Category: Tech news

You know what goes great with your TGIF beverage of choice? A brand new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings three TechCrunch writers together to chat about the most interesting stories from the past seven days in tech. Read More

Security researchers at Securelist have found that the data “stolen” from Mark Karpeles’ computer actually contained a BTC-stealing Trojan that masqueraded as a back-end app for managing Mt.Gox trades. The app searched user directories for Bitcoin-related files – wallet.dat and bitcoin.conf – and uploaded them to a server that is now defunct. Read More

Hollywood won. The open source project called Popcorn Time is dead after just four days. It’s not really surprising. “Popcorn Time is shutting down today. Not because we ran out of energy, commitment, focus or allies. But because we need to move on with our lives,” reads the website and a post on Medium. Days after its quiet launch, word about the magical Popcorn Time program was… Read More

Sure, Babar was a pretty cool elephant, but what happens when he becomes a cyborg bent on the destruction of the mustache man who stole his crown in Babar Loses His Crown? He goes out and gets one of these robotic trunks and starts tearing stuff up around Paris. Pure insanity. Festo, a German robotics company, is making sure that Babar will be able to bring the hurt down on all of us with this… Read More

It seems that school children are not the only ones who aren’t able to handle the power of anonymous social applications appropriately. Secret, the San Francisco-based (and now, newly funded) confessional app, has begun warning users to not “defame” others when posting on its service. The message appears in some cases after Secret detects a name in a post. Several members of… Read More

Mozilla today announced that it will halt development of its Firefox for Windows 8 Metro browser after about a year-and-a-half of development. According to Mozilla’s Firefox VP Jonathan Nightingale, the organization has never seen more than 1,000 active daily users for the Metro app, so in order to free up resources for products that have traction, Mozilla has decided to pull the plug on… Read More

GoDaddy, the well-known domain and hosting company, is preparing to go public. The company was sold for $2.25 billion in the summer of 2011 to a mixture of private money, including Silver Lake, a group now famous for its work to help Dell go private. Read More

The Leef Bridge 3.0 is a dual-USB flash drive that lets you quickly transfer files from your Android phone or tablet to you PC.

As part of iOS 7.1, the recent update to its mobile operating system, Apple appears to have added a new feature to its iAd program, allowing the company to take credit for the app downloads driven by its ads. In a company blog post, mobile ad attribution startup HasOffers says there’s no mention of these changes in Apple’s documentation, but there is API code that seems to indicate a change.… Read More

Connecting your guitar to your iPhone should be fairly simple. With the right adapter you can blow a line in through a standard headphone jack and get some tinny audio. But what if you really want to kick out the jams, as it were? For that you need something that will manage and amplify the signal as it comes out of your guitar and mic. Read More

Trulioo recently announced that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding.

The round was led by Tenfore Holdings, with participation from BDC Venture Capital and previous investor Blumberg Capital. Trulioo has now raised a total of $8.3 million. Read More

Apple has apparently learned a lesson. After several high profile stories of children spending literal fortunes on virtual nonsense, the latest version of iOS now reminds users of Apple’s policies towards in-app purchases. Read More

French American entrepreneur Renaud Laplanche founded Lending Club in 2007 to connect investors with borrowers and bypass banks altogether. Since then, the company has facilitated more than $3 billion in loans. Laplanche is uniquely positioned to speak to the current status of lending to individuals and startups. We’re thrilled to announce that he will be joining us for an onstage interview at… Read More

If you’ve ever wanted to see Arnold Schwarzenegger crush a 5 ft. roll of bubble wrap with his own personal tank (and really, who hasn’t?): congratulations! Today is your lucky day. Read More

A number of startups over the years have tried to reinvent PowerPoint with services that made it easier or quicker to create a slideshow presentation. Newly launched SketchDeck is taking a different approach: Instead of providing an alternative to PowerPoint or similar software applications, it’s offering a service that enables individuals or businesses to have their slides made beautiful by a… Read More