China’s largest e-commerce companies are eager to leverage their millions of users and hoards of data for new projects. For example, Alibaba’s other businesses include healthcare management, finan

While most tech followers might not know it yet, there’s a new country emerging as a leader in technology. Turkey’s rapid economic growth, even in theface of the global economic downturn, has made

As people are bringing new expectations of a quality user experience into the workplace, delivering a consumer grade experience is becoming critical for all business software, and is increasingly a fu

Three months after announcing the transition, Line has officially received shareholder approval to appoint Takeshi Idezawa, the messaging app’s former chief operating officer, as its chief executive

In January, reports surfaced that Social+Capital was in "acquisition" talks with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Those talks fell apart. So what happened? TechCrunch has heard from a few people

Welcome to the stupidest week on technology's religious calendar: April Fools' week. This isn't the worst week. That slot remains filled by the Vegas confab that shall not be named. But be prepared

Diffbot's mission, according to CEO Mike Tung, involves "teaching a robot how to read and understand web pages." Today it expanded that understanding to include forums, comments, reviews, and other on

Here we go! TechCrunch is winging its way to Montreal and Toronto this week for some amazing meetups. We want to see you there so I hope you’ve purchased your ticket, eh. All the pitch-off compa

Here is something to ponder: Silicon Valley will have gotten more work done on its April Fools' Day jokes tomorrow than Washington has gotten done in the past several years. And that’s scary, for as

Today, Etsy gave a few more key details about its upcoming initial public offering. The company, which is known for its marketplace for handmade and vintage objects and plans to trade on NASDAQ under

"Reality TV" is one of those phrases that inevitably begs for scare quotes — with its staged scenes and melodramatic confessions, a reality TV show's relationship with reality can be ... complicated

How can more women be encouraged into technology careers? It's a question that is often put to delegates at tech conferences, but one which continues to be far harder to answer than it is to ask. The

The race to provide telecom services to developers of every stripe has a number of large, well-capitalized participants. New and quickly growing among the better-known names is Sinch, a company that w

Amid this steady drumbeat of technology breaches and security snafus, venture capitalists have spent roughly $6.5 billion on new technologies to combat this menace, according to CrunchBase data. The l

According to a study Google conducted with researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, 5 percent of people visiting Google's sites and services now have at least one ad injector installed.

For the first time, children under 13 are allowed to have an official presence on Facebook. They still can't have a profile, but their parents can now tag photos of them (or pet) to create a "Scrapboo

The smartphone to beat this season is the Galaxy S6 Edge. It's slim, stylish, and powerful, a mashup between the previous Galaxy S series with the original iPod Touch. It's well-made and unique, a com

Microsoft today announced that it will consolidate its Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate offerings for enterprises into a single product once it launches Visual Studio 2015 later this year. Now calle

A few weeks ago Google made headlines with the launch of the new Chromebook Pixel, the highest-end Chromebook on the market (and with a price to show for it). Today, the Chrome OS laptop ecosystem is