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Now 100 Cities Strong, Startup Grind Aims To Spread The Entrepreneurial Bug Worldwide
May 25, 6:34PM
One thing I often hear when talking to entrepreneurs who live outside of the San Francisco Bay Area is that it’s hard for them to connect with other entrepreneurs nearby. It’s not that there are no startup-minded folks in Boise, Idaho or Guatemala City, Guatemala. There are just fewer events to bring them together in one place than there are in networking-happy tech hubs like… Read MoreWomen Vs. Women, Or The Ugly Side Of Feminism
May 25, 4:00PM
With the birth of the new feminist narrative sweeping popular culture, it is bound to enter its awkward teenage phase. And just like a teenage mean girl, the new feminism is growing unwieldy before gracefully settling into something we can agree on. But before it makes it there, I hope it doesn’t tear us all down in the process. A few weeks ago at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in… Read MoreLong-Delayed Connected Device Tile Finally Starts Shipping
May 25, 3:04PM
The Bluetooth-powered lost item finder called Tile, which last summer raised $2.6 million via crowdfunding, has finally begun shipping, the company now claims. Early backers may be a bit skeptical, given the delays the company experienced since raising a significant round of funding many months ago, then not being able to deliver in a timely manner. But over the Memorial Day holiday here in… Read MoreEnvy
May 25, 2:56PM
Elliot Rodger, a young man with some horrible ideas and serious mental problems, killed at least six people in Santa Barbara. He left pages of digital photos and hours of video detailing his pain and his envy. In the voice of an entitled boy not given what he wants, he talks about being alone while others are together. He became a misogynist through his own twisted self-reflection. Now his… Read MoreHow Cloud Startups Are Changing The Face Of Innovation
May 25, 2:00PM
Editor’s note: Pete Sonsini is a general partner at New Enterprise Associates. After more than a decade of hype and billions of dollars of value creation, it would be reasonable to expect investors to start losing interest in cloud-related startups. In the venture business, me-too investors reap ever-diminishing returns compared to early entrants in a new sector. And while the… Read MoreThe Promise, Progress And Pain Of Collaboration Software
May 25, 4:00AM
Editor’s note: Jason Green is a founder and general partner at Emergence Capital Partners. He was an early investor in Yammer and Success Factors, and he currently sits on the boards of ServiceMax, Replicon, Cotap, Lotame, Xad, Digital Airstrike, and Box (observer). Truly effective enterprise collaboration applications represent one of the most promising opportunities for cloud computing. Read MoreAmazon Keeps Fighting Big Publishers But Authors Pay The Price
May 25, 2:00AM
It’s Amazon’s world and we’re just living in it. As the company continues to flex its muscle against big publishers – this time against Hachette – the average author could be excused for feeling a bit of schadenfreude. Publishers have run the show for a long time and their efforts at cultural curation have resulted in million dollar deals for Snooki and bupkus… Read MoreDon't Believe Anyone Who Tells You Learning To Code Is Easy
May 25, 1:00AM
Editor’s note: Kate Ray is the technical cofounder of scroll kit, a visual webpage creation tool that was recently acquired by WordPress.com. One of the most dangerous things I’ve seen happen to people who are just starting to code is being told that it’s easy. Here’s what your brain does: Most programming doesn’t require a special brain, but it’s… Read MoreHands On With Microsoft's Surface Pro 3
May 24, 9:39PM
Microsoft’s newest Surface, the Surface Pro 3, is an interesting gadget. Akin to its predecessors, it sits somewhere between a tablet and a laptop. In Microsoft’s estimation, the Pro 3 can replace your laptop while providing the utility of a tablet. It’s a big claim. TechCrunch got its hands on a Pro 3 here in San Francisco, and sat it next to its predecessors and… Read More
Deciphering The Economics Of Venture Capital
May 24, 9:00PM
Editor’s note: Matt Oguz is managing director of Palo Alto Venture Science. When Nassim Nicholas Taleb developed his popular theory to explore way-out-of-the-norm surprising events, he outlined three characteristics of a black swan event: The event has a huge impact The event is very hard to explain using (commonly used) scientific methods The event appears unforeseen due to… Read MoreFor Better Or Worse, Anonymous Apps Allow Us To Be Ourselves Online Again
May 24, 8:00PM
Anonymous apps like Secret and Whisper are all the rage right now and maybe that shouldn’t be a surprise. This feels like the inevitable reaction to all the major social networks wanting to own our identities — preferably with our real names attached. What they are getting, however, is the completely boring and sanitized version of us. The one where everybody is happy and is on… Read More5-Tiles Keyboard Targets Wearables To Hunt The Post-Qwerty Holy Grail
May 24, 7:00PM
Meet the 5-Tiles Keyboard, (yet) another contender taking aim at disrupting Qwerty — and hoping to increase its chances by first targeting smaller wearable devices, such as smartwatches. The rational being that’s a more realistic way to drive a wedge between Qwerty and its users’ fingers. As challenges go, disrupting Qwerty is akin to attempting to pass… Read MoreThe ROI Of iCloud Photo Storage
May 24, 6:17PM
“When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don’t consider the bloody ROI.” That’s Apple CEO Tim Cook, speaking at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in February, after a representative of conservative think tank National Center for Public Policy Research asked a question related to a shareholder proposal that would have Apple disclosing… Read MoreKill The Hamburger Button
May 24, 5:55PM
That little three-lined button is the devil. Whether you call it a side menu, navigation drawer, or a hamburger, hiding your features off-screen behind a nondescript icon in the corner is usually a poor mobile design choice. Interaction theory, A/B tests, and the evolution of some of the top apps in the world all support the same thesis: The hamburger button is bad for engagement, and you… Read MoreGillmor Gang: Hollywood & Vine
May 24, 5:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — Alexia Tsotsis, Keith Teare, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — kick off the holiday weekend with a primer on cloud politics. Techcrunch co-editor Tsotsis in her maiden appearance in the clubhouse wastes no time putting @scobleizer on the spot, but Robert does a Seinfeld by saying nothing in a revealing way. Then we’re off to the land of Beats… Read MoreWatch This DJ Pound The Default iPhone Ringtone Into A Crazy Catchy Dance Track
May 24, 4:00PM
Happy Saturday! Ready for your semi-regular reminder that some people are just too damned talented? You know that one iPhone ringtone? Yeah. That one. Some call it “Opening”; others call it “That one damned song thats woken me up every morning since iOS 7 came out.” A DJ out of New Delhi, India, cut together a ridiculously catchy mix of iOS 7′s default ringer… Read MoreThe Internet Is Burning
May 24, 1:00PM
Online security is a horrifying nightmare. Heartbleed. Target. Apple. Linux. Microsoft. Yahoo. eBay. X.509. Whatever security cataclysm erupts next, probably in weeks or even days. We seem to be trapped in a vicious cycle of cascading security disasters that just keep getting worse. Why? Well — “Computers have gotten incredibly complex, while people have remained the same gray mud… Read MoreWhat Google's Favorite Bay Area Nonprofits Would Do With A $500K Grant
May 24, 1:09AM
Yesterday, Google announced its finalists for the Bay Area Impact Challenge, its latest effort to assist nonprofits in the region through grants and support from Googlers willing to volunteer their time. The company is letting anyone vote for their favorite nonprofits among the finalists. On June 3, it will announce which four received the most votes, and offer them each a $500,000 grant… Read MoreTwitter Closed At $30.50 Today, Its Lowest Conclusion So Far As A Public Company
May 23, 11:41PM
Twitter closed out regular trading this afternoon at $30.50 per share. That’s its lowest end-of-day tally yet in its history as a public company. The company traded below the $30 mark earlier this month, but managed to end May 7 at $30.66. The decline of Twitter’s value is impressive. The company ‘s 52-week high — it hasn’t been public that long, keep in mind… Read MoreIf Jawbone Were For Sale, Who Would Buy It?
May 23, 11:06PM
Is Jawbone in play? That’s a question that has been bounced around the rumor mill lately, likely driven by a few other huge recent acquisitions in the hardware space. Over the last few days, the TechCrunch tips line has lit up with anonymous notes about Jawbone being acquired by Google in a multi-billion-dollar deal. (For what it’s worth, we’ve heard we’re not the only… Read MoreIf at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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