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TechCrunch  5 hours ago:

Backed Or Whacked: Reading And Writing Through Crowdfunding -

Editor’s note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. An ancient and once-sacred bond between author and audience, reading and writing have become but two more tasks along with a multitude of other things that we do on a host of digital devices -- watcing videos, listening to music, playing games, and really anything except using Facebook Home.
TechCrunch  7 hours ago:

Mark Suster Talks Founder CEOs, The Acqui-Hire Frenzy, And Much More [TCTV] -

Mark Suster of Los Angeles' GRP Partners is known for his unique insights on the tech and digital media worlds, having famously had success on "both sides of the table" as a repeat entrepreneur turned investor over nearly two decades in the industry.
TechCrunch  7 hours ago:

Confronting The Reality Of US Broadband Performance -

Editor's note: Richard Bennett is a Senior Fellow with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and co-author of ITIF’s 2013 report, "The Whole Picture: Where America’s Broadband Networks Really Stand.
TechCrunch  9 hours ago:

The Future Of Mobile-Social Could Spell The End For Social Networks -

Editor's note:  Keith Teare is the founder of just.me and a partner at Archimedes Labs. He is also the co-founder of TechCrunch.
TechCrunch  12 hours ago:

Hell No, Tumblr Users Won't Go To Yahoo! -

We’ve all by now heard about how Yahoo is trying to get some “cool” with a supposed $1 billion purchase of hip blogging platform Tumblr, but it may be a moot point if Tumblr’s users fail to stick around post-sale.
TechCrunch  14 hours ago:

What Games Are: Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Xbox? -

With Xbox 360 having started well but ended in a very confused state, I worry that Microsoft is about to carry over much of its baggage to the new console.
TechCrunch  15 hours ago:

The Evolution Of Hacker News -

The idea of a VC having its own news aggregator was a bit outlandish in 2007. But Y Combinator was in an unusual position in those days anyway.
TechCrunch  15 hours ago:

CrunchWeek: Google I/O Madness And Square's New iPad Hardware For Merchants -

It's that time of the week for CrunchWeek, the show where a few of us writers chat up the most interesting stories from the past seven days.
TechCrunch  16 hours ago:

I/Overload? -

Did Google's conference succeed? It launched dozens of products in its 205-minute keynote, but did the world understand them? I saw some of the smartest journalists in technology struggling to handle the information density.
TechCrunch  16 hours ago:

How Hike, India's Fast Growing Mobile Messaging App, Is Banking On SMS & Local Diversity To Beat The Big Boys -

It’s still practically a newborn but Indian mobile messaging app Hike is already channelling almost a billion messages a month between its 5m registered users.