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The Mission’s Digital Divide And Why Fixing It Matters
Between Mark Zuckerberg’s recent purchase of a home in the neighborhood and the regular anti-eviction and Google Bus protests that roll through Guerrero and 18th Street, the Mission District is the epicenter of San Francisco’s Gentrifi-pocalypse. Just last week, a developer bought a shuttered auto repair shop in the neighborhood for a citywide record of about $350,000 in… Read More -
Meet The Pitch-Off Winners Of The Austin And Seattle Meetups
After a long, exhilarating week hunting down the coolest new startups in Austin and Seattle, I’m proud to announce the winners of our recent TechCrunch Pitch-offs. They triumphed through a sixty-second pitch, stood up against a barrage of questions from local venture capitalists and TechCrunch editors, and most importantly, impressed hundreds of potential users in the audience. Read More -
That Time McDonald’s Launched A Digital Incubator in Silicon Valley
The fast food joint with over 300 billion served just opened shop in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. The twist is they’re making digital products, not hamburgers. The company’s tech hub at 658 Market Street has reportedly already hired a few engineers from PayPal, Facebook, AOL and Yahoo – and they’re looking to hire at least 20 more. Much like Starbucks… Read More -
After Moving East, AngelPad Tries To Bridge The SF And NYC Tech Worlds
Back in April, accelerator AngelPad held a demo day for 11 new startups at the San Francisco bar and restaurant 25 Lusk. The choice of location masked a big change — even though the accelerator was founded four years ago in San Francisco, and even though it still has offices there, AngelPad partners Thomas Korte and Carine Magescas have actually moved to New York City, and the… Read More -
Nutmeg Is The Answer To Your Sad, Gif-Free Existence
Because I love you, I’ve interrupted my regularly scheduled Saturday morning programming to bring you this breaking news update: THERE IS A NEW APP IN THE APP STORE THAT MAKES SENDING GIFS IN TEXT MESSAGES SUPER EASY! Read More -
Fab.com’s David Lapter Joins MakeSpace As CFO
MakeSpace, the NY-based startup that thinks of itself as a Dropbox for physical objects, has recently announced that it secured Fab.com CFO David Lapter as new Chief Financial Officer, and SVP of Business Operations. Read More -
The World Startup Report Releases ‘The Internet Hall Of Fame” With Data From 50 Countries
Last March, TechCrunch covered one of the World Startup Report’s first releases. Now the organization is back with an ambitious project that gathers insight from 150 companies in 50 countries with the idea of guiding aspiring entrepreneurs in different markets. Read More -
VigLink Raises $18M More To Help Publishers Make Money From Affiliate Links
Automated affiliate linking company VigLink is announcing that it has raised $18 million in Series C funding. The goal of VigLink, as well as competitors like Skimlinks, is to make the affiliate linking process (where publishers get paid by merchants when their links drive sales) easier and more automated — which, ultimately, should result in more money for online publishers. VigLink… Read More -
AdColony Says There Is No Deal With Opera
Mobile video ad company AdColony published a blog post this afternoon denying a TechCrunch report that it had either been acquired or was close to being acquired by Opera Software. Read More -
Facebook Messenger Adds Tap-And-Hold Video Sharing, Another Snapchat Feature
Why tell with text when you can show with video? Facebook Messenger is diving deeper into visual communication with a new option to instantly record and send short videos, similar to Snapchat. The feature comes to iOS today and is rolling out to Android. Messenger added pre-recorded video sharing and a split-screen selfie camera in April, but now you can tap and hold the camera button to fire… Read More
Sunday, June 15, 2014
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