Apple Introduces iPhone 5
Thinnest, Lightest iPhone Ever Features All-New Aluminum Design, Stunning 4-Inch Retina Display, A6 Chip & Ultrafast Wireless — Apple® today announced iPhone® 5, the thinnest and lightest iPhone eve...
Kindle Fire HD Is Better but It Isn't the Best Color Tablet
Amazon is upping its game in the color tablet market. Last year, it launched the 7-inch Kindle Fire, a pretty good, but limited, device mostly distinguished by its low price of $199 and its seamless ...
Live from Apple's iPhone 5 event!
Apple iPhone 5 event live blog: up-to-the-minute coverage, direct from San Francisco Event Updates 9:57:14 AM PDT “Ladies and gentlemen, we'll begin shortly. Please switch devices to silent mode.”
The Undercover Report on How the New iPhone 5 is Made Inside Foxconn Factory
A Chinese news agency, Shanghai Evening Post, has sent an experienced journalist to slip into the Foxconn Tai Yuan factory and pretended as a new worker, his mission is to find out how the new iPhone ...
Apple redesigns the iPod touch with 4-inch display, Siri, and upgraded cameras
After two years of maintaining the same aesthetic design, Apple has given the iPod touch a much deserved overhaul. As rumored last week, Apple has redesigned the iPod touch to feature a larger 4-inch...
Apple is shuttering failed social music network Ping on September 30th
After making hints about its future back in May, Apple has announced plans to shut down Ping as of September 30th via a notice in its iTunes 10.7 update, reports Mark Gurman at 9to5Mac.
With New iOS 6 App Store, The Most Important Changes Are Under The Hood
One of the most noticeable consumer-facing changes in the new version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 6, is the updated App Store application for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
Google: 500 million Android devices activated
Just before Apple debuts its next-gen iPhone, Google announces that people have activateda half billion Android devices. Also, 1.3 million new ones arrive each day. — Google won't be able to compet...
Microsoft patent shows Holodeck-style, full-room “immersive display”
The patent describes this figure as showing how the device could “project a peripheral image in a 360-degree field around [the] environmental display.” — Microsft / USPTO — A newly published paten...
Amazon, Forced to Collect a Tax, Is Adding Roots
PATTERSON, Calif. — At the moment, it is little more than dirt and gravel. But a sunbaked field at the edge of this farming town will play a significant role in one of the most ambitious retailing ve...
Preparing For An IPO, Online Customer Service Platform Zendesk Raises $60M From Redpoint, Goldman Sachs And Others
Online customer service company Zendesk has raised $60 million in new financing led by Redpoint Ventures with participation by Index Ventures, GGV Capital, Goldman Sachs …
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff drops bomb on Box and Okta
SAN FRANCISCO — Chairman and CEO of Salesforce Marc Benioff was the epitome of mellow on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt today, leaning back with a foot over one leg, casually chatting with Michael Arring...
Exclusive: Mayer Set to Get Yahoo's Alibaba Billions in One Week (But Will Investors Get Some Back Too?)
According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo will officially close the multi-billion sale of half its assets in China's Alibaba Group in one week.
And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 Is... YourMechanic!
After nearly three days and plenty of pitches, our list of 30 hungry startups was trimmed down until there were only seven startups left standing: Expect Labs, Gyft, Lit Motors, Prior Knowledge, Saya,...
Amazon Web Services lets users sell reserved instances
The company hopes to make reserved instances more attractive by increasing flexibility — Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced an online marketplace where users of its cloud computing services can...
Apple's era of secrecy is over
Summary: Apple introduced the new iPhone 5 today. It was entirely underwhelming. Why? Because we knew about it well ahead of time. — Andrew Nusca — Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave. — ...
Google Fiber announces qualified areas tomorrow, snags ABC channels including ESPN, Disney
The official list of the first “fiberhoods” Google's Gigabit internet + TV service will be available in doesn't come out until tomorrow, but it's already looking like a more attractive option …
Apple enhances iOS 6 multitasking with new background navigation updates
As new iOS devices become more powerful and sophisticated, Apple is likely to continue to evolve the platform's multitasking features, as exemplified by Maps' new background direction updates.
A Creator of Turntable.fm Plans Online Hub DJZ
The music industry's latest gold rush is over dance music, which lures tens of thousands of fans to festivals and dominates pop radio. — But to Seth Goldstein, a technology entrepreneur who was one ...
New app MindMeld heralds the era of anticipatory computing
Tim Tuttle, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded web acceleration technology company Bang Networks and video search engine Truveo (acquired by AOL), has returned with his third startup, Expect Labs, w...
Evan Williams About Twitter's APIs: “We Didn't Have That All Figured Out”
Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt today to discuss Medium, their new online publishing platform coming out of Obvious Corp with YouTube's Hunter Walk...
Microsoft readies Office 2010 to Office 2013 upgrade program
Summary: Microsoft is said to be prepping to launch its latest Office upgrade offer this fall, and give qualifying users a choice of different Office versions to which they can move. — Just like it ...
VEVO: 40B Videos Watched Globally In The Last Year, Mobile Traffic Doubled In Q2 To 1.3B Streams
Back in March, VEVO rolled out a huge new redesign, which saw the major-label-owned music video giant add continuous playback and beef up its personalization and social features.
Stock Market Prediction Startup Estimize Raises $1.2M Series A
Estimize, a site where users try to beat Wall Street analysts by accurately predicting public company earnings, has raised $1.2 million in Series A funding. — The company was founded by Leigh Drogen...
IBM Boosts Social Network With Feed for Facebook, Twitter
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), the largest computer services provider, has bolstered its social networking tool for companies by integrating e-mail and adding a news feed with Twitter In...
iPhone 5, new iPod touch, and iPod nano leaked through Apple search results
We're just a few hours away from Apple's event, but it looks like iPhone 5 will be the name of the company's new flagship phone. A search on Apple.com clearly reveals PR and product pages for the iPh...