Colleen Taylor
Colleen Taylor is based in San Francisco where she is a reporter for TechCrunch and TechCrunch TV.
Previously she worked as a reporter for GigaOM, the Financial Times’ Mergermarket newswire, and the semiconductor industry newsletter Electronic News.
Disclosure: Colleen holds a small amount of shares in AOL, which were awarded as part of her employment contract with TechCrunch. She personally does not hold shares in any other public company. Colleen’s spouse is employed as a software engineer for Google; he holds stock in the company as part of this employment.
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Inside Jobs: What Loudr’s In-House Attorney Loves About Digging Into Legal Docs
Lawyers are infamous for having jobs that are hard to understand. There’s a reason why “legalese” is a term, after all. But Annie Lin, the senior counsel at music licensing and distribution platform startup Loudr, is part of a rare breed: She is an attorney who can both function at the highest level of her field and happily try to explain what she does on a day-to-day basis in a… Read More
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Online Fitness Startup Wello To Be Acquired By Weight Watchers, Sources Say
Wello, the startup that connects people with personal trainers to receive private fitness consultations through online video chat, is in talks to be acquired by Weight Watchers, sources tell TechCrunch. We’ve contacted Wello for details on the deal, but at the moment, the company has declined to comment. This post will be updated with any additional information, such as financial terms, we… Read More
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CrunchWeek: Airbnb’s $500M Funding, Twitter Gobbles Up Gnip, Instagram’s Swapped Username Scandal
It’s Friday, the sun is shining, the birds are chirping, a holiday weekend is ahead, and we’ve got a brand new episode of CrunchWeek for you to watch. What more could you wish for? In today’s show, Leena Rao, Ryan Lawler and I huddled around the big white table to talk about the confirmation that Airbnb has closed on $500 million in a massive new funding round, Twitter’s… Read More
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Meet The 11 New Startups Launching At AngelPad’s Spring Demo Day
AngelPad, the San Francisco-based startup accelerator founded by early Googler and tech investor Thomas Korte, is holding demo day for its Spring 2014 class in San Francisco today. Since its inception back in 2010, AngelPad has established itself as a top player in the ever-expanding field of tech incubators. Now with operations in New York City (AngelPad’s brand new NYC office is pictured… Read More
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Inside DODOcase, Where Modern Tech Accessories Are Made The Old Fashioned Way
Welcome to a new episode of TechCrunch Cribs, the video series that takes you inside where the offices where all the tech industry magic happens to see what it's really like for the people who work there. This time around, we headed to the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco to visit DODOcase, the startup that makes iPhone, iPad, Kindle, and Android mobile accessories using traditional book… Read More
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Theorem Has Created A New Way To Buy And Sell Online
You might think that haggling or negotiating is something that died out a century ago, or that happens today only in bustling outdoor markets and bazaars. But if you think about it, you haggle in your head all the time. You look at a shirt online and say to yourself, “Hrm, that’s a good deal” or “Nope, too much.” If something you like is too pricy, you wait it out… Read More
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Online-Only Fashion Startup Cuyana Partners With Real Simple Magazine
Cuyana, the San Francisco e-commerce startup that makes responsibly produced apparel and accessories, has inked a yearlong partnership with Real Simple magazine to make a total of four collections targeted at the magazine’s readership. In an interview this week, Cuyana co-founder Karla Gallardo told me that both companies will share the revenue on products sold under the partnership. Read More
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Avvo, The Online Legal Advice Marketplace, Lands $37.5M Led By Tech-Focused Hedge Fund Coatue
Avvo, the Seattle startup that runs an online marketplace for people seeking legal advice, has raised $37.5 million in new funding. The round, which counts as Avvo’s Series D, was led by Coatue Management, the New York hedge fund that has become known in recent years for heading up big investments in West Coast tech companies including Snapchat, Hotel Tonight, Box, Lyft, and others. Also… Read More
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Inside Jobs: How iOS Developer Danilo Campos Battles To Bring New Apps To Life
Mobile apps are something that you interact with on a very personal basis — you carry them around in your pocket, check in with them frequently, and really let them into your life. So in this episode of Inside Jobs we decided to turn the tables and get personal with someone who builds mobile apps. Danilo Campos is the developer and designer behind beautiful mobile apps for iOS including… Read More
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Y Combinator Adds Four New Partners, Including Stripe CEO Patrick Collison
Y Combinator is announcing today the addition of four new partners to its roster, as part of its larger push for more growth under new president Sam Altman. Altman announced in a blog post this afternoon that YC’s current outreach director Kat Manalac has been promoted to take on a partner position at the organization, and joining YC as part-time partners are Stripe CEO Patrick Collison… Read More
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Box Debuts ‘Box Open Source’ To Share Its Internal Tools With The Larger Developer World
Box today unveiled a new initiative called Box Open Source for sharing its own homegrown open source engineering tools with the larger programming community. The project was announced this afternoon in a company blog post accompanied by a tweet from Box CEO Aaron Levie. In a joint phone interview today, Levie and Box’s principal technical operations developer Benjamin VanEvery said that the… Read More
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Digital Postal Mail Startup Zumbox Hits The Deadpool
Zumbox, the startup that created a service to deliver postal mail digitally in a paperless format, is shutting down. The company announced the shutdown in an email sent this week to users of the service, which was first posted by InfoTrends writer Matt Swain. Zumbox is recommending that users export their digital documents by Monday April 14th — less than a week from today. It’s a big… Read More
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Automattic Acquires Longreads, The App For Discovering And Reading Long-Form Content Online
Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, has acquired Longreads, the platform for discovering and reading long-form writing content on the web. Financial terms have not been disclosed. In an email to TechCrunch, Longreads founder and CEO Mark Armstrong (pictured here) said that the Longreads service will continue to function exactly as it did before the acquisition. Joining Automattic, he… Read More
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Dropbox Debuts Carousel, Aiming To Be The Go-To Storage App For Your Entire Photo Archive
Dropbox this morning launched an ambitious new application called Carousel, a photo and video archive and sharing platform that the company hopes will become the go-to place for people to store and access their digital photos. The application can be found at Carousel.com, and according to Dropbox, it stores as many videos and photos as permitted by your Dropbox plan, and allows you to access them… Read More
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Dropbox Announces ‘Project Harmony’ To Bring Collaborative Features To Microsoft Office
At a press event this morning in San Francisco, Dropbox unveiled a new feature called “Project Harmony” which brings new collaboration tools for Dropbox users while they’re editing documents in Microsoft Office applications including Powerpoint, Word, and Excel. Project Harmony, which will be launched to users “later this year,” will let Dropbox users see when other… Read More
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Omada Health Raises $23M Series B Led By Andreessen Horowitz For Digital Health That Actually Works
Omada Health, a San Francisco startup that makes digital health therapy programs for people with type 2 diabetes and other serious but potentially treatable issues, has raised $23 million in new funding. The new investment, which is Omada’s Series B, was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Andreessen Horowitz partner Balaji Srinivasan joining the startup’s board of directors. Also… Read More
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Inside Jobs: Why Facebook’s Hardware Engineering Head Likes Getting His Hands Dirty
When you think about the upper echelons of technical fields like hardware engineering, you might think of lifelong academics with multiple degrees in engineering and math and science. But if there's one thing that's become clear in our Inside Jobs series, it's that the people that make the tech world tick aren't always what you'd expect. Take Matt Corddry. As Facebook's director of hardware… Read More
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The ‘World’s Largest Tetris Game’ Was Played On A Philadelphia Skyscraper This Weekend
On Saturday night, a 29-story Philadelphia skyscraper hosted what’s purported to be the “world’s largest game of Tetris,” and likely the world’s largest videogame overall. A team led by Drexel University computer science professor Frank Lee hacked into the LED lighting system of the Cira Centre building in downtown Philadelphia to create a larger-than-life Tetris game… Read More
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Hands On With Wello, The iPhone Case That Monitors And Tracks Your Vital Signs
If you’re like most people, you only check in with your vital signs (temperature, blood pressure, pulmonary function, heartrate, ECG, blood oxygen levels, and the like) when you go to the doctor. But what if you could obtain that data more often through a single device that’s almost always in your pocket or purse? You might be much more in tune with your body and how it responds to… Read More
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With $1.9 Million In Funding, 3Gear Systems Is Building Gesture Control That Actually Works
3Gear Systems is one of the startups building gesture control technology, and it's soon coming to market with a tiny, camera-controlled device that can track your hands' movements and control our PC based on what they're doing. And it's raised $1.9 million in funding from investors that include K9 Ventures, Intel Capital, and CrunchFund to push that vision forward. Read More
