The Rumors Are True. I Am Leaving TechCrunch.
12:41 pm PST • November 18, 2011
This won’t come as a surprise to a lot of people, but I am leaving TechCrunch. My departure is something people have speculated about since Michael Arrington’s ouster two months…
TC Cribs: Hunting “Evil” at Baidu (TCTV)
9:00 am PST • November 15, 2011
Baidu is one of the most known of the Chinese Internet giants. Some of the buzz is admiration for Robin Li, one of the pioneers of the Chinese Web scene…
Venture
Disrupt Alum Trippy Raises $1.75 Million Thanks to Ribs and Fried Chicken
6:00 am PST • November 15, 2011
Let this post be a lesson to would-be entrepreneurs: Don’t turn down any party invitations. This advice is obvious if we’re talking about fancy dinners as the homes of moguls.…
Disrupt Beijing Take-Aways: How China Moves Beyond the Clones
7:57 pm PST • November 6, 2011
The biggest barrier to starting a company isn’t ideas, funding or experience. It’s excuses. And you can understand why: Starting a company is scary. It’s little wonder that even the…
Memo to Chinese startups: You made for a late night of deliberations. We typically pick five finalists. There were a few companies that were clear picks, captivating everyone– from the…
Watch The Last Day Of TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing 2011 Here!
5:48 pm PDT • October 31, 2011
We are kicking off the last day of TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing 2011 at 6pm PST. Thanks to Ustream, we’ve embedded the livestream of the event here. Be sure to tune…
Disrupt Beijing Kicks Off with Tencent CEO Pony Ma. Watch the Livestream Here!
5:13 pm PDT • October 30, 2011
After many sleepless months, our first ever international Disrupt conference will be starting at 9 am Beijing time/6 pm PST. Even if you didn’t make the trip over, you can…
Your New Weekend Plans: Disrupt Beijing Livestream Starts Tomorrow
10:57 am PDT • October 28, 2011
Maybe you couldn’t join us in Beijing for our first international Disrupt conference, but all is not lost! Step one: Order your favorite Chinese takeout. Step two: Tune into the…
Live in Beijing and Thinking about Starting a Tech Company? Read. This. Post. Now.
8:01 pm PDT • October 27, 2011
The Disrupt Beijing Hackathon starts in a little more than 24 hours, and we’ve been working hard over the last few days to make it even more of a no-brainer…
TechCrunch to Beijing: The Eagle Has Landed
8:52 am PDT • October 27, 2011
It has begun. Some eight hours ago, eight more members of the TechCrunch team landed in Beijing. Giddy and jetlagged, we are spending every minute between wheels down today and…
Tony Fadell on Jobs and Apple’s Legacy (TCTV)
10:51 pm PDT • October 24, 2011
These are bittersweet days for Tony Fadell. The man who oversaw 18 generations of the iPod and the first three versions of the iPhone is finally launching his new company,…
Even if you read our story earlier tonight on iPod Godfather Tony Fadell’s new company Nest Labs and its new Learning Thermostat, you may still be wondering how anyone could…
Climate
iPod Godfather Tony Fadell Finally Reveals His New Product: A Thermostat. No, Really.
9:35 pm PDT • October 24, 2011
For the last eighteen months, the tech world has been anxiously awaiting news of what iPod godfather Tony Fadell is up to. His staff has been sworn to secrecy since…
More Disrupt Beijing Speakers: Kai-Fu Lee, David Li, Fritz Demopoulos and More
11:43 pm PDT • September 28, 2011
With all the recent TechCrunch drama– not to mention my own busy September giving birth– you might think our upcoming Disrupt Beijing conference had gotten pushed to the back-burner. You’d…
Disrupt Beijing: Niklas Zennstrom, Kevin Systrom, Hosain Rahman and More Are China-Bound
5:58 pm PDT • September 19, 2011
We’re not done announcing our all-star lineup for Disrupt Beijing. In addition to top Chinese Internet names like Tencent co-founder and CEO Pony Ma, proven successes like YouTube’s Steve Chen…
Disrupt Beijing: We’re Bringing Steve Chen, Peter Vesterbacka, Phil Libin and More
7:59 pm PDT • September 5, 2011
As we announced last week, we’ve been busy securing some of the most exciting names in China for our Disrupt Beijing conference this October including Tencent Founder and CEO Pony…
Attn Entrepreneurs: How to Attend Disrupt Beijing for Less Cash
6:25 pm PDT • September 5, 2011
Hopefully, anyone who has attended our Disrupt San Francisco and Disrupt New York conferences knows why we charge $2,995 for tickets: Between the Hackathon, Startup Alley, the big names on…
Andrew Mason’s Silicon Valley Problem: He’s Not Here
12:15 pm PDT • September 1, 2011
Earlier this year at All Things D, Groupon CEO Andrew Mason said one of his regrets was not opening an office in Silicon Valley earlier. The implication was that he…
WITN: The New Wrinkle on the Valuation Trap (TCTV)
8:58 am PDT • August 31, 2011
It seems Sarah wasn’t kidding about working right up until she gives birth. In this week’s positively-last-before-the-birth episode of Why Is This News?, Sarah and Paul are prompted by the ongoing reports of Dropbox’s mega…
Pony Ma and Lei Jun Anchor Disrupt Beijing Line-Up
3:26 pm PDT • August 29, 2011
Even before I worked at TechCrunch, Disrupt was one of the few industry conferences I looked forward to every year. There were two big reasons why: The enthusiasm and excitement…
Disney Inks Deal with Greenbox, Chinese eCommerce Is Taking Off
7:26 pm PDT • August 27, 2011
A lot of Americans desperately want to believe that China is full of poor people who can’t innovate, and the only goods they make are cheap, toxic rip-offs our Western…
Build an App for MyHeritage and Win $10,000
11:21 am PDT • August 26, 2011
MyHeritage, Israel’s best hope of having a big Web 2.0 winner, keeps marching along, leaving Geni further in the dust and proving a surging challenger for already-public Ancestry.com. The company…
CouchSurfing Raises $7.6 M; Will Users Cry “Sell Out”?
5:59 pm PDT • August 24, 2011
CouchSurfing International is one of those rare Web companies– like Mozilla or Craigslist– that has eschewed the normal Silicon Valley values of growth, greed and venture capital. It’s one of…
As Football Season Kicks Off, Bleacher Report Raises $22 Million More
10:29 am PDT • August 24, 2011
Bleacher Report may have spent much of its life quietly climbing the rankings of top sports destinations, but it’s not being bashful or patient anymore. In a little more than…
Software Is Eating All the Jobs Too
4:07 pm PDT • August 21, 2011
A few months ago I was giving a talk in my hometown of Memphis, TN, and someone asked what the city could do to ignite more entrepreneurship among inner city…
DISRUPT Comes to Beijing This Fall. Buy Your Tickets Now!
12:36 pm PDT • August 9, 2011
We’ve teased you with this news over and over again, but today it becomes official: TechCrunch is coming to China. In late-October we are hosting our first international Disrupt conference…
Good News! The Bubble that Never Inflated Has Popped
11:14 am PDT • August 9, 2011
There are two kinds of bubbles. There are actual economic ones that artificially drive up valuations across broad categories in an unsustainable way, impacting markets on a mass scale. And…
Media & Entertainment
Hate Lines and Live in Mountain View? We’ve Got an App for You (TCTV)
5:50 am PDT • August 9, 2011
A new startup called Pago is launching today, and if you live in Mountain View your life may have just gotten a lot easier. You can now go to more…
Patents and Unions: When Good Intentions Go Horribly Wrong
6:00 pm PDT • August 7, 2011
Watch me ruin your Sunday afternoon with one word. Ready? Here we go. Patents. This week on NBC’s Press:Here we talked about this topic most of our readers equate with…
Did LinkedIn’s IPO Open the Market or Close It for Anyone Under a $5 Billion Valuation? (TCTV)
3:33 pm PDT • August 5, 2011
A few weeks ago I was meeting with Peter Thiel and that pesky question of whether we’re in a bubble or not came up. In a debate both sides are…
