Dropbox appears to be having significant issues as users have experienced slow speeds and/or inability to access their files for at least 9 hours. Some users claim the site has been slow since Monday morning. This morning, Dropbox co-founder and CTO Arash Ferdowsi posted in the Dropbox forum, “hi all, we’re experiencing heavy load which...
On a panel of ad buyers and sellers at our Mobile Advertising Conference this summer, we asked some of the best in the field what factors are leading advertisers to spend their money on mobile. While there were a few reasons mentioned, one in particular seemed to stand out – location. Watch the video...
Sometimes we have to step back from ourselves. When you want to get a feeling of what “the other half” thinks, how they work and what their lives are like, there’s probably no better person to ask than Mike Rowe. As the host of the Discovery Channel’s television show Dirty Jobs, Rowe serves as...
75 startups pitched their hearts out today at Y Combinator’s 15th Demo Day. We saw surefire small businesses to risky big bets but after collecting opinions from their YCS12 classmates and top VCs, these are TechCrunch’s top 10 picks. [Chosen and compiled in random order by TechCrunch writers Josh Constine, Anthony Ha, Colleen Taylor,...
Warning: Clicking through to see the top 20 most watched TEDTalks is akin to finding a new show on Netflix. It will kill your day. If you must (and you really do) see the top 20 talks in TED six-year history, clear your calendar, shut off your email, go to the bathroom and open your mind....
Tuition.io, a company out of Launchpad.la accelerator, is now accounting for over $60 million in aggregate user debt on its platform. Essentially the Mint.com for students in debt, aTuition.io lets kids fresh out of college get a better handle on their finances. And according to the company, 37 million Americans have student loan debt,...
Y Combinator’s summer startup class pitched to investors and the media Tuesday at the famed incubator’s demo day in Mountain View, Calif., with everyone hoping to nab big investments and become the next Dropbox or AirBnB. I picked my five favorite startups from the morning pitches, which saw the majority of companies make their...
Google boss Larry Page See Also Here’s Why Enterprise Startups Have An Easier Time Raising Big Money Google Is Trying To Ban iPhones, iPads, And Macs From The U.S. Here’s Some Really Good News For Android Fans Google will soon be turning off its popular spam filtering and e-mail archiving product, Postini. It will...
I’ve always been a fan of Stickies, the note application that comes with OS X, but the Dashboard is too far out of mind and notes floating around on my desktop behind windows just isn’t practical. That’s why I love Sticky Notifications, an app from Matt Gemmel that repurposes either Mountain Lion’s Notification Center...
New Jersey-based iOS app developer Andrew Fernandez just published the V2.0 of his social TV app Renewed, which takes on other apps in this space with an interesting twist. Renewed says it knows which shows are going to get canceled, and which ones will get picked up for another season, simply based on the...