Techies of all varieties constantly look forward to the next great revolution. For video gamers, that revolution promises to be virtual reality. Countless new companies have emerged to research and develop virtual reality hardware, while existing video game authorities like Sony and Microsoft are doing everything they can to push for faster development in their own organizations. But with so… Read More
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It’s been a long night at Pier 70 in San Francisco. Yesterday, hundreds of hackers spent the day in front of their laptops even though it was a beautiful Summer day. That’s because they all took part in my favorite competition — the Disrupt SF Hackathon. Some of them were participating in our event for the first time, while others were regular hackers. Their challenge was to… Read More
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Clinical trials landed in the tech spotlight earlier this year when Apple launched an iOS software framework to let users sign up for medical trials. The challenge generally for medical researchers is signing the right people up to studies with very specific criteria for participants. On one level that’s a matching problem — which suggests technology can help. Read More
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For families where the children spend time commuting back and forth between parents’ houses, keeping track of everyone’s schedule can be a challenge for moms, dads, and kids alike. That’s a problem that Alex Jordan, age 11, has faced firsthand, which is why she returned this weekend to the TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco hackathon to work on Famtastic, a combination… Read More
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Jeong Uk Lee and John Kim are hoping a different spin on flipping through food reviews is going to help you decide where to eat for lunch.
It’s an app called Foodie, which the pair showed off at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 hackathon. It shows photos and Yelp reviews of various foods in the area, and users can swipe left and right to save the ones that look good. Read More
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Hello fellow disrupters, and welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup show where we talk the biggest things in tech. This week we’re chatting about iOS 9 landing, WatchOS2 not, Facebook’s working on a not-dislike emoji button and people are rainbow barfing all over Snapchat. Also, we invite Ahmed to join us in the TechCrunch studio the next time… Read More
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Pandora put radio on the Internet, but now startups like Spotify and giants like Apple are trying to knock it out of the three comma club. When every music app is building its own radio feature on top of on-demand listening, how will Pandora get by on algorithmic suggestions alone? I’ll ask Pandora co-founder Tim Westergren on-stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Read More
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Great companies don’t start with massive office leases and hundreds of thousands of dollars thrown at a party. They start by building a culture of maximizing value with the minimal capital required to sustain huge growth. 
Ford is holding its annual developer conference in tandem with the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon this weekend and ahead of the event, the company announced an update to its Sync AppLink developer platform. 
Good things are coming this month, and I don’t just mean our Disrupt San Francisco event. That’s because Google just pulled the trigger on invites to a press event later this month which could see it unveil its next Nexus device, among other things.