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Gillmor Gang: Private Practices
The Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor – work off that stuffed feeling with a show devoted to the intersection between public and private messaging. What started...
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Facebook Uses “Social Signals” and Profile Information to Stop Piracy
In common with other sites dealing with user-generated content, Facebook has to battle a constant stream of unauthorized copyright material. When it comes to targeting infringement Facebook has a...
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Will Instagram’s Messaging ‘Moments’ Be Ephemeral?
Instagram is preparing to launch a new messaging service on its platform this year — as soon as its event this Thursday — TechCrunch has heard from a variety of sources. This isn’t too shocking, as Om...
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Facebook Puts Its Web Feed In Motion With Auto-Playing Videos
The News Feed is about to get a lot more lively. Just days after pushing its auto-play feature for videos to all mobile users, today we spotted auto-playing videos on Facebook.com, and the company...
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A Merger In Gaming Services: Playhaven, Kontagent Combine In An All-Stock...
Consolidation ahoy! Playhaven and Kontagent, two of the bigger gaming services companies that help developers run analytics and retain their players, have decided to merge into a combined company...
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PayPal Is Buying StackMob For Christmas
[Update: PayPal is buying StackMob. Original post follows.] Mobile backend service provider StackMob is being acquired in a deal expected to be announced soon, according to multiple TechCrunch...
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Foundation: Brian Armstrong on Coinbase and Bitcoin Security
In this episode of my Foundation video series, I sit down for a chat with Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong. We chat about Bitcoin, his first Android wallet project, and the insane security he uses to...
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Facebook’s Silent Autoplay Video Ads Require Custom Content To Shine
Facebook could have made it easy for advertisers to port their TV commercials or online pre-rolls into its new video ad unit. Instead, it’s spawned a fresh video ad format designed to minimize...
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Move Fast And Break Our Comments Section
You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. We’ve been on Livefyre comments for a little under a year now and while we weren’t the biggest fans of Facebook Comments* while we were using them,...
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D-Wave CEO Vern Brownell On Quantum Computing And Tackling Tech’s Big Problems
It’s been a big year for D-Wave, the quantum computing technology company. In May it was announced that NASA and Google had jointly purchased a D-Wave Two computer to anchor a new ‘Quantum Artificial...
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