According to tech pundit and blogger Robert Scoble, Google will be launching a new product that will compete with the wildly popular Flipboard iPad app. “My source says that the versions he’s seen so far are mind-blowing good,” he wrote on his Google+ page. READ MORE
When you spend a large chunk of your day, for three straight days, watching enthusiastic tech entrepreneurs distill their products and services into a six-minute quick pitch in front of a rotating cast of industry heavyweights, you start to recognize some basic do’s and don’ts. Here’s are five simple take-aways from TechCrunch Disrupt SF’s Start-up Battlefield: READ MORE
From Monday to Wednesday in San Francisco, TechCrunch’s latest Disrupt Start-up Battlefield competition will showcase entrepreneurs from 30 start-ups vying for a $50,000 prize by making six-minute-long quick pitches to a rotating panel of venture capitalists, tech influencers, angel investors and Silicon Valley players. Monday featured three sessions of Start-up Battlefield, titled Disrupting Traditional Markets, Moving the Web Forward and Entertain Us; here are the start-ups presented in session two, Moving the Web Forward. READ MORE
For a news organization, CNN has remained surprisingly tight-lipped about the possible purchase of Zite, a news aggregation app. According to TechCrunch, the two companies have been in acquisition talks. Now that Flipboard has proven the survivability of these kinds of apps, expect similar deals to follow. READ MORE
Ashton Kutcher can breathe a sigh of relief: the tech-savvy celebrity will not face an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. READ MORE
Flipboard has released version 1.5 of its popular social newsreading app for the iPad, increasing navigability and increasing the number of available RSS and social feeds for browsing. New partners like The Economist and LinkedIn are also onboard, offering new ways to share relevant stories with peers. READ MORE
Do you like Pandora and Flipboard? Are you looking for new ways to be entertained by your iPad? Does the idea of combining your social networks and your video-viewing appeal to you? If you answered yes to all these, you’ll probably love Plizy, a start-up iPad app that uses your social network, Twitter stream, and some patent-pending algorithms to suggest videos you might like to watch. READ MORE
Monday through Wednesday in New York City TechCrunch is holding its Disrupt Battlefield competition in which hopeful founders and entrepreneurs submit their young, unseen start-up companies for the opportunity to try winning the $50,000 prize while launching in front of an all-star panel made up of innovators, angel investors, venture capitalists and tech influencers. Monday featured three Battlefields: Disrupting Commerce, Disrupting Location and Disrupting Search and Discovery. These start-ups made presentations in the Disrupting Search and Discovery category: READ MORE
