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Uber-For-Weed Startup Meadow Lights Up In San Francisco
2:25 pm PDT • October 14, 2014
You can really see where David Hua’s food blogger cred shines with his new medical marijuana startup Meadow. In the app, there is just close-up after close-up of bud. That’s…
Today King Digital, progenitor and purveyor of the formerly ubiquitous game Candy Crush closed at $11.25. That figure is precisely half of its IPO price of $22.50 per share. The…
Unsticker.Me Rids Your Facebook Of Stickers
2:02 pm PDT • October 14, 2014
Remember the good old days? Back when posting a funny image or doodle in a Facebook comment thread meant having to go search for one, rather than just opening up…
Startups
Former Motionloft CEO Jon Mills Pleads Guilty To Two Counts Of Wire Fraud
1:56 pm PDT • October 14, 2014
Motionloft founder and former CEO Jon Mills has pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California. In doing…
Let, a teen social networking app with a focus on gamification, is announcing that it has raised $600,000 in seed funding. That’s not a huge amount of money, but the…
Startups
Hailo Says There Won’t Be Any Licensing Deal For Toronto, New Focus Will Be On Growth In Asia
1:39 pm PDT • October 14, 2014
Earlier today, Hailo revealed that it would be closing its North American operations. The closure announcement from Hailo included its operations in Chicago, New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Montreal and…
Media & Entertainment
Snapchat Reminds Us That Users Are To Blame For Photo Leaks
1:39 pm PDT • October 14, 2014
In response to the most recent Snapchat leak —now called “The Snappening” in homage to the recent leak of celebrity nudes — a statement has been posted on the company blog regarding the…
Investors Say Logistics Companies Are In For The Long Haul
1:25 pm PDT • October 14, 2014
In a world where consumers are increasingly expecting frictionless, tech-enabled services, snail mail is just not cutting it. Just about anything can be ordered from a smartphone, but shipping it…
Fintech
Intel Reports Better-Than-Expected Q3 Revenue Of $14.55B On Strength Of Recovering PC Market
1:06 pm PDT • October 14, 2014
Following the bell, Intel reported its third quarter financial performance, including revenue of $14.55 billion and earnings per share of $0.66. Analysts and the street had expected that Intel would earn $0.65…
Tonight, John Biggs and I head uptown to the Sirius XM headquarters once again for the live airing of our latest media venture, TechCrunch Radio on Sirius XM. We’ll be…
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How Product Hunt Hopes To Avoid The Pitfalls That Wounded Quora And Buried Digg
1:00 pm PDT • October 14, 2014
When Ashwinn Krishnaswamy and two of his buddies were living with their parents and working out of a basement in the suburbs of Philadelphia, they had only their development skills,…
Enterprise
HighQ Takes On The Enterprise Collaboration Space With An Eye Toward Data Sovereignty
12:35 pm PDT • October 14, 2014
London-based HighQ is opening a new data center in Australia, growing its bid to provide locally supported enterprise collaboration and file-sharing products. The company has quickly expanding revenues, and a…
Hillary Clinton Urges Community To Close The Tech Gap In Our Own Backyard
12:09 pm PDT • October 14, 2014
Hillary Clinton took to the stage at Dreamforce Tuesday to discuss the economic divide around the world and in San Francisco’s own backyard. “We need to make sure the benefits…
It has been a tradition at TechCrunch to dedicate an entire week (or, in this case, a truncated week) to bags. Big bags. Small bags. Little bags. Tall bags. All…
Wireless music player maker, Sonos, has released the Boost, an add-on to their system that allows Sonos devices to work up to 50% further than the standard Wi-Fi range –…
Startups
Phonio Lets Celebrities Call Their Fans On The Phone, Raw And Unfiltered
10:24 am PDT • October 14, 2014
No one feels special for following their favorite musician on Facebook or Twitter. Social media has become impersonal mass media. But Phonio wants to make the celebrity-fan connection as intimate…
Startups
Social Commerce App CardBlanc Puts A Shopping Mall On Your Phone
10:01 am PDT • October 14, 2014
CardBlanc, a new e-commerce application targeting millennial spenders officially launched today, introducing a financial platform for easier mobile checkout combined with social activity similar to what you’d see on sites…
Hardware
The Pi-Top, A Raspberry Pi-Powered Laptop, Is Hitting The Crowdfunding Trail
9:55 am PDT • October 14, 2014
Yee-haw! Saddle up and roll ’em out because the Pi-Top Raspberry Pi laptop is ready to ride! We last met this laptop when it was still a gleam in a…
Transportation
Hailo To Close North American Operations, Toronto Wing Looking To Continue Under License
9:37 am PDT • October 14, 2014
The e-hail business in North America just got a little less crowded – London-based Hailo will close its operations in North America, citing increasing price pressure from the leading incumbents,…
Hardware
Withings Aura Review: Easy, Advanced Sleep Tracking, But Leaves You Wanting More
9:06 am PDT • October 14, 2014
French personal health tech company Withings already tracks your sleep and activity using its wearable monitors, but they do so with less than stellar accuracy. A new addition to the…
