September 2014
Getting video online before your competitors is more important than ever, for better or for worse. Launching today at the Disrupt Battlefield, QuickFire TV claims to transcode video ten times…
Athla’s Velocity Mimics $1,200 Radar Equipment For The Price Of A Fancy Coffee
We’ve all seen the speed of a pitch in baseball recorded, either in person or on TV, and most have probably seen the radar gun used to clock the ball’s…
Mark Cuban Explains The Four Parts Of An Ideal Investment Pitch
Mark Cuban sat down at TechCrunch Disrupt SF today to talk privacy and founding businesses. However, from Shark Tank to his own investment firm, Mr. Cuban, is also a prolific…
Peter Thiel could have tweeted about his early investment in Facebook, his loathe for Uber or the future of anti-aging. Instead, the Libertarian billionaire carefully chose the stage at Disrupt…
Beartooth Keeps You Connected With Your Friends When The Cell Network Can’t
I can’t imagine that there’s anyone reading who hasn’t been in this situation: you’re at a conference, or a concert, or some other big event where you’re surrounded by way,…
Earlier today I sat down with Max Levchin at Disrupt SF 2014 to talk about what he’s building at the moment, and to get his take on the current technology…
Partpic Makes It Easier To Find Repair Parts For Your Whozits, Whatsits, And More
Are your thingamobs broken? Did the knob fall off of your widget? Partpic has you covered. The company, which is launching at the TC Startup Battlefield in San Francisco, was…
How Peter Thiel Knows If A Startup Is Crazy Smart, Or Just Crazy
Can Peter Thiel see the future? You’d be forgiven for thinking so considering he invested early in Facebook, LinkedIn, Yelp, and Stripe. His strategy with Founders Fund and Mithril Capital is…
Vinli Promises To Bring Autos Into The Smartphone Age
With Vinli, cars are about to get apps. And not just cars made in the future. The system works with nearly any car made after 1996 and is compatible with…
Tailor Brands Aims To Bring Small Business Owners Affordable Access To Professional Design
Tel Aviv and Brooklyn-based Tailor Brands launches publicly on the Disrupt Battlefield today with the goal to democratize design. Founders Yali Saar, Tom Lahat and Nadav Shatz say they can…
Gem Is A Bitcoin API To Seamlessly Build Bitcoin Services With Bank-Grade Security
Meet Gem, a new bitcoin startup with a different take and a focus on developer tools. Gem provides a highly available, scalable API for bitcoin developers to abstract the bitcoin…
Tinder And IAC Settle Sexual Harassment Suit With Early Employee Whitney Wolfe
Mobile dating company Tinder has settled a lawsuit with early employee Whitney Wolfe, who claimed sexual harassment and sexual discrimination on the part of former CMO Justin Mateen. The settlement…
The Original Disruptor, Clayton Christensen, And VC Bill Hambrecht Talk About The Theory Of Disruption
Investment bankers Bill Hambrecht and Clayton Christensen took to the Disrupt SF stage today to defend the concepts of disruption and to address the ways the Valley predicted the future…
Home Depot Finally Confirms Its Payment System Was Hacked For Months
Remember that “suspicious activity” that Home Depot was looking into last week? Six days later, the company has at last publicly confirmed that the “suspicious activity” was a breach of…
Kanzee Makes Sharing Clothes With Friends A Breeze
Kanzee is a social network and accompanying app that allows people to share and swap clothes with each other. It’s a simple concept and that’s why I like it. It…
PCH’s Liam Casey On The “Renaissance Of Prototyping”
Liam Casey is best known as “Mr. China,” the founder and CEO of PCH, which sources, designs and manufacturers custom hardware for Fortune 500 companies and startups in Shenzhen. Before…
How Investors Are Trying To Change The Culture Of Silicon Valley
Over the last year, the tech press has been filled with stories of high-flying startups struggling with issues of gender discrimination and harassment, sometimes with those issues coming from the…
Nearly a year after PayPal acquired it in an all-cash $800 million deal, online and mobile payments platform Braintree is unveiling one-touch payments and is integrating Bitcoin. Bill Ready, who…
Mark Cuban Talks His Drive To Build Companies, And How He Wants To Destroy Silicon Valley
Dear Silicon Valley: Mark Cuban wants to kick your ass. At Disrupt SF today, the noted investor and bon vivant talked about his drive to build companies and his feelings…
Because nothing says “Our new product is selling great!” like dropping its price down by 99.5% two months after launch, Amazon has dropped the price of the Fire Phone from…
Travis Kalanick Says Services Like UberPool Will Need Massive Scale To Work
In the ride-hailing world, companies are looking for ways to stuff more passengers into each car, by connecting users who are going along the same route. But today at Disrupt…
Amazon Fire Phone Up For Pre-Order In The U.K.
Amazon’s first smartphone, the Fire Phone, is now available on pre-order in the U.K. on carrier O2. The phone will ship to U.K. buyers on September 30. It’s being offered…
Uber CEO Thinks It Needs To Be Kinder And Gentler Now That It’s On Top
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick says he and his company get a bad rap for being aggressive because he learned to be fierce while running his last scrappy startup. But now…
Send Us Your Disrupt Vine For A Chance To Win A MiniDrone
Do you have the courage to break rules in the name of innovation? Drastically rupture the status quo? Do you want to see tech done better? Can you make a…
We’re excited to introduce you to a remarkable group of companies participating in this year’s Startup Battlefield. The Battlefield serves to showcase the best and most promising early-stage startups in…
Open Garden Expands Its Mesh Network To The Internet Of Things
Open Garden launched at TechCrunch Disrupt NY more than two years ago. At that time, the company was focused on building a mesh network for Android phones, but since then,…
Watch The First Day Of Disrupt SF Right Here!
This is it, kids. The first day of Disrupt. The agenda is jammed with amazing speakers and companies launching in the Startup Battlefield. Tune in all day for the complete…
Flipboard Acqui-Hires Visual Storytelling Startup Ultravisual To Boost Content Curation Features
Flipboard, the startup that lets you make a ‘personal magazine by aggregating your favourite online publications, blogs and social feeds, has acqui-hired the Technicolor-backed visual story-telling app Ultravisual to boost…
Cloud Printing And Shipping Service Lob Raises $7M Series A
Y Combinator-backed Lob, which creates a developer API that lets companies integrate printing and shipping services into their apps, has raised a $7 million Series A round led by Polaris…
We’ve been hearing rumors of a Rackspace acquisition for the last several months. The latest suitor according to Bloomberg could be Louisiana-based telco CenturyLink, but before we get too excited here, let’s…
