Articles by Techcrunch from December 2015

 Yahoo Kids died a quiet death two years ago, but to BJ Heiney (who worked on the product from 1996 to 2000) the shutdown was a “travesty,” depriving kids and parents of a valuable pl...

 Ian Murdock – the ‘ian’ in Debian – was found dead at his home in San Francisco on Monday. The cause is yet unknown.Murdock was an integral figure in the open source move...

 Rapidly expanding car service startup Uber says it has driven its 1 billionth ride. Launched in June 2010, it took the company 5.5 years to reach this milestone.Uber trip number 1 billion took p...

 CES is a bit like the auto shows of yesteryear, back when carmakers simply came to flex their muscles and show what they were capable of, as opposed to unveiling products that are destined for d...

 As the latest year of the future folds into the next, the most bombastic/annoying/entertaining of CEOs sets his gazeonthe technologies that will define thewireless spaceand the company he is at ...

 When it comes to phones, the word “flagship” was tossed around a lot in 2015. We saw it get attached to devices that are priced at the midrange, as well as certain top-performing dev...

 Remember Carrier iQ? In the yearsbefore Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA, the name and its software became synonymous with creepy, unseenmonitoring of everything that you do on a...

 Remember Carrier iQ? In the yearsbefore Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA, the name and its software became synonymous with creepy, unseenmonitoring of everything that you do on a...

 If I told you that the hottest person on social media right now is a rap producer telling fans that eating egg whites and drinking a gallon of water a day is the key to success, would you believ...

 As promised earlier this fallat Twitter’s developer conference Flight, the company’s long-neglected Mac application has been updated today with a hostof new features that put the app...

 Despite rebranding its free Internet.org ‘walled garden’ of apps plan in India under the new name of “Free Basics,” Facebook remains in direct violation of an open intern...

 If you’re in the tech world, then you know exactly what Slack is and does. As you eke outside of our little techosphere, however, you might get some puzzled faces when you talk about your ...

 Apple wants to show consumers how its devices – including Macs, as well as mobile devices likeiPhones and iPads – can be used to create art. Specifically, itslatest pushback at the d...

 It looks like anotherchapter is in the worksforHem, the home designstartup headed by Jason Goldberg that first emerged asa pivot from the Fab.com design marketplace in 2014. We’ve heard fr...

 One of the great promises of the Internet — a democratic, transparent, open network that would disintermediate entrenched industries, remove fee-taking middlemen and thereby lower the cost...

 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...

 Credit and finance management platform Credit Karma, known best as the startup that offers free, no-strings-attached credit scores, has made its first acquisition. The company has acquired the m...

 Las Vegas just got a touch more bearable. Uber is using Vinli and T-Mobile to equip its Vegas cars with Wifi. Thanks to Vinli’s hardware, the cars will become mobile hotspots. This is a li...

 Foodpanda, the restaurant delivery service backed by Rocket Internet, has laid off about 300 of its employees in its Indian unit. This means Foodpanda India, which launched in 2012, has lost 15 ...

 Qualcomm announced today that it has inked new patent licensing deals in China with smartphone manufacturers Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment and Haier Group. The San Diego-based chipmaker...

 Based on practical experience with hundreds of early stage companies over many years, we generally recommend the following budgeting best practices. We call it the Bessemer Optimal Budget, and i...

 There are few things as exciting as shooting things into the air using a 3D-printed cannon. That’s why this video is so important – and so educational. The two lads who made it, Davi...

 India has now become one of the largest bases for startups in the world after the United States, the United Kingdom, and China. It is also the youngest with more than 72 percent of its startups ...

 Massdrop‘s investors have argued that the group commerce site is more a community than a straightforward marketplace. Here’s one way that Massdrop is doing things differently —...

 Clinkle imploded after employees quit en masse in May, protesting how its young CEO Lucas Duplan was mismanaging the $30 million-funded payments startup. But Duplanwon’t quit. TechCrunch h...

 Let’s be real. The insurance industry has barely evolved since Benjamin Franklin introduced the concept in the late 1700s. You’d think after three hundred years and a market size of ...

 During all of Twitter’s changes this year, one move stuck out as quite significant…its Chief Communications Officer Gabriel Stricker announced that he was leaving the company. A R...

 Sidecar, the on-demand car service that was supposed to compete with Lyft and Uber, is shutting down at the end of this year, Sidecar CEO Sunil Paul wrote on Medium. In August, Sidecar basically...

 Given that no real, average human is scooting to first period on a hover board, there sure are quite a few of them hovering about on the internet, from the almost-real to the shamefully (and dan...

 Look around any crowded place nowadays and it’s quite clear that many of us have literally become prisoners of our own devices: smartphones, tablets, laptops — anything and everythin...

 GIF-sharing is so 2015. Or at least, a startup called Yarn hopes that will be the case. The team’s recently launched mobile app offers a different way to have fun while messaging your frie...

 Samsung and SmartThings are buddying up to introduce Samsung’s latest line of Smart TVs, complete with SmartThings platform integration so folks can use their TVs as an interface to contro...

 Samsung Pay plans a major expansion in the United States next year. Users will be able to make purchases on websites with Samsung Pay, which puts it into more direct competition with services li...

 Last year on TechCrunch I made eight predictions about digital media. This post compares those predictions to the reality that is digital media in 2015. Read More ...

 Twitter has hired Jeffrey Siminoff to replace Janet Van Huysse as the company’s new vice president of diversity and inclusion. The news was announced on, yep, Twitter, by its head of human...

 Last week, we wrote about18 female founders about whom the TechCrunch staff happened to find ourselves discussingrecently. We ran that list of rising stars and asked you, readers, for your own i...

 An old proverb advises, “Keep a thing seven years, and you’ll find a use for it.” Well, it’s been about seven years since there were officially more “things” ...

 More consumers were unwrapping new “phablet” devices this holiday season, according to a report out this afternoon from Flurry. The big-screened form factor, whose name is a mashup o...

 Just-spotted trademark applications from Apple-owned BeatsElectronics, LLC point to Apple’s plans to introduce more live streaming radio stations to its Apple Music service to accompany it...

 A good handful of apps have emerged to expand the capabilities of Live Photos introduced inthe iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, including a tool to turn Live Photos into GIFs, a Live Photo editor called A...

 In an article that should bring you and yours a bit of holiday warmth, the Washington Post has found that despite Amazon used bookstores are still thriving – for now. They have found that ...

 After a multitude of worthy nominations, TechCrunch isproud to announce the 9th Annual Crunchies Awardsfinalists. Take a peek below at the full list of finalists for each award category. There a...

 Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s inability to fish in thee! In northern, colder climes, fish, as we all know, tend to freeze right in place and take nutrients ...

 With the increased use of online therapy and wellness-based mobile applications, the field of mental health is following in the path of physical health initiatives in the design of more accessib...

 If you play video games, chances are you’ve played Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed. After all, it’s one of the most popular video game franchises in history, with over 73 mill...

 It looks like Santa delivered a lot of Fitbits for Christmas this year. After topping the App Store just afterChristmas morning, Fitbit’s stock has shot up by around5 percent in pre-market...

 All across the web companies are collecting information about you whether you like it or not. Knowing which companies are more trustworthy with your information than others and how to keep yours...

Here — in our latest festive period gallery — we look at 11 notable companies that are giving Uber a run for its money in one way or another across Asia. Read More ...

 Amazon is a company famous for press releases that are devoid of actual information. (As we saw after Thanksgiving.) But, in a rare moment of selective truth telling, the company just revealed t...

 Viadeo, the French rival to LinkedIn, is to exit China in order to focus on becoming a profitable business. In another cut-cutting move, it will also close its data center in California and migr...

 GoPro started working on drones a few months ago in order to stake a claim in this multibillion-dollar market. This is a natural for them, as they will be able to offer the best flying immersive...

 Things weren’t looking good for Tesla in China in early 2015. The luxury automaker faced tax breaks that favor domestic manufacturers, complex local license-plate laws and an army of sophi...

 After seeing big and small competitors collapsing or withdrawing altogether from the race, Groupon still enjoys an undisputed leadership in the deal space. However, with slow growth in North Ame...

 The subject of contention isFree Basics, Facebook and Internet.org‘s app that offers free data access but only to a limited section of the Internet. Free Basics is available in roughly 35 ...

 Gone are the days of the 40-hour work week that kept us at work eight hours a day. I find that most startup founders or business owners in Silicon Valley work 50-60 hours a week. Today, freelanc...

 Merry Christmas! 2015 was a truly great year in technology, bringing us self-driving electric cars, reusable orbital rockets, the rise of precision gene editing… and some lesser achievemen...

 I’ve always wanted to make a lot of money, have people pay a lot of attention to me and do a lot of exciting things. I just never knew how. Many of my friends who are founders of their own...

 On Christmas day, the world was given a gift by Oculus, Samsung, UNINTERRUPTED, and LeBron James during the Warriors and Cavaliers game. The two companies who paired up for Samsung’s Gear ...

 A Theranos testing center in Mesa, Arizona has informed me they are not allowed to use Theranos’ proprietary equipment to test for herpes simplex 1, the only test the FDA has so far g...

 Moore’s Law is bound to pop up any time you read an article about the future of technology. Moore’s Law is common knowledge in tech; it deals with the exponential growth of the numbe...

 The beauty of the cloud is the promise of simplification and standardization — without regard to physical or geographic boundaries. It’s this “any time, any place, any device&#...

 In a world of statistics, here’s a number that stands out: 71. That’s how many times the word “innovation” was mentioned in a communiqu issued after the Chinese Communist...

 A review of the new Michael Lewis movie The Big Short describes a scene during the 2008 financial crisis in which renters were “kicked out of their homes because their landlord didn’...

 Artificial intelligence is one of the most exciting and transformative opportunities of our time. From my vantage point as a venture investor at Playfair Capital, where I focus on investing and ...

 Lyft is now partly owned by Saudi princeAl-Waleed Bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud. The prince led a recent$247.7 million round for a roughly 5 percent stake in the ridesharing service – pu...

 Holiday shopping, long a staple in American life, has undergone significant change over the past half century. The “Miracle on 34th Street” post-war tradition of heading downtown to ...

 Alibaba will reportedly invest $1.25 billion in Ele.me, a food delivery service based in Shanghai, says financial news site Caixin (link via Google Translate). The deal would Alibaba the startup...

 Convincing people that the development of the logistics industry is a scintillating topic is difficult. I mean, just look at this stock photo. The artist had to layer together at least five (pos...

 ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not an iPhone was buzzing, nor the click of a mouse; The Androids were plugged on the night stand with care, In hopes that new ...

 Following in the footsteps of China and the U.S., Southeast Asia is on the cusp of an e-commerce golden age. With online shopping accounting for only 1 percent of retail today, the region is sla...

 On the day before Christmas, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey took to Twitter to amp folks up about what’s to come sometime in Q1 next year, the consumer version of the Rift. There are tons of...

 The financial services industry is a cutthroat market with razor-thin margins, making it one of the toughest industries in which to generate profit. Yet, for fintech startups, it is one of the l...

 Twitter did not have a lovely 2015.The world-famous social company sawits revenue rise, its usage flatten, and its share price fall. The companyfailed to change the arc of its own narrative duri...

 2015 was a big year for video — especially when it came to user-generated video. Now there are services like Periscope and Meerkat, which are enabling users to broadcast the world around t...

 The acclaimed accelerator 500 Startups is eyeing an aggressive global expansion plan in 2016, with 10 new micro-funds planned globally and as the investment firm plots its next course founder an...

 What was on the mind of the tech industry in 2015? Plenty of course, but judging by the emails flowing into the TC inbox a few topics recurred enough to rise to the top of the preoccupations lis...

 It’s probably too late to order a gift for your friends or family, but it’s certainly not too late to give the gift of a subscription. They can range from actual, physical deliveries...

 Force fields aren’t real, at least not yet. Cars are dangerous. So whether you’re in an Uber, Lyft, taxi, or you’re driving yourself, buckle your seatbelt. Several friends of m...

 Remember when kids just peered out at the stars, trying to spot the lights of Santa’s sleigh (or Rudolph’s shiny nose)?Well, thosedays are long gone. Santa tracking once again has re...

 The key question that nearly everyone is asking is this: how can we reliably affect behavior change to increase the well-being of groups large and small, across America? The future of preventati...

 2015 was an eventful year for the tech industry in Asia. Funding started to flow in India, which is expected to become the world’s second-largest Internet market soon, while many tech comp...

 A U.S. Department of Labor report last year stated there were approximately 57,000 PR managers and 208,000 PR specialists in America; conversely, there were only 46,500 journalists. Do the math....

 Over the past few months, violence has once again scarred Israel and the Palestinian Territories, yet despitethe violence and the losses on both sides of the conflict, technology companies in th...

 Carousell, a three-year-old mobile marketplace that enables social commerce, could emerge as the next big e-commerce player in Southeast Asia. That’s because, according to multiple sources...

 Hyatt, the global hotel chain with 627 properties across more than 50, countries is the latest in its industry to suffer a cyber security attack. Read More ...

 In the words of DJ Khaled: “Another One!” Jumping on the daily fantasy sports bandwagon, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has joined NY AG EricSchneiderman in decidingthat Draf...

 Less than a year after its last round, Innovid is announcing that it has raised $27.5 million in new funding. The New York City-headquartered company works with more than 220advertisers, includi...

 Diverse people — people of color, LGBTQ men and women, women in general, people with disabilities, older people, younger people, etc. — have contributed a lot to the overall tech eco...

 As Silicon Valley startups continue chasing private valuations, entrepreneurs in the Midwest are following an entirely different approach. Our goal is the same — to build world-class busin...

 They say there’s not supposed to be much M&A action the week of Christmas, but Salesforce apparently didn’tget the memo, picking up quote-to-cash vendor SteelBrick today for $360...

 It is now time for a second era – NNI 2.0. A return to higher and sustained investment, the purpose of NNI 2.0 should be not just foundational research but also necessary support for rapi...

 Palantir, the data analytics platform used by government agencies and law enforcement pocketed $880 million in new funding, according to a filing from the Securities and Exchange Commission out ...

 Enterprises over the last decade have devoted large portions of their IT budgets to collecting, securing and analyzing huge volumes of big data. Or at least trying to. But heading into 2016, the...

 Kymeta, the developer of a new, “smart” antenna, recently completed a milestone test for their core technology, the mTenna. Designed to bring Wi-Fi to cars, planes, and boats, the mT...

 Slack and Atlassian, the two leaders in the enterprise software market, are on a collision course, whether they like it or not.< Slack has been the clear leader in media hype so far, as the ...

 Founded in 2010 as a DIY app and website development platform, Bizness Appshas quietlyturned its attention to resellers and digital agencies, becoming one of the largestproviders of white-label ...

 Evernote is a company very much in transition, and that’s highlighted by the exit of couple of notable vice presidents at the company.Vice President of Partnerships Alex Pachikov, a nine-y...

 Dinner Lab is laying off around 30 employees from their full-time positions as it shifts to a contract-based model for its events staff, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Most of those layoff...

 The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) drone registry went online on Monday. As the agency announcedthis morning, more than 45,000 people have nowused the online service to regis...

 Startups can now reach international markets almost immediately at launch. Product/market fit is geographically, industry and company-size agnostic — SaaS makes your product adoption almos...

 Clever CEO Tyler Bosmeny says that more than 50,000 schools are now using the service — and that this year, and next, are going to be the years that education tech in general finally hits ...

 Hello and welcome to Bullish, TechCrunch’s first talk show. This episode matters a bit more to me than usual, as itis the last weekthat I will host. After an amazing few years at TechCrunc...

 After a couple of weeks of rumors, The Beatles website confirmed that the entire band’s catalog will be available on Spotify, Apple music and all music streaming services out there startin...

 Twitter has announced a partnership with Lookup, a chat app that connects consumers with retailers, which will allow its users to make purchases and find information using 140 characters. Read M...

 Free Basics, a service by Facebook initiative Internet.org, is having a rough week in India. First, an email campaign by the social media network was criticized for being heavy-handed and mislea...

 Free Basics, a service by Facebook initiative Internet.org, is having a rough week in India. First, an email campaign by the social media network was criticized for being heavy-handed and mislea...

 Drone registration may seem like unnecessary hassle for some, but an incident at the alpine skiing world cup this week illustrated why the FAA is pushing for regulation. Read More ...

 After a ten week trial and more than 3 years after the raid on Kim Dotcom’s mansion, a New Zealand judge has denied an extradition stay for Kim Dotcom and his three business associates. Th...

 Good lighting can mean the difference between time for business and business time. That’s why Fluxo is so cool. This unique crowdfunded lightbulb can do all the color-changing magic you...

 The Happy Home Companyisaiming to eliminate the headaches of home maintenance and improvement, and it’s raised $3.5 million in seed funding. The companyhas been relatively quiet, at least ...

 In the words of Pitbull, “Ask for money, get advice. Ask for advice, get money twice.” When you’re shopping for a VC, you might want to take Pitbull at least a little seriously...

 You know, there’s basically nothing I can add to this post that I didn’t say in the headline, outside of “hahahaha, rad.” Not sure what you’re looking at? That̵...

The Kano Computer Kit does not normally come with a screen but it works with almost any TV or Monitor with an HDMI connection. But they have just released The Screen Kit – a portable, HD display...

 After years of ridiculing the cloud,Oracle has been taking ita lot more seriously recently, and it quietlypurchased StackEngine last Friday as part of aneffort to boost its Platform as a Service...

 Gojimo, an app that helps U.K. high school students prepare for exams, has picked up a further $1.8 million in funding, bringing total raised by the 2013-founded startup to just over $3 million....

 SegNet is a new system created by the University of Cambridge that can “read” a road and assess various features including street signs, road markers, people, and even sky. The syste...

 One of the most asked questions about the Oculus Rift is “when are we getting them?” and the founder of the company continues to update those who are waiting patiently. According to ...

 Airplane ridesharing startup Flytenow today announced that it is shutting down after a court recently upheld the FAA’s power to regulate what does (and does not) constitute a commercial av...

 The Internet is rife with articles espousing digital trends in every shape and form: video is still going strong, IoT, live streaming and “super real-time.” But trends are just that:...

 It’s been a pretty awfulyear to be a unicorn in 2015. Box and Square went public this year at significantly less than their last private valuation, Box at a 30percentdiscount and Square at...

 Whosaid making money in the stock market is easy?In a year the market was essentially flat, a few tech stocks had a really tough time staying afloat. Companies like Twitter, Groupon, and Yahoo a...

   Last week, on an internal conversational thread here at TechCrunch,the staff began chatting about some of female founders who’ve made a major dent on the tech scene in 2015, and the...

 It seems like 2015 was the year of the “emoji.” I mean, a damn emoji was the “word of the year.” This year is ending with a massive bang on the App Store thanks to Kim Ka...

 By now, there’s a pretty good chance that you’ve seen the new Star Wars movie — and for those who haven’t, don’t worry: no spoilers here. At long last, we’ve ...

 Right before the holidays, Instagram snuck in an update for its most second-most popular spun-out app, Boomerang. The app currently sits in the top 250 on the App Store’s free apps.The cha...

 Google confirmed this morning it’s nowtesting a new way to sign into your Google account without having to type in a password. Instead, those who have been invited to try this new methodof...

 There are a number of holiday app sales now running as mobile developers slash prices in hopes of reaching potentialcustomers who will soon be unwrapping smartphones for Christmas. But one of th...

 Around tenyears ago, Jules Urbach was sitting at the table at his mom’s house, coding away, when there was a knock at the door. His mom answered, but the visitor was for him. Directors J.J...

 We’ve gotten a fair bit of play out of Google’s latest $35 Chromecast leading up to the holidays. The games are pretty fun, and you can’t beat it for the price. In time for sai...

 Can’t figure out what to get your friends and family members for the holidays? How about a ticket to the 9th Annual Crunchies award show in San Francisco? The Crunchies take place on Febru...

 Flywheel, the no-surge-fee taxi startup that hopes to challenge on-demand ride services like Uber and Lyft, is expanding its TaxiOS platform. Flywheel’s TaxiOS, which launched back in Octo...

 One year old HomeTouch, which has just picked up additional undisclosed funding from Passion Capital, operates a home care marketplace to let families with elderly parents and others needing ...

 Burnout is as real as it gets. Burnout is a period of life when your thinking has become relentlessly intrusive, and quieting such thinking only makes it worse, similar to that of anxiety, depre...

 Google is bringing its Spotlight Stories – immersive, 360-degree animated videos meant to introduce a new form of storytelling – to YouTube, the company announced this morning. The f...

 Stock video service VideoBlocks today announced that it will soon start selling clips from the Discovery Channel’s Discovery Access library in its recently launched Marketplace. In total, ...

 Apple has submitted a formal statement to the bill committee working on a new complex and controversial surveillance law in the U.K., The Guardian reports. The submission was just released, and ...

 Stratos isn’t dead yet. The Michigan-based startup just signed an agreement with Ciright One LLC to take over the fledgling company. Under their agreement, Ciright One will manage and fulf...

 Meet Alto Mail, a new mobile app to manage your emails on your phone. The app was created by AOL (TechCrunch’s parent company) but supports Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo!, iCloud and AOL Mail. Whi...

 Who will buy Bouygues Telecom? Rumor has it that the telecom company has been looking for a buyer for a while now. And it looks like Orange might be interested after all in order to make sure it...

 Just in time for CES, consumer electronics giant Toshiba announced another wave of layoffs. This time, the company plans to axe 6,800 jobs in the consumer electronics business. It represents aro...

 Google and Ford are planning to develop and build self-driving vehicles together in a joint venture and will announce the deal at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, says ...

 India’s transportation app future isn’t just about Uber and billion-dollar homegrown rival Ola. That’s because Shuttl, an eight-month-old startup that provides air-conditioned ...

 Uber China, Uber’s independent business in China, has announced this morning that it has taken a strategic investment from Chinese automaker GAC Group. Read More ...

 Well look who entered the shade-throwing game on Twitter: Mr. Jeff Bezos. Read More ...

 If you’re developing a launch title for the upcoming Oculus Rift, you may have gotten a little good news in your inbox this evening. The company says that it’s still shipping Rift ha...

 Traditionally, physical security and cybersecurity have been considered two separate entities. The cybersecurity threat, while significant, was often relegated to the sphere of enterprises, indi...

 SpaceX has done it. Elon Musk’s rocket startup just successfully launched and then landed a Falcon 9 rocket some 10 minutes later. This comes after several attempts that ended in fiery exp...

Entrepreneur and Sacramento Kings owner Vivek Ranadive sat down with TechCrunch to discuss how he’ll be allocating the University of California’s $250 million investment. The venture fund ...

 SpaceX is set to launch and then attempt to land a rocket at 8:29 PM Eastern Standard Time. This time around, though, SpaceX is attempting to land the rocket on solid ground rather than a roboti...

 We’re hearing a lot of chatterthat Foursquare is in the process of raising a new fundraising round that will be a down round. The exact dollar value of what the company is raising, as well...

 We’re hearing a lot of chatterthat Foursquare is in the process of raising a new fundraising round that will be a down round. If the round is indeed being raised on a lower valuation than ...

 In today’s episode of “boring patents…wait, WHAT ARE THOSE???”, it looks like Twitter filed a patent for messaging with or from, or both, an unmanned vehicle (drone!) in ...

 In today’s episode of “boring patents…wait, WHAT ARE THOSE???”, it looks like Twitter filed a patent for messaging with or from, or both, an unmanned vehicle (drone!) in ...

 You can’t hold an awards show without a stellar host. The Oscars had Neil Patrick Harris. The VMAs had Miley. And the Emmys, coincidentally, had Andy Samberg. Why is that a coincidence? Be...

 Before I took an arrow to the knee I was quite the adventurer. From Dragonsreach to Blue Palace I’ve visited them all and I have the mugs and commemorative shot glasses to prove it. But wh...

 The holiday season is here. For many of us that means lots of shopping. Are you doing most of your shopping online or in stores? If you’re like most consumers, the answer is both, but with...

 As promised, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) launched its droneregistry today. If you live in the U.S. and own any kind of drone that weighs more than 0.55 pounds and less than 55 poun...

 If you’re buying a Tesla Model S, you can probably afford to bring your own tunes to the mix, but the company has announced today that you’ll get free Spotify Premium integration wit...

 Lyft has authorized a Series F round in which it could raise as much as $1 billion, according to a report by Bloomberg, citing a Delaware state filing. We hear that Credit Suisse is running the ...

 OK, it doesn’t exist just yet, but one group called “Pinball Labs” has a new Kickstarter to bring back the feels you felt when you entered an arcade with tons of pinball games....

 Today, Yahoo announced that one of their crown jewels, its relationship with NBC Sports, has been renewed. In a post, Ian Weingarten, SVP, Corporate Development and Partnerships, said: We’...

 For the past year and a half the Brooklyn-based development shop, HappyFunCorp has been laboring over a new graph that would offer new ways to interact with Twitter and Instagram. Now, just in t...

 Square is announcing that the App Marketplace has seen 100,000 sellers connected, a number that has doubled since January of last year. Read More ...

 Microsoft is buying Talko, the mobilemessaging startup founded by Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’sformer Chief Software Architect until 2010. The company says today the acquisition, whose terms were...

 Twoformer Theranos employees have filed complaints so far with the Food and Drug Administration over alleged faulty test results. The latest complaint is aimed at a test for herpes – and i...

 It’s been just under 3 months since Apple debuted “Live Photos” with the iPhone 6s and, slowly but surely, big third parties are finding ways to integrate them. Tumblr picked t...

 2015 was not a good year for IPOs. In fact, it was the worst year for tech IPOs since the financial crisis in 2009, with more and more startupsopting to remain private longer. Stock market swing...

 UK-based mobile wallet appYoyo Wallethas quietly brought their mobile payment technology to the U.S. and has been stealthily rolling out services with select partners in a private beta. The comp...

 We Heart It, an image bookmarking service popular with teenaged girls, is out now with its second mobile application called Easel. The new app is designed to complement We Heart It’s main ...

 Blaze has come a long way. After participating in our Hardware Battlefield competition two years ago, the company signed a deal with a big client, London’s bike-sharing program. Read More ...

 Alibaba has brought in a former Apple counterfeit executive to battle its own problem of fake goods. Read More ...

 The Dell-EMC deal has had so many moving pieces since it was announced in October, it’s hard to tell the players without a score card. This morning, Pivotal, which is jointly owned by EMC ...

 I recently had an interesting conversation with someone who argued against the viability of artificial intelligence startups, given the tremendous budgets and development resources large tech co...

 Meet Alive, a Swiss army knife for live photos on the iPhone 6s. There are many live photo editing apps out there, but this one is particularly well designed. Alive lets you turn your live photo...

 Administrate, the Scottish startup that offers a Sofware-as-a-Service for training providers, has raised a $2.5 million funding round. So far, so routine. But the company is also talking up a re...

 Administrate, the Scottish startup that offers a Sofware-as-a-Service for training providers, has raised a $2.5 million funding round. So far, so routine. But the company is also talking up a re...

 Gusto (formerly ZenPayroll) is looking to raise $50 million, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange commission. That’s only natural for the startup, which is increasingly c...

 The Stratos Card is about to jump in the deadpool. The company behind the universal credit card is shutting down, TechCrunch has confirmed from several sources. Founded in 2012 by Thiago Olson a...

 China may be the world’s largest app market when it comes to downloads, but new data indicates that those download numbers aren’t translating into loyal users who return to apps on r...

 Glass printing is, as you can imagine, a pretty heady process. It requires a lot of heat and a lot of luck and a general acceptance that your print will look awful simply because the glass will ...

 Chinese tech trends are distinctly different to North America’s but today, in a move that bears parallels to WeChat-only companies, popular messaging app Kik acquired the small company beh...

 If you love Star Wars have we got a 3D printing project for you. MontyBug of the BB8BuildersClub has posted a build record of his model BB-8 droid. The droid is made of 3D printed parts and a li...

 In the past few months, Tinder has been working on a feature called Super Like, which let users tell one of their matches that the situation is more serious than simply swiping right. Today, Cof...

 One of Google X’s former moonshots is raising cash as it looks to disrupt the architecture design space with its specialized collaborative data exchange service. Flux Factory, Inc. announc...

 CellSaversco-founder Itai Hirsch was not a fan of driving to a local repair shop after he’d broken many of his phones and tablets. So he decided to take a run at building CellSavers, an on...

 That didn’t take long. Just one week after announcing that Taylor Swift would be releasing her 1989 World Tour film on Apple Music, the film is now available exclusively to Apple Music sub...

 Telecommunications infrastructure company Ericsson just announced that it has reached an agreement with Apple over an ongoing patent dispute. For the next seven years, Apple will pay a fraction ...

 Qihoo, a Beijing-based developer of security software and Internet browsers, announced on Friday that it will go private in a deal worth $9.3 billion. As Reuters notes, this makes Qihoo the late...

 Have you hired someone straight out of college in the last decade? If you have, it comes as no shock that today’s education system simply isn’t creating job-ready employees. Far from...

 Tonight, “60 Minutes” is airing a segment on Apple, in which interviewer Charlie Rose talks with CEO Tim Cook about running a modern-day tech giant and the challengesthe company face...

 Looking at startups from the outside, it’s easy to assume the startup game is just that, a game. A game with big winners and glorious and rapid rises to the top. Of billion-dollar valuatio...

 Included within the FAST Act is a section, the Reforming Access for Investments in Startup Enterprises (“RAISE”) Act, which codifies a previously unwritten means through which startu...

 As incredible as it might seem, processing trash may represent a future unique investment opportunity. Consider the new technologies that will operate on the micro scale, breaking the bonds of m...

 The presence of the investors – in large numbers from both the region and beyond, including Silicon Valley – at a recent RiseUp event in Cairo indicated that entrepreneurship in the ...

 Four of these fabled creatures popped up along the Wasatch this last year,including Omniture founder Josh James’ business intelligence platform Domo. There’s also Pluralsight, Qualtr...

 There are two types of people in the world: people who will encrypt and people who will not. The former cohort is far smaller than the latter. That should change, but it won’t. In essence ...

 The LED revolution is over. To no one’s surprise, LEDs have won. Solid-state lighting is changing how we light the world, successfully displacing traditional illumination sources across ev...

 The worlds of gaming, sports, live music, commerce and adult entertainment are all primed for a revolutionary consumption shift with the advent of virtual reality (VR). Fantasy shall become real...

 An interesting story made the rounds back in August. While conducting a search for “python lambda function list comprehension,” programmer Max Rosett was suddenly invited to attempt ...

 In SpaceX’s first orbital attempt since its failed June 28 attemptto reach the International Space Station, the Hawthorne, Ca.-based company plans tolaunch a Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket tomorrow....

 In SpaceX’s first orbital attempt since its failed June 28 attemptto reach the International Space Station, the Hawthorne, Ca.-based company plans tolaunch a Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket tomorrow....

 Israeli finance technology has taken giant leaps in the last few years. Hundreds of local startups are developing new technologies for payment and security solutions, and multinational companies...

 The ratio of overcooked concepts to ideas that might genuinely be called ‘revolutionary’ has long been skewed on crowdfunding platforms, but when a “founder” is pitching ...

 The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek. Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, December 18, 2015. The Gang winds things up for 2015 with a quick tour of...

 Hello code bootcamp graduates, and welcome to an exciting and fulfilling career! As you know by now, programming is a highly creative art in which you get to build things that change the world e...

 Donald Trump; Bernie Sanders; Jeremy Corbyn; Marine Le Pen. If you had suggested only a decade ago that any one of those four might become a significant political figure, you would have been lau...

 We spent a large part of the year in the cities of Manila, Bangkok, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur speaking to local enterprises about this (too) broad and (too) overused term: the Internet of Things ...

 Digital therapy is the new frontier of health innovation — and the tech world has taken notice. Myriad apps promise to make you happier, more mindful, less anxious — you name it. But...

 Facebook should tell me what to do tonight. It already knows what I like, where I live, and who I hang out with. Now it will. After accidentally becoming the most powerful force in party invitat...

 Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today, December 18, at 1:00pmPT.Chat with the Gillmor Gang during their live...

 Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today.Chat with the Gillmor Gang during their live broadca...

 The United StatesDepartment of Justice is pursuinga criminal investigation around Uber’s May 2014 data breach, Reuters, citing “sources familiar with the situation,” reported.L...

 With the holiday season in full swing, we’re looking forward to everything CES has to offer in the new year. But we’re also prepping for more gift-giving, following along with the Te...

 If you’re looking to build your own Christmas tree out of plastic this year, you’ve come to the right place. I’ve collected my five favorite 3D printers that you should be able...

 It’s no secret, we love startups. And yet, finding the perfect gift for a startup lover is challenging. The great thing is that some of our favorite startups are now making cool hardware p...

 Microsoft announced today that it has purchased Metanautix, a big-data focused startup that came out of stealth in 2014. The company was backed by $7 million in capital, including cash from well...

 The robots at RE^2 robotics are tricksy devils. In this video a pair of robot manipulators carefully cut out a snowflake-shaped piece of paper with a pair of regular scissors – a feat that...

 Since the debut of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, which introduced support for a new, animated type of photo called Live Photos, a number of apps have launched to help iPhone owners do more with tho...

 This week, tech companies geared up for the Star Wars: The Force Awakens premiere with a bunch of fun Easter eggs like this phonesaber from Google, WhatsApp was ordered to shut down in Brazil, a...

 The past decade has rendered the music industry unrecognizable. Digital music is king and songs are purchased (and created) in the cloud. Faster computer processing and affordable hardware allow...

 Last summer, we told you about a new competition sponsored by Pejman Mar Ventures, a two-year-old, Palo Alto, Ca., venture firm with close ties to Stanford anda growing interest in technologies ...

 Five years ago Whitney Bouck joined Box from EMC Documentumto teach them a thing or two about the enterprise. Today she announced she was leaving the company. Her last day at Box is today. In an...

 The first millennial CEO is leading the end of “two-pocket thinking” Read More ...

 Target may launch its own mobile wallet as soon as next year, according to a report out this morning from Reuters, citing unnamed sources. The move would put the fourth-largest U.S. retailer in ...

 Andreessen Horowitz partner and longtime mobile analyst Benedict Evans met with reporters in San Francisco yesterday morning to discuss the 16 mobile trendsthat he thinks will be the most worth ...

 Quantum computing is moving from theory and experimentation into engineering and applications. But now that quantum computing is going mainstream, it is incumbent on businesses and governments t...

 Facebook this year continuedto hold the number one position as the top app installed on U.S. smartphones based on the average number of unique users, according to a new report out this week from...

 It’s impossible to escape Star Wars. And that’s great! What follows are some of the best Star War-themed gifts available right now. From droids, to LEGO kits, to plush toys, this lis...

 Lily, a drone that is meant to satisfy all your selfie needs, has today announced the close of a $14 million Series A of funding, with investors including Spark Capital, SV Angel, Stanfrod-Start...

 Getting users to sign up for your startup is really hard. That’s why young companies often create promo codes to entice users to recruit friends in return forfree cash or credits.While we&...

 Finnish mobile OS maker Jolla, whose Sailfish platform is one of the few remaining alternatives trying to fight the Android-iOS duopoly, has pulled out of its latest financing death valley by cl...

 Facebook now gets around8 billion video views on its platform each day, and the social network hasmade no secret of its plans to make it an even bigger part of the experience in the future. Now ...

 With Project Loon and Internet.org Companies like Google and Facebook are spending hundreds of millions of dollars each to ensure that everyone on the planet has access to the internet, but with...

 A kerfuffle in Indonesia today illustrated the unpredictable nature of regulators and regulations when it comes to ride-sharing services in Southeast Asia, the region that’s collectively h...

 Truecaller, the European company behind the popular caller ID app of the same name, has laid off 30 staff across its Stockholm, India and San Francisco offices as part of an apparent staffing st...

 Rivigo, an Indian startup that wants to build a more reliable and safer logistics network, has raised a $30 million Series B led by SAIF Partners. The funding, which includes equity and debt fin...

 Evernote bought popular annotation app Skitch back in 2011 and, after incurring the wrath of loyal users for a series of unpopular updates, it is finally saying goodbye to it for good after anno...

 Chinese consumers will have access to Apple Pay soon, after Apple struck a partnership with China UnionPay, the government-approved organization that is the only bank card issuer in the country....

 Here’s a funny reality. Despite the steady rise of e-commerce since the 1990s, we still stroll through malls and shops. Even with one-click ordering and overnight delivery, we purchase man...

 DFJ, the renowned Sand Hill Road Firm, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. At the same time, its low-flying, later-stage offshoot, DFJ Growth, is turning 10. This week, we caught up w...

 Apple launchedaredesignedversion of itsMac in Business sitethis week asits love affair with IBM continued to develop.As the name implies, the siteshowcases Apple’s enterpriseacumen and the...

 Today Dell subsidiary SecureWorks filed to go public, showing expanding revenue, and ramping losses. Dell, then a public company, acquired SecureWorks in 2011 for a reported $612 million. TechCr...

 Two quick hits from the world of Microsoft before you head off and plunge your upper body in eggnog: A new Windows 10 Mobile build is out for users on both the Fast and Slow rings of the Insider...

 If you’re a Vine user then you know that finding new clips can be difficult. I rely mostly on my network to surface really funny Loops, but the team wants to make it easier for you. Today ...

 In the latest episode of “holy shit, how is this guy not in jail…oh, he is…cool”, the FBI was forced to make a statement about today’s arrest of Martin Shkreli for ...

 Yesterday, the California DMV posted a draft of proposed regulations for self-driving vehicles. Obviously, Google was waiting to see what came down and now that they’ve had some time to lo...

 Collecting genome data is reliable, fast and cheap. Yet, interpreting that data is unreliable, slow, and expensive — when it’s even possible. Today, genome interpretation is a burgeo...

 Breitling, maker of fine watches for people who fly airplanes (or would like to fly airplanes), has just released the Exospace B55, a smartwatch that can relay messages from your phone and inclu...

 Who won the Republican debate? Read More ...

 Gillette announcedtoday that it has filed suit against Dollar Shave Club, seeking both damages and an injunction to stop the startup from selling razors that useallegedly infringing technology. ...

 Earlier this fall, an analysis of the Top Grossing apps on the iTunes App Store revealed that HBO NOW, the network’s app for cord cutters, had surged to become the top video streaming app ...

 Here at TechCrunch, we see a lot of stuff — gadgets, gizmos, apps, doo-dads, and electro-whatnots. Name a gadget, and someone on staff has probably obsessed over it, torn it apart, or worn...

 Remember Microsoft’sSilverlight Flash competitor? Few people probably do (and Microsoft has long given up on it), but for the longest time, you needed Silverlight to watch Netflix in your ...

 German startup Number26 just launched a new product. As the company is trying to reinvent your banking experience, this isn’t your average product. Number26 is launching a Maestro Card in ...

 There’s no shortage of ideas and projects in the virtual reality space. There are tons of studios popping up all over the world to create immersive content for the platform. With the Oculu...

 DoorDash, known for its on-demand food delivery service, has partnered with newly-launched retail store b8ta.b8ta,founded by four former Nest alums, opened earlier this month in Palo Alto to sel...

 Google wants you to feel safe and comfy in storing your data with them on all of their properties. One particular product probably has your most important documents — Google Drive. Today, ...

 Microsoft has a new app out called ‘Microsoft Apps‘ on Android that contains a list of its Android apps that you can download on the Android app store. There are two parts to this de...

 Pinterest has a new way to entice users to come back and buy things: keeping tabs on the price. That comes in the form today of a new tool that helps Pinterest users monitor price drops on produ...

 Amazon already has the number one Shopping app in the App Store, but the company believes it still has room to grow. Now, to incentivize more customersto install its app and shop from their phon...

 Here comes real-time video marketing. Today Facebook gave all Verified Pages the ability to broadcast on its Periscope-style Live feature. Sports teams, TV shows, bands, and brands can now start...

 Rob Leathern is hoping to help publishers embrace ad blocking, and he’s doing it under a familiar name — Optimal.com, which was previously the social ad company where Leathern was fo...

 The people want what they want and they want bigger phones. Apple’s sales record has beengangbusterssince the introduction ofits larger iPhone 6, 6 Plus and iPhone 6s phones. Samsung also ...

 Buckle up because the TechCrunch Events Calendar is out. We want you to join us as we travel the United States to bring you insightful, fun and valuable experiences.Our events range from meetups...

 Radically transparent social media scheduling firm Buffer, which does stuff like publish its staff salaries and publicly detail its company revenue, has announced its first major acquisition ...

 Apple announced a series of changes to its leadership team this morning, including, most notably, the promotion of Jeff Williams to COO, a role that had not been filled since Tim Cook became App...

 In November, Google through its copyright legal director Fred Von Lohmann announced it would offer legal support on the basis of fair use to a select group of content creators on YouTube that re...

 Funnely, a startup that helps e-commerce companies automate and improve their ad campaigns on Facebook and Instagram, has raised $988,000 in a seed round led by Verizon Ventures. The product use...

 With the Microsoft HoloLens, an augmented reality headset, the Redmond-based firm is trying to get developers excited about its potential as early as possible, opening a HoloLens experience sect...

 Adobe unveiled a newsocial graphics app today called Adobe Post, which now joins an expanding suite of applications aimed at encouraging mobile creativity, including Adobe Slate, Adobe Voice, an...

 Mobile messaging is eating the world. So it follows that mobile messaging interfaces will eat UI design. To wit: meet Stepes, a “chat-based translation app” created by veteran softwa...

 In the tech world it’s just not the holidays until First Round Capital drops its annual holiday video. It’s that time again, folks. The annual festivities started way back in 2008, t...

 Kamcord, the YC-backed company that offers a Twitch-like game streaming service for mobile devices, just made its biggest announcement to date after it enabled any user of its Android app to liv...

 Flipboard, the mobile and web app with some 82 million monthly active users who use the app toread content from around the web in a magazine-style layout,is todaytaking the wraps off a new versi...

 Purch just announced that it has acquired ShopSavvy, the mobile shoppingstartup backed by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. Purch was formerly known as TechMediaNetwork and operates sites inc...

 Tastemade, the maker of food and lifestyle videos, has raised a $40 million financing round led by Goldman Sachs. Participating investors in the Series D round include, Redpoint Ventures, Comcas...

 Service, the LA-based customer service startup that recently closed a $3.1M seed round,just launched its iOS app. As a refresher, Service acts as an intermediary between disappointed customers a...

 Billion-dollar Chinese Internet firm Tencent bought an undisclosed majority stake in Riot Games back in February 2011, and now it has closed out the deal by fully acquiring the games firm behind...

 Songkick, the concert discovery app and ticketing company (after it merged with white-label artist-to-fan ticket seller CrowdSurge), has raised a further $10 million in funding from previous bac...

 French startup Molotov wants to revolutionize your TV experience and it has partnered with most French networks. But software and content are nothing without a good distribution plan. Read More ...

 In a move that will surprise no one familiar with his questionable career trajectory, Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical executive best known for hiking the price of a lifesaving anti-parasitic ...

 The World Economic Forum — held in the mountain village of Davos, Switzerland every year — has increasingly become a place where its usual attendees (the captains of the world’...

 Messaging app Telegram is currently experiencing a bump in downloads in Brazil thanks to a local court ruling forcing a 48 hour shutdown of WhatsApp. Read More ...

 After finding a fully functional laptop discarded in a rubbish skip near their home, Bethany Koby and Daniel Hirschmann realized this was the spark they were looking for to create a new kind of ...

 I tend to shy away from trumpeting a startup’s metrics on their behalf or covering incremental app updates, but it has been a while since I heard from Musixmatch. The company originally pi...

 Mytired loyalty punch card for alocal burger jointin Evanston, Illinois has always beengreat at telling me that I’m a fatass, but it’s never done too well at tellingthe restaurantmuc...

 Facebook is calling on Indian users to send an email to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), asking the government agency to support its Free Basics program. The campaign, which sho...

 Springboard, an India-U.S. company formerly known as SlideRule, has raised a $1.7 million seed round to accelerate its concept of learning through mentors and a community. Each mentor provides a...

 Since launching two years ago, Taiwan-based media startup The News Lens has gained a readership of five million readers a month by presenting a levelheaded alternative to the country’s sca...

 Here’s the rap on marketplaces where buyers meet sellers: Some of them leak revenue. Unicorns are looking leaky these days. Read More ...

 A temporary WhatsApp shutdown is not even close to the craziest thing happening with the Brazilian internet right now. If Brazil’s conservative Congress gets its way, they’re going t...

 In what is sure to be seen by some as government interference and general misunderstanding of technology, the California Department of Motor Vehicles has released a proposal that would require d...

 Lew Cirne, founder and CEO of the seven-year-old software analytics company New Relic, has a lot for which to be thankful. Near the very top of his list? The fact that New Relic went publica yea...

 Lew Cirne, founder and CEO of the seven-year-old software analytics company New Relic, has a lot for which to be thankful. Near the very top of his list? The fact that New Relic went publica yea...

 NextEv, a Chinese electric car company potentially taking onTesla and Faraday Future, has tapped Padmasree Warrior for the U.S. CEO position. Warrior will also head up software development and t...

 On the heels of reports that Apple Pay is gearing up for a February launch of Apple Pay in China, the country’s biggest credit card company has entered into a JV with a mobile payments sta...

 On the heels of reports that Apple Pay is gearing up for a February launch of its mobile payment service in China, the country’s biggest credit card company has entered into a JV with a st...

 This week, I learned that the bill in question (HR-158) has Obama’s support, has cleared the House of Representatives with a whopping 407-19 majority, and is on track to be passed by the S...

 It’s an odd feeling to come from California, one of the world’s most prodigious economies where theinfrastructure and public systems are simultaneously falling apartin plain view, an...

 Music listening service Pandora saw a dramatic dip and then a dramatic 22% spike in after-hours trading Wednesday, as investors were reading the tea leaves and then learned of theroyalty rate de...

 In a year when the stock markethasessentiallybeen flat, a few tech companies have killed it on the public markets. Companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Netflixcreated tremendous shareholder valu...

 If you’re a maker, getting people excited about what you’re doing can be difficult — no matter what it is you’re making. One guy, Max Temkin, has been “lucky”...

 You just turned 30 and are either a successful entrepreneur who made a fortune developing a very popular gaming app, or you’re one of the early employees at an emerging technology company ...

 Amazon has led a $23 million investment in India-based Housejoy, a startup that — as the name not so subtly suggests — is much like Homejoy, the home services on-demand company that ...

 Early Facebook employee and longtime travel aficionado Julia Lam began studying consumer travel habits over a year ago to see how people planned their vacations and business trips. What she foun...

 This isn’t the first time a ridesharing app has hooked up with a messaging app. WeChat, a messaging and calling app used outside theU.S. also allows users to book cars on ridesharing platf...

 Facebook broke some hearts in 2014 when its algorithmically-selected Your Year In Review photosetsaccidentally included depressing photos of people’s exes, blocked friends, and deceased lo...

 Amber Reyngoudt and Dave Peck want to figure out how to perfect the mobile shopping experience — and theythinks it’s flipping through fewer products, not more.Skull Ninja Labs’...

 Whether you can find a Samsung Gear VR in time for the holidays or not, the company behind the mobile virtual reality accessory keeps releasing ads that follow a very important narrative for the...

 What’s this? Another major tech company has found a way to capitalize on consumers’ fervor for the new“Star Wars” movie? Shocking! The latest to join the fray is Apple, w...

 Remember Danger? The mobile maker Microsoft acquired for $500 million back in 2008 in the hopes of firing up its mobile fortunes? Things didn’t pan out quite so well for Microsoft of cours...

 Philips shipped a controversial firmware update for its Philips Hue bridge yesterday. The company decided to block third-party light bulbs to fix interoperability issues. Today, the company anno...

 If on-demandis the future of delivery, a startup called Bringgaims to help established businesses better compete with the likes of Amazon and Uber going forward. The company has now raised $5 mi...

 Pastebin, now home to 95 million “active” pieces of text, has gotten a complete overhaul including a new mobile friendly site that lets coders share snippets of text on their phones....

 The urgent humanitarian situation in Europe has pushed the ongoing global refugee crisis to the forefront of U.S. consciousness. There are currently 60 million people around the world who have b...

 With $330 million under management (300 million), 360 Capital Partners has been quite active in the French tech ecosystem. Today, the venture capital firm announced a brand new $38 million fund ...

 Did you know that when you get frustrated with your computer you move your mouse more slowly? Your computer knows. In fact, researchers at BYU have figured out tell-tale signs of frustration, an...

 The fuzzy pink ridesharing platform Lyft has hired Evan Cohento head up its East Coast operations. Cohen lefthis position as chief operations officer at Foursquare inJune of 2014. He was one of ...

 Together, Uber and Operator they could compete with Amazon’s massive warehouses by aggregating inventory for instant delivery from local shops that are closer nearby. Today, UberRush begin...

 A number of apps today let you check prices and comparison shop for things like clothing, electronics, toys, housewares, and more, but what about your everyday purchases, like groceries? Does yo...

Way back in 2013 LoopMe attempted to solve the problem of intrusive ads on a mobile screen by consolidating them into an “ad inbox” that the user would access through a small button. They ...

 Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have created an algorithm they claim can predict how memorable or forgettable an image is almost as accurately...

 Textio CEO Kieran Snyder always loved taking a quantitative approach to how language worked with her studies in linguistics. Andwhen she and her co-founder Jensen Harris were leaving Microsoft t...

 Earlier this year, at its re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing platformannounced that it would soon launch a very small (but burstable) instance type f...

 When Sequoia Capitals Michael Dixon met Clover Health CEOVivek Garipalli, he said he knew he wanted to invest. The catch: it took 18 months to convince him.But that finally happened, with the co...

 Google is launching a new accelerator program today. The Launchpad Acceleratorwill provide mobile startups in India, Brazil and Indonesia with mentorship, training, support, and up to $50,000 in...

 You’re a Star Wars fan. At least, your chances of being a Star Wars fan are very high, considering what I know about our lovely TechCrunch readership. Plus, you clicked on this headline. T...

 Nanigans is best-known as a Facebook advertising company, but CEO Ric Calvillo said that by adding MoPub founder Jim Payne to its board of directors, it can grow the “non-Facebook” s...

 Salesforce and Box announced a partnership today in which Salesforce customers can access Box content or content management services directly in Salesforce without applications switching or crea...

 People seem to be comfortable buying an ever-growing number of things online, but are they ready to purchase their cars that way? Vroom says they are, and it’s making a couple of big deals...

 Just in time for your holiday soiree,Spotify is unveiling its latest push into event- and activity-based music curation to capture users who may not have playlists of their own. It is taking the...

 It may seem like every time you check the headlinesa new company is getting its data stolen. For the past 12 years Digital Guardian has been striving to helpcompanies classify and protect data o...

 Qalendra, a Seattle-based company but with an engineering team in Bucharest, Romania, wants to automate travel research. Read More ...

 The German government yesterday secured an agreement from Facebook, Google and Twitter to delete hate speech within 24 hours as it steps up efforts to combat racist sentiments being expressed on...

 IBM and Apple announced today that they had reached the 100 app milestone in their mobile app partnership.The 100 apps cover the gamut of 60 professional roles across 14 industries and include i...

 Late yesterday European institutions finally agreed the text of new data protection rules (GDPR), more than three years after new regulation was proposed. The 28 Member States of the European Un...

 Paytm already claims to be India’s largest mobile payments platform, with most of its revenue coming from payments for utility bills, app downloads, and online purchases. The Alibaba-backe...

 As the world’s largest search engine in terms of market share, Google’s “Year In Search” list is a pretty good gauge of the zeitgeist. In 2015, basketball player Lamar Od...

 There was a time when songs used to come packaged together as things called “albums” that you had to listen to in order. This created an indelible link between the songs placed near ...

 iFlix, a Netflix-like service available in Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand, is talking to investors with a view to raising up to $150 million in fresh funding in fuel a global expansion. Read...

 Topsy, the Twitter and social media analytics service bought by Apple for more than $200 million two years ago, has closed its doors today. Read More ...

 I review a lot of board decks with a beautifully hand-crafted page with metrics for the company. That makes me nervous. I prefer to see a screenshot of an internal dashboard, not something creat...

 Slack just hatched a master plan to ensure it becomes the social and collaboration hub of the enterprise. It’s harnessing all its Silicon Valley hype to create rocket fuel for its gro...

 Music lovers can only get so many copies of Adele’s 25 over the holidays before they start to have a tough time faking smiles. Below are a few of my favorite Bluetooth speaker selections f...

 The year has not been kind to Yelp shareholders.On the year, shares of Yelp have tanked around 50 percent. Today wasn’t an exception, with shares of the company down more than 9 percent. T...

 Earlier this year, FLAG Capital Management — an asset manager that has backed a long list of top venture firms, including Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capi...

 The recently moved Notifications tab on Twitter’s desktop version of the service isn’t working for some users. Everything seems to be working just fine on the official iOS and Androi...

 In a perfect world, Twitter’s Head of Infrastructure and Operations Mazdak Hashemi can walk over to a data center and kick out a power cable to a server, and the service will continue to r...

 If you’re a night reader on your mobile device, then you know that it’s hard to get tired with the bright screen burning your eyeballs. This of course isn’t a problem with phys...

 Free your friends and family from hunching over the side of their bed, sitting on the floor in airports, and infinite other uncomfortable positions. Buy them this Anker 9-foot long iPhone/iPad l...

 Dheeraj Pandey, is co-founder & CEO of Nutanix, one of the most disruptive software infrastructure companies today. He has held leadership positions with Aster Data & Oracle. He is a gra...

 In the new economy, it’s not the code that matters — it’s how you use it to connect people to things they need. From 3D printers to Docker, open-source-based innovation is fuel...

 The University of California announced a $250 million venture fund to invest in startups “emerging from the University of California system.” The fund will be focused on students, pr...

 Project Fi, which is Google’s way of jumping in the middle of the great carrier race, has shared today that starting tomorrow, you can order a SIM for your data-only device. I’ve swi...

 It seems Appleis continuing to use theApp Store’s “Top Charts” section to promoteits own applications, by allowingapps like iMovie andthose from its iWork suite to appear in th...

 Every single time I see something else pushing “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” I roll my eyes. And then I try something else where I think “OK, that was pretty smart.” Dis...

 If you’ve stuck with your Android Wear watch, you’ll be happy to know that there’s a slew of new downloadable watch faces from some notable designers. Here’s what the tea...

 Disrupt London 2015 has come to an end, but the stories and experiences will stick with us for years to come. We’ve compiled the most memorable quotes from Disrupt London 2015. Take it all...

 After over a year’s worth of controversy around Facebook’s real names policy, Facebook has announced a couple of changes to its process in order to better serve all of its members, i...

 After over a year’s worth of controversy around Facebook’s real names policy, Facebook has announced a couple of changes to its process in order to better serve all of its members, i...

 Angular 2, Google’s framework for building mobile and web apps in HTML and JavaScript, is now in beta. Google first announced Angular 2, which represents a significant (and controversial) ...

 Netflix has a bandwidth problem. It currently represents 36.5 percent of U.S. Internet traffic and it’s going to increase as 4K becomes more popular, and LTE and fiber Internet improve. As...

 I fly a lot for work, be it a quick two hours or less to Seattle to 10+ hours to Germany, and everything in between. I don’t really like to fly all that much, and I’m not sure that a...

 In the future multi-toolhead robots will harvest our organs and control our reproductive cycles. Until then, they can make amazing clocks! This clock, created by Matt Olczyk, was made using a ZM...

 Rocket Internet-backed Easy Taxi is joining forces with Colombian taxi app startup Tappsi in a merger the pair will be hoping helps them keep accelerating ahead of Uber, which only has a limited...

 As 2016 approaches, robotics is poised to traverse from a narrow set of industrial and military use cases to broader market applications that include commercial drones, telepresence robots, deli...

 Munich-based 3D indoor mapping and navigation startup NavVis raised a 7.5 million Series B round of funding as it readies the launch of its smartphone indoor navigation app. Read More ...

 You can now buy stock in Atlassian, but that’s not the only way to make money from the quickly growing collaboration and developer tools company. As the company told me today, its Atlassia...

 Here they come: my mini-meetups. This week we’re meeting at WeWork Chelsea for a chat with Amol Sarva of Knotable about the magic and pain of starting up in NYC. The event starts at 7pm an...

 Google is expanding the capabilities of its clever mobile feature, “Google Now on Tap,” which offers additional information about what you’re looking at within a mobile applica...

 After a shortbeta, Backblaze today opened up its new low-cost cloud storage service for all developers. Backblaze made a name for itself as a backup service for individuals and small businesses....

 LinkedIn, a social network focused around the working world with nearly 400 million members, is well known for how it usesalgorithms to suggest potential business connections and jobs based on y...

 BigQuery,Google’s SQL-based big data analytics service, is getting an update today that, among other things, will make it easier for users to avoid runaway query costs and to stream large ...

 It’s 2003 all over again, DRMs are back. This time, Philips has released an update to its bridge software to block third-party light bulbs. The company cites interoperability issues with t...

 Following its launch this fall, Google’s Apple Pay rival known asAndroid Pay is taking another notable step this morning: it’s now available to use within mobile applications. Accord...

 Headlines in 2015 have been particularly worrisome for global investors. Yet while we see listed businesses facing a whiplash effect from China, Greece and the Middle East, the news headlines ab...

 French startup Giroptic just raised $4.5 million for a new kind of action camera. Giroptic looks like a GoPro, but if you look closely, you can notice three different cameras. The egg-shaped 360...

 Facebook is quietly testing a new feature that will direct users to the best-rated and reviewed local service providersin their area. At the easy-to-access URL Facebook.com/services, the social ...

 After leaving Intel, Raviv Melamed and his co-founders spent a year working out of a garage on an image sensor that could produce 3D images of things behind boundaries like walls. The result is ...

 It was in the aftermath of the Rana Plaza disaster, amid a growing push for greater oversight and an increasing number of startup fashion brands catering to this sustainable sensibility, that Ja...

 Hacking together a VR experience to see firsthand what’s involved, revealed just how close we are to something great, but there are five areas that need to fall into place for VR to become...

 Photographer Hayes Urban wants to breathe new life into your own Super 8 camera. As you’ll recall, Super 8 was a format used in prehistoric times to shoot home movies. The cartridges conta...

 French startup Azalead just raised $5 million (4.5 million) from Idinvest, with existing investor Aurinvest also participating. The startup is building a platform for account-based marketing, a ...

 We all know someone who puts health first. They know their caloric intake, the steps they took that day, and the exact amount of beauty sleep they got last night. Meanwhile, you and I are trying...

 Video may have killed the radio star, but streaming services are bringing it back to life. In the latest development, BBC and Spotify today both announced that George Ergatoudis, head of music a...

 SoundHound’s Houndify, which promises to “add voice enabled conversational interface to anything,” is officially available to developers today. SoundHound is best-known as a mu...

 Online real estatesite Zillow is launching a new home-price estimate tool today that allows users to create a custom and private estimate for their homes based on recently sold homes and compara...

 Yahoo Japan, the joint venture between SoftBank and Yahoo, has launched a bid to buy Ikyu, a popular online travel and restaurant reservation platform in Japan, for around $830 million. Read Mor...

 Twitter is expanding Moments, its media rich, breaking news focused feed, to U.K. users today. The company debuted the feature in the U.S. back in October, and has since also rolled it out in Br...

 Everybody calls themselves the ‘Uber of X’ these days, but Repixl has definitely caught the Uber bug. The U.K. startup has pivoted from offering a simple consumer-facing photo websit...

 Apple is reported to be working on its own display technology in a move that could lessen its dependence on third-party suppliers like Samsung and Sharp, and boost the battery life of its produc...

 Deal Street Asia, an eighteen-month-old website covering financial investment news, is the latest media outlet in Asia to raise funding as it plans to increase its presence and expand into event...

 It’s an established fact that Americans love to shop during the holidays. The frenzy of rushing to the local mall or Main Street to snap up the latest “Black Friday” deals is a...

 iPrice, the e-commerce startup that wants to be the gateway to online retail in Southeast Asia, is back in the money after disclosing a new $1.2 million financing round. Read More ...

 In a move that could set a precedent in other cities, Seattle has just passed legislation that will allow Uber and Lyft drivers to unionize, meaning they can negotiate pay and benefits. The impl...

 After a mostly boring 2015, bitcoin is making waves as the year ends by reaching new price heights. Bitcoin is north of the $400 mark, once again, for the second time since 2014. This time, it h...

 According to a tweet from Mike Davidson, Twitter is about to lose its Vice President of Design: Personal news: After 3+ years leading Design @Twitter, I'm leaving in Feb to take the 1st brea...

 Listia started out as a way for people to swap free stuff, but now its users can actually make money.The new feature takes advantage of Listia’s existing system, where users give away thei...

 Gilt.com, the New York-based fashion discount site, is in talks to be acquired for $250 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. The prospective buyer is Hudson’s Bay, which owns Sak...

 Show you’re down with The Force this week then hide your Jedi ways with Facebook’s new Star Wars temporary profile pictures. Just in time for the release of The Force Awakens, click ...

 The latest Xprize offers a total of $7 million for teams that advance ocean mapping technology. This is part of Xprize’s broader ocean initiative, but Jyotika Virmani, senior director of o...

 Whether it’s 3D printing,a Kinect robotics hack or a drone, Star Wars enthusiasts have found ways to emulate their favorite gadgets from the series into functional, real-life apparatuses. ...

 In the U.S. and in the Bay Area particularly, the tech community is widely known as a place where people are quick to celebrate each another and one another’s companies in a virtuous circl...

 Smart cities. Teletopia. Quantified communities. Whatever label you prefer, the concept of cities utilizing information and communication technologies (ICT) to create connected communities is an...

 Hey, it’s great that you’re trying to get more followers, but what about understanding the followers already have? That’s what New York City startup SocialRank aims to provide,...

 A lot of local discovery apps are great at telling you what’s been popular in an area for years, but theyaren’t so great at helping you findthe cool speakeasy that opened up last Tue...

 Professor Ioannis Ieropoulos of the Bristol BioEnergy Centre at the University of the West of England has created a bioenergy system that uses urine circulated by your footsteps to power wearabl...

 Ah, nothing goes easy with that $67 billion Dell-EMC deal, does it?Today the plot thickened a bit more when VMware announced in a filing with the SEC that it was walking away from the agreement ...

 Money transfers are a crooked racket. They’re designed to hide just how much cash they steal from immigrant workers sending funds to family back home. Western Union, Moneygram, even PayPal...

 Most security services today give you virtual private networks that encrypt your connections (if you work for any sizable company, you probably use some kind of VPN client to log in to your intr...

 If you’ve been using third-party apps or the mobile version of Reddit on your Android device, you’ll be happy to know that the company is finally going to offer an official app for t...

 I’ve always found that the weirder gifts, no matter how much they cost, are the ones that people appreciate the most. Sure, you could send someone a boring gift card or a basic-ass iPhone ...

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 Inbox by Gmail, Google’s next-gen email client for mobile and the web, has its fair share of marquee features, but one of its most useful is its ability to bundle emails about an upcoming ...

 Earlier this month, J.P. Morgan announced a strategic partnership with OnDeck Capital to originate, underwrite, and distribute loans targeted specifically at small businesses.As evidenced by a 2...

 It’s been pretty quiet around Facebook’s Parsedeveloper platform this year. The team launched its Internet of Things service in March and open-sourced its SDKs in August, but otherwi...

 Just in time for your last-minute holiday shopping plans, Google has rolled out an updated version of its Google Maps iOS application which will now show you when stores are the busiest. Armed w...

 Adobe is releasing a new “State of Content” survey that outlines five broad rules for marketers in 2016.Loni Stark, a senior director of strategy and product marketing at Adobe, told...

 Salesforce has made another acquisition to build out itsbig-data analytics formarketers. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed with Salesforce that ithas acquired MinHash, a young startup based i...

 In an effort to stave off further cord-cutting as well as catch up with rivals, Verizon* announced today that its FiOS customers will be able to stream their DVR recordings outside of the home, ...

 As humanity debates the threats and opportunities of advanced artificial intelligence, we are simultaneously enabling that technology through the increasing use of personalization that is unders...

 SketchDeck, a two-year-old, on-demand design service for marketing and sales teams, has raised $1.7 million in new funding. The round comes 10 months after the startup raised $500,000 from inves...

 Music listening service Pandora says its algorithm just got smarter with “Thumbprint Radio.” Users who have liked music across multiple genres will find their unique mix on a new cus...

 If you spent a lot of time eating jars of tamales and reading Stephen King novels as a kid like I did you’ll know that Mystery Science Theatre 3000 was the best thing ever (aside from Sisk...

 Facebook clearly believes it has its next hit app on its hands to follow Messenger with its private photo-sharing service, Moments. The company has now announced it will soondiscontinue support ...

 The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration today launched its long-expected drone registration program. Starting December 21, owners in the U.S. will have to register theirdrones with the governme...

 Foundation Capital, a 20-year-old, Menlo Park, Ca.-based venture firm, has raised $325 million for its eighth fund, six months after kicking off its official fundraising effort. The fund is slig...

 Samsung is set to take a leaf out of Apple’s playbook for the next iteration of its flagship Galaxy smartphone. According to the WSJ — quoting “people familiar with the matter&...

 Giphy Cam, the app that lets you create and share your own GIFs with a few clicks, is today unveiling its first featured content layer in the form of Star Wars overlays. In other words, users ca...

 Some more chopping, changing and consolidation in the worlds oftraffic analysis and fraud protection. Today it was announced that Experian, one of the world’s biggest credit ratings agenci...

 Some more chopping, changing and consolidation in the worlds oftraffic analysis and fraud protection. Today it was announced that Experian, one of the world’s biggest credit ratings agenci...

 Cloudyn, a service for monitoring and optimizing cloud usage across multiple vendors, announced an $11 million Series Binvestment today. The round was led byby Carmel Ventures with participation...

 Infosys, the India-headquartered consulting and IT firm, is getting into sports and wearables after it announced a $3 million strategic investment in Whoop, a Boston-based company that provides ...

 Brussels-based Doctena, founded in 2013, represents a familiar European startup story. It sells a medical booking platform that lets doctors offer online booking to their patients and has succes...

 Korea’s Yello Mobile has made a name for itselfraising $100 million and usingit to hooverup more than60 startupsto build amobile apps business, which now serves 18 million users.Now, the s...

 On the back ofAirbnb raising yet more billions to fuel its private home accommodation business, Love Home Swap — a marketplacefor people to exchange homes for short stays — is on a c...

 Alibaba has jumped into the news business after the Chinese company confirmed on Friday that it has agreed to acquire the South China Morning Post (SCMP). The Hong Kong-based newspaper and SCMP ...

 Having children is one of the happiest moments most people will ever enjoy, but it’s also when you need to first think the most seriously about death. The joyous excitement and freneticism...

 Buying someone else headphones is often easier said than done. Audiophiles are a fickle bunch and even kids know exactly what type of brand/sound they want these days. These headphones I’m...

 While faulty hoverboards aresetting themselves ablazeto celebrate Christmas, robots are gradually moving from labs to news reports to entering our daily lives.First in line are drones, already i...

 “Sustainability” and “innovation” are two broad marketing terms used in conjunction so often that they’ve become almost meaningless. You’ll hear executives ta...

 We’ve heard from sources that Slack, the super-hot collaborative communication startup, is launching a new way to download third-party apps. This would bea big move for the startup, valued...

 As courts grapple with how to apply the Fourth Amendment’s privacy provisions to online crime fighting, it may become difficult for law enforcement and technology companies to collaborate ...

 After a series of back-and-forths between Apple and Taylor Swift over royalties, a near-break up between the superstar and Apple Music and a final mea culpa between the two, Swift is now plannin...

 The way we do everything has been turned upside down: how we read, how we communicate, how we get from point A to point B, how we eat and how we get help when we need it. We are living through t...

 When white people in tech open their mouths about diversity, I tend to brace myself. More often than not, it seems like they say something tone-deaf, outright offensive or lacking in an understa...

 No gymnasiums, no cafeterias and no administrators. That’s school policy at AltSchools, a chain of private, for-profit schools backed by the likes of Andreessen Horowitz and Mark Zuckerber...

 Reminder: Almost 90per cent of the revenue of the company formerly known as Google — grandlyrebranded Alphabetthis fall, even if everyone, including me, is still going to callGoogle Google...

 Asia accounts for nearly half of the mobile learning revenues in the world. Thousands of hagwons, or “cram schools,” line the streets in South Korea, which has about 15 percent of th...

 With the close of the Paris Climate Talks, tech titans pledging to invest in clean energy technologies, and Buffett’s Grandson starting a Berkshire Hathaway-like fund for impact investing,...

 College campuses have long been sites of innovation and technology. Housing superior research and development facilities, a plethora of advisory resources and brilliant thinkers, higher-ed insti...

 As we watch organizations like IBM, HP and EMC struggle to transform, Adobe is an interesting contrasting case.It went from selling boxed software to a cloud subscription model in shorter order,...

 All of the gifts in our guy’s clothing and accessory guide look great and have enough of a nerdy frisson to make you a hit at holiday parties. Some of them are expensive – a $38K wat...

 Short domains have always been valuable, but if you’re a company today and want to own a short domain name, your price just became a lot higher. And I mean a lot. There is a market unfoldi...

 For years, we’ve heard whispers of shoppable video. Imagine watching your favorite TV show or a music video online and being able to instantly purchase an item that appeals to you, from a ...

 When EMC and Dell announced their $67 billion deal in October, there was an interesting provision in the agreement — language that allowed EMC to continue shopping for a better deal. This ...

 Bad enough when some scrappy little startup comes to town and disrupts your profit margins into oblivion. Even worse–to any right-thinking capitalist–when a motley crew of idealistic...

 The online gaming industry is scaling the new and unprecedented heights of success with each passing day — and getting recognition in the face of e-sports worldwide. As the population of t...

 The online gaming industry is scaling the new and unprecedented heights of success with each passing day — and getting recognition in the face of e-sports worldwide. As the population of t...

 Google chief executive officer Sundar Pichai is the latest tech executive to issue an open call for tolerance after Donald Trump called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States. Read More...

 Advances in information technology have generated enormous efficiencies in many industries, including manufacturing, transportation, communications, entertainment, retail and financial services....

 Early last week, during a panel about the state of early-stage investing, a handful of VCs I interviewed largely agreed that, as a class, they’re less keen right now to write checks as qui...

 With just 28 technology companies entering the U.S. public markets, 2015 was the worst year for IPOs since 2009, according to Dealogic. This compares to 62 last year and 48 the year before, with...

 Today, OpenAI, a non-profit artificial intelligence research company was announced to the world. Its director is a research scientist at Google, Ilya Sutskever. This comes a day after Facebook o...

 Today, OpenAI, a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company was announced to the world. Its director,Ilya Sutskever,is a research scientist at Google. This comes a day after Facebook ope...

 Priscilla and Mark’s philanthropic foundation will be structured similarly to Facebook’s acquisitions. The couple will entrust expert leaders to pursue pioneering solutions to huge p...

 The TechCrunch crew is back from Disrupt London with exciting news to report and a few new companies for you to meet. Jukedeck, an AI startup that writes music for your videos, took home the Dis...

 It seems most founders believe investors asking for “extras” on the side are simply greedy and short-sighted. While it’s easy to criticize investors, I believe this behavior is...

 YouTube Gaming, Google’s answer to Twitch, is trying to stay ahead of the curve by adding new functionality quickly. One such feature is only available for Android right now, and it’...

 Postmates, the on-demand delivery startup that has dug nationwide trenches in the food delivery space, has today unveiled the ’12 Days of Postmates’ campaign. The promotion will let ...

 UPDATE: Looks like Google “sold” out. That was fast. ———- The Star Wars: Force Awakens train is a rollin’ and Google has gotten involved in a few different wa...

 If you use a dual monitor setup at home, chances are you feel a bit constrained when you’re on a trip with your laptop. I’ve been traveling lately for Disrupt London, and Duet Displa...

 Uber has thrown a curveball by revising thearbitration clause in its latest driver agreement, whichShannon Liss-Riordan, the lead plaintiffs’ attorney,says isan attempt to challengeJudge E...

 After an expedited injunction hearing November 25th, New York State Supreme Court Judge Manuel Mendez just upheld a cease-and-desist request from New York Attorney GeneralEric T. Schneiderman, m...

 Update: Well that didn’t last long. After the decision, DraftKings filed notice of appeal and an expediated motion to stay the decision, which was approved by a New York judge. The site wo...

 Microsoft announced changes today to OneDrive’s storage limits, partially undoing unpopular amendments it detailed this November. The new rules include refunds for unhappy customers, more ...

 Walmart has now become the latest large retailer to carry the Apple Watch. The company’s U.S. website has begun selling the Apple Watch Sport and various accessories, including the Sport B...

 Hacker collective Anonymous seems to be targeting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after the real estate tycoon called for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States. One of t...

 Likely in hopes of boosting its holiday sales, Apple has surprised a number of iPhone owners by displayingunsolicited pop-up ads withinthe App Store application thatpromote the iPhone 6s. The ad...

 Accenture has warned local banking communities in Asia to wake up: It took just nine months for investment in the region’s non-banking fintechs to quadruple from 2014’s $880 million ...

 The latest photo app to grab the world by the eyeballs is called Pikazo. Created by a programmer and an artist, the app “simulates a visual cortex” and takes 10 minutes to change a n...

 Writing is hard. To do it I usually have to prepare myself with vigorous stretches, vocal exercises, and a robust bowel movement. Every. Single. Day. But what tools do I use to write? Tools like...

 There is an increasingly large roster of personal assistant apps that use artificial intelligence in an attempt to make users’ lives easier. Mezi is the newest contender and while it has p...

 So-called ‘professional learning’ has come a long way since the days of densest of textbooks. It eventually gravitated towards online courses and we’ve seen businesses arise to...

 Google’s Project Sunroof, which started as a 20 percent project by Google engineering lead Carl Elkin, helps you figure out how well solar panels would work on your roof. The company launc...

 Flipkart, one of the biggest players in India’s booming e-commerce market, has conceded that there is one part of online retail it can’t win, and stopped selling e-books. Users who h...

 Here’s an intriguing move: crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has commissioned a freelance journalist to investigate — and ultimately (it hopes) explain — the collapse of a high...

 Seerene, an analytics platform that helps companies see how their other software is performing, has raised $5 million in seed funding and opened an office in Hong Kong, its first in Asia. The ro...

 Samsung/Oculus’ Gear VR launch was the starting gun for AR/VR 1.0, so what can we expect next year? Strap on your magic goggles, it’s immersion time. Read More ...

 Satoshi Nakamoto doesn’t exist. He is not one person. He is not even controlled by a single entity. And although I would argue much of his writings were produced by one person and edited b...

 If you’re a Tumblr user who happens to have an iPhone 6s or 6s Plus, today is your lucky day. The Tumblr team dropped an update thatincludes support for both 3D Touch and Live Photo. The L...

 If you’re a real fan of the newly redesigned Yahoo Mail, but also use Gmail, today is your day. Seriously, throw a damn party.The Yahoo Mail team announced that you can now manage your Gma...

 DataScience, the data science startup with the name (and URL) that every other data science startup wants, announced today that it has raised $22 million in Series A. The company says that it us...

 CultureIQ announced today that it has raised $3 million in seed funding. Founded by former SecondMarket CFO Greg Besner, the New York City-based startup offers what it calls “culture manag...

 After launching its Open Office Hoursprogram in September, YC is expanding the program and turning it into a monthly thing. The announcement comes after a pilot program where over 650 Black and ...

 We’ve seen startups try to replace or automate the work of executive assistants, butEsperis trying to do something different — it aimsto help those assistants make smarter decisions....

 Potentially thelast tech IPO of the year ended its first day of trading with a bang.Atlassian, amaker of collaborationand software development tools, ended the day up about 32%. With that rise, ...

 Digital audio listening is in the midst of a historic transition from standalone usage through dedicated hardware and applications to embedded experiences — something that will reshape the...

 For early stage companies to be successful, founders need to develop a thoughtful recruiting process, and need to do it early on. Read More ...

 Streaming services made a strong showing when the nominations for the 73rd Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning. Netflix dominated the TV category with a total of eight nominations, c...

 A new report out today detailsthe growth of the Apple TV App Store in the month or so it’s been live, noting that the store has already grown to include 2,624 applications, the majority be...

 Back in September, Google came out of nowhere with Chromecast Audio. The idea: take the Chromecast concept (tap a button, send a video to your TV and control it from your phone) and make it audi...

 It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the myriad of options in the haircare section of your local store, but it turns out that of all those products, the formula within most shampoo and condition...

 Yahoo today is hoping to capitalize on the cord-cutting trend and consumers’ growing attachment to streaming video services with the launch of a new app called Yahoo Video Guide. The app, ...

 Surely by now we know that every company is a software company, and as more companies focus on software development, it is increasingly difficult for them to manage the complexity around coordin...

 TRData, a London-headquartered startup with a development team based in Ukraine and the majority of customers in Russia, makes for an interesting European tech story. Read More ...

 It didn’t take long. A little bit more than two weeks after launching an OS X app, Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is launching a Windows version. Like on OS X, this app takes ad...

 Talk about “peak hours” with any engineer who is working on a video streaming website, and it will send shivers down their spine. French startup Streamroot is making sure that everyt...

 Cloud SQL, Google’s fully managed MySQL database service on its Cloud Platform, is getting a major upgrade today with the beta launch of version two of the service. The original Cloud SQL ...

 Yet more consolidation is happening in the world of analytics. Today Israeli web analytics and traffic measurement startup SimilarWeb announced that it has acquired Quettra, a provider of mobile...

 Google’s plan to accelerate the mobile web – also known as the “Accelerated Mobile Pages Project” or AMP, for short – now has a launch date. The company said this w...

 After pricing its IPO at $21, above the expected range of $19 to $20, Atlassian began trading up 32% at $27.67 in its debut onthe Nasdaq today.This gives the company a valuation of $5.8 billion....

 Houzz, the popular service forgiving you house envy and connecting you with the right home professionals to cure it, is launching an interesting new feature for its iOS users today. The new Sket...

 Thanks to the folks at Beepi, you can now buy a car with nothing more than the iPhone in your hand (well, that and the money in your bank account). Read More ...

 Last month, Tumblr rolled out instant messagingon the web, iOS and Android to a subset of Tumblr users ahead of abroader launch. Today, the company says that all users will now have access to th...

 Since breaking off into its own product, Google Photos has been on a bit of a roll as far as adding new features quickly. One such feature is rolling out today — shared albums. I’ve ...

 Since breaking off into its own product, Google Photos has been on a bit of a roll as far as adding new features quickly. One such feature is rolling out today — shared albums. I’ve ...

 Elastic announced today that it was deepening its relationship with Microsoft by adding its open source and commercial products to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Elastic (which used to be know...

 We get it. Hackathons are fun. There’s all-you-can-eat pizza, and Red Bull flows freely. For participants, they’re quasi-social opportunities to work on something real with smart, pa...

 Hired, the San Francisco-based employment platform, has produced a short new report about engineering salaries that examines how theystack up in the Bay Area versus the rest of the country after...

 Facebook this week said it will begin rolling out new technology that allows users on slower mobile connections to still see new stories in their News Feed, even when on a poor connection or whe...

 It’s been a while since we heard from Server Density, the UK.-based SaaS server monitoring startup, but sometimes that’s the nature of quietly going about building a business. Today,...

 A U.K. parliamentary committee tasked with scrutinizing the new surveillance powers contained in the draft Investigatory Powers Bill has heard several contradictory views on the proposed legisla...

On the heels of its web redesigna fewweeks ago, Product Hunt haslaunched a beautiful redesign of its iOS app, which originally came outlast August. The new app features a Today section for seeing what...

 I’ve started trying to pay a lot more attention to New York so I’ve been running a small series of meet ups in Manhattan and Brooklyn for all y’all to come on down and chat. Ne...

 Meet Tinyclues, a French startup that is working with big e-commerce websites to make their marketing campaigns more effective. Chances are you’ve received emails that tell you what produc...

 SnapLogic, a company that helps connectdata from legacy applications to the cloud or to a centralized internal data lake, announced a $37.5 million round today. Investors include Microsoft and S...

 It’s been over a year since Twitter first said it planned to monetize logged-out users — that is, make moneyoff the 500 million or so peoplewho dip in and read Tweetswithout being si...

 Fraud continues to be a huge issue for consumers and brands doing business online, and today one of the bigger companies managing credit reports andfraud and ID management is scaling up to expan...

 Popular podcast Serial is back! After breaking into mainstream culture with a season 1 of 12 episodes, Sarah Koenig and her team will try to solve another case and report about it on a podcast. ...

 Mobile carriers are looking for waysto catch some of the growth in smartphone usage beyond their basic role as network providers, and that trend is having a knock-on effect on startups that help...

 The online disruption of journalism continues apace. Today The Tab, a hyperlocal news site aimed at young people and written mainly by “grassroots” (read: unpaid) student journalists...

 Stealthy London-based fintech startup Curve has closed a $2 million seed round from a rather notable list of early backers. Read More ...

 Mega-chain Walmart announced today that it plans to offer mobile payments to its shoppers. Called Walmart Pay, the service is currently only available as a feature in Walmart’s existing sm...

 Palantir Technology, the data analytics firm whose clients include the U.S. government, has raised $129 million in new funding. Based in Palo Alto, the company provides tools for a wide variety ...

 When Amazon went public in 1997, its stock opened 62.5 percent above the target price and the company ended its day $54 million richer than it had started it. In the three years or so leading up...

 During stints at Postmates, Twitter, YouTube and Google, Sara Mauskopf has touched many of the products that you use on a daily basis. With that knowledge, having just left her recent post at Po...

 Mark Zuckerberg urged the world not to “succumb to cynicism” despite bigots like Donald Trump calling for Muslims to be banned from entering the United States. Today, Facebook’...

It’s the last big tech IPO of the year. Atlassian has just priced at $21 per share, above the expected range of $19 to $20. Releasing 22 million shares, the company is raising $462 million. The ...

 In case you’ve forgotten about Flipagram, we told you about them back in July when they raised $70 million and said they had 30 million users. The company started out as an app to create ...

 This is something I’ve personally been waiting for for a long time. Google Drive is making it easier to find your files by letting you choose the filetype, who it was created by and what s...

 Scott Kupor, CEO and a managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, recently published an article on Fortune.com (titled “Your next business partner should come with a prenup”) in which ...

 Uber is taking the next step to push its well-funded brand into the prepared food delivery space — launching the UberEATS service as a standalone app today, in Toronto. Read More ...

 Session lengths started to be counted not in hours or even minutes, but in seconds. Software had to blend into our life, augmenting it rather than supplanting it. Speed and simplicity became the...

 Remember when Swarm launched coins? While the reward for checking in was entertaining, the coins had no real use other than providing a measurement by which to rank you on the weekly leaderboard...

 It’s December, and that means a few things: – We’re all going to be pretty tired of Christmas music pretty soon – We’ve yet again managed to complete a trip around ...

 According to a report by Forbes, the under-the-radar but much discussed startup is raising a $827 million C round of funding. Magic Leap’s product seems to be a cross between Microsoft Hol...

 Flickr’s 15 billion photos are there for our consumption at any time, but beyond seeing static photos there hasn’t been much of an experience upgrade over the years for diving into t...

 Google is launching a new privacy toolfor GoogleApps Unlimitedusers today. The new Data Loss Preventionfeaturewill make it easier for businesses to make sure that their employees don’t mis...

 The Knight Foundation is supporting non-profit organization CODE2040 with $1.2 million, the foundation announced on its blog this morning.Since launching its pilot program in 2012, CODE2040 has ...

 In an attempt to modernize the retail experience for sellers, four Nest alums are launching b8ta, a software-driven brick-and-mortar store in Palo Alto, to sell Internet of Things gadg...

 Back in September, Google announced that Google Play Music, the search giant’s Apple Music and Spotify competitor, was to get a family plan “later this year”. Well, that later ...

 When mass-appeal wearable devices arrived on the scene in 2009 in the form of Fitbit, skeptics wondered whether consumers would feel the need to track their steps and calories. But as technology...

 Disasters can take many forms from weather events to database corruptions.CloudEndure, a cloud-based disaster recovery service, announced a $7 million investment today led by Indian consulting f...

 Yahoo has today confirmed rumors it is scrapping a plan to spin off its stake in Chinese ecommerce company Alibaba. Its shares are up in pre-market trading on the news. Read More ...

 Hello and welcome to Bullish, TechCrunch’s first talk show. This is our first international report, taped at Disrupt London 2015 in the Copper Box Arena. This week we dug into YouTube, the...

 A company capitalizing on the growth of mobile messaging, and in particular the reach of Apple’s iMessage, Slash, has now raised $1.3 million for its development of a search engine that...

 While on-demand startups like Uber and BlaBlaCar continue to pack warchests with massive funding rounds as investors bet big that leveraging individual car ownership is the key to powering gigan...

 Citing a ‘corporate’ decision making process that left the company slow to respond to the competition, Rovio, the company behind the Angry Birds franchise, has announced that CEO Pek...

 Scribd continues to expand its selection — it’s adding sheet music for the first time, and also announcing deals to bring in Sesame Street children’s books and expand its selec...

 India’s e-commerce market is growing at an incredibly quick pace and expected to be worth $100 billion by 2020. All online sellers, however, face a major hurdle: the country’s underd...

 Uber has suspended its auto-rickshaw service in Delhi. Called UberAUTO, the feature represented one of the car-hailing app’s attempts to localize to the Indian market. It launched in April...

 In Spike Jonze’s Her, Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with his earpiece — or rather, the female voice inside it. The film depicts a society in which artificially intelligent hearing de...

 Yumist, an India-based startup aiming to disrupt the daily meal industry, has landed a $2 million investment to increase its presence from three cities to eight. Read More ...

 Bumble, the popular mobile dating app where girls have to make the first move, has finally dropped itslong-requested Android version. The Texas-based company has been teasing the release for mon...

 In an email to Vive developers and a blog post that is now down due to traffic, HTC finally clarified when they’d be launching their long awaited virtual reality headset, Vive. Their post ...

 It’s hard to believe the 9th Annual Crunchies will be happening soon. It seems like only yesterday we all gathered in Herbst Theater and celebrated the first Crunchies Awards; little did w...

 aCommerce, the Bangkok-based e-commerce enabler that services five markets in Southeast Asia, is closing out the year with a strategic funding deal after it announced that DKSH, a Switzerland-ba...

Yahoo is reportedly not going to spin off Alibaba,according to sources cited by CNBC. Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal reported that Yahoo’s board wasdebating whether or not to spin o...

 In a fairly uncharacteristic move, Apple launched a new product today with little to no fanfare. Called the Smart Battery Case, it’s a $99 wrap for the iPhone 6 and 6s meant to compete wit...

 Uber is gearing up to pilot a new ride-sharing service in Seattle called uberHOP, in an attempt to get “more butts into the backseats of fewer cars,” according to an Uber blog post f...

 There’s not much that I can say to set this video up other than it’s just one of the incredible possibilities that virtual reality brings. UploadVR spotted it first. C.S. Mott Childr...

 These VR moments are really picking up steam, with sports leading the way. It seems like everyone and their uncle are racing to shoot 360 degree immersive video to show off virtual reality as a ...

 We crave new technology. We loathe new technology. We need change. We fear change. Nowhere does this ambivalence come into play more dramatically than when adopting new technologies: It’s ...

 Farewell Firefox OS smartphones.Mozilla today announced an end to its smartphone experiment, and said thatit would stop developing and selling Firefox OS smartphones. It will continue to experim...

 Amazon has been developing an expanded content platform, helping consumers learn more about select products on its site with recommendations and write-ups from a number of experts. The program s...

 You know the drill. Once a city has spoken with Google about bringing Fiber into their hood, there’s a process for the city to go through. A lengthy one. Checklists. The whole nine yards. ...

 I’ve been told by insiders at Twitter that “nothing is sacred” when it comes to making Twitter “easier to use” and ready to onboard the next few hundred million use...

 Until now, the Pixel brand was all about Chrome OS laptops. But in September, the company surprised us all when it announced its Surface competitor, the 10.2-inch Pixel C Android tablet with its...

 It’s been a tough fight, but we now have a winner. At the very beginning, we hand-picked the 15 greatest companies from Europe and beyond so that they could compete in our incredibly compe...

 BlaBlaCar pulled in $200 million and spread its ride-sharing platform to 20 countries this year. It now claims 25 million members worldwide. Co-founder and COO Nicolas Brusson told the TechCrunc...

 Understanding blockchain technology is not for the average person. This is level 10,000 on the nerd scale. Which makes for a sizable challenge if you’re a startup trying to build a busines...

 Facebook is rolling out a number of new features for Pages designed to make it easier for businesses to communicate with customers. The biggest change, or at least the one consumers will see, is...

 Hello from the other side. Omate, which made news a few years ago with a standalone smartwatch that aimed to give Android a run for its money, is back with the Rise, a “standalone smartwat...

 It may not surprise anyone, but Adyen’s European chief executive Pieter van der Does thinks that European startups and tech are ready for a comeback. And though Europewon’treach abso...

 A robotics company that teaches kids how to code, Codie Labs, took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt London this afternoon to show off their fast, rolling and programmable robot, Codie, which is c...

 Catawiki may not yet be a household name outside of Europe, but the Accel-backedonline auction house is one of the region’sfastest growing startups. In fact, according to founder and CTO M...

 Here is a bit of a surprise announcement: Firefox-maker Mozilla today announced the launch of Focus by Firefox, a content blocker for Safari on iOS 9 that’s based on the Disconnect blockli...

 Feel like you’re pretty much never offline anymore? You have plenty of company, according to the Pew Research Center.According to a new survey of 2001 Americans ages 18 years and older, ro...

 Talkdesk co-founder Cristina Fonseca spoke at Disrupt London on Tuesday. In an interview with TechCrunch’s Matt Lynley, Fonseca explained how the Portugal-based startup has helpedbusinesse...

 Ambarish Mitra just revealed Blippar’s next-generation app at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015. By just pointing the app at everyday objects, the app identifies and categories nearly everyth...

 This morning IBM announced it was acquiring Clearleap, a companythat gives itenterprise-gradevideo content managementservices in the cloud, and which adds another layer to itsburgeoning cloud st...

 Looking to target the growing number of cord-cutters who are opting out of costly pay-TV all-in subscriptions, Amazon is adding another swathe of video content to its Prime, its members-only vid...

 There’s a new boss at Indochino— Drew Green, who was previouslyfounding CEO at online retailerShop.ca. For those of you who haven’t used it, Vancouver-headquartered Indochino a...

 The Devialet Phantom speaker is so pretty and powerful that today the top 14 Apple Stores in U.S. stores will begin selling it. The 750 watt, 99 dB Phantom will sell for $1990, while the 3000 wa...

 Heads up, Mophie, Otterbox, and everyone else making iPhone cases with built-in batteries: Apple is jumping into your market. Known for its ability to generate insane buzz, it’s not every ...

 In one of the largest seed investments in the firm’s history, Sequoia Capital is committing to a $13 million round for Lemonade, a company that’s looking to bring the idea of peer-to...

 NowThis just announced that it has raised $16.2 million in Series D funding.The round was led by German media company Axel Springer — which, in addition to previously investing in the star...

 Everwise, a New York-based company whose online service connects “protgs” with mentors –from new entrepreneurs, to budding sports coaches, to people looking to rise through the...

 Six months into its acquisition by Verizon for $4.4 billion, AOL is doing some trimming of its workforce. TechCrunch has learned, and confirmed, that AOL has laid off around 100 employees, as it...

 MapR is one of several companies built on the open source Hadoop platform, and as such it has a bit of competition in the space. Today, possibly in an effort to create some separation from its b...

 TechCrunch is teaming up with the NFL and Stanford for an epic pitch-off competition, 1st and Future. The response has been amazing and we’re happy to announce the deadline is extended unt...

 Platfora, a company that helps customers process and make sense of big data, announced a $30 million investment today. The roundincludes money fromnew participantsHSBC and Harmony Partners with ...

 Day 3 – My experiment, though a success, has led to a terrible side effect. Now that I am a mere 3 inches tall I am able to perform a number of exciting feats including the exploration of ...

 The interplay of health and design isn’t new. In 1857, Nurse (and Data Scientist) Florence Nightingale used design principles to illustrate the casualties of soldiers in the Crimean War an...

 When the world is watching TV, that’s actually the easiest time to get famous on the Internet. Breaking news. Sports championships. Political debates. Whoever turns this live footage into ...

 Popular socialapplication Snapchat has been experiencing an extended outage, which has now been confirmed by the company on its official Twitter account. According to a post from Snapchat Suppor...

 China’s largest messaging app will invest 50 million rand (about $3.4 million USD) in African startups. WeChat said in a blog post that will work with Cape Town tech strategy firm Batston...

 Wallapop, so far, has reportedly raised a ton of money. But despite that,Wallapop CEO Agustin Gomez doesn’t want to talk about it because he thinks it’s a distraction.Gomez spoke on ...

 Alex Depledgeis many things – startup founder, mentor to women in tech, an advocate for a free and open market across Europe, and a trailblazerin the U.K tech scene. Her home cleaning plat...

 Today at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015, the CEOs of Sky Futures, Verifly and Airware took the stage with TechCrunch writer Frederic Lardinois in an attempt to explain how drones can be used oth...

 Facebook is shuttering its internal R&D division, Creative Labs, launched nearly two years ago as an effort aimed at allowing the large company the ability to act more nimbly – and mor...

 In a surprise move, Apple just announced an external battery case for the iPhone 6s. Named the iPhone 6s Smart Battery Case, the battery extends the battery life of your iPhone 6s by up to 25 ho...

 Today at TechCrunch Disrupt London, Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson sat down with our own Frederic Lardinois to talk platforms, carriers and money. Lawson, after making a pitch about what Twilio does, de...

All the leaves are falling, and the sky is gray. That’s because we’re in London, on a winter’s day. Disrupt is entering Day Two and the agenda is jam-packed with awesomeness, includi...

 Uber is celebrating a win in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, after it was given approval to operate as a fully legal entity. Read More ...

 Didi Kuaidi, the largest car-hailing app in China, announced today that it has added Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang to its board as its senior advisor. In a statement, the company said Yang’s...

 Nexus Venture Partners, the Indian VC firm that has invested in startups such as Snapdeal, Craftzilla and Lybrate, has reloaded for more deals after it announced a new $450 million fund. Read Mo...

 The technology industry’s innovators, entrepreneurs and investors need to take a deep look at the potential presented across the Hispanic community and more broadly in underserved and dive...

 Replacing a founder-CEO is no small matter. The founder-CEO is the core around which a startup grows. Replacing that “core” is a highly divisive and hotly debated topic in startup an...

 Trump, Trump, Trump. I know, you’re probably tired of hearing about him but he just won’t go away. And it’s not even really full-on election season yet. One of his latest Twitt...

 As Alphabet continues to rejigger their company structure, one of the teams left under the Alphabet umbrella has gotten itself a new moniker, according to Stat News. Verily is an independent Alp...

 Back in June, the WSJ reported that Airbnb had raised a massive $1.5 billion round of funding. Today, the company confirmed those reports by way of SEC filing. The total offering and sold amount...

 Disrupt London Day One was a smashing success, and included speaking appearances from Sir Alex Ferguson of Manchester United, former Arsenal footballer and sports broadcaster Thierry Henry (yep,...

 Pretty soon, you’ll be able to strap on a headset and spend a day immersed in the life of almost anyone on earth. Want to be Kanye West for a few hours, performing for a crowd of tens of t...

 Gmail has had a “to-do” feature for the longest time but it was pretty useless, as it was a simple stand-alone one-off feature that probably graduated from Labs at one point. It was ...

 Whether you’re a sports fan or not, it’s hard not getting excited around bowl season in College Football. More exciting than that is watching all of the teams push their own candidat...

 Behavioral Economic principles sometimes feel manipulative. How can they play a role in user-centered product development and marketing? Read More ...

 The latest company to tilt against the lending windmill with a solution for borrowers who might not have the best credit rating — or who might not have any credit rating or credit history ...

 New York-based SocialFlow has raised $7.5 million in Series C funding, the company tells TechCrunch. The startup, which helps media organizations including The Wall Street Journal and BBC optimi...

 If you’ve ever thought to yourself “Man, I’d love to have a Facebook Messenger chat with Miss Piggy from The Muppets” now is your time to strike. Well, it’s not Mis...

 About two weeks ago, we got an email inviting us to an event. All it said: it was about Star Wars, and it would take place in Los Angeles.Where in LA? They’d tell us right before it all we...

 Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt London Startup Battlefield, EnergyElephant presented its “energy analysis” service to a crowded hall of investors, developers and entrepreneurs.The st...

 A robot with a unique personality might sound like an oxymoron. Or science fiction. But that’s the goal of London-based startup Emotech, launching on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt London 201...

 Do you still useone generic password to loginacross multiple websites? Even though it’s a pretty awful habit, you’re probably not alone. Most of of us now have hundreds of accounts f...

 An Istanbul-based startup called Twentify took the stage this afternoon at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 to talk about their gig-finding app Bounty, which helps people find nearby small jobs th...

 Google’s Safe Browsing technology is now enabled by default on Android to protect mobile Chrome users from accessing phishing sites and web pages that harbor malware. Until now, Safe Brows...

 Computer vision technologist Chris Carson built a portable device to turn any regular vehicle into a connected car. Called the Caruma, Carson likens it to a Fitbit, but for driving. The Caruma t...

 The serial entrepreneurs behind Yoobic have kept it all in the family over the course of three startup companies. The three brothers, Fabrice, Avi, and Gilles Haiat, began their entrepreneurial ...

 Dropbox, the file hosting and cloud storage company with 400 million users, has been struggling to hold up its$10 billion valuation in the face of scrutiny from investors and observers,and now i...

 If you’ve lived in a big city where renting (versus owning) is a popular option for residents, then you likely know the endless struggle of trying to find a place to live. The listings tha...

 Everyone can shoot video but few can record or afford a legal soundtrack. Until now. With Jukedeck’s new artificial intelligence music composition technology, creators can get a cheap, roy...

 A major factor that deters girls from pursuing computer science is the perception that coders are mostly white and male, according to a recent Google-commissioned Gallup survey. That’s why...

 As any child will tell you there are a few things you want to try every time you see them. When you’re young you want to ride on any coin-operated animal or train you see on the street. A ...

 The commercial drone market is starting to gain traction. There are some obvious markets for drone usage, including real estate marketing, media and inspections. FairFleet, a Munich, Germany-bas...

 Meet YayPay, a London-based startup launching today on stage at Disrupt London in our Startup Battlefield competition. YayPay lets you automatically collect payments from your customers. And it ...

 Higher education is going through a well-documented digital revolution. Colleges and universities are awash in data. Accelerated learning “bootcamps” challenge the supremacy of the e...

 They were in a coffee shop when Adetayo Bamiduro convinced his co-founder Chinedu Azodoh that starting an e-commerce site wasn’t necessarily the best idea — at least, not yet. Instea...

 What’s it like to be the billionaire co-founder of a sprawling digital business empire that wasn’t born in Silicon Valley? Oliver Samwer, co-founder of Rocket Internet, gave a glimps...

 Point and control. That’s the basis of the SevenHugs Smart Remote. Instead of selecting, say, a connected light bulb on a menu in the remote, a user simply points the remote at the light t...

 Point and control. That’s the basis of the SevenHugs Smart Remote. Instead of selecting, say, a connected light bulb on a menu in the remote, a user simply points the remote at the light t...

 Twitter is today revamping the way photos posted to its service will look, with a greater focus on a more media-heavy experience that now featuresuncropped photos and improved multi-photo displa...

 Looks like IBM needs to reengineer what it thinks about women. A tweet went out on IBM’s official Twitter feed asking women in tech to, I kid you not, “Join the #HackAHairDryer exper...

 History has shown that you can’t topple email. The legacy technology invented in the early days of the net is too entrenched to be abandoned. But newer startups have found a way to at leas...

 Vevo, the world’s largest music video platform, has today announced its first acquisition: Showyou, a subscription-based video streaming platform that helps users find video content that m...

 Veyo Care aims to a solve a problem facing an aging global population, by helping seniors find the appropriate caregivers. The Berlin-based startup launched at TechCrunch London, with a mobile a...

 “Supplier management” might not sound like the most exciting problem for a startup to solve, but Lystable might actually be doing something crucial for its customers. As businesses f...

 In the near future, all of our shower accoutrements will be connected. In fact, everything from your soap to the loofah will talk to your e-Shower head if Hamwells has anything to say about it. ...

 Bryan Roberts has seen plenty of market swings in his 18 years as a venture capitalist with Venrock, the venture firm that started as the venture arm of the Rockefeller family and has historical...

 Klarna co-founder and CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski took the stage at Disrupt London today to discuss his payment startup and the wider financial tech ecosystem in Europe and in the U.S. Klarna is...

 Shortly after raising $100 million, Deliveroo co-founder and CEO William Shu and Accel Partners’ Fred Destin took the stage at Disrupt London to discuss the company’s ambitious plans...

 Although Google’s investment arm, Google Ventures, only opened its London office in July 2014 — setting aside an initial $100 million to invest in startups “across Europe”...

 Send Gigster your app idea and it sends you back that app. No coding. No hiring. No wrangling freelancers. Just a fundamental shift in how software gets built.That’s why Andreessen Horowit...

 These new fashion companies have taken a different approach to the industry, using the benefits of e-commerce to make only what they need, when their consumers want it. It’s an easy way to...

 Sharing notes across the Internet is a surprisingly tough thing to pull off. The big guys like Google can do it but there are very few streamlined collaboration systems available that work with ...

 Europe is known for its high-end fashion culture, and technology seems to be making it easier for the world to discover and access those much sought-after items from this region of the world. Bu...

 The latest company to benefit from the newfound attention on technologies to facilitate payments and credit and debit card adoption in emerging markets is the Mexican startup, Clip, which raised...

 Today at TechCrunch Disrupt London, our ownConnie Loizos sat down with a cadre of Silicon Valley investors to dig into what is going down on the American side of the pond, and how the group view...

 APUS Group, a Beijing-based company that makes utility apps for Android smartphones, has launched a $45 million investment fund to invest in Indian startups. Several of APUS Group’s own in...

 Vessel, thevideo subscription service ledby former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar and former Hulu CTO Richard Tom, is expanding in a new direction with the launch of a feature called “Threads,”...

 Vincent the cat was born without rear tibias, a deformation that could have spelt death for the wee kitten if some folks hadn’t found him at a campsite. Instead of giving up on Vincent, Dr...

 “Looks like they’re all Arsenal fans this morning, Sir Alex.”And with that they were off.The inside-football conversation between two titans of their respective fields, Sir Mic...

 Postmates CEO Bastian Lehmann said today at TechCrunch Disrupt London that his company will launch in London sometime in the second quarter of next year. Postmates is dealing in a crowded on-dem...

 TransferWise co-founder and CEO Taavet Hinrikus took the stage at Disrupt London to tell his company’s founding story. TransferWise has had a big year, and it looks like 2016 will be a big...

 Paytm, which claims to be India’s leading mobile payment platform, has acquired local services startup Near.in for $2 million to strengthen its online-to-offline commerce strategy. Founded...

 TechCrunch is pleased to announce the 14 startups selected to participate in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt London 2015. Over the next two days, these companies will compete on tech’s ...

 The end of the year is nigh, which means tech companies left, right and center are issuing their annual recaps. Spotify, one of the few worth keeping note of when it comes to these matters, has ...

 Disrupt London 2015 is now officially underway, after an incredibly successful Hackathon where FreeMe took home the main prize. Today, the conference kicks off with a chat with Taavet Hinrikus f...

 Amazon has turned to Baidu, China’s top search company, to power its Amazon Fire tablet in China — the country where Google and its services are not welcome. The device, which is pri...

 My life just keeps getting easier. These days, I don’t have to run out to the store to replenish my pantry — within an hour, Amazon Now will deliver my groceries. A cleaner from Hand...

 With 38 different watches available, Apple has called its Watch the most personalized device it has ever created. But there’s still a chance for a competitor, like Google Android Wear, to ...

 When we think of augmented reality, we think of the interaction of superimposed graphics, audio, GPS data and other sensory enhancements converging within a real-world environment displayed in r...

 Verizon Wireless has announced that it’s turning on Wi-Fi calling for devices starting next week, beginning with the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. But iPhone users, as well as non-Samsung...

 The Google Cardboard team has teamed up with Bank Of America and Visa to bring a new VR experience to Android and iOS. The subject is the New England Patriots and you’ll be able to immerse...

 Healthcare, like so many other sectors of the economy, is being transformed by technology. The changes are most obvious at the front end of healthcare, where health payment solutions, data analy...

 After announcing it at E3 2015, Square Enix unveiled the first gameplay trailer for one of its most anticipated games, Final Fantasy VII. And it looks like it’s more than just a remake wit...

Murdoch wants to give you what you didn’t ask for, yet. Instant messaging is overshadowing social media, and that’s creating new opportunities for data mining and delivering useful content...

 Are you ever hungry and wonder which nearby restaurants have available tables right now? Immediate.ly, conceived at TechCrunch’s Disrupt London Hackathon, aims to fix that problem.London-b...

 James Hitchcock and Moti Ferentz, along with the rest of theirteam, were visiting London for the TechCrunch Disrupt London hackathon, but they didn’t quite have access to the data they nee...

 It’s been a long night at the Copper Box Arena in London. The arena hosted the handball competition of the Summer Olympics two years ago. But this weekend has been all about a different ki...

 How many times has your mom or dad called with an obvious-to-you question about their phone, or printer, or in the case of my mother, the Apple TV? Of course, you want to be a good son or daught...

 Meet Roslyn Scott and Dalton Scott, a mother and son team who just demoed a neat idea for making code more accessible, here at the Disrupt London 2015 hackathon. Their hack, called the Human Cod...

 Tag Heuer’s chairman Jean-Claude Biver announced that the company is ramping up weekly production of their Carrera Connected Smart Watch from 1,200 to 2,000 pieces. The watch costs $1,500 ...

 While governments around the world struggle to address the needs of the 4 million refugees who have fled Syria since the start of that country’s civil war in 2011, hackers across Europe ar...

 A team at the TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 hackathon has created what they say is one of the first personal assistants for the WhatsApp messaging platform. Called WhatsBot, the assistant uses ...

 People in developing countries may not have the luxury of access to many modern technologies. They do, however, have affordable access to smartphones increasingly. According to a recent mobility...

 Ahoy, mates! We’re in foggy London town and Disrupt Europe 2015 is officially underway, as the Hackathon presentations kick off right now. In case you have no idea what I’m talking a...

 Dropping by the Disrupt London hackathon at around midnight, we expected to see many participants losing energy or flat-out asleep — and understandably so. Instead, almost everyone remaine...

 Big cities like San Francisco and New York are digital meccas, home to many of the world’s largest technology startups — and to hordes of smartphone-toting, app-using consumers. But ...

 The rise of the edtech industry has completely transformed the K-12 experience for students. But what about teachers? Shouldn’t technological innovation be used to improve teacher performa...

 During its Playstation Experience (PSX) event in San Francisco today, Sony unveiled some new information about the Playstation VR and showed off some new titles. Unfortunately we’ve gotten...

 And we’re back, with the second of three posts on having success with code bootcamps. Having explored whether coding bootcamps work for hiring top tech talent (hint: the answer is yes), we...

 The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek. Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Tuesday, December 4, 2015.The Gang abandons tech for presidential politics as Tru...

 Our Disrupt London hackathon is officially underway. More than 1,000 people have registered to compete — by this time tomorrow, they’ll formteams, buildnew products and present them ...

 A recent discussion on the tech IPO market yielded the comment “all IPOs this year were down rounds.” Square’s recent IPO priced below its last private offering, spurring Khosl...

 An update to Google search rolling out to mobile users is putting a greater emphasis on music and media, including recommendations on songs, TV shows, movies, and more. Now, when searching for t...

 Jompeame (Jumpstartme in Spanish) is a new crowdfunding site aimed at helping the impoverished in Latin America. “Our mission initially is to change the lives of at least 5 people in this ...

 What if you could learn about anything just by taking a photo of it? Blippar already has 3 million people doing that every month plus another 62 million signed up. Now Blippar is ready to unveil...

 The smoke had barely begun to clear from the horrific attacks in Paris, in a neighborhood where I used to live, before the usual suspects started trying to twist the facts to fit their authorita...

 The technology industry is of vital importance to our national economy. And it faces real problems that the next president will have to address. So where are the candidates? Read More ...

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 Microsoft recently released an updated Windows 10 Mobile build, numbered 10586.29. Microsoft’s Gabe Aul calls the new edition of the company’s smartphone operating system a “Cu...

 TEKsystems recently put out a report showing that approximately 80 percent of all IT professionals believe that a skills gap exists in tech industries today. Backed by claims of mass projected g...

 My life can be split into two halves, each fulfilling an American dream. The first half I spent on the American dream that was engrained from birth — “pull yourself up by your bootst...

 If you’re a Twitter for the web user (or Android) like I am, then you know exactly where all of the tabs are that you need to speedily read tweets, replies and so forth. Twitter, monkeying...

 Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today 1pmPT/4pmET. Read More ...

 Nearly everyone is familiar with the DirecTV commercials in which actor Rob Lowe and NFL quarterbacks Eli Manning and Tony Romo appear as unflattering alter-egos of themselves — “pea...

 In the future, all currencies will be crypto. And you’ll need someone to manage all that crypto cash. That’s what CoinCube is trying to do: a way to manage cryptocurrency investments...

 John Henry, the 22-year-old founder of accelerator programCofound Harlem, has announced Cofound Ventures, Harlem’s first venture capital fund.Cofound Ventures, which will officially launch...

 Rick Devine has spent more than a decade as an executive recruiter, and even introduced Steve Jobs to his eventual successor Tim Cook back in 1998. Now he’s working on a startup called Tal...

 Yes. This a trademark application filed on October 30th for the term “subtweet.” Twitter has filed a trademark for the term "subtweet." pic.twitter.com/ivE9hLDm2R — Ale...

This is it! The last hoorah, do or die time, use it or lose it — your last chance to nominate a winner for the coveted Crunchies Awards.We will celebratethe best and brightest in the global tech...

 Some amazing and inventive new ways to use VR technology are already appearing that could dramatically impact people in their daily lives. Read More ...

 Cruises, for the uninitiated, are trips on a boat where you eat too much, watch an Abba musical, and get the stomach flu. But they can be so much more and that’s why Cruise.me launched: to...

 We’re just a few months away from the 9th Annual Crunchies, and your window to nominate your favorite tech startups, entrepreneurs and investors is closing today. Yes, today is the final d...

 Teforia, the startupthat promises its machine makesthe perfect cup of tea every time has pulled in $5.1 million in a deal to help it take on the brewed beverage technology space. The company lau...

 Baseball hasalwaysbeen a sport driven by numbers, and with modernSabermetrics, it’s even more so.Motus has developed a system using biomechanics tomeasure stress on a pitcher’s elbow...

Hard to believe that Disrupt London is just around the corner! TechCrunch has partnered with an amazing array of sponsorswho promise to make your experience at the conference better and better.  ...

 High-end gaming firm Razer opened its third such store — which is purely for showing off its products, not actual retail sales — in Bangkok, Thailand, recently and we went along to c...

 High-end gaming firm Razer opened its third such store — which is purely for showing off its products, not actual retail sales — in Bangkok, Thailand, recently and we went along to c...

 With e-commerce booming and the holidays rapidly approaching, retail and tech giants alike are asking Santa for new ways to delight customers and increase sales. In the U.S., nearly half of all ...

 We’re only a few days away from Disrupt London. For the first time at any Disrupt, Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson will join us to talk about what it’s like building a developer-centric commu...

 Start you own venture firm.That’s the advice that one of the industry’s first women VCs, Kathryn Gould, gave to other women, and itcame to mindyesterday as I watched aninterview give...

 SeamlessDocs, the document automation portal for governments, has announced the close of a $5 million Series A funding round led by the Govtech Fund The startup originally launched as Bizodo out...

 We love tech, and we especially love tech for good. Come join us for the Oscars of the tech world, the Crunchies Awards, on February 8, 2016. There are only two days left until the nominations f...

 When Apple quietly turned on carrier billing in iTunes in Germany last month, we said emerging markets could be the company’s biggest opportunity and target for the facility, which lets co...

 Having all your content on TV is a bit like having all your money in oil: it’s still popular, but the next thing is coming and you better diversify. That’s why it’s so smart th...

 One of the bigger makers of maps and location services used in mobile phones and connected cars has now been taken over by a consortium of car makers. Today Nokia completed its sale of Here toAu...

 It’s been a long strange trip for serial entrepreneur David Kalt on the road to raising $25 million for his two-year-old music gear marketplace, Reverb.com. Read More ...

 According to IDC, sales growth of smartphones running Microsoft’s operating system will remain sluggish for the foreseeable future.New figures from the group, released yesterday, are stark...

A short while ago, TechCrunch piled into a car, and drove at moderate pace to San Jose, just so that we could drive much more quickly. Recently opened on the other end of the Bay is theDriver Simulati...

 GoPro now sells four different cameras for $299 or less. This comes as the firm drops the price on the new Hero4 Session to $199 — the price it should have sold for originally. The drop pu...

 Xiaomi is the world’s number three wearables vendor, behind Fitbit and Apple, according to a new report from IDC that looked at shipment volume in the third quarter of 2015. Read More ...

 Flipkart, one of India’s top e-commerce retailers, has acquired a minority stake in MapMyIndia, a startup that provides mobile maps, location data, and GPS navigation devices for cars. Rea...

 We’ve learned what the big announcement from Oculus is, which was shared on stage at The Game Awards in Los Angeles tonight. The announcement wasn’t about when the Rift would be avai...

 The trend toward direct connections between video content creators and their audiences is well underway, but the new Apple TV could finally push that trend into the living room. Although direct-...

 Vanitee, a six-month-old Singapore-based startup that provides a marketplace to connect beauty practitioners with customers, has raised $3.5 million as it prepares to expand its service across A...

 On Tuesday, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a powerful announcement — not only did he reveal the birth of his daughter, Max, but he shared plans to give up 99% of his pe...

 Uber, the on-demand transportation company that has amassedaround $10 billion in funding to date, is raising oncemore. This time, it islooking toto $2.1 billion, in aSeries G roundthat could val...

 With Periscope and Meerkat being two of the breakout stars of this year’s SXSW, and Snapchat serving as the primary engagement tool for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, ...

 David Hornik believes in the free market, but argues that regulation has an important role in tempering some of the more traumatic consequences of disruption — especially in the sharing ec...

 Rideshareplatform Uber is looking to raise $2.1 billion. Uber is the most valuable technology company on paper, at a current $50 billion valuation. The additional funding would bring those figur...

 As Uber ramps up its business globally with yet more money, four of its regional rivals are getting closer to each other in a bid for more scale and service continuity.Lyft in the U.S., Didi Kua...

 First I encourage you to watch the video below. By mixing a vague misunderstanding of the English language with a guy who sounds like the guy who voices trailers for action films, you’ve c...

 Meet Topick, a newly launched startup that wants to create a sort of social network for your favorite topics. After selecting your interests, Topick offers an unfiltered feed of people sharing t...

 Samsung’s entry into consumer virtual reality, the Gear VR consumer edition, seems to be a pretty hot item for the holidays. We reported that both Amazon and Best Buy show that the item is...

 Microsoft released a new tool today designed to give Outlook users an easier way to schedule meetings. Called FindTime, the add-in is one of the more practical applications to be released from M...

As we approach the inevitable melding of man and machine, we’re going to need a lot more consonants and vowels. That’s why Wiivv is on the case. Wiivv, a company so disruptive that you can...

 After letting just celebrities and journalists on its Periscope competitor for a few months, Facebook today began testing its Live streaming video broadcasting feature with average users on iOS ...

 Staffly, an online retail staffing company that appeared in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield competition in September, announced that it has received $1.25 million in seed round funding today....

 It’s a tough world out there. I’ve been writing on the Internet for 3 years now, and I’ve had my fair share of aggressive comments, weird emails and personal attacks. Don’...

 Got one of Google’s Cardboard VR headsets and an Android phone handy?Google has something new for you to play with this morning. Read More ...

 Yahoo Messenger might be the best messaging app no one will use. The company just released a completely revamped version of its messaging platform, focused on mobile, group messaging and image s...

 Last month, Google introduced a new way for web searchers to find the information they want – even when that content was locked inside a mobile application. The search engine would now ret...

 Words are impactful. They may not break your bones, as the saying goes, but they do guide the way we all think, debate, decide and act. When it comes to the words we use to define our industry &...

 Swift, Apple’s programming language aimed at OS X and iOS developers, has gone open source under the Apache License. This means all of the source code including the code for a new package ...

 The 3D market has seen an explosion of interest on the back of new hardware to create and experience it, from 3D cameras and VR headgear through to 3D printers; and a raft of popular content tha...

 Placemeter, the “urban intelligence platform” that launched earlier this year, wants to help businesses measure how many people walk past — and into — their stores. The c...

 Make sure you submit your nomination for the best mobile app of 2015 now! With only one day left until nominations close for the Crunchies Award Show, we want to hear from you.The Best Mobile ap...

 A project to probe the viability of using low power Bluetooth Beacon technology as an aid for indoor navigation — with a special focus on helping blind and visually impaired people get aro...

 Earlier this year, the specs forHTTP/2— the successor to theHTTP protocol that powers the web — were finalized. But as with any technology that aims to replace such a fundamental par...

 While Amazon expands Prime Nowrestaurantordering and delivery to more cities, astartuphas picked up funding to go head to head with it and the many others in the crowded food-on-demand category....

 While Amazon expands Prime Nowrestaurantordering and delivery to more places, astartuphas picked up funding to go head to head with it and the many others in the crowded food-on-demand category....

 Since Dell announced its intention to buy EMC for $67 billion in October, there has been a lot of speculation about how the company was going to pay off the massive $40 billion debt it used to f...

 Redfin.com today launched the latest iteration of its home-price estimate tool. Until today, you had to play real estate agent and pick your own comparables and Redfin would then use these to co...

 “Which version of this design are we on? Did you make the suggested edits? Why is it taking so long to export?” Today, interface design collaboration tool Figma arrives to eliminate ...

 Facebook’s least favorite Austrian, lawyer and privacy campaigner, Max Schrems, has updated his data protection complaints against the social network giant in the light of the recent EJC s...

 We’re less than a week away from this year’s Disrupt Hackathon, and are delighted to announce the judges and API workshops.I, along with Gemma Cameron, will be your MCand host for th...

 Artificial Intelligence will soon bring on another technological revolution, where machines may take your job and shake up the economy in the process. Read More ...

 If you don’t like your current bank, Number26 is here for you. The German startup has been trying to reinvent the average banking experience in Germany and Austria. It is now expanding to ...

 Facebook is bringing its Instant Article media format to Asia after more than twenty media from eleven countries in the region — including China, India and Indonesia — jumped aboard ...

 Outside big events like concerts, tons of Ubers can be waiting, making it tough for passengers to figure out which car is theirs. That’s why last week I suggested Uber create a feature tha...

 Here at TechCrunch, we want to make Disrupt the best possible experience for our attendees. This includes finding new ways to help attendees discover and stay connected to new people and making ...

 BrightFunnel announced today that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The startup offers attribution tools to track the sales impact of customers’ marketing efforts, and it also ...

 With interest and investment in food and agriculture startups reaching record levels, new entrepreneurs are entering this important sector, bringing fresh ideas and perspectives on how best to f...

 Greg Tseng is stepping down from the CEO role of if(we) after 11 years running its dating social network Tagged and game studio hi5. He’ll remain a board member. When asked why the change ...

 Yesterday, the EFF announced the launch of a campaign called ‘Spying on Students’ to raise awareness about privacy risks for technology used at schools. The campaign came with a comp...

 About two hours ago, I got a flurry of text messages from my family.“My Instagram got hacked!” one read.“I can’t log into Instagram! I got a notification saying I’d...

 Box, an enterprise collaboration and file management shop, reported its fiscal third quarter financial results today. The company lost $0.31per share, using adjusted metrics, on revenue of $78.7...

 Update: Shares in Box are now up a fraction in after-hours trading. Investors are such fickle things. Box, an enterprise collaboration and file management shop, reported its fiscal third quarter...

 Big data is a big deal, make no mistake about it, but it’s probably not as big a deal as it’s going to be eventually when we really figure out how to make good use of it. For now, we...

 In this podcast, Max talks about having true passion for an area of business, on the difficulty of building network effects businesses, the happiest day of an entrepreneur’s life, and leav...

 The music wars are afoot, Google is consolidating its weaponry. Beginning today, Songza users will be notified that the Songza website and mobile apps are being fully folded into Google Play Mus...

 A good VC is hard to find. Researchers studying the sector have noted that most venture capital funds “fail to generate attractive returns (or any returns) for investors.” Over the l...

 Comedian Dave Chappelle seems to be fed up with people recording his shows and sharing his material on the Internet. Chappelle recently tapped tech startup Yondr, which makes cell phone cases th...

 Dinner Lab, a supper club and culinary events business that has expanded to 75,000 members across 31 states over the past three years, is today putting its recent infusion of new capital to use:...

 One week after Facebook announced its SDK for tvOS, Twitter is also announcing its plans for Apple’s new platform. Developers will be able to integrate Digits into their apps and use Crash...

 Meet the $99 Pi-TopCEED: a desktop computer powered by the Raspberry Pi — just add your own keyboard and mouse… Read More ...

 At Microsoft’s annual shareholding conference today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella cited diversity progressin relation to the executive team and board of directors. In the last year, Microso...

 Home 3D printing has grown by leaps and bounds over the past half decade. While some of the fluff and excitement has gone out of the technology, it is still the closest thing to magic we have in...

 Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has joined the Patreon Board of Directors, a move that aims to bring operational skills to the funding site. Patreon allows creators – podcasters, artists, ...

 We all pretend to love board games but when it comes to sitting down and playing them most of us are remiss. The solution? Pick up any of these fun games for the family and see eyes light up, sp...

 It’s been two and half months since Apple released iOS 9, and the company just shared some adoption numbers on its website. According to Apple, 70 percent of iOS devices accessing the App ...

 Uber’slatest growth strategy is to colonize the mobile app landscape with its new Ride Request Button. Launching today, iOS and Android app developers can easily plug in a few lines of cod...

 Atheer, a company that builds augmented reality glasses and software for the enterprise, today announced that it has acquired Portland’s OnTheGo Platforms (OTG). OTG has long specialized i...

 The Star Wars marketing blitz is on, with everything from trailers hitting the Internet to cans of food donning the likeness of characters at the supermarket. People are flat out excited to see ...

 Making good on an announcement from this March, Starbucks and Postmates have now teamed up tolaunch apilot program that will see the on-demand delivery startuppowering deliveries for the Seattle...

 Content that gets delivered digitally should be measured digitally. This sounds obvious, but it’s not that easy: Ad blockers, infinite scroll design and auto-load/auto-play videos all make...

 Atlassian isn’t just preparing to IPO, it’s also launching an update to its Git-based Bitbucket service today that will make it easier for developers to ship their code to some of th...

 Asana just announced that it’s hiredSonja Gittens-Ottley, formerly of Facebook, to serve as the productivity startup’s first-ever head of diversity and inclusion. Back in July, after...

 Facebook doesn’t have an easy-to-use advanced search engine, so one guy built his own. “Search Is Back” lets you use familiardrop-down menus to find people by city, relationshi...

 Apple has advanced its relationship with United after the airline announced plans to outfit its 6,000 or so customer service reps with the iPhone 6 Plus. Read More ...

 An update rolling out now to owners of Amazon Fire tablets promises more features aimed at allowing parents to better monitor and manage their children’s screen time, as well as a new R...

 Hello friends, and welcome to Bullish. This week we take a look at online education, a large and diverse space that extends learning to those who might find it inaccessible and locks in some stu...

 As containers become more popular as a way to develop and deploy software, it’s quickly becoming clear that ensuring the security of container deployments isn’t always easy. We’...

 Bluecore, the data marketing platform for ecommerce brands, has today announced the close of a $21 million Series B round led by Georgian Partners, with participation from existing investors lik...

 Osaro, a new, San Francisco-based startup that’s developing advanced machine learning known as deep reinforcement learning, has raised $3.3 million in seed funding to take its technology t...

 More details about U.K. intelligence agency GCHQ’s use of hacking — aka: ‘computer network interference’ in euphemistic official parlance — and the oversight regime...

 Wonder what APIs you might build on over Hackathon weekend? Have we got some technologies for you! We’re excited to announce the sponsors prizes for this year’s spectacular TechCrunc...

 Netsertive, the marketing intelligence platform, has completed a round of $24 million in Series C funding, led by River Cities Capital Funds. Originally planning to raise $15 million, an additio...

 Slice Intelligence, which gathers e-commerce data from receipts linked to its Slice package tracking app, tells TechCrunch that Amazon dominated online Black Friday sales, accounting for 35.7% i...

 Uber has poached a second executive from Google Maps. Manik Gupta announced on LinkedIn today that he is now Uber’s director of products for maps, after leaving a similar position at Googl...

 LinkedIn, the professional social network that we love to hate, is hoping to entice you into using it more on your phone after it introduced revamped versions of its iOS and Android apps. Read M...

 The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the board of Yahoo is considering selling off its core business in a series of upcoming meetings. So, naturally, shares of the company spiked 7% in exte...

 When Kobe Bryant decided to share his intentions to retire after this season, his 20th, the way he did it was…different. Even though he did a press conference later that evening, he chose ...

 Google’s monthly self-driving car reports are fun to read through, and gives transparent accounts of what the team is up to, how the cars are performing, and any lessons learned along the ...

 Today, at the Post-Seed conference in San Francisco, Alfred Lin, the former COO and CFO of Zapposand now a Sequoia Capital partner, was asked a variety of on-stage questions about the current ma...

 Choose from 16 million shades of color, makegrandpa feel more secure by showing him who’s at the door when he’s not even there and get the house turnt with a rendition of Alvin and t...

 There is exactly one week until applications close for 1st and Future, the startup competition that TechCrunch is staging with the NFL and Stanford University on February 6 at Stanford’s C...

 For many years, Israelis used to lament that the local tech scene, while considered second only to Silicon Valley and generating many successful startups, has never been able to grow a world tec...

 Israeli marketing company Perion Networks announced today that it has acquired Undertone, a New York City-based digital ad company in a $180 million cash deal.According to the release, $91 milli...

 Autodeskis an old school software company, having launched in 1982 and gone public in 1990, but that doesn’t mean it’s too fixed in its ways to try something new. Today, the companyi...

 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today said he and his wife would give away 99% of theirshares to “advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation.” ...

 Black Friday shoppers spent an average of 4.9 hours out at brick-and-mortar shops, according to data from Foursquare. Long lines meant that each shopper only visited 2.8 stores. The location-tra...

 With the goal of making every kids’ birthday a dream come true, Los Angeles-basedCommuniGift has launcheda new businessto promote charitable giving just in time for the holidays.The compan...

 News startup Stringris announcing that it has raised $1.5 million in funding.Co-founder and CEO Lindsay Stewart previously worked as a TV news producer for ABC, Bloomberg and Fox News, and she s...

 You’re strapped into a virtual reality delight and you want to Google something. What do you do? Now you can use a web browser built and optimized specifically for the Samsung Gear VR.The ...

 Interactive presentation startup Prezi has been in quiet mode lately, but invited us behind the scenesto discuss its startup roots in Budapest, Hungary and juggling two offices in completely dif...

 Chances are you haven’t realized it, but your PlayStation 4 got a little bit more powerful. The PlayStation 4 comes with an octa-core CPU. Until now, game developers could leverage 6 of th...

 Just in time for the high holy season ofgiving and getting packagesfrom far away, on-demand shipping startup Shyp is taking advantage of one of the biggestonlineoutfits in need of deliveryfor th...

 Yesterday’s Cyber Monday sales event was already poised to break records with a forecasted $3 billion in sales, making it the largest online sales day in history. It ended up beating those...

 The state of cybersecurity has reached full-blown systemic failure. The narrative goes something like this: Companies are spending massive amounts of money on technologies that don’t seem ...

 Microsoft has put out a TV commercial for the holidays. In it, some things happen…mostly singing. There are employees, kids and other things going on in a New York City Setting. Apple̵...

 Disrupt Londonis almost here, and we have some of the most iconic entrepreneurs and thought leaders in the tech industry lined up to speak at what will surely be the best Disrupt Europe yet.The ...

 A site that says that they know lots about babies called BabyCenter.com (great name for a baby site) shared their top ten names of 2015 for both male and female little-ins. Some of the names are...

 Flash is dying of a slow, painful death. Adobe, the company behind Flash, just made clear once again that Flash isn’t the future by renaming one of its apps. Adobe Flash Professional is no...

 The editorial team at the Huffington Post has officially asked management to recognize the Writers Guild of America, East as its union. In recent months, the newsrooms of several digital media o...

 When Microsoft has a technology it likes, it loves to bring it to all of its platforms and services. Right now, its Cortana personal assistant is clearly one of these technologies. Microsoft tod...

 Watch out, Pinterest, you’ve got new competition. Google has now rolled out a new feature on its search engine that offers users an easy way to save to saveimages they find to collections ...

 November looks to be an auspicious month for power investor firm Tiger Global. The New York hedge fund raised $2.5 billion for new deals back in November 2014, and now, after a spending spree th...

 At long last, Storehouse is giving Android users some love. The photo narrative app, which was foundedas an iPad-only experience in 2013, began shifting to developan even more mobile platform wh...

 Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp appears to have started deliberately blocking links to rival messaging app Telegram so users can’t share clickable Telegram-associated URLs in their...

 Good Eggs, anonline service that allows you to order food from local farms, has brought on a new CEO — Bentley Hall, whopreviously held senior rolesat Plum Organics, Clif Bar and Johnson &...

 Apple has a Mac App Store problem. Popular vector-based design app Sketch is leaving the App Store in order to move back to a direct-selling model. The developer announced the move on its offici...

 Spotify is the world’s top streaming music service in terms of active users, downloads and revenue, according to a new music-focused report out this morningfrom App Annie. However, while S...

 Mitchell Harper left Bigcommerce in February and, while he remains an active board member, he decided to take the leap and work on new projects. Australian Harper launched ‘startup studio&...

 Microsoft has yet to ship its first HoloLens holographic imaging device,but it is moving swiftly on to the next generation of development nonetheless. TechCrunch has confirmed thatMicrosofthas d...

 Many have tried, but no European company has become as successful as Venmo so far. Venmo is a great way to pay back your friends in a few taps without having to pay any fee. But its main issue i...

 It’s been a busy year for OnePlus. The Chinese company unveiled its much-anticipated OnePlus 2 this summer and followed that up with the OnePlus X in October. Now, the Shenzhen-based Andro...

 For some time, Google has been developing technology to reduce data consumption on mobile devices. Last January, the company officiallyintroduced an optional data compression feature into its Ch...

 TechCrunch Disrupt London is next week! (December 7th-8th, Agenda, Tickets). The conference will see our now traditional set-up of a single stage and a Startup Alley. TechCrunch is excited to an...

 As if it weren’t bad enough that all of us contain a skeleton, Revols is remind us that we also have ears. This Montreal-based custom headphone company has created a very unique custom ear...

 In a week when a major retail website went down under the pressure of Cyber Monday, AppDynamics, a company that helps monitor apps and websites in order to prevent those types of outages(or at l...

 Assuming the human eye could see them, what would the wireless signals that we are surrounded by in our homes, businesses and cities look like? Nothing like the streams of ascii characters depic...

 The crowning glory of Amazon’s just dropped post-Thanksgiving press missive — trumpeting apparently accelerating holiday sales — is the surname of Amazon’s SVP of devices...

 Nestio, the NY-based leasing and marketing platform for residential landlords, announced today that is hasraised $8M in Series A funding. The round was led by Trinity Ventures, and had participa...

 Former mobile phone maker Nokia has professional filmmakers in its sights with a new piece of camera hardware it’s been cooking up since early 2013. After teasing its plans this summer, th...

 Enterprise software company Atlassian, which filed a month ago to go public on NASDAQ, has disclosed how much its shares will cost. In a SEC filing, the company said its 20 million shares will b...

 Quikr, which claims to be India’s largest classifieds site, is in talks to acquire Commonfloor, a property listings portal. A source says the deal will be worth roughly $200 million and he...

 Food discovery service Burpple is savoring the taste of cash today after the Singapore-based company landed a $6 million Series A round from Tembusu Partners, Singapore Press Holdings’ Med...

 As its smartphone sales continue to lag behind competitors, Samsung Electronics announced today that it will reshuffle the leadership of its mobile division. J.K. Shin will no longer be in contr...

 Home audio is rarely just plug-and-play. Systems I’ve dealt with installing over the years have come with dozens of feetof wiring and multiple unitsthat require an afternoon or more to get...

 In time for your Cyber Monday shopping, Beats has released its first portable speaker since Apple acquired the company — the Pill + wireless bluetooth speaker. Right down to the packaging,...

 Last month, based on an SEC filing, we told youthatseven-year-old, San Francisco-based AppDynamics hadraised a fresh $83.4 million in funding as part of a round thatwastargeting up to $150 milli...

 I trust that you are sated, smiley, and generally recharged by the recent Thanksgiving cycle. Earnings time. You may have thought that you were out of the non-GAAP woods. Not in the least. Certa...

 The NSA shut down its bulk phone record collection program yesterday, more than two years since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden exposed the program to journalists and prompted a global deba...

 The Mozilla Foundation looks like it’s about to take another step in its bid to sharpen its focus on its Firefox browser and continue with its fightback to gain more market share against c...

 The Mozilla Foundation looks like it’s about to take another step in its bid to sharpen its focus on development around its Firefox browser. Mozilla now wants toonce and for all hive off s...

 There are many reasons why you could use Slack as your messaging platform of choice for a public or semi-public project. It can be an open source project, a local community project or just an in...

 The Holga is a medium format mechanical toy camera that became a fan favorite when it was launched in 1981. Now, thirty-four years later, the company that currently makes the camera has closed u...

 In the first breach that seems to have hit both adults and children at the same time, interactive toy maker VTech has confirmed hackers have accessed private data including names, email addresse...

 The battle to make elite autonomous vehicles is on, and a major part of that is assembling teams that will carry out your plans. Today, it was reported that Google snagged Tesla’s former A...

 Bob Lord will soon leave his role as president of AOL. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said he’d seen Lord as his eventual successor, but that plan was ...

 At this week’s “Game Awards” in Los Angeles, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is scheduled to attend and make an announcement of some sort, its host announced today on Twitter. Rea...

 The space administration recently announced its Startup initiative by opening up around 1200 patented technologies to US startups to commercialize at no upfront costs. Soon, the space-age techno...

 Random is the right way to describe Facebook’s attempted invasion of Amazon’s turf. With skimpy product selection, no reviews and limited browsing options, Facebook’s dedicated...

 YouTube’s plans to convert a portion of its user base to a subscription-based, ad-free service known as YouTube Red appears to be gaining traction. The company’s iOS application is n...

 Sonos users, rejoice! The speaker company just announced that an update adding Apple Music is coming on December 15 in beta. All the flagship Apple Music features will be available directly from...

 Air shouldn’t really be something you have to spend too much time thinking about. You breathe it in, then breathe out. All good. Unfortunately, sometimes air quality sucks and you have to ...

 A lot of people are excited to hop into a car one day and read emails and tweets as the car drives itself, and you, to work. It would cut down on the anxiety we all feel during our daily commute...

 When we first met the team building the LucidCam, they aimed to raise $100,000 on Indiegogo. They found their 264 backers to get them there. Their goal isto bring the ability to shoot immersive ...

 Meet Sylaps, a voice-over-IP startup that lets you start phone calls without giving out your phone number. Sylaps is all about making it as seamless as possible to start a phone call with people...

 Though the lines have blurred around Cyber Monday, as retailers have extended their online discounts and savings both before and after the traditionally large online sales day, Cyber Monday is s...

 Bitcoin is currently enjoying what politicos call a boomlet — a small bump that, while perhaps not impressive on a historical scale, is certainly notable. For bitcoin at the moment, this m...

 Amazon showed off a brand new Amazon Prime Air video yesterday. While it’s interesting to see that the project is still alive and moving forward, you can’t help but think that Amazon...

 Swatch and Visa have announced a partnership to enable NFC financial transactions using the the Swatch Bellamy wristwatch. The watches, which Swatch announced in October, are arguably minimalist...

 Say Kids is a new online serviceaimed at millennial parents, offeringa membership model forbuying young children’s clothing.The company was founded by husband-and-wife team Carl Ng and Jen...

 Dash, a driving app we’ve previously described as a “Fitbit for cars”, has announced it is expanding beyond consumer-facing products with Dash XL and Dash IQ, two new products ...

 After announcing that Amazon would stop selling the Apple TV, it looks like the company might be working on a tvOS app for Apple’s new device after all. Dan Bostonweeks got an email from A...

 A number of sites have buckled under the pressure of increased traffic as more Americans turned to online shopping over the Black Friday weekend than those who visited brick-and-mortar stores, a...

 A number of sites have buckled under the pressure of increased traffic as more Americans turned to online shopping over the Black Friday weekend than those who visited brick-and-mortar stores, a...

 Earlier today I had a call with Rahul Parekh, co-founder and CEO of EatFirst, the London and Berlin-based online restaurant. We discussed how the startup came about, what exactly an online resta...

 I am smart. I am hardworking. I am a logical, ordered thinker. I am gay. I am brown. I am a woman. I am looking for a job in the tech industry. I say these things as a way to underpin something ...

 Mobile rewards platform maker Perk.com, which makes apps that reward you for watching TV, unlocking your phone, online shopping,surfing the weband more, announced this morning its plans to acqui...

You tell us! Who would you work for around the clock to help build his or hervision?We are searching far and wide for the best founderof 2015, and we want to know who you think should get the coveted ...

 Microsoft today launched PoweApps into preview. PowerApps is a new Office-like service that makes it easy for virtually any employee in a company to build basic mobile and web-based business app...

 TechCrunch Disrupt London is next week! (December 7th-8th, Agenda, Tickets). The conference will see our now traditional set-up of a single stage and a Startup Alley. We like to keep things simp...

 TechCrunch Disrupt London is next week! (December 7th-8th, Agenda, Tickets). The conference will include our traditional set-up of a single stage and a Startup Alley. We like to keep things simp...

 The Republic of Korea — a very early adopter both in fast, affordable broadband and next-generation mobile services — has held on to its spot as the most-connected placein the world ...

 RedMart, the online grocery company in Singapore that’s raised over $50 million to date, officially stepped into a new area of business today after it launched an on-demand platform. Read ...

 Australian financial tech company Tyro Payments plans to challenge the country’s leading retail banks after scoring AUD $100 million (about $72 million) in funding from Tiger Global, TDM A...

 BlackBerry has confirmed that it is exiting Pakistan entirely in response to the national government’s continued demand to monitor user data on the Canadian company’s service. Read M...

 ZenRooms, a hotel booking platform for price-conscious travelers, is the newest startup from Rocket Internet. Like other Rocket Internet companies, ZenRooms replicates a proven business model...

 The founders of Facebook and Microsoft are teaming up to solve climate change. Mark Zuckerberg announced today that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have launched the Breakthrough Energy Coaliti...

 The holiday season is here, and shoppers and merchants alike are gearing up for the busiest shopping season of the year. How will technology impact retail this season, and what’s new in 20...

 *Cue the old man music* In my day, the best sports athletes of our time sat in front of a camera with their family by their side when they announced that they were retiring. In 1993, Michael Jor...