May 29, 2014

A group of six grade school girls in Los Fresnos, Texas took it upon themselves to solve a problem for blind kids. They built an app for them. The app, Hello Navi,…

Robocoin, makers of a bitcoin ATM, have announced the availability of the first BTC ATM in Beijing. Based at the 798 Art Zone, an old factory in Beijing’s Chaoyang District,…

Mind Candy, the company that came up with the hugely successful Moshi Monsters kids game, began back in 2003 as a back-bedroom project by the colourful entrepreneur Michael Acton Smith.…

Streaming video company Netflix is dependent on connecting with ISP networks like Comcast’s to reach their subscribers, and that has become an issue for the company as it has recently…

The relationship between ISPs and large content providers like Netflix, Hulu and YouTube has become pretty contentious lately. To bring some transparency into how well ISPs deliver video content, Netflix…

Crowdtap, a startup that helps companies connect with fans for the creation of promotional social media content, is announcing that Sean Foster has joined as its new CEO. Foster isn’t…

Mobile carriers around the world are touting their involvement in a program called “Twitter Zero,” but that’s not its real name.  In 2010, Facebook revealed an initiative designed to give…

Just in case you were getting tired of the same old mainline options for taking fun, shareable photos and videos on your phone, here’s another app (iOS and Android) that…

Quip, the mobile-friendly word processing app co-founded by the ex-CTO of Facebook Bret Taylor and ex-Googler Kevin Gibbs, has picked up some 5,000 companies as users since it launched last August, with the list…

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Every day, I see commuters hunched over their iPhones and other smartphones watching videos on their devices, and it looks uncomfortable and full of compromises. Michigan-based Avegant ran a Kickstarter earlier…

Thanks to a resurged interest in mobile email applications following the sale of popular “email triage” utility Mailbox to Dropbox last year, a number of new email applications have been…

The growth of tablets has been held up as one of the big, disruptive forces in personal computing, with the more portable, touchscreen devices eating into sales of laptops and other,…

Roger Lee Easton, Sr., the father of GPS and pioneer of modern day navigation, died May 8 at his New Hampshire home, according to BusinessWire. After attending Middlebury College and…

Calendar app Sunrise just launched on Android phones and desktop (thanks to a new web app). It’s a major release for the company as the app was only available on…

Apple has a couple of new patent applications (via AppleInsider) for headset tech that could drastically reduce the power consumption of noise cancelling earbuds, which could also stop or start…

While companies spend trillions of dollars on big data technologies to compile, store, and deliver the volumes of data they’re collecting and the software and services that they have to…

Seattle-based ExtraHop, a service that offers real-time analytics based on analyzing data right off the wire instead of using software that runs on the server, today announced that it has…

The nascent market for 360-degree cameras is getting more crowded. Meet Giroptic, which joins the likes of Bublcam, Centr Cam and Panono in building hardware to capture a more fuller…

In the modern, credit-rating-dominated world having little or no credit history — what the financial services industry calls a “thin file” — makes life much, much harder. It creates a…

Last year we brought the juggernaut of TechCrunch Disrupt to Berlin, in the first-ever Disrupt event on the continent. And after that incredible success, how could we not come back…

When we last left retail giant Amazon and publishing giant Hachette, the companies were at an impasse over contract negotiations, resulting in some of the most egregious efforts by Amazon…