Ballmer’s Exit Adds $18 Billion To Microsoft’s Value As Investors Cheer Its...
Today Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that within 12 months, he will exit as the company’s leader. A special consortium at the company will work to find his replacement. And that person won’t be...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Will Speak At Disrupt SF
With its mobile business humming, what is Facebook focused on now? Well, Mark Zuckerberg’s got some big ideas, like helping the whole world get on the Internet. And he’s going to share them with our...
View ArticleThis Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: Ubuntu, Omate, Digitizer And A...
The Ubuntu Edge may have been the most successful crowdfunding campaign in history, but that doesn’t mean it made its goal. Meanwhile, yet another smartwatch joined the fray this week, coaxing John’s...
View ArticleFly Or Die: The Nvidia Shield
In this decidedly dorky edition of Fly Or Die, yours truly and TC’s resident Canadian Darrell Etherington duke it out over Nvidia’s curious Shield game console and what it means for the future of...
View ArticleDell Reportedly Has The Votes To Close The $24.9B Michael Dell-Silver Lake...
The Dell deal is now all but done, according to Bloomberg who today reported that there are enough yes votes to ice the Michael Dell-Silver Lake proposal that will see the firm taken private for $24.9...
View ArticleMicrosoft Received 37,196 Gov Requests For Data Impacting 66,539 Accounts In...
Today Microsoft reported the number of data requests it received from various law enforcement agencies around the world in the first half of (calendar) 2013: 37,196. Those requests dealt with, at...
View ArticleThis Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Steam News Breaks While We Record,...
A rare treat this week as you can hear the TechCrunch team react to breaking gadget news (the Steam Controller, to be specific) live as it unfolds. It’s like being inside our brains without the echoes...
View ArticleMicrosoft Increases Windows 8 And 8.1 App Roaming Limit To 81 Devices
At its Build developer conference earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it planned to increase the roaming limits for apps purchased in its Windows Store. As the company announced today, that...
View ArticleThis Week On The TC Europe Podcast: Google Is The Bad Guy, TechStars Invades...
Welcome back to another episode of the most European tech podcast around. This week, we talk about Google’s tendency to be the bad guy in Europe. It has some issues with France’s CNIL around privacy —...
View ArticleChrome 31 Beta Adds Developer Features For Easier Web Payments, Full-Screen...
Google today launched the latest beta version of Chrome for desktop and mobile. While there aren’t all that many features in this release that users will immediately notice, there are quite a few new...
View ArticleInstagram To Start Showing In-Feed Video And Image Ads To US Users
Well here it is, Instagram is getting ads and it’s starting with users in the US. In a blog post today, Instagram says that users in the country are going to start seeing video and image ads....
View ArticleAmazon Becomes The Remora Of The Retail World, Operates Within Supplier...
Amazon has a strong advantage over other retailers when it comes to prices, and a new report from The Wall Street Journal shows one reason why. In addition to not having to maintain expensive, huge...
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