October 17, 2014

One year since launch, Keepy is announcing that more than 500,000 users are sharing content with their families on its service. In a phone call with TechCrunch, Keepy CEO Offir…

One Year In, Keepy Reaches 500K Users And Introduces Video To Its Family Timelines

In the past few months we’ve been hearing a lot about how bitcoin’s underlying technology is going to revolutionize not only our monetary system, but also notary services, DNS, authentication,…

Bitcoin 2.0 Crowdfunding Is Real Crowdfunding

The new Herschel fall lineup includes the Heritage we reviewed earlier in bag week, but there are also new looks for the Little America. The smaller mid-volume version of this…

Bag Week: Herschel Little America Mid-Volume Select Backpack

In about an hour, TechCrunch is officially launching our new Twitch channel by streaming Bayonetta 2, the somewhat controversial action game that’s coming exclusively to Nintendo’s Wii U a week…

Watch TechCrunch Play Bayonetta 2

This week we discuss all the iPads and other announcements out of Apple, the shows we are excited to watch on HBO sans cable and that time we met will.i.am…

CrunchWeek: Apple Releases New Stuff, HBO Streaming And The Gang Talks Dreamforce

If you’re tired of logging into different websites every time you want to access your Facebook photos, your Google Drive documents, your Instagram photos, and so on, odrive may be…

Odrive Offers A Dropbox-Style Interface For Browsing Your Online Photos, Documents, And More

The quadccopters at the University of Pennsylvania GRASP Lab are truly trained to follow the golden robot rule: fly with others as you’d fly with yourself. Thanks to researchers Yash…

Watch These Tiny Robots As They Fly Well With Others
Startups

One Year Into Title II Of The JOBS Act

11:00 am PDT • October 17, 2014

Editor’s note: Rob Leclerc is the CEO of AgFunder, an online investment marketplace for agriculture and agtech opportunities. The first rule of raising capital is: you do not talk about raising…

One Year Into Title II Of The JOBS Act

E-commerce retailer ModCloth has laid off additional staff across engineering, creative, product, producer, social teams and more in a second wave of layoffs. The news follows earlier cuts confirmed back…

ModCloth Hit By Second Round Of Layoffs

On the heels of the release of Apple’s new Mac OS, OS X Yosemite, blogging platform Tumblr has just rolled out its first official desktop application with the launch of…

Tumblr Debuts Its First Desktop App On The Mac App Store

Music is a special kind of content, and people discover it on Twitter. That’s why building a music experience outside the main Twitter app was a boondoggle, and treating music like…

Twitter’s Music Strategy: No App, Just Better Listening

Gillmor Gang LIVE 10.17.14

9:10 am PDT • October 17, 2014

Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. Gillmor Gang on Facebook Live FriendFeed chat during the show broadcast…

Gillmor Gang LIVE   10.17.14

Apple revealed new iPad models on Thursday, and they all go on sale starting today via Apple’s online store. Today is just the beginning of pre-sales, with iPads officially shipping…

Apple Begins Taking Pre-Orders For iPad Air 2 And Mini 3

Jolla, the Finnish smartphone startup that expanded the MeeGo open source project into its own Sailfish OS, has released its first Android launcher — to give users of Google’s mobile…

Jolla Does Angry Birds Themed Android Launcher To Fling Its Sailfish OS Further

Amazon Brings Grocery Delivery To Brooklyn

7:13 am PDT • October 17, 2014

Amazon announced this morning it’s bringing its grocery delivery service AmazonFresh to Brooklyn, confirming earlier reports of a New York area expansion. Initially, the service will be available to Prime…

Amazon Brings Grocery Delivery To Brooklyn

Apple isn’t the only company using biometrics to authenticate payments and purchases – Apple Pay partner MasterCard wants to make fingerprint scanning something even people without an iOS device can…

MasterCard Will Borrow A Touch ID Trick For Fingerprint Scanning Credit Card

Update: Microsoft pulled it off, and at the time of writing (2:45 pm London, 9:45 am New York), Microsoft is worth more than Google. We’ll check back in at the…

Google And Microsoft Battle For Market Cap Supremacy

With more viewers than ever tuning into digital video services, premium publishers are looking for more ways to get in front of those audiences. With a syndication network built specifically…

With $2M In Funding, AirMedia Aims To Be The Syndication Platform For Premium Video

Increasingly, companies that compete directly with another have been announcing major partnerships, and we saw a couple of good examples this week with Microsoft and Salesforce and IBM and SAP. Not coincidentally…

The Spirit Of Coopetition Is Alive And Well In The Cloud

So I’m currently hanging out in the AOL offices here in London, prepping for Disrupt. To their credit, the AOL and Huffington Post crew have been great. I have a…

Blog So Hard MotherF’ers Wanna Distribute Premium Digital Content, Connect With Advertisers, And Engage With An Audience At Scale

Today’s a big day for Apple in Asia. Fresh from launching new iPads and Macs in the US on Thursday, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus finally went on sale…

Big In Asia? Apple’s iPhone 6 And iPhone 6 Plus Finally Go On Sale In China And India

Octopus Ventures (CrunchBase listing) has become one of the most active early stage investors in the UK, backing many early individuals and businesses which went on to greater heights. These…

Octopus Ventures De-Cloaks — Reveals Its ‘Evergreen’ £60m Early Stage Fund

“To be brutally honest, I’m not enamoured with the UK VC scene and don’t rate it very much if at all from a technology business success perspective,” says Tom Adeyoola,…

Virtual Fitting Room Startup Metail Raises Further $12M — Shunning UK VC Money Along The Way