Sometimes you want to be out partying on a Friday night and simply can't muster the energy. It happens. But last year at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, a service launched that aimed to solve that p
<a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/shaker">Shaker</a> won TechCrunch Disrupt SF last year with its <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/09/12/shaker/">3-D virtual nightclub</a> built on top of
Shaker's certainly been keeping busy ever since they won our <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/09/14/and-the-winner-of-techcrunch-disrupt-is-shaker/">Disrupt</a> competition back in September -- no
<blockquote><em>"'What?.' 'We made it to Disrupt,' Sarah said calmly. 'We screamed so hard we woke up the building.'"</em></blockquote>
After the screaming ended, the Israel-based Shaker team ditched
It's been a very busy week at TechCrunch with our Disrupt conference and other internal disruptions, so you may have missed some great and revealing interviews. Devin Coldewey wrote a post with the <
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Three days and 31 startup pitches later, the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2011 has been determined. Out of the 29 startups and two audience choice winners, we whittled the list down to <
The <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/09/14/the-2011-disrupt-sf-battlefield-final-round-companies/">TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield</a> semifinals started off in an unorthodox way, with mode
We are two days into Disrupt SF, and <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/09/12/meet-the-startups-that-made-it-to-the-tc-disrupt-battlefield-sf-2011/">31 startups</a> have battled in front of the judg
Facebook is the social network. But it's still not really all that social. Yes, you chat here and "like" things there. But it's not the same as going out to a bar with a group of friends. <a href="htt
Below are the 29 startups that were chosen, out of roughly 650 applicants, to pitch their business ideas over the next few days at the <a href="http://disrupt.beta.techcrunch.com/SF2011/startup-battle
Looking for an inexpensive MP3 player to use for working out, showing off to tourists, and/or other general merriment? Buy.com has the SanDisk Sansa Shaker for the low, low price of $14.99, which incl
Don’t want your music-loving 8- to 11-year-old running around with an iPod? SanDisk targets “tweens” with its new Sansa Shake — a kid-friendly player that stores music on Secur