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TechCrunch: Twitter Acquires Local Discovery Startup Spindle, Will End Spindle Service
Twitter acquired Spindle, an app for local discovering, today. The Spindle team will move to San Francisco and shutter the Spindle app.
“We’ve spent the past two and a half years building a product that helps you answer the question: “What’s h...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 3:01pm -07:00T (179 words)
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TechCrunch: Microsoft Heeds Gamer Feedback, Dumps Xbox One DRM Restrictions
Attention gamers: you win. The folks at Redmond infuriated many when it revealed that the Xbox One would come with a long list of potential caveats — there was the automated 24 hour check-in to keep the console in playable condition, and the restric...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 3:01pm -07:00T (324 words)
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TechCrunch: Microsoft Was Close To A Nokia Acquisition Before Talks Broke Down Recently, WSJ Reports
Microsoft and Nokia have gotten pretty cosy over the past few years, and at the time of the announcement of the Finnish company’s decision to use Windows Phone OS to power its smartphones, many speculated it was the first overture for a coming acqui...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 1:46pm -07:00T (137 words)
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TechCrunch: Stratasys Acquiring MakerBot, Combined Company Will Likely Dominate 3D Printing Industry
Today Stratasys announced that it has acquired MakerBot in a deal the terms of which were not disclosed. The combination of the companies brings together a leader in 3D industrial printing and manufacturing, with the emerging leader in desktop 3D printing...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 1:46pm -07:00T (237 words)
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TechCrunch: Surprise! You Still Get Six More Days To Apply To Disrupt SF Battlefield
Procrastination is a bitch. We get it.
That’s why the new deadline to apply to TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield San Francisco, our preeminent startup competition, is this coming Monday, June 24.
In case you miss the thousands of posts we do about the...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 11:31am -07:00T (167 words)
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TechCrunch: Microsoft Launches Security Bounty Program, Will Pay Up To $100K For Exploits
Microsoft has long resisted this move, but starting June 26 — the date the Windows 8.1 preview will ship — it will finally launch its own security bounty program. The company will offer bounties up to $100,000 for “truly novel exploitati...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 11:31am -07:00T (456 words)
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TechCrunch: The Case For And Against Candy Crush-Maker King's Possible IPO
Zynga cast a long shadow when its stock tanked by about 75 percent in the first year after going public. But that apparently isn’t scaring off other contenders in the gaming industry from an IPO.
Over the past two weeks, I had heard from several sou...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 11:31am -07:00T (1498 words)
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TechCrunch: Vdio, The TV & Movie Streaming Service From Rdio, Launches To Public
Vdio, the video streaming service which launched into public beta this April as a complement to Rdio’s subscription music service, is today becoming available to all. Earlier, the service was available for preview in the U.S. and U.K., but only to t...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 10:16am -07:00T (459 words)
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TechCrunch: Google Launches New AdSense Scorecard To Help Publishers Better Understand Their Sites' Performance
Google launched a new scorecard in AdSense today that allows site owners to see how their properties are performing relative to other AdSense publishers. The scorecard is organized into three categories: revenue optimization, site health and Google+ (beca...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 10:16am -07:00T (255 words)
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TechCrunch: YC-Backed Videopixie Launches To Create A Marketplace For Video Editors
There are tons of raw video footage out there: Videos taken on vacation or school trips, videos of friends and family, videos taken to show off new restaurants and boutiques. And every day there’s more. But the problem of editing that footage is a p...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 10:16am -07:00T (418 words)
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TechCrunch: Blackboard Co-Founder Michael Chasen Raises $12.75M Series A For SocialRadar, A New Take On Location-Based People Discovery Apps
If you thought the “ambient location” craze has passed, prepare to be surprised. A company called SocialRadar is announcing today that it has raised $12.75 million in Series A funding from NEA, Grotech Ventures, and others including Steve C...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 9:16am -07:00T (893 words)
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TechCrunch: Customer Outreach Startup Intercom Raises $6M Round Led By The Social+Capital Partnership
Intercom, a startup promising to help online businesses to communicate with their customers in a more personalized way, has raised a $6 million Series A.
I wrote about the company last month, when Facebook’s Paul Adams joined Intercom as its new hea...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 9:16am -07:00T (432 words)
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TechCrunch: Hike, India's Mobile Messaging Upstart, Expands Language Support & Adds Offline Messaging, Stickers & More To Fuel Growth
There’s no room at the digital inn for more mobile messaging apps, but that’s not stopping them crowding in. Hike, an Indian mobile messaging app that’s only been around six months but has amassed more than five million registered users...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 9:16am -07:00T (723 words)
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TechCrunch: Rockmelt Brings Its Social Browser To Android With An Overhauled Interface
Back when Rockmelt killed off its social-centric desktop browser to focus on mobile, they promised that an Android version was on the way. Today, it arrives.
While the Rockmelt app for Android shares the same “core experience” as its iOS count...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 8:01am -07:00T (563 words)
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TechCrunch: The Open Source RepRap Simpson 3D Printer Design Reduces Friction, Uses Less “Vitaminsâ€
This is the Grounded Experimental Delta 3D printer aka the Simpson, a project built by computer science teacher Nicholas Seward that does away with the excess frames, pulleys, and hardware associated with earlier models. Seward wanted a machine that could...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 8:01am -07:00T (329 words)
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