Steve Case: It’s Crazy You Have To Be An Accredited Investor, But Don’t Have To Be An “Accredited Gambler”
7:49 am PST • November 15, 2011
AOL founder Steve Case has a three-point plan to get job growth back on track in America, and it all revolves around ways the government can spur more entrepreneurship. Over…
Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick Thinks Most Leaders Still Don’t Get Technology
6:35 am PST • November 15, 2011
I am in Tucson, Arizona this week at the Techonomy conference, where I caught up with host and journalist David Kirkpatrick who thinks that technology and the empowerment of the…
Venture
With Revenues Doubling, Video Ad Network BrightRoll Raises $30 Million
5:55 am PST • November 15, 2011
One of the fastest growing segments of online advertising is video ads (it was up 42 percent in the first half of the year, and expected to continue strong growth…
Katzenberg Says DreamWorks Will Render In Realtime, Speed Up Animation Work 50X
9:13 am PST • November 14, 2011
Making an animated movie is a tedious process because of all the intense computing power and rendering required. “An expert animator can do about 3 seconds of animation in a…
Media & Entertainment
Processing $11 Million A Day, Jack Dorsey Says: “We Don’t Want To Make Square All About Taxi Cabs”
4:14 pm PST • November 13, 2011
Jack Dorsey’s mobile payments startup Square is now processing $11 million a day in mobile payments, it was revealed today at the Techonomy conference in Tucson, Arizona. Host David Kirkpatrick…
I’ve been writing a lot about Oink, the new mobile app from Milk, Kevin Rose’s current startup. Oink launched about ten days ago (you still need an invite to unlock…
Media & Entertainment
Fly Or Die: Can Batch Find Its Own Path Among The Photo Apps?
10:03 am PST • November 11, 2011
Does the world need another photo-sharing app? That is the question John Biggs and I debate in this episode of Fly or Die (watch the video above). We take a…
Hardware
Hulu Plus Will Compete With Amazon Instant Video On The Kindle Fire
6:59 am PST • November 11, 2011
The Kindle Fire is shipping next week, and Amazon wants to ship it with as many mainstream apps as possible. There will be thousands of apps which will work on…
Flash-sale site Gilt is rolling out a slightly new look over the next few days. It features bigger pictures, better navigation to sister sites such as Gilt City, Gilt Taste,…
Media & Entertainment
Glooko Connects Glucose Meters To iPhones For Tracking Diabetes
8:14 pm PST • November 9, 2011
The iPhone in your pocket can do a lot more than just play games or music. Used properly, that computer can help save your life. Consumer health apps are increasingly…
Media & Entertainment
Are We At An Inflection Point For Mobile Search?
2:29 pm PST • November 9, 2011
New data from search marketing platform Efficient Frontier and Ben Schachter, a stock analyst at the Macquarie Group, indicates that mobile search advertising is at an important inflection point and…
Startups
Michael Birch’s WaterForward Is “Kind of a Chain Letter Pyramid Scheme” For Charity
9:24 am PST • November 8, 2011
Michael Birch, the founder of Bebo and now CEO of startup lab Monkey Inferno, wants to raise millions of dollars for Charity:Water using social networks and viral loops. His latest…
Zuckerberg Talks To Charlie Rose About Steve Jobs, IPOs, And Google’s “Little Version Of Facebook”
1:19 pm PST • November 7, 2011
Charlie Rose interviews Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg tonight on his show. In the preview video above, he tried to get them to talk about what looks…
Venture
Google Ventures Takes A Sip Of Milk, Invests In Kevin Rose’s New Startup
11:55 am PST • November 7, 2011
Kevin Rose’s mobile lab, Milk, has a new investor: Google Ventures. The startup raised $1.5 million in a seed round last April from investors including Chris Sacca, Evan Williams, Dave…
Startups
Evolve Vacation Rental Brings White-Glove Service To Online Listings
10:46 am PST • November 7, 2011
Vacation homes sit empty most of the year, representing a huge amount of untapped inventory waiting to be discovered online. Large services such as HomeAway, VRBO, and TripAdvisor’s FlipKey are…
Steve Jobs’ Credo: “I’ll Know It When I See It”
7:20 am PST • November 7, 2011
Steve Jobs was a tweaker, Malcolm Gladwell writes in a New Yorker book review of the Steve Jobs biography. He took existing technologies and perfected them, obsessing about everything from…
Niklas Zennstrom: “Peer-To-Peer Is Not Disruptive Today”
10:55 pm PDT • November 5, 2011
Last week at Disrupt Beijing, Sarah Lacy interviewed Skype co-founder and Atomico investor Niklas Zennstrom. (You can watch the full fireside chat in the video above.) Zennstrom was a pioneer in…
Yesterday, Kevin Rose’s new mobile app, Oink, hit iTunes. You can download the app, but you still need an invite to unlock all of its features. About an hour after…
Venture
Disrupt Hackathon Winner Docracy Raises $650,000 From First Round
2:55 pm PDT • November 3, 2011
Following in the footsteps of GroupMe, another startup born at a Disrupt Hackathon is moving on to becoming areal company. Last May, Docracy was one of our Hackathon winners, and…
Oink, the first app from Milk, Kevin Rose’s startup lab is now available in iTunes. Oink is an app that lets you rate things at different places, and uses social…
Startups
Art.sy Raises $6 Million Series A From Peter Thiel, Thrive Capital, Wendi Murdoch And Dasha Zhukova
1:00 pm PDT • November 3, 2011
New York City’s Art.sy, which wants to change the way people buy fine art, recently closed a $6 million series A. Peter Thiel personally led the round, with existing investors…
Welcome TechCrunch’s Newest Writers, Josh Constine And Eric Eldon
11:43 am PDT • November 3, 2011
Ever since I became Editor of TechCrunch in September, I’ve been looking for great writers to help fill out our coverage in Silicon Valley. And now I am pleased to…
Media & Entertainment
Twitter Tests “Top News” And “Top People” At Top Of Search Results
1:03 pm PDT • November 2, 2011
In what appears to be a test among some users, Twitter is adding “Top News” and “Top People” results at the top of its realtime search results. When you search…
Enterprise
With Backing From Google Ventures, Humanoid Brings Robot Supervision To Crowdsourced Tasks
11:28 am PDT • November 2, 2011
Workers of the world, get ready to meet your robot supervisors. A new service called Humanoid wants to turn you into a “robot-supervised army” that it will rent out for…
Venture
Facing Down Facebook’s Timeline, Memolane Adds Social Features And An Investment From Digital Garage
7:53 pm PDT • November 1, 2011
In this time of timelines, it is easy to forget that Facebook didn’t come up with the concept of a social timeline recording your life. But what do you do…
Media & Entertainment
Google Cleans Up Gmail With New Design And Better Search
9:39 am PDT • November 1, 2011
Google is rolling out a new design for Gmail over the next few days. It features more white space, less clutter, threaded conversations, new themes, and better search. Messages aren’t…
The Eatery: A Photo App That Promises To Improve Your Health
7:45 am PDT • November 1, 2011
People take photos of food with their mobile phones all the time. But to what end other than to gain cred on Foodspotting or brag about your gourmet meal on…
Knewton Strikes A Deal To Power Pearson’s Digital Education Courses
3:33 am PDT • November 1, 2011
Coming on the heels of its $33 million series D financing last month, adaptive learning startup Knewton is announcing a very large deal with one of its investors, educational publisher…
What do you do when you have more than a billion potential product combinations on your site? You hire a user experience (UX) guru. Gemvara, a jewelry e-commerce site that…
Media & Entertainment
Hypothes.is: A Kickstarter Project To Peer Review The Web
12:08 pm PDT • October 31, 2011
The Web: never before has there been a medium where it was so easy to find so much information. And never before has so much of it been so wrong.…
