The initial public offering for Chinese online tour booking website Tuniu may not carry the heft of the impending Alibaba IPO juggernaut (rumored at $130 billion and counting), but it is a sign of in

The shift to scale out architectures and an app-centric culture has turned out well for Docker and its lightweight open-source “container” technology designed for developers to quickly mov

Snapchat now verifies new users aren't robots by making them choose its ghost mascot in images. It's an attempt to keep out hackers who could steal phone numbers by exploiting a leaked database of det

Remember Fail Whale? It might be hard to recall now that Twitter is a public company with a $34.7 billion market cap, but a few years ago, the site had frequent outages as it struggled to scale up. Th

This fine Tuesday, IBM reported its fourth-quarter financial performance and was greeted with raspberries from investors with period revenue of $27.7 billion and earnings per share excluding items o

Today the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency approved a controversial pilot program that will see some 200 area bus stops made available to private shuttles that ferry corporate tech worker

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Apple has begun to send out a survey asking shoppers who have recently purchased an iPhone to provide some feedback about their purchase and their experience with the device. TechCrunch ran through th

HiddenRadio was one of the first crowdfunding successes. The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2107726947/hidden-radio-and-bluetooth-speaker">original model</a> nearly hit $

This week on TechCrunch TV’s Ask A VC show, Comcast Ventures' <a target="_blank" href="http://www.comcastventures.com/people/david-zilberman">Dave Zilberman</a> is joining us in the studio to talk a

By this time next year, the world could see one more geeky billionaire. Investment mogul Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway company is backing a billion-dollar prize to predict the perfect NCAA

One of the most popular wrist health trackers, the Basis B1 smartwatch, has added sleep cycles to variables it automatically tracks. I got my hands on an early beta version (which is now publicly avai

Today is the day for shutdowns, it seems. Joining <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/21/outbox-shuts-down/">Outbox</a> and <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/21/when-goods-not-good-enough/">

As smartwatches become a device category that most major hardware makers are turning their attention to, there’s a question of how much smartphone utility we’ll be able to translate to the

Mobile marketing company Sparq announced on its site today that it has been acquired by Yahoo. The company did not disclose the purchase price. Yahoo declined to illustrate the deal’s financia

Kabam, the San Francisco-based social and mobile game maker that bought itself naming rights to UC Berkeley’s stadium, said it doubled its annual revenues to $360 million this year. That gives a

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.nexmo.com/">Nexmo</a>, a quickly growing telco API firm that provides SMS and voice services has locked down $18 million in fresh capital in a Series C round of f

French startup Algolia provides a real-time search API that makes the search function on your website sexy. Now Y Combinator-backed, it’s faster than anything you’ve seen before — ev

Mail startup <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.outboxmail.com">Outbox</a> just <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude">anno

Google today <a target="_blank" href="Google Launches AdSense Direct, A New Tool For Direct Ad Sales">launched</a> AdSense Direct, a new tool for publishers who – as the name implies – want to sel