• Amazon: Video Game Revenue Down, Physical Book Sales Up

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:55:43
    : , Home Startups Mobile Gadgets Social Video More Enterprise Fundings Exits GreenTech Gaming Opinion Crunchies Awards CrunchBase Hot topics Editor’s Picks Apple Facebook Megaupload Android Crunchies Awards Gadgets Comment Amazon : Video Game Revenue Down , Physical Book Sales Up Anthony Ha posted 15 mins ago Comments View Staff Page Follow me on twitter Anthony Ha is a writer at TechCrunch , where he covers media , advertising , and startups . Previously , he was a staff technology writer at Adweek , worked as a senior editor at the tech blog VentureBeat , and was also a reporter at the Hollister Free Lance , where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing . Learn More Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak offered more details this

  • Self-Guided Bullet Could Strike Laser-Designated Targets From A Mile Away

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:26:40
    Home Startups Mobile Gadgets Social Video More Enterprise Fundings Exits GreenTech Gaming Opinion Crunchies Awards CrunchBase Hot topics Editor’s Picks Apple Facebook Megaupload Android Crunchies Awards Gadgets Comment Self-Guided Bullet Could Strike Laser-Designated Targets From A Mile Away Devin Coldewey posted 41 mins ago Comments View Staff Page Devin Coldewey is a Seattle-based writer and photographer . He has written for the TechCrunch network since 2007. Some posts he’d like you to read : The Dangers of Externalizing Knowledge Generation i Surveillant Society Choose Two Frame Wars The User’s Manifesto Our Great Sin His personal website is coldewey.cc . Learn More You might remember the scene in The Hurt Locker where some soldiers are ambushed by a sniper and must do a little return

  • Apple Is Totally Serious About That Stuff They Put At The End Of Their Emails

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:03:32
    Home Startups Mobile Gadgets Social Video More Enterprise Fundings Exits GreenTech Gaming Opinion Crunchies Awards CrunchBase Hot topics Editor’s Picks Apple Facebook Megaupload Android Crunchies Awards Gadgets Comment Apple Is Totally Serious About That Stuff They Put At The End Of Their Emails John Biggs posted 1 hour ago Comments View Staff Page Biggs is the editor of TechCrunch Gadgets . Biggs has written for the New York Times , InSync , USA Weekend , Popular Mechanics , Popular Science , Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches . He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge , Brooklyn . You can Tweet him here and G+ him here . Email him directly at john techcrunch.com . Learn More Welcome , kids , to TIL Today I Learned . Today’s

  • Reuters: Facebook IPO To Raise $5B, Filing Wednesday, Morgan Stanley In Lead

    Updated: 2012-01-31 21:55:44
    : , , Home Startups Mobile Gadgets Social Video More Enterprise Fundings Exits GreenTech Gaming Opinion Crunchies Awards CrunchBase Hot topics Editor’s Picks Apple Facebook Megaupload Android Crunchies Awards Fundings Exits Comment Reuters : Facebook IPO To Raise 5B , Filing Wednesday , Morgan Stanley In Lead Eric Eldon posted 1 hour ago Comments View Staff Page Follow me on twitter Eric Eldon is a writer at TechCrunch . He was previously the cofounder and editor of Inside Network , where he managed publications including Inside Facebook , Inside Social Games and Inside Mobile Apps . Before that , he spent a couple years covering technology and finance at VentureBeat , a leading Silicon Valley publication where he was the first employee . While Inside Network sold . Learn More The

  • Steam Mobile Apps Graduate From Beta, Now Open To All Gamers

    Updated: 2012-01-31 21:41:02
    I know I say this a lot, but man that was fast. Valve's new pair of Steam mobile apps have been in their respective marketplaces for less than a week, and already they have graduated from beta status. That means that you, Mr. or Mrs. Game Enthusiast, will be able to sign into your Steam account on your iOS or Android device right now and begin chatting your far-flung friends or ogling new deals.

  • Peavey Builds An Auto-Tuning Guitar

    Updated: 2012-01-31 21:18:09
    Guitar-maker Peavey has teamed up with audio electronics experts Anteres to create an auto-tuning guitar. While these things aren't new - Gibson has had robotic tuners for a while - this system is unique in that it senses and corrects the pitch of the strings regardless of tuning, which means you can do all sorts of interesting tricks with vibrato even in what would amount to be an untuned guitar.

  • Amazon Misses; Q4 Net Income Down 58 Percent To $177M; Sales Up 35 Percent

    Updated: 2012-01-31 21:10:13
    Home Startups Mobile Gadgets Social Video More Enterprise Fundings Exits GreenTech Gaming Opinion Crunchies Awards CrunchBase Hot topics Editor’s Picks Apple Facebook Megaupload Android Crunchies Awards Comment Amazon Misses Q4 Net Income Down 58 Percent To 177M Sales Up 35 Percent Leena Rao posted 2 hours ago Comments View Staff Page Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch . She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University , where she studied business journalism and videography . From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City . She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was . Learn More Amazon has just released fourth quarter 2011

  • FlatFrog Offers Up A New Multitouch Table

    Updated: 2012-01-31 21:01:13
    Home Startups Mobile Gadgets Social Video More Enterprise Fundings Exits GreenTech Gaming Opinion Crunchies Awards CrunchBase Hot topics Editor’s Picks Apple Facebook Megaupload Android Crunchies Awards Gadgets Comment FlatFrog Offers Up A New Multitouch Table Devin Coldewey posted 2 hours ago Comments View Staff Page Devin Coldewey is a Seattle-based writer and photographer . He has written for the TechCrunch network since 2007. Some posts he’d like you to read : The Dangers of Externalizing Knowledge Generation i Surveillant Society Choose Two Frame Wars The User’s Manifesto Our Great Sin His personal website is coldewey.cc . Learn More We saw a few touch-tables at CES , and while the Surface remains the gold standard , not everyone loves the price , form factor , or size . There’s room

  • Facebook News Feed Bug Announces “This Group Is Scheduled To Be Archived”

    Updated: 2012-01-31 20:59:33
    Wait, what group? A bug has caused a significant percentage of Facebook users to see a message atop their news feed announcing "This group is scheduled to be archived". But don't worry, your news feed is safe. The alert shouldn't have appeared there, and only belongs on old groups set up prior to October 2010 which Facebook is migrating to the new format used today.

  • London Implements “Smart Bins” Before 2012 Olympics

    Updated: 2012-01-31 20:52:01
    I'm not sure how I feel about this. The object you're looking at right now is what the city of London calls a "smart bin." Built by Renew, the smart bins are being installed on the streets of London and have two massive LCD screens slapped on the sides. According to the Daily Mail, the screens will display news from the Economist and stock quotes.

  • Jaja: A Pressure Sensitive iPad Stylus With A Clever Twist

    Updated: 2012-01-31 20:43:48
    : Home Startups Mobile Gadgets Social Video More Enterprise Fundings Exits GreenTech Gaming Opinion Crunchies Awards CrunchBase Hot topics Editor’s Picks Apple Facebook Megaupload Android Crunchies Awards Gadgets Comment Jaja : A Pressure Sensitive iPad Stylus With A Clever Twist Greg Kumparak posted 2 hours ago Comments View Staff Page Follow me on Twitter Greg Kumparak is the Mobile Editor at Techcrunch . Greg has been writing for the TechCrunch network since May of 2008. Greg was born just outside of San Jose , and now lives in the East Bay of California . Learn More Who Wants A Stylus Steve Jobs , MacWorld 2007 As it turns out , plenty of people do . Not for navigating around the user interface , mind you Steve et al . was absolutely right about that . But for the artists of the world

  • For Those About To Rock, WooThemes Launches A WordPress Theme For Bands

    Updated: 2012-01-31 20:43:40
    , Home Startups Mobile Gadgets Social Video More Enterprise Fundings Exits GreenTech Gaming Opinion Crunchies Awards CrunchBase Hot topics Editor’s Picks Apple Facebook Megaupload Android Crunchies Awards eCommerce Comment For Those About To Rock , WooThemes Launches A WordPress Theme For Bands John Biggs posted 2 hours ago Comments View Staff Page Biggs is the editor of TechCrunch Gadgets . Biggs has written for the New York Times , InSync , USA Weekend , Popular Mechanics , Popular Science , Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches . He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge , Brooklyn . You can Tweet him here and G+ him here . Email him directly at john techcrunch.com . Learn More WooThemes has just announced a new theme for

  • iOS Game Design This Home Lets You Construct And Create Your Dream Abode

    Updated: 2012-01-31 20:00:05
    Home Startups Mobile Gadgets Social Video More Enterprise Fundings Exits GreenTech Gaming Opinion Crunchies Awards CrunchBase Hot topics Editor’s Picks Apple Facebook Megaupload Android Crunchies Awards Comment iOS Game Design This Home Lets You Construct And Create Your Dream Abode Leena Rao posted 3 hours ago Comments View Staff Page Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch . She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University , where she studied business journalism and videography . From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City . She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was . Learn More Design This , Home the latest game title from

  • Introducing The iPnoho 6

    Updated: 2012-01-31 19:58:03
    Meet the future, everyone: The iPnoho6. Steve Jobs would be proud. This Shanzhai special isn't even an iPhone clone. It doesn't deserve that honored distinction. This is an IPDA as it's labeled on the front under the small screen and next to the large Apple logo. Around back are two large speakers and yet another Apple logo -- because, you know, two Apple logos equates to twice as much fun. The only thing that's missing from this IPDA is an iStylis.

  • Better Business Bureau Calls Out LG For False Advertising

    Updated: 2012-01-31 19:48:44
    Home Startups Mobile Gadgets Social Video More Enterprise Fundings Exits GreenTech Gaming Opinion Crunchies Awards CrunchBase Hot topics Editor’s Picks Apple Facebook Megaupload Android Crunchies Awards Gadgets Comment Better Business Bureau Calls Out LG For False Advertising Jordan Crook posted 3 hours ago Comments View Staff Page Jordan Crook studied English Literature at New York University before entering the tech space . Prior to joining TechCrunch , Crook dabbled in mobile marketing and mobile apps as well as doing device reviews for MobileMarketer and MobileBurn . Crook is fascinated with alternative energy production and greentech . She is now a writer for CrunchGear . Learn More You can’t believe everything you read , nor can you trust everything you hear on TV . Especially if it

  • Good DRM Makes Bad Neighbors: This Is The Content Protection Tipping Point

    Updated: 2012-01-31 19:42:28
    : Home Startups Mobile Gadgets Social Video More Enterprise Fundings Exits GreenTech Gaming Opinion Crunchies Awards CrunchBase Hot topics Editor’s Picks Apple Facebook Megaupload Android Crunchies Awards Opinion Comment Good DRM Makes Bad Neighbors : This Is The Content Protection Tipping Point John Biggs posted 3 hours ago Comments View Staff Page Biggs is the editor of TechCrunch Gadgets . Biggs has written for the New York Times , InSync , USA Weekend , Popular Mechanics , Popular Science , Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches . He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge , Brooklyn . You can Tweet him here and G+ him here . Email him directly at john techcrunch.com . Learn More For people who have been doing just one thing for a

  • Dining Out? Mogl Grabs $10 Million For Its Gamified, Charitable Loyalty Program

    Updated: 2012-01-31 19:01:55
    , Home Startups Mobile Gadgets Social Video More Enterprise Fundings Exits GreenTech Gaming Opinion Crunchies Awards CrunchBase Hot topics Editor’s Picks Apple Facebook Megaupload Android Crunchies Awards Fundings Exits Comment Dining Out Mogl Grabs 10 Million For Its Gamified , Charitable Loyalty Program Rip Empson posted 4 hours ago Comments View Staff Page Follow me on twitter Rip Empson is a writer at TechCrunch . He covers startups , because he loves them . In an unhealthy way . Coverage includes music , social , mobile , healthtech , edtech listen , if you’re not obnoxious , you’ve got an innovative idea , you want to change the world while maintaining a sense of humor he’ll write about your company . You can reach him at rip[at techcrunch[dot com Learn More Would you like some

  • Ben Horowitz: “It Took About 3 Weeks” To Raise Our $1.5 Billion Fund

    Updated: 2012-01-31 18:51:26
    : Home Startups Mobile Gadgets Social Video More Enterprise Fundings Exits GreenTech Gaming Opinion Crunchies Awards CrunchBase Hot topics Editor’s Picks Apple Facebook Megaupload Android Crunchies Awards Fundings Exits Comment Ben Horowitz : It Took About 3 Weeks” To Raise Our 1.5 Billion Fund Erick Schonfeld posted 4 hours ago Comments View Staff Page Follow me on Twitter Follow me on About.me Erick Schonfeld is the Editor in Chief of TechCrunch . He oversees the editorial content of the site , helps to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps , produces TCTV shows , and writes daily for the blog . He is also the father of three adorable children . He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular . Learn More Andreessen Horowitz is definitely killing it

  • Keen On… Susan Cain: The Power Of Introverts (TCTV)

    Updated: 2012-01-31 18:42:10
    : Home Startups Mobile Gadgets Social Video More Enterprise Fundings Exits GreenTech Gaming Opinion Crunchies Awards CrunchBase Hot topics Editor’s Picks Apple Facebook Megaupload Android Crunchies Awards TCTV Comment Keen On Susan Cain : The Power Of Introverts TCTV Andrew Keen posted 4 hours ago Comments View Columnist Page Follow me on twitter Andrew Keen is an Anglo-American entrepreneur , writer , broadcaster and public speaker . He is the author of the international hit Cult of the Amateur : How the Internet is Killing our Culture” which has been published in 17 different languages and was short-listed for the Higham’s Business Technology Book of the Year award . As a pioneering Silicon Valley based Internet entrepreneur , Learn More It was , of course , inevitable . After book

  • Extreme Startups Launches Accelerator With $7 Million In Funding From Top Canadian VCs

    Updated: 2012-01-31 18:15:36
    Home Startups Mobile Gadgets Social Video More Enterprise Fundings Exits GreenTech Gaming Opinion Crunchies Awards CrunchBase Hot topics Editor’s Picks Apple Facebook Megaupload Android Crunchies Awards Fundings Exits Comment Extreme Startups Launches Accelerator With 7 Million In Funding From Top Canadian VCs Rip Empson posted 5 hours ago Comments View Staff Page Follow me on twitter Rip Empson is a writer at TechCrunch . He covers startups , because he loves them . In an unhealthy way . Coverage includes music , social , mobile , healthtech , edtech listen , if you’re not obnoxious , you’ve got an innovative idea , you want to change the world while maintaining a sense of humor he’ll write about your company . You can reach him at rip[at techcrunch[dot com Learn More Not to be outdone by

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