I'm Leaving TechCrunch. Here's Why.
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark —that place where the wave finally ...
Why Facebook is the New Yahoo
Facebook's awkward attempts to copy Google+ smack of a quiet desperation. — Sure, Facebook looks massively successful. With a mind-boggling 750 million users, the social site can do no wrong, right...
What Was Behind the Timing of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz's Abrupt Ouster?
In the end — the bitter end, that is — there really is no good time to fire someone. — But the timing of the ouster of Carol Bartz as CEO of Yahoo is one of the more curious things about the corpora...
Apple Working on Allowing the Merging of Multiple Apple IDs
MacRumors has learned that Apple is working on a process to merge multiple Apple IDs into a single login. The issue of juggling multiple Apple ID logins has been a minor inconvenience in the past, bu...
Twitter Shakes Things Up Again: Fred Wilson, Bijan Sabet Leaving Board
Twitter's is reshaping itself yet again, this time at a corporate level: Investors Fred Wilson and Bijan Sabet are leaving the company's board at the end of the month. Sources say the company won't f...
Introducing Voice Actions for Android in the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain
Last year in the US, we introduced Voice Actions, a series of spoken commands that let you control your Android phone or tablet with your voice. You can call businesses and contacts, send texts …
Hacker Ring Appears to Make Good on Promise to Expose Celebrities
A ring of hackers that boasted it would pry into celebrities' phones and e-mail accounts appears to have delivered on that promise. Reported hacks of actresses Scarlett Johannson and Mila Kunis led t...
BlackBerry PlayBook price slashing begins: $249 and up for Rogers workers
Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie revealed on the company's second-quarter earnings call that RIM would soon be dropping prices on its BlackBerry PlayBook tablets. While the new price points ha...
Forget Apps, Carbyn Has Built A HTML5 OS
HTML5, HTML5, HTML5 — it seems to be the only thing anyone wants to talk about these days. And that excitement could get kicked into overdrive next week when Facebook unveils Project Spartan, their p...
My Next Chapter
Effective today, I will be leaving Polaris Venture Partners, and setting out to launch a new seed firm. — While I am excited by the prospect of building something new, it is difficult to leave the p...
The mysterious disappearance of the Microsoft Senior Vice Presidents
Summary: Microsoft is eliminating the “Senior Vice President” title across the company. Here's why, according to company officials. — Titles at Microsoft always are a source of confusion, even for ...
EU probing Google on Internet search
(Reuters) - EU regulators are investigating whether Google dominates in Internet search but have yet to decide if this is the case, the EU's antitrust chief said on Friday. — “As part of our current...
Stevie Wonder sings Steve Jobs' praises for iOS accessibility
Steve Jobs has been lauded for making the smartphone truly accessible for everyone, incorporating subtle features that help the visually impaired or those with disabilies operate Apple's iPhone, iPad ...
MasterCard demos Google Wallet, QkR platform for mobile payments
You've most likely heard plenty about NFC-capable smartphones, but little in the way of actual real-world uses for the chip. Well, MasterCard's looking to change all of that, and throw in a few innov...
Even Google is Tired of Needlessly Paginated Content
Google just announced that it will now do its best to lead searchers directly to the single-page version of the online content it indexes instead of the paginated versions of the same content. Whenev...
CR Survey: 7.5 Million Facebook Users are Under the Age of 13, Violating the Site's Terms
Use of Social Media Increases Threat to Personal Security; Annual State of the Net Survey Also Found that Around $2.3 Billion Lost to Malware — YONKERS, NY — Of the 20 million minors …
Should Faking a Name on Facebook Be a Felony?
Congress contemplates draconian punishment for Internet lies. — Imagine that President Obama could order the arrest of anyone who broke a promise on the Internet. So you could be jailed for lying a...
Should you launch at a conference?
Should you launch at Launch? (Or TechCrunch Disrupt? Or Demo? They're all pretty similar). — This year I launched two major new products at conferences: Careers 2.0 and Trello, and both times, it...
Can Netflix still win when cable TV loses?
Ryan Lawler makes a very important point: even as the number of people living in poverty continues to rise, and median incomes have gone nowhere since 1996, the price of cable TV just goes inevitably ...
Microsoft's web server is losing ground: IIS market share back to 1997 levels
Apache has been the most widely used web server on the Internet since the early days of the Web. It still is. The second-most popular web server has been, and still is, Microsoft's Internet Informat...
Mozilla Launches Open Badges Project
Today we announced Mozilla's Open Badge Infrastructure project, an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web. — More and more people are looking at badges to s...