Editor’s Note: Brenden Mulligan is an entrepreneur who created Onesheet, Webbygram, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. You can find him on Twitter at @mulligan. There are plenty of people who can make great home cooked meals (ex: homemakers) and plenty of people who would probably pay a reasonable priced for someone to cook for them (ex: young...
An issue within Apple’s App Store is causing a number of newly updated iOS and Mac apps to experience serious issues, with users reportedly unable to run the freshly updated apps which crash upon being loaded. The issue was highlighted by Marco Arment, the creator of Instapaper, who saw a new version of popular bookmarking...
Editor’s Note: Semil Shah (@semil) is currently an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners and has been an official contributor to TechCrunch since January 2011. “In the Studio” barrels through the summer months by welcoming a hacker from the rustbelt, a former mobile lead at a company acquired by the world’s largest social network, and...
Japan-headquartered e-commerce giant Rakuten has taken its first step to collaborate with Pinterest, the social network that it recently invested $100 million in, after announcing that three of its Japanese services — virtual mall Rakuten Ichiba, Rakuten Travel and Rakuten Recipe service — now include ‘Pin It’ buttons to allow images and content to be shared...
The lineup of products announced at Google io last week was disorienting: JellyBean, Nexus 7, Nexus Q, Google Glass, an updated Google Maps, Google Now and so on. It was about as disorienting as reading and navigating through the entire Wikipedia entry for Google or getting stuck in that “YouTube” parody loop where you...
In a profile of Ksenia Sobchak, a model, digital personality, reality TV star, a journalist and very vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, The New York Times notes: An estimated 66 million Russians use the Web every day — the largest such national population on the European continent and one of the fastest-growing...
I don’t do a lot of reviews of hard drives, but when I do I like to try really hard to break them. That’s why I enjoyed running over the ioSafe rugged portable hard drive a couple of months ago. When that thing still worked after I abused it so well, I asked them...
According to an invitation, Nokia appears set to unveil and release its Lumia 610 and 900 handsets into the India market. The event, set for the 6th of July, will take place in New Delhi. Earlier, TNW noted the rise of the Lumia line of smartphones as a brand, separate from the larger Windows Phone line....
Refer.ly, a Y Combinator-backed startup that makes it easy for people to earn affiliate revenue every time they recommend a product or book, is now allowing its users to donate their earnings to charity. The company, which only just launched six weeks ago, is syncing up with about 100 charities or so including the...
Amid the recent brouhaha over Twitter’s future — which some say is aimed at restricting what developers can do with the real-time information network, in an attempt to monetize it more easily — a number of critics have proposed duplicating the network using open-source tools and principles. This idea, which has also been proposed...