2012

Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt is tricky enough to navigate when you’re being pitched every few feet by hungry young startups. So we’ve harnessed that energy into a fast run…

Think about when you go to a wedding (in my ripe old age, I have been to one) and you jot down a note in a big book for the…

Do you remember life before the Internet? Can you recall a time when meeting someone new took place serendipitously and was uncluttered with all the profile searching and stalking? A…

Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco is full of disruptive companies, and it’s hard to pick a favorite. But to give you a sense of the craziness, you need…

Yesterday, famous cartoonist Hugh MacLeod started drawing all the action taking place at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. We present you the second batch of drawings. In these cartoons, you…

Quora co-founder and early Facebook engineer Charlie Cheever is stepping back from a day-to-day role at the company after starting the site in 2009. He’ll be taking time off after…

It’s Day 2 in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, and the startups just keep coming. This year’s Alley is bigger than it’s ever been, so it’s pretty tough…

What a day! TechCrunch Disrupt SF day two kicked off with super angel Ron Conway and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. Then we had Kevin Rose, Marc Benioff, Aaron Levie…

Peer-to-peer bike rental service Spinlister was chosen by the audience from amongst the Startup Alley companies today to pitch on stage as part of the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in San…

As Eric Ries pointed out in a TechCrunch post last year, although many may be familiar with “A/B testing” as a direct marketing technique (what it was initially developed for),…

The Kindle Fire HD is a big deal. Big. It has rather excellent specs — a 1280×800 7-inch display, TI OMAP processor, dual stereo speakers, and dual-antennae Wifi (with MIMO)…

The Kindle Fire is Amazon’s digital strategy incarnate. When it launched a year ago, the Fire seemed almost rushed. It looked like RIM’s failed Playbook tablet and it worked, at…

This was no sweaty, hoodie-clad boy genius. Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated he’s a business man, a mobile product visionary, and most importantly, a leader Facebook’s employees can…

Debuting at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012, Chronos is a new time-tracking application for iPhone that shows you how you spend your time as well as who you’re with, where and…

Ever since Apple launched its voice-driven personal assistant Siri, a slew of clones have appeared on the scene. Most of these, however, clearly show that Siri was the result of…

North Carolina-based INRFOOD aims to add some much-needed context to the food we eat every day by highlighting all the (occasionally funky) ingredients that tend to appear in it. To…

Studyhall, which launches at TechCrunch Disrupt SF today, is a peer-to-peer platform and network that is built specifically for students. Sorry, teachers, it’s not for you. Yet. A number of…

Prior Knowledge debuted its predictive database for application developers today at Disrupt San Francisco 2012. Based upon work first done at MIT, the service is offered through the company’s Veritable…

We’ve all been there before. You’re on a phone call or video chat when someone brings up a topic you’re unfamiliar with. What are your options? You either lie about…

HackerRank, a new social platform for coders, is launching at TechCrunch Disrupt today. The Y Combinator-backed company, which was founded by the same team as job site InterviewStreet, wants to…

The web makes it easy to find instructional videos on practically any topic. There are 18,600,000 search results for “how to” on the site at the moment. Obviously not all…

TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington sat down with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong this afternoon at TechCrunch Disrupt SF – yes, the CEO of the same company that Arrington sold the blog…

Well, that’s that then. All the talk a while ago about AOL possibly merging with Yahoo is officially off the table for now, according to AOL’s CEO Tim Armstrong. “I’ve…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social network is focused on supporting Instagram’s growth, following the close of a roughly $750 million deal to buy the photo-sharing app. Instagram is…

Organizer, a startup that just took the stage at Disrupt, aims to bring political campaigns a smarter, faster way to manage their field work through smartphone apps — and eventually…

Alicanto, launching today at Disrupt San Francisco 2012, is bringing machine learning, data analytics and the concept of forming neighborhood business alliances to the small business market. Alicanto is entering…

This afternoon at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Facebook chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat down with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington for his first interview since the company’s…

Maybe you’ve just gotten out of a relationship or you’re looking to move to a different neighborhood. Whatever the case, you’re on the search for a new apartment. But where…

In a riveting conversation today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Zuckerberg underscored and underscored and underscored again the importance of mobile for Facebook. He gave a telling and sort of chilling anecdote,…

Back in 2009, Republic Project launched to give bands and labels a platform to sell pre-orders of new music direct to fans, while receiving 100 percent of the revenue. The…