While there are great resources around the Internet for finding apps, you don’t always have the time to go reading through reviews and such. We’ve all dug through the App Store for what seems like hours on end only to come up with…not much. So what if there was a better way to find...
Often in tech reporting, you’ll hear a lot about launches, acquisitions and failures. What you don’t hear enough about are the makers who iterate in relative silence. For all of the hyped startups of this world (Color anyone?), there are a lot of startups that chug away without the fanfare. So to celebrate those...
As we announced last week, we’ve been busy securing some of the most exciting names in China for our Disrupt Beijing conference this October including Tencent Founder and CEO Pony Ma and Chinese entrepreneur and angel investor Lei Jun. But it wouldn’t be a TechCrunch event without bringing a little of that Silicon Valley...
The buzzword on everyone’s lips at the moment is social commerce. It’s the area within social media that shows the most promise as it represents a step towards change in the way people engage with social media. We’ve now progressed from using social media as a place to converse and share content, and as...
I know, I know, the Amazon tablet isn’t even a real product yet. And that’s exactly why the buzz surrounding this unreleased gadget should scare the crap out of the competition. In July, a Retrevo study showed that 55 percent of tablet shoppers would most likely buy a tablet from Amazon, 17 points higher...
If Apple launched one of its gadgets with embedded solar cells, it could revolutionize the market for solar. Apple has been exploring how to use solar power to charge gadgets for some time, including looking into ways to embed solar cells in devices. But if Apple made the leap to an actual commercial launch,...
Twelve South has a history of making very well thought out cases and stands for iPhone, iPad and Mac. The BookBook for iPhone is its attempt to shrink down the success of their book-inspired cases for the MacBook and iPad into something that you’ll want to carry around in your pocket. It is successful...
The startup t-shirt is badge of honor in Silicon Valley. A cool company logo, on a well-designed t-shirt signals that you and your team have arrived. When you see someone walking in shirt from Zynga, Yammer, Hipmunk, Evernote and the like, you know two things: 1. That’s a gnarly shirt 2. If you worked...
Cell phone data plan policies and pricing aren’t keeping with the times. In homes with multiple smartphones, tablets and people, providers need to create plans that are complimentary to their customers’ needs. Clearly the data plan needs to evolve. We asked you, what advice would you give to providers? You answered and we culled...
Call Jimmy Wales an idealist, if you’d like. The very thought that humanity would come together and write an accurate encyclopedia on just about any subject you could think of takes more than a bit of idealism. But it is that same idealism that is now placing Wales at odds against Julian Assange and...