Garage Sale App Rumgr Raises $500K From Zappos CEO (And Others)

Garage Sale App Rumgr R...

Three Zappos alums are trying to replicate the garage sale experience on your smartphone — and their startup  Rumgr just raised a $500,000 seed round from a group of investors that includes Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. Co-founder Dylan Bathurst says the basic idea came from his own attempts...

AOL Beats The Street, Q...

AOL reported better than expected fourth quarter earnings this morning. The company, which owns TechCrunch, reported revenue of $576.8 million, which is down 3 percent from Q4 2010 revenue of $596 million. Earnings came in at $0.23 per share, or $22.8 million, which is down 66 percent...

Congratulations Crunchi...

This year’s fifth annual Crunchies Awards has just finished up at the classy Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and it was a smashing success. We poked fun #humblebraggers, got cussed at by Siri, honored former TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde, and gave wild monkey trophies to...

Facebook News Feed Bug ...

Wait, what group? A bug has caused a significant percentage of Facebook users to see a message atop their news feed announcing “This group is scheduled to be archived”. But don’t worry, your news feed is safe. The alert shouldn’t have appeared there, and only...
London Implements “Smart Bins” Before 2012 Olympics

London Implements “Sm...

I’m not sure how I feel about this. The object you’re looking at right now is what the city of London calls a “smart bin.” Built by Renew, the smart bins are being installed on the streets of London and have two massive LCD screens slapped on the sides. According...
GreenCharge App Reveals Cost and Carbon Savings To Electric Car Drivers

GreenCharge App Reveals...

Electric car drivers deserve to see their positive impact on the environment and their wallets, but the official mobile apps for the Nissan LEAF and Chevy Bolt only display remaining battery. GreenCharge is a new iOS app released today that shows your car’s remaining charge, but...

Twitter’s Dick Costol...

Does Twitter need Google or does Google need Twitter? It’s a question complicated by recent events, such as the two companies not coming to an agreement to extend their previous partnership through which Google showed Tweets in search results. That deal wasn’t renewed,and...
Hey, Bromasters, Take Your Kenu Highline On The Slopes When You Shred

Hey, Bromasters, Take Y...

So you want to take a photo of you and your buds on the slopes or at the bar or at A&F or whatever and you know, just know you’re going drop that shnitz on the floor. So what do you need? A freakin’ Kevlar cord, Mr. Brojangles. That’s what you need. So this is the...

Is Bebo Finally Dead? (...

Update: Apparently all the online grieving was over a false alarm. A Bebo spokesperson just emailed me to say that the site was down due to “a technical clusterfuck” — it’s not actually dead. He also says that the site still has a niche audience, largely in the United...
The 5 Reasons Why Facebook Is Worth So Much Money

The 5 Reasons Why Faceb...

How did Facebook become worth so much money that it could  file for the biggest IPO in tech history ? By building a highly defensible product, platform, and advertising business on top of brilliant talent and valuable data. It now has several competitive advantages that protect it...

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