Pouring $586 million in Sina Weibo gives Alibaba Group several perks, including an inroad into social media and access to the microblogging platform’s data. Not only that, but its new 18 percent

Looks like <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lockerz.com">Lockerz</a>, the social commerce and photo sharing service, may be moving on to yet another chapter in its life. After <a href="https://tech

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013, there was a brand new batch of startups on display in Startup Alley, and we hit the floor this morning to check them out. There was a healthy mix, including the It

Webydo is a cloud-based SaaS for designers who want to be able to sell their website design services without having to get their own hands dirty doing any coding or hire a developer to do it for them.

Mowbly, which recently launched and is here at Disrupt NY, takes a counter approach to mobile development platform environments. Instead of a steady stream of apps, Mowbly uses a single-app approach t

Italian company and TechCrunch Startup Alley participant at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 Save The Mom has created an iPhone app that's designed to bring families closer together, with social networking

More than 2,000 people have filled up the historic Manhattan Center with our biggest hackathon and Startup Alley yet, and a set of incisive discussions with tech leaders. Now it's time for the battle

Here's a startup hoping to fill the gap left by the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/19/facebook-questions-shut-down/">demise of Facebook Questions</a>: French-Belgian startup <a target="_blan

A California federal judge <a target="_blank" href="http://3taps.com/images/pics/430_138734862-Judge-rules-in-favor-of-Craigslist-on-motion-to-dismiss-in-case-vs-3taps-Padmapper-Lovely.pdf">has ruled

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.localmarketlaunch.com">Local Market Launch</a>, a startup that helps companies manage the online presence of local stores, is announcing that it has raised $1.5 mil

Viddy co-founder Chris Ovitz has landed at another buzzed-about Los Angeles startup, the mobile gaming platform Scopely. He used to head up business development at the mobile video startup Viddy, whic

How do you get hundreds of millions of people to consider downloading your app? One of the only answers is Facebook's app install ads. With the app stores overrun and every company going mobile, app i

Woisio is a Turkish company being featured at Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley this year, and it’s a little like what watching television would be like if your friends took over the programming. At firs

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/david-tisch">David Tisch</a> has made quite the name for himself as an investor based in NYC. Most notably, Tisch spent years at TechStars as

And with the conclusion of the last Battlefield Startup presentation, the second day of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 has come to a close. The day kicked off with a talk between noted New York City ventu

TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 Startup Alley audience choice for day two is ShipHawk, a Santa Barbara-based shipping startup that launched this week at the conference. ShipHawk, co-founded by Jeremy Boden

<a target="_blank" href="http://uqlife.com">UQ Life</a> was founded as a smart platform for self-discovery and personal development, and it’s designed to help kids learn through collaborative games.

If email is first in line for disruption, messaging has to be second. But a new company launching out of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 has a fresh take on our most favoritest form of communication. T

It's possible that you are an incredibly organized person who remembers everything important from your meetings, and you're part of an incredibly organized team where every post-meeting task is commun

Mobile enterprise startups are like unicorns. Nearly every VC I talk to wants to have a bet in this space, yet there really aren’t that many new candidates each year. Everyone knows that workers