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  • June 3rd, 2013

    Come To The TechCrunch Singapore Meetup And Echelon After-Drinks Tonight

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    TechCrunch is serious about covering Asia Pacific. So we’re holding a TechCrunch meetup today after the Echelon conference where you can connect with TechCrunch writers and teach us about the region’s startup ecosystems. It’s from 6pm-8pm today, Tuesday June 4th at MOA New Zealand Bar, 5 Changi Business Park Central 1, Singapore City. → Read More

    May 28th, 2013

    Heading To Yahoo! And No! I Can’t Do Anything About The Exclamation Mark!

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    Today, I have to say goodbye to my current home, TechCrunch. I’ve not only gotten the opportunity to work with this amazing team as a writer and Community Director, but I’ve been able to enjoy it as a reader since June 11th, 2005. I’ll continue to be a reader. → Read More

    April 29th, 2013

    TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 Begins Now: View The Live Stream Here!

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    The Hackathon has come and gone, and it’s time for the main event. TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 begins now. If you’ve been a fan of Disrupt in the past, you’re in for a huge treat this beautiful April morning. We’ll be live streaming the entire event from start to finish, with today’s live stream starting at 8:45am ET and ending around 6pm each night. In the morning… → Read More

    April 2nd, 2013

    TechCrunch TV Relaunches On iTunes With Video And Audio-Only Podcasts

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    Pro tip: You can now watch, listen, and subscribe to our TechCrunch TV videos on iTunes. In addition to the video versions, each segment has an audio-only podcast, perfect while driving or working out.

    A few weeks ago, we quietly relaunched our redesigned iTunes site. After some tweaking, we’re now ready to get the word out. → Read More

    March 18th, 2013

    The New Salesforce.com CRM Platform Is Chatter And It’s Made For Mobile

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    Salesforce.com released an update to Chatter today that is designed specifically for mobile devices and represents the company’s next generation CRM platform.

    Chatter, the company’s activity stream service that it launched in 2010, now has the capability for a customer to access records, edit them and take action on an account, all from a mobile device. It essentially brings CRM to the… → Read More

    December 17th, 2012

    Morgan Stanley Fined $5M Over Facebook Research And Handling Of IPO By Massachusetts (UPDATED)

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    According to CNBC, Morgan Stanley has been fined $5M over its Facebook research practices. This is the second huge fine for Morgan Stanley, the first being over “noncompetitive trades” in June. Facebook’s stock jumped out of the gates and dipped dramatically, and Morgan Stanley filed a report based on its research afterwards, including why it was priced at $38: Our base case… → Read More

    November 14th, 2012

    TechCrunch Finally Has An iPhone App, And It Lets You Easily Share News And Read Things Later

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    When I first started at TechCrunch oh so many months ago, I asked the team “Why don’t we have an iPhone app?” As an iPhone user, I find it handy to be able to read on the go the news from the publication that I work for. I was told the team was working on one. Other than being quite stoked that we had a team for this, I impatiently waited to get my hands on it. Today, it’s available on the App→ Read More

    November 12th, 2012

    Chicago Meetup: Startup Sails Are Full In The Windy City

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    We did it Chicago. Thanks to you, we had a great meetup to close out our northern meetups series last week. People made the trek out to the Zhou B gallery on Chicago’s south side for a night of networking, complete with an impromptu pitch battle. It marked a great end to an amazing round of northern meetups, with equally great events in both Toronto and Detroit. → Read More

    November 9th, 2012

    Motor City Meetup: A Startup Hotbed In The Making

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    On a brisk November night the city of Detroit — no, the entire Detroit region — turned out for our first Meetup in the Motor City. We took over all four floors of Hockeytown Cafe. The crowd was as eclectic as the area: app builders, makers, curious onlookers, seasoned entrepreneurs, and a surprising amount of venture capitalists, who are… → Read More

    November 7th, 2012

    Content Wants To Be Free, And Qabila Media In Egypt Is Making It Happen [TCTV]

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    We’re very lucky at TechCrunch to get some really interesting and brilliant visitors. When I step foot into the office, I never know who’s going to show up next. Today, we had a great group of folks come in that are part of GIST (Global Innovation through Science and Technology). In our San Francisco office, we were able to speak with some cool up and coming entrepreneurs from all over the… → Read More

    October 23rd, 2012

    I Come Back To You Now At The Turn Of The Tide

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    A year ago sucked. I mean, it was actually great, but it sure seemed to suck at the time. We were getting CrunchFund off the ground and I think everyone thought we were going to do that in full conjunction with Aol — they were and are the largest limited partner of the fund, after all. → Read More

    September 21st, 2012

    Welcome To TechCrunch’s Words-Driven Friday

    For the rest of today, every story you read in TechCrunch’s main news river will contain words.

    This is an experiment, and it’s probably less of a risk than it might look. Words have always been central to TechCrunch’s approach. In fact, a huge number of our stories on any given day already include original words. Our word people call sources, check facts, and get words said to them for a… → Read More

    September 21st, 2012

    Meet CrunchScroll, A One-Stop Shop For All Things TechCrunch Powered By RebelMouse

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    One of the things that I wanted to do immediately when I joined TechCrunch was to create things that made browsing our news, Instagram photos and tweets pretty and interactive. I personally enjoy using our website, but we have so much more going on outside of it. → Read More

    September 19th, 2012

    Arrington Cam Outtake: A Part Of Him You’ve Never Seen

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    Can somebody please tell this guy that he doesn’t work here anymore? → Read More

    September 12th, 2012

    Ev Williams: I Was Not A Good Ski Bum

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    Ev Williams went through a phase after he left Twitter. He became a ski bum. It turned out he was not very good at it.

    Williams and Biz Stone appeared on stage today at Disrupt San Francisco 2012 to talk about their new venture – The Obvious Corp.

    Williams said he and his wife decided that it would be great just to be outdoors. He grew a beard. → Read More

    September 11th, 2012

    Salesforce To Compete Against Box With New, Cloud-Based File Sharing Product

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    At TechCrunch Disrupt today, Salesforce CEO and founder Marc Benioff revealed the SaaS company’s next product—file storage. We don’t know much more, but the new product will be announced next week at Salesforce’s conference, Dreamforce.

    Clearly, a file sharing product would compete against the likes of Box and a number of others. We’re assuming that the new product will be integrated with… → Read More

    September 7th, 2012

    You Asked For It: The Android TechCrunch App Is Finally Here

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    When we launched our iPad app (to much fanfare) you all asked us when the Android version was coming. We finally have an answer: Right now. It’s real and it’s spectacular.

    The new app, built by the excellent AOL team led by David South, is a nice port of our current iPad with lots of comment control, CrunchBase integration, and fancy, auto-resizing images. The app connects our blog content… → Read More

    September 6th, 2012

    Best Email Ever: How One Soldier Stationed In Afghanistan Got His Amazon News Today

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    It’s only my third official day on the job at TechCrunch, but it’s been a pretty awesome time thus far. We saw an email come through the wires that stopped us in our tracks during our Amazon coverage today. It was technology-related…but not.

    We have some great readers at TechCrunch, but this particular reader has an interesting story. He’s not in Silicon Valley, he’s in Afghanistan… → Read More

    September 4th, 2012

    Please Welcome Natasha Lomas And Darrell Etherington (And Drew Olanoff) To TechCrunch

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    Today, on behalf of the TechCrunch team, I’d like to welcome our two newest writers: Natasha Lomas and Darrell Etherington. → Read More

    August 15th, 2012

    The Girl Who Couldn’t Nap And Said She Never Had To

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    Once upon a time, in a land 3,000 miles away, Alexia wrote a post titled Arianna Wants To Put A Nap Room In TechCrunch HQ. Lol. It was in reference to NapQuest, a relatively awesome initiative at Aol/Huffington Post that includes a small room with a massage chair, a shelf full of books, complete with a full-fledged dentist-style reclining chair and a sleep sound machine.

    Along with some other… → Read More

    July 3rd, 2012

    For Your Pre-Fourth Celebration: The TechCrunch iPad App Just Got An Update

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    Our own beloved TechCrunch app, an app that is, at least in my opinion, the best TechCrunch-based application on the Internet today, has just been updated by our handsome and well-spoken dev team. The new app includes improved comment counts, a Crunchbase map that allows you to see where your favorite startups are based, and new sharing options including Instapaper. → Read More

    June 13th, 2012

    TechCrunch Is Holding Office Hours On Our Southeast Meetup Tour: Reserve Your Spot Now

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    We’re less than a month away from our Southeast Meetup Tour, where we’ll hit Savannah, Atlanta, Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte, and Greenville. It’s sure to be a mess of fun and a total mess all at the same time, just as it should be. We’ll toss back beers, munch on food that’s sure to make us fat, and chat about all the amazing work you guys are doing down south.

    We’re trying to make the very most… → Read More

    May 9th, 2012

    Oh What A Night: Photos From Last Night’s NYC Mini-Meetup

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    When we planned our mini meet-up series, we expected a few geeks in a bar somewhere drinking and swapping stories about C#. Nothing prepared us for the onslaught. At one point, 1,256 of us filled all three floors of Bar 13, a techno club near Union Square, and for most of the night I was jostled, bumped, and generally mauled by the crowd. It was, in a word, amazing.

    If you missed it, shame on… → Read More

    April 11th, 2012

    TC Live From The Richmond Mini-Meet Up

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    Here we go: it’s the last night of our whirlwind Virginia tour and this time we’re in Richmond, home of the Fan District, Altria (everyone’s favorite tobacco company), and our friends at Snagajob. It looks like this town is just starting to unwind a little and consider entrepreneurship as a viable alternative to the corporate life, so we’re pretty excited to be here.

    We’ll be doing full posts… → Read More

    March 31st, 2012

    Tired Of Straight Tech News? Check Out Techcrunch.com/Drama

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    We know that many of you visit TechCrunch on the regular for a hearty dose of startup coverage, general tech news and opinionated coverage of the tech zeitgeist. But we also know that the trainwreck posting on our hirings and firings, Aol spats, tech gossip and quibbles between staff is what really gets your fingers clicking and blood boiling.

    I mean, it’s like a car accident, you can’t help… → Read More

    February 28th, 2012

    What’s Happenin’ Youse East Coast Staaht Ups? We Want To Hear From You!

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    With all this fuzz and fizzle going down with TC inside politics, departures, and whispered depictions of TC as a sinking ship populated by the shambling walking dead, rats clawing through our brainpans and dropping out onto our laps as our fingers shamble across our filthy, befouled keyboards, low groans of agony and anger gurgling out of our deepest, darkest spaces, I thought it would be a good… → Read More

    January 18th, 2012

    No, We Have Not Been Hacked

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    This is a public service announcement to all four of you that visited http://technews.techcrunch.com today and were confused by the jazzy Black Oak Asset Management splash page above; No we have not been hacked. And, no, this is not some kind of elaborate and arcane SOPA/PIPA protest. And while it would be amazing if we did offer complimentary services from the top attorneys & CPA’s [sic] in… → Read More

    January 5th, 2012

    Announcing The 2011 Crunchies Finalists And Tickets On Sale Now

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    The nominations have been tabulated and the votes are in. Over 300,000 nominations were calculated across 20 categories. Along with our partners GigaOm and VentureBeat, we are very proud to announce the finalists for 2011′s best in technology. Voting begins now.

    For 2011, we’ve added some new categories. Best Location App, Best Cloud Services and Biggest Social Impact join the Crunchies ranks… → Read More

    December 21st, 2011

    Second Batch of Crunchies Tickets on Sale Now

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    I know that all of you have been waiting on pins and needles… refreshing the TechCrunch web page multiple times each day to see when the next batch of Crunchies tickets will be on sale. Well, today is the day! The second batch of tickets for the 5th Annual Crunchies Awards are available now. 200 tickets have been released for the annual event honoring the best achievements in tech brought to you… → Read More

    December 16th, 2011

    Mark Your Calendars—In 2012, TechCrunch Will Bring The Crunchies, Disrupt, And More Events

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    We are gearing up for 2012 and getting ready to bring you some major events you will want to put on your calendars. Our dates are already locked in for the Crunchies, Disrupt NYC and SF, and our annual summer bash at August Capital. International events are also in the works.

    The Crunchies—January 31

    TechCrunch will kick off 2012 with The Crunchies along with our partners GigaOm and… → Read More