Articles by Techcrunch from October 2015

 500 Startups today presented its 14th batch of companies at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, with a spooky twist. Dave McClure said this batch wasless international than...

 Startup Monclarity announced today that it has raised $5 million in seed funding from Access Industries. And it recently unveiled Brainwell, a brain-training app available on iOS, Android, Kindl...

 The Title III regulations, which I wrote about earlier, are now a reality… so cry havoc and unleash the crowdfunding marketplaces. Read More ...

 HUDWAY is a piece of glass thatturns any smartphone into a heads-up display on the front of your car. The device beams information from your phone to a thin layer of curved glass mounted to the ...

 Outside of the deals they give students and the occasional Black Friday hook up, Apple… isn’t exactly known for throwing around discounts. So here’s a wild one: Apple is experi...

 Most kids love Halloween.Most kids also love video games.Put the two together, and you’re going to be the king of your neighborhood (if only for a night).That’s exactly what Rich Fio...

 Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Kevin MArks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session at 1pmPT today. Gillmor Gang LIVE chatroom powered by ChatCenterGillmor Gang on Facebook ...

 There’s a coming scrum that will involve all the major Internet giants, and the stakes are just being set now. It’s a fight for video footprint; specifically for off-network video di...

 Here’s a fun example of how news publishers can take advantage of technology — the Financial Times just launched a collaboration with Google called Hidden Cities.Brussels is the firs...

 Amazon is exiting the daily deals space. According to a message now being displayed on the Amazon Local homepage, the company’s deals platform is closing up shop on December 18, 2015. At t...

 Another work week has come and gone, and today marks the beginning of a fresh weekend. And what better way to start it than with a listen to the old TechCrunch Gadgets podcast. We’re discu...

 The founders of Legion Analytics say they’re offering a better way forsalespeople to find new customers. The startup is part of Y Combinator’s new fellowship system, an eight-week pr...

 If you’re not familiar with Shark Tank, it’s ABC’s show that drops companies in front of investors from all walks of life, including the very loud Mark Cuban, owner of the Dall...

 Today, there are a variety of apps to choose from if you just want to privately chat with friends or even place phone calls without having to give out your real phone number – for example,...

 This week, we watched an NBA game in virtual reality, a number of tech companies reported earnings, and we went hands-on with the OnePlus X Android phone. These are our best stories. Read More ...

 Strap in, friends, bitcoin is back. After spending most of the year in something approaching the doldrums, the cryptocurrency is enjoying a strong price rally, pushing it to its highest value of...

 The Apple TV, complete with a brand new remote and its own app ecosystem, is today available in retail stores. You can pick up the $149 set top box at your local Apple Store, and 9to5mac reports...

 Tired of being monitored by your company while wanting to dish with colleagues about said company?Or maybe you’recurious aboutwhat people with similar workexperience are making at other co...

 Some big-name brick-and-mortar retailers have made the decision to stay closed on Thanksgiving Day, but that decision – nor all those Facebook pledges to not shop on the holiday – wi...

 In 2004 I started the first VoIP-based SaaS company for the call center market. Based on the moderate success we achieved, I thought making a play in the healthcare industry would be a cakewalk....

 The Securities and Exchange Commissionis about to vote on Title III Crowdfunding regulations, designed to open up investments in private companies to all investors — rather than just the a...

 Amazon today rolled out a small, but useful benefit for Amazon Prime members who use the company’s Prime Music streaming service. Though the service already offered the ability to download...

 Bob Ross is taking over Twitch. There are currently more people watching Bob Ross paint a covered bridge than there are viewers of Dota 2 or Hearthstone. Twitch’s Creative channel has abou...

 HTC’s latest financial results are out, and the struggling Taiwanese company is still struggling after posting a net loss of NT$4.5 billion ($139 million) on revenue of NT$21.4 billion ($6...

 Well that was quick. Europe’s controversial new net neutrality rules haven’t even come into force yet and German mobile carrier Deutsche Telekom is suggesting it intends to charge st...

 Chrome OS, the “cloud” operating system that Google introduced for laptops and Android, the operating system on phones and tablets may become one, according to a report by the Wall S...

 A number of Facebook users recentlyreported seeing a new feature called “Local Market” appearing briefly in their Facebook iPhone app, sometimes in place of the “Messenger̶...

 During CEO Jack Dorsey’s keynote at Twitter’s developer conference, Flight, the promise was made to developers that there would be more listening and more transparency from the compa...

 Shots has been pigeonholed since birth. First it was dismissed as just a startup funded by Justin Bieber. Then it was laughed at for being an app just for selfies. But after 2 years, $15.2 milli...

 Sending out a message to the rest of the world can be a bold move, especially when it’s being sent to a bunch of random folk. Fling is looking to make the process of anonymous photo and vi...

 The founder of Yahoo-acquired Summly, Nick D’Aloisio, has left the company to focus on his philosophy and computer science schoolwork at Oxford, we’ve confirmed with D’Aloisio....

 Getting lots of money from point A to point B is pretty easy if you have lots of money. If you want to send a little money, however, you run into a lot of problems. That’s where TransferTo...

 Analysts expected the solar energy company SolarCity’s revenue to hit $111 million in the third quarter, 2015. But the company beat expectations with a near $114 million bump in revenue an...

 Following the bell, device management shop MobileIron announced its fiscal third quarter financial performance, including revenue of $38.0 million,and adjusted profit of negative $0.20. Using no...

 LinkedIn handily beat analystexpectations today with revenue of $780 million and earnings of 78 cents per share.Analysts were expecting earnings of 45 cents per share on about $756 million in re...

 For centuries, the college degree has been the global gold standard for assessing an individual entering the workforce. But after cornering the credentials market for nearly a millennium, the de...

 Tridentis a remote-controlled, camera-equipped underwater drone – and it’s the fastest machine yet from underwater robotics startup OpenROV. Trident can go “as fast as Michael ...

 The Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on Thursday voted former government contractor Edward Snowden should be granted asylum in Europe on the grounds that he is a “defender of huma...

 A great deal of enterprise messaging service Slack’s success has come from their product’s ability to allow companies to communicate internally in a fluid and transparent manner. Now...

 A great deal of Slack’s success has come from its ability to allow companies to communicate internally in a fluid and transparent manner. Now the enterprise messaging service is looking to...

 Whether or not we all show up in 2016, the Uber or Airbnb moment hasn’t yet arrived in politics. Disruption is everywhere in America except in the corridors of Washington DC. Let’s h...

 If you were to collect all of the designer-label jewelry and watches in the world and throw them in a pile, TrueFacet cofounder and CEO Tirath Kamdar tells TechCrunch, over 40 percent of the pil...

 Microsoft today announced its plans to extend the social features of Office by integrating Skype into Office Online, allowing users to communicate by voice and video chat within Word, Excel, Pow...

 Facebook has hit user saturation in its core developed world markets, so to boost revenue, it needs to make ads work in emerging markets with older technology. But video, the hottest ad format, ...

 Facebook has hit user saturation in its core developed world markets. A strong way to boost revenue is for Facebook tomake ads work better in emerging markets with older technology. But video, t...

 The Seattle-based online home services platform Porch.com today announced that it has acquired Fountain, a servicethat connects Internet users with doctors, lawyers, mechanics, tech support and ...

 VSCO, one of the few apps to give Facebook’s Instagram solid competition with aphoto editing application aimed at more serious mobile photographers, is today releasing its next new creatio...

 A familiar face is returning to Twitter. Jessica Verrilli is rejoining the company after a 5ish month partner stint at Google Ventures. Sudden change of heart, perhaps? Her GV bio is still up on...

 The year is 2015 and yet the promise of the “personal cloud” has failed me. There are tons of drag and drop and syncing “backup services” but nowhere that’s my slic...

 Bop.fm — a Y Combinator startup that had built a platform to sharelinks formusic tracksacross a number of different walled-garden streaming services— has been acquired. But it’...

 OpenGov launched Comparisons yesterday morning, a feature that allows local and municipal governments in its network to compare their performances against other jurisdictionsand established benc...

 Giphy, the popular resource for finding and sharing GIFs, has rolled out a significant upgrade to its flagship mobile application today, which sees the app rebranded from an add-on utility for F...

 Sonos has long been my favorite speaker company. While the sound quality is fair to good – I’ve heard better and I’ve heard far worse – the ease of use, the simplicity of...

 Tea making is a delicate process that only the truest of enthusiasts around the world appreciate. The time-honored tradition of sourcing the right ingredients, taking care to consider the age of...

 Flywheel, the app for hailing taxis, has a pilot program in place with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to implement its new platform, TaxiOS, into 70 cabs. TaxiOS, which is an ...

 Photo slideshows for TVs suck. With Apple TV promising to rethink the way we watch TV, isn’t it time that someone changed how we view our own photo and video content? Storehouse is on it. ...

 According to some estimates, the global cost of cybercrime in 2013 was $113 billion. The actual cost may vary, but whatever the true figure, it’s a spicy meatball. Human beings really aren...

 If software is eating the world, it’s also eating our houses. The real estate market changed radically when companies like Zillow unpacked the data around house sales. In theory you’...

 Earlier this year, the law firm Fenwick & West publishedareport analyzing the financing terms of 37 U.S.-based venture-backed companies that raised money at valuations of $1 billion or more ...

 Talkspace, the service that lets users have unlimited messaging to their therapists for $25/week, has today publicly launched asynchronous audio and video messaging between patients and therapis...

 The Amazon-owned video game streaming site Twitch is doubling down on what the company says has been a rapidly growing source of non-gaming videoson its site: creative content. Yes: like arts an...

 Last week, when Helsinki-based Angry Birds publisher Rovio confirmed it would cut 213 jobs, it also said it would shutdown its education division, with some of itseducation employees forming asp...

 Modsy is today launching a private beta for its novel approach to home design. Using sophisticated 3D rendering solutions, the service turns photos of your simple room into the swanky home of yo...

 Frazier Healthcare Partners, a 24-year-old venture firm that invests only in healthcare and has offices in both Seattle and Menlo Park, Ca., has just closed its eighth fund with $262 million fro...

 Blippar, the ad platform that delivers AR content through real-world tags, has today announced the acquisition of Binocular. Binocular is an Austin, TX-based company that creates augmented reali...

 Are you sick of not knowing what the weather will be like at your cousin’s best friend’s sister’s birthday party that is in six months? Well, now you can know exactly what the ...

 For years, truckers have had to keep unwieldy paper log books in order to track their hours, which complicates fleet management for trucking companiesbecause they have to sort through faxes and ...

 The U.K. government continues to tie itself in ugly knots about encryption. The question is why?Earlier this year Prime Minister David Cameron made comments on the tech widely interpreted as an ...

 Food delivery startup Gobble is announcing that it has raised $10.75 million in Series A funding. Gobble does the measuring, chopping, mixing and (to a certain extent) cooking for its customers....

 Want to participate in the Disrupt London Hackathon but missed out on the first ticket release? Great news. Today we’re releasing the second wave of Hackathon tickets to the general public...

 Line, one of Asia’s top messaging app companies, got back to positive financial growth after recovering its first quarterly revenue drop. The Japanese company said its messaging app servic...

 In a little over a month, dozens of startups from around the world will make their way to London’s Copper Box Arena for TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015. Will your company be among them? We ...

 We got a look at the new device(s) at a San Francisco event earlier this week. The Onyx version is available on OnePlus.net in the UK on November 5th for EUR269 and in the US on November 19th fo...

 Social media is officially eating Internet and where the people go with their eyeballs so do the brands. But the brands are – largely – all at sea, still trying to figure all this st...

 Social media is officially eating Internet and where the people go with their eyeballs so do the brands. But the brands are – largely – all at sea, still trying to figure all this st...

 Sony’s financial turnaround continues with its Q2 2015 period. The Japanese company posted a slim net profit of $280 million (33.6 billion JPY) on revenue of $15.8 billion (1,892.7 billion...

 Nintendo fans waiting for the Japanese gaming giant to release its first mobile game this year will have to wait a little longer, after the schedule for its much-anticipated first release was bu...

 Samsung beat expectations from analysts in Q3 2015, but with little to no help from its mobile business. The Korean firm’s semiconductor and display panel divisions were the stand-outs tha...

The last 20 years of my life – from about senior year of high school until now – I have made a concerted effort not to look like a nerdy weirdo doofus head. It’s been a hard road, I ...

 The last 20 years of my life – from about senior year of high school until now – I have made a concerted effort not to look like a nerdy weirdo doofus head. It’s been a hard ro...

 Excitement about 3D printing has steadily accelerated over the past decade — but this excitement has largely outpaced innovation and development in the field. As a researcher in 3D printin...

In Silicon Valley and beyond there are several companies that are working to change the systemic problems with our government, and it’s worth highlighting their efforts. Read More ...

 Admit it: When you think of online research, it’s usually just a fancy way of saying you’re going to Google something — I’m guilty, anyway. Los Angeles-based Edtwist isn&...

In today’s tech climate – where financing sources are plentiful and investor optimism is generally high – many believe that there has been no better time to get funded and realize th...

 The Ethereum project and Consensys, the company created by one of the project’s co-creators, have received a huge vote of approval from one of the world’s biggest enterprise software...

 After staying relatively quiet on the future of virtual reality, Apple has made its first foray into the space via a 360-degree U2 music video made available on the Vrse app. The music video is ...

 GoPro is working on a drone that’s scheduled for release in early 2016. The company just posted a sneak peak of footage captured from the new drone. Spoiler: It’s silky smooth.This f...

 GoPro is working on a drone that’s scheduled for release in early 2016. The company just posted a sneak peak of footage captured from the new drone. Spoiler: It’s silky smooth.This f...

 U.S. regulators today announced new exemptions to a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that will make it possible for nerds to tinker with cars and gadgets without breaking...

 Today marks the one-year anniversary of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) declaring the HTML5 standard complete, a significant milestone in the history of the Internet and web application deve...

 After first announcing a split from eBay more than a year ago, PayPal today reported quarterly earnings for the first time as an independent company.The company reported adjusted earnings of $0....

 The game is afoot for social networking as the landscape continues to change. Read More ...

 Today following the bell, Yelp reported its third-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $143.6 million, and earnings per share of $0.03, calculated using non-traditional metrics.In...

 GoPro took a dive Wednesday after releasing Q3financials that disappointed street expectations.At the market’s close, GoProreported a miss on itsQ3 earnings,postingan adjusted $0.25 per sh...

 Forget that Google Fiber went down in Kansas City during the World Series last night, the service is speedy as all hell.Today, the Fiber team announced the exploration of 3 new locations: Oklaho...

 Today Facebook gathered reporters before its FbStart developer event to provides updates on the social network’s platform including a version of the “Share To Facebook” tool th...

 Facebook’s platform strategy is finally coming to fruition as it builds ad buying into the free analytics tool it offers app developers. Today Facebook gathered reporters before its FbStar...

 There’s a connected gadget for just about anything these days. Why should flossing be any different?Flosstime, launched on Kickstarter with a $15,000 goal, is a smart floss dispenser that ...

 Chris Michel talks about the similarity between photographing the North Pole and being an entrepreneur, his learnings from being fired as CEO of his first company, similarities and differences b...

 The Women’s Freedom Conferencemade history this past Sunday as the first all-digital, highly accessible conference organized by all women of color. The creator of the conference,Feminista ...

 If your Princess is in another castle, maybe you can write her out of it. StoryShop is a new piece of software for writers by the guys who wrote Write, Publish, Repeat and it aims to make it wic...

 There are a number of ways to customize an Android smartphone, but one of the more unexpected tools to emerge earlier this year was Arrow, an Android launcher application designed by Microsoft. ...

 Twitch? Who needs it. Today, Google Play Games announced a new feature which will let you record and share your gameplay moments with others. No, it’s not for streaming hours of footage, i...

 Microsoft announced today it will rollout new versions of its flagship mobile email application, Outlook for iOS and Outlook for Android, which combined,reach nearly 30 million users, the compan...

 Plans by the UK government to curtail the number of skilled tech workers allowed into the country have received a stinging rebuke from over 200 of the UK’s most successful technology entre...

 Google is doubling down on its investment in its Twitch competitor, YouTube Gaming, with today’s launch of a new feature in its Google Play Games appthat will allow users to record and sha...

 Google is doubling down on its investment in its Twitch competitor, YouTube Gaming, with today’s launch of a new feature in its Google Play Games appthat will allow users to record and sha...

 Work hard, write code, get rich. The technology business is rarely regarded as anything other than fast-paced and family-phobic. But the last few months have felt like a summer of change, as com...

 Alteryx, which offers an analytics tool aimed at business users, announced an $85 million round today. Today’s deal comes on top of the $60 million deal last October and brings the total r...

 There are a number of digital tools that can help consumerssave money when they’re shopping in-store or online, including mobile coupons, discount codes, rebates, digitized circulars, barc...

 There are a number of digital tools that can help consumerssave money when they’re shopping in-store or online, including mobile coupons, discount codes, rebates, digitized circulars, barc...

 So I watched a good chunk of the Golden State Warriors game in virtual reality last night (thanks to the NextVR app), and I’m happy to report that I didn’t puke.Even though I was in ...

 Teenagers have short attention spans, but Snapchat’s latest feature could keep them tuned in. Today Snapchat is introducing a new set of filters called “Speed Modifiers” for vi...

 IBM announced this morning it’s acquiring The Weather Company, the parent company to the The Weather Channel, as well as the company’s B2B, mobile and web properties, in a deal that&...

 If you live in the U.S., you might not be terribly familiar with Klarna, a 10-year-year-old Stockholm-based company that provides payment services for online storefronts in a somewhat unique way...

 If you live in the U.S., you might not be terribly familiar with Klarna, a 10-year-old Stockholm-based company that provides payment services for online storefronts in a somewhat unique way R...

 Hello friends, and welcome back to Bullish, TechCrunch’s first talk show, and thing that I have run out of opening jokes for. This week we duginto an issue that is near to us all: Cyerbsec...

 A group of U.S. and EU digital rights organizations and consumer NGOs — including the EFF, the U.S. Center for Digital Democracy, the European Consumer Organization and Privacy Internation...

 Weeks after revealing plans to use drones to deliver the mail, Singpost — Singapore’s postal service provider — has unveiled another futuristic e-commerce concept, a mall that ...

 Hardware startups building atop the Raspberry Pi microprocessor — of which there are plenty already — can now order custom tweaks to the hardware to better tailor the Pi to fit the n...

 It’s no secret that HP is about to sunset its public cloud businessand that it has conceded that side of its business to the likes of AWS, Microsoft and Google. Instead, the company is now...

 The U.K. competition watchdog has given a provisional green light to the $19 billion acquisition of mobile carrier EE by incumbent telco BT. Read More ...

 Splittable, the London-based startup that makes an app to help manage and share household expenses, has raised $1.2 million in new funding to further build out the software and increase marketin...

 We’re excited to announce that Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Alphabet (formerly Google), will open the TechCrunch China event in Beijing, which takes place November 2-3. Read More ...

 When Nevada banned daily fantasy sports last week, many believed it would be the catalyst for other states to either ban or attempt to regulate the growing industry.An announcement today from Il...

 If you’re a consumer-brand marketer, you’ve no doubt given thought to running a marketing campaign or having a presence on a mobile messaging app. After all, every consumer is increa...

 Omise, a relative newcomer to the payments space in Southeast Asia, landed a $2.3 million Series A investment earlier this year, and now the Bangkok-based startup has pulled in more money via an...

 Rackspace is getting deeper into the container game. The company today announced the beta launch of its Carina container service. Carina gives developers access to a fully managed container envi...

 During Twitter’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Jack Dorsey let us know that the company would be running a new TV commercial during the World Series.As The Verge points out, this commercial was do...

 Less than a week after selling SecondMarket to NASDAQ, BarrySilbert has announced the official launch and and first round of fundingfor Digital Currency Group. Talking onstage to TechCrunch Edit...

 The legacy payroll company ADP on Tuesday dropped its defamation lawsuit against its quickly growing competitor, Zenefits. In a major victory for the startup, a U.S. District Court for the North...

 Heists used to be so much effort — you’d need a gang, machine guns, a getaway car and long, meticulous planning. Nowadays, all you need is a couch, a laptop and some stolen data. Whe...

 Apple Pay is pretty nifty, but it’s a whole lot less useful outside of the US and UK — as in, it doesn’t work yet. That’s changing soon, it seems. On their earnings call ...

 In a crushing blow to the tech industry and privacy advocates, the Senate today passed the controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA). The bill, which passed the Senate on a bipa...

 Apple continued at a good clip in iPhone 6 and 6s sales during its fourth fiscal quarter 2015, hitting 48 million units sold. That’s up from 47.5 million in Q3 and a year-over-year increas...

 During Twitter’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Jack Dorsey was joined by COO Adam Bain and CFO Anthony Noto. The call was broadcasted live on Periscope for the second straight time. Watching @jack...

 This week on Cribs we take a ride on over to the Sunnyvale, California, office space for website domain registration service GoDaddy. This is a publicly traded company and the world’s larg...

 Despite months ofmajor fluctuations in theChinese stock market, Apple still managed to have an outstanding quarter inChina. Duringits fourthquarter, the company saw 99% year-over-year revenue gr...

 Apple is reporting its third-quarter earnings after the bell this afternoon. This will be the first quarter where the company’s new iPhones have been on sale — though only for a few ...

 Following the bell, Twitter announced its third quarter financial performance, including revenue of $569.2 million, and adjusted earnings per share of $0.10. The market had expected the popular ...

 The all-important topic for Twitter, and the one that Wall Street is eyeing the closest, is whether the company can scrounge up some new users to join the service. Yep, growth. This quarter last...

 Comcast on Tuesday morning reported its third quarter earnings, posting revenue of $18.7 billion and adjusted profit of 80 cents per share, in line with analyst expectations.The company beat sal...

 Call it the Pandora effect? On the heels of the online music company posting a Q3 loss of nearly $86 million, music streaming company Deezerhas announced that it would be postponing its own publ...

 Call it the Pandora effect? The problems of the streaming music model? The crush of competition from Apple Music? Whatever the root cause,Deezerhas had to face the music on its plans for an IPO:...

 Google wants you to be able to consume more, and faster, which is why they built the OnHub router that they announced in August. We were a bit surprised by the move, but not shocked, with Google...

 Someone might want you to call them, but if you don’t have their random string of digits, you can’t. And you could miss something extremely important if a person you’ve never m...

 Minibar, the digital service layer connecting delivery liquor stores with consumers, has today announced the launch of a new subscription feature, letting users set up recurring deliveries. With...

 When 27-year-old Ruth Mesfun started working at Excellence Girls Middle Academy in Brooklyn two years ago, there was no computer science program at the all-girls school, which is92% African-Amer...

 In the ongoing saga of big companies failing to understand what they are doing on the Internet we point you to Sony Music vs. Mitch Martinez. Mitch is a videographer who makes cool visuals and r...

 A couple of weeks ago, LinkedIn announced a new version of its recruitment product, giving HR teams the ability to lookfor new hires that most closely match the profiles of employees they alread...

 So we’re definitely at the “see-what-we-can-do-with-virtual-reality” stage of virtual reality. You’re going to be bombarded with cool tricks that show off the “pote...

 Marketing is the art of creating awareness, forming impressions, persuasion and leading an audience of individuals to take a specific requested action. While marketing is generally used for prod...

 Facebook has launched a new initiative that will help its employees sample the experience of using its social network on slow mobile internet connections, as is the case for hundreds of millions...

 Most medical hardware is stock – you go to the closet and pick out a catheter or implant and just stick it in. But what about situations where you need a teeny tiny connector for a prematu...

 A recently launched app called Lean will help iPhone 6s and 6s Plus owners clean up their photo library and reclaim the storage space taken up by Live Photos, the new photo feature introduced on...

 Video startup Zype has raised $1.6 million in seed funding.The company says it can help online publishers deliver their videos across devices. Instead of just postingtheirvideos on YouTube or Vi...

 It’s Tuesday, which means that TechCrunch Radio is coming to you live this evening on Sirius XM Insight 121. Each week, TC Radio delivers the most exciting tech news to you direct via sate...

 Marqeta, a developer and provider of money handling and payment processing technologies for primarily e-commerce businesses, has raised $25 million in a new round of funding as it looks to expan...

 Samsung Pay is off to a solid start with an estimated 1 million users in Korea and acceptable uptake in the US. The company announced that they are adding more banking partners to the mix and wi...

 Big retail is looking to carve out a piece of the mobile payments pie, where competitors like Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay, PayPal, Square and others now battle. This week, the retailer-b...

 We want you to show off your hardware in London at TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference in London. Why? Because it’s the best alley and hardware is amazing. Disrupt London runs from Decem...

 Jet, the membership-based ecommerce platform that is looking to go toe-to-toe with Amazon, has a beautiful office in Hoboken, New Jersey. When it comes to hiring, things like the transparency bo...

 All of thecontent across ESPN’stop channels is now gone from YouTube, following the video removalsthat began last week, in the in wake of the YouTube Red deal. Though parent company Disney...

 Munchery, the on-demand food startup that delivers pre-made meals, has expanded its offering to include ingredients and recipes for cooking your own meal. The “ready-to-cook” meals, ...

 Juan Zarate, a former Treasury official and now adviser to Coinbase, writes in his book Treasury’s War that “financial warfare…has started to form a central part of internation...

 As HP downsizes its own holdings in network security, another IT giant is ramping up: today Cisco announced that it would acquire Lancope, which focuses onbehavior analytics, threat visibility a...

 European politicians have agreed to end mobile roaming charges in the region by mid 2017, with significant cuts to fees by next summer. MEPs also voted to bring in EU-wide net neutrality rules. ...

 At long last, Apple is adding away for people to pay for purchases on iTunes beyond credit or debit cards — a move that pointsto the companysharpeningits focuson marketingtheiPhone to a wi...

 At long last, Apple is adding away for people to pay for purchases on iTunes beyond credit or debit cards — a move that pointsto the companysharpeningits focuson marketingtheiPhone to a wi...

 HTC cut the price of the Re camera to just $50 from $200, making it one of the least expensive action cameras on the market. It’s a capable little camera with decent image quality. Yet it&...

 ArtLifting, an online art marketplaceforhomeless, disabled and other disadvantaged people to sell their artwork, recently raised a $1.1 million seed round from Toms Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie,...

 Fieldwire, a San Francisco-based mobile and web platformdesigned to make collaboration on construction projects more efficient, has raised$6.6 million in fresh fundingled by Formation 8. Other p...

 I’m a big fan of the Blue Mo-Fi headphones. They sounds great and I can wear them all day. But they’re too large to travel and have a built-in preamp, which requires recharging. Ente...

 A group of European tech companies have formed a lobby group with the aim of furthering the interests of homegrown digital companies by working to shape regional policy to better help local star...

 Michael Jordan and Mark Cuban are betting that Sportradar will triumph as a sports “big data” leader, as the Swiss company continues its U.S. expansion. The two have invested in a $4...

 Michael Jordan and Mark Cuban are betting that Sportradar will triumph as a sports “big data” leader, as the Swiss company continues its U.S. expansion. The two have invested in a $4...

 Alibaba’s latest Q2 2015 earnings have dropped and the company, which was expected to have a difficult quarter, has beaten expectations with an impressive $3.488 billion in revenue and ear...

 Disrupt London 2015 is fast approaching, and we still have some student tickets available for the show available at the hugely discounted price of just 100 plus VAT. Previously, these tickets we...

 Today at 1.30pm Members of the European Parliament vote on legislation which — according to independent observers and over 50 of the tech industries biggest players — could threaten ...

 We have some incredible speakers coming to the TechCrunch Disrupt London conference on December 7-8. And they include several of Europe’s new Unicorns. Or should we say EUnicorns? Marco Ja...

 Dutch startup Virtuagym, which makes fitness apps aimed at both consumers and fitness professionals, has picked up 2.1 million in new funding. Despite the modest amount, the round is being dubbe...

 Dan Lewis wasn’t convinced that a startupthatconnects small trucking companies to people who need shipments was going to work.But he went door to door in a warehouse district in Seattle, a...

 The OpenStack Foundation, the nonprofit behind the increasingly popular open-source cloud computing project, today announced the launch of a certification program for OpenStack cloud admins duri...

 To Be Useful, Or Interesting Google has a big head start, as it launched Now back in 2012. Now has tons of functionality, mostly surrounding objective data. It can pull relevant info like flight...

 Forget electric skateboards and faux hoverboards, one startup is trying to convince commuters to stick to the good old-fashioned bicycle. Meet the Gi FlyBike, a folding electric bike that cantra...

 Not content to let Amazon (the world’s No. 1 retailer) have the corner on the drone delivery market, today Walmart announced its own plans to enter the quadcopter package-delivering fray.W...

 Hey, 10-year-old me. What’s up. Yeah, we got fat. Sorry. I’m working on it though. Trust me: we’re living a good life right now.Anyway, I wanted to travel back in time to tell ...

 The American Egg Board (AEB) may have violated federal laws by using public funds to try to obstruct Hampton Creek from selling its eggless mayonnaise alternative “Just Mayo.” The US...

 So Facebook did something new with notifications. That little tab plagued by a tireless numeric red badgethat led to an endless feed of social happenings is getting a much-needed upgrade that re...

 IAC’s third-quarter earnings beat analyst expectations today with revenue of $838.6 million and earnings of $1.01. Analysts were expecting earnings of 78 cents per share on revenue of $806...

 Following the bell this afternoon, First Data reported its third-quarter financial performance, its first quarterly report since it recently went public. The company’s debut was generally ...

 A cycle starts when hype of a technology leads to big investments in that technology, which in turn creates more hype. Real-world use of the technology by customers can get lost in the cycle. In...

 Vinod Khosla has stepped down as a director of the San Francisco-based payments company Square as it prepares to go public. Media outlets Business Insider and Forbes reported on the news earlier...

 Lyftis now officially operating at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas, making it the first car-hailing service to do so.This comes about a week after the Clark County Commission said Lyft and Uber co...

 Everyone wants to offer same-day delivery these days, and apparently, the artisan marketplace Etsy is no exception. Today, Etsy announced the debut of a new pilot program called Etsy ASAP, which...

 Square filed an updated filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission today that showed slowing revenue growth and a widening net loss in the third quarter this year. The company reported a...

 Robinhood steals stock trading from rich guys in suits and gives it to normal people who couldn’t afford to pay $7 per transaction. The zero-fee stock trading app is bonafide hit. Less tha...

 There are plenty of on-demand alcohol delivery services including fan favorites Drizly and Minibar. And on the other side of the spectrum, the market is loaded with subscription delivery service...

 Twitter is expanding its analytics product with the launch of what it’s calling the Twitter Brand Hub.Even though it’s a tool for Twitter advertisers, the Brand Hub seems less focuse...

 Top SaaS investors have been saying for nearly a year that the next billion-dollar market opportunities are rooted in mobile enterprise apps – software for people who don’t sit behin...

 Yahoo and the NFL this morning said that over 15 million people tuned into the first-ever global live stream of a regular season NFL game, hosted by Yahoo on Sunday, which featureda match-upBuff...

 Assomeone who travels a lot, I’ve always struggled with finding the perfect bag. Anything with wheels is clunky, duffel bags always mix up my clothes and gadgets, andbackpacks make me look...

 Assomeone who travels a lot, I’ve always struggled with finding the perfect bag. Anything with wheels is clunky, duffel bags always mix up my clothes and gadgets, andbackpacks make me look...

 It seems like there are a lot of folks in the popular media talking about the future of financial services these days. In particular, the growing competition banks face from a new crop of techno...

 Back in June, Doppler Labs launched their second product on Kickstarter. The Here Active Listening system, created by cofounders Noah Kraft and Fritz Lanman, offered the world’s first audi...

 U.K. telecoms regulator Ofcom has published details for a forthcoming spectrum auction, early next year, that will see bidders shelling out for the equivalent of around three-quarters of the spe...

 Hoping to capitalize on its position as a real-time source for news as well as a place to comment onlive events, Twitter announced this morning it has partnered with CBS News for the upcoming De...

 The Western Union Company, long the dominant player in the money transfer and remittance market, is taking the fight over its money moving empire to social networks as upstart companies look to ...

 When Dell announced it was buying EMC earlier this month for $67 billion, it would have been easy to see the deal in isolation, but what if itwere the first of many such deals? Could Oracle, for...

 China’s two largest travel booking giants Qunar and Ctrip are partnering up to end a long period of rivalry and courtship with a share swap. The deal follows two major mergers between comp...

 Quotle is an interesting beast. The best way to describe it could be that Quotle is a hybrid between OneShot and Instagram, but for book quotes. Available on iOS, it turns the good old habit of ...

 As promised by Apple CEO Tim Cook last week, pre-orders for the new Apple TV have begun today. The new device, which is the first to feature an App Store for third-party applications and games, ...

 A constitutional challenge to the NSA’s mass surveillance program, brought by Wikimedia earlier this year, was dismissed by a U.S. district court judge on Friday. Read More ...

 The pin may havefinally droppedon trademark cases that Pinterest has been chasing in the U.S. and UK. In the U.S., a judge has ruled in favor of a travel startup called Pintrips, in a case where...

 New European legislation which threatens net neutrality is set to go before the EU Parliament Tuesday. The EU is planning new rules it claims will ‘protect’ Net neutrality, but a lea...

 Europe’s Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, has couched a probe of the Android OS as “high priority” for EU regulators. Investigations into other aspects of the comp...

 As we’ve recently pointed out, here on TC, T&Cs suck. But what sucks even more than impenetrable, multi-clause legalize that no one reads is the fact these unlovely documents can chang...

 Anybody who has ran or developed a WordPress-powered site, be it a humble blog or something more complex, knows that it’s pretty easy to make undesirable changes. This can be either conten...

 As the Internet maturesand becomes more crowded with services and data, startups building services to make better and more accurate sense of what’s out there are seeing their stars rise. I...

 The digitisation of legacy industries shows no signs of slowing and nor does the enthusiasm of VCs for startups doing just that. Knip, the Swiss ‘mobile-first’ digital insurance brok...

 HomeAway, the NASDAQ-listed rival to Airbnb, has fully acquired Travelmob, the Asia-focused rental and listings site that it bought a majority stake in back two years ago, in an undisclosed deal...

 Mark Zuckerberg has been learning Mandarin for some time, andit seems like theFacebook founder and CEO’s language skills are picking up after he showed them off with a twenty minute speech...

 Entrepreneurs looking for a pivot or an idea sometimes ask me “what’s hot now?” That’s the wrong question! What’s hot now is too late for you if your dreams are to ...

 In the relentless world of public breach reporting, there’s a fixation on the number of accounts affected; the higher the number, the larger the impact. But from a victim’s perspecti...

 Gigi is now considered by Israeli founders and VCs one of the most coveted early stage investors. His portfolio includes many of the biggest names in Israeli companies like SimilarWeb, MyHeritag...

 Apple just unveiled three new ads showing off a fewof the new features on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus.Unlike past ads focusing exclusively on the aggressively hipster everyman, these ads feature s...

 Earlier this year, Facebook took the wraps offFacebook at Work: an enterprise version of the social networkthat Facebook had designed forbusinesses that want to buildsocial networks for their em...

 Israel’s many health tech startups are attracting unprecedented interest from abroad, with multinational medical giants looking to benefit from the country’s ongoing hi-tech boom. Is...

 Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO/ PR Disaster Martin Shkreli took to Reddit late Saturday night to tell his side of the story on the Daraprim drug scandal. His companyis back in thepublic eyethis week...

 American Banker wants to know whether the explosion in daily fantasy sports startups is creating “havens for money laundering.” It’s difficult to say. People have theorized tha...

 Owlet, a Hardware Battlefield darling, announced that they are going out of beta this weekend and will be available to new parents who want to make sure their wee ones are breathing at night. Th...

 Why do engineers build ugly products? What is it in the nature of engineering or the software development process that leads to user interfaces that are impossible for users to actually use? Rea...

 Net neutrality is widely accepted as being key to innovation, and therefore tech startups. When it operates, there is no ‘fast lane’ controlled by larger companies. Net neutrality is...

 Ever wonder why after buying shoes online (or any other consumer goods), for the next few weeks or months, you can be sure to spot ads or promotions for those same shoes on nearly every website ...

 Twenty years ago, if you told me my phone could be used to steal the password to my email account or to take a copy of my fingerprint data, I would’ve laughed at you and said you watch too...

 It’s no secret that the tech community has historically reacted with hesitation at the thought of collaborating with the public sector, what with the red tape, bureaucratic processes, leng...

 The psychology of seed-stage investing is complex. As the one raising money, it’s easy to fall into the trap of treating the process like a transaction. But at the seed stage, neither inve...

 Another month, another billion for Uber… The ride-hailing business is reportedly raising yet again — planning to raise close to $1 billion in new investment according to the NYT citi...

 Every time you log in to Facebook, every time you click on your News Feed, every time you Like a photo, every time you send anything via Messenger, you add another data point to the galaxy they ...

 Walgreens won’t be going forward with any plans to open up more Theranos Wellness Centers until it can “understand the truth,” behind recent questioning of the blood work start...

 Coding as a profession has recently catapulted from the dark rooms of nerdom into the shining light of mainstream appeal, and few people are better off for it. In 20+ years of professional codin...

 It should be easy to tell whether or not something’s working on social media, right? I mean, if you’ve got a lot of likes and favorites, that’s great. If you don’t, that&...

 It’s not a Twitter custom emoji, but it’s close. Looks like Periscope is playing around with the hearts that you can send folks who are livestreaming. For Halloween, it’s bats!...

 Shares of online radio service Pandora tanked about36 percent on Friday. The sharp decline comes after the company reported a loss of almost $86 million yesterday. The call was the company’...

 Welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup show where we talk the biggest things in tech. Read More ...

 We are back in earnings season, which means that it’s report card time for your favorite public tech shops. Earnings have a way of cutting through the bullshit. It’s refreshing.So, w...

 Traditional enterprise storage is dying a slow death. The bulky old-school storage boxes that once filled the data centers of large businesses symbolize a past era. The modern data center is und...

 We’ve heard a lot about software eating the world; now a company that has built its business around food isnow eating up a software startup. Restaurant Brands International, owner of Burge...

 A quick reminder for all and sundry that we will hold the first TC Pitch-Off on Tuesday, November 17th at the PBR Cowboy Bar on 601 Clark Avenue. #202. St. Louis, MO 63102. You can register here...

 Happy Friday! To soothe you from the hectic bustle of the fall work week and transition you into a peaceful, potentially football-filled weekend, we come bearing the TechCrunch Gadgets podcast. ...

 It’s Friday, and sometimes when we try to wind our week down something winds us back up. Today, it has to do with the app that a lot of us use the most on Mac…Messages. Read More ...

 Often, off-grid rural villages in places like Africa have their electricity generated by energy devices, like solar panels and batteries, donated by non-profit organizations and charities. The p...

 Online shoppers looking to spice up their wardrobe on a more regular basis can now download a new app from Le Tote, a“Netflix-for-clothing” type of service backed by Andreessen Horow...

 The fallout fromYouTube Red, its forthcoming ad-free subscription service, is already underway. Today, themajority of ESPN’s video content hasbeen pulled off of YouTube in the US, as the s...

 Why should you, a tech person, care about Omega creating something called the Master Chronometer Certification? Well, first let me tell you what’s up. So nice watches are usually Contrle O...

 This has been quite a few past couple of weeks for Twitter, with a new CEO, a renewed double-down promise to developers, love to its employees (after some “tough love” by way of layo...

 OpenClassrooms is one of the leading MOOC platform in France, and it signed an interesting deal with the French Government. Starting today, if you are unemployed, you get a free premium account ...

 Meet Solid, a brand new service to help you with your meetings, before, during and after they take place. Coming from the team behind Wisembly, Solid is perfect for smaller meetings and smaller ...

 It’s very thin pickings for fans of physical Qwerty keyboards in these touch-sensitive mobile times. But for those few who remain hung up on the caress of plastic keys under their fingerti...

 This week’s headlines saw reviews of the new Nexus phones and Surface devices, the rollout of iOS 9, updates from the ongoing public dispute between Theranos and the Wall Street Journal, a...

 Turing Pharmaceuticals, a months-old biotech startup thatislargely financed by its 32-year-old founder and CEO Martin Shkreli, sparked widespread outrage last month. The reason: shortly afterpay...

 Voyat, the hotel CRM tool revealed by Ben Habbel in July of last year, is now seeing more than 500,000 new guest profiles each month, with operations in 10 different countries across the globe. ...

 Doorman, a company tackling the problem of missed deliveries by allowing consumers to schedule their own deliveries as late as midnight, has now gone live in Chicago and is preparing to soon lau...

 Doorman, a company tackling the problem of missed deliveries by allowing consumers to schedule their own deliveries as late as midnight, has now gone live in Chicago and is preparing to soon lau...

 We have a love affair with our cars. We equate them with independence and romance. We spend hours washing, waxing and restoring them. As a portion of total consumer credit, we spend more on car ...

 Another bigchange for DataSift— the UK startup that applies analytics tosocial network data firehoses to surface trends,whichhad a notable break up with Twitter earlier this year. Nick Hal...

 Never Eat Alone started with a simple idea, but it’s a potentially very lucrative business. If you work in a big corporate environment, chances are you always have lunch with the same pers...

 Banks aren’t always known for being technical innovators – which is one thing that givesstartups inthe financial services space an edge. But this morning Capital One is attempting to...

 Amazon is now worth $287 billion. Yesterday, the company (NASDAQ:AMZN) managed to beat analyst expectations for its third-quarter earnings report by bringing in a profit. And today, shares opene...

 I realize I’m a bit late with all the Back To The Future jazz but how about we all get together for a moment to watch a self-driving DeLorean drift in a closed course thanks to something c...

 It seems like nothing can stop BlaBlaCar. The company has been building a global ride-sharing marketplace for long distance rides. And it’s working, as it recently raised 180 million at an...

 When we last met MiniBrew, the team had been stopped at the US border with their mini beer brewing system and had to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt with a tri-fold poster board and not much else....

 Roli, the makers of the Seaboard Grand audio board, have today announced the close of their second acquisition, with betaworks-backed Blend.io coming on board. The terms of the deal were not dis...

 Yota Devices, the Russian company that sells two-screened Android smartphones, has a new owner after shareholder Telconet Capital sold its majority 64.9 percent holding to Hong Kong-listed REX G...

 Vistaprint has been around for twenty years, so if you live in the U.S. or Europe, ordering printed material online might not seem like a big deal. In Nigeria, however, getting business card and...

 Gamers with a penchant for old school gaming have another platform to add to their entertainment mix: AirConsole is a recently launched browser-based games platform that repurposes players’...

 Naspers, the South Africa conglomerate that invested in China’s Tencent among others, is upping its stake in Russia-based Avito, the third largest classifieds site in the world, by way of ...

 Huawei, the Chinese tech firm that produces smartphones in addition to networking equipment, became the top seller of smartphones in China for the first time during the last quarter. Read More ...

 It’s easy enough for IT costs to get out of control. That’s where Numerify, a software service that helps large companies keep track of choke points and better manage their internal ...

 In an open letter to the Office and Management and Budget’s Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Google announced today that it opposes the practice of removing entire sites from...

 Quizzes! Lists! Quizlists! Okay, I made the last one up. My point is, it seems like publishers are always trying something new to keep visitors clicking and reading. Butif you don’t have a...

 Jack Dorsey is givingabout a third of his Twitter shares — or 1% of the company — back to Twitter’s employees, he said in a tweet today. A move like this is likely at least par...

 Ticket sales startup SeatGeek is the latest company joining the move to paperless tickets.Thanks a new feature, when you buy a ticket on SeatGeek, you’ll no longer have to print out a PDF ...

 Microsoft promised that Bing would stop losing money in its fiscal year 2016. Today, the company reported the first quarter’s results of that fiscal period and dropped an interesting tidbi...

 Sport is about triumph, passion, pain and belonging. Yet it loses every iota of truth and meaning for fans when dirty money corrupts the players and referees. Unfortunately, in 2015, it’s ...

 One day, things in the tech startup world are ticking along nicely.The next, investor Bill Gurley is calling private valuations “fake,” billion-dollar companies are losing their shee...

 The Ad Council and a cohort of tech companies shed some light today on an eye emoji that has been perplexing Apple watchers since the release of iOS 9.1. The eye — which was rumored to mea...

 Facebook engineering manager Ari Grant has posted an explanation for the recent issues with the app gorging itself on power. Grant says that the battery issues were caused by a series of bugs in...

 Today, Alphabet beat Q3 earnings projections.During the earnings call, Google CEO Sundar Pichai took the (micro)phone (for the first time) to discuss the business and product highlights from the...

 How did Alphabet come up with the weirdly specific number of $5.099 billion for its buyback of class C shares? By taking the square root of 26,which not-so-coincidentally is the number of letter...

 Solu is a coaster-sized cloud-based portable computer that fits in your pocket. A team of Finnish engineers behind the device hope Solu will change the way we think of using our digital operatin...

 After the market closed Thursday, online music streaming service Pandora reported a third quarter loss of $85.9 million.The company lost 40 cents per share. Pandora met street estimates and post...

 Today Microsoft reportedthe financial performance it recorded during the first quarter of its fiscal 2016. Microsoft generated $0.67in adjusted per-share profit off non-GAAP revenue of $21.66 bi...

 We’re back. Hardware Alley is TechCrunch’s premier hardware event and will be taking CES by storm again this year. Applications for TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield are now op...

 Amazon — once again — surprised investors by beating analyst expectations for its third-quarter earnings report, bringing in $25.4 billion in net salesand earnings of 17 centscents p...

 Today following the bell, Alaphabet reported its third-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $18.68 billion in revenue, and adjusted per-share profit of $7.35. Analysts had expecte...

 Today following the bell, Alaphabet reported its third-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $18.68 billion in revenue, and adjusted per-share profit of $7.35. Analysts had expecte...

 For years, Chris Farmer worked as a venture partner at General Catalyst Partners, helping develop its then-nascent seed-investing program while simultaneously working on a big idea: a database t...

 More shots fired. Theranoscontinued playing defensethis morning with a much more in-depth post on what the company claims the news organization got wrong in two damning articles published last w...

 You’re on Twitter. You’re on Vine. Now, people who follow your tweets will be able to reach your Vine profile and vice versa. In a blog post, the Vine team explained: We’re mak...

 Happy Thursday, dear readers. Once again I come to you with news about TechCrunch Radio, our weekly radio show on Sirius XM where John Biggs and I discuss everything new in the world of tech. Bu...

 With the release of the second version of Apple’s Watch operating system, watchOS 2, apps can be loaded directly onto the device and run natively, instead of being tied to the iPhone.Today...

 The Federal Reserve values U.S. real estate at an estimated $40 trillion, making it the largest asset class in the country. So it shouldn’t surprise us that, as TechCrunch recently reporte...

 Facebook is ready to challenge Google and Twitter for control of real-time news search and the news itself. Starting today for US English language users, Facebook Search will return anything you...

 Phhhoto, the animated photo-sharing app that started out as an iPad-powered photo booth for parties, has finally gone live on Android. The app lets users capture four frames in a row, threads th...

 Earlier this week I took a call with Hussein Kanji, who, along with Rob Kniaz, is founding partner of London-based VC Hoxton Ventures, a relatively new fund that already has a growing reputation...

 Earlier this week I took a call with Hussein Kanji, who, along with Rob Kniaz, is founding partner of London-based VC Hoxton Ventures, a relatively new fund that already has a growing reputation...

 Clutter, the storage service that uses professional movers to load and unload your stuff, has today announced the close of a $9 million in Series A funding, led by Sequoia. As a part of the deal...

 According to remarks made by Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday, it seems as ifTwitter may be reversing its earlier decision to banPolitwoops, aservice that tracked politicians’ ...

 Education startup General Assembly, hot off raising a monster $70M round of funding, has partnered up with Google to offer an immersive course on Android development. It’s 12 weeks, full-t...

 Instagram doesn’t want its feed getting stale, but doesn’t want to bloat its app with extra features either. So today it’s launching Boomerang on iOS and Android. It’s a ...

 Amazon this morning announced it’s expanding its one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, to two more markets: the San Francisco Bay Area and San Antonio, Texas. The company had clearly been ...

 Taiwan is a small country filled with passionate gamers. The island nation has a population of just 23 million, but almost one-fifth—or 4.5 million people—use Twitch every month. In ...

 Search giant Google today is taking the next step in its bidto rehabilitate itsrelationship withthe news and publishing industry.In Europe today, the company is opening up applications for start...

 Scheduling shiftsin the workplace has always been a difficult, rigid process. Balancing both employer and employee needs is always key, but getting everything to fit neatly, whileensuring that t...

 Kinetic charging battery startup Ampy — which makes a wearable spare battery pack charged by human movement — has closed an $875,000 seed round. Read More ...

 Gone is the little wing in Shyp’s logo. The companyis going through a major overhaul that not only changes the look and feel of the app, but also the way the entire company looks. It’...

 Nasdaq has agreed to buy SecondMarket Solutions to combine forces with the Nasdaq Private Market. The group will facilitate the exchange of shares for private companies including DocuSign, Pinte...

 Hacking is no longer the work of random “script kiddies,” but is being organized by foreign governments. Existing security tools aren’t up to the job of keeping systems safe. R...

 There was a time when mobile content was king. Consumers sought ringtones and java games, despite their appalling user experience. Then came smartphones and apps, and, in terms of content, every...

 Apple’s iOS 9.1 update, which yesterday brought support for new emoji to users of Cupertino’s mobile devices among other tweaks, also flicked the launch switch on Apple News for user...

 As data scientists continue to become an ever-prominent part of the IT team in any business (not just tech businesses), we’re seeing the emergenceof more products and services that are bui...

 Chances are you don’t like your current bank. German startup Number26 has been working hard for the past couple of years to bring a new banking experience in Europe. And it is now using a ...

 Apple has plunged billions of dollars into making its global operations more efficient with renewable energy. The bulk of that push, which has won praise from Greenpeace, has come in the U.S. an...

 Twitter’s developer conference, called “Twitter Flight” took place today in San Francisco. Newly crowned CEO Jack Dorsey discussed Twitter’s commitment to the developer c...

 Hoverboards are real, right now, not just in Back To The Future. Today Arx Pax showed off version 2 of its magnetic levitation Hendo Hoverboard that glides above copper flooring. The big advance...

 For the past couple of hours, Airbnb has been getting slammed on social media for a San Francisco bus stop ad that was shared on Facebook. How bad was it? People (including Martha Kenney, who fi...

 As varied as the quirky spectrum of people dressed from t-shirts and shorts to suits and ties at SXSW Eco in Austin was the spectrum of sustainability topics covered — from improving fashi...

 Egnyte, a company that provides hybrid-cloud data management services, today released a new method for companies to track and manage content in their control. Egnyte’s CEO Vineet Jain also...

 Nike has been teasing the idea of releasing self-lacing shoes — a la Back To The Future — for years. Seriously — heres an article we wrote on them back in 2011. Word around the...

 WikiLeaks on Wednesday posted documents allegedly from CIA director John Brennan’s email account, including Brennan’s application for security clearance and papers about U.S. torture...

 We’ve abandoned time-honored valuation techniques from the past because they didn’t work for new rapid-growth, tech-driven businesses. But what if the new rule book was equally inept...

 eBay reported its third-quarter earnings today — its first as a separate company from PayPal — and beat investor expectations with earnings of 43 cents per share and $2.1 billion in ...

 The Nook is now available in a waterproof version and is the first Nook to sport user profiles, because, you know, couples that read together stay together. Called the Nook GlowLight Plus (becau...

 Well, that was fast! Only days after the first public jailbreak for iOS 9 devices hit the web, itappears that Apple has closed two of the exploits used by the Chinese hacking teamPangu, whoseunt...

 I was hoping to share some of the final bits of the Twitter Flight conference with you from my front row seat live and in beautiful mobile color, but was unable to. Seems like Periscope is havin...

 This week we held the first ever TechCrunch Lisbon Meetup and Pitch-off at a rooftop bar over-looking this beautiful, ancient city which in the last few years has been coming to life as a vibran...

 Online publishersare about to get a lot more options for embedding tweets in their stories, withTwitter announcinga new “ecosystem” of products around embedded tweets today at its Fl...

 Great Scott! It’s finally here! Today is October 21st, 2015…the day that Marty McFly traveledto in Back to the Future Part II. To make it even better, all of your favorite tech compa...

 Yesterday we wrote about Twitter’s interest in building up its platform as a place for businesses and brands to manage customer care, and today Twitter unveiled some of the early features ...

 Gnip is the company that has been keeping archives of every tweet going back to the first one in 2006. Twitter knew how important this data was to marketers and companies so it acquired the comp...

 YouTube made its top video creators an offer they literally couldn’t refuse, or they’d have their content disappear. Today YouTube confirmed that any “partner” creator wh...

 The energy in the room was palpable as audience members waited to see if Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes would really show up this morning for her onstage interview at the Wall Street Journal ...

 As someone who travels a lot I’ve been trying out apps that can build tours around a city. CreateTrips is a social trip planner that offers travelers and locals travel guides, maps, review...

 Fabric, Twitter’s toolkit for developers to build apps on its platform, launched last October. At Twitter’s Flight developer conference, its been announced that the toolkit is gettin...

 Another day, another fitness device that can track your distance, pace, heart rate, and nag you when you don’t exercise. This time we have the Garmin 230, 235, and 630, three great smartwa...

 Whenyou’rereaching a new fitness goal or hitting the high score in a game, Twitter wants your followers to know — even if it’s happening in a different app. Today at the Twitte...

 Today at Twitter Flight, the company’s developer conference, Twitter announced two newfeatures launchedbyFabric’s Crashlytics Labs, the R&D arm of Twitter’s mobile SDK. Fir...

 Twitter’s epic bust upwith developers several years ago was one of the bigger bumps in the company’s rocky history, so now, as the social media companyis working to rebootthe busines...

 The next major update toApple’s mobile operating system since the debut of version 9.0 released in September, is now rolling out. In iOS 9.1, Apple is introducing a number of new features ...

 The next major update toApple’s mobile operating system since the debut of version 9.0 released in September, is now rolling out. In iOS 9.1, Apple is introducing a number of new features ...

 Now that connected car startups are now thick on the ground, it takes a special amount of pizzaz to stand out. Thankfully Voyo has amped up the jazz hands and is producing a small device that ca...

 YouTube wants to use exclusive series and movies from its biggest stars to differentiate its new $9.99 ad-free video and on-demand music subscription service YouTube Red. Launching next year, th...

 Today at Twitter Flight, Twitter’s developer conference, the company announced that it had revamped and updated the Twitter for Mac client.Though it won’t launch for a few months (da...

 Twitter is holding a big press conference in San Francisco in just a few minutes at 10 AM PDT (1 PM PDT, 6 PM BST) — the company is running a bit late. While we expect a few developer anno...

 Today Google is rolling its Play Music on-demand service into a new $9.99 subscription for ad-free viewing across all of YouTube that will launch October 28th in the US and globally soon. Howeve...

 Neo Technology, the makers of the Neo4j graph database, may not be a household name, but you very likely accessgraph databasetechnology on daily basis, whether you know it or not —and it&#...

 We have some incredible speakers coming to the TechCrunch Disrupt London conference on December 7-8. We’re not just talking global sporting superstar Thierry Henry, by the way. We’re...

 The Notifications Summit was recorded live October 1, 2015 @ betaworks in New York.Programming notifications as the third instance:A conversation w/ April Underwood (Slack), Naveen Selvadurai (E...

 PressFriendly launched last year to help startups do a better job of pitching tech reporters and editors. And the company still offers startup-focused services, but it’s also launching a s...

Artificial intelligence startup Sentient announced Wednesday it hired three new executives, a sign the startup is growing quickly in a field largertech firmslike IBM and Google are fighting to dominat...

 Disney will launch a digital subscription streaming service next month which will combine its movies, books, TV series, and music offerings into one bundle, according to a report today from The ...

 Fossil, resisting its own fossilization, has just announced a line of smart accessories called the Fossil Q, powered by Android. There are four watches in the line, varying in level of technolog...

 Traditionally limited to institutional investors and high-net-worth clients, J.P. Morgan is about to make it easier for retail investors to gain access at the IPO price. The bank is announcing t...

 A conversation w/ Linden Tibbets (IFTTT), John Milinovich (URX) and Josh Elman (Facebook, Twitter, Greylock) App makers have an interest in pushing out as many notifications as they can get awa...

 A decade ago, building a website was a task reserved for professionals and early adopters. Today, however, there are dozens of tools on the market that will help an individual or a small busines...

 There was a time when kids curious about the world around them would have to go to the library and check out books, or sit around thumbing through the family’s encyclopedia. But these days...

 Twitter’s been playing around with polls for the past month or so…right out in the open. Today’s announcement shouldn’t come as a surprise if you follow anyone who works ...

 Hello team, and welcome back to another episode of Bullish, TechCrunch’s first talk show. This week we took a look at the broader payments and fintech space, which has recently had a numbe...

 Technology is transforming policy fights across the nation, reshaping the focus, issues and battlegrounds. Not so long ago, the primary debates and decisions on major policy issues were centered...

 Deployingan OpenStack cloudis still anything but easy. Solineahelps enterprises design and deploy theirprivate clouds, both as a consulting firm and as a technology provider.The company today an...

 The enterprise IT industry continues to get itsducks in line. On the heels of Dell buying EMC for $67 billion,Western Digital buying SanDisk for $19 billionandrumblings of more M&A to come, ...

 There’s much being made about the seemingly swift decline in Swiss watch sales. CultOfMac, as is their wont, is pointing to Apple Watch sales while still others are moaning about millennia...

 After announcing in August that it would cut up to 260 jobs, Rovio — maker of the Angry Birds games — today released details of the final number: the Finland-based company is letting...

 After announcing in August that it would cut up to 260 jobs, Rovio — maker of the Angry Birds games — today released details of the final number: the Finland-based company is letting...

 With the Surface Pro 4, Microsoft has taken something that worked — the Surface Pro 3 — and made it better. That’s it. Review over. You can go outside now and dance. Still here...

 When Samsung launched its payment service — Samsung Pay — in the U.S. at the end of September it was missing a name: Verizon. Now, the Korean company has remedied the situation after...

 Docker announced today that it was purchasing Tutum, a cloud service focused on deploying and managing Docker containers in any environment, whether the cloud or on-premises. The company did not...

 Microsoft surprised the technology world with theSurface Book, a device thatputsa new spin on what productivity might look like. Not to be a historic historical boorish bore, but I believe that ...

 Western Digital just bought a bunch of memory cards. The storage giant just announced that it has agreed to buy SanDisk Corp for about $19 billion. This comes after speculation that SanDisk was ...

 Do you want to roll up your sleeves and get to work helping the TechCrunch Disrupt team put on the best startup show in Europe? If so, you should definitely sign up to be a Work Exchange Volunte...

 Hot on the heels of raising a new $379 million fund aimed at startups at the growth stage, Highland Europe has led a $17 million round in mobile app intelligence and analytics startup Adjust. Th...

 Danish startup Bownty, which claims to be Europe’s leading aggregator for deals on ‘local experiences’, has raised 3.4 million in Series A funding — money it plans to use...

 Videogame streaming Twitch teased a more complete version of its app for Sony’s PlayStation 4 at its TwitchCon event last month, and now the company has confirmed that the revamped app is ...

 As pre-seed and seed funding increasingly becomes a commodity, even in more modest Europe, something has to give. That something is VCs offering and talking up what they call ‘operational ...

 Opinio is the latest hyperlocal delivery startup in India to score funding. The company announced today that it has raised a $7 million Series A from Delhivery, a logistics firm, Sands Capital, ...

 Magic Leap just posted a video that gives the clearest look yet at what its augmented reality technology can do. Shown today at WSJDLive, the clip is a minute long, with the first few seconds fe...

 Honestbee just raised $15 million for its on-demand grocery delivery service, but it has loftier aspirations. Head of marketing Shane Chiang says the Singapore-based company launched as a “...

 Facebook is launching TechPrep, a new initiative in partnership with McKinsey & Company, to offer resources like tutorials, videos and games for parents to help their kids pursue careers in ...

 Things are looking up for 23andMe. Right off a fresh $115 million cash infusion, the Food and Drug Administration is giving the direct-to-consumer DNA company the green light to include...

 Inventory is a tricky problem for retailers, especially small ones. Ordering too much of an item that doesn’t sell is an expensive mistake, but running out of popular items also loses mone...

 Over two years ago, Misfit launched an activity monitor called “Shine,” which was amongthe first breakout successes in the wearable space, offeringan attractive alternative to compet...

 Twitter is on double time these days when it comes to rolling out new productsand pressing ahead under new CEO Jack Dorsey — a strategy that will likely get a decent gust of air tomorrow d...

 The car is well on its way to becoming the most sophisticated mobile device in the Internet of Things (IoT), or, to use a phrase that’s more to the point, the Monetization of Things (MoT)....

 Tech companies today are celebrating the passage of a bill in the House of Representatives that will expand privacy rights to non-U.S. citizens.The bill, known as the Judicial Redress Act, saile...

 Ahmed Mohamed has accepted an offer from the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development where he will join the QF Young Innovators Program. The family announced the move t...

 Following its earnings release, Yahoo commented today on the forthcoming spinout of its Alibaba equity stake as a new firm, Abaco Holdings. The parent firm stated that it’s making “g...

 Despite a checkered history with online platforms, developers are always looking for the next big distribution model and a small but growing number is betting Slack, the popular group-messaging ...

 Host of ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Tyra Banks talked about her new business venture Tyra Beauty, ‘smizing’ and empowering women entrepreneurs with “f-you̶...

 Imagine you’re on Star Wars’ social media team. Representing one of the biggest, most recognizable brands in the world, you’ve gotta be on point all the time.Quick! Mark Zucker...

 In a surprise move today at its earnings call, VMware announced that together with EMC, it was forming a jointly-owned company under the name of Virtustream, which is the company EMC bought last...

 Google Photos broke free of Google+ in May, and in the five months since, it has amassed 100 million monthly active users, the team shared today. That puts it on par with Snapchat, which was aro...

 This week’s episode of Cribs takes us tofree credit and financial management platform Credit Karma. This growing financial startup just put the finishing touches on its new office space in...

 Amid a time where there are a lot of questions about the company’s future, VMWare beat analyst expectations with $1.02 in non-GAAP earnings per share compared to expectations of $1. The co...

 Yahoo had a profit miss for Q3, causing shares to drop, but there was a gem in the release that should make investors very happy. The company says that it reached a search agreement this month w...

 Today following the bell, Yahoo reported its second quarter financial performance. Not discounting traffic acquisition costs (ex-TAC), Yahoo’s revenue for the period totaled $1.23 billion....

 The Parrot Bebop can now fly by itself. After purchasing Flight Mode, Bebop owners can tap out waypoints and sit back while the drone flys autonomously. The ability is enabled by purchasing the ...

 As the personal computer boomed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a small faction of sci-fi geeks and gamers tried to bring the endless potential of virtual reality (VR) to life. But the techno...

 In one of those fun, wild science chats, both Google Ventures’ Bill Marris and XPRIZE head Peter Diamandis discussed a gamut of moonshots, including life extension research, sentientrobots...

 Shares in electric car company Tesla cratered today, dropping almost 8 percent by the end of regular trading. The company’s equity managed a partial recovery by the end of the day, leaving...

 Today, Virgin America announced a partnership with Spotify to give its customers free music streaming as part of its ViaStat program, which also includes Netflix streaming. ViaStat has gone on r...

 People have been talking about the death for Flash for years and years, andnowit seems like the nails are finally being driven into the coffin, particularly in the online ad industry. But Rob Cr...

 Services as the second instance: Demos: XoXco with Ben Brown Poncho with James Cooper How web services are using contextual data to drive relevant notifications: Robert Scoble (Futurist, Scoblei...

 In late August, a report out of Consumer Reportssaid thattheTesla Model S P85D, anall-wheel-drive electric sedan that also happens to be themost expensivemodel of the car, performed “bette...

 Google announced today it’s rolling out an update to its Google Maps mobile app that will (finally!) allow users to add a stop along their current route. For example, you’ll be able ...

 It can seem at times that job application sites for companies are a black hole and impossible to navigate. That’s why Phenom People, a service that customizes company job search pages for ...

 Today Facebook rolled out Instant Articles to all iOS users and launched an Android beta. But news publishers aren’t the only ones Facebook wants to load inside, rather than outside, its a...

 Benchmark Capital’s Bill Gurley may be Silicon Valley’s best-known tech bubble doomsayer, but he took a positive view of the early stage investments in an onstage interview at the Wa...

 Apple CEO Tim Cook yesterday may have been touting the number of Apple Music music paying subscribers– 6.5 million, but at the same time rival Spotify was quietly hitting a milestone of it...

 Enterprise health insurance services platform Collective Health has raised a healthy $81 million in Series C funding to help the startup continue to grow its team, as well as cover the U.S. mark...

 Accessory maker Twelve South announced the Fort last week, and we already got our hands on one of them for a review. It’s a well-designed stand that looks great with your Apple Watch. Read...

 GM says the Chevrolet Bolt will travel 200 miles on a single charge and will be sold at an affordable price. But GM is not going at it alone. The Detroit automaker today announced a strategic pa...

 One in five adults in America experienced a mental health issue last year, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Meanwhile, one in 10 people under the age of 18 went t...

 Stealthy San Francisco-based digital healthcare startup Amino has been quietly amassing a database of U.S. consumer healthcare data since late 2013 to underpin the product it’s launching t...

 Earlier this month, Giphy COO Adam Leibsohn told me that Giphy has a bunch of new tools up its sleeves to help people make their own gifs in a matter of seconds.Well, GIF Makermust be one of the...

 Yetmore consolidation afoot in the world of digital music, and a new chapter for eMusic, one of the very firstsites that let you download music in the form of MP3 files. The company has been acq...

 Boardlist, the online repository of board-ready women that launchedin July, recently helped facilitate the placement of a woman of color to a startup’s board of directors.Karla Martin, dir...

 The Keurig Kold is such an odd product that it almost looks like it came from a distant world where no one cares about corn syrup ingestion. Clad in white plastic and covered in grills, the case...

 Libratone has made some stylish wireless speakers over the last few years, including one our favorite, the Libratone Zipp. Today, the company unveiled an update to its flagship speaker as well a...

 Thanks to a culture of inventiveness (you think just anyone could survive these winters?), thriving universities, innovative new talent development programs and robust government support, weR...

 Popular cloud hosting service DigitalOcean just added a very interesting feature today — floating IPs. So you may ask what is that and why do I need that? It’s better than sliced bre...

Publishers are at risk of becoming interchangeable. With Moments and Instant articles, Twitter and Facebook seem happy to take content from publishers without ever sending people back to their sites &...

 Gone, the app that helps you sell your old crap, has announced the acquisition of FOBO and former marketplace company Yardsale Inc. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Gone launched back i...

 Amazon’s new food delivery service, which launched last month in the retailer’s hometown of Seattle, is now available in Portland, Oregon, the company announced this morning. The ser...

 There is no shortage of sites that help you book your travel, whether it be Expedia or Orbitz or Priceline. But the inspiration for that travel often comes from content created by travel experts...

 Sweeten, the home renovation matchmaker, has today announced the close of a $3.5 million Series A funding led by Navitas Capital. Overnight Capital and Gotham Gal Ventures also participated in t...

 Squad is betting that the best time to meet new people is when you’re already out and about with friends, primed to meet other groups of friends. The New York City startupis officially lau...

 Verizon Communications — the carrier thatacquired AOL (and, as a result, us) earlier this year —reported its Q3 earnings today. The company posted revenues of $33.2 billion, with non...

 Sometimes the best way to protect data is to make it appear as vulnerable as possible. Illusive networks, an Israeli cybersecurity firm launched just a few months ago, has captured the attention...

 It’s often said that content is king, but ina typical marketing department you have a hodgepodge of content. That could includecarefully-crafted web copy, blog entries and FAQs along withu...

 Attention hackers, coders and other makers. The first wave of tickets to the Hackathon at Disrupt London 2015 are now available, and you can get in on the action by getting a ticket here. Ticket...

 Google’s services are not available in China, but that isn’t stopping it from making a significant investment in a company based on Chinese soil. The U.S. search giant is backing Mob...

 Attune Technologies, a startup that makes cloud-based software for hospitals and labs, will tackle markets outside of India after scoring a $10 million Series B round from Qualcomm Ventures and ...

 The quest to find a parking spot in New York City has never been easy, but SpotHero is looking to make the process a bit less painful. The Chicago-based on-demand parking app wrapped up a $20 mi...

 Earlier this week I jumped on a call with Asi Sharabi (pictured third from left above), co-founder and CEO of London-based startup Lost My Name, the self-descibed “full-stack” publis...

 There’s major investment news for taxi-hailing apps in China, but for once it doesn’t concern Uber or the U.S. company’s well-backed Chinese rival Didi Kuaidi. Yidao Yongche, a...

 Work Applications is one of Japan’s largest enterprise software companies, but it’s still unknown in the United States. The Tokyo-based company is hoping to change that with the laun...

 The size of China’s public cloud market grow rapidly in the next five years, more than doubling to $3.8 billion in 2020 from $1.8 billion this year, says a new report from Forrester. Read ...

 Pre-orders for thenew Apple TVs are set to begin next Monday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said onstage at the WSJD Live conference, with shipments likely to be sent out by the end of next week. Apple had...

 It’s been three and a half months since Apple Music launched and, with the first wave of users’ free three-month trial periods coming to a close at the end of October, Apple has said...

 If you’re like me (and a billion other geeks), you’re probably watching the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer on endless repeat, trying to scrape out any little detail you can...

 AHHHHHHHH.We’ve seen teaser after teaser, but the first full length trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens is here.Ready to watch it on loop for the rest of the night?Here you go:Worried...

 Michael Carter and his team at Weeby.co want to break mobile games out of Apple’s App Store and move them into the cloud.In their office on Mountain View’s Castro Street, the team at...

 Wibbitz, a startup that helps online publishers create video summaries of their articles, is announcing its first big push in the US market, starting with partnerships with USA Today Sports, Hea...

 Drought one year. Flooding the next. If we’ve learned anything in the agriculture industry in recent years, it’s that climate change and extreme weather patterns are the new reality ...

 When a New York Times piece came out in August that described Amazon’s workplace culture as “bruising,” Amazon cofounder and CEO Jeff Bezos acted quickly to dampen the story...

 Google’s all excited about the official launch of their flagship Nexus devices. We’ve reviewed the 5X and 6P and since they’re both unlocked, you get to choose your carrier. On...

 Uber has a car with a bunch of cameras on it driving around collecting images to improve its maps, driving routes, and ETAs, TechCrunch has confirmed. And here are the first photos of it. When a...

 Primitive cultures like my family believe that 3D scanning steals the essence of a person which is why we do not allow binocular vision in my home. The Eora 3D scanner, however, is allowed becau...

 It’s been a crazy few weeks in the world of daily fantasy sports. What originally started as a data leak from DraftKings has now morphed into a federal investigation and total ban across t...

 Today following the bell, IBM reported its third quarter financial performance, including revenue of $19.3 billionand earnings per share of $3.34, using adjusted techniques. Analysts had expecte...

 A rare genetic disorder called progeria that causes symptoms of old age to manifest in the young has been popularized in books and movies such as Jack, a film that featured Robin Williams as a b...

 It’s been an eventful year for 3D printing company MakerBot — it got a new CEO, opened a new factory in Brooklyn’s Industry City and announced multiple rounds of layoffs. We vi...

 How can Facebook Messenger’s AI/human hybrid assistant M lend you a hand? Early data from Facebook’s testing shows people want help booking reservations, finding local businesses tha...

 The Google-owned navigation app Waze has a number of standout features – its ability to alert you to traffic conditions and speed traps, and re-route you around traffic jams, for example &...

 Gone, the app that helps you sell your old crap, has announced the acquisition of FOBO and former marketplace company Yardsale Inc. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Gone launched back i...

 The Notifications Summit was recorded live October 1, 2015 @ betaworks in New York. Gathered were a group of technologists, developers, and thought leaders.Media as the First Instance, Alerts (C...

 As rumored last week, the U.S government has just announced a program that will require drones to be registered with the U.S Department of Transportation. At a press conference today in Washingt...

 As rumored last week, the U.S. government has just announced a program that will require drones to be registered with the U.S. Department of Transportation. At a press conference today in Washin...

 When we say “Facebook IS the Internet to many people” we really mean “Many Facebook users don’t fully understand what the Internet is.” Throwing Internet jargon at ...

 In an effort to acquire more Google Apps for Workcustomers, Google just announced a new promotion that’s a hugeshot across Microsoft’s bow. The company says that it will give interes...

 To acquire more Google Apps for Work customers, Google just announced a new promotion that’s a huge shot across Microsoft’s bow. The company says that it will give interested custome...

 Common, a co-living startup from General Assembly co-founder Brad Hargreaves, is unveiling its first building today in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights. With more than four floors and 7,300 square...

 Hundreds of iOS applicationshave been pulled out of the App Store, following a report from analytics service SourceDNA, which uncovereda group of applications that wereextracting users’ pe...

 “The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” That’s how Ralph Waldo Emerson described his distrust of a certain type of “private adventurer.R...

 I recently visited St. Louis for the first time and fell in love. It’s a vibrant city with a fascinating startup scene and, thanks to some amazing folks, we were able to grab some great vi...

 Flipboard today is opening up some better targeting to its advertising partnersin the form of the advertising based on the interest graphs it has built for its users. Here’s an example: an...

 Yet another app has sprouted up that wants to take the Live Photos from your iPhone 6S/6S Plus and turn them into videos and/or GIFs. Because what is beauty — nay, what is art — with...

 Years after Google implemented a similar feature for Gmail users, Facebooksays it will now begin alerting users if it suspects they’re a target of state-sponsored attacks. That is, if the ...

 Time Inc., the New York-based publishing company with over 90 magazines in its stable, has announced the acquisition of a lifestyle, pop culture and beauty website called Hello Giggles. Though t...

 As Google retools its Glass experiment, researchers at Stanford are using the device to help autistic children recognize and classify emotions. In a small office buried inside an administrative ...

 While participating in non-profit Teach For India, Pankhuri Shrivastava and Prateek Shukla got a firsthand look at how chaotic the country’s rental market is, especially for people on a ti...

 Xiaomi made its name with affordable Android smartphones, but the Beijing-based company’s future lies in creating a diverse ecosystem of consumer hardware. Today Xiaomi announced that it w...

 StreetHub, the U.K. startup that’s helping independent shops and boutiques be discovered and sell online, has raised a further $2.6 million in funding. It’a also launching a new bran...

 Molotov has been quite secretive over the past two years. The French startup wants to revolutionize your TV experience and partners with existing French networks. This is no small feat as you ne...

 HeadBox is a newly-launched marketplace in the U.K. for ‘creative, inspiring and off-site spaces’. It enables corporate, SME, and private bookers to find and book spaces for things l...

 It’s now two and a half years since Spotify first brought its music streaming service to Asia, and the company is moving close to entering in two important markets in the region: Japan, wh...

 LG and Google have worked together again to bring you their latest Nexus incarnation. The Nexus 5X, one of two new flagship phones from Google, is being described fondly by the company as “...

 New phones are exciting. They look new, feel new, have new things and everyone loves new. I’m personally starting to feel phone fatigue, though. I love new technology, but I feel like the ...

 Square filed for a long-awaited IPO this week, and the payments firm has reportedly nabbed a big name to help it go public: Yahoo’s chief development officer Jacqueline Reses. Read More ...

 Square filed for a long-awaited IPO this week, and the payments firm has reportedly nabbed a big name to help it go public: Yahoo’s chief development officer Jacqueline Reses. Read More ...

 Following up on a big round of layoffs earlier this week, Zomato said it is shutting down its cashless payments system — a system that it had trialled in the Middle East at the beginning o...

 Bessemer is actively investing in consumer video startups. It’s a space we’ve been focused on for a while now. We invested early in Twitch in 2012 following the company’s pivot...

 Target is the latest big company to launch its own startup accelerator. This will a partnership between Target and Techstars, and it’s being led by West Stringfellow, former chief product ...

 OK, I’m old. You’re probably feeling old. Let’s get that out of the way. Done. The NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) turns 30 today, as it was officially launched in North Am...

 Pure Storage has been one of the hottest Silicon Valley enterprise startups for the past several years, sporting a world-class team and having raised capital from some of the top enterprise inve...

 Today’s startup scene is all about raising VC money — as much as possible, as fast as possible. The market celebrates VC fund-raising, cheers unicorns and makes it seem like VC-backe...

 Media as the First Instance, Alerts: Media as a case study, how media is using the notifications as an alert infrastructure: Jon Steinberg (Daily Mail), Andrew Mclaughlin (Digg), Alex Danco (Sha...

 Foucault’s idea of the “Panopticon” in Discipline and Punish has become depressingly easy to explain because the Internet has made it depressingly literal. Read More ...

 Facebook never, ever, ever wants you to leave. That’s why it’s replicating features from other apps and pulling content like videos and news articles inside its app. The more time yo...

 A year ago, I checked in with a tiny non-profit called MissionBit that was bringing computer science education to San Francisco’s public schools after class. Considering that fewer than fi...

 A place like the Lemp Brewery is rare. This factory, built in 1840 in St. Louis, Missouri, once spewed fragrant hops steam over Cherokee Street while workers rolled barrels of beer into the natu...

 A key goal of the Affordable Care Act is to lower healthcare costs by prioritizing the quality of care over the quantity of services provided to patients. To that end, the Obama administration i...

 While the “year of Apple Pay,” as Apple CEO Tim Cook dubbed 2015, still has a ways to go, the product’s first anniversary is rapidly approaching. And, considering Android Pay&#...

 In the last few years, the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) has been thrust into the mainstream. No longer just the domain of sci-fi fans, nerds or Google engineers, I hear people discussin...

 The Notifications Summit was recorded live October 1, 2015 @ betaworks in New York. The Notification stream eats Apps, becoming the meta app. Matthew Panzarino (Techcrunch), Or Arbel (Yo!), Pete...

 Scoot, the San Francisco-based electric scooter ride share network, has teamed up with Nissan to create a four-wheeled two-seater enclosed vehicle onto the streets of San Francisco. Starting tod...

 The Internet of Things (IoT) has a remote control problem — devices are operating independently with no knowledge of each other’s existence. Even systems that are supposed to work to...

 Ghana’s MEST innovation space is making moves, gearing up to launch a Pan-African VC fund in 2015, while expanding its IT training program into Nigeria and Kenya. Based in Accra, MEST (ful...

 Economists tell us that the history of human labor is one of continually increasing specialization. As we progressed along the economic continuum from hunter-gatherer through agrarian and indust...

 It is a truth universally acknowledged, in the enlightened liberal semi-socialist California circles in which I often move, that Uber is evil. It is accepted as axiomatic that they exploit their...

 TechCrunch has obtained documents that show Pinterest has been forecasting $169 million in revenue this year and $2.8 billion in annual revenue by 2018. Pinterest was also expecting to grow its ...

 Silicon Valley blood-test technology startup Theranos has once again responded to allegations made by the Wall Street Journal over questionable test results. Unfortunately, little of that respon...

 The 2014-15 school year was the first during which students of color outnumbered white students in America’s public schools. This demographic shift has significant implications for our edu...

 Match Group, which owns properties like Tinder and OKCupid, has filed to go public. The company is reporting trailing twelve months revenue of $1 billion ending June 30 this year, and revenue of...

 Your party enters a darkened room. Candles flicker in the gloom and something is glinting along the far wall. Your thief enters first. Her dwarvish blade begins to glow. Danger is nearby! What w...

 Knock. Knock. “Who’s there?” CrunchWeek! OK, fine…it wasn’t funny. Welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup show where we talk th...

 Take your iPad, turn it into aslap bracelet and you’ve gotWove, the first computer that can roll up and wrap around your wrist. Wove is the first product from flexible electronics company ...

 If you were a fan of news startup Circa, you might remember that shortly before it shut down this summer, it was reportedly looking for a buyer andin talks with The Daily Dot. Well, it lookslike...

 My kitchen opens up to my family room, where right smack in the middle sits “Alexa,” an Amazon Echo device. It feels strange to call Alexa a device, because she has been chatting wit...

 Turns out the Ballmer Peak is real. Shares in Twitter spiked 4.85 percent today, closing at $31.15 per share. Tradingabove the $30 mark is an important psychological threshold for Twitter. Put a...

 In April of this year, Amazon filed suit against the operators of websites that offered Amazon sellers the ability to purchase fake, four and five-star reviews of their products. Most of those w...

 After a period of being something akin to sold out, pre-orders are back online for Microsoft’s new Surface Book laptop-hybrid, but delays are the name of the game. It seems essentially cle...

 Alibaba’s proposed $3.5 billion buy out of Youku Tudou, a deal that would take the New York Stock Exchange-listed Chinese video site private if accepted, is mainly about advertising with e...

 Happy Friday, dear readers! This week, we come bearing good tidings of new Apple products, including brand new iMacs and a new trackpad! The new iMacs have Ultra HD screens, so you can see every...

 Google Play, the company’s storefront selling apps, games, movies, books, and more, is getting a big makeover. Screenshots showing a revamped mobile interface offering improved navigation,...

 None of the three cofounders of Vine are still working on Twitter’s video-sharing app. Rus Yusopov, the last man standing, as it were, was one of the 300+ employees who was laid off in Twi...

 BuzzFeed isn’t the only global news heavyweight entering Japan. The BBC, the UK’s national news organization, this week launched a Japanese site, which becomes its first dedicated no...

 Bobby Goodlatte’s childhood involveda non-stop political campaign —a whirlwind of pancake breakfasts,hand-shaking and kissing babies. That’s because his father, Bob Goodlatte, ...

 Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer now owns not only the Los Angeles Clippers, but a big chunk of Twitter as well.Ballmer earlier this morning disclosed that he owned 4% of Twitter in a Tweet. H...

 A majority of iOS device owners have upgraded to Apple’s recently releasedmobile operating system, iOS 9, according to a new third-party report which pegs iOS 9 adoption at 55 percent. Tha...

 It would appear that Jay Z, rap legend and Tidal music screaming service owner, has been hanging out with the folks over at Samsung. According to a report from Variety, Jay Z had a meeting in Sa...

 Venture capitalists have funneled more than $12 billion into the sharing economy, more than twice what was invested in social networking startups like Facebook and Twitter, according to a 2015 D...

 The Notifications Summit was recorded live October 1, 2015 @ betaworks in New York. Gathered were a group of technologists, developers, and thought leaders.A conversation with Adam Bosworth (Sal...

 This week’s headlines saw both Square and First Data IPO, layoffs at Twitter, and a scathing Wall Street Journal report on Silicon Valley healthcare unicorn Theranos. On Bullish, TechCrunc...

 EA is downplaying reports of a possible data breach circulating online, saying that it currently has no indication that a list of user account credentials appearing on the site Pastebin were obt...

 With the release of iOS 9, the ability to block ads and other content that slows down mobile websites has been a standout feature, if a somewhat controversial one. Soon after iOS 9’s launc...

 China is the largest smartphone market in the world. It’s no surprise, then, that Uber has committed more than $1.2 billion in this coming year to winning the market. After just 12 short m...

 Twitter today released the details of how its new executive chairman Omid Kordestani will be compensated. The social media companysays that Kordestani, who was poached from Google and was appare...

 Twitter today released the details of how its new executive chairman Omid Kordestani will be compensated. The social media companysays that Kordestani, who was poached from Google and was the co...

 Good morrow to you madam or sir! I would like to call your attention to a unique and fun opportunity. I, John Biggs, want you to show off your hardware in London at TechCrunch’s Disrupt co...

 Developers spend a lot of time reviewing code (between 20%-50%), even today, when code reviewing can in fact be automated much of the time. Code reviews are described as “technical debt...

 Developers spend a lot of time reviewing code (between 20%-50%), even today, when code reviewing can in fact be automated much of the time. Code reviews are described as “technical debt...

 TicketFire adds a marketplace functionality to their patent-pending paper/digital ticket converting app. The functionality called Pic-To-Sell, allows you not only to digitize and transfer your p...

 European car rental comparison startup — or self-styled metasearch engine — Happycar has raised a new $1.58 million round of funding. Notable backers include Global Founders Capital,...

 Matt Kelly, who has spent the last two-plus yearsas the head of product at Facebook, hasresigned from the company, he announced in a Facebook post to friends and family yesterday. He tells us se...

 Open source giant Red Hat is making another acquisition to build out its enterprise IT portfolio: today the company announced that it would buy Ansible, an IT automation solutions specialist tha...

 Open source giant Red Hat is making another acquisition to build out its enterprise IT portfolio: today the company announced that it would buy Ansible, an IT automation solutions specialist tha...

 Klook, a Hong Kong-based company that sells travel activities across Asia, has announced a $5 million Series A round led by US-Sino investment fund Matrix Partners. China Growth Capital and Fran...

 Some belt tightening underway at Zomato, the $1 billion+ restaurant discovery portalbased out of India that is now active in 22 countries. TechCrunch has learned, and has now confirmed with the ...

 Two of the most fascinating worlds are working together once again. Apple will sponsor next year’s Met Gala and its designer in chief Jony Ive will even co-host the event with Taylor Swift...

 Apple has been relatively quiet with Pages, Numbers and Keynote in the past few months. But the company just released a major update for these three apps on all its platforms — iOS, OS X a...

 In a big win for Uber in London, the U.K. High Court has ruled that its use of a smartphone app does not constitute a taximeter — so is not breaking the law on this specific technical poin...

 Alibaba, the New York-listed Chinese e-commerce giant, is getting into video in a major way, after it announced plans to buy out Youku Tudou, one of China’s top YouTube-like services, in a...

 Alibaba, the New York-listed Chinese e-commerce giant, is getting into video in a major way, after it announced plans to buy out Youku Tudou, one of China’s top YouTube-like services, in a...

 Alibaba, the New York-listed Chinese e-commerce giant, is getting into video in a major way, after it announced plans to buy out Youku Tudou, one of China’s top YouTube-like services, in a...

 Apple unveiled a new ad for the iPhone 6s. It follows the same vein as the previous ads, saying “the only thing that’s changed is everything.” This time, the company focuses on...

 Actually, you will. Experienced journalist Daisuke Furuta, who spent more than ten years at one of Japan’s leading daily newspapers, is joining BuzzFeed Japan as its founding editor. In a ...

 Artificial intelligence has an intellectual lineage stretching back to the greats of computer theory: Turing and, ultimately, Babbage, inventor of the calculating machine. What we now see in Lon...

 Almost a year-and-a-half after Ali Rowghani resigned as COO of Twitter, he’s been appointed the head of Y Combinator’s growth fund by the organization’s president, Sam Altman.T...

 Almost a year-and-a-half after Ali Rowghani resigned as COO of Twitter, he’s been appointed the head of Y Combinator’s growth fund by the organization’s president, Sam Altman.T...

 Have you ever wondered why being financially responsible can be so difficult? Maybe it’s because most money management tools are too complicated and overwhelming forthe average user.Penny,...

 One area that specifically presents a whole host of security concerns (both physical and digital) is travel. You aren’t just a prime target to get your wallet stolen, but you’re also...

 Publishers are in danger of becoming dumb content in the smart pipes of platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The quest for smoother user experience seems to pose actually visiting a publisher...

 Publishers are in danger of becoming dumb content in the smart pipes of platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The quest for smoother user experience seems to pose actually visiting a publisher...

 The great challenge for American politics and politicians in the 2016 election, is to break out of the zero-sum game mentality of Washington DC. Read More ...

 One of the things that I worry about the most is not having a hobby…a healthy passion to immerse myself in. Sure, I love technology, but it’s also my job. Gary Allen, a self-professe...

 Update: I got some of Box’s product lineup mixed up. I’ve edited the post not just for clarity, but also for Being Frakking Wrong. Apologies from your humble servant. Box’s pla...

 Could Facebook’s experimental group, Facebook Creative Labs, finally have a hit on its hand with its private, photo-sharing app Facebook Moments? The early data looks promising. The app, w...

 Theranos has refuted claims made in a scathing Wall Street Journal report that the company was struggling with results of its blood-test technology; that some results of tests were way off; and ...

 Cofounder Evan Doll is no longer at Flipboard, the companyhas confirmed to TechCrunch and has just announced in a blog post. He will be joining Redpoint Ventures as an entrepreneur-in-residence....

 Co-founder Evan Doll is no longer at Flipboard, the company has confirmed to TechCrunch and has just announced in a blog post. He will be joining Redpoint Ventures as an entrepreneur-in-residenc...

 Most people are familiar with Uber as the ridesharing king; it has taken the world by storm, with much fanfare. Less has been written about its new family member, UberEATS, which now delivers lu...

 Human has been relentlessly updating its passive activity tracking app for the past two years. But today’s update is the biggest to date with many under-the-hood improvements and new user-...

 So you’ve shot some cool video footage — congrats! But if it needs any editing, you’ve still got a lot of work ahead of you.Or you could try out a startup called VidMob, which ...

 If you’ve ever wondered what you’ll eventually find inside your body cavity when the robots take over meet QRoSS by Takeshi Aoki, Satoshi Ito, and Yosuke Sei from the Chiba Institute...

 Skype is working to make is service more broadly accessible, Microsoft announced today, detailing a new feature that will allow users to invite anyone – even those who don’t have a S...

 Skype is working to make is service more broadly accessible, Microsoft announced today, detailing a new feature that will allow users to invite anyone – even those who don’t have a S...

 Emergent VR, a startup that promises full video capture for virtual reality headsets like the Gear VR, has raised $2.2 million from Accel Partners, Rothenberg Ventures and Google Ventures. Emerg...

 Dropbox is going head-to-head against a very popular web app, Google Docs. Dropbox Paper is a collaborative document editing platform in your browser. It lets you edit a document in real time wi...

 Our story begins at Stanford University, where the idea for an ephemeral photo sharing app is brought to life by threefounders. Read More ...

 The number of niche video streaming services continues to grow in the shadow of major players like Netflix, Amazon, HBO and Hulu. Today, NBCUniversal tossed its hat into the ring with the debuto...

 Slowly but surely, YouTube is building a serious Twitch competitor. With YouTube Gaming, you can live stream and watch your favorite streamers play video games. Launched in August, YouTube just ...

 In order to help spread the word about 3CX’s new iOS platform, the company is giving away a new 16GB iPhone 6s to a TechCrunch reader. Read More ...

 Twitter is giving advertisers a new way to measure the effectiveness of their campaigns. The company is making this data available through what it’s calling conversion lift reports. Those ...

 It’s only been two weeks since Google first launched some of its core Cloud Platform services in its South Carolina data center (the ‘us-east1 region’ if you want to be precise...

 Facebook has confirmed it is investigating reports of excessive battery drain caused by its iOS app apparently continuing to run processes in the background — even with background app refr...

 Sales organizations have a new, business communications platform over which to get very excited. It’s less clear how employees will feel about it. The company, New York-based Mast Mobile, ...

 The makers of the popular social app for weddings, WedPics, is today launching a new app for social-photo sharing in an effort to retain customers after the big day has wrapped. The sister app, ...

 Wife and husband duo Victoria Ransom and Alain Chuard hit the jackpot on social. With every brand trying to figure out a Faceboook marketing strategy in 2008, the two built a startup called Wild...

 Apple is expanding its ResearchKit program with three new studies and three new partner universities. This time, Apple will help research studies on autism, epilepsy and melanoma. Read More ...

 Some big news today forQuip, the mobile-first word processing and collaboration app that competes with the likes of Google Docs. The eponymous startup behind the service has raised $30 million i...

 People often express worry that the relative anonymity of online learning environments and the disconnected nature of being in a MOOC (massive online open course) leads to more opportunities for...

 Project management service Trellotoday launched a new feature that bringsshipping and tracking data from UPS, USPS, FedEx, OnTrac and LaserShip right into Trello cards. That’s a nifty litt...

 Back in 2013, YouSendIt changed its name to Hightail because it had evolved beyond its original file sharing roots. Today, the core of the serviceis still about sharing files, but with a greater...

 After payments processorFirst Data priced its initial public offering at $16 per sharelast night, below the expected range of $18-$20, all eyes were on the company to see how the year’s bi...

 The move to larger-screened iPhones has led to China becoming Apple’s most important market, according to a new report from App Annie analyzing the impact the country has had on App Store ...

 Could a Silicon Valley Development Authority solidify Silicon Valley’s place among international financial and commercial centers and add $25 billion to its economy each year? Read More ...

 It’s not easy being a solo entrepreneur. And if you’re awedding photographer, wedding planner, interior designer, artisan pickle-maker,freelance web designer or developer, chances ar...

 Hatch Baby, whose Smart Changing Pad is due to ship soon, plans to conceive new tech-based services for parents after raising a $7 million Series A from True Ventures. Read More ...

 VMware didn’t let this week’s news that it was included in the $67 billion merger with Dell prevent it from breaking some news of its own, announcing plans to purchase email manageme...

 Yahoo on Thursday launched a new mobile mail app that allows youto integrate multiple accountsand rid yourselfof passwords.Although the app for the first time supports other email providers, it ...

 New home automation system SmartThingshome monitoring kit is now available from Amazon, Best Buy and Sears. The home monitoring kit was previously available on the SmartThings website. It’...

 Bezar, the bizarre bazaar imagined by Fab.com cofounder Bradford Shellhammer, is today introducing a more traditional marketplace for design brands to sell their wares called Storefronts. Bezar ...

 Just about two months ago, the maker of the popular-with-nerds game Ingress, Niantic Labs, was spun out of Google. Last month, the newly formed Niantic, Inc. announced that it had begun working ...

 Kinnek, a 2.5-year-old, New York-based marketplace for small businesses to find suppliers and manage purchasing, has just raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Thrive Capital. Italready ...

 When David Marcus joined Facebook last year from PayPal to run its Messenger business, many people speculated that it would herald the social network getting much more serious about payments and...

 Gaana, one of a posse of music streaming services aiming to make it big in India, has enlisted the help of Micromax, the country’s largest smartphone maker, to get ahead of the competition...

 OpenGov announced the close of a refreshingly sized $25 million in Series C financing today. The startup initiative to provide government financial data closed its Series B round of $15 million,...

 It was only a matter of time — and frankly not that much time — before a developer stepped in to make it super simple for iPhone 6s/6s Plus users to spread their Live Photos all over...

 After filing for an IPO on Euronext, music streaming service Deezer released its IPO documents in preparation of its public listing. The company plans to raise at least $343 million (300 million...

 French music streaming service Deezer has announced that it plans to raise at least 300 million ($335 million) in a public listing that will take place in its native France this month. Read More...

 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have now managed a significant breakthrough by ‘teleporting’ (yes I know you wanted to hear that) or transfer...

 Aside from Russia’s somewhat grandiose “Skolkovo” project to replicate a Silicon Valley-style startup campus just outside of Moscow, entrepreneurs who have preferred to stay ou...

 Aside from Russia’s somewhat grandiose “Skolkovo” project to replicate a Silicon Valley-style startup campus just outside of Moscow, entrepreneurs who have preferred to stay ou...

 Shopping for beauty products should be relaxing, but anyone who has visited a makeup counter knows that you often weather a deluge of upselling before finally escaping with a purchase. Hermo, a ...

 An ingenious hack could allow unwanted access to Siri commands by simply sending radio waves to a pair of unshielded iPhone earbuds. While the hack is needlessly complex – the hacker could...

 Square has finally filed to go public. The financials are all over the place, CEO Jack Dorsey owns a ton of the company, the Starbucks deal is over — and Dorsey’s listed as a risk fa...

 Congratulations, you now own stock in a private company but can you sell any of it? The considerations that go into answering this question have changed over time as the process for selling priv...

 A GoDaddy compensationanalysis released Wednesday exposed female executives were paidat a rate almost 4 percent less than their male counterparts. The report also found throughout the total comp...

 For months now, Tesla has been saying that their cars would soon pick up a whole new trick: autopilot. Later this week, the first of those features will hit Tesla’s fleet — but we...

 First Data priced its IPO tonight at $16 per share, beneath the expected range of $18 to $20,according to Bloomberg.Selling 160 million shares, the payments processing company will raise $2.56 b...

 While Apple’s product line is now pretty consolidated, it wasn’t always that way. There was once a younger, riskier Apple which had no problem rolling out a new product, only to shel...

 Square’s newly revealed IPO filing shows that co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey is the largest shareholder, owning 24.4% of the company. Square last raised capital at a $6 billion valuation, ...

 Square disclosed Wednesdayit willdiscontinue its payment processing agreement with Starbucks in its IPO filing. The companies partnership, which formed in 2012, began to unravel last year when S...

 Square disclosed Wednesday in its IPO filing that it will discontinue its payment processing agreement with Starbucks.The partnership, which formed in 2012, began to unravel last year when Starb...

 Apple just unveiled some new updates withtheir iMovie video-editing software for Mac and iOS that, among other things, capitalize on the capabilities of their new slew of iDevices and add some p...

 Square filed for its initial public offering today — and buried in the company’s boilerplate risk factors was a big one: CEO Jack Dorsey’s relationship with Twitter. Here’...

 Fifty seven thousand Marvel movies later, you know the deal: Thor has a hammer (called the Mjolnir). Only he can pick it up. To pretty much anyone else, even those who are theoretically stronger...

 As expected, Square has filed to go public. The financial transactions shop reported in its S-1 document that during the first half of 2015, it had revenue of $560.6 million, and a loss of $77.6...

 As part of its earnings report today, Netflix said it added 3.62 millionnew subscribers — 0.88million domestically and 2.74 millioninternationally.It was a big miss for investors that prom...

 Update: After falling as far as 14 percent, shares of Netflix are now only off a handful of points. Hell, Netflix might forsake its logo color and make it back into the black by pre-market. We&#...

 Eventbrite, the nine-year-old, San Francisco-based online ticketing platform, wants to do much – much – more for its customers once they’ve actually arrived in an event venue. ...

 In the brave new enterprise world, organizations will be awash in big data, and it’s against this backdrop that Dell bought EMC this week for the astonishing sum of $67 billion. All of thi...

 Over the years, Apple has introduced features to its mobileoperating system, iOS, that made jailbreaking your device in order to customize and tweak your phone or tablet less appealing. Users no...

 Venky Harinarayan, is an e-commerce veteran who co-founded comparison shopping engine Junglee (acquired by Amazon in 1998), worked closely with Jeff Bezos to create Amazon Marketplace, created t...

 August Smart Locks wants to usher in a new level of convenience for the on-demand economy. Instead of rushing home to meet your courier, cleaner, or assistant, or having to give strangers a copy...

 Erica Baker, a build and release engineer at Slack, is making waves in tech right now. She’s theex-Google employee who released employee salary datathat revealed unequal pay at Google. She...

 Like any empire, Uber has been fighting battles on multiple fronts. In New York, that battle was against Mayor Bill de Blasio who sought to limit the number of new Uber drivers that could be add...

 LinkedIn — the platform used by some 380 million professionals for networking, job hunting, learning things and more — today tookthe wraps off two new products aimedat one of LinkedI...

 French startup Clustree has just raised a new funding round of $2.9 million (2.5 million) with Alven Capital and business angels. As a reminder, Clustree automagically finds the right person for...

 My dad grew up on a farm. The food put on his kitchen table each night came from his family’s own garden. I grew up in the suburbs and now live in the city, and my food has almost exclusiv...

 Honor, the San Francisco-based company that is tackling the issues posed by a rapidly aging American society, is shifting closer to an on-demand model with Honor Now. The new product will bring ...

 Unlocking your door might not sound exciting, but once you’ve seen an August Smart Lock in action, you’ll change your mind. The company behind it, August, is doubling down on the con...

 Not all the “box of the month” clubs have found success, but one that took a slightly differentiated route – full-sized products, shipped quarterly – has bootstrapped its...

 Google first announcedUniversal App Campaigns, a product that allows developers to easily advertise their apps, at its I/O Developer Conference in May. Now, almost half a year later, this servic...

 Twelve South has been making Apple accessories for years. Of late, however, they’ve been hitting it out of the park with some impressive Apple Watch stands including the original HiRise an...

 LinkedIn, the social network for professionals with over 380 million members, isworking hard to bring its brand and its platform into the 21st century to make it more relevant to how people do b...

 Kamo Asatryan spent a lot of time working with his clients on finding ways to build new, first-time user experiences to help them close a deal. In fact, he was spending so much time that he deci...

 Google is making a change to how Chrome pushes notifications to users. Google’s Chrome browser started supporting push notifications from web apps to the desktop five years ago and a few y...

 The company formerly known as Bitreserve is moving beyond its Bitcoin roots to become a full-service provider of financial transactions under the new moniker Uphold. Read More ...

 There I stood, about a foot away from a mother and her newborn baby. The mother was talking to her daughter in a video captured in virtual reality for the child to see one day when she’s o...

 Microsoft’s“Skype for Business,” the communications service designed to replace theolder tool Microsoft Lync, is rolling out publicly to iOS users today, the company announced ...

 Norwegian startup Zwipe, which is taking aim at payment card PIN codes and passwords with an embedded fingerprint reader technology to authenticate card payments, has closed a $5 million Series ...

 Facebook, Google, Yahoo — the pillars of the social revolution were all started by college students in their dorms. This was 10, 20 years ago. In the past decade, the proliferation of yout...

 Its been crunch time for daily deals sites for a while now, and today one of the bigger and olderof those platforms is announcing a round of layoffs as it looks to cut costs, reorganise its oper...

 If you follow the venture industry, you’ve probably heard about the barbell effect a lot in recent years. It’s a metaphor for the many individualsand smallventure funds investing in ...

 Amazon is apparently exiting the travel business, only months after testing the waters with its hotel booking resource,Amazon Destinations. The site, first launched in April, was focused on help...

 Pirate3D Inc raised nearly $1.5M on Kickstarter in 2013, promising a 3D printer that anyone can use. A total of 3,520 backers pledged money to the project including 3,389 who pledged over $300 t...

 Hello, comrades, and welcome back to another episode of Bullish. This time we’re talking about diversity in tech. We have all seen the data: Tech companies, large and small, are notably no...

 Some more changes afoot for Twitter as the social network continues its big turnaround effort. A day after the social network announced a large round of layoffs under itsnew CEO Jack Dorsey, ith...

 Yetmore changes afoot for Twitter as the social network continues its big turnaround effort. A day after the social network announced a large round of layoffs under itsnew CEO Jack Dorsey, ithas...

 Some people say computers are here to stay and others aren’t so sure. Adam Lisagor and Roxana Altamirano are the people who say they are here to stay and are sure. How sure? So sure that t...

 Some people say computers are here to stay and others aren’t so sure. Adam Lisagor and Roxana Altamirano are the people who say they are here to stay and are sure. How sure? So sure that t...

 Apple is no stranger to patent lawsuits, but a more recent suit filed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s licensing branch may prove a costly loss for the iPhone maker. A United State...

 Multi-channel networks like Machinima and Makers are taking care of the top 1 percent of pro YouTubers. But what about the rest of them who have honorable audiences but no support from these net...

 We first told you about the soft launch of UberRUSH in the New York City area in April. Uber has now launched a pilot version of its merchant delivery service today in San Francisco, New York, a...

 With Lululemon brushing a $7.4 billion valuation in public markets, there’s no denying that so-called “athleisure” wear is a huge business.As with any multi-billion dollar indu...

 PubNub, the startup that has built a data network that carriesmessaging forapps, IoT hardware and other low-latency services, is today announcing that it has extended and closed its Series C rou...

 If this latest ruling by the judicial body that oversees complaints relating to the U.K’s intelligence agencies doesn’t ratchet up political pressure for reform of mass surveillance ...

 Playing in the identity space, London-based Veridu is attempting to solve a problem as old as the Internet itself but also one that is increasing with the advent of the so-called sharing economy...

 Walmart is expanding its online grocery shopping service to ten additional markets across the U.S., the company announced this morning, including several cities in Texas, Florida, and Oklahoma. ...

 Kabbage—the online platform thatloans money tobusinesses and individuals using a wide set of online data and algorithms to measure credit-worthiness — is growing once more. The start...

Chinese Android phone maker OnePlus is gearing up to launch its second smartphone of the year — it’s third to date — after it teased an upcoming launch event in London on October 29....

 Highland Europe, which pitches itself as a “growth-stage” technology investor, has raised a new 332 million (~$379m) tech fund. ‘Highland Europe Technology Growth II’ wil...

 WhatsApp is huge in India. The Facebook-owned messaging service has probably passed 100 million monthly active users in the country — it crossed 70 million in November of last year —...

 Ridesharing apps are not only different from traditional cab companies, but many tech companies, too. This means that they are often difficult to regulate under existing transportation laws. Gov...

 Gogoro is dealing with tragedy after an employee died in an accident while operating one of the Taipei-based startup’s electric scooters. The driver, whose full name has not been publicly ...

 Pinterest is adding new features to its Place Pins that not only make it easier for people to plan trips, but may also open new revenue streams for the company. In a blog post today, Pinterest s...

 Playlab, a Hong Kong-headquartered mobile games firm that is focused on Southeast Asia, has landed a $5 million investment from Monk’s Hill Ventures in one of the largest game focused inve...

 If you wanted to see Hillary Clinton defend her email server in 3D, you’re in luck. CNN and NextVRare teaming up Tuesday night to make youfeel like you’resitting in the audience atth...

 Ason-demand businesseslike Uber and Instacart grow quickly, so too dothe B2B startups that service their wider ecosystem. In the latest development, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed with sev...

 On September 18, 2015, Comcast reached a $33 million settlement over claims that it published personal information of more than 75,000 customers — even though those customers had specifica...

 There are plenty of people who’d happily become shareholders in companies like Apple and Facebook ifthe process of buying stock were simpler. They are plenty of people who’d prefer t...

 In a discussion with TechCrunch last week, Ping IdentityCEO Andre Durand and CFO Michael Sullivan,detailed the company’sfinancial performance, including its forward projections.The company...

 When the Surface Book, Microsoft’s new laptop-hybrid was announced, the most expensive version quickly sold out on the company’s online store. Now, every variant is unavailable on th...

 Facebook connects 1.5 billionpeople all over the world, but for the blind and visually impaired, it can be difficult to gain access to what has become a vast platform for connectivity. That̵...

 Cond Nast, publisher of magazines including The New Yorker and Wired, announced earlier today that it has acquired Pitchfork Media. You might not be a Pitchfork reader yourself, but the site has...

 Customer support giant Zendesk is acquiring French startup BIME Analytics for $45 million in cash. BIME Analytics is a business intelligence startup with a software-as-a-service approach. It tur...

 This week on Cribs we continue our string of Hollywood startups at Funny or Die headquarters in Los Angeles, California. This is the fourth office for the digital content company since its start...

 As a lover of watches I look for a few things. First I look for complicated movements – the guts inside the watch – and second I look for interesting design. These watches, the KLOK-...

 Today following the bell, Intel reported its third-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $14.5 billion and earnings per share of $0.64. Following its earnings beat, shares in the c...

 Before the whole Alphabet rejiggering, Google acquired tons of companies over the years. Roughly 184, according to Wikipedia. We thought we’d take a few minutes and pluck out a few names y...

 One of the most common complaints from iPhone owners today is that they’re running out of space on their phones,and either aren’t quite sure what to do about it,or don’t have t...

 If you’ve ever seen the movie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” then you’re familiar with the concept of proactively scrubbing certain memories from your brain. Thi...

 It’s Tuesday, which John Biggs and I refer to as TC Radio Day. And like any other Tuesday, we’ll be holding our world-renowned TC Radio Pitch-off on Sirius XM. Five companies have ex...

 The difficulty in figuring out who, exactly, is behind cyber attacks creates a vacuum typically filled by technological finger pointing. The software exploited, network abused or malware used co...

 Though the on-demand economy is booming in major urban areas like San Francisco and New York, the southeast has yet to get a comprehensive offering that lets them access the products and service...

 For a while now, Google has offered a single sign-on service based on the SAML standard. Today, the company is adding SAML 2.0 support for 17 additional enterprise SaaS apps like WebEx, Workday,...

 Khosla Ventures famously backed Gripe.io, a startup which allowed disappointed customers to complain loudly on social media about service providers that had failed them (restaurants, hotels, air...

 Facebook is where you watch videos you weren’t looking for. And now it’s looking to supercharge discovery through friends via a slew of new feature tests including a dedicated Video ...

 Google has acquired Divshot, an HTML5 web hosting platform that says its “tailored for performance and developer productivity.”It will shut down on December 14, 2015 and will be join...

 Friends, I’ve been remiss. Even though I count myself a New Yorker I have ignored you all far too long. That’s why I started a series of meet ups in the Big Apple starting tonight. W...

 Google today launched Cloud Datalab, a new interactive developertoolfor exploring, analyzing and visualizing data with just a few clicks.As Google tells us, the service is meant to help develope...

 Texting is the quickest way to be misunderstood. With no facial cues or vocal tones, enthusiasm becomes sarcasm, jokes are read as cruelty. But while audio and video chat are vivid, its inconven...

 Blocks has been a very time getting off the drawing board — and still remains a prototype at this stage, some two years into development — but the modular smartwatch concept has fina...

 SteelBrick, the quote-to-cash cloud service aimed primarily at small- and mid-market companies, announced a $48 million Series C round today. Quote-to-cash, as the name implies, is the part of t...

 Apigee, a service that specializes in managing APIs for developers and enterprises, launched a new security product today that aims to protect APIs from malicious bots. The new Apigee Sense serv...

 Today, Twitter announced an 8% layoff, and Wall Street is responding to the news. Its stock is up over 5%, signaling that investors also felt that it was time for the social networking company t...

 The New York Times is today launching a new initiative aimed at converting those who occasionally buy a printed newspaper into digital customers: it’s offering, for the first time ever, a ...

 Availablefor pre-order today, Nucleus is a connected home device that lets families havetwo-way audio and video conversationsin the home, between homes, or with any mobile device. Here’s h...

 When I first wrote about ROIKOI in 2014, I found it to be a pretty fascinating concept; a Facebook-fueled leaderboard based on a single criterion—”who [in your social network] would ...

 Starbucks is beginning pilot tests of its own delivery service, starting today. The company is debuting its “Green Apron Delivery Service” in New York’s Empire State Building, ...

 There are few feelings more intoxicating than raising millions of dollars from a well-known VC. The cash gives you power to exercise control by expanding your team, buttoning up your premises an...

 In addition to the new Retina display iMacs, announced today, Apple has updated its line of core accessories for the computer — touting “all-new” Bluetooth keyboard, mouse and ...

 I sit on a ball on top of my desk treadmill which I barely use these days because it is too hot in my attic. I am not a smart man. But I have just become smarter. Researchers at the Ohio State U...

 SentinelOne, a startup security software provider that attacks security threats at the kernel of devices, has raised $25 million in a new round of funding to tackle the problem of endpoint prote...

 In hopes of increasing its percentage of online holiday sales, PayPal this morning announced the expansion of its free returns service, “Return Shipping on Us,” which is now availabl...

 Apple is moving closer to using ultra high-res screens across the iMac line. The 21.5-inch version of Apple’s all-in-one is now available with a 4K screen and the a 5K screen is now standa...

 Twitter is about to cut up to 336 jobs out of its 4,100 employees working for the company around the world. It represents around 8.2 percent of the company’s global workforce. Jack Dorsey,...

 If you’ve been keeping up with the news, corporate security breaches are kind of a thing lately. Thus, it’s no surprise thatCybereason, a cybersecurity firm that specializes in thwar...

 Robot maker iRobot has long had two major lines of businesses: its famous disc-shaped vacuum cleaning robot called the Roomba; and another robot that, well, disposes of bombs. Cofounder Helen Gr...

 Optimizely, the company that has become synonymous with A/B testing, has raised $58 million in Series C funding.Optimizely has now raised a total of $146 million. The new round was led by Index ...

 JD.com’s market share isn’t as large as Alibaba Group and it doesn’t enjoy the same high profile in the U.S. yet, but it’s eager to change that. The e-commerce company, o...

Salesforce Ventures, the investment arm of the cloudservices giant, has pumpedhalf a billion dollars into over 150 cloud and enterprise startups since 2009. With most of those investments focused on t...

 Salesforce Ventures, the investment arm of the cloudservices giant, has pumpedhalf a billion dollars into over 150 cloud and enterprise startups since 2009. But with most of those investments fo...

 Salesforce Ventures, the investment arm of the cloudservices giant, has pumpedhalf a billion dollars into over 150 cloud and enterprise startups since 2009. But with most of those investments fo...

 I sat down with Ethan Brown, Beyond Meat CEO, and Doug Evans, the CEO of Juicera, for an episode of our Ventured podcast to discuss the impact food technology can have on climate change, sustain...

 China-based budget Android smartphone maker OnePlus is the latest to pledge to make some of its devices in India. Read More ...

 Sharing taxi rides is about to go mainstream in India. Less than a month after Uber brought its carpooling service to India, local rival Ola has announced a pooling service of its own. Read More...

 With so many price comparison sites, finding deals online is relatively easy as long as you are on a desktop. Things get a lot more complicated on mobile apps, however, especially if your smartp...

 French startup Doctolib just raised a $20 million Series B round from Accel and business angels. Doctolib is the leading platform to book doctor appointments online in France. With the new fund...

 Japan-based Line is finally bringing end-to-end encryption to its messaging service, which is used by 211 million people worldwide each month. Read More ...

 Compared to its Creative and Marketing Cloud solutions, Adobe’s recently launched Document Cloud and eSign services (formerly known as EchoSign) don’t quite get the same amount of at...

 According to a New York Times media report the venerable Playboy will soon go nude-free. I quote:Mr. Hefner, now 89, but still listed as editor in chief, agreed. As part of a redesign that will ...

 According to a report by Deadline, Snapchat is having massive second thoughts about producing its own content in-house. A team of around 15 ran what was called the “Snapchat Channel”...

 Oyster, the “Netflix for books,” made headlines last week when the company announced it was shutting down. News then broke that Oyster’s cofounders and CEO would be joining the...

 Office workers enjoy many amenities. They have clean bathrooms, water, and access to a microwave. But what they don’t have control over is their climate. In offices it is either blindingly...

 Is it #GIFAGEDDON? One of my favorite ways to consume the best parts of sportsball is in animated GIFs and 6-second Vines. I only want to see that big block or that sweet catch, not the crap bef...

 Is it #GIFAGEDDON?One of my favorite ways to consume the best parts of sportsball is in animated GIFs and 6-second Vines. I only want to see that big block or that sweet catch, not the crap befo...

 Is it #GIFAGEDDON?One of my favorite ways to consume the best parts of sportsball is in animated GIFs and 6-second Vines. I only want to see that big block or that sweet catch, not the crap befo...

 Microsoft detailed a number of statistics relating to the performance of apps on its Windows 10 platform today, alongside a new build of the operating system for its testing community. Stats fir...

 Mainstream entertainment, especially for kids, rarely reflects the diversity of the U.S., which is on its way to becoming a majority-minority nation among those under the age of 18. Last year, 5...

 Fixed, a mobile app that fights parking tickets and other traffic citations on users’ behalf, has had its parking ticket operations blocked in three of its top cities, San Francisco, Oakla...

 This summer, two different events affected two different worlds. First, Milan-based Hacking Team — a small group of programmers who customize malware to gather intelligence — was its...

 A lot of us chuckled when we saw Google Cardboard for the first time, but it’s actually quite genius. Google shared today that its virtual reality experience Google Cardboard is now availa...

 The Sippy may be the answer to all life’s greatest caffeine-based problems. Launching on Kickstarter this week, the Sippy will make espresso any time, any place. The slim little cannister ...

 Launched at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, PIF(Pay It Forward) isan appthat is taking a literal approachto social networking.Essentially a Tinder for networking, the app is designed to introduce people ...

 Brigade,a platform forpolitical engagementthat’sbacked by Sean Parker and from the formerCauses team, is unveiling a voter guide for the Nov. 3 elections. They’rerunning two pilots &...

 Fresh juice delivery turned healthy meal delivery startup Thistle switched over to a subscription-based healthy food business today. Thistle launched last summer in San Francisco’s Mission...

 In my opinion AWS is dominating the public cloud market, and it is increasingly clear that this market represents the largest disruption of enterprise computing since the introduction of the per...

 Google Ventures is bringing in an experienced veteran to help with its portfolio. Today, former COO at Symanetic, Stephen Gillett, announced that he’s joining Google Ventures as an “...

 Popular Science was one of my favorite magazines as a teenager. I was amazed by the inventions of mere mortals, and wondered if there was some sort of genetic mutation that allowed a select few ...

 A new startup called Sell It Easy is offering an alternative to larger marketplaces like eBay or Craigslist with a new service that handles the entire selling process for you, from item pricing ...

 Mozilla’s leadership team has seen its fair share of changes recently and today the organization named Katharina Borchert as its newChief Innovation Officer(a role once held by MozillaR...

 Last month, we talked with Jon Callaghan of True Venturesand marveledat the billion-dollar-plus return that his firm is poised toreapfrom leading the seed round of the wearable fitness company F...

 U.K. startup Swytch, a cloud based mobile network and dialer app, has finally launched its Android and iOS apps today, offering users the ability to run multiple U.K. phone numbers off a single ...

 An update to Facebook’s iOS application, which rolled out earlier this morning, now allows iPhone 6s and 6s Plus owners running the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system ...

 An update to Facebook’s iOS application, which rolled out earlier this morning, now allows iPhone 6s and 6s Plus owners running the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system ...

 Facebook’s where people spend their time on mobile, and now it’s working on several new features to give shopping sites a cut of the attention. The most eye-catching is a test of a S...

 While companies have long beenusing social media influencers as native advertising,these influencers have traditionally been limited to online “celebrities” known for theirlarge foll...

 Services that deliver the ingredients and recipes you need to make fresh, home-cooked meals, like Blue Apron, HelloFresh, and Plated, have grown in popularity as people are turning away from low...

 After Disrupt ended in late September, I hit the road for a few weeks to check out some regional tech hubs, bringing the TC Meetup + Pitch-off to Denver and New Orleans. There was booze, network...

 Alongside thenot-unexpectednews that Dell wouldacquireEMC in a record $67.1 billion deal, EMC-controlledVMwarereleasedan early look at its Q3 results: the virtualization giant said it expectsto ...

 Live radio and podcast streaming network TuneIn this morningannounced a deal that will see it offeringlive, play-by-play coverage of all NFL games toits premium subscribers. The multi-year partn...

 Belgium startup Xpenditure has closed $5.7 million in Series A funding. The Brussels-based company offers an expense management platform aimed at enterprises, SMEs and sole traders — basic...

 French startup Wynd just raised a $7.8 million Series A round (7 million) for its comprehensive discovery, ordering, payment and reward solution for restaurants. This is a modern solution that c...

 In the largest tech deal in history by far, Dell and partnersMSD Partners and Silver Lake agreed to buy EMC today for $67 billion or $33.15 a share. This is way over the price of $27 and change ...

 Symphony, the secure cloud-based communications platform,announced today that ithas received $100 million round from a list of investors that includes Google, Inc. Google’s part in theinve...

 The life of a technology journalist inexorably involves a lot of gadgetry. And while I can appreciate the sleek beauty of new Apple hardware as much as the next person, I don’t routinely g...

 You’d be forgiven for thinking that Uber has sewn up the on-demand transportation space. But actually in a number of specific markets there are taxi apps that are holding their own against...

 Yunmake, a Hangzhou-based smart bike maker, has raised a Series A led by Shunwei Capital, the investment firm led by Xiaomi chief executive officer Lei Jun. The company did not reveal the precis...

 We are excited to announce one of the most important speakers who’ll be appearing at TechCrunch Disrupt London conference on December 7-8, 2015. He’ll be joining global startups, inf...

 It’s heady amounts of money for heady times. AngelList, the investing platform that has scaled to support $205 million in investments across 650 startups including Uber, isaiming even bigg...

 Marvel, the U.K. startup that lets you turn sketches into mobile and web app “prototypes”, has acquired design and animation tool Plexi. Terms of the acquisition remain undisclosed. ...

 China’s ministry of transportation has proposed new guidelines that would significantly increase the amount of power the government holds over ridesharing apps like Didi Kuaidi and Uber. I...

 China’s ministry of transportation has proposed new guidelines that would significantly increase the amount of power the government holds over ridesharing apps like Didi Kuaidi and Uber. I...

 The average city-poke thinks about farm labor as the last of a dying breed of worker — replaced by $700,000 combines and all sorts of fancy technology that enables a farmer to do more than...

 From the Grexit crisis to the recent block size split debate, Bitcoin frequently finds itself at the center of regular news cycles. As the debates about its price performance, volatility and pol...

 The big hurdle for Tinder would mean coming to terms with the reality of how people use and perceive their product. To adopt a safe sex message would mean accepting their cultural role as a R...

 The big hurdle for Tinder would mean coming to terms with the reality of how people use and perceive their product. To adopt a safe sex message would mean accepting their cultural role as a R...

 In the early 1960s, Scottish engineer James Goodfellow was given a problem to solve. A colleague had invented a way to insert a card into a machine and get money out. Goodfellow’s task was...

 Watson, IBM’s supercomputer bestknown for winning Jeopardy in 2011, is now a chef, too. IBM pinged a bunch of the world’s top chefs, then added a dash of their knowledge and a large ...

 The PC industry had a big week. Microsoft debuted several news devices built to run its new Windows 10 operating system, garnering a more-positive press cycle than I anticipated. The software gi...

 With the recent announcement of Amazon Flex and rumblings about Uber expanding into delivery, all eyes are looking at the category, wondering who will win? Read More ...

 My friend and fellow investor Jon Lehr of Work-Bench recently wrote a piece entitled “7 Lessons Learned in My First 2 Years as a VC.” Jon and I have known each other since before eit...

 Ray Kurzweil’s predictions of the Singularity annoy me sufficiently that I once sat down to write a TechCrunch column attacking them. A brief primer: Singularity theory argues that our ex...

 Earlier this week I got on a call with to Nic Brisbourne, Managing Partner at London-based Forward Partners, which helps build and backs startups largely in the e-commerce space. Before that Nic...

 Indie developers were rightly up in arms at the recent changes to the place of supply rules for B2C sales — deftly coined #VATMESS by Twitter wags. The rules were well-intentioned — ...

 The folks at Goebel Furniture make amazing wooden furniture the old fashioned way: the create design permutations in CAD/CAM, 3D print demo models, and then carve and shape every piece to the cu...

 Each week brings more Uber stories, with some containing good news for those who believe that the company is on a glide path to a $100 billion IPO, and some containing bad news, which evoke pred...

 L.A. tech has clearly hit its growth inflection point, but the City of Angels has yet to get its startup wings. Here’s the good news: In 2014 alone, we raised more than $3 billion, saw mor...

 Online harassment is a serious problem for every member of the online community, including companies like Change.org. While the majority of petitions are deeply inspiring stories of people power...

 In a victory for tech firms, the Obama administration will not force firmsto breach the security of their products in order to provide information to law enforcement. Thedecision comes after a y...

 The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Peter Rojas, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Wednesday, September 30, 2015. This Gang immediately preceded the Notification Summit at betaw...

 Just when you thought the wonderful world of digital messaging couldn’t get any more rich and layered, along comes another app to prove there are more ideas in the digital sphere than can ...

 When a professional sports team wins a title, it makes the front page of The New York Times. When Tom Brady, quarterback for the New England Patriots, controversially may (or may not) have defla...

In my prior life as a seed investor, I helped many companies raise Series A, some raise B and a few raise C. First time founders often ask about the process, once it’s clear there’s likely...

 I don’t normally pay much attention to fashion. I’m not a fashion blogger. I don’t read fashion articles. If I think something looks good, I wear it. That being said, thereR...

 Remember all those jokes about Silicon Valley you always said you’d put on t-shirts? Siliconvicts Clothing Co., a shirt company from Malibu, just beat you to it. With slogans ranging from ...

 It’s Friday, Friday, gotta crunch down on Friday. Welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup show where we talk the biggest things in tech. This week we...

 The Chinese government arrested hackers at the request of the U.S. government just two weeks before Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the United States. The arrests, reported by the Washingto...

 Seymour, who spent 18 years homeless on the streets of the Tenderloin, leads walking tours through the Tenderloin and recently started Code Tenderloin to help people in the community get jobs at...

There’s no end to talk about electric and self-driving vehicles in Silicon Valley, but most of the country seems perfectly happy continuing to buy traditional cars. In fact, new cars sales in th...

 Bionic handsstartup Open Bionics now makes Iron Man and Elsa-themed hands and arms for the smallest of amputees – kids.Open Bionics hopes to get kids excited about their prosthetics with d...

 It has never been easier for customers to buy software. A couple of clicks or taps, depending on your device of choice, and you can be up and running with even the most sophisticated enterprise ...

 UberSELECT, Uber’s higher-end car offering has finally rolled out to those in San Francisco. The service allows folks in the 7×7 to choose luxury cars for their ride, including BMW 3-...

 OneGo promises to give subscribers unlimited flights for a monthly fee.I first wrote about the company in June — at the time, its offerings were limited to a West Coast flights. More recen...

 Dell Inc. has filed confidentially for an IPO for its SecureWorks cybersecurity unit, TechCrunch has confirmed. The IPO is anticipated to happen before the end of the year. First reported by the...

 Some entrepreneurs think that (more) money will solve all their company’s problems. Read More ...

 OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG. If you’ve noticed that Google Drive and all of the apps that save to it are acting a bit shaky today, you’re not alone. Google updated their Apps status page to ...

 UPDATE: All services have returned and a Google spokesperson provided us with the following statement: Google Drive, Docs editors and Classroom have been restored for 99.5% of affected users as ...

 Did you miss us? The Gadgets Podcast has been fully interrupted by TC Disrupt and subsequent TC Meetups in various cities, but what is dead may never die. Or, put more simply, we’re back. ...

 The history of media streamers has always trended towards the cheap and powerful. The first streamers, essentially massive Windows PCs with some media tricks built-in, were toys for enthusiasts....

 New York-based Glamsquad, a startup in the “Uber for X” category of on-demand businesses, has just raised another $15 million for its mobile beauty service that brings hair stylists,...

 Wonderloop — a startup which allows people to showcase themselves through short 10 to 15 second video profiles (think a sort of “LinkedIn for video”) thus replacing the static ...

 Twitter Moments launched this week, which caught none of Twitter’s most hardcore users by surprise. We knew it by the name of “Project Lightning,” I refer to it as “Proje...

 Talking about podcasts, podcast network Relay FM released an iOS app today to showcase its 17 shows for creative, curious and obsessive people. It’s a polished app with gorgeous animated a...

 This week, Microsoft announced new hardware, Twitter finally got a permanent CEO, and Facebook confirmed it is working on augmented reality. Here in the TechCrunch studio,we talked about India&#...

 Marco Arment just released a major update to its popular podcast app for iOS, Overcast. This update brings many under-the-hood improvements as well as a few new major features. Arment is also sw...

 Facebook has been allowing users have a lot more fun with their profile pictures lately. Last month, the company introduced support for 7-second, looping videos instead of static images as well ...

 “The Good Dinosaur” will feature twice as many special effects as any Pixar filmthat has come before, Pixar Studios told TechCrunch on a recent visit. The film hitting theaters in No...

 Entrepreneurs need to be more politically engaged. When we think of regulatory hurdles that entrepreneurs face, we think about Uber and Airbnb. But outdated policies affect startups in every ind...

 Segment, a Y Combinator-backed startup that allows businesses to use a single API for event tracking in order to send data to hundreds of different tools and databases, including Google Analytic...

 betaworks has today launched the latest product out of its Hacker-In-Residence program, meant to help developers and laymen alike develop third-party API integrations into an app that can be dis...

 What if the Instagram of song samples was Instagram? This is what a French startup is currently noticing with its latest app. Sounds is an iPhone and Android app that lets you discover music and...

 With anincreasing number of data breaches putting users’ personal information at risk, a company that helps online users better manage their account information withvarious websites and se...

 California’s DMV has published all the official accident reports involving autonomous vehicles tested on the region’s roads, covering the period from last September to date. The data...

 In a further sign of the increasing maturity of Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem, a new fund has emerged to offer yet more financing options for emerging tech companies. Venturra Capital...

 Berlin-based Clue, which makes a period tracker app designed to let women keep tabs on their monthly cycles and help predict their fertile window, has closed a $7 million Series A round, with in...

 AliCloud, the cloud computing business of Alibaba Group, said today that it has opened its second data center in the U.S. Like its first stateside data center, the new one is in Silicon Valley, ...

 The venture outlook in Europe is about as bright as it’s been since the go-go dot com days, with Europe-based venture firms raising more than $2.2 billion in the second quarter alone of th...

 The executive who oversees Microsoft’s developer tools and services, S. Somasegar, has announced that he will leave the company after 27 years. In a series of tweets, Somasegar, who is usu...

 Apple has removed someapps from its App Store for installing a root certificate of their own that would have allowed the developers to view encrypted traffic from their users. The company said i...

 While at the San Francisco Auto Show last year, I wondered why car dashboards were so wrong? Every car — regardless of category or price — had the same mess of dials, buttons, lights...

 Switch, a cloud-based business phoneservice, has been watching Office 365’s adoption grow since it launched — and now it’s too big to ignore for the startup.So Switch, after la...

 Black students are earning four percent of computer science Bachelor degrees but make up less than two percent of the tech industry, according to the Computer Research Association and company re...

 During Apple’s keynote in September, they announced that Facebook Messenger would be coming to the Apple Watch, as long as you’ve updated to watchOS 2. Well, it’s here. You can...

 Amid all of the angst over whether San Francisco is losing its artists or culture is a small non-profit in the heart of Mission District that bridges the worlds of technology, art and urbanism. ...

 Twitter just announced an expansion of its Amplify ad program that should make it accessible to more publishers and advertisers. Amplify is the company’s two-year-old program for video ads...

 After decades of subtle developments that largely went unnoticed by much of the working world, artificial intelligence has taken center stage in the last 2-3 years as a “hot” technol...

 Data privacy, technological unemployment and the Internet of Things will play an increasingly central role in the upcoming election. Read More ...

 Apple has addressed the spate of chatterabout differences in performance between A9 chips used in its new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. We’ve known for a while that some A9chips wereproduced by T...

 After being promised Wi-Fi calling for over a year by Apple and AT&T…it’s finally here.It’s available for iPhone 6, 6+ and 6S and 6S+ AT&T customers with iOS 9. YouR...

 Cassidy the Kitten was born without hind legs and was left for dead in a forest until he was found and sent to a shelter in Vancouver. The shelter nursed him back to health and then two students...

 Launching today, Trove is a platformthat letsusers customize and buy personalized, 3D-printed jewelry. Based in NYC, thecompany has raised a $640k seed round from Resolute Ventures and Uprise Ve...

 Makerbot CEO Jonathan Jaglom has announced that they are laying off about 20% off the company’s 400 staff or about 80 people. The move follows a previous round of layoffs that dropped 20% ...

 At a conference last October, I encountered a fascinating “creature” named AVA that I mentioned in a blog post shortly afterwards. Though extraordinarily helpful in keeping a convers...

 Hundreds of Lyft’s top drivers and a couple dozen press crowded into Lyft headquarters today to hear the peer-to-peer ridesharing network rolled out abunch of announcements meant to make l...

 When you spend most of your time working in the technology space you tend to track things like fancy product releases, funding announcements, valuations, liquidity events and so on and so on. Pe...

 Google’s search chief Amit Singhal said for the first time this summer, more Google searches were completed on mobile devices than desktop computers.Singhal said Google fields more than 10...

 Rumors that Dell is going to buy Massachusetts-based storage giant EMC, first reported yesterday in the Wall Street Journal,have been flying fast and furiously. The deal could be valued as high ...

 Surprise! Netflix just got more expensive. The service’s most popular plan now costs $9.99. Existing customers will have a grace period, but the price is effectively immediately for subscr...

 Shares of Box, an enterprise collaboration shop, traded sharply higher today following newsthat the company’s CEO, Aaron Levie, recently purchased 15,000 shares. At a price, according to a...

 Make way for another big player entering the Internet of Things space. Amazon today is announcingits long-awaitedIoT platform for AWS atits re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas. As Amazon...

 21 is a mysterious Bitcoin hardware and mining startupbacked by Andreessen Horowitz that unwrapped its first product earlier this year. A few weeks ago, they unveiled and began pre-selling a com...

 Amazon announcedAmazon EC2 Container Registry, a tooldesigned to simplify container management for developers today at the Amazon re:invent conference, Last year Amazon announced EC2, its contai...

 Amazon today announced the launch of its AWS Mobile Hub based on AWS Lambda at its re:Invent developer conference, a new tool that makes it easier for mobile developer to build the back-end proc...

 Sometimes you just don’t know what to search for. Maybe you’re trying to identify a landmark or find out some details about acool-looking restaurant. Rather than search the web with ...

 GPS device maker TomTom has moved beyond turn-by-turn directions into smartwatches and embedded carsoftware that could be used for self-driving vehicles. The portable mapping device maker announ...

 Amazon today announced a massive new instance type for its AWS EC2 compute service. The new X1 instances will feature 2 terabytes of memory. That’s a huge increase from what was previously...

 As some noticed when Roku this week announced its upgraded 4K-ready streaming media player, the Roku 4, the product packaging featured a highly-anticipated addition to Roku’s channel lineu...

 After nearly two years, Sony is slashing the price of its latest gaming console by $50 just in time for the holidays. The PlayStation 4 now costs $349 in the U.S. In November. The console alread...

 If you’ve watched the trailers for the soon-to-be-releasedmovie “Steve Jobs,” you might remember hearing snatches of a heated conversation between Steve Wozniak and Jobs.Now Un...

 The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off is disrupting New Orleans tonight, which means there is no better time for you to register for tickets than right now. What is a TC Meetup + Pitch-off, you ask?...

 Building what amounts to a neural network inside a platform has long been one of the goals of computing and many a startup, but in the main they remain the preserve of university computing labs....

 On-demand food delivery startup Munchery just hired Pascal Rigo, the founder of upscale bakery La Boulange, which Starbucks bought for $100 million in 2012. As part of the deal, Rigo spent three...

 Online video-sharing site Vimeo is increasing its investment in original programming, the company announced this morning, as it detailed its plans for three more original series, including a sec...

 Flatiron School, an accelerated educational program for web and mobile development, is switching up its model with the launch of Learn Verified. Traditionally, the Flatiron School has taught cou...

 SendGrid CEO Sameer Dohlakia said he thinks of the company’s new product, Threads by SendGrid, as “the anti-spam.”Basically, Threads allows customers to set up automated emails...

 AOL* CEO Tim Armstrong on Wednesday night defendedthe user data tracking practices his company is set to adoptnext month as part of its acquisition by Verizon. Earlier yesterday TechCrunch repor...

 Burner, the app that lets you create disposable phone numbers you can use for a variety of purposes including online ads, while traveling, for business projects, dating profiles, and more, has b...

 Everyone dreads them: The annual performance review. After all, it’s hard foremployees to do much with a yearly sit-down where some past accomplishments and failings are outlined, and a va...

You may never have heard of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. However, the 1996 federal law has shaped how you have used the Internet for nearly two decades. Section 230 provides Internet...

 Imagine a young startup where two of three founders are pushed out the door. Imagine that this same startup parts ways with its COO, its SVP of Finance, its VP of Guest Experience, its VP of Eng...

 Delivery Hero, the European online take-out ordering behemoth that was recently valued at $3.1 billion by investors, is busy building a new logistics and food delivery company. Read More ...

 LittleBits are fantastic, but I’ve never been able to recommend them for kids. Most of the company’s kits are just not intuitive for novices, nor do they contain everything needed to...

 LittleBits are fantastic, but I’ve never been able to recommend them for kids. Most of the company’s kits are just not intuitive for novices, nor do they contain everything needed to...

 If you’re tired of all the digital demands on your time and attention, take note: there’s a (new) iOS app for that… Pause is the latest release from digital design studio ustwo...

 European startups! TechCrunch Disrupt London, our stupendous European conference, is coming to London, December 5-8. In the lead-up to this we’re holding a Meetup and Pitch-off in Lisbon o...

 If you love Harry Potter as much as I do, today’s news will be yet another opportunity to read the seven books all over again. For the first time, Apple is now selling the Harry Potter boo...

 Amazon has expanded its ecommerce empire yet again, opening a marketplace for handcrafted goods that takes it right onto Etsy’s bespoke knits. The new marketplace, Handmade at Amazon, went...

 In September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made somewaves when he hinted Facebook was working on a way to expandits famous Like button — not by adding themuch-fabled“dislike” o...

 Cynics have denounced uBeam’s ultrasound wireless charging at-a-distance technology since its first prototype was invented in 2011, in part because it refused to share the partic...

 Disrupt London 2015 is just a few months away, and entrepreneurs, investors, and tech enthusiasts from around the world will soon be flocking to London’s Copper Box Arena for the show. Wil...

 Google has continued its focus on India after it introduced an Android app for navigating public transport in Delhi. Read More ...

 Sony has announced it has acquired Belgium-based SoftKinetic, a maker of 3D sensing computer vision technologies including Kinect-style depth cameras, CMOS depth chips and gesture-tracking middl...

 First Uber competitors Didi Dache and Didi Kuaidi came together, now China’s tech industry is getting another merger between billion dollar rivals this year after group buying sites Meitua...

 I like to think I’m not squeamish about menstruation. I track my symptoms every month and am rarely hesitant to talk about periods with close (and even not so close) friends. I was still t...

 Coming soon to Singapore: robotic postmen in the skies! SingPost, the country’s postal service provider, has just revealed plans to handle some mail deliveries using drones. Read More ...

 HipVan, an online furniture store based in Singapore, has closed a $3.3 million Series A funding round. The investment was led by Golden Gate Ventures, the Singapore-based VC that recently annou...

 Online advertisers and publishers might get a lot smarter about their audiences’ offline habits, thanks to a new product from Quantcast called Audience Grid. Quantcast CEO Konrad Feldman d...

 Medium unveiled a new publishing API today, as well as a roster of new publishing features to make formatting, editing, and commenting simpler. Read More ...

 Since it couldn’t buy ABC.com or Alphabet.com, Google Alphabet has acquired the next best thing. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com Google announced the structural changes that led to Alphabet...

 When we first checked in on hardware startup Butterfleye, they set out to raise $100,000 on Indiegogo to build its smart home monitoring system. Well, it blew through that goal and has raised an...

 Google has been putting serious investment into building out its artificial intelligence, deep learning and robotics capabilities, and this weekthe company made its latest move to tap into some ...

 Google has been putting serious investment into building out its artificial intelligence, deep learning and robotics capabilities, and this weekthe company made its latest move to tap into some ...

 Twitter’s Head of Product Kevin Weil told attendees atCode/Mobilethat Twitter would “absolutely” remain an independent company aftertanking stocks prompted rumors earlier this ...

 A California jury on Wednesday found journalist Matthew Keys guilty on all three federal hacking charges brought against the former KTXL Fox 40 online producer under a computer fraud law. The pr...

 Alas, poor Nook! I knew him, Reader: a tablet of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: it hath borne me into the library a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gor...

 A developer colleague of mine recently went on and on about Google Photos. He knew my background in computational neuroscience and thought I would be interested in what Google was doing with dee...

 Is there anything you can’t crowd fund? First it was smartwatches and books and now it’s shoes, pants, and now knives. In fact today’s crowdfunding treat comes from Misen, a gr...

 “Yeah!” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said excitedly in response to a big question for his company: is Facebook working on augmented reality?“It’s a bit further out,”...

 Pypestream, a new startup from AdGenesis/Genesis Media co-founder Richard Smullen, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding. The round was led by Jonah Goodhart, co-founder of...

 It’s the small things that matter, but instead of tapping an image you’ve found via search and hoping that it loads up like a GIF should on mobile web, you can now view GIFs within G...

 Pure Storage, the enterprise storage company, went public on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday. After pricing at $17, shares traded down in its debut, closing the day at $16.01. CEO Scott Di...

 To outlive the hype that comes with being Silicon Valley’s latest trend, and actually improve care for patients and consumers, health tech will require more than a just a funding pipeline....

 The ongoing concerns surrounding the YouTube Kids application – including its inability to completely filter out inappropriate content, as well as the way it blends content and commercial ...

 When we think of Fashion Week, we think of long-lines, exclusive parties, and endless train of models.This year you can add technology to the list Read More ...

 Software is eating the world, but who’s setting the table? Engineers, and everyone needs them. But companies that hire freelance programmers are realizing an ugly product is as broken as b...

 The only thing that I really worry about when I drop my phone into a tub of water is if I’ve backed everything up. More specifically, did I back my messages up. There is so much important ...

 Israel has become known for its security startups, and Scalock, a company that wants to secure the burgeoning container space, announced a $4million Series A round today.The funding was provided...

 Streaming has been eating away into digital and CD sales for years, as consumers turn to online services like Pandora, Spotify, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio, and now Apple Music, among others...

 Today at Amazon re:invent, Amazon announced a new service called Amazon Inspector that analyzes your AWS instances and reports back with any security or compliance issues it finds. This provides...

 The first batch of startups in Disney’s startup acceleratorproduced successes like the bb-8 droid from SpheroandNaritiv, a marketing platform that nabbed a deal with Snapchat. Sphero produ...

 When it comes to the weather, there are no lack of applications to choose from to get your information. But there is very little diversity when it comes to those apps. A new startup, called Suns...

 Giphy, which launched out of betaworks in 2013 as a search engine for gifs, is evolving into somethingmuchbigger.In the last year, we’ve seen Giphy launch a standalone mobile app for creat...

 Amazon surprised developers today with the launch of Snowball, a new physical appliance that will allow AWS users to ship huge amounts of data for import into AWS by shipping the device back and...

 Today at AWS re:invent, Amazon introduced a new service called Kinesis Firehose to move data streaming from sensors and other locations directly to the cloud. As Andy Jassy, SVP at AWS, pointed ...

 TechCrunch is back on the road again with the upcoming New Orleans Meetup + Pitch-Off, in conjunction with Nola Tech Week, and we’ve finally made selections on which startups will have a c...

 At its annual re:Invent developer conference, Amazon today announced a new business intelligence service for its AWS platform. The new service, called QuickSight, will help AWS customers start v...

 Today Amazon’s AWS businesskicked off its big Re:Invent conference with some statsthat speak to how the company’s enterprise divisioncontinues to dominate the cloud-based data servic...

 Jet.com, the discount shopping site promising to take on Amazon by competing on lower prices, has made a fairly radical change to its business, the company announced this morning. Instead of cha...

 Swiss-based semantic search company Hulbee, which launched a consumer search engine in the U.S. this August, has closed a $9 million angel funding. It’s positioning its consumer search off...

 Consumers hate ads. Why? Ads are often irrelevant, boring and annoying. This ad-hate wouldn’t be a problem but for the fact that ads pay for mostly everything we watch, listen to, read and...

 Pro.com, the handywork/installation site that instantly offers price estimates and connects you with a contractor, has today launched a brand new feature to the service. Called Text-A-Pro, the f...

 Today, startups around the world have a real chance to break into China, no matter how global financial markets are behaving. Read More ...

 A service that helps online shoppers save when prices drop,Paribus, has raised $2.1 million in seed funding to continue to grow its business following the startup’s participation in the Y ...

 While Steve Jobs has already been depicted several times on film,I think it’s fair to say that Universal Pictures’ Steve Jobs is the Big One, at least for now. The movieisbased on Wa...

 Hello friends, and welcome back to Bullish. This week we dug into a topic of large scale — large human scale, that is. India has 1.25 billion citizens, and hundreds of millions of cellphon...

 Google unveiled a new open source initiative today that it’s calling the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project. The name kind of spells out the concept: The AMP Project is supposed to result in...

 Big Switch Networks, Facebook and NTT, announced today that they have come together to create a unified operating system for the Open Compute Project‘s (OCP) open source networking switch ...

 Move Guides, the London and San Francisco startup that offers ‘talent mobility’ software in the cloud to help companies manage the relocation of their employees, has closed $15.6 mil...

 How’s this for school spirit? A group of alums have come together to invest in startups connected to Cornell. Chairman and founder Sam Sezak (also a partner at Blue Heron Capital) has both...

 It’s amazing to think that the original Pill hit the shelves over three years ago to take on Jambox. Since then, the company behind it, Beats, was acquired by Apple. With over a million so...

 Pandora has a new tool in its belt to fight against Apple Music and Spotify. The music streaming just announced it will purchase Ticketfly, a TicketMaster-type site, for $450m in cash and stock....

 Pandora has a new tool in its belt to fight against Apple Music and Spotify. The music streaming just announced it will purchase Ticketfly, a Ticketmaster-type site, for $450m in cash and stock....

 Verizon, aka the owner of TechCrunch’s owner AOL, will be plugging its user tracking ad network into AOL’s advertising network next month, combining its user demographic data with AO...

 AppDirect makes it easier for enterprises to buy cloud services from the likes of Box, Google, Symantec and others (and serves as a kind of referral service for these businesses). The company to...

 They say lightning doesn’t strike twice, but after it did Seaya Ventures is hoping it does for a third time. The VC fund has led a $4 million round in Spanish and Latin American beauty mar...

 For most consumers who aren’t Scrooge McDuck, learning about personal finance is like dental checkups—boring, sometimes painful, but necessary. Vinod Nair, the founder and chief exec...

 Lumo, makers of the Lumo Lift posture correcting device, have released something to help runners create better form, too. Called Lumo Run, it’s a wearables system consisting of Lumo “...

 During Laszlo Bock’s nine years as Google’s SVP of People Operations, the company has won more than 100 awards for its employment practices. Bock, who came to Google after stints at ...

 The smart thermostat market continues to heat up, not least in Europe where Munich-headquartered Tado is aiming to become the leader. The German company, which counts Google-owned Nest as a comp...

 After almost two years of disappointing sales and slowing profit, Samsung Electronics finally has some good financial news. The Korean tech giant said today that it expects its third-quarter ope...

Impossible Foods, a four-year-old, Redwood City, Ca.-based company at work on a new generation of meats and cheeses made entirely from plants, has raised $108 million in new funding from a powerful gr...

 Some downsizing is on the cards for Gilt Groupe, the fashion flash-sales site that hasbeen valued at $1.1 billion. TechCrunch has learned that thecompany is cutting 45 jobs, including its CMO Cl...

 Some downsizing is on the cards for Gilt Groupe, the fashion flash-sales site that hasbeen valued at $1.1 billion. TechCrunch has learned that thecompany is cutting 45 jobs, including its CMO Cl...

 Some downsizing is on the cards for Gilt Groupe, the fashion flash-sales site that hasbeen valued at $1.1 billion. TechCrunch has learned that thecompany is cutting 45 jobs, including its CMO Cl...

 Since the beginning of modern agriculture, farmers and entrepreneurs alike have been sharpening their focus and looking at ways to apply technology to compensate for the mercurial behavior of Mo...

 Elon Musk and Sam Altman discussed everything from alien life to nuclear fusion on stage at the Vanity Fair Summit on Tuesday, including how soon we can expect to get our cars to drive...

 Microsoft this morning announced a grip of new hardware, including Surface products, high-end smartphones, a wearable, Windows 10 for the Xbox One and its first laptop.The laptop, called the Sur...

 Enterprise storage company Pure Storage has raised $425million after pricing its IPO on the NYSE at $17per share, reportsthe Wall Street Journal. The company is tradingunder the ticker, “P...

 Enterprise storage company Pure Storage has raised $425million after pricing its IPO on the NYSE at $17per share, as originally reported by theWall Street Journal. The company is tradingunder th...

 As China learns and the rest of the world is reminded that having established a stock market, Beijing cannot control it simply by diktat and investors and buyers who deal with China are feeling ...

 AdmitSee, a two-year-old, 10-person, San Francisco-based startup, has just finished raising$1.8 million in seed funding to take on pricey college admissions consultants. If things work out as pl...

 More ad-blockers means more content moving to paid (and privacy-guaranteed), and more consumers eventually paying. Read More ...

 More ad-blockers means more content moving to paid (and privacy-guaranteed), and more consumers eventually paying. Read More ...

 Riddle me this. Why won’t people just ignore Twitter’s new Moments tab? How will Moments make money? Will Twitter pay publishers that create them? Today Twitter launched Moments, its...

 GM and Ford released statements to TechCrunch indicating that in their vehicles, Android Auto has very limited access to vehicle information. This comes after claims published by Motor Trend mag...

 This week’s Cribs episode takes us to the pup-friendly headquarters of peer-to-peer dog sitting platform DogVacay. Sometimes referred to as “the Airbnb for dogs,” DogVacay̵...

 We are constantly bombarded by nonlinear success stories: The Facebook-MillionsOfDownloads-Airbnb-10,000Followers-ExponentialGrowth-AcquiredFor$200M-Snapchat-Uber-Zilla is stomping through our t...

 Edward Snowden said he wants to return to the United States — even if that means serving jail time.The former government contractor fled the U.S. in 2013 after he leaked classified NSA doc...

 YouTube has rolled out a notable – and clearly, divisive – update to its iOS application which introduces Google’s now-familiar “Material” design style to the appli...

 Skurt, a startup that delivers rental cars to you, just raised a $1.3 million seed round from Upfront Ventures, Hipmunk CEO Adam Goldstein, Wonga founder Errol Damelin, Whisper President Mark Tr...

 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced that it has plans to give drone operator SkyPan, an aerial photography firm, a record $1.9 million fine “for endangering the safet...

 Android Auto does not phone key automotive data back home, Google says. This comes after Motor Trend stated Porsche opted to not include Android Auto in the new 991/2 as Google’s system co...

 Venture capitalist Bill Gurley, Julie Wainright from TheRealReal and co-founder of unicorn startup Slack Stewart Butterfield discussed the frothiness of the market and the possibility that Silic...

 On-demand delivery startup Postmates just launched a new product called Pop to sling lunch to people in 15 minutes or less. For now, it will only be available to people based in San Francisco...

 It’s unclear if Apple is setting a precedent, or has only accidentally allowed the approval of a new app, known as “Been Choice,” into the iTunes App Store. The app claims to b...

 Makerarm is a robotic 3D printer, laser cutter, drawing and ink printer, fabricator and assembly machine all rolled into one that fits on a desktop and promises to make pretty much anything R...

 With the release of Android’s latest operating system, Marshmallow, tons of new functionality is going to be introduced over the next few weeks.One of the more interesting new features rol...

 Along with the release of its new feature, Moments, Twitter shared a set of guidelines and principles that drive the curation team that powers it, as well as its external partners. Algorithms on...

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 Researchers at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit have found a link between heavy Internet use in teens and high blood pressure. Teens who spent over 14 hours a week on the Internet had “e...

 Reddit, the squirrely site that has more links to content than you shake a stick at has launched a new site, with new content. It’s called Upvoted, and it’s a digital magazine of sor...

 Google is today expanding its efforts with its newer domain registry service, Google Domains, announced earlier this year. The service, which represents Google’s initial foray into selling...

 Google is today expanding its efforts with its newer domain registry service, Google Domains, announced earlier this year. The service, which represents Google’s initial foray into selling...

 Microsoft just announced and unveiled a stunning convertible laptop called the Surface Book. As the video above shows, the $1,500 laptop features a detectable tablet powered by a Core i7 CPU. It...

 Four ex-Makerbot employees, Max Freifeld, Oliver Ortlieb, Patrick Deem, and Jonathan Schwartz, have come together to create a Brooklyn-based rapid manufacturing system using – what else? &...

 Microsoft unveiled its first laptop. Called the Surface Book, it doesn’t look like a Surface at all. It has a 13.5-inch display, a trackpad made of glass and a backlit keyboard, a machined...

 Today at an event in New York City, Microsoft announced the Surface Pro 4, a widely-expected device that follows the unsurprisingly named Surface Pro 3. Microsoft noted that its Surface business...

 Today during Microsoft’s Windows 10 hardware briefing, the next Surface was shown off. I mean, there’s a lot of things here to dissect, so read up on all of the details here. The mos...

 “It’s kind of funny, there’s a Pencil out there without an eraser,” said Microsoft’s Panos Panay moments ago when announcing the upgraded Surface Pro 4 stylus. Beca...

 TechCrunch Radio is coming at you hard this week, with a full-show run of some of our best pitches from the TC Radio Pitch-Off. But that doesn’t mean we don’t need more stellar start...

 You see them everywhere. Throngs of young and old, men and women, heads down on their smartphones, fingers rapid fire, mouths curling into smiles as they soak up the joy of an Internet connectio...

 Perforce introduced a new product today in conjunction with GitLab called GitSwarm, which allows developers to work with their code and only their code, while giving IT a centralized view of the...

 Atlassian, which according to recent reports secretly filed for an IPO last month, today announced a major update to its flagship JIRA project and issue tracking service. The company is breaking...

 Microsoft unveiled the best phones no one buys at a press conference in New York. As expected, the company showcased two new flagship devices, the Lumia 950 and the Lumia 950 XL. As the names su...

 At the Microsoft event this morning, the company’s number two, Terry Myerson announced that the company will be upgrading all of its Xbox One systems to Windows 10. That means the company&...

 Microsoft showed a new demo today at a press conference in New York. As a reminder, the HoloLens is the company’s take on virtual reality, sort of. It’s an augmented reality device t...

 Microsoft unveiled the second version of its Microsoft Band today at a press conference in New York. When Microsoft launched the first Microsoft Band, it was a surprising devices for many reason...

 Today at Microsoft’s Windows 10 hardware event, ahead of new device news EVPof Windows and Devices GroupTerry Myerson gave an update on how the new platform is doing so far: there are now1...

 The online design platformCanva, which has made creating quality professional graphics something anyone can do, has raised $15 million in Series A funding, the company announced this morning. Th...

 On the fourth anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent out a memo to Apple employees. It is slim on details but it does outline some of the priorities Jobs seemed to hold ...

 Joining Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg onstage Monday in Palo Alto, Chelsea Clinton said she wanted to see the private sector and government work together to show girls they can grow up to be like...

 Microsoft is holding a big press conference in New York at 10 AM EDT (7 AM PDT, 3 PM BST). After Apple and Google, the company is expected to announce a whole new line of hardware devices. You c...

 Chamath Palihapitiya, the opinionated venture capitalistwho once got into a public spat with Ron Conway over income inequality and challenged founders to have the “courage to move to Oakla...

 Matrix Partners, the 38-year-old, early-stage venture capital firm, has just added a 10th general partner to its roster: Hardi Meybaum, an Estonian entrepreneur who sold his computer-aided desig...

 Robin Systems, a service that essentially makes it easier for businesses to set up a data-centric high-performance IT infrastructure, today announced that it has raised a $15 million funding rou...

 Obama has asked the American people to do what they can to aid the Syrian refugee crisis. He’s now asking Silicon Valley to do the same.The U.S. has provided $4.5 billion in aid to the cri...

 Duo Security, best known for its simple mobile phone two-factor authentication,announced today that it was expanding its DuoPlatform security tool to giveIT administrators greatervisibility and ...

 Jack Dorsey has returned to his creation and with him comes the hope of bringing more people onto the platform. Maybe they’ll never tweet. Maybe they’ll never follow anyone…but...

If you’ve ever tried to load up Facebook on a slow connection, you… probably didn’t have the best time. Unless you’re going out of your way to use something like Facebook Lite,...

 Facebookwants to see the relationship between its site and live TV content grow even more interconnected. The idea of the “second screen,” where people engage with live TV eventsvia ...

 Code42, the Minneapolis-based developersof the Crashplan enterprise backup tool, announced a massive $85 million round today. Code42 doesn’t do them small. It has had only one previous rou...

 As part of Internet.org, its initiative to bring billions of people around the world online, Facebook will partner with Eutelsat to launch a new satellite that will provide Internet access to pa...

 The European Court of Justice has today declared invalid the Safe Harbor data-transfer agreement thathas governeddata flows from European users of U.S. cloud services to the U.S. for processing....

 There’s money in the beautiful game, even if it’s not very evenly distributed. London-headquarted 90min, which describes itself as a ‘contributor-driven’ football media p...

 In what’s been the worst-kept secret thanks to a number of leaks, including photographs of the new player, streaming media device maker Roku is at last officially announcing the launch of ...

 Apple just unveiledsix new 15-second Watch ads highlighting the instantaneous utility that the device offers. The adsfeature color gradient backgrounds, pop tunes and beautiful people wearing Ap...

 Apple confirmed today to Bloomberg that it has acquired deep learning company Perceptio, which uses artificial intelligence to classify photos on smartphones. Read More ...

 America has a well-known love affair with the open road — and it’s a good thing, because we’re also known for spending a lot of time in our cars. According to DOT statistics, t...

 We are currently witnessing a shift in business models, as many consumer tech companies move from transactional models in favor of subscription-based ones. YouTube is launching an ad-free, subsc...

 Big non-tech businesses are mimicking them by investing in innovation centers or labs that look and feel more like a boot-strapped venture rather than a global enterprise. Read More ...

 And lo, the Surface Pro 4 did arrive. At least that is the general market expectation at the moment. Tomorrow morning in New York City, Microsoft will host an event that should include an array ...

 The founders and CEO of Endaga, a company that brings rural villages online with cellular network boxes, announced this weekend they would be joining Facebook and winding down their business ope...

 The US Marshals Service is selling another chunk of Silk Road bitcoins. The 44,341 BTC, to be sold in blocks of 2,000 bitcoin, will go on sale from 12:00 UTC to 18:00 UTC on November 5, 2016. Th...

 No one can accuse 500 Startups of being lazy. The five-year-old, Mountain View, Ca.-based venture firm and accelerator program is currently raising half a dozen funds, including a $200 million g...

 The U.S. Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, has made two trips to Silicon Valley this year, but has only spoken directly to his counterpart in Russia once in the same period — despite NA...

 Google Inc. has participated in a new round of funding for Symphony Communication Services, valuing the company at $650 million, reports Dow Jones. The deal is expected to close this week.Launch...

 Though his last startup flamed out, Secret co-founder David Byttow is ready to take another shot alongside former Secret designer Ben Lee. TechCrunch has learned the new startup will be in the e...

 Early last month, Russia’s FAS (Federal Antimonopoly Service) stated that Google had violated Russian competition rules with its stock apps in Android. The folks complaining happen to be G...

 Frame.io, a startup that improves the collaboration process around video production, is announcing that it has raised a $2.2 million seed round led by Accel Partners.Co-founder and CEO Emery Wel...

 Providing proof that markets are silly, shares of Twitter stock are up around 5 percent today following news that Jack Dorsey will again be its CEO. Dorsey will retain his role at Square, making...

 Adobe continues to expand its support for East Asian languages in its services. Earlier this year, the companypartnered with Google to launcha new open-source font forChinese, Japanese and Korea...

 #Fashion! The Apple Watch Herms models are now available for purchase. But not online. These options are only sold in a handful of Apple Store and Herms retail locations. Prices start at $1100 f...

 Last week, Google promised it would release Android 6.0 Marshmallow, the latest version of its mobile operating system, to Nexus devices sometime this week. As the company announced this morning...

 Toronto-based startup Flixel has built some pretty neat apps for OS X and iOS. Today, the company is announcing a $2.2 million seed round led by Extreme Venture Partners with Cranson Capital Sec...

 When online donors overloaded the requests of Kiva co-founders Matt Flannery and Jessica Jackley more than a decade ago, they were targeting some of the world’s poorest borrowers in places...

 For nearly ten years, online Q&A site Fixya has offered a way for web searchers to find information and receive troubleshooting support from area experts and other local pros. Today, the com...

 SOLS, a company taking advantage of 3D-printing techniques to custom print shoe insoles that help alleviate foot and back pain, among other ailments, is today making its product available direct...

 TechCrunch is headed back to New Orleans, just in time for Nola Tech Week. In true TC fashion, we’ll be bringing the TC Meetup + Pitch-off with us, where ten companies will have the opport...

 This morning IBM announced plans to acquire Cleversafe, a Chicago-based data storage vendor. The move appears to be a way to sure up IBM’s hybrid cloud storage chops. Terms of the deal wer...

 “Imagine every positive and ugly opinion about you— from your mother to that awkward co-worker you rejected at the company Christmas party— centrally located on one online prof...

 Maker-funding site Patreon was hacked last week resulting in the dump of gigabytes of code and user data. User passwords were encrypted using bcrypt which suggests they are mostly safe but some ...

 There are few things in this (first) world that are worse than trying to cancel your internet and cable service. In fact, Comcast has folks that are dedicated solely to the mission of retaining ...

 July 2024 – I am writing this so future humans will know our downfall. The first RoboBees were harmless. These tiny robotic bugs used to flit around with reckless abandon, spreading joy to...

 Pinterest announced this morning it’s expanding the reach of its “Buyable Pins” – meaning those pins that allow you to make purchases directly on Pinterest – to sev...

 Philips added support for Apple’s HomeKit framework to its Hue smart light bulb product line. Unfortunately, existing Hue users will need to purchase a brand new bridge as the existing bri...

 Gemini, the bitcoin exchanged started by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has finally received approval to launch from the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYSDFS). More specificall...

 It’s never been easier for craftsmen to become manufacturers thanks to crowdfunding. Fans and buyers turn into investors and backers. Heck, manufacturing never left America: it just change...

 In the fever dream that was my youth, I was enamored with an odd sketch on Sesame Street featuring a ball that goes up and down a long, windy track before ending up as a pile of powder. This seq...

 Earlier this year, Adobe launched Adobe Stock, a new stock imagery service based on its acquisition of Fotolia. With today’s major update to its suite of Creative Cloud apps and services, ...

 Adobe is kicking off its annual MAX conference in Los Angeles today. Traditionally, this is where the company announces its latest updates and gives us a glimpse of the new features it’s w...

 YouNow, a four-year-old, New York-based social network that connects audiences and broadcasters in real time, has raised $15 million in new funding co-led by earlierbackers Venrock and investor ...

 After four months of running under Jack Dorsey interim chief executive, today Twitter finally named him as its permanent leader. The man who helped co-found Twitter in 2006 is now its full-time ...

London-based Octopus Ventures, which last year revealed it had a $91.3m early stage fund, is today launching an new, separate, $140m fund designed to providing growth capital to “successful fast...

 London-based Octopus Ventures, which last year revealed it had a $91.3 million early stage fund, is today launching a new, separate, $140 million fund designed to providing growth capital to ...

 Cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks has identified new malware, which it calls YiSpecter, that infects iOS devices by abusing private APIs. Most affected users live in China and Taiwan. Read M...

 Blah blah blah, Twitter has 316M users or whatever and they’re not growing. Can it grow? Will it grow? Yes, there are a lot of questions that Twitter has to start answering if it wants to ...

 The prospect of conquering the dark and vast expanse of space has fascinated the human mind for a good part of the last century. Perhaps that is why ‘The Martian,’ a film adaptation ...

 IPFS isn’t exactly a well-known technology yet, even among many in the Valley, but it’s quickly spreading by word of mouth among folks in the open-source community. Many are excited ...

 A long time ago — back in the early 1900s — many companies had a Vice President of Electricity. It’s hard to imagine today, but there really was an individual whose sole respon...

 At present, there are three distinct music industries: radio, on-demand music, and concert ticketing. However, we are starting to enter a new phase, where these industries will converge and prod...

 To process a transaction, you need first to make sure the sender owns the asset he wants to transfer, and make sure he will not trade it twice. In the blockchain, information is stored in blocks...

 I’ve worked in data science and healthcare-adjacent fields for about five years now. I studied biology and marketing at Wharton, where I did pancreatic cancer research. And I will tell you...

 This summer, as Chairman of the House Small Business Committee, I had the opportunity to honor an innovative business accelerator called First Batch. This isn’t your typical business accel...

 Pronoun, a self-publishing system that aims to help authors get their books edited and printed, is beginning the long road to making it easier for self-published authors to get noticed. First st...

 It’s been a pretty big week for tech + privacy, with Apple overhauling the privacy-related info it pushes out to users — sharpening its pro-privacy positioning as a marketing differe...

 At the dawn of the web I launched one of the first e-commerce sites. I spent six months on research, perfecting the site, striving to get everything right. After six hours live I’d learned...

 I do not want your stupid appI will not use this siloed crap.I do not like them, Sam-I-am.I do not want this mobile spam! Read More ...

 The Internet of Things (IoT) presents a significant mix of opportunity and risk. Compared to the connected devices of the past, the gazillions of new IoT devices that are being predicted for our...

 Hello friends, and welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup show that brings you the best of the past seven days in just around 10 minutes. This week myself, a...

 Even though I’m a huge Giphy fan, I still use Google Image search a lot to find fun imagery…especially animated GIFs. The problem with using Google search for this is that the result...

 The Apple iPhone, Spotify’s streaming service and the Tesla Roadster — all revolutionary pieces of technology that secured competitive advantages because of the quality of their desi...

 Microsoft announced today that it had purchased Havok Software from Intel. The chip maker purchased Havok, an Irish gaming technology company, back in September, 2007. Terms of the deal were not...

 Well, it happened. Google is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of a new parent company called Alphabet.The company announced its plans for a new corporate structure back in August. Google itself wil...

 This is Part 3 of the 3-Part Series on the Corporate Battle for Global Internet Connectivity OneWeb and SpaceX have both launched ambitious plans to bring hundreds of satellites to Low Earth Orb...

 Your friend tells you about a great new TV show they’re watching on Netflix, or a new restaurant that you just have to try. If you’re like me, you tend to pop open the Notepad app on...

 It was a big week intech news, with Google’smassive hardware event, a major announcement from Tesla, and a huge discovery from NASA. These are the stories to catch you up on everything tec...

 Over the last few years tech companies both large and smallhave developed programsthat can “dream”; andunderstand and process information; and evenwrite articles; but nothing has com...

 Neumob, a service that helps mobile app developers get their in-app content to users faster, today announced that it has raised an $8.5 million Series A round led by Accel Partners. Additional i...

 YouTube announced changes to its kid-friendly YouTube Kids mobile application this week designed to better educate parents on how the app works and the protections it offers, following a number ...

 It’s no longer acceptable for a website to not render well on mobile. In the next decade, it won’t be enough for a company to merely be profitable — customers, employees and in...

 We’re incredibly excited to announce that Katie Roof will be joining Techcrunch to write on tech and business, as well as to do some on-camera reporting with our fresh as heck TC video tea...

 Fashion selfie social network Fitbay has launched on Android, after garnering some 250,000 sign ups for its web and iOS apps since launch a year ago. Read More ...

 As the definition of “watching TV” moves further away from meaning “paying for cable,” a number of major tech companies, including Apple, Amazon, Google, Roku and others,...

 Solar panels promise a lot – a cleaner, cheaper, renewable energy source, harnessed from the abundant rays of the sun. But the technology created to pull in that sun power can only go so f...

 This morning Target announced that it’s rolling out the Apple Watch to someof its stores this week, with all stores getting it October 25th. This marks the second big chain after Best Buy ...

 This morning Target announced that it’s rolling out the Apple Watch to someof its stores this week, with all stores getting it October 25th. This marks the second big chain after Best Buy ...

 This morning Target announced that it’s rolling out the Apple Watch to someof its stores this week, with all U.S. stores getting it October 25th. This marks the second big chain after Best...

 People are checking their phones more than ever. The average person checks their phone 150 times a day — up from 110 just two years ago, according to Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Re...

 The team at Turing Email issetting out to fix the little things that make email so tedious. Although many solutions to replace email for internal communications are growing in popularity today, ...

 T-Mobile announced on Thursday the personal information of about 15 million customers was swept up in a hack on Experian, a vendor that processes the phone company’s credit applications.Th...

 Recently I had the chance to test drive the latest prototypeversion of Elio, a three wheel, two-seaterbuilt by Elio Motors. The vehicle, which is about half the width of a regular car and looks ...

 Today Google was granted a patent for using holograms in a head mounted display like Google Glass. It would effectively let Google create augmented reality experiences that superimpose computer-...

 ZeeMee, a platform that wants to help students bring their college applications to life, told TechCrunch exclusively Thursday it had raised a Series A round of $5.8 million led by BlueRun Ventur...

 Last week at Disrupt SF 2015, I ran into the folks behind Sereneti Kitchen, a company that I’ve known since it launched at our Hardware Battlefield in Vegas earlier this year. Then, its te...

 Uber has over 5,000 drivers and 500,000 users since launching in Brazil a year ago, and aggression by politicians and taxi drivers alike has been mounting in lockstep with its growth. Read More ...

 As consumers, we can probably agree that bank profits are, well,gross. In the second quarter of this year alone, U.S. lenders wrung a record $43 billionfrom their customers. It’s the kind ...

 Sad news for those who like free stuff –Klout Perks, the swag offered by social media scoring platform Klout, has quietly shut down.Lithium Technologies, the company that bought Klout more...

 When a new technology comes out, people are generally good at seeing through the hype that is associated with it. Many technological inventions, after all, are not immediately revolutionary R...

 Does the idea of a transforming vegetables into noodles sound weird but kind of appetizing? Well, that’s what a startup called Hungryroot is offering, and now it’s expanding. The com...

 Imagine the Snapchat selfie Lens above branded with Iron Man 4. How much would Marvel pay to let Snapchatters Iron Man themselves and send these pics and videos to friends the weekend the movie ...

 Can we lobby for the future? Garrett Johnson, the founder of the conservative think tank Lincoln Labs, thinks that we should. Read More ...

 When members of theCongressional Black Caucus visited Silicon Valley in early August, their message to tech companies was crystalclear: Hire more African-Americans and diversify their boards of ...

 In a anti-competitive move that bumps up against one of Amazon’s core principles – “customer obsession” – the online retailer confirmed today that it would no longe...

 Imagine a reality where surgeons practice difficult procedures on virtual renditions of their patients before walking into the operating room, and professional athletes review their exact muscle...

 Six years ago,Paul Niehaus and Michael Faye were two Harvard-trained development economists whobegana small, private experiment in East Africa. Instead of donating food, bedding or medical care ...

 When Microsoft settled its patent lawsuits with Google yesterday, it ended a long battle with the search giant, but it wasn’tanisolated action. It was part of a continuing pattern of servi...

 When YouTube first launched its dedicated “Kids” app earlier this year, parents welcomed the opportunity to be able keep their children away from the more adult content found on the ...

 Google today announced the launch of a new Cloud Platform region for its customers on the U.S. East Coast. The poetically named “us-east1” region will now be available for Google Com...

 Brilliant entrepreneurs are wasting their talents trapped inside Seattle’s big tech companies like Microsoft and Amazon. Pioneer Square Labs wants to give them a startup to run. Today with...

 GitHub is hosting its first user conference, GitHub Universe, today. One of the announcements the company made at the event is that it’s launching support for FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2...

 SoulPancake is one of the more popular channels on YouTube boasting 1.5 million subscribers and more than 210 million views. Rainn Wilson (aka Dwight Schrute from the Office) founded the platfor...

 As the demand for digital music streaming services heats up, thanks in large part to Spotify’s traction and Apple’s more recent entry into the market, a number of competitors are wor...

 SMART kapp is giving away one of its smart, modern dry-erase boards to a TechCrunch reader.What is SMART kapp? Glad you asked.SMART kapp is a smart whiteboard (a $899 value) that lets you save a...

 It’s here! October, and also, the TC Meetup + Pitch-Off in Denver. The TC Meetup + Pitch-off is a hoot of an event, with local startups participating in a rapid-fire pitch-off, with exactl...

 Lobster, the platform for licensing user-generated content on social networks, has today announced their biggest partnership to date by way of YouTube. Now, users can request a license to downlo...

 A while back, Yahoo quietly made the code to Omid, an open source transaction processing system for the Apache HBase Hadoop big data store, available on GitHub. This is the same software the com...

 Third-party Twitter client Tweetbot is back with a new major version. Developed by two-man development studio Tapbots, Tweetbot has been a long-time favorite of iOS Twitter users who were dissat...

 Handbrake turn! U.K. based taxi app Hailo is handing in its private hire vehicle (PHV) license in London and going black cab only, which is where the business began — only expanding to inc...

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 Amazon this morning a significant expansion of device partners who will support its Dash Replenishment Service – the initiative that enables connected household devices to monitor their su...

 Amazon this morning announced a significant expansion of device partners who will support its Dash Replenishment Service – the initiative that enables connected household devices to monito...

 Weebly is launching the third generation of its product today, which it calls Carbon — CEO David Rusenko described it as the “first big step” in a new direction. Until now, Wee...

 Stop and look around you, and you’ll see just how quickly society is running into the future. Over the past decade alone, we’ve seen monumental advancements in genetics, mobile compu...

 Puppet Labs has long allowed IT admins to manage and scale their infrastructure. Today, ahead of its user conference in Portlandnext week, the company is announcinga new product that will also m...

 Verizon’s new mobile video service go90, which is aimed at capturing a younger demographic who spends more time watching video on their phones than with traditional TV, islaunching publicl...

 Another recruitment startup is launching today, with a specific focus on developer jobs. Honeypot is based in Berlin and follows a similar model to Hired, flipping the traditional recruitment mo...

 When it comes to transportingthat new couch you bought from the store room to your living room, Dolly wants you to stop mooching off your friend with the truck. Dolly is basically an Uber forfur...

 Venture-backed Upwork (formerly eLance-oDesk) and the labor organization Freelancers Union just commissioned a study by the globalresearch firm Edelman Berland, and it’s chock-full of fasc...

 Starbucks has expanded its Mobile Order & Pay (MOP) feature outside the U.S. for the first time, with a launch in London. The in-app pre-ordering option is available in 150 stores in the U.K...

 I’m a sucker for apps that, on the surface at least, appear incredibly simple and reduce cognitive load considerably. LuckyTrip is one of those apps. Available for iOS, it lets you find a ...

 “What’s more boring than accounting software? Business progress reporting!” says Duane Jackson, who previously founded and sold online accounting software startup KashFlow. His...

 Tinder, the digital equivalent of making flirty eyes at someone across a bar, is today globally launching the Super Like, the digital equivalent of walking up to someone in a bar and saying R...

 French dating app Happn just raised a $14 million Series B round from Idinvest with participation from Alven Capital, DN Capital, Raine Ventures and business angels, such as Fabrice Grinda, Davi...

 Back in May, Mike Cagney, the CEO of online lender Social Finance,told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that his company was “profitable andas any private company we want to be opport...

 A drone equipped to “sniff” Zigbee flew over an Austin neighborhood in early August and found almost 1,600 devices. It’s a sign of how ubiquitous these technologies have become...

 Spare a thought for high end fashion boutiques. The rarefied aura of prestige and privilege they spend so long cultivating to reflect the premium brands they stock means they can’t use som...

 Earlier this month, a three-year-old venture firm that’s focused on Australian entrepreneurs, Blackbird Ventures, raised an impressive $200 million for its second fund. That’s nearly...

 There’s a lot of bad code out there. And it’s causing major problems for companies that are looking to build a more mobile-centric, transformational architecture. Specifically, bad c...

 Companies experiencing hyper growth also have a unique challenge: Maintaining the culture and energy that made them so disruptive in the first place. “One of the things that small companie...

 This morning at Asana’s San Francisco headquarters, the startup announceda new version of its product, a new brand — logo — and, happily, some metrics about its growth. As you ...

 If your girlfriend is in a coma or, at the very least, indisposed, I think we have something you might like. It’s called the eJaculator VR and it consists of a thinger that goes on your wh...

 As tech companies compete more ferociously for hires across Silicon Valley, a layer of third-party technical recruiting companies is emerging to help startups quickly sift through qualified cand...

 Apple Music launched. We signed up and used it. The three month trial period is over (depending on the actual date that you signed up), though. You were signed up to auto-renew by default but ma...

 Hold on to your 1.21 gigawatts, Amazon is offering the Back to the Future trilogy for free to Prime members for the whole month of October. This year marks the 30th anniversary for BTTF. Super f...

 Next Issue, the publisher-backed subscription service offering unlimited access to 160 magazines, is launchinga revamped app with new features and a new name — Texture. A joint venture fro...

 Today, educational startup General Assembly announced a series D round of funding of $70M.Here’s what CEO Jake Schwartz had to say about the news, including the addition of a new board mem...

 Shopping for clothes as a queer, masculine woman or transgender man is no easy task. Traditional department stores are typically geared towards heterosexual people and don’t take into acco...

 TechCrunch is back on the road again with the upcoming Denver Meetup + Pitch-Off, and selections have finally been made over which startups will have a chance to hop on stage and pitch. Eight co...

 Many of us spent our teen years dreaming of someday turning our talent for video games into a viable career, and right now many mainstream news outlets are reporting on the development of pro ga...

 Many of us spent our teen years dreaming of someday turning our talent for video games into a viable career, and right now many mainstream news outlets are reporting on the development of pro ga...

 There is hope for those saddened to hear Dave McClure’s new reality show Bazillion Dollar Club was yanked just one week after airing its first episode on SyFy. We hear Zero Point Zero, the...

 In this podcast, B.V. Jagadeesh, a Silicon Valley veteran who co-founded and led iconic companies such as Exodus Communications, talks with Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha about bootstrapping Exo...

 Yahoo recently donated 200 servers to Howard University, a historically black university, and The University of Texas at El Paso, where the majority of the students are Mexican-American.This is ...

 The decisive leadership of a founder could be what’s necessary to bring Twitter’s value to the masses. And apparently that’s what it’s going to get, as Re/Code reports Tw...

 Mac users fondly remember OS X Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion. These two releases were the epitome of Apple’s best work on OS X. Two rock solid iterations that were all about refinements, ...

 Over the last few years, Google brought support for encrypted HTTPS connections to almost all of its products, including search, Gmail and Google Drive. It’s now even using HTTPS support a...

 Today, Re/code reported that Jack Dorsey would be installed as permanent CEO after many months of speculation. Investors and those close to the company have been calling for Dorsey to take the p...

 Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Keith Teare, Peter Rojas, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today, Wednesday, September 30, 2015 11amPT/2pmET.Our LIVE chat is at chat.center/gillmor...

 With the runaway success of its mobile app Wishbone, the Los Angeles-based venture studio, Science Inc.is making a hard push into mobile content to build what it believes will be the next big me...

 As an increasing number of cable and satellite TV subscribers are cutting the cord – or never signing up for television in the first place – the traditional pay TV industry is scramb...

 Today, Google announced that it will be adopting a new standard for carrier messaging called Rich Communications Services (RCS), thus eventually moving on from SMS. The company also announced th...

 Apple has just released OS X 10.11 El Capitan. The update is now rolling out to eligible Mac devices. It’s available in the Mac App Store as a free download. If you don’t see the upd...

 Sit back, relax and don’t turn that dial, this week’s episode of Cribs takes us to theonline television platform, Hulu. The company’sgiant 90,000 square foot headquarters sit b...

 To keep its decade-old social network lively, Facebook is introducing five big changes to user profiles, whichare viewed 4 billion times per day: The option to pin Featured Photos to the top of ...

 Last season, the Los Angeles Lakers paid Kobe Bryant $23.5 million as he sat on the bench indefinitely with a torn rotator cuff. That’s just a fraction of the $500 million that injured pla...

 Color Genomics, a genetic testing startup from a few early Twitter veterans, is using its deep ties within the startup community to get more than a dozen startups and venture firms to cover half...

 Managing a complex modern IT infrastructure is hard. NodePrime, a San Francisco-based startup that’s emerging from stealth today, wants to make it easier for companies to map, monitor and ...

 Have you ever wished you knew how many likes or shares a Facebook post would get before you pressed the blue button? 2014 Y Combinator-backed startup Naytevrecently launched Spark, a tool that w...

 Nuzzel, the social news startup led by Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, is announcing a bunch of new investors today — including Matter, the Knight Foundation-backed incubator for media...

 Singularity University, the technology think tank and incubator,on Wednesday announced a new accelerator program that aims topush technologies out of research facilities and into the real world....

 When I moved to Taiwan in 2007, I was struck by the large number of independent designers in the city—and how hard it was to find them. Most only sold at weekend craft markets and their on...

 It’s a pretty sad state of affairs in the tablet world when removable memory is a way to lead off a review but there you have it – the Fire HD 8, Amazon’s latest addition to it...

 Rideshare service Lyft announced on Tuesday it would open its first engineering office outside the Bay Area in Seattle, saying the location would give it an advantage in recruitment. Initiallyab...

 In a clever move that combines Amazon’s prowess as a large online retailer and advertising platform with its footprint in the mobile gaming market, the company today introduced a new servi...

 Apps don’t come much more simple than this: Flyr is an event invite creator for iOS that let’s you slap a couple of captions atop an animated GIF so you can fire off a zeitgeisty bir...

 Mobile shopping app Ibotta, which got its start as an alternative means of saving money while grocery shopping without having to clip coupons, has now closed on $40 million in Series C funding t...

 Hello friends, and welcome back to another episode of Bullish, TechCrunch’s first talk show. This time aroundwe dug into the idea of automation, working to understand where to draw the lin...

 Italy headquartered startup ShopFully, which helps drive customers to physical retail stores with a digital alternative to the humble paper flyer, has raised a further 10 million. Backing comes ...

 A year after Twitterlaunched its first commerce product in the form of “buy now” buttons inTweets, get ready to start seeing a whole lot more of them in your feed. The social mediaco...

 Farmigo, a startup rethinking the local farmer’s market, has raised $16 million in series B funding. Founder and CEO Benzi Ronen said the company started out by building software for farme...

 Foursquare is getting a touch closer to OpenTable through deeper integrations via Button. Users on the Foursquare app will now be able to see available tables (from OpenTable) right within the F...

 Transport for London, the local body responsible for transport regulations in the U.K. capital, has published a set of proposals for changes to regulations pertaining to the operation of private...

 Credible, the multi-lender marketplace for student loans, has today announced the close of a $10 million Series A funding round led by Soul Htite, founder and CEO of Dianrong.com and cofounder o...

 Adyen, a payment startup based inAmsterdam that provides services for companies like Facebook, Uber and Netflix, made waves last year when it announced a $250 million Series Bthat valued it at $...

 There’s no shortage of services trying to drive traditional financial planners into extinction. Think Wealthfront, Personal Capital, Betterment and Intuit-owned Mint.com, among them. Today...

 A host of new car-sharing and ride-hailing services have chipped away at the landscape of car ownership over the past several years. AlixPartners, a global advisory firm, estimates that car-shar...

 French startup accelerator Numa started as a non-profit organization fifteen years ago. Since then, everything has changed in the French tech ecosystem. Numa doesn’t have the same name, of...

 Yes, you read that right. Only 24 hours left to apply to the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt London. Time to get going. You can do it. We loved being in London so much that we’re bringing D...

 Viddsee, a video content platform that specializes in independent cinema and short films from across Asia, has closed new funding as it bids to grab a slice of Asia’s growing appetite for ...

 China is already Apple’s largest market for app downloads and the company hopes consumers will be just as eager to try out Apple Music. The streaming music service launched there today, al...

 The host of safety features in Tesla’s new SUV includes a bioweapon defense air mode Elon Musk says “gives you hospital level air quality” inside the vehicle. Read More ...

 The BOLT is a uniquely designed, all-white player offering 4K support as well as a revamped user interface that introduces new features likethe ability to skip commercial breaks on recorded cont...

 I was hoping I might walk away from my short test drive in Tesla’s Model X without the desire to throw down $130,000 I don’t have… Alas.After years of the Model X being seeming...

 It’s here! I feel like I’ve been referring to the Model X as Tesla’s “upcoming SUV” for ages — but it has arrived.A few of them have, at least. At an event in...

 Tesla has a press announcement scheduled at their campus in Fremont tonight, and they’re not being too coy about the subject matter: it’s the Model X, the electric SUV they’ve ...

 Twitter is about nine years old and has a little over 300M monthly active users. It’s a killer real-time platform. You know what it’s for, I know what it’s for, and even most o...

 Much like the evolution of systems design, IT-enabled process change ebbs and flows over time. We see this in history as each technology revolution brings with it a refactoring of business opera...

Google unveiled two new Nexus phones, an updated version of its Chromecast dongle and an audio-only version of the Chromecast at a press event in San Francisco today. This was Google’s largest d...