If you said Kickstarter you would be correct. Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler has been on a bit of a conference and press run lately. Just a few weeks ago he was in Charleston South Carolina for the Dig South festival, sharing a stage with TechCrunch East Coast Editor, John Biggs. Monday, he was also with [...]
TechCrunch Disrupt New York kicked off Monday. There were a ton of great sessions and talks yesterday. That said, the talk from Hosain Rahman, the founder and CEO of Jawbone really stood out, for a few different reasons. Rahman went through many different aspects of Jawbone, being a CEO and more broadly being an entrepreneur, as [...]
Today is the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt New York. There are tons of things going on today, but one of the first things that we got to see was a demo of Coin. Coin, if you aren't aware, is a company that is taking a pretty unique approach to payments. According to their website: [...]
There are tons of crowdfunding platforms out there.The great majority of these platforms are just general, in terms of scope - think of the Kickstarters and Indiegogos. However, there are a few niche focused platforms that are incredibly interesting. One such platform is Pubslush. Pubslush is a crowdfunding platform for books. It allows authors to [...]
We're on the ground in New York City for TechCrunch Disrupt NY. Year after year TechCrunch Disrupt is one of the best events that we've covered. Disrupt connects apps, startups, and investors in three days (+2 for the hackathon) that are intense, and full of knowledge. The first part of Disrupt is the hackathon which [...]
Yesterday, MyCheck announced that they had begun a collaboration with PayPal. Through this collaboration, MyCheck's mobile payment technology will be incorporated into PayPal's mobile app. MyCheck has built a really unique mobile payment platform, aimed at restaurants and other businesses. The MyCheck platform provides users and businesses with a streamlined checkout process, allowing the users [...]
If you're a baseball fan and a customer of fourth largest national wireless carrier T-Mobile, then you're in luck T-Mobile, who is celebrating some great news this week, is often finding creative ways to reward their customers. Earlier this year, in order to get new customers from other carriers, T-Mobile went as far as to [...]
On Friday, BLU began selling its newest flagship, the Life Pure XL. If you have never heard of BLU, the Miami, FL company designs and manufactures affordable mid-range unlocked Android handsets. While the company has been known mostly for the low cost of their devices, that may soon be changing. The Life Pure XL has [...]
The latest Apple vs Samsung patent infringement case had the potential to be the biggest, however, when the Jury came back late Friday evening it was all but that. Many news sites are reporting a big win for Apple. With the jury awarding $119.6 million dollars to Apple for Samsung infringing some of it's patents, [...]
A video is beginning to go viral on the internet. This is nothing new. What is new is that the video features a group of new United States Marine recruits in a day room watching Frozen. They're even watching the "singalong" version and they're singing along. The concept of the video is remarkable, showing the [...]
