2015

Amber Reyngoudt and Dave Peck want to figure out how to perfect the mobile shopping experience — and they thinks it’s flipping through fewer products, not more. Skull Ninja Labs’ first…

Whether you can find a Samsung Gear VR in time for the holidays or not, the company behind the mobile virtual reality accessory keeps releasing ads that follow a very…

What’s this? Another major tech company has found a way to capitalize on consumers’ fervor for the new “Star Wars” movie? Shocking! The latest to join the fray is Apple, which…

Remember Danger? The mobile maker Microsoft acquired for $500 million back in 2008 in the hopes of firing up its mobile fortunes? Things didn’t pan out quite so well for…

Philips shipped a controversial firmware update for its Philips Hue bridge yesterday. The company decided to block third-party light bulbs to fix interoperability issues. Today, the company announced that this…

If on-demand is the future of delivery, a startup called Bringg aims to help established businesses better compete with the likes of Amazon and Uber going forward. The company has now raised…

Pastebin, now home to 95 million “active” pieces of text, has gotten a complete overhaul including a new mobile friendly site that lets coders share snippets of text on their…

The urgent humanitarian situation in Europe has pushed the ongoing global refugee crisis to the forefront of U.S. consciousness. There are currently 60 million people around the world who have…

With $330 million under management (€300 million), 360 Capital Partners has been quite active in the French tech ecosystem. Today, the venture capital firm announced a brand new $38 million…

Did you know that when you get frustrated with your computer you move your mouse more slowly? Your computer knows. In fact, researchers at BYU have figured out tell-tale signs…

The fuzzy pink ridesharing platform Lyft has hired Evan Cohen to head up its East Coast operations. Cohen left his position as chief operations officer at Foursquare in June of 2014. He was…

Together, Uber and Operator they could compete with Amazon’s massive warehouses by aggregating inventory for instant delivery from local shops that are closer nearby. Today, UberRush begins powering 1-hour delivery…

A number of apps today let you check prices and comparison shop for things like clothing, electronics, toys, housewares, and more, but what about your everyday purchases, like groceries? Does…

Way back in 2013 LoopMe attempted to solve the problem of intrusive ads on a mobile screen by consolidating them into an “ad inbox” that the user would access through…

Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have created an algorithm they claim can predict how memorable or forgettable an image is almost as accurately as a…

Textio CEO Kieran Snyder took a quantitative approach to how language worked in her linguistics studies. And when she and her co-founder Jensen Harris were leaving Microsoft to start a new…

Earlier this year, at its re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing platform announced that it would soon launch a very small (but burstable) instance type for its…

When Sequoia Capitals Michael Dixon met Clover Health CEO Vivek Garipalli, he said he knew he wanted to invest. The catch: it took 18 months to convince him. But that finally happened,…

Google is launching a new accelerator program today. The Launchpad Accelerator will provide mobile startups in India, Brazil and Indonesia with mentorship, training, support, and up to $50,000 in equity-free funding.…

You’re a Star Wars fan. At least, your chances of being a Star Wars fan are very high, considering what I know about our lovely TechCrunch readership. Plus, you clicked…

Nanigans is best-known as a Facebook advertising company, but CEO Ric Calvillo said that by adding MoPub founder Jim Payne to its board of directors, it can grow the “non-Facebook”…

Salesforce and Box announced a partnership today in which Salesforce customers can access Box content or content management services directly in Salesforce without switching applications or creating elaborate workarounds. The partnership…

People seem to be comfortable buying an ever-growing number of things online, but are they ready to purchase their cars that way? Vroom says they are, and it’s making a…

Just in time for your holiday soiree, Spotify is unveiling its latest push into event- and activity-based music curation to capture users who may not have playlists of their own. It…

It seems like every time you check the headlines a new company is getting its data stolen. For the past 12 years Digital Guardian has been striving to help companies classify and…

Qalendra, a Seattle-based company but with an engineering team in Bucharest, Romania, wants to automate travel research.

The German government yesterday secured an agreement from Facebook, Google and Twitter to delete hate speech within 24 hours as it steps up efforts to combat racist sentiments being expressed…

IBM and Apple announced today that they had reached the 100 app milestone in their mobile app partnership. The 100 apps cover the gamut of 60 professional roles across 14…

Late yesterday European institutions finally agreed the text of new data protection rules (GDPR), more than three years after new regulation was proposed. The 28 Member States of the European…

Paytm already claims to be India’s largest mobile payments platform, with most of its revenue coming from payments for utility bills, app downloads, and online purchases. The Alibaba-backed company, however,…