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TechCrunch  30 minutes ago:

Hotspot Shield Crosses 10M Installations On Android And iOS, Showing Strong Appetite For Mobile VPN -

Virtual private networking is a great way to accomplish a number of things, including making sure that your secrets stay your own, protecting against malware attacks, and getting around the geoblocking of audio and video content from networks, labels and basically anyone who wants to restrict your sweet, sweet access.
TechCrunch  40 minutes ago:

Live Blog: Live From The Reveal Of Microsoft's Next-Generation Xbox -

It's Xbox day! Almost exactly 8 years after the announcement of the Xbox 360, Microsoft is back with another one.
TechCrunch  55 minutes ago:

After Getting Booted From Apple's App Store, Mobile Privacy App Clueful Returns On Android -

Clueful, the mobile privacy app Apple booted from its App Store for being too revealing- or possibly because of its own behavior - is staging a comeback.
TechCrunch  about an hour ago:

Tim Cook: “We Pay All Of The Taxes We Owe, Every Single Dollar” -

We are updating this blog during the live congressional testimony of Apple CEO Tim Cook. More details will be added soon.
TechCrunch  2 hours ago:

Meet Agent, A Smartwatch With A Second Processor For Minimizing Power Consumption And Wireless Charging -

Smart watches are all the rage, and judging by the turnout and level of enthusiasm at the recently year one meetup for Pebble Kickstarter backers in San Francisco which I attended last week, there's at least a passionate niche audience for the things.
TechCrunch  2 hours ago:

Brow.si Is An Add-On And Platform That Wants To Put The Engagement Fight Back Into The Mobile Web -

Today Brow.si, a new product from MySiteApp, is launching in open beta as an add-on for mobile websites that promises to bring a host of features to rival the engagement of native apps.
TechCrunch  3 hours ago:

TeamSnap Online Sports Management Platform Acquires Weplay For An Undisclosed Amount -

TeamSnap, a company that provides tools for managing sports teams, has today announced that it is acquiring Weplay, a social networking site for athletes, parents and coaches to help facilitate coordination for events, games, practices, etc.
TechCrunch  3 hours ago:

With $15M From Omidyar And 35M+ Users, Change.org Wants To Prove Socially-Minded Business Can Attract Big Numbers -

Change.org got its start in 2007 as a social network for non-profits. For years, growth was slow for the fledgling social action platform, but, over the last year, that changed dramatically.
TechCrunch  4 hours ago:

Burstly Debuts Its Testing-To-Revenue Restructure, Opens SkyRocket Monetization To All -

Burstly's grand vision coming out of its TestFlight acquisition is getting full reveal today with the announcement of the company's new corporate structure, which rebrands Burstly's monetization tools as SkyRocket, and opens them up to all mobile developers and publishers with a new self-serve option, whereas previously they'd been accessible only to the biggest fish in the app ecosystem pond.
TechCrunch  5 hours ago:

3 Mindbending Ways Apple Dodged $13.8B In Taxes -

Kudos to Apple's finance lawyers, who are the Cirque Du Soleil of legal contortionism. On the eve of live testimony from CEO Tim Cook, CFO Peter Oppenheimer and Phillip Bullock, head of Apple's tax operations, a scathing congressional investigation of Apple's tax dodging strategy reveals how the computer giant avoided $13.