<a target="_blank" href="http://www.plyfe.me">Plyfe</a>, a startup that allows brands to promote themselves through games and rewards, is moving onto mobile today — Plyfe games can now be played on

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, along with existing investors, has invested $49 million in Xero, the online accounting software for small businesses. It is Thiel's third investment in Xero. Earlier th

One of the most popular topics in education technology these days is the subject of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc">MOOCs</a>, otherwise known as Massive Open Onli

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.angelpad.org">AngelPad</a>, the startup accelerator program <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/22/angelpad/">founded back in 2010</a> by ex-Googler and investo

There is some consolidation in the error-tracking/monitoring space. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.exceptional.io">Exceptional</a>, the error-tracking service for cloud developers, has announced

<a target="_blank" href="http://startupchile.org/">Start-Up Chile</a>, the government-sponsored startup accelerator, is hosting its 3rd demo day today. The focus of this demo day is on social enterpri

You might think <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/29/zynga-facebook-deal-amendment/">Zynga's newfound flexibility</a> from the end of its <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/ed

Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and CEO, took the stage at the company's re: Invent developer conference for a wide-ranging discussion with the company's CTO Werner Vogels about Amazon's web service and

As you might have heard last night, PeopleBrowsr, the maker of social influence service Kred, has filed legal actions against Twitter for cutting it off of its full firehose of data. It was <a href="h

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.kiosked.com/">Kiosked</a>, a <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/06/20/kiosked-funding-plus-rovio/">Finnish startup that raised $5.75 million from Rovio's elusive

Android phones! There are some that I love. The HTC One X was one of those, thanks to a very attractive external package alongside an Android skin (Sense) that had a fairly light touch and didn't mess

Amazon.com Founder and CEO said in a fireside chat at AWS re:Invent with CTO Werner Vogels that he was surprised by the success of Amazon Web Services. Bezos said they were optimistic that AWS would

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/12/15/techcrunch-moscow-from-russia-with-a-lot-of-tech-love/">In 2010</a> we held the first TechCrunch Moscow. We were back last year, and will return again this D

Rap music has certainly evolved over the decades to become a pretty mainstream thing, but the act of rapping itself is not exactly seen as a commonplace hobby. But Detroit-based entrepreneur <a ta

Zynga just filed <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1439404/000119312512485800/d446603d8k.htm">a document with the SEC</a> outlining new terms to its agreement with Facebo

When I <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/09/google-search-a-discussion-about-the-past-present-and-future-with-jack-menzel/">spoke with one of the leads on Google search</a> a while back, he told

Today, the dark day Syria shut down its Internet, web freedom should be at the very forefront of all of our minds. Web freedom was also center stage earlier this week when Stanford Law School hosted

Video discovery is becoming a big deal, as startups seek to help users sort through the millions of videos that are now available over the Internet. But until now, the vast majority of video discovery

Apple has yet to release the unlocked iPhone 5 in the U.S., even though early on they let images leak depicting pricing of that device on its website. Now a new report from 9t05Mac claims that the com

In a piece entitled "<a target="_blank" href="http://marsbot.tumblr.com/post/36814339883/farewell-foursquare">Farewell Foursquare</a>", its first designer, <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com