June 11, 2012

Spotify’s move last year to open its platform to other apps has created more stickiness for its streamed music services. Now, one of the startups based around that idea has found…

Global spend on entertainment and media services, according to a new Global Media and Entertainment Outlook report out from PwC, will reach $2.1 trillion by 2016, from $1.6 trillion in…

LightSpeed, a company promising to help physical retailers adapt to the digital age, has raised $30 million in Series A funding from Accel Partners. This is one of those investments…

Adobe has announced that it is improving its cloud collaboration and web conferencing software, with the launch of Adobe Connect 9. The new version of the software, which is expected…

Still have an appetite for some more talk about Apple’s WWDC keynote? Ha, just kidding, of course you do! It’s like Jell-O: There’s always room for more. We at TechCrunch…

Isn’t Power Nap an awesome new feature of OS X In case you missed it earlier today, Power Nap allows your MacBook to keep up to date while in sleep…

Apple isn’t always so forthcoming with certain product announcements. I guess it’s their version of an Easter Egg? Like the Mac Pro update and death of the 17-inch MacBook Pro,…

PR isn’t dead (as some pundits like to claim), but it is changing. PR Newswire (a.k.a. “the site that I use to search for press releases”) is responding to those…

TheOatmeal is a great web comic featuring funny birthday cards, wacky bear sex, and other merriment. It’s drawn by Matthew Inman and is great. Now, however, it’s the target of…

It’s always sunny in Philadelphia, but even so, the sun should shine a bit brighter once TC heads to town. John Biggs, Chris Velazco and I are more-than excited to…

Before we start getting even deeper into our analyses of which startups and products Apple killed today with its iOS 6 and other announcements, we should all remember that it…

If you’re planning the great American road trip this summer, here is a new site that can help you get the most out of your time. Roadtrippers, which also just…

Apple today announced that it will be discontinuing latest OS support for the Original iPad (in addition to the third generation iPod), striking a blow to pretty much every tech…

Why read about someone else when you could write about yourself? Soon the “Tap to post” to Facebook and Twitter buttons announced at WWDC today will appear in iOS and OS X Mountain Lion’s…

2011 was an impressive year for mobile exits: according to investment bank Rutberg  & Co. it topped out as the biggest-ever for mobile IPOs and acquisitions: $15.5 billion in total…

Bullpen Capital, the Silicon Valley-based early stage venture capital firm, is raising $35 million for what appears to be its second fund, according to regulatory documents filed today with the…

iOS 6 is chock-full of new stuff, with over 200 new features. Some are minor, like Mail VIPs which probably should have been implemented a long time ago, and some…

It’s simple really. The new MacBook Pro with the “Retina” display is something you have to see to believe. Perhaps you were watching the live coverage of the keynote today…

Outside of search, the closest tie between Apple and Google so far was the deep integration of Google Maps in its products. That radically changed today, though it’s worth noting…

Founded in the mobile microscopy lab at UC Berkeley, a young startup called CellScope is on a mission to turn your smart, mobile devices into a microscope, giving parents the…

Today’s keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference highlighted a number of new features that the company has added to its mobile operating system. And while a number of updates will…

It was a big day for Apple at the WWDC, as Apple announced iOS 6, a new MacBook Pro, cross-platform iMessage, its Google Maps competitor, oh, and a whole host…

Talk of the 17-inch MacBook Pro was strangely missing during Apple’s WWDC keynote today. But apparently there’s a good reason for it. Apple just axed the 17-inch MacBook Pro. Good…

Apple just announced an updated Mac Pro with with a processor bump to 3.06GHz Intel Xeon X5675 and an ATI Radeon 5770 or 5870 graphics card. Dual solid-state drives round…

As it turns out, not every new addition to Apple’s product lineup got a mention on-stage at the Moscone Center today. The Apple Store website is slowly coming back to…

Apple unveiled the next generation of the MacBook Pro today. Encased in a thinner chassis, this MacBook Pro is a serious machine with a Core i7 CPU, a Retina display…

Are you listening Mountain View? We all knew it was going to happen, but Apple just launched its own, stunning, Maps product, with “Flyover” or Apple’s incredible new 3D maps…

Apple just announced a new iOS app on-stage at WWDC called Passbook that aims to store all of your “passes” — a category that includes boarding passes, store cards, and…

Siri is getting a whole mess of new updates, and she looks to be a whole lot smarter than she used to be. Beyond her ability to open apps and…

Good news for those of you who actually use your iPhone to, oh, let’s say, make phone calls, perhaps? Apple just announced that the iPhone’s phone app is getting a…