sxsw2013

<b>Editor's note:</b> <em>Marc Ruxin is CEO and co-founder of TastemakerX.</em> If you went to SXSW 20 years ago, you would have been there to see and discover new music. You worked at a label or

<b>Editor's note:</b> <em>Ethan Kurzweil is a VC at Bessemer Venture Partners.</em> Every year at SXSW, a winning meme emerges that’s attached to the latest hot new “it” company. Years ago

When it comes to high-flying superpowers of the tech industry, it doesn't get much bigger than <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/sun-microsystems">Sun Microsystems</a> back in

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.xi3.com">Xi3</a> recently <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/11/the-top-end-of-the-steam-box-line-goes-on-sale-for-just-under-1000/">opened preorders</a> for P

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/bing-gordon">Bing Gordon</a> has become known in recent years for his role as a partner at venerated Silicon Valley venture capital firm <a ta

While I was at South by Southwest Interactive, I had a chance to meet with the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.leapmotion.com">Leap Motion</a> team and try out their upcoming gesture-based control

One of the big events coming up for comedy fans this spring will be the return of Arrested Development, which will debut its fourth season on Netflix after a long hiatus. Creator Mitch Hurwitz and sta

Last year, to market the Highlight app the founders walked around Austin in company t-shirts telling people about the service. This year Highlight is doing a little bit more, by renting an ice cream t

City governments here in the United States aren’t typically known as early adopters of the latest in technology and innovation — that means that New York City’s first-ever Chief Digi

VEVO just rolled out its first new live and programmed music video offering, VEVO TV. The idea behind VEVO TV is to enable viewers to just sit back and have a stream of videos continuously shown to t

Vimeo On Demand allows creators on the site to set their own prices and provides geo-fencing and other tools to control which areas their content is available in. They can also create custom landing p

When <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ouya.tv">OUYA</a> launched <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console/posts">the enormously succes

Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley discussed the company's evolution from an app that was primarily focused around helping people to find their friends, to finding out more about the world that they live i

TechCrunch TV sat down with <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaquille_O%27Neal">Shaquille O'Neal</a> yesterday afternoon here at <a href="https://techcrunch.com/events/sxsw-2013/

When you think of crowdsourcing, you usually imagine something like the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/Pebble">Pebble</a> smart watch or the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/14/shine-misfi

Since launch just a few weeks ago, email management app Mailbox has been a pretty big hit -- so big that more than 1.25 million people have signed up for the waiting list. The downside to that early s

Senator Jerry Moran (CrunchGov Grade: A) left his tie back in Washington, D.C., and sat down with me for an informal, yet candid discussion at the SXSW Interactive conference. The folksy Kansas repres

It's always a pleasure to talk to <a target="_blank" href="www.crunchbase.com/company/wordpress">WordPress</a> founder <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/matt-mullenweg">Matt Mu

After my <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/07/its-all-about-the-data-for-apps-and-app-stores-a-discussion-for-sxsw/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+techcrunchI