Desperate to make its homescreen replacement Home seem less invasive, Facebook is advertising that you can temporarily deactivate it and use your HTC First or other Android phone as normal. The fact t

The potential creep factor of Google Glass is something that the search giant has to mitigate as best it can if it wants that kooky head-worn display to become a mass-market sensation (and even that m

There's a lot of exciting and head-turning technology out there today, and it's changing our world in a multitude of ways, some more obvious than others -- and at a fairly astounding rate. But many of

Looks like <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kickstarter.com">Kickstarter</a> can add "reimagined" carnivals with "robots, fire, and lasers" to the list of things that its users have crowdfunded.

GitHub today <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/blog/1517-introducing-octokit">announced</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://octokit.github.io/">Octokit </a>, a new lineup of GitHub-maintain

Like GIFs? Tumblr? Got an iPhone? $2.00? OK, good, then you'll probably like this new app called <a target="_blank" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stilly-one-button-gif-camera/id648976952">Stil

In this week's Ask A VC episode, Freestyle Capital's <a target="_blank" href="http://freestyle.vc/bios/dave-samuel/">Dave Samuel</a> joined us in the studio to discuss his investment philosophies and

Hey kids, there's a new personalized shopping platform in town. <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/03/contextlogic/">Since it raised $1.7 million in angel funding</a>, ads recommendation system C

Ryan Sarver, who joined Twitter four years ago and is currently its director of platform, announced today he'll be leaving the company on June 28th, and has "no plans but rest". Fittingly, he announce

I don't know anyone who thought the process of editing their Twitter profile was just too complex -- talk about first world problems -- but they're surely out there somewhere and working themselves in

Amidst widespread criticism, Mark Zuckerberg's political advocacy group FWD.us gained some momentum today as it announced Steven Chen and Barry Diller have signed on as financial backers. Chen was a c

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.curebit.com/">Curebit</a>, an e-commerce startup which has built its business around optimizing and tracking word-of-mouth referrals for customers like Bonobos, Res

TechCrunch is in Austin this week for some excellent pitch-offs and BBQ. We also learned of the new Moto X, a secret phone that could change Motorola's fortunes, the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/20

I've always been impressed by people who can listen to music while they write. I mean, I'll do it every once in a while, especially when <a target="_blank" href="http://www.twitter.com/alexia/">one of

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.parstream.com/">ParStream</a> And <a target="_blank" href="http://www.panopticon.com/">Panopticon</a> are partnering to offer data analytics and data visualization

Thanks to an <a target="_blank" href="http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/05/amazon-route-53-elb-integration-dns-failover.html">update</a> to its <a target="_blank" href="http://aws.amazon.com/route53/">R

TweetDeck founder Iain Dodsworth <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/iaindodsworth/status/340513129349906432">announced today</a> that he's leaving Twitter. In his tweet, Dodsworth noted that

The Transit App, the app that provides real-time transit information on iOS, enjoyed a boost back when Apple cut transit out of its own Maps app during the switch from Google to its own in-house navig

Understanding electronics is tricky. Electricity is invisible, the components are cryptic, and the concepts are hard to grasp. That's where LightUp comes in. This is an AR-based system for teaching el

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.lyft.me/">Lyft</a> raked in a huge amount of new funding last week, raising $60 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Along with that funding, the company