Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino has been a professional photographer, hobbyist chef, hardware tinkerer, independent Apple blogger, Managing Editor at The Next Web and now Co-Editor at TechCrunch.
He has made a name for himself in the tech media world as a writer relentlessly covering Apple and Twitter, in addition to a broad range of startups.
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‘Disrupt Taco Bell’ Hack Stretches Your Dollar On Late Night Burrito Runs
It’s 1 am, you’re hungry and you’ve only got $5. How do you figure out what the maximum amount of grub you can snag inside that budget is? Enter Taco Bell Disrupt Read More
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Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe Joins Us To Talk VR In The Facebook Era At Disrupt NY
Disrupt NY 2014 kicks off in less than a week, and we’re thrilled to announce that Brendan Iribe, Oculus VR founder and current CEO, will join us for a fireside chat to talk about Oculus’ future now that the company has been acquired by Facebook. Brendan is scheduled to talk on Monday, May 5th at 2pm. Read More
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We Are Dropping RadiumOne As A NY Disrupt Sponsor
TechCrunch will be dropping RadiumOne as a Disrupt New York hackathon sponsor. As Leena Rao writes, we simply couldn’t sleep at night knowing that we were supporting and promoting a company led by someone who does not share our values on the issue of domestic abuse. In this decision our team is united, both on the editorial and the business side. We will not condone, support, or deal with… Read More
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Google+ Is Walking Dead
Today, Google’s Vic Gundotra announced that he would be leaving the company after eight years. The first obvious question is where this leaves Google+, Gundotra’s baby and primary project for the past several of those years. What we’re hearing from multiple sources is that Google+ will no longer be considered a product, but a platform — essentially ending its competition with other… Read More
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Early iPhone Software Engineer’s Bonsai Slice Game Pushes The Limits Of Motion On iPad
A large majority of the innovation surrounding the iPhone and iPad has been focused on the touch interface. When the iOS platform was opened up in 2008, a crisp, responsive touch screen was so new and interesting that it’s not surprising it absorbed a large amount of the attention of the developer community. We’ve seen a massive amount of experimentation and cooperative learning around… Read More
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Internet Glue Service IFTTT Launches On Android With Deeper Integration Than iOS
The Internet connection and automation service IFTTT is launching on Android today, and it offers a deeper set of integrations with the OS than their iOS offering. This, of course, is due to Android’s more laissez-faire attitude when it comes to allowing apps to extend their tentacles into core OS functions. If you’re unfamiliar with IFTTT or what it does, we’ve covered it a… Read More
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Storehouse Storytelling App Gets Embeds And Improved Community Building Tools
Storehouse, an app for iPad that functions as a story creation tool with images, video and text, is getting a nice update today. The update brings the ability to embed stories in blogs and on the web, as well as comments and an easy way to find Storehouse users on Twitter and Facebook. Read More
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Apple Sells iPhones To Reanimate The Pixies
One day in the fall of 1990, or maybe it was ’91, I discovered a box my cousin had left at our house. In the box was a black cassette tape with a grubby label. On one side, recorded in long play mode to fit it all, was the Beastie Boys ‘License To Ill’ and Concrete Blonde’s ‘Bloodletting’. Read More
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Yahoo Acquisitions Power Flickr’s New Object Recognition Search, Editing And Video Capture
Today, Yahoo launches new Flickr apps for Android (and iOS coming soon.) They include the ability to shoot video in the apps, or upload it directly. There is also better search, more detailed statistics for individual photos and a redesigned interface that’s had a lot of the crap scraped off of the interface to present you with Read More
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Anki Drive Expands Its Robotics Expertise With New Cars, Tracks, And AI
There are a couple of things that differentiate Anki from any other robotics company. First, it's the only one I know of to launch on an Apple keynote stage, with an introduction from Tim Cook. Second, it's one of a select few that's actually advancing the robotics industry by building toys — not industrial equipment. Read More
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Veteran Apple Designer Greg Christie Departs As Jony Ive’s Role Grows
Apple has confirmed the exit of long-time iOS designer Greg Christie, who was a Vice President in Apple's design department. Read More
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Nest Halts Sales Of Protect Smoke Alarm Over Safety Concerns About ‘Wave To Dismiss’ Feature
Nest CEO Tony Fadell has just issued a notice recommending users disable the Protect smoke alarm's 'wave to dismiss' feature. In testing, it was discovered that people could accidentally trigger the dismiss feature, delaying a smoke alarm. Read More
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Twitter’s Vine Introduces Direct Video Messaging
Twitter's Vine has introduced a feature that allows you to message other users directly via video. This adds both a direct messaging channel and video clips to its messages, a big addition to Twitter's video app. There is a direct parallel to be drawn here between Instagram's Direct image messaging feature, obviously — and it goes hand in hand with Twitter's renewed interest in its direct… Read More
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IFTTT Gets An iPad App, Curated Recipe Collections And Native Notifications
Today, the Internet glue service IFTTT gets an iPad app to complement its offerings on the iPhone and the web. You can also now use native push notifications in your recipes, and collections of recipes have gotten much more exposure. Read More
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Lumoid Wants To Rent You A Camera Now, And Everything Later
Aarthi Ramamurthy is standing outside of her building talking to her first paying customer, and she’s about to make a product decision. She’s shipped him a camera across country overnight on a rental program, and he’s so in love with it that he wants to buy one from her. He’s wondering if he can apply his rental fee towards the purchase of the camera. Read More
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Apple Continues To Flesh Out iWork Apps After Aggressively Culling Features
Apple has updated its iWork apps for iOS, Mac and iCloud beta with a bunch of improvements and additional sharing options today. There's a bunch of new features but one of the nicer ones is the addition of 'read-only' sharing of iWork documents. Read More
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Meet Astro Teller, Head Of Moonshots At Google’s Project X Lab
Astro Teller has your dream job, currently serving as the Captain of Moonshots at the Google[x] lab. There, he dreams and creates things like Google Glass, smart contact lenses, balloons that bring the Internet to the most remote regions, and many other seemingly impossible projects he and his team hope will one day become reality. Read More
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Twitter Adds People Tagging And Multiple Photo Sharing To Tweets
Twitter has announced a couple of additions to its image offerings today, including the ability to tag up to 10 people in a photo without using any precious characters up. You’ll also now be able to attach up to four photos to a tweet, and Twitter will automatically craft a collage for you. The people-tagging feature will undoubtedly offer Twitter a way to increase the density of its social… Read More
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Facebook Buys A Virtual World
Today, in somewhat of a surprise move, Facebook purchased virtual reality company Oculus VR. The purchase elicited visceral reactions from people dismayed that Oculus sold out so early to snarky comments about what Facebook might do with it. Read More
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Facebook To Buy Oculus VR, Maker Of The Rift Headset, For Around $2B In Cash And Stock
Facebook has announced plans to purchase Oculus VR, the company behind the Rift headset, for around $2B in cash and stock. This includes $400 million in cash and 23.1 million shares of Facebook common stock. Read More
