Andrew Keen

The Internet has been getting a lot of <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/10/tech-industry-activists-talk-past-each-other-at-the-crunchies/">criticism</a> lately. But there are few people better

The hot new <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Second-Machine-Age-Prosperity-Technologies/dp/0393239357/ref=la_B001H6IZA8_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391677718&sr=1-1">book</a> ab

Despite incremental improvements, the gender bias issue in Silicon Valley remains an important one -- and one that could benefit from special attention. Earlier this month, Y Combinator's Jessica

It was one of those coincidences that social media types call serendipitous. There I was, wandering around the basement of Las Vegas' Venetian hotel at CES, innocently minding my own business, when wh

Having <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/18/keen-on-2013-robert-scobles-person-and-company-of-the-year/">reviewed</a> 2013 with me, Robert Scoble now turns his Google Glass eyes forward to 2014.

It may be the holiday season, but <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/gavin-newsom">Gavin Newsom</a>, California's tech savvy Lieutenant Governor, is as mad as hell. And he's not

Perhaps best known for his <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Facebook-Effect-Company-Connecting/dp/1439102120">definitive book</a> about Facebook, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.

There are, of course, many libertarians in Silicon Valley who see Washington DC as the mortal enemy of innovation. But according to Commissioner <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fcc.gov/leadership/

<p>The two biggest dogs in Silicon Valley are Google and Apple, and according to the writer <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/fvogelstein">Fred Vogelstein</a>, they are waging a war for con

While Jeff Bezos' wife, McKenzie, only gave Brad Stone's new book about Amazon <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R2I0T26SV0ELPP/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0316219266&li

How old is social media? Maybe we can date it from the birth of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/facebook">Facebook</a> in February 2004. Or perhaps we can go back to 2002, t

It's always nice to see a Crunchie winner mature into a successful business. Last year, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/ecoatm">ecoATM</a> - a network of automated recycling

There are few figures more legendary in Silicon Valley than <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/nolan-bushnell">Nolan Bushnell</a>, the Atari co-founder who gave Steve Jobs his f

As a feature writer for the <em>New York Times Magazine,</em> <em>Wired </em>and many other publications, <a target="_blank" href="http://smarterthanyouthink.net/bio/">Clive Thompson</a> is one of tec

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/alison-rosenthal">Ali Rosenthal</a> joined Facebook back in early 2006, when it was a 50 person startup with 4 million users and she quit at t

One the one hand, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/jay-levy">Jay Levy</a> , as a partner in <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/zelkova-v

Best-selling author <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/james-bamford">James Bamford </a>is one of the world's leading authorities on the NSA. At Disrupt SF 2013, he spoke on a