TechCrunch:
Among the 800 or so employees laid off by Microsoft today: Don Dodge, Microsoft’s Director of Business Development for the Emerging Business Team, reporting to VP Dan’l Lewin. Don writes about the change on his personal blog (Read More)
Twitter / JasonCalacanis:
Jason: @lindsaydavies started new policy: follow folks who are tweeting about #twist #mahalo or #techcrunch50 #tc50 or replying to me!. (Read More)
Submitted by stewbagz
from blog:
Jason Calacanis Los Angeles Ca I'M A Cereal Entrepreneur Founder Of Weblogs Inc. Techcrunch50 Silicon Alley Reporter Engadget Mahal
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VentureBeat:
Tonight’s insidery discussion on The Future of the Embargo is already turning into another topic among the gossipy reporters who cover the local Internet economy: Why does TechCrunch editor Mike Arrington agree to do events, (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Zong has seen tremendous growth over the past year from when the company debuted its mobile payments service from the TechCrunch50 demo pit. Zong’s model of billing micropayments to your cell phone bill caught our eye and sur (Read More)
Twitter / JasonCalacanis:
Jason: @ifroggy @Ribeezie depends on labeling. if it's a sponsored panel (like we have at lunch at TechCrunch50) that's fine. if not disclosed,well. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Tapjoy, the small development shop that brought us the incredible TapDefense for the iPhone [iTunes link], has quietly built out an extremely strong toolset to provide monetization options for app developers. Through two stro (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
We’re pleased to announce you that GazoPa enters open beta just now. More than one year has passed since its launch of private beta at TechCrunch50 in 2008 and over 40,000 users participated in private beta testing. Thank you (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Startup oDesk received rave reviews at this years TechCrunch50 conference thanks to its innovative workplace platform. The startup was voted as demopit winner with the launch of a new iPhone application that allows project ad (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Anyone who has played though some of the more popular casual games on social networks like Facebook has likely come across ‘Offers’ — sponsored promotions you can sign up for or surveys you can take to earn virtual currency i (Read More)
TechCrunch:
We’ve seen plenty of sites emerge over the last few years that are built around helping users share media: Facebook is the largest photo sharing site on the planet, but there’s also media-centric sites like Flickr that have (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
Thoora, which helps people discover what the world is really talking about, marked the official launch today of its real time news discovery service at BlogWorld Expo.Thoora’s free service had previously been in private beta (Read More)
TechCrunch:
There was more than one attendee at TechCrunch50 last month that thought stealth startup Clicker deserved to win the top prize. The company has created a video search engine that really helps users find the content they’re lo (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
The wait is finally over, at least for those lucky TechCrunch readers in the Bay Area. Today, TechCrunch50 winner. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
The wait is finally over, at least for those lucky TechCrunch readers in the Bay Area. Today, TechCrunch50 winner RedBeacon is opening its doors to San Francisco and the surrounding area, allowing users to submit requests to (Read More)
TechCrunch:
At TechCrunch we’ve been big fans of Dropbox for a long time now — the company launched at 2008’s TechCrunch50, we use the service to share images and documents on a daily basis, and we’re even impressed by the demo video the (Read More)
VentureBeat:
The iPhone is a pretty good way to kill short bursts of idle time — for example, I picked up an addiction to Apple’s Poker game after I started playing during a couple times a day while I waited for a bus. Now there’s a app t (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
TechCrunch50 startup Threadsy debuted its all-in-one, web-based communications client a few weeks ago and received positive reviews from the judges and audience, making it as a. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
TechCrunch50 startup Threadsy debuted its all-in-one, web-based communications client a few weeks ago and received positive reviews from the judges and audience, making it as a finalist at the conference. Three weeks later, t (Read More)
Twitter / JasonCalacanis:
Jason: @StartupTrekTV wrong. Sponsor of techcrunch50 pay 5-35k. It makes healthy, but modest profit compared to Web 2.0, TED and WSJ D conferences. (Read More)