Mike Butcher

Whatever is happening in the political sphere (and let’s face it, quite a lot is happening), Russia’s home-grown technology market continues to grow as the market matures. Although the seed…

LUUV is a camera stabilizer that lets you video fast moving action more-or-less shake-free due to its 3D printed design. What LUUV promises is something like the ‘democratization’ of the…

You’re a musician that needs to make your music video look good. You might use Outlisten. On Fanfootage you could create a video by getting fans to video your gig…

Second-hand designer fashion has become big business online. Just look at the success of Nasty Gal in the U.S. which has done well out of vintage pieces as well as…

Back in 2010, Nurph was a tiny boot-strapped startup working on a platform which turned Twitter into a realtime chat platform. Developed by Neil Cauldwell, the app got a little…

The European Commission has announced it is making €100 million ($USD140 million) available to entrepreneurs and startups from anywhere – not just Europe – to create a prototype ‘smart city’…

Companies like FON and Boingo have made hay the last few years with Wi-Fi marketplaces. Now an Italian startup wants in on the act. Cloud4Wi plans to expand internationally (starting…

In 2010 the Iranian election protests – the “Green Revolution” – was at it’s tail end, though few knew the tumult of the Arab Spring was to come. The Iranian…

You’re a medium to large-sized business using a clunky old corporate intranet. Meanwhile your staff are using Facebook and Pinterest at home and in their daily lives. You’re not going…

Synthesio, the global social ‘listening and analysis’ platform, has announced it’s secured a Series B funding round of $20 million in funding from a European private equity firm, Idinvest Partners.

Coull is an online video ad tech company out of the UK which has trod a rather different path to the average high-growth tech company. For starters it’s based in…

Analytics Engines — a Belfast-based company that has developed a suite of plug-in ‘software accelerators’ allowing for complex analytics and real-time processing of Big Data in finance, genomics, and utilities…

Not many people come to SXSW Interactive to talk about an app they plan to launch but then proceed to give almost no detail and not even a name. Which…

As the sole European company shortlisted for SXSW’s HATCH pitch competition this week, we thought we’d take a look at SupaPass. (For those who don’t know it, HATCH pitch is…

It’s testament to the rise of crowd-equity financing that today m-commerce shopping app Shareight has today bust the record on the Seedrs platform today, raising £600,000 (US $1,000,000) on the…

For the last few years TechCrunch Disrupt, our headline conference, has become a staple of the industry calendar in both San Francisco and New York. Last year we brought this…

BREAKING: SXSW is about to get even more interesting than normal. Secret, the app which lets you share anonymously amongst friends and friends of friends, has announced a web feed…

With social media here to stay, it’s become a powerful tool for marketing amongst musicians, especially when they have fans who do so much of the heavy lifting by promoting…

Dogs seem to benefit from watching other dogs, even if they are on TV. Thus, Dog TV exists. Yes, folks, this is a real thing. Now, Dog TV, literally a television…

CloudPress is a year-old startup which has emerged from the chaos of the Egyptian revolution, only to be acquired by one of the world’s biggest media companies: News Corp. Indeed,…

Boxever is a startup tackling the big data issue locked up inside airlines. It has a personalization platform for airlines and travel operators to gather and analyse customer data in…

AppsFlyer, a mobile app measurement, attribution and analytics SaaS startup, has raised a $7.1million A Round from Pitango Venture Capital and from current investor Magma Venture Partners. The funding will…

TrackDuck, a visual feedback and issue tracking startup, is aimed at small and mid-size organisations and freelancers. It lets the clients of small businesses and freelancers send feedback on a…

Yes of course you need another handy little iPhone charger cable. OK, so there are one or two iPhone charger cables out there. One we like is the Nomad. But…

I’m doing a TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch-off in Beirut tonight, featuring some of Beirut’s most exciting start-up founders under one roof. Startups will have to impress the judges in a…

Four years ago the founder pitched at a small event I was at, amid what can only be described as a fit of nerves. But now DueDil founder and CEO…

India’s largest business angels group has made its first investment in a UK startup, investing in London-based company SwiftShift. The amount was not disclosed. The Indian Angel Network (IAN) is…

Aimed exclusively at lesbians, bisexual and/or bi-curious women, the Dattch dating app ought to be a shoe-in for the large San Francisco market. So it’s no surprise that the startup…

Prezi, the cloud-based startup which competes with Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple Keynote, and Adobe are the latest technology companies to join President Obama’s ConnectED Initiative to help the US education…

In the past Google has taken Street View into the inside of an Amsterdam Barge (which just happens to be the HQ of the startup MobyPicture) and the inside of…