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It hasn’t been a great couple of weeks for Box. First came word that Intralinks bought DocTrackr, an information rights management vendor that Box reportedly had its eye on. Then last…

Box IPO Delay Wouldn’t Be Without Compromises

Amid a market correction that has seen many tech stocks lose value, LinkedIn, the social network for the working world, today reported Q1 earnings that beat analyst estimates. Sales came…

LinkedIn Beats The Street In Q1 On Sales Of $473M, EPS Of $0.38, Raises Outlook

While the U.S. real estate market is still experiencing its ups and downs, the number of online real estate startups continues to increase quickly. The latest entrant in this business…

Flipt Wants To Help You Make Smarter Home Investment — And Flipping — Decisions

Babies, sweet bairns or waukrife rogues alike drink from bottles. But how is a poor parent to know how much the wee ones drank, how fresh the formula was, and…

Sleevely Tells You How Much Milk Your Wee Bairn Slurped All Day

Vine Launches A Six-Second YouTube

12:06 pm PDT • May 1, 2014

When Vine first launched on the web, all you could do was view your stream and check out profiles for individual users. The desktop version came with TV Mode, too,…

Vine Launches A Six-Second YouTube

It’s not where your friends are, but how close they are that matters. After years of exact coordinate check-ins, both Foursquare and Facebook are now focusing on ambient proximity –…

Ambient Proximity Is The Next Phase Of Location Sharing

Twitter has exploded again, which can only mean one thing: people can’t watch their shows on Netflix. Hell hath no fury like the scorn of someone halfway through a HIMYM…

Netflix Accidentally Pulls Popular Shows Off The Service

After this morning’s announcement that Foursquare will become Eightsquare in order to be a “true Yelp-killer,” we have the following advice to give competitor Yelp: “Screw it. Do three apps.”…

Screw It, Yelp Should Do Three Apps

Microsoft is issuing an update to Internet Explorer today that patches a very serious security issue in its browser. This issue came to light over the weekend and what made it…

Microsoft Patches Latest Internet Explorer Security Flaw — Even For XP Users

Vanhawks seeks to make bicycles smarter, and is starting with a bike called the Valour that is Bluetooth-enabled to connect with smartphones and other devices. That connectivity also provides the…

Meet The Vanhawks Valour, A Connected Bike With GPS Navigation To Help You Get Around

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Ben Horowitz’s story is nothing if not empowering, fascinating, and — to many in our community — relatable. In his new book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building A…

TechCrunch Giveaway: Ben Horowitz’s “The Hard Thing About Hard Things”

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired GreenButton, a U.S.- and New Zealand-based high-performance cloud-computing company that has long had a close relationship with Microsoft’s Azure group.

Robocoin, a popular bitcoin ATM provider, is announcing that they’re upgrading all of their ATMs to turn them into full service “banks” complete with account control, payment systems, and a…

Robocoin Is Leading The Way With The First ATM-Based “Bitcoin Banks”

After announcing last week that it would be filing suit against the U.S. Air Force over the government agency’s decision to award a contract for national defense-related rocket launches exclusively to the…

SpaceX Wins An Injunction Against United Launch Alliance’s Purchase Of Russian Rockets

NY-based MakeSpace, the Dropbox for physical objects, has today closed an $8 million Series A funding round led by Upfront Ventures, with participation from Founders Fund, OATV, and follow-ons from…

MakeSpace, The Dropbox For Physical Storage, Packs Up $8 Million Led By Upfront Ventures

Stamos Venios, Managing Partner of Data Elite says his company had a vision when they conceived of Data Elite, a lab of sorts, providing a support system for people with ideas…

First Class Graduates From Data Elite Big Data Lab

Kamcord, the SDK that allows gamers to record in-game video on mobile, has raised $7.1 million in Series A funding led by TransLink Capital with participation from SV Angel as…

Kamcord, The SDK That Allows You To Record Mobile Games, Raises $7.1M From TransLink Capital

A Kickstarter-backed gadget called the Golden Goose is a new kitchen utility that lets you scramble eggs in the shell. Why? Because you can. I have to admit, I sort…

The Golden Goose, A Nifty Gadget That Scrambles Eggs In Their Shells, Kills It On Kickstarter

Nobody going to rain on Box‘s cloud. The cloud-storage startup hit the news yesterday when the WSJ reported that it would be delaying its IPO to June, a story that was further…

Box: Our IPO Has Never Had A Set Date, We’ll Go When It Makes Sense

Amazon’s smartphone is looking more and more like an imminent reality, and now BGR is bringing what it says is the first look at the actual design of the hardware…

Amazon’s Smartphone Design Reportedly Leaks, Looks Like A Galaxy S Crossed With An iPhone