YouTube is experimenting with a built-in GIF maker tool for videos
YouTube Now Lets You Make GIFs From Videos — Making short GIFs of YouTube videos is a pretty well-established practice now — so much so that there's dozens of websites dedicated to this finest of ar...
Hadoop services vendor Hortonworks raises $100M in IPO, opens at $24, 50% above IPO price
Hortonworks Raises $100 Million, Pricing IPO Above Range — Hortonworks Inc., a startup that sells services and support for the Hadoop free data-analysis technology, raised $100 million …
Microsoft acquires cross-platform crash analytics and distribution service HockeyApp
Microsoft acquires HockeyApp, leading mobile crash analytics and beta distribution service for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone — Today I'm pleased to announce that we have acquired HockeyApp …
Xbox, Windows Store now accepting Bitcoin payments
You can now use Bitcoin to add funds to your Microsoft account. — Microsoft has added Bitcoin support to Microsoft accounts. Bitcoin funds can be added to accounts to enable digital purchases from ...
Cloud collaboration startup Huddle raises another $51 million
Summary:Huddle plans to keep growing its geographical footprint in the United States and Europe while doubling the size of its product team. — The enterprise cloud storage market continues to be a s...
Q&A with Jack Dorsey on Square's past year and its future after the company hits record $100M in sales in a single day
Are All Payments Becoming Invisible? A Conversation With Square's Jack Dorsey — Square, the company famous for its tiny mobile credit-card reader …
Xiaomi banned from selling, importing phones in India: Report
NEW DELHI: Delhi high court has put paid to Xiaomi's surging sales juggernaut in India. At least for now. Hearing a case filed by Ericsson India against Xiaomi, the court on Monday passed an ex part...
Social Address Book Connect Raises $10.3M As It Expands Into Messaging, International Markets
Connect, a social address book and friend finder application that launched earlier this year, has raised $10.3 million in new funding as the company prepares to expand into messaging …
Nation-backed malware targets diplomats' iPhones, Androids, and PCs
Researchers have uncovered yet another international espionage campaign that's so sophisticated and comprehensive that it could only have been developed with the backing of a well resourced country.
Microsoft's Minecraft finally arrives on Windows Phone
Microsoft has finally added Mojang's Minecraft to its repertoire of Windows Phone games, two months after buying the company. — Minecraft Pocket Edition appears to be the same version that's availab...
Make your own Product Hunt collections and bookmarks
What a user profile's collections look like on Product Hunt — What a user profile's collections look like on Product Hunt — Happy holidays, early, from Product Hunt. The self-described “Reddit fo...
Cybersecurity firm Area 1 Security, founded by ex-NSA employees, raises $8M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins
Can three ex-NSA snoops stop the worst hacks before they start? — An e-mail arrives in your inbox: relevant, knowingly addressed to you, hardly suspicious.
Jawbone discounts its fitness trackers for corporate customers with UP for Groups
Your Boss Would Like You to Wear a Jawbone Fitness Tracker — Jawbone wants to become a part of the workday. The company's new service, UP for Groups, will sell discounted fitness trackers …
LendingClub opens at $24.75 on first day of trading, rising as much as 67% above IPO price
Loan platform operator LendingClub's shares soar in debut — (Reuters) - Shares of LendingClub Corp, the world's largest online marketplace that connects borrowers and investors …
PS4 will go on sale in China in January after 14-year ban on foreign consoles
A new front has opened up in the console wars. Sony announced that its PlayStation 4 console will launch in China on January 11th — four months after Microsoft's Xbox One arrived in the country.
Spotify Now Converts What Friends Listen To Into A “Top Tracks In Your Network” Playlist
Now you can listen to Spotify like you read the Facebook News Feed. Spotify's new “Top Tracks In Your Network” is a personalized, constantly updated playlist based on what the people you follow are l...
YouTube For Android Gets Offline Playback... But In India, Indonesia And Philippines Only
Here's something neat. Google has introduced offline video playback for YouTube mobile users. That's an exciting feature but there's bad news for most TechCrunch readers: it's only available …
Confirmed: Backupify Has Been Acquired by Datto in Cloud Backup Consolidation
New England may have a new tech heavyweight in-the-making with the acquisition of Cambridge's Backupify by Norwalk, Conn.-based Datto, which will form a company with more than 400 employees and revenu...
United Airlines to deploy 23,000 iPhone 6 Plus units to flight attendants for payments, manuals, and more
United Airlines buys iPhone 6 Plus for all its flight attendants to handle payments, manuals & more — United Airlines announced today that its more than 23,000 flight attendants …