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techcrunch.com AppDirect, a company that offers white-label cloud-based app stores, has today announced $8.5 million in funding to ride the wave of interest in cloud services and continue its expansion in partnership with third parties. And today the...
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techcrunch.com Usually when we think of a pivot, we think of a company that has decided to drop its core offering and market a different product or service. Obvious Corporation put ODEO up for sale and focused on Twitter. BRBN shuttered its location check-in...
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techcrunch.com You may remember StartApp from their September 2011 launch, or perhaps from the $4 million the company raised in March. But today, 10 months after the initial launch, StartApp is back with the news that its search monetization software...
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techcrunch.com This morning Google announced the launch of a new service that delivers Gmail messages over SMS. The service, simply called Gmail SMS, is currently available only in emerging markets where smartphone penetration is low and internet connections...
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techcrunch.com Last week we got a little clue that Facebook was gearing up to take its App Center to markets outside the U.S., when it began to appear in the UK. As of today, it's official: Facebook has now extended the App Center to Australia, Canada,...
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techcrunch.com No, really, what is Google? TechCrunch co-editor Alexia Tsotsis recently posted an interesting piece about Google's focus, or rather the perceived lack of it. Google has its fingers in so many pies that there are quite a few angles from...
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techcrunch.com Blackberry's future is the tech debate du jour, with pundits on either side promising either a BB10 renaissance or a slow-motion tailspin. While the jury was still out, we had a few moments to speak with RIM CEO Thorsten Heins about RIM's...
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techcrunch.com Happy weekend, readers! Unless your boss is making you work this weekend, you’ve got two days of freedom ahead of you. If you want to spend that time making new friends or meeting people with similar interests, a new startup called At The...
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techcrunch.com Microsoft recently announced that it's taking a huge $6.2 Billion writedown over the failed aQuantive acquisition. This news, and the scrutiny of Facebook's business model following their IPO drama, show that, in online advertising, it's...
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techcrunch.com “Don’t let him climb a wall. We haven’t finalized his life insurance plan.” That was one of the first directions I was given at Digg when I started in early 2008. “Him” was Kevin Rose, the founder of the widely popular social news site,...
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techcrunch.com Andreessen Horowitz announced a whopping $100 million investment in GitHub this week. You can read commentary and speculation all over the web about what GitHub will do with the money, whether this was a good investment for Andreessen Horowitz...
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techcrunch.com Dalton Caldwell is a very smart guy who has been a prominent entrepreneur and programmer on the Silicon Valley scene for a while now, so any time he announces a new project you can pretty much tell it is going to be newsworthy. A blog post...
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techcrunch.com There's been a lot of talk on the concept of minimum viable product lately, but not much has been written on how to actually implement one. Having gone through the process of developing one of the earliest social software mashups (GROU.PS)...
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techcrunch.com The lore is that news doesn't really break at Allen and Co's Sun Valley mogul retreat, but it definitely gets made. Everywhere you look there's an interesting pairing of successful individuals hanging out, which is what you'd assume would...
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techcrunch.com Imagine this: you get an email message. Maybe it's from someone important, like the Dalai Lama or Lorenzo Lamas. But how do you know that it came? Easy. The Blink(1). The Blink(1) is a little LED that lights up when something happens on...
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us.glamlife.me SAN DIEGO (AP) — The last time E L James came to Comic-Con, she participated in a panel for fans who wrote fiction inspired by the hugely popular "Twi...
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us.glamlife.me WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama said the nation's top designers in fashion, architecture, landscapes and technology were making life better through t...
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techcrunch.com This summer's AngelHack was a little more ambitious than your average hackathon. Instead of holding one event in one location over one weekend, it held hackathons in four different cities (Seattle, Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York),...
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techcrunch.com Over the past day or so, a few lucky souls have managed to get their hands on Google's much-anticipated Nexus 7 tablet, leaving the rest of us to wonder when our time would come. As it turns out, the answer is very soon. After their...
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techcrunch.com This week, Kellan Elliott-McCrea launched a new Twitter search engine called
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techcrunch.com This week the BBC tested out Facebook advertising by running a campaign for the Facebook page of a fictitious small business called VirtualBagel. The investigation was headlined
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techcrunch.com Sun Valley aside, the story of the day today is that social news site Digg has sold its remaining assets for $500K to the NYC-based tech firm Betaworks; While that number is indeed in the ballpark, we're hearing from multiple sources that...
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techcrunch.com The charming folks at Rebtel wanted you and yours to have a great July 4th (even if you're British, South African, Chinese, or any other nationality that doesn't celebrate the Fourth). That said, they're offering four 7-inch Galaxy Tab...
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techcrunch.com If you get a sudden hankering to watch Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" (who hasn't?), and the only device handy is your iPhone, starting today there's even less standing between you and instant gratification. Vevo (the joint venture...
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techcrunch.com It's a good time to be Kickstarter. The crowdfunding platform has had a blockbuster year, breaking into mainstream consciousness with campaigns that raised millions of dollars, like the Pebble e-paper watch above. The platform has seen...