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
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
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
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
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
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
<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
<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
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TEL AVIV-- The other day I spoke at an Israeli event called <a href="http://blog.go2web2
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Three years ago when Web 2.0 began proliferating, Israeli startups used <a href="http://www.esnips.com">eSnips</a> as the poster child
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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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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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