2013
While it makes game makers often feel better, the idea that designing games is a science is largely a delusion. The industry often thinks of itself in those terms, and…
Beyond The Box Launches A TweetDeck For Sports To Bring Realtime News And Analysis To Your iPad
Like many avid sports fans, Shailo Rao, Sagar Savant and Vam Makam are well-familiar with how frustrating it can be to find quality, relevant sports content — especially on Twitter…
Wonderville Launches An Interactive Content Library And Virtual Classroom Network For Kids
Last July, a group of veteran executives from eToys, eBay, Sesame Street, Discovery and Disney unveiled their ambitious plan to create a souped-up Khan Academy for kids. But rather than…
Saturday Night At The Disrupt NY Hackathon Includes Pizza, Beer, And Dodgeball
It’s after 1am on a Saturday night in Manhattan, and there are still hundreds of people at our Disrupt NY Hackathon. The dedication of the attendees trying to build a…
Backed Or Whacked: Fund These Undies
Editor’s note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. Each column will look at crowdfunded products that have either met or missed their funding goals.…
Disrupt NY 2013 Hackathon Team Wants To Build A WebRTC-Based Pandora For Exercise
The Disrupt NY 2013 Hackathon has been underway for a few hours now and we’re already seeing a bunch of cool projects. Team Geem is building what it calls a…
Meet Some Hackers And Their Promising Projects At The Disrupt NY Hackathon
It’s only been about six hours since our Disrupt NY Hackathon officially began, and we’re starting to see our intrepid hackers hit their stride. Granted, some of them are a…
Skip Google+ Sharing And Tweet Photos Directly From Google Glass With GlassTweet
We’re on the ground in New York City at the Disrupt Hackathon and there are a lot of interesting things being created. Since I’m walking around wearing Google Glass, I’ve…
The Best Eyeglasses At The Hackathon
We decided to feature nerd fashion at this year’s hackathon at Disrupt NY, and what better statement is there these days than eyeglasses? Obligatory Google Glass sighting aside, these hackers…
Facebook Sees Increase In Parse Signups, Tells Developers “No Plans To Change How App Data Is Used”
Despite developers grumbling that they would ditch Parse’s mobile app backend service now that it’s been bought by Facebook, Parse CEO Ilya Suhkar tells me signups spiked 9.4x and fewer…
From Idea To Development, A Few Hours In At The TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon
The hacking has begun. As I write this, participants of the Disrupt NY Hackathon have been working for about six hours on what they are going to show us onstage…
CrunchWeek: Galaxy S4’s Mixed Reviews, Betaworks Buys Instapaper, Valleywag’s Comeback
Live from New York it’s CrunchWeek, the weekly show where a few of us writers gather ’round the TechCrunch TV cameras and chitchat about a few of the most interesting…
Draw Something With Strangers On A Train: Disrupt NY 2013 Hackathon Duo Building Visual Ice-Breaker App For Galaxy Note
The Disrupt NY 2013 Hackathon has kicked off and here’s one of the new hack team pairings hoping to claim tomorrow’s prize after a long night of coding. Michal Shaffer,…
The floor at Disrupt’s NY Hackathon is filled mostly with people working on software projects, but there were also some interesting hardware endeavors underway. One in particular caught my eye:…
And so it begins. Another season has come and gone, and with it comes yet another TechCrunch Disrupt NY, complete with Hackathon. Sure, Disrupt doesn’t technically start until Monday, but…
Gillmor Gang: Watertown
The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — note the intersection of social and mainstream medias as the events in Boston unfolded…
Synergist Founder Hopes To Raise $25K Using The Company’s Own Crowdfunding Platform
Sites like Kickstarter have been used to crowdfund a wide range of projects, but I don’t think they’ve ever done what Synergist is attempting today — they’ve never crowdfunded themselves.…
Economies Of Scale As A Service
Credit where it’s definitely due: this post was inspired by a Twitter conversation with Box CEO Aaron Levie. Don’t look now, but something remarkable is happening. Instagram had twelve employees…
Building A Culture That Works: The CEO As The Cultural Epicenter
Editor’s note: Peter Levine is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz. As a former CEO and senior executive, there was a time when I did not quite understand the profound impact…
StackMob Builds Parse App Importer For Refugee Developers Fleeing Facebook’s New Acquisition
Some developers got very angry and threatened to leave mobile app backend platform Parse when it was bought by Facebook yesterday. Hoping to capitalize, competitor StackMob has since released a Parse migration…
Suitey Is A Software Powered Real Estate Brokerage For New York City Apartments And Homes
At first sight, Suitey looks like nothing more than a run-of-the-mill real estate website. But while sites like Trulia and Zillow merely provide a listing of available properties from a…
Samsung May Launch A Rugged Galaxy S4 This Summer, Could Counter New Moto Phones
Samsung is working on a dust-proof and water-proof Galaxy S4, which will essentially resemble the S4 but with environmental superpowers, says the Wall Street Journal. The paper also reported that…
Ask A VC: NEA’s Pete Sonsini On The Next Disruptive Startup In The Enterprise
This week, NEA’s Pete Sonsini joined us in the studio for Ask A VC. Sonsini joined NEA in 2005 and is the co-head of the firm’s enterprise software practice group,…
More Google Glass Specs Revealed As Android Tinkerers Look For Ways To Root It
Google felt it appropriate to highlight some of Glass’ specs earlier this week, but there’s much more to the company’s wearable display than just the 5 megapixel camera and its…
After Eight Years On Facebook’s Board, Jim Breyer Exits To Focus On His New Harvard Board Seat
Venture capitalist Jim Breyer is giving up his seat on Facebook’s board in June, which he’s held since April 2005. The split is amicable, and stems from his desire to…
Monaeo Tracks Company Employees For Location Based Tax Information To Prevent Needless Auditing
According to Anupam Singhal, cofounder of Monaeo, two out of three Fortune 500 companies get audited every year. And although there are surely several companies that get audited simply because…
This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: The Q10 Vs. The One And The Fitbit Flex
This week on the TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast we talk about the Blackberry Q10, The HTC One, and the Fitbit Flex. This time we’re joined by Matt Burns, Darrell Etherington, Chris…
Swifto Raises $2.5M From Benchmark To Be The Uber For Dog Walking
Swifto, a startup that wants to be the Uber for dog walking, has raised $2.5 million from Benchmark Capital. We’re told that the funding round previously closed but the startup…
The Tesla Model S’ Battery Is Now Covered By A Nearly Unconditional Warranty
Without proper care batteries can wither and die like a delicate tulip roasting in the bright sun from an unseasonably warm spring day — a fact made exponentially worse when…
AOL Is Shutting Down AOL Music And Firing Staff Who Are Live-Tweeting The Bloodbath
While there’s still few details and no official announcement, AOL is shutting down its AOL Music news properties and is firing their employees, according to tweets from the official AOL…
