March 2013
Report: US Patent And Trademark Office Denies Apple’s iPad Mini Trademark Application, Deemed “Merely Descriptive”
Right after it launched the iPad mini, Apple filed a trademark application for the name with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). As Patently Apple noticed earlier today,…
Gillmor Gang: Spring Training
The Gillmor Gang — Doc Searls, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — takes turns sizing up the new season. With Steve Ballmer running out of room and close…
Bing Gordon’s Founder Checklist: Animal Energy, Blind Confidence, And A Toupee.
Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 40-city community bringing the global startup world together while educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs. As an Electronic Arts’ intern eight years ago, I asked…
Big Data Could Cripple Facebook
So there’s this startup called SmogFarm, which does big-data sentiment analysis, “pulse of the planet” stuff. I spotted them last year, and now they’ve got an actual product with an…
It’s approaching three years since I emailed and got a reply from the late Steve Jobs. The topic of my caffeine-fueled missive that sunny day in June 2010 was the…
After Bootstrapping, Data-Mining Specialist Ondore Closes Million-Dollar Round For Mexican, US Operations
Editor’s note: Maria Rocio Paniagua currently works as a project manager at Innku, one of the top mobile and web workshops in Mexico. Ondore, the leading Latin American big data analysis company that…
Sequoia Capital In Singapore After A Year, Has Yet To Invest In A Local Startup
When Sequoia Capital India landed in Singapore quietly in 2012, the buzz around town was that a big-name US fund being in the country was going to really jolt the…
The Dash Car Dongle Wants To Make You A Better Driver By Syncing With Your iPhone
I love my tiny little Mazda, but I’ll be honest — I still don’t completely understand how it works. That’s never really bothered me before (I’d much rather geek out…
Foursquare’s API Is A Pillar Of The Mobile App Ecosystem
Editor’s note: Jonathan Barouch is the founder and CEO of location-based startup Roamz, developer of social media business product Local Measure. Foursquare has become entrenched in the fabric of the local web, providing an…
Business Insider’s Owen Thomas Is In Talks To Be The New Editor At ReadWrite
My old boss Owen Thomas is very close to becoming the new editor-in-chief at the SAY Media-owned tech site ReadWrite, according to sources with knowledge of the company. I’m hearing…
MIT Files Court Papers “Partially” Opposing Release Of Documents About Aaron Swartz Investigation
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is “partially” opposing a request by the estate of Aaron Swartz for the release of documents related to the investigation that led to Swartz’s…
With Alternative Offers From Blackstone & Icahn On The Table, Dell Filing Shows It Will Push Ahead With $24.4B Silver Lake Merger
Dell announced today that it has filed its initial proxy materials with the SEC in connection with a merger agreement between Dell, its Chairman and CEO Michael Dell and Silver…
Bonobos’ SF Engineers Split Between NY Relocation And New Company Led By CTO Mike Hart
Bonobos’ newly hired San Francisco engineering team is fracturing, but there’s no disaster. Bonobos CTO Mike Hart has departed the company to become a co-founder, along with Cory Hicks, of…
Stranded In SF? Corral Rides Shows Uber, Lyft, Sidecar And Muni In One App
Super Awesome Party A has just ended, and you need to figure out how to get to Super Awesome Party B stat… and preferably by spending as little money as…
Kicking Off Our Flip Off — Meet The “TechCrunch Weekly” Magazine On Flipboard
Flipboard this week announced a new version of its app that allows anyone to make a “Magazine,” which is a curated collection of stories based on any topic that you can…
Ask A VC: AngelList’s Naval Ravikant On The Currency Of Silicon Valley And More
AngelList’s Naval Ravikant joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for our Ask A VC series, where we put VCs in the hot seat. Ravikant talked about the currency of…
Facebook’s Home On Android Could Give You A Sixth Sense For Your Social Life
Constant, close contact with your friends. That’s the promise of a “Facebook phone”. The modified Android OS and mobile homescreen replacement sources tell us Facebook will unveil April 4th pushes…
LivingSocial Co-Founder And CTO Aaron Batalion To Leave The Company
Aaron Batalion, the co-founder and CTO of daily deals site LivingSocial, is leaving the company. He announced his departure in a post on his personal blog published Friday afternoon. We’ve…
Microsoft: jQuery 2.0 Will Add Full Support For Windows Store Apps
The next version of jQuery, the popular JavaScript library, will drop support for Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8, but that doesn’t mean Microsoft isn’t very bullish about getting developers…
Gillmor Gang Live 03.29.13 (TCTV)
Gillmor Gang – Doc Searls, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recording for today has concluded.
Treasure Data Projects 500 Percent Growth This Year, Launches New “Plazma” Distributed Database
It’s only been six months since cloud data warehousing company Treasure Data launched its services, but they’re already reporting some impressive growth figures. Treasure Data achieved month-to-month profitability last year,…
TechCrunch Giveaway: Fitbit One, Aria Smart Scale And A Ticket To Disrupt NY
Happy Friday, everyone. As you know, we love giving things away here at TechCrunch, and this week, we have a Fitbit One Wireless Activity + Sleep Tracker and an Aria…
Video Q&A Startup VYou Is Shutting Down Its Consumer Site To Focus On White-Label Opportunities
Video question-and-answer site VYou launched several years ago with a unique premise — allow users to create video responses to questions posed to them by other community members. Now, about…
Apple’s Long-Rumored Game Controller May Soon See The Light Of Day
I’ve long believed that touchscreens leave a certain something to be desired when it comes to playing games, and if a new (and very curious) report holds true, Apple may…
This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: 3D Printing, Ouya, And The Facebook Fone
This week on the TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast we celebrate episode number two of everyone’s favorite audio file! We also talk about 3D printing, the Ouya console, and the Facebook Fone…
Jun Group Launches HyprMX To Help Mobile Publishers Manage Their Video Ads
Video ad distribution company Jun Group has launched a new, wholly-owned subsidiary called HyprMX, offering mediation tools for mobile publishers and developers manage video ads from multiple sources. HyprMX CEO…
Twitter’s Vine App Now Supports Embeds, Expanded Sharing To Facebook & Twitter
Twitter’s Vine app received a small, but notable, update today which allows the videos you create to be embedded across the web. The embedded posts are available in two styles…
State Of The Platform As A Service Market, A Discussion For Deploycon
The spring tech tour continues next week in Santa Clara with Deploycon, and I will be there to discuss the spectrum of PaaS providers and how they play across this…
Focused On Women, Sprightly Debuts A Visual Content Platform Showing What’s Hot Across Fashion, Beauty, Design Sites & More
Sprightly, a newly launching startup whose founding team has an extensive history working in female-focused businesses, including Refinery29, Etsy, Chloe+Isabel, and others, is debuting its content aggregation platform on Monday,…
Adobe Launches Blank, An Open Source Fallback Font You Can’t See
Adobe today launched Adobe Blank, a new open-source OpenType font that, at first glance, does absolutely nothing. Indeed, the whole point of the font, as its creator Ken Lunde writes…
