Twitter rolls out photo tagging, ability to share up to four photos in a tweet
Photos just got more social — We're rolling out two new mobile features that make photos on Twitter more social. One is photo tagging, which lets you tag the people in your photo; the other is the ...
HTC One (M8) Teardown
Spring has sprung and HTC has hatched a new One. Join us as we take a closer look at this season's newest sprout, the HTC One (M8). After all, it's our job to weed out the irreparable, and the best ...
Candy Crush maker King Digital ends first day of trading more than 15% below IPO price
Candy Crush Maker King Falls in Trading Debut — King Digital Entertainment, the game maker behind the addictive Candy Crush Saga, had a muted debut on Wednesday as it began life as a public company.
With acquisitions like Oculus and Nest, big tech companies race to find the next platform after mobile
The Search For The Next Platform — I found this part of Mark Zuckerberg's post on the Oculus acquisition most revealing: … Facebook was a bit slow to get aboard the mobile train.
Klout acquired for $200 million by Lithium Technologies
It's official: the once-controversial social scoring startup has been scooped up. — FORTUNE — Social score startup Klout has been acquired by Lithium Technologies, a provider of social customer expe...
In Response to Google, Amazon Drops EC2 And RDS Prices by 40%, S3 Storage Costs By 36% To 65%
Amazon today announced a new round of price cuts for a number of services on its cloud platform, including its S3 storage service, EC2 cloud computing platform, ElastiCache …
Microsoft to unveil Enterprise Mobility Suite alongside Office for iPad
Summary: Microsoft is readying a new Enterprise Mobility Suite bundle to help enterprise users better manage Windows, Android and iOS devices, sources say. — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is expected ...
Airbnb partners with Portland on “Shared City” initiative to collect tax, support local causes, more
Airbnb cozies up to cities — The “sharing economy” pioneer launches an ambitious new partnership with Portland, Ore.—and a new model for enriching the cities in which it operates.
Ahead of Samsung patent case, Apple engineer recalls the marathon to create the iPhone
Jobs gave the engineer an ultimatum: Lay out a vision for the iPhone fast or lose the job — In February 2005, Apple Inc. 's then chief executive, Steve Jobs, gave senior software engineer Greg Chris...
TubeMogul Files For $75M IPO, With $57M In Revenue And A $7M Net Loss For 2013
Video ad platform TubeMogul has filed its S-1, declaring its plans to go public with an offering of up to $75 million. And it's doing so with what appears to be pretty healthy gross margins, though w...
Microsoft and Dell sign Android, Chrome OS patent agreement
Summary: Microsoft and Dell have renewed their patent cross-licensing agreement, with Dell agreeing to pay Microsoft royalties for Dell's products running Android and Chrome OS. — Microsoft has sign...
Google I/O site goes live, new random registration system open from April 8-10
Update: Registration is open April 8-10. Google's first draft of its blog post mistakenly said April 7-9. — After briefly announcing some details earlier this month, a website for the upcoming Goog...
TV Commercials Vault Games to Top Tier of App Store Rankings
Analytics firm App Annie has released its February data (via AppleInsider) on top-performing apps on iOS and Android for the month of February, highlighting how large developers have increasingly been...
Google General Counsel to Arrington Allegation: We Don't Snoop on Gmail to Find Leakers
In an unusual move, Google is responding directly to former TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington's allegation that it accessed his Gmail account to root out his source for a major story.
Maker Studios was losing $2-3M per month leading up to Disney sale
With Maker Acquisition, Disney Takes on a Tough Challenge — Walt Disney Co.'s $500 million buyout of Maker Studios has been described as many things: An endorsement of the YouTube economy, an admiss...
Redfin co-founder and ex-CTO sue company, allege scheme to cancel shares as IPO nears
Redfin is facing a lawsuit in King County Superior Court from two of its earliest employees who allege that the Seattle online real estate company is attempting to wipe out their shares as it preps fo...
Turkish court orders stay of execution on government's Twitter ban
Ankara court grants stay of execution for government's Twitter ban — An Ankara administrative court has issued a stay of execution on an executive decision adopted by Turkey's telecommunication's au...
Google Launches Managed Virtual Machines, Gives Developers A Middle Ground Between Compute And App Engine
Google is launching Managed Virtual Machines today, a new service on its Cloud Platform that gives developers the best new option for hosting their applications in the cloud.
Zuckerberg: Microsoft and Sony are no match for Facebook and Oculus
Mark Zuckerberg. (Photo by Robert Scoble via Flickr.) — The jaw-dropper of the day in the tech industry, you've probably heard, was Facebook's announcement that it will spend $2 billion to acquire ...
TechCrunch's Picks: The Top 8 Startups From Y Combinator W14 Demo Day
While today saw Paul Graham physically pass the reins to new Y Combinator president Sam Altman, the bigger buzz at Demo Day was about how most investors thought this was the best YC class yet.
Sprint's Hesse: HD Voice Goes Nationwide in July
BOSTON — Oracle Industry Connect — Sprint CEO Dan Hesse revealed in his keynote here Tuesday that the operator is ready to launch its HD Voice service across the US in July. — HD Voice increases the...
Google Takedown Notices Surge 711,887 Percent in Four Years
Signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1998, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) aimed to ready copyright law for the digital age. — The law heightened punishment for copyright infringe...
Fleksy keyboard for Android now has achievement badges and cloud syncing
Even though Fleksy's predictive touch typing is fairly easy to learn, not everyone is familiar with all that this alternative keyboard has to offer. That's one of the reasons the company has incorpor...
U.S. Withdraws from ICANN: Why It's No Big Deal
The misguided freakout over ICANN — On March 14, the U.S. government announced that it would seek to relinquish a privileged role in the management of Internet names and numbers. An organization ca...
Hackonomics: Stolen Twitter accounts ‘more valuable’ than credit cards
Summary: According to a new report, the value of Twitter accounts on the black market for hacked wares has eclipsed the value of stolen credit card data. — Violet Blue — Stolen Twitter accounts no...