Articles by Techcrunch from January 2016

 I’m old enough that when someone says Sidecar, I immediately think of Cointreau, lemon juice and cognac, shaken and served up. What’s remarkable to me is that the folks at GM, one of...

 Onfleet, the company that provides infrastructure for on-demand delivery, recently powered its one millionth delivery. More than half of those deliveries occurred within the last four months, On...

 Sci-fi tech, meet Wall Street. A recent report from Goldman Sachs predicted that within 10 years, virtual reality hardware will be an $80 billion industry. This “base case” forecast ...

 Where are all the people of color in engineering roles at tech companies? Berkeley, Calif.-based coding bootcamp Telegraph Academy, which plans to relocate to Oakland in the next few months, wan...

 This month, the China National Space Administration released all of the images from their recent moon landing to the public.There are now hundreds and hundreds of never-before-seen true color, h...

 The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, January 29, 2016. The Gang discusses Facebook sharecropping as Parse joins FriendFeed o...

 President Barack Obama has called for more than $4 billion in funding for states, and $100 million specifically for districts in order make sure every K-12 student has access to computer science...

 Sony Pictures. Ashley Madison. Twitch. Patreon. Dropbox. Snapchat. LinkedIn. Last.fm… Those are just a handful of the companies that have suffered massive password-related breaches in rece...

 Call me Ishmael. Some years ago–never mind how long precisely–having nothing particular to interest me in meatspace, I thought to visit the Vale of Silicon. It is a way I have of dri...

 P2P lending became one of the hottest industries in fintech — or any other any industry — in 2015. Companies raised large venture rounds, investors found unicorns and there were even...

 The 9th Annual Crunchies are almost upon us. On February 8, luminaries from some of the best and brightest startups around will descend upon San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House to tak...

 With a January 31 deadline looming and the Judicial Redress Act languishing in the Senate, it is imperative for Congress to act quickly to take an important step in finding a replacement for Saf...

 Tesla CEO Elon Musk thinks shares of his motor company are headed upward. That’s the apparent message reporters received this afternoon from Tesla’s PR machine, which sent out an ale...

 Apple is working on changing an algorithm in Siri and Apple Maps that has been directing people to adoption centers when they asked for an abortion clinic.Though the company knew this was a prob...

 Recent improvements by Apple in Siri and Apple Maps have corrected an ongoing issue where the productshad been directing people to adoption centers when they asked for an abortion clinic. Though...

 In November 2015, Beijing Century Joyo Courier Services registered with the U.S. government as an ocean shipping provider. So what? Well, Beijing Century Joyo Courier Services is a subsidiary of...

 Daily Fantasy Sports sites like DraftKings and FanDuel have been dealt another major blow today, but this time itdidn’t come from an attorney general or federal court. Instead, it came fro...

 Update:Title changed to reflect that FanDuel does not use Vantiv for payouts, and offers additionaldeposit methods besides Vantiv processing.Daily Fantasy Sports sites like DraftKings and FanDue...

 Doormancan be a useful service for people who hate missing deliveries. Now it can help youget those products in the mail again, too. Rather than coming home from work to find a “missed del...

 Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recoding session today at 1pmPT/4pmET.Our LIVE chat on Chat CenterStay tuned after this show f...

 Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recoding session today at 1pmPT/4pmET.Our LIVE chat on Chat CenterStay tuned after this show f...

 Possession wins trophies or, in this case, ad dollars. That’s why Snapchat stepped up its game late last year by quietly partnering with Stats.com. Now TechCrunch has learned that Snapchat...

 This week we saw a slew of Twitter executives leave the company, a voluntary Apple product recall, quarterly earnings reports from major tech companies and much, much more. These are the stories...

 Google announced today that it is open-sourcing Seesaw — a Linux-based load balancing system. The code for the project, which is written in Google’s Go language, is now available on ...

 Following last summer’s restructuring, custom t-shirt shop Teespringhas laid off under10 percent of its workforce, and is shutting down its Providence office entirely. The company had arou...

 IBM is taking another step to expand its WastonAIbusiness and build its presencein areas like IoT: today the company announced that its acquisition of the Weather Company — the giant weath...

 Apple’s VR ambitions continue: according to a new report from the Financial Times, Apple has acquired an augmented reality startup called Flyby Media, which developed technology that allow...

 2015 was not a good year for IPOs — it was actually the worst year for tech IPOs since the financial crisis in 2009. More and more startups are opting to remain private for longer periods ...

 Spotify’s foray into video has gone live on iOS a littleearlier than expected. On Monday, The Wall St. Journal reported that Spotify had begun to roll out its video product to all users, b...

 “Capitalists both in the Old World and the States, even now, have but little faith in California. They regard this country and everything relating to it as one grand bubble, liable to burs...

 I don’t think anyone really understands the depth of digital upheaval Iran has experienced in the past few years. Social media and e-commerce consumption have both gone topsy-turvy in para...

 Ad-supported iTunes Radio stations have today gone off the air. As we reported earlier this month, Apple decided it would shutter its free streaming iTunes Radio offering, a competitor to Pandor...

 Jeff Seibert talks about entrepreneurship and the startup life. Read More ...

 Cronofy, the U.K. startup that offers a calendar API to help businesses and their customers synchronise calendars, has raised a $1.6 million seed round led by Firestartr alongside Amsterdam-base...

 The first major news from Asia’s growing spectrum of tech media companies is in, after Singapore-based tech blog E27 instituted restructuring that has resulted in half of its 20 employees ...

 Microsoft announced its Q2 2016 results yesterday, reporting strong performance for its cloud business and leading to a stock bump in the wake of the news. Its Surface tablet hardware business a...

 Singapore-based online grocery company RedMart is close to raising a massive $100 million Series C round to expand its service across Asia. Two sources with knowledge of the deal confirmed to Te...

 Apple is reportedly developing technology that would allow iPhone and iPad users to charge their device without needing to plug it into the wall or place it on a charging mat. That’s accor...

 Another quarter of promise for Sony. The Japanese tech giant just released its Q3 2015 financial results, posting net income of 120.1 billion JPY ($1 billion) on total revenue 2,580.8 billion JP...

 Americans spent more time using smartphone and tablet applications in 2014 than they did mobile and desktop web combined. With nearly four billion smartphones projected to be in use by 2020, the...

 This weekNASA’s Mars Opportunity rover celebratedits 12 year anniversary onthe red planet. What’s truly remarkable about this is the fact that the roverwas only designed to operate f...

 Vulcan, theinvestment firm of Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen,features a practice area that aims to“reduce our impact on the environment, particularly local watershed and ocean habitats....

 Susa Ventures, a 2.5-year-old,seed-stage firm with offices in San Francisco, New York, and L.A. , is looking to raise up to $50 million for a second fund, two years after raising a$25 million de...

 More bad news for blood analysis startup Theranos – Walgreens has suspended use of the company’s Newark, California lab, following news the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Servic...

 Slidejoy, a startup that rewards users for putting news and advertising on their Android lockscreens, has unveiled a more comprehensive newsreading experience.Co-founder Sanghoon Kwak led the de...

 Here’s a surprise: Facebook is closing its Parse developer platform. After acquiring the service, which at the time mostly focused on mobile developers, for a reported $85 million in 2013,...

 Both Bank Of America and Wells Fargo are working on integrating Apple Pay into their ATMs, according to a source familiar with the teams on the projects. Engineers at both companies have been pl...

 Africa’s first billion-dollar tech IPO on a major exchange may be imminent. Read More ...

 Despite posting thebest quarterly profit in its history, Amazon plummetedas much as 13% after-hours after missingon net sales and earnings per share. This came after stocks had soared to end up ...

 Microsoft today reported earnings for its second financial quarter of 2016 (I know, that’s weird, but Microsoft’s financial year ends in June). The company reported non-GAAP revenue ...

 Shypmate, which is part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 batch, is a quick, low-cost international shipping solution that relies on everyday people to transport items from the U.S. to Ghana a...

 The automotive industry is rapidly evolving to transform the car from a simple mode of transport to a personalized information hub: There will be an estimated 220 million connected cars on the r...

 Applehasacquired education-technology startup LearnSprout, Bloomberg reporteda bit agoand TC just confirmed. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. LearnSprout is a three-year-old, San Francisco-...

Ajit Pai, FCC Commissioner and outspoken critic of the Title II regulation proposed by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, says Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs should not support Net Neutrality. Read More ...

 Wael Ghonimisanactivist who helped spark the Egyptian Revolution, a wave of protests and demonstrations in Egypt that were part of the Arab Spring, and which helped overthrow the long-reigning E...

 BirdEye, a three-year-old, Sunnyvale, Ca.-based software company focused on helping its clients improve their business reputations and customer experiences in real time, has raised $8 million in...

 Dropbox just released its diversity report for 2015 on the company’s blog, citing some progress around having more women in leadership positions, with 25% of the VPs at Dropbox being women...

 A refrain about mygeneration is that we are too ephemeral and that our memories are too fleeting. Exhibit A: Snapchat. Now, obviously generational complaints are generally bullshit and olds are ...

 The mobile experience for Reddit has honestly always kind of sucked, and that’s one of the things Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has devoted a ton of resources to fixing since coming on as reddi...

 Riffsy CEO David McIntosh doesn’t think GIFsare a novelty — he thinks they’re the harbinger of a new form of communicating emotion over the Internet. “The beauty of GIFsi...

 A video news application with hundreds of thousands of active users is coming to Apple TV. Watchup, as the app is called, offers a combination of national, international and local news content f...

 Disrupt NY 2016 is the place to be if you want your startup to get noticed. According to CrunchBase, the companies who displayed in Startup Alley at Disrupt NY 2015 have raised over $73 million ...

 Get ready for the big Live streaming showdown. Finally we’ll see who’s approach wins. Twitter and Periscope with a separate app and replays that can only be watched for 24 hours, or ...

 Snapchat is ready to colonize the web with profile URLs that deeplink into its app and let you instantly follow someone. That makes it simple to add friends and celebrities so you fill your feed...

 China and Japan are forging deeper ties with Israel’s burgeoning tech industry. Read More ...

 Ahead of its Q4 earnings and news of a bigger restructuring, Yahoo isdownsizing in its regional operations, specifically in Latin America. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Yahoo has clo...

 Insurify, a startup out of MIT, today announced the launch of Evia (Expert Virtual Insurance Agent), an artificially intelligent virtual insurance agent that aims to find you better car insuranc...

 The early January theft of more than 320,000 user emails and passwords from cable giant Time Warner Cable gave validation to the argument that simple password authentication is becoming less and...

 UberRUSH, Uber’s merchant delivery service, will now ship purchases within a few hours from household retail names like Nordstrom and 1800Flowers. It typically takes, at least, a few days ...

 In October, Yahoo introduced a brand-new version of its email app designed for the way people access their inbox on mobile devices, which included things like swipe gestures, easier access to at...

 Tinder users will now have better chatting tools, thanks to an upgraded messaging experience in the mobile dating app. Amida flurry of changesthat began rolling out last night to the iOS applica...

 John Legere may have drawn the ire of the EFF and others for his network’s controversial Binge On data categorizing feature, but the evidence so far has shownthat customers really are big ...

 A rare Apple product recall — the company has announced a voluntary recall of AC wall plug adapters made for certain regions because of what it says is a “very rare” risk of th...

 Pandoratoday rolled out a series of new features that, again, are aimed at making the streaming music service more competitive with the likes of Spotify and other competitors. As you may recall,...

 For the first time ever, a computer has beaten a professional Go player, Fan Hui. This is a major breakthrough when it comes to artificial intelligence and neural networks, as beating top Go pla...

 Who owns the moon, or Mars, or any of the asteroids? Read More ...

 ScribbleLive has acquired Visually for an undisclosed price. Toronto-based ScribbleLive was founded in 2008, starting out as a liveblogging platform and eventually growing to a broader set of to...

 Alibaba posted strong quarterly earnings today, with revenue jumping 32 percent as shoppers spent more money on the e-commerce company’s mobile sites and apps. Read More ...

Dutch startup Wercker today announced a $4.5 million Series A funding round. Werckeroffers developers a container-centric platform for automating the development of microservices and application. Usin...

 Yahoo today is rolling a major revamp of its homepage and flagship mobile application with a focus on offering a more personalized, socialexperience, where readerscan find stories they like, com...

 London based in-app ad platform Tapdaq, which provides indie and mid-sized app developers with an option for driving app installs by selective cross-promotion of other devs’ apps, has anno...

 Pindrop helps businessesavoidgetting scammed on the phone by analyzing both the audio of a call and the metadata it has about a caller. After raising a total of $47 million since its launch in 2...

 Even if you’re living in one of the few states where pumping your own gas is illegal, driving to the gas station to fill up is probably not your favorite chore. Booster Fuels wants to take...

 As more businesses move their IT from on-premise solutions and into networked, cloud-based services,startups that are building products for them to do this are raking in yet more funding as they...

 When we think of Saudi Arabia, we don’t imagine startups popping out of the desert. Yet the Kingdom’s entrepreneurial ecosystem is beginning to boom thanks to newly launched initiati...

 Alibaba has reportedly reached an agreement to sell its stake in Meituan-Dianping, the group deals and online booking site that recently raised an eye-popping $3.3 billion round. According to th...

 Atomico, the European VC fund founded by Skype’s Niklas Zennstrom, has recruited ex-Googler and previous co-founder of The Climate Corporation, Siraj Khaliq, as an investment partner. That...

 Atomico, the European VC fund founded by Skype’s Niklas Zennstrom, has recruited ex-Googler and previous co-founder of The Climate Corporation, Siraj Khaliq, as an investment partner. Read...

 A notable development for European multimodal travel planning platform GoEuro which has finally signed France’s national rail carrier, SNCF — with co-founder Naren Shaam dubbing this...

 Why do we allow ourselves to be dragged into pointless, likely fruitless, micro-arguments on Twitter?Is it because the pithy length lends itself to misunderstanding? Perhaps the ego has a hand &...

 Samsung Electronics warned investors today in its fourth-quarter earnings report that its next two quarters will be weakened by economic issues and a softer IT market. The Galaxy smartphone make...

 GrabTaxi, the Uber rival in Southeast Asia that’s backed by SoftBank and China’s Didi Kuaidi, will be now be known as “Grab” after the company announced a rebranding toda...

 Social media is the intersection of tech and culture, and Instagram happens to bethe fastest-growing social media site at the moment with more than 400 million users. Most of thoseusers, like me...

 Venmo, the peer-to-peer payment service owned by PayPal, has now become a payment platform after it opened up to third-party apps and services. Read More ...

 We enter 2016 with some mixed signals regarding the value of patents for technology companies. Many are preaching a death of patent rights and are questioning whether to invest in patents. Will ...

 Today, NASA released footage from one of SpaceX’s final certification tests required under the Commercial Crew Program. The drop test, performed in Coolidge, Arizona, involved the four lar...

 We’re getting ready for the 9th Annual Crunchies here at TechCrunch, where some of the brightest startups, companies and leaders hope to win the coveted Crunchie award in one of the 12 cat...

 Can a smartphone messaging app replace the age-old CV in the service industry sector? That’s the premise drivingEuropean startup JobToday, which is targeting the fast flow of service and b...

 AdStage launched a new product called Automate today — it’s supposed to bring more automation to AdStage advertisers, but CEO Sahil Jain said it also signals the company’s ambi...

 “When do you think people in the Bay Area started to realize that you could make more money from tech than from real estate?” Jed Kolko asked me. We were sitting at Ma-velous, a coff...

 Facebook shares are spiking today, and were up as much as 13 percent after the company reported its fourth-quarter earnings.The culprit? Once again, the company completely crushed expectations f...

 More bad news forTheranos: A federal health agency has declared that the blood test company’s“deficient practices … pose immediate jeopardy to patient health and safety.”...

 I will be in Pittsburgh tomorrow for Quit Yer Pitching’, pitch-off in the heart of Iron City. I’d like to see yuns there. As a CMU grad Pittsburgh is near and dear to my heart. From ...

 SprinkleBit, a startup that helps you invest with guidance from friends and experts, has raised $10 million in new funding from GTC.It’s not a new idea to tap into the wisdom of the crowd ...

 Everything at Facebook seems to be growing, according to Mark Zuckerberg’s Q4 earnings call comments. Facebook now sees 100 million hours of daily video watch time. There are 1 billion mon...

 Just as investors and journalists get ready to check out what’s newover at 500 Startups at its Batch 15 Demo Day, their team hasannounceda new batchof founders and startups aimed at changi...

 A newly launched startup called Shelf wants to make it easier for people to discover great products, without having to first read throughtons of online research or consumer reviews. Instead, the...

 PayPal reported earnings after the bell Wednesday, and the stock quickly ticked up 6% in after hours trading.The payments company authorizeda $2 billion stock repurchase program and reported rev...

 PayPal reported earnings after the bell Wednesday, and the stock quickly ticked up 6% in after hours trading.The payments company authorizeda $2 billion stock repurchase program and reported rev...

 Investors clearly don’t likewhat they see with eBay, which reported its fourth-quarter earnings today — sending shares down around 10% in extended trading. The company said it had ea...

 A couple of weeks ago, Ford Motor Company somewhat quietly announced that next month, it’s beginning a leasing pilot program in Austin, Tex., that will enable three to six friends, neighbo...

 By courting users and ad dollars in the developing world, Facebook continued its growth streak. It hit 1.59 billion users today and crushed the street’s estimates in its Q4 2015earnings wi...

 Normally, a 6 percent drop in a stock price is somewhat significant but probably wouldn’t be considered a huge deal. But it’s a different story for Apple, where a 6 percent drop eras...

 NextGenVest, a startup out of New York, is setting out to become a new kind of trustworthy financial entity. And to do that, it’s tackling a big problem. Every year in the US a staggering ...

 Quora is going to let companies pay cash to incentivize great answers to their burning questions. It’s a forceful way to squeeze private insights into its public question and answer site, ...

 With the cybersecurity market growing to a gigantic size, it is well established that Israel is a hotbed of innovation and startups in the space. The end of then year is a good time for summarie...

 Fashion GPS, a software and services startup focused on fashion, said it is merging with Augure, a French-based global influential marketing company. Read More ...

 Google announced today a couple of updates to the commenting featuresin its Google Apps productivity suite. These include the launch of mobile commenting in the iOS and Android apps for Slides a...

 EMC CEO Joe Tucci, responding to an analyst’s question on this morning’s earnings call about the status of the Dell deal, let it be known in no uncertain terms that the deal is going...

 A week after streaming music company Deezer announced that it had raised another $109 million from existing investors, news has leaked out that its bigger rivalSpotifyis raising again, too. The ...

 A week after streaming music company Deezer announced that it had raised another $109 million from existing investors, news has leaked out that its bigger rivalSpotifyis raising again, too. The ...

 Former Twitter product head Kevin Weil, who departed Twitter this week, has already scoreda job running product for Instagram, according to reports. This would mean that Weil has landed in enemy...

 Apple will likely unveil the iPhone 7 in September 2016, and a new rumor has surfaced about the camera. According to Ming-Chi Kuo from KGI Securities, the iPhone 7 Plus will come with a dual-len...

 If you’ve ever tried to sell a used car you know it’s a process. You either haggle low-ball offers at the dealership or wade through Craigslist emails with the hope that a possible b...

 Amazon is clearly doubling downon its Alexa-powered connected speaker Echo, and the Alexa ecosystem as a whole – and not just because it’s now shelling out the big bucks to advertise...

 Microsoft has announced that it is expanding its Cloud Storage Partner Program (CSPP) and furthering integration with Box, Dropbox, Egnyte, Citrix and ShareFile.One new feature they are touting ...

 Microsoft announcedtoday that it is expanding theCloud Storage Partner Program (CSPP) it first announced a year ago and launching deeper integrations with Box, Dropbox, Egnyte, Citrix and ShareF...

 Just a day after the website that crashes Safari made the rounds on social media, Apple has already issued a fix according to BuzzFeed News. I tried loading the page that crashes your browser (c...

 Pivotal, the company launched by EMC, VMware and GE to help companies in their quest for digital transformation, announced today that it was bringing in Eric Ries, the man behind the Lean Startu...

 You’ve seen the headlines; you know that over the last couple of years,a growing number of startupshas gonepublic at valuations belowwhere they werevaluedas privately held companies (or su...

 In a Google blog post today by Clay Bavor, Google’s new VP of VR, the company detailed a few quick stats on the company’s Cardboard program. This interestingly comes at a time when i...

 Michael Pao, who spent more than four years at the ride-hailing giant Uber, most recently as Head of Product on the company’s growth team, has joined the venture firm Greylock Partners as ...

 Security can be a very dry and impenetrable topic. But if the steady creep of connected devices into people’s homes and day-to-day routines continues there’s arguably going to need t...

 With all the startups using the internet to transform traditional industries, it’s a bit of a wonder why no one has taken on the internet itself. Broadband service is an expensive business...

 Rebtel, the Swedish VoIP provider, has today introduced Rebel Calling to the United States, allowing for unlimited, free app-to-app calling without the need for a Wifi connection. Usually, when ...

 The virtual reality hype is real. It is undeniable that virtual reality is in popular demand among early adopters and hardcore gamers. Facebook’s Oculus Rift is sold out until June because...

 Announced today, Google will begin licensing the Myriad 2 family of VPU chips from Movidius. This tiny chip, complete with 12 cores, specializes in enabling low power, advanced computer vision p...

 Google is launching a new version of Chrome for iOStoday that promises to be both faster and more stable than previous versions. According to Google, Chrome 48 for iOS now crashes seventy percen...

 Google is launching a new version of Chrome for iOStoday that promises to be both faster and more stable than previous versions. According to Google, Chrome 48 for iOS now crashes seventy percen...

 Austin-based The Zebra, a startup that’s something of a “Kayak for auto insurance,” has been working to bring the process of shopping for insurance online, where consumers can ...

 TechCrunch is pleased to host the live video stream of the Microsoft Ventures London Accelerator demo day. Watch the presentations right here starting at 3:30p GMT. The event is private so this ...

 Sprig, the on-demand food delivery startup already known for healthy food, has revamped its menu withnew food options to help people make better nutritional decisions. Now, Sprig customers will ...

 One of the problems in the early days of the mobile app era is that it wasn’t possible to link to the pages within apps the same way you could link to pages on the open web. But technology...

 Urban transportation company Uber is having a rough week in France. Following yesterday’s protests, the high court of Paris just fined Uber $1.3 million (1.2 million). The two events are u...

 Gallop Labs, a startup that helps mobile publishers identify and make money from valuable users, has been acquired by one of its customers, Big Viking Games. In the press release announcing the ...

 Over the last few years, Grape, the enterprise messaging app backed by Betaworks and Zinga founder Mark Pincus, has been toiling away to build a smarter chat box powered by Natural Language Proc...

 The businessof sport revolves around stats — from those who use them to improve performance, through to those who look at them for fun, or for more financial ends. Now a startup that helps...

 AppDirect, the well-fundedmarketplace for selling cloud services, today announced that it has acquired the Montreal-based tech support company Radialpoint. Based on this acquisition, AppDirect a...

 SoftBank announced today that it will launch an app store to create a software ecosystem for Pepper, its humanoid robot. Perhaps more intriguingly, the company, one of Japan’s largest tele...

 Lyft said today that it agreed to pay $12.25 million to settle a pending worker classification lawsuit in California, but it will continue to classify its drivers as independent contractors, not...

 Rakuten Ventures, the investment arm of one of Japan’s largest Internet companies, has launched a 10 billion yen ($84 million) fund dedicated to the country’s startups. The Japan Fun...

 Deliverd, founded by Paul Rawlings and James Grant, is another U.K. startup entering the on-demand food delivery space. However, the burgeoning company, which sees its formal launch today, offer...

 InVision, a prototyping tool we’ve coveredbefore, is acquiring code-baseddesign tool Macaw.As a refresher, InVision is a product and prototypedesign tool used by hundreds of companies incl...

 While most of Europe has been mired in economic turmoil since 2008, Sweden has managed to stay afloat — and even accelerate its growth. The country and, especially, its capital, Stockholm,...

 We’re only a couple weeks aways from the 9th Annual Crunchies show when we will honor a select group of the best and brightest startups and leaders in the tech industry. Today, we’re...

 The water in Flint is toxic. The state of Michigan inadvertently poisoned the city’s well, and it will take years to flush the system. And that might not be the worst part. The state has y...

 Apple today reported another record set of results, beating expectations with an all-time high profit of $18.4 billion and revenues of $75.9 billion, with some $216 billion in cash now on its ba...

 Apple posted its quarterly earnings after the bell on Tuesday, showcasing record profits of $18.4 billion.While the release made it easy to determine that 74.8 million iPhones were sold, in line...

 In Apple’s Q1 ’16 “Earnings Supplemental Material” – documentation added to today’s earnings primarily to highlight how foreign exchange rates are impacting r...

 VMware confirmed that it was laying off 800 employees today as part of its fourth quarter earnings statement. The layoffs had been originally reported by Fortune last week. The move appears to b...

 Apple showed decent year-over-year revenue growth forChina in Q1, but it’s clear the party may beslowing down in the region.DuringQ1,Apple saw 14% year-over-year revenue growth in the Grea...

 Apple showed soft year-over-year revenue growth for China in Q1, and it’s clear the party may be slowing down in the region. During Q1, Apple saw 14 percent year-over-year revenue growth i...

 Apple today reported sales of 74.8 million iPhones, 16.1 million iPads, and 5.3 million Macs in its Q1 earnings report today. Apple’s first quarter includes holiday sales, as the three-mon...

 It was a hugely important quarter for Apple, and it looks like it came about in line with what investors were expecting — including, potentially, the company’s first sales decline go...

 When he famously said “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home” in 1977, Ken Olson, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, certainly wasn’t expecting a...

 Walmart (yes, that Walmart), is launching a new open source DevOps platform for cloud and application lifecycle management. OneOps, which was developed by Walmart Labs, is meant to help develope...

 We’re one short month away from TC’s first regional Pitch-offs of the year, and I couldn’t be more excited to be hitting up a couple of my favorite cities, Boston and Atlanta.O...

 You can now message your friends on the web version of Peach, a new chat app created by the founder of Vine, Dom Hofmann.The iOS app became a viral hit in Silicon Valley after it first launched ...

 Microsoft today unveiledyet another application aimed at iOS users, with the launchof a news application thatgreatly resembles Apple’s own News application that comes built intoiOS 9. Call...

 Art doesn’t have to be an end product. Thanks to Oculus’ new internal creation tool Quill, illustrators can draw in virtual reality and let audiences see their creation come to life ...

 Ludlow Ventures, a young, early-stage venture firm in Detroit, is raising its second venture fund, founder and managing partner Jonathon Triest tells us. His team, which includes partner Brett d...

 Through Pinterest’s partnership with diversity consulting startup Paradigm, the company is gearing up to test an intervention process aimed at addressing “belonging uncertainty,̶...

 We’re just a little under two weeks away from the 9th Annual Crunchies, which takes place February 8, 2016 at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House. As we look ahead to the show, ...

 Mozilla today launched the latest update to its Firefox browser for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. The highlight of this release cycle is the addition of web-based push notifications to its de...

 Can a mobile classified app topple the behemoth that is Craigslist? We’ve asked the questionbefore(more than once, in fact), and it looks like it may bein order again: 5miles, an app devel...

 Google announced today that it willbegin testing an experimental feature will allow presidential candidates to respond to issues brought up duringthe Republican debate in real-time directly in G...

 In case there was any doubt that Snapchat wants to be the mobile generation’s mass media, it’s just added Cosmopolitan Editor-In-Chief Joanna Coles to its board of directors. She joi...

 YouTube just made it a lot easier for its users in the U.S. to use their videos to drive donations to nonprofit organizations. With the new donation cards, video creators can now choose any of t...

 A startup called VINA is launching a mobile app today that operates a lot like a Tinder, but is aimed at women seeking new friends. And no, not friends-with-benefits or boy-space-friends, but ot...

 There’s a major leadership shakeup happening at what is most likely your second-favorite crowdfundingplatform, Indiegogo After eight years at its helm, Indiegogo co-founder Slava Rubin is ...

 There’s a major leadership shakeup happening at your second-favorite crowdfundingplatform, Indiegogo. After eight years at its helm, Indiegogo co-founder Slava Rubin is stepping down from ...

 French taxi drivers were angry once again. Earlier today, thousands of taxi drivers blocked the roads to protest against Uber, Chauffeur-Priv, Heetch and other urban transportation companies. In...

 With Azure Stack, Microsoft wants to bring its Azure cloud computing services into its customers’ data centers. Today, the company announced that it will launch the first technical preview...

 There are advantages to being an invisible giant in a virtual world. You can watch over a whole town or lean in to see the miniature protagonist’s face. You’re so big you never worry...

 On Sunday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that a slew of top executives had chosen to leave the company. Executive departures aren’t all that surprising at Twitter any more as the compa...

 Prepare yourself for an onslaught media panic because the Ghost Gunner, essentially a kit that lets you print your own AR-15 lower receiver, is ready to ship and getting press attention again. T...

 For Facebook, ads are still kind when it comes to talking about the bottom line, and paramount to that success are the platformsthat allow the company to serve its personalized ads across the we...

 Just when you thought it was safe to click on that funny Facebook video of an aardvark carrying a shovel to dig a hole under a cinderblock wall while a pair of Peruvian flute-players cavort in g...

 Marvin Minsky was a pioneer, someone who was thinking one step ahead of anyone else. He was a founding father when it comes to artificial intelligence and computer science. He was also one of th...

 On-demand parking apps may not be the most glamorous of startups; they’re mainly all about access. In addition to announcing its largest raise to date, ParkWhiz announced an acquisition to...

 The IPO market cooled in 2015. There were fewer of them, they raised less capital and performance was down. Investor sentiment and a sideways public market were primary drivers, but the quality ...

 Inbox by Gmail, Google’s next-gen email client for mobile and the web, is getting a nice little update today that will make it easier to find information like addresses, membership numbers...

 Marvin Minsky was a pioneer, someone who was thinking one step ahead of anyone else. He was a founding father when it comes to artificial intelligence and computer science. He was also one of th...

 Waze, the popular Google-owned navigation app that excels in helping drivers route around traffic and be alerted to other road hazards in real-time, is today announcing partnerships with half a ...

 Peakon, the self-described ‘people analytics platform’ for employee engagement and retention, is fully launching today and announcing it’s closed 4 million in Series A funding....

 It’s easy to accumulate a bunch of stuff that you don’t need, like old phones and laptops, etc. It’s not so easy to get rid of that junk. Gone, the service that helps you sell ...

 It’s easy to accumulate a bunch of stuff that you don’t need, like old phones and laptops, etc. It’s not so easy to get rid of that junk. Gone, the service that helps you sell ...

 As more and more companies fall victim to security breaches and substantial (and embarrassing) data leaks, cybersecurity startups seem to be profiting at their expense. Cybersecurity companies h...

 Apple just released tvOS 9.1.1. The list of changes is quite short is the only visible change is a brand new Podcasts app. The old Apple TV already had a Podcasts app, but it looks like the comp...

 Action camera maker GoPro is integrating with Periscope, the livestreaming app from Twitter. Owners of the GoPro HERO4 cameras will be able to broadcast their adventures directly to Periscope. A...

 Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey todayannounced a new CMO for the company —Leslie Berland, who joins from American Express. The confirmation comes two days after her name first came up in c...

 In the game of thrones that is the Android OEM space, Chinese smartphone maker Oppo’s star is rising. It said today it sold 50 million smartphones in the full year 2015 — a growth ra...

 It was just about a year ago that Box finally pulled the trigger and IPOed. It was a good day by all accounts, with an IPO price of $14 that promptly went up to $23 a share. Today that price sit...

 Seebo, the Tel Aviv, Israel-foundedstartup that offers an Internet of Things (IoT) end-to-end platform to help companies launch smart products faster, has closed $8.5 million in Series A funding...

 Vidyard, a startup that says it can improve companies’ video marketing and sales, has raised $35 million in Series C funding. The round was led by Battery Ventures, with participation from...

 Grovo, a company offering “micro-learning” contentto helpbusinessestrain their employees, has raised $40 million in Series C funding.The round was led by Accel (which has been involv...

 Jitterbit,an enterprise software companywhose cloud-based app integration platform is used by some 35,000 customers to knit together disparateapps, is today announcing a $20 million round of fun...

 HopSkipDrive, The LA-based “Uber for Kids”, has closed a $10.2M Series A round led by FirstMark Capital, withparticipation from new investors Greycroft Partners and Pritzker Group Ve...

 Solving logistics issues in major cities is an expensive and complicated headache for India’s e-commerce companies. Next month, online shoppers in Delhi might get deliverance in the form o...

 Eyeota, an ad-targeting and consumer data startup based in Singapore, will grow its technology platform and international offices after raising a $7 million Series A. Investors include Global Br...

 Sony Corporation announced today that it will acquire Altair Semiconductor for $212 million. Founded in 2005 by three former Texas Instrument executives, Israel-based Altair makes chips that con...

 We’ve all been in an Uber where the driver seems to be in a little bit more of a hurry than need be.Once you hop out of theUber and complete the ride, you’re left with the app asking...

 Cedexis helps large enterprises monitor and optimize how their traffic flows from their servers, CDNs and cloud providers to their customers. The company today announced that it has raised a $22...

 Though the four-year-old online platform Codecademy now teaches employable tech skills to 25 million users around the globe, itstill doesn’tcharge for its services (some early testing asid...

 After walking the floor of the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, many gaming industry participants saw the virtual reality (VR) writing on the wall for the first time &...

 The palm-sized ONAGOfly is an affordable GPS-enabled drone that automatically takes photos using smile and obstacle recognition technology. Normally the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) req...

 On February 8, some of the best and brightest startups, entrepreneurs and investors will pack into San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House for the 9th Annual Crunchies, essentially the Os...

 TechCrunch is pleased to host the live video stream of the Microsoft Ventures London Accelerator demo day. Watch the presentations right here starting at 3:30p GMT on January 27th. The event is ...

 There have been multiple attempts to convince web users of the value of their attention and/or personal data — by, for example, offering them free mobile connectivity for watching ads (e.g...

 A website that crashes the Safari web browser is making the rounds on social media. The name of the site, crashsafari.com(don’t click!), makes its intentions pretty obvious, of course. But...

 The “Be Like Me” meme (that stick figure about [insert name here] blowing up on your Facebook feed) is the latest viral hit glorifying our greatness – and it’s annoying t...

 For many years, we’ve had social tools and formal learning management systems, but we have never really had anything that combined the two — until today, that is when SAP announced a...

 E-commerce shopBaubleBar, known for its “fast fashion” take on women’s jewelry, has closed on $20 million in new funding, the company announced today. The Series C round was le...

 With connected entertainment, driverless technology, a revolution in car-hailing and the fumes from VW’s emissions scandal still lingering, 2016 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for the ...

 French startup Lydia has come a long way. When I first covered it two years ago, it wanted to become a sort of Venmo for France. Now, Lydia tries to cover a wide array of use cases when it comes...

 The folks at RSA want to give one TechCrunch reader a pair of full conference passes to the RSA Conference 2016 in San Francisco (a $4,590 value). The tech conference runs from February 29 ̵...

 Chelsea Handler’s new mobile application Gotta Go! has hit the App Store. The humorous, but also potentially practical app, is designed to get you out of awkward situations – like ba...

 Applications are now open for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt NY! That’s right, TechCrunch’s premier startup competition is headed back to the Big Apple. We’re looking for t...

 The 9th Annual Crunchies are almost here. On February 8, pioneering tech startups, entrepreneurs and investors will make their way to San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House for what we l...

 Earlier this morning, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Facebook that he’s headed back to work this morning after a two-month-long paternity leave, asking — alongside a photo...

 It’s not often that I think long and hard about the air in my apartment. It’s air. But then again, I wouldn’t drink murky water, so why is it that I don’t remember to car...

 Microsoft’s personal assistant tech Clippy Cortana is getting a few more feathers in its cap, with the company rolling out the ability to push reminders to users based on the contents of t...

 The United States is in fact in the middle of a dramatic revival and rejuvenation, propelled by an amazing wave of technological innovations… And the really good news is that the world wil...

You may have heard about it already. Four-year-old OpenGov is a nearly four-year-old, cloud-platform that state and local governments—as well as cities, counties, and school districts—are ...

 You may have heard about it already. OpenGov is a nearly four-year-old, cloud-based platform that state and local governments—as well as cities, counties, and school districts—are be...

 On Friday, December 18, Congress passed the PATH Act (Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes), a sweeping $1 trillion bill which, as part of an 887-page omnibus, would prove challenging for even th...

 A number of new features have been spotted within the existing code for Snapchat’s mobile app, includingaudio and video calling, as well as stickers within Snapchat’s chat interface,...

 As we head into 2016, enterprise chat applications like Slack are suddenly a hot commodity, and if you’re inside chat a good portion of the day the argument goes, you should be able to acc...

 Google is decoupling Google+ from yet another core product after it revealed that it would drop the requirement to have an account with the social network from Google Play Games services. Read M...

 Microsoft today announced that itis making it easier for developers to use its Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK) to build their own deep learning applications. The company first open sourced ...

 In the five years since thousands of Egyptians filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square, startups in Egypt have multiplied as have he number of funds and startup accelerators.At this past Riseup, an a...

 The Foxconn factory that handles most of the firm’s Apple iPhone manufacturing suffered damage today when a fire started in its central air conditioning system and spread to several floors...

 Last year, AOL launched One, a broader platform for its variousprogrammatic ad technologies. Today it’s doing the same thing for its publisher tools, with the announcementof One by AOL: Pu...

 iROKO, an online entertainment platform that targets audiences in Sub-Saharan African countries, plans to strike more deals in Nigeria’s booming movie industry after securing $19 million i...

 As negotiations on a key transatlantic data-transfer agreement enter the final week, before the EU’s end of January deadline, senior US and EU officials have been discussing the state of p...

 DataXu, a Boston-based startup that provides analytics and other tools for running programmatic ads, has picked up another round of funding. Sky, the UK-based pay-TV provider part-owned by 21st ...

 French startup Aircall just raised a $2.75 million round led by Balderton Capital, with FundersClub and business angels also participating. As a reminder, Aircall was part of our Battlefield com...

 Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has confirmed the departures of Twitter execs, who oversaw the product, engineering, media and HR teams. Was really hoping to talk to Twitter employees about this later t...

 Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has confirmed the departures of Twitter execs, who oversaw the product, engineering, media and HR teams. Was really hoping to talk to Twitter employees about this later t...

 One ofGuy Kawasaki’srecurring pieces of advice to entrepreneurs is to create a mantra, not a mission statement. A mantra is three or four words that captures the essence of your organizati...

 SoundCloud recently announced it struck a long-awaited licensing deal with Universal Music, whose hit roster includes Kanye West, Adele and Taylor Swift. The Universal deal, in addition to Sound...

 On Friday, CEO Ted Bailey of Dataminr swung by our temporary studio set-up in Davos, where Bailey appeared to having ahighlyproductivetrip. As he told us then, he’d already met Facebook CO...

 Back in September 2007 I attended a startup pitch event held in a London university lecture theatre. The surroundings weren’t plush. The slightly musty lecture theatre didn’t hint at...

 Yet more personnel changes are afoot at Twitter.According to reports in Recode (here and here), the social media siteis about to lose not just one but several senior executivesas soon as tomorro...

 Facebook today officially announced that it plans to open its second European data center in Clonee, Ireland. The town, which sits right outside of Dublinwill play host to Facebook’s sixth...

 Facebook today officially announced that it plans to open its second European data center in Clonee, Ireland. The town, which sits right outside of Dublinwill play host to Facebook’s sixth...

 The last time I needed a doctor’s note was in elementary school. That was, until last September — I needed a note from my OBGYN proving I was only 31-and-a-half weeks pregnant so I c...

 The Gillmor Gang — Kevin Marks, Frank Radice, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, January 24, 2016. Tech, media, and politics collide in the Global Streaming era and the ...

 Bloomberg literally backs the disruptors. Read More ...

 Gillmor Gang – Frank Radice, Keith Tere, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session is over for today.Gillmor Gang LIVE chat on Chat CenterGillmor Gang on Facebook HEREOur othe...

 Gillmor Gang – Frank Radice, Keith Tere, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session is over for today.Gillmor Gang LIVE chat on Chat CenterGillmor Gang on Facebook HEREOur othe...

 There are more than 300 cybersecurity companies operating in Israel, making it an industry second only to the U.S. in size. In 2014, exports by Israeli cybersecurity companies reached $6B, equat...

 In March 2014, The Economist published Banking without banks, declaring that peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms were set to disrupt banks and other traditional sources of capital by directly c...

 Well, do I have the deal of the century for you! Investors – the smartest investors in the world – are throwing billions at it!The price can only go up! People are flocking from arou...

 Hackathon prize money keeps rising each year as organizations learn to take advantage of their value. Runner-up cash prizes are now in the thousands, and grand-prize payouts are as high as $1 mi...

 Since the 1950s, virtual reality (VR) has been hovering on the periphery of technology without achieving accepted mainstream application or commercial adoption. Since 2012, VR startups have rais...

 What is it with politicians and encryption? There are now two bills in different U.S. states, one in California and one in New York, proposing that smartphones sold in the state must be able to ...

 VCs have avoided solar deals ever since Solyndra became a four-letter word. But while their attention has strayed, the industry has been on a tear. In 2010, U.S. solar installers hit a milestone...

 Google appears to be doubling down on virtual reality as they look to begin building“multiple” consumer hardware devices, according to new VR job postings on their site. Google’...

 Without any notice, Blue Origin made history once again when they completed a successful launch and landing of a suborbital rocket yesterday.What made this flight particularly notable was that t...

 Financial technology has never been a more exciting or innovative category — especially in New York City. Oddly, tech is not the driving force in many of these ventures. The Blockchain and...

 Robots are everywhere. They help lawyers make decisions, they sweep up after our parties, and now they can help you figure out how to invest your money. In fact, an Atlanta-based company called ...

 Oh, the drama, such drama. Last week, longtime Bitcoin developer Mike Hearn declared “the Bitcoin experimenthas failed,” and resigned from that community with a fusillade of verbal g...

 If we trace a path that starts with Gutenberg’s use of moveable type to Malcom McLean’s invention of the shipping container, we start to recognize a very interesting pattern: Each ne...

 You’d think that working in one of the world’s largest cities — especially one with a global rep for innovation and excellence — would make it pretty easy to get some tra...

 AngelList is the LinkedIn for startups; it’s a directory for finding and researching great startups. Many of the biggest seed venture capital firms and angel investors are on the list, and...

 If you’re in the market for a new Samsung phone, this weekend might be the right time to go for it. Now through Saturday, Best Buy is offering a free Samsung Gear VR with the purchase of a...

 Banks are so greedy that LendUp can undercut them, help people avoid debt, and still make a profit on its payday loans and credit card. Not only is software eating finance, but morality is too. ...

 There have been plenty of tools around that replace powerful photo editors but very few that replace tools like Illustrator. Sure you can fake it but what if you want truly unique designs like t...

 Apple has released a new TV spot for the Apple TV. Compared to previous ads that were focused on content, this time, it’s about apps and the Apple TV App Store. This is interesting for a f...

 A new documentary entitled Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World is being premiered at Sundance tomorrow. I’ve already written up my impressions of the film, which is very good an...

 “Exploding Kittens,” the hugely successful Kickstarter-funded card gamefrom ex-MicrosoftiesElan Lee and Shane Small along withThe Oatmeal’s creator Matthew Inman,has now been t...

 Yesterday, SpaceX released a video showing a successful hover test of their human-rated spacecraft, Crew Dragon. If all goes according to plan, in 2017, Crew Dragon will be placed on top of a Fa...

 As the curtain opens on 2016, you can expect massive changes in the security landscape. Technology providers such as firewall vendors, switching vendors and others will fade as new solutions bet...

 The 9th Annual Crunchies are right around the corner. On February 8, some of your favorite startups, entrepreneurs and investors will make their way to San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera H...

 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced that almost 300,000 drone owners have nowused its online registration system. The site went live thirty days ago and until today, the FA...

 Are you reading this post on an iPhone 5s? Chances are the iPhone 6s is too big for your taste and you’re now holding onto your trustworthy iPhone 5s. But it’s time to rejoice! Many ...

 Facebook is bringing 3D Touch to itsTimeline, the company says – meaning that users of Apple’s latest devices, the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus will soon be able to press on links, p...

 We’re looking for pieces that explore the intersection of technology and aspects of society. Everything from the latest laboratory research, to surveys of the startup landscape, to the new...

 This morning, former IronPort Systems cofounder and CEO Scott Weiss announced that he’s no longer going to be investing in new companies on behalf of Andreessen Horowitz, the Sand Hill Roa...

 Netflix has begun blocking some users of VPN services, following the company’s global expansion earlier this month, and subsequent promises that it would begin to crack down on those custo...

 Vine, Twitter’s social platform for six-second looping video, just turned three. The company says that over 200 million people watch Vine videos (either on mobile or on the web) each month...

 This week, Elon Musk’s Hyperloop gotone step closer to becoming a reality, Amazon’s Dash-powered devices went live, Snoop Dogg announced an investment in a gaming conversation app an...

 ZestFinance, a data-driven underwriting and credit analysis platform, is implementing an expanded parental leave policy. Now, ZestFinance is offering employees six months of paid time off for pr...

 In what turned out to be a pretty strategic and hilarious interview James Beshara discusses a range of topics including the onboarding process for users on mobile, the importance of customer ret...

 FiveStars, a five year-old startup that has built a platform and app to run loyalty and rewards programs for small brick-and-mortar retailers, has receiveda reward of its own: the company has ra...

 Francis Sollano, one of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers and the executive director of Youth For A Livable Cebu, truly believes that your trash is his treasure. Read More ...

 Startups are created to solve problems—but that doesn’t matter if the people they want to help don’t know they exist. Iterate Studio was created to match retail companies with ...

 The latest leaks purporting to detail the S7 are benchmark scores for the single core and multi core variants of the phone. Read More ...

 Uber may have pulled its project to work with auto-rickshaws in India, but that isn’t stopping startup Jugnoo from zooming ahead with its plans to turn the iconic and budget transportation...

 With all of the declarations of augmented reality and virtual reality’s inevitable ascents to the heights of technological cruciality, Apple has managed to staynoticeablyquiet on the topic...

 In the quest to lessen its reliance on grants from the U.S. government, the Tor Project began its first crowdfunding campaign back in November. That initial funding drive is now over with the or...

 There’s always been plenty of speculation around how much Google pays Apple to include its search services inside iOS devices, and we finally have some clarity over that figure. Informatio...

 Lanhee Chen, one of the Republican Party’s rising policy stars, reminds us that the brains can be found on the right as well as the left of American politics. Read More ...

 What does a humanist history of the Internet look like? Though it isn’t a documentary in the journalistic sense, Werner Herzog’s Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World paints...

 Jeff Schumacheristhe CEO of BCG Digital Ventures, a low-flying, two-year-old corporate venture group created by Boston Consulting Group and staffed, interestingly, withsome former execs of BCG c...

 Canvs is a startup measuring emotion on social media, but CEO Jared Feldman insisted that we shouldn’t think of it as a social sentiment company. He said that’s because existing tool...

 The World Economic Forum (WEF) published an analysis today on the technological and sociological drivers of employment.The report, titled The Future of Jobs, validates the accelerating impact of...

 In this interview with HTT chief operating officer (and former MTV-VJ) Bibop Gresta, here what’s happening with the hyperloop company and how HTT is revolutionizing more than just transpor...

 The only security in this world is a reserve of knowledge, not money – so said the industrialist Henry Ford. Whether it’s the dollar, pound, rouble, rupee, euro or yuan, physical or ...

 The jewelry industry is notorious for its insane markups on products and confusing array of terminology related tothe metals used or gemstone grades – as with the “four C’sR...

 Earlier today in Davos, where afternoon temperatures reached a balmy 20 degrees (and evening temps have droppedto limb-numbing f-f-five degrees Fahrenheit), CEO Valery Vavilov of the bitcoin inf...

 There’s more to Switzerland than skiing, chocolate and endless beauty. Dr. Peter Vogel spoke to TechCrunch at Davos 2016 and argued that Switzerland is a great place to startup a company. ...

 Google’s long-anticipated Wi-Fi for railway stations in India is slowly going operational starting tomorrow. As was announced late last September, Mumbai Centralrailway station will be the...

 John Harthorne sat down today with TechCrunch at Davos 2016. And boy is he enthusiastic about startups. Harthorne is the CEO of MassChallenge, a large startup accelerator based in Boston and qui...

 The Apple Pencil was billed as a tool that could assist both creatives and professionals. Microsoft, a company known fairlywell for assisting professionals with pretty much every important docum...

Microsoft Garage today launched what must be the most annoying alarm clock for Android yet — especially if you hate mornings as much as I do. The Mimicker Alarmapp only lets you dismiss the alar...

 PINE64 has currently raised over $1.4 million in theKickstarter campaign for their tiny, yet versatile, $15 computer. The Pine A64 costs less than just three bottles of asparagus water from Whol...

 Roger, a walkie talkie-style voice messaging app that launched in late 2015, has landed a $1 million seed round led by Social Capital. Read More ...

 How did Facebook go from 1 billion to 8 billion videos views per day in 18 months without the whole server farm catching fire? It’s called SVE, short for streaming video engine. SVE lets F...

 Microsoft and Dropbox unveiled an expansion of their partnership today with the debut of a native application for Windows 10 devices. The app, which will work on both Windows 10 PCs and tablets,...

Kevin Spacey dropped into the TechCrunch studio at Davos, event today and we asked him about his engagement with the tech world. It’s his first year at the World Economic Forum and he’s pa...

 Facebook wasn’t built for sports. Its filtered, non-chronological News Feed made it tough to follow real-time chatter about the game. Twitter’s feed is great for it. But out of Faceb...

If you are and Android user and want to know whether it’ll rain or snow tomorrow, just searching for ‘weather’ on Google always gave you a quick and easy way to find out. But while G...

If you are and Android user and want to know whether it’ll rain or snow tomorrow, just searching for ‘weather’ on Google always gave you a quick and easy way to find out. But while G...

 Numerous startups over the years have tried to tackle the problem of helping people track down the photos others have taken, but hadn’t yet shared with you. Today, the outsizewinner in the...

 IBM confirmed that it has acquiredvideo conferencing service UStream this morning. With several cloud video acquisitions in tow, the company also announced it wasforming a new cloud video servic...

 Google today released its annual report on the state of its advertising business, as it relates to the company’s ability to block bad ads – meaning those that carry malware, are dece...

 Vimeo wants more women making films on its platform and is launching a new three-pronged initiative called “Share the Screen” at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah today t...

 After more than a year in development, KnowMe, a new video creation andsharing platform, is launching on the iPhone. The app was created by Andrew Jarecki, the Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nom...

 If you know what a hoverboard is, chances are you know that they can be dangerous. Whether it comes to pulling a Mike Tyson (taking a hard fall) on the device or the fact that they sometimes cat...

 Nubo, whose software enables employees to access company files on their own mobile devices, has raised $7 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Magma Venture Partners and Motorola So...

Olo, the digital ordering business, has raised $40 million in funding from The Raine Group. The capital will be used to expand its recently launched Dispatch delivery service. With over 150 restaurant...

 Docker today announced the acquisition of Unikernel Systems, a Cambridge, UK-based startup that aims to bring unikernels to the masses (or at least the masses of developers).Docker plans to inte...

 Kapor Capital wants its portfolio companies to progress in the areas of diversity and inclusion, which is why it’s launchingthe“Founders’ Commitment,” a four-part roadmap...

 QuizUp, the Icelandic company that put trivia in an app, has announced that it is receiving up to $7.5 million in funding from Glu Mobile, with an option to call to acquire. This comes in the wa...

 Some more big news for the world of open source. MariaDB Corporation — the startup formerly known as SkySQLand building for-profit solutions on the SQL fork managed by the MariaDB foundati...

 ForeScout, a security company that helps firms detect devices on their networks they might not know about, announced a $76 million investment round today on a billion dollar valuation, making it...

 Malwarebytes,a security company that started when its cofounder wasstill a teenager fixing hisparents’ infected computer, has come a long way from its bootstrapped roots. Today the startup...

 This morning, the Bay Area venture firm Scale Venture Partners is announcing the close ofits newest fund, Scale Venture Partners V, L.P., with $335million, up from the $300 million fund it close...

 At the back end of last year, it emerged that crowdfunding platform Kickstarter had commissioned a freelance journalist to report on the collapse of a high profile U.K.-based drone project that ...

 With the major west coast tech companies publicly announcing their employee diversity stats, an honest conversation is starting about the dominance of white male culture in most large tech organ...

 CREO is a new startup in India with big ambitions. It not only wants to create a new Android-based operating system, but also produce its own smartphones. The Bengaluru-based company announced t...

 Google recently took its Street View cameras to the world’s largest model railroad. Today, it’s going from small models to massive mountains with the launch of its new Street View im...

 Riding the coattails of a ‘small pieces, loosely joined’ approach to the enterprise, Belgium startup PieSync offers a platform that connects a plethora of cloud applications and sync...

 WeLab, an online lending platform based in Beijing and Hong Kong, will launch more financial products in China after landing an impressive $160 million Series B. The round was led by Khazanah Na...

 Apple is opening an iOS App Development Center in Naples, Italy, in what will be the creation of the first such facility in Europe. Read More ...

 Cybersecurity and analysis firm FireEye is boosting its service with the acquisition of competitor iSight in a $200 million deal. Read More ...

 Los Angeles Uber riders, rejoice. UberX is finally coming to LAX. The companyannounced that as of 8 a.m. tomorrow, riders will be able to request and get picked up by UberX cars.This comes exact...

 In its ongoing quest to be your hub for all things social and communication, Facebook is increasing its focus on sports after the social network announced a new feature to enable users to follow...

 General Motorshas taken the wraps off its latest moveto putitself into the next generation of transportation: today the company launched Maven, a new program that brings together the companyR...

 Honor, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed company focused on caring for seniors as babyboomers tip over into retirement, is making its contractor workforce into a full-time one. The care workers, cal...

 State lawmakers and the District of Columbia have put together a group of bills pushing for legislationto protect our digital privacy. The coalition of 16 states and D.C. say surveillance techno...

 Uber is gearing up to launch a standalone app for UberEATS, the company’s prepared food delivery service, in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Austin, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Houston...

 We have a somewhat unusual design team at GV. There are six of us. Four product designers, a researcher and a team coordinator. Each of us held fairly senior design positions previously, and we ...

 The recent announcement from Activision Blizzard to acquire King Digital Entertainment, maker of the hit game Candy Crush, for a staggering $5.9 billion is an acknowledgement of the promising (a...

 Twitter stock is seeing a mini-rally today after hitting an all-time low yesterday, on rumors that News Corp was eyeing a tie-up with the company. Twitter didn’t comment on the report, and...

 QASymphony, which makes software testing tools like qTest, has raised a $5 million Series B. The company, which has offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, will use the capita...

 Two astronomers at Caltech have found evidence that indicates the presence of a ninth planet in our solar system. If confirmed, it would transform the model of our solar system as we know it.Whi...

 In case you missed it, the NFL, TechCrunch and Stanford GSB have teamed up to create 1ST and Future, a pitch-off competition featuring startups in three categories, Stadium of the Future, Bring...

 A dayafter the news broke that General Motors was picking up assets from failed Uber competitor Sidecar, today the startup’s CEO finally confirmed the details directly in a blog postand pr...

 The virtual fire continues to heat beneath the AR/VR industry with investments continuing to build and soar.According to a report from Digi-Capital, AR and VR investments are taking off pretty r...

 The virtual fire continues to heat up beneath the AR/VR industry with investments continuing to build and soar.According to a report from Digi-Capital, AR and VR investments are taking off prett...

 Apple’s App Store rules are designed to maintain a level playing ground for developers, and keep them from overtaking the operating system’s interface or feature set in ways Apple di...

 Yik Yak, the anonymous, location-based social network that has taken college campuses by storm, has today launched a web client. The company has been working on the web version of the app for th...

 So about this time of year my inbox gets flooded with junk from Sundance. Reps, PR, invites to parties.Raise a chalice with Matt Damon and Stella Artois at Sundance! [Sure, why not]. Raise a gla...

 The 9th Annual Crunchies are fast approaching, with the event best described as the Oscars of Startup and Technology taking place on February 8 at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House....

 French startup Botify just raised a $7.2 million Series A From Idinvest and Ventech. The company uses a software-as-a-service approach to make it as seamless as possible to crawl your website an...

 French startup Botify just raised a $7.2 million Series A round from Idinvest and Ventech. The company uses a software-as-a-service approach to make it as seamless as possible to crawl your webs...

 People who don’t take Uber frequently take the bus. And those Europeans folks now include some rather high profileinvestors in London-basedurban transport startupCitymapper — who hav...

 Google is expanding its Expeditions program, the company’seffort to bring virtual reality-based field trips to the classroom, with the launch of a dedicated Android application for schools...

 Merriam Webster definition of disruption: To cause (something) to be unable to continue in the normal way: to interrupt the normal progress or activity of (something) The theme for this yearR...

 Hyper is a new travel startup betting that the secret ingredient to a great travel booking experience is interacting with another human being. In other words, founders Minqi Jiang and Peter Zaki...

 TechCrunch has arrived at the World Economic Forum in Davos to cover the intersection of technology, innovation and public policy.Watch us today (in just a few short minutes) as we interview lum...

 Jopwell, the Y-Combinator-backed diversity and hiring recruiting platform dedicated to helping blacks, hispanics and Native Americans get jobs in tech, has raised a $3.25 million seed round from...

 A new mobile application from a co-founder of Reputation.comwants to re-imagine how consumers interact with their smartphones. Instead of unlocking the device and launching apps for common actio...

 Voice Memos has long been a sort of catchall foriPhone users that want to record anything that makes sound. For musicians the stock iPhone app hasbeen a useful tool, but perhaps no more useful t...

 Well today, Apple launched a huge new update to GarageBand for iOS that has a lot more appeal to novices (like myself) and will undoubtedly be much more popular with electronic musicians thanks ...

 In Paris, world leaders debated how much global CO2 emissions could be reduced, who would pay for it and how could they trust each other to follow through. This top-down, regulatory approach to ...

 The Apple Watch Herms has been a rare, expensive fashion accessory. Apple announced the limited edition and partnership at its conference in September and released the watch in October 2015. The...

 Apple’s lead over Googlewhen it comes to revenue generated by the companies’ respective mobile application markets, the App Store and Google Play, has been cemented, according to a n...

 Just in time for underwater basket-weaving season Leica has introduced the Leica X-U, a rugged, waterproof camera that records full HD video.The camera has a 16.5-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor and...

 Looks like Luxe, the on-demand valet parking app,is adding a new partner to expand the services it offers alongside parking, potentially picking up more high-worth customers in the process. The ...

 Apple just released two software updates for Mac, iPhone and iPad. These are minor software updates focusing mostly and bug fixes, security fixes and performance improvements. On the Mac, OS X 1...

 Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript programming language and former CEO of Mozilla, is working on something new — a web browser that will block ads (particularly the kinds that slow perfor...

 Glassbreakers, thementorship platform for womenand enterprise software solution for scaling inclusion efforts, has raised $1.98 million from Social Leverage, bringing its total funding to ~$3 mi...

 FreedomPop, thestartup disrupting the businesses of traditional mobile carriers by giving people ways to use mobile devices free of any charges — is today adding another sizeable round to ...

 It was in the aftermath of the devastating flooding of the Indian city of Chennai that HealthTap first rolled out the services that would become its new HealthTap SOS, which the company launched...

 London’s transport regulator TfL has concluded a review of a public consultation into changes to the rules for private hire vehicles, dropping a raft of measures that would have substantia...

 As we reported last November, Shahed Khan, age 20, has manage to draw a lot of attention over the last four years as he has set out to establish himself as both an entrepreneur and investor. Now...

 For mobile carriers, the explosion of smartphone usage, particularly for bandwidth-heavy apps like video, should bea boost to their business, but in many cases network architecture and delivery ...

 Send Anywhere, a free peer-to-peer file transfer system, is getting a power boost of its own after ESTmob, the Korea company behind the service, landed $6 million in new funding. Read More ...

 Another big bet on “FinTech,” Palo-Alto based BlueVine has raised $40 million to provide credit lines for small businesses. The round is led by Menlo Ventures, with participation fro...

 Greatist, a website promising “real facts and doable steps for your happiest life,” has raised $4.5 million in Series A funding. I wrote about the startup way back in 2012, when I sa...

 Application delivery platform Instart Logic today announced that it has raised a $45 million Series D round. The round was led by a new investor, the late-stage fund Geodesic Capital. Other part...

 Portland, OR-based DevOps company Puppet Labs today announced that it has secured a $22 million credit facility from Silicon Valley Bank. In addition, the company today appointed former Genentec...

 JFrog, adeveloper of open source software distribution tools, announced a $50 million round today. The investment represents a substantialjump for the company, which previously had raised $10.5 ...

 Norwest Venture Partners, the 55-year-old, Palo Alto, Ca-based venture firm, hasclosed its third consecutive $1.2 billion fund. The group, which employs 20 investors altogether, raised the same ...

 While there is no definitive guide to raising money, there are tactics entrepreneurs can use to make their idea more attractive for venture funding. Read More ...

 On the same day that streaming rival Deezerannounced a new cash injection of 100 million, Spotify has confirmed two new acquisitions, Cord Project and Soundwave. The startups are based respectiv...

 Who would have thought there’s money in measuring how much food a professional kitchen throws away? But apparently there is. Don’t take my word for it, however, just point your atten...

 Deezer, the Paris-based music and other audio streaming service with 6.3 million users thatplannedbut ultimately cancelled an IPO last year, has now tapped existing investors for more funding: t...

 MyState wants to solve the pesky problem of knowing when it’s good to call. The mobile app, launching for iOS and Android today, provides what is essentially a smarter contacts book, with ...

 BookDoc, a new entrant to the space of online doctor bookings in Southeast Asia, has raised a seed round of financing which includes a $2 million investment from Prince Abdul Qawi, a member of T...

 In January the government announced plans to open the local medical marijuana market to new farms and sellers.Adding to the developments on a governmental level, Israeli startups are utilizing c...

 Facebook has added what it dubs “experimental support” for accessing its services via Tor on Android, using the Orbot proxy app for Android. The feature will be rolling out over the ...

 The slowdown in hardware sales continues apace. Gartner today publishedits latest forecasts for device sales — covering PCs, tablets, ‘ultramobiles’ and smartphones — and...

 Meituan-Dianping, China’s largest group deals site, confirmed that it has closed a colossal $3.3 billion round at a valuation of $18 billion. The company claims that this is the largest si...

 Grain, a Singapore food tech startup, has landed funding to build out its “full-stack” approach to food delivers in the Southeast Asian city-state. The Series A round is officially u...

 More than 50 U.S. consumer and privacy organizations including the Center for Digital Democracy and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have co-signed a letter to FCC chairman Tom Wheeler calling...

 Happn, the hyperlocal dating app, has revealed that it has ten million members. The French-based app is growing fast and the startup says it is on track to reach 30 million users by the end of t...

 You do two things when you type a query in a search engine: you provide the search engine with object identification and its context. This manual input precedes a valid query result. Computer vi...

 The high altitude balloon company World View Enterprises reached an important milestone today, when Arizona’s Pima County voted to award them a $14.5 million deal to build a spaceport. Jan...

 Plans to construct the beginnings of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop are now underway in Quay Valley, California.Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced plans for a 5-mile test track l...

 Gawker Media is raising outside funding, and for a specific purpose — it says it’s getting readyfor its legal battle with Hulk Hogan.As first reported in the International Business T...

 There are a ton of clear benefits to taking your lunch to work. It’s more sustainable, you are able to assess exactly what you’re putting in your body, you can save a ton of cash and...

 With its latest update, Magzter is unveiling a more article-centric way to browse its library of digital magazines.Seems like a pretty obvious move, right? Sure, there are people who still read ...

 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella today announced that his company will donate $1 billion in Microsoft Cloud services to nonprofits over the course of the next three years.The plan is to support a tot...

 In a situation nearly identical to what happened in Illinois a few weeks ago, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has responded to a request from a staterepresentative who asked if Paxtonbelieves ...

 “Sure, that looks great on a model, but how will it look on me?” Now you can find out thanks to ModiFace, an augmented reality startup that’s quietly grown to power apps for 55...

 IBM reported its Q4 earnings at the close of trading today, and while itsrevenues were the 15th-straight quarter of declines, Big Bluebeat analyst expectations both on sales of$22.1 billion, and...

 Netflix had another big beat for its fourth-quarter earnings, and once again showed strong international growth — so much so that investors seem to be overlooking its weaker domestic growt...

 Netflix just released its fourth quarter earnings report, sending the stock up more than 8 percent (as of 4:35 p.m. Eastern) in after-hours trading. The company reported revenue of $1.82 billion...

 A number of lead-generation platforms have emerged over the past few years to help local service professionals (“pros”) win more clients. The pro market is an $800 billion industry, ...

 In the beginning, Bitcoin was a noble experiment. Now, it is a distraction. Read More ...

 UK-based Adestra has raised $7.2 million for its marketing technology, TechCrunch has learned. The new round of capital comes from the British Growth Fund (BGF) and will be used to help Adestra ...

 Google confirmed it’s now running a limited promotion in the U.S. dubbed “Tap 10,” which is aimed at increasing usage of its Android Pay mobile payments service, a rival to App...

 The folks at #spkpgh have invited me to judge a pitch-off in Pittsburgh on January 28 and I’d like to see yuns there. As a CMU grad Pittsburgh is near and dear to my heart. From the O to t...

 A few months ago, project management tool Trello launched third-party integrations with tools like Slack, GitHub and Salesforce for its paying users. Now, it is opening this platform to more dev...

 ChatWork, a Japanese company that provides a business messaging service aimed at eliminating email and helping teams to work more efficiently, has raised $12.5 million in fresh funding to grow i...

 According to Bitcoinity, Kraken is the largest EUR bitcoin exchange in the world with Bit-x and Gatecoin not far behind. But Kraken has one weakness — there isn’t much volume when it...

 TechCrunch is hitting up Boston and Atlanta in February and we’re looking for the best and brightest new startups to pitch their products on our stage. The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off is...

 SoftTech VC, a San Francisco-based seed-stage fund founded 11 years ago by investor Jeff Clavier, has promoted two of its senior investors to full partners, a move seemingly geared to bolster th...

 Apple veryquietly released its most recent EEO-1 report, which breaks down employee data by race, gender, job categories, etc., over the weekend. This comes shortly after its predominantly white...

 Hiring the right developers is an issue for many startups in Silicon Valley, but Patreon CEO Jack Conte tells TechCrunch the speed he needs to hire is a major issue for his fast-growing subscrip...

 Hot on the heels of its$500 million investment in transportation startup Lyft, General Motors is pumping some more gas into itsride-sharing ambitions. The companyhas acquired select assets of Si...

 Apple, Samsung and Microsoft are among a host of tech companies and carmakers implicated in a new report that sheds light on apparent child labor practices in the sourcing of minerals used to cr...

 The shift to smartphones as a preferred means of online shopping is continuing to have an impact on the e-commerce industry, according to new data released by Adobe this morning.During the 2015 ...

 London-based Entrepreneur First (EF) — the self-described “talent first” investor that backs (mostly) technical founders, often straight out of university, “pre-team, pre...

 If you’ve ever worn a wetsuit, you know most suck. They are tight-fitting, expensive, and uncomfortable. They are also one of those items that haveseenrelatively little innovation overthe ...

 We recently marked the 112th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first powered, manned flight. The flight lasted 12 seconds. That one-fifth of a minute has continuously reverberated throug...

 About.Me, Tony Conrad’s platform for an all-in-one digital profile, has made a few design changes to the site. Most notably, users will be able to add a spotlight button, letting users cus...

 Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, who stepped away from the big blue bird last June, has a new health and fitness platform startup in the works, focused on motivating people to make lifestyle imp...

 Microsoft is further expanding on its investment in Minecraft,bought in 2014 for $2.5 billion, by acquiring a learning gamecalled MinecraftEdu for an undisclosed sum. The game, produced by a com...

 In what seems like an end of an era, Paul Smith is stepping down as CEO of Ignite, the U.K.-based accelerator he founded almost five years ago. He’ll be replaced by Tristan Watson, current...

 Your household appliances aregetting smarter: think printers that re-order ink when you’re low, or washers that dispense just the right amount of detergent then send you more before you ru...

 In a frankconversation with TechCrunch last week, Apttus CEO Kirk Krappe talked about hiscompany’s exit strategy, which could come to a head in the not-too-distant future.Krappe believeshi...

 ALICE, which is actually an acronym that stands for “A Life-Improving Customer Experience,” allows hotels to manage and complete guest requests across various service departments wit...

 As the three-month deadline for Europe and the U.S. to agree a new transatlantic data transfer deal looms, EC officials are briefing that the U.S. needs to do more to improve transparency around...

 Earlier this week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced a set of initiatives, called Startup India, designed to help the country’s fledgling tech companies and their investors. O...

 Starbucks and streaming service Spotify are expanding their relationship today with the launch of a new digital music experience for Starbucks customers which will allow them to identify songs b...

 Twitter is having a tricky Tuesday. Today,the social media site experiencedan outage for at least an hour, covering a number of— but not all — regions. From what we’ve been abl...

 Twitter is having a tricky Tuesday. The social media site has been offline the the last several hours, covering a number of— but not all — regions. From what we’ve been able to...

 Techstars London alumni eRated is another startup taking aim at the online reputation problem, specifically relating to online sellers. Targeting online marketplaces, it lets sellers of a produc...

 YouTube has become available in Pakistan today, ending a three-year-ban on the Google-owned video site. Read More ...

 Telensa is quite possibly a U.K. tech success story you haven’t heard of. The company, which develops ‘smart city’ solutions has made a land grab in its home country and is loo...

 If you want proof that Android is the operating system of emerging markets, look no further than Indus OS. The company, formerly known as Firstouch, is tweaking the Google-run operating system t...

 Private companies get to be selective about the numbers they share with the public — on the ad-tech side, you usually end up with vagueannouncements aboutpercentage growth, run rates and s...

 Fresh from raising new funding, Uber China — Uber’s dedicated business in the world’s largest country — is embarking on its largest expansion to date which will increase ...

 Virtual reality is becoming a major focus for struggling smartphone maker HTC, but not so major that it will spin out its VR business into a standalone company. Read More ...

 In a digital economy, companies are constantly faced with opportunities, challenges and threats. Business changes are critical to successfully navigate in this environment, but there are plenty ...

 As stocks in China continue to see a lot of volatility, some tech investors from the country are setting upa 500 million ($713 million) fund in London and are looking to backstartups here. Cocoo...

 As stocks in China continue to see a lot of volatility, some tech investors from the country are setting upa 500 million ($713 million) fund in London and are looking to backstartups here. Cocoo...

 Ahead of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield shared a touching note with employees about Dr. King, the civil rights movement and why the collaboration software’soffi...

 Magic Bus is a new startup out of Y Combinator that hopes to end many Bay Areas commuter’s slow, soul-crushing daily drive down the 101 with a scheduled, WiFi-enabled, private bus system t...

 In verified blue checks we trust. Twitter has never forgotten the powerthat its influencers possess, though they often haven’t utilized their sway as successfullyas they could. Twitter is ...

 Stack fallacy has caused many companies to attempt to capture new markets and fail spectacularly. When you see a database company thinking apps are easy, or a VM company thinking big data is eas...

 Apple has long been known for providing an exceptional user experience. But many might not realize that over the past few years, they’ve been pushing the infosec envelope, by making advanc...

 India has a big appetite for on-demand startups at the moment, and today one of the hopefulsin the food category has raised some money to supersize its business. Swiggy, a restaurantdelivery sta...

 Co-working spaces and membership clubs with a heavy tech bent have proliferated across the planet in recent years as the industry itself has exploded, and startups look to find flexible spaces t...

 Each year, the startup community comes together in the name of innovation to celebrate the highlights, accomplishments and feats of brilliance of the past year. John Oliver once called it “...

 Neura, a platform that helps users personalize connected devices while guarding their data, will promote its new software development kit after raising a $11 million Series A. The round was led ...

 Here’s to good old Atlas, the walking humanoid robot. He walks, he runs, he carries heavy loads and now – as part of a calibration program – he can do chores around the house. ...

 I am a big fan of watching old stuff work again and video takes the proverbial IBM cake. The PS/2 Model 30 came out in the early 1990s and was one of the first machines with an Intel 286 CPU, a ...

 The European Union’s competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, has fired a warning shot aboutthe competition risks posed by dominanttech platforms that harvestvast amounts of personald...

 As we head into the presidential primaries, there is no question big data and analytics will play a major role in targeting voters, driving contributions and ultimately determining who will be t...

 Wahanda, the European hair and beauty marketplace that Japan’s Recruit Holdings majority acquired last year for $117 million (at a $240 million pre-money valuation), is getting a makeover ...

 Fred Destin on the main reasons startups fail and founders get fired; how he analyzes the VC/Founder relationship (with what he calls ‘founder intimacy’); his experience as a board m...

 Owning a car is expensive. Gas, insurance, and other miscellaneous car-related costs add up, and mean that in some cities it’s already cheaper to replace your car with ride-sharing service...

 The battle between London’s black cabs and upstart incomer Uber has been a relatively subdued affair thus far — aside from the odd scuffle and some roadblocking demonstrations last y...

 What happens when the world’s largest streaming video service switches on for over a billion people across an area larger than the U.S., China, and India combined? Read More ...

 Today at the DLD conference in Munich, Germany, the CEO of Facebook-owned WhatsApp made a couple of bigannouncements about how the messaging appplans to evolve to its next phase as it approaches...

 Alibaba isn’t the only e-commerce service in China with a financial services arm capable of raising large amounts of external funding. While Alibaba’s Ant Financial raised an undiscl...

 Appcelerator has been acquired. The mobile app development platformthat counts the likes of T-Mobile, PayPal and GameStop among its customers has been bought by the B2B enterprise company Axway ...

 Many eyes may be gazing toward the sky in anxious anticipation of new drone delivery systems, but an increasing number of intelligent robot systems is already on the ground, in warehouses and ma...

 Here’s a fresh profile of the Iranian mobile games scene that’ll provide some useful insights to developers and publishers interested in this otherwise foggy market. We gathered the ...

 “Let’s make a country,” my friend Rich said. He was serious. He and I were talking outside of a bitcoin conference in New York. It was April, 2014 and we were inside the Javits...

 Today, SpaceX was hoping to achieve the first ever rocket recovery on a drone ship in the ocean. While the company successfully completed their primary mission of bringing the Jason-3 satellite ...

 As the presidential primary campaigns heat up across both parties, voters are increasingly gravitating toward outsider candidates like Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz and Ben Carson ̵...

 When people talk about ads at the Super Bowl, they usually mean those TV campaigns that big brands (including tech companies) pay millions of dollars for. But AdSemble is givingstartups an oppor...

 The advent of autonomous vehicles is around the corner, and the economic and social benefits will be vast. The U.S. government must do more to ensure that the United States remains the global ce...

 From the Chinese stock market crash that shook global equity markets to the obsession with hunting for unicorns, 2015 was a year filled with volatility and non-traditional capital flowing into t...

 A new sports conversation app called GameOn has secured an investment from Snoop Dogg, TechCrunch has learned. The rapper has added onto the seed round, which also included former NFL players Jo...

 There’s a lot of buzz right now around ad blocking. Depending on your perception, you might consider ad blocking a savior or a growing problem. Both points of view are valid, to some degre...

 Tomorrow at 10:42 AM PST SpaceX is scheduled to launch the Jason-3 satellite into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. For many, it will be what happens after the launch that̵...

 It’s only 2016, but the real world is quickly moving into the realm of science fiction. Drones, driverless cars and not-really-hoverboards are (or soon will be) commonplace. We’ve al...

 Terrorists are communicating over a new secure Android app after getting kicked off WhatsApp, Telegram, and other messengers. Called “Alrawi”, the encrypted chat app makes it harder ...

 I decided to leave my group early and get some shut-eye for an early day the next day so Igot into a dirty cab alone with a guy who decided to abuse his power as a driver that night, ignoring my...

 Make room for yet another dating app. San Francisco-based Blume is hoping to entice singles into its arms with a real-time selfie feature designed to thwart catfishing. So no more being chatted ...

 At this point, we’ve probably all heard (or experienced!) the scenario where you’re walking past a store and your phone buzzes to alert you about nearby deals. The challenge, though,...

 If you’ve been paying attention to technology news lately, you probably noticed the headlines about T-Mobile CEO John Legere and his anti-EFF mini-rant on Twitter. Legere was responding to...

 Remember e-books? Those were the days, weren’t they? Those crazy few years when the fad of reading on a Kindle swept the nation. Now, of course, that fit of mass hysteria is behind us; e-b...

 Is a robot coming for your job? It’s not a novel question, but if Gartner’s predictions are correct, the answer could be leaning more definitively toward yes. The analyst firm’...

 iTunes Radio will no longer be free, as of January 28. In an email to customers, Apple said that the Pandora-like service will only be available for Apple Music subscribers, which costs $9.99 pe...

 iTunes Radio will no longer be free, as of January 28. In an email to customers, Apple said that the Pandora-like service will only be available for Apple Music subscribers, which costs $9.99 pe...

 NASA terminated a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) today due to a spacesuit malfunction with one of the American astronauts. NASA’s Timothy Kopra and British astrona...

 Several things that I’ve heard (from several sources) indicate to me that we won’t see a new hardware model of the Apple Watch in March. Read More ...

 In late spring last year,the Netherlands-basedaerospace and defense giantAirbus Groupannounced a $150 million corporate venture capital fund. Today, that fund, Airbus Ventures, announced its fir...

 After some of our staff spent the past week at CES, TechCrunch is back reporting the hottest tech stories. This week, the U.S. government got serious about self-driving cars, Apple rolled out ne...

 Earlier this week I benefitted from a drop in Uber Pool pricing, noting my ride was a whole Starbucks medium size latte less than Lyft Line. Lyft, fresh with a new billion dollars in funding, is...

 Today was not a good day for tech stocks. Universally tech stocks crashed today alongside everything else, erasing billions in value across the board, as part of a bad day overall for the market...

 We’re super pleased to say that Emily Calandrelli has joined up with TechCrunch to cover space, science and everything STEM related. Emily, known as The Space Gal on Twitter, has an author...

 What will the city of the future look like? We’re starting to see new technologies capable of helping future urban populations share more resources, reduce costs and communicate in new way...

 Along with Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley is the only credible alternative in the Democratic party to Hillary Clinton. In contrast with Sanders, however, the relatively youthful O’M...

 Twitter is making an update to its recently released polling feature; instead of a default 24-hour timeframe, poll lengths can rangefrom five minutes to seven days. Launched in October, the comp...

 According to the United Nations, the earth will house an estimated 9.7 billion people by 2050. Consequently, more food will need to be produced over the next four decades than has been produced ...

 Spotify does a great job at helping users findmusic they’ll, thanks to features like its popular “Discover Weekly” playlist filled withpersonalized recommendations, and section...

 The 9th Annual Crunchies are almost upon us. On February 8, people from some of the best and brightest startups around will descend upon San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House to take pa...

 As manynoted when Apple released its beta version of iOS earlier this week, one of the mobile operating system’s newest features, a nighttime reading mode with reduced blue light emissions...

 Another day, another series of Silicon Valley e-commerce explosions: Gilt Groupe just sold for a fraction of its valuation (and its capital raised) and One King’s Lane is reportedly the ne...

 Promo codes are coming to Google Play! Android developers will finally be able to market their applications, as well as distribute copies of paid apps for free, and more, by way of promo codes &...

 Call it the Fidelity effect. According to a newMoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, there appears to have beena chill in late-stage funding ...

 If it’s been a long time since you’ve rock and rolled and it’s been a long lonely time since you did the stroll, it might be time to model some old-fashioned microphones on you...

 Anyone who has a credit card has probably experienced some sort of fraud over the last few years. I personally have had it happen several times and I am by no means unique. Today IBM purchased I...

 Estimote, a beacon company whose small, wireless sensors and accompanying software provide indoor location technology to some of the largest retailers as well as 65 percent of the Fortune 100, h...

 What ended up being my favorite episode of CES 2016 was watching someone experience Las Vegas on their own terms.An avid gamer named @hardlyeverwrong was posting some frustration online about hi...

 Last week, 190 French startups came to Las Vegas for CES. Everywhere around Vegas, people were talking in French, as if French entrepreneurs were trying to take over the city. And France’s...

 Netflix has signed a deal with YouTube star Miranda Sings for its first scripted series with a social media star. Miranda Sings has more than 5 million followers on YouTube and averages around 1...

 KeyMe, a startup that could ensure you never get locked out again, has raised $20 million in Series B funding. The companyallows you to scan your key, either via mobile app or at an in-store kio...

 It’s looking like 2016 will be a big one for budget accommodation in Southeast Asia. Which is great news for business travelers, and my expense claims. RedDoorz, one of a number of compane...

 It faces several formidable rivals, but Minkasu believes it has developed the easiest way to make mobile payments. The startup’s iOS and Android app stores encrypted credit card informatio...

 A major piece of consolidation in the UK comms network landscape has today been green litby the Competition and Markets Authority, with the body approving the 12.5 billion($19BN) acquisition of ...

 Cargo ships might not be as intriguing as drones, but they represent a potentially lucrative new business opportunity for Amazon. The e-commerce behemoth’s China subsidiary can now provide...

 Netflix went global earlier this month, and now the U.S. company has said it will crack down on customers who use VPN software to access content that is not available or licensed in their countr...

 China’s Xiaomi has finally revealed how many smartphones in sold last year. Kinda. The company said in a statement today that it sold “over 70 million” devices in 2015. That...

 Brooklyn-based PolicyGenius has raised $15 million in a new round of funding to expand its price comparison insurance brokerage service. Increasingly, old line industries are coming online, and ...

 Today, NASA announced the winners of the second round of commercial resupply services (CRS-2) contracts. The winners, Orbital ATK, SpaceX, and the newcomer Sierra Nevada Corporation, will be res...

 The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a feast to the eyes, but an overload of the senses. Separating the profound from the gimmicks and the trends from the distractions is vital, but hard. For ...

 The California Public Utilities Commission has fined Uber $7.6 million for failing to fully and timely meet the agency’s reporting requirements. Uber has 30 days to pay the penalty, otherw...

 It’s been a good few days at Orbital ATK and SpaceX. Right on the heels of major contracts from NASA to resupply the International Space Station, both companies were thefirst recipients of...

 Amidst concerns over the gaming mechanics of a popular buzzy app called Stolen, its creators Hey Inc. has decided to shut down. They tweeted out the news today. Basically, the app allowed you to...

 Microsoft has long said it would match AWS’s prices for compute, storage and bandwidth. Earlier this month, Amazon dropped the price of some of its general purpose, compute- and memory-opt...

 If you haven’t tried Peach out because you don’t have an iOS device, a developer has ginned up something called “Nectarine,” which is an unofficial Android and web versio...

 Despite $61 million in funding, Zoosk is getting swiped to death. A source told TechCrunch the dating startup is laying off a huge chunk of its staff, and now the company confirms over 40 people...

 Intel — the world’s largest chipmaker —reported its Q4 earnings today after the close of trading. The company appeared to beat estimates with revenues of $14.9 billion and earn...

 What if you went to start your car and Apple Watch stopped you? Yes, Apple Watch, with your permission, knew you had spent time at a bar, monitored your heartbeat and other physiological data an...

 Foursquare has been a fantastic idea in search of a business plan for as long as it’s been alive. Efforts to monetize the platform via ads in its app (now apps) have not made the grade. No...

 The Salesforce AppExchange turned tenyears old today and it represents quite a milestone for enterprise software development. In fact, the app store concept that Salesforce developed pre-dated A...

 Is sitting at a computer all day making you fat, but standing desks are too expensive? The Hootsuite CEO’s nifty new side project could save your spine and slim your belly. Oristand is a $...

 Every car manufacturer now has an autonomous driving program, butthe rules and regulations around actually driving autonomous cars on public roads remain scattershot. Now, the U.S. governmentis ...

 Action cameras are like tablets. Lots of people want ONE. But very fewneed to constantly update to the latest model. I suspect this is why GoPro’s sales are slowing, it’s reduced sal...

 PewDiePie is launching his own multi-channel network called Revelmode. You may remember that PewDiePie was part of Maker Studios, Disney’s successful MCN. PewDiePie isn’t really part...

 Leslie Miley, the engineering manager who left Twitter over the way senior executives at the company were talking about diversity, is now the director of engineering at a recruiting software sta...

 Fugue (the company previously known as Luminal), today announced that it has raised $20 million in a Series C funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). The Frederick, MD- and Washing...

 It’s obvious that college students love their phones. Which is why WayUp, formerly Campus Jobs, has today unveiled an iPhone app, giving students the opportunity to apply for jobs directly...

 It’s been a big week for Skype. The company announced group calling on mobile, integration with Outlook mobile, and todayit’s rolling out to Slack, too. Available now in preview mode...

 If you get hurt and show up unconscious at the hospital, they likely have no idea what medications you’re on, your medical history, or where you’ve been treated. Medal wants to fix t...

 Virtual reality: the wild west; the new frontier; the land of opportunity. Barons, cowboys, gunslingers and outlaws all vying for their voice by rushing for content gold in this unbridled sphere...

 In what’s becoming something of a tradition for the online retailer, Amazon has again dropped the cost of its Amazon Prime membership to celebrate the success of its Amazon Studios divisio...

 Euclid Analytics plans to help more companies track customer traffic in their retail stores after raising a $20 million Series C. The funding will be used to acquire clients, add new employees, ...

 Last week, NASA was awarded a patent for a new type of squishy, amorphous robot that could one day slither and roll around other planets. Amorphous robots can passively change their shape and be...

 Alternative movie streaming service Mubi is starting the year with some big news. While Mubi has always been a nearly-global service, the company is launching its service in China in the coming ...

 Dashlane, a password manager application that competes with the likes of 1Password and LastPass, among others, has just rolled out a significant update which not only gives the software a new lo...

 PipelineDB announced the release of PipelineDB Enterprise today. The product is thefirstcommercial versionof the open-source product the companyreleased last summer.PipelineDB is built on a new ...

 Yahoo announced this morning that it’s makingthe largest-ever machine learning dataset available to the academic research community through its ongoing program, Yahoo Labs Webscope. The ne...

 The latest version of Apple’s El Capitan operating system for Mac, which was released into beta just this week, will bring support for Live Photos to the desktop through Mac’s Messag...

 Ajay Shankar neverimagined he’d start a legal technology company. But while at UC Berkeley, getting his Ph.D in computer science, he began working part-time for a local law firm whose pre-...

The Eye Tribe first brought their clever eye-tracking hardware to our Hardware Battlefield where they showed us how easy – and potentially useful – it was to to track eye movements across ...

 MindTouch, a cloud service that helps customers find answers to product questions using the company’s existing documentation, training materials and customer service documents; announced $...

 UK Home Secretary Theresa May was yesterday asked to clarify the implications of wording in the draft Investigatory Powers bill for encryption. Various concerns have been raised about the implic...

 Call9, a nine-month-old, Palo Alto, Ca.-based telemedicine startup that came together last spring as a Y Combinator company, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led byIndex Ventures, whos...

 We’ve all felt it — the little adrenaline rush and increased heart rate that comes when we meet someone we’re attracted to — but now we can track it. Once, a dating app w...

 There have been plenty of premature obituaries for privacy falling from the lips of tech company CEOs in recent years. Yet the idea that people have a sub-set of personal information they wish t...

 Change.org, founded in 2007, long ago became the go-to place for people wanting to wrest the attention of corporate giants, as well as for local activists looking to affectchange in their commun...

 Looker is trying to simplifythe way companies use analytics and today it announced $48 million in Series C funding to continue the mission. The round was led by Kleiner PerkinsCaufield & Bye...

 MiMedia is a slick personal cloud storage service for all of your photos, videos, music and other files. It has flown under the radar sincethe team started building it back in 2010, but it looks...

 Fresh from unveiling a slate of impressive new products at CES 2016, Razer — the high-end PC and gaming company — is offering its customers a 50 percent discount on its well-stocked ...

 You’re out on the town, you don’t really know the contact details of everyone you’re hanging out with but you’re all having fun taking photos. It’s a familiar scena...

 Disrupt Battlefield alum(and finalist) Boomerang Commerce today announced that it has raised a $12 million Series B round led by Shasta Ventures. Previous investors Madrona Venture Group and Tri...

 App Annie, the nearly six-year-old, San Francisco-based app analytics firm that long ago became the first stop for developers, investors, and journalists looking tobetter understand app rankings...

 App Annie, the nearly six-year-old, San Francisco-based app analytics firm that long ago became the first stop for developers, investors, and journalists looking tobetter understand app rankings...

 Anaplan announced a $90 million round todayat a valuation of S1.09 billion after funding, putting the company squarely in unicorn territory, those companies with valuations of a billion or more....

 Care24 is the latest home healthcare startup to get funding in India. The Mumbai-based company announced today that it has closed a $4 million Series A from SAIF Partners, which it will invest i...

 PayPal has made a notable move to position itself for the future of money and currency after it added seasoned fintech figure and bitcoin entrepreneur Wences Casares to its board. Read More ...

 Uber is increasing its focus on India, the country that it foresees becoming its second largest behind only China in the coming years, with plans to establish its first dedicated engineering tea...

 When something happens like I don’t know…Xbox Live going down, what do you do? A lot of us run to Twitter to complain about it. Not because our complaints will be heard, but because ...

 Earlier this month I was at CES in Las Vegas doing quadruple duty as radio host of my radio show on SiriusXM; as judge and MC of The Bump Best of Baby Tech Awards Show; as co-host of a lively ka...

 Silicon Valley should have a stake in the U.S. government’s moonshot initiative to cure cancer. President Obama announced this initiative in his last State of the Union address Tuesday nig...

 The walking embodimentof the “I’m a PC” guy just discovered that his Apple Watch can make phone calls and he couldn’t be more excited :D Republican presidential candidate...

 Hot on the heels of PushDoctor’s $8.2 million Series A, another U.K. startup playing in the digital health app space has picked up funding. Babylon Health, which like PushDoctor, lets you ...

 Carwow, the U.K. site that claims to offer a better way to buy a new car, has stopped off for some further funding. The four year-old startup has raised a 12.5 million Series B led by Accel, who...

 Amazon’s AWS cloud computing platform is introducing a new pricing tier today that will make its service more affordable for customers who only need to run their cloud-based applications d...

 Amazon’s AWS cloud computing platform is introducing a new pricing tier today that will make its service more affordable for customers who only need to run their cloud-based applications d...

 It is self-evident that ensuring public safety is a city’s job. In a sane world a public official would never choose between reducing sexual assault and reducing drunk driving. Ridesharing...

 Wealthfront, the robo-advisory wealth management service, is offering a tool of its own to help people get a window into the money they’re losing on fees. Read More ...

 Startups.co has been busy buying services like like Zirtual and Claritfy.fmto build a network of connected products for entrepreneurs. Next up: Zana, a sitethat says it’s “democratiz...

 Uber is going to ease up on some of its driver-screening requirements in California in order to make room for people convicted of nonviolent crimes, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier toda...

 GoPro’s stock dropped 23.34% to 10.87 Wednesday afternoon after the company announced its Q4 was worse than expected. The stock was already trading at an all-time low. The stock briefly ju...

 If you enjoy a bit of the old Weed O’ Gandalf then you’re going to get a kick out of these smoking systems by PrintABowl. This company makes specially -designed smoking paraphernalia...

 GrabTaxi, the billion-dollar ride on-demand service that rivals Uber in Southeast Asia, is opening its first office in the U.S. as it seeks to widen its hiring efforts. Read More ...

 There has never been a more exciting time for technologists and developers worldwide. The number of active development languages and frameworks, as well as development tools and learning avenues...

 For the past century, the price and performance of computing has been on an exponential curve. And, as futurist Ray Kurzweil observed, once any technology becomes an information technology, its ...

 Despite alate arrival to the wearables market, Apple claimed the top spot in terms of device sales,according to new research from Juniper out this week, which stated that the Apple Watch account...

 In a letter sent Wedesdayto Google CEO Sundar Pichai, U.S. SenatorAl Franken (D-Minn.) sought to raise questions regarding Google’s use of data gathered from their EdTech initiatives. Whil...

 CoinDesk, one of the leading bitcoin news sites,has been acquired by Digital Currency Group according to a post on the company’s site. A source close to CoinDesk tells TechCrunch the price...

 There are only a few short weeks until the 9th Annual Crunchies show on February 8 at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House. At the show, some of the best and brightest startups and lea...

 Over the years, Google has taken Street View to a number of exotic places. Today, it’s stepping things down by launchinga set of Street View images for the world’s largest model rail...

 Following yesterday’s news of its planned support for group calling on mobile, Skype justlaunched an integration with Microsoft’s mobile email and calendar application, Outlook. Inth...

 Every day, we’re starting to hear about startups laying offemployees – sizable percentages of them, too. Last week, it was Mixpanel, Maker Media, and SOLS.A recruiter who asked not t...

 When you think about virtual reality, you probably think about visuals and imagery and immersive far-off places. However, the key to a really fantastic immersive experience is not only what you ...

 The failure to take prescribed medicine, whether as part of a clinical trial or treatment regimen costs the U.S. healthcare industry roughly $378 billion dollars. Read More ...

 It’s that time of month again: micro meetup time. I’m holding two small meetups in Manhattan and Brooklyn: a mini pitch-off on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 and a BTC event on Thursday...

 As freemusicstreaming continues to grow in popularity, one of the bigger services hashit animportant milestone in its bid to build a profitable business. SoundCloud — the Berlin-based audi...

 You might have noticed that Uber has started to pay attention to your habits. For example, the app often suggests my home address as a destination whenever I request a driver. Google is today ro...

 HBO’s quest to more directly compete with streaming service rivals like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu is kicking off this week, with the company’slaunch of a new “Kids” sectio...

 Not unlike Ke$ha, things that go tick-tock are quite interesting and this 3D printed clock is no exception. This clock, actually a tourbillon with a going barrel, is unique in that the DIY plans...

 Udacity is launching a new spin on its Nanodegree cerfification programs programs today. With its new Nanodegree Plus offerings, the for-profit education company will now guarantee you that you ...

 Udacity is launching a new spin on its Nanodegree certification programs today. With its new Nanodegree Plus offerings, the for-profit education company guarantees that you will get a job within...

 Many business critics of Uber contend that the company is spending “unsustainably.” Despite that nearly all venture-backed startups burn capital unsustainably, Uber’s level of...

 Curious to see which apps are in the Top Charts on the Apple TV App Store, without having to actually browse to that section on Apple’s new media player? Starting today, you can get this i...

 There’s a lot of talk about using data to power programmatic advertising, but according to MediaMath CEO Joe Zawadzki, the reality hasn’t lived up to “all the hopes and dreams....

 Enterprise startups have a new venture fund to pitch. Leaders Fund, a new, North American venture firm,is taking the wraps off its debut, $100 million fund, and the capital is earmarked exclusiv...

 By now, every IT pro is acutely awarethatcloud services are so easy to provisionthatpeople often do sowithout their knowledge. Tracking cloud usage has proven a challenge for IT as a result. Cis...

 At first glance, mParticle might seem to be focused on a pretty specific niche — helping mobile app-makersconsolidate their data. But the New York City startup counts companies like Airbnb...

 Distil Networks has always been about about automated, intelligent bot detection. Rival ScrapeSentry has gone at it from a different angle, using human analysts to help customers understand bot ...

 Uber China, the U.S. ride-sharing firms standalone company in China, finally closed its long-awaited Series B funding round yesterday ending a long process that began last summer, when many of t...

 Baidu, China’s largest search engine, is may grow its presence in India by purchasing stakes in Zomato, BookMyShow, and BigBasket. Read More ...

 Analyst Gartner has charted the fifth consecutive quarter of PC shipment declines, reporting today that holiday sales of full-fat computers fell by 8.3 per cent in Q4 2015 — and by 8 per c...

 As patent reform legislation continues to move slowly through the lawmaking system, the number of patentsbeing awarded has declinedfor the first time in seven years. The U.S. Patent and Trademar...

 Yet-to-launch Moneybox is a U.K. startup that wants to encourage millennials — who might not be thinking too much about their financial futures — to save and invest. It reckons the k...

 TechCrunch is attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to look at how technology is affecting the world’s economies. Handily, WEF has themed this year’s event “...

 CarTrade, a classified site for car dealers in India, has scored an impressive $145 million in new funding to fuel new acquisitions and expand its products. The round was led by Singapore-based ...

 One day after Uber updated its API to add ‘content experiences’ for passengers, the U.S. company’s biggest rival — Didi Kuaidi in China — has opened its own platfor...

 Transportation and geography have always been intertwined. Specifically, the auto industry, with Detroit being the prime example, was once more tightly tied to place. The same can be said for th...

 Last week, NASA announced a new program called the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) which will coordinate NASA’s efforts for detecting and tracking near-Earth objects (NEOs). I...

 Threadflip, an online consignment marketplace for women’s clothing, is no more as of Wednesday at midnight. An email sent to users explains that the startup, founded in 2011, will shut dow...

 Reed Hastings took to Facebook Tuesday to announce that he would be personally funding a new $100 million philanthropic fund, focusing exclusively on education-related projects and organizations...

 Several Uber customers in California received notice today they’re involved in a class-action lawsuit against the rideshare giant. Uber agreed to the terms of a $1.8 million suit alleging ...

 Millions of software engineers are caged. Their talent remains unseen behind the iron bars of the misconception of a shortage of software engineers. An estimated one million technology jobs will...

 Today, Visa Checkout announced that some major new companieswould se starting toutilizethe service. Starbucks, Walgreens, NFL Shop, HSN and Match.comhave all signed on and will be joining Checko...

 Technology companies, particularly those with an enterprise bent, appear to be coming under increasing pressure from activist investors who want to squeeze out profits at the cost of products an...

 In celebration of its 10-year anniversary, Skype announced today the launch of free group video calling on Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows 10 mobile devices. The feature has been available for...

 According to a report by Re/Code, Google is doubling down on virtual reality, with its VP for product management, Clay Bavor, dropping his responsibilities for other apps like Gmail and Drive to...

 She went through Square’s College Code Camp exactly two years ago. Today,she’s running it.Code Camp, now in its sixth session, is a five-dayprogram at Square designed to immerse youn...

 The 9th Annual Crunchies are a little over a month away, and we’re gearing up to make this show one of the best ones yet. In the lead up to the Crunchies, we thought it’d be fun to t...

 Ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft have always been awesome at empowering people without viable forms of transportation to get around. A key demographic that’s been left out of reapi...

 Once upon a time (maybe around 2004), the social bookmarking service Delicious was the hottest thing on the web. It hit all the right buzzwords of the time (collaborative tagging, folksonomy, AJ...

 We don’t have too many details yet, but Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai just let the world know where and when Google I/O will take place this year. The conference usually takes place in ...

 It’s that time of the year again. After a restful holiday season, filled with Disrupt Europe and CES, we’re ready to hit the road again and visit some of our favorite cities. The fir...

 In its latest feature expansion, 3D model repository Sketchfab has just added a VR button, allowing owners of Google Cardboard to don their VR goggles to get a more immersive view of the content...

 Mike Hennessy thinks finding potential recruits is just like marketing — you have to keep them interested and snatch them at the right time. That’s why he started SmashFly, a startup...

 Following CES in Las Vegas last week, VR is on the minds and lips of everyone in the tech and gaming space. But even though virtual reality is more immersive than any form of entertainment previ...

 Recruiting software engineers is a massive headache for both startups and established companies. For a while now, HackerRank has tried to make bothapplying for these jobs and hiring the right ta...

 Telegram has been down in Saudi Arabia since Sunday evening and the company has been left bewildered by the abrupt disruption to their platform. “I confirm, Telegram traffic is partly limi...

 VLC, the popular video-playing software offering support for a wide range of media formats, is now available forApple TV. For those with large video collections, that means you’ll be able ...

 What could be cooler than a name like “Bosphorus Mechatronics?” How about a little box that lets you connect almost anything to anything including wireless connections and rotary inp...

 Microsoft’s push towards Windows 10 continues. Today, Microsoft is ending support for Windows 8, as well as older versions of its Internet Explorer web browser, IE 8, IE 9, and IE 10. For ...

 The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office has criticized the draft Investigatory Powers bill, currently before parliament, warning about the risks of requiring communications serv...

 As a fan of clothing I find custom shirt services to be quite exciting. No longer must we be held back by societal rules about what color your collar must be or whether or not blue goes with ora...

 Along with the release of new versions of its software across all of its platforms yesterday, Apple also rolled out a change that will have a major impact on those publishers building apps for A...

 Spotify, the popular music streaming app with 75 million users, wants to ramp up its profileas a platform for more than just music listening. And to that end, ithaslinked up with Genius, the sta...

 Travel search engine Skyscanner announced today that it has raised 128 million (about $192 million). The Edinburgh-based company did not disclose its valuation, but the Financial Times reported ...

 Every startup needs a steady diet of funding to keep it strong and growing.Datadog, a monitoringservicethat helps customers bring together data from across a variety of infrastructure and softwa...

 Tokyo-based Sansan has raised a $16.9 million Series C to help companies store and manage information scanned from business cards. The funding, which brings Sansan’s total funding so far t...

 Periscope, Twitter’s livestreaming app, has played around in the outskirts of Twitter, with nothing more than a screenshot and link being shared when you see a stream pop up in your timeli...

 Indian e-commerce company Shopclues has raised a Series E that the company says boosts its valuation to $1.1 billion. The round was led by GIC, the Singaporean government’s sovereign wealt...

 We’ve been tracking Import.io since it launched on our TechCrunch Disrupt Europe stage in Berlin in 2013, and they’ve come a long way. This startup, which effectively turns business ...

 Like Knip, FinanceFox is another startup founded in Switzerland that is moving the insurance brokerage process online. Its mobile app lets you manage of all your existing insurance and get advic...

 Former Columbia University football coach Bill Campbell had long ago tossed the football for a more corporate role: coach to legendary CEOs such as Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt and Larry...

 Asian telecom giant Singtel has introduced a new program aimed at increasing its interaction with tech startups worldwide. Read More ...

 News just in that’s strictly for the one-percenters among us: Facebook Mentions, the service for verified users of the global social network, is now available for users with Android device...

 Grindr, the social network for gay men, has sold a majority 60 percent stake to Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun Tech for $93 million. The deal, which values six-year-old Grindr at $155 mil...

 Here’s what push notifications look like when you have eight million followers on Instagram. Read More ...

 SpaceX is scheduled to launch the Jason-3 satellite on Sunday, January 17th at 1:42 PM EST from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Jason-3, a mission from NOAA and NASA, willmeasure sea le...

 After an aggressive response to his company, T-Mobile, being called out for being anti-Net Neutrality on its new “Binge On” product by the EFF, CEO John Legere has backtracked a bit....

 Today a panel of New York State Supreme Court appellate judges decided to extend the temporary stay that was recently granted to DraftKings and FanDuel, meaning they can legally operate in NY un...

 Changes in macroeconomic forces — starting with the interest rate hike — could have a dramatic impact on Silicon Valley and other regions. Read More ...

 Inspired by the conversation that came out of the Ellen Pao versus Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers trial, the creators of a new survey, “Elephant in the Valley,” askedover 200 wom...

 You’ve probably heard quite a bit about social networking/messaging app Peach. Some say it’s dumb, some say it’s great, and a lot say something in between. What do I feel about...

 Slack just slated a former Palantir exec forits newChief Security Officer position and an Ex-Facebook employee, who worked onthe company’s AI efforts, forits newly created role ofChief Arc...

 Just like the Super Bowl, Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl has become a tradition in my household. Every single year we’re treated to the most fluffy, cuddle-up-to-ity pups of all time.Thi...

 Happy Monday from Apple! The company has just rolled out new software betas for each of platforms, including the desktop (El Capitan 10.11.4), mobile (iOS 9.3), Apple TV (tvOS 9.2), and Apple Wa...

 Fordannounced a number of new initiatives today that all aim to make driving and owning a car a little bit easier for Ford and non-Ford drivers alike. At the core of these new programs is FordPa...

 The 9th Annual Crunchies are right around the corner, and some of the best and brightest startups, companies and leaders are vying for the chance to win the coveted Crunchie award in one of the ...

 Remember when HBO’s CEO said the company was cool with users sharing their HBO GO passwords? Well, apparently, Netflix feels the same way. In an under-the-radar announcement from last week...

 Fitbitis already not having a good week. After unveiling a new smartwatch at CES last week, the stock tanked 18% over the course of the day. But things have only gotten worse for the fitness tra...

 The HTC-Valve partnership, which uncloaked last spring to reveal the pair working on a virtual reality experience called Vive, continues to push towards a consumer release — with their VR ...

 If you’ve ever soldered or welded, you’ll know that things get pretty hot. MesoGlue intends to fix that. It’s a room-temperature metallic glue that lets you stick parts togethe...

 After expanding access to President Obama’s State of the Union address by making it available on Amazon for on-demand streaming,the White House is now targeting the younger demographic wit...

 Closing the digital divide requires not just providing Internet access for all, but making sure that access enables opportunities for all. Internet access can allow entrepreneurs to turn their i...

 Following news of last night’s Golden Globes wins, Amazon has now taken another step to establish itself as a streaming media competitor worth notice: for the first time, the company will ...

 What’s the greatest threat to the Internet? Did you say the elimination of net neutrality? What about SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act? Or the Protect IP Act (PIPA)? The fact of the matter...

 Digital archeology is one of my favorite blog post forms. An avid X user from 198X resurrects an old system that he or she had used to create something amazing/build a business/write a game/or g...

 SoundCloud has raised 300 million Swedish krona (the equivalent of around $35 million USD) in debt funding with Tennenbaum Capital Partners, according to Swedish news site Digital. The report al...

 Hot off of raising a $24M Series B round and inking a deal with Target for its Bevel brand, Walker & Company Brands has launched a brand new product — Bevel Trimmer. The company calls ...

 Swiss dating app startup Blinq is playing around with a little algorithmic hot or not catnip, with a plan to add a machine-learning powered attractiveness assessment feature to help its users pi...

 Mambu, the SaaS banking platform, has raised a further 8 million in funding. The round was led by Acton Capital Partners and CommerzVentures, with participation from existing investors. The addi...

 Hike, the Indian messaging app competing with global giants like WhatsApp, is adding a quartet of Silicon Valley veterans as investors and advisors. These include Quora co-founder and chief exec...

 Kakao, South Korea’s dominant mobile messaging app that merged with Internet company Daum in a $3 billion deal in 2014, is pinning its international expansion hopes on music after it annou...

 Xiaomi has announced the Redmi 3, the latest version of its budget smartphone. The five-inch device, which sports a full metal body for the first time and a new diamond lattice design, goes on s...

 Streaming services showed up in force for Sunday night’s 73rd Golden Globe Awards, but it was Amazon’s year to shine. Though Netflix had led the pack this year with a total of eight ...

 The conventional wisdom is that the recently agreed-upon General Data Protection Regulation is the most-lobbied piece of legislation in the history of the European Union. I’m not quite sur...

It’s pundit time — this time, digital media style. Last year I predicted challenges to YouTube’s dominance in online video, a beginning of cord cutting and the unbundling of video se...

 Aerodrome is working with the City of Boulder, Nevada, to launch the first commercial drone airport — the Eldorado Droneport. It’s one of only a handful of FAA-appointed UAS test sit...

 In the retail world we live in today, it’s hard to know who your customers are. Unlike in the days of brick and mortar stores, customers in today’s online shopping marketplace are cl...

 Ford made headlines at CES this week when it announced a major partnership that will integrate Amazon’s technology into its cars, also following rumors thatthe company is working with Goog...

 As you may have heard, brash comic Chelsea Handler is set to host a new series on Netflix entitled “Chelsea Does…” in which she’ll explore a range of issues, including a ...

 The e-sports industry is getting big. Really big. More people watch Twitch than CNN. Riot, Valve, Activision-Blizzard and EA all have e-sports initiatives. The largest tournaments attract tens o...

 A broad range of technologies reached a tipping point, from science projects or objects of convenience for the rich, to inventions that will transform humanity. We haven’t seen anything o...

 Apple Music has surpassed 10 million subscribers, according to a report from the Financial Times.Showcasing rapid growth, the number is a 50% increase from the 6.5 million paid subscribers that ...

 The term “financial inclusion” is a new buzzword in the fintech space. With the rise of services like Abra and MPesa, we are convinced that bitcoin is the solution to the problems of...

You can call Ledger Wallet CEO Eric Larchevque the Winklevoss of France given that he stores around 1,000 bitcoins on his bitcoin wallet — that’s around $450,000 as of today. But it also s...

 Just like last year, we paid a visit to the annual Drone Rodeoin the Nevada desert ahead of the first day of CES this year.Unlike last year, though, the weather was horrible. As we arrived at th...

 If this year’s CESKids and Technology Marketplace is the pulse of where we are today, it’s clear that developers, investors and brands need to pay closer attention to kids as a valua...

 In the wake of the recent suspension and growing calls for permanently banning Internet.org’s app (called Free Basics) in India, it seems a course-correction is now unavoidable for the ini...

 In Saudi Arabia, a country known more for its vast oil reserves than its commitment to renewable energy, a small startup called NOMADD Desert Solar Solutions has developed a new way to clean up ...

 Easy Taxi, the Uber and GrabTaxi rival backed by Rocket Internet and among other investors, has confirmed that it has exited Asia in order to focus on the ride on-demand market in its native Sou...

 In 1984, educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom published research on a new method of teaching, commonly called Bloom’s 2 Sigma Problem. The term “2 Sigma” comes from the resu...

 Nest users who depend on their connected products to monitor their homes experienced a hiccup in connectivity Saturday that left users scrambling to figure out what was happening. In the absence...

 While wandering the Eureka Park floor at CES, we ran into C-Way,a cool French startup that is making GPS-enabled smart watches for kids.So what exactly does a smart watch for kids do?Well first ...

 One of my investors candidly asked me recently, “Shelly, if I have an opportunity to invest with people I’ve just met, how do I avoid getting screwed over?” This is a good ques...

Bonaverde co-founder Hans Stier took the stage this week at CES to give us an update on his company. As a reminder, Bonaverde raised nearly $700,000 on Kickstarter a few years ago for a coffee machine...

 Well, authorities in Hong Kong aren’t going to like this one bit. Back in November, theytold Tesla to remotely disable its semiautonomous driving technology until theycan confirm that the ...

Figuring out how to manage drone traffic over the United States to allow for drone delivery services and other drone-based service is going to be critical ifAmazon and Google ever want to deliverpacka...

 We mettons of brand new tech startupsat CES this year and saw gadgets ranging from health-focused wearables, drones, 3D printers, and AR/VR headsets. Weeven got views of the Las Vegas strip from...

 I’ve had a pretty decent amount of conversations with my college roommate about his great distaste for the fact that almost every new device in existence is “connected” in some...

Yesterdayon the CES TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield stage I sat down with Edward Mason, Founder and CEO of VR Headset startup GameFace Labs. Founded in London, GameFace Labs makes a self-contained VR ...

 One of the main tenets of healthcare reform has been to better align payment/reimbursement schemes to incentivize healthcare providers for achieving improved outcomes and lower cost. Historicall...

 There are affordable computers, there are cheap computers and then there’s the Endless Mini, which is available for as little as $79.“Everybody in the world deserves the option to ha...

 TechCrunch has attained photographic evidence and an eyewitness report that Facebook has builtan as-yet-unreleased Facebook Messenger For Mac desktop app.The photo below shows aFacebook employee...

 This year the U.K. has a historic opportunity to lead the world in creating a transparent legal framework for the operation of secret state surveillance powers. But there is a parallel risk of f...

 Faraday Future’s Nick Sampson joined me on the TechCrunch CES 2016 for what turned out to be a lively interview. Sampson is Faraday’s Senior Vice President of R&D and engineering...

 The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Matthew Panzarino, Ari Weinstein, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, December 18, 2015. The Gang welcomes Workflow’s Ari Weinstein for a deep...

 Now that the books have closed on 2015, it’s time to look back and take in some of the changes in the analytics software market. There have been several trends (open source, cloud hosting,...

 There are few people in technology more infuriating than Y Combinator’s Paul Graham, who earlier this month dropped a brilliant summary and analysis of the ongoing refragmentation of moder...

 One of the biggest technology trends of 2015 was virtual reality (VR), from Oculus Rift to Google’s cardboard headsets. TechCrunch SF Disrupt 2015 saw a lot of VR experiences where users c...

 Uber is lowering prices in over 100 U.S. and Canadian cities, effective tomorrow. January is a slower month for the car service and the company says it is reducing fares in order to increase dem...

 Parrot has had an interesting week. Many were expecting a new drone from the famous drone maker (among other things). But when you think about drones, chances are you are picturing a quadcopter ...

 I Am Cardboard, makers of a variety of Google Cardboard viewers, recently delivered their new DSCVR Headset (pronounced “Discover”) after a recent, successful Kickstarter campaign.Th...

The Seattle City Council recently passed a first-in-nation local ordinance that seeks to allow ridesharing and taxi drivers to unionize and collectively bargain. The city is trying to solve a problem ...

 The competition was very fierce for the third edition of our Hardware Battlefield. 14 shockingly good hardware startups competed to win the coveted Metal Man trophy. These companies had a very s...

 Stables full of startups are being turned into glue, whether they’re mythical beasts, donkeys in party hats, or just baby horses. The latest forced to do layoffs is Maker Media, the champi...

 SpaceX has confirmed that they will attempt another, more difficult, rocket landing on their next launch January 17th. Their Falcon 9 is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in C...

 Mixpanel laid off 18 people yesterday, representing less than 10 percent of its 230-plus person team. “This is obviously a deeply tough decision,” said CEO Suhail Doshi. “By no...

 In 2015, the investing community sat up and took notice of edtech. LinkedIn acquired Lynda, and ever since, more analysts have been meticulously studying the growth of edtech funding and innovat...

 Chat chat chat, talk talk talk. We love it, you love it. Messaging apps are the hot for 2016 (again) and there’s seemingly a niche platform for all of us. There’s also big platforms ...

Yesterday we checked out an event hosted by Lenovo and Google, where the duo announced that Lenovo would be making the first Project Tango Phone.While we found out that the device would ship this summ...

This week, we’re bringing you not one, not two but three episodes of the TechCrunch Gadgets podcast, live from CES. Every morning, we look back at the news coming out of the show.In case you mis...

 Famed accelerator Y Combinator has grown a lot under the direction of Sam Altman, who was appointed president roughly two years ago.It’sgrown so much in fact that Altman, known for constan...

 Famed accelerator Y Combinator has grown a lot under the direction of Sam Altman, who was appointed president roughly two years ago.It’sgrown so much in fact that Altman, known for constan...

 Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Ari Weinstein, Matthew Panzarino, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 1pmPT.Our free, open chat room for communicating during the live show Gi...

 Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Ari Weinstein, Matthew Panzarino, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today.Our free, open chat room for communicating during the liv...

 Self-driving drone Lily has had quite the success in sales and it’s not even on the market yet. The startup pulled in a whopping $34 million in pre-orders by the end of 2015, with 60,000 u...

 Despite the glorified status that entrepreneurship has obtained in modern culture, it’s a huge pain in the pass. The work is long. The lows are low. Showering? Good luck with that. One of ...

 Most 3D printer apps are fairly basic – mostly they’re used to monitor print jobs. MatterHackers has just released the MatterControl Touch T10, a 10-inch, $299 tablet that allows you...

 Whether you side with Hufflepuff or Slytherin, it sucked that you could only get Harry Potter ebooks from a special service called Pottermore… until now. The company has is now selling the...

 SOLS, a company using 3D-printing technology to make custom shoe insoles, has laid off 20 percent of its workforce, or 14 employees in total across all teams, TechCrunch has confirmed. The staff...

 You may have heard the rumorsthatApple might be doing away with the headphone jack on the iPhone to push forward the wonderful world of wireless listening.Awesome, right? Well, hold on. First of...

 It’s that time of month again: micro meetup time. I’m holding two small meetups in Manhattan and Brooklyn: a mini pitch-off on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 and a BTC event on Thursday...

 The NFL continues to embrace streaming as it furthers its attempts to reach a generation of fans who don’t necessarily tune in through traditional TVviewing. In addition to today’s n...

 YouTube will be joining Netflix and Amazon with support for HDR (high dynamic range) video, the company announced this week at CES 2016. The news was briefly mentioned during an onstage conversa...

 In 2015, the virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) industry was widely heralded as the next tectonic shift in computing. But it’s also an industry that investors are cautious to ...

 Does it make sense to use your Apple Watch as a remote control for your media devices? Smart remote maker Peel thinks so, having just launched a universal remote control application for the Appl...

 Some EMC employees got some harsh news this weekas anticipatedlayoffs have begun at the Massachusettscompany. A company spokesperson confirmed the news,but declined to offer a specific number of...

 After raising a $6.7M Series A round to bolster its position, health tracking startup Lifesum has added another arrow to its quiver in the form of a new app called Movesum. You can download it h...

 Quanergy, a California based maker of 3D sensors for real-time mapping and navigation, has put a price on its forthcoming solid-state Lidar which, if it lives up to the company’s claims, c...

 Easy Taxi, the Uber and GrabTaxi rival backed by Rocket Internet and other investors, has confirmed that it has exited Asia in order to focus on the ride on-demand market in South America. Read ...

 MyMusicTaste, a Seoul-based startup that gauges fan interest to help figure out where to plan concerts, plans to expand throughout Asia after landing a $10 million Series A led by Softbank Ventu...

 The deal is done — Germany company RNTS Media says it has completed its acquisition of Heyzap. The acquisition is worth up to $45 million, specifically $25 million in cash upfront, with ca...

 Honestbee, a grocery delivery service backed by Formation 8, has launched in Taipei, its third city so far. Services are already available in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Niseko, Japan. During the ...

 Ctrip, the Chinese travel booking site valued at over $10 billion, has taken a big step in India after it agreed to invest $180 million in MakeMyTrip, a fellow booking service that covers flight...

 Surprise, surprise! If you buy cheapoff-brandelectronics from a shoddy factory in Asia, they may have poorly-designedlithium-ion batteries that can catch fire.After nearly 60 airlines basicallyb...

 Samsung’s slow recovery appears to be continuing after the South Korean tech company release its financial projections for the final quarter of 2015, although its figures are below industr...

 Lenovo announced at CES that the company would be producing the first Project Tango phone. As a reminder, Project Tango is an ambitious project that adds depth as well as a bunch of sensors to y...

 The third annual Hardware Battlefield at CES 2016 is nearly complete. Fourteen companies took to the TechCrunch stage at the Sands Expo with six minutes to prove their viability in the market. A...

 The third annual Hardware Battlefield at CES 2016 is nearly complete. Fourteen companies took to the TechCrunch stage at the Sands Expo with six minutes to prove their viability in the market. A...

 Lumus shares their sixty degree field of view smart glasses prototype with us. Read More ...

 Artificial intelligence (AI) is permeating our lives — just not in the ways we might have expected from reading sci-fi novels or watching robot apocalypse-themed movies. Instead of having ...

 This week at CES, IBM unveiled a somenew Watson partnerships that underscore itspush intobig data, machine learning and artificial intelligence. But at the same time, the company has quietly div...

 This week at CES, Kymeta announced a partnership with Panasonic to bring lightweight, flat-panel antennas to the maritime market.Kymeta’s core technology, the mTenna, is designed to commun...

 Fire is for prehistoric man. The modern man uses the sustainable and renewable of solar power to cook meats an veggies – like the GoSun Stove. The company was selected from the halls of CE...

This week, we’re bringing you not one, not two but three episodes of the TechCrunch Gadgets podcast, live from CES. Every morning, we look back at the news coming out of the show. In case you mi...

 Another day, another autonomous two-wheeled robot. Segway, the maker of two wheeled riding machines, has released something called the Segway Robot. This little robotic head connects to a standa...

 Glance is a smart wall clock featured in our Hardware Battlefield competition at CES and launching soon. The device is not only a good looking wall clock, it is also a great way to get all the i...

 Snap, a flying camera we first wrote about in September, is ready for the spotlight as it takes the stage today to compete in the TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield at CES. The device, made by Vant...

 Welp, it happened. T-Mobile CEO John Legere decided to field questions about the “Binge On” program the company launched on Twitter. Is it great? Is it throttling? The EFF has its th...

 Hudson’s Bay Company, the owner of department chain stores like Saks Fifth Avenue, said today it was acquiring Gilt Groupe for $250 million. The sale still represents a tough end to the st...

 We truly live in the future, friends. Food on demand. Love on demand. Uranium ore on demand. Now you’ve got growlers – essentially buckets – of beer on demand. This new app, cr...

 We’ve seen plenty of startups succeed in the fitness space, from activity frackers like Fitbit to gym subscriptions like Classpass. But access to a personal trainer has yet to be democrati...

 Lazy grillers, rejoice. Thanks to the Grillbot, you maynever have to clean your grill again. Today at CES we discovered the Grillbot, and it’s exactly what it sounds like – arobot th...

 According to Sean Spicer, the RNC’s chief strategist, innovation is central to the Republican’s chances in 2016. Spicer argues that the Republicans — with their pro business, a...

 At a San Francisco Halloween party this year, I ran into a man wearing nothing but bubble wrap, covered in glitter, waving a wand. “I’m a unicorn,” he explained. Anyone from th...

 Meet Fusar, a helmet kit. Instead of trying to reinvent helmets, the Fusar system works with any helmet. You just have to clip the main component, the Mohawk, to your existing helmet to turn it ...

 3D Robotics (3DR) is making it a lot easier for the owners of its Solo drones to take exactly the video they want. The company is introducing a couple of new functions for its drone (and especia...

 After a year on hiatus, Biz Stone is restarting active development of the social Q&A app Jelly he originally launched in January 2014. Stone, one of Twitter’s founders, paused Jelly in...

 If you’re a parent who’d like to do a better job keeping in touch with your kids when you’re not a home, then a forthcoming product called Ily might be the answer. Ilan Abehass...

 As we dip our toes into virtual reality more and more each day, one could imagine a far-off unintended consequence — the blurring of virtual and actual reality. A short film called “...

 Elemental Path is now accepting pre-orders for its smart toy products. The smart toy maker made its debut on Kickstarter this year with a line of what it calls CogniToys, or toys that learn and ...

 Storytelling is fun, but it’s also not easy. You have to have an idea of what story you want to tell and what pieces to include to illustrate it. Sometimes it’s words, sometimes it&#...

 If you didn’t grab a copy of the new screen recording app Vidyo that sneaked into the iTunes App Store yesterday, it’s now too late. Apple, not surprisingly, has pulled the app from ...

 According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Apple has acquired Emotient, an artificial intelligence startup. The company confirmed the move to the WSJ. The San Diego-based company was foun...

 Samsung has made its name in mobile devices as being the world’s biggest maker of Android devices. But it looks like it has different plans in mind when it comes to connected devices and t...

 2015 was a good year for streaming services, according to Nielsen’s year-end Music report out now. In 2015, on-demand streaming services grew to 317 billion streams – that’s a ...

 Facebook is narrowing the focus of the LiveRail ad platform that it acquired in 2014 — the company says it will no longer be accepting new customers to LiveRail’s ad serving business...

 Amazon said today it will expand access to Amazon Prime Video to military members and families serving overseas, as a part of the company’s ongoing efforts to deliver programming to those ...

TechCrunch is going to the World Economic Forum, Switzerland to unpack how technology is affecting the world’s economies. We’ll be speaking to heads of states and captains of industry abou...

 SeeSo, NBCUniversal’soddly namedsubscription service aimed at cord cutters, is now live. The ad-free streaming service is solely focused on comedies, pulling together well-known titles and...

 Today, Sierra Ventures, a San Mateo, Ca.-based early stage technology venture capital firm, is announcing that it has closed its 11th fund with $170 million. It’s an impressive amount, giv...

 It was only last July that HomeToGo, a European ‘metasearch’ engine for holiday rentals, raised 6 million in Series A funding. And now competitor Holidu has gotten in on the fundrais...

 Kill SMS, spawn a chat bot platform, bring friends together offline, improve artificial intelligence, and delight people. That’s Facebook Messenger’s roadmap for 2016 now that it has...

 Building a tech company from the ground up and having it succeed is an ambitious goal. Doing that as a female founder and CEO is another beast, entirely. When you stop and look at what it takes ...

 Guardant Health, a three-year-old, Redwood Shores, Ca.-based company whosenon-invasive genomic sequencing test for cancer requires just two vials of blood, has raised nearly $100 million in Seri...

 Oculus co-founder admits he screwed up Rift price-point messaging, explaining in a Reddit AMA that when he said “that ballpark” he had been thinking about the ‘all in’ co...

 PushDoctor, the U.K. ‘on-demand’ service that enables you to have a video consultation with a doctor, has raised $8.2 million in funding — money it plans to use to develop the ...

 Netflix shocked the tech word (and excited investors) with an unprecedented global expansion into 130 countries yesterday. That move means that the video streaming service is now available in 19...

 Oh, Switzerland, you seem to have it all: fine chocolates, fondue, goats with bells around their necks. But what you don’t have is a sense of how to beat smartwatch makers without looking ...

 There are plenty of services out there that promise to sync up your devices to form a surround sound speaker system. But AmpMe, an app that launched out of Montreal three months ago, claims to b...

 “We’re giving every Star Wars fan the power of the Force,” said Sphero CEO Paul Berberian. He stopped by the TechCrunch stage at the Consumer Electronics Show today to show off...

This week, we’re bringing you not one, not two but three episodes of the TechCrunch Gadgets podcast, live from CES. Every morning, we look back at the news coming out of the show. In case you mi...

 No more getting red at the beach! L’Oreal has come out with a new product that will warn you if you’re about to get sunburned. The new skin sensor, known as My UV Patch, was unveiled...

 The Oculus Rift will be sold with a $599 retail price. And Oculus is taking a wash on the hardware. Oculus Co-Founder and VP of Product, Nate Mitchell, revealed to TechCrunch’s Jordan Croo...

 I’m in Las Vegas for this whole week, which means two things. One, I hate myself. Two, I’m constantly out at restaurants, which makes it even harder than usual to eat healthily. MyFi...

 From its debut to the world as a Jeopardy champion in 2011,IBM’s Watsonhas made a name for itself as a powerful artificial intelligence platform for large enterprise applications, from med...

 Instagram’s answer to Snapchat’s Live Stories isn’t just for holidays and big events any more. Internally, they’re known as Spotlight Compilations — vertical slides...

 We’ve seen some pretty coolstuff at day 1 of CES 2016, but probably nothing more eye-catching than the EHang 184, a human-sized drone built by the Chinese UAV company EHang. Yes you heard ...

 Watch a sad old man (age 25) interview the top pre-tween entrepreneurs in this hilarious video. Even though it’s a parody of the Forbes 30 Under 30, this is too real. “Even an 8-year...

 Watch a sad old man (age 25) interview the top pre-tween entrepreneurs in this hilarious video. Even though it’s a parody of the Forbes 30 Under 30, this is too real. “Even an 8-year...

 This morning at CES, Chevrolet unveiled an all new electric vehicle called the Bolt (not to be confused with their hybrid, the Volt.) For around $30k after rebates, Chevy is promising a range of...

 So this just happened. An hour ago or so, Uber activated UberCHOPPER promotion in Vegas. Walking out of the GM keynote, I open up the Uber app to get a ride and up popped the $99 UberCHOPPER opt...

 Uber has agreed to pay a $20,000 fine to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office for failing to report unauthorized third-party access to its drivers’ personal informati...

 DCM Ventures, the early-stage, cross-border venture firm, has scored many hits by sticking it out in China since nearly its 1996founding, even as many competing firms– because they were un...

 Having hands is pretty damn great, you know. Most of us take it for granted just about every day. Armed with the right tool, your hands can do just about anything. That’s the idea behind C...

 There are 3.8 million sports-related head injuries each year, and 47 percent of athletes do not report symptoms of their head injuries, whether out of lack of understanding or a need to feel tou...

 More people than ever are realizing that bread isn’t supposed to make a person bloated and sick and perhaps they have a sensitivity to gluten. Or worse, they’re allergic. The Nima fr...

 Indiegogo has historically been about helping the young and scrappy entrepreneur to put their idea out there and get some much-needed capital for a first production batch. The company is launchi...

 Tennis legend Andre Agassi is furthering his commitment to childhood education, investing in a tool that teaches kids how to read. The Andre Agassi Foundation is working with Square Panda on its...

 It’s estimated that nearly 18 percent of the water used in a person’s home is lost to leaks. Annually that can amount to a staggering 13,000 gallons of water. Whether all of that is ...

 Despite the popularity of mobile applications such as Peace, Blockr and Ghostery over the last year, ad blocking will be the least of digital advertisers’ problems in 2016. According to a ...

 Last year we wrote fairly extensively about Evernote’s ongoing transition, which has seen it shutter products, lay off staff, hire a new CEO, and see its COO and other visible VPs move on ...

 As expected, Chevrolet today officially unveiled its new electric vehicle — the Chevy Bolt — during its keynote at CES. The new car, which will retail for just under $30,000 after Fe...

 The location aware app Foursquare, and its check-in sidekick Swarm, seemingly kills my phone’s battery. I mean, whenever I get within a block of the TechCrunch office, it lets me know all ...

 Netflix shareholders seem to be in a good mood today — no doubt thanks to the company saying it will launch in 130 new countries. Shares of Netflix spiked immediately after CEO Reed Hastin...

 The good news for enterprise software is that enterprise technology is becoming more interesting every year, andbusinesses continue to benefitfrom the combination of cloud based applications, ne...

 Lumos Labs, the creator of “brain trainingprogram” Lumosity with $67.5 million in venture funding, hasagreed to pay a $2 million settlement to the Federal Trade Commission for its de...

 The Oculus Rift is now available for pre-order at $599, but there’s been some confusion about what else you’ll need to plug it in and getting going once it hits your doorstep. Wait j...

 As routers get smarter we will expect them to do amazing things: protect our networks, filter bad stuff, and even make margaritas. But Luma, the fan favorite Wi-Fi router has bought Nodal Indust...

 After closing a $3.5M seed round last month, Wiivv is officially launching today at TechCrunch’s CES Hardware Battlefield. The startup’s first product, BASE, is a custom, 3D-printed ...

 You don’t care who delivers dinner or drives you home, as long as it gets done fast. That’s the idea behind Assist, a chat bot that aggregates APIs to let you text to interact with G...

 You don’t care who delivers dinner or drives you home as long as it gets done fast. That’s the idea behind Assist, a chat bot that aggregates APIs to let you text to interact with Gr...

 I have no idea if friendship bracelets are still a thing, but Jewelbots is trying to bring them into the 21st century — and it’s trying to teach kidsthe basics of programming at the ...

 Stereolabs’s ZED stereo camera is a Kinect-like sensor that allows developers to build depth-sensing into their devices. Say you want to build obstacle avoidance into a robot or drone. To ...

 CES is the world’s largest consumer electronics trade show, giving attendees the opportunity to check out the latest and greatest in gadgetry and the highest possible chance of contracting...

 U.S. movie streaming giant Netflix just dropped the hammer and opened its service in 130 new countries, including India and Russia — but crucially not China. These new markets take Netflix...

 Over the weekend, SpaceX revealed that there was no damage found on their recovered Falcon 9 and it was ready to be fired again. Read More ...

 Whoops! It appears Apple accidentally leaked imagery and details regardinga new Apple Watch band, a “Space Black” Milanese Loop, which briefly appeared on various international Apple...

 Today, we are thrilled to introduce the Hardware Battlefield 2016 participants. These startups represent what we at TechCrunch feel are the most interesting, most promising early-stage hardware ...

 You could be forgiven if you had already forgotten about Android TV, but Google’s one-year-old Android-based successor to its ill-fated Google TV project is still around and kicking. Today...

 If a parent makes the choice to keep a firearm in their home, a key decision that follows should be a decision on how to keep the gun protected from kids in the home.Launching today from CES 201...

 Pinterest has hired Candice Morgan, formerly of Catalyst, to work as the unicorn startup’s first-ever head of diversity. In her role, Morgan will “help build the programs and teams&#...

 Buy your rainbow puke, heart eyes, or demon face Snapchat selfie lenses now, because then you’ll get to keep them after Snapchat shuts down its lens store this Friday. Today Snapchat annou...

Debuting in prototype-form at CES a few years ago, the URB-E is finally ready for the spotlight. Weighing just under 35 pounds, the foldable scootercan carry an adult up to 20 miles at a topspeed of a...

 GoButler, the messaging-based digital personal assistant that combines AI with human assistants to let you request anything on-demand, has exited the German market, where the startup first launc...

 It’s been a long wait but the price-tag for the consumer version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset has finally been confirmed now that pre-orders are open — and it costs $59...

 CloudMagic, themakers of a popular mobile email client for iOS and Android which touts some 3 million users, is expanding to the desktop with today’s launch of a new Mac Store app.Availabl...

 We’re frequently told Brits don’t care a fig-leaf for online privacy. But one London-based startup is about to test that theory — it’s just launched an anonymous search e...

 Many security startups are not unicorns; rather, they are cockroaches — they rarely die, and in tough times, they can switch into a frugal/consulting mode. Like cockroaches, they can survi...

 Casio, the biggest name in rugged sports watches, has dipped a cautious toe into the smartwatch space with their new WSD-F10. This watch features an dual LCD/LED touchscreen and a battery life o...

 VHX, a startup that helpscustomers sell videos online, is taking a big leap into mobile, with new capabilities for publishers to launch their own custom apps. While the startup is officially ann...

 Wearables maker Misfit, now owned by Fossil, is following up on yesterday’s news of Ray, a slimmer alternative to its flagship fitness tracker the Misfit Shine, with the launch of its firs...

 In 2006 I was “leading” a team of Gizmodo reporters at CES from my underground lair in deepest Brooklyn. My son had just been born in December and I decided to stay home so I’d...

 Attempting to steal a bit of thunder away from this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, Apple announced this morning a record-breaking holiday season for its App Store, with over $1...

 The Breakthrough Energy Coalition is continuing to address the need for clean energy by bringing together both the private and public sectors, which have a bigger impact than the measures alread...

 You’ve likely seen Double Robotics’ telepresence robot roaming around a tech event or two. The iPad on a stick that live streams into the board room or your living room just released...

 Last summer, gaming tech company Razer saidthat it was working with Intelona webcam that would take in-game video recording to a higher level. Today, at CES in Las Vegas, the company is taking t...

 Tracxn, a company that tracks and analyzes data about startups, has added entrepreneur Ratan Tata as an angel investor. Though the amount of new funding was undisclosed, Tata’s contributio...

 Cloudability, a cloud service that helps companies manage and optimize their cloud spending, announced today that it was buying DataHero, a cloud servicethat helps non-technical users generateda...

 Most of us experience some level of stress and anxiety in our lives. It can be relatively mild or extremely severe and debilitating — or anywhere along the spectrum. Some examples include ...

 Xfers, a startup that wants to simplify bank transfers, announced today that it has raised a $2.5 million seed round. Based in Singapore, Xfers plans to use the funding to expand into Indonesia ...

 WeChat, the Uber popular Chinese message app with more than 500 million active users, is taking a leaf out of the Skype playbook after it launched an international telephone calling service. Rea...

 Microsoft’s Cortana quietly snuck onto to Android in a meaningful this week in a small but telling move that you probably missed unless you own a OnePlus One smartphone. Read More ...

 Volkswagen’s brand new CEO Matthias Muller quickly got the emissions fiasco apologies out of the way on stage at CES on Tuesday and then unveiled two connected and all-electric concept car...

 M won’t be the only artificial intelligence on Facebook Messenger. Facebook has given some developers access to an unannounced Chat SDK that allows them to build interactive experiences an...

 When Chris Comparato joined his former colleagues at Toast, a service that includes a point-of-sale tool for restaurants, raising new financing to continue scaling the company was near the top o...

 Avegant is showcasing its new product at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Originally backed by Kickstarter, the startup is releasing its Glyph media player that doubles as a...

 Computing devices are getting smaller by the day, and today at CES in Las Vegas Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanichannounced newdetails aboutone of its big (little?) efforts in the space. Curie, In...

 Securifi just announced the Almond 3, a brand new touchscreen wireless router that wants to become the central part of your smart home. The Almond 3 will be released in the coming months for $12...

 Withings has one more thing up its sleeve, a new activity tracker. This isn’t a new version of the Pulse or Activit. This is a brand new activity tracker. And the best part is that it only...

 Earlier today, Panasonic gave us the details on when the new Technics are coming and what to expect. Read More ...

 Back in January 2014, the CBC aired “The Cleantech Crash,” which highlighted the difficulty of operating in cleantech in the past few years. The documentary revealed how much the moo...

 While most companies are focused on touting their latestinternet-connected refrigerators or self-driving cars at CES, Sony is kicking it old-school and announced a turntable at its press confere...

 We’re live at the Sony press conference at CES in the Las Vegas Convention Center starting in just a few minutes. We got a lot of interesting devices all day long, such as Samsung’s ...

 For those of you who count your carbs and calories, DietSensor is looking to make your life easier. The French-based startup has created a tool that scans your food and determines its nutritiona...

 If you’ve always wanted to shoot video using the tools your parents probably used to film each other naked then Yves Behar and Kodak have a product for you. Super 8 was a cartridge-based f...

 Is it a fridge? Is it a tablet? No, it’s a fridge-tablet hybrid, coming straight from Samsung’s brainstorming sessions. Samsung’s new Family Hub fridge features a giant tablet ...

 CES is a time of bad photoshopping and the above image is a perfect example. That said, the product it hopes to sell is quite compelling. It’s basically a USB-C desktop hard drive that con...

 Sling TV, Dish Network’sstreaming TV service aimed atcord cutters, has been helping to stem subscriber loss for the pay TV provider, but its user interface has needed some work. Today, the...

 When Samsung unveiled the Gear S2, it looked lot like Samsung’s answer to the Apple Watch. And the company announced another move in this direction today by unveiling a new 18-karat rose g...

 You might be hearing talk of depressed valuations, but that message certainly isn’t reaching commercial real estate owners in the Bay Area. The median price per square foot to rent office ...

 Magic Assistant, an SMS-based personal assistant service, is rolling out a new plan that provides a more premium service for $100 an hour. Magic’s new service, Magic+, is built around gett...

 President Obama recently made funding for smart gun research part of his end-of-term gun control push, and it’s easy to see the idea’s appeal. The smart gun promises a technological ...

 As you know, reports are surfacing about Twitter’s interest in potentially monkeying around with the number of characters you can tweet…or share along with a tweet. 5,000? 10,000? We...

 Oracle continues to ramp up its business in the area of marketing tech. Today the enterprise softwaregiant announced that it has acquired AddThis, which makessharing features (i.e., those button...

 We’re only in the first week of January, but already Southeast Asia has seen its first merger of significance. Female-focused e-commerce players Moxy, which is present in Thailand and Indo...

 So much for the holiday bump for Fitbit shares. After seeing a huge boost following the holiday shopping season — when the app topped the App Store, indicating that the device seemed to be...

 A recent report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) took a comprehensive look at gender differences in student performance based on an exam taken by 15-year-olds...

 Aptoide, a third-party app store with a focus on emerging markets, has raised $4 million to offer an alternative for Android, undoubtedly the world’s most popular mobile operating system w...

 HERE, the mapping service now owned by Audi, BMW and Daimler, today announced a new cloud-based mapping service forenhancing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and automated driving featu...

 On January 3, three sad days after folks celebrated the New Year by sharing a kiss with a lover, Tinder had its biggest growth day in its history, recording the most downloads in a single day ev...

 So, Recode reported today that Twitter was tinkering around with the idea of expanding its 140 character limit to a number a bit higher….10,000 characters. But what, you ask (and I’m...

 No, you’re not going to have article-length tweets overwhelming your timeline, but Twitter is looking to let you write more without leaving the service. The company is mulling a new option...

 Have you been waiting to buy your Nexus 6Pbut held back because it wasn’t available in gold in the U.S. yet? Yourlong and agonizing wait is now over. As Google and Huawei announced at CES ...

 ThirdEye, a startup started by four Penn sophomores that helps the blind “see”what is around them, launched its mobile apps this morning. The company’s product, previously only...

 GAIA Design, the Mexico City-based online furniture retailer, has raised $2.5 million from a coterie of Mexican and international investment funds and super angels, as interest in startups south...

 Chalk this up as the latest instalment of European VC musical chairs, with news that London-based Balderton Capital has promoted both Rob Moffat and James Wise from Principal to Partner. Read Mo...

 Virtual reality. If you’re sick of the sound of VR already consider that a taster of the queasy sensations tech companies are aiming to flog consumers this year. To wit: HTC has just annou...

 Apple’s own streaming TV service may have been delayed due to stalled negotiations, but a new app launching for Apple’s newestmedia player will allow youto watch both live and record...

 Twitter is announcing a new “conversational” ad unit today, where users are prompted topersonalize and share a marketer’s message. These ads are similar to Twitter’s exis...

 Twitter is announcing a new “conversational” ad unit today, where users are prompted to personalize and share a marketer’s message. These ads are similar to Twitter’s exi...

 Amazon this week took its enterprise-aimed email and calendaring service called WorkMail out of preview mode. The product, which first debuted a year ago, is based on Amazon Web Services and is ...

 Amazon this week took its enterprise-aimed email and calendaring service called WorkMail out of preview mode. The product, which first debuted a year ago, is based on Amazon Web Services and is ...

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 Remember that time Facebook bought Oculus for $2 billion, and Kickstarter backers were angry? Kickstarter backers all got a dev kit, but they didn’t get anything out of the acquisition. To...

 People still don’t get social media. And I’m not just talking about Donald Trump. It’s an established best practice for building community support for a point of view or an ini...

 Today at CES 2016, Fitbit has unveiled the latest generation of its smart fitness watch in the Fitbit Blaze. With the Blaze, the company is looking to be competitive with products like the Apple...

 There’s been “a very big shift” in the thinking of many online publishers, according to JW Player President Chris Mahl. Yes, many of them are looking at Facebook and YouTube as...

 Politicians in 25 countries will be shifting a little more uneasily on their benches this week as Politwoops, the service that tracks politicians’ deleted tweets, and can thus flag up atte...

 The number of mobile addicts is increasing, according to a new report releasedthis morning from Yahoo-owned mobile analytics firm Flurry, which found that 40 percent of the 58 percent total grow...

 The online lending market continues to generate heatin the financial services sector as student lending service CommonBond rakes in another $275 million in available lending capital.Through the ...

 With its first major product release since its acquisition by watchmaker Fossil Group in November, Misfit today debuted its latest entry in its line of fashion-forward fitness trackers with the ...

 Cuvva, a burgeoning startup based in Scotland, is solving a problem that I didn’t know existed: the need to insure a car for as little as an hour. Read More ...

 Electric vehicles may be the future of transportation, but they can travel only as far as there are places to charge them.Often called the “Tesla of scooters,” Taiwanese startup Gogo...

 Can an app replace the selfie stick? Sadly that seems a forlorn hope at this point. The plague of wands topped with phone clamps and wielded by photo-loving tourists everywhere seems unstoppable...

 Garmin‘s new Varia Vision device could either be a dream come true for cyclists or a work in progress, but this is definitely an interesting accessory. The Varia Vision is an augmented rea...

 Human has been quite popular on iOS, and Android users can now rejoice as the app is now available on the Play Store. As a reminder, Human is a passive app designed to help you stay healthy with...

 While we know that gender diversity only addresses a small part of the overall opportunity around inclusion, we had a chance to interview Pollack, the author of The Only Woman in the Room: Why S...

 Grofers, the Indian on-demand delivery service startup backed by top investors, confirmed today that it has stopped operating in nine cities as first reported in Inc42. Read More ...

 Snapcart, an Indonesia-based startup that runs a service offering consumers rewards in exchange for scans of their shopping receipts, has closed $1.675 million in funding just four months after ...

 If we had togamble on it, we’d bet theIPO market will be far more brisk this year than last year, which was the worst year for tech IPOs in particular since 2009. Even still,it came as a b...

 Electric car company Faraday Future unveiled its first concept car, the FFZero1, at CES 2016 this evening in Las Vegas, Nevada. And true to earlier leaked images, it looks a lot like the Batmobi...

 LEGO Education is launching a new version of its WeDo robotics kit for elementary school students at CES today. Just like its predecessor, WeDo 2.0 is meant to introduce students to robotics, en...

 Following last year’s Drive CX, Nvidia just announced an updated version of its computing platform for self-driving cars, the Drive PX 2. Compared to last year’s model, this is a muc...

 The 360fly camera, a small, sturdy ball with panoramic views we first discovered at CES 2014, is back again and buddying up with sports brand BRG to bring us live or recorded, 360-degree, stitch...

 Ephemerality be damned. Some art deserves to live longer than 24 hours. So rather than just squirrel away your saved Snapchat Stories, you can upload them to Slinger. It’s a new app aiming...

 What if your drone could talk to your car? That’s probably not a question you’ve asked yourself all that often, but what if you are the United Nations or a search-and-rescue organiza...

 Although virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have existed in some form for decades, only recently have they garnered mainstream attention. VR is blowing up right now, and its content...

 Netatmo just announced the Netatmo Presence, a new smart outdoor security camera packed with actually useful features. In particular, this camera can detect if there’s a car in your drivew...

 You may know Withings for its beautiful smart watches, but the company has had a long history of health tracking devices. The $100 Withings Thermo is keeping up with this trend. It’s a sma...

 Parrot is probably best known for its drones, but the company actually offers a wide range of products that also includes headphones and in-car infotainment technology. Last year at CES, Parrot ...

 When you think of consumer drones, chances are youare thinking of quadcopters.Butfixed-wing drones have long been a staple of the military and the model aircraft community and now Parrot, which ...

 At the end ofNovember, Google announced it was buying bebop, a cloud platform startup founded by former VMware CEO and co-founder Diane Greene. Today, the company filed paperwork with the SEC re...

 Some consolidation in the world of gaming and specifically e-sports. Today Activision Blizzard confirmed that it has acquired Major League Gaming, a specialist in live gaming events as it vies t...

 Whoops. Faraday Future — the super mysterious electric car company that no one really seems to know much about — is all set to debut something tonight… and it seems that someth...

 For those who believe a cluttered desk is a cluttered mind, the same is likely doubly true when it comes to youriPhone’s home screen. Unfortunately, those who desire complete controlof the...

 According to a report by Variety, and confirmation by Yahoo, Yahoo Screen has closed its doors with its content being split among its various magazine properties. Screen launched in 2013 as a pl...

 Amazon has been quietly building out an ecosystem of applications for itsconnected device, the Amazon Echo. While nowhere near as well-known or buzzed about as the two top app stores on the mark...

 Will 2016 be the year when passwords become obsolete? Or will we just continue to grin and bear it? And what’s the matter with passwords, anyway? Read More ...

 We want to fly you to San Francisco for the 9th Annual Crunchies Awards!Walk the Green Carpet in style! One lucky winner will be able to invite three friends on a whirlwind trip to San Francisco...

 Intel has made yet another hardware acquisition to build up its business of integrating its processors and RealSense imaging technology into the nextwave of connected devices beyond PCs. Today t...

 It was a few months back that rumours began to circulate within the European — and specifically Berlin — startup community that ex-Early Bird VCs Ciarn O’Leary and Jason Whitmi...

 Pre-orders for the consumer version of the virtual reality headset are due to open on Wednesday January 6, at 8am PT, Oculus Rift announced today. Read More ...

 If you have small children, pets, or drunken roommates you understand the value of MagSafe. These chargers woulds snap off and on magnetically without damaging your computer or port and they wer...

 Israeli startups look to America for inspiration, money and, of course, exits. But recent events indicate a change in course, at least for Israeli advertising and marketing technology companies ...

 Microsoft this morning announced promising numbers related to the growth and traction of its Windows 10 operating system. The company confirmed today that Windows 10 is now running on over 200 m...

 Makerbot has just announced the availability of their new Smart Extruder+, a PLA 3D printer head that offers “better performance over a longer period of time.” This is the first majo...

 There has been a bit of fussiness in publishing over the past few weeks regarding the rise of used bookstores as cultural centers/ways to screw writers. While many are coming down on the side of...

 SmartDeviceLink, Ford’s open-source technology for connecting mobile apps with in-car interfaces, is getting a few important new backers today. After spending a few months onstudying the t...

 The Rokos Core, now in its fourth version, is a disk image for Raspberry Pis that can turn your single-board computer into a full bitcoin node. The system will allow you to hold a bitcoin wallet...

 If cord-cutting and streaming servicesare the future of TV watching, then it makes sense that one of the top makers of streaming media players, Roku, is expanding its television footprint. The c...

 Remember Chromebooks? Acer does. The company has announced a $180 “rugged” Chromebook laptop and an iMac-like all-in-one – called a Chromebase – with optional touchscreen...

 Quartzy, a lab supplies marketplace, announced it has closed a $17 million round in Series B financing to help the startup build up the supply of lab equipment offered to customers. The startup ...

 Once upon a time, companies built huge proprietary systems to track their customer information, content, accounting, business intelligenceand every other business function you can name. These we...

 Lyft announced the close of its $1 billion Series F round today – half a billion of which came in from General Motors. The ridesharing service is now worth a whopping $5.5 billion and plan...

 Movinga, the online removals startup that claims to be a leader in its native Germany but also operates in numerous other European countries, such as Austria, Switzerland, U.K., France and Italy...

 Proof, if proof were needed, that democracy is a cat and mouse game of PR these days… Civil rights campaign organisation, the Open Rights Group, is running a crowdfunding campaign to try t...

 Silvercar, a startup rethinking the auto rental experience in airports, already seems pretty tied to Audi — after all, every vehicle that Silvercar rents out is a silver Audi. Now the comp...

 Beleaguered phone maker BlackBerry has u-turned on its decision to exit Pakistan after it claimed it had struck an agreement with authorities over previous demands for access to user data. Read ...

 Paytm, the Indian mobile commerce company backed by Alibaba, announced today that it has acquired Shifu, a personal assistant app for smartphones. The value of the deal was not disclosed, but Pa...

 If you believe the origin story depicted in Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network, a young Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook in order to meet girls. Creative fiction or not, the real-life Zuck &#...

 TechCrunch spoke to Vinnie Lauria, a prominent investor in Southeast Asia, about why the region is more exciting than India or China right now. Read More ...

 Mark Zuckerberg is known for setting himself tough challenges — whether that’s learning Mandarin, promoting equality, or (controversially) trying to solve global Internet access R...

 Ford is adding Apple’s CarPlay and Android Auto to its in-car infotainment system, so the carmaker announced ahead of the CES event in Las Vegas this week. Read More ...

 Wireless whole-home audio is a tough nut to crack. Only a few folks – primarily Sonos – have cracked it but Samsung is hot on the whole-home kick with the HW-K950, a Dolby Atmos-enab...

 It’s true, startups are taking over CES. But this is just part of the story. CES isn’t yet another startup show. It’s a now a startup show with hundreds of companies launching ...

 Brands know that customer reviews play an integral role in consumers’ purchasing decisions, especially online. As such, they work hard to drive the highest ratings they can. And yet, it...

 The reality is that we live on the edges of profound new technologies that could each individually changes everything or come together and change nothing. Read More ...

 By the time you read this, you will be aware of the U-turn our food system is making to find new, personalized, localized ways to your plate. Last year was a bellwether year for food systems, sp...

 The Consumer Electronics Show keeps on growing. Several years ago the show outgrew the massive Las Vegas Convention Center and started using part of the Sands Expo Center several blocks away. Th...

 Just five years ago the world was a very different place. In 2010, the iPad had just made its debut, Kickstarter was introducing a new form of venture capitalism that would change the face of fu...

 If you’re a regular person looking to shootsome video, it’s hard to complain about the many, many options available. Heck, the iPhone camera is good enough at this point that it̵...

 Miami is a city of many traits. Historically recognized for the sun, beach and tourists of South Beach, it has now become much more than that. With one of the most diverse populations in the cou...

 The standard sets of stock headphones being shipped by companies like Apple and Samsung are, by in large, garbage. For consumers looking to achievemore of a high-end audio experience, their best...

 Slack’s rocket ship has a new co-pilot. April Underwood, Slack’s former head of platform who just launched its App Directory and Slack Fund, has leveled up to become the startup̵...

 A few days ago, Samsung shared a few items that they’d be showing on the floor at CES in Las Vegas. One of them, which barely caused a blip on the radar was the “rink.” It̵...

 We are now in a new year. Like most people, you’ll likely start 2016 setting a bunch of resolutions. If you are an entrepreneur, or want to become one, do yourself a favor and make the one...

 This past year will be remembered as the year of the on-demand economy. For many people, especially those outside of Silicon Valley, it seemed to come out of nowhere. On the consumer side, this ...

 Technology promises to transform healthcare. It’s redefining how we interact with, and act on, our health data, and reshaping how care is delivered and coordinated. But uptake so far has b...

 Today, as modern automobiles have evolved to moving machines bristling with sensors, software, processors and networks, future predictions are all about technology. Read More ...

 The most epochal financial transaction of this century, to date, occurred on May 22, 2010. It did not involve Wall Street, or the City of London; it took place in Jacksonville, Florida. It did n...

 I have spent most of my life living and traveling in Southeast Asia; the last two years as the mentor to Asian startups. Southeast Asia — home to 620 million people across 11 countries ...

 Robots are starting to appear everywhere: driving cars, cooking dinners and even as robotic pets. But people don’t usually give machine intelligence much credence when it comes to judging ...

 It took back-to-back acqui-hires for me to learn there’s a right way and a wrong way to do them. We had made it. Despite running low on money and having little traction, my company was acq...

 I’ve been thinking about some of the cool things happening in the world and I wanted to note a few important trends I’m seeing. From Money to Hoverboards, things are changing quickly...

 Neckties embedded with QR codes. Pants that make drum noises. “Uber for medical marijuana.” These are just a few of the goofy startup ideas that have cropped up in Silicon Valley in ...

 Wearables had a varied year in 2015, with a lot of hype and a few big winners streaking ahead of the field, leaving plenty of also-rans struggling to stand out. It’s fair to say that the e...

 Venture fundUrban.usis gearing up to close a $10 million fund to continue investing in startups focused on impacting urban city living across mobility and logistics, environment, utilities and l...

 There’s a good chance that you’ve never heard of LittleThings, but apparently it’s seeing rapid growth, thanks to a focus on positive and inspirational stories. In fact,accordi...

 Cybercorns are companies that have surpassed the magical $1 billion valuation. Several of these extraordinary ventures are Okta, Sophos, Tanium, Palantir, FireEye, Splunk, Zscaler, Lookout, Clou...

 New Year’s is a time where we turn off work for a little while. We meet friends and family, reflect on the prior year, and begin to imagine possibilities for the coming year. For many of u...

 In a year not too distant, Loretta, a woman in her late 20s, hears a pleasant tone from her watch and checks to see a text. The message isn’t from a friend or work, it’s from the wat...

 America needs cyber talent — especially among women. Without a capable workforce to secure the smartphone in your hand or the highly classified networks our government operates within, our...

 As we relentlessly press forward in time, into a world full of self-driving cars and virtual reality headsets, it’s important to reflect back on the path we took to get to this moment.What...

 Data scientist might be considered the “sexiest job of the 21st century,” with many companies eager to hire data science talent. But 20 years ago the term was barely used, save for a...

 Bored? These apps will tell you what to do tonight. From concerts and art gallery openings to street festivals and wine tastings, these apps know where the action is. Read More ...

 Sometimes timing creeps up on you and you have to move things back. It’s an ugly reality for hardware creators, but it happens.Today, Oculus announced that its Touch controllers will be sh...

 All of the chatter about virtual reality shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. Over the years, we’ve been forcing our way to get closer and closer to content of all types. For example, ...

 There’s a funny Facebook glitch telling people they’ve been friends on Facebook for 46 years, even though Facebook has only been around since 2004. Read More ...

 Political gaffes on Twitter will once again be preserved on the website Politwoops, according to an announcement from Twitter. The company blocked API access for Politwoopsearlier thisyear, a mo...

 The robots mightone day rise up and take over, but a Palo Alto startup called Knightscope has developed a fleet of crime-fighting machinery it hopes to keep us safe. Knightscope’s K5 secur...

 Substantial thought and angst has been expended over the fact that artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to your workplace to take over blue- and white-collar jobs, alike. But a major risk of A...

 Free Basics, a Facebook program that gives free access to certain Internet services, has been shut down in Egypt. The news comes the week after India’s telecom regulator ordered the suspen...

 Microsoft users will now be notified if a state-sponsored attacker tries to break into their accounts, the company said in a blog post. The announcement comes the same day as a Reuters report th...

 Disney Research and the research group at ETH Zurich have created a car that can drive, fly, jump, and ride up walls. By using propellers and wheels, the robot can fly over obstacles and then sm...

 The Star Destroyer, one of the largest ships in the Star Wars universe, has been recreated in excruciating detail in the form of a two-foot long 3D-printed ship consisting of thousands of small ...