Articles by Techcrunch from November 2015

 Never has the traditional automotive business model been under constant siege as it is today from multiple fronts. Technology has not only changed the car-buying experience but it is also relent...

 I’ve been so well entrenched in the journalistic world of entrepreneurship that I haven’t lifted my head out of the mess of funding stories and launch posts to actually pay attention...

 In 15 years as a venture capitalist, I’ve seen just about every market condition you can imagine. I started at Insight Venture Partners in 2000 at a time when the stock market was experien...

 Amazon delivered a lovely update on its ‘Prime Air’ projecttoday — almost exactly two years after it showed the first iteration of its delivery drone. You know, the flying deli...

 Writing down unicorns benefits everyone. Read More ...

 In the beginning, there were three. There was Leap Transit, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed bus startupstocked with Blue Bottle Coffee and furnished with plush stool seating for morning and eveni...

 Social media has been playing an increasingly critical role in political elections. The 2008 presidential election, dubbed the “Facebook Election,” was the first time voters could vi...

 Long restricted to the academic domain, Li-Fi, a light-based data delivery method is suddenly getting all sorts of attention. An Estonian startup Velmenni recently tested an commercial implement...

 Let’s be honest, every apartment for rent in San Francisco is more than the average Midwestern mortgage. An ordinary 35-44-year-oldhomeowner in the U.S. hands over about $1,073 per month f...

 Despite his degree, Ziegler said he had a hard time finding a job as a black trans man. “I finished school at 29, and spent all these years at school and then struggled with transgender di...

 With CES around the corner, we know that you hardware junkies are starting to salivate!We are searching far and wide for the best hardware productof 2015 for the9th Annual Crunchies Award show, ...

 GoTenna co-founder Daniela Perdomo knowsthat her startup has been “quiet for a long time,” but she said it’s for a good reason — the team has been busy turning its protot...

 The space industry is more diverse today than ever before and not all reusable rockets are created equal. After Blue Origin’s successful test many suggested that SpaceX, who is working on ...

 Not every new idea is destined to be great. Sometimes even the most promising concepts end up in the scrap pile. You probably never heard about Google Here, but the project was so big that Alpha...

 Impatience characterizes the technology sector’s approach to education. Disruption is taking place in all other sectors of society — so, why not education? I know too well, whether a...

 Tens of thousands of broadcasters, game developers, and fans converged on San Francisco’s Moscone Center during TwitchCon 2015 — Twitch’s inaugural celebration for the videogam...

 While a lot of the US was out and about shopping for themselves or others for the holidays, Cards Against Humanity ran their own Black Friday campaign, asking for $5 and in return the buyer woul...

 Today, as you nurse your wounds from Black Friday stampedes outside your local mall, or sitin traffic as youmakeyour lengthy travelback home from the holidays, here’s a reminder that life ...

 When the news broke in early October that Dell was planning on buying EMC for a whopping $67 billion, more than a few jaws dropped (including mine), but in the weekssince, reports have surfaced ...

 Founders soliciting venture funds quickly get comfortable revealing details about their operations, vision and finances. They may also need to be willing to step on a scale and get a blood draw....

 Are you buying a gift for a budding coder or hardware hacker? Kids today are truly spoilt on this front, with a very wide range of specialized kit that offers to teach tech smarts in a fun and e...

 The security problem — and, just as important, the security risks that consumers perceive in internet-connected devices — represents a real threat to the hundreds of millions of doll...

 The Gillmor Gang — Matt Mullenweg, Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Tuesday, November 24, 2015. Matt Mullenweg joins the Gang for a deep dive on Calypso̵...

 I often hear VCs say that they don’t back products, they back platforms. I find that logic backwards and in many ways dangerous for founders. Platforms can provide a durable competitive ad...

 Wowed by Internet delivered by floating balloons? Or a new way to watch TV? Or a way to charge your phone?We are searching far and wide for the best technology achievements of 2015, and we want ...

 Good Lord. I have been a TechCrunch columnist for five years now, filing a piece every week, rain or shine or hail or flu, for 260 consecutive weeks. (Well–I might have missed one week whe...

 The first two days of the holiday sales period have netted $4.45billion in U.S. online purchases, with mobile devices — led by smartphones — accounting for a record $1.5 billion of t...

 Over the last several years at Emergence Capital we have seen an exciting new set of companies emerge that offer cloud solutions within a specific industry vertical — collectively known as...

 Augmented and virtual reality are the new hotness, as VCs and corporates get in on the act. While Facebook’s multi-billion dollar acquisition of Oculus got everyone’s attention early...

 Last week we brought you the 20 highest paying unicorns, based on median annual salary for all employees. This time around, we centered our search on the unicorns paying best for programmers. Re...

 While chain stores everywhere are trying to get you to buy things in their physical and online marketplaces, one brand decided to sell absolutely nothing. For $5 a pop. That’s right. The g...

 The No. 1 problem of almost every Silicon Valley entrepreneur is finding engineers. Developers in San Francisco are similar to apartments in San Francisco — really expensive, hard to get a...

 Searching for a job is just like dating, banking or procrastinating on chores until someone else does them: It’s something we all have to do. So why shouldn’t the job search be the b...

 We don’t just plan to talk about the Cloud at TechCrunch Disrupt London in two weeks time on December 7th-8th (Agenda, Tickets). The conference will also cover the booming world of Drones ...

 Though we’re in the midst of the holiday season, we’ve still made time to talk about the latest in gadgets news. The Samsung Gear VR went on sale last week, which is a relatively big...

 Founders Fund, founded 10 years ago, wasted little time in establishing itself as a venture firm that’s willing to make unusual and often outsize bets.Recently, we sat down with the firm&#...

 When explaining some of the nuances of virtual reality to friends and family, they want to hear about the “games” or the “apps.” Yes, full experiences, or “titles&#...

 The tech and venture corners of the universe are large and rising. There are more people in the business and more people interested in the business than usual. Perhaps more than at any other tim...

 Do you like Nintendo? Do you have $19,000? I think we found you a watch. The Romain Jerome Super Mario Bros. the watchmaker’s take on good old Mario and his mushroom-induced adventures and...

 Microsoft has now made good on its earlier promisethat it would soonroll out a beta version of itsCortana personal assistant – a rival to Apple’s Siri and Google Now – to users...

 By now, there are plenty of coding schools that will happily train you to become a junior programmer within a couple of months. Most of them will teach you the basics, but to become a full-stack...

 Another U.K.-based team is gunning to build a business out of simplifying using the Raspberry Pi single board computer. Tingbot is designed to embody Pi apps in a neat form factor, with a built-...

 Soon even Santa will start delivering presents by drone so it pays to learn how the big man is going to get it done. Here are four good flyers (and one not so good one) that will be great way to...

 Amid a slew of deep discounts appearing on the web today as a part of the shopping holiday Black Friday, Amazon has introduced one deal that’s sort of a no brainer. The company is giving a...

 A feature Instagramusers have wanted for some time – support for switching between multiple accounts directly in the app – is now being tested, according to a new report out this mor...

 TechCrunch recently posted a guest post from the CEO of a software company attempting to discredit coding academies. I won’t spend time addressing all the issues in the post (you can read ...

 Slowly but surely, Vivendi is trying to get back into the video game industry. After selling back its stake into Activision Blizzard in 2013, the company is looking at another video game giant &...

 Sit back, take a big deep breath and make some more room for us because the9th Annual Crunchies Awardsis coming up quick, andnominations are in full swing. The deadline is coming up next week on...

 The number of people buyinggoods online and by mobile during the holiday season continues to grow, buttheaverage value of what they are buying appearsto be falling. IBM has now published some of...

 The number of people buyinggoods online and by mobile during the holiday season continues to grow, buttheaverage value of what they are buying maybe falling. IBM has now published some of its st...

 The number of people buyinggoods online and by mobile during the holiday season continues to grow, buttheaverage value of what they are buying maybe falling. IBM has now published some of its st...

 Get ready for the Google Monocle. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a new patent to Google for a potential upcoming version of Google Glass. The best way to put it is that it does...

 Indie developer Twisted didn’t expect that kind of feedback. After announcing its unofficial PlayStation 4 remote play app for PC, hundreds of people wrote articles about the upcoming rele...

 Thanksgiving doesn’t really rhyme with Star Wars Episode VII, but given that Disney wants to break the record of trailers before a theatrical release, here’s a brand new trailer full...

 The U.K. government is being accused of once again trying to fast track complex and controversial surveillance legislation. Y’know, remember DRIPA? Read More ...

 DJI made its name building high-end consumer drones, but its latest model shows where the future may lie for the Shenzhen-based company and its competitors. Read More ...

 I’ve long been immersed in the world of technology — as a hobbyist, a venture capitalist, a board member and now as a CEO. But looking back at key segments of my personal investment ...

 With each passing year, Apple releases a new iPhone. And with each passing year, I’m faced with the question of upgrading. On one hand, I want to be practical and save money. My phone stil...

 Earlier this year, I had the great pleasure of interviewing Kathyrn Gould, one of the very first women venture capitalists, and surely the sassiest. She also had — and may still have ̵...

 Earlier this year, I had the great pleasure of interviewing Kathryn Gould, one of the very first women venture capitalists, and surely the sassiest. She also had — and may still have ̵...

 The media we use to tell stories has evolved considerably in the millennia since our ancestors swapped their first campfire tales. Regardless of the form stories take, the storyteller always has...

 In the past few years, I’ve been laser-focused on machine intelligence. I’ve talked to hundreds of entrepreneurs, researchers and investors about helping machines make us smarter. An...

 Meet Get, a new French startup that wants to be the Shopify for small retailers on mobile among many other things. With Get, local shops like your favorite bakery can effortlessly have an app fo...

 Amazon’s new bookstore in Seattle has been getting a lot of questions and criticism — but only from people who think there’s still a distinction between online and physical ret...

 The biggest shortcoming in Apple’s newly launched Apple TV is the lack of a Remote app for the iPhone. In particular, when you first set it up, you’ll have to manually enter your Net...

 Our friends at Everyday Carry have been looking at cool stuff for years and we asked them for some amazing advice on gear for folks who want stuff that will last us a few years after New Year...

 In February 2011, I visited my friend Bill Huang who worked for Tencent in Shenzhen. Bill was telling me about their new messaging app, called WeChat, that had just launched. At the time, I had ...

 Thanksgiving is now in full swing in the U.S., and while many householdshave their mealsroasting away, people are turning their attention online to kick offtheir holiday shopping.IBM —whic...

 Thanksgiving is now in full swing in the U.S., and while manyare focused on food and football, someare turning their attention online to kick offtheir holiday shopping. Adobe, which has tracked ...

 Thanksgiving is now in full swing in the U.S., and while manyare focused on food and football, someare turning their attention online to kick offtheir holiday shopping. Adobe, which tracked over...

 To be honest, I had never heard of EAT Club until about a month ago, when its public relations team reached out to me, and I’m glad that they did.EAT Club, which launchedin 2010,is almost ...

 I’m fortunate in my day to day. I have the privilege of hearing new and exciting ideas, both by seasoned and budding entrepreneurs. I remind myself that not too many moons ago, I was in th...

 Today is a day to be thankful and we are thankful for you! The 9th Annual Crunchies Awards show is coming up on February 8, 2016, but it will be all for nothing if we don’t receive great n...

 Today is a day to be thankful and we are thankful for you! The 9th Annual Crunchies Awards show is coming up on February 8, 2016, but it will be all for nothing if we don’t receive great n...

 Because tech is taking over the world, New Balance has decided to jump on the band wagon with the announcement of forthcoming 3D-printed running shoes. The kicks won’t be entirely 3D print...

 The race foron-demand delivery services in India is on, and today one of the bigger startups in the market has picked up a largecash injection as it vies for pole position. Grofers, an Instacart...

 The race foron-demand delivery services in India is on, and today one of the bigger startups in the market has picked up a largecash injection as it vies for pole position. Grofers, an Instacart...

 The race foron-demand delivery services in India is on, and today one of the bigger startups in the market has picked up a largecash injection as it goesfor pole position. Grofers, an Instacart-...

 We count 7 on-demand delivery startups currently battling it out in London (although there are doubtless more) as entrepreneurs and VCs make big bets on smartphone-driven convenience and the pr...

 The Raspberry Pi Foundation has upped the ante when it comes to low cost single board computers, announcing a new additional to its family of microprocessors today, called Pi Zero. And it costs&...

 This is the time of the year when you see a million “how to survive the holidays with your family” guides appear. Even for people who actually like their relatives, Thanksgiving is o...

 Wearable fitness trackers are becoming increasingly popular, but a lot of them are quickly abandoned after the novelty of tracking exercise and sleep wears off. GOQii, however, believes it has l...

 Attention all you investors out there. We’re excited to unveil the companies that will be participating in the Startup Alley at Disrupt London 2015, and you can catch a glimpse of all of t...

 Satago is a UK fintech startup with a simple premise — to help small businesses and freelancers get paid on time. They do that primarily by automated self report — Satago users link ...

 Indian ride-sharing company Ola boosted its efforts to beat Uber this month when it closed its $500 million Series F round, and, fresh off the heels of that news, it has confirmed the hiring of ...

 Indian ride-sharing company Ola boosted its efforts to beat Uber this month when it closed its $500 million Series F round, and, fresh off the heels of that news, it has confirmed the hiring of ...

 Line, the messaging app from Japan, dipped its toes into commerce when it launched a grocery service back in Thailand back in February, now it has extended that with a new gift shop. The service...

 Weeks after more than doubling the size of its fund for Southeast Asia, US-based VC firm 500 Startups has increased its focus on the region after it increased the size of its micro-fund focused ...

 Point, a Palo Alto-based home equity marketplace that plans to take people’s homes and and make them completely liquid, divisible and tradable by letting owners sell fractional equity in t...

 There’s way more to human communication than just words. Anytime you connect with someone face-to-face, or through a webcam with FaceTime or Skype, you are adding to the conversation layer...

 Iguaz.io, an 11-month-old, HerzliyaIsrael-based company, isn’t yetsaying exactly what it’s up to, but investors must like what they’re seeing.The stealth-mode company, which sa...

 As self-driving carsrapidly develop, federal officials are beginning to rethink their stance on the technology. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced yesterday that an update would be ...

 Lists! Everybody loves ’em, right? I mean, even if you pretend that you don’t, I’m guessing you find yourself furtively clicking on “top five” or “top 10̶...

 Last week, Box announced the winner of its third annual engineering diversity scholarship, Amanda Sopkin of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.As part of the scholarship, Box awarded...

 Some of us, four legged friends included, hit some bad luck once in a while. Some have it harder than others. A good friend of mine, TurboRoo, has an interesting story to share and a new campaig...

 Cloud HR platform Zenefits may have allowed salespeople to illegally act as insurance agents in at least seven states. According to a Buzzfeed investigative report, the startup let unlicensed br...

 There are two kinds of people: those who are sick of all this Star Wars news nonsense, and those who just want to avoid any spoiler before seeing Star Wars Episode VII. In both cases, you’...

 There’s a secret equation Uber is constantly trying to optimize, where Uber and the driver earn the most money possible while the passenger pays the least. Internally, I’ve heard Ube...

 Named ‘Someday at Christmas,’ Apple just shared its holiday video ad ahead of Thanksgiving in the U.S. and the holiday season. Surprisingly, it doesn’t showcase Apple’s l...

 Disrupt Battlefield alum Bitfusionwants to helpdevelopers get to best compute performance out of their hardware, be it their legacy desktops or specialized high-performance compute clouds. With ...

 Shortly after indefinitely postponing its IPO, music streaming startup Deezer just announced a new family plan to keep up with the competition. You can now subscribe to a family plan for 14.99 p...

 Steve Wildstrom, a long time Business Week columnist and one of the first journalists to focus primarily on technology, died on November 24 of brain cancer. Wildstrom wrote the Technology & ...

 Google has plans to accelerate your web browsing on mobile devices, and we’ll start seeing the results of those efforts as early as next year, the company says. According to a new update r...

 With competition between same-day delivery startups as fierce as it’s ever been, every win counts. And today, Deliv, a three-year-old, 50-person, Menlo Park, Ca.-based startup, is putting ...

 We have now entered the final stretches of one of the most exciting times of the year…and I am not referring to the holidays. The nominations for the 9th Annual Crunchies Award Show are op...

 Hello and welcome to Bullish, TechCrunch’s first talk show. This week we took a look at online dating, which was once a curiosity. It’s now just a bit more than that.In the wake of t...

 Ahead of the holiday sales season kicking off tomorrow online, comScore has published its annual e-commerce forecasts for the period between now and New Years. The researchers predict that colle...

 U.K. carrier O2 is the latest tech firm to throw its hat into the ad-blocking ring, telling Business Insider it’s actively testing a technology that can block mobile ads at the network lev...

 We’re continuing to announce speakers for our TechCrunch Disrupt London conference on December 7-8, 2015 (Agenda, Tickets). The conference will feature global startups, investors, amazing ...

 Not only was he confident of closing an imminent Series A round, but his company, which launched a year before better-known and much better-funded Deliveroo, had justacquired MyDeliveryCab, serv...

 With the U.S. holidays incoming, Sony has picked today to reveal that it has now sold more than 30 million PlayStation 4 consoles to date — over 30.2 million to be precise — putting ...

 China’s crackdown on VPNs, software that enables Internet users circumvent the country’s web censorship, continues unabated after the New York Times reported that VPN users in one pa...

 Kabuku, a Tokyo-based startup that explores new uses for 3D printing, plans to expand around the world after raising a $6.1 million Series A round. The company runs Rinkak, an online marketplace...

 Internet.org, Facebook’s initiative to provide free Internet services in developing countries, is now available to all Indians through the Free Basics app on Reliance Communication’s...

 Tor, the network that facilitates hidden communications and secure Internet activity, has begun accepting donations in a move aimed at lessening its financial dependence on the U.S. government. ...

 Yixia Tech, the Beijing developer behind Chinese video blogging app Miao Pai, has raised $200 million in Series D funding from microblogging platform Weibo, Sequoia Capital, YG Entertainment, an...

 One of the nice things about living in the Bay Area or another technology hub is that everyone speaks the same language – there’s common jargon. As nice as going home and meeting fam...

 As the market for virtual reality technology continues to grow, Apple has made an interesting acquisition that could further its role in the space. TechCrunch has confirmed that Apple has snappe...

 A company called eleVR, which does research in virtual reality and isn’t a gaming company at all, just shared a video for a virtual reality game they’re working on called ‘Floa...

 A company called eleVR, which does research in virtual reality and isn’t a gaming company at all, just shared a video for a virtual reality game they’re working on called Float. It&#...

 Hey! Have you heard? There’s a new Star Wars movie coming out. Surprise! I know, right? Who knew. You’d think someone would have said something about it by now.Just kidding. Star War...

 Lawmakers and Congressional staffers may be tricklingout of their Hill offices and to the airports, the encryption debate is not taking a holiday this week. Following media reports that the terr...

 Earlier today, The Informationpublished a piecethat suggests the “smart money is betting less on early-stage tech startups.”Its evidence?Data provided by SignalFire, a venture firm a...

 Jet.com, an e-commerce company with its sights on Amazon, has raised a fresh $350 million, and according to a report on Re/code has “verbal agreements” for another $150 million.TechC...

 Buying gifts for geek guys (with “geek” herein used in the most loving way possible, meaning someone who’s really into the thing they like) can be tough. Ask us what we want, a...

 When Slack’s IPO window opens, it wants to be able to quickly spring into the public markets. Otherwise it could see sour conditions or botched IPOs by other tech companies shut the window...

 Engineering student James Patrick has built a working 3D-printable revolver that uses a rubber band and a nail to fire .22 bullets. The revolver can hold six or eight bullets and moves the cylin...

 Gillmor Gang – Matt Mullenweg, John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. LIVE ChatCenter chatroom during LIVE recording Gillmor Gan...

 Clique Media Group, the company behind shoppable fashion site Who What Wear, has acquired Canadian startup Wantering.Clique’s properties (which also include lifestyle site MyDomaine and be...

 3D Slash, a free 3D design application, is now fully Raspberry Pi-compatible and works on the Pi-Top, an educational minicomputer based on the Raspberry Pi. The program allows students to design...

 The interrelated trends around miniaturization and portability, wireless communications, power-efficient computing and advanced display technologies have come together to create the smart device...

 Square’s IPO came in hot, bouncing more than 40 percent in its first day of trading. Priced conservatively, the offering did what all IPOs must do to set a positive narrative: rise.In thee...

 Tango, the mobile messaging unicorn that reached a billion dollar valuation when Alibaba invested $280 million in it early last year, has laid off around nine percent of its workforce after it s...

 Buffer, a company known for its radical transparency, has reformed its salary algorithm that it uses to calculate the pay of its staff.It’s been several years since Buffer first published ...

 We pulled together all 153 unicorns currently listed on the Crunchbase Unicorn Leaderboard and then matched them up with data provided by Glassdoor to give you the top 20 highest paying startup ...

 We’re hearing from sources that GitHub CFOVlado Herman, who joined in December 2012, is no longer at the company.Herman was a high-profile hire at the time — and prior to GitHub, hew...

 Consumer watchdog groupsannounced today they’ve filedadditional complaints with the FTC over the advertising content in the YouTube Kids application, this time focused on how the app allow...

 What Stripe did for easy payments, Robinhood is doing for free stock trading. This week the brokerage startup launched its platform so developer can bake its zero-commission stock trading into t...

 When Pelin Kenez and her co-founders were at their previous company, they were constantly moving files between designers and developers. That ended up producing a hassle, with developers having ...

 We all know the tech industry has a diversity problem. The major tech companies have released their bleak workforce diversity numbers, and one year later most of them are unchanged. Obviously, t...

 It doesn’t matter how old they are. It doesn’t matter how many new phones come out. The iPhone lover in your life is going to upgrade their phone when Apple tells them that it’...

 Used properly, tech makes life better. It can help us in just about every way; it helps us remember the things we’ve done, the things we have to do, and the people we love. Buying tech gif...

 Fresh on the heels of Snapchat announcing Story Explorer, Vine has today announced a new way to discover Vines following a similar theme. When browsing in a channel or through your own feed, sim...

 Jeff Bezos took to Twitter for the first time to announce a milestone from his space company Blue Origin, and the internet soaked it in… The rarest of beasts – a used rocket. Control...

 Your dad probably doesn’t want any more socks, ties, or wallets.We asked a bunch of dads (from those on staff to our own dads to randoms on the street) what they’d want this Christma...

 “It’s not what you said; it’s how you said it.” They say most of our communication is not through explicit words, and a new algorithm is able to determine the success rat...

 In 2015, civic technology investment and activity piqued the interest of investors, analysts and app developers as an industry growth segment ripe for disruption and opportunity. A couple of exa...

 Moms rock. She’d be there for you in a minute — so don’t wait until the last minute to get her something this year. We’ve tried to keep this Gift Guide from being too cli...

 A number of startups emerged this year to offer consumers an easier way to shop: instead of immersive, e-commerce experiences, companies likeMagic, Operator,Fetch,GoButler, and others, including...

 Shortly after going public, Square announced that its new card reader is now available to pre-order on its website for $49. The new reader will ship in early 2016. Read More ...

 Another dev kit targeting developers and startups that want to build devices for the Internet of Things has launched on Kickstarter — although its maker, Imagination Technologies, is no st...

 Times in the tiny Swiss watch ateliers are getting tough. While I originally assumed that Swiss watches would survive the onslaught of smartwatches, I was wrong. “To suggest that the iWatc...

 Half a year after Amazon originallyannounced a partnership with JetBlue to bring its Amazon Prime Instant Video service and its Prime Music service to the airline’s passengers, the company...

 Tech companies who’ve long overlooked the home lending market and as fertile ground for new business are waking up to the opportunity in the market and money — and new offerings are ...

 All major banks today offera way for customers to bank online, but this is not stopping a rush of startups emerging to buildnew, mobile and online-only banks from the ground up. In one of the la...

 In an effort to kickstart its mobile payments solution, Android Pay, Google this morning announced a holiday campaign that will see the tech giant donating up to a million dollars toward special...

 Most companies today develop applications and deploy them on servers — whether on-premises or in the cloud. That means figuring out how much server, storage and database power they need ah...

 Ivy Softworks — a so-called “innovation studio” founded by Napster’s Jordan Ritter in Seattle — is taking the wraps off its first products today. It is launching a ...

 It took nearly five years and a team of 450 people, but today Quicken Loans is announcing Rocket Mortgage, an online mortgage that takes just a few minutes to complete. Quicken Loans sees Rocket...

 How Uber emerged from being an underdog into a market leader, how Uber expanded in the U.S. and in international markets such as China, and how partnerships and deals are done in an efficient wa...

 Placester, a service that helps real estate agents and brokers to serve their clients and market themselves better, today announced that it has raised a $27 million Series C round. The round inc...

 We were impressed with a company called IO at Disrupt Europe 2014 in London — the service made it feel like you were having a human conversation with a foodie friend who gives great restau...

 We were impressed with a company called IO at Disrupt Europe 2014 in London — the service made it feel like you were having a human conversation with a foodie friend who gives great restau...

 Government officials are pushing for more cooperation and transparency from tech companies, and in some cases try their hand at hacking in order to pry into encrypted systems. Meanwhile, compani...

 Learn-to-code startup Kano is now shipping a 10.1-inch HD display to go with its keyboard plus Raspberry Pi DIY computer kit for kids. Read More ...

Did you miss out on the first few waves of tickets to the Hackathon at Disrupt London 2015? Don’t fret. There’s another round of tickets just been released. To score your spot at the best ...

 There’s little doubt in my mind (and industry experts and VCs I talk to) that the local on-demand delivery space will soon get messy given the number of startups entering the space and the...

 Increasing the focus on its nascent payment service, China’s Xiaomi has brought a fingerprint scanner to its range of affordable smartphones for the first time after it unveiled the third-...

 There’s been plenty of speculation over Apple plans to launch Apple Pay in China, but now it appears that the mobile payment service could finally land in the country early next year. That...

 We’ve been waiting for an official Star Wars virtual reality experience for some time. With the movie coming out next month, that time is almost now. In an announcement today on StarWars.c...

 Being a student right now means you’re smack in the middle of midterm season. Deadlines are looming and you’re spending a lot more time in the library and navigating days of caffeine...

 Google’s fun little project called “Paint The Town” for their self-driving cars is a great way to connect with communities. It takes trust to allow vehicles that drive themselv...

 Secure messaging app SOMA announced the launch of group voice and video calling for up to four people.Users can now use the app to video chat with up to four friends from phones running both iOS...

 The founders ofUbiome – a three-year-old startup that sequences the collected microbes in the human body and sells $89 kits to anyone wanting to understand their own microbiome better R...

 Even as immigration advocates push for increases to the H-1B visa quotas, calls for reform to the existing system are growing louder — from legislators and immigration advocacy groups alik...

 It was only in July that Deliveroo raised $70 million in Series C funding, but today the London-headquartered company has announced that it’s been dining at the VC table again. Read More ...

 The 9th Annual Crunchies are right around the corner, and if we’re going to give out any awards to the great startups out there, we need your help.We need to know who to give the coveted C...

 The future of wearables could be inked on your skin. Chaotic Moon, a software design and development firm based in Austin, Texas, is developing a high-tech tattoo made of components and conducti...

 LiquidText, the annotation and document reader app developer for iOS (and a critical darling that has been one of Apple’s selected apps in its store nearly since its launch), has launched ...

 Today, Microsoft’s Skype released a really fun video with Christopher Lloyd, aka Doc Brown of Back To The Future. In it he answers a bunch of questions from folks who are dressed up for th...

 As one of TechCrunch’s resident 20-somethings, I know firsthand that we’re not the easiest group of people to shop for. Do we want electronics, clothes, or stuff for our firstpost-co...

 The console war is back for a new holiday season. Microsoft and Sony both announced sales for their gaming consoles. Both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are going to be available for $299 this w...

 Slack seems to be running intermittently at the moment. /giphy fail Read More ...

 Dropbox says that, starting now, customerswill be able to edit PDF files saved into their Dropbox account while using iOS applications, with support for Android set to arrive in the near future....

 Earlier this month, the FAA convened a task force to work out a proposal for drone registrations. As expected, the task force published its report today and it looks like you will indeed soon ha...

 WordPress.com, the fully hosted version of WordPress, has a received one of its biggest updates ever today. Codenamed Calypso, Automattic rewrote WordPress.com from scratch — everything is...

 The shear magnitude of the inevitable transition from human-driven vehicles to autonomous vehicles (AV) requires the careful consideration of a vast array of potential issues. Chief among them a...

 Disney has now entered the subscription-based streaming services market with the launch of DisneyLife, a Netflix-like service that lets families of up to 6 people stream Disney movies, TV shows ...

 Today Snapchat has launched a new tool within Live Stories called Story Explorer, which gives users the ability to look at all of the snaps of a single, special moment.The idea is to let you see...

 Google is now a licensed mortgage broker in California. The company today launched a mortgage comparison tool for home shoppers in California, with support for more states coming soon. TodayR...

 Giphy, the Google of GIF, has introduced an update to Giphy Cam, the app that lets users create their own shareable GIFs. The most important feature of the update comes by way of camera roll imp...

 The momentum against increasingly intrusive ad tech is continuing to gain strength, with major U.K. carrier EE stepping into the debate with an announcement that it’s launching a strategic...

 Let’s say you have a certain someone on your list who is really into biohacking. Let’s also assume you’re Ok with having discoid roaches in the house. Then also let’s ass...

 German mediagiant Axel Springer, which operates top European newspapers like Bild and Die Welt, and who recently bought a controlling stake in Business Insider for $343 million,has a history of ...

 Google today launched version 2.0 of its Android Studio integrated development environment (IDE) for writing apps for its mobile operating system. Android Studio, which is based on IntelliJ,laun...

 In case you can’t get enough Star Wars Episode VII trailers, Disney is here for you. The company aired a brand new teaser last night during the American Music Awards. It’s a short an...

 If you haven’t heard of a fairly new twist on investing called special purpose vehicles (SPVs), you probably aren’t an institutional investor or a wealthy individual with direct ties...

 Not since the extinction of the dinosaurs has Earth lost so much life. This time, however, it can’t be attributed to asteroids, volcanic eruptions or an ice age. Humans are the perpetrator...

 Google continues to expand the range of its Street View project. Today, the company is launchingimagery from the ancient rock-cut city of Petra, in Jordan (and one of the seven wonders of the wo...

 In the land of the tiny attention spans the app that shows images as quickly as possible is king. That’s what Blinkset does: it flashes “what’s trending” past your face a...

 Shazam, founded in 2002, is keeping things fresh today with the launch of a new update, making search results faster than ever. The update also revamps text search so that users can find artists...

 Want to have a little fun with Google today? Ahead of the forthcoming release of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” Google has teamed up with Lucasfilm and Disney to build outa new tool...

Transceivers and optical splitters are part of the crucial plumbing of the internet as services scale up into streaming HD video, virtual reality, cloud computing, and IoT. Data-centers are literally ...

 Yes, there are more. Many, many more speakers to be announced for our TechCrunch Disrupt London conference on December 7-8, 2015. The conference will feature an amazing slate of global startups,...

 A privacy lawsuit filed against Facebook last year by Viennese lawyer and data privacy activist Max Schrems has moved up to Austria’s Supreme Court which will rule on whether the suit can ...

 It’s become a meme in tech circles, “IPOs are the new down round,” venture capitalists quip. The dreaded “down round,” when a startup raises capital beneath its pri...

 It’s become a meme in tech circles, “IPOs are the new down round,” venture capitalists quip. The dreaded “down round,” when a startup raises capital beneath its pri...

 While Opera is best known for its browsers, the company has recently put quite a bit of effort into its Opera Max data-saving app for Android. The company started with helping users save bandwid...

 Every tech CEO and founder dreams of building a company founded on principles partially informed by childhood readings of Dumas: All for one, one for all — and, by the way, let’s cha...

 Startups are re-imagining daily objects and inventing new devices. Supported by maker spaces incubators and accelerators, a fraction of this explosion of startups moves on to later stage financi...

 We’ve all heard about FOMO (fear of missing out), but what about FOGO? That’s short for “fear of going out,” and it’s the problem that CEO Julian Jung said he’...

 Enormous tech M&A deals have been announced recently: EMC/Dell, WDC/SanDisk, Lam-Research/KLC-Tencor. These follow a very busy year of large tech M&A, with Avago/Broadcom, Nokia/Alcatel-...

 With the Samsung Gear VR hitting shelves and faces all over the place last week, the company ran a new commercial to promote it this weekend. I saw it during the 49ers vs. Seahawks game. It̵...

 I’m not much of a designer. In fact, I’m awful at it. I am, however, interested in how it’s done. I read and write plenty about customer success; along the way, (somehow) I fou...

 Welcome back to People Of Color In Tech. Earlier this year, the White House hosted its second-ever LGBTQ Tech and Innovation Summit. Though, this year was the first time the White House made the...

 Over the past several months, a handful of on-demand startups reclassified their independent contractors as employees. Others have publicly acknowledged they’re considering the same move, ...

 SportPursuit, the flash sales site for ‘premium’ outdoor and sports gear, has raised 9.5 million in Series C funding. Investors this time around are Scottish Equity Partners (SEP), G...

 Using Amazon for everything feels wrong to me — a bit like the rebels in Star Wars renting a Star Destroyer from Darth Vader rather than recruiting the Millennium Falcon to fight the Empir...

 The media proliferates stories analyzing millennial work ethics, buying patterns and values. With millennials consuming more media than any other generation, it’s always frustrating to see...

 Readbug’s pitch to its target indie magazine publishers is the chance to increase their digital reach without having to do any extra work or spend any extra money themselves. And its pitch...

 One of my distinct grade-school memories is filing out of fourth grade class, nervous, but excited to miss a portion of math class. We were having our quarterly disaster-survival drill; instruct...

 Upthere launched their first apps into beta last week, and so far the beta period is off to a good start, the company tells me. No word on how many users have slipped through during the beta, bu...

 If you didn’t pre-order the new consumer version of Samsung Gear VR, you might have some difficulty finding it on your favorite online shopping destinations.Amazon and Best Buy, both place...

 The Gillmor Gang — Josh Elman, Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Tuesday, November 17, 2015. Facebook jumps in with Notify and gives Twitter a run for its mon...

 Innovation that involves sensitive medical technologies is challenging and provokes strong emotional reactions, but the reality is that the strongest criticisms of Theranos have more to do with ...

 Cartoonist Steve Streza posted a tweet claiming that an extortionist would release his “tax id, tax forms, SSN, [and] DOB” if he did not pay one bitcoin to a certain bitcoin wallet. ...

 Anyone hiring engineers in tech knows how much competition there is for talent; there just aren’t enough good engineers to go around. As a result of the incredibly high demand for talent, ...

 “There is something more powerful than the brute force of bayonets: it is the idea whose time has come.” And so last weekend I visited the Basic Income Createathon–held, approp...

 Instead of the touches and swipes that power most of our screen-based computing devices, many of the core Apple Watch capabilities — like checking the time — are powered by gestures....

 Mark Zuckerberg, the face of Facebook since the company’s founding back in 2004, will be taking a few months off for paternity leave.News of his time off comes by way of — no surpris...

 As we approach election season the average person is probably confused by the plethora of candidates. Should you vote Trump? Hillary? Dr. Fantasmus the Libertarian Cyborg? Voter can probably tel...

 There are plenty of tech blogs. But The Macro can go where no blogs are allowed — deep inside the Hogwarts of startups, Y Combinator. Mixed in with unmentionably candid advice and embarras...

 Let’s all agree that public transportation in San Francisco is not the greatest, but there’s plenty more ways to get about town and not all of them include clicking on UberPOOL. Here...

 International expansion is a challenge any globally ambitious company will face — some sooner than others. As a long-time investor in both the U.S. and Europe, I often get asked by the ven...

Several years ago, the venture firm GGV Capital invested in the Series C round of payment technology company Square, whoseshares soared more than 40 percent on their first day of public trading yester...

 Several years ago, the venture firm GGV Capital invested in the Series C round of payment technology company Square, whoseshares soared more than 40 percent on their first day of public trading ...

 The advertising and media world must havea weakness for industry visualizations — I probably hear aboutLumascapesseveral times a week. Now Mode Mediais making its own bid for Lumascape glo...

 Let’s all agree that public transportation in San Francisco is not the greatest, but there’s plenty more ways to get about town and not all of them include clicking on UberPOOL. Here...

 The Apple Watch dock. The Pura Scents smart fragrance dispenser. A review of this badass gift guide. The Coolest Cooler. And an argument over 3D printers. Long story short, we wander near and fa...

 I’m a fan of Google Trends. Whenever a new meme pops up or some major news breaks, I head there to check how interested people are in said information and whether they’ve been intere...

 Less than a year after being acquired by Intel, PasswordBox is closing its password manager service and pushing users to migrate to — yes, you guessed it — Intel’s alternative,...

 Following a number of big moves to attract subscribers and grow its revenue, including a deal with Epix films and the introduction of a commercial-free paid tier to its service, streaming servic...

 Otter Media says it’sinvestinganother $22 million in Ellation, the parent company of anime-focused video serviceCrunchyroll. Founded in 2006, Crunchyroll’s content includes relativel...

 Shortly after participating in our Battlefield competition at Disrupt SF, Stampery raised $600,000 from Draper Associates with Boost VC, Blockchain Capital and Di-Ann Eisnor also participating. ...

 This week two major tech companies went public, Pandora acquired Rdio and Lyft financials leaked. The Cribs crew visited the visually stunning Minted HQ, and we discussed the rentpocalypse with ...

 It’s been a busy last few months since Steve Huffman returned to Reddit in July to become its CEO. The company had an eventful summer (to put it lightly), but now as much of the controvers...

 Shares of Tesla, an electric car company and Silicon Valley darling, are down several points today on news that the company will recall every Model S sedan over a seatbelt issue uncovered in a s...

 Coin, the $99 smart card that lets users keep all their credit cards and gift cards on a single device, is today announcing a rewards program for owners of the Coin. The pilot program begins wit...

 Over the last year, three people have jumped ship from Google and landed at ZIRX, an on-demand valet and car services startup.The recent new hires include Christopher Knape, Jo Hainsworth and Ri...

 Facebook at Work, the version of Facebook designed for chatting with colleagues on a private social network, now has its own chat client as well. Somewhat like Facebook at Work’s version o...

 This isn’t the first bitcoin debit card in the world, but this is the first one that works with your Coinbase account. Coinbase has partnered with Shift Payments so that you can get a Visa...

 Cisco announced today it plans to buy video conferencing firm Acano for the widely reported price of $700 million. The company, which is based in the UK, has developed video infrastructure and c...

 Finnish alternative mobile OS startup Jolla is facing the situation startups dread the most: running out of financing to keep the business going in the way they’d like. Today the Sailfish ...

 After a very long wait for long-promised autopilot features, Model S owners in Hong Kong were surely unhappy to discover yesterday that those same features have now been remotely disabled. Accor...

 Chatbooks, a subscription servicefor printed photo books, has acquired Guesterly, a company that creates pocket-sized printedevent guides. Founded in 2014, Chatbooks has raised $2.1M in seed fun...

 Startup accelerators are an excellent way for early stage startups to get up to speed quickly, identifying their best growth strategy and a reasonable plan to achieve it. The number of accelerat...

 “People should be focused on the business, not hanging out and getting high” insists Carter Laren, co-founder of marijuana startup funder and incubator Gateway, which launches today ...

 If you’re into big pixels, Sony has a treat for you. The company has secretly been working on a fully functioning PlayStation 2 emulator for the PlayStation 4. It is taking advantage of th...

 Amazon Household, the program that allows adults living under the same roof to share their Amazon Prime benefits, including free shipping and access to Prime Video streaming, has been expanded t...

 Some difficultnews this weekfor Jawbone, maker of fitness trackers, speakers and Bluetooth headsets. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that the company yesterdaylaid off around 60 employees, ...

 Virtual reality is a reality…in the sense that the hardware, software and content stars are finally aligning to make the platform approachable by more than just hardcore developers, gamers...

 While there has been high profile U.K. government backing for furnishing the nation’s youth with digital skills in recent years, including a requirement in the English national curriculum ...

 Razer, the high-end gaming hardware firm headquartered in the U.S., made waves last year when it entered the billion dollar unicorn club courtesy of an undisclosed investment from Intel. Now it&...

 Classically trained composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer Imogen Heap recently made the headlines for releasing her song Tiny Human using blockchain technology. Heap is one of a number of a...

 Classically trained composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer Imogen Heap recently made the headlines for releasing her song Tiny Human using blockchain technology. Heap is one of a number of a...

 Avenida is set on cementing its leadership position Argentina’s e-commerce market after a $30 million Series C led by Naspers with participation from Tiger Global (both firms are returning...

 PBS KIDS, the branch of the venerable Public Broadcasting Service that produces children’s shows like “Sesame Street” and “Wild Kratts,” is taking its first step in...

 Last week we brought you news that the first Android Wear smartwatch with access to cellular data — read: doesn’t need to be paired with a smartphone — was on its way to the U....

 It’s been nearly a year since Kamcord, the U.S. startup that allows mobile owners to record and stream their games online, raised a $15 million round to increase its focus on markets in As...

 WaHome, a Seoul-based on-demand home cleaning service, has landed $1 million in seed funding, which it will use to hire more engineers, build features for its Android and iOS apps, and launch in...

 Elon Musk is looking for a few good engineers. The Tesla CEO took to Twitter tonight to announce Tesla is ramping up its autonomous vehicle division and needs some new talent. Oh, and he said he...

 Elon Musk is looking for a few good engineers. The Tesla CEO took to Twitter tonight to announce Tesla is ramping up its autonomous vehicle division and needs some new talent. Oh, and he said he...

 So you may have heard that the NFL, Stanford University, and TechCrunch are teaming up to stage an epic pitch-off competition on Feb. 6 called 1stand Future. There are three themes — the F...

Every year,our Japanese-languagesister site throws a big Disrupt-like event in Tokyo where there is, of course, a Battlefield between about 10 different startups. With north of 100 million Internet us...

 If you’re running an early stage startup, you know how to make the most of limited resources. From getting the most bang out of every marketing buck to jockeying the pace of a small develo...

 There’s alot of talk these days about computational medicine, which usesmassive amounts of data to train a machine to understand even more than experts or, at least, to identify health-rel...

 America needs the “systemic change” in which Silicon Valley specializes. Read More ...

 Technology IPOs, written off for the year just months ago, are back. And back in style.Both Square and Match Group posted incredibly solid first-day results yesterday. You can’t knock that...

 In a surprise move today, Google announced it was buying enterprise development platform startup bebop and makingits founder, Diane Greenehead of Google’senterprise cloud business. Greene ...

 The chaos of Reddit’s Ask Me Anythings doesn’t lend itself to the most thoughtful answers. They’re short, plagued by trolls, and people who care about the topic or person might...

 Silicon Valley efforts in the biology and health domains have recently seen increased public interest because of the questions around the legitimacy of Theranos’ technology and medical cla...

 It seems that Adele, an artist that I love nearly as much as Metallica — and that is my highest possible praise — will not stream her new album on Spotify. This has made me quite sad...

 Tubi TV, a company offering a free alternative to paid subscription video services like Netflix, is announcing today new investments from two major Hollywood studios, MGM and Lionsgate, who have...

 Founded in 2009, Pure Storageentered an industry where incumbents, including EMC and HP, dominatedfor more than thirty years. Co-founders John “Coz” Colgrove and John Hayes knew that...

 It makes sense for unicorns, or startups valued at more than $1 billion, to use those means to attract top talent with more generous pay, but which of this magical herd pays employees the most? ...

 Breaking up is hard enough without having to see your ex’s newfound happiness flung inyour face every time you log on to Facebook. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you want to unfri...

 Hello friends, and welcome back to TCBTC, TechCrunch’s itinerant and sporadic podcast on all things bitcoin.This week my glorious comrade in arms, John Biggs, and I discussed two things: A...

 Blockchain, blockchain, blockchain! It’s not the bitcoin anymore, right? Right (probably.) Join me at Disrupt London where I’ll be talking to Steve Waterhouse of Pantera Capital, Vit...

 Blockchain, blockchain, blockchain! It’s not the bitcoin anymore, right? Right (probably.) Join me at Disrupt London where I’ll be talking to Steve Waterhouse of Pantera Capital, Vit...

 If you’re an avid user of Google Hangouts at work, then this update will make you happy. Google Apps for Work users were able to invite outside guests to video calls as of last year, but t...

 Meet Omixy, a stealth startup that has been working on improving the medical check-up in Europe. It doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel like Theranos. Instead, Omixy is all about making it a...

 They say the fastest way to someone’s heart is through their stomach. If that person is a chef of sorts, then kitchen gadgetry is a must-have on their holiday wish list. Be the one to brin...

From the far-reaching design impact made by Apple’s Jony Ive to the leadership of Sundar Pichai at Google, the tech space – and quite literally the world – would not be the same if c...

 In an effort to expand its original video content, including movies and TV series, Amazon announced this morning the launch of a free, cloud-based screenwriting software program calledAmazon Sto...

 Social news aggregator Nuzzel is unveiling version 2.0 of its website and app — a version that CEO Jonathan Abrams described as “Nuzzel for Everyone.” Nuzzel previously worked ...

 SeatGeek is already a solid way to score tickets for live events, but now you can use it to sell those tickets, too. In a sense, the tickets on SeatGeek are being resold already, but the model r...

 TechCrunch Disrupt is coming to Europe and there’s no cooler way to put what you’re doing on display for media and investors alike than by joining our Startup Alley. Startup Alley is...

 YouTube announced this morning plans to up its efforts in protecting video creators from copyright takedown requests for videos that should otherwise be classified as “fair use.” The...

 LiquidTalent has today launched out of beta, offering companies a marketplace to find high-quality developer and designer talent on-demand both on the web and mobile. The company was founded by ...

 Early websites were simple HTML. They followed a pattern of a long-form equation, with perfectly balanced sides. There was no CSS to make the HTML code appear a three-dimensional hyperbole, whic...

 After a bizarre interview from one of its executives on the day of its IPO pricing, today Match Group, owner of the popular Tinder dating app, listed as a public company, spinning out from its p...

 Hiring is only half the battle. You still have turn that new team member into a productive cog in your master plan. But Greenhouse didn’t help with that. The $60 million-fundedrecruitment ...

 Phhhoto, the photo-booth event company turned social app, has today announced a new group feature called Party. The new feature will allow users to share Phhhoto’s GIF-style moving photos ...

 Square made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange this morningwith a little pop. Trading as $SQ, the payments company opened at $11.20/shareand climbing shortly thereafter. Last night the com...

 As the holiday shopping season starts to get into full swing, Google this morning announced a brand-new design for its Shopping vertical, the Google Shopping search engine. This is the largest m...

 A few years ago an enterprising programmer dug through Kickstarter’s data to figure out how many failed projects there really were. Thanks to a trick in the coding, however, none showed up...

 I started a series of meetups in the Big Apple and the latest one, to be held in Brooklyn, is tonight. I’d like to see you there. You can RSVP here.We’ll be meeting at the Union Hall...

 Over the years, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the 30-year-old Silicon Valley venture firm, famously created a partner network of independent but DFJ-branded venture firms around the world. It was one...

 The cost of competing against Uber can behigh, and today comes news of anothercasualty in that race. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Nick Allen, the founder of Shuddle, has stepped dow...

 HotelTonight, the last-minute hotel booking app, just launched a new feature called Tonight +1, which lets users add a second night during check-out for an additional discount. Here’s how ...

 Israeli startup Dojo-Labs has it eye on securing the connected smart home from the threat posed by, well, all the devices that comprise the connected smart home… Read More ...

 In the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, and amid ongoing operations to catch the perpetrators, with fears of further attacks swirling — secure messaging app Telegram has shut...

 Data science applications for healthcare are finally trying to catch up to the rest of the world, with one new effort coming fromsix-year-oldApixio in San Mateo, CA. This morning, the company is...

 Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay… there’s one more to add to the list. That’s because Korean phone maker LG just quietly outed plans to develop and deploy its own mobile pay...

 Back in January, Alibaba unveiled plans for a HK$1 billion ($130 million) fund to help entrepreneurs in Hong Kong and today the initiative — which is called the Alibaba Hong Kong Young Ent...

 Earlier this year, Alibaba announced two funds to support entrepreneurs in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and today the initiatives — which are called the Alibaba Hong Kong Young Entrepreneurs Foun...

 We quickly sold out of the first few waves of tickets to the Hackathon at Disrupt London 2015, but more tickets are now available on our ticketing page. These tickets sell out incredibly quickly...

 UrbanClap, which uses a matchmaking algorithm to help consumers find the best service providers in major Indian cities, plans to scale rapidly after landing a $25 million Series B. The round was...

 Overdraft fees suck, but sometimes you need more money than what you currently have on your bank account for a big purchase. Until now, Berlin-based startup Number26 didn’t allow overdraft...

 Today marked the demo day for the first batch of startups from SMASHD LABS, the LA-based accelerator started by legendary talent manager Troy Carter. When it launched, SMASHD promised that it wo...

 Twitter began letting its users make polls on its service last month and already the company appears to have more substantive plans for the feature — which TechCrunch’s Drew Olanoff ...

 Say what you will about IBM, they are constantly trying new ways to generate business, and their latest initiative involves helping professional sports team modernizestadium operations and updat...

 LightSpeed POS is announcing that it has acquired SEOshop, an Amsterdam-based maker of e-commerce software. As the name implies, LightSpeed’s offerings for brick-and-mortar retailers and r...

 Look past the smiles, the exuberance and the sales patter – you may just catch a fleeting glimpse of something that is silently destroying them, eating them away from the inside in a slow,...

 Most GED credential recipients say they take the test to further their education — not end it. In fact, 65 percent of GED credential holders indicated they wanted a job that requires furth...

 Match has priced its IPO at$12per share, raising $400 million . The company will begin trading on the Nasdaq tomorrow,under the ticker symbol ‘MTCH.’ The $12 per share is at the bott...

Match.com, which is expected to price its IPO tonight, has just filed an updated document with the SEC, saying that it did not condone Tinder CEO’s Sean Rad interview with the London Evening Sta...

 Square’s somewhat conservative pricing earlier this month just got a lot more conservative. Square today priced its initial public offering at $9, giving the company a valuation of $2.66 b...

 Even though Rohit Prakash was a dual MD and PhD researching optogenetics at Stanford University, his entrepreneurial itch kept returning him to his family’s small business roots. He and hi...

 Lyft is raising a half a billion dollar round, but its financials look wobbly. According to Bloomberg, the ridesharing startup took a net loss of $127 million in the first half of this year, off...

 BuzzFeed is hiring a new executive to lead recruiting and human resources— Lenke Taylor, who’s currently Google’s head of people operations for business functionsin Europe, the...

 There’s a general sense in Silicon Valley that many unicorn companies will not live up to their billion dollar status. According to Morrison & Foerster, more than half of the highly va...

 Quick hit here, comrades: Microsoft released a new Windows 10 Mobile version today, build10586. Now, this new edition is for subscribers of the Windows Insider program in the ‘Fast’ ...

 On the hunt for that special something for your best girlfriend, gal pal or that special lady in your life? Here are a few gems for them (or you). From stylish chargers to swank bags to carry yo...

 Amazon is the most robust infrastructure platform in the world, making it an obvious choice for large customers and startups alike. But its increasing innovations in cloud computing may perpetua...

 Pinterest has built plenty of its technology on open source projects, so of course it wants to open its projects up to the developer community, as well. So the company has built a committeeat Pi...

 That’s it. It just does. If Instagram wants to be where we capture and share our most treasured moments, it needs to help us protect them. The easiest way to do this is offer the option to...

 Vine is never-ending series of inside jokes. Every day, some weird video or audio clip becomes the trend and everyone races to make their own remix. Now you can play along without any extra edit...

 We get it. You’re busy building a robot that can eat human food. That’s why we’ve extended the deadline for applications for TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield for a few m...

 Next week we kick off the holiday season with Thanksgiving, which is the perfect excuse to gather and nosh with family or friends. But it can be time-consuming and anxiety-inducing for those doi...

 Does the world need yet another subscription-based video streaming service? The Smithsonian seems to think so, having now rolled out its own over-the-top service aimed at cord cutters called Smi...

 The long-burning debate concerning encryption, its impact on both consumer privacy and the government’s ability to protect its citizens is back with a vengeance. The dialogue appeared to b...

 PlanGrid, the company that digitized the construction industry, announced today that it has landed a $40 million investment. Tenaya Capital led the round. Additional investors includeSequoia, Fo...

 Facebook’s on a quest to absorb the Internet, and now it looks like it could invade crowdfunding. Today the company released a new Fundraiser productthat allows non-profits to set up a cam...

 In space no one can hear you tick.In the movie Alien, futuristic alien butt-kicker Sigourney Weaver AKA Ripley wore a futuristic-looking chronograph. This piece, the Seiko 7A28-7000, was one of ...

 Today, the world woke up to a profile of sorts from the London Evening Standard. The profile was about Tinder CEO Sean Rad. And it was, well, special. Where to start? First, let’s get the ...

 VCs have been watching with great interest as mutual funds mark down the value of some of their privately held, illiquid investments, including shares of Dropbox, Zenefits, and Snapchat. Turns o...

 A few days ago a $400 charge hit my credit card and Amazon notified me that my 21.co bitcoin computer was on its way. Essentially a Raspberry Pi connected with a custom bitcoin-mining ASIC and a...

 Google today is making a big change in terms of its ability to surface the content found in mobile applications through Google search: it’s no longer requiring that apps have matching web ...

 Google launched a new way of buying virtual machines in its cloud today. No matter whether you choose the Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure or another player, the way you buy virtual machines is...

 Apple today has publicly addressed the issue with the Mac App Store that last week caused a number of Mac desktop applications to stop working, forcing users to restart their computers and reaut...

 Following news regardingthe launch of its own Black Friday store with exclusive deals for Prime members, Amazon announced this morning that it will actually begin selling its holiday deals this ...

 Fundrise, the real estate crowdfunding site, is offering up to $50 million in shares to the public, for the launch of its online real estate investment trust. This REIT will be used to invest in...

 When Mitt Romney announced his presidential bid in June of 2011, Uber had been operating in NYC for less than a month, Steve Jobs was still alive and Siri hadn’t been born. It might not se...

Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday night that Facebook had activated its Safety Check feature in Nigeria after a market bombing killed dozens. Zuckerberg’s announcement came after the platform face...

 Microsoft todayannounceda large number of updates to its developer and DevOps tools and services at its Connect conference in New York. These range for a new free program for developers who are ...

 Update:We are having some trouble with the embed. I promise that we will get it sorted. Alas, mornings.Hello my dear morning cohorts, and welcome back to Bullish, TechCrunch’s first talk s...

 Senator John McCainon Tuesdaytold reporters that he would hold a series of hearings and eventually pursue legislation that would require companies provide the government with access to encryptio...

 Facebook has launched a new fundraising tool to helpnon-profit organizations raise money, and has also improved the Donate button to help them reach new supporters. The fundraising tool, which f...

 Andreessen Horowitz is making a big move into biotech, and it’s using a $200 million new fund called the AH Bio Fund – and new general partner, Vijay Pande — to plant its stake...

 Despite on-going belt-tightening of the U.K.’s public finances, there’s going to be more taxpayer cash and support up for grabs for cyber security startups starting from early 2016. ...

 Firetalk, a live streaming video platform, on Wednesday announced it would partner with entertainment news site TMZ as well as online performers. The service also announced the launch of a new f...

 Restaurant software-maker Salido has raised $2 million in seed funding.The round was led by High Line Venture Partners and its managing partner Shana Fisher. Also participating were a number of ...

 Wearable clothing may sound like an oxymoron, but it’s a real thing and it’s an expanding category with promise in the fitness industry. Athos, one of a handful of startups building ...

 Ever since Apple introduced Nightstand mode in watchOS 2, having a charging dock for the Apple Watch makes sense. A dock can hold the Watch in place while you sleep so that you don’t have ...

 Ever since Apple introduced Nightstand mode in watchOS 2, having a charging dock for the Apple Watch makes sense. A dock can hold the Watch in place while you sleep so that you don’t have ...

 APX Labs, makers of the Skylight smart glasses development platform, announced a $13 million investmenttoday. The round was led by NEA, but there were several others partiesinvolved including CN...

 Though the world of fashion is trying desperately to catch up to the digital age, retail is still fundamentally unchanged. Oak Labs is looking to shake things up with a smart mirror to be placed...

 If you weren’t convinced the on-demand delivery space was piping hot right now, wrap your head around this. TechCrunch has learned that Stuart, an on-demand, same-hour delivery startup tha...

 Berlin-based Test IO (formerly Testcloud), which offers a self-service ‘crowdtesting’ platform for app and web developers, has closed a $5 million Series A round from Turn/River Capi...

 The number of Internet users in India is tipped to surpass 400 million by the end of this year, making it the second largest online population in the world behind only China, according to a new ...

 It is hard to fathom that back in 2009 VCs were far from convinced that Airbnb was ever going to be a big enough business to pump venture into. Fast forward to 2015 and businesses are being crea...

 Foodpanda, the food delivery on-demand service backed by Germany’s Rocket Internet, has ventured into the world of corporations after it introduced a dedicated service for business custome...

 Styletag, a fashion flash sales site in India, has landed $7.5 million in angel funding from Jitu Virwani. Read More ...

 Google has lowered the minimum cost of apps and in-app purchases in a range of emerging markets following a trial period in India earlier this summer. Read More ...

 BAT is a common acronym in China’s tech space for a reason. Baidu-Alibaba-Tencent are the three largest firms in the country, and each has its tentacles in a range of products and areas. N...

 Ola, the Uber rival that is leading the taxi app market in India, has refueled its tank after taking on another $500 million in funding. The round was led by Baillie Gifford, Falcon Edge, Tiger ...

 Goodbox, a startup based in Bengaluru, wants to give small retailers a chance to take part in India’s e-commerce boom by making it easy to set up a store on its marketplace app. The compan...

 Another day, another development in the wild world of daily fantasy sports. While DraftKings and FanDuel await their day in court next Wednesday, the NY Times has reported thatEric T. Schneiderm...

 Machine learning is hot. Where it applies, it heatedly enables data-rich and knowledge-lean automation of valuable tasks of perception, classification and numeric prediction. Its sibling, machin...

 Today,Lyft’s president John Zimmer announced that the ridesharing company reached an annualized gross revenue run rate of $1 billion in October. The figure likely does not represent Lyft&#...

 It’s not a convertedindustrial warehouse in Brooklyn. Or a stately, century-old building in the Flatiron. But YC-backed Regalii’s atypical office locationup in the Dominican-heavy Wa...

 When Mark S. Luckie joined Twitter in 2012, he felt excited by the opportunity to explore the intersection of technology and journalism. Before joining Twitter, Luckie spent his entire career as...

 One of the most sought-after, but never quite dominated, frontiers in online media and marketplaces has been centered on local communities. Hoodline, a San Francisco-based startup, is trying to ...

 Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Josh Elman, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording sessionhas concluded for today.Our LIVE chatroom on Chat CenterGillmor Gang on Facebook HEREOur ...

 Only a tiny fraction of Instagram feed reading happens in third-party apps, so Instagram is shutting down its feed API to make feature development nimbler and create a more consistent user exper...

 Only a tiny fraction of Instagram feed reading happens in third-party apps, so Instagram is shutting down its feed API to make feature development nimbler and create a more consistent user exper...

 When it comes to evolution, many focus on those special specimens that survive, known as the “fittest.” But what about the losers? Those that couldn’t adapt and simply fell off...

 “What museums are excited about — among other things — is access. Pretty soon a kid with the smart phone in India can visit the Louvre.” Read More ...

 We pulled together all 153 unicorns currently listed on the Crunchbase Unicorn Leaderboard and then matched them up with data provided by Glassdoor to give you, our readers, the top 20 highest p...

 Google+ has always been a project for Google, regardless of what you’ve read in the media. With projects, come changes…and there have been quite a few for Google+ this year. The Phot...

 You’re a tech giant that has built an artificial intelligence engine 5-7 years ahead of your competition that uses advanced machine learning to power many of your key products to the top o...

 You’re a tech giant that has built an artificial intelligence engine 5-7 years ahead of your competition that uses advanced machine learning to power many of your key products to the top o...

 If you’ve ever been stuck using another email service and want to move over to Gmail, importing all of your mail is a real pain in the ass. Think Apple’s Mail client tied to, say, an...

 Does someone you care about bike to work even as winter sets in, with all of the associated cold and damp? Upgrade their commute with some great digital technology and plain cool hardware. Show ...

 Parrot on Tuesday unveiled its Bebop Drone 2, a smaller version of its popular consumer model that has a 25-minute battery life — twice that of its predecessor. The Bebop 2 will hit stores...

 Google’s popular photo management utility, Google Photos, which was spun out from Google+ this spring and soon grew to 100 million monthly active users who have uploaded some 50 billion ph...

 Tumblr today is launching a new tool that will capitalize on its community’s love for bothcreating and sharing GIFs with the debut of a mobile-only “GIF Maker.” The tool, which...

 Touch of Modern, an e-commerce service aimed at men, passed the $100 million annual recurring revenue mark (ARR) in October, the company told TechCrunch in an interview at its SOMA offices. It a...

 Earlier this year, Apple began offering same-day deliveryof its products and accessories through its Apple Store mobileapplication, and then later expanded that option to its online web store th...

 Well that took no time at all. Intelligence agencies rolled right into the horror and fury in the immediate wake of the latest co-ordinated terror attacks in the French capital on Friday, to lau...

 One of the recurring questions facing on-demand and “sharing economy” services is whether normal people will actually use them. BabyCenter decided to look at the issue by asking R...

 Because there is a gadget for everything, let not the realm of scent dispensers be ignored. Pura Scents, launching a Kickstarter campaign today, is looking to lead the pack with a smart fragranc...

 Google today announced that the number of Chrome users on mobile doubled from 400 million 30-day actives to 800 million over the course of the last year. That’s a mix of Android and iOS us...

 Mark One, the company behind Vessyl, just launched a smart cup focused solely on hydration. It’s called Pryme, and is available starting today online and in Apple retail stores located in ...

 History is littered with bad predictions. In 1876, Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer of the British Post Office, claimed that his countrymen and women would never adapt what was then a just-eme...

 Earlier this year, Google released DeepDream, an open source tool that generates trippy-looking visualizations on top of existing footage using artificial neural networks (AI that Google’s...

 Music streaming service Spotify is getting big, and its streaming data is now becoming valuable for artists and music labels. Today, the company announced that artists and labels can now access ...

 The thing about being a portable audiophile is that you have to put a lot of trust in online reviews. It’s hard to get the full experience testing out a pair of cans in Best Buy and often ...

 Satya Nadella came to Washington, DC this morning, and delivered The Microsoft State of Security address, layingout Microsoft’s security vision and all of the tools and technologies that e...

 Text messaging apps are on the rise, but according to Jessica Taylor, founder and CEO of Rolltape, “Nobody feels like they’re getting closer. People still feel like they’re get...

 Caeden, maker of earphones and connected jewelry, is launching a connected bracelet that aims to help you chill out when you need it most. Called Sona, the bracelet helps users improve mind and ...

 Kit, the newest startup to launch out of startup studio Expa in NYC, is looking to give you a way to share your own product reviews, bundled by category, with your friends and the greater commun...

 Xamarin, the C#-centric cross-platform mobile app development platform, is launching version 4 of its service today. With this update, the company is launching a number of new features across it...

 A number of investors, including Joe Lonsdale’s new fund 8 Partners, Google Ventures and StartX have added $5 million in initial funding to prescription delivery startup TinyRx. Several ea...

 What if you’re a gamer at heart and want a tablet? The latest iPads have been powerful tablets with some great games. But Nvidia has been trying to go one step further with its Shield Tabl...

 Founded by Marwan Forzley, a former executive at Western Union, Align Commerce is using the blockchain technology and Bitcoin as an alternative way to transfer money among small and medium-sized...

 When travel startupHipmunk launched five years ago, its big selling point was abetter interface for searching and browsing flights.Now the company is looking to helpusers even before they start ...

 Craftsvilla, an India-based marketplace for ethnic goods, has closed a $34 million Series C round as it begins to ramp up its overseas expansion plans. The investment was led by existing investo...

 Well, it looks like it might be a while yet before youswipe right to findyour next bricklayer or painter. Angie’s List, a marketplace for independent contractors, has formally rejected an ...

 Flying a drone can be tough. Where are you allowed to fly? Is there an airport within 5 miles. What about a hospital or U.S. national park that has restricted airspace? AirMap is one of the best...

 Whena company’s security is breached a critical step of the recovery process is seeing exactly what happened, including where the vulnerability was exposed and what exactly the hackers had...

 Get ready for yet another wearable… Neyya, a Bluetooth ring designed for remote-controlling other mobile devices, is finally launching today after a lengthy post-crowdfunding delay and a s...

 The lending segment of the financial services industry has been one of the areas that has attracted the most interest from venture investors with mature companies like SoFi raising a massive $1 ...

 Yet more news of closures at Groupon, the daily deals and local commerce platform. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that the company has ceased operations immediately in four more countries,...

 Yet more news of closures at Groupon, the daily deals and local commerce platform. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that the company has ceased operations immediately in four more countries,...

 Times Internet, the digital business run by India’s Times of India media group, has bought a majority (but undisclosed) stake in mobile-focused task marketplace Taskbucks for $15 million. ...

 With Disrupt London 2015 only a month away, we thought it’d be fun to take a look back at the companies that emerged from last year’s Hackathon to see what they’ve been up to i...

 Gogoro, the smart scooter startup that has raised over $180 million in funding, has picked Amsterdam as its second launch city. The company’s electric scooters started shipping four months...

 Docker announced the Docker Universal Control Plane (UCP) at its developer conference in Barcelona today. The UCP is a new paid service in Docker’s portfolio that is meant to help ops team...

 Sean Parker has been very philanthropic lately, particularly with life sciences research. Parker announced he’d given $600 million toa foundation with his name on it this summer and $24 mi...

 Earlier this year, Google and ASUS announced the Chromebit — a full Chrome OS-based computer on an HDMI stick. Today, the two companies are officially launching this new way of using Chrom...

 Datto, the company that acts as a backup and disaster recovery service for small to medium sized businesses (SMBs), announced today that it has raised $75 million in a Series B investment. The r...

 Ford just announced a service that allows owners to control their car from a smartphone app. Called Sync Connect, the service brings a lot of functionality not traditionally found in gas automob...

 Apple SIM, the SIM card that lets iPad users switch between participating carriers in different countries, has launched in Japan through a partnership with KDDI. Read More ...

 Kik, the messaging app popular among teens and young people in North America, has rolled out an interesting new feature that makes sending a GIF as easy as an emoji. As of today, the chat app no...

 Now that drones can fly in intricate patterns researchers at Queens University have created flying robots that self-assemble into floating shapes and can “3D print” objects in midair...

 In a stunner today, Microsoft Corporate VP Bob Stutz stepped down from his job running Microsoft Dynamics CRM. MSDynamicsWorld broke the story, and Microsoft has confirmed the news in a statemen...

 There is an unnamed epidemic slowly traveling through the middle of the U.S. This epidemic goes by many names, but our venture fund refers to it as “early exit disease.” This disease...

 Box’s recent platform push is more than a new product direction for the company. The service may become a key revenue driver for the enterprise-facing productivity shop. I recently sat dow...

 Cleaning startup Cleanify has raised $1.8 million in seed funding. That might not seem like much money when compared to the $50 million round that Handy just raised, or the nearly $40 million th...

 I was raised to trust everything the dictionary told me, but damn. What is going on with the world? Today, Oxford Dictionaries named its 2015 “Word Of The Year” and it’s not a ...

 We’re hearing from sources that Mesosphere, a company that’s built upon the open-source project Apache Mesos, is raising a financing round at a valuation that could beas much as$600 ...

 That was fast: just as soon as it was reported that Pandora was in talks to buy Rdio, the two sides have confirmed that an acquisition is indeed takingplace. Pandora has acquired “key asse...

 That was fast: just as soon as it was reported that Pandora was in talks to buy Rdio, the two sides have confirmed that an acquisition is indeed takingplace. Pandora has acquired “key asse...

 Warby Parker is astonishingly successful, whether you judge it by the rave reviews of customers, its valuation or, more impressively, by the number of startups that compare themselves to the ico...

 The hacking group Anonymous on Sunday declared “total war” against the Islamic State, the terror organization that claimed responsibility for the attacks on Friday that killed 132 Pa...

 Yes, the fav turned into a like. The star turned into a heart. Some tweeters were not very happy about this change even though Twitter said engagement was just fine — increased among new u...

 Portable air quality tracker Atmotube aims to be the Waze for air quality tracking in your city. The device is a tiny tube that you can carry around in your pocket or put on a key chain to monit...

 Portable air quality tracker Atmotube aims to be the Waze for air quality tracking in your city. The device is a tiny tube that you can carry around in your pocket or put on a key chain to monit...

 Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a device that notifies users if their guide dogs are distressed or sick. Because dogs usually express illness or stress through their ...

 If voice-based assistants are to becomethe primary way we interact with our devices now and in the future, then Google has just upped the ante in the battle between its ownvoice search functiona...

 What happens to Uber’s drivers once cars drive themselves? Something other than just losing their jobs, according to a gentler approach from CEO Travis Kalanick. Uber could potentially tra...

 He’s back. TransferWise co-founder and CEO Taavet Hinrikus was already on our radar at last year’s Disrupt London, but the startup has been growing nicely since then. After raising $...

 If you’re a Dungeons & Dragons fan, and happen to have some virtual reality gear on you, drop what you’re doing. Social VR company AltspaceVR has shipped an immersive version of ...

 Every year it’s the same. You shop, you cross name after name off of your list, only to be handed a perfectly wrapped present by that one person you never expected to exchange gifts with. ...

 With Disrupt London right around the corner, we thought it’d be a good idea to check in with participants from past Startup Battlefield competitions to see what they’ve been up to si...

 After the U.S. and the U.K., Apple is about to launch Apple Pay in Canada tomorrow. The news was first spotted by iPhone in Canada. American Express is one of the launch partners, but it’s...

 Apple seemsto be using the Top Charts section of itsiPhone App Store to promote its own applications by listing apps like Numbers, Keynote, Pages, iMovie, and iTunes U, in higher positions than ...

 Brilliant Bicycle, the direct-to-consumer bike brand, has today announced kids’ bikes just in time for the holiday shopping season. Brilliant makes bikes in two full-size models, with a si...

 Although the term “selfie” has not yet been added to the official Oxford English Dictionary, the act of taking this particular type of photograph has certainly invaded popular cultur...

There are a lot of businesses that utilize mobile workers these days. Normally deskbound workers have become mobile workers as companies mobilize their workforces and, often, save on property costs.In...

 Luxe has become a popular valet parking service in various US cities because it sends valets to park for you, using an Uber-like app. They raised a $20M Series A last February and are now in mul...

 Ample Hills Creamery, a four-year-old, Brooklyn-based chain of ice cream shops that has become renowned for its unusual and decadent creations, has raised $4 million in funding from Brooklyn Bri...

 No sooner did I out Valk Fleet, Delivery Hero’s new B2B startup that lets take-outs and restaurants outsource delivery, another London competitor lands on my radar.Delivery Cube, which is ...

 Microsoft is ramping up its efforts to bring affordable Internet access to underserved parts of the globe with the launch of a new fund that will invest in companies thatare solving problems ass...

 French hardware startup Withings has released two smart-ish watches so far — the Activit and the Activit Pop. Today, the company is releasing a new model sitting between these two options,...

 One of the nice things about Instagram is that unlike the rest of the web, the platform is generally devoid ofannoying hyperlinks in posts and comments.However, while no hyperlinks make a cleane...

 Following on from last week’s news that Amazon would expand its Pantry household items delivery service to the UK while also discounting new Prime memberships in the country, the e-commerc...

 Imagine you’re 14 and in the next two years you’re going to have to make a decision about what higher education course you’ll do, if any. You go to your careers teacher, and in...

 Hewlett Packard Enterprise(HPE) is launching a slew of updates and new products related to containers at Docker’s developer conference in Barcelona today. Together, all of these amount to ...

 Going My Way? A new Uber feature allows drivers the ability to set a destination and pick up riders headed in that same direction. Drivers traveling across town or to and from places like Palo A...

 Ignite, the original speaker series held in hundreds ofcities throughout the world, is making a comeback. The original co-founder and head of Highway 1, Brady Forrest has reacquired Ignite from ...

 Ignite, the original speaker series held in hundreds of cities throughout the world, is making a comeback. The original co-founder and head of Highway 1, Brady Forrest, has reacquired Ignite fro...

 Apple CEO Tim Cook has told the The Irish Independent he has no plans to converge Cupertino’s lovingly crafted iPad and Macbook hardware lines into a hybrid tablet-plus-laptop device ̵...

 Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad danced around a question about building out payroll services at DisruptSF 2015. “I can’t announce anything about new products specifically, but you know pa...

 LoveCrafts, the crafting community, marketplace and e-commerce startup, has knitted together a $20 million Series B round. The funding is being led by Highland Europe, with participation from ex...

 In a move that may seem trivial, but could be indicative of the future, you can now buy paid-for stickers inside Facebook Messenger. Facebook itself isn’t leading offering stickers directl...

 CashKaro, which claims to be India’s largest cashback and coupon site, is planning to expand into new countries after raising a $3.8 million Series A from Kalaari Capital. Founded in 2013 ...

 Docker today announced three new security tools and features for containers at its DockerCon Europe conference in Barcelona. These tools are meant to make using containers safer without interrup...

 Bitnami is probably best known for making it easy to deploy web apps, services and development environments with just a few clicks. As developers start moving to containers, Bitnami, too, has to...

 President Obama’s recent extraction of a pledge from Chinese leader Xi Jinping that neither government would conduct or continue economic espionage in cyberspace, while important, still co...

 Apple has confirmed that it will open its first retail store in Southeast Asia, located in Singapore, as the U.S. phone maker begins to increase its efforts in the region’s fast-growing sm...

 As a driver of technical innovation for a software company, a huge part of my job depends on forecasting how current tech trends will play out, merge, dissipate or expand. Here are some of my pr...

 Welcome to the second edition of POCIT! Consider this: 87 percent of VC-backed founders are white and 83 percent of thefounding teams of those startups are all white, according to a 2010 CB Insi...

 Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, a three-year-old, seed-stage venture firm led by its founder and sole general partner, Charlie O’Donnell, is about to close its second fund with $15 million, up f...

 As terror attacks put Franceintoa national state of emergency on Friday, AirBnB, Facebook, Google, Skype, Twitter and Uber launched into disaster responsemode.AirBnB contacted all hosts in Paris...

 There are many visions of what our hyper-connected future might look like. We’re packaged countless variants on the shiny-techie-future vision theme every day as marketing departments lay ...

 STEM education and the maker movement have flooded our nation’s schools, making project-based learning much easier to mark off of the instructional “must do” checklist toward m...

 Freedom is critical to the economic engine of Silicon Valley, but laws are not often written to preserve it. A federal decision in October let consumers unlock cell phones, tinker with their tab...

 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg committed to turning on Safety Check in more human disasters going forward, responding to criticism that the companyturned on its safety feature for Paris but not fo...

 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg committed to turning on Safety Check in more human disasters going forward, responding to criticism that the companyturned on its safety feature for Paris but not fo...

 It’s tough to see at first glance that diversity matters in Portland, Oregon. After all, Portlandia is widely known as the “whitest city in America.” But hidden within this env...

 Before the robots replace us we will make love to them. This point is becoming increasingly clear as I wander through the odd world of teledildonics and marvel at the leaps and bounds by which t...

 People have long had a complicated relationship with their governments — a tension that is often exacerbated by government policies and processes that cannot keep pace with today’s o...

 As valuations continue to rise, early stage VCs are getting more “creative” with their deal structuring. In particular, I’ve seen a rise in requests for ESOP shares to be alloc...

 Selling is a competitive sport, and quota-seeking salespeople are the athletes of that sport: They are scored and compared, there are frontrunners and underdogs and there are winners and losers....

 After NY’s Attorney General ordered DraftKings and FanDuel to cease and desist all operations in the state, the two companies have responded, filing lawsuits seeking an injunction against ...

 When my Brilliant Bicycle arrived in the mail last week, I had a minor epiphany: I’ve never actually purchased a bike on my own before. When I was young my parents chose my bike, and thoug...

 If you want to work for GitHub, the software development collaboration hub built on the open source Git project, you have to be independent and able to work outside the confines of what most org...

 You probably don’t own a 3D printer yet. Like computers in the early 1980s, it’s an intriguing new technology that hasn’t quite found its place in the home. However, schools an...

 Evernotemade a name for itself as the platform where you couldstore your ideas and notes for life, and beyond. But the same permanence does not apply to the people who work there. We’ve co...

 I don’t care about valuations. But I do care about the tech industry as the most powerful means for the promulgation of new / cool / interesting / important technology; and the tremors run...

 More than a billion people do not have access to cellular networks, three billion people live without phones and five billion people do without Internet access. While billions became connected t...

 500px, the photography platform where users post and share, as well as buy and sell photos, has become the latest Western technology company to enter China. The Toronto-based startup launched a ...

 Hello friends, and welcome to the very last CrunchWeek. After a three-year run, this little show is over. Sometimes things change.Regardless, it was a pleasure to send off this particular ship i...

 Record companies, advertising firms, film studios, and television networks are all being forced to change the way they think about doing business in the age of the internet. Read More ...

 Mavrck, a startup that helps marketers recruit customers to create promotional content, has raised $5 million in Series A funding. There are plenty of other companies working on influencer marke...

Earlier this week, Apple Store employees at the Highpoint Shopping Centre in Melbourne, Australia asked a group of black students to leave the store because they worried they might “steal someth...

 Can you imagine a world where an entrepreneur could be sued for refusing to give up? A world where starting over could attract a lawsuit? We live in that world. It has happened before, and it wi...

 Pornhub, an internet web portal site for videos of people that are naked doing things, which I have never ever visited, ever, shared some interesting traffic. Speaking of things I don’t do...

 Snapchat recently launched selfie lenses after acquiring Looksery. Every day, a new lens is added and an old one is removed from the current lineup of seven. The company now also showcases aroun...

 A number of mobile app developers and industry observers recently noticed a significant change in the way the App Store’s search algorithms are returning results. Following a series of shi...

 “Virtual reality” according to Wikipedia:Virtual reality (VR), which can be referred to as immersive multimedia or computer-simulated life, replicates an environment that simulates p...

 CCP Games, the company behind the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game EVE Online, just raised another $30 million from Novator and NEA. But this time, the funding round isn’t abo...

 Instructure, the Utah-based educational technology company, went public on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday. After pricing at $16, shares were up 8 percent by early afternoon trading.Instru...

 Electric skateboards are cool — that’s official — but they come ten-a-penny these days. If you want to find a good one, China is the place to look. But don’t worry, we we...

 CoreOS, the company behind the popular lightweight Linux distribution for data center deployments with the same name, has recently made a big bet on containers. Today, the company is launching C...

 Wachwith, a startup offering an alternative to the standard pre-roll and mid-roll ads that delay or interrupt online videos, has raised $8 million in Series B funding. The company says its techn...

 This week saw headlines about the iPad Pro becoming available for pre-order, the New York strikedown of fantasy sports sites like FanDuel and DraftKings and a new Facebook app that could pose a ...

 More interesting developments for Digg, the Internet curation site founded way back in 2004 that was acquired and relaunched by Betaworks in 2012. The site has announced a “Series A”...

 Tim Armstong has had a busy year. Back in May, AOL (owner of TechCrunch) got acquired by giant U.S. carrier Verizon for $4.4 billion. While AOL is now a subsidiary of Verizon, Armstrong said tha...

 Google today is expanding its Local Guides program – the company’s answer to Yelp’s Elites, which encourages and rewards users for providing information on area businesses, inc...

 What would happen if a hacker edited a major news website to falsely report an anthrax attack in Times Square? Even if the site removed the story within minutes, it already would have been repos...

 Varsity Tutors, the platform that connects elite tutors with students, has just closed a $50 million Series B funding round led by Technology Crossover Ventures and Adam Levine, frontman for Mar...

 Amazon is today expanding its grocery delivery options for U.K. consumers with the launch of its Amazon Pantry service to Prime subscribers in the U.K. The service allows shoppers to fill a box ...

 It was bound to happen. Now that Apple Music is available on Android, Apple is going to shut down its other music streaming service, Beats Music. The company will automatically cancel all subscr...

White Star Capital, which bides its time between London, New York and Montreal, has been active in the market for a couple of years, but until now has not ‘opened the kimono’ much on its b...

 We’ve extended the deadline, you’ve procrastinated. That’s okay, but now is the time to act as today is the last day to get early bird tickets to Disrupt London before the pric...

 GetYourGuide, which plays in the global travel space with a desktop and mobile platform for finding and booking holiday activities, has announced it’s closed a $50 million Series C round, ...

 Calling all fintech startups, Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten is keen on you… so keen that it has officially launched a $100 million fund dedicated to supporting startups in the financia...

 Remember that one time like three trailers ago when JJ Abrams suggested they were done releasing new Star Wars: The Force Awakens footage?Yeaaaah, not so much. Another Star Wars TV trailer just ...

 Ola, India’s homegrown rival to Uber, is branching out into a totally new vertical after it made Ola Money, its in-app payment service, available as a standalone app. Read More ...

 Tonight Ashley Mayer who runs PR at Box, announced in a Medium post that she was leaving the company after six years for a new job running brand and talent at Social Capital.Mayer, who went to h...

 Facebook Messenger is testing out self-destructing messages. Currently available for some users in France, the feature allows people to send messages that vanish in an hour. BuzzFeed first repor...

 Cobalt is a private aircraft manufacturer launching its first two models today. The fully-certified Co50 Valkyrie and its experimental version, the Valkyrie-X, are available for pre-order starti...

 Senators and House representatives this week are calling on Congress to act on bills that would limit location tracking and phone surveillance after the Supreme Court decided not to hear a cell ...

 The internets lit up today when someone posted a photo of a cop talking to someone in a self-driving car. Yep, it got pulled over. Why? According to Google, it was going too slow. According to t...

 Woe betide traditional banking because Dimitry Voloshinskiy and his team are on the prowl. Voloshinskiy is the founder of the NextBank Project, an attempt to create a truly bitcoin-based bank. T...

 In what will go down as the best example of a crowdfunded media project ever in the entire known universe forever, the team that put together the original Mystery Science Theatre 3000 are about ...

 Just 24 hours after developers of the popular screen brightness app f.lux released a side-loaded version for iOS, Apple has told the developers that they are in violation of the company’s ...

 This week, Fiverr, an online market for small services, announced $60 million in new financing led by Square Peg Capital. Earlier backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Accel Partners and Qumra Capi...

 It’s something of a rule: if a cool thing exists in a video game or movie, someone will (try to) make it real.Bioshock’s Big Daddy. Wolverine’s Claws. Thor’s Hammer.And n...

 Watchmaker Fossil Group said today it would acquire Misfit, which creates various wearable and sleep trackers in addition to a health-tracking platform, for $260 million. Sonny Vu, CEO of Misfit...

 Following today’s launch of the anticipated YouTube Music application, music video streaming app Vevo, which distributes videos to YouTube and counts Google as an investor, is also introdu...

 Psychotherapists help people discover the root cause of symptoms like anxiety and depression by bringing attention to issues and patterns that may lie outside of awareness. These things may be d...

 Democrats are spending too much time defending Wall Street and traditional cab companies than, for example, acknowledging how empowering the peer-to-peer revolution is for Uber drivers or Airbnb...

 Twitter tweeted out a new toy for you to play with for video called “ScratchReel.” Basically, it lets you scrub a short GIF back and forth for cool effects.Check it out here (to see ...

 Today YouTube launched an official music app. With YouTube Music, you’ll get a new experience, designed to make discovering music on YouTube easier. This doesn’t come as a huge surpr...

 Google launched an upgrade to its Google Play Books store for Android today that will make it easier to read comics on your phone and tablet. The company also today introduced personalized comic...

 Hired, a jobs marketplace for “knowledge workers,” thinks it has struck on a new way to grow its business: by adding freelancers to it roster. It’s “not a big shift from ...

 Just yesterday, Tinder launched an update that adds employment/education information into the user’s profile as well as a revamped inbox, placing new matches in the top bar and current con...

 Zuck says VR is the future and Facebook is wasting no time building it into the News Feed and starting to make money off it. By embracing the format, Facebook can stay fresh for consumers by off...

 The company that built the “computer in the cloud” from scratch to take the heavy lifting away from our devices, Upthere, has launched their apps into beta, letting in those who sign...

 From the team who brought you Mindie, One Cash is a new payment app for iOS, but with a twist. This time, it isn’t about paying back your friends like countless of other apps. It’s a...

 Gifs are a diverse bunch, there’s onelike ten million for everything you could ever think of but they’re pretty hard to find and the process for posting them is a little harder than ...

 As more consumers shift to using online services for managing their banking, bills, payments, and more, some of our most important personal and financial documents are scattered across a number ...

 Soon, you may see a warning in Gmail that tells you that an email has arrived over an unencrypted connection. Gmail already defaults to using HTTPS for the connections between your browser and i...

 You’ve probably been watching music videos on YouTube since its inception. The platform has also served as the go-to place for wannabe musicians to be found, but it’s never catered t...

 Eight years ago, Aaron Batalion and three friends created a Facebook app called “Hungry Machine.” It was pretty successful…so successful that it turned into LivingSocial, which...

 Eight years ago, Aaron Batalion and three friends created a Facebook app called “Hungry Machine.” It was pretty successful…so successful that it turned into LivingSocial, which...

 Oops!A number of users have been reporting error messages and other issues with softwaredownloaded from the Mac App Store that prevented them from using their apps. The warnings prompted them to...

 CES is a horrible, god-awful experience that will shave years off your life. The casinos, the food, the people, the germs. Horrible. All of it. But we love it! And we’re sending a huge con...

 As text messaging takes over of more and more my communication, I find myself on more and more long, complicated chats where I’m trying to plan and coordinate with multiple people. Now a s...

 Another day, another massive tech conference in Europe. This time we’re in Helsinki for the annual Slush conference, where 15,000 people wander around what appears to be a dark, laser-lit ...

 Today at its big Airbnb Open conference, Airbnb announced a few new tools to help hosts. The company tackles every step when it comes to becoming a host, from pricing to making sure your guests ...

 Everybody knows hiring is difficult for tech companies. The Huffington Post called the shortage “devastating,” and the Obama administration’s Council of Advisors on Science and...

 Downtown Detroit has a new ISP: Rocket Fiber is today detailing its upcoming fiber optic internet service, which it brags are 1,000 times faster than the current average internet connectivity in...

 It’s been two years since the launch ofProduct Hunt as a listicle for discovering tech products. Today the sitegets a brand new design to reflect the addition of games, podcasts, books, co...

 Spotify’s ability to personalize its music recommendations is getting another big boost today, with the launch of a new feature that will now point its users to area concerts they may like...

 The Cyanogen flavor of open Android is getting a little carrier love in Europe, with Spain’s Telefonica launching its first handset powered by the mobile OS today, the BQ Aquaris X5, on it...

 E-commerce company Shopify is launching a new app called Sello. Sello product director Christopher Lobay said that even thoughShopify has made it easier for businesses to build online stores, it...

 E-commerce company Shopify is launching a new app called Sello. Sello product director Christopher Lobay said that even thoughShopify has made it easier for businesses to build online stores, it...

 When Applecombined their iOS and Mac developer programs a few months ago, the company alsoquietly dropped the requirement that you had to be a registered developer toload apps from Xcode to your...

 Microsoft has a big Windows 10 boostout today. The company is calling it the “first major update” to Windows 10 for both normal PCs, and tablets. At its most basic, Microsoft wants t...

 Putting children, let alone anyone who can’t fend for themselves, into harm’s way is a monstrosity. Every single day, media of all types, photos and videos being the most prominent, ...

 Eyefi, the makers of cloud-connected mobile SD cards for photographers, has today announced the acquisition of OkDoThis. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. OkDoThis is an app that launche...

 It’s challengingfor a fast-growing small business to offergreatcustomer service while continuing to increase sales at a rapid rate. It would probably go more smoothly if the two department...

 New Relic is launching a new analytics component for its application and server monitoring suite today that allows developers to drill even deeper into the data their code (and users) generate. ...

 Alibaba Group reaped $14.3 billion in sales during Singles’ Day, a 54 percent increase from last year’s tally of $9.3 billion. The most significant number from yesterday’s annu...

 Lenovo is through a difficult last quarter, in which it laid off 3,200 staff and wrote off $300 million in unsold smartphones, in which it realized its first loss for more than six years. Read M...

Disrupt London is right around the bend. The show is set to kick off in a few weeks and we’re excited today to reveal the agenda. We couldn’t be more thrilled. The lineup is amazing and we...

 On-demand transportation serviceUber lost out on its joint bid for Nokia’s Here mapping unit, soit’s moving ahead with putting together its own navigation, mapping and location servi...

 Making art more accessible to blind and visually impaired people is founder Marc Dillon’s new mission. After almost a quarter century working in the mobile industry — latterly at alt...

 The speakers for our TechCrunch Disrupt London conference on December 7-8, 2015 are many and varied. However, perhaps only two can boast the status of being living legends at this point. This wi...

 Mozilla has been testing an iOS version of its popular web browser since September, and now Firefox for iOS is available publicly to anyone in possession of an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Read M...

 Hackbright Academy, the 12-week computer science program that trains women to become software engineers, has a new chief executive officer. Effective today, ScaleVP partner Sharon Wienbar is tak...

 Google is finally adding cellular connectivity to Android Wear, its operating software for smartwatches and wearables, in a move that could reduce a user’s dependence on their phone. Read ...

 Reddit has replaced shadowbans, which made posts from users who broke the site’s rules invisible, with account suspensions. The community, which gets about 25 million unique visitors per m...

 Eventboard, a company that provides software to make conference rooms more efficient, may be based in Salt Lake City, Utah, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t found its way into the gut...

 Looking for an untapped market for a great new investment? Try 50.4 percent of the population. Today, women are the largest emerging investible class across the globe. Only 2.7 percent of ventur...

 Metaphors about textual dark matter or a “Shadow” ebook industry actually fail to capture the dramatic nature of what is happening. Perhaps it would be better to say that a new, para...

 Facebook revealedit received 23% more requests from law enforcement between January and June 2015 than in the second half of 2014. From January to June 2015, Facebook received a total of 17,577 ...

 Today,AngelPad—a seed-stage incubator program thatprovides mentorship, seed money, and networking during two,10-week courses each year—held its ninth “demo day”day to dat...

 After a major victory in the United States, Apple is facing an another threat to its encryption efforts on a different front: the United Kingdom. Though the Cupertino-based tech giant typically ...

 NextVR, a startup that promises to give consumersrich VR experiences forlive events has raised a $30.5 million Series A led by Formation 8 the WSJ reports.Notably the raise was also participated...

 In response to calls for stronger action on hosts that aren’t casual users, Airbnb said it would start sharing some datawith governments andgetting hosts to agree to a policy of listing on...

 Imgur is the most popular startup no one talks about. The image sharing and upvoting site has a stunning 150 million monthly usersthat view 60 billion memes, Cat GIFS, sob stories, and science e...

 A few weeks ago I wrote about Pypestream, a startup promising to an alternative the often frustrating customer service experience. At the time, founder and CEO Richard Smullen was being a little...

 Fast food restaurant In-N-Out, known for its delicious burgers and secret sauce, is suing food delivery startup DoorDash, TMZ reported earlier today.In-N-Out, which filed the lawsuit on Nov. 6, ...

 Apple is in talks with banks to launch a mobile payments service, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The product would compete with Venmo, the mobile peer-to-peer service from P...

 A few months ago, I shared with my friends how I think apps like Magic and Operator are going to be the next big thing. What makes them special is that they don’t use a traditional UI as a...

 So, let’s say you want to give Firefox OS — the mobile OS made by the same people who make the browser — a try. Until now, that’s meant either buying one of a small handf...

 Safeway grocery stores dropped a $350 million deal with Theranos, according to the Wall Street Journal. Theranos put out a statement today disputing the Journal’s report but failed once ag...

 Marten Mickos discusses leadership lessons, the evolution of open source and the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Europe. Read More ...

 Marten Mickos discusses leadership lessons, the evolution of open source and the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Europe. Read More ...

 Now in its 6th year, the NY FinTech Innovation Labis looking for another batch of FinTech startups that want todisrupt Wall Street.Cofounded by Accenture and the Partnership Fund for New York Ci...

 ClassPass, the fitness startup that lets you pay $125 for unlimited fitness classes from dozens of gyms and boutiques, has just confirmed to TechCrunch that it raised $30 million in Series C fun...

 The world’s most prestigious startup accelerator Y Combinator published a guide to founding companies called The Startup Playbook. Here are the top tips from YC’s president Sam Altma...

 Roku recently addressedthe needs of those looking for a premium media player to complement their new, 4K TV with the launch of the Roku 4, but now the company is moving to the other end of the s...

 With California on a precipice of a ballot initiative next year that could legalize marijuana recreationally, scores of cannabis startups are vying to capture what is the nation’s largest ...

 The Valley is a space, like the battlefield, that rewards speed, decisiveness, risk taking and adaptability. Technology is an operating environment that, like the operating environments of Bosni...

 Facebook’s filtered News Feed was never very good at real-time news. So today Facebook released Notify, an app for reading customizable breaking news, info, and entertainment push notifica...

 The Apple TV is getting a notable new game today. This morning, Disney announced the launch ofits highly anticipated Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition for Apple TV. This “toys-to-life” gam...

 Udacity, the codingeducation service, has sprouteda magical horn.The company announced on Wednesdayit had raised a $105 million Series D round. Withatotal valuation of$1 billion, the company has...

 In honor of Veterans Day, we’ve put together a group of up-and-coming startups that were all founded byveterans. While the companies range from non-profits to mobile apps, allhave founders...

 Earlier this year, Neoneannounced its plans to launcha private social network based on a smallhardware appliance called the Neobase. The original Neobase Kickstarter didn’t succeed, but in...

 A Santa Clara, Ca.-based company called Diamond Foundry is this morningtaking the wraps off what it’s been creating over the last three years: the ability to produce diamonds. In Santa Cla...

 Pulling a 3D print out of your printer is usually a process fraught with conflict. Who will do it? Can you hire someone? Why does it have to be so painful? Has the deity abandoned us Earth peopl...

 When we first met Oliver the app was just entering its first phase of development it basically allowed apartment owners and house hunters to come together in a marriage born of carnal desire and...

 AppGyver has made a name for itself with developers tools and frameworks like Steroids and Supersonic for building mobile apps. With Composer, the company also launched a simple drag-and-drop to...

 Eyefluence, a company that has created a unique eye tracking system for use with today’s virtual reality/augmented reality headsets, emerged from stealth today with a $14 million Series B ...

 Fintech, the (faintly uncool) term for financial technology, is booming these days. But it’s wrong to think of fintech as a single sector. There are two very distinct types of fintech inno...

 When John Hampton was preparing to leave the Army, he was excited about a career in technology. But he was disappointedto learn that the G.I. Bill wouldn’t enable him to attend a code boot...

 Worried that Google has too much of your personal data, thanks to the way it has pried into your life over the years as you steadily adopted more of its services, ranging from search to email to...

 Hello friends, and welcome back to Bullish, TechCrunch’s first talk show.This week we’re talking about journalism, leaving it, and what happens when you come back. The move from jour...

 In little more than three months, the NFL’s historic 50th Super Bowl is coming to Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Just when we were in the depths of planning our dip-to-ch...

 Heaps, an app that helps friend groups connect with other groups and find parties, is expanding beyond its home country of Denmark by launching in Los Angeles. The startup is also announcing tha...

 HackerOne, the bug bounty platform, announced today that it has hiredMrten Mickos as CEO. He was formerly an HP executive and CEO at Eucalyptus and MySQL. Mickos replaces co-founder Merijn Terhe...

 Startupbootcamp, the primarily European network of business accelerators, is opening their second U.S. accelerator. The New York-based program is the accelerator network’s third program to...

 As people start to pair off in preparation for cuffing season, Tinder, the dating app to rule them all, is making some significant changes to how the app looks and the way it works, releasing a ...

 CircleUp, an AngelList-style crowdfunding platform thatconsumer retail businesses like food companies use to raise moneyfrom outside investors, is announcing some funding of its own today. The c...

 Paintzen, having spent the last two years bringing paint into the on-demand economy, is today announcing a new partnership with Benjamin Moore. Benjamin Moore will now be the official paint supp...

 Facebook is facing fines of 250,000 per day unless it alters the operation of tracking cookies in Belgium after a data protection court ruling. Facebook has said it will be appealing. Read More ...

/* */ “PCs are going to be like trucks. They are still going to be around, they’re still going to have a lot of value, but they’re only going to be used by one out of x people.”...

 Metaphors about textual dark matter or a “Shadow” ebook industry actually fail to capture the dramatic nature of what is happening. Perhaps it would be better to say that a new, para...

 We recently highlighted the rise of the corporate venture investor but might the same be said of corporate accelerators and incubators? If ‘disrupt or be disrupted’ is the Internet-a...

 French startup CodinGame just raised $1.6 million from Isai for its innovative code learning platform. As the name suggests, CodinGame is all about games — not game development, not gamifi...

 Microsoft has moved to dispel European mistrust of U.S.-operated cloud services by announcing a plan to offer cloud services, including Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online, from data cente...

 It’s been hard to define exactly what Improbable, the London-based company that raised $20 million from Andreessen Horowitz in March, does up until now, but its vision is clearer after it ...

 Bango, a mobile payments company basedin the UK that provides techto app stores and carriers so that consumers can charge app store purchases directly to their phone bills, has raised another 11...

 The iPad Pro is now available to pre-order on Apple’s website. People who pre-order today will receive their iPad Pro on Friday November 13. If they opt for free delivery instead, the iPad...

 We gave you one extra week to get in on early bird tickets to Disrupt London, but if you still haven’t purchased your tickets to the hottest startup show in Europe, your time is quickly ru...

 The Finnish economy, which has contracted for three years in a row, is still reeling, but the country’s rising startup scene is a careful indication that Finland – the land of a thou...

 We’re barely halfway through Single’s Day, China’s largest online shopping day, but already the records are tumbling. Read More ...

 There’s good news for Uber in Korea, where it has reopened its Uber Black private car service in the country after nearly a year of uncertainty. Read More ...

 Some pretty notable updates for Periscope, the live broadcasting service owned by Twitter, just dropped today. Included among the new goodies for users of Periscope for iOS is teleporting, a fea...

 The league of taxi apps rivaling Uber is alive and well after GrabTaxi, the SoftBank-backed company that rivals the U.S. firm in Southeast Asia, became the latest Uber competitor to introduce a ...

 While Airbnbdukes it out with local regulatorsandfights off encroaching rivals, the company continues to look at ways ofincreasing the margins that it makes around its accommodation service andi...

 Over the last 18 months, those of us following the venture and startup space have gone on a rollercoaster ride of mega rounds, unicorns, sky-high valuations and bubble fears. Look beyond the hyp...

 There are few traditional businesses that investor Chamath Palihapitiya isn’t interested in disrupting. At a StrictlyVC event in September, he talked about raising a multibillion real esta...

 PeerSpace, ashort-term meeting space reservations marketplace, has announced a $5 million Series A round of financing led by Foundation Capital to propel growth. Existing investor Structure Capi...

 Another day, another new VC fund closes in Europe. This time it’s the turn of Helsinki-headquartered Open Ocean, backer of startups such as Truecaller and EyeEm. Read More ...

 Another day, another new VC fund closes in Europe. This time it’s the turn of Helsinki-headquartered Open Ocean, backer of startups such as Truecaller and EyeEm. Read More ...

 Today, the NY Attorney General dropped a bomb on daily fantasy sports sites like FanDuel and DraftKings. Sites like them have been categorized as “illegal gambling sites” and have or...

 Today, the NY Attorney General dropped a bomb on daily fantasy sports sites like FanDuel and DraftKings. Sites like them have been categorized as “illegal gambling sites” and have or...

 Kapor Capital, in partnership with Google for Entrepreneurs and Village Capital, hosted a pitch competition earlier today in Oakland, California, for startupsthat are working on revamping the ol...

 Tacos. Emojis. Tacos + Emojis. That’s what Taco Bell rolled out to Twitter yesterday. They called it the “#TacoEmojiEngine.” What's #TacoEmojiEngine? Tweet us a + any other...

 iHeartMedia, maker of the iHeartRadio streaming music app, is launching a new app called iHeartRadio Family. The app includesmusic and radio stations selected specifically for kids ages four to ...

 This week’s Cribs episode takes us to Minted, an online marketplace of independent artists and designers. Minted hangs its headquarters shingle in San Francisco’s historic Jackson Sq...

 Pluto TV, a video streaming service targeting cord cutters, has differentiated itself from other over-the-top competitors like Netflix by offering a more TV-like experience with over 100 “...

 With its Docker Registry and Container Engine, Google has made a big bet on containers for its Cloud Platform this year. Today, the company is launching updates to both of these services.The Con...

 Dear Gmail: Two years ago, you launched an ambitious endeavor with Schema.org to bring a new level of richness to email. Schema.org allowed senders to embed rich meta data in email that allowed ...

 Watching Netflix on your phone is a great way to blast through some spare time — but it’s also a great way to blast through your monthly allotment of data in no time flat. T-Mobile i...

 HotelTonight CEO Sam Shank (pictured above) said the hotel booking startup laid off 37 employees today, 20 percent of its total workforce. Shank described the cuts as “a strategic movement...

 Reflected in our glazed-over eyes, pretty images dance with ads in between. If that sounds like television, you’ll understand why marketers are so excited about Instagram’s coming of...

 It doesn’t matter if a stream is live if you don’t hear about it before it’s over. So today Facebook got more serious about its “Live”streaming feature and competin...

 It doesn’t matter if a stream is live if you don’t hear about it until after it’s over. So today Facebook got more serious about its “Live” streaming feature and co...

 Want to develop an app for the newly released Apple TV? Of course you do. Not sure how to get started? Apple is touring the globe for “Apple TV Tech Talks” which promise to get you r...

 Breaches happen the way Hemingway said you go bankrupt: gradually then suddenly. There is no telling where and when a hacker can enter your servers and there is no telling when or where all of y...

 Earlier this year, Google announced that it would still support Chrome on Windows XP through the end of 2015. The end of 2015 is getting closer and as Google announced today, so is the end ofChr...

 Peer-to-peer payments are a big thing these days. I pay you, you pay me, and never the banks shall touch your cash. Billon, a Polish fintech company, is doing their own flavor of P2P by connecti...

 It has often been said that every company is a software company or even abig data company, but as I attended the Intel Capital Global Summit last week, another thought occurred to me: every comp...

 Today, investor Megan Quinn shared that she’d be joining Spark Capital as a general partner for its growth stage fund (its first), which we covered last year. Quinn stepped down from KPCB ...

 Google, like most tech companies, has a long road ahead in regards to increasing diversity, and fostering inclusion and belonging. Here are the latest stats around Google’s workforce: 30% ...

 When Craig Shapiro and his team at Collaborative Fund are making investments, they don’t exactly ignore the devil on their shoulders. They look for companies that fall somewhere in the nex...

 Two former Naval Engineers are trying to turn construction management on its head. Stanford Graduate School of Business alumniZachary Scheel and Drew DeWalt are behind Rhumbix, a company whose p...

 Delivery companies have finally realized the importance of rolling before learning to fly. While autonomous quadcopter and other airborne drones have been in vogue over the past few years, auton...

 In the latest sign that some tech startups are overvalued, Fidelity has written down the value of its stake in Snapchat by 25%, according to a report by Morningstar. Fidelity participated in Sna...

 The days when GPUs were only about letting you play Crysis with a higher framerate are long over. Many of the most transformative new computational techniques now rely on GPUs’ ability to ...

 Tumblr today has launched a feature that its user base has wanted for some time: messaging. The blogging platform has long offered an inbox feature and way for its users to ask each other questi...

 Today, Apple Music comes to Android phones. It’s the first user-centric app that Apple has created for Android (but not its first). As people download and dissect it, they’ll doubtle...

 Speaking at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco today, Twitter’s SVP of Product, Kevin Weil, shared with the crowd that the new hearts aren’t stopping activity. In fact, the acti...

 When I first heard about Pillow Talk, the wearable device that lets you stream the sound of your heartbeat to a loved one’s pillow, I couldn’t decide if it was bonkers, genius or som...

 Jumping in the ring with Warby Parker, sunglass and luxury goods brand Illesteva is launching its first optical line that will not be sold direct to consumer online. Illesteva launched in 2010 b...

 “What’s your sign?” The question has found itself on one too many “Horrible Pick-Up Lines” lists, but in reality most people who start dating, whether they consider...

 Three men were charged in a 23-count indictment in connection with the 2014 hacking of J.P. Morgan Chase and multiple other financial institutions. Gery Shalon and Ziv Orenstein were first arres...

 Hardware Battlefield is back! We’re excited to announce that for the third year in a row, TechCrunch is hosting a startup competition at CES that focuses on hardware companies. We want to ...

 As we reported earlier, you can now pre-order your Samsung Gear VR. It’s a device that’s going to unlock virtual reality for a lot of consumers, even though it requires a Samsung pho...

 Amazon’s debut of its restaurant delivery service through its one-hour delivery app Prime Now, is no longer looking like an experiment. Since its debut in Seattle this September, the compa...

 It is widely acknowledged that the Internet of Things (IoT) will have a huge impact on nearly every industry, and financial services is no exception. Gartner estimates that connected devices wil...

 It’s hard to believe, but freighttruckoperatorslogged astunning 54 billion miles in theU.S. last year without carrying anyinventory, according to industry data.The reason: theywere trying ...

 If you weren’t busy drinking coffee or staring out the window yesterday you could have seen Tag Heuer launch their new Android Wear device, the Carrera Connected. The watch has a handsome ...

 How much time are you losing every week looking for your child’s cuddly toy before they go to bed? Meet Oliba, a smart toy tracker that has a few tricks up its sleeve. Like key finder devi...

 How much time are you losing every week looking for your child’s cuddly toy before they go to bed? Meet Oliba, a smart toy tracker that has a few tricks up its sleeve. Like key finder devi...

 Just ahead of the Slush tech confab in Helsinki this week, 500 Startups has revealed plans for its latest regional fund: the startup investment group is raising a new microfund of $15 milli...

 Fuhu, the company that makes thenabi tablets for kids – the ones with you immediately recognize thanks to their thick, red bumper – is today expanding into the world of wearables wit...

 Starting on Thursday, you will be able to play 104 games on your Xbox One that were previously only available on the Xbox 360. Games include Fable II, Fallout 3, Gears of War games and more. All...

 It’s 8am and you’re in your garage. You have to head into a different direction today, but you can’t fire up Google Maps until you’ve left the garage, because you’r...

 It’s 8am and you’re in your garage. You have to head into a different direction today, but you can’t fire up Google Maps until you’ve left the garage, because you’r...

 The second generation of the Samsung Gear will only cost $100 and can now be pre-ordered from Best Buy. This is the device that could make or break virtual reality. Like the previous version, wi...

 Gett ride-sharing platform has spent years now trying to gimmick its way into the same competitive ring as Uber. Last summer, Gett offered flat $10 rides anywhere within Manhattan. But today the...

 Just before Veterans Day, Uber and Lyft are teaming up with the U.S. government to offer free transportation to former military men and womenwho lack a way to get to jobs and interviews. Lack of...

 French startup Frichti is getting involved in the food delivery wars. The company just raised $1.1 million (1 million) from Alven Capital with an approach that has been getting more popular rece...

 Schoology, the learning management system that focuses on cloud collaboration, has today announced the close of a $32 million Series D financing led by JMI Equity, with participation from existi...

 Chinese internet firm Tencent announced its latest financial results today, but one of the standout figures isn’t a financial stat. It’s that its messaging services, which include bl...

 Adobe is giving customers access to more data with the launch of a new product, the Audience Marketplace. The company already offers the similarly named Audience Manager, where customers can bri...

 Some startups recognize that design is an investment rather than a cost, and one that yields better results in the long run if incorporated into a business from inception.At a recent Kleiner Per...

 Bluebox Security, the security software developer providing protection for mobile business applications,is extending itsproduct offering to include consumer-facing apps as well.Now the company&#...

 Home24, the Rocket Internet-founded online European furniture store, has acquired competitor Fashion For Home, another German company most comparable to the U.K.’s Made.com. Specific terms...

 Apple may be killing it in China with the iPhone, but the U.S. firm faces a pretty impressive young competitor in the smartwatch space on Chinese soil. It isn’t running Android, but there ...

 China is turning the keen gaze of its beady censorship eye to the world of online music as part of its latest crackdown on the Internet. Read More ...

 South Korean startup Naran launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo today for a smart button meant to control analog devices rangingfrom speakers to your crock pot. Called Microbot Push, th...

 Blame it on Hollywood. So many people have seen science-fiction movies about robots taking over the world that they’ve started to believe it’s happening. Many workers are worried tha...

 Despite the headlines you may see today, President Obama already has a verified Facebook page. It’s this one: facebook.com/barackobama/. Obama launched another Facebook page for himself to...

 A federal judge called President Obama to immediately end the bulk collection of Americans’ phone metadata, just weeks before the program is scheduled to end. The decision from Judge Richa...

 Apple has kicked off iPad Pro marketing with ads airing tonight during Monday Night Football. Pun intended. The spots use a galactic theme similar to the one we saw during the iPad Pro event bac...

 Earlier today, we sat down with Rich Miner, a serial entrepreneur who may bebest-known for cofounding a company called Android, which was acquired by Google a decade ago and then relegated to th...

 Overstock.com reported third quarter earnings after the bell Monday. The Utah-based discount e-tailer reported a quarterly loss of 8 cents per share or $2.1 million, down from $1.6 million in pr...

 There’s been much speculation lately about who’s behind the mysterious electric car company Faraday Future, based in Gardena, California. While some believe it to be a front for Appl...

 On the heels of Facebook’s announcement last week that they had surpassed 8 billion daily video views, Snapchat confirmed to the FT over the weekendthat users of the ephemeral messaging ap...

 In the face of rising U.S. income inequality and concerns about job loss to automation, some of Silicon Valley’s best-known names including Y Combinator’s Sam Altman have spoken up i...

 Following the bell, Rackspace announced its third-quarter financial results, including revenue of $509 million and earnings per share of $0.26. The market had expected Rackspace to report $0.20 ...

 People often ask me how I went from building multiple companies in ad tech, music tech, data analytics and mobile advertising to being a lending fund manager. It didn’t happen overnight. I...

 We are busy and lazy, so we forget to send friends the photos we take of them. But Facebook Messenger’s newest feature Photo Magic scans your newly taken photos with facial recognition, an...

 Journalist Zak Stone recently published a gripping, thought-provoking account of his father’s death while staying at an Airbnb rental in Texas. As told by Stone, his family was staying tog...

 Only about 6 percent of the country’s biggest cities are planning for or thinking about autonomous vehicles or self-driving cars in their long-range transportation plans,accordingto the Na...

 Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Birchbox, Spotify, HBO NOW, newspapers, box of the month clubs, meal services, and more: The rise ofsubscription-based commercemeans consumers nowpay for a number of...

 We are in the midst of a tectonic shift in enterprise technology as the cloud has an ever-growing impact on how businesses provision infrastructure and software. Established vendors used to sell...

 Earlier this year, Google announced its so-called Expeditions Pioneer Program. This projectaims to bring Google’s Cardboard VR viewer to students by bringing a full kit of gear forusing vi...

 Twitch, the Amazon-owned video game streamingsite, stumbled into an incredible source of new traffic when it kicked off the launch of its “Twitch Creative,” section at the end of las...

 Another software company has filed to go public: Atlassian, the company behindenterprise-focused socialproducts like Slack competitor HipChat, JIRA, and Confluence, has filed an F-1 form with th...

 Tag Heuer has just officially announced their new luxury smart watch called the Carrera Connected. The company’s CEO Jean-Claude Biver let slip a few details of the watch this morning, in ...

 The beauty of GoPro cameras come from their versatility. They can be mounted nearly anywhere in countless positions. But that often takes time. This little device solves that problem.Meet Slopes...

 H2O is an open source platform for data scientistsand developers who need a fast machine learning engine for their applications. H2O.ai, the company behind the service, today announced that it h...

 The iPad helped introducethe concept of interactive books, where stories are accompanied by games and other tappable animations to complement their tales. But a company calledHullabaluoffers a t...

 “Fintech” is one of this year’s most ubiquitous buzzwords; it has spawned any number of colorful infographics about the future of finance and banking. Some of these are merely ...

 Deliv is announcing the acquisition of another same-day delivery service, Zipments. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Deliv works with retailers like Best Buy and Macy’s, as well as sta...

 Google says today it’s making the machine learning technology that powers a number of its products, including Google Photos search, speech recognition in the Google app, and the newly laun...

 Israel is a small country with a thriving security startup industry, and Microsoft appears to be have a taste for them. Today it announced an agreement to buySecure Islands, its third Israeli se...

 As anyone who has ever been in court knows, lawsuits are often a long, tedious process. This is especially true with lengthy personal injury litigation,during which the injured party is often un...

 Ever wanted a giant iPad? Well, the 12.9-inch iPad Pro will be available for purchase in 40 country’s starting on Wednesday, November 11. It will first be available online with retail stor...

 Dublin-based WhatClinic — a healthcare comparison site for dental, plastic surgery and cosmetic treatments — has acquired the U.K. dental booking site Toothpick. Read More ...

 CB Insights, anearly six-year-old, New York-based research company whose private company research has become oft-cited in media reports about the startup industry, has raised $10 million in Seri...

 Hong Kong is to be the location for a new center of innovation from famed tech-focused U.S. university MIT. Read More ...

 Xiaomi’s much-speculated second wearable device is now official, after the Chinese company unveiled the Mi Band Pulse. Read More ...

 It’s not another massive enterprise merger, but two of the biggest companies whose equipment and technology underpina lot of our communicationsnetworks today are now teaming up: Ericsson a...

 It’s not another massive enterprise merger, but two of the biggest companies whose equipment and technology underpina lot of our communicationsnetworks today are now teaming up. Ericsson a...

 Opera today announced that its Opera Max data-management appis now integrated into phones from 14 OEMs. These include previously announced partners like Samsung and Xiaomi, as well as three newl...

 You’ve likely heard of the Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, Espys, and even the Crunchies. But it’s entirely possible you’ve never heard of the Breakthrough Prize Awards, which honor the ...

 Shahed Khan is a kind of VC wunderkind at the moment. At age 20, he isn’t away at college or living with his parents but instead working as an entrepreneur-in-residence with a noted team o...

 Shahed Khan is a kind of VC wunderkind at the moment. At age 20, while many of his peers are either attendingcollege or living with theirparents, he’sworking as an entrepreneur-in-residenc...

 The concept of virtual reality (VR) has been around for several decades. Largely ignored by mainstream computing until about four years ago, VR technology has leapt to computing’s center s...

 Beacon marketing company inMarketis unveiling a new technology that it calls Quantum Receptivity, which it says can helpmarketersfigure out when they should show an ad to a shopper and have the ...

 There’s a misconception in Silicon Valley that there aren’t enough talented black people to hire. My intention with this weekly series, People of Color in Tech (POCIT), to highlight ...

 We — humanity, that is — created 4.4 zettabytes of data last year. This is expected to rise to 44 zettabytes by 2020. And no, I didn’t make up the word “zettabytes.”...

 Trying to wade through the noise and hype that surrounds VR can be overwhelming, but there are clear real-world uses that make the future of the technology exciting. Lucid flew through that nois...

 Internet founders believe the best role for government is competitive and direct funding for non-government agencies to solve social problems, whether it’s these parent-run public charter ...

 You might be about to see companies like Facebook, Google and many others whose business models depend on using their customers’ data, scramble in the wake of a case currently in front of ...

 The long arm of the law wants ever more eyes, if you’ll pardon the gruesome metaphor. The UK government recently unveiled an attempt to legalize “draconian state surveillance powers....

 Remember the Robotic Dragonfly? The little drone was an early crowdfunding success story, netting over a $1 million in pledges on Indiegogo in 2012. At the time, it was one of the first crowdfun...

 Seed rounds are all about the sizzle, the exciting promise of the future if things go as dreamed. Risk is high — but the reward, if it works, is far greater. Smart people with great ideas ...

 It must violate the laws of physics. It must be dangerous. It must be impossible. This is what critics have concluded despite not actually knowing the details behind uBeam’s wireless power...

 Out of beta and ready for the masses of San Francisco’s public transportation commuters,MuniMobilewill roll out November 16, 2015. MuniMobile is the San Francisco Municipal Transportation ...

 The Gillmor Gang — Dennis Crowley, Om Malik, John Borthwick, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Monday, November 2, 2015. The Gang of Four reprise the Notifications Summit and fill in some o...

 An Inconvenient Proof refers to the fact that personalization algorithms proselytize via code. Designed to scrutinize our lives, they’re also programmed to influence our behavior. Created ...

 Starting in 2016, tech companies can tell law enforcement in California to come back with a warrant for access to digital data. That’s because California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law t...

 Encrypted webmail provider, ProtonMail, has been fighting a wave of DDoS attacks since November 3 that, by last Friday, had taken its service offline for more than 24 hours. At the time of writi...

 The small-dollar credit (SDC) market — think payday and auto-title lending — is ripe for innovation and disruption. Most of the $44 billion industry consists of high-cost, low-qualit...

 When Apple released theoriginal Macintosh in the mid-1980s, the percentageof women majoring computer science was on the rise: 37 percent of computer science graduates were women. But in 1984, th...

 Welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup show where we talk the biggest things in tech. This week we’re chatting about Twitter’s issues with divers...

 Apple seems to get caught in lots of patent fights. Since 2009, Nokia has sued Apple (they settled), Apple has sued HTC (they settled), Kodak sued Apple (Kodak is appealing), Motorola Mobility s...

 Today, Google acquired Fly Labs to join its Google Photos team. The company aimed to help people edit videos and photos and it sported 3 million downloads over the past 18 months. Their suite of...

 A new bit of ransomware is now attacking Linux-based machines, specifically the folders associated with serving web pages. Called Linux.Encoder.1 the ransomware will encrypt your MySQL, Apache, ...

 Doodle makes it easy to schedule things with friends, coworkers, whoever — but scheduling isn’t the only thing that you need to organize an event. So the company has also connected i...

 If you had a few dozen billion dollars, an appetite to cut deals and a desire to change your image a few states away, how would you go about it? That is a question Microsoft is trying to answer....

 In case you want to opt out of the smart watch trend without having a dumb watch, Chronos is there for you. comScore made moves this week in the world of mergers and acquisitions, while the Ario...

 They may have the latest gadgets, but the men and women of Silicon Valley are rarely thought of as superheroes. Joseph Floyd, an Emergence Capital investor, wants to change that. Floyd noticed t...

A new Star Wars trailer appeared on Disney’s Japanese YouTube channel this morning, seemingly out of nowhere. The biggest surprise? It wasn’t just a bunch of previously seen footage rearra...

 Launched last month, Perfecto is a bike marketplace that verifies buyers, sellers, and bicycles, essentially eradicating the potential of stolen bikes. As bicyclecommutes becomes a larger trend ...

 Hulu may have introduced a commercial free-tier to improvethe user experience for those who can’t stand watching ads, but a new deal with Fox Networks has the potential to make the ad-supp...

 This week, Prop F was struck down, Facebook reported continuedgrowth and Twitter traded in stars for hearts. TC Cribs visited the Love Nest, a Palo Alto co-living space that’s part commune...

 Yahoo announced today an upgrade to its image search engine which now includes a combination of web results as well as images from its photo-sharing site Flickr, including your own photos. The w...

 Confirming earlier reports, Apple today is debutinga new category to its App Store that will help consumers better locate mobile shopping applications. The “Shopping” category will b...

 Garry Tan is leaving the accelerator and investment firm Y Combinator after a four-year stint with the outfit.Tan had previously cofoundedtheeasy-to-use blogging service Posterous, which was bac...

 Amazon Web Services (AWS) is aggressively expanding the number of differentgeographic regions it offers its services in. As Amazon CTO Werner Vogels announced today, the company plans to launch ...

 China plans to lift its moratorium on IPO listings before the end of the year, the official news agency Xinhua said earlier today.The country had instituted a ban on IPOs back in July, after sha...

 A very intelligent piece by BuzzFeed’s Mat Honan said that Google’s self-driving car would bring about the “ugly end of driving.” He’s correct in almost every way; ...

 Wi-fi setup is usually pretty easy: you find a space in the house, hire a team of radio experts to scan it for dead spots and an entire IT team to manage security and QoS. Then you try to connec...

 Whoa. Generally, word starts going around that a new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer is going to drop days before it actually does.This one sort of just… appeared. We didn’t eve...

 Famo.us’ 15 minutes of open source fame have come to an end. JavaScript rendering engine Famo.us has pivoted out of its hardcore open sourced engineering platform which had raised over $31...

 Did you miss the deadline or just forget to get early-bird tickets to Disrupt London? You’re in luck! We’re giving you one more week to stop procrastinating and get your tickets for ...

Payments company Square has set its IPO offering to price at $11 to $13 per share. This will raise up to $403.7 million, and value the company at approximately $4.19 billion. This valuation would be a...

 HTC has released a new commercial whose primary message is Be Different. While this would be fine in general, I suspect many of us will notice a distinct similarity between this commercial and a...

 On the heels of a $75 million investment from Accel, Chinese drone king DJIis putting some of itsfunding to use by making some investments of its own. The company this week announced that it wou...

 The European Commission has said it wants ongoing talks with the U.S. to agree a so-called ‘Safe Harbor 2.0’ agreement on data transfers to be completed by January 2016 — layin...

 The European Commission has said it wants ongoing talks with the U.S. to agree a so-called ‘Safe Harbor 2.0’ agreement on data transfers to be completed by January 2016 — layin...

 The writing is on the wall for moreconsolidation in the world of startups… both literally and figuratively. Today Anoto, a digital writing company based out of Sweden, announced that it wo...

 If you’re still putting off getting your tickets to Disrupt London 2015, you’re going to want to act now. Today is the final day to get early-bird tickets to Disrupt before they jump...

 BlackBerry’s first Android phone is a gallant effort, touting a full slide out physical QWERTY keyboard and premium hardware, but can it compete? Read More ...

 We’re told that the ‘priv’ in BlackBerry Priv, the Canadian handset maker’s first Android phone, stands for both privilege and privacy. Privilege perhaps because the Priv...

 Twitter SVP of Engineering Alex Roetter had been relatively silent in the hours and days following Leslie Miley’s post about leaving Twitter due to concerns around race, diversity and incl...

 While many new healthcare technologies show great promise, few have been made widely available. CEOs have a population right in their backyard, the collective health of which they want to contin...

 Some say Facebook inflates its monthly active user count by including people who shared from or used a Facebook-connected third-party app. But today Facebook quieted those critics with a 10-Q up...

 Disney’s Research Hub is one of my favorite things on the Internet. Just about every time they release a new video, it’s something immediately understandable (in terms of its use cas...

 The application monitoring service New Relic today announced better than expected quarterly earnings, but in addition, it also today disclosed that it has acquired the cloud infrastructure monit...

 Well that was strange — and scary. Hours ago, one of six cofounders of Tiny Owl, a two-year-old, Mumbai, India-based food ordering software startup, was released after being held captive f...

 Well that was strange — and scary. Hours ago, one of fivecofounders of TinyOwl, a two-year-old, Mumbai, India-based food ordering software startup, was released after being held captive fo...

 Every company struggles to allocate security resources. It’s not that security pros don’t have the tools to improve their risk postures – it’s that they don’t have ...

 Hello and welcome back to a much-delayed episode of TCBTC, TechCrunch’s bitcoin podcast that went on accidental hiatus. John Biggs and I are back on the bitcoin beat. This time around, we ...

 Everybody needs a hobby when they retire, and former major league baseball player Jason Giambi turned to virtual reality, teaming with EON Sports on a virtual reality hardware-software package t...

 San Francisco startup Gumroad, which lets people sell products directly to consumers by way of quick and simple links, has been in the process of laying off most of its staff as it looks to oper...

 Measures agreed in an international trade treaty between Pacific Rim countries threaten Internet users’ privacy and consumer rights, civil and digital rights organizations have warned toda...

 Sosh, the curated online marketplace that allows you to find things to do in your city, is shutting down, according to sources. Eighteen of Sosh’s 40 employees are headed to Postmates as p...

 Sosh, the curated online marketplace that allows you to find things to do in your city, is shutting down, according to sources. Eighteen of Sosh’s 40 employees are headed to Postmates as p...

 Data provider Tableau Software reported third quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday, posting an adjusted earnings per share of 14 cents, blowing past analyst expectations of 7 cents. Share...

 Today following the bell, New Relic reported the results of thesecond quarter of its fiscal 2016, including an adjusted per-share loss of $0.17, off revenue of $42.9 million. The street had expe...

 It’s that time again! Our annual awards showis coming back around again for 2016. But for our 9th annual Crunchies Awards, we’ve decided to do a few things differently, and we think ...

 Oprah has been sharing her “Favorite Things” list with us every holiday season for the last 20 years. But this year the “queen of television” penned a deal with Amazon to...

 Synesthesia, aka the mixing of the senses, is a super power to be feared. But while many synesthetes have boring talents – imagining numbers as colors, for example – this DIY hack le...

 Grocery delivery services are convenient, but they’re not always affordable. In addition to slight mark-ups on the cost of the productsthemselves, services typically require delivery fees ...

 You set up a meeting, drop it into Google Calendar. Then someone says “let’s do it another time” and you delete it. Then they say they’re available again. What do you do?...

 “I’m worried about my company becoming too dude-ish,” the founder said. “How do I hire more women engineers?” I gladly took that call. A leader’s job is to bu...

 JavaScript framework startup Meteor has a new scholarship program in partnership with the Flatiron School to teach computer science to high school girls from underrepresented backgrounds. As par...

 Affiliate marketing is extremely hit or miss. Most times, participants are being paid to spread the word about products they couldn’t care less about,resulting in a poor experience for all...

 Camera maker Lytro is hopping into virtual reality. Today, it announced a product called “Immerge” which the company describes as “world’s first professional light field ...

 I’ve never worn a Pebble smartwatch for an extended period of time before. In fact, I’ve never really worn a modern smartwatch for an extended period of time, either.So when my colle...

 After years of working in mobile advertising, founder Niles Lichtenstein discovered a box of records from his late father. That compelled him to start putting together memories and online histor...

 BuildingConnected is a platform to help construction firms manage the details of a job, with the aim to help save time and money on building projects. Today, the startup announced it hadraised $...

 We’re giving away the perfect package for fitness enthusiasts. The folks at Skulpt want to give one TechCrunch reader a Skulpt Aim fitness tracker ($199 value), an Apple Watch Sport ($349 ...

 We’re continuing to announce speakers for our TechCrunch Disrupt London conference on December 7-8, 2015. The conference will feature an amazing slate of global startups, investors, influe...

 Google’s YouTube app for Android now supports virtual reality (VR) video in combination with its Cardboard VR viewer. VR video takes the 360-degree videos you may already be familiar with ...

 France has developed something ofa name for itself as a center for IoT startups, and today another mover and shaker in the space is making some waves. Netatmo, a Paris-based designer ofstylish c...

 Drug store chain Walgreens announced this morning its loyalty program will now be available through Apple Pay – making it the first U.S. retailer to integrate their customer rewards platfo...

 As Web Summit in Dublin wraps up another gang-busting year of packing out the pubs and bars, and bringing the traffic to a halt (some 30,000 people attended this year), TechCrunch took a turn ar...

 Flying a drone is kind of like driving a car that only has a windshield. You can only look in one direction at a time, and when the drone gets out of visual range, the user is left with a single...

 It’s been a little more than a year since Facebook launched its Local Awareness ads, which allowbusinesses to target ads atnearby users — the ones who either live within a given dist...

 Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Mobile Data Labs. While that name probably doesn’t ring a bell, the company’s MileIQ app is one of the most popular Android and iOS mil...

 It seems like only yesterday that we were introducing you to 500’s Batch 14, but Summer is gone, the demos have been done, we’ve picked our favs and it’s time to introduce you ...

 It seems like only yesterday that we were introducing you to 500’s Batch 14, but Summer is gone, the demos have been done, we’ve picked our favs and it’s time to introduce you ...

 Government is moving faster than startups. That may be the first time anyone’s written those words, but it’s exactly what’s happening in the nascent coding bootcamp market. Rea...

 Facebook announced this morninga new feature called “Music Stories,” that will allow users to better discover new music or share tracks with their friends. Essentially a new post for...

 Trinity Ventures, a29-year-old, Sand Hill Road Firm whose recent hits include the IPOs of Zulily, New Relic and TubeMogul — not to mention the still-private but highly valued startup Docke...

 Karma, the makers of the pay-as-you-go LTE mobile hotspot that began shipping earlier this summer, announced today a new type of data plan meant to appeal to those who more regularly use their d...

 Our collective thoughts of the future have moved from Deloreans to driverless cars in what seems like the blink of an eye. As technology advances, our mobility options have multiplied and change...

 Art belongs to everyone and enlightenment is available to all. Thus we present 3DPhotoWorks, a project that aims to bring the “world’s greatest art” to the blind. The team, led...

To date most of the talk around drones has been about how flying drones will disrupt the delivery industry. But for some bizarre reason the whole idea of a ‘ground drone’ which could addre...

 There are few things more joyous than the birth of a new baby. Buying snow tires comes to mind as does the process of removing that little piece of dried E-Z Cheese from the spray can when you&#...

 There are few things more joyous than the birth of a new baby. Buying snow tires comes to mind as does the process of removing that little piece of dried E-Z Cheese from the spray can when you&#...

 Whileonline traffic measurement firm comScore moves ahead on its $732 million deal to acquire Rentrak, it’s selling another part of its business as it continues to streamline: today comSco...

 Uber is expanding the option of cash payments to another market in South East Asia, testing cash payments in Bandung, Indonesia. It now accepts cash payments in six countries globally, three of ...

 “Always be raising” is the motto of 500 Startups founder Dave McClure, and 500 Durians — the U.S. firm’s fund for Southeast Asia — is taking that phrase very litera...

 Heads up, London! Our third round of Disrupt London Hackathon tickets are available, but you’ve got to hurry because they are limited. To grab a ticket to the Hackathon, head over to our H...

 Disrupt London is only a month away, and if for some reason you still haven’t bought a ticket, the time to act is now. There are only two days left to get tickets at our early-bird pricing...

 Leading up to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States, media buzzed with talk of an unprecedented cybersecurity agreement on par with previous governance around the creat...

 Dropbox CEO Drew Houston and his lieutenants took the stage today to give their big enterprise pitch to customers. Houston, of course, has to answer questions that a lot of critics have for the ...

 Google Maps for iOS got a seemingly small, but extremely helpful feature today in an update. Starting today, you’ll now get spoken traffic alerts while navigating. The app will tell you ab...

 It took threeyears for Richard Price, a PhD in philosophy, to get apaper published. The slow speed of that inspired him to start what is essentially a social network called Academia, where acade...

 If you haven’t stared atthe price of bitcoin over the past few days, you’ve missed some excitement. After spending large swaths of 2015 middling in the $200 range, bitcoin broke out,...

 Now what? That’s a question I’ve been asking myself since Leslie Miley, the now former engineering manager at Twitter, published a post explaining that his reason for leaving the com...

 Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have created a system to put realistic-looking plastic hair on 3D printed objects. While this doesn’t help the follicularly challenged humans among us it doe...

 Expedia Inc. today announced that it has agreed to acquire the publicly traded vacation rental service HomeAway and its brands (including VRBO.com) for $3.9 billion in cash and common sto Read M...

 People get ready: applications for TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield are now open. Submit your application by November 18 at 9pm PT to compete for free demo space at the Consumer Electroni...

 Facebook video viewership is growing by leaps and bounds. It now sees 8 billion average daily video views from 500 million users. That’s up from just 4 billion video views per day in April...

 The internet is a wonderful thing. It’s a place for new and fresh ideas, forums for people to discuss them. And well, ways to find ones that had been dropped. One idea that was dropped was...

 Apple TV’s App Store now has a Categories section, a feature which was missing at launch alongside Top Charts. The latter section rolled out on Monday, confirming that the new TV App Store...

 GoDaddy just released its Q3 2015 earnings report, showing GAAP revenue of $411 millionanda lossof $.08 per share. The street expected the company to report a lossof $.09per share on revenue of ...

 Twitter rolled out new page policy.twitter.com aimed at disclosing where the company stands on critical policy issues to users and Twitter’s political endeavors – including donations...

 When Firefox cofounder Blake Ross last showed off his writing wits, he was imagining new adventures for the fictional Pied Piper team on HBO’s Silicon Valley. Now he’s creating a new...

 Parents looking to manage their children’s internet usage and screen time have a new option with today’s launch of Circle with Disney, a hardware device that works in conjunction wit...

 Following the bell, Hortonworks announced its third quarter financial performance including adjusted earnings per share of negative $0.74 and revenue of $33.1 million. Investors had expected the...

 OfferUp, a four-year-old, Bellevue, Washington-based mobile-firstmarketplace that’s trying to take on stodgy – albeit stubbornly successful – Craigslist, is making a big media ...

 Cybersecurity and malware protection companyFireEye on Wednesday reported its third quarter sales were $165.6 million, compared to the $167.13 million Wall Street expected.Despite missing on sal...

 Facebook’s growth continues as it hit 1.55 billion users and beat the street’s estimates in itsQ3 2015earnings with $4.5 billion in revenue and $0.57 earnings per share, up a big 11....

 “You can’t make money selling to developers.” That was a common axiom that permeated the venture community as recently as a few years ago. But just in the last couple of quarte...

 Today, Eminem announced that he’d be investing in and partnering with lyric-annotation site Genius. It’s kind of a match made in heaven, seeing as Eminem’s lyrics are constantl...

 Vera, a secure file transfer company announced an agreement today with Dropbox andOkta to offer customers a way to transfer files in a secure fashion from end to end. While Dropbox, Vera and Okt...

 As co-founder and CEO of on-demand cleaning startup Hassle, Alex Depledge is not only one of the more successful founders in London’s current startup scene but is also one of the most outs...

 Google Drive for iOS and Android has becoming pretty important for me. Whether I’m taking notes or writing up a post, I’ve used it to share my docs with colleagues from the road. Tod...

 A company called NewsON launched today, offeringcord cutters and mobile consumers access to local news with an app that works on iOS, Android, and Roku devices. The service, which is financially...

 Here’s a product built for a very specific need: Totem creates press pages where reporters (and anyone who’s curious) can learn more about a company, find images and reach out for fu...

 Google today announced that over 19,000 organizations are now either testing, deploying or using its Android for Work service. Android for Work makes it easier and safer for businesses to allow ...

 At Twitter’s Flight conference, one of the stand-out portions of the keynote was an on-stage coding exercise. It lasted about a half hour and turned into a sample project that was immediat...

 We’ve heard about consolidation in the word of startups; today comes some news about a thinning of the ranks amongVCs.Formation 8—the VC firm co-founded by Palantir’s Joe Lonsd...

 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 Tallinn, Estonia, on Novemb...

 Amazon may be leading the internet-of-things market when it comes to push-button ordering via hardware devices like its Dash grocery scanner and Dash buttons, but it’s not without its comp...

 Google Calendar is having issues this morning, so if you don’t know what meetings you have and where you are supposed to be, you’re not alone. As far as we can see, the outage starte...

 Ron Conway, Tencent and Paul Graham aren’t getting their money back, and that’s the point. They’re part of today’s $3.5 million round that’s actually a donation to ...

 There are plenty of smart lighting systems out there that let you change light colors and dim with just your smartphone (or even your voice), but a freshly Kickstarted product called the Ario is...

 Just in time for the holiday season (or, really, the almost holiday season because America starts early like that), Uber is rolling out its group events service UberEVENTS.The ridesharing giant ...

 Eden, the YC-backed on-demand tech installation and repair service that launched in May of this year, has shifted the focus of the business to the enterprise market, serving offices with tech he...

 Jet, looking to go toe-to-toe with Amazon, is reportedly raising $500 million on a $1 billion pre-money valuation. Fortune reports that Fidelity is leading the round, which has been rumored for ...

 Wireless router startup eero had several announcements for its supporters this morning, including an official FCC approval, and a delay in shipment of its product to early next year.  The c...

 HipChat, the team chat platform Atlassian acquired in 2012, now allows developers to build apps that run directly inside its user interface. Until now, developers were only able to push inbound ...

 Microsoft said earlier that its Cortana personal assistant – something of a rivalto Google Now and Apple’s Siri – would take on its competition by offering cross-platform suppo...

Of late the code development area has seen Atlassian heading for and IPO and GitHub becoming a Unicorn. But more specifically Koding, Nitrous.io and others have rubbed shoulders with the likes of Micr...

 The U.K. government has today published a draft bill setting out new surveillance powers that if passed into law will allow the security and intelligence agencies to more deeply probe Brits̵...

 The Honest Company, Jessica Alba’s e-commerce startup best known for its eco-friendlybaby products, expanded this fall with the launch of Honest Beauty – a beauty line that continues...

 Seamless peer-to-peer mobile payments have been considered inevitable for quite a while. And for good reason: One experience figuring out the bill at a group dinner party or splitting the cost o...

 Hello and welcome back to Bullish, TechCrunch’s first talk show and running attempt to see how much I can sweat inside of 10 minutes on a regular basis.This week we dug into a topic that i...

 It’s a bad deal today for Groupon, the company that built a business around daily deals for goods and services and has since expanded into areas like commercesolutions for smallbusinesses....

 Disrupt London is right around the corner, and you have just three days left to purchase an early-bird ticket. You don’t want to miss the opportunity to save 400 on tickets to the hottest ...

 French startup Zenchef helps restaurants build out their online presence, including website creation tools and the ability to take bookings direct. The latter offers an alternative to relying pu...

 French startup Zenchef helps restaurants build out their online presence, including website creation tools and the ability to take bookings direct. The latter offers an alternative to relying pu...

 It’s astonishing to find technologically advanced industries still struggling with the age-old problem of paper records and disconnected systems. Take the healthcare industry, which has ma...

 The GoPro Hero4 Session looks like the Polaroid Cube. It’s hard to deny otherwise. In the world of action cameras, these two cameras look like twins separated at birth where one was raised...

 After earnings today, Tesla has made a couple of executive announcements. First, it has named a new CFO, Jason Wheeler. Wheeler spent 13 years at Google as its VP of Finance and let its global f...

 There are corks popping around the MPAA offices today. The American trade organization is claiming responsibility for shutting down several pirating services including a popular version of Popco...

 For an industry generating $650 billion a year in revenue, its surprising how little innovation there is in thetrucking business.Launched atlast year’s TC AtlantaMeetup, TIEMAC is trying t...

This is a bit of an experimental Cribs episode this week. Stretch your wings and expand your understanding of life in startup land as I take you on a journey over to the Love Nest, a technology commun...

 India’s leading e-commerce company Flipkart just hired a familiar name from Google. Surojit Chatterjee spent the last 8 or so years at Google, serving as “Product Management Director...

 Twitter is currently holding a post-earnings Q&A on Periscope. The guest? CFO Anthony Noto. The company took a bit of a nosedive after its Q3 earnings at the end of last month, so folks have...

 Earlier this year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned that the company intended to show off the Model 3 — its most affordable car to date by far, at $35,000 — in March of 2016. But as we&...

 Even whiletheDell-EMC dealseemingly moves forward, there is still plenty ofmaneuvering going on at EMC.A couple of weeks ago VMwareannounced it was creating a new company called Virtustream that...

 The deal service Groupon on Tuesday announced CEO and co-founder Eric Lefkofsky would step down, and Rich Williams would take over the company immediately.The company said Lefkofsky would return...

 Outerwall, the automated kiosk operator that runsRedbox, Coinstar and ecoATM machines, has made a move into e-commerce with the acquisition of Gazelle.com – an online sitethat buys and sel...

 Today following the bell, Zendesk reported its third quarter financial performance, including revenue of $55.7 million, and adjusted earnings per share of negative0.05.Investors had expected the...

 Zynga today beat analyst expectations for its third-quarter earnings, bringing in about $176 millionin bookings with flat earnings, and revenue of $196 million. Analysts were expecting a loss of...

 Tesla missed the street in its reported Q3 earnings today,including non-GAAP revenue of $1.24 billion and non-GAAP lossper share of $0.58. Analysts expected a non-GAAP loss per shareof $0.50. Th...

 Following trading today, Etsy reported its Q3 financial performance, including revenue of $66 million, and earnings loss per share of $0.06. The Street expected Etsy to lose $0.06 per share, off...

 Why drive yourself when it might be cheaper to coast to work in the back of an Uber? Today Uber launched the beta of a new flat-fee long-distance uberPOOL option aimed at commuters. It offers pr...

 Why drive yourself when it might be cheaper to coast to work in the back of an Uber? Today Uber launched the beta of a new flat-fee long-distance uberPOOL option aimed at commuters. It offers pr...

 Google v. Oracle. It’s a sensational case. A battle of tech heavyweights — and a software copyright case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Millions of dollars are at s...

 This morning at Fortune’s Global Forum conference in San Francisco, Fortune interviewer Alan Murray got quite an earful from the guests on his panel: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and ventu...

 LeafLink, an NY-based wholesale management platform for the cannabis industry, hasclosed a $750k seed round led by group of NY angel investors. The software platform is designed to support parti...

 We often forget that Twitter, more Web 2.0 media company than startup, is almost ten years old. We also forget that it has a global user base of just over 300 million people. But we can’t ...

 It’s a function of Twitter’s largely unfiltered feed. It zips by so quickly that even great content can get lost. Your closest friends and sparring partners might easily miss your tw...

 HBO,which launched its first over-the-top streaming service this year with the debut of HBO NOW, has just scoreda notablenew deal with former Daily Show host, Jon Stewart, who will be tasked wit...

 After a short beta period, Mozilla today graduated its new Tracking Protection feature for Firefox’s Private Browsing mode into its release channel with the launch of Firefox 42. Read More...

 Short videos, looping videos and GIFs are some of the hottest types of user-generated content on the web today, and haveeveryone from Instagram to Twitter and even Facebookand Googlegetting invo...

 John McGuire had never golfed before, but he had a background in sports psychology and big data. And it was that combination that eventually drove him to start Active Mind Technology, a sports t...

 Slack just unveiled a new way for app developers to create slash commands, letting users interface with their apps from within Slack channels.After being turned on via the “Add to Slack bu...

 Pinterest is starting to roll out Buyable Pins on Android devices today, the company said. Buyable Pins let some retailers who are partners with Pinterest and retailers use Shopify and Demandwar...

 Pinterest is starting to roll out Buyable Pins on Android phones today, the company said. Buyable Pins let some retailers who are partners with Pinterest and retailers use Shopify and Demandware...

 In California, a state built on the idealism and tacit cruelty of real estate capitalism, no one is innocent. That’s no different with Airbnb and Proposition F, merely the latest of San Fr...

 Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley, one of the few black engineers in a leadership position at Twitter, just publicly announced that he has left the company. In his post, he says his reaso...

 RelayRides, the six-year-old, San Francisco-based peer-to-peer car rental service, has justrebranded itself as Turo. The company is also announcing $47 million in Series C funding led by Kleiner...

 Smart tone startup LISNR just raised a $10 million series B round led by Intel Capital to further advance the product as “a true protocol to connect devices across a number of different ve...

 Like WiFi before it, could wireless charging be the next value-add for coffee shops and other public venues? One startup banking on that being the case is London-headquartered Chargifi, which is...

 Body Labs, makers of technology that provides true-to-life 3D body models, is announcing the close of an $8 million round of Series A funding led by Intel Capital, with participation from FirstM...

 Intel Capital, the venture arm of the tech giant, today announced $22 million in new investments across 10 startups. The news was delivered at the company’s annual global summit, where it ...

 Location-pinpointing platform what3words has closed a $3.5 million Series A funding round led by Intel Capital. It brings the total raised by the U.K. startup, which was only founded back in Jul...

 Last year Uniplaces, startup founded back in 2012 which runs an online booking platform focused on student accommodation, pulled in 2.2 million ($3.5 million) in Series A funding led by Octopus ...

 Content marketing startup SnapApp has raised $12 million in Series A funding. The Boston-based company offers online tools for building calculators, quizzes, infographics, interactive videos and...

 Sling TV, Dish’s streaming live TV service that offers a variety of cable TV channels, including ESPN, is now available on Google’s Chromecast. The forthcoming addition of Sling TV s...

 A few months ago, CoreOS launched the preview of Tectonic, a container platform based on the Google-incubated Kubernetes container management and orchestration tool. Starting today, CoreOS consi...

 Are there just too many TV shows right now? You may remember that’s whatFX Networks CEO John Landgraf told reporters and critics over the summer — that there’s “simply to...

 After ten years without any outside investment, cybersecurity firm iboss is finally raising itsSeries A. The company’s CEO said that even now, the company, which has been profitable since ...

 Parents today can be overwhelmed when trying to keep up with their child’s online activity, and often fail to spot troubling behavior like bullying, threats, sexting, and even possible men...

 Verge Genomics, the YC-backed company that looks to use algorithms to help cure neurodegenerative disorders, has announced the close of a $4 million seed round led by IA Ventures, with participa...

 IBM could have a shopping problem. It’s become the company that can’t say no as it scoops up properties to prop up its cloud strategy. Last week it was The Weather Company. Last mont...

 There’s been a big push from startups promising to help marketers and publishers take advantage of all theuser-generated content that’s posted to social media, but Livefyre CEO Jorda...

 Twitter’s making changes and nothing is sacred. Today’s change, while not as dramatic as making tweets editable or more than 140 characters, is definitely something that you’ll...

 Some believethat email is bloated and dying, but by implementing advances from itsmachine learning and AI teams, Google has been using Inbox—its Gmail-based mobile email client — as ...

 Lastmonth, Google made a bold move to winover morebusiness customersusing cloud-based apps by making Google Apps for Work freefor any company that is still under contract with a rival like Micro...

 Sense sleep tracker maker Hello has signed up with one of its first major retail distribution partners, Amazon, as it heads into the holiday season. Originally selling directly through its websi...

 Omni is trying to find a solution for the problem of shrinking apartments and rising rent in urban areas. The company launched their iOS app in the Apple App Store today, the first full release ...

 We know that big data has been used in retail, healthcare and finance, but you might be surprised to find out that it also helps farmers with dairy production. This practice, called precision da...

 The not-for-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation, makers of the wildly popular $35 Raspberry Pi microprocessor, and the U.K.-based volunteer-led charitable organization Code Club, which runs after sch...

 In a world where products are increasingly bought or worn like a badge of honour — Android versus iPhone, anyone? — it could be said that you are what you advertise. One startup hopi...

 Right off the launch of Lumo Run, Lumo Bodytech,a smart sensors and software platform, has raised $10 million in Series B financing. Lumo came onto the scene a few years back with Lumo Lift, a w...

 Chef has been helping companies configure, manage and automate their software and infrastructure for some time. Today it made several announcements to bring that same level of automation to comp...

 German startup ByeBuy, which offers a pay-as-you-go and on-demand alternative to gadget ownership, has raised a 1 million seed round. Read More ...

 Earlier this year, Opera’s former CEO Jon von Tetzchner launched Vivaldi, a new desktop browser for power users (and those who were unhappy with Opera’s direction after that company&...

 Well here’s a blockbuster acquisition for you. Gaming mothership Activision Blizzard has entered into an agreement to acquire King.com, maker of the wildly popular game Candy Crush and pro...

 French Tech has never been in such good health: Showroompriv and Deezer just announced their IPO, Leetchi its trade sale to Crdit Mutuel Arka group and several startups have announced significan...

 Amazon announced its new Parental Leave policy earlier this morning in an email to employees. The Seattle-based company’s new policy includes 20 weeks of paid parental leave for birth moth...

 Former Stanford student Elise Clougherty has dropped a high-profile lawsuit against venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, a former paramour who Clougherty later accused of sexual assault. Lonsdale, w...

 Former Stanford student Elise Clougherty has dropped a high-profile lawsuit against venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, a former paramour who Clougherty later accused of sexual assault. Lonsdale, w...

 Apple has nowrolled out a “Top Charts” section on the Apple TV App Store, following the releaseof the company’s revamped streaming media player which went on salelast week. The...

 A group of activists from the Coalition on Homelessness took over Airbnb headquarters in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco this afternoon to protest what they believe is a company at the ro...

 EBay today finalized the sale of its previously announced eBay Enterprise business. As part of this deal, Zeta Interactive, the big data-driven marketing firm co-founded by David Steinberg and f...

 Here’s one way that ThrillistMedia Group is spending the $54 million that it raised earlier this year: It’s adding three new sections to its website, one for entertainment, one for h...

 Plex, the much adored app for streaming totally-legit-and-not-at-all-bootlegged-cough-cough content from your PC to your other gadgets, has just hit the new Apple TV. Read More ...

 Dear reader,Please keep in mind that this list is tongue-in-cheek. We are being silly. If you take this list seriously, and complain, we shall giggle at you.Let’s have fun! Read More ...

 TechCrunch is pleased to announce our second monthly Include Office Hours! On November 17th, Ryan Sweeney and Dan Levine of Accel Partners will open their doors for underrepresented founders.Lau...

 The idea that the average consumer i.e. a non “high net-worth individual” could invest in a small equity round has been in the works since June but a new rule released last week now ...

 Following the bell, Fitbit announced its third quarter financial performance, including revenue of $409.3 million, and earnings per share using normal accounting methods of $0.19. The company...

 Online textbook and tutoring company Chegg beat Wall Street’s expectations when it reported its third quarter sales of $81.3 million.Its revenue was expected to total $78.28 million. The c...

 Will Quist has joined Slow Ventures as a partner as the four-year-old outfit evolves from investment club to investment firm. Slow, long managed by former Facebook employees Dave Morin and Kevin...

 Ahead of FireEye’s Wednesday report, Qualys reported its third quarter performance today, including revenue of $42.5 million, and earnings per share of $0.11 using normal accounting techni...

 Gillmor Gang SPECIAL EDITION : Notifications Summit Wrap-up – John Northwick, Dennis Crowley, Om Malik, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. Read More ...

 Pandora, the publicly traded streaming music company, is wading into podcasts.Earlier today, founder Tim Westergren announced the service will be the“exclusive streaming partner” for...

 Today, Google shared their self-driving car project monthly report. Good news, there were no accidents. There were however, some interesting learnings that the team shared about how they’r...

 CBS’s own over-the-top streaming service aimed at cord cutters has largely flown under the radar in comparison with more popular competitors like Netflix and Hulu. But now the network is h...

 Without prompt action from lawmakers and regulators, much of what fuels a critical segment of the U.S. economy — especially tech-savvy California — is at risk. U.S. wireless networks...

 By now you have probably seen the WSJ report that says Google plans to fold its Chrome operating system into Android and phase it (and the “Chromebook” name) out over time. Google to...

 When the Visigoths burned Library Of Alexandria you can bet that old Ptolemy I Soter would have loved to have had a Czur (pronounced “Cesar”) scanner in his palatial marble-clad stat...

 SoundCloud, a top 5 Music app on both iOS and Android, has today released a new mobile application aimed specifically at artists and creators. Called SoundCloud Pulse, the app allows its usersto...

 Developers have been digging into the Apple TV App Store data in the absence of category listings and a Top Charts section on Apple’s newly launched version of its media player device, whi...

 Developers have been digging into the Apple TV App Store data in the absence of category listings and a Top Charts section on Apple’s newly launched version of its media player device, whi...

 Reminder: The U.K. government is preparing to publish a draft bill aiming to strengthen and shore up the intelligence and security agencies’ capabilities in the digital era. The proposed l...

 It’s not just the impending 2016 political theater or our own paranoid imaginings. Silicon Valley really has been buzzing more about the role of government policy in business innovation, a...

 Imagine you’re a squishy cube. Imagine you need to climb a hill. How do you do it? With your tongue(s), of course.Researchers at CSAIL at MIT have created a little cube robot that can prop...

 There has beenconsolidation,collapseand other troubles among some on-demand home servicesstartups, but others seem to becleaning up in their wake.Handy— a platform foron-demand housekeepin...

 A young man named Matt Burns and I will be in St. Louis very soon and we want to see you. Yes, you. You, the person reading this right now. You are very special to us. So let’s meet in St....

 Expanding on the success of the Amazon-created sales holiday Prime Day earlier this year,Amazon announced it’s now launching a dedicated Black Friday Deals Store where Amazon Prime members...

 Social media company Sprinklr has acquired Booshaka, a company aiming to give businesses a better understanding of their audience. Specifically, Booshaka has built “one-click connectors...

 Ev Williams’ venture firm invests in a solar energy asset management, procurement and installation software developer. Read More ...

 The war continues apace in the world of wearablefitness trackers. Jawbone — which makes fitness trackers, speakers and Bluetooth headsets — has filed a countersuit against Fitbit in ...

 Can the problem of tech gobbling up too much of your attention be fixed by buying more technology? Vinaya, a U.K. startup which started out back in mid 2013 — and is now announcing its fir...

 Drone manufacturer DJI and Canonical, the corporate entity behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, today announced the launch of Manifold, a small embedded computer that’s optimized for buil...

 For years you’ve been able to find a room to rent online via classified sites such as Craigslist or more vertical offerings. But once you’ve found your prospective rental, the proces...

 Pitango Venture Capital — which has invested in companies such as AppsFlyer and Taboola — today announces the first closing of its new Pitango Growth Fund, which will aim for a $250 ...

 Despite raising a warchest of some $8 billion thus far, on-demand ride sharing platform Uber is retrenching its operations in Germany — pulling out of three cities (Frankfurt, Hamburg and ...

 Social media rumors were taken far too seriously this weekend, as word spread around the globe that Snapchat’s recent privacy policy update gave the company ownership over user content, wh...

 ClearSky Data has come up with an interesting approach to solve the data storage cost and speed problem. Today it was rewarded with a $27 million Series B round to continue the mission. The comp...

 Operation KKK, an Anonymous-led effort to shut down the Ku Klux Klan, has begun in earnest. The main Twitter account is reporting that many KKK-related sites are down after concerted hacking eff...

 Allocating startup capital is hard — but more importantly, it’s key to successfully raising your next round. Which tools are founders using to build a strategic financial plan? With ...

 It might sound obvious, but if you’re hoping that mom will want to hop into virtual reality while you make her drag around a bunch of ugly ass (and dangerous) wires, it probably won’...

 Alphabet, which backs diversity in all facets of technology, is helping to shed light on a specific project…a film called “CODEGIRL“. It comes via filmmaker Lesley Chilcott, wh...

 Porch, one of the many companies positioning themselves to be the go-to place for “home services,” has laid off 90 members of its staff according to Geekwire. We’ve reached out...

 Gartner’s annual report in 2008 was titled “Hype Cycle of Emerging Technologies.” This was the first year the IT and technology research firm’s annual report mentioned au...

 In another week or so, AngelPad, a five-year-old incubator that twice a year chooses roughly a dozen startups to coach over a three-month period, will hostan invite-only “demo day” f...

 Is Snapchat, the brazen baby of the major social media platforms, slowly killing the hashtag? It looked that way yesterday, when for Halloween, Instagram curated content in a special feed for us...

 Design plays just as big of a role in technology as computer science.That’s why it’s no coincidence that boatloads of successful startups have designers on their founding teams. Sinc...

 Rooted in history and deep-seated cultural beliefs, the European Court of Justice’s recent decision to invalidate a major data-sharing agreement should be as unsurprising as it is unsettli...

 Recruiting is one of the top jobs for any executive or entrepreneur. Talent is the lifeblood of your company; let it drain away, and you die. Unfortunately, that lifeblood is in very short suppl...

 The winner of a recent TC Radio Pitch-Off contest, Stitch is a social network designed for those over 50 years old. Headquartered in Australia, the siteis designed to help members find friends, ...

 There’s a popular meme that it takes ten years of effortful study to become an expert at something. Studies show that in reality, the number of years varies a bit from subject to subject a...

 The relationship between VCs and their portfolio companies has changed significantly over the past five or so years. In many ways it is still the same, in that VCs provide capital, then take a s...

 Looks like investors approve offormer Adobe digital chief David Wadhwani. Just weeksafter it was announced that Wadhwani hasjoinedseven-year-old, San Francisco-based AppDynamics as its new CEO, ...

 Mired as we are in earnings season, I was slightly remiss this week inkeeping tabs on Windows 10, Microsoft’s new operating system. A few things happened that are worth our time, and, as i...

 The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, October 30, 2015. The Gang reconvenes with talk of Republicans, notifications, Web stan...

 To paraphrase an oft seen Internet trollism, ‘Internet comments are the worst thing since Hitler’. By which I mean: they suck. They suck bad. No, they really suck.The problem we have...

 Since its commercial birth in the 1950s as a technological oddity at a science fair, gaming has blossomed into one of the most profitable entertainment industries in the world. The mobile techno...

 Happy Halloween! Let’s talk about the scariest thing in the tech world today. No, no, not bubbles, drones, or unicorns: Bitcoin. Seriously. (Mostly.) Whether you think it’s a boondog...

 Somehow we missed “privacy” from the initial constitutional design and amendments thereafter. This “right” was not endowed to us by our Founding Fathers, and does not mak...

 No longer content to just being the ubiquitous source of information of all kinds for the typical college student, Google is now trying to be the platform that friends use to plan their next han...

 I believe it’s paramount that in an increasingly digitized world you, as a proactive consumer, learn what exactly companies are doing with your data – and how to rate them on it, jus...

 Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing services have been with us for several years now. What began as a convenient novelty to replace traditional taxi and limo services soon became a standard commut...

 Hello, comrades of the revolution, and welcome back to CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup of all things noteworthy. This week our fearless leader, Matthew Lynley, was joined by Sarah ...