CrunchWeek: Twitter’s Purchase Of Bluefin, Perfecting Email With Mailbox, AOL, About.me And GDGT

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Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

Sunday, February 10th, 2013
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It’s time for CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show where a few of us writers take a look back at the past seven days and talk about a few of the week’s most interesting stories.

In this edition, Anthony Ha, Colleen Taylor and I discuss Twitter’s acquisition of social analytics company Bluefin Labs in its biggest purchase to date; the public launch of Mailbox, the email management app from the folks at Orchestra; and About.me’s spin off from AOL, as well as AOL’s rumored purchase of gadget review website GDGT.