Facebook Will Soon Open-Source More Of The Core Technology Behind Its Paper App

At its F8 developer conference Facebook today announced that it will soon open-source more of the technology behind its Paper mobile app for...

Google Takes On Microsoft For Productivity Dominance Of Apple’s Mobile Platform

Earlier today Google released Docs and Sheets, two productivity applications for iOS. The unified apps work across iPhone and iPad devices. ...

Musix Linux: Sweet Strains Jarred by Sour Notes

The Musix Linux distro is a specialty OS with an impressive collection of tools for users with a passion mostly for audio and music produc...

Facebook’s Stock Picks Up Momentum After Announcing Its Mobile Ad Network

On the back of an analyst upgrade based on optimism about the future of its ad products, Facebook today picked up nearly 2.5 percent in the ...

Nod's Ring May Be Smart but Not Precious

Nod Labs on Tuesday jumped into the wearable tech market with a ring device that's designed to serve as a universal controller. Featur...

Facebook Audience Network Actually Plays Nice With Twitter’s MoPub

With today’s announcement of Facebook’s mobile ad network, you might assume that this poses a threat to Twitter’s ad efforts, particularly M...

White House Opens Heart About Vulnerabilties

Smarting from speculation that the U.S. intelligence community hoarded knowledge about the Heartbleed bug that's placed millions of se...

Digital Tech Gives Wordsmiths a Whole New World

Lexicographer Erin McKean gave a TED talk in 2007 called "The Joy of Lexicography," in which she pointed out the limitations of ...

Red Hat Buys Ceph Provider Inktank For $175M In Cash To Beef Up Its Cloud Storage Offerings

Red Hat, the open source software provider, has just announced that it is buying Inktank, a developer of open-source storage systems, for $1...

Praying Mantises Sport the World's Smallest 3D Glasses

What might be the world's smallest 3D glasses have been developed for praying mantises. People, horses, falcons, cats, monkeys and eve...

Nod's Ring May Be Smart but Not Precious

Nod Labs on Tuesday jumped into the wearable tech market with a ring device that's designed to serve as a universal controller. Featur...

AOL Users Waiting to Exhale

AOL on Monday disclosed that a "significant number" of user accounts had been hacked, confirming rumors swirling around the issu...

FCC Chairman Promises To Regulate The Internet As A Utility If Needed To Protect Net Neutrality

In a sternly worded blog post today, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler further explained his views on net neutrality, detailing how he plans to imple...

Twitter Grows 5.8% To 255M Monthly Users, And 78% Of Them Are On Mobile

Twitter just released its earnings report for the first quarter of 2014, in which it said that its total monthly active users had grown to 2...

A Day In The Life Of The ERA Accelerator

As a post-demo day celebration, we’ve decided to start with ERA to launch our “Day In The Life” series, where we visit NY-based accelerators...

Brian Warner: Tizen Has Good Bones

The consumer electronics industry has a secret ingredient: the Tizen operating system. It is alive and well and may control a device you n...

Cybersquatters Prepare for Mischief

Cybersquatting is a seedy practice that's as old as dot-com, but the upcoming expansion of domain names could be breathing new life in...

Sprinklr Launches Social Ad Tools And Raises $40M More

Sprinklr, which describes itself as “the largest independent social relationship platform provider,” just announced that it has raised $40 m...

Praying Mantises Sport the World's Smallest 3D Glasses

What might be the world's smallest 3D glasses have been developed for praying mantises. People, horses, falcons, cats, monkeys and eve...

Polishing the Rare Gem That Is Linux

"Love is blind," as the old saying goes, and that can be just as true when the object of love is a thing -- an operating system,...

Microsoft's Makeover: Nadella Confirmed, Ballmer Vindicated

Last week, Microsoft delivered its quarterly report, and it was a big deal. It was CEO Satya Nadella's first real quarter and the Noki...

Cybersquatters Prepare for Mischief

Cybersquatting is a seedy practice that's as old as dot-com, but the upcoming expansion of domain names could be breathing new life in...

Fly Or Die: Nokia Lumia Icon

The Nokia Lumia Icon is yet another smartphone out of the Microsoft camp looking to pull you away from either iOS or Android. Where specs an...

littleBits Goes a Long Way

Space fans the world over long have dreamed of exploring the universe for themselves, but a new, 12-module kit from NASA and littleBits ai...

Equity Crowd Funding Platform OurCrowd Raises $25M Series B

Funding iPad keyboards on Kickstarter is one thing. But equity crowd funding is pretty hot right now. And today OurCrowd out of Israel has c...

The Exciting World Of Samsung’s Viral Payola

If you've ever wondered how some videos get popular while others languish in obscurity (or, on the flip side, if you'd like to know ...

Polishing the Rare Gem That Is Linux

"Love is blind," as the old saying goes, and that can be just as true when the object of love is a thing -- an operating system,...

Microsoft's Makeover: Nadella Confirmed, Ballmer Vindicated

Last week, Microsoft delivered its quarterly report, and it was a big deal. It was CEO Satya Nadella's first real quarter and the Noki...

MyHeritage Passes 5 Billion Historical Records, Adds 5 Million Daily

MyHeritage, the popular family history network for genealogy buffs with offices in Tel Aviv, Israel and Lehu, Utah, today announced that its...

Apple's Story: Passion, Patience and Pressure

True, market-changing, life-changing innovation comes from three key elements: passion, patience and pressure. Apple is the poster child f...

My Weekly TechCrunch Habit Ends

Over the past three years, every weekend, I sit down with my laptop and write something that eventually becomes a blog post on TechCrunch. E...

RadiumOne Confirms That It Has Fired CEO Gurbaksh Chahal

RadiumOne just announced that its board of directors terminated CEO and Chairman Gurbaksh Chahal on Saturday night. Chief Operating Officer ...

The Exploitation of OpenSSL

The Web has been abuzz with discussion of the HeartBleed flaw. Security vendors and experts have been falling all over themselves to offer...

A Letter To The Board Members Of RadiumOne

Dear RadiumOne Board Members, In covering the day-to-day launches, funding announcements, and feature additions of tech startups and compani...

Google Brings Its Hotel And Restaurant Search To Android

Google is adding a deeper integration of its hotel and restaurant search to Google Search on Android. This is a pretty straightforward integ...

littleBits Goes a Long Way

Space fans the world over long have dreamed of exploring the universe for themselves, but a new, 12-module kit from NASA and littleBits ai...

France Mulls Banning GPS-Enabled Driver-Finding Apps

The French government is considering a ban on GPS-enabled apps that allow would-be passengers to track down nearby drivers. The issue is b...

How Cloud Films Wants To Keep Movies Authentic In The Age Of The Selfie

The innovative film maker Tiffany Shlain isn't a great fan of selfies. They are mostly two dimensional, she told me at a FutureCast salo...

Apple's Story: Passion, Patience and Pressure

True, market-changing, life-changing innovation comes from three key elements: passion, patience and pressure. Apple is the poster child f...

The Incredible Shrinking Technology

We are constantly moving. From a morning meeting to a lunch date to an afternoon conference call, we are always on the go and so are our t...

Ubuntu Trusty Tahr: More Yawns, More Polish

A new Ubuntu Linux desktop line -- Ubuntu 14.04, known as "Trusty Tahr" -- lacks much in the way of new features or eye-popping ...

Facebook Dips a Toe Into the News Biz

Facebook on Thursday announced FB Newswire, a site aggregating content from posts users put up on their pages that it will offer as a reso...

Google Rolls Out Time-Traveling Maps

Google has launched a new feature on Street View that enables users to browse through images dating back as far as 2007, as well as images...

Reading Into the Red Hat CentOS Deal

There was a somewhat quiet, cost-free acquisition of sorts in the Linux world earlier this year when Red Hat announced it was joining forc...

OnePlus Unveils One 'Flagship Killer' Smartphone

OnePlus, a China-based smartphone maker founded by Pete Lau, a former VP at Guangzhou-based Oppo, on Wednesday announced its OnePlus One p...

Maker Studios Nabs FailArmy And Other Viral Channels From Jukin Media

YouTube network Maker Studios is taking over management and monetization of a whole bunch of viral video channels that are managed by Jukin ...

Duolingo Launches In Asia, Updates Its iOS App

Duolingo, the popular language learning service, launched the latest update of its iOS app today. Version 4.0 includes a number of new featu...

Internet Glue Service IFTTT Launches On Android With Deeper Integration Than iOS

The Internet connection and automation service IFTTT is launching on Android today, and it offers a deeper set of integrations with the OS t...

The Incredible Shrinking Technology

We are constantly moving. From a morning meeting to a lunch date to an afternoon conference call, we are always on the go and so are our t...

Stitch Raises $3.25M From Google Ventures And Others To Help Salespeople Close More Deals

Stitch, a new startup that wants to help salespeople close more deals via a mobile, productivity platform, has raised $3.25 million in seed ...

Fandango Confirms That It Has Acquired Movieclips From Zefr

Ticketing service Fandango just announced that it has acquired Movieclips from online video company Zefr. TechCrunch’s Ryan Lawler reported ...

Flash Fashion Site SecretSales Raises £4.5M, Led By Partech

Flash fashion sales site SecretSales.com, a significant UK player, has raised £4.5 million – its third round of funding – from Partech Ventu...

Reading Into the Red Hat CentOS Deal

There was a somewhat quiet, cost-free acquisition of sorts in the Linux world earlier this year when Red Hat announced it was joining forc...

OnePlus Unveils One 'Flagship Killer' Smartphone

OnePlus, a China-based smartphone maker founded by Pete Lau, a former VP at Guangzhou-based Oppo, on Wednesday announced its OnePlus One p...

Apple Announces 7 For 1 Stock Split, Boosts Its Dividend 8%, Adds $30B To Its Buyback Program

As part of its earnings cycle today, Apple announced that it will increase its dividend 8 percent, add $30 billion to its share buyback prog...

Lytro's New Shoot Now, Focus Later Camera Targets Prosumers

The folks who introduced the masses to ex post facto focusing upped their game Tuesday with the introduction of a new camera aimed at shoo...

Founder of Russian Social Media Says He Got the Boot

Pavel Durov, the founder of Russia's most popular social network site, claims he has been ousted by allies of President Vladimir Putin...

Apple Shoots for 'Better'

In honor of this year's Earth Day, celebrated Tuesday, Apple is showcasing its efforts to lessen its carbon footprint and become more ...

Quibb, The News Reader For Professionals, Taps Alphaworks To Close A $750k Seed Round

Quibb, a service that helps industry professional share and discuss relevant news items, is looking to finish up its seed round on Alphawork...

Stealthy Assassin Series Hitman GO Makes a Luscious Board Game

I can safely say that I never would have imagined turning the Hitman video game series into a luscious dioramic board game for iOS. Lucky ...

Codasip Secures $2.8M Funding Led By Credo Ventures

Codasip is an ‘application specific processor design tool’ and IP provider. Today it’s closed its first round of public funding totalling $2...

Wearables Just Don't Do It for Nike

Nike appears to be retreating from its vanguard position in the computer wearables market. The company reportedly has begun slashing the e...

Apple Shoots for 'Better'

In honor of this year's Earth Day, celebrated Tuesday, Apple is showcasing its efforts to lessen its carbon footprint and become more ...

Website-Building Platform Weebly Raises $35M More

Weebly, which offers easy-to-use tools for building websites, announced today that it has raised $35 million in Series C funding. The money ...

Popular UK Sports File-Sharing Site Shuttered

The Sports Torrent Network, a brazenly named file-sharing site, shut down after UK police threatened to put its operators behind bars for ...

Data Center Fire Fries Samsung's Un-Backed-Up Servers

A fire that erupted at the data center of Samsung SDS in Gwacheon, South Korea, reportedly took out services to Samsung smartphones, table...

Facebook Now Powers More Than Half Of All Social Logins

Social logins are a convenient way to sign in to services without having to go through lengthy sign-up procedures and setting up yet another...

Runtastic Signs Deal With Universal For BPM-Oriented Compilations

Seed-funded Runtastic, which has produced a number of apps and services for health and exercise tracking, is going into the music business. ...

Wearables Just Don't Do It for Nike

Nike appears to be retreating from its vanguard position in the computer wearables market. The company reportedly has begun slashing the e...

Cloud Sound Platform Audiboo Preps London AIM Float To Raise £4M

Audiboo, the British cloud audio platform which once competed with Soundcloud but has found a niche working with media companies, has confir...

Electric Cloud Closes $12M Series E Round For Its Continuous Delivery Service

Electric Cloud, a company that offers continuous delivery products, services and support to businesses that want to adapt this software desi...

Heartbleed and Heartache in FOSS Town

Well it's been a wild few weeks here in the Linux blogosphere, thanks not just to XP's demise but also the long-overdue discovery ...

Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia Explains The Broadcaster Battle In His Own Words

In the past year, Aereo has fought legal battles in three different states with broadcasters looking to get the streaming TV service kicked ...

Data Center Fire Fries Samsung's Un-Backed-Up Servers

A fire that erupted at the data center of Samsung SDS in Gwacheon, South Korea, reportedly took out services to Samsung smartphones, table...

Banking Trojan Enters Mobiles via Facebook

Purveyors of a notorious mobile banking Trojan have started targeting Facebook users to infect Android smartphones. The Net predators use ...

NASA and Google Do the Tango

Google's Project Tango smartphone, which is jam-packed with sensors, soon will be used in the International Space Station. The United ...

Google This: Yahoo Wants Apple's Search Business

Google has dominated the world of search for years, so much so that "Google" is not only synonymous with searching -- it's a...

Transcendence and Analytics: What If the End of Mankind as We Know It Were a Good Thing?

I saw the movie Transcendence last week, and it was an impressive telling of what might happen were we to achieve singularity. Given this...

Zynga Heads Back to the FarmVille Trough

Zynga is once again plowing the furrow of its greatest success with the launch of FarmVille 2: Country Escape . The latest title from the ...

Cognoa’s App Will Evaluate Children’s Risk For Autism From Videos And Other Data

There are life-changing technologies that are being developed at the intersection of health evaluation and diagnosis. For example, Neurotrac...

Google App Engine Gets GitHub Push-To-Deploy Support

Last summer, Google started allowing developers to use git to get their code onto App Engine to deploy their applications instead of using G...

Counterforce Protests Tech Using Tech

Rising income inequality is quickly becoming the most prevalent issue of our century, "the defining challenge of our time," accord...

NASA and Google Do the Tango

Google's Project Tango smartphone, which is jam-packed with sensors, soon will be used in the International Space Station. The United ...

Ask A VC: Next World Capital’s Ben Fu On Engineer Recruiting Challenges

In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, we hosted Next World Capital’s Ben Fu in the studio to talk about big data, recruiting and more. Fu, who...

In Just A Few Minutes, SpaceX Will Attempt To Launch A Reusable Rocket — Watch Now!

Quick! Tune in! SpaceX is about to attempt something pretty historic: launching a rocket in such a way that much of it can be reused in late...

Google This: Yahoo Wants Apple's Search Business

Google has dominated the world of search for years, so much so that "Google" is not only synonymous with searching -- it's a...

German Media Mogul Rips Google in Open Letter

The chief executive of one of Germany's biggest media companies penned an open letter criticizing Google, saying that his company is a...

About.com CEO Neil Vogel Discusses The Challenges Of Evolving An Established Brand

About.com has never been the coolest website on the internet. With a grayish background and an ugly logo, it was the place you landed when y...

Zynga Heads Back to the FarmVille Trough

Zynga is once again plowing the furrow of its greatest success with the launch of FarmVille 2: Country Escape . The latest title from the ...