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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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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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CrunchBase Has A New Mobile Site, Is Bigger Than Ever
We have some updates today from the other side of the TechCrunch office. The growing team at CrunchBase, our free database of tech companies, has a new mobile site available for your browsing pleasure. The site basically didn’t work in mobile before, but the new one is great. Check it out at m.crunchbase.com. The homepage is mainly a search box for that one hot startup you’re trying to… 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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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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TechCrunch China Is Our Latest International Expansion, And It’s Live Now
We’ve been busy expanding our coverage around the world and today our latest project is ready for you — if you’d prefer TechCrunch written in Chinese that is. You can now find translated TechCrunch articles available on TechCrunch.cn, via a partnership with Gang Lu and his Shanghai-based tech publication, Technode. We’ll gradually introduce original content in Chinese… Read More
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Angels Get Carry For Helping A Startup Raise Money With AngelList Syndicates
AngelList is testing out a new service that lets angel investors syndicate deals with each other, a feature that could allow startups to raise venture-sized rounds of money with relative ease. Called Syndicates, the private-beta product lets any accredited investor on the AngelList fundraising platform essentially create, lead and collect carry for a fund of angel money for a specific startup. Read More
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Josh Elman, A Product Manager’s Product Manager, Becomes Greylock’s Newest Partner
A key secret to Silicon Valley’s success is its professional class of employees who help build hit startup after hit startup in its formative stages. This know-how in engineering, product design, growth, business development, sales and a range of other roles allow the founders of a hot company to hire fast and quickly mature their new ideas into big, real businesses. Josh Elman is one of the… Read More
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Flipboard Brings Its Mobile Magazines To The Web
Flipboard started on mobile devices, but the magazine app is moving to the web today with the launch of a new site. Its 75 million registered users will be getting access to its superior formatting and curation features for articles, photos and video on their desktops and laptops. But why the web? The company has already added 25 million registered users since launching a do-it-yourself mobile… Read More
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Happy Birthday To Alex Wilhelm, Our Newest TechCrunch Writer
Alex Wilhelm is turning 24 today, but he’s been writing about tech since his sophomore year of college. So he’s joining us now with four solid years at The Next Web, where he wrote about Microsoft, finance, tech policy and the broad range of startups that have helped define this era. He’ll continue writing about those same topics and will also be focusing on monetization on… Read More
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CrunchBase And AngelList Have A Partnership
It used to be that you had to pay a bunch of money to get basic information about private tech companies, like how much they've raised and who they've acquired. CrunchBase made that free. And it used to be that you had to spend lots of time and money trying to network your way into some angel investor money. AngelList made that free. Now, the two have a deal. Read More
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After A Year Of Upgrading Yahoo, CEO Marissa Mayer To Join Us At Disrupt SF
After a big first year as CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer will be joining us on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this September. Tickets are on sale now -- come and hear what her plans are, now that she's made sweeping changes to the company culture and bought hot startups large and small. Read More
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Enterprise Leaders Marc Benioff, Jeff Weiner And Doug Leone At Disrupt SF
San Francisco, here comes Disrupt. Starting on September 7, our annual conference kicks off at the San Francisco Design Concourse. As usual we've rounded up Silicon Valley's luminary entrepreneurs and savviest investors along with the best up-and-coming startups. And this year's show is going to be great. Today we're excited to announce Marc Benioff, Doug Leone, and Jeff Weiner are set to take… Read More
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Tunebox Is An iTunes Match-Like App For Dropbox Music Files
When Dropbox bought Audiogalaxy late last year, industry observers wondered if the cloud music player startup could turn into a new audio streaming product. But Audiogalaxy was promptly shut down, and the team is rumored to be working on other Dropbox projects. Read More
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In Writing Platform Push, Draft Lets You Collaborate Then Publish Anywhere
Draft, a streamlined online word processor with version control, is getting deeper into the new professional publishing ecosystem. The one-man team of Nathan Kontny has just introduced a new REST API that'll let any news outfit or other publishing organization connect Draft to the other software it uses. If you're Buzzfeed or The Huffington Post* or another media company with a big mix of full… Read More
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We Want YOU To Be The New TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Editor
One of the most rewarding aspects of TechCrunch's Disrupt events is the Startup Battlefield -- like a mini-startup school, the dozens of chosen startups that go through the Battlefield training process end up with solid presentation skills, hard-earned pitching prowess and newfound courage. We're looking for a bright, talented person to help manage this process, to take our Startup Battlefield… Read More
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Business Intelligence Startup RJMetrics Raises $6.25M From Trinity Ventures For Ecommerce Boom
In the big new world of business intelligence, RJMetrics has found a market helping ecommerce companies easily analyze operations data and make smarter decisions as a result. Big startups have signed on, including Fab, Bonobos, Threadless and thousands of smaller businesses. Today, the momentum has landed the Philadelphia enterprise startup a $6.5 million first venture round led by Trinity… Read More
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Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion
Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC, the digital book and college book joint venture with Barnes & Noble and other investors, according to internal documents we've obtained. Read More
