E-Cig Maker NJOY Raises $70 Million

Puff puff pass the $1 billion valuation because e-cigarette maker NJOY has raised $70 million from Brookside Capital and Morgan Stanley Inve...

Sailfish OS Maker, Jolla, On Questing For Scale In The Age Of Android

"It's not every day that a new mobile operating system is born," says Jolla's Marc Dillon preaching to a congregation of t...

TSA Reportedly Demands To Inspect Man’s Luggage For Bitcoin

Davi Baker wasn't quite sure how to comply with the TSA's demands to inspect his bags for Bitcoin. Baker had found himself in a test...

Google Sets Example By Trying To Offset Perils Of SF Gentrification

San Francisco's gentrification problem isn't all tech's fault, but the industry should still be helping communities impacted by ...

Wiliest Ways to Keep the NSA at Bay

The death of online privacy had already been proclaimed long before Edward Snowden landed in the international spotlight, but if it wasn...

Moov Brings Smarts to Fitness Tech

There is a new wearable fitness device on the horizon that may take this emerging technology niche to an entirely new -- possibly mainstre...

These Tire Caps Change Color When Your Car’s Tire Pressure Gets Low

Quick! How's your car's tire pressure? Don't know? Better go check. Which, if you're like most people, means going out, kick...

If You’re Going To Watch One Video Of A 3D-Printed Clock That Writes The Time, Make It This One

The machines. They are learning. The Plotclock is a small, 3D-printed clock that forgoes the traditional gears and springs for servos and an...

Ask A VC: Merus Capital’s Sean Dempsey On The Role Of Corp Dev And More

In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, Merus Capital’s Sean Dempsey joined us in the studio to give us an inside look at corporate development,...

Google Adds Full Restaurant Menus To Its Search Results Pages

Here is a small but nifty update to Google Search: if you ask it to find a restaurant menu for you, it will now often just show you the menu...

Gillmor Gang Live 02.28.14 (TCTV)

Gillmor Gang - Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific. Chat found here http://...

This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: All MWC Everything

Reporters are drunkenly finding their way home from a long week in Barcelona, where the Mobile World Congress conference yielded a number of...

With Mt.Gox In Flames, A Lesson: When Building A Company, First Do No Harm

The collapse of Mt.Gox this week has sent shockwaves through the early-adopting tech community. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bit...

Meet Rebump, The New Worst Thing About Email

Email is probably the bane of your life. There is too much of it, and there's a special hate reserved for people who selfishly fill your...

A Year From Launch, Skillshare Lands $6M From USV, Spark To Double Down On Project-Based, Online Classes

Skillshare launched one year ago to give those interested in continuing to learn outside the classroom a place to go for classes that took p...

Reddit To Give 10% Of Its 2014 Ad Revenue To Non-Profits Picked By Its Users

Do you block the ads on sites you love? Would you be less likely to do that if you knew a chunk of ad revenues were going to a good cause? T...

The Ring Input Device Puts Gesture Control And Home Automation On Your Finger

There was once a rumor that Apple would actually use a ring device for input to an Apple television. Neither of those gadgets exist yet, of ...

Lerer Ventures To Join Us On Stage at Disrupt NY

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that, the entire Lerer Ventures partnership will share a stage at our very own Disrupt NY. Outside of bein...

Chrome Encourages Searchers to Speak Up

Google has added hands-free voice search to the latest beta version of the Chrome Web browser. Users need not have to interrupt messy hous...

Apple Made Over $1B On The Sale Of Around 10M Apple TV Units In 2013

Apple’s TV business still consists only of an over-the-top streaming media box, and not a proper TV set despite longstanding rumors that kin...

Dragdis Takes Its Simple Drag-And-Drop Bookmarking Service Out Of Beta

Bookmarking just got interesting again. Dragdis, a slick Chrome extension that lets you quickly save anything, including text, photos, video...

Uber Wants To Take Over The French Market By Using ‘Dumping Tactics’

Urban transportation company Uber is fighting very hard to conquer France. It doesn’t hesitate to redistribute bonuses of up to $1,100 a wee...

What’s Not Being Said About Bitcoin

Mt.Gox is gone. The one-time biggest Bitcoin exchange closed its doors this week and filed for bankruptcy this morning. Questions about the ...

Moov Fitness Tracker Passes Its $40K Crowdfunding Goal In 90 Minutes

Yesterday, ex-Apple engineer Nikola Hu and friends launched a crowdfunding campaign around Moov, the next generation in wearable fitness tra...

Backed By $10 Million, Flyby Messenger Is The First Consumer App To Use Image Recognition Tech From Google’s “Project Tango”

Flyby, a new messaging application that lets you share text and recorded videos attached to objects in the real world, is the first consumer...

500 Startups Launches Rainbow Round, A Meetup For Members Of The LGBT Tech Community

500 Startups has always prided itself on backing a diverse set of founders and startups. That includes investing in female founders, startup...

The Rise And Future Of The New York Startup Ecosystem

Like many who have been active in the New York startup ecosystem over the past decade, I am optimistic about its future. The last 10 years h...

GrubHub Publicly Files For $100M IPO, Saw $1.3B In Food Sales In 2013 From 3.4M Active Users

GrubHub, which has changed its name from the awkward ‘GrubHub Seamless’ it used since the two food delivery companies merged last year, has ...

Report: Britain Snooped on Yahoo Users' Sexy Times

Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, reportedly intercepted and collected millions of images of people via Yahoo...

Parrot’s Flower Power Plant Sensor Gives You A Mobile Green Thumb

So I bought a plant. I named it Stan. I’ve never really been a plant guy. But maybe Parrot’s new wireless plant monitor can help. Stan’s lif...

Apple Adds New “Designing Great Apps” Micro Site For iOS 7 Developers

Apple has offered up a central location that houses a number of resources around designing software for iOS 7. The collection of videos, doc...

Save $224 With This 3D-Printed Adapter To Affix Google Glass To Standard Frames

Google is now selling its own Glass-compatible frames for prescription lenses, but they’ll set you back $225 a pair, lenses not included. Th...

Microsoft Said To Be Considering A Free Version Of Windows 8.1

Microsoft is looking at a cost conscious crisis, relative to both mobile and desktop hardware, and on the heels of the news that it might be...

Sony To Sell Former Tokyo Headquarters

The sell-off continues. The WSJ is reporting today that Sony is looking to sell its former headquarters in central Tokyo. This comes just we...

All Things Appy: 5 Cool Chrome Desktop Apps

Chrome apps are the newest form of extension and helper for the Chrome Desktop environment, and as of late last year, any computer, includ...

How Capitaine Train Is Disrupting Train Ticket Booking Through Engineering

French startup Capitaine Train wants to improve the cumbersome process of booking train tickets online and on your phone. It’s not yet anoth...

With $500K In The Bank, Credible Launches A Kayak-Style Marketplace To Simplify Student Loan Refinancing

With outstanding student debt now over $1 trillion in the U.S., it’s clear that college grads are struggling mightily to make payments and r...

Prezi And Adobe Join Obama’s ConnectED Tech Initiative For US Classrooms

Prezi, the cloud-based startup which competes with Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple Keynote, and Adobe are the latest technology companies to ...

Mt.Gox Files For Bankruptcy Protection

Mt.Gox has filed for bankruptcy protection and has outstanding debt of about $63.6 million, a lawyer for the bitcoin exchange said today dur...

Crowdonomics And Earth Hour Team Up To Support Tech-Based Environmental Projects

Crowdonomic, a Singapore-based crowdfunding platform, has partnered with non-profit Earth Hour to help fund tech-based environmental project...

Camera360′s Latest Version Is Streamlined But Packed With Features

Camera360, which now claims more than 250 million users, is one of the world's most successful photo apps. But Camera360 still faces ple...

Looking To Make Fantasy Sports More Accessible, IAC’s Skyllzone Launches Fantasy App That Lets You Play The Computer On The Go

Spurred on by its entry into the digital and mobile age, the fantasy sports world is booming. From the fact that a hilarious and increasingl...

App Converter Bridges Tizen-Android Divide

The first Tizen phones may still be on the horizon, but at least one software provider is already planning ahead. This week at Mobile Worl...

Hulu Says Sayonara, Sells Off Japanese Unit To Nippon TV

Video streaming site Hulu is doing away with its Japanese subsidiary, the company announced today, selling the unit to Nippon TV. The sale m...

Now Serving 4M Downloads Daily, The Windows Store Has Grown 135% Since October

Buried in its MWC slides, Microsoft announced that it now serves 4 million application downloads daily from the Windows Store, the applicati...

Gaming Veterans Start Midverse To Bolster App Marketing, Engagement on Android

Riz Virk and Mitch Liu have been through pretty much every wave of the shift to free-to-play mobile and social gaming. They had an early mob...

California Court Rules In Favor Of Using Cellphone Maps While Driving

Good news, Californians. You can now, once again, use Google Maps on your phone while driving. That is, legally. Until this court ruling, ma...

Awesome Netflix/Fitbit Hack Detects When You’ve Fallen Asleep, Auto-Pauses Your Movie

At an internal Netflix hackathon last week, a Netflix employee built an awesome hack: by using data from a Fitbit, it's able to detect w...

After Being Acquired By Yahoo, Personal Assistant App Donna Shuts Down

We knew the day was coming, but it's probably worth pointing out all the same: Mobile personal assistant app Donna will cease working to...

Investors Yawn Following Salesforce’s Q4 Earnings Beat With Revenue Of $1.15B, Adjusted EPS Of $0.07

Salesforce reported its fourth quarter and full fiscal-year 2014 financial performance today. In the fourth quarter, the company had revenue...

Mojang In Talks With Warner Bros To Make A Minecraft Movie

Mojang game studio founder Markus Persson, who was the main creative force behind worldwide indie game hit Minecraft, revealed via his Twitt...

Apple Explains Exactly How Secure iMessage Really Is

Millions and millions of people use iMessage every day. But how many people know exactly what happens to a message once you send it? Maybe a...

Boeing Unveils Suicidally Secure Smartphone

Boeing this week filed an application with the United States Federal Communications Commission for a secure Android smartphone called the ...

Surf Air Founder Wade Eyerly Steps Down, Replaced By Former Frontier Airlines CEO Jeff Potter

The Surf Air management team has hit a bit of turbulence, with founder and CEO Wade Eyerly officially stepping down, according to an email s...

Cool People Play Their Music With An Electric Plasma Spark, Not A Normal Speaker

How do you listen to your music? Headphones you say? Sometimes on an Airplay or Bluetooth speaker? Oh. That’s pretty cool. I just listen to ...

Keen On… Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers In The Age Of (Nearly) Perfect Information

How do we decide what to buy? According to Itamar Simonson and Emanuel Rosen, the authors of Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customer...

Google Issues Clarion Call for Project Ara Devs

Google is ramping up its plans to bring the Project Ara modular smartphone to market by scheduling the first developer conference for the ...

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen: Fed Has No Authority To Regulate Bitcoin

If you were worried about the Federal Reserve trying to step in to regulate Bitcoin, breathe easy: Its leader doesn't think that the Fed...

8tracks Reaches 8 Million Monthly Active Users, Launches Xbox 360 App

Music startup 8tracks just released a new app for the Xbox 360. Live Gold subscribers will be able to play 8tracks playlists for free on the...

Baby Selfie App Signals Impending Collapse Of Society (Or Not)

The baby selfie app signals the “impending collapse of society” – or at least that’s one possible interpretation regarding this thing’s exis...

Microsoft Slips To 24th On Fortune’s Most Admired List, As Its Rivals Take Spots 1, 2 And 3

Fortune today released its annual ranking of the world's most admired companies. Apple topped the charts yet again, but on the lower par...

Magneto Launches Web And Mobile Apps To Fix Your Calendar

If you're like me, you hate having to deal with your schedule. You're really bad at making sure that you've entered all the info...

Aylien Launches Text-Analysis API To Help Developers Extract Meaning From Documents

Working with text is often a messy business for programmers. While code has to be unambiguous, words tend to be anything but. Over the years...

Qplay Puts a Personal Spin on Internet TV

TiVo cofounders Mike Ramsay and James Barton on Tuesday launched Qplay, a brand-new company that aims to bring a new level of personalizat...

In Wake Of TestFlight’s Acquisition By Apple, Twitter’s Crashlytics Launches Beta Beta App Distribution Tool

Crashlytics, the testing and analytics company that was acquired by Twitter last year, is firing up a new beta distribution tool. The timing...

Bear Witness: Street View Heads North for Polar Bears

Google's Street View team has captured images of polar bears in northern Canada, a successful end to its first-ever wildlife-specific ...

Zero-Commission Stock Trading App RobinHood Kicks Off Private Beta

Soon, RobinHood will let anyone buy and sell stocks for free instead of having to pay E*Trade or Scottrade $7 per transaction. Today RobinHo...

Bitcoin Startup Coinbase Surges Past 1M Consumer Wallets In The Post-Mt.Gox Era

Today Coinbase announced that it has created more than 1 million consumer Bitcoin wallets on its platform, pointing to increased interest in...

Rumor: Brainwave-Sensing Startup InteraXon Was Approached By Google Regarding Acquisition Interest

Toronto-based startup InteraXon, maker of the Muse brainwave-sensing headband, had a very interesting potential suitor, according to a sourc...

Google Gets Up Close And Personal With Polar Bears Using Street View Cameras

In the past Google has take Street map into the inside of an Amsterdam Barge (which just happens to be the HQ of the startup MobyPicture) an...

Apple Design Award Winner Tapity Releases A “Flappy Bird” Clone

Everyone is building “Flappy Bird” clones now, even Apple Design Award-winning app developers like Tapity, apparently. The company, known as...

Y Combinator Backs Its Next Nonprofit, Coding Education Program CodeNow

CodeNow is announcing that it has joined incubator Y Combinator — move that founder and CEO Ryan Seashore said will help with the programmin...

Ex-Apple Engineer Launches Moov, The Next Generation Of Wearable Fitness Tracking

Welcome to the next generation of wearable fitness tracking! The first round of fitness trackers focused on introducing the idea of data to ...

Apple, If Samsung And Sony Can Make A Waterproof Phone, So Can You

Just this week Samsung revealed the Galaxy S5. It’s water-resistant. Sony also announced the Xperia Z2, the waterproof successor to the also...

Apply For The TechCrunch New York City Pitch-Off Now

For the second year in a row, TechCrunch is holding a pitch-off competition in New York City. We’re stoked and are looking for a few of the ...

Google Launches Maps Gallery To Make Public Data Maps More Discoverable

Google today launched the Google Maps Gallery, an extension of the Google Maps Public Data Program it announced last October. The new galler...

Senator Warns Unregulated Bitcoin Leaves Americans Holding A “Valueless Currency”

Senator Joe Manchin is calling for either strict regulation or an outright ban on the controversial digital currency Bitcoin. He argues in a...

Amid Carl Icahn’s Attacks, eBay Chairman Pierre Omidyar Defends Board Members Cook And Andreessen

Activist investor Carl Icahn has been getting more aggressive with his proposal that eBay spin off PayPal as its own company, issuing open l...

UK Spy Agency Collected Webcam Images From Yahoo Users With The Help Of NSA, Report Says

In yet another stunning revelation about digital espionage (though how stunned can we continue to be at this point), The Guardian reports th...

Best Buy To Layoff About 2,000 Managers Amid Poor Holiday Sales

Uh-oh. Even though Big Blue squeaked out a profit last quarter and beat Wall Street’s expectations, the retailer is planning its biggest lay...

Dash Restaurant Payments App Nabs $1.2 Million In Funding, Launches iOS 7 Update

Dash, the mobile payments service for bars and restaurants, has today secured a $1.2 million seed-2 round from Mike Germano, CEO of Carrot C...

How Not To Be A Glasshole, Part 2

Remember when Google released a handful of guidelines explaining how to properly behave while wearing its new “face computer,” Google Glass?...

Top Mobile Marketers Team Up To Push A New Specification For Cross-Linking Apps

A new specification for mobile deep linking – a technology that lets apps work more like the web by supporting links that can move users fro...

Google’s Project Ara $50 Modular Smartphone Could Change The Way We Buy Phones Starting Next Year

Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects Division just announced its first developer event for Project Ara, a modular smarpthone, yesterday...

Smarterer Lands $1.6M To Bring Its Crowdsourced Skill Tests And Recruiting Tools To The Enterprise

In an effort to usher in the post-resume era and make the job application process less of a headache, Smarterer developed a platform that pr...

The Boeing Black Secure Android Smartphone Gets Official After Three Years In Development

Boeing’s secure smartphone has been fully detailed after an FCC filing revealed its imminent arrival yesterday, and the Android device seems...

There Is Now A Samsung Store In Nearly Every Best Buy Store

Have you been in a Best Buy recently? The stores are starting to look more like exhibition halls than a warehouse retailers. And that’s by d...

Cool Running: Gear and Gadgets for Runners

You don't need much to become a serious runner. There's no big investment in gear or apparel required. "Running is definitely...

Meet Oppia, Google’s New Open Source Project That Lets Anyone Create An Interactive Learning Experience

Google has become an increasingly active participant in the world of education, particularly when it comes to exploring the role technology ...

LaCie Fuel Is Much More Than a Run-of-the-Mill Portable

Cords have been the bane of digital life since the introduction of personal computers. As wireless devices proliferated, though, the need ...

ClearSlide Raises $50M From The Social+Capital Partnership, Greylock To Help Make Sales Presentations More Effective

ClearSlide, a SaaS company that helps make sales representatives more productive, has raised $50 million in Series C funding led by The Soci...

Bridesmaid Dress Rental Service Little Borrowed Dress Raises $1.25M From Index Ventures, A16Z

Little Borrowed Dress, an online bridesmaid-dress rental company, has raised $1.25 million in seed funding from Index Ventures, Andreessen H...

MakerBot Starts Taking Pre-Orders For Their Itty-Bitty 3D Printer

Back at CES 2014, MakerBot announced three new 3D printers: one small (Replicator Mini), one huge (Replicator Z18), and one that’s about the...

Sony To Close Two-Thirds Of Its US Retail Stores

Sony announced today that it is shuttering 20 or its 31 retail stores located throughout the States. This shouldn’t come as much of a surpri...

Apple Makes Big Improvements In iOS Management Tools For Enterprise And Education

Apple has been busy in the IT department. Today, it released a slew of improvements and alterations to its large-scale deployment tools for ...

Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs…

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, friends, but today we've got a few robots that will eventually take control of our lives and lead us...

HTC Teases The “All New HTC One” In New Promo Video For BoomSound

HTC is proud of its smartphone speakers, especially on the HTC One – but it appears to be even more proud of the so-called ‘BoomSound’ (ugh)...

Gravity’s Amit Kapur Says Personalization Is Going To “Explode” This Year

Following AOL's acquisition of content personalization startup Gravity last month, co-founder and CEO Amit Kapur stopped by the AOL offi...

Workday Acquires HR Predictive Analytics Company Identified

AFter releasing earnings this afternoon, Workday has announced today that it has acquired Identified, a company that offered predictive anal...

Samsung Galaxy S5 Breaks Records With Over 100K Pre-Registrations At T-Mobile In Under Two Days

T-Mobile CMO Mike Sievert is pumped about Samsung’s new Galaxy S5 smartphone: Today, the executive tweeted that Samsung’s latest flagship is...

Google’s Project Ara Modular Smartphone Gets Its Own Developer Conference This April

Google is not abandoning Project Ara, after taking over the ambitious experimental smartphone design concept along with the Advanced Technol...

Apple Details Touch ID And The A7′s Secure Enclave In Updated iOS Security Document

Apple has shared some information around how Touch ID and its Secure Enclave keeps information private in an updated security document newly...

CamioCam Turns Any Web Or Video Camera Into A Smart, Cloud-Based Monitoring Device

What if you could get an alert to your phone anytime someone left a package on your doorstep? Or, if you could track whether your elderly pa...

Only 24 Hours Left To Apply To TechCrunch Battlefield!

Listen up, future entrepreneurial superstars! Battlefield applications are due tomorrow, February 27th at 5pm PDT. Do NOT miss out on this o...

Wacom’s New WILL Project Aims To Make A New Universal Computing Language Out Of Digital Ink

Leading digital graphics and input company Wacom has launched an ambitious new project that aims to universalize digital ink across platform...

Threadless Launches An iPhone App, Takes Its E-Commerce Shop Mobile

Crowdsourced e-commerce company Threadless has existed on the web seemingly forever, connecting t-shirt and hoodie wearers with interesting ...

Fred Wilson, Niklas Zennström, And Secret Co-Founders David Byttow And Chrys Bader-Wechseler To Speak At Disrupt NY

Disrupt NY is back. On May 5-7, the show will once again takeover The Manhattan Center in New York City. This year marks the 6th year TechCr...

Need A Quick Answer? Pop Lets You Take Two Photos, Poll Your Friends

Do you have trouble making decisions? Do you to get your friends’ input on a bunch of things? Are you 15 years old? Then you might like Pop,...

Watsi To Change Its Logo Following Legal Threats From “Multi-Billion Dollar Health Insurance Company”

Watsi, a non-profit startup that crowdfunds medical treatments for those who can’t afford it, has a problem: a company with lots, and lots o...

Qplay Puts a Personal Spin on Internet TV

TiVo cofounders Mike Ramsay and James Barton on Tuesday launched Qplay, a brand-new company that aims to bring a new level of personalizat...

Apple's Better Late Than Never With OS X Security Fix

Apple has pushed a large update to its OS X Mavericks OS that includes a patch for a significant security flaw. The vulnerability allows N...

Google Announces An Online Data Interpretation Class For The General Public

Google has launched its own Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to teach the general public how to understand surveys, research, and data. Cal...

EBay Bets Big On India, Pours Another $134M Into Online Marketplace Snapdeal

The e-commerce market in India continues to explode, fuelled by a rapid rise of online consumers and global investors keen to get a piece of...

AfterCredits Tells You If A Movie Has A Super Secret Bonus Scene

Have you ever left a movie theater just as the credits start to roll, only to find out that there was a totally-amazing-oh-my-god-you-missed...

How To Run Live User Testing, Part 2: Test Day

In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about getting user tests set up, which includes deciding on a specific thing to test, deciding when and wh...

Apple Gets Litigious in China

Apple is suing China's State Intellectual Property Office and domestic company Zhizhen Network Technology over patent issues related t...

Square Acquires BookFresh To Add Booking Services For Merchants

Square is announcing an acquisition today--BookFresh. BookFresh is an online scheduling service aimed at small business owners. We've de...

Google Moves In On Publishing, Launches Global Exchange With Time Inc. To Merge Ad Sales In The U.S. And UK

A big move today for Google in its bid to play a larger role in how publishers sell online advertising. Today it has announced the launch of...

Boeing Black Secure Smartphone Hits The FCC, Aims To Be The Next BlackBerry

BlackBerry still enjoys a number of government smartphone contracts, but a new Android device forthcoming from Boeing might threaten that re...

Apply For The TechCrunch Washington DC Pitch-Off Now

TechCrunch is rolling into DC on March 18th and hosting our first pitch-off in the city. We’re looking some of the area’s best undiscovered ...

Collaborative Fund Raises $33 Million Second Fund, Adds Nexon Founder Jay Kim As Venture Partner

It's been three years since Collaborative Fund was founded to invest in startups in the collaborative consumption and adjacent fields. T...

Microsoft Could Slash Windows Phone Licensing Fees By Up To 70% To Take On Low-Cost Androids

Microsoft partner and soon to be subsidiary Nokia introduced Android-powered devices in an apparent bid to go after the low end of the marke...

ZEFR Raises $30 Million From IVP To Help Networks And Brands Monitor And Monetize Videos Online

Over the course of the last few years, few companies have done more to help content owners and brands understand how fans are interacting wi...

Tradeshift Secures $75M To Expand Its Invoicing Platform Globally

Tradeshift, the SF-based enterprise invoicing startup which originally emerged from Copenhagen, has now closed a $75 million in Series C gro...

Samsung Is Looking For Some Good Wearable Developers

Today, at Samsung’s MWC Developer Day, the company introduced several software development kits with the hope of luring developers to its pl...

Modify Watches Puts Custom Faces On Your Wrist, Crowdfunds U.S. Print And Assembly Plant

A watch is an opportunity to show something about yourself, and San Francisco-based Modify, a three-year old startup offering custom-designe...

The Greenlid Solves The Age-Old Problem Of Gross Compost Buckets

Greenlid was my heart of gold, the bard once sang, for she did not fill up with slime and mold so discourteously. Why? Because Greenlid is a...

Bawte Helps You Catalog And Take Care Of Your Stuff

Buying a new gadget or appliance can suck up a surprising amount of time. Going shopping and unboxing your new purchase is exciting, but the...

LaCie Fuel Is Much More Than a Run-of-the-Mill Portable

Cords have been the bane of digital life since the introduction of personal computers. As wireless devices proliferated, though, the need ...

EA Founder Raises $6.5M From Greylock For Social And Emotional Learning Game ‘If You Can’

If You Can Company, a new startup from EA founder Trip Hawkins that uses gameplay to teach children social and emotional learning (SEL) skil...

Cal By Any.do Adds New Feature To Make Meetings Easy

Cal, the smart calendar app that integrates with to-do list maker Any.do, has launched a new feature called HeadsUp that helps you manage me...

Amid Messaging Mania, WeChat Releases Major Upgrade, Adds New Features

With the messaging app space suddenly running hot after the Facebook acquisition of WhatsApp, you can bet the other big messaging platforms ...

Line To Open Its Sticker Market To All Designers, Launch Skype Competitor

Line announced today at a press conference in Tokyo (covered by TechCrunch Japan) that it will open its sticker marketplace to all designers...

Google Lobbying To Block Distracted Driving Laws Against Glass

Google is swinging its hefty lobbying power at state lawmakers who could ban Glass while driving. Google is lobbying officials in at least t...

Aereo Gets A 14-Day Stay Of The Injunction Against Its Service In Denver And Salt Lake City

Over-the-air broadcast streaming startup Aereo has good news for its customers in Denver and Salt Lake City: They can continue using the ser...

The Rise of the Ethical Hacktivist

When Saul Alinsky wrote Rules for Radicals more than four decades ago, the world was a very different place than it is today. Protests an...

Samsung's 'Meaningful Innovation' Crusade

Samsung hinted it wasn't about to rock the mobile world with the choice of the warmup band for its Unpacked 2014 event Monday -- the B...

Opternative Is The First Online Eye Exam That Writes You A Prescription

"Do I need glasses?" is a question you have to get an in-person eye test to answer. But today, online eye exam provider Opternativ...

Connect Debuts A “Living” Address Book That Maps Your Nearby Friends

Connect, a new location-based address book and friend-finder utility launching today for both web and iPhone, will tell you who’s nearby, al...

Hands On With Meta Pro, The Augmented Reality Glasses With 16X More Screen Than Google Glass

Meta, the augmented reality technology company, has captured the attention of the gadget world with the launch of the Meta Pro, the $3,000 g...

Rolls-Royce’s Drone Shipbots Will Rule Tomorrow’s Oceans, Shipping Containers

If you’re rooting for the drone team, then chalk up another win: Rolls-Royce is working on unmanned cargo ships, that would roam the Earth’s...

BlackBerry Tries to Bring Back That Lovin' Feelin'

BlackBerry has announced new handsets and services aimed at moving the company forward as it tries to recover from a lackluster 2013. At t...

2U Files For $100M IPO, As Ex-Citigroup Chief Joins Board, But Is It Really Poised To Be The Next Big Education Company?

2U Files For $100M IPO, Adds Ex-Citigroup Chief To Board, But CBe The Next Big EdTech Company? When 2U emerged in 2008, online education was...

Google Quietly Begins Pushing Its Photo Backup Software To Google+ Users

Google has begun pushing its “Auto Backup” photo archival software to Mac and Windows users via the company’s social networking platform, Go...

Microsoft Adds Full TypeScript Support To Visual Studio

About a year and a half ago, Microsoft unveiled its TypeScript language to help programmers write large programs in JavaScript. Starting tod...

Here’s What The Upcoming Xbox One Dashboard Update Looks Like

Slowly but surely, Microsoft is making up for shipping the unfinished console that is the Xbox One. In February, they shipped an update that...

Minuum Shows Off Just How Smart A Smart Keyboard Could Be On A Smart TV

Typing using any kind of remote control that doesn’t include a full QWERTY keyboard is a nightmare, and everyone knows it. I still enter tex...

Box Picks Up Former Symantec CEO Enrique Salem As Special Adviser On Its Road To IPO

Today Box announced that it has picked up another Adult In The Room, increasing its leadership depth as it ramps towards a widely leaked, fo...

Motorola Confirms Development Of Another Smartwatch

Motorola held a decided low-key press conference today at Mobile World Congress. It was a snoozer. But! But Rick Osterloh, Motorola SVP, con...

Visualizing 15 Years Of Acquisitions By Apple, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and Facebook

You grow old, you slow down, and you die. That is, unless you can inject some fresh blood. After watching the last generation of tech giants...

Mt. Gox’s Demise Marks The End of Bitcoin’s First Wave Of Entrepreneurs

When I started looking into the Bitcoin startup ecosystem in early 2013, there was something that was just off about half of the founders I ...

Microsoft Announces General Availability Of Azure In Japan

Almost a year ago, Microsoft announced its plans to expand Windows Azure to Asia, with data centers in China, Japan and Australia. Today, th...

Hands On With Sony’s Multimedia-Loving 4K-Shooting Flagship Phone, The Xperia Z2

Sony's new flagship Android, the Xperia Z2, risks being overshadowed here at MWC by Samsung's latest electronic tub-thumper, the Gal...

Security Firms Scour Mobile Apps

Security pros weren't very kind to mobile applications last week. Several firms knocked apps produced for the smartphone market for al...

Samsung Introduces KNOX Marketplace, An Enterprise App Store Powered By AppDirect

Samsung is making a big push with its enterprise market appeal today, thanks to the introduction of the new Samsung KNOX Marketplace. This i...

Here Is The Unredacted Financials Page From The Mt. Gox Presentation

In this morning's Mt. Gox "Crisis Strategy Guide" there was one page that was completely redacted. It dealt with Mt.Gox's ...

Apple Issues Patch For OS X SSL Security Vulnerability

Apple faced a considerable security threat with its SSL flaw, present in both iOS and OS X devices over the past few days. The iOS bug was p...

Apple Releases iBeacon Specifications Under Non-Disclosure Agreement

Apple has just released the iBeacon specifications for everyone who is a member of the MFi program, Apple’s program for hardware partners (“...

Tracks Rebrands As Kanvas, Recaps And Raises Another $1 Million In Seed Funding

Well, it's official. The folks behind photo-sharing app Tracks have decided to put all their efforts behind their new app for social sel...

How Could Snapchat Make Money? College Kids

Over 77 percent of college students are using Snapchat at least once every single day, according to research by Sumpto. And even more stunni...

Y Combinator-Backed Superhost Is A Property Management Service For Airbnb Listings

Airbnb is officially no longer just a cute way to make some extra cash by renting out a spare room in your apartment. It's a big busines...

Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Merus Capital’s Sean Dempsey, Javelin Venture Partners’ Alex Gurevich, And YL Ventures’ Yoav Leitersdorf

We have a busy week in the TechCrunch TV studio for our Ask A VC show. This week, we have Merus Capital's Sean Dempsey, Javelin Venture ...

TC Makers: Inside The American Giant Factory Where They Make The Greatest Hoodie Ever

When someone tells you they make the greatest hoodie ever, what do you do? You visit their factory outside of San Francisco and see just wha...

Affinity Networks Wants To Create A Network Of Social, Mobile Apps Around Niche Topics

Affinity Networks, a company incubated in LA's accelerator Amplify, is debuting today as a network of mobile apps where users can connec...

The Bitcoin Regulation Paradox

Following the implosive death of the Mt.Gox Bitcoin exchange, a number of key players in the cryptocurrency space banded together to release...

Current.ly Is An App That Makes Twitter Trending Topics Suck Less

Meet Current.ly, the app that resurfaces interesting content on Twitter. It works a lot like Twitter’s own trending topics, but better. The ...

Windows XP to Live On in China

A handful of Chinese Web companies are banding together to provide user support -- system upgrades, security services and the like -- to d...

Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-LGBT Bill Before Opening Sapphire Glass Plant

Apple has a long history of supporting the LGBT community, and today the company takes yet another step towards marriage equality for everyo...

SocialRank Helps Users (Especially Brands) Find And Reward Their Most Valuable Followers

Back in 2012, I wrote about a fun little project called MVF, which promised to reveal the most valuable person following you on Twitter. The...

Android-Focused TestFairy Launches An Automatic Migration Service For Abandoned TestFlight Developers

Following Apple’s acquisition of TestFlight owner Burstly, and the subsequent shutdown of its Android support, competitor TestFairy is touti...

Twitter Is Bringing Promoted Accounts To Its Search Results

Twitter just announced that it will now be showing Promoted Accounts in search results. For those of you who aren't familiar with Twitte...

Hands On With The Galaxy S5 And The New Galaxy Gear Bands

We came, we saw, we checked our heart rates. As Samsung moves into wearable territory with the new Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Gear 2 bands, includ...

WhitePages Current For Android Now Protects Against “One Ring” Scam

WhitePages Current, a free Caller and text identification application for Android users, has been updated today to counter the plague that i...

Apple Sapphire Supplier GT Advanced Talks New Customers, Expanding To Other Part Segments

Apple’s sapphire manufacturing partner GT Advanced released its fourth quarter fiscal results today, and they announced a bunch of numbers a...

Try The World Brings Paris, Rio, And Tokyo To You In $45 Subscription Boxes

I can show you the world, shining, shimmering splendid. All it will take is $45 every two months, and Try The World will send you a gourmet ...

Easy Mobile Web Site Builder Duda Expands To All Platforms

Wix, Weebly, SquareSpace, Moonfruit. There are Plenty of web site builders out there. But still they come. The latest is DudaOne, describing...

HTC And Nokia Troll Samsung

As the classic saying goes, don’t hate the player, hate the game. But HTC and Nokia couldn’t help themselves yesterday during Samsung’s big ...

To The Surprise Of No One, BlackBerry CEO John Chen Would Take $19B For BBM

BlackBerry’s CEO made the stunning revelation that he’d accept a $19 billion (read: the price paid for WhatsApp by Facebook) offer for BBM, ...

The Xbox One To Get An Upgraded Twitch Integration On March 11

The Xbox One is about to get a lot more social thanks to a supercharged Twitch experience. A March 11 Twitch update will bring a slew of new...

iHeartRadio Taps BandPage To Give Artists Control Over Their Profile Info

iHeartRadio, the streaming radio product owned by Clear Channel, has today announced integration with BandPage to bring artist profile data ...

WhatsApp’s Koum Re-iterates: No Facebook Integration, Voice Calls Coming

Was it the Crown Prince of Spain attending the interview between Jan Koum and Martin Varsavsky that made the event start over 45 minutes lat...

Microsoft Is Interested In Buying Stake In Dailymotion

Orange CEO Stéphane Richard talked with BFM Business at the Mobile World Congress about Dailymotion — as a reminder, the YouTube competitor ...

Disney Launches Disney Movies Anywhere, An App Where Fans Can Build Their Movie Library

The Walt Disney Studios is launching a new app today for iOS devices and the web called Disney Movies Anywhere, giving users a place where t...

Samsung To Release A Galaxy S5 With An 8-Core Processor

Samsung has quietly announced that there will be two variations of the Galaxy S5. One will run the quad-core Snapdragon 801 with a 2.5GHz cl...

Samsung's 'Meaningful Innovation' Crusade

Samsung hinted it wasn't about to rock the mobile world with the choice of the warmup band for its Unpacked 2014 event Monday -- the B...

Netflix’s Drone Delivery Video Shows A Different Side Of Amazon Prime Air’s Vision Of The Future

A recent internal Drone delivery video (via Engadget) that was made public on YouTube a few days ago shows the Netflix interpretation of how...

BlackBerry Introduces The Z3, It’s First Foxconn Phone, And The Q20 QWERTY Handset

BlackBerry has a couple of new smartphones in the offing, including the first sourced from new strategic partner Foxconn. The first Foxconn ...

Bye, Bye Demo Day — Ignite100 Evolves Accelerator Model After Raising £700K To Run Three New Programs

Along with funding to enable it to run three new programs, UK accelerator Ignite100 is taking the opportunity to iterate the Y Combinator/Te...

Casper Raises $1.6M To Offer A New Approach To Building And Selling Mattresses

Casper, a startup that says it's developing a "vertically integrated" approach to the mattress industry, is announcing that it...

Quixey’s New Functional Search Digs Into Apps Themselves To Serve You Direct Results

Quixey -- the semantic app search engine that has raised some $74.2 million from the likes of Alibaba, Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavo...

Mobile Messaging App Line Claims 2M New Users In 24-Hour Period After WhatsApp Outage

Mobile messaging platform Line, a WhatsApp rival that’s very popular in Japan but is also gunning for global growth, has claimed it acquired...

Facebook Updates Its Group Discovery Page

Facebook made good on recent promises to highlight its group features and unveiled an updated groups discovery page today. As reported by Al...