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EXCLUSIVE: Candy Crush Saga is still one of the top-grossing mobile apps in the world, and publisher King is planning a weekend event to keep its player base engaged. Starting today and running through Sunday, King will host the CakeClimb live event in Candy Crush Saga. This is a challenge that requires players to figure out […]... →

Disrupt SF 2015 has come to an end, but the stories and experiences will continue to inspire us for years to come. The TechCrunch social media team has compiled 55 of the most memorable quotes from Disrupt SF 2015. Enjoy! Read More... →

This article is Part 2 of a 3-part series on the battle to achieve world connection Creating the infrastructure for satellite internet is a capital intensive business, requiring potentially thousands of satellites to be built and launched. It also needs ground-based infrastructure that can “talk to” the satellites and ultimately connect to the end user. For OneWeb internet… Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...... →

Since the benefits aren’t immediate, it’s easy to delay incorporation. Yet, unlike first-time entrepreneurs, serial entrepreneurs often learn the hard way just how quickly things can get ugly, and eagerly incorporate as early as possible. Read More... →

The iPhone 6s is now here in stores. Whether or not you should stand in line for a new pink iPhone is really your decision, but before you buy, you should really know how durable it is. We already know that the iPhone 6s isn’t as prone to bending as its predecessor, but how does […]... →

ANALYSIS: Mobile browser traffic is actually twice that of mobile app traffic, according to a just-released Morgan Stanley report that rates Google’s stock as a buy. This appears to fly in the face of recent, strong, and repeated evidence that the app is winning, capturing 80-90 percent of our time on mobile. Actually, both are right. Using […]... →

Facebook is beginning to roll out a design update for its Notes feature, that will let users add a cover photo, captions, and improved formatting. The intention appears to be aimed at encouraging people to compose more notes within the social network and potentially further facilitate a blogging platform that’s akin to Medium — basically […]... →

Hello internet aliens, and welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup show where we talk the biggest things in tech. As you can tell from the show, we spent the entire week in a warehouse talking about disruption, but have no fear, we’ve had our eyes and ears open about what happened this week. The iPhone 6S and 6S plus made their debuts, Watch OS2… Read More... →

Smartphone upstart OnePlus scored a minor success with its first phone, the OnePlus One, shifting 1.5 million devices globally in its first year in business. But all eyes were on the China-based company when its second phone was unveiled last month: the somewhat predictably titled OnePlus 2. Initial reviews were generally positive, and VentureBeat opined […]... →

Пользователи заметили, что Twitter тестирует новую опцию Poll в твитах, которая позволит пользователям проводить опросы в рамках платформы. Эксперимент запущен как в десктопной, так и в мобильной версии Twitter. Отсутствие адреса URL и источника указывает, что опрос – нативный, а не работает на базе карточки Twitter или через сторонний сервис. Возможно, текущий эксперимент связан с функционалом опросов для издателей, который Twitter тестировал в сентябре 2014 года. Репортер New York Times Майк Исаак (Mike... →

Dropbox has released Zulip, a group chat app, under an open-source Apache license. The move, announced today, comes after Dropbox acquired Zulip in March 2014. The client and server code is available on GitHub. You can download the client for Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android here. “The world of open source chat has for a […]... →

Let’s say you want to come up with a great brand name for a new beverage brand you’re launching. You know what consumers are looking for, and you’re the creative type. What’s the biggest naming mistake you could make? How about a name like “Sweat” or “Pschitt?” Or something difficult to spell and pronounce? Those missteps would certainly be… Read More... →

Twitch is larger than ever. The game broadcasting behemoth is holding its first ever convention this weekend, and it revealed some of the numbers behind its success. This includes a total of 1.7 million individuals who use the Twitch platform to livestream games. Collectively, that group has sent 7.5 billion minutes of content to the […]... →

Flash suffers another blow. Emmet Shear, chief executive officer of Twitch, announced that the game-streaming site will switch over fully from Flash to HTML5 in the second quarter of 2016. This is another blow for Flash, which is losing support across the Internet. YouTube already switched over to HTML5. Twitch originally announced plans to lose […]... →

Twitch just strayed into direct competition with YouTube. Emmett Shear, chief executive of Amazon’s Twitch division, announced at the TwitchCon convention today that the company will add video uploads and playlists in 2016. Twitch has more than 100 million monthly active users for its gameplay livestreaming service, as well as 1.7 million live broadcasters. But […]... →

SAN FRANCISCO — Now you can stream Twitch from all your Sony consoles. Emmett Shear, the chief executive of gameplay livestreaming platform Twitch, announced that Twitch will be available this fall across all PlayStation devices. Speaking at the TwitchCon convention in San Francisco, Shear said that players are already broadcasting by the hundreds of thousands […]... →

Холдинг Mail.Ru Group объявил о перезапуске своего музыкального сервиса «Музыка Mail.ru», сообщает Roem.ru. На новой площадке появилась синхронизация треков с соцсетью «ВКонтакте».... →

Predictive search is nothing new, but as YouTube has grown to the second-largest search engine, it's spread to video. Does that help it? Experts say yes, both in direct and indirect ways.... →

SAN FRANCISCO — TwitchCon has begun. The first major convention for Twitch gameplay livestreaming broadcasters has started in at the sprawling Moscone West convention hall. Marcus “DJ Wheat” Graham opened the event, to a ton of and roaring. He went over the history of livestreaming, shoutcasting, and other forms of chat — all of which led […]... →