Due To The Apple / Google Deathgrip, Former CEO John Lilly Says For Mozilla, “Mobile Is A Little Scarier”

Due To The Apple / Goog...

iOS and Android aren’t leaving much room for Firefox to burrow into mobile. “We knew there was going to be a transition from desktop being primary to mobile and tablet being primary” said Mozilla’s former CEO and current board member John Lilly today at...

Vinylmint Is A Jammin...

Vinylmint is a Norfolk-based startup that aims to assist musicians in creating their music. It’s essentially a recording studio in the cloud. You record uncompressed audio right into the computer, the service uploads it to the cloud, and then you can listen to and edit tunes in...
Tim Armstrong — I Love TechCrunch And It Made AOL Cool Again

Tim Armstrong — I Lov...

A panel run by TechCrunch’s Josh Constine with with Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL and Melissa Brenner of the NBA was billed as being about how social advertising is working for those content brands. In the end, we heard a lot more about the future path of AOL and TechCrunch perhaps....
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: “Entrepreneurs Don’t Appreciate When They’re Onto A Good Thing”

Sequoia’s Roelof Both...

TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington sat down with Sequoia Capital partner  Roelof Botha  in another fireside chat at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2012 this morning. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2003, Botha served as the Chief Financial Officer of PayPal during its sale to eBay , and...

Kleiner Perkins Sued By...

Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers , one of the most storied and well-respected venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, has been sued by Ellen Pao , an investment partner with the firm. In the complaint filed May 10 in San Francisco Superior Court (which is embedded below in its...
Led By Former Microsofties, GitHub Brings The Party To Enterprise With New Windows Client

Led By Former Microsoft...

GitHub , the source code hosting and collaboration service, has been growing like gangbusters. The site now has over 1.6 million registered developers, hosting over 2.8 million repositories on everything from jQuery and Ruby on Rails to node.js and Redis. At the outset, Github was just a...
How Android Developers Can Thrive With Google Play

How Android Developers ...

Craig Palli is vice president of Client Services & Business Development at  Fiksu  ( @fiksu ), which helps brands boost iOS and Android mobile app ranking and secure large volumes of loyal users. You can find him on Twitter  @cpalli . Thriving with Google Play Apple’s planned...
The Four Most Underhyped Trends In Social TV

The Four Most Underhype...

Editor’s note:  Jeremy Toeman is a founder of  Dijit Media , a startup whose vision is to create the ultimate “hyperpersonalised social TV guide” mobile experience. Jeremy has over 11 years experience in the convergence of digital media, mobile entertainment, social...
China Finally OKs Google’s Acquisition Of Motorola Mobility

China Finally OKs Googl...

It’s been just over nine months since Google announced their intentions to acquire hardware manufacturer Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, and now it seems that the final pieces of the deal have fallen into place. According to a new report from the Associated Press, Chinese...

Gillmor Gang: Don’t C...

The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Gabe Rivera, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — play toe jam football in the shadow of the Facebook IPO. Try as we might, we can’t shake the weight of Facebook’s dominance of Techmeme and maybe the fate of the global economy....

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