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 | John Biggs If you listen closely, you can hear it: the eye of the console storm. We are between technologies and the big hardware makers know it. It's a move from an... read more | |  | Colleen Taylor It's been a couple of weeks since the last CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show that brings a few writers together to chat about some of the most buzzed-about... read more | |  | Mike Butcher It seems every country needs it's own Square clone there days. iZettle has been busy populating Europe, alongside Payleven, to name just two. Indeed, Mexico has... read more | |  | Cyril Ebersweiler and Benjamin Joffe If the printing press was about "anyone can read," the web about "anyone can write," the hardware ecosystem changed enough to say today "anyone can build." This... read more | |  | Leena Rao As with many startups, Zendesk's origins began at a table with a few laptops, three co-founders and lots of coffee. But the founding of the customer service... read more | |  | Natasha Lomas Nokia is preparing to rev up its engines in the location space and drive towards the future of maps. The company whose name is still synonymous with mobile... read more | |  | John Biggs Back in the days before worldwide Disrupts and 1,300-person meetups, I used to land in countries and hold ad hoc meetups in various countries. Well I'm doing it... read more | |  | The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — act their age in the style of Steve... read more | |  | Location-based messaging has been tried before, and in a world where messages go in streams, go global, and go... read more | |  | It’s cliché to point out that most overnight successes in technology actually take years of work, yet in... read more | | | To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here. | | |
