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It's never good for someone inside an organization
to defend its actions to the outside. It smacks of self-serving and
one-sided debate, and, as the Bard wrote, "the lady doth protest too
much, methinks."
Be here I go protesting too much.
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Fresh on the heels of TC Disrupt NY, we're already thinking about our next events.
Austin and
Seattle,
are you ready to get down with TechCrunch? Our tour will take place the
week of June 10, but we want to open up applications to the Pitch-Off
as soon as possible. What is the pitch-off, you ask?
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Account management startup
Manilla says that it will be shutting down on July 1.
We received several tips about the shutdown today, then when I visited the site and tried to sign up, I was directed to
this announcement,
which says that the service will continue to operate as normal until
June 30. After that, users will no longer be able to upload new
documents, and it will not retrieve any new…
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This week, TechCrunch was consumed by Disrupt NY
2014. It was an amazing week, and made even better by the appearance of
three hardware companies in our Disrupt Battlefield finals.
Mink, an inkjet printer hack that prints out makeup, wowed the audience. ISI Technology reinvented the water heater with the
HeatWorks Model 1, and
Mimi focused on making hearing enhancement devices accessible to…
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Dattch, the far more sophisticated version of
Tinder aimed exclusively at queer women, is today launching in Los
Angeles with some updated features.
Dattch is currently operating in the UK and San Francisco, with New York
next on the list.
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When you make a really big mistake, the best
possible outcome is that you learn from it and never make it again. It
would seem Netflix has done that, based on an email sent out Friday
about the company's pricing plan.
The price of the streaming service is going from $7.99 to $8.99 for new
customers, but existing Netflix subscribers will stay at the $8 price
point for the next two years.
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Shakr Media announced today that has raised a
total of $3 million in funding to expand its tech platform, which
enables small companies to automatically create video clips from
snippets of information. This amount includes its previous seed round of
$700,000. Shakr's latest investor is POSCO Venture Capital, which also
helped secure matching funds from the South Korean government.
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As mobile payment startup Square faces reports
that it’s delaying an IPO amid growth problems and other
pressures, iZettle, the Swedish mobile payments company that has been
referred to as the Square of Europe, has raised another €40 million
($55.5 million). In an interview, CEO and founder Jacob de Geer said the
funding will be used to continue building out its business, namely…
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LimeRoad has closed $15 million in funding, which
it says is one of the largest Series B rounds secured by an online
commerce company in India. Investment was led by Tiger Global. LimeRoad,
a fashion discovery platform, says that it plans to use the capital to
grow its site, as well as its Android app, which launched today to reach
India's nearly 100 million smartphone users.
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Oyster,
a startup that offers offers unlimited access to its collection of
e-books for $9.99 per month, has crossed a nice milestone — it says its
library now includes 500,000 books, compared to 100,000 when
it launched in September of last year.
The company also said it recently expanded its partnership with
HarperCollins, bringing 10,000 more of the publisher's titles (including
Beautiful…
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