Wappwolf’s Automator ...

Previously we’ve covered Dropbox Automator , a sort of IFTTT for Dropbox. (IFTTT, if you haven’t heard, automates tasks to trigger when a particular action has occurred, e.g. if a Facebook profile picture changes, then update a Twitter profile, etc). Like IFTTT, Dropbox...
Engrade Grabs $3M From Wireless Generation Co-founder To Help Teachers Manage Their Classrooms

Engrade Grabs $3M From ...

As a high school student in 2003, Bri Holt found himself increasingly frustrated by the fact that there was no easy way for he and his classmates to view their grades online. So, being familiar with the wizardry of web development, Holt decided to build his own, laying the foundations...

Klout Releases New, Spe...

Klout , the startup that measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn , YouTube, Foursquare , Google+ and other social apps, has just released a new version of its API and released a number of new stats about its API usage. Klout evaluates users’ behavior with complex ranking...

Better Late Than Never:...

Music streaming provider Deezer is one of the bigger (and older — it’s been around since 2006) services of its kind, with some 20 million registered users in 48 territories, and 15 million tracks in its catalog — but it has failed to capture mindshare in quite the same...
Look Out Pair, Cupple Is Out To Break Up This Cosy Private Sharing Party

Look Out Pair, Cupple I...

While Pair are popping champagne corks at their funding round today, they better not swig too much bubbly because tomorrow they may have to check out their rear-view mirrors. Co-founder Oleg Kostour seems to think the company’s closest competitor in the ‘private sharing’...

ChowNow Launches As A F...

There are plenty of companies and startups that want to disrupt the food ordering space including Seamless, GrubHub and others. A new competitor is entering the space today. ChowNow is an online ordering platform built for mobile and Facebook, and aims to provide restaurants with an easy...

A Run Down Of The Mobil...

MLOVE is a European mobile conference with a difference. If a mobile conference was crossed with TED and a music festival, that’s vaguely like MLove. Its big annual event is in an old East German castle 200 miles outside of Berlin. Yes, it’s as exotic as it sounds. But this...

StumbleUpon Reaches 25M...

CEO Garrett Camp tells me that content discovery service StumbleUpon hit 25 million registered users earlier this week, and that those users are pretty damn active — the service is now seeing 1.2 billion Stumbles a month. For someone like me, who sees the impressive traffic that...
Twitter and LinkedIn Manage Tasks With Asana, New API Means Robots Can Too

Twitter and LinkedIn Ma...

What could be a better endorsement of your product’s quality than having some of the hottest companies in tech relying on it? Launched in November , task management software Asana is already being used by Twitter, Uber, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Rdio, NationBuilder, and Airbnb. This...
Startups: Time For Another One-Sentence Pitch Competition With The Founder Institute

Startups: Time For Anot...

Last December, TechCrunch worked with Adeo Ressi from The Founder Institute to host a competition for one-sentence pitches. It’s been a few months — so we’re doing it again. Distilling your startup idea into a single sentence can be a big challenge, but it’s crucial...

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