Category: Technology

By Alex Wilhelm Verizon announced in late July that it would start throttling the 4G data speeds of customers on unlimited data plans who are among the top 5 percent of their users when it comes to consumption of mobile data, and were “connected to cell sites experiencing heavy demand.” The FCC wasn’t too pleased.…

By Matt Marx There’s been quite the brouhaha lately about disruptive innovation. On one side is Harvard Prof. Clay Christensen (author of The Innovator’s Dilemma) and his long-prevailing theory about how disruptive innovation drives incumbents out of the market. On the other side is Jill Lepore and her attack of Christensen’s theory in The New…

By Colleen Taylor You know what goes great with a sunny summer Friday? A new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few TechCrunch writers together to shoot the breeze about the tech industry’s most interesting stories of the moment. Today, Alex Wilhelm, Ryan Lawler, and I gathered around the big white table to…

By John Biggs On Monday GAW Miners CEO Josh Garza announced the purchase of BTC.com for $1 million. The domain, which now points to a landing page, is to be a beachhead on the war to make bitcoin a household name and, like sex.com before it, the purchase garnered a lot of attention. But why…

By Ryan Lawler A year and a half ago, Menlo Ventures partner Shervin Pishevar and Goldman Sachs banker Scott Stanford decided to quit their day jobs and start a new venture fund. That firm, SherpaVentures, has since raised $150 million to invest in early-stage startups. Next month they’ll be joining us, along with SherpaFoundry CEO…