This Week in Apps: Newsrooms leave Twitter, Reels expands, Android 14 arrives

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as c

This Week in Apps: Clubhouse opens up, Twitter talks bitcoin, Snap sees record quarter

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a

Messaging 2.0 Is Now Over

The second messaging revolution is now quickly coming to a close. With the news today that Korea’s leading messenger KakaoTalk is merging with one of that country’s largest internet portals, Daum

For Your Diary — The Best European Events For Startups In 2014

Back in 2012 I'd been to enough tech startup conferences in Europe over the previous few years to work out which ones appeared to be most significant. Europe being the disjointed bunch of countries th

Goodbye Mr Silva — A Brief History Of East London’s ‘Tech City’

It was December 2009 and I was headed to a Christmas party at Number 10 Downing Street. This wasn't exactly a regular diary date for me. Two years in to working for TechCrunch out of London and it had

A List Of The Best Annual Tech Startup Events In Europe In 2013

Back in July, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/24/the-best-annual-tech-startup-events-in-europe/">we made an attempt</a> at listing the best annual tech startup events in Europe, with some incl

A Billion Dollars Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Basic Human Decency

<p style="text-align:right;"><em>'"Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing his hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were

Techonomy3 is go! See you in Tel Aviv

<img src="http://evbdn.eventbrite.com/s3-s3/eventlogos/820706/1374137081-1.png" class="shot2" />A few weeks ago I had the privilege of visiting Tel Aviv for the first time and meeting some local mobil

Memo to Aaron Sorkin: You Invented this Angry Nerd Misogyny Too

<img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-230568" title="the-social-network" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/the-social-network.jpeg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="169" /></a>

Israeli Entrepreneurs: Know What Game You Are Playing

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/yossi-vardi-160x200.jpg" width="160" height="200" /> TEL AVIV-- The other day I spoke at an Israeli event called <a href="http://blog.go2web2

eSnips: A Story of Hearthache (For Its Founders, Investors & Employees)

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/esnips_logo.png" /> Three years ago when Web 2.0 began proliferating, Israeli startups used <a href="http://www.esnips.com">eSnips</a> as the poster child

WorkLight: Bringing Enterprise 2.0 to a Widget Near You

<a href='https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/worklight_logo.jpg'><img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/worklight_logo.jpg" alt="" title="WorkLight" class="alignleft

Seedcamp Paris – notes from our Gallic cousins

I popped over to Paris today to get a taster of the startup scene in France, and to draw some comparisons with the UK startup scene. No doubt there are lessons to be learned (on both sides) in terms o

UK, Ireland grow as Web 2.0 goes global

The growth in venture capital investment into Web 2.0 companies is rising in the UK, Ireland and the rest of Europe, even as it slows among early investors in Silicon Valley. The UK is at the hub of t

IBM Acquires Storage Company XIV For $350 Million

IBM has acquired Israeli based data storage technology company XIV for what is believed to be $350 million. XIV’s main product Nextra is a storage system based on a grid of standard hardware com

AniBoom's Animation-Studio Ambitions

Uri Shinar is looking for a hit. But the CEO of animation website aniBoom (see earlier TechCrunch coverage here) thinks he can find one by creating a platform for talented, aspiring animators worldwid

Lingoz: Wiktionary Done Right?

Can a user-defined dictionary be done better than Wikipedia’s Wiktionary? Babylon, a maker of popular for-pay translation/dictionary desktop software, certainly thinks so, and they are launching

Think you know Web2.0? Ok. But can you predict Web2.0?

How good are you at making predictions? Meet PlaytheDay a quiz game that will entertain those who can predict the future. The game is very simple: you need to answer 8 questions related to a future ev

BubblePly Upgrades Fun Video Annotation

Israeli company BubblePly has significantly upgraded its service for overlaying images and text on video.  Launched in December, the service now allows live links, full control over fonts and extens

Crazy 3D Avatars From Gizmoz

I first met Eyal Gever, the founder of Gizmoz, at the Israeli Web Tour conference in Palo Alto a couple of months ago. Later that day I saw Eyal again, at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. This tim
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