This week we’ve been following the TechCruch Disrupt competition in New York in which 32 start-ups presented their companies to a panel of experts to gain coveted exposure on the tech scene as well as a $50,000 prize. TechCrunch has announced the winner: GetAround, a car-sharing network in which you can rent cars owned by regular people by the day, hour or week through a smartphone app. 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 a $50,000 prize while launching in front of an all-star panel made up of innovators, angel investors, venture capitalists and tech influencers. Tuesday featured three Battlefields: Disrupting the Real World, Disrupting the Enterprise and Disrupting Streams and Collaborations. These start-ups made presentations in the Disrupting Streams and Collaborations category: READ MORE
“Do you see acquiring more content companies like TechCrunch and HuffPo?” Michael Arrington pointedly asked his boss-and-AOL chief Tim Armstrong yesterday at TechCrunch Disrupt, the annual tech conference and start-up competition put on in New York by the site Arrington founded and co-edits. There was an uncomfortable silence. Then a hedge. Then Armstrong admitted that after a year in which he bought not only TechCrunch but also Huffington Post, he’s still looking and “has a list in his head” of five or ten businesses in the content space in which he’s interested. READ MORE
