Fantasy’s Widow: The Fight Over The Legacy Of Dungeons & Dragons
Gail Gygax and I were sitting in the living room of a lace-trimmed, flower-filled bed and breakfast in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin when she told me about...
France’s tax on tech giants is happening
Is it happening? Is it not happening? After years of back and forth, it looks like the new tax on tech giants in France is about...
Camelot lets Twitch and YouTube audiences pay for what they want to see
As the streaming world continues to grow, startups are looking to take advantage of the opportunity and grab a slice of the pie, and indeed create...
VCs have growing appetite for ‘AgriFood’
Venture investors are pouring billions of dollars into feeding their hunger for food and agriculture startups. Whether that trend line is due to enthusiasm for the...
Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Series Confirms Its Setting, in the Vaguest Sense Possible
Last week, Amazon started quietly teasing just where its massive Lord of the Rings TV show would take place in the Middle-earth timeline. Now, the speculation...
Daily Crunch: Zuckerberg lays out his privacy vision
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at...
Airbnb agrees to acquire last-minute hotel-booking app HotelTonight
As Airbnb gears up for its big leap into the public markets, it’s expanding its accommodations platform to include more than just treehouses and quirky homes....
Sign up before March 11 and save $500 on Disrupt SF 2019 tix
Want to trim a cool $500 off your ticket price to Disrupt San Francisco 2019? It’s easy to do, but you need to act before registration officially...
Take your mobile games business to the next level with Google AdMob and Google Ads at GDC
Each year, the global games community gets together in San Francisco for the Game Developers Conference (GDC), a major industry event for developers, publishers, and business...
A look into one woman’s job at Google: opening doors for other women
When I first talked to Elise Birkhofer, it was 5pm, the last phone call of the day. My energy was low and my feet were dragging—but...
