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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On Thursday, Snapchat announced two brand new feature to their app. The company announced, in a blog post fittingly entitled "Putting the Chat Into Snapchat," their new features: Chat. Chat is really two features in one. It allows users to send self deleting text messages, as well as have video calls with one another. This [...]
With all the advancements in the 'Internet of Things,' there has been a real lack of focus on things for the public good. Sure, you can shut your blinds, or turn on your oven from your phone but what good does that really do? For this reason, we are really excited to share the Flood [...]
76% of twitter users access the social network via mobile phone, according to the social network. That means that even in environments where there is no pc or laptop to connect to the internet Twitter is still available, and it's proven time and time again that Twitter encompasses a wide variety of demographics. That's why [...]
On Thursday, BGR published a leaked rendering of the upcoming 3D Amazon phone.Zach Epstein, BGR, "Unmasked: The world’s first clear look at Amazon’s smartphone," 1 May 2014 The image "is the first to reveal the design of Amazon’s debut smartphone. Multiple trusted sources have verified the authenticity of the image, which was created for internal [...]
After Donald Sterling's horribly racist remarks over the weekend, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver expelled Sterling from the league indefinitely and fined him $2.5 million dollars, the largest amount that he could fine Sterling according to the charter in the NBA's private constitution. Silver also said he's going to encourage the forcing of the sale to [...]
We just came across a pretty interesting developer tool, Keystok. Keystok is a service for developers that stores encrypted secrets in the cloud and gives you a central place to manage, share and revoke them. Christian Fruehwirth, a member of the Keystok team, told us a bit more about the service in an email: App configs contain a [...]
