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The rain may have a kept a few people away yesterday, probably a few less booths than last year, the quirkiness factor was a little too high in certain cases, and there was the absence of a certain larger-then-life personality. … Continue reading →

I remember the unseasonal heat-wave that baked NYC last year at this time, and turned the Pier 94 hangar, the home to TechCrunch Disrupt, into a humongous hothouse. Little chance of that happening again. I am, of course, pumped to … Continue reading →

I was told by the organizers that NY Tech Day was initially expecting about 3000 visitors. But this “science fair” for (mostly) New York City-based startups ended up attracting over 4000 registrants. When I arrived at the Lexington Avenue Armory … Continue reading →

Software startups, unlike their industrial-age grandparents, don’t have to do a messy retooling of their factory to change product lines. They revamp their look-and-feel and business model after a spell of all-night coding sessions. That ain’t easy either. In the … Continue reading →

One of the remarkable things I learned talking to Yaron Samid, co-founder and CEO of BillGuard, is the level of credit card fraud that’s publicly reported on the Web. Currently in beta, BillGuard has a mission to catch both unwanted … Continue reading →

Social Listing, the location-aware classified advertising app launched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2011, has given itself a new, more fluid appellation. It now calls itself Taap.it, which is a far better name, search-wise. But this is more than just a rebranding.

Last week at TechCrunch Disrupt, I had a chance to see the revamped Wanderfly. Christy Liu, Wanderfly’s co-founder and Director of Marketing, put me behind the new dashboard of this visually intensive travel recommendation site as we looked for warmer … Continue reading →

I like the idea of Quixey. It has the Google-like cyclops interface —a single search box— but instead of searching the web, it’s looking for apps from the crowded shelves of mobile app stores. I saw Quixey for the first … Continue reading →

I don’t recall seeing a single wired phone at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference. At trade shows, they’ve been exiled from the booths for awhile now with the cell phone explosion. More surprising for me was that I didn’t even spot … Continue reading →

My gut told me that Getaround, the peer-to-peer car rental service, should be the Battlefield winner. It was a crowd favorite and solved the age-old problem of finding temporary access to wheels without paying any up-front fees. However, it seemed … Continue reading →