UK Daily Deals Aggregator Coupobox Sells Up To DealCollector In Another Sign Of Consolidation

Today comes news of a small but indicative acquisition in the area of daily deals: the UK-based deals aggregator <a href="http://www.coupobox.co.uk">Coupobox</a> has been bought by rival site <a href=

AdMob Founder’s Churn Labs To Shut Down, Team Members Lured Away By Their New Startups

The end is in sight for <a target="_blank" href="http://www.churnlabs.com">Churn Labs</a>, the startup generator created by AdMob founder Omar Hamoui and AdMob's first engineer Mike Rowehl. Two new co

Big Data For Higher Ed: With $4.1M From First Round, Floodgate, Former Kaplan Exec Launches Civitas Learning

To improve academic outcomes and keep students in school, teachers, learners and administrators need access to insight in realtime. Big data, predictive analytics, machine learning and recommendation

Facebook Finally Cracks Down On Auto-Sharing Spam With “10-Second Rule”

If you hate accidental auto-sharing, you're in luck. Now you have to be <a href="http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/05/30/platform-updates--operation-developer-love/">watching or reading so

Now At 17M+ Users, Rebtel Brings Cheap VoIP Calls, Texts To The iPad

With Skype under Microsoft ownership, <a href="http://www.rebtel.com/">Rebtel</a> now claims to be the largest independent mobile VoIP provider, with 17 million users in over 200 countries accessing i

Fred Wilson Talks NYC’s Tech Scene, The Effect Of Angel Investors, And More [TCTV]

If you want to learn about the booming tech startup scene in New York City, it doesn't get much better than talking to <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/fred-wilson">Fred Wilson</a>. Wilson ha

Is Facebook Down? Yes It Was For Some But Anonymous Not Responsible For Two-Hour Outage

<em>"Let me tell you the difference between Facebook and everyone else, we don't crash EVER!" - 'Mark Zuckerberg', The Social Network.</em> Not quite. Facebook has been offline or slow to load for som

BlackBerry PlayBook Update Adds Improved Android Compatibility

The <a HREF="https://techcrunch.com/tag/RIM">RIM</a> <a HREF="https://techcrunch.com/tag/PlayBook">PlayBook</a> by just received a developers update that adds some interesting new Android functionalit

Kickstarter Responds To Hidden “Failed Project” Claims

Yancey Strickler, co-founder of <a HREF="https://techcrunch.com/tag/Kickstarter">Kickstarter</a>, dropped us a line about the systems in place to "hide" failed projects. He told us that Kickstarter do

Solar Mosaic Raises $2.5 Million Series A To Be The “Kickstarter For Solar”

<a href="http://solarmosaic.com/">Solar Mosaic</a>, an Oakland, California-based startup that is creating a crowdfunding platform specifically for solar energy projects, has taken on $2.5 million in S

The Rumored iPhone 5’s Four Inch Front Panel Can Nearly Swallow An Old iPhone Whole

Another day, another iPhone 5 leak. This time we're looking at a four-inch long front panel of what appears to be a new iPhone. This panel suggests a longer, 16:9 style body and screen and lines up

Timing Is Everything: Indie Movie Discovery Platform Prescreen To Close Its Doors

It was just last September that we <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/09/14/prescreen-launches-as-a-social-discovery-platform-for-indie-movies/">covered the launch of Prescreen</a>, the startup foun

Fly Or Die: HTC Evo 4G LTE [TCTV]

I'm smack dab in the middle of my HTC Evo 4G LTE review (the full review will be up tomorrow), but as I judge, I felt the need to bring John Biggs into the mix for a little Fly or Die. Now, John i

First Impressions On Fluent, The Startup Promising “The Future Of Email”

Y Combinator's Paul Graham <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/10/paul-grahams-billion-dollar-ideas/">recently begged entrepreneurs</a> to consider "<a href="http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

Google Calls Its Smart Ad Relevance System “Smart Ass” (Yes, Seriously)

What's the best thing that I (and others) learned <a href="http://allthingsd.com/conferences/d/d10/about/">at D10</a> this year? (Other than the fact that Steve Jobs <a href="https://techcrunch.com/20

Chrome SVP Sundar Pichai Confirms Chrome Is (Mostly) Beating IE

Remember <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/21/statcounter-google-chrome-pushes-past-microsofts-internet-explorer-again/">this report</a> about Google Chrome passing Microsoft's Internet Explorer

Microsoft Launches Windows 8 Release Preview

Microsoft just <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/31/delivering-the-windows-8-release-preview.aspx">announced</a> that the Windows 8 Release Preview, the company's final pre-release v

SEO Was Yesterday. 500 Startups’ PostRocket Fires Up $610K For Facebook News Feed Optimization

Businesses struggle to come up with what to post to their Facebook Page each day, and making those posts actually get seen is a difficult as the dark arts. That's why <a href="http://getpostrocket.com

OnSwipe Heads To The iPhone, Launches Layout Personalization With OnSwipe Draft

OnSwipe's been around for <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/04/14/onswipe-tablet-publishing-tctv-demo/">a little over a year</a>, and since <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/12/onswipe/">rais

“In the Studio,” PublikDemand’s Courtney Powell is Building a Better Business Bureau for the Social Age

"In the Studio" begins the summer by welcoming an entrepreneur from Austin who worked in various roles at different startups before she tried to return a cable box to TimeWarner, an experience which m
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