How important is mobile to Facebook? Already, 350 million of its 800 million monthly active users are on mobile devices, and that number is just going to get bigger. "Fundamentally we view it as a rea
Is Jeff Bezos really like a “giant-brained alien?” In categorizing the Amazon founder’s unusual genius, Google (and former Amazon) engineer Steve Yegge compares Bezos and those like him to “h
Like many of you I've been watching the steady stream of incremental<a href="http://www.techmeme.com/111022/p21#a111022p21"> Steve Jobs-related news stories</a> for the past couple days, resultin
So <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/21/must-watch-the-battlefield-3-launch-trailer/">I don't seem biased</a>, because I really don't care, here's the Call of Duty: Modern War 3 trailer. You kno
This stuff writes itself. At the grand opening of a new Windows Store in Seattle folks were camping out for most of the night only to stream in, breathlessly ready to partake in the one exciting produ
Steve Jobs was the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/17/the-importance-of-enthusiasm-in-any-product/">ultimate showman</a>. As such, it should be no surprise that he realized the power of follow
It transpires that the government of Nunavut, a remote territory of Canada between Hudson bay and Baffin bay, recently acquired some new digital cameras for the purpose of creating driver's licenses.
We here at TechCrunch love startups, and we love the programs, networks, accelerators, and funds that help these startups grow and take over the world. There are a lot of them out there, and for entre
When Facebook CTO Bret Taylor was in high school, he had a backpack covered in patches that helped him express who he was and what things he was interested in. He thinks that your Facebook page is be
The author of several classic histories of pop music including <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rip-Start-Again-Simon-Reynolds/dp/0571215696/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_5">Rip It Up And Start Again,</a> <a href="
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The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — rebounded from a seven and a half minute gap to explore the mysteries of the Siri platform. As mach
See Mr. Fauxcredible over there? He needs a name and Wyse wants to give an iPhone 4S to the reader who comes up with the best one for him.
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For the past week, I've been testing the alpha version of the <a href="http://www.everpix.com">Everpix</a> service, which aims to automatically centralize and organize all your digital photos, both
OnLive offered a challenge to their community: Get 62,791 likes on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/OnLive?sk=wall">its Facebook page</a> and all users would get one game for $1. Well, OnLive's fans c
San Francisco-based <a href="http://www.higear.com/">HiGear</a>, a peer-to-peer car-sharing service focused on luxury vehicles, is expanding to L.A. starting November 1st. The move is part of the comp
Twitter CEO and former improv comedian <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/dick-costolo">Dick Costolo </a>gave an almost hour long talk at the opening dinner of <a href="http://www.web20summit.c
Five years ago, I was working for a Belgian company that published the only weekly IT magazine in the country, <a href="http://www.datanews.be/">Data News</a>. I was not a reporter, but in charge of i
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