Shapeways CEO Peter Weijmarshausen To Talk About The Future Of 3D Printing At Disrupt NY 2014

3D printing is the best kind of printing and Peter Weijmarshausen is one of the biggest names in this emerging market. His company, Shapeways, is the largest 3D-printing marketplace in the world and has brought millions of 3D-printed products to market since its inception in 2007. We’re thrilled to announced that Weijmarshausen will be joining us for an onstage interview at Disrupt NY 2014 to… Read More

Startups, Assemble! Pitch-Off Applications Are Officially Open For The TC Boston And L.A. Meetups

Hot on the heels of our thoroughly entertaining DC and NYC meetups, we’re opening up pitch-off applications for the Boston and Los Angeles meetups, going down on April 8 and April 10 respectively.

Get ’em while they’re hot, people. Read More

Google Now Comes To Chrome On The Desktop For Windows And Mac

Google has released its Google Now notification integration for its desktop Chrome browser, and the update will begin rolling out today and continue to percolate over the coming weeks. The new feature allows users to receive Google Now notifications on their desktop, synced the Now notifications on their phone. To enable them, users need only to be logged into Chrome on the desktop with the same… Read More

Mozilla Appoints JavaScript Creator Brendan Eich As Its New CEO

Last April, Mozilla announced that Gary Kovacs was stepping down as the organization’s CEO and that it would start looking for a replacement. At the time, Jay Sullivan took over as acting CEO in the midst of a number of leadership changes at Mozilla. Today, after almost a year of looking for a new CEO, Mozilla announced that JavaScript Creator and current Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich would become its… Read More

Report: Apple Considers Building An On-Demand Music Service To Take On Spotify

Apple already has iTunes Radio, but it’s hoping to go further in the direction of on-demand music, according to a report in Billboard that cites “three people familiar with the talks” between Apple and music labels. To be clear, Billboard describes these as “exploratory talks,” so it doesn’t sound like anything is definite. Citing Nielsen SoundScan, the article also points to double-digit… Read More

TechCrunch Giveaway: Xbox One And A Free Ticket To Disrupt NY

It is officially spring and Disrupt NY is fast approaching. We have already announced some amazing speakers, which so far include Vine co-founder and GM Colin Kroll, Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler, Birchbox founders Hayley Barna and Katia Beauchamp, Lending Club’s Renaud Laplanche, Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstro?m, Secret co-founders David Byttow and Chrys Bader-Wechseler, New York’s own Fred… Read More

Twitter #Music To Be Pulled From App Store Today, Will Shut Down Completely On April 18

Twitter just announced that it will be removing its #Music app from the App Store “later this afternoon.” For those who have already downloaded it, the app will stop working on April 18. #Music’s disappearance is no surprise. After a high-profile launch early last year, the app’s popularity waned and by the fall it was regarded as a failure, with both AllThingsD and The New York Times reporting… Read More

AT&T Exec Calls Netflix’s Reed Hastings “Arrogant” For Net Neutrality Post

AT&T just turned the high-stakes debate between Netflix and telecommunications companies into a name-calling food fight. AT&T Senior Executive Vice President of Legislative Affairs, James Cicconi, slammed Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, as “arrogant” for his support of stronger net neutrality laws. Earlier this week, Hastings penned a strongly worded post calling for stronger… Read More

Ask A VC: Javelin Venture Partners’ Alex Gurevich On The Enterprise Messaging Opportunity In Emerging Markets

In this week’s episode of Ask A VC Javelin Venture Partners’ Alex Gurevich stopped by the studio to talk about messaging, marketplaces and more. Gurevich, who helped establish one of the first venture capital funds focused on high tech investments in Russia with DFJ Aurora, is particularly fascinated by the opportunity messaging has in the enterprise world, particularly in developing… Read More

The White House Blasts Turkey For Blocking Twitter, Calls For Its Reinstatement

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney today responded to the Turkish government’s attempt to block Twitter in the country. The suppressive effort failed in the most basic sense, as Twitter users could still tweet via SMS, or change their DNS settings and get around the block. Read More

After Acquisition, OpenTable Plans To Shut Down Ness On April 21

Ness, the personalized restaurant recommendation app acquired by OpenTable last month, now has an expiration date. The company announced that the app would be discontinued on April 21, just a few months after the acquisition first was announced. OpenTable paid $17.3 million for Ness in early February, as part of a string of acquisitions that also included Quickcue, JustChalo, and Foodspotting. The… Read More

Y Combinator’s New President Sam Altman To Take The Stage At Disrupt NY

We’re very pleased to announce that Sam Altman, the newly appointed president of the renowned Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator, will be joining us onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY in May to talk about how he plans to lead YC into the next phase of its growth. Read More