Runtastic Releases Scary, Exciting “Story Running” To Encourage Your Ploddings

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/Runtastic">Runtastic</a>, an Austrian running startup with an aim of hitting the Polars and Nikes of the world where it counts, has released something it's calling

Circle Raises $9M Series A From Accel And General Catalyst To Make Bitcoins Mainstream

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.circle.com/">Circle Internet Financial</a> has launched with $9M of Series A funding to increase mainstream adoption of digital currencies like Bitcoin by providing

Nomorerack Raises $40M In Series B Financing To Build Depth Across Its Biggest Categories

Less than one year after <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/30/flash-deals-site-nomorerack-raises-12m-hits-5-8m-members/">completing</a> a $12 million Series A round, the multi-category retailer

Ecomm Newcomer Greats Is Building A Brand On Sweet, Affordable Sneakers

Someone should probably go make a Wikipedia page for the "Warby Parker model," since it has rapidly become the go-to business strategy for online retail startups.

Being A CIO At Tesla Motors, A Startup That Builds Cars And Its Own IT

Most all of Tesla's IT is homegrown, said CIO Jay Vijayan, appearing onstage at the <a target="_blank" href="http://connectedenterprise.ontrackevents.com/home.cfm">Constellation Research Connected En

Calls To Limit Speech In The Snowden Era Underscore The Importance Of A Free Press

The Snowden revelations have reignited a discussion about privacy -- especially privacy in the digital age. That discussion will eventually, we can hope, not only reform how the government views the p

Is Comcast Buying The Seattle Mayoral Election To Dodge Homegrown Competition? Not Really

The mayor of Seattle has alleged that Comcast donated significant sums to his rival ahead of the November 5 election. The money could have been donated, perhaps, in hopes of scuttling the planned publ

Hands On With The Nexus 5 And Android 4.4 KitKat

The Nexus 5 is here! The Nexus 5 is here! After months of hype and more questionably “accidental” leaks than any device in recent memory, Google announced their new flagship Android handset this m

Apple, Microsoft-Backed Rockstar Consortium Sues Google, Samsung Over 7 Nortel Patents

The Rockstar consortium is an organization backed by Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry, Ericsson and Sony. It purchased patents off of the defunct telecommunications company Nortel in 2011, in a bidding wa

Twitter’s IPO ‘Oversubscribed’ Despite Accelerating Losses And Growth Concerns

Today, Bloomberg’s Sarah Frier and Serena Saitto report that Twitter’s highly anticipated initial public offering is oversubscribed, indicating booming interest for its shares as the fir

SoundTracking Launches Updated App With New ‘Discover’ Section For Trending Music

Music-focused social network <a target="_blank" href="https://soundtracking.com">SoundTracking</a> released a new version of its smartphone app today, one that co-founder and CEO Steve Jang said will

Ask A VC: AngelPad’s Thomas Korte On NYC Expansion, The Incubator’s New $7M Funding Round And More

In this week's special episode of Ask A VC from Disrupt Europe in Berlin, Germany, <a target="_blank" href="http://angelpad.org/">AngelPad</a> founder and former Googler <a target="_blank" href="http:

Google Adds Support For Native MySQL Connections

<a target="_blank" href="https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-sql">Google Cloud SQL</a> now supports native MySQL connections, a move that is intended to make it easier to integrate third-party ap

Oracle, Red Hat, And Google Employees Pitch In To Fix Beleaguered Healthcare.gov, Reports Indicate

Workers from tech giants Google, Red Hat, and Oracle and other companies have reportedly joined with the government to help fix the notoriously broken Healthcare.gov website that is a key portion of t

Keen On… Social Media: The First 2,000 Years

How old is social media? Maybe we can date it from the birth of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/facebook">Facebook</a> in February 2004. Or perhaps we can go back to 2002, t

Google’s Search Results Can Deep-Link To Your Android Apps

It should be clear by now that there's <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/31/android-4-4-kitkat-google/">much more at play in Android 4.4 KitKat</a> that some early reports alluded to, and one of

Android 4.4 KitKat Targets Google’s Next Billion Users, Adds Pervasive Search & Improves Google Now

Today Google announced details of its long-awaited Android 4.4 KitKat operating system for the first time, going beyond just the candy bar branding. KitKat is designed around three major tentpoles, Go

Google’s Nexus 5 Is Now Real And Ships Today At $349 For 16GB, $399 For 32GB

At long last, Google has officially announced what has been perhaps their worst kept secret in a while: the Nexus 5. The Nexus 5 had seen more than its fair share of early outs, with everything from f

Amazon Launches AWS SDK For JavaScript In The Browser

Amazon today launched the developer preview of its AWS SDK for JavaScript. With this, developers can now easily build dynamic JavaScript applications that can access AWS services from the browser with

Hailo Ups Its Minimum Fare In London To £10, Triggers Licensing Complaints

Another chapter in the ongoing saga between city cab regulations and on-demand taxi apps: cab app Hailo, which in London relies on a portion of the city's black cabs to power its taxi-hailing-on-deman
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