After nearly three days and plenty of pitches, our list of 30 hungry startups was trimmed down until there were only seven startups left standing: Expect Labs, Gyft, Lit Motors, Prior Knowledge, Saya, YourMechanic, and Zumper. Their task? To take the stage one last time in front of our amazing panel of expert judges...
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Brazil is rapidly taking its place in the tech world as a fertile place for startups. Evidence of that was clear at TechCrunch Disrupt this week in San Francisco. In order to give you a sense of the sheer scale of the Brazilian presence, we came up with a new format — rapid-fire one...
Blurity, an app that deblurs your images, is no longer just for Windows users — the developers announced today that a Mac OS X version is now available for download. Blurity has you provide a good example of blurring in the image — run through the tutorial for more information on how to select...
Apple tried, but it turns out its customers weren’t interested in forming new social connections specifically around iTunes music. So, just two years after it was introduced, Apple is officially retiring its Ping social network. The service is shutting down on Sept. 30, according to a message posted Wednesday in the Ping section of...
One of the major questions about the effects of Apple increasing the iPhone’s screen size to 4″ was how that would affect the 700K apps on the App Store. Developers had been at turns skittish and confident about how their apps would translate in the weeks leading up to the event. We reached out...
Out today is a proposed piece of legislation from Representative Ed Markey designed to protect consumers from being unfairly tracked in a mobile environment, to inform as to who is tracking them, where that information is going, and how it is being used. The bill also outlines standards for companies or other entities that do collect...
It’s gotta suck to be an Apple fan living in Sweden right now. The world’s first LTE network went live in Sweden in December of 2009 – TeliaSonera beat global heavyweights Verizon and NTT DoCoMo by nearly a year – but Europe’s frosty north was left in the cold Wednesday at Apple’s big 4G...
Marissa Mayer is making her first public appearance since becoming CEO of Yahoo! She’s at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, where she’s judging the finals in the event’s startup competition. TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, who’s also a judge, asked her if she wanted to do an impromptu interview. She shook her head “no.” But she’s...
Want to buy one of the shiny new iPhones or iPods introduced by Apple on Wednesday? There’s a pretty big but subtle change that will directly impact anyone who already owns any Apple mobile device: the new dock connector. If you have any Apple mobile accessories and want the iPhone 5, you’re going to...