In the latest example of the opportunities created by the rollout of electric vehicles, smart grid networking player Silver Spring Networks announced ... read more »
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In early September, I noticed introductions popping up on Twitter always cca4‚¬a4„ing @Hashable. My first impression was that they were incredibly stu... read more »
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Tim Kendall, Facebook&'s Director of Monetization, has left the company. This is particularly noteworthy because Kendall first joined Facebook nearly ... read more »
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There&'s a lot of talk about how web apps and the cloud are heralding a new age of computing, but for the forseeable future many people are still goin... read more »
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Do we really need another way to share what wea4‚¬a4„re doing on the Web Meebo co-founder and chief executive Seth Sternberg says yes &8211'and his c... read more »
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It is 25 degrees here in NY and I feel like a wuss. We California people aren&'t cut out for the weather out here. I&'ve got thermal underwear (top &a... read more »
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This week saw some bad news for ethanol. The American petroleum industry&'s main lobbying arm filed a lawsuit to fight the EPA&'s new ruling that cars... read more »
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Here&'s a quick roundup of some of today&'s funding announcements:Local review site Qype gets $8.7M for mobile edition &8212' The European user-genera... read more »
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Asking attendees to choose who goes on-stage at conferences isna4‚¬a4„t a new idea &8212' the online panel picker for the South by Southwest Interacti... read more »
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Gamification, or making a non-game application more engaging by making it game-like, should not make tasks easy for the people undertaking them. It sh... read more »
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This series is brought to you by TurboTax Home &' Business Edition &8211' Guides You to Your Biggest Tax Refund. As always, VentureBeat is adamant... read more »
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Over the last few weeks, you may have noticed that the official TechCrunch Facebook Page is more happening than ever, with better updates and, soon, r... read more »
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Apple, the company responsible for the widespread popularity of heavily compressed music, is looking into offering high-fidelity music files that will... read more »
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Microsoft said earlier today that its future version of Windows will run on chips based on ARM&'s chip architecture. In front of a huge crowd at the C... read more »
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For a company which has only been in existence since June this year, Danish startup Abeo has been racking up the awards for rethinking an everyday con... read more »
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Black Friday, or the day after Thanksgiving, has always been known as one of the year&'s biggest holiday shopping days. But in the past five years,... read more »
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Apple is getting out of the server room, sort of. The company announced today that ita4‚¬a4„s dropping the Xserve rackmounted server, but at the sam... read more »
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Dell CEO Michael Dell probably doesna4‚¬a4„t mind the success of iPad. According to market analyst IHS iSuppli, strong iPad sales in the fourth quarte... read more »
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With all this talk of a cloud-based Chrome OS, it&'s time to take a cold hard look at what &''apps&'' in this brave new world will look like. I recall... read more »
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The Founder Institute, a very early stage startup accelerator and entrepreneur training program, was launched in 2009 by Adeo Ressi. The company now ... read more »
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