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What Really Happened At Twitter’s Pre S-1 Tea Time?
"With @Jack, @Ev & @biz at @Twitter today, together, guessing the IPO/S-1 filing will probably happen tomorrow," Om Malik tweeted last Thursday, presciently predicting the arrival of the company's S-1 a couple of hours -- not 24 hours -- later. Read More
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Announcing The Agenda For TechCrunch Disrupt Europe
On October 26th, TechCrunch Disrupt hits Europe for the first time and we're excited to announce the full agenda. The event spans four days, featuring industry titans, noted thought leaders and experienced entrepreneurs. There will be a hackathon, a hall full of young companies, and of course, Startup Battlefield where 15 startups will launch and compete for the vaunted Disrupt Cup and the grand… Read More
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Apple Buys Cue For Over $40M To Compete With Google Now
Personal assistant app Cue has been acquired, we've confirmed with a person who should know. The app has sold for between $40 million to $60 million, we're hearing from two sources, including TechCrunch tips, who posit that Apple has picked up the company for over a $35 million price tag. Read More
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Monsanto Buys Weather Big Data Company Climate Corporation For Around $1.1B
Today's big acquisition is a huge agritech exit: Biotech company Monsanto has bought Climate Corporation for approximately $1.1 billion. While the Monsanto press release says $930 million, we're hearing from investors that the actual price is past the $1 billion mark because part of the all-cash deal will be paid out over time, as an employee retention plan. Read More
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JustFab’s Checkout Tactics Are JustShady
This Hacker News complaint about JustFab scamming a user's girlfriend -- which gets resubmitted whenever JustFab raises money -- is a little off, because JustFab is not a scam in the traditional sense. The company is, however, abusing a tricky UI, loaded with dark pattern design gimmicks like forced continuity and sneak into basket -- all in the name of getting customers to sign up for a… Read More
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Everyone Should Be Welcome In Tech
Sexism in tech can be as subtle as a false assumption about engineering competence or as blatant as a couple of hackathon apps that made it onto our stage last week. Changing our hackathon rules will hopefully preclude sexist presentations. The salient issue is that we need to get more female participants onstage and in the audience at tech events — and change our culture to the point where… Read More
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The Final 6 Disrupt SF Startups: Cota, Dryft, Fates Forever, Layer, Regalii And Soil IQ
This year's TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco has hit attendance records and been one of the most exciting we've ever had. Over the past few days, 3200 people have walked through the concourse to watch Valley titans and newcomers hash it out with the TechCrunch team -- including Marc Benioff's moving story about Steve Jobs' role in the founding of Salesforce. Read More
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An Apology From TechCrunch
Normally our hackathons are a showcase for developers of all stripes to create and share something cool. But earlier today, the spirit of our event was marred by two misogynistic presentations. Sexism is a major problem in the tech industry, and we’ve worked hard to counteract it in our coverage and in our own hiring. Today’s issues resulted from a failure to properly screen our… Read More
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Announcing Your Disrupt SF Finals Judges: Marissa Mayer, Roelof Botha, Keith Rabois, David Lee, Chris Dixon And Michael Arrington
You'll see some startups trying to solve big problems in networking, business software and security next week during our Battlefield competition at Disrupt SF -- industries which at first glance may seem boring or overly complex but are extremely important to the world. You'll also see Battlefield companies working in more unusual areas, like government and agriculture, where there's huge… Read More
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Sebastian Thrun And Gavin Newsom To School Us At Disrupt SF
Former Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun believes that in 50 years there will only be ten institutions in the world that offer higher education, and that Udacity — a startup that offers STEM-heavy free online courses — will be one of them. Thrun may be on to something: As the platforms for information distribution broaden due to the Internet, more heavily regulated legacy industries… Read More
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Google Exec Departs Amidst Rumors Of Tangled Love Quadrangle
We've confirmed a report today that Android VP Hugo Barra is leaving Google for "Apple of China" Xiaomi. The report was timed to coincide with another story about the dissolution of Google co-founder Sergey Brin's marriage to 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki. And revealed that a person whom Hugo Barra had been in a previous relationship with was now dating Brin. Read More
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Caption Contest: VC Auction
While some of their brethren are off doing deals at Burning Man, a gaggle of venture capitalists are auctioning themselves off to the highest bidder, deadline today. If you’re an entrepreneur or aspiring entrepreneur, you now have a chance to guarantee a lunch with Jeremy Liew, David Lee, Aileen Lee, Jonathan Teo, Ethan Kurzweil, Josh Kopelman, Alfred Lin, Saar Gur, Hunter Walk, Josh Elman… Read More
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Vogue And The Tech Hard Sell
It isn’t often that one learns about cool apps from Vogue. In case you don’t read fashion magazines, American Vogue is basically like a seasonal shopping catalogue for women who find themselves, or aspire to find themselves, in the 1%. With an average cost of $4,375 per item displayed, there are very few people who can afford what Vogue is peddling. But those who can, buy. This… Read More
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Google Ventures Puts $258M Into Uber, Its Largest Deal Ever
A Certificate Of Incorporation unearthed by AllThingsD today shows that Uber has closed $361.2 million in its latest round. It's unknown why TPG, who picked up 775,092 shares, paid a lower per-share price than the other participants. The late-stage investor plunked down a total of $88.4 million in Uber. Existing investor Benchmark put in another $15 million in this round. Read More
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Tech Gets Its Own “Modest Proposal”
In Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" he postulates that one solution to the problem of poverty in Ireland is that the poor sell their offspring to rich people as food. In Patrick McConlogue's "Finding the unjustly homeless, and teaching them to code," he makes a similar logical leap, that fixing the "lost pieces" of humanity can happen with a couple of books of JavaScript How-Tos and an old… Read More
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High Leverage Individual Max Levchin To Speak At TechCrunch Disrupt SF
Technical co-founder, angel investor and PayPal mafia don Max Levchin once wrote a blog post about a concept he called “high leverage individuals.” He described these individuals thus: “People who act on their big ideas. They are capable of articulating a theory of how the world works today and how it should change, and then proceed to actually change the world, or at least… Read More
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Matthew Panzarino Joins TechCrunch As Senior Editor
Matthew Panzarino has been a professional photographer, hobbyist chef, hardware tinkerer, independent Apple blogger, and most recently the Managing Editor at The Next Web. 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. Less obviously, he has also impressed us with the scrappy, competitive news… Read More
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Om Malik, Father Of Tech News Blogging, American Citizen
Om Malik is good people. He is also as of today, after a cornucopia of Visas and a decade as a Green Card holder, an American citizen. For those of you not familiar with Om Malik, he happens to be one of the forefathers of professional tech news blogging, founding GigaOm in 2006 when he realized he was seeing more engagement on his personal website than at his then employer Business 2.0. Read More
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Why Jeff Bezos Bought The Washington Post For $250M
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Employer Tipped Off Police To Pressure Cooker And Backpack Searches, Not Google
In what might be Medium's first widespread Twitter moment, music writer Michele Catalano used the platform to blog details of an unexpected visit to her home yesterday, from six men she identifies as members of the "joint terrorism task force." Read More
