Articles by Techcrunch from March 2016

 We’ve been at Microsoft’s Build conference all day, getting up close and personal with the latest and greatest from Microsoft. With announcements about Xbox, Cortana, Windows 10, new...

 When a new category of gadget appears, it’s understandable when the vanguard devices aren’t the most well designed, or are resistant to disassembly and repair. Fortunately, that does...

 Most mapping companies are pretty good at getting you from point A to point B. They usually optimize for the quickest or shortest route, but rarely take into account the risks of navigating the ...

 “Nature’s ready-made robot platforms.” That’s how a new paper from researchers at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University describe insects — it’s e...

 Want to know if you have the “athlete gene” or if you’re actually related to the weirdos who claim you as a family member? Get your collection tubes ready, citizen scientists, ...

 San Francisco-based Branch International, or Branch.co, raised $9.2 million to bring digital financial services to mobile phone users in Sub-Saharan Africa. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A ...

 “Ex-con” isn’t normally something you find on a founder’s resume. But Google employee Wael Ghonim went to jail for sparking the Egyptian Revolution. Now he might be weari...

This week on Bullish, I had the pleasure of sitting down with the queen of Imgur, a.k.a. Sarah Schaaf, head of community at Imgur. We talked about IRL communities versus digital communities, what it t...

 In an article inThe Information, Fadell saidthat he didn’t think Dropcom cofounder and CEO Greg Duffy had“earned” the right to report to himdirectly. Fadellalso explained awaya...

 It’s easy to get caught up in the new, cool thing aspect of transportation tech and apps, but there’s some real social benefit and freedom to be found here. Take, for instance, Moovi...

 Microsoft’s recently launched, A.I.-powered bot Tay may have embarrassed the company when Twitter users taught the machine how to be racist, but Microsoft hasn’t given up on the futu...

 In case you thought the recently and abruptly terminated fracas in San Bernardino was an isolated incident, the ACLU has put together a handy map of cases around the country where the All Writs ...

 Scentbird, the subscription-based service for perfumes and colognes, has added another $2.8 million in venture funding to its $1 million seed round as it launches a new service that expands beyo...

 On a recent episode of our podcast we spoke about the VR industry with Matt Hartman, director of seed investments at Betaworks. When evaluating VR companies, Hartman looks for whether the compan...

 Expa, the startup studio led by foursquare cofounder Naveen Selvadurai and Uber cofounder Garrett Camp, has today announced the close of a $100 million fund that will go towards both Expa Studio...

 The power of the cloud is a bit fuzzy to most of us, but Microsoft wants to improve that by giving developers a series of API tools it has dubbed Cognitive Services to make their software far sm...

 The power of the cloud is a bit fuzzy to most of us, but Microsoft wants to improve that by giving developers a series of API tools it has dubbed Cognitive Services to make their software far sm...

 Apple today announced it’s expandingits efforts in the area of web development, with the launch of a new version of its Safari web browser, designed specifically for developers. Called Saf...

 In an announcement met by hoots and hollers from the developers at Build, Microsoft introduced the ‘Centennial’ desktop app converter. With this, developers can convert their Win32 a...

 Boompi starts off by following the now well-trodden Tinder-esque location-based dating path. But here’s the clincher: Women on the app can invite friends to eavesdrop and secretly comment...

 Being able to log in to an app with the help of thefingerprint scanner is quickly becoming a standard feature on mobile. But while Windows PCs and laptops have long had fingerprint scanners to a...

 Microsoft’s Cortana personal assistant competes against the likes of Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and the unnamed mystery voice behind Google Now. It’s part of a new wave...

 The Xbox One is about to become a far more interesting (and accessible) platform for indie game developers — and regular users will soon be able to use their console to chat with Microsoft...

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 Here is an announcement from Microsoft Build you probably didn’t see coming: Microsoft today announced that it isbringing the GNU project’s Bash shell to Windows. Bash (Bourne Again ...

 Windows 10 andearly versions of Windows havelong supported peninput. For the most part, though, that support was relegated to specific apps. As the company announced at its Build developers conf...

 Virtual reality is great for gaming and movies, but when it comes to real-world use cases there’s still quite a bit of room for VR to prove itself. Google is hoping to kickstart this proce...

 Late last year, Mozilla debuted the public version of its Firefox for iOS web browser, and today the organization is rolling out a notableupdate in terms of its security. According to an announc...

 Uber’s help desk has relocated from email communications to within the app. The reason? Many parts of the world where Uber is keen on gaining a large chunk of the market share, such as Chi...

 Microsoft today announced the next major update of Windows 10 at its Build developer conference in San Francisco. The “Windows 10 Anniversary Update” is scheduled to arrive — y...

 Following from the unmitigated disaster that was Windows 8, Windows 10 has been doing rather well for Microsoft. After announcing that its flagship operating system ran on 200 million monthly ac...

 Gett, the on-demand taxi app looking to take on the likes of Uber, has just announced that it has launched a bid to acquire Radio Taxis in London. The deal would bring the total number of black ...

 Microsoft is holding its annual Build developer conference in San Francisco this week and the company is kicking off the event with its first of two major keynotes this morning. You can watch th...

 CockroachDBa New York-basedopen-database company that aims to keep the applications of itsenterprise customersup and running, even when theirdata centers and cloud infrastructure suddenly go off...

 Asana, an enterprise app thatlets peopleset and track projects and other goals, has hit a goal of its own: today, the company is announcingthat it has raised $50 million. The Series C round R...

 Fullscreen, a media company whose creators’ videos reach 600 million subscribers across YouTube and other social networks, today announced the launchdate and details regarding its subscrip...

 Fantastical is back with a huge update on OS X. There are ton of new things, like native Exchange support, checking your coworkers’ availability, notifications for shared calendars in iClo...

 Lobster, the marketplace for buying and selling user generated content, has just announced an integration with Facebook. This means that Facebook users can sign up with Lobster to sell their con...

 Things seem to be turning around for Matt Joseph, the Y Combinator-backed startup founderwho went onan epic tweet storm ahead of demo day about the elephant room — racism and raising money...

 When it comes to motion sickness in VR, one bad experience can leave a person with little or no desire to ever try on a headset again. One of the majorproblems is the mismatch between the visual...

 Technology companies have faced years’ worth of criticism for being behind the times in dealing with political pressure. Unlike other, more old-line industries that saw regulations, taxing...

 The wait is over, Hackathon fans. Today, we’re thrilled to release the first wave of tickets to the Hackathon at Disrupt NY 2016, and you can secure your spot by grabbing a ticket here. Th...

 When you hear frompeople who know about security, the discussion often turns to end users, who are considered the weakest link in the security chain. While IT and the powers that be struggle to ...

 Watch out Braintree, Stripe and other online checkout systems, Square is going after you. The company launched new APIs today for offline and online stores. But the bigger news is that e-commerc...

 Tribeca Shortlist, the streaming movie service from Lionsgate and Tribeca Enterprises (the organization behind the Tribeca Film Festival), is releasing its Apple TV app today. Why does anyone ne...

 Parrot has been a pioneer in the drone industry. The company started working on drones nearly ten years ago before it was cool. That’s why we’re glad to announce that Parrot founder ...

 Millennials may be slowly forgetting that their mobile phones make calls, but there’s still a good amount of cash/intelligence to be had in gathering enterprise call statistics to gain mor...

 If you live outside of China, it can be easy to forget that Alibaba’s business aspirations go far beyond e-commerce and into many aspects of daily life. This week, the company took another...

Foxconn’s proposed acquisition of Sharp, a deal that was sensationally put on hold last month after Sharp had announced it, has been completed today after both companies confirmed the agreement....

 French startup Frichti is making the news again with yet another round of financing. This time, the company is raising $13.4 million (12 million) from Idinvest, existing investor Alven Capital, ...

 Near a week after being silenced because the internet taught her to be racist, Microsoft’s artificial intelligence bot “Tay” briefly returned to Twitter today, whereon she went...

 India’s e-commerce space might be about to get a shake-up after the government appeared to open the door to overseas companies owning majority stakes in domestic internet sales companies. ...

 Cyan Banister, a renowned angel investorandstartupfounder, has joined Founders Fund. She’s the 11-year-old firm’s first female investing partner. According to a Bloomberg story, inve...

 Uber added a ride request button to let third-party apps add the ability to order a ride last year, but today it has introduced a more feature-rich option that it says caters to requests it has ...

 Planday, the Danish startup that offers a cloud-based “shift planning” solution for various types of businesses that employ a flexible workforce, such as restaurants, hotels, stores,...

 The MLB is taking a page from the NFL’s playbook and equipping teams with tablets to useduring games for the 2016 season. But, instead of Microsoft Surface Tablets, the MLB has made a deal...

 There’s good news in the fight against rogue USB-C cables, some of which have caused major problems with smartphones and laptops, after Amazon tightened the regulations around the type of ...

 Ignore Snapchat at your own peril. It’s a lot more than sexts and ephemeral photos. Today’s Chat 2.0 update makes Snapchat a competitor to your phone itself. What started as an app f...

 Our team has been active as investors in the Internet of Things and hardware space over the past two years. We’ve read pitches from hundreds of companies, met with dozens, read hundreds of...

 On-demand streaming music is inevitable, so Spotify is taking whatever fuel it can get to win the race against Apple. Whoever can sign up customers faster to consume their data and network effec...

 Ebay announced this afternoon that it’s acquiring anauto industry technology company known as Cargigi, a large provider of advertising and marketing services ona number of popular free cla...

 With Strata + Hadoop World kicking off, it’s always fascinating to step back and look at the contents of the sessions as a way of understanding what’s happening in the world of Big D...

 Renaissance Capital, the IPO research firm, has published a new report about the first quarter of this year, and, as you might expect, it doesn’t paint a pretty picture. For starters, it n...

 The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Equality NC just released a letter addressed to North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, urging him to repeal the provisions of House Bill 2. H.B. 2gets rid of no...

 Razer’s Ripsaw is far from the first game capture card, but it leapfrogs the competition nicely and takes aim at a growing population of streamers who are willing to pay good money for an ...

 Comparably, the Glassdoor-like platform for self-reporting employment and compensation data, has released some data around culture at tech companies. Within a couple of weeks of launching, over ...

 Economic experts are trying to figure out a question that just two decades ago seemed ridiculous: If 90 percent of human jobs are replaced by robots in the next 50 years — something now co...

 Most people are terrible at shooting video. Any longer than 15-seconds and it will probably be boring. That’s why Instagram capped videos at a quarter-minute when it launched the feature i...

 This morning, the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen Group of America, charging that it “deceived customers with the advertising campaign it used to promote its su...

 For his most recent cover of Bob Dylan’s Just Like a Woman, Jeff Buckley’s creative team has pulled out all the stops. Dropping today is an interactive music video with a gabazillion...

 Google Fiber may be the holy grail of Internet service for many, but many people still rely on landlines for everyday communication purposes or emergency use. In order to allow its subscribers t...

 Back in 2007 co-founders John Zimmer and Logan Green envisioned a new kind of mass transportation carpooling system connecting riders and drivers across the nation. They called it Zimride. But i...

 As Pinterest continues to ramp up the parts of its business that generate revenues(namely advertising), it’s also expanding the free features that might entice users and brands to linger a...

 On its next trip to the International Space Station (ISS), SpaceX will be carrying an inflatable space habitat built by Bigelow Aerospace. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) will be f...

 Most people in business and finance (and most people, frankly) think that the new economy (of artificial intelligence and autonomous machines) is like the old economy: satisfying customers’...

 Tim Attia, co-founder and CEO of Slice Labs, said there’s “a ticking time bomb” threatening the on-demand economy — namely, insurance and liability. Attia’s tacklin...

 Hopper, the makers of a handy travel application that tells you the best time to fly in order to findthe best deals, has now raised additional capital to continue to grow its business. It has al...

 Screen sizes on smartphones are getting bigger and bigger, but battery tech is lagging behind. As a heavy user of your smartphone, you’ll know that dreaded feeling of your battery marching...

 Vine, the six-second, looping video platform from Twitter, has just hired Hannah Donovan as the new general manager.Donovan has built her career in product and design leadership. Her most recent...

 It didn’t quite add up when Fortune broke the news last week that Snapchat would spend a $100 million to acquire Bitstrips, the maker of personalized avatar stickers called Bitmoji. Snapch...

 Dating app Tinder is acquiring Humin the San Francisco startup which took a high-wire approach to contact management, trying to merge lots of disparate information into one contact app. Terms we...

 Say what you want, how you want. That’s how Snapchat’s reps say CEO Evan Spiegel describes Chat 2.0, a massive set of new features launching today. It lets private conversations morp...

 Back in 2013 I came across an intriguing startup in Berlin which had a genuinely original take on social networking (hard, even then). Sharing your mood intimately with someone had been confined...

 The lesson is this: we shouldn’t be focusing on hardware anymore. Perhaps instead we need to focus on what happens when hardware and software come together. Read More ...

 Meet Stratumn, a Paris-based startup that wants to create a platform-as-a-service for developers interested in the blockchain. With Stratumn, you can build, deploy and run applications on the co...

 I own a lot of Bluetooth speakers. And I’ve played with even more. From powerful models from Bose and Libratone down to your basic Jawbone and the Amazon Echo. While each has its own speci...

 If you’re a WhatsApp user — and the chances are high since more than a billion people open the app each month — you might be interested to know that the chat app just added som...

 If you’ve ever worked as a freelancer, you know thelast thing you want to do — after lining up gigs, submitting your work, and reworking your project(when that last person on the cli...

 Nintendo’s first smartphone application, “Miitomo,” now has a U.S. launch date: March 31st. In addition, the company says it will also be available in several other countries a...

 Twitter announced this morning an effort to make its service more accessible to those who are visually impaired. Specifically, the company is now allowing users to add descriptions to images kno...

 Twitter this morning announcedan effort to make its service more accessible to those who are visually impaired. Specifically, the company is now allowing users to add descriptions to images know...

 San Francisco has long been hailed the home of the tech startup — the place to be for entrepreneurs looking to lay the foundation for the next big thing. As a mobile app platform with high...

Are you an undergraduate or graduate student looking to attend the best startup show in the Big Apple? Student tickets to Disrupt NY 2016 are still available for just $300. Read More ...

 French startup Rythm, which makes a tech-infused headset it claims improves sleep quality, announced Tuesday that it’s raised over $11 million from private investors and public grants. Rea...

 SoundCloudis often billed as the “YouTube foraudio”because ofits huge trove of user-generated music and spoken-word tracks, uploaded by some 12 million creators and now listened to b...

 Here’s why the imminent FCC vote to expand privacy protections to include broadband connections is important. Read More ...

 As an increasing number of companies enter the fray, Betterment (at this point one of the industry’s elder statesmen) has raised $100 million in new financing to build out its war chest an...

 Online interior design platform Havenly has raised $5.8 million, bringing its total Series A round of funding to $13.3 million. The round was led by Binary Capital with participation from Foundr...

 Sallie Krawcheck isn’t your typical startup founder. For one thing, she was the president of Global Wealth and Investment Management at Bank of America. And the CFO of Citigroup. And the C...

 Technology can and will solve the majority of shortcomings associated with wearables today. To use a baseball analogy, we are only in the third inning, and there is still a lot of ballgame to be...

 China’s Xiaomi has launched the smart home product that many people have been waiting on: a smart rice cooker. Read More ...

 Umbo CV has raised a $2.8 million seed round for its security cameras, which use artificial intelligence to identify suspicious activity and prevent crimes before they happen. The Taipei- and Sa...

 Japan’s Rakuten is joining e-commerce giants Amazon and Alibaba with a foray into drones. The Tokyo-based company, Japan’s largest e-commerce firm, revealed this week that it has inv...

 Samsung Pay is now available in China, about six weeks after competitor Apple Pay launched there. Read More ...

 We constantly hear there are more seed and early stage funds now than ever before and more angels willing to give money to young companies looking to make it big. Until recently this explosion i...

 The Oculus Rift has been a long time coming. After delays upon delays, customers finallystarted receiving their Rift consumer units today, and Oculus will continue working to fulfillpre-orders o...

 Today, a $2.3 million private-public partnership called the Global Accelerator Learning Initiative (GALI) is releasing itsfirst major report,in collaboration with Village Capital, a seed-stage a...

 In 1979, Brian Eno gave a lecture at the inaugural New Music America Festival in New York on a very Brian Eno-ish topic. Titled “The Recording Studio as a Compositional Tool,” it is ...

 What do you call it when you have an app that lets your friends take a photo of you, using your own phone? It’s not a selfie… It’s not a portrait… Let’s call it a s...

 The FBI has unlocked Farook’s iPhone 5c involved in the San Bernardino shooting using an alternative method that didn’t involve Apple. Given this new development, the Department of J...

 After years of build up and pre-release developer kits, the first deliveries of the consumer version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset started arriving this morning. Join us as we take ...

 The cost of entry to the startup world has decreased dramatically in the last decade. We’re now at the point where the tools that were once only available to enterprise users have made the...

 It wasn’t worth it for celebrities to respond to their endless digital fan mail until now. TipTalk lets them set a price for a private text, photo, or video response. The idea is that in t...

 Instagram today is an endless sea of meaningless posts asking you to turn on post notifications for each account you follow. Brands and professional Instagrammers are worried that they are going...

 Live is having a moment. A key player in the shift to mobile live streaming, theTwitter-owned service Periscope this weekend celebrated its first year online. The company also revealed a few met...

 Today, the future became the present with the launch of the Oculus Rift.The reviews are in, but uncertainty hangs overhead with HTC and PlayStation’s VR headsets still on the way.Here are ...

 Popular OS X and Linux BitTorrent client Transmission is coming to Windows. It’s not quite ready for prime time, but gHacks spotted the first Windows build on the official repository. But ...

 Because everything is “smart” these days, wine bottles are getting an Internet connection, too. Meet Kuve, a refillable case that keeps wine fresh for up to 30 days. Announcing $6 mi...

 Remember the chaos surrounding Kanye West’s release of his new album, “The Life of Pablo” last month? The artist had originally said his album would be a Tidal exclusive, which...

 Andre Swanston, CEO of Tru Optik, argued that there’s been one big obstacle to advertising on Internet-connected TVs — measurement. Naturally, Swanston is pitching Tru Optik’s ...

 Video network Vimeo has taken another step forward today with its efforts to better promote its originalcontent – meaning those movies and programs available for rent or purchase on its ne...

 Yahoo-owned blogging platform Tumblr this morning announced two changes to its servicedesigned to encourage more conversations and increase engagement around posts and other content. The company...

 Apple is the world’s most valuable company — no other company even comes close. That shouldn’t be surprising, as the Silicon Valley-based company has created an unparalleled ha...

 Even after months of repeatedly leapingin and out of disparate worlds filled with jaw-dropping (see above) environments, every time I’ve whipped off one ofthe various iterations of Oculus&...

 Ain’t no party like a Netflix party cause a Netflix party eventually stops after a weekend of binging on House Of Cards and doesn’t start again until Netflix releases the new season ...

 You may know Dell as a computer and server maker, but Dell also operates a substantial IT services division — at least it did until today. NTT Data, the IT services company of NTT, is acqu...

 Music streaming service Pandora may be looking to sell itself, but more immediately it’s focused on firming up its management structure once again to shore upinvestor confidence. Today the...

 Shenzhen has become the go-to place to make your electronic dreams come true. But for most, it is still mostly a black box. From visitors to residents, here are some characters you can meet ther...

 Seven rounds of betas weren’t enough — many iOS users are reporting on Apple’s support forums that a bug is affecting their devices. When they click on links in Safari, Chrome,...

 Facebook has apologized for accidentally sending Safety Check notifications for the Lahore, Pakistan suicide bombing to people in other areas, including the United States and United Kingdom. Use...

 Dell is reportedly finalizing the sale of its IT consulting unit to NTT Data for $3.5 billion. According to Reuters, the deal, which will help Dell’s pay down debt from its $67 billion acq...

 Before we begin, I feel compelled to make an important disclosure: I love robots! Robots are cool. To me, robots are cooler than people, who are only cool occasionally. I especially love industr...

 The public’s taste in drones is growing more sophisticated. The industry is improving so quickly that major new features are released every year, if not every few months. If a company want...

 I occasionally meet people who think the Internet is going to go away someday. Yes, some of its pieces do move around a bit. Bye, Friendster! Hello, Peach!* But its core benefit — your abi...

 Source code bugs have been a constant in the software industry since the dawn of computers — and have ever been a major source of attacks, exploits and security incidents. With virtually e...

 With icons like Leonardo DiCaprio and Bill Gates using their powerful brands and personal convictions to turn the world’s focus toward the crisis of climate change and the long-lever arm o...

 Today’s retail economy is focused on acquisition and retention costs. Getting into people’s homes and turning them into long-term brand buyers is the goal, and appliance makers contr...

 After months and years of anticipation, the first Oculus Riftvirtual reality headset has been delivered into a customer’s hands. Ross Martin was the very first person to get a pre-order in...

 The Kindle is great for linear fiction, but my biggest frustration is trying to consume content that isn’t meant to be enjoyed from first to last page. Travel books are terrible for that, ...

 Sure, it’s technologically advanced, but it lacks a general understanding of what’s socially acceptable to say, the real world and the way humans interact. Inthe last couple of month...

 The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, March 25, 2016. The Gang floats on the border between virtual fiction an...

 It’s long been the case that life sciences investors don’t get the attention that their more traditional tech counterparts do. They’re underrepresented on lists of top investor...

 Immense hype surrounds virtual currencies and distributed ledgers these days. Maybe this is inevitable if you combine an inscrutable, cutting-edge technology, its enigmatic origins, and a flow o...

 In the wake of Paris, San Bernardino, and now Brussels, the encryption debate has become such a potent cocktail of horror, idiocy, and farce that it has become hard to tease out any rational thr...

 If you think about it, money is a ridiculous concept. Without going into a William Jennings Bryan gold standard history lesson, let’s just say the idea that I can hold this thing, this lit...

 DARPA has a new Grand Challenge underway, but it’s not an automation moonshot like the self-driving car challenges of the early 2000s or the recent Robotics Challenge. The Defense Departme...

 Twitter, which turned 10 this week, has apparently made Live its entire organizing principle. At an all-hands meeting last month, Mark Zuckerberg declared live video a top priority for Facebook....

 2020 is set to be a good year for Mars exploration. The United States, China, the United Arab Emirates, Europe, and Russia all have planned Mars missions that are scheduled to launch, or likely ...

 Peter Thiel’s decades old Founders Fund pulled together another $1.3 billion dollars today for Founders Fund VI. Thiel,a billionaire investor in Facebook and SpaceX and co-founder of Paypa...

 The colossal and highly public failure of Microsoft’s Twitter-based chatbot Tay earlier this week raised many questions: How could this happen? Who is responsible for it? And is it true th...

 A recent article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung titled “Will Facebook Enslave Us?” captures a sentiment prevalent among companies around the world: admiration for Silicon Valley &...

 Gillmor Gang – Frank Radice, Robert Scoble Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording shas concluded for todayGillmor Gang LIVE chat during show recordingGillmor Gang on ...

 Gillmor Gang – Frank Radice, Robert Scoble Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording shas concluded for todayGillmor Gang LIVE chat during show recordingGillmor Gang on ...

 500 Startups has been aiming to globalize its brand and work towards attracting the attention of young, cool companies outside the Bay Area echo chamber. This has taken 500’s investments i...

 Meet Privacy, a new startup with a confusing name but an interesting product. Privacy lets you generate virtual burner card every time you need to enter your credit card number on the web. Your ...

 Last week, NHTSA and IIHS announced that 20 auto manufacturers and three agencies had agreed to include automatic emergency braking (AEB) as standard equipment by 2022. Toyota was one of those 2...

 Google is launching the Android Experiments I/O Challenge today in an effort to bring more interesting open-source apps to its Android Experiments showcase. The three winners of the challenge, w...

 If you’re in the market for a giant 84-inch 4K touchscreen computer (and have about $22,000 set aside for that), today is a good day. After numerous delays, Microsoft today started shippin...

 Snapchat, the rapidly growingsocial application favored by mobile’s youngest users, has hit a notable milestone: for the first time ever, its iOS application reached the top of the iTunes ...

 If you’ve tried streaming Master of None from your tablet running on Verizon on AT&T, chances are it looked like a big pile of unwatchable pixels. It turns out Netflix is quietly cappi...

 If you’ve tried streaming Master of None from your tablet running on Verizon on AT&T, chances are it looked like a big pile of unwatchable pixels. It turns out Netflix is quietly cappi...

 Fortune is reporting that Snapchat, the ephemeral messaging platform that has today become the number one free app on the App Store, has agreed to acquire Bitstrips, the folks behind popular emo...

 In contrast to the more traditional top down, generally involving the sale to a CIO or VP, the bottoms up sales approach enable each employee to be a credit card carrying decision maker. Read Mo...

 It was already on public record that Andrey Andreev, the low-profile Russian founder of European dating behemoth Badoo, is an investor in female-led dating app Bumble, the Tinder competitor foun...

 Over 30 million Americans have used an online dating service or mobile dating app, according to Pew Research Center. Yet Black online users face apparent bias: Data collected from 25 million OkC...

 While improvements in camera-phone technology have led to our mobile devices slowly but surely replacing clunky single-purpose cameras, most heavy editing and production still has to be done on ...

 Earlier this year, on-demand car service Lyft announced its plans to integrate with Waze’s software, allowing its drivers to automatically receive updated routes for more efficient and fas...

 Badoo is today launching photo-verification and verified profiles to make online dating safer.Most folks don’t know that Badoo is the silent giant in online dating. Globally, the 10-year-o...

 June,a countertop “smart” oven designed by former Google, Apple and GoPro employeeshas closed a Series A round of financing for $22.5 million today, led by early stage combination ha...

 June,a countertop “smart” oven designed by former Google, Apple and GoPro employeeshas closed a Series A round of financing for $22.5 million today, led by early stage combination ha...

 Good news for amateur and professional photograph enthusiasts. Google has just made its Nik photo editing software available completely free of charge. Read More ...

 We’re excited to announce that Carissa Romero, a partner at diversity consulting startup Paradigm, will be speaking on the TC Disrupt New York stage in May. She’s going to share what...

 Universities in the U.S. are a wellspring of innovation, but they are almost certainly killing off some (really) good ideas too early. Investors should be paying more attention to how innovation...

 It was a busy week filled with tall things Apple, GCP NEXT, and Y Combinator Winter Demo Day. Next week we’ll have coverage of Microsoft Build, Tesla’s unveiling, and more. Until the...

 We are accustomed to hearing that European tech is perpetually in Silicon Valley’s shadow. Now there have been suggestions that the local tech scene is starting to feel Silicon Valley̵...

 Sanitation and Health Rights in India is the fruit of work that 29-year-old Anoop Jain has struggled with for the better part of the last six years. After a trip to the Himalayas left Jain with ...

 It seems that some iOS users on older devices are running into a snag during the 9.3 update. If you have an iPhone 5S, iPad Air or earlier model, you might want to wait a few days for the update...

 For human lip readers, context is key in deciphering words stripped of the full nuance of their audio cues. But a technology model for lip-reading developed at the University of East Anglia in t...

 Longing for the days of the sticky floored arcades of your youth and long nights spent with the the Atari 2600, but can’t be bothered to dig through your mum’s basement to find all t...

 Apple’s plans for its first original TV show don’t makeit sound like a swing-for-the-fences, House of Cards-style project. Instead, it’s working on an unscripted TV series abou...

 Supersonic planes, food harvesting robots and instant HIV diagnosis were some of the ideas that wowed us on Demo Day 2 for Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 batch. We queried investors and TechCr...

 Martin Hellman, Stanford Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, was one of those awarded this year’s Turing Award by the Association for Computing Machinery. Named for computer scie...

 When you think about the fastest growing areas for startup investments, you probably don’t think about classified ads. More likely, your mind wanders to music apps, e-commerce or social pl...

 Two visual marketing startups are teaming up —Olapicis announcing that it has acquiredPiqora.Both companies promise to help businesses promote themselves through user-generated photos, but...

 People often misunderstand Y Combinator’s accelerator, with its broad range of startups that sometimes pivot before launch. That’s in part because YC’s president and spokeperso...

 New roads (rather than new walls) are, therefore, the key to reinventing the American economy. Read More ...

 Are you ready for a big fight over Yahoo’s control? Activist investor Starboard Value LP is really unhappy about Yahoo’s current state and wants everyone to know about it. In an open...

 Launched this week, London-based startup Trax & Wax is the first vinyl subscription service focused on sub-genres within dance music. It works with the most prominent distributors of dance m...

 French startup Mapstr is a nifty bookmarking apps, but for your favorite places. It lets you keep track of restaurants, bars, shops or your friends’ homes. With today’s update, you c...

 As promised, Hulu has entered the world of VR. The streaming service today announced the launch of an app designed for Samsung’s Gear VR powered by Oculus. Now available on theGear VR Ocul...

 A year after blatantly copying Timehop, Facebook’s nostalgia feature is proving how successful big platforms can be when they rip off smaller products. Each day 60 million people visit On ...

 In the world of gaming accessories, “budget-friendly” is not a word frequently used. Naturally, one of the biggest players industry, Razer, aims to change that with the Blackwidow X....

 In case there was any doubt that messaging apps were the future of communication in the mobile-first era, a new study released this morning puts some solid numbers behind their traction – ...

 Foursquare has just launched Swarm 4.0, complete with brand new profile pages, updated search capabilities, full-screen photos and a weekly Swarm update from your friends. The most important upd...

 DoorDash is unveiling new versions of its website and app today, putting each restaurant’s delivery experiencefront-and-center. That’s happeningthrougha new “Delight” sco...

 Call it on-demand on steroids. A San Francisco company called Recharge has developed an app that enables users to book a stay in hotel for just for 67 cents a minute, or $40 an hour. The offerin...

 Music streaming service Vevo has been working to extract itself from YouTube’s shadow over the past severalmonths, despite the two networks’ symbiotic relationship. The company recen...

 Bitbucket Server, Atlassian’s self-hosted Git version control service, andBitbucket Data Centerare gettinga small but potentially very useful feature in preview.The new early access versio...

 Google is increasing the visibility of security warnings inside Gmail to help protect the service’s billion-plus active users more adequately. Read More ...

 AppDirect, a company that helps customers manage multiple cloud vendors, announced today it was buying former TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield participant Xendo for an undisclosed amount. Xendo, w...

 Not every great business is VC backable. But every business needs capital to grow. If you’re launching a great business, but you don’t plan on being a unicorn, keep reading. Read Mor...

 Microsoft today launched a preview of the next version of Skype for Windows 10. This preview, which is now rolling outto Windows Insiders, is the first full Universal Windows Platform (UWP) vers...

 Juno, a months-old, New York-based ride-sharing service that is planning to take on Uber,is talking with investors about a $30 million round of funding, according to several sources, one of whom...

 Microsoft’s newly launched A.I.-powered bot called Tay, which was responding to tweets and chats on GroupMe and Kik, has already been shut down due to concernswith itsinability to recogniz...

 A now-vacated court order requiring Apple to undermine the security of its users prompted an ongoing controversy over government access to encrypted devices. While the court in San Bernardino ma...

 F6S, the community and deal platform for startups, announces today that they are launching a new, invite-only membership for select startup founders. Dubbed the Alpha Card, membership includes V...

 When an app wins an Apple Design Award and has hundreds of thousands of people on its waiting list, people are going to want to know how exactly the founders did it.So, TechC...

 A new company with a cool name,Galactic Exchange, came out of stealth today with a great idea. It claims it can spin up a Hadoop cluster for you in five minutes, ready to go. That’s no sma...

 Mesosphere, the container-centric company that aims to help enterprises better utilize their data centers with the help ofits Data Center Operating System (DCOS), today announced that it has rai...

 Much as we love Manhattan, this year, TechCrunch decided to move our annual Disrupt NY event to Red Hook, Brooklyn, just across the East River from Manhattan. The more we get to know Red Hook, t...

 Much as we love Manhattan, this year, TechCrunch decided to move our annual Disrupt NY event to Red Hook, Brooklyn, just across the East River from Manhattan. The more we get to know Red Hook, t...

 Weeks before Facebook is expected to open Messenger to third-party bots at its F8 event, Line, the messaging app based in Japan, has beaten its rival to the punch. Well, in announcing its bot in...

 We hear a lot about the Internet of Things on the consumer side. The oft trotted out example of the ‘smart’ refrigerator that tells consumers when they’ve run out of the milk, ...

 The combination of three factors — aggression, legislation and government opposition — arguably makes Colombia one of Uber’s toughest battlegrounds. Read More ...

 Apple’s unveiled its new four-inch iPhone SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro earlier this week, and now the two devices are up for pre-order in the first wave of countries. Read More ...

 It looks like Sony will follow Nintendo’s cue and focus on mobile gaming. The company announced today [in Japanese] that it has formed a new business unit that will bring PlayStation title...

 Kreditech — the German startup that offers loans and other financial services toconsumers who have little or no credit history by using some 20,000 data points online to assess their suita...

 Smartwatch pioneer Pebble is laying off 25 percent of its staff amid increased financial concerns. This situation has been coming. Last year, we reported the company was in some trouble and had ...

 Gobi Partners has partnered with Malaysia Venture Capital Management Berhard (MAVCAP), which claims to be the country’s largest venture capital firm, to launch a $14.5 million fund dedicat...

 NASA has released close-up images of the dwarf planet Ceres, the biggest object in the asteroid belt, revealing new details about its mysterious bright spots. These images were taken by the Dawn...

 “Food, housing, healthcare, transportation. Life essentials made better and more affordable.” These are the types of startups that partner Paul Buchheit said were demoing today at Y ...

 As strange as it may seem, only a small percentage of Americans can legally invest in most startups today. Under long-standing rules governing who qualifies as a so-called “accredited inve...

 BMW was among the first auto manufacturers to introduce integration with iPhones in 2011. Now, five years later, the companyhas at last announced at the New York International Auto Show that BMW...

 If traveling first class is just a teensy bit too plebeian for you, JetSmarter has you covered. The company lets you book a private jet from your smartphone, and announced today it is expanding ...

 Investor, entrepreneur, billionaire andBill Gates’ other half in the founding ofMicrosoft Paul Allenhasannounced a $100 million investment in the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, a fund focu...

 Degreed, a startup promising to “jailbreak the college degree,” announced today that it has acquired Gibbon. Degreed offers tools for tracking lifelong learning and earning additiona...

Tristan Walker is becoming, if he’s not already, a household name in Silicon Valley. He’s the founder and CEO of Walker & Company Brands, the startup behind the successful Bevel razor ...

 Y Combinator-backed Gecko Robotics is hoping to save a few human lives at our nation’s power plants with wall-climbing robots.Gecko’sproprietary magnetic adhesion technology works mu...

 We asked investorswhat their favorite startups were from the 60 that launched at Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 Demo Day 1. After huddling with our writers and adding our input, here are TechC...

 A new report from U.S. consumer rights and privacy advocacy group, the Center for Digital Democracy, has set out the case for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to tighten data protecti...

 The topic of women in tech can take on different forms. It is about women’s positions and promotions (or the lack thereof) in the tech industry, with initiatives meant to help women networ...

 Have you heard about Boom? Boom is a relatively new startup that’s aiming to build something pretty crazy. They’re not building an app… or a social network… or even some ...

 CurrencyFair, one of a number of so-called peer-to-peer currency exchanges, has scored a further 8 million in funding. The round was led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from Proxy Ventur...

 Not to be left behind as companies like IBM, Cisco and Microsoft all expand their services for enterprises opting for hybrid cloud environments, Google today announced a raft of partnerships to ...

 Today at the GCPNext16 event in San Francisco, Google announced the launch of Google StackDriver, a tool that gives IT a unified tool formonitoring, alerting, incidents management and logging co...

 Google today announced a new machine learning platform for developers at its NEXT Google Cloud Platform user conference in San Francisco. As Google chairman Eric Schmidt stressed during today...

 Google is planning to compete with Nuance and other voice recognition companies head on, by opening up its speech recognition API to third-party developers. Toattract developers, theapp will be ...

 When Apple introduced its new iPad Pro 9.7″, one of the small technical specifications the company touted prompted the most questions from readers: the new embedded Apple SIM. For context,...

 Back in October, we wrote about how the team behind contacts management app Brewster got acqui-hired by RBI, the owner of Burger King and other fast-food brands, where they would work on buildin...

 Israeli company Cellebrite has been appointed by the FBI to find an alternative way to unlock the iPhone 5c involved in the San Bernardino shootings, according to Israeli newspaper the Yedioth A...

 Israeli company Cellebrite has been appointed by the FBI to find an alternative way to unlock the iPhone 5c involved in the San Bernardino shootings, according to Israeli newspaper the Yedioth A...

 Microsoft has unveiled an A.I.-powered chat bot called Tay.ai, which was built by the Microsoft Technology and Research and Bing teams, with the goal of conducting real-world research on convers...

 When it comes to producing beautiful, immersive content forVR on a PC, everything can bea bit confusing. Visionary VR, an LA based story creation software company, is looking to create a more in...

 Author Tom Wolfe once wrote a book about the American space program called The Right Stuff. Last week I wrote a piece called Technology is disrupting everything. I don’t bring up WolfeR...

 The Pangu hacking team, best known as the team that deliveredthe first public jailbreak for iOS 9 devices, has done it again: this time, the hackers have released a jailbreak for the 4th generat...

 Bob Messerschmidt knows a little about health and wellness tech, having spent three years helping architect the Apple Watch platform after Applequietly acquired his spectroscopy company, Rare Li...

 The Syrian war has been raging for over 5 years now, and Lebanon — with which it shares a long border — has borne the brunt of over a million Syrian refugees flooding into the countr...

 Vice and Apple Music are teaming up to release a new docu-series that takes a hard look at some of the most interesting local music scenes in the world. The presser doesn’t give a whole lo...

 Last year, Amazon announced a setof tools that allowed third-party developers to integrate its virtual assistant Alexa, which today powers devices like the Echo speaker and Fire TV, into their o...

 Pornhub, one of the most popular adult entertainment sites in the world, is getting into the VR biz. The companywill be teaming up with BaDoinkVR, which has already been creating premium VR adul...

 Back in October, we reported that Checkr — a San Francisco startup that runs employee background checks and vets potential hires by way of an API — was raising north of $30 million a...

 It appears that Google is working on a third-party keyboard for iOS that would allow search functionality directly within the keyboard itself, according to The Verge. Casey Newton reports that t...

 Want to makeyour P90D about 20 percent faster? Sure, no worries.Tesla is now allowing P90D buyers who skippedthe insane Ludicrous Mode upgradeat the time of purchase to add it to their vehicle f...

 By opening up its application program interface to Bandsintown (the first of several planned integrations with different partners), Ticketmaster hopes to solve the industry’s nagging probl...

 From baby boomers to Generation X to millennials, it seems that each generation faces a new set of problems that they believe to be tougher to solve than those faced by the former generation. Ba...

 Research marketplace Science Exchange is now $25 million richer. The startup hooking researchers up with service providers just pulled in that amount in Series B funding, putting the total raise...

 European news startup Blendle has already attracted funding from two of the biggest names in the media business — The New York Times and German publisher Axel Springer. Today it’s la...

 BetterWorks, a platform for employees to set themselves goals, share them with others in their organization and track how well those goals are being met, has raised another $20 million in Series...

 Ringier Africa Deals Group, a joint venture between Swiss Ringier Africa AG and South African Silvertree Internet Holdings Ltd., acquired Nigerian online shopping startup DealDey for an undisclo...

 Cherubic Ventures, an early-stage VC firm with a focus on the U.S. and Asia, has announced a new fund targeted at $120 million. Read More ...

 Now signing up 1.5 million users each week in the U.S., Android Pay, Google’s payment platform and mobile wallet for Android devices and apps, is coming to the UK, with dozens of partners ...

 There’s more money flowing into India’s e-commerce space after BigBasket, a Bangalore-based company that focuses on groceries, landed a $150 million investment led by The Abraaj Grou...

 GoCardless has become somewhat of a poster child for the London fintech scene. Offering an alternative to card payments, the startup provide’s a simple way for businesses to set up and acc...

 Eye-tracking virtual reality headset maker FOVE has closed an $11 million Series A led by Colopl VR Fund, with participation from the venture fund of Hon Hai (Foxconn), 2020, and Samsung Venture...

 Apple’s newest addition to the iPhone family may be its cheapest phone yet at $399, but the four-inch iPhone SE isn’t likely to move the needle in emerging markets, where the lion...

 The Cygnus cargo vehicle was successfully launched fromCape Canaveral, Florida at 11:05pm ESTto begin its 3-day journeyto the International Space Station (ISS). Launching on top of United Launch...

 Nuren Group, a Malaysian-based company that runs community and e-commerce sites for women, has raised a $2 million Series A led by Gobi Partners. Read More ...

 Have you tried the Quartz News app, yet? Please do. Imagine a text conversation with a bot that sends you a news topic. You’re then presented with two choices: Either tap a string of relev...

 “You’ll notice we have many more startups that aren’t in the traditional software category,” said Y Combinator President Sam Altman at the start of its Winter 2016 Demo D...

 The Famous app got itself banned from Apple’s App Store about a month ago. They sidestepped the ban by promptly launching an Android version instead, and is today back on an iOS device nea...

 Instagram began as a mobile-only service, but now it’s enhancing its web version so you can use the service without opening your phone. Today Instagram rolled out an Activity tab on web th...

 The New Horizons science team has published new findings from their mission to Pluto in a series of 5 articles in the journal Science. The data from the papers reveal that Pluto is much more geo...

 Master & Dynamic is known in the audiophile space as the “newbies” — but they’ve made a name for themselves. The headphones seen here are the company’s latest o...

 I have voraciously read endless pro and con scenarios about artificial intelligence since first writing about it years ago. There is no doubt that concerns about the dangers of runaway AI raised...

 Truebill, a startup that helps people track and cancel their subscriptions, is announcing that it has raised a small round of seed funding. The round includes $120,000 from Y Combinator (yes, th...

 Electric vehicles come out of the gate with green cred. They don’t even have tailpipes because they don’t have any emissions while they’re driving. But do EVs deserve their goo...

 Adobe unveiled a new push for cross-device targeting today at its Adobe Summit. Amit Ahuja, the general manager of data management for Adobe Marketing, explained the product to me beforehand, an...

 Blackberry-loving device clutchers are facing a tricky choice if they wish to continue to interact with their friends: WhatsApp, Facebook and Facebook Messenger hit the “unfriend” bu...

 Utah-based Domo has been a force in the enterprise space for a few years with its data management platforms, but the team is poised for growth with an additional $130 million in capital from Bla...

 Utah-based Domo has been a force in the enterprise space for a few years with its data management platforms, but the team is poised for growth with an additional $130 million in Series D funding...

 Utah-based Domo has been a force in the enterprise space for a few years with its data management platforms, but the team is poised for growth with an additional $131 million in Series D funding...

 Music startup 8tracks has always had a strong sense of community. But the startup is taking this one step further by raising $30 million from its own community. Instead of asking money from vent...

 Apple doesn’t like to talk about specs. But it turns out my boss Matthew Panzarino already has review units of the new iPad Pro and iPhone SE. So nobody is going to stop us if we want to r...

 A new service from the online wedding inspiration startup Loverly wants to put the capabilities of a wedding planner right in your pocket. Officially launching today, Loverly is unveiling a new ...

 Houzz, the home remodelling sitewith a focus on giving you house envy, today announced that it is opening up its Commerce API for third-party developers. While you may mostly look at Houzz as a ...

 David Lee, a former Google executive who for several years ran the seed-stage venture fund SV Angel, is back with his ownnew firm, shows an SEC filing. The outfit is called Refactor Capital and ...

 Google rolled out a small but useful update to its Google Photos service today,which will allow the creation of what Google calls “smarter albums.” These are photo albums automatical...

 Last week Apple co-founder and general all-round-nice-guy Steve Wozniak made headlines via a Reddit AMA in which he was quoted as criticizing the Apple Watch for taking the company into “t...

 NFL Films has just announced a new television series destined for Amazon Video called All or Nothing. The idea here is to show the behind-the-scenes reality of a team of professional football pl...

 Spotify is finally kicking back into expansion mode in Asia. Nearly two years after its last country launch in the region and close to four years after it first stepped into Asia, the music stre...

 “We’re not a media company, we’re a tech company” — that’s a common refrain in the advertising and media business, but it looks like AdSemble has been particu...

 Traditionally, the largest barrier to podcasting has been the complexity of steps and multitude of programs it takes to go from recording to editing to publishing. Cast is simplifying this proce...

 Here, the in-ear system that lets you live tune the audio around you, has today announced the launch of an Apple Watch app. The company, Doppler Labs, originally launched with Dubs, mechanical e...

 Earlier today a report was published by Ars Technica claiming that Apple was in advanced discussions to acquire UK chip technology company Imagination Technologies. Today, Imagination issued a s...

 Google announced this morning that it’s renaming its Chromecast application to “Google Cast,” in an effort to better reflect how the technology works across an array of devices...

 Uber announced today that after a year of Beta testing, it was opening its first ever bug bounty program running on the HackerOne bug bounty platform. Bug bounty programs for those of you not fa...

 FlowVella, the makers of an iPad and Mac appthat rethinks PowerPoint for the mobile-first generation, has now brought its app to the iPhone. As with its tablet counterpart, FlowVella lets you cr...

 What’s the only thing worse than a full inbox? An inbox full of spammy newsletter emails you don’t really want to read. Throttle is a plugin that solves this problem by generating a ...

 Government policy and technology usually coexist in harmony. But occasionally, they get into a brawl. When this happens, policy may win a battle or two, but, ultimately, technology always wins. ...

 Travel is fun and glamorous and all, but we all know what packing your backpack and heading for the amazon is really about: Making your friends and family a deep shade of jealous green. Amsterda...

 As lucrative as they may be, I normally find ad tech/marketing tech companies to be pretty boring. However, Clarivoy’s interesting concept catches my attention amidst a sea of marketing te...

 When is a game not a game? When it becomes art, a collection of found objects, and a memorial. That’s what Ryan and Amy Green created when they made That Dragon, Cancer, a luminous game in...

 One of the most powerful regulators in European tech in the last decade has found a landing place outside of the halls of Brussels. Today, CRM giant Salesforce announced that Neelie Kroes is joi...

 A tiny computer intended to encourage UK kids to get programming is finally being delivered to schools, some half a year later than originally planned. Read More ...

 Japanese startup Whill’s Model M, a motorized wheelchair alternative, has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration in the United States. This means that the Model M can now...

 The world has lost a true technology partner after Andy Grove, the former CEO and chairman of Intel, passed away aged 79. Read More ...

 RecomN, a platform that helps Malaysian and Indonesian users find service providers for important projects, will enter new Southeast Asian markets after raising $1 million in seed funding from G...

Spring is here, which means it’s time to put away those coats and get out those dresses. But is your wardrobe still in style? Fashionistas, take note. These apps will helpyou find the latest sty...

 BYJU, an educational app for Indian schoolkids, plans to create new learning formats and products after raising $75 million from Sequoia India and Sofina. Read More ...

 Today was a pretty small news day for Apple. In part, because the announcements were largely iterations on existing products. But, also because the rumors about Apple’s hardware getting sm...

 You don’t have to be a circus freak contortionist to sleep on a plane thanks to Woollip. Now you can dive face-first into an inflatable travel pillow that’s made to sit atop your tra...

 While 2015 was a solid year for digital health, with $4.5 billion in total venture funding, healthcare startups also made headlines for other reasons when reports emerged that much-hyped compani...

 Smartphone cameras are so good these days it can seem almost churlish to yearn for improvements. And yet enhancements continue to shave away at imperfections as engineers turn the screw to optim...

 Just one day before the government was set to meet Apple in court to determine whether Apple could be forced to unlock an encrypted iPhone used by terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook.. the government ...

 Just one day before the government was set to meet Apple in court to determine whether Apple could be forced to unlock an encrypted iPhone used by terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook.. the government ...

 You probably have your credit card and other payment information keyed into at least ten different services right now, all of which are likely based over a mobile app or website. For a long time...

 You probably have your credit card and other payment information keyed into at least 10 different services right now, all of which are likely based over a mobile app or website. For a long time,...

 You probably have your credit card and other payment information keyed into at least 10 different services right now, all of which are likely based over a mobile app or website. For a long time,...

 It’s time to hold companies to a higher standard when it comes to APIs. As software “eats the world,” it seems like it’s not enough for a business to just serve its custo...

 Today’s Apple press conference had an unusual start. Most of the time, the company starts by releasing a few vanity numbers — iOS devices sold, apps in the App Store, iOS adoption ra...

 Apple held a special event today, announcing the new iPhone SE, new iPad Pro, update to Apple TV, new Watch bands, ResearchKit and Carekit. Unlike its last event, where there was little diversit...

 Watch a robot rip apart and recycle iPhones, see the petite but powerful new iPhone SE in action, and geek out on 40 years of Apple history. Read More ...

 Georgios Kasselakis has the same concerns as most VCs: How to raise money, how to grow the money investors provide him, how to identify the most promising startups. Unlike most VCs, Kasselakis a...

 Didn’t catch today’s Apple keynote? Want to get a quick rundown of everything they announced? Here’s all the big stuff, in ultra-quick bite size form.Tap that arrow over to the...

 Apple announced the launch of CareKit on Monday, a new developer tool that will make it easier to build healthcare apps for iOS devices. The open source platform will be available in April and s...

 Apple’s Greg Joswiak revealed at the company’s “Let us loop you in” event in Cupertino that iOS 9.3 would be available for download beginning today. Joswiak called the fr...

 Apple just announced the successor to the iPad Air 2 during its press conference in Cupertino. This isn’t a new iPad Air, it’s a smaller iPad Pro. And the company is calling it the i...

 Apple just announced the successor to the iPad Air 2 during its press conference in Cupertino. This isn’t a new iPad Air, it’s a smaller iPad Pro. And the company is calling it the i...

 While the Apple Watch isn’t the focus ofthe company’s press event, executives did offer some updates — they showed off new bands and other accessories, and they also announced ...

 Apple today announced a couple of updates for its Apple TV platform, including support for folders, dictation, Live Photos in the iCloud Photo library and Siri support in the App Store.In additi...

 Apple CEO Tim Cook today unveiled a new spring lineup of Apple Watch bands, as part of the company’s smartwatch announcements, which also included a price drop to $299 in an effort to make...

 If you’ve been hankering for a new iPhone that has all the power of the latest generations but fits in your hand like the old models, today is a good day for you. Apple has just unveiled t...

 Apple kicked off today’s keynote by focusing on their dedication to reusing, reducing, and recycling, and revealed that they built Liam, a robot especially designed to rip apart your iPhon...

 GreatHorn, asix-person cloud security platformfocused on stopping phishing attacks, has raised $2.25 million in seed funding led by ff Venture Capital and SoftTech VC, with participation from Te...

 Tim Cook started Apple’s press conference with a surprising statement. After announcing that there are now 1 billion active Apple devices, Apple’s CEO then talked about the ongoing c...

 Clothing brand American Apparel has formally partnered with startup Postmates to offer consumers on-demand delivery (within the hour) of Basics clothing, which includes standard tees, sweatshirt...

 Apple is holding an event today in Apple’s own Cupertino HQ, in its Town Hall Theater. The event kicks off at 10 AM PT (2 PM ET, 5 PM GMT, 6 PM CET), and we’ll have a team covering t...

 Apple is holding an event today in Cupertino, and the company is planning once again to live stream the event. At 10 AM PT (1 PM ET, 5 PM GMT, 6 PM CET), you’ll be able to watch the event ...

 Jumio, theAndreessen Horowitz-funded mobile and online credentials authentication business, whose technology can scan and read information from payment cards and IDs, says that itsU.S. business ...

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 While Apple and the FBI are about to fight in court over an iPhone 5c involved in the San Bernardino shootings, this isn’t a new issue for the FBI. According to a report from Bloomberg, th...

 Amazon is now reselling Comcast’s Internet and television service on its site, via a newly launched section called “Amazon Cable Store” – a branding that implies Comcast ...

 Amazon is now reselling Comcast’s Internet and television service on its site, via a newly launched section called Amazon Cable Store– a branding that implies Comcast may be the firs...

 Few doubt that our future — both immediate and long term — will be heavily impacted by robots. With flashy AI technology like IBM’s Watson and Google’s driverless cars st...

 After launching a standalone app for Ola Money in November last year, Indian transportationapp Ola has made an acquisition to double down on its mobile wallet and payments business: the company ...

 It’s hard to believe that Twitter turns 10 years old today, given that still so many people seem to misunderstand its purpose and appeal. Twitter is not Facebook – it’s not a p...

 It’s hard to believe that Twitter turns 10 years old today, given that still so many people seem to misunderstand its purpose and appeal. Twitter is not Facebook – it’s not a p...

 Apple is holding an event today in Cupertino, and the company is planning once again to live stream the event. At 10 AM PT (1 PM ET, 5 PM GMT, 6 PM CET), you’ll be able to watch the event ...

 UK fintech startup Elliptic has pulled in a $5 million Series A round to keep building out its blockchain forensics tool. Its transaction-tracing technology mines the public Bitcoin ledger to id...

 Encryption is a cat-and-mouse game, and Johns Hopkins University researchers have found a great way to prove it. In a new research that they shared with the Washington Post, the research team ha...

 eGym, the Munich-based startup that offers cloud-connected gym equipment and supporting cloud software and app for the fitness training floor, has closed $45 million in Series C funding. The rou...

 GoDaddy, the web hosting and domain registration company that went public last year, is addingnewcloud services to growtherevenues it makes from the 14 million small businesses that make upthe m...

 Apple is holding an event today in Apple’s own Cupertino HQ, in its Town Hall Theater. The event kicks off at 10 AM PT (2 PM ET, 5 PM GMT, 6 PM CET), and we’ll have a team covering t...

 “Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next ten.” These words, articulated by Neil Armstrong at a speech to a jo...

 Girnar Software, which runs several auto portals in India including CarDekho.com, has raised an undisclosed amount of new funding from Google Capital, with participation from returning investor ...

 Singapore-based Grab has just scored a new ally in its battle against Uber and other on-demand ride apps. The company, which claims to be Southeast Asia’s leading ride-hailing app, announc...

 People who have Kindles made before 2012 need to update their software by March 22 or lose Internet connectivity, Amazon announced. Procrastinators and people who missed the message will have to...

 Airbnb will now let travelers from outside the U.S. to book properties in Cuba after receiving authorization from the U.S. government, reports the Associated Press. Previously, only Americans we...

 ServisHero, a company that provides local services through a mobile app in Southeast Asia, has landed a $2.7 million investment led by Golden Gate Ventures. Read More ...

 The Jetsons presented a highly entertaining vision of what homes of the future would look like. The animated television show anticipated a world where humans would be able to do everything with ...

 We no longer have a monopoly on disruptive innovation. The cost of building world-changing technologies has dropped exponentially and made it possible for entrepreneurs anywhere to solve the gra...

 Mattermark, a startup that mines and crunches public Internet data to provideinvestors, sales teams and others with search tools and other business intelligence,has raised another $7.3 million i...

 Earlier this weekInstagram updated its news feed algorithm. Posts will no longer appear in chronological order and instead be sorted “based on the likelihood you’ll be interested in ...

 Apps have become a driver of the economy. According to the Statista website, leading app stores offer around four million apps. App users are able to engage in commerce, access content and conne...

 As part of the flurry of retrospectives tied to Twitter’s tenth anniversary, the company is also looking back at the history of advertising on Twitter. Granted, that probably doesn’t...

 For all of the back-and-forth between Microsoft, Amazon, Google and others over the past couple of years, we’ve only seen the most nascent battles in a multi-decade war for the future of ...

 I started my last company in mid-2009, just as the market was beginning to recover from the fallout of the financial crisis. In the past several years, surrounded by fast-growth startups with sk...

 So is the new Nikon D5500 entry-level? After a few glances and general fooling around, I quickly realized the Nikon D5500 has many of the specs found in a betterclass of camera. Price as Reviewe...

 Cybercrime is costing us millions. Hacks drain the average American firm of $15.4 million per year, and, in the resulting panic, companies often spend more than $1.9 million to resolve a single ...

 More than ever before, SXSW featured discussions about improving civic engagement and how to use technology to help better the world – from helping assist the 60 million refugees around th...

 More than ever before, SXSW featured discussions about improving civic engagement and how to use technology to help better the world — from helping assist the 60 million refugees around th...

 One of my earliest engineering jobs, before I fled hardware in favor of the (relative) ease and lucre of software, was in chip design. I remember being shocked when I learned just how much of th...

 The Israeli military’s massive relocation of its prestigious technology units, the presence of multinational and local companies, a close proximity to Ben Gurion University and generous go...

 There is no question that machine learning is at the top of the hype curve. And, of course, the backlash is already in full force: I’ve heard that old joke “Machine learning is like ...

 For those with South by FOMO or who want to relive past week glories, we present to you images of this year’s SXSW festivities in Austin, Texas. Flip through the fun. You might even find y...

 Sesame Workshop, the organization that brought to life the beloved “Sesame Street” and countless other programs, has announced a new venture arm to invest in apps that help children ...

 Is that photo pretty enough? Is that tweet funny enough? If not, they might not be seen now that Instagram and Twitter are moving to algorithmically sorted feeds. That could spell big problems f...

 In early February 2016, a study of financing deals reported by The Wall Street Journal found that investors are increasingly protecting themselves from IPOs that don’t perform as expected....

 NASA is preparing to send its first commercial manufacturing facility to the International Space Station (ISS). The 3D printing company Made in Space has partnered with NASA to send their Additi...

As the 126 entrepreneurs in the latest batch prepare for their big day, we thought we’d catch up with one of these founders before their nervous 3 minute pitch to the world. Read More ...

 The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, March 18, 2016. The Gang predicts an Echological intersection between bots a...

 There is a growing consensus that autonomous vehicles (AVs) will soon be a reality. The debate today centers not on whether, but how soon, AVs will be commonplace on our roads. But for all the b...

A week ago yesterday, we told youthat longtime Sequoia partner Michael Goguen had been slapped with a stomach-turning complaint. At its crux, it accused him of breaching an agreement he’d made t...

 Immigrants make up 13.3 percent of the population in the U.S., which is the highest percentage the country has seen in more than 100 years. Now let’s put this into perspective: Thirty-six ...

 A Florida jury sided today with wrestling star Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bolea) in his lawsuit against Gawker. Hogan was awarded $115 million — $55 million for economic injuries and $60 ...

 Once upon a time, a photo of something was enough to believe it was real. Sure, you’d have to deal with the occasional Big Foot hoax, but for the most part, those who had the time or talen...

 When NHTSA announced yesterday that 20 manufacturers had agreed to include automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems as standard equipment on all new cars by 2022, many people noted that plenty ...

 Has Twitter reversed course on plans to increase the character limit on tweets? That’s what you might think when reading the press coverage of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s appearance on...

 Parking tickets actually earn cities less money than when people pay the meters like they should. The problem is that even new meters that let you pay by phone or credit are such a hassle that p...

 Streaming music service SoundCloud today announcedthat it has finalized a deal with Sony Music, confirming reports from earlierthis week citing sources who claimed the deal had finally been done...

 Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, Kevin MArks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 1pmPT.Our live chat stream during the show broadcastGillmor Gang’...

 Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, Kevin MArks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 1pmPT.Our live chat stream during the show broadcastGillmor Gang’...

 From Hercules to Superman, humankind has always been fascinated by characters who defy the natural limits of the human body. Scientists haven’t yet figured out how to give us flight, but w...

 If you’re a tutor looking to offer your services online, a startup called Coach aims to give you the tools you need. CEO Spencer Fry created a similar platform, in some ways, when he co-fo...

Microsoft hired a bunch of women wearing very little clothing to dance and socialize with people at the company’s official Game Developers Conference after-party last night in San Francisco, Bus...

 I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few days with the folks at Nike, who were showing off a whole bunch of new and upcoming products at their Innovation for Everybody event. The big att...

 Rumor has it that Apple is about to introduce a successor to the iPad Air 2 at next week’s press conference. According to 9to5mac’s Mark Gurman, the device could move away from the $...

 CoreOS announced the first preview of Clair, a toolthat scans Docker containers for security vulnerabilities, last November and today, with the launch of Clair 1.0, it is ready to take the beta ...

 Earlier this week, Sony announced that its PlayStation VR would be available for the low price of just $399. Given that competing VR headsets like the Oculus are at least $200 more expensive, pe...

 Chat has become the center of the smartphone universe, so it makes sense that bots are being used to deliver information in a convenient and engaging manner. But how do brands or media companies...

I recently sat down with Grammy-nominated rapper Wale to talk about his views on technology, social media, and the music industry. Like most artists, Wale has a dedicated following on all major social...

 For those who struggle with their weight, one of the more challenging things to deal with beyond, of course, the lifestyle changes that have to accompany any attempts at weight reduction, is our...

 Perlstein Lab, or PLab as it is also known, continues to hone its automated drug discovery platform and presents its latest iteration Wednesday March 23rd at Y Combinator Demo Day. The platform ...

 We’ve been documentingEvernote’sdecline in the last several months, andtoday comes two more waves of news that speak both to how the company continues to be in turmoil, but is also t...

 Despite reports to the contrary, Twitter’s new algorithmic timeline, announced last month, has only now reached all of Twitter’s user base. That being said, the company does have som...

 Microsoft andLowe’s today announced a pilot project that will bring Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality visor to a select number of Lowe’s home improvement stores. Using Hol...

 A month ago, payments company Stripe launched Atlas,a toolkit for startupsto incorporate in the U.S. and lay the groundwork for growingtheir businesses online. Aimed largely at smallenterpriseso...

 Atomico, a 10-year-old, London-based venture firm that invests across sectors and stages in startups that are largely located in Europe’s fastest growing tech hubs — particularly Lon...

 Managed By Q, the company that lets you order on-demand cleaning services, IT help, handyman work and more all from an iPad in the office, has today announced a new stock option plan for its off...

 Managed By Q, the company that lets you order on-demand cleaning services, IT help, handyman work and more all from an iPad in the office, has today announced a new stock option plan for its off...

 SV Angel, the seed-stage venture firm founded by renowned investor Ron Conway, is targeting $46 million in funding, shows anewSEC filingthat states the first sale has yet to occur. The firm is c...

 There are a number of ways to find a last-minute travel deal, whether that’s from a big-name ticket booking engine like Kayak, or a service that specializes in finding last-minute discount...

 Even in an uncertain market, top venture firms seem to have no trouble locking down huge capital commitments from their investors. This week, Accel announced $2 billion in funding. Last week, Li...

 The American dream is no longer for sale — but it is for rent. We are slowly going through a subtle shift in how the economy is owned and operated, with massive implications. On an average...

 From self-tying shoes and an algorithmic feed on Instagram to Playstation VR and Spoonrocket shutting down, here are eleven stories you don’t want to miss this week. Read More ...

 WeWork, the co-working space headquartered in New York and valued north of $5 billion, has today announced its second acquisition. The company will be acquiring Welkio, a digital sign-in system ...

 Amazon Echo is becoming a surprisingly good product. With countless of integrations, you can now control many things using your voice. It’s now possible to order pizza, play something on S...

 Look away now if you need to be productive today. We good? Ok then. Facebook sneaked a secret basketball mini-game into Messenger. And it’s insanely addictive/annoying. Read More ...

 IBM has made anacquisition to help grow its business in cloud services forgovernment and other public sector organizations — cloud services beingof the areas that IBM hopes will offset dec...

 Creo, the Indian startup that recently received $3 million in funding to create a new twist on Android, has unveiled its first smartphone, called the Mark 1. A promotional video has been posted,...

 Kickstarter has made its first acquisition after the crowdfunding site snapped up Drip, a service that lets music artists engage with fans with new work and previews while drawing revenue from t...

 News of yet more movement among on-demand food startups: Rocket Internet-backed Foodpanda announced today that it has acquired Delivery.com’s Hong Kong business and will take over its oper...

 After years of hearing the private sector in the U.S. complain about the inefficiencies of government, investors are beginning to marshall their resources to help solve the problem. And no organ...

 We all remember the horrors that followed the failure of the subprime. All of a sudden, we faced a collapse of the entire financial system. Surrounded by bankruptcy and devastation, even the opt...

 Next Tuesday, Orbital ATK will launch their Cygnus cargo vehicle to the International Space Station (ISS). Cygnus will bring the astronauts on station food, water, and a 3-D printer, among other...

 Extension support has long been one of the weakerfeatures in Microsoft’s browsers. With Edge, the company now offers anew, more modern browser,and starting today, users who signed up for t...

 Technology innovates and disrupts, while public policy regulates and controls — at least according to conventional wisdom. The skirmish between Apple and the FBI is a prime example: Apple ...

 The FTC is involved in regulatory issues fundamentally important to Silicon Valley — especially data privacy and the “gig economy” of sharing services like Uber and Airbnb. Rea...

 The US Department of Transportation (USDOT), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) announced today that by 2022, all new vehicl...

 After already delaying the CDMA by a few months, Nextbit has decided to cancel the production of the CDMA Robinfor Verizon and Sprint networksoutright,Recode reports. The company is now refundin...

 Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. isn’t happy with Boston Dynamics, its robotics subsidiary. According to a report from Bloomberg, Alphabet executives think that Boston Dynamics ...

 Sidewalk Labs’ Flow technology, which the company says will help cities understand where citizens want to travel and how to transport them to those destinations more efficiently, fairly, a...

 Sidewalk Labs’ Flow technology, which the company says will help cities understand where citizens want to travel and how to transport them to those destinations more efficiently, fairly, a...

 Twitter today rolled out a change that will make it easier for users who switch between its desktop application TweetDeck and its website, by no longer requiring users to login to TweetDeck sepa...

 Twitter today rolled out a change that will make it easier for users who switch between its desktop application TweetDeck and its website, by no longer requiring users to log in to TweetDeck sep...

 Kanye West dropped a new album, sort of. It’s not really finished yet – he’s still publicly tweaking lyrics, arranging the song order, adding and subtracting material. In the t...

 Much was written of an historic moment for artificial intelligence last week when a Google-developed AI beat one of the planet’s most sophisticated players of Go, an East Asia strategy gam...

 Swipe-based dating is hard work. With hundreds of potential suitors to swipe through, most of us just take a few seconds to glance at a picture and bio before wedecide if we’re going to sw...

 Part of the Y Combinator Winter 2016 class, REVL just launched asmart action camera that solves the two worst things about action cams….shaky footage and a cumbersome editing process. Deve...

 European pay-tv broadcasterSky— along-timeinvestor in virtual reality startupJaunt—today positioneditself as a more direct content player in the VR world.Today the company — wh...

 As promised last fall, Nintendo has now launched its first mobile smartphone application – but it’s not a new Mario game, and the app is for now only available in Japan for the time ...

 VC firm GV (n Google Ventures) has made another investment in Europe — its seventh — leading a $21 million Series B round for epigenetic sequencing tech company and Cambridge Univers...

 Alibaba has formerly thrown its hat into virtual reality ring after the Chinese e-commerce giant announced its own VR research lab, dubbed GnomeMagic Lab. Read More ...

 News aggregator Digg may no longer be the internet force it once was, but it still offers an interesting and engaging selection of curated news articles and videos across a number of categories,...

 Looker, a data visualization and business intelligence startupannounced a new component today that brings Looker data directly into Slack conversations without having to access the program separ...

 The rise was like a tech startup fairytale. Within three years of founding, this unicorn company had raised more than $1 billion in venture capital — closing an astonishing $950 million in...

 YouTube and Google Play Movies & TV will now participate in T-Mobile’s “Binge On” program, which offers cellular subscribers the ability to watch a variety of services with...

 During an afternoon call with me, Airmada CEO Dan Danay, outlined his autonomous drone product offering that he and co-founder Boris Lipchin are preparing for Y Combinator Demo Day next week. Th...

 Most social media platforms deter users from creating multiple profiles to prevent shenanigans like harassment and fraud. Galaxia, however, wants people to create a new profile (which it calls a...

 Earlier this week rumours began to spread that GoButler, the messaging-based virtual assistant that let you request anything on-demand, was heading to the deadpool, with March 11th the alleged d...

 Distribusion, the Berlin-based startup that’s built a platform to make it easy for travel companies and travel search engines to sell ‘intercity’ bus tickets, has picked up 6 m...

 Okta, a companymostly known for cloud identity management, made a forayinto enterprise mobility management(EMM)at the end of 2014. Today, it announced a partnership with Box to supportdevice-lev...

 Amazon and Fitbit are teaming up to make it even easier to see your daily fitness progress. Or rather, hear about it. Fitbit users who own an Amazon Echo can now ask Alexa about their progress t...

Is your startup looking to take that next big leap forward? Many companies have gotten their start by displaying in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt, and we want your company to be our next success...

 I’m moving into a columnist role at TechCrunch and onto some new projects. One is called RoamCo-Living. It adaptively re-uses space for communal living andlocation independent workers in o...

 Handshake, a maker of wholesale order apps for mobile, will target new overseas markets after raising a $14 million Series B. The round was led by Sozo Ventures and includes returning investors ...

 Smartphone sales are slowing down, and it looks like Apple might see its first iPhonesales declinein the next quarter. Thatpinch is now being felt by one of Apple’skey suppliers. UK compan...

 If Facebook announces the “Messenger Bot Store” at F8, as many predict, it would be arguably the most consequential event for the tech industry since Apple announced the App Store an...

 The founders of Ask.fm — the popular social Q&A app that became embroiled in a cyberbullying media storm before being acquired by IAC — have backed new dating app Mint. Read More...

 Vietnam is emerging as a technology market of note in Asia. Weeks after U.S. VC firm 500 Startups announced a fund for the country, Vietnam-based fintech startup Momo has landed a $28 million in...

 Foursquare is an institution in the New York tech scene, so it only makes sense for us to have Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley and the company’s new CEO Jeff Glueck on stage at Disrupt N...

 As Apple continues to battle the US government’s desire to workaround the security of its mobile operating system, European encrypted email startup, ProtonMail, is choosing the latest skir...

 WeChat, China’s smash hit messaging app, has long been a bellwether for the future of mobile messaging. It was first to popularize putting brands in chat and integrating third-party servic...

 The UK government has announced a little extra tax relief aimed at encouraging what the chancellor termed ‘micro-entrepreneurs’ in yesterday’s budget — albeit the other b...

 Mondo, the yet-to-launch U.K. banking startup that is creating quite a lot of buzz amongst the London tech scene and beyond, is opening its Beta to the public today — albeit one that is li...

 A German court yesterday ruled against Apple in a video streaming patent case brought by Swiss company Kudelski’s OpenTV unit against the Cupertino company back in 2014. Read More ...

 SpoonRocket, the on-demand food delivery startup that shut down yesterday in the U.S., has a buyer. That buyer is Brazil-based iFood, a food delivery platform looking to dominate the on-demand e...

 The economic prospects for Latin America in 2016 are grim. With political instability in some of the region’s largest economies, as well as a general slump in prices in oil and other commo...

 Rumors are flying todaythat Apple is moving part of its cloud business from AWS to Google’s Cloud Platform. We did some asking around and yes, it does appear that Apple has made some moves...

 If I had to choose a sound to identify the second year of my daughter’s life it would probably be one of the collaborations between Sesame Street superstar Cookie Monster and one of the ho...

 If I had to choose a sound to identify the second year of my daughter’s life it would probably be one of the collaborations between Sesame Street superstar Cookie Monster and one of the ho...

 Minecraft in all its blocky glory is setting up shop on mobile virtual reality on the Samsung Gear VR.I had a chance to demo the game at an Oculus media event during GDC in SF this week and ther...

 The U.S.Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation today approved the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)reauthorization bill.In an amendment to thebill filed by Senators Heller...

 Munchery, the on-demand meal delivery startup with over $117 million in funding, has lost Pascal Rigo, who came on board to Munchery as chief customer experience officer just five months ago. Ri...

The maker movement is hot. Worldwide, there are about 2,000 maker spaces and 26 percent of cities in the U.S. have them. I sat down with Inventables CEO Zach Kaplan to learn about what’s driving...

 A number of startup studios are in the midst of a years-long experiment, providing back-end assistance, office space and mentoring to talented, ambitious people in order to create astartup with ...

 Last weekI sat down with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to hearabout his newest creation, Silicon Valley Comic Con. The event, which will be held this weekend at the San Jose Convention Center, ...

 I bought an Apple Watch six months ago. This was no casual purchase. As an Apple fan, a watch collector and with more than 20 years of experience in the design innovation space, I had extremely ...

 It’s finally here. After teaming up with Michael J. Fox to teaseus withself-lacing Nike Mags on Back To The Future day in October, Nike has finally announced a mass production shoe that wi...

 It’s time to take wearable devices to the next level. Plume Labs and DigitasLBi have teamed up for an interesting experiment. What if pigeons could fly around London with tiny backpacks to...

 Microsoft today announced that it is partnering with Dominion Virginia Power and the Commonwealth of Virginia to build a 20 megawatts solar energy plant in Virginia. Microsoft — like its c...

 A medtech startupcalled AliveCor today unveiled what maybe the first medical-grade EKG band for the Apple Watch, the Kardia Band, pending its FDA clearance. The product is intended to help weare...

 Three years after launching a $100 million initiative to create a Watson-inspired tech platform that finds “commercially viable solutions to the continent’s grand challenges,”...

 If your site isn’t easy to use on mobile, Google penalizes it by ranking it lower on its mobile search results pages. To give publishers even more of an incentive to offer mobile-friendly ...

 For nearly a year Jawbone and Fitbit have been in the courts and Jawbone just threw down new allegations. In a motion to amend the original filing, Jawbone wantsto add a new defendant to the cas...

 More bad news forLivingSocial, the beleaguered commerceplatform that competes with the likes of Groupon in offering deals on events and services local to its users. Today, LivingSocialannounced ...

 Korea is sizzling, and the fact isn’t lost on Altos Ventures or its backers. The early-stage venture firm, with an office on Sand Hill Road and in Seoul, has just raised an oversubscribed ...

 Today, we have a variety of apps to manage our days – calendars, task lists, reminders, notes, and more. But the apps don’t always interoperate, and having the information in separat...

 Online advertising is one of thosesubjects that we can rely on to get almost everyoneto roll their eyes. And lately, it seems that investors have become skeptical, too.Still, you can’t und...

 I spent a good part of my day yesterday attending the On-demand Economy conference at MIT. It was an interesting if somewhat academic look at the changes facing us as individuals, organizations ...

 I recently took the opportunity to visit with influential friends and colleagues in the New York City technology space. I sat with longtime friend Nick Chirls, founder of Notation Capital, and d...

 Startups working on high-qualityimmersive visuals and the tech to achieve themare in demand these days, and today one that focuses specifically on interactive outdoor and indoor 3D mapping is an...

 Turn-by-turn navigation application Waze announced this morning a handy new feature that will make it easier for those who are planning to drive to an upcoming appointment, meeting or other impo...

 On-demand car service Uber announced this morning a new feature designed to make it easier for its customers to pay for rides for their friends and family: Family Profiles. The option was one of...

 Ring, the folks behind the self-titled Ring video doorbell, have a two-punch combo’s worth of news this morning: they’re launching a new model called the Ring Pro, and have raised a ...

 The Oculus Rift is launchingMarch 28 and along with it comes a ton of cool, innovative content that plays to the Rift’s strengths. There are 30 distinct titles that will be available at la...

 WillCall had great design and community, but didn’t have tickets to the best concerts. Ticketfly had deep relationships with music venues, but no one was using it to discover shows. Today,...

 It’s been a while since we checked in with Toymail, the kids messaging startup that piloted its first product on Kickstarter back in fall 2013. Its idea was to turn Wi-Fi-enabled toys into...

 Borrowing a page from the information technology playbook, Usermind — a newly launched startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures — is selling a service that aims to pr...

 Verizon Digital Media Services is announcing the acquisition of Volicon, a company offering video capture and monitoring tools for TV broadcasters. Volicon says its products are used for things ...

 Prenetics, a Hong Kong-based medical technology company, has raised a $10 million Series A round for its DNA testing technology that helps doctors provide more accurate diagnoses and better unde...

 Apple’s News app, which is installed on all iOS devices, is now open to all publishers. When it launched in fall 2015, News app’s publishing tools were only available to Apple’...

 Social media fan Pope Francis already tweets and may soon start posting on Instagram, too. Italian newswire ANSA reports that the pontiff will make his Instagram debut on March 19 using the acco...

 Hacker Ryan Collins pleaded guilty to stealing a number of nude photos — including images of Jennifer Lawrence — from Apple’s servers, after getting snared by the FBI. In the p...

 On March 22nd, Apple and the FBI will head to federal court to determine whether or not the government can force Apple to open up an otherwise deeply-encrypted iPhone used by terrorist Syed Rizw...

 Have you ever noticed that 90 cent charge at the bottom of your phone bill? Little did you know, that is the key to fueling a renaissance in education technology. Read More ...

 InstaRem, an international remittance payments startup headquartered in Singapore, has raised $5 million in a round led by Vertex Ventures. Read More ...

 As a creative, you’re most likely to get hired for a job off the back of your portfolio of past clients and work. Aimed squarely at this market, Moo — the company better known for th...

 Faraday Future has its first U.S. patent in hand for a smaller, more powerful inverter. So it’s definitely not as sexy as the Batmobile-like concept car the company brought to its splashy ...

 The average Instagram user misses 70 percent of what’s in their feed, including great photos with tons of Likes and posts by their best friends. So today Instagram announced it will start ...

 More Star Wars force is coming to virtual reality. At today’s PlayStation VR press event, Sony CEO Andrew House teased onstage that Playstation will be partnering with EA to bring about my...

 Sony took to the stage today during GDC 22016 in SF to show off the consumer-ready version of its PlayStation VR headset. A good deal was already known about the company’s first foray into...

 Accounts of racism, sexism and discrimination are unfortunatelyway too common in the tech industry. The latest comes from Amlie Lamont, a black woman and former employee at website creation comp...

 Accounts of racism, sexism and discrimination are unfortunately way too common in the tech industry. The latest comes from Amlie Lamont, a black woman and former employee at website creation com...

 Campaign season should be more than just stump speeches; it’s a chance for us to evaluate how our future leader will handle the many tech opportunities and challenges ahead. In the absence...

 The universal reaction to Atlas, the newly upgraded next-generation humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics (a company owned by Alphabet), was lots of empathy. Unmindful of being punched, pushed and...

 Around June of last year, Lucasfilm and its usual cohorts — Industrial Light and Magic, Skywalker Sound — announced that they were banding together to form the ILM Experience Lab, or...

 Proposed new UK surveillance powers are getting a second reading in parliament today, as the government seeks to update and extend the law in this area before the end of the year. Read More ...

 Proposed new UK surveillance powers are getting a second reading in parliament today, as the government seeks to update and extend the law in this area before the end of the year. Read More ...

 Last April, Julien Arnold quietly left his role as CEO of Numbrs, the mobile-first banking app he co-founded with Swiss company builder Centralway. Now, almost a year on, he’s on the verge...

 Google today added a new section to its Transparency Report that focuses on the use of encryption on Google’s own sites and across the web. The company says over 75 percent of requests to ...

 David Lapter, formerly of Fab.com and MakeSpace, is moving on to Dashlane to serve as Chief Financial Officer. Dashlane is a password management service that helps users keep track of their pass...

 We’re excited to announce the launch of our first artificial intelligence-powered news bot on the encrypted messaging platform Telegram. We teamed up with Chatfuel to build the bot, and af...

 This past week I made it my mission to see what was going on in downtown Manhattan. A well-timed email here, a hastily caught train there, and I found myself at the headquarters of Priority Cycl...

 Just in time for “Mega Tuesday,” Google has rolled out new features to Google Search that will allow you to better track the primaries and learn more about the candidates. One new ad...

 Google reportedly is working on building its own Uber competitor, and while some believe that this will come in the form of a fleet of autonomous cars, there is amore immediate optionfor how Goo...

 Google reportedly is working on building its own Uber competitor, and while some believe this will come in the form of a fleet of autonomous cars, there is amore immediate optionfor how Google c...

 French startup Prt d’Union is one of the biggest fintech startups in its home country, but it has yet to expand its crowd-lending services outside of France. Prt d’Union is about to ...

 Inbox by Gmail, Google’s next-gen email client for Gmail users, includes a number of features that aim to make handling your incoming messages easier. One of the best of these has long bee...

 F.lux, the popular color-adjusting application for computers and mobile devices that reduces blue light emissions for better nighttime usage, has now arrived on Android. Unfortunately, the appli...

 The Hotaru compact shower holds five gallons of water and, according to the co-founders, a family of three can each take a five-minute, daily shower using the same five gallons of water for up ...

 A couple months ago, I visited Las Vegas for CES. Few people enjoy playing in CES, but no one enjoys going to the city of sin for work. The loud noises coming from the slot machines, the men fli...

 Richard Branson is taking to the skies for the inaugural flight of a new route, from SFO to Denver, in the hopes of linking a nascent tech community in the Mile High City with an established one...

 Do video game geeks want to watch classic cooking shows? A new experiment on the Amazon-owned video game streaming service Twitch is looking to answer that question, as the company today announc...

 For the last several years,Grouponhas been expandingits business beyond the daily dealto position itself as the platform for local commerce. Some of those efforts have proven to be more challeng...

 SpoonRocket has just informed its investors it’s shutting down its on-demand pre-made meal delivery service, after failing to raise the necessary capital to go on, according to a source fa...

 One of the many reasons women are under represented in “tech-sector” engineering disciplines such as software, mechanical, electrical, computer and mechatronics engineering is becaus...

 You’ve seen The Wolf of Wall Street, you’re handy with some code, you know you can beat the market, but you don’t have the money to invest? What could possibly go wrong. Quanti...

More than 100 million Americans have a criminal history, according to a Department of Justice survey. Catherine Hoke of Defy Ventures believes that through training, these individuals can become succe...

 More than 100 million Americans have a criminal history, according to a Department of Justice survey. Catherine Hoke of Defy Ventures believes that through training, these individuals can become...

 UberEATS, the newer, standalone app for Uber’s restaurant food-delivery business, is today launching in its first U.S. markets: Chicago, Houston, L.A., and San Francisco. The U.S. expansio...

 Well, that was short-lived. It was only in October that I outed the then stealthy Valk Fleet, a new food delivery and logistics startup from European online take-out behemoth Delivery Hero. Howe...

 For gamers worried about exclusive Oculus titles and the diverging future of content support onvirtual reality, OSVR is making a bid to take over the platform and ensure that content is availabl...

 Late last year, Microsoft announced that it would start hosting its Azure cloud computing platform and some of its other cloud-based services out of local data centers in both Germany and Canada...

 Payoneer helps businesses and B2Bmarketplaces move money across borders. It’s one of the biggest companies in this space anditscustomers include the likes of Amazon, Fiverr, Airbnb, Upwork...

 Accel Partners, the 33-year-old venture firm, has pulled off a bit of a hat trick. In an increasingly uncertain economy, it has raised $2 million across two new U.S. funds. The Sand Hill Road ou...

 In a case of one news reader app helping another, Japan’s Gunosy has invested $5 million in Indonesia-based Kurio. Read More ...

 I've been using Letterboxd for more than a year now, and I've really enjoyed the movie pages. For instance, if you look at Mustang (which is my favorite movie of 2015 – seriously...

 Google is launching a new product for enterprise marketers today that will directly challenge Adobe’s Marketing Cloud and similar services. The Google Analytics 360 Suite will combine Goog...

 Salesforce has its fingers in many pies when it comes to tracking customers, customer service and marketing, but up until now it left field service to third parties like ServiceMax. That changed...

 Skyport Systems helps enterprises keep their data and applications secure by allowing them to host their services in a hardened appliance with embedded security features. The company today annou...

 Altiscale, a company thathas always been about reducing the complexity related to using Hadoop, has taken that to the next leveltoday with the release of Altiscale Insight Cloud, a cloud service...

 The battle between Google’s artificial intelligence and Go world champion Lee Seedol concluded today after the former (AlphaGo) triumphed to win the five-game series 4-1. Read More ...

 Skyhook Wirelesshas been working on location technology for longer than many of the biggest names in smartphones have been around. Today it launched a new SDK aimed at bringing location to weara...

 Crate, the winner of our TechCrunch Disrupt Europestartup Battlefield in 2014, today announced that it has raised a $4 million seed round for its open-source SQL database technology. The round w...

 Sony has agreed to purchase the remaining 50 percent of Sony/ATV from Michael Jackson’s estate for a total of $750 million. The music publishing company was created in 1995 as a joint vent...

 Verizon has signed an agreement that makes it the second U.S. carrier to offer direct roaming in Cuba. The deal with Etecsa, a government-owned telecom, will enable direct voice calls between U....

 Two months after General Motorsannounced a $500 million investment in transportation startup Lyft to work on autonomous cars, the pair are launching their first service together. No, it’s ...

 Tomorrow morning Disney will launch Marvel Battlegrounds, a new four-player superhero fighting game built on top of their Disney Infinity platform.Disney Infinity producer John Vignocchi stopped...

 While many retired smartphones still work and have usable sensors like cameras, accelerometers, touch screens and bluetooth radios, large swaths of them remain unused or, worse yet, end up in la...

 The first phase of ExoMars, an uncrewed Mars mission from the European Space Agency (ESA), successfully launched today from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Lifting off on a Russian Proton-M rocket, the Ma...

 Adtech is in trouble because many firms have gotten the cold shoulder from venture capital. Supposedly. Another way to say that, of course, is that smart venture capitalists passed on startups t...

 Finnish startup Blooming is aiming to help stressed office workers re-take control of their lives, by using wearable tech to monitor and track stress levels, plus recommendation software and med...

 As 2015 came to a close and the new year began, many thought leaders in the financial technology space made their predictions on the trends and innovations that will get us excited in 2016. One ...

 Michael Goguen, the longtime venture capitalist who was asked to leave Sequoia Capitallast week following a stunning breach of contract complaint, has just filed a counter complaintin San Mateo ...

 After shelling out $2m in rewards to security bounty hunters in 2015, Google today announced it’s doubling the reward for revealing top security flaws from $50k to $100k. Google has been p...

 We hear a lot about how companies like Uber are transforming car-based transportation, but today comes news of another play in the sector, this time covering rail services. Trainline, a U.K.-bas...

 Google has lost an appeal in a Russian court against an antitrust ruling pertaining to its Android mobile OS. The competition complaint was brought against Android back in February 2016 by local...

 Netflix confirmed this morning the existence of what appeared to be a newAndroid beta testing program, but says it did not intend to make it available to consumers via Google Play. In addition, ...

 At this point, there's very little difference between the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4. But there was one key differentiating point. Xbox gamers could only play with Xbox and PC players a...

 While most of the discussions around blockchain have focused on its potential use in finance, startup Blockai is looking at something different — helping artists, photographers and other c...

 Google today announced a number of new services for game developers at its annual Developer Day at the Game Developers Conference. These range from newtools for managing virtual goods and curren...

 On the heels of the White House Computer Science For All initiative (#CSForAll) announcement and the celebration of National Engineers Week, we are excited about the work being done to make STEM...

 This time the Berlin-based company builder (to use the preferred terminology) is investing and betting on the underlying regulatory and financial technology infrastructure — the picks R...

 Google’s YouTube, the world’s biggest video site, is no stranger to getting blocked in some countries when content uploaded by users runs against state policies on media and public i...

 Google doesn’t just offer its own web-based productivity apps, but it also offers a service for business users who want to use Google as an identity provider for accessing other online ser...

 Square is acquiring the team behind Framed Data, a predictive analytics service, and will be deploying the team of data scientists to its Square Capital team. Square tracks merchants’trans...

 Skype for Web, the browser-based version of Microsoft’s popular communications software introduced last year,is getting a slew of new features that brings it more in line with its desktop ...

 Modern farming has a huge problem with food waste, stemming from the mismatch between specific food buyer requirements vs Mother Nature delivering an unsaleable overabundance and/or producing kn...

 This weekend, Apple’s App Store head Phil Schiller responded to complaints that spam apps and rip-offs were appearing in the App Store’s “New” and “What’s Hot...

 Or do we even need one? At Disrupt New York in May, we’ll try to get to the bottom of that question. In a panel on the new frontier of digital dating, we’ll be bringing together some...

 Philips is arguably the largest connected light bulb manufacturer with its Philips Hue system, but its color light bulbs are quite expensive. A color light bulb costs around $60. In case you jus...

 Alooma, an Israeli startup thathelps companies process and work with big data in real time delivered asa cloud service, announced an $11.2 million Series A round today led byLightspeed Venture P...

 For the small minority who are not aware, Lowercase is the the fund started by Chris Sacca with $8.4m and resulted in what is believed to be the best performing fund in history with investments ...

 Drones are expensive and crashes are inevitable. ParaZero has a solution: A parachute. With the ParaZero SafeAir product, a drone is fitted with a capsule containing a parachute that’s eff...

 Another live streaming startup is hoping to grab its share of eyeballs. Tandem is a bootstrapping fitness-focused platform aiming to offer a low friction outlet where personal trainers, fitness ...

 Prototyping suite InVision just announced they are acquiring Silver Flows, a tool that lets developers prototype directly inside Sketch. The acquisition comes just a few months after InVision ac...

 Adobe today launched the first public preview of its new Experience Design CC tool, which was previously known as Project Comet. Experience Design CC is the company’s first tool that is pu...

 App data and insights platform App Annie continues a small shopping spree with the acquisition of AppScotch, an app marketing datacompany. Terms of the deal aren’t being announced, but the...

 If you have ever attended a TechCrunch Disrupt, you know the energy and excitement on the exhibit floor. Hundreds of entrepreneurs stand by their tables, and everywhere people are engaged in int...

 Yet more proof that Minecraft is more than just a game comes our way today. Microsoft has plans to use the platform, which it bought for $2.5 billion acquisition, to help kids learn and for virt...

Enterprise communications is not a sector that typically generates palpable excitement. In the enterprise, the plumbing is never as exciting as the fixtures, and people spend more time noticing what c...

 The UK government is continuing to try to push much criticized surveillance powers legislation through parliament, with the bill in question — the Investigatory Powers bill — getting...

 In 2009, the Obama Administration launched Apps.Gov, looking to revolutionize the way the federal government buys commercial technology and cloud-based products. The launch was a product of mult...

 Microsoft has quietly stopped supporting bitcoin payments just over one year after it (quietly) added support for the crypto currency within its Windows Store. Read More ...

 While the majority of fans might rely on their knowledge of the game, popular sports analysts, water cooler talk and a gut feeling, machine learning scientists are building a predictor tool to h...

 If you were hoping that John Oliver would do a deep dive on the iPhone encryption debate: good news. Today’s the day. Read More ...

 Cainiao, a three-year-old Alibaba-backed company specializing in logistics, has confirmed its maiden external funding round from Temasek Holdings and GIC in Singapore, Malaysia’s Khazanah ...

 Marley Spoon, the cook-at-home food delivery service that competes with the likes of Gousto, Blue Apron, Plated, and Rocket Internet’s HelloFresh, has closed $17 million in Series B fundin...

 The Star Wars movies have captured the imaginations of everyone, from baby boomers through millennials on down to tots. It seems like everyone has been talking about the latest episode in this s...

 They seem as anachronistic as helmetless hockey players, the no-dunking rule and bullpen carts. But the player-coach was once a familiar figure in pro sports. Bill Russell and Lenny Wilkens in t...

 As a travel enthusiast, it was a problem Ryan Wenger had often encountered; how can a person search for a flight and hotel based on the amount of money they want to spend rather than by destinat...

 Future Finance—a startup based out of Dublin that provides loansto students using big data algorithms to asses theircredit-worthiness — is today announcing a largeround of funding of...

 Advertising has lost sight of a very basic concept: The pleasure principle. In the “golden days,” the 1960s and 1970s, colorful creative in a full-page spread was enough to create bu...

 As the launch dates of the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive virtual reality headsets approach, so does the release of a ton of awesome VR gaming content. To gamers with full Steam libraries however,...

 The opposing views of those advocating for preserving the current implementation of Bitcoin (Bitcoin Core), and those who believe that the block size needs to be increased immediately to overcom...

 When vulnerability is injected into technology used worldwide, it becomes everyone’s liability. Read More ...

 We do not possess the ability to read the future, and yet we can predict with a high level of certainty that we will see more major cybersecurity incidents in 2016 and 2017. The world’s cy...

In a chat with Guy Kawasaki at South by Southwest, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales spoke out about self-interested parties editing their own page on the Internet’s collaborated encyclopedia. &#...

 NASA has successfully tested their first RS-25 rocket engine for the agency’s next heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), for 500 seconds. The SLS, which will use 4 RS-25 engine...

 Video news startup NowThis is partnering with FWD.us, the immigration lobbying group backed by Mark Zuckerberg and other tech executives, to tackle one of the biggest issues in this year’s...

 digitalundivided, an organization geared toward advancing equity in tech, is opening an innovation center for black and Latina female founders in tech this summer. Located in downtown Atlanta, G...

 Ulysses is a Markdown text editor for small and big projects. It works quite well for anything between a blog post and a novel. And Ulysses is also the kind of apps we need on iOS. It's an ...

 The FBI wants Apple to do something no private company has ever been forced to do: break its own technology. Specifically, the FBI wants Apple to build a new version of its mobile operating syst...

 Machines 3, humans 1… That’s the current score in a five-match series being played out between DeepMind’s AlphaGo and human Go world champion, Lee Sedol. Read More ...

 In the first part of this series, we learned about designing products that use good triggers and motivators to get users like Joe to engage in healthy behaviors. Now, how can we ensure that thes...

 New domain extensions have accumulated some pretty big numbers over the last couple of years. Collective registrations for the new GTLDs (generic top-level domains) have now surpassed 13 million...

 The World Economic Forum, the Detroit Auto Show and CES all occurred recently, and each has driven a great deal of discussion around self-driving cars. The expectation is that within a decade we...

 While internet connects us and unites us, it also has the potential to facilitate a kind of imperialism and monoculture. Read More ...

 The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Daniel Ilkovich, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, March 11, 2016. The Gang joins the hybrid world of thi...

 Fifty years ago, when someone heard the word ‘vice,’ they may have thought about the seven deadly sins: envy, wrath, lust, pride, sloth, pride and gluttony. Twenty years ago, they ma...

 The concept of artificial intelligence has been around for a long time. We’re all familiar with HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, C-3PO from Star Wars and, more recently, Samantha from ...

 Is the tech industry partly responsible for the rise of Donald Trump? That’s what John Robb, who’s always worth reading, suggests in a series of recent posts, citing the great Nassim...

 Michael Goguen, a longtime partner at Sequoia Capital who joined the tony Sand Hill Road firm roughly 20 years ago, has been named in an extraordinary breach of contract lawsuitthat accuses him ...

 Living communities and the people who build them are unique, but they share many common threads: a mix of private and community spaces, a set of shared rules and a commitment to friendliness and...

 After his nearly year-long mission on the International Space Station (ISS) and 20 years of service with NASA, Astronaut Scott Kelly will retire from the agency, effective April 1st. “This...

 Snapchat has been known for some bold (and perplexing) moves in regards to content features, attempting to revamp event marketing through Stories, redefine journalism through Discover and rethin...

 Artificial intelligence is one of the hottest subjects these days, and recent advances in technology make AI even closer to reality than most of us can imagine. The subject really got traction w...

 Consider this a public service announcement for DoorDash customers. In the coming weeks, you’re going to start seeing something new on your bills — a service fee. However, a spokespe...

 “I am way on civil liberties side of this thing” President Barack Obama said today regardingthe balance between privacy and security surrounding the FBI’s ongoing fight with Ap...

 Encryption with a backdoor accessible to very few in important situations is what President Barack Obama says he suspects is the answer to the digital privacy versus security debate. That contra...

 “[Technology can] empower individuals to do things they could have never dreamed of before, but also empower folks who are very dangerous to spread dangerous messages” President Bara...

 “[Technology can] empower individuals to do things they could have never dreamed of before, but also empower folks who are very dangerous to spread dangerous messages” President Bara...

 Mahindra, the India-based manufacturing giant, wants to offer more people the chance at a cleaner commute. The GenZe 2.0 electric scooter carries one person, a couple big bags of groceries, and ...

 The New York Times is expanding its native ad studio with the acquisition of HelloSociety, a digital marketing agency owned by Science, Inc. Los Angeles-based Science both invest in startups and...

 Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Daniel Ilkovich, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today, Friday March 11 at 1pm PT. Our LIVE chat during th...

 While most people think about hashtags, marketing stunts and SoLoMo when they hear about the Interactive part of SXSW in Austin, this year is going to be a bit different as President Barack Obam...

 Instacart, the $2 billion grocery delivery startup that recently announced an extended partnership with Whole Foods, has slashed pay for its drivers and shoppers in major markets like San Franci...

 YouTube is a beautifully weird world full of surprises. It turns out there’s a big community of TV show and movie reaction YouTubers out there. Some of them have hundreds of thousands of s...

 By now, the advantages of open source are there for all to see. When you give people access to the underlying code, good things happen. People find bugs and security holes. They make it better. ...

 Microsoft today released a new tool that will make it easier for users of Evernote’s note-taking service to make the transition to rival application OneNote, a part of the Microsoft Office...

 For the fifth year in a row, biz school professors Yael Hochbergof Rice University and Susan Cohenof the University of Richmond have ranked the many accelerator programs now up and running in th...

 This week, Facebook made a selfie filter app acquisition, Google surprised us with the Android N preview, and we ate bugs. Yeah, seriously. Silicon Valley is eating bugs now. These are the tech ...

 NASA announced that it will send its next lander to Mars, known as the InSightMars lander, in May of 2018. The mission was originally on schedule to launch later this month, but a technical issu...

 Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa, embedded in devices like the Echo speaker and Fire TV, is today taking on a new role: she’s now a banking assistant, too. Capital One announced this...

 Boston’s tech scene should shake off its inferiority complex: The “Boston Tech Party” revolution is starting to unfold. After many years of under-the-radar growth and profitabl...

 The saying “Kodak Moment” is a holdover from another era where camera owners had to be thoughtful about which snapshots deserved to be taken, due to the limitations involved with run...

 Back in 2013, Amazon acquired (and continued to operate) online math instruction company TenMarks to gain a foothold inthe online education space. Now it looks like Amazonis taking those learnin...

 General Motors (GM) announced today it plans to snap up Cruise Automation, a San Francisco-based startup making sensors that turn regular vehicles into ones that can drive themselves, for an und...

 An open source project hopes to draw on crowdsourced contributions to make Wikipedia more accessible by adding text to speech synthesis that will enable users of the online encyclopedia to have ...

 Tagly claims to be the first social platform dedicated to exclusively showcase content created by brands. Its goal is to allow users to discover, share, and collect the branded content they love...

 As the iPhone unlocking case becomes more heated, United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch went on late night television to defend the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s stance. Read Mo...

 With all the hoopla surrounding the FBI-Apple controversy, it may surprise you how easy it is to hack into an iPhone. In this video, Skycure CEO Adi Sharabani demonstrated how simple it was to a...

 Because of these patent wars and patent trolls, technology companies are divesting huge resources to defend themselves rather than advancing their innovations. This is the equivalent of nuclear ...

 After years of raising hundreds of millions of dollars to tap into the burgeoning e-commerce market in India,one of the country’s biggest tech companies is facing a markdown in its valuati...

 The war of words between Apple and the federal government relating to the San Bernardino case intensifiedtoday with the release of a 43-page document from the Justice Department that alleges, am...

 A 43-page rebuttal from the Justice Department today characterized Apple’s earlier response to an iPhone unlocking request as ‘corrosive’. Shortly thereafter, an Apple press co...

 Late last year, Congress passed legislation that substantially improved the legal landscape for startups, early-stage companies and the stakeholders in the ecosystem. You might have read about, ...

 Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Haven OnDemandmachine learning-centric developer platform has been around since late 2014, but it’s only coming out of beta and becoming commercially ava...

 Have you ever been riding in an Uber and become suddenly overtaken by the immediate need for a new Android tablet or a Dell Latitude E6420?Yeah, me neither. Read More ...

 SPLT is bringing ridesharing to the corporate world. Instead of pairing you up with strangers who happen to be heading the same way, SPLT is targeted at large organizations to help ease the logi...

 Wikipedia today launched an upgraded version of its iOS application aimed at helping users better discover content matching their own interests, including both articles and images. In addition, ...

 Fred Wilson is a name that needs no introduction, but we’re going to do it anyway. TechCrunch is excited to announce that Fred Wilson will be speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, which...

 New York-based Yext, which helps businesses manage their listings for store locations, is announcing $88.8 million in revenue for its fiscal 2016 year. The company says this is a 48% increase fr...

 Apple has just issued for its next press event on Apple Campus in Cupertino. The event is going to happen on March 21. As usual, Apple wrote a cryptic message on its invites. “Let us loop ...

 While the Apple vs FBI court battle has drawn all eyes to the question of what should be considered ‘reasonable assistance’ for companies to provide law enforcement agencies, over in...

 Soothe, the on-demand massage service, just closed a $35 million Series B round from its pre-existing investors. This brings its total funding to $47.7 million. This puts Soothe even further ahe...

 In a bid to stand out in the bustling weather app crowd, crowdsourced app Sunshine is adding a new personalization feature — giving users the ability to specify how hot or cold the weather...

 ProsperMarketplace, the marketplace lender focused on refinancing and creditrehabilitation, has re-launched its BillGuardapp (acquired last September) under its own brand as Prosper Daily. With ...

 A few days ago, Microsoft shocked us when it announced that it would soon bring its SQL Server database to Linux. It’ll take until 2017 before SQL Server will be available on Linux, though...

 Here’s a simple-but-handy-sounding update to Jukely — a standby list. For those of you who haven’t tried it, Jukely offers access to an unlimited number of concerts for $25 per...

 Do you sometimes get the feeling that you’re having a looooooong text conversation to accomplish some fairly simple planning? I’ve certainly had tedious back-and-forths where I’...

 “This is so fast it feels like cheating” students tell Volley. The education startup’s app lets students point their phone’s camera at a textbook page or piece of homewor...

 Vimeo is furtheringits investment in original programming, the company announced this morning with the unveiling of the video network’s second slate of programs and films. The new batch in...

 You might have noticed something puzzling if you’ve been keeping an eye on the crowdfunding space: A large number of seemingly promising crowdfunded hardware startups fail to deliver. The ...

 Built.iooffers a number of services for enterprises, including a mobile backend service and an integration platform. In addition, it also offers Contentstack, a headless content management servi...

 Bringing back local industry to cities helps build strong local economies and strengthens our workforce. The maker movement is encouraging entrepreneurs to share ideas, and the city is the centr...

 Up All Night, a startup aiming to give your nightlife a boost, is announcing that it has raised $500,000 in seed funding. More exciting than the amount of the funding is who’s involved: Gr...

 Confide, the messaging platform that keeps everything confidential, has today announced the close of a $1.6 million extension to their seed round, bringing total funding to $3.6 million. Investo...

 In situations where you might not feel threatened enough to call the police, but where you do want to reach out to a friend and say ‘something’s not right here’, freshly launch...

 Citymaps, the curated mapmaking company, has updated its iOS and Android application. Read More ...

 Humans are nothing if not contrary. Technology destroying jobs is something most Americans accept will happen within their lifetimes, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center, just no...

 YouTube Gaming, the video network’s dedicated application for streaming and recorded game videos, and competitor toAmazon-owned Twitch, this morning announced an expansion into several mor...

 Whole Foods and Instacart this morning confirmed the grocery chain’sextended, strategic relationship with same-daydelivery service and announced plans to expand into several new markets ov...

 Nest announced two new features designed to make its smart thermostats more convenient for families, and smarter, too. Read More ...

 When a new medium arises, so too do new brands hoping to stake a claim on the frontier. Penrose Studios wants to be the Pixar of VR, telling heartfelt stories in immersive worlds. And now it has...

 Salesforce announced today that its SalesforceIQ intelligence product now integrates with Microsoft Outlook, which happens to be the most usedbusiness email program on the planet with over 400 m...

 Icertis, which develops cloud-based software that helps large companies manage contracts, has raised a $15 million Series B led by Ignition Partners. Read More ...

 WeTransfer, the quirky Amsterdam-based startupthat competes with the likes of Dropbox and Box in the business of sharing large files between users online, has made its first acquisition. Today t...

 Ever wanted to video chat with more than one friend at a time? Well, today you might be in luck as mobile messaging service Line has added support for multiple person video calls. Read More ...

 Tableau announced today that it has acquiredHyPer,an early-stageGerman startupborn in academia that hasdeveloped an advanced database technology. Tableau intends to incorporate the technology in...

 It looks like Alibaba is in the mood for more acquisitions. The company’s recent investment spree — which includes the ongoing $3.5 billion purchase of Youku Tudou and new stakes in ...

 There has been a lot of talk about mobile ad blocking lately, but on the desktop, this is an old phenomenon. Until now, however,desktop ad blocking was all about plugins. But Operais about to ch...

 In a blog post, the CEO of speaker and home audio maker Sonos said the company will layoff employees as it adjusts to changes in the music industry by focusing on paid streaming services and voi...

 Ola, the homegrown company rivaling Uber in India, has closed its food and grocery ordering services one year after launching them. Read More ...

 Amazon’s logistics arm is taking a big step forward by leasing a fleet of Boeing 767s that will ship packages to customers in North America. Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), an air car...

 As the Internet and global commerce speed the flow of information, and as products and services for American consumers can be built in and delivered from just about any country in the world, the...

 Gene editing outfit Editashas been one of the most successful tech IPO’s of 2016 so far with shares skyrocketing up 130 percent shortly after the company’s public debut. But the stoc...

 Gene editing outfit Editashas been one of the most successful tech IPOs of 2016 so far, with shares skyrocketing up 130 percent shortly after the company’s public debut. But the stock has ...

After years of tweeting back and forth with Product Hunt Founder Ryan Hoover, I finally met him IRL when he came in to talk about curation with me for Bullish.“In a world where we’re havin...

 Zuck announcedlast month that Facebook would be bringing the company’s 360 dynamic streaming to Gear VR to improve experiences. Now, the company is giving users a crazy amount of personali...

 Square, which has been on a bit of a run lately, posted a quarter where it beat revenue estimates and saw its shares pop slightly after it reported its fourth-quarter earnings. This was Square&#...

 Cloud storage company Box reported fourth quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday, sending the stock up 13% in after-hours trading. Better-than-expected results brought the stockslightly ab...

 Cloud storage company Box reported fourth-quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday, sending the stock up 13 percent in after-hours trading. Better-than-expected results brought the stockslig...

 Cloud storage company Box reported fourth-quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday, sending the stock up 13 percent in after-hours trading. Better-than-expected results brought the stockslig...

 If Oculus has its way, the virtual reality space may grow to be the next major social space for far-flung friends to dive in and hang out. Starting tomorrow, users on the Gear VR platform will b...

 Back on February 14th, Google’s self-driving car had its first fenderbender to occur while the car’s AI was in control. The Associated Press managed to get footage of the accident fr...

 Stowaway Cosmetics is a startup taking on the $60 billion makeup industry by selling pint-sized lipsticks, blushes and foundations direct to consumers. Chelsa Crowley and her co-founder Julie Fr...

 It’s a tough world out there for on-demand startups — confusion around the W2 vs. 1099 conversation, tough margins, and customer service are but a few of the initial obstacles for th...

 So, you’re cruising down the highway with your latest fare, making money whenever you choose to turn on your engine. But that 1099 economy you’re so fond of should come with a warnin...

 We’ve heard relatively little from Steve Chen since he joined Google Ventures afterparting ways with Chad Hurley, his co-founder at YouTube and more recently Avos. It turns out that alongs...

 Julie Desk, the French startup that’s developed a ‘virtual assistant’ to automate the email back-and-forth typically associated with scheduling meetings and appointments, has p...

 A few months ago, Google pivoted Google+ away frombeing a basic social network and put a focus on content curationinstead.To reward the mostinteresting and active users on its service, Google to...

 Google today announced that it is joining the Open Compute Project(OCP), a five-year-old project founded by Facebook and a number of other companies that aims to drive IT infrastructure developm...

 Cisco announced it haspurchased Synata, a search startup that allows users to search across on-premise or cloud repositoriessimultaneously. Cisco plans to integrate the Synata technology into it...

 Google unexpectedly launched the Android N Developer Preview today. And to make things even easier for developers — and adventurous users — the preview is available as an over-the-ai...

 Twitter Moments,the feature that’s meant to highlight the best of Twitter in a more magazine-like format, has so far failed to incite further user growth, as was initially hoped. But the c...

 Webpage bloat is a growing problem. So no surprise techniques to speed page load times have often focused on data compression to try to shrink the number of milliseconds it takes for a website t...

 Santa Monica-based Mucker Capital has raised $45 million for its third fund, Mucker III. The Silicon Beach firm said that it will continue to invest in software and services startups and continu...

 Lightspeed Venture Partners, the 16-year-old, Menlo Park, Ca.-based early-stage venture firm, has raised two new funds totaling $1.2 billion, according to two new SEC filings. One filing, for th...

 It seems like I talk about connected cars and V2X and autonomous vehicles like it’s my job. Probably because it is. But like a lot of people, I do not yet own a car that’s connected ...

 It seems like I talk about connected cars and V2X and autonomous vehicles like it’s my job. Probably because it is. But like a lot of people, I do not yet own a car that’s connected ...

 Snapchat bought Looksery to supercharge its animated selfie filters, and now Facebook has made an image filtering acquisition of its own to keep up the messaging pace. Today, the company confirm...

 NewCo, a nearly four-year-old, San Francisco-based company that produces city-like festivalsthat acquaint attendees with local businesses, has raised roughly $4.3 million in fresh funding, shows...

 In case there was any doubt where Instagram was drawing the line when it cameto its shutdown of third-party feed reading apps, it appears that its decision to revoke API access doesn’t jus...

 Mobile is changing how people work, travel, read, communicate, shop and many other lifestyle behaviors. In the Internet Trends 2015 report by KPCB, mobile engagement is better than ever, with th...

 Crowdsourced journalism startupFresco Newshas just scored a notable partnership which will bring photo and video footage shot by ordinary citizens to several local Fox newsrooms around the U.S. ...

 Citymaps, the curated mapmaking company, has updated its iOS and Android application to include a downloadable option so users can access maps offline. Read More ...

 Google has been working for a while nowon ways to bring more Bluetooth beacon projects into its ecosystem, including the launch of itsEddystone open beacon formatand its concept of the“app...

 The rate of growth of Apple’s iOS in urban China slowed in the three months ending January 2016, according to the latest data from smartphone market watcher KantarWorldpanel. Read More ...

 Facebook Lite, Facebook stripped down version of its service for Android, just past the notable landmark of 100 million monthly active users and became the social network’s fastest growing...

 Indochino is following up on the recent appointment of a new CEO with a big new round of funding. The company, which allows you to purchase made-to-measure menswear on its website and in physica...

 Intel announced over nightin a company blog postthat it has purchased Israeli company Replay Technologies. The company provides an unusual 3D video renderingcapability it calls“free dimens...

 Late at night at a schoolhouse in a village in rural India, a team of young men are pitching Indian farmers on a mobileservice offeringthem a new way to sell their produce. The pitch is for the ...

 Public libraries are often overlooked, but they can be just as essential as tech companies to making sure the Internet is accessible to all. India’s Nasscom Foundation, which wants to impr...

 iFlix, the video streaming service rivaling Netflix in Southeast Asia, has landed $45 million in fresh funding from UK broadcaster Sky. Read More ...

 For years, payments has been one of the hottest areas in fintech for several years, and everyone has been lining up to join the party.Now, hands free innovations from companies like Google and P...

 Finding affordable primary medical care can be a headache for people in India. SeeDoc is one of the newest companies using technology to solve that problem. Based in New Delhi, its mobile app co...

 There’s a notable moment in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) today, after DeepMind — the London-based company from Google — used its technology to defeat Go worl...

 Google is making it easier than ever to plan a trip or vacation with a new feature that lets you look up destinations, complete with flight and hotels prices, right from its search engine on a m...

 Skype, the Microsoft-owned video calling service, has quietly announced that it will no longer offer an app for smart TVs from June. Read More ...

 According to 451 Research, over 100 new security startups are formed each year. Add that to ~1300 existing security vendors that are shouting each other out in the marketplace. What you have is ...

 When Polyvore CEO Jess Lee was looking for a CFO, she found everything she wanted in Cheryl Dalrymple: incredible experience, shared values about how to run a company and immediate personal rapp...

 Fake reviews have been an occasional and frustrating by-product on sites like Google, Yelp and Amazon for years. But a recentcase in the Netherlands highlights howone companyaffected by themfoug...

 Tovala is a new startup out of Y Combinator that came up with what they hope to be a less expensive alternative to professional combination ovens. The Tovala is a smart oven that can bake, boil ...

 Spot, a startup that says it can help you find “the best places in the world,” is launching to the public. The company emerged from “startup studio” Expa.It’s also ...

 Spot, a startup that says it can help you find “the best places in the world,” is launching to the public. The company emerged from “startup studio” Expa. It’s...

 Imagine a much better world — the people-centered economy — where three billion workers have jobs tailored to fit their unique sets of skills, talents, passions, where they work with...

 Imagine a much better world — the people-centered economy — where three billion workers have jobs tailored to fit their unique sets of skills, talents, passions, where they work with...

 It’s dumbfounding how an industry as huge as live music still relies on a patchwork of backwards, outdated technologies. Word document offer letters, PDF riders, endless back-and-forth ema...

 By all accounts, the London startup scene was abuzz with Entrepreneur First‘s latest Demo Day today, as 25 startups — up from 9! — took to the stage to pitch their wares. The s...

 Happy International Women’s Day.This year, the theme is “Pledge For Parity,” meaning committing to achieving equality around status and pay. Last year, the World Economic Forum...

 Using your hand to grasp a pen that’s lying on your desk doesn’t exactly feel like a chore, but for robots, that’s still a really hard thing to do. So to teach robots how to be...

 Peeple, the controversialpeople-rating application that lets its usersrate and review anyone, is not a hoaxor vaporware, as many suspected following the media backlash surrounding the unveiling ...

 New mediums mint new rock stars, and for virtual reality it’s Chris Milk. From surreal dreamscapes to #BlackLivesMatter protests to Jordanian refugee camps, he’s created some of most...

 Veritas Genetics was one of the first companies to sequence the entire human genome forless than$1,000 in 2015. It’s now taken that technology a step further by delivering the results of y...

 The nation relies on systemically important market infrastructures. As you may have guessed, these engines of economy are designed to resist change. That’s not a bad thing. A certain amoun...

 Don’t just drunkenly wander around SXSW. Meet amazing people and catch an unforgettable concert at TechCrunch’s SXSW party. Between 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. on Saturday March 12, join...

 We are big fans of littleBits here at TechCrunch. The company, which raised $44.2 million last year, offers a number of different sets that teach kids (and grown-ups) about programming and elect...

 Pinterest today is releasing a set of new advertising management tools that were previously unavailable for smaller businesses as its portfolio of advertising products — and revenue potent...

 Google today announced that it is renaming Skybox Imaging, the satellite startup it acquired in 2014, to Terra Bella. More than just a name change, though, the company says this switch is also a...

 In January, office rents in San Francisco eclipsed those of New York to become the most expensive in the country. Two months later, there are signs the San Francisco may not maintain its dubious...

 Vessel, thevideo subscription startupheadedby former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, announced this weekthat it’s moving in a new direction in terms of the advertising displayed on itsservice. In a ...

 No one else ever sees most of your camera roll. But if you’re brave enough, your close friends might enjoy seeing every photo, video, and screenshot, not just the best ones. So call it cre...

 Atlassian, the enterprise software company behind HipChat and JIRA that went publicback in December,just released its first-ever diversity report. There’s really nothing surprising nor com...

 Mobile security firm Lookout has introduced today what may be one of the more practical applications for Apple Watch. Its new smartwatch app will help you to not lose your phone, by alerting you...

London-based health startup Yomp, which raised $315,000 (200,000) from five angel investors last year, set out to be a heath and wellness platform which ‘gamified’ company employees into h...

 “The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppres...

 Amazon’s foray into fashion continues today with the launch of what will be the company’s first daily live show, called Style Code Live, which will feature fashion and beauty tips an...

 Tired of watching (relatively) lengthyonline videos when there’s only 10, 30 or 60 seconds that you really care about? Well, viral publisher and publishing toolmaker Playbuzz has a solutio...

 As well as its biggest ever Demo Day, Entrepreneur First, the UK accelerator which has designs on becoming the ‘Y Combinator of Europe’ today added former serial entrepreneurs Wendy ...

 Wunder Capital, a provider of solar financing for medium-sized businesses, has raised $3.6 million in a new round of financing. In all, the company has raised $4.7 million from Techstars Venture...

 Wunder Capital, a provider of solar financing for medium-sized businesses, has raised $3.6 million in a new round of financing. The company has raised $4.7 million from Techstars Ventures, Fenwa...

 Microsoft today announced that it is joining the Eclipse Foundation — the open source group that’s probably best known for its Eclipse IDE, but which also offers a number of other de...

 It’s a new year and we have some fresh faces for TechCrunch — faces whose interests run the gamut from robotics to venture to gadgets and photography to science to transportation and...

 Last year we reported that Truecaller — the popular, smart phonebook app and startup —was looking to raise $100 millionat a $1 billion valuation. But while therehas been nodevelopmen...

 Always be shipping: Hot on the heels of Zeeqo acquiring London-based delivery startup ParcelBright, another company helping online sellers ship their wares has picked up funding. Read More ...

 Mexico is one of Uber’s largest and most profitable markets. Read More ...

 While Spotify is acquiring startupsexpandits messaging and social features, Pandora is also raisingits game in the artist-to-fancommunicationssphere for musicians to better target Pandora’...

 As we approach the inevitable rise of VR we’re going to need some better cameras. The $109 Panoporter might be just the thing. This 1080p device features a single camera and a clever lens ...

 The first generation of Google Glass may have fizzled out, but the idea of a headset that connects you to the online world is still kind of sexy (and maybe a little unsettling), as shownby this ...

 Spot instances on AWS can help you save quite a bit of money over paying for a regular virtual machine on EC2. In return, though, these machines may shut down at any time when demand for regular...

 The Internet is awash with gloom-and-doom predictions about the death of many unicorns, a down market for investing in startups, falling public company multiples and a massive disconnect between...

 Their feature sets don’t necessarily speak to a grandiose vision from Samsung regarding the company’s future. They don’t offer solutions to problems users weren’t awareth...

 Their feature sets don’t necessarily speak to a grandiose vision from Samsung regarding the company’s future. They don’t offer solutions to problems users weren’t awareth...

 You can now use Apple Pay to buy gas at 6,000 ExxonMobil locations across the U.S. The transactions can be made through the free Speedpass app, meaning that customers won’t have to get out...

 Seoul-based Polaris Office is launching its cloud-based software suite in the United States with the very ambitious goal (some might say quixotic) of challenging Microsoft Office and Google for ...

 It’s been almost two years since Square expanded its mobile payments service into a new country — it most recently hit Japan, its first foray outside of North America, in May 2013 &#...

 The director of UK spy agency, GCHQ, has urged closer co-operation between governments and the tech sector to end what he dubbed the “abuse of encryption”, describing it as a “...

 500 Startups is continuing its efforts to tap on Asia’s fast-growing startup scene after the U.S.-headquartered VC firm announced a $10 million fund in Vietnam. Read More ...

 A day after Finnish oline bank Holvi got acquired by BBVA, here comes yet more consolidation in Europe’s fintech landscape. Today, Atom Bank — a still stealth, online-only startup, c...

 Veeqo, the Wales-headquartered company that offers e-commerce inventory software, has acquired London-based parcel delivery startup ParcelBright to bolster its shipping features. Terms of the de...

 Google is currently talking with several Indian telecoms to help launch Project Loon, which uses balloons instead of cellular towers to provide affordable Internet access in remote areas. Accord...

 Ant Financial, the Alibaba affiliate that manages hugely popular payments service Alipay, is raising a new round of financing that could value the company as high as $60 billion ahead of a much-...

 Microsoft’s Skype introduced launched its real-time translation feature out of beta about half a year ago and today it is adding Arabic — and more specifically, Modern Standard Arabi...

 Authorities in New York have taken the first step to appealing a judge’s ruling last month that denied a request for information held on an iPhone. Read More ...

 A New York City startup called Heroplans to replace those plasticpill organizerswith a high-tech home appliance.As demonstrated for me by the Hero team, it’s easy to load your medicines, v...

 Crimson Hexagon is announcing that it has raised $20 million in additional equity funding. Founded in 2007, the Boston-headquartered company helps brands and ad agencies track conversations acro...

 I was in a place where the only thing constraining me in virtual realitywas my couch potato bod and a crippling realization that footage of me using it would live forever on the web. This is lif...

 There is a looming crisis in information security that will necessitate that businesses change how they manage their security efforts. While there will always be new attacks and methodologies wi...

 The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Saturday, March 5, 2016. The Gang goes full tilt boogie on the Republican race to th...

 Virginia GovernorTerry McAuliffe just signed into law the “Fantasy Contests Act,” which is a legal frameworkfor fantasy sports providers that operate in the state. The bill, which wa...

 Music listeners are cheapskates. Few will pay Spotify or Apple $10 a month even to stream almost every song ever. Meanwhile, radio services Pandora hardly scrape by on the meager ad rates after ...

 SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship relational database product, is nowavailable on Linuxin the form of an early private preview, with a full launch planned for mid-2017. Until now, SQL Serve...

 In a world suffering from app overload, the Y Combinator-backed startup Prompt introduces a different way to interact with services, make purchases, or even control “Internet of ThingsR...

 Google never “got” social. For all the resources thrown at it, Google+ just never quite felt human. But luckily Google just hired the guy behind 4Chan — a site that epitomized ...

 Google Photos, the service that allows you to back up, organize and search across all your photos and videos, has just rolled out a notable update on iOS. The iPhone and iPad application now sup...

 There’s a new body-tracking workout outfit that looks to compete with the likes of Athos and other workout-tracking sensors that’s launching on Kickstarter today. Enflux, a Y Combina...

 President Obama’s recent announcement of the creation of the Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP) made waves across government and tech audiences, as it proposed a $19 billion budget ...

 Mobile marketing company Tuneis releasing a new report, where24.6 percent of survey respondents said that they’d downloaded an ad-blocking app or browser.The company says it surveyed nearl...

 Agency Geek has launched a new online service that purports to algorithmically match service agencies with prospective clients (basically they have a search tool for small businesses to find the...

 Ryan Leslie gave every fan his phone number. It’s (915) 600-6978. But instead of a million unwanted phone calls, it’s making him money and giving him deeper intelligence about his li...

 Lyft is now allowing third-party developers to build on its platform, starting with Facebook Messenger today.Uber opened its API to third-party developers more than 18 months ago,announcing a pa...

 The Federal Communications Commission announced today that it has reached an agreement with Verizon Wireless.The FCC says it’s been investigating Verizon’s use of Unique Identifier H...

 You can now sign up forProject Fi, Google’s first foray into offering its owncell phone service,without an invite. The service, which launched ten months ago, was an invite-only project un...

 Within the next month, a pair of the most highly hypedVR headsetsare getting ready to launch. The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are both expensive, powerful pieces of hardware that will likely see ad...

 UpLabs is a community-powered marketplacethat letsdesigners and developers share ready-to-ship UI resources — like login boxes and payment forms— to build apps and sites.Originally f...

 Skype announced today further integrations into Microsoft’s suite of online tools, with news that access to the communications app is now available while working in Office Online and OneDr...

 Confirming reports from earlier this year, which spoke of a forthcoming revamp of the Facebook Messenger application for Android devices, Facebook today began rolling out a new, Material Design-...

 Gross? Well, that gross idea just pulled in a $4 million Series A round from AccellFoods, existing investor Collaborative Fund and a bunch of angels including Nas and Tim Ferriss. The team behin...

 This year, more money will be spent on political ads – $11.4 billion – than ever before. According to Borrell Associates around $1 billion of that will be spent on digital media, and...

 Apple looks to have come to the end of the road in a long running legal saga involving allegations of an e-books price inflating conspiracy. Read More ...

 Augmented reality and virtual reality have been the subject of a lot of hype from proponentswho advocate its inevitability as a mainstream platform. With over $1.1 billion invested in the space ...

 We’re now a year into the White House’s TechHire initiative to help more Americans qualify for better, higher-paying tech jobs regardless of their pedigree. The verdict so far? TechH...

 A couple of years ago The Duke Of Yorkin England launched his Pitch@Palace events which have become a regular, and respected fixture in the London startup scene. Today, for the first time ever, ...

 Apple has shut down what appears to have beenthe first, fully-functional ransomware targeting Mac computers. This particular form of cyber threat involves malware that encrypts the data on your ...

 People are trying to steal your credentials or trick you into giving them important information. They are exploiting unpatched operating systems, locating security holes in applications and hack...

 People are trying to steal your credentials or trick you into giving them important information. They are exploiting unpatched operating systems, locating security holes in applications and hack...

 In its eighth year, Startup Turkey, a gathering of 600, is one of the country’s premier startup events. Read More ...

 Hooch, which just launched in LA, is a subscription-based app that gives its members one cocktail every day for just $9.99 per month.Yes, we’re being serious. For less than the price of on...

 Staff Finder, the European on-demand marketplace for temporary staffing, has closed a funding round led by One Peak Partners and Goldman Sachs Private Capital. Terms of the investment isn’...

 SoundCloud — the audio streaming startup approaching200 million users whose catalogue is based around user-generated content — has struggledwithmounting lossesandlabel licensing, whi...

 In any conversation I have about London’s fintech space, property crowdfunding platform Property Partner is almost certain to come up. The startup which lets you invest from as little as 5...

 Spanish banking giant BBVA has madeanother M&A playas it looks for a bigger role in the next generation of financial services: today the company has announced the acquisition of Holvi, an on...

 Last week following volatility in global stock markets, I had the opportunity to check in with Tom Tunguz to discuss macro-economics and the public markets and explore the wider implications of ...

 Lavabit, the former encrypted email provider that shut down its service in 2013 after the FBI demanded its encryption keys, has filed an amicus brief in support of Apple in its legal battle with...

 When a market turns, everyone get socked to a certain degree. Atour upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt conference, we’ll be sitting down with three pros on the front lines of a suddenly slowingte...

 Ray Tomlinson, one of the men who pioneered email, has passed away at the age of 74, according to reports in Australia. Read More ...

 GetLinks, a Bangkok-based startup focused on helping tech companies find and hire top talent, has closed a $500,000 seed round. Read More ...

 There is a rising tide of concern in the U.S. This concern has always been front and center in Silicon Valley. It centers around the shortage of skilled IT workers and the threats modern technol...

 Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering (and one of its most popular WWDC presenters) says the FBI’s demands on the company will make all iOS users mor...

 Cybercrime is an enormous problem — a nemesis of the federal government, America’s biggest corporations and tens of millions of individuals. But there is now legitimate hope that a b...

 It’s being predicted that by the end of this year, mobile payment transactions in the U.S. will grow 210 percent. Despite this impressive gain, it turns out that not everyone is taking adv...

 A year ago, the design-focused software firm Autodesk announced it would stop selling its standalone perpetual licenses of its desktop software, and early last month, it began implementing that ...

 The lifetime of the computer has been marked by an ongoing struggle to communicate with the machine. When two human conversational participants come from different languages, true communication ...

 Good companies will always get funded. If that’s your company, it’s important to make sure you have the resources to keep it alive long enough to get funded. Murmurs of a looming dow...

 The Internet of Things and the Internet might seem inextricably linked, but, increasingly, there are questions centered around how IoT devices should work with one another — and what happe...

 It all started as an alternative to the traditional college education. Now they’ve caught the eyes of deans across the country. Coding bootcamps have been a trending topic in higher educat...

 Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today, Saturday March 5th, at 10:30amPT/1:30pmET. Our LIVE chat during the show...

 Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. Our LIVE chat during the show broadcast Gillmor Gang o...

 Google Street View uses in-house data-capturing tech that lets you see the world from the comfort of your own device. GSV allows us to see not only photos of certain gems on the planet, but prov...

 An Austin-based venture capital firm recently offered my company $400,000 for 40 percent of its equity. This was one week before their counterpart in the Bay Area offered $2 million for 20 perce...

 Bagging lots of users is a challenge one of the startups in Y Combinator’s 2016 winter batch is worrying about a bit less than the average. The two-man strong founder team of Thunkable is ...

 Did you know that a Code of Conduct war is underway in the world of open-source software development? I realize that this sounds ridiculous. Codes of Conduct boil down to: “a) don’t ...

 Less than a day after it emerged that Amazon had quietly dropped device encryption support for its Fire tablets and other Fire OS devices, the U.S. firm has flip-flopped and said that it will re...

 There are several enterprise players that want a share of Salesforce’s business, but just aren’t making headway by knuckling up against the company’s dominant, entrenched SaaS ...

 PayPal has been going through some big changes since separating from eBay last year. The company recently introduced a redesigned appand is now monetizing its popular peer-to-peer payments app, ...

 You’re with a small group of friends at a nice restaurant. Everyone is enjoying the food and conversation when someone decides to take out his phone — not for an urgent call, but to ...

 Today at 6:35pm EST, SpaceX successfully launched the SES-9 communications satellite into Geostationary orbit (GEO).Launching the SES-9 payload was the primary goal of today’s mission, but...

 The debates in Congress will be ugly, uninformed, and emotional. Lawmakers won’t know which side to pick and will flip flop between what lobbyists ask and the public’s fear du jour. ...

 What’s it like being the founder of two wildly successful startups, advisor to Linkedin and Automattic and a prolific angel investor with Buffer and Mattermark? Hiten Shah shares a glimpse...

 Add this one to the bucket list….A startup called Cape Productions will capture you skiing with a drone. Stationed at Squaw Valley in Lake Tahoe, the team provides aerial footage of you ra...

 The Sand Hill Road venture firm Andreessen Horowitz is in the thick of fundraising and talking with investors about a fresh $1.5 billion fund, according to several sources who note the fund coul...

 Amazon is making it difficultto pre-order the $90 Echo Dot. But there’s still a way and it’s really easy to nab your place in line for the new mini Echo. Better hurry, though. Amazon...

 Browser extensions change the way we work. They alter facets of your job by changing the experience of the apps on which you rely so they conform to your workflow — versus having to open 1...

 This week we went hands-on with a few awesome gadgets, including the Fitbit Blaze and the Meta 2 AR headset, Slack introduced voice calling, and one of Google’s self-driving cars got into ...

 Sony is doing something unheard of in the consumer electronic space: It’s going to show off prototypes. Can you imagine Apple or Samsung doing that? Not really, no. For several good reason...

 As promised, Google today announced that it is making a number of changes to how it handles links it has delisted under Europe’s ‘right to be forgotten‘ regulations. Instead of...

 A new app from David Barnard, the developer behind the popular Launch Center Pro,promises to be the cure for boredom. Rando, as the app is called, offersa crazy twist on ourcarefully curated onl...

 With Apple vowing to resist the FBI’s demands for an iPhone backdoor in the San Bernardino case all the way to the Supreme Court, many people assume the company is motivated purely out of ...

 When Slack announced newvoice and video services earlier this week,the enterprise messaging startup signalled a move into territory dominated bythe likes of Microsoft’s Skype. But it looks...

 Google has hidden a little surprise today in Google Maps for fans of “The Legend of Zelda” – the company is celebrating the release of the new game, “The Legend of Zelda:...

 The United States faces a global competitiveness crisis that, if not addressed, will put our nation at a strategic disadvantage for decades to come. In just a few years, there will be 1.8 millio...

 Two new,recentlylaunched applications,Daycap andVideoSlam, make it easy to summarize your day in the format of videos or GIFs, which can then be shared out to social media.Do you need these apps...

 If you’re looking for a supremelyqualified intelligence figure to talk to about the current state of technology, policy and intelligence, you could do worse than retired four-star Air Forc...

 Conventional wisdom dictates that Apple performs best in Western markets, where operator-subsidized contracts are most popular and consumer spending power is greater, but it turns out the U.S. c...

 The big tech news is the recent torrent of capital to Africa Internet Group (AIG)—which owns online retailer Jumia and 9 other e-ventures.Yesterday AIG announced 300 million ($326 million)...

 The SkyWall 100 is one of the latest device promising to protect the world from the impending drone takeover. It’s essentially a smart bazooka that fires a canister filled with a net at dr...

 Bumble, the popular dating app where girls make the first move, has released an updatethat may turn the dating app world on its head. The new feature, called BFF,essentially lets users use the s...

 The legal tussle between Apple and the FBI over a locked iPhone, and the security weakening measures the security services want the iOS maker to take to help it extract data on the device, has n...

 The legal tussle between Apple and the FBI over a locked iPhone, and the security weakening measures the security services want the iOS maker to take to help it extract data on the device, has n...

 Amazon has confirmed that version 5 of Fire OS for its Fire tablet removes support for device encryption. Read More ...

 Amazon has confirmed that version 5 of Fire OS for its Fire tablet removes support for device encryption. Read More ...

On Thursday, the San Bernardino District Attorney speculated that the phone in question may be housing a “dormant cyber pathogen” that threatens the county. The DA’s comment represen...

 At a panel discussion today at the RSA conference in San Francisco, Apple found two unlikely allies when the former heads of the NSA and HomelandSecurity threw their support behind encryption te...

 At a panel discussion today at the RSA conference in San Francisco, Apple found two unlikely allies when the former heads of the NSA and HomelandSecurity threw their support behind encryption te...

 Market movements in the technology sector — particularly in SaaS tech companies — are causing a stir among investors. It’s always a challenge to estimate valuation ranges for p...

 For the first time in about eight years, we saw a decline in the small business customer base of app developers (in terms of revenue and per-project value). The primary reason cited is the rise ...

 In the latest sign of support for Apple’s ongoing security legal battle, Box, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other tech behemoths have filed an “amicus brief,” meaning that th...

 Called the X-Prize for music the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition pits multiple musicians and makers against each other at Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center for the Arts. A group of judges...

 Called the X-Prize for music the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition pits multiple musicians and makers against each other at Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center for the Arts. A group of judges...

 Peakview is the investment advisory arm of Shengjing Group and the largest global fund of funds in China. It alsohas millions of dollars to invest in U.S.-based venture capital funds, it says.Th...

 Peakview is the investment advisory arm of Shengjing Group and the largest global fund of funds in China.It also has millions of dollars to invest in U.S.-based venture capital funds, it says. T...

 ICX Media, a Washington, D.C. startup promising to help video creators find an audience and make money, announced today that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. The company was founded b...

 With $6.5 million in funding from Crosslink Capital, Upfront Ventures, 500 Startups and others, Comparably is launching a platform for employment and salary information. The Santa Monica-based s...

 Docker today announced that it has acquired Conductant, a small startupthat focused on orchestration. While you have probably never heard of Conductant — and as far as we can see, the comp...

 When I heard Ray Kurzweil present the concept of the singularity to a small group at TED, the idea that computing power advances would ultimately allow thinking machines to advance beyond humans...

 What really matters to American voters in the 2016 election? According to Frank Luntz, one of the most respected Republican pollsters, it can summarized in a word: “security”. Read M...

 A popular smartwatch customization platform for Android, Facer, has today made its way to iOS and Apple Watch. While there are already dozens of utilities on the App Store that allow users to be...

 First came the Transportation hub with Uber, and now Facebook Messenger is launching “its very first music integration” with Spotify. Inside the Messenger “More” section ...

 First came the Transportation hub with Uber, and now Facebook Messenger is launching “its very first music integration” with Spotify. Inside the Messenger “More” section ...

 RingCentral, which focuses on providing VoIP services to businesses, today announced the beta launch of its WebRTC-based API and developer kit for developers. RingCentral’s one-year-oldCon...

 Neumob, which recently raised an $8.5 million Series A round, helps developers speed up their apps with the help of a combination of a content delivery network and a number of network optimizati...

 Thanks to smartphones and the rise of apps like Snapchat and Periscope, vertical videos have gone frombeing an annoyance requiring a workaround to a popular and often preferred video file format...

 One more chapter in the messy story of Powa Technologies, the payments startup that last raised money at a $2.7 billion valuation but rapidlysankinto the deadpool on a flimsy raft of vaporware. ...

 One more chapter in the messy story of Powa Technologies, the payments startup that last raised money at a $2.7 billion valuation but rapidlysankinto the deadpool on a flimsy raft of vaporware. ...

 LinkedIn today open-sourced WhereHows, a meta data-centric toolthe company has long used internally to make it easier for its employees to discover data the company generates and to track the li...

 Niniane Wang was watching the infamous “iPhone vs. Evo”video — a short animated film of two creatures poking fun at the iPhone — on YouTubeand was thinking ofall the ways...

 J.J. Abrams, best known as the co-creator of TV series “Lost” and director of recent “Star Trek” movies as well as “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” is now brin...

 One of the problems with technology maturation frameworks like the Gartner hype cycle is that you never know where you stand. That is certainly the case with mobile apps today. Depending on whom...

 Consumers can expect to see more augmented reality used by other famous film franchises in the near future. ILMxLAB currently works with a number of filmmakers to help create more engaging theat...

 Apple has expanded its presence on Twitter, adding an English-language general support channel — called simply @AppleSupport — which it says will be tweeting out tips and tricks, as ...

 Vimeo, the video network and underdog to the global behemoth that is YouTube, has given its iOSapplication a massive redesign today aimed at making it easier to upload, discover and play videos....

 Citymaps, the curated mapmaking company, has updated its iOS and Android application to include a downloadable option so users can access maps offline. Read More ...

 Alaska is home to one of the toughest endurance events in the world: theIditarod — a 1000+ miles dog sled race across the vast wilderness that is the U.S.’s northernmost state. Most ...

 Astartup out of Sweden called Mapillary isusing crowdsourced photos to createan open and more intelligent version of Google’s Street View, and today itannounced a Series A round of funding...

 Life is hard enough for teens, so Shots sidestepped bullies with a selfie sharing app that doesn’t allow commenting. Now the 6.6 million daily active user social network wants to boost kid...

 Amazon’s voice-operated command center Echo produces something close to modern-day magic within our homes: Get the latest news, order a pizza, turn off the lights or find out who killed Br...

 StockRadars, a Thailand-based service providing mobile-based analytics and insight for trading, just followed Robinhood’s lead and enabled real-time stock trading inside its app for the fi...

 While Angie’s List continues to reject acquisition offers, the home services marketplace is taking a big step to boost its online audience, and hopefully the number of people using it to f...

 Everyone’s favorite retro backpack maker is heading into the 21st century. The Vancouver-based company has released something called the Lawson Backpack, a grand departure from their olde-...

 Armed with $13.25 million in funding from Khosla Ventures, Ron Conway, Marc Benioff, Bain Capital and others, Roofstock is launching a marketplace for buying and selling already-rented homes. Th...

 Wrap Media has raised $4 million it will use to grow its business in Japan. The new funding comes from returning investor Dream Incubator, a Tokyo-based consulting and private equity firm that h...

 Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is flexing its platform muscle by shutting down deeplinking to other social media services. Previously Instagram users were able to include ‘...

 Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is flexing its platform muscle by shutting down deeplinking to some other social media services within its apps. Read More ...

 Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is flexing its platform muscle by shutting down ‘add me’ deeplinking for some other social media services within its apps. Read More ...

 Fresh from pulling in $83 million from European insurance giant AXA last month, Africa Internet Group (AIG) — the Rocket Internet-backed company behind e-commerce site Jumia — has an...

 RNTS, the Dutchparent company of Fyber(formerly known as SponsorPay) and Heyzap, continues itsrun ofad tech acquisitions. Today the company announced that it has acquired Inneractive, an Israeli...

 The Zika virus continues to spread across South America and beyond, but unlike with other pandemics, identifying and mapping the outbreak has proven hard. Google today announced that it is now w...

 Bangalore is the setting for the latest showdown between Uber and its India-based rival Ola after both companies launched motorbike taxi on-demand services in the city. Read More ...

 Online payment processing startup Dwolla has been hit with a $100,000 penalty by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB, a government agency, said in a consent order that Dwol...

 In an effort to appeal to cord cutters, AT&T will launch three new services that allow users to stream DirecTV online without an annual contract, satellite dish, or set-top box. The plans...

 If flying cars and personal assistants that live inside your light bulbs sound far-fetched, think again. The high-tech apps and devices that debuted at CES 2016 this year prove we’re livin...

 Eight, the startup formerly known as Luna, announced today that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The company makes a smart mattress cover that can track your sleep, change temperatu...

 Weebly isn’t just for building websites anymore — it recently launched Promote, a platform for building marketing emails. CEO David Rusenko said this is actually Weebly’s secon...

 If you’ve ever looked at meditation and thought “that stuff just sends me to sleep,” you may just be onto something. Mindfulness Everywhere recently released Sleepfulness, an a...

 Lending Club, the largest P2P lending platform in the U.S., has seen its share price drop by more than 50 percent since December 10; the price per share on the NASDAQ Stock Market dropped from $...

 HBO announced today it would be expanding its streaming footprint with the launch of standalone streaming services in Brazil and Argentina, which are set to go live before the end of 2016. These...

 Home furnishings site Dot & Bo is expanding into workplace design, with the launch of Dot & Bo for Business. The e-commerce startup will be offering a free styling service to other start...

 Another chance to participate in TechCrunch Include Office Hours is here. On March 18th, Santi Subotovsky and Alison Wagonfeld of Emergence Capital will join TechCrunch editors to provide advice...

 Slack was being cheeky when yesterday it said voice chat would start testing “very, very soon”. Today the new “Calls” feature starting rolling out on Slack for desktop an...

 WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned mobile messaging service that recently hit 1 billion users worldwide, is today rolling out a much-anticipated feature to its apps on iOS and Android devices: documen...

 Want to develop for Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed-reality platform but don’t want to pay $3,000 for the developer kit? Until now, it looked like you were out of luck, but as Microsoft a...

 Cisco continued its buying spree today as it announced its intention to acquire Israeli chip designerLeabaSemiconductorfor $320 million. Cisco sees this acquisitionas a way to advance its hardwa...

 GoTenna, the device for people who want to stay connected when they don’t have cell signal, has found a natural launch partner — outdoor equipment retailer REI. Daniela Perdomo, goTe...

 Plane is a new social app from Tim Allison, who previously founded Cupple, the relationship app acquired by YC alumni Pair (which since re-branded to Couple and was sold to Life360). Read More ...

 Voicemail is so last century. The idea of phoning someone then leaving a rambling message when they don’t pick up seems decidedly antiquated in the age of instant connectivity, where frien...

Robin and Saul Klein are the ‘father and son’ VCs behind the new LocalGlobe seed fund (website, twitter, Medium). Just recently they led a 1.1 million investment in online mortgage advisor...

 There has been a lot of hype around using drones to in precision agriculture, but for the time being, using regular planes outfitted with specialized cameras is still a more cost-effective way t...

 The open data that is being released by the Federal Government and particularly by the Department of Commerce is a key asset that is enabling both transparency and business opportunities across ...

 Following its acquisition of Stitch last year, SugarCRM — a CRM and open source competitor to Salesforce — has picked up another startup to enhance thearsenal of intelligent sales to...

 Google is rolling out a pilot program today that introduces a new way to pay cashiers — and it involves leaving your phone in your pocket. It’s called Hands Free, and it’s a wa...

 A possible tidbit of early sales data for one of 2016’s flagship virtual reality systems: the HTC-Valve Vive has apparently racked up more than 15,000 pre-orders in less than 10 minutes, a...

 A possible tidbit of early sales data for one of 2016’s flagship virtual reality systems: the HTC-Valve Vive has apparently racked up more than 15,000 pre-orders in less than 10 minutes, a...

 Lola, the first tampon subscription service to use 100 percent cotton tampons, is today announcing the close of a $3 million seed round of funding. The round was led by Lerer Hippeau Ventures wi...

 YouTube announced this morning two programs aimed atfunding and highlighting women’s voices across its video network. One sees the company forging a year-long partnership with U.N. to appo...

 It’s no secret that “data scientist” is one of the hottest job titles going. DJ Patil famously proclaimed data scientist “The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” befor...

 Launched last July as “a social network for connecting with others to discuss polarizing topics such as politics, religion and social issues,”Roust releases their first iOS app today...

 Back in December, Mozilla called it a daywith its failed Firefox OS for mobile business, and said it would pivot the technology into a newInternet of Things strategy. Amid a good dose of skeptic...

 On the heels of the success of itsDiscover Weeklyfeature,Spotify is adding another curated service so that users can findnew music. CalledFresh Finds, the new weekly Wednesday feature, available...

 As modern virtual reality welcomes its consumer moment with the impending releases of the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, off in the distant far-less-sexy enterprise space exists a class of augmented ...

 Augment, a Paris-based Augmented Reality (AR) startup announced this morning that they raised more than $3 million from Salesforce Ventures to further expand company operations and also specific...

 Jobbatical, the Estonia-headquartered job matching site for tech gigs abroad, has raised a $2 million funding round led by Union Square Ventures, and Saul Klein and Robin Klein’s LocalGlob...

 Facebook’s data harvesting practices are facing yet another probe in Europe. This time the German federal competition authority is initiating proceedings — rather than it being a Eur...

 Berlin-basedDelivery Hero has built up a large network of online food ordering and delivery operations globally that was valued at over $3 billionas of itslast fundraise, but it has now decided ...

 MedyMatch Technology bills itself as an artificial intelligence healthcare startup. It’s applying AI in the form of “deep vision and advanced cognitive analytics” to the analys...

 Startups Rocketmine and Aeroshutter are flying and booking revenue Read More ...

 Carsome, a Malaysia-based platform that connects car dealers with buyers and sellers, is gearing up to enter new markets in Southeast Asia after raising a $2 million Series A. The round was led ...

 Facebook at Work — the enterprise version of Facebookthat lets businesses build their own secure social networks— has racked up over 60,000 companies on a waiting list while still in...

 Blippar, the AR company that lets you see extra, rich content by simply pointing your phone at an object, has today announced the close of a $54 million Series D funding round. The round was led...

 I was first introduced to Hoverboards while watching Casey Neistat’s daily Vlogs on YouTube. I thought, “Wow. That’s pretty cool!” and started searching online to purchas...

 CEO Kyle Hill spent a lot of time building technology for his parents that would help them find better service for their aging family members — who were around 2,000 miles away across the ...

 Mercari, a peer-to-peer marketplace app, has claimed the title of Japan’s first startup unicorn after raising 8.4 billion yen (about $75 million) at a valuation of over $1 billion. This is...

 Mercari, a peer-to-peer marketplace app, has claimed the title of Japan’s first pre-IPO startup unicorn after raising 8.4 billion yen (about $75 million) at a valuation of over $1 billion....

 If the on-demand economy was a young pup in the late 2000s, then it has since evolved into a much more sophisticated animal: strong, resilient and capable of adapting to its environment. This mo...

 Theyear-oldBay Area acceleratorNFX Guild presented 16 companies to a crowded room of 200 investors down on Sand Hill Roadtoday, and the roomwas reportedly very energized. Little wonder.NFX was f...

 When former International Space Station Commander Scott Kelly steps out of a Soyuz descent module on the Kazakhstan steppe at around 8.30PM PST later today, after 340 days on the International S...

 Nearly seven decades after the Chicago Tribune’s infamous presidential race headline, we’re still seeing incorrect predictions in political races. Take the 2016 Iowa caucus for examp...

 Social marketing company Nanigans announced today that it’s launching support for Twitter.Nanigans is best known as a Facebook ad automation tool, but CEO Ric Calvillo said last year that ...

 The first thing I notice is a feeling of weight on my face. Followed by a sensation of standing in boundless space. A monochrome 360-degree vanishing point vista winks into view. I look around, ...

 Augmented reality smart helmet company Daqri announced today that it had acquired 1066 Labs, a leading head-mounted display manufacturer focused on serving enterprise clients with augmented real...

 Slack is gunning for Skype and Google Hangouts with the 2016 product roadmap it revealed today. The biggest change coming: the ability to seamlessly turn a text chat into a voice or video chat w...

 A battle broke out just outside of Jerusalem Monday after GPS mapping app Wazeled Israeli soldiers into the Kalandia Palestinian refugee camp. According to several reports, two armed soldiers fr...

 Scrolling through the @shopboxfox Instagram account is enough to notice the clean-cut aesthetic: feminine, driven, artistic. However, the ladies behind LA’s BOXFOX, Chelsea Moore, Sabena S...

 Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer, gave a passionate defense of encryption today, saying his company stood with Apple in its legal battle with the FBI. He made his ...

 A newly launched “tweak store” called ExtensifygivesiOS users an alternative to jailbreaking their devices by offeringa simpler way to install modified versions of popular third-part...

 Pouring petrol on the bonfire of news tech, Google announced that it has invested more than $30m into projects spanning the European news tech scene. The fund’s goal is to ‘help stim...

 Despite many healthcare insurers having decried Obamacare as the end of days, the truth–as measured by both stock prices and revenue results–is the nation’s largest healthcare ...

 Pebble’s latest smartwatches are now a little less cash. The Time Round is $199 and the Time is $149. At these prices, the Pebble sits more comfortable among its competition. Fitbit’...

 It doesn’t matter if it was Live if you missed it. And Facebook knows that people watch actually Live streams 3X longer than saved ones. So it’s changing the News Feed to prefer on-g...

 Last week, toward the end of aStrictlyVC event in San Francisco, GGV Capital managing director Hans Tung took the stage to interview one of his portfolio CEOs, Peter Szulczewski of Wish. With an...

 If you’re sick of running out of paper checks and stamps or hassling with routing numbers to send zero-fee payments, you can bank on Checkbook. The startup today launches its digital check...

 It looks like Apple isn’t the only tech giantbattling against authorities over privacy issues and court orders. Today it emerged that Facebook’s vice president in Latin America, Dieg...

 Just in time for Super Tuesday, the AP has launched a new tool in partnership with Google and Twitter that helps voters visualize what people are saying about the current elections, candidates a...

 Today at 1pm EST representatives from Apple and the FBI will give testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C. The hearing is titled “The Encryption Tightrope: Balanc...

 Google today rolled out a refreshed look-and-feel for its Developer Program Policy Center, aimed at making its guidelines for app developers easier to locate,read through and understand. The rev...

 Entrepreneurs in developing nations have redefined the words “bootstrapping” and “disruptive,” creating all kinds of businesses that solve major societal problems. These ...

 Roger, the walkie-talkie style voice messaging app created by a team of ex-Spotify engineers, has landed on Android. Read More ...

 New Yorkers, what are you doing tonight? Whatever it is, drop it and buy tickets to the New York TC Meetup. We’ve got an amazing lineup for tonight, and we’ll be at Output Williamsbu...

 Despite a trio of parliamentary committees criticizing the UK government’s draft surveillance legislation — and some committee members even calling for a complete rethink — the...

 Do you love getting your hands dirty and want to be a part of the best startup show in tech? If so, you should definitely sign up to be a TechCrunch Work Exchange Volunteer at Disrupt NY 2016.Te...

 An lo, in Merrie Olde England, even The Duke Of York of has been bitten by the Startup Bug these past few years, and his Pitch@Palace events have not only become a fixture in the London startup ...

 Some more consolidation underway in the world of enterprise cloud services, and specifically in the areaof hybrid cloud. Today Cisco announced that it is buyingCliQr, a provider of applicationma...

 Fitbit Blaze is a $199 fitness tracker available for purchase starting today and it comes with quite a few fun features to help get you moving. A lot of Fitbit’s family of fitness trackers...

 Egnyte announced a new product today that lets customers control their encryption keys with either a customer-managed offering or a cloud service that requires less heavy lifting and management....

 LinkedIn advertisers are getting a new way to target their campaigns— specifically, a feature allowing them to aimSponsored InMail and Sponsored Updates towardcompanies where they’re...

 Microsoft announced a new tool today called Windows Defender Advanced Threat Detection designed to help IT detect threats to Windows 10 machines after athreat has penetrated the network. While m...

 Brownies made of black beans and cookies made of chickpeas are amongst the unusual recipes found on Hungryroot. Launched last year, the New York-based meal kit startup focuses on vegetable-based...

 The claim is audacious: A cable that works as a Lightning and microUSB cable. Ludicrous, right? Well, if this Kickstarter project is to be believed, that’s exactly what the LMcable can do....

 This year’s Disrupt NY will take place across the river from Manhattan in Red Hook, at the Brooklyn Cruise Ship terminal. TechCrunch Disrupt, with approximately 5,000 in-person attendees, ...

 The massive and unprecedented utility and opportunities provided by the Internet of Things (IoT) have been shadowed by grievous security and privacy tradeoffs, which have become a focal point of...

 Keyvan Mohajer is hopingthe past 9 years of research and work building a digital assistant at SoundHound will beworth the wait. Today, SoundHound CEO Mohajersaid the company is publicly releasin...

 Elucify, a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2016 class wants to solve an annoying and persistent problem for sales people — makingsure theyhave the most recent customercontact data. To so...

 In this episode of Ventured, my partner Brook Byers and General Keith Alexander engage in a wide-ranging discussion on terrorism, Apple, cyber threats, Edward Snowden and network security. Read ...

 Videogram, the Japan-US company that helps publishers and creators get more out of online video content, has closed a bridge round of funding ahead of planned Series B later this year. Read More...

 A recent poll suggested that the majority of Americans support the FBI and its order to open the iPhone used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. While some of those voices may be less ...

 Indonesia-based Tinggal is less than one month old, but today the company announced that it has raised $1 million in funding. Particularly of interest is the fact that this financing has come fr...

 DailyHotel, a Seoul-based app that lets harried travelers quickly find hotel rooms, has launched in 10 new Asian countries. The startup was founded in 2013 by brothers Ryan and Jimmy Shin after ...

 NativeX, a startup that makes advertising for mobile games and apps, is being acquired by Chinese mobile ad platform Mobvista. In a statement today, the companies said that all-cash deal is valu...

 Innovation requires a level playing field that Silicon Valley elites seem unprepared to give emerging nations. Are the original Valley’s glory days over? And will successful mini versions ...

 Apple’s general counsel Bruce Sewell will testify before a congressional Judiciary Committee tomorrow. The hearing has been convened to discuss what is being described as “The Encryp...

 Buffer is best known as a scheduling tool to help marketing teams schedule content on social media, but with the acquisition of Respondly they signaled a plan to expand its repertoire to cover c...

 Beyond artificial intelligence and machine learning to the brave new world of cybersecurity. Read More ...

 The 11th of December 2015, Open AI, a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company was announced to the world. With $1 billion in funding from high-profile investors, such as Elon Musk, Re...

 Just one day after Mark Zuckerberg’s internal memo leaked, which askedemployees to stop crossing out Black Lives Matter slogans, Facebook hosted more than200 African-American students from...

 In a New York case, Judge Orenstein has ruled in favor of Apple, denying a government request for information on an iPhone. Read More ...

 Did I mention we’re having a pitch-off in Brooklyn tomorrow night? Because we are! It will be held at Output in Williamsburg at 6pm, and tickets are still available, which you can buy here...

 GoPro today announced the acquisition of two startups to address one of the company’s sore spots: Video editing. Stupeflix and Vemory are the companies behind the mobile apps Replay and Sp...

 Google announced a number of new security features for Gmail users in the enterprise today. Last year, the company launched its Data Loss Prevention (DLP) feature for Google Apps Unlimited users...

 Perhaps it’s not surprising that Silicon Valley is apparently praying for the “good billionaire”, Michael Bloomberg, to run for President. According to the Consumer Technology ...

 Perhaps it’s not surprising that Silicon Valley is apparently praying for the “good billionaire”, Michael Bloomberg, to run for President. According to the Consumer Technology ...

 The Crosley C200 is a great turntable, and I highly recommend checking it out it if you are in the market for a new record player. The design is great, the price is fair, it’s easy to set ...

 It was bound to happen eventually: one of Google’s self-driving cars has gotten into a minor accident – and, for once, it was while the AI was in control. Read More ...

 Machine learning isn’t a silver bullet for network security. I know, right now you’re saying “But wait Matt, All I hear is that every hot new company in the space is based on m...

 TheRSA security conference is being held this weekin San Francisco where security pros come together to discuss strategy. IBM made several security announcements this morning ahead of the confer...

 Amid headlines about billion-dollars valuations are many employees who remain trapped unless their employers eventually go public or else sell to an acquirer in a cash deal. The problem centers ...

 Another despatch from the ‘mobile messaging is eating the world’ file: blue collar recruitment app and European startup Corner Job has closed a $10 million Series A funding round. Re...

 Another despatch from the ‘mobile messaging is eating the world’ file: blue collar recruitment app and European startup Corner Job has closed a $10 million Series A funding round. Re...

 Facebook’s Moments, the social network’s private photo-sharing application – and replacement for photo syncing–will now support video-sharing, the company announced today...

 Fund February: A flurry of VC funds launch in Israel. Read More ...

 MongoLab has long been the de facto service for deploying and managingMongoDB databases, but now that the company has cornered this market, it’s looking to expand into new areas. Before la...

 Square Cash, thepeer-to-peer payments app that aims to replace cash by offering instant deposits, rolled out another feature today that better positions the app to challenge competitors like Pay...

 HTC’s $799 Vive virtual reality headsetopened for pre-orders this morning. The headset will begin shippingApril 5 in the US,just a week or so after the consumer launch of the the Oculus Ri...

 Property management is one of those industries that typically lags behind the rest of the U.S economy in terms of technology, customer service, and transparency. Castle, part of YC’s Winte...

 Virtual reality has been around for ages, but it has only recently gotten big and exciting, with every major player on the planet either working on a VR project or rumored to be doing so. It beg...

 Twitter’s largestacquisition to date, of the ad tech business TellApart, has turned out to be a little less less big than originally thought. Back in April 2015, it was calculatedthat Twit...

 You know Kung-Fu. Researchers at HRL Laboratories have discovered that when you use transcranial direct current stimulation to send the brain activity of commercial and military pilots into the ...

 Last fall, Google announced the addition of a long-requested feature to Google Maps, which allowed users to – finally! – add a stop along their current route. That way you could rout...

 The draft text of an agreement between the EU and the US to establish a new self-certification framework governing transatlantic data flows aimed at ensuring data protection and privacy complian...

Have you always dreamed about participating in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt? Great news! We are still accepting applications for the Battlefield at Disrupt NY 2016, but you’re g...

 Using password managers like Dashlane or LastPassis probably one of the best ways to stay safe on the Internet (because you really don’t want to recycle your passwords), but when your pass...

 When Microsoft first announced HoloLens, its mixed-reality hardware platform, many of us assumed it was little more than a cool demo that was meant to stir up excitement for the company. But it ...

 When Microsoft first announced HoloLens, its mixed-reality hardware platform, many of us assumed it was little more than a cool demo that was meant to stir up excitement for the company. But it ...

 Nominations are now open for The Europas Awards 2016, the European Tech Startup Awards. The Europas will be held on June 14, 2016, in London. You can nominate an individual (founder, investor et...

 Hopscotch, an India-based e-commerce service focused on mums and founded by a former Diapers.com executive, has closed a $13 million Series C round led by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. Re...

 Seedcamp-backed travel startup, Much Better Adventures, which lets you book ‘active holidays’ with independent providers, has raised 400,000 in seed funding to expand its ski offerin...

 Another transportation startup has run out of gaswhilelarger companies continue refuelling to tap into economies of scale. Tripda—a carpooling startup operating in 13 countries including t...

 Amazon has signed a wholesale supply deal with Morrisons, one of Britain’s largest supermarket chains, to deliver fresh and frozen groceries to Amazon Prime Now and Amazon Pantry customers...

 Snapchat is famous for its disappearing messages, but not everything is ephemeral. Today the company disclosed that a number of its current and former employees had their identifies compromised ...

 A major new Raspberry Pi microprocessor has been announced today: the Pi 3 Model B board becomes the new top-of-the-line Pi, with a 64bit 1.2GHz quad-core chipset and 1GB RAM it’s being sl...

 A major new Raspberry Pi microprocessor has been announced today: the Pi 3 Model B board becomes the new top-of-the-line Pi, with a 64bit 1.2GHz quad-core chipset and 1GB RAM it’s being sl...

 When a startup manages a successful exit, its earliest adopters usually don’t get much in return except for bragging rights. RocketClub wants to change that. Read More ...

 E-commerce giants with ambitions to build regional Amazon rivals in emerging markets continue to rake in huge amounts of funding. Today, comes the latest development: Souq— an online marke...

 Snapchat rolled out the red carpet for webusers to catch up on snaps from tonight’s Academy Awards. Visitors to the snapchat.com site were greeted withan online player offering Snapchat Li...

 It takes a much heartier stomach to jump into the startup game now than it did a year ago. Zenefits recently became the latest unicorn to face devaluation after compliance issues forced the CEO ...

 On Thursday night, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, Italked with GV CEO Bill Maris about a wide range of issues, including what happened with its Europe fund, why GVdidn’t invest in...

 On Thursday night, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, Italked with GV CEO Bill Maris about a wide range of issues, including what happened with its Europe fund, why GVdidn’t invest in...