It's no secret that many deals have been struck and key relationships formed at TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington's former house in Atherton. In case you aren't familiar, Arrington threw epic parties at his home for the tech community in the early days...Box: The Path From Arrington’s Backyard To A Billion Dollar Business
It's no secret that many deals have been struck and key relationships formed at TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington's former house in Atherton. In case you aren't familiar, Arrington threw epic parties at his home for the tech community in the early days...Klout Releases New, Speedier API; Now Serves 1 Billion API Calls Per Day
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...eBay Adds Barcode Scanning, Personalization, Better Image Quality To New Version Of iPad App
eBay was one of the first e-commerce giants to launch an iPad app following the device's debut in 2010. As we've heard many times, mobile commerce is a huge growth area for eBay and the company is placing some pretty big...Salesforce Acquires YC-Backed Collaborative Text Editor Stypi
It looks like the team from Y Combinator-backed Stypi is heading to Salesforce, according to this blog post. UPDATE: We've confirmed that Salesforce has acquired Stypi. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
As we reported last year,...Flickr Adds Pinterest Buttons To Photo Sharing; All Images Will Be Pinned With Attributions
Yahoo-owned Flickr is one of the largest content sources for Pinterest, with users posting Flickr images on the pinboard sharing site in droves. But in order to Pin a Flickr photo on Pinterest, you had to use Pinterest's own Pin button,...Newvem Raises $4M From Greylock, Eric Schmidt To Help AWS Customers Spend Less Money
EXCLUSIVE-Startup Newvem, which offers a SaaS based service for Amazon/AWS customers that aims to help businesses spend less money and gain more value from Amazon’s cloud infrastructure, has raised $4 million in funding from Greylock Partners with participation from Index Ventures...Pindrop Security Raises $1M From Andreessen Horowitz To Detect And Block Phone Fraud
Pindrop Security, a startup that aims to prevent and protect against phone-based fraud, has raised $1 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, GRA Venture Fund, New World Ventures, Sigma Partners, and Webb Investment Network led by former eBay COO...Greylock Deepens Enterprise Experience, Adds Former BladeLogic CEO And BMC President As Venture Partner
Greylock Partners has been long focused on two distinct areas when it comes to venture investments—consumer and enterprise. The last consumer partner hire the firm made was former CEO of Mozilla, John Lilly. And today, the firm is deepening...Weathermob Nabs Funding To Make Sharing Weather Reports More Social
Weathermob, a mobile, social network for sharing weather reports around the globe, has raised $360,000 in new funding from a number of angel investors including Christopher Austin, Tim Albright, Drew Volpe and Mark Hastings.
Via a free iOS app, Weathermob allows anyone...Jack Dorsey Talks Square, Twitter, And Instagram-Facebook With Charlie Rose
Twitter co-founder, and Square CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey sat down with Charlie Rose yesterday (you can watch the full video clip here) to talk about the two companies he's developed as well as Facebook's...Fashion Retail And Styling Platform JustFab Seeing Over $100M In Revenue And Expanding Internationally
JustFab, a fashion retail and styling platform, is announcing a number of new metrics today, including over $100 million in yearly revenue as well as international expansion.
JustFab was incubated by Intelligent Beauty in March 2010 and has since grown to...Finally, Professional Social Network LinkedIn Gives Users An iPad App
Although the iPad has been available for more than two years, LinkedIn has yet to offer its users a native app despite the fact that mobile engagement has been growing at a fast pace for the network. But last August, LinkedIn...