CrunchWeek: Google Brings Maps To iOS 6, Twitter And Instagram’s Photo War, & Can Max Levchin Help Save Yahoo?

Colleen Taylor

Colleen Taylor is based in San Francisco where she is a reporter for TechCrunch and TechCrunch TV. Previously she worked as a reporter for GigaOM, the Financial Times’ Mergermarket newswire, and the semiconductor industry newsletter Electronic News. Disclosure: Colleen holds a small amount of shares in AOL, which were awarded as part of her employment contract with TechCrunch. She personally... → Learn More

Sunday, December 16th, 2012


It’s that time of the week again — it’s CrunchWeek time, wherein a few of us writers turn on the TechCrunch TV cameras and shoot the breeze about some of the past week’s most interesting stories.

In this edition, Leena Rao, Anthony Ha and I dig into the new Google Maps app for Apple’s iOS 6 operating system, the very latest in the ever-escalating battle in photo filter land between Instagram and Twitter, and Yahoo’s latest coup in adding Max Levchin to its board of directors.