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“I can tell you that this is the last TechCrunch50,” event co-founder Jason Calacanis told humorist Loren Feldman last night in a video interview after the close of the third annual TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco. The event brought …
RedBeacon, a startup that helps people find local services like maids or repairmen, won best of show at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco today.
The startup is in many ways what Craigslist could have become for local services. Formed …
Fifty startups launched on-stage at the TechCrunch50 conference over the last few days. Despite a few duds, most presenters had cool ideas, solid products, or both. VentureBeat writer Kim-Mai Cutler and I watched all of the presentations, and now we’ve …
Whuffie Bank is a non-profit that want to build a virtual currency based on reputation that can be redeemed for goods and services.
This startup won the “Wildcard” slot at today’s TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco. The term Whuffie is …
There are a billion ways to share photos online, and even to gather all the photos taken at special events in one place. But more and more people are taking photos on their smartphones, and now Clixtr has created an …
Stribe builds social networks for publishers who wants to keep users glued to their site. The company launched at the TechCrunch50 conference today in San Francisco.
The French startup is trying to tackle the difficult problem of building social communities …
Radiusly, a company that launched at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco today, says it wants to be the new site for a company’s social media interactions.
The problem, the founders say, is that companies have little control over the …
Lissn is a social network that facilitates real-time, public conversations. The company launched at the TechCrunch50 conference today in San Francisco.
Lissn uses a technology it created called Diffusion, which is a push system that lets users see conversations unfold …
As people use more communication tools on the web, there are a number of startups trying to help them manage all the options at their disposal from a single location. The latest is Threadsy, which just launched at the TechCrunch50 …
Twitter chief operations officer Dick Costolo spoke briefly about his new position at the fast-growing microblogging network during the TechCrunch50 trade show in San Francisco.
Costolo, who sold Feedburner to Google two years ago for $100 million, started at Twitter …
Lots of people complain about Evite, the top site for online event invitations. A startup called Cocodot says it can shake up the market with a fancier service aimed at women, which connects online and physical invitations.
There are lots …
Hark! is browsing platform that allows many people to surf the web together. The company launched at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco today.
Instead of sharing a link by copying and pasting it into Twitter or Facebook, Hark! lets …
Crowd Fusion, the web publishing startup from Weblogs co-creator Brian Alvey that’s been in stealth mode, demonstrated its suite of publishing tools on-stage at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco today.
There are a lot of pieces to the Crowd …
AnyClip, a startup that launched at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco today, is a service that purports to let you find any moment from any film every made.
It’s a tall order. AnyClip says it searches through all the …
The web changes with incredible speed. Hence all the hype around the real-time web, i.e. new content. A startup called Perpetually is looking at the opposite side of the changing web — websites where old content disappears, or which disappear …
Insttant, a startup that launched the TechCrunch50 trade show in San Francisco, creates a real-time snapshot of news by aggregating tweets, shared links and photos.
“We don’t need to rely solely on mass media,” said 18-year-old founder Joe Langevin. However, …
A startup called Thoora wants to become the site where readers find every article and comment around the news stories that interest them, in real time.
The obvious competitor to the company, which just launched a limited beta test at …
Facebook bolstered its position as the world’s leading social network, surpassing the 300 million user mark and becoming cash-flow positive ahead of schedule.
In non-accountant terms: Facebook is making money. “Free cash-flow positive” means that the company is profitable after …
Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists complain frequently that few companies can have initial public offerings (IPOs) anymore, because the legal difficulties and compliance costs are so high. A startup called Sprowtt says many more companies will now be able to sell …
Glide Health, which launched at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco today, offers a set of web, desktop and mobile applications to allow healthcare professionals and patients to access their personal data in medical emergencies.
Glide Health’s founders say the …
