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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
<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
<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
<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