Puff puff pass the $1 billion valuation because e-cigarette maker NJOY has raised $70 million from Brookside Capital and Morgan Stanley Inve...
"It's not every day that a new mobile operating system is born," says Jolla's Marc Dillon preaching to a congregation of t...
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...
San Francisco's gentrification problem isn't all tech's fault, but the industry should still be helping communities impacted by ...
The death of online privacy had already been proclaimed long before Edward Snowden landed in the international spotlight, but if it wasn't confirmed back then, Snowden's NSA revelations surely must have extinguished the last vestiges of hope in even the most die-hard optimists. "We're in a predicament," said Phil Zimmermann, Pretty Good Privacy creator and cofounder and president of Silent Circle. "Everything we do on the Internet is being captured in a vast database -- it's a kind of Panopticon."The death of online privacy had already been proclaimed long before Edward Snowden landed in the international spotlight, but if it wasn&#...
There is a new wearable fitness device on the horizon that may take this emerging technology niche to an entirely new -- possibly mainstream -- level. Moov, developed by former tech specialists from Apple and Microsoft, promises not only to capture data about users' activities, but also to give them performance-improvement tips. A crowdfunding campaign launched Thursday seeks to raise $40,000 for a July release, and based on comments posted on the Moov Facebook page, the response has been huge.There is a new wearable fitness device on the horizon that may take this emerging technology niche to an entirely new -- possibly mainstre...
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...
The machines. They are learning. The Plotclock is a small, 3D-printed clock that forgoes the traditional gears and springs for servos and an...
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,...
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 - Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific. Chat found here http://...
Reporters are drunkenly finding their way home from a long week in Barcelona, where the Mobile World Congress conference yielded a number of...
The collapse of Mt.Gox this week has sent shockwaves through the early-adopting tech community. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bit...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Google has added hands-free voice search to the latest beta version of the Chrome Web browser. Users need not have to interrupt messy housework and first wash their hands in order to search for a recipe for homemade glass cleaner, for example. All they need to do is open a new tab or go to the Google homepage, say the words "OK Google," and dictate their search terms. To enable the feature, users need to click the mic icon on the Google home page and then click on the "Enable OK Google" prompt.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’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...
Bookmarking just got interesting again. Dragdis, a slick Chrome extension that lets you quickly save anything, including text, photos, video...
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...
Mt.Gox is gone. The one-time biggest Bitcoin exchange closed its doors this week and filed for bankruptcy this morning. Questions about the ...
Yesterday, ex-Apple engineer Nikola Hu and friends launched a crowdfunding campaign around Moov, the next generation in wearable fitness tra...
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 has always prided itself on backing a diverse set of founders and startups. That includes investing in female founders, startup...
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, which has changed its name from the awkward ‘GrubHub Seamless’ it used since the two food delivery companies merged last year, has ...
Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, reportedly intercepted and collected millions of images of people via Yahoo webcam chats, some of which were sexually explicit. As part of the surveillance program, dubbed "Optic Nerve," GCHQ saved images from webcams on agency databases regardless of whether or not the individuals were an intelligence target. To get an idea of the breadth of the endeavor, GCHQ reportedly collected images from 1.8 million Yahoo users during a six-month period in 2008 alone.Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, reportedly intercepted and collected millions of images of people via Yahoo...
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 has offered up a central location that houses a number of resources around designing software for iOS 7. The collection of videos, doc...
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 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...
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...
Chrome apps are the newest form of extension and helper for the Chrome Desktop environment, and as of late last year, any computer, including Macs, could use them. Here are five recently updated free Chrome apps that are worth a look. All of them can be run offline, outside of the browser, on the desktop. In the top spot, Google's Keep app allows you to take notes in a Post-it note-like UI. Though geared toward notes, lists and reminders, it also incorporates photographs. The reminders and gorgeous color coding make this app a pleasure to use.Chrome apps are the newest form of extension and helper for the Chrome Desktop environment, and as of late last year, any computer, includ...
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 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, the cloud-based startup which competes with Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple Keynote, and Adobe are the latest technology companies to ...
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...
Crowdonomic, a Singapore-based crowdfunding platform, has partnered with non-profit Earth Hour to help fund tech-based environmental project...
Camera360, which now claims more than 250 million users, is one of the world's most successful photo apps. But Camera360 still faces ple...
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...
The first Tizen phones may still be on the horizon, but at least one software provider is already planning ahead. This week at Mobile World Congress, Infraware Technology debuted software that can port Android apps to Tizen. Both Android and Tizen are based on open source Linux, of course, but that doesn't mean their native apps are compatible. With that in mind, Infraware's Polaris App Generator is designed to enable Android applications to operate on the Tizen mobile OS without additional development or customization.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...
Video streaming site Hulu is doing away with its Japanese subsidiary, the company announced today, selling the unit to Nippon TV. The sale m...
Buried in its MWC slides, Microsoft announced that it now serves 4 million application downloads daily from the Windows Store, the applicati...
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...
Good news, Californians. You can now, once again, use Google Maps on your phone while driving. That is, legally. Until this court ruling, ma...
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...
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...
Salesforce reported its fourth quarter and full fiscal-year 2014 financial performance today. In the fourth quarter, the company had revenue...
Mojang game studio founder Markus Persson, who was the main creative force behind worldwide indie game hit Minecraft, revealed via his Twitt...
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 this week filed an application with the United States Federal Communications Commission for a secure Android smartphone called the "Black" that will self-destruct if anyone tries to physically open the case. The company will offer it to the U.S. defense and security communities. "With hardware encryption and other security solutions, you can significantly reduce the potential threat of attacks," said Jim McGregor, founder of Tirias Research.Boeing this week filed an application with the United States Federal Communications Commission for a secure Android smartphone called the ...
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...
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 ...
How do we decide what to buy? According to Itamar Simonson and Emanuel Rosen, the authors of Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customer...
Google is ramping up its plans to bring the Project Ara modular smartphone to market by scheduling the first developer conference for the device. The company will hold the conference on April 15-16 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. A limited number of developers will be able to attend the conference in person, but anyone can participate online through a live stream and interactive Q&A. Project Ara's aim is to allow consumers to fully customize their smartphones.Google is ramping up its plans to bring the Project Ara modular smartphone to market by scheduling the first developer conference for the ...
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...
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...
The baby selfie app signals the “impending collapse of society” – or at least that’s one possible interpretation regarding this thing’s exis...
Fortune today released its annual ranking of the world's most admired companies. Apple topped the charts yet again, but on the lower par...
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...
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...
TiVo cofounders Mike Ramsay and James Barton on Tuesday launched Qplay, a brand-new company that aims to bring a new level of personalization to Internet TV. Comprised of an iPad app, a TV adapter and a dedicated cloud service, Qplay is designed to let users curate Internet video from across the Web and create "Qs," the company's name for personalized and shareable streams of content. The iPad app is used for discovery, playback and control, while the cloud service manages and accesses content.TiVo cofounders Mike Ramsay and James Barton on Tuesday launched Qplay, a brand-new company that aims to bring a new level of personalizat...
Crashlytics, the testing and analytics company that was acquired by Twitter last year, is firing up a new beta distribution tool. The timing...
Google's Street View team has captured images of polar bears in northern Canada, a successful end to its first-ever wildlife-specific quest. Google Street View has long been in the business of capturing things other than streets, including, for example, the world's tallest mountains and Antarctica. These photo-mapping quests aren't always without incident -- there have been concerns about a dead donkey and some bent fenders -- but the polar bear mission seems to have gone well.Google's Street View team has captured images of polar bears in northern Canada, a successful end to its first-ever wildlife-specific ...
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...
Today Coinbase announced that it has created more than 1 million consumer Bitcoin wallets on its platform, pointing to increased interest in...
Toronto-based startup InteraXon, maker of the Muse brainwave-sensing headband, had a very interesting potential suitor, according to a sourc...
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...
Everyone is building “Flappy Bird” clones now, even Apple Design Award-winning app developers like Tapity, apparently. The company, known as...
CodeNow is announcing that it has joined incubator Y Combinator — move that founder and CEO Ryan Seashore said will help with the programmin...
Welcome to the next generation of wearable fitness tracking! The first round of fitness trackers focused on introducing the idea of data to ...
Just this week Samsung revealed the Galaxy S5. It’s water-resistant. Sony also announced the Xperia Z2, the waterproof successor to the also...
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 today launched the Google Maps Gallery, an extension of the Google Maps Public Data Program it announced last October. The new galler...
Senator Joe Manchin is calling for either strict regulation or an outright ban on the controversial digital currency Bitcoin. He argues in a...
Activist investor Carl Icahn has been getting more aggressive with his proposal that eBay spin off PayPal as its own company, issuing open l...
In yet another stunning revelation about digital espionage (though how stunned can we continue to be at this point), The Guardian reports th...
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, 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...
Remember when Google released a handful of guidelines explaining how to properly behave while wearing its new “face computer,” Google Glass?...
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 Advanced Technology and Projects Division just announced its first developer event for Project Ara, a modular smarpthone, yesterday...
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...
Boeing’s secure smartphone has been fully detailed after an FCC filing revealed its imminent arrival yesterday, and the Android device seems...
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...
You don't need much to become a serious runner. There's no big investment in gear or apparel required. "Running is definitely a low-cost sport, which is why it is so attractive," said certified strength and conditioning specialist Scott Greenberg. "I think it can remain that way," he said. "However, some new tools can and will definitely have an impact on those looking to maximize performance." For runners carrying smartphones, the running app market is full of possibilities for tracking, mapping and measuring runs.You don't need much to become a serious runner. There's no big investment in gear or apparel required. "Running is definitely...
Google has become an increasingly active participant in the world of education, particularly when it comes to exploring the role technology ...
Cords have been the bane of digital life since the introduction of personal computers. As wireless devices proliferated, though, the need for cords has declined, thanks to technologies like Bluetooth and WiFi. One product area where cords have been persistent, however, has been storage. Sure, the cloud has provided some relief, but local storage units, even network drives, often require a cord to tap into a wireless net. That's not a terrible problem if the storage device remains stationary.Cords have been the bane of digital life since the introduction of personal computers. As wireless devices proliferated, though, the need ...
ClearSlide, a SaaS company that helps make sales representatives more productive, has raised $50 million in Series C funding led by The Soci...
Little Borrowed Dress, an online bridesmaid-dress rental company, has raised $1.25 million in seed funding from Index Ventures, Andreessen H...
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 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 has been busy in the IT department. Today, it released a slew of improvements and alterations to its large-scale deployment tools for ...
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 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)...
Following AOL's acquisition of content personalization startup Gravity last month, co-founder and CEO Amit Kapur stopped by the AOL offi...
AFter releasing earnings this afternoon, Workday has announced today that it has acquired Identified, a company that offered predictive anal...
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 is not abandoning Project Ara, after taking over the ambitious experimental smartphone design concept along with the Advanced Technol...
Apple has shared some information around how Touch ID and its Secure Enclave keeps information private in an updated security document newly...
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...
Listen up, future entrepreneurial superstars! Battlefield applications are due tomorrow, February 27th at 5pm PDT. Do NOT miss out on this o...
Leading digital graphics and input company Wacom has launched an ambitious new project that aims to universalize digital ink across platform...
Crowdsourced e-commerce company Threadless has existed on the web seemingly forever, connecting t-shirt and hoodie wearers with interesting ...
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...
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, 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...
TiVo cofounders Mike Ramsay and James Barton on Tuesday launched Qplay, a brand-new company that aims to bring a new level of personalization to Internet TV. Comprised of an iPad app, a TV adapter and a dedicated cloud service, Qplay is designed to let users curate Internet video from across the Web and create "Qs," the company's name for personalized and shareable streams of content. The iPad app is used for discovery, playback and control, while the cloud service manages and accesses content.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 has pushed a large update to its OS X Mavericks OS that includes a patch for a significant security flaw. The vulnerability allows Net predators to hijack a secure communication channel from a device running the latest version of OS X and perform mischief such as intercepting user names and passwords. The flaw affects programs made by Apple, like Safari, that use SSL to establish an encrypted channel to the Internet. Third-party apps such as Firefox and the Google Chrome browser don't contain the vulnerability.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 has launched its own Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to teach the general public how to understand surveys, research, and data. Cal...
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...
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...
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 is suing China's State Intellectual Property Office and domestic company Zhizhen Network Technology over patent issues related to Siri, Apple's voice recognition software. The State Intellectual Property Office is responsible for patents rights protection in China, while Zhizhen developed software similar to Siri. Zhizhen patented its own voice recognition software, "Xiao i Robot," in 2004. Thus did Zhizhen sue Apple last year, claiming that Siri ripped off its software. Zhizhen demanded that Apple stop making Siri-based products.Apple is suing China's State Intellectual Property Office and domestic company Zhizhen Network Technology over patent issues related t...
Square is announcing an acquisition today--BookFresh. BookFresh is an online scheduling service aimed at small business owners. We've de...
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...
BlackBerry still enjoys a number of government smartphone contracts, but a new Android device forthcoming from Boeing might threaten that re...
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 ...
It's been three years since Collaborative Fund was founded to invest in startups in the collaborative consumption and adjacent fields. T...
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...
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, the SF-based enterprise invoicing startup which originally emerged from Copenhagen, has now closed a $75 million in Series C gro...
Today, at Samsung’s MWC Developer Day, the company introduced several software development kits with the hope of luring developers to its pl...
A watch is an opportunity to show something about yourself, and San Francisco-based Modify, a three-year old startup offering custom-designe...
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...
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...
Cords have been the bane of digital life since the introduction of personal computers. As wireless devices proliferated, though, the need for cords has declined, thanks to technologies like Bluetooth and WiFi. One product area where cords have been persistent, however, has been storage. Sure, the cloud has provided some relief, but local storage units, even network drives, often require a cord to tap into a wireless net. That's not a terrible problem if the storage device remains stationary.Cords have been the bane of digital life since the introduction of personal computers. As wireless devices proliferated, though, the need ...
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, 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...
With the messaging app space suddenly running hot after the Facebook acquisition of WhatsApp, you can bet the other big messaging platforms ...
Line announced today at a press conference in Tokyo (covered by TechCrunch Japan) that it will open its sticker marketplace to all designers...
Google is swinging its hefty lobbying power at state lawmakers who could ban Glass while driving. Google is lobbying officials in at least t...
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...
When Saul Alinsky wrote Rules for Radicals more than four decades ago, the world was a very different place than it is today. Protests and demonstrations were among the most common tactics for bringing about social change, and they were used on such a broad scale that they helped define the Vietnam War era and counterculture movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Today there's a new tool available to those who want to change the world, however, and it's already brought about results that are at least as dramatic. It's called "hacking."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 hinted it wasn't about to rock the mobile world with the choice of the warmup band for its Unpacked 2014 event Monday -- the Barcelona Opera House Chamber Orchestra. At the event, held at the Mobile World Congress in Spain, it announced a new version of its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, as well as an upgrade of its smartwatch, the Gear 2, and an advanced fitness band, the Gear Fit. Known for adding features to its phones for features' sake, the No. 1 mobile phone maker professed a change of attitude at the S5 unveiling.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...
"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, a new location-based address book and friend-finder utility launching today for both web and iPhone, will tell you who’s nearby, al...
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...
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 has announced new handsets and services aimed at moving the company forward as it tries to recover from a lackluster 2013. At the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, CEO John Chen debuted two new phones -- the Q20 and the low-cost Z3. The Q20 offers the classic BlackBerry QWERTY keyboard and experience on BlackBerry 10. It features BlackBerry's physical Menu, Back, Send, and End buttons along with a trackpad. Last year's Q10 had the QWERTY keyboard, but neither the navigation buttons nor trackpad.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, Adds Ex-Citigroup Chief To Board, But CBe The Next Big EdTech Company? When 2U emerged in 2008, online education was...
Google has begun pushing its “Auto Backup” photo archival software to Mac and Windows users via the company’s social networking platform, Go...
About a year and a half ago, Microsoft unveiled its TypeScript language to help programmers write large programs in JavaScript. Starting tod...
Slowly but surely, Microsoft is making up for shipping the unfinished console that is the Xbox One. In February, they shipped an update that...
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...
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 held a decided low-key press conference today at Mobile World Congress. It was a snoozer. But! But Rick Osterloh, Motorola SVP, con...
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...
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 ...
Almost a year ago, Microsoft announced its plans to expand Windows Azure to Asia, with data centers in China, Japan and Australia. Today, th...
Sony's new flagship Android, the Xperia Z2, risks being overshadowed here at MWC by Samsung's latest electronic tub-thumper, the Gal...
Security pros weren't very kind to mobile applications last week. Several firms knocked apps produced for the smartphone market for all kinds of risky behaviors that could lead to trouble not only for mobile device owners, but also for their employers. Android has been a poster child for misbehaving apps in the past, but Apple's apps aren't as pristine as is commonly believed, suggests an Appthority report. Ninety-one percent of the top 400 free and paid iOS apps exhibited risky behaviors, according to its Winter 2014 App Reputation Report.Security pros weren't very kind to mobile applications last week. Several firms knocked apps produced for the smartphone market for al...
Samsung is making a big push with its enterprise market appeal today, thanks to the introduction of the new Samsung KNOX Marketplace. This i...
In this morning's Mt. Gox "Crisis Strategy Guide" there was one page that was completely redacted. It dealt with Mt.Gox's ...
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 has just released the iBeacon specifications for everyone who is a member of the MFi program, Apple’s program for hardware partners (“...
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...
Over 77 percent of college students are using Snapchat at least once every single day, according to research by Sumpto. And even more stunni...
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...
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 ...
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, a company incubated in LA's accelerator Amplify, is debuting today as a network of mobile apps where users can connec...
Following the implosive death of the Mt.Gox Bitcoin exchange, a number of key players in the cryptocurrency space banded together to release...
Meet Current.ly, the app that resurfaces interesting content on Twitter. It works a lot like Twitter’s own trending topics, but better. The ...
A handful of Chinese Web companies are banding together to provide user support -- system upgrades, security services and the like -- to domestic users after Microsoft turns out the lights on Windows XP. Microsoft announced that it's going to punt on Windows XP in early April. Alas, an estimated 25-plus percent of China's computers run on the operating system. But fear not! Messaging service Tencent, search engine Sogou, software outfit Kingsort and a handful of others are stepping in to fill the void when Microsoft moves on.A handful of Chinese Web companies are banding together to provide user support -- system upgrades, security services and the like -- to d...
Apple has a long history of supporting the LGBT community, and today the company takes yet another step towards marriage equality for everyo...
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...
Following Apple’s acquisition of TestFlight owner Burstly, and the subsequent shutdown of its Android support, competitor TestFairy is touti...
Twitter just announced that it will now be showing Promoted Accounts in search results. For those of you who aren't familiar with Twitte...
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, a free Caller and text identification application for Android users, has been updated today to counter the plague that i...
Apple’s sapphire manufacturing partner GT Advanced released its fourth quarter fiscal results today, and they announced a bunch of numbers a...
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 ...
Wix, Weebly, SquareSpace, Moonfruit. There are Plenty of web site builders out there. But still they come. The latest is DudaOne, describing...
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 ...
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 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, the streaming radio product owned by Clear Channel, has today announced integration with BandPage to bring artist profile data ...
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...
Orange CEO Stéphane Richard talked with BFM Business at the Mobile World Congress about Dailymotion — as a reminder, the YouTube competitor ...
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 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 hinted it wasn't about to rock the mobile world with the choice of the warmup band for its Unpacked 2014 event Monday -- the Barcelona Opera House Chamber Orchestra. At the event, held at the Mobile World Congress in Spain, it announced a new version of its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, as well as an upgrade of its smartwatch, the Gear 2, and an advanced fitness band, the Gear Fit. Known for adding features to its phones for features' sake, the No. 1 mobile phone maker professed a change of attitude at the S5 unveiling.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...
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 has a couple of new smartphones in the offing, including the first sourced from new strategic partner Foxconn. The first Foxconn ...
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, a startup that says it's developing a "vertically integrated" approach to the mattress industry, is announcing that it...
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 platform Line, a WhatsApp rival that’s very popular in Japan but is also gunning for global growth, has claimed it acquired...
Facebook made good on recent promises to highlight its group features and unveiled an updated groups discovery page today. As reported by Al...
