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Online sample sale site Gilt Groupe, is debuting its free iPad app today, letting users access its flash sales directly from the device. Gilt Groupe’s sales on luxury goods on its properties, including Gilt, Gilt Fuse, and Gilt Man, can all be accessed directly from the app.
The app allows you to receive real-time [...]
Fri, April 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Over the past few months, Automattic’s popular blog platform WordPress.com has taken an in-depth look at their blogging ecosystem, and realized that one of the major pain points for the 12.1 million users who self-host their WordPress blogs is security and restoration. WordPress.com backs up all of the blogs that it hosts, but those users [...]
Tue, March 30 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
As I’ve made abundantly clear over the past several days, just about every service that has anything to do with location is launching something at the SXSW festival which starts tomorrow in Austin, Texas. Don’t believe me, here’s a small sampling (Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, Whrrl, Plancast, Brizzly, Twitter). So, how are you going to wrap [...]
Fri, March 12 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Boston-based DataXu, provider of a real-time online ad bidding and optimization system, has secured $11 million in Series B funding to add to the $7.8 million in financing it raised in an earlier round (April 2009).
The company, which was a finalist at last year’s edition of the TechCrunch50 conference and startup launchpad, raised the additional [...]
Mon, March 8 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
You know all those share buttons across the Web? They are getting more and more social. What I mean by that is initially they were used to share stories or content mostly via email on a one-to-one basis, but over the past year or so services like Facebook and Twitter have been overtaking [...]
Tue, March 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
We wanted to take a minute to thank all of our readers and sponsors. Because of you, we have been able to grow explosively in the past year, now getting over 30 million pageviews and reaching more than 9 million unique visitors per month across our network!
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Sat, February 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Super-angel Ron Conway, who is one of the most prolific and successful investors in Silicon Valley, is expanding his SV Angel fund to include outside investors (recently he has invested only his own capital in startups). He is raising a new fund of around $10 million, we’ve confirmed.
Conway, who was called the “Godfather of Silicon [...]
Fri, February 26 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
It was only a few months ago that StockTwits, a real time platform for stock traders to share information, broke away from Twitter and forged ahead on its own. Part of that separation was the creation of a desktop AIR application that created an entire investor ecosystem, including video, news and charts. Now those features [...]
Thu, February 18 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
There’s a certain irony that TechCrunch’s in-house satirist Paul Carr is currently slaving over the sequel to his book about his failure to launch a startup. Fridaycities was to be a site which allowed anyone to swap information in real time about London, and eventually other cities. The site failed, Paul wrote his book (and [...]
Sun, February 7 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
EventVue set out three years ago to transform the way people interact with and network during events. Today, sadly, they have announced they are shutting down.
In an overlay message that appears now on the main site, co-founders Rob Johnson and Josh Fraser write:
Dear customers, friends, and fans -
We have made the difficult decision to shut [...]
Sat, February 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
