May 14th, 2013

Open Garden Gets Google Glass To Connect To Its Mesh Network, Asks Google To Make It Available To All

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Open Garden, the San Francisco-based startup that allows Android, Windows and Mac users to create mesh networks between their devices to share Internet connections, today announced that it has managed to get Google Glass to connect to its network. This matters because Glass users typically need a tethering plan to connect to the Internet (which is pretty much essential to using Glass). Those plans… → Read More

March 4th, 2013

Open Garden 2.0 Makes Sharing Your WiFi And Mobile Connections Easier And Faster

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Open Garden, one of the finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt New York last year, just launched the newest version of its Android, Mac and Windows app that makes sharing your mobile internet connections even easier. In many ways, this 2.0 release, which the company presented at the Launch conference this morning, fulfills the promises Open Garden made when it first launched. → Read More

January 25th, 2013

Open Garden And TextMe Team Up So Android Tablet Users Can Text, Call, & Video Chat Even When They Don’t Have A Signal

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Open Garden, the TechCrunch Disrupt New York 2012 Battlefield finalist which allows users to share their wireless data connections with others, is today announcing its first partnership with another software company, TextMe, a mobile communications app with over 8 million users. The deal will allow users of TextMe on Android tablets the ability to text and make voice or video calls using their… → Read More

September 12th, 2012

Open Garden, A TechCrunch Disrupt NY Battlefield Finalist, Raises $2M Seed Round

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Open Garden, a Disrupt New York 2012 Battlefield finalist, just announced that it has raised a $2 million seed round from a group of leading technology industry angel investors. The service, which allows Android, PC and Mac users to securely and seamlessly connect their phones, tablets, and computers in order to share their wireless data connections with others, has been downloaded more than… → Read More

June 20th, 2012

100,000 Downloads Later, TC Disrupt Finalist Open Garden Launches Update, Improves User Experience

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Open Garden was definitely one of the most interesting and ambitious startups to launch at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York last month. The service, which helps you share and crowdsource your mobile connectivity, was one of the Startup Battlefield finalists and even though it lost to Uberconference, the company got a lot of momentum out of its launch. Today, Open Garden’s CEO and… → Read More

May 21st, 2012

Open Garden Lets You Crowdsource Your Mobile Connectivity

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What if you couldn’t just share your Internet connection with the few WiFi devices tethered to your phone or hotspot, but with pretty much everybody around you? Open Garden, which is launching at Disrupt today, lets you create a mesh network that ties together all the Open Garden-enabled devices around you into one large network that then automatically shares Internet access and bandwidth between… → Read More