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TechCrunch: Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Mayfield Fund's Navin Chaddha This week on TechCrunch TV’s Ask A VC show, we have Mayfield Fund Managing Director Navin Chaddha in the studio. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here and we’ll ask them during the show.
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Dateline: 2013-05-20 2:16pm -07:00T (166 words)
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TechCrunch: Inside Microsoft's ‘Geek 2 Chic' Fashion Show, Where Tech Types Strike A Pose For Charity [TCTV]
The tech-dominated San Francisco Bay Area isn’t exactly known as a hub for high fashion — Facebook’s new James Perse staff hoodies are about as fancy as things get around here — and fashion shows aren’t typically in our purv...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 2:16pm -07:00T (179 words)
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TechCrunch: Laptop Week Review: The Dell XPS 13 Developers Edition With Ubuntu Features:
Runs Ubuntu out of the box
13.3-inch screen
256 GB SSD
Intel Core i7 Processor
MSRP: $1,549 with rebate
Pros:
Excellent Ubuntu performance out of the box
Thin and light
12 second boot time
Cons:
No SD card slot
Limited software choices
Grap...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 1:01pm -07:00T (1061 words)
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TechCrunch: Square Cash Will Let You Send Money To Your Friends By Email Square’s not just for businesses apparently, as an invite-only page for a product called “Square Cash” has popped up. Not many details are known about it, but we’ve reached out to the company for comment.
UPDATE: A Square represent...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 1:01pm -07:00T (353 words)
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TechCrunch: AngelPad-Backed DroneDeploy Wants To Help You Manage Your Legion Of Drones The valley has a bit of a thing for drones lately — have you noticed? Airware, which builds brains for commercial unmanned aircrafts, just raised $10.7M. Longtime Wired Magazine editor Chris Anderson left his position to go fulltime on his DIY drone com...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 1:01pm -07:00T (493 words)
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TechCrunch: Keen On… Peter Hirshberg: Why Smart Entrepreneurs Should Care About Smart Cities
Last week, representatives of many of the world’s leading cities – including London, Boston, Mexico City, Barcelona and Christchurch – came to San Francisco to learn from Silicon Valley entrepreneurs about how to make their cities smart...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 11:46am -07:00T (228 words)
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TechCrunch: Google+ Gets A Refresh For Android To Mirror Its 41 Update Extravaganza From I/O, Adds New Location Section Today, Google updated its Google+ app for Android to get up to speed with all of the changes announced during last week’s I/O Developers conference. In all, there were 41 new updates, including a new stream, photos experience and Hangouts.
The Andr...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 11:46am -07:00T (429 words)
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TechCrunch: AT&T Will Begin Enabling Pre-Loaded Video Chat Apps, Like Hangouts, For Those On Any Data Plan Later This Year As AT&T comes under the gun for blocking Google’s new video chat app Hangouts on its cellular network, the company is today hoping to put a better spin on the news by offering a new statement detailing its changing position on support for pre-loaded...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 11:46am -07:00T (598 words)
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TechCrunch: Amazon Studios Picks Up “Alpha House†Comedy Series Starring John Goodman, Gives “Zombieland†The Axe In the wake of releasing eight comedy series pilots into the wild last month, Amazon is starting to make decisions concerning which pilots will be purchased for development and which will get the axe.
According to Reuters, the company has chosen to build ...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 10:31am -07:00T (403 words)
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TechCrunch: Study: Free Computers Don't Close The Rich-Poor Education Gap According to a new study, we really don’t have to worry too much about the nearly 1 in 4 children without access to FarmVille at home.
“Our results indicate that computer ownership alone is unlikely to have much of an impact on short-term scho...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 10:31am -07:00T (435 words)
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TechCrunch: Tumblr Updates iOS App With New Path-Like Interface Tumblr is still shipping. Despite all the noise surrounding the Yahoo-Tumblr acquisition, the company has just pushed out an update to its iOS application introducing a new user interface that now includes the almost Path-like post chooser, previously in...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 10:31am -07:00T (277 words)
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TechCrunch: Siri Competitor Maluuba Brings Sports Results And TV Schedules To Its Android And Windows Phone Apps Maluuba, the Waterloo, Canada-based Siri competitor and TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 Battlefield finalist, today announced that it has added two new features to its voice-powered personal assistant app for Android and Windows Phone: sports and TV schedules....
Dateline: 2013-05-20 9:16am -07:00T (333 words)
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TechCrunch: E-Commerce Startup Monogram Launches A Publishing Platform For Shoppable Fashion Magazines Last fall, fashion commerce startup Monogram launched an iPad app that was aiming to be kind of like a mobile, shoppable magazine for those hip to fashion. It had all the makings of a great mobile commerce app: It looked good, it was easy to use, and it a...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 9:16am -07:00T (588 words)
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TechCrunch: Dijit Brings Its Personalized Social TV App To PCs With The Launch Of NextGuide Web If the last few years have all been about building compelling mobile-first or mobile-only experiences, the latest trend seems to be bringing those experiences back to the web. (Just look at Instagram!) Anyway, with that in mind, social TV startup Dijit be...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 9:16am -07:00T (404 words)
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TechCrunch: Jolla's Software Chief Says Co-Creation Is What Makes The MeeGo Startup's Phone Hardware So Special Jolla, a Finnish startup formed in response to Nokia’s decision to ditch MeeGo in favour of Windows Phone, has finally taken the wraps off the smartphone hardware that will be paired with its “unlike” Sailfish UI. Being a startup is chal...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 8:01am -07:00T (1505 words)
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