YouTube's Founders Challenge Vine and Instagram with New Video App
After months of teasing, the wait is over: Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who brought us the video-sharing site YouTube, are taking the wraps off their newest project, a video creation app called MixBit.
Silent Circle Preemptively Shuts Down Encrypted Email Service To Prevent NSA Spying
“We knew USG would come after us”. That's why Silent Circle CEO Michael Janke tells TechCrunch his company shut down its Silent Mail encrypted email service. It hadn't been told to provide data to t...
N.S.A. Said to Search Content of Messages to and From U.S.
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency is searching the contents of vast amounts of Americans' e-mail and text communications into and out of the country, hunting for people who mention information...
Amazon's profits
The problem with Amazon is not that it doesn't make a profit, but that you don't actually know what the profits are. — On the face of it, this sounds like an absurd statement - it doesn't make any p...
Signs of US Android net user decline
ComScore's latest survey for US smartphone users showed that Android had 52% share of about 142 million users. That amounts to 73.84 million Android devices in use. — ComScore's previous such surv...
Tumblr Had $16.6 Million Left When Yahoo Bought It
In the wake of Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr, there was some chatter about how much runway David Karp would have had if he hadn't sold the company. — Now we know, sort of: Tumblr, which had raised $...
Microsoft unboxes Xbox One, reveals final design and a bundled headset
Microsoft's next Xbox console won't go on sale until November, but that isn't stopping the company from unboxing it a little early. In a new video featuring one of the first Xbox One production units...
Backed With $6M, Max Levchin's Glow App For Tracking Female Fertility Debuts On The App Store
Glow, the fertility tracking iOS app co-founded by Max Levchin, is making its debut in the app store today. The app was first introduced earlier this summer by Levchin to a surprised audience …
Aereo will go live in Miami, Houston, and Dallas this September
Aereo continues to push forward its aggressive 2013 expansion plan — the company has just announced that the streaming TV service will be live in Miami, Houston, and Dallas in September. Miami is up ...
With KeyMe, an iPhone Pic Now Means You Can Always Print More House Keys Later
A little bit of prepping in advance could save a lot of headache next time you lock yourself out, lose your keys, or need to let a friend into your place when you're not there.
iTunes in the Cloud for Movies Goes Live in Japan and 7 New European Countries
Apple today added movie support to its iTunes in the Cloud service in Japan and seven additional European countries, enabling customers in those countries to re-download content previously purchased f...
IBM researchers get closer to brain-like computing
IBM researchers say they have whipped up a programming language, algorithms and applications to deploy on top of a computing system inspired by the human brain. — This is the latest progress IBM and...
T-Mobile gains 1.1 million customers in Q2 2013, ups revenue 20 percent to $6.3 billion
It looks like T-Mobile was onto something with its UnCarrier remake, as the US wireless outfit picked up 1.1 million customers in Q2 2013 and saw a major boost in revenue.
eBay's John Donahoe on E-Commerce and Mobile Payments' Future
What's the next set of goals, beyond returning to growth? — In the eyes of the consumer, e-commerce and retail are now one. It's just shopping, right? And that's why you see us taking steps to get...
GetTaxi Raises Another $12 Million, Launches G-Car Service To Take On Uber In New York City
GetTaxi is one of a growing number of companies focused on getting passengers from point A to point B, having already launched service in the more than 20 cities around the world.
Moore's Law could stay on track with extreme UV progress
Long-awaited improvements in photolithography could pave the way for the continued shrinking and scaling of microprocessors into the second half of this decade and beyond. — Moore's Law—which says t...
Growing 35% Monthly, Instacart Introduces “Express,” Its Amazon Prime Equivalent For Grocery Delivery
Today Instacart, a popular Bay Area grocery delivery service, released its “Express” service option to the general public. Express, which is akin to Amazon's Prime, charges a flat yearly fee of $99 …