May 20, 2012
Married Mr. Zuckerberg, Business Man?
With a wedding ring on his finger and his company public, is Mark Zuckerberg ready to make Facebook produce more profits, not just more social connections? His fanfare-less marriage to long-time…
How The Media (Including TechCrunch) Is Wrong About Facebook’s IPO
Judging by many of the headlines on Friday, you might think that Facebook’s IPO was a miserable failure. The Wall Street Journal declared, “Facebook’s IPO Sputters,” and our very own…
Backstage With The Disrupt NYC Hackathon Winners: Thingscription, PoachBase, & PractiKhan
The speaker schedule for TechCrunch’s Disrupt NYC conference has been set for a while now, but three brand new presenters were just added to the lineup: The winners announced earlier…
$150,000 Is Up For Grabs At Stanford’s BASES Finale This Week
Stanford has been a hotbed of startup activity for decades, and it’s not just the engineering department. It’s student-run organizations like the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES) program. And…
The Story Behind Payment Disruptor Stripe.com And Its Founder Patrick Collison
Paypal created a cost effective way to safely accept payments 10 years ago, but the web has changed dramatically and accepting payments has not. Enter Stripe, a company that in my…
This week we recorded live from the show floor at Disrupt NYC. We sat through 24 hours straight of hot-rod hacking at the Hackathon and now we’re preparing for the…
From A Disrupt Win To $18M In Funding And 4M+ Downloads, Soluto Tells All
Disrupt NYC 2012 begins in approximately 12 hours (tickets here). But it’s been two years since Soluto, the software that will make your computer simply run better, took home the…
Apple’s planned phase-out of the UDID has introduced considerable angst in the app marketing community. The UDID provides a standard, widely supported method for attributing performance of advertising campaigns. Unfortunately,…
Silicon Valley Can Do Better Than Facebook
Congratulations to Facebook for going public. Congratulations to the employees that are now millionaires. Congratulations to the founders who are now billionaires. Congratulations to the bankers, lawyers and investors who…
Introducing Our 2012 Disrupt NYC Hackathon Winners: Thingscription, PoachBase, And Practikhan!
After nearly 24 hours of fighting fatigue and crafting code, our Disrupt NY 2012 Hackathon is finally drawing to a close. Not a moment too soon — I think some…
Twitter Back Up In Pakistan After An Order From The Prime Minister
A temporary solution to the drama that unfolded this morning when Twitter was blocked in Pakistan — some believe over representations of the Prophet Mohammed and Twitter’s refusal to block…
New Project, Roominate, Offers A Fully-Wired Dollhouse For Kids
Teaching kids – especially little girls – about electronics is a hard job. First, there’s the electricity. Then there’s the sense that soldering, wiring, and lining up LEDs is considerably…
Watch The Hackathon Presentations Live! (Update)
A mere 24 hours ago, coders started hacking with hopes and dreams of building the next great app or program. Many participants stayed overnight, fueled on gumption and Red Bull.…
What’s Big, Blue, Hopes To Save Our Planet And Is Not Facebook?
There have been a lot of complaints voiced over the last couple of years from people who wish entrepreneurs would address the world’s “real problems” or do “something bigger” rather…
SpaceX and Elon Musk will not be held from the history books. Last night the company announced that engineers were currently replacing a faulty valve on engine #5, and if…
In Which The Maker Faire Restores Your Humble Correspondent’s Faith In Humanity
A life-size fire-breathing dragon. A fully robotic calliope band. A full-scale flight simulator built by teenagers. An entire herd of homemade R2-D2s. Electric cars, steampunk fashion, a robot petting zoo,…
From A TC40 Win To A $170M Intuit Acquisition, Mint.com Tells All
With Disrupt NYC 2012 literally a day away (tickets here), it’s hard not to think about the past success of our former Battlefield startups. I’ve taken a close look at…
Morning, Hackers! The 24-Hour Disrupt NYC Hackathon: Coding Ends, Judging Starts Soon
It’s been a long, caffeine-fueled ride for the hundreds of hackers who have set up at our big Disrupt NY 2012 Hackathon, but the furious process of taking a wild…
Sure, Draw Something. Just Not The Prophet
Pictures of the Prophet Mohammad have always been a highly contentious issue — they’re not explicitly prohibited in the Qu’ran but many Sunni Muslims forbid the idea, while others do…
Report: Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over Blasphemous Content, Facebook Complies? [Update: Back Up]
Another day, another example of a country making it harder for its people to use the web and some of its most effective channels of communication? There are reports coming…