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Gillmor Gang Artcard Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. Gillmor Gang LIVE chatroom during the LIVE show Gillmor Gang on Facebook Have you watched our other show, G3, yet? We invite you to do so HERE …and HERE is G3’s Facebook page Read More
Today at a big press conference, Samsung announced two new flagship phones, the Samsung Galaxy Note 5, and its new sibling, the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+. While a Note update was highly anticipated, the S6 Edge+ is a new beast. And the best way to describe it is that its a direct iPhone 6 Plus competitor. Read More
L3d Cube Looking Glass Founders Earlier this year, Looking Glass successfully raised $252,000 on Kickstarter for its 3D LED cube, dubbed the L3D Cube. Now the startup actually is shipping cubes — or, rather, kits for assembling your cube — and co-founders Alex Hornstein and Shawn Frayne are getting settled into a new office in Brooklyn. (Frayne is splitting his time between Brooklyn and Hong Kong.) So we stopped… Read More
Gillmor Gang Artcard The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, August 7, 2015. Thanks to Twitter and a mid-debate nap, the shape of the 2016 race begins to come into focus. Meanwhile, our Facebook overloads map out the new Show Biz Rules. Plus, the latest G3 with Halley Suitt Tucker, Rebecca Woodcock, Francine Hardaway, and Tina Chase Gillmor. Read More
crunchweek-4-3 Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s recurring roundup of the biggest tech stories of the week. This week our humble band delved into recent earnings by Etsy and Fitbit, Twitter’s share price declines, hints about the social company’s next CEO, and, of course, that VR thing you might have heard of. Read More
Yesterday, President Barack Obama invited 30 companies to the White House (on his birthday, no less) to participate in the first-ever White House Demo Day. The purpose of the event was to accelerate diversity in the U.S. tech sector, and as a supporter of that very goal, TechCrunch showed up to hear what the president had to say. If you want to read our full coverage of the event, check out… Read More
Gillmor Gang Artcard The Gillmor Gang — Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Saturday, August 1, 2015. The Gang talks cars, the politics of streaming, back catalogues, discovery, demotions, the new News, and social payola. Plus, the latest G3 with Kristie Wells, Rebecca Woodcock, Francine Hardaway, and Tina Chase Gillmor. @stevegillmor, @Fradice, @kteare, @kevinmarks Read More
Yahoo Livetext 02 Yahoo unveiled a new app today called Livetext, where users can send each other video and text — but no sound. To get a sense of how it works, we spoke to Yahoo’s Arjun Sethi (formerly co-founder and CEO of MessageMe), and we had a short little livetext session. He also explained the opportunity he sees in taking the audio out of video messaging: Read More
Gillmor Gang Artcard The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Saturday, July 25, 2015. Uber takes NY, while The Gang wonders what Windows 10 is or isn’t, whether Twitter ain’t broke so don’t fix it, and nothing whatsoever about Donald Trump. Plus, the latest G3 with Halley Suitt Tucker, Mary Hodder, Kristie Wells, Luke Sontag,… Read More
crunchweek-4-3 Hello my friend, and welcome back to another episode of CrunchWeek. This time ’round Drew Olanoff, Sarah Lane, and your humble servant discussed three of the week’s largest stories: The massive spike in technology earnings, Reddit’s never-ending issues regarding content and Internet trolling, and, of course, the current carnage among some of Uber For X startups. All that and… Read More
youtube_topic - NOT FOR FEATURED IMAGE YouTube is bigger than cable TV. Well, to be more precise, it’s bigger than any single U.S. cable network among the key demographic that includes those ages 18 to 49 – or so said Google during yesterday’s earnings call. The video-sharing network’s heavily engaged user base and its traction with mobile consumers were among the highlights discussed during the… Read More
rock band 4 Rock Band developers Harmonix stopped by New York City last week to preview the latest installment, Rock Band 4. In the video above, Harmonix PR Lead Nick Chester shows off the big gameplay addition, freestyle guitar solos. As the name suggests, the solos allow players to be more flexible in their playing — rather than hitting the exact right note at the exact right time, you can just… Read More