CrunchWeek: Bitcoin’s Big Crash, The ‘Six Californias’ Plan, Dorsey Gives Back Square Stock
We might be heading into the height of the holiday season, but tech news has not slowed down just yet! So we had quite a few things to discuss in…
Facebook Officially Joins The S&P 500, Prices Follow-On Offering At $55.05 Per Share
Facebook said this afternoon that it has priced its previously-announced secondary offering of 70 million shares of Class A stock at $55.05 per share. At this price, some $3.85 billion…
CrunchWeek: Instagram Debuts Messaging, Twitter’s Blocking Debacle, Snapchat Banks $50M
The weather outside is frightful, but CrunchWeek is so delightful. So since we’ve no place to go, why don’t you watch the show… that brings three TechCrunch writers together to…
Now With 25M Monthly Users, Social Photo Startup We Heart It Partners With Teen Vogue & Others
Lots of companies spend large amounts of money and time trying to attract the lucrative but elusive young demographic. So when something organically emerges as a trend-setting app for young…
Ad Tech Startup TellApart Hits $100 Million Revenue Run Rate
TellApart may not be a household name, but if you spend time shopping (or window shopping) online, you have probably come across its technology. The Burlingame, California-based startup helps online…
Glow, The Fertility App Founded By Max Levchin, Crosses 1,000 User Pregnancies
Now that it’s been a little over four months since its public launch, Glow, the fertility app founded by Max Levchin, is finally talking numbers, and they are pretty impressive.…
Meet Kubo, The Crowdfunded Electric Cargo Scooter Made By Lit Motors
Lit Motors, the electric car startup that launched last year with its first vehicle called the C1, has debuted another sleek looking electricity-fueled vehicle called the Kubo.
How Matternet Wants To Bring Drone Delivery To The People Who Need It Most
Last week, the media world was abuzz with the news that e-commerce giant Amazon was experimenting with a new program dubbed “Amazon Prime Air,” which would use small automated “drone”…
Kleiner Perkins Partner Chi-Hua Chien Transitioning Out Of Firm
Sources say that Chien is in the process of transitioning out of his role at Kleiner, amid recent changes in the firm’s partner structure.
CrunchWeek: Amazon Drones, Uber’s Leaked Revenue, 23andMe’s FDA Trouble
December is officially here, and it’s a particularly cold weekend for much of the United States. Looking for a way to stay warm? I humbly suggest that you huddle around…
Meet Omakase, The Charity That Wants To End The Tech Industry’s Giving Problem
The average salary of Silicon Valley tech professionals is $101,278. So it’s pretty embarrassing that shortages at local charities mean that many needy families in the San Francisco Bay Area…
TC Cribs: Inside SoundCloud, The Berlin-Based Startup Fueled By Music (And Club-Mate)
Berlin is buzzing with entrepreneurial energy at the moment, and SoundCloud is one of the companies that has emerged as an anchor to the city’s growing tech startup scene. So…
CrunchWeek: The Xbox One & Playstation 4, The Rise Of QuizUp, The Fall Of Turntable.fm
It’s time for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the show in which a few of us writers sit ourselves down in front of a few TechCrunch TV cameras to discuss…
Wevorce Gets $1.7 Million To Use Technology To Make Divorce Less Messy
Divorce is known for bringing out the worst in people. And while ending a marriage is never going to be painless, the people at a startup called Wevorce believe that…
TOMS Founder Blake Mycoskie On Turning The One-For-One Charity Model Into A Platform
Given the near ubiquity of its simply designed shoes, it’s almost hard to believe that TOMS, the company that’s known for donating one pair of shoes or eyewear to an…
Here Are The Hottest Companies In Tech Right Now, According To Goldman Sachs
I think we’ve established by now that what happens in Vegas actually never stays in Vegas. And, as you can see by the agenda obtained by TechCrunch that’s embedded below…
Hightail, The File-Sharing Service Formerly Called YouSendIt, Lands $34 Million In New Funding
Hightail, the file-sharing service formerly known as YouSendIt, has raised $34 million in new funding. The round, which serves as Hightail’s Series E, was led by hard drive maker Western…
Engadget Makeover Folds In ‘All The Best Things’ About Gdgt As It Fields More Mainstream Readers
In just the past couple years, I’ve noticed something: My colleague John Murillo, who shoots and edits video for TechCrunch TV, has increasingly become one of the most popular people…
CrunchWeek: Snapchat Turns Down $3B, The Justin Bieber-Backed Selfie App, IPOs Are Back
It’s been a couple of weeks since the last CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show that brings a few writers together to chat about some of the most buzzed-about tech news…
TC Cribs: Wooga, Where Addictive Social Games Are Made In The Heart Of Berlin
Last month, a number of us TechCrunchers grabbed our passports and jetted to Berlin for our first-ever Disrupt Europe conference. The tech scene in Berlin is very hot at the…
Confirmed: Fab COO To Exit As Company Looks To Winnow Down ‘Top Heavy’ Management Structure
Fab.com, the design-oriented e-commerce site, is indeed seeing the departure of its chief operating officer Beth Ferreira, a person with knowledge of the situation has confirmed to TechCrunch. Ferreira will…
Instagram Is Down For Some Users Due To ‘System Issues’
A number of Instagram users are currently reporting difficulty accessing the popular photo-sharing service both on the web and mobile versions of the app. At 3:37 pm Pacific Time this…
Year Up Helps Give Urban Youth The Training And Connections They Need To Land Hot Tech Jobs
Here in the tech industry, it seems that people are always talking about “how hard it is to hire.” That’s something that can sound a little odd, given that there…
Checking Up On Monkey Inferno, The Tech Incubator Where Bebo Is Working On Its Rebirth
Everyone loves a “where are they now” story — whether it’s about teen idols or once-hot tech apps. Bebo, the social networking startup that famously sold to AOL for a…
Inside Jobs: How Pinterest’s Top Engineering Exec Really Works
We in the tech press are great at covering what it’s like to be a startup founder. But the world does not live by entrepreneurs alone. One big reason that…
When it comes to photo-oriented web services, for every slam-dunk success like Instagram, there seem to be quite a few Color-like shutdowns. And today, another photo startup is hitting the…
Day Two Of TechCrunch Disrupt Europe 2013: Watch The Live Stream Here!
Guten tag from Berlin! It’s the second and final day of TechCrunch’s first ever Disrupt Europe conference, and you know what that means: From 10am to 7pm Berlin time will…
Watch The Live Stream For Disrupt Europe 2013 Here!
Guten Morgen! We’re coming to you live from Berlin, where the first ever official TechCrunch Europe conference is kicking off this morning. It’s going to be two days packed full…
Inkling Acquires Two Consumer Book Brands From Open Air Publishing As It Continues Push Beyond The Classroom
Interactive e-book Inkling first became known for bringing academic textbooks to the digital realms of iOS and the web. But in recent years it has expanded into consumer titles as…
CrunchWeek: Earnings Week Winners And Losers, Netflix Cozying Up To Comcast, Path Layoffs
This week felt like a long one, am I right? But Saturday is finally here, and along with it is a new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings three…