2010

Earlier this month I wrote about the extraordinary steps Google is taking to retain talent. It doesn’t seem like such a big problem – after all LinkedIn is only tracking…

If you’re like me you don’t have the new Twitter yet (Wow, talk about a gradual roll out fail. Hey dudes, I work for TechCrunch remember!). So what’s a girl…

I’m sitting in the final session of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions (or “Summer Davos,”) and my head is numbingly packed with economics and facts.…

After watching SAP CEO Bill McDermott, HP CTO Phil McKinney, and Square Co-founder Jack Dorsey give their conference spiel today,  I took a stroll into the DEMO pit in order…

Canon and Nikon, the photography world’s Hatfields and McCoys, have both recently released new DSLRs and compact manuals. While all of them are certainly excellent cameras, they’re clearly gunning for…

Looking for a DSLR that pretty much does it all? Say you need great low light performance, auto-focus while shooting HD video, and a new image processing system that gives…

Yep. I’m going there again. When I looked at the “Summer Davos” program, the panel I was most excited to attend was about the role of women in Asian workforces.…

Just when you thought our digital culture was bumping against the limits of oversharing, Looxcie steps in with a device that makes it even easier for oversharers to document every…

“Hooch Machine” sounds filthy, and really, it kind of is. Making your own liquor looks to be as dirty and hacked-together a process as anything I’ve seen. I cracked up…

We’ve speculated that the sudden rush of executive departures from Nokia might be an indication of an ‘Ides of March’ moment at the mobile giant. Now, the former head of…

For some, the end of 2012 bring upon us, well..the end. For Toyota, the end of 2012 marks the beginning of their conquest to build the largest fleet of hybrid…

We’ve seen mini speakers, ceramic speakers, pig speakers, and jet engine speakers, but I’ve never seen anything like these glass speakers, if they’re for real. These speakers appear to use…

So, the new version of Twitter.com is upon us — well, some of us anyway (it’s in the process of a gradual roll-out right now that will likely last over…

We know that Acer has been planning on the release of two tablets, 7 and 10-inch form factors, but now there’s new details about a third form factor. That’s right, another…

The last few weeks have been insane here at TechCrunch as we put the finishing touches on our next Disrupt conference, which begins September 27 in San Francisco. We’ve gone…

Earlier today I posted my notes from an informal Google press lunch with CEO Eric Schmidt, SVP Product Management Jonathan Rosenberg and President Global Sales Operations and Business Development Nikesh…

I have to hand it Dell for this one. That design is killer, even if it’s running Windows 7 on an Atom. Sure, it looks incredibly breakable, and it’ll never…

With the company in-between CEOs, it was left to Niklas Savander, Executive Vice President, Markets, to deliver the opening keynote at today’s Nokia World in London. And strangely but perhaps…

In August, we wrote about PayNearMe, an alternative payments product from the company formerly known as Kwedit. For background, Kwedit launched another payment product earlier this year, to much controversy.…

PinkelStar, a service aimed at mobile application developers that allows them to integrate social networks like Facebook and Twitter natively into their iPhone or Android app, has closed a funding…

There are so many reasons consumer brands are running around Summer Davos salivating left and right about opportunities to expand. For the likes of Louis Vuitton and Gucci, China is…

Google has just confirmed that it fired one of its engineers for violating internal security policies, effectively confirming a Gawker report that detailed how former employee David Barksdale had used…

Interesting move in the Cloud computing/hosting world. Hosted supplier Rackspace has hired David Kelly, cofounder/CEO of mydeco, the online furniture and interior decoration firm he started with Brent Hobermann, the…

Slowly, but surely the real issues are starting to come out at Nokia World. And it’s really all about the software at the end of the day. Which makes one…

Here it is, the new Twitter.com experience. As you can see the entire thing has been revamped — yes, there are now videos and pictures, but these are on the…

Earlier today Gawker published an alarming report detailing the exploits of a former Google engineer who allegedly used his internal clearances to access private Gmail and GTalk accounts so that…

Parallels 6 for Mac OS X launches today. You knew that, yes. But did you also know the Parallels Mobile App iTunes link found on the iTunes Store now plays…

At today’s Twitter news event, co-founder Evan WIlliams revealed a number of impressive statistics about the microblogging network. For example, Williams said Twitter is seeing on average 90 million Tweets…

Look at your iPad. Now look at your desktop PC. Now back to the iPad, now back to the PC. Sadly, your iPad doesn’t run Windows 7. But with Parallels…

Here at the DEMO conference in Santa Clara, VentureBeat’s Matt Marshall asked Twitter founder Jack Dorsey about his regrets, “What can the 67 companies here learn [from your experiences with…