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Apple Has Sold Over 400 Million iOS Devices: 9.5% Growth Since March
Last March at WWDC, Apple announced that it had sold over 365 million iOS devices globally since March 2012. Today, however, the company has taken that number to 400 million…
Apple Officially Reveals The iPhone 5: LTE, 4-Inch Retina Display, New A6 Chip, Lighter Than iPhone 4S
And just like that, months and months of breathless speculation have finally come to an end. Apple’s Phil Schiller has just officially announced the new iPhone 5 at the company’s…
iOS App Store Boasts 700K Apps, 90% Downloaded Every Month
As usual, Apple took time today in the spotlight to talk about how awesome it is. Since this is a mobile-focused event, that’s the angle they chose to highlight, and…
Apple Retail: 380 Stores, 83 Million Visitors Last Quarter
The Apple live press event has started, and the first thing Tim Cook wanted to talk about was Apple Retail. He specifically mentioned the opening of a new store in…
Apple Is Number 1 In U.S. Notebook Sales
Last March at WWDC, Apple announced that it had sold over 365 million iOS devices globally since March 2012. But perhaps more important, Apple has just announced that its number…
Twitter Rolls Out Enhanced Geo-targeting For Its Marketing Customers
Twitter wants to make money, make no mistake about it. Today, the company announced some tweaks to its marketing tools which will allow brands to geo-target folks to reach out…
The Post-PC Era: Apple Announces Steller iPad Sales Numbers, 84M Sold
“Now to put this in perspective, we sold more iPads than any PC manufacturer sold of their entire lineup.” That about says it all. Sales of the Apple iPad is…
Important Study: Facebook Quadruples The Power Of Campaign Messages
The first large-scale experimental research on the political influence of social networks finds that Facebook quadruples the power of get-out-the-vote messages. While the single-message study produced a moderately successful boost…
Join Us Live At 1PM Eastern/10AM Pacific For Apple’s iPhone Announcement
We, like most of the Internet, are waiting for Apple’s annual iPhone launch event where we expect to meet the new LTE iPhone 5, a new dock connector, and, if…
Oblong Industries: “The UI Is All You Have, The UI Is The Computer”
Our own Josh Constine is speaking to Oblong Industries at TechCrunch Disrupt today, and they’re discussing the future of human interface when it comes to technology. Kwindla Kramer and John…
Watch TechCrunch Disrupt SF Live!
This is it. TechCrunch Disrupt is back in San Francisco, and even though the show is sold out, we’re still going to bring you all the action on our official…
Google Fiber Adds New TV Channels Ahead Of Signup Launch
Now that the pre-registration process is over, the citizens in the 180 Kansas City neighborhoods that qualified for it will be able to actually start registering for Google’s TV and…
Some Unconventional Investing Rules
Editor’s note: Joe Kraus is a partner at Google Ventures. In 1993, he co-founded Excite.com, an early Internet search engine. He also co-founded JotSpot in 2004, a wiki company acquired…
Live From Apple’s New iPhone Event 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern
It’s that time of year again: time for the annual carnival in celebration of the iPhone. Today we’re expecting new iPhones, new iPods, and a new version of iOS to…
Prepping For IPO, Huddle Tools Its Cloud Collaboration Platform For U.S. Intel Honchos Dept Of Homeland Security And NGA
A big advance today for Huddle, the enterprise cloud collaboration platform: the company has announced that it is developing a version of its platform for two federal U.S. government organizations,…
Steve Case Talks American Competitiveness And Finding The Next Wave
Detroit might seem like an odd place to hold a tech conference, but when Steve Case, CEO of Revolution and founder of AOL (TechCrunch’s parent company), took the stage this…
Apple Search Engine Reveals Product News Before Today’s Event: iPhone 5, New iPods, New iTunes Confirmed
Apple’s search engine is mistakenly revealing the details of today’s Apple news announcements in advance of today’s press event where it’s been expected Apple will announce new iPhones. As spotted…
Apple Store Is Down
And so it begins. In typical Apple fashion, the Apple Store has now gone down in advance of today’s Apple press event (yes “event,” not “press conference”) here in San…
AOL Founder Steve Case On The JOBS Act: Not A Big Deal In Silicon Valley, ‘Really Important’ In Detroit
Steve Case, CEO of Revolution and founder of TechCrunch-owner AOL, was a key player in advocating for the JOBS Act, which will allow for a much broader range of crowdfunding (specifically,…
Amazon Tries Its Hand At More Original (And Crowdsourced) Content With Blackburn Burrow Digital Comic
Amazon, like its competitor Netflix, has been making some moves to increase the amount of exclusive, original content under its brand. Today it took one more step in that direction…
Preparing For An IPO, Online Customer Service Platform Zendesk Raises $60M From Redpoint, Goldman Sachs And Others
Online customer service company Zendesk has raised $60 million in new financing led by Redpoint Ventures with participation by Index Ventures, GGV Capital, Goldman Sachs, Silicon Valley Bank, Charles River…
Open Garden, A TechCrunch Disrupt NY Battlefield Finalist, Raises $2M Seed Round
Open Garden, a Disrupt New York 2012 Battlefield finalist, just announced that it has raised a $2 million seed round from a group of leading technology industry angel investors. The…
Social Learning Network Brainly Raises $500K From Point Nine Capital, Angels
Cracow, Poland-based social learning network Brainly, which operates a number of sites across Europe, has secured a $500k investment from VC firm Point Nine Capital and local angels, including Mariusz Gralewski, founder of…
Adeven Launches Adjust.io Analyzer To Give Mobile App Advertisers Combined Analytics And Tracking
When the mobile analytics and ad verification startup Adeven unveiled Apptrace, its free tool to enable users to get an overview of key performance indicators for apps residing in Apple’s App Store, we were…
Scoot, The “Zipcar For Scooters,” Grabs $550K In Seed Funding
Scoot Networks, a system of smartphone-enabled, shared electric scooters calling itself the “Zipcar for Scooters,” has closed a seed round of $550,000, which will help the company move from private…
Ensighten Raises $15.5M Series A Round To Provide Enterprise Tag Management
Tags are the key to understanding visitor behavior for any web business, but installing, serving, and managing them can be incredibly complicated and time-consuming. And it can also actually negatively…
The Final 7 Disrupt SF Startups: Expect Labs, Gyft, Lit Motors, Prior Knowledge, Saya, YourMechanic And Zumper
This year’s TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco has been the biggest yet. Nearly 3,000 people poured in to watch a wonderful keynote by top product CEO Jack Dorsey, talks with legends…
Social Finance Lands $77M From Baseline, Renren To Help Solve The Student Debt Crisis
Student debt is a very serious problem that can no longer be ignored. Recently, student debt in the U.S. topped $1 trillion, eclipsing both national credit card and car loan…
Pagoda Box Is Easier Than Amazon Web Services, But More Customizable Than Heroku
I’ve had a sense for a while that infrastructure-as-a-service (like Amazon Web Services) and platform-as-a-service (like Heroku) are converging. Developers love the idea of using a PaaS to speed up…
Technicolor And Dreamworks Animation JV M-Go Strikes UltraViolet Deals With 5 Hollywood Studios
M-Go, which seeks to launch a digital storefront for movies online, has just announced deals with five of the top six Hollywood studios that will allow it to sell UltraViolet-enabled…
