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Nodle, which is competing in the TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin Startup Battlefield this week, is based on a simple premise: What if you could crowdsource the connectivity of smart sensors by offloading it

Open Garden launched its mesh networking platform at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2012. Since then, the company has gone through a few iterations and found unexpected success in its Firechat offline messagin

Bridgefy, which is launching in our Disrupt SF Battlefield today, allows developers to build a mesh network into their mobile apps so that their users and apps can still communicate, even when those d

Open Garden, the company behind the FireChat offline messenger, is now the mesh networking tech behind its apps available for all developers. The company today announced the launch of its MeshKit SDK,

Decentralized chat app FireChat is adding a new feature that could help disseminate critical info like storm warnings, health advisories and so on when the normal communications grid is down. Truth be

FireChat, Disrupt alum Open Garden's popular off-the-grid messaging app, is getting a major update today that introduces private messaging that can even bridge local networks. The major innovation of

Firechat, Open Garden's mobile chat app that uses a mesh network to let you chat with the people around you even when there is no Internet connection, has seen a huge uptick in usage wherever there is

Open Garden launched at TechCrunch Disrupt NY more than two years ago. At that time, the company was focused on building a mesh network for Android phones, but since then, it has also found success th

Open Garden's Firechat was one of the first -- if not the first -- application to make use of Apple's new multi-peer mesh networking capabilities. This enabled its users to anonymously chat with each

We all know that chat apps are pretty hot right now and there are plenty of companies hoping for a WhatsApp-like exit. For the most part, all of those apps are pretty similar, but FireChat, which is l

Many members of the tech community have lent their skills to help Super Typhoon Haiyan rescue efforts in the Philippines. These include Viber, which rolled out a new feature called Viber Out, and peop

<a target="_blank" href="http://opengarden.com/">Open Garden</a>, a former TC Startup Battlefield contestant, launched its latest product today. <a target="_blank" href="https://play.google.com/store/

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

<a target="_blank" href="http://opengarden.com/">Open Garden</a>, one of the finalists at <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/21/open-garden-lets-you-crowdsource-your-mobile-connectivity/">TechCru

<a target="_blank" href="http://opengarden.com/">Open Garden</a>, the TechCrunch Disrupt New York 2012 Battlefield <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/22/the-final-six-disrupt-nyc-startups-ark-ba

<a target="_blank" href="http://opengarden.com/">Open Garden</a>, a Disrupt New York 2012 Battlefield <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/22/the-final-six-disrupt-nyc-startups-ark-babelverse-gtar-

<a target="_blank" href="http://opengarden.com/">Open Garden</a> was definitely one of the most interesting and ambitious startups to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/21/open-garden-lets-you-

It's been a whirlwind couple of days here in New York, as our expert judges watched earnest startups pitch their hearts out onstage at the third annual TechCrunch Disrupt NY. Thirty startups presented

It has been a wild week so far at this year's <a href="https://techcrunch.com/events/disrupt-ny-2012/">TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City</a>. Rainstorms and traffic jams couldn't stop nearly 2,000 p

Our very first day of <a href="https://techcrunch.com/events/disrupt-ny-2012/">Disrupt NYC</a> is over and the conference started off with a bang. We had memorable chats, dove into fashion for a bit,