Exciting public-data-search startup Enigma has won TechCrunch Disrupt NY's Startup Battlefield amid strong competition.
Handle launched its productivity application today which helps you organize your inbox, prioritize tasks, and get things done as efficiently as possible.
Salesforce acquires Prior Knowledge and its predictive database technology for developers.
Personal finance startup BillGuard has raised $10 million in second-round financing, and it’s using it to expand its service that helps protect accounts from fraudulent activity, the company said Tuesday.
BillGuard protects users by registering their credit and debit cards …
Ford and Bug Labs announced today they are creating a platform that will encourage users to modify computers in the automaker’s future cars, bringing together the creativity of computer hackers and car tinkerers.
The companies are launching an open-source in-car …
Getaround, the startup that offers a marketplace for personal car rentals, was named the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt NYC.
The company bested 32 other competing startups, including runners-up Billguard and Sonar, to win $50,000 and a ton of valuable media …
In ancient China, doctors were paid to keep their patients well. If a patient fell ill, the doctor didn’t get paid until they got better. We have gotten used to being continuously connected, so why does healthcare still revolve around …
Onstage at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference today, Roelof Botha, a partner at Sequoia Capital, looked back at one of the firms’ more controversial moments — the presentation that it gave to its portfolio companies after the financial crash in late …
Angel investor Ron Conway’s new fund was outed today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York — by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington.
Arrington was on-stage interviewing Conway and another partner at Conway’s firm SV Angel, David Lee, when he …
Apparently, mobile payment company Square thought its initial vision of arming merchants everywhere with credit card readers wasn’t quite ambitious enough. Today, at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York, the company announced an upgraded lineup of services, including the …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
Digg founder: We let Digg stagnate — Digg, the pioneering social-news site that lets users vote on top headlines, …
San Francisco startup Mogotix recently announced its new ticketing service. It’s hardly the first company to offer mobile ticketing, but it’s the first one I’ve seen that uses phones as both the ticket and the ticket reader.
I met up …
Qwiki has won the TechCrunch Disrupt award as the company with the most disruptive game-changing strategy at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco today.
Co-founder Doug Imbruce, who demonstrated Qwiki on-stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco this week, …
Right now, the TechCrunch Disrupt judging panel is choosing the top startup from among the 27 companies that launched on-stage at the conference over the last three days. But VentureBeat’s writers watched (and wrote about) every single one of those …
Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search and user experience, mostly dodged questions on-stage today about the company’s future plans, including rumors of some sort of social networking service in the works.
Both Mayer and Google chief executive Eric Schmidt …
Digg, the pioneering social-news site which lets users vote on top headlines, began to lose momentum during the recession because it pulled engineers from designing new site features to work on improving revenue, founder Kevin Rose said today.
Rose said …
Redbeacon, the service-listing startup that won the TechCrunch 50 conference last year, took the stage again today at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, and chief executive Ethan Anderson announced some new features that should expand the company’s audience.
The big …
Search engine Ask.com, an early competitor of Google’s that has since faded slightly into obscurity, doesn’t have any value in the framework of its parent company InterActiveCorp, according to IAC CEO Barry Diller. He made the comments today at TechCrunch …
Linkedin, a social networking site for people looking to connect with other professionals, is launching a new feature, called Signal, that will help users manage their news feeds on the main website. Jeff Weiner, the CEO of Linkedin, announced the …
Google Ventures wasn’t the only fresh face at the TechCrunch Disrupt after-party last night — funk master MC Hammer also brought his talents to Silicon Valley in celebration of TechCrunch’s recent acquisition by AOL, dropping his tunes for TechCrunch founder …
