Google X, the secretive lab behind projects like Google Glass and Google's self-driving cars, announced its latest project today: balloon-powered Internet access for those areas of the earth where reg

<b>Editor's note: </b><em>Michael Wellman is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. </em> At 1:07 p.m. on April 23, a hijacked A

Updated. As the PRISM scandal shows no signs of dying down in the public consciousness, Facebook has just released the fullest account to date of the requests it has received from United States law en

<a target="_blank" href="http://elasticpath.com">Elastic Path </a>has raised an $8 million debt round to fuel the development of its "commerce everywhere," API -- a hypermedia platform that abstracts

In April, Google announced a couple of new features that were meant to speed up mobile browsing. Among them was "Quick view," an experimental feature that added a badge to Wikipedia results on Google'

In this week's Ask A VC epsiode, we had Canaan Partners' Maha Ibrahim in the studio to chat about her perspective on social gaming and more. Ibrahim, who has worked at Canaan since 2000, invests in

Square CEO Jack Dorsey and the Mayors of New York City and San Francisco announced today that they will be collaborating on a digital technology summit, to be hosted on September 30th in the Big Apple

Ebay is generally credited with being the first company to bring auctions -- a system that, for nearly 2,500 years, had exclusively taken place live in noisy, public (and offline) forums -- into the D

[Update June 24th: Facebook is in fact working on a fresh news reading experience, but we were mistaken about the launch date. It revealed Instagram For Video on June 20th. However, a source tells Tec

You know what's worse than waiting all day for an app (an app!) to get back to you? The fact that an article called "<a target="_blank" href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/14/fathers-day-whats-your-r

When we last left off with the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.loogguitars.com">Loog Guitar</a> by Rafael Atijas it had blown past its funding goals on Kickstarter in early 2011 and <a href="https

Groove is a Canadian-made mobile app that's tearing up the charts, reaching a top 1o spot in over 30 countries, and climbing to number 1 in the Canadian app store over other music apps including Rdio

The mystery of Path’s mysterious growth deepens. The app, which has been around for nearly three years, miraculously jumped up the charts from between 500th and 600th place to the teens on the f

Back in March, I wrote about how <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/22/heyzap-ads/">Heyzap was introducing advertising</a> to its mobile gaming platform. Now co-founder Jude Gomila says the compa

It was a big week in gadgets, and thus, a big <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/gadgets-podcast/">TC Gadgets podcast</a> it shall be. This week, we discuss <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/12

Apple has now taken another step to push app publishers to use its preferred ad tracking option, the Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA), with the debut of the iOS 7 beta. Confirming what many have su

TechCrunch Disrupt SF is back! We're very excited to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/events/disrupt-sf-2013/">announce tickets are on sale</a> and that companies in stealth mode can apply for <a href=

Here's another interesting implementation of the $35 Raspberry Pi microcromputer -- or rather a stack of 56 Pis, linked together to form a model web platform called PiCloud, using LEGO bricks as bespo

Here's an example of a company using <a target="_blank" href="http://www.optimizely.com">Optimizely</a>'s A/B testing tools for a high-profile game launch. The startup, which recently <a href="http

As photo-sharing truly hits its stride, an entire ecosystem is born around it. But what is creation without consumption? That's what <a target="_blank" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/divvy./id5