?
 If job openings are any indication, it looks like tech companiesaren’t justblowing smoke when they talk about wanting to improve diversity.Airbnb, Asana, Autodesk and Dropbox, for example,...
05:33 pm GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch Raspberry, Shmazberry, Theres A $15 Single Board Computer Called The Orange Pi
 Is $35 for a Raspberry Pi too rich for you blood? Do you prefer using sparsely-supported but cheap single board computers? Are you willing to ignore the obviously goofy name “Orange Pi?...
05:05 pm GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch SportSetter Gets $1M To Expand Its Uber For Fitness App To The U.K.
 SportSetter, a Finnish fitness marketplace startup we covered back in April 2014, has pulled in a $1 million seed round, which it will be using to expand its availability from Finland and New Yo...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch CloudFlares Co-Founders Matthew Prince And Michelle Zatlyn Will Join Us At Disrupt SF
 Disrupt SF is only a few weeks away now and our agenda is shaping up nicely. Among the speakers at this year’s event are CloudFlare co-founders Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn. CloudFla...
04:51 pm GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch Lenovo Blatantly Rips Off The iPhone 6 Design
 Congratulations Lenovo, you just produced the most accurate iPhone 6 ripoff! The company just unveiled a new phablet called the Lenovo Phab Plus. It’s huge, and it looks exactly like an iP...
04:02 pm GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch Kill The Password
 There are a myriad of problems with the password in the modern computing context. We are no longer signing onto a single mainframe. We have multiple applications in use across various platforms....
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch The Business Of Fraud
 When you visualize a hacker, what do you see? A young computer enthusiast coding in their basement, pounding Red Bull? A futuristic robot plugged into hundreds of servers deep inside a secret wa...
03:20 pm GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch Delayed European Legal Opinion On Facebook NSA/PRISM Coming Later This Month
 A European legal opinion regarding Facebook’s alleged data-sharing co-operation with the NSA/PRISM dragnet surveillance program that’s due to be issued by the Advocate General (AG) o...
03:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch Blavity Hopes To Be The Digital Voice of Black Millennials
 Millennials are the most diverse generation in history. According to the White House Millennial Report, 40 percent of millennials are people of color. Blavity, a media startup founded by Morgan ...
02:49 pm GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch The American Library Association Lost Control Of Their Facebook Page This Weekend
 Getting hacked is bad news… unless you’re a bunch of librarians. For three days “hackers” took over the American Library Association’s Facebook page and posted an e...
02:47 pm GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Reportedly Staffs Up Machine Learning Team
 Apple is trying to hire at least 86 artificial intelligence and machine learning experts, according to Reuters. While proactive suggestions are one of iOS 9’s flagship features, the compan...
01:27 pm GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch Save Secures $16.7 Million To Repair Your Smartphone In No Time
 Damien Morin isn’t your average first-time founder. In less than two years, he managed to turn a non-scalable smartphone repair shop into an exponentially growing startup with hundreds of ...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch Real Estate Is Accessible And Easy To Navigate Thanks To These Startups
 Real estate isn’t just for brokers anymore. Technology is creating an industry that’s consumer-facing, accessible and easy to navigate. From buying a space, to moving in, to even mai...
12:40 pm GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch Restaurant Discovery Site Zomato Eats Up $60M To Fuel Expansion Into New Verticals
 Zomato, the India-based restaurant discovery site, has closed $70 million in new funding as it looks to push into new verticals including food delivery, payments, table reservations and more. Re...
10:42 am GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch Ashley Madison Hack Latest Reminder Stupid Passwords Are Stupid
 The recent hack of extramarital affairs website Ashley Madison, which resulted in data from millions of accounts being dumped online, has one more salutary yet familiar lesson to deliver: even v...
10:32 am GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch China Continues Its Crackdown On VPN Services
 China is showing no sign of letting up on internet users who seek to hurdle its censorship system after it began imposing new restrictions on a popular censorship avoidance service in the countr...
10:14 am GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch Paystobesocial Is Tinder Meets Groupon For Trains!
 “Think Tinder meets Groupon… for trains,” says Edward Byrne, co-founder and Business Director of Paystobesocial. The newly launched iOS app lets commuters in the U.K. seek out ...
10:06 am GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch TVibes Gets $1M Seed Funding To Let Users Store And Share Videos With Private Groups
 If you take a lot of smartphone videos, you know they can be a pain to organize. TVibes wants to make that easier by not only letting people store and share videos on its cloud-based platform wi...
10:00 am GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch Uber Confirms Its Raised $1.2B More In China Led By Baidu As Rival Didi Kuaidi Gets $3B
 Uber — the app-based, on-demand transportation service — has been on has been on a fundraising tear as it expandsglobally in the face of major competition. China is the company’...
09:08 am GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch Rocket Internet Doubles Down On Asia With Aggressive New Launch Strategy
 Rocket Internet is increasing its focus on Asia after it announced that it would launch one new venture in the region per quarter. Read More ...
09:00 am GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch Sign Up For Another Chance To Get Two-For-One Tickets To Disrupt London
 Have you been on the fence about coming to London for Disrupt London 2015? We’re thrilled to announce that we’re giving potential attendees one more shot to win the opportunity to bu...
09:00 am GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch Sign Up For Your Last Chance To Get Two-For-One Tickets To Disrupt London
 Have you been on the fence about coming to London for Disrupt London 2015? We’re thrilled to announce that we’re giving potential attendees one more shot to win the opportunity to bu...
08:12 am GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch Begun, The Mobile Ad-Blocking Wars Have
 There’s a coming war between telecoms companies and the advertising industry, and it’s all to do with the increasing bloatware of online advertising. You don’t have to look far...
02:00 am GMT - Mon, September 7, 2015
Techcrunch The Sabermetrics Arms Race: Scouting In The Age Of Cyber Signal Stealing
 In my favorite episode of “Seinfeld,” George Costanza’s boss with the Yankees, Mr. Wilhelm, notices that some shoes, bases, helmets and batting doughnuts have gone missing. Aft...
10:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 6, 2015
Techcrunch APIs Are The New FTEs
 Facebook, Google and Twitter have to deal with outrageous amounts of spam and abuse. They hire teams of engineers to stop trolls, outwit bad actors and otherwise keep their walled gardens free o...
07:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 6, 2015
Techcrunch Android Can Dominate The Enterprise Mobility Game
 The convenience and versatility offered by mobile devices and the ubiquity of connectivity has caused a shift in the way we live and work. Gone are the solitary cubicles and stodgy desktops of y...
05:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 6, 2015
Techcrunch Alex Gibneys New Documentary Paints An Ambivalent Portrait Of Steve Jobs
 Earlier this week, I joined a group of journalists to meet with director Alex Gibney and discuss his new film, Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine — andthe first thing he did was put away h...
03:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 6, 2015
Techcrunch How The Rules Of Cyber Engagement Have Changed
 A series of recent breaches at United Airlines, Anthem and, most recently, Sabre Corp. and American Airlines are reportedly tied to state-sponsored cyber attackers. These attacks further highlig...
01:25 pm GMT - Sun, September 6, 2015
Techcrunch The Shape Of Apples New iPhones
 Apple is expected to unveil new iPhones at an event next Wednesday, and likely also new iPads and an updated Apple TV. Here’s a quick round-up of the tweaks Apple watchers are expecting th...
11:05 am GMT - Sun, September 6, 2015
Techcrunch Not Just Another Discussion About Whether AI Is Going To Destroy Us
 An AI roundtable discussion is a staple of the tech journalism circus — usually framed with a preamble about dystopic threats to human existence from the inexorable rise of ‘super in...
03:00 am GMT - Sun, September 6, 2015
Techcrunch The Hierarchy of IoT Thing Needs
 I received a lot of feedback on an article I wrote a few months ago about changing the way we perceive the “Things” in the Internet of Things (IoT). The gist of my argument was that ...
12:00 am GMT - Sun, September 6, 2015
Techcrunch First Codes Michelle Sun Is Teaching Kids To Code In Hong Kong
 As the #ILookLikeAnEngineer hashtag continues to gain traction, you’ll be hearing more about geeks who break the stereotypes of what programmers should be like. One such example is Michell...
09:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 5, 2015
Techcrunch The Future Is African
 This is a call to action for the dreamers of the world. Imagine being in a market where more people live in a high-speed mobile Internet zone than have electricity. The innovative thinking that ...
05:34 pm GMT - Sat, September 5, 2015
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Check Please
 The Gillmor Gang — Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, September 4, 2015. Mr. Robot AKA Mike Arrington rematerializes as t...
04:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 5, 2015
Techcrunch Hands-On With Googles OnHub Router
 But in reality, you often have to resetyour router when your connections start dropping and woe to you if you ever have to actually change any settings. Despite their ubiquity, most routers stil...
03:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 5, 2015
Techcrunch Were At The Beginning Of A Venture Capital Revolution
 Backers of startups worldwide are looking for the next “disruptive trend” that can overturn industries. Ironically, the venture capital industry has begun to resemble markets that in...
12:00 am GMT - Sat, September 5, 2015
Techcrunch The Interdependency Of Stanford And Silicon Valley
 There was a time when Stanford University was considered a second-rate engineering school. It was the early 1940s, and the Department of Defense was pressed to assemble a top-secret team to unde...
11:19 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch CrunchWeek: Uber Class Action, A Poaching Settlement And Apples Big Adventure
 This week in the world of tech, Uber got word that drivers in California were granted class-action status, a settlement ends the poaching drama started by Apple and Google and Apple’s abou...
10:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch The Race To Frictionless Parking
 Parking. It’s an issue that impacts everyone who owns a car. People might not think about it or talk about it, but it certainly can be one of those daily frustrations that ignites stress. ...
09:23 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch Etsys Pulling The Plug On Grand St. At The End Of This Month
 When Etsy bought Grand St. last April,the plan was to let Grand St. continue to operate its maker marketplace for tech hardware.Butthat’s about to change. At the end of this month, Grand S...
09:18 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch A Few Thoughts On The BlackBerry-Good Technology Deal
 So much for that IPO, I suppose.Good Technology, a long-time IPO candidate with reams of public financial data, was snapped up by BlackBerry this morning for $425 million. You might think that t...
08:10 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch The Stylus Still Rules The Galaxy Note 5
 The concept Galaxy Note 5 is at once a thing of genius and a nod to a benighted world before the modern touchscreen. Born in the swamps of the resistive LCD, the stylus lurched onto dry land and...
08:03 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang LIVE 09.04.15
 Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Michael Arrington, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session 1pmPT/4pmET.Live chatroom during broadcastGillmor Gang on Facebook HE...
08:03 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang LIVE 09.04.15
 Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Michael Arrington, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session 1pmPT/4pmET.Live chatroom during broadcastGillmor Gang on Facebook HE...
08:02 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch App Release Notes Are Getting Stupid
 “Bug fixes.”“Jam packed full of Super Amazing Things.”“Every 3 weeks, we polish up the Pinterest app to make it faster and better than ever.”“To make ou...
07:32 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch These Playing Cards Can Take A Bullet
 Playing cards, just like anything else, are ripe for disruption. I’ve purchased cards in airports, a CVS and the supermarket…but never online. That might change because of this Kicks...
07:17 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch The Founder Of Firefox Wrote His Own Screenplay For HBOs Silicon Valley And Its Hilarious
 HBO’s Silicon Valley is a show pretty much based on an entire industry’s lack of self-awareness. Richard, Erlich and the rest of Pied Piper are alwayscringinglypainful to watch as th...
07:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Samsung, Samsung And SmartThings
Happy Friday, dear readers. Before you skip off for a long weekend, I come bearing a gift: the weekly TC Gadgets Podcast (or, as we’re calling it now, the Podcraft. This week we discuss the new ...
06:46 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch Spindle Is A Social App That Encourages You To Be Selfish With Your Content
 While social media platforms theoretically can be a great place to document life’s special moments, the reality is that social pressure often forces us to curate and filter our content for...
05:37 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch Toyota Pledges $50M To Research AI For Autonomous Vehicles, Hires DARPAs Dr. Gill Pratt
 Today, Toyota announced that it had hired Gill Pratt to drive its autonomous car research. Pratt is best known in this field for his work at DARPA and MIT, including starting the Robotics Challe...
05:16 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch Fly Or Die: Vapium Summit Weekender Edition
With Labor Day around the corner, and Labor Day weekend already underway, it makes sense for us to have a celebratory look at the Vapium Summit Weekender Edition. The botanical vaporizer, at $189, is ...
05:14 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch Apple TVs Share Of Over-The-Top, Authenticated TV Viewing Is Growing
 Ahead of next week’s Apple event where the company is expected to debut new Apple TV hardware and software which may include support for an app store and a cable-replacing streaming TV ser...
05:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch Former Prisoners Rethink Criminal Justice Through Entrepreneurship And Civic Technology
 “Reentry has to begin the moment you’re sentenced to prison. You’ve got to start planning to come home.” That’s the motif of Teresa Hodge, who co-founded Mission: L...
04:28 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch 13 TechCrunch Stories You Dont Want To Miss This Week
 This week, rumors swirled about the new Apple TV, Google changed its logo, Chrome killed Flash ads, and BB-8 scared our office dog. These are the stories to catch you up on this week’s tec...
04:27 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch ThingThing Is An iOS Keyboard That Shortcuts App Switching
 Now that it’s been a year and change since Apple revealed it would be opening up access to the system wide keyboard in iOS we’re seeing some pretty interesting stuff going on right w...
04:13 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch LinkedIn Open-Sources FeatureFu, A Toolkit For Building Machine Learning Models
 LinkedIn today announced that it is open-sourcing an internal tool called FeatureFu. The FeatureFu toolkit is meant to make it easier for developers to build their machine learning models around...
04:13 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch This Week On The TechCrunch Bitcoin Podcast: You Spilled Maple Syrup On My Cryptocurrency
 Hello friends, and welcome back to TCBTC, TechCrunch’s premier and Most Excellent bitcoin podcast.This week we are back onaudio, our own John Biggs has returned to us, and we even called i...
03:34 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch Students, Get Your Discounted Disrupt London Tickets Now
 Are you an undergraduate or graduate student looking to attend the hottest show in tech? We’ve set aside a series of tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 exclusively for students, and...
03:24 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch Spotify Rolls Out A Revamped, Plain Language Privacy Policy Following Controversial Update
 Spotify has now madegood on its promise to rewritethe controversial update to itsprivacy policy,which incurred a bit of backlash thanks to its vague language and requests to collect all sorts of...
03:01 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch 500 Startups Closes Its Newest Fund with $85 Million
 500 Startups, the five-year-old, Mountain View, Ca.-based venture firm, has closed its third global fund with $85 million. The nearly 500 investors in the vehicle includeTokyo-based Dentsu, Yaho...
03:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch Israel Could Grow Into A Global Cannabis Startup Superpower
 Israel is already a leading global player in clinical testing and Israeli growers have been leveraging clinical trials to produce new strains for decades. These growers have developed unique gro...
02:31 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch Human Rights Groups Lambast Twitter For Banning Service That Tracked Politicians Deleted Tweets
 Seventeen international human rights and transparency groups, including the Sunlight Foundation, EFF, Free Press, Open State Foundation, Human Rights Watch and others, are taking Twitter to task...
02:09 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch Videogram Offers Broadcasters New Ways To Engage Viewers Beyond Just YouTube
 Cinemacraft, the Japan-U.S. company that provides interactive online video technologies, has launched a series of news tools aimed at giving broadcasters and brands new ways to boost engagement ...
01:29 pm GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch BlackBerry Goes Shopping Again, Buys Good Technology
 BlackBerry pulled a surprise move this morning when it announced that it’s purchasing mobile device management vendor, Good Technologyfor $425 million in cash. It signals that BlackBerry, ...
09:23 am GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch Hipster Barbie Shows Us How Plastic We All Really Are On Social Media
 “Could I be any more authentic?!”Socality Barbie is an Instagram account that primarily pokesfun at the social media app’s “community” culture, but it also offers a...
08:09 am GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch WhatsApp Hits 900M Monthly Users, Edges Closer To An Actual Business Model
 It’s WhatsApp monthly active user number update time, folks. The Facebook-owned messaging service, which doesn’t yet have a business model, has now crossed 900 million MAUs, as CEO, ...
05:02 am GMT - Fri, September 4, 2015
Techcrunch Baidus Student Q&A App Zuoyebang Lands Investment From Sequoia and Legend Capital
 Baidu, China’s largest search engine and an investor in Uber, is giving its Zuoyebang ‘after school’ service, which helps school students with their studies, wings of its own a...
10:29 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Mozilla Drops First Public Preview Of Firefox For iOS
 Mozillais beginning to previewits iOS Firefox browser, rolling it out today for testing in New Zealand, according to a company blog post. The goal is for the company to gather data so that they ...
09:48 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Now Kids Can Build Their Own HD Display With The Kano Screen Kit
 Kano‘s crazy cool educational PC is about to get a bit more visual. Kano CEO Alex Klein tweeted out that the company has launcheda pre-order for an HD display kit. Kano, which raised a $15...
09:21 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Goodbye, Docstoc
 Not so long ago, thefinancial products maker Intuit said it wanted to be“the operating system for small businesses.” Today, seemingly, it wants to be cloud-based accounting and tax s...
09:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Makes It Easier To Optimize Ad Campaigns Based On Conversions
 Facebook is unveiling an improved version of its Conversion Lift measurement tool, which first launched in January. Previously, Facebook allowed you to measure whether your ad campaign was actua...
08:23 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Amazon Acquires Elemental Technologies For A Reported $500 Million In Cash
 Amazon announced this afternoon that it’s acquiring Elemental Technologies, a backend mobile video service.It’s paying around $500 million in cash for the company, according to a new...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch What Do The App Store, PlayStation 2 And The Roman Empire Have In Common?
 If you casually follow tech industry headlines, you might be convinced that the app store model is the bright future of software distribution. So when I say, “I have clear evidence that th...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Googles Latest Chrome Update Emphasizes Speed And Lower Memory Usage
 Chrome started out as one of the least memory hungry browsers on the market, but over time, it developed a bit more of an appetite for RAM. Now, however, Google is startingto get back to the bas...
07:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch INNOVATE2016: The Next Generation Of Politicians Must Understand Innovation
 The future lies with Californian politicians. Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom and Ed Lee are examples of politicians who are no longer stuck in the mindset of the past, perhaps because they are all ...
06:41 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Continuing To Strengthen Its Smartphone Market Share In The U.S.
 More and more Americans are buying into the Apple smartphone ecosystem, largely at the expense of Samsung.A new report from the digital media analytics company comScore suggests that Apple’...
06:10 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Mobile App Letgo Raises $100 Million From Naspers To Take Over Classifieds In The U.S.
 Can a mobile classified app topple the behemoth that is Craigslist? A companycalled letgo aims to find out. Itsapp, which lets users buy and sell items locally, has quietly grown to over 2 milli...
05:33 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Local Services Marketplace Thumbtack Acqui-Hires HeartThis In Its First M&A Move
 A year after Thumbtack raised $100 millionto expandits marketplace for home servicesand other professional freelance jobs, the startup is making its first acquisition to beef up its engineering ...
05:33 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Local Services Marketplace Thumbtack Makes Its First Acquisition, The Acqui-Hire Of HeartThis
 A year after Thumbtack raised $100 millionto expandits marketplace for home servicesand other professional freelance jobs, the startup is making its first acquisition to beef up its engineering ...
05:23 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Google Search Will Now Surface Info On More Health Conditions
 Google says one in 20 searches on Google Search are for health-related information and since February of this year, it’s been using its Knowledge Graph to quicklybring up medical facts whe...
05:20 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Watch This Robot Hunt And Kill Destructive Starfish
 Dear friends: there is now a robot that can kill starfish underwater by hunting them down and injecting them with poison. The starfish in question is the Crown of Throns Sea Star, a destructive ...
05:02 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Apple, Google, Other Silicon Valley Tech Giants Ordered To Pay $415M In No-Poaching Suit
 United States District Judge Lucy Koh today approved a $415 million settlement in theSilicon Valley no-poaching case. The dollar figure comes after a previous $324 million settlement was rejecte...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Up Close With The New Samsung Gear S2
 Round watch lovers rejoice! Samsung has finally lifted the covers off its new smartwatch, the Samsung Gear S2, and we got to take a look at it. Samsung product manager David Ng ran us through so...
04:54 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch This Tiny Apple IIc Is All The Computing Power Youll Need Ever In Your Life Forever
 As we enter the next Information Age, we must take only a few things with us. For example, this ashtray. Just this ashtray. And this paddle game, the ashtray and the paddle game and that’s...
04:54 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch T-Mobile Rolls Out Native Video Calling To Select Samsung Phones
 There are a number of apps that let smartphone users make video calls today, including Skype, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, and more, as well as built-in apps like Apple’s FaceTime,...
04:46 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Acquires Organizational Analytics Service VoloMetrix
 Microsoft today announced that it has acquired VoloMetrix, a service that specializes in analyzing organizational performance using anonymized data it gathers from across a company’s corpo...
04:20 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Estimote Creates An Indoor Location System Using Beacons And Nearables
 The dream of indoor location sensing has always been just that – a dream. The difficulty of Wi-Fi tracking and other technologies has made it hard for anyone – from businesses to reg...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Looks To Tackle Personalized Learning In The Classroom
 Facebook isworking to give public school students an education that’s more tailored to their needs.In a blog post today from Facebook’s Chief Product Officer Chris Cox, the company a...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Disrupt London 2015 Comes To The Copper Box Arena
 Can you feel the excitement? It’s just a few short months until some of the best and brightest minds in tech will be descending upon London for TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015, and we’...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Technology And Data Are Spurring A Clash Of Travel Titans
 There’s no way to put this gently, so here it goes: The rapid advancement in digital technology is transforming the cozy world of travel retail into an all-out war for customers. And that&...
03:45 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Googles New Street View App Lets You Browse 360-Degree Imagery, Share Your Own Panoramic Photos
 It’s no “street view for cats,” but Google’s newly launched Street View mobile app does promise to make it easier to explore Google Map’s immersive, 360-degree imag...
03:39 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Databox Raises $3.3M Seed Round To Help Marketers Understand Key Metrics
 Businesses of all sizes now have access to reams of data about their performance, but it can be difficult to read the story behind the numbers. Boston-based startup Databox’s goal is to ma...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Pinterest Brings On A New Head Of Its Advertising Partner APIs
 Pinteresthas brought on a new executive to manage the technology its marketing developer partners use to power advertising campaigns on Pinterest. Michael Akkerman, formerly a vice president at ...
02:56 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Skype Gives Its iOS And Android Apps A Makeover
 Microsoft announced this morning it’s rolling out a new version of Skype (ver. 6.0) for users on iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Across all platforms, the popular communications app has...
02:43 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Seven New Startups From Silicon Valleys Favorite New Demo Day
 For the second time in its two-year history, in a small space that’s easy to miss on a leafy Palo Alto street, the boutique venture firm Pejman Mar brought together sevenstartups yesterday...
02:27 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Nexts Clever New iOS Keyboard Has Almost Everything You Want
 Ever since Apple introduced support for custom keyboards in iOS 8, third-party developers rushed in to fill the void with keyboards that offered an array of features likepredictive emoji, easy a...
02:22 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Apple May Introduce iPad Pro, iPad Mini 4 At September 9 Event: Report
 Apple’s upcoming press event, scheduled for September 9, is going to be a long one, if we’re choosing to believe the rumors.Alongside new iPhones and a brand new (potentially world-d...
01:09 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Bring Home Your Own Star Wars BB-8 Droid, Thanks To Sphero
 Usually, when you fall in love with some cool gadget depicted on-screen in the latest science fiction blockbuster, the best you can hope for is that maybe, maybe some gifted entrepreneur will be...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Airbnb Rolls Out An Apple Watch App
 Airbnb has found its way onto the Apple Watch.The company is releasing a new Apple Watch app today that’s centered around lightweight communication between hosts and guests. Hosts and gues...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Clashem Is An Epic Video Battle App
 Advances in technology over the past few years has made access to video (both creation and consumption) as simple as pulling your smartphone out of your pocket. And with those advances come a wh...
12:11 pm GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch AOL Confirms It Is Buying Millennial Media In $238M Deal To Expand In Mobile Ads
 This just in: AOL, itself acquired by Verizon for $4.4 billion earlier this year, has announced that it is making another purchase of its own. It is buyingMillennial Media as it continues to bui...
11:30 am GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Security Financings Continue Their Heat Wave With A New $75M Round For Netskope
 Netskope, which sells a technology service protecting businesses’ cloud-based software, has joined the ranks of the massively funded (and potentially overfunded?) security technology compa...
11:00 am GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Wrap Raises $12.7M Series B, Launches Its Mobile Storytelling Platform Publicly
 Spontaneous mobile experiences should be as effortlessas possible, and the processof navigating the app store to download a company’s native app can often missa user’s attention span...
10:30 am GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Samsung Outs A Sleep Tracker That Can Switch Off Your TV
 Samsung has announced a sleep tracker called SleepSense that can also plug into other connected devices you might have around your smart home — such as a smart TV or web-enabled air-con &#...
09:40 am GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Privacy Concerns Raised Over Kids Apps And Websites
 Given the sophisticated tracking technologies embedded into so many digital products and services as a matter of course, it should come as no surprise that a global privacy audit of childrenR...
09:16 am GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Zivame Lands $40M To Change How Women In India Buy Their Lingerie
 Zivame, an online store that wants to revolutionize the (often awkward) way that women in India buy their underwear, has closed a $38 million Series C round. Read More ...
09:00 am GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch SmartThings Unveils A New Smart Home Hub
 SmartThings’s smart home devices are getting a lot sleeker — and a lot more powerful — as of today. The company today is releasing a new line of updated home sensors and a new,...
08:22 am GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch Pre-Owned Luxury Clothes Marketplace Vestiaire Collective Scores $37M Series D
 Vestiaire Collective, the French pre-owned luxury clothes marketplace, has picked up a $37 million Series D round as it aims to bed down on recent expansion to the U.S. and continue to expand to...
03:37 am GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch The MB&F Arachnophobia Tells Time Through Fear
 Everyone’s favorite crazy watch maker, MB&F, has just announced a new model, the so-called Arachnophobia. This wild clock hides a L’Epe 1839 movement in the thorax and abdomen of...
03:23 am GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch The Internet Was Created For Cat Street View
 Drones are making it easier to share a bird’s eye view of the world around us, but we might be looking at things from the wrong perspective. Created as a tourism promotion by Hiroshima pre...
01:00 am GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch The Dawn Of The Classic Publishing Era
 My father was a journalist. Growing up, I remember how excited I would get when visiting the printing house of the newspaper he worked for. I loved everything about the large, industrial printer...
12:14 am GMT - Thu, September 3, 2015
Techcrunch This Travel Jacket Is The Most-Funded Clothing Item In The History Of Crowdfunding
 This jacket is going to need a lot more pockets to stuff all of the $$$ it’s raising. With less than a day to go, Baubax‘s versatile travel jacket Kickstarter project is nearing almo...
11:46 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Ron Johnson Will Discuss His New Approach To Tech Shopping And Support At Disrupt SF
 In just a few weeks, I’ll be onstage with the man who spearheaded the creation of Apple’s friendly, futuristic retail stores.Ron Johnson spent more than a decade as the company’...
10:27 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Clips Offers Easy Video Editing On Your iPhone
 I could try to tell you about Clips. I could explain how it was created by startup Fly Labs, or I could describe how it makes it easy to combine clips on your iPhone into a single video, then ad...
09:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Three Tips For Worker Classification For The Next On-Demand Startup
 While Uber and TaskRabbit have become household names, and the on-demand economy continues to boom, the problem of worker classification continues to bedevil companies in the on-demand marketpla...
08:42 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Teslas $35,000 Model 3 Sedan To Start Production In 2 Years, Preorders Next March
 It’s happening! You, yes you (and me!), might be able to afford a Tesla sometime soon. On Twitter today, Musk shared that the Holy Grail of Teslas, the lower cost Model 3 sedan, will offic...
08:18 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Google Maps Adds Curated Restaurant Recommendations In NYC, San Francisco And London
 Google Maps on Android is getting an upgrade today that will make the app, often used for gettingdirections or accessing business information, a better guide to local restaurants, too – at...
08:07 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Lyft Lines Express Re-Route Feature Aims To Get You Where Youre Going Faster
 Lyft has quietly added a new feature to Lyft Line, its service that lets passengers share rides with other people heading their same direction for a lower price, called Express Re-route. With th...
08:01 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Verizon Is (Apparently) Changing Its Logo, Too
 According to AdAge, our corporate overlords Verizon will be introducing a new logo this week. Proving that we have little or nothing to do with AOL or Verizon really, this was also news to us.Le...
08:01 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Verizon Is Changing Its Logo, Too
 According to AdAge, our corporate overlord Verizon will be introducing a new logo this week. Proving that we have little or nothing to do with AOL or Verizon really, this was also news to us. Re...
07:42 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch The Weirdness Of The Huawei Watch
 As a watch obsessive you can’t help but look at the new Huawei Watch and chortle knowingly. Announced a few months ago at MWC, the product lay dormant until now and our poor brothers at En...
07:01 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Snapchat Hires A New Growth Lead
 Snapchathashired a new growth leadfrom Facebook as it continues its trek to being one of the most valuable social networking companies in the world. Anthony Pompliano, a product manager that led...
06:06 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Windows 10 Picks Up Global Market Share Following Debut, Finds Quick Adoption By Gamers
 Windows 10 has completed a full month in the market following its formal release, meaning that we have new data to parse regarding its in-market performance. There are several figures to conside...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Google Classroom Launches Chrome Extension So Teachers Can Instantly Share Links With The Entire Class
 Google calls Classroom a “mission control for teachers,” allowing them to access all of Google Apps for Education within one central place. Teachers can use the product to chat with ...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Google Docs Gets Voice Typing, Templates, Smart Sheets And More
 “Get ’em while they’re young” is a battle cry for every company. The younger your users are, the more you can evolve with them over time and keep them locked into using y...
05:26 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Bubls Spherical Video Camera Gets Samsung Backing
 Canadian startup Bubl, maker of a 360-degree camera for capturing spherical panoramas, has closed a $3.5 million (CDN$4.6 million) seed round, led by Samsung Ventures and J-Tech Capital, with ot...
05:12 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Mayfield Funds Navin Chaddha On The Road From Entrepreneur To Investor
 Many folks in the tech industry dream of making the jump from entrepreneur to investor, but few actually succeed in taking the leap. Navin Chaddha is one of those lucky few and in this podcast d...
05:05 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch A Look At Open Bionics 3D Printed Robotic Hands For Amputees
 Open Bionics, a startup out of the U.K that makes bionic hands, figured out how to dramatically lower the cost of prosthetics using a combination of open-sourced 3D printing software and robotic...
05:05 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch A Look At Open Bionics 3D-Printed Robotic Hands For Amputees
 Open Bionics, a startup out of the U.K. that makes bionic hands, figured out how to dramatically lower the cost of prosthetics using a combination of open-sourced 3D printing software and roboti...
04:49 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Tumblr Finally Makes Reblogs More Readable, Especially On Mobile Devices
 One of blogging site Tumblr’s flagship features, the reblog – meaning the reposting of another person’s content onto your own site – is getting a significant makeover sta...
04:43 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Azure Cuts Some VM Prices, Brings Premium Storage Options To G-Series VMs
 Microsoft is announcing a couple of updates to its Azure cloud computing service today that, among other things, include the launch of a new variant of its performance-optimized G-type virtual m...
04:26 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Coinbase Expands To Singapore
 Coinbase has added Singapore to the list of countries where you can buy and sell bitcoin using their platform. This is Coinbase’s first foray into Asia and it will allow users with Singapo...
04:24 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Dont Buy Into Acers LEGO-Like Modular Computer
 Acer just debuted this adorable computer. Called the Revo, it’s tiny and modular and cute and a waste of your money. The thought process is that owners can easily upgrade their systems wit...
04:16 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Scaleway Now Provides Crazy Cheap VPS-Like Servers For $3.40 Per Month
 Online.net’s Scaleway is an interesting beast in the cloud hosting world. Instead of building a virtual cloud hosting infrastructure that competes directly with Amazon Web Services, Digita...
04:11 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Pitch Your Startup In The TC Radio Pitch-Off On Sirius XM
 I’m often told I have a face for radio, which works out well given that TechCrunch has its own radio show on Sirius XM each week. On Tuesdays, John Biggs and I head to midtown to host Tech...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch The Green Rush: Finding Tech Business Opportunities Within The Cannabis Sector
 Cannabis, marijuana, pot, weed, ganja, Mary Jane, doobage. Whatever you call it, it has taken center stage in the world of investment. It’s getting the 15 minutes of fame it rightfully des...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Kash Now Offers Faster And Cheaper Alternative To Old Payment Networks
 Payments, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Kash whose multi-year mission is to “clear financial transactions instantly (like cards) and have much lower fees and fr...
03:57 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Googles Street View Trekker Makes A Return Trip To The Galapagos Islands
 Google’s Street View cameras recently made a return trip to the Galapagosto catch up with the local population of giant tortoises. The company first launched Street View imagery of the isl...
03:28 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Hulu Launches Ad-Free Subscription Tier For $12 Per Month
 Streaming service Hulu just announced a new subscription tier to remove advertisements. As a reminder, a standard Hulu subscription costs $7.99 per month. The new commercial-free option costs $1...
03:20 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Tanium Gets Another $120M To Unpick The Cybersecurity Patchwork
 Enterprise security and system management firm Tanium has announced another big tranche of funding, taking in $120 million, led by TPG and Institutional Venture Partners, with existing investor ...
03:18 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch CBS To Live Stream Select Regular Season NFL Games, Including For The First Time, The Thanksgiving Day Game
 Cateringto a TV-viewing audience that increasingly watches on a variety of connected devices, including mobile phones and tablets, CBS has announced plans to live-stream coverage of two regular-...
02:42 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Haiku Is A Nifty Bike Assistant That Lets You Keep Your Phone In Your Pocket
 Chances are you haven’t found the perfect solution to get directions while riding your bike. Meet Haiku, a tiny little bike computer that wants to solve that by being a sort of smartwatch ...
02:31 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook, Google, Apple Dominate Top Apps Of All Time Lists; Candy Crush And Clash Of Clans Are Top Games
 A new report from app store analytics firm App Annie this morning offers insight into the most popular – and profitable! – iOS applications of all time. Not surprisingly, the most do...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch This Week On Bullish: Bitcoin Is Coming To A Block Near You
 Hello friends, and welcome back to another episode of Bullish, TechCrunch’s first talk show.This week, Sonny Singh of Bitpay swung by TCSFHQ to help us dig into the current commercial side...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Aquicore Raises A $3.1M Seed Round For Its Commercial Real Estate Energy Management System
 Aquicorehelps commercial building owners monitor and analyze their energy usage and bill their tenants based on usage. The company today announced that it has raised a $3.1 million seed round le...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch On-Demand Parking Startup ZIRX Gets Funding From BMWs Venture Arm, Eyes Integration In BMW Cars
 On any given day in downtown San Francisco, you’re bound to people zipping around on push scooters, wearing either blue jackets oryellow shirts. Their jobs are basically the same, which is...
01:44 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Amazon Expands Dash Buttons To More Brands, Effectively Makes The Buttons Free
 Amazon this morning announced an expansion of its Dash Buttons program, as well as incentives to encourage more Amazon Prime members to bring these new hardware devices into their home. Amazon&#...
01:22 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Social CRM Provider Capillary Technologies Raises $45M, Acquires MartJack
 Capillary Technologies, the Singapore-based social CRM company, has raised a $45 million Series C to fuel its evolution into an omnichannel retail platform. The round was led by Warburg Pincus w...
12:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Roost Raises $5.5M To Retrofit Dumb Gadgets Into Smart Gadgets
 In 2014 the Roost Smart Battery accumulated nearly $100,000 in Kickstarter pledges. But that was just the start for Roost. Today the company is announcing a $5.5 million Series A lead by RPM Ven...
12:20 pm GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch More Shots Of BlackBerry Android Phone Leak Online
 We got a glimpse of BlackBerry’s rumored Android-powered smartphone last month, in the form a render shared on Twitter by notorious leaker Evan Blass. Now photos of the Android BlackBerry ...
10:58 am GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch NewsCred Raises $42M As It Sets Its Sights Beyond Content Marketing
 NewsCred is announcing that it has raised $42 million in additional equity funding. Founded in 2008, the company started out as a system for readers to rate the credibility of every online publi...
10:05 am GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Ludacris Partners With Delivery App Roadie And Joins The Flood Of Entertainers Getting Into Startups
 Roadie, the Atlanta-based shipping marketplace that’s angling to tap drivers already on the road to deliver packages, is adding some star wattage to its team with the announcement that mus...
10:01 am GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Get The Best Trade-In Price On Your Old iPhone Before The New One Drops
 Apple is likely to drop a new pair of updated iPhones at itsspecial event on September 9.If you’re planning on taking the plunge in purchasing one ofthe new devices and are thereby unloadi...
10:00 am GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Snap Is A Stabilized 4K Drone Thats Fully Portable
Snap takes a different crack at the consumer drone equation. Rather than creating a heavy giant like the latest DJI Phantom or some crappy toy that you’d buy off QVC, Vantage Robotics has chosen...
10:00 am GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch The Eko Core Is A Digital Upgrade For The Centuries-Old Stethoscope
 In a few months, the stethoscope will celebrate its 200th birthday. A medical breakthrough in 1816, it’s still a part ofnearly every doctor’s visit todayandasymbol of medicine itself...
09:44 am GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Intel Invests In Qnovos Battery Boosting Tech
 Qnovo, a Newark, California-based firm that’s been developing battery charging enhancement technology since 2010, is today announcing an $8.6 million Series B funding round, with Intel Cap...
09:14 am GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Indonesias Snapcart Turns The Humble Receipt Into Big Data For Brands And Retailers
 Smartphones could give retailers and brands unprecedented insight into consumer spending and behavior just by allowing you to photograph your receipt. Read More ...
07:14 am GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Alibabas Streaming Video Subscription Service Rolls Out In China
 Alibaba’s unlimited video streaming subscription platform, Tmall Box Office (TBO), is now available for some users of its smart TV operating system in China. Tech In Asia spotted TBO’...
07:00 am GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Wi-Fi Sharing Community Instabridge Locates $3M Series A
 Instabridge, the WiFi sharing community and mobile app, appears to be on somewhat of a roll, including (and perhaps unsurprisingly) finding a lot of traction in developing markets where the draw...
06:55 am GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Universal Avenue, The On-Demand Sales Force App, Picks Up Further $5M Funding
 Universal Avenue is playing squarely in the on-demand economy with an app and service that lets companies, including startups, hire sales people (or ‘brand ambassadors’) on-demand. I...
06:36 am GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Kindle Unlimited Launches In India
 Kindle Unlimited, Amazon’s “all-you-can-read” subscription service, is now available in India. Pricing currently starts at 99 rupees (about $1.50) for a one-month plan, though ...
01:02 am GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Google Launches New Native Ad Format In Gmail
 Google is rolling out a new ad format in Gmail. A few years ago, Google launched a new kind of native ad in Gmail that sat at the top of the inbox and mostly looked like a regular email. For the...
01:02 am GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Google Launches Native Ads In Gmail To All Advertisers
 Google is rolling out a new ad format in Gmailto all advertisers today. A few years ago, Google launched a new kind of native ad in Gmail that sat at the top of the inbox and mostly looked like ...
01:00 am GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Lessons From A TechCrunch Disrupt Launch
 May 26, 2010, was the most stressful and exciting day of my life to date. I’ve called it the most horrible and most wonderful, too. I didn’t sleep the night before. I woke up to page...
12:36 am GMT - Wed, September 2, 2015
Techcrunch Google Introduces Uncomplicated Pay-As-You-Go Model For Its Maps API
 The Google Maps API has been a mess when it comes to pricing. The company is making moves to clean that up with a newly announced pay-as-you-go model. Here’s what the team said today about...
11:46 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Reserved Teslas Top-Line Model X SUV? You Can Start Customizing It Now
 If you reserved a “Signature Series” Model X, the $132,000 version of Tesla’s new crossover SUV,you can start modifying it to your heart’s delight. Earlier today, thecomp...
11:04 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch TransTech Helps Transgender People Get Jobs In Tech And, Soon, The White House
 Transgender and gender non-conforming people are at risk of facing injustice and discrimination wherever they are: in their childhood homes, schools, the workplace and even in line at the grocer...
11:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch E-Commerce Feed Management Company Lengow Secures 10M Series B
 Lengow, which claims to be the European leader in “e-commerce feed management,” has closed a Series B round.The French company, originally backed by Kima Ventures, the personal fund ...
10:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Why Startups Should Leverage Compliance
 Business Insider recently reported that “The Clearing House, an advocacy group owned by the world’s largest commercial banks, is gunning for payment startups.” Not surprisingly...
09:42 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Shaken Markets Bring Down Public Tech Shares As Some Recent IPOs Set New Record Lows
 If you work for a tech company, you are probably poorertoday than you were yesterday. In the midst of a broader selloff, technology as an industry managed a roughly flat performance, as measured...
09:25 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Googles New Logo Is Far More Than Just A Digital Doodle
 The more you see something, the more normal it becomes.Today, Google unveiled a new logo and branding.So far the public reaction is a mixed bag.I’m sure that most of the people who spend t...
09:05 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch U.S. District Judge Grants Uber Drivers In California Class Action Status, Uber Will Likely Appeal
 A U.S. District Judge just granted the former Uber drivers who filed a lawsuit against Uber class action status. That means the lawsuit, which argues that Uber should reimburse drivers for gas a...
07:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Register Now For Our Next Round Of Disrupt SF Hackathon Tickets
 Want to participate in the Disrupt SF Hackathon but missed out on the last ticket release? Guess what? Today we’re releasing the another round of Hackathon tickets to the public, and you c...
07:10 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Mozilla Relaunches Its Thimble Online Code Editor For Teaching HTML, CSS And JavaScript
 Back in 2012, Mozilla launched Thimble, an online code editor for teaching the basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Over time, though, things got pretty quiet around the project as other browser-...
06:52 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Feedlys News Reader Gets Business-Friendly With Shared Collections, Team Collaboration Features
 Before Google decided that its online news reading application Google Reader was too nerdy and niche to warrant its further attention, a small but devoted community of consummate news gatherers ...
06:41 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites That Use Annoying App Install Ads
 There’s nothing wrong with app install ads, but too often now, you click on a mobile search result, and when the site loads, a giant app install interstitial pops up that prompts you to in...
06:15 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Agent Q Is A Virtual Assistant Thats Focused On Helping You Shop Online
 It seems like everyone wants to build a virtual assistant that you communicate with via text message. In the case of New York City startup Agent Q, it’s an assistant that helps you shop on...
05:45 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Josh Miller Leaves Facebook for the White House
 Once an entrepreneur has sold his or her company and logged the required time with the acquiring outfit, he or she typically sets out to start another company— or become an investor. Josh ...
05:37 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch TechCrunch Is Coming To Denver For The TC Meetup Pitch-Off! Apply Now!
 Autumn is here, my friends, and with the falling leaves I bring you good tidings of great joy that shall be heard among the greater Denver area: In exactly one month, TechCrunch is hitting the R...
05:20 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Amazon, Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Partner To Create Next-Gen Video Format
 Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix today announced that they have formed a new open source alliance — the Alliance for Open Media — with the goal ofdevelopi...
05:17 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Edenworks Is Building The Future Of Food On Urban Rooftops
 Avocados from Mexico. Apples from Chile. Broccoli from China. If you take a look at the stickers on the produce you’re buying at the grocery store, chances are they’ll readsomething ...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Instagram Directs 85M Users Can Now Reply With Photos In Snapchat-Style Visual Convos
 Instagram Direct felt half-baked when the in-app chat feature launched without the ability to send photo replies in December 2013. Still, the private group messaging feature built an audience of...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch In Pursuit Of Presence And True Immersion
 The experience of “reality” is a result of our sensory organs delivering information about the external world to our brains via electrical stimulus. The brain interprets this input a...
04:25 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch On-demand Alcohol Delivery Startup Saucey Drinks To $4.5 Million In Seed Funding
 Los Angeles-based on-demand alcohol startup Sauceyhas delivered good times in a bottle since 2013 but held offraising VC funding till now. The service just pulled in $4.5 million in seed moneyto...
04:06 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch MoPub Founder Jim Payne Joins Accel As An Entrepreneur In Residence
 Jim Payne left day-to-day operations at Twitter nearly a year ago, and now he’s ready to work onhis next companyNot that Payne has been twiddling his thumbs since his departure — he&...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Kinsas New Smart Ear Thermometer Will Tell You What To Do When Youre Sick
 Kinsa, the maker of a smart thermometer that tracks the spread of illness, has today announced their second product in the form of the Kinsa in-ear thermometer. Unlike the first thermometer, whi...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch DoorDash Now Delivers More Than Food With A New 7-11 Partnership
 DoorDash, known for its restaurant delivery service,is the latest in a string of startups aiming to bringanythingto your door right within hours of ordering it. The company said it is partnering...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch DoorDash Now Delivers More Than Food With A New 7-Eleven Partnership
 DoorDash, known for its restaurant delivery service,is the latest in a string of startups aiming to bringanythingto your door right within hours of ordering it. The company said it is partnering...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Ride This One-Wheeled Gyro Skate They Call A Hoverboard
 The mad scientist who started Hoverboard Technologies calls his vehicle an “earned experience”. That means it’s hard to ride. Despite the name, this Hoverboard* doesn’t l...
03:56 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Google Gets A New Logo
 Google is giving itself a makeover today. The company today announced thatit’s making some changes to its iconic logo and overall branding. It’s also making changes to the design of ...
03:39 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Wikipedia Bans Hundreds Of Black Hat Paid Editors Who Created Promotional Pages Its Site
 Sometimes Wikipedia’s reliance on volunteers to craft its online content comes back to bite them. Case in point: this morning, the organization announced that editors on the English versio...
03:39 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Wikipedia Bans Hundreds Of Black Hat Paid Editors Who Created Promotional Pages On Its Site
 Sometimes Wikipedia’s reliance on volunteers to craft its online content comes back to bite them. Case in point: this morning, the organization announced that editors on the English versio...
02:39 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Amazon Prime Instant Video Now Lets iOS And Android Owners Download Titles For Offline Viewing
 Amazon took a big step today to differentiate its Prime Instant Video service from rival Netflix: it’s becoming the first subscription-based video streaming service to make its content ava...
02:21 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch With $50 Million Edison Nation Looks To Back A New Generation Of Inventors
 The Charlotte, N.C.-based company, whose business model is akin to the faltering Quirky, took in $50 million from a group of undisclosed backers to finance businesses that show up to its Amazon ...
02:19 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Samsung Stock Down For Fifth Month In A Row
 Samsung shares fell another 8.1 percent this month, losing $12 billion in value. The company has lost $44 billion in value since April.Analysts believe that low demand for the company’s ne...
02:02 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Mobile Gaming Live-Streaming Service Mobcrush Raises $11M
 Mobcrush, which live-streams mobile games like Twitch does for PC games, said today that it has raised $11 million in a new financing round led by Kleiner Perkins. TechCrunch previously reported...
02:02 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Siri Drives Apple CarPlay (Review)
 The streamlined 2016 Corvette Stingray is one of thefirst vehicles to ship with Apple CarPlay in the States. Simply put, it’s an iPhone for your dashboard, which Apple and car makers hope ...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch LotusFlare Raises $6 Million To Help Emerging Markets Access The Mobile Internet
 The mobile revolution may be booming, but not everyone has the same level of access. That’s why major tech companies like Facebook and Google are building out systems involving drones or h...
01:59 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Nextbits Robin Is An Android Smartphone That Taps The Cloud For Bonus Smarts
 A little over a year ago, we broke the news that Nextbit, a company founded by early Android veterans, had raised $18 million dollars for… something. Something secret. Today, they’re...
01:51 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch WellAware Raises Additional $16 Million For Its Oil And Gas Monitoring Services
 With the new money WellAware looks to double down on its expansion in the oil and gas industry in the U.S. and abroad. Read More ...
01:36 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Good News, Everyone! Chrome Just Killed Flash Ads
 Chrome, the browser used by over 50% of the Internet, is officially preferring HTML5 ads over Flash content, a move that should finally dump the failed media platform into the trash heap of hist...
01:25 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Yummly Raises $15 Million At $100M Valuation For Its Recipe Recommendation And Food Delivery Business
 Yummly, the online recipe recommendation and food delivery service has raised $15 million in a new round of funding led by Bauer Venture Partners that values the company at $100 million. Read Mo...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch 3D Robotics Launches 3DU To Promote The Use Of Drones In Education
 3D Robotics (3DR), the largest North American consumer drone manufacturer, today announced the launch of its 3DUeducational program. 3DU aims to bring drones to more schools — ranging from...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Pandora To Celebrate 10th Anniversary With Day Of Ad-Free Listening
 Our beloved Pandora is 10 years old this month. The music company has endured ups and downs but is set to celebrate that milestone anniversary on the 9th. It’s quite impressive. What start...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Trusted Lets Parents Book Vetted Babysitters At The Last Minute
 Trusted is launching a new servicefor parents in search of high-quality babysitters — particularly parents who need to find someone ASAP. CEO Anand Iyer compared the startup’s approa...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Guru, With $2.7 Million In Funding, Simplifies Internal Knowledge Sharing
 Given the speed at which startups often grow, disseminating important information to the folks that need it (when they need it) can become a huge hurdle. Guru, started by Boomi founder Rick Nucc...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Checking Out? Hiltons App Now Lets You Grab An Uber
 Hilton and Uber announced a partnership today to let hotel guests grab a ride from anywhere they are staying in the world on the hotel’s HHonors app. Ride-sharing services like Uber and Ly...
12:59 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Nests Smart Thermostat Gets Updated With A Bigger, Brighter Screen
 Back in June, Nest overhauled just about every product they make… save for one curious exception: the smart thermostat that most know them for best. Two months later, Nest’s thermost...
12:58 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch European Premium Restaurant Delivery Service Take Eat Easy Closes 10M Series B
 The European premium restaurant delivery space appears to show no signs of cooling. As recently as July, London’s Deliveroo raised a $70 million Series C for further international expansio...
12:54 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Samsung Preps Apple News Rival In Europe, Inks Axel Springer Deal
 Samsung has inked a strategic partnership with European media giant Axel Springer. The pair said they will work together on “digital media offerings exclusively for Samsung customers”...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Apttus Enjoys A $108M Round As Business Grows In Leaps And Bounds
 Just a couple of years ago Apttus, a quote-to-cash SaaS company built on top of Salesforce.com, had a couple of hundred employees. Today it has 900 and projects more than a 1000by the end of the...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Apttus Enjoys A $108M Round As Business Grows Leaps And Bounds
 Just a couple of years ago Apttus, a quote-to-cash SaaS company built on top of Salesforce.com, had a couple of hundred employees. Today it has 900 and projects more than 1,000by the end of the ...
11:00 am GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Used Car Retailer, Shift, Raises $50 Million In Round Led By Goldman Sachs
 With $50 million in new funding, the online used car marketplace Shift is hoping to drive off the stereotypes and outrace the stigma associated with buying used cars. Read More ...
10:00 am GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch PayPal Launches PayPal.Me, A Simpler Way To Request Money Using Your Own Personalized URL
 PayPal today is launching a new take on peer-to-peer payments with the debut of a platform it’s callingPayPal.Me. For the first time, PayPal customerswill be able to set up their own user ...
08:30 am GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Apply to the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt London NOW
 Vacation month is coming to a close in Europe and not a moment too soon. Applications are now open for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt London. If you’re new to the whole “Battlefi...
06:46 am GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Is Expecting Twins, Plans Limited Time Off Work
 Marissa Mayer is expecting twins, but the Yahoo CEO and former Google executive isn’t planning to take a significant break from work during or after her pregnancy. Read More ...
05:14 am GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch LinkedIn Messaging Gets Long Overdue Revamp, Adding GIFs, Emojis And Stickers
 If you’re anything like me or most people I know, you almost certainly have a profile on LinkedIn but you probably never (ever ever) use its messaging service. Well, LinkedIn hopes that by...
04:35 am GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch CatchThatBus Lands $1.5M For Mobile Bus Ticketing In Southeast Asia
 CatchThatBus, the startup behind a mobile app that covers bus booking and information in Malaysia and Singapore, has closed a $1.5 million bridge round ahead of a planned Series A raise and expa...
03:49 am GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch IDG Ventures Closes on $120 Million for Its Third Fund
 IDG Ventures, an early-stage venture firm that was among the first VCoutfits to plant its flag in San Francisco instead ofSilicon Valley, has raised $120 million for its third and newest fund, a...
03:26 am GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Messaging Firm Line Introduces A Launcher App For Android Devices
 Line, the Japanese messaging company, has continued with its policy of launching new apps and services after it released an Android launcher app. Read More ...
01:34 am GMT - Tue, September 1, 2015
Techcrunch Federal Agent Pleads Guilty To Obstruction And Money Laundering In Silk Road Case
 U.S. Secret Service special agent Shaun W. Bridges of Laurel, Maryland, pleaded guilty today before the U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg of the Northern District of California to obstruction ...
10:28 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Watch This Guy Fly In A 54-Propeller Super Drone
 Flying drones are all the rage right now. The latest DJI Phantom is smoking hot. But sitting in your very own one and flying it? That’s uncharted territory…until now. Check out this ...
09:30 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Ashley Madison Says Business Is Booming
 If you felt bad for the folks who work at “discreet encounter” site Ashley Madison, don’t. They’re just fine, apparently. According to this lovely press release, the comp...
09:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch The Real Unicorns Are Female Angel Investors
 Despite the attention over the past year, the lack of diversity in tech — both in race and gender — has not markedly changed. Only 3 percent of tech CEOs are women, and just 15 perce...
09:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Samsung Announces The Samsung Gear S2, Now More Round
 Samsung has just announced their new smartwatch, the Samsung Gear S2. The watch is unique in that it has a round rotating bezel – the thing on the edge of the crystal – in addition t...
08:35 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Googles Self-Driving Car Tests Continue In Austin, Sans Humans (And Dont Worry, It Can Handle Deer)
 Google announced in July that it’d be taking its self-driving car test on the road…to beautiful Austin. It has done just that, and the company looks to be expanding the tests it̵...
08:26 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Buddy Is A Really, Really, Ridiculously Cute Family Robot
Robots need better PR agents. They’re often portrayed as hard-edged, cold automatons that are just waiting to kill you in your sleep. Buddy, a family robot currentlyavailable forpre-order on Ind...
07:35 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Google Brings Its Interest-Based Collections Feature To iOS
 Google+ Collections, the company’s effort at establishing its Google+ social network as more of a Pinterest competitor (since taking on Facebook didn’t go so well), has launched toda...
06:36 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Prepare Yourself For A Rollicking Bitcoin Panel At TechCrunch Disrupt
 What do you get when you put a Casares, a Popper, and a Lee on stage? Some Bitcoin madness, that’s what. Join us at Disrupt in San Francisco next month to talk to some of the biggest names...
06:35 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Apple And Cisco Ink Nebulous Enterprise Partnership
 Apple playing nicely with enterprise companies is a sight for sore eyes. The edict that Microsoft has enterprise on lockdown is dissipating. Huge enterprise player Cisco and Apple announced a &#...
06:35 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Enter To Win A Pair Of Tickets To Disrupt SF 2015
 Disrupt San Francisco is a few weeks away, and to celebrate we’re giving away a pair of tickets to one lucky TechCrunch reader (a $5,990 value). You can earn extra entries to the contest b...
06:33 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch KeyRaider Malware Responsible For Possibly Largest Known Apple Account Theft To Date, Affecting 225,000 Users
 Jailbreaking your iPhone has its downsides. In what’s being called the “largest known Apple account theft caused by malware,” security specialistsPalo Alto Networkson Sunday re...
06:26 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Smaato Ad Report Shows Big Growth On The Mobile Web
 Ad spending on the mobile web doubled in the first half of 2015 (compared to the same period last year), according to a new report fromSmaato. Specifically, Smaato saw itstotal ad spendsplit bet...
06:14 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Google Starts Deprecating Web Hosting Support In Google Drive
 One of the lesser-known features of Google Drive has always been its ability to host basic web sites for free. If you only found out about this from the preceding sentence, you now have one year...
05:40 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Indias Antitrust Commission Accuses Google Of Rigging Its Search Results
 Less than a week after it responded to anti-competitive claims laid down by the EU, so Google is under-fire again for its business practices. This time in India. Read More ...
05:40 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Tep Is An Adorable Fitness Tracking App That Works Like A Tamagotchi
 Remember the Tamagotchi? Those little monsters were great. A new iOS app called Tep created a Tamagotchi-like app for your phone to help you stay motivated when it comes to working out. Move aro...
05:11 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Hit Video Messaging App Dubsmash Raises $5.5 Million Led by Index Ventures
 Dubsmash, a roughly two-year-old, 15-person, Berlin-based startup whose video messaging app lets userscreate and share dubbed “selfie” videos (you choose afamousaudio clip, then reco...
04:56 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch This Week On The TechCrunch Bitcoin Podcast: The Number 8
 TCBTC, TechCrunch’s bitcoin podcast is back this week, on video, with a special guest, and no John Biggs. All that is fun, aside from the lack of Biggs. Jason Rowley, the person who actual...
04:51 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Issara Is Everlane For Leather Goods
 Meet Issara, a new e-commerce player focused on selling leather goods, cutting the middleman and fairly compensating workers. In many ways, Issara is reminiscent of Everlane, a clothing startup ...
04:47 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Slings Streaming TV Service For Cord Cutters Now Runs On Amazon Tablets
 Sling TV, the Dish-owned live TV service aimed at cord cutters – or those who never wanted to sign up for a traditional cable or satellite TV subscription in the first place – is tod...
04:22 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Apple TV 4 Will Retail Under $200 Starting In October: Report
 Though there has been quite a bit said about the forthcoming Apple TV 4, price is still a yet-to-be-determined factor. But 9to5Mac’s Mark Gurman has sources who say the new box, reportedly...
04:15 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Eatsa, A Futuristic Restaurant Where Robot Cubbies Serve Quinoa
 Eatsa has no lines because it has no cashiers. You order on an iPad, your name comes up on a transparent LCD screen box, and you pull out a bowl of quinoa. Opening today in San Francisco at 121 ...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch The Best Times To Get A Grip On Your Startups IP
 What’s a tech startup’s most valuable asset? It’s not the seed money. It’s not the workspace. And it’s definitely not the espresso machine or Ping Pong table. The p...
03:58 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Wiselike, The Q&A Platform For Professionals, Picks Up $1.25M In Seed Funding
 There is no shortage of Q&A platforms on the web. But today, a new startup with fresh funding is looking to repurpose the Q&A format into something more valuable for the asker, the answe...
03:46 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Newer Android Wear Watches Now Work On iOS
 More than ayear after the launch of the first Android Wear watches, Google is now finally bringingiOSsupporttoits smartwatch platformwith the launch of itsAndroid Wear mobile app in Apple’...
03:41 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch With Recently, Receive A Monthly Printed Magazine With Your Camera Roll
 Many, many startups let you send postcards and print photo albums from your phone, but this startup is different. Recently is a subscription service to receive a monthly magazine with your best ...
03:07 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch New Xbox One Bundle Comes With 1TB Hybrid Drive, New Elite Controller For $499
 Microsoft just announced a new bundle for the Xbox One. The Xbox One Elite Bundle is the first bundle to come with Microsoft’s new Elite controller. But that’s not all as the company...
02:58 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch The FAA Starts Moving To The Cloud
 The Federal Aviation Administrationplans to move away from its own data centers and toward cloud services.Last week, the FAAsigned a deal with Computer Science Corp. (CSC) to help it migrate its...
02:41 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Cheap Airfare Finder Hopper Hits Android, Now Books Tickets With Just A Few Taps
 Hopper, a travel application launched earlier this year with the goal of helping you pay less for airfare by telling you the best time to buy tickets, is out today with a new version that will a...
02:40 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch T-Mobile Doesnt Like Customers Who Use 2,000GB Of Data Per Month
 T-Mobile CEO John Legere issued a strong announcement saying that some customers are abusing the company’s network. While T-Mobile has become quite popular with its unlimited LTE mobile pl...
01:54 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Ashley Madison Refutes Claims That Its Site Was Populated With Fake Female Accounts
 Avid Life Media, the parent company behind hacked dating site Ashley Madison, says this morning that media reports claiming the site had very few active female users were inaccurate. That’...
01:15 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Twitter Is Testing Funky New Photo And Video Editing Tools
 It looks like Twitter is planning to give its users a lot more creativity in the photo and video department soon. That’s according to numerous images posted by Taylor Swift, Pharrell Willi...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch AOL Acquires Photo And Messaging Startup Kanvas Labs
 AOL is announcing another acquisition — Kanvas Labs, maker of mobilesocialapps. An AOL spokesperson told me that the company will continue to offer the existing Kanvas Labs products. Those...
08:07 am GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch LG Is Selling A Gold-Plated Version Of Its Watch Urbane Smartwatch For $1,200
 Android fans wanting a touch of gold with their smartwatch — a la the Apple Watch — may be interested to learn of a fancy version of LG’s Watch Urbane. Read More ...
04:57 am GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Netflix Is Letting A Number Of Hollywood Movies Go In Order To Focus On Exclusives
 Neflix is bidding adieu to a slew of top Hollywood films from Epix as it continues to focus on hosting exclusive content on its service. As joint venture between MGM, Lions Gate Entertainment an...
02:00 am GMT - Mon, August 31, 2015
Techcrunch Why Silicon Valley Falls Short When It Comes To Education
 Despite Silicon Valley billionaires’ remarkable track record of innovation, it appears they have decided to throw in the towel on higher education. Each year, many donate millions to old-l...