Industrial Toys Raises $5M From Accel To Build Tablet Games For Serious Players

Industrial Toys, the tablet and mobile gaming studio led by Alex Seropian (founder of Bungie Studios, creators of the enormously successful ...

Jawbone Snaps Up Playground.fm

Looks like instead of being acquired, wrist and speaker hardware company Jawbone is doing some acquiring, scooping up social and personalize...

Japan to Fire Off Emails in Event of Incoming Missile

Starting April 1, Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency will send email alerts to residents' phones should North Korea start...

iOS App Store Prices To Increase In Australia, India, Indonesia, Turkey and South Africa

Apple has sent out an email notifying customers of App Store price changes in certain countries within the next 24 hours. The company said t...

Roamer Makes It Easier To Make Calls From Foreign Climes

A month ago in Barcelona I met with one of the founders of Roamer, a clever SIM hack/app that allows you to bring your own phone number alon...

This Demake Of Legend Of Zelda Is Most Fun You Can Have With Colored Squares

It's dangerous to go alone! Go play The Legend Of Zelda, deconstructed and reduced to its component concepts! You are Link, a green squa...

One Company Betting On Oculus Rift As The Platform For VR HR Training

The Oculus Rift and its creator Oculus VR have been purchased by Facebook, and that’s causing some including Minecraft developer Mojang to r...

Microsoft Azure Matches Amazon’s Price Cuts And Introduces New “Basic” Tier

After Google's drastic price cuts for its cloud computing services, Amazon quickly matched them. Given that Microsoft always promised to...

OkCupid Offers Firefox Visitors Links To Alternate Browsers To Protest New Mozilla CEO

Online dating site OkCupid is presenting Firefox visitors with something other than the standard home page you’d normally encounter – instea...

Intel Pours $740M Into Cloudera In Exchange For An 18% Stake

Earlier this month, Cloudera announced that it had raised $160 million from a cadre of investors, including Google Ventures. That, as TechCr...

Meetups Are Coming (To Boston And LA Next Week So Buy Tickets Now!)

Brace yourselves, residents of Los Angeles and Boston, for TechCrunch arrives in less than a fortnight. The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off wi...

Square Market Partners With Coinbase To Accept Bitcoin

In the sci-fi show Almost Human, everyone has a bitcoin wallet. More and more places to spend bitcoin means that could become a reality, and...

With A Focus On Big Data Startups, Data Collective Redefines Thematic Investing And Debuts Its Third Fund

You wouldn’t think that big data would be the topic of conversation on this evening, but that’s the subject that brought Data Collective fou...

Facebook’s Oculus Buy Will Force A New Social Future

Some reacted to Facebook's $2 billion acquisition of Oculus VR less than enthusiastically, but the announcement is one of the most excit...

HTC One (M8) Review: The New Best Android Smartphone

There’s a new contender for Android top dog on the market, and it’s the HTC One (M8), the latest from the Taiwanese firm. This metal-clad un...

After Launching In 135 Markets, Word For iPad Is #1 In 120 Countries

Microsoft's Office suite for iPad continues to dominate the iOS app store days after its release, retaining the top three free slots in ...

Microsoft's Merry-Making MS-DOS Code Caper

It's the end of another March here in the Linux blogosphere, and that can mean only one thing: the arrival of another April Fools'...

Frontback Update Adds Better User Profiles

Photo-sharing app Frontback just received an update in the App Store. The company revamped user profiles to make them a little more informat...

Microsoft Adds Data About 150M New Entities To Bing

Microsoft today announced that it has added data about 150 million new entities to Bing's entity engine -- the company's rough equiv...

Twitter Buys France’s Mesagraph And UK’s SecondSync, Inks Deal With Kantar To Ramp Up Social TV Efforts In Europe

Twitter is adding more global firepower to its ambitions to cosy up to broadcasters and TV advertisers: it is buying France's Mesagraph,...

HHS Secretary Sebelius: HealthCare.Gov “Definitely Saw The Galifianakis Bump”

When Obamacare passed the 6 million-person sign-up mark, we pointed, with our tongues half-cheeked, to President Obama's Between Two Fer...

Facebook Internet Project: The Skies Have It

Facebook last week announced more detailed plans to bring affordable Internet access to every person on the planet. CEO Mark Zuckerberg re...

Major League Baseball’s “At Bat” App Gets Updated To Support Expanded Instant Replay

It's opening day for the first Major League Baseball season to feature "expanded instant replay," a system that allows reviews...

Outlook Web App For Office 365 To Get Smart Clutter Filter, OneDrive For Business Integration

Microsoft today announced a number of forthcoming updates to the Outlook Web App for Office 365 at its Exchange Conference in Austin. Jeff T...

Google Maps’ Pokémon Challenge Asks You To Prove You’re The Very Best, Like No One Ever Was

Do you want to be the very best? Like no one ever was? Google wants you to prove it. At least, they would in a world where April Fools jokes...

Microsoft Promotes Scott Guthrie To Head Of Cloud, Phil Spencer To Lead Xbox, Confirms Stephen Elop Will Run Devices

This morning Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella announced that Scott Guthrie is now the executive vice president of its Cloud and Enterprise ...

How To Play Quake (Again) On Your Raspberry Pi

A month ago, the folks at Raspberry Pi announced that they now had access, thanks to Broadcomm, to an open driver for the BCM21553 cellphone...

Twitter Poaches Googler Philippe Dauman To Lead Commerce Partnerships

Twitter has not yet officially launched commerce services but it continues to build out the systems it will need to have in place when it do...

Rdio Adds Chromecast Support For TV Music Streaming

Streaming music service Rdio has added support for Google’s Chromecast media accessory, the company announced today. What that means is that...

Fly Or Die: Secret

With last week's episode focusing on Whisper, we thought it only fair to take a hard look at its biggest competitor, Secret. Welcome to ...

iPhone 6 “Air” Concept Imagines A Return To The Glass Back Design

A new take on the yet-to-be-announced iPhone 6 from an independent designer provides a look at what we might expect from a thinner, larger-s...

With $2 Million In New Seed Funding, Classtivity Rebrands As ClassPass To Add Variety To Your Workout

ClassPass, an NY-based company focused on bringing value to athletes and local gyms, has today announced a $2 million seed round from an ass...

With New AudioEngine, Findaway World Plans To Power Audiobook Stores On Mobile And The Web

Findaway World was founded back in 2006 with the aim of selling MP3 players preloaded with audiobooks. (One of its more noteworthy customers...

PasswordBox Partnership Lets The Nymi ECG Wristband Log You In Anywhere On Mobile

The Nymi armband from Toronto-startup Bionym is edging closer to reality, and a new partnership announced today helps make it more clear how...

Nvidia's ECS: Some Amazing Little Companies to Watch

ECS -- Nvidia's Emerging Companies Summit -- is a place to check out some of the firms that could become the next breakout company. It...

Apple Patent Addresses Texting-Walking Risk

Texting while walking can be dangerous, but Apple could be aiming to make it less so, judging from a patent awarded Thursday by the U.S. P...

Square Debuts New Software Partner Platform, Integrates With Xero For Seamless Merchant Accounting

After announcing a partnership with Intuit QuickBooks last Fall, Square is debuting a new integration with rival accounting software Xero. S...

There's a New Kid on the Solar System Block

Astronomers this week reported what they believe to be the most-distant member of our solar system discovered so far. 2012 VP113, a probab...

Healthcare.gov Crashes On The Last Day To Enroll Before The Deadline

Healthcare.gov is down for maintenance at the most inopportune time. Users are reporting not being able to access the U.S. government's ...

Moto G Has Turned Motorola’s U.K. Fortunes Around, Study Finds

Turns out the 'G' in Moto G stands for 'Go!'. Motorola's well-reviewed sub-$200 Android handset has given Motorola an un...

ClearStory Raises $21M From DAG Ventures, KPCB, A16Z To Bring Data Intelligence To The Masses

ClearStory Data, a company that wants to bring data intelligence to the masses, has raised $21 million in Series B funding led by DAG Ventur...

Netagio, A ‘Cold Storage’ Bitcoin Vault, Adds The Ability To Trade BTC For Gold Bars (Or Vice Versa)

Keeping Bitcoin safe isn't easy. If the wild currency fluctuations don't get you, then it'll be the exchanges going pop in the n...

Content Marketplace ScreenHits Closes $1.2M Angel Funding

UK-based ScreenHits, a marketplace for global content acquisition and ‘viewer feedback’, has closed a $1.2 million first round of funding. I...

Russian Square Clone 2can Raises $5M To Scale Up

Russian mobile payments startups 2can similar in operation to Square and iZettle (accepts payments from Visa and MasterCard cards through a ...

Crowdfunding Site Medifund Relaunches As Non-Profit To Help Med Students In Developing Countries

Medifund, a crowdfunding platform for medical students, has relaunched as a non-profit. The site, which is based in the Philippines but open...

Bizzby Raises $10M From Hedge Fund To Take On TaskRabbit In UK

On-demand services marketplace Bizzby has raised $10 million, and claims to have reached 40,000 users its first three months of operation th...

Alibaba Will Pay $692M For 35% Stake In Retail Operator Intime

Alibaba has agreed to pay $692 million for a 35% stake in Intime Retail, which operates department stores throughout China. The two companie...

Nielsen And Integral Ad Science Expand Their Ad Viewability Partnership Beyond The US

Nielsen and Integral Ad Science are announcing that they're taking their partnership international. Nielsen is best-known for its TV rat...

What Games Are: Virtual Reality, We Hardly Knew You

It might be white hot news that Facebook dropped two-bils on buying in, or that Valve's Michael Abrash has joined Oculus as chief scient...

New Kit Lets You Print Your Own 3D Skulls

Say, for example, you wanted a dog skull but did not want to remove said bone mass from a living dog. What to do? If you're the team beh...

Bitcoin Slips In The Wake Of The IRS’s Tax Decision

Earlier this week, the IRS decided that Bitcoin is property, not currency, setting in place a regulatory structure that could see users of t...

Microsoft Has Big Plans For Bing’s Entity Engine

Both Microsoft and Google have long worked on getting users answers without having to click through a number of websites. At Google, the cur...

How Dropbox Knows When You’re Sharing Copyrighted Stuff (Without Actually Looking At Your Stuff)

Late last night, a tweet was spread far and wide showing that a DMCA notice had blocked a file from being shared on a user's Dropbox acc...

#Love: Unfollowing Exes

One month ago, I got dumped. It was the third in a series of failed, long-term relationships over the past five years. All relationships end...

TC Droidcast Episode 24: A Couple Of Mates Talking About The HTC One M8

This week, Chris Velazco joins me, Darrell Etherington, to talk about HTC’s new One (M8) flagship smartphone, which we already like quite a ...

Launched On Kickstarter, Musaic Promises Hi-Fi Music And Home Automation

Compact wireless HiFi systems are pretty common these days, but what is less common is startups thinking more deeply about how the same syst...

Music Startup Spawnsong Wants To Be Kickstarter For Single Tracks

Holy incremental music startup, Batman! Spawnsong is a (very) new music platform startup with a strategy to elbow into the crowded digital m...

Doing It For The Likes

We crave approval, but we already knew that. Conventional thinking would suggest we seek digital validation because it means we've impre...

The Resurgent, Post-Windows Microsoft

Microsoft had become an oft-ignored, behemoth to the North, despite $77 billion in revenue and $57 billion in profits. It seemed that the mo...

How To Run Live User Testing, Part 3: The Debrief

We've focused on getting the tests setup, which includes deciding on a specific thing to test, when and where to conduct the user study ...

Newspapers Cling to Life Despite Online News Trend

Print media is limping along and TV news has gained some strength, even though the trend toward getting news online continues to grow, Pew...

How One Cloud Enterprise Startup Decided To Sell To Microsoft

When Ursheet Parikh sold his company StorSimple in 2012 to Microsoft, it was one of the largest deals in the cloud infrastructure sector to ...

Crunchweek: Facebook’s $2B Bet On Virtual Reality, Office For iPad, And YC Demo Day

In this special “Between Two Co-Editors” edition of Crunchweek, I was joined by my fearless bosses, co-editors Matthew Panzarino and Alexia ...

The Improbable Rise Of Roku

In 10 years, when we look back and think about which companies fundamentally changed the way viewers get their TV shows delivered to them, w...

After Stepping Aside From Y Combinator, Paul Graham Hands Over The Reins At Hacker News

As part of his departure from day-to-day operations at Y Combinator, Paul Graham announced today that he’s also handing over the reins of Ha...

Neil Young’s PonoPlayer Passes $5m In Kickstarter Pledges

The portable music player is alive and well. Pono Music's PonoPlayer just crossed the $5 million milestone on Kickstarter, making it the...

Box CEO Aaron Levie Takes To Quora About His (Sorta) Small IPO Stake: It’s All Gravy

Reporters and industry watchers go nuts when an S-1 is filed for an initial public offering because there are always a few surprises to be f...

Watch How Matterport’s Camera Captured A 3D Model Of TechCrunch HQ

Historically, creating an accurate 3D model of a physical space has been a time-consuming and expensive process that cost tens of thousands ...

Gillmor Gang: Sign Language

The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — barely came out of the gates before John Ta...

Whaling Is The New Harlem Shake

Have you whaled yet today? It's the new thing. Whale at the club. Whale at school. Whale in your cubical. Just don't whale at a fune...

Pre-IPO Imperative: Know Your Customer

The IPO window is currently wide open. Riding the wave of strong IPO performance over the past few years (the classes of ‘12 and ‘13 IPOs ha...

The 11 Memes That Define Oculus Riftbook (NSFW)

Now that the dust has settled, it’s time to have a little fun. Virtual reality itself used to be a punchline. Now, Facebook and its latest p...

The Internet Is Held Together With Bubble Gum And Baling Wire

Did you know that, to quote an angry hacker: The Internet from every angle has always been a house of cards held together with defective duc...

Facebook Bought Oculus VR To Create The Metaverse, Or Why Angry Kickstarter Backers Need To Chill

There are many people out there who take a pessimistic view of Facebook. To them, Mark Zuckerberg is a huckster, out to sell us the snake oi...

After Supporting Prop 8, New CEO Brendan Eich Comes Under Fire From Mozilla Employees

Mozilla employees across the web are calling for the removal of new CEO Brendan Eich, who previously held the position of CTO and has been w...

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

Oh, hey, there TIDWRTWHUFOO fans. Thinking about going for a little dip this summer? How about you go for a swim with a one-ton crab that wi...

Meet Astro Teller, Head Of Moonshots At Google’s Project X Lab

Astro Teller has your dream job, currently serving as the Captain of Moonshots at the Google[x] lab. There, he dreams and creates things lik...

Keen On… Scale: How To Spread Excellence From The Few To The Many

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Tesla Strikes Deal To Keep Dealerships In New York

Tesla can keep its dealerships in the state of New York. An agreement was made between the auto maker and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo that wi...

The Shifting IPO Market

Once the Facebook hangover had lifted, Marketo and Tableau had big openings, and Twitter smashed the world on its opening day, the door for ...

Apple Patent Addresses Texting-Walking Risk

Texting while walking can be dangerous, but Apple could be aiming to make it less so, judging from a patent awarded Thursday by the U.S. P...

Gillmor Gang Live 03.28.14

Gillmor Gang - Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific. Liv...

There's a New Kid on the Solar System Block

Astronomers this week reported what they believe to be the most-distant member of our solar system discovered so far. 2012 VP113, a probab...

Zuck Nerds Out On Drones Vs Satellites For Delivering Internet

Free Space Optic lasers? Low earth orbit satellites? Solar-powered drones? Mark Zuckerberg has just penned a deep dive on how Facebook's...

Confirmed: Dropbox Aqcui-Hires Social Reading App Readmill

As TechCrunch’s Steve O’Hear predicted yesterday, Readmill just confirmed that Dropbox acquired the company and that the service will shut d...

This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Facebook Oculus, HTC One, And Microsoft’s Glass Clone

Are you ready for the future? Facebook certainly is, considering the social giant just bought Oculus VR, which makes virtual reality gaming ...

Microsoft Will Stop Inspecting Customer Content, Will Instead Refer Cases To Law Enforcement

Microsoft has released a blog post from General Counsel and EVP – Legal & Corporate Affairs Brad Smith detailing changes to its practice...

Softcover Is A New Self-Publishing Platform Aimed At Technical Authors

Softcover is a startup offering what it calls a "frictionless" platform for self-publishing e-books. Co-founder Michael Hartl is a...

US Judge: Free Speech Protects Baidu's Beijing-OK'd Results

A Manhattan judge ruled that a Chinese search engine's practice of restricting free speech is, wouldn't you know it, protected by ...

Valve’s VR Expert Michael Abrash Joins Oculus As Chief Scientist

After Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus, many were worried that Oculus’ top talent — many of whom are industry pioneers — would leave out of ...

Sigfox Raises $20.6 Million To Create A Global Cellular Network For Connected Objects

French startup Sigfox raised a Series B round of $20.6 million (€15 million) from IDInvest and BPIFrance. Existing investors (Elaia Partners...

New Android Handsets Will Need “Powered By Android” Logo To Get Google Play, Gmail, Etc.

For better or worse, Samsung, HTC, and the rest of the Android manufacturing lot just looove to mess with the way Google’s OS looks and feel...

Hands On With The Ubi, A Voice-Activated “Ubiquitous Computer”

Have you ever wanted to stand on the bridge of your very own spacecraft and, in a stentorian voice, proudly declaim “Computer? What is the w...

Oculus Hack Uses Cameras And Music To Mess With Your Perception

By being open to indie developers and relatively cheap, the Oculus Rift has done something that no VR headset has done before it: encouraged...

Philips Introduces Android-Powered 4K TVs Coming Later This Year

Google TV is likely going away entirely, to be replaced by a familiar face – Android. Philips has just unveiled new Ultra HD (4K, whatever y...

Apple Reportedly Looking To Expand GT Advanced Sapphire Plant In Arizona

Apple is said to be exploring options to expand the facility it’s building with manufacturing partner GT Advanced Technologies in Arizona, a...

Japan’s New Alert System Will Warn Mobile Users Of Incoming Missiles, Terror Attacks

It’s hard to imagine a more terrifying text message than one that reads “Incoming ballistic missile detected. Please find shelter.” Japan’s ...

Google Naps, For When You Need A Nap Nearby

Dear Google, please don't sue the guys who built this adorable Google Maps parody. Following on today's theme of laziness, two men f...

BlackBerry’s Device Plans Include Global Z3 Rollout, Return Of The Bold And Q20 In Q1

BlackBerry CEO John Chen discussed his company’s hardware plans for the coming year during the investor call following a disappointing, but ...

Romain Jerome Releases Spacecraft Black “Undercover” Watch

It's Basel time again that means we're going to be seeing some amazing watches coming out of Switzerland that cost more than an offi...

Facebook Messenger Adds A Dedicated Groups Tab

Facebook is gradually rolling out an update to its Facebook Messenger app for iOS and Android. Users will see a new dedicated “Groups” tab f...

Philips Makes Hue Smart Lights More Affordable, More Lazy-Friendly With Hue Lux And Hue Tap

In what seems to be the beginning of a real-life Wall-E situation, Philips has introduced an even easier way to control your home’s Hue smar...

Elon Musk Turns To Medium And GIFs To Reveal New Model S Fire Safety Feature

Is the company blog dead? Instead of posting on the Tesla blog, Elon Musk announced a significant new Model S feature on the personal bloggi...

Newspapers Cling to Life Despite Online News Trend

Print media is limping along and TV news has gained some strength, even though the trend toward getting news online continues to grow, Pew...

BlackBerry Surprises With Fourth Quarter Results

BlackBerry just posted its fiscal fourth quarter results, revealing a quarterly operating loss much smaller than analysts had feared. Shares...

Tapvalue Raises $2.2 Million For Its Advertising Technology For Offline Retailers

French startup Tapvalue raised $2.2 million (€1.6 million) to boost its international growth and keep iterating on the product. Tapvalue is ...

Bioprinting, Part 2 - The Ethical Conundrum

Nearly 120,000 people in the United States are on the waiting list for an organ transplant that may save their lives, according to the Ame...

Fancal Is A Calendar App That Showcases Your Photos

Fancal has such a simple but appealing concept that it's surprising there aren't more smartphone calendars like it. The iOS app show...

Y Combinator’s Top Three Startups From Winter 2014, According To Y Combinator Startups

With each class, the startups within Y Combinator vote to determine which colleagues they thought were most likely to be successful. One sou...

Multiple Pinterest Accounts Hacked, Flooded With Butt Pics

If you log onto Pinterest and see that one of your friends has suddenly developed a fixation with weight loss ads and butt pics like the one...

A Brave New Facebook

We now live in an era when Mark Zuckerberg speed-dials Obama, controls fleets of drones, brokers $19 billion acquisitions in a week, and buy...

TrueVault Raises $2.5M To Give Healthcare Apps HIPAA Compliance-As-A-Service

TrueVault, the startup that launched this week out of the most recent batch of Y Combinator with the aim of making it easier than ever for h...

Threes’ Creators Publish An Epic Work Log To Show How Frustrating It Is To Be Cloned

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? Not really. That’s just something that people like to say without really thinking about,...

Office For iPad Is A Hit: Word Jumps To #1 In US, Excel To #3, PowerPoint To #4

Microsoft built it, and they came: Office for iPad is enjoying a big first day, with Word for iPad becoming the most popular app for the dev...

Sony Just Launched The Most Boring Product In The World

Meet the Digital Paper, Sony's latest e-ink slate. It's part iPad, part e-reader, and must be made out of moon rocks. It's $1,10...

Office For iPad Review: Surprisingly Worth The Wait

Microsoft has launched new Office for iPad software, finally, after people have been asking for it since, oh, say, the day in 2010 when the ...

Apple Gets Its 30% Take On Office 365 Subscriptions Microsoft Sells Through Office For iPad

Microsoft is not just placating user demand with the Office for iPad apps it launched today; it’s also selling Office 365 subscriptions dire...

New Linux Office Suite Too Soft to Be King

The Kingsoft Office Suite holds the promise of bringing a near perfect clone of Microsoft Office to Linux desktop users. However, Kingsoft...

Office For iPhone And Android Is Now Free

Along with a new version of Office for iPad, Microsoft made Office for iPhone and Android smartphones free today. The apps have updated in t...

Boston And L.A. Pitch-Off Applications Close On Monday

You have exactly four days, depending on how much sleep you require, to apply to the TechCrunch startup Pitch-Offs happening in Boston and L...

Amazon Plans Free Video-Streaming Service, WSJ Reports

All signs point to Amazon announcing its streaming device at a NYC event next week. Not a lot is known about it, but a report from the WSJ t...

Facebook Takes Another Crack At Read-It-Later With “Save” Button

Facebook's quest to become a newspaper has seen it launch multiple News Feeds, the standalone Paper app, trending topics, and more. But ...

Obamacare Passes The 6M Mark After “Between Two Ferns” Viral Bump

Today the government announced that the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, has passed the 6 million signup mark, putting it wit...

Experts Found That Mt. Gox Lost A Mere 386 Bitcoin Due To Transaction Malleability

In the long, kabuki saga that is the fall of Mt. Gox, one point seemed always clear: the company lost loads of bitcoin to hackers using a bu...

Sources: Dropbox Acqui-Hiring Social Reading App ReadMill For $8 Million

TechCrunch has learned from sources that Dropbox is in talks to acqui-hire Berlin-based ReadMill, the social and shareable reading platform....

Microsoft Launches Enterprise Mobility Suite

At a media event in San Francisco today, Microsoft's new CEO Satya Nadella announced the launch of the company's new Enterprise Mobi...

Andreessen Horowitz Raises Massive New $1.5 Billion Fund

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz just announced that it has closed its Fund IV. And it's a massive $1.5 billion fund for all sor...

Stripe Starts Testing Bitcoin Payments

In another validation of the Bitcoin space, YC’s biggest payments company Stripe said it has started to test Bitcoin and ACH payments with a...

Google Sees Government Requests For Information Balloon 120% Over Four Years

Google has seen a tremendous increase in requests for information made by the government, the company revealed in an update to its Transpare...

Nomi Acquires Media Armor To Add Online Marketing Data To Its Offline Marketing Tools

Nomi, a data and marketing startup that serves brick-and-mortar retailers, is announcing that it has acquired ad startup Media Armor. CEO Ma...

Foodini Is A 3D Printer That Lets You Print Dishes With Fresh Ingredients

Foodini is a 3D printer for foodstuffs. Its Florida-based makers are hoping their time-saving device becomes as ubiquitous on kitchen counte...

Spotify Could Be Planning An IPO For Later This Year

Music streaming service Spotify could go public at some point in the fall of 2014, according to Quartz. Rumors of an IPO have been floating ...

YouTube Latest Site To Be Blocked In Turkey

YouTube is the latest victim in Turkey’s ongoing assault on social media. This comes one week after Turkey revoked access to Twitter within ...

Twitter Partners With Billboard To Help Expand The Reach Of Music Conversations

Twitter has announced one part of its new music strategy today, with a Billboard partnership that will result in the new ‘Billboard Twitter ...

NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio To Lay Out His Tech Plans At Internet Week

Bill de Blasio, who took office as the mayor of New York City at the beginning of this year, will be delivering the keynote address at the o...

Apps Respond The Fastest In Canada And Japan, Finds New Report By Crittercism

Engaging design, marketing, and a solid user acquisition strategy are all key to making a successful app. But an app’s reliability often dep...

UpTo Launches A Calendar App For The FOMO Generation

App developer UpTo is launching a free calendar app on iOS to give users a way to see what's going on around their lives, not just in th...

The Jaquet Droz Signing Machine Signs Papers Mechanically So You Don’t Have To

High above a scorched Earth, in a sleek yacht tethered to the tip of the Terra Two spindle, Chancellor Herman Worthy was doing paperwork. Hi...

Bioprinting, Part 2 - The Ethical Conundrum

Nearly 120,000 people in the United States are on the waiting list for an organ transplant that may save their lives, according to the Ame...

Twitter’s Sophomore Album: New Music Strategy To Focus On Conversations, Partnerships

Twitter has ditched its dedicated #Music app, the product of the acquisition of We Are Hunted, a social music discovery startup. But that do...

Songza Inks Deal With Weather Company To Integrate Rain Or Shine Into Your Music Playlists

Songza, the app that brings music to you instead of forcing you to hunt for it, today announced a deal with The Weather Company to integrate...

Betaworks-Backed Tapestry Releases Update To Let You Build Stories In-App

Today Tapestry, the story-telling service out of betaworks, has released a big update to the mobile application, allowing users to create ta...

Chromecast To Get Slingbox Support ‘Soon’

Slingbox is coming to Chromecast and it could be the little streamer’s first killer app. According to a forum posting by a Slingbox employee...

Custom T-Shirt Design App Snaptee Launches Partnership Program

Snaptee, the iOS and Android app that lets users design and order their own custom T-shirts, has launched a new revenue-sharing program for ...

Now Samsung Has Bluetooth LED Light Bulbs, Too

Not to be outdone by LG or Philips, Samsung just introduced its own Internet-connected LED light bulb product line. Aptly called the Smart B...

Apple Patents Smudge-Resistant Sapphire Coating, Suggesting Displays Are On The Way

Apple has filed for a patent (via AppleInsider) that adds further fuel to the fire around the possibility it will use sapphire glass for fut...

AngelBlocks Turns Your Ordinary Stuff Into The Ingredients For A Comprehensive Smarthome

A new Kickstarter project plans to offer smart home features to a range of devices, for connecting small apartment buildings to entire enter...

Apple Files Transparent Texting Patent To Help People Who Walk And Text

Sometimes it's the little things that matter. Like being able to carry on texting without walking into a tree. Apple apparently thinks s...

Devices Shipments To Grow 6.9% Globally This Year, Says Gartner, As PC Decline Softens

Analyst Gartner has just put out its latest worldwide devices forecast, predicting a growth rate of 6.9% for shipments of traditional PCs, t...

LinkedIn Adds Trending Content List And A Score For Companies’ Content Marketing Efforts

LinkedIn is introducing some new tools for businesses hoping to attract a following with their LinkedIn content. First up, there's a con...

Lithium To Acquire Social Influence Scoring Site Klout For $200M

Social customer service company Lithium Technologies will announce on Thursday morning that it has acquired Klout for almost $200 million in...

Aereo Says A Win For Broadcasters Would Have “Chilling” Consequences To Cloud Computing

Aereo has today filed its response brief with the Supreme Court in a case that will make or break the streaming TV startup. So far, we'r...

Yo Instacart, Can I Get Some Shareable Grocery Lists?

I suck at grocery shopping, at least compared to some of my friends. One knows exactly what vegetables go into a killer get-the-hell-out-of-...

Box Unveils First Standalone Product And New API Pricing At Inaugural Dev Conference

Today at its Box Dev developer event in north San Francisco, Box, a cloud file storage and enterprise collaboration company, announced a num...

With Revenue Up 2.4X In The Past Two Months, Instacart Lands In NYC

Instacart, the grocery delivery service popular in Chicago, San Francisco and other locations, landed in New York City today. I spoke to Ins...

Bioprinting, Part 1: The Promise and the Pitfalls

It's long been the dream of humans to be able to regenerate body parts. Scientists have been researching this possibility for years, b...

Digital Ad Company CPXi Raises $30M In Its First Outside Funding

Digital media holding company CPXi is announcing that it has raised $30 million in new funding. Founded in 2000, CPXi apparently raised no o...

Using Analytics, Bloomberg Beta Seeks Out Startup Founders

By now 350 employees at companies across the country might just be rethinking their day jobs, thanks to an email sent this morning by ventur...

Online Engagement Ring Buyer Beware

Buying an engagement ring online feels like a strange thing to do. It’s up there with buying a car you’ve never test driven or renting a hou...

Microsoft And Dell Sign Patent Royalty Agreement For Android And Chrome OS Devices

Today Dell and Microsoft announced that they have signed an agreement relating to intellectual property, which will see the two companies ...

Inside India’s E-commerce Boom: Growing Base Of Mobile Internet Users, Women Shoppers And Several Infrastructure Bottlenecks

Among everything else that’s driving e-commerce growth in India, the ease of buying things sitting inside homes, avoiding the hazards of tra...

Twitter Tests More Inviting Profile Designs On Mobile

Twitter has been testing designs furiously all winter, including a tile-like format for tweets and a Facebook-style profile page on the web....

Is Google Thwarting Android-x86 Development?

Has Google been spreading FUD to discourage computer makers from using an Android OS retooled to run on legacy computers? The maintainer o...

Twitter Bolsters Image Support With People Tagging And Multiple Photos Per Tweet

Twitter has announced a couple of additions to its image offerings today, including the ability to tag up to 10 people in a photo without us...

Timehop Brings Its Mobile Time Machine To Android

Timehop, the mobile app offering a way to recall your past one day at a time by displaying your old photos and posts from Facebook, Instagra...

King Falls 15% On Its IPO Day, Erasing $1.1B In Market Cap

Today King went public, and immediately was given a raspberry by investors who sent its stock price down throughout the day, hammering the c...

Google’s I/O Registration Lottery Happens April 8 – 10: May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor

Google is doing something different with registration for its 2014 I/O Developer Conference this year. The company isn’t doing first come, f...

Vice Media’s Shane Smith To Join Us At TechCrunch Disrupt NY

After years of stagnation, the media industry is in full-fledged evolution mode. Consumption is changing, creation is changing, and even the...

Build Your Own Makerbot-Inspired Robotic Tattoo Machine

I actually checked to see if today was April Fool's but, seeing as how it wasn't and seeing as how it would be quite simple to recre...

BlackBerry Sued An Executive Who Defected To Apple

The story goes BlackBerry senior vice-president for software Sebastian Marineau-Mes resigned from his post in late December 2013 after Apple...

A Brief History Of Oculus

Less than two years ago, Oculus raised 2.5 million dollars on Kickstarter. Yesterday, they were acquired by Facebook for $2 billion. Oculus ...

HTC Flips Switch on One M8 Buzz Machine

Ask the Internet. That's the pitch in HTC's TV ads for its new flagship smartphone, the HTC One M8. It's a pitch that hopes to...

Watch A Scrabble-Bot Learn To Interact With And Insult Its Opponents

Robots will soon live among us - helping us out of bed, monitoring us, and assisting us in countless ways - but what if we just want to play...

Second Life Founder’s Startup High Fidelity Raises $2.5M From True Ventures

High Fidelity, a new startup from Second Life founder Philip Rosedale, has raised $2.5 million in new funding from True Ventures, we’ve lear...

FileThis Comes To iOS To Automatically Gather And Organize Your Personal Documents

FileThis, the cloud-based document filing service which works something like Mint.com, in that it automatically logs into your online accoun...

Last.fm Shuts Down Its Streaming Service To Focus On Scrobbling

Music discovery company Last.fm just announced that it will end its subscription radio streaming service on April 28th. The radio service is...

Three Classes In, Boost.vc Is Raising A New Fund With Plans To Incubate 100 Bitcoin Startups By 2016

Adam Draper and Brayton Williams launched Boost.vc in 2012 at a time when the accelerator market was beginning to burst at the seams with ne...

Education Technology Startups Raised Nearly Half A Billion Dollars In Q1

Education technology-focused startups raised over $488 million already in the first quarter of 2014, marking the single biggest quarter for ...

Rocket the Vote! NASA Asks People to Vote on New Space Threads

NASA is asking people to vote on their favorite design for the outer shell of the new Z-2 spacesuit. While the Z-2 models may descend from...

AppGyver Raises $2.5M Funding Round To Expand Its App Development Platform

AppGyver, an HTML5-centric development platform for quickly building mobile apps, today announced that it has raised a $2.5 million funding ...

Twitter Files For Lawsuits In Turkish Courts To Challenge The Country’s Access Ban

Twitter has just announced that it has formally joined the cause of those defending use of its service in Turkey, by filing petitions for la...

Scribd’s Subscription E-Book Service Moves Into Travel With The Full Lonely Planet Library

Subscription e-book startup Scribd is announcing a deal with famed travel publisher Lonely Planet. Scribd started out as a service where use...

Lemnos Labs Raises $20M, Opens 8,000 Sq. Ft. Warehouse To Support Early-Stage Hardware Startups

Hardware continues to be a hot sector in the startup community, with a number of investment firms backing startups that make physical goods ...

Bioprinting, Part 1: The Promise and the Pitfalls

It's long been the dream of humans to be able to regenerate body parts. Scientists have been researching this possibility for years, b...

Blowback From The Rift

Sour grapes. In the era of multi-billion dollar acquisitions and high expectations, it's easy to have them. But what has driven the mass...

Producteev Adds iPad And Outlook Apps Following Jive Acquisition

Task management tool Producteev just launched a new iPad app and a native Outlook plugin. Now part of Jive, the company also launched a new ...

Opening Consumer Products To Crowdsourced Investment, CircleUp Raises $14 Million

Technology's ability to harness the wisdom of crowds has created massive new businesses that support entrepreneurship around arts, craft...

Monument Valley, ustwo’s Sumptuous Escher-Inspired iOS Game, Launches Globally On April 3 — For $3.99

Monument Valley, the much anticipated iPad and mobile game from London app & design studio ustwo (maker of the late lamented antisocial ...

iFixit Confirms Why The HTC One M8 Ships With A Stellar Warranty

John Biggs said it best yesterday: "Come For The Styling, Stay For The Warranty". Perhaps one of the best reasons to buy the new H...

Twitter Recovered Most Of The Tweets That Vanished, Including Ellen’s Oscar Selfie

Tuesday evening, for the third time in a month, Twitter experienced technical difficulties. It wasn't an outage from high traffic or dev...

New NYT Now App Marks The Grey Lady’s First Step Into Native Ads On Mobile, Dedicated Mobile Editors

"All the News That's Fit to Print" was a viable business model for many years for the New York Times, but these days, as newsp...

LG Sheds Light on Internet of Things

LG Electronics on Monday unveiled a light bulb designed to illuminate consumers lives in a more intelligent way. The Smart Lamp, which can...

Turkish Court Halts The Government’s Application To Ban Twitter

Breaking: A Turkish court has granted a motion for stay of execution of the Turkish government’s application to block Twitter in the country...

Tencent Acquires 28% Stake In South Korea’s CJ Games For $500M

Tencent, the maker of WeChat, has announced that it will pay $500 million for a 28% stake in CJ Games. The transaction will make Tencent the...

Spacious Wants To Help London Startups Find Office Space — Counts Former PM Advisor Rohan Silva As Chair

Spacious, founded by Tushar Agarwal and Tom Watson last November as part of the Entrepreneur First programme, is an online marketplace for s...

Rocket Internet’s PricePanda Launches In Thailand

Rocket Internet has launched its price comparison site PricePanda in Thailand. The site, which is also backed by Tengelmann Group and AB Kin...