LockerDome Lands $6M From Square Co-founder & More To Help Sports Fans Connect With Their Favorite Teams & Athletes

<a target="_blank" href="http://lockerdome.com/">LockerDome</a>, a social media publishing platform designed to connect sports fans with their favorite athletes, teams, brands and sports properties, a

Youth App Maker TabTale Buys Kids Games Club For $3-4M, Preps New Buying Club Model

The market for children's and educational apps continues to grow -- evidenced by Apple last week announcing 1 billion downloads of educational apps from iTunes U -- and that growth is leading to both

Steve Newcomb’s Famo.us Raises $4M To Power Fast, Beautiful Apps In HTML5

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.famo.us/">Famo.us</a>, which offers a JavaScript framework that's designed to power HTML5 apps that are faster and better-looking than what's currently possible, ha

If You’re Worried About Likes, Avoid Posting To Facebook From Twitter

Facebook is showing your content to far fewer people than they used to, says Nick Bilton at the NY Times, pointing out that while his subscribers have soared, the number of likes per post has declined

CloudFactory Launches CloudFactory 2.0 Platform After Acquiring SpeakerText & Humanoid

<a target="_blank" href="http://cloudfactory.com/">CloudFactory</a>, a distributed workforce company that also seeks to reduce poverty in emerging economies, launched its CloudFactory 2.0 platform las

Social Recommendations Startup Stik Relaunches, Raises $2.3M From Detroit Venture Partners And North Coast Technology Investors

Just months after <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/10/detroit-two-point-oh/">relocating</a> from San Francisco to Detroit, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.stik.com/">Stik</a> is relaunching

Labor Shortage Forces Apple Manufacturer Foxconn To Move Further Inland Into China

Less than two weeks ago, shares of Apple slipped after an announcement by iPhone manufacturer Foxconn that it was <a target="_blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/21/us-foxconn-hiringfr

Your SXSW Survival Guide

For the first time in 10 years, the lead-up to SXSW is, well, quiet. The usual influx of party invitations, Twitter stream inundation and press speculation around what’s going to be this year’s "b

Songdrop Is A Delicious For Music That Lives Outside Of Paywalls

With competitors such as <a target="_blank" href="http://ex.fm">Ex.fm</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://whyd.com">Whyd</a>, it may not be the most original idea, but newly-launched <a target="_b

Why Simple Is Better Than Your Bank, Both Online And On Mobile Devices

Most banks are notoriously bad at online, and especially mobile, experiences. Some don't have mobile apps at all, and those that do exist typically aren't that good. That's why the folks at Portland,

There Was That Whole Internet Thing, Too

Anyone wanting to see the whole “history is written by the victors” thing in process should read Tim Wu and John Gruber battle it out over exactly why Apple has kicked the crap out of ever

News360’s Roman Karachinsky Shows Off Revamped Android App, Hints At Plans Beyond News

Roman Karachinsky, CEO of news personalization startup <a target="_blank" href="http://www.news360.com">News360</a>, stopped by the TechCrunch TV studio earlier this week to show off <a target="_blan

Facebook’s News Feed, A Skittish Gift Horse

Remember Facebook Questions? Checkins? Spotify listens? They had their time at the top of the news feed because Facebook favors new products, but their prominence diminished as they matured. This and

How Halfbrick Studios Develops Games Like Fruit Ninja, Age Of Zombies And Jetpack Joyride

“This is the original concept shot for Fruit Ninja which was pitched to the company during Halfbrick Fridays. This is literally the very first piece of Fruit Ninja imagery ever created, so it’s hi

Google Glass’ Women Problems

If you build it, they will come. Perhaps. And only if you don’t chase them away. Recently Google <a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/about/company/facts/management/">co-founder</a> <a

Conde Nast Leads $20M Round In Boutique Marketplace Farfetch, Its Third E-Fashion Investment In 4 Weeks (Updated)

<strong>Update</strong>: And in true old media fashion, the investment has now been <a target="_blank" href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130304005140/en/Cond%C3%A9-Nast-International-Leads

VMware’s Top Executives Attack Amazon, But The Cries Are Hollow At Best

I sensed a bit of desperation from VMware this past week about Amazon Web Services continues its push into the enterprise market. According to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crn.com/news/clou

This iPhone Breathalyzer Wants To Call You A Cab

Last Saturday, I got sauced for purely journalistic purposes: I had to test out what could be the first law enforcement-grade iPhone breathalyzer accessory. It was also Purim, the delightful Jewish ho

Why Every Office Should Switch To Walking Desks

Man was not meant to spend all day hunched over a dimly lit screen; disturbingly high incidences of obesity, joint pain and fatigue are our bodies’ not-so-subtle ways of saying they want to get

A Chat With Robotics Pioneer Red Whittaker On The Google Lunar X Prize And The Future Of Interstellar Exploration

Red Whittaker is a certified legend in the robotics community. The head of the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University, Whittaker has been instrumental building the driverless car that too
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