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Lovely’s Apartment Rental App Moves Into Its New Digs On Android
Few things in life are more frustrating that trying to find a new place to live (especially if you're itching to move to the housing market hellholes that are New York City and San Francisco). It's no
Google Outs Play Edition LG G Pad And Sony Z Ultra, But They’re Still US-Only
Well, that was fast. LG inadvertently outed a G-Pad tablet that would be getting the <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2013/12/10/g-pad-google-play-edition/">Google Play Edition treatment earlier t
Source Code Says LG’s G-Pad Tablet Will Get The Google Play Edition Treatment
Google and LG have been getting awfully cozy lately -- the web giant tasked the Korean company with delivering its two most recent Nexus smartphones, and if you're the type to put stock in rumors, it
AirCast Mobile Wants To Make Phone-To-TV Video Sharing As Easy As Texting
Chances are you've got a screen in your pocket and a screen in your living room, and as time goes on more and more companies are trying to find ways to make the two play nice together. The latest entr
The War For Your Wrist
The past decade has seen the consumer electronics war grow more furious and more personal: your living room is a battlefield, as are your desks and your pockets. Now, more than a year and a half since
YC Alum MobileWorks Aims To Make Acquiring Users Easier (For A Price) With LeadGenius
Startup founders, especially those up to their necks in product development, don’t always have the head for building the kinds of customer bases required to keep their business afloat. That̵
The Android-Powered, Dual-Screen YotaPhone Launches In Russia And Beyond For €499
Remember the <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/tag/yotaphone/">YotaPhone</a>? The delightfully kooky Russian smartphone that pairs a bog-standard LCD screen with an eInk display on its rump? It's b
Amazon Is Experimenting With Autonomous Flying Delivery Drones
Between launching a charity-friendly buying program, announcing Sunday deliveries, and gearing up for the first wave of frenzied holiday shoppers, Amazon has been busy these past few weeks. But that d
This Week On The TechCrunch Droidcast: We Give Thanks To BBM, Custom ROMs, And… Yoga?
Holiday weeks tend to be a little quiet, but there's always <em>something</em> going on in the world of Android to dig into. This time around, though, Darrell and I roped in <a target="_blank" href="
Motorola’s Awfully Cheap, Unlocked Moto G Makes Its U.S. Debut
Motorola may have designed its <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2013/11/13/motorola-makes-the-moto-g-official-a-premium-phone-at-a-price-more-can-afford/">cheap Moto X</a> with international marke
Done Deal: Apple Confirms It Acquired Israeli 3D Sensor Company PrimeSense
Well, it's about time. After months of speculation and persistent rumors, Apple today confirmed that it indeed acquired Israeli 3D sensor company Primesense, as first reported by <a target="_blank" hr
Motorola Taps 3D Systems To Produce Parts For Its Crazy Modular Smartphones
Back when Motorola revealed that it's seriously trying to bring<a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2013/10/29/motorola-wants-to-make-modular-smartphones-a-reality-with-project-ara/"> modular smartpho
GameAnalytics Finds A Home In Unity’s Asset Store While It Works On Paid Products
It’s hard to overstate just how finicky game design can be, and a Copenhagen-based startup called GameAnalytics has been trying to help devs crack the design and monetization code going on two y
4chan Founder’s ‘Drawquest’ Daily Drawing App Makes A Big Leap Onto Small Screens
"There this guy, 'Slothdude'," Christopher Poole mentions excitedly in a small conference room that used to be a bedroom. "And he just makes the most amazing stuff." With a few taps, Poole has coaxed
Google Wallet Invades Your Physical One With A New Prepaid Debit Card
For a while there a physical Google Wallet card seemed like the stuff of rumors, and then it looked like another project lost to the ages when former Wallet chief Osama Bedier (who purportedly pushed
Logitech Outs Its $99 iOS Game Controller, And It’s Exactly What You Expected
Here's a noodle-scratcher for you: you have an iOS device and love playing games on it, but you've grown weary of effetely pawing at a touchscreen. What do you do? Well, now that iOS 7 is out on and h
Verizon Moto Xs Get Access To Android 4.4 KitKat Less Than A Month After Google Revealed It
As we inch ever closer to the madness that is the holidays, I’ve been thinking that two Android smartphones deserve just a little more attention than the rest: the Nexus 5 and the Moto X. The fo
This Week On The TechCrunch Droidcast: Moto G Madness And CyanogenMod For All
Do you like Android? Do you like multiple people trying to talk at the same time about what’s new in the Android world? I thought so. This week’s edition of the TechCrunch Droidcast is jus
The Dual-Screen YotaPhone Will Launch Internationally In December
Russia-based<a target="_blank" href="http://www.yotaphone.com"> Yota Devices</a> has been working on a curious beast called the YotaPhone for over a year now, and it's gained quite a reputation for it
Gift Guide: Gadgets (And An App) For Digital Bookworms And Writers
The days are getting shorter, friends, and that can only mean one thing: winter is coming, and so too are the holidays. We here at TechCrunch like to think of ourselves as a gaggle of technological <e