https://techcrunch.com Startup and Technology News Fri, 17 Aug 2018 17:07:07 +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/2014/08/10/the-twitter-dm-promise/ Sun, 10 Aug 2014 21:13:41 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=1041804 https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/27/the-vp-of-devils-advocacy/ Sun, 27 Jul 2014 20:46:16 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=1035564 https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/29/nintendo-retro/ Thu, 30 Jan 2014 06:03:23 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=949676 https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/16/beta-app-store/ Tue, 17 Dec 2013 05:39:02 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=931403 https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/08/let-it-full-bleed/ Sun, 08 Dec 2013 21:32:34 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=924848 https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/18/quoting-shakespeare-and-speed/ Tue, 19 Nov 2013 04:52:49 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=916731 https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/11/ipad-air-my-mom-keyboards/ Tue, 12 Nov 2013 07:10:03 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=913375 https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/22/ipad-air-versus-ipad-mini/ Wed, 23 Oct 2013 01:32:44 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=903725 iPad Air. The new heir apparent to the iPad throne.]]> https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/13/the-end-of-the-library/ Mon, 14 Oct 2013 01:45:48 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=898258 you're a librarian, you're not allowed to answer that.)]]> https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/iphone-5s-and-iphone-5c/ Thu, 26 Sep 2013 20:42:15 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=884474 https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/16/twttr-is-interesting/ Tue, 17 Sep 2013 06:59:19 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=878735 broke the news last week about its forthcoming IPO, I got a bit sentimental. In 2006, when Twitter was entering the world as a side project of the podcasting startup Odeo, I had just left my first "career" in the film industry to try to make it in the tech industry. Web development was my day job at the time, but tech blogging became my passion. Twitter was one of the first things I really zeroed in on.]]> https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/10/iphone-5c/ Wed, 11 Sep 2013 02:03:02 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=876654 https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/04/nintendont/ Wed, 04 Sep 2013 23:02:24 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=872311 I write anything mildly critical of Nintendo, groups of folks reveal themselves that make Android and iPhone diehards look like placid hippies. Those people are really going to hate this post.]]> https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/25/the-end-or-the-beginning-of-microsoft/ Mon, 26 Aug 2013 00:31:15 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=867031 another quarter before we saw how dire things really were. Then life got in the way. I never ran the post. But given this week's news of Steve Ballmer vacating his CEO position sometime in the next 12 months, I figured it was just as timely, if not more so.]]> https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/18/gold-iphone/ Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:50:29 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=863319 Goldfinger. While Bond goes on to explain that the gold coating on Ms. Masterson caused her to die of "skin suffocation", the same fate will not befall the next iPhone. But only because the iPhone will not require oxygen. Yes, there will be a gold iPhone.]]> https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/05/bezos-not-bozos/ Mon, 05 Aug 2013 23:55:34 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=856809 Bizarro Apple.]]> https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/12/mavericks-indeed/ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:29:32 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=831904 Among his last advice he had for me, and for all of you, was to never ask what he would do. “Just do what’s right.” That's what Tim Cook told the audience of Apple employees at the memorial for Steve Jobs, following his passing in 2011. Now, nearly two years later, we're starting to see that plan being executed.]]> https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/09/its-a-nice-day-for-a-red-wedding/ Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:49:54 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=829792 Warning: this post contains minor spoiler alerts — mainly that the penultimate episode of season 3 of Game of Thrones contains something major, worthy of a true spoiler alert. Something which you probably already know if you've used the internet this past week. So, if you've been alive. Last week, I did something I don't normally do — I watched the latest episode of Game of Thrones right around the time that it was actually airing on HBO. You see, I don't have cable, so I can't get HBO. But each week, these episodes tend to find their way to me anyway, as they spread around the internet like wildfire around Blackwater Bay. But I digress...]]> https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/02/pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain/ Sun, 02 Jun 2013 21:07:09 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=826263 Tim Cook’s talk at the D11 conference with great interest. And while it generated a lot of headlines, it became apparent quickly that not much was actually being said. Just to make sure, I went back and watched the entire interview. One thing stuck out above all others: It was boring.]]> https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/22/dystopia/ Wed, 22 May 2013 23:46:34 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/?p=821633 tweeted something thought-provoking: "What were the last Hollywood movies you saw about technology & the future that were optimistic? They seem to be systematically dystopian." I happened to be sitting in a movie theater waiting for Iron Man 3 to start, so I tried to come up with a good counter-example. It’s a lot harder than I thought it would be. Then the pre-movie trailers starting playing. The new Will Smith (and son) flick, After Earth: dystopia. The new Guillermo del Toro flick, Pacific Rim: dystopia. Even the new Superman flick, Man of Steel, could be classified as a technological dystopia (more below).]]>