https://techcrunch.com Startup and Technology News Sun, 05 May 2024 18:13:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/cropped-cropped-favicon-gradient.png?w=32 https://techcrunch.com 32 32 https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/18/obihai-offers-new-low-cost-home-phone-options-as-technology-change-at-google-ends-free-service/ Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:00:13 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=974110 https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/19/diigo-a-tool-for-highlighting-and-adding-sticky-notes-to-the-web-gets-a-facelift/ Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:43:04 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=863487 https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/22/sleep-tracking-startup-zeo-says-goodnight/ Wed, 22 May 2013 08:23:34 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=821050 Zeo, a leading maker of hardware and software used by consumers to track sleep and improve their health, has not been operating since the end of last year. A trustee has nearly completed the sale of all company assets. Zeo has been very quiet about the news up until now. In fact, Zeo's website is still up and doesn't mention the news. ]]> https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/04/disrupt-video-archives-zuckerberg-says-building-a-facebook-phone-is-the-wrong-strategy-for-us/ Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:55:21 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=791642 Facebook "Phone" project due to be announced in a few hours, it's worth remembering Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has publicly said building a phone is "so clearly the wrong strategy for us." At TechCrunch's Disrupt SF conference last September, Michael Arrington grilled Zuckerberg about it. ]]> https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/02/techcrunch-tv-relaunches-on-itunes-with-video-and-audio-only-podcasts/ Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:56:09 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=788285 redesigned iTunes site. After some tweaking, we're now ready to get the word out.]]> https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/28/cnet-writers-well-publish-your-story-if-cnet-wont/ Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:59:12 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=745085 a polemic at TechCrunch. When our corporate parent, a sister or an advertiser might have an issue with a story, we write it anyways. So we have an offer to make to the writers at CNET. Its parent company, CBS, has decreed that CNET's latest Aereo review, barring something changing, will be its last. A disclosure statement on a recent news article about the Aero states bluntly:]]> https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/13/behind-the-scenes-at-the-crunchies-hypercard-and-appletalk-play-a-role-in-putting-on-the-show/ Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:30:35 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=718582 Crunchies Awards next month, (tickets on sale now!) look above the stage. You will see an acoustical canopy system made of 59 Plexiglas reflector panels controlled by cutting-edge technology — for 1991. As the Crunchies celebrate the latest technology advances and startups onstage, over the heads of the winners will be an impressive feat of technology from more than 20 years ago.]]> https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/13/seatid-launches-service-to-book-a-flight-based-on-your-social-network/ Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:39:14 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=696434 SeatID, wants to change the way you fly. Their service lets you use your social network to help pick your next flight and seat assignment. SeatID is available starting today on the Ukrainian airline AeroSvit and the company plans to sign up major international airlines and online travel services soon. Whether passengers will want to share their flight and seat info is a big and controversial question. Eran Savir, CEO and co-founder of Israeli-based SeatID, says everyone has a bad flying story thanks to an awful seatmate. That experience is what inspired the founders to start the company. ]]> https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/09/vets-in-tech-holds-hackathon-in-sf-this-weekend/ Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:19:36 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=694683 hackathon this Veteran's Day weekend in San Francisco is looking for a few good men and women. It's sponsored by VetsinTech, a group working to connect veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with the Silicon Valley tech ecosystem. VetsinTech says these veterans share many entrepreneurial skills valued by tech startups including a dogged determination, a high degree of discipline, the ability to work in teams or autonomously, and a strong work ethic.]]> https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/07/founder-stories-bradford-cross-of-prismatic-on-running-his-startup/ Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:04:18 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=693328 Our TCTV show, Founder Stories, returns with a new West Coast host, Michael Abbott @mabb0tt. Mike is a general partner at KPCB and was previously Twitter's VP of Engineering and a founder himself. Prismatic is an app that creates a custom newsfeed based on your interests. Its news discovery iPhone app launched in August to positive reviews. For our West Coast premier episode of Founder Stories, we invited co-founder Bradford Cross back to our studios to learn how he is managing the business.]]> https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/27/social-annotation-site-diigo-com-recovering-after-domain-hijacking-nightmare/ Sat, 27 Oct 2012 20:08:44 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=684883 Diigo, a social bookmarking and annotation site, is finally back online 50 hours after the domain was first hijacked. It's an incredible story that involves crisis management, blackmail, investigative research, payoffs, a clever thief, and points to potential problems with the domain name registry system that could affect anyone with a website. Diigo's co-founder called it a nightmare and crisis that he'd like to help other companies avoid. ]]> https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/24/apples-incredible-great-best-gorgeous-product-launch-in-under-3-minutes-video/ Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:33:07 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=682489 Apple knows how to launch and promote new products better than any company in the world. Yesterday's 73 minute special event, introducing the iPad mini, new MacBook Pro, Mac Mini and iMac was, in Apple's words amazing, great, the best, incredible, tremendous, fantastic, incredible, gorgeous and much much more. While some potential buyers might be interested in the detailed specs, check out this short video I put together that contains everything you need to know. ]]> https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/21/getting-started-with-the-raspberry-pi-is-not-as-easy-as-pie/ Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:47:11 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=679653 reported, the $25 to $35 mini computer on a circuit board is designed to give kids around the globe an easy way to learn computer programming. But the Raspberry Pi is not like a computer you get from Apple or pickup at the local Best Buy. It's not as simple as plug and play. It takes a bit of extra work and time. And you need to be a hacker before you can get it working.]]> https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/26/a-sneak-peak-at-the-new-yahoo-home-page-redesign/ Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:47:32 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=659980 Yahoo home page. Yesterday, Yahoo's new CEO Marissa Mayer shared her broad vision for the future of the Internet company with employees. According to AllThingsD, Mayer didn't share specific plans for fixing search and email or an "in-process and dramatic home page redesign." While ATD reporter Kara Swisher seems to have the phones at Yahoo bugged, and perhaps a @yahoo-inc.com email address, she hasn't been able to get a peek at the redesign. Yahoo has also been cracking down on leaks, but that didn't stop us.]]> https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/25/techcrunchs-youtube-channel-hits-10-million-video-views/ Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:44:26 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=659574 Gangnam Style or Call Me Maybe viewing levels. Those videos have more than 274 million and 269 million views, respectively, on YouTube. But today, TechCrunch's YouTube channel passed its own milestone: 10 million views. Michael Arrington wrote the first post on TechCrunch on June 11th, 2005. Less than two months later, obviously recognizing that video was going to be important, he had signed up for a YouTube channel.]]> https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/20/woz-watch-steve-wozniak-waiting-for-one-of-the-first-iphone-5s-in-australia/ Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:31:23 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=656106 Steve Wozniak is going to be waiting up all night on line to get one. TechCrunch was planning to talk to him at one of his usual digs at an Apple Store in Los Gatos or San Jose. But, this time it turns out the Apple co-founder is waiting in Australia. According to his tweet from an hour ago, he's "In line for first iPhone 5's in the world!" at the Apple Store in Chermside, Queensland Australia, which is a suburb of Brisbane. Where it happens to be 5am Friday. So, Wozniak will be one of the first to buy the new iPhone 5.]]> https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/16/techcrunch-disrupt-sf-2012-day-3-video-highlights-tctv/ Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:00:40 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=651944 YourMechanic won the Startup Battlefield competition. Earlier in the day, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick explained how he goes up against regulators trying to block his disruptive business model. Yammer CEO David Sacks was asked whether his company was ever in serious acquisition talks with Salesforce or Twitter before it was sold to Microsoft for $1.2 billion. And Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures explained why he doesn't like to refer to himself as a venture capitalist, preferring to be called a mentor instead.]]> https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/15/techcrunch-disrupt-sf-2012-day-2-video-highlights-tctv/ Sun, 16 Sep 2012 02:00:13 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=651755 Mark Zuckerberg. In his first interview since the IPO, he called his stock performance disappointing and talked about his biggest mistake. Investors focused on the positive comments, including progress in the mobile business, and Facebook's market value soared $6.785 billion after the speech. It might be the first nearly $7 billion interview. ]]> https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/15/techcrunch-disrupt-sf-2012-day-1-video-highlights-tctv/ Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:00:24 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=651583 Jack Dorsey who told the audience he "never wanted to be an entrepreneur." Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz warned about how IPOs can change a company. We also heard from Greylock partner and LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman, Path's Co-Founder Dave Morin, Newark's Mayor Cory Booker and The Honest Company Founders Jessica Alba and Brian Lee, plus many other founders and tech leaders.]]> https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/06/natasha-bryant-raible-wins-our-disrupt-remix-contest-with-top-track-out-of-445-entries/ Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:57:36 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=641772 445 entries to our Disrupt Remix Contest. Check them all out inside the post. After many hours of music screening, our busy Event Director Joey Hinson has chosen a winner. It was a difficult pick because so many were so good. But, now we are proud to announce the winner. Drumroll please. It's Natasha Bryant-Raible, with her "TechTechRastaCrunch" remix. She gets 2 free tickets to attend Disrupt SF next week and a free Pro SoundCloud account.]]>