Video: Tips for Crate-Training Your Cat
Here's how to get your cat accustomed to being in a carrier for everything from car rides to vet visits. Watch the video to learn easy cat crate-training tips.
Here's how to get your cat accustomed to being in a carrier for everything from car rides to vet visits. Watch the video to learn easy cat crate-training tips.
Kittens Graduate From ASPCA's Kitten Nursery
With the end of kitten season, an adorable class of kittens graduated from the ASPCA’s new kitten nursery in New York Tuesday.
With the end of kitten season, an adorable class of kittens graduated from the ASPCA’s new kitten nursery in New York Tuesday.
Kitten Rescued From RV Tire Rim
Animal control officers from Martin County, Florida, saved a 10-week-old black and white kitten who got his head stuck in the hole of an RV tire rim.
Animal control officers from Martin County, Florida, saved a 10-week-old black and white kitten who got his head stuck in the hole of an RV tire rim.
Taylor Swift’s Kitten Stars in New Keds Ad
The new Keds shoe, which features the image of a cat, honors Swift’s new album, 1989, which will be released on Oct. 27.
The new Keds shoe, which features the image of a cat, honors Swift’s new album, 1989, which will be released on Oct. 27.
Kitten Nurseries Help Save Feline Lives
From Austin Pets Alive shelter to Best Friends Animal Society’s No Kill LA shelter, newborn kitten nurseries are saving thousands of cats.
From Austin Pets Alive shelter to Best Friends Animal Society’s No Kill LA shelter, newborn kitten nurseries are saving thousands of cats.
End-of-Life Care: How to Help Pets — and Owners
You're probably familiar with the three common stages of a pet's life: puppy/kitten, adult and senior. This veterinarian believes a fourth stage is needed as well: end-of-life.
You're probably familiar with the three common stages of a pet's life: puppy/kitten, adult and senior. This veterinarian believes a fourth stage is needed as well: end-of-life.
Have a Mangy Cat? 5 Mites That Can Frustrate Your Feline
Do you have a mangy cat? Dr. Marty Becker discusses some of the parasites that can cause mange in cats including the mites that prefer Siamese and Burmese cats.
Do you have a mangy cat? Dr. Marty Becker discusses some of the parasites that can cause mange in cats including the mites that prefer Siamese and Burmese cats.
How to Select a Kitten Who's Right for You
Adopting a new kitten can seem like a daunting responsibility, especially if it’s your first. This guide will help you determine exactly which kitty will be a good match for your lifestyle.
Adopting a new kitten can seem like a daunting responsibility, especially if it’s your first. This guide will help you determine exactly which kitty will be a good match for your lifestyle.
Most Trendy Male and Female Cat Names of the Year
We sorted through our database of 425,000 cats named last year to learn which male and female cat names had risen the most in popularity in the last decade.
We sorted through our database of 425,000 cats named last year to learn which male and female cat names had risen the most in popularity in the last decade.
What If the Girls in HBO's "Girls" Were Kittens?
In The Pet Collective’s 'Cats,' a parody of HBO’s 'Girls,' a group of four foster kittens are faced with the travails of young cathood. Watch the video here.
In The Pet Collective’s 'Cats,' a parody of HBO’s 'Girls,' a group of four foster kittens are faced with the travails of young cathood. Watch the video here.
Meet 9 Cat Breeds Who Crave Affection
Looking for a cat who will play fetch, follow you from room to room or even ride on your shoulder? These nine cute kitten breeds could be right up your alley!
Looking for a cat who will play fetch, follow you from room to room or even ride on your shoulder? These nine cute kitten breeds could be right up your alley!
Fill Your Home With the Fragrance of Kittens
The "Whiskers on Kittens" candle is part of Yankee Candle's My Favorite Things collection, inspired by the beloved "Sound of Music" tune.
The "Whiskers on Kittens" candle is part of Yankee Candle's My Favorite Things collection, inspired by the beloved "Sound of Music" tune.
Cats Against Catcalling Will Make You Holler
Felines for females! Our new favorite Tumblr features cats speaking out against the catcalls we all know (and hate).
Felines for females! Our new favorite Tumblr features cats speaking out against the catcalls we all know (and hate).
The Best Cat-Related Time-Waster Ever
We could literally spend all day on cat-bounce.com. The name of the site pretty much sums it up: You drag and drop kitties onto a virtual trampoline and they jump around your screen.
We could literally spend all day on cat-bounce.com. The name of the site pretty much sums it up: You drag and drop kitties onto a virtual trampoline and they jump around your screen.
Puppy and Kitten Are Sisters From Another Mister
A rejected puppy has found a friend in a kitty who was also in need of family. Now the two are inseparable ... and utterly adorable!
A rejected puppy has found a friend in a kitty who was also in need of family. Now the two are inseparable ... and utterly adorable!
Cat Adopts Motherless Piglet
When it was rejected by its mom, this piglet in Romania joined a mama cat's brood.
When it was rejected by its mom, this piglet in Romania joined a mama cat's brood.
Most Popular Kitten Names of 2013
We've examined the names listed in Vetstreet's data to discover which were the most popular kitten names in 2013. Did your favorite make the list?
We've examined the names listed in Vetstreet's data to discover which were the most popular kitten names in 2013. Did your favorite make the list?
Kitten Is Crazy for Milk
A cute kitten falls all over himself trying to drink a bowl of milk.
A cute kitten falls all over himself trying to drink a bowl of milk.
We Found the Cutest Thing on the Internet
What do you get when you mix a sleepy puppy with a tiny, orange, completely smitten kitten? It might be more cuteness than you can handle. Consider yourself warned.
What do you get when you mix a sleepy puppy with a tiny, orange, completely smitten kitten? It might be more cuteness than you can handle. Consider yourself warned.
Video: How to Stop a Cat From Biting and Scratching
Playing with your cat shouldn't hurt! Mikkel Becker demonstrates how to get a cat to stop biting and scratching by using toys and puzzles. Check out the video.
Playing with your cat shouldn't hurt! Mikkel Becker demonstrates how to get a cat to stop biting and scratching by using toys and puzzles. Check out the video.
Source: Video: Tips for Crate-Training Your Cat
Photo app-maker Cooliris just announced that it has been acquired by Yahoo. The company was founded in 2006 and was initially known for creating a “3D wall” for navigating photos and other media content. More recently, its focus shifted to an app (also called Cooliris) that allowed users to browse photos from across services like Facebook, Instagram, and Flickr. It also launched… 
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Photo-sharing application Memoir, a Timehop competitor that allows you to rediscover old photo “memories,” has raised an additional $5.5 million in a round led by Redpoint Ventures’ Ryan Sarver. Others participating included prior investors Founder Collective, Box Group, Lerer Ventures and Thrive Capital. The company had previously raised $1.2 million in seed funding.… 
At this point, I should probably stop calling Livefyre a commenting platform.
Youbetme, the startup behind the social betting app of the same name, announced today that it has raised $2.7 million in Series A funding.
What good is a job search site or app when you’re not looking for a job? That’s the issue TheLadders is tackling with the launch of a new version of its iOS app and a new feature that it calls the Job Market Guide. CEO Alex Douzet told me that these are the first steps in a new direction for the company, which was founded in 2003. TheLadders was initially aimed at people looking… 
Early this year, Dropbox threw a glitzy launch event for its new photo storage and viewing app Carousel, and people went right on using the dozen other ways to keep and comb through memories. Despite Dropbox’s 300 million users, it saw less than a half million downloads on Android, and has hovered around #350 on the iOS photo app chart, falling out of the top 1500 apps overall less than… 
The final traces of the old foursquare are being wiped from existence, as the new Foursquare is currently going out as an update to Windows Phone users. This summer, Foursquare made an announcement, to the shock of many, that it would be splitting its long-surviving check-in app into two separate applications: Swarm and Foursquare. Swarm, which launched shortly thereafter, would take over… 
Salesforce.com is unveiling a new version of the Social Studio, its set of social media tools for marketers.
A lot of messaging apps have been highlighting how their services are a great way for people to directly communicate with their friends directly, in opposition to the bare-all nature of social networks like Facebook. But today Viber, the messaging app with 209 million users, is taking a different approach: it is launching Public Chats, giving users a way of using its direct messaging and… 
700 million people use Facebook Groups every month, but it’s a second-class experience on mobile, slow and buried in the social network’s main app. So today Facebook is releasing a standalone Groups app with powerful notification controls and a Groups discovery section. You won’t be forced to use it as the Groups feature will remain in the Facebook app, and you won’t… 
Snapchat doesn’t ask for your real name, but its on the debit card you use for its new peer-to-peer payments feature Snapcash. That could prove very lucrative for the ephemeral messaging service. Snapchat has just overhauled its privacy policy to allow it to collect additional identity information about users of Snapcash. We’ve also discovered code showing the feature can run an… 
There’s a good chance you’ve already heard about HowAboutWe, the latest startup featured in our TechCrunch TV series Built in Brooklyn — not just if you use the service yourself, but also because it was acquired by IAC a few months ago.
While Venmo, Google Wallet, and more try to take a business approach to peer-to-peer payments, Snapchat today swooped in from the consumer side. It just added a “Snapcash” payments option to its app through a deal with Square Cash. Now you can add a debit card, type a dollar amount into Snapchat’s text-chat feature, and hit the green pay button to instantly send a… 
A new site called Spaces is now launching as a place where mobile app designers can showcase interactive prototypes of their work, or browse one of many common user experiences from other popular apps – like the navigation in Facebook Paper, or how Dropbox’s Carousel app appears to first-time users, for example.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone’s Q&A app Jelly didn’t quite blow up, so today he’s launching a much weirder app called Super where you can share colorful statements, opinions and recommendations. It’s a lot like the private beta version of Super I stumbled into and profiled in September, but now everyone on iOS and Android can start yelling in all caps about their… 
Meet Antidate: another new kid on the dating app block. It’s aiming to stand out by putting a gender-skewed, asymmetric twist on the in-app experience. 
“BUY THIS!” “INSTALL NOW!’ “CONTEST!” Facebook is about to start punishing business Pages that publish spammy, aggressive marketing posts with these kind of words to the News Feed. Facebook will show them to a lot fewer of their fans, even if the Page paid for ads to get those fans. After a study of 500,000 users found they wanted to see less promotional… 
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Eric Eldon, who stepped in a few years ago to lead and stabilize TechCrunch after the departure of its founder Michael Arrington and many key staffers, has quietly been been dipping his toes back into journalism. This time it’s not about tech startups. He’s going into local journalism with Hoodline, a startup that grew out of a hyper-local blog about the Haight-Ashbury… 
DataFox, the online research platform that allows anyone to track information about private tech companies, has now brought its service to mobile in the form of a new iOS application. The free app provides DataFox subscribers with access to over 500,000 company one-pager’s, private and public lists, and an events stream detailing recent news on companies tracked, like new hires,… 
Uber now lets you play backseat DJ for your car’s sound system via Spotify in 10 cities. On my demo ride-along, I was impressed by how easy and seamless it works, as long as the driver is equipped. Music selections made on your phone quickly start playing through the driver’s app connected to the stereo, and there’s no data cost to the passenger or driver beyond the… 
The creators of coupon-code finder Honey, which helps online shoppers save at checkout, have now launched a new app called Milk (mmm…milk and honey…) that lets you save at the grocery store. The app is now one of many aimed at helping consumers save on consumer packaged good purchases, even if they don’t have time for clipping coupons from a newspaper. Today, there a lot of… 
There’s no shortage of places to go online to search for local movie showtimes to get your cinema fix. But, arguably, when it comes to the way search results are displayed, the majority of sites and apps appear to take their UI inspiration from newspaper movie listings of yesteryear, employing a simple list view. Or so says U.K. startup MovieGlu. 
Aereo, the streaming TV service that let users watch near-live TV on any internet-connected device, has today announced that the company is filing for Chapter 11 reorganization in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The company has appointed Lawton Bloom, from Argus, to serve as Chief Restructuring Officer during the gradual shut down process. This comes on the… 
Stock video company VideoBlocks is expanding beyond its subscription business model with the launch of a new marketplace for contributed content.
In the recent debates about how the business model for musicians and other creative artists is changing, one of the commonly repeated ideas is that you no longer have to reach a mass audience in order to make money — instead, you just need a small group of devoted fans. Musician Ryan Leslie told me he’s been pursuing that idea since he left his label Universal in 2010 —… 
FastPay, a startup offering credit to digital media companies, is announcing that it has raised $15 million in additional equity funding.
There’s nothing better than finding that special bar. The one that has your favorite scotch, or makes a mean margarita, or plays the perfect music. Finding that special bar, on the other hand, can be a real pain in the ass.
Ready for another GIF keyboard for iOS 8? Blippy has returned today with a new app that lets you create, save and discover new GIFs to use when messaging with your friends on your iPhone. The app serves to replace the earlier, also GIF-focused, Blippy iOS app, that was pulled from the App Store back in September. Those with long Internet memories may remember the name Blippy as being… 
Today Kaufmann Mercantile has announced the close of a $3.2 million Series A funding round led by 14W, with participation by Dave Morin, Justin Shaffer, and Slow Ventures, among others. 
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We’ll need to produce 70% more food by 2050 to sustain a world population expected to grow to 10 billion. Yet agriculture startups struggle to get the funding, manufacturing, and test facilities needed to build tech that could boost food production. To fix that disconnect, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors and Flextronics Lab IX today launched Farm2050, a… 
Jaunt wants to give you something to watch on makeshift virtual reality headsets like Google Cardboard, Dodocase, and Mirage. So today the 360-degree camera and VR production software maker launches its free Android app featuring the first of many planned VR content releases: on-stage and front row views of Paul McCartney playing “Live And Let Die” at San Francisco’s… 
Senator Al Franken, Chairman of the Subcommittee On Privacy, Technology, and the Law, has posted a public letter to Uber CEO Travis Kalanick in which he addresses many of the claims made over the past few days that the company has consistently compromised user privacy as a matter of course. “I am especially troubled because there appears to be evidence of practices inconsistent with… 