Follow your favorite blogs!

Bloglovin' helps you follow the blogs you read by letting you know when they update.

Sign up »
TechCrunch
techcrunch.com
569
TechCrunch profiles the companies, products and events that are defining and transforming the new web. TechCrunch is written by Michael Arrington.
#2314 in All , #1 in Industry news

Google’s ‘Project Glass’ Is Codenamed “Wingman”

Company culture is a huge competitive advantage: That’s why Zuckerberg obsesses over Facebook’s hackathons and why Yahooers “bleed purple.” Of course, anything that causes peo...

1 h ago

What Lies Beyond The Check-In: Foursquare To Launch Big New Redesign Next Week

If you’re following Foursquare on Twitter, you’ve probably noticed that the check-in champions have been teasing the release of the “all new Foursquare” app for the last few d...

7 h ago

Woofound’s Social Events App Matches People To Places Based On Personality

Woofound, a Maryland-based startup aiming to match your personality to things you want to do, is today launching its iOS application nationwide. The app turns rating activities, places and restaurant...

7 h ago

TwitchTV Gets Its First In-Game Streaming Integration, Introduces A Scholarship For Competitive Gam...

Launched just about a year ago, live streaming site TwitchTV has very quickly established itself as one of the top destinations for e-sports enthusiasts who want to broadcast their gaming sessions to...

7 h ago

Tiger, SV Angel-Backed Baby.com.br Finds Legs In An Exploding Brazilian eCommerce Market

Last October, Kimball Thomas and Davis Smith launched Baby.com.br with $4.4 million in backing from an impressive group of Silicon Valley and international investors, including Tiger Global Managemen...

9 h ago

Meet The Wii U Gamepad, Nintendo’s Answer To Gaming On The iPad

Details are still just mainly technical, but Nintendo just took the wraps off the final version of the Wii U’s controller, now named Gamepad. This came during Nintendo’s somewhat surprisi...

12 h ago

Mobile And Local Ads: The Publisher Perspective

Editor’s note: Location is key to monetizing mobile ads, ThinkNear chief executive Eli Portnoy wrote in a guest post for us yesterday. Now James Hritz weighs in with some further thoughts on th...

14 h ago

As Facebook Puns Dominate News Headlines Worldwide, One Man Is Fighting Back

“Where are Facebook’s friends? Stock slide deepens‎,” the Associated Press wondered recently. “Facebook’s flotation: more pokes than likes‎,” The Guardian quipped....

15 h ago

iCade Mobile, The Gaming Adapter For iPhone, Now Shipping

Good news, everybody! The iCade Mobile, a Bluetooth case that slides around your iPhone, allowing you to play games using a trackpad and read buttons, is now shipping for $80. The iCade Core, an arca...

15 h ago

Pocket God’s Other Success: Digital Comics

Pocket God is best-known as a hit game for iOS and other smartphone platforms, but Dave Castelnuovo, head of developer Bolt Creative, says the story and characters have been embraced in another mediu...

16 h ago

Appsplit Is Crowdfunding For Apps

If Appsplit is any indication, either crowdfunding is the future of everything or there’s a crowdfunding gold rush. I’m going to bet it’s a little of both. This new service allows p...

16 h ago

Hot Android To-Do List App, Any.DO, Comes To iOS And Web

Any.DO, the gorgeous to-do app for Android, has finally made its way to the iPhone and the web today. Developed by the team behind Taskos, one of the most popular to-do list applications on the Andro...

19 h ago

Raising Money 101: It’s a Selling Moment

Editor’s note: Charles Moldow is a general partner at Foundation Capital, focusing on consumer Internet companies. He was previously a founding executive at TellMe Networks and at @Home. The re...

21 h ago

For the Single Founder Who Can’t Code

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Mick Hagen (@mickhagen), founder and CEO of Undrip. He was previously the founder of Zinch which was acquired by Chegg last year. He made headlines in the...

1 day ago

Monetizing Mobile Requires More Than Just Waiting For Ad Dollars

Editor’s note: Eli Portnoy is the CEO and co-founder of ThinkNear, which helps advertisers target mobile ads based on location and real-world context. Mary Meeker’s presentation this week on mo...

1 day ago

Inside StartX Stanford’s Spring 2012 Demo Day [TCTV]

StartX, the startup accelerator for Stanford University students, held its Spring 2012 Demo Day this past week at AOL headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Seven very diverse startups presented to a...

1 day ago

The Instagram Effect? Mobile Photo Sharing App PicPlz To Shut Down Permanently On July 3

PicPlz, the mobile photo sharing app that is perhaps known best for being an early and direct competitor with Instagram, will shut down permanently on July 3. PicPlz delivered the news through a shor...

1 day ago

How Do Top Android Developers QA Test Their Apps?

A couple weeks ago I ran this post showing how one Hong Kong developer, Animoca, tests its Android games. The company, which has had more than 70 million downloads, tests every one of their apps on a...

1 day ago

YouTube Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund

Editor’s Note: John Greathouse is a general partner at Rincon Venture Partners and has held a number of senior executive positions with successful startups during the past fifteen years, includ...

1 day ago

HTC Evo 4G LTE Review: I Can’t See Why Not

Short Version The Evo 4G LTE is a fine phone. There certainly aren’t any glaring issues: Sense has been considerably streamlined, and it’s really good at what it was made to do, which is ...

1 day ago

Dropcanvas Offers Up Free, Dead Simple File Sharing, But Can It Last?

There’s no shortage of robust, full-featured file storage and sharing services out there, but where do you turn when you want the quickest, simplest way to go? Crate costs money, JustBeamIt req...

1 day ago

Cleveland-Based LaunchHouse Is Looking For A Few Good Ohio Start-Ups

Cleveland, known to many as the “Land From Whence The Cleves Came,” is rarely mentioned when you think of hotbeds of entrepreneurial energy. But yet it was the long time home to Harvey Pe...

1 day ago

Hands-On With The Romain Jerome Space Invaders Watch For High-End Gamers

People keep asking, “Why would anyone of sane mind buy a $17,000 luxury watch with a Space Invader’s theme?” If you are familiar with the Swiss watch brand Romain Jerome – you...

1 day ago

ApriPetit Is A Little Robot That Wants To Talk To You

Robots are hard to talk to. They’re not friendly, they’re mostly made of plastic, and, as anyone who has tried to chat with a Roomba can attest, they are often dedicated to a single task....

1 day ago

Gillmor Gang: Beneath Blue Suburban Skies

The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — watches helplessly as robots briefly take over the show. As investors reel from the backwash of the Faceb...

1 day ago

The Other Side Of The Story: WhosHere vs. Who’s Near Me Live

You guys may remember a post on TechCrunch yesterday about a trademark spat between an entrepreneur named Brian Hamachek, who built an app called Who’s Near Me Live, and a Lightbank-backed star...

1 day ago

How To Cash In On Government As A Platform

Editor’s note: Abhi Nemani is Strategy Director at Code for America, which is a nonprofit helping develop public service opportunities for developers, designers, and entrepreneurs. The Code for...

1 day ago

Bashing Facebook For All The Wrong Reasons

So Facebook’s IPO was a disaster. Or maybe it wasn’t. Yes, it was an utter fiasco. No, wait: “The debacle was not the IPO but all the whining by speculators who didn’t make mo...

1 day ago

Guerilla Recruiting: Combating The Counteroffer

Editor’s note: Scott Weiss is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and the former co-founder and CEO of IronPort Systems, which was acquired by Cisco in 2007. He blogs at http://scott.a16z....

2 days ago

Startups Vs. Startups: App Developer Gets Sued By Lightbank-Backed WhosHere

So here’s a story that hopefully will be an eye-opener for entrepreneurs and startups, while providing a painful peek into trademark harassment and the importance of due diligence. It goes a li...

2 days ago

You are no longer following . Undo?