Check Out The Millionaires (And Billionaires) Groupon's IPO Minted Today
Groupon's first day of trading has come to an end, with the company's shares closing at $26.11 — 30.6 percent higher than Groupon's IPO price of $20. — That's minted billionaires out of the founders...
Verizon API To Give Apps ‘Turbo’ Bandwidth Boost
Verizon will publish an API that could allow consumers to “turbocharge” the network bandwidth their smartphone apps use for a small fee, executives said Tuesday. — Verizon anticipates that a custome...
How the Hashtag Became a Campaign Battleground
Twitter's content-sorting mechanism is the latest messaging weapon in the 2012 presidential contest — One of the most contested battles in the online political arena in recent weeks was a fight over...
HP gives webOS developers a chance to get a $150 TouchPad
The future of webOS may still be up in the air, but it looks like HP is at least still making a small effort to woo developers and keep its current ones in the fold. It's now giving registered devs i...
Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn Has Become the Go-To Guy of Tech
THEY come for his money. They come for his advice. They come — duh — for his connections. — But mostly they come, with all the élan of Dorothy on her way to Oz, for a chance at some face time with...
Don't Launch A Company, Launch A Fund (Or The Series A Will Die)
Editor's note: This guest post is authored by Adeo Ressi, who is the founder of The Founder Institute and TheFunded.com. You can follow him on Twitter here. — Every investor and entrepreneur knows ...
Lost Steve Jobs interview headed to the big screen
Steve Jobs is coming to a theater near you. — Missing footage from an interview Apple co-founder Steve Jobs did almost 20 years for a landmark miniseries that ran on PBS in the United States and Cha...
Source: Apple pushed security executive out
Cava 22, the bar where an Apple employee lost control of an unreleased device sometime around July 22. — Against a backdrop of lost unreleased devices and allegations that its security personnel imp...
Grading the Digital School: Apple Woos Educators With Trips to Silicon Valley
SAN FRANCISCO — Three times over the last two years, school officials from Little Falls, Minn., have escaped the winter cold for two-day trips to Silicon Valley. Their destination: the headquarters o...
IBM: Mobile Retail Traffic Will More Than Double This Holiday Season
IBM's Coremetrics Benchmark is releasing data around holiday shopping trends we can expect over the next few months. Big Blue says that mobile retail traffic will more than double this holiday season...
(Founder Stories) Houston: “In 18 Months, You Are Going To See Little Dropbox Buttons Everywhere”
By any measure Drew Houston and his Dropbox team are having a hugely successful run. In Houston's final Founder Stories episode with TechCrunch editor, Erick Schonfeld …
Khan Academy Gets $5 Million to Expand Faculty & Platform & to Build a Physical School
Khan Academy announced this morning that it has raised $5 million from the O'Sullivan Foundation (a foundation created by Irish engineer and investor Sean O'Sullivan).
John R. Opel, Who Made I.B.M. a Colossus, Dies at 86
John R. Opel, who presided over I.B.M. in its final period of dominance in the information-processing industry and oversaw the company's move into personal computers, died on Thursday in Fort Myers, F...
Former Polaris Venture Partner Michael Hirshland Debuts New Seed Fund: Resolute.VC
As we heard in September, VC Michael Hirshland (a.k.a. @VCMike) announced he was leaving Polaris Venture Partners, where he was a general partner, to start his own seed fund. Today, Hirshland is debu...