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...Wunderkit Launches Beta...
Berlin-based startup 6Wunderkinder has just launched their private beta for their productivity suite Wunderkit . This is an extension to their simple, yet well designed task list manager Wunderlist, which was acclaimed both by early adopters and users. With Wunderkit the startup is now...
Best Overall Startup Dr...
Dropbox took home two of the big awards at this year’s Crunchies : Best Cloud Service and Best Overall Startup. Both times, CEO Drew Houston came backstage to talk about the company’s growth and its future. When asked about what he’s planning for 2012, Houston offered...
And The Crunchie Goes T...
Online pinboard Pinterest , the hot new startup that’s growing at a phenomenal rate , won the Crunchie for the Best New Startup of 2011 at this year’s Crunchies. (This, despite the fact that it actually launched in 2010). The reason? Crazy, crazy traffic and growth. In...
Jack Dorsey Defends Twi...
After Twitter creator, executive chairman, and product lead Jack Dorsey accepted the company’s award for Biggest Social Impact at the Crunchies, TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis asked him about a recent, controversial decision to block individual tweets on a country-by-country...
Dining Out? Mogl Grabs ...
Would you like some gamification with your french fries? Well, one San Diego-based startup is willing to bet you just might. Mogl , which describes itself as not only “a party in your wallet” but also a “four letter word you can say in front of your grandma,”...You Stopped SOPA. Now L...
Note from the editor: This is a guest post from Steve Case , the co-founder of AOL (which owns TechCrunch) and founder of Revolution. Case is the chairman of the Startup America Partnership and sits on the White House Jobs Council. In recent weeks, Americans from all walks of life came...Mobile Shopping App Che...
CheckPoints, a mobile shopping app that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2010, is rebranding today as InMarket. CheckPoints takes a more product centric approach to its shopping app. When you walk into a store, the app will show you featured products that you can scan with the built-in...
After Leo DiCaprio Inve...
Mobli , the startup behind the eponymous, much-hyped realtime photo and video sharing service, has struck a partnership with road racing cyclist and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong . Armstrong, a seven-time Tour de France champion, will be making use of a private Mobli channel to keep...