Smoke Up: An Interview With The Creator Of The Ultracool Pax Vaporizer

If you enjoy smoking fine botanical products, including, but not limited to, tobacco, you owe it to yourself to check out the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ploom.com/pax">Pax by Ploom</a>, a com

Mozilla Is Building A “Simple” iPad Browser Called Junior

Last week, Mozilla's Product Design Strategy team quietly announced a few new projects including something called Junior, a Webkit browser for the iPad with no tabs or search bars. Instead, it uses si

Apply Now: Unreasonable At Sea To Embark On 100 Day Journey in 2013 To Change The World

What happens when you throw a bunch of startups, mentors, and wild college students on a boat for roughly four months? It's never been done before, so nobody knows. But on January 9, 2013, the firs

Can I Sue You People? Troll Lawyer Sues The Charities The Oatmeal Supports

So here's a nice twist to the whole <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/06/15/cartoonists-lawyer-responds-to-funnyjunk-the-oatmeal-will-not-cave/">Oatmeal saga</a>: the FunnyJunk lawyer who has been

Thankfully, Software Is Eating The Personal Investing World

Liquidity fever is in the air in Silicon Valley. I felt this viscerally last month when a friend from <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/facebook/">Facebook</a> came to me to talk investing. A talen

Make Way For More Tech Investment: Index Ventures Raises Another €350M Fund

The economic signals coming from Europe are leading some to predict a <a target="_blank" href="http://michaelkk.tumblr.com/post/25298397157/there-is-a-storm-coming">big drop</a> in startup investments

Crowd-funded Robots Are On Their Way Says ‘Mr China’

There's nothing like a good conference to create opportunities for new deals, and <a target="_blank" href="http://f.ounders.com/">F.ounders</a> last week in New York was just such an event. Indeed, on

Sources: Microsoft And Barnes & Noble To Announce Tablet With Xbox Live Streaming Tomorrow

There's a ton of speculation around what Microsoft will be announcing on Monday in Los Angeles. Both the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thewrap.com/media/article/microsoft-go-after-apple-new-tabl

Windows 8: You’ll Absolutely Hate It At First (But Give It A Chance Anyway)

Windows 8 is, without doubt, Microsoft's most ambitious release in recent memory. It does away with a lot of what users have come to expect from Windows over the years. The iconic Start button is gone

On Ubokia, Buyers Post What They’re Looking For — And Now It’s Embeddable On Partner Sites

Looking for a cool new bike? Or a dress of a specific color and style? Instead of making you search for it, a startup called <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ubokia.com">Ubokia</a> lets you post wh

Zeebox Is Coming To Shake Up Social TV In The US: Here’s What It Looks Like

Second-screen social TV app Zeebox is coming to the U.S. later this summer, after a successful run in the U.K. The app is the brainchild of Anthony Rose, former CTO of the BBC and a big driving force

Grindr’s Joel Simkhai Announces 4M Users, 1M Daily Uniques, And Weighs In On The Skout Disaster

I love Grindr, and not just because it's all about the gays. (Full disclosure: I'm super gay.) The reason I love Grindr is because it's one of the few location-based social networks to show sustained

The Rebirth Of Radio

Since Pandora’s <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/15/pandora-stock-ipo/">IPO</a> a year ago, the online audio story has been something of a broken record. Pure play audience numbers keep gr

Does Auto Layout In iOS 6 Mean A Larger iPhone Screen Is Coming?

The WWDC keynote came and went with nary a mention of a new iPhone, but that didn't stop people from ruminating about Apple's newest mobile juggernaut. Apple's brass spent much of their time on-stage

$200 Headphone Review Battle! Bowers & Wilkins P3 Vs Beats By Dr. Dre Solo

<em>Two gadgets enter, one leaves. It’s that simple. Welcome to the TC Gadget Review Battle where two competing products are pitted against each other. No wishy-washy conclusion based on an arbitrar

Denmark’s Iconfinder Snaps Up $1.5M To Take On Google And Shutterstock, Uses SV’s AngelList To Find A Danish Backer

<a target="_blank" href="http://angel.co">AngelList</a> has established itself as a go-to place for early-stage startups to connect with potential investors, and a recent deal underscores how its effe

Search and Social: How The Two Will Soon Become One

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/10/bings-biggest-redesign-yet-puts-pure-algorithmic-results-up-front-sticks-social-in-the-sidebar/">Bing</a> and <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/16/goog