In Which We Make Coffee With The Founders Of Bonaverde, A Machine That Roasts, Grinds, And Brews

Last we heard from the founders of Bonaverde , they had just launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $135,000 to produce a coffee maker t...

A VC And Olympic Hopeful Taps Indiegogo With A Game To Raise Funds For Young Athletes

Paul Bragiel, the batshit crazy awesome VC who has been training for months in the Arctic Circle to compete in the Sochi Winter Olympics, ...

IndieVoic.es Hopes To Become Kickstarter For Independent Media

The Internet wasn't kind to media. Huge media corporations have managed to transform their businesses, for the most part, but independen...

Gillmor Gang: Private Practices

The Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor - work off that stuffed feeling with a show devoted to the in...

Steam Machine on Track to Switch Up Video Gaming

iBuyPower reportedly is working on prototypes of a commercial Steam machine. Valve recently announced that it was working with multiple OE...

Agent Makes Your Smartphone A Little Bit Smarter

You can't teach an old phone new tricks. Hah! Just kidding. Of course you can. This isn't 1998. Agent is an app that aims to make yo...

Gillmor Gang Live 11.29.13 (TCTV)

Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific.

IronSource Announces KudosKits, Allowing App Users To Show Their Appreciation With Money

Israeli company IronSource has come up with a new way for developers to ask their users for money or other forms of support. Chief Design O...

This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: PS4, Xbox One, And The Sense 3D Scanner

Happy Thanksgiving, dear readers. What are you thankful for? My list is short, but sweet: I'm thankful for you guys, gaming consoles, an...

Dawning of the Age of Quantum Information Teleportation

Researchers at ETH Zurich have teleported information from one end of a superconducting circuit to another -- a distance of 6mm. The exper...

Black Friday Online Sales Up 7 Percent; Mobile Is 37 Percent Of All Traffic And 21.5 Percent Of All Purchases

After a strong Thanksgiving holiday push in e-commerce spending, Black Friday online sales are already up more than 7 percent in 2013 over ...

Bond, The App For Giving Gifts, Lands On The Web

Just in time for Black Friday, Bond is bringing its gifting platform to the web after spending a couple months as a native mobile app. Bon...

Thanksgiving Digest (IBM E-Commerce Edition): Mobile 43% Of All Traffic, Over 25% Of All Online Sales

For many years, Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving - marked the start of the holiday shopping rush. But with many ( not all ) physica...

Amid Some Fistfights, Walmart Sells 1.4M Tablets On Thanksgiving, iPad Mini A Top Seller

Walmart is already crowing about Black Friday and we're only a couple of hours into the actual day itself. That's because depressin...

PingTune Raises $1.6M And Unleashes Messaging App Based Around Music

With the success of SnapChat, Line and others, many have been wondering who will own the next big messaging service. Now, we're not say...

Apple Not Impressed That Court-Appointed E-Book Compliance Monitor Made $138,432 In First Two Weeks

Apple has issued a formal objection to the court-appointed lawyer assigned to monitor its compliance with the decision handed down in its e...

Journaling App LifeCrumbs Turns Your Favorite Photos Into A Visual Calendar Of Happy Memories

The holidays are often less than merry if you have to deal with things like balancing work with travel, financial stress or seasonal affecti...

Money Dashboard Gets $4.4M To Tell UK Bank Users What They Spend On

One thing the UK, a huge finance market, has been lacking in recent years is something equivalent to Mint.com. Now Money Dashboard hopes to...

Let's Sit Out Black Friday, Shall We?

It's Thanksgiving in the States and tomorrow is the biggest shopping day of the year. In fact stores will be open tonight so you can elb...

Mt.Gox Launches Bitcoins.com To Explain What The Heck A Bitcoin Is

It's Thanksgiving! And, judging by the fact that you read tech blogs, you're probably at least a bit of a geek. Know what that means...

Dutch Authorities Find Google Violates Its Private Data Protection Act

Google's decision to share user data across Google services, revealed in an update to its policy back in March 2012, isn't strictly ...

IBM: Thanksgiving Day Sales Data Shows Over 22% Of All Sales On Mobile, Social Just 1%; Average Order Value $132

It's Thanksgiving, and IBM, via its Benchmark data service is once again tracking how U.S. consumers are taking to the web to kick off ...

The Worst Thing About Being A VC Is Other VCs

So you think you want to be a VC. It sounds like a pretty cool job, after all. You have good pay and benefits, get to meet with lots of inte...