Top Stories of the Day // May 2, 2013

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Disrupt NY wrapped last night with Enigma winning the Startup Battlefield, taking home $50,000 and the coveted Disrupt Cup. The event has ended, but you can still check out all of this year's action here. Go Now!

Today's Top Stories // May 2, 2013

And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 Is... Enigma!

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Readying For An IPO, Peer-To-Peer Lending Marketplace Lending Club Raises $125M From Google And Others At $1.6B Valuation

Peer-to-peer lending platform Lending Club is announcing a huge new investor today: Google. Google and existing investor Foundation Capital have put $125... read more

Philz Coffee Raises Eight-Figure Round From Summit, Angels, As Specialty Coffee Market Heats Up

I've found that when people visit San Francisco, it's not unusual to hear them ask something like: "No seriously, is there a coffee shop on every block in this... read more

Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei Sellers Are Struggling As Phones Get Cheaper

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China Is Investing $810M In Beidou, A Navigation System It Hopes Will Eventually Rival GPS

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New York Startup Scene Shines At TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013

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Stylish Office Products & Furnishing E-Tailer Poppin Raises $11.1 Million Series B, Prepares Offline Expansion

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FeedHenry Secures $9M Funding Led By Intel Capital To Feed Boom in Mobile Enterprise

If, say, a company uses both Sharepoint and Salesforce inside a mobile app, to get that data into one app they need multiple levels of API integration. Because... read more

MasterFX Photo App Claims To Make You A Michelangelo Not An Instagram Sheep

Photo and video apps have rocketed up the app store charts driven by apps like Instagram and Vine, becoming the third largest category in iOS downloads. Most... read more

Survey Finds UK Startups Upbeat On Growth And Revenues, Downbeat On Fundraising

Startups in the UK are upbeat about the future and usually more profitable (comparatively) than their US counterparts (which tend to focus on growth over... read more

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Top Stories of the Day // May 1, 2013

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 Posted by bloggerdaddy 0 comments
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Disrupt NY wraps tonight, but you can still catch the action happening live at the Manhattan Center. Tune in now to watch Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary take the Disrupt stage, and for more must-see moments check out the agenda so you don't miss out. Watch Now

Today's Top Stories // May 1, 2013

Dots, The Most Beautiful Mobile Game I've Ever Seen

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The 7 Disrupt NY Finalists: Enigma, Floored, Glide, Handle, HealthyOut, SupplyShift And Zenefits

More than 2,000 people have filled up the historic Manhattan Center with our biggest hackathon and Startup Alley yet, and a set of incisive discussions with... read more

Pathgate Part 2? No One Cares.

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Rap Genius' Co-Founder Apologizes To Zuck (Then Says They'll Be Bigger Than Facebook)

If you aren't at Disrupt NY or watchin' the livestream back at home, you just missed something … pretty special.... read more

LinkedIn Raises Your Profile, Now Lets You Add Photos, Videos, PowerPoints And Comments From Others

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Webydo Makes It Easier For Designers To Build Websites By Creating The Code For Them

Webydo is a cloud-based SaaS for designers who want to be able to sell their website design services without having to get their own hands dirty doing any... read more

Placed Insights Debuts, Bringing ComScore-Like Analytics & Ratings To The Physical World

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App Install Ads Could Be The Growing Cash Calf Of Facebook's Earnings

How do you get hundreds of millions of people to consider downloading your app? One of the only answers is Facebook's app install ads. With the app stores... read more

After Being Hit With A Sting Operation In NYC, SideCar Asks Users To Lobby Mayor Bloomberg For Ride Sharing

Ride-sharing startup SideCar received the first enforcement action against it since launching in the city in March, as a couple of its drivers were stopped by... read more

Rap Genius Is Getting Into Breaking News Analysis With News Genius

The founders of lyric website Rap Genius revealed today that they're starting to move into annotating news content too, under the name News Genius.... read more

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Top Stories of the Day // May 1, 2013

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Disrupt NY wraps tonight, but you can still catch the action happening live at the Manhattan Center. Tune in now to watch Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary take the Disrupt stage, and for more must-see moments check out the agenda so you don't miss out. Watch Now

Today's Top Stories // May 1, 2013

Dots, The Most Beautiful Mobile Game I've Ever Seen

read more

The 7 Disrupt NY Finalists: Enigma, Floored, Glide, Handle, HealthyOut, SupplyShift And Zenefits

More than 2,000 people have filled up the historic Manhattan Center with our biggest hackathon and Startup Alley yet, and a set of incisive discussions with... read more

Pathgate Part 2? No One Cares.

read more

Rap Genius' Co-Founder Apologizes To Zuck (Then Says They'll Be Bigger Than Facebook)

If you aren't at Disrupt NY or watchin' the livestream back at home, you just missed something … pretty special.... read more

LinkedIn Raises Your Profile, Now Lets You Add Photos, Videos, PowerPoints And Comments From Others

read more

Webydo Makes It Easier For Designers To Build Websites By Creating The Code For Them

Webydo is a cloud-based SaaS for designers who want to be able to sell their website design services without having to get their own hands dirty doing any... read more

Placed Insights Debuts, Bringing ComScore-Like Analytics & Ratings To The Physical World

read more

App Install Ads Could Be The Growing Cash Calf Of Facebook's Earnings

How do you get hundreds of millions of people to consider downloading your app? One of the only answers is Facebook's app install ads. With the app stores... read more

After Being Hit With A Sting Operation In NYC, SideCar Asks Users To Lobby Mayor Bloomberg For Ride Sharing

Ride-sharing startup SideCar received the first enforcement action against it since launching in the city in March, as a couple of its drivers were stopped by... read more

Rap Genius Is Getting Into Breaking News Analysis With News Genius

The founders of lyric website Rap Genius revealed today that they're starting to move into annotating news content too, under the name News Genius.... read more

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Top Stories of the Day // April 30, 2013

Tuesday, April 30, 2013 Posted by bloggerdaddy 0 comments
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Disrupt NY begins today and you can catch all of the action happening live at the Manhattan Center: here! The conference runs Monday-Wednesday and check out the agenda so you won't miss a thing. Watch Now

Today's Top Stories // Apr 30, 2013

Microsoft Launches Preview Of Skype For Outlook.com

Microsoft has announced that it is launching a preview of Skype for Outlook.com starting in the UK. The service will be made available in the U.S. and Germany... read more

Games Company Releases Version For Pirates That Forces Them To Fail Constantly, Irony Lost On Pirates

This is a fascinating little blip that popped up this morning and bears a mention. Games company GreenHeart released an $8 game called Game Dev Tycoon. The... read more

Twitter Is Testing Out Its Official Google Glass App In The Wild

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Fred Wilson On Pitching A VC: Leave The Backstory At Home

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Facebook's Graph Search Supremo Lars Rasmussen On Relocating To London, Building A New Team, And The Challenges Of Natural Language

Lars Rasmussen, one of the two engineering directors who led in the creation of Facebook's new Graph Search and helps run its development, is leaving Menlo Park... read more

Jawbone Acquires BodyMedia For Over $100 Million To Give It An Edge In Wearable Health Tracking

It was just about two months ago that Jawbone snapped up mobile health startup Massive Health, and now the company has acquired an even more prominent player in... read more

On Track For $250M In 2013 Sales, Fab Pivots Again, Buys Custom Furniture Shop Massivkonzept And Opens Retail Storefront

Design-focused retail site Fab has announced its new pivot, along with an acquisition and much more.... read more

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins Says Tablets "Not A Good Business Model," Evidently Forgetting About iPad

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins seems to be among the most transparent executives in tech in terms of showing his hand regarding future product plans, which may... read more

Jawbone UP Becomes A Platform With New Partners, Open API Coming Soon

Jawbone is doing something a lot of developers will probably be interested in, by opening up the UP fitness tracking wristband as a platform play, with an open... read more

ClickTale Raises $17M For Its In-Page Analytics

ClickTale, a company that helps businesses understand what visitors are actually doing on their websites, just announced that it has raised $17 million in... read more

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