Jack Dorsey Defends Twi...

After Twitter creator, executive chairman, and product lead Jack Dorsey accepted the company’s award for Biggest Social Impact at the Crunchies, TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis asked him about a recent, controversial decision to block individual tweets on a country-by-country...

Imgur Wins Best Bootstr...

Here at the 2011 Crunchies , Imgur , the photo-sharing site made popular by the Reddit community, won the category of “Best Bootstrapped Startup.” And given the traffic numbers the startup is seeing, it’s easy to see why. According to Founder Alan Schaaf, the site sees...

Crunchies Introduction ...

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Super-Slim HTC Ville Sp...

News of HTC’s forthcoming Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Ville has been making the rounds since last November, but now with Mobile World Congress less than a month away, we’re finally getting our first real look at it. HTC-Hub has managed to get their hands on a pretty extensive...

TrialPay Raises $40 Mil...

Offers are a booming form of advertising in which consumers are presented with offers to try or buy products. It is particularly popular in social games where players receive virtual currency in return for looking at the offers. One of the leaders in this form of ecommerce advertising is...

Daily Crunch: Wraiths...

Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: nanox: High-Quality iPod nano Watch Conversion Kit WiGig: Panasonic Tablet Wirelessly Transmits A Full DVD Video In 60 Seconds (Video) Flying People Spotted Over New York City…Film At Nine More: Daily Crunch:...

Twitter Posts Awful/Hil...

Twitter has posted a seriously awful/hilarious recruiting video to YouTube, which the company says was the product of last week’s “ Hack Week .” During this time, employees were able to take time away from their day-to-day work to collaborate on new ideas. Although it...

Davos: BraveNewTalent A...

BraveNewTalent is a social recruitment platform operating in the UK and moving into the US. I caught up with CEO and founder Lucia Tarnowski at Davos. The startup is built around the idea that people want to follow companies they might want to work for in the future, and companies in...

Davos: Ushahidi Grows I...

At Davos I managed to catch Juliana Rotich , Co-Founder of Ushahidi , the incredible crowd sourcing platform which came out of Kenya. Starting with just a handful of countries in 2009, it’s main product, Crowdmap , is now used in hundreds of countries for crisis mapping and even...

(Founder Stories) Jeff ...

Jeff Clavier  just finished raising  $55 million  for his third SoftTech VC  fund and after closing it out, stopped by TechCrunch to tape Founder Stories with host Chris Dixon . In part II of this  Founder Stories conversation, Dixon surveys the seed stage landscape and comes away...