Welcome back, startup fans. It’s time for another day packed full of tech illuminati, breaking news, and genuinely amazing companies making their debuts. Our agenda for today includes a great number of investors, entrepreneurs, mayors of major cities, and someone who calls himself Chamillionaire.
As always, we’ll be streaming live all day long, as well as taping behind-the-scenes footage and interviews. And as always, employ the #tcdisrupt hashtag for Twitter, Flickr, blog posts, and all the other usual methods of propagating information.
Those of you attending: don’t forget to spend some time in Startup Alley and vote for your favorite; pleasant surprises abound, like yesterday’s crowd-pleasing Miso Music. We’ll be updating this post with significant developments, interesting external coverage, and whatever else we think might improve your Disrupt experience, so refresh early and often.
Today’s developments:
- We got bought by AOL (Mike explains)
- 500m users? Facebook could go public “at a cattle auction”
- Interview with the $2bn company you never heard of, Green Dot
- Eric Schmidt spoke very intelligently and at length on a number of topics
- Yammer launched the version of its “enterprise social network,” complete with apps
- The issue of women being unrepresented in tech was addressed and solved definitively
- Chamillionaire explained why he follows tech, and why he wants to leave Universal
- MobilePay, today’s audience choice, made a serious impression
Other coverage:
- The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, TechFlash, and many other outlets are reporting our new partnership.
- VentureBeat chimed in on Eric Schmidt’s talk and interpreted Schmidt’s slightly evasive answer to my admittedly open-ended question
- The Register took a crack at it as well
- CNET found Schmidt’s tech utopianism slightly disturbing