Alex Wilhelm
Alex Wilhelm is a writer for TechCrunch. In the past, he helped grow The Next Web into a leading publication. Alex also worked for midVentures in Chicago, where he attended school, and co-founded Contenture, a startup focused on micropayments and the monetization of digital content.
Alex lives in San Francisco.
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White House Declines To Deport Bieber, Pivots To Immigration Reform In Its Official Response
TechCrunch squinted slightly when the White House petition to deport the Canadian Justin Bieber passed the 100,000-signature mark, the minimum threshold to warrant an official response. Read More
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Raise Now: VC Funding For Startups At Highest Point In More Than A Decade
There is a reason it feels like everyone and anyone is raising money at the moment to build a company: They are. According to two studies, capital raised from venture capitalists by growing, private companies is at its highest point since 2001. Read More
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Supreme Court Justices Say They’re Likely To Rule On NSA Surveillance
Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia think that the nation's top court will eventually rule on the NSA's surveillance activities. The two, appearing in front of the National Press Club, both touched on the subject, with Justice Scalia calling the Supreme Court the "the institution least qualified to decide" on the matter, and Justice Ginsburg stating that "[the court]… Read More
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Weibo Spikes 19.06% In Its Debut
This morning Weibo went public, offering fewer shares than previously expected, though the bloc was priced at $17, in line with yesterday's reporting. Read More
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Major League Gaming Snags New VP From Machinima To Further Grow Its MLG.tv Network
Major League Gaming (MLG), one of the oldest e-sports companies out there, picked up a new hire today from Machinima, another well-known gaming content company. Ryan Wyatt will join MLG as its vp of programming. The hire fits into MLG’s MLG.tv strategy that has seen rapid audience growth, enough even to drive MLG nearly into the black. To date MLG has raised $69 million. According to MLG… Read More
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Snowden Asks Putin About Surveillance On Russian TV, Everyone Promptly Loses Their Minds
Earlier today on a call-in program on Russian television, infamous NSA leaker Edward Snowden questioned the country’s President Vladimir Putin about his government’s surveillance activities. Snowden, after the United States revoked his passport, kept house in a Russian airport for weeks until he was granted temporary asylum in the country where he currently resides. It’s… Read More
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Fired Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro’s Severance Totaled $58M
When Yahoo removed Henrique De Castro as its COO, it wasn't clear how much loot he was going to take with him. The final tally, revealed today in an SEC filing that also detailed Yahoo's board nominations, has the figure: $58 million. Read More
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Yahoo Nominates One Of Its Co-Founders, A Stock Guru, And A Former Walmart CEO To Its Board
Call it Yahoo's version of the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker. The venerable Internet firm today announced a trio of nominations to its board that could round out the sort of folks keeping tabs on its focus. Most interesting among the nominations is David Filo, a Yahoo co-founder. Read More
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IBM Drops 4% After Its $22.48B Q1 Revenue Fails To Meet Investor Expectations
This afternoon following the close of regular trading, IBM reported its first quarter financial results, including revenue of $22.48 billion, GAAP earnings per share (EPS) of $2.29, and non-GAAP EPS of $2.54. Those figures were down, on a year-over-year basis, 4%, 15% and 15%. Read More
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Google Misses in Q1 With Revenue Of $15.42B, EPS Of $6.27 As Its Cost-Per-Click Fell 9%
Following the bell, Google reported its first quarter financial performance, including revenue of $12.20 billion excluding traffic acquisition costs (ex-TAC), $15.42 billion including those costs, and earnings per share of $6.27. Analysts and investors had expected Google to earn $6.40 on revenue of $12.25 billion (ex-TAC), or $15.54 billion including traffic costs. Read More
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AT&T May Sit Out 2015 Spectrum Auction Over Rules Dustup
AT&T is not happy with the rules the FCC has proposed for a 2015 spectrum auction that would reserve a piece of the airwaves for sale for smaller providers that lack low-frequency range. The second-largest wireless company in the U.S. is not happy with that. Read More
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Investors Send Twitter Up 11.4% Following Gnip News, Adding $2.7B To Its Market Cap
Twitter had a massive day in the markets, soaring more than 11 percent following news this morning that it has acquired Gnip, a company that TechCrunch described as a longtime partner and customer. The acquisition could see it funnel its current customer base towards Gnip's popular tools, and also accrete to Twitter's top line Gnip's incomes. Twitter needs revenue growth, and more monetization… Read More
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Intel Meets In Q1 With Revenue Of $12.8B, EPS Of $0.38 On Back Of Recovering PC Market
Following the closing bell today, Intel reported its first quarter results, including revenue of $12.764 billion, and earnings per share of $0.38. The results roughly match analyst expectations that the company would earn $0.37 per share on top line of $12.81 billion. It’s worth noting that that $0.37 per share earnings expectation was the lower than at least the company’s last five… Read More
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Microsoft Announces New Tools Bringing The Cloud To The Internet Of Things, Uniting Hadoop And SQL
This morning in San Francisco, Microsoft announced several new data-focused tools in front of a cadre of customers and partners, not to mention a decent-sized grouping of press. The two new tools worth noting are Azure Intelligent Systems Service and Analytics Platform System. Read More
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Microsoft Now Accepts Universal Windows Apps As Its Insta-OEM Kit For Windows Phone Goes Live
Starting today developers can now link Windows Store and Windows Phone applications to create the already-announced "universal" applications that Microsoft announced recently at its Build developer conference. Read More
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Meet TrustTheVote, A Project To Make Voting Open Source And Transparent
How was your last voting experience? Smooth? Perhaps not. The Open Source Election Technology Foundation wants to change that by making voting simpler and more transparent. Its chief effort, called TrustTheVote, is a push to develop airtight, open-source vote casting and tabulation software that can be paired with off-the-shelf hardware. Open source code and off-the-shelf plastic mean that… Read More
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In A Bullish Move, Twitter To Report Earnings Ahead Of Employee Lock-Up Expiration
Following its blockbuster IPO, Twitter soared north of $70 per share, topping out at $74.73. Not bad for a company that priced at $26 per share. Since that late-2013 high, Twitter has retreated, trading today just over the $40 mark. It traded under that threshold last week. In the face of that slide, and despite a massive share-price correction -- read: selloff -- following its fourth-quarter… Read More
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Brigade Media Raises $9.3M From Sean Parker To Shake Up American Democracy
Stealthy, unlaunched startup Brigade Media has raised $9.3 million from Sean Parker of Facebook fame, along with unknown sums from Ron Conway and Marc Benioff, TechCrunch has learned. Parker’s investment is personal, and not from Founders Fund, a group that he has stepped back from. In fact, Parker will be taking over the Chairman and CEO role, at least on an interim basis. John Thrall… Read More
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Hands On With Windows Phone 8.1, Microsoft’s Updated Smartphone OS
Microsoft announced a slew of updates to the Windows Phone platform at its recent Build developer conference. Apart from the new features, Microsoft also decided to sell Windows Phone to mobile OEMs for the firm cost of nil, and the devices and services company also brought Windows and Windows Phone app together with its new “universal” application framework. The developer and… Read More
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Inside Microsoft’s New Platform And Services Strategy
During the week before Microsoft's Build developer conference, I spoke to the company's Steve Guggenheimer (Guggs), corporate vice president in charge of evangelism, and Kevin Gallo, director of the company's developer ecosystem. We discussed Microsoft's changing views on the technology market, and specifically its place in it -- topics that are quite interesting from a post-Build perspective. Read More
